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(NEW YORK) -- Dr. Julie Silver, 38 and the mother of three young children, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003. She survived surgery and chemotherapy and was sent home cancer-free. But life-saving treatments took a devastating toll on her psychological and physical health.
"I felt really good in the beginning, but just terrible at the end of treatment," said Silver, a physiatrist and assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School.
"I had too many symptoms to list. I was weak and in pain almost constantly," she said. "My day was pretty relentless with 24/7 mom's duties."
Silver, now 47, knew how to help others heal, but with a rotator cuff impingement, chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy and cancer-related fatigue, she could hardly do it for herself.
"I couldn't step out of the world with cancer," she said. "I had to deal with life now and it was impossible to do that. I knew how to rehabilitate myself, but it was just so hard."
Unlike others who have suffered major illnesses and injuries, the 13 million cancer survivors in the U.S. are typically told by their doctors to get back to living after finishing their toxic treatments.
But surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and immunotherapy can be debilitating. They can keep people from jumping into life again.
"If a patient had a stroke, you would never tell him them, 'This is your new normal -- if you want to get better, figure it out on your own," said Silver.
So she co-founded the Star Program Certification, an evidence-based model of cancer rehab offered in hospitals in 40 states. Two states, Rhode Island in 2011 and Massachusetts in 2012, have launched the first statewide initiatives so any cancer survivor can find treatment close to home.
Silver and businesswoman Diane Stokes began Oncology Rehab Partners in 2009, which certifies health care professionals to address the physical and emotional problems of recovering cancer patients, building individualized rehabilitation plans.
The Star program has been endorsed by the American Cancer Society and receives financial support from several charitable groups, including the Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation in Rhode Island and the Friends of Mel Foundation in Massachusetts.
Cancer rehabilitation with licensed professionals is covered by Medicare and most insurance plans, according to Silver.
Cancer survivors can face myriad ailments: pain, fatigue, weakness, immobility, cognitive impairment, sleep difficulties, sexual dysfunction, anxiety and depression. Treatments tend to occur consecutively or simultaneously, which contributes to the development of impairments.
Carolyn Spring of Westboro, Mass., lost the use of her left arm after surgeons took out 18 lymph nodes, followed by chemotherapy and radiation when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008.
At her sixth-month check-up, her oncologist sent her on her way, warning her to go easy on that arm or she might develop lympodemia, which can lead to dangerous infections.
"He told me not to lift more than 10 or 15 pounds for the rest of my life on that arm," said Spring, 54, an estate-planning lawyer. "I just thought it was a fact of life, that I would no longer be able to use that arm. But I was just happy to be alive."
"I was in a lot of pain," said Spring, who found she was unable even to lift her briefcase, carry a light grocery bag or hold her dog's leash.
But after struggling for a year, she sat with Diane Stokes at a Rotary Club meeting and learned about Star Program Certification and cancer rehab. "Wow," said Spring. "I had no idea what it was."
Stokes arranged a meeting with her colleague Silver, who immediately diagnosed Spring with a frozen shoulder. And she said cancer rehab could help.
Spring started on the road to recovery in the Star program at South County Physical Therapy to strengthen her disabled arm.
"My shoulder is not frozen anymore," said Spring. "I still go to [physical therapy], but it's like night and day … I have use of my arm. I go out gardening and walk the dog. I am still careful, but I don't have to be as cautious and I have good range of motion."
Medical rehabilitation programs emerged after World War II when injured soldiers came home and needed help functioning again. Now rehab doctors treat those who have been in car accidents, had strokes, or have spinal cord injuries.
Silver sees cancer rehabilitation as just as vital to a survivors' emotional well-being.
Research shows that most head and neck cancer survivors stop driving after treatment because they cannot turn their heads well and see oncoming traffic.
"It's an incredible source of disability for them," she said. "They are not going out to work -- it's very restrictive."
Silver said they can be helped through injections and physical therapy to increase the range of motion in the neck.
"A lot of times patients have become very frustrated and depressed and the psychological, not the physical is treated," she said. "But the physical is so much a factor in their symptoms. Who would not be depressed if they could not drive?"
Star has also begun a new program in "prehabilitation," offering patients therapy before they begin cancer treatments so they are physically healthy and emotionally ready.
"While they are waiting for chemotherapy, we use the window of time to get them prepared for what they are going to undergo," she said. "Offering them prehab is like giving them an umbrella before the storm."
Silver said her own struggle made her realize how important it was to help others. She did not get a diagnosis for two years, after finding an irregularity while breastfeeding her youngest child. It took three work-ups to determine it was cancer.
"I had excellent oncology care, but had to rehabilitate myself," she said.
After toxic treatments, she was forced to quit work for a year but still keep up with raising her children, then 3, 7 and 10. At her worst moment, she sat in the emergency room with her daughter, who had an allergy to eggs and had been exposed.
"I had just had another dose of chemo and I remember trying to stabilize her condition and being sick myself," said Silver. "I was sitting there thinking, 'I cannot believe I am so sick myself and my daughter is so sick, and we are just fighting to stay alive.'"
Had she been able to access the Star program, Silver said, "There would have been experts there to help me that I could trust. That would have been a huge weight off my shoulders."
Professionals might have offered help with her pain levels, overall strength, reducing her fatigue and giving her better range of motion in Silver's arm.
Despite her slow recovery, Silver said she feels "terrific" today and has raised her children well. Her son Alex, now 19, and daughter Emily, 16, have written about their family's struggle with cancer in a Chicken Soup for the Soul book, Hope and Healing for Your Breast Cancer Journey.
"I am not the same as I was before cancer, but I have worked really hard on my health and have tried to heal as well as possible," she said. "I feel strong."
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will visit South Korea, Japan and China in mid-April and Southeast Asia in June for an annual regional gathering, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday.
Kerry's decision to make his first foreign trip since taking office on February 1 to Europe and the Middle East raised questions in Asia about his commitment to the region.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Kerry would attend Group of Eight (G8) meetings in London on April 10-11 and then travel on to Seoul, Tokyo and Beijing.
He also plans to attend a gathering of the 27-member ASEAN Regional Forum in Brunei in June, when he will also visit other unspecified countries in Southeast Asia.
"During these engagements, the secretary will continue to affirm the administration's commitment to further broaden and enhance U.S. economic, security and strategic interests in the Asia-Pacific region," Nuland told reporters.
The spokeswoman said Kerry, a Vietnam War veteran, has a long history in the region, including in helping to lay the groundwork for the 1995 normalization of U.S.-Vietnamese relations and working with China on climate change.
"He is very much looking forward to getting back to Asia and to working on these things with counterparts," Nuland said.
