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When Josh Abramson, Ricky Van Veen, Jakob Lodwick, and Zach Klein decided in the spring of last year that they wanted to live in New York City, their preparation consisted largely of what they called "Sex and the City" nights. They would rent DVDs of the HBO series and watch for hours at a time, while drinking gin-and-tonics and imagining what delights the city held in store.
Their purpose in watching the programs was not really to learn about the habits of women they were likely to encounter in Manhattan; Josh, Ricky, and Jakob are twenty-three, and Zach is a year younger. Most of the girls they knew who'd moved to New York were not so much juggling lovers or purchasing fabulous designer clothes as struggling to get a job, or find an apartment. Instead, the four friends found themselves identifying with the four television characters. Josh, Ricky, and Jakob had been living together for a year in San Diego (while Zach was completing his senior year), and they had discovered that, although the California sun and beach were pleasant enough, San Diego was the kind of place where, as Josh liked to put it, if you were motivated you bartended four nights a week.
The friends finally arrived in New York last summer, and took up residence in a newly renovated, forty-two-hundred-square-foot, five-bedroom loft in Tribeca, which rents for ten thousand dollars a month—a move that bears about as much relation to the typical postcollegiate experience as "Sex and the City" does to the demographic it purports to represent. The friends have avoided the hardships endured by some of their peers, such as being obliged to live in the outer boroughs, owing to the business they run out of their fifth bedroom, a Web site called CollegeHumor.com. The site features articles written by students or recent graduates on subjects such as "Everything I Learned About Life I Learned in First Semester" and "The Guide to a Great IM Profile," but the mainstay of its content is visual: digital photographs and video snippets of dorm-room fun submitted by the online readership, and updated daily. It is visited by nearly eight million unique users a month.
CollegeHumor.com was started in 1999 by Josh and Ricky, who grew up in a suburb of Baltimore called Timonium and have been friends since sixth grade. The site began as a place to collect all the jokes, links, and silly photographs that college students like to e-mail around, and served as a kind of nerdy diversion for Josh, who went to the University of Richmond, and Ricky, who was at Wake Forest. Eventually, they recruited Jakob, a student at Rochester Institute of Technology (whom Ricky and Josh met online, although he also grew up in Timonium), to help manage the site; Zach, a college friend of Ricky's from Wake Forest, joined later.
The site came to dominate the waking hours of all four collaborators, whose formal educations were neglected. In certain instances, this was probably not a bad thing: the textbook used for one class in e-commerce that Josh took toward his degree, in finance, had been rendered obsolete by the dot-com crash of 2000; according to its calculations CollegeHumor.com should have been bringing in fifteen million dollars a month.
The numbers were nowhere near that good, but they were good enough for the friends to decide that they could attempt to make the site their full-time job. In the year and a half since Josh, Ricky, and Jakob left college, traffic to the site has grown three hundred per cent. In December of 2003, CollegeHumor.com generated $45,400; in December of this year, the revenues were $405,000, nearly half of that coming from sales of faux-vintage T-shirts with slogans— "What Would Ashton Do?"; "I Gave My Word to Stop at Third: 1987 Teen Abstinence Day Suffolk County Public Schools"—which they started marketing last spring under the brand name Busted Tees.
Hence the apartment, which is decorated, in only semi-ironic fashion, according to the CollegeHumor guys' idea of urban sophistication, with a mixture of purchases from stores in SoHo and from Bloomingdale's. These include a leather couch; a dining table perpetually set with a runner, placemats, and napkins in napkin rings, in readiness for grand dinner parties of which they have so far had one; a piano on which Josh, who supplemented his income in high school with piano-bar appearances, is able to play the entire Beatles catalogue; and a cabinet filled with crystal wineglasses donated by Josh's mother. In perhaps the best measure of post-adolescent male luxury, there is a cumulative total of a hundred and fifty-three inches of flat-screen television scattered around the dwelling.
Although the quartet has not avoided some real-estate pitfalls that savvier New Yorkers might have been able to anticipate—the empty lot outside the loft's windows was transformed, within weeks of their move, into a construction site, the future location of a twenty-one-story apartment building—their home serves not just as a workplace and a shelter but also as an expression of how they would like to be perceived. Readers of CollegeHumor.com might suspect, or hope, that its creators live in a den of beer bongs, pinball machines, and unwashed dishes. This is just what the College Humor boys, who have recently discovered the joy of port, wanted to avoid. "Josh was at this advertising convention, and they were giving out drinks, and the waiter looked at him and said, 'I can get you an orange juice,' " Ricky said one recent afternoon, while lounging in the apartment and explaining the drawbacks of youthful success. "It's hard being taken seriously when you are our age. But, here, people can walk in and say, Obviously, these guys are doing something right."
What does college humor consist of, judging from the contents of CollegeHumor.com? Girls without their tops on are one very popular source of college humor, as are girls kissing each other. Vehicular mishaps also count as college humor; in one, a crane being used to fish a car out of the water topples over and itself falls in. Cute animals, such as a sleeping kitten propped between the pipes of a radiator, are funny, and so are highway signs, like one outside a McDonald's that reads "Our salads are the shizzle dizzle." But what is really funny is beer. "People love to send in photographs of their refrigerators filled with beer," Josh said. Also popular are photographs of beer-can mobiles hanging from dorm-room ceilings, and of beer cans incongruously placed around the foot of a potted plant, which is, in turn, incongruously placed in a men's communal bathroom, and so on.
In addition to receiving random submissions, the guys of CollegeHumor have recently seen the advantages of generating their own content—or branding content in the public domain as their own. In October, the site made available, thanks to TiVo, a video clip of Ashlee Simpson's "Saturday Night Live" meltdown—she hurried offstage after her band and her lip-synch track didn't mesh—only minutes after the event had actually occurred. That clip garnered close to a million hits in two days. The site has similarly been a popular destination for those who didn't see Ron Artest's assault on an N.B.A. spectator sufficient times in replay, and who want to witness it over and over again in Windows Media. Clips like these have earned CollegeHumor.com its first links from such heavily read sites as the Drudge Report, which is to the world of Web sites what having your book promoted on "Oprah" is to the world of publishing.
Another innovation was the Election Erection '04 contest, which served as an opportunity for first-time voters—a bloc that was thought by pundits to hold the key to the nation's future—to state their political preferences by decorating their bodies with the names of favored Presidential candidates. By Election Day, the site featured more than three hundred mostly female students, who showed a considerable range of inventiveness in their use of display type. Many opted for a message ("Kerry Me Away" or "Bush '04") written in lipstick or marker pen in more or less the place where a T-shirt logo would have been, had a T-shirt been worn. There was also, in a number of instances, the innovative use of official campaign stickers as pasties; and the witty pairing of a full Brazilian bikini wax with the slogan, inscribed just below the navel, "Say No To Bush." The final tally of submissions, which had Kerry beating Bush nearly two-to-one, demonstrated that the moral values of at least some Republican voters do not exclude posing, "Girls Gone Wild" style, with "Bush" scrawled on one buttock and "Dick" on the other.
The responsibility for choosing which photographs will be featured falls to Ricky, who serves as the site's editor. Josh handles business, Jakob deals with the technical side of things, and Zach takes care of design. The workload at CollegeHumor.com has grown so great that recently the four advertised on Craig's List for an intern, a position for which they received more than a hundred applications, mostly from recent college graduates, although there was one from what Josh called a "forty-five-year-old guy" with a background in retail sales.
