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Wings, foils and sponsorships—Sailing News from the U.S. and Beyond
Today's action started with one half of the match-racing quarterfinals, before then transitioning to two fleet races. In the match races, Oracle Racing Spithill, skippered by Jimmy Spithill, beat Luna Rossa Piranha (Chris Draper), and skipper Terry Hutchinson's Artemis Racing White defeated skipper Max Sirena's Luna Rossa Swordfish.
Artemis Racing - America's Cup World Series 2012-13 Sander van der Borch / Artemis Racing ©
Not surprisingly, Oracle Racing—the Defender of the 34th America's Cup—emerged victorious in the fleet-racing portion of today's sailing, with Oracle Racing Coutts (Russell Coutts) taking the first bullet, followed by Oracle Racing Spithill in second place and Luna Rossa Piranha in third. The day's second race saw Spithill take the gun, followed by Artemis Racing Red, skippered by Santiago Lange, in second place, while Artemis Racing White claimed third place.
Be sure to check out the full ACWS media blitz, inside this issue.
2012 ZHIK NAUTICA MOTH WORLDS. Day 4.
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Meanwhile, another other turbo-charged event is unfurling on the scenic waters of Italy's Lake Garda, namely the Zhik Moth Worlds. Here, 125 Moths from around the globe have assembled to determine the fastest sailor on foils. After four days of racing, Australia's Scott Babbage leads Joshua McKnight (AUS), Bora Gulari (USA) and Anthony Kotoun (ISV)—who are all tied for second place—by a margin of nine points.
While Babbage has now won the qualifying series, the overall Worlds title—not to mention the three-way tie for second place—is still in close contention. 'I had a good day with two wins thanks to a bit of luck and a bit of skills,' said Gulari, who won the 2009 Moth Worlds. 'A few days ago I stated my goal was to finish in the top five because I wanted to be humble, but after listening to all the Australians claiming they wanted to win I will also state that my end goal is to win the worlds!'
2012 ZHIK NAUTICA MOTH WORLDS. Day 4.
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Stay tuned for more from this high-flying event, and don't miss ace lensman Thierry Martinez's great image gallery—as well as a video recap of Day Four's action—inside.
And Olympic sailing circles, US Sailing and Sperry Top-Sider have inked a new multi-year sponsorship deal. 'Sperry is a pioneer in developing outstanding footwear for sailors, and have a long history of exceptional commitment to our sport,' said Jack Gierhart, Executive Director of US Sailing. 'We are very excited to extend our partnership with Sperry, and look forward to the energy and insight they bring to our members, events and programs.' More, inside.
May the four winds blow you safely home,David Schmidt, Sail-World USA Editor America's Cup World Series San Francisco - Carlo Borlenghi images Carlo Borlenghi images, America's Cup World Series San Francisco day 2 action from master photographer Carlo Borlenghi.... [more]Share this storyExtreme Sailing Series Act 5 - USA's Tunnicliffe to join GAC Pindar Nicolle Bloomfield, Extreme Sailing Series Act 5 is being held in Cardiff, UK from 30th August to 2nd September 2012. Olympic medalist and Team USA heroine, Anna Tunnicliffe, is to join the GAC Pindar Extreme sailing team for the event. Tunnicliffe, who is fresh from competing in the spectacular London 2012 Olympics, will swap match racing for multihull action as GAC Pindar battle against the Extreme fleet... [more]Share this storyAmerica's Cup World Series - Oracle Team USA on top Lisa Ramsperger, America's Cup World Series first stop in the 2012-13 season is currently underway in San Francisco, Calif where Oracle Team USA made the first impression count with a pair of wins in the first two fleet races in front of a home town crowd. Skipper Jimmy Spithill and crew opened with a win in the match racing quarterfinals, and followed with a first-place finish in the second fleet race.... [more]Share this storyMelges 24 North American Championship preview Joy Dunigan, The top US Melges 24 teams are joined on San Francisco Bay this weekend by visitors from Switzerland/Italy, Australia, Ireland, Canada and the UK for the 2012 Melges 24 North American Championship.... [more]Share this storyFisher's View: Day 3 ACWS San Francisco - Home team scores big time Bob Fisher, Day 3: As is the established pattern of ACWS racing, the day opened with two quarter-final matches in which both Luna Rossa teams made their exit. Luna Rossa-Swordfish, skippered by Paul Campbell-James was comprehensively beaten by Terry Hutchinson with the Artemis Racing-White team... [more]Share this story2012 Moth Worlds day 4 - Babbage takes qualifier series + Videos Pierre Orphanidis, A three-way tie for second place between Joshua McKnight, Bora Gulari and Anthony Kotoun promises three days of intense and exciting races at the Zhik Nautica Moth Worlds on Lake Garda, Italy. Scott Babbage would have needed a poor last day of the qualifiers to put his lead in jeopardy. jeopardy.... [more]Share this storyZhik Moth Worlds - Day 4 images by Thierry Martinez Thierry Martinez, Photographer Thierry Martinez was on hand for day 4 of the 2012 Zhik Nautica Moth World Championships in Campione del Garda (ITA) to capture this gallery of images.... [more]Share this storyAmerica's Cup World Series – Ainslie through to quarter finals Ben Ainslie, America's Cup World Series 2012-13 is being held in San Francisco from August 21st until August 26th 2012. Ben Ainslie provides an update on the first day of racing. So, having won both of our matches against Team Korea, we're through to the next stage of the match racing series, the quarter finals.... [more]Share this storyUS Sailing and Sperry Top-Sider agree on new sponsorship deal Jake Fish, US Sailing, the national governing body of the sport, and Sperry Top-Sider®, a leading global nautical performance and lifestyle brand, have agreed on a new multi-year sponsorship deal. Sperry Top-Sider remains the official footwear provider of US Sailing. This news follows the April announcement that Sperry Top-Sider has become the title sponsor of the US Sailing Team.... [more]Share this storyAmerica's Cup World Series San Francisco - Action on the bay Jane Eagleson, The America's Cup World Series opened in San Francisco on Wednesday afternoon. It was a good day for Luna Rossa. Both Max Sirena's Swordfish and Chris Draper's Piranha crews won their matches 2-0.... [more]Share this storyFisher's View: Day 2 ACWS San Francisco - Short sharp early Matches Bob Fisher, Day 2: The opening day of the ACWS for 2012/2013 on the 161st anniversary of the race around the Isle of Wight that started the competition that we now know as the America's Cup, was one of very short match races on San Francisco Bay. Three matches - first to two wins - were held and the projected time for each was 13 minutes.... [more]Share this storyZhik Moth Worlds - Babbage extends lead on Day 3 + Video Pierre Orphanidis, On Day 3 of the Zhik Moth World Championship, the 125-strong fleet faced a wide range of conditions that started with a 25-knot 'Peler' and 1-meter waves early in the morning, to a dying 'Ora' late in the afternoon that forced the race committee to shorten the last race. Babbage dominated once again and extended his lead, but the day's story is certainly Anthony Kouton.... [more]Share this storyISAF World Match Race Rankings for the 22 August 2012 ISAF, The ISAF World Match Race Rankings for the 22 August 2012 have been released. There is no change at the top of the ISAF World Match Race Rankings with 2011 World Champion Ian Williams (GBR) holding firm at the number one position in the open rankings and Anna Tunnicliffe (USA) staying put at the top of the women's rankings.... [more]Share this storyAmerica's Cup World Series – Ben Ainslie plays catch up Ben Ainslie, America's Cup World Series 2012-13 is being held in San Francisco from August 21st until August 26th 2012. Today was the last day of practice.... [more]Share this storyDean's Diary: ACWS - Barker downplays capsize in San Francisco Dean Barker, Dean Barker, Emirates Team NZ skipper and Director of Kiwi Yachting Consultants and Nexus AB, reports from San Francisco, USA from the America's Cup World Series: Today was the official practice day for this event in SF. Plan was for two match races and then some fleet race starts and race. Unfortunately for us it was a short day after capsizing in our first race against Artemis.... 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He was unreserved when asked about the relative merits of Match and Fleet racing: 'I think the guys who made the Deed of Gift, and changed the event from a fleet race to a match race, [if they were still about] would think the move was a pity.'... [more]Share this storyZhik Moth Worlds - Weather halts competition on day 2 + Videos Pierre Orphanidis, On day two of the 2012 Zhik Nautica Moth World Championships, very light and unstable breeze on Lake Garda didn't let the Moths fly. The race committee will try to schedule as many races as possible on Wednesday with an 8:30am morning start.... [more]Share this story
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I really want to thank Sunrise for producing this series, because I honestly have no idea what they were thinking.