Reporting By Arshad Mohammed; Editing by Eric Beech

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2012 Slogan: Our Time
A better, more accurate 2012 Slogan: It is Finally Next Year
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An alternative slogan if you don't like that one: Someone has to win this crappy division
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With the beginning of a new year, it is time for the 2012 version of the Royals Repository Thread. We've got Hosmer, we've got a 2011-dominating Gordon, we've got Moose, we've got hopefully a killer bullpen, we've got a stereotypical slow slugging DH, we've got easily one of the best defensive shortstops in the AL, we've got a promising catcher in Salvador Perez. Hell, we've got offense and promising prospects galore.
We do not have starting pitching.
Oh yeah, we've also got this:
Get ready for, (as of January 2012 anyway), one of the most confusing puzzles of a baseball season in recent Royals history. Will they suck? Maybe, I don't know. Will we be given a year of 0.500 baseball? Possibly, I don't know. Will they win the division and go to the playoffs for the first time in 27 years? For the first time in a long time, it could happen, I don't know. 92 losses, 92 wins, or anything in between would not surprise a lot of us.
Everything goes here except Gameday threads and really big news. If a giant story breaks, the Royals achieve some awesome milestone, or we sign/lose a highly significant player/coach/mascot/whatever, then it might also deserve its own thread. This being Chiefs Planet, please do not clutter the board with new threads about trivial Royals news or you will only annoy those who come here for just Chiefs football. If you aren't sure and its not a Gameday thread, it goes here.
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End-of-season rush should key better 2012
By Dick Kaegel / MLB.com | 12/30/11 11:00 AM EST
KANSAS CITY -- When it comes to 2012, Royals fans need to look at September 2011. Things got pretty exciting. The team was five games above .500 at 15-10, best month of the season, and average attendance jumped to more than 26,000.
Kansas Citians, looking ahead to the coming All-Star Game season, were getting pretty pumped. Can they expect a leap into first place by manager Ned Yost's team? Well, whoa. Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves.
"We're not going to put limitations on our team, we're going to put the best team on the field that we can but we won 71 games last year," general manager Dayton Moore said.
"So you can do the math. We're under .500 and it's hard to make predictions about what your team is going to do until you at least play over .500. I'll let Ned and those guys set the tone of how we're going to win games and what have you. We're just going to focus on giving them the best talent we can give them, and let him blend it together and let those guys go out and compete."
The Royals, with the infusion of young talent blended with nicely with a few veterans, should be better.
"Our fans are excited, I'm glad they are. They should be excited. We're encouraged," Moore said. "But the players are still very young. We're not going to put limitations on them but we've got to go out and play. We're not going to sneak up on anybody. They're baseball players, they're not computers or robots. You don't know what you're going to get day-in and day-out."
Here are some questions to ponder for the season ahead:
1. Can the Royals expect to be serious contenders in 2012?
You won't hear them expressing it publicly, but Royals officials see 2013 or 2014 as the years that the club might be seriously in contention for the American League Central title. By then the position players who arrived in the great influx of talent last season should be peaking, and the prize pitchers from the farm system should be starting to percolate. In 2012 the Royals, drawing inspiration from their successful September, should be able to make some noise, rise a couple notches in the standings and establish more momentum. It would be a big surprise, however, to see them jump to the top at this point.
2. Will the starting rotation be better?
Well, it had better be better. Last season the rotation was the weakest link in the Royals' chain. They tried to strengthen it by trading with the Giants for left-hander Jonathan Sanchez and re-signing lefty Bruce Chen, the top winner in the last two seasons. They need Chen to avoid missing seven weeks as he did last season and to have Sanchez approximate his 2010 San Fran form en route to the World Series. The presumption is that Danny Duffy, erratic as a rookie, and Felipe Paulino, finding himself as a veteran, will smooth out as back-end starters. Crucial to the cause is having No. 1 guy Luke Hochevar pitch all season as he did in the second half of 2011 -- in short, like a No. 1 guy.
3. Is Joakim Soria on an irreversible downspin? Could he lose the closer's job to Jonathan Broxton?
Answers: No, and, anything's possible. Soria spoiled Royals fans for four years by being nearly perfect, so when he encountered a rough patch last May, panic buttons were pushed. Soria even took a voluntary leave from the closer's duties for a few days. After that the Jack Attack was pretty well intact, although he wasn't as completely dominant as the previous years. The prognosis for 2012 is that there's no reason to think he won't be just fine. If not, ex-Dodgers closer Broxton certainly has the experience to take over, but first he must prove that his surgically enhanced elbow allows him to throw those 100-mph fastballs once again. Soria as a starter? Not bloody likely.
4. Can Billy Butler become a deadlier offensive weapon by hitting more home runs?
The logical answer is yes. Manager Ned Yost expressed that thought during the 2011 season. And the evidence supports it. Through his first 96 games, Butler hit six home runs and had 39 RBIs. In his last 63 games, starting on July 22, Butler had 13 homers and 56 RBIs. He likes to hit for a high average, but in the last three seasons with an almost even number of at-bats each year, his highest average -- .318 in 2010 -- was accompanied by just 15 homers and 78 RBIs. In 2009 his .301 average produced 21 homers and 93 RBIs. Last season his .291 produced 19 homers and 95 RBIs. All those doubles -- a total 140 in the three years -- are nice weapons, but the longer ball seems twice as nice.
5. Was Eric Hosmer's big rookie season just a flash in the pan?
No one who saw Hosmer every day would even consider such a thought. Nothing the left-handed first baseman did even suggested that this kid was going to be anything but a huge part of Kansas City's bright future. Hosmer adjusted to the Majors seamlessly, rarely looked over-matched, hit with good power (19 homers) and average (.293). His smooth fielding at first base instantly made the entire infield better, because the guys could let fly with a throw and be pretty certain the Wizard of Hoz would pick it. Hosmer doesn't seem overwhelmed by the situation or overly impressed with himself. He's on track to be a superstar.
6. Is Mike Moustakas ready to conquer big league pitching?
Look back over Moustakas' history, and there are recurring examples of how he started out slowly when reaching a certain level of competition, then gradually became his old productive self as a hitter. That seemed to be the case after he was called up from Triple-A Omaha on June 10. In his first 53 games, Moustakas had a .182 average with one homer and 11 RBIs. But from Aug. 17 on, Moose hit .379 with four homers and 19 RBIs in his last 36 games. During the latter period, only Detroit's Miguel Cabrera had a better average in the Majors, .413. So Moustakas is catching on and should be ready for just about everything the big leaguers can throw at him. It was very encouraging that, even when he struggled in the batter's box, he fielded very well -- better than expected, in fact -- at third base.
