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The concept of BEING rightfully belongs to PHILOSOPHY, like the other fundamental and wider principle: the essence of TIME, of changes, of evolutions, in short of the FOURTH DIMENSION of everything, and even more of the living beings. Besides the rearing of babies is a turning point in the running flow of generations, preparing the future "being" of adulthood, and at the same time developing the composite world of the grown-ups' works.But if it is real that finally Ripeness is all as a winnung post of every life,
Hence every fact and subjectively every moment of life move into MEMORY and its - conscious – materialising into continuous and renewed EXPERIENCE.
Albert Einstein and the fourth dimensionAn anecdote which perhaps has never actually happened, but which is anyway very instructive.
An old geometric riddle, presented as an anecdote in Maria Toffetti's book, easily explains the concept of fourth dimension, too often not accepted or confined to irrational vagueness, a concept which would instead seem obvious both on a general level and, even more so, on the level of the living beings' existence.
Albert Einstein, too, dealt with tetrahedrons: at a congress, having been criticised for his unexpected concept of a space-time in four dimensions, he asked his colleagues to build four equilateral triangles with six tooth pickers. Nobody in the room managed to place on a plane the tooth pickers to form the required triangles, which is, as a matter of fact, impossible. So Einstein built a tetrahedron with the six sticks and commented: "If you can't use the third dimension, with which you make experiments every day, how can you hope to understand the fourth?"
Times are coming and coming forward, ages after ages, personal lifetimes and generations follow one the others...: so, going to the fronting site, freshness of novelty should give solemn lessons to former people
and if each one can accompany every other toward unpredisctable new pathways,
it is also real that
Childhood does not exist as occurrence: not a static deed but the way for development. Development does only exist, to give the main pathway towards redeeming change.
Rhythms and phases
engaged in fundamental experiences
according to rhythms and phases
unique to him/herself
Each of us, however even good, prepared, cultured
parents, doctors and teachers
can commit continual disastrous violence
on the helpless psyche of the child,
believing for his/her own good
in an immature, insensible way
or endorsing fashionable schools of thought.
Once deprived of real experience,
children elaborate empty fancies
and artificial compensations,
which either block or deform their growth.
Thus they are turned into
immature, unformed or badly shaped adults
engraving a mark on generations to come.
But yet to enter the imperfectly known times of mutability
is however not so difficult.
It is sufficient to be sympathetic,
to cooperate with respect,
to participate with curiosity and pleasure.
In short it is sufficient to take children's evolution in earnest
and at the same time reawaken one's own evolution.
A meaningful quotation about childhood from a famous Romantic English poet, William Wordsworth:
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
Written at Town-end, Grasmere: 1802.
... to a child from whom this grown-up grew
To Léon
A' Léon Werth
Quand il était petit garçon
Original dedication of the legendary book:
Antoine de Saint Exupéry: Le petit prince
Better alone than in bad company……How to take children's evolution in earnest? How can children be helped to follow their fundamental expansion in respect of their natural and personal established times and ways?
Affection and understanding? Certainly not!!!! Fed up, senseless conversations, unsolicited advice, humiliation, wearisome situations and so much, so much NOTHING! NOTHING covered the walls of the house, emerged from their mouths under the form of unknown words, NOTHING lunched and dined with us and always at the same time. NOTHING existed in a caress never given, existed in their hearts and their mind. When there is "nothing" to give, when adults lack the experience of emotions and of living, then truly there in nothing to be done and nothing to say.
At my sister's house this evening I saw some photos of my niece and nephew when they were little. There was one of F. at four years old and it made my stomach churn…. It seemed almost impossible that he has grown up so much and at the same time the baby he was isn't here anymore: for my feeling the "baby" now is "dead".(°) On regard of this situation, is it more offensive the term "had my balls cut off"? or the deceiving, fake-protective words offering guarantees for a - fake - "security"? "Reassurance" as well as "protection"...: any way alike words recall something "against", recall "defence", evoke "safety measures"...
I had a sensation of being blocked, something which makes me feel and that I worry I can't bear. The pain for that child no longer with us, that child who won't come back anymore and who in a certain sense slipped away from me. How I didn't experience him enough, how many things I missed in him and terribly afraidmissed in myself. It's a pain which brings a feeling of emptiness, a pain which opens an abyss – a kind of black hole in into which I fear I will fall.
I cling so much to the present that it gives me security, a present that I would like to pass slowly in order to let me savour the pleasure of living, yet runs so fast and the more it runs the more I feel that I am moving towards that abyss of finding myself at the end of my life with only regrets.
It's a kind of grief, like that of losing the really passed away Aunt A., like that of when K. began to go out with P., it's a kind of grief and an abandonment. You can't imagine (or maybe you can) how difficult it is to make part of me understand that you can't revive ghosts: that part of me doesn't want to hear reason. It would like to see just one time the face of that child, embrace him again. It is obstinate and doesn't want to accept things as they are.
At this point it's difficult for me to understand who I am, I'm really confused. But maybe it was time because I've been feeling empty for too long. I said to K. too this morning that I felt like a "had my balls cut off"(°) almost in the anatomical sense of the word.
