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Monday, 26 March 2012
Harry Potter Alphabet
I thought I'd take more of a minimalist approach this time.
Depicted are: Albus Dumbledore, Sirius Black, Cho Chang, Draco Malfoy, Elf (Dobby the House Elf), Argus Filch, Hermione Granger, Hagrid, Igor Karkaroff, James Potter, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Bellatrix Lestrange, Mad-Eye Moody, Neville Longbottom, Mr. Ollivander, Harry Potter, Quirinus Quirrell, Remus Lupin, Severus Snape, Nymphadora Tonks, Dolores Umbridge, Lord Voldemort, Ron Weasley, Xenophilius Lovegood, Yaxley, Blaise Zabini
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What fun! I only found one to be truly taxing.ReplyDelete
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Tonks, Nymphadora
Umbridge, Delores
Weasley, (Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred, George, or Ronald)
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Zabini, Blaze
Igor Karkarof?ReplyDelete
that Weasley actually seems to denote the twins quite accurately as well!! awesome work :D !!ReplyDelete
Wow, really had to reach for those last two, huh :)ReplyDelete
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Bella and Yakov and Tillie's
Panties: What I Learned in Construction and Maintenance of
Indexing Languages and Thesauri
by Jeanette Ezzo
Ezzo is the research director of JPS Enterprises, a company in
Takoma Park, Maryland, that specializes in medical education
materials. She took Dagobert Soergel's LBSC775 course at the
University of Maryland, College Park, as a non-degree student when
the company received a grant to develop an indexing language for
studies on spirituality and health. The graduate course,
"Construction and Maintenance of Index Languages and
Thesauri," required developing a piece of a thesaurus, pilot
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paper on what was learned in the course. This paper fulfilled that
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My name is Jeanette, and I am a middle-aged adult learner. There is a liberating confession in saying this, much like someone must feel walking into an AA meeting and saying, I am so-and-so, and I am an alcoholic. The confession is this: I do not learn in the same way that I learned in my 20s and 30s. In my youth, I, like all the other 20-somethings, got through college on rote memorization and use of mnemonic devices. The 12 cranial nerves were memorized with On old Olympus' towering top, a Finn and German viewed a hop." The bones of the wrist were memorized with the mnemonic, Never lower Tillies panties; mother might come home.
But now I am middle aged, and memorization is not my strong suit anymore. If you ask me to name the bones of the wrist, I can tell you that the N stands for navicular, and the L stands for lunate. If you press me for the T and the P bones, I can only tell you apologetically that they are Tillies panties. So, how does an adult learner learn new material if not by rote memorization, and how does this apply to what I learned in LBSC775?
Research shows that adult learners learn by hanging their new knowledge onto their existing life experiences, and this appending is often done using similes and metaphors. I knew the first night of class, when the rest of class bobbed their heads up and down in profound understanding during the lecture, that if I were to survive LBSC775, I would have to rely on similes and metaphors. Even Jesus spoke in parables. So, here are my 12 top lessons learned in LBSC775 necessarily told through the similes of an adult learner.
1. Creating a thesaurus without knowing the discipline well is like
trying to navigate in a foreign country without speaking the
language you can quickly drown in a sea of words.
When my friends Bella and Yakov immigrated to the United States from Russia, they told me their greatest culture shock was city driving. Yakov would drive, and Bella would try desperately to read all the signs to him. There were so many signs! Yard signs! Campaign signs! Advertisements on billboards! Street signs! Stop signs! Lost dog signs tacked to telephone poles. Lacking a cultural filter, Bella described the anguish of having every word look equally important.
Selective perception is important in driving and in thesaurus development. You have to know your discipline well enough (or recruit experts who do know the discipline well enough) to know what, on your list of hundreds of terms, is not important enough to keep. You also have to know your topic well enough to discuss it at the elemental concept level. When we were developing the spirituality and health thesaurus, Dr. Soergel pressed us: "Can you have nonreligious spirituality?" What an apparently odd concept, yet not from an elemental concept point of view! "Can you have nonspiritual meditation? Nonspiritual yoga practice?"
2. Good scope notes are like Map Quest driving directions they tell you exactly what to do. Bad scope notes are like getting driving directions from the 16-year old at the service station who smoked up before he came to work they will leave you going in circles for hours and may never get you where you want to go.
By the end of the first night, I had already had several valuable epiphanies. I never knew that there was a difference between a scope note and a definition, the former being much more of an evolving work in progress and written with an eye toward helping indexers, and the latter being a more succinct point of reference. My only experience with scope notes up to that point had been MeSH, (the National Library of Medicines Medical Subject Headings) and the MeSH examples had seemed like definitions. Similarly, when I saw the American Psychological Association (APA) Thesaurus scope notes, I still could not see what the difference was between a scope note and a definition.
The epiphany came when I laid eyes on the Dewey Decimal Classification (www.oclc.org/dewey) later in the course. For me, it was love at first sight. I was enamored of the care that the authors of the scope notes had put into anticipating where indexers might get confused and providing explicit road signs at just those junctures. These are the model for scope notes written with an eye to the indexers and cataloguers.
3. When choosing how to display related terms (RTs), you will need to decide between the thrift store approach and the Nordstrom approach.
If youve ever shopped at a thrift store for clothes, you know that most thrift stores seem to take the same equally dreadful approach to clothing displays. Clothes are crammed as tightly as they can be on a rack and often arranged by color instead of size. As we reviewed various thesauri in class and analyzed their lists of related terms (RTs), I couldnt help but think of those crammed clothing racks. Some thesauri such as that for the Education Resources Information Clearinghouse (ERIC) (www.eric.ed.gov/ or http://searcheric.org/) and the APA Thesaurus are quite generous in providing RTs, but some users will find the resultant 12-15 alphabetized RTs under the descriptor about as functional as clothes arranged according to color.
A more user-friendly approach is the Nordstrom approach showcase the most important items using special display features such as putting them at the top of the list and bolding them or using an asterisk. Nordstrom teaches an important lesson: People like pre-selected options especially when they are in a hurry.
4. Relying on frequency analysis as the sole way to identify terms is as
useful as relying on the evening paper to identify important world
events: some topics will be mentioned ad
nauseum, others not even once.
I went into this course believing that there was something inherently noble and righteous about frequency analysis. Perhaps the greatest epiphany on that first night was rethinking the relative value of the study participants that we had enrolled in a survey in order to generate search terms. Prior to the first night, I had been thinking that our 60 study participants would be the pivotal, central source of information for indexing terms. That first night, I learned that thesaurus development regularly relies on a variety of other sources from textbooks to specialized dictionaries to other thesauri and I began to get a sense of the enormity of the task. A frequency analysis of the study participants responses simply would not be adequate.
That night, upon returning home, I looked at the 700+ page hardback Handbook of Religion and Health with new eyes. Right there in the index was a wealth of information on terms and their interrelationships. Nearly an hour passed as I sat lost in the pages of the index of that book.
As a result of that first class, I began to view the study participants and the resultant frequency analysis as icing on the cake with perhaps the greatest contribution being not the breadth of terms needed but the ascertainment of preferred terms. Which terms out of a group of equivalent terms did participants use most frequently to capture a particular concept? This selection would be the likely candidate for the preferred term.
5. Creating a thesaurus is like doing a vaccination program in a
developing country. You will always have those trips up the Andes on
a donkey.
Having a background in public health, I always go back to lessons learned there. Vaccination programs in developing countries possess a kind of universal truth you can use 60% of your resources vaccinating 90% of the kids and then use the other 40% of your resources climbing the mountains of the Andes to vaccinate the other 10%. Don't expect that expenditure of energy will be evenly spread over all pieces of the schema. Some will require the trip up the Andes.
