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Author: Lisa M. Stasse
Series: The Forsaken #1
Edition: Hardcover
Publication: July 10, 2012 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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Pages: 375
Genre: Dystopia, Romance
As an obedient orphan of the U.N.A. (the super-country that was once Mexico, the U.S., and Canada), Alenna learned at an early age to blend in and be quiet—having your parents taken by the police will do that to a girl. But Alenna can't help but stand out when she fails a test that all sixteen-year-olds have to take: The test says she has a high capacity for brutal violence, and so she is sent to The Wheel, an island where all would-be criminals end up.
The life expectancy of prisoners on The Wheel is just two years, but with dirty, violent, and chaotic conditions, the time seems a lot longer as Alenna is forced to deal with civil wars for land ownership and machines that snatch kids out of their makeshift homes. Desperate, she and the other prisoners concoct a potentially fatal plan to flee the island. Survival may seem impossible, but Alenna is determined to achieve it anyway.
I've had The Forsaken sitting on my shelf since October of last year. Aside from its alluring cover and promising premise, I've heard nothing but great things about it. Dystopia genre surely did capture my heart and I know I cannot go wrong with this novel. And I am happy I was right.
Alenna Shawcross is an orphan who grew up in United Northern Alliance (U.N.A). It is a mix of countries which is now governed by Minister Harka. Since her parents were taken by the government ten years ago, her life has been completely monotonous. She keeps to herself most of the time and did nothing but to follow government rules to avoid trouble. The government runs tests to teenagers to see who have the potential to be an Unanchored Soul. Those who wouldn't pass will get thrown to Prison Island Alpha where the life expectancy is just up to eighteen. And Alenna has never been shocked in her life to see that she's now an Unanchored Soul.
Stasse's debut novel is very intriguing. They way she created U.N.A is a fresh approach to the dystopian plot she wanted to present. The world building is perfect for a YA Dystopia and it isn't a place you would question. The technology is very advanced and the populace seem to be very well-adapted to the futuristic world. It is honestly breath-taking and different from any other dystopias I've read.
The Forsaken has such strong story line. I love how Stasse intensely beautified her novel with her writing technique and how there's no dull moment in it. The spaces between the mysteries of the Prison Island Alpha and Alenna's past are too thin that once you start reading, for sure one would find it difficult to stop even just to get a drink.
I was torn between four and five stars as my verdict for The Forsaken. It is truly a wonderful read. However, when I pondered why I was even torn and just like those reviews I've read, I have to drop a star. I didn't totally agree with how the romance took place in the novel. It was too fast and way too misplaced if I may say. There are a lot of grave situations where romance shouldn't have happened at all. I appreciate that Stasse probably doesn't want to bore readers but the initial attempt with the romance didn't quite work well for me and I am wishing that the sequel's approach to love would be better.
The characters, I think, have played their parts right. From the normal reaction one might do in a given situation to a deeper sense of being, I couldn't complain at all. I've never encountered such realistic characters and how Stasse managed to make each character compliment each other is admirable. The characters have each of their own motives that added to the already action-filled plot and I enjoyed that immensely. There are tons of heart-wrenching parts but eventually, everything just simply fitted perfectly at the end. And with The Forsaken, nothing can compare with the braveness and toughness of my favorite character, Gadya.
The Forsaken is a novel one would surely fall in love with. It has rich world-building and a very thrilling premise that is partnered with fantastic characters. I cannot wait to continue Alenna and Liam's fight for freedom in The Uprising!
"Because as long as you were alive, there was hope. That's all people need in order to do amazing things, Alenna. Hope is the great human motivator. It always has been."


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The information, from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), is intended to offer patients a more realistic idea than historical success rates, which can be artificially inflated by other factors, such as treating a small number of patients.
The change, on the authority's website, comes as it was revealed that the chance of having a baby through fertility treatment continues to rise although there has been a drop in success rates among older women.
Prof Lisa Jardine, chair of the HFEA, said: "Fertility treatment is big business.
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Two teams from the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy® (IMSA) received the highest ranking possible in the 12th annual international High School Mathematical Contest in Modeling (HiMCM). Their performance placed IMSA among the top eight schools in the world in this year's competition.
The two IMSA teams including Paul Chung of Barrington, Derek Hardin of Morton Grove, Bonny Jain of Moline, Seohyun (Chris) Kim of Schaumburg, Vladislav Kontsevoi of Evanston, Andrew Lee of Darien, Sid Narayanan of Dunlap and Yanchen (Jack) Shi of Dunlap both received the rank of "National Outstanding."
