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This is our hope for all children everywhere.
Archive for the '2008 November' Category
I hope you dance
Posted in 2008 November, tagged children, I Hope You Dance, Lee Ann Womack, music, song on December 1, 2008| Leave a Comment »
What a Wonderful World
Posted in 2008 November, tagged Louis Armstrong, peace, peacekeeping, What a Wonderful World on November 30, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Song of the Wolf
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Where is the love?
Posted in 2008 November, tagged Blackeyed Peas, music, peace, peacekeepers on November 28, 2008| Leave a Comment »
We believe it's in all of us.
The True History of Thanksgiving
Posted in 2008 November, tagged American Indian Heritage Month, Indian Education, Native American, Thanksgiving on November 27, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Here's a link to an article on the true history of Thanksgiving. It is likely this is not the story you've been told. www.aaanativearts.com/article937.html
Here's the most important thing we took from this article:
…Over the centuries, Thanksgiving has become a special day to join with loved ones in an offering of thanks for our blessings. Some give their time to help with the homeless and hungry. It is now a day of giving, and of honor, and of true thanksgiving.
In your Thanksgivings to come, I would ask that you offer a silent prayer for the spirits of those who were sacrificed so long ago. You and I did not commit these atrocities, and we are certainly not responsible for the behavior of our ancestors be they red, white, black or yellow.
However, we are charged with the responsibility of learning our true history, and of having the courage to behave with honor and dignity toward our fellow man. If the lessons of history are not learned, they will repeat themselves.
A Different Perspective on Thanksgiving
Posted in 2008 November, tagged American Indian Heritage Month, Indian Education, Native American, Thanksgiving on November 26, 2008| Leave a Comment »
If you are an educator or parent who teaches children about Thanksgiving, here is a MUST READ article offering a differing perspective and resources on the puritan/Indian mythology surrounding the Thanksgiving holiday.
Authentic Thanksgiving Food
Posted in 2008 November, tagged American Indian Heritage Month, food, Indian Education, Pilgrims, Thanksgiving on November 25, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Foods Available to the Pilgrims for their 1621 Thanksgiving from www.nativeamericans.com/Thanksgiving.htm
FISH: cod, bass, herring, shad, bluefish, and lots of eel.
SEAFOOD: clams, lobsters, mussels, and very small quantities of oysters
BIRDS: wild turkey, goose, duck, crane, swan, partridge, and other miscellaneous waterfowl; they were also known to have occasionally eaten eagles (which "tasted like mutton" according to Winslow in 1623.)
OTHER MEAT: venison (deer), possibly some salt pork or chicken.
GRAIN: wheat flour, Indian corn and corn meal; barley (mainly for beer-making).
FRUITS: raspberries, strawberries, grapes, plums, cherries, blueberries, gooseberries (these would have been dried, as none would have been in season).
VEGETABLES: small quantity of peas, squashes (including pumpkins), beans
NUTS: walnuts, chestnuts, acorns, hickory nuts, ground nuts
HERBS and SEASONINGS: onions, leeks, strawberry leaves, currants, sorrel, yarrow, carvel, brooklime, liverwort, watercress, and flax; from England they brought seeds and probably planted radishes, lettuce, carrots, onions, and cabbage. Olive oil in small quantities may have been brought over, though the Pilgrims had to sell most of their oil and butter before sailing, in order to stay on budget.
OTHER: maple syrup, honey; small quantities of butter, Holland cheese; and eggs.
Some perhaps startling omissions from the authentic Thanksgiving menu
Ham. (The Pilgrims most likely did not have pigs with them).
Sweet Potatoes-Potatoes-Yams. (These had not yet been introduced to New England).
Corn on the cob. (Indian corn was only good for making cornmeal, not eating on the cob).
Popcorn. (Contrary to popular folklore, popcorn was not introduced at the 1621 Thanksgiving. Indian corn could only be half-popped, and this wouldn't have tasted very good.)
Cranberry sauce. (Cranberries were available, but sugar was not.)
Pumpkin Pie: (They probably made a pumpkin pudding of sorts, sweetened by honey or syrup, which would be like the filling of a pumpkin pie, but there would be no crust or whipped topping.)


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"The Successor" Paxton Lynch on cover of Sports Illustrated
Paxton Lynch hasn't taken a snap with the Broncos yet, but the rookie quarterback will get his first Sports Illustrated cover.
Lynch will be on the cover of the May 9, 2016 edition. His is one of three variant covers. The other two feature fellow first-round quarterbacks Jared Goff of the Los Angeles Rams and Carson Wentz of the Philadelphia Eagles.
Lynch is the first Broncos rookie quarterback featured since John Elway graced the Aug. 15, 1983 cover, weeks before his regular-season debut with the Broncos.
Is there a curse with the magazine cover? A look at Broncos quarterbacks making their first prominent appearance on the SI cover showed some truth to this.
Manning was first featured in a Denver jersey on the Sept. 12, 2012 edition. The Broncos lost 27-21 to Atlanta that week, and Manning threw three interceptions.
Tim Tebow was featured on the Dec. 19, 2011 edition. The Broncos lost to Buffalo in their next game 40-14. Tebow completed just 13 of 29 passes and threw three interceptions.
Jake Plummer was on the cover of the edition leading up to the 2006 AFC championship game. The Broncos fell 34-17.
In Elway's debut, the Broncos won 14-10 over Pittsburgh, but the rookie wasn't much help, completing just 1 of 8 passes for 14 yards.
Brock Osweiler broke the curse when he appeared on the Dec. 2, 2015 regional cover. In the game following the issue, Osweiler led Denver to a 17-3 win at San Diego. The Broncos would end the season as Super Bowl champions.


