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Women in Popular Culture (entry for Encyclopedia of Women's Folklore and Folklife)
Mary Magoulick, Georgia College & State University Revised 2006
Popular culture is the term for artistic expressions of the people, at least half of whom are women. Its academic definition overlaps substantially with that of folklore as both involve the broad study of creative expression in context. Sometimes women's popular culture subverts the status quo; sometimes it reflects women's lives, including prejudices they face. Whether a popular form celebrates women, demeans them, or interpretably or alternatively does both, understanding it teaches us much about women's culture and folklore generally.
Some scholars argue that popular culture is a post-industrial phenomenon beginning late in the nineteenth century, and link it exclusively to mass media phenomena (Russell Nye 1970, Herbert Gans 1974). Others trace it farther back, considering it the "expressive materials of any group, large or small, pre-industrial or post-industrial" (Ladurie 1979; David 1977; Burke 1978; "Popular Culture: A Background"). Most folklorists and feminists use the phrase in this second sense of the aesthetics and pastimes of everyday life. "Popular" means "of the people." Popular culture thus usually connotes creative expressions of ordinary people as opposed to those of a society's elite or educated classes (typically literature, visual art, and music). The term "culture" has many layers of meaning. Today, it is most often understood as those processes of learned behavior and creative expression that can be interpreted at some level as symbolic.
Popular culture encompasses a wide variety of genres: television programs, films, popular (pulp) fiction, graphic novels, cartoons, music, fashion, entertainments including circuses, gambling, festivals, beauty pageants, and rodeos, games, parks, food, sports, toys, religions, fads, celebrity icons, bumper stickers, and graffiti. This is a suggestive rather than a comprehensive list. What often separates the field of popular culture studies from that of cultural studies is the extent to which the context (worldviews, attitudes, thoughts, opinions, and lifestyles) of art makers and audiences are taken into consideration in studying or evaluating it. Like folklorists, scholars of popular culture consider interactions between the art itself (the lore or the culture) and the people who make and/or use the art (the population, populace, or folk).
Its detractors consider popular culture to be of poorer quality or less worthy of academic study than high art because it lacks cultivation or confirmation from elite critics of its aesthetic worth or complexity. Feminist folklorists however, recognize the political implications of this view. Patriarchal perspectives consider men and their artistic works as more advanced than others. Critics of this notion of popular culture suggest that, too often, because Euro North Americans, whose popular culture is disseminated on a grand scale throughout the world, assume the privilege and entitlement of White men under patriarchy; Euro North Americans anticipate and readily celebrate their own cultural productions much more quickly and easily than they do art made by people of color, by persons of non-European-origin cultures, and by women.
Feminist folklorists advocate working to understand popular culture in its own terms, articulating presumptions about culture, and recognizing how privilege may influence aesthetic interpretation. They note that, like all human expressions, popular culture reflects a wide range of talent, depth, and complexity. Just as folklore studies have recognized and admired the skills and aesthetics of the traditional arts―Turkish rugs, Pueblo pottery, Irish fairy tales―so popular culture scholars identify and respect the aesthetics of popular culture forms―free-style rap, comic book art, television programs, local food contests, celebrity fandom, science fiction. They assert that all such genres have endless potential and contain profoundly rich, symbolic art. While some examples of pop culture may be shallow or short-lived, others are likely to perplex, challenge, delight, stimulate, horrify, pacify, anger, soothe, humor, delight, and provoke audiences and critics alike for centuries to come.
Women's connections to popular culture both enhance and complicate conceptions and discussions of its forms and aesthetics. A society's popular culture can reflect the lives of its disenfranchised members. It can include non-canonical expressions (those outside the body of generally acclaimed and approved great works of art). Popular culture, then, is an ideal site for locating sympathies and connections to women and women's studies, since women are often disenfranchised and rarely canonized. But since popular culture reflects the standards, beliefs, and practices of an entire society, discrimination against and negative attitudes about women and girls surface in it as often as in elite-origin cultural forms. Of course, popular culture, like any art form, can be both mainstream and subversive at the same time—which is what makes it so interesting.
Women, like any underclass, have a better chance of maintaining control over their own artistic expressions in spontaneous and grassroots situations than they do in forms with high profiles and/or profit potentials. Popular forms made by or for women however, remain controversial even in academic popular culture studies; they are sometimes mocked, sometimes elevated. For example, early popular culture theorist Jürgen Habermas (1962) suggested that pulp fiction in general, and romance novels for women in particular, were the quintessence of false consciousness, alienated thinking, and commodity capitalism. That women are interested in reading such rubbish only showed how deluded they are, claimed Habermas. In contrast, feminist Janice Radway (1987) looks not only at the romance novel industry and its women-focused marketing practices, but also the ways in which women read resistantly to find escape from their lives, but also for practice in imagining less oppressive possibilities.
