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NanoString® Technologies has secured an option to an exclusive worldwide license for a 186-gene signature that could be used to determine the prognosis of patients diagnosed with the most common type of liver cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), or with hepatitis C-related early-stage cirrhosis. NanoString secured the option from The Broad Institute, acting on behalf of the inventors' institutions. During the period in which the option can be exercised, NanoString plans to assess the feasibility of developing an in vitro diagnostic assay based on the HCC gene signature for use on the nCounter® analysis system.
"This platform could provide the multiplexed gene expression capabilities needed for clinical diagnostic use of this HCC gene signature, especially given the potential for a large-scale global surveillance testing opportunity," said Yujin Hoshida, M.D., Ph.D., who led the discovery of the signature while a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Broad Institute CSO Todd Golub, M.D., and is on the faculty at Mount Sinai.
A paper in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2008 by Hoshida, et al, described the HCC gene signature in connection with a method for conducting gene expression analysis on RNA extracted from liver tissue adjacent to HCC tumors. Using this method, the authors discovered a 186-gene signature that identifies those HCC patients who have a poor prognosis because of a high rate of recurrence after primary treatment. This gene signature was highly correlated with survival in a training set of 82 Japanese patients and was validated in an independent set of 225 patients from the United States and Europe. A paper recently published online in Gastroenterology by Hoshida et al, demonstrated that this same 186-gene signature also identifies those patients with hepatitis C-related early-stage cirrhosis who have a poor prognosis because of their high rate of developing HCC.
"By identifying those HCC patients who are at the greatest risk of recurrence, doctors may choose to monitor these patients more regularly or to enter them into clinical trials in the adjuvant setting to reduce the risk of HCC recurrence," said Josep M. Llovet, M.D., professor of medicine and director of the HCC Program, Liver Diseases, Mount Sinai; professor ICREA at IDIBAPS-Hospital Clínic; and a co-inventor of the HCC gene signature. "The signature also identifies patients with hepatitis C-related early-stage cirrhosis at high risk of developing HCC who are good candidates for entry into surveillance programs or clinical trials of new agents in the chemo-preventive setting."
The HCC gene signature was invented by Dr. Golub and a group of researchers from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Icahn Sinai School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Institució Catalana de Recarca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd).
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WRONG AGAIN. English is our national language here in America. Official or Unofficial makes no difference. We speak English. Therefore, the announcers pronounce the names on the back of the sweaters in English. And yes, Frenchies get a pass because they started the fricking sport. So Richard is Rih-shard and Messier is Mess-ee-ay. But that's as far as it goes.
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on February 24, 2013 - 6:00 AM
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On an unusually warm November night in 2004, Josue Ortiz sat in an interrogation room at Buffalo Police Headquarters and confessed to killing two brothers inside their West Side apartment.
Ortiz, confronted with a possible life sentence and reportedly suffering from a severe mental illness, admitted his guilt again a year later as part of a plea deal that sent him to prison for up to 25 years.
Now, eight years later, four different law enforcement agencies have come forward with evidence they believe proves Ortiz is innocent.
"We believe he had zero role in this offense," Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph M. Tripi said recently in Buffalo federal court. "And he's done about eight years in prison."
Even more important, perhaps, Buffalo police, the law enforcement agency that interrogated Ortiz and made the case against him, also believes he was wrongfully convicted, according to sources close to the investigation.
So do the FBI and state police, according to sources.
"There's a red herring in this case," Tripi said in court. "There are no eyewitnesses and no physical evidence that tie Josue Ortiz to the scene, the robbery conspiracy or the murders."
One law enforcement official remains skeptical of Ortiz's innocence: District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III.
Sedita admits that he's perplexed by the fact that Ortiz confessed to the murders of Miguel and Nelson Camacho, and on top of that, pleaded guilty more than a year later to two counts of first-degree manslaughter.
"My concern is he's professed his guilt on multiple occasions," he said.
The district attorney is reviewing the evidence compiled by the police agencies that investigated the Camacho murders, but is waiting for Ortiz's lawyer to file a motion to vacate his client's conviction before taking a position on whether to support or oppose that motion.
"I want to see what the factual allegations are," Sedita said last week.
The first hint of Ortiz's possible innocence surfaced last November, when a West Side gang leader and two others were charged in federal court with the Camacho murders, the same killings that have kept Ortiz behind bars since 2004.
At the time the new charges were filed against the three, prosecutors made no mention of Ortiz.
But that changed when Tripi returned to court and, in a lengthy statement to U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthy, outlined why the federal government thinks Ortiz was wrongfully convicted.
Tripi believes Ortiz confessed, in part, because he suffers from a mental illness – he is reportedly being treated for schizophrenia in prison – and didn't comprehend what he was signing at the time.
"Our evidence would be, your honor, that Josue Ortiz then pled guilty in order to avoid a 50-year to life sentence and now maintains his innocence and that he was wrongfully convicted," Tripi added.
Two seen fleeing
The evidence Tripi spoke of was compiled by a federal task force that looked into the Camacho murders for more than a year and was made up of Buffalo police detectives, FBI agents and state police.
Chief among their findings is eyewitness testimony that two men were seen fleeing the apartment where the Camachos were murdered and that Ortiz, who is 6-foot-6 and weighed about 350 pounds at the time, was not among them.
"Our independent investigation confirms that," Tripi told McCarthy. "We have numerous witnesses as to each defendant's role, as to admissions by each defendant as to their conduct, and eyewitness testimony that will confirm the sizes and things of that nature of the people fleeing the scene."
Among those eyewitnesses, Tripi said, is the brother of the victims.
"Additionally, the first person on the scene, the brother of the victims, knows Josue Ortiz and will say he was not one of the people running from the scene," Tripi said.
Tripi's task force believes the two men seen running from the murder scene were 7th Street Gang leader Efrain "Cheko" Hidalgo and Brandon Jonas. Investigators believe a third defendant, Misael "Bori" Montalvo, helped orchestrate the robbery.
All three are now charged with killing Nelson, 36, and Miguel Camacho, 25, as part of a robbery attempt on the evening of Nov. 11, 2004, inside their Niagara Street apartment.
"The federal authorities, along with local cooperation from the Buffalo Police, engaged in a meticulous and lengthy investigation determining, in effect, that Josue Ortiz had nothing to do with the murders of the Camacho brothers," said John Nuchereno, Ortiz's defense lawyer.
What prompted confession
Like Tripi, Nuchereno believes Ortiz's confession was prompted by several factors, including his mental illness, his inability to understand English well and a deep-seated fear for his own life.
He pointed to one of Ortiz's first encounters with Buffalo police, on the day before he confessed in 2004. He was standing on Hoyt Street, saw a police car, jumped inside and began yelling about a murder he knew about, Nuchereno said.
"He was clearly frightened," the defense attorney said of Ortiz, whom he believes may have been threatened. "He was scared to death when he jumped inside that police car."
Nuchereno is compiling Ortiz's mental health records with an eye toward filing a motion in state court to vacate his conviction. The motion would be filed with Erie County Judge Michael L. D'Amico, the judge who sentenced Ortiz in 2006.
How D'Amico rules may depend, in part, on where Sedita ends up.
Sedita is unwilling at this point to comment on whether Ortiz is guilty or innocent and indicated that he's waiting to see Nuchereno's arguments for why his client's conviction should be voided.
"I want to see what their allegations say," he said of Nuchereno's motion. "The ball is kind of in their court."
Sedita said he's working with Nuchereno in an effort to root out the truth and pointed to his support for Ortiz's request that D'Amico be allowed to look at grand jury material used in the federal investigation of the Camacho murders.
DA says he didn't know
He also expressed frustration not knowing about Tripi's statement in federal court until just last week.
"The first time I found out about a bail hearing and Mr. Tripi's proffer was when I sat down with Mr. Nuchereno," Sedita said of his meeting with the defense attorney Thursday.
