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My Mad Mind is starting a new meme. It's a photo meme. This weeks theme is "Weathered" and photographers choice.
I can't think of a place that I personally have been that is more weathered than St. Augustine, Florida. I took this picture of Castillo de San Marcos on a field trip with Tara's class in 4th grade (when we still lived in Orlando). Construction started in 1672, so it is pretty darned old!
Photographer's Choice – this is not a photographic masterpiece, but something from this past week that made me laugh. This building is in our town, and I love it because of it's color, but that is not what made me take the picture. We were leaving the Farmers Market across the street, and the opened windows caught my eye. I then realized that there was something moving in the one window. Next thing the bird is perched on the window eating a tree. I love that he was way up there with a real "birds eye view" of town!
You may (or may not) know that my new "career" since retiring from AT&T in 2009 is working for Walgreens as a "Senior Beauty Advisor" in a local Walgreens store. When I started working for Walgreens it was a job, the extra money I needed to pay the bills. Since I have moved to the Sr Beauty Advisor position, I feel like it is a new career. I enjoy reading about new products and trends, and find reading business news about the companies that the products come from. I enjoy trying new products for my own experience. If I have used a product, I can better make suggestions to my customers as well.
I thought today for Thursday Thirteen, I would share my favorite 13 beauty products. All of these products can be purchased at Walgreens.
- Olay Pro-X Clear – this is a new skin care regime for acne prone skin. I don't really have acne, but occasionally I have breakouts. I received this kit of three products for an Olay event we had at work, and I decided to bring it home and give it a try. I have been using for about 5 weeks now and my skin feels awesome, very smooth, and I have not had any breakouts. I especially love the way the 3rd step – Hydrate and Renew – makes my skin feel so soft & smooth.
- Revlon Age Defying with DNA Advantage – there are SO many foundations to choose from, it is so hard to figure out what to buy, especially in a "drug store" since most times there are no testers. When a product does come with a tester or sample, I will always check it out. The display introducing this product came with a tester (that was in my shade), so I knew before I purchased it that I would love it. This foundation has great coverage, and keeps my skin feeling hydrated all day. It also has SPF20.
- Cover Girl Natureluxe Silk Foundation – This is another new foundation. I was hesitant to give this product a try. Taylor Swift is the cover girl for this line, and well, I'm a bit older than she! I couldn't resist trying it out when we received coupons with samples in two shades. This is a natural make up line for CG. The foundation comes in a tube. Ingredients include cucumber water, jojoba and rose hips extract. The first time I tried it was a very humid day, and it felt rather "sticky" on my skin, I think it might be the jojoba, and I was thinking it was not the foundation for me. I did give it another try, and on the day, I did not have the same stickiness. I liked the product enough to purchase a tube. It has great coverage and a little goes a long way.
- Revlon ColorStay Overtime Lipcolor – this stuff stays on FOREVER. Lots of great colors.
- Revlon Top Speed Nail Enamel - Great colors and it dries FAST. It is advertised to set in 60 seconds, and they are telling the truth! I can put a coat on right before I walk out the door to work, a short six minutes away, and it is dry enough to jump right in to work when I get there.
- Garnier Skin Renew Anti Dark Circle Eye Roller – I don't have a big problem with dark circles and "bags" under my eyes, but there are some mornings, especially when I work close/open shifts at work and am home less than 9 hours, that my eyes are looking a little tired. This product is great as it not only has the roller to apply the product, but it is also tinted to help hid the darkness.
- Gold Bond Sheer Ribbons Body Lotion – Gold Bond has come a long way from just making medicated powders! This new body lotion in a can is awesome! It is a unique packaging. This lotion is thick and smells great!
- Loreal Voluminous Million Lashes mascara – I hesitated trying this mascara (until I got a sample tube I was able to try) because of the way the brush looked. Every time I have purchased a mascara with a "newfangled" brush I have not liked it's application. I don't wear much eye make up on a daily basis, but I must have mascara. Once I tried it I loved it. It thickens, lengthens and separates. It also stays on great. I don't use the waterproof, and I don't look like a raccoon at the end of the day1
- Jordana Easy Liner Eye Liner – Jordana is an inexpensive line of cosmetics that Walgreens carries. We don't carry the entire line, but the eyeliners I would have to say are one of the best sellers in my store. (Tara helps with those sales, she LOVES the liners and never leaves home without her black liner.) We sell the pencils for $1.99. They have lots of great colors.
- Angel by Thierry Mugler is my FAVORITE perfume. I don't splurge on too many things for myself, in fact my bottle of this is empty right now, but it is awesome. If you aren't familiar with it next time you are in a perfume department, take a whiff. They also make Alien which I like too.
- Maybelline Great Lash Mascara – as much as I love the Loreal mascara, Great Lash is an old classic. (Did you know it just turned 40 – it was my first mascara, I remember buying it at Woolworths when I was in 6th grade)
- Studio 35 Dual Tip Cosmetic Applicators -One end is pointy the other flat "paddle" like. I love these for putting shadow on and taking stubborn eyeliner and mascara off. The pointy end is great for cleaning up smudges.
- Veet Ready to Use Wax Strips for Face – I love these for a quick easy clean up of my upper lip, I'm over 50 and have dark hair, those pesky hairs are inevitable. These strips are easy to apply and easy to remove!
That wound up being quite a list.
What is your favorite product?
Thanks a latte for stopping by!


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Sep 012013
The Flamingo Gardens attraction in southwest Broward is reducing its fees to half price for the Native Bird Festival on Labor Day.
The festival is 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. September 2.
The festival includes bird exhibits, birding education, bird tours and booths set up by various wildlife organizations in South Florida.
For the event, entry is $9 for guests ages 12 and older, $5 for guests ages 4 to 11 and free for kids 3 and younger.
Flamingo Gardens is at 3750 South Flamingo Road, Davie, 954-473-2955
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Today's rainy-day Weatherhound Forecast comes from Canadian treasure Gordon Lightfoot:
This morning, a patch of light to moderate rain is sliding up South Carolina and into the Sandhills. There's nothing severe involved, but it will impact the morning commute in the southern Sandhills and flow north from there.
Radar at 6:30 a.m. shows a blob of rain moving northeast through South Carolina.
It's going to be cloudy, chilly and damp through the day, with a chance of light rain lingering toward sundown … which is another fine Gordon Lightfoot song, but really not important to this forecast. Look for highs I the mid 40s under a persistent northerly breeze. Our wind chill over the region likely won't climb much above 40. Just a good day to stay indoors if you can.
Friday will be much nicer, both in conditions and temperature. With plenty of sun, highs will be closer to 60, with clear skies for football playoffs.
For today, though, just hunker down and think warm thoughts.
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The Heritage Foundation
and the "Risk-Aids Hypothesis"
The third crucial arena for dissenting views during this time period was a lengthy (8,900-word) cover story by Duesberg and Bryan J. Ellison published in the summer 1990 issue of Policy Review, a publication of the Heritage Foundation, the well-known, right-wing think tank.[99] The essay was actually written by Ellison, a politically conservative graduate student in Duesberg's department and self-appointed popularizer of Duesberg's views. "Scientists weren't going to listen to him. They couldn't afford to," Ellison explained. "So I realized he had to take his case to the general public."[100] The article became, in the editor's words, "one of the three or four most-talked-about articles in the history of the magazine, … [eliciting] more letters to the editor than any in Policy Review 's history."[101] The article also incorporated the first formal presentation by Duesberg of an alternative explanation for the etiology of AIDS, which Duesberg and Ellison dubbed the "risk-AIDS hypothesis."
