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The big joke among middle school teachers is that hardly anyone chooses middle school. Middle school is the true pariah of school districts. Most teachers start out in the high school or at one of the elementary schools, and for one reason or another, get transferred. Some couldn't find a job in their subject area in an elementary or high school. Once in, however, many middle school teachers wouldn't leave if you (ahem) paid them. Maybe it's because we have the privilege of bearing witness to a metamorphosis. There are few phases in a child's life where they undergo so much transformation.
It's a weird, complex age, the whole twelve-to-fourteen year-old period. I teach the seventh graders. Making the transition from elementary school to middle school is nothing short of exhausting, and frequently traumatic for them. No longer are they in one classroom all day with their best friends. They arrive, with brand new backpacks and sneakers and excitedly navigate a brand new building, filled with new kids and new teachers. Gone are those sweet little desks that held all their books and papers. In their place are hall lockers with new lock combinations to deal with in that frenzied three-minute timeframe they have to get from one class to another. The novelty of changing classes for each subject is tempered by the fact that they change teachers as well, and each of us have different personalities, expectations and breaking points. By the time they get to fifth period lunch and realize their "bff" isn't there until sixth, the shine is pretty much off the penny.
The drama of changing clothes for gym cannot be underestimated. They're riding the fence, both physically and emotionally. Some days they really want to be treated like little kids, others, they're convinced that they are mini-adults. This is the age of braces and unfortunate forays into hair and makeup experimentation. It marks the onset of puberty and all the emergent feelings that accompany that. The girls, many of whom already occupy the bodies of women, tower over the boys in seventh grade, but by eighth I'm often looking up at those same boys teasing them, saying, "What did they feedyou this summer?"
Most of all, they're goofy. Seventh graders get hysterical while reading "A Christmas Carol," every time the character named "Dick" is mentioned. They have to be reminded (often) of the necessity of deodorant, and don't even get me started on the copious spraying of "Axe" in the hallways after gym. They write all over their hands and arms, and are obsessed with their cell phones and chewing gum.
If their name is Robert, and you ask them what they'd like to be called (Rob? Bobby?) It is entirely possible that they will misunderstand and reply, "The Dark One." Girls with beautiful, old names like Catherine will take the opportunity to reinvent themselves and ask to be called "Lexie." They develop crushes, form cliques, bully one another and are young enough and idealistic enough to believe that they have a great shot at being a professional skateboarder, actress or rapper (in my district, I have yet to have a child lay claim to President). To them, the eighth graders seem arrestingly exotic. The eighth graders, well aware of this, work their worldly image for all it's worth; "making out" in the hallways, rolling their skirts to make them shorter and whipping out that hair elastic to cinch their shirts tighter in back. They call the "little" seventh graders "cute."
I teach Language Arts, what we used to just call "English." In my school, Language Arts and reading are actually separate subjects, so what I really teach is writing. In September, when I first get them, if I assign an essay, more often than not, I will get a paragraph. Then I have until April and the dreaded NJ Standardized Test to turn that into five well-organized paragraphs. Along the way, I grade literally thousands of papers. Sometimes I keep a private record of the "best of" the essays I've graded. I have included them here exactly as they appeared in their essays:
"Once I got lost and a stranger picked me up and drove me home. My mom was so happy she gave him four hundred dollars but he just gave it back. But my mom did let him date my sister…"
"I am trying to improve my grades so that I can be on the on-a-roll."
"Many reality shows are supposed to be real but most of them are fake. Studys of Julie Arts, which is an acting school, say that more then 67% of people need to know how to act when entering to be in an reality show."
"Parents will save more money on clothes with hammy downs, and not hassle with new clothes when you can just past the clothes down."
"According to the First Commandment, we have the right to free speech."
"My aunt Linda was a teacher until one of her students made a website called "Ms. Linda Crowfeet STINKS!!" My aunt got a law suit and won, but she still goes to therapy lessons four times a week."
"My grandmother Becky had eighteen children in the years 2000 to 2002 and she went to the therapist once a week because it was hard for her to keep track of each one and pay bills at the same time."
Back in 2004, I took the opportunity to use the fact that it was an election year as a "teachable moment." Instead of essays, I had the kids choose a candidate, research their stand on the "issues" and then write campaign speeches. Many of these were priceless, (the comments in parenthesis are mine, I couldn't help myself):
"I have a lot of other things to say about healthcare, but it would take forever, so I will move on…" (Oh, if only it worked this way in real life!)
"I will also give poor seniors free vitamins, and make hospital payments and education payments free!" (Free payments! Where do I sign?)
"Kerry is presenting a plan to identify, disrupt and eliminate terrorist networks. They will be hunted down and slaughtered. They can run but they can't hide. He will use military forces if necessary…" (Ah, but only as a last resort…)
"Finally, I'll talk about the environment. I say that since I have taken office, the U.S. has been enjoying air, water and land… "
"The last issue I'll talk about is healthcare. We work hard and still don't have enough money to buy ourselves a new outfit every month. That's because we give so much money for healthcare and other programs." (Ugh! I hate that!)
"I am very alarmed that Americans are concerned about Iraq and other foreign policies." (Yeah, aren't they aware of the outfit problem??)
"In addition, if what he says is true about doing enough for our environment, then why do we still have filters for our water? We aren't satisfied. Why do thousands of people every month catch asthma from inhaling bad air? We aren't satisfied, are we? ""
"Education is very important because if you don't have one you won't get no where in life. The No Child Left Behind Act gives schools the chance to be flexible and learn new ways to spend government money." (I ain't touching this one!)
"I believe in making changes for my country such as lowering taxes, and making schools a little non-strict. I want to be as good a president as Bill Clinton, God bless his soul."
"I offered a tax credit to dry cleaners that use environmentally friendly technology so it can clean and decrease the waste lagoons so we can swim in them again. I will also help the hog farmers." (I just don't know where to begin…)
"I have been thinking about starting a new program to keep forests healthy. One way is to allow companies to cut down trees that could end up being part of forest fires." (Clever! Now why didn't I think of that?)
"John Kerry is also a kind man because he chose me, John Edwards, as his vice presidential running mate." (Hmn…)
Someday, I'm going to write a long, detailed essay challenging the rotten propaganda Chris Christie has generated about New Jersey's teachers. I'll extoll the virtues of my co-workers, talk about the fact that most of the teachers at my school have Master's degrees they'll never get reimbursed for, work longer hours than most people imagine, and spend a ton of their own money on supplies that make school better for kids. I know of at least one teacher who buys her own class set of paperback books for her kids to read, and another who keeps a loaf of bread and jars of peanut butter and jelly in her closet. She often makes sandwiches for those kids who forgot to bring their lunch, or have none to bring. Most of us have second jobs.