"Ricky doesn't actually have to think it's funny; he just has to know that college kids think it's funny," Josh explained. A key to college humor, the four have realized, is that students like to think they belong to a small in-crowd that understands the joke, while the public at large remains clueless. Take the phrase "More Cowbell," which is a slogan appearing on one of the most popular of the company's Busted Tees; it comes from an instruction given in a skit on "Saturday Night Live." "Not everyone saw that episode, so the people who did see it think it is that much cooler because nobody else knows," Josh said. Another familiar trope of contemporary college humor is a hand gesture known as the shocker, in which the ring finger of the hand is held down by the thumb while the remaining three fingers stay rigid. "No one over the age of twenty-five knows what it means, but I guarantee you that ninety per cent of college students know what it is," Josh said. (The gesture indicates a method of pleasuring a female partner, though not one that looks to be easily undertaken without incurring hand cramps.) Ricky had the idea of manufacturing a large foam hand, the Big Shocker, like those on sale at sports events. So far, close to twenty thousand have been sold through CollegeHumor.com, for a profit of about ten dollars apiece. "We figured that other people would copy them, so we took a patent out on it," Josh said. "So we have a U.S. government document that has a picture of the shocker on it. It's kind of funny."
Advertising is also a source of revenue, some of it from such companies as DreamWorks, some of it from sports-gambling sites, and some of it from other manufacturers of T-shirts and venders of novelties. The CollegeHumor team has been struggling with the question of whether it is worth sacrificing the raciness of the site's content—which does not stray beyond the equivalent of being R-rated, but does not stop much short of it, either—in order to attract more prudish but more lucrative advertisers. "The Navy won't want to have its ad on a page with a girl lifting her shirt on Mardi Gras," Josh said. "But that's why people are coming to our site, to see a girl lifting her shirt on Mardi Gras."
Attracting female readers other than its exhibitionistic contributors to the site is another concern; right now, the readership is about seventy-five-per-cent male. There is one female columnist, Mindy Raf, who writes about "Sex, Relationships, and NYC Life" (examples: "Single and Braless: A Sunday Afternoon in New York City"; "Alcohol and Ovulation: Another Saturday Night at the Bar"). Other strategies are being considered, such as having a regular column devoted to "The O.C.," the Fox show, which is a huge hit among girls in their twenties—so much so that the CollegeHumor boys have discovered that discussing the show's plotlines is an excellent way of striking up a conversation with a girl.
Attracting females, not just to the site but to themselves, is also something of a preoccupation of the four pals. But dating in New York, they have discovered, is unlike dating in other places. "It is a more difficult scene to penetrate if you are not used to it," Josh explained. "Going out and starting to talk to somebody and having them automatically not like you—it's not like that in other places." Another potential dating hazard identified, if not yet experienced, by the four is the possibility of attracting women whose real interest is in their purchasing power rather than their personalities. "I thought New York girls would be higher maintenance than what I have experienced, but I haven't had to take anyone out to really nice restaurants or anything," said Jakob, whose dates, toward the end of last year, included a visiting British student who was, he declared one night before going to meet her, perfect for him, her perfection including the fact that she was returning home at the end of the semester. The friends do go to nice restaurants; one of their new favorites is Landmarc, on West Broadway, which they think is a good place for steak frites, so long as you don't mind being carded.
Students have been prone to bawdy humor since at least the Middle Ages—witness Chaucer's "The Milleres Tale"—and the themes of American college humor have proved remarkably resilient over time. An editor of a book published in 1950 entitled "A Treasury of College Humor" remarked that "although the atomic bomb, and other timely trivia, may momentarily intrude, broad and universal themes—the fate of the football team, the perusal of sex, and the imbibing of alcoholic beverages—remain predominant." (The Iraq war does crop up among CollegeHumor.com's photo collection: one picture, entitled "2004 Shocker World Tour Hits Kirkuk," shows three men and a woman in U.S. uniform on an airstrip giving the shocker.) College humor publications date back as far as 1830, with the publication, at Princeton, of the short-lived Chameleon and of The Thistle; by the late eighteen-hundreds the Yale Record, __the Princeton Tiger, and the Harvard Lampoon had all been established. Some of the pages of those publications would not provoke a smile among today's undergraduates—those featuring punning poems requiring a knowledge of Greek verb declensions, for example—but there is much that differs only in degree from what is now considered hilarious. (The Emory Phoenix ran, in the last years of the nineteenth century, a guide to "The Art of Kissing," which advises, among other things, "Don't glue your face to hers and have a good time all to yourself while you're flattening her nose all over one of her cheeks.")
The nineteen-twenties are regarded as the golden age of college humor magazines, when writers such as James Thurber and Robert Benchley could be found making remarkably unfunny contributions to their pages. By that time, more than a hundred comic periodicals were being produced at colleges around the country, their contents aggregated periodically by a single magazine called College Humor, which sold as many as eight hundred thousand copies. By the late nineteen-thirties, the culture of college humor was sufficiently depraved to merit note in the Times, which quoted Irving H. Berg, the dean of New York University College of Arts, as saying, "What college students seem to think funny is pitifully lacking in real humor." Berg also complained that "the so-called humorous publications emanating from various college and university campuses seem to deal exclusively with the subject of sex." (Berg's present-day successor at N.Y.U., Dean Matthew Santirocco, who admits to having been unfamiliar with CollegeHumor.com until it was recently brought to his attention, says of the site, "It is commercial and self-promotional, and it seems to me that what is essential about humor is that it is not commercial or self-promotional.")
College humor suffered a decline in currency in the nineteen-sixties and the first half of the nineteen-seventies, when campus concerns such as civil rights and the draft proved impossible to translate into the magazines' typical vernacular of antic japery. But there was a restoration in the late seventies and early eighties, aided by the National Lampoon, which was founded in 1969 by several graduates of the Harvard Lampoon and which had its greatest success with the release of the film "National Lampoon's Animal House," in 1978. The National Lampoon, in its heyday, is the media model to which the CollegeHumor boys aspire: a book, "The CollegeHumor Guide to College," is in the works, and they have had informal talks with program-development people at VH1. A CollegeHumor Comedy Tour has just been launched, and the goal is to develop a stable of talent with which to produce TV shows or movies, though the four founders have yet to figure out how, exactly, to translate beer-and-breast-based amusement into forms more dependent on narrative. (Even "Porky's" had a plot.)
A more direct descendant of the style of humor favored by the National Lampoon can be found in The Onion, a parody newspaper that was started by two undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1988. Josh, of CollegeHumor.com, is happy to point out that his site has surpassed The Onion in traffic, "though I can't say we are better." There is a crucial difference in content between The Onion and CollegeHumor.com: while the success of the former depends on the wit of its writers, the appeal of the latter is closer to that of "America's Funniest Home Videos." CollegeHumor.com offers found humor of the sort pioneered by, among others, Steve Allen and David Letterman. Yet CollegeHumor.com isn't the expression of a governing comic sensibility determined to entertain an audience with, say, Stupid Pet Tricks; rather, the audience decides what is funny, and entertains itself. CollegeHumor.com doesn't just cater to the lowest common denominator; it's cooked and served by the lowest common denominator, too.
On Thanksgiving weekend, Ricky and Josh attended their five-year high-school reunion, which took place in a bar in downtown Baltimore. The bar was decorated in the manner of an Upper East Side frat-boy hangout, with sporting equipment such as lacrosse sticks and rowing oars mounted on the walls, and large TV screens displaying a college basketball game. Ricky ordered a gin-and-tonic from the open bar, while Josh, anticipating future crowding, ordered two beers at once, holding a full one in his left hand while drinking from the one in his right. Neither was driving—they'd got a ride with a classmate who was studying at night for his M.B.A., working for a brokerage firm during the day, and living at home with his parents. All of Josh and Ricky's old friends knew, of course, that the pair were living in New York and doing well, but no one paid it very much attention. Most classmates had stayed in the Baltimore area, including Ricky's high-school girlfriend, who had just bought a house with her boyfriend, and a woman who had gone to the same college as Josh and was now working as an accountant. The class president, who had been very cool and had ridden a scooter, was now attending motorcycle-repair school in Arizona. One young woman, who was wearing a high-necked white sweater and black pants rather than the low-cut top and low-cut jeans favored by most of her classmates, was rumored to have become a nun, but that rumor was soon determined to be false, if diverting.
