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Polish Museum Conjures Jewish Life Before the Holocaust
The Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw opened last month to great fanfare but no exhibitions for visitors to see. That all changed yesterday with the launch of its first temporary exhibition.
"Letters to Afar" is no typical history museum show. It is not designed as a literal chronology of, say, Jewish life before World War II. There's no didactic retelling of a chronology of events.
Instead, the exhibition resembles a modern art installation: Renowned video artist Péter Forgács of Budapest created a dozen audiovisual orchestrations out of rare home movies of Polish Jews in the 1920s and '30s paired with new original music by the Grammy-award winning Klezmatics of New York.
"The visitor can see something, a world that has been destroyed," Forgács says. "We're not showing at all the events that came afterward."
"We want to be the museum of life," says the exhibition's curator, Tamara Sztyma, a Polish Jew and part of new generation of young Polish museum professionals brimming with energy and ideas. "We want to invite people to travel into the past and to not just to watch those films as historical documents, not just to be the witnesses of history, but to be its participants."
As some Jewish immigrants in the 1920s and early '30s ventured back to their Polish homeland to visit relatives, they packed the personal technology of the day, portable movie cameras. (Not everyone could: A new Cine-Kodak in the early '20s totaled half cost of a Model T, writes Jeffrey Shandler in the show catalog.) The resulting home movies served as a kind of visual postcard, a communique between those who traveled and their circle back in the States.
The amateur footage traces quotidian events, Forgács says: Family members smile into the camera. "They have a personal relation with the person behind the camera. … They're showing the family outside; they're walking to the places; they're showing their neighbor; they're showing their daily life," the shops of the shtetl, the synagogue, their marketplace. "Something that doesn't exist anymore—even in film."
"So the miracle is that these were saved because they were sent back, brought back to the U.S.A.," Forgács says of the movies.
This exhibition represents a concrete outcome of a year-old partnership between the Warsaw museum and YIVO, the Jewish Institute for Research in New York, which holds the films in its collection. This relationship retraces the historic links between YIVO with the Polish community it sprang from. In 1925, scholars founded YIVO in Vilna, Poland, then the intellectual capital of the Jewish community of Eastern Europe.
The Nazi invasion of Vilna, with its destruction and plundering, forced YIVO staff to seek refuge and relocate its treasures of Yiddish literature and Jewish folklore in New York.
Forgács created his artwork carefully and slowly. He selected some clips from travelogues specially commissioned by members of landsman groups such as Alexander Harkavy's of Navaredok. By showing the tough living conditions in Poland after World War I and in the Depression, they raised funds for their kinsmen.
But Forgács did not necessarily choose frames because of who the people were. Rather, he selected certain scenes for their gestures as people went about daily activities and cut the footage to deliver a different kind of message to a contemporary museum audience. He isolated moments in these private movies, playing them at different speeds so viewers will gaze at these Polish Jewish faces.
Visitors encounter the exhibition in a giant space of 12 audiovisual orchestrations—each with two to three or four screens set close together. Sometimes the cluster of screens displays the same footage but runs it at a different speed or angle.
Museumgoers may find the footage mesmerizing to watch as if they were privy to conversations between families as people over "there" in Poland were photographed, their images conveyed and shown by the traveler to family "here" in America.
"We are reading not only the facial expression but we read the body language," says Forgács. "We read how these different generations appear before the camera. You see how the old Orthodox women with wigs, and you see their sons and daughters in modern clothes. You see the schools, the Yiddish school and the Hebrew school, and you see a lot of things that we can read that are extremely important and only like [Isaac Bashevis] Singer could write about it. But now we can see it with our eyes."
"Art is a sensitive matter," says Forgács who represented Hungary at the Venice Biennale four years ago. "It is a language that can translate, transmit, mediate message in a very specific way that is not science, not historical document but something that is touching you—emotional, sensitive, musical. And then you get into the feeling, …Oh I can even can touch them. Oh, look at that face… Oh, look at the kids! Oh, lovely."
Forgács sees the power of the films in their "innocence" and "naïveté" about the future, "much as you and I don't know what is our future, what comes in two years, five years," he says.
For Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, a senior adviser of the project, the artwork's magic lies in the fact that visitors can enter the exhibition space and be surrounded by scenes from a time when Poland had many vibrant Jewish communities and cities where Jews comprised a large sector of the population—a dramatic effect in a country where most of the Jews are now gone.
To provide context, Forgács added clips from a 1935 historical film "The Banner of Freedom" (about the Second Polish Republic) and from a 1937 movie adaptation of S. Ansky's famous Yiddish play "The Dybbuk" as well as occasional captions with snippets of letters and Jewish literature of the day.
The Klezmatics were challenged by Forgács to develop a score that would be "neutral," says trumpeter Frank London. "Given the intensively charged nature of the content of the images, he really didn't want the music to sort of telegraph emotions or tell people what to think or how to interpret the images."
Forgács' works rely on music with a "minimal" affect, "which is lovely and amazing and we understand it," London says, adding that this is "unrelated to what the Kletzmatics normally do."
Viewers of all religions and backgrounds are the right audience for the show, says Forgács, a child of Holocaust survivors: "When I'm making a film, I'm not a Jew; I'm an artist. My call is universal."


