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BBC AMERICA today announced the U.S. premiere of David Tennant's final special as the Tenth Doctor. Doctor Who: The End of Time, Part Two, premieres January 2, one week after Part One, on BBC AMERICA. The finale to the era of David Tennant is one of the most eagerly anticipated adventures in the history of Doctor Who. Guest stars include John Simm (Life on Mars) as the Master, Timothy Dalton, Catherine Tate and Bernard Cribbins. New synopses for the final three specials airing on the channel three straight Saturdays over the holiday season are available below.
Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars airs Saturday, December 19, 9:00pm ET/PT
Doctor Who: The End of Time, Part One airs Saturday, December 26, 9:00pm ET/PT
Doctor Who: The End of Time, Part Two airs Saturday, January 2, 9:00pm ET/PT
Regarding the final specials, lead writer and executive producer Russell T Davies told Radio Times, "It's personal for the Doctor. The Master (John Simm) is his enemy, his opposite, and yet so tantalizingly close to being his soul mate. There's something epic about their sheer existence - the last two survivors of an ancient race. It's a clash of the titans. Both of them, heading for death, and yet both determined to survive - at any cost!"
Davies and Tennant are passing the baton to Steven Moffat and actor Matt Smith, who will play the Eleventh Doctor in a new season of the re-imagined series premiering in 2010 on BBC AMERICA.
BBCAmerica.com/DoctorWho has exclusive Doctor Who video clips including Inside Look interviews with David Tennant, Russell T Davies and executive producer Julie Gardner as well as sneak peeks of The Waters of Mars and The End of Time, Part One.
The BBC will release The Waters of Mars and The End of Time, Part One and Part Two on DVD and Blu-ray, Tuesday, February 2, 2010. A 5-disc set, Doctor Who: Specials Collection, which includes The Next Doctor, Planet of the Dead, Waters of Mars, The End of Time, Part One and Part Two and a 16-page booklet with an introduction written by David Tennant, hits stores the same day.
BBC AMERICA brings audiences a new generation of award-winning television featuring news with a uniquely global perspective, provocative dramas, razor-sharp comedies, life-changing makeovers and a whole new world of nonfiction. BBC AMERICA pushes the boundaries to deliver high quality, highly addictive and eminently watchable programming to viewers who demand more. It is available on digital cable and satellite TV in more than 65 million homes.
Lindsay Duncan (Alice and Wonderland (2010), Rome) joins the Doctor as his sharpest and most strong-minded companion yet for the second of four Doctor Who Specials. The Waters of Mars is a dark, scary thriller that sees the Doctor land on the planet Mars, at a base in peril. A creeping infection beneath the Martian surface threatens not only the human race, but also the Doctor's most fundamental beliefs. Together with Adelaide Brooke (Lindsay Duncan), the base's commander, the Doctor must defeat a seemingly unstoppable menace before it can reach Earth, and wipe out mankind. The Doctor must fight not only the water but destiny itself� Whilst also confronting his own existence, when the prophesy about his future begins to resonate. Is his song about to come to an end?
The Waters of Mars is written by Russell T Davies (Torchwood, Queer as Folk) and Phil Ford and directed by Graeme Harper. The executive producers are Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner (Torchwood, Life on Mars).
It's the Tenth Doctor's final journey - but his psychotic nemesis the Master has been reborn, on Christmas Eve. With both determined to cheat death, the battle ranges from the wastelands of London to the mysterious Immortality Gate. Meanwhile, the alien race Ood warn of an even greater danger approaching, as a terrible shadow falls across the entire Universe.
David Tennant stars as the Tenth Doctor and guest stars include John Simm, Bernard Cribbins, Catherine Tate, Timothy Dalton, David Harewood and June Whitfield. The End Of Time, Part One is written by Russell T Davies and directed by Euros Lyn. The producer is Tracie Simpson.
The Doctor faces the end of his life as the Master's plans hurtle out of control. With the sound of drums growing louder, and an ancient trap closing around the Earth, the Doctor and Wilf must fight alone. But sacrifices must be made, and the deadly prophecy warns: "He will knock four times."
David Tennant stars as the Tenth Doctor and guest stars include John Simm, Bernard Cribbins, Catherine Tate, Timothy Dalton, David Harewood and June Whitfield. The End Of Time, Part Two is written by Russell T Davies and directed by Euros Lyn. The producer is Tracie Simpson.
David Tennant is an accomplished theater actor who most recently starred onstage in Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Before landing the role of The Doctor in Doctor Who, he played the title role in Russell T Davies' adaptation of Casanova alongside Peter O'Toole. He also played Briscoe in The Quatermass Experiment, a recreation of the sci-fi cult classic first broadcast live in 1953. Other stage work includes The Pillowman at the National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company productions of Romeo & Juliet and As You Like It. His movie roles include Stephen Fry's Bright Young Things and the role of Barty Crouch Jr. in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire. Tennant is the new host of PBS' Masterpiece Contemporary and recently signed on to appear in the NBC pilot Rex Is Not Your Lawyer.
Russell started at BBC Children's, writing the fantasy thrillers Dark Season and Century Falls, before winning the BAFTA for Best Children's Drama in 1996 for Granada's The Ward. He then created the landmark series Queer As Folk for Channel 4, and the U.S. version ran on Showtime for five years. Since then, he has written Bob & Rose - for which he won Comedy Writer of the Year 2001 - The Second Coming, Mine All Mine and Casanova, starring David Tennant. He reinvented and reinvigorated Doctor Who for the BBC in 2005, winning both the Dennis Potter Award and the BAFTA for Best Drama. He has created the Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, both now entering their third successful season.


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Caught up with Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos tonight as he was making his way back from Toronto Pearson, following a trip to Arizona for the MLB owners' mettings. AA returned from his honeymoon in Hawaii on Tuesday, flew to meetings on Wednesday and back to Toronto tonight.
And he sounded tired.
"You're not going straight to the office are you?" I asked him.
"No," he replied with an exhausted laugh. "I'm going home. But I'll be at the office early in the morning."
While on his honeymoon, Anthopoulos said he was still keeping in touch with a handful of other GMs. "I probably talked to six GMs while I was there," he said. AA added that he was working on three separate trades, but they just didn't come to fruition.
I've got to say, Anthopoulos must have a very understanding wife. When I finally take my wife to Hawaii, I'm pretty sure my Blackberry will wind up in the Pacific Ocean if I'm on it during our vacation.
I just read this paragraph to her, and she nodded and said, "Basically."
JAYS TO SCOUT SHEETS: Anthopoulos noted that he's always looking for rotation help, especially considering the youth and inexperienced of his projected starting staff. AA confirmed that the Jays will have someone in attendance on Tuesday, when Ben Sheets will throw for interested teams.
"We're going to take a look at him," Anthopoulos said. "It's like what I've talked about before — no stone unturned. It's the same reason why we're watched other guys work out. … We're not doing out job if we don't at least take a look. Things change. Trades occur. Someone might surprise us. It doesn't do us any harm to do our homework on all these players and to be really prepared if an opportunity presents itself."
This also explains why reports surfaced that the Blue Jays had watched Carlos Delgado playing in the Puerto Rican winter league. Delgado isn't a fit for the Jays right now, but Anthopoulos has majorly upgraded his scouting staff and he's making sure he's exploring as many avenues as possible.
NEW ARBITRATION POLICY: One thing that former Jays GM J.P. Ricciardi was known for was his streak of avoiding arbitration hearings with his players. Anthopoulos hopes to do the same, if possible, but he has altered the organizations approach to the arbitration process slightly, hoping to create earlier negotiations.
