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FY07 Access to Artistic Excellence (part 1)
Albany Symphony Orchestra, Albany, NY, $25,000
To support the 2008 American Music Festival, Embracing the World. The festival will be the culmination of a season-long focus on music from, about, and influenced by cultures outside the western European tradition and will include performances of existing and commissioned works in concert halls, community centers, and area schools.
American Composers Orchestra, $40,000
To support the Emerging Composers Laboratory. Through commissions, readings, performances, and recordings of new work, 12 to 15 composers will have the opportunity to further their artistic development and to expose their music to new audiences.
American Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support the presentation of U.S. premieres, rarely performed works by established composers, and related educational activities. Plans are underway to program works by composers Harold Farberman, Alberic Magnard, Franz Schrecker, and Moisei Vainberg.
Aspen Music Festival and School, $25,000
To support the Aspen Music Festival's American Academy of Conducting. The summer institute for post-conservatory conductors will engage participants in a comprehensive, professional development training program.
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (consortium), $50,000
To support A King Celebration, a project that celebrates the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. A collaboration between the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Morehouse College, the project will include performances, educational outreach activities, and a national radio broadcast.
Bangor Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support the premiere of a work for orchestra, banjo, guitar, and bass guitar. The performance of Jens Krüger's Music From the Spring: A Serenade for Orchestra and Traditional American Instruments, will feature the Krüger Brothers, a bluegrass band based in North Carolina.
Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, $20,000
To support Pushing the Boundaries of the Cello. Two concerts and related educational activities will explore the multi-faceted range of the instrument with a series of world premiere performances of cello concertos composed by Tod Machover, David Sanford, and Annie Gosfield and performed by cellists Matt Haimovitz and Felix Fan.
Boston Symphony Orchestra, $40,000
To support the Festival of Contemporary Music at the Tanglewood Music Center. The week-long concert series, directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Harbison, will feature performances of new music performed by pre-professional musicians and guest artists.
Brooklyn Philharmonic, $25,000
To support performance of new works by composers Richard Danielpour and Julia Wolfe. Danielpour's Pastime and Wolfe's My Beautiful Scream will receive New York premieres at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Brooklyn Philharmonic (consortium), $25,000
To support Music Off the Walls, a series of thematic chamber music concerts to be performed in conjunction with the Brooklyn Museum of Art's current exhibitions. The four programs seek to attract new audiences to the orchestra.
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, $12,500
To support performances and residencies by American composers. Performances of works by David Felder, John Harbison, and Roger Reynolds will take place during the June in Buffalo new music festival and in Kleinhans Music Hall.
The California Symphony, $10,000
To support the Young American Composer-in-Residence Program. The year-long residency with an emerging composer will include recorded reading sessions, high school visits, and the creation and presentation of a new work.
Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, $10,000
To support the creation and performance of a new work by Terry Riley. The work will be scored for string orchestra, two guitars, and violin and will be conducted by Music Director Ignat Solzhenitsyn.
Cheyenne Symphony, $5,000
To support a gala choral concert. Performing under the direction of conductor and artistic director Dr. Stephen Alltop, a mass choir will be composed of local singers as well as those from statewide college-student choirs and a children's choir.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, $75,000
To support Silk Road Chicago. The citywide celebration of the ancient and contemporary arts and culture of the regions of the historic Silk Road of China will involve multiple community partners and include performances, educational activities, and a residency with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble.
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, $25,000
To support Living Composers and Their Music: A Multi-Generational Perspective. Performances of works by John Adams, John Harbison, Stephen Paulus, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Erkki-Sven Tüür are planned as well as a world premiere of Deep Woods, a new work by composer Charles Coleman.
Civic Orchestra of Chicago, $40,000
To support stipends and professional training for pre-professional musicians of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Performances and audition coaching will take place under the direction of resident and guest conductors.
The Cleveland Orchestra, $50,000
To support Evocations of Vienna, an exploration of the works of composer Richard Strauss and Johann Strauss II. The project will include concert performances by the Cleveland Orchestra of Richard Strauss's opera Der Rosenkavalier, Johann Strauss's polkas and waltzes, and related educational activities.
Colorado Symphony Orchestra, $12,500
To support performances of new American works featuring percussionist Evelyn Glennie. Two subscription concerts of music by Jennifer Higdon, Michael Daugherty, Mack Wilberg, William Billings, and William Schuman and a family concert with discussion and musical illustrations lead by music director Jeffrey Kahane and Glennie are planned.
Columbus Symphony Orchestra (consortium), $15,000
To support the Contemporary Music Festival. The six-day festival of new music, in partnership with Ohio State University (OSU), will feature the works of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Gunther Schuller and will be broadcast on local radio.
Dallas Symphony Orchestra, $22,500
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by composer Augusta Read Thomas. Sir Andrew Davis will conduct the premiere at the Meyerson Symphony Center.
Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, $10,000
To support the Made in America Festival. Orchestral and chamber music performances of works by American composers, including a commissioned work by local composer Steven Winteregg, will take place during the festival.
Elgin Symphony Orchestra, $15,000
To support Aaron Copland: American Icon. The month-long festival will be the final installment of a three-year initiative, Exploring Our American Voices, tracing the development of American themes in music through its presentation of concerts, interdisciplinary community events, and education programs.
Eugene Symphony, $7,500
To support the Visiting Masters Program. Free, public master classes and workshops by flutist Sir James Galway, conductor Victor Yampolsky, cellist Alisa Weilerstein, and violinists Shannon Lee and Kathryn Lucktenberg will take place for aspiring professional musicians.
The Florida Orchestra, $12,500
To support The Festival de Musica Latina. The project will consist of six concerts of diverse programming that will feature Latin jazz along with classical masterworks by Latino composers and related educational activities.
Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support Fresh Ink 2008: Florida Composers' Competition. The biennial competition will include open rehearsal reading sessions, performances by finalists, and a commission.
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, $22,500
To support concerts featuring emerging artists and related educational activities. British conductor Edward Gardner and Los Angeles violinist Lindsay Deutsch each will be featured in two repeated programs, including outreach to local elementary students.
Los Angeles Philharmonic, $100,000
To support the Tristan Project. Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde will be presented in a semi-staged concert production in Los Angeles and New York City. There will be two concerts designed for families, as well as pre-concert lectures as part of the Upbeat Live lecture series.
Monterey Symphony, $10,000
To support concert programs featuring works by Beethoven, contemporaries Marques y Garcia, Prokofiev, and Tchaikovsky. Performances will be held in Salinas and Carmel and will reach approximately 4,000 people.
National Symphony Orchestra, $35,000
To support an audience engagement initiative designed to foster understanding of and participation in the performing arts by generations of orchestral audiences. The orchestra will perform concerts designed for sequential age groups from toddlers to young adults and families.
New World Symphony, $50,000
To support the Musician Professional Development Program. Under the artistic direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, the program will utilize performances, coaching, and community outreach activities to prepare young artists for musical leadership positions in the orchestral field.
New York Philharmonic, $75,000
To support Transformations: The Music of Luciano Berio. The four-week festival, presented by the New York Philharmonic at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, will be a retrospective of the composer's symphonic repertoire.
Oakland East Bay Symphony, $15,000
To support premiere performances of new works by American composers. The project will include works by Nolan Gasser, Pierre Jalbert, Andrew Norman, and Argentine-born Osvaldo Golijov. The composers also will participate in pre-concert lectures.
Orange County's Pacific Symphony, $45,000
To support the Los Sonidos de Mexico (Sounds of Mexico) Festival. The orchestra will explore works by Mexican composers through performances and educational presentations, and will premiere a commissioned work for percussion by Mexican composer Daniel Catan.
Orchestra 2001, $10,000
To support the performance of composer George Crumb's American Songbook. A three-day celebration of the work will be conducted by music director James Freeman at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.
Orchestra of St. Luke's, $20,000
To support a festival featuring music by American women composers of the 20th and 21st centuries, such as Amy Beach and Chen Yi. Concerts will be held at the Chelsea Museum in New York City and the Dia: Beacon Riggio Galleries in Beacon, New York.
Oregon Symphony, $22,500
To support the world premiere of Symphony No. 13, a newly commissioned work by Oregon composer Robert Kyr. Performances will be held at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland and recorded for subsequent radio broadcasts.
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, $20,000
To support a new music initiative and related educational activities. The project will include a commission to composer Ingram Marshall, performances, touring to Virginia and South Carolina, and broadcasts.
