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From 350.org: Why the Climate Movement Must Stand with Ferguson
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Reposted from 350.org
By Deirdre Smith, 350.org Strategic Partnership Coordinator
It was not hard for me to make the connection between the tragedy in Ferguson, Missouri, and the catalyst for my work to stop the climate crisis.
It's all over the news: images of police in military gear pointing war zone weapons at unarmed black people with their hands in the air. These scenes made my heart race in an all-to-familiar way. I was devastated for Mike Brown, his family and the people of Ferguson. Almost immediately, I closed my eyes and remembered the same fear for my own family that pangs many times over a given year.
In the wake of the climate disaster that was Hurricane Katrina almost ten years ago, I saw the same images of police, pointing war-zone weapons at unarmed black people with their hands in the air. In the name of "restoring order," my family and their community were demonized as "looters" and "dangerous." When crisis hits, the underlying racism in our society comes to the surface in very clear ways. Climate change is bringing nothing if not clarity to the persistent and overlapping crises of our time.
I was outraged by Mike Brown's murder, and at the same time wondered why people were so surprised; this is sadly a common experience of black life in America. In 2012, an unarmed black man was killed by authorities every 28 hours (when divided evenly across the year), and it has increased since then. I think about my brother, my nephew, and my brothers and sisters who will continue to have to fight for respect and empathy, and may lose their homes or even their lives at the hands of injustice.
To me, the connection between militarized state violence, racism, and climate change was common-sense and intuitive.
Quickly understanding interdependence and connectedness here, and often elsewhere is, in part, the result of my experience of growing up black in America, and growing up in New Mexico, a place ravaged by climate impacts. New Mexico is, as Oscar Olivera noted, showing the early signs of what sparked theCochabamba Water Wars, yet another example of how oppression and extreme weather combine to "incite" militarized violence.
The problems of Cochabamba and Katrina are not just about the hurricane or the drought – it's what happened after. It is the institutional neglect of vulnerable communities in crisis, the criminalization of our people met with state violence, the ongoing displacement of New Orleans' black residents through the demolition of affordable housing for high-rise condos — that all adds up to corporations exploiting our tragedy using the tools of racism, division, and dehumanization. (Naomi Klein calls it the Shock Doctrine.) And it's also about what happened before too: how black and brown communities have coal refineries, tar sands, and gas wells in their back yards to extract fossil fuels in the first place.
These divisions imposed on us prevent us from building the movement we need to create a new future for ourselves, a future where we have clean energy that doesn't kill us, and creates jobs that provide dignity and a living. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, black and brown people were seen as "disposable," and the powers-that-be sought to divide us by once again painting the victims and heroes as villains.
The hashtag #iftheygunnedmedown trended during the past week in reaction to the media's portrayal of Mike Brown and countless other victims. Black folks asked: if I was killed by police, how would I be portrayed? It illustrated how a racist and victim-blaming cultural narrative is central to how the media responds to the victimization of a vulnerable community in crisis.
A discourse that dehumanizes and blames the victims makes black and brown communities even more vulnerable than they already are in the wake of climate disasters. If extreme weather is about droughts, floods, hurricanes, and wildfires, the way people get treated in the wake of disaster is about power.
Demonization and the illusion of the "other" allows mainstream US to feel unaffected and disconnected to the employment of unacceptable and institutionally supported militarized violence. If we hope to build anything together and employ our combined power we must deny that anyone is an "other" – denying this pervasive cultural norm isn't easy but it's a central challenge we face.
CJA Statement on Call to Action Against Police Killings
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The Climate Justice Alliance expresses our deepest condolences to the family of Mike
Brown, and we express our solidarity with the community of Ferguson that is
organizing to assure that justice is realized.
One week after the murder of Mike Brown by a Ferguson police officer—people in St.
Louis gathered at the location where Mike Brown was shot in the Canfield Apartment
buildings. Groups on the ground in St. Louis called for nationwide solidarity
actions in support of Justice for Mike Brown and the end of police and extrajudicial
killings everywhere. This included family and friends of Ezell Ford in Los Angeles,
who was also shot and killed recently by LAPD officers as he lay defenseless on the
ground. The brutal murder caught on video of a homeless man, James Boyd, brought
international attention to the Albuquerque Police Department's long history of
shooting and killing unarmed people.
More than one person per day is killed by local police officers in the U.S. And
according to data reported by local police agencies to the FBI, white police
officers on average kill two Black people per week. Black men make up more than 50%
of the youth under twenty years of age killed by police.
As frontline, environmental justice communities, many of these killings are taking
place in our neighborhoods. Decades of wars, fortifying the borders and the War on
Terror has led to a militarization of police forces across the country that are
increasingly heavily armed, unaccountable and deadly. This is manifested by police
brutality and murder, the growth of the prison industrial complex and persecution
and incarceration of migrant families. This is in direct contrast to our vision to
build local, living economies.
CJA is building a movement that affirms life and where everyone has a place in the
rebuilding and stewardship of our communities – not where people are killed,
warehoused or discarded. Part of our task is to develop a fair and just system of
justice, safety and accountability, and we stand in solidarity with the families and
organizations in our communities fighting for such a system.
The Jemez Principles of Democratic Organizing, one of our guiding documents, calls
on all people to allow affected people to speak for themselves and to follow the
lead of those affected as we act in solidarity.
This was the call to action issued by local organizations last week: In the wake of
the murder of unarmed teen Mike Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, MO, many
people are seeking ways that they can help. We encourage everyone to take part in
the following actions, as well as helping to educate your community on systemic
violence upon communities of color.
If you are not in St. Louis, find an event near you or register one here.
Follow events/discussions on Facebook
You can also help by:
Contributing to the bail fund.
Contributing to the organizer fund.
Actions and protests continue to be organized, and we encourage CJA member
organizations, allies and friends to support this effort by organizing your own
activities about police violence in your community. You can register your event at
the above website.
