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Continuing my story of my personal journey on my heathen path, it was the early 1990s and I was still living in Sonoma, California. I had some great times at heathen festivals Ravenwood and the Ostara gathering in the Marin headlands, and the CAW Convocation.
A quote from my memoir:
"There were two campout festivals a year, one in the spring on the beach, where we rolled out our sleeping bags on metal cots in an old World War One bunker in the Marin headlands, where we gathered at dawn to ignite a model longship loaded with eggs and nickels and push it into the sea as an offering to the goddess Ran, the other in the summer, where we pitched tents in the redwoods, held toasting rituals called sumbel, and a general rite to all the gods. At the summer festival, the feeling was very much that the rituals were an excuse to get together, hold discussions with people who actually knew what we were talking about when we spoke of our personal discoveries and academic theories about our religion, and of course to sing pagan songs by the campfire all night, the selections becoming progressively more bawdy as the night wore on. One year the summer festival happened to be Fourth of July weekend, so we all drove up to the bare top of the hill in a van and sat in the warm breeze, looking across the water to San Francisco. All we could see of the fireworks display was colored lights in the heavy fog that clung to the City, though the rest of the bay was clear. Pink, green, blue, yellow, the fog flickered. We called it "wizard lights" and made jokes about how our primitive ancestors would have interpreted them. We laughed all the way back down the hill. I was one of very few who did not pair off for the evening, either with someone they brought with them, or an old acquaintance from other Festivals, or a perfect stranger they would not recognize in the morning.
Nighttime in the redwood forest, before the music and dancing started up for the evening, held an otherworldly quiet. Fog came in like muffling cotton. The torches under the trees cast rings of light through the mist, seeming to splinter into rainbow-edged crystals as from far away came the ancient, dragonish sound of drummers heat-tuning their bodhrans over the fire. It was a moment of pure magic. All seemed still and at the same time I saw air moving across the firelight, for the mist off the ocean looked like air grown visible. The eldritch woods, black against the starry sky, the red flame of torches, the glowing gold mist; it was an elvish night."
I also attended pagan festivals as well as heathen ones.
A quote from my memoir, Greater Than the Sum of My Parts:
"Because the heathen group Ring of Troth was based in San Francisco...I also looked for any pagans closer to home, and came across The Church of All Worlds, which was based on... a science fiction novel. The devotees of Stranger in a Strange Land did not, of course, practice cannibalism, as did the Martians in the book. Water drinking was their main activity, and nudity as weather permitted. I did not actually join their group formally, but I did attend their meetings for a time, mainly because they were held in Sonoma. I was originally attracted to them after attending one of their beach rituals, where the priest invoked the god into himself and I sensed power there. It seems odd that there could be such eloquence in the mere flaring of nostrils, but that is what I chiefly remember: when the god awoke within him, tasting the wind as if newly after a long time discorporeate, and then opened his eyes and spoke, I really felt I watched an entity larger than time squashed down to three dimensions.
"The CAW Convocation was held on some private land north of Sonoma. I went as a vendor. ... I spread my mummy bag right on the dry summer grass, and left my glasses on so I could look up at the stars before I fell asleep. It was a wonderfully dry night, and I did not wake up covered with dew as I'd worried. I joined a small group cooking by the edge of the flat area, looking down into the oak and madrone woods below. Some fog was starting to roll up the hillside, which if it reached us would turn the whole Convocation dark and cold and wet. A dark-haired man named Duncain positioned his folding chair facing the fog and announced he was going to stare down the fog bank and save the festival. Several hours went by, while everyone else cooked, hauled water, put tents in order, and so forth. Someone asked him to help with something, but he said not to break his concentration, he was pushing away the fog. At midmorning the bank of ground clouds started receding, and by noon the whole woods below were visible. Everyone cheered and proclaimed him a successful weather witch, and gave him the eke-name Duncain the Fog Bane, by which he was called from then on."
Around '94 or '95, after I started studying the Bersarkr martial art and magical tradition, I performed the Bersarkr dance to festival drums one night at the Ostara gathering.
A quote from my memoir, Greater Than the Sum of My Parts:
"In the evening, when Diana and her group set up for seidh in the bunker and most of the people at the festival went inside to watch, a small number of people were left around the campfire. Some people started drumming, and I found myself tuned into Angela's drum. She was a heartbeat drummer, regular and unchanging as time. I felt myself caught by the power of her drumming, and I began to dance. The berserker trance came over me, and I leapt into the air, doing martial arts kicks and then coming back down to land growling and moving to the rhythm. I got overheated and dumped my cloak and sweater on the table, and I was vaguely aware that I no longer had my glasses on, but I could still see, and that was a peculiar sensation. Occasionally the drums stopped and I headed for the bench like a spent racehorse, but then they started again, doing a different style, but each time Angela's drum caught me and held me and the trance returned. Each time I jumped back up, feeling exhausted somewhere inside but unable to stop, unable even to moderate my movements as I would have if I had been dancing some other way than entranced. I continued to dance at full force, leaping and gyrating and kicking.