Whatever you think of the style Takamatsu chose, I think this series – like all comedy – is a very hit or miss, personal thing. As someone who cried out for years for more of these types of series featuring guys, I was obviously thrilled to see this series made, and to try and answer the question as to whether you could make a "guys@school" comedy and be successful. I think the answer is an unequivocal "yes" – there were hiccups, but this was certainly the funniest pure comedy of the Winter season for me. The satire generally hit the target with unerring accuracy, the physical comedy was often hilarious (not always) and the show unveiled one of the largest and funniest supporting casts in many years. But then, why did my affection for this series drop so sharply in the middle?
I think there are a couple of reasons for that. First and easiest, I missed Tadakuni. "How can the normal guy be your favorite character?" you may ask. Well, for me, Tadakuni's normalcy – as brilliantly portrayed by Irino Miyu – framed the insanity going on around him better than anything else in the series. I loved Irino and Sugita Tomokazu together – they're so opposite and a perfect compliment, Irino's perpetual on the edge of panic sensibility and Sugita's over the top craziness. I get that Tadakuni's absence was one of the jokes in the series – the problem for me is that the presence of Tadakuni was funnier than the joke of his absence.
The other aspect is a little harder to pin down, as comedy so often is. I do think the sketches became even shorter in the middle episodes, basically one-note sight gags or physical comedy. The balance tipped just a bit too heavily towards the girls in the supporting cast, and things were spread out so much that even Hidenori and Yoshitake largely disappeared. I love this supporting cast, but love them best when they're actually supporting – and with the main characters absent, there was no one to support. I think the satirical elements became much less important, and the humor a bit meaner and less ironic. But for the most part, that largely changed in the last two eps, which were classics more in line with first half of the series.
With all that said, I think for the most part Danshi Koukousei proved itself consistently funny and occasionally sublime. It managed to fulfill my primary hope for it, which was to poke holes in the preposterous gender stereotypes prevalent in anime today, and to mine the gender politics of high school from the male perspective for comedy gold. Part of that was doing for girls what the vast majority of all anime have been doing for boys – focusing on the most grotesque elements of their character for ironic effect. The Funky Girls omakes were the most obvious example of this, but it was exemplified by many of the recurring female cast – Ringo-chan with her cluelessness, Tadakuni's physically terrifying younger sister, Motoharu's Onee-san, the preposterously romance-obsessed and sensitive Literary Girl Yassan… In many ways I think this was the whole point of the series – to show girls the way boys have been shown in anime, and to take a hard but hilarious look at the way teenaged boys perceive teenage girls (and to some extent, vice-versa).
Bottom line – like so many comedies that swing for the fences, Danshi Koukousei occasionally struck out. But most of the time it was funny when it set out to be, using a mix of satire, slapstick, wordplay and exquisite timing for great comedic effect. The "Hippocratic Oath" of comedy is "First, be funny" – and this show managed that a good majority of the time, with the help of an astonishingly star-studded cast. That it was able to also provide excellent social satire and fill a yawning gap in today's anime lexicon is all a delightful bonus. I can't imagine this thing doing well commercially, but I'm just thrilled it was produced at all – and if it does happen to make some money, hopefully it will get that second season eventually, and even inspire other mangakas and anime studios to explore the subject of the adolescent experience from the male perspective. That would be a much-needed change for the better.


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Total place: dig for victory
Author: The Guardian - Dec 3, 2009
If Total Place achieves nothing else, it will at least have brought the phrases "local government reorganisation" and "quick and dirty" together for the first time.
That is, at least, if you believe John Atkinson, the head of the Leadership Centre for Local Government, the agency running the pilots.
The "quick and dirty" work created the initial maps of how public money is spent in each of the 13 pilot areas, which were submitted in October. The next milestone for the programme December 9 and the pre-budget, but that is likely to do little more than spell out the lines of inquiry already established.
The final reports are, after all, due in a couple of months' time in February "a tight timetable", Atkinson acknowledges. "Although there's not a high-profile reporting piece going on [at the moment], there's lots of activity, people doing spadework. It's an interesting time."
It is that spadework that is starting to unearth new ways to solve relatively old problems, according to people involved in the pilots.
Bournemouth, Poole and Dorset's attempts to improve services for older people is one such case. The basic principle behind their reform plans is well known: older people would get better care, and local bodies could save money, if more time and effort was devoted to preventative services.
Many elderly patients needlessly end up in hospital with complaints such as urinary tract infections and other things "that make older people confused" says Chris Kippax, Dorset county council's project manager.
"The default is that those admissions will take place because they [hospitals] are the most safe and secure place available but in terms of medical interventions they are not [what's] required."
At least 10% of those admissions, and probably "significantly" more, could be avoided, through more preventative care and better services delivered at home, Kippax says. So far, so familiar.
New thinking
What's new about the thinking coming out of the Total Place pilots is that it draws on so many local bodies: the Bournemouth pilot involves not just county and district councils and NHS trusts but also the fire service and the police. It's also the way in which looming budget cuts are concentrating minds.
Kippax says his pilot team has come up with "a whole menu of options" including so-called virtual wards, which use the systems, staffing and daily routine of a hospital ward to provide care in people's homes; multi-agency teams providing older people's care; and intensive programmes to give older people back skills they may have lost after a stroke or severe illness.
The problem with that, of course, is that it will involve some organisations spending more money, rather than less, upfront. Others, probably the acute hospital trusts, may have little incentive to participate in a programme that will leave them with less income (under payment by results) and expensive hospital beds sitting empty.
Bournemouth hasn't solved these conundrums yet. Providing better services will require "a different approach between [agencies] to agree on how they fund this, and that may challenge the existing patterns of spending," Kippax says. That, in turn, will mean "some hard-edged decisions ... we're working on this at the moment."
Atkinson insists that these problems can be solved and that the pilot schemes are even taking collaboration to a higher level. Those looking at similar themes, such as the drugs and alcohol addiction-focussed pilots in South Tyneside, Birmingham and Leicester, are now themselves coming together to share ideas, along with representatives from central government departments such as the Home Office, he says.
"They all come together to say, 'What are really trying to achieve, what's the route we are going to take, and how do we collectively ensure we get as good a response to this as we can?'"
The way that public bodies are assessed remains a major stumbling block, Atkinson adds. The separate and sometimes conflicting -targets and inspections "keep people apart. If we can find a way through that, it will be a way forward."
But, he admits: "It's this complicated mess for a reason, and resolving that takes some time."
Whitehall involvement
The most "encouraging" sign is that Whitehall departments are getting involved, he says, sitting in on workshops and in some cases hosting them. That is vital, because changing spending habits among government departments is going to be at least as important as those of the organisations further down the food chain.
"Those questions are very much the questions they [the pilots] are trying to resolve now, because they are not necessarily straightforward," Atkinson says, adding: "The Treasury hold the key to a lot of that."
As in Bournemouth, so it is nationally: old problems in need of new solutions. Whether Total Place can deliver those solutions is another question.
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Following its major elevator wing project, Black River Academy Museum (BRAM) is now in the process of constructing a modern kitchen facility and making its restroom ADA-compliant so that the entire building will now satisfy ADA access requirements. The kitchen and restroom construction is being done by Wright Construction of Mt Holly. The warming kitchen has already had cabinets installed and will see the installation of a dishwasher, refrigerator, and stove later this month.
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Still, that's not the biggest trial he's faced. The father of a son with autism, Ho and his wife have navigated the emotional and sometimes exhausting dichotomy of questioning and understanding at the same time. When he weighs the task of shaping and molding readable -- even enjoyable -- material for WSJ's tablet and iPad edition against that kind of challenge, the former seems a lot less daunting.