Any way not only the embryological development can be explored by scientific experiments, but also sophisticated implements can detect developmental changes, aka "to mature" not simply "to grow" - i.e.: qualitative and not quantitative transitions - on brain functioning through the ages from childhood to youth - the article holds huge references list.
(Look at the embryogenesis' biological "organizers":In 1901, Curt Herbst wrote that he thought it possible "to establish the occurrence of formative stimuli which are exerted from one part of the embryo to another, and to demonstrate eventually the possibility of a complete resolution of the entire ontogenesis into a sequence of such inductions." This prediction of inductive cascades was a bold statement, given that no sequence of events had yet been observed (1, 2). But that was soon to change. That same year, HANS SPEMANN (3) published "one of the most significant and seminal papers in the history of embryology" (4), his experimental analysis of lens formation in the frog.... In 1924, while working on the relatively large eggs of amphibians he discovered, together with Hilde Mangold, the existence of an area in the embryo, the portions of which, upon transplantation into a different part of a second embryo, induced the secondary embryonic primordia. The name "organizer centre" or "organizer" was given to those parts by him. He was ed the Nobel Prize in 1935 for this discovery of the organizer effect in embryonic development.
A Selective History of Induction II. Spemann's induction experiments
The Spemann-Mangold organizer
VOLUME 45, NUMBER 1, SPECIAL ISSUE 2001 THE SPEMANN MANGOLD ORGANIZER 75 Years on Edited by E.M. De Robertis and J. Aréchaga
Pioneering Stanford study shows how children's brain signaling differs from adults By ERIN DIGITALE: Beyond behavior: Stanford expert on recognizing and helping traumatized kids
STANFORD, Calif. — The first-ever comparison of synchronization of brain signals in children and young adults helps explain why children are less adept at multitasking, emotion regulation and other behaviors that come with maturity, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Development of Large-Scale Functional Brain Networks in Children
Kaustubh Supekar1,2*, Mark Musen2, Vinod Menon3,4*
1 Graduate Program in Biomedical Informatics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, 2 Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, 3 Program in Neuroscience, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, 4 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
The ontogeny of large-scale functional organization of the human brain is not well understood. Here we use network analysis of intrinsic functional connectivity to characterize the organization of brain networks in 23 children (ages 7–9 y) and 22 young-adults (ages 19–22 y). Comparison of network properties, including path-length, clustering-coefficient, hierarchy, and regional connectivity, revealed that although children and young-adults' brains have similar "small-world" organization at the global level, they differ significantly in hierarchical organization and interregional connectivity. We found that subcortical areas were more strongly connected with primary sensory, association, and paralimbic areas in children, whereas young-adults showed stronger cortico-cortical connectivity between paralimbic, limbic, and association areas. Further, combined analysis of functional connectivity with wiring distance measures derived from white-matter fiber tracking revealed that the development of large-scale brain networks is characterized by weakening of short-range functional connectivity and strengthening of long-range functional connectivity. Importantly, our findings show that the dynamic process of over-connectivity followed by pruning, which rewires connectivity at the neuronal level, also operates at the systems level, helping to reconfigure and rebalance subcortical and paralimbic connectivity in the developing brain. Our study demonstrates the usefulness of network analysis of brain connectivity to elucidate key principles underlying functional brain maturation, paving the way for novel studies of disrupted brain connectivity in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism ...
Citation: Supekar K, Musen M, Menon V (2009) Development of Large-Scale Functional Brain Networks in Children. PLoS Biol 7(7): e1000157. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000157
Academic Editor: Karl J. Friston, University College London, United Kingdom
Received: February 9, 2009; Accepted: June 11, 2009; Published: July 21, 2009
Copyright: © 2009 Supekar et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
* E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com (KS); email@example.com (VM)
In spite of growing evidence from these studies for patterned brain development, the functional organization of the human brain in childhood is not well understood and it is also not clear how the above structural changes translate to differences in functional brain organization between children and adults. ... Demographic and cognitive profile data for the child and young-adult groups are shown in Table 1. The two groups were well-matched and did not differ in IQ (p = 0.93) or gender (p = 0.75). Author Contributions Top The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: KS VM. Performed the experiments: KS. Analyzed the data: KS VM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MM VM. Wrote the paper: KS VM.
As he delved deeper into the thought-processes of doing science, he became interested in the nature of thought itself, especially in the development of thinking. Finding relatively little work done in the area, he had the opportunity to give it a label. He called it genetic epistemology, meaning the study of the development of knowledge.Carl Gustav Jung instead systematized fundamental concepts on symbolizing basic energies: a very bright idea was to simplify them in four key categories, called archetypes . But his well-constructed and fitting theories have a logical limit: they are ontological description of personalities "as they are", they refer to individuals in their collective being, no matter at what personal age nor at which degree of health or ailment. His school therefore granted the possibility of therapeutic work with also middle aged or even old people, but it is most fitting - and not instead confusing - only to whose who are sufficiently able to reach an abstract way of thinking and willing to gain their whole complete individuation. The key word preferred by Jung to explain the collective path towards every individuation is transformation: a word which though dynamic however does not contain to only complete the meaning of evolution.
According to Hegel, [that] the Absolute is Spirit, and Spirit is Reality. All truth is within the Absolute. The Absolute has self-existence; i.e. it has being-for-itself. The Absolute results from a process of becoming and developing itself...