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When I was ten, I was fascinated by birds, all kinds of birds. I used to spend my Sunday afternoons observing birds who visited a few trees footing in our front yard; tiny little sparrows; white or grey doves; sometimes a parrot or sometimes even a skylark. Even in school I had been punished many times for looking out of the window – at birds. I loved all kinds of the birds but mainly I was fascinated by doves. I loved everything about them; their small beaks, their smooth feathers, tiny claws, the way they walk on the grounds gracefully, the way they jerk their tiny head in short fractions when looking around, their soft humming or their noisy flight on sensing threat.
I had a Friend – Deven – who just like me; loved birds. He knew some guys in town who raised doves to sell so we decided to buy a pair and breed them for ourselves. One by one we visited every place that he knew. I was charmed to see so many doves in one place at each seller we visited; tawny, pure white, dark brown, grey, black and white, brown and white, with different feather types, and also a few tiny squabs.
The first seller we visited was an old boy around seventeen or eighteen. His house was tile-roofed and old, very small; but the front yard was fairly large for the house – around six meter long and four meter wide – and full of various doves roaming around. Many coops – made of wooden fruit boxes and just an open hole for the birds to enter and no flap to lock them in – were ranking under a tree. His rates were too high so we had to visit another seller who lived a little away from the central town. He was a boy two or three years older than me. His house was quite big, with a huge front yard and even bigger back yard where the birds were wandering on ground and also on small trees quite freely. He also disappointed us by his expectations but we weren't discouraged at all. The next seller we visited lived in a shabby neighborhood and in a house too small for seven people who were living there, and to reach there we had to walk through a lane between two houses so small only one person can walk. He raised the birds in his front porch which was so small four people could hardly stand there. All my dreams of having a pair of pet doves were still out of my reach since not a single pair would come under three hundred Rupees. Then we searched and found another seller, on the slant of a small hill, he had a fewer birds and he asked for two hundred and fifty but still it didn't fit in my budget. At last we abandoned our search and decided to catch a pair.
In our mid term vacation Deven and I would go out in fields in old town area every afternoon – with a fishing-net, a noose which we had made on our own by working a whole day and my old parrot cage, which I had used once for keeping a few sparrows – to catch birds alive. It was pretty stupid actually, but we don't think like that when we are young right? we just wanted a pet bird; a dove or even a partridge.
At last after many days of field visits and ineffective plans, one day we were on our usual bird-hunt. We had spread the net and placed our noose in a field and were sitting under a tree nearby, waiting. After a long and dry period of waiting, about an hour and a half later a partridge approached the grain we had spread and after a few seconds another one joined. Deven and I both were squatting in shadow under the tree, elated with anticipation, ready to race to the field. But the birds didn't seem to bother either by the net or the noose. They were just picking the grain too comfortably and after finishing it they flew away before we could think what to do next. We came back home long faced and slumped shoulders, dejected.
My mother knew what I was up to since the beginning and at last she gave me money to buy a pair of doves. I brought a pair from the last seller we'd visited for two hundred Rupees. The male was white with dark grey chest and tail and female was white with chocolate brown back and neck. I also brought a wooden box from a fruit seller and made a small house for my birds and hung it securely at an outside wall of my home, high from the ground.
My birds quickly picked up with their new habitation. They'd rove on my roof all day and came back to their tiny and cozy wooden home every night. After a few days they also started recognizing the sound I made for calling them. I was thoroughly enjoying the days with my new pets. Deven was also visiting me more frequently these days.
Then one evening after a month I returned from school and realized my pets were not in their house or anywhere around. Deven told me that the boy we bought the birds from steals them back and that is why he sells so cheap. I believed him and we called at the place again and searched without any luck. Eventually we had to apologize and leave gloomy.
One evening after a week I saw one of my birds, the white and dark grey male, sitting for a long time on a cable hanging in my yard. I tried to lure him down but he didn't come and after a while it took flight never to return.


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E. started saying the word doctor in her tiny, super-soft voice, which makes every syllable sound like a compliment. She could be on national baby radio, if there was such a thing. That's how soothing her voice is, like someone gargling maple syrup while saying extremely kind things.
That she knows how to pronounce the word doctor makes sense. She's probably heard that word as many times as there are lakes in Minnesota (approximately 10,000). I'm certainly not proud of it. I'm a less-is-more type person when it comes to medical intervention. At least, I used to be.
At a recent appointment, E. took one look at the neurologist, Dr. J., started wailing, and then threw up on the clean grey carpet of his office floor. Projectile style, shooting out in an arc like cartoon puke. It was like a gastro-related Roadrunner stunt. The doctor paused for just a moment, exclaiming, "wow." And then got back to talking about E.'s cognitive capacities.
Our daughter is developmentally delayed. We knew that already, and yet it's still hard when someone else says it out loud. It's okay when Cedar or I say it, but I don't like other people calling it out like that. I guess it makes it more real.
The doctor basically said this: she may live independently someday, but she might not. We will know more in a handful of years, when she is five or six years old.
Luckily, somehow, I've gotten better at living with the unknown. It's a skill, like swimming. But actually not like that at all, because, really, where is the beach?
Dr. J. explained, looking right at us as he swiveled around in his chair, that E. won't likely be any less happy. He said, "People adjust to their own circumstances".
But he was clear that it could dramatically impact our happiness, as her parents, if we let it.
Well, good point. There's so much riding on the way we look at her differences, her medical complexities, and on the way we look at pretty much everything. Which is completely mind-blowing.
Because more and more, I want what we have. I accept it, sometimes graciously. I am happy to shout uncle on normative family life. Let's be transgressive! Let's be the people at the birthday party who are dancing in the living room with a toddler on a tube! Let's hang out with the other folks who aren't pretending to parent cookie-cutter cuties. Even when it's heavy, let's see if we can make each other laugh so much that you accidentally spit out water all over your best jeans, just after you took a big sip.
That's the sign of a good day.
Before I settled down into this life, with this Northern-bred, jazz savant, sweetheart of a man who I call Cedar, I used to date all kinds of people. Mostly guys, but some women, too. I crushed out on a few hotties who didn't define themselves in those terms at all. I didn't have the dream of a big white wedding. But I always wanted children.
