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The National Museum of Western Art was established in April 1959 and was based on the Matsukata Collection focusing on the Impressionist paintings and Auguste Rodin's sculptures previously stored by the French government. The museum's purpose is to provide the public with opportunities to appreciate western art. Since its opening, the museum, as Japan's only national institution devoted to western art, has been involved in exhibitions, art work and document acquisition, research, restoration and conservation, education and the publication of materials related to western art.
The museum exhibits works from the Matsukata Collection as well as works created from the Renaissance to the early 20th century that have been acquired since the museum's opening. The museum has purchased art work every year since its establishment in its efforts to build and develop its permanent collection. These permanent collection works are displayed in the Main Building (Le Corbusier, 1959) and New Wing (MAEKAWA Kunio, 1979) throughout the year.
The museum is involved in the development and organization of a special exhibition every year. These exhibitions feature works on loan from private collections and museums both in and out of Japan. The museum also co-sponsors exhibitions organized jointly with outside organizations, including major newspapers, that are held twice a year. Special exhibitions are displayed in the Exhibition Galleries completed in 1997.
In April 2001, Japan's four national museums became independent administrative corporations. Thus, the National Museum of Western Art is now under the umbrella organization known as the Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art.
- Name:
- 国立西洋美術館 (Kokuritsu Seiyō Bijutsukan)
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art
- Location:
- 7-7 Ueno-koen, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-0007, Japan
〒110-0007 東京都台東区上野公園7-7
- Telephone:
- +81 (0)3 3828-5131
- Establishment:
- 1 April 1959
- Inauguration:
- 10 June 1959
NMWA Staff
As of 1 October 2015
- Director General
- Akiko Mabuchi
- Deputy Director
- Kazushige Yamashita
- Deputy Director and Chief Curator
- Hiroya Murakami
- Curatorial
- Shinsuke Watanabe, Curator of Research and Future Planning
Takashi Iizuka, Curator of Research and Future Planning
Megumi Jingaoka, Curator of Painting and Sculpture
Yusuke Kawase, Curator of Painting and Sculpture
Hiroyo Hakamata, Curator of Painting and Sculpture
Atsushi Shinfuji, Curator of Prints and Drawings
Asuka Nakada, Curator of Prints and Drawings
- Education
- Yoko Terashima
Saki Yokoyama
- Research Library
- Masako Kawaguchi
- Conservation
- Naomi Hemuki


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This morning, my friend Bob Denst — a gifted poet who is studying in Seattle Pacific University's MFA in Creative Writing program, and a new Looking Closer Specialist — sent me this note... … [Read more...]
Do You Ever Dream a Movie?
Looking Closer at Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups
[This post will be updated with more reviews and excerpts as I discover them.]Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups screened at Berlinale today.And since Looking Closer readers have, historically, been more excited about and more interested in Malick than any other director, it's worth paying attention.Here come the reviews... 1. Slant (Fujishima)With Knight of Cups, Terrence Malick achieves the sense of stylistic ossification that many accused his last feature, To the Wonder, of emb … [Read more...]
Looking Elsewhere: Trailering Malick; Burying "The Hobbit"; Christian Bale's Bible Reading; and More!
This week, in my community of arts-and-faith explorers, conversations have been focused on the joy of Christmas carols, the mixed feelings over a new Terrence Malick trailer, the predictably disappointing conclusion to Peter Jackson's ruination of The Hobbit, some interesting conversations with the Exodus team, and the traditional year-end challenges of drafting various "Best of 2014" lists.I'm hard at work on my own lists of favorite films and albums from 2014. It's a particularly chal … [Read more...]
To The Wonder (2012): An All-Thumbs Review
What follows is the first episode of a new review series that I'm calling All-Thumbs Video.I've been dreaming of a new venture in long-form film criticism — reviews as fiction. As a speed-writing exercise, I'll explore conflicting thoughts and feelings about film in rough-draft scenes set in one of the last video stores on earth.This first chapter focuses on Terrence Malick's To the Wonder. I've seen the film three times now, and I'm still wrestling with it, arguing with myself and a vari … [Read more...]
Monday Night is Malick Night!
Next Monday evening in Seattle, you're invited to a live podcast discussion of the films of Terrence Malick.You're invited to the Kindlings Muse! Read on for details. … [Read more...]
Sean Penn, The Tree of Life, and the difference between prose and poetry.
The L.A. Times, In Contention, Hollywood Elsewhere... everybody's getting worked up because Sean Penn apparently "dissed" director Terrence Malick and The Tree of Life: I didn't at all find on the screen the emotion of the script, which is the most magnificent one that I've ever read. A clearer and more conventional narrative would have helped the film without, in my opinion, lessening its beauty and its impact. ... Frankly, I'm still trying to figure out what I'm doing there and what I was supp … [Read more...]
The Tree of Life: My First Impressions
My first-impression thoughts on The Tree of Life are posted at Image's blog - Good Letters. ... … [Read more...]
The Tree of Life (2011)
The Tree of Life has quickly become one of the most talked-about movies ever made. And although it isn't my favorite of Terrence Malick's films—that distinction belongs to The New World—I've been invited to discuss this movie on more occasions than any other movie... so often, in fact, that I'm eager to take a break from the chatter and the movie, let it go for a while, and return to it with fresh eyes someday in the distant future.But here is a record of a variety of conversations and com … [Read more...]
The New World (2005)
This review was originally published at Christianity Today.A follow-up review was published at Image upon the release of the "extended cut" of the movie..Both are reproduced below.-The New World - Theatrical Release Review (January 20, 2006)It's all in the eyes.That's one of the lessons in The New World, an epic story of love and change, from the celebrated writer/director Terrence Malick. As the Europeans arrive on North American shores in 1607, we watch history unfold … [Read more...]
Where Is My Tree of Life Review?
A lot of folks have been asking why I haven't posted my review of Terrence Malick's new, Palme d'Or-winning film The Tree of Life.I appreciate the enthusiasm. My zeal for Malick's film The New World may have created the impression that my life comes to a standstill when the reclusive director releases a new film. But that's overstating it. I admire all of Malick's films, yes, but I only feel a great passion for The New World. I've been eager to see The Tree of Life, but the trailer made me … [Read more...]


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While the President and Congress prepare to move against ISIS, Veterans are left to wonder whether they will be cared after once the conflict ends. [Read more…]
American Chicken Hawks and Obama Have a Failed ISIS War Plan, Veterans Left Out of Planning Again
the fallacy of martyrdom at Fort Hood Texas..