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Suni Petersen
Personal Information
California School of Professional Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Sacramento Campus
Alliant International University Sacramento
2030 West El Camino Ave., Suite 200
Sacramento CA 95833
Courses, Research Interests, Publications
International research testing a Model of Health Behavior Change for the Developing World; immigration stress; health psychology: creating and testing evidence-based interventions for underserved minority populations with cardiovascular disease and cancer, health promotion and using computerized interventions for cost effective approaches to health behavior change
Petersen, S. & England, F. S. (2013). Training indigenous women to conduct health promotion in the developing world: empowering women or colluding with multiple oppressions? Women and Therapy (accepted for publication).
Petersen, S., Kirkwood, C., Do, T., Forghany, M., Brake, K., & Washburn, C. (2013) Immigration Stress is Associated with Sub-clinical Symptoms of PTSD in Latino Immigrants. Journal of Latino Studies, in review.
Petersen, Spiga, & Togneri (2013) Using Behavioral Economics for Translational Research in the Developing World, International Psychology Bulletin, accepted for publication.
Petersen, Shaw, Do, Washburn, Brake, Gotts, DeVito, & Chan (2013). Action Research: Model for Sustainable Health Behavior Change in the Developing World, International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice and Consultation, in revision.
Petersen, S. (2012). Not just another finding and keeping love book. Psych Critiques. (accepted for publication).
Petersen, S., Hutchings, P., Shrader, G., & Brake, K. (2011). Integrating Psychological Services into Health Care: A Clear Advantage for Underserved Diverse Populations. Psychological Services Journal, 9(2), 69-81.
Petersen, S., Hydeman, J., Flowers, K. (2011) The Decisional Processing Model: How cognitive processing affects compliance to mammography in low-income African American women. Journal of Black Psychology, first published October 8, 2010 as doi: 0.1177/0095798410385680.
Petersen, S., Hydeman, J., Murphy, P. (2009). Deconstucting the Myth of the Cultural Monolith: Differences in Beliefs about Mammography Among Low-Income African American Women, Psychological Services Journal, 6, 126-138.
Rexrode, K. R., Petersen, S., & O'Toole, S. (2008). The Ways of Coping Questionnaire: A Reliability Generalization Study. Psychological Testing and Measurements.
Petersen, S., Homko, C. J., Santamore, W. P., McConnell, T. R., & Bove, A. A. (2006). The role of risk perception in telemedicine. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 31, 105.
Petersen, S., Soucar, B., Sherman-Slate, E., & Luna, L (2005). A Critical Discourse Analysis of Racial Differences in Cancer Themes in the Popular Press. Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research, 9(4), 201-229
Tucker, C.M., Petersen, S., Herman, K. C., Fennell, R.S., Bowling, B., & Pedersen, T., & Vosnik, J. R. (2002). Self-regulation predictors of medication non-adherence among ethnically different pediatric patients with renal transplants. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 26(8), 455-462.
Petersen, S., Heesacker, M., Schwartz, R. C., & Marsh, R. DeW. (2000). Medical decision making among cancer patients: A test of theory. Journal of Psychology and Health: An International Journal, 15, 663-675.
My research agenda emerges from the fact that I am deeply disturbed by the health disparities in the world. I believe access to health is a human right. I am equally fascinated with the idea of cross-cultural ways to communicate about health issues. My research is a humble attempt to discover pathways to construct interventions across cultures within the United States and internationally. I conduct Action Research in the field in remote areas of the world as well as inner cities and rural Americ
Validation Study for the Immigration Stress Scale (Spanish Version). $1,600. Awarded July, 2008. Sponsor: Alliant International University
Health Behavior Change in the Developing World: Dragonflies Project Fund-Raising - $4300.
Listening to Dragonflies: Health Behavior Change in the Developing World. $5,500 for pilot study. Sponsor: Freda B. Runyon Foundation. 2010
Health Behavior Change in the Developing World: Phase II of Testing the Model. $3500. Freda B. Runyan Foundation, 2011.
Health Behavior Views in the Developing World. $2700 for qualitative pilot data. Sponsor: Alliant International University. 2010
Video Intervention to Increase Mammography Among African-American Women Grant submitted to the NIH: PI - National Cancer Institute - $150,000 - Awarded August, 2003 - August, 2005.
Patients' Medical Decision Making as a Mediating Variable in the Prediction of Adherence Among Cancer Patients in Clinical Trials for Oral Doses of Chemotherapy -PI - Grant submitted to Temple University - Junior Faculty Research Award - $28,000 - Awarded July, 2003. This grant provided the pilot data for a grant submitted in October, 2004 to NIH.
Academic History and Background
NIH Research Post Doc in Health Psychology - University of Pittsburgh/ Carnegie Mellon University | Consortium (with Karen Matthews, Sheldon Cohen, Charles Schier, Andrew Baum) 2003 - 2004.
MA in Counseling Psychology - University of North Florida, Jacksonville Florida, 1978
PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy - University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 1997
Wellesley College: Cultural Relational Therapy
Miami Institute of Gestalt Training (with Gertrude Kraus)
Bowenian Institute, New Rochelle NY (with Phil Guerin and Tom Fogarty).
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Personal Philosophy
I am constructivist. Constructivism guides my thinking, my research, and my teaching. Constructivism postulates that truth is relative, constructed through social interactions and influenced by the context. Therefore, constructivism considers that each perspective is critical to a deeper and more complete understanding of any issue. Culture is the mechanism through which all philosophies are understood and all events are interpreted. One cannot extricate oneself from the culture but one can understand it (and themselves) on deeper and deeper levels by truly listening to all the voices, especially those whose voices have been silenced through oppression, within a culture. Attempts at understanding anything are limited by the fact that not all perspectives can be known, as they are filtered through our own lenses. The task of living is learning to truly notice by reducing the density of one's lenses.

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Balance is needed to conduct most of our daily activities, but it is often taken for granted. Contrary to common belief, loss of balance and mobility are not inevitable as we grow older. Dizziness and balance disorders are common and can affect people of any age, gender, race or socioeconomic group. In most cases, balance can be improved.
Symptoms may include whirling dizziness with or without nausea, lightheadedness, unsteadiness or imbalance when walking. Symptoms may range from brief and mild to severe, resulting in total disability. When patients complain of dizziness or imbalance, their symptoms are sometimes ignored or attributed to an existing health issue or simply to aging. At the Balance Center, we recognize that balance difficulties are serious. They can cause significant problems in conducting daily activities and leading a normal life. Any fall must be avoided because it may result in a fracture, a major loss of independence, the need for rehabilitation or assisted living, a serious injury or even death.
Patients treated at the Balance Center are typically experiencing:
An evaluation by the specially trained staff of the Balance Center may help identify of the cause of your symptoms. The staff may be able to help you improve balance, manage the effects of dizziness, increase your functional independence and prevent further falls or injuries.
Once you become a patient, an individualized therapy program will be created for you, based on the results of an initial evaluation, a review of your medical history and previous test results, and the results of any additional testing that may be needed. The Balance Center uses a multidisciplinary team approach to diagnosing and treating dizziness and balance disorders, in which specialists from otolaryngology (ENT), audiology and physical therapy/occupational therapy collaborate to develop the best treatment plan for each patient. The goal is to offer you a cost-effective diagnosis and treatment plan and maximize your functioning, allowing you to lead a more normal life and decreasing tyour risk of falling and injuring yourself. Patients often benefit from vestibular rehabilitation, which is a proven, exercise-based treatment designed to improve function of the systems that are critical to proper balance.
The Balance Center is unique to West Virginia because it offers the services of a neurotologist, an audiologist and physical and occupational therapists all under one roof. The 4,000 square-foot facility was established in 2003 by the father and son team of Dr. Joseph B. Touma and Dr. B. Joseph Touma, who joined forces with Cabell Huntington Hospital to create a new center designed to help children and adults with disorders that affect their balance. In addition to the vestibular evaluation system. the center is also equipped with cardiovascular exercise equipment, treadmills, stationary bicycles, weight machines, free weights and other rehabilitation equipment.
Patients must be referred to the Balance Center by a physician. To make an appointment at the Cabell Huntington Hospital Balance Center, please call 304-526-2413 and be certain to have your physician fax a written prescription for balance therapy to the Balance Center at 304-526-2412.
The Balance Center offers sophisticated technology for testing and treatment, including the NeuroCom assessment system, which has its roots in research performed by NASA related to balance in space. The system offers up to 18 different tests to evaluate how each patient functions on a day-to-day basis. The Center also uses "Real Eyes" infrared goggles, which assist in accurate diagnosis and treatment of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.


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This piece was an editorial illustration for an article called "The Upside of Being an Introvert." (Also: it's for sale here through Society6, along with a few other illustrations!) Here are two spot illustrations from the same assignment:
This is another piece for Junior Illustration, based on the song "America" by Paul Simon, particularly these lines:
"Kathy, I'm lost," I said, though I knew she was sleeping
"I'm empty and aching and I don't know why."
(some of my personal all-time favorite song lyrics!)
This was an in-class assignment. We put our names through a "Blues name generator" and then drew our blue personas! This is mine, Peg Leg Legs Davis.


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News 12 at 6 o'clock / Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- A historic Augusta landmark will be getting a facelift soon. The Augusta Canal is more than 130 years old, and it's the only canal in the country that still generates power.
The dam that helps divert water to fill the Augusta Canal has more than a few miles on her, and now, it's time for some upgrades.
Former Augusta Commisioner Andy Cheek has been fighting for the renovations since he was on commission.
"The problem is we have a 139-year-old structure that's seen very little in the way of tender loving care over the last century and a third," Cheek said.
The project to fix the diversion dam's growing holes and leaks has been pushed back several times over the last few years, but now, it's time to move forward.
Director of Utilities in Augusta Tom Wiedmeier says, "We have some plans that were done back in 2004, and we'll be updating those plans and probably going to bid the first quarter of next year."
City Administrator Fred Russell says the project won't be cheap.
"Looks like a cost of one and a half to two million dollars at this point," he said.
"One of the reasons it's costly is because we have to do it with the same flow in the river," Wiedmeier said.
Meaning they will have to build smaller dams around the holes to get in there and fix the problem.
"If we don't fix it, we lose the Augusta Canal," Cheek said.
Even though the dam crosses state lines, it only benefits Richmond county, so Augusta will be footing the entire bill.
"That's what we use to pump our raw water, so it's a vital part of our infrastructure," Cheek said.
Commissioners went ahead and approved the project because they say the longer they wait, the larger the holes will get, and the more money they will have to spend to fix it.
"The hole is so large now that a person and now two people can fit up inside the hole," Cheek said.
But the former commissioner isn't taking any chances. Cheek says he's been told this problem would be fixed before, and here we are ... still waiting.
"I was promised they would move on this three years ago by now so I will follow in Ronald Reagan's example and trust and verify."
The city has been waiting on a federal license to build a fish passage in the dam so they could tackle both projects at once.
They claim they've been working to get that license for about 20 years, and since it still hasn't been approved, they're moving forward.


