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One indicator of how far statism has progressed in American society and culture is the tendency to view everything through a political lens. Feminists used to argue that "the personal is the political," and this attitude has become commonplace on both sides of the political spectrum.
A recent essay by Slate columnist Dennis Lim slagging Jason Reitman, director of the Academy Award-nominated film Up in the Air, exemplifies this baleful phenomenon. Lim criticizes Reitman for a failure to convey a progressive political vision, expressing open astonishment that the screenwriter-director has not been blacklisted by Hollywood's allegedly liberal-minded industry self-censors:
[I]t is hard to fathom his success in the supposedly liberal bastion of Hollywood: His politics lean right when they are at all legible, and yet he's embraced as an insightful social satirist, the second coming of Billy Wilder.
Lim goes on to provide what he sees as the answer to this riddle: Reitman is a fiendishly brilliant manipulator on the order of Fu Manchu or, well, President Obama:
On a deeper level, though, this disconnect makes perfect sense: It speaks to the brazen hucksterism that is so much a part of Reitman's method. He's a mediocre filmmaker but a world-class panderer. His movies, which instinctively play to both sides of a charged issue, are the height of smoke-and-mirrors artistry, wholly dependent on the concealment and the semblance of meaning.
Reitman, son of Ghostbusters and Stripes director Ivan Reitman, is the director of three very thoughtful and intelligent films with satirical elements: Thank You for Smoking (2005), Juno (2007), and Up in the Air (2009). His films do feature political themes prominently. Thank You for Smoking tells the story of a lobbyist for the tobacco industry, and the protagonist of Juno is a pregnant teenager who decides not to have an abortion but instead to give up her child for adoption. Up in the Air tells the story of a corporate consultant who makes a living going around the country firing people, but whose real character problem is his failure to establish close relationships in his personal life.
One can see why progressive politicos would find such films difficult to enjoy: they consistently place the personal above the political.
As Lim makes clear with the left-handed compliment of saying Juno "at least triggered some debate about its politics," the only possible happy ending of a film about abortion, in his view, is evidently for the unborn child to be killed and the young lady to have her decision endorsed by everyone except the obligatory Catholic and born-again Christian villains. Or, of course, to have her killed by said villains, culminating in a lovely closing crane shot moving somberly away from her tragic, bleeding body signifying her martyrdom for the great and good cause of killing children in the womb for money. That would surely be a big hit in downtown Boston and San Francisco.


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March 21, 2018
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Time: 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Antisemitism is not a relic of the past, but a hatred the world struggles with today. This program, led by a facilitator from ADL, introduces educators to classroom material that address such topics as contemporary manifestations of antisemitism, Holocaust denial, and anti-Israel rhetoric with students. The material covered can be used to extend learning in Echoes & Reflections or as a separate unit of study. This webinar is sponsored by the National Catholic Educational Association and will include connections for educators in Catholic schools.
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DVD ReviewReally, what's funnier than a grown man playing a child's game getting hit in various parts of his anatomy with a hard little ball? It's time for the wild and wacky, and this brief, amusing documentary assembles lots and lots of clips of baseball players doing boneheaded things. Just because you make millions and are adored by the masses, you're not immune from doing the stupid stuff the rest of us do on a daily basis. Of course, for us civilians, there's no peril of having our day-to-day idiocies featured on ESPN.
Chris Kattan narrates, and as you might expect, there are a great number of stupid plays on the field—baseballs taken to the crotch, players tumbling into the stands, popups landing between infielders, each calling for the other to get it. Some of these are truly epic in their hilarity—my favorite would have to be Manny Ramirez, who leaps from left field to cut off centerfielder Johnny Damon's throw to the plate, allowing the opponents to score. Why an outfielder could possibly think he should be the cutoff man is beyond me, and you'll find other choice bits of Manny being Manny, including his mid-inning sojourn inside the Green Monster.
There's plenty of funny stuff off the field, as well—Alex Rodriguez driving in circles looking for the ballpark in Arizona; Bruce Chen trying to talk his way into an "I Love This Game" promo; Ryan Dempster, allegedly the biggest prankster in all of the majors. (All the down time on the road seems to lead to lots of practical jokes. Boys will be boys.) The Marlins grounds crew takes it on the chin, too, for their ineptitude in trying to get the tarp on the field in the middle of a rainstorm; and there's a sequence of various species of insects swarming players, cameras, and umps. Derek Jeter is the butt of jokes for being the master of the cliché, for talking without saying anything—he's just going to take it one game at a time, it's a long season, and he just wants to help the ball club. And there are little montages of stuff from three of the grand old men of the game—Casey Stengel, understood by himself alone; Tommy Lasorda, preaching the Dodger gospel between bites of pasta; and the bhagwan of the baseball quote, Yogi Berra.
There's not a lot to this, but it is kind of nice to see the ball players as human—not Adonises striding the earth, nor juiced-up mercenaries soiling the sport, but big kids knowing that they're getting away with something by being paid a king's ransom to play a child's game.
