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The discovery of stem and progenitor cells in the adult mammalian heart has added a vital dimension to the field of cardiac regeneration. Cardiac-resident stem cells are likely sequestered as reserve cells within myocardial niches during the course of embryonic cardiogenesis, although they may also be recruited from external sources, such as bone marrow. As we begin to understand the nature of cardiac-resident stem and progenitor cells using a variety of approaches, it is evident that they possess an identity embedded within their gene regulatory networks that favours cardiovascular lineage potential. In addition to contributing lineage descendants, cardiac stem cells may also be stress sensors, offering trophic cues to other cell types, including cardiomyocytes and vasculature cells, and likely other stem cells and immune cells, during adaptation and repair. This presents numerous possibilities for endogenous cardiac stem and progenitor cells to be used in cell therapies or as targets in heart rejuvenation. In this review, we focus on the epicardium as an endogenous source of multi-potential mesenchymal progenitor cells in development and as a latent source of such progenitors in the adult. We track the origin and plasticity of the epicardium in embryos and adults in both homeostasis and disease. In this context, we ask whether directed activation of epicardium-derived progenitor cells might have therapeutic application.
The epicardium is the outermost mesothelial layer enveloping the heart in vertebrates, which has been long regarded as an inert structural layer or, at best, one that protects and lubricates the myocardium. However, mesothelial cells lining the body cavities are known to be metabolically active cells that can participate in homeostasis and responses to injury. They have a squamous epithelial morphology irrespective of their anatomical site and upon injury become cuboidal and adopt reactive states, seen by an abundance of microvilli and intracellular organelles [
The epicardium originates from a cluster of extracardiac cells termed the proepicardium (PE) that condenses between the liver mesenchyme and sinus venosus of the forming heart tube at the reflection between myocardium and pericardium [
Genetic lineage tracing studies using Cre recombinase technology suggest that the PE arises within the early cardiac progenitor fields marked by the expression of cardiac TFs Nkx2-5 and Isl-1 [
Structurally, the PE is composed of an outer epithelial layer convoluted into villi (
Physical inhibition of epicardial outgrowth in avian embryos or its genetic interruption in mice leads to abnormalities in heart looping, compact myocardial layer expansion, myocardialisation of endocardial cushion tissue and the septation and formation of coronary vasculature [
Across the atrial roof, the epicardium is positioned in close proximity to underlying myocardium. However, surrounding the rest of the heart, a clear subepicardial space is formed that is matrix-rich and populated by fibroblastoid cells [
Structure and fate of the proepicardium. (
The transit of cells from the PE to the epicardium and sub-epicardium involves changes in the epithelial state. Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and its reverse, mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition (MET), occur in dynamic flux. Even as the epicardial layer adopts its squamous mesothelial form, some of its component cells retain mesenchymal characteristics and migrate into the subepicardial space, then subsequently into the myocardial interstitium, driven by EMT [
There are, however, ongoing controversies surrounding precisely the breadth of lineages that derive from epicardium. The first relates to its contribution to the endothelium of the coronary arterial and venous vasculature. Recent Cre recombinase-based lineage tracing experiments suggest that the majority of coronary endothelial cells originate from the sinus venosus endothelium and/or the endocardium [
The specificity of Cre drivers impacts on the important question of: what are the true lineage fates of the PE and epicardium? Due to the physical proximity of the PE epithelium to other vascular structures, in particular, the sinus venosus and liver plexus, the use of Cre lineage drivers that mark local vasculature or mesenchyme, as well as PE may lead to labelling of existing endothelial cells or their progenitors. Manual cell labelling techniques relying on DiI or viral labelling of cells, or cell transplantation, as used in earlier studies [
The contribution of EPDCs to cardiomyocytes [
These discrepancies notwithstanding, the ability of the embryonic epicardium to generate cells of the smooth muscle and fibroblast/stromal lineages is now accepted. An important question is whether the PE and epicardium contain cells that have multi-lineage potential or a collection of several lineage-restricted subpopulations reflecting epicardial heterogeneity. As noted above, the most recent experiments addressing the multipotency of epicardial cells have come from genetic lineage tracing studies using Cre recombinase [
The discovery of stem-like cells in adult hearts has provided a vital dimension to cardiac regeneration. In adult hearts, cells marked by the expression of surface proteins found on other stem cell types, including the tyrosine kinase receptor, cKit [
For the remainder of this review, however, we focus on the embryonic epicardium as a source of mesenchymal stem and progenitor cells that persist into adulthood and ask whether reactivation of embryonic epicardial gene programs can reset the cardiogenic memory of adult epicardium.
Our group has previously described a population of colony-forming cells that reside within the cardiomyocyte interstitium and adventitia of coronary arteries in young adult mouse hearts [
In the heart, we refer to colony founder cells as cardiac colony forming units-fibroblast (cCFU-F), in deference to the pioneering work of Friedenstein and colleagues on BM CFU-F and to avoid the use of the MSC tag to refer specifically to colony-forming founder cells
The similar (although not identical) transcriptome and cell surface marker profiles of bulk cultures of cCFU-F colonies derived from mouse heart, kidney and BM [
Cre lineage tracking using a variety of Cre drivers showed that cCFU-F in the embryonic (E17.5) and young adult mouse hearts are largely, if not exclusively, from the mesoderm, but do not derive from neural crest or endoderm or from de-differentiation of cardiomyocytes. Tracking with
The conclusion of an epicardial origin for cCFU-F is supported by studies in the embryo. A valuable marker that allows enrichment for cCFU-F by flow cytometry is the cell surface protein PDGF receptor alpha (PDGFRa) and, in particular, a knockin allele expressing nuclear GFP (
Platelet-derived growth factor receptor alpha is a marker of cardiac interstitial and perivascular fibroblasts and cardiac colony forming units-fibroblast (cCFU-F). (
In post-gastrulation development,
We have explored the lineage potency of bulk-cultured cCFU-F in a variety of
We devised an alternative assay to assess the ability of these cells to be directed by extrinsic signals in a transplantation environment. Injected under the kidney capsule, bulk-cultured cCFU-F did not survive well or form teratomas, indicating that they are not pluripotent in the accepted definition, as applied to ES cells. However, when co-transplanted with ES cells, GFP-tagged cultured cCFU-F cells were able to survive within the resultant ES cell-derived teratomas and to contribute to a variety of mesodermal, endodermal and ectodermal lineages, as judged by morphological outcomes (
Such cells likely have many other functions as sensors of stress, providing paracrine or niche support to other stem cells and vascular elements, as well as cardiomyocytes [
Although adult epicardium is generally assumed to be quiescent, there is evidence for latent epicardial activity. Maintenance of functional and structural integrity of adult zebrafish heart is, to an extent, due to the continuous contribution of epicardial cells to the ventricular wall [
Although healthy adult epicardium seems to have the potential to reactivate its developmental program, this is more prominent in response to cardiac injury. Zebrafish hearts can regenerate after resection of the ventricular apex, mainly through dedifferentiation and proliferation of existing cardiomyocytes, which are in parallel accompanied by a global activation of the epicardium [
In humans, epicardial cells were found missing from the surface of hearts with ischemic cardiomyopathy, suggesting epicardial migration post-ischemia [
The ground state of epicardial activation can be further triggered by ectopic signals that can either enhance the existing levels of activity, or potentially mediate the transition of epicardial progenitors into cardiogenic fates. The 43-amino acid actin monomer-binding peptide, thymosin beta 4 (Tβ4), has recently attracted a lot of attention, due to its effect in promoting cardiac repair. In this context, Tβ4 was shown to reduce cardiomyocyte apoptosis and to promote cardiac function recovery in a murine MI model [
Among the myriad of signalling pathways that are induced during cardiac injury, a notch signalling receptor-mediated injury response was also suggested in the adult epicardium [
Finally, epicardial cells likely play a significant role in cardiac repair by the secretion of angiogenic and other paracrine factors after cardiac injury. In a detailed study [
During heart development, the epicardium shows multi-lineage potential as a population and displays highly dynamic behaviours, including EMT, growth and expression of trophic factors. As the embryo matures, these activities decline to basal levels. However, cCFU-F-cardiac resident epicardium-derived stem-like cells that retain the properties of foetal EPDCs and a memory of their cardiac origin-persist in the interstitium, while the epicardium itself retains latent activities associated with foetal epicardium. One must be cautious in drawing conclusions about the cellular state after
A key component of epicardial activity in development and injury is the induction of EMT, a fundamental process in cell biology that can simultaneously initiate epicardial cell migration and impose mesenchymal identity on an otherwise dormant epithelium. Increasing evidence links EMT to core stem cell regulatory networks [
This work was supported by grants from the Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (BF050024), the Australian Research Council Special Initiative in Stem Cell Science (Stem Cells Australia; SR110001002) and the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (573732; 573705).
