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Kevin Kallaugher,
Daggers Drawn: 35 years of Kal Cartoons in the Economist
For over 3 decade's Kevin Kal Kallaugher has entertained and enraged a global audience with his sharp cartoons and witty covers for
The Economist
magazine and the
Baltimore Sun
. In his illustrated presentation, Kal will share some of his award-winning works from his portfolio of more than 8000 cartoons and 140 covers plus share stories and anecdotes of the challenges facing a contemporary cartoonist. As an added bonus, Kal will sketch some of his favorite politicians and culminate with an audience lesson on how to draw Barack Obama.
Edwidge Danticat
Author Talk: Edwidge Dandicat and Michèle Voltaire Marcelin reads from Haiti Noir 2
Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous books, including
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Krik? Krak!
, a National Book Award finalist;
The Farming of Bones
, an American Book Award winner; and
The Dew Breaker
, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the first Story Prize.
Thursday, January 16, 2014
S. Stevan Dweck Center
Central Library
Lee Billings and Caleb Scharf
Science writers Lee Billings and Caleb Scharf discuss the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe.
The age-old question of whether we're alone in the universe - or if other life forms thrive among the stars - gets a brand new examination from science writer Lee Billings through his book,
Five Billion Years of Solitude
. In this critically-acclaimed volume, Lee charts the history of man's quest to determine what other Earth-like planets may exist in the universe.
Joining Lee for the evening will be Caleb Scharf, director of the Columbia Astrobiology Center at Columbia University. Caleb is the author of
Gravity's Engines: The Other Side of Black Holes
, and is the winner of the 2011 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award as well as a medal from the American Astronomical Society. His blog on Scientific American is called Life, Unbound.
7 Amazing Authors at 92Y (92nd Street Y - Highlights)
These are some of the fantastic writers, authors, and thinkers that the 92Y have ever showcased. This amazing list includes children's book writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, Irish Fiction writer Colum McCann, American writer Gary Shteyngart, English novelist and screenwriter Ian McEwan, British Indian novelist and essayist Salman Rushdie, and novelist Jamaica Kincaid.
Click here to watch the full clips:
Colum McCann
Gary Shteyngart
Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, Ian McEwan
Jamaica Kincaid
Maurice Sendak
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Paul Auster and Isaac Gewirtz on Poe | LIVE from the NYPL.
Bolivar: American Liberator
Author and journalist Marie Arana discusses the adventurous and volatile life of Simon Bolivar, who famously liberated much of Latin America from Spain.
Speaker Biography: Marie Arana is an author, editor, journalist, and member of the Scholars Council at the Library of Congress. She was born in Peru, the daughter of Jorge Arana, a Peruvian born civil engineer, and Marie Campbell Arana, she moved with her family to the United States at the age of 9, achieved her B.A. in Russian at Northwestern University, her M.A. in linguistics at Hong Kong University, a certificate of scholarship at Yale University in China, and began her career in book publishing, where she was vice president and senior editor at Harcourt Brace and Simon & Schuster.
Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps
A discussion on the representations of sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps.
Speaker Biography: Chet Van Duzer, a fellow at the John Carter Brown Library, is an independent scholar focusing on the history of cartography and historical geography, and his articles have appeared in
Terrae Incognitae
Imago Mundi
Orbis Terrarum
, and
. His monograph on Johann Schoner's terrestrial globe of 1515 was recently published by the American Philosophical Society, and he has a book about sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps.
Interview with Clarice Lispector - São Paulo, 1977 (English subtitles)
This interview of Clarice Lispector from February 1977 is the only footage we have of her.
She had arrived at the studios of TV Cultura in São Paolo to participate in a program about film, when the director of the station took the opportunity to ask her for a personal interview. To the astonishment of all present, she accepted. The result is this haunting film of the great writer at the end of her life, looking back on her novels and offering a glimpse at the inner life that produced such astounding works.
Jorie Graham: Selected Poems | 92Y Readings
Jorie Graham reads work that spans her career.
W. S. Merwin, accomplished poet, and his full interview with 92nd Street Y
Watch this exclusive interview of W. S. Merwin only at 92nd Street Y as he discusses his life and inspiration for his poetry.
Book Trailer:
One More Thing
by B.J. Novak
B.J. Novak's
One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
(On-sale by Knopf 2/4/14) is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction.
A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes—only to discover that claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins—turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new arrival in Heaven, overwhelmed with options, procrastinates over a long-ago promise to visit his grandmother. We meet Sophia, the first artificially intelligent being capable of love, who falls for a man who might not be ready for it himself; a vengeance-minded hare, obsessed with scoring a rematch against the tortoise who ruined his life; and post-college friends who try to figure out how to host an intervention in the era of Facebook. Along the way, we learn why wearing a red T-shirt every day is the key to finding love, how February got its name, and why the stock market is sometimes just . . . down.
Finding inspiration in questions from the nature of perfection to the icing on carrot cake,
One More Thing
has at its heart the most human of phenomena: love, fear, hope, ambition, and the inner stirring for the one elusive element just that might make a person complete. Across a dazzling range of subjects, themes, tones, and narrative voices, the many pieces in this collection are like nothing else, but they have one thing in common: they share the playful humor, deep heart, sharp eye, inquisitive mind, and altogether electrifying spirit of a writer with a fierce devotion to the entertainment of the reader.
B.J. Novak is a writer and actor best known for his work on NBC's Emmy Award-winning comedy series "The Office" as an actor, writer, director, and executive producer. He is also known for his stand up comedy performances and his roles in motion pictures such as Quentin Tarantino's "Inglorious Basterds" and Disney's "Saving Mr. Banks". He is a graduate of Harvard University with a degree in English and Spanish literature.
On Chekhov, Moscow and dogs in
Moscow Tales
Poet and translator Sasha Dugdale discusses the glamorous and tawdry representation of Moscow in Russian short stories. She describes the use of dogs by many writers in the collection
Moscow Tales
. http://oxford.ly/172E9yU
Business books quarterly: Corporate culture
Is corporate culture really more important than strategy? Our correspondents discuss a new book on an important but amorphous idea. For more video content from
The Economist
visit our website: http://econ.st/1dIAlVE
Live Hangout On Air with Alice Munro in Conversation with Margaret Atwood
In its enormously popular Selected Shorts live series, +Symphony Space together with +Vintage Books & Anchor Books will be honoring 2013 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature Alice Munro on Wednesday, January 22 at 7:30 PM EST
Around 7:45, Alice Munro will make a rare live appearance via Google+ Hangout, for you and the world to see! She will be in conversation with acclaimed novelist Margaret Atwood.
For Your Reading Pleasure: Read the entirety of Munro's short story
How I Met My Husband
, to be referenced tonight by Margaret Atwood, here on Scribd: http://bit.ly/LGqbbN
You'll definitely want to confirm your attendance below!
Alice Munro has published thirteen collections of stories as well as a novel,
Lives of Girls and Women
, and two volumes of
Selected Stories
. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two of its Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England's W. H. Smith Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her stories have appeared in
The New Yorker
The Atlantic Monthly
The Paris Review
, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Canada.
Margaret Atwood, whose work has been published in thirty-five countries, is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. In addition to
The Handmaid's Tale
, her novels include
Cat's Eye
, short-listed for the Booker Prize;
Alias Grace
, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy;
The Blind Assassin
, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize;
Oryx and Crake
, short-listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize;
The Year of the Flood
; and her most recent,
. She is the recipient of the
Los Angeles Times
Innovator's Award, and lives in Toronto with the writer Graeme Gibson.
