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Katherine Webb: Not bad to look at, despite attending Auburn.
If he needs a Chris Crocker, I'll step up to defend the ESPN announcer who — while Alabama was dismantling Notre Dame in the BCS game — felt obliged to report the Neutral Objective Facts:
"You see that lovely lady there, she does go to Auburn, but she's also Miss Alabama and that's AJ McCarron's girlfriend. You quarterbacks, you get all the good looking women. What a beautiful woman. Wow."
Why all the outrage? She is indeed Miss Alabama and, the last time I checked, that was what is known as a "beauty pageant."
While Musberger's comments may have been a bit gushy, it wasn't as if he said anything salacious, rude or inappropriate. This involves something I've discussed before: Beauty is an objective fact.
Beauty exists independent of our recognition of it. However, in our sexualized "hook-up" culture, male acknowledgement of beauty is presumed to convey sexual interest, a de facto proposition. So when Brett Musberger says Katherine Webb is a "lovely lady" — which she most certainly is — many people hear that as, "I'd hit it."
Or, as Darnell Dockett might say: "Wing Stop." (Dockett says that when he publicly Tweeted his phone number to Webb, he actually meant to send it via DM, the kind of social-media accident Neal Rauhauser and his paranoid crew of "Weiner Truthers" claim can only be explained by a Breitbart-coordinated right-wing conspiracy. But I digress . . .)
Feminism and the concern about workplace discrimination have imposed a new sort of puritanism, a kind of neo-Victorian repression in which even an entirely innocent comment can be portrayed as harassment, as an attempt to "hit on" someone. If all acknowledgements of beauty are viewed as expressions of sexual interest ("drooling," as some have characterized Musberger's comments), then a sort of taboo becomes embeded in our customs and habits, and thus has radical feminism triumphed by shaming people into silence. The question is, why?
Rush Limbaugh's Undeniable Truth #24: "Feminism was established so as to permit unattractive women easier access to the mainstream."
ESPN actually apologized for Brent Musberger's comments, as if he were the one sending his digits to A.J. McCarron's girlfriend. We don't even know if Webb or McCarron were offended.
Rather — and this is what tells you that a powerful taboo is involved — critical thought is immediately suspended and everyone simply reacts according to a culturally normative script, with people saying things they know they're supposed to say, and everyone is intimidated by fear of being attacked if they ask, "Why all this anger? What exactly did Brent Musberger say that deserves such a firestorm? Why does this 'controversy' require an article in the New York Times?"
"It's extraordinarily inappropriate to focus on an individual's looks," said Sue Carter, a professor of journalism at Michigan State. "In this instance, the appearance of the quarterback's girlfriend had no bearing on the outcome of the game. It's a major personal violation, and it's so retrograde that it's embarrassing. I think there's a generational issue, but it's incumbent on people practicing in these eras to keep up and this is not a norm."
Yeah? Well, it may rather "retrograde," but let me quote an acknowledged expert on what is "extraordinarily inappropriate" — Ace of Spades:
"I would hit that so hard I'd split atoms in her privates."
Did Brett Musberger say that about Katherine Webb? No. He just said she was a "lovely lady." Does anyone deny that she is? No.
But the praise of beauty implies a negative judgment against the less-beautiful, and this is an inequality that feminists regard as intolerable.
UPDATE: House of Eratosthenes:
If I live to be a hundred and fifty, I'll never figure out why people allow complete strangers like Sue Carter professor of journalism, all this traffic-cop-go-and-stop authority over whether they're allowed to notice a woman is beautiful. Why would you do that? Why would you surrender that kind of power? It almost suggests a fear of making personal decisions, even for matters of style and taste.
Some people just crave approval so desperately that they are afraid of saying or doing anything that might risk disapproval. The Left is very good at intimidating people like that, and is also good at ginning up the kind of lynch-mob fury needed to "make an example" of anyone who refuses to cooperate with the Left's agenda.
UPDATE II: You know who's not offended by Brent Musberger's remarks? Attractive women, including those on Fox News:
Kirsten Powers: "He called her lovely and beautiful. People act like he was drooling and saying inappropriate things. To me, this is just Feminism gone awry."
Monica Crowley: "When I'm watching the NFL and Tom Brady comes on screen, I have some choice words about him. He's such a hunk!"
Megyn Kelly: "It's crazy to me that ESPN felt that he went too far in doing what all the judges at the [Miss Alabama] competition did and millions of Americans did as well. I don't know a woman who doesn't like to be told she's beautiful."
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(Clockwise) El-Hariri, Sabbahi, Ali, Abul-Fotouh and El-Bastawisi
Presidential candidate Abul-Ezz El-Hariri revealed Friday he is on the verge of reaching an agreement with fellow contenders, Hamdeen Sabbahi and Hisham El-Bastawisi, that would see two of the aforementioned candidates withdraw from the presidential race to back the third, in an attempt to unite revolutionary voters.
"I think we are about to reach an agreement between Hamdeen Sabbahi, El-Bastawisi and me over one presidential candidate," El-Hariri said on his Twitter account, without naming a favourite.
"This is what you (revolutionaries) wished would happen – that Hamdeen Sabbahi and I work together in presidential elections. We will unite to support one candidate to represent the revolutionaries."
Al-Ahram's Arabic website reported that the three presidential contestants – upon reaching an accord – will put their signatures to a statement before officially announcing the decision. The trio's respective presidential campaigns would also be dedicated to support the chosen sole candidate, according to Al-Ahram's Arabic site.
Socialist and labour activist El-Hariri, Nasserist opposition figure, Sabbahi and prominent reformist judge, El-Bastawisi, emerged from last year's uprising as high-profile revolutionary figures. They stood alongside Tahrir Square's protesters and called for the overthrow of president Hosni Mubarak.
Commenting on the forthcoming alliance of the three candidates, political analyst Mohamed El-Agati told Ahram Online, "I think it is a good step, but it is not enough to unify the revolutionary vote behind one candidate."
He added: "In order to unite revolutionary votes, all revolutionary figures must be involved in that agreement. In other words, [Islamist activist and former Muslim Brotherhood leader] Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh and [renowned lawyer and activist] Khaled Ali.
"Khaled Ali is willing to be involved in such an agreement to unite all revolutionary constituents, if all candidates representing the revolution are on board. Apparently, though, Abul-Fotouh wants to run for president on his own."
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El-Hariri later, in an interview with Al-Ahram's Arabic website, stated that he refuses to have Abul-Fotouh as a partner in the alliance. "The alliance is my idea, which I came up with over four months ago and set criteria for," he said.