So I don't need our family to fit into a traditional mold, because I never imagined that it would.
But sometimes, sideways, it still hits me. I had my own ideas of how it might turn out, and it wasn't quite like this. Today, as I'm writing this, we are five outfits deep and three loads of laundry in. I don't want my daughter to have to endure so much puking, living her life on a tube.
Some days, I just want it to be easier. After I've been woken up too many times the night before—especially following the dreaded, foreboding pre-midnight wakeup, I want to use a simple term. Sucks. And then do things like drink too much Surly (except I can't because it gives me insomnia) and complain (which, ask Cedar, oh I do).
Even so, I try to bring myself back. Not for the sake of being good. In order to be grateful.
The best way I know how to do that is to walk outside. I don't care what the question is, it seems like paying attention to our wild landscape is the answer. Right now, where we live, most of it is dying or turning brown. And somehow, I find that comforting.
Minnesota, I feel like you get me. You don't need to be cute or easy or pretend everything is good. Creatures are born all of the time. The trajectory of life is somewhat predictable, but often it isn't. We live, and then we become a memory. And everyday, every hour, every minute, the sky does what it needs to do.
It all changes. And we change with it.


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Part Two of "30 Deadly-Effective Ways to Free Up Bits, Drips & Gimungously Vast Swaths of Time for Writing" which first appeared on C.M. Mayo's blog.
Read Part One here.
9. Stop picking up the telephone. As Marie Antoinette might have put it, Let them send email. If you can, pay for an unlisted number and caller ID and change your telephone number at least every other year. If that little click to voice mail distracts you, why, just unplug it! And, pourquoi pas? Fling it out the window!
10. No recreational shopping. Whew, this one adds up over a season, a year, two years. So never, ever shop in stores or on-line or in fact anywhere anytime without your list. If an item is not on your list, do not buy it. Shopping malls are time- and money-gobbling maws and believe it, the marketers, watching your every move on their cameras, are more sophisticated than you think you are. Not only does recreational shopping squander prime writing time, but it tends to fill up your house with clutter-- a time-suck in itself. Go to a park, a museum, a library, the seashore, a basketball court, have fun and refresh yourself as necessary, but stay way away from the maw. I mean, mall.
11. Stop accumulating a large and varied wardrobe based on navy, brown and/or beige. And give all that away to Goodwill. If you wear clothing that is black and/or coordinates with black, you'll be able to make fewer shopping trips, pack faster, and do far less laundry and dry cleaning. And since black makes colors "pop," your blue sweater, say, will appear brighter. Yet another advantage: black makes you look slimmer. (Ha, maybe I was a Jesuit in my last life.)
12. Cancel the manicure. Horrendous time sink there. Plus, the polish is toxic and it flakes.
14. Quit playing computer games. On par with drugs. Or any other addiction. Including following the stock market on a daily basis.
15. Quit hanging out on Facebook and Twitter. Of course, these can be useful for keeping in touch and promoting one's books and events, but like Burger King, they're best indulged in rarely and only of dire necessity or unavoidable human frailty. On par with computer games.
16. Ignore spectator sports. Do not attend games, do not watch or listen to or otherwise follow games, do not discuss games, and whole weekends for writing will emerge from the sea of froth.
17. Do not indulge in expensive, time- and space-consuming activities such as, oh, say, collecting and expounding upon various types of fermented grape juice. Come on, folks, once it goes into a carafe, 99% of your guests won't know the difference between one chablis and the next chardonnay. Pick a reasonable brand and stick with it, white and red. For me, it's Monte Xanic-- or else it goes into the pot for coq au vin.
C.M. Mayo is the author of several books, most recently, Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual. She is currently at work on a book about Far West Texas, and apropos of that, hosts the Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project at www.cmmayo.com/marfa


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The Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance Foundation donated $80,000 to Spina Bifida of Jacksonville at a Friday ceremony at Nemours Childrens Clinic Jacksonville.
The donation came from proceeds raised during this year's 19th annual Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance, which saw 300-plus classic cars displayed March 9 at The Golf Club of Amelia Island next to The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island.
The donation is one of many the foundation has made to volunteer-run organization in the past 19 years. It will be used to fund educational and social programs for about 300 families with children who live with spina bifida, a permanently disabling birth defect that occurs when a baby's spinal column does not close all the way. That includes sending two families to medical conferences in California, the concours its major source of funding.
"This means that the organization will be sustainable into the future and be able to help a lot more families," said association treasurer Diane Schroer, whose 17-year-old daughter has the condition. "... The biggest thing is educational advocacy."
"There is a need and I don't think spina bifida is recognized in the community as broadly as other challenges children have, so we are able to help fund their needs," added concours founder and chairman Bill Warner, whose granddaughter has spina bifida. "It is very close to us."
Spina Bifida has also receives annual donations from the Jacksonville Grand Prix go kart race, the most recent a $8,000 from its 12th annual event on April 5.
Since the concours' beginning in 1996, its foundation has donated more than $2.2 million to Community Hospice of Northeast Florida and other area non-profit organizations that include Micah's Place Domestic Violence Center in Fernandina Beach; Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society; and the Shop with Cops programs run by the Nassau County Sheriff's Office and Fernandina Beach Police Department.


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Two Americans with Ebola given experimental drug
The two Ebola-stricken American missionaries were given an experimental serum before they were flown back to the United States.
Dr Kent Brantly and Ms Nancy Writebol, both of whom had contracted Ebola while helping patients in Liberia, gave their consent for a drug cocktail known as ZMapp to be used on them.
ZMapp has been tested on monkeys but not on humans. It was developed by San Diego company Mapp Biopharmaceutical and manufactured in Kentucky using fast-growing tobacco plants, which act as a "photocopier" to produce the necessary proteins.
