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On "As Adam Early in the Morning"
M. Jimmie Killingsworth
The speakers encouraging disposition . . . seems addressed to a female audience of unwilling participants in sexual activity: "Touch me," commands the Adamic figure in ["As Adam Early in the Morning"], "touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, / Be not afraid of my body." The appeal has shifted significantly since 1855, when the poet urged women and men to accept their own bodies and to find in that acceptance an avenue by which to admit others into communion with them. In ["As Adam"], the rhetoric pleads for an acceptance of the male body and of the poets "body," his poemswhich, moreover, must stand on their own merits, not on their identification with the needs of the reader, here defined not by a sympathetic union with the speaker but on the basis of a difference from the speaker. The poet seems able no longer to assert confidently that "every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."
from Whitmans Poetry of the Body (U of North Carolina P, 1989), 113-114.
Tenney Nathanson
[The] de facto conflation of voice with silent presence in the very passages that draw out attention to the supposed difference between them is responsible for some of our more spectacularly sublime encounters with the poet. . . . "As Adam Early in the Morning" provokes a shiver by commanding us to look on and touch a body we cannot see or get hold of. . . . Here body and voice are metonymically associated but also explicitly distinguished. Yet the body we are directed to behold and touch is present only in the accents of these words; in this uncanny moment we put our hands, as it were, to a voice, registering the magical presence voice implies.
from Whitmans Presence (New York UP, 1992), 152.
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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Administrative Committee has issued the following pastoral reflection in solidarity with those who have been forced to flee their homes due to violence, conflict, or fear in their native lands. In the statement, the bishops encourage each of us to do what we can to accompany migrants and refugees who seek a better life in the United States.
The full text of the Bishops' Administrative Committee statement can be found below:
The word of God is truly alive today. "When an alien resides with you in your land, do not mistreat such a one. You shall treat the alien who resides with you no differently than the natives born among you; you shall love the alien as yourself; for you too were once aliens in the land of Egypt" (Lev. 19:33-34).
To live as a people of God is to live in the hope of the resurrection. To live in Christ is to draw upon the limitless love of Jesus to fortify us against the temptation of fear. Pray that our engagement in the debate over immigration and refugee issues may bring peace and comfort to those most affected by current and proposed national policy changes.
Let us not lose sight of the fact that behind every policy is the story of a person in search of a better life. They may be an immigrant or refugee family sacrificing so that their children might have a brighter future. As shepherds of a pilgrim Church, we will not tire in saying to families who have the courage to set out from their despair onto the road of hope: "We are with you." They may also be a family seeking security from an increased threat of extremist violence. It is necessary to safeguard the United States in a manner that does not cause us to lose our humanity.
Intense debate is essential to healthy democracy, but the rhetoric of fear does not serve us well. When we look at one another do we see the heart of Jesus? Within our diverse backgrounds are found common dreams for our children. Hope in the next generation is how the nation will realize its founding motto, "out of many, one." In doing so, we will also realize God's hope for all His children: that we would see each other as valued sisters and brothers regardless of race, religion, or national origin.
Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh (Jn. 1:14), strengthens us to bring our words to life. How might we, as Catholics and in our own small way, bring our words of solidarity for migrants and refugees to life?
for an end to the root causes of violent hatred that force mothers and fathers to flee the only home they may have known in search of economic and physical security for their children.
with memebers of your parish who are newcomers, listen to their story and share your own. Hundreds of Catholic parishes across the country have programs for immigrants and refugees both to comfort them and to help them know their rights. It is also important to reach out in loving dialogue to those who may disagree with us. The more we come to understand ech other's concerns the better we can serve one another. Together, we are one body in Christ.
, write or visit your elected representative and ask them to fix our broken immigration system in a way that safeguards both our security and our humanity through a generous opportunity for legal immigration.
As Pope Francis said, "To migrate is the expression of that inherent desire for the happiness proper to every human being, a happiness that is to be sought and pursued. For us Christians, all human life is an itinerant journey towards our heavenly homeland."

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Enloe Magnet High seniors Arjun Bhattacharya and Karthik Ardhanareeswaran have been named regional semi-finalists in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology. The nation's leading original research competition in math, science and technology for high school students, the Siemens Competition is administered annually by the College Board, and awards college scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $100,000 in individual and team categories. A record number of 1,372 projects were received this year for the Siemens Competition. Bhattacharya and Ardhanareeswaran will present their work at the regional competition at Georgia Tech on November 12 and 13.
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Part of the fun of being a consulting engineer is never knowing what adventure the next phone call will bring. The past year has brought me a variety of assignments, from wind farm substations to life-extension investigations of HVDC converter stations, but none of that prepared me for a call from Rick Bush. It was another of his famous "pack your bags" announcements.
The last time this type of request came, I found myself in the middle of the restoration effort for Hurricane Ike in south Texas. Don't get me wrong, that trip was very rewarding, but it was also extremely challenging.
This time the fickle finger of fate was extremely kind. As T&D World's technical writer, Rick wanted me to head off to Europe and explore the latest developments in HVDC technology. I have been involved with HVDC for more than 30 years, including serving as the chairman of the IEEE PES HVDC & FACTS subcommittee and building a back-to-back converter station, so this seemed like a natural assignment for me to tackle.
Like many assignments, this one evolved from a series of previous assignments. A few years ago, Rick and I started exploring the subject of renewable energy, which produced a supplement about connecting renewables to the grid (March 2009). We had no idea how this subject would lead us into so many other areas of technologies that seemed unrelated at first glance.
The renewables supplement pointed out that wind and solar generation needed some form of energy storage, which we shared in a second supplement on energy storage (August 2009). This led to a third supplement. Someone had the idea that if a wind farm was geographically huge, the wind had to be blowing somewhere along the array, which would make the resource more dependable (March 2011).
This spawned the latest supplement. Enormously large wind farms are remote, but bringing their power to the load centers is a huge challenge, which has attracted a great deal of attention in the new "old" technology of HVDC.
I say it is a new "old" technology because it has been part of the electric utility industry for an extremely long time. The first modern HVDC transmission link dates back to 1954 with ASEA's connection between the Swedish mainland and Gotland Island. Strangely, there are many unaware of the role HVDC technology has been playing in our industry.
Where once it was thought of as a niche market, HVDC has become a major integrated part of the grid. Granted, in some parts of the world it is playing a lesser role than in other parts, but that is changing. As engineers understand the technology better, they find applications that will improve their systems. And that is why I traveled to the epicenter of HVDC activity — Europe — to see what is happening.
Wow, What an Opportunity
My trip stared out in Zurich then moved on to Sweden, which was followed by a stop in Tallinn, Estonia. I finally said auf wiedersehen to Europe when I hit Germany. In a week, I had covered way too miles and spent every night in a different hotel, but I touched the pulse of the technology.
The result of this hectic pace was a series of meetings with engineers, scientists and executives — all HVDC experts. You might say it was a deep immersion into a multifaceted subject. To borrow from a favorite poem: Thyristors to the left of me, multiple-level converters to the right of me, dc circuit breakers in front of me, dc simulation center behind me.
In my mind, it was the equivalent of being sent to an HVDC Disneyland, which way over stimulated the nerd HVDC engineer in me.
The Human Touch
I can't think of a better way to spend an afternoon than sitting with the manager of an R&D department discussing the future direction of HVDC technology over endless cups of coffee. Unless, of course, it is being able to travel from city to city, meeting the folks responsible for manufacturing equipment, designing converter stations and seeing actual HVDC facilities.
My trip made it possible for me to meet the people behind so much of the development taking place in this mind-blowing technology. It was great seeing and touching the hardware, but talking with the people responsible for R&D defined the human interface of the technological challenge.
It also pointed out the differences in global philosophies. There are places in this world where their attitude places no limits on HVDC applications. As a result there are ±800-kV systems with ±1,100-kV and ±1,200-kV UHVDC in development. Others see HVDC as a technology that will allow a more stable grid and access to remote renewables. Some approach HVDC as a niche market of limited capability, and they are waiting for the technology to develop. It all depends on your perspective and knowledge.
As it turned out, this trip was reminiscence of Hurricane Ike: challenging and rewarding. It also reminded me of the movie If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. I can't wait for that next phone call: Where will it send me? What will I learn? Who will I meet? The adventure continues.


