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Sawandi Salimu: Eye-Opening Mission in Nigeria Has Graduate Student Looking Forward to Medical Career
Sawandi Salimu (Class of '09, B.S., biochemistry) is busy this summer. With his sights set on medical school, he is preparing to take the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) and to begin his graduate studies in biology at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Despite the rigors of medical school ahead however, he says he feels prepared thanks to his experiences on a medical mission in Africa with physicians and other volunteers from the Anambra State Association (ASA), a nonprofit led by Nigerian professionals who now live and work in the United States.
Salimu says that his work with ASA for several months in 2007 to 2008 shaped his goals and inspired him toward a career in helping to diminish global health disparities.
"In the U.S., there are demographics of the population that are underrepresented, but a social safety net exists to mitigate their medical [shortfall]," he says. "In Nigeria, especially outside of the nation's capital of Abuja (formerly Lagos) there was very little representation. This is not an indictment of the Nigerian government, but an opportunity to illuminate the lack of clinical representation and research [to the extent] we are able to rely on at home and abroad."
Salimu assisted one of his mentors, ophthalmologist Dr. Leroy Vaughn, with cataract surgery to restore sight to geriatric patients. While this is a common procedure among elderly patients in the United States, Salimu points out the tragic results of the lack of medical care in Africa.
"By age 80, approximatley 60 percent of all Americans will have a cataract or need cataract surgery," Salimu says. "This statistic... has a profound impact on the third world, primarily the regions that depend on agriculture…. A consequence, apart from legal blindness, is starvation."
Salimu credited his education and training at CSU Dominguez Hills as an undergraduate – which included his internship with Vaughn and a second internship with Dr. Abdoulaye Diop of Diop Family Medical in Inglewood – with the ability to serve 650 patients in challenging and potentially inadequate clinical conditions. The ASA team's entire outdoor clinic served 10,000 patients in two weeks.
"I owe my science professors at Dominguez Hills, big time," says Salimu. "My background in microbiology, biochemistry, and sterile technique proved essential as in most underdeveloped nations, infection is a post-operation nightmare. Our execution was sterile and detail oriented. We received numerous donations of eye drops from Allergan, grants from ASA, and supplies from the Nigerian government. Although we had antiquated equipment, and very little marcaine (anesthetic) and antibiotics, there was one resource that could not be weakened – ingenuity.
"When the generators in our small operating theatres lost power, Dr. Vaughn and I completed cataract surgeries with head lamps, loupes, and candlelight, without diminishing results. All of our patients went from legally blind to 20/20 with a replacement intraocular lens by extracapsular extraction in one eye. Unfortunately, we could only perform surgery on one eye per person out of fairness to the other patients – one eye is better than none."
Although he was accepted at CSU Long Beach and the University of Southern California, the Los Angeles resident chose to earn his master's degree at CSU Dominguez Hills "because it is comprehensive, laboratory-friendly, cost- efficient, and offers a [variety] of research mentors on and off campus."
This fall, Salimu will work with Dr. Robert Cubillos, adjunct faculty in philosophy, who will supervise the bioethics component of his thesis, and professors of biology Dr. Davood Soleymani and Dr. Thomas Landefeld. He will also continue to work with Dr. Vaughn and study pathogenesis and cataract formation with Dr. Simon Law of the Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA.
Salimu says that his thesis, a comprehensive study in immunohistochemistry and bioethics, is vital to the preservation of the quality of life for future generations of older adults. He says that numbers underscore the importance of expanding the field of geriatric eye care.
"The United Nations Vital Statistics and Population Data estimates that there are about 6.8 billion human beings inhabiting the planet," he says. "With populations living longer than ever before [cataracts] could become a public health concern."
The untimely loss of his father to a stroke due to heart disease inspired Salimu to pursue a medical career to hopefully help eliminate health disparities at home and in developing nations. Salimu says that according to the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, minority groups, especially African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and Latinos have a higher incidence of chronic diseases, higher mortality rates, and poor health-related outcomes than Caucasian ethnic groups. Upon becoming a physician, he hopes to volunteer his time and resources to address health disparities at home and around the world.
"Scientists believe that higher rates of diabetes, cancer, heart disease, substance abuse, stroke, and infant mortality are the results of complex
interactions among several factors such as biology, the environment, and specific behaviors," says Salimu. "These areas are significantly impacted by discrimination, a shortage of minority health professionals, and inequalities in income, education, and access to health care. Minority health practitioners are needed to visibly and proactively increase the need for stronger patient-physician relationships, health literacy programs, and early detection to counteract social forces that may impact patient communities."
Salimu is also actively involved in encouraging more students of color to develop an intersest in the sciences. Toward that end he established and presented a mammalian dissections class named the Imhotep Anatomy Program at Marcus Garvey School in Los Angeles last spring. The program was supported by Linda Saunders, the school's excutive director and Patricia Rillera, chief executive officer, Young Black Scholars. Their support also made instructional field trips to the Body Worlds exhibit at the California Science Center in Exposition Park. He also represented Marcus Garvey School at the State of the African American Male Conference at USC in 2008 and 2009. He served as a panelist on issues in South Central Los Angeles, sharing commentary on understanding student disengagement for youth of color.
"My passion is to understand why black and Hispanic communities exhibit limited participation in science and academia," says Salimu.
Salimu has set his sights on Meharry Medical College in Nashville upon completion of his master's thesis on the areas of immunohistochemistry and bioethics. He also looks forward to returning to the villages of Nigeria for another mission with ASA.
For more information on biology and pre-med programs at CSU Dominguez Hills, click here.
- Joanie Harmon
Photos above: Graduate biology student Sawandi Salimu served on a medical mission to restore sight to cataract patients in Nigeria amid less than ideal clinical conditions. Above, Salimu takes a patient's vital signs pre-surgery in an abandoned vehicle.
Salimu taught a mammalian dissections class during the Imhotep Anatomy Program at Marcus Garvey School in Los Angeles last spring.


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Peter J. Boettke, Living Economics: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Oakland, CA: The Independent Institute, and Francisco Marroquin University, 2012).
Reviewed by Leonard P. Liggio
It is rare to find a book on economics which is truly enjoyable. Peter Boettke's Living Economics is such an economics book. One can understand, reading these chapters, why Peter Boettke is such a very successful teacher. His knowledge and intellectual interests are much more far ranging than most, and his students have been the beneficiaries of his talents. The book consists of chapters about the various economists whose work has influenced the development of Boettke's thinking about economics. One chapter – "Mr. Boulding and the Austrians" – reminded me that my first economics course as a sophomore at Georgetown College used Kenneth Boulding's economics textbook. I had just read Ludwig von Mises Human Action (Yale, 1949) and found Boulding generally consistent with von Mises. Economics textbooks changed a lot right after that with the dominance of Paul Samuelson's textbook. Kenneth and Elsie Boulding were visiting professors at George Mason University on leave from the University of Colorado in the early years of the Institute for Humane Studies affiliation with George Mason University while Boettke was a graduate student at GMU.
As an undergraduate student at Grove City College, Boettke's interest in economics was encouraged by his courses with Hans Sennholz. I had known Sennholz while he was a Ph. D. student in the NYU seminar of Ludwig von Mises. He was an insightful lecturer on the dangers of monetary manipulation in causing economic crises, as well as on challenges in the development of a European Union. Another economist I first met in von Mises' NYU seminar was Murray N. Rothbard. Boettke focuses on the influence of Rothbard's Man, Economy, and State (2 vols., Princeton, NJ, Van Nostrand, 1962): "Rothbard not only provided the reader with a thorough presentation of the basic principles of economic and political economy, but gave the serious student a framework for the analysis of real-existing socialism in the Soviet Union that was far superior to the framework that dominated Sovietology and the field of comparative economic systems at the time, and if truth be told, to this day."