In Solidarity,
Climate Justice Alliance Steering Committee
Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Black Mesa Water Coalition, Center for Earth,
Energy and Democracy, Communities for a Better Environment, East Michigan
Environmental Action Council, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Indigenous
Environmental Network, Institute for Policy Studies, Movement Generation Justice and
Ecology Project
Building the Movement to Reclaim OUR POWER! From Richmond to New York
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Report from the Our Power National Convening in Richmond, CA
On Aug 6-9, the Our Power Campaign National Convening brought together 450 frontline community members from across the country joining in Richmond, CA to "build the bigger we" for a just transition toward local, living economies.
Co-hosted by the Richmond Environmental Justice Coalition (REJC) and the national Climate Justice Alliance (CJA), we'd like to give our thanks to the many dedicated community members who gave so many hours to the success of our convening.
We kicked off the week with a public vigil commemorating the 2012 Chevron refinery explosion that sent 15,000 Contra Costa county residents to the hospital.
We spent three beautiful days together to educate, inspire and strategize with one another, including a powerful plenary on the history of the environmental justice movement, some of which we captured on film.
We ended three days later with a vibrant day of action and art on the Richmond Greenway.
Don't miss the beautiful "storify," created by MG's Ellen Choy, that tells the story of the Richmond convening using social media, photographs, videos, and press articles.
On the Our Power Campaign website, you can see the press release, opening day announcement, and a media advisory about the day of action.
We are also very fortunate that highly talented photographers contributed their time and energy to photo-documenting the convening and day of action.
Next up.. the People's Climate March in New York City!
Take Direct Action for Climate Justice!
Join the Our Power Campaign in New York City for
The People's Climate March
September 21
The People's Climate Justice Summit
September 22 & 23
On September 23rd, political and corporate leaders are meeting at the United Nations in New York City for the Climate Summit 2014. This summit represents yet another step towards the corporate takeover of the UN climate negotiations, and the privatization of land, water and air resources under the guise of a global climate compact. If they have their way, we will remain mired in the status quo of climate change, when what we need is a fundamental systems change.
The Our Power Campaign is mobilizing for the People's Climate March to send a clear message to global leaders that It Takes Roots to Weather the Storm. The only solutions to the climate crisis are community led solutions.
The March will be on September 21st in New York City. Following the March, we will be hosting the People's Climate Justice Summit concurrently with the UN Meeting, on September 22nd and 23rd.
Stay tuned for more information next week about how you can join the Our Power Campaign in New York. In the meantime, read our People's Climate March Call to Action and begin making your plans for action in September–either in New York or in your own community.
We are asking you to help us spread the word by circulating the People's Climate March Pledge, to your members and networks.
Check out our new creative resistance campaign to spread the message that It Takes Roots to Weather the Storm–consider creating a piece art that we can share as a poster or image to share via our social media sites.
Finally, in the coming months, be sure to keep up with us on Twitter and Facebook.
Charity Hicks, Presente!
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Visionary. Healer. Big heart. Full hands. We send our love to all those feeling the loss of Detroit freedom fighter and beloved community member Charity Hicks in our lives. Her brilliant way of putting the pieces together so that we all might glimpse the beauty of the whole; and her clarity on the need for unrelenting, intense struggle with love.
Charity Hicks Presente!
Charity was a warrior on the front lines of the fight for the human right to water in Detroit. Catch her power and wisdom in this informal interview with her about Detroit's current water crisis:
And we were moved by these words (below) from comrades of La Via Campesina in Haiti, written when Charity was hospitalized. Charity played a major role in hosting the delegates from the G4 and Dessalines Brigade in both New York and Detroit last October, when they were awarded the Food Sovereignty Prize. When they heard about what happened to Charity, they put together this message of love and solidarity to her, her family members and compas:
Haiti, June of 2014
To family members and comrades of our beloved Charity,
From our hearts, embraced to Charity's, we salute fraternally her family and we are strengthened in our thought of her, our tireless comrade in the struggle for a more just for all world and all. We think of the cheerful and energetic sister and her hunger for life and the struggle.
And we know, she has not surrendered or will not surrender today. We are at her side. She represents the seeds, fruit of life, wisdom and love; and we – women and men – peasants are the guardians of the seeds and are attentive to see it germinate and fill the fields of hope.
We are sending an empowering energy from Haiti through the Caribbean Sea that will reach New York and Detroit to touch the hearts of Charity, her family and comrades.
By La Via Campesina in Haiti and 4 G Kontre:
Peasant Movement of Papay
Tèt Kole Peasant Association
Congress of the Peasant Movement of Papay
Regional Coordination of Organizations of the Southwest Region
Internationalist Solidarity Dessalines Brigade in Haiti/Via Campesina-Brazil
We also encourage folks to consider donating to the Charity Hicks "Wage Love" Fund – for her family and community.
This fund will specifically go towards:
-Covering immediate costs of bringing Charity home to Detroit and holding a proper home going service.
-Sustaining Charity's husband Louis while he takes unpaid family medical leave from work.
MG's Newest Video Satire: The Greenest Man In America
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Going green is about more than buying all the gluten-free quinoa you can fit in your Prius. It's about community organizing against corporate polluters and challenging environmental racism — and then enjoying your quinoa. That's the message from MG's newest video satire, The Greenest Man In America.
Written by our own Josh Healey, the video features Healey alongside Richmond, CA environmental justice activist Lipo Chanthanasak. A refugee from Laos and long-time leader in the fight against Richmond's destructive Chevron oil refinery, Lipo is unexpectedly named the "Greenest Man in America." Playing off a certain popular commercial, the video invites viewers to question our concept of what — and who — makes for an environmental leader.
Movement Generation is excited for the video to amplify the Our Power Campaign, which is building a just transition from an extractive economy run by corporations to local, living economies that are healthy and thriving. This summer, Richmond will host the Our Power National Convening from August 6-9, coinciding with the second anniversary of the massive Chevron refinery fire.
To learn more about the Our Power National Convening, click here.
To learn more about APEN and Lipo's work, click here.
- From 350.org: Why the Climate Movement Must Stand with Ferguson
- CJA Statement on Call to Action Against Police Killings
- Building the Movement to Reclaim OUR POWER! From Richmond to New York
- Charity Hicks, Presente!
- MG's Newest Video Satire: The Greenest Man In America
- The Launch of the Race, Class, & Ecology Public Series:
- Stop the Durban Port Expansion in South Africa!
