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25356 Cooper Rd
Morton, IL 61550
Doors open at 11:00 a.m.
Live Auction starts at 1:00 p.m.
This champagne brunch features new and gently used handbags, totes, wallets, coin purses, etc. that will be available by live and silent auction during the event. Donations include pieces by Coach, Vera Bradley, and more!
Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door, $160 for a table of 8

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B.R.O. 2 U members took part in the 3rd Annual Ties That Bind Ceremony at Columbus Preparatory School for Boys, the only all-male public school in the state of Ohio. This event welcomed the new class of sixth graders as well as recognized the accomplishments of scholars who have excelled academically in the previous school year. Guest speakers included Superintendent of Columbus City Schools, Dr. Gene Harris, and OSU Athletic Director, Gene Smith. They encouraged students to achieve their best in and out of the classroom. Principal Michael Owens gave a special acknowledgement to LFYO for our math and financial life skills program that was presented to scholars at the start of the 2011–2012 school year.
The ceremony concluded with a tie-tying presentation in the school's courtyard. Community leaders and other distinguished men tied ties on incoming sixth grade scholars as an initiation rite, which symbolizes academic excellence, responsibility, discipline, respect, perseverance, and integrity. This heartwarming display by the mentors in attendance was captured by Monya in the following pictures . . .
- Ronnie Stokes, former OSU basketball star
- CBS college basketball analyst, Clark Kellogg
- OSU Athletic Director, Gene Smith
- Lawrence Funderburke with Columbus Prep scholars
- Gene Smith, Lawrence Funderburke, Clark Kellogg and sons
- Deputy Chief of Columbus Police, Jeff Blackwell
- B.R.O. 2u members
- Ronnie Stokes with Columbus Prep scholar
- Garth Adams with Columbus Prep scholars
- B.R.O 2u members with Superintendent, Gene Harris
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There are some amazing places that you can explore around the world; however these places are always these places are very popular tourist destinations so it's not easy to plan a trip here independently. If you want to get the best deals to travel to these places then the smartest thing to do is to get in touch with the best Travel Agency by reading the app reviews for tokeet and you can leave the entire planning to them. While some people believe that they can plan a holiday on their own, the truth is that you will end up struggling to keep everything in place and you will not be able to enjoy your holiday the way you initially planned to. If you want to sit back and relax with your family, the best thing to do is to leave planning to the experts and enjoy the holiday that you were eagerly looking forward to.
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The p53 gene family consists of the three genes p53, p63 and p73, which have polyhedral non-overlapping functions in pivotal cellular processes such as DNA synthesis and repair, growth arrest, apoptosis, genome stability, angiogenesis, development and differentiation. These genes encode sequence-specific nuclear transcription factors that recognise the same responsive element (RE) in their target genes. Their inactivation or aberrant expression may determine tumour progression or developmental disease. The discovery of several protein isoforms with antagonistic roles, which are produced by the expression of different promoters and alternative splicing, widened the complexity of the scenario of the transcriptional network of the p53 family members. Therefore, the identification of the genes transactivated by p53 family members is crucial to understand the specific role for each gene in cell cycle regulation. We have combined a genome-wide computational search of p53 family REs and microarray analysis to identify new direct target genes. The huge amount of biological data produced has generated a critical need for bioinformatic tools able to manage and integrate such data and facilitate their retrieval and analysis. We have developed the p53FamTaG database (p53 FAMily TArget Genes), a modular relational database, which contains p53 family direct target genes selected in the human genome searching for the presence of the REs and the expression profile of these target genes obtained by microarray experiments. p53FamTaG database also contains annotations of publicly available databases and links to other experimental data.
|Genes containing REs
|REs in promoters
|REs in 5'UTRs
|REs in introns
|Microarray data of genes containing the REs
|Experimentally demonstrated target genes
|ChiP-PET high-confidence binding loci
The p53FamTaG annotates p53 family putative direct target genes selected in the human genome searching for the presence of the p53 responsive elements (REs). In silico analysis was performed applying the DNAfan tool (Gisel et al, Bioinformatics 2004, 20:3676-9) that uses the PatSearch algorithm (Grillo et al., Nucleic Acids Res 2003, 31:3608-12) with syntax criteria we defined on the structure of 109 REs of 132 human experimentally demonstrated target genes. The search for p53 gene family REs has been limited to a region ranging from -3500 (in the promoter region) to +20000 (in intron regions) with respect to the gene TSS (Transcription Start Site). In this search the 5'UTR were included and the annotated coding exons were excluded. The consensus syntax has been modified including 3 decamers spaced by 0 to 8 bases, allowing up to 3 total mismatches in two adjacent decamers, tolerating up to 3 mismatches in the third decamer. A post-processing phase of PatSearch matching the inferred PWM was also carried out. The data has been integrated with the microarray results produced in our Lab from the overexpression of p53, p53 mutated form R175Hp53, TAp63α, ΔNp63α TAp73α, TAp73β at 6h and 12 h after induction. In order to examine the consequences of the overexpression of different members of the p53 family on their target genes under comparable conditions, we created human embryonic kidney Flp-In T-Rex-293 stable isogenic cell lines expressing the different genes under the control of a tetracycline inducible promoter. p53FamTaG also includes the annotation of 132 well known direct target genes, a global map of p53 binding sites performed by Chip-PET analysis (Wei et al., Cell. 2006 124:207-219), and links with other primary bioinformatic resources. For each gene containing the RE, the database provides the gene name (HUGO), the alias name, the EnsEmbl stable gene ID and RefSeq ID, the chromosome, the RE structure (decamers, spacers, length, sequence), the RE chromosomal position and gene region localization (promoter, 5'UTR, intron) and the microarray results. Moreover, the database provides a hyperlink to PubMed for experimentally demonstrated target genes and to UCSC for high confidence binding loci defined by Chip-PET analysis. The current version of the p53FamTaG database is based on the EnsEmbl release 34 (October-2005)
The user can query the database to find out whether or not a gene of interest contains a p53 gene family RE and how this gene is expressed under overexpression of the three members of the p53 gene family in human 293 T-rex cells. One particularly noteworthy feature of the database is the possibility to export the sequences of the REs (with the exact indication of their structures) including full information in FASTA format.
This query form allows the users to search the database for p53 gene family target genes. The search criteria are EnsEmbl and RefSeq idenfiers, HUGO or alias gene names. All search fields accept lists of items separated by a comma and execute the search in OR mode. All three different identifiers can be used in the same search.
This query report lists the matching database records ordered by ENSG and the information on the retrieved entries:
the Gene Name column displays the HUGO and aliases gene names. The HUGO name is a hyperlink to the HGNC database. The book-button allows the PubMed reference to be consulted for the experimentally demonstrated p53 family target genes
the EnsEmbl column displays the ENSG stable gene ID which is a link to the EnsEmbl database
the RefSeq column displays the RefSeq identifier, associated to the EnsEmbl gene ID, linked to the RefSeq database
the Localization column displays the genomic regions the RE is found in (intron, promoter, and 5'UTR)
the Chr column indicates the chromosome number where the RE is found
the Strand column indicates the orientation of the gene with an arrow
the REs column displays the number of REs found in the gene. The number, when pressed, leads to a new page containing more information (see below Details of the REs)
in the Array column, a magnifying glass-button provides a link to the microarray data in case the gene has significant results (see below Details of the Microarray results)
In the UCSC column, the UCSC-button links those genes, identified as high confidence binding loci by ChIP-PET analysis, to the UCSC database (Wei et al., Cell. 2006 124:207-219). In the UCSC database the annotation (Pet cluster sequences) can be found in the ENCODE Chromatin Immunoprecipitation tracks under the p53 ChiP-PET analysis (GIS p53 5FU HCT116 Track Settings).