Naisana Asli co-wrote the manuscript. Munira Xaymardan co-wrote the manuscript and prepared figures. Richard Harvey co-wrote the manuscript.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.


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People with sleep apnea stop breathing for short periods of time while they are asleep. They usually don't wake up completely when this happens, but in the morning they feel exhausted and continue to feel sleepy during the day.
There are two types of sleep apnea. Obstructive sleep apnea is the most common and is caused when your throat muscles relax, blocking your airway. The other type, central sleep apnea, is caused when your brain doesn't send the right signals to the muscles that control your breathing. Some people have a combination of the two types, called complex sleep apnea.
Sleep apnea is a potentially serious condition and should be treated.
The symptoms of sleep apnea include:
Sleep apnea can be caused by a blocked upper airway (called obstructive apnea), by your brain not signaling your lungs to breathe (central apnea), or by a combination of these two problems.
Many physical conditions, such as being overweight, or having large tonsils and adenoids, can cause sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is also linked to medical conditions, such as high blood pressure and diabetes. The typical person with sleep apnea is an overweight, middle-aged man with allergies. But apnea can happen at any age, and in women as well. Sometimes drugs, such as alcohol, sleeping pills, or heart medications, can trigger apnea. It can also be inherited.
People with sleep apnea often go to the doctor because they feel tired all the time or because their partner complains about their snoring. Your health care provider will check your weight and blood pressure and ask about allergies. You may get a device to check your oxygen levels while you sleep. Your health care provider may also refer you to a sleep clinic for overnight testing. Sometimes, your doctor may request X-rays, computed tomography scans (CTs), or magnetic resonance imaging scans (MRIs) to see what may be blocking your airway.
Treatment depends on what is blocking your airway, how severe your sleep apnea is, and other conditions or medical problems you may have.
The most effective treatment is continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). CPAP uses a machine and mask to blow air through your airway to keep it open.
Wearing some dental appliances may help by pushing the lower jaw forward, keeping the tongue from blocking the airway, or a combination of both. These may be uncomfortable until you get used to them.
In severe cases, surgery may be needed, but often sleep apnea can be managed with CPAP and lifestyle changes, like losing weight.
The following lifestyle changes may help obstructive apnea:
There is no drug that completely treats sleep apnea. Some of the drugs used in combination with CPAP include:
Medications used to treat central apnea:
Medications used to treat obstructive apnea:
Alternative therapies may help treat sleep apnea caused by allergies. Homeopathy and nutrition are most likely to have a positive effect. While some manufacturers promote supplements for weight loss, none of these products have been proven to work as well as eating less and exercising more.
Few studies have examined the effectiveness of specific homeopathic remedies, though it may be helpful as a supportive therapy. Professional homeopaths, however, may recommend one or more of the following treatments for sleep apnea based on their knowledge and clinical experience. Before prescribing a remedy, homeopaths take into account a person's constitutional type -- your physical, emotional, and intellectual makeup. An experienced homeopath assesses all of these factors when determining the most appropriate remedy for a particular individual.
Some evidence suggests that a type of acupuncture called auriculotherapy acupoint pressure may help treat sleep apnea.
Sleep apnea is a serious condition that can cause fatal heart problems, so it's crucial to stick with your treatment plan. If you are using a mask and ventilator equipment, be sure to take care of them. If they are uncomfortable, talk to your doctor so they can be adjusted.
Keep in contact with your health care provider or sleep clinic to make sure your treatment is working.
If you are pregnant, you may have nasal congestion that makes you snore in a way that people with apnea do. However, this is not the same as sleep apnea. If you have apnea and become pregnant, be sure to continue your treatment so that your condition will not affect your baby.
People who have had a stroke and who have obstructive sleep apnea have a higher risk of early death.
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Along the way, the trail offers access to many state and national parks and marine sanctuaries. Learn more about all of them here.
- Bring sunscreen This should be an obvious tip, but because the bridge portions of the trail are completely exposed to the sun, applying sunscreen is a must!
- Stay on course The trail is not continuous - the longest segment is located in the Upper Keys between MM 106 at Key Largo and through MM 72 at Islamorada, Village of Islands - so find a segment that fits your desired run length. Although bicyclists can cover the whole length of the route by riding on the shoulders of Highway 1 occasionally, it is not recommended that runners do this. To find trailheads along the path, go here.
Use this stunning spot for a pre- or post-race shakeout run.
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alright food-- GF meats only, unfortunately, though they have a dedicated grill for GF food, according to the girl who took our order.
All the advertising they do saying GF items are available and it's only the meats? No GF rolls or even fries available. I'm disappointed.
Misleading. Yes the meats are gluten-free, but they have no gluten free bread to serve their sandwiches.
Gluten-free sausage and burgers. In Ocean City, NJ on the Boardwalk.


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On Aug. 10, I had the honor of leading more than 50 Pi Kappa Phi cyclists into the U.S. Capitol. The Journey of Hope this summer was the best experience of my life. Throughout the two and a half months, 13 states, and 4,000 miles, I learned a lot about myself and saw both the joy and the struggles of people living with disabilities.
For some, fraternity is a house. A structure of walls and rooms where men live and pass time. But my fraternity this summer had no walls, except perhaps the snowy banks of White Pass on Mt. Rainier, or the walls of corn in Kansas, or the concrete skyscrapers in Denver and St. Louis.
For some men, fraternity is a collection of photos on a wall. But for me, it's the photos I took with my iPhone camera that I kept in my back jersey pocket. It's the photos taken in front of the welcome signs as we crossed state borders. It's the countless snapshots taken with clients with smiles so wide you could see every tooth and most of their gums.
For some men, fraternity is in the parties or in a cup of beer. For me, it's in the gallons and gallons of water that sustained me. It's in spotting the support vehicle every five miles or so, where I could always count on a word of encouragement. It's in the songs that play over and over on the Sirius radio stations that become the soundtrack of my summer. It's in the faces of the kids who talk to puppets like they are real people. It's in the children asking for autographs, and kind, incredible strangers who reach out to thank me for coming, when really, they are the ones who should be thanked. It's the hug you give to sponsors you don't even know because a simple "thank you" cannot express our gratitude. It's in the cry of excitement I hear from the girl in the wheelchair as I ride up for the picnic when she's been waiting patiently for an entire year for "the bikers" to visit. It's the smiling faces of the clients that make all the physical and mental pain vanish instantly.
For some men, fraternity is the pin on the shirt or the trophies in the case. But my fraternity was in the proclamations in the dozens of small towns celebrating our arrival. It's in the trucks that move one lane to the left and honk their horns to say hello. It's in the spaghetti dinner prepared by people I've never met, or the grease mark that just won't scrub off my right leg. It's in the gym floors where we slept and the lump I got in my throat when a kid says goodbye and "see you next summer."
For some men, fraternity is in the party that ends in the early hours of the morning. For my fraternity, it's in the sunrises. It's in those quiet hours on the Wyoming plains or through the Indiana farmland when the world is asleep, and all you hear is the sound of a dog barking in the distance or the trees rustling in the breeze. It's in my T-shirt that desperately needed a washing two days ago, and now is simply disgusting. It's the smile when I finally got my first flat tire in Emporia, Kan.
For some men, fraternity is about impressing sororities. But for me, it's the 26 degrees and freezing rain outside of Yellowstone, which forced me off my bike with signs of hypothermia. It's in the words of encouragement in the van while I was shaking uncontrollably with every body part numb saying, "You did great out there Brett." It's about the volunteer in Farmville who hugged me like she's always known me. It's about getting our butts kicked in wheelchair rugby or softball. It's in shedding tears as I see my parents and the look on my mom's face as I ride up to the steps of the Capitol and the pride in my dad's voice as he shouts, "One last push!"
For some men, fraternity is about getting another event T-shirt. But for me, fraternity is forgetting that I'm standing in front of a few thousand people in a baseball stadium, wearing Spandex. It's riding next to Bruce Rogers into Boulder, pinching myself because I'm riding next to the guy who started this journey in 1986. It's dancing with the young woman with the walker who makes me blush when she shamelessly hits on me.
It's about those times when we get off the bikes and just look out at a piece of scenery so breathtaking that no one says a word. Then, one guy turns away to wipe the tears from his eyes with his forearm and says, "Let's get back on the bikes, fellas."
For some men, fraternity is about pledge class unity, or leadership positions. But for me, it's the crazy crew stop challenges of eating ghost peppers, Saltine challenges, chugging soda, eating watermelon with no hands, and choking down the awful tasting fruit called durian. It's that moment when I realize that these guys riding beside me have become my family, and that soon this incredible journey will be a memory.
For some men, fraternity is about four years. But my fraternity was 71 days on two thin wheels with 18 other riders.
• Brett Butler is a senior at Arizona State University studying kinesiology. He went to Corona del Sol High School in Tempe. His fraternity is called Pi Kappa Phi and the annual bike ride they do every summer is through their fraternity's philanthropic foundation, "Push America."