Boettke discusses his courses with James Buchanan, Gordon Tullock and Don Lavoie, and the differing contributions of each. The dominant themes in Boettke's essays are methodological individualism and spontaneous order. The works of von Mises and Hayek played an important role. In addition there were the influences of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom, Peter Berger and Israel Kirzner.
Boettke sees himself in "mainline economics" which he describes as extending from the Late Scholastics of 16th and 17th centuries' University of Salamanca whose "insights were further developed in economics from the Classical School of Economics (both in the Scottish Enlightenment version of Adam Smith and the French Liberal tradition of Jean-Baptiste Say and Frederic Bastiat), to the early Neoclassical School (especially the Austrian version of Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises and F. A. Hayek), and finally with the contemporary development of New Institutional Economics (as reflected in the property rights economics of Armin Alchian and Harold Demsetz); the new economic history of Douglass North; the law and economics of Ronald Coase; the public choice economics of James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock; the economics of governance associated with Oliver Williamson and Elinor Ostrom; and the market process economics of Israel Kirzner)." He distinguishes "mainline economics" from "mainstream economics" which Boettke describes as "a sociological concept related to what Is fashionable among the scientific elite of the profession."
Boettke is the co-author of the recent editions of the late Paul Heynes' textbook, The Economic Way of Thinking (Prentice-Hall). The reader will find Living Economics to be an occasion to learn and to enjoy.


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|conceit (kənˈsiːt)
|a high, often exaggerated, opinion of oneself or one's accomplishments; vanity
|literary an elaborate image or far-fetched comparison, esp as used by the English Metaphysical poets
|a. a witty expression
|b. fancy; imagination
|c. an idea
|obsolete a small ornament
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figure of speech, usually a simile or metaphor, that forms an extremely ingenious or fanciful parallel between apparently dissimilar or incongruous objects or situations. The Petrarchan conceit, which was especially popular with Renaissance writers of sonnets, is a hyperbolic comparison made generally by a suffering lover of his beautiful and cruel mistress to some physical object-e.g., a tomb, the ocean, the sun. The metaphysical conceit, associated with the Metaphysical poets of the 17th century, is a more intricate and intellectual device. It usually sets up an analogy between one entity's spiritual qualities and an object in the physical world and sometimes controls the whole structure of the poem. For example, in the following stanzas from "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," John Donne compares two lovers' souls to a draftsman's compass:If they be two, they are two soAs stiffe twin compasses are two,Thy soule the fixt foot, makes no showTo move, but doth, if the'other doe.And though it in the center sit,Yet when the other far doth rome,It leanes, and hearkens after it,And growes erect, as that comes home
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She received her doctorate in Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Washington-Seattle. She is the recipient of the Empowerment Award-2010-2011, Multicultural Programs USC Upstate; the Cervantes Award from the South Carolina chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese -2006; the South Carolina Outstanding Foreign Language Teacher of the Year-2005; the Bank of America Excellence in Teaching and Advising Award USC Upstate-2001; and the South Carolina Governor's Distinguished Professor Award-2001. Dr. Carter has also done post-doctoral work in Mexico and Costa Rica and is the author of published articles, professional conference presentations, and co-editor of Jose Agustin: Onda and Beyond, University of Missouri Press. She is president of the Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT), a 14-state non-profit organization serving world language professionals, and has served as president of the South Carolina Foreign Language Teachers Association, SC American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, and chair of the SC Council on Languages.
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Basement Jaxx's Simon Ratcliffe has remixed The 2 Bears' "Be Strong," an approachable but not hugely affecting house song with lyrics about music obsession and protecting the integrity of your tastes. There's an extended thank-you list to influential artists halfway through the original—Wu Tang, Steely Dan, The KLF, Jazzy Jeff, Drums of Death and A Tribe Called Quest, and so on. Ratcliffe's dub remix wisely skips all of that, including only the song's repeated title, vocal-wise, and instead letting the rolling drums and these little puppy squeaks speak for themselves, like some meta-critique on the futility of using words to explain why music is good. The 2 Bears' Be Strong Remix EP comes out Monday, March 5th on Southern Fried, who released the Be Strong LP earlier this year.
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This program leads to certification by the American Board of Medical Microbiology (Committee on Postdoctoral Educational Programs of the American Academy of Microbiology [AAM]) in Medical and Public Health Laboratory Microbiology.
First YearDuring the first year of training under the Ph.D. Program, you will spend one quarter each in the bacteriology, mycobacteriology and mycology, virology and parasitology laboratories. These rotations will emphasize the practical aspects of clinical microbiology. You will become proficient in processing specimens and performing each procedure at the bench level.
Second YearYou will have a broad range of experiences during your second year of training.
This program is certified by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and meets the certification requirements of the American Board of Pathology (in Medical Microbiology).
This program generally matches the first year of Ph.D. Program, but your schedule can be modified based on your prior training, experience and specific areas of interest.
You will be responsible for taking call on a daily rotational basis during the fellowship. This includes:
Your on-call responsibilities during laboratory rounds also will include brief presentations describing the microbiology and laboratory aspects of specific infections.
You will participate in the following didactic training opportunities during this fellowship:
To support your didactic experience, you will have access to Mayo's Medical Library as well as the learning resources available in the Fellows' Resource Room where individual carrels and computers are provided for each trainee.
Research is an important component of Mayo's Clinical Microbiology Fellowship program. You will complete a research project in which you will develop or evaluate new tests, assess existing tests, evaluate new or existing antimicrobial agents in vitro, or analyze the clinical importance of laboratory procedures and results. You may collaborate with staff members from the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology or from other departments. You will be encouraged to present your project results at scientific meetings and publish them in scientific journals.


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The bleeding time test is used to evaluate how well a person's blood is clotting. The test evaluates how long it takes the vessels cut to constrict and how long it takes for platelets in the blood to seal off the hole. Blood vessel defects, platelet function defects, along with many other conditions can result in prolonged bleeding time.


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With more than 30 approved monoclonal antibody therapeutics on the market and hundreds of candidate molecules in the clinical and pre-clinical stages of testing, the development of therapeutic antibodies is a blooming field enjoying its Renaissance age. The disease indications for antibody therapeutics are rapidly diversifying beyond the two primary areas of oncology and inflammatory diseases, as exemplified by an increasing number of clinical programs in infectious diseases, Alzheimer's Disease, and metabolic diseases. The modulation of novel targets and disease pathways are being actively pursued with antibody therapeutic candidates, and new modalities as well as innovative therapeutic approaches are being intensely explored to complement the traditional monoclonal antibody therapeutics. Despite the current success of the field, significant challenges remain, particularly on how to effectively translate antibody therapeutic candidates from research into the clinic. At this symposium, we will highlight how emerging scientific understanding of diseases and cutting-edge pharmaceutical technologies are applied to the development of next-generation antibody therapeutics. We intend to lay down the framework for addressing the translational challenges and discuss the future direction of the field.
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The Patriots could use a young, fast, dynamic WR and one just might be on the market in Minnesota. Could Percy Harvin be the next Wes Welker? Story » Several suitors Thoughts? » Blog »Adam Bettcher/Getty Images
ESPN NFL analyst Tedy Bruschi weighs in on the responsibility Tom Brady shoulders for the Patriots, Rob Gronkowski's physicality and how New England will use Darrelle Revis.
Buster Olney talks to Alex Speier, Karl Ravech and Justin Havens about whether the Red Sox will move Jon Lester before the trade deadline, pace of play and much more.
NFL Films' Greg Cosell covers the Cowboys' defense, Rob Gronkowski's impact, Darrelle Revis' performance last season, the Giants' talent level and the outlook for the Cardinals.
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MALONE — Close to half of the 1.91 percent tax-levy increase proposed in the 2013 Franklin County budget will go toward raises for non-union employees if the spending plan is approved.
Department heads and management-level workers have not had a raise for three years, and for some, it has been nearly five years, depending on their hiring date.