The deadline for arb-eligible players and teams to exchange salary figures is Tuesday. Anthopoulos has implemented a "file to go strategy." If the club has not reached an agreement with its arb-eligible players between now and Tuesday, they will go to an arbitration hearing rather than continue negotiations.
"I made a change this year," Anthopoulos said. "The thought was really it's hopefully to encourage more dialogue in negotiations with the goal of continuing to avoid arbitration and continuing to try to get deals done and maybe bring both parties to the table a little bit sooner."
Arbitration-eligible players from the Jays who remain unsigned include Shaun Marcum, Brian Tallet, Jason Frasor, Casey Janssen, Jeremy Accardo and Shawn Camp. Jose Bautista and Dustin McGowan have signed, Brandon League was traded and Raul Chavez declined arbitration and signed a Minor League deal.
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In The Toronto Star today is an article from Richard Griffin which gives one a good idea of the difficulties faced by Alex when he traded Doc. Griffin is not generally all that complimentary on Jays management, but this article shows Alex did a phenomenal job in getting what we got for Doc.
Here's a review of the Jays top prospects from Baseball Prospectus.
Five-Star Prospects
1. Kyle Drabek, RHP
2. Brett Wallace, 1B
Three-Star Prospects
3. Travis d'Arnaud, C
4. Chad Jenkins, RHP
5. J.P. Arencibia, C
6. Zach Stewart, RHP
7. Carlos Perez, C
8. Jake Marisnick, OF
9. Henderson Alvarez, RHP
10. Tim Collins, LHP
Two-Star Prospects
11. Gustavo Pierre, SS
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12. Brian Dopirak, 1B: A former top Cub prospect, Dopirak fell off the map, but he?s slugged .549 since coming to Toronto and could have a career as a professional hitter.
13. Josh Roenicke, RHP: He?s a reliever who has outstanding velocity, but is still a prospect in his late 20s due to no dependable breaking ball.
14. Brad Mills, LHP: Mills is a pure finesse arm, but he?s so good at it that he could have big-league value.
15. David Cooper, 1B: Cooper is a 2008 first-rounder who flopped at Double-A. He needs to rebound or be quickly forgotten.
***Finally, some of these "raters" are starting to pick up on Dopirak and downgrade Cooper. I find its also interesting how highly Jenkins is rated in all the prospect lists without having thrown a pitch in pro ball yet. OF Jake Marisnick, is also a 2009 draftee who hasn't played a game yet, so these two guys are surely ones to watch this year. Note, 5 of our top 6 came via trades, not the draft, and Carlos Perez came out of the DSL as a free agent signing. They had some nice things to say about Drabek which can be viewed here:
I noticed on the MLB website that Zach Stewart isnt listed as a non Roster invitee to Spring training. In defference to the Baseball Prospectus rankings, how can you not invite one of your top pitching prospects to ML Camp when he spent half of last season in AAA and performed well???
Any insight here??
ntx2469-Not sure what list you're referring to, but rest assured Stewart will be there. I'm sure the Jays want to see how he does against major league hitters.
As I said before, gsjays, if AA were to visit, I would hide the silver (and maybe the women). Your baseball prospectus post either shows what a masterful trader AA is, or what a pitiable state the farm system has fallen to. Hopefully the increased scouting will build up the system to the point that they can win more games than they lose.
All this potential is fine. However, my concern is Cito's willingness to play the kids next year allowing then to exhibit and gain experience. Why is Lyle Overbay still on this team? Seriously? Why is Bautista on this team? Next year should be about playing the kids – period. The closer to the bottom of the league we finish – the better. I wonder what position Washington is going to be drafting from – again! We need to clear the decks of all deadwood, then allow the Dopriaks, Wallaces, Ruizs of the world to play. We do not need a platoon for Snider. We need the kid out there day in and day out. If for some reason a platoon becomes necessary, guys like Bautista can be found at 1/2 the price at any point during the season. I would like to hear more from Antho on WHAT HE IS GOING TO DO WITH THE RESOURCES HE HAS ACQUIRED. If he leaves them in the hands of Cito, it is going to be a long, long season, unless he forces Cito to play the kids and sit the veterans.
I have to agree with you burt, my only concern going into this season is Cito. It's funny how quickly things change….when Cito stepped into the managers chair not that long ago, Jays fans were rejoicing from coast to coast, he was going to bring us back to respectability.
But, now with the youth movement and the obvious rebuilding, even though it still hasn't been called that yet, I'm not sure that Cito is the right guy to be leading us. He has proven that his managerial skills are best suited for a team of veterans that just need to be shown some respect and patience, and they'll step up for him. What we need now is a new voice to come in, one that is eager to work with the young guys and motivate them to step up and give it their best.
With only one year on Cito's contract, I just can't see him being all that concerned with what happens this year. Don't get me wrong, Cito is a professional and will always have a place in all Jays fans hearts, but if you knew that nobody expected anything out of this season, and you also know that you have a job locked up with the franchise after this season….it will be pretty easy to sit back and let things play out.
I believe that a new leader to go along with these new young players is essential. Bring in a new guy, and let him grow with the players….let them all become champions together over the next few years. The way things are now, the rookies are going to spend a year learning how Cito likes things, then are going to have to spend another year learning to play with a new coach. I say, save a year of very important development, and bring in a new manager now. Let Cito move into his desk job and we'll all be happy.
"Let Cito move into his desk job and we'll all be happy." You might consider rephrasing that to "I'll" instead of "we'll", Cito is extremely well liked by a lot of Jays fans.
I never once said that I didn't like Cito, he just isn't the right fit for manager right now. I in fact said, "Cito is a professional and will always have a place in all Jays fans hearts". I just don't believe that place is managing this team anymore.
Didn't say you didn't like Cito, I said a lot of Jays fans do and therefore they think he's the right guy. You don't and that's fine, everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
All I was trying to point out is, you shouldn't assume everyone agrees with your opinion, which is what putting "we'll all be happy" in your post assumes.
Ok, I'll concede that one. I'll be happy when he moves on to his desk job.
I dunno about desk job, djsm: I kind of like the job he has done with Adam Lind. Cito isn't just about managing veterans; he's a very good teacher as well. What I like about keeping Cito this year is the time it gives AA to find a replacement. So many times, the Jays have ditched their manager and had to scramble around to find the first available body to carry on. This way, AA can put a process in place to find the right guy to take the team forward for the next 4-5 years. I wouldn't be surprised if they had to replace Leyva and Murphy as well at the end of the year.


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Kate started us off by pointing to this horrifying story about a 4-month-old baby in Colorado who was denied health insurance for being too fat. Super fun quote from the article:
By the numbers, Alex is in the 99th percentile for height and weight for babies his age. Insurers don't take babies above the 95th percentile, no matter how healthy they are otherwise.
We began this roundtable with general email screaming. Once we calmed down, here's what we had to say.
A) The kid is at the 99th percentile for height AND weight, so WTF? B) This is exactly why we need universal health insurance. Because, setting the height thing aside, let's say the kid really is bizarrely fat at 4 months. There's virtually no chance that this is the parents' fault in any way. (Not that it would be the parents' fault if the kid were old enough to eat solid food and exercise, mind you, but go with me here.) Which means that if this kid IS much fatter than one could reasonably expect him to be, it's almost certainly because of * the possibility that it's a genetic disorder — of the sort that gets older kids stolen from their parents because authorities are convinced it's all calories in/calories out — becomes increasingly likely. And I would not be one fucking bit surprised if that's part of the insurance company's calculation here — not that fatness will make the baby expensively sick down the line, but that fatness suggests the baby might ALREADY be expensively sick. And of course, the important thing is making sure we don't spend money on sick children.
