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Liberal Media Cheer on Pro-Gay Discrimination
The week of June 16-June 24, 2012 has been designated by the homosexual community as Gay Pride Week, during which LGBT people take pride in their triumphs over "violence and discrimination against gay, lesbian, and transgendered individuals."
Funny, but they're not making much noise about using government to discriminate in favor of their lifestyle. One Canadian activist even declared: "We'll only take away charitable status from the buildings where the priests live and where the people pray."
In America, state and local governments have attacked Christian businesses and religious institutions that refuse to sanction homosexual activity, fining businesses that refuse to photograph lesbian "commitment ceremonies" and host "gay wedding" receptions. Abroad, local, state, and national governments have actively silenced opponents of "gay rights" and pushed churches to officiate at gay marriages. These forms of government discrimination have met with media approval.
Liberals decry discrimination, real or perceived, against homosexuals; ABC even set up a sting operation on camera in order to "expose" anti-gay prejudice. But they have no problem with government discrimination in favor of the gay agenda, complaining that "needy children" will suffer because the Church refuses to cave into the government on the issue of gay adoption and that a Christian business refusing to host a lesbian wedding reception was "poisoned by homophobia."
The self-proclaimed opponents of bigotry on the left have no problem with discrimination they happen to agree with.
Punishing Opponents of Gay Marriage
Governments in America are forcing Christian-run businesses to actively accommodate gay couples and promote gay causes, or face fines or prosecution. The National Review's Ian Tuttle recently provided a good overview of the numerous examples of pro-gay discrimination in America.
In New Mexico, a photography studio was sued by a lesbian couple, because its owner refused to photograph their "commitment ceremony." Studio owner Elaine Huguenin, cited her Christian faith as the reason she wouldn't do the job.
In a May 31, 2012, decision, Judge Tim Garcia, writing for the New Mexico Court of Appeals, ruled in favor of the lesbian couple, arguing that the court "requires Elane Photography merely to offer its photography services without discrimination against any member of a protected class." Since Garcia ruled that "Sexual orientation, however, is protected," the photography studio was fined more than $6,500.
Libertarian magazine Reason, which supports gay marriage, asked the obvious question: why force someone who opposes your lifestyle to photograph you in the first place?
The answer seems to be that gay activists seek to force Christian companies to actively support their lifestyle. The Gay and Lesbian Services Organization (GLSO) of Lexington. Ky., filed a discrimination complaint in March 2012 against a Christian T-shirt manufacturer, called Hands On, for refusing to print apparel for an upcoming LGBT pride festival. The owner of the company justified his decision by citing its religious beliefs, declaring in an op-ed: "I decided to pass on the opportunity because, as a Christian owner, I cannot in good conscience endorse groups or events that run counter to my convictions"
Hands On found another company that promised to do the same work for the same price; this gesture did not pacify the GLSO.The ACLU sued a Vermont inn owned by a Catholic couple, because the inn refused to host a lesbian couple's wedding in 2011. The owners declared on their Facebook page: "The Wildflower Inn is a small family owned and operated country inn. We are a devout practicing Catholic family who believes in the sanctity of marriage between one man and one woman. We have never refused rooms or dining or employment to gays or lesbians."
Such instances of pro-gay (or anti-Christian) coercion have been celebrated by the left. Think Progress slammed the Vermont inn, and inveighed that the T-shirt incident was "openly discriminating against gay people," with the inflammatory title: "Kentucky T-shirt Controversy Reveals Conservative Intent to Discriminate and Stigmatize." The Daily Kos complained that the Wildflower Inn was "poisoned by homophobia."
One company that merely donated to Christian groups supporting traditional marriage sparked calls for boycotts. Chick-fil-A came under fire at numerous universities in March 2012 for donated money to Christian organizations that "have anti-gay agendas." Northeastern University has barred the firm from its campus, declaring: "We are proud of the decision that affirms our university's commitment to be an inclusive, diverse community that is respectful of all."
Respectful of all who agree with them, of course.
Gawker called for a boycott of the restaurant: "If you'd really like to support gays and lesbians in a world lousy with Chick-fil-As, how about this tactic instead: From now on, don't f*cking eat at Chick-fil-A if you are a person who believes gays are equal to you and deserving of equal treatment under the law. No equivocating and no buying back karma with pity donations to gay-rights groups. Simply avoid the chain for as long as it upholds its homophobic ties."
Left-wing outlets have lazily equated sexual orientation with active support for the gay lifestyle. But the owners of the Wildfower Inn and Hands On have both made clear that they have served gay customers without incident.
It is clearly illegal and wrong to refuse services because someone "looks" gay or admits same-sex attraction. It is another matter entirely for owners to refuse services to a group that actively supports behavior that the owners consider to be morally reprehensible or sinful. The situation is analogous to a conservative-owned company refusing to print Black Panther T-shirts – the company would be "discriminating" on the basis of politics, not of race.
Targeting Catholic Charities
Pro-gay discrimination has not been limited to government targeting of individual businesses; the Catholic Church has also been forced to discontinue charitable work, rather than be forced to approve the gay lifestyle.
The Catholic Church provides charitable services to poor, disabled, and disadvantaged individuals, which governments, private donations, and Catholic dioceses combine to fund.
In multiple instances, state and local governments have mandated that adoption agencies consider homosexual couples as potential adoptive partners, and refused to grant exemptions to this policy for religious-affiliated charities. Because the Catholic Church refuses to alter its stance on homosexual activities, governments have discontinued funding church-affiliated charities, in several cases forcing those charities to close.
The church believes that homosexual behavior is sinful; by considering homosexual couples as potential adoptive partners, it would be endorsing relationships it considers to be inherently wrong.
Rather than violate its doctrines, the Catholic Church has shut down social services on numerous occasions, most recently in Illinois in 2011. Laurie Goodstein of the New York Times reported on the controversy: "Roman Catholic bishops in Illinois have shuttered most of the Catholic Charities affiliates in the state rather than comply with a new requirement that says they must consider same-sex couples as potential foster-care and adoptive parents if they want to receive state money."
In 2006, the Church shut down adoption services in Boston rather than "comply with a state law requiring no discrimination against gay and lesbian couples who seek to adopt."
In 2010, Washington, D.C., Catholic Charities also shut down its adoption program, because, as the gay newspaper Washington Blade reported, "Catholic Charities, the charitable arm of the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, announced this week that it has ended its city contract to provide foster care and adoption services for D.C. residents, saying it could not comply with rules requiring that it place children with same-sex couples."
DC Catholic Charities was also forced to restructure its health benefits system; it dropped coverage for spouses of employees, rather than be forced to offer "benefits to same-sex partners of its workers."
The left cheered on efforts to defund Catholic Charities. The far left Daily Kos uncorked one of its typical unhinged rants, demanding a stop to "government funding of Catholic plutocrats." E.J. Graff of the American Prospect wrote that "The bishops are making a ruckus because the "don't ask, don't tell" era of child placement has come to an end. Who suffers? Needy children."
Warning Signs Abroad
Governments abroad are further along in silencing and undercutting opponents of the gay agenda.
Canada has proven especially intolerant of opposition to homosexuals. In a June 5, 2012, National Review article, Michael Coren explained that "definitive figures are almost impossible to state, but it's estimated that, in less than five years, there have been between 200 and 300 proceedings — in courts, human-rights commissions, and employment boards — against critics and opponents of same-sex marriage." He quoted one activist, who declared: "We'll only take away charitable status from the buildings where the priests live and where the people pray."
Conservative writer Mark Steyn has also observed the coercive tendencies of the Canadian authorities, writing: "The Rev. Stephen Boissoin was convicted of the heinous crime of writing a homophobic letter to his local newspaper and was sentenced by Lori Andreachuk, Alberta's "human rights" commissar, to a lifetime prohibition on uttering anything "disparaging" about homosexuality ever again in sermons, in newspapers, on radio-or in private emails. Note that legal concept: not "illegal" or "hateful," but merely "disparaging."
This type of enforced tolerance is exemplified in Bill 13, an act passed in June 2012 by the Legislative Assembly of Ontario which declares that "students need to be equipped with the knowledge, skills, attitude and values to engage the world and others critically, which means developing a critical consciousness that allows them to take action on making their schools and communities more equitable and inclusive for all people, including LGBTTIQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, two-spirited, intersex, queer and questioning) people."
In practice, that means the forced establishment of Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) clubs, even in Catholic schools. Canadian gay outlet Xtra! quoted GSA Coalition lawyer Doug Elliott: "If you're not complying with the law, then we're going to take you to court. It's that simple."
