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Jind (Haryana) [India], Jan 15 (ANI): Medical examination of the 15-year-old girl, who was found dead near a canal in Haryana's Jind district, revealed that she was raped by several individuals and had suffered immense internal injuries after the criminals inserted a blunt object into her genitals.
On Sunday, the body of a minor was found with injury marks near a canal in Budhakhera village of Jind district.
"Internal injury is found, her liver was ruptured and apart from that wounds from sexual assault are seen in her private parts. They have been mutilated and ruptured, and it seems that more than one person was involved," head of Forensic Science Department, Dr. SK Dhattarwal told ANI.
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Winter slaw
A slaw, or crunchy vegetable salad, provides the backbone of many a winter meal in our home. I don't call it coleslaw nowadays as that just conjures up images of plastic tubs of shredded white cabbage and carrot drowning in a sea of sweet salad cream. About the only constant in our house recipe is the cabbage (coleslaw, after all, takes its name from the Dutch 'koolsla' meaning cabbage salad), and more often than not, it will be red.
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The Importance of Community to Health
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People Who Need People
Avoiding Isolation and Loneliness
© Madelyn Griffith-Haynie, CTP, CMC, ACT, MCC, SCAC
from the ADD/EFD Comorbids Series – part 1 of 3
Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in the obvious sense that we each depend on others. We are social in a more elemental way: simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people. ~ Atul Gawande
Problems before Solutions
As early as 350 B.C, Aristotle described a human being as "by nature a social animal." For most of the time since, that idea has been considered little more than "anecdotal evidence" by most of the scientific community, since there were few double-blind, placebo controlled, replicated and journal published studies to "verify" the observation according to the rules of the scientific method.
Until verified, according to the science field, no idea has been "proven," so may or may not, in fact, be true.
Related Post: Science Confirms What we have Always Known – again
The Wikipedia article on the Scientific Method informs us that the Oxford English Dictionary defines it as "a method or procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses." [4]
Related Post: Science and Sensibility – the illusion of proof
Meanwhile, the fields of sales and marketing, psychology & counseling, self-help (and relatively recently, even the science field itself), have taken a serious look at Aristotle's observation, proposing theories and "proofs" in their attempts to explain why something so obvious might really be so – and how we can use it to our advantage, individually and as a species.
As scientists explore the workings of bodily functions at the nerve and cellular level, they are confirming that loneliness – the absence of social connection – is linked to a wide array of bodily ailments in addition to the mental conditions typically thought to be associated.
Easy to see with Extroverts
According to the Myers Briggs Type Indicator [MBTI], based on psychology but considered to be in the self-help field, the energy flow of the gregarious extrovert is directed outward, toward other people. The MBTI goes on to propose that an extrovert's energy flow is recharged through interaction with others.
It is said that extroverts generally express great happiness in the company of other people, and are at risk of falling victim to depression should they spend long periods of time without the company of a circle of friends.
But what about Introverts?
Supposedly, while extroverts get their energy from spending time with people, introverts recharge and get their energy from spending time alone.
However, even the majority of people who consider themselves introverts would find it difficult to impossible to navigate life totally alone.
"It's a mistake to think that most humans prefer the solitary life that so much of modern life imposes on us. We are most comfortable when we're connected, sharing strong emotions and stories . . . "
~ Nick Morgan for Forbes.
Jeff Kay, Modern Renaissance Man / Quora Top Writer 2015/16, has come up with a wonderful way of explaining it:
". . . introverts are not an exception, just a variation on the theme. We function just like any other human in society. The more extreme cases might be seen as the odd duck at times, but they are still just as social as anyone else, just with a different set of rules."
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Isolation's Link with Depression
Social withdrawal is one of the most common signs of depression – which, in turn, fans the flame in ways that increase social isolation, as hopelessness and thoughts of despair worsen over time. Worse still, isolation puts us at much greater risk of suicidal thoughts and urges that become increasingly difficult to overcome.
Stephen Ilardi, PhD., associate professor of psychology at the University of Kansas and author of The Depression Cure, asserts that "When we're clinically depressed, there's a very strong urge to pull away from others and to shut down [which] turns out to be the exact opposite of what we need."
Ilardi further asserts that, "When people are clinically depressed, they will typically spend a lot of time and energy rehearsing negative thoughts, often for long stretches of time."
Depressed or not, ADD/EFD readers of ADDandSoMuchMORE.com will recognize that comment as a fairly accurate description of what we refer to as rumination. Rumination can lead to interpreting even neutral events in a negative fashion.
Mark Goulston, MD, psychiatrist and author of Get Out of Your Own Way, says "When you're in your own mind, you're in enemy territory. You leave yourself open to ['What's the use?'] thoughts, and the danger is believing them."
Rumination tends to exacerbate hopelessness and despair, hastening the slide into depression and intensifying the pull to say at home alone with our thoughts, until it becomes a vicious cycle.
Americans at Serious Risk
An article on the Psychology Today blog entitled Social Isolation is the Modern Plague informs us that the best research confirms that Americans are now perilously isolated. The article goes on to say that in a recent comprehensive study by scientists at Duke University, researchers have observed a sharp decline in social connectedness over the past 20 years.
25% of Americans have no meaningful social support at all – not one single person they can confide in. Over half of all Americans report having no close confidants or friends outside their immediate family, while others have little to no family contact as they age.
Social isolation is a huge risk factor for the onset of major depression especially in later years, and it has more than doubled in prevalence over the past decade.
Addiction Vulnerability as well
In addition, there's increasing evidence that isolation increases vulnerability to various forms of addiction, as illustrated by the following study described in a 2006 New York Times Magazine article:
Bruce Alexander, emeritus professor of psychology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia took 16 lucky rats and plopped them into Rat Park, where they were offered water or a sweet, morphine-based cocktail (rats love sweets). Alexander offered the same two drinks to the control group of rats he left isolated in cages.
The results? The rat-parkers were apparently having too much fun to bother with artificial highs, because they hardly touched the morphine solution, no matter how sweet Alexander and his colleagues made it. The isolated and arguably depressed rats, on the other hand, eagerly got high, drinking more than a dozen times the amount of the morphine solution as the rats in paradise. (from page 5 of 7 of the web-posted Times article)
The UCLA Loneliness Scale, with 20 questions that cover variations on closeness and connection, has returned results that show that as many as 30% of the reports from Americans show that they do not feel close to other people at a given time.
No matter where we look for statistics, the situation today is much worse than when similar specifics were collected in 1985, when only 10% of Americans were discovered to be completely alone.
In a survey published by the AARP in 2010, slightly more than 33% of adults 45 and over reported being chronically lonely – with little social contact or meaningful connection for a significant number of years. A decade earlier, only 20% reported the same.
Additional Risk Factors of Emotional Isolation
In a fascinating article entitled The Lethality of Loneliness, the science editor of The New Republic, Judith Shulevitz, delves even further into the severity of a number of problems resulting from a lack of meaningful connection to one another.
Recent scientific discoveries are as consequential as the germ theory of disease. Just as we once knew that infectious diseases killed, but didn't know that germs spread them, we've known intuitively that loneliness hastens death, but haven't been able to explain how.
Psychobiologists can now show that loneliness sends misleading hormonal signals, rejiggers the molecules on genes that govern behavior, and wrenches a slew of other systems out of whack.
They have proved that long-lasting loneliness not only makes you sick; it can kill you.
Emotional isolation is ranked as high a risk factor for mortality as smoking.
A partial list of the physical diseases thought to be caused or exacerbated by loneliness would include Alzheimer's, obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, neurodegenerative diseases, and even cancer tumors can metastasize faster in lonely people.
Solitary Confinement
A number of articles on the effects of solitary confinement in prisoners makes several points that are even stronger and more disturbing about the dangers of the lack of social contact and connection.
The Scientific American Mind article, Solitary Confinement Is Cruel and Ineffective, discloses that about half of all prison suicides occur in isolation cells.