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My dad died at home in bed a few years ago when my first daughter was 3 months old. Even though my parents were divorced, my mom still took care of him in many ways. She was out of the country when it happened. And although she was trying to take the burden off me as she much as could from a distance, I had to start the funeral planning process while she waited for the next available flight back. I remember feeling, even though I was a wife, a mother, a homeowner, like I was still too much of a child to handle this kind of life event. But this post is not about the life changes that come with burying a parent; it's about unabashed frugality.
I can't imagine there is anyone who shops Costco.com who hasn't clicked on the Funeral tab, right between Entertainment and Furniture & Décor, out of curiosity. When I told my mom about it at the time (Did you know that Costco sells caskets?!?!?), she said the prices were in fact pretty low based on her experience. So before my mom came back, I checked the website. There were only a few to choose from, all in the same general price range. I picked one out, and clicked "Add to Cart." There it was, a casket in my cart, the same cart that last had a patio umbrella in it. It looked so strange.
It's not that I have a bad opinion of the funeral industry; in fact, I walked away from the experience with an immense respect for the director of the funeral home we chose. But the industry as whole falls into the same category as the wedding industry for me—playing up to people's emotions to maximize the money spent. I thought that buying the casket from Costco might spare us getting roped (through our own feelings of guilt or otherwise) into something more expensive than necessary. When the subject of a casket came up, I said, "I already have one being sent…from Costco." I don't recall if the funeral director was surprised, disappointed, or indifferent.
Every here and there I wonder what my dad thought of me trying to save money on his funeral in this way. More often than not I picture him, circa 1990, on the afterlife's version of our front porch, beer in hand, ashtray nearby, wearing pants despite the scorching heat, one-upping a friend with "Oh yeah? Well, you won't believe where my daughter got my casket…"
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The young freshman Alessandro Savelli presents at "S. Rocco" Gallery in Seregno a new and original exhibition…
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From "Il Resto del Carlino", Cronaca di Ravenna, 26th November 1976.
At the gallery "Il Coccio" the young artist Alessandro Savelli presents his personal exhibition here in Ravenna, perhaps even in homage to his family roots.
He must be encouraged, in addition a clarification and an awareness of his own works is, even if difficult, inevitabile and necessary. It 's clear that his paintings move towards some coloristic concessions not always rigorously enforced, so that they are much more essential and comprehensive. His works derive from a certain area of operation, in particular it is possible to recognize the artists Vedova, Hartung and Scanavino.
The inspiration is evident, but it is important that he is aware of this and that he will be able to follow his own paths in order to overcome the traditional framework for a more free and spontaneous exploration of an area no longer closed to the dictates of tradition.
Pier Luigi Senna
From the personal exhibition catalogue "Alessandro Savelli", Broletto Palace, Novara, 1977
His paintings are intense and show a serious alchemy of colors, are vibrant and full of inner movement. His abstraction is a deep sense of magic. There is a perfect balance, in fact the details are interwoven with each other and involve deeply the observer towards a cosmic horizon.
The naturalistic tradition, so rich and felt particularly in Lombardy, was revisited, almost regenerated harmoniously. Without exaggeration Savelli integrates perfectly all aspects of nature.
His abstraction is not rejection of reality but a mental construction, rigorous development of an idea, an intuition, observation resulted from reality. Savelli works in harmony: it is a human intervention "in nature" rather than "on" or "against" it: it is an act of love.
Certainly a real painter.
Daniele Brombin
From "Gazzetta di Modena", 1980
... Savelli is aware that the paths of art are lonely and day by day he meditates and finds the features of his own inner image. His works reveal the traits of the subject while perceiving reality. His paintings evoke the movements of his spirit.
He uses the value monochrome texture of jute, creating an elegant balance among colors.
This outcome requires, above all, a gift that Savelli has and can not be acquired, the "passion".
Pieraldo Marasi
From the personal exhibition catalogue "Alessandro Savelli", "L'Angolo" Gallery, Piacenza, 1982.
The architect Savelli actually organizes the spaces in accordance with strict internal rhythms and cadences, but the painter Savelli gives "unashamedly" old siege of feelings and passions ... The gentle obstinacy of being a "painter of the soul" and ethereal skies, keeping intact the tools of the job he believes in, is the beginning of a difficult path of innovation.
Miklos N. Varga
From the personal exhibition catalogue "Metamorphosis of landscape", Cultural Circle "Pro Desio", Desio, 1987.