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Strange though it must seem to their opponents, some Conservatives will travel to Birmingham for their conference this weekend uncertain whether their party political glass is half full or half empty. Back in government the Tories may be, but having hoped for outright victory for so long, and having accepted as fact the poll predictions of narrow overall electoral victory, some are still angry that David Cameron failed to deliver on 6 May and ended up in coalition with the Liberal Democrats instead. Many of their complaints come down to Mr Cameron himself: that he tacked too far to the centre; that he cuts the rest of his party too much out of the loop; that he has given up too many cherished rightwing projects for the sake of the coalition. In short, that he presides over a government that is not Tory enough, perhaps not even Tory at all.
These kinds of views get a good showing in the newspapers, magazines and websites of the Tory right. But they are not the centre of gravity of the Tory party itself, never mind of the country – and nor, if the Tories have learned anything from their years in opposition, are they in the Tory interest. The Tories are only where they are today because Mr Cameron recognised the need to change the party and move it to the centre. His reward was 2 million more votes for the Tories compared with 2005 and the party's largest increase of seats at any election for 80 years. The Tory failure to do better was not due to Mr Cameron's modernisation and centrism but to his failure to persuade enough voters that they were credible. Throughout the election, the Tories struggled to push their share of the vote above a glass ceiling in the upper 30s – and still do today. The question that faces the Tories in Birmingham, therefore, is whether and how they can consolidate what Mr Cameron has given them, and then do better.
The essential answer is to stand by their man and his pragmatism, and not allow themselves to be tempted to the right. In the medium term, this is wholly bound up with the spending review that George Osborne will announce on 20 October. That package has always been too large, too rapid and too inflexible for economic safety, and thus threatens to hit the coalition parties hard in the ballot box. How hard it will do so is difficult to predict: this week's Guardian/ICM poll showed a large majority trusting the coalition to take the right economic decisions, alongside a narrower majority for the view that the plans go too far rather than get the balance right. Either way, however, it is extremely important for the coalition that the package is now constructed in the least unfair way (though cuts to services on which the poor most depend can never be considered as fair) and that ministers give no encouragement this week to the idea that they are engaged in an ideologically driven, rather than a necessity-driven, exercise. The signs are mixed. The speeches, debates and interviews which ministers give in Birmingham will be measured against this test.
Naturally, most Tory voters would prefer their party to govern alone. Most of the activists would too. That's why they support their particular party. Yet one of the most striking findings of this week's Guardian/ICM opinion poll is that 41% of current Conservative and Liberal Democrat voters alike already believe that the country is best governed by the current coalition rather than by any party governing alone. Two weeks ago in Liverpool, the Lib Dems managed to flex their own ideological muscles occasionally while at the same time showing themselves overwhelmingly committed to the pragmatic give and take of coalition. One of the important wider tests of the coming week is whether the Tory party, historic coalition sceptics, can do the same thing. If the answer is yes, the coalition's prospects are good. If the Tories spend the week complaining about the Lib Dems, never mind Mr Cameron, they will do themselves no favours at all.


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Surfing's beginning and end are in the storms out at sea. As the collective focus of the surf world narrows, spiraling toward a singular obsession with performance on a wave, the big blue ocean's role in the grand scheme of things is unjustly diminished. There's much more to it than a swell meeting a sandbar. Tracing surfing's lineage for perspective, we find our forefathers to be watermen who made their living by the sea, those who planted the seed from which this sport sprouted. While surfing's spotlight focuses on heat scores and hashtags, four young watermen are tapping into a connection with the ocean much deeper than the basic riding of waves. Don't get the wrong idea, as surfers, they all rip—it's just that they're fine with losing sight of the shoreline as well.
KAI LENNY isn't one for convention. Born into a family of watermen on Maui, his mother and father were as active in the ocean as were his extended family of "uncles," which include Laird Hamilton, Robby Naish, Dave Kalama, Buzzy Kerbox, and others. Despite this company—men who've built their careers dominating a single water sport—Kai's decided to perfect them all.
The inconsistent surf of Maui ranges from flat to 60-foot, and Lenny is always prepared for whatever shows up. His argument? "A waterman really has no reason not be in the water." He has a good point.
"What I learn in paddleboarding benefits my towing, what I learn in kitesurfing benefits my windsurfing, my stand-up paddling benefits my big-wave riding, and they all seem to benefit my surfing," says Lenny. "A waterman is someone who can do anything in the water at the highest level. Whether the waves are massive, it's windy, it's flat, it's onshore, above water, below water…I'm able to use all of the different sports to complement each other. I'm always chasing that feeling that surfing gives me, I'm just able to tap into it with different equipment in any conditions."
Lenny recently turned 20, and his precocious laundry list of accomplishments already includes two SUP World Titles, four career SUP World Tour contest victories, and a '09 Rookie of the Year award. He has six trips between Molokai and Oahu to his name, and at Jaws he once caught a separate wave paddling, towing, windsurfing, and kitesurfing over the course of a single day.
Growing up among Maui's elite watermen has kept Lenny humble and respectful. He's quick to attribute his success to these mentors, even if he remains stubborn when they advise him to focus on just one discipline. "I was told that I would have to choose one sport. They told me I couldn't do it all," said Lenny. "Well, I haven't had to choose yet."
JACK BARK speaks in lists, a lot. It's the only way to describe his oceanic itinerary. "My life is all about the ocean really," said Bark. "I'm in it every day, surfing when it's good, training during paddle season, diving and spear fishing when it's flat." By that description, Bark is the fast-paced, thin-framed definition of a waterman, but he feels he still has a ways to go.
"When I think of watermen, I think of Mark Healey, Shane Dorian, Keoni Watson, Jamie Mitchell, Kai Lenny," he says. "These are guys who charge huge waves, paddle Hawaiian channels, kitesurf, sail, paddle outrigger, fish, dive…they know that they can handle anything the ocean gives them. I get scared in the ocean a lot. I think I'm far from being a waterman."
But Bark is wrong. His name ranks in the company of those he acknowledged. Bark surfs, he paddles, he dives, he fishes with rod and spear. Since he was 8, his father, Joe, who is also a shaper, firefighter, freediver, spearfisher, surfer, paddler, husband, and harbor patrolman, has been taking Jack into the ocean. It began with tandem surfing, and then he made Jack a paddleboard. Neither of them have stopped since. The Bark name is widely known in the sport of paddleboarding; Joe Bark Paddleboards is a leading brand in ocean endurance sports. "When my dad was younger, he was the one winning all the races," said Jack. "And now, I just strive to be like him."
Last July, Jack Bark won the Molokai2Oahu 2012 Paddleboard Race Stock Division, recording a time just two minutes shy of the fastest time in the history of the race. At 18, he crossed the 32-mile channel between Molokai and Oahu in 5 hours, 28 minutes, and 16 seconds, and became the youngest paddler to ever win the stock division of the race. "It's my proudest achievement, no doubt," said Bark, reflecting on a career that has really just begun. He's still a Junior; it won't be the last race he wins.
"I still want to win Molokai outright," said Bark. "I hope I can keep paddling and surfing and doing all these ocean activities until I die. I love being in the water. I think living without the ocean would kill me." It's not that Bark gets scared in the ocean, it's that he's afraid of ever having to live without it.
CHADD KONIG opened his cottage door to let in the morning light as waves lapped onto shore a hundred yards away. A supply of alternative craft leaned against his shelter—surfboards, paddleboards, alaias, boogie boards, and surf mats. He stretched tall and eyed the surf, listening to the ocean. "I wake to the sound, sight, and smell of her every morning," said Konig. "I swim in the shallows, free dive in the kelp beds, paddle on the surface, walk in the sands, and explore the northern coast for undiscovered nooks."
Konig sees his interactions in the ocean as a dialogue with nature. He believes that a waterman must be open to the teachings the ocean has to offer, but must also give back to that world through spirit, action, mind, and heart. It is this sentiment that inspires him in his seafaring ways.
For a surfer that dwells in the immaterial, he was quick to quantify why he feels so at home in the ocean. "Humans have the same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean," stated Konig. "Our body is between 60 to 70 percent water, depending on your age and health. Our blood is 92 percent water, and the brain and muscles are 75 percent water. That explains it, for me. In the ocean, I feel as though there is nothing to do or undo."
Konig doesn't flaunt trophies or accolades to qualify himself as a waterman, but he takes immense pride in considering himself a member of the water family. His passion for the sea is expressed outside of any competitive atmosphere; it dwells entirely in his intentionality in the water. Whether on a surfboard or a sailboat, his every action occurs within the consideration of its impact.
With his environmentalist brethren, Konig is most often found paddling, sailing, or protesting for various causes, recently completing the Transparentsea voyage to fight whaling and traveling 300 miles down the California coast to fight fracking. These efforts are his offering back to the ocean, as its loyal waterman. "Us surfers, we're folks who derive heaps of joy from the water," said Konig. "We are forever indebted to her. We must take care and give back in all ways."