Berserker folklore says one does not recognize one's friends while berserk, but I recognized Vlad when he approached within the thirty foot circle all the others had the good sense to give me. Then he stopped cold and stared at me a moment, and retreated. I continued to dance. Then it was over. I felt boneless as I staggered toward the water faucet to relieve the burning of dehydration. Then I came back to the picnic tables by the campfire and sat down, and put my glasses back on. I felt wobbly all over. "How long was I dancing?" I asked.
Angela replied, "About three hours."
"Hours?! I usually can't sustain the berserkrgangr for more than one song. And why didn't I have an asthma attack?"
Angela asked, "Fox?"
"I thought it was something small and furry." She nodded to herself.
"You saw?"
"Most people can't, you know," I said. "In old stories they say berserkers are shapeshifters, but only the psychically gifted can see the change. Though I should have expected you could, since you're such a powerful drummer."
"Thank you."
It was only then that I noticed the naked man. He was busily cutting himself on the arms, legs, and chest with a straight razor.
"What's with him?" I asked Angela.
She replied, "He says he's letting the goddess Diana have her way with him."
"Hmm. I've never met a male Dianic before."
Through all this, despite getting language back right away, I had had to work at slowly unbending my fingers from their clawed state. Now the fire threw a loud popping spark and I jumped up and my hands clawed up again. Vlad offered a sheathed knife as a pry bar to unbend my fingers, and it actually worked.
"I forgot," I said, "it's Loki's Day. April first. He had to show us he was around."
At the time, that was not a controversial thing to say. Like in Icelandic and European Asatru, there was nothing remotely controversial about Loki in the American Asatru that I first encountered in California in the 90s.
As I grew closer to Odin while studying the Bersarkr tradition, I started receiving more inspiration for my writing. That's another story, and will be the subject of my next post, Poetic Inspiration.
Yule is a birth, and birth is a messy business.
In the old North, women used to give birth in straw. This was called the birthing-litter or the birthing-strew: cushioning, absorbent, and readily disposable.
In fact, straw and strew come from the same verbal root, apparently meaning "to spread." It was once customary to spread the floors of the house with straw—called halm or haulm, from the same root as Greek kalamos, "reed"—to insulate and absorb spills. Generally the halm had fragrant herbs mingled among it, but even so it must have gotten pretty rank with use. So for many years it was the practice to lay fresh strew for Yule: the Yule-halm. In Sweden this was known as Julglädje, the "Yule-joy." (The old stuff must have been pretty bad.) Some people would sleep in the Yule-halm so as to leave their beds for the visiting dead who rejoin the family during the holy tide. Straw-dreams were said to be of great omen.
Daily Practice helps me from going crazy. No, seriously, in a world where so little is in our control, seemingly less filled with compassion and more filled with injustice, my daily practice allows me to sink into the safety of the only thing constant in my life, the breath.
I encounter people everyday, whether direct or in passing, and wonder… are they breathing? I mean, really breathing? With faces intently locked onto phones, harnessed at the computer, walking briskly, or rapidly talking, I wonder are these people breathing? What might it look like for them to simply acknowledge the breath within their body. The simple, yet realchemizing breath that fills our lungs to energize our blood and move toxins, like stress, out of the body....
We all know that the holiday season can be incredibly stressful, no matter which holidays one celebrates this time of year. This season has always been hard on me, but this year it's a lot worse. So when I found myself crying in my boss' office for practically no reason at all, I knew I needed to start practicing what social workers and other healthcare professionals refer to as "self-care.""...
In today's Airy Monday post, we've got PaganStudies at the AAR; new classes at Cherry Hill; the New Alexandrian library; buzzards (tracked from space); and a look the Orion mission.
"The AAR annual meeting is a huge intellectual energy infusion, not to mention a social occasion with Pagan Studies scholars from around the world," reports Chas Clifton, co-chair of AAR's Contemporary Pagan Studies Group. The Wild Hunt has the rest of the story.
Cherry Hill Pagan seminary announced its slate of upcoming spring classes last week. They include offerings in subjects including Sacred Cycles; Ministering to Military Pagans; Paganism and the Body; and much more. Check the whole list out here....
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For just a moment, I thought that somehow I'd driven onto a set from Hitchcock's The Birds.
Sunset, Christmas Eve 2000. In the stillness of the Yule-frith, the only things moving were me and the stoplights, as I drove to work in downtown Minneapolis.
And the crows. Thousands of crows, literally, filling the trees that lined Park Avenue. Hundreds, raucous black fruit, in each tree, silhouetted against the sunset sky.