"The candidates in this alliance must be popular, reputable and have comprehensive platforms that will save Egypt by improving all aspects of life: social, political and economic.
"I chose figures like Sabbahi and El-Bastawisi, because they [are considered] democratic forces and among the principles they espouse is that Egypt be a secular state - not theocratic.
"Abul-Fotouh wouldn't harmonise with that civic idea, because he is committed to the [Brotherhood's] Supreme Guide [Mohamed Badie] and not to the people. Neither does he have his own platform as a presidential candidate.
"His platform is the same as the Brotherhood's," charged El-Hariri, "So he cannot be with us."
El-Hariri also pointed to Abul-Fotouh's previous political positions, saying: "He endorsed the fake constitutional declaration [a temporary constitution voted for in March in 2011] and supports the Camp David treaty [with Israel].
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Abul-Fotouh was expelled from the Brotherhood shortly after the 18-day uprising for announcing his intention to run for president, thereby going against the group's decision at the time not to field a presidential candidate.
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Inspiration for this map came from 2000_2v2 by Jake. I used to play that map all night pestering other players that didn't know the secrets of the red room. For the other players that knew the secrets, it became a battle of who could hold the red room for the longest and keep the others out of there. Many times this was easy and fun to accomplish if you had a team mate or friend in the server to help so one could watch red room and the other could watch the back halls.
This map was was built from the ground up. There was no decompile of the original map because I wanted to ensure the map was built better than before and I wanted it to run better than the previous version.
7000_7v7 is pushing the limits of the goldsrc engine!
I created several animated textures, a ton of other textures, and used textures made by several other authors of which I have listed in my readme file included with the download. Please forgive me if credit is missing.
The map will be running 24/7 on the POOPMESA.COM Map Test Server for a couple weeks so people can check out the map and download it from the server. Fast downloads are enabled.
There is a large amount of differences between the original version and my new 7000_7v7 version. I did a lot of changes to ensure the map had better r_speeds and for the most part, it does! I improved many aspects of the map and added a ton of new secrets that will be hard to find. The map will be amazing for a lan party! Get the old-school half-life players together for this map and have some fun!
To those waiting for the map release, I am sorry it took so long! There were several bugs that took me a while to figure out and several ideas that took me a long time to implement because I they were somewhat complicated compared to the things I have done in the past with half-life entities. The goldsrc engine has its limitations and that made things tough to implement.
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"What does it mean to be human?" The answer lies within the mystery of Genesis. Set in a postapocalyptic future, the novel takes the form of an examination undergone by young Anaximander as she prepares to enter an enigmatic institution known simply as The Academy. For her subject she has chosen the life of the philosopher-soldier Adam Forde, her long-dead hero. It is through Anax's presentation and her answers to persistent questioning by her examiners that we learn the history of her island Republic, along with the rules and beliefs of their society. At the completion of the examination, when everything has been laid bare, Anax must confront the Republic's last great secret, her own surprising link to Adam Forde, and the horrifying truth about her world.
Author's Note
The genesis of Genesis itself is a little muddled. In the end, it was a book that came out in a hurry, taking only a few months of furious tapping to take shape. That said, it's based on ideas I'd been playing with for a few years. It all started . . .
With a book, oddly enough. Maybe it was called Five Equations That Changed the World, or maybe The Ingenuity Gap — my uncertainty comes from the fact that I'm not sure which of them I read first. Either way, it started me reading science books, glorious works on evolution, on the birth of the universe, on mathematics, physics, philosophy, and psychology. These days my bookshelf groans under the weight of my favorites, and the list of books in the library I mean to read grows longer.
The world is a curious place, it seems, and we know a tremendous lot about it, more perhaps than most people realize. And the more we know, the trickier it becomes for our old stories to hang together. We need new stories.
Genesis came from that sort of stuff. The first attempt to write it didn't work; in my head it was somehow more than just a diverting story, and that's always a mistake. So I put it down. Then I did what I often do. I wrote a play, trying the ideas out onstage to see if the characters would come alive. And once the play was over I forgot about it.
Then, in 2005, I found myself on a fellowship at the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Evolution, trying to write a quite different novel, but I stalled, got lost in the middle of the story, and needed a way of avoiding it for a while. I was at my computer, I had a library full of wonderful books just around the corner and a head full of ideas, and somehow, while I'd been distracted, this book had written itself. It was just a matter of getting the words down.
I like the way the story turned out. I'm not sure what it has to say, and that's what I like most. It's about things that puzzle me, as all my books are in the end. I hope it puzzles you too, in a friendly sort of way.
Discussion Questions
1. Read Anax's account of the events that bring us from the present to the time she is living in (pp. 5–6). What, from our point in time, would have to happen — or not happen — to bring about this future? What, in this projection, relates to our current fears?
2. "The only thing the population had to fear, was fear itself. The true danger humanity faced during this period was the shrinking of its own spirit" (p. 6). Although Genesis is a book about the future, its roots are in today's world. How does the quotation relate to our own society? If the statement is true, what can be done to combat this?
3. Anaximander speaks of the human spirit and its blackening by fear and superstition. Superstition is defined as "the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect." This in turn leads to the hunt for monsters and the rise of conspiracy theories. Do you agree that conspiracy theories are the desire to create a narrative we can understand out of events we do not understand? Does Bernard Beckett rely on superstition and conspiracy theories in his novel, or does Genesis attempt to break away from these?
4. In the novel, Plato's five great threats to order are Impurity of Breeding, Impurity of Thought, Indulgence of the Individual, Commerce, and The Outsider. Can you think of other organizations/philosophies in which these ideas have appeared before? Are there instances in history when these ideas have been feared/abhorred? Can you find a parallel in our recent history?
5. "I believe those who feel the urge to understand Adam's heroism instinctively understand the importance of empathy. For a society to function successfully perhaps there needs to be a level of empathy that cannot be corrupted" (p. 32). Adam's actions were, by his and Anax's accounts, the result of empathy. Yet this, for all he knew, put his nation at the risk of plague. This raises questions about the greater good, actions that may be abhorrent but necessary, and the instinctive human reaction. Are we still human if we lose this empathy? Or is the ability to put this aside what makes us human? Is it possible to have a level of empathy that is incorruptible? Can you think of any real-life examples of this?
6. How convincing is Art's theory about the Idea (pp. 98–99)? What does this imply for humanity? For any "thinking creature"?
7. Reread Adam's speech about what it is to be human (p. 100). What is the essence of his argument? What might you add to his argument, or how might you define it differently?