The biographical note explained that Duesberg had published critiques of the accepted "virus-AIDS hypothesis" in a number of scientific journals, such as Cancer Research and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . In this way, Duesberg's accumulated scientific credibility was now converted into credibility in a different, more public forum. However, a chief strategy of the Policy Review article was to present the critique not as Duesberg's personal crusade, but as the clamor of a growing chorus, within which Duesberg was just one voice. The article therefore attributed dissenting views whenever possible to people like Walter Gilbert and Harvey Bialy. More generally, it described "an increasing number of medical scientists and physicians [who] have been questioning whether HIV actually does cause AIDS"; the article linked together those who said HIV could not play a role, those who said HIV had not conclusively been proven to play a role, and those who argued for cofactors. The reader might never have heard of this expanding group, the authors explained, because "most of these doubters prefer not to be quoted, out of fear of losing research funding or of disapproval by peers." Skepticism therefore remained a minority position "due largely to inadequate attention provided by media sources."[102]
In the article, Duesberg and Ellison reiterated their standard arguments but also presented in expanded form a criticism that Duesberg
had not previously discussed in print in great detail: they argued that the notion that HIV caused AIDS was based fundamentally on a tautology. According to the CDC's 1987 update of its surveillance definition, AIDS was (usually) diagnosed by a positive HIV antibody test, in the presence of one or more diseases from a list: "The disease-list includes not only Kaposi's sarcoma and P. carinii pneumonia, but also tuberculosis, cytomegalovirus, herpes, diarrhea, candidiasis, lymphoma, dementia, and many other diseases. If any of these very different diseases is found alone, it is likely to be diagnosed under its classical name. If the same condition is found alongside antibodies against HIV, it is called AIDS. The correlation between AIDS and HIV is thus an artifact of the definition itself."[103] Perfectly ordinary illnesses got stuck with the label "AIDS" if the ill person happened to be HIV positive; then researchers would turn around and say that, since everyone with AIDS was HIV positive, HIV must be the cause. This was an interesting argument, one which threw into question not only the logic of the causal claim but also the very status of "AIDS" as a legitimate disease category. It was an argument that Duesberg would often repeat in subsequent years; but it was somewhat disingenuous as posed.
Although the CDC's 1987 definition listed a number of diseases that, in an HIV-infected person, would result in an AIDS diagnosis,[104] many of them—like Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, toxoplasmosis, and cryptosporidiosis, diseases typical of AIDS patients—were relatively rare in general. Others, like CMV, herpes, and candidiasis, were indeed common, but in these cases the CDC's specifications went further, requiring that the conditions be present in parts of the body where these infections normally did not take root. Similarly, tuberculosis was on the list—but only if it involved at least one site other than the lungs. Diarrhea, of course, was not on the list; Duesberg and Ellison were referring casually to what the CDC called the "HIV wasting syndrome," defined as "profound involuntary weight loss > 10% of baseline body weight plus either chronic diarrhea (at least two loose stools per day for > 30 days) or chronic weakness and documented fever (for > 30 days, intermittent or constant) in the absence of a concurrent illness or condition other than HIV infection that could explain the findings. …"[105] The diagnostic definition of AIDS-related dementia was similarly restrictive. Overall, clinical markers of AIDS were rare diseases and conditions generally not seen in people who were not HIV positive. By failing to explain these details of the CDC's diagnostic algorithm and by suggesting that ordinary diarrhea and tuberculosis
were being taken as markers of AIDS, Duesberg and Ellison were misleading their lay audience.
But at the same time, Duesberg and Ellison presented arguments to counter the assumption that the rare AIDS diseases, like Kaposi's sarcoma and PCP, were in fact so rare. They maintained that "not only have all 25 of these AIDS conditions existed for decades at a low level in the population, but HIV-free instances of the same diseases are still being diagnosed."[106] They also described a recent letter to Lancet by Robert Root-Bernstein, an associate professor of physiology at Michigan State University and recipient of a MacArthur fellowship—one of the so-called "genius grants" provided, no-strings-attached, to individuals in a variety of fields who have been deemed unusually promising. Root-Bernstein's review of the medical literature had led him to conclude that perhaps 15 to 20 percent of all Kaposi's sarcoma cases before 1979 fit the pattern generally believed to have arisen only with the AIDS epidemic: young victims with a short survival time. Citing Sonnabend, Root-Bernstein had written: "Several hypotheses must be entertained—that AIDS is not new; that HIV is only one of several possible causes of AIDS; or that HIV is itself a new, opportunistic infection that takes advantage of previously immunosuppressed individuals."[107]
The existence of "AIDS" diseases in people who are not antibody positive, in Duesberg and Ellison's view, was evidence for their alternative hypothesis, the risk-AIDS hypothesis. They proposed "that the AIDS diseases are entirely separate conditions caused by a variety of factors, most of which have in common only that they involve risk behavior." But like Sonnabend and others who had trod this path before them, the authors recognized that "a risk hypothesis must explain the recent increases in the various AIDS diseases, and why these have all been concentrated in particular risk groups." So Duesberg and Ellison put forward a potpourri of potential causes of the AIDS marker illnesses, linking Kaposi's sarcoma with popper use by gay men; AIDS dementia with psychoactive drugs and syphilis; and the wasting syndrome, "found most heavily in African AIDS patients," with "the extremes of malnutrition and the lack of sanitation on most of that continent," compounded in recent years by "wars and totalitarian regimes."[108]
Many of these arguments were widely familiar from debates early in the epidemic: the claims about African health conditions, for example, mirror Sonnabend's speculations about Haitians in 1983. And indeed, to explain the systemic failure of immune response that is
characteristic of AIDS, Duesberg and Ellison's article explicitly endorsed the immune overload hypothesis,[109] incorporating it within their risk-AIDS hypothesis: "Joseph Sonnabend, a New York physician who founded the journal AIDS Research in 1983, has pointed out that repeated, constant infections may eventually overload the immune system, causing its failure; still worse are simultaneous infections by two or more diseases."[110] Duesberg and Ellison also pointed to heavy drug use as a major cause of immunosuppression. They claimed that abuse of alcohol, heroin, cocaine, marijuana, Valium, and amphetamines "can all be found as part of the life histories of many AIDS patients"; "when combined with regular and prolonged malnutrition, as is done with many active homosexuals[111] and with heroin addicts, this can lead to complete immune collapse." To round out the picture, the authors noted the long-term immunosuppressive effects of antibiotics and claim that "active homosexuals … often [take] large amounts of tetracycline and other antibiotics each evening before entering the bath houses."[112]
Duesberg and Ellison didn't provide any sources for their ethnographic data, and in interviews both of them acknowledged having little direct knowledge of gay life despite its vibrant expression in San Francisco, only miles from the Berkeley campus. In part the authors were drawing on early medical claims about "how the gay lifestyle" was related to the epidemic of immune suppression, which in turn borrowed from earlier and contemporary medical literature on gay men who attended clinics for treatment of sexually transmitted diseases (see chapter 1). Communication with John Lauritsen may also have played its part in shaping their biased understandings of gay male behavior. In a letter to Duesberg written just a few months earlier, Lauritsen had characterized the Mineshaft, the Saint, and St. Mark's Baths—the most prominent New York City venues for uninhibited gay male sex in the years before the epidemic—as "hell-holes which were the arenas for truly psychopathic drug abuse as obligatory tribal ritual."[113]
Gay men and injection drug users had always been the focus of immune overload theories. But no one promoting such a perspective in 1990 could avoid discussion of the other "risk groups," and Duesberg and Ellison understood this. They explained (again echoing Sonnabend's claims from seven years earlier) that blood transfusion recipients were at risk of developing immunodeficiency because of pathogens present in transfused blood. Moreover, people receiving blood
transfusions typically did so because they were already quite ill or had undergone surgery, and both the trauma of the surgical procedure and the anesthesia could have immunosuppressive effects. In fact, Duesberg and Ellison claimed, "with or without HIV infection, half of all [transfusion] recipients do not survive their first year after transfusion." Similarly they noted that "hemophilia has always been a fatal condition," and that the blood products received by its sufferers were immunosuppressive. Finally, cases of AIDS in infants could be traced to "combinations of most of the above risk factors"; 95 percent of these babies were born to mothers who either used drugs or were sex partners of drug users, or had received transfusions, or had hemophilia. According to Duesberg and Ellison: "The risk behavior of many of their mothers has reached these victims, but their conditions are renamed AIDS when in the presence of antibodies against HIV."[114]
In the conclusion to the article, Duesberg and Ellison turned to the policy implications of their argument. "The most urgent of these," they said, concerned the widespread administration of AZT. This powerful drug worked by inhibiting the replication of the virus, but "by doing this the drug also kills all actively growing cells in the patient," including immune system cells. If the virus was harmless, as the authors maintained, then "inhibiting HIV would accomplish nothing, while AZT actually produces the very immune suppression it is supposed to prevent." AZT, by this view, was just another harmful drug—like heroin, cocaine, and poppers—that contributed to immune overload. Second, the risk-AIDS hypothesis called into question the existing AIDS education strategies. Condoms and sterile needles were fine if the goal was to prevent hepatitis and other infectious diseases. But the hazard of these programs, Duesberg and Ellison maintained, was that they lulled the practitioners of risk behaviors into a false sense of security. By failing to "[emphasize] the danger of the risk behavior itself—particularly drug-taking—[these programs] may inadvertently encourage spread of the disease."[115]
The HIV hypothesis "has not yet saved a single life, despite federal spending of $3 billion per year," Duesberg and Ellison reminded their readers in closing.[116] Instead of sinking more money down the same hole, the government should begin funding "studies on the causes of the separate AIDS-diseases and their appropriate therapies." The rest of the $3 billion "might then be saved and returned to the taxpayers," wrote the authors in a suggestion that presumably did not clash with the conservative agenda of Policy Review .