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1. deleting messages after N days --- tips : 16:29
I was somewhat apologetic about the lack of delete-after-N-days features in Linux mail clients, since my mom relies on that to keep mail volumes manageable and yet still be able to share mail with other people. Then a message on [email protected] alerts me to the fact that some people use something like this in their crontab:
» # m h dom mon dow command » # auto archive debian-user messages over 14 days old » 40 8 * * * archivemail -q -d 14 --delete imap://mrroach:[email protected]/INBOX.debian-user
I'll install archivemail on the Lifebook and see if it does the work...
2. custom binding : 20:50
I have bound keycode 131 to ( and keycode 129 to ) on my jp106 keyboard. 131 is the muhenkan key to the left of my spacebar; 129 is the henkan key to the right. I've also bound keycode 120, which is normally supposed to toggle between katakana and hiragana, to F30. I might use this to toggle between dvorak and qwerty in the future. Stock dvorak or qwerty misplaces some useful punctuation...
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My mom wants to make sure her friends find her e-mail and our website. Harvey Chua
I'd love to hear about any questions, comments, suggestions or links that you might have. Your comments will not be posted on this website immediately, but will be e-mailed to me first. You can use this form to get in touch with me, or e-mail me at [email protected] .


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SNOWMASS VILLAGE - The Snowmass-Wildcat Fire Protection District is asking the voters to approve on Nov. 6 a 3.0 mill levy increase, the proceeds of which would be collected and spent by the district.
The district is asking for the increase in light of an expected reduction in property values that would result in reduced funding, possibly translating into a reduction in the services it provides.
Property tax revenue is the district's primary source of funding. Property values already took a major hit in 2011, dropping 27.5 percent, and are expected to fall another 25 percent in 2013, according to the district.
"It's really a no-growth ballot measure," said Fire Marshal John Mele. "The funds that would be achieved from this are not funds that are going to grow the fire department, add any positions or build a new station or any of that. It's basically just to try and make up for lost revenues over the past four years."
Fire Chief Steven Sowles said the purpose of the measure is to address the damage caused by the recession. The district has been running on reserves.
"If we want to stay and continue to offer paid fire services, if we want to continue to offer (Advanced Life Support) ambulance services, we're going to have to come up with funding some place because you just can't run on reserves forever," Sowles said.
Sowles said the district's board of directors budgeted with a $347,000 shortfall this year. The district has made some reductions and used reserves to adjust for that, but it might still be using some reserve money to operate by the end of the year.
"If we don't get 5C passed, then next year we're needing to add $500,000 to that $347,000 number, because that's the amount we're short," Sowles said. "And that wipes out our reserves completely. And in 2014, if it doesn't get passed in 2013 again, we essentially would close the doors. ... If it doesn't pass in this year, I'm already prepared to lay off three to four people."
Sowles said there will always be some kind of fire department, such as a volunteer organization, and that residents could choose that as an option. Snowmass' volunteer fire department began evolving into a paid organization in 1988, Mele said.
Snowmass Police Sgt. Brian Olson, a member of the Snowmass-Wildcat board of directors, reiterated that the goal of 5C is to maintain the 2011 budgeting levels through 2014.
"The board didn't want to have the level of service change," Olson said.
Olson said he hasn't received any negative feedback about the proposal, nor is he aware of any organizations fighting the measure.
He said he thinks the fire department is very conservative, especially after it has run on the same mill level, 3.601, since 2001.
According to the district, its mill levy is below the mean for similar fire agencies on the Western Slope. The increase would put it slightly above districts such as Rifle and Glenwood Rural, which are both above 6.0.
Currently, the fire district responds to calls in less than five minutes and runs three ambulances in a rotation. The ALS service generates revenue and essentially pays for itself, Sowles said. However, Mele said losing personnel would likely mean dropping one ambulance, which could result in longer response times and the district having to rely more on mutual aid from other organizations, such as Aspen Ambulance, which can take as long as 20 minutes to get a truck to Snowmass Village.
"We need to ask the taxpayers: 'Do you like the services, or would you rather see something different?" Sowles said. "I don't set that level of service. That's the taxpayers, that's their prerogative. If they want a volunteer fire department then they can vote that way. If they want to continue a paid department they can do that as well."
The 3.0 mills would be phased in over two years, with 1.57 mills taking effect in 2013 and 1.43 in 2014, the same year property values are expected to drop.


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TRUCKEE, Calif. — Robert Frost wrote "Good fences make good neighbors," but in the extreme situation (see below), High fences make good neighbors.
Joyce and David Plotnik and their two children moved into a home in Laguna Niguel in 2003. The rear portion of their property slopes upward, abutting John Meihaus' lot. After having problems with Meihaus, the Plotniks replaced their 3-foot back fence with a 6-foot fence. Meihaus sued, and the Plotniks and Meihaus signed a written settlement agreement in 2007 with mutual restraint and "no disparaging comments" language and an attorneys' fees clause to the prevailing party if anyone sued.
The Nightmare Neighbor
Did the settlement agreement fully and finally resolve the neighbors' differences? You know the answer. Meihaus, obviously a very angry man, began a campaign of harassing the Plotniks, including as the Court wrote, "often raising a fist and extending his middle finger (at the family)." Not once but 15 to 20 times. Meihaus would stare at Joyce Plotnik whenever possible. He would back up his car and follow the Plotniks as they walked down the street. A portion of the Plotniks' fence was torn down and trees damaged. Yard clippings were constantly being dropped into their yard that happened to match clippings from Meihaus' yard. And more. Then there was the infamous incident — the precipitating event.
Little Romeo Batted
Romeo, the Plotniks' 12- to 15-pound, 12-inch tall miniature pinscher wandered into Meihaus' yard. Oops. He made Meihaus' day. When David Plotnik heard Romeo barking and then squealing, he arrived in time to see the little guy "rolling down the slope hitting a tree."
Meihaus was holding a bat. In fact, he threatened Plotnik with the bat. When asked why he hit Romeo, Meihaus, who later testified he was acting in self-defense, said he merely used the bat to "guide" Romeo back to the Plotniks' yard. Like Barry Bonds guiding balls into McCovey Cove.
His "guiding" Romeo seriously injured the dog resulting in significant veterinarian bills, which the treating vet later testified resulted from a traumatic event.
Later the same afternoon, Meihaus' two sons, both in their 20s, accosted David Plotnik, calling him all sorts of names, even "fatty," threatening to "kick your a--" and "kill you." I'll spare you the sexual disparagements (something about Plotnik's mother), but they added, "We're going to kill your dog." All in all a bad day for the Plotnik family.
The Plotniks sued Meihaus for breaching the settlement agreement, for assault and for the attack on Romeo, and they sued the sons — seeking punitive damages. The jury awarded substantial damages. The Meihauses appealed.
Breach of Contract
The jury gave the Plotniks damages for Meihaus' violating the mutual restraint clause in the 2007 settlement agreement. The jury imposed punitive damages — mental suffering and emotional distress — for breach of settlement (contract).
That is very unusual. The Civil Code recites that for breach of contract the damage is "the amount which will compensate the party aggrieved for all of the detriment proximately caused." Generally, that means no mental suffering and emotional distress damages.
But there is always an exception. One such exception is where the breach is "of such a kind that serious emotional disturbance was a particularly likely result." The Court of Appeal upheld the jury and found that Meihaus' repeated acts of harassment were breach of the settlement agreement. Emotional distress damages allowed.
The Attack on Romeo
Most of this Court of Appeal opinion analyzed whether the Plotniks could recover emotional distress damages for the baseball bat attack on their miniature pinscher. Generally, a negligent injury to an animal does not arise to damages for emotional distress. (Remember the case where the vet negligently killed the dog he was treating?)
The Court looked at whether Meihaus' actions constituted intentional infliction of emotional distress and found that the rude and vulgar behavior was not much more than "mere annoyance." However, the attack on Romeo was intentional, thus justifying emotional distress damages plus attorneys' fees.
Here is the take-home quote from the case: "We believe good cause exists to allow the recovery of damages for emotional distress under the circumstances of this case. In the early case of Johnson v. McConnell, the court noted 'while it has been said that (dogs) have nearly always been held 'to be entitled to less regard and protection than more harmless domestic animals' it is equally true that there are no other domestic animals to which the owner or his family can become more strongly attached, or the loss of which will be more keenly felt.' Additionally, one can be held liable for punitive damages if he or she willfully or through gross negligence wrongfully injures an animal. (Civ. Code, §3340.) Intentionally maiming, mutilating, torturing, or wounding an animal also constitutes a crime. (Pen. Code, § 597.) Now you know.
Jim Porter is an attorney with Porter Simon licensed in California and Nevada, with offices in Truckee and Tahoe City, California, and Reno, Nevada. He may be reached at email@example.com or at the firm's website www.portersimon.com.


