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January 26, 2015
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January 20, 2015
An atom's walk in an optical lattice is used to test a key principle of quantum physics.
Orbital Engineering, By Design
January 12, 2015
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Imaginary Magnetic Fields in the Real World
January 5, 2015
Imaginary magnetic fields predicted by the fundamental theory of phase transitions can be realized experimentally.
Diamond Spins Shining Bright
December 22, 2014
The spin on a silicon defect in diamond can be prepared in a coherent quantum state, a promising sign that it could encode information in a quantum internet.
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Waste Disposal in Aquatic Embryos
January 26, 2015
Protrusions on the surfaces of developing aquatic embryos may ensure that waste and toxins are effectively transported away from the organism.
A Black Hole for Polaritons
January 22, 2015
The flow of hybrid electron-photon states through a black-hole-like "acoustic horizon" may produce an observable signature of Hawking radiation.
How to Spot a WIMP
January 21, 2015
A theoretical study outlines the best strategies for identifying weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in dark matter detectors.
It's All in the Sequence
January 15, 2015
The sequence of amino acids in certain biomolecules could be a factor in ensuring that they remain free of knots.
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January 23, 2015
Researchers generated an electron beam with very high orbital angular momentum—potentially good for atomic-scale images of the magnetism in materials.
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January 16, 2015
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India is to launch three navigation satellites this year, a senior official of the state- owned space agency has reportedly said.
"Three satellites belonging to the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) constellation will be launched by the space agency this year," the Scientific Secretary of the Indian Space Research Organization, V. Koteshwara Rao, was quoted by the media as saying Thursday.
The three satellites are IRNSS-1B, IRNSS-1C and IRNSS-1D, the official has said.
IRNSS is an independent regional navigation satellite system encompassing the Indian region and 1,500 km around the Indian mainland.
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Liping A. Cai, Ph.D.
Professor & Director, Purdue Tourism & Hospitality Research Center
Associate Dean, College of Health & Human Sciences
Director, Purdue University China Center
Dr. Liping A. Cai is professor and director of Purdue University China Center. He also serves as associate dean overseeing the Office of Diversity and International Programs in the College of Health and Human Sciences, and as director of Purdue Tourism and Hospitality Research Center in the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management. Professor Cai studies branding and consumers in tourism, and is a governor-appointee to the Indiana Tourism Council. He received Purdue University's designation of University Faculty Scholar In 2003, and the Four-Year University and College Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society of Travel and Tourism Educators in 2009. At Purdue University, Professor Cai oversees the five-year $10M Nanshan Fund sponsored by a multinational corporation to support student scholarships and faculty research, instruction and training. He is an ACE (American Council on Education) Fellow in the 2013-14 class.
Professor Cai's research portfolio includes 200+ peer-reviewed papers. He studies branding and consumer experiences in the travel marketplace. His other interests include rural tourism development and marketing, and behavioral and psychographic profiling of tourism consumers. He is recognized as the originator of a destination brand model that supports collaborative tourism for rural communities, and is the recipient of several best paper awards at international conferences. Professor Cai serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Travel Research, Journal of Hospitality Marketing Management, Tourism Management, Tourism Analysis, and Journal of Vacation Marketing. He is North America regional editor for the Journal of China Tourism Research.
Professor Cai served as a travel and tourism industry expert to the World Economic Forum (2005-06), on the board of International Society of Travel and Tourism Educators (2002-2006), as the senior academic advisor to Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Travel & Tourism Industry Center for the study of outbound China market (2007-2012). Prior to Purdue appointment in 1999, Professor Cai was director of the Center for Economic Development through Tourism in the College of Agriculture, New Mexico State University. He was a former tour operator and destination sales manager in China.
Professor Cai was born and raised in rural Jiangsu Province of China. In 1978 he became the country's first college student of tourism in today's Nanjing Institute of Tourism and Hospitality. He studied American and English literature part-time in Nanjing Normal University and graduated in 1986. Professor Cai worked in various sectors of China's new economy for 10 years before he studied at Michigan State University where He received MBA in 1993. He earned his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1996. Professor Cai resides with his family in West Lafayette, Indiana.


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[515] Reticulin and NM23 Staining in the Interpretation of Lymph Nodal Nevus Rests
WA Kanner, CI Barry, CN Smart, DP Frishberg, SW Binder, MR Wick. University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA; UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Background: Melanocytic nevus rests in lymph nodes are a known diagnostic challenge, especially in patients with a history of melanoma. Reticulin and NM23 have been studied in melanocytic lesions of the skin. The pattern of reticulin staining in melanomas surrounds groups/nests of melanocytes but individual cells in benign nevi. NM23, a metastasis-suppressor gene, has an association with metastatic potential in melanomas and some carcinomas. We sought to evaluate the differential diagnostic utility of these markers in capsular nevus rests (CNR) and malignant melanoma (MM) metastatic to lymph nodes.
Design: Archival paraffin-embedded lymph nodes of 28 cases from three academic centers (14 cases of MM to lymph nodes and 14 cases of CNR, all confirmed with Melan-A staining) were stained with reticulin (DAKO kit), and NM23 (1:3000, monoclonal, Santa Cruz). In 27 cases, the patient had a history of melanoma, and in 1 the patient had a history of breast cancer. The pattern of reticulin staining was reported as surrounding groups if staining was noted around 5-10 melanocytes in greater than 50% of the lesion, but was otherwise reported as surrounding individual melanocytes. Strong cytoplasmic staining was considered to represent reactivity for NM23.
Results: Reticulin staining around groups of melanocytes was identified in all 14 cases of MM. In the majority of cases, staining was noted around large nests (>20 melanocytes). Regarding CNR cases, 12 of 14 cases (79%) demonstrated staining around individual melanocytes, while in 2 cases, reticulin surrounded melanocytic groups. NM23 staining was equivocal in all cases of MM and CNRs, with adequate labeling of controls.
Conclusions: Reticulin staining reliably invests groups of melanocytes in cases of metastatic melanoma, while in capsular nevus rests, it predominantly surrounds individual melanocytes. NM23 demonstated no discriminatory value in this analysis, in contrast to the results of prior reports. In cases in which a collection of melanocytes is present within a lymph node, reticulin deposition around individual melanocytes supports a diagnosis of capsular nevus rest.
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Just two years after Stephen Hanson and Danny Errico launched their hip, urban James Hotel in Scottsdale, the entrepreneurs have sold the 194-room inn. Morgans Hotel Group said it will pay $47.5 million for the property and rebrand it Mondrian, after Morgans' own West Hollywood hotel on fabled
Sunset Boulevard.
The sale of the Scottsdale property is slated to be effective April 30.
New York-based Morgans moves into the Valley with an impressive portfolio of 11 boutique hotels in urban capitals.
The company owns three hotels in New York City, two in London, two in Miami Beach including the worldfamous Delano, Mondrian in the Los Angeles area and the celebrated Clift Hotel in San Francisco.