But sources close to the investigation said Tripi's courtroom statements were made last fall and were based on information he had previously handed over to Sedita.
Investigators involved in the Safe Streets Task Force, the law enforcement group that looked into the Camacho murders, would not comment publicly on Ortiz's guilt or innocence. But sources close to the investigation said they privately agree with everything Tripi told the judge last fall.
Task force members from each agency were in court that day in what one law enforcement official called a visible sign of their support.
The FBI, the lead agency in the investigation, stopped short of calling Ortiz innocent but expressed confidence that the witnesses and evidence it helped uncover are both new and important.
"The FBI and Safe Streets Task Force, while investigating other gang activity, discovered information that was not previously available to the district attorney," said Christopher M. Piehota, special agent in charge of the FBI office in Buffalo.
Piehota said he believes the District Attorney's Office was right to prosecute Ortiz in 2006, given Ortiz's confession and the information prosecutors had at the time.
Nevertheless, he believes the new information uncovered by the FBI and others is extremely credible.
"I have a high level of confidence in my investigators," Piehota said. "I think their work speaks for itself."
Buffalo Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda and State Police officials declined to comment for this story.
Innocent people convicted
For most people, especially the uninitiated, it's hard to imagine that anyone who confesses to a murder might be innocent.
But it happens, and experts in the field of false confessions and wrongful convictions will tell you it happens more often than you might think.
The Innocence Project, a national group dedicated to freeing the wrongfully convicted, has handled 258 cases of individuals exonerated because of DNA evidence. Of those, 25 percent involved a false confession.
The data is even more startling in murder cases, where two-thirds of the project's DNA-cleared cases involved a false confession.
Does all of this mean Josue Ortiz is innocent?
No, but experts in the field say he fits the profile.
"There's a link between mental illness and false confessions," said Steven Drizin, legal director for the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University. "Some people with mental illnesses are very susceptible to suggestion or have difficulty standing up to the rigors of interrogation."
Ortiz's mental health is expected to be the focus of his lawyer's efforts to free him. It also is among the explanations federal prosecutors give for why he might have confessed to the Camacho murders.
In 2004, shortly after his arrest, Ortiz was evaluated by several mental health professionals. Two found him incompetent to stand trial. Two others later found him fit.
One of the psychologists who found him competent testified at a hearing a few months later and repeated her determination that Ortiz could stand trial.
"However, she acknowledged that every time she spoke with Ortiz, he denied participation in the murders," Tripi told the court.
Mentally ill prone to confess
The mentally ill are more prone to false confessions because of the interrogation tactics police use, said Drizin, who has written extensively on the subject.
Those tactics, which can range from displays of sympathy and understanding to unending allegations of guilt, can often leave a suspect feeling powerless to end the interview unless he confesses, he said.
Ortiz also spoke Spanish, not English, another common trait among suspects who falsely confess to crimes.
"There are immigrants from Central American countries who confess because they're afraid of the police," said Richard Leo, a law professor at the University of San Francisco and an expert on false confessions.
For Leo and Drizin, the most telling aspect of the Ortiz case is the fact that four different law enforcement agencies now think he's innocent.
"I do think that is extraordinary," Leo said. "I also think it's extraordinary that the FBI believes he's innocent because they tend to be very conservative."
Even more important, Drizin said, is the role of the Buffalo police, the agency that interrogated Ortiz, in this newfound effort to free Ortiz.
"The fact that the Buffalo Police Department, which is partly responsible for the false confession, is willing to own up to that early on in the process speaks volumes to their commitment to justice," he said.
Avoiding false confessions
Leo and Drizin want people to ask how society can avoid false confessions in the future.
For them, the ultimate answer is the audio or video recording of all interrogations, a practice not commonly used by law enforcement agencies here.
"The process that produced the statement is more important than the statement itself," Leo said. "If the interrogation wasn't recorded, we don't know how the sausage was made."
Tripi and others have been careful not to criticize how police handled the 2004 murder investigation, insisting instead that new evidence has come to light that suggests someone else killed the Camachos.
"It appears as though it's a detailed statement," the prosecutor said of Ortiz's written confession. "However, without getting into a lot of detail regarding Mr. Ortiz's statement, there are many details in there that are patently incorrect when compared to the crime scene."
"But," added Tripi, "someone who didn't have that knowledge of the case, such as the detectives that night, may not have known that."
Toward the end of Tripi's statement, Judge McCarthy asked if anything was being done to get Ortiz out of prison.
"Let me ask you," he said. "Are you aware of, have any proceedings been commenced in state court to undo his ... ?"
Tripi answered by referring to a federal court order authorizing him to turn over information to Sedita.
"We're hopeful," Tripi said, "that the District Attorney's Office comes to a determination without further litigation in terms of the innocence of Mr. Ortiz."
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Regular readers know I like free stuff, and I enjoy sharing information about getting good deals, so let me tell you today about the avalanche of goodies I'll be getting for my birthday.
You already may know that lots of companies will give you freebies on your birthday, usually in exchange for signing up to receive their email. But let me tell you, there are some great offers out there, and it doesn't really have to be your birthday to get them.
In fact, I think it's a terrible idea to tell companies your actual birth date. Birth dates are often used online to verify that you are who you say you are. It's not exactly secret information — lots of people put their actual birth dates on Facebook — but why give out more data points about yourself than you have to?
The idea behind birthday freebies is that a company will give you something, once a year, typically in exchange for giving them your email address and some demographic information, such as your age. So I'll sign up for their freebies, and I'll tell them I was born in October, and I'll tell them what year I was born, but I usually make up the actual day.
So they get what they want, and I get a cup of coffee, or a burrito, or a cookie or whatever.
What makes these deals worth signing up for is that, typically, you'll get a coupon that's good for a period of time, and not just on the "birthday" date you've chosen. And you'll get one every year.
There's no way a person could use all these freebies during the course of a single day. There are some places that will give you freebies on your actual birthday if you just show up and prove it's your birthday, with no signing up required.
I don't bother with certain promotions, such as getting a free appetizer or dessert if you buy a meal. The best deals are true freebies, or unusually good discounts, at convenient places.
Some examples of good deals:
Just show up: Present your ID on your birthday and Firehouse Subs will give you a free medium sub. Denny's will give you a free Grand Slam meal.
Sign up, get food and beverages: Sign up for Starbucks rewards and get a reward (free beverage or food item) on your birthday, good for 30 days. Baskin-Robbins will give you a free ice cream. Moe's will give you a free burrito. Bojangles' will give you a biscuit sandwich.
Dollars-off coupons: Sign up for its emails, and Mellow Mushroom will send you a $5 coupon on your birthday that's good for several weeks. Jason's Deli has a similar $5 coupon deal, and so does McAlister's Deli. Don Pablo's (there's one in Greenville) will give you a $10 coupon good for a month.
BOGO deals: Some places, such as Cold Stone Creamery, will give you a buy-one-get-one coupon.
And even golf: Sign up and Stein Mart will send you a coupon on your birthday. Legend Oaks Golf Club will also send a coupon for golf.
Lots of companies will also give you something free for signing up for their email, such as a free cookie from McAlister's, cheese dip at Moe's, or a biscuit sandwich from Bojangles. If you don't want tons of junk mail, pay attention to which boxes you check or uncheck when signing up for an email subscription.
Most of the birthday-related deals I've mentioned involve national and regional chain stores that have such information on their websites. Know of any good local deals? Post a note on my "David Slade — Post and Courier" Facebook page.
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Winter 1998, Vol. 30, No. 4
The William Newby Case and the Legacy of the Civil War
Stuart McConnell
The Federal Hand in Urban Development: Chicago Harbor before the Civil War
Betsy Mendelsohn
The Black Civil War Soldiers of Illinois: The Story of the Twenty-Ninth U.S. Colored Infantry
Edward A. Miller, Jr.