The Philadelphia Orchestra, $75,000
To support Philadelphia Firsts, the orchestra's first performances of works by composers John Harbison, Oliver Knussen, John Adams, Hans Rott, and Olivier Messiaen. The concerts will be performed at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, $12,500
To support performances of a semi-staged concert version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera in two acts, Il re pastore (1775). Under the direction of music director Nicholas McGegan, the performances on period instruments will highlight one of Mozart's early and rarely performed works.
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, $50,000
To support the Composer of the Year residency activities with composer Christopher Theofanidis. The project will include a commission and performance of his violin concerto, premiered by violinist Sarah Chang.
Portland Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support an artist residency with the Le Vent du Nord quartet. The orchestra and the French-Canadian ensemble will perform orchestral arrangements of French folk music.
Pottstown Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support a commissioned work by composer Robert Maggio, a premiere performance, and educational activities. Maggio's work will be paired in concert with the U.S. premiere of Dutch composer Jan Koetsier's Concertino per corno e orchestra d'Archi (No. 5, Op. 74), performed by Dutch horn soloist Ab Koster.
Rogue Valley Symphony, $10,000
To support artist residencies. Violinist Ian Swenson and pianist Joyce Yang will participate in workshops, master classes, and performances with the orchestra.
Sacramento Philharmonic, $10,000
To support an all-Beethoven concert in celebration of the orchestra's 10th anniversary season. Under the artistic direction of Michael Morgan, the performance will feature Chinese pianist Chu-Fang Huang, preceded by a week of school outreach visits.
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, $50,000
To support the Living Composers Project. The orchestra will perform new works by Elliott Carter, Osvaldo Golijov, and David Lang, as well as two commissioned works by George Tsontakis and composer-in-residence Fred Lerdahl. More than 9,900 audience members are expected to attend the 10 concerts, which also will be broadcast on local radio.
San Antonio Symphony, $15,000
To support The Cutting Edge, performances of music by living American composers Chen Yi, Osvaldo Golijov, and Timothy Kramer. The concerts will be held in San Antonio's Majestic Theatre and will be accompanied by community outreach activities at local schools, universities, and public venues.
San Francisco Symphony, $100,000
To support A Prokofiev Festival. The two-week series of performances and educational activities will explore the work of Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, including The Love for Three Oranges, The Scythian Suite, and Piano Concerto No. 2. The festival will be broadcast on 300 local and national radio stations.
Santa Rosa Symphony, $10,000
To support the Early Romantics Festival. The project will feature the chamber music of Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, and Lizst performed by the Santa Rosa Symphony Chamber Players, and will culminate with an orchestral concert which will be broadcast on local radio.
Stockton Symphony, $10,000
To support a composer residency program with Christopher Brubeck. The residency will include a commission and premiere of a new work, community outreach, and performances in the California communities of Stockton, Tracy, Manteca, and Calaveras County.
Virginia Symphony Orchestra, $20,000
To support a community engagement residency program. The orchestra will perform concerts in conjunction with Jamestown 2007, a national celebration of the 400th birthday of the Jamestown settlement.
Walla Walla Symphony, $10,000
To support Soundscapes, a concert celebrating the orchestra's 100th season. The program will include the world premiere of a commissioned work by composer Forrest Pierce.
Youth Orchestra of the Americas, $10,000
To support tour concerts. Four concerts will take place at festivals in Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Virginia. Founded in 2000, the multicultural orchestra comprises 110 musicians (ages 18 to 26) from 20 countries in the Western Hemisphere.
American Composers Forum (consortium), $25,000
To support "Minnesota Voices," in celebration of Minnesota's sesquicentennial. Minnesota Chorale and five other choirs from around the state will commission and perform new works by six composers. More than 10,000 people will attend the performances, which also will be broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
American Music Center, $25,000
To support the Virtual Information Center for new American music through the NewMusicBox.org and NewMusicJukeBox.org Web sites. NewMusicBox is a monthly Web magazine about artists and issues in the new music community, and NewMusicJukeBox is a searchable, encyclopedic database of contemporary American composers.
American Symphony Orchestra League, $135,000
To support services designed to strengthen orchestras through peer learning, professional development, research, and communications within the orchestra field. The project will assist nearly 1,000 member orchestras of every size and type in all 50 states.
Association of California Symphony Orchestras, $25,000
To support professional and leadership development and technical assistance programs for California orchestras. Plans include an annual statewide conference and workshops for artistic and administrative staff, trustees, and volunteers from more than 150 orchestras.
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, $12,500
To support a professional development program for conductors. The training program will offer emerging conductors the opportunity to lead small and large ensembles in rehearsals and public performances, to program contemporary works, and collaborate with composers.
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music (consortium), $22,500
To support the co-commissioning of an orchestra concerto by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Christopher Rouse. Both the festival orchestra and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will perform the work under the direction of music director Marin Alsop.
Carnegie Hall, $100,000
To support a new initiative called The Orchestra Residency. The Berlin Philharmonic will work with the National Youth Orchestra of Venezuela and the New York Youth Symphony during an eight-day residency of concerts, master classes, community outreach activities, and joint coaching and rehearsal sessions.
Meet The Composer, $50,000
To support Commissioning Music/USA. The program supports the creation and multiple performances of new American music works. The program will result in approximately 30 to 50 new works through partnering composers and participating chamber and symphony orchestras; opera, dance, and music theater companies, and jazz and chamber ensembles nationwide.
Ojai Music Festival, $18,000
To support the Ojai Music Festival. The 61st annual music festival, directed by artistic director Thomas W. Morris and pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, will present the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale with guest conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, duo pianists Amy Williams and Helena Bugallo, and percussion ensemble Nexus.
Pacific Chorale, $10,000
To support the closing concert of the chorale's inaugural year in the new Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. The Pacific Chorale and Pacific Symphony, under the artistic direction of John Alexander, will perform Osvaldo Golijov's Oceana and Ralph Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. 1 (A Sea Symphony).
Sphinx Organization, $55,000
To support the artistic development of the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra. The ensemble of professional African American and Latino musicians from orchestras and institutions around the country will perform concerts in Ann Arbor and at Orchestra Hall in Detroit, and feature talented, young soloists in each of the concerts.
Young Concert Artists, $25,000
To support the Young Concert Artists Series. The professional development program of recitals and concerto debuts in New York City and Washington, DC, will include the commissioning of a new work by a young composer and provide career management for emerging classical performers and composers.


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I love it when some details are highlighted, like those plastic switch plate covers! I know, most switch plate covers are plain white. In my house, anyway. But seeing something that's not usual (like ones that are lavishly decorated) really brings a smile to my face. A house furniture that's also uniquely designed warms my heart...but of course it has to be comfortable and functional, too. No sense in having a uniquely designed furniture that's of no use! lol.
I know, am dreaming again. But it's good to be airing out what your dreams are, every once in a while, right? <3
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- Pinoy Kitchenette at: Wed Dec 14, 07:59:00 PM GMT+8 said...
Hi Maiylah! ilove that header picture of yours and that quote. lovely! and sentimental :)
i admire how you capture photos.
- maiylah at: Thu Dec 15, 09:59:00 AM GMT+8 said...
awwww, that's so sweet of you!
thank you much!!! <3
- maiylah at: Thu Dec 15, 01:35:00 PM GMT+8 said...
...oh, can't visit you back! it says blogger profile not available. :(
...will try writing your url on the browser...maybe i can visit you back that way. :)
- c5 @ Cinco Online at: Thu Dec 15, 01:40:00 PM GMT+8 said...
No one can stop you from dreaming. You have to wake up, though, to make that a reality. :D
- maiylah at: Thu Dec 15, 05:23:00 PM GMT+8 said...
thanks, c5
...hahaha, yes, i should! :D
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It's been 17 years since Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos eloped in Las Vegas — and the former soap opera stars are more in love than ever. On Wednesday, May 1, Ripa tweeted that "17 years feels like 17 days," while Consuelos called his wife "my boo."
Later that morning on LIVE With Kelly and Michael, the 42-year-old talk show host talked about the significance of her wedding anniversary — and laughed about May 1 also being National Lei Day. "I have to bring this home and lei Mark because today is our wedding anniversary," Ripa quipped. "It's only fair that he should also get lei'd."
Ripa added that marriage "goes so fast," especially when children are involved. (The pair are parents to Michael, 15, Lola, 11, and Joaquin, 10.)
"I'm sure it must feel like 200 years for him, but for me, it feels like minutes. It feels like I've blinked my eyes and we've been married for 17 years. Really crazy," Ripa said. Holding her extra lei, she added, "I hope that's a good enough present because this is all I've got!"
The spouses had no intention of going over-the-top to fete the occasion, Ripa added. "We'll give each other a nice card and we'll have a nice dinner, but we don't really [celebrate] unless it's a big milestone where we go all out for the big presents and stuff," she explained.
