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Calls: Comp Ling, Ling Theories, Syntax/Estonia
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LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3!
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The Ninth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistics
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Full Title: The Ninth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistics
Short Title: TLT9
Date: 03-Dec-2010 - 04-Dec-2010
Location: Tartu, Estonia
Contact Person: Markus Dickinson
Meeting Email: tlt9.program
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Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Syntax
Call Deadline: 12-Sep-2010
Meeting Description:
TLT has served as an ideal venue for new and ongoing high-quality work
related to syntactically-annotated corpora, i.e., treebanks, encompassing
descriptive, theoretical, formal and computational aspects of treebanks.
Submissions are invited for papers, posters, and demonstrations which
present research on treebanks and their intersection with linguistics, natural
language processing, and other related fields.
Call For Papers
The Ninth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories
(TLT9) will be held in Tartu, Estonia on 3-4 December 2010 at the
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This year, TLT will be accompanied by a workshop on the Annotation and
Exploitation of Parallel Corpora (AEPC), on 2 December. More detailed
information is available at:
TLT has served as an ideal venue for new and ongoing high-quality work
related to syntactically-annotated corpora, i.e., treebanks, encompassing
descriptive, theoretical, formal and computational aspects of treebanks.
Submissions are invited for papers, posters, and demonstrations which
present research on treebanks and their intersection with linguistics, natural
language processing, and other related fields.
Workshop Motivation and Aims
Treebanks are language resources that provide annotations at various
levels of linguistic structure beyond the word level. They typically provide
syntactic constituent or dependency structures for sentences and
sometimes functional and predicate-argument structures. Treebanks have
become crucially important for the development of data-driven approaches
to natural language processing, human language technologies, grammar
extraction and linguistic research in general.Additionally, there are projects
that explore annotation beyond syntactic structure (including, for instance,
semantic, pragmatic and rhetorical annotation) and beyond a single
language (for instance, parallel treebanks).
Experiences in building syntactically processed corpora have shown that
there is a relation between formal linguistic theory and the practice of
syntactic annotation. Since the practices of building syntactically-processed
corpora have proved that aiming at more detailed description of the data
becomes more and more theory-dependent, the connections between
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order to ensure the necessary information flow between them. This series of
workshops aims to provide a forum for researchers and advanced students
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submissions describing work on parallel treebanks and/or cross-language
annotation schemas, on the relation between linguistic theory and the
practice of annotation, and on applications of information in treebanks are
encouraged as well.
We invite submission of papers and posters on the following topics:
-design principles and annotation schemes for treebanks
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-semantically and pragmatically annotated treebanks
-evaluation and quality control of treebanks
-tools for creation and management of treebanks
-treebanks of less-resourced languages
-theories, schemas, and applications for parallel treebanks
-standards for treebanks
Invited Speakers
-Anke Lüdeling, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
-Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University
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-Notification of acceptance: 10 October 2010
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House OKs farm bill, sans food stamps
WASHINGTON (AP) – The House passed Thursday a scaled-down version of a massive farm bill, putting off a fight over food stamp spending and giving Republican leaders a victory after a decisive defeat on the larger bill last month.
The GOP leaders scrambled to get the bill to the floor and gather enough votes after deciding to drop a politically sensitive food stamp section of the bill and pass legislation that contained only farm programs.
They faced significant opposition to the plan from Democrats, farm groups and conservative groups that threatened to use the vote against GOP members in future campaigns. But Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., navigated his colleagues to a narrow 216-208 vote by convincing Republican members that this was the best chance to get the bill passed and erase the embarrassment of the June defeat. Any other path to passage would have most likely included concessions to Democrats who opposed the original bill. Last month 62 Republicans voted against the original $100 billion-a-year bill after House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Cantor supported it. Only 12 Republicans voted against the new measure and no Democrats voted for it.
Republicans said the food stamp part of the legislation would be dealt with separately at a later date, and Cantor said after the vote that Republicans would "act with dispatch" to get that legislation to the floor.
Just hours before Thursday's floor vote, it was still unclear whether GOP leaders had the votes needed to pass the new measure containing only farm programs. The legislation faced a veto threat from the White House, and House Democrats reacted angrily to the last-minute move by the GOP.
Conservative groups and farm groups traditionally aligned with Republicans were also lobbying against the measure, as was the top Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, Collin Peterson.
Peterson, of Minnesota's 7th District, joined the rest of the Democrats in voting against the bill. He told the Independent shortly after the vote that Thursday's passage of the bill at least opens the door for a conference with the Senate.
"That's what we're trying to do – get a conference with the Senate," he said. "The problem is the Senate didn't agree with splitting the bill."
In a statement on the House floor before Thursday's vote, Peterson said splitting the farm bill would be a mistake that would jeopardize the chances of it ever becoming law. Repealing the permanent law, he said, "all but ensures that we will never write a farm bill again. I'm not alone in my belief that this is a flawed strategy. Last week, a broad coalition of 532 agriculture, conservation, rural development, finance, forestry, energy and crop insurance groups expressed their opposition to splitting the farm bill and urged House Leaders to pass a five-year farm bill."
Peterson said there has been no assurance from Republican leadership that passing a bill would allow the House to conference with the Senate in a timely manner.
"I have repeatedly said that if only we could be left alone, the Agriculture Committee could put together a good bill with good policy," he said. "Last month, Republican Leaders interfered by pushing into the farm bill poison pill amendments, amendments that the Chairman and I both said could bring the bill down. Even if the House passes this bill today, I fear Leadership's continued interference will doom any prospects of getting a bill to the president to sign."
Peterson also said this is the first bill he remembered, at least in a long time, where there was a unanimous vote among Democrats.
But GOP leaders moved quickly. The night-before release of the bill's text underscored the lengths to which House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio had to go as he tried to get legislation past his fractious Republican caucus.
Splitting the popular farm bill from the controversial food stamp cuts, and releasing the bill's text at 8 p.m. EDT on the eve of the scheduled vote Thursday, denied conservatives the time to rally opposition to it. But the bill's prospects remained a tense question through the day.
Before the vote, Boehner acknowledged that the process was unusual but said, "My goal right now is to get a farm bill passed."
The dropped food stamp section would have made a 3 percent cut to the $80 billion-a-year feeding program. Many Republicans say that isn't enough since the program's cost has doubled in the last five years. Democrats have opposed any cuts. The food stamp program doesn't need legislation to continue, but Congress would have to pass a bill to enact changes.
The idea of a split bill was to pass the farm programs – the Congressional Budget Office calculates they would cost about $20 billion a year and contain about $1.3 billion a year in cuts to farm subsidies – and take the food stamp portion up later. Republicans could then be able to make bigger cuts to the food programs and pass that bill with conservative support.
In voting for the bill, conservative lawmakers made the unusual move of bucking the conservative groups Club for Growth and Heritage Action, both of which said they would use a "yes" vote against Republicans in future campaigns. While those groups originally supported the idea of dropping the food stamps and taking that part of the bill up separately, they later said the GOP idea was a ruse to get the bill in conference with the Democratic-led Senate, where food stamps will be added back in with smaller cuts.
The Senate overwhelmingly passed a farm bill last month with only a half-percent cut to food stamps and would be reluctant to go along with a split bill or further cuts to the programs.
During the floor debate, House Democrats angrily opposed the bill and called for a series of procedural votes to delay. They painted the legislation as taking the food stamps away from the hungry.
"You are taking food out of the mouths of your own poor constituents," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told Republicans in a floor speech.
The White House agreed that food stamps should not be left out of the bill and threatened to veto it. The Obama administration had also threatened to veto the original bill, saying it did not include enough reductions to farm subsidies and the food stamp cuts were too severe.