The proposed budget stands at $99,740,402, which is 11.4 percent less than this year. The levy, which is the amount to be raised by taxes, is $14,875,816, an increase of 1.91 percent.
Every $148,758 the county spends equals 1 percent of the tax levy.
Legislators have budgeted $156,778 in raises in the coming year. They expect to adopt the overall spending plan at their next meeting, on Thursday, Dec. 6.
The legislature's Finance Committee proposed the compensation, something members have wanted to do for a few years but felt they were unable to because of the overall economic picture.
They froze management salaries three years ago.
"Some of them haven't had a raise for four or five years," said Committee Chairman Timothy Burpoe (D-Saranac Lake). "We do appreciate what they do, and they have gone above and beyond the call of duty."
He said he understands taxpayers may question the decision, "but we have to compensate our employees."
Burpoe said the committee looked at each person's work history, length of service and how long they had been without a raise in determining how much each employee would receive. Raises range from $971 to $3,500.
Burpoe said offering more money may curb the longstanding problem the county faces in keeping employees who can make more money taking jobs in the state-prison system.
"We have a huge turnover of employees going elsewhere," he said. "We're training them, and then they leave us to go to the state.


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Farmington area Facebook users did a lot of "liking" and "sharing" last weekend, and on Friday, it all paid off.
The City of Farmington Hills after school program benefitted from Bright House Networks 12 Days of Giving, which offered donations equal to the number of times certain photos were shared on the social media site. On Friday, Bright House and Busch's Fresh Food Market teamed up to deliver more than 3,700 canned and boxed food items that were, in turn, distributed to several local organizations.
A Bright House truck brought food first to Farmington Public Schools Visions Unlimited, where students with developmental disabilities pack backpacks for a Farmington-Farmington Hills Foundation for Youth and Families program that provides food to children and their families during the school year.
Neighborhood House, which supports families in need with a food shelf and other services, and Servant Church of St. Alexander food shelf also received a portion of the donated goods.


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Just under two months after previous executive director , the Second Alarmers Rescue Squad announced that long-time Captain of Operations, Renee Bates, will assume the role.
Prior to her appointment, Bates, through her position as Captain of Operations, was tasked with various duties, including providing emergency medical care, supervising crews, training, coordinating continuing education and ensuring quality assurance.
Since joining Second Alarmers as a volunteer in 1992, Bates quickly rose through the ranks becoming a sergeant and secretary on the nonprofit association's board of directors.
Bates later transitioned into a fulltime paramedic position and later became captain of operations. She has also served as the deputy chief of Community Ambulance Association, Ambler.
Her responsibilities there included management of career personnel, scheduling, payroll, grant writing, community relations, director of training, budget development, and annual the fund drive.
Second Alarmers is one of the largest EMS providers in Montgomery County. Crews responds to more than 12,000 emergency calls a year to provide medical and rescue services in Hatboro, Jenkintown, Rockledge, as well as Abington, Upper Dublin, Upper Moreland and Whitpain townships.
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Update: Michael Phelps does it! Every record he could break at the 2008 Olympic Games he did.
Yes, weve all heard about how this year in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Baltimore swimmer Michael Phelps could break the 1972 record set by Mark Spitz of seven gold medals in one Olympic Games. But let's take a look at what else is within the Olympian's grasp.
In Athens in the 2004 Olympics, Phelps six gold medals fell just one short of tying that record, although his eight medals in all tied for the most in a single Olympic Games. However, 2008 could be different. He will again compete in eight events, giving him the opportunity to set a new Olympic record.
But there are more records than that for Phelps (the most famous by far of Maryland's Olympic athletes) to break this year.
All signs point toward a historic performance in 2008. He's won more gold medals in the World Championship events, held since the 2004 Olympics. And in the U.S. Olympic swimming team trials in July 2008, he set two world records for the 400-meter individual medley (4:05.25) and in the 200-meter individual medley (1:54.80).
Phelps Olympic Schedule and Results
- Most Gold Medals in a Single Olympic Games: Fellow American swimmer Mark Spitz with seven golds from the Munich Games in 1972 holds the record. Phelps would need to win golds in all eight of his events to break it. Phelps Breaks It: 8 golds
- Most Individual Olympic Gold Medals in a Career: American high jumper Ray Ewry holds this title with eight golds through his career that spanned 1900 to 1908. Phelps has four individual golds from 2004; he must win all five of his individual races in 2008 to break it. Phelps Breaks It: 9 individual gold medals
- Most Individual Olympic Gold Medals in a Single Games: If Phelps wins gold medals in all five of his individual events he will also break both the career and single games record. Currently American Eric Heiden (Speed Skating, 1980) and Vitaly Scherbo, who represented the Unified Team (gymnastics, 1992), hold the record with four golds. Phelps Breaks It: 5 individual gold medals in 2008 Games
- Most Olympic Gold Medals in a Career: Four athletes, each with nine gold medals, tie for this honor right now: Finland's Paavo Nurmi (track and field; 1920-28), American Mark Spitz (swimming, 1968-72), American Carl Lewis (track and field, 1984-96) and Larisa Latynina of the former Soviet Union (gymnastics, 1956-64). Coming into the Bejing Games with six gold already Phelps only needs four to break this record. Phelps Breaks It: Sets a new mark in 2008 with 14 gold medals.
- Most Olympic Medals in a Career for an American: Swimmer Jenny Thompson, who competed from in Olympic Games 1992 to 2004 currently holds this title with 12 medals. Phelps only needs five medals of any kind to break her record. Phelps Breaks It: 16 Olympic medals in all (14 gold and 2 bronze)
Records Phelps Cant Break Yet
- Most Olympic Medals in a Career: Soviet gymnast Larysa Latynina, with 18 Olympic medals (nine of which are gold) spread across three Games from 1956 to 1964, holds this title. The best Phelps can do in 2008 is 16 medals, which would put him in second place. But if he goes to the 2012 Games in London he could break it.
- Most Medals in a Single Olympic Games: Phelps already ties with Soviet gymnast Aleksandr Dityatin (1980) for this one with eight medals. Since he is only in eight events the best he can do is tie.


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A lot of the synergy has to do with the exact wording of the abilities. In the case of the summoning, there is a difference between the ability that triggers on casting and one that triggers on summoning. The casting triggers when you begin to cast the spell, this can be interrupted by damage or counter-spells, thus negating the actual summoning. The summoning triggers when the creature actually appears on your next turn (or on the current turn if things such as quicken spell are used).
Lemme give you a wildly different example. Imagine that you have four abilities (I'm just making them up, I'm sure there's abilities a little like this somewhere):
1. Make Spells Firey. This allows you to convert any spell which does elemental damage to fire damage.
2. Bonus Cold Damage. This allows you to add 1d8 damage to any spell which does cold damage.
3. Bonus Fire Damage. This allows you to add 1d6 damage to any spell which does fire damage.
4. Generic Cold Spell. This does 1d3 cold damage.
You cast the spell, and convert it to fire damage. Do you get:
1. 1d3 fire damage from the spell, +1d6 fire because it is fire damage.
2. 1d3 damage from the spell, +1d8 cold damage because it is cold damage, then the 1d3+1d8 are converted to fire.
3. 1d3 damage from the spell, +1d8 cold damage, then the 1d3+1d8 are converted to fire, then you add 1d6 because it's fire damage.
In this case it makes a difference when the elemental damage is changed. If it's changed at the point when you cast the spell, it's a fire spell and not a cold spell from the start so #1 would apply.


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From Madeira AD Joe Kimling:
Men's Varsity Soccer Coach.
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Under flashing lights, Swedish singer Loreen danced barefooted to first place in the 2012 Eurovision competition early Sunday morning. The contest's backdrop: Baku, Azerbaijan. While Europe fell in love with Loreen's song, "Euphoria," stories of abuse on the streets were leaking out.