IF YOU thought that breast milk must taste rather bland, think again. Human milk provides a veritable cornucopia of different flavour combinations that may prime a child to try new foods later on. ... "Human milk is clearly a substance which varies considerably in flavour over time and between different people," says Gary Beauchamp of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who has also studied how flavours pass into breast milk. The findings could have practical implications for mothers worried about why their infant is refusing to feed, says Gill Rapley, a UK nurse with more than 20 years' experience specialising in postnatal care. "Mothers often talk about whether something in their milk may have upset their baby, but within 8 hours most flavours will be gone." Preliminary results from Hausner also suggest that breastfed infants might be more receptive to new flavours than bottle-fed ones. "It's not like if the mother eats apple pie the baby thinks 'mmmm, apple pie', but it may make them more accepting of the flavour of other foods," she says. "Breastfeeding may prepare the infant for flavour changes and new experiences when they start to eat solid foods.
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Only after well fulfilled previous
complexes the innate,
latent third one can unfold its real happening to ripen its
possibilities and values. The Oedipus
complex well lived and overcome
a better, more open view of a personalized, free, promising start
all knowledge and possibility, of true humanity and true love. At about
the fourth year of life
can (or unfortunately only "could") reach an extraordinary experience:
the child can know deep, tremendous feelings pertaining
the "adult world" and, if all is favorable, he/she can share these deep
but also really CONSCIOUS feelings with his/her significant adults. But
intense "love-affair" isn't only a static selfish episode: at the same
time the Oedipus-child can profoundly understand, by his/her intense
involvement who
people individually are, what their feelings are, and can
have a
albeit brief, feeling for the highest
and the sources of
well-built creativity
(not to be confused with a longing for fanciful caprices"goals" and/or
"fictions") and/or unreal.
Once deprived of real experience,
children elaborate empty fancies and artificial compensations,which either block or deform their growth.
Thus they are turned intoand that leaves a mark on generations to come.
Although the final goal represents a subjective, fictional view of the future, it is what guides the person in the present.... To make up for what they did not receive as children, they may feel entitled to special consideration or compensation. They may want others to treat them well but do not feel an obligation to respond in turn. REMARKABLY: BOTH PAMPERED AND NEGLECTED OR ABUSED CHILDREN MAY HAVE SIMILAR EXPECTATIONS AS ADULT.
The child
is made of one hundred.
The child has
a hundred languages
a hundred hands
a hundred thoughts
a hundred ways of thinking
of playing, of speaking.
A hundred always a hundred
ways of listening
of marveling of loving
a hundred joys
for singing and understanding
a hundred worlds
to discover
a hundred worlds
to invent
a hundred worlds
to dream.The school and the cultureseparate the head from the body
They tell the child:
to think without hands
to do without head
to listen and not to speak
to understand without joy
to love and to marvel
only at Easter and at Christmas.
They tell the child:
to discover the world already there
and of the hundred
they steal ninety-nine.
They tell the child:
that work and play
reality and fantasy
science and imagination
sky and earth
reason and dream
are things
that do not belong together.
And thus they tell the child
that the hundred is not there.
The child says:
No way. The hundred is there...
(translated by Lella Gandini)
a scandal book which forces life-enjoying Italy to mirror itself in the first anthropological inquiry on illiteracy. A scandal and a Cassandra book, Né leggere, né scrivere is a work that looks out into the future. (from the blurb, Callari Galli Matilde, Harrison Gualtiero, Né leggere, né scrivere, Meltemi1997 ISBN 8886479263).
that work and play
reality and fantasy
science and imagination
sky and earth
reason and dream
are things
that do not belong together
The Cincinnati Zoo will celebrate Suci's historic birth both Saturday, July 30 and Sunday, July 31 with a special birthday cake only a rhino could love. Each day at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., Suci and Emi will feast on a two-layered rhino cake that includes two bread bowls stuffed with apples and sweet potatoes, mashed banana frosting, ficus leaves and a carrot birthday candle. Visitors can also sign Suci's giant birthday card.
What was that? the calf is born. it's a girl. it changed as i sent the message. i don't know what happened to the announcement. i hope you enjoy "my" Emi and daughter. it's about 8 more hours until they will let them be on camera. if so, i think the little one was howling for breakfast. she got her wish. her mom got right up from her sleep. Today that the mother rhinoceros was... either sick or dead, and I was concerned as well. our baby and mother were sleeping but baby got suddenly to her feet and began to howl. mother Emi slept on and on... baby nudged and howled and sought everywhere for a place to nurse, but her mother was completely unresponsive. baby started to pull on Emi's ear and even that did not rouse the sleeping mountain of a mother... I wish you could have seen the face of the baby. I could swear that i saw registered there, a look of total dismay...fear, hopelessness, perplexity. Just walking and sitting and exhibiting apparent emotion. In another two or three minutes Emi got to her feet and allowed her little one to nurse. yet another 3 or 4 minutes, and the baby fell asleep on the floor. Next time we looked they were sleeping in their new position... side by side... head to head looking quite alike.Projections? I was becoming frightened. Mom was but then rationalized that Emi knew that the baby had just been fed and was only seeking companionship.