European governments too are aggressively abetting gay activists. In Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron declared that the government should sanction gay marriages, and his ministers have gone farther, arguing that gay marriages could take place in churches. Religious leaders of theChurch of England have warned that the church could be forced to stop performing weddings on behalf of the state if gay marriage is legalized.
In Denmark, the government has gone farther, mandating that the state Church of Denmark allow same-sex weddings. (An annex to the bill says that pastors do not have to officiate at marriages, if they have personal objections to them. The bishop, however, must provide a replacement.)
The upshot is that progressive nations are effectively dividing churches by enforcing church-related weddings; progressive pastors will be placed in opposition to more traditional-minded pastors within churches.
Anti-Discriminating Discriminators
It is one thing for media outlets to argue that homosexuals should have the right to marry, or that those who oppose gay marriage are bigots. But it is quite another thing for governments to criminalize refusal to actively support a particular lifestyle one disagrees with, or to mandate support of a "protected class."
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Orwell would understand the Gay cummity very well.
Submitted by Mark81150 on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 3:20pm.
Freedom of association?
Freedom of Religion?
Freedom of speech?
Freedom to hold unpopular beliefs, well unpopular with the Left wing, with screwed up people like them and their government and media sycophnats.. we live in a one party state where opinions are subject to the approval of the left. They will continue this jihad, until it becomes illegal to merely say certain thoughts, or own a business, or even hold a job, if they don't like you.
The gay community took a simple basic right, the right to live unmolersted and free of violence for what you are.. and twisted it, turned it into an abomination of PC thought control run amuck.
Most people can see gay behavior as sinful, yet not hate or even dislike gays, we all know sinners.. it what people are. To twist that into an Orwellian new order where you must not only tolerate their lifestyle, but have to wave a banner proclaiming your love and endorsement of it. To force people to violate their religious beliefs, is so evil on it's face it staggers the mind, that any thinking American could support them. Gays have the rights other Americans have... but they do not have the right to force other people to serve their politiocal groups, or to grant them religious services they don't even believe in, merely to grind ashes in the faces of People that gays openly hate and discriminate against.
If I were a Catholic Parish... I would seek out a gay, openly in your face gay business, and submit an order for them to print T-Shirts qouting scripture and reminding people, that the Bible says homosexuality is a sin.. then, to remind them to hate the sin, love the sinner.
and when they automatically refuse and throw you out..
Sue the guts out of them for religious bigotry, and defy the ACLU and media to defend you as they do gays when they do the same.
You either are for freddom of speech, or you're just another left wing shill.
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I am a very religious
Submitted by TruthMonger on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 4:26pm.
I am a very religious Christian and I oppose homosexuality for Biblical reasons - that's for the church - I also oppose homoesexuality as an unhealthy physical form of sexual activity - that's for the secular community. It's probably not so hot either emotionally. Our bodies obviously are not designed for that sort of sexual activity. That's all the science we need.
This issue will go the way of 60's drug experimentation as a fad and also the way of abortion in that it will never be accepted by our culture at large. They may enjoy the wind at their back now but a reckoning will happen sooner or later.
The weight of history is squarely against homosexuality as an accepted cultural norm.
Congratulations Jimmy Carter!
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Why is Gay Pride Week
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 3:56pm.
9 days long????
A standard week not good enough?
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~They want to change the definition of 'week', too
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 4:05pm.
A gay week contains two weekends!
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Nine days for gay pride week?
Submitted by nkviking75 on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 4:20pm.
Nine days for gay pride week? How queer.
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When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
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Christians in America
Submitted by updoc101 on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 3:57pm.
To twist that into an Orwellian new order where you must not only tolerate their lifestyle, but have to wave a Christian banner proclaiming your love and endorsement of Jesus and to force people to violate their secular beliefs, is so evil on it's face it staggers the mind, that any thinking American could support them. Churches have the rights other Americans have... but they do not have the right to force other people to serve their religious groups merely to grind ashes in the faces of people that Christians openly hate and discriminate against.
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Christians forcing their
Submitted by Darks Shadow Show on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 4:19pm.
Christians forcing their beliefs and lifestyles on others? Prove it. Give some examples. Oh, that's right, there aren't any, because the Leftist government, the Leftist school system, the Leftist media all openly hate Christianity and so situations like those referred to in the article couldn't happen in the first place. The Leftists would never support Christians in cases of discrimination, whether real or perceived.
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There is a big difference...
Submitted by updoc101 on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 8:56am.
in hating something and disagreeing with it. Christianity is an archaic institution that has always had but one agenda, the acquisition and maintenance of great wealth and political power, and to that end they have been very successful. But I digress. Christians forcing their beliefs...hmmm. You mean aside from a church on every corner, properties worth billions that are tax free, prayers to jesus at every council meeting, every senate meeting, every graduation ceremony, blue laws in states that prevent one from buying alcohol, but not guns or ammunition, on Sundays, you mean stuff like that? How about if non-thiests come up with their own set of blue laws. Like, Christians are not allowed in Red Lobster on Sunday (cause you're not supposed to eat shrimp you know), or Christian churches paying their fair share of taxes. Or how about no displays of crosses on any day except for Sundays? That's what it feels like every time I go to the store on Sunday and want to buy a six pack but because of all the silly Baptists in this state we have to wait for them to get out of church first because god forbid that the heathens get to the beer store ahead of them. I could go on and on but you know, you Christians have no ability to scrutinize your beliefs anyway so, screw it.
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Christians don't hate anybody
Submitted by TruthMonger on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 4:38pm.
Christians don't hate anybody - we love everybody. I think that's what really bothers the left - the guilt they feel for not being able to do the same thing. In my case I resist out of love. Man does that drive a liberal crazy. They think that love means accepting practically anything...
Sometimes love means you are concerned for others engaging in what might be unlhealthy behavior. Just because someone is resisted for something does not mean what they are hated. It depends on the reason for the resistance.
And if we accept homesexuality then we must accept the peds, the necropheliacs, the beastialty crowd, etc or we discriminate. And if we accept gay marriage then we must end the blood tests and let relatives marry each other, and we must celebrate polygamy - if you're going for marriage equality that is...
Congratulations Jimmy Carter!
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So you are happy to accept...
Submitted by updoc101 on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 8:59am.
...Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, and Pride among your parishioners since all of you religious types exhibit those very qualities anyways but god forbid that a homo comes to your church. Hypocrisy at its most evil.
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No, it's the unrepentant who are not welcome
Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 9:12am.
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I heard that homo's don't appreciate being referred to as ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 9:14am.
If that's the case, you have that hypocrisy bit down pretty good yourself.
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Here's a question I've never heard anybody ask
Submitted by Kubrickfilmfan73 on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 5:28pm.
Is it possible--just possible--that all the pro-gay sentiment that's in the ether these days is not because businesses and organizations are actually, actively pro-gay but rather that they're trying to avoid being smeared as homophobic?
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i believe you are
Submitted by TruthMonger on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 6:05pm.
i believe you are correct...
what is the reasoning these days for supporting the gay phenomenon
1. Just as you said to avoid being smeared as homophobic
2. to avoid being sued
3. to get laid by liberal girls (in the heterosexual sense)
4. to get a college degree
5. because "everyone" else is doing it
6. to confuse the polls
7. you are as confused as gay people are
and also possibly because
8. you actually do support the gay phenomenon
Congratulations Jimmy Carter!
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All things that have been
Submitted by MrSnuggles on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 8:09pm.
All things that have been predicted for decades. Did anybody NOT see these things coming?
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The prospects of Life without God and Christian morality
Submitted by LaVallette on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 6:49am.
There you have it folks. Less than 3% of society is demanding that the entire Western Moral Edifce be pulled down for the sake of the least common factor.
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VOLLEYBALL BLOG: Ashley August edition (10/10)
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Monday, October 3
5:12AM-Awaken for lifting
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Coming back from a 1-1 weekend, we knew we were in for a week that demanded our full mental focus as well as self discipline on and off the court.
Right before practice on Monday, we had a quick team meeting. The key word from the coaches was "Simplify". With all of our minds racing, this was the perfect way to begin practice for the week. Each player had their goals clearly in front of them so we each knew what we needed to work on and make improvements on.
Both Tuesday's and Wednesday's practices flew by as each player did their best to stay focused on what they needed to change and improve upon the most. Each one of us had our 'eureaka!' moment, and was able to feel what discipline is supposed to feel like. Ending practice on Wednesday, we were eager to employ our new improvements on the court against ETSU and USC Upstate.