7. Who will play second base, Johnny Giavotella, Chris Getz or . . . perhaps Yuniesky Betancourt?
The sentiment among Royals officials favors Giavotella but playing every day in the Majors is no sentimental journey. The little guy is an effective hitter -- he led the Minors with 153 hits when called up on Aug. 5 -- and his scrappy approach endeared him to manager Ned Yost.
"He is a scrap iron, he's a little, freakin' gamer, dirt bag-type player," Yost was inspired to say after he first saw Giavotella. "He doesn't fear anything. He's one of them guys, man, if you ever get in a fight, you bring your lunch, because it's going to be there for a while. He ain't givin' up."
Giavotella is coming off hip surgery, so there's that uncertainty. And he's got some flaws as a fielder, including lack of range, and that's a trait foreign to the polished Getz. That defensive edge, however, is dulled by Getz's limitations at bat, including a .254 career average, two homers and 76 RBIs in 1,099 plate appearances. But Getz can handle the bat, bunt and steal bases.
Another possibility was created by the free-agent signing of ex-Royals shortstop Betancourt as a backup infielder. He's played just nine games at second base and not since 2005, but he'll be drilled at that spot during Spring Training and his background as an everyday player puts him in the picture. His fielding has been suspect but the free-swinging Betancourt can hit with some pop.
8. Can Lorenzo Cain cut it as Melky Cabrera's replacement in center field?
Cain, one of four players received from the Brewers in last winter's Zack Greinke trade, will get every chance at replacing Cabrera. Even though Cabrera did a great job defensively, covering a lot of ground with some stirring catches and accumulating 13 assists, Yost believes that Cain could be an upgrade in center.
The big question is, can this speedy right-handed batter hit well enough to survive in the Majors? The indications are that he can. In 2010 he got a taste of big league pitching in 43 games with Milwaukee and hit .306 with an on-base percentage of .348 and seven steals in eight tries. Last season with Triple-A Omaha he hit .312 in 128 games and banged 16 homers with 81 RBIs. His on-base mark was .380 and he had 16 steals in 22 attempts. Called up in September, he was 6-for-22 (.273) for Kansas City. Plan B would include Jarrod Dyson, the electrifying speedster (.279, 38 steals in 40 attempts for Omaha), or Mitch Maier, the very reliable fourth outfielder in 2011.
9. Can Dave Eiland, the new pitching coach, really cut down on all those bases on balls?
For the answer on that, check the final averages next Oct. 3. The figures for 2011 weren't pleasant to look at -- the Royals' 557 walks were the most in the American League, 121 more than Seattle's AL low 436 and 61 above the league average of 496. With the roster jammed with younger pitchers, Yost believes that Eiland can solve the problem by refining their mechanics to where, if they get out of sync, they can return quickly to the proper slot, release point or other delivery component. Eiland is also charged with developing a detailed game plan for each pitcher's outing, which Yost said was lacking in the past. Youngsters like Duffy, Tim Collins and Jeremy Jeffress will be among Eiland's primary pupils.
10. Will the Royals finally have more than one player on the AL All-Star team?
Yes. That has not occurred since 2003 when both first baseman Mike Sweeney and pitcher Mike MacDougal were selected for the game at Chicago (Sweeney was injured and MacDougal didn't play either). But the 2012 All-Star Game will be at Kansas City and baseball generally gives the home team some extra consideration when filling out the roster. But never mind that, the 2012 Royals should have enough talent to either have someone voted onto the starting lineup or at least multiple picks as pitchers or position backups on the roster.
Last year pitcher Aaron Crow was selected against the odds -- he was a rookie and not a closer -- and left fielder Alex Gordon was an unelected finalist in the Final Vote. Hosting the game should inspire KC fans to vote in big numbers. If no one is elected, the MLB selectors surely will have qualified alternatives choices. Maybe Hochevar or Soria will be having big years. Maybe first baseman Hosmer or shortstop Alcides Escobar will be perking. Maybe Gordon or right fielder Jeff Francoeur will be on fire. So more than one All-Star? Yes ... maybe.
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Original air date: 11/03/2011 Runtime: 43:33 min. When the Jeffersonian team identifies the remains of a woman found in a paintball field, they discover two Missing Persons reports in her file. Booth (David Boreanaz) and Sweets (John Francis Daley) interrogate the victim's husband (guest star Brad Greenquist) and learn that she suffered from retrograde amnesia, but when squint Wendell Bray (guest star Michael Grant Terry) learns that she also survived a bullet wound, inconsistencies in her medical records uncover a surprising crime linked to her murder. Meanwhile, Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and Booth adjust to their new life as an expectant couple and deal with the forthcoming changes in their home life.
Original air date: 11/10/2011 Runtime: 43:57 min. The Jeffersonian team identifies the remains of a competitive-eating champion, just days before the start of the Gluttony Games, a premiere eating competition with a $10,000 prize at stake. The remarkable work of new squint—and former juvenile delinquent—Finn links obscure evidence found in the belly of a snake with laws of physics that helps solve the crime. Despite his brilliance in the lab, Finn is met with hostility and skepticism, leading Cam to question her decision to give him a chance to start anew. Meanwhile, Booth is caught off-guard by an announcement Brennan makes about their baby. To diffuse the tension between them, the couple agrees to experiment by putting themselves in each other's shoes.
Original air date: 11/17/2011 Runtime: 43:04 min. After the remains of a female toy company executive are found shrink-wrapped with a Prince Charming doll, the company's CEO (guest star Morgan Fairchild) gives Booth and Sweets access to the company headquarters' highly classified prototype lab, where details of the victim's personal life begin to emerge. Meanwhile, Sweets, with the support of his girlfriend, squint Daisy Wick (guest star Carla Gallo), prepares for his gun certification test despite Booth's opposition to Sweets carrying a weapon. Mom-to-be Brennan, wonders whether she will be a good mother and uses the case as a way to understand the importance of toys and playing with her child.
Original air date: 12/01/2011 Runtime: 43:46 min. Dismembered remains are discovered in several mailing boxes at a dead letter office, and the Jeffersonian team identifies the victim as an employee of a local Ship 'n' Print, where the staff recently split the winnings of a lottery prize. The team uncovers a complicated love triangle between two married employees and the victim, and while motive points to the husband (guest star Ben Savage), a critical clue leads them to solve the crime definitively. Meanwhile, Booth's grandfather (guest star Ralph Waite) breaks some unexpected news, and Special Agent Genny Shaw (guest star Tina Majorino) learns the importance of teamwork.
Original air date: 12/08/2011 Runtime: 43:49 min. The team discovers the remains of a so-called "storm chaser" who seems to have died while following a tornado. But footage recorded during the storm ultimately leads them to believe he was murdered. Meanwhile, Booth becomes increasingly overprotective of Brennan both at home and in the field, and sleep-deprived Angela and Hodgins come to terms with having Angela's father and rock musician (guest star Billy F. Gibbons) babysit their infant son.