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The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services Clinical Research Site and the HIV Prevention Network (HPTN) are hosting "Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV Prevention Among Black MSM: A Community Consultation" on Tuesday, June 4, 2013, from 5:30pm - 8:00pm at the GWU Public Health Research Clinic, 2013 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006.
The goal of the consultation is to engage community representatives, members of the study population, service providers, and advocates of HIV prevention research to discuss PrEP, the HIV prevention research landscape, and encourage greater involvement of Black MSM communities in research moving forward. The HPTN Black Caucus will be conducting a series of these meetings in the 3 cities where HPTN 073 will take place.
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The NHL season is upon us -- finally -- and one of the league's biggest wrestling fans is Jason LaBarbera, the backup goalie for the Phoenix Coyotes.
How much of a fan is he?
He has had his mask painted at different times with images of CM Punk and The Undertaker.
The Punk mask is the most recent one, and he wore it during the latter half of the 2011-12 NHL season.
Just before Christmas, LaBarbera shared his love of all things Punk.
Originally from Burnaby, British Columbia, "Barbs" LaBarbera grew up a wrestling fan.
"It's obviously a lot different now, but the characters and the way it was presented, the good guy and the bad guy, the hero, all these different things that, as a kid, you're blown away by the whole thing," LaBarbera told SLAM! Wrestling. "As I got older, with the NWO and the Attitude Era, I was in high school when that was going on. That was obviously an unreal era when both WCW and WWE were going nuts at the time."
Then, like a lot of fans, when WCW died off and was bought out by WWE, he drifted away.
"I probably went four or five years where I'd watch it every once in a while," he confessed. "Then when Punk had his thing in Vegas there two summers ago, it totally hooked me and brought me back in. 'What is this? What's going on?' Ever since then, I haven't missed a Raw and I haven't missed a pay-per-view. He definitely got me back in it and I really enjoy watching him. I find him extremely entertaining and funny and great in the ring."
The Punk-inspired mask, by Toronto artist David Arrigo, has a head and shoulders image of the WWE champion and, on the sides, the angry, defiant fist from Metallica's St. Anger album.
Punk re-tweeted a photo of the mask, and LaBarbera is eager to meet him one day -- perhaps even at the Royal Rumble at the end of the month; with the NHL schedule just confirmed, the Coyotes are in town before and after the big show.
"He's such a better heel," LaBarbera said of Punk. He also wishes WWE would get better use of Paul Heyman. "They don't use him enough. He just kind of stands there ... let him run wild."
The fascination with Punk has led LaBarbera to seek out the grappler's earlier work, in particular his Ring of Honor days, against the likes of Samoa Joe and Colt Cabana.
"It's pretty cool watching some of those old matches," said LaBarbera, who just turned 33. "I'm pretty excited for him now with The Shield angle they have going now. I've watched [Dean] Ambrose and [Seth] Rollins and stuff and I think those guys are unreal."
When TNA had its Bound For Glory event in Phoenix in October, LaBarbera was there.
"A couple of us went, and we got to go backstage," he said. "Hulk Hogan for me as a kid growing up was The Man. We got to meet him backstage and he talked to us for 20 minutes. That was pretty cool." Hogan talked a lot about the Tampa Bay Lightning and how his daughter, Brooke often sang the national anthem.
"I was like a little kid, almost speechless," admitted LaBarbera.
His earlier WWE-inspired mask had a Phoenix tie-in as well -- he was paying tribute to WrestleMania XXVI at the University of Phoenix Stadium, and it featured The Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart (and his heart and skull logo) vs. Vince McMahon. A howling coyote on the forehead finished it off. LaBarbera went to WrestleMania that year and WWE.com wrote about his mask and love of wrestling [Coyotes goaltender puts WWE on ice ... and on his mask.
"The Pat Tillman one for sure garnered the most reaction," said LaBarbera. "People thought it was pretty cool and pretty touched by it. For me, I thought it was cool just because Pat Tillman played here and his story is incredible. ... I just thought it was a nice gesture to do to someone who did something heroic."
"Barbs was one of my first goalies I ever painted for, it's been some five years now and I always look forward to working with him," said Arrigo. "Between his love of rock 'n' roll and wrestling, there's always something interesting to work with."
During the NHL lockout, which ended on January 6 after 113 days, LaBarbera stayed in Phoenix, and skated with whatever Coyotes were in town, as well as other NHLers who had homes nearby.
"Having two NHL goalies here actually makes a big difference," he said, referring to Phoenix's top dog in net, Mike Smith.
With the physically-grinding life on the road, there are certainly similarities between wrestlers and hockey players. LaBarbera played with three teams in the Western Hockey League (primarily the Portland Winter Hawks, but also Tri-City and Spokane) before being drafted 66th overall by the New York Rangers in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft. Big-league stops have included the Rangers, the Kings, the Canucks and the Coyotes, but there were trips to the minors, including Charlotte in the ECHL and Hartford and Manchester in the AHL.
"Off-ice / off-the-mat, their lifestyles are completely different. Guys now in hockey and in wrestling take a lot better care of themselves than guys back in the day. Those guys were animals. Some of the stories you hear, 'Holy crap, these guys are out of their mind(s)!' And in hockey too, 'Holy crap, how the heck did these guys play every day?'" he laughed. "Guys now, you're in bed by 10."
Greg Oliver is the Producer of SLAM! Wrestling, but also writes about hockey. He's had a number of stories in The Hockey News and in the fall of 2013, his book Don't Call Me Goon (with Richard Kamchen) will be published by ECW Press, celebrating many of the great tough guys and enforcers over the years. A shoutout (not a shutout) goes to Arda Ocal for the story idea. Greg can be emailed at email@example.com.


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With the rich girls' high school volleyball tradition at our local schools, it is always exciting to follow these players as they continue to play through their college years. Since the late 1970s through today, the number of local college players has been steady.
At UCLA, Madie Smith (Corona del Mar High) just completed her senior season as a setter and back-row specialist. She is the last Smith to play at UCLA following her sisters, Morgan and Jordan. Also at UCLA, is Newport Beach's Monica Stauber (Mater Dei) who competed two years at the University of Hawaii before transferring this season to help with the Bruins' setting.
Across town at USC, Kirby Burnham (Newport Harbor) has ended her indoor career, but returns for her senior season on the USC sand team. As the defending NCAA doubles champion, Kirby is hoping to follow in the footsteps of another former Sailor and Trojan, April Ross.
After completing her undergraduate studies at Cal, Mary Buckingham (Newport Harbor) will compete for USC sand as a graduate student.
Another former Sailor, Cinnamon Sary, competed last year both as an indoor player and with the sand team at USC (finished fifth at the national championships). Cinnamon has been accepted to the USC Film and Cinema School (quite an honor) and will no longer compete in volleyball. She is extremely happy with her educational direction.
At UC Irvine, Mackenzi Campbell (Newport Harbor) has completed her senior season as a setter and back-row specialist.
Another former Newport player, Katey Thompson, is finishing her senior year at UCSB with a flourish. Leading the Gauchos in kills per game and aces, Katey was a first-team All-Big West Conference selection.
Britton Taylor (Corona del Mar) is a sophomore middle blocker who suffered a sprained ankle early in the season and has not returned to early season form.