- MG Earth Skills Training #2
- Make It Fresh! Spring 2014 Final Showcase & Celebration
- MG on KPFA: International Women's Day
- MG on KPFA: "Precipitation for the People: Learning to Harvest Rain in the Mission District"
- "Keystone XL Has a Job For You" Wins At the 2014 Clear the Air Film Fest!
- New Short Film: Our Power Campaign: Communities United for a Just Transition!
- Comedy Video Premiere: "Keystone XL Has a Job for You!" #OurPublicComment
- MG 2014 Earth Skills #1: Rainwater Harvesting


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Fourth of July Fireworks have been canceled throughout most of the Austin TX areas. We are under a burn ban because of the current drought conditions and the Austin Fire Department as well as the Travis County Fire Marshall is denying all permits for fireworks shows.
The main one in Austin TX sponsored by the Austin Symphony will still play music and do a show. They're thinking maybe laser, but they're also prepared to submit another permit request if we get some rain between now and then. I don't think it's likely since the forecast is called for all triple digits this week, with not a drop in sight, and summer isn't even officially here yet!!
People are comparing the current drought to the 2009 drought, and we're in much worse shape today than we were then. I'm really not looking forward to a miserable summer if it's like 2009!!
My daughter is now 3 1/2, and I thought this was the year that I was going to allow her to stay up late and see her first show in person. I guess we'll sit on the balcony and see what happens around town, and we'll venture out next year... was so looking forward to the Hill Country Galleria's celebration on the 2nd.
By the way, if you are wanting to buy your own fireworks, sales are still allowed in Travis, Williamson, Hays, and Bastrop counties, but they've all agreed to not start selling until July 1 instead of their usual June 24. They're all taking a huge hit because we can't get any rain around here!!
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The American Heart Association has released new guidelines for preventing heart attacks and strokes. The group recommends that everyone should be screened for risk factors at age 20, and that as a general guideline, men should have a waistline no bigger than 40-inches. For women, the top number is a 35-inch waist. And for the first time, it lists secondhand smoke as a risk factor.
Also, a daily dose of Aspirin used to be recommended just for those who have already suffered a heart attack or stroke, now the American Heart Association recommends a baby Aspirin a day for patients with a 10% or higher risk of heart attack.
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How can I die peacefully?
The way we die has much to do with the way we choose to live.
The way we die has much to do with the way we choose to live.
A lesson on love, trust, and the presence of God… From a cat.
William Ockham finds companionship in the online Ignatian community.
The grace of childlike desire… for a simple pair of shoes.
Grace can be found in those helpless moments where we have no control. Somehow, God is there navigating with us.
We should have respect and reverence for God, but can we call God a friend? Yes! And here's why…
Who's got the sweetest disposition? — Donald Duck can teach us a lot about human brokenness and finding God within.
Perfection personified is careful but not cautious. She burned her hands too many times before she learned to pay attention. She discovered that her greatest strengths grew out of her strongest weaknesses. Just like St Paul says: "Whenever I am weak, then I am strong."
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via binaryapi.ap.orgI didn't see a game he played in until I watched his last game playing for the Little Caesar's bowl at Ford field. He did not disappoint he made plays all game long kinda reminded me of Delmas flying around out there, if we get a 4th round comp I feel he would be worth the pick . I would love for our draft to go something like this --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- Dion Jordan DE Oregon 2-Larry Worford G Kentucky 3- Ryan Swope WR Texas A&M Comp Pick hopefully 4- Jahleel Addae S CMU 5- Terry Hawthorne CB 6-Shoelace Robinson Michigan -ATH 7-Ray Ray Armstrong S --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The best thing that could happen in this draft would be a trade down to the 10-12 range and drafting Desmond Trufant CB Washington while also getting a extra pick . He has great coverage and ball skills would love him and Houston on the edges with Delmas and Jahleel Addae deep. Any other Michigan guys flying under the radar like my boy Addae?
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You arrived here at 19:45 Helsinki time Tuesday 2.9.2014
Major emission source uncovered in NW Russia
Fertiliser plant leaks enormous amounts of eutrophicating phosphorus into Gulf of Finland
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A large and hitherto unknown source of nutrients straining the ecosystem of the Baltic Sea has been uncovered in Northwestern Russia.
According to the information obtained by
Helsingin Sanomat
, on the south coast of the Gulf of Finland, close to Kingisepp, there is a fertiliser plant from the surroundings of which enormous amounts of phosphorus are leaking into the Luga River and subsequently into the Gulf of Finland. Phosphorus causes eutrophication in water systems.
The new source of emissions was uncovered in connection with a Finnish-Russian research project, in which Finnish researchers have exported knowhow into Russia for example with regard to monitoring water quality. While at it, the researchers took water samples at possible risk locations.
The Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission
HELCOM will discuss the follow-up measures called for by the extensive phosphorus contamination at a meeting held with Russian authorities in St. Petersburg today, Wednesday.
"This is a new and regrettably extensive emission source", Minister of the Environment
Ville Niinistö
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Helsingin Sanomat
on Tuesday evening.
Before issuing further comments, Niinistö wants to hear the results of the negotiations held with the Russian authorities.
In any case, Niinistö considers it a good thing that the actual emissions to the Baltic Sea are charted, for the discovered amount of phosphorus that ends up flowing from the factory into the Luga River is much greater than was previously thought.
"It is very important that we receive researched information with regard to the actual phosphorus emissions", Niinistö said.
According to
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, the Luga's phosphorus concentrations have been elevated since 2008, after which efforts were put in place to determine the source of the emissions.
The actual research results, however, Laurila does not want to disclose before the St. Petersburg meeting.
The latest discovery
is a major setback for the protection programme of the eutrophicated Baltic Sea, which has just started to bear fruit and which was hoped to begin to brighten the Baltic Sea water, which suffers from algal blooms every summer.
St. Petersburg, which has thus far been putting the greatest strain on the vulnerable enclosed sea, is now starting to get its house in order, and the metropolis's enormous wastewater renovation project will be completed next year.
By then nearly all of the city's effluent will be directed to an effective decontamination plant.
Thanks to the measures put in place in St. Petersburg, the phosphorus emissions that cause eutrophication in the Gulf of Finland have been reduced by nearly 30 per cent in less than a decade.