Original air date: 01/12/2012 Runtime: 43:21 min. A cryptic message penned in human blood is discovered at a national monument. As the Jeffersonian team embarks on a scavenger hunt to solve the case, they realize their tech-savvy suspect (guest star Andrew Leeds) remains one step ahead of them. Meanwhile, Booth and Brennan search for the perfect home for their new family.
Original air date: 04/02/2012 Runtime: 43:22 min. The remains of an escaped convict are found in a residential sewer, but an examination of the sewer pipes indicates that the murder occurred within prison walls. Brennan insists on solving the crime – despite Booth's pleas for her not to overexert herself – and the expectant couple experiences a very untraditional arrival of their baby daughter.
Original air date: 04/09/2012 Runtime: 43:08 min. With the help of Special Agent Genny Shaw (guest star Tina Majorino), the Jeffersonian team identifies the remains of a discount shopper and "extreme couponer" who was dragged along the road by an 18-wheeler. Meanwhile, Brennan is adjusting to her first day back at work after giving birth, and Cam disapproves of her daughter's romance with intern Finn Abernathy (guest star Luke Kleintank).
Original air date: 04/16/2012 Runtime: 43:03 min. When a corpse is found at a landfill, dyed in a blue substance, intern Arastoo Vaziri (guest star Pej Vahdat) discovers a method that helps eliminate postmortem damages to the corpse, which leads the team back to a hair salon where the victim worked. Meanwhile Bones is feeling uncomfortable in her post-baby body, so Booth decides to do something special to boost her self-confidence.
Original air date: 04/23/2012 Runtime: 43:56 min. The corpse of a truck company employee is found in the middle of the woods. After the victim's son is questioned, Booth and Brennan visit his karate class in search of a motive. Back at the lab, Hodgins is going overboard purchasing lab equipment. Then, Booth's son Parker returns from England and Brennan is apprehensive about how he'll react to his new baby sister.
Original air date: 04/30/2012 Runtime: 43:52 min. When a corpse is found in the middle of the woods, the team links the victim to two families that have been feuding for almost a century. Brennan and Booth interrogate a family member with a shocking confession that leads them to a motive for the victim's murder. Meanwhile, Brennan has a difficult time accepting her father's (guest star Ryan O'Neal) offer to babysit their infant daughter because of his unpredictable presence in her own childhood.
Original air date: 05/07/2012 Runtime: 43:45 min. Brennan and Booth head out to Los Angeles to consult on the production of "Bone of Contention," a film based on Brennan's latest book and the work of the Jeffersonian team. While on set, Brennan intervenes after finding flaws with the actors' performances, not to mention the film's total disregard for science. Then she discovers that the prop cadaver being used is an actual murder victim, forcing her and Booth to launch an investigation that has real-world consequences in the land of make-believe. Meanwhile, Booth is offered a job on the studio lot, and embarrassing information is revealed about Cam's past.
Original air date: 05/14/2012 Runtime: 43:35 min. Evil tech genius Christopher Pelant (guest star Andrew Leeds), a suspect in a previous case Brennan and Booth handled, is back in court on appeal. Knowing what he is capable of, Brennan and Booth inform the judge that he is a suspect in two murder cases. Then, Brennan and Booth are called to the scene of a new murder. After determining the victim is Brennan's friend, who also is linked to Pelant, the Jeffersonian team works to prove he is guilty once and for all. But when law enforcement examines the team's findings, key pieces of evidence are tied to Brennan and suspicion falls on her.


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To conduct an analysis of the outputs and outcomes of REEEP's project portfolio. Evaluation questions will be answered, lessons learned generated and recommendations formulated.
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- Initial planning and preparation phase including a preliminary documentation review of all relevant REEEP materials; a start-up teleconference; a work plan detailing the different stages of the study; and sampling methodologies for surveys, key interviews, and case studies, along with all data collection tools.
- Data collection phase including online survey targeting pre-selected individuals and projects; data analysis of level of successes of REEEP projects; five case-studies of successes, including on-site missions (India, South Africa, Kazakhstan, Brazil, and China), challenges and lessons learned; and complementary interviews to reach key informants.
- Data analysis and report writing phase including reviewing quantitative and qualitative results in light of contextual elements.
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- Provision of a documentation 'tool kit' providing a complete list of REEEP Project outputs.
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EJ Manuel, Lonnie Pryor lead Florida State Seminoles to Orange Bowl win over Northern Illinois
Jordan Lynch said he planned to have Florida State's defense worn down and on its knees by the fourth quarter of Tuesday night's Discover Orange Bowl.
The Seminoles were hardly wheezing.
After what could best be described as a first half to forget, Northern Illinois' dual-threat quarterback rallied the first Mid-American Conference champions to reach a BCS bowl game to within a touchdown in the third quarter.
But in the end, EJ Manuel, Lonnie Pryor and Florida State's defense proved to be too much as the Seminoles made their first BCS Bowl appearance in seven years a good one by holding on for a 31-10 victory in front of 72,074 at Sun Life Stadium.
Manuel threw a touchdown pass before the half -- a 6-yarder to former St. Thomas Aquinas standout Rashad Greene -- and ran for another on the first play of the fourth quarter as the Seminoles (12-2), two-touchdown favorites coming in, completed just their third 12-win season in school history.
Pryor, who came in having run for only 242 yards during the season, posted a career-high 134 yards rushing on just five carries and scored on runs of 60 yards and 37 yards. He was named the game's Most Outstanding Player.
"I'm just proud of the team and what we did," Pryor said. "I'm just so happy. Shocked and happy."
The Huskies, who came in having won 21 of its last 22 games and became the first one-loss school from a non-automatic qualifying conference to play in a BCS Bowl game, trailed 17-3 early in the third quarter and appeared headed toward a blowout loss before Lynch and the Huskies offense came to life.
On 3rd-and-15 from NIU's 8-yard line, Lynch hit Akeem Daniels streaking down the Florida State sideline for a 55-yard gain. Two plays later, Lynch reeled off his longest run of the night-— a 22-yard scamper -- down to the FSU 11. On the next play, Lynch hit Martel Moore on a crossing route and he did the rest, diving into the end zone with 9:55 to play in the third quarter to make it 17-10.
Feeling a rush of momentum, NIU coach Rod Carey -- who took over for the departed Dave Doeren (N.C. State) -- called for an onside kick moments later and the Huskies' recovered. Cornerback Paris Logan pounced on the bouncing ball without much of a fight at the NIU 47-yard line.
But after driving down to FSU 23-yard line, Lynch scrambled and flung a pass toward receiver Jamison Wells. FSU safety Terrence Brooks stepped in front of the pass and returned the interception 20 yards.
