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text: Portland artist OBLVN recently closed a show at Guerrero Gallery in San Francisco. The show, entitled "Different Strokes, Different Folks", was positioned in the project room, while Ryan Travis Christian's solo exhibition, "The Second Banana" took the main gallery space. OBLVN brings the clean brushwork of vintage animation design with a clean eye for interesting character work honed through a background in graffiti. I was seriously impressed with the artist's "100 Paintings" show last spring at Klughaus gallery in NYC. It seems like he's pushed further since then, as this show features some larger works on wood and canvas.


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This dish is an easy, nourishing and satisfying curry with bold and complex flavors that is an especially good choice for a midweek meal when you are pressed for time and energy and want some spice in your life. I will add that it is a good choice for mushrooms fiends like myself to get their weekly fix. Serve with a bed of hot steaming buttered rice and you have all the makings for happy tummies.
Amchoor or dried mango powder and Kashmiri chili powder are easily available at any Indian grocer, but you can substitute any other chili powder for the Kashmiri, and add the juice from one fresh lime or lemon at the end of the cooking time to substitute for the amchoor.
|Kashmiri Chickpeas with Mushrooms
|Recipe by Lisa Turner
Cuisine: Indian
Published on April 20, 2013
Simple, nourishing and filling chickpea curry with mushrooms and robust Kashmiri seasonings
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Glassed bookshelves line one wall of the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee room. It displays plaques and awards of recognition. The names of past committee chairmen are noted beside gavels. Through the glass, no doubt you can hear the muffled arguments of past days in this room as farm bills were hashed out and programs saved at the 11th hour.
The current chairman, U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., sits at the head of the table, meeting this morning with reporters. He answers questions about WTO, CAFTA and farm labor, indicating he'll introduce a bill later this year regarding immigration reform that has farm labor as a starting point.
You'll notice the "United States Senate" coasters before you put down your coffee, of course.
What goes on in the halls of the U.S. Congress will have as much — probably more — impact on your future as a good nutrient program will have on your crops this year.
U.S. Sen. Kent Conrad, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Ag Commission from North Dakota, regales reporters with a story about Howell Heflin, the late former U.S. senator from Alabama. The committee was just about to wrap up its work, when Heflin asked, "What about peaches?" Conrad stretches out in word as best he can. "You better believe we had something about 'peaches' in there after he asked about it."
There's politics and then there is political reality.
Already, talk of the farm bill is heavy in the air. There are other issues at play as well. Trade agreements, the WTO ruling on the U.S. cotton program and farm labor. Former U.S. ag secretary and U.S. trade representative Clayton Yeutter says farm policy and trade policy are now intersecting, similar to the time when he held the offices.
On the farm bill front, the talk is about the impact that trade agreements will likely play on U.S. farm policy in the next farm bill. Chambliss says the Doha round will play an "integral" part in the next farm bill. He also points out that it's his job to see that the farm bill is carried out the way it was written.
Groups from a wide-ranging ideological perspective are lining up supporting a different kind of farm bill that focuses on getting the program out of the seemingly amber glow that attracts trade protests from other nations. Simply put, these groups range from left to right on the political spectrum. They're calling for more conservation programs, among other things. David Orden, a Virginia Tech economist, is circulating an idea about buying out the farm programs.
On a three-day visit to D.C., I'm sitting in on presentations and within handshaking distance of some of the ones who will be moving and shaking debate, all the time taking notes and reflecting on what many of the farmers in the South have told me: "What happens here affects how I'll ultimately farm."
Things move fast in this town. What's going on one day might pass by the next. The train goes both ways, and unless you're plugged into the schedule, you might wind up in Maryland when you actually wanted to be near the Capitol.
Back home in North Caroilna, I'm riding on a tractor with Larry Sampson of Robeson County, N.C. If I had any doubt about the impact of what happens in D.C., it's put to rest by the majority of our conservation. We're talking about planting the first tobacco crop post-buyout.


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Eileen M. Shore
Cali and Weldon Research Professor in FOP
Department: Orthopaedic Surgery
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McKay Orthopaedic Research Laboratory
115A Stemmler Hall
3450 Hamilton Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6081
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Philadelphia, PA 19104-6081
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Office: 215-898-2331
Fax: 215-573-2133
Fax: 215-573-2133
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B.S. (Biology)
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, 1976.
M.A. (Biology)
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1978.
Ph.D. (Cell and Molecular Biology)
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1987.
B.S. (Biology)
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, 1976.
M.A. (Biology)
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1978.
Ph.D. (Cell and Molecular Biology)
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1987.
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Description of Research ExpertiseRESEARCH INTERESTS:
Genetic Regulation of Bone Formation: Genetic diseases of bone formation and development. Molecular and cell biology of bone formation and osteoblast differentiation. Cell signaling pathways and transcriptional activation and regulation of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) and GNAS target genes. Developmental biology of BMP signaling.
Bone formation, cell differentiation, human genetics, molecular biology, cell biology, developmental biology, gene expression, inherited diseases, bone, cartilage, bone morphogenetic protein, BMP, ACVR1, G-proteins, GNAS, FOP, POH.
Research in our laboratory is focused on genetic diseases of bone formation, mainly fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) and progressive osseous heteroplasia (POH). Both of these rare disorders are characterized by de novo formation of bone: in FOP, the ectopic bone forms in deep connective tissues such as muscle; and in POH, bone formation initiates within the skin. Our goals are to investigate the genetic causes of these conditions and the cellular pathways that are involved in the induction of bone development and formation, and to use this information to develop treatments for these and other disorders of bone.
With our identification of the mutated genes for POH and FOP, our experimental directions are focused on determining the functions of these genes and the consequences of the identified mutations. Our current work includes:
POH is caused by heterozygous inactivating mutations in the gene encoding the alpha subunit of the stimulatory G protein of adenylyl cyclase (GNAS). Our data suggest that phenotypic expression of a GNAS mutation may be affected by genomic imprinting. GNAS is a complex gene that encodes multiple transcripts regulated by different promoters. Active areas of investigation include: genetics and epigenetics of GNAS and POH; the roles of GNAS expression in bone and fat cell differentiation; and investigation of the signal transduction pathways mediated by GNAS proteins.
Linkage analysis of families with inheritance of FOP identified a common mutation (R206H) in the ACVR1 gene in patients with classic features of the disease. ACVR1 encodes a BMP type I receptor. Areas of investigation include the genetics and variable expressivity of FOP, for example, recent studies examined the ACVR1 gene in patients with very severe or mild forms of FOP and identified novel ACVRl mutations that suggest genotype-phenotype correlations. We are also investigating the effects of FOP ACVR1 mutations on the BMP signaling pathway and roles in cartilage and bone cell differentiation. Mouse and zebrafish models are being used to investigate the developmental biology of ACVR1 signaling in bone and cartilage as well as other tissues during vertebrate development. Recently initiated studies are investigating the cellular and tissue events that occur prior to aberrant cell differentiation to form bone.
In addition, we are using cell lineage-tracing analyses to investigate the source and identity of the cells that are induced to differentiate into cartilage and/or bone in FOP and POH. We are interested in identifying the earliest cellular events that occur during the induction of bone formation.
Translational studies and drug development are an increasing focus within the lab. Animal models for FOP and POH will be used to evaluate gene therapy and other strategies to treat these conditions.
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Rotation projects are available in most of the research areas described in the Research Summary. Specific projects will be discussed individually. Laboratory research is closely tied to clinical observation and patient care, and students are encouraged to have patient contact.
LAB PERSONNEL: (as of Spring 2012)
Collaborators: FrederickS. Kaplan MD, Robert J. Pignolo, MD, PhD
Students: Andria Culbert (CAMB); Michael Convente (CAMB); Will Towler (CAMB); Edwin Theosmy (post-bac)
Post-doc/Research Associates: Salin Chakkalakal PhD; Julia Haupt PhD; Josef Kaplan PhD; Vitali Lounev PhD; Girish Ramaswamy PhD; Haitao Wang PhD
Research Specialists: Bob Caron; Ruth McCarrick-Walmsley; Meiqi Xu; Deyu Zhang
Selected PublicationsChakkalakal SA, Zhang D, Culbert AL, Convente MR, Caron RJ, Wright AC, Maidment AD, Kaplan FS, Shore EM. : An Acvr1 R206H knock-in mouse has fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva. J Bone Miner Res 27(8): 1746-1756, April 16 2012.