Sweet Machine:
I find it really sad that the parents in the article are joking about the diets they'll have to put the baby on. Because of course that's the kind of joke that I'd make, too, but it actually points to the problem so well: is this what the insurance people want? What exactly can you do to an infant to make them skinnier that does not constitute grievous harm? I'm no pediatrician, but really, what the hell?
That upset me primarily because I'm not sure how long it will remain a joke. It's one of those bits of satire that's so close to some people's reality that it's uncomfortable. I mean, people switch their babies to skim milk, and put them on diets while they're still in diapers. Making a crack about weaning the kid to Slimfast is funny, especially with the jab at expensive weight-loss products, but it isn't even far enough outside of the norm to function as satire. Some people hearing that joke are going to say "and well you should."
If they're in a position where they can either let the kid remain uninsured or put him on a diet, they're going to put him on a diet. It's all very well to recognize that feeding a baby Slimfast is absurd, but a) it's not absurd for a lot of people and b) how long can they afford to acknowledge its absurdity?
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My first thought was of how incredibly, incredibly fragile the first year of life has been for most of human history. Getting babies adequate nutrition and hydration to live on is a GODDAMN SERIOUS ISSUE for our species, seeing how human newborns come into the world VERY dependent relative to the young of other primates. (Tradeoff for the bipedalism and the big brains.) Plenty of healthy babies still are one infection, bout of diarrhea, or disruption in the food supply away from life-threatening malnutrition. The arrogance of saying, "Well, the baby's fat, and healthy… but FAT, and FAT babies might become FAT GROWNUPS, and I mean… EW! and anyway, all the other insurance companies are doing it. I mean, there's MONEY involved, y'see."
FUCK. I mean, FUCK. Have these people ever seen a sick infant? A truly sick infant? Or, hell, a WELL infant? I'm so angry.
That is such a great point. I mean, there's a reason that chubby babies have traditionally been seen as desirable, right? It's really obscene.
And of course this points to, once again, the complete clusterfuck that is the US health system. Which will make me all rantypants if I say another word about it.
As infuriating as this is, denying obese adults health insurance might be even more infuriating. Babies who can't get health insurance are the top 5 percent of heavy babies — the adults who can't get health insurance are, as we hear over and over again, the top 30 percent.
Have y'all read amandaw's post about pre-existing conditions and how ableist it is to be, like, extra-angry about only the more outrageous cases? It's on my mind because she reposted it on the new FWD blog, and I'm wondering how this plays into it. I think basically it actually highlights the ableism involved in denial of care, because, as amandaw says, the underlying assumption of our ableist culture is that if someone's sick, they did something wrong. Somewhere, somehow, sometime, they secretly brought it on themselves (though of course some patients are "more deserving" than others). But a 4-month-old, pretty much by definition, can't have done anything wrong. It really points to the identity-versus-behaviors problem of the "obesity epidemic." Here is someone who is innocent in every way we understand that word — but who is being treated as guilty by a system that assumes that if adults are fat or sick, it's their fault.
Throwing this into the mix, not sure how it fits: I was astounded, when I had kids, to realize just how vulnerable even a very very very healthy young baby (like, 6 mos.) is. Up to some point (can't remember how many months) a fever over 101 is a medical emergency and you don't call the doctor, you call 911. To have the misfortune of getting chicken pox and strep at the same time can be life-threatening. Diarrhea is pretty serious. Frequent well baby checkups if you're going by the AAP recommendations. Lots of things that are vaccinated against now routinely killed children before immunizations (and very rare vaccine reactions injure babies today.) That's not to be all OMG PARENTING MEANS MARINATING IN FEAR — because it also turned out that a bump on the head or an accidentally-burned finger or the TV being on or some store-bought baby food does not in fact teach babies NEVER TO LOVE OR LEARN — but since we're talking about things that send babies into the healthcare system, it seems pertinent.
So we have these poor little innocent babies (and yeah, I mean, who doesn't love babies?) but when one considers how great are the healthcare needs even of young babies with NO known medical conditions, it just seems so ridiculous and disingenuous. So, okay, insurance company, you're concerned that the baby might be eating too much breastmilk (omgwtf?!?) and, what, will be fat and expensive and selfish and lazy someday? Right. Couldn't be that babies are big consumers of healthcare, or that they're one of the groups for whom there sometimes are public programs, or that you're just looking for a way to save a buck without appearing like the hater of human life that you are.
*ETA: My original language there was problematic. –Kate


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Dear Vanessa,
What is the greenest way to "go away" after one dies?
— Michael
Dear Michael,
I've got to say this is something I've been thinking about for years. Even as a young child, the idea of being pumped full of preservatives and buried in a sealed coffin just didn't seem right, and cremation seemed like such a waste. And before doing the research to answer your question, I thought my preference to be wrapped in a shroud (organic, of course) and buried without a coffin was going to cause legal problems for my family. Turns out, not a single state requires embalming. Embalming, expensive caskets and concrete vaults are required by individual cemeteries; not by law.
Most funerals these days are expensive — $6,000 on average — and involve embalming bodies with toxic and cancer-causing chemicals (including formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde, phenol and methanol), then encasing them in a casket made from endangered wood, plastic and metal that, in turn, is buried in a cement vault. To that resource and energy-intensive process, add the environmental costs of the pesticides, herbicides and fume-belching landscaping equipment used to maintain cemeteries. Contemplate those vast expanses of buried plastic, metal, cement and chemicals, and row upon row of rarely local, quarried stone or concrete markers, and our cemeteries begin to resemble toxic landfills.
Now contemplate cremation, and you find a process that uses tons of energy and causes air pollution. Newer, double burners and filters are an improvement over older burners, but cremation still releases dioxin, hydrochloric acid, hydrofluoric acid, sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide and mercury into the atmosphere. Cremation also interrupts nature's balance, as it robs the soil of what would otherwise return to it to be recycled. "Ashes to ashes" is much less sustainable than "dust to dust." Still, compared to our current burial practices, cremation is the better environmental option. If you choose cremation, look for a provider with the most efficient burners you can find, and since you still have to use a container, make it a simple, plastic- and chipboard-free coffin. There is at least one company that mixes ash remains with concrete to create structures that are used as ocean reefs. Families can dive to visit the "reef," which over the years should become home to a variety of marine life. Not the greenest option, but a good one.
I suppose the greenest way to go is to be tossed into a compost pile. Next best? Plan for a burial in a green cemetery, or even at home (with the necessary permissions).
Green cemeteries put a conservation easement on the land they're using so that it will be protected from development in perpetuity, and incorporate burial services into larger nature reserve and preservation plans. In this way, the dead protect the land for the living.
A green interment involves none of the following: embalming; concrete; quarried or foreign stone; steel, copper, bronze or lead; plastics, pesticides or chemical fertilizers. It does involve: hand-dug and -filled graves, often with the participation of family and loved ones; sanctuaries for native plants and animals; a return of organic matter to the soil; and burial places marked by trees, plants or local stone. Green cemeteries will only allow biodegradable caskets (usually untreated wood, cardboard or paper).
And if you think outside the box, be buried without one, too. Natural fiber shrouds, or even a favorite blanket, are common alternatives to caskets.
Live Green, die Green!
Death by the numbers:
• Every year we bury: 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid, which includes formaldehyde; 180,544,000 pounds of steel, 5,400,000 pounds of copper and bronze, and 30 million board feet of hardwoods, including tropical woods, for caskets; 3,272,000,000 pounds of reinforced concrete and 28,000,000 pounds of steel for vaults.
