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A Lancaster woman is one of three people charged with helping a prisoner escape from Catawba Pre-Release Center in Rock Hill last week.
Chucky James Elmore Jr., 27, escaped from the minimum-security center on Milling Road about noon Feb. 3, according to the S.C. Department of Corrections.
Tina Diana Mackey, 30, 3353 University Drive, has been charged by the S.C. Department of Corrections with escape-harboring or employing an escaped convict.
Though he disappeared almost 33 years ago, Evelyn Cooper still has vivid memories of her father.
Standing at 5-feet, 5-inches tall, Bennie Crockett was short in stature, but had a personality that was bigger than life, she said. Hard work, love and concern for people were commonplace for him.
"He always helped," Cooper said. "He would check on others, like members from the church and the elderly."
A nurse has been charged with stealing prescription drugs from patients at a local nursing home.
Sandra Faile Hunter, 51, of 2090 Nature Reserve Road, Kershaw, was charged by the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control with three counts of theft of a controlled substance.
According to arrest warrants, Hunter stole three different drugs – temazepam, alprazolam and hydrocodone – on Dec. 17, 2009.
The warrants say that the drugs belonged to patients at White Oak Manor.
Temazepam is used to treat insomnia.
A defense company announced plans Monday to bring more than 200 jobs to Lancaster County.
Defense Venture Group, which provides management services for several aerospace and defense-sector companies, will move its operations to the former BMB Steering Innovation building on S.C. 160 in Indian Land, which it recently bought.
The company will locate its manufacturing, research and development functions and its headquarters to the building beginning in March.
KERSHAW – Andrew Jackson High School head football coach Elmer Bench has been placed on administrative leave.
Bench, a history and social studies teacher at the Lancaster County Class AA high school, declined to comment when contacted Wednesday afternoon by The Lancaster News.
David Knight, spokesman for the Lancaster County School District, said Bench was placed on administrative leave with pay by district superintendent Dr. Gene Moore. Bench's administrative leave began Wednesday.
Two people were injured in a shooting at a nightclub early Sunday.
According to the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to the club on Kershaw Camden Highway about 2:20 a.m.
Deputies learned that a fight began inside the club, then moved outside, where two people began shooting.
Injured in the incident were Chevon Crawford, 29, and Marcellos Stover, 29, both of Lancaster. Crawford was shot once in the back, authorities said. Stover was shot in each shoulder and the abdomen.
A woman died after a fire at Chesterfield Villas, a senior-living apartment complex on Chesterfield Avenue, on Sunday.
Lancaster Fire Department Chris Nunnery said his department was called to Apartment B-12 at 7:54 a.m. after a next-door neighbor called 911.
Firefighters pulled Barbara Belton, 57, from the apartment, according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report. She was unconscious and was airlifted to a burn center in Winston-Salem, N.C., where she later died.
According to the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to the club on Kershaw Camden Highway about 2:20 a.m.
Deputies learned that a fight began inside the club, then moved outside, where two people began shooting. Two people were injured in the incident – Chevon Crawford, 29, and Marcellos Stover, 29, both of Lancaster.
Crawford was shot once in the back, authorities said. Stover was shot in each shoulder and the abdomen.
A defense company announced plans Monday to locate it manufacturing facility, research and development division and headquarters in Lancaster County.
Defense Venture Group, which provides management services for several aerospace and defense sector companies, will begin moving into the former BMB Steering Innovation building in Indian Land in March.
That is the old Belden Wire and Cable building on Fort Mill Highway (S.C. 160).
The company recently reached an agreement with county officials to invest $50 million here and create 220 jobs.
The maternal great-great grandmother of a 5-month-old baby who died after being shaken by his father told a judge Monday that the child was a blessing to his family.
During the guilty plea of Allen William Short, 25, who was charged with homicide by child abuse in December 2006, Pearl Jones said she remembered 5-month-old Brice Short's beautiful smile.
"He (Brice Short) was lovable," Jones said. "He was a gift from God. We had him such a short time but what a blessing he was."
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More than 80 workers, many of whom are naturalized citizens, created exhibits and shared food highlighting their ethnic backgrounds.
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Thomas D. Brock
|Thomas D. Brock
Tom Brock in Yellowstone Park July 2002.
10 September 1926
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
|The Upjohn Company
Case Western Reserve University
Indiana University
University of Wisconsin–Madison
|Alma mater
|Ohio State University
|Doctoral advisor
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|Known for
|Thermophilic bacteria
Thermus aquaticus
Thomas Dale Brock (born September 10, 1926) is an American microbiologist known for his discovery of hyperthermophiles living in hot springs at Yellowstone National Park. In the late 1960s, Brock discovered high-temperature bacteria living in the Great Fountain region of Yellowstone, and with his colleague Hudson Freeze, they isolated a sample they named Thermus aquaticus.[1]
"Life at High Temperatures", a 1967 article summarizing his research, was published in the journal Science and led to the study of extremophiles, organisms that live in extreme environments. By 1976, T. aquaticus was found useful for artificially amplifying DNA segments. Brock's discoveries led to great progress in biology, contributed to new developments in medicine and agriculture, and helped create the new field of biotechnology.[2]
Brock and his wife now manage the Pleasant Valley Conservancy, a 140-acre (57 ha) Wisconsin State Natural Area Preserve in western Dane County, Wisconsin.
