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ala[a´lah] (pl. a´lae) (L.)
a winglike process. adj., adj a´lar, a´late.
ala na´si the cartilaginous flap on the outer side of each nostril.
Abbreviation for δ-aminolevulinic acid.
Symbol for alanine or its monoradical or diradical.
a·la, gen. and pl.
a·lae(ā'lă, ā'lē),
1. Synonym(s): wing
2. Pronounced, longitudinal cuticular ridges in nematodes, usually found in larval stages (Ascaris lumbricoides), although occasionally present in adult worms (Enterobius vermicularis).
[L. wing]
ALAaminolevulinic acid.
ala(a´lah) pl. a´lae [L.] a winglike process.a´lara´late
n. pl. alae (ā′lē)
1. Zoology A wing or winglike structure or part.
2. Anatomy A flat, winglike anatomic process or part, especially of bone.
3. Botany The flattened border of some stems, fruits, and seeds, or either one of the two side petals of certain flowers in the pea family.
[ā′lə] pl. alae
Etymology: L, wing
1 any winglike structure.
2 the axilla. alar, adj.
abbreviation for the amino acid alanine.
abbreviation for aminolevulinic acid.
ala(1) Undearm; fossa axillaris [NA6]
(2) A winglike structure or process.
ALAAbbreviation for:
American Laryngological Association
American Lung Association
delta-aminolevulinic acid, see there
Association of Local Authorities, see there
axiolabial Dentistry
1. Alanine.
2. delta–Aminolevulinic acid, see there.
Abbreviation for delta (δ)-aminolevulinic acid.
Abbreviation for alanine or its monoradical or diradical.
a·la, pl. alae (ā'lă, ā'lē)
1. [TA] A winglike anatomic structure.
2. Pronounced, longitudinal cuticular ridges in nematodes, usually found in larval stages (Ascaris lumbricoides), although occasionally present in adult worms (Enterobius vermicularis).
[L. wing]
alaa wing-like projection such as occurs on a bone, as an outgrowth of a petiole, or as a lateral outgrowth of flowers of the family Papilionaceae or of fruits or seeds dispersed by the wind.
Alaabbrev. ALANINE.
n.pr See acid, alpha-linolenic.
Abbreviation for alanine.
pl. alae [L.] a winglike process, e.g. the cervical and caudal alae of nematodes; the wing-like structures at the esophageal and tail regions of the worm.
ala cinerea
an area on the floor of the 4th ventricle; the trigonum nervus vagi of the medulla oblongata.
ala lobuli centralis
a lobule of the rostral part of the cerebellar hemispheres that extends from the vermis.
ala nasi
the wing of the nose; the cartilaginous flap on the outer side of either nostril.
ala ossis illium
wing of the ilium.
sacral ala
the lateral parts of the base of the sacrum which carry the articular surfaces for the ilium and the transverse processes of the last lumbar vertebra.
ala spuria
the alula.


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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Race fans will have the final voice in selecting the starting lineup for The Sprint Unlimited At Daytona on Saturday night, Feb. 16 under the lights at Daytona International Speedway.
Race fans will have three options to determine the order that the drivers will line up for the fan favorite, star-studded race.
1) Number of career wins (most to least)
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3) The order of when drivers earned their pole position in 2012 (Daytona 500 first place – Homestead-Miami Speedway Ford 400 last place)
To participate, fans can cast their vote through a digital app at one of four Daytona Rewards Stations on Daytona International Speedway property or through texting.
The Daytona Rewards Stations will be located in the Midway, Sprint FANZONE, DIS Ticket & Tours Building and at the Gate 8 Pedestrian Bridge. Texting information on how to vote will be promoted throughout the day to race fans on property at the "World Center of Racing." Voting for the starting lineup will take place on Saturday only from 9:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
In addition to voting on the starting lineup, fans in attendance will be eligible to receive special upgraded race experiences including roles as Grand Marshal, Honorary Starter, and trophy presenter. Fans can also help deliver the trophy to Gatorade Victory Lane or participate in driver introductions during pre-race ceremonies.
Prior to The Sprint Unlimited, race fans will be able to shape the race by voting on race elements such as length of each race segment, type of team pit stop after first segment, how many cars will be eliminated after the second segment and the type of fire suit Miss Sprint Cup will wear. Fans can vote at NASCAR.com/sprintunlimited or on the NASCAR Mobile '13 app; voting on the format of the race will end at 11:59 p.m. Feb. 13 while voting for the other categories close during different stages of the race.
The format for selecting The Sprint Unlimited field of drivers is returning to its roots. The eligible field of drivers will consist of pole winners from the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season and past winners of The Sprint Unlimited who have attempted to qualify for at least one race during the 2012 season.
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ESTEVE Announces the Publication of Comprehensive Phase I Data for a Novel Oral, First-in-class New Chemical Entity (NCE),E-52862, a Sigma-1 Receptor Antagonist (S1RA) Being Developed for Pain
04 Sep, 2012, 08:00 BST
BARCELONA, Spain, September 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
- E-52862 is a potent, highly selective NCE with a novel mechanism of action (MOA; Sigma 1 Receptor (S1R) antagonism) currently being evaluated for the treatment of pain
- Key data are outlined from three Phase I studies involving 175 male and female human subjects
- These studies demonstrate a favourable safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic profile for E-52862
- Phase II clinical trials evaluating E-52862 are ongoing
ESTEVE announces the recent publication of data from the Phase I clinical trial programme of a novel, highly potent and selective, once-daily, S1RA E-52862, developed by the ESTEVE R&D team, in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology[1].
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Mariano Sust, M.D., corresponding author, stated that "E-52862 represents a NCE with a novel, unprecedented mechanism of action for pain of different aetiologies. We are very encouraged by these results and look forward to future findings from the E-52862 clinical trial programme in due course."
To fully validate the safety and tolerability of E-52862, ESTEVE performed a rigorous phase I programme. This publication reports results from three, Phase I studies involving 175 human subjects. E-52862 demonstrated a favourable safety and tolerability profile across a robust panel of assessments including adverse event recording following questioning and spontaneous reporting; physical examinations; vital signs measurements; laboratory safety tests (haematology, blood coagulation, biochemistry, urinalysis); multiple psychometric tests; computerized cognitive evaluations (including assessment of executive function, working memory and learning, reaction time and psychomotor functions); and thorough cardiac monitoring (telemetry, triplicate 12-lead ECGs, 24-hour Holter ECGs). Pharmacokinetic assessments were performed in each study and results demonstrate a favourable pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic profile, supporting oral, once-daily administration of E-52862.
The E-52862 Phase I programme is now complete and included over 300 human subjects (more than 250 received E-52862). Results from the overall programme show favourable safety, tolerability, pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic profiles at all doses of E-52862 tested.
Today, the E-52862 clinical programme focuses on pain management - highlighting both neuropathic pain and the potentiation of opioid analgesia. The Phase II clinical trial programme for E-52862 began early in 2012. The clinical project leader for E-52862, Roser Vives, M.D. commented that "Because of the MOA and data available to date, we are evaluating E-52862 in four different types of neuropathic pain and for treatment of pain in patients receiving opioids (for the enhancement of the analgesic effect and better tolerability). E-52862 also has potential applications for other neurological and psychiatric indications".
