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2011 Hampton Designer Showhouse: Second Floor
Fabulous style continues on the second floor
Ron Fiore, Master Bedroom
Anchored by Hickory Chair's "Artisan Poster Bed" flanked by twin tables and end-noted with matching white-painted side chairs, Ron Fiore's master bedroom is pure symmetry.
Photography: John Bessler and Jonny Valiant
The artist's studio is flooded with natural light, illuminating the calm palette punctuated by hints of lavender and blue.
The sitting area acts as the ultimate neutral zone between the artist's studio and the sleeping space.
For the terrace, Fiore customized Hickory Chair's "Gothick Bench" with marine paint to make it suitable for outdoor use.
"I like mixing collections and finishes within a space and then pulling it together with common fabrics," says Fiore. "It doesn't look like it came out of a can."
Carole Reed, Master Bath
Carole Reed dared to be sexy when designing the master bathroom. She used ocean-inspired outdoor fabrics to amplify the marble-clad space.
Big windows decorated with Turkish terry cloth curtains brighten up the space. Bath cushions covered in "Zig Zag" fabric from Schumacher are stylish and comfortable.
According to designer Carole Reed, "anything goes" in the bathroom. "It's an intimate space that allows you to be more daring and sexy," she says.
Interior design: Carole Reed, Carole Reed Design, 485 Magee St., Southampton, NY 11968; 631/875-7366, carolereeddesign.com.
Master bath—Chandelier ("Armillary Sphere Chandelier"/Polished Nickel #SC5102, by Eric Cohler): Circa Lighting, 877/762-2323, circalighting.com.
Wall covering ("Linyi Ground"/Mist, grasscloth #5003592): Schumacher, 800/523-1200, fschumacher.com.
Ceiling and trim paint ("Wimborne White" #239): Farrow & Ball, 888/511-1121, farrow-ball.com.
Window shades ("Molulari"/White): Razor Tooth Design, razortoothdesign.com.
Drapery: Turkish terry cotton. Drapery trim fabric ("Pisces Print"/Pool #174330, by Trina Turk): Schumacher, 800/523-1200, fschumacher.com.
Drapery hardware: Ralph Laluren Home, 888/475-7674, ralphlaurenhome.com.
Tub fixtures: Lefroy Brooks, 212/226-222, lefroybrooks.com.
Monogrammed towel (custom): Mrs. Monogram, mrsmonogram.com.
Art on wall behind tub (Bali Boat, oil on canvas, by Paton Miller): Paton Miller, patonmiller.com.
Area rug (Color Reform Collection): ABC Carpet & Home, 212/473-3000, abchome.com.
Vanity hardware: Lefroy Brooks, 212/226-222, lefroybrooks.com.
Vanity countertop: Carrara marble. Vanity chair ("Bel Air Slipper Chair"); chair seat and bath cushion fabric ("Zig Zag"/Laguna #65330): Schumacher, 800/523-1200, fschumacher.com.
Sea horse pillow: Michelle Hatch, michellehatchny.com.
Joy Tribout, Guest Bedroom
With its dramatic black-and-white scheme and gauzy bed curtains, designer Joy Tribout's guest bedroom is fit for royalty. A bridle-inspired light fixture over the bed, table lamps made from old riding boots, and a series of polo player photographs elaborate on Tribout's polo-inspired theme.
A beautiful black-and-white chair by Century Furniture faces the bedroom's desk area. The animal skin rug brings a playful pattern into the mix.
An assortment of crystal accessories, including bowls and decanters, fill a wooden basket and overflow onto the table.
"My inspiration came from the polo fields in the Hamptons," says designer Joy Tribout of her guest bedroom.
Interior design: Joy Tribout, Joy Tribout Interior Design, 711 S. Illinois St., Belleville, IL 62220; 618/233-0600, joytribout.com.
Bedroom—Bed; wing chair: discontinued. Bedside tables ("Wellington Court Nightstands" #30H-222): Century Furniture, 800/852-5552, centuryfurniture.com.
Leather sofa (Century Signature #22-272): Century Furniture, 800/852-5552, centuryfurniture.com.
Pillows on sofa: designed by Joy Tribout, fabricated by Caroline Cole Pillows, 618/233-0600, carolinecole.com. Available through Joy on Clayton, 314/692-9888. Lamps on bedside tables (custom design by Joy Tribout): Joy on Clayton, 314/692-9888.
Drapery (linen): Kravet, 888/457-2838, kravet.com.
Bed drapery ("Bonita Sheer Net"/Cream #55900): Schumacher, 800/523-1200, fschumacher.com.
White bed cover ("Oxford Coverlet" #OXF-4QL-WHT): Peacock Alley, 800/496-2880, peacockalley.com.
Gray blanket ("Chesterfield Houndstooth"/Jet, discontinued): Ralph Lauren Home, 888/475-7674, ralphlaurenhome.com.
Pillow shams and pillows: designed by Joy Tribout, fabricated by Caroline Cole Pillows, 618/233-0600, carolinecole.com. Available through Joy on Clayton, 314/692-9888.
Chandelier (by Visual Comfort): Circa Lighting, 877/762-2323, circalighting.com.
Sisal carpet ("Taj"): Fibreworks, 800/843-0063, fibreworks.com.
Wall paint (#2132-10): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667, benjaminmoore.com.
Photographs: Trowbridge Gallery, 404/816-8612, trowbridgegallery.com. Available through Joy on Clayton, 314/692-9888.
Desk area—Desk ("Writing Desk with Metal Base" #849-761); fauteuil ("Jarrett Chair" #3213): Century Furniture, 800/852-5552, centuryfurniture.com.
Chair fabric (design by Joy Tribout): Joy on Clayton, 314/692-9888.
Table lamps on desk: Global Views, 212/725-8439. Available at Joy on Clayton, 314/692-9888.
Chair fabric: Ralph Lauren Home, 888/475-7674, ralphlaurenhome.com.
Animal-skin rug: Joy on Clayton, 314/692-9888. Jug on desk; silver bowl on desk (antique); silver vase on desk (antique); black boxes on desk: Joy on Clayton, 314/692-9888.
Portrait—Etagère; mirror above étagère: Joy on Clayton, 314/692-9888.
Inset of decanters—Table: Century Furniture, 800/852-5552, centuryfurniture.com.
Large crystal bowl; silver bowl; crystal decanters; silver flask; basket; crystal horse head: Joy on Clayton, 314/692-9888.
Tobi Fairley, Guest Bedroom
In Tobi Fairley's guest bedroom jade green, bright coral, and chartreuse play happily together. A white-and-green Schumacher patterned fabric dresses not only the headboard and pillows, but also the window. Bold stripes on the ceiling and bright yellow benches by Hickory Chair top off the space.
A bright white chest and lamp "pop" against the large painting boasting the room's color scheme.
The room's closet is neatly organized thanks to California Closets.
"Creating unique color combinations is my favorite thing," says designer Tobi Fairley. "I started with the jade, found a color that supported well (the coral), and then kept things punchy and unexpected with the chartreuse accents."
Interior design: Tobi Fairley and Landon Shockey, Tobi Fairley Interior Design, 5507 Ranch Drive, Suite 103, Little Rock, AR 72223; 501/868-9882, tobifairley.com.
Bedroom—Bed ("Simone Upholstered Bed"/in Artisan Birch #1667-11, by Suzanne Kasler, custom finish): Hickory Chair, 800/349-4579, hickorychair.com. Headboard, pillow, and drapery fabric ("Nanjing"/Jade #174432); rail fabric ("Province Duck"/White #2634481): Schumacher, 800/523-1200, fschumacher.com.
Roman shade ("Lattice Work"/Vermillion #31071.19): Kravet, 888/457-2838, kravet.com.
King blanket ("Grant"/White); king blanket cover and shams ("Morada"/Coral, discontinued): Sferra, sferra.com.
Bedside table ("Lancaster Side Table"/Artisan Birch #6482-10, custom finish NOT SHOWN); Benches ("Anastasia Benches"/Cream Lacquer #1512-30, by Suzanne Kasler): Hickory Chair, 800/349-4579, hickorychair.com.
Hardware on Lancaster table (NOT SHOWN): Marjorie Skouras Design, 323/469-3636, marjorieskourasdesign.com.
Bench fabric ("Allia"/Lemongrass #F1795/31, by Designers Guild): Osborne & Little, 212/751-3333, designersguild.com.
Secretary ("Park Avenue Tall Cabinet"/Cream Lacquer #6249-10, custom finish): Hickory Chair, 800/349-4579, hickorychair.com.
Green trim on secretary ("Jade Green" #2037-20): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667, benjaminmoore.com.
Chandelier (custom): Marjorie Skouras Design, 323/469-3636, marjorieskourasdesign.com.
Wall paint ("Coral Spice" #2170-40); ceiling paint ("Coral Spice" #2170-40, and "Dove Wing" #OC-18): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667, benjaminmoore.com. Writing desk to right of bed (Regency Bamboo Writing Table"/Artisan Birch with striping #5210-19, custom finish): Hickory Chair, 800/349-4579, hickorychair.com. Acrylic desktop: Plexi-Craft, 800/247-5394, plexi-craft.com.