African American Sailors and the Unvexing of the Mississippi River
Charles C. Brewer
"Ten Firkins of Butter and Other Traitorous Aid": Disloyalty Prosecutions in the Federal
Civil Courts, 1861-1866
Kellee L. Blake
Liberty, Conscription, and Delusions of Grandeur: The Sons of Liberty Conspiracy of 1863-1864
Robert Churchill
Out at the Soldiers' Home: Union Veterans and Alcohol at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
James Marten
Prologue in Perspective: Whatever the War, We're Preserving "Private Ryan's" Records
John W. Carlin
Genealogy Notes:
The Shady Side of the Family Tree: Civil War Union Court-Martial Case Files
Trevor K. Plante
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KAHULUI - Kahului Harbor on Maui's north shore absorbed the largest waves of the tsunami that came ashore in Hawaii on Saturday night after a massive earthquake hit off of the western Canadian coast.
The harbor recorded a 5 foot wave - meaning 2 1/2 feet above ambient sea level, according to Gerard Fryer, senior geophysicist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu.
"That's the biggest so far," Fryer told local news media at around 11:15 p.m., as the fourth wave had come ashore. He added that a tsunami's largest wave is typically seen within the first half-dozen waves.
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Christie Cummings (right) records the scene at Tesoro gas station on Piilani Highway around 10 p.m. Saturday. The Cummings family was evacuated from their nearby home on the makai side of Piilani Highway, including husband Glenn (white shirt) and daughter Mokihana, 8, who was sequestered in the car with a 103-degree temperature. "She's scared as hell," Christie Cummings said. The gas station did not experience the same wild rush as it did after the earthquake-generated tsunami from Japan was forecast.
The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo
Donnie Cortez of Kahului waited patiently at the official emergency shelter at Maui High School's gym with about 25 others and more meandering outside in the fresh evening air. He said he should be fine or hoped he'd be fine.
The Maui News / CHRIS HAMILTON photo
Stranded travelers from as far away as Moscow mixed with locals to watch the latest on the possible tsunami headed for Maui on an old television in the Maui High School Gym. The official emergency shelter was set up a few hours before the first waves were expected to reach Maui's shores.
The Maui News / CHRIS HAMILTON photo
Mike Nakamoto of Honolulu prepares his client's boat moored at the Ala Wai Harbor to take it to deep water after learning of a tsunami warning Saturday night.
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"It's beginning to look like the evacuation may not have been necessary," he said. "It seems the forecast was an overprediction, but let's wait and see."
As of 11:30 p.m., Maui officials had no reports of damage, said Maui County spokesman Rod Antone. The tsunami warning remained in effect as of midnight. (The county downgraded the warning to an advisory at about 1 a.m. today)
The first wave hit Hawaii's shorelines as forecasted around 10:30 p.m., just hours after residents in low-lying coastal areas statewide were urged to evacuate.
The tsunami center had issued a warning for Hawaii shortly before 7:30 p.m., signaling that all coastal areas were likely to be hit by a wave and initiating evacuation efforts.
About an hour later, Maui Civil Defense had issued a tsunami warning and "immediate evacuation advisory."
The county shut down water and sewer lines before 10 p.m. in preparation for the possible arrival of the tsunami. Residents were advised to conserve water and not to flush toilets.
Service was restored at about 12:20 a.m. today
Before the waves hit, Dailin Wang, an oceanographer at the tsunami center, had estimated that Kahului Harbor would see wave heights of about 4 feet to 5 feet.
He said the shape of the harbor makes it more vulnerable to a tsunami.
"Kahului Harbor is unique, so other coasts may see smaller waves," he said.
Oahu's North Shore saw wave heights of just under 1.5 feet at gauges at Haleiwa and Makapuu, while Hilo recorded a high of less than 1 foot, according to the tsunami center.
Two evacuation emergency shelters were set up in the gyms of Lahainaluna and Maui high schools.
Seven Russian information technology professionals lost their luggage from a stopover in Los Angeles on their way to a conference in West Maui and wound up spending their Saturday night waiting in Maui High School's gym instead of at their plush rooms in the Sheraton Maui.
"We're having our own international conference here," Maui High Principal Bruce Anderson said, pointing to European travelers, along with locals and immigrants who live by the shoreline, as well as folks from Canada and Seattle who gathered together. "How great is it to be able to meet all these people from all over and be able to help them out?"
Liuda Dstroumova called the experience an adventure.
"We're from Moscow, so this sort of thing (potential crisis) is normal for us," she joked calmly.
All told, about 25 people of all ages watched an old television for updates, cooked ramen noodles or simply waited quietly or slept in the school's gym. They didn't have any cots or bedding, only some mats.
Since Maui police blocked off the roads headed toward the ocean from Kaahumanu Avenue, high ground roadways and parks and lots along Wakea, Papa and Kamehameha avenues also were lined with dozens of waiting cars and trucks filled with people listening to their radios and checking their smartphones for the all-clear sign.
A number of homes outside the tsunami zone also appeared to be hosting evacuee family members, and some even made the best of it with yard get-togethers.
Donnie Cortez of Kahului said he tried to get to Maui Memorial Medical Center but couldn't find a route there. He said he was told to go to Maui High because "this is the place to be." Cortez said he thought he'll be fine there.
"I just want everybody to be safe," said Matilda Chaney, a Harbor Lights resident who sat in a truck bed in a parking lot nearby with three generations of her family. "I'm not really worried because I've been through this before, but I know I should be worried. We're so close to the water. We'll just wait here."
Gas stations around Central Maui got busy fast as cars lined up, often spilling into adjacent roadways.
Traffic was at a standstill at the Wailuku Bridge, and Kahului Beach Road was clogged with cars just before 9 p.m.
Marvin Moniz, Maui District airport manager, had reported that the Kahului Airport was still open as of 9 p.m. There were about three incoming and three outgoing flights for the rest of the night, he said.
He said that by the time the first tsunami wave was scheduled to hit, all of the outgoing flights were expected to be gone.
Moniz said it was up to the carriers if they wanted to bring their flights in late Saturday night, but added that most roads accessing the airport were going to be shut down by police.
Elsewhere in town, the Maui Interscholastic League football game between Baldwin and King Kekaulike high schools ended at half time due to the tsunami warning. The score was 21-0 in favor of Baldwin. The coaches were informed midway through the second quarter.
Over in West Maui, most restaurants and shops were empty by 10 p.m.
Jack Starr, assistant manager of Kimo's Restaurant on Front Street, said they got word about a possible tsunami from a call their bartender received shortly before 8 p.m. Within an hour or so, Starr said they'd calmly informed patrons about what was going on and what to do next, such as going to their condos and hotels, asking their concierges for advice and gluing themselves to TVs.
Kimo's is owned by T.S. Restaurants, which has three other West Maui eateries near the water, all of which company regional managers decided to evacuate immediately, Starr said. All the adjacent stores on Front Street closed, too, he said.
And no west side restaurant, boutique or business called by The Maui News by 10 p.m. answered its phones.
"It was all about the safety of our guests and staff," Starr said. "Luckily, a lot of us know the drill, and we had time to slowly and methodically get everyone out and close up. We're getting better and better in these situations. Yes, there are immanent dangers out there, but we haven't seen it, thankfully. But we can't play games. It seemed like a normal night. Then the sirens started to go off.
"We told people, 'Don't panic. There are experts to help you,' and it worked out just fine."
The Maui Visitors Bureau and Maui Hotel & Lodging Association helped with evacuating guests in any beachside buildings that were less than three stories tall.
"Anyone in a hotel is going up, if they have three stories. If they don't have at least three stories, the hotels are leading people to higher ground," said Terryl Vencl, executive director of the Maui Visitors Bureau. "I'm at (Maui County) civil defense now coordinating and updating the properties. Everybody's working right now."