At about 1:55 pm today (August 28th, 2013), the long nightmare that Fort Hood (and the nation) has endured finally got closure. It's a death sentence for MAJ Nidal Hassan and a victory for the so many decent, innocent people who suffered such grievious harm at his hands. I was in the court room for [Read More…]
Here we go again…
Well, here we are again, on the brink of war, even before we have fully extracted ourselves from our last long national nightmare. My life-affirming values as atheist/humanist combined with my military experience as a veteran of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are telling me that it would be wrong to start down this [Read More…]
Why don't you #HaveASeatRightThere Muslim guy on twitter
"Our Perverted Eternal Justice Warriors have been tracking JJ, who goes by the online handle gabrielles-ONE-FIFTY-ONE… He claims to be a religious man who follows his peaceful religion." Did you bring the bottle of 151 like we asked? Against alcohol now, too, are we? Unless you've got something else to say to the world, you're [Read More…]
Army medic "has seen Christianity, Judaism, and Islam in action…Frankly, I'll pass."
Mikey Weinstein, President of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, shared something with me today. He shared a report in USA Today that speaks about the statistical trend away from traditional religious identities. MRFF is an important – albeit religiously neutral – ally to the secular community and fierce defender of the US Constitution. But Mikey saw something that he [Read More…]
Jihad me at hello
Counter-intuitively, a growing number of females participate in Jihad. They martyr themselves for a religion that is so oppressive to women that it instructs them to wear burqas. Some women's beautiful eyes made even a burqa too immodest. Why would women want 72 virgins? Why would they want eternal erections? I think humor is one [Read More…]
PZ Myers spotted in Islamic Jihad videos
Don't believe me? Look for yourself. Attentive Rock Beyond Belief readers noticed this early this morning. PZ spoke about 72 virgins in disturbing detail. Gross. But things are different now. Atheist PZ Myers is not creepy. He's now a very prominent atheist blogger (you may have heard his name before.) Compare that first picture with recently [Read More…]
Never mind, that explains everything about the 72 virgins.
I had previously suggested that radicals that do Jihad would 'run out of virgins' in a matter of months. Here is one prominent orthodoxy: Orthodox Muslim theologians such as al-Ghazali (died 1111 CE) and al-Ash'ari (died 935 CE) have all discussed the sensual pleasures found in paradise, and they are graphically elaborated by Qur'anic commentator [Read More…]


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On the face of it, Red Hat's near-$100-million purchase of eNovance is all about making Red Hat a go-to outfit for those who want to buy, build, or run an OpenStack solution. But it may also be about how Red Hat can keep some of the best and brightest OpenStack innovations close to its vest.
Founded in 2010, eNovance is best known for being a creator of OpenStack solutions for companies like Cisco, Comcast, Alcatel Lucent, Ericsson, and many others. The folks at the company are deeply proud of their work, especially the CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous delivery) development model they created for OpenStack. They also stressed eNovance is a devoted open source shop -- the company won't provide patches for a customer unless it had already been merged into the upstream for OpenStack.
If many of the fruits of their labor eventually wind up becoming part of OpenStack itself, why would Red Hat buy eNovance outright? Answer: As a defensive move against other OpenStack vendors doing the same.
Consider the players involved. Aside from Red Hat, three of the four other companies that contribute the majority of the code to OpenStack are a who's who of big-name, blue-chip tech: HP, Rackspace, and IBM. The fourth, Mirantis, isn't as big overall but has made a name for itself as a major OpenStack solutions provider. Red Hat keeping eNovance out of even Mirantis's reach is a smart tactical move. (It also helps that Red Hat and eNovance have collaborated closely before.)
If you want to be known as the OpenStack solutions provider, it helps to have not just a major OpenStack distribution (as Red Hat does), but also a team with a proven track record for building cloud solutions for name customers.
Red Hat's defensive action makes sense given the overall politics of projects like OpenStack. When Bryan Cantrill, CTO of Joyent, talked to InfoWorld recently about the problems of building cloud infrastructure with a product like OpenStack, he noted that members of any major consortium collaborating on a technical initiative -- such as OpenStack itself -- inevitably try to keep a little something for themselves.
"It's very hard to have every single company agree on something," he said. "Everyone's going to have their own agenda. And when they make an advance on something, they are overwhelmingly incentivized not to push that advance back [to the consortium]. There's absolutely every incentive for those that acquire the knowledge of how to deploy [OpenStack] properly to not disseminate that knowledge thoroughly and [to] use it as a way to advance themselves."
Much of the talk around OpenStack has involved its openness as an architecture and how any two implementations of OpenStack are likely to have a high degree of interchangeability. But that doesn't mean OpenStack vendors are laying down their arms. It simply means the competition between them has shifted to a realm not always visible to the customer.
[Am earlier version of this piece incorrectly identified Bryan Cantrill as CEO of Joyent, not CTO.]
This story, "Red Hat bets $95 million on OpenStack dominance," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Get the first word on what the important tech news really means with the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog. For the latest developments in business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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|U.S. Department of Transportation
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|INFORMATION: SAFETEA-LU Implementation 5204(e) Surface Transportation Workforce Development, Training and Education
Date: April 9, 2009
Amy C. Lucero, P.E.
Reply to Attn of: HPC-1
|Associate Administrators
Directors of Field Services
Division Administrators
Section 5204(e) of SAFETEA-LU provided discretionary authority for the states to use funds from five primary core programs to support training, education, and workforce development (STP, NHS, Bridge, IM, CMAQ). Compared to TEA-21, the SAFETEA-LU language significantly expanded the scope and type of activity that can be supported by core program funds.
We understand that this provision is even more important now as states are facing severe budget constraints. For the immediate future, we would like to use the issuance of Professional Development Hours (PDH) or Continuing Education Units (CEU) as a determining factor for 5204(e) eligibility. Any activity that issues PDH/CEU credits can be considered as eligible for support by the 5204(e) core program funds. Additionally, I have asked Clark Martin from my staff to lead a multi-office effort to develop more detailed guidance that will assist you in determining eligible workforce and professional development activities.
You can access the SAFETEA-LU Section 5204(e) Questions and Answers at https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/te/gmemo_workforce_dev_qa.htm for more information on how core program funds can be used to support training, education and workforce development. I am also attaching a sample project agreement for implementing Section 5204(e). If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to give me a call.


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You may be surprised to learn that some people watch "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" as a comedy, even a cautionary tale. Or you may have considered it an instruction manual for laying on the holiday lights. If so, you may be a Griswold. Like our family, you may have grown up bound to Clark Griswold and his kin by heedless enthusiasm. On summer vacations, we, too, stashed senior family members in the station wagon, and occasionally forgot to unstash them. On road trips we had a knack for landing at the beach rental next to the military base during summer firing practice. Once, we dragged the wreck of a drone target from the tide line to the cabin and roped it to the top of the Rambler to take home. Finders keepers, we told the military police.