The next issue of the magazine was devoted to letters in response to Duesberg and Ellison—the total length of the letter section was over 13,000 words, one and a half times the length of the original article. Both the establishment and the dissenters were well represented. Howard Temin stressed the "tragic" pediatric evidence: in one study, fifteen of sixteen HIV-infected children of infected mothers had AIDS or pre-AIDS symptoms, while none of thirty-nine uninfected children of infected mothers showed signs of illness. Wrote Temin: "Duesberg and Ellison state that 'the risk behavior of many of their mothers has reached these victims.' It is clear that what reached the children was HIV."[117] Warren Winkelstein, the Berkeley epidemiologist, wrote in with the most recent results from the ongoing San Francisco Men's Health Study. Out of 386 homosexual men who had been HIV positive when entering the study six years before, 140 (36 percent) had developed AIDS, and the majority of them had died. Forty homosexual men had become infected since entering the study, and 2 (5 percent) had developed AIDS. But of 370 homosexual men who had remained uninfected, none developed AIDS.[118]
An interesting letter came from Michael Fumento, who had written a popular book called The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS . Each of them a controversial figure, Duesberg and Fumento shared the belief that AIDS was a "risk group disease" and not a threat to the general population. But they were on opposite sides when it came to the etiological debate. Noting that his "initial reaction to anyone challenging the AIDS industry in any way is favorable," Fumento continued: "but in the case of Peter Duesberg and his co-author Bryan Ellison, I really must demur." After raising objections to Duesberg and Ellison's arguments, Fumento threw down the gauntlet: "What I would suggest, in perfect seriousness, is that before the authors write another article suggesting that it is perfectly okay for HIV-infected persons to have unprotected sex with uninfected persons or vice-versa, that they, in a public forum, inject themselves with HIV. Apparently Duesberg has hinted he may do it; I think he should go beyond that. Readers have a right to know just how much faith the authors have in their own theory."[119]
Duesberg and Ellison were given the last word, and they had plenty to say.[120] They began by expressing their pleasure that "the debate that should have occurred … years ago" was finally taking place. They then launched into a critique of the cohort studies that Winkelstein
and other letter writers had cited as definitive. The existing studies proved nothing, in Duesberg and Ellison's view, because they failed to demonstrate that illness was the consequence of HIV, not risk behavior. A controlled study actually designed to distinguish between the two causal hypotheses would be set up quite differently. It would compare two large groups of people, HIV positives and HIV negatives. But the two groups would be carefully matched for "every health risk that might possibly be involved in the various AIDS diseases."
Duesberg and Ellison also responded to various arguments that letter writers had raised—about babies with AIDS, about wives of hemophiliacs, about needle-stick injuries. Only "media sensationalism," they argued, could convince people that wives of hemophiliacs were at great risk of AIDS if they had no other risk factors. Those cases that had occurred were quite explainable: "Since AIDS is merely, by definition, a list of old diseases that are renamed when in the presence of antibodies against HIV, one should not be surprised to find an occasional such wife who happens to contract HIV and, coincidentally, one of the many diseases on the AIDS list." A controlled study, they believed, would show that HIV-positive wives developed AIDS indicator diseases at the same rate as HIV-negative wives.
The real problem, in Duesberg and Ellison's view, was that the established AIDS researchers abandoned scientific principles when it suited their interests. Instead of controlled studies, these researchers invoked anecdotal evidence. When Koch's postulates failed them, they "casually try to abandon those timetested, commonsensical" rules of scientific method. And "when all else fails," they started "changing the rules," "rather than bringing the hypothesis into question," as real scientists were supposed to do. To explain why so few antibody-positive people had AIDS, "a latent period first had to be invented, then extended to its present, and still growing, total of 10 to 11 years." Duesberg and Ellison concluded by declaring themselves "quite willing to carry out the Fumento test." But their degree of interest in doing so depended on the attention it could attract to their cause: "If he will arrange for sufficient national publicity, if he would be convinced by our action, and if he will thereafter help us bring exposure to our viewpoint, we will indeed be quite happy to have ourselves publicly injected with HIV. Perhaps Fumento will also be willing to check on our health status in the year 2000, or after whatever additional time is eventually added to the virus' latent period."[121]


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Bacteria-killing antibiotics might also damage a person's tissues.
Bacteria-killing antibiotics might also damage a person's tissues.
Researchers discover that unlike brown fat cells, white fat cells can directly sense cooling temperatures to switch on genes that control heat production.
A vacation from your lab doesn't have to mean a break from fascinating developments on the life science front.
Meet some of the people featured in the July 2013 issue of The Scientist.
Viruses abound in the world's oceans, yet researchers are only beginning to understand how they affect life and chemistry from the water's surface to the sea floor.
Nobel Laureate Jerome Karle has passed away at age 94.
The cell fragments play a role in the body's first line of defense against bacterial infection, helping white blood cells grab blood-borne bacteria in the liver.
A compound that targets a particular opioid receptor in the amygdala reduces the formation of PTSD-like systems in mice subjected to severe trauma.
Some H5N1 and H7N9 bird flu viruses could be one mutation away from spreading efficiently between humans.


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IV.1. Barley chromosome 2.
G. W. R. Walker. Genetics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Linkage orientation map. (For numerals in brackets, refer to text.)