Thursday, October 6
With a long bus ride ahead, we all joyfully placed our cell phones into the size 10.5 Nike shoe box with hopes of experiencing great team bonding. A few hours in, a group, including Coach Shaun, decided to play Catch Phrase. I would like to report that the team of two seniors, me included, as well as Coach Shaun, lost the game. It came down to the last round and absolute last seconds.
As we stopped for dinner, we gazed to our right and our eyes lay upon a hill. Remember in geometry class how 90 degrees is perpendicular? Well this was approximately at a 76 degree angle. Coach (Christina) Diaz and Shaun looked at each other and both just began walking towards this steep, steep hill. We knew that it was on! With trainer Cindy's (Bennett) camera rolling and Alliya's (Drzewiecki) count down, Coach Diaz and Shaun bolted up the side of the hill! I will not say who won, but it was a great race! Both coaches did well.
After awakening the next morning to a breakfast of champions of bagels and Gogurts, followed by study hall, we headed to our first practice in ETSU's gym. Before even leaving the parking lot, Coach Diaz had us all pumped by blasting our teams favorite songs. Nicole Teplitz turned the aisle of the bus into her own catwalk and strutted her famous dance moves. Cari Whitmire joined in as well as did Kendall Courtney doing the jerk. We arrived to the gym in style listening to 'The Way You Make Me Feel,' with Ms. Chaunia Graves doing her unattainable impersonation of Michael Jackson. For those of you who haven't seen this, please, I'm begging you, please come to a home game and watch during our warmups; this girl has some serious skills! DJ Diaz was fantastic and we felt that this was the perfect way to relax and simplify.
The victory at ETSU was sweet, but as Shaun said, "it means nothing if we don't win on Saturday". USC Upstate is a solid team that really does a good job of being aggressive and keeping the ball in the court.
The loss on Saturday truly frustrated not only the coaching staff, but the team as well. With a truly heartfelt and encouraging speech in the locker room from Cari, each and every one of us felt a new passion. Even if it was just for a moment, we all felt our passion for the game reignite and in that moment we were all on common ground. No statistics, no coaches, no classes, just us looking to make a change so that we can work together as a team, to promote and encourage each other to reach our potential.
After the long, long ride back to Jacksonville, Coach Shaun said it the best: "this week is over. We have a big week coming up and we need to move on." As Coach John always says, "etch-a-sketch it".
Our next home game is this upcoming Friday, October 15 at 7pm. Hope to see you there and Thank you all for your support.
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The Pittsburgh Panthers and St. John's Red Storm game scheduled for Tuesday afternoon might not be the barn burner everyone was hoping for in the first round of the 2012 Big East Tournament. The two teams will be fighting for their NCAA tournament lives as they attempt to win five games in five nights, however, beginning Tuesday afternoon.
The Panthers and Red Storm will meet for the second time this season when their game gets under way following the conclusion of the earlier game between UConn and DePaul. Tip off is scheduled for 2 p.m. ET and will be televised on ESPN2.
Pittsburgh started off the season by winning 11 of their first 12 games, but a bad loss to Wagner in the game before they opened the Big East conference schedule was apparently a sign of things to come. The Panthers, led by senior guard Ashton Gibbs, ended up going 16-15 on the season with a 5-13 record in the Big East.
The Red Storm actually looked like a capable basketball team toward the end of the season, picking up three straight wins -- including one against then-No. 18 Notre Dame -- before adding a 20-point loss to the resume against Pitt on Feb. 29. Moe Harkless and Co. will have their chance at avenging that game on Tuesday afternoon, however, as they fight for an automatic big in the NCAA Tournament.
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HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) -- A New Jersey judge said a lawsuit filed by a mall developer against the state's two pro football teams can proceed.
Canada-based developer Triple Five sued the New York Giants and New York Jets in July. It accused them of trying to stop the American Dream megamall from being completed at the Meadowlands sports complex
State Superior Court Peter Doyne on Monday rejected the teams' motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
The Jets and Giants have also sued the developer and the state's sports authority. The teams say those parties violated a 2006 agreement by expanding the mall's original design without their approval.
The mall originally known as Xanadu was supposed to open in 2007 but has been delayed by money woes and litigation.
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The oil boom continues to strengthen North Dakota's economy but it's also causing some concerns when it comes to naturally occurring radioactive waste.
This afternoon Environmental Groups met with the State Health Department to discuss some of the issues people are experiencing in the state.
One landowner spoke about how gas gets into her house since two oil wells were put on land near her home.
"I have to check the wind everyday to determine what I'm going to be able to do, if I can have my windows open today I have to know, because I don't know what's coming into my house," Brenda said.
Another issue discussed was waste being thrown in ditches.
These are photos of oil field waste taken by Darrell Dorgan in western North Dakota.
Filter socks and other oil field waste can be seen in these pictures.
The State Health Department will be doing a study to look into some of the problems naturally occurring waste is creating in North Dakota.
"We're going to look at what is the risk if it's just sitting there in the ditch, what's the risk to the public what's the risk if we put it into a landfill of a certain design, the municipal landfill is designed different than our oil field landfills," David Glatt said.
Glatt says the legislature provided eight new positions to the State Health Department to help track radioactive waste.
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Fei Wang
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Development, Drug Discovery, Neurobiology, Reproductive Biology, Signal Transduction
B.S., Beijing University (Biochemistry)
M.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Biochemistry)
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Postdoc., University of California at San Francisco (Cell and Developmental Biology)
Teaching Interests
Human pluripotent stem cells; early embryonic development; neutrophil polarity and chemotaxis
1. The molecular programs that control fate decisions of human pluripotent stem cells
Nearly 20 years after murine embryonic stem cells (mESC) were isolated, the first report of the derivation of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) in 1998 spawned the field of hESC research. Although this field is only in its infancy, hESCs have already been shown to be capable of long-term self-renewal in culture and have remarkable potential to develop into many different cell types in the body (known as pluripotency). They therefore represent a theoretically inexhaustible source of precursor cells to treat degenerative, malignant, or genetic diseases, or injury due to inflammation, infection, and trauma. Meanwhile, hESCs are an invaluable research tool to study human development, both normal and abnormal, and can serve as a platform to develop and test new drugs. In addition to hESCs, the recent derivation of human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) from somatic cells has made it possible to use pluripotent stem cells for patient-specific therapy.
Our long-term goal is to define new conditions and molecular programs that govern fate decisions of hESCs/hiPSCs. The knowledge is essential if we are ultimately to use these cells for therapy. To dissect the mechanism underlying hESC/hiPSC fate determination, we screened a collection of pharmacological inhibitors (~50) against kinases and other signaling molecules, enabling us to identify mTOR as a critical pluripotency-maintaining molecule in hESCs and uncover an mTOR-dependent signaling mechanism that suppresses mesoderm and endoderm differentiation (Zhou et al, PNAS, 2009). The screening efforts led us to also identify an E-cadherin-based highly integrated biochemical and mechanical signaling network essential for intercellular adhesion, stability of the transcriptional circuitry for pluripotency and long-term survival of hESCs/hiPSCs (Li et al, JCB, 2010). In addition, we discovered compound C, a kinase inhibitor, as a potent regulator of hESC/hiPSC fate. Compound C suppresses mesoderm, endoderm and trophoectoderm differentiation and induces rapid and high-efficiency neural conversion in both hESCs and hiPSCs (up to 90%) (Zhou et al, Stem Cells, 2010). Compound C targets at least seven TGF-beta superfamily receptors and thereby blocks both the Activin and BMP signaling pathways, which accounts for compound C's ability to induce high-efficiency neural conversion.This small-scale screening provided proof-of-concept for applying large-scale library screening to the study of hESCs/hiPSCs. Through large-scale screening of small molecules and shRNAs, we have identified a number of novel regulatory components of hESC/hiPSC pluripotency and directed differentiation. In the next few years we will extend these findings to gain new and more comprehensive mechanistic insights into pluripotency and early lineage specifications in hESCs/hiPSCs. The results of these studies will markedly improve our knowledge of the molecular mechanisms underlying hESC fate determination and may contribute to effective strategies for tissue repair and regeneration. They may also facilitate the derivation, characterization, and/or utilization of hiPSCs.
Figure 1. H9 human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) expressing GFP (left) or GFP tagged PDCD4 (middle), which shows a nuclear localization. The phase-contrast image for GFP-PDCD4 cells is also shown (right). hESCs grow in large compact colonies.