The reduction has been expected to be manifested even in the algal blooms in the next few years.
Previously in HS International Edition:
Sewage treatment leaves toxins in waste water (17.1.2011)
One year on, Baltic Sea commitments have remained unimpressive (11.2.2011)
Countries make few binding commitments at Baltic Sea summit (11.2.2010)
See also:
Improved St. Petersburg sewage treatment reduces pollution in eastern reaches of Gulf of Finland (27.8.2010)
Protection of Baltic Sea losing steam; ministerial meeting in Moscow fails to reach its goals (21.5.2010)
Baltic Sea needs urgent attention (14.4.2008)
Baltic Sea (Wikipedia.
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Outgoing President Halonen bids farewell to Russian leaders
Major emission source uncovered in NW Russia
Presidential candidates reject proposed additional subsidies to EU crisis fund
Record-late start to Finnish icebreaking season
Court overturns expulsion of gay Iranian man
Launch of Guggenheim project would cost nearly 5 million
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Former Finnish banker's book about famous financial frauds became international success
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Prosecutors have now charged three with felonies in connection with the theft last weekend of a 6' tall statue, worth $75,000 outside an Independence museum.
Jeremy W. Ratliff, 36, and 33-year-old Kelli L. Summers each face a charge of theft, a class C felony.
Randy V. Perez, 29, faces a charge of theft, a class B felony.
Wednesday, Independence police confirmed they had two in custody. This comes after tips poured in following the agency releasing photos of persons of interest.
Police tell KCTV5 that the National Trails Museum's Pioneer Woman statue was cut up into four pieces and turned to scrap as some have feared.
According to court records, police sent an email to area recyclers after the statue was reported stolen from the museum in Independence. One recycler responded and gave police images of two men bringing metal to the scrap dealer in a trash can. Some of the metal had a blue hue, and at least one section of metal appeared to be a hand. After the scrapper refused the material, the two men placed the metal in a dark maroon station wagon. Police identified at least one of the men from the video images, and soon identified the vehicle at the home of the defendants.
Police were looking for Perez as a person of interest because Ratliff and Summers identified him as being with them, and helping them load the statue into a vehicle. He was arrested Friday.
Prosecutors requested a cash bond of $75,000 in the theft case.
There was a $1,000 reward offered for information leading to an arrest, and a $5,000 reward offered for the return of the statue.
The statue was commissioned for the museum's opening in 1990. It cost $35,000 at the time, but would cost $75,000 to replace it now.
The Pioneer Woman depicts a woman carrying a child in one arm, and a bucket in the other. The majority of the sculpture is blue with the exception of the faces, hands, hair and feet, which are bronze-colored. The statue was intended to be a tribute to all the pioneer mothers of the past, and their daughters of today.
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Raising a child born in 2013 will cost parents just over $245,000, according to a recent government tally.


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Fans thought that wait from the final regular season game to the first postseason game seem like an eternity, but at least we all had something too look forward to and we knew our opponent. Who can't get amped for the Battle of Pennsylvania?
Since the Flyers closed out their first round series with the Pittsburgh Penguins, it has been a matter of waiting to see whom they may see in the Eastern Conference Semifinals. There was even a possibility on Sunday that the potential next opponent would be slightly more predictable with the Capitals having the capability of closing out the widely hated Boston Bruins.
But no.
Here we all are, sitting, waiting to find out who in the world the Flyers might play, and more importantly, when they'll play again.
The opportunity presented itself to the Panthers last night, having their chance to close out the New Jersey Devils in Game 6. Since it would be likely at this point that all of the higher seeds were going to win, the Flyers would more than likely faceoff against the New York Rangers, right?
Still five days later, there are no answers. And there will not be any answers until the final horn sounds in the ECQF on Thursday night, where there are two Game 7's to be played.
Naturally, as Flyers fans, we have been struggling to find ways to kill time until our boys finally get to play another game. And as Philadelphians, we have been forced upon our will to watch the bumblin', stumblin' Phillies. Not even the Phillies fans in Phoenix, Arizona could even handle watching that piss poor excuse of a team, for there was a "Let's Go, Flyers" chant, completely audible.
For you Twitter fiends, you all know your fellow Flyers fans are nearly going mad.
Your peers who normally tweet about nothing besides the Orange and Black are basically spitting out nonsense, and you're not even sure if these are the people your originally intended to follow.
Just hang in there kids. In this time off and in this week of anticipation, don't do anything crazy. More than likely, the ECSF will be up and running by the weekend.
Just relax and call a timeout.
Make sure you watch all of the Game 7's in the next two days; root passionately against some of our most hated rivals (i.e. Rags, Bruins). The path to the Stanley Cup does have the possibility of being smoothly paved, like it was in 2010. Who are we kidding, that team wasn't the best. But it doesn't matter. Teams tell themselves "just get in" for a reason. Anything can happen.
That being said, take no opponent for granted. Buffalo pushed us to the brink of elimination last year. If that Buffalo team went up against this Flyer squad, it would be a sweep. Landslide win, TKO.
This team is primed for a Cup; you have four lines that have been pumping out points at will, a nearly unstappable powerplay, and defense/goaltender that is progressively getting healthier and more confident. None of these components even existed last year in the postseason. Bravo Homer.
Feel good about this upcoming series; it was reported by Dave Isaac that the team is loose, and could shoot into the next round looking rested rather than rusty.


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Lee County-- Dozens of people in Lee County still express outrage their tax rates might be going up. Commissioners plan to balloon the county's tax rate about 14 percent. For some homeowners in the small city of Smithville, it's an increase that's too big.
Every now and then you can find Mary Lee French busy at work in her yard. "Cleaning up the yard. It's so full of grass and hedges growing up," says French. She takes pride in her home. She's been living in the small city of Smithville since 1953. "A long time," says French.
Over fifty years in her home equals years of property taxes. "I pay two taxes. Lee County and city tax," says French, "All together it runs about $770." Those two taxes are hard for her to pay on a fixed income. "Most of the time I pay a penalty, $15 extra. Because I don't have it. They don't take part of it. You have to pay it all," says French.