1. Revisions of map since the report by Robertson (Barley Genetics II, 1970).
A. Loci deleted
(1) gs 7 (Tsuchiya, 1972, BGN 2:163)
(2) ine (Tsuchiya, 1972, BGN 2:163)
B. Locational changes
(3) Centromere: from gs 5 - wst 4 to f-gs 5
(telotrisomic analysis; Tsuchiya, 1972, BGN 2:193)
(4) lr from v to the right of v (a re-examination
of earlier data; Haus, 1972, BGN 2:203, indicates it should be 8 units
to the right of v)
C. Allelism established by allelism tests
(5) gs 8 (=cer-gs 8) and gs 5 (Takahashi
et al., 1970, BGN 1:51)
(6) v and 23 induced 6-row mutants, 16 of which are v-type
and 7'v'-type showing 'elongated pedicel and shortened awn' (Fukuyama
et al., 1972, BGN 2:25)
(7) gp 2 and gp (Matchett, 1968, Ph.D. Thesis, Colorado
State University; Matchett et al., 1971, Can. J. Genet. Cytol. 13:489-498;
Tsuchiya, 1971, BGN 1:62)
D. Loci added
(8) Ha (by Tsuchiya and Haus, 1972, BGN 2:163; data from Cotten
and Hayes, 1969, Heredity 24:593)
(9) Ha 2 (by Walker, 1973; data from Anderson, 1972, BGN 2:201)
2. Genes assigned to chromosome 2, but not to definite positions; since the report by Robertson (ibid)
A. Assigned by trisomic analysis (Takahashi and Hayashi, 1966, Ber.
Ohara Inst. Landw. Biol. 13:185)
(i) sk (no evidence of linkage with v, or)
B. Assigned and positioned re centromere by double-translocation test,
using T2-7d, T2-3f and V/v (Søgaard, 1971,
BGN 1:41; see also Persson, 1969, Hereditas 62:25)
(ii) cer-n: short arm, near centromere
(iii) cer-zm: short arm suggested, very close to centromere
(iv) cer-s, cer-v: long arm, near centromere
(v) cer-g: long arm, less than 16 units from centromere


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Three promoted at Manchester Police Department
Officer Brandon Murphy, a 10-year veteran of the police department, and Officer Christopher Goodnow, who joined the department in 1997, were both promoted to sergeant.
Sgt. Todd Boucher, who has been with the department since 1995, was promoted to lieutenant.
Murphy has served as a patrol officer and as a detective assigned to the Special Enforcement Division. He is an element leader on SWAT and also is an instructor for the Tactical Officer Association. He is a graduate of Trinity High School and St. Anselm College.
Goodnow was with the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office for two years before he joined the police department in 1997. He was a patrol officer and K-9 handler before his most recent assignment to the Community Policing Division. He was an instructor at the Manchester Police Canine Academy and currently serves as the unit's trainer. A graduate of Londonderry High School, Goodnow has certification in a number of specialized training programs.
Boucher is a 23-year veteran of law enforcement, having first served as an officer with the Allenstown and Litchfield police departments before joining the Manchester police force in 1995. He served as a patrol officer and also was assigned to the Mounted Unit before his promotion to sergeant in 2006, assigned to the patrol division as a supervisor. Boucher is a graduate of Alvirne High School and Hesser College.
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Houzz is an amazing site. Although I haven't interacted much with the community, the people are wonderful here. I moved into my new and first home a while back and Houzz was where I got most ideas , confirmation of ideas, experiences of people that helped a great deal. Like the whole conversations about granite kitchen tops helped me to select a good one and beware of the pitfalls. I still have furniture I need to make or buy and look here for ideas. Its real people with real homes that's what I like the most. Thanks Houzz!


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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco Giants fan severely beaten outside Dodger Stadium has made "significant improvement" despite a series of ups and downs since his near-fatal attack more than four months ago, his doctor said Monday.
Bryan Stow is awake, breathing on his own, can move slightly and has been able to interact with his family, said Dr. Geoff Manley, the chief of neurosurgery at San Francisco General Hospital. However, Manley said it's still unclear how far Stow's recovery will take him.
"His ability to follow commands has greatly increased," Manley said. "There have been a lot of ups and downs and we still don't know where he's going to plateau in terms of his recovery."
The paramedic from Santa Cruz remains in serious condition after suffering a traumatic brain injury when he was attacked on March 31 following the Dodgers' home opener against the Giants in Los Angeles. He underwent a life-saving procedure in Los Angeles and was put in a coma for several weeks.
He was transported to San Francisco to be closer to his family in May.
Last week, Stow's family said on their website that he is responding to some directions. Stow lifted his left leg when asked and raised his left arm when asked if someone could hold his hand, relatives said.
The family also said that when Stow's sister, Bonnie, asked if she could give him a kiss, he puckered his lips each time.
Last month, doctors performed emergency surgery on the father of two to remove fluid buildup in his head that caused a seizure. But Stow has responded well following surgery last week to replace a missing skull fragment with a prosthetic bone flap, Manley said.
Doctors will determine in the next week or so whether Stow will require a shunt to permanently divert the fluid, Manley added.
The goal, Manley said, is to place Stow in a long-term rehab center. The doctor said Stow has come far in terms of nearly being beaten to death; being placed in a coma, opening his eyes and now following some basic commands.
"In the spectrum of things, he's not running down the hall and doing multi-step commands, but given where he was when he first came here, he's significantly improved," Manley said. "He still has a long way to go."
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Harris Teeter Supermarkets has groceries to health and beauty items in the bag. Through operating subsidiary Harris Teeter, Harris Teeter Supermarkets operates a regional chain of around 210 supermarkets in nine states primarily in the southeastern and mid-Atlantic US, as well as Washington, DC. The majority of the grocery stores house pharmacies and feature niceties such as sushi bars, gourmet delis, and cafes. The company sold its American & Efirdindustrial thread subsidiary to KPS Capital Partners for $180 million in cash in 2011. In 2012 the company changed its name from Ruddick Corp. to Harris Teeter Supermarkets to reflect its focus on grocery sales. Grocery giant Kroger is buying the company.
Change in Company Type
Harris Teeter Supermarkets (formerly Ruddick Corp.) reorganized in 2012 following the sale of Ruddick's industrial thread subsidiary, American & Efrid, in 2011. Now with the Harris Teeter supermarket chain its only business, Ruddick changed its name to Harris Teeter Supermarkets and its ticker symbol from RDK to HTSI in April 2012. In 2013 the company became the subject of takeover rumors, which proved true when grocery giant Kroger in July agreed to acquire Harris Teeter for $49.38 per share in cash, or about $2.5 billion.
Geographic Reach
North Carolina, home to about two-thirds of Harris Teeter's stores, is the grocery chain's largest market, followed by Virginia and South Carolina, with 38 and 14 stores, respectively.
In addition to its grocery stores, Harris Teeter operates grocery, frozen food, and perishable distribution centers in Greensboro and Indian Trail, North Carolina, as well as the Hunter Farms milk and ice cream plant in High Point, North Carolina. The High Point plant supplies Harris Teeter stores with milk, yogurt, and ice cream.
Financial Performance
Harris Teeter's fiscal 2012 (ends September) sales increased 6% vs. the prior year, while net income fell by nearly 10% over the same period. The $4.5 billion in sales rung up at Harris Teeter supermarkets in fiscal 2012 was an all-time high for the company. Sales got a boost from higher sales at its existing stores (known as same-store sales) and sales from new stores, partially offset by store closings. Net income declined mainly because of increased expenses from expansion and higher operational costs, including labor, credit and debit card fees, rent and other occupancy costs.
Harris Teeter is steadily growing its retail footprint. Its management believes that its strategy of opening additional stores within close proximity to existing stores, and any similar new additions in the future, has a strategic benefit of enabling the grocery chain to capture sales and expand market share as the markets it serves continue to grow. During fiscal 2012, Harris Teeter added five new stores, on top of 15 supermarkets added over the previous two years. Going forward, the chain plans to add a dozen new stores and remodel about ten others in 2013.
The upscale grocery chain is feeling the heat as competitors, such as Publix, Whole Foods and Earth Fare, expand in its markets and lure away the grocer's customers. On the low end, discounters Wal-Mart and Target are chipping away at its market as well. In response, Harris Teeter is continuing to broaden its lineup of organic and natural foods while touting value. (Harris Teeter sells about 830 natural and organic products. Earth Fare has 26,000.)
To better compete with its high-end rivals, Harris Teeter is opening stores under a new format and banner called 201Central. The new format features a international variety of wine, beer, specialty foods, and other selected merchandise.
Mergers and Acquisitions
In June 2012 the company acquired 10 supermarkets in the central Carolinas from rival Lowes Food Stores, which in turn purchased six Harris Teeter stores in western North Carolina.
