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Immigration Officer: Any history of problems with your ass?
Pilgrim: (Thinking I've never owned a donkey) No!
Immigration Officer: Welcome to the New World!
US researchers have identified a married couple who sailed from England to the US in around 1630 as the bearers of a genetic mutation which puts their numerous descendants at higher risk of a hereditary form of colon cancer. Reuters explains that cancer researchers at the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Utah began to look into a …
Immigration Officer: Any history of problems with your ass?
Pilgrim: (Thinking I've never owned a donkey) No!
Immigration Officer: Welcome to the New World!
Yes, but what are their names?
What if that married couple had offspring or relatives who remained in England? Presumably their descendants also need to know who they are so they can get their colons checked out.
I hereby, on behalf of the United States of America, declare war. You have 60 days to shut down your biological warfare program before we rally the troops. If you comply, we will only kill half your civilians.
Damn cunning - they've even found a way of blaming immigrants for cancer now!
"By Ian FergusonPosted Wednesday 2nd January 2008 17:09 GMT Damn cunning - they've even found a way of blaming immigrants for cancer now!"
well the real native americans dont suffer cancer as such or do they?.
But do you have enough suppositories for your troops to last through the journey from THERE to HERE ?? And if, by some lucky chance, they do arrive, will they be wading bow-legged ashore to the nearest NHS hospital with their trousers at half mast to get the badly needed treatment ??
Anyway, smart move by the Brits. If they are criminals, send them to Australia !! If they are diseased, send them to America !! And if they love sheep, send them to Kiwiland !!
I'm glad that finally the UK is giving some bum injury to the USA. It's about time the roles were reversed and the UK stops taking it all the time.
Has anyone noticed how British teeth have improved significalntly since Christan Slater and David Soul moved to the UK?
Can you send some more?
I can just picture first dates of the future starting with an exchange of lists containing history of family disease.
"I'm sorry Bob; you seem like a really nice guy and I'm willing to accept that my family's history of pancreatic cancer cancels your family's history of kidney failure but your gene's likely hood of producing prostate cancer is a deal breaker."
No not really.
the wife bore a scarlet "BF" on her shirt?
Ahem, how come this accusation was not sheeted home to those rampaging, pillaging, plundering earlier migrants?
Too much North Sea oil, probably... :-)
- Hi i'm here to sign up for health insurance.
- What's you last name ? One second while we check your ancestry please..
I'm sorry you are not eligible because of a tendency on your mothers side for these 300 diseases and on your fathers side for these 300 diseases. I'm sorry but i'm afraid it's just too much of a hazard for us to insure you ... You can still pay 50 bucks a month , but that would limit you only to the reimbursement for band-aids and aspirin, since all other medication would fall under 'hereditary disease' for whih you are not insured...
Gattaca anyone?
Are you mad?
Since when did we brits spend 2-3000 on dental care.
There arent enough NHS Dentists to go around.
I've read that popcorn helps to scrape the colon clean. Probably all those sharp-edged kernel shells. So pop in a DVD, and munch down a large serving of popcorn.
Disclaimer - this does not constitute medical advice.
My family is fresh off the boat from Denmark (escaping work in the Lego mines), and my father has had two bouts with colon cancer, and his father did not survive his run-in with it. I myself am going for a good old colon scavenge next week. England, consider yourself thoroughly buggered. Especially you in the Danelaw.
Not to "pooh-pooh" the "popcorn flush" idea, *butt* there are numerous potential "pitfalls."
If you purchase the "butter-flavored" variety, you run the risk of respiratory ailments from the diacetyl added to improve the taste. If you use real butter, you run the risk of coronary artery disease. You also run the risk of breaking a tooth on any un-popped "old maids." As if Brits and their progeny need any more dental "issues!"
And, of course, many folk are allergic to corn.
1640, I'd have thought that would have made them as American as Apple Pie, can't be that many European families in the US with a longer history than that.
Anyway, how do we know they weren't Normans who infected us a few hundred years before that. And we all know where they came from Mr. Viking.
(Histerical Note: The Normans were so called because they were originally Norce of course)
I'm british through and through which naturally makes me: Celt, Pict, Roman, Norse, Saxon, Angle, Frank, Phoniecian, and just about part of any european tribe you can think of who has settled here over the past few thousand years.
Looks like the culprets were "Mr. and Mrs. George Fry" according to U.S. News & World Report.
Didn't the Mormons go through a phase of extreme polygamy at one point? Didn't poor tracking give rise to a lot of defects such as albinoism, trisomy, heamophilia? I wouldn't be so sure about blaming that particular couple... besides how on earth would you get a concrete diagnosis of Cancer nearly four hundred years ago?
@ AC - you forgot to mention assorted North African types, Afro-Caribbean types and Sub-continental types to your mix !! And stir in a good dash of the Far East to spice up the stew !!
@JeffyPooh - yours is the "brute force" method. Try a more pleasant method of 15 pints of lager* followed by a bloody good Vindaloo !! Guaranteed to irrigate your colon like nothing else on Earth !!
* my mate argues that the substitution of *real ale* for the "foreign piss" gives better results !! He cites as proof that "India strength" ales, shipped out to the colonies, were the cause of the famous(??) Delhi Belly when added to industrial strength local cuisine !!


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We all know the rhyme (or you really should): In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue -- and people have been celebrating his discovery of the "New World" ever since. But no one showers the famed Genovese explorer with more praise than his Italian compatriots. From coast to coast, Italians celebrate their rich heritage, vibrant culture, and noteworthy achievements (chief among those being the conviction that the world is not, in fact, flat) on each Columbus Day with parades, music, and feasts. And the bastions of Italian culture -- America's Little Italys -- are the sites of some of our favorite festivities and traditions. We've picked out the best places to march and mangia in these old-world enclaves, as well as our favorite spots to bed up for the night after indulging in plenty of pasta, pastries, and vino. Cent'anni!
Bordered by Chinatown to the East and fashionable SoHo to the West, Manhattan's Little Italy today is a mere shadow of the expansive and robust neighborhood it once was. But, as any Italian knows, it's not the size that matters, but what you do with it. And New York Italians do it up big time, ladies and gentlemen. Serving up some of the best Italian food in the City, prepared the old-fashioned way, and exuding Italian flair from one outspoken maitre d' to the next, Little Italy is a must-visit after marching in the Columbus Day Parade. Here are some of our favorite hidden stops:
- Il Cortile: The inspiration behind the Billy Joel hit, "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant," Il Cortile is an upscale staple of Mulberry Street. Its charming courtyard and Southern Italian fare attract many celebrities, including Donald Trump and Robert DeNiro.
- Di Palo's Fine Foods: This incredible Italian market, opened in 1914, imports foods from all 20 regions of Italy. A wide array of cured meats, 300+ imported cheeses, handmade ravioli, and an endless bevy of antipasti line the shelves.
- Lombardi's Pizza: New York City pizza is the best in the country, hands down. (Sorry, Chicago.) And this pizzeria put the neighborhood on the culinary map back in 1895.
Where to Sleep: Mondrian SoHo Just a short walk from Little Italy's main thoroughfare, the Mondrian Soho is a stylish hotel, featuring small, beautiful rooms, high-tech amenities, and floor-to-ceiling windows with great views. And, if you haven't stuffed yourself with enough Italian fare off the street, the Isola Trattoria & Crudo Bar will do the trick.
This historic neighborhood, one of the oldest in the city, is lined with cobble-stoned streets and gorgeous old buildings -- not to mention picturesque views of Boston's harbor. Italians first began settling the area in 1860, working predominantly as fruit and vegetable vendors and peddlers of wine, cheese, and olive oil. Today, their ancestors own a myriad of Italian cafes and restaurants -- numbering over 100 -- that attract tourists and locals to this quiet quarter of the city. In addition to a parade throughout the North End, entertainers usually gather in Christopher Columbus Park and a harvest festival takes place south of the city. Here are some of our other favorite spots to celebrate:
- Cantina Italiana: Serving up bombolotti -- a pasta unique to this North End eatery -- this landmark restaurant opened its doors in 1931 and has been satisfying customers ever since.
- Caffe Vittoria: Boston's original espresso bar puts any Starbucks to shame with its scrumptious homemade pastries and time-perfected cappuccinos and espresso. The intimate, old world vibe is perfect for romancing.
Where to Sleep: Fairmont Battery Wharf Boston Located within walking distance of Boston's Little Italy, the Fairmont Battery Wharf has excellent harborside views, spacious rooms, a luxe spa, and a celebrated on-site restaurant.
