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LONDON (Reuters) - London-listed drugmaker Shire Plc succumbed to an increased 31 billion pounds takeover offer from Abbvie Inc on Monday, signalling the conclusion to a long-running courtship largely motivated by tax.
Shire said it was ready to recommend the deal, the latest in a list of mergers proposed by U.S. firms seeking to cut their tax rates, and which comes less than seven weeks after the collapse of Pfizer Inc's $118 billion (69.08 billion pound) bid for AstraZeneca Plc, also motivated in part by tax factors.
Chicago-based AbbVie, which wants to buy Shire to cut its tax bill and diversify its product line-up, increased its offer to 53.20 pounds per share on Sunday, following a request from the Dublin-based group which had rejected four previous bids.
Citing people familiar with the matter, Reuters had reported on Saturday that Shire, a maker of drugs for rare diseases, had asked AbbVie to sweeten its offer to near 53 pounds per share in order for it to recommend the deal.
Shire said the new bid comprised 24.44 pounds in cash and 0.8960 new AbbVie shares for each Shire share and would result in Shire investors owning around 25 percent of the combined entity.
"The proposed offer seems a fair price that represents good value for both companies' shareholders," said Mick Cooper, an analyst at Edison Investment Research. Shares in Shire, founded in 1986, hit a record high of 50.45 pounds in mid-morning trading.
AbbVie is eager to buy Shire both to reduce its U.S. tax bill by moving its tax base to Britain - a tactic known as inversion - and to diversify its drug portfolio.
The U.S. group gets nearly 60 percent of its revenue from rheumatoid arthritis drug Humira, the world's top-selling medicine, which loses U.S. patent protection in late 2016.
Analysts at Barclays estimated the move would provide an estimated $1.3 billion tax savings by 2020, reflecting lower UK corporate tax rates.
AbbVie has proposed creating a new U.S.-listed holding company with a tax domicile in Britain, whose corporate tax rate is set to drop as low as 20 percent from 2015, well below the U.S. headline rate of 35 percent plus local taxes. The UK government has also introduced tax breaks designed to encourage research and development.
"We expect the majority of the tax savings to be realized within the first two years," Barclays analysts said.
"Strategically AbbVie acquires Shire's quality growth assets in platforms including rare diseases, neuroscience and ophthalmology, easing investor concerns about over-reliance on Humira and offering future growth opportunities."
Analyst Alistair Campbell at banking group Berenberg said there were few other British pharmaceutical companies that would suit a tax inversion takeover.
"The company has to be of a certain size, because around 20 percent of the shareholders post deal must be shareholders in the target company, so you can't go for small companies," he said. "Glaxo is too big, Astra has had an approach from Pfizer and Shire has now gone."
Smith & Nephew Plc, Europe's largest maker of artificial joints, has been seen as a possible contender, with U.S.-based Stryker Corp forced to say it would not bid for the group after reports linking it with a deal circulated in May.
Sweden's Meda AB rejected an improved takeover offer from U.S. generics firm Mylan Inc in April, which could have helped reduce taxes.
The approach for Shire, founded in Britain, has been far less controversial than the move for AstraZeneca. Headquartered in Dublin, it is managed from Boston, Massachusetts, and has most of its sales in the United States, resulting in a relatively small business footprint in Britain.
Shire Chief Executive Flemming Ornskov had said he was happy for the company to be sold at the right price, but like AstraZeneca in its defence against Pfizer, he had set out a detailed case as to why it was worth a lot more than AbbVie was originally offering.
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The Czechs will have their best-ever finish at a U18 Worlds. Photo: Richard Wolowicz / HHOF-IIHF Images
LAPPEENRANTA – The Czech Republic advances to the 2014 IIHF U18 World Championship gold medal game for the first time ever, thanks to a 4-3 overtime win over Canada. David Kase was the overtime hero for the Czechs, stealing the puck from Matt Barzal in the Canadian zone and lofting it past goaltender Mason McDonald and into the net for the winning goal. "I read the play of the defenceman and was able to anticipate where he was going to go with the puck," said Kase. "Luckily I got the puck and saw the goalie go down so I chipped it over and it went in.""I saw the puck go in, unbelievable feeling and the biggest goal of my life."It looked like a comeback win was in the works for the Canadians as the defending U18 world champions came into the third period down 3-1. An early goal got them back into the game, coming at 14:58 with a shot from the point from defenceman Joseph Hicketts. Barzal then took the puck in to the Czech zone and threw it on net with a backhand shot. But goaltender Vitek Vanecek struggled to corral it, which allowed Audette to get in front of the net and force it through to tie the game up with less than eight minutes to go.In the overtime period Czech forward David Pastrnak had a great chance to end it but was stopped point blank by goaltender Mason McDonald. Pastrnak then took a penalty for tripping and spent two nervous minutes in the box. "I wanted to kill myself then," said Pastrnak. "But I believed in the guys and they did a great job not giving anything up and I have to give a big thank you to them."Kase redeemed him with the OT goal minutes later to send the Czechs into the final, where they will face the United States for gold."They played an excellent game," said Canada head coach Kevin Dineen. "They have some highly skilled players and it was a good matchup. I was disappointed for the players given how hard they played in the final thirty minutes, they put a lot of sweat into that and it's a hard outcome."The Czechs jumped on the Canadians early with a goal 1:15 into the game. Czech leading scorer Jakub Vrana took a shot from near the boards, and Canada's goaltender Mason Mcdonald gave up a big rebound right onto stick of Michael Spacek. Spacek nearly had another in the second as his shot from the high slot rang off the crossbar. But the Czechs still went up 2-0 a few minutes later, after Canadian goaltender Mason McDonald let in a tough goal scored by Vrana from a seemingly harmless shot from the outside edge of the left circle near the boards. Then at the seven-minute mark the Czechs won the puck battle in the neutral zone, and Radek Vesely got the puck into the Canadian zone. The forward got a shot off on McDonald who gave him back the rebound, allowing Vesely to make a cross-crease pass to an open Jiri Smejfal on the other side of the net giving the Czechs a commanding 3-0 lead going into the second intermission. The third goal galvanized the Canadians into cutting the lead to 3-1 on the power play just over thirty seconds later. On a three-on-one John Quenneville, Daniel Audette, and Matt Barzal combined for a nice passing play that ended in the back of the net from Barzal's stick. Canada nearly had another off a scrum in front of the net late in the frame but couldn't get the puck to cross the goal line. But despite playing a great game, Barzal's one mistake in overtime was a killer, and the difference between Canada playing for bronze instead of defending its gold medal. As for the Czech Republic, win or lose tomorrow the country can be proud that a group of relative unknowns managed to go further at this U18 World Championship than any Czech team has before. "Before we got here we said that this was going to be the most important ten days of our lives," said Czech head coach Jakub Petr. "These guys were mentioning big players that played for our country before in this tournament, but none of them ever played in a final. It's been the greatest experience of my coaching career and the best experience of my life.""It was our goal to get a medal," said a grinning Kase after the game. "Now we've made it all the way to the final, so we might as well win the whole thing."ADAM STEISS

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- Original title : The Hunt for Red October
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- Duration of movie : 134
- Movie Genre : Action, Adventure, Thriller,
- Status : Released
- Vote Count : 290
- Youtube Id : -youtube_id-
- Release Date of film : 1990-03-02
- Languages spoken : English
- Average rate : 6.8
- Tagline : Invisible. Silent. Stolen.
- Societies of production : Paramount Pictures
- Sean Connery Character (Marko Ramius)
- Alec Baldwin Character (Jack Ryan)
- Scott Glenn Character (Commander Bart Mancuso)
- Sam Neill Character (Captain Vasily Borodin)
- James Earl Jones Character (Admiral James Greer)
- Joss Ackland Character (Ambassador Andrei Lysenko)
- Richard Jordan Character (Dr. Jeffrey Pelt)
- Stellan Skarsgrd Character (Captain Viktor Tupolev)
- Courtney B. Vance Character (Sonarman 2nd Class Ronald Jones)
- Peter Firth Character (Ivan Putin)
- Tim Curry Character (Dr. Yevgeniy Petrov)
- Jeffrey Jones Character (Skip Tyler)
- Timothy Carhart Character (Bill Steiner)
- Larry Ferguson Character (Chief of the Boat)
- Fred Thompson Character (Admiral Painter)
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Recently I got to sit down with Hasbros Studios president Stephen Davis at Comic-Con to discuss the future of Hasbro's various television and film projects. Though many are quick to deride the current trend of turning action figures, board games and other non-narrative cultural detritus into blockbuster cinema, I don't see why it's inherently bad. A talented filmmaker could absolutely make a cool Oujia movie or anthology series, Candyland could be a phenomenal bit of sugarcoated existentialism, and some of Hasbro's previous and current film and television endeavors, including Beast Wars and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, are actually very good.