Early life[edit]
Thomas Dale Brock was born in Cleveland, Ohio on September 10, 1926, the only child of Helen Sophia Ringwald, of Chillicothe, Ohio, and Thomas Carter Brock, of Toronto, Canada. Though Cleveland was an industrial city, his home was situated near a farm and forested park with views of Lake Erie, so that he grew up in an "idyllic environment", surrounded by nature.
Brock's father, who had never received a formal education, had encouraged Brock to pursue university, and taught Brock how to assemble electrical equipment. At the age of 10, Brock received a chemistry set as a Christmas present, and his father helped him set up a basement laboratory. When Brock was 15, his father became seriously ill, and the family moved back to his mother's home in Ohio. Months later, Brock's father died, leaving the family in a state of poverty. Brock immediately went to work for $0.25 per hour to support himself and his mother in various odd jobs.[3]
Although Brock had decided to attend college and become a chemist, World War II was in progress. After graduating from high school, Brock joined the United States Navy and spent more than a year in their electronics program.[3]
Under the G.I. Bill, Brock began attending Ohio State University in 1946, initially with aspirations of becoming a writer, yet still drawn to chemistry and science. He earned a B.Sc. (1949), M.Sc. (1950), and Ph.D. (1952) in botany,[4] specializing in experimental mycology and yeast physiology. His graduate work centered on the mushroom Morchella esculenta and the yeast Hansenula anomala.
After completing his Ph.D, Brock took a position in the antibiotics research department at the Upjohn Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where out of necessity he became self-taught in microbiology and molecular biology. By the time he left Upjohn, he had published six papers in respectable journals and become a member of the Society of American Bacteriologists. In 1957, Brock joined the faculty of the Department of Biology at Western Reserve University. In 1960, he accepted the position of assistant professor of bacteriology at Indiana University, where he was promoted to full professorship in 1964. He moved to the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1971 and became chairman of the Department of Bacteriology in 1979.[3][4]
Bacteria are able to grow ... at any temperature at which there is liquid water, even in pools which are above the boiling point.[5]
From 1965 through 1975, Brock conducted field and laboratory research on thermophilic microorganisms in Yellowstone National Park, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. From a sample of pink bacteria collected from Mushroom Spring, Brock and undergraduate student Hudson Freeze isolated an organism thriving at 70°C (160°F) which they named Thermus aquaticus. The ability of T. aquaticus to tolerate high heat would, 20 years later, make possible the invention of a procedure called polymerase chain reaction. PCR utilizes an enzyme in T. aquaticus, now known as Taq polymerase, to speed up DNA replication. The process, invented by Kary Mullis, won a Nobel Prize.[6]
In 1998, Brock helped update and contribute to a new version of René Dubos' 1960 book, Pasteur and Modern Science. In 1999, he translated and edited Milestones in Microbiology 1546 to 1940, a collection of the most important papers in early microbiology, including work by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, and Joseph Lister. Also released in the same year was Brock's Robert Koch: A Life in Medicine and Bacteriology, a biography of German physician Robert Koch.
Brock is retired and holds the E.B. Fred Professor of Natural Sciences Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. During his career, Brock published more than 250 papers and 20 books, and received numerous science and education awards.
Brock and his wife, Kathie, operate Pleasant Valley Conservancy, a Wisconsin State Natural Area, a 140-acre (57 ha) Preserve in western Dane County, Wisconsin. It consists of extensive restored oak savannas, dry, mesic, and wet prairies, wetlands, and oak woods. Scenic views and wildlife viewing are excellent, and several trails provide ready access to the Preserve. Especially noteworthy at Pleasant Valley are the fine oak savannas, once common in the Midwest but now very rare. The Preserve has many large open-grown white and bur oaks, which can be viewed from Pleasant Valley Road, and seen close up from the trails. The herbaceous layer in the savanna is highly diverse.[7]
The thermophilic bacterial species, Thermoanaerobacter brockii, is named after Brock.[8]
- 1984 Fisher Award in Environmental and Applied Microbiology (America Society for Microbiology)[9]
- 1988 Carski Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award (American Society for Microbiology)
- 1992 Pasteur Award, American Society for Microbiology (Illinois)
- 1997 Bergey Medal, Bergey's Trust
- 2013 Golden Goose Award, Association of American Universities and AAAS
- 2006 Aldo Leopold Award, University of Wisconsin Arboretum
- Honorary Member, American Society for Microbiology
Selected works[edit]
- Brock, Thomas D. (1994). Life at High Temperatures. Yellowstone National Park: Yellowstone Association for Natural Science, History & Education, Inc.
