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Inherited retinal degenerative diseases (RDDs) are a heterogeneous group of disorders that constitute a major cause of vision loss in the world population. In most cases, they are caused by mutations in genes that encode proteins essential for photoreceptor cell structure, function and survival. Although significant progress has been made in the genetics of RDDs, mechanisms by which various genetic defects cause photoreceptor degeneration and a loss in vision are not well understood. The objective of this application is to increase our understanding of the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying two severe early onset disorders, Stargardt macular degeneration associated with mutations in the retinoid transporter ABCA4 and Leber Congenital Amaurosis Type 12 (LCA12) linked to mutations in RD3, a novel protein essential for guanylate cyclase expression in photoreceptor cells. This information will be used to test the hypothesis that novel therapeutic treatments can be developed in animal models for these diseases as an essential step for translation into human clinical trials.
Three specific aims of this application are: 1) To examine the structural, functional and regulatory properties of ABCA4 and identify novel nontoxic chemical compounds that enhance the retinoid transport activities of WT and Stargardt disease-causing mutants of ABCA4 and hence serve as potential therapeutic drugs;2) to further evaluate the therapeutic potential of selected drug compounds in animal models for Stargardt disease;and 3) to investigate the mechanisms underlying the function of RD3 in guanylate cyclase expression and trafficking in photoreceptors and evaluate adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors for the delivery and expression of RD3 and the rescue of rod and cone function and survival in the rd3 mouse model for LCA12.
These aims will be achieved by using newly developed in vitro retinoid transport assays, established and newly generated animal models, in vivo and in vitro imaging methods, protein expression and purification, novel viral gene delivery vectors, and high throughput drug screening methods. The results of this research will yield novel insight into the structure and function of ABCA4 and RD3 in rod and cone photoreceptor cells and further define how mutations in these proteins cause photoreceptor degeneration in Stargardt disease, LCA12, and related diseases. Importantly, this work will provide a 'proof of concept'that novel drug and gene based treatments can be developed for translation into future clinical trials for these diseases. These studies will also have a strong impact in other biomedical research. The knowledge gained from our studies of ABCA4 and Stargardt disease will enhance our understanding and treatment of other diseases (cystic fibrosis, Tangiers disease, adrenoleukodystrophy, etc.) linked to genetic defects in related ABC transporters and the studies on RD3 and LCA12 will extend our understanding of protein expression and trafficking and AAV-mediated gene therapy for the treatment of various diseases.
Stargardt macular degeneration and Leber Congenital Amaurosis Type 12 are early onset retinal degenerative diseases which cause severe vision loss in the world population. Although the genetic defects responsible for these disorders have been identified, the molecular and cellular basis for how these defects cause vision loss is poorly understood and therapeutic treatments are not available. The current application will enhance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying Stargardt disease and Leber Congenital Amaurosis Type 12 and develop novel drug and gene delivery - based treatments which can prevent or slow vision loss in animal models as an essential step for future clinical trials.
|Kang, Yunhee; Ge, Yuan; Cassidy, Robert M et al. (2014) A combined transgenic proteomic analysis and regulated trafficking of neuroligin-2. J Biol Chem 289:29350-64
|Molday, Laurie L; Molday, Robert S (2014) 1D4: a versatile epitope tag for the purification and characterization of expressed membrane and soluble proteins. Methods Mol Biol 1177:1-15
|Quazi, Faraz; Molday, Robert S (2014) ATP-binding cassette transporter ABCA4 and chemical isomerization protect photoreceptor cells from the toxic accumulation of excess 11-cis-retinal. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 111:5024-9
|Molday, Laurie L; Jefferies, Thomas; Molday, Robert S (2014) Insights into the role of RD3 in guanylate cyclase trafficking, photoreceptor degeneration, and Leber congenital amaurosis. Front Mol Neurosci 7:44
|Vestergaard, Anna L; Coleman, Jonathan A; Lemmin, Thomas et al. (2014) Critical roles of isoleucine-364 and adjacent residues in a hydrophobic gate control of phospholipid transport by the mammalian P4-ATPase ATP8A2. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 111:E1334-43
|Coleman, Jonathan A; Zhu, Xianjun; Djajadi, Hidayat R et al. (2014) Phospholipid flippase ATP8A2 is required for normal visual and auditory function and photoreceptor and spiral ganglion cell survival. J Cell Sci 127:1138-49
|Quazi, Faraz; Molday, Robert S (2013) Differential phospholipid substrates and directional transport by ATP-binding cassette proteins ABCA1, ABCA7, and ABCA4 and disease-causing mutants. J Biol Chem 288:34414-26
|Tsybovsky, Yaroslav; Orban, Tivadar; Molday, Robert S et al. (2013) Molecular organization and ATP-induced conformational changes of ABCA4, the photoreceptor-specific ABC transporter. Structure 21:854-60
|Cheng, Christiana L; Molday, Robert S (2013) Changes in gene expression associated with retinal degeneration in the rd3 mouse. Mol Vis 19:955-69
|Cheng, Christiana L; Molday, Robert S (2013) Interaction of 4.1G and cGMP-gated channels in rod photoreceptor outer segments. J Cell Sci 126:5725-34
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So it's to the credit of the Australian director Jocelyn Moorhouse (who impressed with her 1991 debut, Proof) and the screenwriter Jane Anderson (who adapted Whitney Otto's novel) that the movie feels snappy, and also substantial. Ryder plays Finn, who leaves her boyfriend (Dermot Mulroney) demolishing the front room while she hotfoots it to Granny's house, where she intends to spend the summer finishing her thesis and musing on Mulroney's marriage proposal. But Granny (Ellen Burstyn) and friends (Anne Bancroft, Maya Angelou, Kate Nelligan, Alfre Woodard) have all got their own stories of love-gone-haywire to tell as they collaborate on Ryder's mammoth wedding quilt. So will Ryder choose to follow the example of her mother (Kate Capshaw) and bounce between boyfriends like a pinball, or spend the rest of her days with a husband whose idea of a good time is a half-price day at Homebase?
