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Can we deduce that GABA can benefit neuropathic pain?
Is that why Neurontin is 'GABA'-pentin?
GABA (Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid) uses & risks:
GABA and Central Neuropathic Pain following Spinal Cord InjuryGABA is a neurotransmitter that blocks impulses between nerve cells in the brain. Low levels of GABA may be linked to:
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Researchers suspect that GABA may boost mood or have a calming, relaxing effect on the nervous system.
GABA and Central Neuropathic Pain following Spinal Cord Injury
Young S. Gwak and Claire E. Hulsebosch
Spinal cord injury induces maladaptive synaptic transmission in the somatosensory system that results in chronic central neuropathic pain. Recent literature suggests that glial-neuronal interactions are important modulators in synaptic transmission following spinal cord injury. Neuronal hyperexcitability is one of the predominant phenomenon caused by maladaptive synaptic transmission via altered glial-neuronal interactions after spinal cord injury. In the somatosensory system, spinal inhibitory neurons counter balance the enhanced synaptic transmission from peripheral input. For a decade, the literature suggests that hypofunction of GABAergic inhibitory tone is an important factor in the enhanced synaptic transmission that often results in neuronal hyperexcitability in dorsal horn neurons following spinal cord injury. Neurons and glial cells synergistically control intracellular chloride ion gradients via modulation of chloride transporters, extracellular glutamate and GABA concentrations via uptake mechanisms. Thus, the intracellular ?GABA-glutamate-glutamine cycle? is maintained for normal physiological homeostasis. However, hyperexcitable neurons and glial activation after spinal cord injury disrupts the balance of chloride ions, glutamate and GABA distribution in the spinal dorsal horn and results in chronic neuropathic pain. In this review, we address spinal cord injury induced mechanisms in hypofunction of GABAergic tone that results in chronic central neuropathic pain.
Keywords: Central neuropathic pain, GABA, Glia, Hyperexcitability, Spinal cord injury
1. Introduction
Spinal cord injury (SCI) causes central neuropathic pain (CNP) in as high as 70% of people with SCI (Beric et al., 1988; Rintala et al., 1988). In terms of clinical pain behavior, allodynia (pain behavior evoked by non-noxious stimuli) and hyperalgesia (exaggerated pain behavior evoked by noxious stimuli) characterize CNP syndromes (Merskey and Bogduk, 1994). Patients with CNP suffer from altered quality of life that negatively influences the individual and often results in depression and suicide (Siddall and Loeser, 2001; Werhagen et al., 2004). The majority of patients with SCI suffer from CNP; however, current treatment strategies are inadequate and refractive because the cellular mechanisms that provide the substrate for CNP are poorly understood (Beric et al., 1988; Davidoff et al., 1987; Hulsebosch, 2005; Siddall and Loeser, 2001).
Descending and local interneuron inhibitory pathways, such as GABAergic pathways, critically contribute to the modulation of the balance between excitatory and inhibitory tone in synaptic transmission. The GABAergic interneurons produce synaptic inhibition, and thereby prevent or inhibit CNP, via both GABAA and GABAB receptors in the spinal dorsal horn (Hwang and Yaksh, 1997; Munro et al., 2008). Pharmacological blockade of GABAA or GABAB receptor in rats (Gwak et al., 2006; Malan et al., 2002) and transgenic mice of GABAA (Knabl et al., 2008, 2009) or GABAB (Gangadharan et al., 2009) receptor demonstrate increased sensitivity to external stimuli that results in various pain conditions induced by spinal cord injury, peripheral nerve injury and inflammation. Mounting evidence indicates that SCI induces a hypofunction of GABAergic tone in the spinal dorsal horn and results in CNP (Gwak et al., 2006; Liu et al., 2004; Zhang et al., 1994). Thus, it is possible that the hypofunction of spinal GABAergic inhibitory tone in the spinal dorsal horn is a key factor in CNP after SCI (Drew et al., 2004; Liu et al., 2004).
Spinal systems are composed of both neuronal and non-neuronal cells, including astrocytes and microglia. Spinal glia cells outnumber neurons and play important roles in maintaining ionic balance, as well as glutamate and GABA concentrations in the central nervous system (Anderson and Swanson, 2000; Chesler and Kaila, 1992; Largo et al., 1996; Schlue and Deitmer, 1988). However, recent literature consistently reports that activation of astrocytes and microglia contributes significantly to CNP following SCI (Gwak et al., 2008, Gwak and Hulsebosch, 2009; Hains and Waxman, 2006). Neurons and astrocytes both contribute to GABA uptake (also released from both neurons and glia) to control extracellular concentrations of GABA (Chatton et al., 2003; Schousboe et al., 2004). Although, it is known that SCI alters neuronal and glial activity; little is known about the mechanisms underlying hypofunction of spinal GABAergic inhibitory tone following SCI. In this review, we focus on mechanisms that lead to hypofunction of GABAergic tone that contributes to CNP following SCI.
2. Central Neuropathic Pain and GABA
2.1 Central Neuropathic pain following SCI
Traumatic spinal cord injuries (SCI) directly and indirectly produce dramatic changes of neuroanatomical and neurochemical shifts that result in maladaptive synaptic circuits in the spinal dorsal horn. Upregulated glutamate receptors and ion channels, increased release of proinflammatory cytokines and reactive oxygen species (ROS), activation of glial cells and subsequent activation of intracellular downstream/upstream cascades (Crown et al., 2006; Gwak et al., 2008; 2009a; Hains et al., 2003, Leem et al., 2010; Tan et al., 2008; Zinck et al., 2007) are predominant events that lead to enhanced pain transmission following SCI.