"We believe we can use our competitive advantages (financially) to improve the performance of this hotel property," Morgans said in an SEC filing regarding the purchase. "Specifically, we intend to: Rebrand this hotel property as Mondrian Scottsdale and pursue synergies with our existing hotel, Mondrian Los Angeles; renovate this hotel property to create our distinctive lodging experience for a first quarter 2007 re-opening; and replace the existing operating structure with our experienced management team and extensive infrastructure."
A Morgans spokesman could not say what the physical changes would entail or how much they would cost. He said until the deal closes, Morgans will not speak about any specific plans.
Morgans Hotel group claims to have revolutionized the hotel industry with the first modern "boutique concept" hotel, The Morgans opened in 1984 on Madison Avenue in New York. The company defines that concept as "characterized by personalized service and homeaway-from-home ambiance in a setting of timeless elegance."
Morgans also claims to have perfected such cuttingedge concepts as the indooroutdoor lobby and the idea of "simple chic."
The James owners said they will use the cash from the sale of their Scottsdale hotel to grow their brand. The second James, The James Chicago, is scheduled to open in March. A New York version is scheduled to debut in 2007, a Los Angeles James in 2008, and Miami, Fla., Boston and Las Vegas versions are still on the drawing board.
Despite the selection of Scottsdale for The James launch and a $25 million makeover of a languishing old hotel to serve as the prototype, Hanson said the local inn won't serve as the model for the brand after all.
"The hotel has been an incredible success, but as the brand evolved, the Scottsdale property did not necessarily fit the portfolio we were developing in our new urban locations," Hanson said in a statement announcing the sale.
Morgans is the second posh hotel company to announce a move into the destination in as many months.
San Francisco-based Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, which owns and manages a collection of urban boutique hotels with chefdriven restaurants, bought Caleo Resort & Spa in Scottsdale in December.
To add to the hip, upscale image of downtown Scottsdale, the art deco-design Valley Ho renovated and reopened in December. And the W Scottsdale, the local version of lodging giant Starwood Hotel & Resort's minimalist, trendy brand, is scheduled to open in 2007.


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Memorial ride honors fallen biker
UPDATED 7:24 AM CDT May 19, 2013Video TranscriptLOOK TWICE-- SAVE A LIFE. THAT'S THE MESSAGE áRIDING INTO GRETNA TODAY.. ..NEARLY ONE YEAR AFTER THE DEATH OF A BELOVED HUSBAND AND FATHER. GOOD EVENING. I'M TODD ANDREWS. JEFF AHL DIED DOING WHAT HE LOVED: RIDING HIS MOTORCYCLE. áLAST MAY 23RD.. ..A DRIVER ON 157TH AND PACIFIC.. ..ACCIDENTALLY TURNED IN FRONT OF HIM .. ..AND HE WAS KILLED. TONIGHT: HIS MEMORY LIVES ON.. ..IN A MESSAGE.. ..THAT COULD SAVE OTHERS. KETV NEWSWATCH 7'S NATALIE GLUCKLICH IS LIVE. TODD- NEARLY ONE HUNDRED MOTORCYLCE RIDERS ARE HERE AT THE LANGDONS BAR AND GRILL .. THEY FINISHED A RIDE THAT TOOK THEM ALL THE WAY TO FREMONT. AND HERE'S WHY.. THIS MESSAGE RIGHT HERE.. LOOK TWICE SAVE A LIFE. FINISHING THEIR RIDE IN BRIGHT ORANGE T-SHIRTS MARKED WITH THE SLOGAN.. MOTORCYCLISTS SAY THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT DRIVERS IN CARS TO REMEMBER WHEN THEIR OUT ON THE ROAD. THAT MOTORCYCLES ARE MUCH SMALLER THAN VEHICLES.. AND CAN BE HARD TO SEE. AHL'S WIFE SAYS THE MAJORITY OF MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT'S HAPPEN LIKE HER HUSBANDS.. WHEN DRIVERS SIMPLY DON'T SEE THE BIKES.(DEB AHL/WIFE.. : " jeff gave so much in his life and we hope that if this helps someone not to have to go through what we went through that by taking that extra minute to look again ) YOU MIGHT ALSO NOTICE BILLBOARDS AROUND TOWN WITH THE SAME MESSAGE... THIS IS THE FIRST JEFF AHL MEMORIAL BIKE RIDE-- BUT HIS WIFE SAYS THIS IS THE FIRST OF MANY . REPORTING LIVE IN GRETNA NG KETV.
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I am already spayed, up to date with shots, good with kids, good with dogs, and good with cats.
Brinkley is a very sweet girl! Her approximate date of birth is in June 2010. She was found with a large wound on her right hip. The wound was treated and it has healed well. She is a pretty girl (named after Christy Brinkley, of course!)who loves to play. She likes to be a queen bee!! She gets along with other cats after she gets used to them. She does well with older children and would do well with a gentle dog! She is very ready to find her brand new "forever" home!
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Brinkley, a Muncie Domestic Shorthair cat was adopted! Here's how you can benefit by looking at adoption as an option to buying a Domestic Shorthair for sale in Muncie, or seeking a Domestic Shorthair cat from a breeder in Muncie.
- Rescues and shelter volunteers in Muncie already know the personality and tendencies of their pets. This means they can match you with the right pet. That will makes it much easier transition to owning a pet for yourself and your new pet.
- On average adoption fees are much less than you'd pay a Muncie breeder, or pet store. Plus most often rescue pets have already been to the veterinarian for a check-up, had a round of vaccinations, and are spayed or neutered. That is a lot of savings!
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Poppy Love
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"Heart of the Simple Leaf" 2nd Place Winner for DgrinChallenge #121 theme: Centered
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Wild Garden
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"Secret Garden" - Ch#100: 100 yr old photo
Three Graces
The Zebra Longwing Butterfly
Dandelion with spring rain.
It's Spring at Balboa Golf Course
The voice of spring.
"Gentle" Dgrin top 5 winner of Challenge #98 theme: SOOC (straight out of camera no editing) using contrasting colors on color wheel
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Discovered this cute ladybug on the underside a Ranunculus in my garden. A delightful surprise!
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Hi, I am having some problems with a couple of my container plants.