After all these years, 42-year-old Consuelos still has trouble reading his wife's mind. "He will still order me shrimp in a restaurant if I'm meeting him there," Ripa laughed of the Alpha House actor. "I don't eat shrimp! I always introduce myself: 'Hi, I'm your wife! We've been married for many years.'"
Later in the day, Ripa tweeted a picture from their 1996 wedding ceremony. "OMG," she wrote in the caption. "Here it is."
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Statement for the Record
Senate Subcommittee on Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations
Eric D. Green, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, National Human Genome Research Institute
I am pleased to present the Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 President's Budget request for the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). The fiscal year (FY) 2014 budget of $517,319,000 includes an increase of $5,061,000 above the comparable FY 2012 level of $512,258,000.
This year, we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the completion of the Human Genome Project (HGP). An ambitious scientific endeavor likened to biology's 'moon shot,' HGP catalyzed profound changes for many areas of biomedical research and beyond. To provide a perspective about these changes, it is illustrative to compare the 'state-of-the-art' at the beginning of HGP in 1990, at its completion in 2003, and now. To place these three time points in a cultural context, in 1990 Americans communicated by phone and fax; in 2003 it was email; and in 2013 it is the tweet.
Just as technology development has transformed routine communications (from the phone call to the tweet), it has been the cornerstone of the federal investment in genomics. During the HGP, it took 6-8 years of active sequencing and ~$1 billion to generate that first sequence of the human genome. In 2003, that same feat would have required 3-4 months and $10-50 million. Today, a human genome can be sequenced in ~1-2 days for a mere $3-5 thousand. As the time and cost have plummeted, the power of genomic strategies to advance research and the volume of generated genomic data have increased profoundly.
Why is this massive increase in capacity for data generation important? This extraordinary increase in data generation allows us to understand genome structure and function and through this knowledge to learn how genomes contribute to health and disease. For example, in 1990, we knew of ~50 genes that, when mutated, caused a human disease; in 2003 that number was almost 1,500; and today, it is nearly 3,000. Further, knowledge about the genomic basis for our responses to medications-an area of science called pharmacogenomics-has also grown steadily. In 1990, only four Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drugs required labels that pointed out the relevance of a patient's genetic makeup for that medication; by 2003, this number had increased to 46; and today, it stands at 106. In fact, genomic contributions to medical research have been so substantial that fully half of the top ten '2012 medical breakthroughs' identified by Time 1 reflected genomics accomplishments, and these were in large part supported and/or facilitated by NHGRI's research programs.
Although extraordinary progress has occurred over the past decade, much remains to be learned about the genome's role in biology and disease, and how to translate that knowledge to improve health outcomes. At the conclusion of HGP, we were but at the beginning of an exciting, but long journey to learn how to apply genomic information to improve health.
A major challenge for genomics research is the handling, analysis, and interpretation of the large volumes of genomic data now routinely generated. Solving this will require innovative infrastructure and novel methodologies. In FY 2014, NHGRI will support pioneering bioinformatics research across its research portfolio, from the use of cloud computing for efforts such as the 1000 Genomes Project to the development of novel clinical bioinformatics tools by the Clinical Sequencing Exploratory Research (CSER) program and the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network, two flagship programs intended to study how to utilize an individual's genomic information in different clinical settings. Additionally, the Institute will provide key leadership within NIH for the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative.
Consistent with NHGRI's 2011 strategic plan, the Institute's portfolio spans a continuum from basic research to study genomic structure and function, to translational research to discover the genomic basis for disease, through efforts to use genomics to increase the effectiveness of healthcare. The ENCyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, a key effort to identify the 'functional parts' within the human genome, published a landmark series of papers in 2012 reporting a catalog of functional elements within the human genome. The ENCODE catalog is like a GPS map for the human genome - just as by zooming in on a GPS map of the United States (to find the location of points of interests like banks and gas stations), the ENCODE catalog is now routinely used by researchers worldwide to zoom in on regions of interest in the human genome that are important for their studies. In FY 2014, NHGRI will begin to add another layer of knowledge to this map with the launch of the Genomics of Gene Regulation (GGR) initiative. GGR will fund research to decipher how genes are regulated and to understand how gene regulation affects the function of cells and tissues, human development, and disease.
In FY 2014, NHGRI also will continue advancing the discovery of the genomic bases of disease. For example, the search for genes that play a role in rare diseases will be accelerated through the work of NHGRI's Centers for Mendelian Genomics, as well as an extramural expansion of the highly successful NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Program. Through research programs such as the Large-Scale Genome Sequencing and Analysis Centers, the genomic underpinnings of common complex diseases, such as cancer, diabetes, autism, and Alzheimer's disease, will remain a focus within NHGRI's portfolio as well.
With the increasing accessibility of genomic technologies, the utility of genomics is already being demonstrated in clinical areas such as pharmacogenomics, non-invasive prenatal testing, infectious disease diagnostics, and cancer. The largest class of drugs now with FDA-required pharmacogenomic information to guide use on their labels includes those used for the treatment of cancer. Further, genome sequencing to identify mutations in a tumor's DNA sequence is now commonplace in the research setting and beginning to be seen in the clinical setting. Current examples of genomics informing care include the widespread use of BRCA testing in patients with familial risk factors for breast and ovarian cancer, the use of testing to predict breast cancer recurrence, and the use of genomic diagnostic tests to determine the suitability of particular treatments such as trastuzumab (Herceptin®) use in breast cancer, vemurafenib (Zelboraf®) use in melanoma, or crizotinib (Xalkori®) use in lung cancer.
In FY 2014, NHGRI also will continue extending its portfolio to investigate the methods and evidence needed to integrate genomics as a standard component of clinical care. Both existing (e.g., CSER program) and new (e.g., Genomic Medicine Pilot Demonstration projects and the Genomic Sequencing and Newborn Screening Disorders program) initiatives will be carried out by integrated research teams that include clinicians, scientists, and bioethicists. These multi-disciplinary groups will examine the medical as well as the ethical, social, and legal issues involved with making genomic data an essential, broadly accessible and broadly desirable element to inform clinical care. In FY 2014, the Institute will continue supporting research pertaining to the pursuit of genomic research and the realization of genomic medicine, including protecting research participant privacy, determining when to return individual results, and how to handle unanticipated, but clinically important, 'incidental findings'.
Through these and other programs, NHGRI will continue to lead the field of genomics in an effort to benefit the broad biomedical research enterprise and to realize the goal of advancing human health through genomics research.
Eric D. Green, M.D., Ph.D. is the Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a position he has held since late 2009. NHGRI is the largest organization in the world solely dedicated to genomics research. Previously, he served as the NHGRI Scientific Director (2002-2009), Chief of the NHGRI Genome Technology Branch (1996-2009), and Director of the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (1997-2009).
Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Green received his B.S. degree in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1981, and his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Washington University in 1987. During residency training in clinical pathology (laboratory medicine), he worked in the laboratory of Dr. Maynard Olson, where he launched his career in genomics research. In 1992, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Pathology and Genetics as well as a Co-Investigator in the Human Genome Center at Washington University. In 1994, he joined the newly established Intramural Research Program of the National Center for Human Genome Research, later renamed the National Human Genome Research Institute.
Honors given to Dr. Green include a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (1989-1990), a Lucille P. Markey Scholar Award in Biomedical Science (1990-1994), induction into the American Society for Clinical Investigation (2002), the Lillian M. Gilbreth Lectureship for Young Engineers at the National Academy of Engineering (2001), an Alumni Achievement Award from Washington University School of Medicine (2005), induction into the Association of American Physicians (in 2007), a Distinguished Alumni Award from Washington University (2010), the Cotlove Lectureship Award from the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists (2011), and the Wallace H. Coulter Lectureship Award from the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (2012). He is a Founding Editor of the journal Genome Research (1995-present) and a Series Editor of Genome Analysis: A Laboratory Manual (1994-1998), both published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. He is also Co-Editor of Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics (since 2005). Dr. Green has authored and co-authored over 320 scientific publications.
While directing an independent research program for almost two decades, Dr. Green was at the forefront of efforts to map, sequence, and understand eukaryotic genomes. His work included significant, start-to-finish involvement in the Human Genome Project; these initial efforts latter blossomed into a highly productive program in comparative genomics that provided important insights about genome structure, function, and evolution.