JORDAN MERCER doesn't call herself "Magic." But everybody else does. "I compete in Iron Woman races, I surf, longboard, SUP, paddleboard, swim, rock run, snorkel, spear fish, scuba dive, paddle outrigger canoes, photograph, and tow surf. Any opportunity for trying something new, I will jump at the chance." The jury is still out on if she ever sleeps.
"My day-to-day revolves around an extensive training regime, rife with sacrifices, commitments, highs and lows," said Mercer. "Training four times a day, sure there are times in which I lack motivation. I just have to remind myself that the work and pain are well worth it for the result. The traveling opportunities, the prizes, the success, the kudos, and amazing people I am fortunate to meet are all incentives to continue pushing my limits."
"Magic" Mercer is a professional athlete, as much an Iron Woman as she is a waterwoman. She's currently on the Iron Woman Series Tour, chasing long-distance paddleboard contests around the world and alternating between land and water races. She too has crossed from Molokai to Oahu, setting a Women's Unlimited Paddleboard world record in the process. She backed that up by earning the title of Captain for the Australian Surf Life Saving team, then qualified as the youngest competitor for the Iron Woman Races at 16 and swam, biked, and ran her way to two podium finishes.
And still, her to-do list is longer than her résumé. She has multiple upcoming Iron Woman races on her radar, including defending her back-to-back Molokai2Oahu World Titles. In November, she'll race with Sally Fitzgibbons to form the first female team ever in the Mark Webber Adventure in Tasmania. She also wants to do some big-wave surfing.
So where does she get her energy, her inspiration? It's simple, for her. "I rely on the excitement, joy, love, and unpredictable experiences that the water continually provides me. It is where I feel most at peace, it is my stage to perform. In the ocean, I get to express myself and live a healthy, happy, unpredictable, and extreme life."
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Memorial for Ameer is a call for peace
Not everyone who came to the Delaware Park Rose Garden on Saturday knew Ameer Al Shammari, but they didn't have to.
The public memorial service was for anyone who was shaken and heartbroken by the tragic story of this 13-year-old boy who came to America for a better life, only to end up dead over an iPhone.
So by the time the service began, a few hundred friends, acquaintances and complete strangers had gathered on this chilly Saturday evening to grieve alongside Ameer's family.
"I just wanted to show my support for the family," said Maggie McAloon of Buffalo. "This is just horrible and the violence has to stop."
"I'm a mom," said Chris Bylewski of Buffalo, wiping tears from her cheek. "I can't imagine. I don't know how you recover from this."
The body of the Black Rock boy was found in an abandoned golf park off Amherst Street on May 3, less than 24 hours after Ameer's family reported him missing.
Jean Sanchez, also 13, was later arrested by police and accused of luring Ameer to the former golf park, where he promised to return Ameer's iPhone that Jean had allegedly stolen earlier in the day.
Once there, he beat and strangled Ameer, according to police.
The memorial service on Saturday was a call for peace and nonviolence, as well as an opportunity to let Ameer's family know how much the community cares, said Ali Kadhum, president of the Iraqi American Society and one of the organizers of the event.
"It's great support," Kadhum said on Saturday. "This is what I expected from the community.
"We want to send a message to the family that we're feeling what you're feeling. We want to show them we care about them," Kadhum said. "I'm sure the family really appreciated it."
Dave Measer came from Clarence.
"This definitely hit me hard," Measer said of Ameer's death. "I don't know why this really affected me, but it's affected the community too. So I just wanted to be here for that reason."
The tragedy resonated with McAloon, partly because of the young age of both boys.
"What could motivate a 13-year-old to kill another 13-year-old?" McAloon said.
"It's just a child," said Marcia Mitrowski of Buffalo, "a 13-year-old killed over a phone."
Many who attended Saturday were also struck by Ameer's story. He and his family were resettled in Buffalo just 18 months ago, after fleeing the violence in Iraq.
"I always feel for the immigrant community, because they came to a place and tried to create a better life for themselves. Then, something like this happens," said Kate Mang of Hamburg. "I feel bad."
The memorial included comments from several local officials, including Mayor Byron W. Brown, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz and Buffalo School Superintendent Pamela Brown.
A dozen colorful balloons were released in the air. A poem was recited in Arabic. Some of Ameer's classmates at Waterfront Elementary School 95 sang the song "Cups" by Anna Kendrick.
David Hills, the school's principal, talked about how at first Ameer had a difficult time adjusting to a whole new world, but how he had worked hard and started to thrive since Christmas.
In fact, Ameer's parents recently gave him the phone as a reward for working hard at school and improving his English.
Ameer's father and two brothers attended Saturday's memorial, but his mother was too grief-stricken to attend, Kadhum said. But, he said, photos and video were taken at the memorial to show his mother how much Buffalo cares.
The memorial lasted about 45 minutes, and then the mourners lined up to pay their respects to Ameer's family.
Anyone interested in making a donation to help the family defray expenses may mail a check to: YWCA of WNY, Attention: IAS Family Donation, 1005 Grant St.; Buffalo, NY 14207. Or they may make a PayPal donation through the YWCA's website at www.ywca-wny.org/donation.php.
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Sections sixteen and seventeen of article one, and section sixteen of article two, chapter fifty-nine of this code shall apply to a person attending as a witness under a recognizance or summons in a criminal case whether the same be a felony or misdemeanor, as well as to a person attending under a summons in a civil case, except that in a criminal case, a person residing out of this state, who attends a court therein as a witness, shall be allowed by such court a proper compensation for attendance and travel to and from the place of his abode; the amount of the same to be fixed by such court. Such compensation and other allowances shall, in all criminal cases be paid out of the treasury of the state.


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Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance
Details of Disappearance
Randa spoke to a family member on the phone at approximately 11:30PM and indicated she was going to bed. When Randa did not answer the phone the following morning, a family member checked her residence in the vicinity of the 3400 block of Shiawassee Ave., approximately a 1/4 mile east of US 23. Clothes were still laid out untouched, her bed did not appear slept in, and Randa's personal belongings did not appear to be missing. There were no signs of a struggle or anything missing from the apartment. Jawhari customarily called her parents and siblings several times every day.
Jawhari had refused for three months to be driven to a clinic for the medication she was supposed to take every 15 days for bipolar disorder. Randa Jawhari doesn't have a car or a driver's license and also doesn't have a history of leaving without telling someone. She is believed to have no money. A nearly full pack of cigarettes was found next to Jawhari's favorite chair. Randa was a chain smoker who never would have left her cigarettes behind, much less her daughter, on whom she doted. There has been no activity on her Social Security account.
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If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
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Chino Hills was seeded second and Bishop Amat and Arroyo seeded fourth when the CIF-Southern Section girls soccer playoff pairings were announced Monday.
Chino Hills earned its position in Division 2 while Bishop Amat and Arroyo earned fourth seeds in divisions 3 and 7, respectively.
Wild-card games are today and the first round on Thursday with all games scheduled to start at
5 p.m., unless a different time is mutually agreed upon by the participating schools.
Chino Hills' first-round game will be against the winner of today's wild-card game between Lakewood and North Torrance.
In other Division 2 first-round games, Claremont is home against Corona Centennial and St. Lucy's is at Martin Luther King.
Bishop Amat, which won the Division 3 title in 2010 and was runner-up in 2011, shared the Del Rey League title with St. Joseph and will host Oak Park in the first round.
In other Division 3 first-round games, Hacienda League champion Diamond Bar will host Empire at-large Western. Diamond Bar and Bishop Amat potentially could meet in the quarterfinals.
Hacienda League runner-up Walnut is home against Barstow and Los Altos is at Garden Grove Pacifica.
In the Division 6 playoffs, Valle Vista League champion San Dimas is home in the first round against the winner of the wild-card game between Bassett and Camarillo.
Montview League champion Sierra Vista will host either Carter or Westminster in the first round.
In other Division 6 first-round games, Duarte is at Ocean View, Azusa is at San Gorgonio and Covina hosts Shadow Hills.
In today's Division 6 wild-card games, Baldwin Park is home against San Bernardino while Bassett is at Camarillo, Pomona is at Rubidoux and Ganesha is at Savanna.
In Division 7, Mission Valley League champion and fourth-seeded Arroyo will host the winner of today's wild-card game between St. Mathias and Bell Gardens in the first round.
Rosemead, which finished third in the Mission Valley League, will host a Division 7 wild-card game today against Kern Valley, with the winner advancing to face second-seed Marshall.


