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SAN FRANCISCO -- Alan Trounson, a pioneering Australian embryologist, is conducting what may be the world's most ambitious experiment in public funding for science: California's voter-approved $3 billion speculative venture in human stem-cell research.
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California is the first state in the U.S. to use public bonds to fund such critical experiments. Whether or not researchers can deliver hoped-for treatments of several chronic diseases, they have already transformed how controversial biomedical research is sustained.
Aiming to shape the future of medicine, Dr. Trounson and his colleagues at the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine here struggle daily with the ethical and political challenge of funding human-embryo research the federal government has largely shunned.
There is an air of urgency. The scientists and patient activists persuaded seven million state voters in 2004 to approve Proposition 71, the ballot measure authorizing the state funding, with promises to deliver clinical stem-cell treatments for intractable medical disorders within a decade.
Now, it is up to Dr. Trounson, the institute's third president in two years, to make good on those promises. An early leader in human-embryo research, Dr. Trounson developed the key techniques of commercial in vitro fertilization, which have been responsible so far for the birth of four million or so healthy children to infertile couples world-wide.
If things work out, this could be his second medical revolution. "Most people think it is impossible," Dr. Trounson says. "Ten years, by anybody's framework in this business, is incredibly short."
Even so, he is keeping California's research options open, allocating $23 million in June to create not just human embryonic stem cells but also new iPS adult stem-cell lines, to stay abreast of shifts in a field moving more swiftly than many had anticipated.
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With $3 billion in state funds at its disposal, The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine is changing the way controversial biomedical research is supported. Nine other states -- including New York -- followed suit, recently forming The Interstate Alliance on Stem Cell Research.
On Thursday, the Harvard Stem Cell Institute reported in the journal Cell its researchers had created new iPS human stem cell lines for 10 diseases from patients' skin cells.
Last week, Harvard and Columbia University researchers reported online in Science that they created iPS stem cells from skin of patients with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease) and coaxed them to form motor neurons
There may be new problems with federally-approved stem cell lines, according to University of Wisconsin bioethicist Robert Streiffer in The Hastings Center Report. His review of the consent forms signed by those who donated embryos for the NIH-approved embryonic stem cell lines reveals several problems, providing ethical as well as scientific reasons to overturn the Bush administration's restrictions on federal funding for stem cell research.
On Thursday, federally funded Harvard University researchers announced that they had produced human iPS stem-cell lines for 10 diseases by cultivating skin cells from patients suffering conditions ranging from diabetes and muscular dystrophy to Parkinson's disease. Last week, a team of privately financed Harvard and Columbia university scientists announced they had produced stem cells for the first time from the skin of patients with a genetically based disease called ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease).
These new stem-cell lines can be used to study the diseases and to screen potential medical compounds, but all are considered too risky to transplant into people because they -- unlike embryonic cells -- could cause cancer.
"Serendipity plays such a big role in science, always has," Dr. Trounson says. "I'd rather not pick winners at this stage. Some things are going to happen that, I think, are going to be astonishing. Some things will come out as real disappointments."
Until now, intensive drives like the war on cancer and the Human Genome Project were efforts that only the National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies could afford. In California, though, this intellectual infrastructure is being funded just like a new highway bridge or harbor improvements, with 30-year general obligation bonds.
California inspired nine other states to circumvent federal restrictions on human-embryo research via local funding initiatives. Earlier this year, New York awarded its first state stem-cell grants from $600 million pledged over the next decade. State bond funding is spreading to other research endeavors. In November, Texas voters approved a $3 billion cancer-research bond measure.
Until last year, though, California's bond issue was blocked in court challenges by groups opposed to human-embryo research. To keep the institute alive, Robert Klein, an influential real-estate investment banker who led the original ballot initiative, raised $45 million in bond anticipation notes from nine foundations and private philanthropists, including Intel co-founder Gordon Moore and his family's Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the David and Lucille Packard Foundation. Mr. Klein, chairman of the institute's governing board, also secured a $150 million state loan from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
"The litigation from the far right cost us two years," Mr. Klein says.
In October, the state started selling general obligation bonds to fund the research. By June, Dr. Trounson and his colleagues had committed $554 million in 206 peer-reviewed grants to scientists and research centers across the state. Of that, the institute awarded $241 million to build 12 new stem-cell research centers that, by terms of the grants, must be finished in two years. Private donors and universities added an additional $880 million, bringing the total for the state's new research facilities to almost $1.2 billion, according to an internal audit.
"That commitment was inspiring," says Mr. Klein. By the institute's own accounting, the prospect of steady state funding for stem-cell research so far has lured 24 leading scientists in the field to the state and 33 younger researchers.
Dr. Trounson hopes that is just the beginning of the migration. When finished in 2010, the new labs are expected to employ up to 2,200 researchers, roughly equal to the entire membership of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, which represents experts from 44 countries.
"You can see this is going to unbalance the international equilibrium quite substantially," Dr. Trounson says.
His next step is the creation of disease teams -- funded at about $20 million each -- to develop a range of stem-cell therapies that can be ready for clinical trials within five years. Next week, the institute's board expects to consider creating a $500 million loan fund, that would give the state a stake in any successful commercial stem-cell ventures it funds.