Now, as Director of NHGRI, Dr. Green is responsible for providing overall leadership of the Institute's research portfolio and other initiatives; this requires significant coordination with other NIH components and funding agencies. In 2011, Dr. Green led NHGRI to the completion of a strategic planning process that yielded a new vision for the future of genomics research, entitled Charting a course for genomic medicine from base pairs to bedside (Nature 470:204-213, 2011).
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"Who would be free themselves must strike the blow....I urge you to fly to arms and smite to death the power that would bury the Government and your liberty in the same hopeless grave. This is your golden opportunity."
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WHEREVER black regiments were engaged in battle during the Civil War, they acquitted themselves in a manner which fully justified the policy of the Government in enlisting their services. In the future wars of the Republic the colored American will find himself entrusted with his full share of the fighting.
And yet, the war for the Union was not the first one in which the African fought for the Stars and Stripes. Black faces were not uncommon among the ranks of the patriots in 1776. The first man to fall in that struggle was the negro who led the mob in its attack on the British troops at the Boston Massacre. At Bunker Hill, the free negroes fought intermingled with the whites; and, when Major Pitcairn was killed, it was by a bullet from a negro's rifle. At the battle of Rhode Island, Colonel Greene's black regiment repulsed three successive charges, during which they handled a Hessian regiment severely. In the war of 1812, General Jackson issued a proclamation authorizing the formation of black regiments, and, subsequently, in an address to the colored troops thus enlisted, acknowledged their services in unstinted praise.
But, at the time of the Civil War the negro was closely associated in the public mind with the political causes of the strife. The prejudice and opposition against the use of colored troops was so strong that the war was half finished before they were organized to any extent.
The first appearance of the negro in the military operations of that period occurred, September, 1862, in Cincinnati, at the time of the threatened invasion by Morgan's raiders. A so-called Black Brigade of three regiments was then organized, and assigned to duty in constructing the fortifications and earthworks about Cincinnati. These men gave their services voluntarily, but were unarmed and without uniforms. Their organization, such as it was, existed for three weeks only, and had no connection with the movement for enlisting colored troops.
About this same time General Butler took the initiative in the enlistment of colored men as soldiers, by organizing at new Orleans the regiments known as the Louisiana Native Guards, one of which completed its organization in August, 1862, and was mustered into service on the 27th of the following month. It was designated the First Louisiana Native Guard, and was the first black regiment to join the Union Army. The Second Louisiana Native Guard was mustered in, October 12, 1862; the Third, on November 24, 1862. the other regiments of the Guard, or Corps d'Afrique as it was called, completed their organizations within a few months later.
At this time, also, in August, 1862, recruiting for, a colored regiment was commenced in Kansas, and over 600 men were soon mustered in. The regiment, however, was not mustered into the United States service until January 13, 1863. It was then designated the First Kansas Colored Volunteers, but its name was changed, in December, 1864, to the 79th United States Colored Infantry.
Recruiting for a black regiment had, also, been undertaken in South Carolina by General Hunter, and an officer, Sergeant C. T. Trowbridge, had been detailed for that purpose as early as May 7, 1862. The recruiting progressed slowly, and was attended with so many difficulties and discouragements that a complete regimental organization was not effected until Jan. 31, 1863. Some of the companies, however, were organized at an earlier date. Colonel T. W. Higginson was assigned to the command of this regiment, his commission dating back to November 10, 1862. Trowbridge was made Captain of the first company organized, and subsequently promoted to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy. This regiment, First South Carolina, was the first slave regiment organized, the Louisiana Native Guard having been recruited largely from free blacks. The designation of the First South Carolina was changed by the War' Department, in February, 1864, to Thirty-third United States Colored Infantry.
Recruiting for the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts commenced in February, 1863, and its ten companies were full by May. It was the first colored regiment raised in a Northern State, the First Kansas having been recruited largely in Missouri, and partly from enslaved blacks. The Fifty-fourth was composed mostly of free men, and its recruits came from all the Northern States, it being their first opportunity to enlist.
By this time the movement had become general, and before the war closed the colored troops embraced 145 regiments of infantry, 7 of cavalry, 12 of heavy artillery, 1 of light artillery, and 1 of engineers; total, 166. Of these, about 60 were brought into action on the battle field, the others having been assigned to post or garrison duty.
Of the regiments brought into action, only a few were engaged in more than one battle; the war was half over, and so the total of killed does not appear as great as it otherwise would have done. The total number killed or mortally wounded in the colored troops was 143 officers, and 2,751 men. The officers were whites. Though participating only in the latter campaigns of the war, the black regiments made a noble record, and if, at times, they failed to win victories, it was through no fault of theirs.
The first action in which colored troops were engaged was an affair at Island Mounds, Mo., October 28, 1862, in which a detachment of the First Kansas was attacked by a superior number of Confederates under command of Colonel Cockerel. Although outnumbered, they made a successful resistance and scored a victory. Their loss was 10 killed, including a Captain, and 12 wounded. The First Kansas, also, lost 16 men killed on May 18, 1863, in a minor engagement at Sherwood, Mo.
In the assault on Port Hudson, La., May 27, 1863, colored troops were used for the first time in a general engagement. The Nineteenth Army Corps, during its besiegement of that stronghold, included several colored regiments in its organization. There were the First and Third Louisiana Native Guards; The First Louisiana Engineers, Corps d'Afrique; and, the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Infantry, Corps d'Afrique. During the siege the First Louisiana Native Guards lost 2 officers and 32 men killed, and 3 officers and 92 men wounded (including the mortally wounded); total, 129. But few regiments in the Nineteenth Corps sustained a greater loss. The other regiments of the Corps d'Afrique were actively engaged, but with fewer casualties. The First Louisiana Native Guard was attached to Augur's (1st) Division, and participated in the assaults of May 27th and June 14th, in which its principal loss occurred, its dead lying among those nearest the enemy's works. This regiment should not be confounded with the First Louisiana Infantry, also of Augur's Division, --a white regiment which, also, sustained a severe loss at Port Hudson.
On June 7th, 1863, the colored troops composing the garrison at Milliken's Bend, La., were attacked by Walker's Division numbering 3,000 men. The garrison consisted of three colored regiments: the Ninth Louisiana, Eleventh Louisiana, and First Mississippi. In addition there were 200 men of the 23d Iowa (white) who had been escorting prisoners up the river, and were on their return to the front. The regiments were small, many of the men, and most of the officers, being absent on recruiting service or other duty. When attacked the garrison was driven back to the river, where two gunboats came to their assistance. The troops then made a counter charge, regaining possession of their works and capturing several prisoners. The fighting was desperate in the extreme, many of the combatants on each side falling by bayonet thrusts or blows from clubbed muskets. The loss, as officially stated by the Assistant Secretary of War, who was then at Vicksburg, amounted to:
Regiment. Killed. Wounded. Total. 9th Louisiana 62 130 192 11th Louisiana 30 120 150 1st Mississippi 3 21 24 23d Iowa (white) 26 60 86
With the wounded are included those who were mortally wounded. Captain Miller, of the Ninth Louisiana, states that his regiment had only 300 men engaged, and that the whole force of the garrison was about 600 men.
The next action in which colored troops were engaged was the grand assault on Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863. To the 54th Massachusetts Colored was assigned the honor of leading the attack, and after the troops were formed on the beach, ready for the assault, the order to advance was withheld until the Fifty-fourth could march by and take position at the head of the column. The assault failed; but, not until the Colonel of the Fifty-fourth and many of his men had fallen dead on the parapet, or within the fort. The loss of the regiment in this affair was--3 officers and 31 men killed, 11 officers and 135 men wounded (including those mortally so), and 92 men missing; total, 279 -- out of 650 engaged. An impression has gained ground that no quarter was given to black troops; and, that the 92 missing or captured men met their death in the fort, after they had surrendered. But the official records show that 49 of these men died of disease in Confederate prisons, and that others of the captured men returned at the close of the war, rejoining their regiment before its muster-out.
One of the severest regimental losses during the war, occurred in the Eighth United States Colored Infantry, at the battle of Olustee, Fla., February 20, 1864. It lost there 2 officers and 49 men killed, 9 officers and 180 men wounded, and 63 missing; total, 303. The missing ones were, mostly, dead or wounded men who were left on the field; for, in this action the Confederates held possession of the ground, General Seymour's forces being obliged to retreat. Colonel Fribley of the Eighth was among the killed. The number of the killed was increased to 87 by those who died of wounds,and certain ones who were erroneously included with the missing. This same regiment distinguished itself, also, at Chaffin's Farm.