Not everyone agrees with this, but I also think people should have options. One of the reasons people like our app is that there are many ways to navigate and explore the news. There are distinct styles for reading news and a good app allows for that. But my number one rule for mobile and tablets is do not annoy. It's so easy to piss people off on a mobile device, and the threshold for what people will put up with before they move on is very low. You know all the technology that's supposed to make our lives easier, but winds up making things more complicated and frustrating? That's what you have to fight against.
|"My number one rule for mobile and tablets is do not annoy."
Besides photos, which types of stories would you say translate particularly well on a tablet?
You mean other than people with iPads wanting to read news about iPads? Tablets are great for video, like streaming breaking news. They shine when it comes to interactive storytelling. Touch screens allow for a very intimate experience, exploring the news with your fingers and tapping things like 360-degree photos with gyro control. Those can be pretty cool.
A quote from you: "Technology is easy. Journalism is hard." Explain.
This one gets me in trouble with my developer friends. To be clear, this is not some death match between writing code and writing news. And, to be really clear, the Journal has a kick-ass mobile tech team that works super hard. OK, I should be safe now. That line is something I've said to journalists worried what new technology is doing to their jobs and how they can keep up. My take is if you can bang out 200 words in 10 minutes, learning to shoot and share video with your iPhone isn't going to kill you. All this blogging, Twitter, multimedia reporting with smartphones, none of it is harder than the bread and butter skills reporters already have: interviewing, accuracy, clarity, speed, news judgment. But here's my tip: Technology is painful when it's mandatory, when skills are pushed on people. You beat that by getting in front of it, by making it fun, like a part of your life. Edit together video of family and pets first, and post it somewhere. Do it for yourself. Then when you have to do it for work, it's not all stressful.
Rupert Murdoch's The Daily seems to be struggling a bit with some of the initial star reporters and editors already leaving. How closely have you been watching what The Daily is doing? What do you think theyve done correctly and possibly missed the mark on?
I think everyone involved in tablet and mobile news watches The Daily. It's this bold experiment: a brand new news organization created from scratch. How often do you see that these days? The Daily pioneered a lot of ways to deliver news on tablets. They've been brave and pretty aggressive in embracing the technology, especially when it comes to graphics and layout and design. And they've done great things with touch control. I'm not sitting in their office, so hard for me to talk about how're they're doing or what works or doesn't work for them.
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From the outside, I do see one challenge for everyone doing this is knowing tablet audiences well, because they're changing so fast. We've gone from early adopter to mainstream consumer electronics in no time. It does look like The Daily is trying to make their production process easier. They dropped their landscape view not long ago. That I get. Supporting two tablet rotations all the time is a lot of work. It's tough to put out a tablet issue every day. It's hard when you're actually building and editing and curating and designing the thing, and not just regurgitating news feeds into randomized templates. There are so many variables: behavior on WiFi, behavior on 3G, offline, online, making it work in portrait, making it work in landscape, making it fit different size screens.
|"The mouse is dead. It just doesn't know it's been caught in a better mousetrap."
What type of training does a journalist need to snag a job like yours? And, because the field is still emerging, how does one even go about finding these job openings?
Not sure what training I need to snag a job like mine. I'm the first one in this job here and it's kind of evolved around me. But I've hired a few mobile editors since this all started, so I can tell you what helps. I can teach someone HTML basics in an hour but a lot of news skills only come with experience. I love it when folks can do Photoshop and the like, but more than any one kind of expertise, it's important to have a general and deep technology comfort level and interest. This is all moving so fast, you have to adapt daily, hourly. It's as much about making news decisions as it is troubleshooting tech problems. You need to be able to talk to developers as much as you talk to reporters and editors. You need a foot in each world, editorial and technology. And there's the business side too, so I guess you need a third foot. A big thing: Gather up a few smartphones and tablets and use them, use them, use them until your fingers hurt.
What do you think will be the next big product or phenomenon to impact the media business?
The mouse is dead. It just doesn't know it's been caught in a better mousetrap. I've been waiting for a chance to say that. Technology is becoming much more intimate, much more an extension of ourselves. There's less hardware in between us and what we experience. Touch screens are just the beginning. The seeds are out there now: voice control, motion gesture control, eye tracking. I think there's a lot of potential in augmented reality. Combine that with the Google glasses project and some other prototypes and you can see this future where interacting with media will be constant, literally in your face.
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1 Short But Important Prediction for Marketing in 2015
- November 28, 2014
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It's that time of year when experts share their predictions and others assemble them into long lists. Yay!
I've only managed to write one officially so far. And to be honest, it's less of a prediction and more of something for a wish list, not just for the future of marketing, but all of business.


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Julius Caesar (Vol. 74)
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar contains elements of both Shakespeare's histories and tragedies, and has been classified as a "problem play" by some scholars. Set in Rome in 44 b.c., the play describes a senatorial conspiracy to murder the emperor Caesar and the political turmoil that ensues in the aftermath of the assassination. The emperor's demise, however, is not the primary concern for critics of Julius Caesar; rather, most critics are interested in the events surrounding the act—the organization of the conspiracy against Caesar and the personal and political repercussions of the murder. Shakespeare's tragedies often feature the death of the titular character at the play's end. Many commentators have noted that Julius Caesar's unusual preempting of this significant event—Caesar is killed less than halfway through the play—diminishes the play's power early in the third act. Scholars are interested in the play's unconventional structure and its treatment of political conflict, as well as Shakespeare's depiction of Rome and the struggles the central characters face in balancing personal ambition, civic duty, and familial obligation. Modern critics also study the numerous social and religious affinities that Shakespeare's Rome shares with Elizabethan England.
Shakespeare's ambiguous portrayal of Brutus and Caesar, the central figures of Julius Caesar, often complicates analyses of their respective roles in the play. Maurice Charney (1996) sees Brutus as an essentially sympathetic figure whose tragedy stems from sacrificing his private self to public concerns. Charney likens Shakespeare's portrayal of Caesar to the playwright's depiction of Richard II. Charney contends that Shakespeare attempted to control the audience's reaction to Caesar, portraying him first as an "insolent king" then, after his death, as a "tragic victim." Vivian Thomas (see Further Reading) finds both Brutus and Caesar flawed. Thomas contends that both men demonstrate poor judgment at critical moments, succumb to societal pressures, and ultimately become victims of faulty self-assessment. René Girard (1991) describes the relationship between Brutus and Caesar in different terms, likening Brutus to a lover who finds the object of his affection (Rome) with another lover (Caesar). Krystyna Kujawinska-Courtney (1993) argues that the play's treatment of Julius Caesar's character is focused on whether Caesar should be viewed as insolent, impious, and imperfect, or as sacred and idolized. Kujawinska-Courtney contends that Shakespeare's manipulation of his character "shakes the audience's confidence that either Caesar is the correct one." Mary Hamer (1998) compares Portia's role in Julius Caesar with that of Calpurnia, and examines the ways in which the education of women and the Roman conception of marriage contribute to the fate of the Roman wives. Hamer suggests that Portia's education, along with the expectation that she suppress it, contributes to her suicide, and finds that Calpurnia's lack of an education allows her a certain freedom of expression that Portia does not possess.
Julius Caesar's dynamic characters and political implications have inspired numerous stage and film adaptations. Anthony Miller (2000) examines Joseph Mankiewicz's 1953 film version of the play, which features Marlon Brando as Antony. Miller contends that the production is layered with political innuendo, and argues that Mankiewicz's adaptation cannot be classified simply as a cold war propaganda piece or as an anti-McCarthyist statement. The film draws parallels between the Roman Empire and the United States in the early 1950s, Miller maintains, in that both Rome and the United States can be described as classical republics and as centers of a worldwide empire. Bruce Weber (2000) reviews the 2000 stage production of Julius Caesar directed by Barry Edelstein. Like a number of other reviewers, Weber finds the production disappointing and unmoving. Weber praises only Jeffrey Wright's portrayal of Marc Antony, and contends that the other performances focused on obvious overt personality traits rather than internal emotional and psychological struggles. Charles Isherwood (2000) similarly applauds Wright's performance, describing the rest of the production as lukewarm at best. David Barbour (2000), on the other hand, praises the set design and finds the production as a whole swiftly paced and controlled.