2. The mechanisms of neutrophil polarity and chemotaxis
Cell migration is a highly integrated multi-step process that mediates embryonic development, contributes to tissue repair and regeneration, and drives disease progression in cancer, mental retardation, atherosclerosis, and arthritis. Although the understanding of cell-extracellular matrix (ECM) substrate adhesion in slow-migrating mesenchymal cells has been significantly improved in the past two decades, this key step of cell migration remains poorly defined in highly polarized and rapidly moving amoeboid cells, such as leukocytes, hematopoietic stem cells, and tumor cells. Because of the rapid membrane turnover rates during amoeboid movement, cell adhesion to ECM substrate is viewed as very limited.
Our recent studies contradict this notion and suggest a complex and highly dynamic pattern of adhesion during neutrophil polarization and chemotaxis. We found that cell adhesion is required for neutrophils to establish and maintain polarity. In addition, we have begun to uncover the potential key regulatory components of adhesion. We show that myosin light chain kinase (MLCK) is necessary for leading edge attachment and mediates integrin activity by inducing myosin II-dependent contractility and tension stresses (Shin et al., Blood, 2010). We are also characteriring other regulatory components of neutrophil adhesion such as the non-receptor tyrosine kinase Lyn (He et al, J Cell Science, 2011). These experiments will yield a new level of understanding of the mechanisms that control cell adhesion in neutrophils and in other amoeboid cells. The results from this study will also have direct relevance to the treatment of multiple human diseases, including autoimmune disorders and cancer.
1988 Outstanding Undergraduate Award, Beijing University
1992 Named to the Chancellor's List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, UIUC
1993-1994 Vivian Bryan Nelson Scholarship for Graduate Study, University of California at Berkeley
1995 American Society of Cell Biology (ASCB) Predoctoral Student Travel Award
1996-1997 Regents Fellowship for Graduate Study, Univ. of California at Berkeley
2000-2003 NIH Ruth L Kirschstein - NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship
2006 Research Award, Illinois Regenerative Medicine Institute (IRMI).
2007 Outstanding Overseas Young Chinese Scholars Award, Chinese National Science Foundation
2009 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
2009-2010 Arnold O. Beckman Research Award (four times)
2010-2012 Teacher Ranked as Excellent, UIUC Center for Teaching Excellence
2012-2013 Center for Nutrition, Learning and Memory (CNLM) Research Award, Abbott Nutrition (project highlighted as showing special promise)
Representative Publications
2006 - present
Qu, Q., Li, D., Louis, K., Li, X., Yang, H., Sun, Q., Crandall, S., Tsang, S., Zhou, J., Cox, C., Cheng, J. and Wang, F.* (2014) High-efficiency motor neuron differentiation from human pluripotent stem cells and the function of Islet-1. Nat Communications, accepted.
Byrne, M. B., Kimura, Y., Kapoor, A., Yuan He, Y., Mattam, K., Hasan, K., Olson, L. N., Wang, F.*, Kenis, P. J., Rao, C.V. (2013) Oscillatory behavior of neutrophils under opposing chemoattractant gradients supports a feedback-based model. PLoS One, 9: e85726.
He, Y., Li, D., Cook, S., Yoon, M., Kapoor, A., Rao, C. V., Kenis, P., Chen, J. and Wang, F.* (2013) Mammalian Target of Rapamycin and Rictor control neutrophil chemotaxis by regulating Rac/Cdc42 activity and actin polymerization, Mol Biol Cell, 24: 3369-80 (Selected for Highlights from MBoC in the ASCB Newsletter).
Zhou, Y., Hunkapiller, N. M., Gormley, M. J., Kapidzic, M., Stolyarov, Y., Feng, V., Nishida, M., Drake, P. M., Bianco, K., Wang, F.*, McMaster, M. T., and Fisher, S. J. (2013) Culturing Cytotrophoblasts Reverses Gene Dysregulation in Preeclampsia Revealing Possible Causes. J Clin Invest, 123, 2862–2872.
Ouyang, M., Lu, S., Chen, C., Kim, T., Seong, J., Reynolds, A. B., Leckband, D. E., Wang, F.*, Schwartz, M. A., Wang, Y. (2013) N-cadherin regulates spatially polarized signals through distinct p120ctn and β-catenin-dependent signaling pathways, Nat Communications, 4, 1589.
Li, D., Yang, H., Nan , H., Liu, P., Pang, S., Zhao, Q., Karni, R., Kamps, M. P., Xu, Y., Zhou, J., Wiedmer, T., Sims, P. J., and Wang, F.* (2012) Identification of key regulatory pathways of myeloid differentiation using an mESC-based karyotypically normal cell model. Blood, 120, 4712-9 (Highlighted by ESC and iPSC News; ScienceDaily; MedicalXpress; News Release).
Gabrielson, N. P., Lu, H., Yin, L., Li, D., Wang, F.*, and Cheng, J.* (2012) A Reactive and Bioactive Cationic Alpha-Helical Polypeptide Template for Non-Viral Gene Delivery. Angew Chem, 51, 1143-7. *Corresponding author
Zhou, J., Li, D., and Wang, F.* (2012) Assessing the function of mTOR in human embryonic stem cells. Methods in Molecular Biology, 821, 361-72.
Liang, Y., Jeong, J., DeVolder, R. J., Cha, C., Wang, F.*, Tong, Y, and Kong, H. (2011) A Cell-Instructive Hydrogel to Regulate Malignancy of 3D Tumor Spheroids with Matrix Rigidity. Biomaterials, 32, 9308-15.
Lu, H., Bai, Y., Wang, J., Gabrielson, N., Wang, F.*, Lin, Y., and Cheng, J. (2011) Ring-Opening polymerization of γ-(4-Vinylbenzyl)-L-Glutamate N-carboxyanhydride for the synthesis of functional polypeptides. Macromolecules, 44, 6237-6240.
Yang, R., Jiang, M., Kumar, T., Xu, T, Wang, F.*, Xiang, L., and Xu, X. (2011) Generation of melanocytes from Induced pluripotent stem cells. Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 131, 2458-66.
He, Y., Kapoor, A., Cook, S., Liu, S., Xiang, Y., Rao, C. V., Kenis, P., and Wang, F.* (2011) The non-receptor tyrosine kinase Lyn controls neutrophil adhesion by recruiting the CrkL/C3G complex to and activating Rap1 at the leading edge. J Cell Science, 124, 2153-2164
Liu, S., Liu, S., Wang, X., Zhou, J., Cao, Y., Wang, F.*, and Duan, E. (2011) The PI3K-Akt Pathway Inhibits Senescence and Promotes Self-Renewal of Human Skin-Derived Precursors in Vitro. Aging Cell, 10, 661-74.
Li, D., Zhou, J., Chowdhury, F., Cheng, J., Wang, N., and Wang, F.* (2011) Role of mechanical factors in fate decisions of stem cells. Regenerative Medicine, 6, 229-240 (invited review). *Corresponding author
Li, D., Zhou, J., Wang, L., Shin, M. E., Su, P., Lei, X., Kuang, H., Guo, W., Yang, H., Cheng, L., Tanaka, T. S., Reynolds, A. B., Duan, E., and Wang, F.* (2010) Integrated biochemical and mechanical signals regulate multifaceted human embryonic stem cell functions. J Cell Biol, 191,631-44. (highlighted in News - In Focus, J Cell Biol, 191, 2010; Featured in Faculty of 1000)
Shen, Z., Sathyan, K. M., Geng, Y., Zheng, R., Freeman, B., Wang, F.*, Prasanth, K. V., Prasanth, S. G. (2010) A novel WD-repeat protein stabilizes ORC binding to chromatin. Mol Cell, 40, 99-111.
Tang, X., Kuhlenschmidt, T. B., Zhou, J., Bell, P., Wang, F.*, Kuhlenschmidt, M. S., and Saif, T. A. (2010) Mechanical Force affects expression of an In vitro metastasis-like phenotype in HCT-8 cells. Biophys J, 99, 2460-69.
Zhou, J., Su, P., Li, D., Tsang, S., Duan, E., Wang, F.* (2010) High-Efficiency Induction of Neural Conversion in hESCs and hiPSCs with a Single Chemical Inhibitor of TGF-beta Superfamily Receptors. Stem Cells, 28, 1741-50.
Shin, M.E., He, Y., Li, D., Chowdhury, F., Collin, O., Na, S., Pei, S., de Lanerolle, P., Schwartz, M.A., Wang, N., and Wang, F.* (2010) Spatiotemporal organization, regulation and functions of tractions during neutrophil chemotaxis. Blood, 116, 3297-310.
Chowdhury, F., Na, S., Li, D., Poh, Y.C., Tanaka, T., Wang, F.*, and Wang, N. (2010) Material properties of the cell dictate stress-induced spreading and differentiation in embryonic stem cells. Nature Materials, 9:82–8.
