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I love telling stories and it’s an honor to tell a small part of other’s journey. Meet Nora, the miracle baby who made her way into this world under difficult conditions, yet she is thriving, living, loving and laughing. So many things in Nora’s life have been miracles, in the obstacles she and her family have overcome, and yet here comes another one. Miss Nora is going to be a big sister, a feet once though not possible. Nora, I hope you had the best 2nd birthday and I bet having a sibling might just be one of the best presents ever.
We were blessed with a beautiful day in Lindsborg, KS. I met the twins and mom and dad at their beautiful home just outside of Lindsborg. We found some beautiful spots to capture these little cuties 1st Birthday! There’s a WHOLE LOT of personality in these little precious ones :). Mom and Dad, thank you so much for trusting me with your sweet babies 1 year old photos. Lots of smiles and giggles!!
This young lady is a brilliantly smart, beautiful soul. If I could describe her in short, she is all heart. Everything she does she does her best. Their is no 1/2 ass with this girl(except for maybe cleaning her room 😉 ). How she manages to fit all that she does into her days I will never know. I hope you have had a fantastic sweet 16 and thank you for letting me capture you, you are beautiful inside and out. ~Love mom.
Meet Cooper! Like most little boys around 4 years old, they are bouncing with energy! Oh if we could only bottle it and use it ourselves! Cooper loves his superheros! I was informed that Batman is the best, although I believe Spider-man and the Hulk are a close second 🙂 We had an absolute gorgeous day to capture Cooper’s personality for his 4 year old photos. How cute is he?! Thank you for trusting me with your memories and Cooper I hope your SuperHero Birthday is the best!
It was a beautiful evening at the Eisenhower Rose Garden. Our biggest challenge was swatting the gnats away, we certainly had no problem getting personality out of Miss Jensen! What a Sweetie! This little dolly had lots of laughs and giggles! I love how she dove right into that cake face first! Jensen I hope you had the best birthday! Thank you for trusting me with your memories.


The share of American staff who examined constructive for medicine hit a two-decade excessive because of a surge within the leisure use of marijuana, however a scarcity of workers has pressured corporations to chop again on the variety of assessments administered, in response to a report.
Quest Diagnostics, a drug-testing laboratory, discovered that just about 4% of the greater than 6 million American workers who had been examined for managed substances in 2021 examined constructive, according to the Wall Street Journal.
That’s compares to 2020, when solely 2.7% of drug assessments performed on behalf of employers got here again constructive for marijuana.
Final 12 months’s determine additionally represents a 50% improve from 2017 — when leisure use of marijuana was authorized in simply eight states plus the District of Columbia.
Since then, 18 states have made it authorized to eat marijuana with out the necessity for a prescription from a health care provider.
Whereas the proportion of constructive assessments elevated, the variety of assessments administered by corporations fell final 12 months as employers had been keen to maintain as a lot of their staff as doable because of the financial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.
The lower in assessments was additionally attributed to altering cultural attitudes about marijuana. Some states even prohibit corporations from utilizing constructive marijuana check outcomes as a consider hiring choices.
Final 12 months, New York state issued new guidance that bans employers from testing workers for hashish except the employee appears visibly stoned on the job.
Firms that had been beset by employee shortages and that had been headquartered in states that enable leisure use of marijuana didn’t trouble to manage as many assessments final 12 months as in comparison with 2020, in response to Quest Diagnostics.
Final 12 months, there have been 6.7% fewer urine samples that had been examined for THC, the psychoactive compound present in marijuana which is accountable for giving customers the “excessive,” in comparison with 2020.
In states the place leisure use of marijuana is authorized, that quantity grew to greater than 10%, in response to the Journal.
“We actually heard from a few of our employer prospects that they had been having problem discovering certified staff to go the drug check,” stated Dr. Barry Pattern, a senior science guide for Quest.
Hashish remains illegal on the federal level. New Mexico on Friday would be the newest state to legalize leisure marijuana.


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Experts in Mexico have detected thousands of buried ancient ruins and artifacts. The discoveries along the route of the “Maya Train” project could slow down the proposed plan—which opponents say threatens native peoples and water supplies.
This summer, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador launched the start of construction on the Maya Train, his pet project. If built, it would run some 950 miles in a rough loop around the Mexican state of Yucatán.
The train is supposed to connect Caribbean beach resorts to the Yucatán peninsula’s mostly native populations and historic ruin sites. Officials hope to stimulate economic development near the train’s 15 stations. The government says the train will cost as much as $6.8 billion. Others say it will be much more.
Critics contend that López Obrador rammed the project through approvals. They say there wasn’t enough study of its effects on the environment, underground sinkhole caves, and historic sites.
LiDAR, which stands for Light Detection and Ranging, involves shooting a pulsed laser at the ground. The technology can give a detailed image of the surface, even through dense vegetation. LiDAR data shows 2,187 “archaeological monuments” along 277 miles of the proposed train route. Experts already knew about the existence of some of the sites, but some are new discoveries.
The term monuments can mean many things: the ruins of a pre-Hispanic Maya home, carved stones, the remains of temple platforms, or other artifacts. It’s not clear how many of each type LiDAR has detected. But experts at Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History say at least 91 are large-scale structures like plazas and pyramid or temple platforms.
Institute officials say that the builders of the train must take “specific measures” to avoid damaging the artifacts—even though some were probably disturbed by railway construction decades ago. Those officials have not said whether they believe parts of the train route will need to be rerouted.
The Mayas formed a sprawling empire of city-states across the Yucatán and Central America between 2,000 B.C. and A.D. 900. Their descendants still live on the peninsula.
Some Mayan communities have filed court challenges against the Maya Train project. They argue that it will cause environmental damage. They also say they were not widely consulted about the plan—or that they won’t share in its benefits.
(Tourists walk at the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula in this August 2018 file photo. AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

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|Title:||Wilma Rudolph at the finish line during 50-yard dash at track meet in Madison Square Garden, 1961.|
Black-and-white photograph taken in 1961 showing track star Wilma Rudolph crossing the finish line during a 50-yard dash at Madison Square Garden. She is shown coming in before three other runners. Rudolph, an extraordinary athlete, participated in both the 1956 and 1960 Olympic games, winning medals both times and breaking world records in 1960.
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|Subjects:||Rudolph, Wilma, 1940- | African American women athletes--New York (State)--New York | African American athletes--New York (State)--New York | Track and field--New York (State)--New York | Madison Square Garden (New York, N.Y.) | New York (N.Y.)|
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|Contributors:||Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division | African-American Odyssey Collection (Library of Congress)|
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Exhibited: African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, Library of Congress, 1998.
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The Gem Energy Storage Center (GESC) is proposed by GEM A-CAES LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hydrostor, Inc. The project would be located at 8684 Sweetser Road in Rosamond, Kern County, California.
GESC would be a nominal 500-megawatt (MW), 4,000 MW-hour (MWh), advanced compressed air energy storage (A-CAES) facility capable of charging and discharging daily. GESC would compress air into a purpose-built underground cavern, using electricity from the grid, most likely off-peak, excess, or surplus electricity. The heat from the air compression process would be captured and stored in an aboveground thermal storage system. The compressed air would then be stored in the cavern under the pressure of a hydrostatic head created by an onsite, aboveground water reservoir. When electricity is needed by the grid, the compressed air would be released using the hydrostatic head pressure, re-heated using the stored thermal energy, and directed through aboveground turbine-generators to produce electricity.
GESC’s major equipment would consist of five all-electric air compressor trains, five 100-MW air-driven power turbine generators, heat exchangers, thermal heat storage, an underground compressed air storage cavern, an aboveground water reservoir, miscellaneous aboveground support facilities, and a 10.9-mile interconnection to the existing Southern California Edison (SCE) Whirlwind Substation.
Presiding Member: Kourtney Vaccaro, Commissioner
Associate Member: Andrew McAllister, Commissioner
Hearing Officer: Renee Webster-Hawkins/Susan Cochran
- 12/2/2021 - Application for Certification (AFC) filed
- 12/30/2021 - Staff's Data Adequacy Recommendation
- 1/27/2022 - CEC Order concurring with the executive director’s recommendation and finding that the Gem filing is deficient
Power Plant Certification and Exemption Processes
As required by the Warren-Alquist Act, the Energy Commission monitors projects under its jurisdiction throughout construction, operation, and closure to ensure compliance with the conditions of certification imposed for approving the projects.