8. Reread Art's argument about the soul (p. 111). Is this willing ignorance the thing that makes us human? What Art is describing seems to be one of the main tenets of most religions, though Art claims this idea is present in all humanity's thought systems, including reason and the ideas of Darwin. Is there any belief system that doesn't incorporate the idea of a soul and its relationship to eternity? Do you agree with Art's reasoning of why this is so central to humanity's beliefs about itself?
9. Awareness of our mortality is given as one of the key differences between human and artificial intelligence. How does this awareness of mortality influence the way we think about ourselves and our lives?
10. Which do you think pushes the boundaries of our ideas of ethics and morality further, artificial fertility treatment programs or artificial intelligence research? What are the sorts of ethical questions each field of science raises?
11. Consider the ideas of the Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle, whose namesakes feature in Genesis. How do their works relate to ideas found in Beckett's novel?
12. If you've read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which is often called the first science fiction novel, what connections can you see between Genesis and that nineteenth-century gothic work? Have the major questions Genesis raises changed much since the industrial revolution? If so, how?
13. Revisit the first chapter of the Bible. How does Beckett's novel compare and contrast to the Old Testament story of man's creation? What genesis is taking place in the novel, and at one point did you realize what it is?
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Penn Gaming through its Sioux City based operation Argosy Casino has filed a "Petition for Receiver" in Polk County Court.
Penn Vice President Karen Bailey says in an e-mailed news release that the purpose of the petition is to have the court appoint a third party "receiver" to receive and hold or distribute the revenues the Argosy currently generates for the Siouxland community.
The funds have previously been turned over to the local license holder of the casino, the Missouri River Historical Development or MRHD.
Bailey's statement says the purpose of a third party receiver in a case like this is to remove the 3% of revenues or approximately $1.8 million annually from the disagreeing parties and to put it with a third party until the matter is resolved.
Argosy cites in the petition the ongoing dispute over whether a contract exists between them and MRHD.
Argosy asserts that it has a contract with MRHD, signed through March 2015 while MRHD disagrees.
The contract dispute between Argosy and MRHD is not scheduled in Polk County Court until April 2014.
Bailey says it is hypocritical of MRHD to dispute the existence of the contract yet still demand the monies from Argosy – they can't have it both ways.
Bailey says Penn Gaming's intention is to do everything possible to ensure these dollars go to the community as they are intended, not to support a legal war chest or the development of the Hard Rock Casino.


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Star Wars will never end, nor will we ever see an end to its presence at San Diego Comic-Con (particularly girls in Slave Leia outfits), so celerate longevity with Star Wars: The Clone Wars!
Taking place in Room 6BCF on Thursday July 21st from 4:45pm - 5:45pm, the panel should force out new footage and details from the coming fourth season, as well as answer fan questions on the past, present and future of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. But who will be on hand guiding us younglings?
- Dave Filoni (Supervising Director)
- Joel Aron (CG Supervisor)
- Pablo Hidalgo (Moderator)
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Ohio State vs. Duke: Winning Report Card Grades for the Blue Devils
By (Correspondent) on November 29, 2012
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For the Duke Blue Devils, revenge was served.
Approximately a year after getting roughed up by the Ohio State Buckeyes in Columbus, Mike Krzyzewski's team bounced back from a lackluster first half to score a big 73-68 win over the Buckeyes at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
With Duke's gritty ACC/Big Ten Challenge win, the Blue Devils have now beaten three of last year's Final Four teams (Ohio State, Kentucky and Louisville) so far this season.
With another big nonconference home win in the books, it's report card time.
Here's a look at the notable grades the Dukies scored in their big win over the Buckeyes.
First-Half Performance: D
The only reason Duke didn't score an F for their first-half effort against Ohio State was because they miraculously went to the locker room only down 31-23.
The Blue Devils struggled to match Ohio State's physicality and tenacity in the first half. In no place was this more evident than on the offensive boards.
The Buckeyes pulled down 11 first-half offensive rebounds, compared to Duke's lowly two. Amir Williams in particular hurt Duke, as he had four offensive boards himself. On top of that, Coach K's team went the last 10 minutes of the half without hitting a shot from the field.
The only ones who were productive offensively were seniors Mason Plumlee and Ryan Kelly. They combined for 17 points to keep Duke in the game.
Mason Plumlee: A+
The Blue Devils haven't even gotten close to ACC play yet, and we're already running out of accolades for stud senior forward Mason Plumlee.
The bottom line is that he and Indiana's Cody Zeller are the two most dominant players in college basketball right now. All Plumlee did against Ohio State's stout frontcourt was put up 21 points and a career-high-matching 17 rebounds. He also had a ridiculous alley-oop dunk early in the second half, when he skied high to grab a Quinn Cook pass with one hand and slam it home in one continuous motion.
And just for good measure, Plumlee continues to hit his free throws at an 80 percent clip. Not too bad for a guy who had a career free-throw percentage under 60 coming into this season.
Duke's going to go as far as the senior beast will take them. If Plumlee keeps putting up monster numbers against elite competition like he did against Ohio State, the Blue Devils are going very far in March and April.
Rasheed Sulaimon's Second Half: A
It was nice of Rasheed Sulaimon to show up in the second half for Duke against Ohio State.
The super-talented freshman guard was shut out of the scoring column in the first half. But that totally changed after halftime, as Sulaimon scored all of his 17 points in the game's final 20 minutes.
Sulaimon not only hit some big three-pointers, but he attacked the basket aggressively and played inspired defense on the other end. The Buckeyes struggled with Sulaimon's athleticism in the second half, and his impact performance was arguably the difference in the Duke victory.
Seth Curry: Incomplete
Seth Curry didn't play very well against Ohio State.
However, the senior guard gets a pass here. Curry missed the majority of the second half after appearing to tweak his leg injury.
Even before the injury, though, Curry was on his way to scoring an F. He struggled offensively, finishing with four points on just 1-of-6 shooting.
Unfortunately, Curry's serious leg injury hindered him from making a bigger impact, forcing an incomplete grade here. Duke fans are hoping the gutsy Curry can play through the pain as the season wears on.
Ryan Kelly: B+
Don't forget about Ryan Kelly's big contributions for Duke against Ohio State.
The senior forward finished with 15 points despite playing the majority of the game with foul trouble. Kelly hit consecutive three-pointers that allowed Duke to tie the game at 53 in the second half. He's becoming the player that many Duke fans were expecting when he was highly recruited out of high school four years ago.
Kelly has to be accounted for on the outside, as he has a deadly stroke from long range. And he has coupled that outside game with a more aggressive mindset overall.