Many critics associate Julius Caesar and its treatment of Rome with Shakespeare's England. Although Northrop Frye (see Further Reading) cautions that Shakespeare's tragedies are reflective of Elizabethan society only to a limited extent, the critic finds similarities between the depiction of social order in Julius Caesar and the social order of Elizabethan England. Barbara L. Parker (1995) identifies a different connection between the play and Elizabethan England. Contending that Elizabethan Protestants viewed Rome as the seat of power of the Catholic Antichrist, Parker suggests that Julius Caesar may be read as a satire of Papal Rome, in which Caesar represents the Antichrist. Parker explains that Shakespeare seemed to imply that the mob's worship of Caesar closely resembles Roman Catholic worship of the Pope. Charney suggests reading Julius Caesar within the context of Shakespeare's English history plays, which he finds contain "a reflection of the realities of Elizabethan England." David Daniell (see Further Reading) concurs, arguing that the question of the morality of rebellion, which is a central concern of the English history plays, is treated in a more intensely dramatic way in Julius Caesar. In addition, Daniell lists several parallels between Queen Elizabeth I and Caesar the tyrant. Like Charney and Daniell, R. A. Yoder (1973) finds an association between Rome and England. Yoder maintains that Rome and the England of Shakespeare's history plays may be viewed as studies of disintegration and the progression of power, and finds that Shakespeare depicted both Rome and England as empty and wasted.
Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
SOURCE: Charney, Maurice. Introduction to Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, edited by Maurice Charney, pp. ix-xvii. New York: Applause, 1996.
[In the following essay, Charney offers an overview of Julius Caesar. The critic examines the way in which Shakespeare compressed historical events, the relation of the play to Shakespeare's English history plays, and the play's treatment of the conflict between public and private life, particularly the way this conflict affects Brutus.]
The historical events on which Julius Caesar is based cover a period of about three years, from October, 45 b.c., to October, 42 b.c. But Shakespeare compressed and transposed what he found in Sir Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (1579), so that one has the impression that everything takes place in a few days. The play begins with Caesar's triumph, celebrated in October, 45 b.c., for his defeat of Pompey's sons in Spain; this event is combined with the Feast of Lupercal on February 15, 44 b.c. (Act I, scene i). The next sequence (I.ii-III.iii) represents a continuous piece of action, starting with the winning of Brutus to the conspiracy, continuing with the murder of Caesar, and culminating in Antony's funeral oration (with a grotesque aftermath in the death of Cinna the Poet). All of this takes place on the ides of March (March 15, 44 b.c.) and on the day just before it. The complicated happenings of Acts IV and V are telescoped into a few significant scenes that follow one another swiftly. The proscription of the enemies of the Triumvirate (IV.i) occurred in November, 43 b.c., Brutus met Cassius at Sardis early in 42 b.c. and quarreled with him there (IV.ii and iii), and the two battles of Philippi fought in October of the same year are made into a single battle (V.i-v). Shakespeare endows the disparate historical events with a feeling of dramatic and temporal inevitability, and he also convinces us of his fidelity to an authentic vision of ancient Rome.
Julius Caesar can be dated with some assurance in 1599, that critical moment between Henry V and Hamlet when Shakespeare was at the very mid-point of his career. After the heroic and epic celebration of England in Henry V, Shakespeare turned to the best-known crisis of Roman history, and he produced in Julius Caesar a play closer to tragedy than any of the English history plays that preceded it. There are obvious differences between English and Roman history, although it is possible that the events surrounding Caesar's assassination were more familiar to the audience than those of the remote English past (the period of King John, for example). One of the advantages of looking at Julius Caesar from the perspective of the English history plays is that we are likely to find in both many continuities in political, moral, and social assumptions.
This is of special importance on the issue of republicanism. Nothing in Shakespeare's earlier plays suggests that he would find the cause of the conspirators attractive. On the contrary, Brutus and Cassius would seem to be linked with Jack Cade, Northumberland, Worcester, and Scroop as rebels against lawfully constituted authority. Shakespeare was no simple-minded exponent of the Tudor pieties about the divine right of kings, but he did hate the bloodshed and human grief associated with political upheaval. Revolution is associated with a vision of political chaos. The revolutionary cause of Brutus and Cassius has no natural appeal for Shakespeare. To this argument we may add the strongly monarchic sentiments of the English history plays and, in fact, of all Shakespeare's royal plays, even those with weak or evil kings.
Julius Caesar is unique among Shakespeare's works in giving the impression of regicide without actually having a king in it. Its subject is the structure of Roman politics at the near-accession of Caesar, but Shakespeare has adapted his Roman setting to the pattern of ideas in the English history plays, which are in turn a reflection of the realities of Elizabethan England. The presence of the Roman mob in Julius Caesar keeps us aware of the public character of the play, since the mob is the final arbiter of political power. The Roman mob is indistinguishable from the English mob of the history plays: they are unwashed, have stinking breaths and greasy caps, are vociferous, violent, capricious, fickle, and, above all, easily moved by any strong appeal to their emotions.
There is an emphasis on public life in Julius Caesar, with its appropriate duties, ceremonies, and style of speech, but one always has the sense of a contrast, implied or stated, between the public figure and the private person. Caesar "in his nightgown" (or dressing gown) conversing with his wife Calphurnia or inviting the conspirators—ironically, his "Good friends"—to "go in and taste some wine with me" (II.ii.126) is a very different character from the sardonic demigod of the Senate House putting down Metellus Cimber. And Antony's confidential and personal manner with the mob in his funeral oration proves to be only a calculated public show from which Antony himself stands aloof: "Mischief, thou art afoot, / Take thou what course thou wilt" (III.ii.254-5). This is a chilling anticlimax to the passions of the oration. After the brief but savage interlude of Cinna the Poet (III.iii), we see Antony again with his fellow triumvirs calmly pricking down the names of those who are to die, a bit of horsetrading with the lives of near relatives. Here is politics as naked power, all pretense of human concerns dropped, and the swiftness and lack of sentiment of Act IV, scene i, match the preceding scene of Cinna's absurd murder. Both scenes display the same shocking impersonality and viciousness of the political forces unleashed by Antony's oration.
In Brutus, the public-private conflict begins to develop its potentialities for tragedy. As he admits to Cassius (giving Cassius a wedge to split his resistance), he is "with himself at war" (I.ii.46). This is the generic condition of the tragic protagonist. As he tells Cassius in the quarrel scene, he is "armed so strong in honesty" that all threats, doubts, hesitations, second thoughts, and self-questionings pass by him "as the idle wind" (IV.iii.67-8). This is not literally what he says to Cassius, but one feels sympathetic to Cassius' exasperation with Brutus' four-square, priggish, and overbearing "honesty," the bloody honorableness that Antony exposes so cuttingly in his oration. Brutus' inner conflict ends very abruptly in Act II, scene i, and public determinations replace any private doubts, although there is an air of foredoomed sadness that hangs over Brutus in Acts IV and V. His quarrel with Cassius seems to indicate that the conspiracy has gone sour, its sense of selflessness and dedication swallowed up by talk of money—"so much trash as may be graspèd thus" (IV.iii.26)—and Brutus is beginning to feel his isolation from the other conspirators.
We may say, then, that the tragedy of Brutus lies in the sacrifice of his private self to public and abstract commitments. We cannot argue away the human predicament stated so simply and with such fallible logic in Brutus' soliloquy about Caesar:
It must be by his death; and for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general: he would be crowned.
"Personal" and "general": this is the basis of Brutus' tragic choice. We know that he will choose the general, public good over any merely personal considerations, in the same generous or overweening spirit in which Caesar tells Artemidorus, "What touches us ourself shall be last served" (III.i.8). Yet I think Shakespeare wants us to grasp that the sacrifice of the personal, human cause to the general, political one always has tragic implications.