Along with Katey, the other Thompson sisters are also doing quite well. Kasey, a sophomore at Hawaii Pacific, was a third-team All Pac-West performer as she started every match at opposite for the Sea Warriors. Torey Thompson was the starting setter at Chico State, where she was first-team All-California Collegiate Athletic Assn. as well as CCAA Freshman of the Year. Adding to that, she was named as the NCAA Western Regional Freshman of the Year for Division II. People always ask how Tristin, Torey's twin sister who has recovered from two major knee surgeries, is. She is at University of Hawaii-Manoa and enjoying school and other activities like hiking and surfing.
Amanda Nichol (Corona del Mar) just completed her senior season at Brown University as a starter. Newport Beach resident Kathryn Connor (Santa Margarita) also competed for Brown, where she was the starting libero and also the dig leader for the Bears. Another former Corona del Mar player, Sydney Brombal, suffered a severe knee injury last spring and could not compete for her senior season at Princeton.
Kelly Heenan (Newport Harbor) has taken the ball control at Vanguard University to a new level. As a first-team All-Golden State Athletic Conference libero, Kelly led the Lions in digs for two consecutive seasons. They are currently competing at the NAIA National Championships in Sioux City, Iowa.
Stanford's No. 3-ranked volleyball team has three former Corona del Mar High School players. Morgan Boukather is a junior opposite whose energy and constant support is key to the Cardinal success. Freshmen Kelsey Humphries and Grace Kennedy are also very much in the mix.
Kelsey's setting has improved tremendously and Grace is being used as a back-row serving and digging specialist at six-foot, two inches.
At Cal, Mary McKennon (CdM) is playing very well as a back-row specialist. Another former Sea Queen, Katie Curci, is on the roster and was going to be a serving specialist for the Golden Bears with her tough serve but dislocated her shoulder in preseason and is out for the season.
Lauren Demos (Newport Harbor) is playing at UC San Diego as a middle blocker. Unfortunately, an injury has shortened her season.
Tatum Norton (Newport Harbor) has quite a success story. Turning down college scholarships, Tatum walked on at the University of Oregon and earned a spot serving in big games. The Ducks went all the way to the NCAA national championship match in her freshman year. Now starting her sophomore season, Tatum has earned a scholarship as a defensive specialist and is in the rotation every match.
At the University of San Diego, Hunter Jennings (Newport Harbor) has earned a spot as a regular defensive specialist and leads the Toreros in service aces.
At San Diego State, Alexis Cage (CdM) is redshirting her freshman season.
Newport Beach's Reegan Dennis (Orange Lutheran) is a backup middle blocker at Pepperdine.
This week is the first two rounds of the NCAA Championships (the sub regionals). UCSB led by Katey Thompson plays at the University of San Diego (Hunter Jennings) on Friday night, which should be interesting.
Stanford has a home match with Hampton, while Oregon is on the road at Nebraska where the Ducks draw Miami (Florida) and a second round with Nebraska.
Cal plays at North Carolina, which is quite a road trip. These playoffs are the most special time in the women's collegiate season.
Oh, also, the word is that at UCLA, the sand coach, Stein Metzger, watched freshman Shannon Griffin (CdM) play some "pick up" on the sand and thought so highly of her that he has asked her to join the UCLA sand team this spring.
CHARLIE BRANDE is a former coach at Newport Harbor High, Corona del Mar and UC Irvine.


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Jerry Seinfeld has "finally done a show about nothing," according to his friend, Seinfeld creator Larry David.
David stars in the first installment of Seinfeld's latest endeavor, a web series called Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. And the title is not a red herring — in each 10- to 15-minute episode, Seinfeld picks up one of his comedian pals in a vintage car and heads to a diner or coffee shop. Hilarity ensues as the pair banters over eggs, coffee and, in David's case, pancakes.
Another guest on the series? Ricky Gervais, who reveals a surprisingly intense fear of speed.
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In the Gervais episode, Seinfeld drives the British funnyman to The Bronx's City Island Diner in a 1967 Austin-Healey 3000, which Gervais, a self-professed nervous passenger, describes as "a tin bucket."
"Are we in The Italian Job?" Gervais, gripping the dashboard, asks Seinfeld as the car picks up speed on the highway. "We're going for coffee, for Christ's sake. We're not trying to diffuse a f---ing bomb. There's no need for this. Even Jack Bauer had an hour."
While David had his own characterization of the show, Gervais, who is launching his own web series later this month, had another take: "A man wants to drive you around New York really fast in a death machine, laughing."
See why Seinfeld's driving had Gervais reaching for the valium in the clip below.


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Vocalist and songwriter Susan Abod has been working hard on her upcoming Anita O'Day tribute concert, but her commitment goes only so far. She's immersed herself in O'Day's recordings and videos, read her autobiography, been rehearsing the material night and day, and even gone in search of a wide-brimmed hat and white gloves to recall the singer's iconic appearance at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. She has, however, steadfastly refused to tour the country in dance marathons, marry her drummer, have her uvula excised by a sloppy surgeon, or explore heroine and alcohol addiction—all of which marked the life of O'Day.
At the height of her career, O'Day was considered to be on par with Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan. Today, though, the woman whose addiction-fueled unpredictability earned her the moniker the "Jezebel of Jazz" may no longer, outside of jazz circles, command the same name recognition. Whatever the reason for that, it's got nothing to do with her singing. The record she left behind—she died in 2006 at age 87—assures her a permanent place in the jazz pantheon.
This weekend, Abod (pronounced like "avid" except with a "b")—along with Stu MacAskie (piano), Michael Glynn (bass) and Cal Haines (drums)—will honor one of the 20th century's great song stylists in two concerts presented by Haines and Victoria Rogers.
Abod can relate to the way O'Day reworked songs to reveal fresh layers of meaning. It's something she's got a penchant for herself (catch her version of the Drifters' "Up on the Roof," on her album In the Moment). So Abod and friends will be focusing on O'Day's solo career, where she had greater freedom in her interpretations, rather than her big band work with Gene Krupa, which first brought her national attention.
"When she was young, she kept saying, 'I'm not a band singer, I'm a song stylist,' " says Abod. "Her stuff is great. It's fun. It has an edge to it."
Abod shares another characteristic with O'Day: a magnetic attraction to the backbeat, which helps swing the music. "And ... and ... it's always on the 'and,' " she says. "I think that way. I always tell the piano player that I'm working with, You go first. I'll come in later."
Though Abod loves the tone quality—particularly in the low range—of O'Day's voice, she won't attempt to mimic it. Instead, she'll take cues from her phrasing, inventive rhythmic ideas and percussive approach. (The absence of her uvula, that bit of tissue hanging at the back of the palate, made vibrato impossible, O'Day claimed, and she accommodated that failing by using short, repetitive notes.)
"We're really trying to stay true to the arrangements that she had—and the mood," says Abod.
On "Sweet Georgia Brown" and "Tea for Two," the two O'Day performances in Jazz on a Summer's Day, the film of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, Abod will reproduce her scat choruses note for note. Among the other tunes in the concert are O'Day's composition "Anita's Blues," "What Is This Thing Called Love" and "Love Me or Leave Me."
O'Day has repaid Abod's commitment to this tribute with a gift Abod can take with her long after the concerts are done. "What I got from her was how to really take charge of the band, take charge of the stage," she says. Though a bassist herself, Abod admits she can sometimes get a little intimidated by the musicians around her, allowing them to make the choices. Now, armed with a little O'Day attitude, she's ready to lead.