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Bobby Welch begins national tour in effort to see 1 million baptized DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (BP)--Shortly after noon, Sunday, Aug. 29, Southern Baptist Convention President Bobby Welch boarded a rented bus on an adventure he compared to a "Lewis & Clark expedition" to try to win souls. [Read More]
Try, Bobby Welch exhorts, in seeking people for Christ RICHMOND HILL, Ga. (BP)--In this suburb of Savannah, where First Baptist Church, Richmond Hill, is determined to reach out to a growing community, Southern Baptist Convention President Bobby Welch told of two Florida retirees who used chainsaws and Bible verses in disaster relief after Hurricane Charley to lead 28 people to Christ. [Read More]
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The Bedford Kitchen Crew will be applying ginger, fresh and dried, to a plethora of dishes from around the world from old favorites like curries and roast pork with ginger preserves to new creations like ginger ice cream and gingerbread trifle.
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Peter Yarrow and Dave Obey Event
"People can overcome their differences, and when united, move toward a world of greater fairness and justice," says Peter Yarrow, legendary folk singer and songwriter of Peter, Paul and Mary fame. Yarrow (on guitar) will join former congressman David Obey (on harmonica) for an evening of musical entertainment scheduled for May 2, 2013, 7:30 pm at the UW Center for Civic Engagement Theatre.
For over four decades Yarrow toured with the renowned folk group, and co-wrote such legendary songs as Day is Done, Light One Candle, and Puff the Magic Dragon. Peter, Paul and Mary became known for espousing social causes and reclaiming folk-music's potency as a cultural and political force. As a life-long activist, Yarrow has lent his support to causes ranging from the Vietnam War to anti-bullying campaigns. In the past decade, his Don't Laugh at Me program has helped shift the American educational paradigm to educating the whole child, in character, heart, and social-emotional development, and is now utilized by over 22,000 schools nationwide. Most recently, Yarrow performed a benefit concert for Sandy Hook community members.
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The concert, presented by Marshfield Clinic and supported by additional generous sponsorship, is planned as a fundraiser to help finish construction of the David R. Obey Civic Resource Center, located in the UW Center for Civic Engagement on the University of Wisconsin - Marathon County campus. Cost for the concert is $50 per person and includes an hors d'oeuvres reception. A cash bar will also be available. Corporate sponsorships are available.
Registration is available here. The CCE Theatre is located at 625 Stewart Avenue, Wausau.
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Philip Jenkins Named Speaker for the James F. Veninga Lecture on
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Philip Jenkins will be the featured speaker for the second annual James F. Veninga Lecture on Religion and Politics. Dr. Jenkins is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Humanities at Pennsylvania State University (PSU), Distinguished Senior Fellow at Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion, and author of the acclaimed Laying Down the Sword: Why We Can't Ignore the Bible's Violent Verses and Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, And Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe For The Next 1,500 Years. He is a contributing editor and columnist for numerous journals, including Studies of Religion, The American Conservative, The Christian Century and The Atlantic, and his primary research areas include global religious violence, terrorism, Native American spirituality, and the Catholic Church sex abuse scandals.
Jenkins' work has addressed such topical issues as the media's interest in the so-called "crisis of celibacy" and whether the Catholic Church is more likely than other organizations to be involved in misconduct. He has also studied parallel processes of what he calls "holy amnesia" in Islam, Judaism and Christianity, in which violence in sacred texts become symbolic action against one's sins.
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The second annual lecture will be free public event organized In collaboration with UW-Marathon County and UW Colleges/UW-Extension, and generously supported by the B.A. and Esther Greenheck Foundation, The series in named in honor of James F. Veninga, former Campus Executive Officer and Dean at UW-Marathon County and founder of WIPPS who spent his career connecting university resources to address challenging public issues.
The inaugural lecture, held in 2012, featured Dr. Martin Marty, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago and well-known author of more than 60 works, Munir Jiwa, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Director of the Center for Islamic Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, will be the featured speaker in 2014. Munir's interests focus on Islam and Muslims in the West, media, Islamic aesthetics, religious pluralism, and interfaith dialogue, and his lecture will focus on contemporary Islam in the U.S, and Islam, globalization and the influence of electronic and social media on current events, such as immigration and the Arab Spring.
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Ethical Issues with Dale Murray ~ 2012-2013 WIPPS Fellowship Project
Frac Sand Mining, Habitat Conservation Plans, and the Effect on the Karner Blue Butterfly in Wisconsin (a project conducted by 2013 WIPPS Fellow Dale Murray)
Hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") provides not only the promise of accessible and plentiful reserves of natural gas, but also the possibility of cheaper and cleaner energy, enhanced job creation, increased national security, and a viable "bridge" fuel to still cleaner alternative sources in the future. While fracking for natural gas is not practiced in Wisconsin, frac sand mining (the extraction of silica sand for use in the fracking process) is, with several new mines and processing facilities cropping up throughout the central and western portion of the state. Environmental ethicist Dale Murray, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County and the University of Wisconsin-Richland, is studying the possible effects and ethical implications of frac sand mining on the Statewide Karner Blue Butterfly Habitat Conservation Plans (HCP) for his 2012-2013 WIPPS Fellowship project.
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HCPs are documents that allow for the taking of individual members of endangered species under provisions of the Endangered Species Act in partnerships devised between non-federal and federal agencies charged with protecting species, and private landowners charged with providing, conserving and monitoring critical habitat for endangered species. Murray's project will also focus on the possible effects of frac sand mining on human communities in Wisconsin, especially concerns about water use, air pollution, noise pollution, land scarification, and increased stress on transportation infrastructure. Murray hopes to investigate the interstices of these concerns by investigating two specific aspects of HCPs- community participation and monitoring – that serve as crucial component structures within models of empowered deliberative democracy.
About Dale Murray
Dale Murray holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County and the University of Wisconsin-Richland. He is the author of Nozick, Autonomy and Compensation (London: Continuum Press, 2007). He has taught numerous classes in environmental ethics, made several public presentations in the field (involving such ethical issues of habitat conservation plans, e-waste, and community supported agriculture) and published on the subject. In addition, Dr. Murray has written several articles and reviews in biomedical ethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of sport. He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled The Global and the Local: An Environmental Ethics Casebook.
WIPPS Fellow Spotlight ~ Corrie Norrbom, 2013 WIPPS Community Fellow
Corrie Norrbom, M.D., is a practicing family physician, a proud UWMC alumnus, an engaged citizen/scholar, a mom, and the 2013 WIPPS Community Fellow who is organizing the upcoming June 13 and 14 summit, Preparing for the Federal Health Insurance Marketplace: A View from Wisconsin.