Shore, E.M. : Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP): A human genetic disorder of extra-skeletal bone formation, or - How does one tissue become another? Wiley Interdiscip Rev Dev Biol. Selected for Inaugural Issue. 1(1): 153-165, January 2012.
Liu JJ, Russell E, Zhang D, Kaplan FS, Pignolo RJ, Shore EM. : Paternally-Inherited Gsα Mutation Impairs Adipogenesis and Potentiates a Lean Phenotype In vivo. Stem Cells 30(7): 1477-1485, Jul 2012.
Pignolo, R.J., M. Xu, E. Russell, A. Richardson, J. Kaplan, P.C. Billings, F.S. Kaplan, E.M. Shore.: Heterozygous inactivation of Gnas in adipose-derived mesenchymal progenitor cells enhances osteoblast differentiation and promotes heterotopic ossification. JBMR 26(11): 2647-2655, November 2011.
Kaplan, J., F.S. Kaplan, and E.M. Shore : Restoration of normal BMP signaling levels and osteogenic differentiation in FOP mesenchymal progenitor cells by mutant allele-specific targeting. Gene Therapy 19(7): 786-790, October 2012.
Shore, E.M. and F.S. Kaplan : Inherited Human Diseases of Heterotopic Bone Formation. Nature Reviews Rheumatology 6(9): 518-527, September 2010.
Medici, D., E.M. Shore, V.Y. Lounev, F.S. Kaplan, R. Kalluri, and B.R. Olsen : Conversion of vascular endothelial cells into multipotent stem-like cells. Nature Medicine 16(12): 1400-1406, December 2010 Notes: Epub 2010 Nov 21 Erratum in: Nat Med 2011 Apr;17(4):514
Shen, Q., S.C. Little, M. Xu, J. Haupt, C. Ast, T. Katagiri, S. Mundlos, P. Seemann, F.S. Kaplan, M.C. Mullins, E.M. Shore.: Fibrodysplasia ossifcans progressiva ACVR1 R206H mutation activates BMP-independent chondrogenesis and ventralization of zebrafish embryos. J. Clin. Invest 119(11): 3462-3472, November 2009.
Shore EM., Xu M., Feldman GJ., Fenstermacher DA., FOP International Research Consortium., Brown MA., Kaplan FS.: A recurrent mutation in the BMP type I receptor ACVR1 causes inherited and sporadic fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva. Nature Genetics 38(5): 525-527, May 2006.
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The Rise And Fall Of Bitcoin... But Is It Really Over Yet?
from the not-quite deptBack in April, just as Bitcoin was starting to get some mainstream attention, I questioned its ability to succeed long term. Too much about it felt like a fad, and there seemed to be significant questions about it. However, over the next few months, as the price of Bitcoins rose quickly, and there was more and more interest in it, I wondered if perhaps my natural skepticism got the best of me. Of course, since then, the Bitcoin market has come way back down, and the concept has definitely lost a lot of its "shiny new thing" appeal.
Wired is running a detailed article on "The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin," which is a worthwhile read. Of course, it seems to be premised on the idea that Bitcoin is more or less dead -- a fad that came and went. Indeed, my initial post on Bitcoin questioned whether it would just be a fad. I still think it's likely... but I'm wondering if the big flare up over the past few months might be good for Bitcoin in the long run. Lots of speculators came and went, and Bitcoin gets to be ignored once more. Might that create a space to allow for a more sustainable ecosystem to be built, while the speculators and swindlers have moved on? Maybe. I'm still thinking that Bitcoin is most likely a fad that will die out. But sometimes a big flame out early on is a good way to obscure work that comes out of the ashes.
If I had to guess (and it's purely a guess), I'd say that the real legacy of Bitcoin may be in how it paved a path. The more interesting area to watch might not be what happens to Bitcoin specifically, but what the next attempt at such a currency brings around. There are lots of smart people looking at what happened to Bitcoin, and someone's going to come up with a better mousetrap.


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From 19 November US AT&T subscribers will be able to buy the world's first mobile data hotspot to feature both 4G LTE support and the unusual innovation of a built-in 2.8 inch colour LCD touchscreen, the company has announced.
Announced last month by portable hotspot pioneer Novatel Wireless, the MiFi Liberate router is claimed to offer simple, finger-driven setup for 10 devices to share the same 4G Internet connection via 802.11n Wi-Fi.
Admins can also check data usage through the router's interface as well as set it up for DLNA media sharing and configure the way sharing devices (smartphones and laptops) use the connection, including configuring the integrated firewall.
The built-in battery is said to last for up to 11 hours while owners can add storage and file-sharing capacity via a microSD card slot with a maximum capacity of 32GB. As with previous models, owners place their SIM in a separate slot.
The Liberate is a bit ahead of the curve when it comes to mobile data, used by only a fraction of current mobile users; in the UK only the EE 4G network is up and running so the device's potential will be limited to one set of subscribers for the foreseeable future.
What this all costs will vary by network and country; AT&T is offering it to subscribers using its 4G service for $49.99 on a two-year agreement. Prices for the device bought standalone have not been made available.


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IT Hosting Reception for Dodd, New Bookby Howard Hewitt • April 30, 2012 Share:
Wabash's Quentin Dodd, a network administrator for Information Technology Services, has released his third book.
IT Services will host a reception at 3:30 Wednesday in the Rogge Lounge to celebrate the publishing of Tommy Frasier and the Planet of the Slugs. Tommy Frasier and the Planet of the Slugs is a chapter book for children 7 and up. "One afternoon, Tommy Frasier finds a talking slug hiding in his refrigerator. Things get crazier from there."
More on Quentin and his books at his blog linked here.


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In 1977, WHOI scientists and colleagues were astonished to find lush communities of life thriving without sunlight on chemical-rich fluids venting from the seafloor. The scientists called this site, filled with 6-foot-tall tubeworms, "Garden of Eden.[ MORE ]
" Another site nearby was called "Rose Garden." (Kathleen Crane, NOAA) [ LESS ]
When scientists returned to the Galápagos Ridge in 2002, they found that "Rose Garden" had probably been paved over by fresh lava in an undersea volcanic eruption. But they discovered a new site, with juvenile tubeworms, which they called "Rosebud.[ MORE ]
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This vent site, dotted with giant clams called Calyptogena magnifica, was discovered in 2002. It is called "Calyfield."
Tim Shank, a biologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, collects samples of giant clams retrieved by the Alvin submersible during the 2002 expedition to the Galápagos Rift. Shank returned to the area in 2005 and is back again on a new voyage in July 2011.[ MORE ]
In 2005, scientists found another vent community on the Galápagos Rift. Considering its shape and continuing a tradition, they named it "Rose Bowl." (Photo by Dan Fornari, Woods Hole Oceanograp[ MORE ]
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During the 2011 expedition to the Galápagos Rift, scientists hope to explore recently-discovered vent sites (Navidad, Iguanas, and Penguinas) east of a large north-south fault at 91°W that separates segments of the rift.[ MORE ]
They will also visit longer-known sites such as Garden of Eden, which lies east of the fault, and investigate signals from chemical plumes from as-yet unknown vent sites. (Map courtesy of Tim Shank, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) [ LESS ]
he 2011 expedition is aboard Okeanos Explorer, operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program INDEX-SATAL 2010)
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In the beginning, there was the Garden of Eden. It was a lush primordial oasis of life, bursting with exotic life forms. Now, scientists have embarked on a research expedition to return to the Garden.
The expedition does not involve time travel. This Garden of Eden is on the bottom of the ocean. It was named by scientists diving in the submersible Alvin near the Galápagos Islands in 1977. They were astonished to see fields of slender, 6-foot-tall, white tubes with the blood-red tips of worms peeking out. Like flowers atop tall stems, they swayed in the shimmering breeze of warm fluids venting from the seafloor. The discovery of life thriving in the absence of sunlight and nourished by chemicals in the vent fluids revolutionized understanding of how and where life could exist, and raised new ideas about the origins of life on Earth.
On June 9, the research vessel Okeanos Explorer, operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), set out on the 50-day expedition to search for deep-sea communities along the Galápagos Rift. The rift is a segment of the mid-ocean ridge, the chain of volcanic undersea mountains that meanders across the entire globe at the borders of Earth's great tectonic plates. Beginning next week, scientists aboard the ship will deploy Little Hercules, a tethered remotely operated vehicle that will transmit high-definition video live from the seafloor.