Rating for Style: B
Rating for Substance: B
Image Transfer
Image Transfer Review: Adequately transferred, though the clips vary in quality, and the older ones—of Stengel particularly—are quite degraded.
Image Transfer Grade: B-
Audio Transfer
Audio Transfer Review: Some static on the audio track, but Kattan sounds all right, and the players are audible.
Audio Transfer Grade: B-
Disc ExtrasFull Motion menu with music
Scene Access with 9 cues and remote access
4 Other Trailer(s) featuring Pure Heat: Ultimate MLB Flamethrowers, Red Sox vs. Yankees: The Ultimate Rivalry, World Series 2005: Chicago White Sox, MLB Superstars Show You Their Game
12 Featurette(s)
Packaging: Amaray
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Extras Review: The dozen featurettes are essentially extended tales of stories told in the feature—you'll find Bruce Chen and Steve Kline goofing, Mike Lieberthal's painful dance moves, Ryan Dempster's Harry Caray imitation, and Chad Cordero falling off the mound while throwing a pitch, among others.
Extras Grade: C+
Final CommentsA lighthearted diversion for baseball fans, the perfect disc to pop in during one of those inevitable rain delays.
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Mayor Barsa's State of the Borough Address, January 3, 2018
Good Evening and Happy New Year.
First, I would like to congratulate Councilman Barry Scott on his successful re-election and welcome Councilman Paul Haberman as a new member to our team. Paul, I look forward to working with you over the coming year.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all borough employees, department heads and professionals who keep the Borough of Norwood current and running smoothly on a daily basis.
I would be remiss if I did not mention the dedication and professionalism of Norwood EMS and Fire Department. Thank you for always being there for us.
We owe a debt of gratitude to the numerous individuals who volunteer their time to the various boards and committees. These individuals donate their time and energy to make Norwood the great town it is.
I especially want to thank my 2017 governing body who regardless of party affiliation always worked harmoniously in moving Norwood forward.
As we move into 2018 our first priority is to produce a municipal budget with an increase under 2%. This is a challenge that will require hard decisions in the face of rising costs and unfunded mandates.
We continue to file grant applications to help us with some of the costs for improvements. We made an application to Bergen County Open Space to install lights on our walking path. The walking path is used daily by our residents and if we could light it without using the expensive overhead lights we would be saving money and offering a benefit to our neighbors. We have applied to NJ Dept. of Transportation to pave Walnut Street under a new grant program for heavily traveled truck routes. We also made application to Bergen County Community Development to help fund our senior activities and senior van. Our hope is to expand the van services in the very near future.
Remember Norwood Day is scheduled for Saturday, September 22nd beginning at 2:00 p.m. It's a great day for the community to come together for great food and music. This day is made possible by the generous donations of you our residents and our borough professionals and who could forget the hot dogs and soda that is donated every year by Norwood Fire Company No. 1. They stand out in the blazing heat every year cooking hot dogs for us. Let's show them our appreciation.
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We are so lucky to have a pint sized visitor at our house this week. My cousin Stacey was nice enough to share her baby girl, Piper, with us. We have been having tons of fun. It's a great chance for me to do crafts that are too young for the boys.
Today we made sensory bottles.
I have seen them around Pinterest and have wanted to make them, but mistakenly thought my boys were to old for it. Ami has been trying to sneak them away from Piper since she made them. I think we will be making more in the very near future.
Jeremia was nice enough to bring home 3 empty 8 oz water bottles, from school, for this project. That size is perfect for small 2 year old hands. The rest of the stuff I had already.
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Piper puts pom poms in one of the bottles.
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Snack break.
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There was only one thing that stood in my way. I couldn't name it back then, but it had something to do with that exhilarating and terrifying butterflies-in-the-stomach feeling I got when looking at other boys. I couldn't ask adults what these feelings were about – good boys didn't bother adults – so I tried to figure it out on my own. Books and the church had the answers to everything, so that's where I looked. The available scholarly books in my house were the Bible, the dictionary, and a one-volume encyclopedia that was published in the 1960s. It was in those books I found the answer, contained in one simple but very bad word – homosexual.
So, there I stood as an eleven or twelve year old boy faced with two absolutely true and seemingly contradictory facts: I was a "good", Catholic boy and I was a homosexual. From that point forward, my goal became seeing if it was possible to integrate those two seemingly contradictory but absolutely true facts. If I couldn't do that, I was in trouble – big trouble!
Books and church had defined the problem, and they were also the only place I knew to look for answers. So, starting in high school (my all-boys Catholic high school, of course) I threw myself into a surreptitious quest for information. Using the library card catalogue (this was the pre-internet, even pre computer, world) I memorized all the Dewey decimal numbers that had to do with homosexuality. I would breeze by those library shelves, quickly pull off a book at random and hide in a completely different section of the library to read it. It was easier to read books on church history and sexual morality openly, although I was always ready to flip to a different page if anyone approached to see exactly what I was reading.
