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FORUM -Transgender Rocker Mina Caputo Reveals the Woman Inside
Subject: "From Life of Agony to Happy Life"
Contributor: Chris Gonzales
To live in a prison of one's self, unable to break free, fearing ridicule, disappointment, and even violence doesn't even begin to describe the hell a transgender individual experiences in a world struggling with change, fearing anything different, and withholding not only tolerance, but acceptance and love. Add to that the loss of drug addicted parents, and you can only just start to build a mental picture of the early life of rocker Mina Caputo. Mina began in this world as Keith Caputo, front man to the mega-successful band Life of Agony, but always felt she was in the wrong body. Through her own musical success, she managed to 'grow the balls' (figuratively speaking, of course) to set her feminine spirit free, and boldly step forth in a far more comfortable skin; becoming someone entirely new; entirely without physical definition; her very own truth.
FE: At what age did you realize that you felt more comfortable as "Mina"?
Mina: Probably around ten years old. I've known since I was very young that I wasn't male and I didn't exactly feel female because I'm not a genetic woman so I felt different; I felt like an alien, you know? As a child, I started to cross dress and express myself in a very feminine way definitely before my teens, before puberty. I just knew I was different. I so desperately wanted to tell my grandma to stop dressing me as a boy. I wanted to wear little dresses and look pretty and I definitely didn't identify with being male, and the way that males are supposed to be and behave especially in my family.
FE: Did you feel a lot of pressure from your friends and family to keep this a secret?
Mina: I was too afraid of my grandfather. I come from a very strict Sicilian household and I didn't grow up with my real parents. I grew up with my grandparents so there was a big generation gap to begin with. I was experiencing other forms of that generation gap like I knew that I would literally get the shit kicked out of me if I told my grandfather that I didn't feel like a boy and I felt like a girl so I pretty much grew up in fear which is a very unhealthy environment. I paid for it dearly in my adolescent years and my 20's were a very difficult time for me. I was very much in fear. When I was growing up the words transsexual and transgender were very foreign. It isn't like today where you see a lot more men transitioning into females and a lot of females transitioning into males. Back then there weren't any computers or Wikipedia or Google at your fingertips. There was no way for me to search out information. I had no idea that a gender therapist existed. I didn't think to put the whole gender thing into perspective. I had no idea what an endocrinologist was. I had no idea what hormones were. We didn't even have cell phones back then. I had no way of finding out exactly what the hell was going on with me. Not what was wrong with me, but why I was feeling so different?
I thought maybe I was homosexual, so I went ahead and unleashed the demons and experienced some things and realized that that wasn't really it, but gave me a sensation that felt closer to the woman that was inside of me. I've always felt that there was another soul inside of me that was more powerful than the soul that I believed to be mine. I grew up and my grandfather told me I had to get a job, get a trade, gotta be a plumber; blah blah blah. I grew up playing classical music. I wanted to be a classical pianist. All the signs were there and it was difficult. I grew up in a crazy environment. My mom passed away when she was 20, she overdosed on heroin. My dad was a heroin addict his entire life; pretty much the 30 years that I'd known him I grew up pulling needles out of his arm, pulling him out of the street. So, I've had a very disjointed upbringing. I've experienced things as a child that most children don't experience. It was a very distracting childhood for me and on top of that I was feeling like "oh my God", this body that I'm inside doesn't feel 100 percent. I felt like I should have breasts, and the curves were very different. It was very confusing for me. I had no one to talk to and I can't stress enough how I grew up in fear of my family and even today, men aren't supposed to show their emotions, they aren't supposed to show how vulnerable men really are.
I think men are really more vulnerable than women, and I was completely different. I wanted to express myself. I wanted to tell the world. I wanted to share this diversity with my loved ones and my friends, but it was a difficult thing to do. Then when I got older I would go to different clubs and meet different friends. I would go to gay bars and transsexual friendly bars. Making that step allowed me to gain the knowledge I needed just by seeing different people and how this man became this beautiful woman. I made many friends along the way that I'm still friends with and I had many pioneers in my life, but back in the late 80's/early 90's, a lot of hormones that the girls were getting were from the black market. I really didn't want to do that because of watching my father suffer from drugs from the street and doing hormones from the black market wasn't the smartest thing to do. I waited.
I knew there was a better way, but I just didn't know when that day would come when I would find out a more professional, more intelligent way of acquiring hormones to help me get my transition started. Then at the same time that I was discovering this side of myself and stepping into my fears, I was going to college. I was finishing up "River Runs Red," the first album with Life of Agony. and after we released that album, that album pretty much blew up. We were on the top of our game. We were one of the biggest bands in New York City, Doing the Roseland 3 nights in a row; we were just massive. We pretty much dominated the entire European continent.
FE: How old were you when "River Runs Red" came out?
Mina: I think I was around 20 or 21 years old and this massive amount of success and all of our collective dreams of being in a band pretty much came to life. We were experiencing things that we weren't even dreaming of yet. Life of Agony was originally a garage band that was doing high school battle of the bands and we didn't think that we would be like this tremendous act, and we would influence the world, and we would influence thousands of bands; and I would influence thousands of vocalists, and we would give birth to so many high profile bands like Slipknot, and so many more. Still, to this day, even though we don't actively engage musically or pretty much personally and emotionally anymore, people still can't get enough of us and our fans pretty much follow everyone's different paths. I've had a very successful solo career since 2000 when I released my first solo album "Died Laughing". I've played with the greatest musical acts in the world from Coldplay, The Pixies, Travis, Nine Inch Nails, Bush, Arrested Development. You name it, I've done it; from Bowie to Placebo.
FE: Have you started hormone therapy?
Mina: Of course. February will be four years since I've been medically transitioning.
FE: What are your future plans to continue the medical transition? Are you looking at any enhancements to help you with the transition?