Dr Kent Brantly (in blue) was infected with the deadly virus while helping to battle an outbreak in West Africa. He arrived back in the US on Saturday. Ms Nancy Writebol is supposed to arrive today (Aug 5).
Mr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said: "This so-called experimental serum is a cocktail of antibodies that have the capability of blocking the virus."
"The physicians in charge of the patients' care made a risk-benefit decision. The risk was less than the potential benefit," he said.
While it is too early to say whether the treatment saved the lives of the two missionaries or slowed the disease's progression enough to allow them to return to the US for care, some reports have suggested that both patients improved after getting the serum.
A colourised transmission electron micrograph of the Ebola virus virion.
It is unclear whether the duo will continue to receive doses of the ZMapp serum during their treatment in Atlanta. Any use of an experimental drug in the United States must receive the blessing of the Food and Drug Administration.
There is no approved cure for Ebola and no proven vaccine to prevent the disease.
According to an update on Monday from the World Health Organization, 887 people have died in four countries – Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria - and more than 1,600 people have taken ill by Ebola in the current outbreak.
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Performance Capabilities of Light-Frame Shear Walls Sheathed With Long OSB Panels
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In this investigation, thirty-six shear walls measuring 8 feet (2.4 m) in width and possessing heights of 8, 9 and 10 feet (2.4, 2.7 and 3.0 m) were subjected to the reversed, cyclic loading schedule of the standard CUREE protocol in order to determine the performance capabilities of shear walls greater than 8 feet (2.4 m) in height sheathed with long panels. Of the thirty-six walls, a total of twelve walls measuring 9 and 10 feet (2.7 and 3.0 m) in height were sheathed with 4 x 8 feet (1.2 x 2.4 m) panels which required additional blocking members between the studs of the frame. Values obtained from the tests performed on these walls provided a direct comparison to those obtained from the walls of equal height, but sheathed with a long panel capable of spanning the entire height of the wall. The capabilities of long panels were investigated when used as the sheathing elements of shear walls with and without a mechanical hold-down device attached to the base of the end stud. An advantage of the long panel was investigated in which it was extended past the bottom plate and down onto the band joist to determine if significant resistance to the uplift present in walls without mechanical hold-down devices could be provided. Also, the effects of orienting the fibers of a 4 x 9 feet (1.2 x 2.7 m) panel in the alternate direction were examined. Average values of the parameters produced by walls sheathed with long panels either matched or exceeded those of its counterpart sheathed with 4 x 8 feet (1.2 x 2.4 m) panels in all configurations except the 10 feet (3.0 m) tall wall without hold-down devices. In fact, 4 x 9 feet (1.2 x 2.7 m) panels increased the performance of 9 feet (2.7 m) tall walls equipped with hold-down restraint significantly. Extending the long panels past the bottom plate and down onto the band joist improved the performance of both 8 and 9 feet (2.4 and 2.7 m) tall prescriptive shear walls significantly. Walls sheathed with panels made of fibers oriented in the alternate direction performed identically to those sheathed with panels of typical fiber orientation until the point of peak load. Once peak load was reached, walls sheathed with panels of alternate oriented fibers failed in a more sudden and brittle manner.
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The Colored Pencil Course
A good eye for color is worth striving for. Sometimes this ability seems intuitive. but in more cases than not. it has been patiently learned. Two areas of skill are involved in developing a good eye for color. One is an ability to recognize and describe a color, whatever its surroundings, in terms of its three dimensions. With this ability, you can make rapid judgments about an existing color mixture's relevance or usefulness. The second area of skill, which grows out of the first, is an equally sure knowledge of how to alter color appropriately by making changes in its dimensions.
A color's temperature is also a factor in how you see color. Warm colors appear warmer and cool colors appear cooler when they are seen against their opposites in temperature. Color temperature also plays a strong part in color's seeming ability to advance or recede in space; warm colors often appear to come forward, and cool colors appear to retreat. A color of more brilliant intensity or of lighter value than its neighbors also seems to come forward in space.
Color also has a profound effect on our emotions and on how we perceive spatially. To better understand how this pertains to drawing with colored pencils, consider what color can offer a drawing's mood and structure:
While most people don't completely understand how sensations of color affect the emotions, it is pretty apparent that they do. People are drawn to color, and they react to it. Memories and associations with certain colors of life bear this out. Most people have special feelings for particular hues.
For many, warm hues suggest activity and vitality. Red, among these hues, may seem particularly compelling. But in great quantity, this same red may bring a shift in mood from vitality to something nearer paralysis. Moods can also be swayed by a color's value or intensity. Light values may seem cheery and open, dark values gloomy. High intensity of color may seem to promote excitement, but low intensity brings a feeling of calm.
A good beginning toward evoking mood in your drawings can be made by observing the colors in your life. Try asking yourself, in environments that set a mood, what part color plays in the setting. Look for the dominant color, and define it by its value and intensity as well as its hue. Look for contrasts among these things. Note how the location and amount of color can affect mood.
As a practical experiment, make a few small thumbnail drawings with your colored pencils. Use as few drawn clues as possible to suggest mood, except those of color—its placement and its quantity.
Color also can work its effects on a drawing's structure, which refers to all the elements in a drawing that contribute to the illusions of form and space. You will find as you work with colored pencils that color alone can build some of structure's illusions. It was, incidentally, to work with this premise that the colorist Paul Cézanne devoted much of his painting life.
The capacities of color alone to achieve effects of distance, perspective, solidity, and changes in plane, hinge largely on its ability to visually advance or recede. In practical terms, this "action'' of color can be utilized when a shape—a table, for instance, or an object on the table—needs to be brought forward or pushed deeper into a picture's space.
A color's hue—aside from its relative warmth or coolness—can also be used to enhance the modeling of form. Because colors under different degrees of light appear to shift toward adjacent hues, an increase in illumination makes blue, for example, become more blue-green. Red. under this condition, becomes nearer red-orange. With decreasing illumination, blue becomes more blue-violet, and red more red-violet.