Investment firm Neuberger Berman Group owns about 12% of Harris Teeter's shares.
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October 25, 2006
Second Floor - Hearing Room A
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At 10:30 a.m.
Meridian Interstate Bancorp, Inc. (the "Petitioner"), East Boston, Massachusetts - permission to acquire up to a 40% controlling interest in Hampshire First Bank, in organization, Manchester, New Hampshire and to become a bank holding company. The Petitioner is the holding company for East Boston Savings Bank, East Boston, Massachusetts. The Petitioner's parent is Meridian Financial Services, Inc., East Boston, Massachusetts, a mutual holding company which would retain its mutual structure and also become a bank holding company under the proposed transaction. Comment period ends October 31, 2006.
Fidelity Co-operative Bank, Fitchburg, Massachusetts - permission to establish a mutual co-operative bank in conjunction with its multi-step reorganization into a mutual holding company, Fidelity Mutual Holding Company, with a mid-tier holding company, Life Design Holding Company. The continuing bank will operate under the name Fidelity Co-operative Bank - approved September 19, 2006.
Bay State Savings Bank, Worcester - permission to relocate its branch office from 247 Mill Street, Worcester to 275 Mill Street, Worcester - approved September 14, 2006.
Boston Globe Employees Credit Union, Boston - notice to establish a branch office at the Worcester Telegram & Gazette building, 20 Franklin Street, Worcester - non-objection issued September 14, 2006.
Citizens Bank of Massachusetts, Boston - notice to establish a branch office within Stop & Shop Supermarket, 10 Technology Drive, Route 85, Hudson - approved September 11, 2006.
Fall River Five Cents Savings Bank, Fall River - notice to establish a branch office at 55 Thirteenth Street, Fall River - non-objection issued September 26, 2006.
Fidelity Co-operative Bank, Fitchburg - permission to reorganize into a mutual holding company, Fidelity Mutual Holding Company, as part of a multi-step transaction - approved September 19, 2006.
Fidelity Co-operative Bank, Fitchburg - permission to relocate a branch office from 352 Belmont Street, Worcester to 465 Shrewsbury Street, Worcester - approved September 29, 2006.
State Street Bank and Trust Company, Boston, Massachusetts - permission to establish a branch office in Mumbai, India - approved September 6, 2006.
Winchester Savings Bank, Winchester - permission to close a branch office located at Winchester High School, 80 Skillings Road, Winchester - approved September 29, 2006.
Applications/Notices Pending
City of Boston Credit Union, Boston - permission to amend its by laws to expand the associations which qualify persons for membership. The amendment relative to membership eligibility proposes to add membership for those who live or work in Middlesex County, Suffolk County and Norfolk County, as well as organization members, as defined in the proposed by-law, located in those counties. Other changes are set out in the proposed by-law. By-law proposal has been revised to delete the reference to Middlesex County. Comment period ended April 18, 2006.
Mayflower Co-operative Bank (the "Bank"), Middleboro - permission to reorganize the Bank into a holding company structure pursuant to a Plan of Reorganization and Acquisition dated as of June 8, 2006 between the Bank and Mayflower Bancorp, Inc., a Massachusetts corporation formed to effect the reorganization. Comment period ended September 22, 2006.
North Shore Bank, A Co-operative Bank, Peabody - permission to (1) relocate its branch office located within Shaw's Supermarket, 11 Trader's Way, Salem to 319 Highland Avenue, Salem; and (2) close a branch office located within Foodmaster Supermarket, 50 Boston Street, Lynn. Comment periods end October 16, 2006.
Salem Five Cents Savings Bank, Salem - permission to close branch offices located at (1) 4 Colon Street, Beverly; and (2) 123 Pleasant Street, Marblehead. Comment periods ended September 27, 2006.
Salem Five Cents Savings Bank, Salem - permission to (1) close its current main office located at 210 Essex Street, Salem; and (2) redesignate its current branch office at 71 Washington Street, Salem as the main office. Comment periods end October 26, 2006.
Southbridge Credit Union, Southbridge - notice to establish a branch office at 732 Southbridge Street, Auburn. Filed July 17, 2006.
Workers' Credit Union ("Workers'"), Fitchburg and Crobank Credit Union ("Crobank"), Westminster - permission for Crobank to merge with and into Workers' under the charter, by-laws and name of Workers' Credit Union. The main office of Workers' would remain the main office of the continuing credit union and the sole banking office of Crobank would not be retained as a branch office. Comment period ends October 23, 2006.
Workers' Credit Union ("Workers'"), Fitchburg and Peoples Community Credit Union ("Peoples"), Leominster - permission for Peoples to merge with and into Workers' under the charter, by-laws and name of Workers' Credit Union. The main office of Workers' would remain the main office of the continuing credit union and the sole banking office of Peoples would be retained as a branch office. Comment period ends October 26, 2006.
Complete applications for the August Activity Report must be received by the Division or the Board on or before 5:00 P.M., Monday, October 16, 2006.
The following state-chartered institutions have Community Reinvestment Act Descriptive Ratings and Evaluations describing the basis for the Rating issued by the Division of Banks pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws chapter 167, section 14. The ratings, as set out in the statute, for a bank's record of meeting community credit needs are: Outstanding ("O"); High Satisfactory ("HS"); Satisfactory ("S"); Needs to Improve ("NI"); and Substantial Noncompliance ("SNC").
Bank of Canton (The) | HS | 04/10/06 |
Bank of Western Massachusetts (The), Springfield | O | 05/15/06 |
Flagship Bank & Trust Company, Worcester | O | 05/15/06 |
South Coastal Bank, Rockland | S | 07/17/06 |
Wakefield Co-operative Bank | S | 05/22/06 |
South Shore Co-operative Bank, Weymouth | S | 04/18/06 |
Legacy Banks, Pittsfield - pending
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
Springfield City Hall, Room 220
36 Court Street
Springfield, Massachusetts
at 6:00 p.m.
Pioneer Check Cashing, Inc., Springfield, Massachusetts - permission to operate a check casher office located with the Chestnut Package Store, 95 Chestnut Street, Springfield, Massachusetts. Comment period ends Tuesday, October 10, 2006.
Applications Pending
Espo Liquor Company, Inc. d/b/a Broadway Liquors, Lawrence, Massachusetts- permission to operate a check casher office located at 434 Broadway, Lawrence, Massachusetts. Comment period ended December 27, 2005.
John Tamburo d/b/a Tamburo Check Cashing, Everett, Massachusetts - permission to operate a check casher office at 241 Beacham Street, Everett. Comment period ended Tuesday, September 5, 2006.
Kirsch & Davis, Inc. d/b/a Kirsch Package Store, Worcester, Massachusetts - permission to operate a check casher office at 646 Main Street, Worcester. Comment period ended Thursday, August 24, 2006.
Primos Liquors, Inc., Lawrence, Massachusetts - permission to operate a check casher office located at 450 Haverhill Street, Lawrence, Massachusetts. Comment period ended December 27, 2005.
WalMart Stores East, LP d/b/a Wall Mart Stores, Bentonville Arkansas - permission to provide check cashing services at its 44 store locations in Massachusetts. Comment period ended June 28, 2006.
Pursuant to the provisions of Massachusetts General Laws chapter 255E, section 2 and in accordance with the provisions of Massachusetts General Laws chapter 30A, section 2, a public hearing will be held on Tuesday, October 17, 2006 at 10:00 a.m., Hearing Room A, 5th Floor, One South Station, Boston, Massachusetts, at which comments will be received by the Division of Banks (the "Division") relative to proposed amendments to existing regulation, 209 CMR 42.00: THE LICENSING OF MORTGAGE LENDERS AND MORTGAGE BROKERS.
The purpose of the proposed amendments is to add ten additional prohibited acts and practices to existing regulations governing mortgage lenders and mortgage brokers. The proposed amendments will add ten activities to those which are presently prohibited for mortgage lenders and mortgage brokers in connection with a residential mortgage transaction in this state.