Desk hardware: Marjorie Skouras Design, 323/469-3636, marjorieskourasdesign.com.
Mirror (antique): Old Town Crossing, 631/283-7740, oldtowncrossing.1stdibs.com. Table lamps ("Rock Candy"/Emerald): through Doug Taylor, 501/414-8898.
Floral arrangement ("Coral Rose Cube"): NDI, 800/522-2627, ndi.com.
Acrylic tray on desk: Dabney Lee, 718/596-4169, dabneyleeathome.com. Desk chair ("Fretwork Arm Chair" #2551-10): Hickory Chair, 800/349-4579, hickorychair.com.
Chair color ("Quite Coral" #SW-6614): Sherwin-Williams, 800/474-3794, sherwinwilliams.com.
Chair cushion ("Bistro"): Tobi Fairley Home, tobifairley.com/home. Wall shelves ("Blair Wall Bracket"): Global Views, 888/956-0030, globalviews.com.
Urns ("French Matte Finish Urn"): Ballard Designs, 877/485-2952, ballarddesigns.com.
Area rug ("Purl"/Ivory): Merida, 800/345-2200, meridameridian.com.
Closet—Closet system: California Closets, 888/336-9707, californiaclosets.com.
Toward chest—Chest ("Artisan Curved-Front Chest"/Cream Lacquer #190-70, custom finish): Hickory Chair, 800/349-4579, hickorychair.com.
Lamp ("Large Ring Table Lamp" #CHA8970, by Visual Comfort): Circa Lighting, 877/762-2323, circalighting.com.
Sculpture (Amethyst Quartz, Studio B5B Collection by Tish Mills): Harmonious Living by Tish Mills, 404/814-3838, harmoniousliving.net.
Painting (Toe Shoes, by Jane Booth): Tobi Fairley Gallery, 501/868-9882, tobifairleygallery.com.
Wall paint ("Coral Spice" #2170-40): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667, benjaminmoore.com.
Toward chair and drapery—Drapery and chair fabric ("Nanjing"/Jade #174432): Schumacher, 800/523-1200, fschumacher.com.
Roman shade ("Lattice Work"/Vermillion #31071.19): Kravet, 888/457-2838, kravet.com.
Chair ("Queen Anne Wing Chair" #1934-55): Hickory Chair, 800/349-4579, hickorychair.com.
Chair paint ("Quite Coral" #SW-6614): Sherwin-Williams, 800/474-3794, sherwinwilliams.com.
Table ("Crystal Side Table" #7788-10, by Mariette Himes Gomez): Hickory Chair, 800/349-4579, hickorychair.com.
Vase (vintage Blenko): Culture Objects on 1st Dibs, cultureobjects.1stdibs.com. Throw: Williams-Sonoma Home, 877/812-6235, williams-sonomahome.com.
Area rug ("Purl"/Ivory): Merida, 800/345-2200, meridameridian.com. Wall color ("Coral Spice" #2170-40): Benjamin Moore, 888/236-6667, benjaminmoore.com.
Toward art—Prints (custom, in Chinoiserie frames): Soicher-Marin, 941/308-7500, soicher-marin.com.
Patricia Fisher, Guest Bedroom
Designer Patricia Fisher set out to create a serene guest room space. She did this by dressing the bed with custom linens, cool color tones, and simple, stark white furniture.
Ethereal artwork hangs on the wall near the desk. A tie-dye pillow adds drama while the antique desk and tabletop accessories bring a bit of whimsy to the room. "It's all a subtle balancing act," explains Fisher.
"The sea foam color set the stage for everything else," says designer Patricia Fisher of the Venetian plaster wallpaper. The tranquil hue complemented the guest room's ocean views and allotted for contrasting tones to add drama to the otherwise subtle palette.
Interior design: Patricia Fisher, Patricia Fisher Design, 1111 Park Ave., 11C, New York, NY 10128; 917/324-0586, patriciafisher.com.
Bedroom—Wall covering ("Sasha,"/Aquamarine #1090): Koroseal, 212/751-1595, koroseal.com. Ceiling paint ("In Your Eyes" #715); trim paint ("Super White"): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667, benjaminmoore.com.
Headboard (custom): Patricia Fisher Design, 917/324-0586, patriciafisher.com. Headboard and bed-skirt fabric (white piqué, custom); bed linens (custom): Leron Linens, 212/753-6700, leron.com.
Bed-skirt trim ("2-inch French Grosgrain Ribbon"/Lagoon #977-44933-687): Samuel & Sons, 212/704-8000, samuelandsons.com.
Drapery: Duralee, 800/275-3872, duralee.com.
Headboard, bed skirt and drapery fabrication: CZR Workroom, 212/753-4600. Area rug (one-of-a-kind): Stark Carpet Corp., 212/752-9000, starkcarpet.com.
Bedside tables ("Piedmont 1-Drawer Side Table" #PIE-110-19): Bungalow 5, 201/405-1800, bungalow5.com.
Lucite table lamps ("Stacked Cube Lamp"); chaise ("Ladies Longue" in cream linen); coat rack ("'40s Brass Coat Rack"); sheep: John Salibello Antiques, 212/838-5767, johnsalibello.com.
Table beside chaise (custom): Patricia Fisher Design, 917/324-0586, patriciafisher.com. Ceiling light (1940s): designer's collection.
Bench ("Subes Style Bench"): Lorin Marsh, 212/759-8700, lorinmarsh.com.
Bench fabric ("Southampton" #NC0804-213): Nancy Corzine, 212/223-8340, nancycorzine.com.
Desk ("George I Hall Table" #M107 ELG, reproduction): English Georgian America, 212/935-4005, englishgeorgianamerica.com.
Desk lamp ("Distressed Wood Finial Lamp"): English Country Antiques, 631/537-0606, ecantiques.com.
Tabletop accessories: English Country Antiques, 631/537-0606, ecantiques.com. Desk chair ("Anson Folding Garden Chair" #G1500): Dessin Fournir, 785/434-2777, dessinfournir.com.
Seat cushion on desk chair ("Southampton" #NC0804-213): Nancy Corzine, 212/223-8340, nancycorzine.com.
Pillow on desk chair: designer's collection.
Mirror ("Hotel Mirror"): Master Framemakers, 212/308-6152, apfgroup.com. Throws, Tray, pitcher, glasses, books: designer's collection.
Art (by Robert Harms): The Drawing Room, 631/324-5016.
Keith Baltimore, Guest Bedroom
Inspired by leisurely afternoons perusing Hampton's antique shops, Keith Baltimore describes his showhouse space as a "peaceful guest room with a collected, comfortable look—a snapshot reminiscent of the 1950s." The orange and lime-green palette, striped chair, and overscaled headboard with linear slats all come together to achieve the retro look.
"The elements have context and contrast," says Baltimore. The chair's patterned fabric, mid-century commode, and loud artwork are examples of the eclectic mix of materials in the guest bedroom.
The blonde-wash floor lamp's unique structure sparks conversation, while the settee with window views provides the perfect place to get lost in a new book.
"There's a uniquely personal look in the room, where individual showpieces play off each other," says designer Keith Baltimore.
Interior design: Keith Baltimore, Baltimore Design Group, 35 Main St., Port Washington, NY 11050; 516/944-2400, baltimoredesigncenter.com.
Bedroom—Bed and headboard with attached side tables (custom): Baltimore Design Group, 516/944-2400, baltimoredesigncenter.com.
Headboard fabric, gray bolster pillows ("Umi" #1677, by Harlequin): Zoffany, 212/319-7220, zoffany.com.
Bed sack, top fabric ("Lena Washable"/Autumn #2114/01, by Villa Nova); bed sack, side fabric ("Lars Washable"/Autumn #2115/01, by Villa Nova); square pillows ("Astrid Washable"/Autumn #2117/01, by Villa Nova); drapery: Romo, 800/338-2783, romo.com.
Jumbo welt on bed, orange bolster pillow fabric (#2514, by Harlequin): Zoffany, 212/319-7220, zoffany.com.
Wall covering ("Geology"/Mineral #4124-A): Phillip Jeffries Ltd., 800/576-5455, phillipjeffries.com.
Wall paint ("Annapolis Gray"); ceiling and trim paint ("Swiss Coffee" #OC-45): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667, benjaminmoore.com.
Chandelier ("Modo Chandelier, 3-sided"): Roll & Hill, 718/387-6132, rollandhill.com.
Area rug: Baltimore Design Group, 516/944-2400, baltimoredesigncenter.com. Commode (mid-century Italian); art (French jazz club scene, c. 1960s): R.E. Steele, 631/324-7812, resteele.1stdibs.com.
Striped chair beside commode (mid-century): Baltimore Design Group, 516/944-2400, baltimoredesigncenter.com.
Striped fabric on chair ("Corinthian Stripe" #30031): Zoffany, 212/319-7220, zoffany.com.
Floor-to-ceiling lamp behind chair ("Ziyi Tension Pole Lamp" #TOB1013, by Thomas O'Brien for Visual Comfort): Circa Lighting, 877/762-2323, circalighting.com.
Accessories: Baltimore Collection, 516/944-2400, baltimoredesigncenter.com. Gray settee (mid-century sofa and attached side table): Baltimore Design Group, 516/944-2400, baltimoredesigncenter.com.