It was his third career interception and second in a bowl game. Last year, Brooks had an interception in the end zone to seal FSU's win over Notre Dame.
Lynch, who became the first player in NCAA history to pass for more than 3,000 yards and run for 1,500 yards in the same season, was held to just 44 yards on the ground on 23 attempts. He finished 15 of 41 passing for 176 yards and a touchdown.
Trailing 24-10 in the fourth quarter after Manuel's nine-yard TD run, NIU (12-2) still had life. But two plays after converting a 4th-and-1 at the FSU 39, Lynch handed the ball to Da'Ron Brown on a reverse. He was hit in the backfield by FSU's Xavier Rhodes, who forced a fumble and recovered it at the NIU 42.
Two plays later, Pryor sprinted untouched toward the end zone with the game-sealing score, a 37-yard scamper.
"We came out here and stuck with our regular stuff," Pryor said. "I always wanted to win MVP of a bowl game and I told myself every time I get the ball just try to make a big play and just do something. I was blessed today. I can't believe it."


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Resilient Ideas: Low-Impact Urban Living
Founded after the civil unrest of April 1992, L.A. Eco-Village shows how low-impact living can also be a model for urban neighborhood self-reliance.
The 40 members of this intentional community live in a diverse working-class neighborhood a block away from one of the most congested traffic corridors in Los Angeles. They're converting two apartment buildings to a limited-equity housing cooperative and community land trust.
Many residents have trained in building skills to repair and eco-retrofit their own units. The surrounding two blocks have been transformed with a park, vegetable gardens, orchards, and permeable sidewalks.
"The challenges for urban ecovillages are also our greatest advantages," says co-founder Lois Arkin, noting that working with public agencies and elected officials has enabled ecovillagers to influence public policy in the direction of more sustainable communities. Above, a gate made of old bicycle parts and, at right, drastic traffic-calming measures outside the residences.
Check out a video about LA's Eco-Village here.
Sven Eberlein wrote this article for A Resilient Community, the Fall 2010 issue of YES! Magazine. His writing on ecocities was included in the Daily Kos "Greenroots" series. His website is Tubercreations.com.
More Resilient Ideas
|A Hand-Built Home
|Low-Impact Urban Living
|Bike As You Are
|Return of the Mercantile
|Processing Food Where the Food Is
|Beekeeping on City Rooftops
|Reclaim, Repair, Rebuild
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HYSENS is an acronym for:
"HYbrid molecule nanocrystal assemblies for photonic and electronic SENSing applications"
The HYSENS consortium is a world class interdisciplinary research and industrial team comprising of five universities, one research institute and three industry partners. The HYSENS consortium has been granted €3 million from the European Commission's Framework Programme 7 (FP7) for a 3 year grant period from 1st April 2011 to 31st March 2014.
During this 3 year period, the main goal of the HYSENS consortium is to assemble four novel classes of hybrid nanostructures using inorganic nanocyrstals and organic functional molecules. These nanocrystals will be used to synthesize novel sensors for the detection of Group I, II, transition metal cations (Na+, Ca2+, Cu2+) and anions (F-, NO3-, PO43-) in water and artificial serum matrices thereby targeting applications in the clinical diagnostics industry and the water industry.
Smart hybrid nano-materials with higher knowledge-content, tailored properties and predictable performance can have a potential enormous impact in the biosensors industry in a number of applications from point-of-care, home diagnostics, research laboratory and environmental applications where the market for such sensors was $3,217.7M, $1,290.1M, $755.5M and $830.8M in 2009 and is expected to grow to $6,469.8M, $2,929M, $1,539.1M and $2,065.1M, respectively by 2016.
Download HYSENS Brochure here for an overview of the project.
For an overview of how the technology works, please see the animation below, also hosted on Cellix's YouTube channel:
Article citation: J. Mater. Chem. C, 2014, DOI: 10.1039/C3TC32409E
Title: Au Nanorod Plasmonic Superstructures Obtained by a Combined Droplet Evaporation and Stamping Method
Authors: Carola Schopf, Alfonso Martín, Mícheál Burke, Daniel Jones, Andrea Pescaglini, Alan O'Riordan, Aidan J. Quinn and Daniela Iacopino*


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I think getting divorced is done officially and it needs you to sign some paper. However, splitting up with somebody is not like this. You just live separately from someone (that you have been married to) without officially separating from him/her.
Are my definitions correct?


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Various factors meant that Jon and I did not get a much longed for holiday in the sun this year. The upside for me was that I had a few days holiday to use up so I myself onto a couple of embroidery workshops. Until a few weeks ago I had never heard of Hazel Everett. The first I heard about Hazel was a gushing review of her new book by Mary Corbett. Then a chance meeting with one of her students led me to an exhibition of her work and the fact that Hazel teaches a gold work class practically on my doorstep! I should have spent the holidays working on my beading but instead I signed up for two 2-day classes in November.
During the first class we worked on a poppy which is mostly done in chip work. The class is very friendly and informal. Many of the group have been attending for several years and already know quite a lot about gold work but Hazel has the knowledge and experience to guide both the novice and the more experienced at a pace that suited each individual. As you can see, I didn't get much done but I am a slow worker and gold work is a slow process. I don't find chip work overly difficult but it is time consuming cutting the very fine purl into chips and sewing on each chip individually.
At the second class I started a Christmas ornament. We had a choice of two designs, one based on holly leaves, the other on a poinsettia or working on a UFO. We were also given a free choice of how to edge and fill the leaves. This meant that several different designs were being worked in a number of different techniques but again Hazel coped easily with keeping us all working steadily. I worked fairly constantly during the class but of course did not manage to finish my ornament in the two days!
Both of these have been put aside while I concentrate on Floral Melody. I did put in slightly more time than last month but seemed to make less progress. I am not sure why that is. Up until now, I have been fairly confident that I could complete this by Christmas but now that there are only three weeks before my target, I am beginning to have doubts.
I have also continued to make slow progress with Chinese Flower. I am really pleased with how this is working out and am gaining confidence in this method of working LSS. I just wish that confidence would spill over into my Camellias!
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 162 diseños de 34 diseñadores freelance.
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Heidi Lowe Gallery is an innovative jewelry studio and gallery founded in 2005 by artist and gallery owner, Heidi Lowe. The gallery features handmade, contemporary jewelry by studio artists from around the world. This results in an eclectic blend of jewelry. The represented artists are investigating ideas within but not confined to the field of contemporary art, the body, and culture. The art work utilizes jewelry as either the subject or the format.