After high school I was accepted to a local Catholic college where studying theology seemed to be a natural step in my quest for information and integration. I was the only theology major in my class. I took as many classes on sexual morality as I could find, and every paper I wrote was about the Church's position on sexuality. In my more daring moments I wrote about homosexuality in particular. The school library was much bigger and had many more books both on sexuality in general and on homosexuality in particular. During those days I felt slightly less self-conscious about deliberately browsing those shelves, but I still took the books to another corner of the library to read them.
My years of wrestling with my sexual orientation while studying church history and sexual morality had shown me that being gay and being a person of faith was not an either/or proposition. I could be (quietly) gay and participate fully in the life of my Church. When I graduated in 1986 I was a mostly in-the-closet young gay man with a bachelor's degree in Theology and a burning desire to be a high school religion teacher. I had no idea anyone could be a human sexuality teacher. Religion was the only "in" I had found to that subject area.
I took a job teaching religious studies and English at the same all-boys Catholic high school I attended as an adolescent. The ninth grade religion course I taught was a study of the Old Testament with a two-week human sexuality unit awkwardly tacked on at the end of the year. This was my first experience teaching human sexuality in the classroom and it was transformative! I was having conversations with my students about issues that mattered deeply to them and was doing it under the umbrella of teaching about a loving God who gave humanity the choice to use our sexuality and our bodies to further the Divine work. Over the seven years I taught at the school I slowly turned that two week mini-course into a required full-semester course, so the first place I taught sex-ed full time was in an all-boys Catholic school!
I the late 1980s, while still maintaining my full time teaching job, I began a graduate program in moral theology at another local Catholic university. It was sometime during my first semester there that I heard about a graduate program in Human Sexuality at the University of Pennsylvania. I had studied sexuality through the lens of theology for years, but this Penn program offer the chance to study human sexuality itself. I decided to apply to the program but I was both intrigued and nervous. I had never studied at a "secular" university. Would they be respectful of my dual interests in theology and sexuality? This called for a true leap of faith, and I took it.
I was accepted into the Penn Graduate School of Education Human Sexuality Program in 1990, and, to quote Scripture, "something like scales fell from [my] eyes". I discovered a world of scholars and scholarship I had never known. I met professors who would become mentors and even friends. I met students who would become friends, colleagues and even family. Dr. Ken George taught me how to be a proud gay man, and Dr. Konnie McCaffree taught me how to be a rationale-based, student-centered sexuality educator. And far from demeaning me for being a person of faith, I found my whole self embraced, nurtured, challenged, and supported by the Penn program and its faculty and students. When I graduated with my master's degree in 1993, I felt more alive, more skilled, and more deeply committed to sexuality education than I ever imagined I could be.
I was laid off from my teaching job in 1993, and soon found myself working as the Coordinator of Training and Volunteers at ActionAIDS, Philadelphia's largest AIDS-service organization. For the first time I lived my life as an out and proud gay man, I used my Penn training to create dynamic HIV/AIDS education programming, and I met warm, dedicated, and fiercely passionate people, both staff and clients, who were on the front lines of creating a better life for people living with HIV/AIDS. At ActionAIDS I learned how to be an activist as well as an educator.
After four years at ActionAIDS I was ready to go back to the classroom full time, but I knew it had to be at a school where I could fully be myself and bring all my gifts and talents to my work. I found a perfect fit at Friends' Central, a Quaker school whose spiritually-based, values-driven, whole-person-focused philosophy does education exactly the way I want to do it. While they originally hired me as a full-time English teacher, I asked if I there might be room for me to use my degree in sexuality education as well, and they were enthusiastic about the possibilities. Over the years I have become the upper school sexuality educator and have had the opportunity, with the school's blessing, to expand my work beyond the school onto the national stage.
As news of the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic church became public, and as the church's protests against same-sex marriage became more mean-spirited and vitriolic, I made the very painful decision to walk away from Catholicism and seek a new spiritual home. I now worship with The Religious Society of Friends, the Quakers. Today I am proud to be a sexuality educator, a person of deep and abiding religious faith, a teacher of adolescents, an out and proud gay man, and, I think, still a "good" boy.


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Originally identified by Reil (1809) and subsequently named by Burdach (1819), the arcuate fasciculus is a white-matter, neural pathway that intersects with both the lateral temporal cortex and frontal cortex via a "dorsal projection that arches around the Sylvain fissure." (Rilling et al., 2008, pg. 426). Classical hypotheses saw this pathway as a critical component in connecting two centres of language: Broca's area (speech production) and Wernicke's area (speech comprehension) (Catani and Mesulam, 2008).
Much of these assumptions were based on a tentative relationship between language-impairment and damaged portions of the brain. Notably, damage to the arcuate fasciculus is implicated in a syndrome known as conduction aphasia, where an individual has difficulty in speech repetition. Often characterised by errors in spontaneous speech, an individual with conduction aphasia will be fully aware of their mistake, retaining well-preserved auditory comprehension and speech production while also being syntactically and grammatically correct (ibid).