Lobelia/New Guinea Impatient:
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Most lobelia don't like the summer heat and sometimes die off when the heat comes and stays and/or too much sun. I have the 'moon' series and they only get about 4 hrs tops of early morning sun. They last all summer. I've tried other kinds and they never lasted. The New Guinea...maybe too much water?? Check for bugs too on NG and the superbells. Kat |
- Posted by deep___roots ca9/sunset15 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 21, 07 at 12:29
million bells: can take some good sun, or will also do well with morning sun, then dappled shade in afternoon. lobelia & the N.G. impatien: morning sun, then dappled shade. sounds to me like too much watering is going on. unless your temps are over 100 degrees or something like that, watering twice weekly seems more realistic. this guideline also depends on the size of your plants. if it is a small plant in a small pot, it may dry out more quickly. million bells will wilt when they want water. once they get water they should perk back up. I'd water one day, then keep a sharp eye on these plants for the next few days. If they look good, don't water until several days have passed. lobelia reseeds and grows around for me in all kinds of places. I don't think it really needs a lot of water, but will tolerate it to some degree. For example, it has reseeded in a tub where I have elephant ears, which do like a lot of water. But I still only drench that tub once a week, unless it is really really hot. the N.G. impatiens are too much trouble for me to grow. one thing i like to do with my container plants on the deck is to mist them daily. get you a spray nozzle that has a mist setting and hit them each morning. then do your regular watering twice a week and see how it goes. |
I am sorry to confuse you but I have the exact opposite opinion. I don't think you are watering enough if they are turning brown. You have to pour the water slowly til the water runs out the bottom of the container. And I use Miracle Gro--small amount--every day. If you just pour some water on the top, it may well not be enough. Feel the soil with your fingers--even push your finger in an inch or so. The soil should be good and moist, tho not soggy. Brown usually means dry--too dry--dead. |
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I was reading in some older messages that browning buds are a sign of too much water in impatiens. I wouldn't water the New Guineas until they are looking a little droopy. My experience with lobelia is that they like a lot of water, and will dry up quickly when they don't get it. They also don't like afternoon sun. I put some lobelia in a pot with impatiens one time and they didn't last too long because of the infrequent watering of the impatiens. Don't have experience with superbells, but I think they're related to petunias, which I know are waterhogs. I probably wouldn't water daily, but I'd water a lot when I do water. That's how I do petunias. At the end of the season when I dump out my pots, the petunia roots have completely filled the pot, and I use large 18 & 20 inch pots. I have a 2 gallon watering can and frequently use 1 full can per pot when I water the petunias. Deanna |
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America's Best Picnic Spots
Don Peitzman
Colorado: Red Rocks Park & Amphitheatre
Chef: Alex Seidel, Fruition, Denver.
Favorite Picnic Spot: "Not only is Red Rocks Park & Amphitheatre, just outside Denver, a great music venue, it has the most amazing views of the city. There are many trails for hiking and biking, so you can pick a new picnic spot every time you go."
Favorite Picnic Fixings: "Sandwiches, fruit, nuts, water, and snacks if we are with the kids. If the picnic requires a little romance, then my wife and I go with crackers, cheese, cured meats, wine, and (more) wine."


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Rihanna is seen 'manning up' as she gets a tribal tattoo with chisel, ink and mallet
*Being a world traveler, Rihanna, like a lot travelers, likes to keep a memento from the various places she visits.
Well, RiRi is in New Zealand as part of her "Diamonds" world tour and while there, she got herself inked with a traditional Maori tattoo which, instead of a needle, involves a chisel, ink pigment and a mallet. Ouch!
In a video uploaded by Tiki Taane, a New Zealander musician and tattoo artist who worked on the "We Found Love" singer with tattooist Inia Taylor, Rihanna is seen grimacing as little arrows are hammered into her right hand.
As Black Voices noted, the 25-year-old already has over a dozen tattoos, including the goddess Isis on her chest, music notes on her ankle, stars on her back and a gun on her rib cage.
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I picked up this(at the time) raggidy looking plant at work. She sat next to my register all day, someone's forgotten 'to return for' or a change of mind. It had 3 flowers, one a bud still and the other two attempting to bloom. At first I thought the sun had bleached or burnt the color off, but thought I'd give it a go. I brought her home, trimmed her and snipped her two blooms, but let her keep the bud after pulling the outer wilted petals off. A few days later, this was my reward. the bud beside her is Blue Girl's, none from N-Joy just yet. |
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Kenneth Zucker
Kenneth J. Zucker is an American psychologist and sexologist, and head of the child and adolescent gender identity clinic at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.[1] Based on his collaboration with Susan Bradley, Zucker is considered an international authority in the field of gender identity disorder in children (GIDC) and in adolescents while he also has remained a controversial figure in the trans community.[2] According to Xtra!, "his clinic has probably diagnosed more GIDC than any other facility in the world."[3]
Zucker is also a Professor with the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Toronto. He was named editor-in-chief of Archives of Sexual Behavior in 2001. In 2007 Zucker was chosen to be a member of the American Psychological Association Task Force on Gender Identity, Gender Variance, and Intersex Conditions, and in 2008 was named chair of the American Psychiatric Association workgroup on "Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders" for the 2012 edition of the DSM-5. He previously served on workgroups for the DSM-IV and the DSM-IV-TR.[4]
Zucker was born in New York.[5] Zucker received his B.A. from Southern Illinois University, his M.A. from Roosevelt University, and his Ph.D. from University of Toronto in 1982. He holds a C. Psych. certification.
Zucker's graduate work in developmental psychology resulted in his master's thesis on normative gender identity development in children. While in graduate school, Zucker met his future collaborator Susan J. Bradley, a child psychiatrist on staff at the Child and Adolescent Service (now the Child and Family Studies Centre) at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (then, the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry), a public mental health centre and a teaching hospital of the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine.
According to his biography, "Zucker's awe of the imposing Clarke Institute edifice inspired him to meet with the then chief of psychology, Dr. Kingsley Ferguson", who told Zucker of Bradley's new working group to assess children and adolescents with gender identity problems.[6] Zucker had read Richard Green's 1974 book Sexual Identity Conflict in Children and Adults and was convinced to join Bradley's group.
Therapeutic intervention for gender variance[edit]
Since the mid-1970s Zucker has treated about 500 preadolescent gender-variant children to "help these kids be more content in their biological gender" until they are older and can determine their sexual identity.[7] For children assigned as males at birth, Zucker asks parents to take away their child's "feminine" toys and instruct the child not to play with or draw pictures of girls.[8] Psychologist Darryl Hill describes Zucker's approach to gender-variant children:
Zucker and Bradley believe that reparative treatments (encouraging the child to accept their natal sex and associated gender) can be therapeutic for several reasons. They believe that treatment can reduce social ostracism by helping gender non-conforming children mix more readily with same sex peers and prevent long-term psychopathological development (i.e., it is easier to change a child than a society intolerant of gender diversity). Reparative therapy is believed to reduce the chances of adult GID (i.e., transsexualism) which Zucker and Bradley characterize as undesirable.[9]
Zucker is at odds with gay and transgender groups, but distances himself from organizations that share this distinction.[citation needed] Zucker believes that failing to control a child's gender expression at a young age and seek early counseling for transgendered behavior can be considered "some type of emotional neglect." He claims some parents may have been swayed by an activist transsexual agenda and "cement...in more and more" behaviors that may not result from transsexualism. Instead Zucker advises such children work through their hatred of their bodies before being accepted as transsexuals.