E-52862, whose MOA is both novel and complementary to that of other analgesic compounds, could provide a much-needed addition to future pain management choices with, perhaps, the option to be used as monotherapy, as well as in combination with other pain relief compounds, depending on the type of patient and clinical indication.
About ESTEVE
ESTEVE is a leading pharmaceutical chemical group based on Barcelona (Spain) with significant international presence. Since it was founded in 1929, ESTEVE has been firmly committed to excellence in healthcare, dedicating efforts to innovative R&D of new medicines for unmet medical needs and focusing on high science and evidence-based research. ESTEVE has a strong partnership approach to drug discovery, development and commercialisation. The company works both independently and in collaboration to bring new, differentiated best-in-class treatments to patients who need them. The company currently has a team of about 2800 professionals, and has subsidiaries and production facilities in several European countries, USA, China and Mexico.
About E-52862 and Pain R&D at ESTEVE
ESTEVE's dedicated in-house R&D team is focused on the development of novel pain medications, an area of high unmet medical need. Considerable progress in the knowledge of the biology and pharmacology of the S1R (a unique protein) during recent years has re-energised research into the potential benefits of S1R ligands in a range of neurological and psychiatric conditions.
New data has addressed key questions on modulation, MOA and pathophysiology of the S1R. The proprietary knockout mouse demonstrated a direct role of the S1R in sensitisation phenomena associated with neuropathic pain mechanisms and behaviours. E-52862 exerts robust, dose-dependent analgesic activity in multiple preclinical neuropathic pain models and enhances opioid analgesia. E-52862 could have potential applications for other neurological and psychiatric indications. Besides information reported here, an extensive preclinical regulatory safety package is available for E-52862 (including 13-week repeat dose toxicity studies in various animal species). E-52862 also has robust intellectual property protection.
ESTEVE's portfolio in pain also includes a technology platform-derived new co-crystal entity (E-58425) developed by the in-house R&D team. E-58425 has completed Phase I, with Phase II currently ongoing. E-58425 is being developed for moderate to severe acute and chronic pain.
[1]Abadias, M. et al. Safety, Tolerability and Pharmacokinetics of Single and Multiple Doses of a Novel Sigma-1 Receptor Antagonist in Three Randomized Phase I Studies. Br J Clin Pharmacol 2012 [Epub ahead of print]. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2125.2012.04333.x
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Whatever else it is, marijuana is now a business, as evident from our cover story this week. The pot entrepreneurs who are seeking state licensing and accreditation are preoccupied with the everyday capitalist concerns of real estate, financing, branding and snapping up urls.
In this new era of "Marijuana Inc.," as Fortune magazine has called it, it's not hard to imagine a trademark war breaking out. In fact, it already has.
Witness a case that is playing out in U.S. District Court of Western Washington. In late August, Trans-High Corporation, publisher of New York-based High Times, filed suit against a Bellingham medical marijuana dispensary owner named Martin Nickerson.
At the time, Nickerson was getting ready to hold an event called Northwest Harvest Fest on a 20-acre plot of land he owns in the Skagit Valley town of Bow. The festival, an annual event promoted as a celebration of cannabis culture, was to feature speakers, food and music, including a performance by Jamaican hip-hop artist Ky-Mani Marley ($50 for a one-day pass, $70 for a two-day one). It was also to stage a so-called "Cannabis Cup," in which pot products would be judged.
The issue for High Times? The organization was also holding a Cannabis Cup in Seattle at the very same time ($50 for a day-pass; $269 for a "super VIP" two-day pass, including a "commemorative T-shirt," gift bag, entrance to a party featuring performers Slightly Stoopid and Redman and "access to roped-off front-of-stage concert viewing area"). One of the entrepreneurs featured in SW's cover story, high-end pastry chef Molly Poiset, won second place in the "best edible" category.
As far back as 2000, High Times, which holds such events across the country and in Amsterdam, had filed for a trademark on the words "Cannabis Cup." And the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted it, as confirmed by government records available online. And the publication didn't take kindly to Nickerson using its trademarked name. Its complaint accused him of attempting "to profit from the goodwill plaintiff has developed in its Cannabis Cup brand and mislead the consuming public."
Nickerson, on the other hand, didn't take kindly to a New York company coming to Seattle and trying to, as he puts it, "push the little guy around." He calls the High Times folks "carpetbaggers."
"It's funny to me that everyone who seems to get their hand caught in the cookie jar tries to present himself as David vs. Goliath," retorts Doyle.
Nickerson went ahead and held his festival. He laughs as he recallsd a memorable moment--he and voluable activist Steve Sarich, dressed a cop, lighting a two-point jont. (See the much-watched YouTube video.)
Despite the antagonism, Nickerson and High Times have reached a tentative settlement, according to David Holland, another lawyer for the publication. He declines to discuss the terms.
High Times may have an incentive for settling, and thereby keeping the case from coming before a federal judge. Given the federal prohibition on pot, it's not certain how such a judge would look upon the Cannabis Cup trademark. Doyle insists that the company faced no risk, that a trademark on any good and service that doesn't specifically violate the Controlled Substances Act is ironclad. He uses the example of a book that advocates for the legalization of marijuana.
"We are all about the Fist Amendment," adds Holland, saying that the "entire ethos" of the Cannabis Cup focuses on "education."
But that might not be how a federal judge would see the event, described on its webside as one where, thanks to legalization Initiative 502, "adults can experience the best Washington cannabis products freely." Robert McVay, an attorney with Seattle-based Canna Law Group, says that a federal judge could determine that any trademark on the "knife edge" of legality was granted improperly, and throw it out.
Meanwhile, Nickerson has his own reasons for settling. He's preocuppied with criminal charges stemming from a raid last year on his dispensary, Northern Cross Collective Gardens, which coincided with the Joint dispensary raid noted in our cover story.
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NSA telephone spying 'likely' illegal, judge says
A federal judge on Monday concluded that a National Security Agency program that collects massive amounts of telephone data "likely" violates the Constitution, propelling a high-stakes fight right toward the Supreme Court.
In an extraordinary 68-page decision, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon of Washington ordered the NSA to stop snooping on two specific individuals who had challenged the so-called "bulk telephony metadata" collection program. While Leon then put a stay on his own order, pending a government appeal, his skepticism about the program's constitutional validity came through loud and clear.
"I believe that bulk telephony metadata collection almost certainly does violate a reasonable expectation of privacy," Leon wrote, taking note of the "almost Orwellian technology that enables the government to store and analyze the phone metadata of every telephone user in the United States."
Appointed to the federal bench by President George W. Bush in 2002, Leon further cautioned that the 21st century surveillance technologies may have outstripped the decades-old legal precedents being used to justify them. The only way to resolve the dilemma spelled out in Leon's decision is for the Supreme Court to revisit the issues once the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit takes a crack at it.
"There is the very real prospect that the (surveillance) program will go on for as long as America is combating terrorism, which realistically could be forever!" Leon wrote.
In a real twist, Leon said he had the authority to review whether the program is constitutionally suspect even though the data collection was approved by the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
"Where, as here, core individual constitutional rights are implicated by government action, Congress should not be able to cut off a citizen's right to judicial review of that government action simply because it intended the conduct to remain secret," Leon wrote.