Italians have long cherished la pigna, or the pine cone, as a symbol of abundance and hospitality. So it's fitting that the sight of one welcomes visitors to the Federal Hill neighborhood in Providence. The main thoroughfare here is Atwells Avenue, where countless Italian restaurants and shops compete for business. Together, however, they form a community that supports DePasquale Square, a piazza with flowers, opera singers, and of course the requisite fountains and cafe tables throughout. The Annual Columbus Day Festival attracts over 100,000 people to Atwells Ave. Here are some of our favorite spots to chow down:
- Scialo Bros. Bakery: Making traditional Italian pastries since 1916, this family-run bakery has a following -- a major following. Getting through the door on a weekend morning might set you back an hour, but once you take a bite of their biscotti, you'll know it was worth it.
- Venda Ravioli: What was once a cramped, one-room shop is now the premier spot to shop for Italian delicacies on Federal Hill. With a prime location on DePasquale Square -- and a cafe, gelato bar, and espresso bar on site -- this huge food emporium stocks imported goods and tasty homemade treats.
Where to Sleep: Hotel Providence This 80-room boutique provides a mix of traditional European and New England styles, with an old-fashioned vibe that's fitting for the holiday. The hip restaurant at the Hotel Providence is a draw, as is its central location and pet-friendly attitude.
Each year, Chicago's Columbus Day Parade winds its way down the aptly named Columbus Drive. The main hub of the city's Little Italy, however, is Taylor Street, which is part of the larger Near West Side area. Rife with restaurants and cafes, the area is also near the Italian American Boxing Hall of Fame and the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame. These unique spots are worth a visit in the Windy City. Here are some of our other go-to places:
- Conte Di Savoia: A quality Italian deli on Taylor Street since 1948, Conte Di Savoia offers some of Chicago's best sandwiches and salads, as well as Italian specialties and imports.
- RoSal's: A beloved Sicilian eatery in the heart of Chicago's Little Italy, RoSal's is all about keeping the "old neighborhood" alive. Chow down on simple traditional fare surrounded by black and white photos from days past.
Where to Sleep: The Blackstone, a Renaissance Hotel The quirky, 328-room Blackstone hotel across from Grant Park -- home to the Columbus Day Parade -- mixes contemporary style with the building's restored historic grandeur. Some of the bright, modern rooms have great views of Lake Michigan (and the parade) and the on-site restaurant attracts tourists and locals alike.
Formerly a quiet Italian fishing neighborhood, the scenic area of downtown San Diego is now home to a bevy of restaurants, shops, art galleries, and even home design stores -- but it still celebrates its Italian roots. The Little Italy Association hosts many festivals throughout the year -- including a huge one for Columbus Day that features music, cooking demonstrations and contests, an Italian motor sports exhibit, and a bocce ball tournament -- as well as a weekly Italian farmer's market. Here are our favorite spots along the way:
- Filippi's Pizza Grotto: The DePhilippis moved to San Diego from their Bronx neighborhood in 1950 and opened an Italian grocery store that catered to the local fishermen, with sandwiches and small pizzas. The business has since expanded but the food hasn't changed a bit -- and that's definitely a good thing.
- Solunto Baking Co.: This landmark bakery, once frequented by Frank Sinatra, makes the best Italian breads around -- sans sugar, additives, or preservatives. It boasts an old-school take on health, but the homemade pizza, sausages, and arancini (or riceballs) are sure to be rich in recompense.
Where to Sleep: Porto Vista Hotel A good value with a solid list of freebies (including breakfast, yoga classes, and Wi-Fi), the Porto Vista is conveniently located in Little Italy, within steps of this year's festivities. Rooms feature cool decor with retro floor-to-ceiling photo murals, there is a 24-hour fitness center on-site, and the restaurant has lovely views of the bay.


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On stage at the University of Denver for the first presidential debate of the 2012 election season, it was a night filled with few zingers, plenty of wonkiness, and a moderator who failed to wrangle in the two men who are competing for the most powerful political seat on the planet.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney took a loose, fighting stance against incumbent challenger President Barack Obama's statuesque, professorial style, as the pair tussled over taxes, job creation, deficit reduction, health care, and more taxes.
Neither candidate managed to serve a knockout punch (or any punches at all, really), but the general consensus among the hoards of Twitter users, who followed the debate's every syllable, was that Romney probably won. Obama, cool and collected throughout, failed to match Romney's pseudo-fiery style. In the end, both candidates managed to bore everyone to death with "facts" and "data."
While a winner may have not been blatantly apparent, it's clear who the loser was: Moderator Jim Lehrer, of PBS fame. Throughout the night, Romney and Obama (but especially Romney) talked over Lehrer's feeble attempts to keep the candidates on topic and within their time limits.
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"Jim Lehrer is the replacement refs of the election," tweeted comedian Kumail Nanjiani. HIs apt metaphor was retweeted 2,547 times.
"Fact check. President Obama was not honest. .when he said Jim Lehrer did a 'good job,'" posted Mediaite founder Dan Abrams.
And on, and on. The steamrolling of Lehrer was so pronounced that his single effective effort to put Romney in line — a simple "Let's not," in response to Romney's attempt to return to the beat-to-death topic of Wall Street regulation — generated more activity on Twitter than any other moment of the night — more than 158,000 tweets per minute, according to Twitter.
Despite the decidedly poor showing of all three men involved in last night's debate, the event was still a boon for Twitter, which saw approximately 10.3 million tweets related to the debate and the candidates published during the hour and a half that the match took place — a record for a political event, according to Twitter's @Gov crew. The phrase "Big Bird" peaked at 17,000 tweets per minute, following Romney's reiterated commitment to de-funding PBS. And in the minutes after this comment, a novelty Big Bird account had been created. As of this morning, it has about 8,750 followers.The torrential downpour of tweets was so strong that may professional political observers complained that their Twitter feeds were moving too quickly to read, thus negating the real-time social media platform's value.
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This insensitive tweet was quickly deleted from the @KitchenAidUSA account, and quickly followed up with a steam of apologies from the company. KitchenAid's Cynthia Soledad, who runs the brand's social media, told Mashable that the tweet was "mistakenly" posted by a member of the KitchenAid Twitter crew, who had intended to post the bitter joke to a personal account, rather than to KitchenAid's account. Needless to say, that person will no longer be tweeting for the company.
In the end, the lightning-quick chatter on Twitter provided a snapshot of today's talking points: That Romney, down in the polls though he may be, made ground against President Obama. But overall, nothing much has changed. And poor Jim Lehrer, bless his polite soul, should never moderate another presidential debate ever again.
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EDIT: your negative to posting ratio is better than mine, so I AM worse than you... sorry.EDIT: heres some constructive criticism.I just helped a lawyer create a new solo practice. Here are some things to consider.1. applying for a license as a corporation. P.C.? L.L.C.? do you need a consultation to figure out which is better? ($$)2. do you have to carry malpractice insurance ($$$) in your state? And god forbid you do muck up a case up with your ZERO experience- are you prepared to watch your premiums jump 10x? and never go down?3. are you going to pay an accountant ($$), or do it yourself? do you have an accountants license or background?4. taxes ($$)- have you ever run a business before?5. Rent- are you prepared to sign a 5 year lease? 15-75$/ square feet ($$$$)? do you have collateral, equity, own a home? 6. do you have excellent credit, or are you going to purchase all infrastructure yourself up front ($$$)? 7. westlaw accounts can be 5,000/person, due up front ($). or you have to buy books. or you could walk to the library...8. do you have a mentor? what happens if your ZERO experience in your field puts you in a malpractice/disciplinary situation? who do you turn to?9. are you going to advertise, ($$$) or just rely on cases fed to you? are you at lease going to pay for a martindale-hubble entry ($)? What happens when clients look you up and realize that you dont even have a C- martindale grade? 10. bar fees, subscriptions, CLE classes, all of this adds up over time. And you need to throw down for it too ($).granted, this guy was probably the premiere med mal attorney in my state, but it was hard even for him. Lots of planning, consultations, and OVERHEAD. He had the cash to pay for it out of pocket. Do you? he ran a 1.3 million dollar bill before he opened his practice...granted, you dont need to purchase a 400,000$ medical library, or oil paintings... but you should still think about this before putting yourself into much more debt than law school ran you.or maybe my boss just did things right, im sure you can cut every corner i just mentioned. except the malpractice one, which is deadly for solos. And if this all fails, you think a firm/agency/judge will hire you after you tell them that you started off solo, got sued, and declared bankruptcy?just a bit of reality. Solos are running businesses, and the business world can be cruel.though im sure they cover all of this in your solo practice seminar.