With this in mind, I sat down to talk with Stephen Davis, head of Hasbro Studios. During our one-on-one interview, we discussed the Brony movement, the various incarnations of Transformers, Stretch Armstrong, making programming for older audiences, the future of Battleship, the importance of a great theme song and more. Hit the jump for the full interview.
Collider: Great actually. I just got to interview one of my favorite rock stars, Andrew W.K.
Davis: Oh my God, fantastic!
He's playing a show here and he's also doing a speaking engagement at the My Little Pony, Brony Con in September.
Davis: That is so funny, I didn't know that.
Are you guys involved with that?
Davis: The Brony movement is really an organic movement that was created by the fans. Frankly one of the reasons I think it's as successful as it is, is because it's independent. And I don't know if you were at the My Little Pony panel this morning…
I couldn't. I had another panel I had to cover. Was it all Brony questions?
Davis: It wasn't all Brony questions, but I'd say it was probably an equal number of Bronies and Friendship is Magic fans.
I think the Bronies are fans. I mean, I've watched that show, and it is so much better written and animated than it has to be or needs to be to serve its' function.
Davis: I take that as a compliment.
And I don't mean it as a backhanded compliment either! Because there are certain things that, like, Beast Wars was one that I watched as a kid and that had really complicated plots. It was really cool. But what do you make of Bronies? Where do you think that comes from?
Davis: You know, it's interesting. I think that the writers, Meagan McCarthy and the writing team have done such a tremendous job of creating a world that is so broadly appealing. And it isn't just a show for little girls anymore, which it was in the '80s. And I think that it starts with tremendous storytelling and characters that kind of resonate cross-gender and cross-demographic. And I have to tell you, I never saw it coming. I don't think anyone at Hasbro predicted that we would see the creation of such a unique and significant movement as the Bronies.
Other than [the Bronies], who are the most passionate fans that you've seen?
Davis: By the way, 'cross-gender,' you know what I mean…
Well, you didn't say, 'Intergender.' But I suppose transvestites* might enjoy…
Davis: They do! It's male, female and everything in between.
So, other than the Bronies who are the most passionate fans? Who is asking you for scoops or spoilers?
Davis: Well, our Transformers fanbase is very, very passionate and so steeped in the lore of Transformers. And there are so many people who are virtual walking encyclopedias when it comes to the whole history of Transformers. And, you know, it's a very, very broad demographic. We have equally rabid fans from eighteen-to-forty-nine as we do from boys six-to-eleven. I think you walk around Comic-Con you use a certain barometer of how individuals dress up; what their costumes are. For me, last year…kind of Transformers, or all of our brands. You know, our owned brands, not like Star Wars or Marvel, who we have a relationship with – but with respect to the Hasbro brands – it was kind of Transformers predominantly. This year I've seen a lot more Pony. A. Lot. More. Pony. I've seen a little bit of Littlest Pet Shop, which is a new show we have for the fall, which kind of surprised me a little bit. But probably an equal number of Transformers fans. Our Wizards of the Coast brands: Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, we have a new show called Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters. We've seen a bit of a significant fanbase there. Also a great lore across a lot of our Wizards of the Coast brands. So again, folks who are really steeped in the mythology and really relate to it. You know, we have fifteen hundred brands. Most of them, in some form or format, generations grew up with. So, you expect that kind of loyalty and excitement around the brands when you have that kind of portfolio.
With something like Transformers, when you've had series from Generation 1, which was the original, and Generation 2, which had CGI transformations added in and then Beast Wars and Beast Machines, all that stuff up through now. Obviously the films are some of the most successful of all time and there is talk of shooting parts four and five back-to-back…how do you keep a canon between them? Do you see how the movie does and then base the TV show on that?
Davis: We really…with Transformers specifically, we really look at the movies as a stand alone storytelling vehicle from television. So, television to some extent kind of fills the gap between movies. But, Transformers Prime is unique. The stories don't relate at all to the three Transformers movies that have been released, nor will they relate to any future Transformers movies because part of our opportunity and frankly our responsibility is to provide a variety of entertainment experiences to consumers. And we want entertainment experiences to live in multiple forms and formats. Wherever kids and families are consuming entertainment, we want to be there. So, television gives us that opportunity that in some ways the movies don't. We can go deeper into the story, we can create lots more characters over a longer sustained period of time. So the opportunity to be unique is such a tremendous one that we don't feel the need to connect the two together. That doesn't mean that at some point the television series might not spawn a movie. I think that's probably very possible.
Do you have any of those in development that you can talk about?
Davis: Well, I can't tell you what they are.
Can you tell me, you have fifteen hundred, can you tell me 1497 that aren't?
Davis: That would be giving it away.
I don't think our interview is that long anyway.
Davis: One thing I can say is, although television is certainly not spawning a movie in this instance is that we announced that we're going to be doing Stretch Armstrong and Stretch is a perfect example of a Hasbro brand that can live in television and movies side-by-side. And clearly, there's opportunities to provide great storytelling. Again, stand alone storytelling. The movie doesn't have to connect to the series necessarily, but you could see something like Stretch having a very long life.
Davis: So to speak… And certainly I think our television series could spawn lots of other kind of entertainment opportunities across a lot of different platforms.
With that in mind, one of the other things you guys have in development is a film version of Ouija. Is there space to make things that are more for children and more for adults? Or is it all more for families and children? Do you have any plans for something that might be aimed more for seventeen and older groups?
Davis: It's a really good question because clearly we have a number of brands that are appropriate for an older demographic and a movie like Ouija, and if we were ever to do a television series based on it, is one that could potentially be geared towards an older demographic. One could say the same thing, for instance, about Dungeons & Dragons or Magic the Gathering, even though in the trading card core the demo is a bit younger. But, more towards a sort of teen audience. But you could easily see any number of our brands, particularly some of our game brands being more geared towards an older demo. I think the threshold for us is that we're not likely to do any R-rated movies. We're very comfortable in the PG-to-PG13 space. So that's going to drive, to some extent, where we would take our brands and what demo we would be focused on.
Because, I could actually see a pretty great Twilight Zone style anthology series based around Oujia.
Especially when you have a number of things…I mean, there is indeed a deep storyline to Transformers and I was a big fan as a kid. I could tell you about Transformers series that never existed like Transtech. I really wish that did exist. But, how does the format develop for itself when you have something like My Little Pony. Do you sit down and look at it and think about, how do we develop this backwards? Or do you have someone come in and pitch you stories and then you design toys from them?
Davis: Look, we first and foremost start with what our brand priorities are and we do a lot of internal development. But we work with a lot of outside creatives and we work pretty collaboratively. We don't have a tendency to take a lot of outside pitches. We have a tendency to work with a number of the same folks. We tend to like to work with people who are of like mind and kindred spirits. And, you know, what I would say is, we're sort of open to all opportunities and we're somewhat demo agnostic. But you have to remember; we're a family driven company and we always have been for ninety years. So, that's going to draw into a lot of our decision-making.
How much R&D is there? Do you send somebody out and say, 'Well, we own Jenga. Should we see if we can make a movie out of Jenga?'
Davis: We do a lot of development. We probably have fifteen-to-twenty projects in development right now. That may not seem like a lot for what would be a comparable studio, but there is very little that we put in development that we don't make. So, we're never going to have hundreds of things in development. We're very choiceful about that. But to crack it, it takes time. So we've always got our farm team going on and we'll bring them to the big leagues when we feel like we got it right. And you don't always get it right, so you kind of have to have fifteen or twenty projects in active development and have deep bench strength.
As a kid, I know that there were a lot of shows I watched specifically because I loved the opening credits. How important is the theme song?
Davis: Huge! Huuuge! You know, that's a really great question and nobody has ever asked me that before. I am a huge, huge believer that in the first thirty seconds of a show you can either grab the attention of a kid or you can turn them away. So the main title opening, the animation – or if it's live action, how you treat the main title in live action – the music are so important. And if you watch our shows you will see that the music that we have is, I like to say, downloadable and danceable. It's really catchy. It's something that really catches your attention. We try to be really creative with our main title animations.
