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Hogue Sets PCC Record For Saves As Women's Water Polo Begins '09 Schedule
The Pasadena City College women's water polo team may not have come out of the first day of the 2009 season with a a victory, but the Lancers discovered what kind of quality goaltender they have in freshman Hannah Hogue. The Temple City High grad's first collegiate start turned into a record-setting performance Friday as she made a new PCC single-game mark of 21 saves in a 10-4 loss v. Palomar at the Saddleback TournamentHogue's backstops eclipsed the record of 17 set by Gassia Krikorian against LA Trade Tech in a 2006 match. Hogue comes to PCC after being the Co-MVP of the Rio Hondo League and a Pasadena Star News All-Area First Team selection at Temple City. She is the daughter of PCC mathematics instructor Charles Hogue. Against Palomar, Pasadena's trio of sophomore team captains accounted for the Lancers offense against Palomar as Shannon Adams scored twice while Jade Wilia and Merry Sanders each had a goal. Hogue's day didn't stop there as she again was brilliant with 17 saves in the Lancers' 7-5 loss to Ventura later on Friday. Wilia scored a pair of goals with Adams and newcomers Nicole Young (San Marino High) and Anneke Forrest (Temple City) hitting the back of the net once each. "We came out slow v. Palomar, but we only allowed 13 goals over the last seven quarters of play on the day. If we can keep the other teams from generating offense, we're going to be battling in every match," PCC Head Coach Terry Stoddard said as he begins his 11th season in charge of the program. Stoddard returns Wilia, who was an All-South Coast Conference Second Team utility player from last season. He was glad to name Wilia, Sanders and Adams as the team captains. "We list all three players at utility, and really they are interchangeable. Each are strong at both sides of the pool," he said. "We hope to get leadership from them. "We don't really have a go-to scorer this year, but we are trying a new approach. We want to be able to push the play on the offensive side and find the open player for shots. It could be anyone of our starters, and I think that's the unique part of it." Matiana Coulson is the team's other returning sophomore. The rest of the freshmen class include goalie Megan Nelson (Pasadena HS), driver Darly Htike (Alhambra), and driver Meghan York (Crescenta Valley). The Lancers face Southwestern today at 8 a.m. and then South Coast Conference rival Mt. San Antonio at 11:30 a.m. as the Saddleback Tournament concludes. [Photo--Hannah Hogue goes up to to make one her 21 saves in a record shattering performance for Pasadena City College in a 10-4 loss Friday to Palomar at Saddleback College, image by Richard Quinton.]
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How well do you know your friends? Would you bet your life on it? That's the question in "Traveler," an action-packed drama series that taps into 21st century paranoia with provocative themes, complex characters and pure adrenaline-fueled entertainment. Jay Burchell, Tyler Fog and Will Traveler - friends who have spent virtually every minute of the last two years living, working and partying together as grad-school students -- set off on a road trip to New York. Once there, the three enter New York's oldest art museum for an innocent prank: Jay and Tyler lace up their rollerblades inside and speed off to see who can make it out of the building first. When they're both outside, Will calls on his cell phone saying, "Sorry, I had to do this" -- and then the building blows up!
As the series continues, Jay and Tyler are being hunted by the FBI as domestic terrorists. The two must rely on each other to elude capture while trying desperately to prove their innocence by answering two questions -- who is Will Traveler, and why did he do this to them? Jay and Tyler search for clues both in the present and the past, and slowly unravel a conspiracy that involves friends and family members, and calls into question the very nature of American democracy.
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A detour from my usual stops at last week's Farmers Market put me in the path of Ron Rodeghiero, owner of the Chico Spice Company. Standing proudly behind his jars of spice blends, his enthusiasm for his product is almost fanatical. He boasts his commitment to sourcing quality products for every aspect of his business – from the purest spices without preservatives or additives, to the tall glass display bottles which he still buys from Italy (not from China, he notes).
Rodeghiero comes off as a "mad chef," born from a line of chefs and restaurateurs with more culinary knowledge in his mind than he knows what to do with, and too much to say all at once.
When asked if he had any great recipes that he'd like to share, he turned the question into a challenge.
"Tell me what you want to cook, and I'll tell you how." It seemed that there was no limit to what he would share, once his creativity was sparked.
I walked through the market and scrutinized the produce stands for a muse. My pick: Romanesco broccoli. A brassica so spectacular in form that preparing it is always intimidating – for fear of disrupting the perfect fractals with an imperfect approach on the stove. Ron needed a moment to think when I informed him of his culinary subject. While he rubbed his cheek and walked around the booth, I could hear the tinkering of dishes in his mind's laboratory. This is what he came up with:
Romanesco Broccoli Recipe, from Chico Spice Company
Extra Virgin Olive Oil - Ascolano variety (popular for it's smooth flavor)
Broccoli cut into desired shape
Garlic Sea Salt blend from Chico Spice Company
Put a little olive oil in the skillet, over medium heat
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Nurse-midwife claims Tampa Family Health Centers discriminated against her pro-life beliefs
A young nurse-midwife has filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against a Tampa-based medical chain claiming she wasn't hired because of her pro-life beliefs.
Back in April, Sara Hellwege, a Frontier Nursing University student from Atlanta, emailed Chad Lindsey looking for a job. Lindsey is the director of human resources for Tampa Family Health Centers Inc.
In a follow-up email, Lindsey mentioned something he spotted on Hellwege's resume -- her affiliation with the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG). He asked her if that would be a reason for her to decline an interview if offered one. He pointed out they're a Title X organization, which means they receive federal funds to provide family planning that includes contraception.
Hellwege responded minutes later saying, "Yes, I am a member of AAPLOG. Due to religious guidelines, I am able to counsel women regarding all forms of contraception, however, cannot Rx it unless pathology exists -- however have no issue with barrier methods & sterilization."
The HR director then sent the following email in response:
"Due to the fact we are a Title X organization and you are a member of AAPLOG, we would be unable to move forward in the interviewing process."
Hellwege has retained a team of attorneys with the Alliance Defending Freedom and is now suing both Lindsey and Tampa Family Health Centers saying she was told she could not apply for the position of certified nurse-midwife based on "her religious beliefs and moral convictions."
"There's no question about why they discriminated against Ms. Hellwege and in fact there's really no question that what they did was illegal," attorney Matt Bowman said. "That's a violation of long-time federal and state statutes which say we cannot discriminate against health professionals because they're pro-life."
Hellwege wants the company to return the federal money it received. She's also asking a judge to order the company to consider her application and is seeking $400,000 in damages.
ABC Action News emailed and called Lindsey and the Tampa Family Health Centers. They did not respond Tuesday.


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by Lee Speth
(This report originally appeared in Mythprint 36:10 in October 1999.)
The fell rumors out of the North proved true. The fiery blasts of the dragon's breath had scorched the air about the town of the Lake-dwellers. OK, it wasn't actually called Dale. Mythcon this year was at the Archbishop Cousins Center, down Lake Michigan from Milwaukee, located, if I read the signs aright, in a suburb called St. Francis. But the searing dragon's breath was real enough. Fortunately, we who attend these cons are a robust lot. We came, we bore with the heat, we conferred, we donned costumes, we processed, we bought and sold, we were solemn and silly by turns, we fluorished. And the heat tapered off.
This year Mythcon XXX was combined with BreeMoot 4, the occasional gathering of Beyond Bree's subscribers. Breefolk were prominent in the leadership of the event and so Milwaukee seemed an obvious site; Bree is an anagram for beer, as I judge Tolkien knew quite well.
On Thursday night, a number of us early arrivals, along with the BreeMoot/Mythcon staff, were to beer-bountiful Mader's, a noted Rhineland outpost in Milwaukee, where we had a banquet room and three tables forming a square with one open side. My Speth forbears came out of Bavaria, but I've never liked beer, so I couldn't fully exploit the occasion. At dinner I sat between Dr. Bill Sarjeant from Canada and former Mythprint editor David Bratman and felt clean-shaven. A rollicking time was had by all, then it was back to the heat of the Cousins Center, some mystification about the room key (eventually located), and sitting up late in the con office, conversing and watching a couple of the mini-Mythies, Claire Lenander and Tristan Hunnewell, attack a computer game with that focused energy shared by children, fanatics and Amway representatives.