Lisa Paulson, executive director of the Maui Hotel and Lodging Association, who was working with Vencl, said she was forwarding information she got from Vencl that told guests to stay at their hotels and condominiums because roads were closed and congested.
A group of hikers hoping to take advantage of Saturday night's full moon were able to safely evacuate thanks to technology.
"We had a group (of 21) we were leading out on a guided full moon hike, which we do once a month, when we heard about it through the grapevine," said Sara Smith, outreach director for the Waihee Coastal Dunes and Wetlands Refuge. "We had some campers out at the refuge, and one of them had already gotten word at about 7:45 p.m. with a text from a family member. We went to round them up with a truck, and they already had their tents and gear broken down and were heading out."
Smith said they are fortunate today to have cellphones and other technology to get ahead of potential natural disaster like this and maybe save lives. As Smith spoke shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday, she also was stuck in traffic as she headed to her home in Upcountry.
The tsunami warning remained in effect as of midnight. Maui County officials stressed that an all clear message for the island would come from Maui County and not from the tsunami warning center or other counties.
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What started with the hugely popular pumpkin spice latte trend, pumpkin is now everywhere you look; from cheesecake and poundcake to pasta, pastries and popcorn. While I love pumpkin, I've noticed a disturbing trend: most of these pumpkin-flavored sweet treats out there are ... well ... just terrible for you.
For example, a grande non-fat pumpkin spice latte (no whipped cream) from Starbucks has 260 calories and 48 grams of sugar! That's the equivalent of 17 packets of sugar. A pumpkin muffin from Dunkin' Donuts has 550 calories, 24 grams of fat, and 41 grams of sugar! That's about equal to a quarter-stick of butter and 15 sugar packets.
As a nutritionist, what bothers me about this trend is that it's misrepresenting one of the most nutritious foods on earth. Pumpkin, in its whole form, is a true superfood. Pumpkin is extremely high in fiber and nutrients, including potassium, magnesium, and vitamins C and E, and contains one of the richest supplies of carotenoids of any food out there. Carotenoids are powerful anti-oxidants that have been consistently linked to a decrease in the risk of a slew of cancers, and they're in their most bio-available form in pumpkin.
Moreover, pumpkin seeds are incredibly nutritious. Loaded with healthy fats, fiber, zinc, iron, manganese, and magnesium, once roasted, pumpkin seeds are a great convenient snack you can easily carry around with you.
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If you have read my book, The Body Reset Diet, or follow my PEOPLE blog, you know that I'm a huge fan of smoothies. This one tastes just like pumpkin pie, but without the feeling like you have to take a nap afterwards.
½ cup 100% pumpkin puree (make sure it's just pumpkin, NOT pumpkin pie mix)
½ ripe banana, halved (frozen, if you like)
¾ cup non-fat greek yogurt
1 tbsp agave nectar or real pure maple syrup
½ teaspoon pumpkin pie spice (if you don't have ready-made pumpkin pie spice, make it yourself with 4 parts cinnamon, 2 parts ground ginger, 1 part nutmeg, 1 part allspice and just a dash of ground cloves)
¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
½ cup crushed ice
1. Blend to desired consistency. If you like your smoothies a little thinner, try adding a bit of water or nonfat milk.
Wholesome Pumpkin PancakesServes 2-4
1 cup dry instant oatmeal (or ground whole oats)
½ teaspoon baking soda)
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground ginger
¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
¼ teaspoon ground cloves or allspice
1 cup pumpkin puree
¼ cup skim milk
2 tablespoons coconut oil (melted)
2 teaspoons pure maple syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 egg whites
1. In a medium bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients.
2. In another medium sized bowl, mix the wet ingredients well, then slowly add in the dry ingredients and stir just until evenly moistened.
3. Once ingredients are mixed, heat up a griddle and lightly grease with cooking spray. Pour a quarter cup of pancake batter for each pancake and cook until golden brown on each side.
4. If you like thinner batter, add a little bit of skim milk. Serve hot.
Do you have a favorite pumpkin recipe? Tweet me @harleypasternak.
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Miller did everything he could during the extended offseason to make sure he was sharp, but working out in rinks in Southern California, he couldn't simulate the speed of NHL players and the all-out assault he would face. He could only envision so many scenarios and watch only so many videotapes.
"There's nothing like having 18,000 people with expectations and your team with expectations," Miller said. "That tests your ability to focus right there. It's coming back a little bit. I'm doing what I want to do on the ice and getting to positions I want to get to. Hopefully, it translates to more points for our team."
If there's anything good about the Sabres' atrocious team defense this season, it's that Miller has been forced to take an accelerated course in goaltending. He's had more work in the last three games than he had in the previous three months, but there's only so much one man can tolerate.
Miller was terrific Sunday night in a 3-1 loss to the Bruins. He stopped 36 shots, giving him 77 saves with four goals against in the last two games alone. One game past the quarter pole in a short season, Miller is showing signs he's capable of carrying his team. That should be construed as good news for the Sabres.
OK, but where are they going?
Remember that 1-6-1 stretch? It could easily be 1-9-1 by now. The Sabres were grossly outplayed in their last two victories. Boston had more scoring chances in three periods than Buffalo had in the last three games, but Buffalo was one shot away from tying the game before Boston found an empty net in the final minute.
The Sabres are in 12th place in the Eastern Conference with 11 points in 13 games. The eighth-place team will need 53 or 54 points, projecting results from last year to a 48-game season. It means the Sabres, who are 5-7-1, will need to finish the season with the equivalent of a 19-12-4 record to have a chance.
It starts with cleaning up their defense. In the last two games, the Islanders and Bruins have attempted 152 shots on goal and hit the net on 79 of them. Miller kept them in the game Sunday. The Bruins must have been shaking their heads with a 2-1 lead late in a game that felt like they were winning by a half-dozen.
At his best, Miller is one of the best goalies in the league. The chore for him in recent years has been sustaining his maximum ability for lengthy stretches. He would show flashes of brilliance that became common during the magical 2009-10 season but too often they were followed by spotty performances.
It must have been comforting for the Sabres, especially with the Bruins dominating the early part of the second period, to know that Miller was right again. He had the save of the season about 6� minutes into the second when he thrust his stick across an open net and stopped Nathan Horton in a how-did-he-do-that moment.
The one goal he allowed came on a perfect shot from the stick of pest Brad Marchand, whose wrister sifted through legs and sticks and landed just inside the post. He had no chance on the other goal he allowed when Patrice Bergeron snapped home a wrist shot on the power play in the third period. Miller gave his team a chance.
Isn't that what they ask?
The best teams in the NHL can win with average goaltending on a given night. Good ones need good goaltending most of the time. For the most part, teams near the bottom need spectacular goaltending to win. And that describes the Sabres through 13 games. If their netminder isn't exceptional, they're all but toast.
Miller was superb Sunday. It still wasn't enough.
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The Stetson men's tennis team started strong and held on for a 4-3 home victory against visiting Appalachian State Wednesday afternoon at the Mandy Stoll Tennis Center.
"It was a good win for us, especially with the windy conditions," Stetson associate head coach Christophe Noblet said. "We came to play tennis today. We didn't complain about the weather. It was a good Appalachian State team, and I'm glad we came out on top."
Every time the Hatters (4-5) have won the doubles point this season, they've gone on to win the match. That was no different on Wednesday as Stetson won two out of three doubles matches to earn the first points of the contest.
All three doubles came down to the wire, but after Appalachian State (4-4) won 8-7 (4) at number three, senior Hans Adrian Riseng and junior Nathan Debut won 8-7 (5) at number one to tie things up at 1-1. Junior Chester Espie and sophomore Laurynas Antropikas then won 8-6 at number two to secure the early advantage for the Hatters.