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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
My New Favorite "Chinoiserie" Bed
Although technically speaking its not faux bamboo, it's close enough for me. This is the Diego Bed from Oly Studio. They describe it as a textured rustic spindle design. I know lots of you love upholstered headboards and this bed combines the best of both worlds - an iron canopy frame and upholstered headboard available in lots of fabrics. You can even send your own fabric. It is also available in a bench, coffee table, and console table. If you haven't entered my giveaway yet, you can do so my leaving a comment on my giveaway post here.
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- Julie Taylor and Danni Greenwalt said...
Love this bed!
- May 8, 2012 at 6:24 PM
- Gretchen said...
I have wanted this bed for years. And then, you showed us that Lilly Pulitzer bed. Decisions, decisions....both are completely fabulous!
- May 8, 2012 at 7:54 PM
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Education Advocates Stand Up for Sound Science in Texas
Watchdogs, Business and Academic Leaders Call on Texas State Board of Education to Adopt Instructional Materials Based on Sound Science, Not Ideology
July 21, 2011
State and national organizations joined business leaders and scholars today in calling on the Texas State Board of Education to adopt new instructional materials that don't dumb down science education in Texas public schools.
Texas Freedom Network President Kathy Miller urged the State Board of Education to reject the adoption of any instructional materials promoting "intelligent design"/creationism, such as those proposed by New Mexico-based International Databases. The board also must not pressure other publishers into watering down instruction on mainstream evolutionary science in the materials they have submitted for adoption.
"Texas parents want teachers and scholars, not politicians promoting personal agendas, making decisions about what our kids learn in their public school classrooms," Miller said. "And teachers and scholars are virtually unanimous in insisting that students learn sound science that prepares them to succeed in college and a 21st-century economy."
The adoption of instructional materials that reject well-established evolutionary science would put Texas far outside the educational mainstream, said Josh Rosenau, director of programs and policy for the National Center for Science Education.
"No state has adopted creationist materials for science classes, and Texas should not be the first to do so," Rosenau said. "In fact, failing to teach students sound evolutionary science would put public education in Texas far outside the national mainstream."
Promoting anti-evolution arguments in Texas public schools would also make it harder to attract the nation's top scientists and businesses to the state, said Austin businessman and entrepreneur Matt Winkler.
"Over the last 20 years I have had the opportunity to recruit a large number of scientists to Texas," said Winkler, CEO of Asuragen and chairman of Mirna Therapeutics. "Not infrequently, I get questions about the quality of science education that their children might get if they accept a job with me and move to Texas. It is hard enough trying to improve cancer treatment and create great companies without having to worry about counteracting negative impressions about our school systems while trying to recruit first-rate employees."
Prof. Ron Wetherington, director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, warned that dumbing down evolutionary science in public schools would make it harder for Texas students to succeed in college.
"When the state board debates and votes on these proposed instructional materials, we will hold them to the test of good science," Wetherington said. "We are hopeful that this board will support responsible education and prevent ideologues from trying to force junk science into our classrooms."
The Texas Freedom Network is a nonpartisan education and religious liberties watchdog based in Austin. Founded in 1995, the grassroots organization of religious and community leaders supports public education, religious freedom and individual liberties.


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The last true RE game was Code Veronica.
Its so obviously focused on co-op that it barely feels like I should be playing this solo
Quote from: Lard on September 27, 2012, 07:26:59 PMThe last true RE game was Code Veronica.Didn't most people became tired of the old style of gameplay with Code Veronica?Also, what about Revelations for the 3DS? That was suppose to be a mix of the old and new in one game. Some fans were pretty happy with it.
Okay, those 32-bit costumes are the shit.
Well, the reviews are all over the place. Guessing this is going to be the most divisive game of the year.


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Sunday, 24 October 2010
Something A Little Different
I have been informed by my "Quality Control" person (ie - Dear Husband) that I should be quilting because that is what I had planned on doing today ... so I guess I am off to do that now instead of playing on the computer.
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Love the fill-in you did on Huggins on the last photo - very cool.ReplyDelete
Love all of these, Jane. The last one with the filled in border really gives the tangle such depth inside a puffed up looking border-fantastic!ReplyDelete
I wonder what your quality controler was supposed to be doing...ReplyDelete
<3 terri
I must tell you that my Quality Controller was installing the new kitchen benches that he made last week - some nice Tasmanian oak ... that was the problem - he was working and I was skyving off - lol!ReplyDelete
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Port Harcourt first son Duncan Mighty has announced his fifth studio album tentatively titled Certificate, which is set to drop on the 16th of this month and today, he releases the official album cover and 19 tracklist which features only two artistes Timaya and veteran rapper Double Jay. Check the entire tracklist out below and look out for the album.
- The Certificate
- Hataz
- Tinubu
- Killing Me Softly
- Owu Featuring Timaya
- Kpor For Your Love
- Onyinye
- All Belongs To You
- Finish Work
- Oburukwelem Oma
- Na Lie
- Port Harcourt Girl
- DJ's Anthem
- In Love Wif My Girl
- Give Him Praise
- Kpalele For Me Featuring Double Jay
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Sunday, April 10, 2011
libyan fiction writers in the international spotlight
Libyan writers raise their profile
Susannah Tarbush
[Saudi Gazette 10 April 2011]
The ongoing crisis in Libya is leading to an upsurge of international interest in various facets of Libya, including its literature. This has prompted the London Book Fair (LBF) which opens tomorrow to add to its program at short notice a seminar entitled The Hidden Face of Libyan Fiction, scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.
The five Libyan writers participating in the seminar will "talk about the unknown Libyan novels, short stories and literary life in Libya, and open a discussion on the ongoing struggle for freedom in their country." Four of the writers – Ghazi Gheblawi, Hisham Matar, Giuma Bukleb and Mohamed Mesrati – live in the UK. The fifth, Wafa Al-Bueissa, settled in the Netherlands after leaving Libya amidst controversy over her debut novel "Hunger has Other Faces".
Chair of the seminar is Iraqi writer Samuel Shimon, editor of Banipal, the London-based magazine of modern Arab literature. By what Shimon terms an "amazing coincidence", at the very time the uprising in Libya is raging Banipal has produced its first-ever special feature on Libyan fiction. The major feature takes up 135 pages of the 224-page 40th issue of Banipal. It showcases fiction by 17 Libyan authors including the five who are taking part in the LBF seminar.
Banipal issue 40 had been planned long before there was a whiff of revolution in the Libyan air. Shimon writes that he met by chance the veteran Libyan writer Ali Mustafa al-Musrati at the Greek Club in Cairo in 2007. Shimon told the writer how saddened he was by the neglect of Libyan literature in the Arab world and in the West. "I promised him that Banipal would publish a special feature on the wonderful literature of Libya. How happy we are to fulfill this promise at this time in particular…"
Banipal 40 includes a profile of al-Musrati (now 85) written by Banipal's publisher Margaret Obank. Al-Musrati's stories draw on the oral storytelling tradition, and are characterized by humor and biting satire. A marked vein of humor also runs through a number of the short stories and novel extracts by other authors in Banipal's Libyan special feature. Satire can be a potent weapon in a culture in which freedom of expression was curbed for much of the periods since the early 20th century by the Italian occupation and then dictatorship.
The special feature has two introductory essays. The first, on the short story, is by Libyan short-story writer and translator Omar Abulqasim Alkikli [pictured]. It is followed by the thoughts of short-story writer and literary editor Ibrahim Ahmidan on the Libyan novel.
Alkikli refers to the toll the Gaddafi regime has taken on writers. The short story has been "the strongest manifestation of the Libyan literary movement", but in the 1980s "the presence of the short story was greatly reduced as a result of the arrests of young authors and intellectuals that had been taking place since the mid-1970s".
Three short-story writers were among those detained: Abdelsalam Shihab, who stopped writing during his imprisonment, Giuma Bukleh, who only resumed his literary career some 20 years after his release, and Omar Abulqasim Alkikli himself. Alkikli spent 10 years as a political prisoner before being released in 1988 with other jailed Libyan writers.
A number of other authors, though not imprisoned, stopped writing. The short story was revived in the 1990s with the gradual release of political prisoners, and the provision of the "lowest possible level of freedom of expression". In addition to Alkikli's essay, there are two of his short stories in Banipal 40 translated by Elliott Colla, Chair of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. The fine story "Leap" expresses a longing for freedom as experienced by a fenced-in horse.
Ibrahim Ahmidan [pictured] observes that with the short story and poetry for long the dominant literary forms in Libya, the Libyan novel took time to emerge. Trailblazers such as Ibrahim al-Koni, Ahmed Fagih and Saleh Snoussi helped develop the Arabic novel. Since the 1990s a stream of novels has appeared, including outstanding contributions from women such as Najwa Binshatwan, Wafa al-Bueissa and Razan Naim Moghrabi. Ahmidan writes: "We seem to be on the verge of a change that will push the novel to the forefront of the Libyan cultural scene…"
The 17 authors in Banipal 40 are varied in terms of their background, age and location. All but one write in Arabic and appear in Banipal in translation. The exception is Hisham Matar who writes in English. Banipal 40 reproduces the first few pages of his much-praised second novel "The Anatomy of a Disappearance", published in early March by the Penguin imprint Viking.
The Libya special feature has a substantial section on the novelist Ibrahim al-Koni, born in 1948, whose Tuareg background is central to his highly original desert novels. Al-Koni lives in Switzerland and is the author of over 50 works. The extract, "The Winged People", from his novel "New Waw" is a striking lyrical piece of writing that meditates on bird song and draws parallels between birds and tribes in the desert.
There is a review by Peter Clark of al-Koni's novel "The Puppet". In addition, Elliott Colla writes on his experiences of translating al-Koni's novel "Gold Dust". Colla writes: "It is hard not to be caught up in the beauty of Ibrahim al-Koni's writing."
Al-Koni's works have become increasingly available in English translation in recent years. And as a further sign of the intense interest in his novels, Georgetown's Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies is from 28 to 29 April hosting 'Tents in the Desert: A Colloquium on the Literary Imagination of Ibrahim al-Koni'. The symposium includes public readings by al-Koni himself, and presentations by translators and critics from the Arab world, Europe and North American.
Ahmed Fagih is represented in Banipal 40 through his vividly-realized short story "Lobsters" subtitled "In praise of lobsters and in mockery of men". The story is rooted in an incident in which Jean-Paul Sartre took the hallucinogenic drug mescaline and suffered waking nightmares of crustaceans. In Fagih's story a solemn Beirut philosophy teacher who wants to be like Sartre in every way tries but fails through the use of mescaline to replicate Sartre's experience of crustacean hallucinations. Ultimately he succeeds all too well and is driven mad by battalions of lobsters.
Some of the 17 writers achieved recognition in the first decade of this century. Razan Naim Moghrabi is a prolific writer of short stories and novels, and nine of her works have been published since 2000. Her novel "Women of the Wind" was longlisted for the 2011 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF).
In the extract from "Women of the Wind" the Moroccan central character Bahija, who works in Tripoli, is hoping to arrange her passage to Europe through people smugglers. She talks to an Iraqi woman friend to find out all she can about the people-smuggling business.
Najwa Binshatwan [pictured], a lecturer at Garyounis University, is a poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer. She was one of the Beirut39 authors chosen from across the Arab world by a panel of judges, whose work is compiled in the anthology "Beirut39".
Binshatwan's satirical short story "His Excellency the Eminence of the Void" takes aim at the regime's system of patronage through a retired colonel. He dictates via his wife's niece a petition to the Commander-in-Chief and Supreme Leader complaining that he has not been rewarded with the privileges of his former military colleagues.
In the extract from Wafa al-Bueissa's debut novel "Hunger has Other Faces" a girl who is 15 but pretends to be older, falls in with a Turkish Cypriot man in Alexandria and embarks on "a phase of enjoyable delinquency". In Azza Kamil al-Maghour's story "The Bicycle" young girls liberate themselves by learning to ride bikes like boys.
Some of the authors write from the perspective of Libyans living in Europe. The youngest of the 17 writers Mohammed Mesrati [pictured], who is 21 this year, is represented through an extract from his novel-in-progress "Mama Pizza". Mesrati gives an energetic, amusing account of a Libyan door-to-door menu delivery man in the English town of Runcorn, and his bearded, expansive mentor Ali Guevara.
The writer and award-winning blogger Ghazi Gheblawi [pictured] works as a medical doctor in London. In 2006 he founded the Arabic Imtidad Cultural Podcast. His short story "A Rosy Dream" is narrated in a direct, informal style by a young Libyan man travelling back to Libya from Paris via Malta in the days when travel restrictions on Libya were still in force. The story has a melancholy humor.
Two short stories by Giuma Bukleb are set in London, where Bukleb has lived since 1988. He brings a touch of exoticism to the city with "Tarzan of Palmers Green" and "The Good Woman of Turnpike Lane".
The poet and short-story writer Omar el-Kiddi lives in the Netherlands. His warm, funny, well-constructed short story "The wonderful short life of the dog Ramadan" tells of a Libyan dog adopted by a Dutch woman and is taken to the Netherlands. From writer and painter Redwan Abushwesha there are five short tales, Borgesian in character, set in different countries and dedicated to different friends.
Some of the pieces in the Libyan special feature are set in the Libyan countryside. From Mohammed al-Asfar there is the delicately-written short story "The Hoopoe", actually a chapter of his novel "Sharmoulah". Mohammed al-Arishiya's story "The Snake Catcher" resembles a folk tale.
Banipal will continue with the theme of Libyan literature in its next issue when it publishes work by Libyan poets including Salem al-Okaly, Abdelwahab Gringo and Sakeh Qaderbouh. The fate of the Libyan revolution is still uncertain, but whatever its outcome it looks as if 2011 will be a year in which the country's literature comes out of the shadows in terms of international exposure.
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Mission Statement
The Kittery Water District recognizes that water and watersheds must be preserved, conserved and protected; that an adequate supply of clean water is a basic human right; that water is a public trust, to be guarded by all levels of government acting as an equal partner with the public; and that the best advocates for water are local communities and citizens.
2017 Drinking Water Quality Report
The 19th annual water quality report to all customers is in accordance with the 1996 Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) and provides general information regarding District activities. During 2016, drinking water produced by the Kittery Water District (KWD), met or exceeded all federal and state health safety requirements.


