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The Center provides a unique research and training environment that promotes excellence in the study of brain function and its manifestation in behavior. As represented by the diverse research interests of our members, we are establishing a collaborative environment where shared ideas and resources will enable us to generate innovative answers to important scientific questions. The Center is fortunate to have the Chairs of five departments among its members including Biology, Chemistry, Psychology, Literature, and World Language and Culture. Additionally, our members include the Executive Director of the Center for Teaching, Research and Learning, as well as the Dean and Associate Dean for the School of Education, Teaching and Health (SETH).
Victoria Connaughton, Associate Professor
Dr. Connaughton's research interests encompass the disciplines of developmental biology (nervous system development) and neurobiology. Specifically, she is interested in examining the relation between visually-guided behaviors in larval teleosts and … More
Terry Davidson, Director of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and Professor
CAS - Psychology
Dr. Davidson earned his undergraduate degree in Psychology at Michigan State University and earned his Ph.D. with a specialization in Learning and Memory at Purdue University before completing his post-doctoral training in Behavioral Neuroscience at … More
Maria Gomez, Senior Professorial Lecturer
CAS - Psychology
Dr. Gomez-Serrano was born and raised in Madrid where she obtained her Veterinarian degree specializing in animal husbandry and genetics. Right after obtaining her degree, Dr. Gomez-Serrano moved to Washington DC and started working at NIH with Dr. S… More
Kathleen Holton, Assistant Professor
CAS - Health Studies
Dr. Kathleen Holton is a nutritional neuroscientist. Her research examines the negative effects of dietary excitotoxins on neurological symptoms, as well as the positive protective effects of certain micronutrients on the brain. The most common die… More
Laura Juliano, Professor
CAS - Psychology
Laura M. Juliano earned her PhD. in Clinical Psychology from the State University of New York at Binghamton and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her research addresses cognitive and behavioral mecha… More
David Kearns, Associate Professor
CAS - Psychology
Research interests:animal models of drug abuse and addiction treatment; the effects of drug cues on behavior; conditioning and learning; extinction; theories of learning; animal models of gambling.Recent publications:Kearns, D. N., Tunstall, B. J., &… More
Mark Laubach, Professor
CAS - Biology
I am a neurobiologist interested in how groups of neurons work together to process information. My research has focused on the frontal cortex and basal ganglia and their roles in executive control and decision making. My laboratory uses a systems and… More
Anthony Riley, Professor
CAS - Psychology
Dr. Riley received his undergraduate training at the University of North Carolina and obtained his PhD from the University of Washington. He did a post-doctoral fellowship in pharmacology at Dalhousie University in Canada. He joined the faculty at Am… More
Colin Saldanha, Professor and Department Chair, Biology
CAS - Biology
Hormones are profound modulators of brain structure and function; with influences that span the lifetime of an organism. The muti-faceted and pluripotent neural effects of steroids require that a specific hormone be delivered to the right target at p… More
Anthony Ahrens, Associate Professor
CAS - Psychology
Anthony Ahrens did his undergraduate work at Northwestern University and received his doctorate in psychology from Stanford University. His research interests fall at the interface of social and clinical psychology. His current interests emphasize gr… More
James Gray, Professor
CAS - Psychology
Current Research Interests: Eating Disorders, Behavior Therapy, Psychotherapy, Abnormal Psychology, Psychology of Religion
Kathleen Gunthert, Associate Professor
CAS - Psychology
Dr. Gunthert's program of research focuses on the influence of everyday stress and coping on depression, anxiety, and psychotherapy outcomes. Specifically, she has used intensive daily monitoring techniques to address how everyday mood regulation var… More
David Haaga, Professor and Department Chair, Psychology
CAS - Psychology
Dave Haaga is a Professor of Psychology and has been a faculty member at American University since 1989. Dr. Haaga received his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Southern California and completed postdoctoral training in cognitive the… More
Nathaniel Herr, Assistant Professor
CAS - Psychology
Nathaniel Herr is an Assistant Professor of Psychology who joined the department in 2012. Dr. Herr received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles and received postdoctoral training and a faculty appointment at … More
Fernando Benadon, Associate Professor
CAS - Performing Arts
Fernando Benadon oversees the music theory & composition program in the Department of Performing Arts. More here: www.fernandobenadon.com
William Brent, Associate Professor
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Bryan Fantie, Associate Professor
CAS - Psychology
After completing an Honours thesis on motivational systems in the brain guided by Dr. Roy Wise at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, Dr. Fantie did his graduate work at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada. There he studied LTP, kindlin… More
Scott Parker, Professor
CAS - Psychology
Scott Parker began teaching at American University in 1974. He is interested in the quantitative aspects of our experiences and how we make evaluations and choices based on them. Examples include how loud we think sounds are, how valuable we think $5… More
Zehra Peynircioglu, Professor
CAS - Psychology
Zehra Peynirciolu received her undergraduate degree in psychology from Stanford. She started graduate studies in cognitive psychology, specializing in memory, at Princeton (and received an MA) and followed her advisor to Rice and received her PhD. th… More
Richard C. Sha, Professor
CAS - Literature
Professor Sha teaches courses in Nineteenth-Century Literature, especially British Romanticism, and in Asian American Literature. His new book, Imagination and Science in Romanticism, 1750-1850, is forthcoming from the Johns Hopkins University Press … More
Arthur Shapiro, Professor
CAS - Psychology
Catherine Stoodley, Associate Professor
CAS - Psychology
Catherine Stoodley is interested in the neuroscience of cognitive development, particularly the role of the human cerebellum in cognition, cognitive development and in neurodevelopmental disorders. She uses clinical studies, structural and functional… More
Stephen Casey, Professor
CAS - Math & Statistics
Mary Gray, Professor
CAS - Math & Statistics
A statistician and lawyer, Professor Gray's areas of research include applications of statistics to human rights, economic equity, legal issues, and education. She is the founder of the Association for Women in Mathematics, a fellow of the American S… More
Alan Silberberg, Professor
CAS - Psychology
My research interests are animal learning, behavioral economics, primatology and smoking. Publications can be seen in Google Scholar as linked from my profile.