Brutus is primarily a sympathetic figure, yet there are many touches to indicate that, unlike the many tragic characters whom he foreshadows (especially Hamlet), he has very limited self-awareness. His garden soliloquy contemplating the death of Caesar is so full of logical flaws that one can only believe that these are intended to characterize Brutus' way of thinking, and Cassius' little plot to win Brutus depends strongly on flattery for its success. Cassius is an anomalous figure in these early scenes, very close to the conventional villain. His soliloquy at the end of Act I, scene ii, has many similarities to those of Iago and Edmund, and we are repelled by his smug gloating over how easy a mark Brutus is.
We are repelled by it because we are convinced that it is true. Brutus is represented as the only innocent idealist among the shrewd and rancorous conspirators; as Antony sums it up in his set speech at the end:
He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them.
We are not surprised, therefore, that Brutus should make the three tactical errors that Plutarch notes: he spares Antony's life, he allows Antony to speak a funeral oration for Caesar, and he risks all by engaging the enemy at Philippi. We think the better of Brutus for all these decisions, but we are clearly meant to understand that Cassius would have done otherwise. "That spare Cassius" has the true conspiratorial temperament.
Brutus is sincerely disturbed by the human implications of the conspiracy. "Let's be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius" (II.i.166), he says, as if he needed to remind Cassius of the true purpose of the conspiracy, as he does later in the quarrel scene (IV.iii). There is much self-indulgence and wish-fulfillment in Brutus' desire to kill Caesar without having "dirty hands." The murder teaches Brutus something about the real nature of killing, and in the exhilaration of the moment he is soon directing his...
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Criticism: Character Studies
Krystyna Kujawinska-Courtney (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: Kujawinska-Courtney, Krystyna. "Julius Caesar: Two Visions of the Past." In "Th' Interpretation of the Time": The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare's Roman Plays, pp. 26-58. Victoria, B.C., Canada: University of Victoria, 1993.
[In the following essay, Kujawinska-Courtney argues that the play's treatment of Julius Caesar's character is focused on whether Caesar should be viewed as insolent, impious, and imperfect, or as sacred and idolized. Kujawinska-Courtney contends that Shakespeare's manipulation of his character "shakes the audience's confidence that either Caesar is the correct one."]
How Caesar should be seen, how his past (shadowy in the play...
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Mary Hamer (essay date 1998)
SOURCE: Hamer, Mary. "Portia and Calpurnia." In William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, pp. 30-41. Plymouth, U.K.: Northcote House Publishers Ltd., 1998.
[In the following essay, Hamer studies the characters of Portia and Calpurnia in Julius Caesar, and examines the ways in which the education of women and the Roman conception of marriage contribute to their fate.]
When Portia enters and starts to speak, it is the first time, as we realize, that the voice of a woman has been heard. In public Calpurnia expressed only acquiescence and stood silent. Or perhaps we haven't even thought that was odd, for to some people the life we are shown in Shakespeare's Rome is...
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For a couple of posts now, I've been saying that I would post more on my workout routine. Well, here it is! We started this routine with the goal of increasing weight on bench press, but we ended up doing everything using this plan. It worked in the past to increase our bench weight up to 265. Considering that right now, I struggle under 135 (bar + 45lb plate on each side), I'll take anything to get that back up! It has been my experience that bench is one of the first things to go when you don't lift for a while, and I was out for two years. I need all the help I can get on bench. As I said, we applied this to every exercise that we do.
This plan comes in three phases. The first is the conditioning phase. This is where I am right now, in the last week of this phase. I'll give you this phase now and will come back to the other two when we get there. One week on this phase and you'll understand the conditioning part. Your goal is to do at least one warm-up set, maybe two if you're lifting heavier.
The numbers:
In week one, you want to do 4 sets of 15 reps. This is a little tricky to get started. It may take you a workout or two to get the number right. Basically, when you hit that 60th rep, you don't want to be able to push/pull number 61.
In week two, you want to increase the weight by a little bit, 5-10 lbs depending on the exercise, and decrease reps to 4 sets of 12. This week is much easier for me compared to the first. Maybe it is the drop from 60 reps per exercise to 48. Endurance has never been a strength of mine.
Finally, in week three, you're increasing the weight again, 5-10 lbs, and increasing reps back to 15. This week is killer. At this point, you've increased the weight a total of 10-20 pounds per exercise over your first week. This is where we are as of the writing of this post.
The exercises:
We get our bodies moving with 10 minutes of treadmill walking every day. It gets the blood flowing and the heart rate up a bit to prepare for pushing all of this weight. The order is key on these workouts. They are designed to fatigue muscles in a particular order. Remember, every exercise gets the required number of reps—4×15, 4×12, 4×15.
- incline bench press (bar)
- flat bench press (bar)
- flyes (we use the machine, I get a better squeeze than with dumbbells)
- pushups (to failure). We skip the pushups and do 3-4 drop sets of decline bench. Pushups to failure would be about 2 at that point.
- We finish the day off with 4×15 crunches (I use the decline bench)
- wide-grip rows
- single-arm bent-over dumbbell row
- straight-arm lat pushdown
- wide-grip lat pulldowns (to chest)
- dumbbell shrugs
- smith machine shrugs
- back hyperextensions
- squats (bar)
- stiff-legged deadlifts
- seated leg curl
- leg press
- leg extensions
- standing bar calf raises
- machine (seated) calf raises
- decline crunches (again)
- straight bar bicep curls
- preacher curls (ez curl bar)
- hammer curls (dumbbells)
- tricep pushdowns (rope—pull the ends of that rope apart for a great squeeze!)
- skullcrushers (keep these under control so they don't result in actual skull crushing)
- dips (we use the machine)
- leg raises (I do hanging raises)
- (even more) crunches.
- dumbbell shoulder press
- Arnold press
- dumbbell lateral raise
- reverse flyes (deltoid flyes)
- We do these on arm day so no more crunches necessary
This is a whole week's worth of exercises. We do one body part per day, except for shoulders. We're going to split those up to shorten our Friday workout a bit. Arms and shoulders are too much for one workout. Shoulders suffer because we're too exhausted to push too much weight, not to mention the workout hits close to two hours at this point. That is simply too long to lift. We workout Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. On Saturday, I try to get a few walking miles in to keep my legs from being too sore on Sunday. Thursday and Sunday are rest days.
Each of these workouts burns approximately 500 calories with my heart rate averaging just over 100 bpm. Obviously, your mileage will vary depending on your height, weight and age. Rodney's average is probably around 120 for each workout.
If you have questions about any of these exercises, please leave a comment and ask. Persevere. This is hard, but it is worthwhile in order to build endurance for the coming strength weeks. 60 reps over 4-6 exercises makes for a long, but very satisfying workout. I'll post the next section before you have a chance to complete this three week cycle. Keep me posted on your progress and lift hard!


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|Novel paths towards neural cellular products for neurological disorders.
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|The prospect of using neural cells derived from stem cells or from reprogrammed adult somatic cells provides a unique opportunity in cell therapy and drug discovery for developing novel strategies for brain repair. Cell-based therapeutic approaches for treating CNS afflictions caused by disease or injury aim to promote structural repair of the injured or diseased neural tissue, an outcome currently not achieved by drug therapy. Preclinical research in animal models of various diseases or injuries report that grafts of neural cells enhance endogenous repair, provide neurotrophic support to neurons undergoing degeneration and replace lost neural cells. In recent years, the sources of neural cells for treating neurological disorders have been rapidly expanding and in addition to offering therapeutic potential, neural cell products hold promise for disease modeling and drug discovery use. Specific neural cell types have been derived from adult or fetal brain, from human embryonic stem cells, from induced pluripotent stem cells and directly transdifferentiated from adult somatic cells, such as skin cells. It is yet to be determined if the latter approach will evolve into a paradigm shift in the fields of stem cell research and regenerative medicine. These multiple sources of neural cells cover a wide spectrum of safety that needs to be balanced with efficacy to determine the viability of the cellular product. In this article, we will review novel sources of neural cells and discuss current obstacles to developing them into viable cellular products for treating neurological disorders.
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Definition of Why – Decision Deadlines
A couple, who are friends of mine (at least until they read this), had great difficulty deciding on names for their three children. That's not usually a problem of any particular consequence, but it.