Since vent life was found on the Galápagos Rift, oceanographers have found that various animal populations live in different regions of the seafloor. "You can think of these deep-sea communities along the mid-ocean ridge like cities connected by an interstate highway system," said Tim Shank, a deep-sea biologist at WHOI who will be aboard Okeanos Explorer. "The populations in San Diego, Minneapolis, Boston, and Miami are quite different, and so are animal populations on different segments of the mid-ocean ridge and even along the same segment."
Along a section of the mid-ocean ridge called the East Pacific Rise, which separates the Pacific Plate to the west and the Cocos Plate to the east, scientists have found more than 160 species of worms, crustaceans, and mollusks. The Galápagos Rift is the border between the Cocos Plate and the Nazca Plate to the south. At the Garden of Eden and seven other vent sites discovered between 86°W and 89.5°W along the Galápagos Rift, however, scientists have found fewer than 60 species, but many of these have not been seen anywhere else.
For more than two decades, scientists have theorized about the reasons for this diversity. One hypothesis is that the Hess Deep, a chasm at the juncture of the Pacific, Cocos, and Nazca Plates that plunges 9,000 feet deep, might act as a formidable barrier blocking the dispersal of larvae of deep-sea animals, Shank said.
A second leading hypothesis is that animal communities are determined by different types of vents found in different areas. On the East Pacific Rise, scientists have found "black-smoker" vents, which billow out powerful jets of dark, mineral-rich fluids that reach temperatures of 350°C (660°F) under deep-sea pressure. No such sites have been discovered yet along the Galápagos Rift, where fluids with temperature less than 35°C (95°F) waft from the seafloor.
On a 2005 research cruise, however, Shank and colleagues found evidence of three areas with black-smoker vents to the west of the Garden of Eden. Scientists christened them the Navidad, Iguanas, and Penguinas Vent Fields. In the center of this area, at 91°W, a large fault offsets the Galápagos Rift like the middle segment of a "Z." The newly found high-temperature vent sites are north of the zag; and the older low-temperatures vent sites are on the other side of it to the south. Does this fault act as a border between different volcanic activity, a barrier for larval dispersal, or both?
The 2005 expedition offered only a brief encounter with and tantalizing glimpses of animal life at the new black-smoker vent sites, including giant tubeworms and dinner-platter sized clams and mussels. To get a much closer look, the 2011 expedition will revisit these sites with Little Hercules. Via its fiber-optic cable attached to the ship, scientists will be able to control the vehicle's navigation precisely. And like a mechanical optic nerve, the tether will transmit real-time images to scientists.
Then Okeanos Explorer will proceed east to revisit Rosebud, Garden of Eden, and other previously studied sites southwest of the 91°W fault. Not only do vent sites differ by their location, they also change over time, Shank said. In 2002, he was aboard an expedition to revisit a vent site first discovered in 1977 called Rose Garden. Scientists never found it again and concluded that a volcanic eruption had paved it over with fresh lava.
Not far from the original Rose Garden site, however, atop the new lava flow, Shank and colleagues discovered new adolescent communities of clams, mussels, and tubeworms, some no more than an inch tall. They named the site "Rosebud." On the same voyage, they found a vent site they named "Calyfield," because it was dotted with giant clams called Calyptogena magnifica. A formation from an extinct high-temperature vent was nearby.
Okeanos Explorer will explore what has happened at these sites—or what may be happening. In an e-mail Shank sent June 29 just before he departed to meet the ship, he wrote: "After the last three days of surveying, it looks as if the rift from Calyfield to at least Rosebud has become very active. In fact, given the data, we may have black smokers in an area that has not had them before. Honestly, we don't know at this point."
The expedition aims to find out.
This expedition is being funded by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.


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Since the New Year starts off with my 300th In The Pipeline column, I thought we'd go back to the beginning for an update.
Column No. 1 involved a mysterious landmark, a black, granite tombstone at Springdale Street and Warner Avenue, in the bushes behind the Arco station. Its text reads: "In recognition of Lloyd Wright's 94-foot-high sign tower that was to have been erected on this spot. Its defeat is symbolic of the democratic process in which we live. The people did not wish this sign tower to be erected as they felt it was not needed and would blight their community. Their wishes were heard and adhered to by the developer, Stanley Fann. — 1970"
I'd seen it for years and decided to kick things off by trying to figure out what it all meant. As you might recall, my investigation brought me, luckily to Los Angeles-based multi-media artist (and architect aficionado) Patrick Tierney. Years earlier he had tracked down the center's developer, Stanley Fann, and learned all about the story of how Frank Lloyd Wright Jr., son of the famed American architect, came to Huntington Beach back in the late 1960s to design the Westfair Shopping Center (and the adjoining gas station).
As for the tower, Tierney explained to me in 2007 that locals vehemently protested the idea of a 94-foot behemoth in their neighborhood, thwarting the plans of the great architect. The tombstone was placed, in Tierney's words, as "A 500-pound, permanent proclamation of victory of the People."
I've always wondered what the tower would have looked like. The developer, Stanley Fann told me back then that it was designed to look like an oil derrick, in honor of the city's "crude" history. Well, thanks to Tierney, now I know what it would have looked like, as do you, because he has shared Wright's original concept sketch (which he purchased from Fann).
I find it quite bizarre, less like an oil derrick and more like some sort of futuristic transmission tower. But of course I wanted Tierney's learned opinion.
He said, "When I saw the rendering of the tower I failed to find any resemblance to an oil derrick. After some reflection, I surmised that the public was so fed up with the perceived blight of the oil derricks that once riddled the Huntington Beach landscape that the word 'oil well' became the locals synonymous expression for any following threats of intrusion being proposed on the same magnitude as an oil derrick. I liken Wright's tower to an origami-like floral form, comprised of four signboard petals and stylized stamen. It's a poetic coincidence that the then onsite Sav-On Drugstore's 'Yin Yang-inspired corporate logo was branded on one of those petals. Additionally, the father and son Wright's were very much fascinated with and influenced by Orientalism."
As far as Wright's reaction to the rejection of the tower, Tierney shared, "Unlike other public phallic obelisks, towers and totems in history, I feel that to the arrogant and emotional Wright, all his trademark pylon markers were highly personal expressions, so the rejection of it impacted him as symbolic castration of his potency and prowess. The Westfair developer Stanley Fann, bears this out when he shared that Wright 'bawled like a baby' when he received the bad news."
And as to the importance today of Westfair, Tierney explained to me in depth:
"In historic terms I feel that the Westfair Shopping Center and service station alone merits at very least a footnote in texts on Lloyd Wright's work in which his temperament is addressed.
"Certainly the Westfair is ripe for inclusion in popular coffee table books on roadside vernacular, whether or not the sign tower was erected because of the inevitability that the public uprising would have preceded the controversy over the sign tower in either scenario. Of course, the actual outcome is preferable as the tremendously sexy narrative of the rejection of an architectural Titan.
"With more exposure, the service station element of the tower story alone could bring to it the same great interest that Wright fans have shown with the service station that Lloyd Wright's father designed in Cloquet, Minnesota (his sole service station commission as well) has drawn to that project.
"In both cases the Wright's service stations are novel among their works, not solely for them being one of a kind, but for the Wright's brave willingness to see beyond the public's popular perception of the service station as being beneath an architect's dignity to design; designs which the Wrights were compelled to put forward by their largely unrealized ideological interests which embodied in part a Socialistic vision of creating affordable, utopian communities for the working class."
So there you have it. What the infamous tower would have looked like, along with erudite commentary from a true Wright scholar.
Personally, I do wish the tower had been built. Just look at it. Visible for miles, it would have been a spectacular spike in the landscape and perhaps our city's greatest conversation piece. Eric Lloyd Wright, the architect's son, who has his own architectural firm in Malibu, apprenticed for eight years with his grandfather, Frank Lloyd Wright, as well as working with his father on Westfair. He told me in '07 that he wishes it had been built, too.
Forget the aesthetics for a moment. Just think of the tourism, which has become, in many ways, Huntington Beach's most valuable, visible product. This thing would have been a magnet for many, especially students of architecture, a fact which probably would have saved it today – that it might actually have generated a few dollars. Then again, I think I'd like it simply because I tend to enjoy a good spectacle.