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Fearing the negative effect a strong currency can have on economic growth, the SNB intervened in the franc's atmospheric ascension at the start of the month, announcing that it would take dramatic steps to halt its climb. Following the move, the franc has tumbled, while the FXF has retreated to its 200-day moving average, returning nearly all of its summertime gains.It is unclear what the long-term impact the SNB's intervention will ultimately have on the franc. However, in the initial aftermath, investors have begun to turn to other corners of the currency markets in hopes of finding relief. The U.S. dollar and Canadian dollar have each been mentioned as possible replacements. Initially, the greenback appears to have become the biggest beneficiary to come from the franc's downfall. In the opening days of September, shares of the PowerShares DB U.S. Dollar Index Bullish Fund (UUP) have soared, recovering back to levels seen at the start of April. Despite this climb, questions loom about the longevity of its rise. Continued loose monetary policy on the part of the Federal Reserve could quickly stifle the dollar's gains. The Loonie has not seen the same short term run up as the U.S. dollar. However, given Canada's relative stability and the looming threat of action from the Fed, investors may find it to be an attractive destination in the near term. The CurrencyShares Canadian Dollar Trust (FXC) allows ETF investors to follow its action.
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This Tuesday, on an all-new 90210, Adrianna reveals her secret to her BFF and her boyfriend. How will they take the news?
And what is in store for Dixon and Silver?
Check out the following preview for "Love Me or Leave Me" and get an idea:
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This show was so lame - I shut it off after the first 15 minutes...no old characters, I will not watch this show w/o Kelly or Brenda (or at least, Donna).
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the song that was playing on the promo,! i luv it
In response to everything that is being said: I was very annoyed to learn that Adrianna was preggos... mainly because the writers of this show are using all the good teen plots in the first season... they need to spread them out a little more. I do not think Brenda will adopt the kid because then Adrianna would easily be able to see it again, and people who put their kids up for adoption usually dont want to be around that kid or their new parents a lot. I think Sean will probably try and rape Naomi... (again with the cliche teen plots in the first season). I wish Naomi would kill Annie... because seriously, Annie is the most annoying out of the girls and is the ugliest. Naomi, Adrianna, and Silver would be much better. Xtina... lame... again.
Naomi isn't starting rumors she thinks Adrianna is using for umpteenth time but she really is pregnant and Naomi doesn't know. Brenda is not a sure thing to adopt the kid. Sean I definitely believe he'll be back for Naomi and Annie, he put some creepy photos of Naomi on his mirror in his scenes. IDK how they haven't fought pyshically yet. Xtina already said she's Bi..she's had men and women before. Ofcourse she wants Dixon heck I'd want him. Silver is definitely prettier. I don't think he'll leave her and no it won't be because he's black and she's black, I'd like to think it's because of chemistry instead of that.
Adrianna is not using again, Naiomi is just good for starting rumors and not listening to people, A is prolly trying to tell her friend shes pregoo... She prolly passesout in lab because shes pregooo....
Brenda will prolly adopt the baby, Sean is def gonna go after Annie in some kinda way..... Annie needs to knock Niaomi out.... I know I would of by now.. And Lauren is def not a lesbo...She's saying she is to get closer to Dixon...why would she of told her dad so much about him??? And even tho Silver is WAYYYYYY prettier then Lauren, he'll prolly leave Silver for her... and i'll give u 1 guess why...


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My second book, Seeking Refuge, is a study of the individuals, groups, and organizations that responded to the Central American refugee crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, and helped shape refugee policies throughout North America. Collectively these domestic and transnational advocacy networks collected testimonies, documented the abuses of states, re-framed national debates about immigration, pressured for changes in policy, and ultimately provided a voice for the displaced and the excluded.
I am currently completing a new book project, a study of refugee and asylum policy in the United States since the end of the Cold War.
Many of my undergraduate courses reflect these research interests (see my list of course offerings below) and are cross-listed with American Studies, Latino Studies, and occasionally, Latin American Studies. While I consider myself primarily a historian of 20th century U.S. history, my interest in mobile populations has increasingly blurred the geographic borders of my work.
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|Latinos in U.S. History
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|Immigration in U.S. History
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The US-Mexico Border: History, Culture, and Representation
Immigration in U.S. History
Latinos in U.S. History
Reading in 20th century U.S. History
US-Cuba Relations
Ph.D University of Texas, Austin, 1990
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B.A. Georgetown University, 1982
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Seeking Refuge: Central American Immigration to Mexico, the United States, and Canada (University of California Press, 2006)
Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959-1994 (University of California Press, 1996)
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Americana, in Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream: Shaping Americas Immigration Story. David Gerber and Alan Kraut, eds.. Rutgers University Press, forthcoming 2014.
Latino immigration, in "Oxford Handbook on American Immigration and Ethnicity". Ronald Bayor, ed. Oxford University Press, Forthcoming 2014.
"Refugees in Post Cold War America, Immigration and Ethnic History Society Newsletter, November 2012.
Central American migration and the shaping of refugee policy in Migrants and Migration in Modern North America: Cross-Border Lives, Labor Markets, and Politics in Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States. Dirk Hoerder and Nora Faires, eds., Duke University Press, 2012.
Latino Interchange, Journal of American History (September 2010), Vol. 97, no. 2. pp. 424-464.
Recent Awards and Fellowships
Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, 2013-2014
Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011.