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Sunday, December 9, 2007
Making of a Christmas Card
Every year I take a picture for my Christmas Card. This year I carved a stand-in for Jack and it was the only one of the dogs who behaved. Leo always hates this and the puppy just wanted to eat the ears. Leo looks like we are killing him in this picture and he literally had to be dragged to the spot. Sometimes I wonder why I put myself through this every year. Hopefully next year the puppy will be better behaved. I have no hope for Leo. There is a short clip of me trying to get the ears on Scooter. Freezing rain tonight...Not a good time to drive to Leetonia.
Mountain Girl, Paula, Logging out!

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1-1/4 quart Water
6 ounce Grain, Quinoa, Red, Indian Harvest, Dry
12 ounce Corn, Kernels, Fresh
1/2 cup Cilantro, Fresh, Chopped
2 cup Tomatoes, Roma, Fresh, Diced, 1/2"
2 each Avocado, Fresh, Cubed
1/2 cup Onions, Green, Scallion, Bunch, Fresh, Sliced, Thin
1/2 ounce Peppers, Chipotle in Adobo Sauce, Canned
1/4 cup Lime, Fresh, Juice
1/4 cup Oil, Olive
1/4 tsp Salt, Kosher
1/8 tsp Spice, Pepper, Black, GroundDirections:
Bring water to a boil and add quinoa. Simmer and cooked until tender, about 15 minutes. Drain, chill and place in a large mixing bowl.
Place corn kernels on roasting pan and roast in 350F degree oven for 10 minutes. Chill and add to cooked quinoa.
Add chopped cilantro, diced tomatoes, cubed avocado, and green onions to mixing bowl.
Place chipotle and adobo sauce into a blender and puree until smooth. Make dressing by whisking together chipotle puree, lime juice and olive oil. Pour dressing into quinoa mixture and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Toss well to combine. Servings: 1 cupPresented by:
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Discussion in 'Wii - Hacking' started by SkotUK, May 28, 2009.
Is it possible to burn Multiple backup Gamecube games to 1 disc and they will still run and save?
yes. use this http://www.tehskeen.com/forums/showthread.php?p=21300
I've done this, but I could only get them to work from BackUp Channel...
I guess thats normal.


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Книга: The Human Age
Gaia in a Temper
Monkeying with the Weather
Brainstorming from Equator to Ice
Gaia in a Temper
The weather app Budi touches opens with a fright that his wild relatives have witnessed firsthand many times: torrential rains, snorting winds, and trees snapping—the familiar trees that orangutans mentally map for food and travel, just as we do houses, streets, and stores. Lately, though, whipped up by climate change, hurricanes like this one are growing to unforeseen and unimaginable fury.
A FREAK WINTER storm and tropical hurricane rolled into one, Sandy drew breath off Africa’s west coast, barreled across the Caribbean, and charged up the eastern seaboard of the United States, swinging left with a gut punch that smashed in houses, sucked boats out of harbors and hurled them, masts and rigging flying, into front doors and garages.
Only a day before Halloween, the scene was beyond macabre, as if a Chagall painting had suddenly come to life in a 90 mph whirlwind of whizzing trees, animals, and objects. People unlucky enough to be caught outside were pulled sideways down the streets. It was as if a monster were wrestling electrical lines to the ground, clawing up roads, turning neighborhoods into sandboxes. Piers and boardwalks crumpled like cardboard as the superstorm slapped them into the sea.
In this most densely settled area of the United States, prone to both hurricanes and nor’easters, record tides are usually measured in fractions of an inch. A major hell-raiser, Sandy even shattered the record for record-keeping—its tides had to be measured in feet. In one seaside community in Queens, after tidal surges beat the local record by three feet, a twenty-foot wave washed the whole research station into the ocean. In another town, the storm smashed furnaces and gas pipes, igniting fires that leapt from home to home, where doubly stunned residents found their first floors flooded and their roofs alight. The homes burned like surreal Fourth of July sparklers. In the beachfront town of Breezy Point, Queens, a blaze devoured 110 homes in one neighborhood while firefighters struggled to reach them through fast-flowing streets. All three regional airports shut down and canceled twenty thousand flights; Amtrak halted service to the whole Northeast Corridor. Forty-three million gallons of water gushed through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. The pounding ocean filled tunnels and subways and submerged lower Manhattan, where a flotilla of cars bobbed like colorful beetles.
I’ll never get used to sweetheart names—Debby, Valerie, Helene—referring to land-scrubbing, wave-rearing, homewrecking, cyclonic mayhem. The name Sandy sounds like it belongs to an innocent, sun-kissed surfer. I’m not sure why we choose to domesticate cataclysmic violence in this way. It’s too reminiscent of World War II pilots painting their girlfriends’ names on warplanes, a paradox captured with lyric poignancy by the pilot and poet Randall Jarrell, who wrote, “In bombers named for girls, we burned / The cities we had learned about in school.”
Before the frenzy was over, Sandy killed fifty people in the United States and sixty-nine in the Caribbean, flattened the homes and gutted the lives of thousands, and left millions more without food, water, or electricity. She also dropped three feet of wet snow in West Virginia and the Carolinas, and Tennessee received the heaviest snowfall on record. At times it seemed as if Gaia were so pissed off she finally decided to erase her workmanship, atomizing the whole shebang and flicking our Blue Marble back into the mouth of the supernovas where our metals were first forged.
Sandy is on my mind because it recently besieged my state, but 2012 also saw massive flooding in Australia, Brazil, and Rwanda; fifty major wildfires in Chile; wicked drought in the Sahel; record-setting cold, rain, and snow in Europe; and typhoons in China destroying sixty thousand homes. My head is still spinning from 2011’s Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Who can forget Louisiana’s 2005 ordeal with Katrina? And, dwarfing all of these, Haiyan, the most powerful typhoon ever recorded, which charged through the Philippines in 2013 and killed over five thousand people.
New York and New Jersey had felt relatively safe, until Sandy rearranged their silhouettes, gouging inlets and bays, creating new marshes and sandbars, changing the map, literally and metaphorically. Climate change hits hard when it batters at childhood memories. Watching news footage of homes collapsing, over and over, I kept returning to the beacon of Atlantic City, where my family spent brief summer holidays. There were no casinos lining the boardwalk then, no fancy restaurants. But what a delicious, hot, sandy carnival it offered kids. The wide beach was duned deep with scorching sand that became soothingly damp a few inches down—the perfect consistency for sculpting.
The boardwalk held endless fascinations, including saltwater taffy vendors, Belgian waffles with whipped cream and strawberries, a penny arcade with a mechanical gypsy fortune-teller and Skee-Ball bowling machines, a kazoo-playing man in front of the 5 & 10, the giant Planters Peanut Man, the charcoal artists who did quick portraits, and the crablike processions of three-wheeled wicker chairs. Because the wooden planks were warped, riding over them became a bumbling, creaking amusement ride. Pushed along, we laughed as high-heeled women kept getting stuck in cracks between the boards. And then there was Steel Pier, with all of its amusements and its diving horse.
All the run-of-the-mills neighborhoods rely on, and the balm of meaning absorbed by homes, objects, streets, and piers—all gone.
Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our best efforts and prophesies, nature remains unpredictable. Even aided by hindcasts, as forecasters call reading the entrails of past hurricane seasons to predict the future, we really don’t know what stew of storms the Atlantic will dish up, especially now that we’ve dumped in strange seasonings. We can’t yet predict the location of the next typhoon or tornado, even with all our high-tech weather instruments, any more than we know the final scores of the Caribbean’s upcoming cricket matches.
For people living in coastal communities, the sea has always proved a generous or temperamental neighbor. But at least they knew broadly what mood swings to expect. Experts are duly unnerved. “Freak weather events happen, right, but twice in the last two years?” said meteorologist Jeff Masters. “I think something’s up,” he added. “I think we’ve crossed over to a new climate state where the new normal is intense weather events that kill lots of people.”
YUP’IK ESKIMOS HAVE spent over a decade trying to relocate to higher ground. On the northwest coast of Alaska, only four hundred miles south of the Bering Strait, in the tiny Yup’ik village of Newtok, the residents can smell the salty breath of disaster, robed in liquid gray and pulling at their feet. Sabrina Warner suffers from a recurring nightmare: waking terrified to find the ice-clotted sea crashing in, washing the bed out from under her and collapsing her home. She and her young son swim for their lives, clinging to rooftops as their village is washed away. But there’s nowhere safe to shelter. One roof slips from her fingers after another, until no harbor remains but the roof of the school, the largest building in the village, perched like a precarious osprey nest atop twenty-foot beams that have been driven into soft earth. And then that, too, is swallowed by the blue-black mouth of the sea.
This is a plausible nightmare. As the sun-reflecting ice melts, the planet is thawing much faster in the far north, where winters have warmed by 3°F since 1975 (double the world average). The widening riverbed and marshes of the Ninglick River, which snakes around three sides of the village, are tearing at its innards before pouring into the sea. Any day now the whole village and many neighboring indigenous communities will sink into the melting permafrost, as if it were white quicksand, to join the realm of polar bears and narwhals in the rich seams of Eskimo lore. By 2017, if the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ predictions are right, numerous native villages along the northwestern coast and barrier islands will be in the same fix.
As America’s first climate-change refugees, the Yup’ik have appealed to the state and federal government for help, but, according to international law, people only qualify as refugees if they’re fleeing violence, war, or persecution. And federal disaster relief laws only grant money to repair infrastructure and damage in place, not to help with relocation after slow-motion disaster. Our humanitarian laws aren’t keeping up with the Anthropocene’s environmental realities. Robin Bronen, an Anchorage-based human rights lawyer and a frequent visitor to Newtok, is working tirelessly to change them.
“This is completely a human rights issue,” she argues. “When you are talking about a people [the Yup’ik tribe] who have done the least to contribute to our climate crisis facing such dramatic consequences as a result of climate change, we have a moral and legal responsibility to respond and provide the funding needed so that these communities are not in danger.”
When the residents of Newtok do move to their new town of Mertarvik on Nelson Island, a mere nine miles away, most will return to their familiar ice-coast life of subsistence fishing, but they’ll be exemplars of a different epoch.
Tuvalu, another palm-frond island country in the South Pacific, has begun evacuating its people to New Zealand. And the president of Kiribati, an island nation of thirty-two atolls sprinkled across 3.5 million kilometers of ocean between Australia and Hawaii, is negotiating with Fiji to buy five thousand acres of land so that his population of over 102,000 can relocate. One Kiribati native, Ioane Teitiota, appealed for refugee status to Auckland, New Zealand, arguing that none of Kiribati’s atolls is more than two meters above sea level, and therefore his life was endangered by the rising seas of global warming. The judge who heard his case found the claim novel, but not persuasive.
Monkeying with the Weather
Brainstorming from Equator to Ice