Wang, F.* (2009) The signaling mechanisms underlying cell polarity and chemotaxis. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol, 1,4.
Zhou, J., Su, P., Wang, L., Chen, J., Zimmermann, M., Genbacev, O., Afonja, O., Horne, M., Tanaka, T., Duan, E., Fisher, S.J., Liao, J., Chen, J., and Wang, F.* (2009) mTOR Supports Long-Term Self-Renewal and Suppresses Mesoderm and Endoderm Activities in human embryonic stem cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A., 106:7840–5. (Direct submission)
Collin, O., Na, S, Chowdhury, F., Hong, M., Shin, M., Wang, F.*, and Wang, N. (2008) Self-organized podosomes are dynamic mechanosensors. Curr Biol, 18:1288-94.
Chen, S., Lin, F., Shin, M., Wang, F.*, Shen, L., and Hamm, H.E. (2008) RACK1 regulates directional cell migration by acting on G betagamma at the interface with its effectors PLC beta and PI3K gamma. Mol Biol Cell, 19:3909-22.
Herzmark, P., Campbell, K., Wang, F.*, El-Samad, H., Groisman, A., and Bourne, H.R. (2007) Bound attractant at the leading vs. the trailing edge determines chemotactic prowess. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A., 104,13349-54.
Zhao, M., Song, B., Pu, J., Wada, T., Reid, B., Tai, G., Wang, F.*, Guo, A., Walczysko, P., Gu, Y., Sasaki, T., Suzuki, A., Forrester, J. V., Bourne, H. R, Devreotes, P. N., McCaig, C. D., and Penninger, J.M. (2006) Electric signals control wound healing via phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase-gamma and PTEN. Nature, 442:457–60. [Abstract]
1998 - 2005
Xu, J., Wang, F.#, Van Keymeulen, A., Rentel, M., and Bourne, H. R. (2005) Neutrophil microtubules suppress polarity and enhance directional migration. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 102:6884–9.[Abstract]
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Xu, J., Wang, F.#, Van Keymeulen, A., Herzmark, P., Straight, A., Kelly, K., Takuwa, Y., Mitchison, T., and Bourne, H. R. (2003) Divergent signals and cytoskeletal assemblies regulates self-organizing polarity in neutrophils. Cell, 114:201–14. [Abstract]
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Srinivasan, S., Wang, F.#, Glavas, S., Ott, A., Hofmann, F., Aktories, K., Kalman, D., Hahn, K., and Bourne, H. R. (2003) Rac and Cdc42 play distinct roles in regulating PI(3,4,5)P3 and polarity during neutrophil chemotaxis. J Cell Biol, 160:375–85.[Abstract]
# Co-first author
Wang, F., Herzmark, P., Weiner, O. W., Srinivasan, S., Servant G., and Bourne, H. R. 2002. The lipid products of PI3K maintain persistent cell polarity and directed motility in neutrophils. Nat Cell Biol, 4:513–8. [Abstract]
Wang, F ., Hansen, R. K., Radisky, D., Petersen, O. W., Yoneda, T., Barcellos-Hoff, M. H., Turley, E. H., and Bissell, M. J. (2002) Phenotypic reversion or death of cancer cells by altering signaling pathways in three-dimensional contexts. J Natl Cancer Inst, 94, 1494-503.
Wang, F ., Weaver, V. M., Petersen, O. W., Larabell, C. A., Dedhar, S., Briand, P., Lupu, R., and Bissell, M. J. (1998) Reciprocal interactions between beta-1 integrin and epidermal growth factor receptor in three-dimensional basement membrane breast cultures: a different perspective in normal and malignant epithelial biology. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 95, 14821-26.


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Purchases can again be made with food stamp bankcards, following a service outage that affected 17 states, including Illinois, state officials said.
Xerox, a contractor for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, was conducting "a routine test of backup systems" when their Electronic Benefit Transfer system temporarily shut down, said Xerox spokeswoman Karen Arena.
Residual delays were felt in several states, including Illinois which takes part in the program with Link Cards.
At about 9:30 p.m. an official for the Illinois Department of Human Services announced that food stamp service in the state had resumed.
The outage created a headache for shoppers earlier in the day.
Sandra Bottoms, who frequently shops at Woodman's Market in west suburban North Aurora, uses a Link Card to shop for a disabled relative. While she was shopping Saturday afternoon, an employee announced over the intercom system that Link Cards could not be used.
At an Aldi in nearby Aurora, she learned the outage was larger than she initially thought.
"An employee said '[The] Link Card is not functioning anywhere' and an older lady started crying and asked 'where will I get food?'" Bottoms said.
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Rolex Rankings #2
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Will Lydia Ko defend her title?
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From elegant and stately mansions to modern, environmentally-friendly abodes, the North Shore is full of one-of-a-kind homes.
Each week, Patch features one 'Wow House' that catches our attention. This week, it's a $2.15M mansion in Lake Forest.
Located at 410 Waukegan Road, this five bedroom home is a new construction built on about one and a half wooded acres. Walls of windows allow a lot of natural light. The home also includes 11 foot ceilings, six fireplaces and a gourmet kitchen with a built in coffee maker and two dishwashers. There's also a winding wrought iron art staircase.
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Those are not the words she's saying, Martha Stewart. In fact, the words that are coming out of her mouth, if you saw them in print, would seem supportive. Read these words without the tone… "I haven't eaten at Gwyneth's house and I've never seen how she lives. Full Story


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Is it your dream to go to medical school? Were you shocked to learn that the average gpa accepted medical school applicants was 3.67 last year and the average science gpa a 3.61? Are worried that your academic performance at Columbia might not be strong enough to get you into medical school?
Don't despair! There are great options for improving your academic record before applying to medical school.
Come join us for an informative program:
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Starting in summer 2014, Columbia offers a new summer program, focusing on the languages, history and culture of the Maghreb region and its relations with the Middle East and France. The program, based first in Amman and then moving to Paris, allows students to take coursework in Arabic (first through fourth year offered) and a seminar on the Maghreb region, including the topics of migration, diaspora and transnationalism in the context of music, literature and film. Come learn more about the program from the Faculty Directors!
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'No harm came to Mandela' as a result of delay
A spokesperson for the South African Presidency has confirmed that an ambulance used to transfer Nelson Mandela to hospital did break down on route.
Mac Maharaj told ITV News that "no harm came to Madiba" as a result of the break down.
"The blue light convoy included and ICU ambulance, ICU staff and at least twofast response vehicles" he said.
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LENAWEE COUNTY, MI (Toledo News Now) – A disturbing trend has been noticed in Lenawee County: Residents are getting more violent toward police officers.
Over the past three months, at least six people in the sheriff's department have been injured on the job. Most of these have been minor assaults, but one road patrol officer has been off work for a few weeks after being assaulted at the county jail, and is still recovering.
Every time an officer responds to a call there is risk involved, but Lenawee County Sheriff Jack Welsh said he's had to make more trips to the hospital to visit injured officers than ever before.
"It's frustrating to me, as a sheriff, to see some of these things happening," Welsh said. "The people that we're dealing with seem to be more aggressive."
Welsh said the department is overloaded with complaints, which may be part of the problem.
"It takes longer to get a back-up to an officer," he said.
Recently, Sheriff Welsh requested more funding from the county commissioners to hire more officers, but budgets are tight for everyone.
The other possible reason for the increase in aggression may be related to drugs and alcohol.
For now, Welsh said he will work with what he has and try to come up with ways to cut down on this scary trend.
"I don't know for sure how we can cut down on violent acts, but there has to be a more efficient way for us to respond to complaints," he said.
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YAMMA Pit Fighting issued a press release today announcing that Ricco Rodriguez and Mark Kerr have been added to the promotion's inaugural show on April 11 in Atlantic City, NJ.
Rodriguez will participate in the eight-man, single-night heavyweight tournament while Kerr replaces Pat Smith in a Superfight vs. Oleg Taktarov.
Updated: FiveOuncesOfPain.com (www.FiveOuncesOfPain.com) has learned through the New Jersey Athletic Control Board that Mark Kerr has not yet been approved for YAMMA's first show. There are questions whether he will get approved because he's still under suspension in the state of Connecticut.
You should ask the NJACB if they will let Gary Goodridge fight even though he was ko'ed by Choi Mu Bae over the weekened in South Korea.
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Activities will include "hands-on" work of assisting senior residents with cleaning and organization needs of their
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Beverly resident Alan Temkin, senior financial planner of Temkin Financial Group, earned membership in the insurance industry's Million Dollar Round Table. MDRT membership is recognized internationally as the standard of sales excellence in the life insurance and financial services business. Temkin is a member of Beverly Rotary, Beverly Chamber of Commerce, North Shore Chamber of Commerce and Beverly Main Streets.