The faculty at my school have identified and helped children who were being hurt or neglected at home, cutting themselves, starving themselves, using drugs, and being bullied for their sexual orientation. They've come in early and stayed late and tried, really, really, tried, to develop lessons that were dynamic and engaging and meaningful. The creativity, compassion and dedication I work alongside with fairly blows the mind.
Yes, there are perks. I have loved being able to be home in time for most of my kids' soccer and field hockey and softball games. Having the summers off? I kid you not, it rocks. But on this last, hot sweaty day of the school year, sitting in a 105 degree classroom with a bunch of the quirkiest pre-adolescents on the planet, who were asking me again if next year, I will really mail to them the letters I had them write to themselves for 8th grade graduation (and yes, I will), my irritation was interrupted by a young, first year teacher who I mentored this year. She came by to chat for a few minutes, so we talked about summer plans and then said good-bye.
I got one of those glimpses of how quickly it all goes by, and what a gift it is to be able to share this awkward slice of their lives. That young, bright, poised, first year teacher was my student back in 2001. What a remarkable thing it is to remember her then, and see her now.
The bottom line is that no one goes into this profession for the money, and if you go into it for the shorter hours, vacation days and summers off, you won't last.
As for me? Well, I'm in it strictly for the laughs. :)


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Beverly Federspiel, Director of the City of Tonawanda Public Library, has been appointed as the new Director of the Lockport Public Library.
Federspiel, 49, will succeed Marie Binderman, who is retiring, on Feb. 28.
"I'm excited," said Federspiel, who has been at the Tonawanda Library three years after serving at the Buffalo and Erie County Central Library for 18 years. "I've always loved the Lockport building and the community is very supportive. There are lots of opportunities out there."
Federspiel, who lives in Lewiston, served as Department Manager for the Children's Department and the Processing Department at the Buffalo Library. She received her Master of Library Science degree in 1992 from the University at Buffalo.
With the budget crisis in Erie County, there was talk of hours going to be cut in Tonawanda. That issue has been resolved.
"Beverly Federspiel has the personal and professional qualifications we feel are necessary to move the library into the future," said Nancy Kasprzak-Whitmore, the president of the Library's Board of Trustees. "Her experience and vision will ensure that the Library's tradition of providing high-quality service to the community is sustained. The trustees and staff look forward to working with her."
Federspiel will meet with the board next week.
"The Lockport Public Library has a long tradition of excellent service and I am excited to become a part of that tradition", Federspiel said. "Working with the staff, I hope to build on established partnerships and also explore new opportunities. I look forward to becoming a part of the Lockport Community."

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The New Albany 11-12-year-old Softball All-Stars' season came to an end on Monday in the Major League State Tournament, falling to Riverfield Little League of Anderson 8-1.
New Albany's lone run came in the bottom of the first inning when it took its only lead of the game at 1-0. After Erin Bell led off the frame with a walk, she scored on a two-out single by Riley Case.
But Riverfield responded with two runs in the top of the second, three in the fourth and three in the fifth. New Albany ended the tournament with a 1-3 record in pool play, as it finished seventh.
New Albany collected only three hits, with Anya Davenport collecting two singles.
"We couldn't put hits together. We had a lot of girls go 0-for-2 or 0-for-3," New Albany coach Darrell Thomas said.
New Albany starting pitcher Bre Schoenfeld suffered the loss. She gave up five runs in four innings. New Albany's Alexis Williams pitched the final two frames.
Despite Monday's setback, Thomas praised the way his team played in the District 5 and state tournaments.
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The city's finest dining spots are offering accommodations for all holiday gathering needs. Several restaurants are also offering gift card promotions that make the perfect holiday present for friends and family.
Atkins Park Tavern in Virginia-Highland offers guests a spirited atmosphere with a little bit of history, making it a one of a kind spot to gather with friends. The tavern provides a room located in the upstairs area of the restaurant accommodating 30 guests for a sit-down dinner or 50 guests for a cocktail reception. Atkins Park Tavern in Virginia-Highland is located at 794 North Highland Avenue. To reserve the private room for an upcoming holiday party, call 404-876-7249. Atkins Park in Smyrna is located at 2840 Atlanta Road Southeast; 770-435-1887. For more information, visit www.atkinspark.com
Fifth Group Restaurants® provides options for private and group dining at each of their Atlanta-area restaurants. In the heart of Midtown, Ecco offers a chic private dining room that seats up to 58 guests or on their patio that seats 75. Lure, serving Atlantans the freshest seafood, is providing private dining in three different rooms, for parties that range from 15 to 50 people. South City Kitchen Midtown is offering private dining options for parties of 16 people up to 180 people. La Tavola Trattoria in Virginia-Highland offers a private patio as well as indoor seating, accommodating between 30 to 120 people. Another Virginia-Highland restaurant, The Original El Taco, rents out both the patio area and restaurant, seating 75 to 100 guests inside. Finally, South City Kitchen Vinings, offers private dining for parties ranging between 30 and 230 people. Bold American and Studio 887 offer off- and on-premise upscale catering for other event options. For more information, visit the company's private dining page. www.fifthgroup.com
Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar in Dunwoody offers diners both lunch and dinner private room options with rewards. Private dining rooms range in size, from seating 24 guests or up to 70 guests for a cocktail reception. There is no room rental fee, only food and beverage minimums. Those who book their event by Friday, November 30 will receive a $50 dining certificate for every $500 spent. The restaurant is also offering a bonus gift card of $20 for every $100 spent. Guests can enter to win a trip for two to Napa Valley by purchasing the customizable gift cards online in November and December.The bonus cards are valid for food and beverage only, and can be redeemed from Tuesday, January 1 through Sunday, February 10. To book a private room, guests can call (404) 782-1236 or email Jenny Whyte-Albers at firstname.lastname@example.com. Fleming's is located at 4501 Olde Perimeter Way;770-698-8112. www.flemingssteakhouse.com
At the "junction" of Howell Mill and Huff Roads in Atlanta's Westside Urban Market, JCT. Kitchen & Bar and its accompanying 2,000-square-foot skyline terrace can accommodate up to 200 guests and looks out over the historic neighborhood, while the main dining room holds up to 165 people. To discuss private event options, contact Valerie Mosley at 678-536-6506. JCT. Kitchen & Bar is located at 1198 Howell Mill Road; 404-355-2252. www.jctkitchen.com