Zucker supports the early intervention of children with ambiguous genitalia to be assigned and reared as female, or more generally as "the gender that carries the best prognosis for good reproductive function, good sexual function, normal-looking external genitalia and physical appearance, and a stable gender identity." He published results of two patients who were male by birth but suffered ablatio penis and were shortly thereafter reassigned as females. At age 26 both denied ever feeling the desire to be male. Both patients reported more masculine behaviors and bisexuality, about which Zucker suspects that gender role and sexual orientation develop mostly before birth while gender identity development begins shortly after birth.[10]
Zucker says parents set the goals at his clinic. "We recommend that one goal be to help the child feel more secure about his or her actual gender, another to deal with the child's emotional difficulties, and a third to help with problems in the family. It's helpful to have parents set limits on things like cross-dressing, which many parents have not done before coming to us."[11] Zucker's follow-up of 50 treated children found that "about 10 percent are still very unhappy about their gender, still cross-dressing, and thinking about having sex reassignment surgery" as young adults.[11] Zucker has stated that "the therapist must rely on the 'clinical wisdom' that has accumulated and to utilize largely untested case formulation conceptual models to inform treatment approaches and decisions."[12]
Zucker coauthored a statistical report with J. Michael Bailey that found gays and lesbians exhibited more cross-gender activity as children.[13] Bailey claims Zucker considers transsexualism a "bad outcome" for these children, specifically citing the risks and hassle of sex change operations.[14]
For adolescent clients expressing gender identity disorder, Zucker's treatment protocol resembles that for adult GID, consisting of hormone replacement therapy to aid the adolescent in a social transition. Since sex reassignment surgery is not generally performed on minors in North America, Zucker's clinic does not provide recommendations for it – instead, clients are encouraged to pursue reassignment through the adult Gender Identity Clinic at CAMH, which controls funding for the procedure in Ontario.
Controversy over reparative therapy for transgender children[edit]
As an editor of Archives of Sexual Behavior, Zucker published a controversial study on gay "reparative therapy" by Dr. Robert Spitzer, which the author later disavowed:
Yet, heavily invested after all the work, [Spitzer] turned to a friend and former collaborator, Dr. Kenneth J. Zucker, psychologist in chief at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto and editor of the Archives of Sexual Behavior, another influential journal. "I knew Bob and the quality of his work, and I agreed to publish it," Dr. Zucker said in an interview last week. The paper did not go through the usual peer-review process, in which unnamed experts critique a manuscript before publication. "But I told him I would do it only if I also published commentaries" of response from other scientists to accompany the study, Dr. Zucker said.[15]
The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association believes "'reparative' therapy that seeks to reverse sexual orientation or gender identification"[16] is an "extreme example" of bias that "may lead to increased self hatred and mental health problems."[17] Clinicians[who?] have cited similarities between Zucker's therapeutic intervention and reparative therapy for homosexuals.[18] However, Bradley and Zucker respond that prevention of homosexuality was never a goal in their treatments and cite a lack of empirical evidence for the most effective approach.[19] Journalist Marc Lostracco described Zucker's therapy as "well-meaning" but "problematic and harsh."[20] Others, like author Phyllis Burke, object to any diagnosis of GID in children, considering it to be "child abuse."[21] Zucker dismisses Burke's book as "simplistic" and "not particularly illuminating;" journalist Stephanie Wilkinson said Zucker characterized Burke's book as "the work of a journalist whose views shouldn't be put into the same camp as those of scientists like Richard Green or himself."[5]
LGBT activists protested Zucker's 2008 appointment to the DSM-5 working group.[22][23] The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force issued a statement questioning the APA's decision to appoint Zucker and a second member of the work panel.[24] According to a response released by American Psychiatric Association, Zucker does not advocate reparative therapy for transgender adults or for trans youth in all cases, and he opposes change therapy for gays under all circumstances.[25]
According to the Web of Science, Zucker has published almost 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals. These articles have been cited over 2000 times, with an h-index of 20.[26]
- Gender identity disorder and psychosexual problems in children and adolescents, 1996, Guilford Press, ISBN 978-0-89862-266-9, with Susan J Bradley
- Ex-gay research: analyzing the Spitzer study and its relation to science, religion, politics, and culture, 2006, Harrington Park Press, ISBN 978-1-56023-557-6, coedited with Jack Drescher
- ^ Dingfelder, Sadie F. (April 2004). "Gender bender". Monitor on Psychology, Vol. 35, No. 4. Retrieved 2008-06-17.
- ^ Awad G.A. (April 1, 1999). Gender Identity Disorder and the Psychosexual Problems in Children and Adolescents (review) American Journal of Psychotherapy
- ^ Morton, Gillian (January 11, 2001). Drop the doll! Xtra
- ^ Bradley S.J., Blanchard R, Coates SW, Green R, Levine SB, Meyer-Bahlburg HFL, Pauly IB, Zucker KJ (1991). Interim report of the DSM-IV Subcommittee on Gender Identity Disorders. Archives of Sexual Behavior Volume 20, Number 4 / August, 1991
- ^ a b Wilkinson, Stephanie (2001). Drop the Barbie! Brain, Child
- ^ Zucker, Kenneth J. and Susan J. Bradley (1995). Gender Identity Disorder and Psychosexual Problems in Children and Adolescents. Guilford Press ISBN 0-89862-266-2
- ^ Brown, Patricia Leigh (December 2, 2006). Supporting Boys or Girls When the Line Isn't Clear. New York Times
- ^ Spiegel, Alix (May 7, 2008). Two families grapple with sons' gender preferences. All Things Considered, National Public Radio
- ^ Hill D.B., Rozanski C., Carfagnini J., Willoughby B. (2006). Gender Identity Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence: A Critical Inquiry. pp. 7–34. In Karasic D, Drescher J (Eds.) Sexual and Gender Diagnoses of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM): A Reevaluation. Haworth Press ISBN 0-7890-3214-7
- ^ SJ, Bradley; Oliver GD; Chernick AB; Zucker KJ (July 1998). "Experiment of Nurture: Ablatio Penis at 2 Months, Sex Reassignment at 7 Months, and a Psychosexual Follow-up in Young Adulthood". Pediatrics 102 (1): e9. doi:10.1542/peds.102.1.e9. PMID 9651461.
- ^ a b Goleman, Daniel (March 22, 1994). The 'Wrong' Sex: A New Definition Of Childhood Pain. New York Times
- ^ Zucker K.J. (2008). Children with gender identity disorder: Is there a best practice? Neuropsychiatrie de l'Enfance et de l'Adolescence. Volume 56, Issue 6, September 2008, Pages 358-364
- ^ Bailey J.M., Zucker K.J. (1995). Childhood Sex-Typed Behavior and Sexual Orientation: A Conceptual Analysis and Quantitative Review. Developmental Psychology, v31 n1 p. 43–55 Jan 1995
- ^ Bailey, J. Michael (2003). The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism. Joseph Henry Press, ISBN 978-0-309-08418-5
- ^ Carey, Benedict (18 May 2012). "Psychiatry Giant Sorry for Backing Gay 'Cure'". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
- ^ Dean, Laura, Ilan H. Meyer, Kevin Robinson, Randall L. Sell, Robert Sember, Vincent M.B. Silenzio, Daniel Wolfe (2000). Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health: Findings and concerns. Journal of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, 2000.