I have a friend who went solo after 6 months at a firm. Honestly, I question his competence. I'd bet those people slaving away at those big firms and corp. in-house counsel offices are learning more than you'd think. Those "slaves" have the luxury of someone to continue teaching them after law school. They're being groomed to move up in the organization, and its a process that takes time. Theoretically, if all goes well, they'll end up in the position of the partner teaching them the practice. There are attorneys, and then there are good attorneys.Incompetence aside, my friend makes ends meet by taking public defender cases on contract. That jurisdiction doesn't have an established P.D. office. His practice is slowly growing, but its been tough for him. The hours are pretty good most of the time, and he is his own boss. That counts for alot. Other solo attorneys I know got their start in the prosecutor's office. They did that for a couple of years and then went solo. They made alot of connections that way.
This is a post worth re-reading for all, whether or not you're contemplating starting a firm. Among other reasons, for those in a law office of any kind, there is and should be a greater awe in the value being GIVEN to you by being in that office and learning from experienced practitioners. Why is this form used and not that one? Do I confirm this or not worry about it? Why shouldn't we notify x about y? Oh, we need to worry about z?
I don't object at all to making people aware of:1. the financial realities of this path. Old rule of thumb on small biz is that you don't start breaking even for 2 years and may not turn a net profit on the venture for 5. You might very well end up sorting packages for UPS on the night shift to make rent for a while until your practice is started.2. The difficulty of this path in terms of the type of personality required.3. The dangers involved.People should go into this with eyes wide-open. Where I quibble is with the assertion that it can't be done or that trying to do this is a sure path to ruin. The warnings have a good basis, but to be frank, we all know attorneys who hung out a shingle at graduation and did just fine.Given the alternative prospects for many graduates of today's schools, I don't think a solo practice is an unreasonable aspiration.
Given the alternative prospects for many graduates of today's schools, I don't think a solo practice is an unreasonable aspiration.
For this simple reason, and this reason alone, I generally oppose hanging shingles after graduation. In fact, I would favor some type of post-doc internship requirement, MD-style, for bar admittance, but that is perhaps a different subject.


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Floral designers Remco Van Vliet and his half brother, Cas Trap, show us how to create a fishbowl garden.
Tools and Materials
- Echeveria
- Aeonium
- Tree peonies
- Paphiopedilum
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- Lotus pods
- Scabiosa seed heads
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1. Fit the bottom of a fishbowl with a large round floral frog, and surround it with a base of echeveria.
2. Add aeonium rosettes.
3. Pour in water to a depth of 2 inches.
4. Place 2 or 3 short tree-peony and paphiopedilum blossoms around the perimeter.
5. Cut ferns and stems of lotus pods to varying lengths, and insert them in the frog, rotating bowl to check balance.
6. Add scabiosa seed heads and pitcher plant flowers.
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JOHNSON CITY (May 1, 2012) – ETSU golfer Gabriella Wahl (Heidenheim, Germany) is not finished competing this season.
Thanks in part to her back-to-back individual victories in the final two tournaments of the spring, Wahl learned Monday evening that she had received an individual at-large bid to the NCAA Central Regional which will be played May 10-12 at the Ohio State University Golf Club's Scarlet Course.
"I'm really excited about this opportunity to continue my college season for a few weeks," said Wahl, who captured both the John Kirk/Lady Panther Intercollegiate and the Atlantic Sun Conference championships to end the spring season. "Going to nationals and having the opportunity to represent ETSU is an honor. I'm really excited."
ETSU head coach Stefanie Shelton was pleased with the news.
"We are extremely excited that Gabriella will have this opportunity to represent ETSU while competing for a regional championship," Shelton said. "Her accomplishing this as a freshman should show her potential for a storied career here at ETSU.
"She has proven to herself that she can compete with anyone and I know she will enter this event with every intention of winning and advancing for a chance to compete for a national title."
The A-Sun freshman of the year and a first-team all league pick, Wahl ended the 2011-12 season with Bucs' lowest stroke average at 74.2.
Her season also included record-breaking performances, such as a school mark for three-round score with a 212 at the John Kirk/Panther Intercollegiate. Her 5-under-par 67 in the first round of A-Sun Championships also matched that event's best single-round score ever.
Fans will be able to keep up-to-date with Wahl's efforts at the NCAA regional by visiting Golfstat.com to access live scoring. In addition, ETSUBucs.com will have a full update following each round.
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Joao Biehl is professor of Anthropology and co-director of the Program in Global Health and Health Policy at Princeton University. Before joining the Princeton faculty in 2001, Professor Biehl was a National Institute of Mental Health postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. His publications include, Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival (Princeton University Press 2007) and Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005).
John Bowen, Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences in the Department of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, is director of the Pluralism, Politics, and Religion Initiative. In 2001 and again in 2009, he was Professeur invité at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, and in 2010, he is a visiting professor at the London School of Economics. He was a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1995-1996, a Carnegie Scholar in 2005-2006, and is a recipient of the Leverhulme Trust Award from the London School of Economics. He is author of many books, including, most recently, Can Islam Be French? Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist State (Princeton University Press, 2009). The New Anthropology of Islam and Framing Muslims across Western Europe (he is senior editor of this collaborative volume) are forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
Elof Axel Carlson, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at Stony Brook University, is a noted geneticist and historian of science. He has taught as a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota, San Diego State University, and Tougaloo College, and as McMurrin Visiting Professor at the University of Utah. His recent books include The Unfit: A History of a Bad Idea (2001), Mendel's Legacy: The Origin of Classical Genetics (2004), Times of Triumph, Times of Doubt: Science and the Battle for Public Trust (2006); and Neither Gods Nor Beasts: How Science is Changing Who We Think We Are (2008).
Sumita S. Chakravarty is an associate professor of Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts. She joined the New School faculty in 1988, and was chair of the department from 2000 to 2008. She previously taught in the English department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and lectured at Lucknow University in India. Her books include National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987 and The Enemy Within: The Films of Mrinal Sen. She was a member of Fulbright National Screening Committee for 2009-2010 and a recipient of the Social Science Research Council Advanced Research Grant for 1996-1997.
Katayoun Chamany is Associate Professor of Biology and the founder of the Interdisciplinary Science program of Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts, an undergraduate science program focused on teaching science in the context of society. Trained as geneticist and cell biologist, she uses a socio-political approach and case study method to teach courses in the area of infectious diseases, cell biology, genetics, and their associated technologies. She is the author of Cell Biology for Life, a collection of educational modules published by Garland publishing, recipient of the Distinguished University Teaching Award, an active member of the Faculty for the 21st Century of Project Kaleidoscope, and a national organization focused on undergraduate science education reform and serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science and the Life Sciences Education journal. As a Leadership Fellow for Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) she has designed curricula centered on stem cell research using a feminist and social justice perspective. She received her PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1996.
Paisley Currah is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He works in the intersections of political theory, gender and sexuality studies, studies in law and society, LGBT studies, and transgender studies. He has widely written on the transgender rights movement. His current work investigates state constructions of sex for the purposes of recognition and national projects that use gender as a distributive mechanism. He recently co-authored "The State of Transgender Rights in the United States of America," a working paper written for and presented at a meeting of the Global Dialog on Sexual Health and Well Being, organized by the four regional National Sexuality Resource Centers and "The Transgender Rights Imaginary," published in Feminist and Queer Legal Theory.
Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School, also teaches in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College. Her research and teaching interests revolve around two basic areas, Hinduism and mythology. Her courses in mythology address themes in cross-cultural expanses, such as death, dreams, evil, horses, sex, and women; her courses in Hinduism cover a broad spectrum that, in addition to mythology, considers literature, law, gender, and psychology. Her books include The Hindus: An Alternative History (Penguin Press 2009) and Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India (University of Chicago Press 1999).