Maladaptive synaptic circuits in the spinal dorsal horn induced by SCI, individually or synergistically, contribute to the neuronal hyperexcitability in response to mechanical, chemical and thermal stimuli. Electrophysiologically, neuronal hyperexcitability or central sensitization is characterized by the enhanced spontaneous or evoked neuronal response properties to external stimuli applied to peripheral receptive fields with lowered thresholds for the activation, increased peripheral receptive field size and increased afterdischarge activity (Drew et al., 2004; Gwak et al., 2008; Hains et al., 2003). Thus, neuronal hyperexcitability is a substrate of central neuropathic pain following SCI. SCI is categorized by below-, at-, and above-level pain based on dermatomal regions that involves neuropathic pain symptoms, such as mechanical allodynia and thermal hyperalgesia, following SCI (Siddall et al., 1997, 1999, 2002). Clinically, below-level pain is defined as pain that occurs several dermatomes caudal to the lesion. At-level pain is defined as pain that occurs at dermatomes adjacent to the lesion. Above-level pain is defined as pain that occurs several dermatomes rostral to the lesion (Siddall et al., 1997, 1999). The development of central neuropathic pain syndromes take several weeks to months after SCI, but once developed, persists for life. Consequently, the abnormal pain syndromes are important to understand for effective treatment strategies (Carlton et al., 2009; Hulsebosch et al., 2009).
Mechanically and chemically induced mammalian SCI models were developed to study the development and the maintenance of CNP after SCI. The models include; 1) spinal ischemic injury via intravascular photochemical reaction (Hao et al., 1991); 2) clip compression of the thoracic cord (Bruce et al., 2002); 3) excitotoxic injury via quisqualic acid injection into the dorsal horn (Yezierski et al., 1998); 4) spinal hemisection injury (Christensen et al., 1996; Gwak et al., 2006); 5) spinal contusion injury (Hulsebosch et al., 2000; Siddall et al., 1997). It is a worthy to note that these SCI models showed CNP that correlates with hypofunction of GABAergic inhibitory tone in the spinal dorsal horn (Drew et al., 2004; Eaton et al., 2007; Gwak et al., 2006; Xu et al., 1993). Taken together, hypofunction of GABAergic tone may provides a representative mechanism in CNP syndromes after SCI, although Polar and Todd reported the GABAergic loss is not sufficient to induce neuropathic pain following peripheral nerve injury (Polgar et al., 2003, 2005).
2.2. GABA Synthesis and Release
In the somatosensory system, GABAergic descending pathways originate from locus ceruleus (LC), nucleus raphe-magnus (NRM) and periaquctal gray (PAG) and terminate in the spinal cord (Willis and Westlund, 1997). Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is a widely distributed inhibitory neurotransmitter in the spinal cord and plays a ?counter balance? role against enhanced synaptic transmission in the spinal cord as a result of glutamate-mediated excitation of neurons following SCI. GABA is produced by the decarboxylation of L-glutamate by glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD, a rate-limiting enzyme) that is distributed in GABA interneurons and glial cells (Bu et al., 1992; Erlander et al., 1991; Kaufman et al., 1991; Mackie et al., 2003). GAD65 (65 kDa) is a membrane associated protein that produces vesicular GABA, released by exocytosis, and contributes to the rapid and focal communication to individual postsynaptic site on neurons. GAD67 (67kDa) is a cytosolic protein that produces cytosolic GABA release and contributes to both paracrine signaling and intracellular metabolites. However, neurons are not the only cells that synthesize GABA in the central nervous system. After ischemic injury, forebrain regions show increased GFAP immunoreactivity (activated astrocytes) co-labeled with GABA and GAD that indicate that glial cells also synthesize GABA, since GAD is the enzyme necessary in GABA synthesis (Bellier et al., 2000; Kozlov et al., 2006; Lin et al., 1993; Liu et al., 2007; New and Rabkin, 1998).
GABAergic neurons predominantly synapse axodendritically and axosomatically and only a small number have axoaxonic synapses. Activation of NMDA receptors and other calcium channels, largely located on neuronal dendritic or somatic membranes, trigger large influxes of calcium ions, dependent on the depolarization of the membrane and initiate subsequent Ca2+ dependent GABA release via vesicular exocytosis (Isaacson, 2001; Koch and Magnusson, 2009). Thus, the somatic and dendritic localized GABA release may produce widespread inhibition in nociceptive transmission in synaptic and extrasynaptic terminals.
2.3 GABA Receptors
GABA, released by neurons and glia, provides an inhibitory role via neighboring GABA receptors that are distributed in presynaptic and postsynaptic membranes on both neurons and glial cells (Barakat and Bordey, 2002; Malcangio and Bowery, 1996). There are three types of GABA receptors: 1) GABAA, 2) GABAB and 3) GABAC. The GABAA receptor is an ionotropic ligand-gated Cl− channel and is present throughout the spinal cord gray matter on both neurons and glial cells. Activation of GABAA receptor increases the permeability of chloride ions and hyperpolarizes postsynaptic neurons, which results in increases in the resting membrane conductance of the cell (Jensen et al., 2002; Sieghart and Sperk, 2002). The GABAB receptor is a metabotropic receptor, coupled to a G-protein, and concentrated in the superficial layers of the spinal dorsal horn on both neurons and glial cells (Albrecht et al., 1986; Bowery et al., 1980; Charles et al., 2003a,b). Activation of the GABAB receptor inhibits synaptic transmission at primary afferent terminals in the spinal cord via reduction of calcium entry at the presynatic terminal and hyperpolarization at the postsynaptic terminal through increased conductance of potassium ions (Bowery et al., 1980). The GABAC receptor is a subtype of GABAA and insensitive to benzodiazepine (Johnston, 1996; Shimada et al., 1992). Currently, the role of the ionotropic GABAc receptor in somatosensory systems is unknown but it appears to be important in cognition and neuronal processing (Johnston, 1996; Lukasiewicz et al., 1994).