These amendments were filed by the Division as Emergency Regulations on September 8, 2006 and this hearing is part of the process to make these amendments permanent. Additional changes or amendments may be made based on comments received at the public hearing or during the comment period.
Written comments may be submitted to the Division on the proposed amendments until 5:00 p.m. on Friday, October 20, 2006. Copies of the proposed amendments are available at, and copies may be obtained from, the Massachusetts Division of Banks, One South Station, Boston, Massachusetts 02110 or at www.mass.gov/dob/.
PLEASE NOTE: All publications of the Division of Banks are now delivered electronically. To subscribe, simply send an email to:
If you need assistance or have questions, please contact Bernard N. Waxman at 617.956.1571.
For information relative to current Activity Reports please contact the Consumer Assistance Unit .


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Sir Laurence Olivier (1907 � 1989) was an English actor and director, considered by many the greatest actor of the twentieth century. His roles range from the Academy Award-winning title role of Hamlet (which he also directed) to a Razzie-winning supporting role in the remake of The Jazz Singer.As a film director, he's best known for his three William Shakespeare adaptations: Henry V (1944), Hamlet (1948), and Richard III (1955). He also played the title role in each, being nominated for the Best Actor Oscar each time. He won for Hamlet, which also won Best Picture (the only movie spoken in Shakespeare's dialogue to win to date) and earned Olivier a Best Director nomination (making him the only person to direct himself to an Oscar until Roberto Benigni won an Oscar for acting in Life Is Beautiful 50 years later).He also received two honorary Academy Awards: the first in 1947 for Outstanding Achievement for his Henry V, which he produced, directed and starred in; and a Lifetime Achievement award in 1979.Other roles that attracted Academy Award nominations but not wins included Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights (1939), Maxim de Winter in Rebecca (1940), the title role in The Entertainer (1960), the title role in Othello (1965), Andrew Wyke in Sleuth (1972), Dr Christian Szell in Marathon Man (1976), and Ezra Lieberman in The Boys from Brazil (1978).In what was perhaps the logical extreme to both their careers, Kenneth Branagh netted an Academy Award nomination for playing Olivier in My Week With Marilyn.Official site
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I still remember my best friend sweet-talking an older woman into buying our tickets for Menace, since we were but 14 or 15 years old at the time. We had heard so much from the older kids about how crucial it was to see this film, we were prepared to do anything to get in. And when we walked out of the now-closed AMC City Place 10 theater in Silver Spring, MD that afternoon, the world was a different place to us. If anything, Menace scared us just as much as it excited us. But to know that the Hughes Brothers were a mere 5 years older than we were when they made Menace II Society makes the whole experience so much more remarkable, in my opinion.
Well, enough of the stroll down memory lane . . . fast-forward to a little under a year ago, when Tambay told us about the premiere of Yo: The Story of Yo! MTV Raps, which featured a clip of rapper Tupac Shakur addressing a physical altercation that he claimed occurred between himself and Allen Hughes; it all stemmed from a feud that had its origins in the early days of the making of Menace.
Now, as the 20th anniversary of that film's release approaches, Hughes sets the record straight via SwaysUniverse.com, and also talks about his new solo film Broken City and his thoughts on Django Unchained:
Tupac Shakur | May 12, 2013 9:56 AM
Pac_fromtheGrave | March 12, 2013 2:20 AM
Seems there's a lot missing from this interview that Sway lacked the intelligence to explore. Allen says he arrived with his brother. You mean to tell us that Allen's twin brother sat back & watched the whole thing or can we conclude that he fled like a coward? The fact that he deliberately chooses not to talk about his brothers involvement (deception by omission) means I can't trust a word of this interview.
Howard | January 17, 2013 5:23 PM
I kinda believe it. Tupac and Denzel were on the same level, skill-wise. His turn as Birdie in 'Above The Rim' has never been matched.
Darkan | January 17, 2013 3:38 PM
Tupac was gonna step into Denzel's mantle?!? GTF outta here. Wishful thinking. Tupamaros nerve played a role that made me think anything like that. SMDH.


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Elwoodblues, the only one spending so much time here spewing hate and bias is YOU. There has not been one day that you have not been here bullying anybody who differs with YOUR opinion.
I don't loathe this paper. I loathe the vile hatred coming from some of the commenters.
I for one am ready for the results and will move on whatever they may be.
"Hate and bias"? Excuse me,but aren't you the same Cal_Cat_Mom who posted this about the folks suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy "There's alot of misery there,and people are suffering,but it's DOESN'T CHANGE my VOTE! Who in their right mind bases their vote on the scope of a natural disaster? I very politely,very earnestly to stop and think about what you were saying for just a moment..to look at this through a mother's eyes,to consider what you'd say if it were your kids up there,and what did you tell me? "Get over myself".."we shouldn't stop talking about the election".Nobody ASKED YOU to stop talking about anything..all I asked was you to take a moment and reflect on how callous you sounded..how incredibly inane your comment was,and you wouldn't even do that.That,lady,makes you a gold plated wingnut.
I wasn't aware that you were in charge of calling roll and keeping attendance,but there've been several days I haven't been here.Sometimes I find some of you folks can only be taken in very small doses and I have step away to maintain my faith in humanity..my perspective on people in general.I,too,loathe the vile hatred coming from some of the commenters,but the vast majority of it seems to be emanating from cretins on your side of the fence.
If you'll go back and reread my comment on people loathing the paper,I was clearly speaking to people on this site who routinely refer to it as a "liberal rag".If that's you,the comment's germaine,if it isn't,ignore it.
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Type | Feature Film |
MPAA Rating | None |
Runtime | 1hr 25mins. |
Genres | Documentary, Biopic |
Status | N/A |
US Release Date | 12/05/2007 |
Actor Harry Dean Stanton once recorded a track with Bob Dylan, but the song was never released.
Before you see 'Catching Fire,' make sure to refresh your 'Hunger Games' knowledge
"I'm Gonna Be" is gonna be in my head for days now.
Actress Evan Rachel Wood has urged the public to go easy on troubled pop star Justin Bieber, insisting youngsters who grow up in the spotlight should not be criticised for making mistakes.
British pop star Robbie Williams fears Miley Cyrus is heading for a meltdown after enduring months of intense pressure as her career hit a high.
Actor Billy Bob Thornton has warned young couples not to marry too young.
Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone go toe to toe in one last fight.
Actor Jamie Bell has harboured a secret lifelong ambition to shoot a movie based on an Irvine Welsh novel after watching gritty, drug-fuelled film Trainspotting as a child.
Country star Billy Ray Cyrus has cleared up confusion about a tweet he posted online on Monday (26Aug13), insisting he had the problems in Syria on his mind, not his daughter's controversial MTV Video Music Awards routine.
Iconic jazz musician and producer George Duke has died at the age of 67.
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Bob Alexander | Executive Producer | n/a | |
Barnet Liberman | Executive Producer | n/a | |
Jennifer Venditti | Producer | n/a | |
Chiemi Karasawa | Producer | n/a | |
Jordan Mattos | Associate Producer | n/a | |
Danielle DiGiacomo | Associate Producer | n/a | |
Donald Cumming | Cinematographer | n/a | |
Paris Kain | Cinematographer | n/a | |
Michael Levine | Editor | n/a | |
Enat Sidi | Editor | n/a | |
Christian Zucconi | Original Music | n/a | |
Guy Blakeslee | Original Music | n/a | |
Tony Volante | Rerecording Mixer | n/a | |
Damian Volpe | Sound Designer | n/a |
School's out for these morally and ethically corrupt teachers in pop culture history. From 'The Simpsons' instructor Mrs. Krabappel to Cameron Diaz's aptly titled turn in 'Bad Teacher' to Billy Bob Thornton's other performance as someone who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a child in 'Mr. Woodcock', here's our picks for the Worst Teachers in Movies and TV.