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Yesterday, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights announced new guidance for public elementary and secondary schools regarding their obligation to provide athletic opportunities for students with disabilities. Public schools are subject to the 1973 Rehabilitation Act, Section 504 of which prohibits federally funded programs from discriminating against or excluding individuals on the basis of disability. While the Department of Education's regulations implementing 504 call for equal opportunity for students with disabilities to participate in extracurricular activities and athletics, yesterday's guidance clarifies what schools must do under the law to include students with disabilities in athletic programs.
First, the guidance prohibits schools from limiting athletic opportunities due to generalizations and stereotypes about students with disabilities. For example, it would be unlawful for a high school coach to exclude a player based on her learning disability, on the belief that all students with learning disabilities are incapable of handling both schoolwork and sports. Instead, the coach must use the same criteria for eligibility that apply to other students.
Second, schools must make reasonable modifications to existing athletic programs, where doing so would enable the participation of a students with disabilities without altering the fundamental nature of the program or put students' safety at risk. As an example of a reasonable modification, OCR describes a track competition where the schools agree that the race start will be signaled by a visual cue along with the starting gun, in order to accommodate a student whose hearing is impaired.
Finally, where schools cannot accommodate students' participation in existing athletic programs, they must create additional athletic opportunities for students with disabilities. When individual schools do not have a sufficient number of students with disabilities to field a team, they should consider district-wide or regional teams, co-ed teams, and "allied" or "unified" teams that allow students with and without disabilities to participate together.
Advocates for students with disabilities have expressed their hope that this guidance will do for them what Title IX has done for women and girls: end the presumption that they are incapable and uninterested in participating in sports, and expand the opportunities available for them to do so. Like Title IX, I expect this new guidance will trigger concern that accommodating students with disabilities will detract from existing opportunities. But the fears that Title IX would cut into boys' athletic opportunity have not panned out. So if the Title IX analogy is correct, we'll see continued expansion of sports for all students, regardless of sex and regardless of disability.

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Sawf, ANFS, Tcherneyan, Eleusinia Mysteria
For the 3rd edition of Corner, we have the pleasure to host the Athens based label, Vanila Records.
Sister label to Modal Analysis and run by ANFS, Vanila's purpose is to explore the relationship between sound, blasphemy and anomaly. The releases from Sawf, ANFS, Morah and Expropriation capture perfectly the wide range of their production skills and the sound of a newly shaped scene in the Greek capital.
◾ SAWF (3h SET) (Vanila, KAFTA, Perc Trax, Modal Analysis | Athens)
◾ ANFS Live (Vanila, KAFTA, Modal Analysis | Athens)
◾ TCHER (Death & Leisure, Khemia | London)
◾ ELEUSINIA MYSTERIA | London
Sawf started experimenting with electronic music production and digital mixing in early 2000 before he released his first album on Perc Trax in 2011. His sound has been a defining and integral part of the thriving electronic scene in Athens, releasing on Athens-based labels such as Modal Analysis, Vanila, Pi Electronics, Phormix, and his own imprint Kafta. The influences of Detroit Electro and electronic body music are easily recognised in Sawf’s signature techno style that harks back to early UK UK industrialists such as Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle. Mysterious DJ and producer, his sets are known to be full of energy, with a raw industrial noise and breath-taking bass-lines.
ANFS is also based in Athens. Alongside fellow friends Kondaktor and 3.14, he co-founded the record label “Modal Analysis”, and later on 2015 he launched his own personal imprint, “Vanila”. Both platforms work as a self-referential point as well as an archive that documents the current electronic scene of Greece. He will play for us an exceptional live characterized by low frequencies, industrial soundscapes and hard-hitting drums.
Jerome Tcherneyan is a French musician/producer/DJ born in Marseilles. He lives in London and has been drumming, producing electronic music and DJing for the past 20 years.
His first solo release, 'Paradox,' came out on vinyl in 2001 under the nom-de-plume Risky Music; built around repetitive beats and drones which have been part of his work ever since.
Jerome is also part of Years of Denial, the alter-face of himself and Czech performance artist/DJ Barkosina Hanusova. With the use of hardware combined with vocals and a plethora of dub devices, YOD are re-visiting the dark corner of Post Punk, Industrial music movement and rave culture.
Eleusιnia Mysteria were spiritual/psychedelic rites that used to take place every year in the ancient Greek city of Eleusis to honour the goddess Demetra and her daughter Persephone.
This particular project is the aural representation of the artist’s perception of the rites and often consists of raw distorted drums accompanied by shadowy atmospheres, drones and industrial sound effects with a hint of psychedelia.
Eleusinian Mysteries showcased in numerous London nights such as Kaos events with An-I, Kareem, Kerridge and Choronzon - BLANC with Years of Denial, Flaminia, End Train and Polanski's Tanzfield with Arnaud Le Texier. He also played very often in Athens - Thessaloniki and other Greek cities to name a few.