2.4 Hypofunction of GABA and CNP
The evidence that hypofunction of GABAergic tone contributes to central neuropathic pain following SCI is well documented by several experimental obervations. First, pharmacological treatments that enhance GABAergic function attenuate central neuropathic pain behavior and neuronal hyperexcitability following SCI. For example, intrathecal administration of GABA attenuated mechanical allodynia and hyperexcitability of spinal dorsal horn neurons following SCI (Figure 1). The attenuation of pain behavior and neuronal hyperexcitability are mediated by both GABAA and GABAB receptors (Drew et al., 2004; Gwak et al., 2006). In addition, treatment with bicuculline (a GABAA receptor antagonist) produced neuronal hyperexcitability and pain behavior in normal rats (Drew et al., 2004). Second, immunohistochemical studies demonstrated decreased numbers of GABAergic interneurons and GAD expression in the spinal dorsal horn following SCI that correlated well with central neuropathic pain behavior (Gwak et al., 2008; Meisner et al., 2010; Zhang et al., 1994). Third, transplantation of herpes simplex virus (HSV)-mediated GAD65 and GAD67 producing gene vector or transfer of human foamy virus (HFV) mediated GAD67 gene, attenuated central neuropathic pain following SCI (Liu et al., 2004, 2008; New and Rabkin, 1998). In addition, transplantation of the human neuronal NT cell line (NT2.17), which synthesizes and releases GABA, attenuated SCI-induced mechanical allodynia and thermal hyperalgesia (Eaton et al., 2007). Taken together, these pharmacological and molecular approaches suggest that hypofunction of GABAergic tone is a substrate for the central neuropathic pain following SCI.
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Attenuation of mechanical allodynia and neuronal hyperexcitability by administration of GABA. Spinal T13 hemisection injury results in bilateral mechanical allodynia on the contralateral (A, uninjured side) and the ipsilateral (B, injured side) hindlimbs ...


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April 21st, 2004
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I am freaking out over the lighting though. First thing that caught me. "Stepping over those tentacles to get a closer look at that far heads highlights." Yup..tis purple...LOVE purple on orange...who would have thought.
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I've got my eye on you pal:) "A globwork orange".I know you use some of your friends for reference material,but you didn't pull thier -eyes out...did ya? Wicked piece Patrick!
April 20th, 2004
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This is great Patrick my new fave in your gallery, and my new wall paper for the week...are you going to do the great Cthulu himself?
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Patrick, great textures on the monster(. I like that waxy feel.
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Y'know Patrick, if you hadn't said this was for the CCG I'd worry about you . Again, this is fantastic as usual...I love the waxy feel on it!
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good gosh molly!,Man! i wouldn't have picked digital at all!This really has put me off my caramel yoghurt.stunning detail and eerrrr, skin texture,a very convincing slimey beast!.It feels like a 50's sci-fi novel cover.of course with modern elements ^^.Thats a great piece!

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Ian Hickman is looked to by thousands of circuit designers for his innovative design ideas and clear explanations of the fundamentals of analog circuit design. This book is a distillation of Hickman's design insights, introducing all the main areas of analog electronics.
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It was a great idea. It would make a great article. I could easily relate to my blog, so I made a note of it. That was last week. This is week. Now I have no idea what the heck that idea was, not a clue. I doubt even even our government top code breakers can't crack this code!
It's funny that not even half hour ago I was trying to decipher my own note and now here I am reading about how Jenni Chiu from
email@example.com wrote in "Think For Me, Thank You" goes through the same problems I do. Crappy Ass notes! The bane to my writing! And hers too!
Why is it taking good notes, notes that can be remembered is so darn hard!
Where do inspirations come to you most often? Inside the house or outside? In your car, driving down the road or stuck in traffic? Down at the beach maybe, in the store or , and here is my favorite, in the bathroom, where no one dares to bother me?
Do you take notes? Can you remember what your notes are about?
Wait a minute, wait a minute! Now that I am sitting here, thinking and writing about it, I found the answer to my crappy note problems. Darn if it isn't so obvious, right in front of face all this time! Darn, darn, darn!
"The same day, sooner the better, re-read the note! Expand on the idea. Add more to the note!
Waiting a week or even a few days doesn't work.
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Chandlers receives award for donating £1000 worth of material to local cause
Published: 08 January, 2013
Chandlers Building Supplies is celebrating after receiving a Special Recognition Award at the Chichester Observer Community Awards on Monday 17 December.
The accolade, which was voted for by the readers of the newspaper, recognised Chandlers involvement with a project to replace lead that had been stolen from the roof of an over 60s drop-in centre in Midhurst, West Sussex.
Chandlers was contacted about the drop- in centre's plight by customer, Garnett Roofing, and were delighted to help by donating approximately £1000 worth of material, which included lead, ply, timber and roofing felt.
The Special Recognition Award was collected by Steve Dean, business development executive at Chandlers Building Supplies, together with Olly Wheeler and Jez Garnett, Partners at Garnett Roofing.
Mr Dean said: "At Chandlers we pride ourselves on being able to support projects in our branches local communities and when Garnett Roofing brought the situation to our attention we didn't hesitate in offering our help. We are all thrilled to have received the Special Recognition Award and on behalf of Chandlers and Garnett Roofing, I would like to say a big thank you to everyone that voted for us."


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The House of Commons Transport Select Committee has published its report into 'all lane running', the recent practice of changing the motorway hard shoulder to be a full time traffic lane.
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The idea of a Trans-Pennine road tunnel may have caught the headlines, but it's not the only cross Pennine road link on the agenda.
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Friday, March 5, 2010
Sigma DP2s Available Pre-Order for $699 Shipped
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For those who have been reading my blog since earlier 2009 should notice I used to be a Sigma shooter before I got my Canon 5D Mark II. I used to shoot with a Sigma SD14 & Sigma DP1 and I was very happy with the images produced by both. At the PMA2010, Sigma announced the release of three new cameras: the SD15, DP2s and DP1x.