This page is the link of the number of REs present in the query report. At the top it displays information on the selected gene and below the number of REs and the details for each of them:
Export Selected button: allows the export of the sequences of the selected RE
Select/Deselect page buttons: allow users to select/deselect all the REs for export
Select: this field allows the selection of a specific RE sequence for export
Start: genomic coordinate of the RE
Size: length of the RE
Localization: gene region where the RE is found
Pattern: graphical representation of the three decamers and the number of spacer bases between the decamers
|>ENSG00000135679_2|MDM2 CHR:12 STRAND:1 CHR_START:67488947 gactcagctt ttcctctt gagctggtca agttc agacacgttc
|>ENSG00000135679_3|MDM2 CHR:12 STRAND:1 CHR_START:67490147 tgaggagttc a agactagcct ggc caacatggtg
|>ENSG00000135679_4|MDM2 CHR:12 STRAND:1 CHR_START:67492696 agtgtggccc aggctggtct tgaa cacctagcct
|>ENSG00000135679_5|MDM2 CHR:12 STRAND:1 CHR_START:67499663 tgagtagctg ggattac aggcatgcgc caccatgccc
|>ENSG00000135679_6|MDM2 CHR:12 STRAND:1 CHR_START:67501281 gagggggttt cagcatgttg gcc aggctggtct
This output shows the sequence of the selected REs in FASTA format, with the indication of their structure (decamers and spacer bases) and the exact genomic coordinates
The genes having a result in the microarray data are linked to this page by pressing the magnifying glass present in the Array column of the query report. This page shows the expression profile of the gene in all the stable isogenic cell lines with graphical icons (for each Celera probe ID representing a gene on the array) and lists:
For each probe ID detecting the gene, the results of the gene expression of Samples (S) compared to the Control (C) are indicated as
Current Curators: D. Catalano, F. Licciulli, G. Grillo, A. Turi, A.Gisel
Use this email to ask questions, report problems, or suggest improvements: bigstaff(at)ba.itb.cnr.it
This work was supported by grants from MIUR: Cluster C03 Prog. 2 L.488/92; PON - Avviso n. 68 del 23.01.02 Progetto B.I.G; Contributo Straordinario D.M. n. 1105 del 09/10/2002 (Progetto n. 187);PNR 2001-2003 (FIRB art.8) D.M.199, Strategic Program: Post-genome, grant 31-063933; FIRB 2003 art. 8 D.D. 2187 del 12-12-2003 LIBI. We thank Dr. D. D'Elia for critical discussion


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Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has initiated a criminal inquiry into Tata Group's steel-making business in the country and is examining documents pertaining to around 500 customers of the Indian origin company including Rolls-Royce and BAE, according to a news report.
The allegations surfaced after the company referred itself for an internal audit which revealed that the company's Yorkshire staff falsified certificates detailing the composition of the product before they were sold.
At a time when Tata Steel has decided to exit its steel business in the UK, such an investigation can possibly put a spanner into the sale that might affect thousands of jobs.
#Tata to begin formal process to sell UK steel plants by Monday, @SajidJavid says https://t.co/hQwmaxg8gTpic.twitter.com/LffdG53uQz
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) April 6, 2016
The SFO investigation is understood to be primarily around the quality of steel and its composition.
There is also a trading standards investigation, but it is unknown whether they are linked, The Telegraph reported.
Auditors have found documents that show inappropriate testing and certification was done, leading to suspension of nine employees of the company. However, none of this has caused any safety concerns.
Both the SFO and Tata declined to comment, while a Rolls-Royce spokesperson said, "We were made aware of an issue by Tata last year. We have not been contacted by the SFO and cannot comment on any investigation."
Tata Steel UK employs about 15,000 people.
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Slice Intelligence has redefined the Apple fanboy into the Apple fanman.
It has sorted through four million e-receipts from the first four days of iPhone SE pre-orders and has some lovely and colorful bar graphs for you to look at. Some of the takeaways continue upon what we've been figuring out about Apple buyer trends for the past several years. Here are some of them, bullet-pointed:
- Comparing first weekend sales, the iPhone 6s only got 54 percent of sales the iPhone 6 had. By that same measure, the iPhone SE got only 3 percent.
- The largest contingent of iPhone SE buyers were upgraders that held out for at least two years (48.7 percent). iPhone 6s buyers were mostly Apple upgraders (49.3 percent) with two-year sitters-out in at a close second (40.4 percent).
- 16 percent of iPhone SE customers came from an Android phone compared with 10 percent of iPhone 6s customers.
- iPhones, on the whole, are most popular with those between age 25 and 34. The second-largest are group for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s buyers is the 35-44 demographic; for the iPhone SE, it's the 45- to 54-year-olds.
- Compared with recent iPhones, the iPhone SE has the largest 65+ contingent at 15.7 percent of customers.
- Men make up 77 percent of the iPhone SE audience. They make up 69 percent of all iPhone buyers.
- College graduates made up 46 percent of those who purchased the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s. They only had 39 percent of the iPhone SE sales.
- "[…] there were not sizable differences in income between SE buyers and those of other iPhones"
We may yet have seen the sales savior that Apple and its components vendors would want after a prolonged slump in demand. While Android has a firm grip on global device sales, Apple's still able to make strong grabs through app development and a somewhat convincing device. Finally, we'll refrain from nasty caricatures about who the typical iPhone customer has now become, but if this signals a conversion of feature phones, which older types typically cling onto as the mobile world continues to churn innovations out by the year.
All the numbers in all the visual forms are below the source link for your eyes to hop on.
Source: Slice Intelligence
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Forced Scarcity
Learn about forced scarcity and how it can help you manage your personal finances.
Humans have a tendency to consume. It's not our fault - we're just hard-wired that way. From an evolutionary perspective, more is better - it makes sense. However, when it comes to something like personal finance, that can quickly become problematic. Without some kind of restriction put into play, this sort of thing prevents you from saving anything, and even worse, would cause you to go into debt unnecessarily when emergencies come up.
Many people end up spending more as their means increase. Get a promotion, and now you're making more money? Great! It's time to buy that new TV, lease a better car, etc… It doesn't matter if you're making $30k a year or $300k a year, the behavior can be exactly the same, and at the end of the day, you're left with $0. This is where forced scarcity comes into play.
What is Forced Scarcity?
Forced scarcity is a term used for an artificial limitation you put on something to prevent things from getting out of control. In this case, we're talking about personal finance, but it doesn't have to be personal finance related. For example, you might have a "one in, one out" policy for yourself for clothing items to make sure you're not accumulating "stuff" unnecessarily. Buy something new? Then you have to get rid of something you already have (preferably donate or otherwise give away). In this case, the forced scarcity applies to the room you have available for clothing in your life.
In personal finance terms, forced scarcity applies to the money you have available for certain things. For example, say you're making $3,000 per month, and at the same time, you're saving $300 per month and putting it into a retirement account. That automatic transfer leaves you with $2,700 in your account - the $300 is never there.
Say, you now get a raise to $3,500 per month. Applying the principle of forced scarcity, you can always set aside a percentage of your income for retirement. In this case, you now make $500 more per month, but you're also putting $50 more per month into your retirement account (obviously there are limits here, and when you're making a small amount of income, you may need to tweak the allocations.) This leaves $3,150 in your account each month instead of the $3,500
The beauty of forced scarcity is that as your income grows, you're making sure your money is going into the right places first before spending it elsewhere (a big shoutout to Brian Preston and Bo Hanson of the Money Guy on this general concept.)
How Do I Implement Forced Scarcity?
The first thing you need to do (and indeed the core principle here) is that you need to make sure money is taken out first before anything else so that you never miss it. There are many ways to set this up. For example, you could set up automatic transfers between bank accounts, use the envelope system (great if you're using cash), etc…
I typically set aside money in the following categories at the beginning of each month automatically:
- Current financial goal
- Charitable donations
- Retirement
- Regular expenses
The current financial goal might be whatever you're saving up for. It could be paying off debt, a vacation for your family, etc… This is just an example, but feel free to choose your own categories.
After this money is allocated, if there's anything left over, it can be spent on fun stuff. If not, maybe something unexpected came up. If you don't have any money left over after hitting your main categories, then you need to either figure out how to make more money or spend less to keep things in balance (that's another topic entirely on its own so I won't cover it here.) Most people tackle this the other way around where they end up spending a bunch of money on stuff they don't need early on in the month, and then bigger priorities are sadly left lagging at the end of the month.
So Why Not Use a Budget?
You could take this strategy further if you wanted to and categorize things all the way down into specific details like groceries, gas, etc… but, at that point, you essentially have a full-blown budget. You also have to be mindful of how you're spending everything throughout the month because the money is readily available to you.
You can do this if you like, but I've found over many years of experimenting that budgets get too complicated. I try to strike a balance between effectiveness and simplicity (hence where the name of this blog comes from), and that's why a budget has never really worked for me.
I've found budgets to be:
- Too inflexible when things change (and they will)
- Too stressful worrying about every penny here and there
- A source of a lot of unnecessary work and headache with minimal payoff
I've found that if you focus on spending your money purposefully and on things that matter, it's not too difficult to live below your means. This allows you to be flexible as things come up, reduces stress and anxiety, and prevents you from tracking every single purchase down to the penny. Sure, you might spend a little more in each category, but at the end of the day, the tradeoff is well worth it.
Action Steps
Here are some steps you can take right away to get started:
- Think about how forced scarcity might be able to help you
- Determine the categories that you want your money to go to before anything else and how much goes to them
- Set up automatic transfers (or something like the envelope system if you like cash) so that the money isn't readily available
- Review how things are going each month and make tweaks as necessary.
Thanks for Reading!