Success is far from guaranteed. Of every 5,000 medicines tested, only five on average make it to clinical trials, and only one of those is eventually approved for patient use, Tufts University analysts say.
California can't go it alone in shepherding new stem-cell therapies through clinical trials, Dr. Trounson says. He must harness the commercial skills of pharmaceutical and biotech companies to the discoveries of academic researchers -- all under the eye of a state legislature with its own ideas about intellectual property and profit-sharing.
That may be his biggest challenge.
"They don't really like one another. They mix like oil and water," he says of the drug companies and university researchers. "But if this is all going to happen, they will have to be paired. That will be our role. Costs and deals will have to be worked out."
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Species Authority: | Stejneger, 1906 | |||
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Taxonomic Notes: | This species was recently separated from Plethodon jordani (Highton and Peabody 2000). |
Red List Category & Criteria: | Vulnerable D2 ver 3.1 |
Year Published: | 2004 |
Date Assessed: | 2004-04-30 |
Assessor(s): | Geoffrey Hammerson, David Beamer |
Reviewer(s): | Global Amphibian Assessment Coordinating Team (Simon Stuart, Janice Chanson, Neil Cox and Bruce Young) |
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Range Description: | This species can be found in Standing Indian, Wayah, Tusquitee, and Unicoi isolates of the Plethodon jordani complex, North Carolina and Tennessee, USA; it has an elevational range of at least 853-1,494m asl (Highton and Peabody 2000). |
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Scaly slimy crawling appendages are not easily embraced by the public.
Suggest consultation with a child psychologist and industrial design psychologist to make some thing more endearing.
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Make it more like a Puppy...than slimy-slug, land octopus.
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These octopus-like robots are truly marvelous pieces of invention based on state-of-the-art science and technology, manifesting the rudiment of life. (btt1943)
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10/10/2002 at 15:07
A delicate question for the ladies… I always go to the loo immediately before I run, and 99% of the time I have no problems, even on long runs of 20 mile or so. However, just occasionally and for no apparent reason, my shorts get wet without my realising its happening. I don't want to give up running because of these embarrassing episodes. Does anyone else admit to this problem? How do you cope? I've spoken with my GP and he's referred me for tests but what do I do in the meantime? I don't want to cut down on my fluid intake as I'm aware of the importance of hydration, but it is tempting.
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10/10/2002 at 16:21
I always wear them when I play hockey - just in case
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10/10/2002 at 22:17
Hello janet! I've had this problem in two of my four races! The first was a total suprise, and fairly minor, the second was worse, I always run in black cyccle shorts,
and sweat so much that I don't think anyone noticed!! I'd read some advice here to the effect of drinking plenty up until 1 hour before a race, then no more until the start.
I think it is ok then to drink a reasonable amount literally as you start, because something seems to switch the circuits to "conserve fluid" the moment you start to run.
Some say energy drinks are better as they hold the fluid in the body, i felt I experienced exactly the opposite, but this possibly because I only drink the energy drinks when about to race. When I'm drinking masses anyway.
the second time this happened it was pretty alarming, and I had to dive into a gateway, I was really worried about doing my first 1/2m at Bristol, fearing correctly that there wouldn't be many secluded gateways and I couldn't rely on being at the back for privacy!!
Armed with all the advice, I made sure I drank plenty the day before, and then a reasonable amount the morning of the race up to an hour before, nothing then until the first drinks station, and I was absolutely fine. (My intended last-wee-but-one turned out to be the last as the queue at the loos was so long and slow!)
My 2nd race in May was race for life, and as the gun went, I shot off in the oposite direction to everyone else to the loo, I was fine then too.
On training runs, the last thing I ever do is nip to the loo before starting, If I can start a run with an empty bladder, - all is fine, if I start with even a small amount, I'm in trouble. I really can't run and hang on!! I have no bladder problems otherwise at all.
I'm sorry this is so long-winded, but I really sympathise and hope this helps, it's an embarrassing problem, but hearing forumites discussing their bodily functions sso openly is pretty liberating!!, if yu have trawled around these threads you will count yourself lucky our problem is relatively odour and solid free!!
I hope there is nothing wrong when you get your tests done,best of luck, Dee.
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10/10/2002 at 22:44
Janet .. I get wet patches but I think it's sweet, are you sure that you aren't just sweaty?
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10/10/2002 at 23:00
EP I hadn't ever thought of that! personally In my case I know it's happening, just can't do anything about it!!
Perhaps I AM the only one then aaarggghhhhh!! :-((
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10/10/2002 at 23:03
I very much doubt it! Well at least I assume it's sweat! (I know once it wasn;t but that was when I had a bad coughing/chocking fit having down too much water!)
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10/10/2002 at 23:10
Something Can Be Done, girls.
Firstly - pelvic floor exercises. Remember those? Well worth keeping up your acquaintance with them. If you're merrily Kegeling away several times a day and getting nowhere, ask your doc to refer you for pelvic floor physiotherapy, or invest in a set of weighted vaginal cones (which are like weight training for the muscles of your pelvic floor).
Alternatively, there is a little keyhole op where a sort of tape (tension-free vaginal tape, or TVT) is used to change the angle of the bladder neck. Many urogynaecologists are doing this on the NHS - your GP will, I am sure, refer you if you ask. If the front wall of your vagina is a little floppy from childbirth, this can lead to being slightly leaky and a repair operation done internally can help.