Where do you get the musicians?
Davis: We like to break new talent. Typically, we don't license music we create it ourselves. We have a number of composers that we've worked with over the years. You know, Brian Tyler, who we've worked with on Transformers, who is very well known. We try to create a very distinctive style for each of our shows. You know, I love anthems, so I have a tendency to lean into big, fat, anthemy scores and themes for our shows. But we like to break new talent, and they're there, you just might not know their names – other than a guy like Tyler, obviously – but we like that. It gives us a lot of flexibility.
Earlier this summer, you had Battleship come out and you did pretty well internationally, but you had a little bit of…troubled waters domestically, no pun intended. Do you have, is there any chance we might see a tv series of that? Because while I was watching it, I was thinking what a great cartoon it would be.
Davis: Look, we love Battleship, we think it's a tremendous brand. There is no question but that I believe that a Battleship series could do very well both domestically and internationally and it definitely remains a high priority for us.
Are there any specific plans for it that you can talk?
Davis: Not right now.
*I know, not the same thing. I misspoke.
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In my last post I said I'd dig more fully into the background and safety record of the artificial sweeteners. Then I got diverted; one question was what kind of sugars were there before the artificial sort? I ended up at a website called Lab Cat which, in a brief verbal and visual format, described the sugars we commonly might ingest. Table sugar usually comes from either sugarcane or beets; it's a combination of two other sugars, glucose and fructose, the former found, typically in grapes and corn; the latter in honey, fruits and vegetables.
When a physician measures your blood sugar level; he or she is checking for glucose. The WebMD site has a nice discussion of blood sugar, mainly focused on those who have too much of it, namely diabetics. Another brief discussion, this one by a Harvard Medical School professor, can be found in an abcNEWS piece online. Normal fasting blood sugar levels are in the 70 to 99 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dl) range. A deciliter is one-tenth of a liter, a little over three and a third ounces or six and two-thirds tablespoons. A liter is 1.05 quarts and a liter of water has 33.81 ounces of water. Even after eating, a non-diabetic person doesn't usually have a blood sugar level over 135 to 140 mg/dl.
Diabetics may have considerably higher blood sugar levels, enough so their urine contains sugar. Up to levels of 180-200 mg/dl your kidneys can reabsorb sugar; above those levels a urine dipstick test will be positive (briefly immersing a plastic strip into the urine; the chemicals on the strip will cause a color change if glucose is present in the urine).
If your blood sugar is low, below the low 70 mg/dl level, either from missing meals or overdosing with insulin or oral drugs used for diabetes (there are a host of other causes), you usually will feel shaky, hungry and perhaps have other symptoms. Most of us who are otherwise healthy are unlikely to have our blood sugar level fall to really low levels, but those can be extremely dangerous.
If you get an IV with sugar, it's really glucose under its pseudonym, dextrose. A common IV solution is D5W; that means the composition of the fluid is 5% dextrose (glucose) dissolved in water. another is D5NS, meaning the sugar is dissolved in a salt solution. That is usually given to patients who are dehydrated and need volume; the sugar, in the form of dextrose, is added to make the sterile intravenous fluid "isotonic," An isotonic solution has the same salt concentration as the normal cells of the body and the blood.(using only salt enough to approximately match what your normal blood level of sodium should be and not adding the dextrose would result in a fluid too dilute for safety).
When I read what I had written thus far I realized I wasn't sure anymore what exactly happens to the fructose part of table sugar, or for that matter the high-fructose corn syrup added to so many processed foods. That turns out to be more complicated than I remembered so I'll save that discussion for my next post.


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Take note, David Booth. The consensus first-overall pick in the 2012 NHL entry draft can do more than play hockey.
Nail Yakupov can beat up a bear. At least he says he can, especially with his hockey stick. He didn't have one Thursday. That's probably a good thing. Given some of the looks-to-kill he was giving inquisitors on media day, he just may have been tempted to swing it.
With three players who have Russian backgrounds possibly going in the top five in the first round of the NHL Entry Draft, this should be the year of the Russian. Instead, it's the year of the questions about Russians.
So you can appreciate if Yakupov, seemingly destined to go first over-all, is a little tired of answering the same question about whether he'll at some point abandon the team that drafts him to bask in the glow of money that the KHL promises.
Then again, that furrowed brow, and grumbling could have been because of the nauseating heat and the fact he was forced to answer said questions on top of a boat, in the middle of a river, with no chance at any shade.
Still, it's a tantalizing question for these Russians. The NHL under-pays it's young players like few other professional leagues. The top picks don't get the millions young players in the NBA, the NFL and even the MLB are afforded before they even play a pro game. It can take years to get the big payday in the NHL. And the KHL, can do something the NHL cannot. It can pay huge bundles of cash to draft picks and do it right away.
So, it's understandable NHL teams have been trying to dig into these players heads, because no one wants to be stuck with the next Alex Radu-lov.
That's why even Alex Galchenyuk was grilled by teams with "K questions" leading up to the draft despite the fact he was born in Milwaukee.
"The KHL question got so annoying," Galchenyuk said. "Every time I'd make sure to tell them 100 per cent that the team knows I'm not going there. Because I'm not. There's no chance I'm going there. I don't want to play there. I want to play in the NHL since I was a little kid.
"Everyone keeps asking me if I'm going to the KHL. 'They have more money, they have more this, they have more that.'
"The answer is no." Did he get the sense that teams thought he was lying?
"A little bit, maybe. They think I'm fooling them or something," he said.
"A lot of people ask me, 'Why you choose USA? Your whole family is Russian.' Like I said before, I just want to play for the USA.
"I was born in the States. I love the country."
Galchenyuk could have been the first overall pick but was hurt in September and missed all but two games this season. And not only did he get the K-questions and the injury questions, he was also being used to scout Yakupov, who has been his teammate with the Sarnia Sting for the past two years.
"At almost every meeting they want me to tell them about Yakie," Galchenyuk said. "Tell me about his bad parts. It's the same thing for him. They ask him if there are any weaknesses in my game. So, it's scouts trying to get tricky with us."


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Since before the Civil War, black scientists have been conducting pioneering research that has changed the way we still live and work today. Despite experiencing racial bias from an early age, these remarkable people kept their eyes on the prize. They persevered when educational opportunities were barred because of prejudice, and found ways to do research when employment was denied for no reason other than the color of their skin.
From well-known black scientists, such as George Washington Carver, to James West, who coinvented the microphone, to those whose impressive scientific records have nearly languished in obscurity, our list will have you rethinking what else might be left out of your history textbook.
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver is a scientist and inventor best-known for discovering 100 uses for the peanut, but that's only the tip of the iceberg in his remarkable life. He was born to slaves on a Missouri farm at the close of the Civil War and kidnapped by raiders a week later, becoming an orphan in the process.
Carver's former owners, Moses and Susan Carver, eventually located and returned Carver to the farm of his birth. In the years that followed, Susan Carver taught him to read and write because local schools did not allow black students.
The experience sparked an interest in lifelong learning. Carver self-directed his way through high school and conducted biological experiments of his own design. Eventually, he enrolled in Iowa State Agricultural College's botany program, where he earned a master's degree -- and a reputation as a brilliant scientist, teacher and advocate for farmers. He then became an instructor at the famed Tuskegee Institute, working alongside Booker T. Washington.
In addition to developing crop rotation methods for sharecroppers, many of whom were former slaves, Carver designed a horse-drawn classroom to illustrate his methods firsthand. He also pioneered a series of practical inventions that would make farming more profitable and less dependent on cotton, including more than 100 ways to monetize sweet potatoes, soy beans and peanuts with a conversion into dyes, plastics and fuel.
Carver became an adviser on agricultural matters to President Theodore Roosevelt, and in 1916, one of the few American members of the British Royal Society of Arts. Carver died in 1943, at age 78 [source: Biography].
James West
The next time you hear a telephone ring, think of James West. West is a Southern-born scientist best known for his 1962 coinvention of the electret microphone, a device that converts sound to electrical signals.
A stunning 90 percent of microphones currently designed or produced -- ranging from telephones and hearing aids to portable recorders -- are based on West's work, the bulk of which occurred during his four decades at Bell Labs. During that time, West was granted more than 200 U.S. and foreign patents, and achieved dozens of professional honors, including inductions into the National Inventors Hall of Fame and the National Academy of Engineering. Upon his retirement in 2001, West joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University.