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Green Eyes On: Your Doctor Says, "Eat Local, Eat Organic"
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A remarkable policy resolution came out last week during the American Medical Association's (AMA) annual meting. They voted to support "practices and policies that promote and model a healthy and ecologically sustainable food system." The health part is expected, but the "ecologically sustainable" portion is a surprising huge step forward for organic and local food advocates and producers around this country. My fellow board members at The Organic Center celebrated as word of the resolution came out. Finally, information from the AMA promoting the benefits of organic and local foods, raised in a sustainable manner, with the environment's health, as well as our nation's people's health in mind. This is a significant step up from the same message of 'get your five a day, eat less meat, more fiber and less fats' that we've been hearing for years.
The report, created by the AMA's Council on Science and Public Health, says it pretty clearly,
"Beyond the issue of poor nutritional quality are methods of food production and distribution that have additional negative effects on human and environmental health. These methods have contributed to the development of antibiotic resistance; air and water pollution; contamination of food and water with animal waste, pesticides, hormones, and other toxins; increased dependence on nonrenewable fossil fuels (including fertilizers); and a food system that is increasingly vulnerable to accidental or intentional contamination. These methods of food production and distribution are inherent parts of the prevailing agricultural system, which is may be referred to as "conventional farming, modern agriculture, or industrial farming."
In other words, it's time to find a new way of doing things.
As part of the AMA policy resolution:
- That our AMA support practices and policies in medical schools, hospitals, and other health care facilities that support and model a healthy food system, which provides food and beverages of naturally high nutritional quality, is environmentally sustainable and economically viable, and supports human dignity and justice.
- That our AMA encourage the development of a healthier food system through the US Farm Bill and other federal legislation.
- That our AMA consider working with other health care and public health organizations to educate the health care community and the public about the importance of healthy and ecologically sustainable food systems.
According to the same Council on Science and Public Health report "Optimal public health requires a good, healthy food supply, but the United States cannot have a good, healthy food supply without a sustainable food system."
Samuel Fromartz, author of Organic, Inc. made an interesting reference at the end of his blog posting about the AMA resolution. He wrote on how the AMA fought with JI Rodale, an early pioneer and oft-called father of organic farming, for his over-zealous promotion of vitamins throughout the 1950's and '60s. And, though it may have taken them decades, the AMA has finally changed its position and endorsed one point that Rodale had right all along: "That the way food is produced effects health."


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The problem with this is that we have to wait until ffmpeg finishes encoding the mp4, which can take a long time. Ideally, we would be able to stream the video, while the encoding is being processed.
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Though there are lots of opportunities in the market, the financial careers in Asia locate a exclusive devote the minds of many citizens. Employment inside a standard bank occurs with lots of basic safety and has become a very worthwhile choice. With more individuals applying to get involved with some form of a job within a financial institution, the need is increased than ever before. Because competitors is pretty substantial, you need to be a professional and clever specific to get into consumer banking employment in Indian.
As there'll be a number of 1000 employees who will be retirement from your finance institutions every year plus more offices are being popped for every lender, the opportunities will undoubtedly hold escalating. Anybody can get a financial institution job, as long as they fulfill the fundamental qualification being a minimum move proportion from the identified commence which is laid out in the prospecting finance institutions. Essentially the most commonly necessary jobs include the Probationary Officials and Individual. This is the simple about these two jobs.
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The quantity of opportunities that happen to be produced each year for the publish of Probationary Officers is right after an ever-increasing craze. The fundamental requirement for this informative article is usually that the choice should be a scholar having a minimum of fifty-five amount represents from the last calendar year of commencement.
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With the number of individuals using the web for banking products and services, the need for getting highly skilled labor has risen by a lot. It is vital that any prospect that is ambitious to find yourself in any banking work in Indian has at the very least essential computer understanding if not serious expertise in to the personal computer languages. Consequently, the after sales careers in the banking sector can also be becoming popular. Work in the field of accountancy practise, Hours, IR are typically becoming at par with the exact same jobs in different other sector.
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The Writing Center
Explore everything you can imagine with a peer-tutor at the Writing Center!
Start, Develop, and Finish Your Next Writing Project with Us!
- Bring ideas or drafts: academic, professional, or personal.
- Talk with a peer tutor about your grammar, arguments, and craft.
- Belong to a community that values your voice and creativity.
Write in a Group
Check out our Fall Writer's Group. We meet Mondays through week 10 in the Alcove (CAB, 2nd Floor.) Join us!
Make a One-on-one Appointment
- Call us at (360) 867-6420 to set up an appointment at the Tacoma or Olympia campus.
- Visit us in the Library building in room 2304 to set up an appointment at the Olympia Campus.
- Visit us in the Mimms Hardiman Lyceum Hall in room 124 to set up an appointment at the Tacoma Campus.
Walk-in appointments are often available, but we recommend scheduling in advance. At the Olympia campus, appointments can be held in English or Spanish. See About Appointments and Spanish Writing Sessions for more information. Our sessions often begin with an "Author's Note" [.doc] which you can fill out in advance or during your session.
Our Mission
Our mission is to support Evergreen writers of diverse abilities and identities by cultivating confidence, skills, self-awareness, and agency at every stage of the writing process through peer-to-peer collaboration.
Our Vision
We envision a Writing Center…
...where all students feel that they can lay claim to the identity of "writer"
...where all students leave each session with increasing confidence in their next steps
...with a reputation for providing valuable support services for the Evergreen community
...that is accountable for its failings and is constantly working towards growth and improvement
...that serves the authentic needs of students and provides them with useful resources
...that engages the dynamic tension between equitable student access to the language of power and recognizing the validity of writing in "Multiple Englishes"
...where the staff is representative of the community we serve
...that collaborates with other on-campus support services to serve students
...where all students across diverse abilities and identities feel comfortable and empowered to use the Writing Center
...that holds the institution accountable to continually engage in the pursuit of equity as it relates to student writing
The Writing Center pursues its mission in relationship to many levels of stakeholders, including: the diverse students of Evergreen, the Administration of the College, the Faculty, the greater community of Writing Centers in higher education and the greater community of writers at large. We hope through this collection of letters to reveal our history of thought and include ourselves in the ongoing dialogues about how to best serve our multilayered communities.
About Cultivating Voice: A Writing Tutor's Craft
Students interested in becoming a peer writing tutor are required to take a two-credit course, Cultivating Voice: A Writing Tutor's Craft, offered every Spring at the Olympia and Tacoma campuses.
Cultivating Voice combines readings, reflective writing, seminar, and a practicum to prepare students to become peer tutors in the Writing Centers. During class, students explore tutoring theories, examine the role of a peer tutor, and develop effective tutoring practices. In the practicum, students will observe peer tutoring and graduate to supervised tutoring. The course also will encourage students to examine and address their own biases as they relate to race, class, gender, ability, and more, while working with writers. Please refer to the current Cultivating Voice Catalog Course Description for more information.
- This class is a prerequisite for becoming a tutor in either Writing Center.
- We welcome students who speak more than one language to apply.
- Students interested in becoming tutors should have completed at least one quarter at Evergreen prior to taking Cultivating Voice.
- We actively seek students from all academic disciplines.
- Entry into the class does not guarantee a position as a writing tutor.
"Cultivating Voice 2018 Application"[PDF]
The application period for Cultivating Voice Spring 2018 has closed. The next enrollment period will be in February of 2019.
Suggested readings for CV:
- "Tutoring as a Radical Act"[PDF] by Victoria Larkin
- "Understanding Oppression: Strategies in Addressing Power and Privilege"[PDF] by Leticia Nieto and Margot F. Boyer
Olympia campus students: Make an appointment to talk with a tutor or contact the Director Sandy Yannone (email@example.com) to get more information.
Tacoma campus students: Come by the Tacoma campus Writing Center or email the Director Sandy Yannone (firstname.lastname@example.com) to get more information.


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Stay informed…
…with the latest edition of the ASCLS-Idaho FOCUS Newsletter! Find out about all the upcoming events:
- 2018 ASCLS-Idaho Legislative Symposium, March 24th
- 2018 ASCLS-Idaho JUMP! Convention, April 19-21
- 2018 ASCLS-Idaho Mini-Leadership Academy, June 23rd
- 2018 IMSS Family Reunion, Sept 27-29th
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Most Common Health Issues
Traveller's Diarrhoea
Observe food and water safety precautions and carry a kit for self-treatment.
Dengue Fever
Best avoided by taking precautions to avoid mosquito bites, particularly during the daytime in urban areas.
Zika Virus
Caused by the same mosquito as dengue fever. Because of the potential effect on the unborn foetus, pregnant women should avoid travel to Brazil, and all women of childbearing age and/or their partner should seek specific advice before travel to this country.