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Since 2001, more than 700,000 American children have had one or more parents deployed overseas by the military. Missed birthdays and other milestones become a part of life for military kids who are not always vocal about their feelings. In Grand Forks, N.D., a play called Deployed helped give some of them a voice. Meg Luther Lindholm reports.
Host Rachel Martin talks with NPR's Scott Horsley about the aggressive campaigning in recent weeks by both President Obama and Mitt Romney. Both men are focusing on jobs and the economy.
Host Rachel Martin talks with NPR sports correspondent Mike Pesca, who has an off-speed pitch on the week's sports news.
Throughout our show this Memorial Day weekend, we're hearing from members of the 182nd Infantry Regiment of the Army National Guard. In this installment, Spc. Michael Cella remembers a close call while on patrol.
Throughout the summer, NPR News will look at the history, culture and current state of the American Dream. NPR's Ari Shapiro and John Ydstie join host Rachel Martin to take a political and economic look at the ultimate American aspiration.
The United Nations has confirmed that at least 90 people were killed by tank shells and artillery fire in central Syria this weekend. While the UN did not outright say this was the work of the Syrian army, activists and residents say the military is the only institution that has such weapons. NPR's Kelly McEvers in Beirut tells host Rachel Martin the latest.
The Catholic Church has been in the public spotlight a lot this year. The issues of contraception and gay marriage have been part of the presidential campaign and church leaders have weighed in. There have also been new revelations in a case involving leaked Vatican documents, and it may actually be a case where the butler did it. Host Rachel Martin speaks with John Allen, a senior correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter.
The Exergy Tour began Thursday night in Boise, Idaho. It's the largest women's five-day stage race in North America. It's also the last major race before cycling teams are chosen for the Olympics in London. This Tour is meant to raise the bar for women's cycling but as Sadie Babits reports, the race began with a major upset.
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"University of Louisville basketball player Kevin Ware underwent successful surgery Sunday night to repair the gruesome open fracture of his right tibia he suffered during the Cardinals' 85-63 win over Duke in the Midwest Regional final," the Louisville Courier-Journal reported Monday morning.
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If history proves correct, Magicicada Brood II will emerge this spring after living underground for 17 years.
In many places along the Eastern Seaboard — from North Carolina to Connecticut — the cicadas will fill the skies, breed and then quickly die. National Geographic points out that historically, this group, known as Brood II, has been so prolific that picking up their carcasses can sometimes feel like raking leaves in the fall.
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Google Nose was unveiled Monday morning. It's "the new scentsation in search." Just put your nose to the screen to sample "15M+ sentibytes." Google's also offering new options to its "I'm Feeling Lucky" button, including "I'm Feeling Wonderful" and "I'm Feeling Hungry."
Twitter is out with "Twttr," a version that only lets you use consonants.
They report the great playwright did not entirely make his living in the theater. He was also a merchant, a moneylender and a tax dodger. In 1598, he was prosecuted for hoarding grain during a famine.
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Colette Farmhouse Ale - Great Divide Brewing Company
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New Jersey
4.1/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
On tap at George street alehouse.
Arrives in a pint glass with a finger of foam. Cloudy yellow color. Aroma is a cross between lemongrass and banana.
First sip has a nice yeasty banana flavor. No phenols, which is nice. If this is 7.3 abv it certainly doesn't taste it. Nice sweet malt base to canvas the fruity yeast flavors. While I prefer hoppy beers I can really appreciate the way this showcases the yeast flavors.
This is very easy to drink and perfectly refreshing on a summer day.
Serving type: on-tap
08-25-2013 20:49:41 | More by FickleBeast
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07-26-2014 05:36:12 | More by Psberrier
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07-24-2014 21:42:15 | More by anticipation23
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07-23-2014 21:41:36 | More by magnusdave
4/5 rDev +3.9%
07-23-2014 02:35:11 | More by kristenrae8
3.65/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.75
12 oz bottle into a wine glass.
A: Pours a cloudy straw color. The head is a finger high, with an off-white shade and frothy texture. Retention is decent for the style, but the soapiness of the head means there isn't a huge amount of lacing left behind.
S: Decently rustic - a trait missing from too many 'Murican-made saisons. The yeasty notes are big, but not overpowering. Aside from the breadiness, I'm also getting some subtle pepper notes (and even a touch of sesame seed). Behind that lie touches of wheat and lemon. No frills, but hits all the saison notes properly.
T: There's a candied sweetness to start I didn't pick up on the nose. Its finish is decently bready, and even a bit rustic. Pouring the dregs in really improves the flavor profile - it's less sweet, more lemony, and more rustic. Hell, it's even complex. GD did a good job of nailing some of the more 'unusual' notes a saison can achieve (such as sesame seed, or hell, even a bit of stank-ass cheese) without resorting to brett or barrel-aging.
M: A bit sweet and heavy for a saison. It has a richer feel than most proper (read: the ones coming from Belgium) saisons - so much so, in fact, that it feels like a tripel at times. It isn't very light or refreshing by the standards of the style. Carbonation is on the lower side.
O: If it were a bit less hefty-feeling, this would easily be right there with Dupont. As it stands, it's still a very good saison - one that ranks very highly among the 'Murican examples, in fact. Plus, it's in six packs. A rock-solid saison in six packs? Damn right I'll be all over it.
Serving type: bottle
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3.89/5 rDev +1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
A: hazy light/pale yellow with some edge foamy head
S: banana is the predominate smell, but also some peach and a little herb (which I am horrible at distinguishing)
T/M: in a race, I think the light lemon taste is noticeable first, followed by a little banana taste. These are subdued by a nice dose of carbonation. The overall feel is light and refreshing. The fruit tastes from the beginning fade to a nice light what I believe is a clove-tinged, mildly dry ending
O: I like the lightness in everything about this beer. Nothing is overpowering, which presumably makes it a well balanced beer. I will definitely grab this for a change of pace, but it won't be in the regular rotation.
Serving type: bottle
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3.75/5 rDev -2.6%
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4/5 rDev +3.9%
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4/5 rDev +3.9%
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07-20-2014 21:48:03 | More by Hopswagger
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look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
A: yellow. Mostly clear with a slight haze. Medium fuzzy-foamy head. Thick lacing.
S: bread dough. Apple cider'ish.
T: fruity ester. Lemon. Dry.
M: high carbonation. Medium low body. Refreshingly tart and crisp.
O: great beer. Would buy again.
Serving type: bottle
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ING Encourages Americans to View their Big Picture in Support of America Saves Week 2012
As an advocate for helping Americans achieve greater retirement savings, ING U.S. is promoting an awareness program for its more than 52,000 workplace retirement plan sponsors and 5.4 million customers to coincide with America Saves Week 2012, which takes place February 19-26. The theme, "Big Picture," encourages individuals to picture where they would like to be in retirement so they will be motivated to set a goal, create a plan and save for the long-term.
ING's effort reminds individuals to develop a comprehensive strategy, which includes leveraging the automatic savings power of a tax-deferred retirement plan. The initiative reinforces the focus of this year's America Saves Week which is: Set a Goal; Develop a Plan; Save Automatically.
"These days we are all challenged with competing financial priorities, but one thing that should not get overlooked is planning and saving for retirement," said Maliz Beams, CEO of ING U.S. Retirement. "ING is committed to helping Americans reach their retirement savings goals by offering tools, information and resources that can simplify the process and help them see their entire financial picture. By setting goals and identifying ways to save easily and automatically, individuals will be in a better position to retire with the financial security they expect and deserve."
ING's program provides a broad selection of print and electronic materials that employers and financial professionals can use to help educate investors. The initiative also points investors to resources such as ING's financial comparison tool, www.INGCompareMe.com, which lets individuals see how they compare to others like them when it comes to saving, spending and investing.