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Current News
The Ypsilanti Police Department would like to inform the residents of the City of Ypsilanti of the recent Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scams that have been occurring throughout the State of Michigan and the nation.
There are reports of aggressive phone calls being made to residents by criminals impersonating IRS agents. These impersonators may threaten you with arrest or court action unless you send them money, usually through some sort of pre-paid debit card or wire transfer. These callers have also been known to leave an urgent call back request through robo calls or a phishing email. The IRS doesn't initiate contact with taxpayers by email, text messages or social media channels to request personal or financial information.
- Demand immediate payment and specifically request a type of payment such as cash or a pre-paid debit or credit card.
- Demand payment without giving you an opportunity to question or appeal the amount you owe.
- Ask for any personal information over the phone such as social security number, credit or debit cards numbers over the phone.
- DO NOT give out any personal information. Hang up.
- Contact the U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) at www.tigta.gov or 800-366-4484.
- Contact the Federal Trade Commission at www.FTC.gov. Please reference "IRS Telephone Scam" in the comments in your complaint.


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For KISS races to run smoothly (for both the racers and organisers) certain rules need to be adhered to, they are outlined in this document. If something is unclear the KISS organisers absolutely reserve the right to determine the outcome in a manner that is both fair and in their opinion in the KISS or Zwift communities' interest.
Rules (v1.0)
Rider naming convention to be used
Your rider name and Strava activity MUST contain the following:
First Name Last Name [Team Name] Race Tag (Category) e.g. John Smith [Best Team] KISS (B)
Your Strava activity save name Must contain Race Tag (Category) e.g. Zwift London – KISS (B)
YOUR IN GAME NAME: Please add KISS and your CAT. to the end of your name. Click edit profile on your dashboard: https://my.zwift.com/dashboard or via the Zwift Mobile App
YOUR NAME KISS (X) where X = category (see below)
You will not feature in the results if you fail to do this.
Can I race without a Heart Rate Monitor (HRM)
For all KISS races a HRM is required for CAT A racers to qualify for race position.
All other categories do not require a HRM.
Your category selection
Find your FTP by using one of the FTP tests on zwift to give you a figure in WATTS. Divide by your weight in kg then pick the correct CAT. below:
CAT A: 4.0 W/kg FTP or higher. Performance over 5W/kg?
CAT B: 3.2 W/kg to 3.99 W/kg FTP
CAT C: 2.5 W/kg to 3.19 W/kg FTP
CAT D: Under 2.49 W/kg FTP
The zPower Rule
zPower racers with avg. W/kg over the duration of the race of greater than 3.99W/kg will not be eligible for CAT or Race Wins. Cat A racers are required to wear a heart rate monitor.
Racers producing over 5w/kg average will be disqualified. They can be reinstated if close real life power meter verified performances can be provided.
Performance over 5W/kg
If requested to do so you are expected to send KISS your .fit file for your Zwift race and also a real life ride .fit file that you consider to be representative to the KISS organisers for comparison. Failure to provide appropriate .fit files will results in automatic disqualification from the event in question and possibly ongoing disqualification. In the event that you fail verification then we will assign an appropriate handicap so that you may continue racing. Failing to ride with this handicap will results in an automatic Disqualification. This handicap may be subject to future revision.
Race Handicap
If racers cannot produce real life efforts matching efforts on Zwift if they exceed the 5W/kg rule they will be eligible to race if they agree to adopt a handicap determined by the KISS organisers or their designated performance assessor.
Different types of KISS Races
- Road Race
Join the event either using the Zwift Mobile App or when logging in. When you join the event you will find yourself in the starting pen. The countdown tells you when the race will start.
DURATION: Road races vary in length and duration; see the event listing for further details
POWER UPs: Allowed at all times
BIKES: All allowed
- iTT (individual Time Trial)
Mass start individual time trial. Join the event either using the Zwift Mobile App or when logging in. When you join the event you will find yourself in the starting pen. The countdown tells you when the race will start.
DURATION: iTT will typically be either 10 miles or 25 miles in distance
POWER UPs: Not permitted or possible
BIKES: Only TT bikes are permitted. Riders on road bikes will automatically be disqualified.
- TTT (Team Time Trial)
Due to current limitations within the event module the TTT
DURATION: TTT will be of variable distance depending on course
POWER UPs: At all times
BIKES: Only road bikes are permitted
You do not need to be a member of a Zwift Team to compete. If there are 4 unaffiliated racers that want to club together then this is OK.
The category you enter must be the same as your highest category participant. For example if you have 3 B racers and 1 A your category is A.
Teams of 3 or 4 racers. Finish time will be taken from 3rd rider to cross the finish line.
Start times will be published a few days before the event
It is essential you leave at your alloted time. You have 60 seconds to cross the start finish line.
The clock starts ticking from the 1st rider to cross the line and stops on the 3rd rider. This is the same for 3 or 4 man teams. Rolling start is permitted and indeed recommended.
All racers must have KISS (X) in their name where X is your team category. Usual KISS category rules apply. You can have mixed category teams but you will be entered in to the category with your highest categorised rider. So a team with 3 B racers and 1 A will be racing in A category.
- KISS Chase
Similar to the Australian Pursuit Race or APR. Also known as fox and hounds.
KISS Chase is a handicap race in which groups of racers set off at intervals with the intention each group seeks to chase down the group in front and all groups come together at the finish for the strongest racer to win.
Racers need to pre-register and have ridden the course PRIOR to the event and they will be allocated to the appropriate group. Non registered racers and those entering the incorrect group will be disqualified.
DURATION: KISS Chase like the road race will vary in length and duration; see the event listing for further details
POWER UPs: Allowed at all times
BIKES: All allowed


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Lending good books to friends or, at the very least, recommending them.
(Recommending bad books to enemies also counts.)
Dedicating yourself to one book at a time, and refusing to so much as touch another until it reaches the end of its natural life-span (AKA for as long as it takes you to read it).
(When do you ever do this?)
Did I say that I did this? Did I? Did I? Where did I say that I did this? Can you point it out to me? Huh? Didn't think so. I'll see you in court, malicious voice that lives in my head.
(Objection! You don't have a case.)
How can you even say that when you don't know how much I'm willing to pay for a lawyer?
Seeing a book through to the end in one sitting.
Never admitting how many books you can read in a weekend.
(Unless you want to make the peasants jealous.)
Thank you Ivy for demonstrating exactly what humility isn't.
(You're welcome.)
Keeping spoilers to yourself. Especially those of the heart-breaking variety.
Refraining from attacking authors online just because they took THEIR work in a direction that you didn't like. Killing characters can be necessary, breaking the fellowship can advance the plot, and nobody ever sets out to jump the shark. Remember that writers are people too. Have some manners. Show some empathy.
Waiting for the next book in the series to be released.
How many of these virtues do you have? Would you have defined any of them differently?