Someone had brought a shoebox full of photographs taken by the class archivist, and they were scattered across the bar, there for the taking by those who wanted a memento of their even younger, even fresher years. There were shots of costume parties, shots of jocks mugging for the camera, shots from the prom, where girls with wrist corsages slow-danced with gawky boys, and lots of shots of kids just hanging out in the cafeteria or the gymnasium, grinning at the photographer. They weren't very different from the pictures that appear on Ricky and Josh's Web site—amounting to a simple visual statement: We were here.
Ricky flicked through the pictures and slipped a couple into the inside breast pocket of his jacket, which he'd recently bought at H & M, going into the store and ordering a whole outfit directly off one of the mannequins. There was one of a girl whom he said Josh had always had a crush on; and there was one of himself holding up a big, cumbersome camera—the kind of camera people used before students started snapping themselves with tiny digital cameras or cell phones, and before photographs became things to e-mail or look at online. Josh picked up one or two pictures at random, and for a moment looked nostalgic—not so much for the content of the pictures as for the form. "I kind of miss these," he said. ♦


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Clinical Psychologists are highly trained professionals with a background in theory, as well as mental health diagnosis and treatment. After completing college, most Psychologists spend 7+ years in graduate school and conducting research before they receive their doctoral degree. As part of that training, they are required to complete both a predoctoral and postdoctoral internship in order to practice independently. The combination of intensive education in psychological theory/intervention combined with clinical experience that distinguishes Psychologists from other mental health care professionals. With 14+ years of education and clinical experience, we will work together to understand your experiences, to develop more effective patterns of behavior....(view profile to read more)
Amy Montague, Ph.D.
In 92612 - Nearby to Rancho Santa Margarita.
Everyone is unique and has unique life experiences and history. I get to know my clients and their unique qualities rather than applying a broad generalized approach of one size fits all. In the past psychologists were taught to not get involved with their patients and keep a safe distance. Now with good boundaries we are encouraged to work with clients and their doctors, work environment, families and friends if needed to better understand the psycho-dynamic factors governing their unique personality. Then I am better able to understand and help my clients with what ever prompted them to seek my help.
Steven Harris, PhD
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
As a psychologist, I have a unique training in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of problems. However, this training has also instructed me of the importance of not over-diagnosing and that symptoms and diagnoses are only ways of describing behavior. They do not tell me who the person is and what their symptoms might be telling us. Therefore, for me, all of the diagnosis, etc., is in the background. If I give too much importance to diagnosis, I find that it gets in the way of knowing who someone is, why they feel the way that they do, and what we need to try to do together to get things on track. Therefore, I would say I like to try to help uncover "What is right with you" to help you find your way.
Prepare To Change, Psy.D., HSPP
Individual and Family Therapists
In 92780 - Nearby to Rancho Santa Margarita.
Dr. Larry Kuhn is a licensed clinical psychologist, organizational consultant, teacher, and presenter. He performs therapy and psychological assessment with children, adolescents, and adults, as well as couples and families. In all he does, he approaches each case with a fresh, individual perspective. He articulates his opinions in an easily understood manner, free of psychological jargon. He is a practical, down-to-earth person who communicates and works well with many different types of people and problems.
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Gunfire erupted at a West Hollywood nightclub in the early morning hours of Sunday, Aug. 24, where three people, including former Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight, were hit and taken to the hospital for injuries as a result of the shooting.
According to TMZ, around 1:30AM PT Sunday morning, shots were fired inside the 10AK club where Chris Brown was hosting a party in advance of the MTV Video Music Awards Sunday night.
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Two other people are in the hospital for gunshot wounds with at least one person in critical condition.
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Blade Runner
1982 film directed by Ridley Scott
Blade Runner (1982) is an American science-fiction film, directed by Ridley Scott, with a screenplay written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.
- For the game, see Blade Runner (video game)
Rick DeckardEdit
- I'm Deckard. Blade Runner. B Two sixty-three fifty-four. I'm filed and monitored.
- I was quit when I came in here. I'm twice as quit now.
- In response to news that he is wanted on another assignment as a "blade runner" — an officer of the law who "retires" renegade "replicants."
- Replicants are like any other machine. They're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem.
- I don't get it, Tyrell. How can it not know what it is?
- On Rachael not knowing that she is a replicant.
- Memories, you're talking about memories.
- [Revealing to Rachael that she is a replicant] You ever tell anyone that? Your mother, Tyrell? They're implants. Those aren't your memories, they're somebody else's. They're Tyrell's niece's. Okay, bad joke, I'm sorry... No, really, I made a bad joke. Go home, you're not a Replicant... (sigh) you wanna drink? I'll get you a drink.
- I've had people walk out on me before, but not when I was being so charming.
- These were expunged from the Director's Cut version. It has been said that both Scott and Ford were unhappy with the dialogue, as it was forced by the studio and was written by another scriptwriter (Roland Kibbee) not associated with the project. They can still be found in International editions, and all were spoken by Harrison Ford.
- They don't advertise for killers in the newspaper. That was my profession. Ex-cop. Ex-blade runner. Ex-killer.
- Sushi. That's what my ex-wife used to call me. "Cold fish."
- The charmer's name was Gaff, I'd seen him around. Bryant must have upped him to the Blade Runner unit. That gibberish he talked was city speak, gutter talk. A mishmash of Japanese, Spanish, German, what have you. I didn't really need a translator, I knew the lingo, every good cop did. But I wasn't going to make it easier for him.
- "Skin jobs". That's what Bryant called Replicants. In history books he's the kind of cop who used to call black men "niggers".
- I'd quit because I'd had a belly full of killing. But then I'd rather be a killer than a victim, and that's exactly what Bryant's threat about "little people" meant. So I hooked in once more thinking if I couldn't take it I'd split later. I didn't have to worry about Gaff. He was brown-nosing for a promotion, so he didn't want me around anyway.
- I didn't know whether Leon gave Holden a legit address. But it was the only lead I had, so I checked it out.
- Whatever was in the bathtub was not human. Replicants don't have scales.
- And family photos? Replicants didn't have families either.
- Tyrell really did a job on Rachael. Right down to a snapshot of a mother she never had... a daughter she never was. Replicants weren't supposed to have feelings... neither were blade runners. What the hell was happening to me?
- Leon's pictures had to be as phony as Rachael's. I didn't know why a Replicant would collect photos. Maybe they were like Rachael... they needed memories.
- The report would be "routine retirement of a Replicant", which didn't make me feel any better about shooting a woman in the back. There it was again... feeling in myself... for her... for Rachael.
- I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life... anybody's life... my life. All he'd wanted was the same answers the rest of us want. Where do I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do is sit there and watch him die.
- Gaff had been there, and let her live. Four years, he figured. He was wrong. Tyrell had told me Rachael was special: no termination date. I didn't know how long we had together... who does?
- This narration was only used for the film's workprint. The only piece of narration used in this version, it is an alternate version of Deckard's questioning of Roy saving his life.
- I watched him die all night. It was a long, slow thing... and he fought it all the way. He never whimpered, and he never quit. He took all the time he had, as though he loved life very much. Every second of it... even the pain. Then, he was dead.
- Don't be an asshole, Deckard. I've got four skin-jobs walking the streets.
- He can breathe okay as long as nobody unplugs him.
- Stop right where you are! You know the score, pal! If you're not cop, you're little people.
- Christ, Deckard, you look almost as bad as that skin-job you left on the sidewalk!
- You could learn from this guy Gaff, he's a god-damn one man slaughterhouse.
- Talk about beauty and the beast — she's both.
- The only way you can hurt him is to kill him.
Eldon TyrellEdit
- Milk and cookies kept you awake, eh, Sebastian?
- Commerce is our goal here at Tyrell. "More human than human" is our motto.
- Have you ever retired a human by mistake?
- Is this testing whether I'm a Replicant or a lesbian, Mr. Deckard?
- I'm not in the business. I am the business.
- You know that Voight-Kampff test of yours? Did you ever take that test yourself?
- Painful to live in fear, isn't it?
- Nothing is worse than having an itch you can never scratch.
- Wake up! Time to die!