Some genres of popular culture, like the romance novel, completely dominated by and focused on women, may actually subscribe to the dominant cultural philosophy, stereotyping women as dependent on men for fulfillment. Despite the fact that romance novels are devoted, at least on one level, to the very outcomes patriarchy expects (seeing women happily married and ready to produce children), these works are generally belittled and despised, especially by powerful men. Many men, and many feminists as well, may nonetheless mock those women who find in romances ways to take charge, artistically explore, and possibly even enjoy the sensual possibilities of their historically assigned functions. Many romance readers and writers, however, subvert the genre with readings that move them beyond the novel's assigned roles.
Religion provides another way through which women take control of their lives and participate in creatively expressive communities. Women who find the dogma and rituals of their religious organizations too oppressive and/or too male-centered often begin popular religious groups. Those groups are sometimes still connected to the dominant father institution but allow for more fulfilling creative outlets and communal experiences (e.g., Sawain 2004). Joan of Arc is one of the more popular examples of this phenomenon, as is the lesser known and probably fictive medieval Pope Joan (Johanna). Women's groups may also form sub-cultures within their churches, mosques, temples, or synagogues. There are also as many new religions and spiritual communities sprouting up now in North America as have arisen ever in its history (see for example Sarah Pike, Earthy Bodies, Magical Selves: Contemporary Pagans and the Search for Community, 2001; Elaine Lawless, Holy Women, Wholly Women: Sharing Ministries Through Life Stories and Reciprocal Ethnography, 1993; and Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in American Today, 1979). Some of these are female-centered, like Wicca and Neopaganism, wherein women are venerated figures, functionaries, and officials, and play significant roles as adherents.
But even in the most traditional worship communities, women may come together to form their own symbolically communicative groups. In Roman Catholicism, for example, women are disallowed from becoming priests, and many feel frustrated at being locked out of such opportunities to fully express their most profound spiritual experiences. Yet, since the earliest days of Christianity, women have founded spiritual societies that allowed them expressive outlets. Although many female medieval mystics had little power or prestige in their own day, they nonetheless wrote music and poetry that is now enjoying popular renewal. The eleventh century Hildegard of Bingen, for example, though limited in education, headed a convent, composed music, and wrote treatises on natural history and visionary works of religious literature. Her accomplishments reflect a continuing tradition of ways in which women have enlisted and enjoyed popular expressive modes, regardless of social status. Recently, all-women musical groups such as Sequoia (1994) and Anonymous 4 (2005) have produced mass-marketed CDs that interpret Hildegard's music using a pop aesthetic that appeals to contemporary tastes. Music such as Hildegard's, now 900 years old, continues to provide inspiration to some groups of women religious who play it at gatherings; following her example, they also devise and lead their own creative versions of liturgical celebrations.
While the official culture of the Catholic Church maintains male-centered control over the Sacrament of the Mass, dictating how people may worship and express themselves within it, at the more informal level of individual churches women can build sub-cultures of their own, rich in symbolism, history, and significance. Some particularly active groups in the Unitarian and Episcopal traditions, for example, have succeeded in changing church policies to allow for the ordination of female and queer priests and ministers, in changing liturgical language to less sexist forms, and in recovering submerged and/or invisible women from earlier texts and interpretations. In Judaism, there have been women rabbis and cantors in Reform and Conservative Judaism since the last quarter of the twentieth century, the consequence of the women's movement and a reinvention and/or recovery of Shechinah (the feminine side of God), the matriarchs (Sarah, Rachel, Rebekah, and Leah), and the role of women in the liturgy. In many cases, women involved in popular religious communities produce tangible products that reflect the processes of their cultures, e.g., they may trace the significance of women in the Bible, record music, create or decorate sacred spaces, prepare elaborate meals, or design and sew special clothing.
The U. S. television industry significantly intersects with women's issues in the domain of popular culture, an arena in which it holds undisputed global sway. Men overwhelmingly dominate the television industry as executives, producers, directors, writers, editors, and staff who determine the types and content of the programs they broadcast. For decades, girls and women on television have been stereotyped according to male images, expectations, and desires, stereotypes that, in general, reflect socio-economic patterns. In an economy dependant upon continuous growth, women are expected to ensure that their children will become (re)producers and consumers. Within North America's systems of corporate capitalism, the expansion of consumption thus remains women's primary life-goal, resulting in images of women on television that are overwhelmingly either sexualized or domesticated. Classical television moms―like June Cleaver of Leave It To Beaver, at home all day in her wide-skirted dress, endlessly cooking, cleaning house, and seeing to the children's every need―are no longer the only option portrayed, though. Some critics argue that newer, less domesticated images of female sexuality in television roles are evidence that women are no longer stereotyped as reproducers and consumers; instead they are allowed a wide range of social roles and responsibilities. Others, however, insist that today's hypersexualization of women playing the roles of educators, lawyers, doctors, police, politicians, and so on is equally demeaning. Today's television images still portray women as almost exclusively White, middle-class, and heterosexual. Even when lesbians and women of color do appear in prime time, it is generally to serve as foils, victims, deviants, or objects of male desire, not as role models in their own right. And despite the widely acknowledged commercial success of Rosanne, few mainstream television programs have depicted working-class women as primary characters since its run ended in 1997.