Settee fabric ("Loop Vellum"/Putty #K5042/05, by Kirk By Design): Romo, 800/338-2783, romo.com.
Floor lamp ("Mangrove Aluminum Floor Lamp"/Blonde Wash, 84 inches #LA4): Serge de Troyer Collection, 786/364-3588, sergedetroyer.com.
Lucite cube with rope handles under floor lamp: Grace and Blake, 818/652-7304, graceandblake.net.
Upstairs Landing by Gideon Mendelson
Dubbed "the landing pad," Gideon Mendelson's landing is any aviation junkie's dream-come-true. A propeller-inspired light fixture hangs from the ceiling and continues the theme throughout the landing area. Jelly-jar pendants are evocative of tarmac lights.
An antique propeller rests on the wall above the stairs and nailhead trim on the wall treatment references airplane rivets. Mendelson, who installed all 1,500 rivets himself, also hand-painted stripes on the walls in his effort to add rich texture to the grass cloth.
A tripod table lamp adds unique flair to the side table. Framed artwork from Bonni Benrubi Gallery complements the color of the square ottoman made of white hide with whipstitch detail.
"Like most of my work, I tried to keep the landing sophisticated but approachable, with a touch of whimsy—like the SCRABBLE board and copy of The Little Prince on the lounger," says designer Gideon Mendelson. "It's a book about enlightenment through exploration—how fitting!"
Interior design: Gideon Mendelson, Mendelson Group Inc., 969 Third Ave., Suite 3B, New York, NY 10022; 212/371-1901, mendelsongroupinc.com.
Upstairs landing—Wall paint ("Wythe Blue" #HC-143); ceiling paint ("Marble White" #942); trim paint ("Chelsea Gray" #HC-168): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667, benjaminmoore.com.
Grasscloth wall covering ("Daylily" #2100-11, Flora Collecditon, by Elizabeth Dow): Holland & Sherry, 212/355-6241, hollandandsherry.com.
Nailheads on wall covering (#OG806): D'Kei Inc., 800/535-3534, dkei.net.
Stair and hall floor covering ("Bargello"/Silver): Stark Carpet, 212/752-9000, starkcarpet.com.
Binding for floor covering ("100% Linen"/Aquamarine #P-0116-07): Rogers & Goffigon, 203/532-8068.
Shag area rug: Maison 24, 631/537-2488, maison24.com.
Ceiling light ("Three-Arm Spider Ceiling Lamp" #MCL-SP3, by Serge Mouille): Guéridon, 718/384-2499, gueridon.com.
Pendant lights (antique, "Jelly Jar Glass Pendants" #HL3417): Remains Lighting, 212/755-5484, remains.com.
Window treatment ("Soho Brush"/Azur #2140/03): Dedar, 800/493-2209, dedar.com; through Jerry Pair & Assoc., 212/546-9001, jerrypair.com.
Solid fabric for throw pillows ("Confection"/Herb #910057-09): Rogers & Goffigon, 203/532-8068. Fretwork fabric for throw pillows Michael Devine at John Rosselli & Assoc., 212/593-2060, johnrosselliassociates.com.
Fabrication of window treatments and throw pillows: Mark David Interiors, 212/714-1001. Sofa (by Edward Wormley for Dunbar, c. 1968): Downtown at Claremont, 212/486-7551, downtownatclaremont.com.
Sofa fabric ("Chenille Diamond Weave"/Java, Ivory #4697): J. Robert Scott, 212/755-4910, jrobertscott.com.
Sofa reupholstery: Dune, 212/925-6171, dune-ny.com.
Oversized lounger (by Milo Baughman, c. 1950): Pascal Boyer Gallery, LLC, 212/242-5594, pascalboyergallery.com.
Lounger fabric ("Couture Tweed"/Pistachio, Bone #9839/03): Glant Textiles at Hines & Co., 212/754-5880. Television (46-inch): Samsung, samsung.com. Propeller (four-bladed mahogany propeller from Royal Aircraft Factory Scout Experimental 5A Biplane Fighter, English, c. 1917): Nicholas Brawer Gallery, 212/772-2664, nicholasbrawer.com.
Art consulting: Elizabeth Moore Fine Art, 212/744-8177. Framed art work: Bonni Benrubi Gallery, 212/888-6007, bonnibenrubi.com.
Coffee table (by Robsjohn-Gibbings, c. 1950s): Eric Appel Inc, 212/605-9960, ericappel.com. Desk ("X" base modernist desk by Modernage, American, c. 1940s): Mendelson Group Inc., 212/371-1901, mendelsongroupinc.com.
Side table ("Orbit"): Roman Thomas, 212/473-6774, romanthomas.com.
Metal trunk on stand (c. 1950s): English Country Antiques, 631/537-0606, ecantiques.com.
Pair of square ottomans (white hide with whip stitch detail); large camel leather bucket: Mecox Gardens East Hampton, 631/329-9405, mecoxgardens.com.
Metal magazine basket: Irwin Feld Design, 203/588-0567, irwinfelddesign.com. Tripod table lamp (by Gerald Thurston, c. 1950s): Mendelson Group Inc., 212/371-1901, mendelsongroupinc.com.
Wool throw on lounger: Turpan, 631/324-2444, turpanonline.com.
More 2011 Hampton Designer Showhouse
A special thank-you to the showhouse sponsors: Benjamin Moore, Bevolo, California Closets, Century, Circa Lighting, Georg Jensen, Gloster, Hickory Chair, Lillian August, Mirage Floors, and Schumacher.
Be sure to also tour the showhouse's lower level and outdoors as well as the first floor.


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Broadcasting Instructor/Counselor posted by Pali Adventures
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MADISON, Wis. — Seven years ago, when James Thomson became the first scientist to isolate and culture human embryonic stem cells, he knew he was stepping into a whirlwind of controversy.
He just didn't expect the whirlwind to last this long.
In fact, the moral, ethical and political controversy is still revving up — in Washington, where federal lawmakers are considering a bill to provide more federal support for embryonic stem cell research; and in Madison, Thomson's base of operations, where Wisconsin legislators are considering new limits on stem cell research .
Thomson, a developmental biologist and veterinarian at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, made history in 1998 when he and fellow researchers derived the first embryonic stem cell lines from frozen human embryos. The breakthrough came after the news that a sheep named Dolly was born as the first cloned mammal — and together, the two announcements hinted at a brave new world of medical possibilities and moral debates.
Since then, five of the university's cell lines have been approved for federal funding under the terms of the Bush administration's stem cell compromise of August 2001. Other cell lines have been derived from frozen embryos with private funding, and the bill approved by the House last month would open the way for more.
Not surprisingly, Thomson believes that President Bush should call off his threat to veto the legislation — and that the federal government should put more money into embryonic stem cell research. "If you look at the average budget of, say, one of the major cancer centers, it's probably about $10 million a year," Thomson told MSNBC.com last week in his Madison office. "Two cancer centers would represent the total federal investment in human embryonic stem cells in the United States. This is just not in balance in any way."
Some of Thomson's other pronouncements might seem more surprising: that supporters of stem cell research are overestimating the prospects for transplantation cures, that the current stem cell lines aren't well-suited for such applications anyway, and that there's no need to resort to therapeutic cloning right now — or perhaps ever.
Critics point out that embryonic stem cells are not being used in any clinical applications yet, while alternatives such as adult stem cells figure in scores of therapies. Thomson acknowledged that the field was still in its formative stage: "There have been companies that have gone into stem cells, but nobody's made any money."
But he recently helped found a biotech start-up called Cellular Dynamics International that takes a different approach, aiming eventually to turn embryonic stem cells into human heart cells suitable for drug testing. "Nobody's been able to test heart drugs on heart cells [outside the human body] before," he said. "That will change medicine a lot quicker than actually transplanting those heart cells."
Thomson predicted that in the long run, embryonic stem cells would play a more important role in fundamental research than in transplantation therapies — a view that doesn't sit well with the critics.
"You have to ask the question, why would you destroy living human embryos just to study them?" said Barbara Lyons, executive director of Wisconsin Right to Life.
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In last week's wide-ranging interview, Thompson explained the reasons behind the research, and touched on many other scientific and moral issues as well. Here is an edited transcript:
MSNBC: How do see this research developing in the next few years?
Thomson: I want to make a basic statement first — which almost never gets in the press, but I keep trying — on what I see as the legacy of these cells.
One is the basic science, and simply having better access to the human body. That's the most important legacy. I'm very hopeful that there will be some transplantation applications for this technology, but they're going to be very challenging. And it's been so hyped in the press that people expect it to come the day after tomorrow. …
Ten or 20 years from now, I'm actually currently optimistic that there will be transplantation-based therapies, but even if there was none, and it was a complete failure, this technology is extraordinarily important.
The analogy I like to draw is with recombinant DNA. If you go back to the early '70s, when people were all excited about this technology, they made a couple of mistakes in the predictions. One was that gene therapy would be pretty easy. Another was the blanket statement that it would solve a lot of problems. Well, here we are, 30 years out, and it really hasn't changed people's health in dramatic ways. There have been a couple of small successes, but it's been very challenging.