A poem: the Rhino and Kathje
nobody hears me.
oh, no! i'll die unless
she awakens and turns
and feeds me oh my!
mountain mama.
great great mountain
falling springs fountains
please wake up.
i am here. it hurts.
my face rumples
and ugliness comes down
from the dry dry mountain
and stains my face.
no sleep. hurts!
no food for me
i am invisible. she has
forgotten me.
lost. i am lost.
lay down
give up
stand up and howl.
i howl. no voice.
Anamnesis? A way for healing...
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Birding requires minimal equipment and suits a variety of travel budgets. From backyard viewing to international excursions, here are several tips for birding on a budget.
Myscha Theriault, McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Choose a place that's rich in bird life with affordable day-to-day expenses to maximize your money. For example, Uganda is home to half the bird species in Africa, according to the Uganda Wildlife Authority. Numerous national parks offer spotting opportunities there, including the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and Murchison Falls. Vanessa Townsend, tour guide for Volcanoes Safaris in Uganda, favors Queen Elizabeth National Park in particular, for the more than 600 species of birds that call the refuge home. However, according to Amos Wekesas, owner of Great Lakes Safaris, the entire nation is fair game. Says Wekesas, "In Uganda, birding starts at the airport and continues throughout the country." Adios Adventure Travel's Jacquie Whitt recommends Mindo, Ecuador, with more than 350 bird types and rooms as low as $50 per night.
Sheridan Samano of Reefs to Rockies, a conservation tour company, advises purchasing the best pair of binoculars you can afford. It will make a difference in the level of detail you'll be able to see. Samano says it isn't so much the size but the glass quality and light-capturing capabilities that are important. Audubonguides.com sells affordable mobile field guide apps for smart-phone users, while traditional paperback guides are available from both Sibley and National Geographic. A few sun-protective clothing items should be included. Tilley makes an Audubon hat, for example, that provides protection from solar rays and includes a hidden security pocket.
Wildlife refuges offer free and inexpensive bird-spotting opportunities. McCurtain County, Okla., has three: Beaver Bend State Park, Little River National Wildlife Refuge and Red Slough Wildlife Management Area. Michigan's Department of Natural Resources has a first-time campers program that includes two-night park stays with the use of all necessary gear for $20.
Carpool and share accommodations with other birders to save money. The Blue Heron Inn in Darien, Ga., west of Interstate 95 and close to the state's marshy coastal lowlands, offers a four-bedroom cottage at $250 per night with a three-night minimum stay. The inn is minutes from Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge, part of Georgia's drivable Colonial Coast Birding Trail. Similar trails exist in Maine, Oregon and Texas. Of note is the Pine to Prairie Birding Trail, linking Minnesota to the Canadian province of Manitoba.
Myscha Theriault is co-author of "10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget," and founder of trekhound.com, a website for independent travelers. She also founded thelessonmachine.com, a website for teachers.

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During a work session last week on what is being called the 2030 General Plan, the City Council and Planning Commission agreed that these are the best places to absorb a population projected to grow to as high as 98,900, up 35 percent from today's 73,000 residents. A less aggressive scenario was considered, but the higher density won the most support.
This line of reasoning makes sense: Why not funnel population growth into taller buildings along El Camino Real, close to transit, or in the North Bayshore area, close to job centers?
But before any plans are approved, the city needs to address concerns expressed by council member Jac Siegel and planning commissioner John McAllister, who worry that more density will result in traffic gridlock. It's a legitimate concern, and although the General Plan ideas are not permanently in place yet, they should account for the fact that strong traffic mitigations will be needed before packing thousands of new residents into four- and five-story buildings along our busiest thoroughfares.
Stanford University has already provided us with one good example of how to manage such traffic impacts. The university, which has maintained its total car trips at 1989 levels despite extensive growth, supports a convenient shuttle system both on and off campus, and in some cases actually pays workers to leave their cars at home and use mass transit.
A shuttle service is one of many good ideas for reducing car trips. At a minimum, too, the city should make sure all new residents have grocery stores and other necessities within walking distance, and that commuters have a good way to reach transit points such as Caltrain. Indeed, a denser but well-designed city could actually improve, rather than diminish, residents' quality of life.
There are other factors that could be improved with well-designed growth, including the bottom line. According to city forecasters, increased housing stock could mean a positive impact on the General Fund balance — up to nearly $30 million under the most aggressive plan, or $24.3 million under more modest growth, by 2030.
So far, the city's General Plan rewrite, which could have been a deadly dull process, is surprisingly lively and on topic. Earlier discussions of sustainability were timely, and looking out at the next 20 years gives us an idea of where the city can and should grow. But the meetings aren't over yet: Focus areas to be discussed include Old Middlefield Way, the Whisman area and Moffett Boulevard.
We urge residents to take part in these discussions, and to share their thoughts with planning commissioners and council members, before city leaders vote on this important blueprint once and for all.


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2013 Neuro Tumor Club Dinner at AACR
Meeting Co-Chairs: John Park, MD, PhD and Raymund L. Yong, MD, MS
The 19th Annual Neuro-Tumor Club Dinner Meeting will again take place at the AACR Annual Meeting, this time in Washington, DC, at the Washington Plaza Hotel. This meeting, for brain tumor researchers attending the AACR Annual Meeting, is organized by the Society for Neuro-Oncology.