Heat aside, the Cousins Center was an admirable site. All activity was in one building, and that building was, it seemed, ours for the weekend. At the usual Mythcon campus we share, if not with other conferences at least with summer students. But aside from some resident retired priests (spoken of, but never seen) and the kitchen/cafeteria staff, the sizeable building was pretty much our plaything. It is elegant without being oppressively solemn, and has a number of displays, if one is curious, touching the history of the Milwaukee Archdiocese. OK, the food. Not varied, not that good, sometimes not enough. But against that one can set the large handy field, just right for late-night Golfimbul. And Lake Michigan, to whose storied shores I wandered one still morning before breakfast, crossing the highway and tramping through a shiny green, gnat-infested park. Looking north, one could make out the Milwaukee skyline where the lake shore curved. And gazing out across the blue expanse of the lake to the horizon, with the trees at my back and the bugs all about me, I felt like a seventeenth century French voyageur, with a disposable camera.
It was a smallish turnout, especially in contrast to Lewiscon last year. But small has its distinct benefits. About a hundred attended, the Guests of Honor were long familiar to the Society, no one from outside interfered. There was casual and intimate feel to this conference, even though a certain number — Breefolk, I suspect — weren't known to me. The Duke of Numenor returned (but the King still didn't). Pat Tressel — hadn't seen her for a while. Darrell Martin.
The most important new face, no doubt, was that of Dr. Ted Sherman. Nominated sight unseen, on the strength of his application and resume, to take over Mythlore next year, get it back on schedule and revive its subscriber base, the gentleman from Tennessee slipped quietly into the con, but was soon enough gathering handshakes and ovations.
In the dealer's room —
Me to P.C. Hodgell: I remember you from Minneapolis in '93; you were committing excesses with us late at night.
Ms. Hodgell: Golly, let me think; it's been so long since I committed an excess …
Lasting memories (in no particular order):
Douglas Anderson's infectious delight in being probably the only living person to have read The Flying Cows of Biloxi;
Ted Nasmith's slide show of his accomplished Tolkien illustrations, some seen before, some new to us, parading in rich detail on the meeting room screen;
Gary Hunnewell's Tolkien Collectors Anonymous meeting ("I'm Bruce and I'm a Tolkien collector." "Hi, Bruce.") that spiralled out of control as more and more addicts shambled up to testify, with Gary looking increasingly bemused;
The concrete tunnels beneath the Center where we went Golfimbowling. Bowling in a real alley! And I kept thinking of the crap-shooting sequence in Guys and Dolls;
The photos, displayed at one panel, of Birmingham Oratory where Tolkien and his brother spent their youth, doubly meaningful to those of us who own shelves of Tolkien and Newman;
Playing Sauron as a vampire in this year's Not-Ready-for-Mythcon production, and wondering if Berni Phillips was really going to stake me;
Being part of the kazoo band for the Golfimbul medal ceremony. This was a consolation position, alas, since I had failed to defend my last year's distance medal. This time I had to watch other people get the medals, in a spirit of sportsmanship and camaderie. People like Leonard, Rauscher, Long (undeserving scum! some people get everything handed to them! dumb luck!) Hostetter (a linguist! gimme a break!) Farrell (hmmm — she's editing this — better be careful!) …;
Lynn Maudlin using Anne Osborn as a prompter for Lynn's own song lyrics, and Anne forgetting;
David Bratman's talk on Tolkien's false starts in composing The Lord of the Rings, a topic remarkably suited to David's voice and delivery;
Eric Rauscher in a tux; The photo presentation, which just squeaked in on Monday, of next year's picturesque Mythcon site in Hawaii.
When the last song was sung and the last goodbye said, a nomber of us found ourselves crossing paths in Milwaukee's Mitchell Airport. Upstairs from check-in, Jane Bigelow of Colorado sat snacking and reading. I saw Ellie Farrell in a baggage check line and Paula Di Sante scurrying by. And I ended up sharing a quickie lunch with Bruce and Marcy Leonard, Arden Smith and Carl Hostetter. I savor these prolongations. But at last I had to shoulder my carry-on and make my solitary way to my particular flight gate. Till next year.


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19 OctFri / 2012One of our current residents at the Dora Maar House, Anne Vilsbøll is a Danish painter, author and curator. While at the Dora Maar House, Vilsbøll continues to work on her series of paintings "Les Doyennes and Les Doyens de Provence," portraits of people between 80-100 years old. As she searches out, meets and talks with some of the oldest citizens of the village, she returns to Dora Maar full of awe and enthusiasm....


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The embryos of the major predatory and food fish in the Gulf of Mexico suffered a much higher then normal level of heart defects as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill according to new research conducted by scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Stanford University, the University of Miami, and, the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia that was published in the March 24, 2014, edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The study assessed the impact of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) taken from the surface skimming operations in the Gulf of Mexico after the oil spill and from the source pipe attached to the damaged Deepwater Horizon wellhead on the embryos of bluefin tuna, yellowfin tuna, and amberjack.
All species of fish tested demonstrated virtually identical defects including irregular heartbeat, circulatory disruption, and pericardial fluid accumulation. Bluefin tuna were the species that showed the greatest degree of damage and have subsequently been listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as endangered.
The researchers expect their results to be relevant to swordfish, billfish, and other large predators that spawned during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The methodology developed is expected to be used as a barometer of fish health in new oil spill events.
The levels of PAH used in the experiments were within the range evolved by the Deepwater Horizon event. The researchers found that embryos were damaged at very low PAH levels.
There has not been any estimate of the number of heart defects that have been passed on to subsequent generations of fish by those fish that were exposed to oil and survived.
The ads from Gulf Coast fishermen that were funded with BP fines claiming how healthy and wholesome Gulf Coast seafood is after the Deepwater Horizon event appear to be an overstatement in light of the new research.


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From: Oracle Corporation
Minor Subject: Exporting security policies from one operating system and importing to another operating system can lead to servlets being unprotected.
Product(s) Affected: WebLogic Server and WebLogic Express
Threat level: Low
A system administrator who exports security policies from one operating system and then imports them to a different operating system may leave servlets unprotected.
Severity: Medium
Servlets could be unprotected.
A problem was identified that could potentially cause a security vulnerability in certain versions of WebLogic Server. Documentation updates are available to correct this problem (see Section II). Oracle treats potential security problems with a high degree of urgency and endeavors to take appropriate steps to help ensure the security of our customers' systems. As a result, Oracle strongly suggests the following actions:
I. Read the following advisory.
II. Apply the suggested action.
III. If you know of any additional users interested in future security advisories, please forward them the registration instructions included in this advisory.
I. Advisory
All sites are susceptible to this vulnerability. The vulnerability only occurs when system administrators export and import security policies between operating systems. By default, the context path and uri arguments for the WebLogic URLResource (used to protect servlets) are stored in lowercase on Windows and mixed case on UNIX. As a result, if you define security roles and policies in a domain on one operating system, export them, and then import them to a domain on an operating system with different case handling, the security roles and policies may not work correctly. The end result is that Web Application pages that are protected on one operating system may not be protected on a different operating system.
This issue was resolved by updating Managing WebLogic Server to caution system administrators who are exporting and importing policies between different operating systems to the risks involved. The information is available from:
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WebLogic Server 8.1
The following versions of WebLogic Server and WebLogic Express are affected by this vulnerability
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- WebLogic Server 7.0, on all platforms.
Oracle strongly recommends the following course of actions.
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A Heads-Up Warning on Concussion
"The study indicates for the first time in the high school athlete population that prior concussions may indeed lower the threshold for subsequent concussions injury and increase symptoms severity," Collins says in a news release.
The long-term effects have not been studied, but multiple concussions may increase later risk of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other conditions affecting brain function, Collins says.
Collins' study, which he says is the first published report on the outcomes of concussions among high school athletes, appears in the November issue of the journal Neurosurgery.
"While football poses the greatest risk, concussion also frequently occurs among high school athletes playing soccer, wrestling, and basketball," he tells WebMD.
Several measures are under way to try to reduce risks among young athletes. A new football helmet, specifically designed to protect against concussion, is being evaluated in another study conducted by Collins' team.
His group also has designed a computer program, called ImPACT, that is now used by more than 200 high schools in the nation as well as nine NFL franchises and other professional sports teams. This program, which costs a high school $995, is used to measure aspects of brain function sensitive to concussion both preseason and when a suspected injury occurs.
"If a player sustains a concussion, you can administer a 20-minute test on those functions and compare them to the earlier, preseason results," Collins tells WebMD. "If they fail, they don't go back to play."
Although it's not uncommon for players to have several concussions while in high school, Collins says it is difficult for school officials to issue policies that restrict their play. "We don't know how many concussions in high school are too many, because up until now, the issue hasn't been studied. Until we come up with good data to direct those management directives, policies are very arbitrary." There is no concussion "quota" in the NFL or in other professional sports, either, although several athletes have retired after suffering numerous concussions.
"What it comes down to is if you have a single concussion and the brain is allowed to recover completely, there shouldn't be any long-term effects," he says. "But if you have a concussion and the athlete returns to play before the recovery process has been complete, then the athlete is at increased risk."


