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BANNER ELK, N.C. --- Freshmen Avalon Liscio (Naples, Fla.) and Haylee Leonard (Walburg, N.C.) recorded match-highs of 10 kills and eight block assists to lead the Lees-McRae College women's volleyball team on Friday evening, as Pfeiffer University rallied from a 22-17 deficit in the fourth set en route to a 3-1 victory over the Bobcats in Conference Carolinas play.
Pfeiffer (2-7, 1-0 CC) won the match by scores of 25-23, 25-20, 18-25, and 25-23, posting 44 digs, 36 kills and eight blocks. Lees-McRae (1-9, 0-1 CC) tallied 48 digs, 29 kills, and 15 blocks on the night, while also dropping in 14 service aces.
Liscio led the way for Lees-McRae with 10 kills, as Jordan Banta (Virginia Beach, Va.) and Angela Morse (Clinton Township, Mich.) added seven and six smashes, respectively. Hayden Beatty (Norman, Okla.) posted a match-high nine blocks (2 solo, seven assists), while Candace Niemiec (Huntington Beach, California) chipped in a double-double with 11 digs and a match-high 22 assists. Morse and Lauren Fox (Garland, Texas) tallied four and three aces, respectively, as Banta and Liscio both notched nine digs.
Milana Mervosh paced the Falcons with nine kills and eight digs, as Haley Denny tallied a match-high 15 digs. Laura Fortner added seven kills, while Emily Wall and Meghan Davis chipped in 16 and 14 assists, respectively.
The Bobcats got off to a strong start in the first set, taking an early 8-1 lead on an ace from Morse before the Falcons responded with a 12-6 run to cut the margin to 14-13 with a smash by Kelsey Blauser. Pfeiffer continued to dictate play over the next several minutes, taking a 19-17 lead following a dumb by Wall. Lees-McRae would answer with a 5-2 spurt, claiming a 22-21 advantage before the Falcons countered, taking a 1-0 lead in the match with a 25-23 first-set win following a Wall kill.
Pfeiffer carried the momentum into the second frame, opening the set with a 10-5 run before the Bobcats answered with a 13-5 surge, claiming a 17-15 lead following a tandem block by Leonard and Morse. The Falcons battled back, countering with a 10-3 run to rally for a 25-20 victory in the set and a 2-0 lead in the match on a block by Briana Jones and Shelby Younger.
The Bobcats fought back from an early deficit in the third set, answering a 6-1 spurt by the Falcons with an 8-2 run of their own, claiming a narrow 9-8 advantage on a trio of aces from Fox. After back-to-back points by Pfeiffer, Lees-McRae continued the push with an 11-3 surge to take a 20-13 lead following a pair of tandem blocks from Leonard and Banta.
Pfeiffer would counter with a 5-0 spurt, closing the gap to 20-18 before the Bobcats responded, claiming the set and halving the match margin to 2-1 on a Falcon miscue.
The fourth set proved to be a tightly contested battle, with Pfeiffer taking a 12-10 lead following a Bobcat miscue on the heels of a 3-0 spurt. Lees-McRae answered with a 12-5 run, claiming a 22-17 advantage with a Banta ace. The Falcons would counter with a 4-1 spurt, closing the gap to 23-21 on a Mervosh smash before extending the run to six straight points, capping the set and the match following an ace from Denny.
Lees-McRae returns to the court on Saturday when the Bobcats host Belmont Abbey College in conference play at 12 p.m. in Williams Gymnasium.


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This blog discusses current weather, weather prediction, climate issues, and other topics
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
The Dangers of the First Day of Rain
The first day of significant rain after a long dry period can be very dangerous on the roads. Why?
During the dry period oil, dust and other debris collect on roadways and the addition of water produces a slippery emulsion. After a few days of rain, it washes off. The other issue is that people are used to dry-road driving and driving habits (like taking that corner slower) are slow to change. There is in fact a literature on this first-day-after-a-long dry spell issue--check out: http://www.drivers.com/article/652/ as one example.
So be really careful driving today...I have already received a number of reports of significant local accidents.
12 comments:
- Iapetus999 said...
It always amazes me that Seattle drivers don't know how to drive in the rain.
Well, given the fact that they don't know how to drive in the sun, I shouldn't be surprised.
- August 11, 2009 at 10:38 AM
- jorge said...
Point of clarification: the Seattle drivers don't know how to drive in the sun. It's the California drivers who don't know how to drive in the rain. Unfortunately Seattle has both types. ;)
- August 11, 2009 at 10:57 AM
- Big White Ball said...
I grew up back East and this was one of the first driving lessons from my dad, about the slick slurry on a road from long-delayed rain. It's a valuable thing for young drivers to know.
- August 11, 2009 at 11:52 AM
- Rob said...
Seattle drivers just suck peroid. Only weather They can drive in is Overcast and Cloudy.
- August 11, 2009 at 12:16 PM
- TMK said...
I've parked my motorcycle for the next couple of days. You can't pay me to ride on Seattle pavement today. Nothing but wet oil slicks. I'd just be asking to lay my bike down after months of dry, hot weather. Why don't people in cars know this?
- August 11, 2009 at 12:50 PM
- dawsonct said...
I have driven extensively all over the U.S. and even quite a bit in Europe, and can assure you their are a lot of real bad drivers all over this country. My guess is anytime someone calls a whole group out on something like this, it stems either from proximity to the familiar, or the natural prejudice derived from personal certitude. I know I feel that I am a better driver than 99% of the others out there, and realistically I'm better than the other 1% as well. I'll bet any one of you feels pretty much the same.
I accept I could be wrong, though. If you have some sort of statistical evidence that proves Seattle drivers are the worst in the world, or the U.S., or wherever I would be interested in looking at it. Please post a link.
- August 12, 2009 at 12:29 PM
- Iapetus999 said...
What the--
Where did anyone claim Seattle drivers were the worst?
They just suck in their own special annoying way.
- August 12, 2009 at 1:04 PM
- Weather Is My Life said...
Yes, there are lots of bad drivers everywhere. 99% (or more) of drivers anywhere you go don't know how to follow laws.
I don't know how really difficult it is to follow posted speed limits, use turn signals, stop at stop signs, etc. It's not very difficult, honestly.
- August 12, 2009 at 5:09 PM
- Jessica said...
Hey Cliff - would have loved to know your favored spots, based on weather patterns, to watch the Perseids.
Don't get me started on drivers - - I spend a fair amount of time in the car and phew, feel lucky to make it home after a sunny day OR the first rain!
- August 12, 2009 at 9:39 PM
- JewelyaZ said...
I'll admit it, I'm not the best driver out there. So I live close to work, walk lots of places, and take the bus if I'm going somewhere that's going to end up having challenging parking -- I HATE parallel parking. Or I make my husband drive.
Everyone's got some superpower, and mine has nothing to do with cars.
Anyone here have a Segway? I've been told that it's the ideal vehicle for my 3 miles but slightly uphill the whole way to the office commute (yes, that means it slightly downhill the whole way home, but who wants to get to the office all sweaty?) If it were the other way around, downhill to the office and uphill home, I'd be very inclined (groan) to ride my bike.
I'm curious about how many days a year people who have Segways really use them. I think I'm hardcore enough to get some Gore-tex and use it most rainy days, but I don't know if I'd wuss out when it's also very cold. I know I'd be either driving or walking when it's snowy.
- August 13, 2009 at 12:31 AM
- Michael said...
3 mile commute is quite doable on a bike of course. I believe the Professor does
- August 13, 2009 at 7:23 AM
- edlalu said...
Hey Cliff,
Why does so much of the heavy weather seem to skip past my North Tacoma home. I sit and watch other areas get lightning. My folks call from West Seattle and talk about the downpour. I watch the WU radar map. It all seems to slip by!