Marblehead resident Robert Gurman, a certified financial planner practitioner, was elected president of the Essex County Estate Planning Council, the local affiliate of the National Association of Estate Planners and Councils. Gurman will serve on the Board of Directors of the local affiliate. Gurman is also a member of the Financial Planning Association and has worked in the financial services industry for 21 years.
Marblehead resident Penny Wigglesworth, founder of the nonprofit Penny Bear Company, was awarded her second Paul Harris Award by the Marblehead Rotary Club. Wigglesworth's company creates teddy bears that are given to people needing comfort, compassion and friendship. Wigglesworth is the author of "Penny Bear's Gift of Love" and also started Circles of Hope, a weekly program that offers encouragement to those in need.
North Shore Medical Center awarded the following registered nurses and caregivers for their outstanding service and clinical excellence: Broadhead Clinical Excellence Awards to registered nurses Catherine Gallant, Marta Kane and Dorris O'Leary; Broadhead Clinical Nursing Excellence Award for Advanced Practice to registered nurse Carrie Siefken; NSMC Nursing Leadership to registered nurse Melissa Bruning; and the Blodgett Award to caregiver Becky Delande and registered nurse Melissa Kimball .
Ellen Gordon
joined Aviv Centers for Living as the new community relations coordinator. Gordon will be responsible for coordinating with the North Suburban JCC and Aviv's volunteer network, the Friends of Aviv, and for developing community outreach and connection efforts. Aviv Centers for Living has branches in Peabody and Swampscott.
Beverly resident Maureen Trefry
joined the YMCA of the North Shore's Board of Trustees. Trefry joins 10 existing YMCA trustees in their role of managing the investment strategy of the Y's endowment. Trefry is vice president of wealth management for Eastern Bank and is also involved with the North Shore United Way Finance Committee, Beverly Rotary, Hospice of the North Shore & Greater Boston Planning Giving Committee, and a member of the Essex County Estate Planning Council.
The Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage
office in Salem launched its newly enhanced website, NewEnglandMoves.com. The website has more than 750,000 registered users and is visited on average more than 1 million times each month.
Single Source was named the agency of record for Windover, a leading commercial and residential construction and development company in Manchester-by-the-Sea. Single Source will be responsible for developing and executing Windover's strategic marketing plan. Single Source is a full-service marketing, advertising and promotions agency in Danvers.
The CoCo Key Hotel & Water Resort Boston-North Shore, 50 Ferncroft Road, Danvers, celebrated the beginning of a $10 million renovation project, which will convert the hotel into a DoubleTree by Hilton this fall. Renovations include updates to the meeting space and the addition of new technological amenities. After renovations are complete, the hotel will be branded as the DoubleTree by Hilton Boston-North Shore and will include 365 rooms, more than 30,000 square feet of flexible meeting and event space, an oversized fitness center, a pool with a 65,000-square-foot water park activity center, and an on-site spa.
New businesses
La Cosa Nostra Italian Kitchen
celebrated its grand opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony with Mayor Kim Driscoll and members of the Salem Chamber of Commerce. The restaurant, 293 Jefferson Ave., Salem, offers a wide range of Italian meals.
Re-find men's boutique, 244 Washington St., Salem, held its official ribbon-cutting ceremony with Mayor Kim Driscoll, local business leaders, owner Shelley Matthews and husband John Matthews, along with customers and family members. It is Shelley Matthews' second store to open in less than a year. The men's boutique specializes in new and resale clothing and accessories.
The Beverly Education Foundation donated $38,000 in support of Beverly High School
's 1 to 1 Learning Initiative. The donation will be used to subsidize laptop expenses for students qualified for the free and reduced lunch program; support the cost of running the laptop support tech center, and maintenance and repair of laptops; and for loaner laptops for "gap" students, who missed by a marginal amount qualifying for standard financial assistance.
Elder Services of the Merrimack Valley received a donation of 364 Keurig Mini Coffee Makers from Right at Home, In Home Care and Assistance, a senior home care agency in Salem owned by Marblehead residents Rosaleen Doherty and Jay Kenney. Keurig sales at Elder Services has reached almost $9,000, with proceeds benefiting The Elder Care Fund, a financial resource available to adults 60 and older who live in the Merrimack Valley and have an emergency or unique financial situation with no other monetary resource.


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Located just minutes from the Paseo Maritimo seafront promenade, the Yacht Club and Bellver Castle, in Camilo José Cela street, the TRYP Palma Bosque is the best choice for your trip to Mallorca thanks to its excellent location on one of the main streets in the city, the quality of its services and its excellent facilities. The Hotel is located just a few minutes walk from the main night spots and shopping districts in the city.
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TCU Advances Past UNT at NCAA Championships
Set up second round match-up Sunday at 1 p.m.
Four Frogs Named to Academic All-Big 12 Teams
Denti, Nichols, Sirilova and Tan all honored by the conference
Lady Raiders Edge Out TCU, 4-3
Horned Frogs stage furious comeback in singles, but fall short
Horned Frogs Set for Final Weekend
TCU faces league leaders in Texas Tech and Texas
Undefeated Big 12 Run Ends at No. 36 OU, 4-3
Horned Frogs remain in play for Big 12 regular season title
TCU Women's Tennis
TCU vs. SMU :: March 28, 2012 :: Photos by Jim Boyd
2013 Academic All-Big 12 First Team
2010-11 (SOPHOMORE SEASON): Had a solid first year for the Frogs in singles and doubles ... Opened the year at the No. 2 spot and played from Nos. 2 through 5 singles during the spring season ... Tallied a 4-0 mark at No. 4 singles, where she played during the MWC Championships ... Won the clinching match for the Frogs against top-seeded UNLV in the semifinal round with her thrilling 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 win over Adrienn Hidvegi ... Scored TCU's lone point with a 6-1, 6-1 win in the championship match against Utah ... Closed the season on a seven-match winning streak in singles ... All of those wins, except for the UNLV match, came in straight-set fashion ... Won 12 of her last 13 in singles ... Went 5-1 in the conference and had to sit out two matches due to injury ... Was 4-0 in dual-clinching matches for the Frogs ... Played the majority of her doubles matches with Katariina Tuohimaa at No. 1 doubles ... Duo was 9-6 during dual play and 14-8 overall ... Tandem garnered a season-high ITA ranking of 52 ... Knocked off four ranked teams during the season, including an 8-4 triumph over Lamar's Mariaryeni Gutierrez and Kaltrina Harbuzi ... Played six matches with Olivia Smith at No. 2 doubles after TCU changed its lineup ... Racked up a 5-1 record with her, all against MWC opponents ... Won matches against BYU and Utah at the MWC Championships ... Named to the Dean's List, an ITA Scholar-Athlete and an MWC Scholar-Athlete.
Prior to TCU (At Sam Houston State): Played five singles matches during her freshman season, all at No. 1 for the Bearkats ... Amassed a 3-2 record, including a 6-0, 6-0 win against Central Arkansas ... Notched a record of 5-3 in doubles play, appearing at No. 1 doubles in each of her matches.
High School: Ranked among top 500 juniors in the ITF World rankings during high school career ... Won two national singles tournaments in Italy and a major doubles title on the ITF junior circuit.
Personal: Born Sept. 13, 1990 in Bellano, Italy ... Parents names are Marina and Nazzaro ... Attended Liceo Scientifico Madonna Della Neve in Adro, Italy.


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Mr Mattress is web home of the Portrack Lane Bedding Centre, Teesside's favourite place to shop for that important bed purchase. Why not browse our selection of beds online before you go to the store? Or save yourself a journey and buy online, however If you prefer to come to the store and chat to our staff or try out the beds for yourself it would be great to see you. Come to our store at:
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Police are investigating a shooting incident that happened overnight Saturday.
CBS 3 media partner Mass Live and The Republican reported that a 24-year-old man was shot in the foot in the area of 9 Armory St. around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday.
Police searched the area, but could not find the victim.
He eventually wound up at Baystate Medical Center, where hospital officials notified police.
The victim said he did not know the shooter, and refused to look at photos to try and identify the suspect.
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20 things about Alzheimer's disease
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Learn 20 things that you may not have known about Alzheimer's disease.
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With new, higher assessments of gas in the Marcellus Shale and other Eastern formations, an estimate of technically recoverable gas in the U.S. comes to 2,384 trillion cubic feet — up 20 percent from the previous estimate.