The paintings by Alessandro Savelli are just about the relationship between man and nature: in constant evolution between continuity and discontinuity according to the historical periods. We can appreciate the fragrance of an instinctual approach to nature through painting. Painting-nature, it seems, as in "metamorphosis of landscape", human nature, primitive, which reveals the "inner landscapes" of being, in fact, intrinsic to nature.
... A painting of passion, then, in harmony with the" pro-vocations "of nature ...
Riccardo Barletta
From "Terzoocchio" N. 46, February 1988.
... Alessandro Savelli, a young painter and architect, must have unconsciously asked himself what this reality is.
Well, his paintings of the last two or three years can give an idea of the vibrations he feels inside. From the titles "The Garden of Demian", "ancient Night", "The sea at night," "Landscape of the heart" we learn how Savelli sets emotional places, landscapes ... The works show a strong preference for the indefinite, where matter is seen as continuous invention, an area seen as an indeterminate state that includes both the physical, the psychic, the metaphysical.
Camillo Ravasi
From personal exhibition catalogue, "Tessitore di illusioni", Fluxia" Gallery, Chiavari, 1988.
The natural combination of nature and culture (precisely the two main reagents of the creative process of the painter from Desio) underlines the "fantastic image" of this painting with a profusion of colors.
Laura Pierro
From personal exhibition catalogue "Alessandro Savelli", "Artespaziodieci" Gallery, Bologna, April 1989.
Alessandro Savelli's works originate from a relationship between naturalism and abstraction, mediated by an awareness and sensitivity typically contemporary. In particular, through the meeting-synthesis of the two categories, one external, objectively given or assumed, the other intimate, personal and individual, Savelli seems to indulge in a vision of lyricism.
Angelo Andreotti
From personal exhibition catalogue"Arie Sommerse", "Il Chiostro" Gallery, Saronno, 1990
Alessandro Savelli's work shows a balance between "abstract" and "real life", and can not renounce to the given nature, presenting it through an emotional exuberance...
Maria Grazia Recanati
From personal exhibition catalogue "Alessandro Savelli", Gallery "La Meridiana", Agrate Brianza, 1992.
... I immediately thought, since my first encounter with the painting of Savelli, of being faced with a true poet, it is poetry. It presents the deep consciousness of the conflict, the internal struggle that is played, moment by moment... The reflection of Savelli begins where the content is steeped in the formal search for a micro-narrative universe, where the image breaks up to preserve the memory of Klimt on forest landscape or certain mixtures of the first Kandinsky. Savelli's works suggest the process of meditation of the artist as a starting point for the revival of a perceptual process capable of triggering mechanisms of emotional involvement…
Marina De Stasio
From personal exhibition catalogue "Alessandro Savelli", Gallery "La Spirale", Novara, 1993
Looking at some recent paintings by Alessandro Savelli, everyone has the feeling of meeting the painting at the time of its making.
There is the memory of a landscape behind the emotion of a sunset: the day's events run to silence, the tumult of life gradually subsides.
... The movement is often horizontal, the sinuous brushwork perhaps reinforces the sense of mystery, an image that escapes when you try to fix it, the bubbling of color, emotion and gesture,... each work is only a fragment of constant becoming, is a time of continual metamorphosis, a succession of moments. The splendor of gold, the charm of old rose and violet, the energy of red together with black, that is not only a shadow, but also a way to create light.
Angelo Baj
From personal exhibition catalogue "Alessandro Savelli", Gallery "Artestudio", Milan, 1994.
Shapes and colors are ... suggestions: they do not want to define the space and its contents, but rather to evoke, giving several messages and stimuli.
Something told, much more remains hidden.
... The pictures of Savelli require active cooperation with the spectator who must look at the work patiently and calmly. The enjoyment, which derives from these works is gradual as it is the gradual discovery of the elements.
Corrado Bagnoli
From personal exhibition catalogue "Alessandro Savelli", Gallery "Silva", Seregno, 1996.
Can you describe a picture? You can perhaps talk about the music that it plays. Slow movement of clouds in large paintings, however, all on one page, all embraced in a single glance, to overcome the tragedy of time.
Sometimes the tears of a purple oboe struts in front of the blue band of violins, or the muffled tears of a cello that falls on the keys of a piano that imitates the world. Again, all in one glance. Here, perhaps the music playing here, teaches us to look deeply.
Elisabetta Longari
From personal exhibition catalogue "Alessandro Savelli", Gallery "Artestudio", Milan, 1999
... The horizon divides the sky from the ground in almost all works of Savelli. They are landscapes. But he does not represent specific sites but enacts the forces at play. The painting in the making. The change in progress.