I might get the DP2s since I skipped the original DP2. I really love the color from the Foveon sensors, and those who doesn't know what a Foveon Sensors is, can see my older post here. The DP2s comes with a focal length equivalent to 41mm in a 35mm camera, this focal length is more suitable for snapshots and portraits compared to what I find is missing from my DP1. If you want to get your hands on the camera with Foveon sensor, you can pre-order the new Sigma DP2s for $699 Shipped.
p.s. Sigma SD15 can be pre-order for $859 Shipped
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For weeks now, the Cleveland Plain Dealer has been running biographies of the 11 women who were found murdered just over a year ago by serial killer Anthony Sowell in a house of the east side of Cleveland.
This week, they profiled Amelda "Amy" Hunter, a "bookworm" from Chicago, that eventually got mixed up with men and drugs. All of the stories, more or less, follow the same pattern: A young woman, loved by her family, full of promise, falls prey to older men, crack and a life on the streets, and her life meets its tragic ending at the hands of a sociopath.
Here are links to all of the stories:
Crystal Dozier | Tishana Culver | Leshanda Long | Tonia Carmichael | Michelle Mason | Kim Yvette Smith | Nancy Cobbs| Amelda Hunter | Janice Webb | Telacia Fortson | Diane Turner
It's all, of course, terribly sad.
A friend of mine pointed out, in all these stories, in all their coverage, sympathetic as it may be, the Plain Dealer never raises the bigger issue. What made these women such easy targets was being black, being women and being from the highly-segregated and desperately poor east side of Cleveland.
This is a story about racism and inequality and sexism and poverty as much, if not more, than it is about drugs and individual lives going astray. This is a story that's inseparable from its environment: a neglected ghetto in Cleveland, in deplorable conditions even before it was turned upside down by the foreclosure crisis.
It didn't matter to Anthony Sowell that some of the victims read poetry, or cooked greens, or cared for children. It didn't matter to the larger society and he knew that. Nobody was going to tear up the city looking for a few black women from the east side with sketchy pasts.
The story of the Imperial Avenue victims should inspire a complete rethinking of the way Cleveland cares for its most vulnerable residents. Maybe that's what the Plain Dealer was trying to say, without actually saying it.
I'm just not convinced, more than one year after those bodies were discovered, that is couldn't happen all over again.
Have we stabilized these neighborhoods? Have we changed the way we look at black women? Have we repaired the relationship between the police department and the city's worst neighborhoods?
One year after these murders, those are the questions we should be asking ourselves. It's too bad we can't rely on our local newspaper to raise them.


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What is the aim of the Work Incentives Grant?
Work Incentive Grants (WIGs) and Disability Program Navigators (DPNs) were established to increase the labor force participation and career advancement of persons with disabilities by effecting systemic change in the One Stop Career Centers. These programs support the capacity of the One Stop Career Center system to achieve integrated, seamless, and comprehensive services for people with disabilities, thereby increasing their employment, retention, and earnings.
The competitive WIG Program has been reoriented from a competitive solicitation to the Disability Program Navigator (DPN) cooperative agreement, thereby assuring that the essential goals of the WIGs are achieved in the Workforce Investment System. The Department of Labor (DOL) and the Social Security Administration (SSA) jointly established a new position, the Disability Program Navigator (DPN), in One Stop Career Centers.
The DPN guides the One Stop Career Center staff in helping people with disabilities access and navigate the various programs that impact upon their ability to gain/retain good jobs. Complex rules surrounding entitlement programs, along with the fear of losing cash assistance and health benefits, can often discourage people with disabilities from working. Consequently, the DPN initiative was established to better inform beneficiaries and other people with disabilities about the work support programs now available at the DOL-funded One Stop Career Centers.
The major objectives of the DPN initiative are: (1) creating systemic change and transforming the culture of how the One Stop Career Center system serves customers with disabilities; (2) promoting meaningful and effective access, both physical and programmatic, to the One Stop Career Center system for all customers, including persons with disabilities; (3) creating attitudinal change about the abilities of people with disabilities to work in a variety of jobs and industries; (4) developing new/ongoing partnerships to achieve comprehensive services to people with disabilities; (5) expanding and enhancing the workforce development system's capacity to serve customers with disabilities and employers through the implementation of effective DPN strategies and practices; and (6) increasing the number of people with disabilities served under the WIA and achieving quality employment outcomes for job seekers with disabilities through accessing WIA Title I and Wagner-Peyser Programs.
Who is Eligible to Apply for the Work Incentives Grant?
State WIA administrating agencies.
How and Where to Apply for the Work Incentives Grant?
Solicitations for cooperative agreements are published on the ETA Web site: http://www.doleta.gov/disability/. All information concerning the proper application, format, content, and applicable forms are contained in the solicitation and published cooperative agreement.
The state WIA administrative entity in the states that meets the eligibility criteria will receive a cooperative agreement solicitation requesting a response within 30 days of receipt.
How much is the Range and Average of Work Incentives Grant?
Cooperative agreements ranged from $ 75,000 to $ 2 million dollars.
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See Regional Agency Offices. Contact the Federal Project Officer (FPO) for the DPN Cooperative Agreements in the appropriate Regional Employment and Training Administrative Office listed in Appendix IV of the Catalog.
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Buy, Borrow, Bypass: Biographies of Women from the 1920s, Roaring
Do you ever stumble into a book fetish you didn't even realize you had? At about two books in, I discovered a love of biographies about amazing, artistic women living in the 1920s. I'm fascinated by that other turn of the century, what was going on historically – Jazz Age! Harlem Renaissances! – and particularly in the lives of famous women. The bios I was reading I initially picked up based on cover-appeal alone, with a dash of title-obsession, and then I began discovering threads in common among the women: feisty, forthright, wholeheartedly living their lives, loving their many loves, and unapologetically determined to practice their art. The books below are all follow suit.