This is a leisurely but absorbing picture, gorgeously photographed by Janusz Kaminski in colours that you can feel on your cheeks, with especially generous performances from Woodard, whose commanding eyes compensate for a paucity of screen time, and Bancroft, who has a devastating scene where her face twists with wordless incomprehension as she realises that she has been betrayed. Despite testimonies like hers, there is never any doubt about which route Ryder will take. But the film is serious enough about its theme - the maddening unpredictability of love - to suggest that anguish may await her.
Sometimes it's a touch too serious (the symbolism will leave you in need of aspirin). But in a genre where love is as blind and unconditional as nostalgia, the cautionary tone and uncertain ending have a faintly subversive scent. You could take your date to see it, but don't expect to still be holding hands when the credits roll.
You might also be surprised at just how good The Cure is, though it sounds like the sort of thing you'd muck out the hutch to avoid if it appeared on TV. It wouldn't look out of place there: it's shot without style and bears no mark of cinematic sophistication, but there is great sensitivity in Robert Kuhn's screenplay, and in the brilliantly intuitive playing by the young actors Brad Renfro and Joseph Mazzello. Renfro plays Erik, a grouchy slacker who objects to his new neighbours, a single mother (Annabella Sciorra) and her young son, Dexter (Mazzello), who has contracted Aids from a blood transfusion.
But the boys become friends and drift from shoplifting and trolley-racing to something more serious: conducting their own amateur experiments to help stave off Dexter's death. There are sticky patches where it looks as though the picture might not pull through (some of the scenes with Erik's bigoted mother, played by Diana Scarwid, are painfully misjudged), but it's a thoughtful and likeable work, sullied only by the composer Dave Grusin. He won an Oscar a few years back, but after this stomach- churning score, he deserves to have it confiscated.
It's all downhill from here. The biggest disappointment of the week comes from Nicolas Roeg, whose stiff new film Two Deaths is a study of destructive love that's so dull it makes ditch-water look like punch. As the Ceausescu government crumbles and the streets of Romania descend into violent chaos, the esteemed Dr Daniel Pavenic (Michael Gambon) reveals to his dinner- party guests (Patrick Malahide, Ion Caramitru, Nickolas Grace) how he came to possess Ana (Sonia Braga), a surly and dutiful housekeeper who brings them dinner even as the story of her slavery and humiliation is being unfurled.
Roeg's camera is still very much alive; wobbling, jittery, it closes in on the tense power games with voyeuristic relish, but finds nothing there: no passion, no intelligence, no life. The single-mindedness of Pavenic's obsession with Ana clearly struck a chord in Roeg, for his oeuvre is littered with men engulfed by their own desires. Once, Roeg seemed engulfed too - by cinema and its rawness, its limitless capacity for danger. Now that's gone, and Roeg has made the first bloodless film of his career. He's the man who fell to earth - with a bump.
Last week, Now and Then asked us to believe that Demi Moore could pass for a dapper, Thomas Wolfe-quoting novelist. Now, in The Juror, she's a sculptor. I'd advise her to have a stab at playing someone nearer her intellectual ballpark. Like a Munchkin.
Moore does a spot of jury service but it's no fun because a psychopath called The Teacher (Alec Baldwin) is leaning on her to help his boss beat a murder rap. When she briefly turns into Henry Fonda and persuades the rest of the jury to acquit the mobster, it becomes too much: after all, here is a woman with all the persuasive powers of a paving slab. Without her, The Juror would still be dreadful. But it wouldn't be half as hilarious.
Last of the Dogmen is admirably earnest, even at its silliest. Yet a two-hour running time tends to eradicate any vestige of warmth you may initially feel towards it. Tom Berenger plays a tracker who believes that members of the lost Cheyenne Indian tribe are alive and well in the Rockies, and heads off with anthropologist Barbara Hershey to prove it. The Montana locations are lovingly shot, but that's as thrilling as it gets; the movie is all camerawork and conscience. Hats off to Tom Berenger, though, for keeping a straight face through lines like, "This ain't gonna be no picnic, lady! I've seen that wilderness reduce grown men to tears."
Greta Schiller's documentary Paris Was a Woman attempts to capture some of the vibrancy of the Left Bank in the first half of this century, when you couldn't swing a chat without clumping an artist. It's a short, moderately diverting piece, though re-reading a single paragraph of Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas is more likely to leave the era's indelible mark on you.
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I have collected series books, but I don't have to wait 'til I have all of them before I start reading. And, I've jumped in at book three, before, and had to go back to find books one and two — but that was mainly because I didn't know the book was part of a series when I read a book already several into it (for example: Robyn Carr's "Grace Valley" series, and Gaelen Foley's "Knight" miscellany).
I've been collecting Kathy Reichs' "Temp Brennan" series, but have only read the first book, so far. Same with Tess Gerritsen's "Jane Rizzoli" series (starts with "The Surgeon", which I've read).
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I don't need to go back and re-read previous books before continuing on with a series. If I forget what's happening, I'll usually remember after having gotten a little ways into the new book. Or, if not, there's always my book journal to jog my memory (that's why I keep one!). 😀
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Which Joe gave his name to 'sloppy joes'? We look at five interesting sandwiches and their lexical origins.
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- 'Initially, Shenandoah supporters emphasized the scenic and primeval qualities of the park along with its recreational and restorative potential.'
- 'The restorative properties of the peppermint and spearmint plant specifically, have fascinated herbalists and repelled insects for thousands of years.'