You're not alone. About three out of every five teenage (yes, TEENAGE) girls will have a bit of stress incontinence sometimes, and it doesn't improve with the passage of time. I'm amazed how many women just put up with it and buy panty liners.
Cheers, V-rap.
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10/10/2002 at 23:13
cheers v-rap I hadn't thought of that ... never did many exercises after son as I had a c-section (not through choice I may add!) and so decided it wasn't really needed as I didn;t get stretched!
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10/10/2002 at 23:21
Hi VRap,
I've no excuses like childbirth, but do you think PF excercises would help me "hang on " when I'm running, even though everything is fine when I'm not? although I was fine all the race at Bristol as I stopped I nearly wet my knickers, but it passed then didn't go to the loo until that evening!! Will get some ?kugels? anyway, I'm invited to an Anne Summers Party soon, I think they do them??!!
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10/10/2002 at 23:37
Worth a go, Happyslug!
EP, one fact that private obstetricians don't always seem to share with their celebrity patients is that pregnancy itself, not just giving birth, can weaken the pelvic floor, and if your caesarean was an emergency one done when you were already in labour then as far as your pelvic floor is concerned you've done the whole shebang. So it's still worth exercising. As your weight comes down, you may find that things improve in the waterworks department too, so there's another incentive.
It varies hugely, though. I've had one elective C/S (breech baby), one forceps, one precipitate labour and one labour which wasn't precipitate only because the baby's head was in the wrong position, have been very erratic about pelvic floor exercises, and have never had a hint of bladder problems.
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11/10/2002 at 08:05
That's because of who you are, V-rap. I hereby appoint you the RW women's mentor and mascot!
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11/10/2002 at 08:07
I second that Sassie!
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11/10/2002 at 08:30
I used to get this problem when I was much younger (and fitter!).Pelvic floor excercises did help and I now have no problems at all when running. If youre worried about this- one tip I heard was to tip water over yourself at a drink station , then any dampness will be hidden because you're wet already (no good in cold weather tho...)
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11/10/2002 at 09:46
Thanks for all your comments and good ideas folks! Unfortunately it really isn't sweat. I'll keep up the exercises, try the pantyliners and stop drinking one hour before a run and see how that works. I like Liz's suggestion of pouring water over myself at a drinks station in races too, though with the cold weather coming that might make me go even more!!! Anyway.... I think the exercises are the way forward as prevention has to be the best option. Oh the joys of being female. Thanks again.
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11/10/2002 at 11:54
I have been referred to the physio dept for pelvic floor exercises few years ago (two pregnancies and oncomplicated deliveries of normal sized babies left it all a bit overstreetched, maybe because I am an older mum) Anyway I have noticed that the week before my period I leak, otherwise I am dry. But once I did a race-for-life race and there was a lot of jumping and sudden changes of speed and direction to avoid other people and at the end I was soaked. Black is the best colour to wear (I noticed wet patches in a lady before me who was wearing dark blue)if this happens to you but next time i'll use pantyliner or even a sanitary towel. No need to stop running.
Pelvic floor exercises will help.
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11/10/2002 at 12:19
No! Don't stop running because of this.
I forgot to say - and this is really, really important - that running won't make stress incontinence "worse" in the sense of causing more damage to the pelvic floor, whatever your least-favourite auntie may say about her next-door neighbour's third cousin's penpal whose womb fell out when she ran for a bus.
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11/10/2002 at 14:11
V-Rap. Thanks for that info, it really made me giggle as I had heard from my neighbour that her sister-in-law's auntie's friend's womb fell out when she was running for a bus!!!
But give up running? It would take more than a wet pair of shorts! (I had to stop for six months once after I fell in a cross country run and broke my collarbone in three places. Ouch!)
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11/10/2002 at 15:50
I was out running this morning (three wee-stops) and thinking - must post forum to see if other women suffer from stress incontience while running. I get back, sit at my pc and there's a whole thread on it that I've completely missed! Actually I''m quite relieved that I'm not the only one to have this problem (and I haven't had kids so I can't blame it on childbirth!)
The info posted so far is great, and really helpful... my problem is not wee'ing when running but as soon as I stop (crossing roads, opening gates and, er - embarrassingly - opening the front door of our apartment block. ). Sometimes, when I stop running to have a wee en route, it all comes rushing out before I've pulled my shorts down! Lovely ....
All this only really happens before/during my period and I've been doing pelvic floor exercise for some time but they don't really seem to make any difference. Any suggestions anyone. Those cones sound interesting - I wonder if I can get hold of them out here (in Iceland?)... now that's going to test my Icelandic!!!
BTW - Stopping running never occurred to me. As Janet Smith said, it would take more than a pair of wet shorts to stop me running!
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13/10/2002 at 15:05
I am so pleased that I am not the only one with this problem. I've written to other forums before with this same weak bladder complaint and had no success with answers. I was beginning to think I was the only one out there with wet pants. Feel loads better now, thankyou.
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14/10/2002 at 15:30
I have been told that before you get your period your pelvic floor is more lax.... blame it on the hormones. I can't think of use for a lax pelvic floor at that time of the cycle.