In addition, these lesions were in the left-hemisphere (LH), leading to further speculations on a left-lateralisation for language processing. Though as we now know: language is far more distributed, and not just confined to the left-hemisphere (LH). In fact, the right-hemisphere (RH) has been shown to process prosody, discourse comprehension, connotative meaning and many other language phenomena (cf. Bookheimer, 2002). Furthermore, recent studies (cf. Hickok and Poeppel, 2004; Dronkers et al., 2007) demonstrate the arcuate fasciculus may not implicitly involved in conduction aphasia.
Despite its diminished role in language, the arcuate fasciculus is part of a renaissance in neuroscientific investigation, largely due to recent advances in brain imaging techniques. With these new methods of analysis come new hypotheses for functional aspects of brain regions and their neural networks. In particular, the dual stream model for speech and language processing (Hickok and Poeppel, 2004) has become a key in discerning the arcuate fasciculus' role (Glasser and Rilling, 2008; Saur et al., 2008). With this in mind, the essay will now discuss and review these accounts of the arcuate fasciculus, and attempt to place it within current accounts of speech processing.
2. The anatomy, function and evolution of the arcuate fasiculus
2.1 The flaws in classical accounts of anatomy and function of the arcuate fasciculus
Prior efforts in discerning the anatomical aspects of arcuate fasciculus[1] were largely based on observations by Constantin Von Monakow, Joseph Jules Dejerine and, later on, Norman Geschwin (cf. Catani and Mesulam, 2008). Much of these earlier studies relied on post-mortems in humans, employing relatively crude methods, such as blunt dissections and myelin stain techniques (ibid).
These methods did not reveal much in-depth information concerning the arcuate's specific anatomical terminations, just a basic outline of its pathway – stretching from the temporal lobe to the frontal lobe. This putative anatomy was used as the basis for hypothesising the arcuate's function: a language substrate that connected speech comprehension (Wernicke's area) with speech production (Broca's area). More importantly, confirmation of this hypothesis relied on accounts that disconnecting the arcuate would result in conduction aphasia (ibid).
Specifically, original accounts of conduction aphasia distinguished between two groups:"[…] the Broca-like syndrome in which the deficit in repetition is accompanied by a relative impairment in fluency and the Wernicke-like syndrome in which the deficit in repetition is accompanied by a relative impairment in comprehension. One explanation for this dichotomy is that more anterior lesions encroach on Broca's area, whereas more posterior lesions encroach on Wernicke's area" (Catani et al., 2004, pg. 13).
These disconnectionist approaches would later be challenged by a range of studies (including: Damasio and Damasio, 1980; Naeser et al., 1982), showing the classical arcuate cannot explain cases where Broca-like and Wernicke-like conduction aphasias emerge from subcortical lesions. Subsequent studies (Hickok et al., 2000; Dronkers et al., 2007) also argue conduction aphasia is not even associated with the arcuate. This is demonstrated in several ways, including: arcuate lesions not inducing conduction aphasia (Selnes et al., 2002); left auditory cortical lesions causing conduction aphasia (Graves et al., 2008); and, cortical stimulation eliciting conduction aphasia-like symptoms (ibid).
2.2 Arcuate Fasciculus as a direct phonetic pathway
More recently, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) tractography, a method of reconstructing white matter pathways by tracing the diffusion of water, reveals a more complex picture of the arcuate fasciculus (Catani and Mesulam, 2008).
Here, one group of studies (Catani et al., 2004; Parker et al., 2005; Powell et al., 2006) not only confirm some findings from the classical accounts, which connects the temporal lobe with the frontal lobe, they also demonstrate additional indirect pathways outside of the typical perisylvian connectivity (see figure 1). Also, there appears to be a far more extensive branching of the arcuate's cortical terminations "[…] beyond the classical limits of Broca's and Wernicke's areas to include part of the middle and precentral gyrus and the posterior middle temporal gyrus, respectively." (Catani and Mesulam, 2008, pg. 957).
Another reaffirmation is the apparent hemispheric asymmetry in the arcuate fasciculus. Again using DTI, Catani et al. (2007) find differences in connection patterns between the right and left hemispheres, showing a leftward lateralisation in ~80% of tested subjects. Despite language functions showing a greater degree of hemispheric distribution than originally thought (Bookheimer, 2002), left-lateralised asymmetry is still considered to be a key aspect of language processing (Catani and Mesulam, 2008).
Makris et al. (2005) observe that the left-lateralised arcuate runs alongside neuronal pathways in the superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF). They claim the SLF can be split in four distinct components, one of which being the arcuate, and claim (on the basis of previous work by Petrides and Pandya, 2002) these fibre pathways are bidirectional. They also present a detailed anatomical description of the arcuate, showing that neurons branching out from the caudal superior temporal gyrus (which includes wernicke's area) and the superior temporal sulcus, curving around the Sylvian fissure (caudal portion), which then: "[…] runs along with the fibers of SLF II […] AF [arcuate fasciculus] fibers continue into the frontal lobe and terminate predominantly in the dorsal part of area 8 and in area 46. AF becomes distinct mainly at the parietal opercular level." (ibid, pg. 863).