- 'Her frantic parents, after finding no restorative medical treatment in Moscow, sent her to Europe to consult various doctors.'
- 'On the positive side, Yuji begins to connect spiritually to Mamoru's father: the two men find restorative peace in one another.'
- 'Curated by John Beardsley, it took the garden as a model for public art and presented work that focused on the restorative properties of nature and the region's garden tradition.'
- 'Simple displays that emphasise the activities of the household, such as an armoire stacked with an assortment of crockery, can be used to provide a restorative background.'
- 'They are believed to be the last remaining early 20 th-century Tennessee mountain resort buildings and are in danger of literally crumbling without restorative action.'
- 'Anest was awakened from the deep, dream-filled, restorative sleep of the travel-weary by an annoying, persistent knocking at the door.'
- 'Thus rampant national inflation generates uncompetitive firms, lost export and home markets, trade deficits and an eventual restorative plunge in the currency.'
- 'Nevertheless, many environmentalists remain concerned that any talk of restorative grazing is merely an environmental smokescreen that lets ranchers continue to devastate the land.'
- 'She believed firmly in the restorative powers of fresh air.'
- 'Many of the promises wilderness recreation offered in the interwar years remained - challenge, restorative experience, and retreat from modernity.'
- 'Using the excuse that some delayed tribute must be collected, Claudius decides to send the crazed Prince on a restorative sea journey to England.'
- 'There obviously was some damage which occurred by the excavating and building trade vehicles before this project was completed and which would necessitate some restorative landscaping which had nothing to do with the septic system.'
- 'Soon Qing hears of a mysterious chef from the mainland whose recipes are said to have remarkable restorative powers.'
- 'It alternates the physical thrills of a long, bouncy roller coaster ride with the restorative pleasure of getting drenched on a melting hot day.'
- 'The extensive range of services are inspired by restorative treatments, holistic therapies, healing rituals, organic products and native remedies found in Baja and around the world.'
- 'The less we spend on conspicuous consumption goods, the better we can afford to alleviate congestion; and the more time we can devote to family and friends, to exercise, sleep, travel, and other restorative activities.'
- 'All the visible new and restorative work - to both the tensile structure and the landscape - honours and generously contributes to the original structure of the Kings Domain parklands.'
Relating to the restoration of form or function to a damaged tooth or other part of the body.
- 'An extraction is often used as preparation for a restorative dental procedure such as dentures.'
- 'After 20 years, I have had an ankle restorative surgical procedure 6 weeks ago to tighten a ligament surrounding the ankle joint.'
A thing that restores health, strength, or well-being, especially a medicine or drink.'herbal restoratives'
remedy, curative, medicine, medication, medicament, corrective, antidote, antiserumView synonyms
- 'These dishes, many deriving from recipes such as the possets of 16th-century England, have a long history as restoratives.'
- 'In small doses it serves as a stimulant for the entire digestive tract, associating it with bitter tonics, or other restoratives.'
- 'You know it's been a long, strange evening of dance when the sight of people jogging, playing ball, or even dozing in Riverside Park the next morning comes as a sudden, overwhelming restorative.'
- 'Benedictine and Chartreuse orders still consume these restoratives for digestive and muscular problems.'
- 'The prisoner was cut down, restoratives were applied and he recovered, to be known forever more as Half-Hanged Smith.'
- 'Forensic scientists test the powders and potions - many of which are touted as restoratives and aphrodisiacs - to determine whether they are actually made from the animal on the label.'
- 'In addition, for reformers, the focus on the Eucharist as a physical rather than spiritual restorative led to an attack on the materialism of transformation.'
- 'He would feel her pulse, chafe her wrists, apply restoratives and smelling salts, burn feathers under her nose.'
- 'Among very few references to specific wines, the treasured South African Constantia is considered a suitable restorative for a young lady in Sense and Sensibility.'
- 'The personal touch was waning, and a portrait-no matter how fast, cheap, and easily produced-was a valuable restorative to their sense of self.'
- 'As professional sportsmen united in grief they recognised that winning is one of the best restoratives.'
Late Middle English: from an Old French variant of restauratif, -ive, from restorer (see restore).
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About Ruth
Founder of Echo Parenting & Education, Ruth Beaglehole has spent her life considering the needs of children, seeking support and nurturing for children as full human beings, using the principles of respect, healing and connection. Ruth's professional journey parallels her personal journey and has given her the empathy, courage and dedication that has fueled her groundbreaking work; creating a new paradigm of unconditional parenting that is the soul of Echo Parenting & Education.
Ruth's Beginnings
Ruth's story begins in New Zealand; born to Academic parents, with one sister and two brothers. Ruth's childhood was "complicated", to use her own words. Her own struggle would become Ruth's biggest asset. As she set off to heal her own emotional pains, her understanding of the parent/child relationship was transformed. She began to see the world in broad, loving, and ultimately profound terms. Her early interest in childhood education earned Ruth a B.A. in Education from Victoria University, New Zealand and a Diploma in Preschool Teaching (known in New Zealand as Kindergarten teaching).
Echo Park and The Playgroup – 1970
Ruth moved to Los Angeles and was immediately drawn to the community of Echo Park where she became involved in relevant issues of the day. This community energy evolved into the Echo Park Silverlake Child care Center, known fondly as the Playgroup. In its day, the Playgroup was a much needed, newly formed concept. A daycare center that serviced the working population of the community, it had humble beginnings in garages. After much work, it evolved into a city-funded program with it's own building, credited for amending city laws to allow child care in residential neighborhoods for the first time ever, simplifying life as we know it today.
Parent Education – An Awakening – 1982
After leaving Playgroup, Ruth became a Parent Education Teacher for Los Angeles Unified School District. Working with children, and then parents, awakened fresh ideas in her vast heart. She saw that parents needed nurturing and support and wanted information about child development and how to love their children. But there was a big gap for many parents; they simply did not know what to do.