Mina: I'm very tiny. I have a very tiny frame. I'm 5' 2" and the hormones after four years have given me close to a B cup, and the curves of my body -- I can't complain. I think I'm looking gorgeous. Here's the thing. Each girl, and I'm speaking male to female, each Trans woman has and lives a different experience. Everyone makes their own choices. You go online and you see all these transsexual guidelines and how you're supposed to do it. I don't follow that. I'm experiencing my own thing. Some girls feel they need to get facial feminization therapy for whatever reasons. I don't. Some girls feel the need to get bottom surgery. I don't. I am not there. I love my penis, it works fine. It doesn't bother me.
When I speak to my endocrinologist he's told me some stories that there are girls that when they get an erection, they start cutting themselves down there. So, there are varying degrees on what the individual will experience. To me, there are no guidelines. You have to be happy with the choices that you make. That's what it's all about. If I did any surgery, it might be a little bit of breast augmentation, but nothing so big because I'm a tiny girl and I don't want to have 700cc breasts and look ridiculous. I was always more natural so I pretty much want to take it that way. I don't know how I'll feel in ten years. I love sleeping with women. I love being with men. I love being with transsexuals so I love beautiful people. I don't discriminate. I don't have a particular gender that I like to be with. I love beautiful people. If you're a beautiful man and you know how to treat me then it's on.
People think different things. It's a very competitive field and it's kind of ridiculous in some respects. Some girls need the bottom surgery and some girls will put down other girls for not getting the bottom surgery and claim these transgender women not to be real 'cause they're not getting bottom surgery. I know a lot of girls that have had the bottom surgery and are very unhappy that they had it done at a very early age and they can't take that decision back. There are a lot of girls that aren't as happy now as before they had the surgery, and there are girls who are extremely happy. It depends on the individual. My advice to Trans, men or women, is to go slowly and not be in a rush, and to really take their time with the decision and to not believe everything that they read. There is no set curriculum. There is no real guideline to being a real transsexual. Honestly, I don't consider myself male, and I don't consider myself female. I do identify being more in the female spectrum of things, but I'm just me. I'm different. I'm both genders and I'm neither gender so I fall in between which may sound confusing but welcome to my mind. I do identify as being more female and my heart opens up when I present myself as a woman in society and our culture. To me this is an issue of humanity. The way society is structured is a very old world way of thinking and I do not agree with it. Genetic males that transition into Trans women and genetic women who transition into Trans men are pretty much pushing the boundaries of what gender means. They paint this picture of male/female, but the mind is more powerful than that. The mind is bigger than that. Look at what humanity has created. Everything is based on institutions. The transgender will never be accepted into these institutionalized mediums like the church and the Christian world. We are considered witches...'burn them at the stake!" We're a threat to their "natural order". I am the natural order. I am all and I am nothing. When people realize that the mind defies the law of gravity and defies every thing you hear and read about; the Neanderthal and the Homo erectus, that species of human being is dying down. If you really look at society and humanity as a whole, you can see that there is a major shift. There are major waves in the currency of the way that people are living and I'm happy to be in that shift.
I am happy to open people's eyes to what's real. I'm a real human being, I have feelings. I'm not Keith Caputo, the singer and front man of this band. My life doesn't just begin and end with that. Music is my life, yes, but people have had this image of me. Even if they support me still, but don't understand what I'm doing it's because they don't have the mind, they don't have the heart, the soul to understand the openness of what it means to be human. This is a humanity issue; this isn't a transgender category issue. To me that's all bullshit. It's a humanity issue. It's breaking the barriers of what it means, and people either live with this new awareness or they're dying in the old world. I love ancient cultures like the Mayans and the native American Indians, and to me that was purity. I don't believe that the end of 2012 is going to be this apocalyptic devastation to the planet. I'm looking at it in a positive light and I do believe a new awareness of humanity will surface. I am part of that new way.
FE: You led the charge in coming out and telling the world how you felt. Recently a few other artists have taken your lead such as Tom Gabel, now known as Laura Jane Grace of the band Against Me. Do you feel that you opened the door for other artists or people in general to walk through?
Mina: I feel that my life is completely blessed. I'm very grateful and my life keeps getting better and better, but I am an underdog and I've always been an underdog. I am really happy that someone like Laura at least acknowledged my presence and told a publication like Rolling Stone that someone like Mina Caputo has been my inspiration and has laid down the gravel of road to make it easier. It's not easy for anyone 'cause there are so many judgmental people, but to answer your question, I feel great and am honored. I feel empowered; it makes me really happy to see the change that you want to see. You only become the change that you want to see and I am experiencing that quote that's been said many times by many great leaders. Laura is a perfect example but we're not the first. Rolling Stone needs to wake the fuck up and get their shit together 'cause they're calling Laura Grace the first and she isn't. There are many before us that were in the 60's and the 70's. It's the typical media bullshit that jumps on something that's hot or not, and, you know, misinforming the readers.
FE: Did anybody in particular inspire you to tell the world or did you just feel it was time?
Mina: All of my girlfriends, all of my girls in New York City! I have many transsexual friends. They've been pioneers for many years. They defiantly paved the way for me. They gave me the strength to come out and not be afraid to hide my feelings, but I think for me, no one individual in particular pushed me. I think I pushed myself and did it myself because I was at the point where I wanted to shoot myself in the head. I wanted to die, and I couldn't take my pain anymore. It just got to the point where I felt like a fool. I felt that I was lying to my family, my friends, my fans. I felt like my life was one big lie and it got to the point where I remember (before I decided to go to a gender therapist and acquire the hormones and to start my journey four years ago), I suffered from a manic depression. I couldn't leave my house. I couldn't even put on a pair of jeans; anything reminiscent of my maleness. At this point I was like an American refugee; I was living in Amsterdam, I outstayed my visa, I couldn't leave, I got in trouble with customs and they threw me out of the country when they caught me. I couldn't leave my apartment, and I wanted to jump off my roof every night. I don't know what stopped me, but something stopped me every night. If I was getting back from a rehearsal or recording or whatever I was doing, at night time, smoking my joint just wondering, what is stopping me from just throwing myself off the roof because I can't deal with this pain anymore? The torture was just unbearable. That's when I decided to go on my journey, and go to a gender therapist and take some time off from the industry.
