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On any given afternoon, the Wheaton Community Center is usually full of students from area high schools. But most don't choose to spend their Friday nights there, said Alex Taylor, the center's director.
This past Friday night was a different story, though, as cluster after cluster of students dashed into the center to catch a talent and fashion show put on by their peers.
The $10 show was a manifestation of three Wheaton High School students who "have a passion for fashion," according to senior Ashley Peters.
Peters and her friends wanted to create a fashion show last winter, but their plans stalled because of a lack of funds and resources, she said. They told Taylor about it one afternoon at the Wheaton Community Center and he put them in contact with Huwey Kelly, the director of a talent program aimed at teaching county students how to be positive role models.
With a sponsor in place, the girls set out to find committed models who would practice two to three times a week for the rest of the school year in the clothes the girls designed. They also found local comedians, hip-hop groups, singers and dancers willing to perform.
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"A lot of people didn't think we could do it," Peters said moments before the show was to start. "We're just a bunch of kids."
Sharief Hashim, a recreation specialist for the county and coordinator of Wheaton Sports Academy, an after-school program for at-risk students, said he had his doubts.
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Vibrissal afferents from trigeminus to cortices
|Martin Deschenes and Nadia Urbain (2009), Scholarpedia, 4(5):7454.
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On each side of the rat's snout there are five horizontal rows of vibrissae that form an orderly array of low-threshold mechanoreceptors. Each peripheral fiber innervating these mechanoreceptors responds to only one vibrissa and, centrally, the arrangement of the vibrissal pad is mapped into homotopic arrays of cellular aggregates. In layer 4 of the mouse somatosensory cortex in which they were first observed, aggregates consist of small stellate cells surrounding a 'hollow' core filled with dendrites, axons and glial cells. Thence the term barrel was used to describe their structure (Woolsey and Van der Loos, 1970). Homotopic cellular aggregates were later observed in the ventral posterior medial nucleus (VPM) of the thalamus and in trigeminal brainstem nuclei (Van der Loos, 1976; Ma and Woolsey, 1984). They were called barreloids and barrelettes respectively. So, to each vibrissa correspond a trigeminal barrelette, a thalamic barreloid, and a cortical barrel. Because of this morphologically demonstrable, homologous arrangement of each of its major component parts, the vibrissal system of rodents has become one of the most valuable models for research in sensory physiology, developmental neuroscience, and in studies of experience-dependent synaptic plasticity. The advent of transgenic mice and the development of new imaging techniques in vivo have further contributed to promote the popularity of this sensory system.
By the mid-nineties we knew of only two pathways of information processing in the vibrissal system of rodents; (1) a lemniscal pathway that arises from the principal trigeminal nucleus (PrV), transits through the VPM, and terminates in layer 4 of the barrel cortex; (2) a paralemniscal pathway whose exact origin was uncertain, that transits through the posterior thalamic nuclear group (Po) and terminates in cortical regions surrounding the barrels. Yet, brainstem neurons that gave rise to these pathways were only partially identified, and it was not clear to what degree vibrissal inputs to the VPM and Po arose from separate populations of trigeminothalamic cells. Since then, tract tracing studies and studies that combined electrophysiological recording with single cell labelling have clarified these issues and led to the discovery of additional pathways. So far, four ascending pathways of vibrissal information have been identified: three pathways that relay information through different sectors of the VPM, and another one through the medial part of Po (Pom). The multiplicity of pathways thus necessitates a revision of the current nomenclature to avoid confusion in the research community. The Text Box below describes the updated nomenclature that will be used in the present review.
| Here we shall refer to the somatosensory thalamic nuclei according to the nomenclature of the Stereotaxic Atlas of the Rat Brain by Paxinos and Watson (1998). Thus, when intranuclear subdivisions do not matter, the ventral posterior medial nucleus and the posterior thalamic nuclear group will be abbreviated as VPM and Po, respectively. However, tract tracing and electrophysiological studies have now identified three pathways that pass through different sectors of the VPM (see Figure 1B). To keep on with names used in prior studies, we shall distinguish two VPM regions: the dorsal medial region (VPMdm) and the ventral lateral region (VPMvl).
We define a pathway as a 3-neuron chain that links the vibrissae to the cerebral cortex: it comprises a trigeminal ganglion cell, a trigeminothalamic neuron, and a thalamocortical cell. There also exist collateral pathways that process vibrissal input through the cerebellum and superior colliculus before sending information to cortex. The organization of the latter pathways is less well documented, and will not be considered in this review. Pathways are to be distinguished from sensory channels, which are subsystems within a pathway that sample different ranges of whisker deflection (rapidly and slowly adapting fibers, low- and high-threshold afferents; Stüttgen et al., 2006). Parallel channels arise from different populations of ganglion cells that are likely associated with different types of nerve endings in whisker follicle.
Vibrissal input in trigeminal nuclei
The brainstem trigeminal complex is the first processing stage in the vibrissal system; it comprises the PrV and the spinal trigeminal nucleus (SpV), which consists of the oralis (SpVo), interpolaris (SpVi) and caudalis (SpVc) subnuclei. The SpVi is further divided into rostral (SpVir) and caudal (SpVic) territories, which correspond to the magno- and parvocellular cytoarchitectonic divisions of Phelan and Falls (1989), respectively (Figure 1). In cytochrome oxidase stained coronal sections of the brainstem, the PrV, SpVic and caudal part of the SpVc display honeycomb-like patches, termed barrelettes, in which primary vibrissa afferents terminate. In each of these subnuclei barrelettes form rostrocaudally-oriented rods, about 1 mm long and 60 µm wide, whose orderly arrangement replicates that of the vibrissae on the mystacial pad (Ma and Woolsey, 1984; Henderson and Jacquin, 1995). Barrelettes are not discernible in the SpVo and SpVir.