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After nine seasons, the producers of the horror television series "Supernatural" are creating a spin-off show called "Supernatural: Tribes." The show will spin-off of an episode to air later this season and Screen Rant reported on Feb. 21 that the CW has found its two stars for the new show.
The actors who will play the leads in the show are Australian actor Nathaniel Buzolic and British actor Lucien Laviscount. Buzolic is best known to American television audiences as the evil vampire Kol Mikaelson on "The Vampire Diaries." Laviscount only has one U.S. credit so far with a recurring role on Showtime's "Episodes."
"Supernatural: Tribes" will change the focus of the show from the monster hunters point of view to a more ensemble look at a hunter among monster families that control the city, best described as supernatural powered mafia families.
Buzolic will play David Hayden, a shapeshifter who has been living among the humans for years now despite being a member of one of the ruling families. Laviscount stars as a police cadet named Ennis Roth, whose fiancée died in the middle of crossfire between the two warring supernatural families. He then dedicates his life to hunting down the monsters and ending them.
From the sound of the plot, David will end up partnering with Ennis, even though the latter is a sort of monster himself.
"Supernatural: Tribes" is one of a number of spin-offs for the CW, who successfully spun-off "The Vampire Diaries" with "The Originals" and will have a DC Comics spin-off when "The Flash" spins off of "Arrow."
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Hey Comedy Fans, have you been tuning into the new season of Futurama?
If you're a Trekkie, you'll want to set your TiVo this Thursday night. Star Trek legend George Takei makes a special appearance on this week's Futurama. The newlywed actor will appear as the moderator of a televised debate on "Proposition Infinity," an initiative that would legalize robosexual marriage (LOL).
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MEDINA — A proposal for greater oversight and tighter controls over school district funds managed by the county Educational Service Center includes a requirement that school board presidents sign off on checks greater than $10,000.
The proposal was discussed at Monday's meeting of the Medina County Schools' Educational Service Center governing board.
ESC board member Dan Shumaker said, "There is a need for transparency; we've read about that."
The Educational Service Center has come under public scrutiny as part of a growing controversy over Medina Schools Superintendent Randy Stepp's compensation, which includes more than a quarter-million dollars spent on his college education in the past three years.
The controversy also has drawn the attention of Ohio Auditor Dave Yost.
On Friday, in response to questions from The Gazette, Medina school board members acknowledged they didn't know how big a bill Stepp had run up: nearly $172,000 in back college loans and more than $93,000 for a master's of business administration from Case Western Reserve University.
All the money for Stepp's education payments came out of a "carryover" fund maintained by the ESC.
The "carryover" fund contains money left over after districts pay the ESC for a variety of services, including school nurses, interpreters for the deaf, bus driver training and computer specialists.
Although the money belongs to Medina Schools, board members never saw the records of the spending because the checks were issued by the ESC.
ESC Treasurer Michelle McNeely said she collaborated with Medina Schools Treasurer Jim Hudson to come up with tighter rules for handling the money:
• Checks less than $10,000 would require the approval of the school district superintendent, the treasurer and the human resources director.
• Payments greater than $10,000 would have to be approved by the school board president as well.
If the proposal is adopted by the Educational Service Center, it would apply to all the school districts, not just Medina.
McNeely said she and ESC Superintendent William Koran also favored a cap on the amount in the carryover funds.
Koran said a limit of between $50,000 and $100,000 would be reasonable.
"Anything in excess of that automatically gets sent back to the school district," McNeely said.
ESC board President Kent Patterson said he would prefer to see all the carryover money be paid back to school districts.
The proposed reforms are expected to be discussed at the next Medina Schools board meeting Wednesday evening. The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the Medina High School distance learning lab.
The Medina City Teachers Association — the union representing the district's approximately 400 teachers — released a statement Monday harshly criticizing Stepp's handling of the ESC fund.
The union said it issued the statement in response to a Gazette story Monday that reported Medina Schools had spent $2.8 million in the past five years from its ESC fund — nearly $1 million more than was spent by any of the county's other six school districts.
Much of Medina's cash went for Stepp's education costs and for professional development for Stepp and the district's other administrators, according to the Gazette's analysis of ESC records.
"MCTA finds Superintendent Stepp's choices to direct district money appalling. When he had the opportunity to spend money on students and programs, he instead chose to use ESC money for 'growth coaching,' administrative retreats and other expensive perks," according to the statement.
The union also blasted the district school board for being "apparently oblivious" to how the fund was used.
"Stepp's five-year spending spree is clearly a violation of the community's trust and possibly a mismanagement of funds," the union statement read.
Thomas Cahalan, who will be sworn in Wednesday as the Medina district's newest board member, attended Monday's ESC board meeting.
Cahalan, who was named to the board last week to replace retiring Dr. Robert Wilder, said he wanted to learn about what the ESC does.
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A comparative analysis of the mitogenic response of intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes in various age groups of turkeys
Mitogenic responsiveness of intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes (i-IEL) to concanavalin A (Con A), phytohemagglutinin P (PHA-P), and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from Salmonella typhimurium were evaluated in various age groups of turkeys by a colorimetric blastogenic microassay. Comparisons were made...
A multiplex reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction assay for Newcastle disease virus and avian pneumovirus (Colorado strain)
Newcastle disease virus (NDV) and avian pneumovirus (APV) cause Newcastle disease and rhinotracheitis respectively, in turkeys. Both of these viruses infect the respiratory system. A one-tube, multiplex, reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay for the detection of both NDV and...
A rapid virus neutralization assay for Newcastle disease virus with the swine testicular continuous cell line
Five continuous cell lines, swine testicular (ST), human rectal tumour (HRT 18), fetal rhesus monkey kidney (MA104), bovine turbinate (BT), and quail tracheal (QT35), were evaluated and compared with chick embryo fibroblasts (CEFs) for their ability to propagate B1 or Texas GB strains of Newcastle d...
A reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction assay for the detection of avian pneumovirus (Colorado strain)
A reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction assay was developed to detect of avian pneumovirus (Colorado strain) (APV-Col). The specific primers were designed from the published sequence of the matrix protein gene of APV-Col. The primers amplified a product of 631 nucleotides from APV-Col. The...
Cyclophosphamide (CY) was injected in ovo on the 16th, 17th and 18th days of incubation. Blood samples were collected periodically from CY-treated and non-treated birds after hatch and were used to measure blood lymphocyte responses to the T-cell and B-cell mitogens, concanavalin A and lipopolysacch...
A colorimetric assay employing MTT (3-[4,5-dimethylthiazole-2-yl], 2-5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide) was used to determine the mitogenic response of intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes (i-IELs) of chickens to T- and B-cell mitogens. Comparisons between mitogenic responses of i-IELs and peripheral ...
Analytical methods for determining ascorbic acid in biological samples, food products, and pharmaceuticals
Stunting syndrome is an enteric disease of turkeys causing diarrhea, reduced weight gain, poor feed efficiency, and maldigestion. The etiologic agent is a newly identified, but unclassified, virus termed the stunting syndrome agent (SSA). The SSA is a pleomorphic, enveloped virus ranging from 60 to ...
An enteric disease of young turkeys, referred to as stunting syndrome (SS), causes reduced growth and impaired feed efficiency. A recently isolated virus, stunting syndrome agent, (SSA) has been found to be the etiologic agent of SS. The objective of the present study was to determine relatedness of...
CmeR functions as a pleiotropic regulator and is required for optimal colonisation of Campylobacter Jejuni in vivo
Contribution of the multidrug efflux transporter CmeABC to antibiotic resistance in different Campylobacter species
CmeABC, a multidrug efflux system in Campylobacter jejuni, plays an important role in the resistance to different antimicrobials and toxic compounds. Although this efflux system has been well characterized in C. jejuni and to a less extent in C. coli, it is unknown if CmeABC homologs are functional ...
Conventional nested and TaqMan reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assays for the detection of avian pneumovirus (APV) were evaluated and compared with virus isolation (VI) for sensitivity and specificity. Respiratory tissues and tracheal swabs were collected from experimentally...
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Maybe it is the Italian in me, or that the image of a vintage Vespa makes me dream a bygone era when cool Italians with wearing suits and ties, rode care-free through the streets of Rome with a cute girl on the back. Persol sunglasses, the Coliseum, espresso, the beep-beep of a Fiat horn, I want to be THAT guy. The cool Italian with the girl, and the scooter. Just a dream…..or can one really make this happen today? Yes. Yes you can, I did. All you need to do is call Scooteroma.