Didier Fassin, M.D., M.P.H., is James D. Wolfensohn Professor
School of Social Science at the Institute of Advanced Study. He is an anthropologist and a sociologist who has conducted field studies in Senegal, Ecuador, South Africa, and France. Trained as a physician in internal medicine and public health, he dedicated his early research to medical anthropology, illuminating important issues about the AIDS epidemic, social inequalities in health, and the changing landscape of global health. More recently, he has developed a new domain of inquiry he terms "political and moral anthropology," analyzing the reformulation of injustice and violence as suffering and trauma, the expansion of an international humanitarian government, and the contradictions in the contemporary politics of life. His present project, a contribution to an anthropology of the state, explores the political and moral treatment of disadvantaged groups, including immigrants and refugees, through an ethnography of police, justice, and prison. Formally, he was vice president and professor at the Université Paris 13. he is director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Science Sociales. His recent books include The Empire of Trauma. Inquiry into the Condition of Victims and When Bodies Remember. Experience and Politics of AIDS in Post-apartheid South Africa.
Joseph Fins, M.D., is chief of the Division of Medical Ethics at Weill Cornell Medical College, where he is a professor of Medicine, professor of Public Health, and professor of Medicine in Psychiatry. Dr. Fins is also director of medical ethics at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center and a member of the adjunct faculty of Rockefeller University and a senior attending physician at the Rockefeller University Hospital. His honors include a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, a Faculty Scholars Award from the Soros Open Society Institute Project on Death in America, a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Visiting Fellowship. He receives support from the Dana and Buster Foundations. He was appointed by President Clinton to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy and currently serves on the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law by gubernatorial appointment.
David Garland is a professor of Sociology and Law at New York University and is considered one of the world's leading sociologists of crime and punishment. He joined the New York University School of Law faculty in 1997. He was previously on the faculty of Edinburgh University's Law School, where he taught since 1979 and was appointed to a personal chair in 1992. At New York University, he holds a joint appointment as professor of sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences, where he teaches graduate classes in social theory and an undergraduate course in criminology. He is the author of several prize-winning studies, including Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory, which won distinguished book awards from the American Sociological Association and the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and Punishment and Welfare: The History of Penal Strategies, which won the International Society of Criminology's prize for best study over a five-year period. His last book, The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society, published by University of Chicago Press in February 2001, has been translated into Italian, Spanish, and Chinese. He was a visiting reader at Leuven University in Belgium in 1983, a Davis Fellow in Princeton University's history department in 1984-1985, and a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley Boalt Law School in 1985 and 1988. In 1993 he was awarded the Sellin-Glueck Prize by the American Society of Criminology for distinguished scholarly contributions to criminology by a non-American scholar.
Susan Greenhalgh is a professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Irvine. The concern of her recent work has been to understand Chinese projects of modernity/globality (state efforts to transform China's "backward masses" into the modern workers and citizens needed to make China a prosperous, globally prominent nation) and their effects on China's society, culture, politics, and global standing. Her empirical focus has been the Chinese state's project to optimize the size and "quality" of its population by limiting all couples to one child. Apart from the basic policy of economic reform and opening up, no policy has been more consequential to reform-era China than the one-child policy. Her interests in the social dimensions of China's global rise are reflected in three recent books: Population and the Rise of Global China (Harvard University Press, 2010), Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China (University of California Press, 2008), Governing China's Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics (with Edwin A. Winckler, Stanford University Press, 2005).
Michele Goodwin is Everett Fraser Professor in Law at the University of Minnesota. She holds joint appointments at the University of Minnesota Medical School and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. She was honored with a Distinguished Visiting Professorship by Griffith University in Australia. Professor Goodwin was a Gilder-Lehrman post-doctoral fellow at Yale University. Her writings on baby markets, judicial formalism, law and status, organ procurement, assisted reproduction, reproductive politics, family immunity in tort law, and patient negligence, appear in journals published by the University of Chicago, University of Michigan, George Washington University, Duke University, University of Virginia, University of Alabama, Barnard College, and many others. Her books include Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Human Body Parts (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Baby Markets (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Bernard E. Harcourt is Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Professor Harcourt's scholarship intersects social and political theory, the sociology of punishment, criminal law and procedure, and criminology. He is author of Against Prediction: Punishing and Policing in an Actuarial Age (University of Chicago Press 2007) and Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken-Windows Policing (Harvard University Press 2001).
William Hirst is a psychology professor at The New School for Social Research in New York. He teaches cognitive psychology, research methods in cognition and communication, and collective and autobiographical memory and their contribution to identity. He has a PhD is from Cornell University and a bachelor's degree from Carnegie-Mellon University. His research interests are cognitive science; cognitive neuroscience (especially memory and attention); and social remembering. His recent publications include "Long-term retention of the terrorist attack of 9/11," Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (2009); "Silence is not golden: A case for socially-shared retrieval-induced forgetting," in Psychological Science (2007); and "Towards a psychology of collective memory," in Memory (2008).
Paul W. Kahn is Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities, and director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School. Professor Kahn teaches constitutional law and theory, international law, cultural theory, and philosophy. Before coming to Yale in 1985, he clerked for Justice White in the United States Supreme Court and practiced law in Washington, D.C.; he was a member of a legal team that represented Nicaragua before the International Court of Justice. He is the author of Legitimacy and History: Self-Government in American Constitutional Theory; The Reign of Law: Marbury v. Madison and the Construction of America; The Cultural Study of Law: Reconstructing Legal Scholarship; Law and Love: The Trials of King Lear; Putting Liberalism in its Place; Out of Eden: Adam and Eve and the Problem of Evil; and Sacred Violence: Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty.
Thomas Walter Laqueur is Helen Fawcett Professor of History at the University of California, where he writes about and teaches European cultural history. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. His writings about the dead include " Unquiet Bodies" in the London Review of Books; "Places of the dead in modernity" in The Age of Cultural Revolutions: Britain and France, 1750-1820 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002); and "The Dead Body and Human Rights" in The Body (Cambridge University Press, 2002). He is currently completing a book to be titled The Work of the Dead.
Claudio Lomnitz is the director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is editor of the journal Public Culture. He is currently working on the historical anthropology of crisis and is the author of Death and the Idea of Mexico (Zone Books, 2005), a political and cultural history from the 16th to the 21st centuries.
Charles W. Mills is John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Northwestern University. He earned his PhD at the University of Toronto and works in the general area of social and political philosophy, particularly in oppositional political theory as centered on class, gender, and race. In recent years, he has focused on race and has written numerous articles and book chapter and four books. His first book, The Racial Contract (Cornell University, 1997), won a Myers Outstanding Book Award for the study of bigotry and human rights in North America, and his second book, Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race (Cornell University, 1998), was a finalist for most important North American work in social philosophy of that year. His most recent book, Contract and Domination (Polity Press, 2007), co-authored with Carole Pateman, who wrote The Sexual Contract (Stanford University Press, 1988), seeks to bring the social and sexual "contracts" together. He is currently working on a collection of his Caribbean essays to be titled Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality: Race, Class, and Social Domination. Before going to Northwestern, Professor Mills taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he was a UIC Distinguished Professor.
Sharon Marcus is Orlando Harriman Professor of English at Columbia University. She specializes in 19th-century British and French literature and culture and has taught courses on the novel, Victorian genres, narrative theory, Oscar Wilde, theories of gender and sexuality, the city in 19th-century literature, and the year 1857 in England and France. Her first book, Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London (University of California Press, 1999), won honorable mention for the MLA Scaglione Prize for best book in comparative literature. Her second book, Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (Princeton, 2007), won the Perkins Prize for best study of narrative, the Albion prize for best book on Britain after 1800, the Alan Bray Memorial award for best book in queer studies, a Lambda Literary award for best book in LGBT studies, and has been translated into Spanish. With Stephen Best, she recently edited a special issue of Representations on "The Way We Read Now." She has published articles on Trollope, Charlotte Brontë, comparative sapphism, same-sex domesticity in Victorian England, Victorian fashion plates, Rosemary's Baby, sentimentality and cosmopolitanism in the writings of Anne Frank and Hannah Arendt, and the theory and practice of rape prevention, as well as methodological essays on comparative literature, queer studies, feminist criticism, and Victorian studies. She is the recipient of Fulbright, Woodrow Wilson, and ACLS fellowships, and, at Columbia, a Gerry Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award. She is currently writing a book about theatrical celebrity in the nineteenth century.
Afsaneh Najmabadi is Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. Her last book, Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), received the 2005 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize from the American Historical Association. She is currently writing two new books, Sex in Change: Configurations of Sexuality and Gender in Contemporary Iran and Genus of Sex: How Jins Became Sex in Iran. Afsaneh and a team of Qajar dynasty (1785–1925) historians received a NEH grant to develop a comprehensive digital archive and website to preserve, link, and render accessible primary source materials related to the social and cultural history of women in Iran under the Qajars.