... The horizon is not a given "objective" but a product of the perceptual system: the limit is nothing but a "cognitive" eye. Savelli tirelessly puts this threshold as a pictorial device act as to remind that what we see does not match what it really is. He wants to explode the doubt and give rise to the need for a genuine search for truth going beyond what you see at "naked eye". Savelli separates heaven and earth only to emphasize the artificiality, the arbitrary nature of that separation, and to talk about a more radical separation: the difference between looking and knowing how to see.
... Savelli reveals the problematic nature of vision. Then the protagonist is not the landscape, but the movement of the eye, its adventures, its paths, its perception of being in the act of painting. But the vision is something complex, linked to factors not only purely optical. The poets know that there is an "inner eye", a body consisting of more rarefied areas of the self: memory, intuition, consciousness, unconscious ...
The vision is knowledge.
Giovanni Cerri
From exhibition catalogue "Alessandro Savelli, Cortina Gallery, Milan, 2000
To my friend Sandro,
This day, this evening, land like clouds, the sky tells a story, beyond the horizon, sunset of my heart.
These emblematic titles, offered freely in poetic form can illustrate what you do.
How often, in fact, while meeting we agreed that we should not "explain" over the work of an artist, not to present sterile acrobatic interpretations.
Since the early 90s ... I was impressed and surprised by the intensity of color and light in your work. I admire even more your next choice, or maybe it was a necessary consequence, to create those black spaces which made your paintings even more "baroque".
Marco Bugatti
From personal exhibition catalogue "Alessandro Savelli", Gallery "Sargadelos", Milan, 2000.
Savelli's painting is love for balance, is a painting, which is shape and color. This aspect, which characterizes the work of Savelli as attention to "doing well", as a morality of execution, occupies his thoughts, while going on working tirelessly on canvas or paper, while he creates paintings resulting from a strenuous and methodical work.
Luigi Cavadini
From personal exhibition catalogue "Alessandro Savelli", Gallery "La Loggia" Carona, Switzerland, 2002.
Everything leads to memories of contacts, relationships, substances. So the "mental landscapes" of Savelli call the attention: "landscapes" because there are more recognizable levels of reading and "mental" because of the vision and perception of spaces and places which interact and generate new ideas and new visions. Virtual visions, abstract visions.
... In this "game" the land, skies and seas vibrate, urged by the treatment and the overlap of colors, which are never random, but perfectly calibrated in atmospheres that remain suspended and open spaces to the user immense creativity. The visions of Savelli in fact become inspiration, encouragement, incitement to look beneath the surface, to find ways to move beyond. ...
Claudio Rizzi
From personal exhibition catalogue "Alessandro Savelli", Cultural Circle "Seregn de la memoria", Seregno, 2002.
... Savelli takes after a crusader knight, extremely lonely, surrounded by a dispersed and diffuse horizon, full of spiritual light and shadows of humanity, full of pride and faith. The work of Savelli leads to the imagination, to walk the space of suggestion and imagination.
Savelli ... paints the world. Inner, unconscious, dreamy, with a moral value. An ancient moral value, when the ethics went back to the philosophy and not to rhetoric.
Stefano Crespi
From personal exhibition catalogue "Alessandro Savelli - thirty years - Paintings 1974-2004", Villa Tittoni Traversi, Desio, 2004.
... Alessandro Savelli (as I have met in the circumstances of these years) is a painter of attention, awareness (resulting also from the training curriculum and its study). In the visit to his studio before the exhibition, he showed me his pictures gradually as holding a diary that does not need any special suggestions. Spontaneously it is possible to quote the example of Matisse who said that for a painter their paintings spoke. Matisse's statement is a paradox.
In Savelli art is seen as a principle, ethos, where harmony prevails, as a language where the evidence, the countryside, the motions of feeling, the appearances of the heart tend to a vision, to a sky signals, figures, lost emblems. A conception of the framework that is the dialogue with the canvas with colors, with ourselves, with what is developing.
... Savelli's painting is characterized by the suggestion of expression. In art and literature the night was in an infinite continuity "mystical night", Sehnsucht, longing soul. At night, in the abolition of time and space the lights become more intense.
Not the image evokes the rhythm, cadence, time, but the rhythm, the darkness and the enigma of natural night generate the image, the plot in a creative space and floating time. There is nature with meaning, representation, codes of the day. Here it is the night in his untranslatable sense. ...
Sabrina Arosio
From personal exhibition catalogue "Alessandro Savelli - Notturni", Galleria Civica E. Mariani, Seregno, 2006.