Susan Faludi's 1991 Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women suggests that television programs and films vilify truly independent women―making them awful human beings like Glenn Close's character Alex in Fatal Attraction (1987) or very unhappy ones like the single women on the series Thirtysomething (1987-1991). Numerous "reality shows" like The Bachelorette, Joe Millionaire, Married by America, Race to the Altar, and others emphasize women as desperate to get married—to anyone who seems prosperous and handsome—much in the mold of fairy tales from hundreds of years ago (Orenstein, 2003). Independent married women are no less "desperate" as seen in the first season of Desperate Housewives (2004-2005). In general, women in television still break very few molds, and even those who win out over hostile forces must face them over and over again on a weekly basis. Most television programming that features women as developed characters still ultimately portrays them as wives and mothers, as striving to become wives and mothers, or as otherwise seeking to attach themselves to men. Exceptional television women like Mary Tyler Moore's Mary Richards (1970-1977), The Bionic Woman (1976-1978), Murphy Brown (1988-1998), and more recently, female action heroes like Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003), La Femme Nikita (1997-2001), and New Zealand's Xena: Warrior Princess (1995-2001), represent the possibility of greater female independence compared with most women on television. But too often, even they do not stray too far from convention. Mary Richards, television's first reasonably well-adjusted single woman, searches throughout her series for the perfect man and relies extensively upon her male boss and colleagues. More recently Sex and the City (1998-2004) is applauded for showing single women as strong, honest, independent, and happy, albeit also hypersexualized. But that series features many episodes in which the women lament their inability to find the right (male) partner, and ends with each attaching herself to a man in a long-term relationship (either married and starting a family or on the road to marriage and "security").
Female superheroes on television like Jamie Summers (The Bionic Woman) and all the more contemporary women warriors (Sydney on Alias, Xena, Nikita, and Buffy included) remain closely bound to men, who guide them, may determine their fates, help them in battles, or even fight against them. But one can argue that the men are also tied to the women, who do the same for them. Most disturbingly, all these women also get into intensely violent physical and emotional battles, not only with their enemies, but with their love partners, family, and friends. They live in constant torment, face slews of monsters, demons, and/or terrorists, while routinely lamenting their hellish fates. While many feminists view Joss Whedon's Buffy as a successfully realized icon of liberal feminism's goals concerning "the joy of female power: getting it, using it, sharing it" (Whedon 2004), these television dramas can also function as projections of hostility toward strong and independent women.
North American feminists have long realized the subversive power of popular culture. When the dominant society disenfranchises or oppresses us, we will find ways to express ourselves in informal popular culture. In 1989, for example, the Guerilla Girlsplastered New York City with broadsides noting that the Metropolitan Museum of Art displayed a large number of female nudes but only a tiny percentage of works by female artists; was female nudity a requirement for admission? Eve Enlser's The Vaginia Monologues uses humor, wit, and some fieldwork-based performance techniques to bring new perspectives on women's lives to theaters and even to television's Home Box Office (HBO 2002). And the National Women's Music Festival and the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival offer venues for women's music that may not find mainstream appeal.
Like popular culture itself, many women's groups, writers, and activities find themselves labeled and treated as second-rate. Such marginalization can, however, confer on some women and girls a level of autonomy that allows them free, unfettered creative expression; since their work and practice is dismissed as less serious, they can do what they want. Some of us turn to quilting or gardening, as Alice Walker's foremothers did. Others get together for coffee klatches, potlucks, and book clubs that strengthen individual and community ties. We speculate about gender and society in popular fiction, as do science fiction writers Ursula K. LeGuin, Joanna Russ, and Sherri S. Tepper. Others of us commit political acts advocating for peace and justice, like making bumper stickers or wrapping a ribbon around the Pentagon (Pershing and Yocom 1996).
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The tallest minaret in India, Qutub Minar is among the iconic monuments of Delhi. Known as the 'Tower of Victory', the construction of the minaret also marked the beginning of the Muslim rule in India.
Located at Mehrauli, around 3.9 million people visit the structure every year. Built from red sandstone and marble, the minaret is known for its history and architectural significance. The minaret and other monuments within the complex have been declared a UNESCO world heritage site.
A classic example of Indo-Islamic architecture, the foundation of the minaret was laid by Qutb-ud-din-Aibak in 1192. It was built to celebrate the victory of Mohammed Ghori over Rajput king Prithviraj Chauhan.