I think that transplantation based on embryonic stem cells might have comparable challenges in getting into the clinics. That doesn't mean it won't be terribly important someday, but I think there are enough challenges there that there's a good chance that most things people are trying will fail the first time, and it will take a lot of hard work to get it working.
The other analogy to recombinant DNA is that people completely underestimated how pervasive a research tool it would be. If you think about it, it does things you don't even realize anymore. If you look at your laundry detergent, there are recombinant proteins in there to make your stuff whiter. Then there's the O.J. Simpson trial, with PCR-based forensics.
I think the same things are going to happen with human embryonic stem cells. It will be a pervasive research tool that anybody interested in understanding the human body will use. And that will lead to knowledge, for the development of new drugs or whatever, that has absolutely nothing to do with transplantation. This will change human medicine in ways that don't make the front pages. And people will not even realize it's happened. My prediction is that that will be the long-term legacy of these cells.
Thomson: If you think about the kind of transplantation that people talk about — say, Parkinson's — it's a very complex disease. The brain is a complicated organ. It may be possible someday to transplant cells and treat that disease. But it's clearly going to be challenging. When you think about it, that's a pretty crude thing to do anyway. What you want to do is understand how the disease happens in the first place, and you need to prevent or slow its progression to the point where it's not going to be relevant anymore.
Up until now we've never had dopaminergic [dopamine-producing] neurons from humans that we could study in the laboratory. They simply didn't exist. So human embryonic stem cells already give rise to these dopaminergic neurons with very high frequency. I hope that they might be useful for transplantation. They may not be. I mean, you have to be realistic about it. But in terms of a basic model to understand what's happening in the disease, it's unparalleled. I think what will happen is that people will understand the basic biology of the disease using this model system, and they'll come up with therapies, and you won't even know stem cells were involved in creating those therapies. …
I think that's the theme for most diseases. There are some that really should work, like diabetes. There's already a transplantation therapy for that. There's just this mismatch between the availability of tissue and the need: There's a couple of thousand appropriate pancreases donated in the United States every year for this procedure. You need two for each patient, and there's over a million people with diabetes. It's a complete mismatch.
So you'd think if you could just come up with a better cell, then that would go directly into transplantation. And it probably can. The problem is the safety issue. If you take cadaver tissue and take the islet cells out, you're not forcing them to divide a lot in culture. They're going directly into a patient. So the chances of introducing a cancer are pretty small. It's a negligible risk.
But with stem cells, if you manipulate them in culture for a long time, they will accumulate mutations. It's a fact of life. It's just a question of differences in the rates. If you accumulate enough of those mutations, you could actually create a cancer.
This has nothing to do specifically with embryonic stem cells. It's just any cell you put in a tissue culture. But if you're going to take those cells and put them into somebody's body, you want to make really, really sure you have some way of dealing with that – because if you're diagnosed with diabetes and you're 6 years old, you're going to live a very long, productive life. It's a pretty normal life until the end. … But you don't die from cancer in a couple of months.
So that one is like, "It really should work, and there's no reason why it can't work" – but the safety issues are high enough that I suspect it will take a long time to get to the clinics, because you don't want to create a disease that's far worse than what you're trying to cure.
MSNBC: Does it concern you that there are people who say, "We're this close to solving this sort of disease with stem cells, so let's pass this legislation"?
Thomson: Yeah, it's unfortunate. There are clearly exceptions on both sides, but most of the people who oppose this research, and most of the people who support this research, do it with a profound amount of misinformation. It'd be very nice to clear up that information as much as possible. You can still make an informed choice and be for it or against it, but at least it'd be based on the real facts.
When President Bush was elected, there were about eight months when stem cells were on the cover of every major newspaper in the United States, because it was prior to 9/11 and it was a slow news period, basically. Nonetheless, when people did polls right at the end of that period, the average American really didn't understand embryonic stem cells, despite that tremendous amount of press coverage, because it just became this political question.
I guess the news media aren't really the media to educate. The news media failed in that role. … I don't know how to change it, because every time I have an interview with some guy and try to go through what the science is, they talk about curing Alzheimer's.
Q: I know you've given a lot of thought to the moral questions and the issues that the opponents of this research bring up. People who have questions about the research would ask, "Is it really worth it to go down this long road where we don't see cures just over the horizon, and we're using components of human life?"
A: You have to take the other point of view seriously. Nonetheless, the bottom line is that there are 400,000 frozen embryos in the United States, and a large percentage of those are going to be thrown out. Regardless of what you think the moral status of those embryos is, it makes sense to me that it's a better moral decision to use them to help people than just to throw them out. It's a very complex issue, but to me it boils down to that one thing.
If you really explain what's happening – that these frozen embryos are ultimately going to be thrown out – almost everybody except those that have to keep to some kind of party line will say, "What's the problem with this? We should go forward with this."
That's separate from creating embryos. That offends a lot more people, and I can understand why. You're creating something that's a tool, and you're making a tool out of this thing. I haven't seen polls, but just in my personal conversations, using things that are about to be thrown out offends almost no one, including fairly devout Catholics – whereas actually making something into a tool offends a much larger percentage of the population.
From a public policy point of view, it makes a lot of sense to separate these two issues. Part of what's happening, and the reason why things kind of stalled, is that nuclear transfer and therapeutic cloning was intermixed with trying to make new cell lines from pre-existing embryos. They're very separable. There are some scientific reasons why nuclear transfer and therapeutic cloning might have merit, but most of the value of this technology can be captured simply by making cell lines with existing embryos. There's a diminishing return the more deeply you get into it, and if society is not quite ready for both – well, at least take the one where there's a great advantage now and move on with it.
So what Congress did recently and what the Senate is trying to do is a good thing and would actually help a lot. I hope President Bush reconsiders his veto. It would change the field dramatically.
Q: The people who use nuclear transfer generally say that the technique is optimized for producing the stem cells rather than making babies. They would not want to equate this with the process that produces embryos that were fit for implantation, and they'd argue that they're using the reproductive process differently …
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A:See, you're trying to define it away, and it doesn't work. If you create an embryo by nuclear transfer, and you give it to somebody who didn't know where it came from, there would be no test you could do on that embryo to say where it came from. It is what it is.
It's true that they have a much lower probability of giving rise to a child. … But by any reasonable definition, at least at some frequency, you're creating an embryo. If you try to define it away, you're being disingenuous.
Q: One of the facets of nuclear transfer research is that you get around the tissue rejection issue, and you have the genetic makeup tailored to the patient. That was one of the implications of the research coming out of South Korea. How do you address those issues with frozen embryos? Does it go back to the idea of stem cells as a means of learning about the human body rather than being strictly used for transplantation?
A: Well, it goes back to both. … There's a mismatch between how close we are to clinical applications and the nuclear transfer work. If the therapeutic applications were ready to go today, nuclear transfer would probably make a pretty big impact. … The trouble is that most of these transplantation therapies are going to take a while to get to, and my personal guess is that there will be other technologies that go around the need for nuclear transfer. But it's a personal guess, I may be wrong. So my own lab looks at other things.
Q: What are some of those guesses about other technologies?
A: Well, if you take a nucleus and you put it into an oocyte [egg cell], the oocyte knows how to reprogram things. That's a problem that we can study, to understand how that happens. We don't really have a lot of information about how that works, so it's hard to predict how long it's going to take to solve that problem. I'd be surprised if within 10 years we didn't have another way to solve the problem, but it could be that it's a very, very hard problem and it's going to take a long time to do it.
Q: To find a way for a normal cell to reprogram itself?
A: Right. The message of Dolly is less about cloning, that we can clone Dolly or we can clone people or even do nuclear transfer to make embryonic stem cells; it's that the differentiated state is in principle reversible. And while that was known for a lot of model organisms, and there was even some evidence for that in mammals, Dolly really drove the message home that it was simply a question of time before we understood how to do that.
Prior to Dolly, we thought it was just impossible, we thought biologically it was not a reversible process. So Dolly does have implications for cloning animals and people, but really the biological message of Dolly is that the differentiated state is reversible under some conditions. …
Q: What's your view of the idea that the moral issues may become moot because of the things people might be able to do in the future, with blastomeres, or embryos that are altered so that genetically they cannot get beyond a particular stage?
A: I've talked to the guy from Stanford [William Hurlbut] who has been a big proponent of that. The basic problem is that we haven't really thought through the implications of Dolly. It will take a while to do that. It was 1978 when the first IVF [in-vitro fertilization] child was born, and basically all these issues have to do with that, they have nothing to do with stem cells. It all goes back to IVF. The problem with IVF is that it affects a relatively small part of the population, so society pushed it to the side and didn't deal with it, even though it was controversial at the time. With embryonic stem cells, that affects most people, and suddenly society has to deal with it. So most of the issues go back to IVF and the creation of embryos, and nothing has changed. The moral debate hasn't really changed. If you read the Warnock Commission report, sometime in the '80s, all those issues were brought up.
So Dolly came along, and that did change the moral argument in ways that people haven't fully appreciated. The bottom line is that any cell in your body has a latent potential to form a human being. If I told you there was a frozen cell in liquid nitrogen, and I thawed it out, and I manipulated it, and I put it back into a woman's uterus and it formed a child, could you infer what the moral status of that cell was? Well, no – because that could be true of any cell in your body now. Granted, you have to do a fair amount of manipulation. But in terms of potential, the potential is there. There's no inherent reason why a liver cell can't form a baby.