That said, we are pleased to report that no military personnel have ever had cause to remove our Christmas decorations. Unlike our drone. But I was beginning to worry about the possibility of emergency medical technicians. Like Clark Griswold, we are always trying to spread the joy of wattage. To that end, we encouraged our daughter to jump out of the car seat in December and say, "Oooh! A fairyland!" Grown now, and a safe ocean away, she tells us it was all a lie, every single "Ooh." It was a pretty good effort, she said, but no fairyland. Fairylands have better trees. Our front yard had trees once. They were evergreens planted before cable TV, and possibly phone service and electricity, had wires. They were big, mean things that poked at the roof, jabbed at the pipes and scratched Tacoma Public Utilities linemen. FYI, TPU linemen take none of that. If we appreciate power, they advised, we should cut the trees. That left us with a golden rain tree, one of those fad plantings they used to sell on the back page of the Sunday paper magazine. The heck with the right tree for the right spot; this baby has dazzling cascades of yellow blossoms. And the core strength of a toy balsa airplane. That would not deter Clark Griswold, and it did not deter my husband. For the past five years, he has stuck a ladder up against a high, skinny branch and attached a multi-plug overloaded with about 16 strings of lights. He wrapped it all in tin foil, then put a plastic bag over the lot and tied a star to the front. Voila! Fairyland! "Meh," said the nieces and nephews. "Why doesn't that thing short out?" asked their parents. "Where is the branch?" I asked this year. When you pit a golden rain tree against an ice storm, which do you think is going to win? All the branches that tree had to offer this year were the big one's thinner sisters. I might add, here, that neither my husband nor I have slimmed down to their proportions. Unlike the trusting Ellen Griswold, I could imagine the worst. I could see my husband on the magic shape-shifting ladder we bought at the Puyallup Fair, falling onto our long-suffering neighbors' fence. My geometry is rusty, so I do not know whether the fall would involve a back flip over the fence, or just broken fingers. I could envision the red lights of rescue flashing out of Central Pierce Fire and Rescue's Midland station, where someone had forgotten to turn off the pork chops. So I made a plan involving enough wattage, olives and ladder work to please even Clark Griswold.
You will need:
· One folding ladder
· One sledgehammer
· One metal fence post
· One empty Black Pearl Olives can (Any 14-ounce vegetable can will do, but we like to keep it classy and go with the olives.)
· One five-foot-plus length of plastic pipe that will fit over the fence post, and has room for the olive can to fit snugly inside.
· One skinnier length of plastic pipe to fit inside the larger one
· One clam rake
· Enough lights to make Clark Griswold beam
· An illuminated tree topper
· Short wooden stakes, or a lot of croquet wickets
· Find a spot in your yard with no overhead wires.
· Pound that fence stake firmly in place. (If you have spare rebar lying around, pound some of that around the base.)
· Invert the empty olive can over the top of the stake.
· Untangle your lights and get the clam rake. Start with the end of the light cord that plugs into your extension cord, then plug the other end into the next strand and wrap around the clam end of the rake. Keep on, and keep it neat, or you will be Griswolded.
· Attach the tree topper.
· Put the rake handle into the narrow pipe.
· Get the ladder, and someone to hold it steady, and put the narrow pipe into the big one.
· Spread the lights into a tree-shaped arc and secure them with the short stakes.
· Assemble the kids and neighbors, plug it all in and say: "It's a Fairyland!" Or, if you did not pre-test the lights, something else.


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Robert and Harriet Feinberg of Gladwyne and Boca Raton, Fla., announce the engagement of their son, Noah I., to Tema Suzanne Starkman of Highland Park in Chicago. Tema is the daughter of Dr. Irving and Lilly Starkman.
Both Noah and Tema graduated from the University of Arizona. Noah earned a degree in business administration, and Tema holds a degree in political science. She currently attends the New York University School of Dentistry, and will graduate in May.
Noah is the grandson of the late Leonard and Evelyn Feinberg of Wynnewood.
The couple is planning an October wedding in Chicago.


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Trying to deal with the ex
Scenario in brief - we have a 50:50 shared residence arrangement , week on/week off, (as I think I've mentioned before :)) for DD (7), not court ordered, which for two years or so has worked fine. Ex recently moved over 20 miles away, and now is not allowing her to do any extra-curricular activities that come up as they're "not convenient" for him. The latest example is that she is very keen to do gymnastics, which I mentioned to him. He wasn't happy about it, saying she already has two extra-curricular activities a week, one on Mondays and one on Tuesdays (with him). I said I would do some research and get back to him. Bearing in mind how keen DD is, I searched for a club that had classes on Fridays, thinking that a non-school night would cover it. An opportunity for an assessment came up expectedly quickly, and she did very well indeed, being put at a higher level than I expected.
I emailed ex, explaining everything, times, location (not far from her school), offered to help out getting her there on his weeks, but he's told me it's not going to happen because it's far too inconvenient for him. I tried to explain that it's something she particularly wants, and is very keen to do, but he wouldn't even listen to me.
Am I wrong in thinking that he's being unreasonable on several levels? Firstly, he chose to move more than 45 minutes drive away. Secondly, shouldn't he be trying to promote the things she wants to do? Isn't that part of parenting? I can't help feeling he shouldn't be saying that an activity she wants to pursue is inconvenient, but in fact he should be actively supporting her development.
And what should I do next, bearing in mind the club isn't able to support DD only coming fortnightly as they have a waiting list (which they were prepared to jump her to the top of in view of her aptitude)?
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Concord - In case you missed it, the Granite State's Sunday Editorial pages took Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte to task for voting against bipartisan commonsense background check legislation, again. The Nashua Telegraph, Concord Monitor, Valley News, and Keene Sentinel all criticized Ayotte's pathetic excuses for her vote against 90% of her constituents.
Concord Monitor Editorial: Ayotte's misdirection isn't working
May 12, 2013
"Magicians rely on misdirection to fool audiences and pull off their tricks. So do politicians when asked tough questions, as Sen. Kelly Ayotte has been at venues like her town hall meeting in Tilton this month. At that event Ayotte relied on misdirection and a magician, former congressman and current state Sen. Jeb Bradley. The one-time professional magician screened audience questions for Ayotte and made many of the ones about her anti-gun control vote disappear. Nice trick."
[Full Text Link: http://www.concordmonitor.com/home/6096580-95/editorial-ayottes-misdirection-isnt-working]
Nashua Telegraph Editorial: Ayotte misses mark with gun points
May 12, 2013
"It makes no sense to say just because the NICS doesn't catch everybody that we shouldn't try to catch anybody. Conspicuous by its absence in Ayotte's commentary is any indication of whether she would be willing to support extended background checks under any conditions. She doesn't address the glaring illogic of current law that exempts a significant portion of gun sales. What if all the initiatives she supports came true, would that be enough to convince her that gun show background checks are a good thing? Inquiring minds want to know."