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by Valerie Boyd
I was obsessed with Alice Walker when I first read Zora Neale Hurston's books, and both women/writers intrigued me with their connection to the earth, people and the word. Walker is credited with unearthing interest in Hurston in the first place, rediscovering her writing and anthropological research into black culture; and Valerie Boyd completed the story by thoroughly delving into every nook and cranny of Hurston's life. And that's not a light feat, as Hurston was wont to stretch the truth (i.e., lie) about most of her life story, bending the truth as it befitted her cause of the moment. But at heart she was a girl from a broken family, who turned to writing and became one of the inspirational African American writers of the Harlem Renaissance, writing prolifically – poems, essays, research papers, fiction – all about black folks. And that was one of the keys to her writing that Boyd takes pains to distinguish: Hurston wanted the freedom to just write about what she wanted to write about, without the societal pressure to Richard-Wright it all and be the voice of The Black Experience. She understood that life is that experience, and you don't need to call it out or title it in order to appease anyone.
You've read or watched the movie version of Their Eyes Were Watching God. Get to know the woman who traveled to Haiti and immersed herself in Hoodoo culture, wrote (fought with, loved) alongside luminaries like Langston Hughes, protested the U.S. handling of race relations, and struggled at every turn to just remain herself. Boyd's book allows you to find the woman behind the scenes, unadorned and whole.
Verdict: Borrow. This is one of those books that should be passed along, dog-eared and underlined, and accompanied by passionate recommendations and entreaties ("I can't even tell you about it – just read it, please!"). Then you can discuss it, highlight the bits you love, and pass it along for someone else to enjoy.
Isadora: A Sensational Life by Peter Kurth
Have you heard the story of how Isadora Duncan died? I thought it was urban legend, so when Kurth's biography of the woman who invented modern dance appeared, I had to read it to find out the truth. And the truth is even crazier than the story.
Duncan, in the early 1900s, when corsets were still all the rage and dance was ballet, period, burst onto the American and European stages. With her barley-there, Grecian-inspired flowy fabric dresses that allowed the body to breathe – and the watcher to enjoy the form – she transformed forever the way we think of dance. And, while she was at it, Duncan lived her life to the absolute fullest: having affairs with men and women, married and not, making waves with her stance on women's rights. She lived to dance, was constantly in debt, had absolutely no filter, and people loved her or completely hated her.
But back to the inglorious death. Duncan lived, like other cosmopolitan woman of her time, between the US and Europe. Years before her own death, as she was experiencing (yet another) career resurgence and basking in public adoration in Paris, she kissed her children goodbye for an outing with the nanny, and minutes later learned that the car they were driving in had plunged over the banks of the Seine, submerging and killing both children, and the nanny. But did that stop her from returning to the City of Lights? No! Still reveling with men and women of all ages, nationalities and professions, well into her elder stateswoman years, Duncan was flush with one more love affair. Dashing off into a convertible car, wearing her absolute favorite scarf – "two yards long, five feet wide…heavy crepe…the fringes on either end eighteen inches long…." – in this shawl Duncan felt magic. So she wrapped it round her shoulders, jumped in the racy, low, two-seater, and happily cried, "Goodbye my friends! I go to glory!" The car took off; the long red shawl got caught in the spokes of the wheel; Duncan's neck was broken and the formidable, glorious woman was gone.
Verdict: Buy, buy buy!
An Illuminated Life: Belle da Costa Greene, a Journey from Prejudice to Privilege by Heidi Ardizonne
This should've been the book that spoke to me beyond all others: a light-skinned black woman, daughter of the first African American man to graduate from Harvard, passing for white to practice the library arts she loved, despite society telling her it was not the path she was allowed to undertake. Belle, who had a passion for illuminated manuscripts (title shout-out!) was plucked by a Morgan, of the J.P. Morgan family fame, to become a force in the world of rare manuscript acquisitions. But, like the title itself, the book is too long, too un-salacious (even with Belle's taking of many lovers), too (sorry!) boring to capture me like the other bios of fascinating women of the 20s in this series. I can't even get into it, I might fall asleep while typing. A review calls this bio 'competent', and that's as best as I can come up with to describe it.
Verdict: Bypass. I can't even advise that you check it out from the library. Read the Goodreads reviews if you must.
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Daniel Mark Epstein
Edna St. Vincent Millay became my personal hero after I read her biography. Admittedly, from its title, a bio that focuses on the love affairs of this fantastic writer of beautiful poetry. Millay was, like Hurston, like Duncan, surrounded in mystery, and the biography confirms that, yes, she was bisexual, and had a 25-year open relationship – an open relationship! In the 1920s! And she wasn't stoned to death, or boycotted, or even shunned. She was adored, she was sensuous in a way that perfectly matched her writing, she was seductive, a brilliant writer, a benefactress later in life, and a role model of sorts to other aspiring writers – men and women. Growing up in poverty, caring for her younger siblings and scraping by, soon Millay was the toast of the literary scene, living the high life with a husband, a writing place of her own out in the country, friends in high places and critically acclaimed poetry.
Verdict: BUY, and then keep it under lock and key so you'll always have it nearby, for inspiration (personal and lyrical). My copy is lost to the world, but you still have a shot. Buy your book, and then hold onto it as if your life depended on it.
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HELCOM RED LIST Biotope Expert Team
Baltic photic zone bottoms with at least 90 % coverage of sand. Sand has less than 20 % of mud/silt/clay fraction (<63 µm), and the proportion of sand (grain size 0.063–2 mm) exceeds 70% of the combined gravel and sand fraction. Biomass of infaunal bivalves dominates and is highest in the group that includes infaunal bivalves/polychaetes/crustaceans/echinoderms/insect larvae. Out of the infaunal bivalves, multiple infaunal bivalve species (Macoma calcarea, Mya truncata, Astarte spp., Spisula spp) constitute at least 50 % of the biomass.