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In the holiday spirit, Valley Green Bank is holding its 5th annual local book drive from Nov. 23 through Dec. 31, 2012.
The Mastery Charter elementary schools – Mann Elementary, Harrity Elementary, Smedley Elementary, Hardy Williams Academy Mastery Charter School, Mastery Charter Clymer Campus and Grover Cleveland Elementary – will be the recipients of this year's collection.
The book drive encourages families to donate new or gently used children's books, preschool through 8th grade. The collected books will be distributed to the six elementary schools.
Local businesses are also joining in this effort. Mt Airy's Big Blue Marble Bookstore is offering a 10 percent discount on all books purchased and contributed to this book drive. Weavers Way Co-Op will collect books, as well, at both of their locations.
Jay Goldstein, Valley Green Bank's President and CEO, is pleased to sponsor the initiative.
"There is no better way to support our children than to encourage them to be avid, accomplished readers," he said. "And, as we all know, reading is a key to success in pursuing a lifetime of learning."
Mastery Charter Schools' CEO Scott Gordon is "thrilled" the Mastery elementary schools were chosen again for this year's drive.
"Our six elementary schools serve 4,000 students who were formerly enrolled in some of the lowest-performing schools in the city," he said. "Many are 3-4 grade levels below where they should be in reading – so getting them to read every single day is huge. We are on track to hit our goal for every student to be at or above grade level within three years with Mastery.
"We will reach this goal by immersing our youngest students in reading now so they can go on to pursue their dreams and compete in the global economy when they grow up. Every new book donated will be in the hands of amazing children who are hungry to learn. It's really awesome and we are just thrilled Valley Green Bank chose us for this honor."
Shayna Wolfson, Apprentice School Leader for Instruction at the Harrity Campus echoed the positive reactions of all the participating teachers.
"Last year's book drive enabled all 850 Harrity students to go home with a free book," she said. "It was wonderful to see all of our students happy and excited to read their new book. Reading is our number one goal and the book drive enabled us to get a book in every child's hands."
Mastery Charter Schools is a nationally recognized leader in school turnarounds. It currently operates 12 schools in Philadelphia serving 8,000 students in grades K through 12.
Bins to collect the books will be in Valley Green Bank's locations at 7226 Germantown Ave. in Mt. Airy and 23 W. Highland Ave. in Chestnut Hill. Other bins will be located at Big Blue Marble Bookstore at 551 Carpenter Lane and at both Weavers Way Co-Ops – in Mt Airy at 559 Carpenter Lane and in Chestnut Hill at 8424 Germantown Ave.
For more information about this Book Drive, please contact Valley Green Bank at 215-242-7540.


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MIDDLEBURY — An Addison County Superior Court hearing on Tuesday cleared the way for an Addison man to be sentenced for his role in a rash of burglaries in the first half of 2013.
Raymond Ritchie, 38, faces 13 years to life in prison when Judge Robert Mello delivers his sentence in a hearing set to begin at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 17.
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MIDDLEBURY — The Addison man arrested in July 2013 and accused of committing a rash of burglaries in his hometown and other county communities was back in court on Monday, this time contesting the terms of a plea agreement to which he agreed in April.
MIDDLEBURY — The man accused in a string of burglaries committed in Addison County earlier this year faced additional charges this past Wednesday in Vermont Superior Court's Criminal Division in Middlebury — and was again denied bail.
According to court documents, Raymond Ritchie, 37, of Addison was arraigned Sept. 25 for four more felony counts of burglary, each of which carry a potential life sentence because of his seven prior felony convictions, one from 2005 and six from 2001.
NEW HAVEN — Vermont State Police are inviting any Addison County resident who has been the victim of a burglary or theft since 2010 to come to VSP's Route 7 barracks in New Haven on Oct. 7 to view a cache of stolen property recovered from an Addison home.
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MIDDLEBURY — The man accused in a string of burglaries committed in Addison County earlier this year faced additional charges in Vermont Superior Court's Criminal Division in Middlebury on Wednesday and was denied bail.
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Medium to full-bodied wines with flavors of black cherry, plum, and tobacco
Merlot enjoyed a surge in popularity in the 1990s as consumers suddenly discovered that they could enjoy aromas and flavors similar to those of Cabernet in a fleshier, softer wine with smoother tannins. A wave of Merlot plantings followed, frequently in soils and microclimates completely inappropriate for this variety, and the market was soon flooded with dilute bottles from young vines and high crop levels, and weedy, herbaceous examples from underripe fruit. Many of these undernourished wines were overoaked in attempts to mask their deficiencies. Over the same period, a number of Cabernet producers began picking riper fruit and doing a better job managing their tannings during the making and aging of their wines. The result was an upswing of powerful, satisfying Cabernets that were far less austere in their youth -- and a sharp decline in interest in Merlot.
Still, California's best Merlots, some of which predated the vogue for this variety in the 1990s, continue to be some of the finest examples of this variety outside Bordeaux -- in the same quality league with wines from Washington State and Italy's Tuscan coast region.
Expect to find broad, supple wines with medium to full body, typically with aromas and flavors of black cherry, plum, dark berries, dark chocolate, tobacco, and earth, and suave, fine-grained tannins. Merlot also rules in Pomerol, and nowhere in the world does this variety make more complete wines than on the flat, clay-rich plateau that lies at the heart of this appellation.
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It's Good To Be Bad As Oxygen Greenlights Fourth Season Of 'Bad Girls Club' On Heels of Record Breaking Ratings
'Bad Girls Club' Season Three Becomes Oxygen's First Series Ever To Average Over One Million Viewers; Drives Unprecedented 70 Million Page Views, a 499% Increase Over Season Two
New York, NY – April 2, 2009 – Coming off a phenomenal third season with record breaking numbers on air and online, Oxygen has renewed "Bad Girls Club" for a fourth season. "Bad Girls Club" season three became Oxygen's first series ever to average over one million viewers per episode, with 397,000 W18-34, 533,000 W18-49, 727,000 A18-49 and one million total viewers. From Bunim-Murray, the groundbreaking producers of The Real World, "Bad Girls Club" is currently casting for the new season.
"Our audience has made 'Bad Girls Club' our biggest hit ever on every screen. We're excited to give them more of what they love with the greenlight of another season," said Amy Introcaso-Davis, Senior Vice President, Original Programming and Development for Oxygen Media. "The series not only provides fascinating entertainment, it also allows the viewers to live vicariously through these women who love to live life on their own terms."
"It's not easy working with bad girls, which it shouldn't be; nevertheless we're thrilled Oxygen is giving us the chance to go toe to toe once again with women who aren't afraid to make their own rules and live their lives openly, loudly and honestly," said Jon Murray, Chairman, Bunim-Murray Productions.
"Bad Girls Club" now holds the title as the network's most successful series among its target demo, W18-34. It also boasted the youngest season on Oxygen with a median age of 26. Tuesday (3/31) night's reunion special became Oxygen's most watched telecast in network history with 437,000 W18-34, 639,000 W18-49, 950,000 A18-49 and 1.4 million total viewers.
Driving unprecedented numbers for Oxygen's digital assets, "Bad Girls Club" page views for season three reached over 70 million, a 499% increase over season two, while video streams for season three reached 8.8 million streams, an 87% increase over the previous season.
"Bad Girls Club" also recently dominated online space during the season finale (3/27) reaching one of the top ten topics on Twitter against atypical competition during the presidential address.