Farm groups and anti-hunger groups have warned that separating the farm and nutrition programs after decades of linking them would be misguided. Rural lawmakers have long added money for food stamps to the farm bill, which sets policy for agricultural subsidies and other farm programs, to gather urban votes for the measure.
The vote was a welcome victory for Republicans who have struggled to bring their majority together on even bigger issues like immigration and the budget.
"Thank God, we can do something!" exclaimed Rep. Tom Rooney R-Fla., as he walked off the floor after the final vote.
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Abstract:The six papers in this special issue focus on active learning and intrinsically motivated exploration in robots. The issue presents novel contributions on intentional exploration, i.e., internal mechanisms and constraints that explicitly foster organized exploration.
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Abstract: There is great interest in building intrinsic motivation into artificial systems using the reinforcement learning framework. Yet, what intrinsic motivation may mean computationally, and how it may differ from extrinsic motivation, remains a murky and controversial subject. In this paper, we adopt an evolutionary perspective and define a new optimal reward framework that captures the pressure to design good primary reward functions that lead to evolutionary success across environments. The results of two computational experiments show that optimal primary reward signals may yield both emergent intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. The evolutionary perspective and the associated optimal reward framework thus lead to the conclusion that there are no hard and fast features distinguishing intrinsic and extrinsic reward computationally. Rather, the directness of the relationship between rewarding behavior and evolutionary success varies along a continuum.
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Abstract: Reward functions in reinforcement learning have largely been assumed given as part of the problem being solved by the agent. However, the psychological notion of intrinsic motivation has recently inspired inquiry into whether there exist alternate reward functions that enable an agent to learn a task more easily than the natural task-based reward function allows. This paper presents a genetic programming algorithm to search for alternate reward functions that improve agent learning performance. We present experiments that show the superiority of these reward functions, demonstrate the possible scalability of our method, and define three classes of problems where reward function search might be particularly useful: distributions of environments, nonstationary environments, and problems with short agent lifetimes.
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Abstract: Recently, infomax methods of optimal control have begun to reshape how we think about active information gathering. We show how such methods can be used to formulate the problem of choosing where to look. We show how an optimal eye movement controller can be learned from subjective experiences of information gathering, and we explore in simulation properties of the optimal controller. This controller outperforms other eye movement strategies proposed in the literature. The learned eye movement strategies are tailored to the specific visual system of the learner-we show that agents with different kinds of eyes should follow different eye movement strategies. Then we use these insights to build an autonomous computer program that follows this approach and learns to search for faces in images faster than current state-of-the-art techniques. The context of these results is search in static scenes, but the approach extends easily, and gives further efficiency gains, to dynamic tracking tasks. A limitation of infomax methods is that they require probabilistic models of uncertainty of the sensory system, the motor system, and the external world. In the final section of this paper, we propose future avenues of research by which autonomous physical agents may use developmental experience to subjectively characterize the uncertainties they face.
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Abstract: This paper addresses some of the problems that arise when applying active learning to the context of human-robot interaction (HRI). Active learning is an attractive strategy for robot learners because it has the potential to improve the accuracy and the speed of learning, but it can cause issues from an interaction perspective. Here we present three interaction modes that enable a robot to use active learning queries. The three modes differ in when they make queries: the first makes a query every turn, the second makes a query only under certain conditions, and the third makes a query only when explicitly requested by the teacher. We conduct an experiment in which 24 human subjects teach concepts to our upper-torso humanoid robot, Simon, in each interaction mode, and we compare these modes against a baseline mode using only passive supervised learning. We report results from both a learning and an interaction perspective. The data show that the three modes using active learning are preferable to the mode using passive supervised learning both in terms of performance and human subject preference, but each mode has advantages and disadvantages. Based on our results, we lay out several guidelines that can inform the design of future robotic systems that use active learning in an HRI setting.
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Abstract: A range of different value systems have been proposed for self-motivated agents, including biologically and cognitively inspired approaches. Likewise, these value systems have been integrated with different behavioral systems including reflexive architectures, reward-based learning and supervised learning. However, there is little literature comparing the performance of different value systems for motivating exploration and learning by robots. This paper proposes a neural network architecture for integrating different value systems with reinforcement learning. It then presents an empirical evaluation and comparison of four value systems for motivating exploration by a Lego Mindstorms NXT robot. Results reveal the different exploratory properties of novelty-seeking motivation, interest and competence-seeking motivation.
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Abstract:We present a framework for intrinsically motivated developmental learning of abstract skill hierarchies by reinforcement learning agents in structured environments. Long-term learning of skill hierarchies can drastically improve an agent's efficiency in solving ensembles of related tasks in a complex domain. In structured domains composed of many features, understanding the causal relationships between actions and their effects on different features of the environment can greatly facilitate skill learning. Using Bayesian network structure (learning techniques and structured dynamic programming algorithms), we show that reinforcement learning agents can learn incrementally and autonomously both the causal structure of their environment and a hierarchy of skills that exploit this structure. Furthermore, we present a novel active learning scheme that employs intrinsic motivation to maximize the efficiency with which this structure is learned. As new structure is acquired using an agent's current set of skills, more complex skills are learned, which in turn allow the agent to discover more structure, and so on. This bootstrapping property makes our approach a developmental learning process that results in steadily increasing domain knowledge and behavioral complexity as an agent continues to explore its environment.
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Abstract:In the above titled paper (ibid., vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 187-195, Oct. 09), the acknowledgement to financial support was incompletely displayed. The correct acknowledgement is presented here.
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Topic: [SOLVED] How do I attach a CSS style to date_select?
I have tried the following:
<%= f.date_select(:purchase_date, :use_short_month => 1, :order => [:month, :day, :year], :class => "gt-select-auto" ) %>
This works but the resulting HTML select code does not have the "gt-select-auto" class applied. What am I doing wrong?
The API indicates the following, but does not give any examples of applying a CSS style within the "html_options"
date_select(object_name, method, options = {}, html_options = {})
Thanks in advance.
PS - Originally posted this in the controller and view section, but thinking it probably belongs here, so posting again.
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The ginger is good but is covered with huge amounts of crystallized sugar. Not what I was expecting, especially since sugar is an absolute no-go for me.
set aside for upset tummies, and just to snack on
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This is a handy and tastey and natural way to settle stomach cramps and help ease nausea and some other stomach discomforts, depending on their causes. Have experienced instant calming of cramps during flu.
Made with white sugar
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not with brown sugar :(
High sugar, taste isnt great as expected
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This gave me sugar crash after intake (of course, its sugar laden). I ve taken other types of local brand sweetened ginger, and this (made in thailand batch) , in terms of taste, isnt better, and the sugar amt is staggering, I cant believe they stuff this with that much sugar, its so laden with sugars that you see a lof of sugar crystals "raining" the packet contents. Not buying this anymore.. I gave it to my office colleagues (after warning them of the sugar).. cause the sugar crash feeling is signalling me that its not a good thing, and not a "healthy" food Im afraid.
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Cramer: They Didn't See the Cloud Coming
NEW YORK (Real Money) -- How did they not see cloud and mobile coming? How were they not able to move fast enough? What were they thinking?
Do you know those questions can be asked of pretty much every information technology CEO who has reported so far, with the exception of SanDisk
Unless companies are specifically built for cloud or mobile and have the cost structures and infrastructure in line with those two themes, they just couldn't deliver what investors wanted.