Larry Klayman, one of the individuals who challenged the NSA program, applauded the court's decision.
"This is the biggest decision ever . . . in the history of government litigation," Klayman said in an interview, adding that the district court's ruling highlights the problems with the surveillance court, which only hears arguments from government officials. "We have criminal behavior on behalf of the government, and the judge stepped in. And we thank him for that."
The ruling sparked similar reactions from several lawmakers deeply involved in the debate over NSA surveillance, including Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., who serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. Both lawmakers are backing legislation that would end NSA's dragnet data collection programs.
"The ruling underscores what I have argued for years: The bulk collection of Americans' phone records conflicts with Americans' privacy rights under the U.S. Constitution and has failed to make us safer," said Udall in a statement. "We can protect our national security without trampling our constitutional liberties."
The decision Monday tees up a clash over whether a 1979 Supreme Court precedent remains valid.
The 1979 ruling, in the case called Smith v. Maryland, concluded that individuals have no reasonable expectation of privacy in the phone numbers they call. That ruling permitted police to install a "pen register" on a suspect's phone, recording numbers, without a specific warrant. As Leon noted Monday, "The evolutions in the government's surveillance capabilities (and) citizens' phone habits" are now "thoroughly unlike" circumstances in 1979.
Klayman, a frequent litigator who has been challenging presidents in court since the Clinton administration in the 1990s, joined with an ally named Charles Strange to sue several federal agencies, as well as individual telecommunications companies. Strange is the father of Michael Strange, a Navy cryptologic technician who died in Afghanistan in 2011 while supporting SEAL Team Six missions.
Klayman and Strange sued shortly after newspapers in June revealed details about the U.S. surveillance program through leaks from former NSA contract employee Edward Snowden. Snowden, in a statement Monday, praised the court's ruling.
Leon's order Monday covered telephone data, but not Internet data.
In the preliminary injunction, Leon directed the NSA to stop collecting any "telephony metadata" associated with the Verizon Wireless accounts of Klayman and Strange. Leon also directed the NSA to "destroy any such metadata in its possession that was collected through the bulk collection program." Citing the "significant national security interests at stake in this case and the novelty of the constitutional issues," Leon agreed to stay the order so the Obama administration can appeal.
Metadata includes information such as what phone numbers were used to make or receive calls, when the calls took place and how long the calls lasted. According to the National Security Agency, though, this metadata does not include any information about the actual content of the calls. Intelligence analysts use the metadata to "discern connections between terrorist organizations and previously unknown terrorist operatives located in the United States," Leon explained.
The program began more than seven years ago, during the Bush administration, and has been continued through Barack Obama's presidency. The program operates by having FBI agents obtain orders from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, directing telecommunications companies to turn over the information on an ongoing, daily basis.
The National Security Agency deferred questions to the Justice Department, where officials stand by the programs.
"We've seen the opinion and are studying it," said Justice Department spokesman Andrew Ames. "We believe the program is constitutional, as previous judges have found."


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Sandboxr Beta Launch
An Impressive Taste of What's in Store for the 3D Industry in 2013
Salt Lake City, Utah - February 8th, 2013. On Friday February 1st, Sandboxr officially launched their much anticipated software to beta users, hailed as a breakthrough that the 3D printing industry has been missing. Sandboxr bridges the gap between user accessibility and 3D printing technology and is on track to deliver an intuitive 3D experience to the public very soon.
Sandboxr did not disappoint the local Salt Lake City fans and those who had traveled from all over the country to witness the historic occasion. The Leonardo Science and Art Museum was a fitting venue for the official launch of the Utah tech startup, who combine computer technology, 3D modeling, animation and art to produce custom, one of a kind, 3D products.
A constant buzz of excitement filled the room with hundreds of people in attendance throughout the evening. No-one was left wanting for opportunities to see and hear Sandboxr's inspiring story and 3D product. From the 'Play Here' station where guests used the Sandboxr app on tablets and notebooks, to the eye candy that was placed throughout the room in the form of 3D printed characters and Sandboxr custom packaging. 'Sandboxr Origins', the new Sandboxr video, narrated by Berkley Frei, CEO and TJ Young CFO/COO, was also released giving insight into how the Sandboxr concept initially unfolded.
Of the many highlights during the evening, the unveiling of the zoetrope was one of the most memorable. The infinitely looped scene was created by Berkley Frei, using characters drawn by Trent Call of Swinj, a local Salt Lake City artist. The bright colors and endearing characters captivated the audience both young and old. Every character was printed using 3D full color sandstone printers at the Sandboxr Studio. The zoetrope is an awe inspiring 7-ft-6" high, 4-ft wide statement, announcing Sandboxr is ready and able to offer an exceptional 3D experience to everyone, from sophisticated users like artists and video game developers to everyday users like children and video game fans.
So where to from here? Sandboxr continues to distribute beta keys to selected artists and fans whose content and interactivity will help with the final tweaking of the Sandboxr experience. Sandboxr is aiming to have the full app available to the public shortly. Berk Frei adds "Sandboxr is all about content! We want to give every user the best 3D experience possible and content is vital to the Sandboxr experience. It will be crowdsourced from all over the world and we are ready to work with 3D artists, animators and modelers to ensure we have quality assets people will want to customize and play with." To obtain a beta key go to www.sandboxr.com and request an invite.
Sandboxr is also working on their Kickstarter campaign to be released shortly. TJ Young, CFO/COO is resolute "Sandboxr will change the industry of custom 3D printing, globally. We have a steep yet manageable growth incline ahead of us! We are extremely confident and excited at the prospect of bringing this project full circle. With the acquisition of an unprecedented amount of full color 3D printers, coupled with the refinement of our proprietary software, we will be that much closer to seeing our dream come to fruition. We have plans for utilizing Kickstarter for additional funding, as well as the marketing advantages that come along with a well produced campaign on that platform."
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Travel to Cuba is approved for all participants on this tour who will be part of a group people-to-people educational travel authorized under the new US regulations as of June 16, 2017. This tour, led by Peter Turnley, is organized and operated exclusively by Cuba Cultural Travel, a licensed US tour operator with more than 20 years of experience leading tours to Cuba.
Cuba: New Year in Havana and Viñales
Photography Workshops
Package includes hotel in Havana, air travel roundtrip Ft. Lauderdale-Havana, visa, three local guides, transportation in Cuba, several group meals, exciting daily photographic itinerary, photographic workshop, and critique sessions led by Peter Turnley. Each workshop takes place in Havana, with an exciting day trip outside of Havana to Viñales.
(Exceptions can be made for people wishing to fly to Havana, Cuba from their home cities)
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Havana and Viñales – Feb 10-16, 2018 – Full Package Price: $5,250
Santiago and the Oriente – Apr 4-10, 2018 – Full Package Price: $3,975
To register please email Laura Adams of Cuba Cultural Travel, who handles all registration, hotels, travel, visas, and payment. Please be sure to indicate in your email the date of the workshop that you are interested in attending.
Peter Turnley is a renowned and award-winning photojournalist who has been photographing life in Cuba for the past 30 years, and has been leading very successful Cuba workshops for the past 5 years. Please see this exciting video of a selection of Peter Turnley's photographs from his book, Cuba: A Grace of Spirit.