"Extreme isolation and sensory deprivation can take a severe, sometimes permanent, toll on emotional and mental health. Researchers have found that prisoners in solitary quickly become withdrawn, hypersensitive to sights and sounds, paranoid, and more prone to violence and hallucinations."
The Wikipedia entry on solitary confinement has this to say:
The effects of solitary confinement on mental health are undeniable. Prison records from the Denmark institute in 1870 to 1920 indicate that staff noticed inmates were exhibiting signs of mental illnesses while in isolation, revealing that the persistent problem has been around for decades.[3]
According to the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry online, solitary confinement can cause an array of mental disorders, as well as provoke an already existing mental disorder in a prisoner, causing more trauma and symptoms . . . [and] no positive effects of the punishment have been proven (Jaapl).
Even Worse Effect on Juveniles
The isolation of solitary confinement (physical and social isolation of 22–24 hours per day for ONE day or more) can … provoke serious mental and physical health problems, and work against rehabilitation for juveniles.[6] Because young people are still developing, traumatic experiences like solitary confinement may have a profound effect on their chance to rehabilitate and grow.[7] Solitary confinement can worsen both short- and long-term psychological and physical problems or make it more likely that such problems will develop.[8]
The ACLU and Human Rights Watch created a report that incorporated the testimony of some juvenile inmates. Many spoke of harming themselves with staples or razors, having hallucinations, losing touch with reality, and having thoughts of or attempting suicide – all while having limited access to health care.[9]
The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and other UN bodies have stated that the solitary confinement of young people under age 18, for any duration, constitutes cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment.[11]
An Epidemic of Loneliness
Loneliness is a longing for kind, not company. ~ source unknown
I doubt that many of the readers of ADDandSoMuchMore.com are as isolated as someone in solitary confinement. But I'll bet that more than a few are likely to experience a state of social disconnection that dances dangerously close to the loneliness line.
It is unlikely that many of us will be able to initiate a number of close peer relationships surrounded primarily by people who are so unlike us they find it difficult to relate to our challenges or truly understand why we do the things we do – or how hard we really try to adhere to their expectations of what's "normal."
Company is not the same as connection.
Online Shopping, Social Media and Texting
According to the statistics, another group of readers is likely to interact most often in relatively superficial volleys of texts, quickie communications online in blog comments or through their participation in a wide variety of other social media – to a significantly greater degree than they spend time talking with connections face-to-face (in the absence of constant attention diverted by cell phone distractions!).
While their relatively superficial connections are statistically better than nothing at all – and certainly a way to avoid isolation – they too are dancing close to the loneliness line.
In the past five years or so, there has been a significant drop in "retail therapy" – alone or with the company of a friend. We order online, telling ourselves that we are saving time. But at what cost?
With the increasing preference for online shopping, many of us have shut ourselves off from time formerly spent in an enjoyable activity with a friend or two — and we no longer experience the benefits that even the brief interactions in stores have provided for years.
We ALL do it – it's endemic!
I fall victim to the convenience of online connections too, even knowing that it's much better for me to interact with real people in real time.
I came across a quote on Pinterest that is as disturbing as it is humorous:
"If you ever need to call a family meeting, turn off the WIFI and wait in the room in which it's located."
A friend emailed a cartoon showing a woman on her computer, apparently sending out evites (online invitations), with a caption that read:
I having a party! A bunch of my friends will be coming to my house to play on their phones.
No wonder so many of us feel disconnected, if not actively lonely!
The High Risks of Loneliness
Studies show that loneliness increases the risk for early death by 45 percent and the chance of developing dementia in later life by 64 percent. On the other hand, people who have strong ties to family and close friends are as much as 50% LESS at risk of dying than those with fewer social connections – over any given period of time .
- Dr. Sanjay Gupta believes that the risks of loneliness are a significant threat to health and life that needs to be treated as a chronic illness.
- Richard Lang, MD, chair of preventive medicine at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio believes that people need to attend to loneliness in "the same way they would their diet, exercise, or how much sleep they get."
What makes a difference to our health (and what we are missing, whether we are aware of it consciously or not) is the kind of in-person, back and forth, shared-communication peer connections rarely available in our fast-paced, first-world society — except, for some people, during leisurely vacations once or twice a year.
Unless we have at least a few regularly recurring meaningful interactions of that type, even if we truly enjoy our own company, we remain essentially lonely in the ways that matter for glowing health and immune system resilience.
In Part 2 of this article, we'll take a look at some of the ways in which many of us slide into loneliness, and in Part 3 we'll explore suggestions to help us gradually reconnect with others in meaningful ways – upping our communication quotient to a level that makes sense with our lives – so stay tuned.
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Well, at least they're showing just how asnine they really are. I love how they label those of us who disagree with their agenda "anti-women's health groups." What a load of BS there. Pregnancy isn't an illness, though it's interesting to note that most BC actually causes illness... including the Pill.
But hey - admitting that would defeat their entire thrust to make money off the uneducated (or willfully ignorant). *Facepalm*


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- The Mahabharata by John D. Smith
- Mahabharata by William Buck
- The Mahabharata by R.K Narayan
- Mahabharata by C. Rajagopalachari
- The Mahabharata: A Modern Rendering, by Ramesh Menon
- Mahabharata by Tr. Kamala Subramaniam
The condensed versions run from about 200 pages to some up to 1000 pages. These pages carry as many stories as much possible from the original text that has 100,000 verses. You might understand the dilemma that goes in picking up a version of the great epic.
Here are some things that I had in my mind:
- There is no way I can sustain enough patience to go through the texts such as the complete English translation by Kisari Mohan Ganguli. (The digital version is available online. Link here.) Even the J. A. B. van Buitenen version is rather big for me to plunge into.
- Having said that, I do not prefer a version that compromises the multidimensional characters that bring about the Mahabharata and hence, want a version that does justice to the huge text and the myriad characters.
- I wanted a version that will present the situations that made the characters who they are. We all know the stories and we all know the demarcations into good and bad. Some of us now are interested to know the about the grey side part that overlaps both. I am one of them.
- Going ahead when I read books like Mrityunjay (Mahabharata from Karna's POV), or the English translation of Randaamoozham (Bhim's POV) done by the revered Prem Panicker (A digital copy is available here for free download, review here.), or Palace of Illusions (Draupadi's POV) by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, or Yuganta by Iravati Karve (link here), I should be able to fit them in the larger picture and understand the nuances of each and every character as retold by the authors.
Faced with these constraints I stumbled upon http://jaiarjun.blogspot.com/ (Better late than...). He somehow convinced me to select Kamala Subramaniam's Mahabharata (post's here and here). This decision was also backed by favourable reviews on Amazon (link here). I also read a negative review (link here) about her version that the sentences are slightly broken, but I believe that a text that is originally in Sanskrit will have its own characteristics when translated to English.
I was also convinced to buy a two volume Mahabharata rendition by Ramesh Menon (link here), and I may give it a shot too. Just that I wanted to start with something smaller.
After saying all this, the only Mahabharata related book that I have read so far is Radheya by Ranjit Desai. It is, as the name suggests, Karna's story. Brilliant story and beautiful rendering of the characters. It made me realize how strongly Duryodhana has been portrayed as an outright villain without understanding any facets of his character. I wrote a post about this thought here. So I hope I get a better insight in the epic that Mahabharata is and delve into it a bit deeper.
To sum it all, I would quote Jai Arjun Singh: "...one that places us right amidst the characters..." is a feeling that should be strong when I take up a book.
On a related note – is it a boon or a disadvantage that we have so many opinions out there that we tend to get carried away towards either sides before arriving to a knowledgeable and a very individual understanding?
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Radio City is back with another season of their biggest singing competition – LuvIt Chocolates Radio City Super Singer 2017. The last date of Radio City Super Singer 9 2017 auditions is 11th August, so hurry up. The online registration of Super Singer 2017 is going on for 39 cities across the country. If your aim is to become India's popular singer then RCSS is the perfect platform for you.