Radcliffe Institute, 2005-2006 (declined)
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Latino Studies Program
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Latin American Studies Program
Immigration: Settlement, Integration and Membership Project
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December 24, 2014, Wednesday
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December 18, 2014, Thursday
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December 17, 2014, Wednesday
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December 16, 2014, Tuesday
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Breakingviews: Bold fuel cut gives Indonesia opportunities
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Breakingviews: Japan economy slammed by sales tax, debt
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Revisiting the concept of creating and using Luminosity Masks in GIMP. This script-fu will generate a full set of Light, Dark, and Midtone masks as channels for your image (based on the work of Tony Kuyper originally).
This is the automated script-fu version of the full tutorial that can be found here:Getting Around in GIMP - Luminosity Masks Revisited
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So I have known for a while that the Blue channel is not particularly flattering on skin tones, and tends to show a lot of imperfections when retouching.
This can be used to our advantage by using the Blue channel as a 'guide' for seeing easily areas where some retouching/healing might be needed.
A script-fu implementation of the Pseudogrey encoding as presented originally by Rich Franzen, and brought to my attention by gimpchat.com user lylejk in this thread.
I've written up a blog post as well detailing the method and how it's derived.
Export all (or only visible) layers as individual image files.
V.0.1 (20120513) - based on the plugin "Export Layers" version 0.5 by Chris Mohler.
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Norman Mailer. MoonFire. Die legendäre Reise der Apollo 11 - Rezensionen (2)
|"...un must pour les tous les fans de la conquête spatiale."— Trends Tendances, Bruxelles, Belgien
|"Dieser beeindruckende Bild- und Sachband zur Mondlandung kann komplexer, übersichtlicher, umfassender und leicht verständlicher nicht sein. Ich finde, dass man diesen Bildband in seiner Gesamtheit nicht genug loben kann. ... Dieses Buch ist einfach absolut genial."— Dooyoo.de, Berlin, Deutschland
|"Der große Schriftsteller Norman Mailer berichtet in diesem brillant geschriebenen Luxusbuch über den Umgang der Wissenschaft mit der Raumfahrt ... Provokante und treffsichere Einsichten in dieses epochale Ereignis."— Recover, Wien, Österreich
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|"This 'More Precious than Gold' edition is part literary, part interactive design, part actual moon rock and 100% amazing. The book, Norman Mailer's "Moonfire" is enclosed in a replica of the Apollo 11 lunar module 'whose surface is an actual 3D topography of the Moon made from a single piece of aluminium,' weighing in at nearly 50 lbs. The moonrock itself is individually packaged, but wait, there's more! TASCHEN is also throwing in a 'heady-to-hang, archival-quality, numbered photographic print' of Buzz Aldrin, signed by the moonwalker himself...But you have to hurry. Even though the moonrocks are going for as much as $766,000 (relax, that's the price of the rarest and largest moonrock ever found) they're quickly selling out."— SundanceChannel.com, Park City, USA
|"Originally published as a hugely expensive special edition, complete with a piece of moon rock, the publisher's lower-price 35th anniversary 'popular edition' is a steal at the RRP above, and a total bargain at the discounted prices you'll see on the high street and online. It must be some kind of anniversary fatigue that means that MoonFire - The Epic Journey of Apollo 11 appears to be so undervalued: if you regard manned space flight as the ultimate flying experience as we do, you'll be blown away by this wonderful book. The text is by an American literary giant. ... Combine this with photographs from NASA's vast archive, many of them previously unpublished, and art publisher TASCHEN's design expertise, and you have a titanic alliance. MoonFire is so all-encompassing in its scope and so brilliantly done that in one volume it eclipses the entire library of even the most ardent admirer of the space programme. While it would be worth the asking price for the text alone, the pictures - several of them gate-fold panoramas - are simply breathtaking. You don't just get images from the Apollo 11 mission - everything is there, from portraits of the scientists and engineers to pictures of the astronaut's family lives. The effect is to really put you there, replaying in near totality the events of July 1969. There has been nothing to match the Apollo programme - mankind's greatest adventure - in the 40-odd years since, and MoonFire is assuredly the definitive record."— Today's Pilot, Stamford, USA
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For a program that began in 2010, Saraland has proved they're a program on the rise. In their first season, the Spartans finished with just three wins … since then, Saraland has advanced to the playoffs three straight years, including a trip to the state semi-finals last season.
"It is an exciting time of the year as a coach it's my favorite time of the year, we've been going through off season workouts, we've been working hard, doing all of the things that we can do inside and in the weight room and now's the time we can get out and throw the ball around and strap up the shoulder pads, do all those things. We want to see what our guy can do and a lot of our guys, like everybody else, they come in and they work in the weight room and in the offseason and now's the time to go out and see how that players a little bit different than he was last year," said head coach, Jeff Kelly.
"It's my senior year so it's very exciting for me and I've played since my freshman year, so I'm really looking forward to getting a ring this year. I feel like this is our strongest team since we've been here and I'm excited for that," said fullback, Jeffrey Gatewood.
The Spartans will be tasked with replacing thee-year veteran quarterback Jay Ward. Ward will walk on at South Alabama this fall.