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Thursday, August 09, 2007
Classification of Protein Structure
Classification of Protein Structure: The average protein consists of about 20000-30000 atoms and in order to make sense of the structure of the protein, it is necessary to simplify the protein structure. There are more than 30000 structures in the protein database [4] and to go about looking at each structure would be horrendous. Hence, one needs to come up with a classification scheme for protein structure.
One way of simplifying it is to break it into parts called the secondary structure of the protein. There are various courses/books [1,2] to explain the secondary structure, but for our discussion, it is sufficient to know that certain configurations called alpha helices and beta sheets are common structural motifs found in nearly all proteins. While these secondary structures do help in understanding the local structure of the proteins, they give very little insight about the chemistry that the protein is able to perform and about it's active site itself.
A second and more meaningful attempt at classification of protein structure would be to find certain common structural motifs that can exist independently and classify the proteins based on these structural motifs. For example, a protein can be multifunctional but each function can be carried out independently by different parts of the protein even if you split them up. It could make sense that one can split these multifunctional proteins up based on what function they perform and if you can find the same structure/function motif in different proteins, club them together as a single group. In a protein, the part of the protein that can maintain its structure and function independently is called a domain [5]. Quite often domains of one shape combine with domains of very different shapes to form quite different proteins (very much like building blocks can come together in various different configurations giving walls of various different shapes) [6].
To give meaning to the classification scheme, it would also help to know which proteins perform related function (for example, perform the same reaction on different substrates) or have active sites in the same region of the protein structure. In order to give meaning to this classification, it is better to form groups of more closely related structures that perform similarly. Great minds have always argued that evolution should be the guiding principle while studying biology and it does make sense to classify proteins which have a common evolutionary origin from those that have achieved the same structure independently (also called convergent evolution).
There are various different databases that divide proteins into individual domains and divide these domains up into evolutionarily related groups heirarchically. These databases include the SCOP (Structural Classification Of Proteins) [7](manually divided), CATH (Class,Architecture, Topology, and Homologous superfamily) [8], and FSSP (Families of Structuraly Similar Proteins) databases [9](automatically performed). However, these databases are often flawed and corrections to these databases are often suggested in literature. Part of the problem is it is very difficult to say when similarity in structures occured due to homology (evolutionarily related), or convergence (evolutionarily independent origins). The trivial relationships are those that are apparent in the sequences of the two proteins. When two proteins have very similar sequences (measured by the number of times they have the same amino acid or a slightly related amino acid in the same position of the structure), they are related and statistics based on extreme value distributions can be used to find the probability of both proteins having a common origin [11]. However, the structure remains conserved (does not vary much) much more than sequences and below a certain sequence identity, it is very difficult to prove that there is a relationship between the two proteins without a structure [10].
Other problems that come up are related to the process by which structures are obtained (X-ray crystallography or NMR spectroscopy). These methods are inherently noisy because of various problems such as Heisenberg's uncertainty principle onto the crystallization conditions and the substrates that interact with the protein. So there is never a completely correct structural alignment (that is finding one to one which residues in the structure overlap each other) that also causes minor problems in the classification procedure.
But the most important problem is the level at which to classify structures. While domains are the most commonly used level of classification (because a domain is basically independent), during the evolution process, domains might not have been the basic level at which proteins were constructed. Rather subdomain level small structural units called structural words [12] or foldons [13] (because they could be independent folding units) could also be the smallest level of proteins that had evolved from the RNA world. The theory is that these foldons could come together and form various different domains and then evolved further to form proteins with different functions.
[1] - Biochemistry by Stryer.
[2] - Introduction to Protein Structure by Branden and Tooze.
[3] - A perspective on enzyme catalysis by Stephen Bankovic and Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
[4] - RCSB protein database.
[5] - Domains.
[6] - Multi-domain protein families and domain pairs: comparison with known structures and a random model of domain recombination by Gordana Apic, Wolfgang Huber & Sarah A. Teichmann.
[10] - How far divergent evolution goes in proteins - Murzin.
[11] - Maximum Likelihood Fitting of Extreme Value Distributions - Eddy..
[12] - On the evolution of protein folds - Lupas, Ponting, and Russell.
[13] - Foldons, Protein Structural Modules, and Exons by Anna Panchenko, Z. Luthey-Schulten, and P.G. Wolynes.
14 comments:
- CuriousCat said...
Hey BaL, I have a very limited "theoretical physics" point of view understanding of proteins. That is to say, I have thought about the landscape theories and worried about pathways to native structure in the most abstract of setting, probably not even remotely close to the ral world you are talking about. So when you say "would be to find certain functional elements of a protein and find it in different proteins and classify these functional elements" I am not able to see if you are talking chemistry (i.e., a particular sequence of atoms leading to a unique functional structure) or physics (in that a wide range of possible chemical structures that lead to a generic functional structure). Could you clarify? Is my question making sense?
- Born a Libran said...
@CC: Actually, they have done it more from a physics point of view as well as from a chemistry point of view. In the physics point of view, you would be looking for the same overall structure or fold of a protein and very similar active sites (the regions where the chemistry occurs) but not necessarily the same chemistry. In the chemistry point of view, they look at the active site alone and just try to classify the proteins based on the range of possible chemical reactions that can take place or has been observed to take place naturally. In this post, I was concentrating on the physics side. There are possible implications due to that - having a common evolutionary origin could help us understand how they have changed from the common ancestor to be specific to their substrates. Also, possible implications (but never really been conclusively proved) is that they have very similar funnels and maybe have certain elements conserved for their folding. If you want more info, I have loads of refs for it. Just shoot me an email.
- Born a Libran said...
@CC: In that particular part of the post, I meant do we do the classification based on the whole protein or parts of the protein. Some proteins are able to perform multiple functions. So do we treat these as 1 structural unit or should the parts of the protein that perform each function be treated independently. I hope I am clearer now.
- CuriousCat said...
I see what you are saying BaL...let me mull some things over and refresh my memory on things I thought about years ago and then come back and bother you with more targeted questions..
- Ashutosh said...
Just one comment; while Heisenberg's uncertaintly principle does apply to all forms of spectroscopy, I think it should be noted that there are problems much more serious than that hindering NMR spectroscopy, and Heisenberg is not really the major source of practical problems, although it is a limit. Even if the Heisenberg principle pointed to a much finer line width than what it does, overlapping resonances would still be the major cause of problems.
- Born a Libran said...
@ashutosh: Actually, I was trying to talk about X-ray crystallography here. But I agree with the rest of your comment. I did mention some of the major problems I know about but NMR does have lower resolution than X-ray crystallography in my opinion...
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The board voted on seven categories that included, professional leadership and personal actions, institutional leadership, community relations, business and finance, employee relations, board relations, and student relations.
The board rated Grusecki from one to five, with five being the highest mark. Grusecki said the review went very well.
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Grusecki added that the board would like to see the school presented in the community more.
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Grusecki added that the school district may be facing harder times with Gov. Rick Snyder's proposed budget cuts, adding that the district could face a loss of $190,000 with the purposed cuts.
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Subject: Debt Cancellation Contracts and Debt Suspension Agreements
Date: October 16, 2002
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Description: Final Rule
This bulletin transmits a final rule on debt cancellation contracts (DCCs) and debt suspension agreements (DSAs) that was published in the Federal Register on September 19. The effective date of the rule is June 16, 2003.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is publishing a final rule that adds a new part 37 to the OCC's rulebook that governs DCCs and DSAs. The purpose of the final rule is to establish standards governing these products in order to ensure that national banks provide such products consistent with safe and sound banking practices and subject to appropriate consumer protections.
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Atomic-Age Love
I've got to admit, I was born just a bit too late to really appreciate the cold war fear of nuclear war. But I bet if I had been a young parent in the mid-fifties, this short tale of atomic-age angst would have had me out in the back yard digging a bomb shelter.
Actually, the author does a good job chronicalling the minutae of a typical 50's suburban housewife's day, never more than hinting at the nagging sense of impending doom she is struggling with. Only in the final paragraphs, as she and her husband prepare for bed, does she confront her fears - that the worst will happen and they'll all be blown to smithereens.