Black is the invisible. Not absence, but the invisible presence. Black that Alessandro Savelli chose for this exhibition dedicated to the sky. A personal vision that is really introspective. Looking up, a black sky, no stars can perhaps create a sense of loss, even existential. Searching the stars mean to find landmarks. But Savelli feels like more being at the mercy than striving through the maze of pure rationality.
... The black heavens by Alessandro Savelli, motivated by his desire to be a painter above all, can give color to the infinite vastity, what may even seem hostile. The same traits reveal the artist's desire to penetrate the mysteries of life every day.
... The heavens narrate the deep black experiences, say the secrets of Savelli that the night is never dark. But the prospect of reading (and hence the suggestions) are infinite.
The intention of the artist, here more than ever, is to recreate pure emotion: one thing is clear: Savelli's paintings are an attitude of silence.
Claudio Rizzi
From personal exhibition catalogue "Sevidlam, Area Guicciardini, Milan, 2006.
... The rigor of his work, the tones, the balance modulated by the spontaneity that determines consistency of continuity between man and the artist. The hint of a dream turning into a panorama.
The vision is translated into images and details. Savelli does not work to achieve the result but simply to express a painting that creates intimate poetry. What happens then, good or bad, it depends on the observer. Everyone is free to transcribe their own truth, projecting single emotion. The concept of boundaries is not unique evocation of the painter but dynamic and complementary. The suggestion belongs to the meanderings of the mind, comes from memory or unconscious, soul writing as reading, may be suggestions and they become assimilated.
... Observation, when equipped with poetic ability, becomes contemplation and perception.
... Space becomes innate territory and turns into an existential space, soul and dreams, memory and fantasy, and imaginary projection, objective reference.
Felice Bonalumi
From the exhibition catalogue "Dialoghi cromatici", Lazzaro Gallery, Milan, 2006.
"Nature is not hypothesis". Alessandro Savelli is a landscape painter, if the landscape is a set of forms, shapes are not the landscape.
Yet, individual recognizable natural forms in his works are: a moon or a cloud, which are on the canvas for the common code, we could say that stereotypes provide the link to recognition.
Let me be clear: these figures are never decorations. The landscape, the "true" for instance, is not recognizable. We must simply look elsewhere.
Under the form there's color as hidden soul, and not as geometric, as a game between high and low, but as the essence of giving shape and color, to create forms. Paintings with the task of trans-port to the surface what is hidden. Yet there is something more: the chromaticism of Savelli is not obvious, but a multiplicity of shades that the eye can perceive.
Here his work is a masterpiece and with a careful analysis we also conclude that the contrast of colors is what interests him. Contrast that creates harmony, whose foundation lies in the choice of a color as a guide for individual work.
Guglielmo Gigliotti
From collective exhibition catalogue "Timeless", Central State Archive, Rome, 2007.
The painting by Alessandro Savelli is good.
It's clear: art is always good, like music, poetry, or a walk, but we have a clear case of Savelli perfect painting.
The reason is that Savelli paints vast portions of vastity, inviting the eye to bring the mind far beyond the larger format paintings where time seems frozen, suspended forever in the house of Space.
The immense is what is not measurable by men. Without rhetoric, Savelli expands, gives wings to the limits. The fact is that you are wrong just because we apply to life too tight parameters. Fortunately, there is art that is more like life as it truly is, vast, immense. Painting is a way of life in adherence to life, is an act of honesty, is an ethical gesture of affirmed freedom.
Alberto Veca
From personal exhibition catalogue "Alessandro Savelli", Scoglio di Quarto Gallery, Milan 2007.
Albrecht Durer in 1525, after a night vision, painted in watercolor, now housed at the Kunst Historisches Museum in Vienna, a flood where the landscape is simplified between heaven and earth and a waterfall, that intrusive in the heart of the composition joins the two areas.
The quotation is said after talking about the paintings by Alessandro Savelli in his study, where words, names, problems were added to the images.
... And the composition is one of the focal themes of the speech, the experience of the landscape in this case does not involve "experience itself", but it implies to look beyond borders, subjectively, to acquire the characteristics of the infinite.
... The constant factor of the antithesis between earth and sky, the common reflection on the landscape, is attached to a variable in determining the succession of operating cycles of the artist, the variability of our sense depending on the time and season: the theme of the cycle, the duration of things, and our different feelings, belong to the experience of modern art, when the perception of reality has become the real protagonist.