Teen Mother Program – The Birth of Nonviolent Parenting – 1985
Seeking to broaden her skills as a Parent Educator, Ruth earned her M.A. in Marriage, Family and Child Therapy from Phillips Institute, Los Angeles. With her newfound degree, Ruth's work with Los Angeles Unified School District expanded with the birth of the model program she founded; the Teen Parenting and Child Care Program at the Los Angeles Technology Center. This program enabled teen mothers to earn their high school diploma while their children were enrolled in Ruth's child care program. It was this child care program that birthed the term nonviolent parenting. It was a simple genesis; while watching the teens scream and spank their children, she realized that their own early childhoods had brought these teens to a covertly violent style of parenting. Ruth made a commitment to create a bottom line within the walls of that child care center. "We would love, support and model nurturing to these children", recalls Ruth.
Center for Nonviolent Education and Parenting – 1999
Taken by the success of the program, Ruth was encouraged by the teen mother mentors and the community to extend the philosophy and practice, evolving into CNVEP. Ruth's big heart, her deep feelings for children, adults and humanity at large made CNVEP a thriving organization for it's first decade.
Echo Parenting & Education – 2010
In 2010, CNVEP underwent a branding change, and the same transformational work that Ruth had practiced for half a century now goes by the name Echo Parenting & Education. "Echo" because of the geographical roots in Echo Park, but also as a metaphor: when we are kind, that kindness echoes long after we are gone. In other words, when we raise children with care, we raise children to care.
Ruth Today
Ruth resides in Echo Park, rooted deeply in the community that has held her for more than forty years. Her three devoted children and seven grandchildren that connect her heart to her work, live nearby and support; often attending her parenting classes. Ruth remarks that as she watches them parent she knows that her philosophy works, seeing them love with more freedom and emotional competency than she started with. She has broken the cycle in her own family and that is very profound.


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If you've left the city behind for a splendid day out, feel free to potter around the 376 acres surrounding the house. You won't get that in Shoreditch. Cliveden has been welcoming clientele since one of the Dukes of Buckingham had it built the year London burned down. The swagged and chandeliered dining room enjoys imperious views of the grounds, and makes a backdrop that would leave lesser chefs than Andr� Garrett quailing, yet the cooking dazzles with creative opulence in the contemporary French style. There's more than a hint of bravado in pairing English rose veal and oyster in a tartare dabbed with Exmoor caviar, garnished with nasturtium blooms and sourdough melba toast. And there's real swagger in main courses such as roasted red-leg partridge with salsify and walnut crumble in Muscat, or the sea-fresh turbot grenobloise with cockles, braised celery hearts and brioche butter. A tasting menu will be irresistible for the highest rollers, and desserts fully measure up to the foregoing with the likes of rice pudding souffl�, Seville orange marmalade and a scoop of ice cream made with 12-year-old Balvenie single malt.
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Lola Alao is not new to controversy. Recently, she has been accused of supplying the National Assembly with Ladies for hangouts.
A report which Lola has serially denied.
Well, this afternoon, a facebook account belonging to one Adepoju Yusuf, stated Lola is her convert and he is her teacher.
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According to Adepoju, "Glory be to Allah. Join me in congratulating Lola Alao (a popular Nollywood actress).
"She just took the Kalimatu Shaa'dah from me, and chose the name Rhodiat.
"May Allah give her proper understanding of Islam, and make her, well grounded in her new faith, Al-Islam. Aamiyn", Yusuf wrote.
Lola is yet to make any official statement to her new found faith.
However, her latest post on her official Instagram account was signed off with an Islamic greeting.
"To all my family, friends and fans that supported me during my father's burial, I say a very big thank u to you all.
"May Allah continue to bless you and grant you all your heart desires Insha allah. One love."
Lola appeared on social media donned on Hijab.
In 2013, Alao got married to Wale Ajibola, her second husband, in the United States after her marriage to Dare Ogunlana hit the rocks in 2008.
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Alao's first marriage crashed after accusations of infidelity and fetish acts surfaced.
Lola's 'Teacher', Adepoju Yusuf, runs the Academy of Islamic Propagation in Nigeria, ACADIP.
He uses the platform to propagate Islam and engage people of other faith in open debates.
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This past weekend was magical for many ATLiens. Legendary Atlanta rap group, Outkast returned home to celebrate 20 years of
OutKast performed live in their hometown of Atlanta for the first time in nearly a decade. The duo kicked off
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Filmmaker Michael Moore's rant against Dubya and clan, Stupid White Men, remains among the top five New York Times bestsellers, despite a virtual press blackout. But much of the guts for Moore's opening screed on how Bush "stole" the 2000 election came from investigative reporter Greg Palast, whose own book, The Best Money Democracy Can Buy, has fast become a cult fave among progressives.
Palast styles himself as the dogged outsider, a former working-class gumshoe from L.A. now reporting on corporate America for the BBC and The Guardian, unable to secure a regular gig from U.S. media firms wary of his impolitic exposés. Hence his book, which strings together his award-winning reports on everything from the Florida election debacle to the role of the IMF in crashing Argentina's economy, is as much a portrait of how our profit-addicted American media ignores hard news.
In sold-out appearances, Palast has detailed how Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush swung the Florida election by purging tens of thousands of eligible votersmostly blacksusing electronically generated "scrub lists" produced by a Texas firm paid millions to screen out felons, yet not required to verify the accuracy of its data.
Florida's use of an outside firm to in effect privatize voting rights plays into Palast's central theme: how corporate power is riding roughshod over democracy. From the "cash for access" scandal that rocked Tony Blair's government in Britain to the revolving door between Monsanto and the FDA that led to the flood of BST growth hormone in America's milk supplies, Palast lays bare patterns of corruption so sadly commonplace.