So arguments based on potential alone are kind of suspect now because of that. It's becoming increasingly difficult to say, "OK, you have this one-cell embryo, how is it fundamentally different from another cell in your body?" If you have a one-cell embryo in a freezer, you have to intervene to actually make it become a child. You have to do a lot to it. …You have to thaw it out under very technical conditions and you have to prepare the mother. There are a lot of interventions there. So I think the fundamental problem is that people haven't come to terms with that. This idea that you'll pre-engineer it to fail seems disingenuous to me. At what point is it failing, and just because it's failing, why is that not an embryo? I don't know.
Q: Then there's the issue of interstate and international competitiveness: Sometimes you get the feeling that there's a race to capitalize on this technology, and then you have the countervailing moral arguments. It's easy to get into this situation where you feel like "we're going to have one hand tied behind our back, because the South Koreans or the British have this line…" I assume that you view it differently?
A: Well, yes and no. There is some advantage about people being worried about the rest of the world getting ahead of us in this. I'd still say that most of the decent papers come out of the United States, but that's changing. Britain, for example, has these very liberal policies, but they're implemented in a way that's actually slowed them down, and they don't have a lot of money to do it. So in spite of these liberal policies, it's still not this golden place to do stem cell research. In Asia, Korea and Singapore are making major investments in this area, and China too. California managed to get the money flowing from Proposition 71. That'll make a big difference. So competition does ultimately make the world go round on one level or another, and that's not a bad thing, I guess.
Q: Does that enter into the argument over what sorts of procedures would be acceptable for pursuing this?
A: It certainly should. The United States is just odd. Basically, if you do things with federal money, you're pretty restricted in what you can do. If you do things with private money, you can do whatever you please, even things that would offend most people. So it doesn't appear to me that it represents sound public policy.
Q: In terms of stem cell technology, there was an advance in getting beyond the mouse feeder cells, but there are still some animal components that need to be used to support human embryonic stem cells. Do you think that problem is solvable?
A: I think there are going to be a couple of things that will ultimately change federal policy, though we might have to wait for three years. One is that my group and quite a few other groups are developing culture conditions that are much better than the original culture conditions. … My prediction is, within the next year there will be at least one and probably several publications demonstrating that: completely defined conditions, no animal products, no feeder layers of either human or animal origins.
The other thing, which is already happening, is that more and more clinically relevant lineages are being published. People have published work with dopaminergic neurons, motor neurons, heart cells – quite a list now. That means that although we're not ready to put these cells into patients yet, the clock is ticking.
And the original cell lines, while they can be put into patients if you jump through enough hoops, they're clearly not the safest things there, because no matter how much testing you do, you might have missed something. If you derive stem cells from day one in completely defined conditions, in the appropriate GLP [Good Laboratory Practice] conditions, there's simply going to be a higher level of safety. So if I were a patient – say, 10 years down the line when the therapies come on board – which cell line would I want? I wouldn't want the original ones.
When we derived those original cell lines, I was very consciously making them just for experimental purposes, because I figured other people would derive them under these GLP conditions and I wouldn't have to deal with that. We'd just do the experiments. Little did I know that we'd be stuck with these cell lines.
It hasn't bothered me yet, because we didn't really know how to make them better. But the field is changing now. We're getting very close to where we can make them under completely defined conditions. And as I said, I suspect there will be multiple people publishing on that. So I hope that that will drive the political process. Congress now is attempting to pass this law to derive more cell lines from these existing embryos, and I hope President Bush can actually consider changing that veto.
In the first four years, it was entirely about the basic science. Although a lot of the scientists have been very vocal about the compromise [announced in August 2001], I've been kind of quiet about it. And the reason is that, in a kind of "silver lining to the dark cloud" thing, it's almost better that Bush was elected. I don't know how to say this without offending someone, but it's a little bit like Nixon going to China. Nixon didn't suddenly become a Communist.
President Clinton did not fund this research. It's nice to yell at the Republicans, but moderate Republicans have been some of the biggest supporters of this. Even though it's a compromise, and even though the compromise does not represent good public policy, it got the field going, it got federal funding going for the first time. Scientists suddenly knew that if there was a change in administration, it wouldn't stop – whereas if Bush didn't allow it to go forward, the policy could flip-flop every time a Democrat or a Republican takes the White House. So even though we have to go beyond that policy, it did get the field started, and I think that's a positive way of looking at it.
During that first four years, it probably didn't hurt things that much – it did create this funny bottleneck about cell lines, which did slow things down, and that's unfortunate. But going forward another three years, it could actually hurt people. Just because it's going to take us 10 years to derive these new therapies doesn't mean we don't want to have the cell lines now.
Thomson: It's a long-term process to really characterize these lines well. The existing cell lines have been around for seven years, and people are gearing up to want to do clinical trials. They've been arguing with the FDA all this time over the original cell lines. Well, that means we want the new cell lines now for some therapy that's going to be 10 years out.
A three-year difference could really hurt people now, because the [culture] media has gotten qualitatively different. Just deriving the same old cell lines with the same problems made no sense to me, but once those conditions are really defined and safe, then it makes sense to go back and derive more. So I hope public policy allows that.
Current public policy in theory allows it, because you are allowed to use private funding, but the reality is that the federal government, the National Institutes of Health, is the funding that drives basic research and research into new therapies in this country. And if you exclude that, then you're basically stuck. …
Q: How do you respond to the claim that we have these other sources of stem cells — adult stem cells or cord blood — and there's no need to turn to embryonic cells?
A: We don't. The most studied cell in the whole body, in terms of stem cells, is the hematopoietic stem cell. It can't be grown. So what you do when you do a bone marrow transplant is you take some bone marrow out of you — actually, we do peripheral blood — and we put in another patient without expanding it. There's a clinical need for that expansion step, but it can't be done right now. And hundreds of labs for 30 years have studied that adult stem cell, and that's the one we know the most about.
If you go to these other ones, most of them are known by indirect methods, and nobody can actually isolate and expand and grow them in useful ways. But we can already make blood in very reasonable quantities from human embryonic cells. …
So if you think about particular things, you can find a stem cell that might work for that application, but this ability to expand these cells in an unlimited, stable developmental state is essentially unprecedented among stem cells. … People can do mesenchymal stem cells [from bone marrow] pretty well, and neural stem cells kind of well, but neural stem cells is a good example. If you try to make dopaminergic neurons from fetal neural stem cells, you get a burst of that activity, and it goes away. Nobody's been able to sustainably make dopaminergic neurons from an adult stem cell, or a fetal one, period — whereas with embryonic cells you can do it already. Over time that might change. But a lot of good groups have tried very hard and failed, to date.
And again, getting back to the basic science thing: If we study the embryonic stem cells, we learn the basic science. That knowledge is just as likely to be applied to adult stem cells as to the embryonic stem cells. The knowledge goes back and forth. And in the case of the blood, people have failed at growing that cell for three decades. Well, studying that lineage with embryonic stem cells, we might learn the clues to make it growable, and it might be that we still want to use adult stem cells to do that because there are a lot of advantages to that, but the knowledge might come from embryonic stem cells.
This divide about adult vs. embryonic, it's a political debate, it's not a scientific debate. Scientists choose the model for a question that fits the question. … So people who have focused on adult stem cells historically are using embryonic stem cells now. It doesn't mean that's what they think will be the therapy, but they see it as a more useful model to understand the questions they want to ask. …
Q: Thinking back to when you did your first work with embryonic stem cells, did you have any expectations about how things would look seven or 10 years later? And how has the reality matched those expectations?
A: Dolly had just been published, so I knew this would be a media thing. But the thing that has most surprised me is how long the media attention has lasted.
It's been seven years now: Get over it. We derived a few cell lines, and that's kind of neat, but what I anticipated is that there would be this media storm that would last, I don't know, three to six months. And then people would just get on with their lives and do something else, because they have short attention spans. But it's seven years in now, and it's still this lively topic of discussion.
A lot has to do with the fact that we have this particular president. I think if the political process were just a little bit different, we wouldn't even be talking today.
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Nausea and Vomiting
Nausea is a "sick" or "queasy" feeling in your stomach. Vomiting or "throwing up" often goes along with nausea. Several things can cause nausea. While nausea with cancer therapy was common years ago, there are now many medications available to manage this side effect. If you experience nausea and/or vomiting, talk to your oncology team about medications to manage this side effect. Here are some tips and strategies to help prevent and/or manage nausea and vomiting:
What causes nausea and vomiting?
- Radiation therapy to certain areas of the body, including the brain, abdomen and head and neck, can cause nausea.
- Some chemotherapy and biotherapy agents.
- Anxiety, particularly about upcoming treatments or because of negative prior experiences with cancer therapy.
- Constipation and diarrhea can also cause you to feel nauseous.
What can I do to prevent/better manage nausea?
- Drink 6-8 glasses of uncaffeinated fluid per day, such as broth, Gatorade®, Jello® (gelatin dessert), fruit juices, water ices, popsicles, soda and gingerale.
- Eat dry, bland foods, such as crackers, toast, cereals, pretzels and ginger cookies.