I pretty much wanted to save lives because I, too, have life. Even when I was living as a boy, I had a great male life. I've had the prettiest girlfriend; I had a male life that most males would kill to have. I slept with the prettiest women. I had the prettiest girlfriends. I made thousands and thousands of dollars. I've lived in Miami, Berlin, Amsterdam, Sweden, Los Angeles. I did the boat parties, was being escorted around in a Lamborghini for two years. I lived the life. Deep down inside this crazy boy wanted to wear this gorgeous dress. I had this whole double life. I was living in the whole rock stardom and debauchery, and limitlessness and fame, but deep down inside none of that mattered to me. All I wanted to do was let her out, let her surface. It was very tough for me. I think if I was a regular person that wasn't in the public eye I think it would have come out a long time ago but because I was so famous and because I was in the public eye, not to mention I was loved by thousands of alpha males, male driven testosterone, 90 percent of our crowd were these big muscle bound tattooed old men overflowing with masculinity. I'm thinking, oh my God, how the fuck can I come out to the world? I'm gonna get killed. God rest his soul, but I didn't want to be Dimebag Darrell, you know what I mean? I was deathly afraid until I had the gun to my own fucking head and I'm like ok, if I'm gonna die, I'd rather do it myself. That's where I was at and that was the breaking point for me. I wanted to just put a revolver to my fucking head and just be a Cobain, I just didn't have his guts.
FE: What does it do for you when you're able to dress the way you want and wear the skirts and dresses in public now?
Mina: It's an overwhelming sense of peace, a big breath of fresh air. It sounds so silly and simple, but it's so true. It confuses me. It's a peace and a freedom. It's not really what you wear, you know. It's way deeper than that. It does allow you to come closer to your soul in a way. It's a strange thing. I dress however I feel like. If I feel like wearing a dress today, I will, and if I feel like wearing jeans and a ripped t-shirt, I will. I'm out and I'm free and I don't have to hide who I am, and my body is changing into more feminine features and that's the biggest joy out of this whole process. Psychologically, the hormones have done wonders for me. Those are the biggest changes. I used to be such a self destructive male. I was always on the brink of madness. My level of creativity hasn't changed; I've become more focused. The things that I was interested in when I was a boy have completely changed. I'm staying home more now and am in full throttle practicing all the instruments that I play. I'm constantly writing, recording. I'm cooking, spending more time decorating the inside of my home. When I was a boy and living as a boy, I was crazy. I was on crazy drugs. I didn't care about my life, but now it's all turned around and psychologically I feel really healed, and to see that I have the body I always wanted, both male and female parts really brings me so much joy. I'm digesting and tasting life in a way that I have never before. I've lost a couple of close people, but my truth is weeding out the opportunists in my life which is great cause I constantly had these people who were riding on my coattails.
FE: So you pretty much weeded out all the people who were there with the wrong intentions...
Mina: I have my own personal friends who love my solo music and can't stand Life of Agony and vice versa, and I have people that love both L.O.A. and my solo stuff; and I have to say -- the funny fucking thing is I get so many men mailing me now telling me how beautiful they think I am and how gorgeous, and oh my God, they want to take me on a date and view the city; and (they tell me) oh my God, I don't know how to tell my wife, but I think I'm bisexual. "I go through my wives clothing drawer and I'm cross dressing, what does this mean?" "Oh my God you're so gorgeous, can I take you on a date?" They want to have sex with me. I'm getting all of these men that would never show their true colors to the world, but I have so much mail from men in general who are expressing now, a more vulnerable side of themselves with me and to me that's a beautiful gift from the universe. By me being honest with myself and the universe and everything that's part of being in my life, now the universe is giving back and giving me more stories from more strangers, from more people that are going through the same thing as me, but much further. I have a lot of transsexual girls who are reaching out to me now saying "oh my God girl, I love your music, you're an icon for us, you're so strong, and how the hell did you do it?" I've met so many great people.
FE: I understand you're working on a new album. Where are you in the process?
Mina: It's almost done. It's probably the most controversial work I've done. It's probably the most creative. The last album I'd done, I've had Bowie's band; I've had Kravitz's band playing with me. I had Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) playing trumpet. I had Martyn LeNoble produce it and Martyn plays bass for David Gahan. He's played with Scott Weiland, with Perry Ferrell and Jane's Addiction, and Porno for Pyros. I've played with many great people but this time around I played pretty much all the instruments myself. I did all my own recording, and I'm working with this one guy, his name is Andy Kravitz who was part of the "Soul Searching Sun" era. He is pretty much mixing everything and playing drums and adding extra instruments and stuff like that for the most part. Were doing everything through analog gear and were using his collection of Beatles microphones. We're using the outboard gear from the "Dark Side of the Moon" sessions from Pink Floyd and the outboard gear from David Bowie's "Space Oddity" sessions. I love all the old school analog gear so this album is gonna be a very organic, very John Lennon, very Plastic Ono band, very Woody Guthrie-esque lyrical content. I've defiantly written a lot about my own identity and just the understanding and mis-understanding of the world, and I think I got politically esoteric with this record. I'm revealing a creative side of myself that I haven't expressed, and I feel like with this album I've grown tremendously. I know I have a lot of growing to do. You don't stop growing as a musician. You don't stop learning, and I feel that my contribution to music this time is going to be super-massive big and I'm really looking forward to...upon its release, I don't have a release date yet. Some of the names of the songs are "Identity"; "Cracks in the mirror", "The secret that she knew"; "Unshaken"; to name a few. I'm gonna keep it to around ten songs, a 45 minute album. I'm very pleased and excited about it. Its' gonna be remarkable. It already is remarkable, I'm very pleased.