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K. V. Purnima, D. Sreenu, N. Bhasker, K. Nagaiah, N. Lingaiah, B. V. Subba Reddy and J. S. Yadav Copper Salt of 12-Tungstophosphoric Acid: An Efficient and Reusable Heteropoly Acid for the Click Chemistry Chinese Journal of Chemistry 31
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Oyolan Womens Glossy Stretch Shorts
Introducing the Oyolan Womens Glossy Stretch Shorts, the ultimate choice for women who value both comfort and style during their workouts. Whether you’re hitting the gym, engaging in fitness activities, or practicing yoga, these athletic sports shorts are designed to enhance your performance and make you look fabulous.
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What is dysphagia and what are its symptoms?
Dysphagia refers to when a patient experiences trouble swallowing. While this may occur when food is eaten too fast or not chewed properly, it may also be a serious medical condition that requires medical attention.
The condition is usually caused due to an issue in the upper part of the digestive tract. Often, this is due to a problem in the oesophagus, although problems in the mouth or heart are also leading factors.
Symptoms usually include:
How is dysphagia tested and treated?
Apart from a diagnosis confirmed by asking about your symptoms, other tests include:
In terms of treatment, this will depend on what’s causing the dysphagia. If this condition is being caused by your mouth or throat, you may be referred to a speech or swallowing specialist who can teach techniques to help you swallow.
If the issue is your oesophagus, you may have to undergo oesophageal dilation. Here, your doctor uses an endoscope with a special balloon at the end to stretch and widen your oesophagus. You may even require surgery. Here, any tumours or abnormal tissue in the oesophagus will be removed. Alternatively, medication may be your only course of treatment.
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Naughty Dog has been known for dropping hints regarding the future of their games into other games. Take a look at Uncharted 3 for example. Where there was a little easter egg referencing what the future held for Naughty Dog in The Last of Us.
However this newly found bonus is by far the most extraordinary yet. Take a look at the picture below.
A Reddit user titled “ctrlaltd1337” has been fortunate enough to stumble upon this peculiar little piece of information. Looks like your average sale sign doesn’t it and 30% is a good bargain if you ask me. Upon closer analysis however the numbers read “11/15-12/1”. 11/15 in American date writing is 15th of November whilst a simple addition of the following numbers 12+1 will give us 13 meaning 2013. 15th of November 2013, the release date of the PS4 in America which was announced earlier this week at GamesCom.
What other surprises has Naughty Dog hidden in their recent release and what are they currently working on? Only time will tell. Stay with us here at Press-Start as we bring you the gaming news as it happens.


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My Life After Jumping the Broom with the Love of My Life
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Wedded Wednesday: More Than One Wife
I have been watching the show, Sister Wives for the past year and recently saw a show on polygamy on Our America with Lisa Ling. I really found these shows interesting and liked hearing their lives, since it is so different than mine. In watching the shows, I can only think...there is no way that I could live that lifestyle. I am not condemning how they chose to live their lives, but I can not see myself sharing my husband knowingly with another woman or two or three. I was amazed, from what I saw, how loving the these relationships were between each of the wives with the husband and with each other. The honest portrayal of these relationships, showing all the different aspects including the ups and downs, is appreciated.
I guess that whatever type of relationship that you are in, they have their ups and downs and they are different from one another. I know for myself, that my marriage is only for myself and my husband and no one else. Could you be in a polygamist marriage? What are your thoughts of polygamy?


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By Kevin Williams
This was a fun, delicious dessert to make with my girls. Aster, 5, can do more complex stuff in the kitchen, but Bea, 2 ½, still isn't much beyond the "stir and bake" skill level, and that is what this dessert is. But for a simple stir and bake, it makes a wonderful dessert with rich flavor.
The bars are like eating cinnamon toast. And who doesn't like cinnamon toast?
You can use a stand mixer in the stirring part. I'd do it at a low speed to fluff everything up, but it also worked just find mixing by hand, Amish-style. So enjoy this amazing dessert!
Cinnamon Toast Squares
- 1 cup butter softened
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
- 2 ⅔ cup all-purpose flour
- Cinnamon Sugar Topping:
- 2 tablespoon sugar
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter a 9 X 13 baking pan and set aside.
- Using a wooden spoon, mix together butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, making sure to incorporate each one.
- Add vanilla and beat until smooth.
- Add baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and flour and stir until just combined.
- Pour batter into baking dish and spread evenly with a spatula.
- In a small bowl mix cinnamon and sugar. Sprinkle evenly over the batter.
- Bake for 25-35 minutes or until bars are set in the middle and a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Cool completely until cutting into bars.