As in past years, this event will be an informal and stimulating exchange of late-breaking findings of specific and focused interest to investigators dedicated to brain tumor research. Sponsors will be supporting the event by covering meeting room fees and the cost of drinks and buffet dinner for those who RSVP their attendance at the dinner.
To submit an abstract or to RSVP for the dinner, click here.
Abstract submission deadline: Friday, March 8, 2013
Final RSVP deadline: Monday, April 1, 2013


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A Savannah mother of four was convicted of murder Thursday night in the 2004 death of 10-year-old Melvin Kent.
The Chatham County Superior Court jury found that Marlo Green, 36, deprived her son of nutrition, personal and medical care, causing his death.
Jurors also found her guilty of contributing to the deprivation of a minor, resulting in bed sores on the victim.
The jury of five men and seven women also convicted Green of contributing to the deprivation of a minor involving chemical burns to the face suffered by John Roundtree Jr., then 28-months-old.
Judge Penny Haas Freesemann said she will sentence Green next week.
She was taken into custody immediately.
By law, the murder charge carries an automatic life sentence, but Freesemann may add additional time, based on the other charges.
The jury, which deliberated about three hours before returning the verdicts around 6:10 p.m., acquitted Green on charges of cruelty to a child and felony murder in the Kent case and a charge of cruelty to a child in the Roundtree case.
Kent died Aug. 10, 2004.
The child suffered from severe cerebral palsy and related medical conditions following a pre-mature birth.
Prosecutors contended that Green failed to provide her son sufficient nutrition and he wasted away.
"Melvin was going to die," Assistant District Attorney Greg McConnell told the jury in his closing argument Thursday. "Melvin was going to die young. ... She hastened his death. That's what this case is all about."
But Chief Public Defender Michael Edwards countered, "Marlo Green never quit Melvin Kent."
"How in the world are we going to know when somebody's time has come?"
The second child, Roundtree, suffered chemical burns to the face at his home in Nottingham Woods Jan. 11, 2005.
Green was charged with criminal negligence in that incident.
Testimony showed Kent's medical care dropped off in the final four months of his life, including a decline in weight.
Although Kent died in August, Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Sgt. Robert vonLoewenfeldt did not begin a homicide investigation until that November.
In closing arguments, defense attorney Edwards told jurors, "This woman received a sick child. ... For 10 years she was a good steward of that child."
McConnell spoke emotionally of the defendant's treatment of her son.
"If you believe this is appropriate medical care, then let her go," McConnell challenged jurors, as he held a photograph of the victim's emaciated body covered in bed sores.
He conceded Green did "remarkably well for the first nine and a half years of his (Kent's) life, with the help of the community."
But when she became pregnant in February 2003, she was "stressed to the max," McConnell said.
"When Melvin needed medical attention the worst in his life, he got less," McConnell argued. "That's why we're here."
"She could have sought help ... but instead she kept the child. ... As a result, Melvin's dead."


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Diamondback fans are lining up with Opening Day around the corner and Valley homebuilder Fulton Homes is ready to take the baseball league by storm with the Fulton Homes Home Run Program in partnership with the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Every time a Diamondbacks player hits a home run at Chase Field during the 2012 season, the Fulton Homes will donate $150 to the Central Arizona Mountain Rescue Association (CAMRA) or the Youth Assistance Foundation.
Last baseball season, the Fulton Homes Home Run Program scored more than $25,000 in donations. This year Fulton Homes will donate $150 per Chase Field home run to the Central Arizona Mountain Rescue Association or to the Youth Assistance Foundation. Last season the D-Backs were sixth in the league with a total of 172 home runs, 93 of them at Chase Field. D-Back fans hope the home run sweep continues this year with the teams' strong key hitters.
CAMRA has been saving lives and educating about safety since its establishment in 1969. The team is trained technically to perform search and rescue missions in the backcountry of Arizona. The nonprofit organization is dedicated to saving lives through search and rescue operations and through wilderness emergency medical services.
The Youth Assistance Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports programs focused on preventing youth violence and encouraging social development while promoting a positive interaction with law enforcement.
"We are proud of our home team to not only be hitting talent and treasure out of the park, but also spreading it around the Valley," said Fulton Homes CEO Douglas Fulton. "The relationship Fulton Homes has built with the Diamondbacks through this home run program is giving back to the community who builds us."
Tempe-based Fulton Homes has built a legacy of community involvement, contributing more than $300 million to Arizona communities, schools and children in its 35 years of serving Arizona families.


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Plotting The Slope field of a differential equation
Hello once again,
I am unsure if my messages are making it through to the usegroup so I
will try again. I have several differential equations I would like to
plot in Mathematica. I would like to plot the Slope Fields of them
though. Can anyone lead me in the right direction? I can solve the
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Those who've read my previous blog articles, or who know me, know my frustration at finding good educational resources for IT architects. I'm not an enterprise architect or a senior developer, yet a lot of "architect" resources online are for just those audiences.