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Who knew the big lug was such a philosopher?
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Stevens-Johnson syndrome is one of a spectrum of severe skin reactions caused by drugs or viral infections. Erythema multiforme is the mildest form of these skin reactions. It is a red skin rash. The skin lesions can appear many ways: as isolated "target" lesions, as flat and raised rashes, hives or blisters. The lesions are symmetric and have a predilection for the extremities. 10-20% of these rashes are caused by drugs and the remainder by viruses.
Stevens-Johnson syndrome is a more severe reaction and is often referred to as erythema multiforme major. Stevens Johnson syndrome differs from erythema multiforme because over 90% of these cases have mucosal lesions, 85% have conjunctival (mucosal surface of the eyes) lesions and skin loss involves 10-30% of the body surface area. About 50% of these cases are caused by drugs. Sulfa drugs (Bactrim), Cephalosporins (antibiotics), anticonvulsants phenobarbital, tegretol), non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents (Alleve, Advil) and allopurinol (used to treat gout) account for 2/3rds of these drug reactions. Fever and flu like symptoms precede the skin rashes by 1-3 days. If other organ systems are involved (ie. liver) these reactions have a poorer prognosis.
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Let's first learn about the History of Hemp:
With the United States entering World War II only four years after hemp's prohibition, and the synthetic fiber industry still in its infancy, the armed forces experienced a dangerous shortage of fiber for the war effort. In 1942, the U.S. government performed a convenient about-face on the hemp issue. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) produced and distributed a motion picture called "Hemp for Victory" in which the federal government not only promoted the many uses of cannabis hemp, but also detailed the most efficient cultivation and harvesting methods. The picture pronounced, "Hemp for mooring ships! Hemp for tackle and gear! Thread for shoes for millions of American soldiers! And parachute webbing for our paratroopers! Hemp for Victory!"
By the end of the war, hemp was no longer needed for strategic purposes and synthetic fiber was being produced more efficiently and abundantly than ever. The same soldiers that hemp had supplied with ship's rigging, rope, tackle, gear, shoes, and parachutes turn against their recent ally. The Marines themselves, armed with flame-throwers, and Air Force pilots in crop dusters are ordered to destroy the same million acres of hemp that were recently planted for the war effort. These actions were the beginning of the modern war on marijuana, or more correctly, the modern war on cannabis, including non-drug hemp.
The war on hemp!
This is a war that Harry Anslinger took to the United Nations. As U.S. representative on the UN's drug committee, Anslinger initiated a series of conventions to prohibit the plant worldwide. To this day, most nations (especially the poorer ones) cannot get aid from the United States unless they have a government plan to eradicate hemp.
For example, Bangladesh. "Bang" means marijuana; Bang-la-desh means marijuana-land-people. The U.S. government went into Bangladesh and cropdusted their country with toxic herbicides. Not only did we poison the people of Bangladesh with our "War on Drugs", but we killed all the hemp that was holding the hillsides together. There was massive flooding and landslides as a direct result of America's global drug policy.
Another example is when we paid King Hassad of Syria to go into the camps of Lebanese Bedouin nomads and cut down their hemp fields, their food and fiber, with tanks! Harry Anslinger's modern-day successors, true to his irrational and fanatical methods, are waging a global genocide war against a plant!
It's not about drugs!
The DEA and Department of Justice's claim that the prohibition of domestic hemp cultivation should continue because of its relationship to marijuana is a farce. There are strains of industrial hemp that are entirely drug-free. Law enforcement's contention that high-THC cannabis could be hidden in a hemp field is also erroneous, as cross-pollination would ruin the marijuana.
Their claim that it's too difficult to tell the difference in the field is also a lie. Industrial hemp looks more like bamboo than marijuana, and the other 30 industrial nations that cultivate hemp legally have no problem identifying the types of cannabis in their fields. The fact that the Drug Enforcement Agency is prohibiting a drug-free plant is proof positive that the hemp issue is not about drugs. There is no drug in the plant.
It's all about money!
The prohibition of domestic hemp growth is about
what everything is about in this country. It's about money. The
drug war is big business huge business.
Consider this: of the one-and-a-half billion cannabis plants found and destroyed by U.S. drug agents between 1993 and 1997, only fourteen million were marijuana. That's 0.9 percent. That means that 99.1 percent were low-THC hemp. Legalizing hemp would translate to laying off 99.1 percent of all agents of the War on Marijuana, 99.1 percent fewer guns, helicopters, automobiles, flack jackets, etc. That's a lot of money in government contracts.
Hemp is a plant that can naturally and
sustainably provide many products presently available only from
corporate giants like DuPont, International Paper, Texaco, BASF
and the like. They could lose billions if hemp was grown in the
United States for fiber, paper, fuel, and plastics. They have millions
of dollars to back anti-hemp propaganda. They sponsor programs like
D.A.R.E. and The Partnership for a Drug-Free America that equate
hemp's cousin marijuana with deadly drugs like heroin and methamphetamine
to prevent Americans from learning the truth. The cannabis leaf
has even become the poster child for the drug war. Corporate-backed
programs such as D.A.R.E. and The Partnership for a Drug-Free America
are teaching our children that this incredible Earth-friendly plant
is as dangerous as heroin and methamphetamine. These corporations
slander cannabis while promoting themselves as lovers and supporters
of the environment. They run TV commercials that would have us believe
that they are environmental activists with deceptive claims and
scenes of pristine streams and forests. But what they really do
is clear-cut pristine rainforests, poison our air with ozone-depleting
greenhouse gases, and produce tons of toxic chemicals that end up
in our drinking water.
Hemp was the first plant known to have been domestically cultivated. The oldest relic of human history is hemp fabric dated to 8,000 BC from ancient Mesopotamia, an area in present-day Turkey. It has been grown as long as recorded history for food, fuel, fiber, and for another legitimate use, which is not even discussed here for the sake of brevity medicine. So, with all these uses and benefits, why is cannabis cultivation illegal in the United States today? Here is a brief history of cannabis prohibition:
Hemp was a primary source of paper, textile, and cordage fiber for thousands of years until just after the turn of the 20th century. It was at this time that companies like DuPont first developed chemicals that enabled trees to be processed into paper.
DuPont's chemicals made wood pulp paper cheaper than paper made from annual crops like hemp. At the same time Wm. Randolph Hearst, the owner of the largest newspaper chain in the United States, backed by Mellon Bank, invested significant capital in timberland and wood paper mills to produce his newsprint using DuPont's chemicals.
DuPont also developed nylon fiber as a direct competitor to hemp in the textile and cordage industries. Nylon was even billed as synthetic hemp.
DuPont was also manufacturing chemical pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers useful in the cotton industry, another hemp competitor.
Mellon Bank, owned by U.S. Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, was also DuPont's primary financier. Mellon's niece was married to Harry Anslinger, deputy commissioner of the federal government's alcohol prohibition campaign. After the repeal of Prohibition, Anslinger and his entire federal bureau were out of a job. But Treasurer Mellon didn't let that happen. Andrew Mellon single-handedly created a new government bureaucracy, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, to keep his family and friends employed. And then he unapologetically appointed his own niece's husband, Harry Anslinger, as head of the new multimillion dollar bureaucracy.
At the same time, a machine was developed that was to hemp what the cotton gin was to cotton: it allowed hemp's long, tough fiber to be mass processed efficiently and economically for the first time. Popular Mechanics, in February 1937, predicted hemp would be the world's first "Billion Dollar Crop" that would support thousands of jobs and provide a vast array of consumer products from dynamite to plastics.