"Everybody knows that the doubles point is extremely important," said Noblet. "When you know you're playing a good team, having that additional point to start with makes a heck of a difference. Getting the point today ended up being the deciding factor."
Stetson took a commanding 3-0 lead after a pair of singles wins by Espie and freshman Graham Ball. Espie cruised to a 6-0, 6-1 win at number four, while Ball won 6-1, 6-4 at the number five position.
After App State's Sebastien King topped Debut 6-4, 6-4 at number one, Stetson sophomore Cahit Kapukiran won 6-2, 6-4 at number three to clinch the victory for the Hatters at 4-1.
The Mountaineers won the final two matches at number six and number two, but Noblet was pleased with his team's enthusiasm down the stretch.
"The chemistry we had at the end was special," Noblet said. "That type of chemistry will help us leading into conference play. What I saw today out of the guys, cheering for their teammates on the final courts, it makes a difference."
The Hatters will begin conference play this weekend, heading on the road to take on USC Upstate and ETSU. Stetson will challenge the Spartans on Friday at 2:00 p.m. and then take on the Bucs Saturday at 2:00 p.m.


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April 13, 1925 – July 3, 2013
Eugene J. Martin, a lawyer, died Wednesday in Buffalo General Medical Center. He was 88.
Mr. Martin was born in South Buffalo and later was a resident of Clarence. He graduated from Canisius High School and Canisius College and served in the Navy during World War II and during the Korean War.
After graduating from the University of Buffalo Law School, Mr. Martin worked as an attorney in private practice and for the City of Buffalo Corporation Counsel's Office.
Survivors include his wife of 47 years, the former Olga Paul; three daughters, Sheila Chan, Mary Deirdre and Maureen; five sons, Brian, Sean, Barry, Myles Brendan and Eugene; and a brother, Gerard.
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Rainy and 48 degrees in London on Friday. No matter: The Duchess of Cambridge – with parents Michael and Carole, and sister Pippa – is off on a sunny vacation, PEOPLE has confirmed.
Passengers on a British Airways flight from London's Gatwick Airport to St. Lucia in the Caribbean were surprised to see the family in the first class section on Wednesday, a photographer blogged. Their presumed final destination: one of their regular holiday haunts, the private isle of Mustique.
It is believed that Prince William is not with them, as the search and rescue helicopter pilot is spending this week at his RAF base in Anglesey, Wales, after hunting last weekend on an estate in Spain with brother Prince Harry.
Mustique, where Kate and William have been frequent visitors, is a well-known, pricey haunt for such celebrities as Mick Jagger and Queen Elizabeth's late sister, Princess Margaret. It was even inspected as a possible honeymoon destination for William and Kate.
The trip to the sun comes just days after Kate's 30th birthday on Jan. 9 and before Carole's 57th at the end of the month.
The Palace had no comment on Kate's vacation.
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Friday, July 11, 2014
Sean Lam of Summerville, SC has been installed as Master Councilor of Summerville DeMolay Chapter.
Sean was installed by Steve Ward, a Senior DeMolay and Advisor of Summerville DeMolay Chapter. It was an extra special night as this marked the handoff from the younger brother, Donovan Lam to the older brother, Sean Lam and this would be Seans second term as Master Councilor for Summerville. This semi- annual installation of officers was held June 30th at the Summerville Masonic Lodge located at 111 N. Main Street.
In his position as Master Councilor, Sean is the presiding officer and head of the DeMolay Chapter. The title of Master Councilor, instead of President, reflects the Masonic/DeMolay tradition of using ceremonies and titles from the stonemasons of the Middle Ages. When the great cathedrals of Europe were being built, the Mason in charge of a building site was referred to as a master of the work.
Other officers installed during the ceremony were Jonathan Hutchison as Senior Councilor; Collin Martin as Junior Councilor; Josh Griffin as Honorary Senior Deacon; A.J. Hollowell as Senior Deacon; Garrett Strickland as Junior Deacon; Donovan Lam as Senior Steward; Angus Salisbury as Junior Steward; Kameron Martin as Marshal; Taylor Foulds as Chaplain; Dylan Legg as Standard Bearer.
The DeMolay fraternity is the premier and most widely prestigious youth organization in the world dedicated to teaching young men between 12 to 21 years of age to be better persons and leaders. DeMolay members learn leadership skills, public speaking, time management and financial management. In addition to these skills, DeMolay also offers an expansive social and athletic program with the opportunity for civic awareness, responsibility and character development through a variety of self-directed, real world applications and activities.
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Driving is a great new experience for teen drivers, and it may be quite scary to the parents that have to teach them. I finally turned 16 this past April and went out that day and got my learner's permit. I thought I basically knew how to drive a car from playing endless hours of "Need for Speed, Midnight Club" and driving around my dad's lawn mower. As soon as I got behind the wheel in a vacant parking lot, I realized I had a lot to learn.
Unlike "Need for Speed," you can't drive around corners at breakneck speeds and you have to stop for red lights. I pressed the gas too hard, my turns were too wide and I rode the brake pedal. Forget backing up. I didn't even look behind me when I slammed the car in reverse and proceeded to lurch backward. I have learned a lot though in my seven months of driving. Drivers education at a local school really helped me throughout the summer. I had great teachers who really enjoyed teaching other people how to drive.
Here are just few tips I have learned so far from driving with my parents:
• When you see a stop sign and you are far away from the sign, just slow down instead of saying "I know" because this irritates your parents to no end. Your parents have probably been driving for the past 20 to 40 years and they don't know what you know or don't. Stop signs are pretty obvious, but I've seen drivers go through them.
• When you get behind the wheel, you are taking on a huge responsibility, therefore don't act like it's a big joke. Your life and the lives of others are at stake. You also need to watch carefully for other drivers who don't follow the rules of the road. Even everything your parents do isn't always right. My parents will usually admit that they did something wrong if I call them out on it. When the driving manual says one thing and your parents tell you to do something else, explain to them what the book says. Most adult drivers aren't aware of the things that are in the new manuals.
Every time I get into the driver's seat, my dad says, "Pay attention." I'd shrug it off and say, "Yeah, I know." But there have been a few times when a dog, deer or another car did something crazy, and if I hadn't been paying attention, something bad would have happened.
• Keep distractions out of the car while you're driving. Put your cellphone in the backseat so if it vibrates to let you know you have a text you won't be tempted to look at it. Your parents probably won't let you listen to the radio and don't let them either until you are sure of what you are doing when you drive.
• When you get into the car, make sure you know where all accessories of the car are located; it isn't just the gas, brake and steering wheel you need to use. And before you leave the car, make sure it's in park. I've turned the car off and it was rolling toward the garage and I didn't even realize it.
You will make mistakes, so try to learn from them because it will help make you a better driver.
Most things come with time. You can't expect to drive as well as someone who has been driving for 20 years. I've been driving for seven months and I still don't park the car right all the time, and parallel parking is out of the question.
Just stay calm, shut up and drive.
Desiree Nagel is a home-schooled junior from Forestville.


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UNIVERSITY PARK - A year ago, all of Penn State's players were targets of an open market due to the NCAA sanctions, but the one who drew perhaps the most attention was offensive tackle Donovan Smith.
Bill O'Brien said Smith "had 50 scholarship offers" last summer.
For his part, though, Smith was committed to staying. He redshirted in 2011 and was about to enter his first season as a projected starter.
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Penn State's Donovan Smith mugs for the camera during an "interview" with teammate Garry Gilliam during the Nittany Lions' media day.
Like everyone in the Penn State camp, he was shocked by the severity of NCAA's heavy hand, but like most of his teammates, the more he pondered the big picture, the more he decided staying put was his best option.
He had already fit in at PSU, he was in a good place on the depth chart, the coach who recruited him, Larry Johnson, was still here, and he was excited about playing in O'Brien's pro-style offense.
Then there was the personal nature that is the recruiting process.