Roy BattyEdit
- Fiery the angels fell; deep thunder rolled around their shores; burning with the fires of Orc.
- This is a deliberate misquote of William Blake's America A Prophecy "Fiery the angels rose, and as they rose deep thunder roll'd / Around their shores: indignant burning with the fires of Orc." In context, the Replicants were exiled from Earth, to the off-world space colonies, but Roy's group of Replicants hijacked a ship to sneak back to Earth. Thus in a sense, like Lucifer and the Fallen Angels, Roy and his group were both "cast out" and "fell to Earth" (though not at the same time).
- Chew, if only you could see what I've seen with your eyes!
- A double-entendre, as Chew builds Replicant eyes.
- It's not an easy thing to meet your maker.
- I've done questionable things.
- Can the maker repair what he makes?
- Proud of yourself, little man?
- After hunting down Deckard, who had already killed Pris.
- Not very sporting to fire on an unarmed opponent. I thought you were supposed to be good. Aren't you the... "good" man?
- C'mon Deckard, show me... what you're made of... [pulls Deckard's hand through the wall and removes his gun]... This is for Zhora [breaks finger] and this is for Pris [breaks another] You gotta shoot straight! [Deckard shoots and misses] Straight doesn't seem good enough!
- You better get it up. Or I'm gonna have to kill ya.
- We're not computers, Sebastian, we're physical.
- After Sebastian asks Roy and Pris to "do something"
- That...hurt. That was irrational. Not to mention, unsportsman-like. Ha ha ha. [pause] Where are you going?
- After Deckard beats him with a lead pipe.
- Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
- Standing over Deckard as he hangs from the side of the building.
- I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
- You've done a man's job, sir! I guess you're through, huh?
- It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?
- Then we're stupid, and we'll die.
J.F. SebastianEdit
- They're my friends. I make them.
- There's some of me in you.
- PA Voice: A new life awaits you in the Off-World colonies. The chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure!
- Holden: The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs, trying to turn itself over but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
- Hannibal Chew: You not come here! Illegal!
- Zhora: You think I'd be working in a place like this if I could afford a real snake?
- Holden: Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about your mother?
- Leon Kowalski: My mother?
- Holden: Yes.
- [Leon leans forward, speaking in a soft, angry tone]
- Leon Kowalski: Let me tell you about my mother! [shoots Holden]
- Rachael: Do you like our owl?
- Deckard: It's artificial?
- Rachael: Of course it is.
- Deckard: Must be expensive.
- Rachael: Very. I'm Rachael.
- Deckard: Deckard.
- Rachael: It seems you feel our work is not of benefit to the public.
- Deckard: Replicants are like any other machine: they're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem.
- Rachael: May I ask you a personal question?
- Deckard: Sure.
- Rachael: Have you ever retired a human by mistake?
- Deckard: No.
- Rachael: But in your position that is a risk...
- Tyrell: [Offscreen]Is this to be an empathy test?
- [Tyrell appears at the other end of the room, walks towards the two]
- Tyrell: Capillary dilation of the so-called blush response...fluctuation of the pupil...involuntary dilation of the iris.
- Deckard: We call it Voight-Kampff for short.
- Rachael: Mr. Deckard, Dr. Eldon Tyrell.
- Tyrell: Demonstrate it. I want to see it work.
- Deckard: Where's the subject?
- Tyrell: I want to see it work on a person. I want to see a negative before I provide you with a positive.
- Deckard: What's that going to prove?
- Tyrell: [Smiling] Indulge me.
- Deckard: On you?
- Tyrell: [Nods at Rachael] Try her.
- Deckard: Taffey.
- Taffey Lewis: [in a gruff voice] Yeah?
- Deckard: [shows Lewis his Police ID] I'd like to ask you a few questions.
- Taffey Lewis: [half-whispered to a woman sitting next to him] Blow.
- [Woman gets up from the stool and leaves]
- Deckard: You ever buy snakes from the Egyptian, Taffey?
- Taffey Lewis: [sarcasticly] All the time, pal.
- Deckard: [shows Taffey the photo] You ever see this girl, huh?
- Taffey Lewis: Never seen her. Buzz off.
- Deckard: Your licenses in order, pal?
- Taffey Lewis: [suddenly changing his demeanor, he speaks to the bartender] Hey, Louie. The man is dry. Give him one on the house, okay? [smiles at Deckard] See?
- Tyrell: I'm surprised you didn't come here sooner.
- Roy: It's not an easy thing to meet your maker.
- Tyrell: What can he do for you?
- Roy: Can the maker repair what he makes?
- Tyrell: Would you like to be modified?
- Roy: [to J. F. Sebastian] Stay here.
- Roy: Had in mind something a little more radical.
- Tyrell: What..? What seems to be the problem?
- Roy: Death.
- Tyrell: Death. Well, I'm afraid that's a little out of my jurisdiction, you...
- Roy: I want more life, fucker (father).
- Tyrell: The facts of life: To make an alteration in the evolvement of an organic life system is fatal. A coding sequence cannot be revised once it's been established.
- Roy: Why not?
- Tyrell: Because by the second day of incubation, any cells that have undergone reversion mutations give rise to revertant colonies like rats leaving a sinking ship; then the ship sinks.
- Roy: What about EMS recombination?
- Tyrell: We've already tried it. Ethyl methane sulfonate is an alkylating agent and a potent mutagen. It created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before he left the table.
- Roy: Then a repressor protein that blocks the operating cells.
- Tyrell: Wouldn't obstruct replication, but it does give rise to an error in replication so that the newly formed DNA strand carries a mutation and you've got a virus again. But this - all of this is academic. You were made as well as we could make you.
- Roy: But not to last.
- Tyrell: The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very very brightly, Roy. Look at you. You're the prodigal son. You're quite a prize!
- Roy: I've done questionable things.
- Tyrell: Also extraordinary things. Revel in your time!
- Roy: Nothing the god of biomechanics wouldn't let you in heaven for. [kisses Tyrell and kills him]
- Roy: [to J. F. Sebastian] Sorry, Sebastian. [Sebastian panics] Come. Come.
- Roy: Yes! [smiles] Questions... Morphology? Longevity? Incept dates?
- Chew: Don't know, I don't know such stuff. I just do eyes, juh, juh... just eyes... just genetic design, just eyes. You Nexus, huh? I design your eyes.
- Roy: Chew, if only you could see what I have seen with your eyes.
- Roy: [taunting Deckard with a counting rhyme] Six! Seven! Go to Hell or go to Heaven!
- [Deckard beats Roy on the side of the head with a lead pipe]
- Roy: Good! That's the spirit!
Voight-Kampff test questionsEdit
- It's your birthday. Someone gives you a calfskin wallet.
- You've got a little boy. He shows you his butterfly collection plus the killing jar.
- You're watching television. Suddenly you realize there's a wasp crawling on your arm.
- You're in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it's crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't, not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?
- Describe in single words, only the good things that come into your mind about your mother.
- You're reading a magazine. You come across a full-page nude photo of a girl. You show it to your husband. He likes it so much, he hangs it on your bedroom wall.
- You become pregnant by a man who runs off with your best friend, and you decide to get an abortion.
- One more question: You're watching a stage play - a banquet is in progress. The guests are enjoying an appetizer of raw oysters. The entree consists of boiled dog.
- Rachael "fails" this question when she shows more empathy for the oysters than the dogs, indicating she's a Replicant by her inappropriate emotional response.
About Blade RunnerEdit
- About ten minutes into Blade Runner, I reeled out of the theater in complete despair over its visual brilliance and its similarity to the "look" of Neuromancer, my [then] largely unwritten first novel. Not only had I been beaten to the semiotic punch, but this damned movie looked better than the images in my head! [...] It was also obvious that Scott understood the importance of information density to perceptual overload. When Blade Runner works best, it induces a lyrical sort of information sickness, that quintessentially postmodern cocktail of ecstasy and dread. It was what cyberpunk was supposed to be all about
- William Gibson, Details (October 1992).