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RMNP - Alpine Bouldering (Chaos-Emerald)
Climbing Sections:
- Chaos Canyon (13)
- Emerald lake (6)
About RMNP - Alpine Bouldering (Chaos-Emerald):
NOTE: you will be bouldering in a National Park in an alpine setting. Be careful to avoid damaging plants as the growing season is very short here. Luckily most of the bouldering has landings that consist of talus so many problems are not subject to erosion. You will be fine as long as you have a few pads.
This area has fantastic bouldering opportunities, literally any road through the area you will be able to find a boulder within a couple hundred yards. If you plan on hitting this area come on out in the summmer or fall because winter is devilishly cold (think 3 feet of snow at the base of all the problems) and snow lasts well into the spring. June is often the first month that is fairly snow-free. Be prepared for the altitude most of the areas are at least above 8,000 feet with Chaos Canyon being more like 10,500-11,000 feet.
The bouldering is on high quality schist. The problems tend to be hard and long, and can feel even harder if you're not acclimated. There are some bouldering opportunities at V5 and under BUT the majority of problems tend to be near the high end of difficulty (V9-V14). There are probably no more than 50-75 problems here. But they are usually so difficult that most mortals will take a lifetime to send everything.
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|Both Emerald Lake and Chaos bouldering are very easy to find. Simply head to the main entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP or "The Park") and drive to the Bear Lake Trailhead. It's quite a large popular trailhead thriving with tourists. For 2004 you will still need to take a shuttle to get here but I think most road construction will be done post 2005. Check at the Park entrance.
From Bear Lake Trailhead, look for obvious signs to Emerald Lake or Lake Hiyaha. The Emerald Lake bouldering is about 100-200 yards below Emerald Lake while Chaos Canyon Bouldering is below Lake Hiyaha. A third bouldering field lies above Lake Hiyaha and is known as Upper Chaos. Hiking is on well groomed tourist trails except for the portion between Chaos and Upper Chaos. Expect hiking times of 40 minutes for Emerald or Chaos. Hiking to Upper Chaos can take 1.5 to 2 hours.
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3 Facts On Shopping Stores Tricks You Never Recognized
The majority of females love to go shopping, but this is very different for guys as they think that this is a nightmare. Some men love to shop, but many of them think that this will only be a total waste of time and it is quite uninteresting. It doesn't matter if you love to shop or not as this is very essential, particularly if you have a family. You'll have to plan everything even if you are just planning to be buying groceries for your family.
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You should know all of the best shopping stores in the city since it is not possible to start shopping if you don't know where to buy the things that you need. If you've been residing in this region for a long time, you are aware of the best shopping places. You can check on the internet if you'd like to look for the nearest shopping areas that may offer discounts and wonderful bargains. You could plan everything based on the info that you are going to obtain online.
It is a lot better if you may shop and buy everything in a single location, but you may also look around if you want better deals. You could also check some shopping news if you would like to look for the most recent deals.
You have to have your own shopping before you go out and shop. This will guarantee that you're going to not forget anything that you should buy. Many people will not really care about creating a shopping list as they feel that they could purchase everything without writing a list. If you don't have a good memory, it is best if you may make your own shopping list because once you forgot to buy something, you are going to have to go back to the mall to purchase it.
If you'll take a look at some guidelines and shopping videos on the internet, you are going to realize that this trick is always at the top. You will not look silly if you'll shop around the mall while carrying a piece of paper.
Online shopping will be a wonderful idea if you would like to purchase something you really want to purchase. Well, you may even buy groceries on shopping sites in addition to other items. There are a lot of web sites that will give an array of items that you'll like. If you're looking for shoes or sandals, home furniture, cosmetic products, clothes or something for your kids, you can definitely shop online.
You could go to the shopping mall anytime you want, but if you do not really have lots of time to do this, you could seek out shopping sites and buy what you need with no need to go outside of the house.
Shopping is not too difficult as long as you have your own shopping list and you know the places where you can buy them. You have to be ready before you shop so you are going to not need to go back to the mall if you forgot to purchase something.Top


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How can Stein's Tender Buttons be one hundred years old? We are still eating the buttercream frosting and rosebuds from that three-tiered cake: "Objects," "Food," "Rooms."
Tender Buttons is the future. Neither cipher nor code, the grammar of Tender Buttons forces the reader to play Stein. Stein's obsession with perspective, her collection of objects, food, rooms, produces a scene of constraints (the rules of the game): a discrete spatial field where coordinates shift as the text's gravity swerves. A game board. No, a bored game.
I read "A Substance in a Cushion" as a sexy, humorous love poem that plays on a little calamity and a little calm in the closet. Its sweetness and its resolution are very likely embodied in the same hand that does the sewing.
For the 100th anniversary of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons, published in a corrected centennial edition by City Lights Books in 2014, Jacket2 invited a number of writers to pen "microreviews" — short, impressionistic, discursive, or momentary reflections on the book which first appeared in 1914 in a print run of 1,000 by Claire Marie and has been republished since by Green Integer, Gordon, Sun and Moon, and others.
Although Three Lives and The Making of Americans were radical innovations, neither was as revolutionary as Tender Buttons (begun in 1912 and published in 1914).[1] Tender Buttons is the touchstone work of radical modernist poetry, the fullest realization of the turn to language and the most perfect realization of wordness, where word and object merge.
We urge readers of Jacket2 to look at — and listen to — Gertrude Stein's PennSound author page, where new recordings have now been linked. Most who have encountered Stein's mellifluous voice have heard it from Caedmon record TC 1050 (1956), either directly or via its digitization in PennSound.