- Brock, Thomas D. (1978). Thermophilic Microorganisms and Life at High Temperatures. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-90309-7.
- Brock, Thomas D.; Kelly, Michael T. (October 1969). "Molecular Heterogeneity of Isolates of the Marine Bacterium Leucothrix mucor". Journal of Bacteriology (American Society for Microbiology) 100 (1): 14–21. PMC 315351. PMID 5344093.
- Brock, Thomas D.; Hudson Freeze (August 1969). "Thermus aquaticus gen. n. and sp. n., a nonsporulating extreme thermophile". Journal of Bacteriology (American Society for Microbiology) 98 (1): 289–297. PMC 249935. PMID 5781580.
- Brock, Thomas D. (15 May 1964). "Knots in Leucothrix mucor". Science 144 (3620): 870–872. doi:10.1126/science.144.3620.870.
- "Thomas D. Brock: 1950–2005 Publication List". Scientific Commons. University of St. Gallen. Retrieved 16 Jan 2009.
- ^ Brock, Thomas D. (March 1998). "Early Days in Yellowstone Microbiology". ASM News (American Society for Microbiology) 64 (3): 137–140.
- ^ Snyder, Brian (October 2007). "Why the NSF Biology Budget Should Be Doubled". BioScience (American Institute of Biological Sciences) 57 (9): 727–728. doi:10.1641/B570902. ISSN 0006-3568.
- ^ a b c Brock, Thomas D. (October 1995). "The road to Yellowstone - and beyond". Annual Review of Microbiology 49 (1): 1–29. doi:10.1146/annurev.mi.49.100195.000245. PMID 8561455.
- ^ a b Meyer, Bernard S. (1983). Botany at the Ohio State University: The First 100 Years. College of Biological Sciences, Ohio State University. pp. 151–152. ISBN 978-0-86727-096-9.
- ^ Brock, Thomas D. (Oct 11, 1985). "Life at high temperatures." Science. 230:132.
- ^ Stephenson, Shauna (2007-08-17). "Thermus Aquaticus". Outdoors (Wyoming Tribune Eagle). Retrieved 2009-01-18.
- ^ Pleasant Valley Conservancy State Natural Area
- ^ Gross, Michael (2001). Life on the Edge: Amazing Creatures Thriving in Extreme Environments. Basic Books. pp. 16–17. ISBN 0-7382-0445-5.
- ^ (May 1988). BioScience. 38(5):363-366. ISSN: 00063568
Further reading[edit]
- Brock, Thomas D. (August 1997). "The Value of Basic Research: Discovery of Thermus aquaticus and Other Extreme Thermophiles". Genetics (Genetics Society of America) 146 (4): 1207–1210. PMC 1208068. PMID 9258667. Retrieved 2009-01-14.
- Crow, James Franklin; William F. Dove (2000). Perspectives on Genetics: Anecdotal, Historical, and Critical Commentaries, 1987-1998. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-16604-X.
External links[edit]
- Thomas D. Brock, Professor of Bacteriology, Emeritus, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Pleasant Valley Conservancy, personal blog
- Thomas D. Brock papers at the University of Wisconsin—Madison Archives


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Julee Wasserman found one of her best marketing tactics-local trade shows geared to corporate event planners-through research. After visiting the shows, she then calls new contacts to ask if she can give a 10-minute presentation. "If I hadn't done those presentations, I wouldn't have had any business at all. But I was going there, putting a face to the business, being really personalized and selling them on it." She also obtains new clients through referrals, and some trickle in to her Web site.
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Another homebased trap to watch out for: working too much. Trott enjoys working at home (though she's not alone, with her husband as a partner and her brother-in-law as a full-time employee), but "it can be very tiresome because I'm a workaholic," she says. "I'm like, 'If I could only get this one more thing done,' and the next thing I know it's 11 o'clock at night."