After attending Mayo Clinic Reviews last November to learn what Minnesota is "doing to prepare for ACA implementation," Norrbom wondered, "What is Wisconsin doing?" When she began asking around, "the people I thought would be 'in the know' were not." So Norrbom, who, by nature is not given to making them, made a New Year's resolution to "put ideas into action." She decided to educate herself and Wisconsin citizens about the ACA, "and help us all make good decisions about the upcoming choices we will face in the new healthcare marketplace."
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When asked why she is so passionate about not just healthcare and the ACA, but also her role in public healthcare activism, she invokes a number of "inspirations": time spent in medical rotations that took her to Canada and New Zealand, where she observed alternative healthcare delivery systems; a family history of political engagement that included a brother who served as mayor of Eland at age twenty-two; a stint on her local school board; mentorship by "physician leaders" throughout her medical career; the guidance and idealism of engaged educators such as Jim Veninga, former dean of UWMC, and John Frey, former director of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health; an unwavering commitment to her own patients; and a belief in the power of educated people with "really good ideas" to make a difference for their communities.
"There are so many misconceptions (about aspects of the ACA implementation) that I want to help dispel," Norrbom says. She feels the June summit should help to reduce some of the "fear-mongering" she sees in the media, and make the goal of citizen-education possible. Norrbom notes that the summit is organized to present a wide-range of perspectives that will enable a non-partisan, moderate approach to educating attendees. "I never thought I'd be lobbying to create a workshop session that presents the insurance broker's perspective, " she notes, but she realized that the brokers' views are key, and they are important stakeholders whose needs and actions will also be held accountable to the public they serve. Norrbom avers that the people who will be most adversely affected (by the new mandates) will be those who are the least franchised – the uninsured, and people who are shifted off Medicare. "My hope is that the summit will present diverse approaches that will help all citizens find common ground," she adds.
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Guest Editorial – Preparing for the Federal Health Insurance Marketplace in Wisconsin, by Corrie Norrbom, M.D
(Corrie Norrbom is the 2013 WIPPS Community Fellow and co-organizer of the upcoming WIPPS conference: Preparing for the Federal Health Insurance Marketplace: A View from Wisconsin.)
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is complex and poorly understood by the public at large, as well as by providers of medical care, hospital/clinic systems, insurance companies, and businesses. At the heart of the ACA is the individual mandate for health insurance and the concept of health insurance exchanges ( "the marketplace"). In October, enrollment in the marketplace will begin. On June 13th and 14th, WIPPS will host a conference titled Preparing for the Federal Health Insurance Marketplace: A View from Wisconsin to help all Wisconsin citizens navigate the new marketplace.
On November 16, 2012, Governor Walker announced that Wisconsin would opt to use the federal health insurance exchange as opposed to developing its own state-run exchange. Another major decision by the Walker Administration occurred in February of this year, in which federal money to expand Medicaid coverage was declined.
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Across all sectors, there is uncertainty as to how the establishment of the federal health insurance marketplace in Wisconsin will affect the overall delivery of health care. This summit will address the need for education about the marketplace and encourage meaningful dialogue and discussion about topics surrounding it. Regardless of one's political viewpoint, it is time to think about optimizing the accessibility of quality health care in the state of Wisconsin in an affordable way.
Essential to the success of the federal marketplace is the interplay between private health insurance, the choices of businesses to insure employees, the role of Medicare/Medicaid, as well as the ability of people to navigate within the system. At the conference, experts and key stakeholders will lead cutting-edge public discussions about the path forward in Wisconsin.
The summit begins on the evening of June 13 with "Ready or Not: What the Federal Health Insurance Marketplace Means for Wisconsin," a session that is free and open to the public. The June 14 full-day program features speakers Robert Laszewski, President, Health Policy and Strategy Associates; Jackie Garner, Acting Director of the US Department of Health and Human Services Region V; and Brett Davis, Wisconsin Medicaid Director. There will also be a lunch presentation by Minnesota State Senator Tony Lourey about the challenges and opportunities in creating a state-run marketplace.
Panel discussions include:
• "Federal Health Insurance Marketplace and Medicaid: What Does It Mean for Wisconsin?"
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• "From Medicaid to the Marketplace: Accounting for Low-Income Enrollees"
• "Making the Marketplace Work: Challenges and Opportunities in Creating an Effective Exchange"
• "Helping Wisconsin Citizens Navigate the Health Insurance Marketplace"
Panels will feature perspectives from patient advocates, hospitals/health systems, the insurance industry, physician leaders, small businesses, large businesses, labor, public health, and the Walker Administration. Look for upcoming registration details on the WIPPS website, or for more information contact email@example.com.
People of Rural Wisconsin ~ Project Update
The People of Rural Wisconsin Project records and preserves the stories of dairy farmers, cheesemakers, loggers, and others who grew up or made a living in rural Wisconsin. This "community listening project," funded by a generous grant from Marshfield Clinic, has been conducting oral interviews in Central Wisconsin since of the summer 2011. Project co-organizer, Ed Janus, a former farmer and author of Creating Dairyland, has been giving lectures, training interviewers, and leading focus groups on the importance of citizens taking time to learn the history of their fellow rural citizens' unique voices and in the process helping all participants discover how "listening deeply " creates and "binds" community.
Recently, Janus has been working with a group of former Alice in Dairyland(s) to discover and share how their "Alice year" enriched, changed and shaped each participant, and how the role of women in rural Wisconsin has changed over the 65 years of the Alice program. Janus worked with Debbie Crave, a former Alice and marketing director for Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese, to interview Margaret McGuire Blott, the first Alice. Margaret was 18 years old in 1948 and a student at UW - Whitewater when her father's friend submitted her name and photograph to the Department of Agriculture to enter her in the competition.
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In a way, Margaret "invented" the Alice role, traveling to New York and L.A. to appear on the most important radio shows of the era, and working hard to represent her state and make her hometown of Highland, Wisconsin proud. Margaret especially remembers the 10-foot tall mechanically operated Alice, modeled after her, that was a popular attraction at the Wisconsin State Fair for many years. The automaton (voiced by young women in a room with two-way mirrors) "chatted" with fairgoers about the wonders of milk production in Wisconsin.
The People of Rural Wisconsin Project plans to archive these unique stories on its forthcoming project website, and is currently recruiting people who are interested in participating as interviewers or interviewees to share stories about rural life.
For more information, or to volunteer, contact Emily Schreiner at email@example.com.