Palast's problem is that he unearths such juicy information without following up in greater detail (see www.gregpalast.com for updates). In one short chapter, he argues that prior to September 11, Bush spiked FBI and CIA investigations of the bin Laden family and alleged Saudi funding of terror networks because of the Bushes' cozy relationship to the Saudis via companies like Arbusto Energy and the Carlyle Group. Given the current flap about what the Bush administration knew about Al Qaeda threats, one wishes Palast had explored these connections further. But his book provides a road map for other journalists, and he's donating the proceeds to a fund for investigative reporting. Let's hope more DIY muckrakers heed the call.
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In the kind of rain that seems to want to fall for ever, Staples Corner is one of the most dispiriting places on the planet.
The miserable maze of tarmac and steel marks the junction of London's North Circular and the Edgware Road. It's also Junction 1 of the M1, England's blacktop backbone that stretches all the way to Leeds. Standing on the wrong side of the crash barrier, where the westbound North Circular catapults vehicles on to the motorway, I cut a pathetic figure.
My left hand clutches a sign that says "M1 NORTH" and my eyes, which squint with every oily spray that comes my way, plead with every driver to stop.
My mission, one I'm beginning to regret accepting, is this: in today's Britain, in an age when a coach ticket can cost less than a piece of cardboard and a marker pen - and when the fear of violent stranger crime is high - is it still possible to traverse the length of the country with only a backpack, a sign and an extended thumb? I've travelled by Tube and on foot to Staples Corner, but, here, the journey proper begins.
In my experiment, travel from now northwards must be free, but I can pay for hotels.
Not so long ago, I wouldn't have been the only one standing here.
Thumbing a lift first became popular during the First World War, when soldiers would "lorry hop"; by the 1930s, we had imported the word "hitchhiking" from the US. The Second World War saw another thumbing boom when car sharing became a patriotic duty and, in America, hitching would go on to symbolise the restlessness of a generation.
Today, though, the age of the hitchhiker would appear to be over. It's illegal in many US states, and in this country hitchers have become an endangered species.
When was the last time you spotted anyone with their thumb out? Would you pick them up if you did? Is it even safe? Surely these days the only people who stop are, as many friends have already suggested, perverts and axe murderers? If I survive, will I get any further than Watford Gap? Am I the lasthitchhiker in Britain?
After 90 fruitless minutes in my first position, and 40 minutes on the eastbound North Circular, I have lost all hope that anyone is going to let a saturated man with a beard into their cosy car. I feel like a beggar and, to add to the humiliation, two youths on scooters shout "way-hay!"; one gives me an unfriendly thumbs up; the other offers two fingers.
Other drivers are less forthcoming. Young women throw me a look of mild fear, as if I have already reached into their cars to molest them. Older women look vaguely sympathetic. Men are impassive, finding a reason to check their sat-navs or just look away. When a silver Land Rover Freelander pulls up behind me, the driver has to beep his horn three times before I notice him.
Frazer is a recruitment consultant on his way home after a meeting in London. He tells me about his mate, who thumbed from London to Glasgow 25 years ago. "One man tried to touch him up and this other guy turned out to be a drug dealer - it was pretty scary." Cheers, Frazer. "My wife used to hitchhikeuntil she had a bad experience," he adds.
"I never got the full story but it ended up with her jumping out at some traffic lights." At least Frazer seems friendly.
Why did he stop? "You looked wet," he says. "If I see a hitcher who doesn't look dirty, I'll pull over, but this is only the second time in 10 years." Things were different in South Africa, where Frazer's parents moved when he was 10. "I used to hitch to the beach all the time, no problem," he says. Years later, he was robbed at knifepoint, and moved to the relative safety of Hertfordshire with his young family. Now he's moving to Australia. "The way youth culture is these days - all these stabbings - we don't want to raise our children here." Frazer drops me off at a BP garage on the A414 near junction 8. I nurse the first of many petrolstation coffees and a sandwich, before I squelch to the roundabout that leads back to the M1.
I retrieve my soggy sign from the shelter of my raincoat and wait.
After 40 minutes, a taxi driver takes pity. "I can't pay," I tell him. He nods and I get in. "I do you a favour - I like to help," he says.
He's only going two junctions to Luton Airport for fares, but the shelter alone makes it a worthwhile trip. Jamail has driven a taxi here for 10 years after he moved from Mumbai to join his family, who made the trip two generations before him. He was a nursery school teacher before he came. Unlike me, he likes bad weather. "When it's raining, taxi is busy," he says. "When sunny, people don't want taxi - they walk, or swim." Rather than drop me off at junction 10a, at the end of the M1's Luton Airport spur, Jamail kicks me out at the roundabout above the main carriageway. Motorways are the only place in Britain where it's illegal to hitchhike.
Feeling the sights of a dozen CCTV cameras trained on me, I pick a route through a tornado of trucks and cars and walk down the M1 spur until the blue signs turn green, and I can stick out my thumb again..
By lunchtime, the Met Office's severe weather warning has shown to be no false alarm. Rain soaks through my jeans. I stand for two hours on the waterlogged verge and start resenting every motorist who zooms by. In a bid to stave off boredom, I go through the alphabet, thinking of a rude name for each bastard who ignores me. It starts to get tricky at about K and I give up, feeling utterly dejected.
Thank goodness for Nigel and his battered Land Rover. A landscape gardener, he's almost as pissed off as I am by the downpour.
He tells me about his own hitchhiking experience. "I got picked up by a woman, which never happens. I asked her if it wasn't a bit risky to be stopping for strange men. She pulled out her ID, which said she was a highranking police officer, and told me she was proficient in tae kwon do. Right then, I thought." Nigel's only going two junctions - in six and a half hours I've travelled 12 junctions and 32 miles, which should take 30 minutes to drive. This isn't going so well.