Some tree structures in our schema, such as health conditions or mental disorders, could be easily modified from existing hierarchies such as MeSH or the DSM IV (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), respectively. These pieces were the equivalent of vaccinating 90% of the kids. However, other structures, such as how to categorize all the Protestant denominations, were a real trip up the Andes.
Coincidentally, while I was working on this part of the schema, Dr. Soergel reminded us that we should be keeping track of our time spent on the thesaurus so that we have some idea how to estimate time on future projects. Thus, I was extremely aware while walking out of the Eisenhower Library at 2 a.m. that I had been there for three hours holed away in the religious history section trying to find one meaningful way to classify the plethora of Protestant denominations. I had not found one meaningful classification system, but I had read far more than I ever wanted to know about Martin Luther, John Knox and John Calvin. I probably spent an additional three hours searching the Web for classification systems. Some classifications used a liberal, moderate or conservative delineation. Others classified the denominations according to the time in history when they occurred, for instance, Reformation Era, Pietistic Era. There always seemed to be a couple of subgroups that didn't fit nicely anywhere. The temptation to alphabetize and be done with it once and for all became overwhelming, but then I would think of all those clothes on the thrift store rack arranged by color, and I would talk myself out of alphabetizing.
Wei Ching (my project companion) and I had several conversations about which system to use. I can surely understand why thesaurus developers choose to alphabetize rather than go through the arduous process of assigning meaningful proximity to the descriptors. We finally opted for the liberal-to-conservative classification because that is what was used the most. However, in our indexing pilot study, I found that I didn't know where to index "Baptist" because the liberal-to-conservative gradient had placed northern Baptists in one compartment and southern Baptists in another. More refinement to this part of the schema still needs to happen. We need another trip up the Andes.
6. Creating a thesaurus is like doing horticulture; sometimes only a
hybrid will do.
This license to create a hybrid is part of thesaurus development. It made more sense to classify the Protestant denominations as mentioned above. However, when it came to non-Christian religions, we were persuaded to use a modification of the Dewey system, which classifies them according to geography of origin, so the Indic religions are classified together, and the African religions are classified together. The Abrahamic religions are classified together as coming from the Middle East. When one looks at the classification schema, it makes sense. One would probably not suggest that the country of origin most meaningfully classifies all those Protestant subgroups. Yet, the other religions do naturally classify that way, so we had to create a hybrid of two concepts to get the pieces to fit.
7. Creating a thesaurus is like building a swimming pool. It depends on
your end-users. If the pool is for toddlers, you don't need a
12-foot depth.
If a swimming pool were being created for Olympic divers, you would opt for depth. If the pool were being built for toddlers, you would opt for shallowness. If the pool were going to serve a variety of populations, you would create sections of appropriate depth and breadth to meet the needs of all users.
The night Dr. Soergel explained breadth and depth being dependent on the purpose of the thesaurus, I had another epiphany. As he explained it, even the Harvard Business Thesaurus has a shallow section on health because it is needed for breadth, but the depth of that health section needs to be nowhere near the depth experienced in MeSH. Similarly, MeSH has a shallow section on economics that is not nearly to the depth of the Harvard Business Thesaurus but is adequate to represent the overlap of economics and medicine. The depth of respective sections should be determined by their use.
8. Creating a thesaurus is like doing marriage counseling. You have to
give equal time and credibility to both sides.
In building a thesaurus, there are some terms that are marked terms. This distinction was another learning point for me. Marked terms show a polarity, like one pole of the magnet or one side of the coin. To be fair to the concept, which is really a concept on a continuum, you must show both anchor points. Hope is a marked term. It must be shown adjacent to Hopelessness. Emotional states are marked terms. For every happiness, there is a sadness. Personality traits are marked terms. For every introversion, there is an extroversion. For every shyness, there is a gregariousness.
9. Creating a thesaurus without doing semantic factoring is like trying
to put together furniture from Ikea without following the
instructions. You will get interesting configurations, but you will
not save time.
From the start of the course, I felt a sense of urgency with trying to get everything done. How could we possibly have time to do semantic factoring when we were looking at a list of hundreds of terms? After we received our first output file from TermMaster, the thesaurus software, I began sorting and sorting terms. I assigned a code to things I could not sort, and I ended up with 30 pages of "unsortables." At my first meeting with Wei Ching I expressed how stuck I was. With her fine-tipped pencil, she began to draw semantic factors. It was as if a fog was clearing up. I could see the elemental concepts emerge under the tip of her pencil. Things never seemed that hard again. Each time I would get stuck trying to sort, I would think of Wei Ching's philosophy: When in doubt, do semantic factoring. The AOD (Alcohol and Other Drugs) Thesaurus (http://etoh.niaaa.nih.gov/AODVol1/Aodthome.htm) exemplifies a nicely semantically factored thesaurus.
10. Creating a thesaurus is like attending Alcoholics Anonymous.
Sometimes you need the support of the group. Other times, you need
one buddy you can call on at any time.
At the beginning of the course, Dr. Soergel highly suggested that we work in groups. Having never developed a thesaurus, I could not grasp the gravity of what he was saying. Over the course of thesaurus development, I found having a colleague to talk things over with was the best thing. Moreover, I was grateful for the smallness of our class and class time devoted to discussing our projects. Wei Ching and I would save all our mutual questions to present to the class. I can still remember the day that Mary Catherine suggested using "Abrahamic religions" for Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Then there was the day that Dr. Soergel suggested putting Theosophy, Sufism and Babism close to Islam to infer their connection through proximity, but not to put them as subsets of Islam because that might be disputed by some. Then there was the day that Tamar suggested that rather than my interviewing 10 journalists to get their lists of suggested terms, I might want to peruse the New York Times index and the Washington Post index to see what terms they were using. The class discussions were like self-help sessions go in with a problem, come out with at least one good solution. It would have been folly to try to do this task alone.
11. Creating a thesaurus is like creating a questionnaire. If you don't
disambiguate your terms, you will get "Yes,"
"No" or "Not often enough," written in the space
next to "Sex."
Whenever I fill out a demographic form, and the term sex is used instead of gender, I am tempted to write something like "not enough" or simply "yes." Ambiguity of terms invites mischief. The class discussions with the group developing the Judaica thesaurus were particularly interesting on this subject because they illustrated how important it was to disambiguate descriptors. One could not just use the term Spanish Judaica, for there is Judaica in the Spanish language, which is different from stories that take place in Spain, which are still different from stories about Spanish culture around the world.
Interestingly, when creating the spirituality and health thesaurus, I thought we were disambiguating terms until we did the indexing pilot study. It became obvious to me that Born again could be a pregnancy and birth classification, so we changed the term to Religious born again. We had Conversion, which we realized could also mean conversion reaction, so we changed it to Religious conversion. The lesson here in selecting terms is to find creative ways to disambiguate them. Identical terms should not be used for two different concepts.
12. Indexing articles is like trying to smell yourself. There's such a
thing as getting so close to something that you lose your
We have a saying among several of us who write professionally for a living. When we are too close to our own work, we pass the manuscript off to an editor who has never seen it before. We send a note along saying, "I can't edit my own work; it's like trying to smell myself."
In our indexing pilot test, I indexed 150 abstracts in order to gather pilot data for our funders as well as to improve the thesaurus. I remember getting the feeling, after I had done about 20 abstracts, that the process was now going very well.
However, when I looked at my indexing on the following day, I realized that the more articles I had done in a row, the worse my indexing had gotten. I had gotten too close to it, and my indexing had gotten sloppy. I had begun indexing based on terms used in the article instead of also indexing on the underlying concepts not explicitly stated. For example, in the sloppy stage, I might have indexed a study on prayer under Prayer but have been too mentally fatigued to see that I should have also indexed it under Spiritual coping since the article was about how terminally ill people use prayer to deal with their illnesses.