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Ceramics Alumni Accomplishments
(PCB = Post Baccalaureate Certificate Program)
Landon Anderson (MFA '10) NCECA National Student Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
Lauren Mayer (PBC '06) 5th Marge Brown Kalodner Graduate Student Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA. Young Guns, Australian Ceramics Triennial, SCA Galleries, Sydney, AUSTRALIA. Ecumene: Global Interface in American Ceramics, Sante Fe, New Mexico
Bethany Rusen (MFA '10) NCECA Regional Student Juried Exhibition, Pittsburgh PA. 7th Marge Brown Kalodner Graduate Student Exhibition, Philadelphia PA. Boston Young Contemporaries, Boston University / Boston MA
Eric Wilhelmsen (MFA '12) 9th Marge Brown Kalodner Graduate Student Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA. 8th Marge Brown Kalodner Graduate Student Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
Corinne Beardsley (PBC '08) Lovely!, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Angela Cunningham (PBC '04) 5th World Ceramic Biennale 2009 (CEBIKO) Icheon, KOREA
Holly Curcio (BFA '96) Loose Ends, Glenwood Springs Center for the Arts, Carbondale, CO
Jennifer Datchuk (MFA '08) RE/ACTIONS at Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
Stephen Grimmer (MFA '96) Referents & Research Duley/Jones Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Martha Grover (MFA '07) 5th World Ceramic Biennale 2009 (CEBIKO) Icheon, KOREA
Rebecca Holland (MFA '93) Solo Works, Moti Hasson, New York, NY.
Jacqueline Johnson Hughes (MFA '01) SPOON IT! Ceramic Tools and Utensils Baltimore Clayworks
David Katz (PBC '09) 5th World Ceramic Biennale 2009 (CEBIKO) Icheon, KOREA. Internationale Keramik-BIiennale 2011, Kapfenberg, AUSTRIA. Keramic-Biennale 2011, Varazdin, CROATIA
Matt Ziemke (PBC '09) 7th Marge Brown Kalodner Graduate Student Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA. NCECA National Juried Student Exhibition, Tampa, FL. Clay National VIII, Carbondale Clay Center, CO. 8th Marge Brown Kalodner Graduate Student Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
Petra Kralickova (MFA '04) Silent Longing, Black & White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Tenacity, Bonsack Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Emily Lober (MFA '07) Matriculation, 2009 NCECA Conference, Phoenix, AZ
Julie Richmond (MFA '11) Matriculation, 2009 NCECA Conference, Phoenix, AZ
Steven Roberts (MFA '98) Referents & Research Duley/Jones Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Seth Rainville (BFA '96) The Illusculptors, SOFA Expo 2009, Represented by Leslie Ferrin Gallery
Bonnie Seeman (MFA '96) One of a Kind: The Studio Craft Movement, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC recipient of Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, 2005
Dawn Stetzel (MFA '07) Art and Ethnobotany, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR
Diane Sullivan (MFA '90) New Ceramic Figurative Work (solo), Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT
Karen Swyler (PBC '00) Honors: 2008 Emerging Artists, NCECA Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
Gregor Turk (MFA '89) Interstate 50 & [blank]: Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, GA. book/catalog: Cartography: Artists + Maps, Kitty Harmon, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009.
Nathalie MacDonald Weis (MFA '02) SPOON IT! Ceramic Tools and Utensils Baltimore Clayworks
Addie Langford (PBC '02) President and CEO of Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center. Fulbright U.S. Student Fellow 2006-2007
Colleen Tolendano (PBC '02) Chicago State University, Chicago, IL: Assistant Professor of Art
Resident Artist, Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Emily Lober (MFA '05 ) Staff Associate, Willem de Kooning Foundation, New York, NY
Jeremiah Donovan (MFA '87) Professor, SUNY Cortland, Courtland, NY
Yves Paquette (PBC '89) Instructor, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA
John Fazzino (MFA '89) Instructor, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
Cort Serpinski (MFA '90) Professor, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT
Holly Curcio (BFA '96) Instructor, Glenwood Springs Center for the Arts, Carbondale, CO
Rod Dugal (MFA '96) Ceramics Technician, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN
Bonnie Seeman (MFA '96) Senior Lecturer, University of Miami, Miami, FL
Stephen Grimmer (MFA '96) Associate Professor, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, CANADA
Wells Gray (MFA '97) Art Dept. Head, Mercersburg Academy, Mercersburg, PA
Judith Pointer Jai (MFA '98) Associate Professor, Centre College, Danville, KY
Steve Roberts (MFA '98) Instructor/Foundations, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, KS
Kevin Arnfield (MFA '99) Art Deptment Faculty, Tabor Academy, Marion, MA
Alexandre Rebotim (PBC '99-'01) Professor, Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual, Lisbon, PORTUGAL
Tyler Gulden (MFA '00) Exec. Director, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME
Bethany Benson (BFA '00) Assistant Professor, Juniata College, Huntington, PA
Karen Swyler (PBC '00) Assistant Professor, Green Mountain College, Poultney, VT
Roseanne Sniderman (MFA '00) Lecturer, Florida International University, University of Miami
Mark Zellers (MFA '01) Assistant Professor, Community College of Rhode Island, Providence, RI
Josephine Burr (MFA '02) Education Director/Studio Manager, Greenwich House Pottery, NYC
Petra Kralickova (MFA '04) Director of Exhibitions, School of Art, Ohio University, Columbus, OH
Joel Froelhe (MFA '08) Education & Sales Gallery Coordinator, Northern Clay Center, St. Paul, MN
Jennifer Datchuk (MFA '08) Instructor, Southwest School of Art & Craft, San Antonio, TX
Claudia Mastrobuono (MFA '12) Resident Artist, Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, New Castle, ME
Landon Anderson (MFA '10) Adjunct Professor Concordia University, St. Paul MN
Mallory Wetherell (MFA '10) Adjunct Professor-Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Executive Administrative & Gallery Coordinator Assistant, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Bethany Rusen (MFA '10) Resident Artist / Instructor Nantucket Island School of Design(NISDA), MA. Resident Artist, Please Touch Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Allison Randall (MFA '10) Resident Artist Hasbro Toy Company, RI Ceramics Instructor at RIC
Matt Ziemke (PBC '09) Resident – Clay Studio, Philadelpia, PA
David Katz (PBC '09) Resident, Gudagergaard, International Ceramic Research Center, Skaelskor, DENMARK. The Other Option, Post Baccalaureate, Ceramics Monthly, February, 2011. Residency, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
Angus Graham (PBC '08) – Professional Potter, Studio for Arts and Works, Carbondale, CO
Joel Froelhe (MFA '08) Education & Sales Gallery Coordinator, Northern Clay Center, St. Paul
David Bogus (BFA '99) Assistant Professor, Texas A&M, Larado, TX
Birdie Boone (MFA '06 ) Studio Manager, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM. Adjunct professor Emory and Henry College, Emory, VA. Resident Artist, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT
Claire Hedden (PBC '04) Curator, McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL. Adjunct Faculty, Ceramics and Fundamentals Programs, College of Fine Arts, Illinois State University, Normal, IL


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Bexar deputy arrested on suspicion of DWI
Updated 10:53 pm, Thursday, August 21, 2014
SAN ANTONIO — A Bexar County Sheriff's Office sergeant was arrested early Thursday on a charge of driving while intoxicated.
Stephanie Mercedes Vega, 27, sped past a San Antonio police officer on patrol at 3 a.m., according to police. She and the officer were both headed west on Loop 410 near Interstate 10 on the Northwest Side, police said.
Vega was off-duty and she was not in uniform or a marked car, said Rosanne Hughes, BCSO spokeswoman.
The police officer followed Vega and noticed "other cues consistent with driving while intoxicated," according to preliminary information released by police. The officer pulled Vega over in a nearby parking lot.
After conducting standard field sobriety tests, the officer arrested Vega and charged her with DWI, police said. It was her first offense, according to police.
Bail was set at $1,000.
News Channel
Vega has worked for the sheriff's office for almost eight years, Hughes said. She is a supervisor in the detention division of the sheriff's office.
"The Bexar County Sheriff's Office takes this matter very seriously and is conducting an internal investigation regarding the circumstances of this incident," Hughes wrote in a statement. "Once the investigation is complete, the agency will determine the appropriate course of action."
Hughes referred further questions about Vega's record as an employee to Deputy Chief Raul S. Banasco, the jail administrator.
The incident Thursday, however, contrasts with how Vega is portrayed in an Aug. 4 profile on the Corrections Connection Network News, which claims to be the best-recognized international website for corrections professionals.
Hughes wrote the article, headlined "Rising Star in Bexar County," about Vega.
According to the article, Vega joined the Special Emergency Response Team at the Bexar County Jail before receiving a series of promotions. The article describes how Vega learned to control disruptive inmates, despite her small stature.
The article paraphrases Sheriff Susan Pamerleau as saying Vega "is an inspiration to her peers."
Banasco is also quoted as saying, "Sergeant Vega is someone I can count on to get the job done."