Radio City Super Singer 9 2017 will provide the platform to all the aspiring showcase their talent to the country. There is no age limit to participate in the competition. Jinki Rag Rag mein hai Singing, unke liye aa gaya hai Radio City Super Singer Season 9.
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The auditions for Super Singer 2017 are going on from August 2 and will close on 11 August 2017. The participants who want to give a Radio City Super Singer 9 2017 auditions can participate through multiple platforms. To give an online audition, click on the register button and fill the audition form. Then Click on 'Save and Next' button and then you will be asked a question, answer it and you are done with your Super Singer 2017 registration.
You can submit your auditions online or can visit Radio City's studio for on-ground auditions. The top 5 shortlisted contestants from each city will be selected to compete at the grand finale which is to be held on 19th August 2017.


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In this troubled economy, Miami University has been struggling to secure donations to fund the new student center. But two former students have answered the call with a $15 million pledge for the project.
Miami alumni Mike and Anne Armstrong graduated in 1961, and thanks to their generous gift, the student center will be named the Armstrong Student Center (ASC).
"I feel the student center will enable students to connect with students, students to connect with faculty and student organizations to connect," Mike Armstrong said, "and that with those kinds of connections, having the facility to connect will bring an increased amount of collaboration among all parties."
On June 25, the board of trustees approved a resolution that would allow the first stages of construction for the student center to begin once $12.5 million in donations had been raised and could begin as early as this month.
Also during the meeting, President David Hodge announced a $1.5 million donation by the Shade Family Foundation. David Shade is a 1966 Miami graduate.
Student Body President Heath Ingram said the student center is going to help students compete for the best job opportunities and programs and help Miami stay competitive with other institutions.
"The student center is going to be huge for Miami," Ingram said. "It really will be a transformative building for Miami's campus. It's going to provide students with the ability to engage with each other with more of each other in a way that they haven't been able to in the past."
Mike Armstrong said a great deal of fondness and respect for Miami has been a driving force behind his donations now and in the past.
The Armstrongs donated $14.7 million in the spring of 2008 for the Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies (AIMS).
Mike and Anne said they believe the new student center will help Miami compete not only on a national level, but on a global level as well.
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"This is a step just like my prior donation was for the AIMS program to enable Miami students to connect globally and to collaborate globally through digital technologies for curriculums to be effective," Mike Armstrong said.
Mike Armstrong said he has requested an AIMS facility in the ASC, and that AIMS technologies be integrated into the building.
According to the latest proposed plan by University Architect Bob Keller, the ASC, a 205,000 square foot complex, reportedly will cost $77.7 million and could be completed in 2014. It involves the renovations of Gaskill, Culler and Rowan halls to be incorporated into one building.
Miami hopes to raise up to $57 million in donations for the ASC, according to David Creamer, vice president of finance and business services.
As more donations are made for the ASC, the out-of-pocket costs for students will continue to decrease.
"The student body can fully expect that I will continue to encourage Miami to fundraise for us," Ingram said. "Whatever we can do to decrease the cost the student must bear to attend this institution we must do it."
Miami University is currently the most expensive public university in Ohio, about 25% more expensive than most four-year public universities, according to tuition and general fee estimates from the websites of Ohio State University, Ohio University, Bowling Green State University, University of Cincinnati, Kent State University and University of Akron.
"It provides a healthy social environment," Mike Armstrong said, speaking of the new student center. "Back in my days … going uptown was the biggest social event available."
While not much has changed since 1961, university administrators and donors alike hope the ASC will provide student organizations with much needed meeting space, students with much needed study space and propel the university past competition to attract more students.
"The size of the new student center enables a so much needed functionality," Armstrong said. "Today it's really difficult for student organizations to have a place to meet, to have headquarters and to interact with other organizations let alone the administration and faculty."
Armstrong said "(Miami) has a wonderful spirit … It's the spirit of pride, it's the spirit of ownership. That is - students, the faculty, administration, they pretty much feel that Miami is theirs to make better and to constantly improve."


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Rachel Neff, a New Haven resident and first-year student at Vincennes University, was recently awarded the 2018 Rammie Walliser Memorial Scholarship.
The $500 scholarship recognizes students of taekwondo who have shown exemplary character. Neff, a black belt in taekwondo, has been a pupil at White Tiger Martial Arts in New Haven since she was 8 years old.
Mark Best, a co-owner of the martial arts studio, said the scholarship is named after Rammie Walliser, who was a martial arts instructor in Elwood, Indiana. His father, Fred Walliser, started the American Midwest Taekwondo Association. Rammie was supposed to one day take over the association after Fred's retirement. However, Rammie passed away suddenly in 2016 after suffering from cystic fibrosis and diabetes.
Even though he had to take medication so that his body didn't reject a lung transplant and insulin for his diabetes, he was a fantastic martial artist, Best said. To honor his memory, AMTA set up a scholarship for taekwondo students who have shown exemplary character.
Applicants must write an essay detailing how the martial art has affected their life and the person they have become, Best said. They are also asked to write about what they are studying, what institution they study at and why they are deserving of the scholarship. The student's instructor also sends an advocate letter. This is the second year AMTA has awarded the scholarship. Students at eight martial arts schools are eligible to apply.
Neff is a first-year student at Vincennes University, where she's studying American Sign Language in the hopes of becoming a certified American sign language interpreter. In her scholarship essay, she writes that taekwondo has taught her self-defense, perseverance, leadership and physical and mental strength. The experience also taught her self-control and how to work well with others.
"Working toward, fighting for and then accomplishing my goal of reaching my black belt has given me the confidence to know that I'm capable of achieving what I set my mind to," she said in the essay.


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A Narmada Diary (1995): Screening & Potluck
In the third in a series of film screenings, dinners and discussions happening every Friday evening through December 17th at Decolonize This Place, Colloquium for Popular Culture and MTL+ present A Narmada Diary, a 1995 documentary on the struggle of those adversely impacted by the Sardar Sarovar Dam project, directed by Anand Patwardhan and Simantini Dhuru. A record from about 1990-1993, of the measures adopted and hardship faced by the Narmada Bachao Andolan movement and the people inhabiting the place affected was presented. The documentary won the "Filmfare Award for Best Documentary, 1996" and the "Grand Prize" at Earth-Vision Film Festival, Tokyo, 1996. In spite of winning the central government's national awards, the movie was not allowed to be shown on National TV.
The Sardar Sarover Dam in western India, lynchpin of a mammoth development project on the river Narmada's banks, has been criticized as uneconomical and unjust. It will benefit urban India at a cost borne by the rural poor. When completed, the dam will drown 37,000 hectares of fertile land, displace over 200,000 adivasis – the area's indigenous people -, and cost up to 400 billion rupees. Ecological, cultural, and human costs – as often is the case with "mega" projects – have never been estimated. A Narmada Diary introduces the Narmada Bachao Andolan (the Save Narmada Movement) which has spearheaded the agitation against the dam. As government resettlement programs prove inadequate, the Narmada Bachao Andolan has emerged as one of the most dynamic struggles in India today.
With non-violent protests and a determination to drown rather than to leave their homes and land, the people of the Narmada valley have become symbols of a global struggle against unjust development.
But the dam building continues. If it's height is not checked, the entire adivasi region of the Narmada will drown. In the name of progress, a relatively self-sufficient, egalitarian and environmentally sound economy and culture will be destroyed and a proud people reduced to the status of refugees and slum dwellers.
A Narmada Diary is the third of a weekly series at Decolonize This Place led by writer and film critic Sukhdev Sandhu from Colloquium for Popular Culture with MTL+ every Friday evening. This will focus on the collective viewing of popular and experimental films that have direct impact on movement-building in the present. Accompanied a potluck dinner and discussion, the screening program will be responsive to the conversation that develops through the three-month series, and will in turn feed back into the actions and organizing of Decolonize This Place. Bring food and friends!
4th Anti-Columbus Day Tour: No New Jails on Stolen Land!