I found Scooteroma on the internet during my research for my trip to Italy. Being the Gearhead that I am, I always look for classic car events, museums, and vintage collections to visit when I travel. Somehow I found the Scooteroma website, and I knew I MUST ride a Vespa when I got to Rome. Scooteroma is operated by a husband and wife team. Annie is an American from the North Midwest, and her husband Giovanni is native Italian. They are both very cool, and part of the Vespa culture of Rome, or Vespisti. They offer guided tours of Rome, either as a passenger or self driven. Chauffer driven Vintage Vespas are available as well. I was warned by numerous people in the US not to attempt to drive in Rome, because the traffic is crazy, the Italian drivers are crazy, and that I would surely perish. Great! Let's double-down! Let's do Rome on a scooter! I hopped on and told my girl to hang on tight. No, tighter. Ok. Andiamo! When in Rome…..
To the casual observer, the streets of Rome do look chaotic. But it somehow works. The sea of cars, scooters, trucks, motorcycles, and pedestrians weaving in and out of each other are all part of a motorized eco-system. Each element is on a quest for survival, but exists harmoniously. I never felt afraid or in danger. Stop lights are mostly obeyed, but stop signs and the lines painted on the streets are "just a suggestion". The key is to drive aggressively, not angry. When someone does something the other driver dislikes, they stop and have a conversation about it. They raise their voices, arms waiving around like an out of balance windmill, and then part as friends. It is the Italian way. A big blow up, then, ten seconds later, all is forgotten. Ciao. Time to go.
Giovanni skillfully guided us through the Roman traffic and showed us some really fantastic sites. We were able to see interesting, unusual off the tourist-trap radar places that I will always remember. For instance, a small mountain (around 115 feet tall) named Monte Testaccio, that looked normal, until he explained it was made completely out of broken amphora shipping containers dumped there in ancient times. "They used to throw them into them river, but the water became too shallow for boats to pass, so they dumped them here". On close inspection you can see the fragments. Very cool. Whizzing through Rome on a Vespa allowed me see the Eternal City from a completely different perspective, more like a local sees the city, not the average tourist. We covered a large area of Rome in a short amount of time in style, and I loved every minute of it. I lived the dream. La Dolce Vita baby.


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Early 2012, a team of extraordinary girls started a journey to a place out of this world. A place filled with innocence and beauty, as well as hardships and sad stories.
We had no idea what lay ahead, but were ready for an adventure, and although most of us didn't know each other, friendships were made and bonds were created that time and distance could never alter.
This book is dedicated to: Alena Barford, Charlotte Mackey, Jennifer Batchelor, Jilliann Kamp, Naeemah Khan, Nicole Harpole, Katherine Rae, Sally Rodwell, Sarah Nightingale and Evie White.
And especially to Vick and to the children of D.R.E.A.M. House.
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It is an impossible feat to pick just one BEST shopping place here in El Paso. We have several great places to shop at! We all have our favorite spot to shop at that is what this week's addition to EL PASO's BEST is all about!
Bassett Place Mall (aka Bassett Center) is located at 6101 Gateway West (I-10 and Geronimo). Bassett Place first opened its doors in 1962. It's the area's oldest mall but renovations as recent as 2007 have kept up with the times. More than 90 stores,such as Finish Line, Rack Room Shoes and GameStop. New to Bassett Place in 2009 - Kohl's Department it occupies the old Mervyn's space and El Taco Tote will open soon in the former Steak and Ale location in the parking lot.Bassett Place has a huge food court and a new 18-screen movie theater. Nearby you have access to Costco, Marshalls, David's Bridal, Casa Bella Home Furnishings and Ross. It's the closest major shopping center to the El Paso International Airport and Fort Bliss.You can visit Bassett Place year round from 10AM - 9PM Sunday from 12PM - 6PM
Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso boasts over 1, 238,000 square feet of space. The thirty five year old retail center underwent a massive facelift in 2005 and it is looking better than ever! In addition to the more than 140 specialty retailers, Cielo Vista Mall features two Dillard's department stores, a JC Penney, Sears and Macy's. As the largest mall in the El Paso metro area, Cielo Vista offers shoppers a plethora of both national brands and local specialty stores that won't disappoint. Stores at Cielo Vista are laid out in an easy to follow floor plan, allowing convenient access for shoppers no matter where you happen to have parked. Cielo Vista Mall also features a variety of eateries such as Chick-fil-A, Chinese Gourmet Express, Cosmo's Pizza, Hot Dog On a Stick, McDonald's, Chopsticks, Steakpedos, Orange Julius, Subway, Starbucks, Cinnabon. Situated on the East Side of the Franklin Mountains, Cielo Vista's Mall hours are: Monday to Saturday: 10:00am - 9:00pm; Sunday 12:00pm - 6:00pm Store hours may differ from Mall Hours.
Note worthy: if you can't find some Southwestern flare in these malls you can find it close by. El Paso Saddleblanket Co., for example, is a one-acre warehouse that sells jewelry, pottery, blankets and more. Go check it out it's just across I-10 from Cielo Vista Mall.


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United States officials have confirmed that an American turned jihadist from California fighting for ISIS in Syria was killed over the weekend.
On Tuesday, NBC News reports that a 33-year-old man from Southern California was killed in Syria fighting for the terrorist group, ISIS.he United States has confirmed that an American jihadist killed in Syria. NBC News confirmed that members of the news team seen actual photos of the dead American man's passport and of his body which feature a distinctive neck tattoo.
The American man, identified as Douglas McAuthur McCain, a resident of San Diego, California, was killed over the weekend fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), according to the Free Syrian Army. McCain was one of three foreign jihadists killed while fighting for ISIS during the battle.
On McCain's Facebook page, he is seen calling himself "Duale ThaslaveofAllah" A The biography of McCain's Twitter account reads: "It's Islam over everything."
Family members of Douglas McAuthur McCain say they were aware that he converted to Islam and loved to travel abroad. However, how the aspiring rapper ended up fighting for ISIS in Syria is not clear.
U.S. State Department officials said McCain is one of a "small handful" of Americans believed to be fighting in Syria for the terrorist group, ISIS.
McCain was born in born in Illinois on Jan. 29, 1981, but moved with his family to the Twin Cities area of Minnesota where he attended Robbinsdale Cooper High School in New Hope and played on the basketball team.
In October, 2011, another American turned terrorist, Abdisalan Hussein Ali,was identified as one of two suicide bombers disguised as soldiers involved in a attack in the Somali capital of Mogadishu that killed at least 10 people. Ali was the third known Suicide bomber from the state of Minnesota.
According to the FBI, the agency designated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as the lead agency in investigations where terrorism is suspected, Ali was one of an estimated 30 Americans to joined Al-Shabab, another terrorist group, with at least 20 of the thirty were from the Somali community in Minneapolis.
International terrorism consultant Evan Kohlmann says Minnesota is one of several Midwestern states where there's been an 'unusual' connection to radical groups. He said Minnesota may be attractive to terrorists, especially in the Twin Cities area where a large Muslim population resides, it is easier to blend.
International and national security experts have expressed concern that members of ISIS, possibly Americans -- may already be in the United States plotting an attack.


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by Jerome du Bois
The coprophagists are out again, sharing the waste of their words. Schadenfreude still holds sway, but we two stay above the fray; the "wrestling with pigs" cliché, don't you know. This city is for The Birds.
Spirit Photography by Catherine King. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce in any form.
by Jerome du Bois
In Kerry Lengel's recent review of Melissa Martinez and Mary Shindell's "installation art" now up at Mesa Contemporary Arts, he/she writes:
Installation art means no constraints, other than the shape of the room. The work can be two- or three-dimensional, made of any material, including video, sound or anything else the artist can imagine. There are no rules, which, in an ironic twist, means the artists go outside the metaphorical box by being inside a literal one.
What's ironic is that neither artist does any such thing. The Dr. Ruth Tan Lim Project Room at MCA is set up for multimedia --video, film, sound, digital, and web-based work. (There are outlets in the ceiling.) The sculptures and drawings Martinez and Shindell created use none of these resources, and could have been set up in any room at MCA, or any gallery anywhere. Despite the title of the exhibition --"Out There: Unconventional Landscapes"-- they are completely conventional. (In the Coda, in an imaginary proposal, I'll describe how Catherine and I would have used the room.)
From Lengel's article, which is titled "Artists Blend Talents to Reimagine Desert:"
When the artists looked at the space, they brainstormed ways of working with it. Perhaps one would take the walls, the other the floor. In the end, though, they decided to divide the room in half, collaborating on the concept but not the physical art -- "Not that they would end up being one piece," Martinez says, "but that they would somehow . . . meet up in the middle."