[Full Text Link: http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/opinion/editorials/1004313-465/ayotte-misses-mark-with-gun-points.html]
Valley News Editorial: Ayotte's Preference; Senator Focuses on Mental Health
May 12, 2013
"Here's what we don't understand: Why do the limitations of improved mental health screening give no pause to Ayotte and other advocates of the Protecting Communities bill, but very similar flaws stop them dead in their tracks when it comes to a wider application of background checks? The gun lobby, no doubt, could explain."
[Full Text Link: http://www.vnews.com/opinion/editorials/6066814-95/editorial-ayottes-preference-senator-focuses-on-mental-health]
Keene Sentinel Editorial: Faced with hollow arguments, reformers must keep pushing
May 5, 2013
"In a simple, bulleted slide show - and later in her answer to the single question from the audience about guns that she allowed during the hour-long meeting - Ayotte ticked her way through the same National Rifle Association-approved list of talking points she's relied on for weeks."
[Full Text Link: http://www.sentinelsource.com/opinion/editorial/faced-with-hollow-arguments-reformers-must-keep-pushing/article_0e5822f6-1607-5b24-b2b4-a5c6db53eccf.html]
This isn't the first time New Hampshire's editorial pages have harshly condemned Kelly Ayotte's vote. Previously, the Concord Monitor called her statement opposing the bipartisan Manchin-Toomey compromise "utter nonsense." The Keene Sentinel said "Either way, Ayotte owes the people of New Hampshire an explanation. What she's said so far - that the bill would unduly burden law-abiding gun owners - doesn't cut it." The Valley News wrote her "non-explanation was so vague it raised a number of questions" adding that it wasn't "one anybody would mistake for convincing." The Portsmouth Herald editorialized, "If we don't like how she voted Wednesday it's up to all of us who care about this issue to show Sen. Ayotte she was mistaken by voting her out of office."


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What if the worst-happened? Allianz, the German insurer, reckons a break-up of the eurozone would cost Germany three percent of its gross domestic product and a million jobs. Its calculations, in a report released on Wednesday, assume a number of highly-indebted eurozone countries exit the monetary union, leaving a "core" union centred on Germany and a few other countries such as France, the Benelux states and Austria.
In such an event, Germany would be hit by a large, Lehman Brothers-style confidence shock, a decline in global trade and a "massive appreciation" of the "core euro" against most other currencies, Allianz says. Read more


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Real Duck Leads Race;Fairfield Woman Wins Big Prize
(Cincinnati) A real duck leading the rubber ones. 700WLW reporter Jack Crumley caught a picture of the 150,000 yellow rubber ducks of the Rubber Duck Regatta being led by a real duck. The charity race benefits the Freestore Foodbank. This is the Regatta's 20th year. Deana Schmidt of Fairfield won the grand prize when her rubber duck came in first in the Regatta Sunday afternoon. She is now the proud owner of a 2014 Honda Accord Sport, courtesy of Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky Honda Dealers. Six other winners will receive prizes. One winner will receive $100 in groceries every week for a year while the other five will receive $500 in cash. The event helped to raise nearly $1 million net for the Freestore Foodbank. Since its inception in 1995, the Rubber Duck Regatta has raised approximately $8.3 million to help fight hunger in the Tri-State.
Rubber Duck Regatta helps to kick-off Hunger Action Month, when the Feeding America food banks unite to urge individuals to take action in their communities throughout September to help fight hunger in America.


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Medical Expert Discusses Johan Santana's InjuryAugust 25, 2009
Original Source of The Video can be found at ESPN.com
In the video above, ESPN's medical expert Stephania Bell gives some really good insight into the Johan Santana injury and pending surgery. As we get ready for the off-season, forget about any possible trade or free agent signing the Mets could possibly make. Santana's elbow will be my biggest concern.
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BART service restored - man in custody
Updated 1:40 pm, Tuesday, December 17, 2013
(12-17) 12:26 PST OAKLAND -- BART service was restored Tuesday afternoon after a man walking on the tracks in Oakland, between the West Oakland and 12th Street stations, caused major systemwide delays and forced the transit agency to turn off the third rail, officials said.
The man was reported on the tracks shortly after 11:10 a.m., said Alicia Trost, a BART spokeswoman. A train operator attempted to get the man to board a train, she said, but reported that the man was making suicidal statements.
BART police officers trained in crisis intervention were dispatched to the scene, and BART operators turned off the electric third rail in the area where the man was walking as a precaution, according to Trost.
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"You never know what the person is going to do so we had to power everything off for safety," she said. "Because it's such a central location, the entire system is going to feel the impact.
By 12:14 p.m., the man was in custody and trains began moving again, Trost said.
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Monday, July 18, 2016
Parasol Diaper Review + Coupon
Many of you with children have probably seen an ad for Parasol diapers and wipes show up on either your IG or Facebook feeds. They are a subscription based service like the Honest company that offers an alternative to the regular diapers on the market. Because they were offering a free trial with only $3 shipping- I decided to try them out for Magnolia.
First off, their packaging is adorable. Even the box everything comes in has cute white waves dancing across the entire perimeter. Secondly, I loved the designs on the diapers.She received a mix of 2 different designs divided between 8 diapers. And those diapers really are super soft. They definitely have an extra cushy factor that Magnolia seemed to like. They were also super absorbent. I used them both during the day time and night for her and she never had a leak. I think the only downfall is they tended to sag a bit after a while, but really not all that bad.
The package also came with a 20 pack of wipes that were great and had a very light and pleasant smell.
If anyone wants to try them for yourself, you can sign up for a free trial here. Or if you'd like $20 off your first subscription, give me your email address and I'll send you a specialized link.
Have you tried the Parasol wipes yet? If so, what did you think?
Friday, July 15, 2016
Happy Friday!
It's the weekend y'all! These next few days are filled with baby showers, birthday parties, work, church and family time and we couldn't be looking forward to it more. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend as well! See you next week!
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Today TopCashback is offering FREE Charmin Toilet Paper via Walmart through this link. If your'e not a TopCashback member no worries- it's free to join. I already got my free detergent in the mail yesterday that I posted about a couple days ago, and my free Fabric Softener in the mail that I ordered yesterday- craziness. So free items with free 1-2 days shipping... I don't understand it- but I love free things shipped to my door for free... and the next day :)
Once you've joined or if you're already a member, then click the pink Get Cashback button and it will take you straight to the item.
Make sure to only have the one item when your'e checking out or else you'll get the normal 6% back instead of the total amount for the Charmin toilet paper. Like similar sites, the money will be deposited back into your account- usually anywhere from 2 weeks to a month. But hey- it ends up being free so who cares
Also, Walmart is currently offering a 30 day free trial for their 2 day shipping pass so if you enroll in that (the first 30 days are free and you can cancel at any time)- then it's all free! You can request free store pick up or pay the shipping fee if you'd like.
Let me know if you have any questions. I've already gotten a free giant pack of diapers this way as well.