- People tend to classify my movies as cyberpunk fictions but I personally don't think they are. There are some films that I really enjoy such as Blade Runner, and they may have been helpful in shaping my movies to a certain degree. When you create a film dealing with humans and cyborgs, you have no choice but to refer back to Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, as this movie is probably the foundation of movies with this theme. Whether I'm trying to re-appropriate his language or not may not apply to my movies, because my goal is to always make a new movie that nobody has ever seen before. I think I've proven that with Innocence.
- Mamoru Oshii, Midnight Eye, Sep 23, 2004.
- Harrison Ford - Rick Deckard
- Rutger Hauer - Roy Batty
- Sean Young - Rachael
- Edward James Olmos - Gaff
- M. Emmet Walsh - Bryant
- Daryl Hannah - Pris
- William Sanderson - J.F. Sebastian
- Brion James - Leon
- Joe Turkel - Tyrell
- Joanna Cassidy - Zhora
- James Hong - Hannibal Chew
- Morgan Paull - Holden
- Kevin Thompson - Bear
- John Edward Allen - Kaiser
- Hy Pyke - Taffey Lewis
- Ben Astar - Abdul Ben Hassan
- Man has made his match. Now it's his problem.


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RJ Bartholomew is the Everyman with answers for those questioning Everything. After falling from grace with an agnostic thud, Bartholomew delivers a powerful message, considering the current condition of the world, with a genuine hope for the future, faith in the universe, and an undying love for mankind. I OF THE STORM is the thrilling riches to rags success story revealing that what you seem to lose is always less valuable than what is returned to you by letting go.


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Goat Cheese Arugula Recipes
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Goat Cheese Arugula Recipe
02.27.14 by Jackie
There is something utterly delightful about this goat cheese arugula salad. The combination in the first place is exquisite but I wanted to kick it up a notch by breading the medallions of goat cheese with crumbs of freshly baked brioche. I also added a carpaccio of mango and radish to add color to the salad.
The technique for obtaining perfectly sliced mango is nothing simpler than using thread. In my childhood, we would often use this method to slice meat pate for a clean cut, especially during the holidays. I often find myself using tools that don't necessarily belong in the kitchen, but are perfect for the job at hand.
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The Bartending Librarian: How Past Odd Jobs Help You Now
For 99.9% of us, working in a library was not our first job. I worked an extremely odd assortment of jobs between high school and finishing my MLIS, each and every one of which has continued to help me in some small way with the work I do today. Even jobs that are seemingly completely unrelated have yielded some practical skill, knowledge, or experience. Below are some of the jobs I worked over the years and what each of them taught me that I still use today.
- Calligraphist: My first job at age 13 was doing calligraphy for an art store on commission. What I learned: A good work ethic is critical to success. You create quality work, you get more work. You turn in your work on a timely basis, you get more work. You treat your employer with respect, he'll talk you up and get you more work (child labor laws be damned).
- Hostess: I worked as a hostess at a Chicago-style pizza restaurant. What I learned: The lowest paid positions in an organization often have hidden caches of power. I got to decide which waiters and waitresses got which tables, and how many tables. I got to help the delivery staff I liked and be apathetic toward those who weren't nice to me. No matter where you are in an organizational chart, you do have control over certain things, which you can use (or abuse if you become cranky and jaded).
- Waitress: I worked as a waitress a few times. I am not a good waitress. I lacked the upper body strength and the ability to schmooze with people who were nasty all in the name of getting a better tip. What I learned: Not everyone is good at everything. You think you'll be good, but maybe you won't be. And you know what? That's ok! If you were good at every last thing you'd be some kind of prodigy mutant being and I'd be afraid of you. If you're not good at something you probably won't like it, so why keep doing it? Find something else as soon as you can!
- Bartender: I was a bartender a couple of times at very different types of bars, from the diviest frat bar dive to a splendid dinner club. What I learned: Besides how to make excellent drinks, I learned a lot about how to listen to people. People at bars often just want to be heard. They might not have another outlet for telling their story and hope that you'll listen to their girlfriend woes, frustrations at work, and feelings about their best friend's significant other. Bartending is one job where you learn to listen. It's like a psychology practicum on steroids. Listening, and especially active listening, comes in handy a lot in libraries. We need to listen to each other and we need to listen to our patrons.
- Secretary: I have been a secretary (and I was called a secretary – not an administrative assistant) more times than I care to remember…for a car dealership, a small telecomm, Sears, a dot com start-up, etc. What I learned: More than any of the other jobs I worked, my secretary jobs reminded me why I was going to graduate school–so I would not have to do that job forever. Being a secretary works for some people, and I say good for them. For me it was perfect torture. I felt that I was set up as eye candy, was sexually harassed more than once, and expected to perform degrading tasks in addition to "normal" work. But being a secretary taught me some useful skills too. I learned how to multitask way before it became rote. I learned basic accounting. I learned business writing. I learned that a smile really does travel over the phone lines.
- Planned Parenthood Counselor: For a year in college I provided abortion counseling for women. What I learned: Two semesters as a psychology major do not prepare you for the reality of some situations. Theoretical coursework and group discussions cannot and will not prepare you for the reality of the workplace. Being told to "be ready for X" is not the same as actually being ready. Job shadowing, mentoring, internships, and practicum work are really the only way to get boots-on-the-ground experience so you know what you're getting yourself into.
- English Composition Instructor: While getting my MA in literature and mythology I taught freshman composition for three semesters at WSU. What I learned: Teaching people who are learning because they "have to" is way less fun than teaching people who actually want to learn. But this job also taught me a ton about presentation skills, coursework and training organization, student engagement, useful feedback, and how to take criticism gracefully. I taught the first semester as a total hard-ass out of fear that I wouldn't be respected (I was only a year older than most of the students) and was told to chill out for the next semester. I did, and it worked much better despite my own intuition that it wouldn't.
- Flooring Salesperson: This was a job taken purely for the money to pay the bills. What I learned: I learned a lot about flooring! (quick, ask me anything) I also learned that not only do I not like sales, I am not good at it in the slightest. This reaffirmed for me that working in a job that didn't have a profit-basis was very important, solidifying my desire to work in education. I have used my flooring knowledge a few times to offer advice on flooring choices for new library buildings, surprising the salespeople with the random vocabulary I can still pull out of my head 15 years later. This is actually a practical set of knowledge now that I'm a library manager. Go figure.
- Amateur Tequila Shot Contest Competitor: OK, this wasn't actually a real job, per se, but I did earn money doing this. What I learned: If people underestimate you, exploit it and show them what you can do. A 115 pound woman can drink a 300 pound man under the table and take home $300 as a result. If people want to underestimate me now, I let them. If they choose to believe I'm naive or inexperienced or stupid, I let them. Then I do what I need to do and watch the jaws drop. It's a very satisfying moment…the jaw-dropping-ha-ha moment.
Think about your own work history and what skills and talents you bring with you that are unique to you. It is those things that make you marketable, that you should play up during interviews, that you should remember make you so perfectly wonderful as a library staffer. We love you because you are you!


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Yes, you read that correctly: chocolate sauerkraut cake. Think about it - sweet + salty + bitter + sour. Four of the five essential flavors. Actually, as I think about it, sauerkraut is pretty pungent, so can we add that fifth flavor to the list too? If so, this cake may just have the potential to satisfy all our flavor needs.
Both the cake and frosting are gluten-free, vegan, and made without refined sugars and gums. And as a bonus, I didn't use tree nuts or coconut either! I just licked out the frosting bowl and ate a piece two pieces of cake. It needs a bit of tweaking, and when I'm done, I'll share the recipe with you. I think you'll love it.