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EIA: Renewable Energy Gained U.S. Market Share in 2005
August 1, 2007
Renewable energy consumption increased 2% in the United States between 2004 and 2005, according to a new report from DOE's Energy Information Administration (EIA). The EIA's "Renewable Energy Annual, 2005," released on July 25th, notes that total U.S. energy consumption was essentially flat in 2005, causing renewable energy's market share to increase to nearly 7% of U.S. energy use. The report notes that wind power grew most rapidly in 2005, increasing by 26%, while the biofuel industry experienced the second most rapid growth, at more than 15%. Breaking the numbers down further, the EIA found extremely rapid growth in the biodiesel industry, which experienced a four-fold increase in production in 2005.
The EIA report is actually a compilation of four reports, which examine overall renewable energy trends, shipments of solar energy collectors, shipments of geothermal heat pumps, and trends in green pricing and net metering programs. The solar collector report notes that domestic shipments of solar thermal collectors increased by 10.4%, while exports grew by 67.4%. For solar cells and modules, domestic shipments surged by 72%, but exports fell 10% as U.S. manufacturers focused on the growing domestic market. Foreign companies also zeroed in on that market, increasing imports by 91%. Those figures go hand-in-hand with the report on net metering, which saw a 34% growth in 2005, mainly for solar power systems. California provided most of that growth, followed by New Jersey. Geothermal heat pumps also experienced a growing market, with shipments increasing by 9% to the highest level yet recorded by EIA. Nearly all geothermal heat pumps produced here are sent to destinations within the United States. See the EIA report.
The report marks the 11th annual report on renewable energy from EIA. While EIA's annual reports were formerly issued within a year of the event, the 2004 and 2005 reports have lagged far enough behind to provide at best a historical view of the burgeoning industry. See the EIA's complete list of renewable energy reports.


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Procter & Gamble posts 2Q profit, retakes market share
Company boosts outlook for future
Procter & Gamble says its fiscal second quarter net income more than doubled and is boosting its profit outlook as the maker of Tide and Pampers takes back market share.
For the October-through-December quarter, the world's largest consumer products maker earned $4.06 billion, or $1.39 per share, up from $1.69 billion, or 57 cents per share, in the same quarter last year.
Excluding items, it earned $1.22 per share. Revenue increased 2 percent to $22.18 billion.
Analysts polled by FactSet expected earnings of $1.11 per share on $21.86 billion in revenue.
The Cincinnati-based company says it now expects fiscal 2013 earnings of $3.97 to $4.07 per share. Analysts expect $3.97.
P&G shares are up $1.38, or 2 percent, to $71.80 in premarket trading
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Band du Pays will play "light swing and good dance music" from 8 to 10 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, at Liquid Assets, 96 N. Main St., Ashland.
The band — its current lineup is vocalist Kacie Garner, bassist Merrill Smith, guitarist Tony Brussat, saxophone and clarinet player Stephen Gagne and drummer Andy Combs — started out playing informal gigs at Ashland's La Baguette before becoming Liquid Assets' house band.
The five-piece ensemble covers jazz standards and classics from the '20s through the '60s, everything from Ella Fitzgerald and Benny Goodman to Linda Ronstadt and Billie Holiday, says Gagne.
There is no cover charge to the show at Liquid Assets. Call 541-482-9463.
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Have you seen us give the ball away so much? Enrique had his best game for me and Skrts was a total beast! The back four were good all around but the old ticker was in the mouth when Wisdom came on though!
Especially after his perormance against Notts County! Johnson was defensively excellent I thought, Hendo with that amazing work rate again. We are winning games without getting to anywhere near our level which has to be a good thing. Last year we would play well and lose or draw so hopefully we can carry on with the momentum into Swansea.
To be fair - I need to clarify. If they had come away woth a draw I dont think I would have grumbled too much.
The greatest change for me is the mentality of the team. It is like times of old where we used to know we were going to win. Last year there was a defensive frailty which doesnt seem to be there now,and the boys believe that they are going to get a result. The thing that needs to click now is taking our chances......