- Eat cold foods such as cereals, salads, cold cuts and desserts. The smell of hot foods can make nausea worse.
- Eat 6 small meals throughout the day, instead of 3 large meals.
- Chew food well.
- Try peppermint or ginger tea, flat soda or gingerale.
- Try to have others prepare your meals.
- Rinse your mouth out frequently and before eating to avoid an unpleasant sour taste.
- Suck on mints, hard candy, or ginger candy.
- Loosen clothes, get fresh air and sit upright for 1-2 hours after eating.
- Eat in cool rooms with fresh air.
- Breathe through your mouth slowly during times of severe nausea until the feeling passes.
- Take part in activities such as TV, radio, games, music to take your mind off the feeling of nausea.
- Use relaxation techniques and guided visual imagery.
- Discuss hypnosis and acupuncture with your doctor or nurse.
What things should I avoid?
- Fatty, fried, greasy or spicy foods.
- Citrus fruits, juices and tomatoes.
- Unpleasant odors, sights and sounds that may aggravate nausea.
- Combining hot and cold foods at the same meal.
- Your favorite foods during bouts of nausea and vomiting, so you will not associate them with feelings of nausea later on.
- Drinking liquids during meals, which can fill you up and not allow you to get in needed calories.
- Excessive activity and sudden movements.
How are nausea and vomiting treated?
Treatment of nausea and vomiting will depend on its cause. Your doctor may recommend:
- Anti-nausea medications to be taken before and after a treatment.
- If nausea occurs in the days/ weeks following treatment, it may be helpful to take an anti-nausea medication about 30 minutes before meals.
- Anti-anxiety medications can be taken to prevent or treat nausea and vomiting.
- If you become dehydrated from nausea and vomiting, your doctor may give you fluid by IV (intravenous).
Do not take any medications unless instructed by your doctor or nurse.
When should I call my care team?
If you have:
- Bloody or coffee-ground appearing vomit
- Black stools
- Temperature over 100.4°F (38°C)
- Vomited two or more times in a day
- Abdominal pain, cramping or swelling
- Difficulty eating
- Difficulty with drinking 6-8 glasses of fluid a day
- Light-headedness, dizziness or weakness
- Dark urine
- No relief after taking anti-nausea medications prescribed by your provider
If you have any questions about nausea and vomiting, or need additional information, ask your care team. Remember it is always better to call if you have any questions and let your team know about your symptoms so they can prevent complications from arising.


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"on the carpet" and "call on carpet"
Posted by ESC on August 12, 2003
In Reply to: "On the carpet" and "call on carpet" posted by ASD on August 12, 2003
: Am I right that both "on the carpet" and "call on carpet" are acceptable expressions which mean reprimand? Could anyone show me some examples how to use them? Thanks.
Yes. "He was called on the carpet for being late to work." Also, "He got called on the carpet..."
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CALL ON THE CARPET or MAT - "to reprimand, to call to account. Late 1930s." From "Listening to America" by Stuart Berg Flexner (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1982).
ON THE CARPET - "In the days when 'carpet' retained its original sense, 'a thick fabric used to cover tables,' to have something 'on the carpet' had the same meaning that we now give to 'on the table'; that is, to have something up for discussion, for consideration. Such was the usage in the early eighteenth century and is still common usage in England, and is, as well, the intent of the French 'sur le tapis,' and the German 'aufs Tapet.' But dainty ladies found, even in the fifteenth century, that these thick fabrics also made ideal floor coverings and began to use them, first, in their bedchambers, and then in other private or formal rooms of a house. But they were for the use of the gentry.
The occasions when a servant might 'walk the carpet,' as the expression went, was when he or she was called before the mistress or master of the house for a reprimand. Though this latter expression, coined in the early nineteenth century, is still in use, it has been largely replaced, especially in America, by transferring its meaning to 'on the carpet.'" From "2107 Curious Word Origins, Sayings & Expressions from White Elephants to a Song and Dance" by Charles Earle Funk (Galahad Book, New York, 1993).
(A side note. "On the table" means a subject is up for discussion. But in legislative jargon in the U.S., to "table" a bill or to put a bill "on the table" is to take it out of action, out of consideration. It has to be voted off the table. I think we've discussed this before.)


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Local 6 Theme World: Behind the scenes at Universal's Mardi Gras
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Welcome to Local 6 Theme World
February 12, 2013
Mardi Gras: Behind the Scenes at Universal
Happy Mardi Gras everyone!
While the party in the Big Easy will wind down in just hours, at Universal Orlando it is just warming up.
The Studios park's annual Mardi Gras celebration kicked off Saturday.
And Even before you reach the park gates you know this has become one of Universal's signature events.
Universal's PR Team gave myself and other web writers a tremendous backstage tour as they staged the first Mardi Gras Parade of the year.
Each of the colorful floats is hand-crafted by Blaine Kern Artists - the same company that designs floats for the Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans.
And the music of New Orleans is featured in one of four new floats this year.
The other three reflect this year's theme "Colorful Cultures Around the World," and include the Elegance of India
The Chinese New Year
and the Mexican Day of the Dead
The costumes for the 80+ performers are often very elaborate, as you can see in this picture I took with a Day of the Dead performer.
Even more impressive when you consider she keeps her poise while posing on stilts.
The park's parade team also showed off another new stiltwalker, a man helping bring the Chinese New Year to life.
The floats are impressive, with beautiful details. The New Year float features elaborate lighting on the dragon and the sides.
The Day of the Dead float features fog and candles.
But they really shine on the parade route itself, when the crowds are going wild for beads, and the performers are throwing them by the handful.
This being Universal, the parade is more adult than at Disney. But while some costumes are revealing, none (to my eyes) crossed a line most parents would be comfortable with.
Universal also prides itself that it brings in live music for the event, which is included in your park admission.
The bands all come from New Orleans, and they play in a courtyard in the New York area of the park that features tasty, authentic, and reasonably priced food (for a theme park).
After dining on favorites like jambalaya, crawfish, beignets & King Cake, the hordes descended on the music amphitheater.
Where Indy rock band Lifehouse took the stage performing both new material and favorites like "Hanging By A Moment," "You and Me" and "Whatever It Takes."
While the crowd was pumped when lead singer Jason Wade came into the crowd & another band member took a panoramic photo of the audience.
Personally, I was more impressed by a different touch. Universal includes sign language interpreters at the concerts for the hearing impaired.
The band puts on an energetic show, and to my ears sounds better live than on their albums. The concert is included in admission. Quite a value.
Mardi Gras continues on Saturday the 15th and runs through April 20th.
Here's a link to Universal's Mardi Gras site for more information.
Below is a reprint of the concert schedule.
- Saturday, February 16 - Steve Miller Band
- Sunday, February 17 - Boys Like Girls
- Saturday, February 23 - Trey Songz
- Saturday, March 2 - Demi Lovato
- Saturday, March 9 - Montgomery Gentry
- Friday, March 15 - Sean Kingston
- Saturday, March 16 - Matchbox Twenty
- Friday, March 22 - Austin Mahone
- Saturday, March 23 - Phillip Phillips
- Saturday, March 30 - Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo
- Saturday, April 6 - Kool & The Gang
- Saturday, April 13 - Pitbull
- Saturday, April 20 - The All-American Rejects
Look for more on Mardi Gras, including an interview with show director Laura Wallace & a construction update from Universal later this week in the Theme World Blog.
I've turned over a ton more behind the scenes parade photos to the ClickOrlando.com team. They promise to have a slide show up later this week.
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Radcliffe or Franco?
Oh look. Daniel Radcliffe is back in spectacles wearing a scarf. Not THOSE spectacles, not THAT scarf...
Here he is in New York on the set of Kill Your Darlings in costume with his hair curled as Allen Ginsberg. James Franco, of course, was the last to play Ginsberg in Howl. I loved him in that film. He was so... restrained. Like the Artist decided to remove himself from the actor's ass, allowing for a subtle, nuanced performance. Also, Franco as Ginsberg was required to be clean-cut and good-looking instead.
Anyway, like Howl, Kill Your Darlings is also an independent film. This time the story is about Radcliffe's Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs brought together by a murder in 1944. Speaking of killing your darlings, I wonder what Faulkner would have said about fan fiction.
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Monica del Prado
Class of 1990
Major/Minor: International Studies
Monica Blanco del Prado '90, who with her husband Ricardo operates a small collections agency in Guadalajara, Mexico, is Washington College's first International Correspondent. In this role, the former international studies major will help Washington College connect with our amazing alumni living around the world so that they can be well represented in Class Notes.
"Washington College is more than a school to me, it is a wonderful place that has given me lifelong friends and become part of who I am," says Monica. "It gave me so much that serving as International Correspondent is the least that I can do in return. Thanks for giving me the chance to do it; I hope I do a good job, I will try to do my best that is for sure."
Monica was most recently back on campus in 2009 when the College's Athletic Hall of Fame honored her for her role in elevating the women's tennis program into national prominence. For two years, Monica and her partner Tracy Peel were the best doubles team in Washington College history and one of the best tandems in the nation. Monica earned All-America honors and national rankings of seventh and eighth, respectively, in her two years of play. She is the sole two-time All-American in the history of the women's tennis program.