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- Speaking of the ACA, our government continues to find new ways to be even more accommodating of religious institutions that refuse to cover birth control for their employees. (HuffPo)
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- Because abortion is health care, California will not allow its Catholic universities to eliminate abortion coverage for their employees. (SF Gate)
- The "Ice Bucket Challenge" craze has pissed off anti-abortion, anti-stem-cell zealots. (NY Mag)
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- Esquire has a stellar piece on the work of Dr. Willie Parker, a resident of Illinois who flies to Mississippi twice a month to provide abortions to women in the state's last abortion clinic. It's a lengthy piece but worth your time. (Esquire)
- Rand Paul is a lying, liar-faced liar who tried to downplay his and other GOP members' efforts to diminish women's access to birth control. (Jezebel)
- As a matter of fact, the anti-contraception agenda of conservatives has only become more extreme. (RH Reality Check)
- Texas' abortion clinics are closing at an alarming rate. (WaPo)
- As a result of the disappearing clinics, women are increasingly resorting to unsafe methods to terminate unwanted pregnancies. (Cosmopolitan)
- The last abortion clinic in Toledo, Ohio, is fighting the good fight to remain open. (Toledo Blade)
- How much do the terms "pro-choice" and "pro-life" matter in 2014? Bustle investigates. (Bustle)
- Circumcising men cuts HIV risk among women. (MedPage)
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- Hobby Lobby continues to be terrible — this time they're discriminating against a transgender employee who simply wants to use the restroom that corresponds with her gender identity. (Slate)
- President Obama is decidedly not down with discrimination and is signing an executive order to protect LGBTQ workers — and there will be no religious exemptions for those who think their god gives them a right to discriminate. (NYT)
- Bill Moyers had Planned Parenthood's fearless leader, Cecile Richards, on his show for an enlightening discussion about the right wing's crusade against reproductive rights. Definitely worth a watch! (Bill Moyers)
- Only in modern-day America would a nurse, who is anti-contraception and refuses to dispense contraceptives, sue over not being hired to do a job in which dispensing contraception is an integral part. (Wonkette)
- A group of protesters (anti-abortion, of course) interrupted a church service to demand that the worshippers there "repent" for supporting reproductive rights. So yeah, now churches aren't even safe from these clowns. Ironic coming from people who claim to "serve God," dontcha think? (Think Progress)
- More states are recognizing that new mothers on Medicaid who wish to prevent pregnancy aren't being served well under current rules — and they're finding new ways to help them. (NPR)
- Do women perceive other women differently when they're taking the birth control pill? (Salon)
Supreme Court Rules Against Women in Hobby Lobby and Buffer Zone Cases
On the morning of June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court (or should I say the men of the Supreme Court) ruled in favor of two corporations, Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood, who argued that they should not have to provide insurance coverage for their employees' birth control, as required by the Affordable Care Act, because of the business owners' personal religious beliefs.
The court stated that when corporations are "closely held" and it can be shown that the owners operate the business consistently with certain religious beliefs, then these corporations can be exempted from federal laws that burden those religious beliefs.
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The "beliefs" in question held by these two corporations concern two forms of birth control — emergency contraception and IUDs (intrauterine devices). But their "beliefs," that emergency contraception and IUDs are abortifacients, aren't rooted in actual science.
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Pro-Choice Friday News Rundown
- The Hobby Lobby decision created a whirlwind of foolhardy "What's the big deal?" arguments among those who failed to understand its magnitude. Here are the best responses to those. (Cosmopolitan)
- Democrats aren't taking the Hobby Lobby debacle lying down, though! A new bill seeks to disallow employers from using their religion to deny you the right to use the medication you need. (NY Times)
- Despite what many race-baiting abortion opponents say, abortion clinics mostly occupy majority-white neighborhoods. (Washington Times)
- The CEO of a Michigan company called Eden Foods sued the Obama Administration to get out of providing contraception coverage, calling birth control "lifestyle drugs." Excuse me while I go perform the world's biggest eye roll. (Grist)
- In a few short years, we could be looking at the first birth control implant that women could "deactivate" via remote control without visiting a doctor. (Time)
- Powerful piece by Irin Carmon on the respectability politics surrounding birth control. (MSNBC)
- Abortion clinic buffer zones around the country are crumbling. (HuffPo)
- Scientists say that birth control pills make your eggs "look old" while you're on them, but once you're off, their youthful exuberance returns. (Live Science)
Pro-Choice Friday News Rundown
- I've spoken about my experiences as a clinic escort and the importance of buffer zones around abortion clinics many times on this blog. We at Planned Parenthood are staunch supporters of buffer zones and believe they're crucial in protecting our patients from potential harm and harassment. So, imagine our collective dismay yesterday when the Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision calling the 35-foot clinic buffer zone in Massachusetts "unconstitutional" on the basis that it violates the First Amendment of those who wish to "counsel" clinic patients. Pretty infuriating to say the least. (Mother Jones)
- Will SCOTUS also throw women under the bus in the upcoming Hobby Lobby decision? (RH Reality Check)
- Four years ago, Aaron Gouveia and his wife had to make the heartbreaking decision to abort their non-viable, very much wanted child. His story describes how the presence of anti-abortion protesters made the saddest day of their lives exponentially worse. (Time)
- President Obama is the first Commander in Chief to help advance transgender rights! (Associated Press)