"Bad Girls Club" takes 'bad behavior' to the next level with a cast of young women who are powerfully bold, outrageously funny and endlessly entertaining. "Bad Girls Club" brings seven new 'bad girls' together in a beautiful Los Angeles mansion. These women recognize that their outrageous behavior has hindered their relationships, careers and lives. They claim they want to change, but will living together help them move forward and turn their lives around – or will chaos rule?
Jon Murray serves as executive producer of "Bad Girls Club" for Bunim-Murray Productions with Brandon Wilson and Jeff Schmidt serving as Co-Executive Producers.
About Bunim-Murray
Bunim-Murray Productions is the leading independent producer of innovative entertainment content. The company is widely credited with creating the reality television genre with its hit series The Real World (renewed for its 22nd season on MTV). BMP continued to innovate with the first reality game show, Road Rules, in 1995, the first reality sitcom, The Simple Life, in 2003, and the first reality soap opera, Starting Over, in 2003. Bunim-Murray's current programming includes Bad Girls Club (Oxygen), Keeping up with the Kardashians (E! Entertainment), The Real World/Road Rules Challenge (MTV), The Supreme Court of Comedy (DirecTV), Living Lohan (E! Entertainment), the 6th season of Project Runway, the upcoming Models of the Runway, and Old Skool with Terry and Gita (upcoming on VH1). Other recently aired Bunim-Murray series include America's Psychic Challenge (Lifetime), Murder (Spike) and Dr. Steve-O (USA). Launched in 2006 to better reach the Digital Generation, Bunim-Murray's M Theory Entertainment is a spin-off entity focusing on new media initiatives. In 2007 Bunim-Murray launched BMP Films, a film division, which premiered its first documentary, Autism: The Musical, at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival, and its first scripted film Pedro, at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival. Autism: The Musical premiered to rave reviews on HBO on March 25, 2008 and won 2 Primetime EMMY awards. Bunim-Murray Productions has also recently announced the formation of M Music, a music management division, with its first band, A Cursive Memory, signing with Vagrant Records. Bunim-Murray Productions is based in Van Nuys, CA. It was founded in 1987 by Jonathan Murray and the late Mary-Ellis Bunim.
About Oxygen
Oxygen is a program service of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment and is currently available in over 74 million homes. The network was launched in 2000 to fill a void in the television landscape — creating a network targeted to younger women. Oxygen is rewriting the rulebook for women's television, with a vast array of unconventional and original programming including Bad Girls Club, The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, and Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood.


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In the foothills of the southern California mountains are the Rancho del Ganado, owned by Colonel Pennington, and a smaller ranch on which Mrs. Evan lives with her daughter Grace and her son Guy. Grace feels that she has dramatic talent and is determined to make a bid for fame as a motionpicture actress. Guy has bec…Read More »
An imaginary conference is arranged by a multi-millionaire, Francis Carey, at a lodge, Musuru, located on the East Kenyan Plateau some 9000 feet above sea level, to discuss Empire. The conference is made up of nine men and nine women, taken from the upper and professional classes.
A very English rendering of the classic Spanish novel La burlada Aminta y venganza del honor (Mocked Aminta and honor's vengence). Behn's story has a somewhat different beginning and a completely altered ending. Aminta, in her very early teens, becomes a rich orphan of Segovia. Her uncle, following her fathers w…Read More »
The first in Zola's famous Rougon-Macquart series of novels. In it we learn how the two branches of the family came about, and the origins of the hereditary weaknesses passed down the generations. Murder, treachery, and greed are the keynotes, and just as the Empire was established through violence, the "fortune" …Read More »
Get set for a rip-roaring romp around the world in Guy Newell Boothby's The Beautiful White Devil. Packing in plenty of action and romance, this novel follows the exploits of a beguiling criminal mastermind who steals the heart of the tale's protagonist.
The action is set in Sicily, where Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, has recently defeated his half-brother, the bastard Don John, in a military engagement. Apparently reconciled, they return to the capital, Messina, as guests of the Governor, Leonato. There Count Claudio, a young nobleman serving in Don Pedro's army, fa…Read More »
Shortly before his death Gibran completed this book. In these beautiful parables and drawings are crystallized his whole life's message–a message that has consoled and inspired thousands of readers since its publication.
This collection is a series of stories not found in the Bible, but found in other works he translated. Among these stories are Adam, about how God showed Adam and Eve how to live outside of Eden, and Solomon and the Demons, the story of how Solomon tamed the demons told from the point of view of the King.
The Ice Maiden rules the cold snowcapped mountains of Switzerland. Before Rudy was a year old, the Ice Maiden claimed his father into the icy depths of the mountains–and now she wants Rudy too. The precocious little boy must now do everything in his power to resist the lure of the Ice Maiden … and escape her fros…Read More »
It is a spectacular collection of poems and songs in which Milton's particular dramatic and natural chic is evident. The poetry is effervescent as it is spontaneous gush of thoughts, rhythmic and the lyrical measures delight the reader and bound him to read till it ends.
Australian author Guy Boothby put his wanderlust to work as fodder for his fiction. Though his first publication was a non-fiction account of a trip through his native country, he soon turned to fiction as an outlet for his creativity, focusing primarily on action-adventure, mystery, and detection tales. _In Strange…Read More »
Set in Florence, and preoccupied with the collision of rampant sexuality and women's virtue, Behn's second play parodies the aristocratic attitudes of Charles II's court, comically exploring the effects of depravity and decadence in the highest echelons of society. The main plot concerns Prince Fredrick's erotic pur…Read More »
Conservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured deep personal loss. When he first meets the wealthy and mercurial Maurice Levasseur, who never seems to have suffered, his hatred is immediate. But after they are thrown together during the disast…Read More »
In Jesus Son of Man, Jesus is portrayed through the words of 77 contemporaries who knew him. Gibran allows the reader to see Jesus through the eyes of a group of people, enemies and friends alike. Each has an opinion about Jesus based on their own experience.
An enormous tidal wave on the west coast of North America has just killed thousands. Lenie Clarke, in a black wetsuit, walks out of the ocean onto a Pacific Northwest beach filled with the oppressed and drugged homeless of the Asian world who have gotten only this far in their attempt to reach America. Is she a mons…Read More »
Geothe's fourteen hundred Maxims and Reflections reveal some of his deepest thought on art, ethics, literature and natural science, but also his immediate reactions to books, chance encounters or his administrative work. Although variable in quality, the vast majority have a freshness and immediacy which vividly con…Read More »
This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays he eloquently affirms that it is beneath the dignity of a human being to beg for…Read More »
A play written in 1787 and originally with music composed by Beethoven. Egmont is a Flemish warrior whose nemesis is the Duke of Alba. Heeventully ends up in prison, sentenced to death. In his final speech, Egmont calls to his people for freedom and to never give up the fight against their oppressors.
When Rosalind is banished by her uncle, who has usurped her father's throne, she flees to the Forest of Arden where her exiled father holds court. There, dressed as a boy to avoid discovery, she encounters the man she loves - now a fellow exile - and resolves to remain in disguise to test his feelings for her. A glo…Read More »
Boothbys fifth novel of five about the notorious Doctor Nikola, an occultist anti-hero seeking immortality and world domination. Nikola may be the world's first modern super villain: he is a master of hypnotism and mind control, a telepathic adept, and an astral projectionist. He can cause ordinary men to see images…Read More »
These complimentary pieces have been sufficiently censured by a great authority, but no very candid judge either of Milton or his panegyrists. He, however, must have a heart sadly indifferent to the glory of his country, who is not gratified by the thought that she may exult in a son whom, young as he was, the Learn…Read More »
An unexpected romance novel from the author of many famous children's stories, featuring the main character; Otto.