Meet our NEW WIPPS Interns
Bennett Javenkoski
Joined the WIPPS staff for the spring 2013 semester. He received his bachelor's degree from Beloit College in 2010, where he enjoyed a highly-interdisciplinary liberal arts curriculum. He is assisting on a number of projects, including the organization of the upcoming June 13 -14 healthcare conference, Preparing for the Federal Health Insurance Marketplace: A View from Wisconsin. Additionally, Javenkoski is working with a UW faculty research team preparing to study the effectiveness of job retraining for displaced mill workers. This fall he will be attending UW-Madison to pursue a master's degree at the La Follette School of Public Affairs.
Gulshat Gurbanova
Joined the WIPPS staff as a spring 2013 intern. Gurbanova is from Turkmenistan, in Central Asia (originally part of Russian until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991), which is now an independent nation. In 2010, Gurbanova matriculated at Saint Petersburg State University and is currently an exchange student attending North Central Technical College in Wausau, Wisconsin, where she is majoring in economics. Her future plans include obtaining her baccalaureate, pursuing a master's degree in Europe, and returning to Russia for a career in auditing. At WIPPS, she is working as a programming assistant on a wide variety of projects.
Oxford Study Abroad
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You never know what you will stumble across on Craigslist
I often find myself on Craigslist while eating lunch, anxiously waiting for the new Best of section.
If you have not checked out that section, I highly suggest doing so. There is always something either entertaining, thought provoking, disturbing, or comical.
Not sure this is really Stallman's ad, but if it is, I think we should help a brother out.
For all of his contributions, doesn't he deserve a sweetie?
Mark Irgang is Associate Publisher at Linux Journal
Nothing new
This is not new. The almost very same text is posted as the "Personal Ad" at Stallman's site for a long time:
So what you are saying
Is that this is nothing Gnu?
Mark Irgang is Associate Publisher at Linux Journal
I'm always up for a good pun...
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He forgot to add that he is
He forgot to add that he is so full of himself that he thinks he should be idolized.
And if you disagree, you can leave like all his other sweethearts.
Nah, I hear Stallman gives it away...
Shawn Powers is an Associate Editor for Linux Journal. You might find him chatting on the IRC channel, or Twitter
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Cardinals 8, Giants 3
By R.B. Fallstrom
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ST. LOUIS — One more win and another bunch of wild-card Cardinals get their chance to repeat.
Adam Wainwright threw seven innings of four-hit ball and St. Louis roughed up Tim Lincecum and the San Francisco Giants in an 8-3 rout Thursday night that gave the Cardinals a 3-1 lead in the NL championship series.
The defending World Series champions can wrap up their second straight pennant as a wild card with a victory at home Friday night in Game 5. Lance Lynn faces Giants lefty Barry Zito, and a Cardinals win would set up a 2006 World Series re
match with Detroit.
Matt Holliday, Jon Jay and Yadier Molina had two RBI apiece to lead a 12-hit outburst by a team that batted just .198 through the first three games against San Francisco.
"They had their backs against the wall against the Reds and won three in a row, so we've still got our work cut out for us and this series is by no means over," Holliday said.
Lincecum was a bust in his first postseason start since the World Series clincher over Texas in 2010, giving up four runs in 4 innings.
The two-time Cy Young Award winner with the quirky delivery earned a shot based on nearly spotless relief work earlier in the postseason but reverted to regular-season form, when he was 10-15 with a 5.18 ERA, worst among qualifying starters in the National League.
Wainwright was a glorified cheerleader while rehabbing from elbow reconstruction during the Cardinals' improbable title drive last fall under now-retired manager Tony La Russa.
Under rookie manager Mike Matheny, the 88-win Cardinals were the final team to qualify this year, too. Once again, they've stepped up their game.
Wainwright bounced back from a poor outing in Game 5 of the NL Division series against Washington, striking out five and walking none for his first postseason victory as a starter. The lone damage against him came on Hunter Pence's first homer and RBI of the postseason that made it 2-1.
Now, the 14-game winner is on the verge of his first World Series as an active player since striking out Brandon Inge as the stand-in closer for injured Jason Isringhausen in the 2006 clincher over the Tigers.
Just 12 pitches in, the Cardinals had two hits and the lead, and Lincecum got a visit from pitching coach Dave Righetti. Jay opened with a single, Matt Carpenter walked on four pitches and the Cards made it 2-0 on Holliday's single up the middle and Allen Craig's sacrifice fly.
"I've just been working on my swing and I felt more comfortable tonight," Holliday said.
Lincecum escaped trouble in the second after issuing two more walks, one to Wainwright. The Cardinals missed a chance to add on after Pete Kozma reached on third baseman Pablo Sandoval's fielding error to open the inning then was thrown out trying to steal.
Lincecum had retired eight in a row before running into trouble in the fifth.
Carpenter doubled off the top of the wall in right-center with one out. He held up until Holliday's single fell in front of fast-charging center fielder Angel Pagan, but third base coach Jose Oquendo aggressively waved Carpenter home.
The relay from shortstop Brandon Crawford was in time, but short-hopped catcher Hector Sanchez and Carpenter scored on a headfirst slide to make it 3-1 and Holliday went to second on the play. Molina's two-out RBI single made it 4-1 and knocked out Lincecum.
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Coordination strategies
The absence of and the need for collaboration is seen in questions that explore not just the business of healthcare, but its clinical aspects as well.
- Care coordination and continuum of care represents the single greatest strategic challenge for clinical quality improvement, selected as top choice by 25%. Second choice, at 21%, is improving patient experience, including patient flow.
- Only 14% of leaders say their organization's care coordination is "very strong." Yes, 45% rate it as being "strong," but one-quarter (24%) can muster only a "neutral" rating and 17% cite it as being "weak" or "very weak."