We exhibit six shows a year including two solo shows and four group shows. The gallery is constantly transformed through layout and display methods which are influenced by the works being shown. Each exhibition is treated as a piece of art work, every detail is carefully considered to convey the intention of the exhibition.
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One possible jumping off point could be the juxtaposition between the history of jewelry and the contemporary
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The citywide response from residents to the Be Smart, Use Your Cart automated residential recycling program has been overwhelmingly positive. Recycling participation in areas that have received their green 96-gallon recycling carts has more than doubled. This means that Tampa residents are recycling more than ever!
Because demand for recycling carts has been much higher than anticipated, cart distribution will be slightly delayed for some residents. All affected residents will be notified via mail and will receive a recycling cart once the next order of carts arrives.
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In response to the horrific murder of three Jewish children and a rabbi earlier this month at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, Eli Wiesel asked: "Will the hatred of the Jews ever finally vanish? Will Jewish children always be in danger?"
He observed: "When a blood-thirsty Jew-hater wants to kill Jews, he goes first to the Jewish schools. Jewish children are his primary target."
Yet speaking of the old, well-established and "dynamic" Jewish community of that city, Wiesel added: "In the streets, you can see Jews wearing yarmulkes. Nobody thinks of antisemitism. Spiritually, it is one of the richest Jewish communities in France."
Others, however, paint a somewhat different picture – describing Jews who are afraid to wear yarmulkes publicly.
Jean-Yves Camus of the Institute of International and Strategic Relations in France noted (in Ha'aretz on March 20) that "although the Toulouse killings are the most dramatic and deadly anti-Jewish action for decades, they are only the most shocking among the 400 antisemitic incidents that are recorded every year by the community's protection service, the SPCJ. Since the beginning of the second intifadah in 2000, the level of antisemitic attacks has been rising, with a peak of more than 900 in 2004. And regardless of the real efforts of the French government, police and justice authorities, the level of attacks remains much higher than in the 1990s."
The rise in antisemitism has been noted in a report by the Anti-Defamation League that was (coincidentally) released on March 20 and picked up by some major media outlets, including Reuters. According to the study, "pernicious antisemitic beliefs continue to be held [overall] by nearly one-third of those surveyed" – with levels up in nine of 10 European countries surveyed.
Nearly a quarter of French citizens hold antisemitic attitudes, an increase of 20 per cent since 2009. This compares with 63 per cent of Hungarians, 53 per cent of Spaniards, and 48 per cent of Poles. The lowest numbers in the study were found in Britain (17 per cent) and Germany (21 per cent). Indicators included whether respondents believe Jews have too much power in business, are more loyal to Israel than to their own country, or "talk too much" about the Holocaust.
"The survey is disturbing by the fact that antisemitism remains at high levels across the continent and infects many Europeans at a much higher level than we see here in the United States," warned Abraham Foxman of the ADL.
In the March 21 Globe and Mail, reporting from Toulouse, Doug Saunders observed that in response to threats from the far-right in France, the Jewish community had taken all sorts of security measures at the school, including security guards, iron gates, high walls and video surveillance. Sadly, no measure provides total protection against a determined killer.
Saunders is right to point out Jew-hatred from the radical right, which also directs hatred toward Muslim immigrants. But as the Toulouse murders demonstrate, Jew-hatred from Muslim extremists is also a serious concern.
Antisemitism is spread not just by the violent ideology at the core of Jihadi organizations such as Al Qaeda, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad, but also among elements in even "moderate" Muslim states like Turkey.
As the Times of Israel reported last week: "In an unprecedented move, a bipartisan U.S. commission tracking global religious freedom has recommended that the State Department name Turkey on its annual list of 'countries of particular concern.' It marks the first time a NATO ally has been designated as a nation whose government has engaged in, or tolerated, systematic and egregious violations of the universal right to freedom of religion and belief… The commission also calls out Turkey – along with Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Venezuela – for its promotion and tolerance of antisemitism."
As last week's events confirm, antisemitism can rear its ugly head in any society – from advanced democracies to theocratic dictatorships. The need for a Jewish national home in Israel, as a beacon of hope and a guarantor of security for Jews everywhere, is as real today as it was in 1948.
Paul Michaels is director of research and media relations for the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.
This column appears in the March 29 print issue of The CJN


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Title of work: "Railroad
Bill, A Conjure Man"
by Ishmael Reed
In "Railroad Bill, A Conjure Man," Ishmael Reed explores the changeable nature of a legendary figure. The poem, a non-traditional ballad, describes how Bill can change himself into different forms to escape entrapment: either entrapment in a specific time and place, or entrapment in a single identity.
"High John de Conquer" -- from Zora Neale Hurston's The Sanctified Church, a collection of essays on African American folklore, legend, and popular mythology -- is a literary interpretation of an African American folktale which celebrates a trickster figure. (Both Railroad Bill and High John are legendary characters who appear in numerous stories and poems.) In Hurston's work, as in Reed's poem, the trickster appears as a kind of spirit -- a "whisper" -- that inhabits a body and a community when the need arises. For Hurston, the trickster is the gleeful spirit of laughter and triumph, imported to African American culture directly from Africa. Through her celebration of High John and, in particular, of the way that High John's story brings hope and a spirit of rebellion to those in need, Hurston reflects on the revolutionary importance of folkloric tales and oral tradition.
When we went to school, we weren't taught about the lives of average people. I didn't read slave narratives until I graduated; I read them on my own. Didn't know such a thing existed where African Americans who were in bondage talked about their experiences. We were exposed to Jefferson and Lincoln, I mean our whole thing was a Mt. Rushmore type of education. And then in the 1960s, when the Black Consciousness Movement began, Black Cultural Revolution, which led to a multicultural revolution, which … the feminist revolution originates in the Civil Rights Movement. Then we began to study our origins and find that there were a lot of people, a lot of great people, who were produced by people who resembled us. And so Railroad Bill is one of these characters.
There are songs and ballads, poems about Railroad Bill before Reed writes his own. Sterling Brown is one of those people who precedes him. The question is why Reed gives us another Railroad Bill. He wants to take that legend and that figure and bring that figure into our present and into our prophesying the future. So that while the earlier forms, the songs and the Sterling Brown, were fairly consistent with traditional ballad structure, Reed goes on to play loose with, to jazz up, to improvise on, that structure, to pull the story then out of past into our present, into our future, so that you must always return to our traditional themes, our traditional characters, and re-adapt them for a new time, for a new place, for new aspirations. And one of the things that Reed likes about the whole African religious tradition is it is what he calls "syncretistic." It does not have an orthodoxy. It will take whatever comes over time and adjust itself to that. As opposed to resisting change, it absorbs change.
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What is the historical relevance of "Railroad Bill"?