"He did an outstanding job, we feel good about where we are. Chris (Weaver) is a guy that played probably 30-40 percent of our snaps at QB last year and so it's not like he's not done it. Chris is going to be just fine. He's going to get out there and compete and play hard and do all the things that we need him to do. Leadership is one of his strong points; we're all on him real hard to be great leader there," said Kelly of his new starting quarterback.
"I know there are high expectations to fill his spot. There's huge responsibility, coach Kelly is always talking to me. How I need to lead more to show what I can do on the field and I know what he's teaching me and what I'm doing is what needs to be done," said Weaver.
Saraland's loss last year to Spanish Fort in the state semi-final game has motivated to team to take that next step in 2014.
"It wasn't good enough, we want a ring and we plan on getting it this year," said Gatewood.
"I've always wanted to have a ring on my finger. We were close last year, we fell short, I would love to go back to that same day but we've got to work hard, stay I the weight room and we'll be fine," said Weaver.
"That's why you do it. That's why we do what we do. That's why we work the long hours and push these kids to be the best they can be year round, to hopefully have that opportunity. And that's something that every coach and player would love to do. I think if you get caught up looking at that as your goal, sometimes you can overlook some things. The thing that we need to be focused on is being the best player and best football team we can be week one and play our best football game that week one and then we'll finish that game and we'll turn around and do the best job we can do to prepare for week two and so we've got to take it week in and week out and if we do that, stay healthy and our guys become a team, then we'll have a chance when it's all said and done," said Kelly.


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Neuralstem's patented technology enables the ability to produce neural stem cells of the human brain and spinal cord in commercial quantities, and the ability to control the differentiation of these cells constitutively into mature, physiologically relevant human neurons and glia. Neuralstem completed an FDA-approved Phase I safety clinical trial for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), often referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease, in February 2013, and has submitted recommended Phase II trial protocol to the FDA. Neuralstem has been awarded orphan status designation by the FDA for its ALS cell therapy.
In addition to ALS, the company is also targeting major central nervous system conditions with its NSI-566 cell therapy platform, including spinal cord injury, ischemic stroke and glioblastoma (brain cancer). The company received approval to commence a Phase I safety trial in chronic spinal cord injury in January 2013.
Neuralstem also has the ability to generate stable human neural stem cell lines suitable for the systematic screening of large chemical libraries. Through this proprietary screening technology, Neuralstem has discovered and patented compounds that may stimulate the brain's capacity to generate new neurons, possibly reversing the pathologies of some central nervous system conditions. The company is in a Phase Ib safety trial evaluating NSI-189, its first neurogenic small molecule compound, for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD). Additional indications could include chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), Alzheimer's disease, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).For more information, please visit www.neuralstem.com or connect with us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn About Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. (NYSE: HTGC) ("Hercules") ( www.HTGC.com) is the leading specialty finance company focused on providing senior secured loans to venture capital-backed companies in technology-related markets, including technology, biotechnology, life science and cleantech industries at all stages of development. Since inception ( December 2003), Hercules has committed more than $3.4 billion to over 220 companies and is the lender of choice for entrepreneurs and venture capital firms seeking growth capital financing. Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward Looking Information
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The government is asking state-owned Air India to operate extra freighters to lift 100 metric tons of cargo a week from this month through May.
They would be in addition to the carrier's biweekly Boeing 747 freighter services from Delhi and Madras.The backlog at Delhi is 2,000 tons, about twice the normal amount, said P.S. Nair, general manager, cargo, for the International Airports Authority of India.
At one point last year, it rose to 2,600 tons. As part of measures to increase capacity, the government also is considering the creation of a specialized cargo loading company.
Official sources acknowledged Monday that while airborne trade accounts for 38 percent of India's exports and 25 percent of imports, demand far outstrips availability. This is particularly true in the two peak periods of January- June and September- December.
The Commerce Ministry, in consultation with export promotion councils and commodity boards, estimates that 253,000 tons of cargo must be moved between September of last year and July of this. That compares with 197,000 tons in the previous comparable period.
The range of goods carried by air is diverse, but the main items are textiles, ready-made garments and leather products.
Air exports of ready-made garments and textiles are expected to grow to 106,000 tons over the next five years from 63,000 tons now. Leather products are expected to increase to 87,000 tons from 56,000.
The United States is one of the principal markets for Indian garment exports.
Last year the government announced an "open skies" policy to ease cargo congestion. Under this policy, the government pledges to give consideration to private operators or associations of exporters to run air cargo operations on their own or in consortia with purchased or leased aircraft.
This policy has had only limited success because there is not enough inbound air cargo traffic, which means airlines charge higher rates for export cargo to compensate. These rates clash with cheaper rates of Air India, but it can normally lift only 30 percent of the cargo.