Additionally, a recent study1 conducted by ING's Retirement Research Institute offers insight into some of the aspirations and key barriers many Americans have when it comes to saving. For example, the study found that exactly half (50%) of respondents did not pay their credit cards off in full every month and more than one-quarter (26%) always kept a running credit card balance. In spite of this, many Americans are taking steps to reach a more successful financial future — well over half (57%) of respondents stated that saving for retirement is their most important long-term financial goal and nearly three-quarters (72%) confirmed they were receiving the full employer match in their workplace retirement plan.
To support greater savings and retirement preparedness, ING encourages individuals to follow the recommendations promoted by America Saves Week with these simple, yet important steps:
Step 1: Set a goal. ING recognizes that Americans today are not saving adequately — especially for retirement. ING's study found that while three-quarters (75%) of respondents are contributing to their workplace retirement plan, nearly half (48%) do not feel prepared for retirement. Setting a goal is an important first step toward feeling more prepared. When investors have a goal in mind, such as visualizing where they'd like to be in retirement, this can give their savings a purpose.
Step 2: Develop a plan. Once a goal is established, make a plan to reach it. ING believes obtaining financial advice from a trusted professional, whether by phone or in person, as well as getting support from online tools, can be very helpful. ING's study found that face-to-face communication with a financial professional ranked the highest in terms of value for receiving information about a retirement plan. Yet, fewer than three-in-ten (28%) of respondents said they were working with a professional. Meanwhile, more than seven-in-ten (71%) admitted they did not have a formal investment plan to help them reach their retirement goals.
There are many places individuals can go to start the planning process. ING offers an online resource, www.RetireWithING.com, where the public can go to get important retirement saving information and connect to a professional, if they choose.
Step 3: Save automatically. Participating in a workplace retirement plan is one of the first and best places to start saving. These plans offer a number of benefits, including having investments automatically contributed from a paycheck along with tax-deferred growth. There are also other valuable retirement savings vehicles outside of employer-sponsored plans, such as individual retirement plans (IRAs), that can help people save automatically.
"ING is proud to support America Saves Week and we encourage working Americans to use this time as an opportunity to assess their own savings progress and make positive changes," added Beams. "More importantly, we believe this is an ongoing process that should continue throughout the entire year."
1. Findings are from an online survey conducted by ORC International during the period of Oct. 5-13, 2011. Respondents were 4,050 adults between the ages of 25 and 69 who are employed full-time with an annual household income of $40,000 or greater. Data was weighted to make the results representative of the U.S. population.
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Ruby Tuesday Theory
I think it says something good about Houston that almost all of the Ruby Tuesday restaurants have closed down.
Based on my limited U.S. travels I've noticed that if a Ruby Tuesday is shut down, there is generally some good food available nearby. If the Ruby Tuesday is crowded, drive to the next town.
Anyone else notice this, or have I been driving too long without a break?
Well if you are driving through Texas and see one open at all, then you have made a wrong turn somewhere. They have totally pulled out of Texas. For good reason, their food sucks, if I want that atmosphere and quality, I will go to Chili's.
This actually applies to other chains, that once in my youthful folly I enjoyed, such as On The Border. Pulled out of Houston, but was one of the new arrivals in Raleigh, N.C. several years ago when I visited. I think the Landry's and related chains should be the next to go...seriously mundane food when you look past the atmosphere.
I was at a Ruby Tuesday's outside Boston. It was late at night, we wanted a snack before bed, and it was the closest place to the hotel.
Well, we ordered soup, which was cold, and cheesecake, which was hot (they had to microwave it because it was frozen). Never laughed so hard in my life.
There are still 30 restaurants in the Texas area and I can only assume that those cable channels reach a broad audience, including those with a RT's nearby. I'm guessing. I have to say, the barage of commercials we get around here (with about 20 of them in a 20-mile radius) is quite annoying.
I actually don't mind Ruby Tuesday, Hamburger Hamlet or Red Robin. It's a big step up from the usual chains and while there's a wealth of great, cheap, ethnic food around here (the SFV) sometimes you just want a burger.
The lines alone at the "usual" non-chain burger places are off-putting.
I just get irritated when I see their commercials in SoCal, and the nearest I can find isn't anywhere near here. HELLO?? and it's the only one in the state!
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yeah, i'm scary like that. i just think of it more as false advertising. that's what i get for being engaged to a lawyer.....darn train of thought!! oh, and i did like the one time i went to one, i think it was in Rhode Island? I dunno, i do remember liking Houlihans in Atlanta much better.
There are about 20 Ruby Tuesdays in California, but only a couple in SoCal right now. More coming soon.
I've been to three of four Ruby Tuesday's in the Philly area and have had good experiences with every one. Certainly one of the better chains, IMO. The turkey burger is quite good and my best friend swears by the mini-burgers. Service is typically top notch. Each time I have gone with my toddler, they have been very attentive and supportive, always offering to bring her food a little sooner, let me sub items on the kids selections, etc.
Funny...until two weeks ago, I'd not stepped foot in a Ruby Tuesdays for ten years. Because of flight delays and the like, we arrived in Raleigh too late to (1) go some place "real", and (2) too tired to care. There was a RT across from our hotel, so we paid a visit. I have to admit, I was very pleasantly surprised. The food was really good, the service wonderful - and the coffee quite nice.
I guess it just goes to show that every one of a chain's branch is different.
Never been to Ruby Tuesday's - the commercials make it look good, but I heard that the burgers have at least 1400 calories and the beef is of the quality and the insurance policy is such that well done is the only choice. I like my burger bloody :(
Plus, they all seem to be attached to a mall. Snobby yes, but I hate the mall and food-related items near them. (typically) Prefer boutiques/independent stores/etc.


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Does art always reflect dominant elements of culture -How is art represented by other Cultures? Who makes art and why? -Does life experiences, cultural origins, techniques and materials influence the creation of art?
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*Students reserch periods of art or an artists. They look at the artist's life, artists training, and how the world they lived in influences them. Students choose to create a work ir work in the style of their chosen artist. They must use appropriate materials, technology and design elements to realize their work.
*Students will create two works in the style of their artists or period art. They may create work in that is either like an original or just in the style of their chosen artist* They also create an art work for a cooperative mural that is both a design problem and another opportunity to work in the style of their chosen artist. The last assigned work is a self portrait that is is not representational but reflects elements and values of the students life. Students may do a series or create a self directed course of study.*Students are encouraged to problem solve and experiment with media to realize their ideas.
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Current art periodicals, books, art cataloges and Web based sources that include; individual artists web sites, gallery and museum web sites.
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*Students are not limited to any time period, Ethnicity or culture. Presentations are made that reflect; diverse ehtinic, historcal as wellas
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As foreign companies increase their presence in China, some are finding that local companies' growing success is making it harder to attract Chinese managers.
Phoenix New Media CEO Changle Liu, second from right, after the Chinese firm's NYSE debut this month. ASSOCIATED PRESS
In the past, foreign or multinational companies often hired expats from the company's home country for China-based management roles. But now many companies are opting for local talent who speak the language, know the culture and understand the market. At the same time, the prosperity of Chinese companies is heating up competition for talent, forcing foreign companies to alter their recruitment strategies and work harder to match salaries.
"In the past, there was a lot of flow from one multinational to the next. Nowadays you see the interflow of executives from multinationals into the domestic companies," says Grace Cheng, country manager for executive-recruiting firm Russell Reynolds Associates Inc.'s Greater China division.
In the first quarter, China had the highest number of initial public offerings world-wide, with 110 deals accounting for 38% of total deals globally and 52% of global funds raised, according to Ernst & Young LLP.
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As Chinese companies go global, their appetite for managers with international experience has grown, making employees at multinational companies prime targets, says Ms. Cheng.
A recent survey by executive search firm MRI China Group of over 2,200 employees in mainland China found that 64% had received at least one offer from another company in the past 18 months.