Regardless of how they respond to whisker deflection, large caliber vibrissa afferents (Aβ) form ladder-like projection patterns in the brainstem, consisting of several puffs of terminations distributed at regular interval (150-200 µm) in each of the trigeminal nuclei (Hayashi, 1980; Henderson and Jacquin, 1995). The discontinuous arbors from each of the fibers innervating a single whisker interdigitate to produce a rostrocaudally continuous column that is coextensive with the barrelette corresponding to the same vibrissa. Collateral distribution bears no obvious relationship to the functional properties of the axons (Shortland et al., 1996), which indicates that second-order neurons in each subnucleus receive the same sensory messages. Therefore, the parallel pathways that arise from these subnuclei do not relay inputs encoding different features of an object. They likely use the same sensory inputs to inform the brain about whisker motion, texture and shape, and object location in the whisking space (Yu et al., 2006), or again different pathways may operate in different behavioral contexts (e.g., the exploratory and object recognition modes discussed by Curtis and Kleinfeld, 2006).
With regard to the innervation of trigeminal nuclei by vibrissal afferents, the caudalis subnucleus deserves special comment. Like the other subnuclei, the SpVc receives profuse vibrissal input but contains relatively few trigeminothalamic neurons. The bulk of caudalis projections target the other trigeminal nuclei. Therefore, what is conveyed to the thalamus by each of the other subnuclei is already a synthesis of peripheral and caudalis inputs.
Parallel pathways of vibrissal information
Figure 1 shows a wiring diagram that summarizes the anatomical organization of the four ascending pathways of vibrissal information described below.
The lemniscal pathway (1)
The VPM has long been recognized as the thalamic relay station of the lemniscal pathway. It contains a single type of neurons, the relay cells, which are clustered in whisker-related structures called barreloids. Barreloids form curved, obliquely oriented tapering rods that extend from the border of Pom towards the ventral posterior lateral nucleus (Figure 1A; Land et al., 1995; Haidarliu and Ahissar, 2001; Varga et al., 2002). In the ventral lateral part of the VPM (VPMvl), barreloids fade out and become undistinguishable. As described below, that part of the VPM serves as a relay station for a specific population of trigeminothalamic cells. Thus, although the VPMvl does not yet figure in any atlas of the rat's brain, we shall consider it here as a separate entity (for a topographic description of VPMvl see Haidarliu et al., 2008).
Thalamic barreloids receive vibrissal input principally from small-sized PrV neurons (soma diameter < 20 µm) whose dendrites are confined within the limit of their home barrelette (Henderson and Jacquin, 1995; Lo et al., 1999). These cells have receptive field dominated by a single whisker, and account for about 75% of the projection cells in PrV (Minnery and Simons, 2003). They project only to the contralateral VPMdm, where they give off small bushy terminal fields (~ 80 µm in diameter) in the homologous barreloid. Together, cells within a given PrV barrelette innervate the whole of a barreloid, and their projections show little convergence (on average, a VPMdm relay cell receives input from 1 - 2 PrV neurons; Castro-Alamancos, 2002; Deschênes et al., 2003; Arsenault and Zhang, 2006). Sensory transmission in this fine-grained map of vibrissa representation is mediated by large-sized perisomatic synapses that ensure a fast and secure relay of information (Spacek and Lieberman, 1974; Williams et al., 1994). It is commonly thought that the high spatio-temporal resolution of the lemniscal pathway is ideally suited for texture discrimination.
Like PrV cells, barreloid cells display vigorous, short-latency responses (4 - 6 ms) to deflection of the principal whisker (Minnery et al., 2003). Weaker responses to 1 - 5 surrounding whiskers are also recorded in lightly anesthetized animals, but later responses are eliminated by deepening anesthesia (Friedberg et al., 1999; Aguilar and Castro-Alamancos, 2005), or by lesion of the intersubnuclear projections from the SpV (Timofeeva et al., 2004). Axons of barreloid cells do not branch locally, but give off collaterals in the reticular thalamic nucleus (Rt; Harris, 1987) as they head towards the primary somatosensory cortex (S1), where they innervate profusely layers 3-4 of a barrel column, and more sparsely the upper layer 6 of the same column (Figure 2A; Jensen and Killackey, 1987; Pierret et al., 2000; Arnold et al., 2001). Relay cells in barreloids receive excitatory corticothalamic input from upper lamina 6 cells of a barrel column that is distributed principally over the distal dendrites (Hoogland et al., 1987; Bourassa et al., 1995; Mineff and Weinberg, 2000), and an inhibitory input from Rt cells that targets the whole of the dendritic tree (Peschanski et al., 1983; Ohara and Lieberman, 1993; Varga et al., 2002). At a unitary level, corticothalamic and Rt projections are composed of axons with terminal field topographically restricted to the barreloid representing the principal whisker of their receptive field (Bourassa et al., 1995; Désîlets-Roy et al., 2002). It is worth reminding that the thalamus of rodents (except for the lateral geniculate nucleus) is devoid of local circuit cells; thus, the Rt represents the sole source of inhibitory inputs to all subdivisions of the VPM (Barbaresi et al., 1986).
The lemniscal pathway (2)
At the dorsomedial margin of the VPM, near Pom, there is a stratum of barreloid cells (~ 150 µm thick) that receive vibrissal input from an additional population of PrV cells with large multiwhisker receptive field (Veinante and Deschênes, 1999). Thus, in contrast with VPMc cells whose receptive field is dominated by a single vibrissa, those situated in the head of the barreloids (i.e., in VPMh) respond equally well to multiple vibrissae (Urbain and Deschênes, 2007a). Because of their proximity to Pom, VPMh cells extend dendrites across the VPM/Pom border, which leads to their modulation by corticothalamic fibers from the vibrissa motor cortex that project to Pom.
If VPMc and VPMh relay cells form separate pathways of vibrissal information, one would expect both populations of neurons to differ in the way they innervate the barrel cortex. A recent study indeed demonstrated that VPMh cells project principally to septal regions, whereas VPMc cells innervate mainly the homologous barrel (Furuta et al., 2009). Moreover, septal cells were shown to maintain their multiwhisker receptive field after lesion of the SpV, but that lesion of the PrV abolishes nearly completely vibrissal responses throughout the barrel cortex. These results thus provide conclusive evidence that the multiwhisker receptive field of septal cells derives primarily from their innervation by VPMh cells.