• Cremation causes between 0.8 and 5.9 grams of mercury to be released into the atmosphere, and the energy used to cremate one body is equivalent to driving 4,800 miles.
• More green funeral information and resources can be found through Green Burials and the Funeral Consumers Alliance.
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- Going green when it's your time to go
- 8 weird burial alternatives that are going mainstream
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Years ago I experienced traumatic significant change. Within two months, the following events occurred in this order. I left my job, friends, little sister (through Big Brothers Big Sisters) and home that I loved, to move to another state. My fiancé, Scott, and I settled into our first house. We had a beautiful wedding and honeymoon. I started a new job as an assistant professor. On the day classes were to begin, one month and eight days after the wedding, Scott accompanied me to the hospital where I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. I didn't make it to class that day. We spent the weekend in the hospital. Extreme fatigue forced me to give up my job and reinvent my life, doing what I love, as a Personal Life Coach.
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The American Antiquarian Society is committed to helping to improve the ways in which American history and literature are taught and learned in public and private primary and secondary schools. The Society seeks, wherever possible, to join with teachers, school administrators, scholars, and other interested individuals and organizations in developing important and challenging educational initiatives that will have a positive impact in classrooms locally and nationally. The Society can best achieve this goal by concentrating its K-12 efforts on undertakings that place the resources of the AAS library and the subject-area expertise of AAS staff, members, research fellows, and others in the Society's scholarly community at the service of school teachers and administrators in designing new curricula and new ways of teaching history and literature through the use of facsimiles of primary source material in the classroom.
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The Society partnered with a number of school systems and educational associations to develop comprehensive teacher training programs under the United States Department of Education's Teaching American History (TAH) initiative.


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Sammy's Kitchen sits on 55th St. just east of Central Avenue and across the street from Midway Airport. When driving by, you might not even notice this is a business, and if you do happen to see the sign, you might assume the business is no longer around. Entering Sammy's for the first time is like stepping into the local post in some small Midwest town. There are no frills and they don't like natural light inside. But it's also like you're visiting your parents place over the holidays. You're welcomed with open arms, greeted with a smiling face, and your coffee will be ready before you can ask for some. Just let them know what you're eating and they'll get you good to go.
The menu is pretty simple, with some standards you come to expect from breakfast/lunch spot in a workingman, blue collar neighborhood. Don't expect a red velvet cupcake as an amuse-bouche. But there are plenty of copies of that day's Sun-Times paper and a nice selection of home cooked options that are impossible to spend more $10 on in one sitting. Big hand-formed burgers, homemade meatloaf, a fried perch po' boy, corned beef on special, and the homemade soups of the day all sounded tempting. But this being my first visit I wanted to try something I imagine most of the folks stopping in for breakfast before a day of loading cargo for Southwest eat. So I tried the Hungry Mans Platter.
An entire plate gets covered with a couple inches of hash browns that are crisped up nicely on both sides. Onto that goes chopped ham off the bone, onions, green peppers, mushrooms (canned), cheese, and three eggs—cooked however you want them. Oh, and don't forget the two pieces of toast buttered like Paula Deen is developing the recipes.
I don't know how someone eats one of these and then goes and puts in work across the street. This is something I'd eat to avoid dealing with annoying people on a flight. Have this before your next trip out of town and you'll wake up wherever you're going in what felt like no time. I couldn't believe the plate considering the menu said it was only $5.75. You can't get a value meal from McDonalds inside the airport for that. Not to mention that this was good, made-to-order food. The scrambled eggs here come from scratch, not some milk carton, and the potatoes are peeled by hand. So next time you need to pick someone up out by Midway or want to eat something other than airport food before hopping an early flight, keep Sammy's Kitchen in mind.
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Haley isn't just going to throw Leftwich into the fire without making some changes to the offense to suit his strengths. How much change remains to be seen but at least he's got the ability to adapt to the players and not just say "here go run this".
Todd Haley said he won't just plug Byron Leftwich into injured Ben Roethlisberger's spot and carry on as usual. The offense will have to adapt to Leftwich rather than the other way around.
"Byron is not Ben, and I think it's very important that we and he understand that," Haley said after practice Thursday. "He can't go out there trying to be Ben; he needs to go out there and be Byron.
"This is why I make the point every time you all say 'Haley's offense,' it's not my offense. We're going to do things to cater to the strength of our players. Obviously, that will be critical when you talk about the quarterback position. We're going to cater to Byron's strengths, as opposed to trying to force square pegs into round holes, so to speak."
How refreshing must that be in the executive offices? They've had coordinators in the past who frustrated them by forcing their offense's schemes down their players throats no matter what happened -- different quarterback, new running backs, different types of offensive linemen.
But Haley has shown throughout his career that he adapts to his personnel, most strikingly so when he left his high-flying passing machine in Arizona to a ground-oriented offense in Kansas City.
Now he is presented with the loss of one of the NFL's most elite and versatile quarterbacks, to one who has little mobility but a rifle arm and something else Haley tried to explain about Leftwich.
"I think there is a lot to like about him. ... First and foremost, when you're around Byron for a very short time, you understand that he's just got that it factor. Everybody remembers when he was coming out [at Marshall University] and his team was carrying him down the field with his leg dangling from the knee joint. That isn't something everybody has, but he has it.
"When things occurred in the game last week, there was a great look in his eye. There was never a moment that you really didn't believe and think he was a cool customer. He's been there and done it and he's just got that moxie that good quarterbacks seem to have."
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- Kawika Crowley calls himself the only homeless U.S. House candidate
- Crowley won the Republican primary for Hawaii's House District 2
- Some political observers consider him a joke candidate
- But he has stirred up political interest among new groups of people
Kawika Crowley lives, works and runs his U.S. congressional campaign out of a beat-up white minivan that he often parks overnight at a grocery store on Oahu. In the van's front seat, which is his office, is a homemade shelf for his laptop, a copy of the U.S. Constitution, and a flurry of index cards that are scattered like confetti after New Year's. On the cards are his ideas and talking points: pro-smoking (in bars, if the owner wants to allow it); anti-taxes; anti-commuter rail; pro-freedom. Each is written in meticulous penmanship, in thick black ink. He's been preparing for a debate.
In the back of the van, the necessities: a wire to hang his clothes, which are soaked in that sweetly acrid smell of cigar butts left out in the rain; a cooler for food; a jug for water (and another for vodka); and a container for bodily waste. "Only No. 1," he says. Between it all: his bed, which is a valley-like clearing that starts between the bucket seats in the front and the coolers in the back, with the clothes hanging like mountains to the side.
Crowley calls himself the only homeless candidate for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. He's proud of that -- at least, he is now. In a state where most people don't vote, he's using the reality-TV-type intrigue the situation creates to his advantage -- to try to draw people who never have cared about politics into the process.
I spent a recent afternoon with Crowley, including a detailed tour of his van, which seems to personify his quirky and somewhat likable disdain for the ordinary. I was working on a story about Hawaii's low rate of voting, the lowest in the country. During my time with him, two thoughts kept fighting for space in my mind: Either this guy is a complete joke, an example of how little power the Republican Party has in this Democrat-controlled state (Crowley is the Republican running against a rising star in the Democratic Party, Tulsi Gabbard, who spoke at that party's national convention this year); or maybe it takes an over-the-top character like Crowley -- sort of the Honey Boo Boo of politicians, super-odd but kind -- to make people care about elections again.
At the start of the interview, I certainly thought the former.