Vega is due to graduate from the University of Texas at San Antonio in December with a bachelor's degree in criminal justice, according to the article.
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She had sustained a number of stab wounds.
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Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin (www.beg.utexas.edu).
AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 5–9, 2005
Mapping Coastal Wetlands Using EM and Airborne Lidar:
We combined EM induction and airborne lidar measurements with vegetation surveys along two transects across Mustang Island, a Texas barrier island, to examine whether EM and lidar can be used to map coastal wetlands and associated geomorphic environments. Lidar-derived elevations correlate well with National Wetland Inventory (NWI) upland, palustrine, estuarine, and marine units. Lidar can be used to map wetland habitat more accurately and in greater detail than is feasible from aerial photographs and limited field checks, approaching that achievable on the ground. Where vegetation is dense, lidar-derived elevations may represent the top of massed vegetation rather than the ground surface, leading to potential habitat misclassification. Measurements of shallow electrical conductivity using a ground-based EM instrument range over three orders of magnitude and also correlate well with NWI habitat and geomorphic unit. High conductivities are measured within marine and estuarine NWI units and in salt marsh, wind-tidal flat, and forebeach environments. Low conductivities are measured within upland and palustrine NWI habitats and in dune, VBF, and fresh marsh environments. Conductivity profiles possess more mappable detail than is present on NWI maps. Tests of an airborne EM sensor towed 30 m above the ground yielded insufficient resolution. Elevation and conductivity are inversely correlated along the transects. EM and lidar readily discern saline- and fresh-water environments and complement traditional wetland classification by helping distinguish environments that have similar signatures on aerial photographs. There is some overlap in elevation and conductivity among similar habitats and environments, but a statistical classification based on integrated data from lidar, EM, and aerial photographs can achieve greater resolution and accuracy than current remote-sensing methods. Future work should include evaluating the effect of vegetation density on lidar-beam penetration, quantifying seasonal change in ground conductivity in fresh and saline environments, examining the geographic variability of elevation and conductivity, and further evaluating the use of airborne EM sensors to measure conductivity


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GODDESS SPELLS FOR BUSY GIRLS is an accessible, warm and lighthearted book introducing a young adult reader to the magic of world Goddesses. The book inspires the reader to find out more about the world's Goddesses and encourages girls to be strong, creative and empowered individuals who see themselves mirrored in the many faces of the divine. [Read more…]
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 22.0085 Thursday, 19 May 2011
Date: May 17, 2011 1:41:04 PM EDT
Subject: Re: SHK 22.0080 Arden3 The Merchant of Venice
I don't really want to get into a protracted argument with Professor Drakakis, partly because my few words weren't intended as a considered review, but mostly because I wish to move on and take a few swipes at John Jowett's bloated Arden3 edition of Sir Thomas More, which I regard as "More matter for a May morning."
But I can't let John Drakakis get away with the idea that the "clear suggestion on p. 31" can in any way substitute for the "discussion of the date of composition" that I was seeking - nor his implication that I might have overlooked it. For it was precisely his "clear suggestion" that provoked my grumble, and I can do no better than print it in its entirety:
"From the moment of its composition - some time after the midsummer of 1596 and" [here I think the word "before" has dropped out] "the date of its appearance in the Stationers' Register in July 1598 - and its first performance, probably in the twenty months or so between autumn 1596 and July 1598, the 'Merchant of Venice'..."
Now, every word here is carefully chosen, and balanced, and pregnant with meaning, but - even with my emendation - it will not lightly yield up its secrets unless you are either psychic, or have to hand John Russell Brown's Arden2 edition (1955) pp. xxi-xxvii. (To be fair, Drakakis does give a reference to the relevant pages in an annotation to 1.1.26 on p.172.)
As for Professor Drakakis' baffling suggestion that James Roberts printed A Midsummer Night's Dream (I think he must mean Titus Andronicus Q2) and that the type shortages there are also relevant, I can only surmise that, like Dirk Gently, he must take a holistic approach to the subject of "relevance".
As it happens, I think that I probably take a greater interest in bibliographical issues than most on this list, and probably greater than most of the likely readers of the Arden3 edition, so if I consider a bibliographical issue "not particularly relevant" (with the subtext of "unconvincing") one really wonders who would.
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Bob Boob is the Broker/Owner of 1st Choice Realty. It is estimated that Bob Boob has assisted over 2500 families in the past 28+ years in the real estate business. After graduating from Jersey Shore High School, Bob went into the US Army as a Military policeman.
The Army showed Bob discipline and that hard work does pay off. Bob has continued this same work ethic over his 28+ years in the real estate business. Bob has 6 children that he is very proud of.
Lisa has over 15 years of experience in the Real Estate Business and has been part-owner of 1st Choice Realty since it's opening in 1998. Lisa is the office manager, and also works as a closing agent to bring your Real Estate purchase to a successful, stress-free closing. Lisa lives in Jersey Shore, is married to Wayne Urbine and has 4 sons.
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In 2005 I finally decided what I wanted to be when I grew up, I took my classes, passed my test and got my real estate license. I am now fortunate enough to work in a great office with people that I love.
Being a realtor has been a fabulous experience for me, I have met some wonderful people and made new friends along the way. It is an honor to be trusted by your clients, both buyers and sellers. Helping them through the ups and downs of a real estate sale or purchase is both a challenge and a rewarding experience.
I live in the country with my wonderful husband and 4 Border Collies. Neil and I rescue abused Border Collies and these wonderful dogs are a big part of our daily life. We will soon be adding a herd of Alpaca to our farm and can't wait to start this new experience. Neil and I are both cancer survivors and try to enjoy each day that we are given. We have three grown children and 3 grandsons, our daughter Kristen and her husband John operate a business called "Dunkled Acres, Weddings in the Woods" from our property, it is an outdoor wedding and celebration venue. It will be exciting to watch this project grow in the years ahead.
I love my job and hope to be a realtor for many years, give me a call at our office if there is anything I can do for you or your family.
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Daniel McClellan
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Dan is a lifelong resident of Jersey Shore and a 1984 graduate of Jersey Shore Area High School. He and his wife Linda have been married for over twenty years and have two daughters Jessica and Darcy.
Dan has an extensive knowledge of the area, as he has been in sales since 1985, and the owner of Lindan Supply, a janitorial, paper and automotive supplier since 1998.
He has served on various committees and boards such as Jersey Shore Borough Council, Jersey Shore Area School Board and the Jersey Shore Pool Committee. he is currently Chairman of the Jersey Shore Planning Commission.
Dan has owned, leased and sold multiple properties in Lycoming and Clinton Counties. Let his knowledge, honesty and easy going style go to work for you.
Beverly Fisher has been in the real estate business since 1986. 1st Choice was honored to have her join us in September of 2015. Beverly is an associate broker and has been a broker/owner in the past owning her own company.
She also carries the GRI designation. In addition to working for Bob Boob , she is a real estate instructor for Larry Dellegrotto , director of the Penna Real Estate Academy.
Bev really enjoys working at 1st Choice Realty because she loves the way Bob and the other agent work hard for their clients. Bev offers a wealth of knowledge and experience with investors, home owner's who want to sell and helping buyer's find good financing options to purchase a new home.
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Working with TinyMCE to enable editor to toggle off html mode, what I'm struggling with is converting list items into asterisks:

Bullet 1

Bullet 2

Bullet 3

Should become
I've used a similar regex to convert paragraphs to "\$1\\" and that is working, but I can't seem to get the regex to work for list items, here's my code:
// replace p tags with line breaks
strippedValue = strippedValue.replace(/
([^<\\/p>]*)<\\/p>/ig, "\
// replace list items with astrisks
strippedValue = strippedValue.replace(/
([^<\\/li>]*)<\\/li>/ig, "* $1\
At both alerts, the content remains the same:
You are looking for a string that begins with
 and finishes with
 and has any characters other than <. /, l, i, > in between. Since the text Bullet contains ls the match is not made and no substitutions are done.
Ah, yes I see the problem that square brackets are evaluating matches against any of the characters within. That greedy .* was dumping all list items onto one line, I've got it working with this:
strippedValue = strippedValue.replace(/
]*>([^<]*)<\\/li>/ig, "* $1\
But its asking for trouble when someone uses < within the list item. Is there a way to use regex to match where as I originally wanted:
Assign to $1 all characters after
 and before the next occurrence of
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would do it, or maybe
but the ^ doesn't appear to work within parentheses..
Did a bit more reading and found that (.*?) is not greedy, the problem was caused by the markup having a new line character before the last closing
 tag. The . operator doesn't match new line breaks, so have updated to common work-around and it works, here's the final code:
strippedValue = strippedValue.replace(/
]*>([\\s\\S]*?)<\\/p>/ig, "$1\
strippedValue = strippedValue.replace(/
]*>([\\s\\S]*?)<\\/li>/ig, "* $1\
Thanks for helping, Philip!