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STOCKTON - A parolee driving a stolen car and in possession of an unregistered assault rifle evaded the California Highway Patrol for three miles along Highway 26, reaching speeds of 110 mph before a spike strip disabled the vehicle and he was arrested early Monday morning, authorities said.
According to the CHP, officers attempted to stop the driver, Rodolfo Gerardo Lopez, 36, of Stockton, at the wheel of a 2000 Honda Civic, for speeding westbound on Highway 26 at Jack Tone Road about 1 a.m. Monday. Instead, Lopez sped up to 110 mph before hitting the spike strip officers had deployed along the highway at Alpine Road, the CHP said.
He continued driving for a short distance before the tires went flat. When Lopez exited the vehicle, according to the CHP, he had an AR-15 assault rifle slung over his shoulder that he immediately flung to the ground before fleeing into an orchard. After a short foot chase, he was apprehended without incident, officials said.
In addition to the loaded rifle, officers discovered two 30-round magazines. Lopez was booked into the San Joaquin County Jail on suspicion of felony evading, resisting arrest, auto theft, possession of stolen property and numerous felony weapons and ammunition charges.
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Definición de rudiment en inglés:
1 (the rudiments of) The first principles of (a subject): she taught the girls the rudiments of reading and writing
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- It neglects the fact that although the rudiments of a task can be picked up quite soon, skills take time to develop, and the process is inhibited by too many job changes, compulsory task rotations, or rapid staff turnover.
- Teaching pupils the rudiments of double-blind tests, clinical trial methods and general principles of factoring studies for other influences would clear these scientific confusions.
- They might just about have grasped the rudiments of e-mail, but they haven't a clue about the new media.
basic principles, basics, fundamentals, elements, essentials, first principles;
beginnings, foundation
informal nuts and bolts, ABC
1.1An elementary or primitive form of (something): the rudiments of a hot-water system
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- Singers and storytellers, the entertainers of those times, included dance in their performances, and created the rudiments of modern theatre, where dialogue takes precedence.
- Using the indigenously available material, they have put together the rudiments of a 'glider aircraft', similar in function and style to the imported gliders used only by defence pilots in India.
- The inorganic sediments were covered with poorly decomposed fibric peat accumulations that contained well-preserved rudiments of earlier communities.
2 Biology An undeveloped or immature part or organ, especially a structure in an embryo or larva which will develop into an organ, limb, etc. the fetal lung rudiment
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- It has rudiments of the limb girdles, but no fins.
- All fetuses from whom the testis rudiment had been removed developed as though they were female, as also did those from whom the developing ovary was removed.
- A small posterior element in this limb may be a rudiment of the fifth metacarpal.
3 Music A basic pattern used by drummers, such as the roll, the flam, and the paradiddle.
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- I was learning the rudiments - the drum rolls, the double bounces, the single bounces.
- Instruction in piano, voice, organ, string, brass, wind and percussion are available for beginners and masters, as well as classes in rudiments, composition and other theoretical subjects.
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A Fargo man has been sentenced to nine and a half years in prison for possessing child pornography.
U.S. Attorney Timothy Purdon announced Monday that 26-year-old Brandon Lee Stockburger was sentenced on three counts of possession of materials involving the sexual exploitation of minors and one count of receipt of materials involving the sexual exploitation of minors. Stockburger earlier pleaded guilty to the charges.
In addition to the prison term, Stockburger must be supervised for life and register as a sex offender.
Prosecutors say more than 2,000 images and 150 videos depicting the sexual abuse of children were found on Stockburger's computer.
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Deputies are still looking for a missing man after his truck was found submerged in a creek Wednesday.
The Dearborn County Sheriff's Office said the pickup was submerged to its roof when it was found in Hogan Creek after a passerby saw tire tracks through a farm field at 5324 North Hogan Road.
Divers found the truck, but found no one inside.
The sheriff's office declined to identify the owner, but Mike Schwartz told Eagle 99.3 the truck belongs to his cousin, David Ochs, 39, of Aurora.
Schwartz told the station Ochs did not show up for work Wednesday and has not been seen in at least a day.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Dearborn County Sheriff's Office.