Junction 12 isn't the busiest on the M1 and, standing by the trickle of cars on the A5120, I fear it could be another long wait. But only five minutes pass before Jeremy pulls up.
He's an IT consultant who works for a US firm charged with, among other things, centralising records for the NHS.
"Yeah, the project that's costing the taxpayer £12bn," Jeremy tells me, before referring me to his press office.
Jeremy used to hitchhike in Derbyshire, where he grew up. "I wasn't very good at it," he says. "The first time I had to walk five miles and then get a train. Another time, it was late and there'd been a burglary. Two police cars screeched up from both directions and searched me, thinking I was their man." Jeremy's heading home to Birmingham and offers to take me up the M6. Then he suggests I get out at Watford Gap Services.
"It's a crucial point on the hitchhiker's map of Britain," he assures me. I agree, and soon regret it. The congealed curry at the "Rest Bite" costs £8, while the automatic doors open at random and sound like a school desk being dragged across a parquet floor. Looking outside at the rain, and inside at the caff and its soggy sandwiches, I can't decide where I'd least like to be. I drag myself out to the services exit.
"Most firms don't let us give lifts," says Alan, a ruddy Liverpudlian wearing trainers and combat shorts under his belly, "but my boss doesn't give a shite." Like Jeremy, Alan is bound for the M6.
It's still North, so I climb into his lorry, which boasts a bunk, a microwave and a fridge. On the dash in front of me there's a laptop covered in a grubby towel. "That's for porn," he tells me. "Right," I say, hoping he means the laptop.
Alan, who might have the thickest scouse accent in Britain, spends three weeks at a time driving round Europe. He hasn't had a conversation for "about 10 days". "It's like a cell, my wagon," he spits, "but the money's good - I take £650 a week doing this. My kids get everything - trainers, Playstation - the lot." So what's it like, life on the road? "You see some strange things. A fella in a car overtook me one night, wanking under blue tights with his interior light on. All the truckers up ahead flashed their lights and leant on their horns as he went past."
Alan's on a roll: "Belgium's worst for dogging - they're not right those Belgians - and Spanish lorry parks are best for girls; they'll wash your bollocks and shag your brains out for 50 euros. And we're talking girls like on Page 3 - over here they're all crack'eads with no teeth." Shrinking into my seat, trying to avoidcontact with Alan's towel, I ask him about his past. Alan, who is 33 but could pass for a decade older, turned to trucking to escape a life of crime, which, after insisting on withholding his real name and taking my card (a photo is out of the question), he tells me all about. It's no less shocking than his sex life. "I used to rob skip wagons and use them to ram-raid lorry yards - you have to do 30 and take your foot off just before you hit the railings," he says.
"Then I'd rob a truck and flog whatever's in it. I'd make £5,000 a truck and go out on a bender - charlie, ale - and get kitted out with gear. It was a buzz, but I kept getting locked up so I got out - told 'em my bottle had gone." Alan realised his only skill, apart from ram-raiding, was driving trucks. After three hours, Alan pulls into Lymm Services, before he forks off on the M56 to Birkenhead. It's only when he jumps out of his wagon that I see how small he is - about 5ft 4in. He bounds to the back of his wagon-cum- 3 knocking shop, and pulls back the side curtain to reveal, behind his lorryload of aluminium, a stash of booze. "Me and my mate Disco Dave are going on a bender when I get home - pick up a couple of scrubbers like," he tells me. "But we've got plenty." He breaks into a case of Becks and thrusts three bottles into my hands before striding back to his cab and chugging into the night.
After a night in a hotel, I trek back to the motorway, a "6" pasted over the "1" on my sign. I stop when I see a man standing at the prime thumbing spot - the roundabout at the exit to the services. Surely he's not... another hitchhiker? I approach warily, sizing up the competition. Andy, who's in no mood to chat, is a "trade plater". I'd heard about these guys - they deliver cars and, to save money, hitch home. Their red plates are a green light for fellow trade platers and truckers. I retreat to the other side of the roundabout, at the less busy A50 approach, as we lock horns in a thumbing face-off. From time to time I look over my shoulder to see if he's still there; twice I catch him doing the same. And then he's gone. I move in. Ray is delivering frozen food to Glasgow .
He's been driving lorries for 30 years, first for the RAF. His current vehicle has all the mod cons, including a mattress with Man U duvet, and a TV. Ray used to hitchhike in his RAF days, when officers were allowed to do so in uniform. "You never waited long," he says. The sun shining, we pass Preston and Lancaster before skirting the Lakes towards Carlisle. It must be one of the most beautiful stretches of motorway in the country. Beyond the shimmering fields of barley, and the lakes beyond, lies Workington, where Ray, 57, grew up. He travelled this stretch of the M6 with his dad, himself a trucker, in the 1960s. "We'd stop up there for his mug of tea," Ray recalls, pointing at Forton Services, the now empty concrete mushroom that looms over the motorway. "Now it's all M&Sand KFC." Our final stretch takes us past Gretna, where Ray's brother got married ("It didn't last long") and into Scotland, where the M6 becomes the A74(M) and then the M74. He drops me off just south of Glasgow .
Ray had taken me more than 200 miles north - easily my longest lift - and now, scything through Scotland, I start enjoying myself. What had begun as a hardship is becoming a challenge, and I'm overcome by the desire to keep moving north. My appetite gone, I barely pause at the service station before knocking up an "A9" sign, and thrusting my thumb into the air at the services exit. An hour and a half later, I'm still there, my forearm turning pink in the sun, my thumb wilting. Then Adrian pulls up. Another former hitchhiker, he's not surprised I've waited so long. "It's the danger factor, isn't it," he says. "Society's more violent these days - you don't know who you're going to pick up." So why me? "You looked presentable enough and, anyway, I'm bored." Adrian has driven from Portsmouth, where he'd flown to pick up the gas-powered Volvo we're sitting in. He'd bought it for £450 on eBay. He grew up in North Wales and would thumb to Manchester to go out.