Gianluigi Castelli
From the exhibition catalogue "Immaginare la realtà", Corte Valenti, Garbagnate Milanese, 2009
... It is said that every person is an island, and it is not true, every person is a silence, this is a silence, each with its own silence, each with the silence that is (Jose Saramago). And this silence fi
lls the color cast of Savelli, tireless traveler of places on the border between reality and imagination, where memory and present intertwine and overlap, where day and night alternate rapidly to the emergence of fragments, travel notes full of perfumes and spaces. But it is the Blue, in particular that evokes, that makes me fly into the sky of the East, where the light is about to give way to the dark and broken dreams, and possible ... where the body relaxes the muscles and numbness allows the mind to go out and touch free space paths. In particular, for Aboriginal Australians, the power of the dream extends its forces over creative acts. The dream inspired each new song. The black of night slowly removes the blue, to make way to the moon ... It 's time of silence, is the time where you can see yourself in your soul to ponder the wonder of life, down, basically, to the roots.


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Agression (band)
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Agression is an American rock band from Silver Strand Beach, Oxnard, California. Agression was one of the founding bands of the Nardcore (Oxnard, California hardcore) scene and an early proponent of the skate punk genre.[1] The band fused skate culture with the punk scene, featuring a song about skateboarding ("Intense Energy") and a Glen E. Friedman photo of Arthur Lake skating a pool on their first and most popular album, Don't Be Mistaken.
The band is known for its fast-paced, aggressive songs such as "Slammin' at the Club", "Money Machine", "Dear John Letter", "Never Alone", "Go to War", and "Locals Only".
Original members:
- Vocals - Mark Hickey[2]
- Guitar - Henry Knowles[2]
- Bass - Bob Steve [2]
- Drums - Mark Aber/Van Haeln. Other former drummers include Larry White, John Mitchell.
Current line-up:
- Lead vocals - Jess Leedy
- Drums - Chuck Schultz
- Guitar - Wyatt Torres
- Bass - Big Bob Clark
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Early 1980s - 2000[edit]
Agression was part of the first wave of skatepunk bands to emerge from southern California in the early 1980s. These groups were on the front lines of a new union between the skateboard and punk rock cultures, which were put on a path to convergence by the establishment hassling each group. The resulting music was a confluence of punk's anger and simplicity, the furious speed of hardcore, and defiantly smart-assed machismo. Emerging out of Oxnard, CA (which was such a hotbed of punk and skate bands that their sound became known as "Nardcore"),[3] Agression consisted of the two founding members, vocalist Mark Hickey and guitarist Henry Knowles, along with bassist Bob Clark, and drummer Mark Aber.
Before their days as punk icons, in 1979 singer Mark Hickey, guitarist Henry Knowles, and bassist Bob Clark skated for Sims. (Source, Thrasher Magazine, July 2005) Clark claims to be a co-founding member of Agression. Although Clark was verifiably close friends with Hickey and Knowles at the time, Hickey contradicts this claim in an interview with The Hooligan magazine. (Source: The Hooligan, issue Summer 1996)
Regardless, Clark was the original and most senior bassist according to the timeline of lineups and albums released with his participation. Big Bob, Mark and Henry were roommates. The unit was one of the first groups to be involved with the Better Youth Organization (BYO) – the collective started by Shawn and Mark Stern of Youth Brigade—and contributed three songs, "Intense Energy", "Dear John Letter" and "Rat Race" to Someone Got Their Head Kicked In, the label's classic 1982 compilation.
Don't Be Mistaken, their debut full length, was released on BYO in 1983, full of rapid-fire skatepunk rhythms. Contributions to various Mystic Records compilations followed, with Agression's sound wavering between skatepunk and more generic heavy metal; a self-titled LP on that label appeared in 1985, as did the "official" bootleg of an Agression show at the New York club CBGB.
Agression was able to get as far as CBGB with the aid of their manager, Scott Hatch, who also managed the more established hardcore outfit Fear, among a stable of many hardcore punk rock bands, Killer Pussy, TSOL Rik L Rik to name a few. As Hickey said at the time, it was difficult not to appreciate the coolness of Agression and Fear listed on one bill. Aber left the group in 1985 for a spot with Angry Samoans.
Agression went through many iterations of band members, with vocalist Mark Hickey being the only original member remaining throughout the band's career.
Agression relocated from Oxnard, California to a more central location in Denver, Colorado as its home base in the late 1980s. Knowles left the band after a few years in Colorado, returning to California. A short while after, Clark also left the band. For a short time, Agression went on hiatus as new members were sought out.
The remaining members in Colorado were Hickey and Mike Minnick, A.K.A. "Fluffy Machete". Minnick was well known in the So-Cal punk scene as the former drummer of two seminal Nardcore bands, Ill Repute and Habeas Corpus.