- Women who volunteer in the Peace Corps are now able to receive insurance coverage for abortion (albeit in limited circumstances: rape, incest, or life endangerment). Better to have baby steps than no steps, I guess. (RH Reality Check)
- Check out this fascinating piece on the history of sex-ed films shown in schools over the years. (Truth-out)
- The headline might sound sensational, but it's the truth — Abortion Clinics Are Closing Because Their Doors Aren't Big Enough. (Vice)
- The Vatican is aware their teachings on contraception aren't followed or even highly regarded by most Catholics, but apparently, it's easier to keep the doctrine stale and irrelevant than to evolve because they're not likely to make any changes. (Toronto Star)
Pro-Choice Friday News Rundown
- VICTORY! The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with Planned Parenthood (and common sense) with regard to medication abortion. If you recall, back in 2012, our Republican-led legislature passed a law trying to restrict its usage to the seventh week (or less) of pregnancy — despite the fact that it's been safely used into the ninth week for more than a decade. The court has rightfully decided this restriction causes an undue burden for women. (AZ Central)
- The withdrawal method is more popular than many of us thought! (Guttmacher)
- TRAP laws (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) have the power to completely eradicate women's access to abortion. And without even overturning Roe. (Slate)
- Four of Louisiana's five abortion clinics could be shutting down thanks to Gov. Bobby Jindal signing a TRAP bill into law. (MSNBC)
- Birth control pills are terrific for treating problematic acne. (Time)
- You may have heard that evangelicals, Christian fundamentalists, the "religious right" — whatever you wanna call them — originally banded together to fight against abortion. Well, In actuality, it was segregation that united this self-righteous bunch of clowns. (Politico)
- Anti-abortion zealots are trying to threaten hospitals over abortion access now. (Think Progress)
- There's a pretty big disconnect between women and their doctors when it comes to conversations about contraceptives. (NPR)
- Can Melinda Gates be a genuine advocate/champion for women's reproductive health while completely ignoring the subject of abortion? (RH Reality Check)


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- Cartoon Characters: Marlin, Dory, Nemo, Gill, Bloat, Peach, Bubbles, Deb, Flo, Jacques, Nigel, Shark, Bruce, Crush, Coral, Squirt, Mr. Ray, Anchor, Chum, Dentist, Darla, Tad, Pearl, Sheldon.
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The film follows the comedic and eventful journeys of two fish- Marlin and his son Nemo- who become separated in the Great Barrier Reef when Nemo is unexpectedly taken far from home and thrust into a fish tank in a dentist's office overlooking Sydney harbor. Buoyed by the companionship of a friendly-but-forgetful fish named Dory, the overly cautious father embarks on a dangerous trek and finds himself the unlikely hero of an epic journey to rescue his son- who hatches a few daring plans of his own to return safely home.
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Brokers will not be able to discuss specific investments, offer forecasts or mention instruments which require disclaimers such as structured products or commodities. All messages are to be moderated by a supervisor, with approvals promised within a few hours.
Morgan Stanley's decision came after a year of testing using 600 employees to see if social media could be welcomed as an additional business tool. Competitors such as Bank of America (BAC), UBS (UBS) and Wells Fargo (WFC) have yet to embrace the new world of social media as an investment business tool. Goldman Sachs (GS) and Blackstone Group (BX) each have corporate Twitter accounts and AllianceBernstein (AB) allows employee use of LinkedIn.
There are industry rules already in place to guide the process. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the industry's self-regulatory arm, is insisting that content must adhere to federal laws and rules which regulate and limit ads and testimonials, and the investment firms must also keep records of all social media postings.
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I found myself going to the kitchen and getting a slice of pizza and then a bowl of ice cream. Comfort foods, I guess. We can learn so much about ourselves if we are conscious and observe the way we respond in situations and how we handle emotions. In this case, turning to food for comfort. Yay! Another "issue" to be aware of. I'm always happy when I discover those. (italics is my sarcasm font)
I took my ice cream and went and sat outside on the porch swing in the warm September sun. I wanted to cry. Mostly because I am afraid. Very afraid.
I've observed this...I may think that I don't have fears until I actually am in a situation where I have to face them.
You can talk for years about how you are not afraid of the dark if you always make sure to stay inside after dark with all the lights in the house turned on. But you step outside that front door and actually face the darkness, you'll find those fears coming right to the surface.
Of what am I afraid, you might ask?
Here are some fears that I can verbalize in relation to this project I am embarking upon.
What if no one responds to my invite? (This one was obviously an unnecessary fear and I was overhwhelmed and grateful for the response that I received from people yesterday. Thank you!)
What if the interviews are awkward and I ask all the wrong questions and people don't open up?
What if I fail at this whole thing and it just flops and nothing comes of it? The biggest fear in this is that I will let myself down and confirm my fears that I am not meant for anything out of the ordinary.
What if I don't have the skills needed to pull this thing together?
What if I get into an interview and there is a lot of emotion and I say the wrong thing or come across as insensitive?
What if this project causes me to look into things in my own life that I'm not ready to deal with?
Something (God) prompted me to study the words "What If". Could they spell something else backwards? (Not anything that made sense.) But when I looked more closely, the words "what if", when re-arranged, spell "Faith" (with a leftover w - just to mess with my OCD tendencies). Who knew??
That's the trade off I need to make. Let go of all the "what if's" and have Faith. I have no idea what all that looks like but I know that what it doesn't look like is certainty.
Or, how about turning those "What if's" into positives instead of negatives?
What if someone's life is helped or healed in some way through sharing their story, maybe for the first time?