"I actually thought it was kind of funny," Smith was saying at media day as he sat on a rolled-up tarp, virtually anonymous, with the offensive linemen. "A couple schools that didn't offer the first time [when he was in high school] came with their pitch."
The mountain of a man - he's 6-foot-5, 327 pounds - has a big kid's smile, and he flashed it.
"[I'm thinking] Just a year ago, you didn't want me, and now you do?" he said. "I ignored all the noise."
Smith did consult upperclassmen whom he trusted.
"I had a brief conversation with him about it," senior all-Big Ten guard and Academic All-American John Urschel said. "It didn't seem to me that he needed much convincing at all."
Smith said he couldn't recall the schools that pursued him the second time around. To him, it wasn't important.
"It was a better opportunity here," he said.
Smith started all 12 games as a redshirt freshman and certainly can take some credit, along with the rest of the offensive line, for breakout seasons enjoyed by Matt McGloin, Allen Robinson, Zach Zwinak and the Nits' stable of tight ends.
But the bar is now raised.
"Donovan had a typical freshman year," Mac McWhorter, the Lions' offensive line coach and the national assistant coach of the year in 2008 while with Texas, said. "He's a gifted player. He did some really good things, and he did some things that weren't so good. After a year of starting, the level of tolerance for mistakes isn't the same."
No. 76 understands.
He cites "pass-blocking technique, hand placement and my kick slide, definitely being more physical on run blocking, moving my feet more and engaging the second level" as priority areas of improvement.
"No more knocking the rust off of me," he said. "A lot of excuses [last year] were quote-unquote excuses - first year playing, got my feet wet. Now it's time to produce."
McWhorter tells every player but especially the ones with NFL written all over them, "You won't be any better than you expect to be."
Some have called Smith the Lions' best offensive line prospect since Levi Brown, the last PSU lineman to be drafted in the first round (2007).
His longterm vision is "definitely" to reach the next level - one of the PSU program's new slogans (it says so on the front of the media guide) - but he's not rushing the development process.
By rule, he could be eligible for the 2014 draft.
"I'm just taking it one day, one year at a time and not looking too far into the future," he said. "You never know what can happen. I'm just here at Penn State to play my games and my years at Penn State. Whether it takes me to the next level, or not, only time will tell. But I've definitely had the thought and dream of going to the NFL."
And he figures he's in a perfect offense to learn.
"With Coach O'Brien coming from the Patriots and everything they do, he's kind of like a prep for the league in terms of pro-style, protections," he said. "It definitely benefits all of us who are honestly trying to go pro."
Smith was born in New York and lived there until his early junior-high years, at which point he moved to Owings Mills, Md. - which happens to be the site of the Baltimore Ravens' training camp.
"I'm a diehard Jets fan, but I slowly became a Ravens fan," he said. "I see those guys all the time."
It helped when he bumped into Jonathan Ogden, the Ravens' all-pro offensive tackle recently inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, at a local grocery store.
"It was one of the greatest days of my life," Smith said, smiling. "For the longest time I've idolized him and tried to be like him and just seeing him in the store, out and about, was like a dream come true. It was just so funny. I think he was buying diapers."
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- In three separate shallow bowls, place the flour, eggs and bread crumbs. Dip tomatoes in flour, then in eggs; coat with bread crumbs.
- In an electric skillet or deep-fat fryer, heat oil to 375°. Fry tomatoes, a few at a time, for 2-3 minutes on each side or until golden brown. Drain on paper towels. Sprinkle with salt. Serve immediately. Yield: 10 servings.
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Growing up, Lesley Brantley always had a love for math and children enough so that her parents expected her to grow up to be a teacher.
When Brantley attended Clemson University as an undergraduate, she started off as an engineering major. When she realized the major was not for her, she remembered her passion for math and children and switched her major, graduating with a degree in secondary education and mathematics.
Brantley is now 23 years old and in her second year teaching eighth grade math and Algebra I at Dubose Middle School. It is also her second year teaching in Dorchester District Two.
Brantley is not unfamiliar in the area; she grew up in Summerville and attended Summerville High School. She said it is her family that keeps her in her hometown.
My family is very important to me so Im very family-oriented, she said. Summerville is just the place to be.
Brantley said it is her calling to be a teacher and wants to help her students grow. She said she likes teaching middle school students because it is challenging.
Its a little harder to make those relationships, but thats what makes it fun, she said. You get to see them grow and mature and become different people, and thats the fun part.
Aside from teaching Brantley is a coach in Math Counts, which is a competition for students, and also helps with the Math Quest Team. She is also assisting with the schools eighth grade dance.
Brantley was recognized in 2013 as Duboses Rookie Teacher of the Year, as well as DD2s Rookie Teacher of the Year.
As far as her worst experience teaching goes, Brantley said some days are just harder than others and do not go as planned, particularly when she deals with a struggling student.
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Teaching is harder than people think it is, only because I care so much about the kids and I want them to succeed, she said. Its hard but its rewarding.
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Observations on British and American English
by an American linguist in the UK
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
--George Bernard Shaw
BrE = British English
AmE = American English
OED=Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edn. [1989], unless otherwise noted)
Friday, July 11, 2008
So, here's your little cakeless observation of the week, brought on by Grover's newest toy--the one in the cent{re/er} of this photo (from Bright Starts). It took some work, but I finally convinced Better Half that this is a blue zebra. (Grover agreed with me from the start.) But I'm starting to wish that I'd called it a stripey donkey, because I am mocked (not by Grover, who is too bidialectal to notice and would be too polite to mention it even if she weren't) every time I say zebra in the way that I learned to say it, with the first syllable pronounced like zee (the American name for the letter that's called zed in BrE). In British English, the first syllable is pronounced as it would be in the French zèbre, i.e. zeb.
This is one of those pronunciation differences that is not the result of a general pronunciation rule that differs between AmE and BrE--instead, it's just a lexical oddity, like vitamin (first i as in bit in BrE, but like in bite in AmE) or tomato (you know the song). BrE is probably influenced by a tendency toward(s) shorter vowels and greater awareness of French, while AmE isn't. In spite of the fact that the only non-dual-citizen in the household (ha! who's the minority now?) will only accept the zeb pronunciation, the OED lists the zee pronunciation first. (People from other regions of the UK will have to let us know if they use the zee-bra pronunciation there. Zeb seems to be standard in the Southeast.)
On my listening to it (as you can see from my description of the sound in the last paragraph), it sounds like the BrE version puts the syllable break here zeb•ra, rather than here ze•bra, but as far as I know, that's against English syllabification rules, which favo(u)r complex onsets (i.e. a consonant cluster at the beginning of a syllable) of increasing sonority (i.e. the explosive /b/ before the more vowel-like /r/) over plosives in the coda (i.e. putting the /b/ at the end of the previous syllable). So, I'm assuming that I'm wrong about that syllabification (i.e., that it's just my perception of the less-familiar-to-me pronunciation and not the reality of it) and that both versions put the syllable break before the /b/--but I'd be happy for real-life phoneticians (rather than a dabbling lexicologist) to weigh in on the matter.
I pronounce it (to the extent that my American articulatory organs allow) in the British way when I say (BrE) zebra crossing (a pedestrian [AmE] crosswalk marked by stripes on the road--as seen on the cover of the Beatles' Abbey Road). But when talking to my baby about toy animals, I revert to my mother tongue--now my mothering tongue.
P.S. Apologies for all the (annoying, I know) parenthetical comments, which make my sentences (oh, won't someone stop me?) so difficult to parse.
P.P.S. Two mentions in Language Log this week. Wow, I'm somebody now! Thanks Ben and Arnold!
37 comments:
- Drew said...
Growing up with a New Zealander father and American mother, I've heard an argument on this very subject. Zebras are interesting linguistically. Not too long ago I wrote about the weirdness of the zebra's extinct relative, the quagga, and how that name has arisen long since the quagga's extinction.