Finally, perhaps the single most important thing to know—for gaining ade-ptness at mixing colors as well as for sharpening an eye for color—is that all colors have equal status in art. None is by definition useless or ugly. Each, given proper circumstances, can be beautiful and hard-working. What you're really looking for. when you mix color, is appropriateness. The great advantage of colored pencils, as a medium for learning about as well as for drawing with color, is the speed and ease with which you can put color ideas to practical tests.
A truism of color perception that is not always true is that warm colors invariably advance and cool colors recede. With no other visual clues than the colors themselves, the second two of these three combinations can be seen to advance or recede for different reasons. In A, the warm orange appears to come forward from the cooler blue at its side. But in B, the cool blue also comes forward because it is brighter in intensity than the warm but dulled red. And In C, a light value of blue seems to advance from a darker value of the same hue.
In drawing, as in life, color—depending upon its quantity, quality and placement—can have a major effect on mood. What mood is suggested to you as you isolate each thumbnail drawing from its neighbors? Compare your feelings with these:
1. Warmth, pleasantness 2. Uneasiness 3. Frivolity 4. Anxiety, maybe absurdity 5. Confusion 6. Serenity 7. Foreboding
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California is already facing a grape shortage and now weather in the Midwest is causing some growers to break into a sweat over a potential winter freeze that could extensively harm grapevines, according to WinesandVines.com.
The winter and spring high temperatures have buds breaking early throughout the Midwest, triggering unpleasant memories in grape growers' minds of the 2007 "Easter freeze." That year, record low temperatures followed record high temperatures, killing grapevines and costing the U.S. $2 billion in crop damage.
Although weather forecasts for April are predicted to be warmer than usual, there could still be two or three days that pose a risk of frost damage, said Michael Hudson, operations officer for the National Weather Service's central region, in the WinesandVines.com article.
Mark Hart, owner of Mt. Ashwabay Vineyard in Bayfield, Wis., told WinesandVines.com that many growers in Wisconsin are new to the industry and do not have the proper equipment to deal with frost damage. Unfortunately, vineyards from other Midwest states like Missouri, are also under-prepared for frosts, according to R. Andrew Allen, extension viticulturist with the Institute for Continental Climate Viticulture and Enology.
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CHICOPEE, Mass. ---- Massasoit's Jack DeCoste rolled in a school-record low 79 on the second day of the Region 21 Tournament at Chicopee Country Club, placing sixth overall in the two-day event and qualifying for the NJCAA National Championship.
DeCoste will represent the Warriors at Nationals, held at Chautauqua Golf Club in Chautauqua, N.Y., from June 6-9. The East Sandwich native becomes just the second Massasoit student-athlete in program history to qualify for Nationals, joining Mike Cappadona of Foxboro, who advanced back in 2015.
After a slow start for DeCoste, who shot a 91 on day one, the freshman was dialed in the next day, firing the second lowest score on day two, highlighted by five birdies. DeCoste's two-day total of 170 (91+79=170) placed sixth individually, with Matt Murphy (79+78=157) of Bristol claiming the individual crown.
In addition, DeCoste becomes the first Massasoit golfer to shoot a round below 80, with his day two score of 79 at Regionals.
Jimmy Lawless of Hull also competed for the Warriors, carding an 89 on the first day and a 108 on day two to finish with a two-day tournament score of 197. Lawless placed 18th overall, and his first day total of 89 was the 11th lowest.
CCRI claimed the team championship with a total score of 678, followed by Springfield Tech (710) and Bristol (758).


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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the slow decline of cognition and functional abilities over time. The diagnosis for probable and possible AD relies principally on clinical criteria. The confirmation of the disease is made post-mortem by identifying extracellular senile plaques and intraneuronal fibrillary tangles in the brains of subjects with clinically defined dementia. However, the field critically lacks validated AD specific peripheral biomarkers to support the diagnosis in living patients or for early detection of patients at risk before symptoms appear. BACE1 (Beta site amyloid precursor protein cleaving enzyme 1) cleaves Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) at two beta sites and represents a key target enzyme in the monitoring and possible treatment of AD. The secretome of adipose derived mesenchymal stem cells contain amyloid beta degrading Neprilysin and ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1), both known factors in influencing Alzheimer Disease.
In our preliminary study, we evaluated the usefulness of salivary BACE1 to determine risk to develop AD in clinically normal patients and the influence of the secretome of MSCs on BACE1 levels in saliva. A preliminary in house laboratory grading system for BACE1 content in saliva was established with high levels of salivary BACE1 present in older patients and putatively at risk to develop AD. Salivary BACE1 levels were significantly reduced in patients receiving intramuscular adipose tissue derived mesenchymal stem cell secretome.
BACE1 seems to be a useful biomarker to help diagnose AD and to monitor disease progression, and remarkable regression, when treated with stem cell secretome.
Biomarkers, Alzheimer Disease, Mesenchymal stem cells, amyloid beta, amyloid precursor protein, amyloid plaques, BACE1, neprilysin, micro RNA, UHC-L1, disease monitoring, saliva
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the slow decline of cognition and functional abilities over time. The diagnosis for probable and possible AD relies principally on clinical criteria and neuropsychological tests defined by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and the Alzheimer's disease and Related Disorders Association (ADRDA) [1], mostly by assessment through a Mini-Mental State Examination MMSE. The confirmation of the disease is made post-mortem by identifying extracellular senile plaques and intraneuronal fibrillary tangles in the brains of subjects with clinically defined dementia. However, the field critically lacks validated AD specific peripheral biomarkers to support the diagnosis in living patients or for early detection of patients at risk before symptoms appear. Some investigators studied structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging [2] as means for in vivo confirmation, whereas others concentrate on liquid biomarkers, such as plasma amyloid beta (Aβ)-40 and 42, albeit with mixed results [3].