On that note, here's to a few good spectacles in '13. Happy New Year!
CHRIS EPTING is the author of 19 books, including the new "Baseball in Orange County," from Arcadia Publishing. You can chat with him on Twitter: @chrisepting or follow his column at http://www.facebook.com/hbindependent.


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Narendra P. Sharma is actively seeking the assistance of government officials to defend the hardship his organization is facing.
Sharma, who is chairman of the Neighborhood Outreach Connection, said the program may have to leave its current location.
NOC is an organization which tries to fight poverty and has been located at Bluffton House Apartments on Simmonsville Road for three years.
Aspen Square Management, who are the owners of Bluffton House Apartments, is asking NOC to vacate the two apartments.
"I strongly want politicians to intervene and help NOC and Aspen Square Management come to a satisfactory solution," Sharma said. "I think this is the best pathway for us to follow."
Last Monday, Bluffton Mayor Lisa Sulka wrote a letter to Aspen Square Management.
"Neighborhood Outreach Connection is an organization led by many people who have succeeded in life and are using their skills to help others," Sulka said in her letter. "Its board members, leaders and volunteers spend countless hours tutoring your young residents so they are keeping pace with other students with more resources."
Sulka said "NOC's program of educational assistance, health screening and workforce development is essential to leveling the playing field for many of the town's minority low-income families."
Sharma said he has had "long" conversations with Sen. Tom Davis of Beaufort to get involved in the issue.
He said he's made contact with U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford's office as well as had conversations with Beaufort County Board of Education Chairman Bill Evans and Superintendent Jeffrey Moss.
"Test scores in reading and math indicate that NOC is having a positive effect on the academic success of the students that the group is working with," Moss said. "And from my perspective, whenever we have an organization that is making a positive difference and helping kids to succeed in school, that's a good thing."
"We are a grassroot organization," Sharma said. "We need grassroot support."
Sharma said he wrote letters to Aspen Square Management on Aug. 7, but has not received a response.
Earlier in July, Aspen Square Management vice president Jeff Strole wrote in an email that he had "no comment" regarding the matter.
Sharma wrote another letter last Wednesday to Aspen Square Management.
In that letter, Sharma wrote "NOC is willing to move from the low-income housing unit 204 to one of the market rented units at Bluffton House."
Sharma said NOC is willing to rent that unit at $1,000 per month (a $300 increaser over what NOC paid for apartment 204, until recently).
Sharma's letter also said "In addition, we would be willing to move from Apartment 203 to a second open market unit at no cost, given the significant benefits that NOC brings to the Bluffton House Community and the owners of the property."
Sharma said it is important for NOC to use two apartments in close proximity to make programs "effective, safe and convenient" for the residents, specifically children and mothers.
Additionally, Sharma said he has received 104 signatures from Bluffton Apartment renters who support NOC remaining in its current location.
Sharma said NOC has received 150 signatures through its online petition.
The online petition can be viewed at www.change.org/petitions/aspensquare-management-let-noc-keep-our-apartments-at-bluffton-house.
"We hope that we can find a solution, acting in a spirit of cooperation and putting the interest of the community first," Sharma said.
Program services
"Our mantra is education, health care and workforce development," Sharma said in July.
Sharma earned a Ph.D. in economic development from Virginia Tech and works to provide programs to improve student achievement and the quality of life for low-income families in Bluffton.
Students come to the organization to receive assistance in academic subjects. Sharma said teachers at the organization help students with cognitive skills, such as recognizing shapes and numbers.
About 80 percent of the students served by the organization attend Red Cedar Elementary School, which is where most of the organization's teachers work.
Sharma said teachers receive weekly reports which aid them on students' progress in key academic subjects.


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Last year The Yes crew joined up with one of our senior photographers, Ashley Barker. While it might not have been the best of winters, they were still able to get some awesome stuff done. Here's a little sampling of what went down in the Whistler backcountry and resort. Feast up.


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Elusive signs: Bruce Nauman works with light
Milwaukee Art Museum, 2006 - Art - 95 pages
Intrigued and inspired by the neon beer signs on shopfronts in his San Francisco neighborhood, Bruce Nauman created his first neon piece, Window or Wall Sign, in 1967. He wanted, he said, to achieve "an art that would kind of disappear—that was supposed to not quite look like art." Light offered Nauman a medium both elusive and effervescent, but one that could also aggressively convey a message. Over the first three decades of his career, Nauman used the medium of light to explore the twists and turns of perception, logic, and meaning with the earnest playfulness that characterizes all his art. Elusive Signs focuses on the discrete body of Nauman's work that uses neon and fluorescent light in signs and room installations, and includes images of nearly all Nauman's work with light.
After Window or Wall Sign, Nauman embarked on a series of neons that grappled with the semiotics of body and identity, and with My Name as Though it Were Written on the Surface of the Moon (1968), he forces the viewer to contemplate the role of naming in forming identity. Language—signs and symbols—plays an important role in Nauman's art. His later neon works emphasize the neon as a sign, presenting provocative twists of language and offering harsh and humorous sociopolitical commentary in such pieces as Run from Fear, Fun from Rear (1972). This series culminates in the monumental, billboard-size One Hundred Live and Die (1984), which employs overwhelming scale to bombard the viewer with sardonic aphorisms. In incisive essays that accompany the images of Nauman's work, Joseph Ketner II of the Milwaukee Art Museum (which originated the exhibit this book accompanies) and critics Janet Kraynak and Gregory Volk analyze the works in light both as a body of work and as an access point to Nauman's entire career.
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Stuttgart Police Department reports published in the Monday, June 17, edition of the Stuttgart Daily Leader:
June 13
Intersection of Third and Buerkle
At approximately 11:30 p.m., SPD Ptl. Kyle Stokes was dispatched for a person holding a machete and causing problems. When he arrived he spoke to a woman who pointed out the suspect and said she threw the weapon in the ditch when she saw the officer arrive. The woman was screaming obscenities and was visibly pregnant. The woman continued to scream after being told to calm down or she would be placed under arrest. Officers had to physically force the woman off balance and ease her to the ground. She was placed in handcuffs, from which she removed one arm and had to be restrained again. An ambulance was called to check the woman, and because she was possibly HIV positive, officers also received blood work. The woman was admitted to the hospital for observation and will also be mentally evaluated due to several self-inflected cuts on her stomach.
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1000 block of E. Harrison
SPD Ptl. Jeffery Bokker spoke with a man who said a woman had keyed his vehicle. He said the two got into an argument the day before and when she left the following morning she keyed the vehicle. The damage was to the hood, passenger side rear quarter panel, driver side front and rear doors. The damage was estimated at $1,000.
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Monday, 20 February 2012
And That's That
Writing The Veggiebox has been lots of fun, but now I'm done.
Lots of things are changing. I'm no longer writing stuff like Light Reading and Three Things About Me. I don't produce articles as the blue pootle. I have an inkling that my writing future lies in a different direction. And I really can't scour one more book for mentions of vegetables. It was a niche market at the best of times.
I'll still pop up on the MNW blog with writing-related news.
And so all that remains to say is thanks for reading. I've left up some of my favourite posts, including the Veggie Books, in case you fancy a trawl through the archives. I wish you lots of love, luck, and happiness. And the occasional interestingly-shaped carrot. Cheerio.
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- Nik Perring said...
Sorry to see you go, Aliya! It HAS been fun!
Best of luck with the new writing direction!
Nik x
- 20 February 2012 at 12:25
- Len Tyler said...
Wow, this is a shock. I do sympathise though - as you know, I just post occasionally on the MNW blog rather than have a blog of my own. You need time for actual writing. A lot of people will miss this blog but good luck with the "different directions".
- 20 February 2012 at 13:23
- Alis said...
Aliya, I know the feeling -I'm still struggling with whether to recommence writing my own blog. But I hope that signing off the Veggiebox gives you lots more time for your writing. A x
- 20 February 2012 at 13:35
- Frances Garrood said...
Yes - I'll miss your blog too! Hope the writing and the new direction work out for you.
- 20 February 2012 at 13:57
- Matt Curran said...
Hi Aliya
Sad to see you go, but will you really be leaving the blogosphere/twittersphere entirely? (It seems difficult to imagine you without an on-line social presence).