However, Qutd-ud-din-Aibak died before completion of the minaret. Iltutmish continued construction and during his time three-storeys were added. Later in 1368, two more storeys were added by Firoz Shah Tughlak.
The minaret is 72.5 meters high and has five-storeys with a projecting balcony. The first three storeys are made of red sandstone, while the remaining two storeys with marble and sandstone. The exterior of the minaret is decorated with fluted columns, which have a 40 cm thick veneer of red sandstone. Another attraction of the minaret is its 397 steps, which leads to the balconies.
One can see verses from the Holy Quran carved in Kufic style of Islamic calligraphy on the walls of the minaret. The minaret was used to summon the faithful for the prayers in the Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque. Inscriptions further indicate repairs of the minaret carried by Sultan Sikander Lodi in 1503 after it was struck by lightning.
In 1802, the minaret was severely damaged by an earthquake and was repaired by Major R Smith of the Royal Engineers, who replaced the capola with a Bengali-style chhatri. The chhatri was later removed by the Governor General Lord Hardinge in 1848. The chhatri stands at the left side of the minar and it's called Smith's folly.
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Dil ka bhanwar kare pukar song from the film Tere Ghar Ke Saamne starring Dev Anand and Nutan was shot completely within the Qutub Minar. It was the last movie to be shot inside the tower.

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Nancy Blanchard and William Paschal, members of the Columbia County Historical Society, are making sure the history of the old Leah High School is not forgotten. They have contributed items to the Leah Museum, which is attached to fire station No. 16 on Ray Owens Road.
The museum opened in 2010 after an effort to restore the arch, which led to the school, was completed.
Both Blanchard and Paschal have fond memories of the time they spent at the school, which graduated its last senior class in 1949. The school's lower school classes closed in 1956.
Grovetown residents today know the intersection of Old Wrightsboro Road and Robinson Avenue as the location of City Hall and Memorial Park. What newcomers to the city might not realize, however, is that the intersection has always been the business hub of the city. The Grovetown Railroad Depot dominated the intersection, but, at one time, two different post office buildings were located on the corner. Many oldtimers in Grovetown also remember Poole's Store and Clifford's Store which occupied oposite sides of Robinson Avenue.
Mike Hale, a volunteer at the Augusta State Medical Prison, has discovered that being a prisoner can actually be beneficial for some men.
"When a man comes to jail and that is where he comes to know the Lord – that ain't a bad thing," Hale said. "I've had men tell me probably a thousand times, 'God brought me to this place so that I could meet him.' "
That might not be an exaggeration, considering that Hale has been conducting volunteer Bible study classes at the medical prison twice a month for 23 years in addition to his full time job at Plant Vogtle.
Even though Chrissy Rudder is married and has two children, she still finds time to be the number one volunteer at Columbia County Animal Services. Linda Glasscock, manager of the facility, praises Rudder's volunteerism.
"If we didn't have Chrissy, there are some days I don't know how we would manage," said Glasscock. "She comes up and plays with the dogs and she even helps clean, if needed. If we need animals transported to the vet, she transports them for us."
When Loreen Reynolds had to make a choice between her paying job and her volunteer work, her volunteerism won out.
"Two summers ago I had to make a choice," said Reynolds. " I chose to cut back on my paying job so I could do more volunteer work."
Reynolds, who volunteers at Harlem United Methodist Church, the Harlem Women's Club and Attic Treasures thrift store, was also operating a preschool in her home four days a week. She chose to reduce the preschool classes to two days a week.
Melissa Chesser instilled the spirit of volunteerism in her daughters at an early age.
Chesser and her daughters Madison, 12, and Megan, 8, have been helping the Columbia County Community Connections Dream Academy by making lunch for children in the program four times a week during the summer for the past three years.
"I'm a teacher (at Evans Middle School) so I just love to help people, " said Chesser. " During the summer months I want to keep the kids active and involved, and one way to do that is to volunteer."
Valerie Lemmon has been attending the White Oak United Methodist Camp Meeting on the western edge of Columbia County near Thomson for 53 years. This year, even though she has four generations of her family staying in her cabin, which she refers to as a tent, she feels the presence of her ancestors around her.
"My grandparents and great grandparents attended this camp," said Lemmon. "The Smith and Collins families go back for generations."
Jim Couture has been a regular blood donor since high school, thanks to the example set by his father, Bernie Couture.
"I like to think that everytime I give, I'm giving in honor of my dad," said Couture. " He's been gone for 12 years."
Now 49, Couture has switched to donating platelets, a process in which the blood is passed through a machine and immediately returned to the donor.
Future of game on display at softball camp
Helen McVickers, board president and CFO of When HELP Can't Wait, is quick to praise Janice Morrison, her top volunteer.
The agency's mission to improve the quality of life for nursing home residents in the area dovetails nicely with Morrison's personal mission.