While most guests may be accustomed to stopping at Market Street Café on their lunch breaks, the space can also be rented out for private events. For a seated dinner, the Buckhead café can accommodate up to 125 people and the outdoor patio can seat an additional 75 guests. For cocktails andhors d'oeuvres, the café can hold close to 250 people and approximately 100 on the patio. For larger parties, the entire restaurant may be rented. Market Street Café can be reserved after 4 p.m. on weekdays and any time on the weekends. Market Street Café is located at 3475 Piedmont Road.www.themarketstcafe.com
No. 246 in Decatur is offering patrons the gift that keeps on giving this holiday season. Guests can purchase $100 gift cards and receive a $20 bonus card for every $100 spent. These gift cards make great holiday gifts for friends, or frequent diners can stock up on extra spending at the restaurant. Bonus gift cards cannot be redeemed the same day as purchased. No. 246 is located at 129 East Ponce De Leon Avenue; 678-399-8246. www.no246.com
Located in West Midtown's White Provision complex, Ormsby's is the perfect space for any holiday gathering. The private lounge room accommodates parties of up to 40 guests and the private bocce room can hold up to 125. The bocce room gives guests private access to one bocce court, skee ball machine and a shuffleboard table. The bar is also customizable with a bartender, allowing guests to have specialty drinks suited for a holiday party theme. Both rooms come with a game shelf full of board games for entertainment. Rooms are secured by a food and beverage minimum purchase agreement and rentals start no later than 7 p.m. All guests in the party must be 21 and over for events starting after 6 p.m. Ormsby's is located at 1170 Howell Mill Road, Suite 20; 404-968-2033. www.ormsbysatlanta.com
The Pinewood in Decatur gathers family and friends into their Southern, comforting atmosphere to celebrate the holiday season. The restaurant can host a private cocktail party with up to 100 people or a 60-person seated dinner. For a larger, social cocktail party, the restaurant can clear the tables inside to fit up to 150 guests. The Pinewood is located at 254 West Ponce de Leon Avenue in Decatur; 404-373-5507. www.pinewoodtr.com
For a fun get-together in the heart of Midtown, RA Sushi Bar Restaurant offers a semi-private dining space that seats 10 guests comfortably. Larger gatherings can rent out RA's upstairs area which easily accommodates up to 100 guests. The Midtown sushi spot has also simplified holiday shopping by offering a gift card promotion. For every $50 in gift cards purchased from Monday, November 12 – Monday, December, 31 buyers will receive a complementary $10 bonus card, valid from Wednesday, January, 2 – Sunday, March 31. RA Sushi Bar Restaurant is located at 1080 Peachtree Street; 404-267-0114. www.rasushi.com
Ray's Restaurants has three different atmospheres for private holiday dining. Ray's on the River, Atlanta's premier riverfront restaurant, can accommodate parties of up to 200 guests with their semi-private banquet facilities in addition to a permanent tent, also accommodating up to 200 people. For more intimate gatherings in town, Ray's in the City has both private and semi-private dining rooms available that accommodate up to 45 people. Ray's Killer Creek, an Alpharetta favorite, has several different room options and accommodates parties up to 300 people. If guests book a room by Wednesday, November 21 at Ray's Killer Creek, they will receive an additional $100 gift card. All three locations offer a variety of menu selections that can be adjusted for any event. Each Ray's restaurant is offering gift card promotions. They are offering a "Cyber Monday" promotion, where patrons can purchase a $100 gift card online for just $75. In addition, all locations will be giving out scratch off gift cards in restaurant during the holidays. Offers will include 15 percent or 25 percent off of a meal, valid in January and February. Gift cards can be purchased either online or in restaurants. For more information on private dining at one of Ray's Restaurants or purchasing gift cards, visit the company's website. Ray's on the River is located at 6700 Powers Ferry Road; 770-955-1187. Ray's Killer Creek is located at 1700 Mansell Road; 770-649-0064. Ray's in the City is located at 240 Peachtree Street NW; 404-524-9224.www.raysrestaurants.com
Atlanta's popular farm-to-table restaurant, Woodfire Grill, offers options for parties of any size. There are multiple private rooms including "The Mezzanine," which can be divided into three private rooms or one large space that can seat up to 50 guests. For smaller get-togethers, "The Loft" is privately located in the upstairs area, offering an intimate and cozy environment for up to 22 people. Woodfire Grill also has a covered patio where guests can enjoy a standing cocktail party of up to 75 or a private seated affair for 30. Woodfire Grill is located at 1782 Cheshire Bridge Road; 404-347-9055.www.woodfiregrill.com


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In an election year – or any year during a recession – it's difficult to find a politician, journalist or, well, anybody who isn't talking about the unemployment problem. Just as difficult is finding someone who's actually doing something about it. Well, an early-stage startup based in Silicon Valley is.
LearnUp founded last December by Alexis Ringwald and Kenny Ma, offers a "real-time job training program" for job seekers with their eyes on positions from entry level on up.
"There's a tremendous skills gap in this country," said Ringwald, whose first startup, green energy software company Valence Energy, was acquired by Serious Energy last fall. Job seekers often don't know what the most useful skill sets are for positions they are interested in or, when they have skills, don't know which skills to learn next.
LearnUp is a website that allows employers to post skill sets necessary to fill those positions they have open. Those skill sets are then made available to job seekers as part of an online learning program. Employers are also given access to a dashboard that allows them to peruse learners' individual profiles and what they are working on, giving them the opportunity to take the initiative in their own search for employees.
The company recently declared its commitment to share job training content with California Community Colleges and Corporate Voices for Working Families as part of the Clinton Global Initiative America. Now in public beta stages, LearnUp has already signed up employers such as Staples (NASDAQ:SPLS), Safeway (NYSE:SWY), Gap (NYSE:GPS), KPMG LLP, Prudential (London:PUK), TeleTech, and others
The evolution of job training is destined to be peer-to-peer exchanges, said Ringwald. "Technology is changing so quickly it's hard for a curriculum to adapt," she explained.
In the future, LearnUp will look to expand within the United States, though Ringwald noted that companies already working with the LearnUp have a global footprint.
LearnUp is not a non-profit organization. It's a classic example of entrepreneurs seeing a need for a service and providing a solution. In this case, if the LearnUp system turns out to be successful, everybody wins.
If you know of a similar type of socially conscious yet profit-oriented startup, tech product or fledgling business, comment below and let's take a time-out from fussing about Facebook's mobile strategy and Apple's potentially galaxy-changing television and aim the spotlight on them for a moment.
In the old continent, there are a bunch of startups too: http://www.timizzer.com/technology-2/wrya/
Check out UnRabble and BullHornReach. #startups tackling a different aspect of #hiring.