The Workshop
Peter Turnley is excited to announce a once in a lifetime opportunity that many photographers have long been waiting for: the opportunity to visit, photograph, and interact with the daily life of Havana, Cuba. This trip includes two day-trips outside of the city, to the tobacco region of Viñales and to the painteresque fishing village of Cojimar. This seven-day trip, led by Peter Turnley, is operated by Cuba Cultural Travel, a US tour operator authorized to conduct group travel to Cuba. If you are interested, you will want to register as soon as possible to reserve a spot for this exciting unique photographic experience. Each program will be limited to 12 participants.
Led by one of the world's most renowned photojournalists, who has made many previous trips to Cuba, this is a unique opportunity for photographers to visit Havana, Cuba and engage in people-to-people experiences with the Cuban people. This will be an opportunity to make a portfolio of photographs of this amazingly human, vibrant, and passionate people and culture. This educational exchange offers participants the chance to be a part of the amazing spirit and passion for living the Cuban people have to offer.
The Itinerary
During the seven-day trip, photographers will have a daily itinerary which will include visits to one of the best outdoor salsa clubs in Latin America, a famous ballet school, a modern dance troupe, a boxing gym, a visit to an elementary school, markets, santeria religious ceremonies, the community of Regla, day-trip to the tobacco region of Viñales, with a side-trip to the famous fishing village of Cojimar. There will be walks through Havana Vieja, Central Havana, along the Malecón, along the Prado, to Revolutionary Square, and many other neighborhoods of Havana. Aside from the daily exciting visual itinerary, photographers will have plenty of free time to explore on their own. Photographers will have at their disposal at all times three wonderful local Cuban photographer guides, translators, as well as Peter Turnley to accompany them. Turnley's team will help participants at all times interact with the daily life of the Cuban people.
This program, led by photojournalist Peter Turnley, is organized and operated exclusively by Cuba Cultural Travel, which was is licensed by the United States Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control to engage in the travel-related and other transactions incidental to its travel program and to authorize United States persons to travel on those programs under Cuba Cultural Travel's auspices. This program will be led by a U.S. staff member of Cuba Cultural Travel. Cuba Cultural Travel is located at 1215 El Paisano Drive, Fallbrook, California, 92028, Tel. 760.645.3269. You may contact them at any time.
Photographers will have the daily opportunity to explore and photograph the neighborhoods of Havana and engage in person-to-person activities with Cubans and their everyday life. Daily presentations and lectures will be led by Peter Turnley and others, and the photographers will be offered a rich schedule of visits to fascinating aspects of Cuban life related to education, arts and culture, photography, music, dance, and food. Presented with a very exciting mix of activities and group shooting opportunities, as well as the possibility for the photographers to make their own personal explorations, participants will visit many of the fascinating Havana neighborhoods, markets, witness great dance and hear great music, visit a boxing gym, one of the Caribbean's most amazing cemeteries, churches, schools, and much more. During the week, Peter Turnley and the participants will be assisted by 3 English-speaking Cuban photographers who live in Havana and will help as local guides and translators. There will be daily group photo review sessions of the participants' photographs and we will finish with a final show with each participant presenting a 15 image photo-essay/portfolio to be edited with Peter Turnley.
Photographers joining will leave as a group on a charter flight from Ft. Lauderdale to Havana, and stay for six nights and seven days. The group will stay at The Hotel Sevilla. The group will return together to Ft. Lauderdale.
Package Prices
Dec 30, 2017 – Jan 5, 2018: $5,250
This price includes tuition, roundtrip airfare from Ft. Lauderdale to Havana, single accommodations for six nights in Havana, breakfast daily plus two group dinners, two group lunches, one evening of entertainment, airport transfers, all visas and licenses, and tuition. A $45 application fee will also be charged. Airfare to Ft. Lauderdale and hotel accommodations in Ft. Lauderdale are not included.
Cuban Authorities have mandated that all tourists entering Cuba carry health insurance and emergency evacuation coverage. This coverage is included as part of your airfare through the charter company. This coverage will pay your medical expenses up to 25,000 CUC and pay up to 7,000 CUC for repatriation or transportation.
You may choose to purchase additional coverage through a U.S. insurance provider - especially travel cancellation insurance or for travelers over the age of 80.
What is Not Included?
Any optional event that requires an admission fee. Such as museums, night clubs, a baseball game, etc. Meals and beverages - except breakfast at the hotel and the two group dinners. Individual guides and translators Individual transportation within Cuba for optional activities. All expenses of a personal nature such as room service, phone, mini-bar, laundry, internet access, etc. Airport Taxes upon departing Havana, CUC 25 (USD 30.00). Tips for drivers, guides, hotel staff, restaurants, etc. Travel/cancellation insurance. Any excess baggage charges. Cost of obtaining a passport. Any additional cost(s) not included in the itinerary.
Camera Gear and Technology
Participants will need to bring a digital SLR or rangefinder camera, a laptop computer, and a thumb drive. Two camera bodies are recommended, with a minimum of at least one wide-angle lens such as a 17-35mm zoom, 24mm, 28mm, 35mm, or 50mm. Students may bring longer lenses as well, but Peter will strongly encourage participants to use a wide angle lens in order to get close to the subject, which allows a sense of context, environment, and intimacy. A wide-angle lens that is relatively fast and has a wide aperture (1.4, 1.8, 2, or 2.8) is encouraged in order to photograph in low light situations. It is recommended that participants bring extra memory cards, extra camera batteries, and all necessary battery chargers for their equipment.
Students will need to know how to transfer the photographs they make each day onto their laptop computer. Each day, participants will bring a selection of their favorite photographs, or those they'd like to discuss, in a folder on a thumb drive, to the daily photo review and critique sessions. Students are encouraged to use image management software for this selection process. Peter recommends PhotoMechanic, however other programs such as Apple's Aperture, or Adobe Lightroom may be used. PhotoMechanic can be downloaded for a free trial basis from camerabits.com.
Students will be encouraged to choose from the outset if they want to show their work in color or in black and white, and they will be encouraged to stick to their choice of one of the other throughout the workshop.
Final Group Show and Portfolios of Past Work
At each photo critique and review session, Peter will work with each photographer to make a a "selects" folder of their most successful images. At the end of the week, Peter will select with each photographer from this overall "selects" folder, a final individual photo story of 15 images, which will be seen as part of a group final show during the last workshop session.
Each participant should also bring a portfolio of a selection of their past work. Approximately 30 photographs are recommended, and they may be brought in a folder on a thumb drive, or as a selection of prints. Students' portfolios of past work will also be shared during the final session of the workshop.
Companion Price
Dec 30, 2017 - Jan 5, 2018: $3,950
A companion price has been designated for particpants who would like to bring along a non-photographing spouse or partner. Companions will need to participate in all group activities, and may attend, but will not participate in photographic review sessions. Anyone wishing to participate fully as a photographer must pay the full participant fee.
Enrollment: 12 maximum. Spots will be held on a first come basis. It is expected that there will be high interest in this trip so if you would like to hold a spot; it is recommended that you send an email stating your intention to attend to Laura Adams of Cuba Cultural Travel.