Pilar Ossorio is an associate professor of Law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and a faculty member in the Graduate Program in Population Health at UW. Previously, she was director of the genetics section at the Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association and taught as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Chicago Law School. Dr. Ossorio is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Bioethics, chair of an NHGRI advisory group on ethical issues in large-scale gene sequencing, and a member of the University of Wisconsin institutional review board for health sciences research. She is a past member of AAAS Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, a past member of the National Cancer Policy Board (Institute of Medicine), and has been a member or chair of several working groups on genetics and ethics. Her recent articles include "About Face: Forensic Genetic Profiling for Race and Visible Traits" in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (in press) and "Race and Genetics: Controversies in Biomedical, Behavioral, and Forensic Sciences" in American Psychologist (with Troy Duster, 2005).
Susie Orbach, a psychotherapist, is a visiting professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. She co-founded the Women's Therapy Centre in London and New York. She has been a consultant for the World Bank, NHS, and Unilever, and was co-originator of the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty. She has previously been a visiting scholar at The New School for Social Research. She is currently chair of the Relational School in the UK, a convener of Anybody, an organization that campaigns for body diversity, a founder member of ANTIDOTE, working for emotional literacy, and of Psychotherapists and Counselors for Social Responsibility. For ten years Susie Orbach had a column in The Guardian newspaper writing about emotions in public and private life. Her books include Bodies (Picador, 2009), On Eating (Penguin Books Ltd, 2002), and The Impossibility of Sex (Scribner, 1999).
Michael G. Peletz is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Emory University. His specialties include social and cultural theory, gender, sexuality, kinship, law, religion (especially Islam), and modernity, particularly in Malaysia, Indonesia, and other parts of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim. His most recent book, Gender Pluralism: Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times (published by Routledge) was designated by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2009. He is also the author of Islamic Modern: Religious Courts and Cultural Politics in Malaysia (Princeton University Press, 2002), and Reason and Passion: Representations of Gender in a Malay Society (University of California Press, 1996), and he is the editor (with Aihwa Ong) of Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia (University of California Press, 1995). Peletz is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the Social Science Research Council, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the National Science Foundation, and the Erasmus Institute at the University of Notre Dame. He is currently working on a large-scale collaborative project entitled "'Ordinary Muslims' in Asia and the West."
Adriana Petryna is Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research addresses the social dimensions of scientific knowledge in contexts of crisis and in U.S.-based pharmaceutical
research. She is the author of Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl (Princeton, 2002) and the coeditor of Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics,
Markets, Practices (Duke, 2006). Her book, When Experiments Travel: Clinical
Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects (Princeton, 2009), explores
patient protections in the context of global clinical trials.
Kaushik Sunder Rajan is associate professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Irvine. He is author of Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life, a multi-sited ethnography of emergent genomic research and drug development marketplaces in the United States and India (2006) and Biosocialities, Genetics and the Social Sciences: Making Biologies and Identities (2007).
Anupama Rao is associate professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her research and teaching interests are in the history of anticolonialism; gender and sexuality studies; intersections of caste and race; social theory, and colonial genealogies of human rights and humanitarianism. Her book, The Caste Question (University of California Press, 2009) theorizes caste subalternity, with specific focus on the role of anti-caste thought (and its thinkers) in producing alternative genealogies of the political subject in colonial and postcolonial India. She has also written on colonialism and humanitarianism and on non-Western histories of gender and sexuality. Recent publications include Discipline and the Other Body (Duke University Press, 2006); "Death of a Kotwal: Injury and the Politics of Recognition," Subaltern Studies XII; Violence, Vulnerability and Embodiment (co-editor, special issues of Gender and History, 2004), and Gender and Caste: Issues in Indian Feminism (Kali for Women, 2003). She is currently working on a book entitled Dalit Bombay, on the relationship between outcaste labor, political culture, and everyday life in colonial and postcolonial Bombay.
Rayna Rapp is professor of Anthropology at New York University. Her areas of research are gender, reproduction, health and culture, and science and technology in the U.S. and Europe. She is the author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America (Routledge, 2000). Her recent articles include "Genetic Citizenship" and "Gender, Body, Biomedicine: How Some Feminist Concerns Dragged Reproduction to the Center of Social Theory" in Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
Renata Salecl teaches law at the University of Ljubljana in her native Slovenia and was the Centennial Professor in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics. She is a frequent visitor to Cardozo Law School of Yeshiva University, teaching and collaborating on conferences. As a member of several think tanks, including the Remarque Institute, as worked to develop policies for Slovenia with respect to women's rights, maternity leave, and in-vitro fertilization. Her many books and articles include (Per)Versions of Love and Hate, (1998, Verso), which has been translated into German, Russian, Spanish, French, Korean, and Serbo-Croation. Her most recent book, On Anxiety (2004, Routledge), has been translated into Portuguese and Turkish. Her current research interests include China's developing cloning industry.
Nancy Scheper-Hughes is Chancellor's Professor in Medical Anthropology and head of the doctoral program in Medical Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the director of Organs Watch and co-founder of the Organs Watch Project. Her research, writings, and teaching focus on violence, suffering, and premature death as these are experienced on the margins and peripheries of the late modern world, and include a multi-sited ethnographic and medical human rights oriented study of the global traffic in humans (living and dead) to provide organs for international organ transplant patients. Concern about the role of new markets in the transfer of transplant technologies resulted in her book Commodifying Bodies, co-edited with Loic Wacquant (2002, Sage). Her forthcoming book is titled A World Cut in Two: Global Justice and the Traffic in Organs (University of California Press).
Susan Schweik is professor and associate dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the recent recipient of the Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence. A former Presidential Chair in Undergraduate Education for Disability Studies at UC, she has been involved in the development of disability studies at Berkeley for nine years. She was co-coordinator of the Ed Roberts Fellowships in Disability Studies (a post-doctoral program at Berkeley coordinated by the Institute for Urban and Regional Development). She has taught and co-taught undergraduate courses in Disability and Literature, Discourses of Disability, the Disability Rights Movement, Disability and Digital Storytelling, Psychiatric Disability, Literature and Medicine, and Race, Ethnicity and Disability, and graduate courses in Body Theory and Disability Studies and Advanced Disability Studies. Her other teaching and research interests include 20th-century poetry, late 19th-century American literature, women's studies and gender theory, urban studies, war literature, and children's literature. She is a recipient of Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award. Her books include The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public (History of Disability) (New York University Press, 2009).
Ann Snitow is Associate Professor of Literature and Gender Studies at Eugene Lang The New School for Liberal Arts. Snitow has been a feminist activist since l969 when she was a founding member of New York Radical Feminists. She was co-editor of Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality, a central text in U.S. debates about the historicity of sexual experience, and of The Feminist Memoir Project. She has written germinal articles about feminism. A founder of the Feminist Anti-Censorship Task Force, of the action group No More Nice Girls and of the Network of East-West Women (NEWW), her most recent writing and political work is about the changing situation of women in Eastern Europe.
Edward Stein is vice dean, professor of law, and director of the program in Family Law, Policy, and Bioethics at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. Before joining the Cardozo faculty, Professor Stein taught in the philosophy departments of Yale University, Mount Holyoke College, and New York University. In 2001-2002, he clerked for Judge Dolores Sloviter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He is the author of numerous articles and books on legal, philosophical, and scientific topics, including The Mismeasure of Desire: The Science, Theory and Ethics of Sexual Orientation (Oxford University Press, 1999). His current research focuses on issues at the intersection of family law and sexual orientation, gender, and the law.
Ann Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research. She has been greatly influential in scholarship concerning knowledge, colonial encounters, postcolonial presents, critical race theory, histories of sentiment and sexuality, and historical ethnography. Stoler has authored many books and articles including the seminal work Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power, which was released in its second edition in 2010.
Winnifred F. Sullivan is associate professor and director of the Law and Religion program at the University of Buffalo Law School. She studies the intersection of religion and law in the modern period, particularly the phenomenology of modern religion as it is shaped in its encounter with law. In addition to numerous articles, she is the author of Paying the Words Extra: Religious Discourse in the Supreme Court of the United States (Cambridge: Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, 1994), The Impossibility of Religious Freedom (Princeton, 2005) and Prison Religion: Faith-based Reform and the Constitution (Princeton, 2009). During the 2010-2011 academic year, she is a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, supported also by fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Carole S. Vance is associate clinical professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Anthropology at Columbia University. For the past 10 years, she has directed a program on sexuality, gender, health and human rights that advances policy-relevant scholarship and facilitates exchanges between researchers and advocates on sexual health and rights issues. Dr. Vance is currently involved in research on trafficking into forced prostitution, also known as sex trafficking, with particular focus on the ways in which ethnographic research can inform policy and health and human rights interventions. Her most recent article, "Thinking Trafficking, Thinking Sex," appeared in GLQ (2011). She edited the landmark collection, Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality (HarperCollins, 1993). In 2005, Dr. Vance received the David R. Kessler Award for lifetime contributions to studies of sexuality.