Hi Karsten, same happened to us. We spoke with 10-15 companies in Romania and found out that referrals from employees are the solution to attract the best talent with low costs and very little effort from HR.
Now we're in Amsterdam, in 6 days we graduate from Rockstart Accelerator (http://rockstart.com/accelerator/) and we're talking with a few companies to include them into a pilot.
You can find more on http://nexi.me/
Very good initiative by Leanrup. Self-help and self-service is the need of the hour when it comes to skill development and learning in this competitive society. A company that is fulfilling this need and allowing both learning providers and learning consumers to bridge the skill gaps around the world is Quampus (www.quampus.com), an eLearning platform that is on the cloud. All the teacher/trainer or the student/learner needs is a browser and a broadband connection. Quampus charges just USD 300 for its annual subscription to Knowledge Provider (tutors, trainers, training departments, training companies) and only USD 3 per month per enrolled student. If there are no fee paying students in a program in a given month, the charge is zero! As a social commitment towards a more knowledgeable society, Quampus also does not charge any fees if the Knowledge Provider wishes to float FREE programs for the general public (say a Trust or Not-for-Profit that wants to impart knowledge on environment or speed maths or chess, for free).
Quampus makes it easy for people to supplement their income by monetizing their special skills. A stay-at-home mom can float programs to teach baking or calligraphy, while a tax accountant can teach tax planning on Quampus. They are free to charge what they want to, and have to pay just USD 3 for each fee-paying student per month. No need for buying any hardware, software or technical expertise. The subscription model and pay-as-you earn feature of Quampus makes it really attractive for knowledge providers. For learners it provides the freedom to learn anywhere, anytime at their own pace.
Quampus democratizes learning, and comes closest to a model of learning by the people, of the people and for the people! Check out www.quampus.com/presentation/part1/index.html and www.quampus.com/presentation/part2/index.html for more.
We need more such initiatives in the global village we live in.
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Today's Mets Lineup vs. Marlins (Game 1)
There are two games today, with the first beginning at 4:10 PM. Here is the lineup the Mets will send to the plate against Marlins pitcher Anibal Sanchez:
Angel Pagan – CF
Ruben Tejada – SS
David Wright – 3B
Lucas Duda – RF
Jason Bay – LF
Nick Evans – 1B
Josh Thole – C
Justin Turner – 2B
R.A. Dickey – P
It seems that Lucas Duda is the team's everyday right fielder, which is nice to see. With Duda out there, Nick Evans gets some time at 1B, which is also nice. I wonder what R.A. Dickey's knuckler would have done in a hurricane?
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Janine Gasco: Seeds of Change
Like many women, Janine Gasco is obsessed with chocolate. Her obsession however, centers less around eating it, and more around finding ways to bring fair trade practices to its production. Having spent more than 25 years researching forest crops such as cacao and vanilla in the Soconusco region of Chiapas, Mexico, the associate professor of anthropology was able to provide a single source of chocolate to Askinosie Chocolate in Springfield, MO.
"I've always looked at the historical development of cacao production there," she says. "Now I'm working with modern farmers, who have had to abandon their lifestyle because the modern global economy has cut them out of the process. I'm trying to find chocolate makers in the United States, who will directly buy from the producers."
Shawn Askinosie contacted Gasco through the Internet, based on her research. She was able to connect him with a local farmer organization, which sold him five tons of cacao last November. He hopes to have the first chocolate made from this cacao in the next few months.
"We're working with the idea that cacao is purchased from a cooperative of producers, where the farmers all get the same price for their crop," she says. "They actually get above market price, which is great, because they make so little when they sell down there. They spend more money than they make to keep growing cacao.
"This is a big part of ethoecology, where we are trying to create alternate ways of how the economy works," she continues. "I'm really excited about that, and I'm hoping it will help the farmers be able to continue a way of life that they've had for thousands of years."
Last summer, Gasco was one of 12 anthropology professors selected by the National Science Foundation to participate in a one-week "Short Course on Methods in Ethnoecology" at the Duke University Marine Biology Laboratory in Beaufort, NC.
"Ethnoecology is a new field that is very multidisciplinary," notes Gasco. "It looks at how people interact with their environments, in fields such as ethnoecology, ethnobotany, and ethnobiology. For many years, Western science dominated the field of ecology. What we are learning now is that traditional rural people have very sustainable ways of living in their environments."
Gasco points out many technologically-advanced societies could learn a lot from "people who are not educated in a formal way, but have generations of experience." Time-tested practices such as multicropping and non-invasive forms of insect control could benefit Western agribusiness, which is primarily focused on high yield, at the expense of the land and sometimes, the quality of the product.
"Our land use patterns in agribusiness give a really quick return and look promising," she says. "But if you look at the long-term effects, you find they're not sustainable.
A lot of times, people think it's impossible. But we are learning about some things that work really well. The growth of the organic food industry in the U.S. is due to the fact that there are sustainable methods.
"Multicropping is where you plant lots of different crops on the same parcel of land," she explains. "This used to be seen as very inefficient. In agribusiness, you see acres and acres of one thing. But what becomes clear is that it's very hard on the soil when you have the same crop year after year. In Mexico, the traditional crops are corn, beans, and squash. An agricultural plot there may look messy. But the beans put nitrogen back into the soil, and the corn takes it out."
Gasco's anthropological interests have also led her to study what she calls "a cautionary tale. Putting a people in a pigeonholed category denies you the full understanding of who they are." Her article, "Beyond the Indian/Ladino Dichotomy: Shifting Identities in Colonial and Contemporary Chiapas, Mexico," was published last year in New World, First Nations: Native Peoples of Mesoamerican and the Andes under Colonial Rule (ed. David Cahill and Blanca Tovias; Brighton, Sussex Academic Press, 2006).
According to Gasco, the demographic history of the Indian and Ladino (non-Indian) reveals that, "Identity is such an important thing. It's a dichotomy, that you're either Indian or you're not. And they are almost complete opposites, everything one group does, the other doesn't do, and they look down upon each other because of it."
The shifting of identity was curious to Gasco, who observed that both groups would change their identities, in order to escape discrimination.
"Sometimes the same person will be called a Ladino in one document, and an Indian in another," she says. "People will try to pass for the other group, if their own is one that is discriminated against. So it's not even that it changes over generations. A person can be one or the other, depending on who's doing the defining."
In the interest of revealing more about the identities of indigenous peoples, Gasco's appearance on the History Channel last fall shed some light on the little known engineering abilities of the ancient Aztecs. A recognized expert on Mesoamerican archaeology and ethnography, she was interviewed on location in Mexico City as a scholarly expert for "Engineering an Empire: the Aztecs."