- ^ Ryan, C, Bradford, J & Honnold, J. (1999) Social workers' and counselors' knowledge and understanding of lesbians. Journal of Lesbian and Gay Social Services, 9(4):1–26.
- ^ Pickstone-Taylor, Simon D. (2003). Children with gender nonconformity. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 42, 266.
- ^ Bradley, Susan J.; Zucker, Kenneth J. (1 March 2003). "CHILDREN WITH GENDER NONCONFORMITY". Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 42 (3): 266–268. doi:10.1097/00004583-200303000-00004.
- ^ Lostracco, Marc (May 9, 2008). But for today I am a boy. Torontoist
- ^ Burke, Phyllis (1996). Gender Shock. Anchor. ISBN 978-0-385-47718-5
- ^ Chibarro, Lou Jr. (May 30, 2008). Activists alarmed over APA: Head of psychiatry panel favors 'change' therapy for some trans teens. Washington Blade[dead link]
- ^ Rau, Krishna (July 7, 2008). Trans activists infuriated by doctors in charge of gender identity definitions. Xtra
- ^ National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. "Task Force questions critical appointments to APA's Committee on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders". Retrieved 13 August 2012.
- ^ "Statement on Dr. Kenneth Zucker and Gender Identity Disorder". 23 May 2008. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
- ^ "Web of Science". 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
External links[edit]
- Kenneth Zucker profile via Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
- Kenneth Zucker profile via American Psychiatric Association
- Kenneth Zucker at the Internet Movie Database
- Kenneth Zucker in The Atlantic


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Linda Payne's passion is teaching Sunday Bible classes. But up until the past several months, her teaching was limited, suppressing her joy.
She could not read. She could not spell.
Now Payne's passion has been unleashed, bringing her happiness and pride.
Payne, 48, can read Scripture to the children of her church and write her Sunday school lesson plans.
Her chains of illiteracy have been broken. Payne is free.
"When you can't read, it's like being in bondage," said Payne.
Learning to read has opened up possibilities and activities for Payne that were previously closed to her. She can read a menu, a letter and street signs.
She can also help her supportive husband more, the pastor of their church, Crossroads Christian Center.
More important, Payne can read books to her grandchildren. It wasn't long ago Payne couldn't spell the word grandmother.
"I enjoy life better. I can do more," Payne said.
But Payne did not take her successful journey alone.
Diane Musser, a volunteer with Literacy Volunteers of Tucson, has journeyed alongside Payne since the two first met last November.
Two strangers from different sides of town, from different backgrounds brought together through reading and a desire — to learn and to teach.
"We try to keep each other going," said Musser, 64.
I met the pair at the Eckstrom-Columbus Library during one of their lessons. They usually meet at a North Oracle Road bookstore — about halfway between their homes. Payne lives near the Columbus library and Musser lives in SaddleBrooke, near the northern edge of the county. They try to meet three days a week, five hours each session, more than the requirement for the literacy volunteers.
Musser was not Payne's first reading tutor. But Musser, in her first foray as a literacy volunteer, made reading possible for Payne.
Payne grew up in Yuma. Her parents had little education and were unaware that their daughter was passed grade to grade not knowing how to read.
In the fifth grade, however, the school placed Payne in a special-education class. Clearly she had a learning disability but no one bothered to find out exactly what.
She entered adulthood lost, believing it was her fault she could not read. A mother of four children, Payne struggled to make sense of the undecipherable letters.
She used memory. She asked for explanations. She made sure her four children graduated from high school. Two have college degrees, a third has attended college and the fourth is a musician who can read music.
A turning point for Payne came 12 years ago. She was diagnosed as dyslexic and a new world began to spell out to her.
Musser, who went to San Manuel High School, had previously done volunteer work with adults studying for their high school equivalency diploma or GED. After retiring as a dental hygienist, she to turned to literacy. Through her work she came to know adults who could not read.
Musser said she tried to put herself in their shoes. Being illiterate and the challenges it posed, she said it was impossible to imagine.
She went through training and then she met Payne. There was instant chemistry between the two.
"We locked in on each other," she said.
Payne said they built a mutual respect and trust between each other. That was key to her learning, she said.
In addition to trust and respect, Musser said her key to good teaching is being a good listener.
Beyond learning to read, Payne's goal is to take and pass the GED exam. Musser said there is no end date to their work.
But the relationship has gone beyond student-teacher, they said.
They've become friends.
Musser has met several of Payne's children and grandchildren. Payne said she can call Musser anytime.
"That's a friend," said Payne.
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Those interested in volunteering should call 882-8006 to register for orientation sessions on Tuesday, July 1, at 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. or Saturday, July 12 at 10:30 a.m. to noon. at its offices, 1948 E Allen Road.
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According to a report filed by deputy David Harper of the Bradley County Sheriff's Office, Thomas Fox said he has had problems with trespassers on his property during the past several months.
Fox discovered two tree stands missing from a location where he had them stored.
The last time he reportedly saw the stands was Jan. 10. It was unknown when the tree stands had been stolen.
Fox valued the items at $150 each.
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It must have been a Ford Model T. I've heard of fellas using the belt from their pants to get home, but then, the Model-T used a flat belt. Panty hose on a modern engine - probably not. If you are going to be motoring in locations remote from service, its a good idea to carry spare belts, even a good used one is better than nothing. But before you go motoring into the wilderness, check to see if you could change a belt if you had too. In some of todays cars, its a real challange to change a belt without a lift. |
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Mount Puncak Jaya at 16,024 feet, is located in Papua on the island of New Guinea. It is the highest mountain in Indonesia and the highest island mountain in the world. Less than two miles away is the Grasberg Mine, the largest gold mine and third largest copper mine in the world. Although the peak of the mountain is free of ice, its slopes are covered by several glaciers. Satellite imagery dating back to the 1970s confirms the glaciers have retreated rapidly. One paleoclimatologist predicted in 2010 that the glaciers will completely vanish by 2015.
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Freshly cut grass was the smell I most remember from my childhood neighborhood, mowed and manicured by young dimpled boys before and after school, but mostly on weekends in between wide-eyed bike rides and stick ball-playing in the street.
We were considered a Middle Class community not because we had lawns; a few with painted fences and a few without, but because we all knew the care of those small parcels of green-grassed privilege was the revered responsibility of us all.