Soon she may be paying even more if Lee County approves a millage rate increase of 14 percent. That's a 6.61 percent increase for taxpayers. "When you grow 1,500 people a year, your expenses go up. It's going all the way across the table," says County Chairman Jackie Sizemore.
Many citizens turned out to a public hearing to voice concerns about the county's spending and ways to cut back in order to prevent the increase. Commissioners say the hike is unavoidable. "We have turned everything upside down. I don't think there's any stone unturned," says Sizemore. Mary French hopes the increase will better her city.
"A lot of time you increase something, you don't ever see where the money's going. That makes you feel bad because a lot of work needs to be done to this little town here," says French.
Sizemore says Smithville has been overlooked in the past but things are changing. "Smithville's gone without for a long time and we finally got a foot in the door now and things are starting to open up," says Sizemore. But residents hope those changes don't come at a price they can't handle.
Monday was the third and final public hearing on the tax issue. Commissioners will make a final vote next Thursday.
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This Friday afternoon is my big post for Celebrate the Boy (you can tell I'm excited because I can't stop myself from repeatedly mentioning it in my posts). And while I already put up this boy-centric post last week, I've still got boys on the brain. This time I'm focusing on playtime. There's just one little problem…
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Refresher Course: The Silk Road
The "Silk Road" was a stretch of shifting, unmarked paths across massive expanses of deserts and mountains—not a real road at any point or time. Archeologists have found few ancient Silk Road bridges, gates, or paving stones like those along Rome's Appian Way. In fact, the main defining features of the Silk Road are not man-made at all. They are best seen from the air—converging valleys, desert oases, and river chasms among towering mountain peaks. Although a physical road doesn't exist, it is still a subject ripe for examination and study.
What kind of sources are there for the study of the Silk Road?
What we know about the Silk Road isn't mainly from ancient books or stone inscriptions, but from trash. The dry climate of the Taklamakan Desert has preserved different types of documents written on wood, paper, and cloth. Many of them survive because paper had a high value and was not thrown out. Craftsmen also used recycled paper to make paper shoes, statues, and other papier-mâché objects to accompany the dead on their journey to the afterlife. The original documents have to be pieced together before anyone can make sense of them. Written in multiple languages and found in many different places, these documents contain an enormous amount of information about the Silk Road trade.
What goods were traded on the Silk Road?
Silk wasn't the only good traded on these routes. Metals, spices, medicines, glass, leather goods, and paper all moved across Eurasia. Paper became the primary writing material for all of Eurasia, and surely had a far greater impact on human history than silk, which was used primarily for garments. Invented during the second century BCE, paper moved out of China, first into the Islamic world in the eighth century, and reached Europe via its Islamic portals in Sicily and Spain. People north of the Alps learned to make their own paper only in the late fourteenth century.
When was the term Silk Road coined?
The term "Silk Road" didn't exist at the time of the Silk Road trade and there was no single route across Central Asia. The peoples living along different trade routes never referred to any particular route as the "Silk Road." They referred to the different sections of the road as the "Road to Samarkand" (or whatever the next major city was). They did call the different routes around the Taklamakan either the "northern" or "southern" route.
In 1877, Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833-1905), a prominent geographer and the uncle of the World War I flying ace, produced a five-volume map of China. One map showed a single line connecting Europe and China, which he called the "Silk Road," and the name stuck.
Which countries did the Silk Road connect?
The Silk Road connected China with the Iranian world, specifically the city of Samarkand (in today's Uzbekistan) and the surrounding communities. This was the homeland of the Sogdians, who spoke an Iranian language called Sogdian, and many observed the teachings of the ancient Iranian teacher Zarathustra (ca. 1000 B.C.E., called Zoroaster in Greek), who taught that truth-telling was the paramount virtue. Some of the most exciting finds in the past decade have been the tombs of Sogdian leaders found in the main cities of interior China. The most common long-distance travelers, in fact, were the Sogdians who lived in and around modern-day Samarkand in today's Uzbekistan.
Did the Silk Road connect China and Rome?
No. At least there was no direct traffic during the years of the Roman empire that we know of. Romans didn't exchange their gold coins directly for Chinese silk. The earliest Roman gold coins found in China—so far only forty-eight gold coins (many are fakes) have been discovered after a century of intense investigations—are Byzantine solidus coins dated to the sixth century, several centuries after the capital shifted from Rome to Constantinople (modern Istanbul).
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ESPN Radio has reached a multi-year agreement to broadcast all USC Trojan home football games nationally. This is the first exclusive national contract for radio rights that ESPN has entered into, but it most certainly won't be the last. ESPN will offer USC football first to its over 300 network affiliates throughout the nation.
ESPN's parent company, Disney, loves "synergy" in all aspects of the business, and there are rumors that ESPN would like to capture the exclusive radio rights for other individual programs as well as BCS conferences, which would feed into the cross-promotion that the WWL so loves.
The ESPN Radio-USC agreement also provides Spanish-language rights for ESPN Deportes Radio, the country's first and only 24/7 national Spanish-language sports radio network, with every USC home and away game being cleared in the LA market.
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We learning more about a hit and run investigation involving Attorney General Tom Horne. The case was turned over to Phoenix Police by the FBI.
According to court records, FBI agents were trailing Horne when they saw the hit-and-run. Agents say they saw the whole thing.
The FBI says Horne backed into a parked Range Rover, drove away, then parked in another spot. And he didn't even leave a note, documents say.
"I would be happy to pay for it. I would have been happy to pay for it at the time. I didn't think there was any damage," Horne said Monday.
According to a report, FBI agents were following Horne back in March when he left the attorney general's office and drove his car into a parking garage on 10th Avenue and Washington.
Agents say Horne's employee Carmen Chenal also left the AG's office and drove to the same parking garage in a separate car. Agents say the two then left the parking garage together in one car -- Horne now wearing a baseball cap. Agents then followed the car to Chenal's apartment and outside is where the alleged hit-and-run happened.
We asked: "Were you ever at 202 W. Roosevelt?"
Horne said: "Sure there's a whole bunch of... that's where the Gold Spot is, Pita Jungle restaurant where I have lunch."
But FBI agents say they saw him walk into the residential area where Chenal lives. When pressed, Horne didn't remember.