A fresh mind is needed to see implicit concepts and not just explicit terms. I learned that I shouldn't index articles for more than an hour at a time without taking a break and doing something else that draws on another part of my brain.
In short, mnemonics and rote memory aren't the only way to learn. I will never shop at a thrift store again without thinking of it as the most dreadful way to display RTs. I will never swim in a pool again without thinking of the shallow health section in the Harvard Business Thesaurus. Most of all, I will never be appalled that some odorous locker room does not offend the regular users, for I have learned that indexing is like a locker room if you're in it long enough you just can't smell yourself anymore.
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Food for All, a cafe and grocery at 7127 Germantown Ave. in Mt. Airy that specialized in food for people with multiple food allergies, closed in July.
Owner Amy Kunkle told the Local she was forced to close her store for financial reasons. The store had been plagued with financial troubles since May 2011, when Kunkle decided to run a promotion on the Groupon website.
Groupon customers could buy $30 worth of merchandise for only $15. The promotion, which ran for three months in 2011, did not set a limit on the number of customers who could participate in the deal – a mistake that resulted in a $10,000 loss. Kunkle was almost forced to close the store in January of 2012 until several customers pledged thousands of dollars in loans to keep the store from shutting its doors. But despite the efforts of area residents and loyal customers, the store closed two weeks ago.
"We just were not making it," said Kunkle, 37, who lives in Mt. Airy. "I stuck it out as long as I possibly could."
Kunkle, who has three children with food allergies, said customers didn't have to feel uncomfortable about their food allergies when shopping or ordering something from their menu.
"That was our specialty," Kunkle said.
The kitchen was entirely peanut-free and used specific utensils and separate sinks to prevent cross-contamination.
Kunkle said it broke her heart to notify her investors.
"It was really hard for me to tell them," said Kunkle, "I felt like I let them down. It just wasn't working for multiple reasons."
Looking forward, Kunkle plans to remain in the restaurant industry. She has been offered a full-time job at High Point Cafe and hopes eventually to work in its wholesale division when it opens.
"I will be bringing some of my stuff there," said Kunkle, who is looking forward to working in the neighborhood. "I think it is going to be a very good combination."


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Ma Jiang and the Orange Ants is a sophisticated picture book, written by Barbara Ann Porte and beautifully illustrated by Annie Cannon. It tells the story of a young girl in a traditional peasant family long ago in China and how political circumstances at the time conspire to challenge her cleverness and courage.
Ma Jiang's family makes a living by selling orange ants—the voracious insect eaters that protect the tender fruit of orange trees from pests. The ants are a kind of natural pesticide and they are fierce enough to bite people who climb to the tops of trees to cut down their nests. Jiang's older brothers and father collect the ants, her mother weaves the fine rush bags to hold the nests and Jiang helps with selling the orange ants in the market.
But one day all the available men in the community are conscripted by the Emperor's soldiers and marched off to build the Great Wall. This means disaster for the Ma family—both older brothers and father are gone, leaving only baby Bao, Jiang and her mother. There is no one to catch the ants. The baby is too little and the risky climbing is men's work. Then an old beekeeper buys some of the rush mats and bags and pays in the only currency he has, honey. And while she is minding Bao, Jiang gets an idea.
How Jiang solves the income dilemma and saves her family from starvation is brilliant and bold. As they begin to prosper, the only sorrow is the continual absence of the conscripted brothers and father. Throughout the story, which is resolved in a very dramatic and satisfying conclusion, the conditions of life in ancient China are presented in a lovely text that is mellifluous when read aloud and would be an interesting challenge for a young reader. The pictures are exquisite—every page is a full scene, edge-to-edge, with plenty of information about the society Jiang lives in.
Ma Jiang and the Orange Ants is a good story, a constructive example of resourcefulness and responsibility, an excellent cultural primer and pure pleasure to read and examine. Children's books can be small wonders of information and entertainment and this one is a tale to relish.
Ma Jiang & The Orange Ants Barbara Ann Porte | Orchard Books 2000


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Pennsylvania woman loses 200 pounds in a day - after getting monster cyst removed
Pennsylvania resident Mary Clancey, a 71-year-old retiree, had struggled with her weight for the better part of two decades.
"I tried this, that and whatever was on TV, I exercised and did all sorts of things, and I just kept getting rounder," she said.
In November, when Clancey developed blood clots in her legs, she was put through some tests and found out her problem was more than simple weight gain: She had a giant cyst.
"I was so shocked when they told me. The first thing I thought was Sigourney Weaver with the alien," Clancey said. "I was so scared. I thought, 'What could this be then?'"
Doctors near Allentown carefully removed the ovarian cyst that may have gradually grown inside her body for some 16 years.
Once the tumor and excess skin were removed, Clancey saw her weight drop from more than 350 pounds to just under 150 pounds.
"For four days after that surgery, it is the funniest feeling. I just felt -- I can't even describe it. I felt like something was empty," she said. "My whole body just didn't feel right. I guess I was so used to carrying that weight that I felt totally different."
Clancey still deals with complications from the tumor -- including what to do with all of the clothes that are too big for her.
"I gained 10 pounds since I'm home," she said. "Hopefully, I'll get curvy. I'll be one hot babe eventually."


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by Pete Mazzaccaro
More than 600 people from around the region were in Chestnut Hill Saturday, Dec. 3, to attend the Chestnut Hill Community Associations annual Holiday House Tour.
Clutching red guidebooks, tour takers travelled between five Chestnut Hill homes, each completely redecorated by 27 individual designers who volunteered their services to remake each house.
"It was fabulous," said CHCA president Jane Piotrowski, who also led a committee of 17 volunteers who worked for months to organize the tour. "There was lots of energy, new faces and old faces. It was everything we expected."
The big attraction is definitely the houses. Chestnut Hill has great architecture, from old stone estates to contemporary homes. Still, Piotrowski said, a big draw to the house tour is the design ideas.
"They go for the design ideas – they go for architectural ideas," she said. "What a lot of people did say this year is they saw designs that were doable. They saw things they want to try themselves."
As the CHCA's main fundraiser, the house tour's success is particularly important to the organization. Piotrowski said between very generous support from sponsors, $6,400 in program bok advertising and the ticket sales, the tour brought in more than $20,000.
Money was still being counted Monday morning, and Piotrowski said she fully expected the tour to have brought in the money the CHCA expected.
A lot of the event's success, Piotrowski said, was the result of strong community support. Between the tour committee, the designers and nearly 100 others who "staff" the houses during the day, nearly 150 people give their time to pull the whole thing off.
And, of course, none of it was possible without the donations of homeowners.
"The group of homeowners were great and gracious," Piotrowski said. "Every one was fabulous."


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Karina Chavez, a first-year student at the UC Davis School of Medicine, is the 2012-13 recipient of the Virginia Toombs, M.D. Memorial Scholarship.
As the recipient of the scholarship, Chavez will receive $4,000 toward reducing her medical-school loan.
The scholarship was created in 2000 in honor of Virginia "Ginny" Toombs, a 1982 graduate of the UC Davis School of Medicine, to assist UC Davis medical students who are single mothers with financial need. The primary purpose of the fund is to help cover the cost of fees and tuition. While attending medical school, Toombs raised her young son as a single mother. She took pride in the dual achievement of becoming a medical doctor and raising her son, Cameron, to be a fine young man.
A native of Modesto, Calif., Chavez is the mother of a 2-year-old son, Elias. She is interested in emergency medicine and hopes to continue working with urban, underserved communities after she has finished her training.
As a single mother, Chavez said the scholarship will help her repay loans for medical school and to pay for her son's child care during the day. Her parents, Graciela and George Chavez, frequently care for her son on the weekends that she serves as co-director at one of the free community clinics operated by UC Davis medical students. Even with the support of her parents, Chavez said that financial limitations make it difficult to juggle motherhood and the steep demands of medical school.