Corticothalamic projections also display specificity with respect to VPMc and VPMh subdivisions. While upper lamina 6 cells of a barrel column establish a one to one reciprocal relationship with the corresponding barreloid, lower lamina 6 cells of a barrel column and lamina 6 cells of septal columns project to Pom, and form rostrocaudally oriented bands in VPMh (Bourassa et al., 1995; Deschênes et al., 1998). Moreover, VPMh cells, but not VPMc cells, receive corticothalamic input from lamina 6 of the vibrissa motor cortex (Urbain and Deschênes, 2007a). A similar topographic specificity characterizes Rt projections to the VPM. Some axons only innervate VPMh, while others give off terminations throughout the whole expanse of a barreloid (Désîlets-Roy et al., 2002). In sum, anatomical and electrophysiological data point to a functional specialization of cells in the head of the barreloids, which suggests that the two subdivisions of the lemniscal pathway that pass through VPMc and VPMh convey different types of vibrissal information.
The extralemniscal pathway
The extralemniscal pathway differs from the lemniscal pathway in that thalamic cells exhibit large multiwhisker receptive fields that are independent of input from the PrV (Bokor et al., 2008). This pathway arises from medium-sized SpVic cells (soma size, 25-30 µm) that respond to multiple whiskers (Veinante et al., 2000a). There is no evidence that these cells innervate other regions of the brainstem or thalamus. In contrast with the small size of the terminal field of PrV axons in a barreloid (diameter ~ 80 µm; Veinante and Deschênes, 1999), individual SpVic axons form larger, rostrocaudally oriented terminal fields in VPMvl (size ~ 100 µm x 250 µm; Veinante et al., 2000a), suggesting a higher degree of input convergence in this nucleus.
The VPMvl is a crescent-shaped region that approximately corresponds to the lower tier of the VPM. It is thicker caudally and thins out rostrolaterally. It was initially identified as a separate relay station after anterograde tracer injection delineated a ventral lateral region in the VPM that receives input from the SpVic (Pierret et al., 2000). There exist no cytoarchitectonic feature or immunohistochemical stain that permits to clearly delineate its boundary with the rest of the VPM (but see Haidarliu et al., 2008). In cytochrome oxidase stained material, VPMvl does not display whisker-like arrangement (i.e., barreloids).
VPMvl relay cells project to the second somatosensory area (S2) and to the dysgranular zone of S1 by means of axon collaterals (Pierret et al., 2000). Projection foci are dense in layers 4 and 6 of S2, and moderate in layers 3, 4, and 6 of S1. VPMvl receives back projections from specific populations of corticothalamic neurons that reside in lamina 6 of S2 and S1, and from a distinct population of multiwhisker Rt cells (Bokor et al., 2008).
Neurons in S2 and in the septal columns of S1 have large receptive fields (Brumberg et al., 1999; Kwegyir-Afful and Keller, 2004). There is no doubt that in anesthetized animals S2 cells derive their response properties directly from the VPMvl, but the actual impact of VPMvl cells on septal neurons remains unknown.
The paralemniscal pathway
The paralemniscal pathway arises from large-sized, multiwhisker cells located in the SpVir (Williams et al., 1994; Veinante et al., 2000a). On their way to the thalamus, SpVir axons send branches into a number of brainstem and diencephalic regions, which include the inferior olive, the pontine nuclei, the perirubral region, the superior colliculus, the anterior pretectal nucleus, and the zona incerta (ZI). In Pom, axons terminate principally in a shell-like region that covers the dorsomedial aspect of VPM, where they make large synaptic contacts with the proximal dendrites of relay neurons (Lavallée et al., 2005).
The labelling of single axons issuing from different parts of Po revealed a heterogeneous population of fibers which, collectively, project across all the somatomotor regions of the neocortex: S1, S2, perirhinal, insular and motor cortices (Deschênes et al., 1998). The great majority of these axons divide in the white matter at their exit from the striatum and send branches in different cortical areas. The laminar distribution of terminal fields varies across areas, but layers 5a and 1 are usually the most densely innervated (Figure 2B). As a rule, cells labelled at the same injection site in Po project to the same cortical regions. Thus, Po appears as a collection of discrete neuronal assemblies that have in common a multiareal projection pattern.
Like most higher-order thalamic nuclei, Po receives a dual corticothalamic input: one that arises from layer 6 cells in cortical areas innervated by Po axons, and another one from layer 5b cells that are exclusively located in the granular and dysgranular zones of the barrel field (Bourassa et al., 1995; Veinante et al., 2000b). Latter projection consists of collaterals of long-range axons that project to the tectum, ZI, and other brainstem regions. These collaterals do not supply a branch in the Rt or in the VPM, but establish large synaptic contacts with the proximal dendrites of Pom neurons (Hoogland et al., 1987, 1991; Bourassa et al., 1995; Groh et al., 2008). These large terminals are morphologically similar to those of trigeminothalamic axons, suggesting a strong excitatory cortical drive.
Inhibitory inputs to Pom arise from three sources: the Rt, the ventral division of ZI (ZIv), and the anterior pretectal nucleus (Barthó et al., 2002; Bokor et al., 2005). While single Rt axons innervate extensive regions of Pom and mostly target distal dendrites (Pinault et al., 1995), incertal and pretectal axons make large GABAergic synaptic contacts on the soma and proximal dendrites, next to the SpVir terminals, which suggests that extrathalamic inhibitory inputs can exert a strong control over sensory transmission in this nucleus. It is not yet known whether incertal and pretectal axons contact different subpopulations of Pom cells.