Want to come over for a slice? I have a whole pan, and one of my housemates doesn't like cake. (!!!)
on 2011-01-30 04:30 by Kim
So as to ensure I didn't eat the entire cake myself, I took most of it to the clay studio to share with other clay folks. It was met with very positive reviews from everyone who tried it! I stayed at the clay center for almost 4 hours working in the studio, and of course, got quite hungry as the time passed by. I proceeded to eat 4 squares of cake (bringing my daily total up to an absurd 6 pieces of cake), and thought each one tasted better than the last. The sauerkraut cake is a success, methinks. No more cake for me tomorrow though, unless I want to buy new pants. ;)


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Topic Overview
A genital self-examination is a simple examination you can give yourself to become familiar with what is normal for you and to see if you have any symptoms of a sexually transmitted infection (STI).
- Look for any areas of redness, sores, bumps, warts, or blisters in your genital area.
- Look closely at and feel the entire surface of your penis, scrotum, and anus. If you are not circumcised, pull back your foreskin covering the head of your penis and look carefully at the head of your penis.
- Use a mirror to help you look at the underside of your penis, your scrotum, and anus.
- Look for discharge from the penis.
- Check the testicles for swelling and tenderness.
- Separate your pubic hair with your fingers so you can see the skin underneath the hair.
- Look for any areas of redness, sores, bumps, warts, or blisters in your genital area.
- Separate your pubic hair and look closely at the skin underneath.
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- Look carefully at the skin on the inside of your legs and around your genitals.
- Separate the fleshy lips that cover your clitoris and look carefully at all the exposed skin.
- Hold open the lips of the vagina and look carefully at the inside of the lips as well as the opening to the vagina.
It may be helpful to feel each of these areas with your fingers as you view them, so that you can be aware of any areas of rough skin or bumps.
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Google will create a branded 7-inch tablet to compete with Amazon's Kindle Fire, an analyst reported.
Richard Shim, an analyst with DisplaySearch, a purveyor of display supply chain information and analysis, told CNET that Google will start work on the tablet in April. Shim estimates the initial production to run between 1.5 to 2 million units. Previous reports said that Google was at work on a tablet with Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich, that would be priced around $199 to compete directly with the highly successful $199 Kindle Fire.
In December we also wrote about the Novo7, the $99 Android tablet from Ainovo, saying that it was destined to shake up the market. Problem is that it hasn't showed up yet. So I guess we're saying that rumors are rumors for a reason -- because they may or may not actually happen. And looking at this logically, what does Google have to gain with a branded tablet?
The only reason to put out a branded tablet is to take some market away from Amazon's e-commerce juggernaut. Is that Google's goal? (Apple's iPad has more to lose if Amazon's tablets take hold.) If Google wanted to be truly stop Amazon in its tracks, it could prevent it in other ways -- charging a hefty fee for using the Android platform, for instance.
As a rule, the tweener tablet is also not a popular model. So far, the smaller screens haven't really won admirers away from larger displays. All in all, we hope this is just a rumor, because this could actually be a very bad idea for Google.


text: Unitus DSpace http://http://dspace.unitus.it:80 The DSpace digital repository system captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and distributes digital research material. 2019-11-14T22:55:49Z Improving the Wheat Genetic Diversity for End-Use Grain Quality by Chromatin Introgression from the Wheat Wild Relative Dasypyrum villosum http://hdl.handle.net/2067/1762 Title: Improving the Wheat Genetic Diversity for End-Use Grain Quality by Chromatin Introgression from the Wheat Wild Relative Dasypyrum villosum Authors: Vaccino, Patrizia; Banfi, Riccardo; Corbellini, Maria; De Pace, Ciro Abstract: Dasypyrum villosum chromatin, including genes at the Glu-V1 locus, signify cantly improves wheat bread-making quality, and chromatin from the short arm of chromosome 6V also improves protein and micronutrient content. Description: L'articolo è disponibile sul sito dell'editore: http://www.crops.org 2009-12-31T23:00:00Z Flowering earliness in wheat inbred breeding lines derived from T. aestivum 'Chinese Spring' x Dasypyrum villosum hybridization is not related to allelic variation at the vernalization loci VRN-A1, VRN-B1, and VRN-D1 http://hdl.handle.net/2067/1763 Title: Flowering earliness in wheat inbred breeding lines derived from T. aestivum 'Chinese Spring' x Dasypyrum villosum hybridization is not related to allelic variation at the vernalization loci VRN-A1, VRN-B1, and VRN-D1 Authors: Caceres, Maria Eugenia; Vaccino, Patrizia; Corbellini, Maria; Cionini, Pier Giorgio; Sarri, Vania; Polizzi, Enza; Vittori, Doriano; De Pace, Ciro Abstract: Substantial cryptic chromosome mutations or recombinations or gene mutations have occurred during the earlier generations following the hybridization T. aestivum "Chinese Spring" (CS) x Dasypyrum villosum event. Those genomic modifications were transmitted to the progeny plants, from which wheat introgression breeding lines (IBL) were derived. One of the mutations might have affected a flowering-promoting gene at a locus different from VRN-1, causing (under nonvernalizing condition and 13-14-hour daylength) the IBL "CSxV59" and the F1 hybrids "CSxV59 x cv Salgemma" and "CSxV59 x cv Isengrain" to start anthesis in less than 50 days from sowing compared to CS and to the two parental winter bread wheat cv Salgemma and cv Isengrain, which flowered about 150 days later. 2007-12-31T23:00:00Z Stabilità e capacità produttiva di linee inbred di frumento contenenti geni o cromosomi di D. villosum http://hdl.handle.net/2067/2198 Title: Stabilità e capacità produttiva di linee inbred di frumento contenenti geni o cromosomi di D. villosum Authors: Corbellini, Maria; Vaccino, Patrizia; Banfi, Riccardo; Coppa, Tania; De Pace, Ciro Abstract: High yielding and good bread-making quality varieties are needed to improve common wheat cultivation in North and Central Italy. We evaluated advanced wheat intragression breeding lines (IBL), obtained from wheat Dasypyrum villosum (Dv)hybridization and backcross to the wheat parent, in order to achieve introgression of small portions of the Dv genome into the wheat nuclear genome. The IBLs were included in three sets of field trials (A, B, and C), each arranged according to a randomized block design, in three locations. The agronomic performance of the IL over the tested environments evidenced three main results: A) the IL 41-03, 8-1, and Mut 3-04, are ready to enter the registration process for releasing new high yielding and good quality wheat varieties; B) the IL CS V58, CS V59, CS V60 showed early heading, and the IBL CS V32 and CS V63 showed resistance to foliar diseases; the grain yield and phenotypic stability of all of them were as good or superior to the wheat parent "Chinese Spring", which suggest that they will be useful donors of genes for heading earliness (CS V60 was at least 8 days earlier than both "Chinese Spring" and the earliest check) and disease resistance in future wheat breeding programs; C) An IBL derived from the T. turgidum var durum cv "Modoc" Dv (M V)amphiplod is early heading, with tenacious glumes, and high protein content suitable as a new "farro" for low – input farming systems. 2010-12-31T23:00:00Z Aspetti genetico-molecolari e tecnologici del trasferimento al frumento di geni del Dasypyrum villosum http://hdl.handle.net/2067/2201 Title: Aspetti genetico-molecolari e tecnologici del trasferimento al frumento di geni del Dasypyrum villosum Authors: Vaccino, Patrizia; Coppa, Tania; Corbellini, Maria; De Pace, Ciro Abstract: Many breeding programs rely on gene transfer from the wild and cultivated secondary gene-pool (GP-2) for trait enhancement, but so far no reports on transfer of bread-making quality-related genes from the wild GP-2 of wheat have been released. In this paper, we used small- and large-scale tests to analyze wheat introgression lines (ILs) derived from Triticum aestivum cv "Chinese Spring" (CS) Dasypyrum villosum (L.) Candargy (Dv) hybridization. We aimed at ascertaining the efficacy of prolamin subunits encoded by Dv genes for the improvement of wheat end-use grain quality Biochemical and genetic evidences from backcrossing those lines to CS, and the qualitative results obtained from the lines grown for two years at two localities demonstrated that the ascertained positive effects of the Dv genes on wheat-flour end-use quality correlate weakly with the size of the introgressed Dv chromatin that contained those genes or the protein content of the flour. Dv chromatin including genes at the Glu-V1 locus, coding for high molecular weight glutenins in Dv, significantly improves wheat bread-making quality, and chromatin from the short arm of 6V chromosome improves also protein and micronutrient (Fe and Zn) content. 