To fill the vacuum left by the loss of Knowles, in 1992, Hickey permanently added his friend and locally well known guitar virtuoso Kent Taylor, and went through several fill-in bassists including "Jelly Roll" (real name unknown), and Conrad Sear, before finally settling on bassist Adam Pittman A.K.A. "Commander Adama" as a permanent addition to the band. Sear was temporarily retained for a short period as a rhythm guitarist, and left the band soon after.
With the new Colorado lineup, Agression began touring again, and recorded two albums, "Nowhere to Run" and "Live at the Lair", a live album recorded in the infamous Denver punk club, the "Lion's Lair".
Hickey's version of Agression fizzled out and disbanded after he finally pulled the plug in June 1998.
Trivia: The distinctive "bar-s" logo the band used since 1981, designed by artist Jamie Hernandez (illustrator of the comic Love and Rockets) resembling a black bar with a single lightning-bolt style S, or more accurately, the Sig, or Sowilo Germanic rune meaning "sun", or "victory" offset to the left of the bar, was misunderstood by many of the younger members of the punk scene. The logo was mistaken for a Nazi "SS" symbol, and rumors circulated that the band were racists, Nazis or white supremacists. This was compounded by Hickey's self-identification as a "traditional skinhead".
Although the traditional skinhead culture was multi-racial and had its roots in Jamaican ska and reggae, the shaved head, Doc Martens and braces worn by traditional skinheads were difficult to distinguish by outsiders as a similar look had been adopted by the newer Nazi skinheads that had made violent news and much trouble in the punk scene during the 1980s and 1990s.
Despite the fact that Agression's lyrics were non-political, (and even positive at times), had at one time had an African-American drummer, (John Mitchell, who recorded at least one full-length and an EP with the band in the mid-1980s) and co-founding original member Knowles was of Japanese descent, the rumors persisted.
2000 onwards[edit]
In early 2000, the band reformed in San Jose, California, with Knowles, Rob Thacker, Ryan Fassler, and Drew. This line-up continued through many shows with bands like Dead Kennedys, DI, Jim Jones Brigade, and Pitch Black. This incarnation of the band continued until the summer of 2001. In late 2001, Knowles contacted original drummer Mark Aber/Rooney about playing together again with Big Bob on bass but Henry became ill.
The new millennium brought about the deaths of two of its founding members; Hickey in 2000, due to acute liver failure, and Knowles to leukemia in 2002.
In mid-2002, a "Henry Knowles Memorial Show" took place at Skatelab, in Simi Valley, California, featuring the "Nardcore All-Stars" (who did an all-Agression song set list), Rejected Society, The Missing 23rd, Dr. Know and Ill Repute, among others.
To this day, many bands are still highly influenced by the sound of Agression. The high-energy, surf guitar influenced sound and the distinctive voice of Hickey set them apart from contemporaries with their unique sound and attitude.[citation needed]
Dr. Strange records has released a tribute to Agression titled Taking Out A Little Agression featuring many of their contemporaries along with modern bands covering Agression songs.
In October 2006, several former members of Agression played the Spike Fest in Long Beach. This lineup consisted of Clark, Mark Aber, Thacker, Dave Haro, and JellyRoll for a few songs. This continued in November for two shows in Northern California. From June 14–17, 2007, the same lineup minus JellyRoll performed in Northern California in a four-day tour to celebrate the release of the Agression tribute compilation. This release is out on Dr. Strange Records on CD and vinyl, and was expected to be available in stores worldwide on July 24, 2007. This compilation is dedicated to all those who have ever played in Agression along the years. Track # 28 is a song called "What Did I Do", which was written and recorded by Henry Knowles a few years before he died.
Most recently, Aggression played at Punk Rock Picnic 2011 on Saturday, April 9, 2011 with the latest line-up: Mark Aber/Rooney, Clark, Thacker, Jess Leedy and Danny Dorman from Circle One. They have continued to play shows and are set to record a new album for DC-Jam Records.[citation needed]
On January 20, 2013, a man was shot and killed, another one stabbed when a fight at an Agression concert spilled into the parking lot in Torrance.[4]
- Better Youth Organization Presents - Someone Got Their Head Kicked In Compilation LP (BYO, 1982)
- Don't Be Mistaken LP (BYO 1983)
- Copulation - The Sound of Hollywood Compilation LP (Mystic, 1984)
- Nardcore Compilation LP (Mystic, 1984)
- Agression Bootleg LP, (Mystic/Bootleg 1985)
- Agression LP (Mystic 1985)
- Live Underground Railroad 7" (Mystic 1986)
- Best of Agression CD (Mystic 1995)
- Nowhere to Run CD (High Five Records 1995)
- Live at the Lair CD (High Five Records 1996)
- Full Circle CD (Cleopatra Records 2003)
- Locals Only: Live CD (Mystic 2005)
- Grind Kings CD (Lucky 13)
- ^ http://teamrock.com/feature/2017-06-14/skate-or-die-how-skate-punk-took-over-the-world
- ^ a b c "Agression – Discover music, videos, concerts, stats, & pictures at". Last.fm. 2009-02-11. Retrieved 2012-03-06.