Take Intel
How about cloud? SAP
Meanwhile, Sandisk, often considered to be the lightweight of techs because of its focus on flash, blew the numbers away because flash is in the sweet spot of mobile. Xilinx also reported a terrific number because it saw mobile and the accelerated move to video coming. But still, because of weakness in Asia, Xilinx gave a muted outlook. I think they were just being conservative, but it did cause the company to catch a downgrade and muted the original excitement.
Now, after these reports, there is no doubt whatsoever that the old-fashioned, expensive software that's sold by salespeople to institutions with hefty licensing fees may rapidly become a thing of the past. That's a high-margin business.


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Anybody checked these guys out yet? My brother just burned me a CD so I could, from their '02 release, A Little Trip. They are out of Nashville and had at one time been a Beatle tribute band called the Del Beatles.
No lie, to me, they sound just like the Klaatu of the new millenium.


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Not all sunscreens are created equal. Many high-SPF lotions that are on the market may not be providing as much protection as we think--either because their ingredients or their instructions aren't effective enough, say researchers.
That could help explain why even though sales of sunscreen products are rising--up 27% from 2009 to more than $1 billion last year--so is the incidence of melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer.
"Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the world, but it is also one of the most preventable," says Elizabeth L. Tanzi, M.D., a Washington, D.C. dermatologist and co-director of the Washington Institute of Dermatologic Laser Surgery. Sunscreen, she adds, is "a vital part" of skin cancer prevention--if it's used correctly.
The problem is that we often don't apply sunscreens evenly or frequently enough, or we assume from the packaging that we're getting more protection than we actually are (and behave accordingly). Now new labeling rules by the Food and Drug Administration are aimed at changing that.
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>Off the Beaten Path>My cat gets weird when I whistle
HTFU? Why not!
USATF Coach
Maybe when you whistle, you sound like an injured bird.
"I want you to pray as if everything depends on it, but I want you to prepare yourself as if everything depends on you."
-- Dick LeBeau
Weird. My cat comes when I whistle, but that's cause she connects whistling with attention. She comes when I sing too, which is a pain as I'm a musician and sing a lot.
'No matter how slow you go, you're still lapping everyone on the couch'
"Running is a big question mark that's there each and every day. It asks you, 'Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?'" - Peter Maher
"Running long and hard is an ideal antidepressant, since it's hard to run and feel sorry for yourself at the same time. Also, there are those hours of clearheadedness that follow a long run." -Monte Davis
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The sound of an oboe in particular seems to distress cats.
Well at least someone here is making relevance to the subject. - S.J.
My cat just came and sat next to me on my nightstand. I whistled at him but he seems completely non-entertained. He is far more focused on how he will make his move to my lap without me blocking his attempt. Laptop and laptop kitty do not get along.
The sound of an oboe in particular seems to distress cats.
In my house, the cats are not bothered by music but you should hear the dogs howling during clarinet, violin, and double base practice! Unbelievable!
My dog is generally quiet as I play my horn, but when I play anything that sounds like a hunting call, he howls along.
My dogs howl for emergency sirens and the answering machine. Sometimes we have to leave them alone for a few days and I think the sound of our voice on the message causes them to call out for attention.
Catnip+whistling is very interesting
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Needs more cowbell!
Laptop and laptop kitty do not get along.
Laptop and laptop kitty do not get along.
Keyboard Kitty loves all the windows! He likes to lay there waiting for his daddy person to come home.
• Keep doing stuff.
Keyboard Kitty loves all the windows! He likes to lay there waiting for his daddy person to come home.
"No, I will not lay on the $300 scratching post / kitty hotel bed just a few feet away. I will lay on this lumpy, hard, plastic surface and refuse to move until you present me with gifts." - Logical Cat
"No, I will not lay on the $300 scratching post / kitty hotel bed just a few feet away. I will lay on this lumpy, hard, plastic surface and refuse to move until you present me with gifts." - Logical Cat
You've been reading Ikky's mind, haven't you?
Oh roo roooo!
Our dogs also howl along w/the siren on emergency vehicles, and in fact will howl along with US if we feel like howling (note the bassett in my avatar--this was not idly chosen!).
A few years ago, my hub was making a kind of horn-like sound w/ a snorkel (don't even ask...) and the dogs found this quite upsetting also.
My cats get very perplexed and unsettled when I sing. Not sure why as I'm not that bad. Honest! I haven't tried whistling. Although I suck at whistling, so maybe I should just leave that one alone.
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I use a sesame duani pot for shou. I would stay away from aged Puerh for the reasons TJ mentioned as well as the size. Unless you are brewing for a larger group of people. To get the most out of your aged pu with a pot that size you are gonna need allot of leaf to maximize flavor. That can get expensive very fast with aged Puerh.
I do like the pot though looks good.


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Skip to comments.Tax Exemption Under Review (Benny Hinn...
Posted on 08/13/2005 9:51:17 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
The tax-exempt status of faith healer Benny Hinn's $6.5 million world headquarters in Grapevine is being examined by the Tarrant Appraisal District after a televangelist watchdog group this week questioned whether the property should be considered a church.
The review of the property at 3400 William D. Tate Ave., triggered by a requset of the Dallas-based Trinity Foundation, is considered somewhat unusual, appraisal district officials said. But any requset for a review is investigated as a matter of policy.
...Trinity contends that the ministry hides its spending from donors and uses donations to provide Hinn with a multimillion-dollar California parsonage and a seven-figure salary.
...[Trinity president] [Ole] Anthony asked chief appraiser John Marshall to re-evualate the gated property, in part because no public worship services are held there and only those with access cards or permission are allowed entry.
..."Designating this organization as a church would be tantamount to naming Interstate Batteries, General Motors, the Dallas Cowboys and other for-profit corporations as churches because they hold periodic Bible studies on their premises," Anthony wrote.
By law, a religious property-tax exemption may be granted if a property is regularly used a a place of worship, she [Vinita Tribble, the district's support services director] said. That can mean anything from individual meditation to a group ceremony to religious education.
(Excerpt) Read more at dfw.com ...
I'm next.
IMHO, BH is a fraud as are many like him but he does have the support of his "worshipers" who continue to flood him with money. I think in the long run we need to suffer fools like him and leave it to his followers if they want to believe his message or not. It's a Slippery Slope argument for sure but unfortunately warranted in this case.
This guy, like Robert Tilton and Jim Bakker, gives Christianity a bad name. It would be fine with me if they nail him.
Here is some additional stuff one may want to look at:
"Preachers who live in big homes and drive big cars ought to re-examine their cxalling." (Benny Hinn, speaking at his church in Florida)
Perhaps Benny should practice what he preaches?
"Don't tell me you have Jesus. You ARE everything He was, and everything He is and shall be." Benny Hinn, TBN
"Theres a groups here in California that thinks they are the judgement seat of Christ. Dear God in heaven. I wish I just could just...they call it a ministry, my foot. You know I've looked for one verse in the Bible. I just can't seem to find it. One verse that said, "If you don't like 'em kill 'em" I really wish I could find it.
"You see, frankly, That's the way I think about it. I'm sorry, I'm not exactly the normal kind of guy, you know. I'm from Israel. Sometimes I wish God would give me a Holy Ghost machine gun, I'd blow your head off."
I am in strong support of their holdings being scrutinized -- and when found having hidden assets for them to be fined the the Nth of the Law.
We could probably add 100 names to a list of these people that need so seriously be audited.
Rodney Howard Brown
Oral Roberts
Kenneth Hagan Ministries
Kenneth Copeland Ministries
A true con man, and he let everyone know it.
The funny thing is, even though he's dead, his web site says you can still contact him.
What a showman!
Yep, that's just what I was thinking. My uncle has a bunch of Benny Hill videos and they're hilarious!
Television corrupts.
Televangelism corrupts absolutely.