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Other vaccines
As well as being up to date for routine childhood vaccines such as tetanus, measles and hepatitis B, the following vaccines are often recommended – Hepatitis A, typhoid, rabies and influenza. Decisions regarding which are most appropriate depend on duration and nature of travel, itinerary, age and underlying medical conditions.
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|I make terrible choices. I leave things behind and just let the bridges burn. I did it with Ethan. I did it with Dean. Oh, my God. I did it with my entire life. One day, I chose to learn a little bit about my birth mother. Cut to I live in her house with her daughter, and I work with the kind stranger who fathered me, and I left behind an entire life and family that no longer exists. My parents are divorced. My childhood home is sold. My mother is in Hawaii making soap now. I have no home. It's like I flew to this planet on an exploratory mission, and the earth blew up behind me and I can't go back. And now I'm here with you aliens. Except I'm the alien, and I'm all alone, and I have nothing, and no one wants me.
— Maggie Pierce
Maggie Pierce is the current Head of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital who succeeded Jeff Russell after he quit. Shortly after starting work, she found out that her biological half-sister is Meredith Grey, after she revealed to Richard Webber that Ellis Grey is her birth mother.
Maggie is very driven and finished both high school and medical school faster than normal. She worked extremely hard and was a focused student. She states that she graduated early from Yale, but it is unknown whether this was in reference to undergrad or medical school.
Search for her Birth MomEdit
Two weeks after she was hired as head of cardiothoracic surgery at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, Maggie told Dr. Richard Webber that she was adopted, and that 2 years prior, she looked for her birth mom and needed to go to the court for the records. She found out that she was dead, but got her name, and discovered that she was an amazing surgeon that worked at the Seattle Grace Hospital, now Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, Maggie's current workplace. She stated that that's not why she took the job, but it's "a little bit" why she took the interview. When Richard asked Maggie what her mother's name was, she said that it was Ellis Grey.[1]
Working at Grey Sloan Memorial and BondingEdit
Maggie quickly began to integrate into the hospital, getting to know everyone and how things work. However, she butted heads with Meredith Grey over a case. This came to a head when Maggie told Meredith that Ellis Grey is her birth mom.[2]
Dinner at Meredith and Derek'sEdit
Derek and Meredith decided to have Maggie come over to their house for dinner, to get to know Maggie better. After Maggie said yes, Derek thought it was a good idea to ask Richard as well. Richard at first thought it was a bad idea, because Maggie was going and he didn't want to ruin it, because Maggie and Richard were not okay. The night of the dinner, Maggie and Richard showed up, but no one opened the door. She talked to Richard for a few minutes, making it clear to him that he's not her dad, and then left.[3]
Taking Care of Meredith and Derek's KidsEdit
Meredith ended up in a bind with no one to watch her kids, so Maggie offered to watch them.[4]
Being Hit By a PatientEdit
In the ER, Maggie treated a patient with what looked like Alzheimer's. While trying to get the patient stabilized, he accidentally hit Maggie on her cheek and eye, causing her to fall. Later, Richard asked Maggie if she was okay and Maggie responded that she was, but then said she thought she had a concussion. Maggie later complained about the patient to Richard Webber, who then revealed that her mother, Ellis Grey, had Alzheimer's.[5]
Derek's DeathEditMaggie was one of the first people to find out about Derek's death as she was present when Meredith returned to Grey Sloan to announce his death. She presumably attended Derek's funeral. Shortly after, Meredith disappeared with her kids without leaving other than a small note saying she and the kids were fine. Over the year that Meredith was gone, Maggie continued to bond with her colleagues, especially Alex, and confessed to him that she felt abandoned by Meredith, now that they finally got to be somewhat of a family. They celebrated the holidays with other colleagues. She became a little closer to Richard when she invited him for Christmas, as he appeared to be a little lonely. She also defended him when Catherine stated he was too romantic for her. Maggie said that being romantic probably made him feel good about himself. When Meredith finally returned, she hung with Maggie and Alex while they informed her about the past year.[6]
Parents' DivorceEdit
While Maggie and her colleagues were busy dealing with Keith Gardner after a tunnel collapse, Maggie got a phone call from her mother, who informed her that her parents were getting a divorce. Maggie was emotional about this, but she didn't want to bother her colleagues about it.[7]
Moving in with her SistersEdit
After Meredith bought her house back from Alex, she invited Maggie and Amelia to move in with her. They assisted Meredith in caring for her kids. Maggie also often mediated between Meredith and Amelia, who frequently got into fights over little things. She often helped with Meredith's three kids, with each "sister" in charge of getting one kid ready for the day.
Relationship with AndrewEdit
After a short conversation and a few drinks, Maggie ends up making out with Andrew and sleeps with him. After that night, Maggie and Andrew agree that it was a one-time thing only that day, but only to have sex again minutes after agreeing. Shortly after, Maggie and Andrew went public with their relationship. Andrew became uncomfortable with dating an attending and started avoiding Maggie. After she confronted him, they broke up.
Diane's Cancer and DeathEdit
Her mother came to the hospital to visit Maggie and see Jackson to get rid of a rash, which turned out to be inflammatory breast cancer. Diane and Jackson were gonna tell Maggie before Diane left, but they got into a fight and never got to talk about the cancer. A few months later, when Diane returned to have surgery, Maggie kept thinking that her mother was getting breast implants and failed to understand why, continuously trying to talk her mother out of it. When Diane later told Maggie the truth about her breast cancer, Maggie immediately started looking at her charts. Over the next few months Maggie helped her mom through everything and stated her opinion about what she should do, which her mother followed. After Maggie butted heads with Meredith, Diane fired her from her mother's case. Maggie found a clinical trial and signed her mom up for it, although the trial did more harm than good.
After she stated that she wasn't ready for her mom to go, Meredith told her to listen to her mom and record her voice in her mind. The next day, Maggie was talking to her mom and painting her nails. Diane gave her advice including to have some fun in her life and to be a little lazy or slutty and to make a mistake. When Maggie went to open a window, she came back to find that her mom had died. Later on, she was seen hugging her mom's lifeless body with Meredith and Amelia in the room. Her dad came in and she hugged him.
Hospital Fire and Feelings for JacksonEdit
Maggie bonded with Jackson after her mother's death. They frequently talked at work and they were together when the explosion caused a fire at the hospital. Jackson rushed off to go find Stephanie, which worried Maggie. She later confronted him about it in front of April, who later pointed out that she felt like Maggie liked Jackson and that he liked her back, which she recognized. Maggie was unsure how she felt about that as she hadn't thought about Jackson in that way until April suggested it.
Awkwardness ensued in her talks with Jackson as she was constantly walking on eggshells in order not to give him signals. He picked up on her weird behavior and she later came clean about what had transpired between her and April. While initially brushing it off, it also made Jackson look at Maggie in another way. Both were in for a cold shower when Catherine, after a family dinner with Richard and Jackson that Maggie attended, referred to Maggie as Jackson's sister.
Eventually, they did start dating. Their relationship progressed, and Maggie became more integrated into Jackson's family. They soon exchanged 'I love you's' and, months later, decided to move in together. Maggie was able to help Jackson through Catherine's tumor surgery, as Maggie had been through a similar situation with her own mother's illness.
Breaking Up with JacksonEdit
Maggie decided to chase after Jackson. She eventually heard him responding to her calls right when Victoria Hughes arrived with her aid car. She instructed Maggie to wait out on the street while she helped Jackson out of his predicament with Mari Prishna and Jai Prishna. Maggie then got on the ambulance with Jai and Jackson. After they arrived at the hospital, Jai was taken into the ER. Maggie and Jackson sat in the rig in silence and eventually agreed to talk about their fight when their temper had settled. He approached her after a week to inform her that Mari and Jai were doing fine. She was happy about that, but she was still angry at him for abandoning her in the car in the woods, while he just thought of it as "taking a walk." She decided she was still too angry to talk and left.