Since I have lost weight I notice less leaking, at the same time I run more which makes me toned all over (even the pelvic floor muscles?). I don't know why and how it all happens, but we only have a little tube from the bladder to outside, without any kinks to hold up.
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LaQuinton Ross didn't make the best impression at his first job interview six weeks ago. He quite possibly could not have made a worse one.
Whether Ross is one of the 60 players selected in the NBA draft tonight could speak to how lasting an impression it was. Or whether, in his private workouts with teams since then, he was able to erase it with an innate ability to make shots and take advantage of a God-given wingspan that is 6 inches longer than he is tall.
Ross' former Ohio State teammate, point guard Aaron Craft, also will hope to hear his name called tonight as coach Thad Matta's program tries to extend to eight years its streak of having a player taken in the draft.
Ross, a long and lean-looking 6-foot-71/2 wing who led Ohio State in scoring and rebounding as a junior, tipped the scales at a fraction under 239 pounds at the combine in mid-May. That was 14 pounds heavier than he weighed just two months earlier and made him the heaviest of the 13 small forwards there.
Moreover, Ross' body fat was measured at 16.3 percent of his weight, the most of any of the 59 players invited to the combine. And he finished last or next-to-last in his position group in a series of running and jumping drills.
"I think he really shot himself in the foot," former Ohio State point guard Scoonie Penn said. "There were already questions about his athletic ability and how it would translate to the next level, and then for him to test as poorly as he did and be in the type of shape he was in, it really hurt his stock."
Still, Ross retained his reputation as a shot maker, even if he didn't do that as well last season as many expected after he sizzled in the NCAA tournament the previous spring.
Spotting up outside the NBA three-point arc, on the move and off the dribble, he made 69 of 102 field-goal attempts (67.6 percent), including 55 of 80 threes (68.7 percent) in two days at the combine. Matta said he has heard that Ross also shot the ball well in some of his workouts since.
"People we've talked to have said that, skill-wise, he looked pretty good," Matta said. He did "kind of what they thought he could do."
Whether he has lost weight is uncertain. Ross did brief interviews after several of his workouts with 10 NBA teams but was not asked to address his combine numbers.
Neither Ross nor his agent has responded to requests from The Dispatch for interviews.
Ross left Columbus in early April to train in New York. A month later, shortly before the combine, ESPN draft analyst Chad Ford ranked him 35th among his top 100 players. Yesterday, Ford had Ross 70th, and in a sampling of seven mock drafts on NBA.com, only one had Ross being taken in the second round.
"It's kind of the same thing that happened to William Buford a couple of years ago," said longtime NBA player and current Big Ten Network analyst Jim Jackson, a former All-American at Ohio State.
"It's unfortunate, especially if that's the word going into the combine, when you have to take that opportunity to show your dedication and commitment and hard work before you get to a team. When you're not there, that hurts you."
Even if Ross is not drafted, though, he, like Craft, should get an opportunity to make a team as a free agent. By then, Jackson said, his NBA future will depend more on his consistency than conditioning.
"Even if it's (only) five or eight or 10 points a night, teams want to know they're going to get that every night, and with 'Q' at times, you just didn't know," Jackson said. "In a two- or three-game stretch, he could look like the player of the year in the conference, and then, in another three-to-five-game stretch, (he would have) no impact. The whole thing about 'Q' has just been his consistency."


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from up the road a bit. Just like the real draft since I'm first I can be premature and sign my guy early with Monopoly money. Not having a 2nd round pick is going to suck though.
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Kuo spent most of the 2003 season traveling with the team while he rehabilitated from his second Tommy John surgery. He never threw a pitch but got a major-league education.
"For me, it helped a lot," he said. "I didn't play, but I got to watch big-league pitchers - how they throw, how they prepare, how they think about hitters. I was doing the pitching charts, and I learned a lot, talking to pitchers like Gagne and Dreifort and (Paul) Quantrill and watching them."
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Handled with care, he pitched six innings in 2004 and was converted to the bullpen in 2005. Last season, he went from Class-A to Double-A and then got a September promotion to the majors with fewer than 100 innings pitched as a professional.
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"I turned to Sabes (Giants GM Brian Sabean) and said, 'Are you watching this? Can you believe this kid?'" Dodgers GM Ned Colletti said this spring.
Colletti saw Kuo as part of the Dodgers' bullpen mix and not just a situational left-hander. Dodgers manager Grady Little watched Kuo allow one earned run in 12 spring innings while striking out 14 and saw the same thing.
"He's been under the supervision of Dr. (Frank) Jobe nearly his entire career," Little said. "You look at the number of years he's been in the organization and the number of games he's pitched (102 innings over six years) - it's not a pretty sight. But he looks good out there on the mound. He looks strong. He's got stuff to get lefties and right-handers out.
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Kuo, 24, said he reached that point last year and does not worry about his elbow giving out again. When Kuo completed his long climb to the majors, Kohrogi gave him a few things he had saved - the Dodgers cap Kohrogi presented him in Taiwan at the news conference announcing Kuo's signing, the pitching charts Kuo kept in 2003 with the Dodgers and a video of those three innings in San Bernardino in April 2000.