These accounts place the classical, left-lateralised arcuate as a direct phonetic pathway, where phonologically-rooted functions are sent directly to the frontal cortex. As Catani and Mesulam (2008) explain, in discovering two additional pathways (indirect) that connect to Geschwind's territory (corresponding to areas BA 39 and 40), the expanded arcuate also assumes a role in processing semantic information. Although, attributing semantic processing to BA 40 may not necessarily hold true, and might just be limited to BA 39 (Price, 2000). Glasser and Rilling (2008) raise issue with this, also adding that BA 40 is "[…] more likely to be involved in phonetic working memory than semantic processing, and semantic processing is found far more often in the temporal lobe." (pg. 9). Lastly, Johnson-Frey (2008) found that grasping actions and tool use planning are represented in the left inferior parietal lobe (BA 39), leading to speculations that Geschwind's territory might primarily be involved in complex tool use (Glasser and Rilling, 2008).
However, these anatomical and functional accounts are far from unequivocal. Another group of papers (Schmahmann et al., 2007; Saur et al., 2008; Frey et al., 2008) also place the arcuate as a direct phonetic pathway; however, they find no evidence of arcuate pathway terminations in BA 45. The basis of this assertion rests on comparative studies between humans and macaques, arguing that anatomical analysis suggests it is the extreme capsule (EmC) and the MdLF are involved in language, not the arcuate (Schmahmann et al., 2007). Instead, the arcuate, SLF, MLF and ILF (inferior longitudinal fasciculus) form a composite fibre bundle that "[…] is mainly restricted to sensory-motor mapping of sound to articulation." (Saur et al., 2008, pg. 18035).
2.3 Arcuate fasciculus as a phonological, lexical-semantic and prosodic processor
Running contrary to the notion of the arcuate as a direct phonetic pathway are Glasser and Rilling (2008), who hypothesise it is comprised of different routes and different functions. Specifically, they posit two pathways: one terminating in the posterior superior temporal gyrus (STG) and the other in the middle temporal gyrus (MTG), with these neural pathways involving phonetic and lexical-semantic processing, respectively. Interestingly, they also implicate the right-hemispheric arcuate in phonological processing (bilateral activation) and during prosodic processing (right-lateralised activation). Both of these findings being confirmatory of a wider distributed processing of language, particularly in the right-lateralisation of prosodic processing (Ethofer et al., 2006).
In a related study, Rilling et al. (2008) further delineate the arcuate, showing specific termination points, with the superior, middle and inferior temporal gyri making up the temporal projection, whilst the frontal projection consists of the ventral premotor cortex (BA 6), pars opercularis (BA 44), pars triangularis (BA 45) and the middle frontal gyrus (BA 9). Furthermore, they offer a comparative account between the arcuate connectivity in humans, chimpanzees and macaques.
In investigating the respective pathways of all three primates, Rilling et al. show how significant differences in these lineages are suggestive of gradual modifications to cortical terminations during human evolution (see figure two). As such, chimpanzees display more structural similarity to humans in their pathway trajectories, with extensive terminations in the frontal region; however, terminations in the middle and frontal gyri are less pronounced. Being of a phylogenetically older lineage, macaques lack any temporal lobe terminations.
When combined with data from two additional fibre tracts (SLF and the extreme capsule), each predicted not to show any significant differences across all three of the primates, the study reveals a very strong case for the arcuate having being subjected to selective pressure on the human lineage (ibid) – somewhat countering the claims of Schmahmann et al. (2007). Even if we accept the possibility of selection, the arcuate might not have been selected because of its apparent role in language. As the authors note, there is the possibility for aspects of the arcuate being involved in other cognitively demanding behaviours, such as tool use (cf. Johnson-Frey, 2008). However, "[…] the correspondence between the structures modified in human evolution identified in this study and structures known to be involved in language function is notable." (Rilling et al., 2008, pg. 428).
[1] Actually, the study breaks the numbers down as follows: extreme degree of leftward lateralisation ~60%; mild leftward lateralisation ~20%; and bilateral symmetry ~20%.
Main References
CATANI, M., & MESULAM, M. (2008). The arcuate fasciculus and the disconnection theme in language and aphasia: History and current state Cortex, 44 (8), 953-961 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2008.04.002
Glasser, M., & Rilling, J. (2008). DTI Tractography of the Human Brain's Language Pathways Cerebral Cortex, 18 (11), 2471-2482 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn011


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Pedro Custodio was charged with murder in Waterbury 1991 and had been living as a free man for the last 18 years after a mental hospital released him. But on Monday, he was re-arrested, according to the Hartford Courant.
Custodio, now 76, was charged the 1991 murder of his neighbor outside Enterprise Place Apartments and was found not competent to stand trail and admitted to Fairfield Hills mental hospital in 1992, .the Waterbury Republican-American reports.
Custodio was supposed to be in a mental hospital since 1992, but court officials learned last week that he was not there and the reasons he was released are still unclear, the newspaper reports.
Custodio's nephew, Jose Rivera, remembers going to Fairfield Hills to pick him up in 1992. Rivera's father, who died in 2001, had arranged for an apartment for Custodio and for his release, "as long as he took his meds and had nurses' aides check on him.