A week later, she joined Jackson as he was trying to figure out why Jai had had an apparent stroke. He brought up Mari hanging onto him for hours, nearly losing her arm in the process, which led to him on life support after excruciating surgeries due to something being irreparably broken inside him. He was wondering if Mari should have let go back at that cliff. Maggie understood he was using them as a metaphor for their broken relationship and that he thought it was time to let go. She agreed. The break-up stuck as she wanted someone who didn't abandon her over and over again. While she thought they would go back to being friends, she found him pretty defensive when she inquired about him and Vic after she saw them together. He told her they were just friends, but added it was none of her business. She agreed, since they apparently didn't like each other enough to even be friends.[8]
She and Amelia went to collect some of Maggie's stuff from Jackson's penthouse. After Maggie told her she had to tell Link about her pregnancy, Amelia showed her Jackson had posted a photo on social media with #Freedom in the caption. Maggie hated how he was sending her a message through Instagram. In the hospital parking lot, a scooter crashed into her car. Maggie and Owen took Reid Kim, the driver, to a trauma room. En route there, they ran into Jackson and she made a mean comment about his freedom now that he was dating a firefighter instead of an intellectually challenging woman. Meanwhile, Reid was diagnosed with a few broken ribs. They told him he was lucky and he told Maggie she was, too, since she ran into him. She denied as she was standing still when he crashed into her car, after which he deteriorated. It was discovered he had a cardiac tamponade. They relieved the tamponade and managed to resuscitate him after extensive efforts. He made it through surgery and Maggie briefed Reid's girlfriend Tara in the ICU. Tara openly wondered why she was staying with someone who treated her as terribly as Reid did. Maggie drew parallels from her relationship with Jackson and guessed that things were good in the beginning, but then she noticed some red flags, which she ignored because dating is hard, especially for successful women. She advised Tara to leave Reid before he left her, because that could leave her feeling like a victim, which she thought was so much worse than ripping that Band-Aid off herself. Afterwards, she ran into Jackson, who told her she was wrong about Vic. She apologized for her comment but pointed out he had been spiteful with his caption, even if he hadn't meant to be.[9]
The break-up continued to be hard on her as she kept having dreams about Jackson with Victoria thrown in the mix, too. She hated how he walked out the fog with a new girlfriend like she never existed. Amelia informed her she and Link were keeping the baby. Amelia had trouble with keeping the secret as it clashed with her rigorous honesty but Maggie told her that privacy and honesty weren't mutually exclusive. While her experiences with love had led her to believe love wasn't worth it due to all the heartbreak, loss, back-stabbing, and pettiness, witnessing the reunion between Bertram Hollister and Soyoung Oh showed her what true love looked like. On her way home, she ran into Vic, who told her she didn't want things to be awkward. Maggie admitted she felt Jackson had moved on a little too fast to her liking and proceeded to unsuccessfully assure Vic that things weren't awkward at all.[10]
When Meredith's article was inadvertently turned into an attack on Grey Sloan, Bailey was worried that the stress of the article's fall-out was getting to her heart. Maggie did a full cardiac work-up, which revealed her heart was fine. Given her hot flashes and mood swings, Maggie suggested it might be hormonal and drew blood for a full panel. Meanwhile, Maggie, Teddy, and Link tried to save a patient who was hit by a stowaway whose frozen body had fallen out of a plane but they failed given the extensive injuries. After the surgery, she got Bailey's results and went to tell her that, while she was indeed perimenopausal as suspected, she was also pregnant.[11]
Maggie is open-hearted, optimistic and she believes in everybody and wants them to be their best. She describes herself as a big control freak, resulting in a great professional drive and her being unable to leave things unfinished. She is also described as perky and chatty, often putting her in awkward situations when she's not up to date on other people's personal life.
She dated a man named Dean who loved to cuddle. But since she can't sleep with someone lying next to her, she would sneak out after he fell asleep and spend the night on the couch before returning in the morning before he woke up. He eventually proposed and she explained the sleeping to him, telling him he could sleep in a room down the hall. He didn't want a woman who didn't sleep in the same room as him. He is now married to a woman who loves cuddling.[12]
Ethan BoydEdit
She also dated a radiologist named Ethan shortly after arriving at Grey Sloan Memorial. He pursued her with compliments, but Maggie played hard to get. They were hot and heavy for six months until she got bored and let it fizzle out.
Andrew DeLucaEdit
Maggie ends up making out and sleeping with intern Andrew DeLuca after a short conversation and a couple of drinks at Joe's.[13]
Maggie freaks out the next day, and in an office in the hospital they have a conversation about last night and agree it was a one-time thing. They shake on it before they once again start kissing and proceed to undress.[14]
Shortly after they went public, Andrew became uncomfortable with the way things changed when people knew he was seeing an attending and he started to avoid her. When she confronted him, he broke up with Maggie.[15]
Nathan RiggsEdit
Maggie had a crush on Nathan, and later she asked him out, but on Meredith's request, he declined.
Clive JohnsonEdit
Maggie matched with Clive on Tinder. They set up a date which Maggie forgot about. Clive showed up at her work to pick her up.[16] They kept going on dates, one of which she left early because she forgot about her dancing class with Richard.[17]
Meredith and Amelia wanted to meet Clive, so Maggie decided to host a game night. Clive's wife showed up. Maggie was devastated that she was seeing a married guy. This caused them to break up. Jackson told Clive to forget Maggie's address and to never call her again.[18]
Jackson AveryEdit
After Maggie broke up with Clive, Jackson came by the house after he himself broke up with his new girlfriend Priya. He then confessed he had been thinking about Maggie every time instead of Priya. He knew Maggie found their situation too complicated, but he professed his affection for her anyway. They then ended up kissing.[19]
Jackson asked Maggie out, but she denied, saying she needed to focus on her surgery. Later, she paged Jackson for a consult, though he was hoping it was about the dinner. After work, Maggie saw Jackson at the bar. She wanted to leave, but decided to stay. They talked and Jackson asked her out to dinner again and she agreed.[20]
When Maggie and Jackson were making out in the closet, they decided to have dinner at his place instead. As they opened the door sharing one last kiss, Richard and Catherine were both staring at them. Maggie awkwardly walked away and Jackson closed the door in embarrassment. Maggie told Meredith that she felt like a teenager. Jackson fixed things with his mother and Richard and Maggie was glad that they weren't an obstacle in their relationship.[21]
When April was having her crisis of faith, she kissed Jackson. Maggie found out about this and was upset that Jackson didn't tell her.[22] She wanted Jackson to apologize but he didn't know what he did wrong. Later, she showed up at Jackson's house and they made up and had sex.[23]
When they both received invitations for Jo's and Alex's wedding, they decided to go together as a couple.[24]
She describes her parents as good, funny, kind, and goofy. She says her parents don't understand what she does or why she likes doing it. About two years after she started working at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, her mother confessed to her that she'd been having an affair with their car serviceman for eleven years and they had only stayed together for her sake, but were getting a divorce now that she was out on her own.
All her grandparents are still living.
She has a grandmother who refers to her vagina as "lady place" and is not shy about talking about it.[25]
Ellis GreyEdit
Maggie never met her birth mother, but 2 years prior to joining the Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital staff, she looked for her birth mother and found out that she was dead, but got her name. After learning that Maggie is her half-sister, Meredith gave Maggie Ellis's journals, so Maggie could get an idea of what Ellis was like.
Richard WebberEdit
Maggie met her birth father unknowingly when she arrived at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. Maggie quickly bonded with Webber while they worked together. She admired his skill greatly. When he eventually tried to tell her that he's her biological father, she became upset with him for having not told her right away.
Meredith GreyEdit
Maggie and her maternal half-sister Meredith didn't get along at first because Meredith thought she had come to Seattle looking for money or to profit from Ellis's reputation. They fought over little things and about patients. Derek planned a family dinner for himself, Meredith, Maggie, and Richard to smooth things over but he and Meredith ended up having sex in the shower and missing the dinner, hurting Maggie's feelings.[26]
When Meredith confronted her about it, she told Meredith that the reason she was sad about the dinner being canceled was because she was excited to talk to people and eat food that wasn't from a packet and socialize. Meredith then invited Maggie to Ellis's old house to socialize with Callie and Alex.[27]
Amelia ShepherdEdit
Although having no legal or blood relation to Amelia, Maggie considers herself Amelia's sister (through Meredith). Amelia reciprocates this as Amelia was comfortable enough to speak to Maggie about race. Despite appreciating Amelia's sincerity, she advised Amelia to check her white privilege and to not treat her as the spokeswoman for all black people.[28]
Cristina YangEdit
Cristina and Maggie first met when Cristina interviewed Maggie for the head of cardio position at GSM. Despite feeling that Maggie was very young to do the job, she admitted to Owen that she was qualified to do it.
Once she was officially hired, Maggie became frustrated because Cristina didn't respect her as her new boss. On Cristina's last day, she scheduled a pediatric heart transplant (for Link McNeil) amidst the chaos of the explosion at the mall, much to Maggie's confusion and frustration. Cristina even treated her as a resident by not listening to her objections and practically forcing her to prepare Link for the surgery. Maggie ultimately did the transplant herself as Cristina had to leave to catch her flight.
Pierce is the current Head of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. She finished high school, college, and med school early. After med school, she began and subsequently completed a surgical residency. At twenty-five, she began her cardiothoracic surgery fellowship. Some time after, she was promoted to head the cardiothoracic surgical department.
Two years later, Pierce applied for the head of cardio position at Grey Sloan Memorial and succeeded Jeff Russell as the new department head. Despite having submitted her notice of resignation very early in her tenure, she was convinced to remain at her post by Derek Shepherd.