The whole legend of Railroad Bill is, of course, built on a historical character, Morris Slater. Reed goes back to the story of Railroad Bill in order to talk about the present, within which he is writing, and to use his words to prophesy the future … We need to constantly return to our cultural past in order to know the present, in order to know the future. Who was Morris Slater? How did Railroad Bill emerge?
Morris Slater was working in the piney woods of Alabama … the turpentine camps. And these men were in what was literally peonage -- they could not leave. You can't leave when you're in debt, and they were constantly in debt, as were sharecroppers farming. Bill is a figure -- at that time, he's Morris Slater -- who goes into town with his gun. The sheriff says, "You've got to give me your gun, you can't carry your gun here." Bill refuses to surrender the gun, and he outdraws the sheriff -- he kills the sheriff, and he then takes off for the piney woods, hiding in those woods. They sent a deputy after him. Bill outdraws and kills the deputy.
Then he adopts the name Railroad Bill while he's hiding in the piney woods. He becomes Railroad Bill because he breaks into boxcars, steals the contents of the boxcars, and sells them at very low prices to the poor blacks of the area. And so Morris Slater is now Railroad Bill. Needless to say, the [new] sheriff does come after him, and again he is killed. But Bill is trapped finally and shot to death at a crossroads country store. The funeral is huge. But the ballad, the song that grows up about his life and his exploits, begins to spread all throughout the South. And Bill physically dies, but he becomes "Bill, A Legend": He lives on forever. And Reed is trying to show us how much he is relevant to our present and future, not how interesting he is as a part of a past.
Where do you position Ishmael Reed within the African American literary tradition?
In reading "Railroad Bill," we need to be aware how much Ishmael Reed works within a major tradition in African American literature, and that tradition is a tradition which turns to music as the source for its references, not to other poetry. So Reed is following a tradition that has been clearly marked before him by Langston Hughes, in 1926, in his essay "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain." Hughes talks about the importance for poetry, the importance of jazz as a source.
There are movements, cultural movements, that are important to the study of literature, music, art -- and there are two that I think that are central to understanding what African American writers are attempting to do as artists.
One of the things [Hughes' essay] returns to is African-based music, literature … and religion as its sources. But we get a second major contribution, this one edited by Addison Gayle Jr., and its title is The Black Aesthetic. We sometimes refer to it as the "second renaissance," because it takes another direction.
What ties the two together is the presence in both of Langston Hughes: His 1926 essay is found in The Black Aesthetic because those artists see Hughes as, in the '20s, beginning the project; they are bringing it to flower. So their attitude toward language, toward subject matter, toward music, and certainly toward politics and religion is going to differ from that of the earlier group. And we need to pay some attention to these movements, because they will shape the way artists do and do not work, and it is no accident that we find Ishmael Reed in The Black Aesthetic.
What is the role of satire in Ishmael Reed's work?
Satire is at the very heart of most of Reed's writing, if we keep in mind that satire, at its most vicious, is very moral. Satire is a tool of the moralist who wants to fight immorality and wrong. Reed makes fun of the powers that be. He speaks from the position of the outsider, the marginalized. He brings into the center that culture which has been erased, ignored, or mocked, and he changes the joke. He reverses the mockery, and suddenly, we find the indignity of what had considered itself very dignified. He is, at heart, a satirist.
When you read "Railroad Bill," you notice in the very beginning of the poem [that] you are reading Reed telling you that Railroad Bill, the trickster, the bad man, is a shape changer. He takes many forms. We look, in the beginning of the poem, at forms he may have taken in the past, forms he's taken in the present. At the end, we see a form he takes in the future: He becomes that editor at the studio who is editing that film, erasing, or at least distorting, black history. And this editor gets in there and re-edits that film. He pulls what Reed calls a "demystification act." We take their history and distort it, change it, so that there's a space for our own.
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African and African American Tricksters
African trickster figures are both folkloric and mythic. Mythic tricksters such as Esu-Elegbara facilitate communication between people and the Orishá (spirits). These mythic figures can also create problems. For example, if Esu-Elegbara is not appeased through proper ceremony, he can cause chaos by garbling communication. African American trickster figures, on the other hand, are most often folkloric and are generally concerned with maintaining community by subverting immoral social structures.
A traditional ballad consists of quatrains written with a standard rhyme scheme: ABCB. It can contain any number of quatrains, but it often repeats one of these stanzas (the chorus) throughout the poem. The ballad often carries with it a whiff of folklore; rhythmically and sonically, it can feel like a nursery rhyme.
Reed describes Hoodoo as the American practice of Voodoo, the traditional West African religion. Hoodoo relies on language and incantation to promote change and draw communities together.
Morris Slater
The character of Railroad Bill is a mythic version of Morris Slater, a man who robbed the railroads in order to feed poor Blacks. Like the trickster figure of African folktales, Slater or Bill effects justice by doing morally questionable things.
The term "gris-gris" comes from the French gris, meaning gray; gris-gris is a blend of white and black magic. In particular, it refers to a small leather sack filled with herbs and natural matter that one wears around the neck to bring good luck or to keep away bad luck. But these days, it can also simply mean magic or "mojo."
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Suggestions for applying other theories to "Railroad Bill, A Conjure Man"
Teaching "Railroad Bill, A Conjure Man" from a cultural studies perspective involves a variety of activities to get students reading intertextually and thinking critically. Teachers can also explore Reed's poem through a reader response approach. Using reader-response pedagogies will allow students to explore their personal feelings and their reactions to the text. For example, the teacher could read the poem with students using a think-aloud approach. In this activity, the teacher reads the poem aloud with students once, then has students read it aloud together in groups or in pairs, stopping at regular intervals to articulate what they are thinking about when they reach designated points in the text. Students can also write down their thoughts and then use the information for discussion in pairs, groups, or with the whole class. The idea is for students to read the poem and respond honestly and sincerely. Later, teachers can employ various activities to help students develop their personal responses for critical and creative thinking.
Students can also benefit by performing an inquiry into aspects of the poem that they find interesting or especially troubling. An inquiry can extend the reader's understanding of the content of the poem by allowing deeper exploration of ideas on a personal level. For example, Reed references specific names of people and places, historic events and activities in "Railroad Bill." Students can pick from these as they read and do preliminary research, form specific questions that will guide further research, and then report back to the class on what they have found about their chosen topic. Teachers should make a mental note when students ask about ideas, pronunciations, names, etc., in the poem during general discussion. In this way, when students need assistance coming up with ideas for their inquiry, the teacher can offer suggestions gathered from the students rather than handing out preconceived topics.
Students should feel free to apply the word "research" broadly, as inquiry is not limited to the traditional forms of library study. For example, a student might "read" a photograph or work of art related to the topic of inquiry and make notes on his or her speculations and growing understanding. Students can assemble archives and reflections from their inquiry in digital or paper portfolios. The teacher can assemble all of the material and make it available for the class to review to build a broad knowledge about the poem.