Thursday, July 14, 2016
Camping with Toddlers
I have to admit that I wasn't exactly looking forward to our first time camping with Magnolia. I absolutely love camping- and I obviously absolutely love my daughter- but since she's not a huge fan of sleeping anywhere other than her crib- I really thought it was going to be a rough night for all of us.
But it was Father's Day and I knew my husband really wanted to go so we decided to just go for it. And I'm so thankful we did! Magnolia did great! She loves being outdoors to begin with and being outdoors non- stop was just pure heaven for her.
We headed out to the campground by Granite Hot Springs just south of Jackson. It's one of our favorite places to car camp and there was surprisingly barely anyone there.
My husband making some kid friendly dinner for us: hot dogs over the fire :)
The only thing that Magnolia was not a big fan of was the fire. She basically hates all things that are hot or warm so when we tried to all relax and sit around the fire it was as if we'd ask Superman to plop down in front of a giant heap of kryptonite. Not going to happen. So no s'mores for us
And although it took much longer than usual for her to go to bed. We both just went to bed together once it was dark (which is around 10pm around here) and after about maybe 45min- 1 hour she was out. I consider this a success since I've heard horror stories of babies and toddlers staying up til the wee hours of the morning crying. And she was basically giggling and squirming around until she fell asleep so it was at least pleasant :)
To help, I thought I'd throw out some of the things that helped us in camping with a toddler.
1) Bring kid friendly food. Camp food I feel like is already pretty kid friendly but it doesn't hurt just to throw it out there. We had hot dogs & chips for dinner and scrambled eggs, potatoes & fresh fruit for breakfast. We also brought lots of munchies
2. Bring extra clothing. I generally pack Magnolia an extra outfit on outings but you may want to pack a couple more and for different types of weather. She got really dirty. Sitting on the ground, playing with dirt, moving dirt from one chair to the next. And then mix that with campfire soot, spilled food, bug spray, juice, and sunscreen- it can just get to be a little messy lol. Plus temperatures can change so drastically from day to night- it never hurts to bring a little extra... their clothes are small anyways. AND- If you're camping in bear prone areas like we do, you want to make sure that when they go to bed they have absolutely no trace of food left on them
3. I would also suggest bringing an extra pair of shoes for them. We only brought 1 which was fine but if you're near water and their shoes get wet- it could be pretty miserable during the evening/ early night.
4. Bring something comforting for bed time. I brought 2 of the stuffed animals my daughter sleeps with and it seemed to at least help her understand what the purpose of the tent was haha
5. Bring kid friendly bug spray and sunscreen. I don't know about where y'all are- but we have a ton of mosquitoes right now!
6. Make sure to also bring kid sized camping chairs & bear spray (if you're camping where there are bears)
7. We also brought one of our backpacking therm-a-rests for her to sleep on and lots of blankets in case it got cold- which it did. I gave her my sleeping bag which is good for temps down to 20 degrees. And I took her Frozen blankets... which coincidentally enough I froze in. So we'll be getting her a an adequate sleeping bag
7. Other than that, I'd just say keep your expectations low and have a great time. We had such a great time on Magnolia's first camping trip and really look forward to going again soon
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
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WTH? DMX Admits To Eating Dog Food!
When TMZ caught up with DMX at LAX recently the rapper had a surprising answer for one of the reporter's questions.
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Anthony Weiner's wife Huma Abedin: 'I have forgiven him'
New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner has admitted sending explicit messages to a woman, two years after he left Congress over a similar affair.
His wife, former Hillary Clinton adviser Huma Abedin, has said she knew of the messages that occurred after he resigned from Congress and that through "a lot of work and a lot of therapy", she had decided to stay in the marriage.
"I made the decision it was worth staying in the marriage," she said. "I love him, I have forgiven him, I believe in him."
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After boarding a cruise boat at San Francisco Pier 3 starting at 11:30 a.m., groups sail out to the San Francisco Bay to watch the country's top yacht teams compete for one of the oldest trophies in international sports—America's Cup. During the Louis Vuitton Cup in August, finalists spar for a chance to sink the defending champion, Oracle USA, in the America's Cup final in September. As the catamarans glide through the water like freshly waxed dolphins, passengers view the action either from the deck or on TVs inside the cabin. Both options also include a lunch buffet, top-shelf bar service, and souvenir boarding photo.

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Charles Boyle and his one-man operation CB Editions in London came to my attention because he was willing to publish me. What drew him to my work is what I find so compelling and refreshing in Boyle's small but potent catalog (which includes a few pseudonymous books by Boyle himself—I won't tell you which): a passion for the genre-crossing, or genre-defying, writing.
The two CB books I read first—and they knocked my socks off—are J.O. Morgan's Natural Mechanical, an epic poem of an Isle of Skye childhood, and Jack Robinson's Recessional, an angry, poignant, humorous collection of prose poems (or micro-fictions?) paired with the author's photographs about life in Shepherd's Bush in the first days of the Great Recession. Prose poems paired with photographs that accrue like a novel, poetry with the unity and heft of biography. No wonder Boyle has sympathy for a playwright who writes poems about a journalist.
A deeply gifted writer himself, Boyle had years of experience in publishing and as an editor at Faber & Faber before starting CB Editions in 2007. He and his press has the courage—and the challenges too, Boyle would add—of the idiosyncratic, the iconoclastic, the passionate and honest voice.
—Dan O'Brien
*Throughout Poetry Month 32 Poems will use this space to praise presses, journals, and readings series that bring poetry to us in a special way. Our hope is that we can point new fans in their direction and publicly thank editors and curators for their work. Check in with us again tomorrow for another poet's recommendation.
Dan O'Brien's debut poetry collection War Reporter is forthcoming in September 2013 from Hanging Loose Press in Brooklyn and CB Editions in London. O'Brien's poems have appeared in 32 Poems, Poetry Review, Missouri Review, North American Review, White Review, and elsewhere. His play The Body of an American about combat journalist Paul Watson recently won the inaugural Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama. He will teach playwriting this summer at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. (Photo by David Bornfriend)


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The Sydney Fish Market will get a much-needed facelift in the next two years, after the NSW government and the market's owner agreed to jointly fund a $40 million upgrade.
The deal comes just months after Sydney Fish Market managing director
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The renovation of the busy tourist attraction will include additional wholesale and retail space, more public seating, a boardwalk and a multi-level underground carpark.
Mr Turk said the changes would take the total retail and wholesale space to about 12,400 square metres, with 75 undercover parking spaces and the capacity to build more. The work is expected to be complete by 2012.
Mr Turk said the upgrade was desperately needed. "None of us are proud of it," he said.
"We're deeply proud of the product that we sell . . . but the whole environment is not good."