This potential rejuvenation of hemp was a major threat to Secretary Mellon's friends and business associates, especially Randolph Hearst with his wood paper industry and Lammont DuPont with his petrochemical and synthetic fiber conglomerates. After all, hemp farmers wouldn't need DuPont's chemicals to grow their hemp because the crop is self-sufficient. The hemp-based ethanol fuel that was mentioned in the Popular Mechanics' article probably didn't sit too well with the oil companies of the time. They also couldn't have been too thrilled to learn that this same plant produced high-strength plastics without a petroleum base. The hemp-based plastics developed at the time were stronger and lighter than steel, which we can imagine wasn't the best news for the steel industry.
In addition, the growing pharmaceutical companies were producing synthetic drugs to replace natural medicines. Hemp extract was used for thousands of years to effectively treat everything from epileptic fits to rheumatoid arthritis. Chances are, hemp's resurgence wasn't good news for these drug companies either.
What we see is that the potential revival of the hemp industry was a threat to almost all the corporate giants of the time, and Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon was at the top of this food chain.
So Commissioner Anslinger, Mellon's appointee, begins researching rumors that immigrants from Mexico are smoking the flowers of the hemp plant. Racism was rampant at the time, and there was a government movement to curb the number of immigrants crossing the U.S. border at Mexico. Anslinger plugged into the racist sentiment, and began referring to the "hemp" that Americans knew cannabis to be, as "marijuana," the Mexican slang word for the plant. He labeled it as a "narcotic" even though cannabis flowers cannot cause narcosis, and spread exaggerated stories and outright lies that Mexicans and blacks became violent and disrespectful to whites when they smoked the "evil menace marijuana."
This slander of cannabis was all just fine for Anslinger's friends, the Mellons, the DuPonts, and the Hearsts. In fact, Hearst's newspapers picked up on the propaganda and fueled the fire by publishing hundreds of lurid stories about people raping and murdering while under the influence of marijuana. The sensationalism sold lots of newspapers, and the people of the country actually based their opinions on this one-sided information. Of course the stories never mentioned the hemp that people used everyday as rope, paper, medicine, and more. The stories always referred to cannabis by the Mexican slang word, marijuana.
With the moral and prohibitive fervor of the time duly stirred, Anslinger took his show to Congress. At the proceedings of the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, Anslinger didn't mention that marijuana was hemp. And because anti-marijuana propaganda didn't mention that basic fact, hemp industries found out almost too late about the effort to criminalize cannabis cultivation. Testimony was heard from the full gamut of hemp companies and advocates, from birdseed suppliers to cordage manufacturers, from farmers to physicians, all touting hemp's importance in American history and the many industrial, agricultural, medicinal, and economic benefits of cannabis. Only after their testimony, was the wording of the bill changed to allow for the continued legal cultivation of industrial hemp. Anslinger even backed off on hemp prohibition in a very cunning maneuver.
After the Act was passed, Anslinger single-handedly usurped congressional power by mandating hemp prohibition. He justified his action by saying that his agents couldn't tell the difference between industrial hemp and marijuana in the field, so hemp cultivation made enforcement of marijuana prohibition impossible. This unconstitutional usurpation of congressional law is still in effect today as the Department of Justice and the DEA still cling to Anslinger's unjust and unjustifiable prohibition on domestic hemp cultivation.
Because hemp is such a hardy plant, it can grow easily and abundantly almost anywhere, and can provide nutrition where other edible crops just won't grow. Hemp can even be cultivated in arid regions with poor soil like Saharan Africa or in places with a very short growing season like Scandinavia.
Whole Seed
Seed Oil
Seed and Seed Oil
Hemp has been a part of the Chinese pharmacopoeia for the past 4,000
years. Ancient Chinese folk remedies call for hempseed use to improve
the "chi" or stamina of the body; to cure neurologic impairment
due to stroke, urinary disorders, and blood deficiency.
Seed Meal and Cake
Non Food
Long Fiber
Short Fiber
Ethanol is derived from plant cellulose. Plants absorb carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight and produce oxygen and cellulose, which contains the sun's energy captured in plant cells. When ethanol combusts, it releases energy, water vapor, and carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide is then absorbed by plants, along with water and sunlight, to create more oxygen and cellulose. It is a clean and sustainable cycle.
Since gasoline engines are a primary source
of carbon monoxide and greenhouse gases, alternative fuels such as ethanol
could contribute significantly to the rejuvenation of our atmospheric
air quality. Hemp provides a sustainable, renewable, and natural alternative
to toxic fossil fuels.
-Industrial hemp would be a viable bio-diesel fuel if hemp were legal to cultivate in the United States.
-In 2001, the "Hemp Car", a converted 1980s diesel Mercedes station wagon drove a 13,000 mile 50 city tour of North America. It was powered solely by 600 gallons of hemp bio-diesel fuel made from the stalk of the hemp plant.
-The exhaust emissions of carbon monoxide from bio-diesel are 47% lower than carbon monoxide emissions from diesel.
-Bio-diesel reduces the health risks associated with petroleum diesel. Bio-diesel emissions showed decreased levels of PAH and nitrited PAH compounds, which have been, identified as potential cancer causing compounds.
-In a period of 28 days, pure bio-diesel degrades 85 to 88 percent in water.
-Any CO2 released from burning hemp as fuel matches the CO2 the plant had beneficially taken from the environment while growing, creating what is called a closed carbon cycle that could slow down the effects of global warming.
Nausea- for cancer patients while undergoing chemotherapy and AIDS patients, smoking cannabis is preferred over taking THC in pill form because it acts faster and patients are able to dose themselves more accurately.
Hemp is the most useful and beneficial plant in nature.
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The Mindfulness Prescription for Adult ADHD
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Have difficulty with restlessness or trouble managing strong feelings such as anger and frustration?
Struggle with self-doubt and difficulty following through?
In a way that causes problems in your relationships or your work?
If so, you may have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)—like an estimated 8 million adults in this country. Physician-researcher Dr. Lidia Zylowska has created an 8-step program for using mindfulness practice (attention and awareness training) to overcome the symptoms of ADHD. The program includes practices such as sitting meditation, body awareness, thoughtful speaking and listening, development of self-acceptance, mindful self-coaching, cultivation of a balanced view of thoughts and emotions, and more. Dr. Zylowska educates readers about ADHD, helping them to understand how their ADHD brain works and how they can use mindful awareness to work with their challenges. She also explains how the mindful approach can be combined with other treatments, including medications, to boost self-improvement.
This book is accompanied by an audio program of guided mindfulness exercises for successfully managing ADHD.
"A superb book, an important book, a book that breaks new ground. Anyone who is interested in the treatment of ADHD in adults must own this. Rigorous in its research, accessible in its style, convincing in its argument, and novel in its premise, this book keeps its promise of offering a reliable mindfulness prescription. I hugely recommend this book!" —Edward Hallowell, MD, author of Driven to Distraction
"A great many people stand to benefit from Zylowska's eight-step program. Structured to be accessible for its target audience, this supportive guide to managing ADHD through mindfulness offers a clear and detailed program for putting an effective treatment in the hands of consumers and is a great contrast to the many didactic, jargon-laden self-help books available." —Shelf Awareness


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The United Soybean Board announced winners of its Outstanding Achievement Award and Excellence Awards at the recent Commodity Classic in Tampa, Fla. The awards recognize the commitment of individuals and companies that have made an outstanding, positive impact on the soybean industry.
The USB Outstanding Achievement Award is the highest recognition bestowed by USB. The USB Excellence Award is a rotating award that recognizes outstanding achievement in five categories: communications, domestic marketing, international marketing, new uses and production research
The USB Outstanding Achievement Award was awarded to Gary List, lead scientist at USDA. List has contributed to the soybean industry for the past several decades. He has had a long career with USDA, where he has conducted cutting-edge compositional research in support of the soybean industry.
Among his accomplishments, List was a pioneer in the research of the removal of trans-fatty acids from soybean oil, which is now helping the industry meet the market's demands for healthier oils.
In the early 1990s, List's research team began work aimed at bringing structurally modified oilseeds to commercialization, including low-linolenic soybean oil and the high-saturate lines. The low-linolenic oils are in commercial production with the high-stearic lines expected to be available by 2010.