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11921 & 11919 Rockville Pike
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182,503 SF · Office For Sale
Montrose Metro I & II
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Montrose Metro I & II is a 182,503 square foot Class A office complex located in North Bethesda, Maryland. Situated directly on Rockville Pike (Route 355) across the street from Mid-Pike Plaza Shopping Center and just one-half mile from White Flint Mall, these freestanding office buildings are in a submarket comprised of affluent neighborhoods boasting an abundance of retail and restaurant amenities. The property is positioned at the center of the recently approved White Flint Sector Plan, which will transform a large segment of Rockville Pike near White Flint into a vibrant, grand boulevard lined with small villages where residents can live, shop, walk and play. The properties are currently 68% leased, with Montrose Metro II 100% occupied by the GSA-FDA.
Montrose Metro I & II is located directly on Rockville Pike, Montgomery County' s major north/south commercial and retail corridor. The property is also walking distance to White Flint Metrorail station, with Red Line service to suburban Maryland and downtown Washington, DC. In addition, its frontage on the newly constructed Montrose Parkway provides express access to I-270.
- Class A, 182,503 square foot two building office portfolio
- Located in North Bethesda, MD on Rockville Pike, Montgomery County's major north/south commercial and retail corridor.
- Four minute walk to the White Flint Metro Station Frontage on the newly constructed Montrose Parkway provides direct express access to I-270
- Property positioned in the middle of the approved White Flint sector plan and its significant development and transportaion enhancements
- Surrounding area boasts abundance of retail and restaurant amenities; across the street from Mid-Pike Plaza Shopping Center and eight-minute walk
- Rockville Pike office buildings proximate to the White Flint Mall have demonstrated historical high occupancy
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Direct download link of Harrisons Manual of Medicine 20th Edition PDF share at the end of this article. At the end you will find the download but first you must read review and features of this book given below.
Review: Harrisons Manual of Medicine 20th Edition
The Harrison’s Manual, derived from most clinically salient content featured in Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, 20th Edition,delivers numerous clinical algorithms in one practical, portable resource. The Manual also includes abundant quick reference tables, plus concise text―providing rapid access to bedside information when decisions need to be made quickly. This full color summary guide covers all diseases and conditions commonly seen in inpatient general medicine, so you can be sure to find invaluable content directly to your workflow and practice.
Features of Harrisons Manual of Medicine 20th Edition:
The 20th edition has been updated to reflect the latest clinical developments in medicine.The Manual truly makes it easy to find what you need at the point of care. The easy-to-navigate chapters cover symptoms/signs, medical emergencies, specific diseases, and care of the hospitalized patient, with a particular focus on:
•Etiology and Epidemiology
•Clinically Relevant Pathophysiology
•Signs and Symptoms
•Physical and Laboratory Findings
•Practice Guidelines, and more.
About the Authors of Harrisons Manual of Medicine 20th Edition:
Robert G. Dunlap Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine; Executive Vice President, University of Pennsylvania Health, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Anthony Fauci, MD
Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
Dennis Kasper, MD
William Ellery Channing Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Stephen Hauser, MD
Director, Weill Center for Neurosciences, UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, California
Dan Longo, MD
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD
Chair of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
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Join us at Critical Commons, a lively panel discussion and Q+A exploring the current state of art criticism and art writing in Denver and the greater Southwest at RedLine Contemporary Art Center.
Longtime New Mexico artist Gary Niblett receives the retrospective treatment at the Carlsbad Museum November 5, 2022 through February 4, 2023.
Pie Projects celebrates the vision of artists Janet Russek and David Scheinbaum, both immersed in the history and practice of lens-based imagery.
Art Steady 3.0 offers a powerhouse line-up of presenters touching on essential topics for all artists at any stage of their careers.
Experience the Magic of Chaco Culture National Historical Park at this One-of-a-Kind Artist Residency
Experience the magic of Chaco Culture National Historical Park at the National Parks Arts Foundation's artist residency program, now accepting applications from artists in all disciplines.
IAIA Making History Symposium Will Explore Past, Present, and Future of the Indigenous-Centered Institute
IAIA will present the IAIA Making History Symposium on October 17, 2022, a day-long illumination of the school's sixty-year evolution from an arts-focused Native American high school to a technologically advanced college.
Flowers and Herb Markets in Old Town Albuquerque curates a selection of products ranging from fresh flower arrangements to sexual wellness and local, sustainably grown cannabis, and its business model is committed to the local community.
Richard Levy Gallery presents two solo exhibitions this fall: new work by Albuquerque artist Karsten Creightney and Los Angeles artist Sarah Hadley.
Santa Fe’s September celebration of art spotlights Kevin and Jennifer Box's Origami in the Garden with a gallery show, a documentary film, and a studio tour in Northern New Mexico.
A survey of Utah’s public monuments and architecture reveals devotion to the LDS faith, but various prominent examples of resistance to this narrative abound.
Concerning the minor vaquero character who is one of three men to die in an attempted mutiny against John Wayne’s “Dunson” and his cattle drive in Howard Hawks’s Red River
"Concerning the minor vaquero character..." is a semi-fictional vignette imagining a deeper life for a minor Chicano character in a major motion picture.
Eugene Newmann, a pioneering artist of the New Mexico abstract art scene, presents Abstraction and Figuration at Pie Projects in Santa Fe.
Brenda Kingery (Chickasaw Nation) is a contemporary artist and champion of women’s empowerment around the world, now showing at Glenn Green Galleries in Santa Fe.
Southern Utah Museum of Art and Modern West exhibit concurrent shows in Utah examining the legacy of abstract expressionism in the Southwest, featuring Taos Moderns Beatrice Mandelman and Louis Ribak and contemporary arts Shalee Cooper and Arlo Namingha.
K Contemporary presents an internationally acclaimed roster of artists at Intersect Aspen this summer, including Suchitra Mattai, Ken Gun Min, Viktor Frešo, Mychaelyn Michalec, and Angel Ricardo Ricardo Rios.
What defines a photograph? Transgressions and Amplifications showcases the work of mid-twentieth-century American artists exploring that question.
Art of Change is a night celebrating artists that change the world in support of Santa Fe Art Institute.
Minimal and sublime yet deeply visceral, Distilled Presence at Pie Projects is a curated selection of work by Dana Newmann, Signe Stuart, and Judy Tuwaletstiwa.
Santa Fe-based artist Rick Stevens's latest body of work brings scenes of immersive wilderness and lush, abundant flora to Kay Contemporary Art on historic Canyon Road.
In Wo/Manhouse 2022, nineteen New Mexican artists from across the gender spectrum created artworks exploring the meaning of home, gender, and inclusivity on the fiftieth anniversary of Womanhouse.
Southwest Contemporary announces the fourth annual 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now and a group exhibition.
Morgan Barnard is an experimental saxophonist and installation artist using interactive light play to express actualities of the land.
Artist Amelia Bauer's playful approach to the subject of ruins—ancient and contemporary—acts as a perceptual leveling device in her series On Ruins.
Adrian Aguirre resides in Las Cruces where he is an educator and artist exploring issues of migration through representational drawing and painting.
Fox Hysen, the 2022 Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist, will present a talk at the Albuquerque Museum on April 28 and host an open studio on the UNM campus on April 21.
In Celestial Movement, artist Tom Kirby's latest exhibition at Winterowd Fine Art on Santa Fe's historic Canyon Road, the artist's transcendental paintings explore the mysterious and limitless skies as the earth makes its elliptical path through space.
Bishop's Lodge is a Santa Fe landmark steeped in history, and is a distinctive venue to explore arts, dining, the outdoors, and wellness in the Southwest—whether you leave the grounds or not.
CONDER/dance collaborates with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation at Taliesin West in Arizona to present new works by innovative choreographers in the Southwest.


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Good day, dear readers! October has been a spooktacular month so far, and I hope that you are getting plenty of shivers from Stephen King’s “Pet Sematary.” I have been reading through, and so far its a deliciously scary read. As we work on winding down our month, and getting ready to briefly discuss the current read, it is time to bring you our upcoming book as well! November will be here before we know it!
We are going to dive into “The Anatomist’s Wife” by Anna Lee Huber. If you have not read anything by her yet, I highly recommend her writing! I read a book by her last year, and loved it! It was one of those, “can’t put down” books. I hope that you are going to really enjoy this one! This one is not just for the ladies either! I talked my husband into reading one of her books last year, and he enjoyed it as well! Head over to your local library and grab your copy today!
The Anatomist’s Wife excerpt below is from goodreads.com:
Scotland, 1830. Following the death of her husband, Lady Darby has taken refuge at her sister’s estate, finding solace in her passion for painting. But when her hosts throw a house party for the cream of London society, Kiera is unable to hide from the ire of those who believe her to be as unnatural as her husband, an anatomist who used her artistic talents to suit his own macabre purposes.
Kiera wants to put her past aside, but when one of the house guests is murdered, her brother-in-law asks her to utilize her knowledge of human anatomy to aid the insufferable Sebastian Gage–a fellow guest with some experience as an inquiry agent. While Gage is clearly more competent than she first assumed, Kiera isn’t about to let her guard down as accusations and rumors swirl.
When Kiera and Gage’s search leads them to even more gruesome discoveries, a series of disturbing notes urges Lady Darby to give up the inquiry. But Kiera is determined to both protect her family and prove her innocence, even as she risks becoming the next victim…

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Earlier this week, thirty-three members of Congress sent a “dear colleague” letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressing concerns regarding human rights and the rule of law in Mexico. In the letter, members of Congress call on Secretary Clinton to make detailed inquiries into human rights abuses committed by security forces during the Calderon administration as the State Department prepares its next report for Congress on the human rights requirements included in the Merida Initiative.
Since President Felipe Calderón took office in December 2006, he has responded to organized crime related violence with the deployment of thousands of Mexican military and federal police throughout the country. During this same period, complaints of serious human rights violations by Mexican security forces have increased five-fold—including torture, rape, murder and forced disappearances. The letter reiterates Congress’ recognition of the need for abuses committed by soldiers against civilians to be investigated in civilian jurisdiction. However, impunity for such abuses remains the norm despite the Mexican Supreme Court’s July 2011 ruling that military jurisdiction should not be applied in cases of alleged human rights abuses against civilians.
Members of Congress also express concern regarding the use of torture, still a widespread practice despite reforms to the Mexican Constitution to prohibit the use of confessions obtained through torture and other forms of ill treatment, such as in the case of Israel Arzate Meléndez, a man who was beaten, given electric shocks, and suffocated into giving a false confession.
Members of Congress conclude by asking, “If, upon obtaining this information, the Department of State determines that the human rights requirements are not being met, we believe your report should reflect this conclusion and the 15 percent of select funds should be withheld.”
We applaud members of Congress who have taken a stand in support for human rights and the rule of law, and join them in urging Secretary Clinton to provide a full, accurate and thorough assessment of the Mexican government’s efforts to fulfill the human rights requirements in the Merida Initiative.
The letter was coordinated by Congressman James P. McGovern (MA), who was joined by Reps. Nita Lowey (NY), Jan Schakowsky (IL), John Lewis (GA), James Moran (VA), Raul Grijalva (AZ), Rosa DeLauro (CT), Sam Farr (CA) and John Conyers (MI), among others.