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Aging parents (9)
- Senior health: How to prevent and detect malnutrition
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- Aging parents: 7 warning signs of health problems
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Alzheimer's and memories: Use mementos as cues
Interview your loved one
You might want to start by reminiscing with your loved one about his or her family history, traditions and celebrations. Often, childhood games, homes and pets are good opening topics — especially as Alzheimer's progresses and your loved one has trouble remembering recent events. You might also talk about favorite sports, books, music and hobbies, as well as cultural or historical events.
Depending on the status of your loved one's memory, you might also want to interview neighbors, friends, family members and other close contacts.
Documents also help
Other sources of information might include old documents, important papers or personal correspondence. Consider making copies of anything precious for safekeeping.
"By creating a life story, you affirm for your loved one all the positive things he or she has done in life and can still do," Dr. Smith says. "Even after your loved one's memories start to fade, creating a life story shows that you value and respect his or her legacy. It also reminds you who your loved one was before Alzheimer's disease."
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- Making a memory book. National Institutes of Health. http://nihseniorhealth.gov/alzheimerscare/dailyactivities/video/b5_transcript.html. Accessed July 25, 2011.
- Egan M, et al. Methods to enhance verbal communication between individuals with Alzheimer's disease and their formal and informal caregivers: A systematic review. International Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. 2010;2010:1.
- Brackey J. Creating Moments of Joy for the Person With Alzheimer's or Dementia. 4th ed. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press; 2007:152.


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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A construction of poles intertwined with twigs, reeds, or branches, used for walls, fences, and roofs.
- n. Material used for such construction.
- n. A fleshy, wrinkled, often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat, characteristic of certain birds, such as chickens or turkeys, and some lizards.
- n. Botany Any of various Australian trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
- transitive v. To construct from wattle.
- transitive v. To weave into wattle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof.
- n. A wrinkled fold of skin, sometimes brightly coloured, hanging from the neck of birds (such as chicken and turkey) and some lizards.
- n. A decorative fleshy appendage on the neck of a goat.
- n. Loose hanging skin in the neck of a person.
- n. Any of several Australian trees and shrubs of the genus Acacia.
- v. To construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.
- n. A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
- n.
- n. A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.
- n. Barbel of a fish.
- n.
- n. The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark.
- n. Material consisting of wattled twigs, withes, etc., used for walls, fences, and the like.
- n. In Australasia, any tree of the genus Acacia; -- so called from the wattles, or hurdles, which the early settlers made of the long, pliable branches or of the split stems of the slender species. The bark of such trees is also called wattle. See also Savanna wattle, under Savanna.
- transitive v. To bind with twigs.
- transitive v. To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat.
- transitive v. To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A framework made of interwoven rods or twigs; a hurdle. See hurdle.
- n. A rod; a wand; a switch; a twig.
- n. A basket; a bag or wallet.
- n. In ornithology, a fleshy lobe hanging from the front of the head; specifically, such a lobe of the domestic hen, or a like formation of any bird.
- n. A flap of skin forming a sort of dewlap on each side of the neck of some domestic swine.
- n. In ichthyology, a fleshy excrescence about the mouth; a barbel.
- n. One of various Australian and Tasmanian acacias, valued to some extent for their wood and for their gum, but more for their bark, which is rich in tannin.
- n. In heraldry, a wattle or dewlap used in a bearing. Compare wattled.
- To bind, wall, fence, or otherwise fit with wattles.
- To form by interweaving twigs or branches: as, to wattle a fence.
- To interweave; interlace; form into basket-work or network.
- To switch; beat.
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- n. any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle
- n. a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards
- v. interlace to form wattle
- v. build of or with wattle
- n. framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence
From "A Field of Snow on a Slope of the Rosenberg" by Guy Davenport.
This word was chosen as Wordnik word of the day.
You know, wattle and waffle would have the same definition...except for two very good reasons.
Hey, I only have two hands, you know! Why, I haven't even begun to think about my bird vocalizations list....
reesetee, you don't already have a Bird Parts list?! Shameful! (<--me posing as a listmistress)
Luvverly. Can I swap one for a wagtail's entrails?
Buzzard gizzard. How's that for a bird part?
Any word whose definition commences: "a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin" has many interesting possibilities.
Does the assembled Conference of Avians hereby approve?
25 mapies say 'Aye'.
And those birds on the fence or against?
1 popinjay says 'Nay'.
Watch it--I may start a list of bird parts. ;->
Anyway, that was a mollusque addition, I believe. We're charter members of the Shared List Club. -
Wattle reesetee be listing next?!
A tree or shrub of the genus Acacia.
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I think I am right when I multiply the tele converters' power number times the 35mm equivalent to get what the lens is like. In other words at full telephoto the g2 is 105mm. That times the 1.5 for the telephoto converter would be 157mm. The wide angle end would be 35mm X 0.8 equaling 28mm. These are the numbers for the Canon add on lenses, TC 58 and WC 58.
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Since then, Layla has given us no problems, and has been behaving like any heart healthy 6 month-old does. She sleeps through the night, is sitting up, rolling over and trying to get into things!
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Release 0.5.0b8: It's Greek to me!
Family in town, not much time, but I wanted to get a new release out there. Here are the changes in this release (HTTP, Bittorrent, source):
- REG: Switching between windowed and full-screen mode when watching a video now works again.
- NEW: The genius known as bmfrosty realized that all Leopard installations come with Arial Unicode, so I've put some code in to intercept requests to Arial and redirect to the system-installed Unicode version. This means no more need to download and install the font for all you international folk, it should work out of the box! Simply select Arial as the skin font, and it should work. We'll be putting more work in here shortly, including allowing you to pick more system-provided fonts.
- FIX: You can now add Smart Folders as sources.
- FIX: Some memory leaks playing sounds and loading images (thanks to riquedafreak!)
- NEW: We've upped the minimum cache size in a few cases to be more realistic for HD media. Still lots of improvements to be made in this area, but if you're having trouble with frames dropping or jerky playback, make *sure* your cache settings are high enough.
- FIX: I've included a patch by crocodile that apparently fixes streaming from a Dreambox.
- FIX: The default on-screen time for the song information has been raised from 2 seconds to 10.
- FIX: New ffmpeg libraries to include a fix by elupus relating to seeking in MKV files.
- FIX: A patch by Roman Sokolov has been included which apparently helps out with Cyrillic input, switching keyboard layouts, and allowing hot-keys to work. I'm not completely clear on the fixes because, frankly, I don't type in Cyrillic, but the patch was clean.
- NEW: Another part of the same patch, we now allow the desired URL encoding to be specified in a scraper. We default to UTF-8, and the new KinoPoisk scraper that's been included in this release specifies CP1251.
Areas to test:
- Cyrillic/international keyboard input, Russian movie scraping.
- Smart folders.
Here's a screenshot with Greek language enabled, using the system-supplied Arial font.
And finally, your moment of Barkley:
21 Comments so far
Paul June 13th, 2008 11:20 am
So many releases:O
Never touched my original xbox again because of OSXBMC:D
Really appreciate your work!!(Y) -
eduo June 13th, 2008 11:36 am
For the last eight versions or so three-line subtitles fail to display the middle one ( http://www.grabup.com/uploads/7b82535df229aac58b0cb0cff0ec9e32.png ). I had mentioned this in the original forum and on IRC but didn't receive any acknowledge.
I can't find this reported anywhere. Could it be something in my setup only?
I wish subtitle font size could be selected by % of screen height. Either in fullscreen subtitles are tiny or they're huge in windowed mode.
beto77 June 13th, 2008 11:40 am
Whoat! another great release! And just in time to test it with a film
Thanks elan! -
eduo June 13th, 2008 11:44 am
Here's the same screenshot from within VLC http://www.grabup.com/uploads/6681f1bcaeda0073abaee46d0ab7dddf.png
sigalakos June 13th, 2008 12:01 pm
Which means: "Elan, my friend, let me thank you for adding Greek support into OSXBMC. Fucking great!"