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Adrian, Mich. - The Alma College women's soccer team opened the second half of its Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association schedule on Wednesday (Oct. 4) night, falling at Adrian College by a 3-0 margin.
Mya Oleksiak had two goals for the host Bulldogs (8-4-1 overall, 5-3-1 MIAA), scoring in the seventh and 20th minutes to give Adrian a 2-0 lead at the half. Adrian added another goal in the 67th minute to sweep the season series against the Scots for the first time since the 2011 campaign.
Senior Kelsey Postema (Marshall, Mich./Marshall) made three saves for the Scots (2-7-2, 2-7-0 MIAA) in the first half, while freshman Ally Wentworth (Mt. Pleasant, Mich./Mt. Pleasant) played the entire second half in goal, making two stops.
How It Happened
- Adrian struck first in the seventh minute when the Bulldogs capitalized on a turnover deep in the Scots' end of the field. Mya Oleksiak netted the goal, hitting the top corner of the net from just inside the right side of the box.
- Oleksiak scored again in the 20th minute to give Adrian a 2-0 lead on a goal from right in front of the net. Oleksiak was set up by a crossing pass from Mackenzie Wilcox that found her right in front of the goal crease.
- Kirsten Chambers made the score 3-0 in the 67th minute, scoring on a high-arcing shot from the top of the box.
Up Next
Alma will return to Scotland Yard on Saturday, Oct. 7, to host Olivet College in the Scots' annual Kick it to Cancer Game. Alma will wear special pink jerseys during the game to raise awareness for the various forms of cancer that have affected friends and family of the team and coaching staff. Campus organizations involved in cancer awareness will also be on hand at Scotland Yard. The match is slated for a Noon start.


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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - A 35-year-old mom from South Beach faces felony charges after she got into a drunken crash with her 4-year-old son and her husband as passengers, authorities allege.
"I was coming from a party at a friend's house. I had two beers," Marina Kozyrev, 35, of South Beach Avenue, told police after crashing her 2012 Nissan Maxima at the corner of Sand Lane and Capodanno Boulevard at 12:10 a.m. Sunday, according to a law enforcement source.
Ms. Kozyrev's blood alcohol level measured at .165 percent, more than double the .08 percent threshold for driving while intoxicated, according to court papers.
Under Leandra's Law, it is a felony to drive drunk in New York with a child 15 or younger in the vehicle.
She's charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated, driving while intoxicated and endangering the welfare of a child.


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The printer specialist launches its first update to the highly successful PictureMate.
The Epson PictureMate was one of the best of the industry's first round of dedicated 10x15cm photo printers when it debuted in the second half of last year. I reviewed it myself back in August and its excellent, durable reproductions and good built quality set it apart from hp's Photosmart 375 and Lexmark's P315, though Canon's Selphy CP500 was also top notch. Well, now there's an update.
The Epson PictureMate 500 is more of a revision than a replacement. It has a faster output speed (77 verses 114 seconds, thanks to USB2.0), and slightly smaller ink droplets (2pl against 2.5pl) but the print resolution (5760 x 1440 dpi), paper handing (20 sheets), measurements, weight, noise and even power consumption remain virtually identical.
The major change is the new 2.4in colour LCD screen, an invaluable feature to anyone who likes to edit and choose their pictures independent of a PC or on the move (a Lithium ion battery is built in so it can work away from the mains). The downside is it does bump the price up to £179 including VAT (a sizeable cost for mini printer).
In its favour though, it takes a huge range of media cards including SD, Memory Stick,
Compact Flash and SmartMedia and supports PictBridge, USB Direct Print, DPOF output and Print Image Matching. An optional Bluetooth adapter allows prints to be taken directly from devices such as Bluetooth enabled camera phones.
Epson also quotes reduced costs of 29p per photo, but this pretty much matches the costs I calculated for the original PictureMate.
Should the screen and faster output be important factors for you (and you can afford the extra expense) then you'll be able to trot down to the stores for one at the end of the month.
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Dr. Moshé of Albert Einstein College of Medicine received consulting fees from Pfeizer, Malinckrodt, and UCB.)
This article includes discussion of benign familial neonatal seizures, benign-familial neonatal seizures, benign-familial neonatal convulsions, benign neonatal familial convulsions, and BFNS. The foregoing terms may include synonyms, similar disorders, variations in usage, and abbreviations.
Benign familial neonatal seizures is a syndrome characterized by focal clonic seizures, occasionally with a generalized tonic-clonic component, that occurs in full-term neonates. The seizures usually begin within 2 to 8 days of birth and remit by 16 months. As the name implies, this syndrome is usually familial and self-limited, but a work-up is necessary to rule out other causes of seizures. This syndrome is caused by a mutation in the gene that encodes voltage-gated K+ channel subunits (KCNQ2, KCNQ3). These subunits are responsible for the M-current, which is important in neuronal stability. There is no specific treatment at this time; however, there are several new drugs for which the mechanism of action looks promising.
Key points
• Seizures occur in full-term neonates, usually beginning within 2 to 8 days from birth.
• The disorder is familial and benign.
• There is no specific treatment. Antiseizure medications are sometimes used.
• This syndrome is caused by mutations in the gene encoding voltage-gated K+ channels.
Historical note and terminology
Antoni described a hereditary form of neonatal seizures with good outcome for neurologic development (Antoni 1941). Rett and Teubel were the first to describe the syndrome in a family (Rett and Teubel 1964). The term "benign" was not in the original description by Rett but was added 4 years later. Interestingly, a reanalysis of Rett s original kindred 40 years later revealed that they met current clinical and genetic criteria for benign familial neonatal seizures (Zimprich 2006). The first case reported in the English literature appeared in 1968 (Bjerre and Corelius 1968). Since 1989, benign familial neonatal seizures have appeared in the classification of epilepsy and epilepsy syndromes. They are classified in the chapter of Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsies.
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text: ptolomaios 0 Posted July 25, 2011 Well, I heard that some people out there really liked the wooden miniatures... But the case is that the new miniatures will be made of PLASTIC... And you have to agree with me that they're kinda lame. Troops are represented by a kinda os meeple and ships are a weird looking piece...C'mon FFG! You guys are know for superb components... Give us more detailed gaming pieces. I'm not talking about minis a la Westeros. I'm talking of pieces like those that come with the A Games of Thrones: Card Games. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Last night, on Grimm's 100th episode, a lot of storylines moved forward big time, all converging in Portland. We start where last week's episode left off, with Nick and Monroe having fallen into a cavern that may be just the place they were looking for, Renard holding his friend Andrew Dixon who was just shot while HW closes in on the assassin, and Adalind is hanging out with Rosalee who has been getting contacted by someone from her past she'd like to forget. Spoilers after the break.
After landing in the cavern after the ground caved in, Nick and Monroe do some exploring, and after figuring out how the 7 Grimms from back then would have thought, figure out to turn off all lights and it allows them to see 7 glowing skulls, forming a G (for Grimm), which with the lights back on are facing inward. After removing them they find a shield with a cross (or X), and behind that is a mysterious box.
They decide to try the keys, and they fit, but they only have 5 out of 7, and Monroe didn't bring his lock pick stuff, so they decide to take it back to Portland, presumably in their checked luggage.
After finding their way out, they realize that priest from the church they visited has formed a hunting party because Nick was made as a Grimm.
They evade most of them, because the priest finds the cave in spot and calls everyone over, but that ungeziefer greifer (mouse guy in the church) spots Monroe and Nick, then woges and bites Monroe who for some reason didn't woge and scare the crap out of him with his blutbad self. He ends up with a pretty bad bite but they need to get out of there.
There's a few of them guarding the cars, so Nick comes up with a good idea: have Monroe woge and pretend to be part of the group. Even though not all blutbad look alike, it's dark and none of them would expect a Grimm to be with a blutbad in the Black Forrest. It works, and they pop a tire on each car and get out of there and head straight for the airport. Monroe's bite will have to get checked later.