I met Crowley and his iconic van in front of the Hawaii Capitol. The location was one of his choosing. I figure he wanted to get a good photo op in front of the oddly modern building, with its pillars that look like palm trees -- an architectural reminder that these islands only became a state five decades ago. Before we met, I wondered how I would spot him. When I arrived, however, Crowley's van -- which has a large American flag where an antenna might otherwise be; a placard on top that reads "KAWIKA4CONGRESS.COM"; and dozens of other signs that say things like "Hawaii Smokers! 200,000 strong!" and "DON'T BE A DUMB A**!!! Get Involved! Get Educated! GET SMART!" -- was parked up on the curb.
It was impossible to miss. Not that Crowley, a 61-year-old with a Ron Swanson mustache, frizzy ponytail and the build of a bowler, would blend into a crowd, either. He was wearing a loud Hawaiian-print shirt and talking to a security guard (no doubt explaining why he had parked nearly on the Capitol lawn) as I approached.
"Maybe a question would be, 'What made you decide to run for Congress?' And then I can go through my little spiel and we can go from there," he told me, shortly after introductions had been made. It became clear quite quickly that Crowley intended to try to produce every aspect of our interview. He told the videographer I was working with, Edythe McNamee, to get a wide shot of him with the Capitol and palm trees as a backdrop. And then he launched into a story of how he decided to run for office. I can boil that story down to three words: the smoking ban. Hawaii passed one, covering restaurants and bars, in 2006. That's what got Crowley energized. He founded the Hawaii Smokers Alliance, calling for partial repeal. And, after winning a Republican primary against a better-known candidate, somehow ended up here.
"A lot of lawmakers like to stand out in front of this building and call it the people's house. Well, I call it the people's outhouse!" he said. "Because it's where us Common Joe citizens get crapped upon." He always speaks in lovably ridiculous soundbites like this.
I let him finish, thinking I was about done with this interview, when he informed me that we quickly would be moving on to location No. 2: the place he usually parks the van during the day. "You can watch me take off my pants and do a little change," he said, sounding completely serious. "I can take a bath." He wanted to take us inside his life as a homeless person running a political campaign. I told him removing his pants would not be necessary, but that we'd follow him to the spot. (How could you not be intrigued?)
I followed Crowley and his van -- American flag flapping in the wind, arm and cigarette hanging out the window -- up a road that winds through Oahu's misty mountains. Eventually we stopped at a dead end near the top of a hill, by a park. Again, he insisted on the costume change -- part of his plan to show the two sides of himself, the would-be politician and the regular guy. "Remember how I said I wear a few hats? Now, I'm going to change into my Average Joe hat," he said before literally putting on a different style hat, this one a ball cap with an NYPD logo on it, a reminder of 9/11.
"That's how I'm more comfortable."
He also compared himself to two other masters of dual identities:
"Was it Batman or Superman who went inside the phone booth?" he asked, referring to Superman's costume changes in small quarters, much like his. "I do that a lot."
It was here that I learned more about Crowley's back story and started to empathize with him a bit. He told me (and a friend of his confirmed by phone) that he was working as a handyman when the recession hit. He ran out of money and had to start living in his van. While he's taken government handouts in the past, he said, he didn't want to do that again. Instead of seeking welfare, he decided to live the only way he could afford to.
After temporarily finding a place to stay, at a client's house where he was doing some repairs, Crowley found himself again without a home. This happened during primary campaign season, he said. He considered dropping out of the race, but decided to trudge on. Instead of letting the media discover he was homeless, he made a point of calling himself the homeless candidate. "I didn't want it to be used against me," he said. I started to think there is an earnest, caring person hiding behind Crowley's icy blue eyes.
If elected, he plans to live in his Washington office and donate half of his salary to the Wounded Warrior Project. He's gotten used to life in small quarters, and his small-government mindset is outraged by what would be his $174,000 government salary.
I realized at least some other people feel the same when we made our way to the third and final stop on Crowley's guided tour of his life -- a spot where he campaigns along Kamehameha Highway, across from a neon-green golf course and mountains so vertical they look as though they'd been smushed into a ridge by a giant's hands.
Crowley parked the van and pulled out two wooden campaign signs, one for each direction of traffic. He stood there on the side of the road, cigar in mouth, and gave commuters a thumbs up. This is his primary method of campaigning, he said.
It seemed to work. Every third or fourth driver honked, smiled or waved at Crowley.
"Thank you! Thank you!" he said in return. Not that they could hear him. The most important thing about campaigning at roadside, he told me, is to make eye contact with each passing motorist. Never mind that he was wearing aviator sunglasses.
Meanwhile, despite the fact that Crowley has created media buzz, draws the embrace of commuters, and won -- yes, won -- the primary election, his opponent, the rising Democratic Party star, did not take up his calls for a debate. Tulsi Gabbard's spokesman told me no media outlets had approached Gabbard campaign officials about the topic, so they didn't push for it.
"He's outspoken and he's intelligent," said Sam Slom, the only Republican in the Hawaii state Senate, who supports the idea of a debate. "I give him a lot of credit."
I'm sure Gabbard has nothing to win by taking the stage with a man who doubtless would have a cigar in his mouth and a half-serious platform. In a recent poll by the news organization Civil Beat, she led Crowley 70% to 18%, with 12% undecided.
Many political observers in Hawaii consider Crowley to be a joke candidate. And in many ways, they are right. At one point during our conversation, he made a bigoted remark about Gabbard's Hindu religion, saying it doesn't align with the constitutional foundation of the U.S. government. (Crowley is a Deist, by the way.) But I can't help thinking that denying Crowley the opportunity to debate is inherently undemocratic. It's part of the reason Hawaii has checked out of the political process -- that it's the state with the lowest voter turnout rate in the nation. Some nonvoters I met on my trip to three of Hawaii's islands told me they felt that most political decisions in the state are made by the Democratic Party -- and that they don't vote because there's no real choice.
By and large, Hawaii is a one-party state. To get people interested in politics again, the islands need to embrace the public discussion of a diversity of opinions -- even if those opinions sometimes make people squirm. They should be aired and debated -- shot down if needed, but not hidden. And Crowley, in his own quirky way, is trying to do just that.


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Thursday, July 17, 2008
Stuttgart on the card
Hmmmmm. Moon Das is back with a bang (pardon the pun!). Her 'ambition' is to become an item girl and be in the Rakhi Sawant league... or at least get to Sherlyn's position (horizontal??)! Talk of low aspirations! Well.... three lives were lost because of Moon ( rechristened Anushkaa). May their souls rest in peace, while Moon rocks on! Back on the blog next week. Tuesday at the earliest. None the wurst for the journey.Danke!!
9 comments:
- sanju ayyar said...
I dont understand the importance accorded to 'who-wears-what' at such events. Whats more important is how comfortable are you in a particular outfit and can you carry it off with style or not?
Black sarees, I guess, will be more than enough to make a great impression.
Try and get pally with a few indian families out there, if at all there are any. That way you can dig into some decent dal-chawal atleast. Sausages can really get irritatingly irritating.
Have a blast in true bollywood style, and please share the bitching that happens in one of your forthcoming posts!
- July 17, 2008 at 12:26 PM
- Mister Crowley said...
Well, you could always try living off sauerkraut ;)
- July 17, 2008 at 12:57 PM
- Vikster said...
PLEASE don't borrow any Jaya Bacchhan Cannes disasters to wear....that green un-dhobied curtain/bedsheeet that she wore was nauseating.
Stuttgart is boring as hell...though you get brownie (errr...strudel-ie_ points for mentioning Die Fantastichen Vier - their local hip hop group . Surprisingly good actually.