"This is the highest resource evaluation in the committee's 48-year history, exceeding the previous high assessment (from 2010) by 486 Tcf," the Potential Gas Committee, an independent body supported by the Potential Gas Agency at the Colorado School of Mines, wrote in a media release issued April 9 with its biennial assessment for year-end 2012, "Potential Supply of Natural Gas in the United States."
Most of the increase arose from new evaluations of shale gas resources in the Atlantic, Rocky Mountain and Gulf Coast areas, the committee said — including this region's Marcellus and Utica shales, although the figures released publicly do not reach that level of detail.
As a result of a substantial increase in the assessment of Appalachian basin shale gas, the PGC now ranks the Atlantic area as the country's richest resource area, with fully one-third of U.S. traditional resources. That includes conventional and shale gas but not coalbed methane.
The PGC has conducted biennial assessments of technically recoverable U.S. natural gas since 1964.
"Technically recoverable resource" represents gas that is expected to be eventually recoverable using existing technology. It includes probable, possible and speculative resources.
When added to the more certain proved reserves, the resource figure contributes to a total estimate of potential future gas supply. Adding the PGC resource figure of 2,384 Tcf to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's most recent, 2010, proved reserves figure of 305 Tcf, the total estimate of future gas supply now comes to 2,689 Tcf.
Since the 2010 figure was released, 49 Tcf of gas production has been marketed. The EIA's proved reserves represent about 12 years of production at that rate, while the reserves plus resource figure of 2,689 Tcf represents about 108 years.
"Our knowledge of the geological endowment of technically recoverable gas continues to improve with each assessment," said John B. Curtis, professor of geology and geological engineering at the Colorado School of Mines and director of the Potential Gas Agency.
"Furthermore, new and advanced exploration, well drilling, completion and stimulation technologies are allowing us increasingly better delineation of and access to domestic gas resources—especially 'unconventional' gas—which, not all that long ago, were considered impractical or uneconomical to pursue," Curtis said. "Consequently, our present assessment, strengthened by robust domestic production levels, demonstrates an exceptionally strong and optimistic gas supply picture for the nation."
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The Guardian is reporting the Australian government has given the green light to provide $20.2 million in tax incentives for Dead Men Tells No Tales. This film will take the place of the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea remake which has been delayed. Details can be found here.
Johnny Depp's new film: Yoga Hosers
Johnny Depp and his daughter Lily-Rose Depp are starring in Kevin Smith's horror-comedy "Yoga Hosers," which begins shooting this week.
Mortdecai Trailer #1
So here it is, the first official Mortdecai trailer. Starring Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor, and directed by David Koepp. This new trailer lasts 1 minute 22 seconds, and introduces the main character Charles Mortdecai (Johnny Depp). The film will premiere next February 2015.
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First Look at Johnny Depp in David Koepp's Mortdecai
Mortdecai is set to be released in the UK on January 30th, 2015, with its US release date following a week later on February 6th.
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Johnny come lately strums on Dylan's Basement Tapes
This week in London respected American producer T Bone Burnett revealed a video of his latest project, Lost in the River: The Basement Tapes, on which a handful of artists including Elvis Costello and Marcus Mumford have written music for lyrics penned and supplied by Bob Dylan.
Dylan found the long-forgotten scraps from his own Basement Tapes, recorded at the Big Pink in 1967, in a box last year and handed over the previously unseen words to Burnett with orders to do something with them.
We'll hear the results in November, but ring-in Johnny Depp is on there, standing in for Costello on one song on guitar because the Liverpudlian had a gig to go to elsewhere on the day of recording. "I was glad to have him as an understudy," Costello says.
Read more: Here
EXCLUSIVE: Fifth Pirates Of The Caribbean film could set sail for Australia in 2015
Could Johnny Depp be walking the plank Down Under?
The Australian film industry is a buzz with the news that location scouts for the fifth Pirates Of The Caribbean movie – Dead Men Tell No Tales – have been spotted in Queensland.
The pair of representatives from the Johnny Depp-starring blockbuster production were seen getting a guided tour around Village Roadshow Studios on the Gold Coast and are said to still be in the country.
Read more: Here
Into the Woods trailer
Here it is, the first Into the Woods official trailer. New footage of several characters debuts in this trailer, glimpses of Cinderella's Prince (Chris Pine), Cinderella herself (Anna Kendrick), The Witch (Meryl Streep), The Baker (James Corden), and The Wolf's hand (Johnny Depp).
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INTO THE WOODS Movie Trailer To Be Released This Week?
Eager fans awaiting Disney's hotly anticipated big screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's fairy tale-themed musical INTO THE WOODS may find some salvation later this week if new reports are correct that a teaser trailer is on its way.
Read more: Here
We're Moving Into the Woods After Seeing These First Look Images!
Walt Disney Studios has released new images from the set of Into the Woods and we are too impatient to wait until December to see the film, so we're packing up and moving to said woods immediately.
Why, you ask? Well just LOOK at these images: Here
Johnny and Paul McCartney recording together
If you were wondering where Johnny is right now? Well, Johnny has taken a break from filming Black Mass and decided to take part in secret recording sessions, playing the guitar, along with Alice Cooper, Joe Perry and Sir Paul McCartney.
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Recent Posts in technology
August 28, 2014
After dabbling in film and coffee, James Murphy has finally gotten back to making music. Sort of. Murphy has teamed up with some big brains at IBM to generate music based on game data from 2014 US Open matches which is happening as we speak out in Forest Hills, Queens. (Did they pick him for his fondness for wearing white?) The project, called The US Open Sessions, uses every point, ace and foot fault to create bleeps and bloops coming out of your speakers. (It's very bleepy and bloopy.) Some 400 hours of it will be generated by the end of things on September 8. It's being generated live, so if you're watching on TV and want a soundtrack to it, here you go. The matches' music is archived as well. For more on this, a short video of how this all came about can be watched in this post.
In related news, we weren't able to get James to sit on our City Gardens Q&A panel at AMC Loews Village 7 tonight (8/28), but we do hope he comes to watch the documentary about the club he once worked at as a bouncer.
US Open Sessions video below...
Continue reading "James Murphy making music based on data from US Open tennis matches"
April 17, 2014
"Star Talk Live" with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Eugene Mirman returns to Beacon Theatre in June (tix on sale)
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Eugene Mirman have been doing a live version of space-oriented radio show "Star Talk" for some time, though Tyson is a lot better known these days, thanks to the reboot of science series Cosmos. But Neil and Eugene are still talking stars (live!) and will do so at Beacon Theatre on June 5 with special guests: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., His Holiness The Gyalwang Drukpa and more! Tickets for this show are currently on fan presale (password is "cosmic") and go on sale to the general public Friday (4/18) at 11 AM.
In other live science show news, Bill Nye the Science Guy will be at Irving Plaza for three nights in July
April 9, 2014
Bill Nye hanging with Barack Obama and Neil deGrasse Tyson
With his quirky/funny '90s-era afternoon PBS show, Bill Nye "the Science Guy" taught a lot of us about the world around us and beyond. He's been back in the news lately, debating creationist Ken Ham back in February, hanging with Cosmos/Star Talk host Neil deGrasse Tyson and President Obama, and currently shopping around a demo reel of a new TV show pitch. It would be great to have him back on television.
In the meantime, Bill Nye will be in NYC this summer for three lectures at Iriving Plaza on July 18, 19 & 20. Bill says in a short teaser video, "I'll be talking about you and me. Humankind. I'll be talking about evolution. And energy, and the cosmos and places within it, and our place in space." Bill says also it will be funny. Tickets are on sale Friday (4/11) at 10 AM with a Live Nation and Music Geeks presale (password is "music geeks") beginning Thursday (4/10) at 10 AM.
Check out that teaser video, the debate with Ham, and a few clips from his '90s show below...
Continue reading "Bill Nye the Science Guy shopping a new TV show, doing three nights at Irving Plaza"
March 12, 2014
Neil Young talking Pono @ SXSW (via @allisonleighwalter)
Neil Young talked about his new Pono high-resolution music system yesterday (3/11) at SXSW and cleared up a few things. It uses FLAC files but the sample rate is 192 kHz. (CDs uses 44.1 kHz). (The Toblerone-shaped Pono player will play other formats too.) Said Young:
When all the artists and engineers, all the arrangers and musicians that played on giant tracks by people like Phil Spector, with 12 tambourines and two pianos -- those people were still in the studios in Los Angeles, playing. But all of [that] started to die -- it was the most amazing thing, this vibrant creative culture started to go away. And it was because of the MP3 and the cheapening of the quality to the point where it was practically unrecognizable.Then things got real awkward. Billboard reports that after Young's speech, Pono CEO John Hamm (not Jon Hamm) opened the floor to questions:
...the last question from the audience shifted the tone of the entire presentation. A young man asked: "What's your cut?" Referring, of course, to Apple's now-famous 30% cut of sales on the iTunes Store.Perhaps his cut will be addressed by the time the Pono goes on presale this Saturday (3/15) via via Kickstarter. Watch a demo video below.