FE: Do you have any plans on touring for the new album?
Mina: Absolutely! I love to tour. I don't have anything lined up, but I will tell you when I do. For now, it's still being mixed and I'm pretty much recreating my entire life. It's all kind of up in the air. I'll never stop making music. That's never in the air. Music is my life; its what I do.
Fe: Was there any particular artist that you've worked with that stood out to you whether in the studio or that you've shared the stage with?
Mina: I can name a ton more people.
FE: Was there anyone that you just really looked up to?
Mina: I mean, you know, I played with The Pixies and David Bowie with Life of Agony and it was definitely a highlight in Life of Agony's career. The list of bands that I've played with just...I've shared stages with Chris Cornell. I've played with Bjork. I've played a festival with Neil Young.
FE: What part of your career are you most proud of?
Mina: You know, living life is the toughest, and I could answer this question traditionally, but I'm not a traditional person so, living life...what I do is not who I am. It is and it isn't. I don't measure my success or what I'm proud or I'm not proud of. I'm just really proud to be an honest person. I'm proud that I had the strength and the ability to overcome all sorts of challenges and obstacles that came my way. I'm very grateful and thankful for the gifts that have been given to me by the universe. I'm proud that, you know, I still have a great "career" and life in that respect. I don't know that I've lived my proudest moment yet, to be honest.
I am very grateful for all the amazing things that I've experienced, but I do feel like the best times of my life haven't been lived yet and it does start now. I'm more proud and more happy now than I ever was in my life. I can smile now and I don't have to be afraid. I am fearless now, and my music is fearless and my psychological, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual self is fearless so whatever I do from this moment on musically will be an exact reflection of how my soul is screaming the joys that, you know, I am just...you know I have my bad days, but we all do. I think now more than ever, it's not like okay, I'm so proud of the moment when Coldplay was opening up for me in Europe in 2001. I don't measure my success that way. I measure my success by waking up in the morning and wanting to live and wanting to go do things for the world. For my friends, family, for people who know me; for people who don't. I feel like my job and my days as being a messenger and being a healer are just beginning. I may have had a long, exciting career to many people, but to me my work is just beginning right now.
Follow Mina on Twitter-@MinaCaputo; Facebook; and YouTube
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Some Popular Life of Agony Albums...
"This album never grows old or tired. Where River Runs Red was like a panther that had sprung from it's cage to maul you unmercifully, Ugly was the other panther that knew when to wait and gauge it's prey before going in for the kill. In short, they're both effective and brutal, but of the two, Ugly is the more measured and thoughtful album."
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"I'm different. I'm both genders and I'm neither gender so I fall in between which may sound confusing but welcome to my mind."
No matter how many times I read that quote over, it still leaves me dazed and confused, but in a good way.
:) :)
3. I am really blown away by this quote:
"Rolling Stone needs to wake the fuck up and get their shit together 'cause they're calling Laura Grace the first and she isn't. There are many before us that were in the 60's and the 70's. It's the typical media bullshit that jumps on something that's hot or not, and, you know, misinforming the readers."
Honestly Rolling Stone, step your game up! HONESTLY!


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Summer 1993
Godard: Images, Sounds, Politics.
Richard Hollis
Archive / Colin MacCabe's Godard
For the first in a new series, Eye revisits Richard Hollis's innovatory design for a book on the French film-maker
Richard Hollis' design for Colin MacCabe's book on the French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard (Macmillan/British Film Institute, 1980) belongs to a small, visionary group of publications which, years before the advent of multimedia, suggested alternative approaches to traditional book formats.
Like the Commentaires published by the French film director Chris Marker in the 1960s, the books of Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore (see Eye no. 8 vol. 2) and Hollis' earlier design for Ways Of Seeing (1972), Godard: Images, Sounds, Politics. uses images to amplify and substitute for verbal argument.
The book was photoset in Times on a Compugraphic system chapter by chapter as it was written and these 'rushes' were pasted up by Hollis himself into a grid determined by the ratio of the film image. The text measure contracts to form a central gutter for film sequences at the point where they are discussed and notes are starred and inset for ease of reference. To further aid accessibility, film titles and quotations are highlighted in bold. The fluid, filmic quality of the book is carried through in the use of American Typewriter bold condense to suggest slightly blurred subtitles and in the placement of chapter headings in a screen-like panel.


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Every other Friday, I try to will the stock market down.
Most of my investing is done on pay day. My 401(k) funds are invested at the same time I get paid, and naturally I want to invest at the best price possible. So on that day, I try to channel some of my brain power to influence the market downward.
This technique works, but only part of the time. My informal observations have shown that my clever ploy succeeds about half the time. The other 50% of my attempts — perhaps I am too distracted with work to fully concentrate on econopsychokinesis* — I am not successful and the market slips ahead.
Why do I attempt to bring the stock market down with the power of my mind? Even though a week from today I will turn the big two-nine, I still consider myself young. I have a long lifetime of investing ahead of me, so I want to buy with the market low and sell much later with it higher… hopefully much higher.
So far today, I am not being successful. The S&P 500 Index is up almost 1% for the day. Help me out; summon your latent mental powers to bring the market down today. (Or, if you happen to control a whole lot of the market — Warren, this means you — just sell everything you have.)
* I think I invented that word. Google shows no results. Can I patent and license it?