John Stroup, chief executive of cable manufacturer Belden Inc., BDC -3.19% Belden Inc. U.S.: NYSE $71.81 -2.37 -3.19% July 30, 2014 4:08 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 488,376 AFTER HOURS $71.81 0.00 % July 30, 2014 5:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 10,217 P/E Ratio 40.61 Market Cap $3.23 Billion Dividend Yield 0.28% Rev. per Employee $284,640 07/18/14 CFO Moves: Ballantyne Strong, ... More quote details and news » based in Richmond, Ind., says his company has had a harder time lately recruiting and retaining Chinese employees. Chinese managers "are beginning to realize that multinational corporations are not their only option," he says.
Mr. Stroup's company has also had to pay more to compete with local businesses, he says. "It's not uncommon for people to have offers from other companies in your category with pretty sizable increases in pay," he says.
Belden has 1,900 employees in China, of which 80 are middle and upper management. In order to keep a steady pipeline of qualified managers, Belden changed its recruiting strategy: For the first time last year, it began taking on entry-level staffers it plans to groom into managers.
The company formed partnerships with about 30 Chinese universities, from which it recruited a pool of about 1,000 students that it narrowed down through a series of tests and interviews that measure language competency, technical skills and other functions, says Mr. Stroup. In June, Belden hired 10 of those candidates.
Information-services firm Wolters Kluwer WKL.AE -1.37% Wolters Kluwer N.V. Netherlands: Amsterdam €20.56 -0.28 -1.37% July 31, 2014 12:03 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 159,714 P/E Ratio 17.97 Market Cap €6.38 Billion Dividend Yield 3.36% Rev. per Employee €194,501 More quote details and news » NV says it doubled its Chinese head count to 200 employees over the past five years. The Netherlands-based company also added a regional C-suite of top corporate officers in China. However, "we do have people leaving Wolters Kluwer, and going to larger, Chinese companies," says China CEO Shasha Chang.
To make itself more attractive to Chinese managerial candidates, the company last year launched a rotational program allowing its Chinese employees to spend two weeks to a month working with Wolters Kluwer employees in one of its more than 45 locations world-wide. Ms. Chang says this helps attract Chinese talent, who are eager to gain international experience.
This year, the company also is spending 50% more on its talent-management program, says a company spokeswoman. She declined to provide dollar figures.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP has more than 10,000 employees in mainland China—having hired 1,000 since last June—working across its tax, audit and consulting businesses. China is one of PwC's fastest-growing markets, says its international chairman, Dennis Nally. But as "the state-owned enterprises start to compete much more on a global basis than they did in the past, they are becoming much more attractive for the Chinese," he says.
PwC recruits talent from within China, and also targets Chinese expats working in the U.S., U.K. and other parts of the world to work in China, says Mr. Nally. Over the past two years, the number of long-term assignees placed into China has grown by 10%, says the company.
Brent Saunders, CEO of U.S. eyecare manufacturer Bausch & Lomb Inc., says that more competitors entering the market in China are driving wages up. In response, Bausch & Lomb evaluates its pay practices in China quarterly, rather than once a year, which it does in most other countries, he says.
Four or five years ago Bausch & Lomb only had to compete against other multinational companies for talent; today it is state-owned and local companies as well that are making competition harder, says Mr. Saunders.


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To the Editor:
Cumberland Times-News
I'm writing this letter to you to talk about trying to reopen Baltimore Street to the public.
I'm on Facebook Growing up in Cumberland and have been posting old photos of downtown back in its heyday when this town was booming with jobs.
The people who have commented to me on this photos say they remember what the town used to be and they agree that Baltimore Street should be reopened to the public.
Right now the downtown is just sitting there empty. When I'm walking on the mall and I see empty businesses it's like a ghost town.
It's time for the city government to get this street reopen and get new business in the empty buildings.
There are a lot of people in this town who want this street to be open. I don't think it's right for the city to keep this street closed
Roger Clayton Abe III


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When I was an ESL teacher, I worked hard to find innovative ways to teach my students, which was always a challenge. I had a small treasure trove of English textbooks and workbooks and games I'd play with my students. Occasionally I'd rent a movie and watch it with some more advanced students, coming up with some exercises to help them pick up vocabulary or useful phrases from the film. One day I rented the movie Die Hard, which they'd asked to see, and we watched it together with the Japanese subtitles. I hadn't realized the number of swear words that were present in the film, and before I knew it I was teaching a lesson on the various nuances of the "F" word to my students. And yet, it's funny how neutral such words can become when you're outside an English speaking country -- most Japanese know a few English swear words, but they have no teeth in Japan.
Friday, July 10, 2009
America, Japan and Breakfast
Whenever I come to the U.S., my mind becomes a flurry of activity as I notice things that are different between my home country and Japan and make mental notes for future J-List updates. It can get quite annoying for my family when I suddenly pull out my iPhone and start pecking away with no warning, wanting to capture some new observation. One thought that recently occurred to me was, Americans really know how to do breakfast well. From Denny's with their late-night Grand Slam menu to chains like the International House of Pancakes to The Pantry, the delightful Los Angeles diner we ate at during Anime Expo, which apparently hasn't closed since 1923, I've eaten a year's worth of satisfying breakfasts since I got here. Japan's idea of the first meal of the day usually consists of white rice, nori seaweed, fried salmon, miso soup and perhaps some natto to top it all off with. It's certainly certainly healthy, just not always as satisfying as what I've been sampling here in the U.S. (For the record, they do have Denny's in Japan, but there's nary a breakfast item on the menu.)
Understanding Japan Through First and Second Pronouns
In the book Startide Rising by David Brin, humans have bio-engineered dolphins to be intelligent, and modified their spaceships so dolphin crews can work alongside humans in space. In the book, one dolphin remarks how amusing it is that humans bother to hide their feelings from members of the opposite sex; the sonar capabilities of dolphins allow them to see the internal changes in other dolphins and tell if one is interested in them physically, so there are never any secrets about who likes who. It was an interesting concept, and one that I sometimes think about in the context of Japan. In Japanese, people use different first- and second-person pronouns depending on how they perceive themselves and others, which sometimes betrays their intentions and their insecurities. For the pronoun "I" you could choose from watashi (formal, used more often by women), boku (semi-polite, usually used by younger males), and ore (OH-reh, mainly used by "manly" men); words for "you" include anata (formal, used by women more often than men); kimi (familiar, used by guys to their girlfriends or by anyone talking to a younger person); and omae (oh-MAH-eh, again, a "macho" sounding word generally used by males). This last word is especially interesting since it basically asserts the superiority of the speaker over the person he's addressing, a concept that doesn't exist in English. When a man uses the word omae to a female he's in a relationship with, the implication is that the girl "belongs to" him in a romantic sense, but a male using the word in other situations might indicate wishful thinking about how he wants others to view him. By paying attention to what pronouns people use, you can catch which guys are trying to act tougher than they feel and which girls are pretending to be more feminine than they are.
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Michael Jackson, Japan and "The Way We Pretend Things to Be"
One of the invisible pillars of Japanese society is tatemae (tah-tay-MAH-eh), literally meaning façade but in actual use, "the way we pretend things are, even though we know they're not"; the word is usually paired with honne (HOHN-neh), which means the way things really are, or a person's real intentions. I learned about these concepts during my brief career as a city employee when I served as the Facilitator of Internationalization, doing things like translating documents for the mayor and helping out foreigners who couldn't speak Japanese. On the surface, I was in charge of coming up with new ways to serve the foreign community of our city, yet every suggestion I put forth to the bureaucracy was declined with a polite so desu ne, a phrase which literally means "yes, that's so" but which appears to carry the nuance of "forget it, silly gaijin," too. Of course, Japan isn't the only country to wear different faces for different situations. During the love-fest surrounding the death of King of Pop Michael Jackson by the media that did nothing but tear him down at every opportunity while he was alive, I'm reminded that America, too, has its tatemae and its honne at times. Anyway, Michael, thanks for all the fun memories over the years!