- July 17, 2008 at 2:59 PM
- Harish said...
de, I wonder if anyone could ever be a rakhi sawant. she is a brand. she is a star. her league is okie. but none can be her.
these moon's will wane away. Rakhi, The star is here to stay.
saree mein you loook very pretty. your dressing sence is very good. i have a suggestion, do that 60s ka hair style: chotti, black saree, black sleeveless blouse, loooooong sandals, and red rose sar pe...(no circus tent salwaar kameezes please) Lull(a) and Rai ke dressing sense se toh De is much better. (not flattering, it is so)
you are right, there could be nothing beyond bollywood.
do 2 ghate ka solo sessions, what is the agenda usme...? inquisitive i am. batao na.
going to miss you for one looooong week on blogosphere. come back soon,
smiles :-)
- July 17, 2008 at 3:29 PM
- Divita said...
i saw your interview on Koffee with Karan the other day (with shabana azmi), and thats where i heard your opinion on ashwariya rai's dressing sense. haahaa!
i wanted to ask you- do all interviews sound so strained? not you in particular.
- July 17, 2008 at 5:54 PM
Hi MRs DE,
I'm Ruhi Shaikh, a student of N.M.
We have a festival called "Umang", which is one of the top
college fest in Mumbai and a magazine "SANS FRONTIERES" (in
english, Without Boundaries) that is officially sold during the
five days of the festival.
I recollect reading one of your letters in my English text namely "RIGHT GIRLS??" which was simplt awesome.
Since you are one of the most famous journalists and also an idol for many of us youngsters today, i request you to write a small artiicle for our
magazine about your college days, addressing the youth or simply
a small message for youngsters.( mail the article at
email@example.com ) We are so awed by your perfection and attitude
towards life that it would be a pleasure to hear you say
something for the youth.
Eagerly waiting for your article.
Ruhi Shaikh
Editor of Sans Frontieres
N.M. college
- July 18, 2008 at 8:48 AM
- Sameera Ansari said...
Bon voyage,happy weekend! :)
- July 19, 2008 at 4:21 AM
>>Other than Sean Connery or George Clooney, of course. Since I don't look like either of them, I'm counting on my black sarees to see me through.<<
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To that end, I've created a home for all of your photos by starting a Flickr group specifically for these projects. Here is where you can add all of your photos of items made from Quilt Dad patterns: the Quilt Dad is my Homeboy group!
Please join and add any and all of your photos -- I'd love to see them. Plus, I may use the group for some fun activities -- giveaways, quilt-alongs, swaps ... who knows? We'll see where it takes us. Join the group now so that you don't miss a thing!
And, for your reference, here is a running list of all of the different patterns & projects I've made, and where you can find each one:
- ABC Menagerie (free pattern on the Free Spirit Fabrics site)
- Bloggers' Block-a-palooza blocks & quilts
- Carousel (from Fat Quarterly Issue 4)
- Confetti (from Fat Quarterly Issue 5)
- Country Cabin Quilt
- Cushion Couture (from the Moda Bake Shop)
- Flying Fish Table Runner (from Fat Quarterly Issue 1)
- iPad Sleeve (from the Moda Bake Shop)
- Off the Grid (from the Moda Bake Shop)
- One Stoplight Town
- Peeps Flag (from the Fat Quarterly blog)
- Quilt Uber-Fest - Block 1
- Rock Garden Quilt (from the Fresh Fabric Treats book)
- Rooted (from Fat Quarterly Issue 3)
- Rubans Pour Les Cheveux (free pattern on the Free Spirit Fabrics site)
- Sanctuary (from Fat Quarterly Issue 2)
- Super Sewing Scissors (from Fat Quarterly Issue 6)
- Turning Corners Table Runner (from the Moda Bake Shop)
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comScore has just released some numbers relating to the U.S. wireless market in the three months leading up to October, and Samsung is still on top, claiming 25.5% of all mobile subscribers (among smartphones and otherwise). The numbers haven't changed too much since their September survey, so there aren't a lot of surprises. LG was nexddt up, with 20.6%, followed by Motorola with 13.6%, and Apple with 10.8%. RIM's handset market share predictably dropped -0.8%, while platform market share dropped 4.6%. Of course, the survey is only taking place in the U.S.; the BlackBerry brand seems to summon up a bit more excitement elsewhere in the world.
Android will soon claim a full half of the U.S. smartphone market, now that it's sitting at 46.3%, which is up 4.4% since July. Microsoft's mobile OS is still having trouble gaining traction at 5.4%, while iOS continues to hover around 28.1%.
Seeing as Samsung has landed two Nexus handsets in a row, it's no surprise to see them doing so well, but with Motorola under Google's wing, and pumping out some slick-looking hardware like the Droid RAZR, Samsung's reign may not last. As far as platforms go, it will be awhile before we see RIM making anything resembling a comeback, but it would sure make thing interesting if they did.
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Co-Chairs, Piano Department
The hallmark of the Department of Piano at Indiana University has always been a distinguished and diversified faculty.
The faculty of the department come from all over the world and offer many different philosophies and schools of piano playing in a friendly, supportive atmosphere. Each student, from undergraduate to master's to doctoral to artist diploma, receives personal attention with a minimum one-hour individual lesson weekly and participation in a weekly studio class. The department is committed to nurturing each student, helping the student to grow and learn in a healthy atmosphere. In addition to lessons and master classes, the department offers chamber music coaching, and there are three concerto competitions a year. Talented high school students have an opportunity to study with faculty through the Open Program. Graduates with degrees in piano are enjoying a variety of careers in music, including performance and teaching positions.


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I'm a French system/software engineer, currently working as Linux Platform Developer for a managed security services company in Hong-Kong.
I also am a Novell CLP and a RHCE.
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Realisations in the FOSS community
I've been using Fedora since Fedora Core 5 (Bordeaux, what a wonderful name :-). Since then, I've been an active member in the French community.
Mohamed Elmorabity and I co-founded the Fedora | Paris project. The goal was to know the non-geek-side of each other, and build friendship inside our community. The subjects of conversation could be geared towards Fedora but it was not mandatory. We are not a LUG, Fedora is merely what brought us together.
I maintain some packages both in Fedora and EPEL.
Under pressure (and guidance) from Thomas Canniot, I became a Fedora Ambassador in June 2008.
I have been an Ambassador mentor from March 2010, when Joerg Simon appointed me, to March 2012.
I have also been the assistant secretary of the Fedora-Fr NPO from 2009 to 2011.
Apart from minor contributions to several projects, I am a core contributor to the following projects.
IBus Cangjie
The support for the Cangjie and Quick input methods (the two most widely used in Hong Kong) used to be terrible. Along with Wan Leung Wong, we initiated IBus Cangjie to change that.
I also contribute to the PyF framework. PyF is a pure Python framework for building flow-based applications, that is applications that can handle lots of data without ever loading more than one item in memory at a time, thus being highly scalable.
PyF was mostly part of my previous work though, so even if I maintain good relationships with the community, I haven't done any contribution ever since I moved to Hong Kong.
I initiated Shomyu. The goal is to provide a web application for members of a community to locate themselves and add a short description about them.
Shomyu was born after frustration from not being able / wanting to use the proprietary Frappr service that Fedora-Fr was using at this time. The hope was thatShomyu could eventually replace it if it ever got in a working enough shape.
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Nobel Laureate Carol Greider Delivers Prestigious NHGRI Trent Lecture
Nobel Laureate Carol Greider Delivers Prestigious NHGRI Trent Lecture
Nobel Prize winner, Carol Greider, Ph.D., presented the seventh annual Jeffrey M. Trent Lecture in Cancer Research on January 19 at NIH's Masur Auditorium. A capacity audience of more than 500 assembled, eager to hear the lecture that had been postponed twice last year- once due to President Barack Obama's inaugural NIH visit in September and again in December when Dr. Greider traveled to Stockholm, Sweden to attend the Nobel Prize ceremony.