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The goals are to determine the mechanisms used by viruses to infect cells, express and replicate their genomes, assemble infectious particles, and evade the host immune response. Basic information obtained from these studies is used to design antiviral agents and live and subunit recombinant vaccines. In addition, viruses are engineered as expression vectors for biotechnology.
Poxviruses have provided unique opportunities to combine molecular, genetic, microscopic, and immunologic approaches to achieve many of the above goals. Recent studies have also been directed to the characterization and testing of candidate vaccines for human and simian immunodeficiency viruses.
Virions—containing a double-stranded DNA genome, enzymes, and transcription factors—attach to cells and fuse with the cell membrane, releasing cores into the cytoplasm. The cores synthesize early mRNAs that are translated into a variety of proteins, including growth factors, immune defense molecules, enzymes, and factors for DNA replication and intermediate transcription. Uncoating occurs, and the DNA is replicated to form concatemeric molecules. Intermediate genes in the progeny DNA are transcribed, and the mRNAs are translated to form late transcription factors. The late genes are transcribed and the mRNAs are translated to form virion structural proteins, enzymes, and early transcription factors. Assembly begins with the formation of discrete membrane structures. The concatemeric DNA intermediates are resolved into unit genomes and packaged in immature virions. Maturation proceeds to the formation of infectious intracellular mature virions (MVs). The virions are wrapped by modified trans-Golgi and endosomal cisternae, and the wrapped virions (WVs) are transported to the periphery of the cell via microtubules. Fusion of the wrapped virions with the plasma membrane results in release of extracellular enveloped virions (EVs).
Dr. Moss received his M.D. from the New York University School of Medicine, interned at the Children's Hospital Medical Center (Boston), and then earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He became interested in viruses after joining NIH and is well known for studies on the cap structure of mRNAs, regulation of gene expression, replication cycle of poxviruses, virus defense molecules, and development and application of virus vectors.
Dr. Moss has received numerous awards and prizes, including the Dickson Prize for Medical Research, the Invitrogen Eukaryotic Expression Award, the ICN International Prize in Virology, the Taylor International Prize in Medicine, the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Infectious Disease Research, and the International Poxvirus, Asfarvirus and Iridovirus Lifetime Achievement Award. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Microbiology, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and president of the American Society for Virology.
Dr. Moss is currently an editor of Virology and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Virology, AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, Current Opinion in Biotechnology, Advances in Virus Research, and the NIH Catalyst. He is an adjunct professor at George Washington University and the University of Maryland.
Special Interest Groups: Cell Biology, Virology, Vaccine Research
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Row 1: Sharon Melamed, Visiting Scientist; Pat Earl, Staff Scientist; Bernie Moss, Section Head; Jerry Sisler, Microbiologist; Jeffrey Americo, Biologist; Catherine Cotter, Biologist.Row 2: Linda Wyatt, Staff Scientist; Wei Xiao, Biologist; Sara Reynolds, Graduate Student.Row 3: George Katsafanas, Biologist; Liliana Maruri-Avidal, Postdoctoral Fellow; Jorge Mendez-Rios, Graduate student; Shin-Wu Liu, postdoctoral fellow.Row 4: Cindy Wolfe, Postdoctoral Fellow; Andrea Weisberg, Electron Microscopist; Gilad Sivan, Postdoctoral Fellow; Robin Kastenmeyer, Veterinarian; Zhilong Yang, Postdoctoral Fellow.Row 5: Karl Erlandson, Postdoctoral Fellow; Tatiana (Senkevich) Koonin; Staff Scientist; Amanda Howard; Postdoctoral Fellow; P.S. Satheshkumar, Postdoctoral Fellow; Jason Laliberte, Postdoctoral Fellow.
Yang Z, Martens CA, Bruno DP, Porcella SF, Moss B. Pervasive initiation and 3' end formation of poxvirus post-replicative RNAs. J Biol Chem. 2012 July 24. 2012 Sep 7;287(37):31050-60.
Earl PL, Americo JL, Moss B. Lethal monkeypox virus infection of CAST/EiJ mice is associated with a deficient interferon-gamma response. J Virol. 2012 Jun 13. 2012 Sep;86(17):9105-12.
Howard AR, Moss B. Formation of orthopoxvirus cytoplasmic A-type inclusion bodies and embedding of virions are dynamic processes requiring microtubules. J Virol. 2012 May;86(10):5905-14.
Laliberte JP, Weisberg AS, Moss B. The membrane fusion step of vaccinia virus entry is cooperatively mediated by multiple viral proteins and host cell components. PLoS Pathog. 2011 Dec;7(12):e1002446.
Satheshkumar PS, Moss B. Sequence-divergent chordopoxvirus homologs of the o3 protein maintain functional interactions with components of the vaccinia virus entry-fusion complex. J Virol. 2012 Feb;86(3):1696-705.
Wolfe CL, Ojeda S, Moss B. Transcriptional repression and RNA silencing act synergistically to demonstrate the function of the eleventh component of the vaccinia virus entry-fusion complex. J Virol. 2012 Jan;86(1):293-301.
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At 12 hours after infection, images were collected at 1 frame/sec for a period of 110 sec.
From Ward BM, Moss B. Visualization of intracellular movement of vaccinia virus virions containing a green fluorescent protein-B5R membrane protein chimera. J Virol. 2001 May; 75(10):4802-13.
At 12 h after infection, images were collected at 1 frame/sec.
From Ward BM, Moss B. Vaccinia virus intracellular movement is associated with microtubules and independent of actin tails. J Virol. 2001 Dec;75(23):11651-63.
The IMARIS Surfaces feature was used to define the ATI as a region of interest, which is depicted visually in the model as a red shell. The virions fluorescing green are within and outside the ATI shell.
From Howard A, Moss B. Formation of orthopoxvirus cytoplasmic A-type inclusion bodies and embedding of virions are dynamic processes requiring microtubules. J Virol. 2012 May;86(10):5905-14.
Infected cells were imaged as Z-stacks at 20 minute intervals for 4 hours. IMARIS Surfaces was used to track an individual ATI (dragontail) and measure virion embedment as fluorescence within the defined surface over time. ATIs, red; Virions, green.
Saltatory movement of virions to ATIs
Video shows a virion tracked using the IMARIS Spots feature move to and associate with an ATI.
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CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi Men's and Women's Cross Country teams swept the top spots Friday night at the 13th Annual Islanders Splash at West Guth Park. The men's team clinched first place by one point over Southland opponent Central Arkansas, marking the third straight year the Islanders have won the Islanders Splash. The women's team also topped Central Arkansas to bring home the title, after finishing second at last year's Splash.
"I'm really pleased with how well both teams did tonight to bring home both titles," Head Coach Shawn Flanagan said. "They have been training really hard lately to help in the long run at the conference and regional meets."
The No. 9 ranked women's team won with 31 points, ahead of Central Arkansas in second with 48 points and UTPA in third with 83 points. Houston Baptist (90 points) finished in fourth place, ahead of Rice (128 points), Texas Southern (171 points) and Prairie View (180 points).
The Islanders took four out of the top 10 spots in the women's 5k. Senior BreAnna Briggs led the women's team for the third straight race, finishing in second with a time of 18:12.7. Right behind Briggs was Cecilia Jones in third with a time of 18:43.9. Vanessa Galindo followed in sixth place, clocking a time of 19:09.4, improving her time of 19:29 from a year ago. Right behind Galindo was Jasmine Boutte, who also improved her time of 19:35 to 19:13.2 to place seventh. Rounding out the top five Islanders for the women was freshman Alexandra Fernandez in 16th place with a time of 19:46.9.
"The women's team did really well," Flanagan said. "Central Arkansas pushed them."
The No. 6 ranked men's team swept the Splash for the third straight year, edging Central Arkansas by one point. The Islanders took five of the top 10 spots in the men's 8k to finish with 30 points, ahead of Central Arkansas in second place with 31 points and UTPA in third with 104 points. Houston Baptist (112 points) followed in fourth place, ahead of Prairie View (121 points) and Texas Southern (132 points).
Senior Patrick Kimeli paced the men's team in third place with a time of 26:07.0 and right behind Kimeli in fourth place was Philipp Baar with a time of 26:13.5, improving his time of 27:04, from a year ago. Paul Hansel was the next Islander to finish in sixth place with a time of 26:45.8, also improving his time of 26:59 from last year's Splash. Right behind Hansel was Adrian Marquez in seventh place with a time of 26:48.0. Rounding out the top five Islanders was Abel Koskey in 10th place. The sophomore clocked a time of 27:16.0 to edge Central Arkansas' James Leonard, who recorded a time of 27:19.3.
"Central Arkansas gave us a big challenge," Flanagan added. "It was the best race I've seen them run. The team results could have gone either way. I was really pleased with how we did."
The Islanders Splash will conclude tomorrow with the high school and middle school divisions set to begin at 8 a.m. Full results will be posted on GoIslanders.com and here.
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi will be in action next when they travel to Fayetteville, Ark., to compete in the Chile Pepper Invitational on Sat., Oct. 13, at 9:45 a.m.
For the latest information, follow Islanders Cross Country on Twitter (@IslandersTFXC) and Facebook (Texas A&M Corpus Christi Track & Field/Cross Country).
Women's 5k Run Team Scores:
1. Texas A&M - Corpus Christi 31
2. Central Arkansas 48
3. Texas - Pan American 83
4. Houston Baptist 90
5. Rice 128
6. Texas Southern 171
7. Prairie View 180
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi Individual Results:
2. BreAnna Briggs 18:12.7
3. Cecilia Jones 18:43.9
6. Vanessa Galindo 19:09.4
7. Jasmine Boutte 19:13.2
16. Alexandra Fernandez 19:46.9
20. Kayla Fischer 19:59.7
24. Regina Salinas 20:16.9
29. Ashley Mills 20:27.5
39. Alexandria Rossi 20:53.9
40. Samantha Hardin 21:01.3
51. Chelsey Arambula 22:24.3
Men's 8k Team Scores:
1. Texas A&M - Corpus Christi 30
2. Central Arkansas 31
3. Texas - Pan American 104
4. Houston Baptist 112
5. Prairie View 121
6. Texas Southern 132
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi Individual Results:
3. Patrick Kimeli 26:07.0
4. Philipp Baar 26:13.5
6. Paul Hansel 26:45.8
7. Adrian Marquez 26:48.0
10. Abel Koskey 27:16.0
13. Julian Pfeiffer 27:27.2
16. Jacob Abrego 27:46.9
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What lies beneath: differences in brain connections
A new Autism Speaks-funded study reveals differences in brain connections in areas that redirect attention, mediate social interactions and modulate emotional responses.
Science is one step closer to understanding how the brains of individuals with autism process information. Over the past decade it became clear that neural communication is disrupted in autism, although the details, and the causes, remained elusive. Two hypotheses emerged to explain the information processing differences found in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). First, scientists identified over-activity at the level of the synapse—the point where two neurons connect. Second, imaging studies showed that the balance of local versus long-range connections was skewed in autism in favor of strong local connections but weak long-range connections between distant brain regions. Complex behavior, such as language and social interaction, depend upon such long range connections. Although the findings supporting the two hypotheses were likely related, the mechanism relating over-activity at the synapse and biased local versus long-range connectivity was unclear.
Now, taking advantage of recent technical developments that facilitate the measurement of small structures within the brain, Autism Speaks'-funded researchers at Boston University have bridged these two hypotheses. Basilis Zikopoulos, Ph.D., and Helen Barbas, Ph.D., reconstructed the intricate fabric of neural "wires"—called axons—that connect prefrontal cortex with neighboring and distant brain regions. The prefrontal cortex is a collection of brain areas that are involved in higher cognitive functions such as attention, planning, social interactions, and abstract thinking. Using postmortem brain tissue generously donated by families of individuals with and without autism, the team measured features of the different axons traveling beneath the cortical surface.
Talking to itself
In comparison to the control samples, autism brain tissue had fewer large axons connecting regions of the prefrontal cortex to the other areas of cortex. Added to this connection imbalance is a thinner coat of axon insulation, called myelin. Myelin is a fatty substance that insulates axons to ensure faithful delivery of neural signals over long distances. Prefrontal axons from autism brain tissue traveling to distant brain areas have less myelin. Zikopoulos and Barbas also found more thin axons that connect neighboring regions in the prefrontal cortex in the autism brain tissue versus the control samples. This biased pattern of connectivity creates a situation in which prefrontal cortex is not efficiently exchanging information with other brain areas, but rather is operating in a solo fashion.
Pursuing the reason for the abundance of thin axons, the researchers first checked to see whether this was due to more neurons in the cortex just above. Detailed examination of neuron density showed no more neurons, just more axons. This finding led the team to speculate that atypical axon branching had occurred in the autism samples. By painstakingly tracing individual axon branches through a volume of tissue, Zikopoulos and Barbas confirmed that the abundance of thin axons emerged from overzealous branching. The thin axons found in autism samples formed tree-like braches that connected with many more cells in neighboring areas than is typical. This pattern of branching furthered the bias for local versus long-range communication.
Differences in axons and their insulation may offer some links between the two hypotheses that aim to explain disrupted communication in autism. Fewer large axons travel to distant brain regions. Thin axons form too many branches that make extra connections locally. These factors can handily explain the local over-connectivity and long-range under-connectivity observation made through imaging studies. The fact that small axons seem to branch more frequently would also lead to an over-abundance of synaptic connections in a neighboring region. This result can help to explain the synaptic connection hypothesis. Taken together, the results lead us to a deeper understanding of how information may be processed quite differently in the brains of individuals with autism.
Anatomy offers a closer look
Imaging studies aiming to understand brain connectivity use techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). These techniques focus on the large swaths of axons, often called "white matter" because of myelin's fatty white hue. While many of these studies have suggested an imbalance favoring local connectivity in the brains of individuals with autism and served as a stimulus for this study, the level of detail that comes from quantitative anatomy is much richer. "The study of brain tissue at high resolution is needed to pinpoint defects in the brain's communication system, which is prerequisite to developing rational therapies. Studying pathways using DTI is comparable to looking down from a plane at 35,000 feet – you can see some of the major highways below but not the exits, and certainly not the driveway to your house to see if the car is there," states Dr. Barbas.
Martha Herbert, M.D., Ph.D., of Massachusetts General Hospital and LADDERS, an imaging expert who was not involved with this study, was enthusiastic about the new results. "Zikopoulos and Barbas have given us a paper about the cellular level of white matter changes in autism that has needed to be written for quite some time. Their analysis is meticulous and comprehensive, and goes far in providing microscopic details to answer provocative questions raised by the larger scale observations in so many brain scan studies in autism. Their findings suggest that the insult occurs later in brain development, after the neurons migrate to where they will live in the brain. The time when these neurons hook up with each other through white matter is crucial and during this period environment and immune factors as well as genes may play a role in the observed changes. These specific details about white matter in autism matter greatly for how we understand autism and how we go about providing the help people with autism need."
Modeling the development of axon differences
The new axon data may also offer suggestions of what occurred to lead to this state of altered connectivity. Combining the axon data with what is known about the development of the cerebral cortex, the researchers devised a model that links differences in axons below frontal areas to a cascade of events in development that affects the growth of axons and their insulation. The hypotheses proposed are testable, and point to specific pathways that could to be targeted for the development of therapeutic interventions in autism.
One pathway that Zikopoulos and Barbas analyzed in detail was GAP-43, one of a myriad of signals that are exquisitely timed to encourage the proper growth and integration of developing neurons. GAP-43 stimulates axon branching. GAP-43 also interacts with other signals to prevent premature myelination, and is turned down after myelination begins. In the anterior cingulate cortex, a region of the prefrontal cortex that was the most profoundly affected in the brains studied, the neurons are sensitive to GAP-43 signals for an especially long duration in development. This is an important point because environmental agents such as estrogen-like compounds can increase the GAP-43 signal altering the timing of different aspects of neural development.
One take-home message from this study is how important it is to have diverse lines of inquiry investigating autism. The axon results were consistent across individuals studied. For example, the same changes were found regardless of whether or not the individual experienced seizures. Zikopoulos and Barbas also note that many of the genes that have been associated with autism exert effects on neural connectivity. Dr. Barbas says, "Genome-wide association studies are valuable in pointing out potential vulnerability in affected individuals. Our study suggests further that environmental factors (in utero, after birth, or both) can lead to abnormal connectivity because external factors up-regulate signals such as GAP-43 that regulate axon growth. We need studies to take into account all of these aspects of autism, not just one."
This work was published in the Journal of Neuroscience and featured on the cover of the November 3 issue.
This research was made possible through funding from Autism Speaks and brain tissue supplied by Autism Speaks' Autism Tissue Program. These groundbreaking results came from the brain tissue of ten generous individuals who chose to make a lasting gift to science. Importantly, only a small portion of each donated brain was needed for this study, making other sections of this incredibly valuable research resource available to others to uncover new insights into autism spectrum disorders. Please consider making a lasting gift to science by participating in the ATP.