Hamm, after a flustered moment, responded: "It surprises most people that everyone who buys music from the record labels pays exactly the same amount." To which several audience members shouted, "What?!"
"That's a delicate question, isn't it?" Young asked. After which Hamm turned to the moderator, slightly flushed at this point, and said, "We can end it." "You can answer the question if you like," Snider said. Hamm shook his head slightly before Snider closed the discussion.
Speaking of SXSW, most of us at BV are here as we speak. You can follow our exploits via @BVSXSW and @BVAustin and on our @BrooklynVegan Instagram and @BV Austin Instagram.
Pono Kickstarter video below...
Continue reading "Neil Young talked Pono @ SXSW...until money came up"
March 10, 2014
No 'Zune' jokes, please
Neil Young has been working on his own digital music format and player for a while and has just announced details. Originally called "PureTone," the company is now called Pono and promises "the highest-quality digital music to discerning, passionate consumers, who wish to experience music the way the artists intended, with emotion, detail and power intact."
What that entails is a new lossless music format and also its own portable high-resolution digital-music player (pictured above) that holds 128 gigs of music, which comes out to "about 100-500 high-resolution digital-music albums, depending on the resolution and length of the original recording." You can use memory cards for additional music. There's also an iTunes-like Pono interface.
While the lossless Pono format may only appeal to audiophile types, the player might hold some interest for others. One of the biggest criticisms lobbed at the iPod was it's not-very-good internal amplifier and digital-to-analog converter. So if you've always wanted a better-sounding player... this could be it. There are some questions, such as "Will this also play my MP3s?," "Will I have to repurchase albums I already own in other formats," "Can I rip my CDs into the Pono format," "Is there cloud storage?," "Can I play Words With Friends on it?" and "If this all goes belly-up do I get my money back?" Those remain unanswered but you can pre-order your Pono player starting March 15 via Kickstarter.
Some of those questions might be addressed by Neil Young himself who will talk about Pono on Tuesday (3/11) at SXSW.
June 7, 2013
could this be the new Brooklyn wing of Amazon?
Williamsburg is now fully established as a choice place to live and play and even to work. Vallywag reports:
According to a source, Amazon may have settled on a location for the mammoth office space the company began seeking in February: the Williamsburg waterfront.Rumors that Amazon's new Brooklyn address could be the old Domino Sugar factory are mostly refuted in the same article. Also mentioned in there is this tidbit about something we've been wondering about the status of: the NYC branch of beloved UK indie store Rough Trade Records that was supposed to open last year. Says their source:
Back in February, both the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg reported that Amazon was seeking up between 250,000 and 500,000 sq. ft. of office space in New York City, greatly expanding its presence here beyond its Midtown outpost. Williamsburg was thrown around as a possibility, along with One World Trade and Brookfield Place.
This past November, Amazon announced it was leasing a 40,000 sq. ft. warehouse at 35 Kent Avenue in Williamsburg to serve as a photo studio to shoot images of products/"mecca" for "creative talent." But the source told Valleywag that the waterfront deal is "bigger and hush hush." - [Valleywag]
Rough Trade is in the middle of a 30,000 retail renovation on N9 and NO ONE knows about it because they did the deal with a warehouse owner and are doing a complete renovation on their dime."In the middle"?
May 19, 2013
"Yahoo's board of directors has approved a $1.1-billion cash acquisition of blogging site Tumblr. A deal could be announced as soon as Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday." [LA Times]
May 15, 2013
Google Play Music All Access is a new monthly music subscription service that lets you listen to millions of songs across your devices. You can create a radio station from any song or artist you love, browse recommendations from our expert music team or explore by genre. And when millions of songs just aren't enough, Google Play Music lets you combine our collection with your own collection. You can store 20,000 songs for free in the cloud and listen to them alongside the All Access catalog.Google Play Music's All Access promises "millions of songs" (but none by The Crucifucks) runs $9.99 a month, but if you sign up before June 30 you get a discounted rate of $7.99 a month. You can try it for a month for free. There's a Pandora-like radio too, but no free-with-ads version like Spotify, however.
May 14, 2013
SoundCloud, BrooklynVegan's song embedding software of choice, posted the following message yesterday:
Start spreading the news: in the upcoming months, we'll be setting up an office in the Big Apple. And we couldn't be more excited about joining the thriving creative and tech scenes in New York.Mike Bloomberg's Soundcloud sadly doesn't contain any tracks of him singing or rapping, unless by rapping you mean talking. Listen to Bloomberg remember Ed Koch below...
The global creative community has always been at the heart of SoundCloud. Starting from the earliest days of our first Berlin HQ, we've built a truly international team, now representing 30 different nationalities. We've always wanted to be as close as possible to where the action is. Over the years, this meant adding offices in San Francisco in the US, London in the UK, and Sofia in Bulgaria.
And that's why NYC is next on the schedule. We're looking forward to working alongside the city's hundreds of other ambitious companies: being closer to our friends at startups like Tumblr, and continuing to strengthen our relationships with New York's major media players. We're also excited about getting up close and personal with the rest of the city's creatives from the worlds of media, fashion, publishing, the arts...and, of course, music & audio.
We'll be looking out for remarkable people to be part of our first NYC team, so keep an eye on soundcloud.com/jobs for opportunities. Already in town? Drop us a line. We can't wait to get started on unmuting New York.
March 28, 2013
by Fred Pessaro // BBG
Like the old adage says, the silence is deafening:
Scientists at Minneapolis' Orfield Labs created their own soundless room, an anechoic chamber. Their studies have found that when putting subjects within the chamber, they begin to hallucinate within 30 minutes.According to a video on the room, humans can only hear things above 0 decibels, which makes any ambient sounds in the room completely inaudible to humans. Kind of reminds me of Ken Russell's 1980 film Altered States, except for without the Ketamine, neanderthals and murder. I hope.
With an average quiet room having a sound level of 30 decibels, the anechoic chamber's sound level is -9 decibels. The ceiling, floor, and walls of the chamber absorb sound rather than have it bounce off as normal objects do. The chamber is so quiet that the subjects can even hear their own organs functioning. -[ATS]
Head below for a video explaining the room.
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Jonathan Huberdeau faced adversity for the first time in his hockey life. Can he overcome it?
If the Florida Panthers hope to achieve long-term success, San Antonio must become a proving ground for more of its prospects.
With the Tampa Bay Lightning riding high, are the Florida Panthers (tonight's opponents) licking their wounds from their loss to the Flyers on Saturday</
Nearly a week after sending him back to Saint John, the Florida Panthers have signed 2011 first-round selection Jonathan Huberdeau to an entry level contract. I ranked Huberdeau as my number one...
After much anticipation, Dale Tallon and the Florida Panthers selected Saint John Sea Dogs center Jonathan Huberdeau with the third overall pick in the 2011 NHL Draft. Read on to find out more...
Along with the hype of selecting Jonathan Huberdeau at 3rd overall, the Cats released their new red home jerseys. Is it an improvement over sweaters of old?
TallonFest 2011 commences from St. Paul
Figured the best course of action at this point is to paste up another Caterwaul since news and notes from the Entry Draft will likely continue to worm their way out of St. Paul through the...
How do the independent scouting services match up against Bob McKenzie's insider list?
At In Lou We Trust, Tom, Kevin, and I wrote a lot of profiles across all rounds for potential prospects the New Jersey Devils can draft this year. This post compiles all of those links for easy...
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The news that has rippled through the NFL this morning is Tennessee Titans wide receiver, and former South Carolina Gamecock, O.J. Murdock has died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Murdock signed with the Titans as an undrafted free agent last year and was recovering from an Achilles injury when he was found this morning in his car in front of a Florida high school.
Via SB Nation's Titans blog, Music City Miracles, here is the team's official statement on Murdock's stunning passing:
"We are shocked and saddened to hear of O.J. Murdock's death this morning. In his brief time here, a number of our players, coaches and staff had grown close to O.J., and this is a difficult time for them. He spent the last year battling back from an Achilles injury as he prepared for this year's training camp. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends as they try to cope with this tragedy."
For more on the Titans, be sure to visit Music City Miracles.