Monica and her husband have two teenaged daughters: Paola, 18, and Monica, 14. Ricardo works for West Company, a service company for American businesses such as Caesar's Palace and AT&T.
Hall Of Fame Citation
In 1988 Monica Blanco became the first woman to be part of the famed "Mexican tennis connection." Coach Holly Bramble, with help from men's player Claudio Gonzalez, convinced Monica to leave her homeland and transfer to "the college on the Chester." Monica followed her fellow compatriots, Enrique Leal, Alejandro Hernandez and Gonzalez. All three eventually became All-Americans, so she had big shoes to fill.
It is rare when someone can accomplish so much, both scholastically and athletically, in such a short time, but Monica Blanco did just that at Washington College. The poor economic conditions in her native Mexico necessitated that Monica earn her undergraduate degree in two years. She worked as many as five jobs while maintaining a 3.0 GPA. If she had used all four years of her eligibility, one can only wonder what she could have accomplished.
When Monica came to Chestertown in the fall of '88, Coach Bramble immediately inserted her in the lineup at number one singles. With the arrival of Tracy Peel for the upcoming spring semester, Monica moved to the number two position. The one-two punch of Blanco and Peel proved to be a formidable combination. The two would become the best doubles team in Washington College history and one of the best tandems in the nation. They were also Washington College's first female All-Americans.
During those two years they qualified for the NCAA's each year, reached the quarterfinals of the national tournament twice and compiled a spectacular 33-9 record. By virtue of these results Monica earned All-America honors and national rankings of seventh and eighth, respectively. She is the sole two-time All-American in the program's history.
Monica was also an accomplished singles player. Twice she won the Catholic University Fall Tennis Classic, was a quarterfinalist at the Middle Atlantic Conference championships and reached the round of 16 at the prestigious Eastern Regional Small College Championships. Recognizing her many contributions to her team, her teammates voted her as the team's most valuable player in her final season.
Following graduation she returned to Guadalajara and married Ricardo Iturbide Linares. They have two daughters, Monica Alejandra and Paola Maria. Currently she works in her area's public school system introducing English language classes to elementary-age students, a role she previously helped implement in Kent County to children of Hispanic immigrants.
Washington College considers it an honor and privilege to induct Monica Blanco del Prado in the Washington College Athletic Hall of Fame on this tenth day of October, 2009.


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HIV-negative gay men with rectal STIs (sexually transmitted infections) may be more than twice as likely to contract HIV, according to a study conducted by the New York City Department of Health and the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
The study followed 276 HIV-negative men who had rectal Chlamydia, rectal gonorrhea or both. They were matched with a control group of 276 HIV-negative men who did not have Chlamydia or gonorrhea. Both groups had about 69% report inconsistent or no condom use, indicating high-risk behavior.
During a total of 464 person-years of follow-up, 11% of men with a rectal STI at baseline were diagnosed with HIV, an annual HIV incidence rate of 11%. HIV incidence was especially high among some groups with rectal STIs. These included black men (15%); men with both Chlamydia and gonorrhea (10%); and those aged under 20 (10%).
The control group participants contributed 474 person-years of follow-up. A total of twelve individuals (4%) were diagnosed with HIV, an annual incidence rate of (3%).
The investigators therefore calculated that men with rectal STIs were significantly more likely to be diagnosed with HIV during follow-up.
In order to nip this in the bud, the authors concluded that, "Identifying and treating rectal infections may reduce HIV incidence. [...] Rectal infections, as markers of behavioral risk, can be used to identify a subset of patients who may benefit from intensive risk reduction counseling and other interventions designed to reduce the risk of HIV transmission."
Given the higher rate of HIV incidence among men with rectal STIs, it seems like a good idea for HIV-negative gay men to talk with their doctors openly and honestly about HIV and other STIs, to get tested for Chlamydia, gonorrhea and other STIs, and to engage in sex with a condom whenever possible.
Mathew Rodriguez is the editorial project manager for TheBody.com and TheBodyPRO.com.
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WorldPride | Stonewall 50
Celebrate Millions of Moments of Pride
See why New York is delighted to host the largest Pride celebration in the world, spanning the entire month of June in 2019.
One Celebration
In 2019, NYC Pride welcomes WorldPride as we mark the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising and a half-century of LGBTQIA+ liberation.
Make it a trip
30 Days
Events span , culminating in the famous NYC Pride March on Sunday.
Clear your schedule
50+ Events
From rallies to parties to lectures, there are free and ticketed events produced by NYC Pride and our official partners spread across New York City.
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3M+ People
New Yorkers and global travelers alike will gather as friends, partners, and family to create a welcoming LGBTQIA+ experience.
2019 Events
All events for 2019 reflect the breadth and depth of our LGBTQIA+ community. From the iconic nature of the NYC Pride March and the Rally to our newer events such as Youth Pride and Pride Island, we've created events with our vast community in mind.
Major Celebrations
In keeping with the WorldPride tradition, NYC Pride will host an opening and closing ceremony to welcome the world to New York City.
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Politics & Rights
Take a stand and make your voices heard at the Rally and Human Rights Conference.
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Arts & Culture
Enjoy live music with top performers, attend a specially curated LGBTQIA+ film screening, or take part in our LGBTQIA+ street fair.
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From aftenoon rooftops to late night dance parties, plan a fun-filled weekend in New York City.
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History & Learning
The spirit of Stonewall lives on as we commemorate and celebrate historical moments and the gamechangers of tomorrow.
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Family & Kids
Gather up your family and friends for a family-friendly flick or invite your LGBTQIA+ teens and allies to a day of fun, interactive experiences and entertainment.
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See Where It All Began
Welcome to the home of LGBTQIA+ history and culture. Commencing at the Stonewall Inn 50 years ago and spreading throughout New York City today, explore historical sites and culture during your trip.
I remember when someone threw a Molotov cocktail, I thought, "My god, the revolution is here. The revolution is finally here!"Sylvia RiveraAmerican Gay Liberation and Transgender Activist
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Higher Education and Voluntary Sector Collaboration For ESOL Provision
Published: 01/2018
|Read the Welsh Refugee Council's insert, Higher Education and Voluntary Sector collaboration for ESOL Provision on page 32. The essay provides insights into the way educational organisations are uniquely placed to enact a crucial role in the cultural and linguistic integration of forced migrants in the United Kingdom. "If you could do one thing…" is a series of essays of local actions to promote social integration developed by the British Academy for humanities and social science that examines successful integration projects in the UK.
Hate Crime? - You can do Something about it
Published: 11/2016
|As part of Hate Crime Awareness Week, October 08th – 15th, 2016, we are pleased to introduce a new booklet about reporting Hate Crime in Wales. The booklet is a guide to understanding hate crimes and incidents in Wales, how to report it and what people can do to prevent it from happening to someone else. Thanks to the support of the Welsh Government, the leaflet was created in collaboration with Victim Support, Gwent Police, The British Red Cross and the Sanctuary Project in Newport. Special thanks to the asylum seekers and refugees from Oasis Cardiff, Trinity Centre and the Welsh Refugee Council who contributed by providing insights from their experiences of hate crimes in Wales.
Media Representations Guide
Published: 05/2016
|A guide to help media representatives who wish to work with asylum seekers and refugees in Wales.
Fact Pack: Asylum and the provision of Sanctuary
Published: 05/2015
|A compilation of facts, figures and definitions on seeking sanctuary.
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The Accounting Historians Journal
Vol. 13, No. 2
Fall 1986
Alan D. Campbell NORTH TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY
Abstract: The Jews used bars and rings of gold and silver as money prior to using coins. Syrian, Roman, and Jewish coins were used during the time of Christ. The Roman Government imposed a tremendous tax burden upon its subjects. The peo-ple of Israel also had to pay a tax to the temple. Publicans, or tax collectors, were well known for their corruption. Thus, the Jews had utter contempt for pub-licans. Christ paid his share of taxes and taught that it was right to do so even under the corrupt system of the Romans.
What type of monetary system was used in Palestine in the time of Christ? How did taxes affect the lives of people living in Palestine during that time? How did the Romans collect taxes? What type of person was the average publican? What were the relationships among the Roman Government, the publicans, and the Jews? What was the attitude of Jesus Christ toward taxes and publicans? These questions concern a major part of the economic condition of Palestine during the time of Christ which this paper will address.
The Monetary System
Prior to the system of coins, bars and rings of gold and silver were used as media of exchange by the Jews. The values of these bars and rings were determined by a system of weights of which the standard was the shekel, which was equal to 224 troy grains. In Palestine gold coins were rarely used — values were based upon silver. The coins mentioned in the four gospels are Syrian, Roman, and Jewish [Muirhead, 1907, p. 48].
The Syrian coins were the stater, another name for which was argurion, the didrachmon, and the drachme. The stater corre-sponded to the Jewish shekel, and it was the largest silver coin used in Palestine. The didrachmon was equivalent to a half shekel,


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Ceftolozane; Tazobactam
Ceftolozane, Tazobactam Solution for injection
What is this medicine?
CEFTOLOZANE; TAZOBACTAM (sef TOL oh zane tay zoe BAK tam) is a cephalosporin antibiotic. It is used to treat certain kinds of bacterial infections. It will not work for colds, flu, or other viral infections.