First off if anyone got a whole sack of mail addressed somewhere else, someone would be there in microseconds to retrieve it. I'm sure folks at the Post Office don't take to kindly to anyone suggesting they would deliver a big stack of mail to the wrong place, and not care about it.
LDS temples have restricted access. Not even all Mormons qualify for a temple recommend.
Hinn needs to be deported.
"Adam was a super-being when God created him. I don't know whether people know this, but he was the first superman that really ever lived. First of all, the Scriptures declare clearly that he had dominion over the fowls of the air, the fish of the sea--which means he used to fly. Of course, how can he have dominion over the birds and not be able to do what they do? The word 'dominion' in the Hebrew clearly declares that if you have dominion over a subject, that you do everything that subject does. In other words, that subject, if it does something you cannot do, you don't have dominion over it. I'll prove it further. Adam not only flew, he flew to space. He was--with one thought he would be on the moon." (Benny Hinn"Praise the Lord" program on TBN, 26 December 1991. "Many Faces Of Benny Hinn DVD")
This is so wrong it is pathetic. Paul the Apostles tells us that Adam was "the first Adam." And he tells us that Christ was the second Adam -- Adam was no more a super man than Jesus Christ -- If Christ had by virtue of his God given powers come down to earth the face down the sin and the devil -- the devil would have cried: "Foul. You did it with divine power. So Christ put off his God hood and put on flesh and became the second Adam and in the flesh he defeated sin and the devil.
According to the Law of Moses which was written based on things in heaven to make an earthly pattern -- the lamb could not have any defect of blemish it could not be a giant (Read that as super lamb) or a dwarf -- Christ the lamb of God in order to be an offering for atonement's needed to be a lamb regular fleshly lamb.
So what is the Adam part -- Adam when he was created knew no sin but after the fall in the blood of the human race runs sin and death -- So God via the Holy Ghost overshadowing Mary conceived Christ . scripture says Adam was the son of God and likewise Christ was also the scone of God not being of the blood of his father.
The smartest of the bunch. He used to make it very clear that contributions to him weren't tax deductable.
Anthony is an interesting person, I'm not sure if he is a crackpot or one of the most enlightened people I've read about. Joe Bob Briggs (John Bloom) is a fringe member of his group, and he is now the publisher of The Door . The Trinity Foundation was named after the Bomb, not the God Head.
Doc was refreshing. As for a con-man, I've not seen any of it, con men tend to keep you in the dark in order to manipulate you. Doc simply laid it out, you like what I'm saying keep the money coming and people did. I personally liked his no holds bar approach, loved his straight talk and his teaching was without compare for those who couldn't get past the cigars and his occasionally colorful expression well maybe they should read a little Jeremiah.
The idea that Christ is for losers and idiots is something Doc assailed with vigor and I think he succeeded and what I find that most dislike about him is that he didn't fit their mold and he spoke with authority with a voice that didn't sound like soft velvet and smell of funerary roses. I doubt the apostle Paul could find a place in todays Christian world. As for the fraud Benny Hinn, I have little to say he is an example of the worst of Christian evangelicals but I'm sure he doesn't a better job spending the money he gets than the real elected thieves in the federal and state governments.
Some interesting links:
One has to love his admonition of the bureaucratic monkey band.
Never saw a preacher beat his monkey before this. ;-)
Robert Tilton is still scamming folks, too.
***Robert Tilton is still scamming folks, too.***
And Peter Popff is popping off again after the Amazing Randi proved him to be a fake.
add to the list a few other deceased scamm artists..
O.L. Jagger ("That's J-A-G-G-E-R").
and the late and unlamented AA ALLEN, (the man who should have gone to AAA meetings).
There are lots more but who keeps count?
Probably a futile exercise, but it would be nice if Hinn were cuffed and stripped of his ability to milk money from little old ladies.
He'll blame the devil for this latest kerfuffle, and his coffers will swell yet again. Disgusting POS with a magic comb-over.
Katheryn Kulmann I attended a meeting of hers when I was young It was bizarre
Oral Roberts I know a fair amount about how he started and what all he did.
I have also known healing and faith evangelists who gave up everything to follow christ and died paupers -- I have high regards for those who don't traffic on the Gospel.
Remember this is a MSM report. Benny Hinn has been on John Hagee's show many times. Pastor Hagee is a well respected and very influential conservative evangelist.
10,000 people would have sworn the same thing about Jimmy Swaggart before he was exposed.
Truly ou don't know this Guy -- What pat Robertson does on TV is all an act -- the man is nothing like what you see on TV I lived in Virginia Beach Been to His collage and HQ went to bible school with people that worked with him -- and the things that they said . . .
You can tell a lot about a man by knowing who his friends are.
And, as you can see, everyone of these scam artists has its diehard fans: "X may be a con man, but my guy tells it like it is, and why, he was on Z's highly respected conservative Tee-Vee extravaganza!"
So now you're slamming John Hagee, one of the most influential Evangelicals in America, and a faithful supporter of the President. Unbelievable.
I said,"Birds of a feather flock together." true or false
And I said "many people probably tens of thousands swore up and down that Jimmy Swaggart was above board, and a great man of God until the day his sin was publicly exposed." Is that true or false.
Finally I said and it was a guess and now you confirmed it that you personally do not know the man -- you only know his TV persona you know him by his repuation.
I did not slam the man -- that was a knee jerk reation on your part.
What kills me is you have one set of criteria for Judging democrats and a completely different set for Judging an EVANGELICAL -- of great reputation.
Now if a dem does something -- we at FR say follow the money. That is a fair test. If the man accepts bribe and gratuities if he gets favors done -- we call that corruption. If an Evangelical of Great reputation does the same thing we call it ------------ spiritual ministry
I know I won't change your mind but early on in this thread someone initimated Benny Hinn was not living the life of Christ -- their meaning was that Christ and his disciples gave up houses and lands to follow and serve the Lord.
I went to bible collage in the 1970's and I met a young methodist preacher who just started in hisfirst Parish in Millerton Pa. We had a discussion on careers and seminary. He told me he wanted to make a lot of money so he wanted to be a Doctor -- and found it was near impossible to get into an ivy league medical school as a white male. So he decided to be a lawyer but the prognosis of that profession in those days was slow growth -- he looked over his options and found that he could be a minister rake in 100,000 a year (Back in 1976)work twenty years in a backwoods parish and retire with a full array of benefits. -- the man was a hireling.
I live in fairbanks we have an presbyterian church here its relatively samll yet the korean woman that does the accounting for that Church and another one gets paid 100,000 a year. I have no idea whatthe pastor gets, but I'm sure it is a princely sum.
I have personally been in church rectories with butler maids and other servants.
This what paul calls trafficing on the Gospel -- and that is not a compliment.
100 years ago 200 years ago all the preachers in these denominations lived by faith -- the phrase during those days was "As poor as a church mouse." Well brother when the church mice can ride around in golf carts, the pastor droives a loaded lincoln and has a prvate leer jet when do we make a call that this is not a church but a business?
One last comment when I was in bible school I learned that our esteemed president had taken for himself not one but five houses that had been given to the bible collage as part of a deceased person's estate -- I had to take a deep breath and look at the words of Christ and compare them with what I saw and heard. the problem with most libs is they can't make the call against their party and seperate themselves from it because they feel they would take a personal hit for soing so. This is the identical thing for many beleivers they see sin, they hear sin and what do they do they stop up their ears and ignor it and hope it ain't or hope it will somehow go away. The problem is when we attend thse meetings nad give offerings to these corrpt people we become theri enablers -- and in the bible we are told to do so and not cry out against the sin = our becoming partakers of their sin. So what do we do we do what FR does we try to acertain the truth we try to first see if ther is a money trail we can view their tax records its public info. If you find your beleived teacher makes relatively little money and does not have a lot of perks -- you can feel a bit better but if the man has become via the ministry a multi-millionaire with his perks and financeces tagled up in doezens of dummy accounts and corporations what is the differece between him and Hinn?