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This Ancient Egyptian Jewelry Came from Space
Archaeologists working at the UCL Petrie Museum have shown that ancient Egyptians made jewelry from chunks of meteorite. Even more remarkable is the realization that they made these items over 5,000 years ago — nearly two millennia before the emergence of iron smelting. »


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History News
- Professor Nicola Miller steps down as Head of Department
- Summer Roll of Honours
- 'The vicissitudes of recognition'; Axel Honneth's keynote lecture at Rousseau 300
- New UCL MA degrees in the Americas
- Lecturer in Latin American History
- Chair in Modern British History
- Lecturer in US History
- UCL History Reaches Out to State Schools
- UCL Historian Turns 100
- Mini-Lecture: Dr Adam Smith
- Mini-Lecture: Prof Catherine Hall
- George Grote Prize in Ancient History Competition 2011
- Professor Burk talks Wodehouse on BBC2
- Dr Adam Smith on BBC Radio
- PhD Appointments
- Mellon Research Fellowship
- Provost's Teaching Award
- BBC Radio 4: Prof Kathleen Burk & Dr Adam Smith
- George Grote Prize
- Fellowship Awards for UCL History's Ben Kaplan
- Grote Chair of Ancient History
UCL Historian Turns 100
1 December 2011
On 8th December, Margaret S. (Peggy) Drower MBE and Fellow of UCL will be celebrating her 100th birthday. She studied Egyptology at UCL (diploma and BA) between 1932 and 1935 under Sir Flinders Petrie, the founder of Egyptian archaeology, and Margaret Murray (whose autobiography (1963) was entitled My First Hundred Years). Peggy was appointed Assistant Lecturer in the History Department in 1937 on the initiative of Professor Norman Baynes, who asked her to develop a course on the history of the pre-Hellenistic Near East. This established historical study and teaching from 3000 BC onwards as an essential and unique feature of UCL's history department; her tradition has been carried on by her pupil and successor Professor Amélie Kuhrt (1979-2009), and today by Professor Karen Radner (2005-) and Dr. Caroline Waerzeggers (2010-). Peggy was Reader in the Department, in recognition of her wide-ranging research work, until her retirement in 1979. She then published the still definitive biography of Petrie (1985), combining work on it with presidency of the Egypt Exploration Society. She became a Fellow of UCL in 1986 and, in 1997, Visiting Professor in the Institute of Archaeology, whose students she had taught for many years before it joined UCL.
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Whole-genome gene expression data capture molecular phenotypes in cancer cell lines. (a) Clustering of cancer types on principal component (PC) 1 and PC2 of a gene expression matrix from the CGP cell lines. There is clear clustering of blood, central nervous system and lung cancers. For clarity, only these three cancer types are shown here. Additional file 1: Figure S1 shows all cancer types. (b) Clustering of subtypes of hematological cancers on PC1 and PC2 of a gene expression matrix of CGP hematological cancer cell lines. For clarity only acute myeloid leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia and B-cell lymphoma are shown here. All data is shown in Additional file 1: Figure S2. (c) Clustering of ERBB2 amplified breast cancers on PC1 and PC2 of a gene expression matrix of CGP breast cancer cell lines. (d) Clustering of BRAF mutated cancers on PC1 and PC2 of a gene expression matrix from all CGP cell lines. ALL, acute lymphoblastic leukemia; AML, acute myeloid leukemia; CGP, Cancer Genome Project; CNS, central nervous system; CNV, copy number variation; MT, mutated; PC, principal component; WT, wild type.
Geeleher et al. Genome Biology 2014 15:R47 doi:10.1186/gb-2014-15-3-r47


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Wanted to pop in and share with you a few little birthday gifts!
Exhibit A: Birthday Tote
This sweet little bag is filled with a few goodies from the dollar section at Target. I hope she'll like the personalized bag. I know my kids like to tote stuff around.
The fabric for the bag is from Lily Pond. It's adorable – and I love that it's girly without being just pink. I lined the inside and made the applique letter with the pink and green swirl fabric and added the stripe across the top. Oh the stripe! That's a fun print and I can see so many uses for it. Here is the picture of just the striped fabric:
You can see that I used the flower stripe on the bag. And this is what I used the frog/turtle stripe for….
Exhibit B: Hooded Towel
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Stuart Daubenmire and Catherine Hendel met by playing the trumpet in the Milford band program. They graduated in 2006 and 2005, respectively. On July 6, they were married in the high school band room. This trumpet case was used to collect cards from friends and family who attended.
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|Patient profiles at a centralized, urban, diabetes education centre.
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|PMID: 12516994 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|BACKGROUND: Little is known about the characteristics of patients attending diabetes education centres (DECs). To address this knowledge gap, we examined the clinical characteristics of patients referred to a centralized urban DEC. METHODS: Using a clinically detailed patient registry, we studied the profiles of 1459 patients seen in an urban DEC, and compared patients referred to the DEC by family physicians (FPs) to those referred by other physicians (usually specialists), and patients referred to the DEC for the first time to those who had been referred a number of times (multiply-referred patients). RESULTS: Among patients with a known source of referral, 73% were referred by their FP and 27% by a physician other than the FP. Eighty-seven percent of patients were being referred for the first time, and 13% had previous referrals. Blood glucose control at the time of referral was poorer for non-FP referrals and for multiply-referred patients. Patients in the former subgroup were more likely taking insulin when referred (38% v. 12%, p < 0.000), to have type 1 diabetes (19% v. 8%, p < 0.000) and to be referred for insulin initiation (12% v. 2%, p < 0.000) than were FP referrals. Meanwhile, multiply-referred patients were younger (51.9 v. 56.1 yr, p < 0.000) and were more likely to be female (59% v. 46%, p = 0.001) than were patients referred only once. INTERPRETATION: Source of referral (FP v. non-FP) and presence or absence of previous referrals define unique DEC patient subgroups. Attention to the relative size and service needs of these subgroups is relevant to the planning of diabetes services.
|Dellano D Fernandes; Alun L Edwards; Erik T Larsen; Peter Norton; Peter M Sargious; Hude Quan; William A Ghali
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Is there anyone that can help me with an English translation for this phrase?