They call Rosalee to let her know they're heading straight back, and she's in the shop with Adalind. They've both had some things happen that don't get mentioned on the phone. While Nick and Monroe are gone, Adalind has been helping out Rosalee in the spice shop, where they both find out about the assassination attempt on Andrew Dixon, and then Tony the guy who's been sending letters and calling Rosalee shows up.
He feels she owes him because he got himself arrested for a robbery while she was crashing with him but he really did it for drug money, and he's there to ask for $5,000, which sounds like a lot to me but he seems to think she can make that easy in one day from her spice shop sales. Maybe he's not aware of supply costs, overhead, taxes, having actual customers, etc. He doesn't seem to bright because after she refuses, he starts knocking expensive spices of the shelves, and when she tries to stop him, he hits her and she's on the ground.
That's when Adalind comes back from checking on Kelly and when he immediately asks how much money she has, she threatens to call the cops. That's when he woges, revealing himself as a kackenkopf, which according to Grimm Wiki is a dung beetle like creature and is literaly German for "poop head", which is hilarious if true (Frank, can you confirm?).
When he woges, Adalind seems to have some stomach pain, and we know what that can mean...
As he's about to open hand strike her, his hand stops and we see some minor woging in her face, then his fingers get broke one by one. Awesome!
Tony runs out, having been hurt pretty bad, and Adalind freaks out because she doesn't want to return to being a hexenbiest even though it came in super handy just now. Rosalee promises not to tell Nick but says it could be worse if he finds out later and learns she could have told him. She tries to figure out a way to boost the suppressor but Adalind isn't shocked when nothing turns up as dead hexenbiest is the main ingredient and not easy to obtain.
Later, back home after Nick and Monroe had called and she didn't mention any of this, while she's home Adalind accidentally makes some water boil.
Onto the the other happenings in Portland, the assassination attempt of Andrew Dixon, which turns out to be successful. He's dead.
Marwan Hanano runs to the roof and spider-mans his way down the side of the building, but Eve is there waiting.
Meanwhile, the paramedics show up but they're too late. RIP Andrew Dixon, you seemed like you would have been a good mayor.
Wu and Hank secure the building, find the dead biker Marwan killed to use his apartment, but he's climbed down the side of the building. But Eve uses her power to get a cyclist to crash into him as he's calling Lucien to tell him he did the job.
Eve tells the cyclist to call 911 while she checks on the guy. She uses her power to force grab his phone and turn it off and throw it in her bag. She then woges and breaths some knockout gas into Marwan to ensure he doesn't wake up before they need him to.
Eve then takes the phone back to HW and they clone the SIM card, and then return it to the hospital where she allows Marwan to wake up, and call Lucien for a pickup. HW now has all of Marwan's contacts and is able to track him by his phone. But Lucien sells him out, and after telling him he'll be there in 20 minutes, calls Renard and tells him where to find the shooter.
Renard says they can't show up full force so it's just him, Hank and Wu. As they chase down Marwan, HW isn't sure what's going on and why he seems to be running.
Marwan is running from Hank and Wu when he's cut off by Renard. He woges, Renard woges, they fight, Renard wins, and Marwan is dead, and Wu calls it in.
Hank points out that if they didn't get the tip, he wouldn't have recognized Marwan with the blonde hair, it was only after he started to run. Someone set this whole thing up. Back in his office, Renard is reviewing footage of the shooting and spots something suspicious.
And realizes he can't seem to hook up with anyone without them turning out to be evil or just general trouble.
As he leaves the precinct, Meisner confronts Renard about everything and Renard correctly points out that what happened was HW's fault for giving them info about Marwan but not the whole story or mentioning they needed him alive.
When he gets home, Renard is visited by Rachel, who he decides to interrogate with his biest-face.
She then woges and reveals herself as a lowen (lion-like wesen), which she'd done a pretty good job of hiding, even on a Renard-level.
She then tells him that Dixon was meant to die, and she calls over an associate to let Renard in on the real plan. It turns out to be Lucien, and Renard identifies him as part of Black Claw, and that's when Rachel shows him what they had in mind.
Renard came off looking like a real hero holding Dixon as he died, and with the only other candidate disgraced with his failed drug buy, there's no one running. Lucien tells him that as a zuaberbiest, he's one of them, and they can make him the most powerful person in Portland. I guess they don't realize he's also a royal or working with a Grimm? Renard doesn't answer, but hopefully he's leaning towards infiltration and taking them out from the inside.
Back to the keys, Nick and Monroe arrive with the box and get everyone (who isn't watching Kelly) over to the shop. They use some lock picks for the missing keys and then open the box. Here's the clip of how they open it and what they find and what it does. And some stills below that. They're getting pretty good at figuring things out.
For those who can't view, after they unlock the box, it's sealed, and Monroe figures out that Nick's Grimm blood could break that. So Nick cuts his finger and runs it along the box (looks like he should join Monroe at the hospital for a possible infection now). The box opens and there's a cloth wrapped around a stick, and they ponder what it could be when Monroe starts to pass out from that bite, since everyone seems to be trying to postpone him getting it checked. As he's helping move him, Nick touches the stick to his arm and he's healed. Boom! Magic healing stick.
That's a very useful stick and definitely worth hiding. Can't wait to see how they use it.
So glad Adalind is becoming a hexenbiest again, she was one when she had Diana so I don't know why she's worried about how it would affect her being a mom. Team Grimm needs a hexenbiest and Eve is technically part of team HW. Still don't like her and Nick as a couple but maybe this will put an end to that, while keeping her on the show because I like her just not what they're doing with her until now.
Speaking of Eve, really awesome stuff from her this episode. Love it!
Wow, there really was a lot done to keep Monroe from going to the hospital to get that bite checked.
I think Renard will make the right choice but maybe pretend to go along to make up for HW losing a big lead. I don't think Black Claw is aware of him and Meisner working together with the resistance or that he has Diana kept safe.
Also explains why Renard's picture was given to Marwan, at least sort of. They wanted Dixon shot near him so he'd be the one holding him and looking all heroic and like a leader.
I hope Tony comes back so he can meet Rosalee's blutbad husband, the zauberbiest police captain and the Grimm detective. And maybe even Eve.
What did you all think?
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|Human Astrocyte
"Astrocytes are often considered just 'housekeeping' cells because of their supportive roles to neurons, but they're actually much more sophisticated. They are critical to several brain functions and are believed to protect neurons from injury and death. They are not excitable cells like neurons and are easier to harness. We wanted to explore their potential in treating neurological disorders, beginning with stroke." said Wenbin Deng, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine at UC Davis and senior author of the study.
Deng added that the therapeutic potential of astrocytes has not been investigated in this context, since making them at the purity levels necessary for stem cell therapies is challenging. In addition, the specific types of astrocytes linked with protecting and repairing brain injuries were not well understood.
The team began by using a transcription factor (a protein that turns on genes) known as Olig2 to differentiate human embryonic stem cells into astrocytes. This approach generated a previously undiscovered type of astrocyte called Olig2PC-Astros. More importantly, it produced those astrocytes at almost 100 percent purity.
The researchers then compared the effects of Olig2PC-Astros, another type of astrocyte called NPC-Astros and no treatment whatsoever on three groups of rats with ischemic brain injuries. The rats transplanted with Olig2PC-Astros experienced superior neuroprotection together with higher levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), a protein associated with nerve growth and survival. The rats transplanted with NPC-Astros or that received no treatment showed much higher levels of neuronal loss.
To determine whether the astrocytes impacted behavior, the researchers used a water maze to measure the rats' learning and memory. In the maze, the rats were required to use memory rather than vision to reach a destination. When tested 14 days after transplantation, the rats receiving Olig2PC-Astros navigated the maze in significantly less time than the rats that received NPC-Astros or no treatment.