The Toombs Scholarship would help alleviate some of the financial burdens by helping with her son's care and allowing Chavez to participate in school events that would develop her skills as a future physician. In addition, Chavez said, the scholarship will help her son have a better quality of life in the future.
After she becomes a physician, Chavez said she plans to provide financial and motivational support to single mothers pursuing graduate degrees in medicine.


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My name is Liz Losin and I'm a social and cultural neuroscientist. I'm currently a postdoctoral researcher in Tor Wager's lab at the University of Colorado in Boulder. I'm delighted and honored to be joining Neuroanthropology!
Here, in my first post, I'll tell you how I came to study cultural neuroscience and give you an insider's perspective on how the field has grown. I'll also tell you a bit about my specific research interests and give you an idea of what I'll be blogging about.
I started on the path towards a career in science in the 4th grade when I read Koko's Kitten, the children's book about Koko, the gorilla whom Dr. Penny Patterson taught to use American Sign Language. I, too, wanted to communicate with apes and find out how they thought! I had set my sights on studying primate cognition.
In middle school and high school, my journey towards a career in primatology was facilitated by information, advice and encouragement from a number of generous scientists, which I was able to parlay into my web page for other young people interested in primatology: Primatology Future Tense. I am especially grateful that these scientists were willing to engage in science outreach at a point when this had to be done by answering my emails through Gopher and sending me books in the mail rather than simply directing me to a pertinent blog. I realized my childhood dream in college when I completed an honors thesis on chimpanzee communication with Bill Hopkins at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center.
Although I was passionate about this work, I realized that part of what led me to study apes was a curiosity about the origins of human cognition. It seemed that some of the questions that fascinated me the most, such as the mechanisms underlying complex human cultural capacities, could not be answered from studying nonhuman primates alone.
This interest in studying human culture and cognition solidified when, in a single semester, I took Joe Henrich's Psychological Anthropology class and Jim Rilling's Social Neuroscience class at Emory University. Psychological Anthropology opened my eyes to cultural diversity in cognition and behavior, but I was left wondering how this diversity was instantiated in the brain. In contrast, Social Neuroscience provided insights about the neural correlates of human social behavior using functional neuroimaging. I was surprised, however, that none of the studies we discussed in class, not even studies of racial perception, considered subjects' own cultural backgrounds.
I realized that neither discipline was providing a complete picture of human behavior and its underlying mechanisms, and this realization led me to my next goal, the one I am still pursuing: to use my training in anthropology and neuroscience to study the bidirectional interactions between culture and the brain.
When discussing this career goal in my graduate school interviews 7 years ago, studying culture and the brain was practically unheard of. The reactions I got from many of the faculty in the neuroscience programs to which I applied gave me a clue as to why. They ranged from questioning the feasibility of studying such high-level questions with neuroscience methods to telling me, in as many words, that I was committing career suicide.
It was clear that in 2006, the disciplinary boundaries between the social and natural sciences were a formidable barrier to studying culture and the brain at many of the universities where I interviewed. Although many of these boundaries still exist today, the field has come a long way. We now have a journal, Culture and Brain, a conference, the International Cultural Neuroscience Consortium conference, and a summer school, The University of Michigan Center for Culture, Mind, and the Brain Summer Institute in Cultural Neuroscience (which will be in it's 4th year this summer). In addition to a host of empirical papers, there have been a number of review articles, special issues and conference symposia devoted to cultural neuroscience. The field has a Wikipedia page, and searching for "Cultural Neuroscience" on Google yields over 21,000 hits.
As for my own growth as a cultural neuroscientist, although I did not accomplish the goal I expressed to my graduate school advisor of being the first researcher to use the term cultural neuroscience- I believe that honor goes to Joan Chiao at the Northwestern University- I was able to find an academic home in the FPR-UCLA's Culture, Brain and Development program and participate in the growth of this promising new field.
My dissertation research (supervised by Mirella Dapretto and Marco Iacoboni) focused on examining the neural mechanisms underlying cultural learning.
I began by considering anthropological theories about imitative biases, theories to which I was introduced to in that Psychological Anthropology class as an undergraduate. According to those theories, people's tendencies to imitate certain kinds of individuals over others (e.g. to prefer others like them, or those high in status) would likely increase the efficiency of cultural learning. I used functional MRI to investigate a) what neural systems support these imitative biases and b) how they may differ depending on one's own cultural background.
This work was supported, both intellectually and financially, by the FPR-UCLA Culture, Brain and Development Program (CBD). CBD is an interdisciplinary, cross-departmental program that provides students training, mentorship and funding to facilitate research that combines theory and methods from these three disciplines. I believe that such programs will be critical in advancing fields that bridge the social and biological sciences, such as cultural neuroscience, because they help students overcome what might otherwise be insurmountable disciplinary boundaries, and provide financial support for work that might be considered too risky for some traditional funding agencies.
In my postdoctoral research, I'm taking my cultural neuroscience research in two new directions that I hope will further increase the potential impacts of its findings. First, I am investigating socio-cultural influences on human health. Specifically, I am investigating how socio-cultural norms and sociocultural similarity between doctors and their patients influence pain perception and other aspects of the medical care experience. I believe that asking cultural neuroscience questions in the context of research on human health is one of the best ways to allow this work to have a direct impact on the lives of others. I also believe that this work represents an important, but mostly overlooked, aspect of human health and disease.
Second, I'm applying new multivariate statistical analysis methods, such as machine learning, to cultural neuroscience questions. Such techniques are better than traditional neuroimaging analysis methods for establishing close connections between brain and behavior. For this reason, I think these new methods will be especially useful in tackling the often thorny questions posed by cultural neuroscience.
In broader strokes, my research interests encompass the use of neuroscience methods to investigate the reciprocal interactions between social and cultural processes in the brain. I'm equally passionate about science outreach. I hope to integrate these interests and my own research experience into my blog posts here on Neuroanthropology.
Some of the areas I plan to cover are: 1) recent advances in cultural neuroscience and related fields, 2) the interaction between this work and society, including its potential applications and impacts on human health, and 3) how cultural neuroscience can inform, and learn from, research on non-human animals. I'm looking forward to being part of the Neuroanthropology community, and I encourage you to add your own thoughts to the conversation in the comments section below! Thanks!
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Portrait: Neil Losin
Race Research Image: Race modulates neural activity during imitation (abstract)
Liz Demo: Cynthia Lee


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Welcome to Chopped Challenge Thursday, Week Eleven! I can't believe it has been almost 3 months since I began this little portion of the blog!
It has been a blast and this week was especially fun because my 87-year-old grandma in Houston, Texas submitted an ingredient into the mix (with a little help from my Mom to post on Facebook)!
Check out Nana this summer with my Mom and I while showing off her backyard garden!
Nana submitted Cinnamon because she said that she heard it has a lot of health benefits!
She's one smart lady because cinnamon does pack a lot of health benefits including lowering bad cholesterol, relieving arthritis pain, stabilizing blood sugar and even eliminating migraine headaches!
The next three ingredients added into the mix were brussels sprouts from Allison Davis, apples from Wendi Garrison and oranges from Cynthia Mitchell.
I already had an Apple Sausage Gorgonzola Tart on my menu for the week so I decided to use the additional ingredients from "Mystery Basket Monday" to turn the Tart into this weeks Chopped Challenge Thursday!
The final result of "Chopped Challenge Thursday" Week Eleven: Caramelized Apple and Onion Tart with Gorgonzola, Sausage and Roasted Brussels Sprouts.