It's been an impressive career arc for West, whose parents once cautioned against scientific pursuits. West's father pointed out three black men with doctorates in chemistry and physics working at the local post office and wondered whether his son's physics degree would simply become a winding road to a blue-collar job. But West was hired by Bell Labs right after graduating from Temple University. He'd interned there during his college summers [source: Homewood].
Charles H. Turner
Behavioral scientist Charles H. Turner is best known for his discovery that insects can hear. He was born in 1867 to working-class parents in Cincinnati, Ohio, and became the first African-American to earn a doctorate in zoology from the University of Chicago.
Turner's research centered on animal behavior, and he developed a series of techniques to study and measure how insects learn. For example, Turner was the first to discover insects could hear and that they were capable of changing their behavior based on previous experiences. Notably, his research showed that honeybees could recognize colors and patterns. (A former student wrote about one experiment: "The bees appeared at the table at all three meals. Then Dr. Turner put jam only at breakfast daily. They still came to each meal but found no jam at noon and night. Soon they stopped coming. This shows they have some idea of time" [source: Abramson]).
Much of his work was done without the benefit of laboratory space or research assistants, since Turner taught at high schools. Yet his findings dramatically changed the way scientists understood invertebrate species. Turner died in 1923, but many of his methods are still in use today [source: Biography].
Mae Jemison
When Mae Jemison peered back at Earth from the space shuttle Endeavour, she felt a sense of unity -- with her hometown of Chicago far below, with every star in the galaxy and, importantly, with her childhood dreams of becoming a scientist. She was the first black female astronaut to travel into space.
Jemison, born in 1956, grew up loving both the sciences and the arts. In college, she studied Russian and Swahili, and earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering before completing medical school. She also took modern dance classes at the Alvin Ailey School.
The polymath joined NASA's astronaut training program in 1987 and the Endeavour space shuttle crew in 1992. She was part of an eight-day mission that completed 127 Earth orbits and used her time in space to do bone cell research [sources: NASA, Scholastic].
After leaving NASA in 1993, Jemison founded The Jemison Group to explore products that connect technology and science, and also BioSentient Corp., which focuses on medical technology projects. She also penned an autobiography, started an international sciences camp for children and appeared on science-related television shows, including "Star Trek: The Next Generation" [source: Dr. Mae].
Percy Julian
Percy Julian was the grandson of slaves but became one of history's greatest synthetic chemists, allowing many drugs to reach patients at much lower costs and wider availability.
He was born in 1899 in Montgomery, Ala., into a family that understood the transformative power of higher education. At 17, he enrolled in dual coursework as a high school senior and freshman at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., while also working to pay his way through school. Julian studied chemistry and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1920; he was the class valedictorian. After a brief stint as a teacher, he attended Harvard and earned a master's degree, followed by a doctorate from the University of Vienna. By 36, he'd returned to DePauw to conduct research and was the first to synthesize physostigmine, an alkaloid that occurs naturally in the calabar bean and is used to treat glaucoma.
Although Julian faced barriers -- he was once denied a research position because a town law forbade blacks to stay overnight -- he was propelled by his work. His soybean compound research led to a number of patents and pioneering medications like synthetic versions of the female hormone progesterone and the steroid cortisone (used to treat rheumatoid arthritis). Julian also produced a fire-retardant foam widely used during World War II.
By 62, he'd formed and sold his private enterprise, Julian Laboratories, for more than $2 million and continued to work as a researcher and consultant until his death in 1975 [source: American Chemical Society].
Neil deGrasse Tyson
As the director of the Hayden Planetarium at New York City's American Museum of Natural History, Neil deGrasse Tyson can be found encouraging children to explore the world around them. It's a nice turnaround since a visit to a planetarium in the mid-1960s ignited a 9-year-old Tyson's own passion for the stars.
Tyson is an astrophysicist by trade and science enthusiast by nature, and is considered one of the driving forces behind Pluto's demotion from planet to dwarf planet. Throughout his career, the Harvard- and Columbia-educated scientist has repackaged complex theories and universal mysteries into essays, presentations and books aimed at laypeople. He's hosted PBS's "Nova ScienceNow" series and produces a StarTalk Radio podcast and radio program. Tyson also helped resurrect Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" television series; he hosts a new version, which debuts in 2014.
Tyson has served as an adviser on the aerospace industry to President George W. Bush and on a later commission focused on space exploration policy. He was even voted People Magazine's "Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive" in 2000 [sources: Biography, Hayden Planetarium].
David Harold Blackwell
David Harold Blackwell was one of the world's most notable statisticians, but as a child he didn't particularly like math. That was until he met the right teacher who opened a numerical world to him.
Blackwell, born in 1919, grew up in southern Illinois and by 16 was enrolled at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At 22, he graduated from his home state university with a doctoral degree in mathematics and then studied at Princeton. Although Blackwell aspired to a teaching position, racial bias closed doors; he was denied posts at Princeton and at the University of California at Berkeley. However, he was offered a position at Howard University. (Berkeley later offered Blackwell a teaching job, and he became the university's first black tenured professor in 1954).
While at Howard, Blackwell studied game theory and how it applied to decision-making in the government and private sectors during summers at RAND Corp. He became the United States' leading expert on the subject, authoring a widely respected textbook on game theory, as well as research that resulted in several theorems named for him. One such theory, which explains how to turn rough guesses into on-target estimates, is known as the Rao-Blackwell theorem and remains an integral part of modern economics. In 1965, he became the first African-American to be inducted into the National Academy of Sciences. He died in 2010 [sources: Sanders, Sorkin].
Marie Maynard Daly
Marie Maynard Daly was a pioneer in the study of the effects of cholesterol and sugar on the heart and the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry in the United States. She was born in 1921, at a time when minority women often were denied educational and employment opportunities, but she didn't allow prejudice to stop her pursuit of the sciences. By 1942, she had earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry with honors from Queens College in New York. She went on to complete a master's degree, also in chemistry, just one year later.
It was while earning her doctoral degree from Columbia University that Daly's research really began to gel. She discovered how internally produced compounds help digestion and spent much of her career as a professor researching cell nuclei. Importantly, she discovered the link between high cholesterol and clogged arteries, which helped advance the study of heart disease. She also studied the effects of sugar on arteries, and cigarette smoking on lung tissue. Daly established a scholarship fund for black students at Queens College in 1988. She died in 2003 [sources: African-American Pioneers in Science, Chemical Heritage Foundation].
Patricia Bath
Patricia Bath improved the vision of generations thanks to her invention for cataract treatment.
Born in 1942, Bath's educational achievements began early. She graduated high school in only two years, then earned a bachelor's degree from Hunter College and a medical degree from Howard University before accepting an ophthalmology fellowship at Columbia University. It was during this fellowship that Bath's research uncovered some staggering statistics: When compared with her other patients, blacks were eight times more likely to develop glaucoma and twice as likely to go blind from it. She set her sights on developing a process to increase eye care for people unable to pay, now called community ophthalmology, which operates worldwide. Bath became the first African-American to complete a residency in ophthalmology in 1973, and the first woman to join the ophthalmology department at UCLA in 1975.
By 1981, Bath was hard at work on her most notable invention, a laser probe that precisely removed cataracts in a less-invasive way. Using the laserphaco probe she devised, she was able to restore sight to patients who had been blind for as long as 30 years. In 1988, she became the first black female doctor to receive a patent for a medical purpose. After her retirement in 1993, Bath continues to advocate for the medically underserved and has focused on the use of technology to offer medical services in remote regions. She died in May 2019 after a short illness [source: Biography].
Ernest Everett Just
In 1916, Ernest Everett Just became the first black man to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in experimental embryology, but perhaps his greatest legacy is the sheer amount of scientific papers he authored during his career.
Just was born in 1883 and raised in Charleston, S.C., where he knew from an early age he was headed for college. He studied zoology and cell development at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., and worked as a biochemist studying cells at Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts. He became a biology instructor at Howard University before finishing his Ph.D., and would spend 20 summers also working at Woods Hole. From 1920 to 1931 he was awarded a biology fellowship by the National Research Council. Just pioneered research into cell fertilization, division, hydration and the effects of carcinogenic radiation on cells.