"The United Soybean Board and soybean checkoff are proud to have the opportunity to recognize someone such as List who has contributed so much to the soybean industry," says Eric Niemann, USB chairman and soybean farmer from Nortonville, Kan. "This work has allowed soybean farmers to successfully respond to the market demand for healthy food products and retain this vital market."
This year, two USB Excellence Awards were given for accomplishments in new uses research for soybeans. Bernard Tao and Ford Motor Company each won an USB Excellence Award in New Uses.
Tao, professor of agricultural and biological engineering at Purdue University, has helped develop a number of products and processes for utilizing soybean components in industrial applications, including crayons, candles, biosurfactants, home heating fuels, aviation deicing fluids, and, most recently, aviation jet fuels and cold-flow biodiesel fuels.
Tao has also advised several student teams in new uses entrepreneurship contests. In these contests student teams work to develop such products as soybean crayons, cosmetics, ski wax, fire starters, soy protein breakfast cereal, snack crackers, gelatin replacements, Popsicle sticks, UV curable polymers, heating fuels, and markers.
After receiving $230,000 in initial funding from USB, Ford Motor Company invested $3 million for the development of polyurethane foams and elastomers based on soy polyol. Ford is also working with several polyurethane supply chain partners to assess how soy foams perform in a variety of head-restraint tools.
Ford's work has led other automotive OEMs to begin the application development process to develop polyurethane foams and elastomers based on soy polyols.
Most automobiles contain 30 pounds of petroleum foam per vehicle, making Ford's dedication to this research an enormous potential new market for domestically grown soy.
Ford has already developed a polyurethane foam seating formulation that meets the current Ford seating specifications utilizing soy-based polyol to replace 40 percent of the petroleum-based polyol normally used in a seating foam.
USB is made up of 64 farmer-directors who oversee the investments of the soybean checkoff on behalf of all U.S. soybean farmers. Checkoff funds are invested in the areas of animal utilization, human utilization, industrial utilization, industry relations, market access and supply. As stipulated in the Soybean Promotion, Research and Consumer Information Act, USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service has oversight responsibilities for USB and the soybean checkoff.


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There is much to discuss in the feature story on Rick Santorum's faith that has been served up by The New York Times. There is lots of interesting information, some questionable information and then a pretty large chunk of missing information. However, I think many traditional Catholic believers will start reading this piece -- after all, it's the story of how one normal American Catholic turned into a traditional Roman Catholic -- and then find themselves stuck right about here.
As members of St. Catherine of Siena, a parish here in the wealthy Northern Virginia suburb of Great Falls, the Santorums are immersed in a community where large families are not uncommon and many mothers leave behind careers to dedicate themselves to child-rearing, as Mrs. Santorum has. Mr. Santorum has been on the church roster as a lector, reading Scripture from the pulpit.
The parish is known for its Washington luminaries -- Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court is a member -- as well as its spiritual ardor. Mass is offered in Latin every Sunday at noon -- most parishes have Mass only in English -- and each Wednesday parishioners take turns praying nonstop for 24 hours before a consecrated communion wafer, a demanding practice known as Eucharistic adoration.
First of all, I think it would be more accurate to say that parishioners take part in a 24-hour cycle of unbroken prayers, with most participating for an hour -- a short period of devotion that, for a traditional believer in a number of different traditions, would not be all that "demanding." The wording in the story is a bit unclear. What does it mean to "take turns praying nonstop"?
However, the fingernails-on-chalkboard moment in this passage for many readers will be the return of the W-word -- "wafer."
Several years ago, there was a lively GetReligion comments-page discussion of this term that is worth revisiting. Here is how I started that "wafer madness" post:
There is no question what the Roman Catholic Church calls the holy bread that is consecrated during the Mass. It is called the "host." Anyone who knows anything about Catholic liturgy knows this.
Now, how do you describe or define the host? Those seeking to be reverent tend to call it "consecrated bread."
The problem, of course, is that the special bread used in Western Rite services is not simply unleavened bread. As the old saying goes, there are two acts of faith involved in meditating on the host during a Mass. The first is to believe that it is the Body of Christ. The second is to believe that it is, in fact, bread.
It does not take many words to explain what the word "host" means in this context. Why do journalists decline to use the right term and choose, instead, to push the "wafer" button? I honestly do not know.
However, the reference to Eucharistic adoration would seem to be key moment in this timely piece, since the thesis of the article appears to be that Catholics who actually practice the doctrines of the Catholic faith are not really Catholics. They are strange Catholics, as opposed to being normal Catholics. And what is a normal Catholic? Check this hint:
Unlike Catholics who believe that church doctrine should adapt to changing times and needs, the Santorums believe in a highly traditional Catholicism that adheres fully to what scholars call "the teaching authority" of the pope and his bishops.
Of course, the essence of Catholicism is that the teaching authority of the bishops is, in fact, the mechanism through which church tradition is applied to the unique challenges of the age. One does not have to agree with that fact in order to understand it and to write about these beliefs in an accurate and fair manner. The people of God play a crucial role in the Catholic faith, but there is no question that in Catholicism the pope and the bishops are the teachers and defenders of the faith handed down through the ages.
The thread running through this news story, it seems to me, is that Catholics who actually try to live out this faith in their day-to-day lives (especially if they are living public lives) are strange and a bit dangerous. We have seen the following question implied in the past (but not explicitly voiced in this story): What do you call a Catholic who actually believes the doctrines of his or her Church? You call them an "evangelical." What do you call a Catholic who does not believe some or many of the doctrines of his or her Church? They are called "Catholics."
The story includes some increasingly familiar information about the Santorums, such as the fact that Karen Santorum was once romantically involved with Dr. Tom Allen, the founder of Pittsburgh's first abortion clinic, during a period in her life when she had broken with the Catholic faith. She returned to the faith after meeting her future husband.
This will not surprise anyone who knows anything about this family and its history.
The Times team also does a pretty good job of noting quite a few elements of the senator's career that were shaped by this faith, including some that -- for mainstream journalists -- may not seem that obvious. Thus, readers are told:
Mr. Santorum's religious beliefs would come to infuse every aspect of his political life -- not just his views on social issues like abortion, but also his work to overhaul the welfare system, increase financing to fight AIDS in Africa and promote religious freedom. "He is passionate about all of these issues, which all come from a deep faith," said Mike DeWine, the Ohio attorney general, who served with Mr. Santorum in the Senate.
You could add many other pieces of bipartisan legislation that emerged from the offices of Santorum and Sen. Joseph Lieberman on hunger, education, aid for children, etc.
There are many other details to discuss and I am sure some will surface in the comments pages.
However, I was surprised that the Times did not dwell more on the following angle:
Mr. Santorum has been a supporter of Regnum Christi, the lay wing of a conservative, cultish order of priests known as the Legion of Christ. In 2003, he was the keynote speaker at a Regnum Christi event in Chicago that drew protesters because the group's charismatic founder, who had spent years denying that he had sexually abused seminarians, was scheduled to share the podium.
The founder, the Rev. Marcial Maciel, did not show up, but critics faulted Mr. Santorum for agreeing to appear at the group's forum. "He was certainly lending them legitimacy," said Jason Berry, a documentary filmmaker and the author of a book about Father Maciel.
And that's all we get? I am sure that critics of Santorum would like to know more at this point. However, the fall of Father Marcial Maciel and the testing of Regnum Christi was not a strictly liberal Catholics vs. conservative Catholics affair. This is one case in which many people were supporters of this controversial group and its founder, yet changed their views quickly or at other points before the final act.
It simply is not enough to say that "Santorum has been a supporter of Regnum Christi." Once that door is open, readers deserve to know much more. This is a point on which traditionalist Catholics, as well as progressives, would appreciate a bit of grilling for Santorum. As one GetReligion reader noted:
... Maciel wasn't just alleged to have committed sexual abuse, the Vatican found him guilty of being a general sociopath, albeit after Santorum's appearance in 2003! What does Santorum do with Regnum Christi now that the Legion's founder is in disgrace?