Ingredients (makes 2 tarts – serves 4)
- 1 cup brussels sprouts
- 1/2 cup and 2 tbsp olive oil (divided)
- 1/3 cup and 3 tbsp balsamic vinegar (divided)
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 3 cloves garlic (minced)
- 2 tbsp butter
- 2 red apples (cored and sliced)
- 1 red onion (sliced)
- 1 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 2 oranges (juiced)
- 1 roll phyllo dough (app 20 sheets)
- 2 sweet italian sausages (sliced)
- 1/2 cup gorgonzola cheese
- 1 tbsp fresh rosemary (chopped)
Start by quartering the brussels sprouts and placing on a baking sheet. Drizzle with 2 tbsp olive oil and 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar, then sprinkle with salt and pepper and toss with the minced garlic.
Place into a 425° oven for 15 minutes. Remove and set aside while preparing the rest of the tart.
Now on to caramelizing the apples and onions. Melt the butter in a large skillet then add the sliced apples.
Cook for 2-3 minutes then add the sliced onions.
Cook until the apples and onions become tender, about 8-10 minutes, then add the brown sugar, cinnamon and 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar.
Combine all of the ingredients together and cook for an additional 2-3 minutes. Set to the side while preparing the orange vinaigrette for the tart.
Whisk the juice of 2 oranges (app 1/3 cup) with 1/2 cup olive oil and 1/3 cup balsamic vinegar.
Now prepare the tart's crust by brushing this mixture on each sheet of phyllo dough, while stacking the sheets on top of each other.
Place 10 sheets in 2 separate stacks to make 2 tarts.
Fold the edges of the tart in to form the crust, then brush the edges with the orange vinaigrette.
Next begin to assemble the tarts by placing a layer of caramelized apples and onions on the crust.
Next top with the brussels sprouts, then the sausage, gorgonzola cheese and rosemary.
Transfer carefully onto a baking sheet and bake in the oven at 425° for 10-12 minutes (depending on how crisp you want the crust!)
Thank you all for continuing to provide such awesome ingredients and inspiration through "Chopped Challenge Thursdays", this is another new favorite dish for me!
There are so many components that make up this delectable tart. The creaminess of the gorgonzola cheese, the sweetness of the cinnamon apples and the savory flavors of the sausage and brussels sprouts!


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Centralia, Pennsylvania, a ghost town that may be a little more comparable to hell on Earth.
Could it be true? Silent Hill is inspired by a real place! Centralia is a borough located in Columbia County, Pennsylvania. Since 1981, its population has dwindled from over 1,000 to its current number of seven. (The fact that even seven people still live there is baffling.) If you take a minute to look on any recently published maps, Centralia isn't there – it has been wiped away from geographic recordings of history. Even with the few people that live there, Centralia is a ghost town.
Here's the story of Centralia:
In 1962, some volunteer firemen were brought in to burn the town's landfill, which happened to be located on an abandoned strip mine. The strip mine was connected to a massive coal vein running near the surface. When the firemen lit the landfill on fire, they also happened to light the coal vein, causing a massive fire to burn beneath Centralia.
Let me point something out though: the fire went unnoticed for seventeen years, from 1962 to 1979. Remember, coal burns very slowly, and a massive vein burns even slower. For seventeen years, the whole town was living normal lives above a gigantic coal-burning fire, unaware of the extreme danger they were in.
In 1979, a gas-station owner, and then mayor, John Coddington, tested the fuel level in his gas tanks. He noticed the fuel was hot, much too hot for normal storing conditions. He tested the temperature and found it to be at 172 degrees Fahrenheit. But, the problem did not receive massive attention until 1981, when a sinkhole that was four feet wide by 150 feet deep suddenly opened underneath the feet of a 12-year-old resident.
Now, you may be thinking, "Phew, glad Centralia is dealt with and that fire is out." Wrong, the fire is still burning today. There has been a massive, toxin-spewing fire burning underneath the town of Centralia for the last 49 years. And seven people still live there…


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J.P. Morgan Posts Profit Rise
Earnings season unofficially kicked off in full force as big banks J.P. Morgan and Wells Fargo issued first-quarter results. Brendan Conway has details.
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... the the ... stocks have risen for four straight sessions but futures are pointing lower today ... Brendan Conway joins us now branded one of the Barron's morning he doing ... doing well okay so markets twenty down ... reporting a bit lower this morning ahead ahead of this data that was coming in ... now just keep in mind that mean ... stocks have risen is use it for four straight sessions are at all-time highs ... this blog know ... we've got some awesome art retail sales figures that were slightly ... less than expected the market was already basically looking for a breather here ... on the other factor this in theory is on the so-called producer price index to basically reading of inflation ... ALM that surged ... in the previous period ... mostly because of energy prices ... so that also tapered off a little bit this morning ... both of those readings are are are are looking good Okada ... the light is less activity have the air ... aam not too surprising to see the market and then ... back to earnings we had Alcoa before an unofficial this is for the official start thanks ... today what are we seen France's from JPMorgan ... chief Jamie were in the analysts earning a hectic expectations but what's interesting is that stock is down a little bit ... this morning ... I would read into it the fact that you know ... making mortgages just is not as profitable businesses it needs to be ... JPMorgan be ... worth something like thirty seven percent more mortgages but its profit in that segment is actually down with it once was fastening yesterday I think of a physician day before the JPMorgan analysts ... said the bank's big banks are on investable ... that that the ITU a startup that let us know ... cutting controversially Databank gotta give them credit for the three of them credit for that yet they give you see something similar this morning is also in on ... another big bellwether day Wells Fargo ... on ... that's another case where they shouldn't be the top line you know these things they share giving Wall Street ... with the nominally wants ... aam but again that mortgage businesses just not so hot in fact JPMorgan warrant ... of what one for lower net interest margins this year it's a key metric ok and ... let let's move on Tuesday three stocks you're looking at today one is linked in ... the end of the mother of living is interesting because you see this trend among these common remain Internet companies of of ... of buying apps and buying smaller companies ... him yet Yahoo bought a newsreader for of what was to be thirty million dollars ... couple weeks ago ... the one here in this case and linked in its cold calls ... I'm ... you know that some mobile news at ... the end of May is it so that looks like investors are too caught in this idea the stock was down ... close to one percent this morning ok Twitter's can be releasing its own music app leader this week it's it's ... this is another report of ... carrots core is another stock to pay attention to ... Harris is interesting ... this is this the government defense contractor and write and missile technology systems ... they missed Wall Street's forecasts so that the stock might be damned today yes have a seven percent in premarket beats high dismissed exclusively to DC so-called sequestration budget battles they said basically you know it's hard to do business ... in this chaotic environment ... so maybe some actual cuts are happening he got it sure looks like that lead to a shareholder and last goal ... gold is interesting to know ... Gold is a tough year down about seven percent this morning at last check are done close to two percent ... you know ... things are changing at the Federal Reserve the tone is changing the money printing you know that hockey is is ... is much less consensus around this is despite ... the very weak jobs report we discover that that well you know ... the the our last look at the Fed minutes and that actually took place before the jobs data for what you see in the market though is that gold traders are taking any chances ... they even Julie years of of of the ... huge gains ... in they think that


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Music Track Title: Sigalagala Holiday
Catalog ID: 479046 ISRC: US5UL1130331
Description: Uplifting African Drumming with children's chorus. Great for safari, adventure, African jungle scenes, travel channel, documentaries. National Geographic TV Films, web flash animation African product placement and ethnic based visuals.
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Language: African Language (Unknown)
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Whose Agenda Is It Anyway?
Fall 2004
By doing so, he signaled that opposition to Oregon's way of empowering patients at the end of life runs deeper than his single post. It indicates that religious conservatives at all levels of the administration are likely to continue the battle against Oregon and against aid-in-dying for years to come. Driven by a conservative religious agenda, virulent attacks seem out of step with traditional Republican values of self-determination, restraint of government interference, states' rights, and personal responsibility.