She quit her job when losing Sabrina Webber caused her to lose faith in her own abilities, which she deemed necessary for her job.
Notes and TriviaEdit
- Maggie finished high school and medical school early.[29]
- The writers stated they knew about Maggie's existence since the very beginning and wanted to introduce the character ever since season 4, but chose to introduce Thatcher's other children first; afterwards, it never felt like the right time until Cristina left, creating a hole in Meredith's life. This also led Shonda to claim that there have been indirect references to Maggie over the course of the series. This is especially evident in season 3 as Only Mama Knows features numerous flashbacks from that season.
- There's nothing Maggie doesn't eat.
- Growing up, Maggie was bullied because she was younger and smaller than the other kids and because of her lisp.[30]
- On Twitter, Shonda Rhimes revealed she thought a lot about making Ellis and Richard's love child a son. She even looked for an actor, but decided to settle for Kelly McCreary's acting talents, as the actor's great acting skills were more important to her than the actor's sex.
- Her start date at Grey Sloan Memorial was December 18, 2013.[31]
- Her base rate salary is $126,000.[32]
- Her employee ID number is 6654.[33]
- Her work email address is mpierce@greysloan.[34]
- Maggie is very accomplished for her age: despite being five years younger than Meredith, Maggie had already been a cardio head for two years prior to her employment at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, board-certified, and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
- She can't sleep if anyone else is in the bed with her.[35]
- She was a girl scout.[36]
- She was registered with a babysitting service as a teen.[37]
- She had a full genetic history done when she was 12. It revealed a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer's disease.[38]
- As of Old Time Rock and Roll, Maggie continues the tradition of attendings sleeping with interns.
- Albeit briefly, Maggie is the fifth consecutive cardio head that has resigned.
- Amelia has referred to herself, Meredith, and Maggie as "Lady Chief Trifecta", "The House of Lady Chiefs", and "Sister Lady Chiefs".
- She speaks French.[39]
- She drives a BMW with license plate ACS-414.
- She loves puzzles. Her record for solving the Friday New York Times crossword puzzle is 11 minutes.[40]
- She named the first cadaver she ever dissected Leonard.[41]
- She's ordained to perform weddings.[42]
- She knows American Sign Language.[43]
- She can change a tire.[44]
- She used to name medical instruments because she had no friends.[45]
- She knows what happens by chapter in every Harry Potter book.[46]
- She is claustrophobic.[47]
- Maggie works at Grey Sloan and has gained privileges at both Seattle Presbyterian Hospital and Pacific Northwest General Hospital, meaning she is entitled to operate at all three of Seattle's most prominently featured medical centers.
A more complete gallery with pictures of Maggie Pierce can be found here.
Notable EpisodesEdit
These episodes are Maggie-centric or are otherwise very informative about her life.
- Fear (of the Unknown)
- Puzzle With a Piece Missing
- Only Mama Knows
- You're My Home
- Sledgehammer
- Something Against You
- Be Still, My Soul
- Old Scars, Future Hearts
- Anybody Have a Map?
- Papa Don't Preach
Memorable QuotesEdit
- Maggie (to Cristina): You think I look too young. I finished high school early, also med school. Pretty annoying, right?
- Maggie: When I find a puzzle, it's very hard for me to put it down.
- Maggie: You wanna know why bullies bully? It's 'cause they can. Maybe you've got it worse at home or maybe you're just bullying to keep from getting bullied, but really, it's because people like me, like this girl at our table, are alone and small and vulnerable. And pushing us around makes you feel better about your sad pathetic little lives. Not you guys, though. You're cool. Now.
- Maggie: I make terrible choices. I leave things behind and just let the bridges burn. I did it with Ethan. I did it with Dean. Oh, my God. I did it with my entire life. One day, I chose to learn a little bit about my birth mother. Cut to I live in her house with her daughter, and I work with the kind stranger who fathered me, and I left behind an entire life and family that no longer exists. My parents are divorced. My childhood home is sold. My mother is in Hawaii making soups now. I—I have no home. It's like I-I flew to this planet on an exploratory mission, and the earth blew up behind me and I can't go back. And now I'm here with you aliens. Except I'm the alien, and I'm all alone, and I have nothing, and no one wants me.
- Callie: That…
- Meredith: You got us. We want you.
- Maggie: I can't have sex with you.
- Meredith: No.
- Maggie: You're a cylon. This is "Galatica".
- Amelia: I really do like her. She makes me not the crazy sister.
- Maggie: Amelia, use your words. Did what?
- Amelia: Sided with Wilson over her because she's black; which I didn't do, I think. I... God, I-I hate that this is even an issue all of a sudden.
- Maggie: Well, it's not an issue for you. And it's not all of a sudden. Okay, it's not Mississippi Burning or anything, but it is all over. It's when people assume I'm a nurse. Or when I go to get on an airplane with my first-class ticket, and they tell me that they're not boarding coach yet. It's like a low buzz in the background, and sometimes you don't even notice it, and sometimes it's loud and annoying, and sometimes it can get dangerous, and sometimes it is ridiculous, like right now.
- Amelia: But it's not funny. I mean, if I'm doing it and I don't even notice it...
- Maggie: Then notice it... Look, did Edwards tell you that she's okay?
- Amelia: Yes.
- Maggie: Okay... Then don't give her the extra work of having to make you feel good about it.
- Amelia: Right... [Maggie starts to walk] Okay, but how do I know that she's really.
- Maggie: [She stops] Because she knows you, okay? So listen to the words that are coming out of her mouth, and believe them. This is not a small thing... And I'm glad that you feel like you can talk to me about it, but... I-I don't speak for all black people. I am not the spokeswoman, no one is and it is kind of annoying to be asked questions like I am. But, um, one piece of advice that I can give you that I think we would all agree with is that if you feel uncomfortable having done it, check your white privilege, and don't do it again... But I don't think you're racist.
- Amelia: You don't think?
- Maggie: Girl, get in the car.
|Grey's Anatomy, Season 10
|"Seal Our Fate"
|"Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word"
|"Do You Know?"
|"I Want You With Me"
|"Somebody That I Used to Know"
|"You Be Illin'"
|"Everybody's Crying Mercy"
|"Man on the Moon"
|"I'm Winning"
|"Puttin' on the Ritz"
|"Get Up, Stand Up"
|"Go It Alone"
|"I Bet It Stung"
|"Take It Back"
|"Change of Heart"
|"Map of You"
|"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"
|"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
|"Throwing it All Away"
|"Everything I Try to Do, Nothing Seems to Turn Out Right"
|"Two Against One"
|"We Gotta Get Out of This Place"
|"Fear (of the Unknown)"
|Grey's Anatomy, Season 11
|"I Must Have Lost It on the Wind"
|"Where Do We Go From Here"
|"With or Without You"
|"Puzzle With a Piece Missing"
|"The Bed's Too Big Without You"
|"When I Grow Up"
|"Got to Be Real"
|"All I Could Do Was Cry"
|"Crazy Love"
|"Only Mama Knows"
|"The Great Pretender"
|"One Flight Down"
|"Bend & Break"
|"Staring at the End"
|"How to Save a Life"
|"Don't Let's Start"
|"The Distance"
|"She's Leaving Home, Part 1"
"She's Leaving Home, Part 2"
|"Could We Start Again, Please?"
|"I Feel the Earth Move"
|"Time Stops"
|"Don't Dream It's Over"
|"You're My Home"
|Grey's Anatomy, Season 12
|"The Sound of Silence"
|"I Wear the Face"
|"Walking Tall"
|"All I Want is You"
|"There's a Fine, Fine Line"
|"I Choose You"
|"Unbreak My Heart"
|"It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"
|"Old Time Rock and Roll"
|"My Next Life"
|"Trigger Happy"
|"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"
|"All Eyez on Me"
|"You're Gonna Need Someone on Your Side"
|"The Me Nobody Knows"
|"Odd Man Out"
|"Mama Tried"
|"Something Against You"
|"I Am Not Waiting Anymore"
|"At Last"
|"Things We Lost in the Fire"
|"When It Hurts So Bad"
|"Family Affair"
|Grey's Anatomy, Season 13
|"You Haven't Done Nothin'"
|"Till I Hear It From You"
|"Catastrophe and the Cure"
|"You Can Look (But You'd Better Not Touch)"
|"Be Still, My Soul"
|"I Ain't No Miracle Worker"
|"Jukebox Hero"
|"What's Inside"
|"Falling Slowly"
|"None of Your Business"
|"In the Air Tonight"
|"Both Sides Now"
|"It Only Gets Much Worse"
|"Don't Stop Me Now"
|"Back Where You Belong"
|"Leave It Inside"
|"Why Try to Change Me Now"
|"Civil War"
|"True Colors"
|"The Room Where It Happens"
|"Who Is He (And What Is He To You)?"