A good and valid question, one that I too am surprised that the Times didn't pursue.
What are the other crucial journalistic pluses or minuses in this piece? Please focus on the journalism, folks.


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HARRISBURG (March 24, 2014) - Beaver Area High School is one of the 12 Pennsylvania high schools advancing to the 31st Annual Pennsylvania Bar Association Statewide High School Mock Trial Competition, Friday, March 28, and Saturday, March 29, at the Dauphin County Courthouse in Harrisburg. The competition is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Bar Association Young Lawyers Division.
The winning team of the state championship will represent Pennsylvania in the national mock trial finals to be held May 8 - 10 in Madison, Wisconsin.
The Beaver Area High School Mock Trial Team is composed of George Avdellas, Peter Avdellas, Veronica Bohl, Patrice Council, Erin Heinle, Mieke Kissick, Katia Kaffenes, Stephany Migdal, Margaret Sestito and Alex Tolbert. The teacher coaches are Angelique Avdellas and Greg Inge. The attorney advisors are Nick Urick and Chrissy Wolfe.
Beaver Area High School is moving on to the state level as winners of the Region Two area of competition that includes schools in Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Crawford, Erie, Forest, Lawrence, Mercer, Venango and Warren counties.
This year, 327 teams from 274 high schools competed in district and regional levels of Pennsylvania's mock trial competition in hopes of gaining one of the 12 spots at the statewide competition. Pennsylvania's competition is one of the largest in the nation.
"Rising to the highest levels in this academic challenge is the result of many hours of dedication from students whose presentation and critical-thinking skills have impressed the lawyers, judges and business professionals serving as mock trial jurors and evaluators," said Robert Datorre, chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Young Lawyers Division. "These students deserve many congratulations for rising to the top rounds of competition, and their teacher coaches and attorney advisors deserve many thanks for guiding the students throughout the process."
All 12 teams will compete in two quarterfinal rounds from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on March 28. The four winning teams of the quarterfinal rounds will advance to the semifinal round at 8:30 a.m. on March 29. The state championship round will take place at 11 a.m. on March 29 with Justice Correale F. Stevens, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, serving as the presiding judge.
This year's hypothetical case is a civil trial to determine if a parent or a high school track coach is liable for the death of a student athlete who was taking performance-enhancing drugs.
The case was written by Jonathan A. Grode of Philadelphia, Paul W. Kaufman of Philadelphia and Jonathan D. Koltash of Harrisburg, adapting, with permission, a mock trial case created by the Arizona Foundation for Legal Services and Education and the Young Lawyers of Arizona.
The co-chairs of the Mock Trial Executive Committee are Koltash and Traci L. Naugle of Altoona.
During the competition, eight-member student teams are given the opportunity to argue both sides of the case in an actual courtroom before a judge. The students, who play the roles of lawyers, witnesses, plaintiffs and defendants, are assisted by teacher and lawyer coaches in preparing for competition. Volunteer lawyers and community leaders serve as jurors in the trials. The juries determine the winners in each trial based on the teams' abilities to prepare their cases, present arguments and follow court rules.
The Pennsylvania Cable Network will record the final round of the competition for airing statewide on Friday, April 4 at 7 p.m., Saturday, April 5 at 9:30 p.m., and Monday, April 7 at 10 p.m. The Pennsylvania Bar Foundation, the charitable affiliate of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, is providing funding support for the broadcast.
For more information about the Pennsylvania Bar Association Statewide High School Mock Trial Competition, visit the PBA Web site at http://www.pabar.org.
Founded in 1895, the Pennsylvania Bar Association strives to promote justice, professional excellence and respect for the law; improve public understanding of the legal system; facilitate access to legal services; and serve the 27,000 lawyers who are members of the association.


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Watch Newly Unearthed Black Sabbath Live Footage From 1970
Fans of Black Sabbath, you've got to check out this newly unearthed footage of the heavy metal architects performing live in 1970. Filmed at two locations, this clip shows Black Sabbath playing 'War Pigs' to a crowd full of hippies before Sabbath run into a boxing ring to jam 'Iron Man'.
Over at Gear Gods, the site breaks down the technical side behind Black Sabbath's audio setup, but you don't need to be an expert in mics to appreciate Sabbath's sound.
Sonically, what sticks out is how raw Black Sabbath sounds. Placed on a strangely high stage, Black Sabbath perform a rendition of 'War Pigs' spotlit by the voice of Ozzy Osbourne, which is flawless in the 1970 clip. The footage also reminds us of how powerful the drumming of Bill Ward was back in the early days of Black Sabbath. Beyond the sound of Sabbath's awesome open air gig, we're treated to an hysterical scene of hippies either laying down, dancing calmly or simply ignoring the metal icons.
As for 'Iron Man', Black Sabbath perform the song between the ropes of a boxing ring. Once again, the prowess of the entire band is on display. Black Sabbath is all about raw power, and if you weren't around to see Sabbath in their early days, this clip is a must-see.
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Brendan Haywood has been waived by the Dallas Mavericks, who designated the 7-foot center as their amnesty player.
With the move Thursday, the Mavericks took advantage of the one-time provision in the new CBA allowing them to let Haywood go without his remaining contract counting against their salary cap or luxury tax. Haywood is set to make $8.3 million next season and is due $27 million over the final three guaranteed years in his deal.
In 154 games with Dallas, Haywood averaged 5.4 points and 5.9 rebounds and was part of it 2011 NBA championship. He was acquired from Washington in Feb. 2010 as part of a seven-player deal.
Haywood has averaged 7.2 points and 6.3 rebounds in 733 career games over 11 seasons, all with Washington and Dallas.


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The ballroom at the Balboa Bay Club and Resort was filled with some 500 guests from all over the nation.
They had come for the inaugural Champions of Hope Gala benefiting the Global Genes/ RARE Project, a nonprofit advocating research and treatment for roughly 30 million Americans affected by rare and genetic diseases.
The Sept. 27 program in Newport Beach kept 500 people still for three hours. Not a sound came from the audience intent on capturing every word from a line-up of speakers, advocates, doctors, parents, caregivers and patients facing challenges in life brought on by afflictions most folks have never heard of, let alone had to face.
Seven thousand rare diseases are known to man and 95% of them do not have any sort of approved drug treatment, according to statistics presented at the dinner supplied by the National Institutes of Health. The national attendance included many people, mostly young children and adolescents with their parents, who came as a show of solidarity in support of the work of Global Genes/ R.A.R.E. Project led by champion advocate Nicole Boice.
Not only do people suffering from any number of these rare diseases have no Food and Drug Administration approved medicine, only about 10% of them have established organizations to rally advocacy. Among the well known are cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy. But how many people know what Shwachman-Diamond syndrome is and how it affects people?
The event was nothing short of inspirational. Emceed by Dawn Marie Kotsonis, organizers honored numerous individuals who have dedicated their lives to finding answers to some of the seemingly overwhelming questions related to such diseases.
Among the distinguished speakers on numerous ailments were Henri Termeer, former chief executive of Genzyme Corp., Dr. Fredrick Wigley, director of Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center, geneticist Elizabeth Neufeld, deaf-blind advocate Bill Barkeley, Pat Furlong, patient advocate and Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy chief executive, Olympian Adam Nelson and Scott Shirley, executive director of Uplifting Athletes, a nonprofit working with college football players facing rare diseases.
An element of Hollywood entertainment added some cheer to the mostly serious evening. Among the entertainers were Meagan Tandy ("Jane by Design"), Chris Mann and Katrina Parker ("The Voice"), Jason George, ("Grey's Anatomy") and Nestor Serrano ("Act of Valor").
To learn more, visit http://www.globalgenes.org.
Sharing the Vision
The health of children was the focal point of another recent important Southern California event.