"You were virtually guaranteed to get there in three hours," he says. Adrian joined the Navy as a helicopter engineer. During the Falklands, he was working on the deck of the Atlantic Conveyor when it was sunk by two Exocets "I jumped 60 feet into the sea, which was about 3 degrees," he says. Adrian was picked up by a rescue team that included Prince Andrew. Twelve men perished. "I jumped with the captain, but he was never seen again." The brush with death made Adrian "more determined to go out and do things". After a few years, he left the Navy to work for the Sultan of Brunei, helping to maintain his helicopters. The Sultan put him and his family up in a mansion and his daughter, Yoshe, went to school with the Sultan's children. "Her seventh birthday party ended with a concert with Janet Jackson". Adrian "returned to reality" 10 years ago, settling near Aberdeen. He now works for HM Coastguard. He drops me near Perth, where the A9 turns left to Inverness. I resist the nearby Travelodge and decide to spend one last hour with my thumb out.
The roundabout at Broxden Junction isn't great for hitchhiking. It slingshots cars like comets around a planet, and there's nowhere to pull over. Even so, only 20 minutes pass before a Scania pulling a Warburtons trailer stops. Inside, I find William, who's taking his baked-and-sliced load to Inverness. There's no duvet or microwave - William does the less lucrative local drops so he can go home to his family every night.
"There's more to life than money," he says. William, 42, used to hitchhike to the Lake District to go hillwalking. "I had a car but liked the freedom of hitching - just me and my bag," he says. As soon as I climbed in the cab I'd noticed his deformed left hand, his fingers stubby and misshapen. I'm thinking of a way to bring it up, when William tells me about his time in the Army. He trained as an Assault Pioneer ("blowing things up"). "Is that how you did your hand?" I ask. "No," he says. For the first 15 years of his life, William underwent dozens of operations to build fingers - he was born without any - using plastic joints and grafted tendons and skin. His surgeon, David Jackson, would find fame after rebuilding the disfigured face of his adopted son, David, who had been abandoned in the Amazon. The boy was the subject of the BBC documentaries, The Boy David.
"You could say I was his guinea pig," William says. Mr Jackson's work was so good that William became not only a demolitions expert, but twice Scottish boxing champion in his late teens. He was trained by his dad, Ally Gilmour, a former miner. "He was a hero - we were like brothers," William says, lowering the giant windscreen visor to as the sun drops over the Grampians. "Two nights a week, he'd drive around picking up lads and take them for training. Then he'd drive them all back again." Three years ago, William's dad died of a heart attack. He was 70.
"He'd done a charity walk the week before and never smoked a fag in his life," William says. "They came from all over Scotland for his funeral. I kept one of his old boxing gloves on my chest of drawers, and couldn't talk about him without choking. Then, about six weeks ago, I could suddenly open up. I keep his glove in a jewellery box now." Approaching Inverness, we pass yellow gorse like fire, and rugged moorland softened by the evening light. At 9:30, the bridge across the Beauly Firth comes into view. We turn left off the A9 to Inverness, where William shakes my hand, and drops me off. I walk into town and check in to a backpackers' hostel.
I leave the hostel at 6:30 after a mostly sleepless night caused by a creaking bunkbed and the Germans smoking weed in the courtyard below my room. Striding back to the A9 with John O'- Groats almost in my sights, I stop at a BP for breakfast - a packet of chocolate HobNobs. After two hours, a VW Golf pulls up. Ian, who lives in Dornoch, further up the A9, hitchhiked to football as a boy and is now a property valuer. Boomtime in the Highlands ended last year, after prices had more than doubled in four years, but Ian's still happy. Looking out of the window ("it's not always this nice you know," Ian says) I can see why. He drops me at what must be one of the most beautiful thumbing spots in the land - a layby close to the village of Tain, where the A9 descends towards Dornoch Firth.
The interior of Jody's battered van, which pulls up after 10 minutes, smells of glue and sawdust. A wooden ruler sits on the dashboard under a pile of Rawlplugs. I sit on several sheets of newspaper. "Spilt my flask over the seat this morning, but you're all right," Jody, a self-employed joiner, tells me, his Highlands accent so thick he has to repeat everything for my southern ears. At 29, Jody's the youngest person who stops for me, but he's old enough to have a hitchhiking past.
"I did it all the time to go out in Inverness," he says. "You still see people doing it - backpackers, too." Jody goes fishing to relax and has two children with his childhood sweetheart. I like him, but our 20-minute relationship ends when he drops me off at the town of Golspie. ROY THURSDAY, 10:10AM: GOLSPIE TO WICK, A99 More than two days into my thumbing adventure, I've proved the doomsayers wrong: not once I have I felt threatened by any of the strangers who have invited me into their cabs and cars. Never mind being stabbed - I haven't had so much as a hand brushed against my knee, a dodgy look or an awkward word. The only time I feel things could go awry comes when Roy picks me up in an unmarked delivery van. He's heading to Wick, 15 miles short of John O'Groats, but not directly - we've got drops to make. One of them involves hurtling along deserted lanes barely wider than the van.
Passing a pile of rusting cars and a 1960s bus in a field of weeds, we pull up at an isolated farmhouse that looks uninhabitable. Is this it, I think - where the story ends? Staying in the van as Roy jumps out, I hear men talking but can't see what's happening. But Roy's as friendly as everyone else who stops for me. He used to hitch to Inverness, where he learnt bricklaying. He reckons it's easier to get a lift up here. "We're just a bit more friendly, don't you think?" he says. I'm prepared to agree. At Roy's final stop, I help him wrestle a trampoline from the back of his van into a garage. He drops me off in Wick.