My First Dajare Joke
My first Japanese textbook was Foundations of Japanese Language by Soga, a book which I'm thankful for now but which was frustrating to use at the time, teaching us the term for the Chinese Zodiac before useful words like "man" or "woman." In one of the first chapters it explained how kanji characters often have hiragana written beside them to show how to pronounce them, which are known as furigana, lit. "attached kana." Since the prefix furi sounds like the English word "hurry," the textbook author went out of his way to describe how you could think of furigana as "hurry-gana" for people in too much of a hurry to look up the proper reading for the character in a dictionary. I didn't know at it at the time, but this was my first exposure to the silly category of joke known as dajare (dah-jah-reh), a bad kind of pun that middle-aged Japanese men are especially known to make. Now it's my turn to make bad jokes in Japanese, and I'm quite good at it (which is to say, my Japanese jokes are quite bad).
Japan's Most Loyal Dog: Hachiko!
Do you know the story of Japan's most famous dog? His name was Hachi, an Akita dog who was owned by a university professor in the 1920's in Tokyo. Every day, Hachi accompanied the professor to Shibuya Station, and in the evenings, the man would come back to find the dog waiting faithfully, a happy expression on his face. This continued for years, until one day, the man died suddenly while away from home. Loyal Hachi waited for his master to return for ten years, wagging his tail in front of the station every afternoon until he, too, eventually died. Tokyo residents erected a bronze statue in Hachi's memory, which would forever represent the loyalty of the dog in the minds of citizens, er, until it had to be melted down during World War II. But it was replaced after the war ended, and is now one of the most famous landmarks in Japan. Richard Gere is in Tokyo right now to promote the opening of his new film, Hachi: A Dog's Story, a full-blown Hollywood film about Japan's most famous dog. (Hachi is better known by the name of Hachiko, the koh suffix being used for people or animals who we're very close to.)
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Monday, July 06, 2009
Going from Japan to the U.S. and Back Again
Because I'm fortunate enough to flit back and forth between the U.S. and Japan several times a year, I get to enjoy the best of both sides of the Pacific. I've lived in Japan so long that there's always some reverse culture shock waiting for me when I go home again. For example, after getting used to the smaller but quite adequate portions served in Japan, some of the food amounts in America really floor me. In Japanese restaurants, you nearly always pay for your meal at the cash register as you leave, but in the U.S. you usually ask for the check and pay at your table -- I sometimes have to think deeply to figure how which to do. Although Japan has been getting rid of more places where smoking is permitted, it's still okay to smoke in most restaurants. Forgetting where I was, I once strode into a Denny's in San Diego and asked to be seated in the non-smoking section, receiving a funny look from the employee, since all the seats are non-smoking in California. Reorienting myself to driving on the right side of the street, instead of on the left as in Japan, is not as difficult as you might imagine, despite the fact that I am mildly dyslexic. The trick is, no matter what country you're driving, you should be closer to the center of the road than the passenger seat.
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Japanese Girls and the Kawaii Things That They Do
I'm big fan of Japanese girls and the kawaii things they do, and when I was a teacher, I loved observing the never ending parade of attractive female students I had. In Japan it's supposedly bad manners for a girl to laugh while showing her teeth, and the way they cover their mouth when laughing really starts to look cute to a guy after a while. Then there's the two-handed "bye-bye" wave that girls will do amongst themselves when parting, which is fun to watch, if a little bizarre. But the cutest thing I've ever seen a girl do is get embarrassed about something, then try to pull her bangs forward as if she could hide her red face underneath her hair. While I think the unique mannerisms of Japanese girls are kind of cool, not everyone agrees, and the derogatory word for girls who act like super-cute children to push the emotional buttons of males is burikko (boo-REE-kko), lit. "pretending girl." The culture of acting to cute is raised to a science in magazines like Bomb or in Japan's idol world, and I'm quite powerless to resist their magic.
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Japan has Overly Peaceful
Another year, another Anime Expo. As usual, this year was a blast, with a bazillion J-List fans and customers (and more than a few of my Twitter followers) coming by to say hi. We sold a ton of T-shirts, Totoro plush toys and H-games, and I scored the autographs of all the members of Morning Musume on our spiffy new J-List printed bags. See everyone next year!
Japan is a strange and wonderful place, and you never know what will become popular next, like the current boom in taiyaki, a fish-shaped snack loaded with sweet anko beans (or sometimes chocolate), or the traditional "Food Drop" candies we have on the site. Once I found a video that consisted of nothing but a pretty girl staring at the camera, looking out of your computer at you for long spans of time. I can't figure out what the point of having a girl stare intensely at you for many minutes on end is, but it was strangely compelling, and I guess it's a good way for hikikomori types (hardcore otaku who never leave their homes) to get used to interacting with others. Below the video, one of the comments by a Japanese viewer read, "Japan is really heiwa," meaning peaceful, and this is a concept you encounter quite a lot: Japan's awareness that their country is especially blessed with peace, a unique place where crime is low and there is no war or religious strife, and people have the freedom to make silly videos and post them on the Internet. A related concept is heiwa-boke (hei-WA boh-keh), literally meaning "numbed from too much peace," which describes the state of literally being made stupid by living in a country that's overly harmonious, like the Japanese who traveled to Iraq in 2004 to help rebuild the country only to be promptly kidnapped because, well, they were in friggin' Iraq.
We had fun at AX, and Morning Musume signed our spiffy new event bags; weird J-Girl stares at you.
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WINDHAM — The Windham Historical Society will present Ted Zalewski on Wednesday, Jan. 16, at Nesmith Library at 7 p.m.
His program, "All Aboard the Titanic," is through a New Hampshire Humanities Council Humanities To Go program and responds to people's enduring fascination with this epic historic event.
Zalewski has many pictures of passengers and crew with their personal stories, including those with New Hampshire affiliations. He moves beyond the physical facts of this very human event, exploring the personal experiences of people and emphasizing examples of individual courage and triumph.
Zalewski is a Screen Actors Guild actor, a writer, an educator and a historian. He is a longtime college and secondary school teacher who lectures on historical, literary and natural history topics.
He is nationally recognized as a foremost interpreter of Theodore Roosevelt and has presented his living history program on Roosevelt at the Smithsonian Institution conferences for educators. In 2012, he marked his fifth annual July 4th performance as Roosevelt at the Mount Washington Resort.
He is a graduate of the University of Illinois and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
There is no cost for this program.
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The distinctly American music that we call jazz is uncontainable as a genre. By accepted definition, if you approach it with anything significant to add, you are obligated to change it, to take it further. Jazz, then, may be less a category than a challenge. From that perspective, few living legends have stepped up as often or with as wonderfully varied and lasting results as the trumpeter, composer, arranger, and now conductor Gerald Wilson.
Wilson cut his chops on the road with the Jimmie Lunceford big band during the late 1930s and '40s. That simple fact may account for some aspect of Wilson's musical longevity. Lunceford's music is complex with regard to orchestration, but remains notoriously danceable, easy on the ears, and full of sparkling wit. Wilson went on to play and arrange for bands led by Ellington, Gillespie, Basie, and of course himself.
Seventy years into his career, Wilson is finally getting around to his Knoxville debut. Next week he'll be conducting the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra as they play selections from Wilson's 2003 album New York, New Sound, the arranger's love letter to his own favorite music-makers and collaborators. It contains lush, large ensemble variations of cuts like "Milestones" by Miles Davis, Coltrane's "Equinox," and his own much-covered "Viva Tirado."
From his home in Los Angeles, Wilson explains that the concept of New York, New Sound actually came from one of his many admirers.
"That was a record produced by Stix Hooper," says Wilson. "He's a drummer who played with the Jazz Crusaders. At this time he was producing records with Mack Avenue Records in Detroit. Those are all songs that he particularly liked. He had played them when he was in my band. We became friends, and those numbers he wanted in that album."