2010-12-31T23:00:00Z Dasypyrum villosum come fonte di geni di resistenza a oidio e ruggine bruna per il miglioramento dei frumenti coltivati http://hdl.handle.net/2067/2199 Title: Dasypyrum villosum come fonte di geni di resistenza a oidio e ruggine bruna per il miglioramento dei frumenti coltivati Authors: Pasquini, Marina; Bizzarri, Marco; Nocente, Francesca; Matere, Antonio; Sereni, Loriana; Casini, Fausto; L'Aurora, Alessia; Vaccino, Patrizia; Corbellini, Maria; Coppa, Tania; Vittori, Doriano; De Pace, Ciro Abstract: The wild species of cereals comprised in the secondary gene pool (GP 2)of wheat have received specific attention mainly with a view to widening the narrow genetic basis of cultivated wheats. Dasypyrum villosum Candargy (syn. Haynaldia villosa) (Dv) is an annual, diploid (2n=14), allogamous grass species, belonging to the GP 2 of wheat. This species, originating from Southern Europe and South-Western Asia, is widespread in the Mediterranean region and has been reported as carrying genes for enhancing agronomic and grain quality traits. A study has been carried out on two wheat aneuploid lines (CS V32 and CS V63) obtained after introgression of chromosome 6V # 4 into the T. aestivum cv. Chinese Spring (CS) nuclear genome by interspecific hybridization with a D. villosum population collected in Latium. The disomic addition line CS+6V carrying chromosome 6V#1 and bred by the late E.R. Sears, was also included in the study. The two aneuploid lines resulted completely resistant to Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici (Bgt) at adult and seedling plant stage. The CS V63 line was crossed to the susceptible disomic addition line 6V # 1 and a suitable mapping population, segregating for powdery mildew resistance, was produced. The F2:3 progenies were studied both by phytopathological (with selected pathotypes of Bgt) and molecular (PCR marker) analyses in order to assess the genetic basis of resistance. The observed resistant: susceptible phenotypic ratio fitted the 3:1 ratio expected for the segregation of the resistance/susceptible alleles at one locus named "PmVt", presumably located in 6VS. The resistant phenotype was dominant. Molecular analyses using the RAPD marker OPH171900 were carried out to confirm the location of this gene on 6VS and to verify its relationship with the Pm21 locus and association to the gliadin-encoding locus Gli-V2. The line CS V63 was tested also for resistance to Puccinia triticina (Pt): it resulted susceptible in the experiments carried out at the seedling stage with different selected Pt pathotypes. When tested with the same pathotypes in controlled infection at the adult plant stage, and in the field, in multilocation epidemiological trials, the line showed a complete or moderate resistance to this disease, thus indicating the possible presence in 6V # 4 of gene(s) for adult plant resistance to Pt. 2010-12-31T23:00:00Z Development of valuable wheat inbred lines through the introduction of Dasypyrum villosum germplasm in their pedigree http://hdl.handle.net/2067/2197 Title: Development of valuable wheat inbred lines through the introduction of Dasypyrum villosum germplasm in their pedigree Authors: De Pace, Ciro; Vaccino, Patrizia; Caceres, Maria Eugenia; Corbellini, Maria Abstract: Selection of improved stable wheat inbred lines for low input production systems was achieved through the relevant combination of wheat and Dasypyrum villosum (Dv) germplasm using two approaches: (1) a re-evaluation of a tri-parental species breeding scheme, and (2) a modified bulk-breeding method. Both methods optimized selection outcome. The first breeding method was based on the synthesis of a T. turgidum var durum Dv hexaploid amphiploid, and crossing of that amphiploid to a bread wheat cultivar. The second breeding method was developed by bulk harvesting seeds from F1 and F2 from each biparental combination involving commercial wheat cultivars and wheat introgression breeding lines (IBLs) containing various amount of chromatin from Dv. In the first case, the M V amphiploid displayed typical adaptive traits of Dv such as high resistance to diseases and heading earliness, and the further crossing of the amphiploid to Triticum aestivum cv Chinese Spring (CS) provided wheat breeeding lines showing additional enhancements for grain size and grain end-use quality. GISH analyses revealed that Dv chromatin introgression occurred in some of them, coupled to chromosome-arm exchanges. Interestingly, three of the selected lines, after two years of genetic analyses and low-input field tests, showed dominance and genetic stability of the adaptive traits. In the second case, the F1s expressed the 'useful' Dv genes inherited from the IBLs, providing strong evidence that the Dv genes for trait enhancements are expressed not only in CS but also in 'elite' wheat genetic background. The F2 progenies displayed wide segregation offering ample opportunity for selecting the desired combination of the 'elite' traits with the traits expressed by the 'useful' Dv genes inherited through the IBLs. 2010-12-31T23:00:00Z


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A controversial dunking booth, involving the Casey Anthony case, has been shut down at the Bluegrass Fair.
Crews were tearing down the dunking booth at 6:30 Tuesday night.
Officials with the Bluegrass Fair in Lexington responded to WKYT viewers, many of whom questioned the booth.
Many negative comments about the booth were posted to wkyt.com after our story about it aired Monday night at 11.
Many of the comments said the booth was in poor taste. It featured someone impersonating Anthony, and the words "guilty" and "not guilty" on the sides.
The Lions Club, a non-profit charitable organization which sponsors the fair, rented space to the operator of the booth.
Bluegrass Fair Chairman Ron Mossotti says booths similar to this, where the person being dunked taunts the thrower, are typically seen at fairs throughout the country.
Mossotti also says he knew the Casey Anthony booth would be controversial, but he had no idea it would get such a negative reaction online.
"Reading the comments, of course we take notice," Mossotti said, "we have a reputation to uphold."


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When LIFE published Edward Steichen's 1928 portrait of Greta Garbo on its cover in January 1955, the Swedish-born actress was still one of the most famous film personalities in the world—despite not having appeared in a movie for more than a decade. She was then, and a quarter-century after her death she remains, a singular screen presence: a mysterious, alluring star of both silent films and the early, Golden Age of "talkies" who retired from acting when she was just 35 years old.
Today, of course, she's almost a punch line for people who have never even seen one of her movies (I want to be alone), while for true film buffs she is comparable only with the likes of Katharine Hepburn and Bette Davis when discussing genuine, enduring screen icons.
Here, on her birthday—she was born Sept. 18, 1905, in Stockholm, Sweden, and died in New York City in April 1990, at the age of 84—LIFE.com remembers Garbo, the legend, as seen through the lens of a master. Steichen's photo (originally published in Vanity Fair in 1929) is, in many ways, the image that countless people have in mind when they think of Garbo. Her gaze is at-once so direct and so unreadable that it's difficult to know if she's offering the viewer a challenge, or an invitation. All we know for sure is that here is a rare sort of beauty: beguiling, disquieting, inscrutable.


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Panel Round Two
CARL KASELL: From NPR and WBEZ-Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT...DON'T TELL ME, the NPR News quiz. I'm Carl Kasell. We're playing this week with Paula Poundstone, Maz Jobrani, and Amy Dickinson. And, here again is your host, at the Chase Bank Auditorium in downtown Chicago, Peter Sagal.
Thank you, Carl.
SAGAL: Thanks, everybody. In just a minute, Carl shows why our listener limerick challenge game is a victimless rhyme. If you'd like to play, give us a call at 1-888-Wait-Wait. That's 1-888-924-8924. Right now, panel, some more questions for you from the week's news. Maz, a new study from Japanese researchers shows that watching cat videos at work makes you what?
MAZ JOBRANI: Crazy.
SAGAL: No.
JOBRANI: Watching cat videos at work makes you fat.
SAGAL: No. It's good news.
JOBRANI: It's good news.
SAGAL: It's good news.