Stephanie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H., is Professor of Urban Public Health at the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College. She was previously professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, where she was co-director of the general internal medicine fellowship program. She helped found Physicians for a National Health Program, a not-for-profit organization for physicians, medical students, and other health care professionals who advocate a national health insurance program. Dr. Woolhandler is a frequent speaker and has written extensively on health policy, administrative overhead, and the uninsured. She has authored more than 50 research articles on health care access and financing. She is a member of the American Public Health Association, the Society for General Internal Medicine, and the American College of Physicians, and she is a fellow of the National Academy of Social Insurance. In 2009, Dr. Woolhandler was named an honorary fellow by the University of Edinburgh. Also in 2009 she received the A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring award from Harvard Medical School.
David E. Van Zandt will be the eighth president of The New School. He was previously dean and professor of law at the Northwestern University School of Law. (Longer bio to come.)
Arien Mack, Alfred and Monette Marrow Professor of Psychology at The New School for Social Research, has been the editor of Social Research since 1970 and is the founder and director of the Social Research conference series and all other Social Research projects. She teaches and operates a research lab investigating visual perception. Her publications include more than 60 articles, a book, Inattentional Blindness (1998), as well as three edited volumes which were issues of Social Research republished as books by university presses: Death and the American Experience (1973), Technology and the Rest of Culture (1997), and Humans and Other Animals (1995). For information about how you can support the Center for Public Scholarship, contact Dr. Mack at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) -- President Barack Obama will visit Louisiana on Monday to examine water and wind damage in the wake of Isaac.
White House spokesman Jay Carney announced the trip aboard Air Force One as Obama flew to Texas on Friday to speak to U.S. service members and their families.
The storm, which reached hurricane strength as it made landfall earlier this week, gained significance as it coincided with the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. It struck as the Republican National Convention unfolded in Tampa, Fla.
Carney's announcement came shortly after Obama's presidential rival, Republican Mitt Romney, announced he would visit the New Orleans area on Friday. Carney said Obama reached his decision before Romney's intentions became known.
Obama was to touch down in Louisiana after a previously scheduled campaign stop in Cleveland earlier Monday. But Obama's campaign announced Friday that it was canceling the Ohio event.
Asked to comment on Romney's visit to Louisiana, Carney said: "I think that it's always important to draw attention to the fact that individuals and families and business owners are profoundly affected ... that's an important thing to do."


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Heads are rolling in the Father Fugee scandal.
Father Thomas J Triggs, pastor of St Mary Parish, Colts Neck, NJ and Michael and Amy Lenehan, parish youth ministers at the same church have resigned their positions. The reason is that they allowed Father Fugee to participate in parish ministries with children, despite his record as a convicted child molester.
I would guess that this puts the St Mary Parish into quite an uproar with people taking sides either for or against their former pastor.
It's difficult for Protestants to understand the emotional bond that Catholics form with their parish priests. These men hear our confessions, comfort us when we in pain and listen to our most scalding confidences.
It is beyond difficult to suddenly be faced with assertions that the pastor you've trusted so completely has betrayed you in such a fundamental matter. I have no doubt that the entire parish of St Mary is suffering from a sense of betrayal and confusion.
It appears that the Lenehans are long-time friends of Father Fugee. According to a news report, he publicly thanked them for standing by him when he was convicted of child abuse.
I understand sticking with a friend when he falls into disgrace. If you love someone, you don't stop loving them when they get into trouble. What I don't understand is putting a convicted child abuser in contact with children.
The Lenehans are saying that they did not know about the agreement between Fugee and prosecutors that he would not come into contact with children. Even if that's true, they still must have known that he was a convicted child abuser. That alone is reason enough to keep him away from children.
It doesn't matter if they thought he was innocent. It doesn't matter if the conviction was overturned on a technicality. Their responsibility to the children of St Mary Parish, as well as their responsibility to the entire parish and the Church should have been important enough for them to not put a convicted child molester in contact with children.
One of the things I've seen with people who are tempted to molest children is that they always find ways to put themselves into contact with children. Once they're caught, they tell the judge sad tales about how they fought their dark impulses. But they also always seek out positions where they will have access to children.
The debate seems to be what did this parish priest know. I'm guessing, but I would imagine that a conviction of a brother priest for child molesting right there in his own state might just have been something that this priest was aware of. If he did know, then so far as I'm concerned, he's in the same slot as the Lenehans. Ignorance of an agreement with prosecutors is a technicality.
If someone is convicted of child molesting responsible people do not place them in positions where they will be in contact with children.
I do not understand why it's necessary to say this. It's obvious. Like Pinocchio's nose.
From the Trenton Diocese website:
Bishop David M. O'Connell, C.M., has accepted the resignation of Father Thomas J. Triggs as pastor of St. Mary Parish, Colts Neck, effective immediately. The May 4 resignation follows recent reports that Father Michael Fugee, a priest of the Archdiocese of Newark, had assisted in several activities of the parish's youth group despite having been restricted from such ministry in an agreement with law enforcement authorities in Bergen County.
Bishop O'Connell has granted Father Triggs a period of sabbatical before he will be given a new assignment. A parish administrator will be appointed for St. Mary Parish.
In one of his last official acts as pastor, Father Triggs accepted the resignations of Michael and Amy Lenehan, parish youth group ministers, effective immediately. The Lenehans had invited Father Fugee to take part in youth ministry events without ensuring that he would have been cleared for such ministry in compliance with the Diocese of Trenton's policies.
The Diocese of Trenton released a statement April 29 reporting that it was first made aware of the presence of Father Michael Fugee at a youth retreat held in St. Mary Parish through an inquiry from the media on April 23, 2013. The statement stipulated that Father Fugee had been given no permission to exercise ministry there by the Diocese nor had he filed with the Chancery the "letter of suitability" required of all priests outside of the Diocese before they are to conduct ministry here.
According to that statement, upon learning of Father Fugee's activities, Bishop O'Connell immediately contacted Father Triggs and indicated that Father Fugee may not exercise ministry there, including any ministry involving youth. Bishop O'Connell then contacted officials in the Archdiocese of Newark to inform them of developments concerning Father Fugee.
In 2001, Father Fugee, while serving in Wycoff, was convicted of criminal sexual contact with a minor. That conviction was later overturned on appeal for procedural reasons. Rather than retry the case, authorities offered Father Fugee the opportunity to undergo counseling and rehabilitation and agree to limited ministry that would preclude access to children and youth. In compliance with those restrictions, the Archdiocese had given Father Fugee responsibilities in the Chancery in Newark. (Read the rest here.)


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National Mining Museum Scotland is housed within the Lady Victoria Colliery, one of Europe's finest examples of Victorian architecture and the last remaining colliery in Scotland. The visitor centre contains films, exhibitions, interactives, recreated underground and coalface, Scotland's largest winding engine and recently launched Big Stuff tours which all contribute to bringing the history of Scotland's coal mining industry to the forefront of people's minds. A five star attraction, a venue for weddings and functions for up to 120 people and a great way to spend half a day!
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This area is intended to aid investigators that have mapped Mendelian disorders to intervals of about 10 Mb or less, but can not make further progress due to lack of additional patients to narrow the region or lack of access to sufficient sequencing capacity to sequence a large region. The major justification for this broad proposal was to begin to use NHGRI sequencing capacity more directly and rapidly for the understanding of human disease. The working group expects that the medical impact of some of these projects could be high, but these disorders are rare. Therefore, the main benefit of identifying these genes would be to provide insight into the pathophysiology or biology of the disorders. Individual projects would require resequencing of perhaps 12,000 to 18,000 amplicons.
There are some challenges in identifying disorders that would be appropriate for this project. An initial set of specific disorders has been identified (See Project Descriptions below). These are not intended to be representative, but would rather serve as demonstration projects to determine whether, and how, a larger number of such projects would be pursued. Issues to be addressed include obtaining appropriate samples (with adequate existing informed consent or the ability to obtain new consent), interactions between sequencing centers and those with samples, understanding how many affected and control samples are needed, and providing appropriate results and analyses usable by the community.