The investigators used cell culture experiments to determine whether the astrocytes could protect neurons from oxidative stress, which plays a significant role in brain injury following stroke. They exposed neurons co-cultured with both types of astrocytes to hydrogen peroxide to replicate oxidative stress. They found that, while both types of astrocytes provided protection, the Olig2PC-Astros had greater antioxidant effects. Further investigation showed that the Olig2PC-Astros had higher levels of the protein Nrf2, which increased antioxidant activity in the mouse neurons.
"We were surprised and delighted to find that the Olig2PC-Astros protected neurons from oxidative stress in addition to rebuilding the neural circuits that improved learning and memory," said Deng.
The investigators also investigated the genetic qualities of the newly identified astrocytes. Global microarray studies showed they were genetically similar to the standard NPC-Astros. The Olig2PC-Astros, however, expressed more genes (such as BDNF and vasoactive endothelial growth factor, or VEGF) associated with neuroprotection. Many of these genes help regulate the formation and function of synapses, which carry signals between neurons.
Additional experiments showed that both the Olig2PC-Astros and NPC-Astros accelerated synapse development in mouse neurons. The Olig2PC-Astros, however, had significantly greater protective effects over the NPC-Astros.
In addition to being therapeutically helpful, the Olig2PC-Astros showed no tumor formation, remained in brain areas where they were transplanted and did not differentiate into other cell types, such as neurons.
"Dr. Deng's team has shown that this new method for deriving astrocytes from embryonic stem cells creates a cell population that is more pure and functionally superior to the standard method for astrocyte derivation. The functional improvement seen in the brain injury models is impressive, as are the higher levels of BDNF. I will be excited to see this work extended to other brain disease models such as Huntington's disease and others, where it is known that BDNF has a positive effect. " said Jan Nolta, director of the UC Davis Institute for Regenerative Cures.
Deng added that the results could lead to stem cell treatments for many neurodegenerative diseases.
"By creating a highly purified population of astrocytes and showing both their therapeutic benefits and safety, we open up the possibility of using these cells to restore brain function for conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, traumatic brain disorder, cerebral palsy and spinal cord injury," said Deng.Reference
Peng Jiang, Chen Chen, Ruimin Wang, Olga V. Chechneva, Seung-Hyuk Chung, Mahendra S. Rao, David E. Pleasure, Ying Liu, Quanguang Zhang & Wenbin Deng (2013). hESC-derived Olig2+ progenitors generate a subtype of astroglia with protective effects against ischaemic brain injury NATURE COMMUNICATIONS : 10.1038/ncomms3196


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New York features some of the best live comedy in the world every single night, from Manhattan to Queens, Brooklyn and beyond. But with so many to choose from, it can be difficult to find them all and nearly impossible to decide which shows to see. Every week, Christine Marie Evans and Emily Cohen curate this list, carefully reviewing dozens of shows every night, to select the live stand up comedy shows you need check out. Comedy producers can submit their show for consideration for our listings each week.
Just email us at email@example.com or fill out the form below follows this week's picks.
Show: New Jokes
Venue: Comedy Cellar at The Fat Black Pussycat
Location:130 W. 3rd Street NYC
Time: 8:30pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Wil Sylvince hosts some of the best comics in New York trying out new material!
Alingon Mitra
Mike FInoia
Gary Vider
Josh Gondelman
Adrienne Iapalucci
Nick Griffin
Sam Morril
Michelle Wolf
Joe Machi
Ticket Link: www.comedycellar.com
Show: Bodega Cat
Venue: The Offside Tavern
Location:137 W. 14th Street NYC
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Bodega Cat is a weekly comedy show brought to you by Kevin Seefried (202 Comedy Festival), Andy Ostroff (Jimmy Kimmel Live!).
Jared Freid (MTV, Just For Laughs)
Matt Koff (Comedy Central)
Ester Steinberg (Funny Girls)
Brian Parise (Just For Laughts)
Rohan Padye (Boston Comedy Festival)
Ticket Link: http://bodegacatnyc.eventbrite.com
Show: Week at the Creek: Dan Perlman
Venue: The Creek and The Cave
Location:10-93 Jackson Avenue LIC
Time: 7pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Dan Perlman is a stand-up comedian and writer from New York City. Dan performs regularly at Stand Up NY, Comic Strip Live, and New York Comedy Club, as well as the best alternative rooms in the city, like Knitting Factory, Bar Matchless, and UCB East. He has done stand-up in comedy festivals in New York, Boston, Dallas, Chicago, Memphis, Brooklyn, and Finger Lakes – where he won 1st place in their Stand-Up Contest.
Dan worked as Comedy Contributor for Neil deGrasse Tyson's StarTalk Radio. He was a regular guest on Sirius XM's Ron & Fez. Following these spots, Dan was hired as a writer for Sirius XM's Bennington. Dan co-founded, writes, and stars in the popular web series, Moderately Funny, featured on CollegeHumor. Recently, Dan co-created and co-wrote an animated series, That's My Bus!, which earned him an invite to the prestigious 2015 Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal to pitch his series. Dan also co-hosts and produces a monthly interactive story show, Hindsight, at Three Of Cups.
Ticket Link: http://creeklic.com/events/week-creek-andrew-collin-2017-11-16/
Show: Serious Matters
Venue: Union Hall
Location:702 Union Street Brooklyn, NY
Time: 10pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
A data-driven comedy show determined to solve the world's issues one serious matter at a time.
Hosted by Kevin McCaffrey and featuring Josiah Madigan, Brock Mahan, and special guests.
Kevin McCaffrey
Brock Mahan
Josiah Madigan
Drew Michael
Katina Corrao
Matt Wayne
Ticket Link: https://www.unionhallny.com/event/1570446-serious-matters-brooklyn
Show: Camouflage: A Comedy Show
Venue: Big Irv's
Location:381 Hooper Street, Brooklyn NY
Time: 9pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Abbi Crutchfield ( Host of You Can Do Better on TruTV)
Myq Kaplan (Comedy Central, Last Comic Standing, Netflix)
Sean Patton (Comedy Central, Showtime, TruTV)
Josh Johnson ( Comedy Central, Tonight Show w/ Jimmy Fallon)
Courtney Maginnis (College Humor)
Hosted by Lucas Connolly
Ticket Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/camouflage-a-comedy-show-free-pizza-tickets-39521690440
Show: Bitches Brew Variety Show
Venue: Halyard's Bar
Location:406 3rd Avenue Brooklyn, NY
Time: 8:30pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
A FREE Comedy Variety show cooked up for you every Friday, 8:30 at Halyard's Bar Backroom in Gowanus BK. Featuring some of the best stand up & musical comedians in NYC. This magic is brought to you by hosts Naomi Karavani, Melissa Stokoski, Shelby Taylor and Erica Spera.
Myq Kaplan (Netflix)
Will Miles (Comics to Watch)
Sagar Bhatt (NBC Stand up for Diversity)
Ticket Link: http://bitchesbrewcomedy.tumblr.com/
Show: Art School Acid Dropout
Venue: The Creek and The Cave
Location:10-93 Jackson Avenue LIC
Time: 10pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Grant Lindahl is a world renowned visual artist banned from MoMA PS1 for being too extreme. Every month he hosts an interactive comedy show at the Creek and the Cave in LIC Queens. Grant opens each show with an eccentric performance piece. Past stunts include getting tattooed live on stage, having a knife thrown at him and playing a giant paint by numbers with the audience!
Everyone is provided drawing materials and encouraged to make art during the show. Each member gets a limited edition show poster and button with the ticket price.
Past guest artists have included Erik Bergstrom (The New Yorker), Christina Faraj (Pixar), and Matteo Lane (MTV).
Ticket Link: http://creeklic.com/events/art-school-acid-dropout-5-2-2017-11-17/
Show: Bryan Callen
Venue: Gotham Comedy Club
Location: 208 W. 23rd Street NYC
Time: 8 & 10pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Featuring Veronica Mosey and Rich Francese!