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The International Decade for Action: Water for Life 2005-2015
The primary goal of the The UN International Decade for Action: Water for Life 2005-2015 is to promote efforts to fulfill international commitments made on water and water-related issues by 2015. The 10-year period is critical. It is time to intensify advocacy efforts and action on the ground. Relevant commitments include the Millennium Development targets to reduce by half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 2015. The water target was reiterated at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, where a sanitation target was added.
Achieving these targets will directly affect the lives and prospects of billions of people around the globe. A special emphasis will be placed on ensuring the involvement of women in these development efforts.
World Water Day (WWD) occurs each year on March 22nd.
In 2005, World Water Day coincided with the launch of the International Decade for Action, 'Water for Life', 2005-2015.
World Water Day 2007
Water scarcity: A serious health issue
21 March 2007 -- A lack of water to meet daily needs is a reality for many people around the world and has serious health consequences. Globally, water scarcity already affects four out of every 10 people. The situation is getting worse due to population growth, urbanization and increased domestic and industrial water use.
Water Scarcity: Resource sheet
World Water Day 2006
Water and culture: resource sheet
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World Water Day 2005
- Celebrating water for life: The International Decade for Action 2005-2015
- Statement of Director-General Dr LEE Jong-Wook to mark International Decade for Action: Water for Life 2005-2015
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- UN Water
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- International Decade for Action Water for Life 2005–2015
- World Water Day
- WHO/UNICEF JMP report on progress with the Millennium Development Goals on Water Supply & Sanitation


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I'll release 1.2.4 in a few days, thanks again for reporting this issue.
Yes, the developer emailed me pretty quickly after my initial comment. It should be fixed in a couple of days! :)
I'm working on it: this will be a feature of future releases.
The current version, 1.2.3, is not setup to allow users to have their home directory anywhere other than /Users/_username_. It should pull this information from the environment instead of assuming everyone is configured in a similar fashion. As such it is unusable for me in its current state. :(