Frustrated that no major American university would hire him because of racism, Just relocated to Europe in 1930. Once there, he wrote the bulk of his 70 professional papers, as well as two books. He died of pancreatic cancer in 1941 [sources: Biography, Genetics, Gwinnet County Public Schools].
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Author's Note: 10 Black Scientists You Should Know
This was a memorable assignment to research, not only because of the achievements of each of these scientists. The obstacles each scientist faced, which included racial and gender prejudices that prevented educational and employment opportunities, must have been frustrating and, at times, seemed insurmountable. Yet each scientist managed to not only achieve a level of success, but to pioneer new research methods and make discoveries that often had global implications.
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- Abramson, Charles Dr. "Charles Henry Turner: A Brief Biography". Oklahoma State University. (Jan. 31, 2014) http://psychology.okstate.edu/museum/turner/turnerbio.html
- African-American Pioneers in Science. "Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003)." (Jan. 31, 2014) http://www.african-american-scientists.com/bios/marie-maynard-daly.html
- African-American Scientists. "Marie Maynard Daly." (Jan. 31, 2014) http://www.african-american-scientists.com/bios/marie-maynard-daly.html
- American Chemical Society. "Percy Lavon Julian." (Jan. 30, 2014) http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/julian.html
- Biography. "Charles Henry Turner." (Jan. 31, 2014) http://www.biography.com/people/charles-henry-turner-21302547
- Biography. "Ernest Everett Just." (Jan. 31, 2014) http://www.biography.com/people/ernest-everett-just-9359195
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- Chemical Heritage Foundation. "Marie Maynard Daly." (Jan. 31, 2014) http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/biomolecules/proteins-and-sugars/daly.aspx
- DrMae.com. "About Dr. Mae." (Feb. 3, 2014) http://www.drmae.com/about-dr-mae-97
- Genetics. "Just and Unjust: E.E. Just (1883-1941)." 2008. (Feb. 3, 2014) http://www.genetics.org/content/179/4/1735
- Gwinnett County Public Schools. "Ernest Everett Just." (Jan. 31, 2014) http://www.lilburnes.org/Students/Scientists/4thB/Ernest_Just_%20Madison.htm
- Hayden Planetarium. "About Neil deGrasse Tyson." (Jan. 30, 2014) http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/profile/about-neil-degrasse-tyson
- Homewood, Phil Sneiderman. "Inventing a New Role." The Gazette Online. Jan. 13, 2003. (Jan. 30, 2014) http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2003/13jan03/13west.html
- NASA. "Astronaut Mae C. Johnson." (Jan. 31, 2014) http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/jemison-mc.html
- Sanders, Robert. "Eminent Statistician David Blackwell Has Died at 91." UC Berkeley News Center. July 15, 2010. (Jan. 31, 2014) http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/07/15/blackwell/
- Scholastic. "Meet a Super Scientist." (Jan. 30, 2014) http://teacher.scholastic.com/space/Mae_Jemison/index.htm
- Sorkin, Michael. "David Blackwell Fought Racism; Became World-Famous Statistician." St. Louis Post-Dispatch. July 14, 2010. (Jan. 31, 2014) http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/obituaries/article_8ea41058-5f35-5afa-9c3a-007200c5c179.html


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Thanksgiving Day Dishes
Cranberry Sausage Classic Dressing
Corn Bread Stuffing
According to a new survey by Mrs. Cubbison's Kitchen in Los Angeles, celery and onions top the ingredients list, then regional differences come into play:
- People in the Northeast and West are more likely to add carrots and sausage.
- 70 percent of people in the South and 60 percent of people in the Northeast said they like to cook stuffing in a casserole dish.
- 58 percent of people in the West and 45 percent of people in the Midwest said they prefer to cook it in the bird.
While traditional Thanksgiving dishes are preferred in most regions, about one in five families say they now consider special diets when preparing their menu including gluten-free, vegetarian, diabetic and kosher options:
- Gluten-free and vegetarian choices are popular in the West.
- The South and Midwest offer items for those who are diabetic.
- The Northeast and South offer lactose-free and kosher dishes.
The survey also found that when asked which Thanksgiving dishes are handed down from previous family generations, "stuffing" was by far the most important. But the term for this dish differed depending on locale - Southerners refer to the dish as "dressing," while people in the East, Midwest and West say "stuffing."
No matter where you live, you can ensure big flavor at your holiday table when you use family-favorite recipes like these. Get more Thanksgiving recipes at www.thanksgivingtips.com.
Cranberry Sausage Classic Dressing
- 1 1/2 pounds pork sausage, crumbled
- 1/4 cup butter, unsalted
- 1 cup celery, chopped
- 1 cup onion, chopped
- 2 teaspoons garlic cloves, chopped
- 2 6-ounce packages of Mrs. Cubbison's Classic Seasoned Dressing
- 1 cup walnuts
- 1 cup cranberries, dried sweet
- 1 each Granny Smith apple, peeled, cored, chopped 1/2-inch
- 1 tablespoon sage, fresh, chopped
- 1 1/2 cups chicken broth
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Place sausage in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown.
- Stir in butter, celery, onion and garlic; sauté until translucent.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine dressing, prepared sausage and vegetable mixture, walnuts, cranberries, apple, sage and chicken broth.
- Transfer mixture to medium buttered baking dish. Bake covered in preheated oven 30 minutes; uncover and bake additional 20 minutes until lightly browned.
Servings 10
Preparation Time:
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Cook Time:
50 minutes
Corn Bread Stuffing
- 1 cup butter (2 sticks)
- 1 cup onion, chopped
- 1 cup celery, chopped
- 1 1/2to 2 cups liquid or broth*
- 1 box Mrs. Cubbison's Seasoned Corn Bread Stuffing
- Oven Casserole Directions - Preheat oven to 350°F. In a large saucepan, melt butter on medium heat, sauté vegetables until translucent.
- Combine stuffing mix; stir in liquid* gradually and blend lightly.
- Place stuffing in greased casserole dish, cover and bake for 45 minutes. Uncover last 15 minutes for crisper top.
Notes, Tips & Suggestions
Top-of-Stove Directions
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
- In large saucepan, melt butter on medium heat, sauté vegetables until translucent.
- Stir in liquid* gradually and bring to a boil over high heat. Cover and reduce heat to simmer for 3 minutes.
- Turn off heat, add dressing mix and blend lightly. Cover and let stand for 5 minutes. Fluff with fork and serve.
*Use more liquid for moister stuffing, less for drier.
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - jobs in arequipa or trujillo in september 2008 Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in jobs in arequipa or trujillo in september 2008 Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Peru View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message ouroboros42Joined: 05 Apr 2008Posts: 10Location: Heredia, Costa RIca Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:45 am Post subject: jobs in arequipa or trujillo in september 2008 Hey everybody Dave FINALLY added me, so I can post on here. I've read through a lot of posts (mostly by naturegirl)... some background...i'm 26, have a bachelors in psychology from Boston University and just spent 4 years as an officer in the Marine Corps...and now am dealing black jack in a local casino in reno nevada but looking to start traveling again (i spent 2 months in europe last year). If all goes as planned I will be taking the TEFL course with costaricatefl.com in Samara, Costa Rica in August, graduating in September. But the only reason I'm going to Costa Rica is because I can fly there for free. (my brother is an airline pilot) ..I really want to teach in Peru. So my questions are....what is the best way to get from Costa Rica to Peru...any cheap airlines...??? Second, I'd like to work in Arequipa or Trujillo, or some out of the way coastal place...no cities for me...and I was wondering how hard it will be to find work in September...and how early I should start applying for schools (the school in costa rica said they can help me with job placement in Peru, but I'd just like to get a head start). hanks in advance for all replies....i Laura [/i] Back to top naturegirl321Joined: 04 May 2003Posts: 9041Location: home sweet home Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 10:34 pm Post subject: I sent you a PM to a website with heaps of info about Peru, including airlines. Have a look through it. Language schools have job opening year round. YOu'll have no prob just showing up and getting ajob Back to top keepwalkingJoined: 17 Feb 2005Posts: 194Location: Peru, at last Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 8:50 pm Post subject: In Trujillo the two main language institutes, El Cultural (offers American English) and CIDUNT (offers British English) employ people pretty much year round, although getting work in advance can be tricky. How long are you planning on staying? January and February can be quiet here in Trujillo because everyone is at the beach and skips class. That said, if you arrive well before that you should have enough work to see you through the leaner months. Lots of parents put their brats in language lessons for the summer months (Jan and Feb) so if you have some experience working with kids you shouldn't have too many problems. PM me nearer the time if you want the low down on Trujillo. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Peru All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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Bigfoot tracker admits body is a fake
SAN ANTONIO — After a falling out with his Bigfoot crew, master tracker Rick Dyer, whose new title may be "con artist", admitted that the 8-foot tall body named "Hank" that wooed crowds last month in Houston is a prop made to look like a Bigfoot.