A critical exploration of Reed's poem will require students to see and understand the specific and the general political commentary Reed is offering for consideration. In this case, teachers can assign specific activities or allow ideas to be generated from the classroom. The end product should be an effort to address a current issue, related to Reed's poem, that somehow affects the students' lives. Reed's commentary on the media's portrayal of African American males and African Americans generally is one possible issue to consider. Students can record and analyze how various media portray African Americans or some other marginalized community, then decide as a class how to express their concern over the issue. For example, they might create a critical viewing guide for younger students, the PTA, or their school. Reed also takes up the issue of racial profiling in the poem. In this instance students might examine racial profiling within their school by interviewing students, parents, and administrators, and examining whatever public records exist on disciplinary actions taken at the school. Findings can be analyzed and reported in the school newspaper, to the PTA, to the school board, etc.
In all of these activities, traditional and progressive reading and writing activities should apply. Students should be required to produce or participate in some reading, writing, and speaking activities and assignments. However, these activities should be related to the literature and offer personal, investigative, and political elements.
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Vaccinium vitis-idaea is called cowberry in the United States, United Kingdom and Ireland and lingonberry in North America. The name cowberry is derived from the scientific name Vaccinium, which comes from vaccinus, an adjective from Latin vacca "cow".
The name lingonberry originates from the Swedish name lingon for the species. Other names include csejka berry, foxberry, quailberry, mountain cranberry, red whortleberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain bilberry, partridgeberry (in Newfoundland and Cape Breton), and redberry (in Labrador). Because the names mountain cranberry and lowbush cranberry perpetuate the longstanding confusion between the cranberry and the lingonberry, some botanists have suggested that these names should be avoided.
Vaccinium vitis-idaea spreads by underground stems to form dense clonal colonies. Slender and brittle roots grow from the underground stems. The stems are rounded in cross-section and grow from 10 to 40 cm (4 to 16 in) in height. Leaves grow alternately and are oval, 5–30 mm (0.2–1.2 in) long, with a slightly wavy margin, and sometimes with a notched tip. The flowers are bell-shaped, white to pale pink, 3–8 mm (0.1–0.3 in) long, and produced in the early summer. The fruit is a red berry 6–10 mm (0.2–0.4 in) across, with an acidic taste, ripening in late summer to autumn.
Vaccinium vitis-idaea keeps its leaves all winter even in the coldest years, unusual for a broad-leaved plant, though in its natural habitat it is usually protected from severe cold by snow cover. It is extremely hardy, tolerating as low as -40 °C (-40 °F) or lower, but grows poorly where summers are hot. It prefers some shade (as from a forest canopy) and constantly moist, acidic soil. Nutrient-poor soils are tolerated but not alkaline soils.
- Vaccinium vitis-idaea var. minus
- There are two regional varieties or subspecies of Vaccinium vitis-idaea, one in Eurasia and one in North America, differing in leaf size:
- Vaccinium vitis-idaea var. vitis-idaea L. — syn. Vaccinium vitis-idaea subsp. vitis-idaea.
- Cowberry. Eurasia. Leaves 10–30 mm (0.4–1.2 in) long.
- Vaccinium vitis-idaea var. minus Lodd. — syn. Vaccinium vitis-idaea subsp. minus (Lodd.) Hultén.
- Lingonberry. North America. Leaves 5–18 mm (0.2–0.7 in) long.
The berries collected in the wild are a popular fruit in northern, central and eastern Europe, notably in Nordic countries, the Baltic states, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine. In some areas they can legally be picked on both public and private lands in accordance with the freedom to roam.
The berries are quite tart, so they are often cooked and sweetened before eating in the form of lingonberry jam, compote, juice, smoothie or syrup. The raw fruit are also frequently simply mashed with sugar, which preserves most of their nutrients and taste. This mix can be stored at room temperature in closed but not necessarily sealed containers, but in this condition, they are best preserved frozen. Fruit served this way or as compote often accompany game meats and liver dishes. In Sweden and Norway, reindeer and elk steak is traditionally served with gravy and lingonberry sauce. Preserved fruit is commonly eaten with meatballs and potatoes in Sweden and Norway, and also with pork. In Sweden and Russia, when sugar was still a luxury item, the berries were usually preserved simply by putting them whole into bottles of water.
This was known as vattlingon (watered lingonberries); the procedure preserved them until next season. This was also a home remedy against scurvy. In Russia this preserve had been known as "lingonberry water" and is a traditional soft drink. In Russian folk medicine, lingonberry water was used as a mild laxative.
A traditional Finnish dish is sautéed reindeer (poronkäristys) with mashed potatoes and lingonberries, either cooked or raw with sugar. In Finland, a porridge made from the fruit is also popular. In Poland, the berries are often mixed with pears to create a sauce served with poultry or game. The berries can also be used to replace red currants when creating Cumberland sauce to give it a more sophisticated taste.
Lingonberries are also popular as a wild picked fruit in Canada in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, where they are locally known as partridgeberries. In this region they are also incorporated into jams, syrups, and baked goods.
Lingonberries are a staple item in Sweden, and at the Swedish retailer IKEA. It is often sold as jam and juice in the store and as a key ingredient in dishes. They are used to make Lillehammer berry liqueur, and in East European countries, lingonberry vodka is sold.
The berries are an important food for bears and foxes, and many fruit-eating birds. Caterpillars of the Coleophoridae case-bearer moths Coleophora glitzella, Coleophora idaeella and Coleophora vitisella are obligate feeders on Vaccinium vitis-idaea leaves.
Nutritional properties
The berries contain plentiful organic acids, vitamin C, provitamin A (as beta carotene), B vitamins (B1, B2, B3), and the elements potassium, calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus. In addition to these nutrients, they also contain phytochemicals that are thought to counteract urinary-tract infections, and the seeds are rich in omega-3 fatty acids.
In folk medicine, V. vitis-idaea has been used as an apéritif, astringent, antihemorrhagic, anti-debilitive, depurative, disinfectant/antiseptic (especially for the urethra), a diuretic, a tonic for the nervous system, and in various ways to treat breast cancer, diabetes mellitus, rheumatism, and various urogenital conditions.
Related species
Vaccinium vitis-idaea differs from the similar cranberries (Vaccinium oxycoccus, V. microcarpum and V. macrocarpon) in having white flowers with petals partially enclosing the stamens and stigma, rather than pink flowers with petals reflexed backwards, and rounder, less pear-shaped berries. Other species of the genus Vaccinium include blueberries, bilberries, and huckleberries. Hybrids between Vaccinium viti


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