Bei Xiao, Assistant Professor
CAS - Computer Science
Professor Xiao studies human and machine perception of object properties in dynamic scenes. She did her undergraduate work in chemistry at Tsinghua University. She received her PhD in Neuroscience from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and did… More
John Bracht, Assistant Professor
CAS - Biology
Stefano Costanzi, Associate Professor
CAS - Chemistry
Dr. Costanzi's research interests mainly revolve around the application of computational techniques to the study of drug targets and the identification of molecules that modulate their activity. The main focus of the research activities is on the stu… More
Katie DeCicco-Skinner, Associate Professor
James Girard, Professor
CAS - Chemistry
Dr. James Girard teaches analytical, environmental and forensic chemistry, as well as chemistry for non-science majors. He is the author of a textbook for environmental and chemistry students, Principles of Environmental Chemistry. He is also the aut… More
Monika Konaklieva, Associate Professor
CAS - Chemistry
Dr. Konaklieva's research is in the area of exploring different approaches for delaying of microbial resistance. Current projects include computer-aided design and synthesis of novel beta-lactams as well as development of synthetic methodology for pr… More
Catherine Schaeff, Associate Professor
CAS - Biology
Dr. Schaeff's training is in behavior and evolutionary biology. Her research interests include behavior, conservation biology, molecular ecology and most recently, human sexual identity – examining the biological foundations of human gender and sexua… More
Naomi S. Baron, Exec Dir, Ctr for Teaching, Research and Learning and Professor of Linguistics
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Professor Baron is interested in language and technology, reading, the relationship between speech and writing, the history of English, and higher education. A former Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Fellow, and Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Center fo… More
Sarah Irvine Belson, Executive Director, Institute for Innovation in Education
CAS - School of Education
Dr. Sarah Irvine Belson holds a PhD from Arizona State University in Curriculum and Instructional with a cognate in Special Education. Her research explores educational opportunity for children with disabilities and teacher education policy. Her focu… More
Anastasia Snelling, Department Chair, Health Studies
CAS - Health Studies
Dr. Anastasia Snelling is a professor and Chair of the Department of Health Studies at American University. She has been a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics as a registered dietitian for over thirty years and a fellow in the American C… More
Jon Wisman, Professor
CAS - Economics
Professor Wisman teaching interests are: History of Economic Thought, Methodology, History, Introductory Macroeconomics. His research spans a broad spectrum of domains from history of economic thought and methodology to labor and other social issues.
Jeffrey Kaplan, Associate Professor
CAS - Biology
Kaplan's lab studies bacterial biofilms, which are thin, slimy layers of bacteria that grow on surfaces exposed to a liquid. Biofilms grow on rocks in streams, inside pipes, on teeth, and on implanted medical devices such as mechanical heart valves a… More
Stephen MacAvoy, Department Chair, Environmental Science
CAS - Environmental Science
Working in biogeochemistry and ecology, Professor MacAvoy has been particularly interested in areas where marine and freshwater systems interface such as those that appear in tidal aquatic environments. Dr. MacAvoy is also interested in how nutrients… More
Chip Gerfen, Professor and Department Chair, World Languages & Cultures
CAS-World Lang and Cultures
David Haaga, Professor and Department Chair, Psychology
CAS - Psychology
Dave Haaga is a Professor of Psychology and has been a faculty member at American University since 1989. Dr. Haaga received his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Southern California and completed postdoctoral training in cognitive the… More
Colin Saldanha, Professor and Department Chair, Biology
CAS - Biology
Hormones are profound modulators of brain structure and function; with influences that span the lifetime of an organism. The muti-faceted and pluripotent neural effects of steroids require that a specific hormone be delivered to the right target at p… More
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Kathleen Gunthert: Clinical Psychology
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In the news: Professor Terry Davidson spoke with the LA Times about how the Western diet can affect learning and memory.
Save the date! The Center for Behavioral Neuroscience will be hosting its Annual Retreat Thursday, August 24th, 2017.
Dr. Kathleen Holton has been awarded a 3-year Department of Defense Treatment Evaluation Award to evaluate whether glutamate excitotoxicity may be playing a role in the chronic neurological symptoms of Gulf War Illness (GWI). Congratulations!
Please direct inquiries about the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience to:
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Manager of the Montre de Poche Student Dormitory
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She wears a white, long-sleeved shirt, with a frilled collar, bottom, and sleeved. On top of this, she wears a black blazer jacket, with a single button not too far below the bust, silvery-pink lines running down the center of each lapel, then down the front, about an inch or two from the each. On the sleeves of the blazer jacket are very decorative golden cufflinks resembling the dollar symbol, only with two lines running down the center, instead of one.
She wears a pleated of a colour resembling grape, with a dark red square and silvery-pink line plaid pattern, and a black outline, about an inch thick, along the bottom of the skirt. Over her legs, she wears black pantyhose, and black mary jane shoes on her feet.
She also wears a red tie, with a symbol on, just about the button of the blazer jacket, matching her cufflinks. And finally, a beret with a broach, that matches her cufflinks, but a little larger, pinned on the right side.
She always carries a golden pocket watch, with a simply decorative design on it.
Penelope is a lovely young woman. She's friendly and reliable, and always looks out for her residents and friends. It's said staying at the Montre de Poche Student Dormitory grants you certain protections because of Penelope's willingness to protect those who live in her dorms, and her connections to Lumi Faraday. She does, however, enjoy the odd seductive/flirtatious tease, and can become a "money-grubbing demon".
She can easily put residents in debt with her at random for anything, from trivial to important; she once put a student in a debt of [a reasonable sum on Luea] to her, because he sneezed without covering his nose; although, it's hard to tell if she means it or not. She will even give out loans to residents if they need some money.