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For example: This "story" about a "rift" between Kevin Garnett and Carmelo Anthony, which came out after the two had words during and after Monday night's game. Combine two large speculative media markets, two big stars and a lot of "sources," and here's what you get from ESPN:
Carmelo Anthony sought out Kevin Garnett after the Knicks-Celtics game Monday to have "a one-on-one conversation with him" about words Garnett used toward Anthony during the fourth quarter of New York's loss, the Knicks forward said on Tuesday. Anthony said Tuesday that his goal was to "talk it out like two grown men." The two were called for technical fouls for jawing with one another in the closing minutes of the game.
OK, so what we have here is a failure to communicate. But go on.
Two sources with knowledge of the incident said that Anthony, after angrily walking off the floor and through the visiting team's tunnel, went outside the Celtics' locker room screaming, presumably for Garnett. He then approached Garnett at the Celtics team bus but Madison Square Garden security, New York City police officers, team security and even Knicks coach Mike Woodson intervened before the incident could escalate.
Escalate into what? They're not going to fight each other. Maybe the two sources with knowledge of the situation thought they were going to bare-knuckle box? They were NEVER GOING TO FIGHT no matter what TMZ thinks.
"I wanted to talk to KG," Anthony said after practice Tuesday. "I think it was something that we both needed to get off our chests and see what really was the problem. It wasn't no altercations, it was just some words and [a] conversation that we needed to have." A league source said the conversation between Anthony and Garnett actually took place over the phone following the bus incident, and the two players have since cleared the air.
OK, terrific. The guys had words on the court in the heat of a game then talked it out afterwards and are cool. THIS PROBABLY HAPPENS ALL THE TIME.
Garnett and Anthony first got tangled up in the fourth quarter and both were whistled for a technical foul after jawing with one another near midcourt. Anthony was upset over something Garnett said to him. "It's certain things that you just don't say to men, another man," Anthony said. "I felt that he crossed the line. Like I said, we're both at an understanding right now, we handled it the way we handled it. Nobody needs to know what was said behind closed doors. So that situation is handled."
Exactly. Don't know. Don't care. All good.
It is unclear whether either Anthony or Garnett will be suspended in light of the incident. Said Anthony: "Nothing happened for me to be suspended," adding, "I just wanted to know what was being said, where was all that coming from. Whatever was being said on the basketball court, where was it coming from?"
Suspension? The 1980s NBA laughs at this, sources close to the situation say.
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By Howard Rothman
NEW YORK ( MainStreet)--While all of us have different ideas about what we're going to do when we retire, it's a safe bet that none of us is planning to struggle financially. Yet that is precisely what could happen despite our best intentions, especially if we're forced to exit the working world earlier than we anticipated.
Some serious thought about Social Security and the time and manner that we start our benefits, though, could make things easier down the road.
Alarmingly, two in three Millennials expect to retire by the age of 65, but almost 70% of them have yet to take any steps in planning or saving for it, according to a GfK survey conducted on behalf of MainStreet. Social Security, often viewed as an increasingly antiquated and insecure font of retirement income, has more Baby Boomers (85%) expecting it as a top source of planned retirement income than any other source. Even 54% of Millennials count SS as a top source of retirement income. Whereas Millennials more commonly cite employee-sponsored retirement savings plans (64%) and bank savings accounts, money markets and CD plans (63%) as a top source of retirement income, 65% and 61% of Boomers cited those sources, respectively, far below the expectations for Social Security.
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Discussion paper
"Is bipolar disorder an endocrine condition?" Glucose abnormalities in bipolar disorder
Article first published online: 12 SEP 2013
DOI: 10.1111/acps.12194
© 2013 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
Volume 129, Issue 1, pages 73–74, January 2014
Additional Information
How to Cite
Garcia-Rizo, C., Kirkpatrick, B., Fernandez-Egea, E., Oliveira, C., Meseguer, A., Grande, I., Undurraga, J., Vieta, E. and Bernardo, M. (2014), "Is bipolar disorder an endocrine condition?" Glucose abnormalities in bipolar disorder. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 129: 73–74. doi: 10.1111/acps.12194
Publication History
- Issue published online: 12 DEC 2013
- Article first published online: 12 SEP 2013
Funded by
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Grant Number: RO1 DK069265
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental
- Government of Catalonia, Secretaria d'Universitats i Recerca del Departament d'conomia i Coneixement. Grant Number: 2009SGR1295
- Esther Koplowitz Center-Barcelona
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The World Health Organisation placed bipolar disorder at the top ten causes of disability worldwide, due not only to its functional impairment but also to its increased medical morbidity and mortality. An increased suicide rate, poor healthcare access, poor health habits, and medication side-effects contribute to the increased morbidity and mortality. However, the leading contributors to the excess of mortality are cardiovascular pathologies [1], a finding already highlighted by Derby in 1933 in a cohort of manic-depressive patients admitted to a general hospital. Cardiovascular risk factors, such as obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) [2], and lipid disturbances, are highly increased in bipolar disorder. In between those, glycemic abnormalities are the most repeated finding, taking into account that since the onset of the 20th century, several authors had raised the attention toward an unexpected relationship between manic-depressive illness and glucose metabolism [3]. In addition, the prevalence of T2DM in bipolar disorders ranges from 8% to 17% a threefold increase compared with the general population and bipolar patients with comorbid T2DM may have a more severe course of the psychiatric illness (greater number of depressive and manic episodes, more hospitalizations, and suicidality) and refractoriness to treatment. In addition, studies regarding metabolic disturbances in relatives of bipolar disorder and non-affective psychosis have described an increased risk of developing glucose abnormalities, adding more scientific background to the unexpected relationship. However, pharmacological treatment, including both antipsychotic agents, antidepressants and mood stabilizers, may have confounded this relationship.