The second annual Shared Visions Gala unfolded Sept. 20 at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, attracting a sold-out audience of 350 doctors and advocates of vision care and treatment from all over SoCal, but coastal Orange County in particular.
Sponsored by the Southern California College of Optometry, this signature annual event raised funds to support "the delivery of vision care to Orange County's underserved children," according to press materials associated with the event produced by the 108-year-old college.
Chairing the evening which began with a sunset cocktail reception and silent auction followed by dinner in the "East Room" of the library were honorary O.C. representatives Frances and Steve Knott. Maria Hall-Brown, PBS SoCal anchor served as master of ceremonies. Organizers expect to raise $200,000 net.
Major sponsorship came from Essilor, NVISION Laser Eye Centers, Abbott Medical Optics, Allergan and the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute to name only a few generous donors. Honored guests of the night were Donald Studt, James Mazzo for Abbott Medical, James Blake, Thomas Tooma and Ronald Hopping representing the InfantSEE Program.
Kevin Alexander, SCCO president, shared with the audience the crucial importance of providing eye exams and appropriate treatment for O.C.'s school children.
"The majority of children are not receiving professional eye exams prior to starting school," he said, adding, "Children with untested vision problems will have trouble in school learning reading, writing and arithmetic if they can not see."
THE CROWD runs Thursdays and Saturdays. B.W. Cook is editor of the Bay Window, the official publication of the Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach.


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Every morning for breakfast I have a bowl of what we call in our house "punishment museli". I'm assuming I don't have to explain what this is, but perhaps for my overseas readers, "punishment museli" is a collection of dusty rolled oats, nuts, seeds and clumps of raisins. No added sugar. Semi-skimmed milk. Washed down with tea - also no added sugar.
I used to eat Shreddies for breakfast, or toast with marmalade, or Crunchy Nut Cornflakes. I even at school once, when I was in too much of a serious hurry even for cereal, had an eclair. But then my dentist said: "Okay you're getting to the age when your teeth are going to start falling out. Stop eating so much sugar." And instead of ignoring him and going straight out to buy a Mars bar to eat on the way home, like a latter-day Adrian Mole, I took it all in.
But the punishment museli thing has kind of grown on me. And I've started noticing that if you are looking for something to snack on, it's almost impossible to buy anything that isn't rammed with sugar. I'm on the move quite a lot at the moment - not for any interesting reason - and often find myself adrift in London town and starving, but unable to locate anything to eat that isn't a packet of salt and vinegar crisps, a McDonald's cheeseburger or a Curly Whirly.
So I thought I'd give some oat bar snack things, that I saw in Nigella Express, a whirl. I'm in two minds about these things. They're not especially indulgent but they do, actually, do a pretty excellent job of providing a portable, minimum-sugar, punishment snack.
If you're not really into punishment foods, there is also a way of making these more edible and less like something you'd find in an emergency supply tin in a bothy half-way up Ben Nevis.
Punishment biscuits (called something like Rise-And-Shine Bars in Nigella Express)
250g rolled oats
75g dessicated coconut
8 dried apricots, chopped
1 large handful raisins
1 large handful hazelnuts, chopped
1 small tin condensed milk
1 Turn on the oven to 130C
2 Warm the can of condensed milk in a pan
3 Combine all the other ingedients in a bowl and then add to the milk and stir
4 Turn out into a greased, loose-bottomed square tin (or round, it's only aesthetics. For my US readers, this is a springform tin)
5 Bake for 1 hour
6 Eat, grimly.
If you want to change these from punishment to merely a light rap across the knuckles, add to the milk 2 tablespoons of golden syrup and a knob of butter and melt together before adding the oat mixture.


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Murphy tops McMahon in Conn.
Democratic Rep. Chris Murphy handily won the Connecticut Senate race, beating Republican Linda McMahon, even after the former wrestling executive spent more than $42 million of her own money in her bid for the seat.
The Associated Press called the race for Murphy shortly after the polls closed in Connecticut at 8 p.m.
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The Connecticut Senate race to replace retiring Sen. Joe Lieberman emerged as one of the hottest races in the country, despite the state's heavy Democratic demographics. It was a resounding win for Murphy as McMahon spent millions trying to reshape her image and saturated the airwaves with attack ads. Following the August primaries she managed to tighten the race, polling neck and neck with Murphy for several weeks. But Murphy eventually broke open a strong lead toward the end of October and finished the job with relative ease on election night.
( See also: 2012 election results map)
"Tonight we proved that what matters most in life is the measure of your ideas…not the measure of your wallet," Murphy said at his victory party in Hartford.
"It's those ideas that were the basis of this race," he added. "What we showed, my friends, is these are ideas that cannot be washed away by millions of dollars, they cannot by pushed away by slick TV ads."
McMahon told supporters in Stamford she had called Murphy to concede and said she hoped he would "please continue to work hard for the people in our state…we can only support him and our other members of our delegation who are serving us in Washington."
"I look back on this campaign with no regrets," she said. " I don't think we left a stone unturned, I don't think we would have done anything differently in the campaign…It was an incredibly well-run, hard-fought race."
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Dec 01, 2002
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It was 1945 and Dudley had just turned fifteen when he traveled from Arlington, Massachusetts, to begin work on the Mistwold Dairy Farm in Fremont, New Hampshire. It only took one summer of this labor for the young man to know that this was not the career for him, but he did find the passion of his life on that farm. On an early fall Sunday the family invited several of their relatives and neighbors over for a corn roast. After lunch the group sang hymns and then the farmer pulled out his fiddle. His wife sat down at the piano. Soon music and dancing filled the house and lasted until late that night.
His voice is wistful as he remembers the evening that became a turning point in his life. He makes an arch over his head as he describes the rugged low-ceilinged, wood-hewed house filled with the mingling smells of wood smoke, pies and clothes damp with perspiration. His eyes twinkle and we all smile as he describes how the glow of the fireplace light shone on a young girl's yellow hair. To keep the memories and images of such good times and close community alive would become a driving force of this romantic young man. Thus Dudley Laufman began a fifty-five-year agenda to perpetuate authentic New England contra dance figures and tunes so that others could feel the same resonance, the same sense of community that he still feels.
His Mentor: Ralph Page
The next decade of Dudley's life began by following Ralph Page, the caller credited by many people in New Hampshire as the man responsible for the renewed interest in New England country dancing. Although he attended a few other callers' dances, Dudley didn't like seeing beginners, adults and children being left out of the more complicated dances of other callers. He agreed with Ralph Page's manner of choosing music and dances that allowed everyone to participate most of the time. To this day Dudley is swift to express his respect for Ralph Page and he is proud to participate annually in the "Ralph Page Legacy Weekend" at the University of New Hampshire.
In order to play in the band and thereby take on a more active learning role, Dudley taught himself to play first the harmonica and accordion and then the fiddle. He sought out musicians who could teach him not only the tunes that Ralph was using, but ones that went back to sources from the British Isles and French Canada. Tunes like "Prince William" and "La Grondeuse" were among his favorite "new" old tunes in those early years. Dudley began to call a few dances himself and then he taught himself to play accordion or fiddle and call at the same time.
But as the years went by, Ralph Page wasn't moving with the dance community that he had created. As they became more experienced, Ralph's audiences wanted more complicated dances and more than just the same few well-known pieces at every dance. Dudley's innate talent was soon to be put to use. He was a quick learner and a dedicated student. The young man was ready and the timing was right. Dudley was naturally gathering a following of his own.
The Mystique of Dudley Laufman
The word most often associated with Dudley is "charismatic." He is an independent thinker, an attractive man and a leader. He has always written poetry and still wears his hair in a boyish, unkempt look that is long enough to hang over the turtlenecks that he loves. He is also rugged enough to have built the cabin that he heats with wood that he chops himself.
His return to this more primitive life was in accordance with the free-spirited ideals that were prevalent during his youth. Many other young people drove long distances from their homes and schools to attend his dances because they, too, were searching for a more idyllic way of life. By just being himself and following his own star, Dudley became a guide in a movement that brought country dancing back to the grange halls and church basements of small-town New England.