A couple, who are friends of mine (at least until they read this), had great difficulty deciding on names for their three children. That's not usually a problem of any particular consequence, but it is in Austria, where their three children were born. Under Austrian law, parents must name their newborn child by noon of the fifth day following birth. Otherwise, the child is assigned a generic first name, and the parents need to go through a long legal process to change it.
With all three of their children, my friends waited until the fifth day before deciding on a name and filing the necessary legal papers. In the case of one child, they filed the name a few minutes before the stroke of noon. Why did this happen? In each case, my friends knew almost nine months in advance that they were going to have a baby, and in two of the three cases they had known the baby's sex for months. Had there been no legal deadline for making a decision, I wonder if my friends might still have three nameless children. On the other hand, it's possible that the deadline contributed to my friends' indecision. Perhaps their anxiety over the deadline distracted them from concentrating on the task at hand.
If decision deadlines cause you anxieties, or even lead to mental blocks, it's time to change your relationship with them. Deadlines are not our opponents. They can be good masters, and even better servants. Either way, they're on our side. They're trying to help us to accomplish more and get more out of life. Meeting deadlines with some room to spare is a wonderful way to reduce stress. That is why I think deadlines are friends worth cultivating.
Decision deadlines are often imposed from the external world, as was the case for my Austrian friends. To get the most out of decision deadlines, however, try creating some for yourself. Self-imposed deadlines have served me well in making decisions over the years. Sometimes, I set a deadline for making an important decision or taking an important action, but then I give myself an extension. On rare occasions, I've given myself two or even three extensions, but I've actually come to enjoy meeting my own decision deadlines.
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Chamber to recognize UHV president
Tim Hudson, president of the University of Houston-Victoria, is one of four outstanding local residents who will be recognized during the African American Chamber of Commerce/Victoria Chairman's Awards Gala for their overall community involvement.
"His leadership speaks for itself," AACCV Chairman Jim Wyatt said. "We are pleased to be able to recognize Dr. Hudson and these other outstanding Victorians in a manner they deserve."
The names of the four honorees were announced during a press conference Monday morning at UHV, but the recipients will be formally recognized during the Nov. 6 gala at the Victoria Community Center. Hudson will receive the Education Award at the event. The other honorees are Omar Rachid, Humanitarian Award; Laura Sanders, Public Service Award; and Adeline Barefield, Business Award.
Hudson said he felt honored to receive the award and to be included in such a distinguished list of recipients.
"It was instilled in me at an early age that an important part of our civic responsibility is to support access to education for all individuals," he said. "African American leaders have promoted this fundamental idea for a long time and often in the face of long odds. To be recognized by this Chamber and the community it represents is one of the most humbling and satisfying experiences of my life."
Since Hudson's arrival at UHV in 2004, the university has grown at every level, an accomplishment that has required teamwork, he said. In the academic area, the School of Nursing was approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, and the School of Business Administration received its inaugural accreditation from AACSB International – The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The university also received its first endowed chair, and new academic programs helped student enrollment increase from 2,400 to more than 3,100 this fall.
UHV also has become recognized for its humanities education within the last two years. The American Book Review literary journal, the Fiction Collective Two alternative press and the Society for Critical Exchange scholarly organization moved to the university during this time.
Hudson also worked to start an athletic program at UHV. The university fielded its first baseball and softball teams in the spring, and fundraising has reached an all-time high.
Most recently, Hudson was part of a commission that recommended that UHV become a four-year university. After approval from the University of Houston Board of Regents and the Texas Legislature, UHV will move from an upper-level university serving juniors, seniors and graduate students to a four-year residential institution.
Hudson has a doctorate in geography from Clark University in Worcester, Mass. His interest in geography has grown into a lifelong commitment to the promotion of global understanding. He has started more than 40 study-abroad programs worldwide, including UHV programs in Spain and Mexico. In 1996, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by London Guildhall University for his contributions to global understanding and economic development.
In April, Hudson was one of 50 leaders selected to participate in the U.S. Secretary of Defense 75th Joint Civilian Orientation Conference. He observed and participated in the daily activities of the U.S. military in Cuba, Brazil, Colombia and Honduras.
Locally, Hudson is a member of the Victoria Chamber of Commerce and the Victoria Rotary Club and serves on the boards of directors for the Victoria Symphony, DeTar Healthcare System and the Victoria Economic Development Corp. He and his wife, Deidra Ransburgh Hudson, have five children and three grandchildren.
The Chamber gala will begin at 6 p.m. with a VIP reception, followed by dinner at 7 p.m. In addition to recognition of the honorees, The Victoria College Jazz Band with Austin-based guest vocalist Regina Odom will provide entertainment.
For reservations or ticket information, contact 361-645-7103 or www.aaccv.org.
The University of Houston-Victoria, located in the heart of the Coastal Bend region, offers courses leading to more than 65 bachelor's and master's degree
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Amino Acid Racemization
Most amino acid molecules possess an assymmetric carbon atom or two which can
occupy either of two positions like a toggle switch and still be tightly bound to
its neighbors. These positions are characterized as D (right), or L (left),
according to which way the molecule bends plane polarized light. This is a common
phenomenon throughout biochemistry. Left to themselves, over time the ratio of D/L
molecules will roughly even out. Life, however, requires certain composition AND
shape from its minions in order to complete a function. Living organisms on earth
keep their amino acids in the L position, with a notable exception found in certain
bacterial cell walls, and their sugars in the D position. When the organism dies,
control ceases, and the ratio of D/L moves slowly toward equilibrium (racemic).
The rate at which racemization proceeds depends upon the type of amino acid,
average temperature, humidity, acidity, alkalinity, and enclosing matrix. Also,
D/L concentration thresholds appear to occur as sudden decreases in the rate of
racemization. These affectations restrict amino acid chronologies to materials with
known environmental histories and/or relative intercomparisons with other dating methods.
Asparagine (acidified to aspartic acid), racemizes quickly, and has frequently been
used to date materials from the present back to around 25000 BP. Isoleucine
racemizes much more slowly, and has been used to date materials from 5000 to 2
million years of age. Concentration thresholds and less comprehensive environmental
histories produce much greater margins of error with older isoleucine measures. Other
amino acids are less frequently used for dating, mainly because of difficulties in
isolation techniques.
Temperature and humidity histories of microenvironments are being produced at
ever increasing rates as technologies advance and technologists accumulate data.
These are important to amino acid dating because racemization occurs much faster
in warm, wet conditions compared to cold, dry conditions. Temperate to cold region
studies are much more common than tropical studies, and the steady cold of the
ocean floor or the dry interior of bones and shells have contributed most to the
accumulation of racemization dating data.
Strong acidity and mild to strong alkalinity induce greatly increased
racemization rates. Generally, they are not assumed to have a great impact in the
natural environment, though tephrochronological data may shed new light on this
The enclosing matrix is probably the most difficult variable in amino acid dating.
This includes racemization rate variation among species and organs, and is affected
by the depth of decomposition, porosity, and catalytic effects of local metals
and minerals.
Data from the geochronological analysis of amino acid racemization has been
building for thirty-five years. Stratigraphy, oceanography, paleogeography, and
paleoclimatology have been particularly affected. Applications include correlation,
relative dating, sedimentation rate analysis, sediment transport studies, sea level
determinations, and thermal history reconstructions.
Paleobiology and archaeology have also been strongly affected. Bone, shell, and
sediment studies have contributed much to the paleontological record, including the
hominoid. Verification of radiocarbon and other dating techniques by amino acid
racemization and vice versa has occurred. The 'filling in' of large probability
ranges, such as with radiocarbon reservoir effects, has sometimes been possible.
Paleopathology and dietary selection, paleozoogeography and indigineity, taxonomy
and taphonomy, and DNA viability studies abound. The differentiation of cooked from
uncooked bone, shell, and residue is possible. Human cultural changes and its
effects on local ecologies have been assessed using this technique.
The expression of non-racemic amino acids is only known to occur through the
life process therefore they have been searched for in meteorites and lunar samples,
and will be sought on Mars, thus contributing to studies of extraterrestrial life
and the origins of life. Other extreme environment studies concern racemization
repair mechanisms in extreme cold dormant states and hydrothermal vent populations.