I'll be testing it thoroughly and report my findings.@eduo Hey! I just posted this on the "Bugs" forum section: http://forums.osxbmc.com/index.php?showtopic=212
hippojay June 13th, 2008 12:02 pm
Elan – this release is broken slightly.
The new default of "off" for the harddisk cache causes an infinate (or at least a long time) buffering loop. Media won't play.
As soon as I set it to any otehr value, everything is back to normal.
Nothing in the log file points to why..
Mickey June 13th, 2008 1:00 pm
The full screen mode toggle works perfect now! (the resulting xbmc is shrinked instead of cropped :thumbup: )
Only one thing: now, when I quit normmaly OSXBMC, it crashes (the "has unexpectedly quit" dialog is shown)
niad June 13th, 2008 10:47 pm
Have the setup for the original mac ir control changed. Where can i find the lates guide of commands for the original control and what setting should i have in osxbmc for it to work properly. I beleive that in the beginning you should for example hold in MENU for a movie to stop but that does not work for me now.
smoothdvd June 14th, 2008 2:36 am
Greate Job!
dr01dy June 14th, 2008 9:33 am
do you need to delete your application support xbmc folder every time there is an update?
The about XBMC button in settings does not work, but I guess thats because of the recent news.
nicholas June 15th, 2008 1:29 am
Ridgebacks rule! And so does your port! Keep it up man
Patrik June 15th, 2008 11:53 am
Hi there, I've used the appleremote for navigation in XBMC since you started supporting it. But in the latest releases I havn't been able to exit videoclips with the remote (In earlier releases I would have to press the "menu" button for a few seconds) to exit a videoclip. But this does not work anymore (I've tried universal in settings as well) Am I doing something wrong ?
Thanks for a great app /pat
azrael June 16th, 2008 2:49 am
as in http://dn-0.com/xbmc-trac/ticket/87#comment:8 , the visualisation for music does not entirely work in mit macbook with intel GMA gfx, seems to be a problem of this type of gfxhardware…
swangy June 16th, 2008 1:08 pm
nice! thanks!
Henrik June 17th, 2008 1:11 am
Does this run on AppleTV?
Joe June 17th, 2008 4:14 am
I have OSX with all updates installed.
When I start osxbmc 0.5.b8 it immediately quits. What can I do to make it work?Process: XBMC [2845]
Path: /Applications/OSXBMC.app/Contents/MacOS/XBMC
Identifier: org.xbmc.XBMC
Version: ??? (???)
Build Info: XBMC-0000~1
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [416]Date/Time: 2008-06-18 00:12:17.399 +1000
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.3 (9D34)
Report Version: 6Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0×0000000000000002, 0×0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/OSXBMC.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/libsmbclient.dylib
Reason: Incompatible library version: libsmbclient.dylib requires version 7.0.0 or later, but libiconv.2.dylib provides version 6.0.0 -
Con2K June 17th, 2008 4:48 am
I have the same problem on my Mac Mini Intel Core Duo with Mac OSX 10.4.11 1.66Ghz Intel, 512MB 667 DDR2 SDRam.
Click the xbmc App and it instantly quits…
Any help?
platanito21 June 17th, 2008 8:21 am
osxbmc is only for Leopard (10.5)
elan June 17th, 2008 9:14 am
@sigalakos: Thanks I think I'm going to get that Greek phrase tattooed on my arm.
@hippojay: So if you whack your settings the default cache size is 0?
@Mickey: Does it always happen? Please visit the forums and post the crash report in there.
@Patrik: I haven't changed anything, a bit surprised to hear it doesn't work anymore. Please visit the forums if you haven't already to discuss.
@Joe: I'll fix that reference in the next beta, not sure why other people didn't run into it.
Drailex_Mauder June 17th, 2008 9:50 am
The FAQ says that only Leopard is supported. Con2K, you are running Tiger.
hippojay June 17th, 2008 10:04 am
I just created a new user and started osxbmc running and it defaults to 1024k for local HDD cache. Something bizarro must have happened to my settings as I'm sure I never alterted them before (as they never did anything).
Think I'll file this under "User Error" for now
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for information concerning our duty in each case and circumstance, we need only thus to consult and interrogate ourselves, hence forming resolutions concerning our practice.
Do we not much esteem and set by ourselves? Do we strive to maintain in our minds a good opinion of ourselves? Can any mischances befalling us, any defects observable in us, any faults committed by us, induce us to slight or despise ourselves?This may teach us what regard and value we should ever preserve for our neighbour.
Do we not sincerely and earnestly desire our own welfare and advantage in every kind? Do we not heartily wish good success to our own designs and undertakings? Are we unconcerned or coldly affected in any case touching our own safety, our estate, our credit, our satisfaction or pleasure? Do we not especially, if we rightly understand ourselves, desire the health and happiness of our souls?This doth inform us, what we should wish and covet for our neighbour.
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Do we not seriously grieve at our own disasters and disappointments? Are we not in sad dumps, whenever we incur any damage or disgrace? Do not our diseases and pains sorely afflict us? Do we not pity and bemoan ourselves in any want, calamity, or distress? Can we especially, if we are ourselves, without grievous displeasure apprehend ourselves enslaved to sin and Satan, destitute of Gods favour, exposed to endless misery?Hence may we learn how we should condole and commiserate the misfortunes of our neighbour.
Do we not eagerly prosecute our own concerns? Do we not with huge vigour and industry strive to acquire all conveniences and comforts to ourselves, to rid ourselves of all wants and molestations? Is our solicitous care or painful endeavour ever wanting towards the support and succour of ourselves in any of our needs? Are we satisfied in merely wishing ourselves well? are we not also busy and active in procuring what we affect? Especially, if we are well advised, do we not effectually provide for the weal of our soul, and supply of our spiritual necessities; labouring to rescue ourselves from ignorance and error, from the tyranny of sin, from the torture of a bad conscience, from the danger of hell?This showeth how ready we should be really to further our neighbours good, ministering to him all kinds of assistance and relief suitable to his needs, both corporal and spiritual.
Are we so proud or nice, that we disdain to yield attendance or service needful for our own sustenance or convenience? Do we not indeed gladly perform the meanest and most sordid offices for ourselves?This declareth how condescensive we should be in helping our neighbour, how ready even to wash his feet, when occasion doth require.
Do we love to vex ourselves, or cross our own humour? do we not rather seek by all means to please and gratify ourselves?This may warn us how innocent and inoffensive, how compliant and complacent we should be in our behaviour toward others; endeavouring to please them in all things, especially for their good to edification.
Are we easily angry with ourselves, do we retain implacable grudges against ourselves, or do we execute upon ourselves mischievous revenge? are we not rather very meek and patient toward ourselves, mildly comporting with our own great weaknesses, our troublesome humours, our impertinences and follies; readily forgiving ourselves the most heinous offences, neglects, affronts, injuries, and outrages committed by us against our own interest, honour, and welfare?Hence may we derive lessons of meekness and patience, to be exercised toward our neighbour, in bearing his infirmities and miscarriages, in remitting any wrongs or discourtesies received from him.
Are we apt to be rude in our deportment, harsh in our language, or rigorous in our dealing toward ourselves? do we not rather in word and deed treat ourselves very softly, very indulgently? Do we use to pry for faults, or to pick quarrels with ourselves, to carp at anything said or done by us, rashly or upon slight grounds to charge blame on ourselves, or to lay heavy censures on our actions, to make foul constructions of our words, to blazon our defects, or aggravate our failings? do we not rather connive at and conceal our blemishes? do we not excuse and extenuate our own crimes?
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Thus reflecting on ourselves, and making our practice toward ourselves the pattern of our dealing with others, we shall not fail to discharge what is prescribed to us in this law: and so we have here a rule of charity.
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