Upon the opening of the spring campaign in 1864, colored troops were a common feature of the armies before Richmond. Ferrero's Division of the Ninth Corps, and Hinks' Division of the Eighteenth Corps, were composed entirely of black regiments. In the first attack on Petersburg, June 15, 1864, Hinks' Division achieved a brilliant success, capturing the line of works in its front, and seven pieces of artillery. Had the Army of the Potomac arrived in time to follow up the success of the colored troops, Petersburg would have been taken then; but, by the time that the Eighteenth corps was reënforced, Lee's army had hurried thither by rail and were filing into the intrenchments. The opportunity was gone. In this assault of June 15th, the casualty lists show that the temporary success of the Colored Division was dearly obtained. Among the heavier losses were:
Regiment Killed Wounded Missing Total 4th U.S. Colored Infantry 15 110 10 135 22d U.S. Colored Infantry 14 116 8 138
The first opportunity to go into action granted Ferrero's Division, was at the Mine Explosion, or battle of The Crater, at Petersburg, July 30, 1864. This division was selected to lead the assault; but, at the last moment, the order was changed and it was sent in last. It was not ordered forward until the assault was a bloody failure, and although it did all that men could do, it was unable to retrieve the disaster. This change of plan relieved the colored regiments of all responsibilty for that defeat. Still, they fought bravely, and held their ground under the most discouraging circumstances. How well they stood is attested by their terrible losses.
Regiment. Killed. Wounded. Missing. Total. 23rd U.S. Colored Infantry 74 115 121 310 29th U.S. Colored Infantry 21 56 47 124 31st U.S. Colored Infantry 27 42 66 135 43rd U.S. Colored Infantry 14 86 23 123 30th U.S. Colored Infantry 18 104 78 200 39th U.S. Colored Infantry 13 97 47 157 28th U.S. Colored Infantry 11 64 13 88 27th U.S. Colored Infantry 9 46 90 75 19th U.S. Colored Infantry 22 87 6 115 Total 209 697 421 1,327
To any one familiar with the extent of regimental losses in action, these figures tell a heroic story.
Hard fighting was also done by colored troops at Chaffin's Farm, September 29, 1864, where Paine's Division (colored)of the Eighteenth Corps, and Birney's Colored Brigade of the Tenth Corps--in all, about 10,000 strong--were actively engaged. These troops participated in the assaults on Fort Gilmer and the intrenchments at New Market Heights. Among the regiments sustaining the heaviest losses were the following:
Regiment. Killed. Wounded. Missing. Total. 6th U.S. Colored Infantry 41 160 8 209 5th U.S. Colored Infantry 28 185 23 236 4th U.S. Colored Infantry 97 137 14 178 36th U.S. Colored Infantry 21 87 -- 108 38th U.S. Colored Infantry 17 94 -- 111
The Sixth had only 367 officers and men engaged, its loss being over 57 per cent. The troops in Paine's Division were the same ones which carried the works at Petersburg, June 15, 1864.
In the action on the Darbytown Road, Va., October 27, 1864, the Twenty-ninth Connecticut (colored) distinguished itself by the efficiency with which it held a skirmish line for several hours, under a strong pressure. Loss, 11 killed and 69 wounded.
Two brigades of colored troops participated in the victory at Nashville, December 15, 1864. The heaviest loss in any regiment on that field occurred in the Thirteenth U.S. Colored Infantry, which, in its assault on Overton Hill, lost 55 killed (including 4 officers), and 166 wounded; total, 221.
The severest loss at the battle of Honey Hill, S.C., November 30, 1864, fell on a black regiment, the Fifty-fifth Massachusetts, which lost in that action, 29 killed, and 115 wounded; total, 144.
In the closing battle of the war--the victorious assault on Fort Blakely, Ala., April 9, 1865--a colored division bore a conspicuous and honorable part. Among the casualties in that engagement the following are worthy of note:
Regiment. Killed. Wounded. Missing. Total. 68th U.S. Colored Infantry 10 91 -- 101 76th U.S. Colored Infantry 13 78 -- 91
In addition to the battles heretofore mentioned, colored troops were prominently engaged in the following actions:
Morris Island, S.C. James Island, S.C. Liverpool Heights, Miss. Yazoo City, Miss. Pleasant Hill, La. Prairie d'Ann, Ark. Poison Springs, Ark. Camden, Ark. Jenkins' Ferry, Ark. Saline River, Ark. Fort Pillow, Tenn. Natural Bridge, Fla. Morganzia, La. Jacksonville, Fla. Brice's Cross Roads, Miss. Tupelo, Miss. Athens, Ala. Drewry's Bluff, Va. Bermuda Hundred, Va. Dutch Gap, Va. Deep Bottom, Va. Darbytown Road, Va. Hatcher's Run, Va. Fair Oaks, Va. Saltville, Va. Deveaux Neck, S.C. Boykin's Mills, S.C. Cox's Bridge, N.C. Fort Fisher, N.C. Wilmington, N.C. Spanish Fort, Ala. Fall of Richmond. Appomattox, Va.
They rendered effective and meritorious services in many of these engagements, and, in some of them, sustained serious losses.
From Fox's Regimental Losses


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Thursday, December 2, 2010
Against Challenging The Election
The answer to that question is no, Tom Emmer should not contest in court the outcome of the election for governor. We were appalled that Emmer vanished after the election--some leader!--and appeared a week later to give a defensive, graceless 19 minute press conference without once ever thanking his staff or supporters. Cue Kennedy's comment about Nixon: no class. Where, pray tell, was his running mate Annette! Meeks? She was a no-show at the ersatz press conference. MC can't exactly blame her, can't exactly absolve her absence either. Emmer's supporters insisted he should be the the GOP nominee because Seifert was too establishment. Meeks was formerly Newt Gingrich's chief of staff. We are not certain how much more insider one can get and her selection split Emmer's far right base in the party. The omens were bad coming out of the convention and the campaign's subsequent hapless performance only underscored them.
MC understands perfectly well the campaign's request to the Minnesota Supreme Court to engage in reconciliation before the state canvassing board met. This claim would have been time barred after the board met. We don't believe, having said that, that its argument was particularly persuasive or well grounded. Contrary to many of our friends' protestations, the Minnesota Supreme Court got the decision exactly right. We can't judge its analysis because it has not yet issued its opinion in the matter. We do believe, however, that its considered opinion is likely to intentionally close off any arguments based upon its decision in a subsequent election challenge. One apple. One bite.
Currently the recount proceeds apace with the occassional flared nostril of a volunteer or election official providing the only passing drama. We pity our friends in the media who have to cover this as though it were the Coleman/Franken recount, which most assuredly it is not. The observations on Twitter about the recount are worth their weight in, um, ballots or something.
Which brings us to our present position: all known facts indicate that Dayton has an insurmountable lead that cannot be overcome either through the recount process or a challenge in court. There is no path, despite being given such assurances.
We have read in news reports of our friend Tony Sutton, chair of the RPM, saying that reconciliation and the vouching issue could provide a basis for a court challenge after the inevitable certification in Dayton's favor. MC doesn't see it. To be sure, anything could be ginned up as grounds to justify an election challenge in court, the effect of which is to leave the current, what's his name, governor in place. The salient point is that with such an enormous lead (these things being relative) the average Minnesota voter will be repulsed, and rightly so, with actions that smack of gaming the system, of bad faith, as politics not really as usual in squeaky clean Minnesota. MC is sorry Senator Coleman had such abject, lousy lawyers last time out but getting a better one from DC this time won't do the trick. The dog barks, the caravan moves on and all that.
MC must, however, admit that it is not privy to all of the facts and circumstances that the party and Emmer have at hand. We don't mean to suggest that a court challenge should be foregone if there are, in fact, real and credible issues that warrant such. Having paid excrutiatingly close attention for the last month, though, we'd be hard pressed to name any. Hence our concern that actually contesting in court the governor's election would look to be nothing more than an obvious attempt to keep a republican governor in office while a republican legislature proffered up for the former's signature legislation that Dayton most likely would not sign.
MC stands for Minnesota Conservatives and as conservatives we don't believe voters are stupid. Our fear is that their disgust will be taken out on republican candidates--especially in the senate--in 2012. That's the self-interested take. But there is also the idea that we as republicans and conservatives stand for something, opportunism not being one of them. We hear endless trashing of Dayton. We get it. We also offered up to voters such a flawed candidate that he could not beat Dayton. A little humility is in order from the crowd that got Emmer the endorsement. His performance with the press recently not only leaves much to be desired but reveals the candidate for himself. We're not sure there ever was a mask but if so, it has slipped and the man behind it is unappealing.