You will then receive instructions how to proceed to register and make payment. Registration and payment will be handled by Cuba Cultural Travel . Registrations are accepted on a first-come first-serve basis and your spot is held only once a payment has been received. Please be advised, for travel to Cuba, your passport must be valid up to at least 6 months AFTER the dates of travel.
Note: Participants will be required to make their own travel arrangements for arriving to and from Ft. Lauderdale.
This program is organized and operated by Cuba Cultural Travel, in consultation with, and escorted by Peter Turnley.
To register please email Laura Adams of Cuba Cultural Travel, who handles all registration, hotels, travel, visas, and payment. Please be sure to indicate in your email the date of the workshop that you are interested in attending.
See Student Galleries from past workshops.
See Testimonials from past workshop.
Peter Turnley is an internationally renowned photographer. His photographs have been on the cover of Newsweek Magazine 43 times, he has published a celebrated book of photographs about Cuba, Cuba: A Grace of Spirit. He is the first American photographer to be offered a major retrospective exhibition, Moments of the Human Condition, at Cuba's most important museum, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes.
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text: Michael Berns is a local photographer, architect, and the latest artist in our ongoing exhibition series Local Art @ EPL. Through the end of January, his evocative photographic collection From Within - From Without will be on display on the 2nd floor of EPL's Main Branch. Inspired by Henri Cartier-Bresson's "decisive moment," the show presents twenty-four striking black and white images captured everywhere from the Washington D.C. subway to the Texas rodeo circuit.


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Cow Collar Texts Ranchers When Animals Are Sick, In Heat
Even cows can benefit from having a mobile device. A new collar being developed for cattle ranchers could send cow health updates to farmers cellphones. The device could help ranchers save money in the long run, monitoring the health of their animals and prevent accidental deaths.
The Silent Herdsman collar will track the movements of the cow using the same type of sensors found in Wii devices. That data is relayed to the rancher via a cellphone using a variety of technologies including 3G. This technology could also send farmers instant notification if their animals are in heat, going into labor or in distress.
Researchers also hope to determine which movements the sensor will pick up to determine when cows are in heat.
The collar is being developed by researchers from the University of Strathclyde, Morrisons, Scottish Agricultural College, Harbro, Well Cow, National Milk Records (NMR) and Embedded Technology Solutions. A three-year grant for the project co-funded by the UKs Technology Strategy Board equals roughly more than $2 million.
The project is taking place at Morrisons farm and Dumfries House for technology research in Scotland.
As reported on farminguk.com, David Alvis, director of the Technology Strategy Boards sustainable agriculture and food projects, said, Addressing animal health and welfare challenges and improving animal performance monitoring are vital pieces of the food security jigsaw. The technologies developed through this project have the potential to benefit farming communities in the UK and around the world and we wish the partners every success.
This isnt the first invention to connect cattle to monitoring technology. As the world population expands and the need for sustainable food sources grow, solutions involving technology and urban farming become more prevalent.
Find the video here: http://mashable.com/2012/02/14/cow-c...exts-ranchers/
GPS Collars Track Cattle On Range
Lee Farren May 1, 2008 12:00pm
In 1981, Doug Johnson began studying the way grazing animals move around their pastures. Twenty years later, he added a new twist.
We started using GPS collars on animals, says Johnson, an Oregon State University rangeland researcher.
Although his GPS technology is not ready for practical application, it could be used to compare the grazing strategies of different species, examine the effects of mixed-species grazing and identify grazing efficiencies, says Johnson.
Ranchers have a good idea of their animals' behavior, he says. We have been trying to put numbers to the process and compare different breeds and species. For example, we have found that cattle select the least-energy-cost pathways between feeding stations and water. This means that we can predict routes that livestock are likely to use and plan range improvements more effectively.
Because commercial GPS collars cost $4,500, Johnson's research team builds its own. The collars can collect a location point every second and have remote downloading capability. They're attached in the field or in an alley or chute.
We try to be as gentle as possible since we are examining normal behavior and try to keep the animals calm.
He has studied cattle, goats and elk. The cattle study logged each animal's location, with the date and time, every 30 seconds. He could see when an animal came to water and when it left, the amount of time it spent loafing, where it went and how it got there. Herd leaders and followers could be distinguished from their movements.
Do you believe such technologies have a place in the Rangelands, especially in the pursuit of Total Grazing Pressure management?
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not sure why you would want to use SMS to do this, it would only add to the cost of having a sim card per animal per month etc.
Far better to use wifi and run a server on the farm to collect "triggers" which can then be displayed on a website or emailed etc.
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Florense and Modern Luxury South Florida Interiors brought together two respected design communities, with an exclusive celebration of the leading designers of Sao Paulo and Florida. The private lunch celebration took place in the Florense showroom at the DCOTA. Diego Oka, Executive Chef at La Mar Miami in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, prepared the delicious cuisine, which was complemented with Zonin Prosecco.
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For the next 18 years, approximately 8,000 baby boomers will turn 65 every day. By 2030, one in five Washingtonians will be considered elderly – and many will need long-term care. Reliance on government support for long-term care needs will continue to grow as baby boomers age.
The future looks startling to those of us who comprise the "silver tsunami" and is downright alarming for thousands of Washingtonians who rely on the state's Medicaid system to pay for long-term care services in nursing homes and assisted-living centers.
Assisted-living Medicaid rates haven't been updated in nearly a decade and were cut by 6 percent from 2010 to 2012. Nursing-home rates were last updated in 2007. Rates fell short by over $100 million in 2012 – and more than half the state's nursing homes lost money.
Failure to update rates creates problems at the bedside, where care quality is truly defined. Seventy percent of the cost of long-term care is wage- and labor-related, thus financial losses equal lost jobs and that translates to lost quality. This is simply not sustainable.
Washington Health Care Association has represented skilled and assisted living providers in Washington for more than years. Our 400-plus members tell us that the issue of appropriate funding does not change because of shifting demographics.
Washington's system of facility-based, long-term care is threatened as never before. Now, as in the future, when a loved one's care needs can't be met at home, it's critical that trained and certified staff are available to provide quality care in a cost-effective, safe and highly regulated care setting.
Please call the Legislative Hotline in Olympia today at 1-800-562-6000 and let your legislators know that seniors matter.
Tell them skilled and assisted-living care must be a priority in the supplemental budget.
Robin Dale,
CEO, Washington Health Care Association


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Live Humanely: Go Veggie
Many consumers don't make the connection between the neatly packaged food they purchase in stores and how its production contributes to the suffering of billions of farm animals every year. The image of a bucolic, green pasture farm with rolling hills is far from the truth of the modern factory farm.
Factory farming is the cruel practice of raising animals for meat, eggs and milk in overcrowded cages, barren warehouses, or highly restrictive pens or stalls, to maximize production and profit. Farm animals are not protected under the Federal Animal Welfare Act and a majority of U.S. states-including Washington-exempt farms from anti-cruelty statutes as long as their procedures are seen as "accepted," or "normal."
Today's "industrialized" factory farming subjects animals to unhealthy and unnatural living conditions and untold suffering during their all-too-short-lives. Packing thousands of animals into a confined space for production also impacts the environment by degrading the soil, excessively using water and contributing to air pollution.
Read about a study that reported on the various negative impacts of factory farms in the Washington Post.