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I get a lot of shake questions. More so, in fact, than about any other product I sell. So I've devoted this FAQ blog to answering your top questions. I will continue to revise this page and update answers to your questions. If you don't see your answer here, please leave your question below.
General Questions About Shakes
What's the difference between the Paleo-Inspired and Plant-Based Shake?
The main difference is its protein source. Each serving of the Paleo-Inspired All-In-One Shake contains 21 grams of high-quality defatted-beef protein and comes in chocolate or vanilla flavors. All-In-One Plant-Based Shake is our original formula contains 22 grams of a proprietary blend of pea, chia, and chlorella proteins along with nutrients, antioxidants, fiber, enzymes, and a proprietary fruit/veggie formula. It comes in chocolate, vanilla, or chia and has the same great taste you've grown to love.
Why did you opt for the new formula in addition to the plant-based shakes?
Some folks asked for another alternative to the plant-based shakes. A few wanted the benefits of animal-derived protein, while others didn't like the texture of plant-based protein. I finally found a dairy-free animal-based protein powder that tastes amazing and gets The Virgin Diet stamp of approval. Derived from defatted beef from animals raised in Sweden without hormones or antibiotics, All-In-One Shake delivers 20 grams of dairy-free, GMO-free, high-quality protein per serving. Its exclusive proprietary process allows the protein to be hydrolyzed into more peptides, resulting in easier absorption and assimilation. But the taste really won me over. All-In-One Shake has a rich, creamy texture like whey but without dairy's reactivity. Tasting is believing, and I know you're going to love it.
Are All-in-One Shakes acceptable for all cycles of The Sugar Impact Diet?
Yes. You can use the shakes in cycles 1, 2, and 3.
Why do you call them "All in One" Shakes when you recommend adding kale, berries, fiber, and other things?
I designed All-in-One Shakes to have all the essentials you need for a fast, healthy, nutrient-rich breakfast or any other time of the day you enjoy them. Each shake packs 20+ grams of high-quality protein, healthy fats, 5 – 6 grams of fiber, vitamins and minerals, a proprietary fruit and veggie blend, digestive enzymes, and probiotics. Theoretically, you could combine the powder with water and have a complete balanced "meal."
That said, a little variety can spark up the shakes, give them flavor (they already taste great!), and also add more nutrients. Berries, for instance, provide antioxidants and added fiber. Flax and chia sees give you extra fiber and omega 3 fatty acids. Unsweetened coconut milk gives you fat-burning medium chain triglycerides (MCTs). And kale is a super-nutrient packed with vitamins, minerals, and fiber.
All the essentials are already in the All-in-One Shakes, and customizing them with "add ons" can provide an additional nutrient punch, more calories to sustain you longer, and added flavor.
I have a recipe that calls for protein powder. Is this interchangeable with your All-in-One Shakes?
What are the natural flavors in your shakes?
These flavors are proprietary and these suppliers do not give out that information. Shake manufacturers only get allergen statements and none of the top 8 allergens are in the shakes. There is also no MSG, artificial dyes, and sweeteners in the shakes.
Should I be concerned about the glutamate in your shakes?
No. Glutamate is a naturally occurring amino acid in most protein sources.
Is there any MSG in your shakes?
No. Although MSG can be formed if the hydrolyzed process uses acid or alkaline chemicals (which many dairy proteins do), our manufacturers do not use any chemicals and comes from a natural process that contains no MSG.
I am on Coumadin. Will the vitamin K in your All-in-One Shake be a problem for me?
There is no added vitamin K in either the plant-based or Paleo-inspired shakes. There may be trace levels in certain ingredients such as pea protein and cocoa, but nothing to become concerned about. If this is a medical concern, please review with your practitioner.
Does the chai flavor have caffeine?
Vanilla has no caffeine. Chocolate and chai flavors have trivial amounts of caffeine that should not be a problem for most people.
Is the chai sprouted?
No. It is CO2-extracted and then milled into a flour.
Is hexane used to get the pea protein isolate?
I heard that chia seeds can exacerbate leaky gut. So why are you recommended them in your shakes?
I love chia seeds because they are a great source of fiber, protein, omega-3 fatty acids, and nutrients. 1 study showed 50 grams of chia seeds a day for 12 weeks could increase gut inflammation. Keep in mind 50 grams is far more than the 1/2 tablespoon – 1 tablespoon we recommend in the shakes. In that amount, they shouldn't be a problem.
We strongly recommend rotating your sources of fiber in the All-in-One Shakes. I choose among flax seeds, chia seeds, and Extra Fiber.
I'm not a fan of flax or chia seeds in my shake. How else can I get fiber?
My favorite fiber supplement that I helped custom design is Extra Fiber.
Don't forget too that berries and leafy greens contribute to your fiber intake. 1 cup of raspberries, for instance, contains 8 grams of fiber.
You recommend a blender to mix the All-in-One Shakes. But how can I get a blender into my office?
I don't travel anywhere without my Nutribullet blender. It's got all of a blender's effectiveness but with the compactness of a shaker cup. Make sure you get the largest cup attachment that Nutribullet sells. Put the ingredients in little baggies, carry the So Delicious Unsweetened Coconut Milk individual packs, and you're good to go to make a shake anywhere.
Another option is Blender Bottle, which has a cool metal ball that ensures smooth, consistent mixing. It won't blend like the Nutribullet does, but it makes a great option when you're traveling and not near an electrical outlet.
I'm confused. Is 1 serving of your Virgin Diet Shake 1 or 2 scoops?
2 scoops is 1 serving.
Any way to make the taste of the All-in-One Shakes more appealing?
Taste is unique and subjective. If you eat a low-sugar impact diet, the shakes might taste a little sweet at first. Likewise, if you're going off high-sugar impact foods, they may not taste sweet enough.
Most people have raved about the shakes. We have had a few people, though, ask us how we can adjust them for taste. Suggestions include:
- Adding a tablespoon of almond butter
- Trying different berries
- Varying the milks – see if you like coconut or almond milk better
- Adjusting the fiber so it's thinner or thicker for your taste
- Adding unsweetened cocoa powder
- Making the shakes warm – simply warm the almond or coconut milk and stir in the All-in-One powder
Be creative, follow Sugar Impact Diet rules, and before long you'll create your own shake that you enjoy every morning. Oh, and if you stumble upon a great recipe, please share it with us!
I followed your recipe for the shake and got the worst bloating and cramping afterwards. What in the shake could be creating those problems?
Modifying your fiber should reverse this issue. If you're using Extra Fiber (my absolute favorite fiber supplement!), start with 1/2 scoop and work up to a 1 full scoop. Same thing if you're using flax or chia seeds. Start with 1/2 a tablespoon and work up to 1 full tablespoon. Also consider using Hydrolyzme to better digest your shakes.
Why do you tell people not to eat the same foods repeatedly, and yet you recommend doing the All-In-One Shake every day?
In The Virgin Diet, I especially warn against eating highly reactive foods every day. Even if you challenge eggs or dairy and do okay in cycle 2, these should never be every day foods or you risk developing intolerances to them.
In fact, I want you to rotate every food you eat. So even with the All-In-One Shakes, I want you to add raspberries and flax seed one morning, blueberries and chia seeds the next, etc. You would to likewise have a different protein at lunch and dinner. For instance, maybe you'll do chicken for lunch and grass-fed beef for dinner. Mix it up and don't get stuck eating the same thing repeatedly!
The All-In-One Shake protein powder has low allergenic potential and almost never creates any sort of intolerance. In fact, for most clients, it helps reduce food intolerances and heal leaky gut. The types of protein in this powder, including pea and cholera, are incredibly low-reactive types of protein that are safe to use every morning without risk of developing intolerances.
So rotate the ingredients you use in the All-In-One Shake as well as your lunch and dinner foods, but use The Virgin Diet protein powder every morning.
I'm having a lot of gas and bloating with my All-in-One Shake. How can I reduce those problems?
Nearly everyone struggling with gas, bloating, and other post-shake issues can benefit from taking Hydrolyzyme™. That's because Hydrolyzyme™ is a proprietary blend of protease enzymes that helps support efficient digestion and absorption of protein supplements consumed as a shake or liquid meal, since liquid protein supplements pass through the stomach more quickly than solid meals.
If you do the math, you might also be getting a lot of fiber in your All-in-One Shake. For example, let's say you do the following shake:
- 2 scoops All-in-One Powder – 6 grams fiber
- 1 cup raspberries – 8 grams fiber
- 2 tablespoons freshly ground flax seeds – 4 grams fiber
- ½ avocado – 5 grams fiber
- 1 cup coconut milk – 1 gram fiber
That's a whopping 24 grams of fiber in one shake!
I want you to get about 50 grams of fiber in your diet daily, but you need to gradually work up to that amount. You don't want to start at 50 grams or you may experience gas, bloating, cramping, and other very unpleasant issues.
If you're doing the All-In-One Shake and struggling with any post-shake misery, reduce your fiber. So you might do this shake:
- 2 scoops All-in-One Powder – 6 grams fiber
- ½ cup raspberries – 4 grams fiber
- 1 tablespoon freshly ground flax seeds – 2 grams fiber
- 1 cup coconut milk – 1 gram fiber
With that, you've knocked it down to 13 grams of fiber. If you're a fiber novice, even that much might cause issues. If that's the case, you'll want to reduce fiber intake even more.
Once you've found your "comfort zone" – no post-shake gas, bloating, or other unpleasantness – gradually increase the fiber a few grams at a time. If you start to experience those symptoms again, reduce and then gradually re-introduce fiber into your shake.
Ultimately, you want to figure out what works for you to make a delicious, fat-burning shake that keeps you full and focused for hours.
Can you recommend other protein powder brands?
Unfortunately, we can't possibly evaluate every brand and the many variations within those brands. We have, however, created an easy-to-follow guide to determine whether a protein powder is Sugar Impact-friendly. Here are some guidelines:
- Protein sources. I recommend a blend of vegan proteins: preferred sources are pea, chia, cranberry, chlorella, or rice. The new kid on the block is beef protein (look for de-fatted with no antibiotics or hormones added). Avoid soy, egg, or milk protein powders. Ideally, every serving will contain 20 – 25 grams of protein.
- Go natural. Look for GMO- free and hormone- free (no recombinant bovine growth hormone, or rGBH).
- Go low sugar impact. Look for 4– 5 grams of sugar per serving, max. Stick with a very small amount of natural sweetener or sugar alcohol (i.e., stevia, xylitol, erythritol, rice syrup, evaporated cane juice syrup, dextrose). Avoid artificial colors or sweeteners and high-SI sweeteners such as fructose, agave, aspartame, and sucralose.
Should I be concerned about the Prop 65 warning on your shakes?
Proposition 65 was introduced in 1986 and requires companies to give clear warning if their product exposes an individual in the state of California to any detectable amount of more than 800 listed chemicals and chemical families known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity. Many of these chemicals are naturally occurring at some level in all food products, and thus nutritional supplements derived from food products. If this is the case, your product will say the following:
Warning: The state of California requires that we alert you that this product contains a substance known to the state of California to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm.
The reason some of our products contain this warning is due to the presence of lead above .5 mcg per daily dose/serving. Our chai and vanilla All-in-One plant-based shakes have up to 1 mcg lead, whereas our chocolate contains about 2 mcg lead per serving.
The Proposition 65 level of lead for dietary supplements is .5 mcg (vs. the FDA's current safety level for daily lead intake of 25 mcg for pregnant women), while a serving of boiled shrimp can contain over 23 mcg of lead, and thus be 56 times higher than the allowable limit. In this example a grocer selling boiled shrimp is in violation of California law, if sold without a warning of lead exposure.
The FDA's Recommended Safe and Tolerable Daily Lead intake for adults is 75 mcg. This is 150 times the amount that requires a Prop 65 warning, and yet it is considered safe by the U.S. FDA.
Lead is everywhere in our environment and it is impossible to avoid it in many natural, plant-based ingredients. That's because lead is found in the soil where plants are grown, and therefore, it is present in virtually all plant-based foods.
A Prop 65 Warning does not mean a product is unsafe. As the State of California's own Prop 65 website states, "A Proposition 65 warning does not necessarily mean a product is in violation of any product-safety standards or requirements."
Plant-Based Shakes
How much leucine are in your plant-based shakes?
About 1.5 grams of leucine per serving. Please see exact amino acid breakdown below.
The plant-based shakes have 6 grams of fiber, but where do the rest of those carbohydrates come from?
Primarily from flavor and vitamin carriers.
I noticed every serving of your All-in-One Shake contains 6 grams of fiber. Can you tell me the source of that fiber?
Inulin, bamboo fiber, pea fiber, flax seed, and apple fiber.
What kind of improvements did you make to your new plant-based shake?
We're thrilled to announce a new, improved plant-based All-in-One Shake, with the same great taste you've grown to love but with a better nutrient profile. Among those changes include:
- Added sugars removed (now only 1 gram of sugar per serving!)
- Erythritol added
- Xanthan Gum removed
- New and improved flavor profiles
- Environmentally friendly packaging
- Sources for the following minerals changed:
- Zinc (Zinc Citrate)
- Copper (Copper Gluconate)
- Manganese (Manganese Sulfate)
- Chromium (Chromium Picolinate)
- Molybdenum (Sodium Molybdenum)
What is the source of vitamin D in your plant-based shakes?
Vitamin D2, or ergocalciferol, making it vegan-friendly.
What are the percentages of protein in your shake?
Pea (>99%), Chia (<1%), Chlorella (<1%).
I noticed 45 of the 150 calories in your shake come from fat. Why so much fat, and where does that fat come from?
The calories from fat originate several forms but are found primarily in sunflower oil, medium chain triglycerides, pea protein, and cocoa. The latter two are naturally occurring. The oils are included as an energy source for functional purposes and help deliver lipids which aid in protein digestion and absorption.
Do the 3 sources of protein in your shake provide a complete source of protein?
Pea protein isolate is a highly bioavailable protein with a broad amino acid profile which, while largely complete, does not fully constitute a complete source of protein. Its PCDAAS score is 0.93. Upon review this product met all requirements for a complete protein with the exception of the required levels (mg) of methionine and cysteine per gram of total protein. (combined requirement = 25, actual = 20.8)
Can you provide an amino acid breakdown for your protein?
|Average Amino Acid Profile
|JJ Virgin AIO Shake
|Average Qty Per Serving (mg):
|Amino Acid
|Aspartic Acid
|Glutamic Acid
Is there MSG in the plant-based shakes?
Should I be concerned about the free glutamate in your shakes?
All protein sources contain glutamic acid. These amino acids are bound in the protein and digested by the body. Free glutamic acid is not added to this product. Glutamate (monosodium glutamate) is a salt of glutamic acid and is similarly not added to this product.
Why so much sodium in your shakes?
Salt is added as a flavoring to the shake. The sodium levels (Choc = 350 mg/14.6%; Vanilla = 220 mg/9.2%) equate to about one tenth of one teaspoon of salt, roughly one pinch.
Paleo-Inspired All-in-One Shakes
Are beef peptides, beef gelatine, and beef collagen the same things?
- Beef gelatine is collagen which has been dried and turned into a powder.
- Beef collagen is collagen which has been heated to higher temperatures and then treated with enzymes. The process breaks the bonds between the amino acids (though keeps the amino acids themselves intact). The collagen is then turned into a dry powder. It will NOT gel and can dissolve into both cool and warm liquids. Because the amino acid bonds are broken down, it is easier to digest, is absorbed by the body faster, and is good for people with digestion problems.
- Beef peptides are a more digestible form of gelatin.
How much leucine is in your shakes?
About 1 gram.
Where do the carbohydrates in the All-in-One Shakes come from?
The 9 grams of carbohydrate in the shakes come from fiber and inulin.
Can you tell me what the rationale, and evidence, was to offer the beef protein based shake?
I am always looking for great products to share with my community. The Paleo-inspired shakes with defatted beef protein have the creamy texture and delicious taste of whey protein without whey's potential reactivity, that can come with whey such as congestion, skin issues, and even weight gain. An alternate choice to have.
What is the source of the other vegetable fiber?
How much is soluble and how much is insoluble?
91% soluble, 9% insoluble.
What form of vitamin D is in the shakes?
Vitamin D3.
What exactly are beef protein peptides, how are they produced, and where are they sourced from?
Please see the flow chart below.