Two men, a fight, and a series of calamitous circumstances. The bar of the Hotel of All Nations, Thursday Island. Time, 9.35, one hot evening towards the end of summer. The room contains about twenty men, in various stages of undress; an atmosphere like the furnace doors of Sheol; two tatterdemalions lolling, apart …Read More »
Buchan skillfully weaves the story of young clerk Peter Pentecost, who has a claim to the throne, and a tale of intrigue against King Henry VIII, where 'under the blanket of the dark all men are alike and all are nameless'. Buchan's description of the ruthless king is compelling. His knowledge of the time of Henry's…Read More »
Serge Mouret, the younger son of Francois Mouret, is ordained to the priesthood and appointed Cure of Les Artaud, a squalid village in Provence, to whose degenerate inhabitants he ministers. He has inherited the family taint of the Rougon-Macquarts, which in him takes the form of a morbid religious enthusiasm border…Read More »
Mars, Venus, Pellucidar, and finally Poloda - the last planet to be explored by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Of them all, Poloda was the most distant - literally Beyond The Farthest Star our telescope could view! Yet on Poloda, appeared an American from our own time, to take part in one thrilling adventure after another …Read More »
Set in a topsy-turvy world like a holiday revel, this comedy devises a romantic plot around separated twins, misplaced passions, and mistaken identity. Juxtaposed to it is the satirical story of a self-deluded steward who dreams of becoming Count Malvolio only to receive his comeuppance at the hands of the merrymake…Read More »
A collection of essays in which Bierce talks about modern civilization and all its faults, the death penalty and many others. His arguments are still relevant to issues of today. Ambrose Bierce was well known for his biting wit and cynical approach to life.
Now considered Behn's most famous and most accomplished play, The Rover is in many ways firmly in the tradition of Restoration drama; Willmore, the title character, is a rake and a libertine, and the comedy feeds on sexual innuendo, intrigue and wit. But the laughter that the play insights has a biting edge to it …Read More »
Grey Weather is the first collection of sketches from John Buchan, author of The Thirty-nine Steps. The subtitle, Moorland Tales of My Own People, sets the theme of these fourteen stories. Shepherds, farmers, herdsmen and poachers are Buchan's subjects and his love for the hills and the lochs shines through.


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Point in case, they integrated recently their new Writeboard with Basecamp.
For those not in "the known", Writeboard let's you manage the life of a document. You can see and compare older versions, see who changed what, etc. Basecamp is a web application to manage your proyects. You can see who has to do what, what has to be done before the next milestone, messages related to the proyect, etc.
Basecamp was structured in several parts. You had:
- Messages
- To-Do lists
- Milestones
- People
Now you have a fifth item, Writeboards.
Do you see the problem?
With the arrival of Writeboards we have two different classes of documents: messages and writeboards. What is the difference? You can track the changes to writeboards, and you can not track the changes to messages.
If you are a paying customer, there are zero reasons to use a message instead of a writeboard. Yet they are completely different things in the Basecamp interface.
Coming from a company that strives to make less, this one more tab to make a split that users could not care less about is bugging me.


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It's only been six months since Russell Brand filed for divorce from Katy Perry, but word has it that Russ is regretting their break-up BIG time. Isn't that just like a man? Supposedly, Russell sent Katy an email saying that their divorce was a "mistake" and asking for another chance.
Oh, really, Russell? Didja have a glass of wine -- wait, you don't drink booze, so, a glass of cranberry juice -- sit down at the computer, and shoot off an email? How long did that take, 10 minutes? You're an author of two books, so I know it didn't take a huge amount of effort.
Gee, Katy is sure to be impressed with that! (Sarcasm.) Russell, dude, I like you. I thought you were hilarious in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him to the Greek. So, I'm going to give you some advice. If you want to get Katy back, you need to listen to me.
First off, my man, an email is not going to do the trick. I know that you and Katy live in different countries, but who cares! You have plenty of money, and you can make your own schedule to a certain extent. Get your butt on a red-eye and get to where Katy is.
Word has it, Russell, that you are regretting the divorce because you saw pictures of Katy with another man and are seething with jealousy. This is not a good reason to reunite! Once you're back together, all of the jealousy will be gone, and you'll be standing there dealing with the same issues that drove you apart to begin with. So do NOT mention your jealousy to Katy.
This brings me to the most important thing you can do to try and win your ex back: Offer to get into therapy with her. You can say a million sweet nothings, but nothing says, "I'm serious about making this work" like saying, "Doll, let's see a shrink." And don't just SAY it. DO it. Find the counselor yourself. Call (don't email!) Katy and say, "I've found this wonderful therapist, can I make an appointment for us?"
Last of all, don't try for make-up sex. Do everything you need to do to show Katy you are serious BEFORE you try to bump knees. Otherwise, she will assume it's not your heart talking, but a different organ.
Good luck, Russ. Lemme know if it all works out for ya.
Have you ever tried to get an ex back? How'd you do it?
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A shining star was extinguished this year on January 1st.
I don't really want to go into details on such a public forum, but the loss has required many changes, and a delay in posting.
I am hoping to get back into writing more for this blog in the New Year, but for the time being, bear with me!


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Candide needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 12 designs submitted by 10 freelance designers.
The Gambling Portals. http://www.gamblingcity.com
We founded and operated the premier gambling portal, Gambling.com, in 1996 and sold it in 2003. We are now launching a range of gambling portals.
These are in a rudimentary condition and their image needs to be made professional and trustworthy.
All gamblers in all countries are targeted.
There are no specific demographic features that should be targeted,
Please redesidgn the Home Page of http://www.GamblingCity.com
The image must be:
The colours must be bright.
No sombre dark colours.
Gamblers don't read.
We must rely on big bold features, videos, illustrations.
Content for now should be that on Gambling City at present.
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Forrest Mars
Mars started his career by taking a modified version of his father's famous Milky Way bar to England. There in 1932 he set up shop and produced his new bar, named after himself, which has been produced in much the same manner at the same location ever since. Later during his travels in Europe that same decade, Mars came across candied chocolates and was inspired to create M&Ms.
When Mars returned to the US, he had chocolate candies on the mind but not the resources to operate a plant. He went in to business with the son of a Hershey executive to produce the M&Ms (named after the proprietors Mars and Murrie). Since Hershey had a contract with the government during the war and chocolate was being rationed, M&Ms were made exclusively for the troops.
Forrest Mars is a great example of the entrepreneur as transmitter of ideas. No, he didn't invent sugar-covered chocolate candies. They may have been common in some region of Spain or wherever it was he found them. But without him, how long would it have been before the masses enjoyed such a treat? Five years, 30 years? Heroes of Capitalism don't have to offer profound insights - or originality. We celebrate them because they made notable contributions to societal well-being. Luckily Forrest Mars knew a good idea when he saw it, and his efforts make people like me happy every time we rip open a bag of those milk chocolate goodies.