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I was all set to disagree with you strongly, based on the notion that the egregious manner in which this election was stolen by Mark Ritchie, with multiple [okay, /alleged/] offenses both criminal and ethical, ought to be aired in court. But I do see your point on alienating the voters. Just like our "best of the worst" public schools, Minnesotans fervently wish to believe that their public officials are mostly honest and that their elections are squeaky clean. You don't necessarily want to strike at that perception unless you are confident of slaying the dragon it protects.
I have in my own mind a bill of particulars that, by rights, would have Mark Ritchie out on the street, at least. Perhaps that is the eye of the needle any court contest should pursue-- charge the bank robber, not the banking system.
J. Ewing
- December 3, 2010 at 8:28 AM
- dipper said...
MC, you're a lonely, dissonant voice on the right side of the political spectrum. But you still draw your argument from the righteous right set of assumptions. Consider an alternative analysis, drawn with similar earnestness from the same set of facts.
Emmer has no incentive to concede. Stalling the recount, in the lame hope of keeping Mark Dayton out of office long enough to ram through a redistricting map that keeps Republicans in power for 10 years, is only half the GOP plan. The more certain, more malignant part of the Republican scheme is to damage the Minnesota election process as much as possible.
The garbage that pours out, whenever Tony and Tony open their slanderous mouths, is intended to damage the reputation of every election official in the State, to instill fear and doubt about the electoral process, and to give cynical and rapacious bloggers, letter writers and Republican activists the ability to scream voter fraud and corrupt and stolen elections at every opportunity.
Republicans hate the idea of voter turnout, and will stop at nothing to keep voters away from the polls. The current GOP nonsense has a very clear long-term purpose, to poison Minnesota elections in as many minds as possible and to win future elections by discouraging and denying, to as many as possible, the Constitutionally guaranteed right to vote.
- December 3, 2010 at 9:43 AM
@ dipper
You say he has no reason to concede but how about showing some intellect when it's clear there's no way to make up the votes? Don't look ridiculous and just respectfully give up and let's move on. With Coleman a recount was close and made sense, this? .5% is still a lot and as we've seen the math doesn't make sense. We're only losing respect by dragging out something just to drag it out.
- December 3, 2010 at 1:32 PM
Is there not great honor and public service in exposing how our chief election official has completely corrupted what would otherwise be a fair and honest process? How can you NOT challenge a result arrived at through such total corruption? OK, you can call it malfeasance or misfeasance, stupidity or hyperpartisanship, but the result is exactly the same, and ought to be set aside until a truly honest and fair election can be conducted.
Reconciliation can be conducted after the recount, and perhaps more fairly. The votes of felons, illegal immigrants, non-existent people, dead people and duplicates will be harder to remove from the total, but EASILY exceed .5%.
J. Ewing
- December 5, 2010 at 8:32 AM
- MikeWBL said...
MC is once again "spot on" in this assessment. Another court challenge only delays the inevitable at best. At worst, it makes us look like whiny "adapted children" and sore losers to the voting public.
The election fraud of vouching, reconciliation, photo ID can best be handled by the MN Legislature in the 2011 Session.
Speaking of whiny "adapted children, the State Central Committee narrowly approved a motion that goes after old men who supported Horner. It is an embarrassment to our party.
An adult would recognize that these former Governors, former Senator, etc. are "has beens" who are not involved in the Republican Party in any way shape or form. Additionally, KSTP sponsored a postelection survey which indicated more Horner voters actually came from DFL voters who did not want to vote for Dayton. The KSTP postelection survey indicated Dayton would have won by a larger majority without Horner. Therefore, this motion was a childish motion by sore losers who could not put a mirror up in front of them and simply recognize that we endorsed the wrong candidate at our 2010 state convention.
Shame on these 59 children!
- December 5, 2010 at 1:37 PM
Who is this "we" who endorsed the "wrong candidate"? Against Dayton, "we" should have been able to elect extremist Barry Goldwater, and he's dead! You are correct that it's a little silly to "expel" from the Republican Party those who already claim to be "former Republicans" (like Tom Horner). But it also doesn't make sense, to me, that we just close the barn door after the horse has been stolen. The Democrats get away with this crap because nobody stands up to them and makes them pay a price for it. Maybe OUR guy didn't win, but we ought to at least make darn certain that he wasn't cheated. THEN if we want to fix the rules of the game so the game can't be fixed, I'm all for it.
J. Ewing
- December 6, 2010 at 10:18 AM
- MikeWBL said...
"We" refers to the GOP.
The small, but very well organized, minority chose to support a candidate (Emmer) that polls, at the time, indicated would lose to Dayton. This small, but well organized minority chose to ignore the same polls that indicated Seifert was the only candidate to beat Dayton or Kelliher.
"We" are the only ones to blame and "We" need to hold a mirror up to ourselves and see that MN is a 55% DFL and 45% Republican state.
- December 6, 2010 at 11:43 PM
That minority was a majority of the State Convention delegates elected to represent the thousands of caucus attendees that represent the activist core of the Party. Arguing that they are a minority simply argues that any opposition-- for the sake of argument we'll call them moderates-- are disorganized and disinterested, which is hardly a recommendation for having them select the candidate. If grass roots support is important, then the current candidate selection process does a great job of that. Coupled with a primary, it's practically infallible, as witness how Dayton became the candidate. Emmer could have beaten Kelliher easily.
I'm still waiting to know who is going to challenge the many violations of election law that took place on Ritchie's watch.
J. Ewing
- December 8, 2010 at 12:58 PM


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Cooking with Fresh Herbs
Tomato-Butter Pan Sauce with Mint
This luscious (and easy!) sauce is good enough to eat with a spoon. If you're feeling more civilized than that, try it over pasta or seared or grilled chicken or whitefish, or as an appetizer dipping sauce with bread.
Whipped Fresh Herb Butter
Homemade butter is a great conversation starter; your friends won't believe you made it from scratch! This fresh, herby version from Urban Roots Farm in Springfield, Missouri, is perfect for melting over sweet corn or spreading on bread.
Chicken Breasts with Herbs
A braise with fresh oregano and parsley keeps this chicken dinner flavorful and moist.
Garlicky Fish Tacos
Our pan-fried tilapia is drizzled with garlic butter and lime juice. We garnished ours with fresh cilantro, fresh parsley and sliced pickled red onion.
To quick pickle the onions, combine a sliced red onion with a generous pour of cider vinegar, a spoonful of brown sugar, toasted cumin seeds and a bit of salt. Let sit at room temperature for an hour before serving.
Lemon-Basil Pasta
Lemon, basil and olive oil form a pestolike sauce to complement the linguine and kidney beans. From start to finish, this five-ingredient dinner takes only 25 minutes.
Grilled Asparagus with Minty Lemon and Walnut Crumbs
Dress up grilled asparagus with this crispy crumb mixture, sort of a savory streusel made with panko, walnuts, lemon zest and mint. The combo is especially good alongside pork or chicken.
This classic Argentinian sauce with fresh parsley and cilantro is made for spooning over grilled meats (especially steak), but we also love it with scrambled eggs or roasted potatoes. The recipe comes from chef Michael Ollier of Certified Angus Beef in Wooster, Ohio.
Roast Potatoes with Mint Pesto
When mint overflows your pots or takes over your garden, whip up a batch of this fresh pesto. At Illinois' Kinnikinnick Farm, Susan Cleverdon uses the herby sauce to dress roast potatoes, but it's a perfect match for chicken, shrimp or pasta, too.
Honey-Rosemary Shortbread Cookies
Chicago chef Myk Banas created these utterly delicious and subtly sophisticated cookies.
Honey-Rosemary Shortbread Cookies
Fresh Herb Pasta Primavera
A Parmesan cream sauce tops pasta made with your choice of fresh herbs and veggies.
Basil-Buttered Salmon
An all-purpose marinade of basil and butter works great on salmon, halibut or sea bass fillets. Broil or grill for an easy meal.
Minty Zoodle Salad with Radishes and Feta
Spiralized zucchini takes the place of cucumber in this classic salad combo. Try it alongside grilled chicken or fish.
French Lentils with Sausage and Snap Peas
This hearty, Mediterranean-style dish can be made on a grill or using a skillet. The recipe's creator, Susan Cleverdon of Kinnikinnick Farm, uses her farm's French country-style sausages, which are seasoned with tarragon, chives and parsley. Good-quality bratwurst is a worthy substitute. French lentils (aka puy) hold their shape better than ordinary lentils, but the regular kind will work, too. Just don't overcook them!
Fingerling Potato Salad with Honey-Thyme Vinaigrette
You'll have more Honey-Thyme Vinaigrette than you need for this fresh-tasting potato salad; keep the extra dressing on hand for another potato or pasta salad. The recipe is from Chicago chef Myk Banas.