"Io peso e tu posi"
I'm trying to translate an old folklore from my g-mother's comune and this one phrase giving me trouble as I don't think it's to be taken literally.
Quick story line for context -
Residents of a nearby comune broke into my g-mothers church one evening to steal the (rather large) statue of the patron saint. The group of thieves shouldered the statue and began to escape, however with each step it unexplainably became heavier and heavier until they finally had to put it down. When one of the thieves exclaimed how heavy the statue had become, the patron saint is said to have bellowed out "Io peso e tu posi."
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"I am heavy and you put (me) down"
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Tango for Treatment of Motor and Non-motor Manifestations in Parkinson's Disease.
The recruitment status of this study is unknown because the information has not been verified recently.
Verified April 2012 by McGill University Health Center.
Recruitment status was Recruiting
Recruitment status was Recruiting
McGill University Health Center
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Ron Postuma, McGill University Health Center
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First received: April 5, 2012
Last updated: April 26, 2012
Last verified: April 2012
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Parkinson's disease involves many motor difficulties as well as non-motor ones. Recent research has strongly suggested that exercise is very important for Parkinson's disease. We are interested especially in dance as a form of exercise, because it combines physical movements with balance tasks, social engagement, and mental stimulation. Therefore, we think dance classes may be a very beneficial exercise for Parkinson's disease; the purpose of this study is to see if Argentinean Tango classes might improve motor and non-motor manifestations of Parkinson's disease.
Parkinson's Disease
Other: Argentinean Tango classes
Other: Simple pamphlet about the exercise in PD
Phase 0
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Tango for Treatment of Motor and Non-motor Manifestations in Parkinson's Disease: A Randomized Control Study.
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: Parkinson disease Perry syndrome
MedlinePlus related topics: Exercise and Physical Fitness Parkinson's DiseaseU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by McGill University Health Center:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Severity of PD (Unified Parkinson Disease Rating Scale - UPDRS, 2008 version) [ Time Frame: 26 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]This is the standard scale used for grading severity of PD. It starts with a patient self-administered questionnaire covering activities of daily living, motor symptoms, and non-motor domains. It also includes a systematic rated clinical interview assessing cognitive and psychiatric symptoms and motor complications of disease. A Hoehn and Yahr scale (5-point overall disease severity index) is included. Finally, there is a formal examination component (Part III) (performed in the medication 'on' state for this study).
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Other motor complications [ Time Frame: 26 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Total 'off' time (in hours) and the presence of dyskinesia will be recorded, on clinical interview.
- MiniBESTest [ Time Frame: 26 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Balance will be assessed using a 14-item tool measuring performance of dynamic balance tasks. This test has high interrater and test-retest reliability in PD (intraclass correlation coefficient ≥ .92 and intraclass correlation coefficient ≥.88 respectively). Lower scores indicate greater deficits in balance.
- The falls questionnaire from the Canadian Longitudinal Study of Aging [ Time Frame: 26 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Falls will be assessed using the falls questionnaire from the Canadian Longitudinal Study of Aging focusing on the past 3 months.
- Freezing of Gait Questionnare (FOG_Q) [ Time Frame: 26 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Freezing of gait will be assessed using the Freezing of Gait Questionnare (FOG_Q), a 6-item tool measuring walking and freezing episodes. Higher scores indicate greater difficulty with walking and freezing.
- The Purdue Pegboard [ Time Frame: 26 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The Purdue Pegboard, a test of dexterity and speed in the hands will be assessed over 1 minute.
- The Montreal Cognitive Assessment [ Time Frame: 26 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]This tool was designed to screen for mild cognitive impairment. This includes visuospatial tests (clock drawing, trail making, cube copying), confrontation naming, attention (digit span, backwards digit span, "A" test, sentence repetition), tests of verbal fluency, abstraction, short term memory, and orientation. Recently, it has been used widely in PD, and demonstrates excellent sensitivity for subtle cognitive deficits. Alternate versions (7.1 to 7.3, with a randomly-distributed order) will be administered to prevent training effects.
- The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) [ Time Frame: 26 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The BDI is a self-administered scale of 21 items (scored 0-3) which assesses depression symptoms. The Beck Inventory is one of the most commonly-used scales for depression in PD, and a recent consensus panel of the Movement Disorders Society concluded it was a scale of first choice for assessing depression in PD.
- Apathy Evaluation Scale (AES) [ Time Frame: 26 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]This is a 14-item patient-rated scale which measures cognitive, emotional, and behavioural symptoms of apathy. All items are rated on a 0 to 3 Likert Scale. The original 18-item scale has been shortened by four items, and wording simplified and it was reported to have excellent psychometric properties in PD (internal consistency reliability = 0.76, test-retest 1 week r = 0.90).
- The Krupp Fatigue Severity Scale [ Time Frame: 26 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The fatigue severity scale measures impact of fatigue with a 9-item questionnaire, with a 7-point Likert scale for each question It has been validated, and has been used in PD studies.
- The Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire is a quality of life(PDQ-39) [ Time Frame: 26 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The PDQ-39 is a quality of life index for PD. It consists of a 39-item questionnaire that asks about the impact of PD on a person's motor function, gait, mood, cognition, and activities of daily living.
- Adherence to treatment [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Compliance with dance therapy will be conducted by reconfirming the regular assistance to the dance sessions at week 12, to compare how many sessions were attended by the participants. The dance instructors will keep the track of dance classes' assistance.