Microsoft's older architect resources
About 10 years ago, Microsoft started publishing a lot of good academic material for IT architects. This is the type of material that doesn't really age, unlike technology specific resources, but for many reasons it started to disappear, not get updated, or not get added to. Then the .net era took off and their attention shifted to the developer audiences. You can find what remains online here.
Three great new architect resources from Microsoft
Very recently, some good new technology agnostic IT architect resources started appearing on Microsoft's web sites. I found them through the MSDN and TechNet blog RSS feeds I scan through every day and wanted to share them further.
The Value Realization blog
This blog compliments an enterprise strategy service that Microsoft Consulting Services offer their enterprise customers BUT the descriptions of the services it provides are useful to ALL IT architects.
Even though this blog uses the context of enterprise IT strategy guidance to CIOs – the same guidance can apply to your much smaller project that only has two or three stakeholders and a single sponsor. The same processes for identifying, communicating, and measuring should still apply to your project as it does to an enterprise wide strategy. Lots of good information here – thank you Microsoft for sharing!
Link to it here.
The Microsoft Architecture mini-site and blog
A key skill as an architect is knowing what other architects know even if it's not your domain area. For example, it's useful to know that the key trends in IT right now are cloud, big data, enterprise mobility, and enterprise social media. Knowing what our peers are working on stops us working in a silo and making decisions that could hinder future integration or re-use.
The blog and blueprints section of this mini-site are excellent technology agnostic (I know they're not vendor agnostic!) resources for key architectural trends right now.
Link to the blog here and the mini-site here.
The Microsoft Virtual Academy architect training
The free online training resource provides the equivalent of a day's training about one of many architecture processes and using it to scope Microsoft product based solutions. There's a lot of pre-sales content in there, but if you're not interested in that it's worth skipping through to learn about generic architecture concepts.
I wouldn't call it enterprise architect training like Microsoft have, but for someone in the Microsoft technology space and new for the IT architect world it's a good resource:
Link to the training course here.


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Marc Birtwistle, PhD
- ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Pharmacological Sciences
Research Topics:Cancer, Cell Biology, Computational Biology, Signal Transduction, Systems Biology, Systems Pharmacology
Dr. Birtwistle is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics and the Systems Biology Center New York.
Dr. Birtwistle is formally trained as a chemical engineer, and thus knowledgeable in a wide array of quantitative methods for mathematical modeling of physicochemical processes. During his doctoral work, he applied such methods to understanding cancer as a disease of deregulated control systems, particularly, the ErbB signaling network, which is dysfunctional in many types of human cancer. Such a so-called integrative systems biology approach focuses not on how individual genes and proteins affect the signaling network, but rather on how the connectivity between and states of players in the network create biological function, or in the case of cancer, disease. During this doctoral and consequently postdoctoral experience, Dr. Birtwistle was also trained as an experimental cell and molecular biologist to complement the quantitative modeling background, and thus brings an interdisciplinary approach to cancer research.
Multi-Disciplinary Training AreasBiophysics and Systems Pharmacology [BSP], Cancer Biology [CAB]
BS, Georgia Institute of Technology
PhD, University of Delaware
Postdoctoral Training, University College Dublin
Best Mentor Award
The Birtwistle Lab combines computational and experimental methods to understand how cancer cells make decisions, focusing on single cell methods to elucidate how phenotypic variability arises from noisy signaling. We give particular focus to brain tumors, although the approaches we take are quite flexible and can be applied to a multitude of cancer types. We use chemical kinetics theory to represent the various signaling mechanisms controlling proliferation and death as systems of equations which can be simulated to predict how cancer cells stochastically respond to drugs or other perturbations. We constrain and validate these models with a variety of single cell data from flow and mass cytometry that measures many protein and protein modification levels across a cell population, and live-cell microscopy that allows optogenetic manipulation of cell signaling and the ability to simultaneously measure cell fate and signaling processes in the same single cells with high temporal frequency. Our goal is to use the predictive capability of these models to understand better how the panel of genetic alterations and mutations in particular patient's brain tumor dictates indications for available chemotherapeutic options, providing a potential avenue towards improved therapies.
Please see the Birtwistle Laboratory website for additional information.
Gallo JM, Birtwistle MR. Network pharmacodynamic models for customized cancer therapy. Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Systems biology and medicine 2015 Jul; 7(4).
Birtwistle MR. Analytical reduction of combinatorial complexity arising from multiple protein modification sites. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface / the Royal Society 2015 Feb; 12(103).
Bouhaddou M, Birtwistle MR. Dimerization-based control of cooperativity. Molecular Biosystems 2014 Jun; 10(7).
Zhang XY, Birtwistle MR, Gallo JM. A General Network Pharmacodynamic Model-Based Design Pipeline for Customized Cancer Therapy Applied to the VEGFR Pathway. CPT: Pharmacometrics and Systems Pharmacology 2014; 3.
Birtwistle MR, Mager DE, Gallo JM. Mechanistic vs. Empirical network models of drug action. CPT: Pharmacometrics and Systems Pharmacology 2013; 2.
Birtwistle MR, von Kriegsheim A, Dobrzyński M, Kholodenko BN, Kolch W. Mammalian protein expression noise: scaling principles and the implications for knockdown experiments. Molecular Biosystems 2012 Nov; 8(11).