AD is the most common form of dementia and is pathologically characterized by amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles and loss of synapses in the brain. Neurofibrillary tangles consist of hyperphosphorylated tau protein while fibrils of the amyloid beta-peptide (Ab) aggregate into amyloid plaques [4]. Smaller, oligomeric species of Ab have proven to be neurotoxic and cause synaptic dysfunction [5]. Ab is a proteolytic product of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) which is sequentially cleaved in an amyloidogenic pathway by beta- and gamma-secretases [4]. Beta- secretase cleaves APP close to the membrane, releasing a soluble APP beta-fragment (sAPPb). The remaining C-terminal fragment (APP-CTFb) can then be cleaved by gamma-secretase at different sites yielding Ab-peptides of varying length, Ab40 being the most common, while Ab42 is more toxic and prone to aggregate. If APP is cleaved in a non-amyloidogenic pathway by alpha-secretase instead of beta-secretase, a non-toxic P3 fragment will be formed after the gamma-secretase cleavage.
Beta-site APP-cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE1), the beta-secretase in vivo, has been identified as a 501- amino acid residue single transmembrane aspartyl protease [6]. BACE1 cleaves APP at two beta sites and produces the C-terminal fragments (CTF) C99 and C89 [7]. C99 is subsequently cleaved by presenilin (PS)-dependent gamma-secretase complex to release Ab fragments. BACE1 therefore represents a key target enzyme in the monitoring and possible treatment of AD. However, over the last decade, it has become clear that BACE1 proteolytically cleaves a number of substrates in addition to APP. When experimenting with total knock out BACE1 mice, the extreme reduction or total absence of BACE1 led to neurological dysfunctions [8]. Protocols using mesenchymal stem cells and/or their cell-free secretions (secretome) did not show these disadvantages, as, although many active ingredients are present and have shown to be beneficial, the concentration of these ingredients, the diverse mode of actions (i.e. anti-inflammatory molecules, content of alpha secretase neprilysin (NEP), antioxidants and ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase L1) and long term but temporary cellular activation via microRNA prevent drastic changes. That being said, the content of amyloid beta degrading NEP and ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1) in the secretome of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), have been investigated in some detail in preclinical in vitro and in vivo studies [9]. Also, on the production side of the secretome, both ingredients can be augmented through GMP compatible manufacturing processes. UCH-L1 accelerates BACE1 degradation and affects APP processing and Ab production [10].
In our preliminary study, we evaluated a) the usefulness of salivary BACE1 to determine risk to develop AD in clinically normal patients and b) the influence of the secretome of MSCs on BACE1 levels in saliva.
Methods and Material
MSCs and secretome
Mesenchymal stem cells were isolated from subcutaneous adipose tissue which had been harvested by mini liposuction under local anaesthesia from two healthy patients, undergoing this process for unrelated reasons. After digestion with collagenase, stem cells were isolated in culture flasks using a proprietary animal free stem cell attachment media. Cultivation of stem cells was done using a proprietary animal free stem cell growth media with minimal expansion after 1 passage to 3 million cells. Cells were identified by microscopy and with help of a CD marker panel (Abcam). Secretome was produced from these 3 million cells and analyzed for content in cytokines, neprilysin, micro and messenger RNA.
Salivary samples
Salivary samples of 8 Patients were taken first thing in the morning, at lunchtime and evening before eating and drinking. Sample size was approximately 1 ml. 200 ul were mixed with same amount of protease inhibitor (Protease Inhibitor Cocktail, Sigma Aldrich, Switzerland). Samples with and without protease inhibition were either frozen immediately or left for 48 and 72 hours at room temperature before freezing them as well at minus 20 degrees Celsius before analysing.
Salivary samples of the 2 Patients receiving intramuscular injection of secretome 4 times every two to four weeks were taken one week after last injection in the morning before breaking fast and frozen without addition of protease inhibitor.
Saliva samples were not centrifuged or otherwise processed.
Human Beta site APP cleaving enzyme 1 sandwich ELISA kit (Sun Long Biotech, China) was used. 10 ul salivary samples and diluted salivary samples (1: 1 with protease inhibitor) were processed according to standard procedure, measured at 450 OD and BACE 1 concentration in pg/ml calculated with the help of the standard curve.
Patients were all healthy with no clinical signs of Alzheimer disease. Young patients were not showing any signs of mental deficiencies but some of the older Patients were self-assessed as having problems with concentration and memory. There were no family incidences of Alzheimer Disease.
A German version of the mini-mental state examination was performed.
Mini-Mental State Examination
MMSE was normal in all patients. However, two patients had self-assessed problems with concentration and memory, which the MMSE did not pick up.
Saliva samples
Saliva samples from morning, midday and evenings were analyzed (Table 1). In all samples BACE1 could be detected. There was no clear diurnal variation, but clear differences in samples in 7 out of 8 Patients regarding the time of sampling. Levels of BACE 1 varied from 267 pg/ml to 939 pg/ml.
Table 1. Diurnal variations to BACE 1 levels in saliva.
Saliva samples of three Patients were studies to see if BACE1 content at room temperature would change over 72 hours (Table 2). Fresh samples had a lower content of BACE1 then when measured after 48 respectively 72 hours.
Fresh saliva samples were compared with samples stabilized with protease inhibitors (Table 3). Results showed a big difference between the two groups.
Table 2. BACE1 values in saliva according to time spent before analysis.
Table 3. Influence of protease inhibitor on BACE1 content in saliva samples.
ELISA tests were straight forward; however the small sample size of 10 ul and the viscosity of saliva made it difficult to accurately and consistently dose the wells.
Our 8 patients were aged between 18 years of age and 62 years of age. The upper limit was meant to prevent including non-diagnosed early stages AD patients. There were 3 male and 5 female Patients. 2 patients, both female, were suspected to have a certain degree of memory problems without any influence on their MMSE.