She's loyal to her money, and will keep a painfully accurate record, and memory, of what everybody owes her, and everybody's rent rates. She remembers all the in-comings and outgoings of her dorm business as a whole with ease.
She's also very exact with her time keeping, and expects others to meet her when she tells them to, exactly, or she'll charge them for it.
Penelope's story goes far back, and her very existence is of particular interest to the big three: Lumi Faraday, Queen Filicia, and Elane'nahesama. In order to understand why, we must look back, to around 150 years ago…
It was around 1866 when a particular pocket watch was made. So elegant was its design, so delicate were its gears, so pretty was its face, so accurate was its mechanisms- it was a sublime example of a pocket watch. Not long after it was made, it was bought by the fiancé of a wealthy banker as a wedding present. The banker adored the watch, and from the moment he first received it, it never left his side.
He took it to work every day, and looked at its face often- it became something he was known for in the bank he worked at. Two years after his wedding, his first child was born- a boy. He kept it next to his bed at night, and the watch shared many emotional moments- from happy to sad, with the man and his family over the coming years. As the boy grew, he got into banking and the economy himself. When he was twenty one, he himself got married. As a present, his father gave his dearly beloved pocket watch him as a present.
By this point, there was nothing out of the ordinary with the watch.
The boy gladly accepted it, and saw it as a sign of good luck in following his father's footsteps and beyond. The boy became a man, and too himself became successful. Like his father before him, the pocket watch never leaving his side. It shared his moments. The watch had spent over 20 years close to humans.
An unusual phenomenon was beginning to occur, one which affects all objects, but generally, nothing comes of it. Psionic forces- the emotions and thoughts of the first man who owned the watch, were being infused into the watch. The man had two children- a boy and a girl. They were raised in the upper class, and the boy followed his father into banking- a family of bankers had formed. The girl went on to become a great teacher, and the boy went into banking, and kept the watch close. Weirdly enough, the watch seemed to be working better by the year.
The trend followed, and the boy received the watch from his father at his wedding. A family heirloom was born. The boy only had a daughter, one who never saw as the first world war began. He took his watch onto the battlefield, and miraculously, he felt that it saved him on one occasion. The watch went though three years of the war with him. He left the watch to his daughter. He died during the war, and the emotions he wrote to his wife and daughter in his final letter were felt by the pocket watch, which was sent with the letter.
His wife kept the pocket watch close to her at all times until her daughter was old enough. He daughter, wanting to help those suffering, like her father, became a nurse. One day, almost by fate, she managed to save the manager of a hotel. They fell in love, and eventually got married. The mother handed her the watch at her wedding. She gladly accepted it.
The watch showed no signs of rust or scratches- is was an unusual thing. The watch was in the same pristine condition it was made. The woman had two children- two boys. As they grew up, the man remained a successful manager of a hotel, keeping the pocket watch with him. It became his good luck charm. They lived a great life. Her sons chose different paths. One joined the army, and the other chose to get into banking.
He got married at around 30, until the usual 20-25 of his ancestors. His parents passed the watch to him. He sort of kept it with him, and used it, but not too much, as he had his own watch. One of his colleges in the bank liked the watch a lot himself, and wished to buy it. After coming into a little financial trouble due to his overconfidence 4 years after getting married, he had to sell the watch. He did get a lot of money for it, and his mother never forgave him for it.
All this time, all these emotions and thoughts were being infused into the watch. The watch had a sentience about it- the man noticed it move by itself at times. He believed there was something special about it, and even talked to it at times. He was in his forties and never married like his brother, who had just had a son. The year was now 1990. The man found that this watch was special. He taught it everything he knew about banking, like the child he never had.
It might sound strange, but the watch was alive- it was stood up, responding, and taking it all in. Ten years passed, and to celebrate his tenth birthday, gave him the pocket watch. The boy loved it. The watch had now entirely left the banking scene, as this boy had different dreams. The "Great Psychic Era" was beginning, and the boy was fascinated with the sentient watch. When the boy turned sixteen, he still kept the watch with him. He travelled to the psychic school island.
The psychic forces that were now gathering at the Faraday Isles were causing a huge reaction with the sentient watch. One day that year, when the boy woke up, he found a girl lying on the floor of the bedroom. He freaked a little, and forced her awake. He asked her who she was and how she got in there. She simply replied "I've always been here", confusing the situation even more. Then, after a moment of silence, the girl freaked.
The girl was the watch, who accumulated enough psionic forces though over a hundred years of emotions, thoughts, and being close to minds, and then coming to the Faraday Isles, to somehow "transform" into a half-human, half-psychena, strange existence. After a very confusing first year of life, the girl, who named herself "Penelope", had huge amounts of business and economic knowhow, and always knew the exact date and time.
With the help of Lumi Faraday, who was completely fascinated by Penelope's existence, listened to her plans for a "high-class student dorms". She loved the idea, and wanted to see how an "ambiently and self-formed being" lives. Lumi endorsed the project, and the Montre de Poche Student Dormitory was created. The dormitory, under the management of Penelope, became a huge success.
The Montre de Poche Student Dormitory is a "high-class" (5~6-stars) student dorm, mixed gender, and has a huge number of facilities- including an inbuilt gym, sports hall, running track, gaming lounge, swimming pool, spa, small theater/cinema, library, computer rooms, restaurant/café, and a bar. There are 30 dorms across its three floors, and all are spacious- "a permanent holiday resort" some call it. The likes of Lucia Minniti and Laura Griffith are residents of these dorms.
- "Welcome to the Montre de Poche Student Dorms, pet. I 'ope ye enjoy yer stay 'ere, for 'owever long ye'll be stayin'. Just somethin' to remember; breakfast's at six to nine in mornin', lunch's at half pas eleven to 'alf pas two midday, and dinner's at six to nine in the evenin'. Mai, the android maid, will be 'ere once a month for an inspection, and cleanin' and laundry will be 'andled by our staff. Got that? Grand! If ye meet with me 'ere at twelve midday morrow I'll discus things further. Thanks a mill for choosin' 'ere! G'wan, 'ere's yer key, 'ave fun explorin' the dorms!"