Help reduce animal suffering with your diet, your dime and your time.
Abstaining from buying and eating meat products (such as going vegetarian or vegan), even for a few days a week, significantly contributes to reducing both farm animal suffering and to reducing the impact on the environment for the benefit of all animals. It's also a great way to improve your own health.
- Think "going veggie" is tough on the run? Try a quick veggie hotdog, garden burger, or any of the ready-to-eat veggie items available today in mainstream grocery stores.
- Dine out veggie in Seattle with your friends!
- If you are traveling, look up veggie restaurants and grocery stores around the world.
- Planning a dinner party? Try vegweb.com or veganchef.com for simple to exotic culinary ideas.
- Volunteer to help farm animals directly by searching for a farm animal sanctuary in your area.
- Find a farmer's market near you to buy sustainably-produced, animal-friendly food.


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Older and wiser, Giambi appreciates role as mentor
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- At the age of 43, Jason Giambi is still pursuing his childhood dream. And over the years, he has learned an even greater appreciation for the game of baseball.
"There was a time when I just wanted to get to the big leagues for one day," Giambi said. "Then I wanted to get to free agency [six years in the big leagues]. Then I wanted to get 10 years in.
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- At the age of 43, Jason Giambi is still pursuing his childhood dream. And over the years, he has learned an even greater appreciation for the game of baseball.
"There was a time when I just wanted to get to the big leagues for one day," Giambi said. "Then I wanted to get to free agency [six years in the big leagues]. Then I wanted to get 10 years in.
"To think I'd be getting ready for my 20th year in the big leagues at the age of 43 wasn't realistic."
But it is.
Giambi is back with the Cleveland Indians for a second season, being counted on by manager Terry Francona to deliver big hits late in games, but even more important to be that veteran influence capable of helping the youthful Indians roster deal with the big league challenge.
Giambi knows all about challenges. He faced them on the field and excelled. Giambi also faced them off the field and survived.
And none was as challenging as in February 2005. Giambi, having admitted in grand jury testimony on the BALCO investigation that he used steroids, met with the media and publicly apologized to the game, its fans and fellow players for his transgressions.
"It was the toughest thing I had to do in my life," Giambi said. "Each person has to look at his own situation. We aren't all going to handle things the same way. I did what was best for me.
"I admitted I made a mistake. I didn't believe there was another option for me, my family and baseball. I felt the way to approach it was to be a man, so admit the mistake and move on."
It worked. Oh, Giambi has endured his share of abuse from fans who have not forgotten, but overall fans have shown a willingness to forgive, teammates have shown respect for him facing the issue head on, and Giambi has benefited from clearing his mind of second thoughts and focusing again on the game he is paid to play.
"I really think it helped me play well," Giambi said. "I was Comeback Player of the Year that season."
More than what he has done, said Giambi, what has been important to him has been the fans who have "come up to me and thanked me for [the public apology]. They tell me they have told their son or daughter that [Giambi] made a mistake and told the truth. They tell me I'm an example of someone who made a mistake and faced up to it.
"We all have ups and downs in our lives. The key is to get back up."
Giambi is back up. His role has changed from those days when he was a five-time All-Star (2000-04) and earned the American League MVP Award in 2000.
The passion for the game, however, has not.
"Ricky Pacione, our bullpen catcher, says I'm a coach who hits home runs," Giambi said. "I want to play until I can't compete, as long as I can grind it out. There's something about being on a club and helping players as a teammate that you don't get if you're a coach. A lot of these guys are kids. They say they remember me as a player when they were 5 years old."
Those were the good old days. Those were the days before Giambi spent slightly more than three seasons in Colorado, learning how to handle rare playing opportunities. Released by Oakland in early August 2009 and signed by the Rockies on Aug. 24 that season to help the team in its postseason push, Giambi spent three full seasons plus those final five weeks of 2009 with Colorado.
Giambi played in only 230 games during that stretch, just 93 starts, 20 of which came as a DH. In just 420 at-bats over that stretch, he still hit 22 home runs and drove in 86 runs. Eleven of those home runs either gave the Rockies a lead or tied the game; three of them were walk-off shots.
In Giambi's Indians debut last year, he added nine more home runs and 31 RBIs in only 186 at-bats.
"I had been an everyday player until I got to Colorado, and then I had the role of a bench player, a veteran mentor to the young players, and I enjoyed it," he said. "I got to the point where I put the ego in my back pocket.
"I truly love the game of baseball. I love the competition. I love the nuances. I got into the role. I went to Colorado not knowing what to expect. I enjoyed it thoroughly. I learned a lot about the game, especially the National League. I had never played in the National League before. If I ever happen to get a chance to manage, it's going to help me be better prepared."
And that chance to manage almost came sooner than expected.
After the 2012 season, before Giambi signed with Cleveland for 2013, he was a candidate for the Rockies' managerial job that went to Walt Weiss, who had been one of the veteran leaders in Oakland when Giambi broke in with the A's.
"Walt deservedly got the job," Giambi said. "And something great happened to me. I was called by Terry Francona and asked to come to Cleveland. He said he was looking for someone who could help with a young team."
It is a perfect fit for Giambi.
Tracy Ringolsby is a columnist for MLB.com.


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Hyatt Place Dulles Airport North
- Pool
- Free WiFi
- Free Parking
- Pet Friendly
What's nearby
- Dulles Town Center
- 3 min drive
- Dulles Sportsplex
- 4 min drive
- One Loudoun
- 5 min drive
- Washington, DC (IAD-Washington Dulles Intl.)
- 13 min drive
Choose your room
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About this area
Located in Sterling, Hyatt Place Dulles Airport North is in an area with good airport proximity. National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center and Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts are cultural highlights, and travelers looking to shop may want to visit Dulles Town Center and Reston Town Center. Ready for a night out? Consider Old Ox Brewery and Lost Rhino Brewing Company.
What's nearby
- Dulles Town Center - 3 min drive
- Dulles Sportsplex - 4 min drive
- One Loudoun - 5 min drive
- Ashburn Ice House - 7 min drive
- Herndon Centennial Golf Course - 10 min drive
Getting around
- Burke Centre Station - 35 min drive
- Washington, DC (IAD-Washington Dulles Intl.) - 13 min drive
About this property
Hyatt Place Dulles Airport North
This smoke-free hotel features an outdoor pool, a 24-hour fitness center, and a bar/lounge. Free WiFi in public areas, free self parking, and a free airport shuttle are also provided. Other amenities include a coffee shop/café, conference space, and concierge services. All 134 rooms feature comforts like premium bedding and down comforters, while conveniences include sofa beds and sitting areas. Free WiFi and MP3 docks are standard, as are flat-screen TVs with DVD players.