We live in a day that the church blindly worships the godess of success. And people have associated big church big ministries with the power of God -- that is not the testimony of Christ and the apostles
Jesus said if a man come in his own name him ye will hear. Jesus said If I bear witness of myself it is not true. Jesus said I can not accept the witness of men but seek the witness of the father in signs wonders and diverse miracles. In this day ministers come in theri own name and give witness to each other and how right on they are is that the same thing as what Christ was talking about in John Chapter 5?
Nuff Said
Rodney Howard Brown
Oral Roberts
Kenneth Hagan Ministries
Kenneth Copeland Ministries
And The Rev. Jesse Jackson
The Rev. Al Sharpton
Minister Louis Farrakhan
being con men and scam artists fleecing God's blind blind sheep is the lowest acts of theft on the scale.
Jesus accused the Pharisees of devouring widows houses -- did they eat the brick and mortar? No they said God the king of the universe had a problem he's broke and unless some how we can finance our proselyte mission ministry God will have to shut its doors forever. God power is weak in this day as not many people truly believe like you -- and we can help you with your tithes and offerings see we work with Manny and Moe's loan sharking agency they are understanding people and will loan you what you need against that house so we can keeps the missions going. so they give one year two years five years and their house is devoured bit by bit and one day Manny and Moe show up and say pay up now or we will cease the property and band another widows house is eaten while the pharisees were living high on the hog like they do in our day.
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April 25-29, Dodds Theater
Tyler Prigionieri as Seymour, with Audrey II
WEST HAVEN, CONN. -- The University of New Haven theater Program's spring production, "Little Shop of Horrors," will run April 25-28 at 7:30 p.m. and April 28-29 at 2 p.m. at Dodds Theater on the UNH Main Campus at 300 Boston Post Road in West Haven.
The actors and director will take part in a talkback with the audience following the 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday, April 28.
"Little Shop of Horrors" by Howard Ashman focuses on a down-and out skid row floral assistant who becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood. Soon, "Audrey II" grows into an ill-tempered, foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore who offers him fame and fortune in exchange for feeding its growing appetite.
One of the longest-running off-Broadway shows of all time, this affectionate spoof of 1950s sci-fi movies has become a household name. The songwriting team of Ashman and Alan Menken redefined the animated musical film with Disney's "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast" and "Aladdin."
Tyler Prigionieri, a sophomore from Wolcott, Conn., will play the lead role of Seymour. It is his second performance at UNH as he depicted Angel Dumott Schunard in the musical "Rent," which sold out all six performances last spring.
"My favorite part of acting is the audience's reaction," said Prigionieri, a communication and theater double major, who hopes to work in the film industry after graduation. "Knowing that they came to the show and enjoyed it makes me feel like I've done my job successfully."
The play is directed and choreographed by Heather Reba, a lecturer in UNH's Department of Communication, Film and theater. Coralie Gallet, an adjunct professor in the university's Department of Visual and Performing Arts, oversees musical direction.
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U.S. Women Blank Trinidad & Tobago
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Unofficial DataVolley Stats * Official NORCECA Stats
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Sept. 14, 2011) – The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team overwhelmed Trinidad & Tobago 25-14, 25-16, 25-11 on Wednesday afternoon to conclude Pool B of the NORCECA Women's Continental Championship being held Sept. 12-17 in Caguas, Puerto Rico.
The U.S., ranked second in the world by the FIVB, ends the three-team round-robin Pool B with a 2-0 record and the maximum 12 points in the group (six points for a 3-0 win). However, the Americans must await the outcome of the last two matches of the day to see if they advance directly to the semifinals or must play a quarterfinal match.
Should Team USA finish as either the first or second-best pool winner after Wednesday's matches of Dominican Republic versus Cuba and Puerto Rico versus Mexico, it will advance directly to the semifinal round on Sept. 16. The third-best pool winner will join the second-place pool finishers in the quarterfinals on Sept. 15. The NORCECA Women's Continental Championship concludes on Sept. 17 with the final classification matches. The event's gold and silver medalist will earn tickets to the 2011 FIVB World Cup, the first 2012 Olympic Games qualification event, being staged Nov. 4-18 in Japan.
Trinidad & Tobago stayed close in the first set and held a 7-6 advantage until the Americans caught fire and scored 19 of the final 26 points. In the second set, Trinidad & Tobago went into the first technical timeout with an 8-6 advantage before the U.S. stormed back and controlled the rest of the set for a 25-16 victory. Team USA claimed a 25-11 victory in the third set with two different starters from the opening set.
"I was very happy with our team's performance, and both teams played hard," U.S. Women's National Team Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand) said. "I think it is important to respect the game by always playing hard. I thought we improved from yesterday and were pretty clean (in terms of errors). Trinidad & Tobago put up a nice block against us."
The U.S. had 10 of its 12 players score during the match highlighted by Destinee Hooker's (San Antonio, Texas) 10 points on eight kills, one block and one ace. Jordan Larson (Hooper, Neb.) added nine points with eight kills and a block in two sets of action. Megan Hodge (Durham, N.C.) totaled six kills for all her points with just one set start. Foluke Akinradewo (Plantation, Fla.) chipped in three kills and three blocks for six points.
Logan Tom (Salt Lake City, Utah) provided Team USA with five points with three kills and two aces. Heather Bown (Yorba Linda, Calif.) collected three kills, while Jennifer Tamas (Milpitas, Calif.) pocketed two kills and a block for three points. Kim Glass (Lancaster, Pa.) recorded two kills and an ace for three points. Lindsey Berg (Honolulu) scored two blocks and Nancy Metcalf (Hull, Iowa) rounded out the scoring with a kill.
Berg set the U.S. to a 45.6 kill percent with 20 assists, which led to a .418 hitting efficiency (36-3-79). Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.) charted a team-high nine digs for the Americans, while Tom tallied 11 of the squad's 20 excellent receptions.
"I thought Trinidad & Tobago played a nice match," said Tamas, the U.S. captain. "They are a very physical team."
The U.S. limited its mistakes to eight for the entire match and held advantages in kills (36-28), blocks (8-5) and aces (4-0). Meanwhile, Trinidad & Tobago committed 27 errors in the match as it connected for just 36.4 percent of its attacks with a .194 hitting efficiency (28-13-77). Team USA held a 31-22 margin in digs.
McCutcheon started Tom and Larson at outside hitter, Akinradewo and Bown at middle blocker, Hooker at opposite and Berg at setter. Davis was the designated libero for the match. Hodge entered as a sub in the second set and started in place of Larson in the third set. Tamas started the third set in place of Bown. Alisha Glass, Metcalf and Kim Glass all came off the bench in the third set.
Krystle Esdelle scored a match-high 12 points to lead Trinidad & Tobago. Kelly-Anne Billingy chipped in eight points in the loss.
"I think we are lucky to continue having the opportunities to play against one of the best teams in the world in the United States," Trinidad & Tobago coach Francisco Cruz. "These matches allow our team to continue to play the best and improve."
"The U.S. is one of the best teams in the world and I thought we played well," said Esdelle, who is Trinidad & Tobago's captain. "In the end, we lost focus."