We asked: "So you did not come out of an apartment?"
Horne: "We're talking about something last March, I can't tell you exactly."
Chenal started working for Horne when he was elected State Superintendent of Education. She now works for him in the AG's office.
"Apparently there has been some investigation into this or whether you have had an inappropriate relationship or are having an inappropriate relationship with Carmen Chenal?" we asked Horne.
"That's really off topic. I'm happy to talk about the independent campaign and answer any questions about that," replied Horne.
"But you won't answer this question?"
"No," said Horne.
When Chenal was first hired by Horne, she made $80,000 a year. Now that Chenal works in the Attorney General's Office, she makes more than $100,000 a year.
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'Jesus Christ' Excused From Jury Duty for Being Disruptive
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A Birmingham, Ala., woman who legally changed her name to Jesus Christ was excused from jury duty this week after becoming disruptive.
The woman, formerly known as Dorothy Lola Killingworth, caused a stir at the Jefferson County courthouse first with her name, then because she couldn't keep quiet.
Instead of answering questions, she was asking them, a court employee told the Birmingham News.
The incident that generated a short, 200-word news report in the Birmingham News, has drawn national and some international attention.
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Tonic: "Jesus Christ" No Perfect Juror"
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FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg recognized more than two dozen distinguished members of the FIU academic community for their outstanding achievements in research and scholarship at the Top Scholars reception April 9.
"It is clear that you are reaching for the stars," said Rosenberg at the annual event held at the Ronald W. Reagan Presidential House. "You have set high goals and nd you have met them. The provost and I want to challenge you to keep it up."
Former Florida Judge and FIU Associate Professor of law Phyllis Kotey – who was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to teach constitutional law and criminal procedure at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana – said she was proud to be nominated with such world-class scholars. "I think of myself as a practitioner, never as a scholar. It's wonderful to be welcomed by this prestigious group."
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Fox Rent A Car is hosting a road trip contest for bloggers who are willing to go on a adventure to 6 cities in 16 days using their inventory of cars! I think this is a brilliant project that this company is conducting in order to build brand awareness and utilize social media. I am proud to say that my good friend, Srinivas Rao from Skool of Life and Blogcastfm, is the Head Advisor on this project. In order to participate in the contest, all you have to do is submit a 60 second video stating your reason(s) why Fox Rent A Car should choose you to go on this fabulous journey! I am pleased to announce my most recent project of submitting an entry to Fox Rent A Car's Road Trip Contest! Continue reading
How to Prepare for SXSW using and not using Fiverr
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As stated before, I have an intense thirst to travel and one of my goals this year is to start a project where I become a travel hacker and rack up as many points (flight miles) as possible. Not too many people are aware of the tricks that one can take in order to gain an exponential amount of points. Instead, they come up with a ton of excuses (not having the money is #1) for not getting on the next plane. This is where travel hacking comes in and all you gotta do is take the road less traveled to reach your goal. Continue reading
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I wanted to kick off this blog with a mini project of getting some of the best 20-something female bloggers and entrepreneurs together and have them share their thoughts.
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7. Being a loser and not have any friends
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The Sopranos, Season Six, Episode 21: "Made in America"
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I'm feeling inclined to cheat and offer this blog post as my contribution to the upcoming Reverse Shot symposium – you know, the one about the power of a single cut to shape and define an entire film. "Made in America" ended The Sopranos in media res with a hard (dare I say Dardenne-ish?) cut to black. Seated at a table in a cozy neighborhood restaurant with Carmela and AJ, Tony looked up to see Meadow coming through the door to complete the family dinner. Or was it to see a gun being pointed in his direction by the two-shifty looking African-American kids who'd come in moments before? Or maybe to anxiously note the return of the leather-jacketed guy who'd walked in just ahead of AJ a few minutes before that and stared at Tony's table before making a pointed beeline for the men's room: a location fraught with symbolic peril in this season of Godfather riffs. Yes, it would make sense that the show would come unplugged in the exact split-second that Tony got plugged; like Bobby, with whom he'd previously discussed death's never-see-it-coming factor, he just never saw it coming. Or maybe our man was just about to order more onion rings.
There's more to talk about in and around "Made in America" (written and directed with economy and purpose by David Chase) than its endlessly discussable ending. Like the fact that Tony managed to flip the FBI into serving his purposes, or the curious arrival of an adorable orange cat that stayed fixated on the picture of Christopher hanging in the Bing (shades of Ade? Or is that too sentimental?), or its potentially damaging effect on SUV sales after the catalytic converter cataclysm that nearly claimed AJ and his new girlfriend. But I'm going to linger on that final moment, mostly because that's how Tony would have it. The last significant dialogue of the series was a father-son exchange, with Tony encouraging AJ – now working, at his parents' nudging, as a "development executive" for a lousy screenplay forwarded to Little Carmine's production company by Daniel Baldwin – to enjoy the good times. And this is what I thought the non-ending was getting at. Tony may have escaped Phil Leotardo's endgame maneuvers and this season's endgame atmosphere but his life has been reframed as one sustained panic attack: somewhere, someone (what rough beast?) is waiting to take him down. Good times, but with an asterisk.
The genius of the episode is that it placed that burden of anxiety onto us. The last five minutes were an exercise in unabashed sweatshop-suspense techniques, with every shot carefully selected for maximum portent. It began with Tony sitting alone in the restaurant, fiddling with the jukebox (before settling on Journey's "Don't Stop Believin") – finally out in the open after a small eternity of clandestine movements. The (separate) arrivals of Carmela, AJ, and Meadow –the latter after some extended parking difficulties which, as inter-cut with the sanguine scene inside the restaurant, raised the show's terror alert level to orange – actually made Tony seem more vulnerable. At the end of last week's episode, alone in a safe-house, lying in the (hard, sheetless) bed that he'd made for himself, Tony looked like a cornered animal ,but he'd made arrangements to keep his family sequestered far away. Is he really more comfortable with them at his side after seven years' worth of vivid lessons about how quickly and unexpectedly the proverbial sword can drop?