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Sunday, September 27, 2009
Breaded Veal With Pepperjack, Avocado And Lime Mayonnaise
The Dairy Queen in the town I grew up in had an extensive sandwich menu. One of my favorites was the breaded veal. Back in the day, we'd order it topped with Titan lettuce (the Titan being our high school mascot.) The recipe to the Titan lettuce was guarded much like McDonald's guards their Big Mac sauce recipe, but I happened to be dating a young man (now my hubby) who worked there at the time. The secret recipe? Shred lettuce; add sweet & sour salad dressing. Wow, like I'd ever undertake a recipe that complicated? I think not.
As I've matured (well, at least physically) my taste buds have matured as well, so this version of the breaded veal was taken to a new adult level with the addition of avocado slices, pepperjack cheese, and tangy lime mayonnaise.
Breaded Veal with Pepperjack, Avocado, and Lime Mayonnaise
4 very thin veal cutlets
salt and pepper
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1 egg
1/4 cup milk
dash of hot sauce
1 1/2 cups Panko bread crumbs
Canola oil
4 slices Pepperjack cheese
1 avocado, seeded, peeled, and thinly sliced
lettuce leaves
Lime mayonnaise (recipe follows)
To prepare the veal cutlets, place them between sheets of wax paper and pound them lightly with a meat mallet. Season lightly with salt and pepper.
Create a work station with three shallow bowls or plates. In the first bowl combine the flour and garlic powder and season with salt and pepper.
In the second bowl whisk together the egg, milk and hot sauce.
In the third bowl place the Panko crumbs and season with salt and pepper.
Taking each cutlet, dredge first in the flour, then dip in the egg mixture, then coat completely with the Panko crumbs. Set prepared cutlets on a plate and refrigerate while heating your oil.
In a deep pot heat 2 1/2-3 inches of oil to 350-375 degrees. If you don't have a thermometer (like me) you can test the readiness of the oil by dropping in a small cube of white bread. When it browns in 60 seconds, the oil is ready.
Individually fry each cutlet for 1 1/2-2 minutes, then flip and fry on the other side for another minute or two. Remove from oil and drain on paper towels. Transfer to warm oven to keep warm while frying the other cutlets.
Assemble the sandwiches with lettuce, cheese, avocado slices and lime mayonnaise.
Lime Mayonnaise
1/2 cup mayonnaise
juice of half a lime
Tabasco sauce, to taste
9 comments:
- Jen @ My Kitchen Addiction said...
Yum... Love the addition of avocado and lime mayonnaise - two of my favorite flavors! You're making me want to make some fried food now!!
- September 27, 2009 at 9:37 PM
- June said...
Holy cow Mags. And I was bragging earlier about our dinner - boy, you sure took me down a peg or ten!LOL I wannit, wannit now!
- September 27, 2009 at 9:55 PM
- Mags said...
Jen: I love those two flavors together too.
June: Hey, you're the gourmet here, not me! Your meals are to die for.
- September 28, 2009 at 7:47 AM
- ABowlOfMush said...
This looks like the most delicious burger! I'm definitely making this! Love the avocado and lime idea!
- September 28, 2009 at 9:34 AM
- Chuck said...
OMG, the perfect burger! I had to grab a napkin when I saw this, because I started to drool lol. Wonderful!
- September 28, 2009 at 10:59 AM
- Mags said...
ABowlOfMush: Thank you!
Chuck: Thanks, and btw, I really love your blog.
- September 28, 2009 at 8:49 PM
- Kevin said...
That sandwich looks so good! I really like the mayo and avocado combo in it.
- October 6, 2009 at 7:29 PM
- Lady P said...
how did i ever miss this posting?! and it looks and sounds ever fab, and it's inclusion over at the gourmet magazine is just icing on the cake
i really wanna bite of this sandwich
- October 17, 2009 at 3:09 PM
- Mags said...
Kevin: Thanks for commenting!
Lady P: thank you. I made them again yesterday for my (pregnant) daughter-in-law. She saw the blog post and demanded that I make them. Gotta keep the pregnant gal happy, ya know...lol
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Several years ago, if the late entrepreneur Art Modell had had his way, it would be the Baltimore Browns playing the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday.
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It is, though, in Baltimore, where the Ravens are considered to be the successors of the Baltimore Colts. If you know your NFL history, the Colts left for Indianapolis after the 1983 campaign.
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Up to 2,000 children were illegally exported from Magdalene laundries in Ireland to adoptive parents in the U.S., mainly to wealthy families.
Many of those children are now demanding justice for their birth parents and an apology from the Irish government who they say were totally complicit in the cover-up of what went on. Activists believe the McAleese report is the first step in the right direction.
Read More: Day of reckoning for Magdalene survivors who say time has come for State to apologize - VIDEO
The children were taken away from their mothers who worked under near slave conditions in the Magdalene Laundry system set up by the state and religious orders.
The Justice for Magdalenes campaign group, founded in the U.S. by a 'Magdalene baby' Mari Steed, has fought a 10-year campaign for an official apology from the Irish State and Catholic Church, and for compensation for all who are still alive.
A key advisory board member James Smith, an associate professor at Boston College, said he hoped the Government was listening.
"The women can no longer be held hostage to a political system.
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It is believed that only up to 1,000 women are still alive, the last laundry closed in 1996 and there were ten in total.
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Irish American activists have been seeking to make the Irish government responsible for the maltreatment of young Irish women forced to work in Laundries.
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James M. Smith, an associate professor at the English department and Irish studies program at Boston College states, "The state's fingerprints are all over this. The state is now conveniently scapegoating the Catholic Church when in fact church and state were partners throughout most of the twentieth century."
It is hard to know how many women were in the laundries because the religious orders that ran them have not released their records. When they left the Laundries the women tended to emigrate. Many survivors are in the US.
"There are women in America – women in New York, probably in Philadelphia and Chicago too," Smith says, "Wherever there were large Irish communities in the 1940s and 1950s. Many went into nursing assistant jobs, into healthcare – into institutions, not dissimilar from what they had left."
Mari Steed herself is the daughter of a former Magdalene. The ten years she spent in a Magdalene Laundry still affects her. A US family adopted Steed and she grew up in Philadelphia. An articulate woman with shoulder-length black hair, Steed now gives talks and writes letters to Irish newspapers. She has set up a facebook group and runs the website MagdaleneLaundries.com.
Smith is the author of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment, a book that won him the distinguished First Book award at the American Conference for Irish Studies in 2007.
Meanwhile the survivors are getting older. "It's so important for us to get oral histories, and to try to get compensation for them," Mari Steed says. "They're going to start dying out. Perhaps that's what the government is hoping."
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• Magdalene Laundries were institutions operated by nuns in which women, called "penitents," worked at laundry and other for profit enterprises
• These women were denied freedom of movement, they were never paid for their labor, and they were denied their given names and identities
• The daily routine emphasized prayer, silence, and work
• Women had to be signed out of the Magdalene
• Many remained to live, work, and ultimately die, behind convent walls
• After 1922, Magdalene Laundries were operated by The Sisters of Mercy (Galway and Dun Laoghaire), The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity (Drumcondra and Sean MacDermott Street, Dublin), the Sisters of Charity (Donnybrook and Cork), and the Good Shepherd Sisters (Limerick, Cork, Waterford and New Ross)
• All four Congregations are members of CORI and also managed state residential institutions
• The nuns do not release records for women entering the laundries after 1 January 1900
• The last Magdalene ceased operating as a commercial laundry on 25 October 1996.


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and the watch says 9:25now, do you think bowie sings about 9:25am or 9:25pm?here's my opinion - 9:25am. but after a sleepless night////////////////////////////////sad
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I always thought of it as in the evening. I'm usually not awake yet at that time in the morning. If I had a sleepless night, I probably would have finally fallen asleep by then. If I am awake, there would be good reason for it, like having to be at work or something... in which case I wouldn't have time to sit around thinking about how I'm still alive.Now the evening, on the other hand, is the perfect time to be contemplative.Sometimes anger can help you survive.So can faith.
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I always thought it was in the morning.... feh.... anyone know when the '5:15' is? As in evening or morning? I always thought that was morning too....
I suppose it depends on what you understand by "on" in "We should be on by now".I tend to take it to mean "on stage", so it would be 9.25 pm.By the way, Reality concerts beginning at 8 pm, at least in Europe, Bowie took to the stage between 9.15 and 9.20. So at 9.25 he should indeed be on.Wear your wound with honour.
thank you very much.i was never away, though.i read the boards every dayi just post so very rarelybut i had a very beautiful night this week-endgreeting the wintery sunrise, then having a morning walk through my cityand i was still awake at 9:25- - so i thought maybe this is what bowie's singing about(well, my thought's weren't THAT linear, but i can't find a better written shape for them)////////////////////////////////sad
Having been awake for the best part of 40 odd hours now, there's no reason why he couldn't be referring to the 9:25pm of the second night he's awake. (Well, that's an alternative interpretation. )I'm not sure whether it's relevant for Aladdin Sane, but I think I'm right in saying that Bowie's cocaine consumption allowed him to stay awake for several days at a time. Fifteen jugglers, Fifteen jugglersFive believers, Five believersAll dressed like men
That's exactly what I was thinking, although with 9:25 of the following morning (so he'd have been awake for something like 24 hours).As for 5:15, I get the distinct impression that it refers to the evening (since I've never known of a train running that early in the morning and especially since it's overdue), although there is certainly enough room to interpret it otherwise.I Forgot To Change It Before