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Caylee Marie Anthony Murder A Florida mother, Casey Anthony, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee Marie. |
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Casey Anthony Trial: Brother Lee Anthony Says Family Ignored Pregnancy Until Birth
Lee Anthony wipes away tears as he testifies in the murder case against his sister Casey Anthony at the Orange County Courthouse in Orlando, Fla. on Friday, June 24, 2011. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel) By JESSICA HOPPER June 24, 2011 Casey Anthony's brother testified today that her family ignored her pregnancy even after she was visibly showing in the seventh month and he said no one acknowledged the pregnancy until days before Caylee was born. The testimony by Lee Anthony was the latest effort by Casey Anthony's lawyers to depict a dysfunctional family that ignored the obvious at times. Casey Anthony, 25, is accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, and could face the death penalty if convicted. Defense lawyers have argued that Caylee drowned in the family pool, and her mother didn't tell anyone. Lee Anthony told jurors that he confronted his mother once about his sister's pregnancy, but it was never fully discussed until a few days before Casey Anthony gave birth in August 2005. The brother started crying on the stand when he told the court why he wasn't present at Caylee's birth. "I was very angry at my mom and I was also angry at my sister," breaking into tears on the stand. "I was just angry at everyone in general that they didn't want to include me and didn't find it important enough to tell me, especially after I had already asked. So I was very hurt." New evidence photos of Caylee Anthony in the family pool It's unclear how the testimony fits into the defense's strategy. After a series of sidebars today over the admission of Anthony family pictures, Judge Belvin Perry bluntly told defense attorney Jose Baez that his tactics were confusing. "So what is your theory of the defense because you cannot use a broad blanket of the theory of the defense to just get any and everything if your theory of the defense is ever changing, maybe you just simply need to tell me what your theory of the defense is," a frustrated Perry said. The defense shocked the courtroom during opening statements by saying that Caylee drowned in the family pool on June 16, 2008, 31 days before she was reported missing. They claim that George Anthony, Casey Anthony's father, helped dispose of the body and that years of alleged sexual abuse by him intimidated Casey Anthony into keeping the secret about her daughter's death. They also claimed that Lee Anthony carried on an inappropriate relationship with his sister too. So far, they have not introduced evidence of sexual abuse or that George Anthony helped get rid of the body. George Anthony has denied both accusations. Since the defense began calling witnesses last week, they have focused on forensic evidence and not the claims made in opening statements, making it difficult to discern where the defense team is going with their case. When the judge paraphrased the opening statements, asking Baez if that was still the defense strategy, Baez responded, "Among other things, yes." Today's testimony is the first day that the defense has focused on the Anthony family dynamic. It seems to have taken an emotional toll on Casey Anthony, her mother and her brother. Lee Anthony sobbed at the stand in the midst of relaying his anger about being snubbed during Caylee's birth. His emotion flared Casey Anthony's emotions so strongly that her attorney attempted to block her from the view of the camera. Baez kneeled down to comfort the young mom when the jury recessed for lunch. Earlier this morning, Cindy Anthony and her daughter Casey Anthony cried as they watched a video of a giggling 2-year-old Caylee Anthony playing with her mother and saw pictures of the toddler in the family swimming pool. Home video of Casey Anthony playing with daughter Caylee The Florida woman's defense team called Cindy Anthony, who is Casey's mother and grandmother to Caylee, to the stand for a second day in a row. On Thursday, she gave bombshell testimony that she -- not her daughter Casey -- had searched for chloroform on the family's desktop computer. Cindy Anthony wiped tears from her eyes with a tissue as she watched the video of Caylee bouncing on Casey Anthony's legs as the young mom laid on the floor. Both Casey Anthony and Caylee were smiling in the video. The video from April of 2007 showed Caylee in the same shorts that were found tattered with her remains on Dec. 11, 2008. When asked for proof that the video was taken in 2007, Cindy Anthony said, "I watched that video hundreds of times since I haven't seen Caylee in 2008 and there's still pictures of me holding Caylee on the same day and I recall the skirt [I was wearing]," she said. A visibly upset Cindy Anthony was rocking on the witness stand, taking deep breaths and rubbing her neck to try and stop the tears. At one point, defense attorney Jose Baez even asked her if she needed a break. She said, "No, I'm all right." The defense seems to be pointing out that the shorts were too small for Caylee when she disappeared in the summer of 2008 because she had grown significantly. Upon cross examination, Cindy Anthony said that Caylee was pretty much potty trained and wasn't always wearing a bulky diaper under her shorts. Jurors also looked at pictures of the Anthony family pool and the removable ladder used to climb into the pool. The defense argues that Caylee accidentally drowned in the pool on June 16, 2008. Both Casey and Cindy Anthony cried as pictures of Caylee wearing a bright yellow life vest and purple bathing suit were shown as she climbed up the pool ladder with the help of her grandmother. "It's a picture of Caylee walking up the ladder and I'm behind her and holding her...My hands are on her but not firmly just like a light touch," Cindy Anthony said. The family took precautions, buying new life vests as Caylee outgrew each one. They also removed the pool ladder after each swim and moved a pool deck box when Caylee grew big enough to bother it. "We also made sure that we taught Caylee that she had to be with us, one of us, to go into the pool," Cindy Anthony said. As Caylee got older, she sometimes was impatient to wait for family to guide her into the pool. "For the most part, she would just sit there and wait for us. Occasionally, especially as she got older, she was a lot more anxious because she was more familiar with the pool..she would run," Cindy Anthony said. One photo showed Caylee in a pink printed dress looking out a sliding glass door that led out to the pool, intended to show that Caylee could have opened the door and gotten to the pool on her own. Cindy Anthony told jurors that Caylee went swimming frequently in June, the month she disappeared. She also said that on June 16, 2008, the day that the defense claims Caylee drowned, the pool ladder was up when she came home from work. "I called George at work to see if he had left the pool ladder up because I also noticed that the side gate was open at the same time," she said. She told coworkers the next day about her ladder mysteriously being up on the pool. This morning was plagued with several side bars. One of the them involved the defense's wish to submit a picture of a pregnant Casey Anthony at a family wedding. The prosecution also successfully objected to a line of questioning about whether Cindy and George Anthony were having problems in their marriage when Caylee disappeared. The prosecution argues that Casey Anthony murdered her daughter with chloroform and duct tape. Caylee was reported missing on July 15, 2008, 31 days after she was last seen alive. http://abcnews.go.com/US/casey-antho...ry?id=13922158
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Session Assignment: 103 | |
Author: Wenjun Li | Presenter: Wenjun Li |
Department: Pharmacology & Neuroscience | |
Research Area: Aging/Alzheimer's Disease | |
(1) stroke, (2) vascular dementia , (3) long term potentiation | |
Wenjun Li; Renqi Huang; Ritu A. Shetty; Nopporn Thangthaeng; Ran Liu; Zhenglan Chen; Nathalie Sumien; Margaret Rutledge; Glenn H. Dillon; Michael J. Forster; James W. Simpkins; *Shao-Hua Yang Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience University of North Texas Health Science Center 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd Fort Worth, TX 76107-2699 | |
Short Description: We established a transient focal cerebral ischemia model which induced long-term cognitive function deficit. We further identified the potential molecular mechanism which might serve as target for treatment of vascular dementia after stroke. | |
Purpose: Vascular dementia incorporates cognitive dysfunction with vascular disease, which ranks as the second leading cause of dementia in the United States. However, its underlying pathophysiological mechanism is not fully understood and no effective treatment is available. The purpose of the current study was to evaluate long-term cognitive deficits induced by transient middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) in rats and to investigate the potential underlying mechanism.