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In 2006, Bishop Müller cut off a subsidy of €2 million ($2.5 million at today's exchange rate) that had been going to the Central Committee of German Catholics, which had become harshly critical of Church teachings and of the German hierarchy. The Central Committee had also been involved in pre-abortion counseling, which fulfilled one of the legal requirements for women seeking to procure an abortion.
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Pragmatics for Language Educators
A Sociolinguistic Perspective
By Virginia LoCastro
Routledge – 2011 – 334 pages
Routledge – 2011 – 334 pages
Making pragmatics accessible to a wide range of students and instructors without dumbing down the content of the field, this text for language professionals:
The book features careful explanations of topics and concepts that are often difficult for uninitiated readers, a wealth of examples, mostly of natural speech from collected data sources, and attention to the needs of readers who are non-native speakers of English, with non-Western perspectives offered when possible. Suggested Readings, Tasks, Discussion Questions, and Data Analysis sections involve readers in extending and applying what they are reading. The exercises push readers to recall and synthesize the content, elicit relevant personal experiences and other sources of information, and engage in changing their own interactional strategies. The activities go beyond a predictable framework to invite readers to carry out real life observations and experiment to make doing pragmatics a nonjudgmental everyday practice.
"This useful textbook offers readers a dynamic approach to understanding how people use language in real-life social situations. The author's goal is "to help both novices and experienced researchers …expand their awareness of the social aspects of language in use" (p. xi)." ? Arnulfo G. Ramirez, The Modern Language Journal
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I. What is pragmatics?
1. Defining the territory
2. Principles of pragmatic meaning
3. Sociolinguistic theories of pragmatic meaning
II. Core areas of pragmatics
4. Cross-cultural pragmatics
5. Interlanguage pragmatics
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8. Institutional Talk
9. Language, gender, and power
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13. Pragmatic competence in our diverse world
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Board approves budget, elects new officers and members, gives go-ahead for new business school institute
At their May 13 meeting, Baylor University Regents approved a $428.6 million operating budget for 2011-12, elected new officers and board members, and approved the establishment of the Robbins Institute for Health Policy and Leadership in Baylor's Hankamer School of Business.
Next year's budget reflects an increase of $25.3 million or 6.3 percent over the original 2010-11 budget adopted by Baylor Regents last year. It includes an increase of $22.5 million to support merit and need-based scholarships, graduate assistantships and scholarships for graduate and professional students. In particular, the budget includes a new initiative to help continuing Baylor students pay for their education. As previously announced, the initiative provides $2 million to help financially support students with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better who demonstrate continuing need upon filing the FAFSA in advance of the priority filing date.
Personnel costs will increase by $14.8 million or 5.9 percent, which will support approximately 19 new full-time faculty positions, 43 replacement faculty positions and 31 new staff positions. The budget also supports merit raises for faculty and staff, more competitive stipends for graduate assistants and increased funding for student workers.
During their meeting, the board elected five new Regents to three-year terms and welcomed a sixth elected by the BGCT. They are:
- M. Jay Allison, BBA '78, MS '80, JD '81, president, CEO and director of Comstock Resources Inc.;
- Dr. Kenneth Q. Carlile, BA '69, DDS '73, PhD '96, co-chairman of The Carlile Companies and co-owner of Camterra Resources;
- Jerry Kay T. Clements, JD '81, CEO and chair of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell L.L.P. law firm in Austin;
- Mark A. McCollum, BBA '80, executive vice president and chief financial officer at Halliburton;
- C. Clifton Robinson, BBA '63, chairman of Robinson Media Company LLC, chairman/CEO of Specialty Property Inc., and president of C.C. Robinson Property Co. II Ltd.;
- Milton Hixson, BBA '72, CEO of Financial Management Professionals Inc., who was elected to the board by the BGCT last November.
Elected to serve as new board officers were Neal T. "Buddy" Jones, BA '74, JD '75, as chair, and Robert E. Beauchamp as vice-chair. The officers will serve one-year terms.
The board also expressed its appreciation to Regents who have completed their terms: Stan Allcorn, BA '76, Wes Bailey, BBA '78, R. Stephen Carmack, BS '70, MS '72, and Harold R. Cunningham, BBA '56. Board Chair R. Dary Stone, JD '77, acknowledged in particular the service of Cunningham, which has included serving as Baylor's acting president (July 24-Aug. 20, 2008), chair of the Board of Regents (2007-08), vice president for finance and administration, acting director of operations and vice president for special projects.
In other business, Regents voted to establish the Robbins Institute for Health Policy and Leadership, which will serve as an interdisciplinary foundation for all health care-related initiatives in the Hankamer School of Business, including teaching, external programming and health services research. Following national accreditation for the Robbins MBA Health Care Program and the program's No. 25 ranking by U.S.News & World Report 2011 graduate school rankings, the activities of the Robbins Institute will continue the tradition of excellence in health care education and scholarship at Baylor.
Building on the university's ties with health care organizations in the region, the institute's external programming will move beyond the traditional academic setting to encompass executive education, a niche Executive MBA for health practitioners, clinicians and executives, and certificate training for health practitioners. In addition, the Institute will support the study of new approaches to health care policy, delivery and financing.


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Mr. Nelson said the final resting place for the monument hasnt been determined.
Were definitely going to relocate it, he said.