Conversely I've started blogging again, but on a limited basis, trying to concentrate more on what's going on with the writing than anything else.
I hope the different directions will still keep you in touch with those that still travel these same roads - you're a traveller that we will really miss if that's not so.
Matt x
(PS: Word Verification is "solus ympred" sounds like Latin for "doing it alone". Guess we all have to do this from time to time to get the words on the page...)
- 20 February 2012 at 13:58
- Tim Stretton said...
So long, and thanks for all the fish...er, veggies.
I'll have to follow Twitter more assiduously now to keep up.
- 20 February 2012 at 14:17
- Aliya Whiteley said...
Thanks guys!
- 20 February 2012 at 17:18
- Dr Ian Hocking said...
So long, and thanks for all the vegetables! But this is new writing direction?
- 21 February 2012 at 12:09
- Dr Ian Hocking said...
Ack - I meant 'What *is* this new writing direction?'
- 21 February 2012 at 12:09
- Aliya Whiteley said...
Buy me a pint and I'll tell you.
- 21 February 2012 at 15:26
- Dr Ian Hocking said...
I'm at the bar. Spitfire?
- 21 February 2012 at 16:19
- Aliya Whiteley said...
- 21 February 2012 at 16:20
- Abi said...
Ahh sorry to hear this, I enjoyed dipping into this blog over the last 18 months or so :) Good luck with everything!
- 23 February 2012 at 21:18
- Aliya Whiteley said...
Thanks Abi.
- 24 February 2012 at 09:02
I've read your blog silently mainly because I'm a drunk who finds typing effort. I'll miss it but I hope more than anything you keep writing. But only selfishly because I like to read it. I have to be honest any reader is only interested in there reading.
But seriously, you are a talent and I hope this aint the end. Keep writing friend,
Jay12 (UKA) :-)
- 21 March 2012 at 23:52
- Aliya Whiteley said...
Thanks Jay!
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Stearns concedes in primary
It's all over for Rep. Cliff Stearns in Florida's Republican primary, which delivered a stunning upset victory to a veterinarian who has never held elected office.
Stearns conceded the race to political novice Ted Yoho on Wednesday, the Associated Press reported. The outcome in Tuesday's election was an unexpected fall from power for Stearns, who had used his chairmanship of a key House Energy and Commerce subcommittee to put the White House on the hot seat over Solyndra and help trigger this year's Komen-Planned Parenthood blow-up.
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Yoho, leading by 829 votes out of 63,690 counted with all precincts reporting, didn't wait to celebrate victory Tuesday night.
"I'm going to thank God," the self-proclaimed "Christian and conservative Republican" told the Times. "I'm going to do a Tebow right here."
As of early Wednesday morning, it was still possible that still-to-be-counted provisional ballots and overseas absentee ballots could eat into Yoho's lead, or even reverse the outcome. For now, though, Yoho's margin is 1.3 percent, outside the 0.5-percent margin that Florida law sets for an automatic recount.
Yoho had 34.4 percent of the vote to Stearns's 33.1 percent in a four-candidate field.
Still, the outcome was an unexpected rebuke for Stearns, an incumbent whose $2.1 million campaign war chest far outweighed Yoho's $129,500 as of late July — and who, as recently as March, appeared to be a rising Republican rock star.
As chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's oversight subpanel, Stearns was in charge of an aggressive investigation of Solyndra that had put the Obama administration's clean-energy programs on trial.
Stearns was also behind an investigation of Planned Parenthood that Susan G. Komen for the Cure cited as its justification for cutting off cancer-screening grant money to the women's health organization. Komen reversed itself amid a nationwide outcry, but it lost public support and has had much turnover since then among its top leadership.
The Planned Parenthood probe heightened Stearns's national profile for a time, especially among social conservatives. But his investigation — into whether Planned Parenthood was improperly using federal funds for abortions, which it denied — soon faded from the headlines.


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They are doing some restoration on the Cathedral's beautiful stained glass windows, how cold must it be up in that cherry picker?
Facing the other direction looking towards the town hall, the plane trees outside our windows are home to many sparrows who like to visit in summer when the doors are open.
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Accused "Dark Knight" killer James Holmes is expected back in court Thursday as a judge considers whether his university records can be turned over to prosecutors.
Prosecutors want access to over 100 pages of non-medical records that the University of Colorado, where Holmes was until recently a neuroscience graduate student, turned over to Arapahoe County District Judge William Sylvester last week, The Associated Press reported.
Defense attorneys, who moved last week to cancel a prosecution subpoena for the records, are asking that nobody, not even the judge, examine the documents, according to the AP.
Holmes is accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 others in a July 20 shooting spree at an Aurora, Colo., theater during a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises."
Prosecutors say his university records are crucial to their efforts to gain access to the contents of a package Holmes mailed to his university psychiatrist, Dr. Lynne Fenton, who is scheduled to testify Aug. 30. That package reportedly contained a notebook detailing violent descriptions of an attack. The defense maintains the package's contents are privileged doctor-patient communications, the AP reported.
Karen Steinhauser, a law professor and former Denver Deputy District Attorney, told the AP that the university records could help prosecutors build their case against Holmes.
"They want those records in the hopes that it could help them build their case that these are not the actions of an insane man," Steinhauser said.
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Another school, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, recently released Holmes' educational records from when he considered enrolling. They contained a letter of recommendation that described Holmes as having "a great amount of intellectual and emotional maturity," The Denver Post reported.
Last week Judge Sylvester ruled to keep some key court documents sealed from the public, saying their release could damage the investigation, NBC News reported. According to The Denver Post, prosecutors and the defense both argued for the court documents to remain sealed to assure the integrity of the investigation and to protect Holmes' right to a fair trial.
Holmes has appeared dazed in earlier court appearances, and lawyers' first big legal hurdle is to determine whether he understands the charges against him and can assist in his own defense.
If he is found competent to stand trial, Holmes will likely enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, setting in motion many more months of legal proceedings, Patrick Furman, a University of Colorado law professor, has said.
Holmes is charged with a deadly rampage at the Denver-area movie theater in which he opened fire on an audience at a screening of "The Dark Knight Rises," killing 12 and injuring 58. Authorities said that after they apprehended him in the theater's parking lot, he said he was Batman's nemesis, the Joker. Police later removed explosives from his apartment in a painstaking operation, they said.
Holmes now faces 24 counts of murder and 116 counts of attempted murder. The dual murder charges for each of the 12 people fatally shot break down as "murder with deliberation" and killing with "extreme indifference to the value of human life." That allows the prosecution two paths in pursuing a possible death sentence, NBC News reported.
A preliminary hearing is currently scheduled for Nov. 13, when the court will hear testimony to determine whether there is enough evidence to proceed to trial, the Denver Post reported.


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Why Are Americans So Easy to Manipulate and Control?
and I would add, to exploit?
~ Bruce E. Levine, a practicing clinical psychologist, writes and speaks about how society, culture, politics and psychology intersect. His latest book is Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and .... His Web site is www.brucelevine.net
"Behaviorism and consumerism, two ideologies which achieved tremendous power in the twentieth century, are cut from the same cloth. The shopper, the student, the worker, and the voter are all seen by consumerism and behaviorism the same way: passive, conditionable objects."
"Those who rise to power in the corporatocracy are control freaks, addicted to the buzz of power over other human beings, and so it is natural for such authorities to have become excited by behavior modification."
And let us not forget that Sigmond Freud's nephew was Edward Bernays who used his Uncle's ideas to help convince the public that bacon and eggs was the true all-American breakfast, not toast and coffee. He used Freud's complex ideas on people's unconscious, psychological motivations and applied them to the new field of public relations. Thus was born the behaviorist-consumer.
Bruce E. Levine,
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Try and look on the situation positively. The sizable minority of Americans who are not so easy to manipulate and control would be equal to or greater than the entire populations of many smaller nations regardless of the demographics.
The glass is half full.
Napoleon, I agree that maintaining a positive attitude is necessary to keep balance in one's life. The problem in this case is the exponential growth of tipping points that are created by or exacerbted by human action. Many do not realize how fast things are changing, just for example, money supply, private and public debt, and what they mean to our future generations. I observe trends, as I was trained to do, and see some dark clouds unseen and unexpected on the horizon.