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Case Report ARTICLE
Two Novel Mutations of ANKRD11 Gene and Wide Clinical Spectrum in KBG Syndrome: Case Reports and Literature Review
- 1Department of Pediatrics, Inha University Hospital, Inha University College of Medicine, Incheon, South Korea
- 2Department of Pediatrics, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
- 3Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Inha University Hospital, Inha University College of Medicine, Incheon, South Korea
- 4Department of Psychiatry, Inha University Hospital, Inha University College of Medicine, Incheon, South Korea
Background: KBG syndrome (OMIM #148050) is a rare, autosomal dominant inherited genetic disorder caused by heterozygous mutations in the ankyrin repeat domain-containing protein 11 (ANKRD11) gene or by microdeletion of chromosome 16q24.3. It is characterized by macrodontia of the upper central incisors, distinctive facial dysmorphism, short stature, vertebral abnormalities, hand anomaly including clinodactyly, and various degrees of developmental delay. KBG syndrome presents with variable clinical feature and severity among individuals. Here, we report two KBG patients who have different novel heterozygous mutations of ANKRD11 gene with wide range of clinical manifestations.
Case presentation: Two novel heterozygous mutations of ANKRD11 gene were identified in two unrelated Korean patients with variable clinical presentations. The first patient presented with short stature and early puberty and was treated with growth hormone and gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist without adverse effects. He had mild intellectual disability. In targeted exome sequencing, a novel de novo frameshift variant was identified in ANKRD11, c.5889del, and p. (Ile1963MetfsX9). The second patient had severe intellectual disability with epilepsy. He had normal height and prepubertal stage at the age of 11 years. He had behavioral problems such as autism-like features, anxiety, and stereotypical movements. Whole exome sequencing (WES) was performed, and the novel heterozygous mutation, c3310dup, p. (Glu110GlyfsTer5) in ANKRD11 was identified.
Conclusion: KBG syndrome is often underdiagnosed because of its non-specific features and phenotypic variability. Performing a next—generation sequencing panel, including the ANKRD11 gene for cases of developmental delay with/without short stature may be helpful to identify hitherto undiagnosed KBG syndrome patients.
KBG syndrome (OMIM #148050) is a rare, autosomal dominant inherited genetic disorder that is caused by heterozygous mutations in the ankyrin repeat domain-containing protein 11 (ANKRD11) gene (Sirmaci et al., 2011) or by microdeletion of chromosome 16q24.3 that includes the ANKRD11 gene (Willemsen et al., 2010; Isrie et al., 2012). The syndrome is characterized by macrodontia of the upper central incisors, distinctive facial dysmorphism (including triangular face, brachycephaly, synophrys, and hypertelorism), skeletal abnormalities (costovertebral anomalies, brachydactyly, scoliosis, short stature), developmental delays, and behavioral problems (Brancati et al., 2006; Morel Swols et al., 2017). In 2011, Sirmaci et al. demonstrated that mutations in the ANKRD11 gene caused KBG syndrome. To date, more than 200 patients with KBG syndrome have been reported; this has enabled clinicians to update the clinical features and genetic aspects of the condition (Scarano et al., 2019). Patients with KBG syndrome have diversiform phenotypes and various degrees of intellectual disability (ID), even within families where multiple members are affected (Morel Swols and Tekin, 2018). The Deciphering Developmental Disorders (DDD) study in the United Kingdom reported that about 1% of patients with an undiagnosed neurodevelopmental disorder were found to have mutations in the ANKRD11 gene (Wright et al., 2015). KBG syndrome is still likely to be underdiagnosed because of its various and non-specific symptoms, phenotypic overlap with other syndromes, and often mild clinical manifestations. Here, we report two cases of KBG syndrome; both were identified with different novel heterozygous variants of the ANKRD11 gene and showed a broad range of clinical manifestations.
The patient was born at term via a cesarean section to healthy and non-consanguineous Korean parents, with a birth weight of 2,520 g (−1.76 standard deviation score, SDS) and without any perinatal problems. He had a medical history of recurrent otitis media and had undergone surgery to insert tympanostomy tubes in both ears. At the age of 5.5 years, he had a short stature and his bone age was more than 3.5 years behind the chronological age (according to the Greulich and Pyle atlas). At that time, he had been diagnosed with growth hormone (GH) deficiency (peak GH levels from two different GH stimulation test results were 7.71 and 4.65 ng/mL) and had been treated with GH. He showed a significant increase in growth velocity and height SDS (−3.04 to −1.91 SDS) after 3 years of GH treatment.
At the age of 8.9 years, the volume of his testes began to increase, and other clinical signs of puberty appeared. He was diagnosed with precocious puberty through a gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) stimulation test. His bone age was still delayed at that time, but the lag behind chronological age had decreased by 1 year. The combination treatment of GnRH agonist (triptorelin) with GH began at the age of 10 years because of the rapid progression of puberty. He was treated with GH and GnRH agonist for 3 years; at the time of discontinuance of the GnRH agonist, his bone age was similar to the chronological age and his height SDS had increased to −0.88 SDS. He had no adverse events related with GnRH agonist treatment; moreover, his growth velocity did not decrease during treatment (Figure 1). As he was growing up, distinctive facial features suggesting KBG syndrome gradually became apparent. He showed macrodontia of the upper central incisors, a dysmorphic face including prominent and high nasal bridge, anteverted nostrils, hypertelorism, long philtrum, and brachydactyly of both hands (Figure 2A).
Figure 1. Growth chart of the patient 1 under GH and GnRH agonist treatment. The dot indicates the height measurement. The arrow marks the beginning of GH and GnRH treatment start or stop. GH, growth hormone; GnRH, gonadotropin-releasing hormone; MPH, mid-parental height.
Figure 2. (A) Dysmorphic features of patient 1. Macrodontia of the upper central incisors, a dysmorphic face including prominent and high nasal bridge, anteverted nostrils, hypertelorism, long philtrum, and brachydactyly of both hands. (B) Dysmorphic features of patient 2. Macrodontia of the permanent upper central incisors; dysmorphic face features such as triangular face, thick eye lashes and eyebrows, prominent nasal bridge, long philtrum, and brachycephaly; and hand anomalies including brachydactyly and clinodactyly of the 5th finger.
Targeted exome sequencing (TES) was performed and a novel frameshift variant was identified in ANKRD11, c.5889del, p. (Ile1963MetfsX9), which was confirmed with Sanger sequencing (Figure 3A). As the parental genetic tests revealed that the parents did not have this frameshift, the variation was identified as a de novo variant. This variant was categorized as pathogenic by the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) guideline (PVS1, PS1, PS2, PM2) (Richards et al., 2015) and, to the best of our knowledge, has not been reported earlier. Regarding the neurologic and behavioral aspects, the patient had mild learning disability and had been taken methylphenidate for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) since childhood. However, he was able to participate in normal school life without any help.
Figure 3. (A) Electropherograms of the patient 1 and his parents. A de novo heterozygous frameshift mutation at position 5889 (c.5889del) in the ANKRD11 gene was found in the patient 1 and was not inherited from his parents. (B) Electropherograms of the patient 2. A heterozygous single base pair duplication at position 3301 (c.3301 dup) in the ANKRD11 gene.
The patient was referred to our rare disease center at the age of 11 years to undergo evaluation for an undiagnosed neurodevelopmental disorder. He grew up in a child protective facility, so there was no information on his parents or birth history. He had seizures and progressive developmental delay from 3 months of age. He visited the genetics clinic of another hospital that performed tests for evaluation of developmental delay including chromosome analysis, skeletal survey, metabolic work up, brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and electroencephalography (EEG). At that time, he was suspected with acrofacial dysostosis, catania type.
Despite taking an antiepileptic drug (oxcarbazepine 6.6 mg/kg/day), he had frequent focal epilepsy with secondary generalized convulsions. Brain MRI scans at the age of 3 months and 10 years showed no significant abnormal findings. EEG findings at the age of 3 months and 6.5 years suggested partial seizure disorder originating from the left occipital area. At the age of 7, his total intelligence quotient (TIQ), which was evaluated using the Korean version of the Wexler Intelligence (K-WISC III) and the Visual Motor Integrated Development Test, was about 26; he was considered to have a severe ID. He had behavioral problems such as autism-like features, anxiety, and stereotypical movements.
At the time of referral, he had normal height (149 cm, 0.77 SDS) and weight (42 kg, −0.09 SDS), and showed macrodontia of the permanent upper central incisors; dysmorphic face features such as triangular face, thick eye lashes and eye brows, prominent nasal bridge, long philtrum, and brachycephaly; and hand anomalies including brachydactyly and clinodactyly of the 5th finger (Figure 2B). His bone age was delayed compared to the chronological age according to the Greulich and Pyle atlas and there were no signs of puberty. He attended a special-education school with quite some assistance from his caregiver. He continued to take antiepileptic drugs (oxcarbazepine 33 mg/kg/day and levetiracetam 7 mg/day) and antipsychotic drugs (risperidone 3 mg/day and haloperidol 1.5 mg/day).
Whole exome sequencing (WES) was done, and a novel heterozygous variant, c3310dup, p. (Glu110GlyfsTer5) in ANKRD11 was identified (Figure 3B). In this variant, the amino acid glutamic acid is changed to glycine to result in a stop codon leading to nonsense-mediated decay, thereby causing haploinsufficiency of ANKRD11. This variant was categorized as likely pathogenic according to the ACMG guideline (PS1, PM2, PM4, PM5) (Richards et al., 2015).
A DNA sample was obtained from peripheral blood leukocytes by using a Chemagic Magnetic Separation Module I (Chemagic MSM I, BaesWeiler, Germany) extraction robot with DNA Blood 200 μL Kit. TruSight One (Illumina Inc., San Diego, CA) for patient 1 and SureSelect Human All Exon V5 (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA) for patient 2 were used for library preparation, and sequencing was done on the Illumina NextSeq500 platform (Illumina Inc., San Diego, CA) generating 2 × 150 bp paired-end reads. Alignment of sequence reads, indexing of the reference genome (hg19), and variant calling were performed with a pipeline based on the Genome Analysis Tool kit (GATK) Best Practices. Alignment was done with the BWA-mem (version 0.7.12), duplicated reads were marked with Picard (version 1.96)1 and local alignment, base quality recalibration, variant calling was performed with a GATK (version 3.5), and annotation was done with VEP88 (Variant Effect Predictor), dbNSFP v3.3.