The slight reduction in this repair capability during aging is important to
studies of longevity and old age tissue breakdown disorders, and allows the
determination of age of living animals.
Amino acid racemization also has a role in tissue and protein degradation
studies, particularly useful to developing museum preservation methods. These have
produced models of protein adhesive and other biopolymer deteriorations and the
concurrent pore system development.
Forensic science can use this technique to estimate the age of a cadaver or
an objet d'art to determine authenticity. Food adulteration and harsh processing
affect its normal racemization ratio, as can bacterial contamination. This can
also affect its nutritional value, taste, and aroma. Likewise, many drugs require
D or L specificity for effective activity.
This specificity, or chirality, also has numerous nonbiological applications
such as in solvents, adsorption characteristics, and nanomaterial development.
Its' frequent applications have led to widespread dispersal of the equipment
necessary for chiral determinations, and to development of multiple techniques.
Amino acid racemization analysis consists of sample preparation, isolation of
the amino acid wanted, and measure of its D:L ratio. Sample preparation consists
of identification, raw extraction, and separation of proteins into their
constituent amino acids, typically by grinding followed by acid hydrolysis. The
amino acid hydrolysate can be combined with a chiral specific fluorescent, separated
by chromatography or electrophoresis, and the particular amino acid D:L ratio
determined by fluorescence. Or, the particular amino acid can be separated by
chromatography or electrophoresis, combined with a metal cation, and the D:L ratio
determined by mass spectrometry.


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Oct. 13, 2007
There was concern but no panic when Eastern Washington University quarterback Matt Nichols left the game with an injury in the second quarter Saturday (Oct. 13) at Woodward Field in Cheney, Wash.
But it was only a scare as the sophomore quarterback returned from a stomach contusion to throw for 257 yards and three touchdowns to help the Eagles pull away from 11th-ranked Montana State for a 35-13 Big Sky Conference football victory.
The victory evens Eastern's conference record at 2-2 and gives the Eagles a 4-2 record heading into next week's non-conference game at BYU. Eastern had lost its last two games by a combined total of eight points -- 24-23 to top-ranked Montana on Oct. 6 and 28-21 to Portland State on Sept. 29. Montana State had its four-game winning streak snapped and fell to 4-2 on the season and 2-1 in conference play.
Nichols, who passed for 451 yards a week earlier, left the game in the second quarter with Eastern trailing 10-7. But his backup, junior Alex Smart, engineered a 71-yard scoring drive and tossed the touchdown pass that gave Eastern the lead for good.
"The second half our kids played real well and I'm really happy about that," said Eagle head coach Paul Wulff, whose team has won the last five meetings against the Bobcats. "I think we were a little uneasy when Matt went down, but things happen. We settled in and played a lot better in the second half."
Nichols led Eastern's offense, completing 15-of-24 passes a week after throwing 59 times at Montana in a 24-23 loss. He finished with 300 yards of total offense as the Eagles rushed for an additional 183 yards en route to a 475-yard day on offense. He had 203 yards of offense in the second half alone, and was not sacked in the second half after getting sacked twice in the first half.
"We had to settle him down at halftime," said Wulff. "I am really proud of him because he came back and played well in the second half after being rattled physically. He ran the ball effectively to get us some key first downs and he was accurate, so he did a really good job."
Smart was 2-of-3 for 35 yards on the decisive drive in the second quarter. His 13-yard touchdown pass to senior tight end Tom McAndrews gave EWU a 14-10 lead with 10:08 in the second quarter.
"That was a great drive," said Wulff. "We ran the ball well and that kind of kept Alex in the flow and he made a couple of nice throws. That says a lot about our team -- we have two players that can definitely step in and lead us against good quality opponents, score points and win games."
Eastern's defense held MSU to a just a field goal in the second half, and chased MSU starting quarterback Jack Rolovich from the game in the third quarter with a shoulder injury. Rolovich had passed for 251 yards and a touchdown, but Eastern held MSU to just a field goal in the second half.
The Eagles allowed MSU just 315 yards of offense and had five sacks, and held the Bobcats to just 22 yards of rushing.
Eastern defensive Tackle Lance Witherspoon, who missed one full game and parts of two others with a high ankle sprain, returned to his starting position to register a team-high 10 tackles. He had one sack for a loss of eight yards, and three other tackles for loss totaling 10 yards.
End Greg Peach had six tackles with 2 1/2 sacks and end Jason Belford chipped in four tackles with 1 1/2 sacks.
Linebacker Makai Borden, who also missed a game and parts of two others with an injury (toe), added six tackles. He had an interception on third down in Eastern's end zone to thwart a MSU drive.
"It's nice to have Lance back -- we have missed him for awhile now and it hurts our defense not having him," said Wulff of the junior from Federal Way, Wash. "Having him back, we are a better defense."
Besides the efforts of Nichols and Smart, Eastern had plenty of contributions on offense. Receiver Aaron Boyce, coming off a 17-catch, 232-yard performance against Montana that earned him Sports Network National Offensive Player of the Week honors, caught five passes for 126 yards. Dale Morris rushed for 59 yards and a touchdown on 16 carries, and Alexis Alexander and A.J. Jimerson added 32 and 30 yards, respectively, on the ground.
Jimerson, a junior fullback filling in for the injured Toke Kefu, scored the first touchdown of his Eastern career with a 5-yard pass from Nichols in the first quarter. Freshman tight end Matt Martin also had his first career TD with a 20-yard catch from Nichols in the third quarter that gave Eastern a 21-13 lead with 5:54 left in the period.
Morris scored on a 2-yard run late in the third quarter and Alexander scored on a 22-yard pass from Nichols with 8:19 left in he game as EWU scored the final 21 points of the afternoon.
"That's what we always strive to have," said Wulff of his team's offensive execution. "We felt that if we executed well we could move and score points on this defense even though they have only allowed two touchdowns the last four games. We put up five today and we just felt we could do that if we executed and played the way we are capable of."
Montana State had entered the game ranked fourth in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision in pass efficiency defense, allowing opponents just 195.4 yards per game and ranking 11th nationally with 10 interceptions. The Bobcats were ninth in scoring defense (14.6 per game) and 44th in total defense (340.4), having allowed opponents just two touchdowns in the last four games and just two touchdowns passing the entire year.
Eastern's offense entered the game third in FCS in total offense (489.0) and fifth in passing offense (322.2). However, Eastern scored just 23 points against UM and 21 points a week earlier against Portland State to fall to rank just 21st in scoring (34.2).


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Poorvashada Nakshatra is the Nakshatra of Shukra graham. It is ruled by Goddess Ganga.
People who are born in this Nakshatra this year will have good success and will lead life comfortably.
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Would not take her veggies in.
Her parents tried again and again,
But little Susy just would not give in.
No matter if it was night or day,
She would eat, she would not play.
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Everyone warned that little girl,
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But little Susy would not stop,
Eating all those lollipops.
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Soon she began, to float in the air,
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New models boost high end offering; adds waterproof model
Braven has taken the wraps off of three models of Bluetooth speaker. Newly joining the family, the 850 is similar to the brand's Six Series device, but is four times larger -- allowing for deeper bass and bigger sound. The BRV-1 is suited for outdoor adventures with its compact, waterproof, shock-resistant design weighing in at less than 400 grams (0.88 lbs).�The Braven 570 delivers the same quality audio as its predecessors with a stylish, impact-resistant exterior and a lower price point.
At nearly four times the size of the flagship Six Series, Braven's 850 pumps out deep sound from a speaker less than a foot long.�Like its smaller brothers, the 850 provides emergency mobile device charging, long play time and an integrated speakerphone in an aircraft-grade aluminum housing.�In addition to premium sound, the Braven 850 also charges iPads, tablets, and other 2.1A devices. Additionally, the device offers wireless pairing between two 850 speakers for left and right stereo. It will be available at a retail price of $300.
Braven gives action sports and outdoor enthusiasts 12 hours of music they can bring into the outdoors safely with the BRV-1. The palm-sized unit boasts an IPX5 certified water resistant, shock absorbent, lightweight, and compact design. The Braven BRV-1 will be available in February 2013 at $170 MSRP.