Control of sensory transmission in Pom
Electrophysiological studies of Pom neurons were probably those that produced the most puzzling results. While anatomical studies reported that Pom received monosynaptic input from the trigeminal nuclei, Pom cells were found to respond weakly to whisker deflection. When present, responses occurred at long latencies 16 - 20 ms), and were of much lower magnitude than those observed in the VPM (Diamond et al., 1992a; Sosnik et al., 2001). Moreover, sensory responses in Pom were suppressed by silencing the barrel cortex, which led to the proposal that sensory transmission in this nucleus depends on cortical feedback (Diamond et al., 1992b). Yet, the reason for which Pom cells responded so weakly and tardily to whisker deflection remained intriguing. This issue was finally resolved after it was shown that Pom receives GABAergic input from the ZIv (Barthó et al., 2002), and that most of the trigeminal axons that innervate Pom also project to the ZIv (Veinante et al., 2000). Thereafter, electrophysiological studies convincingly demonstrated that ZIv cells take part in a feedforward inhibitory circuit that gates vibrissal inputs, and that silencing ZIv reinstates short-latency sensory transmission through Pom (Trageser and Keller, 2004; Lavallée et al., 2005). It was thus proposed that the relay of vibrissal inputs through this nucleus relies on a mechanism of disinhibition (i.e., inhibition of the inhibitory incerto-thalamic pathway). This possibility received support from a recent study in which it was shown that corticofugal messages from the vibrissa motor cortex suppress vibrissal responses in ZIv, and that suppression is mediated by an intra-incertal GABAergic circuit (Figure 3; Urbain and Deschênes, 2007b). Thus, these results suggest that sensory transmission in Pom involves a top-down disinhibitory mechanism that is contingent on motor instructions.
Thalamic projections from the SpVo and SpVc
Thalamic projection from the SpVo arises from large cells with multiwhisker receptive field (Jacquin and Rhoades, 1990; Veinante et al., 2000a). It is the least abundant trigeminothalamic projection, and also the least studied. It terminates in the most posterior part of the VPM and Po, right in front of the pretectum, and also in a caudal thalamic region intercalated between the pretectal and medial geniculate nuclei. These thalamic regions are known to receive multisensory inputs (somatic, visceral, nociceptive, auditory), and to project to the perirhinal cortex, striatum, and amygdala (Groenewegen and Witter, 2004). Oralis cells also provide a substantial projection to the superior colliculus. Although electrophysiological data are not yet available, there is little doubt that the oralis projection constitutes a 'fifth pathway' that might be involved in the association of multiple sensory inputs, and the translation of this information via the amygdala and temporal cortices in behavioral and emotional reactions.
The SpVc contains both mono- and multiwhisker responsive cells (Renehan et al., 1986), but so far there exist no clear evidence that these cells project to the thalamus. However the SpVc projects abundantly to the other trigeminal subnuclei (Jacquin et al., 1990a). As far as we know, no physiological study has yet examined vibrissal response properties in this subnucleus.
Anatomical basis for crosstalk between the vibrissal pathways
In the brainstem, the parallel streams of vibrissal information processing are not totally isolated from each other, in that each trigeminal subnucleus that gives rise to an ascending pathway receives projections from the other subnuclei (Figure 4; Jacquin et al., 1990a; Voisin et al., 2002). Although most subnuclei are reciprocally connected, the most abundant intersubnuclear projections are those of the SpVc to the SpVi and PrV, and those from the SpVic to the PrV. The PrV, for instance, receives inhibitory GABAergic projection from the SpVic, and excitatory glutamatergic projection from the SpVc (Furuta et al., 2008). The inhibitory projection is particularly significant since 86% of the SpVic cells that project to the PrV express the transcript for VIAAT, a vesicular inhibitory amino acid transporter that is expressed in both GABAergic and glycinergic neurons. That the SpVic exerts a strong inhibitory control over sensory transmission in the PrV is further supported by the near complete elimination of surround-whisker inhibition in the PrV after lesion of the SpVi (Furuta et al., 2008; see also Lee et al., 2008 for additional evidence obtained in behaving rats).
When retrograde tracers are injected into the SpVi of rodents, the vast majority of retrogradely labeled cells in the brain are found in the other trigeminal nuclei (Jacquin et al., 1990a), in the somatosensory cortical areas (Wise and Jones, 1977; Wise et al., 1979; Killackey et al., 1989), and in cholinergic neurons located in the pedunculo-pontine nucleus (Timofeeva et al., 2005). The projection from S1 is heavy and topographically organized, connecting barrels to homotopic barrelettes in the brainstem (Welker et al., 1988; Jacquin et al., 1990b). The actual impact of these inputs on the activity of intersubnuclear-projecting cells is currently unknown, but available evidence suggest that they can exert a decisive influence on the way trigeminothalamic cells respond to vibrissal inputs (Woolston et al., 1983; Jacquin et al., 1990b; Hallas and Jacquin, 1990; Timofeeva et al., 2005). This raises the possibility that, by controlling the activity of intersubnuclear-projecting cells, brain regions that project to the trigeminal nuclei may take an active part in selecting the type of information that is conveyed through each of the vibrissal pathways.
A central issue in sensory physiology is to understand how an animal endowed with highly sensitive sensory organs, and exploring the environment, can control the unceasing stream of sensory inputs it receives, and select those that are most relevant to an adaptive behavior. Clearly, there should exist multilevel, state-dependent and context-dependent gating mechanisms that filter out irrelevant sensory inputs. For example, when rats whisk to explore a new environment, they are likely little interested in object texture, no more than we are when we stretch out our arms to locate obstacles in a dark room. Processing texture information in this context appears behaviorally irrelevant; therefore pathways that process texture information might be depressed in this condition. Thus, sensory signals associated with different modes of tactual information processing (exploration, object recognition, whisking in air) might be differentially gated in brainstem trigeminal nuclei by inhibitory intersubnuclear projections.
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Mods & Rockers Film Festival 2010 salutes filmmaker Murray Lerner
In addition to offering vintage performance footage of such classic artists as Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, the Who, Leonard Cohen, the Doors, Jethro Tull, Emerson Lake & Palmer and the Moody Blues, the 2010 Mods & Rockers Film Festival will be highlighting one name more than any other: Murray Lerner.
He's the filmmaker behind several of the documentaries in this year's festival, which opens Thursday and runs through Sunday at theaters in Hollywood and Santa Monica.
Lerner's name is best known in pop music circles for "Message to Love," his film that captured the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival in the U.K., where Hendrix, the Doors, Tull, ELP and numerous others drew more than 600,000 fans about a year after Woodstock.
The celebrated "Woodstock" film is what inspired Lerner to move forward with an alternative view of that era in pop culture, even though the festival sponsors who hired him to document their event went broke and never came through with the financing for a film he'd been promised.
In Michael Wadleigh's film about the famous "three days of peace and music" in upstate New York, "They were making the point that everything was hunky-dory -- peace and love, obviously," Lerner once said. "And I don't believe it."