|"Ring of Fire"
|Grey's Anatomy, Season 14
|"Break Down the House"
|"One Day Like This"
|"Get Off on the Pain"
|"Personal Jesus"
|"Hold Back the River"
|"Go Big or Go Home"
|"(Don't Fear) the Reaper"
|"Beautiful Dreamer"
|"Ain't That a Kick in the Head"
|"Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger"
|"Judgment Day"
|"Danger Zone"
|"You Really Got a Hold on Me"
|"Bad Reputation"
|"Come on Down to My Boat, Baby"
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|"My Shot"
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|"No Recovery"
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|"The Dark Night"
|"Under the Surface"
|"Crash and Burn"
|"Friendly Fire"
|"Home To Hold Onto"
|"I Fought the Law"
|"Always Ready"
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Being one of the top landscaping and pool companies in the Hudson Valley region of New York, Neave Group has won many awards for our work. Here are just a few.
|Best of Houzz 2019 Design award
|Over 35 Million Monthly Unique Users Nominated Best Home Building, Remodeling and Design Professionals in North America and Around the World. Neave Group was selected as the best in design.
|NESPA 2018 awards
|Pool & Spa News Top 50 Service 2018
|Neave Pools ranked #26 in the Top 50 Service companies in the U.S.
|Best of Hudson Valley 2018 – Outdoor Living Specialists
|Neave Group was named one of the "Best Home & Garden Businesses around the Hudson Valley" and won "Best Outdoor Living Space Specialists" by Hudson Valley Magazine.
|Patriot Award 2018
|Awarded to Scott Neave by the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve. The Patriot Award reflects the efforts made to support citizen warriors through a wide-range of measures including flexible schedules, time off prior to and after deployment, caring for families, and granting leaves of absence if needed.
|NESPA 2016 awards
|Neave Pools received NESPA awards for their work on a freeform gunite pool less than 600 sq. ft. and a gunite pool/spa combination.
|Christmas Decor awards – 2017
|Awarded "2017 Veteran Franchise Of the Year", "2017 Best Tree Lighting" and runner-up for "Best Small Commercial" and "Best Residential Interior".
|Best of Houzz 2016, 2017 & 2018 Service award
|Over 35 Million Monthly Unique Users Nominated Best Home Building, Remodeling and Design Professionals in North America and Around the World. Neave Group was selected as the best in customer service.
|Best of Hudson Valley 2016 – Landscape Design
|Neave Group was named "Best of Hudson Valley 2016 for Landscape Design" by Hudson Valley Magazine.
|NESPA 2017 awards
|Neave Pools received 5 NESPA awards for their work on various ingorund pools.
|Christmas Decor awards – 2016
|Neave Décor received awards for "Best Interior Commercial and Residential Decor".
|Christmas Decor awards – 2015
|Neave Décor received awards for "Best use of Barcana" at a residential house and "Best Interior Commercial Decor".
|Bronze Pool/Spa combination with water features – 2016
|Neave Pools received the APSP International Award of Excellence bronze award for their work on a spa built in conjunction with a swimming pool that has water features.
|Pool & Spa News Top 50 Builders 2016
|Neave Pools ranked #13 in the Top 50 Builders in the U.S. (and highest in CT and NY) – #4 in Top 10 High End Construction, #2 in Top 10 Staff, Sr. Designer named one of MVP 2016.
|Gold, Exceptional Recognition in Design and Building competition for concrete construction – 2015
|Neave Pools received the NESPA gold award for their work on a gunite negative edge/infinity pool/spa combination.
|Gold Specialty Pools for a negative edge/infinity pool
– 2015
|Gold Specialty Pools for a negative edge/infinity pool
– 2015
|Silver Pool for concrete construction – 2015
|Neave Pools received the NESPA silver award for a geometric residential gunite pool 601 sq. ft. or more.
|Silver Pool/Spa combination for a gunite pool – 2015
|Neave Pools received the NESPA silver award for their work on a gunite pool/spa combination.
|Bronze Technical Achievement for a gunite pool – 2015
|Neave Pools received the NESPA bronze award for their safety electric cover with tracks on a gunite pool.
|Merit Spa for a stand alone spa – 2015
|Neave Pools received the NESPA merit award for their work on a stand alone spa.
|Bronze Pool/Spa combination for a vinyl pool – 2014
|Neave Pools received the NESPA bronze award for their work on a vinyl pool.
|Silver Pool/Spa combination for concrete construction pool – 2014
|Neave Pools received the NESPA silver award for their work on a concrete pool
|PLANET Award Of Distinction – 2010
|Neave Group received an Award Of Distinction for their Renovation Project.
|Landscape Contractors Magazine -Cover Feature 2011
|Showcasing the Renovation Project that they received the PLANET Award for in 2010.
|Christmas Decor – 2012
|Best Daytime Decor
Top 100 Leadership Awards
|At the National SIMA Convention in Cleveland, OH, Scott was one of seven recipients of the 2010 Leadership Awards. (in magazine blurb)- Second-generation owner Scott Neave pushes Neave Snow Management to new heights with standard operating procedures, cutting-edge technology and superior customer service"
Top 100 Snow Contractors
|Neave Group was named as a TOP 100 Snow Contractor in the country from 2010 to 2013.
|2010 – Shaker Award
|The 5th Annual 40 Under 40 – Shaker Awards – Awarded by The Greater Southern Dutchess Chamber of Commerce
|2007 Business Excellence Award
|Neave Group received a Business Excellence Award for service business from the Dutchess County Economic Development Corporation
|Scott Neave – Distinguished Landscape Alumnus
|Scott Neave, Vice President of Neave Group Outdoor Solutions with offices in Wappingers Falls, Croton on Hudson, New York, and also Stamford, Ct has been selected as a SUNY Cobleskill Distinguished Landscape Alumnus. This designation is in recognition of Scott's success in business, his contribution to the industry and community and his merits as a citizen in the years since he graduated from SUNY Cobleskill.
|PLANET Awards
|Neave Group Outdoor Solutions received two awards from the 34th annual Environmental Improvement Awards Program sponsored by the Professional Landscape Association Network PLANETS Environmental Improvement Awards Program reflects the association's commitment to creating and preserving the beauty of our landscape. The program is designed to reward landscape contracting professionals who execute quality landscaping projects and to recognize citizens who underwrite such work. In sponsoring the awards program, PLANET also strives to increase public awareness of environmental improvement through quality landscaping and to encourage the landscape contractors' consistent use of quality materials and workmanship.
|Christmas Decor – 2002
|Best 2nd Season Performance


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…in which your host wonders what happens when ignorance runs amok.
This week, Artipoeus visits Golem! at The Jewish Museum in Berlin.
I love the golem. It's one of my favorite literary tropes. It comes from Jewish mysticism, and it goes basically like this: somebody follows a recipe, and forms a human-like creature from mud and clay. It is inscribed with sacred Hebrew letters that bring it to life. And when the golem comes to life, it does its masters bidding: it can help clean up a sorcerer's studio, it can move bales of hay, help build houses and keep bad guys away. It's like that other mythical creature, the friendly bouncer.
But usually, in golem stories, (and thankfully not in nightclubs) the golem runs amok. Either it continues to grow and gets too big and dangerous, or it takes its orders too literally and destroys everything, or it grows emotions and turns against its master. Something happens every time, and suddenly there's a Jewish community somewhere with a Golem out of control. The solution is to remove the mystic letters or at least one of them, rendering the golem back to dust.
I love the golem because it's such a great symbol of unchecked stupidity that grows too big, too powerful, without the capacity to think or analyze or even be gentle in its movements. It goes from being something not worth worrying about – since it's lifeless — to being a singular cause for mass destruction. It's not just ignorance out of control, it's man-made ignorance out of control. Such a good story!
So the Golem exhibit the Jewish Museum is just great. I mean, really. It's the best kind of museum exhibit, the kind that has been conceived of globally, from presentation to artifacts to the way the text is displayed on the walls. It's comprehensive in scale, but not overwhelming and every gallery has a clear focal point and story to tell.
You walk in and it's all golem golem golem. The heads of famous golems are stenciled to the walls leading to the second floor gallery, and at the top of the stairs, waiting to greet you, is a massive golem made entirely of… lamps. Lamps that fade off, and then slowly light up again until the entire thing is lit, pulsing electricity and light and life. You expect it to start moving any second, to open the door for you or hand you a pamphlet. It's a wonderful sculpture by Prague-based artist Kristof Kintera and such a hopeful, delightful way to introduce a concept that is usually quite dark in nature.
Once inside the exhibit proper, the whole thing starts out … unexpectedly. Where I was expecting to step back in history, it jumps right into the here and now, offering up various modern golems from Pokeman (the only Pokeman I've ever seen), Minecraft, Transformers, and other pop culture sources. They are tiny little figurines displayed on cement grey pedestals and lit from below… so as tiny as the figurines are, their shadows loom large and menacing on the cement wall.