The new 570 gives consumers the same audio fidelity of the Braven Six Series at a lower price point. With reduced packaging, 10-hour play time and an impact-resistant polymer case, the Braven 570 still provides Braven's patent-pending mobile device charging ability. The Braven 570 will be available immediately in black and white at $120 MSRP. Multiple colors will be available this month.


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WASHINGTON -- The Obamas ate Valentine's Day dinner at chef José Andrés' restaurant Minibar.
It was a choice that pleased foodies, and caused some grumbling among those who were held up by the Obamas' security in D.C.'s Penn Quarter neighborhood.
Others wondered how the first couple scored reservations at the restaurant, which takes only 12 diners per seating.
Politico notes that Andrés -- who was named "Outstanding Chef" by the James Beard Foundation in 2011 and was named 2012 Chef of the Year by the Daily Meal -- is a fan of the president.
According to the Obama Foodorama blog, the feeling is very mutual.
Minibar specializes in inventive food with a hefty pricetag -- 20-plus courses start at $225. The Washington Post's Tom Sietsema, who wrote a disappointing review of the restaurant in December, paid $1800 for his party of four, after tip.
When contacted by The Huffington Post, Minibar representatives declined to say what the Obamas ate during their Valentine's Day meal. Northern Virginia Magazine notes that while the restaurant's menu changes regularly, "munchies" may include Cotton Candy Eel, "Dragon's Breath" Popcorn and Boneless Chicken Wing, while dessert could be Saffron Gumdrop with Edible Wrapper or Chocolate Covered Corn Nuts.
The Obamas have been widely praised for their support of D.C.'s restaurants.
Josh Haner, a staff photographer for The New York Times who covered the GOP races in Iowa, shared in this article with NY Times blogger James Estrin that Wells Blue Bunny Ice Cream in Le Mars, Iowa, is a must-visit for candidates racing through the state. Click here to see Outrageous Burger Toppings Photo Credit: © Wells Blue Bunny Ice Cream
Famous for its chocolate-covered bacon and Krispy Kreme cheeseburger, The Machine Shed in Rockford, Ill., has been visited by Mitt Romney and Rick Perry this year. Click here to see The Coolest People in Food Photo Credit: © The Machine Shed
Perry and Santorum both enjoyed some down-home Southern cooking at this South Carolina joint. The restaurant has hosted rallies for half the GOP candidates this year and was Hillary Clinton's restaurant of choice during her 2008 campaign for president in Columbia. Click here to see What the Stars Eat Between Takes Photo Credit: © Lizard's Thicket
Comma Coffee is a relatively new kid on the block to political campaign stops, but since they opened their doors in 2000, they have hosted Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Dennis Kucinich, Ron Paul and even former President Jimmy Carter. Click here to see America's 50 Most Powerful People in Food Photo Credit: © Journalist
According to The Sun Sentinel, former President George W. Bush put Wings Plus on the political campaign map in Florida by campaigning there for re-election in 2004. This campaign season, Wings Plus has hosted rallies for Herman Cain, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich. Click here to see America's Best French Fries Photo Credit: © Wings Plus
Ames.Patch.com says that there have been more than 35 visits by Republican candidates this year to Pizza Ranch restaurants in Iowa. The sudden popularity is explained by Dennis Goldford, a political science professor at Drake University. "It's a very convenient location where, presumably, the people who go there know what Pizza Ranch is about. It's a good place to find like-minded people who are open to this kind of message." He's referring to the chain's web site language, where they state their vision is "to glorify God by positively impacting the world we live in." Click here to see America's Most Outrageous Grilled Cheese Sandwiches Photo Credit: © apolitics
Tommy's is a de rigueur stop for candidates on the trail in South Carolina. The Greenville restaurant made headlines this year when both Romney and Gingrich's campaigns booked events for the same time on the same day. Although a Ham House showdown was avoided by some creative rescheduling, both candidates cracked jokes at their rescheduled appearances. "Callista and I are thrilled to be here, but I have a question -- where's Mitt?" Gingrich joked. "I thought he was going to stay and maybe we'd have a little debate here this morning. So I'm kind of confused." Click here to see America's Oldest Restaurants Photo Credit: © Tommy's Country Ham House
Mitt Romney visited this Springfield, Ill., diner for pancakes and omelettes during a campaign stop in March. While there, Romney told a joke, comparing Charlie's Famous Giant Pancake, to the Puerto Rico primary results: "These pancakes are about as large as my win in Puerto Rico last night, I must admit," Romney said. "The margin is just about as good." Click here to see More Places to Eat If You Want to Become President Photo Credit: © Jimmy Wayne
Updated, 11:11 a.m.: Minibar has room for 12 diners per seating, not 6 as was originally reported.


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Parkersburg High graduate and current Ohio State Buckeye, Tim Phillips, had an impressive day at the Big 10 Swim Championships in Ann Arbor.
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Traditional Boiled Dinner Recipe
Corned beef is a real treat in our family and we love the savory flavor the vegetables pick up from simmering in the pickling spices. —Joy Strasser, Mukwonago, Wisconsin
- 1 corned beef brisket with spice packet (3 pounds)
- 1 teaspoon whole black peppercorns
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 medium potatoes, peeled and quartered
- 3 medium carrots, quartered
- 1 medium onion, cut into 6 wedges
- 1 small head green cabbage, cut into 6 wedges
- Prepared horseradish or mustard, optional
- 1. Place the brisket and contents of spice packet in a Dutch oven. Add the peppercorns, bay leaves and enough water to cover; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 2 hours or until meat is almost tender.
- 2. Add potatoes, carrots and onion; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 10 minutes. Add cabbage, cover and simmer for 15-20 minutes or until tender. Discard bay leaves and peppercorns. Thinly slice meat; serve with vegetables and horseradish or mustard if desired. Yield: 6 servings.
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The Phoenix took an early 2-0 lead in the top second inning but was unable to hold the lead much longer as the Penguins took the lead 3-2 on a passed ball in the bottom of the second.


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Peanut Ginger Pasta Recipe
- 2-1/2 teaspoons grated lime peel
- 1/4 cup lime juice
- 2 tablespoons reduced-sodium soy sauce
- 2 teaspoons water
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1/3 cup creamy peanut butter
- 2-1/2 teaspoons minced fresh gingerroot
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 8 ounces uncooked whole wheat linguine
- 2 cups small fresh broccoli florets
- 2 medium carrots, grated
- 1 medium sweet red pepper, julienned
- 2 green onions, chopped
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh basil
- Place the first 10 ingredients in a blender; cover and process until blended. Cook linguine according to package directions, adding broccoli during the last 5 minutes of cooking; drain.
- Transfer linguine and broccoli to a large bowl. Add remaining ingredients. Add peanut butter mixture and toss to combine. Yield: 4 servings.
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"After seeing the 1 star comment, I decided to make the sauce before messing with the veggies and pasta. I love a good Thai peanut sauce, and at first glance this looked good. I used fresh limes and lime zest. I didn't even have a full 1/4 cup of lime juice and it was way too sour. And, it wasn't very peanut buttery. Long story short, I ended up adding almost twice the amount of peanut butter, and a huge heaping tablespoon of honey. A couple of tablespoons of olive oil, too, for consistency. I wonder, though...I used an organic peanut butter that doesn't have a lot of added sugar and stuff. (Just now switching to organic.) So maybe that's what went wrong. It's a good starter recipe, though, so three stars. I actually started smearing it on crackers to taste test. Haven't had it on the pasta yet."
"Used cherry tomatoes instead of broccoli and added shrimp - yum! It really did make me forget that I was eating whole wheat pasta."
"Made this as a side dish with salmon. Used thai basil. Had the girls over for lunch and they went crazy over the Peanut Ginger Pasta !!!!!!"
"It was 3 "no" votes out of 3 tasters here...just average nothing special about it..."
"Very good! Tons of bold flavor. No specific flavor overpowers another. I had to use green pepper instead of red just because that is what I have on hand. If you are worried about the whole wheat taste try either mixing with 4 oz whole wheat and 4 oz white pasta or give dream fields or barilla pasta white fiber a try! They both cook white but have the bonus of fiber!"