Methods: Sprague-Dawley rats were subjected to transient MCAO or sham surgery. Behavior tests for locomotor activity and cognitive function were conducted at 7 or 30 days after stroke. Hippocampal long term potentiation (LTP) and involvement of GABAergic signaling were evaluated at 30 days after sham surgery or stroke. Immunohistochemistry and Western blots analysis were conducted to determine the effect of MCAO on cell signaling at the hippocampus. Results: Transient MCAO induced progressive decline of cognitive function. At 30 days after stroke, no neuron loss or synaptic makers change in the hippocampus was observed. Reduction of LTP in both side hippocampus was observed at 30 days after stroke, which could be attenuated by blocking of GABAergic signaling. ERK activation was significantly reduced in both side hippocampus at 30 days after stroke. Conclusions: The present study identified a progressive decline of cognitive function after transient focal cerebral ischemia that correlated with suppression of hippocampal LTP, elevation of GABAergic signaling, and inhibition of ERK activation. Our study indicated that attenuating GABAergic activity or enhancing ERK/MAPK activation in the hippocampus might be potential therapeutic targets to prevent and attenuate cognitive function impairment after ischemic stroke. |
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Of course he does.Next, Slick will endorse both of them.
I say let the weiner run. If anyone deserves to be screwed by a weiner it´s the crazy libs of nyc.
After his tweeting that NC-17 picture of his "shortcomings" at full attention, let me be frank: Weiner, once in the running to be the wurst brat in Congress, and who thinks that yelling in public makes him some sort of a hot dog, is cooked.
Liberals have no shame.
Don´t you love how the whole discussion treats a disgraced elected official trying to take another public service seat as if he were a recovering musician or athlete. It´s all about him: He "will make it as a serious candidate", "he can come back", "Now, he doesn't have Michael Bloomberg as a foil", "how does he stand out and can he actually rise to the top of that field", and it´s "now or maybe never for me, in terms of running for something".Not a single consideration of whether this would be good for the people he is supposed to serve. It´s symbolic of one of the worst problems we have: Politics has become about the politicians instead of the people, a celebrity position instead of public service.
Democrats can always come back. They come back from any scandal, especially of the sexual variety, which winds up becoming a credential to their natural constituents. They even come back from the grave to vote.
Tell these people to go away and take Bill Clinton and Mark Sanford with them. Oy, enough already.
From one d*ck to another.
so far it hasn´t worked out fabulously for Spitzer as a media....star...
You must remember that Liberalism is first...no matter who the deviate scum is promoting it....A. Weiner will propably be the next mayor of NY just because he is a Liberal...get over it folks...we, as afree America IS over.
Come back from what??? I doesn´t matter what a low life Weiner or Spitzer might be, just hold them up as a candidate in NY the sheeples will vote for them.You can´t fix stupid, like Lady Gaga would say,"they were born that way."
How does Client #9 know that? He´s still trying to come back himself.
Yea, I really want to be taking political advise from client #9. DemocRATS are completely amoral.


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This kid-friendly noodle salad uses sesame tahini and toasted almond butter for rich nutty (but peanut-free!) flavor. Add leftover chicken, pork or shrimp if you like.
A very simple and delicious fondue starring the complex flavor of Le Gruyère. For an alcohol-free version, substituting apple cider for the wine also produces a brilliant fondue.
A thin coating of paprika-infused cornmeal turns into a crispy crust on tender halibut fillets for this tasty fish sandwich.
Sweet honey, salty tamari, tangy rice wine vinegar and hot red pepper flakes combine to make a delectable glaze for scallops. Try a robust honey in this recipe, such as buckwheat, eucalyptus or avocado to balance the strongly flavored tamari. Serve with wilted kale...
This pasta dish will soon become a family favorite. In a hurry? Use a cup of thawed frozen spinach instead of fresh; just be sure to squeeze it well to remove any excess water. Serve with garlic bread and a fresh salad for a complete meal.
This recipe is a superb showcase for rich salmon and tangy crème fraîche. If you'd rather not bake the salmon you could pan-sear or steam it instead, or use about 1 1/3 cups leftover or store-bought cooked salmon.
Fragrant fresh herbs, garlic and tangy vinegar prove a perfect match for slow-cooked brisket.
This bright and simple pasta makes a complete meal alongside a green salad or a grilled chicken breast.
This hearty soup combines two lucky foods, black-eyed peas and collard greens, with vegetables and smoky ham. Enjoy on New Year's Day, or any day, for a satisfying, warming meal. Serve with thick slices of toasted crusty bread.
Savor juicy strawberries in a nostalgic milk shake with a sophisticated layer of caramel.
Let the tomatoes do the talking with this raw version of a spaghetti-night essential. Use this sauce over hot pasta, raw vegetable ribbons or poached fish or poultry. You can season it to taste with salt and freshly ground pepper or red pepper flakes if you like....
In a version of your favorite ice cream truck treat, this simple chocolate sauce hardens to a crispy coating over frozen desserts.
This is a great picnic salad, equally as tasty warm as it is chilled. Leftover chicken works wonders in this preparation.
Lemon-spiked Greek yogurt creates a zingy sauce for crisp blanched green beans. Serve chilled or at room temperature.
Grab one of these tiny cherry- and tarragon-filled pies for a sweet bite of summer. About the size of a cookie, you'll probably want to eat more than one.
Transform the traditional mozzarella and tomato appetizer into a meal-worthy salad with the addition of pearl couscous. White balsamic vinegar and fresh basil keep things lively.
Simmer juicy blackberries with honey to create a luxurious syrup that's a fun addition to cocktails and perfect drizzled over pancakes, waffles or vanilla ice cream.
Turn lemonade into a light frozen dessert with just a little time and patience. A dollop of whipped Greek yogurt and fresh berries make for a refreshing summer treat.


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I'm currently on Day 2 of my vacation leave from the hospital (aka work). Life can never be so sweet (and boring at the same time). :) You know what I mean. Spent most of the day in front of the screen, catching up on some long overdue blog reading and deciding whether or not to go ahead with the blog design changes for the next month or so. I know. I have nothing to do except tweak a few codes here and there. Anyway, If you need help on your WordPress site, just email me and I'll make sure to email you back.
I'll be asking someone to do the blog header. Just the blog header. The rest will be coded by yours truly. ♥ ;) And I think I've found the perfect person for the job. She's Filipino like me and I'm sure you'll love to meet her soon. ;) ♥ I think the theme for the header will still be pink. Haha… And as always, floral! I'm thinking a lot of peonies lately. Don't you love these flowers? ;)
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