- ― Penelope to a new resident.
- "Ye ain't as jammie as ye think, pet! Ye've been givin' me fibs, and I don't take kindly to that. Ye owe me for them vases ye broke"
- ― Penelope to Lucia.
Penelope is a very strange existence, something not too dissimilar to:
Although, her form also resembles an unusual combination of:
From the types of memories and knowledge she's absorbed over they years, she's gained a vast and intuitive knowledge of business and the economy. She also possesses an enhanced memory:
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The Blue Hill Public Library will host an exhibit: Jonathan Fisher: Art, Spirit and Nature in the Howard Room glass cases at the Blue Hill Library starting in May and going through the end of July. The exhibit is put together by Rick Sawyer, vice-president of the Jonathan Fisher House Memorial and features a selection of Fisher's paintings, drawings and other works. This July the community will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of the completion of the house that Fisher designed and built.
Jonathan Fisher was born in New Braintree Massachusetts on Oct 7th 1768 and like many young men in the 18th century, he learned as a young man the qualities of perseverance, diligence, devotion and industry. He brought those qualities to his seven years of education at Harvard and to every aspect of his life there-after. On June 22nd 1794 Jonathan Fisher preached for the first time in Blue Hill when there were about 60 families living here. He was invited to be Blue Hill's first settled minister and in 1796 took and held that position for the next 41 years.
According to Rick Sawyer, Jonathan Fisher's influence on the town was paramount. "He not only ministered to his people but left behind a plethora of artwork, poetry, musings, sermons, and a house full of objects of his creation—all of which leave evidence to the extent of how instrumental he was to the development of Blue Hill. His love of art, spirit, and nature merge in the story of his life and are depicted in the works he left behind, and after 200 years the effects are still, to this day, in the essence of Blue Hill."
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1. Re: Pivot help on an heirarchy queryFrank Kulash Jan 16, 2012 9:34 PM (in response to 723358)Hi,1 person found this helpful
Thanks for posting the CREATE TABLE and INSERT statements; that's very helpful!
Use CONNECT_BY_ROOT to remember the starting point that led to each row of output, which is what identifies which row of output each row of the CONNECT BY results corresponds to.
Sorry, I'm not at an Oracle 11 system now. This works in Oracle 10 (and up):
You can adapt the main query to use SELECT ... PIVOT.
WITH connect_by_results AS ( SELECT LEVEL AS lvl , oname , CONNECT_BY_ROOT o_id AS starting_o_id FROM t1 START WITH typ = 'PRC' CONNECT BY o_id = PRIOR prnt ) SELECT starting_o_id , MIN (CASE WHEN lvl = 1 THEN oname END) AS prc , MIN (CASE WHEN lvl = 2 THEN oname END) AS lob , MIN (CASE WHEN lvl = 3 THEN oname END) AS seg FROM connect_by_results GROUP BY starting_o_id ORDER BY starting_o_id ;
Do you really need separate columns for the different levels? If not, you could do something like this:
SELECT CONNECT_BY_ROOT o_id AS starting_o_id , REPLACE ( SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH ( RPAD (oname, 15) , '`' ) , '`' ) AS prc_lob_seg FROM t1 WHERE CONNECT_BY_ISLEAF = 1 START WITH typ = 'PRC' CONNECT BY o_id = PRIOR prnt ORDER BY starting_o_id ;
Not only is this simpler, it works for any number of levels.
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Edited by: Frank Kulash on Jan 16, 2012 4:25 PM
Added SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH alternative.
2. Re: Pivot help on an heirarchy querySolomon Yakobson Jan 16, 2012 9:37 PM (in response to 723358)
with org as ( select connect_by_root o_id o_id, oname, typ from t1 start with typ = 'PRC' connect by o_id = prior prnt ) select * from org pivot( max(oname) for typ in('PRC' PRC,'LOB' LOG,'SEG' SEG) ) / O_ID PRC LOG SEG ---------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- 119 Plan Mgmt Retirement Benefits 142 RCS Software Risk Software Risk Services 118 Pension Admin Retirement Benefits SQL>
3. Re: Pivot help on an heirarchy query723358 Jan 16, 2012 10:01 PM (in response to Solomon Yakobson)That's it!
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Marine Capt. Jason Haag was left stranded in Los Angeles along with his wife and dog without their luggage on Sunday, and the reason why is absolutely sickening.
According to The Blaze, Haag and his family was stranded because American Airlines didn't believe the veteran when he told them that his dog Axel is a service dog. This incident happened hours after Axel was named Service Dog of the Year at the American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards.
They were about to board their flight from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. when an agent pulled them out of the line and began asking them questions about Axel. Haag served two tour of duties in the Middle East, and he explained that the dog is meant to help him cope with a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.
The agent, however, wasn't buying it.
Then about five minutes before we were supposed to board, I got pulled out of line," Haag said. "[The agent] called me up to the ticket counter, and the first thing out of his mouth was, 'Is that a real service dog?'"
He went on to say that the agent didn't believe what he was saying.
"He's like, 'Well, what's your disability?' and I was like, 'Excuse me?' because that's not a question you're allowed to ask under the rules and regulation," he continued. "Then he started firing off questions in rapid succession."
The flight ended up leaving without the Haags, and American Airlines refused to even put them in a hotel for the night.
Luckily, Robin Ganzert, CEO of the American Humane Association, showed up to personally escort the Haags to the Beverly Hilton, where the Service Dog Awards had been held that day. Ganzert later said that the organization eventually spent $1,500 on the Haag's food and lodging, and they are now calling for American Airlines to pay them back.