Homemade Herb Vinegars
Do you have a bounty of herbs in your backyard? Use them to make simple herb-infused vinegars. They're great for salad dressings and marinades and make wonderful gifts.
Pea and Mint Pesto
Fresh mint and sweet peas shine in this bright, versatile pesto. We love it as a dip, sandwich spread and pasta sauce (thinned with a little water), but we suspect that you'll find even more ways to use it for a burst of early-summer flavor.
Apricot-Mint Tea
Canned apricot nectar is the easy, fruity sweetener in this refreshing summer sipper.
Herb Salt
If you have a bounty of herbs in your garden, harvest several cups to make simple herb salts that can be sprinkled on meat, fish, vegetables or eggs.
No-Cook Salsa Verde
The avocado in this piquant puree of lime, cilantro, onion and tomatillos gives the salsa some richness and body.
Fire-Roasted Dilled Potato Medley
Season this colorful potato, carrot and onion combination with just dill, salt and pepper.
Italian Basil, Tomato and Pasta Salad
Designed for a potluck or large family gathering, this make-ahead salad features a mustard-garlic vinaigrette along with cut green beans, tomatoes, Parmesan cheese, your choice of pasta and lots of basil.
Cheddar-Basil Mini Scones
These savory scones taste best warm, but you can make them in advance. Just wrap them in foil and freeze them for up to a month. To reheat, place the wrapped, frozen scones in a 350 degree oven for about 25 minutes.
Thai Beef and Noodle Salad
Lean flank steak, whole wheat pasta and crisp vegetables make this Asian-inspired salad a healthy choice. Ditching that time-consuming (and all-too-easy-to-forget) step of marinating the meat makes it genius.
Hearty Boys Cilantro-Garlic Ribs
Combine cilantro, soy sauce and Asian sweet chili sauce to create an Asian-inspired sauce for these ribs.
Watermelon, Feta and Mint Salad
Discover the savory potential of watermelon in this five-ingredient salad.
Parsley-Herb Rice with Cranberries
This colorful rice makes the perfect side dish for any meal. Stir in fresh basil and parsley just before serving.
Grilled Green Tomatoes with Garden Herb Salad
This recipe is perfect just before the beginning of tomato season and just as it ends. Grilling the tomatoes gives them a smokiness that complements their natural tanginess.
Lemon-Rosemary Chicken with Roasted Vegetables
Rub a blend of lemon peel, rosemary, thyme, parsley and garlic on the chicken before baking; Add fresh thyme sprigs and garlic bulbs around the chicken for even more flavor. Potatoes, sweet potatoes and carrots make this a one-pan meal.
Mini Puffs with Goat Cheese and Herbs
Mix parsley, dill or basil, and pepper into goat and cream cheese for a filling for these delicate puffs. Bake the puffs ahead of time and freeze until needed.
Herb Butter Mashed Potatoes
Create herb butter by adding snipped fresh Italian (flat-leaf) parsley, oregano and thyme to softened butter.
Sage Potato Rolls
For a pretty presentation, lightly dip the top of each dough ball into flour or brush with egg white. Top each with a sage leaf, brush with egg white, and place on prepared baking sheets.
Fresh Rosemary & Lemon Cupcakes
Italian flavors inspired this cupcake with its refreshing blend of fresh rosemary and lemon and topping of lemon glaze.
Lamb Chops with Garlic and Lavender
Lemon and lavender top off these hearty lamp chops. Prep the night before for easy weeknight grilling.
Watermelon-Basil Lemonade
Jazz up traditional lemonade with watermelon slices and fresh basil leaves.
Grow your own herbs
Easy-to-grow herbs thrive in a variety of settings. Try a small kitchen container garden for easy access to fresh ingredients.
Rosemary (pictured): This drought-tolerant shrub likes hot, sunny spots with quick-draining soil. Use rosemary to flavor main dishes, such as chicken, as well as some sweet desserts.
Basil: This annual herb grows best in full sun and rich, moist soil. Once the root system is established, about six weeks after sowing, it tolerates short periods of drought. Use it in pesto or Italian dishes.
Cilantro: Plant this annual herb in well-drained soil. Cilantro grows best in sun, although it tolerates some shade. Because it has a long taproot, place it in a container at least 12 inches deep. Cilantro adds extra tang to Mexican or Asian dishes.
More herbs to grow
Oregano (pictured): This perennial plant likes full sun and well-drained potting mix. The more sun oregano receives, the more pungent the flavor of the leaves. It does not tolerate wet soil. Use oregano in pizza and pasta sauces.
Thyme: Thyme comes in many varieties, and all grow best in full sun and well-drained soil. A sprinkle of thyme adds a savory flavor to roasted vegetables.
Mint: This vigorous plant becomes invasive unless confined to a pot. Grow in full sun or partial shade. Garnish drinks or desserts with a fresh sprig of mint, or use in salads.


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I have been noticing a trend lately, most people I associate with are not religious at all. However, I run into time and time again a belief in supernatural elements such as ghosts. It seems everyone has had a experience except me.
Granted, I have had weird experiences, for example working in a creepy old building and when its really quiet feeling like someone is watching you and then it makes you jump. But I find I automatically rationalize my feelings, knowing that's its just overactive imagination. I guess I don't project. When I was younger, I used to be involved in all kinds of woo but when I started to study human psychology and how untrustworthy our brain's perceptions are, I guess I lost the ability to believe.
Recently, I have explained to people about psychology, evolutionary adaptations from our days trying to escape predators, ect. It seems nothing ever sinks in.
Why do so think so many people believe in Ghosts?
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Ok... I don't believe in god. I don't believe in ghosts. I don't believe in the supernatural. However... I HAVE had experiences that most people would identify as supernatural and I have to admit for most of it I have a very hard time explaining it by any means. I just happen to think that just because you can't explain something doesn't mean you should jump to conclusions and the whole ghost thing really doesn't seem to make any sense at all.
Here it goes...
I grew up in a house that did some VERY strange things. The first thing I can remember I was about 3 maybe and as I remember it, I was lying on the living room floor, leaning up against a large pillow watching Sesame Street. I had that feeling, that you described where you feel like you're being watched, so I looked up. I saw a man standing in the hallway of our house. Now the way I remember it what happened next really doesn't make sense. I shut my eyes, screamed at the top of my lungs (no one heard me) and when I opened them he was gone. I don't remember getting up at that point to look for my mom or anything. Now, this is a very vivid memory and for years I swore up and down that this really happened. I remember trying to tell my mom about it over and over again and her telling me that I must have fallen asleep and dreamt the whole thing. The memory still sticks out in my mind, but the fact is is that I've since come to the conclusion that she must have been right. Why would no one have heard me scream? It wasn't like I would have been left alone in the house at such a young age, and why would I then simply go back to watching TV instead of running out of the house or searching for my mom? So it couldn't have been real.
The second experience that I can remember however, is not so easily explained away. Down the same hall way, where I had seen the man, there were 3 bedrooms and a bathroom. One of the bedrooms was converted into an office, with a big desk and a computer. The type of locks on the doors that led from the bedrooms and bathroom to the hallway were push locks. It looked like a little button in the middle of the door knob and you'd push it with your thumb to lock the door. The door and lock on the door of the room that my parents used as an office would always be mysteriously locked from the inside when no one was in the room. The door would close by itself then the door would be locked. This one was not my imagination, we all experienced it. The door would constantly be locked and we'd constantly have to pick the lock by pushing a pin in a small hole on the doorknob on the hallway side. We always figured that there was something wrong with that lock. None of the other locks did this. We felt that the lock was loose, and maybe there was a draft in the house that would push the door closed? We just sort of chalked it up to a faulty lock and thought that way for years. Until that is, until the Northridge quake in 1994. The door frame was bent, the door wouldn't close correctly. There was a huge amount of damage. So when we did repairs, the wall was fixed, the door frame was fixed, the door was replaced, and a brand new lock (a different kind of lock) was installed. Problem SOLVED! .... Nope! The new lock was the type of lock that you find on most doorknobs now. The kind you have to grasp between your index and thump and twist. How could a lock like that lock itself? I have no idea, but the problem persisted through out the years even after my sister and I had grown up and moved out of the house. My parents didn't move out of the house until 2008.
One night my mom and I were alone in the house, my dad and sister were out of a girlscout father daughter dance... and we out of nowhere heard the sound of breaking glass. We searched the house and never figured out the cause. Nothing was broken, nothing was missing.