Birtwistle MR, Rauch J, Kiyatkin A, Aksamitiene E, Dobrzyński M, Hoek JB, Kolch W, Ogunnaike BA, Kholodenko BN. Emergence of bimodal cell population responses from the interplay between analog single-cell signaling and protein expression noise. BMC Systems Biology 2012; 6.
Sturm OE, Orton R, Grindlay J, Birtwistle M, Vyshemirsky V, Gilbert D, Calder M, Pitt A, Kholodenko B, Kolch W. The mammalian MAPK/ERK pathway exhibits properties of a negative feedback amplifier. Science Signaling 2010; 3(153).
Nakakuki T, Birtwistle MR, Saeki Y, Yumoto N, Ide K, Nagashima T, Brusch L, Ogunnaike BA, Okada-Hatakeyama M, Kholodenko BN. Ligand-specific c-Fos expression emerges from the spatiotemporal control of ErbB network dynamics. Cell 2010 May; 141(5).
von Kriegsheim A, Baiocchi D, Birtwistle M, Sumpton D, Bienvenut W, Morrice N, Yamada K, Lamond A, Kalna G, Orton R, Gilbert D, Kolch W. Cell fate decisions are specified by the dynamic ERK interactome. Nature Cell Biology 2009 Dec; 11(12).
Birtwistle MR, Hatakeyama M, Yumoto N, Ogunnaike BA, Hoek JB, Kholodenko BN. Ligand-dependent responses of the ErbB signaling network: experimental and modeling analyses. Molecular Systems Biology 2007; 3.
Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device and biotechnology companies to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their relationships with such companies.
Below are financial relationships with industry reported by Dr. Birtwistle during 2016 and/or 2017. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.
- F. Hoffman-La Roche Ltd.; GlaxoSmithKline
Mount Sinai's faculty policies relating to faculty collaboration with industry are posted on our website. Patients may wish to ask their physician about the activities they perform for companies.


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USGS Groundwater Information
The Use of Artificial Tracers to Determine Ground-Water Flow and the Fate of Nutrients in the Karst System Underlying the Florida Keys.
By Kevin S. Dillon1, D. Reide
Corbett2, William C. Burnett1,
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To determine the fate and movement of sewage derived contaminants and their possible interaction with surface waters in the Florida (USA) Keys, several types of experiments were conducted using SF6 as an artificial tracer. The first type of experiment examined fluid flow from septic tanks placed in Miami Oolite on Big Pine Key, where there is a shallow freshwater lens overlying saline ground waters. Here ground water transport rates were constrained to be between 0.11 to 1.87 m/hr, traveling in an easterly direction (Dillon et al., 1999). The second type of experiment took place on Key Largo where there is no freshwater lens and the matrix of the aquifer is solely the more porous Key Largo limestone (KLL). Here we injected the tracer into a shallow well, which was screened from 0.6 to 10 m. This allowed us to evaluate groundwater movement in the shallow upper portion of the aquifer, the area to which inputs by septic tanks occur. Groundwater transport rates in the Upper Keys were as great as 3.7 m/hr and were controlled by the Atlantic tide (Dillon et al., 1999). SF6 laden groundwater plumes moved back and forth due to tidal pumping. SF6 reached nearby surface waters within 8 hours. Our results indicate that wastewater injected into the shallow subsurface can travel rapidly and may reach marine surface waters within a few hours.
Three dual tracer experiments were conducted on Long Key, Florida USA to examine the fate of waste water following sewage disposal in 10 to 30 m deep injection wells. This waste disposal practice introduces extraordinary amounts of nutrients into the ground waters of the Florida Keys. In three experiments, artificial ground water tracers, sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) and radioiodine (131I) were used to determine transport rates and directions of soluble non reactive substances injected into the saline ground waters underlying the Keys. Simultaneously, reactive tracers (bulk unlabeled phosphate, PO4, and nitrate, NO3, and radio-labeled phosphate (32PO4) were also added to determine the fate of nutrients in the subsurface. Two types of transport were observed: (1) rapid flow (0.20 - 2.20 m/hr) presumably due to the many conduits present in the limestone and (2) slow diffusive flow (< 0.003 - 0.14 m/hr) associated with the limestone's primary porosity (Dillon et al., 2000). Vertical flow was comparable to horizontal flow due to either the density driven buoyancy of the waste water plume or to preferential flow paths which allow upward advection or combination of both. These experiments showed that conservative artificial tracers injected into the subsurface reach surface waters in a matter of days and can remain in the immediate vicinity of the injection well for several months.
At this low discharge site (2600 L/day) the reactive tracers' behaviors in the subsurface indicate that PO4 and NO3 are both partially removed from solution in the subsurface. Phosphate showed an initial rapid uptake followed by a slower removal, caused by adsorption-desorption reactions with the KLL (Corbett et al., 2000). Based on our observations, we estimate that approximately 95% of the PO4 injected into the subsurface could be removed in 20-50 hours. There was also evidence for some removal of nitrate from solution, most likely due to denitrification. Approximately 65% of the nitrate was removed over several days, suggesting denitrification rates between 2700 and 7000 mmoles m-3 hr-1. Collectively, our results from this site suggest that much of the nutrients injected into the subsurface are removed from solution and may not have a significant impact on surface waters. However, these experiments were conducted at a relatively small facility, while some facilities in the Keys inject as much as 750,000 L per day. Saturation of available adsorption sites and organic substrate availability may limit the efficiency of waste water nutrient removal under such conditions.