The crew, including spokesman Andrew Clacy, had an apparent rift in Daytona last week with accusations, lawsuit threats and resignations that led to Dyer announcing "the truth" on Facebook, and Clacy emailing a statement to the San Antonio Express-News on Monday, admitting that the body was a prop.
"From this moment on, I will speak the truth! No more lies, tall tales or wild goose chases to mess with the haters!" Dyer said on his Facebook, which has since been deleted. "I never treated anyone bad, I'm a joker, I play around, that's just me."
Clacy said once he found out the body was fake he immediately resigned and returned "home to Australia."
"I confronted Mr. Dyer in Daytona on my suspicions (of authenticity), (and he) admitted to me personally that the body of 'Hank' was not a real body, but rather a construct of a company from Washington State which was paid for by Rick Dyer," wrote Clacy. "I am available and willing to cooperate with any Federal or State law enforcement
investigations should they arise."
Chris Russell, of Twisted Toy Box in Washington, admitted to manufacturing the prop, which Dyer named "Hank", of latex, foam and camel hair last year at Dyer's request in an interview with a Bigfoot blogging site Sunday.
It is unclear how much Dyer paid to have the prop made, but a full-body mummy suit on the site is more than $700, although a custom prop the size of the Bigfoot was significantly more expensive.
Dyer's post said that nationwide tour that charged people $10 to see the fake body pulled in close to $60,000, with Clacy making more than $12,000 in cash, meals and entertainment, or 20 percent.
Although Dyer admitted the body was a fake, he said he actually did shoot and kill a Bigfoot in San Antonio in 2012 but did not want to take the real body on tour because it would be stolen.
As the website Snopes.com points out, Dyer made similar claims in 2008 when he claimed to have killed Bigfoot. When Dyer revealed the specimen at a press conference, it turned out to be a rubber ape suit.
Dyer brought his prop Bigfoot in a 20-foot trailer towed behind an RV to San Antonio last month to the Park North Alamo DraftHouse and charged $10 to see the body and $20 for an event with the theater that included a viewing, a question-and-answer session and a film. The event sold out.
Dyer stopped at a number of other cities in the country, including Houston and other Texas stops, charging people to see the fake body.
An email posted on Dyer's Facebook, which is now only accessible through cached versions, is from Clacy responding to his email being hacked by Dyer and threatens "25 Internet campaigns" to attack Dyer from releasing pet peeves to his social security number.
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The Day of the Locust
Adaptations of quintessentially L.A. novels tend to either work marvelously, as with L.A. Confidential, or don't quite measure up to their source material (a category I'd lump Ask the Dust into). John Schlesinger's adaptation of The Day of the Locust was a costly misfire for Paramount Studios which spent something like 6 months on the film and a whole lot of dough. It could have been as influential as Chinatown, but it was a flop upon release, though ultimately it had some enduring appeal as a cult film in later years. Nathaniel West's novel is generally considered to be the very best novel on Hollywood, its more grotesque inhabitants, and its tragic allure as a festering dump where dreams go to die. That makes the novel sound sobering and self-serious but this is a story about fame whores, violently degenerate midgets, sociopathic child actors, cockfights, stag films, and a movie premiere that culminates in the apocalypse. It's brutally dark and really, really entertaining.
The movie is essentially a literal adaptation of West's novel and it came under criticism from some quarters for being too literal. Director John Schlesinger was taken to task for supposedly ignoring the arch satire of West's depiction of Hollywood as the epicenter of greed, desperation, and idiocy, and instead ratcheting up the cartoon nihilism to a fever pitch. But when you do a story about America's pop cultural border town that ends with a murderous orgy of celebrity blood lust I'm not exactly sure "holding back" is the way to go. The Day of the Locust is about a particular kind of American tragedy that West found on Hollywood Boulevard during the 1930s. In the dive bars and diners that lined the boulevard were hundreds of desperate people without a nickel to their name, all drawn to Hollywood in the hopes of making it big. Most, West found, couldn't even get work as extras. He saw them as a mass of human wreckage under the movie premiere kleig lights. The dark joke beneath the glittering dream that Hollywood came to embody was exquisitely rendered by West as it was happening. The film does justice to the novel with its horror show theatrics under the palm trees and sunny skies of Southern California and ultimately it's more creepy than campy.Continue Reading


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Conclusions: First-Year Teachers Need More Support
The passion that the 53 first-year teachers featured in this book bring to their jobs is inspiring. Their success in one of the most demanding professions imaginable shows us what can happen when a dedicated, talented teacher takes the helm of a classroom.
And yet, time and again, the teachers we interviewed talked about the difficulties they faced working in isolation, when deprived of the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues, learn from principals, and form partnerships with parents.
The perseverance of these teachers despite such obstacles speaks volumes about their commitment, and it also confirms what we know to be true about the teaching profession--new teachers need policies that provide more support, and they need people behind them.
At stake is the quality of our nation's teaching force. America is losing some of its most promising young teaching professionals and failing to cultivate an experienced, expert teacher workforce--shortchanging students and schools and costing taxpayers money.
It's time to listen to the words of the teachers who excel on the job despite difficult circumstances. When they tell us they want a principal who provides professional development opportunities, when they say they want the chance to watch veteran teachers in their classrooms, when they call for teacher preparation programs to provide follow up, we need to hear them.
And when they describe the efforts they make to build connections with veteran teachers, professors, and especially parents, tomorrow's new teachers can draw inspiration from their example.
We hope this publication raises awareness of the difficult experiences that a first-year teacher confronts and the role that educators, citizens, and the teachers themselves can play to alleviate their burden. Successful first-year teachers have a lot to say about improving their situation; now it's time to act.
More About First-Year Teaching
The U.S. Department of Education offers research and information on first-year teaching. The best way to gain access to it is through the Department's World Wide Web Site (www.ed.gov). If you want access to a selection of materials available at this site, type "first-year teachers" into the search engine (called "quick search").
Also on this web site is a publication called Promising Practices: New Ways to Improve Teacher Quality. If you want to read chapter five of Promising Practices, "The Induction of New Teachers," you can go directly to www.ed.gov/pubs/PromPractice/chapter5.html. This chapter profiles school districts' efforts to provide support for first-year teachers and lists the characteristics of a successful new teacher induction program.


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For David Hughes, an associate of Penn State's Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, the zombie ant phenomenon has implications far beyond the annals of weird science. It's a powerful reminder of the role of behavior in the transmission of disease.
"The other thing I work on is food security," Hughes explains. Doing research in rainforests around the world, he has seen escalating destruction of these habitats, much of it necessary for food production. As the landscape is transformed, however, food plants are increasingly exposed to infectious diseases that emerge from the forest, he says. "These diseases are new, they're evolving rapidly, and we never think about them because we're only ever thinking of the next HIV or ebola, something that will attack humans directly. But equally devastating is a disease of a food plant which feeds 700 million people.
"For me," he adds, "the situation in sub-Saharan Africa today is similar to that in Ireland in 1845, with plant disease threatening to wipe out the food security of vast swathes of the population."
Such is the case with cassava, a dietary staple across much of Africa, and a plant increasingly afflicted by withering viruses including cassava mosaic disease. Ants are a vital component in the spread of these diseases, Hughes says, not because they pass disease directly, but because they protect the pests that do. One such is the whitefly, which feeds by injecting its syringe-like beak into one cassava leaf after another, drawing out nourishment and infecting as it goes.
On its own, the whitefly is an evolutionary weakling, ill-suited to survival in the harsh tropical environment, but with the powerful ant to ward off its predators it can thrive. In return, the ant collects the sweet "honeydew" the whitefly excretes, and carries it back to the nest for food.
Recently, Hughes' knowledge of this mutually beneficial relationship led him to an unorthodox idea for solving the cassava mosaic problem.
"There are many people around the world working on genetically engineering cassava to kill the virus outright," he explains. "What we want to do is modify the plant using RNA interference," inserting a genetic signal to turn off the reproductive genes in the ant queen. The signal would then pass from the leaf through the whitefly and be ingested by the worker ants and eventually the queen, effectively sterilizing her and thus causing a rapid breakdown of the colony.