In particular, he objected to the image created of a hippie utopia where money wasn't an issue and promoters, musicians and fans came together without a hiccup. That's not what Lerner witnessed at the Isle of Wight show, backstage or in front of it, where promoter Rikki Farr berated fans who crashed the gates because they objected to paying the admission price of £3 -- about $6 at the time.
" 'Woodstock' glossed over all that stuff, and that was the stuff that really gave rise to the puzzling contradictions in the hippie movement, because, essentially, it became a way of making money for a lot of people behind the scenes," he said. "I'm not begrudging them, I guess I'm jealous; they made millions off that thing. And everybody talked as if it were a work of charity. Whereas, I really made no money."
It took a quarter century after Isle of Wight, before Lerner was able to finish and release his two-hour film, which screens Thursday night at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, to launch the Mods & Rockers Festival. Lerner will attend the "Message to Love" screening and take part in a Q&A session about the film along with several of the participants, including Doors members Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger, ELP's Keith Emerson, Jethro Tull's Glenn Cornick and Mike Pinder of the Moody Blues.
Also on the schedule Thursday will be Lerner's 2004 documentary on jazz great Miles Davis, "Miles Electric," examining the period in which Davis alienated many hardcore jazz fans by incorporating electric guitars and other elements of rock music into his sound.
Saturday's offerings include two more Lerner films: "Jimi Hendrix: Wild Blue Angel" (2002) and "The Who: Listening to You" (2004). Sunday at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica brings a triple bill of Lerner works: "Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight" (2009), "Bob Dylan: The Other Side of the Mirror" (2007) and "Festival" (1967), the latter being a film about the Newport Folk Festival in the early to mid-'60s that was Lerner's first major music documentary. Lerner's Davis and Cohen films are being shown in Los Angeles for the first time.
Friday's lineup is the only one offering anything other than Lerner films, pairing his 2009 look at the Moody Blues, "The Moody Blues: Threshold of a Dream," with Dianna Dilworth's new documentary about the early synthesizer-like device the Moodys used extensively in their music, the Mellotron. "Mellodrama: The Mellotron Movie" coincides with the 50th anniversary of the instrument's introduction.
Information on all the films and special panels is available at the Mods & Rockers Festival website.
-- Randy Lewis
Photo: Crowd shot from the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970. Credit: Mods & Rockers Film Festival
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We saw several unspectacular cosplay photo collections centred around events in Helsinki, Berlin and Kassel, which gave a somewhat unfavourable impression of European cosplay; fortunately, we now have the chance to rectify that, with a look at some inspiring Italian cosplay, from the Lucca Comics & Games 2008 event held a few weeks ago.
Quite a wide variety of cosplay is featured, including some non-anime ones, so there's plenty of interest…
This costume is spectacular:
My personal favourite:
Well done to all those who participated!
There are over 1,600 images in the pool at Flickr, of which these are a small fraction, so you might like to check them out.
Thanks must go to Yusaku Godai for introducing us to this, and selecting most of the images; Italian speakers can join him on the Otaku no Rishi forum. I notice Sako also took the superb top image of Motoko and Togusa, so paying a visit to Ferricorp is also a possibility.
Many of you (actually mainly the Finnish contingent for some reason…) made quite reasonable comments to the effect that taking atrocious photos of cosplayers in dark conditions at a non-specialist event, and then comparing them to heavily photoshopped pro-cosplayers at major Japanese events, was unfair.
Whilst nobody could deny an impugned national pride may be at play here, there is certainly an element of truth to this – the courageous amateurs are in certain respects more impressive than idols reliant on pro-photographers and Photoshop antics to achieve a stunning effect.
That said, nobody could deny the stunning effect is highly sought after, artificial or not…


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Thursday, June 28, 2012
Last day of JK for my little guy
To get him somewhat excited about summer holidays, we created a summer fun list. We sat down, and made a list of things we want to be sure to do this summer (I got the idea from my friend over at Learning Titus 2). A few of his ideas: go to dairy queen; go on a bike ride in the rain; have a sleepover at his grandparents house and go mini putting. There are others, but those were the ones he came up with on his own.
What will you do with your kids this summer?
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That is a great idea to make a list of fun things to do! I think children really do enjoy the routine of school and for little guys, the "unknown" summer doesn't look as appealing at first glance as school. That is so cute that he is sad.ReplyDelete
My daughter started crying last night b/c she said she didn't want grade 1 to end. That she would miss her teacher.Replies
he has since changed his mind - this morning he told me he is super happy that he gets to be home with me all summer!Delete
last day of Sk for us yesterday too, I love the idea of a summer bucketlist, we have already had an amazing summer and school just got out! lol we took our holidays a little early!ReplyDeleteReplies
yes, I was following along with your updates - it does sound like a great way to start summerDelete
The Summer BucketList idea is fabulous! Love it! Hope you guys have a great Summer! Have fun! xoReplyDeleteReplies
I can't take credit for it - but thanks!Delete
We have our last day today. Enjoy your summer - lots of great ideas to put in those long days of summer.ReplyDeleteReplies
thanks for stopping by - hope you have a great summer too!Delete
- AnonymousJune 28, 2012 at 10:13 AM
We too made a summer bucket list thanks to Lisa. Hoping to have lots of fun with it!ReplyDeleteReplies
I was so happy when I saw her post a few weeks ago - I knew immediately it was something we had to doDelete
I'm in the same boat as you... my DD is finishing her first year of school today and I'm kind of sad! I love your idea for a kids' bucket list of sorts and will help her make one this weekend. We'll probably have a lot of the same things as on your list, and maybe add a museum or two, a few splash pads/pools, maybe the zoo. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDeleteReplies
no problem - I hope you have fun making your list and crossing things off as you go - as I mentioned though, I can't take credit for the ideas as I saw it on another blog!Delete
my kids go until tomorrow, then I'll be happy they're home for the summer. I cried today, emma had her grade 6 grad and tonight is Q's grade 8 grad. JK seems so long ago suddenly!ReplyDeleteReplies
Grade 6 and 8 Grads? that seems so far away....have a terrific summer togetherDelete
This was DS4 last day of JK too. He was super sad, but we plan on having tons of play dates with his class mates this Summer and we`ll be having his three cousins over for the next two weeks so we`re going to hit up the splash pad.ReplyDelete
This year went by way too fast, he`s going to miss his teacher a lot and was pretty sad he might not have her again next year.Replies
we are lucky, the two teachers (english and french) are staying the same..... thanks for visitingDelete
Awww, I love how little kids love school so much! My 4 year old is excited to start JK in Sept! We have a bunch of stuff planned for this summer! We actually rented a cottage up north and can't wait to go for the week!ReplyDeleteReplies
it is awesome to see their excitement around learning...I know it will probably fade soon.Delete
Have a great time at the cottage - and thanks for stopping by!