A woman! People told me I'd never get picked up by a woman but here's Katrina in her Rover 75. "You're in Caithness now," she says as we pick up speed, "there's only one road out so there's nowhere to run if anything happens." A 34-year-old bassoonist married to a translator, Katrina is probably the friendliest ride I've had. She wasn't even heading to John O'Groats, but home to Thurso, where her eldest daughter is off school sick.
"It's fine, I'll take you," she says, embarking on a 15-mile diversion. It takes us less than half an hour to get there. We get out of the car and stand by the most photographed sign in the country.
I've done it - I can go no further. I left a rain-soaked London on Tuesday morning. Twoanda half days and 12 lifts later, I've travelled almost 700 miles to the sunny tip of Scotland. I've spent 11 hours and 10 minutes standing on verges, laybys and slip roads, waiting, on average, 55 minutes for a lift. I've shown that you can still hitchhike in Britain in 2008 - and not get murdered. What's more, I've enjoyed it. I could have driven here in a day. But I would have blown a fortune on petrol, and I wouldn't have been moved by William, transfixed by Adrian nor horrified by Alan. My view would have filled with the backs of cars and road signs, not the lakes of Cumbria and the moors of Scotland. I take a train from Thurso to Inverness and the sleeper to London.
The toilets are blocked and one of the carriage doors is broken. I feel a twitch in my thumb. For those for whom the journey is more important than the destination, hitchhiking is the ultimate way to travel. But for how long? With the exception of Jamail and Katrina, all my rides were with former hitchhikers. Thumbing a lift today is about waiting for nostalgic drivers; 20 years from now, will there be any left? Well, there'll be me.
I go through the alphabet, thinking of a rude name for each bastard who ignores me. It gets tricky at K.
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Paraphrasing my old Elk Guide opinion on rifles for Elk
I am lucky to have been able to hunt twice in Idaho with a quality outfit. During the 10 days of the hunt the discussion always gets going about what rifle cartridge we should be using to go after Elk. Both times it was about 1/2 of each group of hunters carrying their regular Deer rifles that they use in their home States. The other hunters had bought a new magnum that they also may now use for hunting Deer back home. At the end of each discussion there was agreement in a couple of areas.
1. The guys carrying magnums, 7mm, 300Win, 300WM, 338Win, 340WM have the option of taking any shot that might present itself over the hunt.
2. Those of us carrying our standard calibers 270, 308, 30-06 need to be aware of what range limitations we must consider.
3. On the first hunt a guy with a 7mm mag made a great shot at 450yards hitting an Elk. It was later finished off at closer range. I would not have attempted the shot he took. My personal limitations and those of my 30-06 rifle would have made me pass on the shot.
4. My outfitters liked to see Magnums, both lead guys loved the 338 Win mag. But only if the hunter had chosen to use heavy controller expansion bullets. Even with the other magnums they want heavy for caliber controlled exp bullets not standard construction ones.
5. My outfitters also were frustrated with the number of hunters that either can't shoot, or are scared of their rifles. More than once the outfitter said I would rather have the shooter bring less of a rifle if they can shoot it.
6. I did get a smaller 4x4 on my second trip, at around 150 yards the 30-06 with a 180gr Nosler Part did its part. Not a tough shot and not very far away. A magnum was not needed for the shot I took.
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Shaun White on the DS lacks the momentum it needs to be an exciting action sports game. While I like the freedom it gives players to tackle challenges in the order of their choosing, actually playing through those events feels like snowboarding through molasses.
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Recently moved to back to Ann Arbor from Boston. Was in London for a bit before that.
From my move it's become clear that 80% of all my belongings are kitchen gadgets fueled by my addiction to America's Test Kitchen.
As for interests, eh, I haven't found much I'm not interested in yet? History is a big one, but I'm playing around with coding, writing, playing uke, fermenting, nutrition, knitting, hiking, camping, and I recently got a cheese making kit I'm pretty jazzed about.
TV: Rick and Morty, Bojack Horseman, and some of the usual great comedies (30 Rock etc)
Books: Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid, Song of Ice & Fire, history books, anything noire (Raymond Chandler just writes sexy prose).
Why the English language is the way it is.


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Two things about this summit were particularly interesting. First, it followed the events of September 11 by a just a few, short weeks. Throughout the final planning stages, the folks at DuPont were very open to their council members' concerns about travel, but the group, almost unanimously, forged ahead with a need-to-have determination.
Secondly, through last-minute circumstances, the two professions – end-users and designers – convened together, rather than separately as they had in the past. The result – as is often the case when fate steps in – turned out to be an open dialogue about the rewards and frustrations of their respective roles in the design, development, and management of facilities and ways to improve their interaction with suppliers, the project team, code officials, and each other. Between the two professions, the similarities – in terms of vision, direction, and budget demands – were surprising. Clearly evident was a single-minded eagerness to communicate ways to move an industry and a nation forward during troubling circumstances. What also impressed me was DuPont's willingness to empower participants to take these discussions in directions that were relevant to the industry – not product specific to carpet or flooring, as most hosts might have dictated.
As a result, the conversations addressed safety and security concerns; the downsizing/dot.com fall-out and associated space challenges; doing more, with better results, with less (money and personnel); travel challenges and the need for easier, but adept conferencing technology; indoor air quality; professional development; and so on. One council member coined an interesting phrase: "We have to find a 'new' normal," he said.
"A 'new' normal?" Defining that will be our industry's next challenge. How well we implement it will secure our future. Won't you share your thoughts on that with me? I will gladly pass them on to Buildings' readers. E-mail me at (email@example.com).
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