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2008-02-20 / Events & Calendar
LI Decoy Collectors Assoc. show to be held March 1
Ben Sohd, above left, and Charles deQuillfeldt III, are shown admiring a goose decoy (circa 1935) made by deQuillfeldt's father as a "hunting tool" used in his waterfowl guiding livelihood, in Amityville over 70 years ago. Charles and his wife Sandy even honeymooned during duck season aboard his father's cabinboat "Hunter" in 1949.
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Medical questions & health advice by board certified doctors
"What is the shooting pain in my calf?"
I get a shooting pain my calf when I?m sleeping. It wakes me up and hurts really bad. I try to stretch it out but it gets worse. I?m 24/male by the way.
Have you ever had anything like this before? Sometimes calf pain can signify a deep vein thrombosis or blood clot in the veins of the legs. This can become life-threatening if it detaches and enters the blood vessels into your lungs. Does anything make it better or worse? Do you drink sufficiently and keep yourself adequately hydrated or do you feel you are dehydrated most of the time? Electrolyte imbalances and dehydration can cause calf cramping. Do you take a multivitamin daily? Again, electrolyte imbalances can cause muscle cramping, especially in the calf. These are important questions to consider and discuss with your primary care doctor who will be able to take your medical history, presenting symptoms and clinical exam and decide upon the appropriate work up and treatment options available. This may include lab tests, imaging studies and perhaps a referral to a specialist depending on what is found. In general, there are a variety of causes for shooting or cramping pain in your calves and these could be due to dehydration, lack of adequate nutrition or vitamins, deconditioning. Some of these can be relatively benign and easily fixed, while others require further treatment. For this reason, it is important that you are evaluated by a medical professional.
Need more info?See a primary care-doctor today
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Most people who have a choice between Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy choose Chapter 7. A Chapter 7 case is over in four to six months. You don't have to make any payments in Chapter 7. And, although you stand to lose any property you can't protect with an exemption, many Chapter 7 filers are surprised to learn that all of their property is exempt, and therefore can't be taken by the trustee.
Despite these advantages of using Chapter 7, however, there are circumstances in which debtors are better off filing under Chapter 13. This articles discusses some common situations that might make Chapter 13 the better choice.
In Chapter 13, you don't have to give up any property. Debtors who have valuable nonexempt property that they really want to keep often choose Chapter 13 for this reason. For example, if you inherited a vacation home that's been in your family for generations, it may have a lot of sentimental value to you -- and a lot of financial value to the Chapter 7 trustee, who would likely take it and sell it to distribute the sales proceeds among your creditors. If you file for Chapter 13, however, the trustee can't take the home, no matter how much it's worth. Although it may affect how much you have to pay in Chapter 13 (because you must pay at least the value of your nonexempt property into your plan), you won't lose the property.
When you file for Chapter 7, your personal liability to repay secured debts, such as a car loan or mortgage, is discharged. However, the creditor can still take back the property securing the debt, and that's exactly what it will do unless you can get current, keep up your payments, and most likely reaffirm the debt in bankruptcy (that is, agree that you will still owe it even after you receive your bankruptcy discharge).
If you file for Chapter 13, however, you can roll any missed payments into your repayment plan and pay them off over time. As long as you complete the required payments under the plan and stay current on the loan going forward, you will be able to keep the property. It's much easier to spread a few missed payments out over several years than to come up with all of the money you owe at once.
Chapter 13 gives you the option of cramming down a loan: reducing the amount you owe to the current value of the property. You can't cram down a mortgage on your residence, and you have to pay off the entire new amount in your repayment plan. These restrictions limit the usefulness of the cramdown remedy. However, it can be helpful. For example, if you owe $8,000 on a car that's worth only $3,000, and you want to keep the car, you could cram down the loan to $3,000, then pay it off a bit at a time in your repayment plan.
If someone has cosigned a loan for you (for example, your parents cosigned your car loan or lease), your bankruptcy wipes out your liability for the loan. However, your cosigner remains on the hook. The creditor can come after the cosigner for the full amount you owe, even if your responsibility to repay has been discharged. If, however, you include the loan in your Chapter 13 repayment plan, your cosigner will be protected. The automatic stay will prevent the creditor from taking any collection actions while your case is proceeding. And, once your plan ends, you will have paid off the loan in full. (For more information on how bankruptcy affects cosigners, see Cosigners and Bankruptcy Obligations.)