"I have several elderly neighbors that I look out for," said Morrison.
"Her most beneficial asset is her dependability," said McVickers. "She is always here for us."
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I've been everything from a pizza delivery guy to a restaurant worker to a retail environment to several other things. I decided I had enough of all that and it was time to go to school.
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I find that it fits in well with my undergraduate program. There's a lot of history in folklore. There's definitely a lot of literature in folklore. For me, the literature side of things is what has interested me the most in the past few years. I wanted to explore why we tell the stories we tell.
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If you ask almost any sexually-active woman, she will tell you in no uncertain terms that warming up before the main event is paramount to finishing the race. This message seems to get lost in translation between the sexes, most probably because of the differences in sexual response cycles for men and women. While it takes women a considerable amount of time to become fully aroused, it can take men mere seconds to reach the same level of arousal that a woman could work hard for 10 minutes to achieve.
Today we have a much better understanding of the female orgasm and how to make one happen. However, there is still a great divide between the sexes when comes to "warming up." Women generally want and need a lot; men need very little and vary on how much they want/are willing to do. The more time men spend engaging in foreplay, the shorter they will last during sex. Yet another roadblock to mutually enjoyable intercourse, oy vey!
However, all is not lost. There are many couples out there who make it work, who find that perfect median where the woman is aroused enough and the man is not aroused too much (the "Goldilocks" approach to good sex). This balance is best achieved when couples take the time to really figure out their own and their partner's sexual responses -- what method works best and how long it usually takes to get to the "ready for action" phase. Popular choices for warming up are necking, petting and oral sex, but are certainly not limited to these three.
So, why exactly is foreplay so important for women? While the result of arousal is pretty obvious for a man (tent pitching, anyone?), the physiological results on a woman can be a little more subtle. Perhaps the most obvious result is the presence of natural lubrication, which allows for easy entry into the vagina and minimizes friction, which ultimately protects the vulva from sores and tears. Other physiological happenings include swelling and engorging of the labia and enlargement of the clitoris. The swollen clitoris is more sensitive and can therefore cause an orgasm to happen faster (or happen at all) for the women. The vagina also expands, which can better accommodate the girth of a penis. Foreplay makes ideal conditions for sex in the female body, conditions that don't just happen in seconds.
Before I continue, I'd like to make a point about the word "foreplay." While I use it often in this column, I use it for lack of a better term. While warming up is crucial to the enjoyment of intercourse, the sex acts men and women use to "warm up" often remain classified as only foreplay in most peoples' minds. Oral sex and mutual masturbation -- acts that frequently fall under the category of foreplay -- can be perfectly enjoyable and orgasmic on their own. Reducing their value to only warm-up activities delegitimizes the sex acts. This interpretation means that anyone who uses oral sex and mutual masturbation as their primary forms of sex, which includes but is not limited to GLBT people and those who practice everything but intercourse as a form of abstinence, do not have a "real" sex life. I think that the word foreplay is appropriate when used in context, but coining acts as foreplay limits our interpretation of sex and ultimately the pleasure we can seek from sex in all forms.
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Alongside a major emphasis on economy and jobs in a time of crisis (the special session this morning was entitled 'A Better Way') media issues are among the concerns being tackled at the 115th STUC (Scottish Trades Union Congress) annual conference in Inverness, from 23-25 April 2012. I am a delegate of the National Union of Journalists here, and also doing updates on public sessions at the gathering.
At lunchtime today (1.00-2.00pm, La Scala Cinema in the Eden Court Theatre), campaigning MP Tom Watson spoke alongside Unite union General Secretary Len McCuskey (chairing) on 'Murdoch and the Phone Hacking Scandal'.
The MP is, of course, known for his delightfully forensic questioning of News Corp executives, including chief proprietor Rupert Murdoch, at the Parliamentary enquiry into the morass of murky dealing and under-hand activity brought to light by the Millie Dowler case.
Actually, Watson has been digging away at these issues for several years, and along with three Guardian journalists and others, is owed a debt of gratitude for putting the Murdoch empire, which controls 40 per cent of national newspapers and a chunk of BSkyB, into the public and political spotlight.
The issue, he said firmly, is not hacking. It is the operation of what he described as a "toxic" corporate entity, the web of bribery, scandal and intrigue involved, the need to hold politicians up to the light in their dealing with corporate interests, the issue of media reform, and above all the question of huge concentrations of UK media ownership in unaccountable hands and the need to move to a diverse, sustainable and workable economic basis for a free and democratic media.
These questions will arise again at the STUC this afternoon, when the NUJ's motion on the Future of the Scottish Media is debated. Inter alia, that recognises the impact of the digital revolution on all of us, including the expansion of new media and alternative news sources in an industry that was dominated by print, radio and television, and is now multi-agency and multi-platform.