The monument was dedicated to Mrs. Haley in 1928 by the St. Lawrence County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
It was originally used as a water fountain for animals on Commerce Street. A plaque on the monument reads, To man, to beast – a Friend.
The monument was relocated to its current location in 1959. The city has owned the property since the 1800s, City Manager John M. Pinkerton said.
The Danas had been maintaining the property since moving in last fall.
Mrs. Dana said they plan on landscaping the property.


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WASHINGTON, Monday—Flying from Washington to Richmond, Va., yesterday morning was very pleasant. It gave me time before I left to see my grandbaby for a little while, and to have a very leisurely breakfast all by myself for the first time that I can remember this winter in Washington.
The baby is at the stage where everything goes straight into his mouth. Whether it is the beads around my neck, the spoons of the table, or the newspaper which he grabs out of my hand. I discovered when little Johnny Boettiger was his age, that newsprint was evidently harmless, so I do not worry any more when I see it being chewed to a pulp.
The car met me in Richmond and it took only three quarters of an hour to reach Virginia State College. The plant has been greatly improved in the last few years through the use of various government set-ups. I ate a very delicious lunch cooked and served by the home economics girls and can vouch for the fact that this course is well given. The head of the department told me that when they are through it, the girls are prepared for seventeen vocations.
Most of these young Negro people, however, take teaching positions. I feel sure that they are gradually raising the standard of living among their own people in the State of Virginia. There was no convenient return plane, so I drove back in three hours and twenty minutes and arrived here in time for supper. Our house guests, Mr. Alexander Woollcott and his secretary, Mr. Hennessey, arrived in the afternoon and were settled in their rooms, prepared to meet all the rigors of daily acting in "The Man Who Came To Dinner."
Mrs. Florence Kerr of the WPA, came to supper and also my old friends, Mr. and Mrs. Grosvenor Allen of Oneida, N. Y., and their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kerr, whom they are visiting down here. Mrs. Allen broke a knee last year and has had a lot of trouble with it, and so she is on her way to Tucson, Ariz., to convalesce. However, she has lost none of her old spirit and remarked to me in parting that she is coming back to take up all the things she has been longing to do during her period of inactivity.
I did not know that I was bringing together two Oneida County (New York) people, but Mr. Woollcott and Mrs. Allen have an equal interest in Hamilton College and entertained us with stories about their mutual acquaintances. Mr. Woollcott showed two reels of colored pictures in the evening, one taken in Marineland, Fla., and one in the autumn and winter showing his island and Vermont. The colors were the most beautiful I have ever seen and I only wish that all colored movies could be as beautiful.


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Episode Information | |
General | |
Season №: | 2 |
Episode №: | 25b |
Airdate: | February 17, 2001 |
Sister episode(s): | "Wormy" |
Credits | |
Writer(s): | Jay Lender Bill Reiss Doug Lawrence |
Storyboard Artist(s): | Bill Reiss |
Storyboard: | Jay Lender |
Animation: | Sean Dempsey |
Creative: | Derek Drymon |
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Chronology | |
Previous: | "Wormy" |
Next: | "Grandma's Kisses" |
List of episodes | |
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"Patty Hype" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season two. In this episode, SpongeBob makes "Pretty Patties".
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Squidward Tentacles
- Spiders
- Eugene H. Krabs
- Dave
- Tom (name revealed) (green; brown)
- Fred (name revealed)
- Shell Shack's Talking Dog (debut) (mentioned)
- Tina Fran
- Nazz-Mimi
- Archie
- John
- Cara (2 cameos)
- Martha Smith
- Francis
- Henry-Bart
- Thaddeus
- Old Man Jenkins
- Paco
- Anchovies
- Sadie
- Nathiel Waters
- Clay
- Vera Fishbowl
- Harry
- Lloyd-Rich
- Shubie
- Jennifer-Millie
- Halbert
- Abigail-Marge
- Nat Peterson
- Dennis Rechid
- Harold
- Harold (red fish)
- Evelyn
- Nancy Suzy Fish
- Mable
- Ivy
- Sally
- Perry
- Jimmy-Gus
- Sheldon
- Billy (lime fish)
- Members of the Band (debut)
- Scooter
- Franco
- Patrick Star
- Amoebas
- Johnny Elaine
- Bill
- Monroe Timmy
- Don The Whale
- Frank (muscular goldfish)
- Sylvester
- Mable (Gray)
- Scottish Fish (debut)
- Larry the Lobster (cameo)
- Sandals
- Joe
- Richard
- Lou
- Taylor Fishbowl
- Dale
- Buddy
- Frank (red shirt)
- Horace
- Mrs. Shell
- Harv
- Mrs. Puff (cameo)
- Lonnie
- Mevis
- Shelia
- Frank
- Medley
- Debbie Rechid
- Charlie
- Other Customers
The Krusty Krab hasn't had a customer in 36 days, and is shown to be filled with cobwebs and even a skeleton. Dave crawls in, claiming that he hasn't had any food or a drink in 3 days. SpongeBob immediately gives him a meal, but he refuses, saying that there's no atmosphere in the Krusty Krab, and resumes his search for food and a theme. Mr. Krabs overhears a conversation between Tom and Fred about a talking dog at the Shell Shack, and realizes that he needs a gimmick to attract customers. SpongeBob tries to give him an idea, but is cut off by Mr. Krabs, who decides to bury himself alive in front of a crowd that leaves him when news of the now singing dog reaches them.