There was a video I watch recently of a young man who was in economics school and realized the financial collapse that was coming. He complete his training, went back for a medical degree and went into practice. His research confirmed his intuition and he made some adjustments, including leaving medicine and going into financials. Let me see if I can find his video
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Thank you, an interesting video.
Thanks for the link and video - great discussion here.
I don't understand what's "evil" with bacon and eggs for breakfast. Or why anybody had to be convinced that starting the day with protein instead of carbohydrate-loaded cereals (think Post and Kellogg's) won't leave you craving a donut, or some other sweet by mid-morning.
I do know that anyone who spent their early years before TV blasted into our homes isn't quite so susceptible to advertising as younger people....but there aren't that many of us left... I've always thought it was a crock, even before I spent 3 years working for JCPenney Advertising.
My usual reaction to television commercials is, "Oh, sheesh." Or worse. In fact I go out of my way to avoid buying products I see advertised.
I know the difference between "want" and "need."
There is nothing evil about bacon and eggs for breakfast; it appears a typical USA breakfast before Edward Bernays was toast and coffee. You are quite correct about proteins instead of carbs won't leave you craving sugar smeared delectable mid-morning. The point is Bernays used behavioral psychology in advertising and propaganda as had not been done before. Have you read or watched any of the books or videos on him? he was an interesting person.
Freud and Bernays understood how to manipulate and exploit fear and desire.
I don't own a TV and haven't for years. I have no interest in commercial news or reports; why should I, they are owned by corporate USA.
The difference between "want" and "need" makes a big difference in how people consume. Glad you have that figured out. Add to the desire for goods and services, the ability to buy on credit, we have a very risky situation, indeed.
I figured out the difference between "want" and "need" so long ago that I can't remember when I made the switch...it may have been gradual.
I do have one constant "want" that I don't really need. Books. I try to keep my book spending down to $25 a month, and I buy only used books on Half.com. Most of the time the cost of Shipping and Handling (Media Mail) is more than the price of the book. I have actually bought some beautiful new or nearly new books for under a dollar apiece (the S&H is less than $4, and if you buy more than one book from the same vendor in one transaction the S&H costs for the "extra " books is $2 each).
I can't live without my books, but I do reread the good ones at least once a year. I always find something new, or something I forgot when I read them agaiin. (If I put the mysteries away for 5 years, I even forget whodunit, and why.)
BUT I do have a library card...I just don't have a car anymore. And if I don't do anything tout de suite, I won't have a driver's license, either. I'm terrified that I'll fail the vision test. I don't even want to take the written test! Brain freeze!
I'm kind of toying with the idea of selling my car. I live only a block from the bus line, so that would be no problem. Just so used to getting in and going wherever. It would be harder to get to and from Farmer's Markets with loads of vegetables and fruits.
Get one of those lightweight, foldable shopping carts. I'm pretty sure they'll let you take those things on a bus whether it's empty or full.
Does your area have special bus services for "Seniors" and disabled people? I have a friend in Tacoma who is legally blind, and she can get just about anywhere in Tacoma (I took the Coast Starlight up there twice, and both times that bus picked us up at the depot, rather late at night, and took us right to her apartment), AND there are drop-off places where she can get another bus to Seattle...and back. It's slow, but it beats taking a taxi, or walking.
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Marple, Virgil Alan age 78, of Independence, MN, entered heaven on December 24, 2017, to celebrate Christmas with His Lord Jesus Christ. He was born on August 16, 1939, to Laurence and Opal (Lacey) Marple, on the family farm in Wendell, MN. Virgil attended country school and elementary school in Wendell, MN, and graduated from high school at Elbow Lake, MN in 1957. Virgil attended the University of Minne-sota graduating with distinction in 1962 with a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering. In 1965 he received his Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Southern California. In 1970 Virgil received his Ph.D degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. From 1962 -1965 he worked in the aerospace industry at Aeronutronic, a division of Ford Motor Company in Newport Beach, CA. From 1965-1967 Virgil was employed at Fluidyne Engineering in Golden Valley, MN. Virgil was a Mechanical Engineering professor at the University of Minnesota for 41 years, the director of the Engineering Co-op Program for 25 years, and a founding faculty advisor for the Solar Vehicle Project. Virgil focused his research in the field of particle technology and aerosol science, for which he received numerous awards. As an extension of this research Virgil became co-owner of MSP Corp, and owner of Elpram Systems, Inc. and Compotech Systems, Inc. His many patents for impactors and associated devices are still widely in use in the semi-conductor, mining, and pharmaceutical industries. On June 15, 1962, Virgil and Theresa Koep were united in marriage in Elbow Lake, MN. Virgil's faith and family were an integral part of his life, and nothing could light up his face more brightly than hearing the laughter and chatter of his five granddaughters. His quiet faith was manifested in his generous heart. He had much compassion and concern for the poor where he, Theresa and Wendy visited Flores de Ville, a community built of cardboard homes on a garbage dump in Lima, Peru. He saw his compassionate nature come to light in his ability to make many Peruvians live a better lifestyle with their homes, better education, and better health care. In doing so he created lifelong friendships with these dear people. Virgil lived on his Independence, MN farm for 40 years where he continued his love of farming, provided a home to innumerable rescue kitties, and pursued his passion for antique and rare vehicles - especially Studebakers. He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Theresa (Koep), 3 daughters, Jill Rivard (Curt), Holly Gnitka (Steve), Wendy Marple, and 5 granddaughters, Catherine Rivard (fiancé Daniel Graul), Hannah Rivard, Sarah Nicholas (Brandon), Leah Gnitka, Elisabeth Gnitka, and trusted colleague and friend, Trever Nye. Brother, Stanley Marple (Bea), sister-in-law, Alice Marple, brother- in-law, Wesley Koep, sister-in-law, Shirley Koep. Virgil was preceded in death by his parents, Laurence and Opal Marple, brother, LeRoy Marple, sister and brother-in-law, Lucille and Ken Sundet, sister-in-law, Ruth Marple, sister-in-law, Ruby Koep. A memorial service will be held on Thursday, December 28, 2017 at 2:00 PM, with visitation one hour prior, at Buffalo Covenant Church, 1601 Highway 25 North, Buffalo, MN 55313. Burial at Lawrence Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Wendell, MN. In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to Peruvian Partners, PO Box 735, Delano, MN 55328. The Peterson Chapel Buffalo 763-682-1363thepetersonchapel.com


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A few weeks after Kandi Technologies Corp. (Nasdaq: KNDI) went public by merging with a moribund mining company, one of its promoters wrote that 4 million of the shares not held by insiders went "almost exclusively into sophisticated Chinese hands."
That would have been news to anyone who scrutinized the Securities and Exchange Commission filings on the deal.
Those documents did not mention any sort of transaction that could have transferred so much stock from the Canadian investors who originally owned the mining company, Stone Mountain Resources Inc.
But a Sharesleuth investigation turned up major discrepancies in the share reporting by Kandi and Stone Mountain, which might explain how undisclosed parties came away from the 2007 deal with one-fourth or more of the Chinese vehicle maker's stock .
Those shares later could have been sold on the open market for tens of millions of dollars.
As we reported in the first part of this series, the SEC filings on the deal said that the chief executive of Stone Mountain got as many as 3 million Kandi shares, or 15 percent of the total outstanding after the merger. Within nine months, however, he no longer was listed among Kandi's largest shareholders, even though he never reported any stock sales or other changes in his ownership, as required under U.S. securities laws.
In addition, three people who were listed in earlier SEC filings as holding 1.25 million shares of Stone Mountain shares told Sharesleuth they never were investors. Three more told us they weren't sure whether they owned the 1.15 million shares in their names. They added that they never heard about the merger and never got any Kandi shares.
Thus, an additional 12 percent of Kandi's shares inexplicably wound up in the hands of other parties, who never were identified in the filings related to the merger. That raises the question of who really owned Stone Mountain, and who wound up with the 8 million Kandi shares issued to its investors.
When Kandi's shares began trading in July 2007, the stock purportedly issued to Dodge and the other shell owners had a market value of roughly $20 million. Within three months, that value had doubled.
When Kandi's shares reached a high of $7.25 in April 2008, the stock issued to the Stone Mountain holders would have been worth $60 million.


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I was hit by a car 20 months ago and broke my hip. My hip is fine, but the ensuing 4 months on crutches weakened my quads considerably and my knee is still maltracking.