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Apr 28 2010
Saints Backstop Signs with Missouri BaptistPosted by Roy under Athletics
Seward County sophomore catcher Todd Glime has signed on the dotted line with NAIA power Missouri Baptist University. Glime, who has been the Saints primary catcher since the day he stepped on campus has caught nearly 600 innings for Seward in his two seasons and has been a solid two way player for Head Coach Galen McSpadden in both seasons. As a freshman last season, Glime hit .320 with 6 home runs and 29 RBI's while gunning down 10 potential base stealers. This year, while slowed by a nagging injury, Glime has hit .224 but has continued to produce runs with 4 home runs and 22 RBI's and has thrown out 15 base runners at a firm 30% on the year. Glime will join a Missouri Baptist team in St. Louis who is currently ranked 22nd in the country with a 33-12 record. Glime and the Saints return to the diamond today with a double header against top 25 foe Lamar at Merchants Park in Lamar.


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OTTAWA (AP) Evgeni Malkin and Jarko Ruutu scored second-period goals, leading the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 3-1 win over the Ottawa Senators on Wednesday night to complete a four-game sweep of their first-round series.
Sidney Crosby scored into an empty net with 7.5 seconds remaining and had an assist, and Marc-Andre Fleury made 21 saves for Pittsburgh, which got its first sweep in 16 years and its first playoff series win since 2001.
Cory Stillman scored for Ottawa, which was swept out of the first round for the third time in its 11 consecutive playoff appearances.
The sweep was a measure of revenge for the young Penguins, who were knocked out of last year's playoffs in five games by the Senators. Ottawa went on to make its first Stanley Cup finals appearance in modern franchise history, losing in five to Anaheim.
The Penguins also became the first team to advance to the second round. Pittsburgh will face Boston, if the Bruins overcome their 3-1 series deficit against Montreal to advance, or the winner of the New Jersey-New York Rangers series.
Injured Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson played his second straight game and was reunited with linemates Jason Spezza and Dany Heatley, but it wasn't enough.
Malkin scored his second goal of the playoffs 1:40 into the second. The 21-year-old Russian opened the scoring during the Penguins' second power-play opportunity as he flicked his own rebound past Martin Gerber with a one-handed backhand on a setup by Crosby.
Stillman brought the sold-out Scotiabank Place crowd of 19,954 to life midway through the period when he tied it at 1. Stillman pushed a loose puck at the right edge of the crease slowly into the goal at 10:31 for his second goal of the playoffs.
Ruutu restored Pittsburgh's lead for good at 15:28 with a sensational individual effort after he was sent in on Gerber by Tyler Kennedy.
With Senators defenseman Brian Lee in pursuit, Ruutu drove the net and stopped with a turn to the left as he spun around to avoid Lee, beating Gerber with a hard backhand along the ice and between the Ottawa goalies pads.
An apparent tying goal by Ottawa's Antoine Vermette late in the second was reviewed and disallowed because he kicked it in with his right foot.
Pittsburgh, which had lost its last three playoff series since a second-round win over Buffalo in 2001, hadn't swept since consecutive sweeps of Boston and Chicago on its way to its second straight Stanley Cup in 1992.
The Senators got off to an NHL record 15-2 start, then struggled through the rest of the regular season, barely hanging on to one of the final playoff berths in the East after general manager Bryan Murray fired head coach John Paddock to move back behind the bench himself.
Notes:@ Penguins LW Gary Roberts missed his second straight game because of a groin injury. It was the Penguins' third sweep of a best-of-seven first-round series. Pittsburgh swept Oakland in its first playoff appearance in 1970, and beat the New York Rangers four straight to begin the 1989 playoffs. The Penguins also swept a best-of-three preliminary series against St. Louis to begin the 1975 playoffs. The Senators were also swept in the first round by Buffalo in 1999, and Toronto in 2001.
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Tire size for 19x8 ET47?
I'm waiting on a set of Style 167 19's to show and need help with what tire size I am going to need on stock sport suspension that will still be good for when I'm lowered. The offset is 47.
I would probably recommend a 235/35/19 tire for that! :thumbsup:
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• Logan Sutherlands 'Shags', past national Teams Racing Champions and 3rd in the 2007 world Championships.
• Jamie Dawson's 'O for Awesome'. Including past Opti World Champion Chris Steel, as well as current Staling National Champion and three times school Teams Racing Champion Tom Saunders.
• Dylan Wichman's 'WSK', including top Match Racer Adrian Short, and laser radial under 21 world champion Jason Sandal.
• Stephanie Hazard's all girls' teams including three members of the Olympic Match racing Squad as well as top Laser radial sailor Rachael Basevi.
• Mahurangi College school team, five times silver medalist at the school teams racing nationals and silver medalists at last year's open nationals.
• Then there are three local Buckland Beach Teams,; Micheal Rodgers 'Cull Cats' have boosted their Macleans School Team with past Macleans Student Hayden Coburn. The Saint Kentigern's team has brought in two time world teams racing champion and BBYC coach Andrew Ardern to strengthen their team.
• Ash Hammond (silver medalist at Youth Teams Racing worlds 09), has teamed up with Luke Deegan (3rd Laser Radial Nationals) and Nick Gun (1st School Teams Racing Nationals) to provide another very strong team.
In total 12 teams of six sailors will sail in provided 420 boats, three boats in each team.
Races are 10 min sprints; the combined finish results of the three boats determine which team scores a win. The format is a full round robin, then a top 6 knockout finals.
1 Black Sheep RNZYS
2 Silver Sails RNZYS
4 Common Browns BBYC
5 Cull Cats BBYC
6 Saint Kentigernts College BBYC
7 Mahurangi College SYC
8 Shags RNZYS
9 O for Awesome MBYC
10 Taranaki Terrors NPYC
11 Boom Town Hero's NPYC
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Lions Enter Final Fall Tournaments
The LMU women's tennis team will conclude its fall slate with two events this weekend.
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The LMU women's tennis team will conclude its fall slate this weekend with competition at the Jack Kramer Invitational in Rolling Hills, California and at the SDSU Fall Tennis Classic in San Diego, California.
Representing the Lions at the SDSU Fall Tennis Classic will be freshman Julia Norlin, sophomore Eleanor Grossman, and junior Lisa Piller. All three will compete in singles play with Norlin and Grossman pairing up for doubles play as well.
At the Jack Kramer Invitational, LMU will send freshman Jessica Perez, sophomore Kristine Kouyoumjian, and senior Miya Jin to compete. The three are all scheduled to play in the singles draw with Jin and Perez partnered up for the doubles draw as well.
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Rep. Edolphus "Ed" Towns (NY10) released the following statement today on the shootings in Aurora, Colorado:
"I was saddened and dismayed to learn about the shootings that occurred in an Aurora, Colorado movie theatre. My prayers are with the family and friends of the deceased and wounded. Although words can only provide a small measure of comfort, know that Americans throughout our nation are pulling together to heal the city and people of Aurora, Colorado."