At this stage, NHGRI has not solicited additional projects in this area.
LCS is a rare autosomal recessive disorder that affects normal liver function and manifests as cholestasis (i.e. obstruction of bile flow) and lymphedema (i.e. excessive lymphatic fluid collecting in tissues causing swelling). Typically, affected infants have severe symptoms which may improve with age. In some cases, extensive liver disease requires a liver transplant. Later in life, affected individuals may have periodic cholestasis. Lymphedema associated with the disease can become severe, chronic, and progressive, impairing normal daily activities. Bull et al. mapped LCS to a ~6.6 cM region of 15q (OMIM #214900). They reported that known samples share the same haplotype defining the LCS region in a study of affected individuals and distant relatives (Bull et al. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 67:994-999, 2000). This project entails sequencing the 269-514 Kb candidate region within 8 individuals from different population groups and genotyping any variants identified in a control sample of about 76 Norwegian blood donors.
JBTS is an autosomal recessive developmental brain disorder that affects ~1 in 10,000 individuals. It is characterized by underdevelopment or absence of the cerebellar vermis. Patients may exhibit lack of coordination in voluntary muscle movements (ataxia), rapid breathing (hyperpnea), decreased muscle tone (hypotonia), abnormal eye and tongue movements, mental retardation, polydactyly, cleft lip and palate, and tongue malformations (Keeler et al. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 73: 656-662, 2003). Research groups have identified 5 loci with evidence for linkage to JBTS. The investigator previously identified a gene on chromosome 6 with clear independent deleterious mutations associated with the disease using a candidate gene approach (OMIM # 608629) (Dixon-Salazar et al. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 75: 979-987, 2004). The plan for this project is to sequence JBTS1 (OMIM # 213300), within a 4.4 Mb candidate locus on chromosome 9 that includes ~107 genes in between 6 and 12 affected individuals.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common clinical arrhythmia and a major risk factor for heart failure or stroke. About 10% of the population age 70-80 is affected by AF. It can be a significant cause of morbitity and premature mortality. There is recent evidence from several studies that suggests three genetic loci are associated with AF. The proposing investigator described an autosomal dominant pattern of linkage between AF and a region on chromosome 6 (OMIM # 608988) based on a large kindred with 8 affected members (Ellinor et al. Circulation. 107: 2880-2883, 2003). This project will sequence regions within a 30 MB target interval that contains at least 87 genes in 12 affected family members and about 425 control samples.
Familial thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissection (TAAD) are caused by autosomal dominant single gene mutations that result in degeneration of the aortic media (medial necrosis) that leaves the ascending aorta prone to aneurysm and dissection (Guo et al. Circulation. 103: 2461-2468, 2001). Although linkage studies are difficult because the affected individual typically dies of the disease, the proposing investigator performed a multipoint linkage analysis that implicated a target region on chromosome 5 (OMIM # 607087) (Guo et al. Circulation 103:2461-2468, 2001). This project will sequence genes within a 16.5 Mb critical interval that contains ~87 genes with samples taken from autopsies and pathology slides of affected individuals.
Episodic disorders are some of the most common illnesses that affect human health. They include syndromes ranging from seizure disorders, migrane headaches, periodic paralyses, and episodic movement disorders. PKD is an episodic movement disorder that is induced by sudden changes in movement or orientation. It is characterized by involuntary muscle contractions resulting in repetitive distorted movement (dystonia), involuntary irregular jerky movements (chorea), writhing motions (athetosis), and flinging motions of the extremities (ballismus). Affected individuals may experience attacks at a frequency ranging from once per month to hundreds per day. Attacks can last from a few seconds to several hours (Swoboda et al. Neurology 55: 224-230, 2000). Severity and frequency of attacks typically decreases with age. An autosomal dominant form of PKD has been mapped to chromosome 16 (OMIM #602066) in Caucasian families (Szepetowski et al. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 61: 889-898, 1997). This project involves sequencing within a ~26 Mb candidate region that may include about 200 genes in ~3 affected individuals. Researchers will compare the results with controls from a Caucasian population.
Dominant restrictive cardiomyopathy is an autosomal dominant disease in which a stiffening of the walls of the heart restricts normal blood flow to the chambers of the heart. Symptoms of the disease may include increased diastolic pressure and symptoms of heart failure. Investigators have associated desmin deposition in affected heart tissue without symptoms of skeletal myopathy with the disease (Zhang et al. Clin. Genet. 59: 248-256, 2001). The proposing investigator performed linkage analysis on 13 affected individuals and mapped the disease to a ~3 Mb candidate interval on chromosome 10 containing 25 genes (OMIM # 609578) (Zhang et al. Clin. Genet. 59: 248-256, 2001). In this project, the sequencing center will sequence regions within this candidate interval in a family of 13 affected individuals and 12 other family members to identify candidate gene mutations and follow-up sequencing in 2 affected and 2 unaffected individuals to screen candidate genes found in the large family.
Currently, there are no openings for new proposals in this area. However, NHGRI encourages investigators that are interested to contact program staff to discuss potential projects. Please send inquiries to the program contacts listed below.
Adam Felsenfeld, Ph.D.
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Languages. The key that opens all the doors.
- 17 مشاركة
It has been only a week since I started a new Arabic course, and already I've learnt so much.
It seems almost surreal, when just a few days ago I had no real grasp of the language, but now I can conjugate a sentence correctly and have a basic conversation with someone. So when I visit Dubai, or Morocco, or indeed Jordan, I will be able to communicate with people, in their language. Tell the taxi driver where I want to go, and order my dinner, without having to revert back to English.
In fact, it seems that because everywhere you go, everyone speaks English there is no need to learn another language. Well, no. As a tourist who only speaks English, you're bound to be ripped off.
Also in Islam, as in Christianity, and many other religions, the holy book (Qu'ran, Bible, etc.) was revealed in a different language, in this case Arabic. To gain a full understanding of the text, you must first understand the language it is written in. Without that you can't fully appreciate what is being said.
For me, I was bought up in a household where we spoke exclusively English. However when we visited my grandparents they would only speak Urdu and Punjabi. I now have a sound understanding of both dialects, but at first I didn't realise the benefits of learning the languages. And to this day, my brother still doesn't, and he thinks he can get away with speaking English in an Indian accent with my grandmother!) Surprisingly she still understands him...
I will leave you now with a quote from Nelson Mandela: "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language it goes to his heart."
Now tell me, what languages do you speak?


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Whatever happened to the games that live between something like Journey and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim? Do those games even exist anymore? CraveOnline examine.
I imagine most people won't spend £40 on a lesser product when there are enough top class games out there. You wouldn't pay £15k for a mondeo if ferraris were the same price
Great piece. My wife and I actually have to budget my gaming in yo our monthly budget because they are so expensive. Though games do quickly go to deal pricing so that is re invigorating that middle class in a way
Isn't this exactly the situation that the major kickstarter projects are trying to resolve?
Project Eternity, Wasteland 2, Shadowrun Returns, Torment ect are all games that are made by experienced studios and are looking to provide much more content than a typical indie title can and yet are clearly not a AAA title in terms of production values. That sounds like mid-tier development to me.
I think the days of large publishers funding mid tier games are dead, at least for the moment, but I don't think that means mid tier development itself is dead.
My solution usually:
* Buy 1-2 games you really want that will last you a bit.
play those and wait until the other 4-5 games you want drop in price.
* Either trade in games or wait for a deal at Gamestop and get the games much cheaper only 1-2 months later.
Having a backlog helps with this. There are tons of 3DS games I'm going to want but don't have the money to get right now. So I'll play my DS games I've yet to beat in the mean time until those game prices drop or GS has a deal or trade in deal or I'll use a coupon from the powerup rewards or something.
If you plan around your purchases you can get amazing deals.
I saved $300 at GS last year using the Power up rewards thing.
I know GS isn't for everyone and some hate it but the option is out there to get games you know you want, for much cheaper, either used or new.


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US yuan bill breaks WTO rules: China
A bill passed by the US House of Representatives that would penalise China for not letting the yuan rise faster violates the rules of the World Trade Organisation, China's Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday. The bill allows the US CommeMore…
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With the US Senate gridlocked over pulling troops out of Iraq, a more modest House of Representatives proposal gained momentum on Thursday as the chamber's Republican leader said he would likely vote for it. The proposal, by a bipartisan gMore…


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Microsoft: Core first-party titles will see release on PC
Microsoft has shifted its focus back to developing Windows PC releases of first party titles, VP Phil Spencer has revealed.