I don't have any pain or discomfort during or after a turbo session or during or after a flat gentle road ride, the soreness kicks in a couple of hours after a hilly ride where I have had to push that much harder.
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So help me out, folks. I really ought to update my blogroll, but I bounce around too much in the blogosphere and follow interesting links without bothering to bookmark many worthy sites. So I know there are a ton of great sites I have perused from time to time and I would like you to help me get back to them.
So here's what I am asking: in the comments, give me the links for any Emergency Medicine-themed blog that you know of. I'm particularly interested in the ER Docs' blogs, because, you know, that's what I am.
And I'm a self-absorbed jerk. No seriously, any EM-themed blog is what I am looking for, and when I get around to it (sometime around the time the ocean levels rise and swallow New York) I will get them all organized and in the blogroll.
Here's my starting list:
The A-Team
GruntDoc (aka the irascible Texan)
The inimitable Kim at Emergiblog
Blogs I have more recently come across
Gardner's Gate (ACEP Board Member)
Healthline's Straight Talk from the ER
March of the Platypi
Panda Bear, MD
Hallway Four
The KnifeMan
People who I wish posted more
Doc Around the Clock
Glorfindel of Gondolin (Great name)
The Budding Emergencist
DocShazam! (a name which really demands to be followed by an exclamation mark)
Is there a Doctor in the House?
OK, that's it for the docs (and Kim). Let's hear about the great Emergency-themed blogs you all read.
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I'm a Lazy Man
So help me out, folks. I really ought to update my blogroll, but I bounce around too much in the blogosphere and follow interesting links without bothering to bookmark many worthy sites. So I know there are a ton of great sites I have perused from time to time and I would like you to help me get back to them.
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It seems odd to me that there aren't more of us doing this. I've got a couple in my blogroll that you missed, notably ERnursey and ImpactED Nurse (both outstanding btw). And Hannah (who has commented here) has a new blog as well.ReplyDelete
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Irascible is the nicest thing anyone has called me in days...ReplyDelete
Nick's site: Blogborygmi
Bloodletting (ED resident: Texan banished to the Great White North)
Madness: Tales of an ER nurse
Tales from the ER and beyond:
Hopefully Symtym will start blogging more now that the law exam is done.ReplyDelete
What about all the prehospital folks who bring you patients? There are a lot of good EMS blogs out there.ReplyDelete
A few of my favorites:
Street Watch
Random Acts of Reality
EMS Haiku
... and, o'course, my own humble Drug-Induced Hallucations
EMS Haiku and myself are both relatively local -- one state south of you, I believe.
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http://nursewilliam.blogspot.com/ ER nurseReplyDelete
http://www.neenaw.co.uk/ dispatcher in the UK
http://protecttheairway.com/ another er nurse
Um...I actually have a of links saved somewhere. I think I prefer ED/EMS blogs because the dark humour meshes well with me. :O
Dr. Susan is good, if you're open to veterinary emergency medicine.ReplyDelete
Or you can check out my blog - I may be a student, but I've worked in veterinary emergency medicine for 11 years.
Healthline's Straight Talk from the ER will be transitioning to "Straight Talk from the Stanford ER" - several people from the ER staff (nurses, physicians, and attendings) will be contributing to the blog and relaying their experiences. I think it will make for an interesting perspective.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3/09/2007 8:02 AM
Hi I'm an ER doc with a new blog.ReplyDelete
Initially discovered Hallway Four awhile ago, and thru her have found you, Scalpel, Grunt, Charity, Panda, MDOD, etc.
Your blogs are all so good! I'm still searching for my style/voice. I'm not the grizzled vet that you and most the others are, finished my residency less than a year ago so I have a little different perspective.
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This article in the Greenfield Recorder reports the Soviet launch of the first man-made satellite. The "moon" was called Sputnik, a Russian word for satellite or literally "Co-Pather." The launch was a dramatic event in the history of the cold war, signaling that the Soviet Union had beaten the United States in the "race" to outer space, The event came soon after a Soviet test of a long-range nuclear missile capable of hitting the United States. Americans were frightened but also fascinated by Sputnik. They watched its reflection in the night sky and heard its beeping sound on the radio. The belief that the Soviets were ahead of the United States in missile technology led to a dramatic expansion of scientific research and funding for public education in the United States.
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[Protection and bidirectional effect of rhubarb anthraquinone and tannins for rats ' liver ].
Qin, Lu-shan; Zhao, Hai-ping; Zhao, Yan-ling; Ma, Zhi-jiel; Zeng, Ling-na; Zhang, Ya-ming; Zhang, Ping; Yan, Dan; Bai, Zhao-fang; Li, Yue; Hao, Qing-xiu; Zhao, Kui-jun; Wang, Jia-bo; Xiao, Xiao-he
To compare the bidirectional effect of rhubarb total anthraquinone (TA) and total tannins (TT) on rats ' liver . One hundred rats were randomly divided into 10 groups, i.e., the blank group, the model group, the blank + high dose TA group, the blank +low dose TA group, the blank + high dose TT group, the blank + low dose TT group, the model + high dose TA group, the model + low dose TA group, the model +high dose TT group, and the model + low dose TT group, 10 in each group. The carbon tetrachloride (CCI4) was used to prepare the acute liver injury rat model. TA and TT of rhubarb (at 5.40 g crude drugs/kg and 14.69 g crude drugs/kg) were intragastrically administrated to rats in all groups except the blank group and the model group, once daily for 6 successive days.The general state of rats , biochemical indices such as alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), laminin (LN), hyaluronic acid (HA), transforming growth factor beta1 (TGF-beta1), as well pathological results of rat liver tissues. Finally the protection laws of TA and TT for rats ' liver were analyzed using factor analysis. Compared with the blank control group, all biochemical indices increased in the blank group (P < 0.05, P < 0.01). HA also increased in the blank + high dose TA group; AST, ALT, and HA also increased in the blank +high dose TT group (P < 0.05). Compared with the model group, AST, ALT, ALP, HA, and TGF-beta1 significantly decreased in the model + low dose TA group, the model + high dose TA group, the model + low dose TT group (P < 0.05, P < 0.01). Serum AST, ALT, and ALP also decreased in the model + high dose TT group (P < 0.05, P < 0.01). Pathological results showed that mild swollen liver cells in the model + high dose TA group. Fatty degeneration and fragmental necrosis around the central veins occurred in the blank + high dose TA group. The pathological injury was inproved in the model +low dose TA group. Two common factors, liver
Cafeteria feeding induces interleukin-1beta mRNA expression in rat liver and brain.
Hansen, M K; Taishi, P; Chen, Z; Krueger, J M
intake affects gut-immune function and can provide a strong intestinal antigen challenge resulting in activation of host defense mechanisms in the digestive system. Previously, we showed that feeding rats a cafeteria diet increases non-rapid eye movement sleep by a subdiaphragmatic mechanism. Food intake and sleep regulation and the immune system share the regulatory molecule interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta). Thus this study examined the effects of a cafeteria diet on IL-1beta mRNA and IL-1 receptor accessory protein (IL-1RAP) mRNA expression in rat liver and brain. Rats were fed normal rat chow or a palatable diet consisting of bread, chocolate, and shortbread cookies (cafeteria diet). After 3 days, midway between the light period of the light-dark cycle, rats were killed by decapitation. Feeding rats a cafeteria diet resulted in increased IL-1beta mRNA expression in the liver and hypothalamus compared with rats fed only the normal rat chow. In addition, cafeteria feeding decreased IL-1RAP mRNA levels in the liver and brain stem. These results indicate that feeding has direct effects on cytokine production and together with other data suggest that the increased sleep that accompanies increased feeding may be the result of increased brain IL-1beta. These results further suggest that cytokine-to-brain communication may be important in normal physiological conditions, such as feeding, as well as being important during inflammatory responses.