This medicine may be used for other purposes; ask your health care provider or pharmacist if you have questions.
What should I tell my health care provider before I take this medicine?
They need to know if you have any of these conditions:
bleeding problems
kidney disease
stomach, intestinal problems like colitis
an unusual or allergic reaction to ceftolozane, tazobactam, other medicines, foods, dyes, or preservatives
pregnant or trying to get pregnant
How should I use this medicine?
This medicine is infused into a vein. It is usually given by a health care professional in a hospital or clinic setting.
If you get this medicine at home, you will be taught how to prepare and give this medicine. Use exactly as directed. Take your medicine at regular intervals. Do not take your medicine more often than directed.
It is important that you put your used needles and syringes in a special sharps container. Do not put them in a trash can. If you do not have a sharps container, call your pharmacist or healthcare provider to get one.
Talk to your pediatrician regarding the use of this medicine in children. Special care may be needed.
Overdosage: If you think you have taken too much of this medicine contact a poison control center or emergency room at once.
NOTE: This medicine is only for you. Do not share this medicine with others.
What if I miss a dose?
It is important not to miss your dose. Call your doctor or health care professional if you are unable to keep an appointment. If you give yourself the medicine and you miss a dose, take it as soon as you can. If it is almost time for your next dose, take only that dose. Do not take double or extra doses.
What may interact with this medicine?
This medicine may interact with the following medications:
birth control pills
This list may not describe all possible interactions. Give your health care provider a list of all the medicines, herbs, non-prescription drugs, or dietary supplements you use. Also tell them if you smoke, drink alcohol, or use illegal drugs. Some items may interact with your medicine.
What should I watch for while using this medicine?
Tell your doctor or healthcare professional if your symptoms do not start to get better or if they get worse.
Do not treat diarrhea with over the counter products. Contact your doctor if you have diarrhea that lasts more than 2 days or if it is severe and watery.
What side effects may I notice from receiving this medicine?
Side effects that you should report to your doctor or health care professional as soon as possible:
allergic reactions like skin rash, itching or hives, swelling of the face, lips, or tongue
breathing problems
bloody or watery diarrhea
trouble passing urine or change in the amount of urine
unusual bleeding or bruising
Side effects that usually do not require medical attention (report these to your doctor or health care professional if they continue or are bothersome):
nausea, vomiting
signs and symptoms of low blood pressure like dizziness; feeling faint or lightheaded, falls; unusually weak or tired
stomach pain
trouble sleeping
This list may not describe all possible side effects. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Where should I keep my medicine?
Keep out of the reach of children.
If you are using this medicine at home, you will be instructed on how to store this medicine. Throw away any unused medicine after the expiration date on the label.
NOTE: This sheet is a summary. It may not cover all possible information. If you have questions about this medicine, talk to your doctor, pharmacist, or health care provider.
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The Office of the Architect of the Capitol has installed new bicycle racks on the East Front of the U.S. Capitol to accommodate visitors and staff who prefer riding their bikes to driving.
"As stewards of the Capitol complex, we work to accommodate everyone, and to make their visitor experience at the U.S. Capitol a very enjoyable one," said Stephen T. Ayers, AIA, LEED AP, Acting Architect of the Capitol. "That includes providing the appropriate racks for those who prefer to ride
their bikes when visiting the Capitol."
The new racks accommodate about 40 bikes, and are located near the entrance to the new Capitol Visitor Center along First Street. These new racks are in addition to numerous bike racks provided on the West Front of the Capitol (on the south side near the drive), between the Russell and Dirksen Senate Office Buildings, and by each of the House Office Buildings.
These bike racks will especially come in handy on Friday, May 15 – National Bike to Work Day. On this day, people are encouraged to bike to work as an alternative to driving. It is healthy for both individuals and the environment.


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Suppose the probability of success obtaining heads is $0.5$, number of trials $n=10$. In a class of $100$ students, each student tosses a coin (assumed fair) $10$ times. Write down the expected number of students who will obtain $0,1,\ldots , 10$ heads.
If I start with $0$ heads, I understand that I need to calculate the probability of $0$ students obtaining $0$ heads, then the probability of $1$ student obtaining $0$ heads and so on until $100$. Then multiply the probability by the number of students and add all $100$ cases to get the expected number. Now obviously this is a lot of work, and this is just a part of a question, so is there something I don't understand or know, or is it the question?


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Excellent idea for the artistic book lover.
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Excellent idea for the artistic book lover.
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It is an unusual idea indeed, and works very well. Trouble is, if we all start doing it, it will soon become passe, and sold as a kit by Homebase!
Best wishes, Pete. x
I know, I know. Shhh!
Knew you'd like it! And, of course, you'd be brilliant at painting the spine effect.
Photograph some of your books, print them out, wrap round and then outdoor varnish? My ideas never quite work, though, although when my fingers were better I used to do hard-working coasters with ceramic tiles this way!
Well, I'm open to suggestions and there's nothing to lose, lol – watch out summer! 🙂
Take a guess!
A great idea – now to persuade hubby to let me use some of the old bricks he's been hanging on to… just in case they become useful. Well, I think this is 'useful'!! Jx. PS: Hope you're okay
Very useful. He must be persuaded by any means possible!
What a fantastic idea. I have a set of three steps in my garden where this would look perfect. I can find the bricks but I'd need someone to paint them as I'm totally useless at this kind of thing.
I love this….a wonderful idea. Another way to enjoy the creative process…:) Hoping all is well and sending love Janet. xxx
Absolutely. Makes me feel joyful and I'm going to copy the idea. xxx
It looks fabulous! I've seen the steps in a staircase to look like book backs, but that's a fab one.
Isn't it just! There was a church in Fulham/Kensington that was being converted into flats, I think, and the developer had been very enterprising with the surrounding cover as it was painted as book spines and looked brilliant. No scaffolding in sight.
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I have to admit I've almost missed the release of the game Alpha Protocol, a somewhat of a spy role-playing game with an FPS elements or something like that. The game is based on the Unreal engine, meaning that there are some problems with stereo 3D to be expected, and it kind of reminds me too Mass Effect, but very vaguely. But first, lets start with the basic story of the game:
In the near future, worldwide political tensions are at a breaking point when a commercial airliner is shot down by a U.S. missile over Eastern Europe, killing all aboard. The U.S. government claims no involvement, and dispatches Agent Michael Thorton to investigate and bring those responsible to justice. As the first modern day spy role-playing game, Alpha Protocol offers unprecedented control over the development of Thorton's abilities and his interactions with other characters. Upgrade skills such as physical combat, weapons mastery, cutting-edge technology and even seduction as you grow in experience and complete missions.
Now regarding the stereoscopic 3D support of Alpha Protocol with 3D Vision. First of all there was no 3D Vision profile available for it in the latest beta drivers, although the default settings it seemed to look more or less acceptable in S3D mode. Starting with the in-game menu where if you increase the depth over the default minimum, the menu elements become messed up – displaced and cut from the sides, so you need to stay to low depth level. When yo start the game very little ghosting is visible with minimal depth, the game looks Ok with that setting at first look, and of course ghosting increases with the depth level – more depth more visible ghosting. It turns out however that shadows are rendered incorrectly, but luckily you can disable the Dynamic Shadows from the Options menu in order to fix this issue, and this is also resulting in ghosting becoming less apparent. You can also disable the Motion Blur, it creates weird feeling when moving in stereo 3D mode at least form me, otherwise it does not bring visual problems. You may also disable the Depth of Field Effect as it sometimes behaves quite strangely in stereo 3D mode, but if you have no trouble with it you can leave it on. Now a more serious issue is the fact that the HUD is rendered in 2D (at screen depth) and this is a problem, especially because the action commands and the dialogs can be hard to focus with higher separation of the background objects. The crosshair is as expected also rendered in 2D at screen level. But with the above suggestions and a custom convergence settings and at low depth level the game can still achieve quite good results in terms of depth and a little bit of pop-out effect when played in stereo 3D mode, so it becomes quite comfortable to play.
– To download my custom convergence settings for the game Alpha Protocol…


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Child Learning and Development Course Descriptions
CLDP courses are new for 2005
CLDP 3194 Research
and Evaluation Methods (1 semester
hour) Laboratory that accompanies CLDP 3394. Student gains hands-on experience
in research design, computer data analysis, and report writing. Must
co-enroll in CLDP 3394. (0-3) S
Special Topics
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The following independent study courses are advanced individualized learning experiences to be arranged with a supervising professor or course coordinator. Open only to qualified students by consent of instructor. Students must make appropriate arrangements with the professor or coordinator prior to the beginning of the semester (preferably at least six weeks ahead). Permission forms are available in the Associate Dean's office. Students may enroll in no more than a total of 6 semester credit hours of Independent Study courses during one semester, and may take as Independent Study a maximum of 20 percent of the total hours of course work undertaken at U.T. Dallas, or 12 semester credit hours, whichever is smaller.
CLDP 4394 Internship
(3 semester hours) Students earn course credit for field experience
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an approved community agency or business of the student's choice. Students
keep daily job diaries, attend one class meeting per month, and write
brief papers relevant to their experiences. Open to all students who
have reached junior or senior standing (more than 53 hours). (Same as
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