- 11 July, 2008 02:27
Is vitamin (/ai/ US : /I/ UK) really just a lexical oddity? It seems to be part of an admittedly not too productive pattern: dynasty, privacy, and cyclamen seem to match vitamin.
- 11 July, 2008 02:38
- John Cowan said...
From what I understand, English does favor complex codas, certainly relative to languages other than English. In what languages do you have oddities like "strengths"?
What's more, consider "better" in an Estuary accent: [bɛʔə]. If that were syllabified "bet-ter" or "be-tter", the /t/ in the onset would be realized as [t], not a glottal stop - which appears only in codas. So the only possible syllabication is "bett-er". Given the choice of zero coda or consonant coda, English is favoring the consonant coda.
- 11 July, 2008 04:59
I just saw a BBC show that mentioned cervical cancer. The host emphasized the second syllable of 'cervical' and pronounced it so that it rhymed with 'like'. The two Australians there agreed with the one American that they would emphasize the first syllable and rhyme the second with 'lick', possibly schwaified (which word google tells me has already been discoverd, alas).
- 11 July, 2008 08:29
- Anjodjuna said...
While it is true that English syllabification rules favour complex onsets, a different rule takes precedant here - namely, you can't have syllables ending in weak vowels such as TRAP, KIT and the vowel here in question, DRESS. Therefore it's most definitely 'zeb.ra'.
- 11 July, 2008 08:32
- Max said...
English syllabification is theoretically controversial, as approaches attempt to account for various phenomena, such as distribution of tense and lax vowels and glottaling (mentioned in earlier comments), aspiration of voiceless stops, flapping of /t/, the sonority hierarchy, and so on. One approach allows medial consonants to be ambisyllabic, and this would be the case for the /b/ in BrE zebra. The first syllable is /zeb/ (coda after lax vowel) and the second is /br@/, with maximization of syllable onsets, and no syllable contact law violations as would be in zeb.ra where coda /b/ is less "sonorous" than onset /r/. The /b/ is in both syllables at the same time, i.e. ambisyllabic.
- 11 July, 2008 09:31
- lynneguist said...
coulter: Good point. Vitamin is not so odd after all!
JC: While English does allow codas, even particularly heavy ones as you noted, such things only arise when there's no possibility of sticking the material in the onset. In the case of strengths, there's no second syllable to put any of those consonants into. But in strengthen the "th" sound goes into the second syllable, thus lightening up the coda of the first. That's the kind of case we're looking at (or listening to) in zebra--the matter of what to do where two syllables meet.
Thanks to anjodjuna and max for the phonological help!
- 11 July, 2008 09:52
My natural inclination (BrE/Scottish) is to use zee for both the animal and the crossing although I'm used to hearing both pronunciations.
- 11 July, 2008 11:24
- Mrs Redboots said...
I (Southern BrE) tend to say "zee-bra" but don't "take it strange" (Northern Ireland!) if someone says it with a short "e". And I always read it as "vitamin", with short "i", but our (BrE) biology teacher at school said it with a long "i".
What about "migraine"? I pronounce it "mee-graine", but both my Northern Ireland sister-in-law, and my American one say "my-graine".
- 11 July, 2008 12:33
- Almost American said...
Growing up in the northwest of England, it was definitely zebra not zeebra. My Glaswegian grandmother pronounced it the same way.
It makes sense to me that you pronounce it the English way when you're referring to a 'zebra crossing' as that term doesn't exist in American English.
- 11 July, 2008 15:37
Definitely zee here (ScE, Glasgow). I have heard zeb, but decidedly not as commonly as zee. It strikes me as feeling southeastern English, but that is only a feeling and a striking.
- 11 July, 2008 20:32
My instinctive reaction was that AmE favo[u]red zeebra because the initial letter is pronounced zee in AmE but zed in BrE. Just as well Grover is a girl so that you didn't have to worry about giving her names like "Cecil" or "Bernard" - cf Cecilia and Bernice!
- 12 July, 2008 00:36
- R N B said...
It's definitely zeb•ra here in East London.
ze•bra is what holds in ze•tits :)
- 12 July, 2008 10:46
andy j - we Canadians says zed but zebra.
- 12 July, 2008 17:48
"we Canadians says zed but zebra."
Oh well, there goes my theory, LOL. Although you haven't written it that way, I'm guessing that you meant that Canadians pronounce it 'zeebra', rather than making reference to Lynne's other point about where the syllable break occurs.
- 12 July, 2008 19:03
- shreevatsa said...
Like the Canadians, we, in India, where pronunciation usually follows BrE (or used to follow, sigh), say 'zed' but 'zee-bra' and 'zee-bra crossing'.
We use the short i in 'vitamin', 'semi-', 'anti-', and others, where I think AmE uses {ai} as in 'die'.
But the {ai} seems to be more common than {short i} in the first syllables of 'dynasty', 'direction', 'privacy' and 'simultaneous', where I guess BrE uses {short i} :)
P.S. The parentheses (not annoying) are fine; it would take several levels of nesting to make us lose our stack and find the sentences hard to parse.
P.P.S. I have always found your blog to be more interesting than Language Log is on average; I don't think I'm the only one :)
- 13 July, 2008 13:41
- banana said...
I'm an RP-speaker from SE England. Everyone I know says "zeb-ruh" but David Attenborough says "zee-bruh". He's in his eighties, so perhaps it's an age-related thing here, in the way that no one says "Keen-ya" any more.
- 13 July, 2008 20:59
I understood that 'vitamin' is a synthetic word dating from the early 20thC, corresponding to 'vital amine' - i.e. a (bio)chemical compound essential to life, containing one or more amino (nitrogen groups. Thus, it was pernickety chemistry lecturers who persisted with vie-tamin when their crass students had adopted the vit-amin pronunciation.
As a BrE biochemist (!) I say vitt-amin, zeb-ra, dinn-asty, sick-lamen (and now I know that the Greeks pronounce Cyclades as Kick-lahd-ase I feel justified), but I do use both priv- and prie-vacy....
- 13 July, 2008 21:40
The expression "zebra crossing" always makes me smile. I think of something like this: http://anwo.com/store/media/zebra_crossing_2.JPG instead, as one sometimes sees "moose crossing," "duck crossing," etc.
- 14 July, 2008 01:45
re: cervical
The GPs I used to work for told me it was CER-vical for the cervix, and cer-VI-cal for the neck vertebrae.
Maybe that was their personal preference, as elderly British-trained Australian doctors.
They also couldn't stand medicine pronounced with three syllables, preferring med-cine over med-i-cine.
Sorry to go off-topic. This Australian says zeb-ra, my-graine, vy-tamin and din-asty. Very inconsistent.
Another oddity is yoghurt - I reckon it's yo-(rhymes with go), not yo-(as in dog).
- 14 July, 2008 03:26
- Tristan McLeay said...
Angie, you might be inconsistent but at least this Australian agrees with you. Also pry-vacy, sim-ultaneous.
- 14 July, 2008 05:12
- Doug Sundseth said...
shreevasta: "We use the short i in 'vitamin', 'semi-', 'anti-', and others, where I think AmE uses {ai} as in 'die'."
While using a short 'i' in "vitamin" would be quite unusual in the versions of AmE that I am familiar with, in "semi-" and "anti-", the case is more complex.
I might say either "sem[ai]circle" or "sem[ee]circle" (I don't know how I choose which pronunciation to use, but I use both). I think I would only use a short 'i' in words such as "sem[i]nar" and "sem[i]nal".
Similarly, "ant[i]dote", "ant[i]pathy", but "ant[ee]proton" and either "ant[ai]trust" or "ant[ee]trust".
- 14 July, 2008 17:00
Regarding cervical, the BBC show was about women's reproductive health. No backs in sight. (Actually, no cervices were in sight either, but they were talked about.)