Dr. Greider, the Daniel Nathans Professor and Director, Department of Molecular Biology and Medicine at Johns Hopkins Institute for Biomedical Sciences, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase." She shared the prize with Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Ph.D. from the University of California at San Francisco and Jack W. Szostak, Ph.D., from the Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Dr. Greider's Trent lecture, Telomerase and the Consequences of Telomere Dysfunction, was her first public lecture since receiving the prestigious award. National Human Genome Research Institute Director Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., the lecture's founder, initially invited Dr. Greider to NIH last year and you could tell he was excited to finally have Dr. Greider deliver the lecture.
"If you look at your program, you will note that the date of this lecture was Tuesday, September 29, 2009," said Dr. Green in his opening remarks, telling the audience about the first time he had to reschedule the lecture to a day in December 2009. "But, then Carol had to win the Nobel Prize. She explained she had to go to Sweden for the week. So, I understood when she called to say that we would have to postpone again."
Dr. Green then turned the podium over to NIH Chief of Staff, Kathy Hudson, Ph.D., to introduce Dr. Greider. Dr Hudson and Dr. Greider have been friends for 25 years. They met while attending graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley . Dr. Hudson shared photos and humorous stories of Greider from that period. To the crowd's delight, she also had pictures of the Nobel Prize ceremony, which she attended as a guest of Dr. Greider.
"When I told a friend at NIH that I was going to miss a meeting because I had to go to Stockholm, she said I have the best girlfriend story ever... my friend won the Nobel Prize," said Dr. Hudson.
Dr. Greider then took the podium. "It's always good to come somewhere and talk some science," she remarked, as she stepped from behind the podium to a spot on stage where she could be seen by the audience.
Dr. Greider began the lecture by recounting her days in Dr. Blackburn's laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley as a doctoral student. This is where she initially discovered and characterized the activity of the enzyme telomerase that maintains telomeres, from the ciliate Tetrahymena. Telomeres are repetitive stretches of DNA that protect and are located at the ends of chromosomes.
The Trent Lecture audience consisted of many young NIH researchers who could relate to Dr. Greider's scientific beginnings at the bench and relished her recent attainment of the Nobel Prize - a journey many researcher's would like to take.
In subsequent years, Dr. Greider described how as an investigator at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the early 90's she worked with Dr. Calvin Harley to show that human telomeres shorten progressively in primary human cells. This work, combined with other telomere research being done at the time, illustrated the critical role of telomere length and its role in cell aging (senescence), cell death (apoptosis), and cancer.
In 1997, she moved her laboratory to The Johns Hopkins University of Medicine. At Hopkins, Dr. Greider's group continued to study the biochemistry of telomerase and determined the secondary structure of the human telomerase RNA. She also expanded her work on a mouse model of dyskeratosis congenita and stem cell failure in response to short telomeres. Dr. Greider currently studies both the biochemistry of telomeres and telomerase, as well as the cellular organismal consequences of short telomeres.
The progressive shortening of telomeres corresponds to DNA damage and age-related diseases. In addition to cancer, shortened telomeres can lead to liver disease, bone marrow failure and immunologic disorders.
Dr. Greider, while no doubt busy with lectures and other appearances due to the Nobel Prize, told the audience that she and her research team continue to work on understanding such disorders by attempting to find ways to re-establish telomere length. Her team is also studying what effects short telomere length when combined with environmental factors has on human health.
The remainder of the lecture outlined implications of telomere and telomerase research both for cancer cells, which undergo frequent replication, as well as for tissue-specific stem cells that may lead to therapies in the future. The lecture may be viewed online at: Telomerase and the Consequences of Telomere Dysfunction.
In addition to the Nobel Prize, Dr. Greider has won numerous prestigious awards for her work on telomerase, including the Gairdner Foundation Award in 1998, the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 2006, and the Dickson Prize in Medicine in 2007. Over the past year, she also accepted the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize and the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize.
About the Trent lecture: Dr. Trent was the National Human Genome Research Institute's (NHGRI) founding Scientific Director, serving in this role for more than nine years. His leadership and vision was instrumental in establishing NHGRI's Division of Intramural Research as one of the premier research programs in the world devoted to genetics and genomics. In recognition of his significant contributions to the research environment at NIH, NHGRI established the annual Jeffrey M. Trent Lectureship in Cancer Research in 2003. This lecture is given by a prominent cancer researcher who brings the kind of energy, creativity and enthusiasm to cancer research that Dr. Trent has exemplified throughout his career.
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Mr. Speaker, under the Mulroney Conservatives, places like Goose Bay lost their local CBC television stations. This year we see dramatic cutbacks to the CBC in Labrador and in regions across Canada. Labrador has taken a 40% cut.
Just like 19 years ago, a Conservative government has failed to support the public broadcaster and recognize the important work of CBC in rural and northern communities and it has failed to support regions that need this mirror to themselves and to other Canadians.
Why is the Conservative government letting the CBC die from a thousand cuts?


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By Patrick Erwin
The Young and the Restless has a long history of being a solid hour of soap, mostly unmoved by trends or the fleeting fancies that other shows have lived (or died) by. But in the last few years, Y&R has undergone some substantial changes — changes in writers, in producers, and in the pace the story unfolds on screen. Fans are, as you might expect, divided on the pros and cons of all these changes.
I've got some very mixed feelings about the new direction Y&R is taking. But I am here today, not to bury Y&R, but to praise it. I'd like to rave about a minor miracle: that in 2008, these days of budget cuts, demographic pandering, and the supposed death of daytime, a very substantial portion of Y&R's canvas is (a) over 40 and (b) in a front-burner storyline!
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Bill to Regulate Ammunition Sales Launched Today
Surrounded by city leaders, law enforcement officials and local clergy, state Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner today unveiled legislation that would regulate ammunition sales in California in the same way that gun sales are regulated.
Speaking at a morning news conference outside the state building in downtown Oakland, Skinner, D-Berkeley, said it is currently easier to buy ammunition in California than it is to buy certain medicine, alcohol and tobacco.
She said, "We want to make it as difficult to buy bullets as it is to buy cold medicine."
Skinner said Assembly Bill 48, co-authored by Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Alameda, would require ammunition sellers to be licensed and purchasers to show identification, and would mandate that sellers report all sales to the state Department of Justice.
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Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and most members of the Oakland City Council joined Skinner at the news conference to support her bill, as did Emeryville Police Chief Ken James, the chair of the gun committee for the California Police Chiefs Association; Diane Brown, the president of United Teachers of Richmond; and religious leaders.
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Saturday, March 10, 2007
Twist and Shout
The more senior of my two partners when I first went into practice was old school in the very best sense of the words. The most general of general surgeons, he still did the occasional orthopedic procedure, yanked out uteri (indeed, that operation is more of a "yank," in terms of non-anatomic dissection, than most), didn't mind drilling a burr-hole or two if called upon to do it. I'm sure he'd have been happy to deliver a baby on the proverbial kitchen table; in fact, I think he did, back a ways. Many of his patients were people for whom he provided complete care as their family doctor. Blood pressure, diabetes, pneumonia -- he managed them all. And well, far as I could see. Gentle and soft-spoken, self-deprecating, Hume was welcoming to me from the start, and set an admirable example. When he assisted me, or I him, I always learned something. And, I'm happy to say, I showed him a few things as well. If it was mutual admiration, it was lop-sided in the way of a cub and a poppa bear.