JOBRANI: Oh, it makes you smart.
SAGAL: Well, you're at work, what's a good thing to be at work?
JOBRANI: Productive.
SAGAL: Yes, watching cat videos makes you more productive according to this study.
SAGAL: So you think you're just a bored worker passing the time with kitten videos? No, you're increasing your productivity. You think you're just a crazy lady living at home with nine cats? You are. This study has nothing to do with you.
SAGAL: What happened was Japanese scientists found that workers who watch kittens and other cute baby animals on the internet are more focused and productive the rest of the day. And your business becomes even more productive if you can teach the kittens Microsoft Excel.
JOBRANI: Is that because they watch the video and then they're like, "Oh, so cute."
SAGAL: Yeah, they're sort of cheered up, they're energized because of the cuteness.
PAULA POUNDSTONE: You know, again, Peter, with the study...
SAGAL: With the studies.
POUNDSTONE: Why would anybody even do such a study?
POUNDSTONE: I mean what would make someone go what's the effect of cat videos on workers?
SAGAL: Well, I imagine they might start with the premise that a lot of people are watching cat videos at work. We might as well find out what effect it is having on them.
POUNDSTONE: I see what you're saying. So their boss came in while they were watching cat videos.
POUNDSTONE: And said "what the hell are you doing? You're not doing anything." And they said oh, but we are, we are doing a study.
JOBRANI: We're being productive.
SAGAL: Amy, thanks to a new development, farmers can now get text messages from whom?
AMY DICKINSON: Oh, their cows, of course.
SAGAL: Exactly right.
DICKINSON: Yes.
SAGAL: Yes. This is exciting. Some farmers in Switzerland are trying out new technology that sends a text when a cow is in heat and ready to mate. This saves a lot of time for farmers, who for centuries have had to trudge down to the barn and check for themselves, a process that was as embarrassing for the cows as it was for the farmers.
SAGAL: Much less traumatic is sitting down for dinner with your wife, you're all relaxed at the end of the day and then you get a sext from Daisy the milk cow.
SAGAL: What do sexts from cows seem like? "I'm tired of chewing just cud."
SAGAL: "Hey, I left my barn door open."
SAGAL: "I'm wearing leather, how about you?"
JOBRANI: Milk me now.
DICKINSON: Maz.
JOBRANI: What? Milk me now.
DICKINSON: That was really naughty.
JOBRANI: That's not naughty.
DICKINSON: That was very naughty.
JOBRANI: I'm talking about milking.
DICKINSON: Yeah, and the hand motion.
SAGAL: Oh, don't make the gesture, Maz.
JOBRANI: Poor farmers.
SAGAL: Paula?
POUNDSTONE: Yes.
SAGAL: Scientists in Britain...
POUNDSTONE: I'll be they did.
SAGAL: ...recently conducted a study...
POUNDSTONE: Yeah, baby.
SAGAL: ...to narrow down human personality types and they made an amazing discovery.
POUNDSTONE: There's two kinds.
SAGAL: There are.
SAGAL: There are people who believe in studies and then there's you.
SAGAL: No, this study found that you can tell a lot about a person based on the way they do what?
POUNDSTONE: Oh. Prepare their eggs.
SAGAL: Exactly right.
DICKINSON: What?
SAGAL: You knew that, very good.
POUNDSTONE: I did. Of course I knew that.
DICKINSON: Were you in that study?
SAGAL: Yes. The study was conducted by Mindlab International. It determined the following - this is according to Mindlab - boiled egg-eaters are disorganized; fried egg-eaters are typically young, male and promiscuous.
SAGAL: Scrambled egg-eaters are guarded office workers in managerial positions who own their own homes; and omelet-eaters are disciplined and tidy. So remember guys, if you're out on a date with a girl and she orders fried eggs, she's a man.
SAGAL: But congratulations, dudes, on making it to breakfast.
SAGAL: It turns out there's one more. People who eat their soft boiled for exactly three minutes, served in a bone china cup, by a faithful servant at precisely 8:30 a.m. in the morning are the Republican nominee for President.
POUNDSTONE: You know what, here's the thing with the studies...
POUNDSTONE: I don't need these studies. I didn't go to college and clearly I didn't need to.
POUNDSTONE: Because I sense all this intuitively.
SAGAL: You sense the egg thing intuitively? You knew?
POUNDSTONE: Oh absolutely, as well as the cat video thing. Every study you've ever spoken of, I already knew the findings without completing such a study because I have eyes and ears and out in the world and I see the people eating the eggs.
POUNDSTONE: Peter, you've got a little yolk right here.
SAGAL: Yeah, I understand.
POUNDSTONE: If this had come out of the Waffle House, I think you'd question the findings.
SAGAL: That's true.
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The WTO and the Myth of Activist Violence
Official history is an accretion of acceptable versions. Before those arise there are great ruptures when the world actually changes and no one yet is in control of the meaning of what has happened or what kind of a future it will lead to—and perhaps these two things are the same thing.
In these great pauses, much is possible, including a change of mind on a broad scale. September 11 was one such occasion, and in the days before the Bush Administration framed the act by a little-known group as the opening overture of a war, a remarkable contemplative stillness blanketed much of the country. The meaning was up for grabs, and even after the war on Afghanistan began, people continued buying quantities of books on Islam and the Middle East, talking among themselves, and thinking for themselves about foreign policy, violence, and civil society.
November 30, 1999, a positive image to which 9/11 was the negative, was also one of those ruptures—the other half of the arrival of the millenium. No one, not even the organizers, anticipated that activists would so successfully disrupt the WTO ministerial or that the success would become a huge story around the world, magnifying its impact. The event brought consciousness of corporate globalization and the arguments against it to much of the previously clueless Global North.
Before Seattle, the WTO had seemed indestructible, its agenda of taking over the world and creating the most powerful monolithic institution in history inevitable. Four years after, when the WTO talks collapsed at Cancún, the organization was crippled, and it is now—as no one anticipated, though many dreamed—essentially disabled with no signs of possible recovery. What happened in Seattle mattered. "On the tear gas-shrouded streets of Seattle," reported the Los Angeles Times, "the unruly forces of democracy collided with the elite world of trade policy. And when the meeting ended in failure on Friday, the elitists had lost and the debate had changed forever." So had the world.
My belief is that those who characterize us as violent correctly perceive us as a threat. But to acknowledge us as a threat to the status quo is to acknowledge many dangerous things: that there is a status quo, rather than a natural order, that it is vulnerable, and that action in the streets can change it. Framed this way, activists are historical players who matter and whose danger may coexist with their legitimacy, even their heroism. To acknowledge this is also dangerous. Thus the threat has to be relocated from the legitimate arena of political and cultural change to the illegitimate realm of "lawlessness" and violence. Once this is done, activists are merely criminals, petty or otherwise, and their threat is part of the status quo.
More reflections on the 10th anniversary of Seattle WTO protests:
Walden Bello
Anuradha Mittal
Fran Korten
Sarah van Gelder
David Korten
David Solnit
Dispatches from the 1999 event:
YES! Magazine archive
From the Boston Tea Party perpetrators to Civil Rights activists, the people who have made our world through direct action have been treated as dangerous, foolish, unrealistic, malcontented, unreasonable, and criminal in their time, even if they are revered when their radical acts are at a safe distance. The myth of activist violence is a way of concealing and dismissing real power. And maybe it's also a measure of that power, if a frustrating, damaging one.
We won the battle with the WTO, and though corporate globalization is a many-headed hydra, quite a few more of those heads have been chopped off, much of the world has been educated, and huge swaths of it have been radicalized—in 1999 no one, for example, foresaw Bolivia's future or the death of the Free Trade Area of the Americas. And it turns out that ten thousand unarmed people in the streets can circumvent the juggernaut of the former most powerful institution in the world. Nonviolently. We have power. But we need to use that power to see that the truth is told and that history serves the truth, and justice.
Interested?:: Why nonviolent resistance is the most powerful tactic against oppressive regimes.


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