Let's take stock of Tony's situation. Phil Leotardo is dead, killed outside a gas station with his infant grandchildren in tow ( how sick was it then when his SUV, left unattended by his understandably hysterical wife, rolled over his face and Chase cut to the babies smiling in the backseat? Grandpa as a speed bump!). Paulie W is newly entrenched as his first lieutenant (not a rat after all). New York seems willing to do business (that Butch…what a softie). And, after all that, Tony's still likely to be indicted because Carlo (who he berated a few weeks back about poor earnings) has flipped. "Trials are there to be won," says Tony's lawyer, Neil Mink but the real focus of their scene (another restaurant sitdown) was the bank of security monitors sitting over Tony's shoulder. Mink may have been stealing glances to catch the waitresses as they stumbled, in various states of undress, through the restaurant's back hall, but given the cut-it-with-a-knife tension of the surrounding episode, we looked nervously at the screens to see if Tony's fate was about to burst through the door, gun in hand.
So somewhere after that final scene – provided it wasn't the last moment of his life, of course -- Tony will go to trial. Perhaps he will be indicted. Doubtlessly, Meadow will express outrage, having confided in this episode that her decision to go into law (now looking, to Carm's delight, like a lucrative choice) was forged after years of watching her Dad being dragged away by the Feds. The woman is, finally, insane. AJ may cite it as another cause for his depression, although at this point, he's looking sated on anti-depressants, easy money and a hot girlfriend. The shot of him and Rhiannon gladly giggling at footage of MC Karl Rove and a clownish G.W. Bush was a portrait of contemporary material medication. (Didn't AJ start off this episode by righteously citing "The Second Coming" at Bobby Bacala's funeral to prove that everything is fucked up and gaping in wonderment at the timelessness of a Bob Dylan protest song? There's more to say about AJ's eventful hour, but I will leave it to you guys). Carmela will stand by her man and keep looking at spec house plans – she may have thrown Tony's last gift back in his face, but when the show's camera was elsewhere, is there any doubt she went and picked it back up?
There were hints of where else things could go further down the line. AJ driving by Rhiannon's school in his new car recalled Carm's starry-eyed memories of Tony swinging by her campus in his Camaro; AJ's short-skirted shrink looked a bit like a younger Melfi. But the final cut rendered them all moot – we'll never know. There are those who will accuse Chase of churlishness, that his choice to go with an open ending is a kind of cop-out after setting up so many tantalizing narrative dynamos. But I can think of no greater way to pay justice to the compelling lives he's created – has any show ever had so many intriguingly developed regulars? Not even counting whackees, there are a dozen players whose fate is of great interest to me – than to keep us at a remove. The Sopranos was always defined by its intimacy, accessing the lives (and in Tony's case, the subconscious) of its characters and sparing no details. Last night, we were, finally, cut off. Yet I have never felt so closely aligned with Tony – during the credit roll (which was, for the first time, silent – as if anything could follow Journey!) I sat, insecure in the knowledge that while I didn't know what was coming next, on some level I did. And that deeper knowledge that motivated me to look around the living room at the people I loved and resolve to enjoy the good times. It was the banal, evasive Hallmark-card advice of a sociopath, and don't you know it swelled my heart.
A recap of The Sopranos' final season on Reverse Shot:
Season Six, Episode 13: Soprano Home Movies
Season Six, Episode 14: Stage 5
Season Six, Episode 15: Remember When
Season Six, Episode 16: Chasing It
Season Six, Episode 17: Walk Like a Man
Season Six, Episode 18: Kennedy and Heidi
Season Six, Episode 19: The Second Coming
cnw | June 13, 2007 6:45 AM
You're right that I fudged it a bit, but it was hardly a misuse of the term. Inertia does come into play once gravity had started the lurch forward. So it was the force of gravity followed by the power of inertia (an object in motion tends to stay in motion).
Jerry | June 13, 2007 1:47 AM
While "The power of inertia" certainly "sounds" deep... it is a misuse of the term.
"Inertia" would come into play if the SUV had NOT started to move forward (but instead remained inert).
The SUV began rolling because Phil's daughter either took her foot off the brake, or she left it in neutral and it was on a slope. So, it was just the engine, or it was gravity - but "inertia" had nothing to do with it.
brotherfromanother | June 12, 2007 8:21 AM
While we're saying thank yous, I'd like to thank Matt Servito, in advance, for keeping his shirt on in all future onscreen endeavors. Speaking of which: "Agent Harris: FBI" is the only Sopranos spin-off I'd even think of watching.
robbiefreeling | June 12, 2007 7:55 AM
Thanks for all the kind words, Eve, Paul, Mark, Jshumate, and all the rest....it's been very rewarding to me to feel like part of this community...one that prizes such intellectual and emotional debate and rigorous involvement with the material. I am still disturbed to no end by the end of the series...both for what it did and didn't do, and I will be haunted for years to come.
Paul | June 12, 2007 6:39 AM
Along with the other comments I would like to also thank you for the thoughtful coverage of this last half season. After the first couple episodes I found myself making sure to check this site each Monday.
I'd also like to add that I think this is the best analysis of the show I have read anywhere.
Cheers and Thanks
Reid Rosefelt | June 12, 2007 6:13 AM
Please note that "Members Only" is the name of the episode where Uncle Junior shoots Tony.
maryanne | June 12, 2007 5:42 AM
want to add my grazie, grazie, grazie.
cnw | June 12, 2007 4:52 AM
I'd like to second Robbie's thanks. It's been a pleasure to read everyone's thoughts both here and elsewhere (and Eve, a special thanks for all of your comments over the past few months: you know as much or more about the show as anyone I've met anywhere, and I can't tell you how much I appreciated your enthusiasm, passion, and expertise).
Isabella Andolini | June 12, 2007 3:06 AM
Just a quick note. There was a shot of Meadow entering the restaurant. And the ominous dude that entered with AJ wasn't in leather, it was a members only Jacket. If you Tivo'd it look again. :)
eve m. | June 12, 2007 2:12 AM
Great posts from all, but I have to say that cnw really did it for me (again) this time!
Since I starting reading the Sopranos blogs on reverseshot.com, I've particularly enjoyed and shared in your emotional responses to The Sopranos' "experience."