In the same way as you put the i (case insensitive) and g (global) at the end you can also put s (treat as a single line) then matches occur across lines.


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The patriarch of Sanibel Island
by John Dudley '95
Francis P. Bailey, Jr. '43 at Bailey's General Store in Sanibel, Florida.
The entire time I was on Sanibel Island, I was afraid I was going to refer to Francis Bailey as George Bailey. I couldn't get It's a Wonderful Life out of my head. It was not until I learned the complete story of Sanibel and the Baileys—Francis and his brother Sam—that I understood exactly how much Francis Bailey's life had in common with that timeless Christmas classic.
For all practical purposes, Francis P. Bailey, Jr. '43 is Sanibel Island. His father moved there at the age of 24, when land in the tropical paradise off the southern Gulf Coast of Florida was only a few cents more than dirt-cheap. Though he was born only a few miles away in Ft. Myers, Francis Bailey is nearly a lifelong citizen of the island. Except for a few years in prep school, four years at Hampden-Sydney, and a stint in the Army, Bailey has lived his entire life on the island. Of course, his brother, Sam Bailey '46, who was born on Sanibel and died in 2010, forever joked that his younger brother was not a true Sanibel citizen.
At 91 years old, Francis Bailey has seen many changes on the island, some good and some not so good. His family's "general store" in Sanibel has evolved from the seed and supply store established in 1899 by his father into a fully stocked grocery store, hardware store, and coffee shop that serves thousands of locals and tourists seven days a week. Bailey's General Store also offers its own line of salad dressings and salsas. All of the locals know Francis Bailey. He and his brother Sam have been honored with parades, celebrations, and story-telling dinners. Sanibel Island would not be the place it is today without the Baileys, and no trip to Sanibel is complete without stopping at Bailey's General Store.
The Baileys are as much a part of Sanibel as the warm weather and seashells on the beach. A vibrant nonagenarian, Francis Bailey still goes to work at the store every day to keep an eye on the business and community he helped build.
In 1899, Francis and Sam Bailey's father, Francis P. "Frank" Bailey, Sr., started Sanibel Packing Company. Though the island was sparsely populated, there were a number of farmers growing a variety of crops during the milder part of the year; summers were simply too hot to grow anything. Frank Bailey, the youngest of nine children, was 24 in 1885 when he moved to Sanibel with his mother and two of his brothers. They were a Virginia family but had been living in Covington, Kentucky, before the move south. Why did they pack up everything and move hundreds of miles to a remote Gulf Coast island? "I really and truly don't know," says Francis Bailey. "I think it had to do with too much John Barleycorn."
"Daddy was a city boy coming down here. The first job he had was hauling watermelons for two cents apiece and he made more money than anybody else. The other haulers couldn't figure out how he did that. Well, the mule wagons had a seat in them. What he did was take the seat out; he would walk and carry more watermelons in the wagon."
Like most families in Sanibel at the time, the Baileys turned to farming. The warm winters meant they could grow crops that were out of season elsewhere.
"There was truck farming here, although I don't know if you had a truck because you couldn't get a truck over here those days. Our big crops were tomatoes [which Bailey calls toe-MAH-toes] and peppers and watermelons and eggplants. You couldn't grow year round. In the summer it was too hot and they hadn't developed the wilt-resistant varieties that they have now."
As do most people with a lifetime of memories, Bailey lets his conversations meander from one topic to another. Thinking about early farming on the island reminds him of a trip abroad. "One of the biggest surprises I ever got was in London," he recalls. "I went into Harrod's produce department—I thought they were just clothing but they had a huge produce department—and they had produce from all over the world and they had blueberries from Florida. I didn't even know we had blueberries. But there they were."
To supplement their farming, the Bailey family opened a general store beside the dock where the mail boat arrived three times a day. The constant flow of locals and island visitors proved to be a comfortable, though not necessarily lucrative, source of income.
"Our corporation is Sanibel Packing Company and that's what the business started out as," explains Bailey. "The store started as an adjunct to it. Somewhere you had to get supplies and we saw a need. We didn't stock vegetables—everybody had their own vegetables. We had flour and grits and meal, dried beans, white bacon, and all those things. It was all in bulk in those days."
Childhood on the island likely was similar to early 20th-century life in any rural area, but the population fluctuated with the seasons. Bailey says, "The most children we ever had in the school—and there were eight grades—was 32, and that was only in the middle of the winter augmented by the 'snow birds,' as daddy called them. Some people do this now, but the way tourism was in those days, people would come down by the first of November and leave by the first of May."
He recalls with a chuckle, "We had eight grades in one room, one teacher, one front door, one stove, one pencil sharpener, but we had two two-hole outhouses."
After the "snow birds" left Sanibel for the summer, the Baileys remained. Of course, there was no air conditioning and the hot, muggy weather was perfect for breeding mosquitoes "that were so thick you could take a quart can and swing it above your head and get a gallon of mosquitoes."
Escaping the mosquitoes was a constant struggle. Bailey says, "We had smudge pots and you always brushed off the screen door before we came in and were careful not to leave it open. Threaten to shoot the dog if he pushed it open. If you had to go some place in the evenin', you'd get everybody all set together and run to the car and drive down the road with the doors open."
Despite being only a ferry ride away from Ft. Myers, Sanibel Island might as well have been on another planet. "We had no paved roads, no sidewalks, no drug store, no furniture store, no barber, no beauty shop, no movie theater. It was just here. Nobody felt deprived. That's what we had."
Maybe his attitude is simply a lesson of living through the Great Depression. Maybe it says more about Francis Bailey as a person. His mother died when he was only 14 years old and his father, who never stopped thinking of himself as a Virginian, was determined that he and his beloved wife be buried in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery. During the trip to bury Bailey's mother, his father enrolled him in Lynchburg's Virginia Episcopal School, a last-minute change of plans over Staunton Military Academy. At 14 years old and recently without a mother, Bailey began his life in a new state and at a new school, spending the night away from his family for the first time ever.
Though the summers on Sanibel Island were full of mosquitoes and oppressive heat, Bailey didn't mind going back home at the end of the semester. "I was happy to be here. I was keeping bees at the time. My father kept them for me while I was away; that's what helped us pay for school. We had up to a hundred and some hives, but the hurricane [HUR-a-kin, as he says] in 1944 kinda put a dent in that."
Bailey ended up at Hampden-Sydney rather by accident. He says, "There was a $50 scholarship and nobody wanted it. I think that's literally how it was. I don't know how I got it, but they gave it to me. My uncle helped send me there and then there was the National Recovery Act where we got paid 35 cents an hour to work on campus." He worked a variety of jobs at Hampden-Sydney. "Sortin' dirty socks was one of 'em," he says. He also worked as a waiter in the dining hall, the current location of Parents & Friends Lounge in Venable Hall.
"We had eight people at a round table and we tried to get there early and get out of the kitchen and get to the food. They would load your plates up and you'd take 'em. Well, if you were careful, you could put all eight plates on this one tray. Of course, you know, we were strong then. But we had dogs all over the place; sometimes they'd get in. I always walked fast anyway and one night I came charging out with these eight plates and somebody threw a crust of bread or somethin' between my legs—on purpose. The dog went after the bread and I got mixed up in the dog's legs. Well, stuff went everywhere."
There were still boarding houses in these days. Miss Emma Venable ran the boarding house behind Cushing Hall; it is now Hampden House, the home of the Alumni Office. He lived there his freshman year, then two years in Cushing, and most of his senior year in the Kappa Sigma house. Bailey and others graduated in February 1943 to enlist in the war effort.
"My freshman class had 140 or 120 in it, or something like that. That was the biggest class they'd ever had up to that point. With attrition, of course, by the time I got out of there in February of '43 there might have been only 200 students at the school. I don't know if there were even that many there." During World War II, Hampden-Sydney, like so many colleges across the country, was having difficulty keeping enough students to stay open (the eventual arrival of the Navy V-12 unit would solve that problem). Nearly every able-bodied young man was serving in the military; even two assistant Tiger football coaches were called to active duty during the 1942 season.
"We had a graduation ceremony in McIlwaine Hall. McIlwaine was everything at the College for years. Morton Hall was finished in either the first or second year I was there. Bagby was where we had all of our classes and all of the various organizations had their offices there; the Tiger had its headquarters there."
Because Morton Hall was new, hard-nosed faculty insisted that students treat it well. "I had 'Snapper' Massey in Morton. He assigned seats to you. You sat in his class and you didn't cross your legs because you would scratch the back of the seat in front of you. I was sitting in the front row—Bailey—so I could do that," he says with a laugh. "He had an uncanny way of calling on you if you weren't prepared. I don't know; we must have all had guilty looks. He could pick us out, aye yi yi."
At Hampden-Sydney, he was on the football team but didn't play much. He says, "I loved it, I just didn't have it." His brother Sam was the football player and he parlayed his athletic prowess into a successful career in athletics.