"The U.S. Supreme Court has already written that aid in dying is a matter for individual states to decide. If the court respects its own precedent, it will deny Ashcroft's appeal," said Barbara Coombs Lee, president of Compassion and a chief petitioner of Oregon's unique law. "Even after three court victories, Compassion must once again marshal resources to oppose the Department of Justice and keep aid-in-dying available."
Ashcroft opened his attack on Oregon patients and their doctors on November 6, 2001. His directive attempted to reverse the legal analysis of his predecessor, Janet Reno, and instruct the Drug Enforcement Administration to prosecute physicians for prescribing life-ending medication to terminally ill, mentally competent Oregonians. Compassion in Dying's legal team has represented 14 patient plaintiffs during the three-year court battle. Once again Compassion will muster the legal muscle necessary to ask the Supreme Court to reject the Ashcroft petition. We are cautiously hopeful the highest court in the land will decline to hear this case. We must bring all our dedication and available resources to the battle to preserve excellent care and the choice of a peaceful and humane death at the end of life.
Repeated polls indicate most people of every faith and political persuasion favor choice at the end of life. Yet religious conservatives repeatedly seek to impose a narrow, doctrinaire view of morality on everyone throughout the nation. We vow to continue the struggle to realize the goals of individual autonomy at life's end even though the balance of power in Washington clearly rests with religious conservatives who pursue a vigorous agenda of change for our nation.
Aid-in-dying is only one battleground where freedom of conscience is under attack. But because everyone will one day face end-of-life decisions, it is a battleground of enormous importance to us all.
This article was provided by Compassion in Dying. It is a part of the publication Connections.


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El Testigo, Juan Villoro. Anagrama. 470pp.
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El Testigo ("The Witness") hasn't yet been fully translated into English, but Chris Andrews has been kind enough to share with us his translation of chapter three. It can be read here.
Allow me to scrimp on setup. A short excerpt from the book flap will orient you through these notes: "Julio Valdivieso, a Mexican intellectual who emigrated to Europe, returns to his country after a long absence. The PRI has finally lost the elections and a peculiar period of transition begins."El Winter Women's Boot Naturalista Kaki Nido N758 nqx8PTzwRq
The past for Julio is mainly Nieves, his dead cousin, for whom he still rhapsodizes, mostly because in their youth she didn't run away with him. "He would never do something as definite as not being with her," Julio still thinks, although he knows his obsession with her is "his talisman out of his monotony." In other words, he would probably be a passive nostalgic regardless. One childhood memory of his comes to mind: "Sometime he dreamt that the good thief descended from the cross and approached his bed to return him a fire truck he'd taken in another dream." 1
The past for Julio is also Los Cominos, the family hacienda in the desert, somewhere in central Mexico. It is where his uncle Donasiano, a hobbyist of local history, has amassed boxes of documents about the region, including letters and photographs from the Cristero War, a 1920s uprising against the anticlerical provisions of the Mexican revolution that was centered in Guadalajara and plays a crucial role in El Testigo. Donasiano, incidentally, is one of the many characters in this book who stand out through sharp (and often funny) dialogue. A Donasiano sample: "The great religions could only have been invented in the desert or a crazy mountain. . . . Inventions of people who only speak by chance; the first miracle of religion is to run into someone in the desert. If you're born in an empty place, your head fills up differently. The afterworld was invented by a shepherd who lost a sheep in the desert." There's also Ramon Centollo, a homeless poet who leaves mock-poetic messages, dipped in allusions and street slang, on answering machines across Mexico City:
This one is for Paola of the Ponte Vecchio, from Ramon, of the Over Pass. I live with my dogs in a viaduct. My nails are black and my mind's aflame. If you haven't read me you haven't screwed. Don't ask Julio for my poetry because nobody publishes me, or only the answering machines do. We're milk brothers! Old data, my queen, things that no longer offend, archaeology, memory of the species. A blink and ten civilizations fall. My apologies, I divagate . . . , that's what they call me, Doctor Divago. . . . I already told [Julio] to beware, but he pays me no mind, that's why I reach out to you, Beatriz, Laura, Diatoma, Fuensanta, Ines of my soul, light that creates the sun above, little ventripotent snake.
Centollo is the one friend who warns Julio that he's in danger, to no avail. Julio's too steeped in his memories of Nieves and will continue to be until more than halfway through the novel. By then Centollo has already been stabbed to death, and Julio, still enraptured by Nieves, will make a mistake that leads to him being detained, beaten, and assaulted by a gang of children:
His body was voraciously searched by the children. The soft contact of those hands hurt him infinitely. . . . They took off his clothes amidst laughter and insults they were hurling at each other affectionately. . . . A boy with messy hair placed something sharp on his throat, broken glass, perhaps. Julio did not move. They placed a paper bag on his head. They don't want to see my face when they open me with the glass.
Let's return to Los Cominos, where we were about to encounter the Cristero War. Martyrdom, gore, suffering for God, soldiers of Christ so at ease with death that they fall asleep at their hanging—these are the foundations of Catholic folklore. A discreet postmodernist, Villoro knows that handling this material is tricky. He has written against what he calls "the fundamentalism of folklore," a way of engaging readers solely by highlighting the quirks of the natives. In El Testigo he even makes an ironic reference to The Sins of Father Amaro, a movie that's a master class on how to turn Catholic folklore into kitsch. Thankfully, Villoro sidesteps the pitfalls of narrating this stuff by filtering it through Julio's associative, metaphorical, skeptical, literary consciousness. Add to it a pinch of childhood sopped in bloody crucifixes, a dash of cocaine and a whole lot of malaise, and you can perhaps imagine how we're seeing this folklore. Which isn't how others in the novel get to see it:
Every time he talked about Los Cominos, [Paola] would put on her Neorealist movie face. Those stories reached her in a melancholic black and white, a precarious world where life was risked to steal a bicycle and saints were poor devils.
Let me walk you through an example in color. Donasiano has driven Julio to a historic site called "the battalion of the winds." After the desert landscape has been set, Julio sees, below the precipice, "hundreds of stakes from which pale shreds of fabric were flapping. Some of them were disfigured, others retained their inconceivable original form. They were shirts." At this point we're still just sightseeing. Then we hear the historical back-story: "The Cristeros threw themselves down the cliff. Their shirts are there, praying. The Battalion arrived here cornered by General Amaro. They had no exit." The shirts as "prayer" add a gentle touch of local superstitions (Donasiono's helper is the one who's talking), but the Julio filter isn't on yet. Work TYAK Work Reebok Reebok Reebok TYAK TYAK Work Then we enter Julio's head, which is not trying to imagine holy battle scenes or the saintly splattering of the Cristeros but is exploring the conflicted feelings of General Amaro: "Did [Amaro] feel overcome by the noise of those shirts? Did he experience horror, admiration, something unspeakable upon seeing this fanatical immolation that turned his task useless?"
A brief digression on Roberto Bolaño's praise of Villoro. In a TV interview Bolaño said that "the literature of Juan Villoro, I think, is a literature that is opening up the path of the new Spanish novel of the millennium." His praise came after his comments about what the new novel in Spanish shouldn't be (linear, a repetition of the Boom, easy) and the tendency of Spanish prose toward the florid. Another writer mentioned alongside Villoro is Enrique Vila-Matas, enthusiastically discussed in these pages, and, incidentally, part of the jury that chose El Testigo as the winner of the same Herralde prize that The Savage Detectives and Montano's Malady won in previous years.
The Cristero War will be kitsch. Friends of Julio are scheming to turn it into a trashy mini-series punningly called For the Love of God, and the television crews will eventually descend on Los Cominos to film it. Throughout the novel, the making of For the Love of God is the springboard for most of the other plotlines and side projects: the canonization of Ramon Lopez Velarde, the blackmail of Julio by Felix "the sarcastic devil" Rubirosa, the one about the writer of bestselling narco thrillers who absconds with Julio's wife, the role of the cartels in Mexico.