There seems to me no better way to begin this discussion than with an epistemological thought experiment (as is the case with most discussions). Consider what you heard in the "epiphone" to this essay[1], which is hiss from a digitization of recordings of Vachel Lindsay, originally made on aluminum records in 1931. It likely sounded like noise, and it is—to human auditory perception. But what if there is a pattern in this noise that is imperceptible to the human ear but recognizable to so-called machine listening? Consider the sample above from the Lindsay, alongside this sample of leading "noise" from digitizations of Harriet Monroe from the same series, alongside this one from the James Weldon Johnson recordings. I've been listening to several hours of audio from this series and have come to think that the noise from each of the recordings sounds similar, in the most impressionistic way possible.
Susan Howe's recuperation of Emily Dickinson's visual prosody marks a pivot point in American poetics, insofar as it calls attention to the long effaced but paradigmatically American enterprise of self-invention that Dickinson's practice depicts. And in depicting her work, the picture is the work, hence the holograph images that for the most part replace block quotes in texts like Howe's My Emily Dickinson and the essay from which I'll cull this epigraph, "These Flames and Generosities of the Heart."
This space is the poem's space. Letters are sounds we see. Sounds leap to the eye. Word lists, crosses, blanks, and ruptured stanzas are points of contact and displacement. Line breaks and visual contrapuntal stresses represent an athematic compositional intention.
Howe, and by extension Dickinson, are reference points for discussing the work of Mark Booth, printmaker by training, a painter, who also works in sound and performance, but whose practice is in some sense reducible to writing.
What is a prosodic device?
In 1970, Hannah Weiner exhibited a telegram in Oberlin College's conceptual art survey Art in the Mind. After the "mail strike," her letter to Virginian Dwan was delivered to the gallerist (page one and page two). In it Weiner complains that Vito Acconci's telegram-piece should be exhibited in Language IV along with Walter DeMaria's telegram, arguing that the medium was immaterial, and that the artwork, in either case, consists in its sphere of reference. So that there could be no redundancy involved. She cites her piece at Oberlin.
But she might have also claimed more significance for the telegram. A primitive speech-to-text technology, it is a phonic ticker, defamiliarizing the otherwise imperceptible but crucial transfiguration that takes place between sound-image and thought.
No one's a kid for twenty years without a little know-how. I was a child in the 80s and child of the 90s because I kept up with kid stuff instead of going to college. I went to school on post punk music, the Walker Art Center, and the language poetry I read in my local public library. So I know to be true that the following—my opening gambit—is well after the fact. That's true, but it's just a caveat. I get the feeling my indefinite childhood is increasingly passé.


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Newfoundland will books volume 3 page 386 probate year 1875
|Will of Joseph Cooney
|In re
Joseph Cooney deceased.
In the name of God Amen. I Joseph Cooney of Burin in the Island of Newfoundland, Cooper, being very sick and weak but of perfect mind and memory and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my last will and testament That is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hand of Almighty God that gave it and my body I commend to the earth to be buried in decent Christian burial at the discretion of my executors; nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God- And as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life, I give devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form: I give to my wel-beloved daughter Mary Cooney whom I likewise constitute make and ordain the sole executor of this my last will and testament, all and singular my lands, messuages and tenements by her freely to be possessed and enjoyed. And situated at Harbor Grace in Conception Bay in the aforesaid Island of Newfoundland and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul all and every other former testaments, wills, legacies bequests and executors by me in any wise before named, willed and bequeathed, ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament and I further bequeath to my daughter Mary Cooney all monies that may be due me from the Savings Bank at St. Johns in Newfoundland aforesaid. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 28th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred seventy-three-
Joseph his X mark Cooney (LS) Signed, sealed published pronounced and declared by the said Joseph Cooney as his last will and testament in presence of us who in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses, Thomas Winter J.P. (LS), Hugh Reddy (LS) Louis S. Butler (LS)
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Coalition rift: Gilmore lets fly over FG property tax plans
Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore has said government proposals to prevent councils from reducing the property tax bill for homeowners would represent a "fundamental breach" of the political agreement between Fine Gael and Labour.
In an extraordinary intervention, Mr Gilmore has expressed his deep concern about a Fine Gael-led plan which would see homeowners in 11 counties and cities being robbed of local property tax bills.
The outgoing Labour leader has expressed his strong opposition to the plans, which were revealed in today's Irish Independent.
Speaking at an event in Dublin's North Inner City, Mr Gilmore said the plans represent a "fundamental breach" of the deal struck between Fine Gael and Labour.
"It would be a fundamental breach of the political understanding that was reached at the time the property tax was agreed and it would be something I would be very strongly opposed to."
The intervention by Mr Gilmore exposes the deep rift in the coalition over the flexibility that should be given to councils to lower the property tax rate for homeowners in their districts.
A confidential government document shows people living in Dublin city, south county Dublin, Kildare, Wicklow, Louth, Meath, Galway city, Kerry, Clare and Cork city and county will lose out under the proposals.
Only Dun Laoghaire and Fingal county councils will still have enough spare cash left – even after their grants are cut – to pass on a property tax reduction to residents.
The other councils on the list will see their property tax windfall eroded by cuts in funding elsewhere.
A planned cut in the property tax for homeowners in these areas, where there will be a property tax surplus, is causing a deepening split in the Coalition. So far the Cabinet has failed to sign off on the plan.
Fine Gael wants councils who benefit from the bigger tax takes to use the extra money to pay for services currently funded by the Exchequer.
But Labour wants to give hard-pressed householders a break by reducing their property tax rates.
Speaking to independent.ie this morning, Mr Gilmore lashed out at the Fine Gael led plans.