SpongeBob, in an angelic costume after being ignored by Mr. Krabs for a while, gives him an idea: "Pretty Patties," which are Krabby Patties, painted in a variety of colors - "six designer colors." Squidward and Mr. Krabs laugh at him, and say that it's a terrible idea. They even create other ideas such as "sequined milkshakes" and "bow-tied french fries" to mock SpongeBob, which angers him. He leaves the Krusty Krab and sets up a stand in front of his house selling Pretty Patties, with Patrick, which is initially unsuccessful. He tries to give Harold a Pretty Patty, who laughs at that. SpongeBob is about to give up, when Harold sees a purple patty, his favorite color, and proclaims Pretty Patties to be the best idea ever. Following this, sales skyrocket.
Mr. Krabs sees this on the news and decides to take a look. SpongeBob is now serving the 46,853rd customer and has a large sum of money, which he and Patrick are giving away to the customers. Mr. Krabs says that he's never had that many customers in such a small amount of time, and gives SpongeBob the Krusty Krab in exchange for the "Pretty Patties" stand (as SpongeBob missed the Krusty Krab).
The next day, as Mr. Krabs is ready to make money, the customers all show to explain that the Pretty Patties had the side effect of turning them into their colors, and form an angry mob which begins chasing Mr. Krabs. He begs SpongeBob to let him into the Krusty Krab (since he gave the Krusty Krab's key to SpongeBob), but he is too distracted by the sound of the squeaky pickles by rubbing them together.
( ‣ ) Associated production music |
( • ) Original music |
( ◦ ) SpongeBob music |
‣ On the Beach - Kapono Beamer [title card]
‣ Kona Angel - The Surfdusters [opening]
‣ The Tip Top Polka/The Cliff Polka - Chelmsford Folk Band ["Hold on, me bucko, food's on the way!"]
‣ Hawaiian Link (b) - Richard Myhill ["Food! Water! Atmosphere!"]
‣ Dramatic Climax - Mike Sunderland ["Money walking!"]
• Harp Ding - Nicolas Carr [Krabs gets an idea]
‣ Here Comes the Band! (a) - Dick Stephen Walter [Krabs buried alive]
• Steel Sting - Jeremy Wakefield [later...]
‣ Here's Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy (b) - Tim Laycock, Robert Alexander White [Krabs trying to think of an idea]
‣ Heavenly Voices (b) - David Farnon [SpongeBob dressed as an angel]
‣ ? [drum roll]
‣ The Circus Comes to Town! - Dick Stephen Walter ["Ta-da!"]
‣ Showtime (c) - Robert Sharples ["Pretty Patties, available in six designer colors."]
‣ Hawaiian Cocktail - Richard Myhill [Krabs and Squidward make fun of SpongeBob's Pretty Patties]
• Puka A - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob opens his own restaurant]
‣ Steel Link (a) - Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob getting old]
‣ The Rake Hornpipe - Robert Alexander White [Patrick climbs into SpongeBob]
‣ Hawaiian Link (b) - Richard Myhill ["Mr. Krabs was right!"]
‣ Grand Orchestral Fanfare - Gregor F. Narholz ["Pretty Patties is the best idea ever!"]
‣ Dreamy Serenade - Len Rawle [Krabs watching TV]
‣ Stop Press - Vivian Kennard [Bikini Bottom News]
‣ Scotland the Brave - Gerhard Narholz, Dave Hewso [plaid Pretty Patty]
• Enigma Vibe 2 - Nicolas Carr ["How can you make money with such a stupid idea?"]
‣ Arnold is Back 2 - Gregor F. Narholz ["We tried burying it, shredding it and burning it."]
‣ Flight in Panic 1 - Gregor F. Narholz [Krabs runs outside]
‣ Steel Link (a) - Jeremy Wakefield [line of customers]
‣ Botany Bay (b) - Robert Alexander White ["Isn't this great, Mr. Krabs?"]
‣ Footsteps of Horror - W. Merrick Farran ["I bet you miss Squidward, and the grill, and the crow's nest."]
• Vibe Sting - Nicolas Carr ["Uh... yes, I do, lad."]
‣ Glamorous Affair A - John Fox, Otto Sieben [Krabs gives SpongeBob the Krusty Krab key]
‣ Nostalgic Romance - Gregor F. Narholz [SpongeBob overjoyed]
‣ On the Beach - Kapono Beamer [the next day]
‣ King Kong Coming - Gregor F. Narholz [everyone demands a refund]
• Twelfth Street Rag - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [ending]
- This episode is available on the SpongeBob Goes Prehistoric, Complete 2nd Season, and First 100 Episodes DVDs.
- In fan-voted SpongeBob SquarePants marathons, "Patty Hype" was ranked #26 during the Best Day Ever event on November 9–10, 2006 and #9 during The Ultimate SpongeBob SpongeBash event on July 17–19, 2009.
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- When a customer comes to the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob still looks like the Krusty Krab (gross and filthy), and Mr. Krabs is bright red like he should be.
- The Pretty Patties loosely resemble the popular French dessert known as Macarons.