The plotline about the cartels merits a few words, especially because American newspapers and magazines have been recently reporting on its pervasiveness and dangers. Mexico, says one of the producers of For the Love of God, "has only one important geographic division: the cartels." And "if you scratch and scratch, any money has to do with the narcos." Perhaps including some of the money to fund For the Love of God. This of course isn't just about money. The cartels ignite most of the violent episodes of El Testigo. Without ever leaving Julio's point of view, a barrage of slang changes the register of these violent scenes and moves them along quickly. 2
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I do want to leave you with Monteverde, an erudite priest who wants to enlist Julio in the canonization of Ramon Lopez Velarde:
[My grandmother] was forty five and two months when the poet asked her to read him Masterpiece. At that age she had given up all hope of conceiving. But she understood what the poet was trying to tell her: she had, inside of her, a negative son.
—And what did she do?
—She gathered the drool of the poet.
—The Drool!?
—The drool, the sweat, what she could. . . . My grandmother gathered the secretions on this pendant.
—And what did she do with the drool?
—She lathered it on her stomach. A few days later she stopped menstruating.
—She had a son with Lopez Velarde?
—Providence doesn't work so simply.
1 The explicit and implied layers of passivity are: 1) Julio is dreaming; 2) Julio is in bed; 3) The good thief returns from another dream, which implies Julio, while in bed, is thinking about that other dream; 4) Julio is a spectator at Golgotha.
2 "Nothing has enriched the Spanish of Mexico so much as violence," Centollo says earlier in the novel, as if challenging Villoro to write as well about the violence as about the past.
Mauro Javier Cardenas' fiction has been published by the Antioch Review and his book reviews by the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Top 10 Choices for New Zealand Golf
New Zealand is a dream destination for golfers with endless options for courses of all levels. And all with the backdrop of New Zealand's stunning scenery!
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My Top 10 Choices for New Zealand Golf
International golf vacations run in my veins. All of my family are golfers and every year we rendezvous somewhere in the world to play a round or two and meet the locals.
Of all our travels, New Zealand absolutely exceeded our expectations for golfing (and being an Aussie, its hard to admit this). New Zealand offers golf for every level of enthusiast, and more often than not, luxurious accommodations with incredible hospitality are on site or just moments away.
Your greatest battle could be choosing which course to play. Here are my top 10 choices and reasons why you should play them:
1. Kauri Cliffs
Both Conde Nast and Travel + Leisure named Kauri Cliffs the best lodge in Australiasia in 2011. It has hosted The Kiwi Challenge.
2. Cape Kidnappers
The 16th Par 5 offers incredible views. The clubhouse is designed like a New Zealand shearing shed, and the onsite luxury resort makes this a complete destination.
3. Jack's Point
Located outside 'must see' Queenstown, a newer course, with the stunning Remarkables Mountains for a back drop. A great day out.
4. Millbrook Resort
Great destination luxury resort outside Queenstown. 27 holes, a wonderful spa and excellent dining on site which reflect the French history.
5. Clearwater Golf Course
Home of the New Zealand Open, plenty of trout-filled streams and a true links style. Playable year round. Five tee positions made it great for all players abilities.
6. Terrace Downs
A great stopover point in the high country South Island. Golf in the morning, and you can be salmon and trout fishing in the afternoon. Jet boating, hiking, horse riding also available.
7. Kinloch
For the historic golfer, this course is for you. It is steeped in tradition, beautiful wide open fairways. A pleasure to play.
8. Paraparaumu Beach Golf Club
A true links style and only 45 minutes from Wellington. On many golfer's bucket list. Challenging!
9. The Hills
Located outside Queenstown, a by invitation experience, of the same caliber with Leopard Creek, South Africa.
Statues crafted by New Zealand artists are located throughout the course
10. Wairakei Golf Course and Sanctuary
Located within the Wairakei Geothermal Park on the North Island, the focus on returning the vegetation back to its original state.
The Pouwhenua pole carving at the entrance displays the strong Maori culture in the area.
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It was a new surgeon on call; I had not spoken with her before, but she seemed nice enough. I greeted her with the following bit of sparkling wit: "They say a pathognomonic sign of appendicitis is when the ER doctor can find the appendix on the CT scan without assistance. Well, I'm looking at an abdominal CT right now and I can see the appendix." She laughed and said she'd be happy to come right down. I think I'll get along with her fine. And yet again I amuse the heck out of myself.
18 August 2008
Even I can see that one
Posted by shadowfax at 1:58 PM
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When were they first able to recognize and treat appendicitis?ReplyDelete
Can someone survive without treatment?
I am just in aww of modern day medicine. People don't die of appendicities, asthma, child birth (the deadliest!) as much anymore.
I am so impressed that you actually LOOKED at the CT all by yourself!ReplyDelete
Oh wait, did the tech point it out to you first?
joking of course. Maybe it's just our ER docs who don't even look at the scans....
- nikkik8/19/2008 8:49 PM
i was told by my ER doc that he could see my appendix on the CT, but the radiologist did not think it was inflamed.ReplyDelete
I said "I don't know how it usually goes, but for me, ER doc trumps radiologist."
The pathologist said after it was definitely appendicitis - he was surprised it didn't bother me sooner.


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Gordon M. Smith
Superior Court magistrate
Gordon M. Smith,Magistrate of RI Superior Court, of Carlson Circle, formerly of River Farm Dr., passed peacefully March 30, 2012 at home with his family by his side. He was the beloved husband of Patricia A. (Hart) Smith.
Born in Providence, he was a son of John Smith Jr. of West Warwick and the late Lorna T. (Lautieri) Smith. He was a lifelong resident of West Warwick. Mr. Smith was an attorney for many years before being sworn in as a Magistrate of the Superior Court in 2004. He was a 1970 graduate of West Warwick High School, Rhode Island College and received his JD degree in 1986 from Suffolk University Law School.
He was a former prosecutor for the Town of West Warwick, a longtime member of the West Warwick Democratic Committee and served as its chairman from 1997-2004, a member of the West Warwick Lions Club, Sons of Italy, Natick Lodge, Natick German Club and a former member of West Warwick Lodge of Elks.
He was an avid traveler, a New York Yankees and New York Giants fan and loved his dog, Fallon.
Besides his wife and father he leaves two brothers, John W. Smith and his wife, Janet, of Warwick and Timothy M. Smith of Portsmouth, and a niece, Courtney Smith. He was the maternal grandson of the late Michael and Angelina (Marinelli) Lautieri and paternal grandson of the late John H. and Annabel (Leggett) Smith.
His funeral will be held April 3 at 9 a.m. from Henault-Gallogly Funeral Home, 5 Eddy St., West Warwick. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. in St. Kevin Church, Sandy Lane, Warwick. Interment will follow in St. Joseph Cemetery, West Greenwich.
Contributions to Hasbro Children's Hospital, 593 Eddy St., Providence, RI 02903 or Memorial Hospital Home Care, 555 Prospect St., Pawtucket, RI 02860 in his memory would be appreciated. For information and condolences visit www.henault-gallogly.com.


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You might learn during a routine pregnancy ultrasound that your baby has a craniofacial anomaly, which is defined as an abnormality of the head and face such as: cleft lip, an opening in the lip; or cleft palate, which is an opening in the roof of the mouth. It's reassuring to know that our highly experienced Cleft and Craniofacial team can provide life-changing surgical care and innovative treatment throughout your child's growth and development.