With fewer bodyguards to protect it, Hughes says, the whitefly would be more vulnerable to both pesticides and natural enemies. As its numbers dwindled, so would the spread of the disease. This approach would specifically target local colonies and not impact the ant ecosystem as a whole, he says.
In 2012, Hughes received a Grand Challenge Exploration grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to pursue his idea, working with Penn State colleagues Mark Guiltinan, Siela Maximova and Gary Thompson. "We believe this concept has transformative potential," he said in response, "and could have a major impact on solving some of the world's most important issues, such as food production and agricultural productivity, in a relatively short period of time."


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The day Manila fell silent
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By Filipina Storyteller Ninotchka Rosca
Ironically, the most quiet day in Manila of contemporary times began with noise: a loud pounding on the glass door of a penthouse apartment I was using at the time. The friend who was hollering and shouting and bruising his knuckles on the glass, blurted out, as soon I slid the door open, "Martial law na…[Martial law already]" A split second of silence; then I pivoted and clicked on the radio. Nothing but white noise. Turned on the TV. Nothing but a white screen and static. Distraught friend said, "no TV, no radio station… everything's closed down." We eyeballed each other. The previous night's last news item on TV flashed into my mind: a still photo of a car, its roof collapsed, windshield shattered; a male voice saying that the car of the Secretary of National Defense had been attacked but he had not been in it… It was truncated news; I thought, "What? An empty car was bombed?" As I was going to bed, I noticed that the government building behind our apartment building was all lit up: floor after floor, from top to bottom, blazing with lights. I said then, "Something's happening; and it's happening all over the city."
Now this friend stuttering about martial law triggered an avalanche of images in my brain. This would become a habit with me ever after, this going into mental hyperdrive, correlating incidents and data, during crisis. The cascade stopped with the face of a smiling Senator Benigno Aquino, as he said to me, while we stood in the red carpeted foyer of the old Senate, "Marcos will not catch me lying down." I'd asked about Oplan Sagittarius, rumored to be the secret blueprint for martial law. We'd all assumed that if ever, it would go into effect in November-December. So I just teased the senator, calling him President Aquino. It would be my last face-to-face with him. In 1983, when he was assassinated, I muttered to myself, "I'd better fix my papers; Marcos will fall." I was in New York City by then. I had filed for political asylum but it was just in stasis.
What is the point of this recollection? It is to stress that martial law was personal… PERSONAL. Everyone felt it, was affected by it, had an opinion, a thought, a feeling, about it. The day it was declared, with a friend standing there, his hair practically on end, I remembered how, a week before, a minor journalist on the military beat had generously offered to check if my name and address were on an arrest order. Young though I was, I wasn't exactly naïve. I gave him an old address. Sure enough, the place was raided.
We moved quickly. I had to find a secure telephone so I could find out what had happened, was happening. Outside, it was so quiet, so quiet… Manila had always been a noisy city: music blaring from car and jeepney radios, from juke boxes; television noises; people yelling. But this day, it was so very, very quiet. Aboard a jeepney, there was only desultory human voices: Para, mama; sa kanto lang… No music; no talking; and we avoided one another's eyes. We were all beginning to be locked within; imprisoned as it were. When the jeepney passed a newspaper building with its front doors barred by rolls of concertina wire, we all took a sidelong glance and averted our eyes. We did not want to seem overly interested. We were beginning to learn NOT to call attention to ourselves – a very strange thing for Filipinos who, to this day, love to strut and crow and flap wings.
Being a journalist, my first impulse was to call the National Press Club. I asked for Tony Zumel, who was NPC president at the time. The secretary — she was called Baby, if memory serves me right — upon hearing my name, switched to this unusually saccharine vocal inflexion : "Haaaay, hello, how are you…long time no hear" – which nobody but nobody used with me at the NPC. I asked for Tumel, our nickname for Zumel; and she sang out, "Oooooh, he's not here. I don't know where he is." Pause. I asked, "Military there?" And she said, "Yessss…" Nothing left but to say thanks, goodbye.
Years later, in 1986, with Marcos still in power, I'd be in the same building, looking for Tony Nieva's office which was at the back of the NPC. A young cigarette vendor asked what I was looking for; I inadvertently said, "The office of Tony Zumel." His eyes glazed and he looked far, far, far away, seemingly at a caravan crossing the desert, and answered, softly, "Ay, matagal na pong wala iyon…Matagal na. [He's been gone a long time. A long, long time.]" I looked at him with wonder, a kid with an unbreakable connection to history.
It was personal. It was not just a piece of paper with a signature, not just a voice making the announcement; it wasn't even the orders barked at rows of khaki- or fatigue-uniformed men. It was an absolute threat, a palpable danger, a loss of self-power and security. It endangered the usual, the common, the ordinary details of daily life. Years later, Rodolfo Salas, then chair of the Communist Party of the Philippines, would tell me of how about 200 students ran for their Central Luzon guerrilla base, throwing his group into a tizzy — though it's hard to imagine Bilog, as we called him, even slightly nervous. "We had to feed them," he said smiling, "and used up in one day our month's supply." Bilog then instructed his unit to interview each student. Those not under direct threat would return to town or city to help in the resistance. Those with "serious threats" would be given the choice of moving elsewhere: northern, southern Luzon; the Visayas; Mindanao. He said that some who were not under direct threat chose to be sent elsewhere, willing to take on the very difficult task of opening new guerrilla fronts.
Romantic in the telling, it wasn't, in reality. The half-joke then was that if one survived for a year in the countryside, one was already a veteran. Still, many chose this manner of struggle. Because martial law was personal.
A lexicon grew for clandestine work, so that information could be imparted without naming the information. Sunog meant raid, capture. Nanununog meant someone was talking. Nasunog meant someone had been betrayed. And of course, at the end of every meeting, INGAT, which recently is translated as "take care." No nothing as innocuous as that. It meant "be careful" out there. And as if to underscore the intellectual underpinnings of the budding movement, the Communist Party was the Q, following the symbolic logic formula, if p then q.
Thus the struggle against martial law would begin – quietly, carefully, slowly, in a process of learning, unlearning and refinement as it went along. It was fought not only with guns, since even guerrillas could not survive without supplies and there were no deep bases as yet. Supply teams were set up in Manila for various regions, because while there was food of a sort in the countryside, there was little by way of cash. Certain things just had to be bought. I recall at the time that the request for supplies for the Cordillera region, then called Montanosa, came to a measly 800 pesos a month. For as long as I could, I gave all of it.
One early coup de plume would cheer the city of Manila, at least. A poem, well written, was published by a magazine controlled by Marcos's cronies. Just a little poem but all the letters starting each line, when scanned downward, read: Marcos, Hitler, Diktador, Tuta… Via the grapevine, we learned almost instantly it had been done by Pete Lacaba. The owners tried to have all the copies recalled but one was delivered to my residence, so I was fortunate enough to have seen it with my own eyes. This kind of daring would set the tone for the struggle's propaganda.
The first issue of Liberation came out in 1975, I believe. The making of it had its comedic moments. Since the cover had to be photo-stenciled, one young man went to a Makati Gestetner store, pretended to be buying a machine, and when the sales agent was distracted by a phone call, loaded the designed front page into the machine. Remember that one had to apply for a license to even have a mimeograph machine. Distribution of copies was done by a Volkswagen so old its driver door kept swinging open every 350 meters, as it were, revealing all the newsletter stacks on the backseat. But by 1986, I was assured that copies were being inserted into Marcos's election propaganda, distributed by his party for the election. It was no longer the mimeographed version I was familiar with; it was printed, likely by the same printing presses doing Marcos's propaganda and equally likely, paid for by the same budget appropriation.
The struggle learned how to struggle and in that learning were many, many stories – of rage and laughter, of loss and gains. The death of Puri Pedro, murdered by a military officer, was a palpable pain over our neighborhood. The escape of political prisoners, on the other hand, brought an almost carnival mood. It is my hope that one day, all stories will be told, affirming that those who were imprisoned — 100,000 by the then Secretary of Defense own admission – can be named; that those who were murdered – 3,000 plus have been documented but more died in so-called "encounters" – can be named; and those who disappeared – 759 documented, though there were more – can be named.