On any given day you might see Chris, Brent or Phillip wipe sweat from their brows with their youth-calloused hands as they whistled and mowed the lawns of the Anderson family, the Portner's or the Wood bunch, with their sprawling yellow house and seven lapping dogs.
"See you at the Pier after I get done," Chris would yell to Phillip, whom we all called Philly.
Philly would not answer, but only raise up one of his hands as he was a particularly good mower and wanted to earn his two dollars and fifty cents an hour to save up for a new Schwinn bicycle.
These boys were about thirteen and fourteen at most, still not yet men but no longer young-heeled babes who ran tirelessly after the ice cream truck for the cold comforts of childhood.
Whether or not kids were expected to do their fair share was not an idea that occurred to anyone on the streets where we lived.
We all pitched in, some of us more than others; and as kids, we all knew we were part of something larger than ourselves; and that made us feel safe and strong; spirited and calm, and personally empowered, although we did not even know it at the time.
My father often recalled his first job as a paper boy and then as a gas station attendant. He told us there was no greater feeling than working and getting "that first tip", his first paycheck and buying a soda pop or comic book on his own dime.
My mother worked on her family farm beginning at the age of four and picked ripened coffee beans under the vast, widening skies of Hawaii during World War II. She worked with her four siblings while they sang made-up songs about school, their friends and the dreams they shared.
Philly eventually bought that bike and couldn't help but ride it in front of my house at least twice a day while he jumped curbs and mussed up his hair on purpose just to make me look.
Brent was saving up to put himself through college as his father told him that "an education had to be earned if it was to be learned at all."
As for Chris, he spent all of his earnings on a 1969 Blue Dodge Dart as soon as he was allowed to drive. When he got that car, all the girls in the neighborhood lined up each morning to get rides to school. Chris was smart.
No one I knew was given a car because they got good grades, because they behaved, or because 'they simply existed as children.' And we were much happier for it.
We all had chores, were expected to have respect without rewards, and our parents ruled the roost.
This meant that my sisters, brother and I were physically active. When we weren't cutting grass, walking to the corner store to buy a gallon of milk for mom, or taking turns cleaning the bathrooms or sweeping out the shed, we played outside.
We knew it was time for dinner when the sun had nearly set, and that meant setting the table was in tall order as we scurried home sweaty and tired from a couple of hours playing dodge ball, hopscotch, tag and baseball games that we played without cheering by our dads, because all of our dads worked.
All this work and play meant obesity was not a childhood epidemic.
Neither was ADHD, suicides due to bullying over the Internet, or permanently curved spines because of over-texting and over-sexting.
We didn't have time for all that.
On some evenings we played board games like Scrabble, Monopoly, Chinese Checkers and Parcheezi.
On other nights we might have watched shows like Mary Tyler Moore, The Jeffersons, I Love Lucy, Monty Python's Flying Circus, a PBS documentary or two, and on the weekends, Saturday Night Live.
And we watched most of these shows 'together as a family', strange as that may sound.
There were no debates between children and their parents about buying the latest cell phone that parents could not even afford.
We didn't talk back for "fear of our fathers" and we ate dinner each night at the same time, usually with our Black and White rabbit-eared television airing The Evening News with Walter Cronkite.
We didn't have a lot in the way of material things, but we were beter for it.
As a kid, I still remember my annual trip to Sears to get my one pair of 'back-to-school' shoes I was told had to last through the Holidays.
My girlfriends also showed off our two new Marcia Brady dresses we were so proud of each fall, along with ribbons that decorated our braided hair we wore well through the second year of middle school.
Boys used to smirk at us with their striped short-sleeved shirts, corduroy pants, sun-kissed hair and shy-flirted glances.
The kids at my school weren't mean and we weren't angry.
There was a feeling of optimism in the air; a kind of solid and steady cadence that followed us because we allowed it to, and because our parents treated us as their children, not as their friends.
My kids are at that magical age now.
You know . . . that brief and oh-so fleeting time somewhere between childhood and full-blown adolescence.
Their minds are still clear, their curiosity intact, and there is no inkling of apathy or ungrounded angst.
They say they want to work; that they want to do something meaningful when they get older, and that they believe that "almost anything" is possible.
I believe them, and that's the best thing I can do as their parent.
But what's important is that they know they must believe in themselves if anything worthwhile is going to happen.
On the streets where we live now . . . there are not so many lawns to mow, safe streets to play in, or open-ended hours to enjoy the sweat-filled days of youth until dusk.
Somehow, the days of youth are shorter because we have allowed them to. Our new techno-fevered and furious pitch that we have decided is a normal and healthy culture has robbed the living daylights right out of our children.
But however long their childhood lasts, it is theirs, not mine, and I know they will find their own way, just like Chris, Brent and Phillip did; my three siblings and I, and my parents and their parents before them who were part of The Greatest Generation.
The greatest gifts I can give my children is the freedom and learned joys of physical and emotional autonomy, peppered with hard-fought work, personal responsibility and the sweat-filled days that only come with being young, bare-faced and naive.
"Put your phones away, it is time to eat," I said to my daughters one night as the aroma of homemade spaghetti sauce blanketed our senses.
During dinner, sometimes I ask them what they learned in school; if they have any new friends, or if anything particularly interesting had happened they might want to share.
But usually we just sit in each other's company in the quiet and stillness of a family meal, enjoying the fleeting moments that I know they will remember together one day in concerted yearning and sweet melancholy.
As I kissed one daughter on her wind-swept forehead after school yesterday, my heart swelled and my eyes teared as I knew my sleepless parented nights had not been in vain.
"I can't wait until college because I'll be able to choose the classes I want," she said, with her heavy backpack in her arms and shoes naturally untied.
"That will be the best day of my life, and it's only seven years away."
As she continued to go on about college, and all of her innocence-filled life plans, all I could focus on were the words "only seven years away."
Seven years away I thought.
Seven more glorious years to bask in the glow and the magic that is childhood.
love this:
"The greatest gifts I can give my children is the freedom and learned joys of physical and emotional autonomy, peppered with hard-fought work, personal responsibility and the sweat-filled days that only come with being young, bare-faced and naive. "
This piece was written from a deep, dark and yet comfortable place. My greatest appreciation for your reading it.
(But your one sentence paragraphs drive the editor in me catatonic!)
Well, I suppose that is just the kind of effect that I have on people :) Perhaps I have been reading too much John Steinbeck. I am pleased you enjoyed my post. Peace
Kids have instincts for what we tell them, yet they react quite differently than we do. How this is worth examining, coming to terms with, may tell us who we are. Pretty cool, I feel. You are close to this path. Felt it strongly in your recent piece on Cutting.
Yeah, love the '7 years', kind of like its 7 days in camp. Must be exciting for you, as I sense that you want to help them see, know -- yet not be hovering ... You're a wonderful mom and writer. R>>>>>>>
There is no greater opportunity and blessing than being a parent, as well as a child.