Bryan Callen: Bryan Callen is an actor, comic and podcaster. He's currently in the middle of his fourth season as "Coach Mellor" on ABC's THE GOLDBERG'S. He's also the co host of the popular podcast THE FIGHTER & THE KID. In addition to performing in comedy clubs and theaters all over the U.S and Canada, he's preparing for the release of his latest one hour special called NEVER GROW UP. In 1995 Bryan became an original cast member of MAD TV and went on to do many TV shows like Entourage, Sex & and CIty and Californication. He also played "Eddie" in The Hangover and "Samir" in The Hangover part 2.
Since Hollywood is a place where your last job has nothing to do with getting any future jobs, there's little point in going through his whole resumé. Not to mention the fact that Bryan is actually writing this bio so it feels a tad obnoxious. The important thing Bryan wants you to know is that he has never been better than he is RIGHT NOW!
It's also worth mentioning that Bryan likes to box, and play tennis. He is not good enough to compete at either sport, but he enjoys telling people that his boxing and tennis are "high level". Thank you.
Ticket Link: http://gothamcomedyclub.com/event.cfm?id=494181&cart
Show: Tinder Live with Lane Moore feat. Janeane Garofalo
Venue: Littlefield
Location:635 Sackett Street Brooklyn, NY
Time: 8:30pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Tinder Live has been named one of the best comedy shows in NYC for good reason. Produced and hosted by comedian Lane Moore (The Onion, HBO's GIRLS, Brooklyn Magazine's "50 Funniest People In Brooklyn," former Cosmopolitan Magazine sex & relationships editor), Tinder Live is a totally improvised, anything-can-happen interactive comedy showstopper with helpful and oftentimes ridiculous Tinder tips, tricks, real-time swiping, and messaging (and sometimes even real-time phone calls with Tinder matches)! You'll relate to Moore's live-swiping and laugh at her reactions and find inspiration in her ridiculous, random emoji-filled messages (and sometimes even phone calls!) to would-be suitors. It's also a great show to attend with a date, Tinder or otherwise. If you've ever been on an online dating site (or a bad date in general), you need to see this show.
Ticket Link: https://www.littlefieldnyc.com/event/1527214-tinder-live-brooklyn/
Show: Creek Bros
Venue: The Creek and The Cave
Location:10-93 Jackson Avenue LIC
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Creek Bros takes your regular Saturday night and turns it into a comedy-filled frat party. Beer bongs, free PBRs, and the best comics in NYC are all waiting for you on the 2nd Saturday of the month at 8pm—only at The Creek and The Cave. Hosted by Billy Prinsell, Carmen Lagala, Luke Mones, and Samantha Ruddy.
Ticket Link: http://creeklic.com/events/creek-bros-5-2-2017-11-18/
Show: Ron Funches
Venue: Carolines on Broadway
Location:1626 Broadway NYC
Time: 7:30pm & 10pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Ron Funches is a very funny stand up comedian with a unique delivery and lovable demeanor. You just want to hug and squeeze him like a big stuffed bear. His easy going, inventive style sounds the way fresh chocolate chip cookies taste. Ron performs stand up all over the United State impressing audiences everywhere.
You may know Ron from NBC's POWERLESS. Ron's other television appearances include starring in NBC's UNDATEABLE, recurring roles on Comedy Central's @MIDNIGHT, THE KROLL SHOW, DRUNK HISTORY, ABC's BLACKISH and many more. Ron has multiple stand-up performances on TBS's CONAN O'BRIEN SHOW and NBC's THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON.
Ron's voice-over credits include BOJACK HORSEMAN, BOB'S BURGERS, HOME and the Dreamworks animated film TROLLS.
Ron resides in Southern California.
Ticket Link: http://www.carolines.com/comedian/ron-funches/
Show: The Stand NYC Showcase
Venue: The Stand NYC
Location:239 3rd Avenue NYC
Time: 8 & 10pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Ron Bennington
Ari Shaffir
Pete Lee
Marina Franklin
Sean Patton
Derek Gaines
& more!
Ticket Link: https://thestandnyc.ticketfly.com
Show: Ari Shaffir: New Hour In Progress
Venue: Comedy Cellar at The Fat Black Pussycat
Location:130 W. 3rd Street NYC
Time: 8:30pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Ari Shaffir working out his new hour of material!
His latest double special "Double Negative" is available on Netflix.
Ticket Link: www.comedycellar.com
Show: Part Time Bro's Two Minute Warning NFL Sports Roast
Venue: New York Comedy Club
Location:241 E. 24th Street NYC
Time: 5pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Take shit talking your least favorite team to a whole new level as AMarie Castillo (Part Time Bro) presents a roast that pits comedian on comedian, defending their favorite teams in an onslaught of hilarity.
AMarie "Part Time Bro" Castillo hosts 32 comedians from all over the country to represent all 32 teams in the NFL that will go head to head in instant knock out rounds. The winner of each round will be decided by our panel of judges – James Mattern, Geno Bisconte, JJ, and Mike Benevento (winner of SiriusXM Mad Dod Sound-A-Like Contest) – until a Lombardi trophy is won! A guest performance by Comedian Dustin Chafin will be held before the Super Bowl.
Ticket Link: https://newyorkcomedyclub.com/events/part-time-bro-s-two-minute-warning-nfl-sports-roast-2017-11-19170000
Show: Bacon Bits! Comedy Brunch
Venue: The Stand NYC
Location:239 3rd Avenue NYC
Time: 3:30pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Remy Kassimir hosts club regulars, up & coming talent, and surprise drop-ins while you enjoy FREE bacon, a full brunch menu, and bottomless mimosas for $20
Abby Feldman
Ben DeMarco
Ramy Youssef
Usama Siddique
Eric Neumann
Ticket Link: https://thestandnyc.ticketfly.com/event/1594591-bacon-bits-comedy-brunch-s20-new-york/
Show: If You Build It
Venue: UCBeast
Location:153 E. 3rd Street NYC
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
The Tonight Show w/ Jimmy Fallon, IFC
This Is Not Happening, Night Train Show
Last Comic Standing, Just For Laughs Comedy Festival
New York Comedy Festival, Night Train Show
Red Clay Comedy Festival, BET's The Game
Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Boston Comedy Festival
Ticket Link: https://east.ucbtheatre.com/performance/57545
Show: Vintage Basement
Venue: Under St. Mark's Theater
Location:94 St. Marks Place NYC
Time: 9pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Vintage Basement is a new monthly neo-retro night of stand-up comedy and music. Max & Nicky will have you falling in love with their humorous banter and charming musical stylings through the dynamic melange of their dovelike old-fashiondness and quirky, absurd idiosyncrasies. With a heavy focus on stand-up comedy, this vintage style variety show will feature the additional talents of four hilarious stand-up comics. The upcoming lineup includes headliners
JUDAH FRIEDLANDER (30 Rock, Wet Hot American Summer)
MELISSA VILLASEÑOR (SNL, America's Got Talent)
SEAN PATTON (Comedy Central, Conan)
BEN KRONBERG (Comedy Central, Late Night w/ Seth Meyers)
and MORE!
Ticket Link: http://maxandnicky.com/vintage-basement/
Show: TruTV Talent Showcase
Venue: The Stand NYC
Location:239 3rd Avenue NYC
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Sean Patton hosts this comedy showcase for TruTV!
Ticket Link: https://thestandnyc.ticketfly.com/event/1589355-trutv-talent-showcase-hosted-new-york/
Show: Sherrod Small's Homecoming Show
Venue: The Village Underground
Location:130 W. 3rd Street NYC
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Sherrod Small
Kurt Metzger
Chris DiStefano
Greer Barnes
Leslie Jones
Mo Amer
Rachel Feinstein
Ticket Link: www.comedycellar.com
Show: Butterboy with Jo, Aparna and Maeve
Venue: Littlefield
Location:635 Sackett Street Brooklyn, NY
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Three chuckle monsters descend on Littlefield every Monday at 8pm, clutching with them a horde of the freshest, silver-tongued comics and phone sex operators this city has to offer. Legends in their own right, these three friends, Aparna Nancherla, Maeve Higgins and Jo Firestone combine forces to host the funniest and best show in Gowanus! Accompanied by the musical stylings of DJ Donwill and the sensual silence of a rotating Idris Elba impersonator, you won't want to miss it. Plus, find out which parts of this blurb are bold, unapologetic lies!