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Last year, after I went to Sew South, I joined up with some fellow quilters I met there and together we formed a fun little "sewing circle". We did quite a lot of sewing and swapping for each other - mini quilts and birthday gifts - but above all we got to know each other better and became great friends, spread across two states. It's been so awesome having these people in my life!
This year, we are embarking on a new, awesome and inspiring quilt-y journey known as traveling quilts. Our traveling quilts will work like this...each person comes up with a theme and color scheme and overall concept for a quilt. Each person starts their own quilt - sewing as many blocks as desired, and then ships them off to the next person in line. Each recipient than adds to the quilt, ships it to the next person in line, so on and so forth, until it's made it's way around the circle. At the end of it all, each person should have a finished quilt top. We plan to present ours to each other sometime in 2016. I'm already so excited!
I knew right away that I wanted to use this collaboration as an opportunity to make a quilt in a color palette that is perhaps not my norm. When I sew, I tend to want to saturate the things I make with color, color, color. But, yet, I find myself repeatedly drawn to quieter quilts with lots of white, and subtle dusty colors.
When I started searching Pinterest for ideas and images for my quilt, I couldn't help but tag the items I found as "dreamy". And, from there my dream-inspired quilt concept grew. It's actually a concept that is very relevant for me, as I've been focusing a lot lately on getting more sleep, and being a well-rested and generally happier person.
I felt like my sewing room was all aglow over the past few weeks as I started sewing up the first few blocks for this quilt...
These blocks were mailed to my friend, Patrice, this week - a paper pieced feather (free pattern available from Shape Moth here), a row of sparkly HST diamonds, and a fun improv block. This was some of the most creatively fulfilling sewing I've done in a long time. So excited for this new endeavor! I may share little bits and sneak peaks of the sewing I do for my friends' quilts here, throughout the year. But, more than likely it'll be kept under wraps...we all are in for a great surprise!


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Here are a couple examples for extra reference on development of the leg. The above image shows examples of the lay-in or gesture stage. Here I am looking for weight, through the tilt of the pelvis, and weight bearing leg (shown with straighter lines), while also indicating perspective with some volumes and wrapping lines.
This next drawing shows a second level to the legs development. On top of the initial stage, these drawings use cylinders to describe basic volume and perspective placement, and then have simple anatomical volumes wrapped around those forms.


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Annika Reintam Blaser graduated University of Tartu, Estonia, worked thereafter as a consultant in general ICU of Tartu University Hospital and later as a chief of Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care in East Tallinn Central Hospital. She defended her doctoral degree 2008 in Tartu. Currently she is working as a consultant in the ICU of the Lucerne Cantonal Hospital, Switzerland. The main topic of her research is gastrointestinal dysfunction in intensive care patients. She is a member of Executive Committee of WSACS and Chair of the Clinical Trials Working Group.


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Who cares about equal pay for porn models, let's discuss porn's deadly facts. The sex industry has become glamorized. No longer is prostitution considered seedy street work — the industry includes high priced escort services, glittery strip clubs, and late night commercials where men and women are encouraged to call each other for phone sex and "hook ups." This covers up massage parlors, which are often brothels featuring trafficked sex slaves, not to mention child pornography, a massive Internet industry using free speech to keep this crime alive. The sex industry is more than 20-year-old girls posing for Playboy and strippers getting dollar bills stuffed in scanty panties while spinning on poles—something once considered smutty, but now super-glammed up as aerobic exercise for women and a fun way to keep your husband turned on in the bedroom. Substantiating evidence proves prostitution and porn are aggressively violent, immoral, and unjust: "[T]he United States Department of State reports that between 14,000 and 17,000 individuals are trafficked annually (for commercial sex or forced labor) into the U.S. from other nations" including Japan, which practices slavery through prostitution industry. Dr. Melissa Farley, PhD, who researches prostitution, told Charles Montaldo of Crime and Punishment Guide:
All prostitution causes harm to women. Whether it is being sold by one's family to a brothel, or whether it is being sexually abused in one's family, running away from home, and then being pimped by one's boyfriend, or whether one is in college and needs to pay for next semester's tuition and one works at a strip club behind glass where men never actually touch you—all these forms of prostitution hurt the women in it.
Farley's prostitution fact sheet shows what really exists inside the industry:
- 78 percent of 55 women who sought help from the Council for Prostitution Alternatives in 1991 reported being raped an average of 16 times a year by pimps, and were raped 33 times a year by johns.
- 62 percent reported having been raped in prostitution.
- 73 percent reported having experienced physical assault in prostitution.
- 72 percent were currently or formerly homeless.
- 92 percent stated that they wanted to escape prostitution immediately.
- 83 percent of prostitutes are victims of assault with a weapon.
- 75 percent of women in escort prostitution had attempted suicide.
- 67 percent meet diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Statistical evidence further proves porn is not a harmless civil liberty, it is spreading HIV. In 2009, the Los Angeles Times exposed that the health department says from 1998 to 2003, 14 porn stars contracted HIV. In 2004, 16 HIV cases occurred inside the porn industry, but were swept under the rug, until publicized, causing the industry to halt production for 30 days. The San Francisco Examiner reported the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health confirmed adult film stars "are up to ten times more likely to be infected with a sexually-transmitted infection than members of the general public." That is not a "victimless crime." Porn stars are spreading AIDS, a death sentence to those they engaged in sexual intercourse with. The sex industry enslaves and kills. Amanda Marcotte should have railed against the above crimes, rather than discuss equal pay for naked models. Porn helps promote sex slavery and death. Purchasing porn keeps the industry alive and flourishing. The "actual feminist" should have discussed how the sex industry involves sadistic crimes against women and children enslaved and forced to provide sex for so-called harmless civil liberties. NewsReal's Phyllis Chesler noted in her recent column, "20 Questions About Pornography," that prostitution and porn are indoctrinated into our children at a young age, and we are taught to deem it acceptable:
Pornography has invaded the world's imagination…Five-year-old girls dress and are taught to behave like pornography stars in order to win beauty contests. Ten- to twelve-year-old girls both dress and behave like the pornographic images that surround them—and they provide sexual services to young boys.
As a result of this acceptance of porn and prostitution, Dr. Farley's studies show history of incest among 65 to 90 percent of prostitutes; in 1991, Portland, Oregon reported 85 percent of prostitutes "reported history of sexual abuse in childhood while 70 percent reported incest." There is nothing victimless about an industry in which HIV, human trafficking, slavery, pedophilia, and violence and murder against women and children used for sex is rampant. The sex industry cannot be equated to consensual sex between adults on a dinner date. In a nation where slavery's past is condemned, the sex trade should be equally denounced: it is no different. It is the selling and imprisonment of human flesh by those who own human beings used for sex. Prostitution and porn are not victimless crimes, they are slavery.