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Redington Beach opposes Amendment 4
By MELINDA GREENE
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Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012
REDINGTON BEACH State politics became local when the Redington Beach Town Commission at its Oct. 2 meeting agreed to draw up a consensus that gives a general thumbs down to Amendment 4, a proposal sponsored by the State Legislature, that will appear on the general election ballot in November.
The Town Commission went on the record with a unanimous consensus Oct. 2, giving thumbs down to Amendment 4, a Florida Constitution proposal sponsored by the Florida Legislature.
Should the referendum pass, Redington Beach could see a loss of almost $4 million in total taxable revenue, according to the figures provided by the Pinellas County Property Appraiser in its assessment of the potential impact Amendment 4 would have on local communities.
In short, Amendment 4, which if passed would become part of the states Constitution, confers hefty tax breaks on first-time homeowners, those who own second homes or rentals and real-estate developers. This would mean a loss of thousands of dollars a year for local governments.
Weve all received literature saying Amendment 4 is a good thing for lots of people. Far be it from us to tell our residents how to vote, but we certainly have a responsibility to let the residents of the town know what the impact will be on Redington Beach, said Mayor Nick Simons. If Amendment 4 passes, the overall taxable values in Redington Beach will go down. Thus, how do we replace that revenue? We wont know that direct impact until the amendment passes and gets to our budget cycle for the following year.
The Florida Association of Counties estimates the proposal would remove about $1.7 billion local revenue sources across the state.
Unfair, unbalanced and unworkable is how the Florida League of Cities sums up the measure. The group argues that full-time residents would end up shouldering the burden of paying for public services. The League also claims that should the proposal become law, new or growing businesses would be taxed at a higher rate while more established ventures would end up paying less in their property taxes.
In addition to favoring certain groups of others, the amendment would complicate the tax system, according to the FLC.
Not everyone sees adverse consequences, however, including the Florida Realtors, a trade group made up of 115,000 members. The organization is one of the major backers of the amendment in the belief it will spur home sales. Also pushing for the measure is Florida TaxWatch, a private, nonprofit research organization dealing with issues of taxing and spending, claims the amendment would, over a 10-year period, create around 20,000 jobs.
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National Politics|By Amy Walter, August 9, 2013
National Republicans have launched the latest salvo in the gender gap wars. Using the Anthony Weiner/Bob Filner scandals as ammunition, Republican groups have been carpet-bombing my email box daily.
"Will Hillary Clinton speak out against Mayor Filner and stand up for the women he has victimized?" demanded the GOP SuperPAC America Rising.
"RE: Democrats War on Women" read a recent memo penned by the communications directors of the five GOP campaign committees.
Chiding Democrats for nationalizing Todd Akin in 2012 while downplaying their own boorish members in 2013, the GOP is eager to expose national Democrats as hypocrites who, "only pretend to care about women when it's politically advantageous."
Republicans focused on 2016 are also happy to have any opportunity to try and take the shine off Hillary Clinton, tying her as closely as possible to the embarrassing mess in New York City.
But, Democratic sexting/harassing scandals aren't going to bring women voters back to the GOP.
Republicans have to decide if they would rather win the "war on women" or win women voters.
Republicans didn't lose the women's vote in 2012 because of Todd Akin. Many on the right believe that the "lamestream" media helped to drive a wedge between the GOP and female voters by spending an inordinate time on outrageous statements made by GOP candidates like Akin and Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock. In reality, however, the lack of attention to the issues that motivate and engage women voters is what ultimately cost the GOP female votes.
Back in the 2012 campaign, I spent a lot of time in focus groups with swing female voters. These women were much more concerned with how to put food on the table or afford to take their kids to the doctor than they were about "legitimate rape" or "binders full of women."
Alex Bratty of the GOP polling firm Public Opinion Strategies and Margie Omero of the Democratic firm Momentum Strategies conducted numerous focus groups over the 2012 cycle of so-called "Walmart Moms"- defined as a female voter with at least one child under 18 at home and who shops at Walmart at least once a month. These women were disillusioned with both sides, convinced that no one in Washington appreciated the very real struggles they had just to make it day-to-day.
"Walmart Moms are frustrated with the state of the country, but they are skeptical about Washington's ability to address the key issues that will have a positive, tangible impact on their household," wrote Bratty and Omero in an April 2012 memo " These moms do not feel well represented. They see their elected officials and candidates running for office – whether for President or Member of Congress – as being elitist, out‐of‐touch and often focused on the wrong issues: arguing about social issues when they should be discussing ways to improve the economy, reduce gas prices and get the country back on track."
In a post-election survey, the Walmart moms cited the economy, health care, education and jobs as the critical issues that mattered to them on Election Day. A very small percentage cited social issues, but they were essentially a wash (7 percent said pro-life was a top issue while 6 percent said pro-choice was their main concern).
As we fast-forward to 2014, Republicans are still struggling with their ability to project empathy and an "I'm on your side" appeal to women.
"There's no question that Filner and Weiner are creeps, and it's one thing to give Democrats a taste of their own medicine right now, because they've certainly presented our side with an opportunity," said one GOP strategist heavily involved in the 2014 mid-terms. "But the economy is where the rubber meets the road, and the bigger opportunity for Republicans heading into 2014 is to make this election a serious discussion about what, specifically, we'll do to make life better for the millions of families who are right now struggling to keep up. That means caring about jobs, stagnant wages, the rising costs of things like food, gas, health care and child care, and the demand for affordable higher education. To win, Republicans need to deal seriously and empathetically with the challenges families face every day."
Democrats have similar concerns about keeping women engaged in 2014. And, it's economic issues, not social ones, they see as critical in bringing them out to vote next year. A memo written by Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg for Women's Voices Women Vote Action Fund argues that "Unmarried women, a key voting bloc for Democrats, are not as engaged as the general population and are less likely to report that they intend to vote in 2014. As we learned in March, these women do not believe Washington is addressing the issues most important to them." The way to reverse that, argues Greenberg, is for the Democratic party to promote an economic agenda for women that emphasizes "raising pay and incomes for working women and families. Encompassed within raising incomes for women and families are some key policies that would improve the pocketbook economies for these women – including childcare and opportunities to start and maintain women-owned small businesses."
At the end of the day, Republicans ability to shrink the gender gap has less to do with trying to convince women to abandon Democrats than it does to convince women to vote for them. Voters know that bad behavior isn't linked to just one party. And, they aren't all that much interested in seeing more finger-pointing by preening politicians about which side is guiltiest of pointing fingers. To win women voters, both political parties have to meet these women where they are: skeptical and frustrated and worried about falling further behind. They want politicians who are less interested in winning a "war" and more interested in fighting for them.