"Often, when people think about the Aztecs they associate them with human sacrifice and brutal warfare," she says. "There is a whole other side to their society that often gets overlooked, a pragmatic and scientific side. They lived in the middle of a lake and constructed a whole city there. It was a salt lake, so they had to find a way to bring in fresh water. They built these huge stone pyramids, with materials that they had to import from somewhere else, since there was no stone on their island."
Gasco underscores the fact that Spanish conquerors of the Aztecs depended on their expertise with the natural environment to help further their own colony, after the initial conflicts.
"When the Spaniards won the conquest, they had to learn from the Aztecs how to build their city," she says. "They employed Aztec engineers to help them to learn how to live in that environment, and they really couldn't have survived in that location without them."
Gasco is also the co-author of a widely-used textbook, The Legacy of Mesoamerica (with Robert M. Carmack and Gary H. Gossen; Upper Saddle River, Prentice Hall, 1st ed. 1997). A second edition is scheduled to come out this year.
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In 1981, a glaciologist at the University of Maine named Terry Hughes was examining the data that had emerged from the first, crude attempts to map Antarctica, and in particular its more vulnerable part. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet, these surveys found, contained three large drainage basins. Two of them ended in vast ice shelves, thick fists of ice as big as countries, which acted as corks, limiting the rate at which the interior of the continent flowed out into the oceans. But the ice shelf at the third portal, the Amundsen Sea Embayment, was very weak — not a broad fist of ice but a few skinny knuckles jutting out above the waterline. Hughes published a paper pointing this out, and he called the area the "weak underbelly" of West Antarctica. If climate change were ever to disintegrate Antarctica, he theorized, it would begin at the Amundsen Sea, by releasing the largest glacier that flowed into it, the Pine Island Glacier. This, he thought, this was the place.
For more than a decade, Pine Island has been accelerating, and it is now racing toward the sea: 2.6 miles a year, 38 feet a day, more than a foot an hour, 10 times the rate of the other large Antarctic glaciers. Because of these speeds, Pine Island is the first of the great Antarctic glaciers to begin disappearing. And so, slowly, glaciologists have begun to incline their attention here, to look, in Pine Island, for hints of how much of Antarctica might be at risk.
Pine Island Bay was named for an exploratory naval ship that was sent to Antarctica to help map the Amundsen Sea coast in 1947. The storms here are so regular and so violent that only one scientist has walked on the floating edge of the glacier: a NASA glaciologist named Bob Bindschadler, who touched down three Januaries ago on snow so tightly packed that the airplane's skis, as they carved a momentary runway, left almost no mark. ("As close to concrete as any snow I've ever stood on," Bindschadler recalls.) It was an impossibly still day, barely any wind at all. He spent 20 minutes on the glacier, then had to leave. The weather was too rough for another landing, and neither he nor anyone else has been back since. The basin that flows into the glacier is very deep and holds enough packed snow to raise global sea levels dramatically on its own, were the glacier to melt. Bindschadler thinks that much of Pine Island might "very well drain within our lifetime."
The accelerated melting in Antarctica has been discovered so recently, and its trajectory remains so hard to discern, that the estimates of sea-level rise still have a broad gap between the best- and worst-case scenarios. Some conservative predictions suggest that global seas will rise two feet by 2100. But if Pine Island Glacier drains completely, that alone will raise the seas another nine inches. Estimates that include other vulnerable glaciers in Antarctica put the total rise in sea levels at more than six feet. Pine Island is the pivot, the point at which the scenarios diverge into best and worst, and the future comes into clearer relief.
Every geographic section of ocean is composed of fat belts, different kinds of water layered neatly on top of one another, arranging themselves by gravity. In the Amundsen Sea, the shallowest water is very cold; some of it, which has just melted off the ice sheet, is nearly as fresh as stream water. But the deepest waters, more than 1,800 feet below the surface, are both saltier and warmer. Bindschadler says it is this water — at some places more than five degrees above the freezing point — that "is killing the ice sheet."
Some scientists believe that Pine Island Glacier has been thinning for 50 years; all that's known for sure is that it's been getting thinner for at least 15 years. "We knew the ice was thinning, and we knew the ocean water in front of it was warm," says Adrian Jenkins of the British Antarctic Survey. "But the ocean cavity beneath the ice was a black box, and to understand what is going to happen to the glacier, and what will happen to sea level, we needed to somehow see inside."
Few scientists have ever managed to get into Pine Island Bay; so much of the water remains frozen from one year to the next that it takes a warm and lucky summer to make the sea passable. But Jenkins got in two summers ago, on an American icebreaking vessel. He brought with him a torpedo-shaped remote-controlled submarine called the Autosub and, three miles from the edge of the glacier, lay it quietly into the cold sea. The sub dove and began to make its way toward the glacier, quickly losing contact with Jenkins and his team. Thirty hours later, they heard a series of beeps on their receiver — the Autosub had completed its circuit. Jenkins' team sent a signal directing it to resurface. A few tense minutes later, the sub breached the surface, like a tiny, sleek whale, and the crew brought it onboard.
When Jenkins downloaded the data from the seafloor, he discovered something startling. Scientists had thought that the ice on the underside of Pine Island Glacier was anchored to a ridge near the mouth of the bay. But the Autosub had made its way 30 miles inland, probing along the base of the glacier. The ice wasn't anchored to the ridge at all; the glacier had come unstuck, and was floating. That meant the warm water in the bay wasn't just lapping against the edge of the ice shelf but attacking the glacier's underbelly. What's more, Jenkins found, the water under the ice sheet was too warm to have been sitting there for years — it must be the result of warmer currents from the north being driven into the bay over and over again. "You couldn't just have had a one-time input of warm water onto the continental shelf, sometime long ago," Jenkins says. "We think this process is repeating itself regularly."
If you were to stand on a particular spot along the Antarctic coast for a day, or a week, you wouldn't always feel the wind blowing in any particular direction; the atmosphere is a chaotic system of storms, sudden and unpredictable, their dispersing energies sending air in every direction. But over time, it is possible to see a trend emerge, a subtle preference of the wind to move around the continent from east to west and to push the ocean currents in the same direction. As the winds go faster — energized by humans turning the dials, raising temperatures in the atmosphere and destroying the ozone layer around Antarctica — the ocean currents grow stronger and more turbulent and more likely to send fingers of warm water up over the sill of the continental shelf, grasping for and then gripping the ice.