Property amenities
- Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
- Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
- Free self parking
- Long-term parking (surcharge)
Food and Drink
- Food and drink
- Buffet breakfast available for a fee 6 AM–9:30 AM on weekdays and 6:30 AM–10 AM on weekends: USD 11 per person
- 1 coffee shop/café
- 1 bar
Things to do
- Pool
- Fitness center/gym
Family friendly
- Refrigerator
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Outdoor pool
- Family property
- Free area shuttle
- Free WiFi
- DVD player
- Sofa bed
- Elevator/lift
Guest Services
- Laundry service
- 24-hour front desk
- Daily housekeeping
- Concierge
- Tours/ticket assistance
Business Services
- Conference space
- Meeting Rooms
- Picnic area
- Wheelchair accessible path of travel
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- Wheelchair accessible parking
- In-room accessibility
- Assistive listening devices available
- Braille or raised signage
Room amenities
- Premium bedding
- Air conditioning
- Cribs available
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Hair dryer
- Free toiletries
- Flat-screen TV
- Pay-per-view-channels
- iPod docking station
Food and Drink
- Coffee/tea maker
- Refrigerator
- Iron/ironing boards
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Desk
Nearby things to do
- Golfing nearby
It was a pleasure stay. The staff is so kind. And the room comfortable.
Nothing bad to say, satisfied!
It was very relaxing however the pillows were very uncomfortable. My gf and I had stiff neck. Other than that, was spot on


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One man is dead and a second person injured after a shooter opened fire at rapper French Montana's tour bus in Philadelphia overnight.
Police say that French Montana's entourage was hanging with fans outside the Holiday Inn on Penn's Landing after a performance at the TLA Thursday when someone driving by opened fire.
A 27-year-old man was shot in the stomach, according to authorities. He was rushed to Hahnemann University Hospital were he was pronounced dead. A second person was also hit in the shoulder. That person is in stable condition at Jefferson University Hospital, police told Philadelphia TV station NBC10.
"It's just ignorant. You fire into a crowd and you're gonna hit somebody. In this case, unfortunately, someone was killed. Don't know if they had anything to do with anything, if they were a fan or what," Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said.
Twenty-five people, including French Montana, his entourage and fans are being questioned by police. Three people were taken into custody for carrying guns. Investigators say that someone inside the bus returned fired after the initial shots rang out.
So far, there are no suspects in the deadly shooting.
Montana is a Moroccan-born rapper based in the Bronx and currently signed with Bad Boy Records, according to his bio. He's best known for his collaborations with Max B. and Rick Ross. His debut album featuring Nicki Minaj is scheduled to drop on May 21. He, along with his group, the Coke Boys, are supposed to perform in Boston on Friday.
Police say that the rapper and his entourage are cooperating with investigators and tell NBC10 they don't think Montana will make the show.


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A former teacher left writer Karen Houppert $75,000, and her meditation on the reasons why is a moving love letter to feminism, the spirit of collective action, and the impact a beloved mentor can have.
Marcia Carlisle was Houppert's professor at Bennington in the early 80s, and Houppert praises her "stealthy approach to teaching history, luring us in with novels and diaries and memoirs that brought an emotional understanding of the period and its hardships." Carlisle favored allowing her students to arrive at their own opinions — in the discussion of Virginia Woolf's "A Room Of One's Own," Houppert remembers that she "weighed in to raise a question or two, but otherwise sat tight, a sphinx having posed her riddle." This approach resonated with Houppert, moving her "from a dark swirl of discontent about the state of the world and my place in it to a systematic analysis of injustice." Later the two became friends, and when Carlisle contracted a degenerative neuromuscular disease, she asked Houppert to edit her essay on the illness. The essay, which was never published, sounds like a profound statement of collective spirit in the face of personal pain. Of her former teacher, Houppert writes,
For a while, despair consumed her. Then, she did what feminists have done all along. She took a hard look at her circumstances and considered her personal story in the larger political context. I am reminded of a passage in "A Room of One's Own," in which Woolf observes that, "[w]omen have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size." Marcia saw a similar desire to inflate oneself among the able-bodied — at the expense of the disabled. She began to move from internalizing her anger to placing it a historical context of oppression — insisting that Phillips Exeter add ramps to buildings not only to accommodate her but to make it an inclusive campus, to alter its "wheelchair access" buttons outside doors to read "universal access," and to end its practice of holding faculty meetings in inaccessible second-floor conference rooms. She was determined to teach her students to reframe their understanding of disabled.
Houppert doesn't know why Carlisle decided to make her the beneficiary of her $75,000 life insurance policy. She says,
Perhaps Marcia was playing the role of Woolf's aunt, bequeathing me a small measure of artistic freedom.
Or perhaps not.
In truth, I'll never know, and maybe that was Marcia's point:
How did we get here? she might ask. How did this happen?
If Carlisle's goal was to make sure that the conversation about disability — and larger questions of the place of the female and/or ill body in the world — kept going after her death, then she chose a worthy heir. Houppert writes affectingly of Carlisle's illness not in familiar terms of individual strength and struggle, but in political terms, and it's clear that she is continuing with the "systematic analysis of injustice" that her professor taught her. It's also clear how much this professor affected her. Houppert's piece isn't just a remembrance of a single woman; it's a testament to the power that teachers can have not only over our minds, but over the values that shape our lives.
It was impossible for me to read Houppert's essay without thinking of my own teachers. I will be grateful forever to the one who taught me that literary criticism can be like playing, the one who sweetly explained that my poetry made it clear I should be a fiction writer, and the one who told me what a rare and worthwhile skill it was to be funny. But more than anything else, Houppert's words brought to mind two incidents that happened when I was about twenty-two years old. Houppert writes of a conversation with Carlisle soon after college:
"I wanna do something that matters, that will make a difference in the world," I confided in a half-whisper, because I knew it sounded corny.
She could have looked at me with a softly condescending smile that said, This, too, shall pass. But she didn't.
"You can," she said.
I had just graduated and was working at my university when a fairly famous male critic came to visit. He asked me what I had studied, and I told him literary theory. He shook his head and said, "Oh sweetie, you'll grow out of it." I wasn't quite green enough to take his words to heart, but I might have been, if not for conversations like the one I'd had with my classics professor a few months earlier. I'd gone to her office to ask what I should do with my life, and I had told her I wanted to be "a public intellectual." She fixed me with a kind but appraising stare, and said, "Yes. I think you can do this. But you should move to New York."
What's ironic about these two interactions is that what I said to my classics professor was kind of callow and silly, while what I said to the critic was not. But my professor was the one who chose to take me seriously. She was the one who looked at a very young woman with more arrogance than experience and gave that young woman actual advice. I didn't move to New York for a long time, but I never forgot that someone had given me permission to claim a position of importance for myself. It's a permission that everyone deserves and that many of us — women especially — are often denied. But once given, it provides protection — against people like the critic (who, to be fair, may have been more anti-theory than he was sexist), against those who view public speech by women as shrill or narcissistic, and against anyone with a stake in making intellectual or political endeavor seem pointless or overweening or uncool. Marcia Carlisle, in sitting back and letting her students find the answers for themselves, was giving them this permission. Houppert clearly benefited from it, and now she is repaying her old teacher by sharing her lessons with the world.
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Unaware She Was Pregnant, Woman Delivers 10-Pound Baby
(JACKSON, Mich.) -- A woman who said she didn't know she was pregnant arrived at the hospital and, hours later, delivered a 10-pound baby girl, a Michigan newspaper reported.
Linda Ackley, 44, said she thought she had a hernia. She'd been told she couldn't bear children.
"She is our miracle baby," the stunned new mother, who gave birth on Feb. 8 by emergency C-section, told the Jackson Citizen Patriot. The couple named the little girl Kimberly Kay.