For on the day Manila fell quiet, it was not only noise, music, talk, chatter, the hum of a vibrant life, that martial law sought to take away from us. Martial law sought to reduce the millions of names in the archipelago to the handful of the Marcos clan and cronies, denying millions the right to be, to exist, to be named. Martial law reduced the entire population of the archipelago to the Marcos clan and cronies; nobody else was of significance; no one else's desire, wishes, goals and dreams mattered. Martial law sought to erase all of us, rendering us merely props on the stage where the supposed magnificent destiny of clan and cronies would unfold. Martial law dehumanized us, rendered us NAMELESS. We were all rendered non-persons. The response was to take martial law as personal and to work for both an individual and collective democracy fascism couldn't break. This was done in the interfaces of life which couldn't be policed, away from surveillance, in the days most quiet need. From time to time, the little noises would break out into a huge yell – a noise barrage protesting the fraudulent Manila election; students banging on the door bars and window rails quickly installed at university campuses.
Forty years later, here we are, in a re-collection of those times, at a cool basement gallery, in a neighborhood of a city so different from the terrain where what we have re-collected occurred. We are on the other side of the globe, though I'm pleased to remember the first reading ever honoring the murdered poet Emman Lacaba (at the Bowery church) and the first reading honoring murdered and imprisoned Filipino poets (sponsored by PEN American Center for which it was excoriated by the head of PEN Philippines) took place in this city – two events I was fortunate to help set up.
In our own fashion, in the Philippines, in the US and wherever we were, we dealt with martial law and the continued usurpation of the archipelago by the Marcos Clan and Cronies. We learned as we went along, as martial law was a very new thing, we had no models of resistance to it. But we learned, making as much noise as possible as we learned, and we learned very well indeed.
Which is why the national (official) reluctance to deal with martial law, to name it for what it was, to extract justice for the damage it inflicted upon people and the islands – this reluctance has been so distressing. The revision of history began almost at once, and it took the form immediately of denying the power of the people in the overthrow of the Marcos Dictatorship. Instead, the overthrow has been ascribed to a few names – "heroes" – and supernatural elements. Hell, if people hadn't taken their courage in hand, all the "heroes" would have died under tank fire. But so it goes; the rich and powerful preserve their own construct. Victims of human rights violations remain bereft of justice; those who imprisoned, murdered, raped, still walk untrammeled and often in power; those who shared in the division of loot and turf continue to hold on to what they had stolen – even as the people, yes, the people, were being reduced to metaphorical observers in the narrative of the struggle against martial law.
Because of this national (official) reluctance, the legacy of martial law continues: the impunity of assassinations, murder and relentless violence, warlordism and turfism, the perverse view that public money is the private treasury of those in authority and the idea that the people are unthinking lumps of matter entitled only to lies and trickery. How steadily amnesia has taken over minds and hearts – with those who should be in disrepute elevated to pedestals of respect. Marcos Clan and Cronies are finger-painting daisies on a curtain being drawn over the putrid night of the martial law years. Their egos, swollen with the unlimited self-indulgence of the martial law years, have not shrunk to proper proportions. Only truth can do that; only justice can do that.
Forty years after Manila fell silent, let us push away the cacophony of lies and sink ourselves once more into the quiet truth of that day. Because as martial law was personal then, it is still personal now.
As they seek to perpetuate the legacy of martial law, we must perpetuate the legacy of those who fought it. What can we, who live so far from the hard heat of a Philippine summer, the cool of monsoon rains, what can we do – we who are on the other side of the globe, in a strange city, in a strange neighborhood and who are now gathered today in a cool basement gallery, so very different from the terrain visited by martial law?
Many of you weren't even born yet when Marcos was overthrown, much less when martial law was declared. And yet here we all are, fighting NOT to be nameless in this neighborhood, this city, this state, this country, in the intricate workings of capital.
Through the years I have seen and been engaged in many big and small movements, artistic and political and often both; they waxed and waned, surged and ebbed, and petered out, even as our numbers increased. Many poets, many writers, many painters, many sculptors of Filipino descent worked and struggled in this country, trying to bring an awareness of what has transpired, is transpiring, in 7,000 islands on the other side of the globe. And like a Sisyphean task, we have seen the words we wrote, images we drew, figures we shaped, shatter and fade even as we continued to write, to draw, to sculpt.
There is a need for permanence to our work, a deep-rootedness, to mark it as of this place though prism-ed by events elsewhere. We need to affirm that we are of this place and of this time, though our lineage may be elsewhere. We need affirm our right to be here – to be visible and engaged in this country, to be as a branch of the banyan tree which, even as it issues forth from the mother trunk, seeks to sink its own roots into the alien loam. By affirming our right to be here, our right to fashion a life and a destiny for ourselves here, by affirming our right and duty to make history in the time and place of our lives, by affirming our right to have a name, as it were, here, we defeat the original intent of martial law. In the process, we also help create a genuine democracy for ourselves, our communities, our brothers and sisters of different colors and different ethnicities. And that, as we did learn in the years following the day Manila fell silent, is the path to victory.
Thank you and, because dangers continue, INGAT.
Talk on 9 September 2012, Bliss on Bliss Studio, Queens, New York City.
Ninotchka Rosca has two novels, two short story collections and four non-fiction books. Her novel State of War is considered a classic account of ordinary people's lives under a dictatorship. She is a classic short story writer. She is also the author of the best-selling English language novels State of War and Twice Blessed. The latter won her the 1993 American Book Award for excellence in literature. Her most recent book is JMS: At Home In The World, co-written with the controversial Jose Maria Sison, who has been included in the U.S. list of "terrorists." Rosca was a political prisoner under the dictatorial government of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. She was forced into exile to Hawaii, United States when threatened with a second arrest for her human rights activism by the Marcos regime. Rosca was designated as one of the 12 Asian-American Women of Hope by the Bread and Roses Cultural Project. These women were chosen by scholars and community leaders for their courage, compassion and commitment in helping to shape society. They are considered role models for young people of color, who, in the words of Gloria Steinem, "have been denied the knowledge that greatness looks like them." Rosca has worked with Amnesty International and the PEN American Center. Rosca was also a founder and the first national chair of the GABNet, the largest and only US-Philippines women's solidarity mass organization, which has evolved into AF3IRM. She is the international spokesperson of GABNet's Purple Rose Campaign against the trafficking of women, with an emphasis on Filipinas.


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Outside the bubble that encases city hall, there isn't a lot of faith in the way it makes big decisions.
This is not because Winnipeggers are cynical about municipal government, which of course they are. It's because of the events of 2012, which saw the folks at 510 Main St. float an unpopular plan to place a water park opposite the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, build a fire-paramedic station on property the city doesn't own and end the year under the cloud of an audit of real estate transactions.
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In January, Winnipeg Transit unveiled the final version of the Southwest Rapid Transit Corridor Stage 2 Alignment Study, which, as expected, recommended the construction of a seven-kilometre bus corridor that would run through the Parker Lands of northwestern Fort Garry and along a Manitoba Hydro corridor.
The advantages of this dogleg route over a more direct, six-kilometre busway that would run parallel to Pembina Highway include fewer road crossings (four vs. nine), higher operating speeds (80 km/h vs. 60 km/h) and lower land-acquisition costs ($8 million vs. $41 million). Advantages of the more direct route include the need to build fewer bridges or underpasses (only one vs. four), better service to existing residential neighbourhoods and the opportunity to increase density along Pembina Highway.
What has emerged as a wild card in the debate is the city's claim there's more development potential along the empty dogleg -- the Hydro corridor and the Parker Lands, which developer Andrew Marquess acquired from the city in a 2009 land swap.
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I don't know Mary, Your black bean soup looks pretty attractive to me. I'd be happy with a bowl of your soup. I like the cilantro garnish.ReplyDelete
Thank you Ann. You know the same goes right back at you . . . the food you prepare is always (pardon me, please) DROOL worthy. Hope your weather is warmer than down here!!ReplyDelete
Mari, I could eat this every day. Love black bean soup. I really need to try this and I really like your changes. Thanks. SusanReplyDelete
Hi Susan, you know so many times when I decide to make soup I overlook the option black bean soup for some reason. And then when I DO make it I wonder why I have neglected doing so.ReplyDelete
(Note to self to make BBS more often!)
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If anybody can make a bowl of beans look good in a picture, Mari... it's you! Bet it tasted really good, too.ReplyDelete
I think your photos are gorgeous! I need to make this soon.