"We take these matters very seriously and are looking into what exactly occurred," American Airlines spokeswoman Andrea Huguely told the press on Monday. "Even though there was an issue with Haag's and Axel's travel, we are very happy to say that Haag, his wife, and Axel traveled with us, once again, today."
"We have apologized to both Haag and his family and are very appreciative of his service to our country," Huguely added.
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Steven Gabbe
Steven G. Gabbe is an American medical researcher, specializing in complications of pregnancy. He is the Chief Executive Officer at The Ohio State University Medical Center and Senior Vice President for Health Sciences.[1] He is the namesake of Gabbe College, one of the four academic colleges of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, of which he formerly served as dean.
On April 4, 2008, Gabbe was appointed Chief Executive Officer of The Ohio State University Medical Center and Senior Vice President of Health Sciences at Ohio State University by President Gordon Gee.[2][3] Gabbe was at Ohio State University for nine years as a professor and chairman of obstetrics and gynecology in The Ohio State University College of Medicine.[4]
He left in 1996 for the University of Washington and was recruited to Vanderbilt as Dean of the Vanderbilt School of Medicine by former Vanderbilt Chancellor Gordon Gee in March 2001.[5]
He has authored over 175 research articles, and is the first author of the textbook, Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies (Elsevier).
He was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1998.[6][7]
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- Gabbe S, et al.. Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies, 5th edn (Elsevier; 2007) (ISBN 0-443-06930-1)
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Shrimp Clam Dip
Recipe by Laudee
This is a real easy and tasty dip recipe I got from a family friend. With the holidays coming and everyone scrambling for "party fixins", thought I'd share with the Zaar family. This is fairly reasonable in price to prepare and definitely delicious.
Top Review by Lizzie-Babette
Boy, this really is a tasty dip! I had to use medium, chopped shrimp, because my market didn't carry the tiny ones. I also used a Lipton's dry vegetable soup mix, and I do NOT recommend it first, it had dried peas in it, and was very salty. Luckily, I'd tasted the dip before adding the second packet, so I didn't add the second one at all. It tasted great on crackers, and I'll be making this as a quick and easy appetizer year-round. When I make it next, I'm going to try it again with Knorr's vegetable soup mix or something with lower sodium. I may also experiment with adding a bit of cayenne pepper and substituting garlic powder for salt. Laudee, this is a delicious recipe, and when I make it again with other soup mixes, I'll change this to 5-stars...it really is wonderful, and I think a different soup mix will make all the difference.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 packages dry vegetable soup mix
- 1 (8 -12 ounce) carton sour cream
- 1 (6 1/2 ounce) canchopped clams (drained)
- 6 -8 ounces frozen baby shrimp (thawed, rinsed, and drained)
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- Mix dry vegetable soup mix and sour cream together.
- Add clams and shrimp, mix well.
- For best flavor, fridge overnight.
- Serve with vegetable sticks, chips, or crackers.
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Stop the Internet!
The Associated Press is reporting that Lady Gaga, Beyoncé and Katy Perry have all been deemed threats to "cultural national security" in China, and that the government is cracking down on music websites to remove their songs from download lists.
Terrible, right? It's a travesty, a tragedy and a transvestite's worst fear! Just think of all the innocent Chinese schoolgirls who will be denied the basic human right of singing along to the chorus of Perry's Rebecca Black spoof, Last Friday Night: "Yeah, we danced on tabletops, yeah we did too many shots, think we kissed but I forgot, last Friday Night!" You'd think the Chinese authorities would get that it's ironic – like, duh – that the real message is that ugly sober people are cooler than pretty drunk ones (see Perry's husband, Russell Brand, for details). But no.
Totalitarian regimes can be so humourless sometimes.
Anyway, I was just getting dressed in preparation for my protest in front of the Chinese embassy – the idea was to put on a tight black bodysuit and do Beyoncé's Single Ladies dance until I died of exhaustion or was arrested for public indecency – when it occurred to me: Hey, maybe autocratic cultural censorship isn't such a bad thing after all.
Now, before you sit up, snap your fingers and get all " Born This Way is the greatest gay anthem since Material Girl" on me, pause to consider the following: Scroll farther down the list of recently banned singles in China (past the lengthy Taiwanese and Hong Kong hit parade) and you will notice the inclusion of a certain 12-year-old Backstreet Boys single, I Want it That Way.
The fact that this song made the list gave me serious pause, for two reasons. The first was surprise, as there is nothing in its lyrics that could possibly be construed as politically subversive or even overtly sexual (unless you are so Pollyanna that rhyming "fire" with "desire" makes you blush). The second was relief, due to a very personal scarring memory involving the same track: In the early days of my career, I was made to review a Backstreet Boys concert for this very paper. I don't want to talk about it further except to say that prolonged exposure to teenage female hysteria combined with synth-heavy boy-band choruses can lead to dizziness, nausea, bleeding ears and suicidal thoughts.
So here's the interesting thing. I rarely agree with the Chinese government. (In fact, inside my head I'm having a raging argument with Hu Jintao right now, which may account for the sour look on my face.) But I'd be lying if I said I haven't often wished I could erase I Want it That Way from the culture. I'd also be lying if I said I didn't think it was a good thing for China, and by that measure, a good thing for a fifth of the world. I know censorship is a slippery slope, but we're talking about 1.3 billion lucky people who never have to risk hearing Nick Carter asking in a falsetto "Tell me why-eee?" ever again! How can any sane person not see the overwhelming good in that?
Presuming the Chinese government is right and this whole democracy/Internet thing is just a passing trend, I think banning terrible pop songs (or movies or TV shows or even, yup, I'll say it, books) could be the way forward. I say this not because I think the Chinese government is correct in its instinct to quash personal freedom and stamp out individual expression, but because I Want it That Way is a dreadful song; and anyone who argues for its right to exist – even purely on principle – has obviously never felt their ears bleed in the third row of the SkyDome at 11 p.m. when they could have been at home on the sofa sipping a full-bodied Barolo with their boyfriend.