He said that the tax was built on two principles – that there would be flexibility for each council to adjust the rate by up to 15pc and that 80pc of the proceeds collected would go towards the delivery of local services.
"I'm very concerned I have to say, at what I've read in your newspaper that there may be some departure from those two principles. Those two principles were key cornerstones of the way the property tax was designed. That was first of all that when the property tax was going to be high, that local authorities would have the flexibility to reduce it by up to 1`5pc, and I want to see that happening," he said.
"Secondly, I am very concerned at the reports that I am reading in your newspaper about plans to claw back the proceeds of the property tax from the delivery of local services in certain areas. If either of situations were to develop, it would be a fundamental breach of the way in which the property tax was designed. It would be a fundamental breach of the political understanding that was reached at the time the property tax was agreed and it would be something I would be very strongly opposed to."
Next year, councils will keep 80pc of the property tax collected locally, with the remaining 20pc going into a central pot to be given to poorer councils.
Councils will also have the power to reduce or increase the property tax by up to 15pc to balance their books.
A detailed document from the Department of the Environment for the Coalition's |mini-cabinet, the Economic Management Council (EMC), sets out how much each area will make from the property tax.
The property tax will replace the Department's general purpose grant for councils.
Calculations show 13 councils will have a surplus when they get the 80pc of the property tax, compared to the sum they got this year. The paper then allocates the 20pc central pot to those councils who have a shortfall.
After that, the Department proposes to cut the additional funding the 13 councils got to wipe out their surplus, meaning they will have no spare cash left.
Councils get additional funding from a range of different government departments and agencies to pay for services, including housing, parks, roads, tourism and job creation.
The plans show that Dublin City Council's funding will be cut by €60m, while Cork County Council's goes down by €30m. South Dublin County Council starts out with a €25m surplus, which is cancelled out by cuts to its funding.
By the end of the process set out in the document only two councils still have spare cash.
Dun Laoghaire starts out with a €35m surplus and ends up with just €13m after funding cuts.
Fingal has got just €3m to pass on in a property tax cut.
The allocation of funding to councils was due to be discussed at a meeting of the EMC yesterday afternoon.
But the meeting of the EMC, made up of Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Finance Minister Michael Noonan, Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore and Public Spending Minister Brendan Howlin, was cancelled because the parties could not agree on the cuts.
It is not known when a final decision on the distribution of the funds will be made.
Yet Mr Kenny tried to play down the rift by claiming there was no disagreement.
Talks on the allocation of funding for local authorities are in "stalemate", with Mr Gilmore refusing to sign off on the Fine Gael proposals.
Labour TDs are warning Fine Gael: "Do not rip off Dublin."
Mr Kenny denied that the Cabinet is split on the property tax.
Following reports in the Irish Independent, Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin said there was division among ministers.
Mr Kenny said the property tax was an alternative to increasing income taxes and the details of the funding model were still being worked out.
Mr Kenny said he was sorry to see Mr Martin acting on "the absolute gospel belief" of what he read in newspapers.
But Mr Martin said there was a significant split in the Cabinet.
"Government sources have stated that Fine Gael wants to charge local authorities more and when they get revenue from the property tax in 2015 they will be required to use it to pay for services and other public expenditure that central government will refuse to fund.
"In other words, people in urban areas who are paying higher rates of property tax will have to pay more for services that are devolved from central government," he said, quoting this newspaper.
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Firestone Diamonds is developing its flagship asset, the Liqhobong Diamond Mine located at the head of the Liqhobong Valley in the Maluti Mountains of northern Lesotho in Southern Africa. The Liqhobong Diamond Mine is owned 75% by Firestone Diamonds, and 25% by the Kingdom of Lesotho.
Construction of the Liqhobong Diamond Mine treatment plant and associated infrastructure commenced in July 2014. At the time of writing, the project remains on time and on budget, and it is anticipated full production will commence in mid 2016. At least 89% of orders and lead items under engineering, procurement and construction budget have been placed. Key related infrastructure, including connection to the main power grid, is expected to be achieved in the second half of 2015, ahead of schedule. RCF Senior Project Director Allan Brownrigg chairs the Project Steering Committee for Firestone Diamonds' Liqhobong Mine.
The project team is fully in place, and the development has already created over 400 jobs, which will increase over the course of the project, and is maintaining its target of zero lost time injuries.
Once constructed, it is anticipate the mine will produce diamonds at a rate of 1.1 million carats per annum.
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In early 2014, RCF VI provided a bridge facility in an amount of US$5M, a mezzanine facility in an amount of US$10M and an equity subscription in an amount of US$30M, which with other funding (including other funding facilities from third parties, project finance debt, and a public equity raising of US$40M) completed a total funding package of US$222.4M, that should fully fund development of the Liqhobong Mine.
In addition, in April 2015, RCF provided a further standby debt facility of US$15M. This provides the company with a buffer in developing the project. The funding also satisfied a condition that would allow the company to drawdown on a project debt facility of up to US$82.4 million provided by Absa, one of Africa's major financial services providers. As the project is on time and on budget, it is not anticipated that the standby facility will be needed.
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RCF's Firestone Diamonds investment is an example of how the firm can provide flexible funding options to meet the needs of companies as well as long-term patient capital that supports emerging companies to process the development of projects. In April 2015, RCF Managing Partner James McClements acknowledge that it had been a tough time recently for the mining sector with falling commodity prices and weak public markets impacting cash flows of operating companies.
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Tottenham have been surprisingly quiet in the transfer market this summer, but that silence could soon be broken with the acquisition of Bayern Munich's Julian Green.
According to the Metro, the Premier League side are preparing a £5million swoop for the 19 year-old, who recently turned heads with his inclusion in USA's World Cup squad.
But Julian Green is hardly a household name – unless you're a Bayern fan, USA fan or a Football Manager addict, it's unlikely you know too much about him.
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