They may have brainstormed, but not very much or for very long. In her half of the room, Shindell positioned three of the same kind of Lucite columns (with her drawings curled inside) she has exhibited elsewhere, and which you can see on her website. On the wall, high above the viewer's head, there's a giant red desert sunset photo, mostly obscured by more of her drawings, but it doesn't matter because we've seen the real thing hundreds of times.
The theme of the installation was supposed to be the two artists responding to the desert. But the desert is nowhere to be found here. Shindell's busily detailed drawings flatten all her vegetative subjects, embedding them in one-dimensional suffocation. And the Lucite tubes belong in a mall.
Lengel's description of Martinez's contribution is misleading:
On the Martinez half, a giant fiberglass tree rises from artificial turf. It is smooth, sleek white and bare, but on the wall behind it seems to cast a shadow of twisted black branches.
First, that's not the effect at all. It's just black paint on a white wall. And the white thing doesn't resemble a tree. It doesn't branch like a tree, and its extensions are thick as tusks. It looks like an enlarged section from a set of antlers. It's smooth (with no hint of bark) and shiny, and totally cartoony. It looks like playground equipment. (In fact, when Catherine and I were viewing the room on the day of the opening, it wasn't really open yet, but the guy at the desk let us wander around. He told us the setup was complete, except "They're going to put a long table up in front of the tree so kids won't be crawling all over it.")
And it's completely alien to the desert. But then, according to Martinez herself, the desert wasn't her inspiration, even though it was supposed to be.
"One of my favorite movies is Edward Scissorhands, and I love the really surreal, totally artificial, just freaky landscape that happens there," Martinez says. "When I first moved to Arizona, I was driving through downtown Tempe, and there was a pink house next to a blue house next to a white house with these perfectly manicured green-square lawns with these citrus tree balls. And I was like, 'Wow, that's totally Edward Scissorhands,' in that surreal, kind of creepy but beautiful, overly perfect way. So this isn't a desert landscape, but it relates to how I feel living here, in that it's kind of artificial."
Back in 1999 Catherine was living up in the North Valley, near a desert mountain preserve. She would take long walks, and sometimes she would draw or paint what she saw afterward. Here is one of the gouaches she did back then, which she calls "The Ironwood In My Mind." That is what a desert tree looks like --like it's had a life, not been extruded from a tube.
But it was so much easier for Martinez to fashion her smooth, simplistic, reductive "tree" than try to capture the challenges and sufferings of real living things in the real harsh desert. It's not her surroundings which are artificial, it's Martinez herself; she's got a fiberglas soul. In a follow-up article by Srianthi Perera, Martinez describes her piece in the most simplistic fashion imaginable:
Martinez works mainly in sculpture and her installation features the tree of life, a large, black tree with a raven symbolizing the darker side in the background and a white and smooth sculpted tree symbolizing "the face you put to the world" in the foreground.
"If you live knowing that this is who you are, good and bad, you embrace all of your qualities, and it doesn't come out when it's least expected, like road rage."
Perera doesn't mention the clunky white doves suspended from the ceiling, their wings thick as brick. They might as well be rubber duckies.
Shindell, who is a lot older, should know better, but she does no better than Martinez, either in "reimagining the desert" or explaining her piece:
"In the desert, two things are overwhelming --space and detail. There is huge vast space from one end of the spectrum and then you have the little tiny detail in the cactus. I'm trying to play off of both those things at the same time," she explained.
"Landscape artists give a kind of emotional response. I'm also going for the physicality of having the scene around you in a sensory way," Shindell said.
Emotional response? The whole setup, by both artists, is cold, astringent, and clichéd. As for "physicality" and "sensory," there is nothing natural in the entire exhibition, from the Lucite tubes to the digital prints to the fiberglas tree to the artificial turf. The desert is far from here.
And what was Mike Goodwin, the preparator, thinking? Was he just catering to a couple of fellow artists from the 515 Gallery / MADE Arts / eyelounge menagerie downtown, where he exhibits? He had to know, based on their earlier work, that these two were not really multimedia artists, and that they wouldn't be using the Project Room the way it was designed. His explanation is as thin as theirs:
"When our work is together, it has this resonance that I can't explain," Shindell says. "Melissa did some boxes with soil in them that were hung very meticulously from cables. And I had done this drawing in pen and ink, a real loose drawing of a (prickly) pear cactus. And her piece and my piece worked so well together, but I can't really describe why."
Mike Goodwin, a preparator at Mesa Contemporary Arts, also saw the connection and invited them to take over the installation gallery.
"It's kind of hard to explain because they're so different in their approach and in their materials," he says. "(It's) the respect they have for natural history and beauty, and they're doing it in an innovative and interesting way. . . . It's not your typical landscape or sculpture of an animal or a tree."
Respect? Innovative? Interesting? Oh, please. All three elements were missing out there.
Coda: Let The Spirits Move You
We saw this piece on the day it opened, and it's depressed me ever since; but I held off criticizing the "installation" because Catherine and I got excited about the Project Room, and were considering submitting a proposal. Then we found out that Goodwin was hooked up with the downtown people, so he probably wouldn't be favorably disposed towards us; and that the MCA is not currently considering proposals anyway. Ah, the closed loop again. That's how things stay boring in this Valley.
So we'll console ourselves by describing our imaginary proposal --Let The Spirits Move You-- here on our blog.
The Project Room is a cube open on opposite sides. From above it looks like this: [ ]. So we would install heavy black curtains over both openings. Inside, in the darkened cube, six DVD projectors suspended from the ceiling would be playing, on all six walls, coordinated slide shows of our spirit photography. There will be a couple of rows of folding chairs, back-to-back, and floor cushions as well. One half of the cube will feature the back yard, as in the banner collage "The Good Neighbors" above, and the other half will feature the little brick house itself. In the beginning, the backyard is bare of orbs and other phenomena, but as the DVD spins they gradually fade in, one by one, here, there, here, there, until all three walls are filled and overlapping. Slow, sad, instrumental music --violin, bowed-saw, and theremin intermingled-- plays throughout. On the other half, the panorama starts in the sky above the roof and gradually descends to the house itself and moves around its perimeter, catching cats and showing the transformations of doors and windows. All this would take hours.
(There would also be, in alcoves just outside both sets of curtains, computer and headpiece setups for users to browse a special website of the spirit photo archives and Catherine's narrative of her spirit photography journey.)
What's the point of the piece? To make you sad. To restart your heart. We are convinced that American culture is shot through with schadenfreude --casual cruelty, the enjoyment of the suffering of others-- and reflecting on the dead and their longing for embodiment will remind the viewers of their own fragile mortality, their tenuous contingency, their very human vulnerability. There, on those walls, but for the grace of this brief life, go all of us.
Spirit Photography by Catherine King. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce in any form.
by Jerome du Bois
Last week, while rich people impressed each other at Christie's auction house, and news reports gasped about record prices for some useless human artifacts, I was reading about a couple of other human artifacts, M and K.
M and K appear in Peter Galison's science history book Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps, which is partly about the standardization of measurement. Like a Klimt or a Pollock, each is unrepeatable, each is unique, but neither is for sale. Their millions of replications, though, have meant more to the advancement of the human race --at least since 1889-- than all the Pollocks, all the Klimts, all the art, ever.
Those who created M and K treated their work with the solemnity it deserved. Let me quote Galison --at length.
Paris, Hôtel Des Affaires Étrangères, 20 May 1875, 2:00 PM. Represented by their plenipotentiaries, seventeen names will be put to a treaty . . . We are at the solemn signing of the Convention of the Meter. After years of negotiation, the High Contracting Parties now called into existence an international bureau of weights and measures. The new prototypes of the meter and kilogram it was charged with certifying would supplant the myriad of competing national measures, establish the relation between these gauges and all others, and compare results with the standards used to map the earth . . .
Signing the Convention of the Meter started, rather than ended, the process of distributing the meter. . . . For fourteen years, French engineers and British metallurgists hammered and smelted their way to a tough, durable iridium-platinum alloy.
While a British firm pounded these hard, pure bars into meter sticks with an inflexible "X" cross section, the French concentrated on producing an enormous "universal comparator" that would, by strict procedure, allow a standard length to be reproduced on another bar to within two ten-thousandths of a millimeter. It was painstaking, nerve-wracking work. When the British metal workers delivered their precious bars to the French, the operator at the conservatoire would set both the standard meter and the blank bar on the bridge of the comparator. Peering through a microscope, the operator would line up the one-meter mark on the standard. Then the operator would activate a lever, causing a diamond blade to inscribe a fine line precisely at the one-meter point on the blank. Carving subdivisions was just as difficult. The two microscopes would be set, say, ten centimeters apart. The operators would mark that length. Sliding the bar down, they would etch a second ten-centimeter length into the bar, and so on. To prepare the 30 standard bars that the international delegates would take home with them, the operators repeated this operation 13,000 times. The slightest slip with the diamond point meant starting over again with repolishing of the blank.