I'm not an idiot, folks. I see what the Chinese government is up to here. They're not banning songs because they're dangerous. They're banning songs because they're lousy. And that, I think, we can all totally get behind.
Yes I know, we in the West are brought up to believe censorship is evil, but wouldn't it be lovely – and frankly a good thing for the culture – if we could ban a few things ourselves? I'm not talking about cracking down on dissent, but legislating taste.
For instance, my university dorm would have been a much more bearable and academically fruitful environment minus Sarah McLachlan's weepy hymn In the Arms of An Angel. And just think of what a better place the world would be without the Transformers series. Or anything starring Kate Hudson. Or The King of Queens.
Maybe Canada's grassroots funding of the arts is the wrong approach, and what we should be doing is censoring culture from the top down – not based on threats to our national security of course, but the (equally dangerous) threat to our intelligence, taste and sanity.
You probably think I'm joking, but I'm not. At least not about the bleeding ears part. Or Kate Hudson. As soon as China gets around to banning Bride Wars and Something Borrowed, I'm moving there. Hu Jintao, stock up on the Barolo, baby. Here I come.Report Typo/Error
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BT Mobile's new Family SIM plan makes a lot of sense for families of up to five members whose monthly mobile bills may add up to a lot of money. The network is now proposing family members to buy a combined plan with individual data packs so that they are able to save a lot on money in the process. The network is offering 2GB and 15GB plans as part of Family SIM offerings.
If a family of five buys five 2GB Family SIMs, they will need to pay a combined £36 a month with each member able to consume 2GB every month. If the cost of an individual BT Mobile SIM with 2GB of data a month is considered, then the family's annual savings by using Family SIMs will be as much as £168 a year. Similarly, if the family of five takes five 15GB a month Family SIMs, they will be able to save £372 a year compared to the cost of five individual SIMs with 15GB of data allowance every month.
"We believe our new Family SIM deal offers a simple way for households to purchase mobile services and is the best value deal on the market today. UK families will be able to make substantial savings on mobile bills, freeing up much needed household budget," said John Petter, CEO at BT Consumer. According to BT Mobile, no other network in the UK offers a similar family sharing plan with individual allowances. To avail Family SIMs, a member of a family needs to buy a 12-month SIM-only contract after which he or she can add or remove up to five SIMs, based on which the combined monthly pricing will change.
For two Family SIMs with 2GB of data for each user, the cost will be £18 a month, which will rise to £25 a month for three users, £31 a month for four users and £36 a month for five users. Thus, with each new family member added to the plan, the average cost per member will go down, letting the family save up to £168 a year. Similarly, while a 15GB a month plan costs £20 a month for a single user, it will cost just £69 for five users, leaving to savings of £372 a year.
The new Family SIM plan is yet another component of BT Mobile's aggressive push into the hard-fought smartphone market where a number of MVNOs are offering dirt cheap deals and cornering their user bases amid huge investments by the four major operators. Back in June, BT Mobile introduced three new pay monthly deals offering unlimited texts and up to 15GB of 4G data every month along with access to up to five million BT Wi-Fi hot-spots around the country.


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Doug's Favourite Honey Nut Oatmeal Bread
Elaine Douglas
This is an automatic bread maker recipe.
The bread is my son's favourite.
It is great for sandwiches, toast, and bread pudding.
The bread is my son's favourite.
It is great for sandwiches, toast, and bread pudding.
★★★★★ 1 vote
one big loaf
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45 Min
Bread Machine
- 1 c
- water
- 2 Tbsp
- vegetable oil
- 2 Tbsp
- honey
- 1 tsp
- salt
- 1 c
- rolled oats (not instant)
- 1/2 c
- whole wheat flour
- 1 1/2 c
- bread flour
- 3 Tbsp
- milk, nonfat, dry
- 1
- egg (optional)
- 1 1/2 tsp
- active dry yeast
- 1/2 c
- chopped walnuts
- 1 Tbsp
- gluten (optional)
How to Make Doug's Favourite Honey Nut Oatmeal Bread
- 1Put ingredients except walnuts in breadmaker according to the manufacturers instructions. This makes a 1 1/2 lb loaf.
- 2At the beep add the walnuts.
- 3After baking remove from pan and cool before slicing.
- 4I usually use the dough cycle and form the bread into one medium loaf and a couple of little loaves. I bake them in the oven at 375 degrees F. for 45 minutes for the larger loaf and 30 minutes for the little ones. I prefer to test them with an instant-read thermometer.
Internal temperature should be 200 degrees F.
About Doug's Favourite Honey Nut Oatmeal Bread
Course/Dish: Savory Breads
Main Ingredient: Flour
Regional Style: Canadian
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I am a member of the Laboratory for the Analysis of Images and Vision (LAIV).
I carry out my research in the field of Image Processing and Machine Learning. The focus of my PhD work was the design of an eye locator conceived for the automatic localization of people's eyes, with a particular emphasis on precision. This is still a challenging problem.
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Recipe: Easy Mocha Mousse
Whether it's pies, puddings, or panna cotta, these dreamy desserts will have your guests singing your praises all night. Crisp cookies and fresh berries pair nicely with cool-and-creamy mocha mousse.
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Authors: Adam Starks, Daniel Alexander II, Mike Daddo, Shawn Clark
As a gust of wind, guide a gleeful group of raindrops to fulfill their fate to feed a forlorn flower at the base of an overgrown city. But beware; obstacles block the drops' path, including animals, weather, and post-modern architecture.
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Wertheimer and Frere's homebred Colony Band took an early lead and never trailed en route to a 3 1/4-length win in Wednesday's featured $109,700 Doubledogdare Stakes at Keeneland.
Trained by Todd Pletcher, the 4-year-old daughter of Dixieland Band ran the 1 1/16-mile race in 1:46.15. The filly won for the fourth time in 12 starts and earned $68,014.