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Difficulties relating to bone regeneration that complicate immediate implant placement include buccal and/or lingual fenestrations, primary anchorage of the implants, and the need for protection from functional loading during the osseointegration period. The objective of this pilot study was to evaluate bone regeneration by recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2) around immediate implants placed in maxillary sockets in rats . A total of 16 cylindric 0.8 x 1.8-mm commercially pure, solid titanium Implants were placed immediately after gentle extraction of the maxillary first molar teeth of 8 male Wistar rats . The sockets were randomly divided into 3 groups: group 1 (n = 6) received rhBMP-2 with polylactic acid/polyglycolic acid copolymer-coated gelatin sponge carrier; group 2 (n = 5) received only the carrier; and group 3 (n = 5) received no grafting materials following placement The rats were euthanized at 90 days postsurgery for microscopic analysis. In group 1, the implant body remained submerged completely, including the coronal part, which was fully covered by a significant amount (30% of total height) of regenerated cortical bone, even though the implant could easily be pulled out by a tweezer at the time of placement. Close approximation between the implant surface and regenerated bone could also be detected, indicating good bone-to-implant contact. In contrast, only peri-implant bone regeneration occurred in group 2, and an approximate 0.3-mm coronal part of the implant remained exposed. When no grafting materials were used (group 3), almost one third of the total length of the implant was exfoliated out of the socket when no grafting materials were used. Based on previous study and data from 16 sockets of the present study, it could be concluded that rhBMP-2 facilitated the regeneration of bone around immediate implants. In particular, the bone covering the coronal part could have been regenerated shortly after surgery, which helped to
The effects of blueberry anthocyanins on histone acetylation in rat liver fibrosis
Zhan, Wei; Liao, Xin; Xie, Ru-Jia; Tian, Tian; Yu, Lei; Liu, Xing; Liu, Jing; Li, Po; Han, Bing; Yang, Ting; Zhang, Bei; Cai, Li-Jun; Li, Rui; Yang, Qin
To determine the effects ofanthocyanins from blueberries on hepatic stellate cell (HSCs-T6) and on histone acetylation during liver fibrosis induced by CCl4 in rats . Fifty male SD rats weighing 180 ± 20g were randomly placed into a control group, a hepatic fibrosis group, a blueberry treatment group, a blueberry intervention group, and a natural recovery group. After the rats were sacrificed, the livers and the liver indexes were measured, and the pathological changes were observed by HE staining and Masson staining. The blood was analyzed for the four indexes of liver fibrosis and liver function; nucleoprotein from liver tissues and karyoplasm were isolated to determine the expression of acH3K9, acH3K14, and acH3K18 by Western blotting. Compared with the lethal rate of the control group, the median lethal rate of HSCs-T6 cells treated with a the 50μmol/L concentration was 66.94% (P < 0.05). The protein expression on α-SMA, type I collagen, TIMP1 significantly decreased (P < 0.05) following treatment with 50 ug/ml of anthocyanin for 36 h; moreover, the expression of acH3K9, acH3K14 and acH3K18 modification were up-regulated (P < 0.05). Furthermore, compared with the liver in the model group, the liver in the intervention group showed the most obvious improvement (P < 0.01), and its karyoplasm had increased expression of acH3K9, acH3K14 and acH3K18 (P<0.01). Regulating histone acetylation could improve liver function and liver fibrosis indexes in rats with hepatic fibrosis. The mechanism might be related to certain genes that promote apoptosis, so as to inhibit the effect of anti hepatic fibrosis. PMID:29228569
Machines today are designed with corresponding virtual representations. The physical and digital counterparts exchange data, which is constantly captured by sensors. This way, companies can detect faults earlier in the development phase—and even monitor machinery and components after distribution.
Greater product diversity, higher quality and lower production costs: Digital Twins are revolutionizing how industry works. Virtual twins accompany a physical product from the initial conceptualization and the design process right through production and updates - helping digital machine construction run better.
Digital Twins are digital representations of physical machines. In industry, they are used to optimize product design and ensure error-free operation. They are formed on the basis of a high-precision 3D CAD model that has been assigned all the properties and functions of the planned product - from its materials and sensoring systems to the movement and dynamics of the real machine. This is an important step towards identifying malfunctions early and resolving them before the start of production - and eliminating the need for development of a costly prototype.
The twins are constantly in connection with one another - even after production and sale of the physical product. The real machine is outfitted with sensors that send status data to its virtual reproduction on a constant basis. A requirement management system functions as a digital requirements library, gathering the incoming data and comparing it against the specifications by which the product was created.
If a discrepancy is detected, then engineers can work on potential solutions directly on the digital twin - after which the real machine can then be updated to resolve the problem as quickly as possibly.
To ensure the security of the Digital Twins, a variety of enhanced security measures from the IT realm are needed in industry. Digital industry systems are an especially common target for malicious software, spread through the internet, corporate intranets or external hardware. The concept of "industrial security" is thus not just focused on physical securing of devices through alarm systems and access codes, but also the use of firewalls in corporate networks and walling off of external electronic interfaces. To protect industrial systems against cyber-attacks, manufacturers such as Siemens and Genua Solutions offer solutions to be deployed at all levels to ensure not only system and network security, but also system integrity.
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The zodiac sign linked with this birthday has several eloquent meanings we should be starting with:
People born under Scorpio horoscope have a general sensibility in the area of the pelvis and to the components of the reproductive system. This means people born on this date are predisposed to a series of illnesses and ailments in connection to these areas. Please take account that does not exclude the possibility for a Scorpio to suffer from other health issues. Below you can find a few health problems someone born under this horoscope sign may suffer from:


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Could you take a look at the following example?
Person A: He was prone to sudden emotional explosions in the office, like smashing a telephone to pieces against the wall.
Person B: That's awful. I had no idea he'd done things like that.
Can I say "such things" instead of "things like that"? Are those nuances different?
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My son always acts up at school, for example, ----, ----, and ----.
Your son never does such things, right?
- I had no idea he'd done things like that.
I had no idea he did things like that.
To be honest, I don't think there's a difference between the two expressions. To my ear, though, "things like that" sounds more natural in almost every situation.
> I had no idea he'd done things like that.
This is fine. "I had no idea he did things like that." is OK as well, but there was nothing wrong with it.
There is no difference in meaning. "Such things" sounds more British whereas "things like that" sounds more American. Both are fine though.
I think both are about the same meaning. Sometimes the construction "such things" lends itself better than "things like that." This is particularly true in negative constructions.
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This is equivalent to saying
(1b) "I have not done anything like that"
I like the former (1a) better because it is succinct. However, in the U.S., succinctness is not always the first priority. We don't mind using more words if we feel like it makes the sentence more digestible. My guess is many people would use the latter (1b). In practice, I would guess I am more likely to say the latter (1b), but I might think highly of someone's ability to express themselves clearly for using constructions such as the former (1a).
Additionally, there are expressions like this one:
(2a) "There's no such thing" which is often said even more simply as "No such thing"
This basically means
(2b) "It does not exist (nor does anything like it)"
but it doesn't really make sense to say the latter (2b).
Finally, another popular expression is
(3a) "No such luck"
Which is said when something which seems like it could have possibly worked out did not work out (often for some unknown or unclear reason.)
There is not really an equivalent way of saying this, but the meaning is approximately "I wasn't lucky in the particular way necessary."
Hope this helps!
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Oh, "such things" sounds more British. It was a bit unexpected for me, because I often use "such things" rather than "things like that."
Thank you for your explanation!
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Wow! Thank you for detailed explanation!
"No such thing" and "no such luck." Those are new expressions for me. I'll try to using them.
>> succinctness is not always the first priority.
Hmm... It applies to Japanese language, too. (^.^)
Thank you!
"Such things" sounds a little fancier than "Things like that" Other than that, they mean exactly the same thing.
Oh, "such things" sounds a bit fancy. I see.
Thank you for your comment!
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Is the meaning of "such a thing/such things" different from "a thing like that/things like that"? Could you take a look at the following example? Person A: He was prone to sudden emotional explosions in the office, like smashing a telephone to pieces against the wall. Person B: That's awful.
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Every year the governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts issues a proclamation for Thanksgiving Day. Prior to 1863, when Abraham Lincoln set a permanent day for Thanksgiving, each state set its own date; some years there was none at all. The language of this 1848 declaration by Gov. Briggs of Massachusetts is typical, save for some very topical references. 1848 was the year the Mexican War ended with the Treaty of Guadeloupe that ceded almost half of Mexico to the United States. New England had been opposed to the war which many saw as an effort to extend territory for slavery. Briggs calls for an end to "the further extension of slavery," an institution he declares is "repugnant to the rights of humanity." The debates over the status of the land taken from Mexico would eventually lead to a decade of political crises that would end in the Civil War.
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