This is another experience that I CAN explain and I believe it's possible that it might be a plausible explanation for the breaking glass incident as well. One time I was in the house, alone, and started to hear two unfamiliar voices. It sounded like two men and it sounded as if it was coming from inside the house. I couldn't understand exactly what the voices were saying, but it sounded like a very casual back and forth conversation. I didn't know where the sound was coming from, but I freaked out and went to run out of the house. I thought, maybe a couple of people had broken in, but when I ran through my parents room, to get out into the backyard, I realized the window was open and the sound wasn't coming from inside the house at all but from out the window, so I walked outside and into the yard and looked down into the canyon and realized that the sound from coming from two people standing in their drive way one street over. It was a clear day and now that I was in backyard I could clearly make out their conversation clear as a bell.
Another odd experience we encountered was the bathroom across the hall from that bedroom. Again this is something that happened after the earthquake repairs. For some reason when we were getting ready in the morning for school the lights and radio in bathroom would start going nuts. The lights would flicker on and off, the heater would turn on and off and the radio would turn on and off. This only went on for a few days only then stopped.
When I first started dating my, now husband, I was still living at home. My parents went out of town and I invited him to stay in the house with me while they were gone. I know I know. But anyway, I went outside one morning to dump the remaining contents of breakfast into the compost heap when my husband came to my parents bedroom door and told me to "Get back inside the house to listen to this now!" When I came back inside I heard nothing, but what he described is that he heard the sound of the pantry door repeatedly opening and slamming shut. He went and looked at pantry and the door wasn't moving but he could clearly hear the sound so he opened the pantry door and could hear the sound coming from behind the wall of the pantry, even though there was nothing behind that wall that should have made that kind of noise.
Another incident was another time when my parents were out of town, by this time I had moved out, but my parents had asked for me to come to the house and bring up the garbage cans the day after garbage day and had asked my sister to water her plants. So my husband and I came together and brought up the cans and when we got to the top of the driveway my sister and her boyfriend walked out of the yard, it just so happened we all showed up at the same time. So we all went inside the house and hung out for a few minutes to talk. I walked out of the room for minute to go the bathroom. When I came back into the living room the TV turned on. My husband then said "Oh, you had the remote, we couldn't find it." I said I didn't have it so we searched for it and finally found it, in a drawer in the coffee table. We told my parents of the incident when they came back and asked if the TV had been set on a timer. My dad informed us that that TV didn't have that feature.
One more incident I can recall is (and this was relayed to me by my husband) is my husband and I move out of CA and to AZ back in 2006. The night before we moved we stayed with my parents in the house and we had our cat with us. My husband stayed in the bedroom with the cat to keep him calm and since the cat was in there he had to have the catbox in the same room and he didn't want me exposed to the litter because I was pregnant at the time. So my husband and I didn't sleep together that night. My husband said all night long he could hear the sound of someone slowly walking up and down the hallway.
Now, I'm not trying to convince anyone. I don't expect people to take these stories at face value. I myself always take stories like this with a grain of salt and as you said, human perception is un-trust worthy. Not to mention that in my opinion none of these experiences necessarily point to ghost. The 1 story here that I truly think is unexplainable by any other means is the office door that locked itself, that one I really can't explain. I should mention that the house is old, it was built in 1951. Houses over time start to make strange noises as wood does age. The house is set in the hills south of Ventura blvd in Sherman Oaks, CA. It is somewhat up above the street with a long driveway leading up to it and the backyard looked down on another street that was nestled in between that hill and another hill creating an effect where noise could easily echo and travel upward. The house now has new owners. I have no idea if the new owners have experienced anything out of the ordinary or not.
Googling "brain scan anomalies" or something like it might shed some light on:
1. religious school education vs. public school education in traumatic situations,
2. brain neuron behavior when otherwise normal people are deprived of sleep,
3. effects of science education on neuron behavior, and more.
I left Catholicism 55 years ago for agnosticism and left it five years ago for atheism. A still-Catholic friend who asked if I believe the supernatural exists seemed unwilling to believe me when I told him I don't.
He tried hard to persuade me to enroll in no-cost "A Course of Miracles" program he was conducting several years ago, and more recently in a no-cost Transcendental Meditation program he is conducting. I responded by teasing him about his not having left the plantation, or telling him it's easier to change dogmas than to give up the need for a dogma.
Several times when I've gone to bed extremely tired, I have for maybe a second "seen" myself near the ceiling in a corner of the room looking back at me. I've heard it called an out-of-body experience but I've drawn no conclusions from it except that it was due to my brain neurons doing things when I was exhausted. I suspect that near-death experiences and the whiteness people talk about also result from brain neurons doing things.
Does anyone know of any neuronal imaging that explains such as the above?
Ghosts? They're for people who enjoy fiction.
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1/2 yard of a large scale print
2 fat quarters for pockets
1 fat quarter for binding
1 charm pack
1/2 yard backing fabric
1 leftover piece of lightweight batting
1 1/2 yard ric rac
(I used Arcadia by Sanae for Moda)
Photo pages, scrapbook pages or journal paper for binder
From your large scale print, batting, and backing, cut a piece 3 inches taller and wider than your binder. It will shrink up a bit when quilted. (My binder measures 11 1/2 x 24. Yours may vary!)
From the charm pack, cut strips 1 1/2 inch wide x 5 inches. (I used about 46 pieces for mine.) You can leave the pinked ends on them. They will be trimmed later.
Sew your first two 1 1/2 x 5 inch pieces together as shown in the photo.
Continue to add 1 1/2 strips until your braid piece is longer than the width of your large scale print piece.
Trim the uneven edges as shown.
Cut both ends of your braid piece straight, leaving them a little longer than needed.
Sew the ric rac on the long sides, 1/4 inch from the edge.
Press, turning raw edges under.
Pin the bottom edge of the braid piece 2 inches from the bottom edge of the large scale print.
Topstitch both long edges to the large print piece.
Layer your backing, batting, and top and quilt as desired. I just did a quick meander, and left the braid section unquilted.
Carefully measure your binder and cut your quilted piece 1 inch taller and 1 inch wider than the binder.
You now have a cute little mini quilt!
Cut your pockets the height of your quilted piece by 16 inches. Fold in half so the piece is 8 inches wide and press. Pin the pockets to the back of your quilted piece as shown.
The fold should be to the center.
Stitch the pockets down a scant 1/4 inch on three sides, leaving one side open for the binder.
Slide the binder into the pockets. At this point, you can adjust the size if the quilted piece is too loose. The binding will tighten it up just a bit, so don't make it too tight. (Ask me how I know this!!!)
Cut your binding 2 1/4 wide and press. Sew binding to the quilt cover. Hand stitch your binding to the back side.
Slide your binder into your cover. Sit back and marvel at how cool it is!!!
I purchased photo pocket pages for mine and I'm using it for a wedding shower gift.
There are a million ways to jazz up those binders. All you need is a quilt the size of your binder. It could be pieced, appliqued, embroidered, monogrammed. Just use your imagination! If you send me photos, I'd love to feature them on my blog!
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Easy Pork Chops with Fig and Arugula Salad Recipe
For extra flavor, try adding fresh herbs like thyme or rosemary to the sauce.
Read more: Skillet Suppers: Easy Pork Chops with Fig and Arugula Salad
- Yield:serves 2
- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:30 minutes
- 2 bone-in rib or center-cut chops (4 to 6 ounces each)
- 5 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil, divided
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- ½ cup low-sodium chicken broth
- ½ cup white wine
- 2 tablespoons cold butter
- 5 ounces baby arugula
- 8 ounces mozzarella, torn into small pieces
- 2 medium shallots, thinly sliced (about 3/4 cup)
- 12 fresh figs, stemmed and halved
- 2 tablespoons sherry vinegar
Coat the pork chops with 1 teaspoon of oil and season well with salt and pepper. Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a 10-inch skillet over high heat until lightly smoking. Add the pork chops and cook until first side is nicely browned, 4 to 6 minutes. Flip and continue to cook until the internal temperature registers 145°F on an instant read thermometer, about 3 minutes longer. Transfer to a plate and tent with foil.
Return skillet to heat and add 1/2 cup of shallots. Cook, stirring, until softened, about 2 minutes. Add the broth and wine, stirring to scrape any brown bits on the bottom of the pan, and bring to a boil. Simmer until sauce is reduced to 1/2 cup, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in cold butter until emulsified.
While sauce reduces, combine the arugula, mozzarella, remaining 1/4 cup of shallots, and figs. Combine sherry vinegar and remaining 1/4 cup live oil in a small bowl and whisk with a fork to combine. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Return pork chops to skillet, coat with sauce, and tranfer to a plate. Dress salad (you may not need all dressing) and serve with pork.
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