Trinidad & Tobago gained a 4-2 advantage early in the first set. Trailing 7-5, the U.S. scored five unanswered points with two kills and block from Akinradewo, a kill by Tom and opponent error. The Americans stretched the lead to 14-9 with four of the next five points that included kills by Hooker, Akinradewo and Larson. The U.S. extended the margin to 19-10 with a Larson kill around four Trinidad & Tobago errors on a 5-0 run. After Hooker and Larson notched consecutive kills at 21-11, the U.S. sided its way to a 25-14 victory.
As with the first set, Trinidad & Tobago held a slim 6-4 lead early in the second set. The U.S. took the lead at 10-9 with a Hooker block capping a 3-0 run that included a Larson kill. After Trinidad & Tobago knotted the score at 10-all, Larson capped a 6-0 run with two kills as Hooker served an ace during the spurt. Trinidad & Tobago narrowed the deficit to 19-15, only have Hodge and Tom connect for consecutive kills to regain a six-point edge at 21-15. The Americans scored the final four points of the set with kills from Hooker, Hodge and Akinradewo around a Tom ace for a 25-16 victory.
Team USA gained a 4-1 lead in the third set as Hodge and Tamas pounded kills around a Trinidad & Tobago error. However, Trinidad & Tobago battled back to tie the set at 6-all. The Americans stopped any momentum with 10 straight points going into the second technical timeout leading 16-6 with Kim Glass contributing two kills along with attacks by Tamas and Hodge around blocks by Berg and Akinradewo and four Trinidad & Tobago errors. Kim Glass served an ace after an Akinradewo block and Trinidad & Tobago error to push the advantage to 20-8. The U.S. reached set and match point at 24-10 with a Tamas block after a Metcalf kill and Trinidad & Tobago error. Hodge ended the set at 25-11 with a kill.
For additional information on the U.S. Women's National Team at the 2011 NORCECA Continental Championship, visit usavolleyball.org/events/8347.
All matches during the 2011 NORCECA Women's Continental Championship will have Live Stats that can be accessed through the NORCECA event page clicking here.
U.S. Women's National Team Roster for NORCECA Women's Continental Championship
# - Name (Position, Height, Hometown, College)
4 - Lindsey Berg (S, 5-8, Honolulu, Hawaii, Minnesota)
6 - Nicole Davis (L, 5-4, Stockton, Calif., Southern California)
7 - Heather Bown (MB, 6-3, Yorba Linda, Calif., Hawaii)
8 - Alisha Glass (S, 6-0, Leland, Mich., Penn State)
9 - Jennifer Tamas (MB, 6-4, Milpitas, Calif., Pacific)
10 - Kim Glass (OH, 6-2, Lancaster, Pa., Arizona)
11 - Jordan Larson (OH, 6-2, Hooper, Neb., Nebraska)
12 - Nancy Metcalf (Opp, 6-1, Hull, Iowa, Nebraska)
15 - Logan Tom (OH, 6-1, Salt Lake City, Utah, Stanford)
16 - Foluke Akinradewo (MB, 6-3, Plantation, Fla., Stanford)
18 - Megan Hodge (OH, 6-3, Durham, N.C., Penn State)
19 - Destinee Hooker (Opp, 6-4, San Antonio, Texas, Texas)
Head Coach: Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Assistant Coach: Karch Kiraly (San Clemente, Calif.)
Assistant Coach: Paula Weishoff (Irvine, Calif.)
Assistant Coach/Technical Coordinator: Jamie Morrison (Dana Point, Calif.)
Athletic Trainer/Medical Support: Jill Wosmek (Silver Lake, Minn.)
Team Manager: Ken Sullivan (Laguna Beach, Calif.)
2011 NORCECA Women's Continental Championship Schedule
Caguas, Puerto Rico * Sept. 12-17
Times Listed as Puerto Rico Time and Subject to Change
Pool A
Sept. 12: Puerto Rico def. Costa Rica 25-8, 25-12, 25-10 (Match 3)
Sept. 13: Mexico def. Costa Rica 25-21, 21-25, 25-11, 25-17 (Match 4)
Sept. 14: Mexico vs. Puerto Rico, 8:10 p.m. (Match 9)
Pool B
Sept. 12: Canada def. Trinidad & Tobago 25-15, 28-30, 25-22, 25-11 (Match 2)
Sept. 13: USA def. Canada 25-19, 25-19, 25-23 (Match 6)
Sept. 14: USA def. Trinidad & Tobago 25-14, 25-16, 25-11 (Match 7)
Pool C
Sept. 12: Dominican Republic def. Panama 25-12, 25-10, 25-15 (Match 1)
Sept. 13: Panama vs. Cuba, 6 p.m. (Match 5)
Sept. 14: Cuba vs. Dominican Republic, 6 p.m. (Match 8)
Classification 7-9
Sept. 15: 3rd HR2 vs. 3rd HR3, 4 p.m. (Match 10)
Sept. 15: 2nd HR1 vs. 2nd HR2 (or 2nd HR3), 6 p.m. (Match 11)
Sept. 15: 1st HR3 vs. 2nd HR3 (or 2nd HR2), 8:10 p.m. (Match 12)
Final Classification 7-8
Sept. 16: 3rd HR1 vs. Winner of Match 10, 4 p.m. (Match 13)
Sept. 16: 1st HR2 vs. Winner Match 11/12, 6 p.m. (Match 14)
Sept. 16: 1st HR1 vs. Winner Match 12/11, 8:10 p.m. (Match 15)
Final Classification 5-6
Sept. 17: Loser Match 11 vs. Loser Match 12, 4 p.m. (Match 16)
Medal Matches
Sept. 17: Loser Match 14 vs. Loser Match 15, 6 p.m. (Bronze)
Sept. 17: Winner Match 14 vs. Match 15, 8:10 p.m. (Gold)


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Peter John Tattersall, PhD
Professor of Laboratory Medicine and of Genetics
Research Interests
Dependovirus; Biochemistry; Eukaryotic Cells; Genetics; Melanoma, Experimental; Mice, Mutant Strains; Medical Laboratory Science; Parvovirus; Erythrovirus; Oncolytic Virotherapy; Oncolytic Viruses; Mice; Bocavirus; Viral Structures; Immunomodulation
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Cancer Center: Virus and Other Infection-associated Cancers
Molecular Virology: Virology laboratories
Research Summary
Our research efforts are directed at understanding the molecular mechanisms by which mammalian parvoviruses target particular cell types, express their genes, take over their host cells and replicate their own DNA. Eukaryotic and prokaryotic expression systems, coupled with directed mutagenesis, are currently being used to separate the various functions of the complex, multi-functional parvoviral gene products, in order to understand how the virus subverts the macromolecular metabolism of its target host cell to its own ends. We are currently applying this knowledge to the construction of vectors for transducing immunomodulatory genes into tumor cells as therapeutic strategy against cancer.
Specialized Terms: Biochemistry; Genetics; Parvoviruses; DNA replication; Gene therapy; Oncolytic virus; Vaccines; Vectors; Viral replication and vectors
Extensive Research DescriptionManipulating the oncoselectivity of parvoviruses in human tumor models
Most of the rodent parvoviruses will bind to and enter human cells with high efficiency, but fail to initiate gene expression, replicate their genomes, generate progeny or spread through the culture, unless the host cell is neoplastically transformed. As a consequence, these viruses are promising candidates as oncolytic agents for cancer therapy, particularly in situations where other treatments have proven ineffective. Our current efforts are directed toward understanding, at the molecular level, why cellular changes that accompany oncogenic transformation promote viral growth, and how we can use this knowledge to further improve the efficacy of the virus in tumor eradication. Since tumorigenesis normally involves loss of genomic integrity, tumor cells carry many mutations that are secondary to those causing the transformed phenotype. To avoid studying or selecting for viral traits that represent adaptations to such "collateral" transformed cell properties, we are using host cells that have been transformed in a stepwise fashion with activated oncogenes and/or tumor suppressor knock-downs. Currently we are exploring the contribution of the viral capsid and initiating promoter to the discrimination between normal and transformed cells, using stepwise transformed human fibroblasts and melanocytes, the latter being a model for malignant melanoma. These studies are directing strategies for selecting more oncotropic versions of these critical oncoselective elements, using gene shuffling and degenerate promoter library approaches.