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Port Washington, Wis. - Roman L. Didier, "Romie", 86, of Port Washington, Wis., died on Friday, May 27, 2005 at Columbia-St. Mary's Hospital-Columbia Campus in Milwaukee from complications of a sudden pulmonary embolism.
Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Tuesday, May 31 at St. Mary's Church in Port Washington, Wis. with Rev. Allan Sommer presideing. Interment was held at the parish cemetery.
He was born on October 8, 1918 in the Town of Holland in Sheboygan County, the 12th of 16 children to Hubert and Mary Hamm Didier. Growing up on the farm east of Dacada, he labored with his family, as well as other local farmers.
On June 14, 1941, he married Marie Schreiner of Port Washington at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Port Washington. He resided with his family on North Milwaukee Street in Port Washington for over 40 years, later moving to his current apartment after she preceded him in death on September 11, 1990.
He was a grinder for the former Gilson Foundry, Port Washington, Wis., for over 20 years until it was destroyed in a fire. Later he worked for Simplicity Manufacturing Company in Port Washington, Wis. over 20 years, retiring in 1983.
He was a member of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local 1430 and the Catholic Knights.
Roman was an avid sports fan-Milwaukee Braves, Milwaukee Brewers, Green Bay Packers. He will be remembered as a kind and gentle man, always positive; a joy to be with.
He is survived by daughters, Mary Ann (Gary) Lofberg of Thief River Falls, and Betty Jane (Salim) Jaffer of Muskego; sons Larry (Jackie) Didier of Middletown, Conn. and Chuck (Ileana) Didier of San Jose, Costa Rica; 10 grand children; 12 great-grandchildren; two sisters, Germaine Bowe of Milwaukee and Leona Kaker of Sheboygan; his brother, Ed (Laura) Didier of Port Washington; nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Marie; and his siblings, Rose Lang, Florence Bartoli, Esther Pawley, Verena Paddock, Sylvia Bloecher, his twin Marcella Craig, Dolores Schuessler Bowe, Leonard, Victor and Jerome Didier and two who were unnamed that died at birth.


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Chapter 1: Introduction to Color Theory and Lighting Basics in Blender
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Blood Orange Curd Tart with Rosemary Butter Crust
- At January 29, 2013
- By foodnessgracious
- In All, Pies and Tarts
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There's a lot of blood orange recipes going around right now, and no wonder. This fruit not only looks amazing but tastes so unique compared to any other orange. It's not really too tart but not too sweet either and the color of the juice is intense. I was inspired to make this tart after seeing White on Rice Couple's blood orange bars, so I figured with it being a citrus I could just follow the recipe for a regular citrus tart, switching the lemon or lime juice for the blood orange juice plus a couple other changes. I used David Lebovitz's lime tart recipe as a starting point. I was hoping to get a deeper red hue to the curd, but looking around at other blood orange tart recipes, this paler color seems to be normal. It reminds me of how traditional key lime pie is – super pale, almost yellow but sometimes you'll see one that's green….weird and fake.
I had been searching for blood oranges for a while but had the hardest time finding any, even though they should be in season from December through March. I'm definitely going to try and grow my own tree for the future though. Making the filling is pretty easy, just keep stirring the curd or you might end up with scrambled eggs. It will thicken even though it seems like it won't – just have patience (and a strong-ass arm). It should take about 10 minutes of constant stirring. I added fresh rosemary to the crust which is the same basic crust I used for these pomegranate cheese bars, and it totally compliments the orange filling. Using rosemary in desserts is always on my mind – it's flowery, mellow flavor always creates a surprise for whoever's tasting the dish. If you need a simple crust with the best buttery shortbread flavor, then this should be it!
Another great thing was, when my kids saw me cut the oranges open to juice, they went crazy! They like fruit especially berries but they were all over the leftover oranges and then had me cutting up even more. I think it was the color because whenever they see me slice up regular old oranges, I never hear a peep from them. Minutes later they were both laughing at each others red juice faces and trying to figure out who could eat an orange wedge the fastest!
Recipe for Blood Orange Tart with Rosemary Butter Crust:: filling adapted from David Lebovitz
Prep Time- 30 minutes Bake Time- 30 minutes Serves- 8
For the crust-
1 cup unsalted butter cut into chunks
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon fresh finely chopped rosemary
2 cups all purpose flour
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter a 9 inch tart shell pan with a removable bottom.
In a stand mixer beat the butter until soft. Add the brown sugar and mix on high until it becomes light, about three minutes. Add the salt, rosemary and flour, mix on low scraping down the sides of the bowl at least once. As soon as the dough comes together, stop the machine.
Place the dough into the tart shell and push the dough gently out towards the sides and up. Once the tart is evenly spread out, trim the edges and bake for 20 minutes rotating after 10 minutes.
For the filling-
8 Tablespoons unsalted butter
3/4 cup fresh squeezed blood orange juice
1/2 cup sugar
Zest of two blood oranges
Pinch of salt
3 large egg yolks
3 large eggs
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Place the butter, orange juice, sugar and zest into a small saucepan and melt over a low heat.
In a medium bowl, whisk the eggs and yolks together. When the butter has melted and the mixture is well combined, add about 1/4 cup to the eggs mixing as you do this.
Add the eggs back into the orange juice mixture and stir constantly over a low heat until it starts to thickenm about 8-10 minutes. Do not stop stirring and don't let the curd boil.
Once thick, remove from the heat and pour into the pre-baked tart shell. Cut a slice of blood orange and place on top of the tart. Place on a cookie sheet and bake for 10 minutes. The tart will still be jiggly in the middle but will firm up on cooling.
Let cool for at least an hour before serving. Keep in the refrigerator.
25 comments
Bravo! This tart sounds wonderful and your photography makes me want to reach in and have a bite.
BonnieJanuary 29, 2013
The whole tart looks amazing but I will have to try the crust sometime soon. What a wonderful father you are getting your children to have fun eating fruit – congratulations! And the pictures are mouthwatering!January 29, 2013
my kids love oranges, too! i wonder what they would think if they saw a blood orange? they would be fascinated for sure! this tart looks sooooo delicious!January 29, 2013
This looks glorious, Gerry. Awesome clicks!January 29, 2013
This one takes the cake, err I mean tart. Shut up and eat Greg. Right? GREGJanuary 29, 2013
Yes Greg…just eat :)January 30, 2013
Holy crap this looks incredible! I love your photography, thanks for sharing!
Happy Valley ChowJanuary 29, 2013
I CAN NOT FIND blood oranges anywhere!!!!! It is soooo annoying. YOu think somewhere in the Tampa market would carry them…but noooooooooooo.