As Jim Collins said in his article in the December 1995 edition of Yankee Magazine, "He took the torch of a dying oral tradition from the hands of a few old-timers and fired up an entire generation of young people. He took contra dancing out of the history books and made it part of a living lifestyle." By the late 1970s, Dudley became the caller in New England. "Dudley Dances" developed a following that cut across socioeconomic groups throughout the state. The movement of renewed interest in contra and square dancing was firmly established.
[For the rest of this article, purchase the Fall 2002 issue of Fiddler Magazine!]
[Janet Farrar-Royce is a professional classical musician and teacher, as well as the fiddler of The Reel Thing, an ensemble that, with caller Patricia Campbell, continues Dudley's work in the southeast Connecticut area.]


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It was the morning of april 13, 2006, when rebel forces attacked N'djamena, chad's capital city. Within several hours, a doctors Without borders/médecins Sans Frontières (mSF) surgical team was working alongside chadian health workers to treat the wounded. over the course of 24 hours, two surgical teams—working in rotation—assisted in the treatment of more than 100 war-wounded, many of them young children.
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Authors:DGGS Staff, Dighem, and WGM, Inc.
Publication Date:1995
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Last night, Greta Hodgkinson, a Warwick native who is now a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada, took the stage in her home state for the first time since she was 11 years old.
Hodgkinson trained during her youth at Festival Ballet, which, at the time, was located in East Providence. She started her lessons at age 4, and by the age of 9, Hodgkinson knew she wanted to dance professionally.
"I don't think I ever was aware that if I chose a career in the arts … that it would be hard," said Hodgkinson at a State House gathering in her honor on Tuesday night. "[My family] fully supported me."
At a gathering in the State Room, those from the Rhode Island arts community lauded Hodgkinson for her achievements and welcomed her back to her home state for an all-star gala performance at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium. The performance took place last night, and featured Hodgkinson and other renowned dancers from across the country. Festival Ballet Providence produced the dance concert, called "Together We Dance 2."
Hodgkinson and her husband, Etienne Lavigne, also a principal dancer from the National Ballet of Canada, performed two pas de deux at last night's performance. In addition, Hodgskinson performed her signature solo piece, Fokine's "Dying Swan."
Hodgkinson has performed all over the world, in Russia, Italy, Japan and across the U.S., but her roots are here in Rhode Island. At Tuesday's gathering, Hodgkinson said she takes a piece of her home state with her wherever she travels.
Misha Djuric, Festival Ballet Providence's artistic director, said Hodgkinson is the "embodiment of good training and God-given talent."
And Hodgkinson knows how important her training was, and still is. When she expressed her desire to become a professional dancer at the young age of 9, her family began to research the best ways to make her dream come true. They spoke with professionals about Hodgkinson's talent and where to best nurture her ability. It was the National Ballet School of Toronto that, starting at age 11, groomed Hodgkinson for her career as a ballerina.
"[My family] knew me and that I was very ambitious and that I had very big dreams for that," said Hodgkinson.
At 16, she landed her first professional gig with the National Ballet of Canada. Three years later, she became second soloist, and then, two years after that, was promoted to first soloist.
Despite her early success and rapid climb up the professional dance ladder, Hodgkinson said there was never one moment where she felt like she had "made it."
"I had a lot of other career goals for myself," she said. "I still do, even after all that I feel like I've accomplished and I've done."
Hodgkinson said she is grateful for all of her experiences and opportunities, but continues to push herself as an artist.
"I guess I've 'made it' in that I'm a professional dancer and I've had wonderful experiences," she said. "But I don't know there's ever that defining moment. As an artist, if you stop learning and sit on your laurels … I think you start to diminish."
Nancy McAuliffe, the artistic director for Rhode Island's Ballet Theater, said that all ballerinas must be "hardworking perfectionists who can tolerate daily pain."
The physical stresses of a career in dance have been illustrated in countless movies and documentaries of the craft, and for Hodgkinson, the self-discipline of being a dancer is the major difference between those that make it professionally, and those that do not.
"You have to ask a lot of hard questions of yourself," she said. "It is difficult, but you have to love it. There are more reasons not to do it than to do it."
Hodgkinson said natural talent and ability are only a small portion of what makes a dancer great,
"Talent is certainly a key part of it, but it's not the only part. The kind of discipline and dedication that it takes to do what we do … there are very few that actually get there," she said.
Hodgkinson said young people looking to get into the professional dance world should start their training very early, so as not to always be a step – sometimes literally – behind.
And perhaps most importantly, she offered: "You have to be realistic with yourself."
At Tuesday's gathering, Hodgkinson spoke briefly, extending her gratitude to those in attendance for their support. But her deepest thanks went to her family; especially her parents, grandparents and sister for helping her realize her dreams. Holding back tears, Hodgkinson looked at her mother and father, who were seated close to the podium from which she spoke.
"I would have never been able to achieve what I've achieved without my family," she said.
Marcia and David Hodgkinson, Greta's parents, expressed their pride in their daughter.
"She worked hard for this," said David.
Hodgkinson's husband, Etienne Lavigne, who held their son, Maxime, while his wife spoke, said that it was great for the state to recognize Hodgkinson's talents and contributions to the arts community.
For Hodgkinson, who has been trying to plan a return to a stage in her home state for years, last night's performance was a long time in the making.
"I'm very, very humbled," she said.
This is a beautiful article but it has one error. Festival Ballet Providence was never located in East Providence. It was located in North Providence and relocated in 2001 on the East Side of Providence where it resides now.


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One Direction Had a Twitter Fight With Piers Morgan + David Beckham Is to Blame
Oh those Brits! So cute and so cheeky. One Direction's Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson got into a bit of a row -- that's a Brit slang word for "fight" -- with talk show host Piers Morgan and it's all soccer star David Beckham's fault.
There was quite a bit of back and forth over Twitter with these British brats. Morgan apparently made fun of Beckham after Styles sent out a tweet. Tomlinson quickly jumped to the defense of Styles and Beckham -- which makes us think New Orleans Saints QB Drew Brees, who is a member of 1DB, needs to worry about his "gig."
Morgan was clearly having a little fun at the expense of 1D and Beckham, saying that boy band "types" stick together.
Styles summoned Simon Cowell, via tweet, saying that Morgan was being nasty, which lead to Niall Horan joking that all Morgan does is hang out on Twitter all day long. He even asked what else the gabber does, to which Morgan responded with the zinger of all zingers: He listens to the Wanted. Ouch! We could give game, set and match to Morgan with that one. It's a shame that he had to go there and drag the Wanted boys into this heated war of tweets.
It's also worth mentioning that in between exchanging barbs with 1D, Morgan tweeted that he was preparing for an interview with Israeli president Shimon Peres, who is dealing with real strife in his region of the world.
To go from 1D b----slaps to a chat with the leader of Israel? Oh Piers, pick better battles!
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Illinois students have exhausted college funding available through the state Monetary Award Program, but many also qualify for federal Pell grants.
Students in the state are eligible for more than $1.1 billion in Pell grants, according to a news release from the Illinois Student Assistance Commission.
Ninety-four percent of students eligible for MAP funds also are eligible for Pell grants, according to the release.
"Pell is vitally important, especially when MAP funding is exhausted," ISAC Executive Director Eric Zarnikow said in the release.
The federal Pell grant program provides need-based grants to low-income undergraduates.
Pell grants can provide up to $5,645 annually for full-time students attending eligible institutions. Grant amounts depend on a student's expected family contribution to college expenses, the cost of attending the institution, and the student's enrollment status.
Students must file the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form to receive financial assistance for college. Students seeking aid still may complete the online form.
Go to the Illinois Student Assistance Commission website at www.isac.org for more information on MAP and Pell grants. Go to www.fafsa.ed.gov for fill out a FAFSA form.