And as a parent, if you can remember the magic of your own childhood with its wonderments of innocence, raptured youth and optimism . . . and bestow those gifts to your own children, than there lies an even greater treasure for the loving, adventurous relationship that is the parent and child bond.
As I raise my daughters, I am continually amazed by their wisdom, fearlessness, bravery, big-heartedness and love and lust for whatever moment they happen to be in.
I only hope I can continue to be a "good mom" as you so kindly called me, for that is everything.
I appreciate full well your kind words, thoughts and comments about this sentimental
This piece I know was quote sentimental, but good practice for a book of short stories I am writing about the American experience from the perspective of a young multi-ethnic and interfaith family.
I am pleased that you liked it.
Please note the comments below where there was an editing mistake made towards the end of the piece.
Thank you again and Peace :)
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On a similar vein to your story, our 24 year old was already talking about his childhood at dinner last week as if it had happened 50 years ago, while Husband and I quietly and simultaneously cracked up and got teary-eyed in the corner.
Life's phases can go so quickly.
On a similar vein to your story, our 24 year old was already talking about his childhood at dinner last week as if it had happened 50 years ago, while Husband and I quietly and simultaneously cracked up and got teary-eyed in the corner.
Life's phases can go so quickly.
It is my honor to meet you my friend.
We are all here for such a short glimmer of time, here and there
Under moonlit afternoons and sun-kissed evenings
All breathing and waiting, watching and echoing
This earth-scented hand that I grasp my friend with
All along the coastline as we talk about this or that
Or simply hum the sounds of our own stories
We are yet to discover
"That child is mine," I said
And I love the way she kicks her feet about as she reads
"That's cool" my friend says
And we walk an walk until we are home again.
Peace to you J.P.
Isn't it odd and a bit blue that we refer to the once-common decencies of respect as 'old-fashioned'? I believe that really says it all my friend. There are many parents like you and I who love our children enough to give them the gift of assured responsibilities, simple kindness as a given and the chutzpah to "call them out" when they are going adrift. Thank you for reading, as appreciating my "one-sentence paragraphs." :)
There are still some of us out there who lay down our lives so that our children can live happy, decent, home-grounded and community-rich lives with family-centered love and personal responsibility.
I try and raise my daughters in the best way that I know and that I able, which often just means saying "Hey, how are you doing kid?" as I give them a bear hug.
On other days, I may be up until midnight researching a a subject for a book report because I am interested in what one daughter is learning about; while on another day I may be teaching another daughter my grandfather's recipe of Chicken soup from the old country.
I too moved from Los Angeles to a quiet small Norman Rockwell-esque town in Northern California where the kids mow lawns, wash cars and drive around their parent's old VW bugs and rattled minivans as they take their younger siblings to school.
Thank you for reading my piece.
I believe we are kindred spirits . . . and that is not such a bad thing.
Weren't we so blessed and enriched to have grown up in those days? We were free, we were adventurous and we knew the decisions that we made by ourselves would have consequences either way, which helped us to go forward, and without apathy or disdain.
I knew many boys like you, and I look back on my old school pictures and somehow know they are all doing pretty well-- not necessarily financially or driving sports cars they drive home to mansions-- but doing well as free thinkers, hard workers; decent men with hard-fought work in their veins and still with that boyish and now manly charm they already possessed at 12 and thirteen.
Thank you for reading my friend.
And congrats back to you on your EP.
I was one of those boys who had to mow the lawn, not only for myself, but for a neighbor who paid a small amount. I suffered through the cutting of every blade of grass, because I was (and am) biologically inferior and cursed, and have allergies.
All that mowing didn't lose the weight I carried through childhood. It didn't make me as healthy as the athletes in school, who had killer bods developed through esoteric exercises with weights and machines, not through work that accomplished anything. They were the ones who were admired, applauded and drooled-after by the attractive girls. Who, by the way, performed their own exercises not attached to actual work.
They had the tape recorders that allowed them to save recorded moments of fun and music from television. They had the era's high-tech toys. With my pennies I saved up and got a tape recorder mechanism, without the electronics that actually saved the audio to tape. I tried to hack together the amplifiers, bias circuits and high-frequency oscillators to make it work. I failed. It would be a decade later before I bought a working tape recorder, and by then the world had moved on.
They had the fancy clothes and looked good in them, and whether or not they had sex (the occasional pregnancies suggested that they had) they certainly had companionship. The few people I knew - none of them girls - had to resort to porn, and the certainty taught by our religions that we should be ashamed of our sexual impulses. Every glance at a printed copy of a naked breast would shove us closer to Hell, and we couldn't stop looking, and that eventually made us feel worse.
The environment in which they prospered, and in which we suffered, eventually ended. The football stars, who got by in classes, found out they couldn't make it in college. I did well in college and in tech careers afterwards. But it didn't matter. Because in high school, they got to know the first blush - and thrust - of love, and I never did.
And so, when I heard about what Harris and Klebold did at Columbine High, I wasn't so much shocked as vindicated. Two other kids who were as much a loser as I was found another way to get back at the handsome kids, and become known for something they did. Their only problem was that they didn't live to enjoy it or to bring the good news to the many others others like them. You know, the broken, miserable kids cutting grass and sniffling from more than just allergies.
The words you expressed are filled with understandable pain, anguish and remorse for a childhood that still haunts your every sense of being.
I am sorry that you suffered so-- no one deserves to feel "less than", and we unfortunately live in a world wherein people are cruel, savaged-mouthed and even malicious.
I was popular, but not in the way that you may think, or in a way that anyone would like to be.
As a good girl, I was somehow ridiculed and made fun of for being easy, just because of the way that I looked. Boys whom I turned down would start rumors about me that spread like the worst of wildfires.
There was nothing I could do; as it seemed merely a second when I was a ballet dancer and then the next a curvy young woman who was tormented simply because of my physical appearance.
I made it through those years, and stayed somehow innocent enough but I still feel the scars- as you do-- from my early and even later adolescents.
Thank you neutron for sharing your personal story with all of us.
I hope that you know there are many people who are not quite as horrible as those you experienced in high school.
Indeed it appears as if we lived the same lives but only in different communities; but what we shared is a priceless commodity that can never be bought but only experienced as we did.
We experienced childhood in a gentle, hard-fought and magical way that paved the way for our solace, well-spirited space and gentle, hard work ethic.
And we are proud of our childhoods, and grateful as well, for even the angst and suffering we may have endured . . . for that is what has made us the people we are. People who are complex, empathetic, calloused-handed and grateful for the time they were allowed to experience such a sweet time and feel present in it.
Thank you for reading and I truly appreciate your story as well.
I look forward to reading your posts as well.
I still miss my kids too, even though they are still here at home with me. I already long for their younger days and already miss who they are now for my future days . . . that is the true love of we parents feel for our children, "always our children", our breadth, our heart and our breath.
It must be natural to remember "what was" and miss it a bit, and so very human to trust that our kids will find their own ways and have their own memories to fall back upon.