To evaluate the fate of waste waster at a high volume injection well facility, another dual tracer study using 32PO4 and SF6 was conducted. During this study, rapid conduit flow as high as 7.9 m/day was observed. At this site, waste water rises rapidly after injection to 18-27 m due to the buoyancy of the low salinity waste water plume. It buoys upward until it meets an impermeable mud layer at about 5 m that overlies the KLL. The majority of the plume is then advected to the east due to the local hydraulic gradient that exists across this site. Initially, phosphate was rapidly adsorbed as observed at the Long Key site. After approximately 36 hours, however we began to see radio labeled PO4 returning to solution, indicating that phosphate is being desorbed from the KLL and slowly returning to solution. The KLL underlying this site seems to be acting as a phosphate buffered system. As a result, the PO4 concentrations 15 m from the injection well seem to be maintained at approximately 25µM. This is supported by column experiments (Elliot, 1999), which also show that adding low phosphate water to KLL that is saturated with PO4 will cause desorption of PO4 until an equilibrium value of approximately 25 µM is reached.
Denitrification assays (Acetylene-block technique) suggest rates of denitrification as high as 3000 mmoles m-3 hr-1, comparable to estimates from the Long Key study. Seagrass and macroalgae samples collected from surface waters around the site indicate that isotopically heavy nitrogen, which is indicative of sewage derived nitrogen (McClelland et al., 1997), is being incorporated into the biomass of these primary producers. Macroalgae collected in a canal to the east of the disposal well showed a del 15N value of +13.55 per mil. Stable nitrogen isotopic samples of subsurface NO3 as well as N2/Ar samples have been collected and should provide a clearer picture of the fate of NO3 in the subsurface at this site.
Corbett, D.R., L. Kump, K.S. Dillon, W.C. Burnett, and J.P. Chanton. 2000. Fate of wastewater-borne nutrients under low discharge conditions in the subsurface of the Florida Keys, USA. Marine Chemistry 69, p. 99-115.
Dillon, K.S., D.R. Corbett, J.P. Chanton, W.C. Burnett, and D.J. Furbish. 1999. The use of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) as a tracer of septic tank effluent in the Florida Keys. Journal of Hydrology 220, p. 129-140.
Dillon K.S., D.R. Corbett, J.P. Chanton, W.C. Burnett, and L. Kump. 2000. Bimodal transport of a waste water plume injected into saline ground water of the Florida Keys. Ground Water 38, p. 624-634.
Elliot, Katherine. 2000. MS thesis. Dept of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University.
McClelland, J.W., I. Valiela, and R.H. Michener. 1997. Nitrogen-stable isotope signatures in food webs: A record of increasing urbanization in coastal watershed. Limnology and Oceanography 42, p. 930-937.
In Eve L. Kuniansky, editor, 2001, U.S. Geological Survey Karst Interest Group Proceedings, U.S. Geological Survey Karst Interest Group Proceedings, St. Petersburg, Florida, February 13-16, 2001: USGS Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4011
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Jaggards' eighth annual conference was held on 10 June at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London. The CPD accredited conference was hosted in partnership with Taylor Rose Law. This year, coming at the time of significant proposals for reform based on both the Jackson proposals and the government's further consultations about disputes in the county courts, the conference was a much anticipated industry event and drew support and contributions from the ABI and FOIL. Guest speakers included Jonathan Djanogly MP, the Justice Minister, and Lord Justice Jackson himself.
The event was well attended by key industry figures. Adrian Jaggard, Managing Director of Jaggards and Partner in Taylor Rose Law opened the day and welcomed the guests, moving swiftly on to the first keynote speaker, Lord Justice Jackson. Sir Rupert ran through his work to date and gave some insight into his vision and the proposals for the way forward.
After breakfast, the focus of the day was on the law of costs with four speakers on that area: Robert Carter, Senior Partner of Taylor Rose Law, Roger Mallalieu of Four New Square, Master Haworth, Costs Judge of the SCCO, and Matthew Hoe, Legal Director of Jaggards. The topics covered the impact of the Jackson reforms on practitioners and the courts, the recent legal developments in the field of costs, and the likely key issues if the reforms are completed.
In the run up to lunch, Stephen Hines, partner in Taylor Rose Law, updated the delegates on the impact of the MOJ RTA Process, and David Cooper, fellow partner in Taylor Rose Law, gave some insight into the claimant perspective. Rocco Pirozollo, chair of the ABI ATE and BTE Committee laid out the stark realities of the expectations regarding the way that the BTE market may react to the reforms.
The afternoon session took a political turn with addresses from the President of FOIL, David Southwell of Zurich Insurance and Adrian Jaggard, with the afternoon culminating in the address from the Justice Minister on the government's approach to reform. Warm reception and positive feedback from all delegates has been gratefully received and cements the position of the conference as an important event in the industry calendar. We would like to extend special thanks to all of the guest speakers whose time and contribution is gratefully received.Go Back