Colony Band, ridden by John Velazquez, paid $3.60, $2.80, and $2.40 as the 4-5 favorite in the seven-horse field.
La Reason, a 30-1 longshot with Corey Lanerie riding, rallied from last place to finish second and paid $14.20 and $6. Ender's Sister, ridden by Javier Castellano, was 16 lengths back in third and returned $2.60."She did it easy," said Velazquez. "This was the first time I've ridden her, and she seems to have a lot of class. I think she has a good future." "I wasn't surprised when she made the lead because she's shown a lot of speed in the morning," said Pletcher's assistant, Tristan Barry. "She breezed so well over this track, we were very optimistic."Colony Band, who began her career in France, has won four of 12 lifetime starts, with two wins and one second in three starts since arriving in the U. S. following her 2004 European campaign.(Chart, Equibase)
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Insane Clown Posse fans are sure to enjoy this outrageously awesome concert recorded live in Los Angeles during the Shangri-La tour. Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope rock the house with such hit songs as "Willy Bubba," "Your Rebel Flag" and "Stomp." Always looking to start some trouble and incite mayhem, these Detroit-born, out-of-control performers get their army of loyal fans pumped up by spraying them with soda.


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Name: Jose Mourinho
Occupation: Smouldering football manager
Awarded for: Services to trolling
Accomplishments this week: Another masterful performance from the man who has made the concept of managerial mind games into an art form. "Arsène Wenger is a specialist in failure. I'm not," he said of Arsenal's respected (though not by Mourinho) coach. He added that if he were to go as long as Wenger has done without a trophy (eight years) he would "leave Chelsea and not come back." Mourinho also took time this week to sniff that Manchester City would be playing "the worst Barcelona side for many years".
It's still unclear if he believes that winding up other managers can improves his side's chances on the pitch, or whether he just really enjoys it, but who among us wouldn't like to be able to carry off such splendid trolling with Mourinho's aplomb?
Name: Tinker Hatfield
Occupation: Legendary trainer designer
Awarded for: Allowing us all to travel to the future via the medium of shoe
Accomplishments this week: Nike's Hatfield, who designed Air Jordans from 1988 until their 15th iteration and also pioneered the Cross Trainer, this week made a lot of men who grew up in the 1980s very, very happy. Movie Back to the Future II, the couldn't-be-more-Eighties Michael J Fox favourite, features a pair of trainers that can self-fasten. They were much coveted by all who saw them but regarded as an impossible dream - until, that is, the announcement this week that Hatfield has developed a pair of self-lacing trainers, which will be on the market in 2015.
Never mind about the space race and curing cancer, this is what science should be focusing on.
Name: Prince Charles
Occupation: Sooooooooooooooonnnnnnnn
Awarded for: Services to playing dress-up
Accomplishments this week: There can't be many people who have still got the training wheels on at 60, but the Prince gamely waits his turn to step up to the top job, conducting himself with pretty good humour, all things considered. Can you imagine how many biscuit factories and power stations he must have visited and pretended to be interested in during his lifetime apprenticeship to be King? He's always been game for a laugh when it comes to trying on costumes and participating in foreign customs, but this week's superb effort on a trip to Saudi Arabia – a sort of Lawrence of Arabia meets campy Star Wars – is among his strongest work, arguably topped only by his legendary Rastaman Tam o' Shanter (worn backwards) in Jamaica.
Name: Andrew Harper
Occupation: United Nations high commissioner for refugees in Jordan
Awarded for: Most creative use of a photograph
Accomplishments this week: The UN man tweeted a heart-breaking picture of a four-year-old refugee called Marwan crossing the desert from Syria into Jordan, seemingly alone. It was a desperately sad and powerful image… even if it wasn't exactly, technically representative. Harper tweeted that he "was temporarily separated from his family," and by the time CNN anchor Hala Gorani picked up the story it was: "UN staff found 4 year-old Marwan crossing desert alone after being separated from family". As it turned out, said family were nearby, but out of shot.
Nobody's suggesting that Harper was being dishonest, or that the plight of Marwan and others like him is anything other than awful. But it does go to show that we live in a world where news travels like lightning whether it's true or false or true-ish; and that sometimes a picture can tell an even better story when it's taken slightly out of context.
Here 4 year old Marwan, who was temporarily separated from his family, is assisted by UNHCR staff to cross #Jordan pic.twitter.com/w4s2mrNnMY— Andrew Harper (@And_Harper)
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Name: David Murdoch
Occupation: Curling hero
Awarded for: Getting the nation gripped by "housework on ice" (© the late Linda Smith)
Accomplishments this week: Your Canadians and Swedes and Russians and whatnot might be doing brisk business in the highly dangerous, adrenalin-pumped Winter Olympic sports, but we Brits are playing a great hand in the altogether more refined curling event. The women's team has won a suitably plucky bronze, but David Murdoch, skipper of the men's team, set the world of curling on fire (a very icy fire) with a brilliant shot to win the quarter final with the last stone of the match, and then another last gasp winner over Sweden in the semis. He's even been pictured in a sex charity calendar.
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Jennifer Lopez had fans' jaws "On The Floor" Saturday when she slipped into a figure-hugging, structured dress for her own concert's after party in Las Vegas.
Looking radiant in royal blue, Lopez, 43, accessorized her look with simple silver jewelry and matching python print heels and clutch.
Not bad for someone who just stepped off the stage after rocking out with thousands of fans, no?
J.Lo is currently co-headlining her Summer Tour 2012 pal Enrique Iglesias. Though Lopez is closing the show for most of the dates, the mom-of-two admits to Celebuzz that she'd much prefer calling it an early night.
"I think Enrique should close," Lopez told us in June. "I'll go first, I'll be home in time to put the babies to bed."