What if the book is published one day and it impacts even one life or helps one person to realize they are not alone?
What if this is the beginning of a great part of my journey and process towards wholeness and healing?
What if God is in all of this in a bigger way than I can imagine?
What if one other person is inspired to step out and pursue a dream that they've had in their heart?
What If versus Faith. Like so very many things in life, its just a matter of perspective!


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by Monique Ryan, MS RD LDN
(PKU) is a genetically inherited birth defect that causes an unwanted buildup
of the amino acid phenylalanine in the blood, which becomes toxic to the brain.
This buildup occurs because the enzyme that routinely converts one amino acid,
phenylalanine, to another amino acid, tyrosine, is absent or deficient.
Phenylalanine then accumulates in the blood and is toxic to brain tissue.
born in the United States are screened for PKU with a blood test so that
treatment can begin immediately and prevent the adverse side effects of the
condition, such as declining intelligence, neurological deterioration, stunted
growth, hyperactivity and seizures. A treatment team typically consists of a
metabolic dietitian, physician, geneticist and psychologist as an infant is
monitored during different phases of growth and development in childhood to an
strict diet limited in phenylalanine is the main treatment for PKU. Phenylalanine
is found in most protein-containing foods such as milk, eggs, cheese, nuts,
soybeans, chicken, beef, pork, beans and fish. "An infant will have to
consume a special phenylalanine-free formula for the first year of life," says
Sarah Krieger, MPH, RDN, spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and
Dietetics. However, some breast milk can be used in limited amounts.
the infant grows and becomes developmentally ready for solid foods, a dietitian
with expertise in PKU will create a unique menu for the child. "The
metabolic dietitian can create meal plans with modified food sources of protein
low in phenylalanine and high in tyrosine, while providing adequate calories,
vitamins and minerals to support growth," says Krieger. Because so many
foods are off limits with PKU, the meal plans include special formulas which
are often the primary source of calories and essential nutrients. Special
phenylalanine-free foods are available for children and teens with PKU. The
metabolic dietitian will create individual eating plans and modify them as
needed to promote healthy growth and development.
diet needs to be followed for life. "The individual with PKU will require
blood monitoring to maintain serum phenylalanine levels," says Kreiger. In
conjunction with blood monitoring, regular review of diet records or food
journals and growth charts the metabolic dietitian will make adjustments to the
eating plan as needed.
of children with PKU need to be creative with foods and use available PKU
cookbooks. Get help with menu planning from the metabolic dietitian and plan
ahead for eating out, school lunches, potlucks, trips and vacations, and other
special events. Try to center special occasions around activities rather than food,
and encourage your child to be part of the management of his or her diet as
early as possible. "A skilled dietitian, physician and psychologist team
can address social issues with each stage of life," says Kreiger. "Knowledge
is power and the more parents, and eventually the child, know how to live with
PKU, then a healthy, productive life is possible."
November 2013
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Sit down together as a family to enjoy a wonderful meal and the opportunity to share the day's experiences with one another.
To encourage a healthy lifestyle, get your children involved in selecting the food that will appear at the breakfast, lunch or dinner table.
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The Invention of David Bowie
The first and only time I ever saw David Bowie was in the early 1970s at a gay disco on Kensington High Street called Yours and Mine, on the ground floor of El Sombrero, a Mexican restaurant. There was Bowie, not yet world-famous, his dyed hair flopping, dancing away keenly on his long skinny legs. He was such a weird presence that the image stayed with me, even though there was nothing especially remarkable about the occasion. In 1972, Bowie gave an interview to the British pop magazine Melody Maker. The interviewer, Michael Watts, wrote:
David's present image is to come on like a swishy queen, a gorgeously effeminate boy. He's as camp as a row of tents, with his limp hand and trolling vocabulary. "I'm gay," he says, "and always have been, even when I was David Jones." But there's a sly jollity about how he says it, a secret smile at the corners of his mouth.
Watts was on to something. The high camp, too, was part of an act, a pose, as was Bowie pretending to fellate the instrument of his very straight guitarist, Mick Ronson, in a concert during that same year. It was certainly a bold statement to make for a rock star, since rock still was by and large a pretty straight business. Bowie was one of the first, but it soon became quite the fashion, especially in England, for young men to affect the mannerisms of a gay style that was—post-Stonewall—quickly becoming distinctly unfashionable in the actual gay world. British rock in the 1970s, with the New Romantics, and such stars as Bryan Ferry or Brian Eno, the latter in full makeup and sporting a feather boa, became very camp indeed, even though few of these men seem to have had any sexual interest in other men.
Bowie, as we know, was a little more ambiguous. But however contrived to attract attention, Bowie's statement was seen as a coming-out that encouraged and inspired many confused young men at the time. The freakish isolated man from another planet became a model, a kind of cult leader. In the latest issue of the gay magazine Out, various people tell their personal stories about Bowie's influence. Here is the singer Stephin Merritt:
I didn't grow up with a father at all; I didn't have a father figure telling me how to approach gender, so I thought David Bowie was a perfectly good model of how to approach gender. And I still think so.