I should have mentioned it above, but I brought up the cervical thing to show that swapping the lick sound with the like sound goes both ways. 'Cyclic' (first syllable) is another example where it goes the other way.
Is there a general rule that explains when you rhyme with lick or like depending on which side of the Atlantic you're on? I doubt it.
- 15 July, 2008 09:18
- Janet said...
I'm noticing the word pronounced "PRY-vacy" more and more on both BBC radio and TV these days, by British presenters.
- 15 July, 2008 12:54
- Robert said...
With regard to using one pronunciation for neck cervical and the other one for the uterine cervix, this seems to happen because some people are so intolerant of a many-many relationship between words and meanings that they invent their own distinctions to squish it back to one-to-one. An example I have heard also is that some people use the two different pronunciations of plaque (with æ and with ɑː) for two of the different meanings (commemorative sign vs dental bacteria). There are also people who insist that the different plurals of fish (invariant fish vs fishes) have different meanings. All of these appear to be inventions, with no basis in historical or current usage, but that doesn't stop their proponents insisting that Platonically X pronunciation _means_ Y.
- 15 July, 2008 16:36
- Ginger Yellow said...
"My instinctive reaction was that AmE favo[u]red zeebra because the initial letter is pronounced zee in AmE but zed in BrE."
Likewise. I kind of assumed it was related to the use of "zebra" as an examplar for "z". So Brits would say "zed as in zebra" while Americans would say "zee as in zeebra". But apparently not.
- 15 July, 2008 21:54
Yes, I meant Canadians say zeebra like Americans but the letter Z is pronounced zed like the British.
- 16 July, 2008 19:49
Another interesting one which this reminds me of is how to say Linux. Linus Torvalds says that he was trying to write a replacement for Minix and it should be pronounced in a way that sounds not unlike Minix. This seems to be the prevailing pronunciation in UK that I have heard (I am English). I have, however, heard some people say it like line-ux, perhaps thinking of the name Linus as they do so. I have heard this a lot from Americans. It does seem to me that people on each side of the Atlantic have a 'comfortable' way to say some words that differs from one another - so once the two words vital amine had been condensed to one, BrE conveniently ignored the derivation in order to pronounce the word as it appears to be - and so probably do people speaking AmE even though that actually appears to more accurately reflect the original two words
- 19 July, 2008 22:47
- shreevatsa said...
some people say it like line-ux, perhaps thinking of the name Linus as they do so. I have heard this a lot from Americans.
Sorry to go too offtopic, but that is ironic: the name Linus itself has a short [ee] in it, "compare prInt, mInImal etc." (Listen here.) So thinking of the name Linus as it is pronounced in America (I guess) is like hypercorrection?
- 21 July, 2008 15:26
The pronunciation of cervical with a long i derives from the wish to retain Latin quantity. The oblique cases, e.g., cervicis, genitive, have a long i. The same goes for umbilical (long second i) I believe (I am too lazy right now to look it up).
As a semi-RP speaker I prefer short i myself for both.
- 29 July, 2008 20:33
- lynneguist said...
Except that the 'long i' in English isn't a long /i/ at all, but a diphthong /ai/, which wouldn't have been said in the Latin source word.
- 29 July, 2008 21:43
- vp said...
While it is true that English syllabification rules favour complex onsets, a different rule takes precedant here - namely, you can't have syllables ending in weak vowels such as TRAP, KIT and the vowel here in question, DRESS.
Your proposed "rule" won't fly in non-rhotic accents, like those of most of England. How would you syllabify words like "mirror", "merry", "marry", "sorry" and "hurry"?
If you try to syllabify "marry" as /mær.i/, then you run into the fact that /mær/ is not even pronounceable in isolation (except perhaps in Irish accents, which are rhotic). Clearly it must be syllabified /mæ.ri/. (Note that "marry" doesn't rhyme with "scary" in England, as it does for most Americans).
- 30 December, 2011 18:04
- Charlie said...
Ad vp:
Maybe the choice is not one between /mær.i/ and /mæ.ri/, but /r/ belongs to BOTH syllables. Such consonants are called ambisyllabic (or a Silbengelenk in German). Don't get confused by the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA): it offers no notation for syllable breaks that are not between segments, but coincide with segments.
- 30 December, 2011 22:43
- vp said...
Ambisyllabicity doesn't really improve things, does it? You still have an unpronounceable "syllable" /mær/.
- 30 December, 2011 23:33
- Charlie said...
@ vp:
I'm not sure about that.
If the /r/ of /mæri/ is ambisyllabic this implies that there is never a syllable /mær/ in isolation, but a syllable /mæṛ/ which has the property of not being conceivable without the syllable /ṛi/ that follows it. The two syllables share a consonant that inseparably links them to one another and THE POSSIBILITY OF A PAUSE BETWEEN THEM IS RULED OUT. — Ambisyllabic /mæṛi/ is not the same as, say, /mær.ri/ which is composed of a syllable /mær/ and another, separate syllable /ri/, with geminate /r.r/.
- 31 December, 2011 01:15
- Gecko said...
Everytime I hear BBC News presenters (for example) say "zeb-ra" and "vIT-amin", it still causes me to stop and have to figure out what they mean, but yet other british pronunciations - which are more drastically different - I don't even think twice about when I hear them (ie "glacier" pronounced "glass-ier" doesn't even cause me to bat an eye) unless someone else is in the room and they react to the pronunciation. Seems odd that the small differences are the one's I notice.
Oh, and I always assotiated "zed" as being a rare giveaway for someone speaking Canadian English vs. American English, for what it's worth (ie there's a line in an early episode of Stargate Atlantis that comes to mind)
- 10 February, 2012 09:48
- enitharmon said...
Nick Caulfield wrote (rather a long time ago now):
I have, however, heard some people say it like line-ux, perhaps thinking of the name Linus as they do so.
American Linuses may pronounce the first syllable of their name as 'line' but the Swedish-speaking Finn Torvalds rhymes it with, well, Lynne.
- 21 August, 2012 18:51


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SEVEN SPRINGS, Pa. - After more than a year of planning and preparation, Seven Springs Mountain Resort will be the host to the 2013 Burton U.S. Open Snowboarding Qualifiers presented by MINI and the U.S. Revolution Tour.
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The striking image of the television set looks more like a window or an arty photograph. Judging from the photos and video, it's very probable that the screen is somewhat translucent, with a snazzy bezel design. Also, the set would be positioned like a portrait, unlike the landscape format we've experienced television in for like, oh, sixty years.
Heavy on the goofy side, the teaser trailer proclaims this television is a gamechanger, a revolution for the industry. We'll see how that pans out when Samsung presents the full reveal at CES 2013.
Any real facts about Samsung's mysterious television are hard to grasp from a few promo shots and a trailer that actually reveals more-or-less nothing. But, even though the portrait format is incredibly novel, it would also be a major problem. Almost all television programming is shot in 16:9 widescreen format—would all TV shows everywhere have to be reshot?
I think most likely the television can switch between landscape and portrait mode and Samsung took the photos in portrait orientation because it is definitely tantalizing. However, the switching theory begs more questions. Can it switch remotely? Would you have to buy a rotating wall mount? And why would you ever really want to have the screen in portrait mode?
The new television, like most TV innovations currently in the works from tech titans like Apple and Google, will probably be, essentially, a giant media player. It will probably stream movies, music and pictures (hence why a portrait mode might be desirable, if it's the best way to show off your latest photographic masterpieces).
The translucent aspect could be, potentially, very, very cool, albeit gimmicky. A television that pretty much disappears when it's off would be neat for interior decorators, but there isn't much practicality to it—and probably a hefty price tag. Samsung has previously released products, like refrigerators, with translucent or semi-transparent displays.
However, based on these materials, 2013 already looks like it will be a landmark year for television.