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The clip interviews instructors in Fnalnd schools, who are highly respected in their community. Each classroom comes equipped with 2 assistants to help students who need more help and those who are ready to move on.
I agree with the pp that the academic success Finalnd enjoys has less to do with a curriculum and more to do with the value placed on childhood and exploration, movement, play, and respect.
This is absolutely not true. Many teachers prefer teaching grades 1-2, only, and do that. Some always teach 3rd, etc. Some teach 1-6. They are not qualified to go any higher than that. 7th-12th grades the teachers are all specialized in their fields, so there is no one teacher who really gets to know the kids.
I do think that the Finnish system has less "fluff" than the US system. When I see some of the things the little kids (4-8 or whatever) are taught in the US, I am amazed. Why do they need those little details. "Finnish homeschooling" the early grades would mean, in my opinion, doing a bit of reading, writing and math every day. Add sports, crafts and arts, about once a week, each. Then, if you must, add something about the nature around you. (You know, study what a squirrel eats and how many young they have... as if the kid will remember that later on...) Add English around age 9 (ok, ok, a foreign language). That's about it for grades 1-3.
The big difference, as has been mentioned, is that kindergarten takes 3-4 hours a day and 1st and 2nd grades have the kids in school 4-5 hours a day. The hours get longer as the kids age, being 5-7 hours by 5th grade. (I am trying to remember the exact hours per week but can't. It is something like that.) HOWEVER, lots of the younger kids go right to "afternoon club" after school, as the parents are working and there is no one home. Thus, in the end, their days are not short, and they are very tired by the time they get home.
The two biggest reasons for Finland's "fame," in my opinion:
1. The differences between the backgrounds of the students are very small, compared to the US. There are more kids of e.g. refugees in the schools these days, but the amount is tiny compared to e.g. Sweden. Also, while not everyone makes the same amount of money, the differences between having a low or high income and nowhere near at the level of the USA.
2. The Finnish language: Every letter makes only one specific sound, unlike in English. Once you know how to read, you can basically read or write any word. This means that Finnish kids learn to read anything early and well and, on the other hand, even those who struggle, will learn well enough sooner or later. You will not meet a Finn who does not know how to read and white, unless the person is VERY special needs. This, IMO, really makes it impossible to compare countries like Finland with, e.g., the English speaking countries.
Interestingly, while Finns are proud of the test results, many find the whole thing rather funny. It feels more like "how bad can the systems in the other countries be to be that much worse?" There is plenty that needs to be changed... Finns are very much like the Japanese in that they are very good at hard sciences but there is not very much emphasis on creativity.
biggest reasons for Finland's "fame," in my opinion:
1. The differences between the backgrounds of the students are very small, compared to the US. There are more kids of e.g. refugees in the schools these days, but the amount is tiny compared to e.g. Sweden. Also, while not everyone makes the same amount of money, the differences between having a low or high income and nowhere near at the level of the USA.
I think this is the biggest one. I mentioned it in my post too. Compared to other developed nations, in the US there's a fair amount of poverty and financial insecurity, and unlike in developing countries this poverty exists in a cultural belief system ("honest hard work will allow anyone to succeed") that tends to blame the poor for their own situations. By extension this mentality also blames poor schools for their poor performance, rewards affluent schools for their good performance, and thus the disparities continue to grow.
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How terrible. Thank you for saying so. I had the impression she wasn't that old (I'd been in email contact with her about her learning guides and she'd assured me she would keep publishing them forever. I'm glad I bought the whole set, "Just in case.") Do you have more details?
Created an instant family (7/89 and 5/91) in 1997. Made a baby boy 12/05 adopted a baby girl 8/08. Ask me about tandem adoptive nursing and living as gluten, dairy, and cane sugar free vegetarians. Homeschooling and loving it.
2/3 of the struggling readers who come to me for reading help are failures for precisely this reason. LOTS of girls, too.
By the end of first grade, they already view themselves as failures. So during 2nd grade, when the schools tell parents that it's too early to test them, let's wait and see—the child falls further and further behind. Why? She's not receiving the beginning reading instruction that she's now developmentally ready for, but is only getting instruction that is geared to the successful 2nd grade readers. Throughout grade school, there is never again an opportunity to learn to read with beginning strategies other than as brief asides for the "slow kids,", so they are reluctant readers, failing readers, or recalcitrant trouble-making students—all stemming from the early feelings of failure.
Had the first teaching of reading happened a year or two later, they'd be in fine shape and would be caught up with peers who learned earlier in almost no time. Learning at 4 or 7 has no correlation to grades or abilities in college. But the damaged readers? They rarely make it to college, unless the parents invest in someone like me, who specifically works with troubled readers and actually takes them out of the hellhole toward happy reading.
It's criminal, it's a nightmare, and it's why the United States calculates 40% of our fourth graders are reading below grade level. Yet despite all evidence to the contrary, the government continues to ADD to the reading tasks the young child is to complete before getting out of kindergarten! It's insanity!! :/ Ooops. Got on the old hobby horse again. My bad! ;)
This alone is reason enough for me to homeschool next year. I have a 4.5 yo boy (born in April) and I just do NOT see him doing well with the academics of American kg. He's a bright kid, but sitting in a chair all morning doing worksheets is not going to suit him. I believe he'll read and write when he's ready, but it may not be at the age of 5. Thanks for this comment, Miss Bright!
Also thanks to everyone else for their insight. I have been too busy to get back to this thread, but I am excited to see the depth and breadth of the comments. There's a lot to chew on here. 'Mothering' moms rock!
We are still in the process of making our homeschool decision. Will I or won't I? I still have a lot of fear around the isse. Will I succeed? Will I have the patience? Will the neighbors think I am crazy? I am leaning towards doing it though, b/c I think my son will grow to hate school if I send him to Kg and also b/c my daughter is on the cusp - she's still a mama's girl and she actually wants to be homeschooled, but how much longer will that last?
Again, many thanks. Please continue to chime in if you like!
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