Rivera says Custodio cannot read or write and has the mentality of a 6 or 7 year old.
Senior Assistant State's Attorney Eva Longeski told the Republican-American that court officials were never notified of his release.
The hospital closed three years later and most of its patients were transferred to Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown. Officials at Connecticut Valley said they have no records of Custodio being a patient there.
Police found him on Monday in a Prospect Street residence, where he had been living for several years, the Courant reports.
Neighbors at Prospect Towers said they were shocked to see police take Custodio away on Monday.
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A spokesman for the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services said he couldn't comment on specific patients, but told the Republican-American that if a patient couldn't be restored to the point where he or she could stand trial, a probate judge could decide to commit them. After that, the patient would be treated as a non-criminal and could earn a full release.
Longeski told the Republican-American on Monday that authorities had found a man named Pedro Custodio who lists his address as Prospect Street in Waterbury and has a birth date that differs by only a month from the Pedro Custodio now wanted by police.
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IASSIST 2008 Accommodations and Registration Reminder
Happy Earth Day to everyone!!Hope your day is filled with loads of celebratory reducing, renewing, and recycling.Registration for this year's IASSIST Conference (May 27-30): "Technology of Data: Collection, Communication, Access and Preservation" is proceeding at a rumbling pace, and the five conference hotels have been filling with eager California-bound IASSISTers.However, if you still have not made your arrangements for this year's conference, please consider doing so. Early registration ends soon (May 2), and of more immediate concern, the conference hotels will begin dropping our room blocks (and guaranteed conference rates) beginning this Friday, April 25. Exact dates for each hotel is listed on the Accommodations page on the conference web site. Online registration and the conference fee structure is available on the Registration page:http://iassist08.stanford.edu/The Program Committee has done an excellent job at organizing a fantastic array of workshops, plenaries, concurrent panel sessions, and poster sessions. We have two energizing plenary speakers to kick-start the first two days of the conference: Catherine Ruggles, who will discuss the new technologies developed to manage complex data and Elizabeth Miller, who will discuss the impact of technology on knowledge and understanding. The subsequent sessions run the gamut of technology's intersection with all we do as data professionals -- from metadata and the DDI to tools for data visualization, from data librarianship to data preservation and data repositories, from data confidentiality and security to data in the classroom and statistical literacy. Check out the full conference program schedule and descriptions on the web site for more information.We have also planned a few post-conference excursions that are anchored in San Francisco at the King George Hotel in Union Square (shopping, theater, restaurants, Chinatown). Enjoy a ball game on Friday night (with fireworks) at AT&T Park. For the internet-addicted, bring your laptop, they've got wireless (it is AT&T Park...). Take a train to the Napa wine country on Saturday, and tour the city of San Francisco and Alcatraz on Sunday. See the Post-Excursion Trips page for more details.As we begin this last week of April, we hope that we've whetted your appetite and got your blood going for IASSIST 2008. We are looking forward to hosting the conference and we are especially excited at the prospect of IASSIST invading the Silicon Valley this May! Questions? Please check out the IASSIST 2008 web site at http://iassist08.stanford.edu/ or contact Ron Nakao at email@example.com travels!the '08 Local Arrangements Committee
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Body Art
The term tattooing means the inserting of permanent markings or coloration, or the producing of scars, upon or under human skin through puncturing by use of a needle or any other method.
Tattoo Permits
No person shall engage in tattooing without first obtaining a tattooing permit from the Craven County Health Department. To obtain a tattooing permit, a person must apply to the Craven County Health Department. Upon receipt of the application (PDF), the Food and Lodging section shall inspect the premises, instruments, utensils, equipment and procedures of the applicant to determine whether the applicant meets the requirements for a tattooing permit.
A permit is valid for one year and must be renewed annually by applying to the Craven County Health Department. A permit application fee shall be paid upon submission of the application. View a complete list of the rules governing tattooing.
Body Piercing
Through legislation, many states allow body piercing that is performed only by a trained, licensed professional in an environment that provides hospital sterilization and submits itself to health department inspections. Most states currently have legislation regarding personal criteria for the piercer, requirements for the piercing establishment, and highly specific laws necessitating parental consent for the piercing of minors.
The laws and guidelines, along with the efforts of the professional body piercing community and local health department provide those interested in receiving a body piercing with a safe, clean environment to do so, and with a piercing technician who has appropriate training and sufficient experience to be hygienic and proficient.
Selecting the Right Piercer
To reduce risks of an unsafe procedure, you must first select the right piercer, one who:
- Has appropriate training; is skilled, experienced, clean and professional
- Practices safe piercing technique and cross-contamination control
- Works in a hygienic environment that conforms to relevant local and/or state regulations
- Follows OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens standards
- Has obtained all applicable licenses and permits
- Spore tests autoclave (sterilizer) regularly and can provide documentation
- Uses appropriate sterile instruments and jewelry, and sterile disposable needles
- Takes the time to verbally instruct in proper care guidelines and provides written instructions
- Is available for follow-up and questions post-piercing, so any developing problems can be resolved before damage occurs
Additional information can be found online at Safe Piercing's website and at Teen Health's website. You can also view helpful pamphlets and brochures.