Finally, on Saturday, 28 September 1889, two years after Poincaré was elected to the Academy of Sciences, eighteen representatives of the contracting parties gathered in Breteuil for the final sanctioning of the meter. The president of the conference canvassed their votes --unanimous-- and then pronounced: "This prototype of the meter will from now forward represent, at the temperature of melting ice, the metric unit of length," while "this prototype [kilogram] will be considered from now on the unit of mass." All standards stood on display in the meeting room: meters sheathed by protective tubes, kilograms nested in triple glass bell jars. According to plan, each delegate ceremoniously picked a ticket from an urn, the number received assigning his country a meter stick, for which he offered a signed receipt. . . .
Later that afternoon, at 1:30 to be precise, the commission charged with depositing the international prototypes gathered in the lower basement of the Breteuil Observatory. There the delegates certified that the international prototype M would from that moment forward be enclosed in a case covered on the interior with velvet, lodged within a hard cylinder of brass, screwed tight, locked, and placed in the vault. Alongside M the standard bearers then prepared two "witnesses" for burial (meter sticks, not delegates). These metallic observers would forever testify, by the very conditions of their bodies, to anything that might befall M. In the same ceremonial interment, convention delegates sanctioned the kilogram, K, elevating and renaming it as the universal standard of mass. It too found its eternal resting place in the underground iron vault in the company of its witnesses. With two keys, and in full view of the delegates, the director of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures locked the case, secured the inner basement door with a third key, and bolted the exterior door with a fourth and a fifth key. At the conclusion of these solemn events, the president of the conference handed these latter keys in separate, sealed envelopes: one to the director of the International Bureau, one to the general guard of the National Archives, and the last to the president of the International Committee. From that time on, all three basement keys would be needed to enter the sanctum sanctorum.
This was a remarkable moment. M, the most precisely forged and measured object in history, the most individually specified humanmade thing, had become, by its burial, the most universal. Here was an object manifestly in France and yet not in France, religiously redolent and yet stridently rational, absolutely material and yet completely abstract.
Those last two sentences, with some modification, express the ambitions of many artists. And yet none have even come close to the accomplishments of a piece of metal you can pick up at the hardware store for a minute fraction of the cost of a Pollock or Picasso, a de Kooning or a Klimt.
by Jerome du Bois
First were the people themselves, thousands of them streaming into the new expanded entrance and milling around the new four-story galleries. It was encouraging that so many people seemed to be interested in art; less encouraging was that most of them were dressed for volleyball, or watching television, or mowing the lawn. I wager that even when they have to pay the ten bucks, they'll still wear the flip-flops. No wonder we got so many dirty looks.
Second, and more abstractly, were all the names fastened to so many diverse surfaces. Not just Somebody's Outdoor Sculpture Garden, or Somebody's Atrium, or Somebody's Wing, but Somebody's Visitors Desk. As Catherine and I settled in for Dennita Sewell's stilted fashion talk in Somebody's Lecture Hall, we noticed that each seat in our row had a little plaque with the name of somebody in Jerry Colangelo's extended family embedded in the arm. Little jerryclones all in a row. Neither Catherine nor I checked out the restrooms during our visit, so I suppose we missed out on the Brady Roberts towel dispenser and the Jim Ballinger commode. . . . Such desperate vanity, as if everyone should try to be a brand.
Third were the objects in the outdoor sculpture garden. Right outside the old front entrance --I couldn't believe my eyes at first-- was Eric Fischl's Tumbling Woman from 2002, his "tribute" to the horror of 9/11. I don't know if this was the actual one which got kicked out of its original venue because it made so many people mad, or if he had the gall to edition it, but I was astounded that somebody at the museum thought it was appropriate to purchase. I thought that damned insult to human dignity had been melted down already. "She isn't tumbling," Catherine notes. "Tumbling sounds like gymnastics. Those poor people had to choose which way to die."
Next on the path was one of Joel Shapiro's ridiculous stick pieces, looking like discarded support armature from a larger, better Mark di Suvero sculpture. Then came the two big Robert Arneson bronze heads, stuck in the ground at diagonals to one another. The titles had something to do with pain, but the heads were just like all the other vanitas pieces this guy churned out as the Dale Chihully of ceramic portraiture. Behind one of the heads was a big fat ugly bronze woman, created in 1935 by Gaston Lachaise, and finally cast in 1991. His Standing Woman, done over and over, finally got real fat. Fatter than Alice Roi, fatter than Candy Crowley. Fat and lumpy and, apparently, proud of it. It reminded me of a lot of the people (both male and female) milling around the museum, actually, though mercifully they had clothes on.
Across the way, near the administration building, we could see five or six headless bronze figures, just frontal shells of people, tilted forward in a row, running --I can't say "headlong," can I?-- running one behind the other. I think they were by that Polish sculptor Magdalena --what? Yadayadaetcetera?-- but we didn't get close enough to read the label. Why would we? To be inspired? Moved?
At the end of the Garden was a big bronze egg, tall as a man. I wonder if it was a goose egg.
Fourth were all the objects and paintings in the new gallery. There was not a single dignified, inspiring image of humanity on any of the levels. We got Eric Fischl's idiot boy with the oranges; vapid Philip Pearlstein flesh tones; some fool in a dinghy rowing through blue impasto; Peter Saul's dayglo parody of a Dutch master painting; Raymond Saunder's garage-sale wall garbage; a flatfooted Vernon Fisher blackboard; somebody's mirrored platform with mirrored objects on it, like a low perfume counter. Anish Kapoor's shiny black double-scoop ovoid seemed like pure pop wow but nothing else. It was not, to use Catherine's term, enlifting. I would rather have been looking at a jet engine.
But the absolute worst piece, and the one which ruined all my hope that anyone at that museum has any respect for people, was the realistic sculpture of the naked mole rat mounting a woman's face. It was called, we think, Embrace, but "That's no embrace," Catherine said. "It's rape." Presumably all the glitterati at the pre-opening gala saw the thing, and nobody --none of those names on the walls, or Jim Ballinger, or anybody else-- had a problem with a feces-eating animal having its sexual way with a human being. I wonder what Kathryn Blake, the museum's education curator, will tell the touring schoolchildren about that piece.
Perhaps we should be thankful they didn't have any Kara Walkers, or Paul McCarthys, or anything by the Chapman brothers. But give them time, because now they've got the money, the space, and no bottom.
[Preemptive note to any anonymous or pseudonymous emailers: by not signing your real names you reveal yourselves as cowards, and your words as weightless. So don't bother.]
Principia Physichedelica. 30" x 44". Collage with acrylic, colored pencil, and vintage metallic wallpaper on Arches paper. © 2006 Jerome du Bois.
Detail here.
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by Jerome du Bois
Speaking of cats, I finally caught up with Faster Than The Speed Of Light, by João Magueijo, published in 2003. In the first part of this account of his variable-speed-of-light theory, he includes a short anecdote about Einstein that I don't want to forget, so I'm transcribing it here in my diary. Magueijo is such a smark-aleck the story may be aprocryphal, but I doubt it. Scientists can be strange. Page 71:
While Einstein lived in Berlin, working as a patent office clerk, he did his research work in a small study away from his home. In this study he kept a large number of cats, of which he was very fond. However the cats at times could be rather burdensome, scratching persistently at closed doors, demanding to roam freely throughout the house. He could not leave all the doors open, so he decided to cut holes in the bottom of the doors, producing cute little cat doors.
In that year he had roughly equal numbers of large and small cats. Therefore, quite logically, he cut out two holes in each door: a large one for the large cats, and a small one for the small cats. It made perfect sense.
It's a sweet story.
[Next book in my study of the physics of time, which I've already begun: Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps: Empires of Time, by Peter Galison. It's about simultaneity and electrosynchronization, the coordination of clocks. As Julian Barbour might say, you can talk abstract time all day long, but in the real world it comes down to clocks and rods, rods and clocks.]
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Our Awards for the Web Page
These web pages are built and designed by me, for better and for worse. I think anyone who's watched these pages over time has seen they evolve very fast, nearly daily they change. They are working pages, and you have made them so. Master craftsmen we are, and dreams we build. Clerks we are "not"... Product knowledge separates us by a lightyear from the others, you'll enjoy the difference. Enjoy the site that is not banner ad driven, but rather "Client Referral Driven". These ad dollars did not buy folks, we do not try to "buy" your patronage, we "earn it right here"...