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Transcription factors of the APETALA 2/Ethylene Response Factor (AP2/ERF)- family have been implicated in diverse processes during development, stress acclimation and retrograde signaling. Fifty-three leaf-expressed AP2/ERFs were screened for their transcriptional response to abscisic acid (ABA), 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (DCMU), methylviologen (MV), sucrose and high or low light, respectively, and revealed high reactivity to these effectors. Six of them (AP2-2, ARF14, CEJ1, ERF8, ERF11, RAP2.5) were selected for combinatorial response analysis to ABA, DCMU and high light. Additive, synergistic and antagonistic effects demonstrated that these transcription factors are components of multiple signaling pathways. AP2-2 (At1g79700) was subjected to an in depth study.
Plants encounter stress if abiotic growth parameters severely deviate from optimum and also during adverse biotic interactions. To avoid or minimize stress and to maintain high fitness, plants evolved mechanisms to acclimate to changing environmental conditions. The adjustment occurs on different regulatory and metabolic levels and usually involves cellular signaling pathways and transcription factors (TFs) which alter gene expression. The
Signal transduction during abiotic stress involves signaling pathways that are highly interlinked, assemble to complex networks and enable crosstalk [
Chloroplasts and in particular photosynthesis-linked cues take part in the cellular stress signaling network. In principle, organellar effects on nuclear gene expression mediated through retrograde signaling can be assigned to either developmental or operational control [
AP2/ERF-TFs are involved in many signaling processes and stress responses [
The starting point of our work was to investigate the possible involvement of AP2/ERF-TFs in nuclear responses to retrograde signaling. To this end, leaf discs were treated with effectors which mimic retrograde signals or stimulate their release. Leaf discs were chosen in order to guarantee homogenous and rapid effector uptake. Discs floated upside down on 0.1 mM CaCl2 to allow for stomatal gas exchange. The first experiments aimed at confirming the effectiveness of sucrose, ABA, MV and DCMU in the leaf disc system. Therefore, marker transcript levels were quantified after 4 h of treatment. Selected marker genes were β-amylase (At4g15210) for sucrose accumulation [
This experimental design was employed to evaluate the influence of the effectors on transcript accumulation of selected AP2/ERF-TFs. To be involved in retrograde signaling from chloroplast to nucleus, the respective TF must be expressed in leaves. The work by Feng
Concentration-dependent responses were determined to characterize the dose-effect-relationship for ABA and DCMU. ΦPSII was measured to confirm the usefulness of the selected concentrations. ABA (1 to 30 μM) had no effect on ΦPSII (
Plants in the environment are often exposed to combinations of different stressors rather than to single ones. In such a multifactorial environment signal integration and cross talk evolved as fundamental property of plant signaling networks [
Transcript levels of these six selected AP2/ERF-TFs were quantified by qPCR for their response to ABA, DCMU and H-light and each combination of these three treatments after 4 h, respectively (
Each selected transcription factor mRNA responded in a distinct pattern (
The mutants were tested for changed germination and development under stress (
AP2/ERF transcription factors have been shown to control development [
Cooperative or antagonistic regulation of AP2/ERF-TFs has been observed before. For example, CEJ1 is cooperatively regulated by ethylene and jasmonic acid [
Single stressors have been applied to plant tissue in diverse experimental setups. However, there is a need to understand plant acclimation mechanisms including expressional regulation of AP2/ERF-TFs in response to combinations of simultaneously acting effectors. The plant hormone ABA modulates development, regulates seed germination and induces stress acclimation responses with global readjustment of gene expression. ABA-dependent signaling pathways have been deciphered in quite some detail [
The six selected AP2/ERF-TFs belong to four different subclasses [
AP2-2 was selected for the reason of its peculiar, strong and synergistic up-regulation in response to ABA and DCMU, and the antagonistic effect of H-light. The expected link to the metabolic status of the leaf tissue could be confirmed at the transcript level both in seedlings and in rosettes. 2% sucrose in the phytagel medium decreased the
RNA was isolated according to the method of Chomczynski and Sacchi [
The transcript levels of the TFs were quantified with sqRT-PCR as described previously [
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The effective quantum yield of PSII (ΦPSII) was measured during steady state photosynthesis using the Mini-PAM (WALZ, Effeltrich, Germany). Whole plants or leaf discs (7 mm diameter) were analyzed as described before [
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Support of the work by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (FOR 804 "Retrograde Signaling", DI 346) and the CeBiTec is gratefully acknowledged. Metabolite profiles were realized by the postgenomics platform of the CeBiTec (K. Niehaus).
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Transcript levels of marker genes in response to effector treatments. Leaf discs floated in 0.1 mM CaCl2 solution supplemented with 30 μM abscisic acid (ABA), 10 μM 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (DCMU), 1 μM MV and 30 mM sucrose, respectively, or without additions as control for 4 h. Marker transcripts responsive to sugar (β-amylase), ABA (RD29) or ROS (H2O2) (PKRP) were quantified and expressed as log fold change relative to control. Strong and significant >2.5 fold up regulation was seen for each selected marker. Data are means ± SE of three biological experiments (sqRT-PCR),
Transcript profiling of selected APETALA 2/Ethylene Response Factor Transcription Factors (AP2/ERF-TFs). Transcript levels of 53 AP2-ERF-TFs were analyzed by sqRT-PCR for their response to different effector treatments (30 μM ABA, 10 μM DCMU, 1 μM MV, 30 mM sucrose, high light (HL) and low light (LL) for 4 h using leaf discs floating on 0.1 mM CaCl2). The results served as a first screen to select interesting candidates for investigation of combinatorial regulation. Data were obtained from two independent biological experiments and are presented as log2-fold change (green color means down-regulation, red color up-regulation, respectively) following normalization to
DCMU and ABA concentration dependencies of ΦPSII and expression levels of AP2-2. Chlorophyll a fluorescence analysis of leaf discs was used to quantify the quantum yield of photosystem II. In identically treated discs, AP2-2-transcript levels were quantified by sqRT-PCR. Data were taken from three experiments with six leaf discs in each experiment, ±SD.
Transcript regulation of six AP2/ERF-TFs in response to combinatorial effector application. Leaf discs were treated with 30 μM ABA (A), 10 μM DCMU (D) and high light (H), respectively, and each combination. (
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The AIDS epidemic officially turns 25 next year, counting from the first report from the Centers for Disease Control in June 1981. On this World AIDS Day it's worth taking a moment to reflect on how the epidemic has changed since those early deaths of gay men in New York and Los Angeles.
-- A column in Thursday's Chicago Tribune is headlined: "The New Face of HIV/AIDS: Black Women."
Writes the Tribune's Dawn Turner Trice: "In Chicago, according to the city Department of Public Health, African-American women made up 78 percent of newly diagnosed HIV cases among women from 2002 to 2003, even though they made up only 37 percent of the female population."
To encourage black women to get tested, several groups are going into beauty parlors and other women-oriented businesses to spread the word.
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