Discussion and Conclusion
There is currently no consensus regarding the clinical diagnostic criteria for KGB syndrome; however, several diagnostic criteria have been suggested (Skjei et al., 2007; Ockeloen et al., 2015; Low et al., 2016; Morel Swols et al., 2017). Postnatal short stature (defined as height below 3–10 percentile) is a major criterion, as 41–83% cases were described to show this characteristic in previous reports (Reynaert et al., 2015; Low et al., 2016; Morel Swols et al., 2017).
In 2015, Reynaert et al. reported first responses to GH treatment in KBG syndrome and suggested that GH would be a promising treatment for short stature in KBG syndrome, regardless of the presence of GH deficiency (Reynaert et al., 2015; Ge et al., 2020). Thereafter, some KBG syndrome patients with short stature have been treated with GH; preliminary evidence supports that GH treatment may be effective in enabling patients with KBG syndrome catch up to the normal growth rate (Goldenberg et al., 2016; Kang et al., 2019; Scarano et al., 2019).
Advanced puberty was also reported in a few patients with KBG syndrome (Goldenberg et al., 2016). Scarano et al. (2019) mentioned that early sign of puberty may influence short stature in KBG syndrome. It is not clear why the loss of function mutations of ANKRD11 gene causes short stature and advanced puberty. Our first patient was treated with GH and GnRH agonist due to GH deficiency combined with early and rapid progressive puberty. In prior reports, one male patient had been treated with GH and combined GnRH agonist, but the patient’s treatment started at 12.5 years of age and was stopped because of decreased growth velocity at 13.8 years (Reynaert et al., 2015). In another patient, treatment with GnRH agonist was interrupted after 2 months due to a local adverse effect (Scarano et al., 2019). In our case, the first pubertal signs presented when the patient was 8.9 years old, and the results of the GnRH test were consistent with a diagnosis of early puberty. With the accumulation of clinical data and the increase in the number of cases wherein KBG is diagnosed at a young age, the frequency of early puberty is likely to increase. Therefore, the careful monitoring of puberty-related signs in patients with KBG syndrome at pre and peripubertal ages is important. Further experience with GnRH agonist and/or GH treatment in KBG syndrome, including our case, will help establish guidelines about puberty and growth in patients with KBG syndrome.
ID is an important characteristic of KBG syndrome. The role of ANKRD11, which typically regulates transcription by binding chromatin-modifying enzymes such as histone deacetylases, in the development of the central nervous system, is not yet fully understood (Gallagher et al., 2015; Walz et al., 2015). Recently, Ka and Kim (2018) demonstrated a fundamental role of ANKRD11 in regulating pyramidal neuron migration and dendritic differentiation via the BDNF/TrkB signaling pathway in the developing mouse cerebral cortex. Haploinsufficiency of ANKRD11 due to microdeletion of chromosome 16q24.3 or loss of function mutation in the ANKRD11 gene results in the KBG syndrome phenotype, which includes neurodevelopmental problems. Alfieri et al. reported a low mean TIQ score (66.0 ± 16.2, represented as mean ± SD) in 17 patients with KBG syndrome (Alfieri et al., 2019), and van Dongen et al. (2017) showed similar mean TIQ distribution (66.5 ± 15.6 in 12 children, 62.5 ± 7.1 in 6 adults). As mentioned above, most patients have moderate to mild ID and more than half of the adults with KBG syndrome have jobs and are self-sufficient in ordinary life (Goldenberg et al., 2016; Low et al., 2016). Our second patient had severe ID (TIQ 26 at 7 years of age) with the lowest known TIQ in KBG syndrome up to date. Unfortunately, we did not have information about other environmental or perinatal factors related to ID, such as fetal alcohol exposure or perinatal asphyxia.
In addition to ID, some behavioral and psychopathologic problems such as ADHD, autism-like features, and impulsivity are major issues in patients with KBG syndrome (Novara et al., 2017). In recent study of 17 pediatric patients with KBG syndrome, there was a higher prevalence of obsessive-compulsive traits, tic disorders, depressive mood, and ADHD as compared with the general population; obsessive-compulsive traits, in particular, did not seem to be related to cognitive level (Alfieri et al., 2019). Similarly, another study also mentioned that ADHD-like behavioral problems associated with KBG syndrome could not be directly related or explained with a specific intelligence profile (van Dongen et al., 2017). In our cases, the first patient was treated for ADHD, and the second patient also had behavioral problems such as ASD, anxiety, and stereotypical movements.
As seen in our cases, some of the features of KBG syndrome including macrodontia and facial dysmorphism (triangular face, synophrys, thick eyebrow) have become more apparent over time. Facial dysmorphism in KBG syndrome are overlapping with that seen in other syndromes such as Cornelia de Lange syndrome or Kabuki syndrome. As it is not easy to suspect KBG syndrome based only on the characteristic gestalt, KBG syndrome is considered vulnerable to underdiagnosis. Recently, the number of cases of KBG syndrome being diagnosed before 6 years of age through a next-generation sequencing (NGS) panel or WES has increased. In these cases, the clinical symptoms of KBG syndrome such as macrodontia and short stature were not clear. Developmental delay, especially speech delay and congenital malformations such as congenital heart defect or urogenital anomalies, hearing loss, and feeding difficulties are the main clinical manifestations in younger patients (Goldenberg et al., 2016; Low et al., 2016; Gnazzo et al., 2020). Low et al. recommended including the ANKRD11 gene in the NGS panel for developmental delay (Low et al., 2016). Early diagnosis through NGS or TES can enable clinicians to monitor possible problems, such as behavioral disorders, short stature, and hearing impairment. Genetic counseling is also of vital importance in the management of this condition. Early interventions may improve the patient’s quality of life.
In conclusion, we report two novel mutations of the ANKRD11 gene with different phenotypes of KBG syndrome. GH treatment and combined GnRH agonist treatment are effective in a child with KBG syndrome with short stature and early puberty. Moreover, our case presented with severe ID, seizures, and psychopathologic problems without short stature despite KBG syndrome being generally characterized by mild to moderate ID. Considering the various phenotypes of KBG syndrome, a NGS panel including the ANKRD11 gene for developmental delay with/without short stature may be helpful to identify patients with undiagnosed KBG syndrome.
Data Availability Statement
The datasets for this article are not publicly available due to concerns regarding participant/patient anonymity. Requests to access the datasets should be directed to the corresponding author.
Ethics board approval and consent was obtained for this work from the Institutional Review Board at the Inha University Hospital, Incheon, Korea (2020-03-039). The patients’ parent or the parental agent provided written informed consent. Written informed consent was obtained from the patient’s parent or the parental agent for publication of this case report and any accompanying images.
SJK analyzed and interpreted the data, prepared and corrected the manuscript. YSK and JEL designed the study. AY, J-SL, and DGK involved in the revision of this manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Conflict of Interest
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
We thank all the patients and their caregivers for their involvement in the present study.
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Keywords: ANKRD11 gene, KBG syndrome, phenotype (mesh), growth hormone, intellectual disability—genetics
Citation: Kim SJ, Yang A, Park JS, Kwon DG, Lee J-S, Kwon YS and Lee JE (2020) Two Novel Mutations of ANKRD11 Gene and Wide Clinical Spectrum in KBG Syndrome: Case Reports and Literature Review. Front. Genet. 11:579805. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2020.579805
Received: 03 July 2020; Accepted: 22 October 2020;
Published: 11 November 2020.
Edited by:Jessica Duis, Children’s Hospital Colorado, United States
Reviewed by:Charlotte Wilhelmina Ockeloen, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Netherlands
Bruno Marino, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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Client: Motto by Hilton New York City Chelsea
Location: New York City, NY, United States
Completion date: 2022
We created unique works of art at the Motto by Hilton New York City Chelsea, such as the jewel-tinted, stained-glass reception desk backdrop. The sculptures all pay playful tribute to the property’s location within the city’s art district. The hotel’s design was also inspired by the number 24, an homage to the hotel’s address on 24th Street: The “24” design concept is highlighted by way of three unique concept pillars. The first, the 24 hours in a day, takes inspiration from the passage of time, the sun, the moon, and the contrast of light to dark. The second “24ism” references metals, in particular 24-karat gold and chromium, the 24th element on the periodic table. For the third concept, the we looked to 24-bit color, a means to produce color digitally in its truest form, which resulted in concentrated moments of vibrant jewel tones carefully selected in art glass tones for the hotel.
The four sculptures vary in size and medium. The round panels at the reception are art glass and steel (8’x8′). The entry vestibule has hand painted acrylic panels along the ceiling. The restaurant has a 40′ series of metal elements strung along steel cable. And finally the mixed metal wall sculpture is comprised of metals, mirrors and glass (5’x10′).
In all, we created a series of 4 sculptures that were created around these concepts:
*The 24-hour day is reflected in contrasting moments of light to dark on millwork, furnishings and walls. Spherical objects represent the sun and moon, while midnight blue tones create a celestial space.
*Chromium, the 24th element on the periodic table, and 24-karat gold are referenced through the brass and chrome finishes of light fixtures, case goods, art and more.
From the kaleidoscopic sculptural entryway installation to playful color pairings in artwork and area rugs, a vibrant, 24-bit color depth was used to produce color digitally in its truest form.
The collaboration between our studio and the designers at Stonehill Taylor was ideal. They had this early vision of artful elements throughout the new hotel they were developing in Manhattan. We took the concepts and ran with it, developing a series of elements that are elegant and significant without overwhelming the space.