I've gotten a great many wonderful notices of awards on the web/internet and have gathered together the ones I was able to find for this page... I really am honored when visitors, and other sites, find favor with my pages, I guess these pages started because I craved the recognition long denied, when working behind the scenes to support resellers. Now I work for "you". It's really not for the honors or sales I do these pages folks, it's for your entertainment, enlightenment and amusement that I built this production. May you depart with knowledge and understanding, and "enjoy the heck out of your visit"... Enjoy! Ray
Jaclyn Easton is the host of "
Jaclyn Easton's segments are televised live every Tuesday and Thursday morning on the CBS 2 News in Los Angeles. Transcripts and links of selected segments can be found at her web site. A complete archive visit the Los Angeles Times Website or the CBS 2 Channel 2000 website.
Small Business Computing Magazine's best of the web!
We were selected as the "Fourth most Wired small business in America" by Small Business Computing Magazine, Currently at yer newstand... December 1999 issue, and the editor asked if it would be OK to do some photographs... {Grin}... My office looks like the F.A.O. Swartz in Las Vegas, a virtual toy store, so when the camera folks came they kept looking over at this elegant "Jester's Hat" that I got picked up on my vacation, for my corporate business meetings.
When the photographers saw that hat they kept hammering me to "Wear the hat Ray!" so after a day of very nice shots and some fun I did indeed grab that hat and the rest is history. I got this hat to remind myself that it is the customers who are important, and not us... We are professionals and vastly more experienced than others, but that aside we want to make sure that here we do not take ourselves too seriously, and become intoxicated with the praise and activity. I want this to be where "real people" meet, and if we were not real people it would defeat this processe... This is the reason I did not take the company public, and bring in investors... I want my business to "Have a soul" and I want the guiding reason we are here to always be about the people, and not corporate investor's returns or IPO's... I'm not a quick cash guy... Hit the page preview to see most of the article, and of course do buy the December 99 issue of Small Business Computing of course too!!!
PS, I think for any business it is not a bad idea to have a similar "hat" to wear, to remind yourself that life and business should be a joy, and that fun should be had at all times for both quality of life, and quality of your service.
Shopping on the Internet, and Beyond
(Coralis Group Publication) featured our site as follows, here's a snip...
So I have to say as commentary, now that I have been "forced" by my increasing customer volume, to form "Tradeshop Incorporated" to keep up with the demand, I must say a heartfelt "thank you Jaclyn!" I guess when I read your lovely article in this nationally/internationally sold book I started to realize what this all means... It's when I started to see that "Knowledge is Power." The web and internet allow quality communication beyond imagination. It's clarity, and power to convey is seriously amazing! I think the future is blindingly bright for business's founded on common sense, plain talk and honest value.
Internet Business Magazine's November Issue!
In the November issue of this magazine we were written up in a review, and the title of the article is "The Crown Jewel of the Internet"... Shameless though I am I am stunned and delighted with the recognition and the notice. It's on of the my finest hours indeed, as both the awareness of our business, and creativity in jewelry grow and flourish... While the business good, and the job is fun, we also want you to know that we clearly are here to please you, which is why we work so hard. Our customers are the reason we come downtown, not just to make the sale, but to make dreams come true...
You have, the visitors and public, made my dreams come true, so it's only fair, right?!? I work for the greatest folks in the world not, real people just like you, and that eliminates both the markups of the middlemen, as well as shortens the distance of information, you'd be suprised at how often the sales-clerks got it wrong...
From: email@example.com
To: email@example.com
Subject: Gemkey Award
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 14:06:55 +0700
8 December 99
Dear Sirs:
Congratulations, you have received GemKey Magazine's "Best of the Web" Award for your excellent Diamond Retail website.
The award was given based on a combination of design aspects and usability. Your company's website scored high in these categories and was published in our magazine to serve as a reference guide to trade websites that are in a class of their own or a leading industry websites.
Attached is a JPG file with the award logo for this category. Please feel free to display it on your website to let visitors know that you have received an industry-related website design award from the global trade's premier Internet magazine.
We hope this award helps to not only bring an increased number of visitors to your website, but also recognizes the effort made to create a superior website.
Warm regards,
Russell Shor,
Editor-in-chief, GemKey Magazine
Comment by Ray: "I must say that I am very pleased that the industry has taken notice of what we do here, I think any craftsman loves the attention of their peers. I think that this award for the best in 1999 has touched my heart, and I thank Gemkey Magazine for this praise and notice!
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: Congratulations -- you've been selected!
From: "4anything.com Best of Web Award Committee"
Congratulations! The editors of the 4anything.com network have chosen your site as one of the best of the web within your category. We believe that your site provides great value to our 4anything users! Hopefully, our link to your site is driving valuable traffic.
4anything.com provides listings of the best that the Internet offers on any topic. With a category listing and a keyword search on the home page, users can directly locate information and businesses related to any topic of interest. More importantly, 4anything.com users can quickly access the very best web sites, like yours, instead of slogging through thousands of unqualified links only marginally related to a given topic. Our editors prioritize the most useful and relevant web sites, constantly refreshing their selections. As a result, users get fresh, relevant information on the first page of search results.
We encourage you to place this award on your site which links back to 4anything.com. Follow the easy instructions below on how to download this file and don't hesitate to contact us at
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From: Katrina Kimport
To: "firstname.lastname@example.com"
Subject: Ask Jeeves Silver Platter Award
Silver Platter Site Award
I am pleased to inform you that your site has been selected as an Ask Jeeves Silver Platter Site.
Ask Jeeves (http://www.ask.com) is the Internet's premiere question answering service. Each day Jeeves answers millions of questions ranging from "What's on TV tonight?" to "Does IE 5.0 support cascading style sheets?" Our mission is to help Internet users find answers to their questions quickly and easily. If you haven't already, visit our website and ask Jeeves a question.
My team is continually researching websites to find answers to the most frequently asked questions. Only sites that meet stringent criteria are selected to be answers in the Jeeves Knowledgebase. These sites are known as the "Ask Jeeves Silver Platter Sites". For more information on our editorial criteria, please see http://aj.com/docs/about/policy.html.
To indicate that your site meets the Ask Jeeves selection criteria, we have developed a Silver Platter Award link. If you are interested in adding it to your site, please email me back and I will forward the graphic and link to you immediately.
NetGuide Magazine's review of my site leaves me speechless... So much so that I will just say "thank you so very much" and little more. I think anyone who owns a business, and works hard, really wants to be recognized for the efforts and the work. I write these pages, so for good or for bad they reflect what I feel and what I can do... Honors such as these make the long hours of doing the pages and building the jewelry possible, and the lovely letters I get from my clients.
My new corporation will bring affordable quality to the "real people"... To the NetGuide people I say "thank you from the bottom of my heart folks".
...and I'm so pleased you do not discount heavily for spelling...{Grin}... I take the awards very seriously, for I think that the unbiased reviews and the objective stories are one thing which money cannot buy. The charm of the internet for me is that it's the size of your ideas and imagination which count here, not the size of your wallet. These are all treasures to be, like diamonds in my safe... ...but there's on thing I treasure even more, and that his my web client's referrals.
For the Gemology Pages awards just keep on coming...
John Miller's technical compendium is a world class resource for both professional and novice alike. The amount ot technical reference material is astounding, a compendium that covers nearly all gemstones, both more common and rare... Specific gravity, refractive index, chemical composition, it's all there.... I'm very proud to work with John on the web, and we both agree that the more you know about anything the better... Ray
Gemology is well covered in the Tradeshop Gemology pages, authored by my friend John Miller. We seek to provide you information you can really use, without the halogen lights and the focus on sales. Technical information you can use to understand the properties of most gem stones on planet earth. Knowledge is Power, we make you more powerful!
Apple Computer's got a vision...
To feature small business's with less than 20 employees who are successful and use Macintosh computers for their business needs, well I suppose that there is hardly a better fit actually since I've used Apple products since my wicked fast machine was an Apple II Plus with a Juki daisy wheel printer... Now we're running a Microwave dish on the roof for 300K+ access, and we're about 12 fast workstations, all T-100 to the dish. Be carefull with this movie clip it's 8 megs!
I hosted the video production team from San Francisco for a day, while they shot footage for upcoming Apple Promotions. If you attended Internet World and saw the Keynote address by the Apple ceo you might have seen the video, it was used to highlight that keynote address! Now I use my 9600/350Mhz machine with 448Megs of Ram for photoshop stuff, with 12 gigs of storage and this power there is nothing I can't do on the computer now. Gary has a lovely G3 Apple for A/V work, and a new G3 for video. This is probably a bad idea to pre-release this information, but we hope to work with Apple to highlight the tremendous power for good the personal computer represents... Here's their latest note :)
From: email@example.com
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: Re: I think you qualify
Dear Ray,
Thanks for sending me the information that I requested for the Apple success story. I will be reviewing your story with Apple this week and will let you know how they want to proceed.