- When SpongeBob is cleaning the Krusty Krab near the end, the drive-through window also seen in "Driven to Tears" is shown.
- Tom's and Fred's names are both revealed in this episode.
- Various episodes show Bikini Bottom to have anywhere from no people to over 500 people living there. Many surrounding cities must have had to come to Bikini Bottom to obtain a pretty patty.
- On the Krusty Krab window, along with the picture of a Krabby Patty, there are also pictures of fries and a soda. In other episodes, there is only the Krabby Patty poster.
- Like some fish food, especially goldfish food, Pretty Patties change the color of the fish that eat it.
- The Comcast description of this episode refers to Pretty Patties as "colored crab cakes."
- This episode has become a popular YouTube Poop.
- This episode was Japan under the title Suponji Shigoto, which means "Sponge Job."
- 46,853 (forty-six thousand, eight hundred fifty-three) is a five-digit prime number.
- The color green seems to be pretty common in this episode as it was used as the main color for the background of the title card, SpongeBob had more green patties shown than any other patty, all of the money he and Patrick earned (and gave away), and the green glow-in-a-dark tongue of the customer.
Cultural references
- Mr. Krabs exclaims "No one goes to a restaurant for atmosphere. They go for food!," which seems like a reference to the cult classic, Office Space (1999). Also, 36 days could be a reference to the pieces of flair Brian wears (37).
- In earlier showings of this episode, SpongeBob's first customer eats a blue patty. Now, he eats a purple patty.
- Mrs. Puff was seen in this episode standing in the back of the crowd. She was very skinny, her hair was longer and she didn't have any lines or movement. Her dress changed from solid blue to red with a blue collar several times.
- Before SpongeBob gets interviewed, on the aerial view of their stand, SpongeBob and Patrick are just heads without bodies, behind their stand. During the interview, however, they are in front of their stand, full body.
- After Mr. Krabs comes to see SpongeBob, Patrick's stand is no longer seen and Patrick is not seen for the rest of the episode.
- When Mr. Krabs hands SpongeBob the key, the fish that are in the background aren't blinking or moving.
- In Tom's first appearance in this episode, he is light green. But when Mr. Krabs is burying himself alive, Tom can be seen in the crowd in his normal, darker color.
- They didn't need to chase Mr. Krabs for their money back because they were able to collect it for free before. Knowing Mr. Krabs, he probably didn't give their money back and took it home with him.
- Mr. Krabs says that he has never had a line before, though there is a line at the Krusty Krab (in front of where Squidward works).
- For unknown reasons, William Reiss is accidentally credited as Bill Reiss in the opening credits.
- When the fish gets the free money, he says that he is going back in line. However, he runs off in the other direction. He could have meant that he was going back in line to buy more Pretty Patties.
- At the beginning of the episode with the fish that crawls into the Krusty Krab, he says he needs food and water. He would only need food because he is already underwater so he isn't dehydrated.
- Mr. Krabs' flamethrower has no trigger.
- Some of the fish in the crowd were seen twice. Nat Peterson however is seen 3 times.
- In other episodes, Tom is a brown fish, but in this episode he is an aqua fish.
- When SpongeBob wakes up and says, "Patrick! How long have we been sitting here?" SpongeBob's pineapple vanished.
- SpongeBob's hands are slightly bigger than normal in some shots.
External links
- Patty Hype at the Internet Movie Database
- Patty Hype at TV.com
- Patty Hype at Vimeo.com
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Title: | A Bibliographic Species List for the Biota of Kaneohe Bay |
Author: | Gordon, Joleen Aldous; Helfrich, Philip |
Date: | 1970-08 |
Publisher: | Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (formerly Hawai'i Marine Laboratory) |
Citation: | Gordon JA, Helfrich P. 1970. A bibliographic species list for the biota of Kaneohe Bay. Honolulu (HI): Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawai'i. Report No.: 21. |
Abstract: | This publication contains a bibliographic list of the species found in
Kaneohe Bay as recorded in the papers and reports listed in the Bibliography of Kaneohe Bay (H.I.M.B. Technical Report No. 20). It is intended that these two reports be used in cross-reference to each other. The species of animals are arranged phylogenetically according to the system used by Edmondson (Reef and Shore Fauna of Hawaii, Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication No. 22). The arrangement of plants follows that used by Gilbert Smith (Cryptogamic Botany. Volume I. McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York. 1955. second edition). The organisms are classified down to families whenever possible. Other references used were: 1. Hyman, Libbie H. The Invertebrates. McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York. 1967. 2. Johnson, Myrtle E. and H. J. Snook. Seashore animals of the Pacific Coast. Dover Publications Inc., New York. 1955. 3. Gosline, William and V. E. Brock. Handbook of Hawaiian Fishes. University of Hawaii Press. 1960. The authors wish to thank the following people for their assistance in clarifying taxonomic relationships: Dr. Allen Cattell, Mr. Gerry Key, Mr. Aprilany Soegiarto, and Mr. James Maragos, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii. |
Series/Report No.: | HIMB Technical Reports No. 21 |
Pages/Duration: | 74 pages |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/15110 |
LC Subject Headings: | Kaneohe Bay (Hawaii)--Bibliography. Marine biology--Hawaii--Kaneohe Bay--Bibliography. |
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