And here the perfomer Ann Magnuson:
He was the Pied Piper who took us suburban American kids to Disneyland, reimagined as an oversexed, sequined, space-age pleasure dome.
Or the British novelist Jake Arnott:
You know, the '70s were quite a gloomy time. But Bowie looked fabulous, and I think there was a feeling of that's what you could become yourself. That's what brought me to him.
Bowie wanted fame. But it happened so quickly that it almost killed him. He described it in Cracked Actor, a fascinating documentary film made in 1974 for the BBC. Bowie, pale, emaciated, his nose twitching from excessive ingestions of cocaine, tells Alan Yentob, his interviewer, about the terrors of fame. It was like being "in the car when someone's accelerating very, very fast, and you're not driving…and you're not sure whether you like it or not…that's what success was like."
At the height of his success, Bowie created his most famous role, Ziggy Stardust, as a kind of alter ego. In Bowie's show, Ziggy was a rock-and-roll messiah from outer space who is torn apart in the end by his fans in a brilliant song entitled "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide." The story, which is typically Bowie-esque, is a paranoid druggy science-fiction fantasy. Rolling Stone magazine published a hilarious conversation with William Burroughs in which Bowie tries to explain: "The end comes when the infinites arrive. They really are a black hole, but I've made them people because it would be very hard to explain a black hole on stage," et cetera. The music and the show, however, are among the best things ever done in rock and roll; theater brought back to its ritual origins: the sacrifice of the king.
The problem is that Bowie got carried away a little too far into his private outer space. He began to think he was Ziggy. Quite wisely, he tried to kill him off on stage in London in the summer of 1973, when he announced that there would be no more Ziggy Stardust, and his band, the Spiders from Mars, would be terminated. But Bowie remained haunted by the character: "That fucker would not leave me alone for years."
It must be a disconcerting experience for a young man from Bromley, say, or Dartford, or Heston, or for that matter Duluth, Minnesota, to be a rock messiah. Some—Keith Richards, David Bowie—seek refuge in drugs. Some—Jimmy Page, from Heston—dabble in black magic. Some are made of tougher stuff, like Mick Jagger, and view their rock business in the way a CEO sees his corporation. And some just try to escape into obscurity, as Bob Dylan did for a time, and Bowie attempted to do as well.
More reflective, perhaps, than most rock musicians, Bowie gave his fame a lot of dark thought. Ziggy, he once said, was the typical prophet-like rocker who had all the success and didn't know what to do with it. In a fine song, entitled "Fame" (1975), Bowie sang: "Fame makes a man take things over/Fame lets him loose, hard to swallow/Fame puts you there where things are hollow." Bowie started quoting Nietzsche in interviews, about the death of God. Phrases like homo superior popped up in his songs. But he never quite lost his sense of humor. In the Burroughs interview, Bowie compares Ziggy's rock-and-roll suicide to Burroughs's apocalyptic novel Nova Express, and says: "Maybe we are the Rodgers and Hammerstein of the seventies, Bill!" Still, the combination of drugs and rock-star isolation also led to some very half-baked notions about Adolf Hitler being "one of the first rock stars" and how Britain needed a fascist leader.
Bowie needed to calm down, away from the temptations of superstardom. And he calmed down, more or less, in of all places Berlin. Attracted by the allure of Weimar-period decadence, Expressionist art (Bowie was always an art lover), and its geographical isolation, Bowie lived in Berlin for several years after 1975 in relative obscurity. Helped by Brian Eno, he created some of his best music there, albums now known as Bowie's Berlin Trilogy: Low, "Heroes," and Lodger. His voice deepened into a slightly eerie crooning style, redolent of the 1930s, or the chansons of Jacques Brel. The lyrics darkened into an edgy melancholy. The music, influenced by German technopop, had the alienating thrum of industrial noise. And sharp double-breasted suits began to replace the bodysuits and kimonos. Bowie had reinvented himself as a depressive Romantic. The moves became less histrionic, the act more suave.
Things they do look awful c-c-cold (Talking 'bout my generation)
I hope I die before I get old (Talking 'bout my generation)
—The Who, "My Generation," 1965
How does a rock star get old? Most fade away. Some get stuck in a role, and keep going on and on: the Stones still throbbing, in a rickety kind of way, with teenage lust. Some play the old songbook: Eric Clapton as a classical musician of the blues, or Bryan Ferry as a kind of Rat Pack lounge lizard.
In 2004, it looked as if David Bowie had taken his final bows and made a graceful exit. He had suffered a heart attack backstage after a concert. And that seemed to be that. He had been married for a decade to the Somali model Iman. They had a child. They lived in New York. Bowie was a family man, working on his painting, helping his daughter with her homework, enjoying trips to Florence to see his favorite Renaissance painters, browsing in bookstores.