Francis recalls with a smile that nearly everyone except him and a handful of others at VES played football. "I didn't go out for football and everybody thought I was a sissy. So, I went out for boxing and straightened 'em out."
The 1942 football season, Bailey's last season as a Tiger, was not the best in our long history. Hampden-Sydney played many current ODAC rivals as well as the likes of William & Mary, the University of Virginia, and the University of Richmond. The Tigers beat Roanoke College at Homecoming and that was about it. "We didn't win many games that year," says Bailey. "But I know we either won or tied Randolph-Macon, so we had a successful season."
Of course, even then college was about more than classes and football. There were also plenty of parties. "My freshman year, the Comity Club—a big, open, dirty-lookin' barn—was havin' a dance. I keep thinking we had both of the Dorsey brothers there; we couldn't've had. Maybe we had Jimmy [it was]. The thing burned down maybe a week before the dance. So President Gammon let us have the dance in the gym [now Graham Hall]. The way we did it in those days, you danced with your girl and anybody could cut in on you. The popular girls sometimes didn't take two steps; there was just a line of 'em. But if you got stuck with a girl for three or four minutes, there was something wrong with that. You always had somebody cut in, but with some girls it wasn't so frequent."
"They quit those parties in the fall of '42 and a guy named John Sivell ['42], who was a KA and one of the tackles on the football team, and I were good buddies. He was president of the Monogram Club; I was the treasurer. I don't know how it got started, but we decided to put on our own dances. So we went and rented a jukebox from a place down the road, decorated the gym, we even bought Cokes and—I didn't think of it; another guy did—put them in the women's restroom. We did that three or four times during the year and had some really good parties."
Life on The Hill seems simpler then: class and chapel during the week, football games and dances on the weekend. Maybe it was just simpler for guys like Francis Bailey. "I had no money. On Saturday, we'd go to town and go to the movies. I wasn't into drinkin' in those days, so I didn't have to pay for beers, and I wasn't dating, so I didn't have to pay for that. We'd go to the movies and then come back and play bridge an' use all kindsa cheatin' methods."
Of course, the young guys loved playing pranks on each other. He laughs when he talks about throwing water bombs—folded up newspapers filled with water—out of First Passage windows onto unsuspecting passersby.
"The different fraternities intermingled a lot. We all got along real well. One of my best friends, White, was a KA. We went up to Lehigh or one of those Pennsylvania colleges we played in football and you weren't exactly welcome if you were a poosie-doopsie with a noopsie-noopsie or whatever they are."
The Virginia weather for the Florida boy was the source of a lot of fun, too, as he recalls in a story about a snowstorm. "Freshman year—we ate in Venable [now Parents & Friends Lounge], not the basement; that's where the football players lived—I lived in Mrs. Venable's house. Anyway, in January or February—it was after Christmas—we had the biggest snow reportedly of anywhere in the country. I've pictures of guys—Judge Hay [William P. Hay, Jr. '42] in Farmville who was a year ahead of me and a guy named Sullivan [Frank E. Sullivan '40] who was the center on the football team—standing outside with snow up to their waist. You get a six-inch snow in Virginia and everything's broken down. On the corner across the street from Shannon's [in Farmville] the snow was stacked up above my head. That was something else."
The simple life ended in February 1943. Bailey entered the Army and served for three years. He went home and wondered what he was going to do with his life. His brother Sam had signed up to play professional football, so the two of them started hitchhiking from Sanibel, Florida, to Hershey, Pennsylvania. Francis considered jobs in Florida and Tennessee but nothing really appealed to him. He also considered returning to Hampden-Sydney for another year, but Dean David C. "Turret Top" Wilson persuaded him to go into teaching.
He says everyone at Hampden-Sydney, even the professors, had a nickname. Dr. Joe Frierson, the chemistry professor, was "Lil' Joe." The head football coach, Frank Summers, was lovingly called "Pig Eye." Even the College President, Dr. Edgar Gammon 1905, was called "Rip," a nickname he had picked up as a student. Francis Bailey went by "Moon."
Bailey recalls, "My sophomore year we were in Cushing having a big 'bull session' in there, and this guy named Preston Watt ['44]—he was a fraternity brother, a Kappa Sig—came in the room and said, 'Moon Mullins, you banjo-eyed bum.' Moon Mullins was a cartoon character back then. Somehow, just the name Moon stuck. Forever after, that was what everyone called me. No one ever used first names anyway. You went by a nickname or last name."
The nickname was so pervasive that he was referred to as "M. Bailey" on his fraternity composite and in football programs.
Nicknames aside, Bailey did teach for two years at VES and worked during the summers at a boys' camp in Vermont. By 1948, though, he had decided it was time to return to Sanibel. A hurricane in 1944 had severely damaged the island's citrus crops, including the acres and acres cultivated by his father.
"We were existing," is how Bailey describes the state of the family business when he returned home. The packing company was closed. Farming was way down. However, the family store struggled on.
As I said, originally Bailey's General Store was along the shoreline where locals—and the many vacationers—disembarked from the ferry. A stop at Bailey's store was one of the first things visitors would do, which proved to be relatively lucrative for the family. As the island grew, the store also grew. They enlarged it by closing in a porch. Later, the Baileys built a new Standard Oil station on the island along Periwinkle Way, which had become Sanibel's main thoroughfare. The island, though only a few miles from Ft. Myers, was still remote and in a perpetual state of recovery from hurricanes.
Everything changed in 1963—on May 23 to be precise. That was the day the bridge connecting Sanibel to the mainland opened to traffic.
"At the time, I thought it would instantly change the island radically. It took two or three years for us to notice any big change. The island was growing—or regressing, depending on how you looked at it—anyway, but it was two or three years before we noticed any appreciable spurt. I think some of the real estate speculators started saying, 'Hmm. It looks pretty good over there'."
The beginning of the bridge was the end of the mail boat, which put Bailey's General Store at the end of a dead-end road. Three years later, in 1966, the family moved the store to its current location on Periwinkle Way. The store also grew substantially. During the last 45 years, the store has evolved and offers a wide variety of products, from baked goods and fresh vegetables to hammers and beach toys. If Bailey's General Store doesn't sell it, you probably don't need it on the island.
As Francis Bailey shows me around Bailey's General Store he is so busy greeting shoppers that "Good morning" sounds like a punctuation mark: "This is the produce department that my daughter runs, good morning;" "Do you want some coffee? We have all kinds of fancy coffee drinks over here, good morning;" "We recently started renting movies, good morning."
At first, it seems like he knows everyone who walks through the door, but I soon realize that folks who greet him first know who he is and those who don't say hello he quickly and cheerfully welcomes to the store. Without a doubt, Francis Bailey is a local celebrity; he is a Sanibel institution.
Outside Bailey's General Store, I meet Billy Kirkland, of Billy's Bike Rentals, who is quick to describe Francis Bailey as "a wonderful person and a part of Sanibel history." He says, "We were having a charity auction a while ago and one of the items for bid was lunch with Francis Bailey. He and I were standing beside one another when I bid $500. Francis looked at me all surprised and said, 'Billy, you don't have to pay to have lunch with me, you could just ask'."
Community is vitally important to Bailey. If Sanibel loses that, to him, it has lost everything. During the 1970s, when the county wanted to turn Sanibel into another Miami Beach, Bailey and the rest of the island community organized and incorporated into an independent city. The city council, of which Bailey was a member for many years, preserved the community atmosphere while still accommodating the tourists on which the economy depends. The beaches are lined with cottages and small hotels and the main drag across the island houses local restaurants and shops rather than national chains.
But you can't stop progress, or "retrogression" as Bailey calls it. Sanibel is seeing more and more very large houses, even some gated communities, which Bailey can't stand. "There's always exceptions, but the majority of these folks aren't interested in integrating into the community. They only come down here to go to their mansion. I don't know if they know that we have a community association or a church or whatever. They come and go. Maybe they are here a week; they just are not a part of the community. I don't like that."
Francis Bailey loves people. You can see that in the way he talks to his family, his employees, even complete strangers. When friendly, happy, social people come to Sanibel—to visit or to live—he is a happy man.
"I've said for years that the kind of people we want to come down here are people who want to live, work, and play. You get some people who've been here for six months and you'd think they've been here forever; they've just blended into the community, become part of it. They're friendly. Then there are others who are just different."
What took George Bailey a cinematic lifetime to learn in It's a Wonderful Life, Francis Bailey may have known all along. George Bailey desperately wanted to flee his hometown for adventure, but circumstances kept drawing him back to Bedford Falls. But Francis Bailey loves Sanibel, and every time he left, he was drawn back to the island life, the community, and his lifetime of friends.
If I had mistakenly called Francis Bailey "George," I know he wouldn't have cared. He's the kind of person who is happy to talk, maybe have lunch with. All you have to do is ask.


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