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Genealogy is often a detective search. One has to be attentive and inquisitive, and then a reward awaits.
When I visited the Ethnographic Museum in Cracow, in order to buy a book about fold costumes two months ago, I did not expect that I could also find interesting facts about genealogical research there.
The first exhibition that I visited at the Ethnographic Museum in Cracow was a
reconstructed chamber of a traditional homestead.
Carved and painted wooden bed, benches, chairs and other household appliances placed under the walls of the room. Colourful sacred pictures, wall tapestries with multi-coloured patterns, embroidered pillows stacked on top of each other. Everything seemed to be waiting for the bustling housekeeper and children running around.
Other museum halls showed scenes from life crowned with old photographs.
There were family photos, photographs depicting rural life, field work, school children, teachers and others were associated with working on flax processing.
The scenes at the museum exhibitions changed as in a kaleidoscope.
In one place, an exhibition of crafts and just around the corner soldier attributes from the early twentieth century.
One of the photos depicted a soldier of the 2nd Brigade of Polish Legions.
Traditional wedding pastries
An interesting exhibition showing wedding pastries. The first is 'wedding bark model, Zamość district, Lublin province, turn of the 19th and 20th centuries’
Small baking (by the shot glass) is a 'wedding cone model (the cake was carried before the wedding procession, placed at the top on the wedding rings, Boguchwała, Rzeszów county XIX/XX century’
The woven wheel is 'a model of a wedding cake, Ropczyce, Podkarpackie , the beginning of XX century’
The big cake on the left side of the photo is 'wedding cake model, Janów , Lubelskie voi., 1905.
Something for the head
Magier’s description of the album “Stroje Krakowskie” published by the Ethnographic Museum in Cracow.
“Magierka, is a warm round hat, with an inverted rim, woolen, knitted with a garter stitch, full and turned up.Tyniec was the main center of the product near Cracow”
Clothes like painted
The exhibition of regional costumes is the most colourful corner of the museum.
Striped, flowery, checkered, embroidered, woven, printed – various outfits depicting the old fashion from different areas of Poland.
The Ethnographic Museum in Krakow is not only interesting exhibitions, you can also use archival resources there.
It was there that I found some interesting photos that are helpful in genealogy searches.
From Kamień to Cracow
In the museum resources I also found photos from Kamień in the Podkarpacie region.
The photographs were taken in 1913.
Mayor from Kamień /Nisko .
Peasants from Kamień/ Nisko, April 1913.
Peasants in „sukmanas”, Kamień, Nisko, 1913.
Kamień , powiat Nisko ,w zbiorach Muzuem Etnoraficznego w Krakowie
Girls at the corset sewing course, Kamień, Nisko poviat.
In this entry I presented only a part of what can be admired in the museum.
I hope that thanks to the publication of the photos, it will be possible to recognize at least some of the people in them.
The Ethnographic Museum in Cracow is a place which I highly recommend. Interesting exhibits and friendly service await you.
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This great map card is called "Germany the beautiful".
I agree that Germany is a very beautiful country and has some really gorgeous country sites, as you can even see on this card in the different regions.
This card here shows some of the beautiful castles of Bavaria, that were built by King Ludwig II. Of course on the top left you can see the castle of Newschwanstein with it's magnificent views. Construction began in 1869 to 1892 and it's one of the world's most known castles in Germany. On the top right, the beautiful Linderhof castle . It's architecture is a mixture of Renaissance and Baroque. The bottom left shows the castle of Herrenchiemsee, which lies on an island in Lake Chiemsee in southeastern Bavaria. It was built between 1878 and 1886 and was modeled after the Louis XIV palace in Versailles. The castle has a huge park with statutes, channels and fountains surrounding it. On the bottom right is King Ludwig II of Bavaria, also known as "The Swan King".

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