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RV Pegaso for charter in Central America this winter with Edmiston
by Malcolm MacLean
Eugenia Fomicheva at Edmiston & Company announces that the 71m motor yacht RV Pegaso is available in Puerto Rico and Central America this winter.
Specifically built for worldwide cruising and exploration with a 10,000 nautical mile range at 14 knots, a submarine and a commercially certified helipad, there are few corners of the world's oceans which are out of reach.
With over 880m² of luxurious accommodation across four decks, RV Pegaso has five guest suites and a penthouse owner's deck with 360 degree views, office and private terraces forward and aft. The helideck, rated for an EC 130, doubles up as a huge sundeck with spa pool and state-of-the-art gym and observation lounge forward. Whether guests want to entertain or relax, the bridge deck caters for all tastes, with a dining area and bar and a large saloon which converts into a cinema with 120" screen.
RV Pegaso is available for charter at weekly rates starting from €585,000 in high season and €525,000 in low season.


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- 鈥� DaVinci Resolve 12.5 User Guide
- 1. DaVinci Resolve Alternatives+
- 1.1 Top 5 DaVinci Resolve 12.5 Alternatives
- 1.2 DaVinci Resolve 12.5 vs. DaVinci Resolve 12.5 Studio
- 1.3 Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve 12.5 Vs Adobe Premiere Pro
- 1.4 DaVinci Resolve 12.5 Vs HitFilm 4 Express
- 2. Basic Video Editing +
- 2.1 Top 8 Video Editing Tips for DaVinci Resolve
- 2.2 How to Add Logo to Video in DaVinci Resolve
- 2.3 How to Add Titles in DaVinci Resolve
- 2.4 How to Stabilize Video Footage in DaVinci Resolve
- 2.5 How to Blur Face in Video with DaVinci Resolve
- 2.6 How to Compare Clips in DaVinci Resolve
- 2.7 How to Save Automatically in DaVinci Resolve
- 3. Advanced Video Editing +
- 3.1 How to Use Multicam Editing in DaVinci Resolveo
- 3.2 How to Use Point Tracker in DaVinci Resolve
- 3.3 How to Use Log Grading in DaVinci Resolve
- 3.4 How to Do a Green Screen Composite with DaVinci Resolve
- 3.5 How to Create a 3D Text in DaVinci Resolve
- 3.6 How to Round Trip from Final Cut Pro to DaVinci Resolve
- 3.7 How to Make a Slow Motion Video in DaVinci Resolve
- 3.8 How to Use Dynamic Zoom in DaVinci Resolve
- 4. Audio Editing +
- 5.Color Correction+
- 5.1 Color Grading Tips for DaVinci Resolve
- 5.2 How to Use DaVinci Resolve for Automatic Video Color Correction
- 5.3 How to Fix White Balance in DaVinci Resolve
- 5.4 How to Match Skintones Perfectly in DaVinci Resolve
- 5.5 How to Use Qualifier in DaVinci Resolve
- 5.6 Shot Matching Tips for DaVinci Resolve
- 5.7 Fastest Ways to Get Film Look in DaVinci Resolve
- 5.8 How to Create LUTs in DaVinci Resolve
- 5.9 Using Power Grades in DaVinci Resolve
- 6. Tips and Tricks+
- 6.1 How to Remove Black Sun Spots in DaVinci Resolve
- 6.2 How to Use Smart Bins in DaVinci Resolve
- 6.3 How to Import Video Files into DaVinci Resolve
- 6.4 How to Export video in DaVinci Resolve
- 6.5 Using Scene Detection in DaVinci Resolve
- 7. Resources and Troubleshooting+
Review: Top 10 New Features in DaVinci Resolve 12.5
Those who are searching for classic editing needs with advanced colour correction tools are advised to go ahead with Resolve 12.5. It will provide you quality like Hollywood blockbuster movies and the best part is that you don't even need to pay any amount to access them all. It is capable enough to handle multiple file sizes and you can easily process old videos as well as 4K camera footage. You can also add impressive titles to videos as per need. In short, Resolve 12.5 is awesome feature rich platform that has everything to offer you. The article below will help you to learn all top 10 features of Resolve 12.5.
DaVinci Resolve is designed for video editing professionals, so it is complicated for most people. If you want to edit your video footage in a much easier way, you should try Wondershare FilmoraPro. It provides basic and advanced video editing, and various video effects. Download it now to have a try (free).
Learn more video effects at: Filmora Effects Store
Top 10 New Features Review:
1.Fusion Connect:
Here is the special feature of 12.5 that enable colourists to deal with facial blemishes and rigging so that users can avail finest results. This tool assists in selection of special effects so that users can work with additional skill sets. Professionals rate it as a node based, float precision compositing application and its strength lies within its temporal key framing operations. Fusion Connect provides best facilities for all spatial problem solving needs like set extensions, digital environments, green screen keying, tracking and cosmetic fixes etc.