The studies undergone in the pre-antipsychotic era, described a high prevalence of glucose abnormalities in patients diagnosed with manic-depressive illness [3], suggesting that even before the use of psychotropic medication, bipolar patients showed a disturbed regulation in the homeostasis of glucose metabolism, a key factor for developing T2DM over years and for increasing the risk of mortality through different cardiovascular pathologies (i.e., myocardial infarction, stroke). However, the lack of homogeneity of psychiatric and endocrinologic methodology might have biased those findings. In fact, as opposed to patients with schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses, no study has been conducted in drug-naïve bipolar patients to test the hypothesis that glucose abnormalities can be found in those patients more frequently than in the general population.
Now, preliminary data concerning 7 drug-naïve DSM-IV-TR bipolar I patients who underwent an oral glucose tolerance test suggest that bipolar disorder may be highly associated with abnormal glucose metabolism irrespective of pharmacotherapy. The patients were evaluated at the time of their first clinical contact for psychotic symptoms at a general academic hospital. The patients were initially classified as first episode of non-affective psychosis, but their diagnosis was changed over a year time for an affective diagnosis, namely bipolar disorder type I. All subjects gave informed consent for participation in the study, which was conducted under the supervision of the authors' respective hospital ethics committees, and came from a larger study of metabolic abnormalities and glucose dysregulation in neuropsychiatric disorders [4]. The results after an overnight fast showed a high incidence of glucose metabolism abnormalities, including impaired fasting glucose in two of seven patients and impaired glucose tolerance in six of seven patients. Abnormal glucose metabolism, measured as an increased two-hour glucose load, reflects that bipolar I disorder is associated with an elevated risk of death from cardiovascular pathologies and all causes, independently of other known risk factors.
Our data and the actual state of knowledge suggest that glucose abnormalities are linked to the diagnosis of bipolar disorder before the effects of medications and other confounders had taken place. Indeed, glucose abnormalities are the basis for the reportedly high number of medical comorbidities found in patients with bipolar disorder. The concept of 'Allostatic Load' has received considerable attention as a theoretic explanation of its medical burden. Allostasis is a term that describes a multisystemic view of the physiologic toll that is required for adaptation to different situations; these processes are adaptative to internal or external circumstances and so maintain the homeostasis of the organism. However, when extra loads appear pointy or over time (the adaptative mechanisms are repeatedly activated), the allostatic response becomes excessive or inefficient and the organism develops an allostatic load (overload) that can direct to abnormal responses through insulin dysfunction such as T2DM, hypertension, or arteriosclerosis [5].
The pathophysiology that underlies the association of bipolar disorder and T2DM or glucose abnormalities is far from being understood, but several explanations have been developed over time. These include possible common pathophysiological processes, genetic and epigenetic links, and environmental factors.
Dysregulation in the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis is a highly consistent finding that would explain through cortisol disturbances the abnormalities in glucose homeostasis, increased body fat deposition and atherosclerosis, although in our sample, cortisol value was in the normal range, and in another naïve bipolar I study, it was lower compared with matched controls. Dysfunction in the purinergic system has been associated with both bipolar naïve patients [6] and T2DM, as purines play a crucial role in energy homeostasis and neuroregulation. Indeed, Kraepelin already described in 1921 an association between uric acid and manic-depressive illness. Evidence implicates also mitochondrial dysfunction, impaired phospholipid metabolism and fatty acid-related signal transduction, and dysregulation of glycogen synthase kinase-3, in the common pathophysiological processes that underlie bipolar disorder and T2DM [2]. Common genetic abnormalities and shared susceptibility loci have been described between T2DM and bipolar disorder; however, genetic-wide association studies have not yielded conclusive results.
However, we would like to highlight the physiology of early environmental processes [7] and its epigenetic programming in the development of metabolic disturbances. Bipolar disorder, from a gene-environment model, is associated not only with familial risk but also with a certain number of early environmental factors. Birth and gestational-related problems appear to be risk factors for both bipolar disorder and diabetes, low birth weight being the most notable example, suggesting neurobiological adaptative changes that might underlie both pathologies. Obstetric, prenatal disturbances, and early growth patterns predict an increased risk of developing T2DM [8] and other cardiovascular pathologies over time, through epigenetic pathways, a finding that could also partially explain part of the increased risk of morbidity and mortality found in patients affected with bipolar disorder.