Her husband, Mike, got the news over the telephone.
"Some people have nine months to prepare. I had [15] hours," he said. "I wish someone would have taken a picture of my face."
Surprise births occur regularly, an OB-GYN in Cleveland told ABC News.
"It happens more than you would think," said Dr. Kimberly Gecsi, who works at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland.
"Every time it does there's always the, 'How could they not have known? It seems crazy.'"
Gecsi gets two or three cases of this type on average every year, she said. It occurs mostly among young women, who she said are in denial.
"Teenagers will until the day they die say I don't have sex, so it just doesn't occur to people," she said.
But sometimes even doctors miss the seemingly obvious.
"I've had patients sent to me by family practitioners convinced the patient had cancer," Gecsi said.
Though babies born to unprepared mothers are often born healthy — as the Michigan baby was last week — missed prenatal care isn't a good thing, said Dr. Jennifer Ashton, a senior medical contributor for ABC News who has a private OB-GYN in New Jersey.
Her advice to women of child-bearing age: "Be familiar with your own body and pay attention to the way in which it talks to you. Prenatal care is really important for not just the baby but the mother also," said Ashton, an OB-GYN at University Hospitals Case Medical Center.
Last Friday morning, Linda Ackley arrived at the hospital, Allegiance Health, for a CT scan to check the supposed hernia. She said she had a "bloated abdomen" a week earlier.
An initial scan revealed she was pregnant. Doctors told Ackley she would deliver in three to four weeks. But a second scan taken soon after showed that she had carried the baby to full term, 40 weeks.
So hospital staff wheeled Ackley in for an emergency delivery. The baby was born Friday night.
The surprise birth follows a medical scare in 2011 for the Ackleys, high school sweethearts who had been married for 24 years. Linda Ackley contracted necrotizing fasciitis, a bacterial infection that attacks soft tissue. After spending a week in a coma, doctors had to remove some of her stomach muscles.
She had been told she might not live. Now looking back, she views the illness in a new light.
"God wanted me here for something," she said.
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|無為 Mui
|Kakashi Hiden: Lightning in the Icy Sky (Mentioned)
|Naruto the Movie: Blood Prison
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Mui (無為, Mui) was a jōnin from Kusagakure and the master (主, aruji) of Hōzuki Castle. He is the primary antagonist of Naruto the Movie: Blood Prison.
Mui's wife passed away not long after their son, Muku, was born, so he raised him all by himself. He was a caring father who loved his son deeply, often taking Muku to eat ramen. Ten years ago, as the guardian of the Box of Ultimate Bliss, Mui, tried opening it once with Muku's chakra, in the hopes of asking the box to grant them the wish of reviving Kusagakure to its former glory. However, Muku didn't have enough chakra and was sucked into the box instead, leaving Mui grief-stricken. As a result, he sought a way to reopen the box to ask for his son back, unbeknownst to his superiors.
Mui was a very strict and solemn man. He took his duties very seriously and followed the rules to the letter. He hardly showed any emotions outside of anger when prisoners tried to defy him for example and was not hesitant in punishing them in the most cruel of ways. While Ryūzetsu and the four council members witnessed Mui showing no outward emotions when he sent Muku into the Box of Ultimate Bliss, which led them to believe he is a cruel and heartless man who would sacrifice anyone for the sake of Kusagakure, Mui is, in truth, hiding his true emotions and the opposite of what they believed: he would forsake his village's welfare for his son. When his son was released from the Box of Ultimate Bliss, Mui showed a softer side to himself and even shed tears at the prospect of seeing his son again. In a flashback it was revealed that Mui wasn't seemingly always as hardened as he was and seemed to care greatly for both his wife and son.
Mui had long black hair that goes beyond his shoulders, though ten years ago, when he was trying to use Muku to open the Box of Ultimate Bliss, his hair was around shoulder-length. He wore some sort of suit with a brown belt and a silver buckle. He also wore brown boots. When meeting with other members of the Fruit Group, he donned the metal head of a bull and wore loose-fitting, black robes.
Being the warden of the Hōzuki Castle as well as a jōnin, Mui was a highly competent and skilled shinobi. Mui had shown great skill with taijutsu, being able to defeat multiple prisoners barehanded without losing his composure, as well as easily defeating a weakened Naruto with a series of swift punches. He also showed an incredible level of resilience, even after suffering a fatal wound through the chest by his son, Mui managed to get back up on his feet and apply a powerful seal. Mui also has knowledge of pressure points, knocking Naruto unconscious with a few strikes.
Nature Transformation
Mui had demonstrated great proficiency with Fire Release. The most prominent of his fire techniques was one which could bind a prisoner and prevent them from moulding chakra, while at the same time, absorbed their chakra after he applied a seal to them, it would also set them aflame should they try to escape.
He also utilised an advanced form of this technique which he could use on larger targets. Additionally, by altering this technique, he could surround his arm with fire to use as a blade which would engulf those pierced, in flames.
Plot Overview
Mui makes his début, informing the new set of prisoners about the Hōzuki Castle. When Naruto Uzumaki voiced his innocence, Mui forcefully branded him with the Fire Release: Heavenly Prison technique telling him that proving his innocence was of no concern to him as his village had deemed him a criminal and it was his duty to contain him. Mui later has Maroi kidnap Naruto to be used in his experiments but it is revealed to be a clone. The real Naruto is later captured however, and placed in solitary confinement. After meeting with other members of the Fruit Group he discusses the fact that they had Konohagakure's jinchūriki in their possession and that he could be used to open the Box of Ultimate Bliss as well as Kazan who had been plaguing them for some time. After much efforts and quelling several rows that broke out in the prison subsequently, Mui was finally able to seemingly kill Kazan on a cliff-side and get the real Naruto into their lab. Siphoning off his chakra and feeding it to the box, they are finally able to awaken the Box of Ultimate Bliss.
Believing Mui to want to ask the box to return Kusagakure to its former glory, the other members look on with joy and anticipation in their voice only to hear Mui tearfully ask the box to return his son, Muku, to him who was sealed within it the last time it was opened. As they try to stop him, Kazan, who is revealed to be alive, stopped them. When his son emerged from the box, Mui wept with joy before his son ran his hand through his chest seriously wounding him before turning into Satori. It was through Naruto's words that gave Mui the strength to get up and attack Satori with the Fire Release: Great Fire Heavenly Prison technique which suppressed it enough for his son to revert to his human form. As his son looked at him, Mui is attacked once more by Muku and his body is sent flying to the mural that he built for his wife where he dies.
After Mui's demise, Hōzuki Castle was left without a warden. His position was eventually filled after the Fourth Shinobi World War, when Kahyō was given a deal to become the new warden with her Ice Release: Earthen Consecutive Chains of Ice becoming the new sealing shackles for the prisoners, in exchange for avoiding a death penalty.
- His name means "inactivity".
- (To Naruto) "Have you ever killed someone you had no grudge against in order to protect your village?"
- (When wishing to the Box of Ultimate Bliss) "Kusagakure has been dead to me for a long time. Ever since I lost Muku ten years ago!"
- (To Muku from afar) "Let us at least die together, Muku. This is all I can do to atone for my sins!"


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