This looks amazing!January 29, 2013
I had the same problem Leslie but now can be found in a lot of the stores here in Cali…January 30, 2013
When I made blood orange curd last year everyone gave me a hard time because it wasn't a deeper red. Well, I said, that's what happens when you add egg yolks! I suppose we could always add red food coloring but that's cheating. Besides, think tart looks beautiful and delicious just as it is.January 30, 2013
I thought about food coloring for a half a second, totally cheating and would probably go some weird color and then look like crap ;)January 30, 2013
you really are amazing. Your skill and creativity is inspiring! i love this tartJanuary 30, 2013
Thanks Jess, I appreciate it..January 30, 2013
Blood Orange Curd!?! You are speaking my language! I have a complete fondness for curds. This looks amazing – gorgeous pics Gerry!January 30, 2013
Any curd is always good :)January 30, 2013
Hello, Gorgeous! I want in on this tart!!!January 30, 2013
Thanks Ashley!January 30, 2013
Love this! I'm so excited about blood oranges last year. They are only in season such a short time, I'm juicing and freezing them while I have the chance.January 31, 2013
i love blood oranges! this looks amazing!
beautiful photographs!January 31, 2013
HOLY YUM. I want to dip my face into this tart right now.January 31, 2013
Wow, what a combination. I would have never thought to use rosemary in the crust, but it sounds amazing. I love blood oranges, they are so exotic and beautiful. It's always a surprise when you cut one open. I've been disappointed with the lack of vivid color in blood orange recipes, too. Some of them aren't as vivid as others. Anyway, your tart is stunning, I want to make one right this minute!January 31, 2013
Beautiful tart, I'm completely intrigued by your rosemary butter crust!January 31, 2013
OMG these images are absolutely gorgeous! I want to hang them on my walls! I love the one slice on the tart. And with rosemary, too — oh my!January 31, 2013
Can't get enough of the blood oranges. We sure are lucky to have them out here. This sure is one gorgeous tart, love the rosemary twist too. I was thinking of making the goat cheese bars for Superbowl! Enjoy the game.
-Gina-February 01, 2013
That is absolutely beautiful and I like the combination of the rosemary in the crust with the citrus.February 07, 2013


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Jun "Kelly" Liu is an Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics. She received a B.S. degree in Biology at Wuhan University in China and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology from Cornell University. She did her postdoctoral research at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Embryology, where she was awarded a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship. She joined the faculty at Cornell in 2001. She is in the graduate fields of Genetics & Development, and Biochemistry, Molecular & Cell Biology.
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BioMG 3850: http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/biomg3850
Mesoderm patterning and fate diversification
The mesoderm germ layer gives rise to a diverse array of functionally important cell types, including various types of muscle and non-muscle cells. We are interested in understanding the regulatory networks underlying the diversification of the mesoderm. We use the C. elegans postembryonic mesoderm lineage, the M lineage, as a model system for these studies. The M lineage is derived from a single pluripotent precursor cell, the M mesoblast, which during postembryonic development, divides in a characteristic and reproducible pattern to generate striated muscles, non-striated muscles as well as non-muscle mesodermal cells.The M lineage is therefore ideally suited to studies of how different mesodermal fates are diversified from a single pluripotent progenitor cell at single cell resolution.Most of the factors that we have identified are conserved in vertebrates, suggesting similar mechanisms shared by C. elegans and vertebrates in mesoderm diversification.
Modulation of BMP signaling
Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) belong to the transforming growth factor beta (TGFbeta) superfamily of ligands. The BMP signaling pathway plays roles in multiple developmental and homeostatic processes. We are interested in uncovering mechanisms involved in ensuring proper spatiotemporal control of BMP signaling.During the course of our studies of mesoderm development in C. elegans, we have devised an easy and sensitive genetic approach to identify new components of the BMP-like pathway in C. elegans. We are currently using a combination of genetic, genomic, molecular and biochemical approaches to identify and determine how each gene product functions in modulating BMP signaling.
Functions of the nuclear lamina
A major component of the nuclear envelope is the nuclear lamina, a meshwork of intermediate filament lamin proteins, located next to the nucleoplasmic side of the inner nuclear membrane. In addition to providing structural support for the nucleus, lamins help regulate many different nuclear processes, such as DNA replication, transcription and chromatin organization. Mutations in genes encoding nuclear lamina proteins cause a diverse array of human diseases (laminopathies) with remarkable tissue specificity, such as muscular dystrophies, lipodystrophies, neuropathies and progeria syndromes. We are currently using C. elegans as a model system to determine how the nuclear lamina carries out cell-type- and developmental-stage-specific functions. Results from these studies may help us better understand the molecular mechanisms underlying nuclear envelope-associated human diseases.
For more information on our research, please visit the Liu Lab website.
Click here to view Dr. Liu's PubMed listings.
Tian, C., Shi, H., Xiong, S., Hu, F.,
Xiong, W. and Liu, J. (2013) The neogenin/DCC homolog UNC-40
functions independently of netrin signaling to promote BMP signaling in C.
elegans. Development 140: 4070-4080. Epub 2013 Sept 4. (Pubmed)
Tian, C. and Liu, J. (2013) Repulsive guidance molecules (RGMs) and neogenin in bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling. Mol. Reprod. Dev. 80: 700-717. Epub 2013 Jun 6. (Pubmed)
A. T., Feinstein, N., Haithcock, E., Wilson, K. L., Liu, J. and Gruenbaum, Y. (2012) Emerin the LEM2: essential roles in C. elegans development, muscle function and mitosis. Mol Biol Cell. 2011 Dec 14. [Epub ahead of print] (Pubmed)
Krause, M. and Liu, J. (2011) Somatic muscle specification during embryonic and post-embryonic development in the nematode C. elegans. WIREs Developmental Biology. DOI: 10.1002/wdev.15. Published Online: Dec 08 2011. (Pubmed)
Tian, C., Shi, H., Colledge, C., Stern, M., Waterston, R. and Liu, J. (2011) The C. elegans SoxC protein SEM-2 opposes differentiation factors to promote a proliferative blast cell fate in the postembryonic mesoderm. Development. 138: 1033-1043. Epub 2011 February 9. (Pubmed)
Tian, C., Sen, D., Shi, H., Foehr, M. L., Plavskin, Y. Vatamaniuk, O. K. and Liu, J. (2010) The RGM protein DRAG-1 positively regulates a BMP-like signaling pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans. Development. 137: 2375-2384. Epub 2010 June 9. (Pubmed)
Amin, N.M., Shi, H. and Liu, J. (2010) The FoxF/FoxC factor LET-381 directly regulates both cell fate specification and cell differentiation in C. elegans mesoderm development. Development. 137:1451-1460. Epub 2010 Mar 24.