Many of the autonomously replicating rodent parvoviruses can enter human cells, generate progeny and spread through the culture only if the host cell is neoplastically transformed, making these viruses promising candidates as oncolytic agents. Parvoviral induction of complete tumor regression has been achieved in several syngeneic transplantable tumor models in immunocompetent rodent hosts, and often results in immunization of the animal against subsequent transplantation of cells of the same tumor, even at high input numbers, suggesting that some aspect of parvovirus infection elicits a strong anti-tumor immune response. This project utilizes a mouse melanoma model system to explore whether parvovirus-induced cell death proceeds via an immunogenic, rather than tolerogenic, pathway, by examining the expression of phagocytic engulfment signals on the infected cell surface, coupled with the secretion of soluble damage-associated molecular pattern (DAMP) molecules, such as HMGB1 and Hsp72.How parvoviruses enter their host cell and traffic to the nucleus
Parvoviruses do not have a lipid envelope, and so cannot deliver their virions into the host cell by fusing with its plasma or endosomal membranes. These viruses have developed an alternative strategy to breach their host cell's outer membrane and gain entry into the cytoplasm. We have shown that the compact, icosahedral virion of the murine parvovirus Minute Virus of Mice, MVM deploys a lipolytic enzyme, phospholipase A2 (PLA2) that is expressed at the N-terminus of the minor coat protein, VP1. This region of VP1 is normally sequestered within the viral shell, but is extruded during the entry process as a capsid-tethered domain, via an 8Å pore that extends through the prominent 5-fold cylinder. [Figure] In addition to the PLA2 domain, the extruded VP1 N-terminus also displays a number of small protein interaction domains predicted to engage both ubiquitin ligases of the NEDD4 family, involved in endocytosis and vesicle trafficking, and nuclear transport proteins of the alpha-importin family. The sequential conformational shifts within the particle that allow these transitions to occur as the virion transits its entry pathway, exposing first its VP2 N-termini, then its VP1 N-termini and ultimately its DNA are being analyzed using X-ray crystallography and asymmetric cryo-electron microscopy, in collaborations with Drs. Susan Hafenstein at Hershey Medical School and Mavis Agbandje-McKenna at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Finally, we are using reverse genetics combined with differential real-time PCR, sub-cellular fractionation and in situ imaging techniques, such as Proximity Ligation, to explore the roles of the VP1 N-terminal domain in the trans-cytosolic trafficking and nuclear import of MVM virions.Characterizing the unique chromatin assembled during parvoviral DNA replication
During the S-phase following infection, autonomous parvoviruses inveigle host cells to replicate the linear, single-stranded viral DNA chromosome, instead of the cellular genome. Part of the virus' replication strategy involves the elaboration of a unique form of chromatin, which ChIP analysis suggests incorporates both cellular histones and many copies of NS1, the major viral non-structural protein. This project explores the replication of an otherwise wildtype viral genome rendered artificially devoid of NS1 binding sites throughout its entire NS1 gene, capsid gene and/or 3' untranslated region. 2D gel electrophoresis and nuclease protection assays will be used to look for stalling or pausing of replication forks through the capsid region, and to characterize packaging intermediates generated by mutant, compared to wildtype, virus.
Selected Publications
- Mihaylov, I.S., Cotmore, S.F., & Tattersall, P. Complementation for an essential ancillary non-structural protein function across parvovirus genera. Virology. 468-470:226-237, 2014.
- Li, L., Cotmore, S.F., & Tattersall, P. Parvoviral left-end hairpin ears are essential during infection for establishing a functional intranuclear transcription template and for efficient progeny genome encapsidation. J. Virol. 87:10501-14, 2013.
- Vollmers, E.M., & Tattersall, P. Distinct host cell fates for human malignant melanoma targeted by oncolytic rodent parvoviruses. Virology, 446:37-48, 2013.
- Mattei, L.M., Cotmore, S.F., Tattersall, P., & Iwasaki, A. Parvovirus evades interferon-dependent viral control in primary mouse embryonic fibroblasts. Virology, 442:20-7, 2013
- Cotmore, S.F. & Tattersall, P. Mutations at the base of the icosahedral five-fold cylinders of Minute Virus of Mice induce 3'-to-5' genome uncoating and critically impair entry functions. J. Virol., 86: 69-80, 2012.
- Paglino, J. & Tattersall, P. The parvoviral capsid controls an intracellular phase of infection essential for efficient killing of stepwise-transformed human fibroblasts. Virology, 416:32-41, 2011.
- Plevka, P., Hafenstein, S., Li, L., D'Abramo, A. Jr., Cotmore, S.F., Rossmann, M.G., & Tattersall P. Structure of a packaging-defective mutant of Minute Virus of Mice indicates that the genome is packaged via a pore at a 5-fold axis. J. Virol., 85:4822-7, 2011.
- Ruiz, Z., Mihaylov, I.S., Cotmore, S.F., & Tattersall, P. Recruitment of DNA replication and damage response proteins to viral replication centers during infection with NS2 mutants of Minute Virus of Mice (MVM). Virology, 410:375-84, 2011.
- Tewary, S.K., Liang, L., Lin, Z., Lynn, A., Cotmore, S.F., Tattersall, P., Zhao, H. & Tang, L. Virology 476:61-71, 2015.


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Victory! 80 Monkeys Saved From Laboratory
After thousands of e-mails, hundreds of phone calls, and a PETA "monkey" paying a visit to China Southern Airlines' L.A. office, the airline—which is the largest in China—has made the compassionate decision to cancel its plans to ship 80 monkeys from China to the U.S., where they were going to end up in the hands of Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories (SNBL) and Harlan Laboratories and be tormented in cruel experiments.
Now, we're urging China Southern Airlines officials to join with many other major airlines, including Delta, American, United, British Airways, and Virgin Atlantic, and refuse to transport primates to laboratories ever again. You can also write to them here. We'll keep you posted!
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iv always been against animal being used in cruel experiments so this is awsome news for me. I know we can stop all the cruelty but we,ve gotta give it our all and we can never give up.:]
Thank You PETA, I've been reading numerous articles on airlines shipping these poor innocent monkeys for experimentation. It's great to hear of your victory. I love all animals and every time i hear of their suffering it breaks my heart. You are their voice, you speak up for them, we need more people to get on board and be their voice.
Some good news for a change regarding animal welfare. There's so much more to do, but every victory is sweet! You've got my continued support PETA…
great job!!!
Great job ! Thank you 🙂
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That is good news! but I wonder what happened to the monkeys after that? I can't imagine them being safe in China, a country that is not noted for its humanity to people, let alone animals. The dogs and cats killed by them for 'fur' are the first things that come to mind. But at least it is a good start, PETA.
I still don't understand why animals are being used in experiments. I have taken two courses in Anatomy and Physiology and have used interactive CDs that recreate experiments through computer imagery and graphics. No live animals are needed in any of these labs. I am hoping that in my lifetime animals will no longer be used in cruel laboratory experiments.
Yeah, cause when i think of a shining bastion of animal rights, i think of china.