This is a very fine write, and very deserving of an EP. Please do more.
The adventures of my children now fulfill that space where my own childhood lurked so deep and still, in so many of the moments that made each experience of youth last so long, and yet fleeted with bounty.
Thanks for reading, I shall write more-- look for a piece soon about the teen years and the magic that can continue to cascade from its yearnings.
This is a very fine write, and very deserving of an EP. Please do more.
J D Smith


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Prof. Rachel Friedman, Vassar College
"Derek Walcott's Odyssey and the Postcolonial Recovery of Classical Greek Texts"
In the fall of 2008, Prof. Friedman of Vassar College joined Prof. Arnush's CG 311 Herodotus class to discuss the implications of the Persian Wars for the Greeks. Friedman also gave a presentation to the campus community on Derek Walcott's "Stage Version" of the Odyssey, commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and first performed in 1992, specifically Walcott's characterization of Odysseus as a wandering hero extremely ambivalent about his return home to Ithaka. Friedman considered whether Walcott's reading of Odysseus might be seen as emerging from Homer's poem and suggested some of the ways such a reading can help us access aspects of the ancient texts from a postcolonial perspective.
Prof. Hans-Friedrich Mueller, Union College
"Roman Law and Roman History: Debt-Bondage and Sexual Politics"
We were delighted to welcome Prof. Mueller, our colleague at nearby Union College, to deliver the 13th annual Classical World lecture. Tied closely to the CC200 Classical World course, this distinctive lecture is presented by a well-respected teacher-scholar and Prof. Mueller did not disappoint. He focused on the historical evidence for the abolition of debt-bondage in ancient Rome, visiting fundamental issues in Roman historiography, the fragments of the Twelve Tables, the introduction of metal coinage, same-sex desire, forced-sex work, and the intersections of sexual politics with the history of Roman law. After the lecture, Prof. Mueller joined 20 students and the departmental faculty for a delightful dinner at a nearby restaurant.
In the spring of 2009, students in CC200 The Classical World hosted a mini-marathon, four-hour reading of Books 9-12 and 22 of Homer's Odyssey. Together with musical accompaniment on guitars and ukelele by members of the class, the participants - from the department and the community - offered dramatic readings of Odysseus' adventures with the Cyclops, the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, and, of course, the defeat of Penelope's suitors.
In the fall of 2008, the students in Prof. Curley's CC222 Greek Tragedy explored the uses and meanings of Greek tragedy throughout the fifth century BCE. The course culminated in a staged production of an original play, written and produced by the students, in English in the style of Athenian tragedy, complete with masks and a Chorus. The tragedy explored the trials of Niobe, the vainglorious queen of Thebes, who boasts too proudly of her seven sons and seven daughters and incurs the wrath of Leto, the divine mother of Apollo and Artemis. How will Leto take revenge? Who will survive? What lessons will be learned? Over 100 students and faculty witnessed a sterling performance in Gannett Lobby, yet another example of the fine work our budding playwrights and actors craft in Prof. Curley's courses on ancient drama.


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"Many family caregivers wake up every day with anxiety and fear because they don't know how a loved one with Alzheimer's will act or react," said James Gardenhire, owner of the local Home Instead Senior Care office.
To help families face Alzheimer's with confidence rather than fear, the local Home Instead Senior Care office is making available free workshop opportunities which are available for family members where they will receive training to help them deal with the challenging behaviors that often result from Alzheimer's and other dementias.
In the workshops, family members will receive a version of the same in-depth Alzheimer's CARE (Changing Aging Through Research and Education) training program which was developed for the network's professional CAREGivers. The workshops will offer specific solutions for many common issues arising when caring for someone with Alzheimer's.
The workshops will be offered on Oct. 17 at 2 p.m. at Home Instead Senior Care, 7625 Hamilton Park Drive, Suite 4, Chattanooga. Other help includes:
— A free Confidence to Care at Home kit, an at-a-glance collection of information, tips and resources to help handle difficult situations, avoid household accidents, encourage engagement and prevent caregiver stress.
— The Alzheimer's and Other Dementias Daily Helper smartphone app (available Sept. 16) that helps families find solutions when they have to react quickly to a difficult situation.
For more information about the Home Instead Senior Care network or its free Alzheimer's resources, visit www.helpforalzheimersfamilies.com or call the local Home Instead Senior Care office at 423-893-9993.


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María Elena García is director of the Comparative History of Ideas program and associate professor in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. She received her PhD in Anthropology at Brown University. Her first book, Making Indigenous Citizens (Stanford, 2005) examines Indigenous politics and multicultural activism in Peru. Her work on Indigeneity and interspecies politics in the Andes has appeared in multiple edited volumes and journals. Her second book project, Cuy Politics, explores the lives, deaths, and representations of guinea pigs as one way to think about the cultural politics of contemporary Peru, especially in relation to food, race, and violence.
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Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies
José Antonio (Tony) Lucero is the Hanauer Honors Professor and Chair of Latin American and Caribbean Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies. A graduate of Stanford (BA, Political Science) and Princeton (MA/PhD, Politics), he is the author of Struggles of Voice: The Politics of Indigenous Representation in the Andes. He is currently working on research projects on the cultural politics of (1) conflicts between Awajún/Wampis Indigenous communities and the filmmaker Werner Herzog in Peru (2) human rights activism, religion, and Indigenous politics on the Mexico-US border. He teaches courses on Indigenous politics, international political economy, critical theory, social movements, Latin American politics, and borderlands.
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Associate Professor, American Indian Studies
Dian Million (Athabascan) is Associate Professor in American Indian Studies and Adjunct Faculty in Canadian Studies at UW, Seattle. She holds a BA in interdisciplinary studies from Fairhaven College, Western Washington University and a MA and Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley. Dian's most recent research explores the politics of mental and physical health with attention to affect in intersection with race, class, and gender in Indian Country. She is the author of Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights (University of Arizona Press, Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies Series, 2013) as well as numerous articles, chapters, and poems. Therapeutic Nations is a discussion of trauma as a political narrative in the struggle for Indigenous self-determination in an era of global neoliberalism. She teaches courses on Indigenous politics, literature, and social issues.
Annie Dwyer
Lecturer in CHID, Ph.D. in English
Annie Dwyer received her Ph.D. in English at the University of Washington. She studies nineteenth and early twentieth century American literature and culture, focusing on the intersections among material practices involving animals, cultural ideas of animality, and the constructions of racial, gender, and sexual difference. Her dissertation project, The Modern Animal, explores how shifts in U.S. racial formation are bound up with emergences in human-animal relationships. She has collaborated on a number of critical pedagogy projects, including the Simpson Center for the Humanities graduate student interest group Queer Pedagogical Performance. She has also been teaching fellow in the Project for Interdisciplinary Pedagogy Program at UW Bothell.


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