Clefts of the lip and palate are among the most common major birth anomalies, which are conditions that are unusual or different at birth, previously called "birth defects." In fact, about one or two of every 1,000 babies born in the United States each year have a cleft lip or cleft palate. We know a cleft lip or palate diagnosis can be quite concerning. But both are treatable, and most children can have surgery to repair these anomalies within the first 12-18 months of life.
Our goal at Nemours is to help children with a congenital anomaly of the head and/or face look and function as normally as possible — and feel good about themselves as they grow. Our pediatric craniofacial team will give your child ongoing compassionate care and support.
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Max was born with a cleft lip and a cleft palate and needed two surgeries before nine months old. "Having the best care team is the most important part of the journey," explains Kerry, Max's mom.
The Cleft and Craniofacial team at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children has more than 60 years of experience and expertise in caring for children with conditions affecting the head and face, such as cleft lip and/or cleft palate.
Our team from across many different specialties is led by Dr. Joseph Napoli, Division Chief of Plastic, Maxillofacial, and Craniofacial Surgery. An advanced practice nurse (APN) serves as your child's personal care coordinator, ensuring that your family receives individualized attention and that you have someone to call whenever you have questions. Our APN also will help organize your child's visits.
As a parent or guardian, you're a crucial member of your child's care team and we welcome and encourage your input and participation. Over the course of this long-term partnership, we develop a close relationship with families like yours — sharing in the pride and joy of your child's growth and accomplishments.
We treat children with cleft lip and palate and other craniofacial and maxillofacial anomalies (deformities or defects of the face, head, jaw, or mouth), including:
- Goldenhar Syndrome: a condition associated with abnormalities of the head and the bones of spine, which can include differences of the eyes, ears, facial bones, and mouth
- Pierre Robin Sequence (PRS): a condition often characterized by an abnormally small lower jaw formation that causes the tongue to fall back into the throat
- Treacher-Collins Syndrome: an inherited condition that causes problems with the structure of the face
- 22q.11.2 Deletion Syndrome (also called diGeorge or Velocardiofacial Syndrome): a disorder caused by deletion of a small piece of chromosome that can affect many parts of the body including the face, heart, and bones
- Craniosynostosis: when the bones of the skull fuse together before the brain has stopped growing
- Microtia: a deformity of the ear that's present from birth and may
affect hearing
- Apert Syndrome: a genetic disorder that affects the bones of the skull and face
- Crouzon Syndrome: a genetic disorder affecting the bones of the skull and face
- Vascular Anomalies: abnormalities of the blood vessels
- Tumors of the head, face, and jaws
At the first appointment after your baby is born, your child will be evaluated by individual specialists on our team. This gives you the opportunity to meet one-on-one with each of the various providers who may be caring for your child.
Our team includes the following specialists and health care professionals, all working together to give your child the best, most comprehensive care:
- plastic surgeon
- oral and maxillofacial surgeon
- geneticist and genetic counselor (Cleft lip and palate can be part of a genetic condition that can cause other symptoms, so we may suggest genetic testing as well.)
- general pediatrician
- advanced practice nurse coordinator
- neurosurgeon
- otolaryngologist (ear, nose, and throat)
- orthodontist
- dentist
- ophthalmologist
- speech-language pathologist and feeding therapist
- audiologist
- psychologist
- social worker
After your first appointment, your care team will meet as a group and agree upon treatment plan recommendations for your child.
For kids with cleft lip and/or cleft palate, their care usually starts in early infancy and can last through adolescence and young adulthood. But craniofacial conditions don't just affect how children look on the outside – they also may cause problems with:
- feeding and speech (so some children may need specialized therapy
to help)
- the ears and hearing (due to fluid build-up in the middle ear)
- the teeth, jaws, and mouth
Please know that our surgeons care about how your child looks on the outside and feels on the inside — and we take pride in providing personal, compassionate care.
In addition to cleft lip and cleft palate repair, some children may need additional surgeries at various ages, depending on the type and extent of the cleft and how it affects other parts of the body. Fortunately, we can offer you and your child just such expertise.
One example of this is a mandibular (jaw) distraction procedure (also known as distraction osteogenesis). This procedure is performed for children whose jaws are so short that their tongues block their airways, which makes it difficult to breathe. In jaw distraction surgery, the bone of the jaw is lengthened using small, extendable braces called distractors. These are gradually extended over a period of a few weeks, allowing the bone of the jaw to grow and fill in the gap. This results in enough space for the tongue and allows normal airway breathing. When the bone has healed, the distractors are removed.
This remarkable procedure eliminates the need for more drastic surgical procedures such as tracheotomies and the associated risks, complications, and discomfort.
Although every child is unique, surgical care for children with cleft lip and/or palate typically follows this approximate timetable:
- 3 months to 6 months: Cleft lip repair
- 9 months to 12 months: Cleft palate repair surgery
- 7 years to 11 years: Bone graft to repair gum line
Children often have to deal with social and/or emotional challenges associated with having a craniofacial condition. We understand the impact this can have on your child's confidence.
That's why a large part of our program is devoted to helping kids feel better about themselves. You can rely on our team, which includes psychologists and social workers, for support and guidance in helping your child develop a positive self-image that reflects the beauty of your child's individuality.
Through the Nemours Partners for Perinatal Management program, we work with expectant parents and their doctors to help diagnose congenital conditions and develop a plan of care for after your baby is born.
We'll partner with you and your family throughout your child's growth and development. Throughout your family's journey, you can count on us to answer your questions, offer reassurance and hope, and deliver the best life-changing care.
Along with expert cleft lip and cleft palate care, one of the things parents appreciate most is our location at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children: a beautiful park-like setting of huge oaks and inviting green lawns.
You'll also find:
- free parking
- playground
- kid-friendly waiting areas
- little red wagons (available for escorting your young children)
- gift shop
- café and cafeteria
- on-site pharmacy
When your child's treatment requires surgical or overnight hospital care,
know that we'll help make your family's experience as easy and
stress-free as possible.


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Why Did Justin Bieber Prank the Internet?
On Friday, the crafty Justin Bieber pranked the Internet, turning a stolen laptop into the basis for for a PR stunt to premiere his new video for 'Beauty and a Beat.' Why did the singer, who makes incredibly effective use of (and money from) the worldwide web, decide to pull one over on the digital world, a move that was divisive for some of critics and fans? Well, the answer is not that simple.
It could be, as a report on E! claims, the teen's need for some sort of personal justice and the desire to be the teller, as opposed to the butt, of the joke, so to speak.
The Biebs tweeted his reasoning for orchestrating the PR stunt, and his tweets are below:
since i was 14 i have had a lot of things said about me, from dying, to taking hormones, to dying again, to stuff about my family...
— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) October 12, 2012
to saying i had a baby with a woman i never even met. nude pics, drugs, my family, my character...but today...today i get to be in on it...
— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) October 12, 2012
Biebs, baby, we love you with an almost unhealthy fervor, but that's what they call the price of fame. You live in the public eye, and therefore, you must live with thousands upon thousands of untrue rumors and stories. The fact that your wallet gets fatter with each passing day should take some of the sting off of being accused of taking hormones or being a baby daddy.
A psychologist actually weighed in on The Biebs' decision to pull a "Gotcha!" on the www, saying,
"When pranks more are serious and result in someone feeling strong negative emotions like fear or humiliation, the prankster may be motivated by a need for control and to feel superior due to low self-esteem. In the case of Justin Beiber, his pranks don't seem to be mean-spirited or excessively negative. It may be that his pranks are a simple attempt to reclaim a bit of the fun and silliness of his childhood that he has lost due to fame and working form such a young age."
Another doctor claimed that it was The Biebs' insecurity and need for attention, and a passive aggressive away to not be the target of jokes.
Or maybe it was just a clever way to premiere a video?
Chew on that, Beliebin' PopCrushers, and tell us how you felt about being duped by The Biebs.
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