Best regards, Marcella
Marcella Wucher
Big Sky Communications
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997
From: Elizabeth ClearyMIME-Version: 1.0
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: Discovery Online Connection
Dear Webmaster,
I am writing on behalf of Discovery Communications, Inc., parent company of Discovery Channel and The Learning Channel. In the summer of 1995, Discovery launched Discovery Channel Online, a World Wide Web site that extends the real world entertainment of its cable programming to cyberspace.
We actively seek links to high-quality sites like yours that feature content related to subjects on our site. We would like to link to your site through History Connections--related to James Burke's program "Connections." As part of History Connections, we have created a contest called "Webweaving" in which we provide clues for users to make the "connection."
Your page contains material relevant to the connection, and we plan to link to your site throughout the fourth month (January) of our contest. The contest will then be archived for a year.
The page we are linking to is located at: http://www.tradeshop.com/master/sean.html
There is the potential for hundreds of users to attempt to access your site through these links. Please let us know at your soonest convenience whether this extra traffic will present any technical problems for your server.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me. We look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you.
Elizabeth Cleary
Discovery Channel Online Consultant
Bell Atlantic's Internet Business Solutions also sent me a very very nice notice as well!!! Why here it is now :)
From: Webmaster
Subject: Webkeeper Notification
Bell Atlantic Internet Solutions has identified your site to be included within its Internet Access Service as a "best of the net" site. The service provides a graphical user interface which enables the customer to intuitively navigate an index of "the best of the net" websites. We plan to point users to your site via HTML links from within our service.
Your site has been accepted to DELTA COOL SITES.
It has met with our COOL Site standards of being:
1) graphically pleasing
2) having good content
3) allowing ease of navigation.
Delta selected our pages as a "Cool Site" so I thought I'd take the time to thank them here. I really appreciated their kind words when they contacted me. I work very hard to make these pages more than another "sell site" by providing common sense information that one can use remotely or locally to gain a great value on either a diamond or jewelry item...
Dear Web Author ,
We from Nicecom Promotions have the pleasure to announce that your Web page has been selected as an interesting site, and consequently has earned a link from our directory "Nicelinks" "http://www.nicecom.com/nicelinks/", section "Wedding".
You are now entitled to use the award icon on your page. It's attached on this message. The HTML code to display the icon is the following: If you store the image in a different directory, don't forget to include the path.The icon and the HTML code can also be found at: "http://www.nicecom.com/nicelink/logo.htm" If you have problems setting the icon on your page, feel free to reply to this message and ask for help. Congratulations for making the WEB a nicer place. Nicecom Staff
From: firstname.lastname@example.com
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 97 00:30:18 EST
Subject: Congratulations!!!
Reply-To: email@example.com
Comments: Authenticated sender is
Recently we enjoyed a very pleasant visit to your web site! It is with great pride that we announce that your web site is a WINNER of our esteemed Majon Web Select "SEAL OF EXCELLENCE AWARD." (As mentioned in the Wall Street Journal.)
The award icon can be downloaded at:
Our award seal is trademarked and may be placed anywhere in your web site, provided you place a link from the icon to:
For more info, visit:
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Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 18:17:04 -0700
From: Dennis Eskow
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Organization: OPERtune.com
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To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: Datamation 100
As editor in chief of Datamation, I am preparing an entirely new feature series that features the 100 best businesses (in revenues) that make more than 25 percent of their revenue on the Internet. If your site is featured, we will do a story in the magazine and put a chart on the web which includes a link to your site. You will be able to use our award emblem at your site.
All the best,
Dennis Eskow
Datamation Magazine
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Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 20:36:29 +1000
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
From: Kostas Metaxas
Subject: VIVE's BEST OF THE BEST WWW Links
Just a quick note to advise you that your site has been listed in our VIVE LA VIE "BEST OF THE BEST" links on the WWW.
You will find this in our 'ARCHIVES' section, although our 'AWARD SITES OF THE MONTH' are in the 'Regular Departments' section of our Contents page.
I would appreciate it greatly if you could email me a short description in your own words so that I may include this beside your entry. If you have trouble finding your entry, please let me know, and I will give you its exact address.
Also, we have finally installed the "WORLD OF VIVE" where you can add your Press Releases, new product information, exhibition information, or any other news about your site or product. Simply go to the 'Contents' under 'Regular Departments' and follow the directions. As a courtesy to other participants, I would appreciate it greatly if you could keep your notices brief (about 25 -50 words) and include your WWW address and email details.
If you would like to FAX your releases to our offices for us to edit and add to the list on your behalf, please fax us at: New York USA: 1-212-504-7983
And finally, the 'Vive Best of the Best MARKETPLACE' is now online, and you can browse to buy or list any of the following to sell to our over 10,000 browsers per month. Anything to do with Antiques, Watches,Jewellery, Pens, Real Estate, exotic cars, Resorts, Luxury Business opportunities, Jets, Boats, Holiday resorts and others is welcomed.
If you have any questions with regards to how you can participate in VIVE on the WWW, please do not hesitate to email me at your convenience.
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The BEST OF THE BEST on the WWW
I also was selected by the Award Committee at FunGuide Awards for having a fun family site, guess they don't discount for spelling {Grin}... Very honored and very pleased once again... Here's a review :)
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To: email@example.com
From: email@example.com (FunGuide Award Committee)
Subject: Congratulations!!
Dear Web Author ,
We from Nicecom Promotions have the pleasure to announce that your Web page has been selected as an interesting site, and consequently has earned a link from our directory "Nicelinks" "http://www.nicecom.com/nicelinks/", section "Wedding".
Congratulations for making the WEB a nicer place.
Nicecom Staff
Ps: Nicelinks is a totally FREE service from Nicecom Promotions.
While flattered by these awards and honorable mentions these pages were always about jewelry, common sense and a bit of fun. I'm an information junkie, and it seems to serve me well on the web pages. I'd like to thank every visitor who has said "Great pages" for it's you who keep me questing after better pages and information. My desire is to make these pages meet your needs, so let me know if you see a way they can be improved. I write these myself, with no help, so I appreciate all tips, hints and swift kicks which improve either the pages or myself... No cheap shots about spelling, OK? {Grin}...


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Regency Hotel
- Location: Luohu Land Port of Entry
- Address: 1, Bao An North Road, Shenzhen
- Tel: 0755-82260888 (Book this hotel, call 800-2682918)
- Hotel Name in Chinese: 帝豪酒店
- Lowest Price: On Request
Opened in 1991 and renovated in 2007, Regency Hotel Shenzhen boasts a convenient location in the heart of the city of Shenzhen. Numerous business and commercial addresses can be found within a short distance of the hotel. The Luo Hu railway station is a 10 minute drive from the Regency Hotel Shenzhen, and the Shenzhen International Airport can be reached in 20 minutes.
The Regency Hotel Shenzhen's 168 guestrooms are well decorated and equipped with an array of modern amenities. Attentive room service is available should guests find themselves in need of something during their stay. Western and Cantonese dishes can be enjoyed in the Regency Hotel Shenzhen's on-site restaurants. Conference facilities are available on the property should any business guests wish to hold an event in the hotel. After a long day, guests can choose to take a refreshing dip in the swimming pool, partake in the activities in the game room, or meet up with friends in the Karaoke Night Club.
- Prices not include 18% service fee and tax.
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On November 20, 1999, SMU traveled to Tulsa, Oklahoma to battle the Golden Hurricane in a late season WAC contest. The Ponies entered the game riding a three-game winning streak in which they outscored their opponents 109-32. Led by QB Josh McCown and a record-setting passing performance, SMU extended their winning streak on this late November day. McCown's record-setting day marks one of the 90 Greatest Moments in SMU Football History.
Armed with a hot arm and standing behind a confident offensive line, McCown and the Mustang receiving corps shredded the Tulsa defense. Starting in the first quarter and lasting until the first play of the fourth quarter, the Jacksonville, Texas native stood tall in the pocket completing a school record 19 straight passes. The previous record of 13 straight completions was set by Bobby Watters in a win at Rice in 1986.
McCown began his streak with 11 minutes remaining in the first quarter with a 9-yard pass to wideout Chris Cunningham. Over his remaining 18 straight completions to set the new Pony record, McCown passed for 253 yards. McCown's streak came to an end when he overthrew Bryan McDearman on the first play of the fourth quarter.
McCown finished the day completing 24 of 29 passes for an astounding .828 completion percentage. He racked up 300 yards passing to go along with 3 touchdowns leading SMU to their fourth consecutive win, 28-14, over the Golden Hurricane. McCown's performance lands him at No. 87 in our countdown of the 90 Greatest Moments in SMU Football History.