Understanding the onset of a severe mental illness not only as psychiatric but also as a medical condition would imply a metabolic control independent of the type of treatment. Hence, all physicians should be aware of the need of implementing primary preventive strategies in an effort to reduce the overall medical burden and mortality of bipolar patients.
The work leading to these results have been supported in part by Grant RO1 DK069265 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (Dr. Kirkpatrick), NARSAD (Dr. Fernandez-Egea) and by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, FEDER, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Government of Catalonia, Secretaria d'Universitats i Recerca del Departament d'conomia i Coneixement (2009SGR1295) and by Esther Koplowitz Center-Barcelona (Dr. Bernardo).
- 1Excess mortality in bipolar and unipolar disorder in Sweden. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2001;58:844–850., , , , .
- 2The relationship between bipolar disorder and type 2 diabetes: more than just co-morbid disorders. Ann Med 2013;45:171–181., , , .
- 3Mood and psychotic disorders and type 2 diabetes: a metabolic triad. Can J Diabetes 2005;29:122–132., , et al.
- 4Metabolic profile of antipsychotic-naive individuals with non-affective psychosis. Br J Psychiatry 2009;194:434–438., , et al.
- 5Mediators of allostasis and systemic toxicity in bipolar disorder. Physiol Behav 2012;106:46–50., , , , .
- 6Increased uric acid levels in drug-naive subjects with bipolar disorder during a first manic episode. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2013;34:819–821., , et al.
- 7The thrifty phenotype hypothesis revisited. Diabetologia 2012;55:2085–2088., , , .
- 8The thrifty phenotype hypothesis. Br Med Bull 2001;60:5–20., .


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NEW YORK, May 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP) ("BGC Partners," "BGC," or "the Company"), a leading global brokerage company primarily servicing the wholesale financial and real estate markets, today announced two upcoming investor webcasts.
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The Company plans to hold its 2013 Annual Meeting of Stockholders on Tuesday, June 4, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. ET at the Company's executive offices in New York City. A live audio webcast of the Annual Meeting of Stockholders will start at approximately 10:00 a.m. ET and is expected to last approximately one hour. It will also be available via the following site:
http://ir.bgcpartners.com/ The webcast archive will be available for 365 days, beginning June 4 , 2013.Howard W. Lutnick, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, will be presenting to investors at Sandler O'Neill's Global Exchange and Brokerage Conference in New York. Mr. Lutnick is scheduled to speak on Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 4:00 p.m. ET. An audio webcast of the presentation from the conference will be made accessible via the following sites: http://ir.bgcpartners.com/ or http://www.wsw.com/webcast/sandler3 The archived webcast will be available for 30 days, beginning at 6:00 p.m. ET on June 6, 2013. (Note: If clicking the above link does not open up a new web page, you may need to cut and paste the above url into your browser's address bar.) About BGC Partners, Inc. BGC Partners is a leading global brokerage company primarily servicing the wholesale financial and real estate markets. Products include fixed income securities, interest rate swaps, foreign exchange, equities, equity derivatives, credit derivatives, commercial real estate, commodities, futures, and structured products. BGC also provides a wide range of services, including trade execution, broker-dealer services, clearing, processing, information, and other back-office services to a broad range of financial and non-financial institutions. Through its eSpeed, BGC Trader, and BGC Market Data brands, BGC offers financial technology solutions, market data, and analytics related to select financial instruments and markets. Newmark Grubb Knight Frank is a full-service commercial real estate platform that comprises the Company's Real Estate Services segment, offering commercial real estate tenants, owners, investors and developers a wide range of services, including leasing; capital markets services, including investment sales, debt placement, appraisal, and valuation services; commercial mortgage brokerage services; as well as consulting, project and development management, leasing and corporate advisory services and property and corporate facilities management services. BGC's customers include many of the world's largest banks, broker-dealers, investment banks, trading firms, hedge funds, governments, corporations, property owners, real estate developers, and investment firms. For more information, please visit www.bgcpartners.com. eSpeed, BGC, BGC Trader, Grubb & Ellis, Grubb and Newmark Grubb Knight Frank are trademarks and service marks of BGC Partners, Inc. and its affiliates. Knight Frank is a service mark of Knight Frank Limited Corp., used with permission. Discussion of Forward-Looking Statements by BGC Partners Statements in this document regarding BGC Partners' business that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Except as required by law, BGC undertakes no obligation to release any revisions to any forward-looking statements. For a discussion of additional risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see BGC's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including, but not limited to, the risk factors set forth in our public filings, including our most recent Form 10-K and any updates to such risk factors contained in subsequent Form 10-Q or Form 8-K filings. These risks include those related to the possibility that the proposed NASDAQ OMX transaction does not close in a timely manner or at all; the possibility that any conditions to completion of the proposed transaction are not satisfied; the possibility that any of the anticipated benefits of the proposed transaction will not be realized; the effect of the announcement of the proposed transaction on BGC's business relationships, operating results and business generally; general competitive, economic, political and market conditions and fluctuations; and actions taken or conditions imposed by regulatory authorities. SOURCE BGC Partners, Inc.
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