You may also like: How to Create 3D Text in DaVinci Resolve with Fusion
2.Media Pool Smart Bins and Power Bins:
Never mix the concept of power bins with those old smart bins because this is an extremely new addition to feature set of Resolve series. It contains basic abilities if smart bins but at the same time it enhances content carrying abilities to multiple projects of single user. It makes editing task more interesting and outputs are really impressive.
Related: How to Use Smart Bins in DaVinci Resolve
3.Temperature and Tint Slider:
Tint and temperature sliders are now added to the Color Wheel portion of software that can be easily accessed from bottom left side of user interface. You simple need to click over number 2 on color wheels and the effect will immediately make your stills more attractive. Tint slider can be utilized to make less green skin tones.
4.Linear Vs S-Curved Contrast:
Most of your might be excited to know about this feature. When you use Pivot and Contrast then Resolve automatically adds soft S-Curve so that contrast behaviour can be easily changed to any linear form like other popular applications. Such impressive editing features can also be applied over other elements like gain, gamma and lift etc.
There is no doubt to say that Blackmagic has involved so many advanced OpenFX plugins to assists professionals. The effects are derived via so many utilities such as colour space transform and few other aesthetic based effects are also added in form of JPEG damage etc. Film Grain effect is also popularly used and further the OpenFX tool can be easily applied over every node and it can also be key framed.
Related: Best Plugins for DaVinci Resolve
6.Crop Softening:
If you are searching for features to develop a seamless type split screen or wish to conceal a boom mic, Crop softening feature can easily fulfil all your dreams. If you belong to film industry and need perfect shots in your footage then crop softening feature is made for you. It leads to seamless results with much finer and smoother details.
7.Redesigned Deliver Page:
Resolve 12.5 can help you to share all recordings with ease on other popular platforms like social media websites. Vimeo, YouTube and all other output options are well supported by this software tool. Facility to export Premiere specific XMLs is also added. The user interfaces has been updated with little advancement and now file naming options and audio capabilities are added to separate tabs so that even beginners can access them with ease. While surfing over internet, you can check the status of all rendering projects with ease.
Related: How to Export in DaVinci Resolve
8.Standard Editing Features Available:
The standard editing feature includes so many impressive things in it. Users can develop timelines with any fixed number if video or audio tracks. When it is desired to add new clips to the timeline then it can be done simply by using drag and drop feature. With the middle mouse button, you can easily enable the vertical and horizontal recording.
9.Point Tracker:
One of the biggest advantage of Resolve editing tool series use to be their advanced colour tracker that is widely used. Now colourists can also enjoy feature rich point tracker that can track points as per single user type services. It is simply one of the most versatile tools available for your recording needs.
10.Audio Waveform Overlay:
One more highly versatile feature added to this video editing platform is audio waveform overlay. It is now possible to observe videos and audio signal variations at the same time. The waveform can be easily tracked for its starting and ending points so that it can be easily merged to right points over video signals.
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ASUS Radeon HD 7850 DirectCU: Up for review today is the ASUS Radeon HD 7850 1GB DirectCU graphics card. This "Windows 8 Ready" AMD Radeon graphics card is being benchmarked under Ubuntu Linux and compared to an assortment of AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards.
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In my dream, I had a caterpillar about 25 centimetres long to take a rough guess. What was strange about this caterpillar was that it looked exactly like the Mothra larva from the 1992 film, and I had a stack of miscellaneous papers to feed it. I noticed that among them was a half-ream of connected typing paper with the holes down the sides like you sometimes see, and decided that somehow that must be ideal. However, when I tore off the holes and offered them to Mothra, it was totally uninterested, and instead had picked up an envelope.
I have no idea why, but I somehow had gotten it into my head that envelopes were not to be eaten, and confiscated it (with Mothra still tenaciously hanging from its prize) and offered the holes again. Mothra was enraged and hissed at me, then proceeded to snatch another envelope and leap away with it.


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Located an hour from St. Louis and Fort Leonard Wood, Life Care Center of Sullivan has a charming location with access to the city and countryside. Less than two miles from Missouri Baptist Sullivan Hospital, our facility is a perfect choice of nursing homes.
Focusing on inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation with 24-hour skilled nursing care, Life Care Center of Sullivan's in-house team of therapists and nurses provide individualized care to keep residents and patients at their highest level of independence. Our facility provides weekend business office hours, for our residents' and patients' convenience.
Stop by today for a free tour and discover why Life Care Center of Sullivan is a premier nursing home in Sullivan.
We're excited to return for a fourth year as a Walk to End Alzheimer's National Team. We're motivated to continue working together in 2019, with the plan of building upon last year's success.
Battling Alzheimer's disease has been a priority of Life Care Centers of America since the opening of our first facility in 1970. It is our prayer that we can provide an environment that allows our patients with Alzheimer's and other types of dementia to be encouraged, appreciated and loved. Our hope is for a cure. A cure that can save the memories and dreams of millions of Americans who live with the disease. Like the Alzheimer's Association, we also dream of a world without Alzheimer's.
If you would like to learn more about our 2019 team or make a donation, visit: Life Care's Team Site.
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