There are deep ethical issues embedded in all this, and of course in the current Leveson enquiry. What kind of media we have, how it is owned and funded, how it works, what and who it is accountable to, how accessible it is, and what codes of conduct it upholds are matters that shape public discourse for better or worse. All of us have a responsibility in this, but especially those of us who earn our income (or lack of it!) in a media-driven environment.
(c) Simon Barrow is the co-director of Ekklesia, and a member of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ).
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However, Gerald Silverberg, MD, a professor of neurosurgery at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., points out that newer procedures are rapidly taking the place of pallidotomy. "This study is mainly of historical interest, as therapy for advanced Parkinson's has moved away from pallidotomy." He explains that a newer technique is coming into favor, called deep brain stimulation, where a part of the brain is stimulated by a kind of pacemaker -- like people have for their hearts -- that is implanted in the brain.
"This appears to be a safer and more effective treatment for advanced Parkinson's, and most movement disorder clinics are using this procedure now, rather than pallidotomy," says Silverberg, who was not involved in the study.
The authors concur that the newer techniques may be safer for some patients, or even can be combined with pallidotomy in specific cases. But for selected patients with Parkinson's that does not respond to medication, the authors maintain "pallidotomy is nevertheless a useful treatment."
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Of course, this came as no surprise to anyone familiar with the issue, which has become a seemingly endless tug-of-war between environmental groups, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. This time, however, the Game and Fish and the Fish and Wildlife Service are on the same side of the issue: defending Wyoming's right to manage wolves in the state.
Environmental groups, however, see things differently. Both lawsuits ask courts to put wolves back on the endangered species list, which would prevent them from any wolf hunting in the state, and challenge Wyoming's management plan classifying wolves as predators in most of the state.
While Montana and Idaho were provided congressional protection last year from wolf-related lawsuits, Wyoming's intractable stance on wolf management resulted in this state being left out of the bill that provided that protection. So, unless Congress is willing to enact a similar protection for Wyoming, it looks like the issue in Wyoming is stuck in a revolving courthouse door.
The obvious answer is for environmentalists and wildlife management agencies to find a way to reach a compromise agreeable to both.
Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be about compromise or agreement. It's all about winning. For the most part, there's no evidence that either side intends to compromise.
It should be noted that the Greater Yellowstone Coalition is the exception. While the group opposes Wyoming's dual status designation for wolves, the coalition has chosen not to join either lawsuit. Instead, coalition leaders are working with state officials to try to increase the size of the trophy area.
Now that the Wyoming Game and Fish Department and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are on the same page on this issue, it's time for environmentalists to realize that the wolf population, while an important segment of Wyoming wildlife, must be managed. That management is needed to prevent devastation of Wyoming's elk, moose and deer populations and to limit wolves impact on ranchers' livelihood.
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Ramsar Secretary General visits Australia
Simon Godschalx, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
Anada Tiéga, the Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention, visited Australia in October 2009 to attend a conference in Cairns and see first-hand the work Australia is doing to protect its wetlands and implement the Ramsar Convention. Mr Tiéga visited a number of Ramsar wetlands and met with site managers and other key stakeholders to discuss the opportunities andwetlands.
A citizen of Niger, Mr Tiéga has many years' experience in working with wetland conservation and sustainable use both at local level and internationally. He served for some years in the environmental administration of Niger, following which he became Niger's country representative for The World Conservation Union (IUCN). In the mid-1990s, he served as IUCN's regional coordinator for West Africa.
Mr Tiéga's site visits started at the Boondall Wetlands Environment Centre, part of the Moreton Bay Ramsar site in south-east Queensland, where he met representatives from the Brisbane City Council, Wetlands International- Oceania, Queensland Wader Study Group and Australian and Queensland government officials.
Discussions covered the educational work of the Boondall Wetlands Environment Centre; the Queensland Wetlands Program (a joint program of the Australian and Queensland governments); the March 2009 Moreton Bay oil spill; the recently released Healthy Waterways Report Card; links to international wetlands work including the Australia East Asia Flyway program; and migratory shorebird counts and community educational activities of the Queensland Wader Study Group.
Mr Tiéga commented on the national (and 'international') applicability of the work undertaken through the Queensland Wetlands Program on wetland mapping, indicators and inventory as well as the high level of cooperation between governments and non-government agencies on wetland management in Queensland.
Mr Tiéga's next site visit was to the Coorong and Lakes Alexandrina and Albert, South Australia. Mr Tiéga saw the difficult situation facing the site and met with site managers, traditional owners and community members to discuss management issues. This provided him with an understanding of the short and longer-term planning and actions being implemented or considered, to ensure an enduring outcome for these internationally-important wetlands.
Mr Tiéga also visited the Macquarie Marshes in New South Wales, a site for which an Article 3.2 notification (of 'likely' human induced adverse change to the ecological character of the site) has been recently made. He had the opportunity to see a wetland that was partially inundated with water and a flush of green. This picturesque phase of the marshes was a product of an ongoing NSW environmental water flow and to a lesser extent, recent rainfall in the area. Like the Coorong, the marshes are suffering from reduced flows.