He practiced mostly in the time when doctors were nothing but highly respected, and, at least in his case, it was entirely deserved. In his forty or so years of practice, he was never sued. Here's how it was in his heyday, as he told me once: a long-time patient, on whom he'd done a colon resection several years earlier, came to see him with abdominal pain. As was standard in the days before ultrasound, Hume ordered a gallbladder Xray, which made the expected diagnosis of gallstones. "George," he told the man, "looks like you'll need your gallbladder out. And while we're in there, I'm going to remove a clamp that I seem to have left in you last time." "Sure thing, doc. Whatever you say." (Snide-comment-avoiding explication: far as I recall, it was the stones that were the problem.)
One of my favorite tricks of patient care, for which I loved to write the order because I knew it boggled some nurses and about which I was never certain it worked but wrote it anyway because it made intuitive sense even if it seemed silly so it was fun to talk my patients into it and to imagine them doing it, having had a few people get better after doing it whether they would have or not had they not done it, and which in part I ordered because it always reminded me of Hume and made me feel like a canny old-timer who had a couple of decidedly low-tech tricks up his sleeve even when I was young but kept ordering when I was old, frequently enough that the nurses referred to it as the "Schwab shake" because it was in a different town and none of them knew Hume, was a thing he taught me. (Chew on that sentence, Strunk and White!) To see any sense in it at all, you have to be able to imagine the intestine in the midst of a small bowel obstruction.
In the virgin abdomen (but not always in the abdomen of a virgin), the small intestine is free to slip and slither pretty much anywhere it wants. (In some operations, it's useful to "eviscerate" the patient by pulling the intestine as far as it will go outside of the abdominal cavity. Re-inserting them, those guts roll back in like a gang of slurpy slinkys over a soft stair, like the buttered spaghetti Momma dolloped onto your plate.) In an area of inflammation from an operation, or injury, or infections of one or another sort, a bit of intestine might become adherent to the abdominal wall or to other structures.Those areas are what we call "adhesions." If other areas remain normally slippery, it's not hard to imagine a loop or two of bowel sliding around a more fixed one, and causing a twist. And there you have it: small bowel obstruction. Typically, that means a distended abdomen as the upstream intestine fills with digestive juices, cramps as the muscular action of the gut ("peristalsis") tries to push stuff past the blockage, cessation of bowel movement or gas passage, and, most often, vomiting. In some instances, the blockage isn't complete, and there might be some amounts of stool. Diarrhea, even.
Surgery is usually the treatment for complete obstruction, and typically needs to be done within several hours, lest the twisted area die from lack of circulation (maybe I'll get into some of the subtleties in the future.) Non-surgical treatment consists of "suck and drip." Namely, a tube into the stomach to suction away the juices that are backing up, and IV fluids to replace the losses. If the patient is able, walking around is thought to be helpful, if for no other reason than to prevent secondary problems related to bed rest. But there the patient is, lying nearly continuously on her/his back, with a belly full of fat swollen intestines. If what you're hoping for is a serendipitous untwisting, lying like that with a bunch of sausage stacked on itself seems less than propitious. Thus, Hume's trick: get the patient out of bed, have him/her lean forward onto the bed, back as parallel to the ground as possible, and shake their hind end like kyphotic hula dancer. (I always demonstrated for my patients, which was generally found to be amusing.) Get them guts off of each other and move 'em around. I like it. (If the idea is sound, I thought, somersaults would be ideal. In fact, one of my friends -- a pediatrician, for whatever it's worth -- had a problem with recurring obstructions after splenectomy many years earlier. I suggested somersaults, which he starting doing at home at the first hint of symptoms, and he claims it helped. Eventually, however, I operated and fixed him for good.)
I never did a study; hard to imagine one ever being done. Several -- not all -- patients recovered without an operation after shaking it up. It's known, of course, that some obstructions resolve without surgery, so I can't claim to know whether the maneuver works or not. But all of my patients who could, did it. Whereas the long-term nurses on the surgical floor got used to the idea, I assume there were some -- especially those on the medical floors where such patients occasionally found themselves -- who thought I was nuts. Until their patients started pooping. And there's this: I was once consulted on a patient with a bowel obstruction in whom, on bedside abdominal exam, I could easily feel a particularly fat loop of bowel. What the heck, I thought: I manipulated it upward (it was remarkably easy to do) and around in some way, immediately after which the patient excused herself rapidly from my ministrations and headed to the bathroom where she produced ample evidence that the obstruction was no longer. I think Hume would have liked it.
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Dr. Schwab,
My youngest son (5 yrs) has trouble with his bowels to the point of tears (due to cramps), and prunes were the only thing that worked this last time (but it took a little while). I think he'll enjoy the somersault trick better! Thanks!!
- Bo... said...
Love the pic to go with the story!
- jmb said...
Dr Sid,
After that post I can only say that it's a shame you had to retire. I think you should be cloned.
I'm ashamed to admit I was laughing out loud.
Have you been reading Proust?
- Jo said...
Okay. It's oh-dear-thirty in the morning here. I'm not ready for work yet. I'm only midway through my second cup of coffee.
And I just got up from reading, leaned over the couch, and did the Schwab Shake. Just to see if it, you know, felt like anything.
It sure does.
Count me as one unboggled nurse. I'm not sure when I'd use The Shake, being a neuroscience person, but it's going into the bag o' tricks.
I suffer from intestinal obstruction due to adhesions - about three times a year I get the text-book symptoms. Not once have I heard any practical advice on what to do about it. Only the stipulation that if I believe that the obstruction has not relieved itself after a certain amount of time I need medical attention. Not the type of advice I am likely to take.
So how happy am I to finally have a possible solution to a situation that has always felt beyond my control?! I will see if it works; although my one concern is that if done prophylactically will it cause an obstruction? If it is powerful enough to untwist when twisted, will it cause a twist when untwisted?
- Sid Schwab said...
anonymous: For obvious reasons, among them that I don't know you nor have the ability to evaluate your situation, I have to respond in this way: I'm telling readers various things related to my practice of surgery, to inform and even to entertain. In no way ought my writing be taken as medical advice for any specific situation. So I really can't answer your questions, even though I'd like to. Any specific questions about specific conditions ought to be directed to your own doctors. Sorry. And whenever you develop symptoms, you ought to check with them before embarking on any self-directed treatment. Really.
- Surgeon In My Dreams said...
I think I understand your directions, but just to be sure, could you PLEASE stick a video demonstration on here for us? You can cover your face for the sake of anonynimity.
I'll have to give it a whirl when my next bi-annual SBO rolls around. :-)
I'm one of the patients you'd probably hate to see come through your OR doors. By now I actually look forward to the look of stark terror on my surgeon's face when I darken his doors. I've had a belly full of adhesions for over 10 years; lost a couple feet of colon and few more of small intestine; all this preceded by endometriosis, the loss of my uterus, appendix and the infamous acalculous gallbladder that started all the fun. There may be a partridge in a pear tree left in there, but only my surgeon knows for certain.
How often did you run across patients in whom adhesions were the main problem? Just curious to know how many other folks have the gift that keeps on giving. This stuff grows like cancer, hurts like hell, and it's rare that even doctors understand how awful the condition can be. Can you say "liquid diet" for 8 years and counting? Next to my surgeon, my blender is my best friend.
Love the blog!
- Sid Schwab said...
Jen: I had a few like that: people who kept having obstruction after obstruction. Each operation harder than the last. I don't think it's known why some do and some don't. If you operate on someone who's had prior surgery, sometimes you find adhesions all over the place, sometimes none or almost none. And you're right. Much as I liked them, I hated to hear from them!