This time around, the hairs on the back of my neck tingled when I read this description of Phil Leotardo's death: "(He) tried to stave off the future and defend a way of life that he saw slipping away. In one last, great indignity, his skull is crushed by a car without a driver, a death-trap on wheels carrying his unsuspecting infant grandchildren into harm's way through the power of inertia."
"The power of inertia..." Wow.
Now that the season -- and the series -- has ended, and ended brilliantly, my mind returns to and lingers on so many moments over the past eight years.
These scenes, words, performances, pieces of music, contained such truth, or such pathos, or such humor, or such beauty, that they became as indelible as any other great work of art.
I know you all have yours. Here are just a few of mine:
...In an early episode, Tony, unable to connect with a young A.J., still doing the best he can after some family unpleasantness, squirting dollops of canned whipped cream into his boy's mouth and his own, seeking comfort and connection, giving chubby A.J. what he needed most -- and least -- at that moment...
... Tony sitting on an upended bucket in a horse barn on a rainy night, his cigar smoke curling into the darkness, the soft, neighing sounds of the helpless Pie-O-My, the sudden appearance of the little goat who joins Tony's vigil, and in the background, Rick Nelson singing the cowboy anthem, "My Rifle, My Pony and Me."
...Tony lying alone in the palatial splendor of the Plaza Hotel, unable to sleep. Even though they have separated, following scenes of terrible acrimony, he calls Carmela in New Jersey, and they speak quietly, each in their own separate bed. He asks if it's light out where she is, then asks if the dog he hears barking in the background is the Cusimanos' dog Esterhaus. Husband and wife, in different worlds, drawn back together by what? Shared history? Fear of loneliness? Love?
...Carmela's Parisian dream image of two ghosts: the tall, beautiful, doomed Adriana, dressed for once in spectacular Paris couture instead of goomar spandex, leading her little dog on a leash down the Champs Elysee, exclaiming: "Look, I found Cosette!"
...Tony as Finnerty, a lost man with no identity, sitting at the edge of the bed in his non-descript hotel room in the desert, aware of some lurking strangeness, occasionally staring out the window at something, something...A beacon! But emanating from where? Pointing towards what?
...Tony, with all his bulk, plunging fully dressed into the frigid and abandoned backyard pool to save his drowning son, then cradling his poor, lost boy, feeling anger, confusion, relief, disappointment, love, guilt -- I could see them all in Gandolfini's magnificent face. And even if they weren't there, because the writing and performances were always so true and so cohesive, I knew all these emotions MUST be there...
I have to stop, I actually have tears in my eyes. Can't say more at this point -- my skills as a writer just aren't up yours (robbie, cnw, brother).
Thanks for deepening my pleasure in watching and thinking about "The Sopranos" by sharing your insights and ideas over the past year.
I will definitely keep my bookmark on your site and check in weekly to see what all of you are watching!
yoccaman | June 11, 2007 9:23 AM
Fabulous post brother! As for Phil, I think he had daughters. No sons. so therefore, the last Leotardo.
Mark | June 11, 2007 9:18 AM
Yeah, as somebody who posted a bit in the beginning and then continued to read and lurk, just wanted to say thanks for these wonderful writeups. They definitely enriched the viewing of the show for me.
jshumate | June 11, 2007 8:18 AM
Thanks to ReverseShot for their adept coverage of the end of this cultural moment. The last ten grueling weeks have been enriched (and made more grueling, no doubt) by these consistently thoughtful and daringly speculative analyses. Kudos.
robbiefreeling | June 11, 2007 6:33 AM
oh, and by the way, brilliant work from Dominic Chianese. I have never been so touched by the usually hateful character of Junior than to see him reduced to the gum-grinding, addled old fool he portrayed here. When told he and Johnny S had "run New Jersey," his simple "That's nice" reply was oddly heartbreaking. This, actually, was how it ended, and how it will end for everyone, mobster, viewer alike.
brotherfromanother | June 11, 2007 4:41 AM
An addendum: wait, does Phil Leotardo even HAVE grandkids? I didn't think he had kids at all. That he was the last Leotardo. So then, what the fuck? Unless... (guys, you're free to fill in this blank).


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PI: Blackburn, E. Tracking ID: PDF0403278 Mechanisms of responses of cancer cells to mutant-template telomerase RNA. Telomeres exist at both ends of every chromosome, which contain the DNA comprising the genetic information of the cell. Telomeres both protect the chromosomes from damage, and prevent the chromosomal DNA from shortening too much each time the cell divides. An enzyme called telomerase replenishes the DNA at telomeres. Telomerase consists of both a protein resembling the reverse transcriptase subunit of HIV, and RNA. While RNA is usually produced as an intermediate during protein synthesis, the RNA component of telomerase instead acts as a template to be copied by the reverse transcriptase of telomerase to enable the telomeric DNA to be extended. Many proteins bind to telomeres and protect them and prevent them from fusing with other telomeres. In most cells, once the cell is fully developed, the enzyme telomerase is switched off. This means that the telomeres cannot be extended; instead, they gradually shorten with each cell division. This shortening of the telomeres acts as a signal to the cell that it has reached a certain age, and needs to stop growing and dividing. It is this mechanism that determines cellular aging, so that cells do not live forever. However, in some cells such as germ cells and stem cells which continually give rise to new cells, the telomerase enzyme is never switched off, and the telomeres do not shorten. These cells, therefore, have stabilised telomere lengths and do not stop dividing. Telomerase is reactivated in most cancer cells, conferring immortality on these cells. Since telomerase is highly active in most forms of breast human cancer, it provides a potential anti-neoplastic therapeutic target. We plan to study signalling mechanisms from the telomere to the rest of the cell. We will induce mutations in the RNA component (template) of telomerase which will cause the telomere itself to become mutated (altered). This is known to cause the cell to die in a matter of days but what it is that happens to the telomere structure itself to signal cell death is unknown. Therefore, using a microscope we will watch different telomere-associated proteins come off or go onto telomeres in response to the altered telomere. We will also use a variety of reagents and chemicals to study the signalling pathways from the telomere that cause the cell to die. These studies will increase our understanding on how telomeres and telomerase signal to the cell to either stop or continue dividing and illuminate how the reactivation of telomerase contributes to an increased risk of breast cancer.
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