Jiang, Y., Shi, H. and Liu, J. (2009) Two Hox cofactors, the Meis/Hth homolog UNC-62 and the Pbx/Exd homolog CEH-20, function together during C. elegans postembryonic mesodermal development. Developmental Biology. 334:535-546. (Pubmed)
Amin, N. M., Lim, S.-E., Shi, H., Chan, T. L. and Liu, J. (2009) A conserved Six-Eya cassette acts downstream of Wnt signaling to direct non-myogenic versus myogenic fates in the C. elegans postembryonic mesoderm. Developmental Biology. 331:350-360. (Pubmed)
Golden, A., Liu, J. and Cohen-Fix, O. (2009) Inactivation of the C. elegans homolog of lipin leads to endoplasmic reticulum disorganization and defects in nuclear envelope breakdown and reassembly of the nuclear envelope.. J. Cell Sci. 122: 1970-1978. (Pubmed)
Lei, H., Liu, J., Fukushige, T., Fire, A., and Krause, M. (2009) Caudal-like PAL-1 directly activates the bodywall muscle module regulator HLH-1 in C. elegans to initiate embryonic muscle gene regulatory network. Development 136: 1241-1249. Epub 2009 Mar 4. (Pubmed)
Liu, J. (March 2009) Nuclear Envelope and Lamins: Organization and Dynamics. In: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE SCIENCES. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester http://www.els.net/ [DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0001342.pub2].
Jiang, Y., Shi, H., Amin, N. M., Sultan, I. and Liu, J. (2008) Mesodermal expression of the C. elegans HMX homolog mls-2 requires the PBC homolog CEH-20. Mech. Dev. 125: 451-461. Epub 2008 Feb 2. (Pubmed)
Foehr, M. L. and Liu, J. (2008) Dorsoventral patterning of the C. elegans postembryonic mesoderm requires both LIN-12/Notch and TGF-beta signaling. Dev. Biol. 313: 256-266. Epub 2007 Oct 25. (Pubmed)
Amin, N. M., Hu, K., Pruyne, D., Terzic, D., Bretscher, A. and Liu, J. (2007) A Zn finger/FH2 domain containing protein FOZI-1 acts redundantly with CeMyoD to specify striated body wall muscle fates in the C. elegans postembryonic mesoderm. Development 134: 19-29. Epub 2006 Nov 30. (Pubmed)
Johnston R. J. Jr., Copeland, J. W., Fasnacht, M., Etchberger, J. F., Liu, J., Honig, B. and Hobert, O. (2006) An unusual Zn-finger/FH2 domain protein controls a left/right asymmetric neuronal fate decision in C. elegans. Development 133: 3317-3328. (Pubmed)
Foehr, M. F., Lindy, A. S., Fairbank, R. C., Amin, N. M., Xu, M., Yanowitz, J., Fire, A. Z. and Liu, J. (2006) An antagonistic role for the C. elegans Schnurri homolog SMA-9 in modulating TGF-� signaling during mesodermal patterning. Development 133: 2887-2896. (Pubmed)
Haithcock, E., Dayani, Y., Neufeld, E., Zahand, A. J., Feinstein, N., Mattout, A., Gruenbaum, Y. and Liu, J. (2005) Age-related changes of nuclear architecture in C. elegans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 102: 16690-16695. (PubMed)
This article was highlighted in the same issue of PNAS 102: 16531, and featured in a commentary by Wilson, K.L. (2005) PNAS 102: 18767-18768 (Pubmed) and a News and Views article by Lans and Hoejimakers (2006) Nature 440: 32-34 (Pubmed).
Jiang, Y., Horner, V. and Liu, J. (2005) The HMX homeodomain protein MLS-2 regulates cleavage orientation, cell proliferation and cell fate specification in the C. elegans postembryonic mesoderm. Development 132: 4119-4130.(PubMed)
Margalit, A., Liu, J., Fridkin, A., Wilson, K. L. and Gruenbaum, Y. (2005) A lamin-dependent pathway that regulates nuclear organization, cell cycle progression and germ cell development. Novartis Found Symp. 264: 231-240; discussion 240-245.(PubMed)
Liang, J., Lints, R., Foehr, M. L., Tokarz, R., Yu, L., Emmons, S. W., Liu, J. and Savage-Dunn, C. (2003) The Caenorhabditis elegans schnurri homolog, sma-9, mediates stage- and cell type- specific responses to dbl-1 BMP-related signaling. Development 130: 6453-6464. (PubMed)
Liu, J., Lee, K. K., Segura-Totten, M., Neufeld E., Wilson, K. L. and Gruenbaum, Y. (2003) MAN1 and emerin have overlapping function(s) essential for chromosome segregation and cell division in Caenorhabditis elegans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 100:4598-4603. (PubMed)
Lee, K. K., Starr, D., Cohen, M., Liu, J., Han, M., Wilson, K. L. and Gruenbaum Y. (2002) Lamin-dependent localization of UNC-84, a protein required for nuclear migration in Caenorhabditis elegans. Mol. Biol. Cell 13: 892-901. (PubMed)
Gruenbaum, Y., Lee, K. K., Liu, J., Cohen, M. and Wilson, K. L. (2002) The expression, lamin-dependent localization and RNAi depletion phenotype for emerin in C. elegans. J. Cell Sci. 115: 923-929. (PubMed)
Lee, K. K., Gruenbaum, Y., Spann, P., Liu, J. and Wilson, K. L. (2000) C. elegans nuclear envelope proteins Emerin, MAN1, lamin, and nucleoporins reveal unique timing of nuclear envelope breakdown during mitosis. Mol. Biol. Cell 11: 3089-3099. (PubMed)
Liu, J., Ben-Shahar, T. R., Riemer, D., Treinin, M., Spann, P., Weber, K., Fire, A. and Gruenbaum, Y. (2000). Essential roles for Caenorhabditis elegans lamin gene in nuclear organization, cell cycle progression and spatial organization of nuclear pore complexes. Mol. Biol. Cell 11: 3937-3947. (PubMed)
Liu, J., and Fire, A. (2000). Overlapping roles of two Hox genes and the exd ortholog ceh-20 in diversification of the C. elegans postembryonic mesoderm. Development 127: 5179-5190. (PubMed)
Harfe, B. D., Gomes, A. Z., Kenyon, C., Liu, J., Krause, M. and Fire, A. (1998) Analysis of a Caenorhabditis elegans twist homolog identifies conserved and divergent aspects of mesodermal patterning. Genes & Dev. 12: 263-2635. (PubMed)
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