The rock messiah, it appeared, had finally been laid to rest.
And then he pulled a stunt. Without anybody noticing, Bowie had made another album. It was announced in January this year on his sixty-sixth birthday. A video of one of the songs, entitled "Where Are We Now?," popped up on his website. And the album, The Next Day, could be downloaded for free online for a limited period. So did Bowie reinvent himself yet again? Is he playing yet another role?
Does he even need to? Bowie not only reinvented himself over and over, inspiring other musicians, as well as countless fans. But he did more. Over his long career, Bowie invented a new kind of musical theater, whose props are on display at the V&A Museum. His influence on the art of performance has been inestimable, and will linger long after he has gone. Meanwhile, we have the music, which still has the power to astonish and delight. Is the new album a completely new departure?
Well, yes and no. The music on The Next Day, with its hard, almost relentless beat, sounds like something that could have been made in the 1980s. To his credit, Bowie does not even try to sound like a young man. The tone is melancholy, filled with memories. "Where Are We Now?" is an introspective look back at Bowie's Berlin days: "A man lost in time/Near KaDeWe/Just walking the dead…" In the video, Bowie's face appears once more looking into a mirror, but there is no trace of makeup. It is the face of a well-preserved, still-handsome man in his sixties, the wrinkles and sagging skin undisguised.
It is a highly professional album, with some haunting tunes. Here is the work of a man who seems to be well settled. There is no more posing. This is dignified, mature. But is it rock and roll? Does it even matter? Perhaps Bowie has taken the form as far as it can go, and rock is becoming like jazz, the raw energies of its youth exhausted, now entering a venerable old age.


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Harvard MBA Larry Estrada Will Do No Harm at Goldman Sachs
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Or maybe just her mom. Or anyone with a computer. Or a library card.
The right to call someone a skank may go all the way to the Supreme Court.
There's the forgiving Cohen. And then there's the Cohen that scares Andrea Peyser nearly speechless.
This had the potential to be way more entertaining.
Is this really something she wants to know?
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AIG's Bob Benmosche Statement On Meeting With Rep. Elijah Cummings
American International Group, Inc. (NYSE:AIG) today issued the following statement from Robert H. Benmosche, AIG President and Chief Executive Officer:
"I was very pleased to meet with Rep. Elijah Cummings earlier today. In our meeting, I apologized for my reference to the South and the impact that it had on him and others.
"I explained to Rep. Cummings that I was responding to a reporter's question about certain actions I felt were wrong at the time of the financial crisis: that what stood out to me was the enormous fear AIG employees felt about their safety and the safety of their families because people in positions of public responsibility were actively encouraging the vilification of our people.
"I expressed my belief that people should never encourage public anger against any group – for any reason – and that the vilification of a person or a group of people is not right. It's never right, and when it happens it should not be trivialized or dismissed lightly, as it too often was in the context of AIG. And when I referred to the South, I unintentionally trivialized a horrible legacy of our country. That was the opposite of my intent."I look forward to continued dialogue. AIG repaid America every dollar plus a profit of $22.9 billion – a total of $205 billion – and every one of our employees is committed to making sure AIG stands for what's right about this great country." American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is a leading international insurance organization serving customers in more than 130 countries. AIG companies serve commercial, institutional, and individual customers through one of the most extensive worldwide property-casualty networks of any insurer. In addition, AIG companies are leading providers of life insurance and retirement services in the United States. AIG common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
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What does 2014 have in store for the Cleveland Browns?
The Cleveland Browns open the 2014 NFL season on Sunday in Pittsburgh, a season that will see the Browns mark the 50th anniversary of their last (and Cleveland's last) championship.
It was quite the offseason for the team, one that we're sure fans and team officials are ready to put behind them. We're all familiar with those storylines by now: the shakeup of the front office, yet another coaching change, the quarterback competition that kind of really wasn't a competition, the prolonged case of Josh Gordon that ultimately resulted in a yearlong suspension.
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Legend of Zelda (Orchestral)
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- Date
- 08/07/2010
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- 1 min 41 sec
- Score
- 4.10 / 5.00
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Rated 3.5 / 5 stars
Nice song!
I like the basic song, but emphasis is not put enough on some parts and its just not as invigorating/energetic as some other versions
Rated 5 / 5 stars
The Percussion Rocks
What I like is that the percussion on this song is really well done, it really adds to the song and helps it keep the zelda vibe. It's that little something most remakes are missing. More than anything though, I love the harp at the beginning, pure legend of zelda right there. It's maybe not the most sophisticated remake out there, but a remake of a 2 track 8 bit NES song doesn't need to be, the simple drive of the melody is what sold the song in the first place, the percussion in your remake just helps embellish it. This gets serious props on my part.
Rated 5 / 5 stars
9it does sound runescape!
I wouldnt really know what runescape sounds like.
But thanks for the review!
Rated 5 / 5 stars
this song was amasing,but it reminded me of runescape... :/