Stem cell treatment
2 Patients had, unrelated to this study, treatments with the secretome of adipose derived MSCs. One female Patient was classified as at risk for AD with a higher than usual level of salivary BACE1 and beginning memory and concentration problems, the male Patient was within limits. Both showed a reduction in salivary BACE1 after treatment (Table 4). Sampling at different time during the day revealed big variations but were not consistent. It was felt that salivary samples before breakfast would reveal the most accurate values and also the highest values.
Table 4. Differences in salivary BACE1 after injections with secretome from MSCs.
Saliva samples are easily obtained, but variation in the amount of saliva is well known, with AD patients having more saliva production then normal controls. Theoretically, the total amount of saliva production and a weight factor would be needed for accuracy. Practically, although asked to be diligent, patients had quite a few variations in the time of sampling, making this in AD patients a difficult task. Time of delay between sampling and processing the samples revealed remarkable differences. The initial idea was that BACE1 would decline with passing hours before processing, which was not proven to be true. All the tested samples showed an increase of BACE1 values in the ELISA during the delay, however not linearly. This could be due to BACE1 not being freely suspended in saliva. Studies on animals have shown that within the brain, BACE1 is enriched in synaptic vesicles [11]. Protease inhibition resulted consistently in higher levels of BACE1 being preserved in saliva. As with all tests, saliva sampling should follow a concise and practical protocol, allowing comparison within the same laboratory and patient setting. We established a protocol consisting of fasting saliva sampling before breakfast, with saliva allowed to pool in the anterior part of the mouth behind the front teeth with the mouth held open for 30 to 60 seconds. Saliva was removed with flexible plastic non sterile plastic pipettes and transferred to 1.5 ml plastic sample vials and stored on ice immediately. Vials with the saliva sample then should be frozen within 1 hour. No anti-protease was added, as early saliva samples could not be pipetted accurately due to foaming.
All salivary samples tested revealed content of BACE 1 biomarker. Content of BACE1 varied considerably during daytime and with self-sampling by the patients. In a separate study, this variability could be lessened by our sampling protocol and by doing the sampling by a nurse or technician. Contrary to blood as biomarker, saliva reacts quite closely to changes in CNS. BACE1 is certainly implicated in the AD process and thus our results with elevated BACE1 saliva levels associated with AD (separate, not published to date) and with beginning cognitive impairment in our group of patients confirm the value of saliva as biomarker as well as the connection between elevated BACE1 levels in saliva with cognitive impairment and AD. This will have to be confirmed with a bigger number of patients, but is in itself logical and plausible. Other researchers [3] have found that BACE1 levels in blood platelets are lowered (sic!) in AD patients, which does just not seem logical.
Based on these test we have set a cut off value for BACE1 saliva content in AD patients, patients at risk and normal patients (Table 5). These values should be considered laboratory specific and should be validated freshly when used in another setting. We also believe that we can predict AD or at least a higher risk to develop AD at a very early time, giving hope to prevent further accumulation of amyloid aggregates and even clear existing amyloid aggregates with stem cell therapy.
Table 5. Proposed Cut-off values for BACE1 saliva values.
Two of our patients had stem cell secretome treatments before and after saliva sampling. The secretome is a patented, cell free product generated from the active ingredients which stem cells secrete as cell to cell communication or as a result of being stressed by various degrees of hypoxia or by preconditioning of the stem cell media before the production of the secretome. The secretome can thus be adapted to different diseases, as we have shown in other studies, i.e. beneficial for cartilage regeneration or with more content of neuroregenerative substances. One of the patients was in the group of at risk patients to develop AD and one patient had normal saliva values of BACE1. They both received intramuscular secretome 4 times at intervals of 2-4 weeks. Salivary BACE1 levels sank dramatically in both patients (Table 4). This confirms the treatment potential of AD with the secretome, although it is not clear which of the ingredients play a major role in this. As a total BACE1 knockout in rodents also lead to neurological dysfunction [8], a total block of BACE1 does not seem beneficial. However, the significant lowering of BACE1 over a long period of time would at least prevent new formation of amyloid beta aggregates and give to body a chance to clear aggregated proteins via the ubiquitin protease system. UCH-L1 in the secretome not only inhibits neuritic plaque formation, but also accelerates degradation of BACE1, regulates APP and is a major component of the ubiquitin protease system [12, 13].
It is still early days, and we are expanding our stem cell preventative treatments to the treatment of clinically manifest cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease. In a better world, prevention of diseases, be it under the heading of anti-ageing or anti-morbidity, would be the preferred method of choice. It will be interesting to see, if the regenerative capacity of mesenchymal stem cells and their secretome will be sufficient to treat AD patients in advanced stages as well. The saliva biomarker BACE1 will give us a tool to monitor disease progression or regression, before clinical signs become evident.
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They say that life can't be called life without both the ups and downs of it. This is best exemplified by the fact that there's no one person in the world that can be considered of perfect health. Even the greatest of athletes probably have some kind of sickness somewhere that needs to be tended to. The cavity in the teeth or some kind of problem with digestion is some of the more common problems that people have these days. But whatever the case, people will always have one kind of complaint or another and this is where medicine comes in. The medicine comes in a wide variety just as there are a wide variety of complaints that people can come up with regarding their health. Here's just three of them:
- Everyone gets sick. Whether you admit it or not, the reality is that just about everyone gets sick one way or another. Of course, it might not be much like a common cold or maybe just a slight case of indigestion, you still need at least a little medicine to make sure that it goes away and that you'll feel better later.
- Everyone gets injured. Yes, being the clumsy human beings that we are, we're likely to get injured in some way. It doesn't really have to be anything serious and can be anything from a scrape after you fell over while coming home drunk one night or an ingrown toenail. Whatever the case, you will need some medicine to make it better and less painful.
- Everyone needs the right nutrients. With the world today, it would be kind of hard to get all the nourishment you need on a regular basis. That's why there are pre-packed vitamins on hand and ready for distribution at your nearest pharmacy.