Wilson goes on to talk about the NYNS sessions, which like many of his recording events turned into a reunion. He brought in long-lost friends like trumpeter Clark Terry, with whom he had served in the navy during World War II, and pianist Kenny Barron. So you have to wonder, for a composer/arranger who is accustomed to playing with friends and relatives (guitar genius Shuggie Otis is Wilson's son-in-law), is it some kind of thrill ride to book a gig conducting your music to be played by distant strangers, no matter how kind and accomplished they may be?
"I've been doing this for quite a while now," says Wilson. "I was just with the Columbus Jazz Orchestra not too long ago, and with the Seattle Jazz Orchestra. I've been going around doing things like that. I even did a thing with the BBC Jazz Orchestra over in London. I like doing that because it's good to work with other musicians. They're all good.
"I know about Tennessee. They have some fine musicians in Tennessee. I was born in a little town in Mississippi that's about 90 miles south of Memphis. But I went to high school in Memphis, at Manassas High School. That was the school where Jimmie Lunceford had been a teacher. Later on my family moved to Memphis, so that makes Memphis my home. I feel very good coming back to Tennessee because that's where I studied the trumpet. I had a very good teacher there. I needed that kind of training and without it I don't think I could hardly be here today."
Wilson's sound is unusual even within the confines of big-band. He leans toward pieces two or three times longer than the typical radio track slot, giving him room for many moods and opportunities for many instrumental voices. NYNS contains his extended "Theme for Monterey," a commission to commemorate the Monterey Jazz Festival's 50th anniversary. "Theme" blossoms from a light, reedy opening to many layered, larger thoughts that are probably more closely related to Copland or Satie than anything ever performed at the Cotton Club.
Wilson no longer plays trumpet, and devotes his time to composing, arranging, and conducting. Wilson's style of conducting is also one of a kind, and a joyous spectacle to behold. Apparently, he trusts his charts to tell the players what to do and when. Almost like an interpretive dancer, Wilson serves as liaison between band and audience, making sure that listeners don't miss any of the music he's written for them.
"The people enjoy watching me conduct," Wilson says. "I choreograph my arrangements. They see everything that's happening, the audience. When they hear something, I'm right there on it, pointing to it. That, in turn, makes it interesting to watch me conduct. I'm all over the stage, I don't stand in one place. I'm not just giving them the time, I'm moving all the time. So they hear what's happening and they see what's happening."
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Daniel Bice, the Journal Sentinel's watchdog columnist, holds politicians and the powerful accountable
Walker to air TV ad during Monday Night Football
Gov. Scott Walker is getting a jump on the recall signature drive.
The Walker campaign will begin airing TV ads in Green Bay, La Crosse, Madison and Wausau during the Monday night football contest between the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings.
The ad features recently elected Waukesha School Board member Karin Sue Rajnicek praising Walker's education reforms.
"We were worried when the state budget meant there was going to be less money for our school district, and we have 25 schools," Rajnicek says in the commercial. "But Gov. Walker - he gave us options that reduced our biggest costs so that we could put more money back into our classrooms."
The campaign spot will then air throughout the rest of the week in those markets, insiders say. Walker's team has purchased more than $300,000 worth of air time between Monday and Sunday.
"That's a big buy," said a Democrat who has worked on statewide campaigns.
Stephan Thompson, executive director of the state Republican Party, put out a statement touting the 30-second ad.
"In less than a year, Governor Walker's reforms have balanced a $3.6 billion deficit without raising taxes and have created hundreds of millions of dollars in savings for school districts and local governments," Thompson said.
The head of the liberal group One Wisconsin Now, though, chided Walker's team for using a political newcomer to praise Walker's proposals.
"It's no surprise that someone from the most Republican part of Wisconsin, who is specifically opposed to rights for workers and has only a few months of school board experience, would say what Walker is doing is working," said Scot Ross, executive director of the Madison-based group.
Walker's biggest buy is in Madison, where the first-term Republican governor will be spending more than $150,000 for air time on four network stations and cable.
His campaign is spending no money, however, in Milwaukee or Minneapolis.
The spots will begin running just hours before the recall effort begins collecting signatures.
A big rally is planned for Madison at the state Capitol on Saturday and some groups are also planning a rally for Walker's home in Wauwatosa on Tuesday. Trainings on gathering recall petitions were also being held in Madison and other locations on Monday.
Organizers have to gather more than 540,000 signatures to force a recall election against Walker. Meagan Mahaffey, executive director of United Wisconsin, said her group hopes to gather 600,000 to 700,000 signatures to allow a cushion if some signatures are found not to properly count.
Recall efforts will also be launched against three Republican senators on Tuesday. Those targeted are Pam Galloway of Wausau, Terry Moulton of Chippewa Falls and Van Wanggaard of Racine.
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Good. These union idiots and occupiers want a fight, they're going to get one.
Walker doesn't need to spend any money in the Milwaukee market. We love our home town boy!Hide replies
Better get out more, bubba. You're as clueless as he is.
Thunderbyrd, you are either a union member or a complete moron. Either way, you are the clueless one. His reforms are working and he will survive this recall.
Oh, the righties are in such a froth today. The recall is just starting, people. Better save up some of that wrath for the long haul. The party has just started, and it isn't about tea!
Oh, dunderbyrd, don't be to sure. You can't recall success!!
So thunder, since you aren't "clueless" tell us that Doyle didn't put the state in debt and tell us we don't need to cut spending.....
Actually it was a republican governor that put us in debt.Did Doyle add to it yes but he inherited most of the debt from a republican.
No, but you can recall incompetence,
incompetence would have been to elect someone like Tom Barrett!
Scooter would have to improve to merely be incompetent.
Walker=FailureHide replies
Actually the state is succeeding, you just don't wanna look at it since you've been told he's bad.
I wish there was a thumbs up/down for replies. I give you a thumbs down.
Walker = Crook
Thumbs down Cecil. Sober up before you comment!
Guess those unlimited campaign donations from the fake recall drive his buddy filed for 10 days ago has already paid off!Hide replies
Charlie...your just another sore loser!
That's the ONLY way he could have done this Chas. Kinda like Walker speaking in Chicago saying "It's working" on the same day the AFP ads came out in Milwaukee saying the same thing but- nooooo- no cooperation there huh? That would be illegal. It's just a coincedence!
Is nothing sacred?!Hide replies
Certainly not football.
The truth has never been sacred to lefties. It's why they lie all the time.
Go Scott! We LOVE YOU!!!Hide replies
I think Mrs. Walker may take offense at your come hither comments.
Jealous TosaLeft?
Attention all Packer Fans: If you don't like Governor Dropout ruining your football games, sign the recall petition asap and rid the state of this divisive plague.
MAN I HOPE THEY SUCCEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wALKER IS THE DEVILHide replies
It's amazing how many people gave this comment a thumbs up. Goes to show the level of debate that the recallers support.
Muskie, I give your reply a thumbs up.
How is it determined if the signatures are legitimate? Seems with very biased collectors (both sideds) the results couldn't possibly be validated.Hide replies
We need photo ID for recall petitions!
There aren't 2 sides getting petitions signed, just one. And it'll be months before they are certified.
For Walker's recall there is only one side. To think both sides won't be filing recalls is pretty near sited though. I am just curious how they actually certify them. It seems a foolishly optomistic to expect any kind of truth or accuracy to the petitions.
The signatures are up for review. If you suspect foul play on the petitions, I would suggest volunteering to check over them. It is difficult because the onus is on the challenger to prove that the signatures are invalid.
Well, the last year has shown that Democrats have no respect for laws or what's right.
Thank you Governor Walker......Keep up the good fight!
It begins.....Hide replies
He better not ever think about this during a Badger game Bucky will bite him!