- Clinical global impression of change [ Time Frame: 26 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]Completed by both the examiner and the patient, the scale is a single question" Since you have enrolled in the study, how has your Parkinson's disease changed?". It will be scored as very much improved (6), much improved (5), minimally improved (4), no change (3), minimally worse (2), much worse (1), or very much worse(0).
- Exit questionnaire [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]An exit questionnaire will be completed by participants to assess program experience, asking them to rank level of enjoyment items and overall satisfaction on a scale of 1 to 5. An open-ended question will allow them to note particular challenges or suggestions for improvement.
- Adverse events [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]Adverse events will be queried week 12 through a semi structured interview querying increase in falls, fatigue, pain, cramps or pain, in addition to open-ended questions regarding other potential adverse events. Events will be rated by the patient and investigator as mild, moderate, or serious. All serious adverse events will be reported to the research ethics board
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|April 2012
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|July 2013
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|April 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Argentinean Tango
A biweekly 3-month tango program
Other: Argentinean Tango classes
Tango participants will attend an 1-hour Argentinean Tango classes twice a week during 12 weeks, with experienced professional tango instructors.
Placebo Comparator: A 'wait-list' control group
Patient information about exercise in PD. After 12 weeks, these patients will then start the same 12-weeks tango program.
Other: Simple pamphlet about the exercise in PD
Controls will follow their usual schedule of pharmacological treatment; will be provided by simple pamphlet about the exercise in PD, and will otherwise to go about their lives as usual.
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients will be eligible for inclusion if they have a diagnosis of idiopathic PD.
- The subjects must speak either English or French sufficiently to fill out questionnaires and understand the instructions for dance classes (classes will be bilingual).
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients who cannot stand for at least 30 min and walk for ≥3 m without an assistive device.
- Individuals with Hoehn and Yahr stage IV- V (severe and nonambulatory)
- Dementia, defined according to PD dementia criteria as MMSE< 26/30 and ADL impairment secondary to cognitive loss, or inability to understand consent process60
- Serious hearing and vision problems that could affect the participation in dance classes.
- Change to dopaminergic therapy over the preceding three months, or changes to antiparkinsonian medication are anticipated during the study protocol
- Serious medical conditions, including cardiac disease or evidence of musculoskeletal problem which precludes dancing or can be worsened by exercise
- History of frequent falls, with more than 3 falls in the last 12 months
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01573260
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01573260
|Contact: Ronald Postuma, MD
|Contact: Amellie Pelletier, PhD
|1-514-934-1934 ext 44705
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|Principal Investigator: Ronald Postuma, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Silvia Rios Romenets, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Amelie Pelletier, PhD
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McGill University Health Center
|Principal Investigator:
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Keywords provided by McGill University Health Center:
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on November 27, 2015
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|Responsible Party:
|Ron Postuma, Assistant Professor, McGill University Health Center
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|Study First Received:
|April 5, 2012
|Last Updated:
|April 26, 2012
|Health Authority:
|Canada: Ethics Review Committee
Keywords provided by McGill University Health Center:
Parkinson's Disease
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Parkinson Disease
Basal Ganglia Diseases
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Movement Disorders
Nervous System Diseases
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Parkinsonian Disorders
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Although most of us adapt just fine to living gluten free over time, there are always gluten-full recipes that we miss, ones for which we would really love a gluten-free version. And by "love" I mean we'd jump and down and do somersaults if someone handed us a safe, gluten-free version that tasted just as good. Jeanette (Jeanette's Healthy Living) created her own "Crumbs" Cupcakes—gluten free and dairy free—so her son could enjoy the same type of fun and delicious cupcakes that the rest of the family enjoys from their local bakery.
I have no doubt that her son was absolutely thrilled that his mom made these delightful treats for him. I want a couple for myself! Despite the impressive appearance of these cupcakes, Jeanette says that the recipe is not hard to make. She used ready-made cake mix, dairy-free milk, dairy-free "butter," and ready-made gluten-free, dairy-free toppings like Oreo-style cookies, chocolate chip cookies, and mini chocolate chips. Jeanette summarizes this dessert: "These gluten-free, dairy-free "Crumbs" Cupcakes are fun for summer entertaining, and will satisfy everyone's sweet tooth, whether they have food allergies or not."
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Fifteen years ago Michelle Fine, at that time a professor at University of Pennsylvania published a transformational work entitled "Reframing Dropouts: Notes on the Politics of an Urban Public High School." Fine spent a year in a New York City comprehensive high school that she called CHS. She interviewed school staff, students and parents, attended meetings, sat in on classrooms and interviewed dropouts. She paints a chilling portrait of a school organized around "efficiency and control" in which a caring staff was "disempowered," ignored and marginalized by the school administration.
Scores, sometimes hundreds of class size grievances were the norm each term. Fine paraphrases the UFT chair, "The notion that teachers are professionals who carry expertise, who should be trusted and consulted, and who deserve a share of school-based authority … were received by the administration as idiosyncratic and irresponsible."
In spite of convoluted BOE statistics Fine shows that in the mid eighties only 20% of an entering cohort earned a diploma after six years.
What happened to the dropouts?
Incarceration, out-of-wedlock births, single parenthood, staggering AIDs rates, persistent unemployment and the continuing pathology of poverty in era when a high school diploma only assures a minimum wage.
Fifteen years later has anything changed?
The Kleinberg administration "innovations"?
• they reduced the number of credits from ten to eight to move from the freshman to sophomore years – at that rate it will take a student six years to graduate if they pass ALL their subjects
• Long term absences (students absent at least twenty days in a row) are removed from school registers and are not reflected in average daily attendance figures.
• In many school inept scanning results in enormous lateness and/or absence during the first period class.
• Cutting data is difficult to access and not reflected in school data.
A philosophy of "efficiency and control" still dominates the management of the school system.