In fact, the whole room has a very Doctor No feel to it, like around the next corner it's not Golem you'll meet, but some diabolical maniac out to destroy humanity… as you lurch past a glass case referencing human genome cloning… and an iPhone… and a Make America Great hat from the campaign of Donald Trump, speaking of "an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul."
In the next gallery, you've stepped out of the underground bunker of Dr No and into… the cabinet of Dr Caligari. brings you back to the beginning, the birth of the Golem concept in Jewish mysticism. This gallery and for most of the following have been made over with hard angles, firm lines and sharp points of German Expressionist cinema. I'm not entirely sure why this is, apart from the reference to the 1920 film The Golem, but I like it. I like the ominous geometry of it paired with the Goth colors.
This second gallery is dominated by an actual golem, about 2.5 meters, lying prone and inanimate on the floor, a chain around it's neck staked to the ground (in case it comes alive at night!). The entire body is made up of Hebrew letters, and of course a space for the Hebrew word "Emet" is carved deep into its chest, the mystical letter lying by the head on the ground. Because the wood used is a warm balsa or oak, it's the color of good whiskey and cozy fires, this golem is not especially threatening, but rather peaceful and earthy and warm. The gallery also features some historical texts, from Kabbalah practitioners and others, with the actual incantations and recipes for creating a golem — so if you read old Hebrew, bring a notepad and pen!
What I like most in this room, though, is the large sitzbank built into the wall. It's warm and you can make yourself comfortable, and listen to the story of the Golem of Prague, told in English by Simon Srebny (but also available in German). It's a lovely little quiet moment of storytelling, gazing across the pitched room with the golem anchored to the floor. A little respite after the horror of the golems we're living with in real time.
The exhibit goes on to explore the idea of golem as art, and segues into this exploration via a simple, if somewhat literal sculpture by Anselm Kiefer. I think it's always nice to see an Anselm Kiefer, and so much of his work — especially concerning the human body — is golem-like anyway, he's a natural choice. This one is, as I say, quite literal: it's a simple concrete block with a vaguely head-shaped blob of cement plopped on top of it, a lone wire connecting it to a smaller block perched next to it. It's the golem in formation — either forming into a being or back to dust, but golem is the intent. You can be sure of this because the words "the golem" are scrawled across the concrete block in Kiefer's peculiar handwriting.
The rest of the work in this section is more interpretive… and, to me, more interesting. The idea of artist as creator — taking an inanimate object and bringing it to life — is explored through a few more pieces of deconstructed Golem works, like Jana Serbak's Golem: Objects as Sensations. Pieces of golem – a throat, a hand, a penis, a stomach, are laid out on the floor and lit by a spotlight on a field of midnight blue, tying the work back to its mystic origins. A caged blue heart hangs from the ceiling in the middle of this gallery, its shadow repeating on the floor and walls – so the heart and the shadow of the heart — which is the true heart of a golem anyway — are the actual work.
Michael David's Golem: A cluster of blessings is a mixed media piece made up of older works from his oevre, pasted and patched onto a wooden frame, painted over in oils and latex and dead flowers — a golem of a piece, formed of the mud and clay of of the artist's own creations – the most direct interpretation of artist as God.
Amos Gitai's video scene Naissance d'un Golem stars Annie Lennox as a golem birthing out of the israeli desert while three men call her forth on the musical instruments they play. Annie Lennox is the Tilda Swinton of pop music, so this all makes sense, but a woman as golem being called forth from the dirt by men makes me think more of the Biblical Eve than a dumb, soulless, potentially dangerous being unleashed upon the Earth… hey wait a minute…
The best piece in the golem as art section is Jorge Gil's Crisalidas. It is arresting, and the museum — keeping to its clever angles and planes — has hung this work in such a way that you catch an unsettling peek of it from the previous room. It is several, adult human sized bright yellow crysalises with the larvae inside just forming through — the larvae being humans, hanging by their feet, their faces peeking out of the protective yellow cyrsalis they are wrapped in. They are behind a very fine web of golden thread, and are so lifelike you kind of just accept them as real — for some reason, this work requires no leap of the imagination, and you have expect the heads to open their eyes and start talking to you, and have fear that they'll complete their gestation and wriggle out of their crysalis, drop onto the floor, and come after you. They are deliciously creepy, like something out of the movie Pan's Labyrinth. And they are the only piece of art that is not actually titled, "Golem".
The Golem of Prague really is the classic golem story, and it's such a good story that it has been told and retold countless times, in story books, as woodcuts, with marionettes, in film. The next two galleries are devoted to the Golem of Prague, but first you pass through a clevel 3D portal (the museum provides 3D glasses for you) that illustrates the history of Prague on its walls. I'm not a big fan of the trick of 3D, but this little room is cool. It's such an efficient way of illustrating all the layers of history of this rich city, and giving a quick shot of context to set the Golem story in.
It's a round and high room, like a turret, and it spits you out into a gallery that is a deep, blood red. Red, by the way, is my favorite color so I'm pretty happy in here. Lithographs and etchings illustrating the Golem of Prague story are displayed in frames hung at odd angles into the room, a nice way of showing off the illustrated pages while keeping to the Dr Caligari theme. And here are the marionettes as well, which are suitably creepy because: puppets.
This literary history leads us to Paul Wegener's classic film The Golem, released in 1920. Walking through what felt like the sets for this Expressionist masterpiece up to this point, it's disappointing to not see the film projected large onto the walls — which are instead taken up with original film posters. The film itself is shown on an embedded video screen, which may have been chosen for quality, but I've been immersed in Golem for so long now, I really want to be surrounded by it.
Which artists Stefan Hurtig and Detlef Weitz successfully do in the next room, which is taken up entirely with a three-channel video projection of about 60 film clips that feature or reference a golem, from Fritz Lang's Metropolis to the Terminator films to sundry Disney clips and even to The Simpsons. What is amazing about this is how meticulous it is — it's not just random clips thrown together; Hurtig and Weitz matched scenes throughout movie history to connect each genre of golem to the others, where even the camera angle and position of the golem itself in the frame is mirrored, like Boris Karloff's Frankenstein to Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator to the little robot Wall-E. It's really remarkable how comprehensive and thorough it is.
The exhibit winds up with Golems in modern times – in plays, in artworks, as monsters, as mysterious strangers, as our own reflections in the mirror whenever a little bit of our own fears leak through the mercury, as shown in some clever works by Daniel Lauter. French photographer Yves Gellie explores the concept of Golem through the concept of Doppelganger, with large print photos of robot laboratories, the robots and their creators. They are haunting photos, not because the robots take on the characteristics of their creators, but because of the symmetry between the two, and the very real connection they share that each photo seems to be charged with — the danger of connecting to this manmade thing, this helper, this potential monster filled with our clumsy intelligence and logic, rather than connecting to each other instead.
The golem is brought forth as a helper, and often to protect a community in times of danger — usually when the fear of the other has peaked to such a degree that the fear tunrs physical, into pogroms and holocausts or, in modern times, into Brexit, the Wall of America, the crumbling of patriarchy. Golem also tends to appear both in literature and in real life during times of economic hardship and social upheaval: the Golem of Prague during the 16th century; Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, created in a year of immense flooding, ruined crops, starvation and disease; Adolf Hitler, along with Stalin and Mussolini, arriving on the threshold of history exactly when the world was reeling from the Great Depression, more failed crops, and the ashes of war; and today's Trump, made huge and voracious by reality TV, arriving in the wake of a disastrous economic slump, here to protect Americans from Muslims and Mexicans and Nasty Women.
The exhibit The Golem is basically set up like a four dimensional college thesis: it states its premise, shows relevance, and then steps us back through history and time to build a case for its argument. It is a little academic in this way, and a little rigid too. Once again, I had a brief conversation with the Israeli artist Roey Heifitz, who I really have to stop talking to before I write these reviews because she's always subverting my preconceived notions. Roey suggested that the exhibit was a bit too literal, a bit too rigid in its definitions of Golem. I argued that venturing too far beyond the exhibit as its presented now would only confuse visitors who are not familiar with the golem story; that to include more abstract interpretations of golem could be infinite, an the exhibit could run amok, essentially turning into a golem itself. Roey felt this might ok – that a little confusion, a little bit of unknowing, a little bit of loosening up those rigid definitions of what we believe things ought to be, and a little bit of breaking down how things have always been, is what Golem is really all about.
And maybe Roey's right.
Golem! is on view until January 29th 2017 at The Jewish Museum, located at Lindenstrasse 9-14 in Berlin.
Brought to you by Susie Kahlich from Artipoeus


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