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Is It Hard to Review Personal Statement for Pharmacy on Your Own?
When we study anything, we pay more attention to its content. It can either grab our focus or result in developing no interest. Similarly, any amazing pharmacy personal statement will definitely be great to read but simple to review.
The poorly written PS becomes quite challenging to review. The students who make the attempt of writing a pharmacy school personal statement for the first time find it the toughest thing to do. Reading every line and every single word is not an easy task. Therefore, you can say it a tough job.
Things That Require Focus during the Pharmacy School Personal Statement Review
When you are all set to go through a personal statement pharmacy, you then still need to keep a few points in mind. Your to-do list must not miss these useful points for reviewing and creating the best pharmacy personal statement in the end:
- You should go to the most tranquil place to perform this job
- Keep the best pharmacy personal essay examples along with the actual PS for better outcomes
- Keep a highlighting pen to underline the mistakes
- Read every sentence twice for the better understanding
- Try to avoid exceeding the standard length of the personal statement
Tips for Pharmacy Personal Statement Review
Let's start with a pharmacy personal statement review so you'll have a good idea of just how to get into a good pharmacy school. Any type of pharmacy personal statement essay is written by following some feasible tips. This job can be done in a more ideal way if you focus on these tips:
- It's always a good idea to expound on why you've taken an interest in pharmacy in the first place. You have to understand that in the world today, most major establishments are interested in people who have a passion for what they are actually doing. If you lack interest in the course itself, your potential employers will not be too interested in hiring you either
- Expound on any experience you might have. This is very important if you want people to take you seriously in taking up a course in pharmacy
- Show off your skills and knowledge of various medicines
- Try to show through evidence rather than just telling
- Find out the unique angle of the study
- Stay focussed
- Check out a professional pharmacy personal statement sample
- Rewrite again and again if it still seems not a satisfactory document to you
- Highlight the points that set you apart from other applicants
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The Do's and Don'ts
These are some things-to-do and not-to-do for ending up in getting a winning personal statement of pharmacy:
- Do not try to review the pages at a noisy place
- Make a list of things that you have to fix in the PS
- Don't include any repetitive information just to increase the word count
- Use two to three best samples to do this job in a more effective manner
- Pay more attention to reading rather than writing
What and How Would We Guide You for Pharmacy Personal Statement Review?
No one wants that their pharmacist personal statement shows errors which loses the interest of the selection team. Therefore, a well-written personal statement can only be created after removing even minor mistakes:
- Hard to digest text content with less readability
- Slangs, acronyms and cliches
- More use of passive voice sentences and mistakes in tenses
- Improper length of paragraphs
- Formatting errors
- Choosing the wrong vocabulary
- Mistakes in grammar, punctuation and spelling.
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California, USA. In a move signaling India's steady progress towards becoming the next superpower, many pornographic film production companies of USA have expressed keen interest in opening their branches in India. These companies, mostly based out of San Pornando Valley here, have appealed to the government of India to allow FDI in the pornography industry. Although industry experts have welcomed the move, Indian government is yet to respond to the proposal.
"Indians have the right mindset and resources to produce as well as consume pornographic content. But unfortunately, the indigenously produced pornographic materials are often seen wanting in terms of technical finesse and production quality. With the US companies setting up offices in India, we can make our mark at the international level." Mastram, an industry expert who runs a massage center in Delhi, said.
The proposal for allowing foreign porn companies to open offices in India comes close to the possibility of foreign universities setting up campuses in India. US industry players see this development as a positive signal.
"This is encouraging. Many university students back in the US join porn companies part-time to pay their tuition fees. We would love to see a similar trend happening in India so that there are no supply side problems once we start operations there." hoped Dick Wilde, CEO of Naughty America, one of the key players interested in opening offices in India.
People like Wilde are hopeful of a seamless start to their operations even if the foreign universities bill was not passed by the Indian parliament. They believe that the supply chain for the porn industry is already in place in India, and they just need to tap the right resources.
"Look at that guy called Ichchhadhari Baba, the godman who was caught with callgirls in Delhi. He had a long list of connections both on the supply as well as on the demand side of a sister business. We need to get in touch with such guys and involve them in our operations." Dick Wilde said.
The fact that the Indian government had banned cartoon porn site Savita Bhabhi last year has failed to dampen the hopes of the industry players in the US and the industry experts back in India. Faking News tried to contact many government officials, but none of them were ready to comment over the issue.


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Teens all across Coral Springs and Parkland recently gathered together at Riverside Park for the annual Broward Waterway Cleanup arranged by Coral Springs City Commissioner Roy Gold.
When the gates opened early that morning, parents and students alike piled through all heading to registration tables, getting equipment such as pikes, grabbing a granola bar by the concession stand and moving on their way.
More than 500 residents helped to clean up the Broward waterways. Some found shoes, trash, and keys among other items.
Local teens Ashley Schentov and Megan Lindsteron, who attend Coral Springs Charter School, both showed up on crutches to support the cause. One might think typical teenagers would be fast asleep until midday, but not these two. When asked what really brought them out of bed for the cleanup, they responded, "support."
One small group of children giving up their Saturday morning cartoons for volunteer work were the American Heritage Girls or AHG. They are a Christian base group that has a growing rate of many troops in 33 states.
Coral Springs City Commissioner Roy Gold was very pleased with the outcome this year.
"The cleanup started 15 years ago, and this is probably the most participants we've had since last year. At least 90 volunteers took part to help this organization grow," said Commissioner Gold, "I am personally grateful of the support from the schools in the area. Some of the other sponsors included Kilwins and Whole Foods Market, among other community businesses and residents."
Susan Spencer, who has been working with Gold to help with the cleanup for six years, was in charge of registering the hundreds of participants.
"In my opinion, this is more people than ever. I'm glad that the community has come together to work like a well oiled machine. The group of volunteers make everything easier," said Spencer.