Mr Tiéga met with former and current managers of the privately-owned part of the Ramsar site ('Wilgara'), as well as Australian and New South Wales government officers and was provided with an update on the development of a response strategy to address the Article 3.2 notification. The final site visit by Mr Tiéga was to the Towra Point Nature Reserve Ramsar site at Kurnell in Sydney. Towra Point is situated in the highly-urbanised and industrialised Georges River and Botany Bay Catchments.
Mr Tiéga visited an area on the site where management actions such as dredging and beach nourishment have been undertaken to protect breeding habitat of the endangered little tern. Site managers also provided an overview of the monitoring program in place to evaluate this work.
While in Canberra, Mr Tiéga met the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, the Hon Peter Garrett, AM, MP, international organisational partners including World Wildlife Fund Australia, Wetland International Oceania, Birds Australia, the Australian Committee for IUCN; as well as the Australian Wetlands Alliance to discuss Australia's implementation of the Ramsar Convention.
Mr Tiéga also addressed an event at the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the listing of Cobourg Peninsula as the world's first Wetland of International Importance.
Kenny Wauchope, traditional owner and chair of the Cobourg Peninsula Sanctuary and Marine Park Board, and Peter Fitzgerald, senior district ranger of the Garig Gunak Barlu National Park, attended the celebration.
Cobourg Peninsula is managed jointly by the Northern Territory Government and the Cobourg traditional owners through the Cobourg Peninsula Sanctuary and Marine Park Board. Cobourg Peninsula is a good illustration of community involvement and participation in management decision-making for Ramsar-listed wetlands. Under the Ramsar Convention, the role of Indigenous communities in managing local wetlands is well recognised. The advantages of participatory management provide a blend of local environmental knowledge with scientific understanding for more effective wetland management.
Mr Tiéga also officially launched the updated Australian Wetlands Database Ramsar site information pages, a key tool for the Ramsar Convention's Communication, Education, Participation and Awareness program in Australia.
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The annual Kings Place Festival is a dazzling array of performances over four days. It will give you a taste of the fantastic variety of events this unique venue offers, with its eclectic approach to programming of the highest quality. Kings Place Festival offers a showcase for our new season, bringing you the very best in classical, contemporary and experimental music, jazz and blues, folk, spoken word and comedy.
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ZOMG! iPod Nano 4G Case in the Wildz!
Was Kevin Rose right? Is the Analyst-busting 8-Ball now batting 500? Could there be any more speculation about something that's close-to, but not quite an iPhone?? Engadget Spanish (via MacRumors) has seen the usual pre-Special Event hype, and raised the first "in the wild" case leaks:
The case is by Hama and is a Sport Case specifically labeled "for iPod nano 4G".
While notoriously secretive Apple managed to shock the world with the iPhone in 2007, things have been a tad more leaky ever since, with the "fatty" Nano, MacBook Air, and even iPhone 3G details all getting out before Jobs could utter a single Boom!
Not many were thrilled with the Nano 3G prior to holding it in their hands, and not many seem thrilled with the advance peaks at the 4G either (calling it Zune-like -- ouch!). Personally, I'm not sold on the design yet either, but I've learned the hard way you don't ever count Jonathan Ive out.
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ZOMG! iPod Nano 4G Case in the Wildz!
Frankly, I think Apple has set the bar way too high to make such a big big fuss out of a new iPod Nano.
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This dish has a hearty, home, and comforting feeling. The meat becomes so tender and so moist it melts in your mouth. I love to pair this meal with rice or garlic mashed potatos. AND when I'm in the mood to be over board and greedy I'll do both! ;) I knw that sooooo bad. But I always serve a green vegetable no matter what I pair this dish with. Sauteed broccoli is my fav! Sometimes I change up to spinach. Either way this dish is DELICIOUS!!!!!! and I hope u get an opportunity to enjoy!!!
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mly_hlfrd2012 , 1 years agoabsolutly AMAZING!!! family loved it!!
iimorgans , 1 years agoThis is a must make for the family! Easy and very delicious.
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carrie_l_mccormack , 1 years agoThis was a wonderful recipe. I did have some trouble with the burgers falling apart but was easy to make. I will definitely make this again.
DebPat , 1 years agoso tender you dont really need teeth. YUM
alvinia , 1 years agoflavors were ok but my patties fell apart. I made four patties. I ate one my b.f ate one and I threw the other two away. B.f said it reminded him of baby food. I probably won't make again
Chrispizzacalla , 1 years agoPhenomenal! I didn't have cream of mushroom so I used cream of chicken. I used cognac and the knorr brown gravy mix. It was a fantastic dish. Not a big fan of rice so I served it on Texas toast (cause I'm crazy for the white bread). Next time ill make smaller patties for the kids though.