After eradicating a host of alternative programs that took decades to development the DOE decides that maybe they are a good idea. Of course, the folk that designed and supported the programs have been driven out of the system. The recycled programs are staggering, suffering from the poor leadership that is characteristic of this administration.
"I do the best job I can in my classroom" is the mantra of teachers. The persons who have the most influence on the lives of children: teachers, are disempowered by a system driven by press releases.
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They have both developed the same mechanism for determining sex over the course of evolution, and have done so completely independently of one another. This is the recent discovery made by an international team of scientists with Würzburg involvement.
The sex of any mammal – humans included – and of a number of other living beings is usually decided by a very specific combination of chromosomes: XX for female; XY for male. However, nature boasts many different ways of determining sex. In birds, most snakes, some fish, and even butterflies, for example, we find the so-called ZW/ZZ system. In this case, the females carry one W and one Z chromosome in their cells, while the males have two Z chromosomes. This is also true for the Chinese flounder Cynoglossus semilaevis – a popular edible fish from Asia, which is bred in aquaculture there and can grow up to 40 centimeters long.
Publication in Nature Genetics
An international team of scientists has now succeeded in completely decoding the genome of this species of flounder. For the first time ever they have also been able to fully sequence a W chromosome and trace its emergence over the course of evolution. Würzburg biochemist and geneticist Professor Manfred Schartl played an instrumental role in the project. Schartl is Chairman of the Department of Physiological Chemistry at the University's Biocenter. The scientific journal Nature Genetics has now published the results of this work.
"Our work shows that in the Chinese flounder and in birds alike the same ancient chromosomes have developed into sex chromosomes over the course of evolution – the sex chromosomes have the same ancestors in both cases. And this process took place entirely independently and at different times," is how Schartl summarizes the main finding of this work. Surprisingly, even the gene that is largely responsible for sex determination in birds – dmrt1 – has gone through a development process in the flounder that is similar to that in birds.
Sex chromosomes pose problems
When scientists try to sequence sex chromosomes, they are faced with a mountain of problems: "For one thing, these chromosomes have undergone a major degeneration process over the course of evolution. For another, they have DNA segments that are repeated extensively," says Manfred Schartl. This makes the search for individual genes and their organization so labor-intensive and is probably also the reason why only a tiny number of Y chromosomes have so far been fully sequenced – including those in humans and chimpanzees. Even less was previously known about the genetic information of W chromosomes. For the work that has now been published researchers have fully sequenced a W chromosome for the first time ever.
There are two main reasons why the team focused in their study on a flounder: "Measured in geological time, fish are one of the living creatures that only relatively recently developed sex chromosomes," explains Schartl. Unlike in birds, for which this point in time was some 200 million years ago, the chromosomes in fish have therefore had comparatively little time to degenerate. In addition, flounder have a comparatively small genome.
The genome of the flounder
21,516 protein-coding genes were counted by the scientists in the genome of the Chinese flounder – humans have some 20,000 to 25,000 according to the National Genome Research Network (NGFN). Roughly 197 million years ago, the flounder line developed from that of bony fish. It was not until much later, only about 30 million years ago, that the sex chromosomes of the flounder developed – long after the phylogenetic trees of mammals, birds, and fish had separated.
Around 1,000 genes are carried by the Z chromosome of flounder, while there are 317 on the W chromosome. This is much more than in birds, which possess 26 genes on the W chromosome. And also far more than in humans and chimpanzees, on whose Y chromosomes 40 to 80 intact genes can be found. "This observation suggests that the evolutionary origin of the sex chromosomes in flounder was comparatively recent," says Schartl. Simply put, the W chromosome in flounder has not had enough time yet to degenerate in a similar fashion to the chromosomes of birds and mammals – after all, these have had several hundred million years in which to do so.
What determines sex
What ultimately determines sex? A gene on the Z chromosome that is responsible for male attributes? Or a gene on the W chromosome that turns its male carrier into a female one? Or a combination of the two? For birds, this question remains unanswered, so the research team has tried to find an answer by looking at the Chinese flounder. "The flounder lends itself to this study because it is possible with flounder to alter sexual development by exposing the offspring to higher temperatures," says Schartl. At an ambient temperature of 22 degrees at the time of the corresponding period of development 14 percent of flounder offspring spontaneously change sex, whereas at 28 degrees this rate increases to up to 73 percent. So-called pseudo-males then develop instead of females.
In their study, the scientists crossed these pseudo-males with normal females and let the offspring grow at normal temperatures. The surprising result was a clear surplus of males. As expected, all the ZZ carriers were male, but what was not expected, however, was that 94 percent of the ZW carriers also developed into pseudo-males. "These experiments show that sex determination in flounder is controlled by a mechanism on the Z chromosome which initiates a male development," is how Schartl explains the findings. Nevertheless, the scientists cannot rule out with absolute certainty the possibility that there is also a second mechanism, controlled by genes that also lie on the Z chromosome, which starts at high temperatures.
A chromosome is disappearing
Is the Y chromosome in humans at risk of extinction? This question has been and will continue to be addressed in science from time to time. After all, it has already lost much of its genetic information over the course of evolution. However, as researchers showed recently, this loss has slowed markedly over the past 25 million years. This suggests that the loss must have happened much earlier.
The W chromosome of the Chinese flounder has existed for around 30 million years. During this time it has lost about two thirds of its original genetic information. If this process continues at the same rate, it will take a mere ten million years for the W chromosome to reach the same state as the Y chromosome in humans currently.
From the scientists' standpoint, this observation shows that the loss of genetic material on sex chromosomes must be an early and rapid phenomenon in their development.
"Whole-genome sequence of a flatfish provides insights into ZW sex chromosome evolution and adaptation to a benthic lifestyle". Nature Genetics, published online on February 2, 2014. DOI: 10.1038/ng.2890
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