Hannibal the Cannibal only commented on a feed full of animal lovers to get a rise out of people. Little does he know that his opinion here holds little significance to anyone. He has also failed to read anything in the past decade stating that testing on animals is becoming obsolete since it doesn't yield results that are compatable with humans most of the time. With that being said, I'm so grateful that these monkeys were saved. They did nothing to deserve a life full of suffering and pain. I think this is a start to a very positive trend in airlines. Thanks PETA!
Hannibal the cannibal, do you really think the "human" race as many of them are today are worth saving at the cost of all the innocent souls which are destroyed. You are an illness in itself.
These are amazing victories in a step towards stamping out Animal Testing. We have just come into the Age of Aquarius and it is about Truth and enlightenment. So everyone start telling all your friends about Animal Testing and what they can do to stop it. By buying only Cruelty Free products and direct them to Peta's website to see which companies are on the safe list.
I do hope this is the first step to allot more victories. Well done PETA!
PETA you guys are angels to the world! You are my roll-model, because of you I strive to be a better person to myself and the world. THANK YOU
Thanks for the update. Sometimes I get so low as to how powerless I feel when I think of the suffering that goes on. It is good to see what you guys do with the support of the everyday Joe like me behind you. On behalf of everyone who cares enough to hurt inside. Thank you and keep up the fantastic work you do!
Thank You PETA for all you do when it comes to protecting animals(wild and domestic)
Congratulations, China, you do something nice to animals for once. And @Hannibal the Cannibal: You sir, are an under-educated internet shadow.
This Earth was made perfect, however you believe it was made. We need to work in synergy to the Earth and in harmony with its energy to be able to evolve as a race. Anyone who has been around animals whether it is a cat, dog, elephant or aardvark has learnt a little more about how we should live our lives as humans. We are not special because we have opposable thumbs, we are special because we have to ability to learn and adapt and find answers. We are strong if we stick together. =)
Regarding the comment made by hannibalthecannibal: Humans are not superior. They simply have bodies that are better adapted at conquering other species. That ability doesn't make humans superior; it just enables them to be cruel. Our world is overcrowded because humans can't control themselves and choose to destroy this planet. To destroy the very thing you desperately need to survive is not a demonstration of intelligence; it's a demonstration of apathy, carelessness, short-sightedness. It's a recipe for failure.
The decision not to send these monkeys to Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories (SNBL)is a step in the right direction, however,this is only the first step in permanately ending this cruel practice.
Thank you PETA for your great help saving those monkeys. Killing is not the answers. Let us all together think outside of the box.
These 80 monkeys were destined to suffer for the benefit of mankind who is,as we all know,the most superior animal species on Earth.It is a shame that China Airlines decided to not transport these monkeys to the laboratories that work to discover new drugs to combat human illness.
This isn't science
GOD BLESS you all in PETA
Thank you PETA and everyone involved!
If not monkeys whoom we can send for experiments .. if it continous like this they will start experimenting on humans..dont give up
What has happened or what will happen to the monkeys, reported abused and severely mistreated by the whistleblower at Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories in Washington or Seattle? They videotaped this HORRIFIC abuse happening, and explain how these animals are tortured, but are they going to be rescued or are they just going to continue this torture??? PLEASE someone tell me they are going to be rescued!
We who have discovered the spiritual connection-compassion-with all living creatures gladly fulfill the purpose of helping every living creature we can. We are fortunate.
Stop transporting monkeys!
Thank you 🙂
I love monkey's and don't want them to be experimented on and congratualte you for not sending 80 to the U.S, but please….commit to refusing, from now on, to fly them around the world to end up in labs where they'll suffer.
One person in charge at an airlne can make a small decision that has a huge impact, which is to stop sending animals to their death. Just because some airline's gonna do it it doesn't mean it has to be yours
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Great job! No more animal testings!!!
One for the animals and the courageous people who helped for this victory!!!
How barbaric can we be!!! I hope one day this world will be a better place than it is and that all animals are treated with compassion,love,and respect they deserve.
Great job for saving these defenseless animals!!! thumbs up!
thank you
Thank you China Airways 🙂
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November 21, 2005
WHITE PLAINS—The New York Power Authority (NYPA) has selected Anne N. McSpedon, payroll manager in NYPA's Business Services Unit, as the Power Authority's Woman Leader of the Year for 2005.
McSpedon was one of over 50 women honored by their employers at the 32nd annual Salute to Women Leaders Luncheon sponsored by the Academy of Women Leaders of the YWCA-NYC at the New York Marriott Marquis in Manhattan this past Wednesday (Nov. 16).
The award recognizes women who have demonstrated leadership and served as positive examples in the workplace. Nominations from NYPA facilities across the state were evaluated by NYPA's Executive Management Committee which selected McSpedon as its 2005 Woman Leader.
"People expect electricity when they flip the switch, just like everyone expects their pay statement on time, yet to deliver these seemly simple tasks, takes tremendous behind-the-scenes expertise. Anne's masterful leadership, dedication and superb coordination of payroll intricacies has achieved a level of excellence which makes this complex process run as smoothly as NYPA power runs in lines across New York," said Eugene W. Zeltmann, president and chief executive officer, NYPA.
McSpedon navigated a challenging year for the entire payroll group beginning in May 2004, when the group's former manager fell ill and took a leave of absence. McSpedon, who had been second-in-command for a scant two years, was suddenly handed the reigns of NYPA's paycheck disbursement just as the group was grappling with the task of switching payroll services after years with the former company.
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"I've always had a knack for computer systems and converting the payroll system took knowledge of both payroll and systems functioning. It was a great challenge and the experience enabled me to grow professionally," said McSpedon about her achievements.
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Speer: A hole in the road nobody wanted
The other morning I was driving down Ripley well before daybreak when I came upon the Ripley water break. As I slowed and detoured into the center lane around the sunken patch of what once was the road surface I thought to myself "this lane really doesn't seem much better than sunken patch beside it."
Living in a region rich with limestone, sinkholes are not unfamiliar. Travel enough in the woods and fields of the region, or fish in some of the bodies of water locally, and very quickly you discover "sinks" are everywhere.
The last place you want to find a new one, however, is a major street in the city.
Readers might also remember I grew up in western Pennsylvania and went to college in West Virginia. For 10 years I worked and lived in East Ohio, all "coal country" areas where underground mining was a way of life.
And, because the land was honeycombed by underground shafts, occasionally subsidence was a issue and whole areas would suddenly sink into the earth.
Flashbacks to those areas went through my mind as I detoured around the Ripley break.
"What would it be like if you were the driver who passed across that section of road when it decided to cave in?" I wondered. One minute you're contemplating what's for dinner and the next you're halfway to China.
Alpena City Engineer Rich Sullenger said the city was fortunate that no serious accident occurred at Ripley when the road gave way, especially given the amount of traffic on Ripley each day.
You bet they were. This hole in particular would gobble you up in a hurry.
This has been a strange winter as evidence by the fact most schools in the region missed three days of classes this week and the region received less than five inches of snow. It was the ice that canceled schools, and the freezing and thawing that caused the Ripley water break, as well as many others around the region.
"These temperature fluctuations are really tough on the system," Sullenger said in a news story Friday. "We usually see a rash of breaks in the fall when we go from no frost to frost conditions, but we had two more leaks (Thursday) and I think it was directly related to the weather."
Adding injury to insult at Ripley was the fact city Department of Public Works crews were busy plowing and salting city streets when the problem first was discovered, so the city had to contact a contractor to come in and do the initial repairs that were required.
Then there is this good news that the break is just the beginning of needed repairs to the system in that area. Other repairs to the system now have been identified and will need tackled once the weather breaks and frost has permanently left the ground.
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