Coriejeanne , 1 years agoIt was better then ok and my bf really liked it however I could make a similar tasting meatloaf that's 1/2 the time so I may never make again but it's def worth a try for anyone else reading the reviews! Like I said it was good just more effort then my meatloaf and it was just about the same thing that's all!
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OaxacaCookin , 1 years agoEntire family loved this. I made as directed, used the cognac. The sauce was absolutely rich and delicious. The only change I would make is to make 8 smaller patties. You must serve this with mashed potatoes and spoon the extra sauce over them. This rocked our weeknight meal. Thanks for posting
Klausing , 1 years agoThis was a hit. Super easy. Thank you for sharing there was no leftovers.
christaknott , 1 years agoThis is a great recipe to make. Very flavorful and filling.
milkasirah , 1 years agoExcellent!!! I did cut down the onion portion in half and I added 2 teaspoons of Worcester to the mix. I had to add about 2 tablespoons of corn starch to thicken up the gravy. Overall I think it was really good!!! We ate it with mashed potatoes
Blmo , 1 years agoSo flavorful and a HUGE hit with my boys!
Hoffy79 , 1 years agoI skipped the cream of mushroom soup b/c I didn't have any, also used fresh onions instead of frozen and tenderized flank steak strips. All other directions were followed accordingly, though I did use a 1/4 c milk in the mixture since I didn't have the soup. My only recommendation would be to cut down the cook time by at least five minutes to keep the gravy from drying up. My husband and kids loved it
shine6874 , 1 years agoGood dish. Will make again.
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Erincpeters , 1 years agoTasty, but my meat had some issues. I wound up with more of a salisbury soup than steaks, but it was good over cauliflower-mashed potatoes.


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STARKE, Fla. — Brian Speer thought he had completed all of his obligations when he registered in Bradford County as a convicted sex predator after serving an eight-year prison sentence for child molestation. But now, in addition to submitting to a public registry for sex offenders, he has a permanent reminder of his crime posted right in his front yard: a bright red sign reading, "Brian Speer is a convicted Sexual Predator and lives at this location."
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It's Søren [Kierkegaard]'s 200th birthday. I don't know if we should celebrate or stay in place, paralyzed by anxiety.
Climate change is affecting transport of pollutants and changing precipitation too. As a result, there is remobilisation of contaminants. So when snow and ice melt you release contaminants trapped in the top layers over the last 50 to 60 years. When snow and ice melts faster than it accumulates, you have runoff of stored contaminants that had been trapped in snow and ice. This is something that is ongoing today and will continue.
The trouble is that classical contaminants like persistent organic compounds degrade slowly; the cold temperature means this happens even slower in the Arctic. We are talking about PCBs [Polychlorinated biphenyls], the hexachlorocyclohexanes, lindane, all stored in snow. There are also the brominated flame retardants, mercury, lead, and the radionuclides which fell back to earth after nuclear testing back in the 1960s. Once remobilised, they become available for biological systems and can enter the food chain.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a public letter on Mon. Apr 22 criticizing the conclusions of a Mar. 1, 2013 State Department environmental review of the proposed Keystone XL tar sand pipeline.
According to the EPA, the State Department had concluded in its "Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Review" that tar sand oil would continue to find its way into the US market regardless of whether or not the pipeline is built, and therefore, approval of the pipeline would "not by itself substantially affect GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions or contribute to climate change."
The EPA letter criticized those findings, arguing that the State Department report did not properly assess the higher costs associated with rail transport of tar sand oil. The EPA reasoned that higher transportation costs could reduce the total amount of tar sands oil that is extracted and refined, thus reducing future greenhouse gas emissions.
Jack Spencer, Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, challenged the EPA's conclusions stating that the "EPA's objections to the State Department's draft [environmental impact statement] demonstrate once again that the EPA is more interested in promoting a political agenda than protecting public health and safety… The XL pipeline has been studied extensively and has been found to be environmentally safe twice."
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has been opposed to the pipeline stating that he is "disturbed by the proposal" and questions "why in the world would we ever consider approving a new Big Oil pipeline to carry dirty fuel and keep America addicted to oil, when we could save money, create jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil by moving to stronger fuel economy standards?" Dr.James Hansen, former Director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies at NASA, has argued that "exploitation of tar sands would make it implausible to stabilize climate and avoid disastrous global climate impacts."


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The Times Herald of Port Huron reports a neighbor and family members gave the boy first aid and took him to a hospital in Sandusky.
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Definition of minnerichi in English:
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Pronunciation: /ˌmɪnəˈrɪtʃi /
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A small acacia of arid inland Australia, which typically has thin, peeling curls of reddish bark.
- Acacia cyperophylla, family Leguminosae
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1930s: an Aboriginal word.
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