"I think it's fair to say that we've lost our way a bit in supporting Windows games," Spencer told Shacknews.
"But we're back."
Spencer noted that, despite the firm's exclusive focus on console offerings for its Xbox hardware over the past decade, PC is now considered an important part of the publisher's portfolio. Further promising that the shift will soon be apparent.
"Windows is incredibly important. The 'One Microsoft' mantra that's come out had us looking at all the devices that Microsoft builds and truly becoming a first-party gaming studio across all devices."
Spencer assured more Windows projects are already in production, adding that the focus will be on core games first and foremost.
"You'll see us doing more stuff on Windows. We probably have more individual projects on Windows than we've had in ten years at Microsoft Studios.
"At the launch of Windows 8, we had about 30 games in the Windows Store. A lot of those you'd consider lightweight or casual games... But we've covered all of that property now. Now we're starting to look at bigger and core gamer things. I'm excited by that.
"Let's start to act like a true first-party across all these devices. A service like Xbox Live that knows me and my content and my friends and achievements across all these devices. I think that's an advantage for us."
Xbox One games Titanfall and Project Spark have already been announced for PC as well, with the latter title set to offer cross-play between Xbox 360, Xbox One, Windows 8, and Surface tablets.


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Jeera prices closed lower by 2.57 per cent on Monday at the National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Limited on account of a surge in the supply from the producing regions in the midst of a decline in the export demand. At the NCDEX, jeera futures for March 2016 contract closed at Rs. 13,250 per quintal, down by 2.57 per cent, after opening at Rs. 13,700 against the previous closing price of Rs. 13,600. It touched the intra-day low of Rs. 13,130.
Commodity markets were closed on Tuesday, January 26 on account of republic day.
Global output of Jeera is around 2.2 lakh MT per year, of which India produces about 1.5 lakh MT per year.
India exports Jeera mainly to the US, UK, UAE, Japan, Brazil, Bangladesh, Singapore and many other countries. Other Major exporters are Syria and Turkey.
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Colonel Who Reported Communist Cadet Slams West Point Leadership
By Patrick Granger
October 12, 2017
Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Robert Heffington issued an open letter to West Point graduates earlier this week blasting the superintendent, commandant, and dean of the military academy for contributing to a "culture of permissiveness."
The letter was subsequently posted on the website of American Military News.
Heffington told The Daily Caller he wrote the letter to the USMA Class of 1963 when several of its graduates contacted him asking how Spenser Rapone, a cadet espousing radically anti-American views, was allowed to graduate. (RELATED: Communist West Point Grad Was Reported In 2015 For Anti-American Posts)
"The Superintendent refuses to enforce admissions standards or the cadet Honor Code, the Dean refuses to enforce academic standards, and the Commandant refuses to enforce standards of conduct and discipline," the letter charges. "The end result is a sort of malaise that pervades the entire institution."
Heffington's eye-opening letter describes systemic problems at West Point that he says have led to a decline in honor, standards and meritocracy. The end result of said neglect, according to the lieutenant colonel, is a current "embrace of mediocrity."
"Every fall, the Superintendent addresses the staff and faculty and lies," he asserts. "He repeatedly states that 'We are going to have winning sports teams without compromising our standards,' and everyone in Robinson Auditorium knows he is lying because we routinely admit athletes with ACT scores in the mid-teens across the board."
Heffington states that he has personally taught cadets who are "borderline illiterate." In another section, Heffington laments what he refers to as West Point's "nonexistent" academic standards, and takes aim at the dean:
Cadets routinely fail multiple classes and they are not separated at the end-of-semester Academic Boards. Their professors recommend "Definitely Separate," but those recommendations are totally disregarded. I recently taught a cadet who failed four classes in one semester (including mine), in addition to several she had failed in previous semesters, and she was retained at the Academy."


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On my recent visit to Chiapas, Mexico in January, I was impressed to see the indigenous Mayan women wearing their babies. With babies strapped snuggly to their backs, I saw women selling produce and wares at the public markets, and women farming and working the land while wearing their babies. During my visit, I never saw a single stroller. I found myself wishing that more American mothers would return to this practice.
So imagine my alarm when I became aware of the recent controversy over the use of baby slings. My fear was that this would turn mothers away from this age-old practice.
Fortunately, Mothering magazine promptly responded to the controversy and issued this statement:
SANTA FE, NM (March 18, 2010) — On March 12, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), a Federal Agency, issued a warning in regard to the use of baby slings. The CPSC asserts that there is a risk of slings suffocating infants who are younger than four months old, and that caution should be used when carrying babies of this age group in slings.
Mothering puts the CPSC warning in perspective: Babywearing is safe, but some slings and positions are not. While baby carriers are as old as civilization, modern babywearing has exploded in the last four years. Along with this rapid increase in use has come the creation of some unsafe carriers, in particular bag-style slings that have a deep pouch, excessive fabric, and an elasticized edge. These deep, bag-style slings can be especially dangerous for premature or small babies.
Some general guidelines for safe babywearing:
1. Only choose a sling that allows you to see your baby's face.
2. Be sure baby is not curled up tightly, chin to chest. This position can restrict breathing, especially in newborns or in infants who cannot yet hold up their heads.
3. Make sure that the sling fabric is "breathable," and keep baby's face clear of fabric.
4. Do not press baby's face tightly against the sling wearer's body.
5. Position the baby's face upward.
6. Reposition baby if there are any signs of respiratory difficulty: rapid or labored breathing, grunting or sighing with every breath, restlessness.
For more information, see Mothering's Special Report on Babywearing
For babywearing safety tips, see "Babywearing 101"
So I hope that you mothers of infants and toddlers won't panic, but will heed these precautions and continue to wear your babies in good health and with love. Your children will benefit from their closeness with you!


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Oct. 6, 2005
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Caroline Jordan and Briana Stephenson each had 10 kills as visiting MIT defeated Clark University, 30-23, 30-17, 30-19, on Wednesday. The Engineers (18-5, 5-0 NEWMAC) used 15 service aces and a .321 team hitting percentage to record their fifth consecutive sweep over a conference opponent.
Stephenson's 10 kills came on just 18 attempts without an error (.556) while she added two solo and one assisted block to finish as Tech's top point-scorer on the night with 12.5. Amanda Morris handed out 35 assists, with Frances Rogoz (nine kills) and Rose Zhong (eight kills) serving as her top targets on the outside. Lindsay Hunting led MIT with five aces, followed closely by four apiece from Carrie Buchanan and Arlis Reynolds. Reynolds recorded a team-high 13 digs in the win.


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Yahoo rolled out Yahoo Search Direct yesterday, its rival to Google Instant. Yahoo says that its service is focused on providing actual answers, while Google's version of instant results is focused on links. Search Direct is live on search.yahoo.com and other U.S. Yahoo search properties, but not yet on the homepage of yahoo.com
How it works: Yahoo Search Direct offers the top 30 results from its index and as the user types, Yahoo refines the results to provide visitors the top 10 most likely to be relevant results in the lower left portion of the user interface and the top 3 results on the right side of the user interface. Yahoo said that right now the links and content being shown in the right part of the user interface are the URLs that are the "most clicked" throughout the Yahoo network. Yahoo calls these its search previews.
- Please know this is a beta release and predominantly organized around sports, news, TV, movies, local, finance, shopping, travel, weather, and trending search themes.
- Yahoo contends that for about 50% of the top queries on the web there is a "definite answer" and that Yahoo Search Direct provides these answers.
- Yahoo notes that when expressed on tablets or mobile devices Yahoo Search Direct could take very different forms.
- Yahoo said that Search Direct uses an algorithm distinct from Microsoft's organic search algorithm.
- Yahoo notes that rankings can change moment to moment because Search Direct is dynamic.
The new search builds on Yahoo's attempt to stay relevant in the lucrative search market by focusing on user experience, now that it has farmed out the expensive infrastructure to Microsoft, in exchange for ad-revenue sharing.
In my opinion:
- Seems like a good way to marginalize advertising revenues while amplifying results for Yahoo channels, like shopping, travel, etc.
- UI is interesting when considering the future use of tablets and smart phones.
- Seems like a good way to marginalize advertising revenues while amplifying results for Yahoo channels, like shopping, travel, etc.
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