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Two months ago, I read an amazing article on Daily Mail newspaper by British physicist Stephen Hawking on time travel. In this article, introductory concepts in the science of time travel such as the fourth dimension, wormhole, and GrandFather paradox are presented in his fascinating and straightforward writing style. The greatest success of this article, in my opinion, is his excellent ability to explain such a complicated problem to average readers who often have almost no background knowledge on this subject.
To those of you who don't know Stephen Hawking, he is considered the world's foremost living theoretical physicist. He is also Lucasian Professor of Mathematic of University of Cambridge, which was once held by Sir Isaac Newton.
Today, I stumbled across on Youtube some time travel videos in Stephen Hawking's series which were broadcasted on Discovery channel not long ago. So if you don't like or don't have time to read his lengthy post on Daily Mail, this five-part video is another great option to learn more about time travel. After all, who wouldn't want to know the differences in time travelling between reality and comic books like Doraemon ? 😉
The contents of the article and this below video are exactly the same. Enjoy! 🙂


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All Fresh Today
Michael Hofmann
- The Living Option: Selected Poems by Karen Solie
Bloodaxe, 160 pp, £9.95, October 2013, ISBN 978 1 85224 994 6
Introducing Karen Solie, I would adapt what Joseph Brodsky said some thirty years ago of the great Les Murray: 'It would be as myopic to regard Mr Murray as an Australian poet as to call Yeats an Irishman. He is, quite simply, the one by whom the language lives.' Solie is Canadian (born in 1966, in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, of Norwegian immigrant stock), the author of three previous books of poems, Short Haul Engine (2001), Modern and Normal (2005) and Pigeon (2009), and now this 'new and selected', and, yes, she is the one by whom the language lives. I wonder, a little bitterly, what the point of English as a soi-disant world language is, if our smug maps have only the UK and the US on them, and everywhere else is apocrypha or appendix, the province of specialists or pity. Enormous credit goes to Bloodaxe for commissioning this exhilarating volume, Solie's first book publication outside Canada.
If I wanted to show someone – an agnostic – what a modern poem can do, I would show them something by Lawrence Joseph, or Frederick Seidel, or Karen Solie, all different but all modern, all modo hodie, all fresh today. A poem of Solie's is sentences in unpredictable but deep sequence in unpredictable but braced lines. It seems out of control, but isn't; it exhibits grace while falling, which is perhaps what grace is. It runs the gamut from nervous, garrulous charm to the glory and shear of impersonal style: it is idiomatic splicing in one voice. It offers wisdom, fact and bitter experience (yes, it is pessimistic, or negative, or critical, or ironic, depending on what one word one wants to use, but then so would Whitman be if he were back among us: in Musil's The Man without Qualities Ulrich says 'the man of genius is duty bound to attack' and Brecht wrote in 'An die Nachgeborenen': 'Truly, I live in dark times!/A bland word is foolish. An unlined brow/Indicates impercipience. The man laughing only/Laughs because the terrible news/Has not yet reached him'). It is a noticing, a naming and a connecting, an electric errancy. It is round-the-corner knight moves in a world of pawns, or almost worse, rooks; googlies and chinamen among dobbers. It is a widening and widening optic, that returns us unexpectedly ('the variable/when the outcome is unknown,/as always the outcome is unknown' – take that, Mr Rumsfeld) to the place we began. It may be to comic or grievous effect. It is an adventitious gallivanting movement across country that makes denser, bunched sense than any more rational or measured or predictable progress. It looks baroque, but actually it's stringent – and vice versa. (I've come to think you can't actually have poetry without dandyism, and that includes all those I've mentioned: Frederick Seidel self-evidently, but also those seemingly austere figures Whitman, Brecht, Murray and Brodsky. As Wallace Stevens said, 'It must give pleasure.') It looks random, but like Thom Gunn's blue jay scuffling in the bushes, it 'follows some hidden purpose'. Other things, set beside it, look lame and tedious – like prose. It reminds me of another axiom of Brodsky's, that poetry is a function of speed: it gets there faster than prose, and goes further.
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Meeting the current and future needs of the University's biomedical research program requires optimal usage of research space (a valuable and limited resource) throughout UTHSC. To accomplish this requires an open and transparent process that guides the assignment and usage of space.
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Somatostatin, also known as growth hormone–inhibiting hormone (GHIH) or by several other names, is a peptide hormone that regulates the endocrine system and affects neurotransmission and cell proliferation via interaction with G protein-coupled somatostatin receptors and inhibition of the release of numerous secondary hormones. Somatostatin inhibits insulin and glucagon secretion.[3]
Somatostatin has two active forms produced by alternative cleavage of a single preproprotein: one of 14 amino acids (shown in infobox to right), the other of 28 amino acids[4] which is the short form with another 14 amino acids at one end.[5]
Among the vertebrates, there exist six different somatostatin genes that have been named SS1, SS2, SS3, SS4, SS5, and SS6.[6] Zebrafish have all 6.[6] The six different genes along with the five different somatostatin receptors allows somatostatin to possess a large range of functions.[7] Humans have only one somatostatin gene, SST.[8][9][10]
Synonyms of somatostatin are as follows:
- growth hormone–inhibiting hormone (GHIH)
- growth hormone release–inhibiting hormone (GHRIH)
- somatotropin release–inhibiting factor (SRIF)
- somatotropin release–inhibiting hormone (SRIH)
Digestive system
Somatostatin is secreted at several locations in the digestive system:
- Delta cells in the pyloric antrum, the duodenum and the pancreatic islets[11]
Somatostatin released in the pyloric antrum travels via the portal venous system to the heart, then enters the systemic circulation to reach the locations where it will exert its inhibitory effects. In addition, somatostatin release from delta cells can act in a paracrine manner.[11]
In the stomach, somatostatin acts directly on the acid-producing parietal cells via a G-protein coupled receptor (which inhibits adenylate cyclase, thus effectively antagonising the stimulatory effect of histamine) to reduce acid secretion.[11] Somatostatin can also indirectly decrease stomach acid production by preventing the release of other hormones, including gastrin, secretin and histamine which effectively slows down the digestive process.
Somatostatin is produced by neuroendocrine neurons of the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus. These neurons project to the median eminence, where somatostatin is released from neurosecretory nerve endings into the hypothalamo-hypophysial system through neuron axons. Somatostatin is then carried to the anterior pituitary gland, where it inhibits the secretion of growth hormone from somatotrope cells. The somatostatin neurons in the periventricular nucleus mediate negative feedback effects of growth hormone on its own release; the somatostatin neurons respond to high circulating concentrations of growth hormone and somatomedins by increasing the release of somatostatin, so reducing the rate of secretion of growth hormone.
Somatostatin is also produced by several other populations that project centrally, i.e., to other areas of the brain, and somatostatin receptors are expressed at many different sites in the brain. In particular, there are populations of somatostatin neurons in the arcuate nucleus, the hippocampus, and the brainstem nucleus of the solitary tract.
Somatostatin is classified as an inhibitory hormone,[4] and is induced by low pH.. Its actions are spread to different parts of the body.
Anterior pituitary
In the anterior pituitary gland, the effects of somatostatin are:
- Inhibit the release of growth hormone (GH)[12] (thus opposing the effects of growth hormone–releasing hormone (GHRH))
- Inhibit the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)[13]
- Inhibit adenylyl cyclase in parietal cells.
- Inhibits the release of prolactin (PRL)
Gastrointestinal system
- Somatostatin is homologous with cortistatin (see somatostatin family) and suppresses the release of gastrointestinal hormones
- Decrease rate of gastric emptying, and reduces smooth muscle contractions and blood flow within the intestine[12]
- Suppresses the release of pancreatic hormones
- Suppresses the exocrine secretory action of pancreas.
Synthetic substitutes
Octreotide (brand name Sandostatin, Novartis Pharmaceuticals) is an octapeptide that mimics natural somatostatin pharmacologically, though is a more potent inhibitor of growth hormone, glucagon, and insulin than the natural hormone and has a much longer half-life (approximately 90 minutes, compared to 2–3 minutes for somatostatin). Since it is absorbed poorly from the gut, it is administered parenterally (subcutaneously, intramuscularly, or intravenously). It is indicated for symptomatic treatment of carcinoid syndrome and acromegaly. It is also finding increased use in polycystic diseases of the liver and kidney.