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Paternal age at conception is a robust risk factor for schizophrenia. Possible mechanisms include de novo point mutations or defective epigenetic regulation of paternal genes. The predisposing genetic events appear to occur probabilistically (stochastically) in proportion to advancing paternal age, but might also be induced by toxic exposures, nutritional deficiencies, suboptimal DNA repair enzymes, or other factors that influence the fidelity of genetic information in the constantly replicating male germ line. We propose that de novo genetic alterations in the paternal germ line cause an independent and common variant of schizophrenia
Seminal findings We initially examined the relationship between paternal age and the risk for schizophrenia because it is well established that paternal age is the major source of de novo mutations in the human population, and most schizophrenia cases have no family history of psychosis. In 2001, we demonstrated a monotonic increase in the risk of schizophrenia as paternal age advanced in the rich database of the Jerusalem Perinatal Cohort. Compared with the offspring of fathers aged 20-24 years, in well-controlled analyses, each decade of paternal age multiplied the risk for schizophrenia by 1.4 (95 percent confidence interval: 1.2-1.7), so that the relative risk (RR) for offspring of fathers aged 45+ was 3.0 (1.6-5.5), with 1/46 of these offspring developing schizophrenia. There were no comparable maternal age effects (Malaspina et al., 2001).
Epidemiological evidence This finding has now been replicated in numerous cohorts from diverse populations (Sipos et al., 2004; El-Saadi et al., 2004; Zammit et al., 2003; Byrne et al., 2003; Dalman and Allenbeck, 2002; Brown et al., 2002; Tsuchiya et al., 2005). By and large, each study shows a tripling of the risk for schizophrenia for the offspring of the oldest group of fathers, in comparison to the risk in a reference group of younger fathers. There is also a "dosage effect" of increasing paternal age; risk is roughly doubled for the offspring of men in their forties and is tripled for paternal age >50 years. These studies are methodologically sound, and most of them have employed prospective exposure data and validated psychiatric diagnoses. Together they demonstrate that the paternal age effect is not explained by other factors, including family history, maternal age, parental education and social ability, family social integration, social class, birth order, birth weight, and birth complications. Furthermore, the paternal age effect is specific for schizophrenia versus other adult onset psychiatric disorders. This is not the case for any other known schizophrenia risk factor, including many of the putative susceptibility genes (Craddock et al., 2006).
There have been no failures to replicate the paternal age effect, nor its approximate magnitude, in any adequately powered study. The data support the hypothesis that paternal age increases schizophrenia risk through a de novo genetic mechanism. The remarkable uniformity of the results across different cultures lends further coherence to the conclusion that this robust relationship is likely to reflect an innate human biological phenomenon that progresses over aging in the male germ line, which is independent of regional environmental, infectious, or other routes.
Indeed, the consistency of these data is unparalleled in schizophrenia research, with the exception of the increase in risk to the relatives of schizophrenia probands (i.e., 10 percent for a sibling). Yet, while having an affected first-degree relative confers a relatively higher risk for illness than having a father >50 years (~10 percent versus ~2 percent), paternal age explains a far greater portion of the population attributable risk for schizophrenia. This is because a family history is infrequent among schizophrenia cases, whereas paternal age explained 26.6 percent of the schizophrenia cases in our Jerusalem cohort. If we had only considered the risk in the cases with paternal age >30 years, our risk would be equivalent to that reported by Sipos et al. (2004) in the Swedish study (15.5 percent). When paternal ages >25 years are considered, the calculated risk is much higher. Although the increment in risk for fathers age 26 through 30 years is small (~14 percent), this group is very large, which accounts for the magnitude of their contribution to the overall risk. The actual percentage of cases with paternal germ line-derived schizophrenia in a given population will depend on the demographics of paternal childbearing age, among other factors. With an upswing in paternal age, these cases would be expected to become more prevalent.
Biological plausibility We used several approaches to examine the biological plausibility of paternal age as a risk factor for schizophrenia. First, we established a translational animal model using inbred mice. Previously it had been reported that the offspring of aged male rodents had less spontaneous activity and worse learning capacity than those of mature rodents, despite having no noticeable physical anomalies (Auroux et al., 1983). Our model carefully compared behavioral performance between the progeny of 18-24-month-old sires with that of 4-month-old sires. We replicated Auroux's findings, demonstrating significantly decreased learning in an active avoidance test, less exploration in the open field, and a number of other behavioral decrements in the offspring of older sires (Bradley-Moore et al., 2002).
Next, we examined if parental age was related to intelligence in healthy adolescents. We reasoned that if de novo genetic changes can cause schizophrenia, there might be effects of later paternal age on cognitive function, since cognitive problems are intertwined with core aspects of schizophrenia. For this study, we cross-linked data from the Jerusalem birth cohort with the neuropsychological data from the Israeli draft board (Malaspina et al., 2005a). We found that maternal and paternal age had independent effects on IQ scores, each accounting for ~2 percent of the total variance. Older paternal age was exclusively associated with a decrement in nonverbal (performance) intelligence IQ, without effects on verbal ability, suggestive of a specific effect on cognitive processing. In controlled analyses, maternal age showed an inverted U-shaped association with both verbal and performance IQ, suggestive of a generalized effect.
Finally, we examined if paternal age was related to the risk for autism in our cohort. We found very strong effects of advancing paternal age on the risk for autism and related pervasive developmental disorders (Reichenberg et al., in press). Compared to the offspring of fathers aged 30 years or younger, the risk was tripled for offspring of fathers in their forties and was increased fivefold when paternal age was >50 years. Together, these studies provide strong and convergent support for the hypothesis that later paternal age can influence neural functioning. The translational animal model offers the opportunity to identify candidate genes and epigenetic mechanisms that may explain the association of cognitive functioning with advancing paternal age.
A variant of schizophrenia A persistent question is whether the association of paternal age and schizophrenia could be explained by psychiatric problems in the parents that could both hinder their childbearing and be inherited by their offspring. If this were so, then cases with affected parents would have older paternal ages. This has not been demonstrated. To the contrary, we found that paternal age was 4.7 years older for sporadic than familial cases from our research unit at New York State Psychiatric Institute (Malaspina et al., 2002). In addition, epidemiological studies show that advancing paternal age is unrelated to the risk for familial schizophrenia (Byrne et al., 2003; Sipos et al., 2004). For example, Sipos found that each subsequent decade of paternal age increased the RR for sporadic schizophrenia by 1.60 (1.32 to 1.92), with no significant effect for familial cases (RR = 0.91, 0.44 to 1.89). The effect of late paternal age in sporadic cases was impressive. The offspring of the oldest fathers had a 5.85-fold risk for sporadic schizophrenia (Sipos et al., 2004); relative risks over 5.0 are very likely to reflect a true causal relationship (Breslow and Day, 1980).
It is possible that the genetic events that occur in the paternal germ line are affecting the same genes that influence the risk in familial cases. However, there is evidence that this is not the case. First, a number of the loci linked to familial schizophrenia are also associated with bipolar disorder (Craddock et al., 2006), whereas advancing paternal age is specific for schizophrenia (Malaspina et al., 2001). Next, a few genetic studies that separately examined familial and sporadic cases found that the "at-risk haplotypes" linked to familial schizophrenia were unassociated with sporadic cases, including dystrobrevin-binding protein (Van Den Bogaert et al., 2003) and neuregulin (Williams et al., 2003). Segregating sporadic cases from the analyses actually strengthened the magnitude of the genetic association in the familial cases, consistent with etiological heterogeneity between familial and sporadic groups.