Ticket Link: https://www.littlefieldnyc.com/event/1562394-butterboy-jo-aparna-maeve-brooklyn/
Show: Dark Spots
Venue: Union Hall
Location:702 Union Street
Time: 8:30pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Dark. Sad. Traumatic. COMEDY. Hosted by Shane Torres (Comedy Central's The Half Hour), Nate Fridson (AST Records) and Alison Zeidman (Adam Ruins Everything), Dark Spots is a stand-up comedy showcase where comedians tell jokes that'll make you cry so hard you laugh. Based in NYC, the show has been featured in the New York Comedy Festival (produced by Carolines on Broadway in association with Comedy Central), and has also been a critic's pick in the New York Times, Time Out New York and Village Voice.
Janeane Garofalo
Jo Firestone
Dulcé Sloan
Casey James Salengo
Dina Hashem,
Mehran Khaghani
Jess Salomon
Chris Laker
Alison Zeidman
Shane Torres
Nate Fridson
Ticket Link: https://www.unionhallny.com/event/1578325-dark-spots-brooklyn
Show: Monroe Martin & Derek Gaines: No Need For Apologies
Venue: Comedy Cellar at The Fat Black Pussycat
Location:130 W. 3rd Street NYC
Time: 8:30pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Monroe Martin is a colorful and imaginative comedian with a lifetime of hard knock experiences that have been spun into side-splitting jokes and stories.
Monroe was born and raised in Philadelphia, one usually wouldn't find Monroe's life story laughable. After all, how inappropriate is it to laugh at a foster child who jumped around from one dysfunctional family to another? Sit in the audience of one of Monroe's performances and you'll find yourself laughing at his adversity. Monroe's honest and open approach to joke and storytelling universalizes his experiences.
Monroe's creative and charismatic comedic voice has created a buzz within the New York comedy circuit. His intelligent and hysterical perspective resonates and has earned him respect among his peers.
Derek Gaines: The man with the smile of a thousand angels, Derek Gaines, a California born New Jersey resident, raised a new face in the wonderful art of comedy. July 29th 1984 was the day that the Lindenwold's only campaign began. Derek started in the vicious comedy clubs of Philadelphia and then began to move around the tri-state area (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York) working and still working on what he would like to call the "Left field crusader show", the style of comedy that speaks to all but touches the very hearts of the Black, "can't-be-a-thug suburbanite only children" of the US. Derek trusts and believes God for this gift he has been given and just wants to bring it back for the people. "Progress and not peril" is his motto and he plans to take that with him through every stage of his career.
Ticket Link: www.comedycellar.com
Show: New York Comedy Club Showcase
Venue: New York Comedy Club
Location:241 E. 24th Street NYC
Time: 9:15pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Get the authentic NYC stand up comedy experience at New York Comedy Club! Enjoy a nightly showcase of the best comedians in the city, hot up-and-comers, plus hotshot celebrity drop ins, national and international touring comics and more surprises!
Matt Richards
Leah Bonnema
Tone Bell
Joe Derosa
Ticket Link: https://newyorkcomedyclub.com/events/weeknight-headliners-2017-11-21211500
Show: RoastMasters Hosted by Luis J. Gomez
Venue: The Stand NYC
Location:239 3rd Avenue NYC
Time: 10:30pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Head to Head competitive roasting hosted by Luis J. Gomez
Ticket Link: https://thestandnyc.ticketfly.com/event/1584598-roastmasters-hosted-by-luis-new-york/
Show: Comedians You Should Know NYC
Venue: The Gutter
Location:200 N. 14th Street NYC
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Every Wednesday the Comedians You Should Know collective brings their signature Chicago-style stand up showcase to The Gutter in Brooklyn for an intimate night of comedy with NYC's funniest. This week features
Chris Redd (SNL)
Sean Patton (Comedy Central)
Mary Mack (Conan)
Tim Dillon (Gethard Show)
Saurin Choksi (Brown Privilege) and more!
Hosted by David Drake.
Ticket Link: https://cysknyc.eventbrite.com/
Show: The Thirst! Classic NYC Late Night Comedy
Venue: New York Comedy Club
Location:241 E. 24th Street NYC
Time: 11pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Classic New York City Late Night Comedy! The Thirst features a rapid-fire rotation of hot young comics and superstar drop-ins – it's fun, funny, weird and wild. You never know what's going to happen!
Ticket Link: https://newyorkcomedyclub.com/events/the-thirst-classic-nyc-late-night-comedy-2017-11-22230000
Show: The Best of The 2017 New York Comedy Festival
Venue: Carolines on Broadway
Location:1626 Broadway NYC
Time: 7:30pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
There's no better way to celebrate Thanksgiving Eve than with these hysterical people who were all a part of the 2017 New York Comedy Festival. Burn all the calories you're going to eat the next day on Thanksgiving ahead of time by laughing the night away. This is a showcase that features some of the BEST talent from the 2017 New York Comedy Festival that took place from November 6th through November 12th. These comics have been featured on ABC, CBS, Comedy Central, E!, Funny or Die, HBO, Hulu, MTV, NBC, Netflix, TBS, truTV, Vice & More!
Ticket Link: http://www.carolines.com/comedian/the-best-of-the-2017-new-york-comedy-festival/
Show: Stand Up NY Showcase
Venue: Stand Up NY
Location:236 W. 78th Street NYC
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Aaron Berg
Jared Freid
Kerry Coddett
Shane Torres
Monroe Martin
Rory Albanese
Ticket Link: www.standupny.com


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Switch is a book on change management. The publication has similarities to John Kotter's Leading Change. The authors make the distinction between emotional and analytical motivations for change and argue persuasively that successful change requires both. This is insightful because most people tend to use either analytical or emotional arguments depending on their personality, but this is incomplete and if the two techniques are not combined change will fail. The authors use anecdotes to support their case, for example they detail how it wasn't enough at a glove manufacturer to tell executives that they made too may different kinds of gloves, the change agents assembled all the gloves on a conference table during a meeting to make their point.
Projects, by definition are changing something, and as with all change, some people will prefer the status quo. The best project managers understand how to drive the change and will benefit from this book, which summarizes a lot of thinking on the topic in an easy to follow way. John Kotter should still be considered the leading author on the topic, but Chip and Dan Heath contribute some new thinking, particularly from a psychological perspective.


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Tai Chi Class
Spotify Music Playlist
Tai Chi. Kung Fu. Taiji. Martial Arts. Taijiquan. Work out. Yoga. Exercise. Chi Kung. Training. Qigong. Meditation. Visualization Practice. Healing Sounds.
All of these things (and possibly more) bring to mind a certain vibe. This vibe can be helped or hindered by music. Needing to feel motivated? Want to feel inspired? Just that extra edge – that little bit to push you deeper into the groove, to get in the Zone, to push you on… Music can and will do all these things and more.
Below you will find our Spotify playlist that we play during each of our Tai Chi (or Taijiquan) classes.
.If this is not your first time here, you may notice that the selection is different from your last visit. That's because it's a living piece of change. Evolving to meet the needs of the martial arts student.
But sometimes I mess up. And accidentally add a song that should be in our And those that I, personally, "liked," but were not appropriate for the class. For example, songs with positive and uplifting music that was also slow and soothing would serve much better in our Northern Shaolin Kung Fu class playlist, instead of our Tai Chi class playlist. Or perhaps, due to my own personal spiritual practice, I add something abit too deep down the rabbit hole of one tradition or another. And I get feedback. 😛 🙂 So then I adjust.
Anyway, here it is… Our Tai Chi class Spotify Music Playlist. Great for workouts, meditative-minded martial artists, Yoga, Chi Kung / Qigong and more.