We have a Summer bucket list too! :) Great ideas Mama!ReplyDelete
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|Nutritional Guidelines (per serving)
Laugenbrezeln — or soft pretzels — are popular German snacks between meals.
A good German laugenbrezel is thick and soft in the middle, thin and crunchy (but not dry on the outside) and shaped into three equal loops.
Soft pretzels are not made at home very often because their secret taste is due to them being dipped in lye before baking. Lye, or caustic soda, burns skin and eyes and gloves and safety glasses are recommended when making this recipe. This is not recommended for baking with children.
Use extreme caution: Lye is caustic and a 3% solution is considered corrosive. Always use gloves and safety glasses. Wearing long sleeves, pants and close-toed shoes are recommended.
Wipe up spills with paper towels and dispose of immediately. Rinse with water or vinegar. Rinse all utensils and gloves with large amounts of water and wash arms and hands after working with the solution. If you feel anything burning on the skin, rewash with soap and water, rinse and dry.
Unlike in the US, Germans eat soft pretzels with butter -- not mustard or cheese sauce for dipping.
The bakeries also sell rolls made with the same dough, which are good with liverwurst or other aufschnitt (bologna) in the middle.
- 1 tablespoon yeast
- 1/4 cup warm water
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 4 1/4 cups bread flour
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 cup warm water
- 2 1/2 tablespoons salted butter (room temperature)
- Plastic gloves
- Safety goggles
- 1 quart water
- 1 ounce food-grade lye
- Coarse salt
Steps to Make It
Make the Dough
Proof the yeast by dissolving it in 1/4 cup warm water and sugar for 5 minutes.
Measure the flour into a mixing bowl, add the salt, the proofed yeast and 1 cup of warm water. Mix by hand or with a stand mixer with a dough hook attachment until flour mixture comes together into a stiff ball. Add more warm water as needed to form the dough.
Knead for 5 minutes, and let rest for a few minutes and then add the butter and knead for at least 5 more minutes or until butter is fully incorporated. At this time, the dough should be firm and soft and velvety to the touch.
Form into a ball, butter all surfaces and let rise until double, about 1 hour, in a warm spot.
Shape the Pretzels
Place wax paper on a baking sheet.
De-gas (punch down) the dough and divide into 12 (2-ounce) pieces. Form the dough into balls. Using very little flour, form balls into 1-foot long strands, thicker in the middle and tapering towards the ends.
Take each strand and roll out again to form 2-foot strands. Twist into a pretzel shape, using a little water to make the ends stick to the loop. Experienced pretzel bakers can flip pretzels into shape in the air, but most people have to coax them.
Place the pretzels on the baking sheet and refrigerate for 1 hour. This dries out the surface and makes them easier to handle.
Make the Lye Solution
Put on gloves and safety glasses.
Place 1 quart of water in a plastic or glass container, weigh 1 ounce of food grade or reagent grade sodium hydroxide into a bowl and add slowly to the water, stirring with a plastic spoon or similar object. ALWAYS ADD THE LYE TO THE WATER, not the other way around! For scientists: The lye solution will be approximately 0.75 M NaOH (FW 39.99g/mol) or almost 3% w/w.
Remove pretzels from the refrigerator and dip each for 30 seconds in the lye solution. Remove with a slotted spoon and place on greased or parchment-paper-lined baking sheet.
Sprinkle pretzel with salt. Make a deep cut through the thick part of the pretzel horizontally with a razor blade or lame. Let pretzels rest for 15 minutes.
Heat oven to 375 F. Bake pretzels for 20 to 25 minutes or until deep golden brown.
Dispose of Lye Properly
Follow county and state hazardous waste regulations to dispose of the lye. This might include dilution of the solution with water, neutralization with an acid and subsequent dilution or taking the waste to a disposal facility.
You also can keep the lye solution in a tightly closed, nonmetallic container, clearly labeled, to use again, but starting with fresh lye is the best option.


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A review of who belongs and doesn't belong in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
What do Elmer Flick, Red Ruffing, Stan Coveleski, Will Harridge and Phil Rizzuto have in common? They are all members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame — very good players and baseball executives who had better-than-average careers. But were they Hall of Fame caliber?
What do these people have in common: Buck O'Neil, the first black coach in the Major Leagues; Pete Rose, who holds the record for most career base hits; Hal Chase, whom Babe Ruth called the best first baseman ever; and Eddie Cicotte, the best pitcher — by far — in 1917, with 28 victories and an earned run average or 1.58? They aren't members, despite statistically outstanding careers.
And what do Tony Gwynn, Nolan Ryan and Cy Young have in common? They were all elected to the Hall of Fame with less than unanimous votes. In fact, every Hall of Fame member was elected with less than a unanimous vote. Even Babe Ruth.
We look at the Hall of Fame selection process and ask whether its membership and structure meet the needs of the 21st Century, and whether the factors that affect voting fairly reflect the meaning of "fame" in baseball.
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SYLVIA CHARLES (65-80) – Lives like she's in her early 20s. The mastermind behind Saucy Slips, Etc. and the proud tenant of a rent controlled apartment.
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A baby's first tooth is a momentous occasion, but it doesn't always come easily. As parents, we've heard MANY stories over the years—including fussy babies, sleepless nights and the odd home remedy. We've compiled the basics of teething for expecting or new parents, but be sure to talk to your pediatrician if you have specific questions.