Finally, the phenotype of cases with no family history and later paternal age are distinct from familial cases in many studies. For example, only sporadic cases showed a significant improvement in negative symptoms between a "medication-free" and an "antipsychotic treatment" condition (Malaspina et al., 2000), and sporadic cases have significantly more disruptions in their smooth pursuit eye movement quality than familial cases (Malaspina et al., 1998). A recent study also showed differences between the groups in resting regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) patterns, in comparison with healthy subjects. The sporadic group of cases had greater hypofrontality, with increased medial temporal lobe activity (frontotemporal imbalance), while the familial group evidenced left lateralized temperoparietal hypoperfusion along with widespread rCBF changes in cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical regions (Malaspina et al., 2005b). Other data linking paternal age with frontal pathology in schizophrenia include a proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study that demonstrated a significant association between prefrontal cortex neuronal integrity (NAA) and paternal age in sporadic cases only, with no significant NAA decrement in the familial schizophrenia group (Kegeles et al., 2005). These findings support the hypothesis that schizophrenia subgroups may have distinct neural underpinnings and that the important changes in some sporadic (paternal germ line) cases may particularly impact on prefrontal cortical functioning.
Genetic mechanism Several genetic mechanisms might explain the relationship between paternal age and the risk for schizophrenia (see Malaspina, 2001). It could be due to de novo point mutations arising in one or several schizophrenia susceptibility loci. Paternal age is known to be the principal source of new mutations in mammals, likely explained by the constant cell replication cycles that occur in spermatogenesis (James Crow, 2000). Following puberty, spermatogonia undergo some 23 divisions per year. At ages 20 and 40, a man's germ cell precursors will have undergone about 200 and 660 such divisions, respectively. During a man's life, the spermatogonia are vulnerable to DNA damage, and mutations may accumulate in clones of spermatogonia as men age. In contrast, the numbers of such divisions in female germ cells is usually 24, all but the last occurring during fetal life.
Trinucleotide repeat expansions could also underlie the paternal age effect. Repeat expansions have been demonstrated in several neuropsychiatric disorders, including myotonic dystrophy, fragile X syndrome, spinocerebellar ataxias, and Huntington disease. The sex of the transmitting parent is frequently a major factor influencing anticipation, with many disorders showing greater trinucleotide repeat expansion with paternal inheritance (Lindblad and Schalling, 1999; Schols et al., 2004; Duyao et al., 1993). Larger numbers of repeat expansions could be related to chance molecular events during the many cell divisions that occur during spermatogenesis.
Later paternal age might confer a risk for schizophrenia if it was associated with errors in the "imprinting" patterns of paternally inherited alleles. Imprinting is a form of gene regulation in which gene expression in the offspring depends on whether the allele was inherited from the male or female parent. Imprinted genes that are only expressed if paternally inherited alleles are reciprocally silenced at the maternal allele, and vice versa. Imprinting occurs during gametogenesis after the methylation patterns from the previous generation are "erased" and new parent of origin specific methylation patterns are established. Errors in erasure or reestablishment of these imprint patterns may lead to defective gene expression profiles in the offspring. The enzymes responsible for methylating DNA are the DNA methyltransferases, or DNMTs. These enzymes methylate cytosine residues in CpG dinucleotides, usually in the promoter region of genes, typically to reduce the expression of the mRNA. The methylation may become inefficient for a variety of reasons; one possibility is reduced DNA methylation activity in spermatogenesis, since DNMT levels diminish as paternal age increases (Benoit and Trasler, 1994; La Salle et al., 2004). Another possible mechanism is that this declining DNMT activity could be epigenetically transmitted to the offspring of older fathers. There are a number of different DNMTs that differ in whether they initiate or sustain methylation, and which are active at different ages and in different tissues.
Human imprinted genes have a critical role in the growth of the placenta, fetus, and central nervous system, in behavioral development, and in adult body size. It is an appealing hypothesis that loss of normal imprinting of genes critical to neurodevelopment may play a role in schizophrenia. Indeed, one of the most consistently identified molecular abnormalities in schizophrenia has been theorized to result from abnormal epigenetic mechanisms (Veldic et al., 2004), that is, the reduced GABA and reelin expression in prefrontal GABAergic interneurons. An overexpression of DNMT in these GABAergic interneurons, hypermethylating the reelin and GAD67 promoter regions, might be responsible for reducing their mRNA transcripts and expression levels. These decrements could functionally impair the role of GABAergic interneurons in regulating the activity and firing of pyramidal neurons, thereby causing cognitive dysfunction. Later paternal age could be related to the abnormal regulation or expression of DNMT activity in specific cells.
Conclusion These findings suggest exciting new directions for research into the etiology of schizophrenia. If there is a unitary etiopathology for paternal age-related schizophrenia, then it is likely to be the most common form of the condition in the population and in treatment settings, since genetic linkage and association studies indicate that familial cases are likely to demonstrate significant allelic heterogeneity and varying epistatic effects. Schizophrenia is commonly considered to result from the interplay between genetic susceptibility and environmental exposures, particularly those that occur during fetal development and in adolescence. The data linking paternal age to the risk for schizophrenia indicate that we should expand this event horizon to consider the effects of environmental exposures over the lifespan of the father. The mutational stigmata of an exposure may remain in a spermatogonial cell, and be manifest in the clones of spermatozoa that it will subsequently generate over a man's reproductive life.
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Van Den Bogaert A, Schumacher J, Schulze TG, Otte AC, Ohlraun S, Kovalenko S, Becker T, Freudenberg J, Jonsson EG, Mattila-Evenden M, Sedvall GC, Czerski PM, Kapelski P, Hauser J, Maier W, Rietschel M, Propping P, Nothen MM, Cichon S. The DTNBP1 (dysbindin) gene contributes to schizophrenia, depending on family history of the disease. Am J Hum Genet. 2003 Dec;73(6):1438-43. Abstract
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Comment by Mary Reid
I look forward to reading the comments to this very interesting hypothesis which describes potential mechanisms that may explain why advanced paternal age may contribute to the development of schizophrenia. I wonder whether we may also consider telomere length as a factor in the increased incidence of schizophrenia due to paternal age? Unryn and colleagues report that paternal age is positively linked to telomere length in children, and Yu finds that the shortest TRF length was found in the poor-response schizophrenic group. Is there a connection between paternal age and response to treatment? Are subtelomeric deletions more common as telomere length decreases, and might this explain the decreased learning capacity in the offspring as paternal age increases?
It's also of interest that the Malaspina team reported that increasing duration of marriage had the opposite effect, possibly due to the fact that psychiatric illness reduces schizophrenics' capacity to sustain a marriage. Might we also suspect that paternal ill health due to age-related diseases associated with shorter telomeres such as heart disease may also place stress on the marriage?
References: Unryn BM, Cook LS, Riabowol KT. Paternal age is positively linked to telomere length of children. Aging Cell. 2005 Apr;4(2):97-101. Abstract
Yu W-Y. Analysis of event-related potentials and telomere length in schizophrenic patients. Master's Thesis. 2001. Unpublished. Abstract


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Service-oriented architecture is here to stay. Job one, say the experts, is to learn from past projects so your company can wring the most value from future SOA implementations.
There is no doubt about it: service-oriented architecture, or SOA, has gained acceptance as a way to exchange data previously trapped in legacy systems and isolated databases. The I.T. architecture supports the integration of business processes as linked services or repeatable business tasks that can be accessed to make those applications and databases available as "services," leveraging mechanisms such as eXtensible Markup Language to facilitate the sharing of information.
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