Lanreotide (brand name Somatuline, Ipsen Pharmaceuticals)is a medication used in the management of acromegaly and symptoms caused by neuroendocrine tumors, most notably carcinoid syndrome. It is a long-acting analog of somatostatin, like octreotide. It is available in several countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada, and was approved for sale in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on August 30, 2007.
Evolutionary history
There are six somatostatin genes that have been discovered in vertebrates. The current proposed history as to how these six genes arose is based on the three whole-genome duplication events that took place in vertebrate evolution along with local duplications in teleost fish. An ancestral somatostatin gene was duplicated during the first whole-genome duplication event (1R) to create SS1 and SS2. These two genes were duplicated during the second whole-genome duplication event (2R) to create four new somatostatin genes: SS1, SS2, SS3, and one gene that was lost during the evolution of vertebrates. Tetrapods retained SS1 (also known as SS-14 and SS-28) and SS2 (also known as cortistatin) after the split in the sarcopterygii and actinopterygii lineage split. In teleost fish, SS1, SS2, and SS3 were duplicated during the third whole-genome duplication event (3R) to create SS1, SS2, SS4, SS5, and two genes that were lost during the evolution of teleost fish. SS1 and SS2 went through local duplications to give rise to SS6 and SS3.[6]
- ↑ "Human PubMed Reference:".
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- ↑ "somatostatin". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2016. Web. 04 mag. 2016 <http://www.britannica.com/science/somatostatin>.
- 1 2 Costoff A. "Sect. 5, Ch. 4: Structure, Synthesis, and Secretion of Somatostatin". Endocrinology: The Endocrine Pancreas. Medical College of Georgia. p. 16. Archived from the original on April 5, 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
- ↑ somatostatin preproprotein [Homo sapiens] See Features
- 1 2 3 Liu Y, Lu D, Zhang Y, Li S, Liu X, Lin H (2010). "The evolution of somatostatin in vertebrates". Gene. 463 (1–2): 21–28. doi:10.1016/j.gene.2010.04.016. PMID 20472043.
- ↑ Gahete MD, Cordoba-Chacón J, Duran-Prado M, Malagón MM, Martinez-Fuentes AJ, Gracia-Navarro F, Luque RM, Castaño JP (2010). "Somatostatin and its receptors from fish to mammals". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1200: 43–52. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05511.x. PMID 20633132.
- ↑ "Entrez Gene: Somatostatin".
- ↑ Shen LP, Pictet RL, Rutter WJ (August 1982). "Human somatostatin I: sequence of the cDNA". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 79 (15): 4575–9. doi:10.1073/pnas.79.15.4575. PMC 346717. PMID 6126875.
- ↑ Shen LP, Rutter WJ (April 1984). "Sequence of the human somatostatin I gene". Science. 224 (4645): 168–71. doi:10.1126/science.6142531. PMID 6142531.
- 1 2 3 Boron, Walter F.; Boulpaep, Emile L. (2012). Medical Physiology, 2e Updated Edition, 2nd Edition (2nd ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier. ISBN 9781437717532.
- 1 2 Bowen R (2002-12-14). "Somatostatin". Biomedical Hypertextbooks. Colorado State University. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
- ↑ First Aid for the USMLE Step 1, 2010. Page 286.
- 1 2 Costoff A. "Sect. 5, Ch. 4: Structure, Synthesis, and Secretion of Somatostatin". Endocrinology: The Endocrine Pancreas. Medical College of Georgia. p. 17. Archived from the original on March 31, 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
- ↑ Van der Meulen T, Donaldson CJ, Cáceres E, Hunter AE, Cowing-Zitron C, Pound LD, Adams MW, Zembrzycki A, Grove KL, Huising MO (2016-06-15). "Urocortin3 mediates somatostatin-dependent negative feedback control of insulin secretion". Nature Medicine. doi:10.1038/nm.3872. PMID 26076035. Retrieved 2016-05-30.
Further reading
- Florio T, Schettini G (2002). "[Somatostatin and its receptors. Role in the control of cell proliferation]". Minerva Endocrinol. 26 (3): 91–102. PMID 11753230.
- Yamada Y, Reisine T, Law SF, et al. (1993). "Somatostatin receptors, an expanding gene family: cloning and functional characterization of human SSTR3, a protein coupled to adenylyl cyclase". Mol. Endocrinol. 6 (12): 2136–42. doi:10.1210/me.6.12.2136. PMID 1337145.
- Yamada Y, Post SR, Wang K, et al. (1992). "Cloning and functional characterization of a family of human and mouse somatostatin receptors expressed in brain, gastrointestinal tract, and kidney". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 89 (1): 251–5. doi:10.1073/pnas.89.1.251. PMC 48214. PMID 1346068.
- Brazeau P, Vale W, Burgus R, et al. (1973). "Hypothalamic polypeptide that inhibits the secretion of immunoreactive pituitary growth hormone". Science. 179 (4068): 77–9. doi:10.1126/science.179.4068.77. PMID 4682131.
- Shen LP, Pictet RL, Rutter WJ (1982). "Human somatostatin I: sequence of the cDNA". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 79 (15): 4575–9. doi:10.1073/pnas.79.15.4575. PMC 346717. PMID 6126875.
- Shen LP, Rutter WJ (1984). "Sequence of the human somatostatin I gene". Science. 224 (4645): 168–71. doi:10.1126/science.6142531. PMID 6142531.
- Montminy MR, Goodman RH, Horovitch SJ, Habener JF (1984). "Primary structure of the gene encoding rat preprosomatostatin". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 81 (11): 3337–40. doi:10.1073/pnas.81.11.3337. PMC 345502. PMID 6145156.
- Zabel BU, Naylor SL, Sakaguchi AY, et al. (1984). "High-resolution chromosomal localization of human genes for amylase, proopiomelanocortin, somatostatin, and a DNA fragment (D3S1) by in situ hybridization". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 80 (22): 6932–6. doi:10.1073/pnas.80.22.6932. PMC 390100. PMID 6196780.
- Panetta R, Greenwood MT, Warszynska A, et al. (1994). "Molecular cloning, functional characterization, and chromosomal localization of a human somatostatin receptor (somatostatin receptor type 5) with preferential affinity for somatostatin-28". Mol. Pharmacol. 45 (3): 417–27. PMID 7908405.
- Demchyshyn LL, Srikant CB, Sunahara RK, et al. (1993). "Cloning and expression of a human somatostatin-14-selective receptor variant (somatostatin receptor 4) located on chromosome 20". Mol. Pharmacol. 43 (6): 894–901. PMID 8100352.
- Kaupmann K, Bruns C, Hoyer D, et al. (1993). "Distribution and second messenger coupling of four somatostatin receptor subtypes expressed in brain". FEBS Lett. 331 (1–2): 53–9. doi:10.1016/0014-5793(93)80296-7. PMID 8405411.
- Aguila MC, Rodriguez AM, Aguila-Mansilla HN, Lee WT (1996). "Somatostatin antisense oligodeoxynucleotide-mediated stimulation of lymphocyte proliferation in culture". Endocrinology. 137 (5): 1585–90. doi:10.1210/en.137.5.1585. PMID 8612489.
- Sharma K, Patel YC, Srikant CB (1997). "Subtype-selective induction of wild-type p53 and apoptosis, but not cell cycle arrest, by human somatostatin receptor 3". Mol. Endocrinol. 10 (12): 1688–96. doi:10.1210/me.10.12.1688. PMID 8961277.
- Dournaud P, Boudin H, Schonbrunn A, et al. (1998). "Interrelationships between somatostatin sst2A receptors and somatostatin-containing axons in rat brain: evidence for regulation of cell surface receptors by endogenous somatostatin". J. Neurosci. 18 (3): 1056–71. PMID 9437026.
- Barnea A, Roberts J, Ho RH (1999). "Evidence for a synergistic effect of the HIV-1 envelope protein gp120 and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) leading to enhanced expression of somatostatin neurons in aggregate cultures derived from the human fetal cortex". Brain Res. 815 (2): 349–57. doi:10.1016/S0006-8993(98)01098-1. PMID 9878821.
- Ferone D, van Hagen PM, van Koetsveld PM, et al. (1999). "In vitro characterization of somatostatin receptors in the human thymus and effects of somatostatin and octreotide on cultured thymic epithelial cells". Endocrinology. 140 (1): 373–80. doi:10.1210/en.140.1.373. PMID 9886848.
- Brakch N, Lazar N, Panchal M, et al. (2002). "The somatostatin-28(1-12)-NPAMAP sequence: an essential helical-promoting motif governing prosomatostatin processing at mono- and dibasic sites". Biochemistry. 41 (5): 1630–9. doi:10.1021/bi011928m. PMID 11814357.
- Oomen SP, van Hennik PB, Antonissen C, et al. (2002). "Somatostatin is a selective chemoattractant for primitive (CD34(+)) hematopoietic progenitor cells". Exp. Hematol. 30 (2): 116–25. doi:10.1016/S0301-472X(01)00772-X. PMID 11823046.
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This book is really GOOD! When I first got it, I meant to
just flip through it at first, then read it later. Nope. Sat on my back
porch and before I knew it, I had read it cover to cover right then and
there. Just another Don Brown masterpiece. :)
In a graphic novel format, Brown tells the complete story of the Dust Bowl. He starts by explaining the ecology of the Great Plains and the history of early land use (buffalo, Native Americans), then moves on to explain how ranching and farming exhausted the soil, plus other significant events (ie World War I food shortages) built upon the pending disaster.
Once the foundation is set, Brown compelling shows what life was like during the Dust Bowl. Small details of daily life are brought to life in his comic-style panels. We particularly like how, in spread after spread, Brown is able to show the many, many, many challenges (even plagues!) that Dust Bowl residents faced...but without creating that 'unrelenting list' feeling that some books engender. Readers will stay engaged, and leave this book in awe at what residents had to endure!
This book got GLOWING reviews from the major book review agencies. Many are listed on Amazon. Many are "starred reviews" and words like "magnificent" and "compelling" and "enticing" pepper the reviews. This book is a classroom must!
Reading Levels
Interest Level: Gr. 5 & Up Lexile Measure: 860L
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