Typically, babies will develop their first tooth between the age of four and seven months—sometimes earlier, sometimes as late as a year or older. Because tooth buds form in the gums in the womb, in rare cases, babies have been born with their first tooth. This expansive range can be intimidating, which is why it is good to be prepared.
Symptoms will vary, but the most common signs of teething include:
If your baby experiences any other symptoms while teething (temperature of 100.4 or above, vomiting or diarrhea), you should talk to your pediatrician. They're probably not related to teething and may signal another medical condition requiring treatment.
Teething remedies are an industry of their own in the baby product world—and every doula, pediatrician and mommy blogger has one they swear by. As with everything else, effectiveness will vary. These are some of the more tried-and-true methods, though be sure to consult your pediatrician before trying medication or a less common method.
We at Women's Healthcare Associates love healthy babies and happy moms. Teething can be a difficult time for both, but remember that you're not alone—and that teething doesn't last forever. Check out HealthyChildren, a site sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatricians – for information on kids of all ages.
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Spam regains pre-McColo reach
If you've noticed a spike in the amount of spam you're receiving, you're not alone. According to an analysis by Google, the volume of junk mail has returned to levels not seen since November, when host provider McColo was disconnected.
'Wikipedia killer' pilfers blogosphere, taunts bloggers
Ulitzer bills itself as a new-age website that will somehow replace the cult of Wikipedia. And judging from the online farce that followed the site's Friday beta launch, it's off to a good start.
HP ponders Android netbooks
Hewlett-Packard is pondering using Google's Android mobile OS for its small, cheap computers.
Soothsayers slash IT spending forecasts
None of us want to hear about a decline in IT spending, but that is tough. This is an economic meltdown, and IT spending seems hell bent on declining this year, despite projection after projection showing spending would stay above that negative territory. We had better get used to the word "decline" for a while.
Atlantis trundles to Kennedy launch pad
Space shuttle Atlantis yesterday morning arrived at Kennedy Space Centre's Launch Pad 39A (see pic), having taken around five hours to trundle the 3.4 miles from the Vehicle Assembly Building.
Aptare goes upgrade crazy
Aptare has upgraded its Storage Resource Management (SRM) products to work better in a virtualised server world.
Bondage bonzer for bonding, beam boffins
Couples who spank together stay together - such is the conclusion of two separate pieces of research, reported in the latest edition of New Scientist.
Google to fund 'video Street View' for Central London
April FoolA joint project by the Metropolitan Police and London's Westminster Council to put CCTV onto the Internet has received substantial financial backing from Google, The Register has learned. On completion of the first phase, practically every square inch of Central London - including narrow alleyways, council debating chambers and police interview rooms - will be accessible from anywhere in the world.
Competition Commission scuppers Capita takeover
Capita's takeover of IBS Opensystems Software has been stopped by the Competition Commission.
Motorola Aura
ReviewIt's a moot point whether releasing an unashamedly style-led handset costing over a grand - yes, more than one thousand of your Earth poundingtons - at the present time is recession busting - or recession baiting. The kind of cash that's required to trouser this high-end, low-spec phone could well engender the sort of spending that will offset the credit crunch. Or it might just fuel the bonfire of toxic debt that has already brought us to this pretty pass.
Dept of Work and Pensions isn't working, says report
A report by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman roasts the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) for its poor information provision, poor record keeping and poor complaint handling.
EC publishes Q&A on overseas data transfer
The European Commission has prepared a set of questions and answers as well as a flowchart to help companies understand when they can and when they cannot send personal data abroad.
Florida cops taser satnav lake plunge woman
April FoolPolice were last week obliged to taser a 37-year-old mother of two who followed the satnav of her husband's $100k Mercedes into a Florida lake, the Ocala 'Gator reports.
VMare floats April date for cloud launch
On April 21 VMware will announce its "next generation of virtualisation technology" with an event featuring VMware president and CEO Paul Maritz.
LametopsLaptops Direct offers free funerals
April FoolDesperate times call for desperate measures, and UK computer outfit Laptops Direct today launched an initiative offering cashed-strapped punters the chance to give their loved ones the send-off they deserve:
iPhone apps punt iPhone apps
A new service from mobile developer Mobui promises to sort through the morass of mediocrity that is the iTunes application store, by providing recommendations from the authors of apps you've already bought.
eBay put Skype on iPhone 'to boost price of NSA backdoor'
April FoolSkype was pushed onto Apple's iPhone at the instigation of the VoIP app's corporate owner eBay, the Reg can exclusively reveal - in order to reap huge sums from government listening agencies interested in spying on Jesus-mobe-toting terrorists.
Which desktop Linux distribution?
Reader PollOne of the most common objections to desktop Linux is fragmentation. With so many distributions, which one do you choose for serious deployment in a business environment? Given the amount of work involved in any desktop OS switch in terms requirements analysis, application selection, compatibility testing, integration with systems management processes, etc., you want to make sure that the horse you back represents a safe long-term bet.
'Unifying standard' vital for mass-market 3D TV
The percentage of TVs sold worldwide with 3D capability will exceed ten per cent by 2011, market watcher Screen Digest has stated.
Spd improves mobile TV experience
Spd, publishers of the shell UI that makes Windows Mobile an easier pill to swallow, have launched a stand-alone streaming TV player, offering great usability and features but not a lot in the way of content.
Detroit does mass-market e-car deal with Proton
'Leccy TechThe Detroit Electric Car Company has announced that it is to develop a range of electric vehicles by grafting its own 'leccy car drive trains onto existing models from Malaysian manufacturer Proton.
Conficker botnet remains dormant - for now
Conficker changed the way parts of the botnet communicated overnight, but little else of note has happened so far.
US Patent Office exposes Apple secret plan
April FoolThe US Patent and Trademark office published an Apple patent filing on Wednesday that analysts are calling a bold attempt by the Cupertino Fruit Company to protect its core corporate values and business practices.
Miss Universe pops into Guantánamo Bay
Those of you stuck for a holiday destination this summer might consider Guantánamo Bay - described last week by Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza as a "loooot of fun!"
Nokia releases mobile info app
Getting the best price for in-store purchases or finding out what time a film starts is now as simple as Point and Find – Nokia's latest application for on-the-move info.
Firefox 3.0 ekes ahead of Internet Explorer 7 in Europe
Mozilla's web browser Firefox 3.0 crawled past Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 in European market share for the first time last week.
Intel 'Nehalem' Xeon 5500 series
ReviewIntel's new Xeon 5500 series uses the chip giant's 'Nehalem' architecture to effectively put a pair of Core i7 CPUs on a workstation motherboard.
Nokia apps points and
shoots finds and sells
In the continuing battle to find a use for all that processing power in a modern mobile phone, Nokia has launched Point & Find, an application that uses image recognition to supply punters with goods on the basis of a photograph.
Logica snaffles police database deal
Public sector specialist Logica has won a seven-year £75.6m contract to build and maintain the Police National Database.
US atom boffins: Our cloud makes sky easier to see
US federal boffins, in charge of archiving colossal streams of data from automated sky-scanning telescopes around the world, are pleased to announce their new "Project Deep Sky" astro data cloud portal thing.
HP pitches Cloud Assure at corporate world
Hewlett-Packard announced a cloud computing service aimed at large businesses yesterday.
Bloggers could squeak out of court reporting restrictions
Bloggers might be able to escape reporting restrictions on sensitive court cases because they have not been informed of the restrictions. An ongoing case about a boy said to have fathered a child at 12 years of age has highlighted the issue.
Silicon Graphics goes titsup (again)
Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI), the perma-struggling workstation-turned-server-maker, filed for bankruptcy protection today, and was immediately bought by Rackable Systems for $25m cash.
Moderatrix quits El Reg: Latest
April FoolWell, you've really outdone yourselves this time, haven't you? Earlier today, your comments to this sensitively-handled piece on the sad case of the Florida satnav lake incident prompted our Moderatrix, Sarah Bee, to quit her job at Vulture Central.
MS punts stripped down Windows Server 2008 at tiny SMBs
Microsoft has today released a new server product from its Windows 2008 family, aimed at small, cash-strapped businesses that have so far shunned the software giant's current Small Business Server (SBS) offering.
Space launches could be capped to save ozone layer
American researchers have warned that space rockets could do more damage to the ozone layer than old-school spray-cans and fridges.
UltraDNS back online after DDoS assault
A distributed denial of service attack knocked NeuStar's UltraDNS managed DNS service offline for several hours on Tuesday.
Boffins sound super-thin speaker revolution
A super-thin OLED display looks pretty daft if you pair it with a set of bulky speakers, so British boffins have designed a thin and flexible speaker.
Verizon clocks on at the widget factory
Verizon has signed up to the Joint Innovation Lab set up by Vodafone and China Mobile last year, pushing the (potential) customer base for the as-yet unpublished mobile-widget standard to over one billion.
BBC Trust moots new licence laws to cope with net
The government is likely to change TV licensing laws to address the increasing number of viewers who choose to watch only via the internet, according to the BBC Trust.
EMC VP breaks company's own embargo
EMC VP Andrew Cohen seems to have broken an EMC embargo about a forthcoming eDiscovery product.
HTC unveils BlackBerry-style smartphone
HTC has officially launched its latest Blackberry-esque handset – Snap, which features a design strikingly similar to that of an HTC phone details of which leaked last month.
Yahoo! engineer in murder-suicide riddle
A father suspected of murdering five members of his family before killing himself has been identified as a Yahoo! engineer.
Who is going to run IBM?
There is a tradition, but certainly not a rule, that the person running IBM retires at 60. In years gone by, as one chairman and chief executive was getting ready to retire, an up-and-coming executive from the direct reports to the CEO has been tapped to be president, and thereby anointed next CEO.
Acer Nvidia Ion-based nettop revealed on web
Acer is prepping a nettop system based on Nvidia's Ion platform, according to Taiwanese reports.
Reg Hardware's April Fool's Day round-up
So April Fool's Day is upon us once more and the web's full of stories about talking fish, invisible cars and a fruit that sits somewhere between a banana and a pineapple (thanks, Waitrose).
Yahoo! stacks big, purple mobile pack
Yahoo! launched a new version of its mobile page today, stacking nearly every Yahoo! service along with other popular web utilities into a tall drink of web portal.
Shuttleworth: standards and open source against 'gross' cloud lock-in
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has advocated open-source and industry standards as a way to prevent vendor lock-in in the nebulous cloud computing market.
Architect of Google's YouTube deal exits Facebook
Facebook chief financial officer Gideon Yu has left the fast-rising social-networking phenomenon after just 20 months and as it prepares to go public.
Twitter jilts Ruby for Scala
Web 2.0 ExpoFamously, when Twitter's Web2.0rhea app was suddenly embraced by digerati+dog in late 2007, its original Ruby on Rails architecture had more than a little trouble keeping up the endless stream of digital solipsism.
Microsoft Office opening for iPhone
iPhone users will soon be able to view, edit, and share Microsoft Word and Excel files on their Jesus Phones.
SEC sticks up Grand Theft Auto maker for $3m
Take-Two Interactive, publisher of the Grand Theft Auto video game series, has agreed to pay US regulators $3m to settle a lawsuit over illegally backdating employee stock options.
Cybersecurity law would give feds unprecedented net control
US senators have drafted legislation that would give the federal government unprecedented authority over the nation's critical infrastructure, including the power to shut down or limit traffic on private networks during emergencies.
SGI's Rackable's future supercomputers
CommentThe Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing by beleaguered supercomputer-maker Silicon Graphics and the acquisition of most of SGI's assets by Rackable Systems for $25m in cash may lay to rest any questions about the future of shared-memory, Itanium-based supercomputers.
Texas senator wants to ban Vista purchases
Windows Vista gets a lot of grief both in tech circles and the general public — but one Texas lawmaker wants to make it a matter of public policy.
Fedora 11 beta bares chest to all-comers
The Fedora Project has announced Fedora 11, code-named Leonidas, has been moved to beta and is ready for a tire kicking before it tries to take on the massed ranks of freebie Linuxes, commercial Linuxes, Unix, Windows, and other proprietary operating systems out there.


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I like this book because it reminds me about me when I couldn't make the shot. I like the part when Michael wants to be taller. My favorite part is when Michael's mother hugs him.
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