- ^ http://www.ocweekly.com/music/punk-invasion-2k17-turns-observatory-into-a-slam-pit-paradise-8300609
- ^ https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/Fatal-Shooting-at-Popular-Torrance-Entertainment-Center-187651631.html
- last.fm
- All Music Guide, Loftus
- KPFR radio interview, July, 1995, Hickey, Pittman, Minnick, Taylor and Sear
- Hooligan Magazine, 1996 article: "Interview with Mark Hickey"
- PEAK radio interview 1995 by DJ Sam Stock with Hickey, Minnick
- Totalpunk web radio Negative Man information page


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Friends, confession time:
I always imagined the longer I wrote novels, the more my writing process would evolve and change, but four books in, much of my process—for better or for worse—has remained the same. And now that I am in the early stages of starting a new novel, I find it's still true. So when the lovely Laura asked me to talk about my writing process, the timing couldn't have been more perfect!
So without further ado, here are some of the methods to my madness…
In the Beginning…
For me, a story always starts with an idea of a scene revolving around a single source of tension—usually of a romantic nature. Maybe it's estranged lovers reunited unexpectedly at a mutual friends' wedding, maybe it's a love triangle reaching its climax in a stopped chairlift at a ski resort—you get the picture. For me, the source of conflict has to be provocative and exciting enough that I know I will want to see it through and remain interested—the reader won't be compelled if I'm not!
So I have my inspirational scene/relationship—Now what?
Now, I begin. Sometimes with a faint, bare bones outline, but more often than not, without one. And when I begin my stories, I will often thumbnail-sketch scenes to get a sense of the story's rhythm, to flesh out characters, or simply to get the juices flowing. Often I will write the most exciting scenes first, the scenes I can't wait to write, even though I know I will have to rewrite them or even cut them down the road.
To Plot or to Pants? That is the Question!
Through the course of writing a novel, I am both a plotter and a pantser, depending on where in the story I'm at. In the beginning, I'm all pants (as the previous paragraph revealed) but about four or five chapters in, I feel the inevitable halting of plot—in other words: Now what??? Usually then I'll begin to plot, or outline, which brings me back to my lovable thumbnail sketches—some will work, some will be tossed.
But when I say tossed, what I really mean is…
Friends, I am a proud non-hoarder in the physical world. I love nothing more than to gut a closet and empty boxes. But when it comes to the digital world, I am a notorious pack-rat. Over the course of a novel, I will paste deleted sentences, or sometimes even whole scenes, into an "overflow" file. Sometimes I will revisit the content and use it after all. Sometimes it is a note to remind me of a certain reckoning I want a character to have at some point in the story. But nine times out of ten, I won't use that content after all.
We all know about killing our darlings. I'm afraid I let mine die a slow death.
The Writing Space
When I got my first contract with NAL, I was writing at our family dining table, a beautiful trestle table my husband made from Michigan cherry, so I am most comfortable writing at home. I admire people who can hunker down in a coffee shop—I can't even fathom it. I always write to music—but almost always to instrumentals. I don't know what I would do without Pandora. I tend to be a person enamored of the soothing effects of rituals, so for me, the first thing I do when I sit down to write in the morning is to turn on my Pandora station (which is usually different for each book) and then open my manuscript.
Now for those of you who write, it's your turn! What part of your writing process never changes—or what part recently has?
Bio: A native New Englander who now lives and writes in North Carolina, Erika Marks is the author of The Guest House, The Mermaid Collector and Little Gale Gumbo. Her next novel, It Comes in Waves, releases July 1st.
Giveaway! I have one ARC of It Comes in Waves, so if you are in the US or Canada please leave a comment with your email address!


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The historic, spa-town of Hot Springs, Ark. is an amazing (and affordable) little city that's full of artistic and natural attractions. The conference will be held in the easily walkable downtown, which is surrounded by Hot Springs National Park and convenient to restaurants, bars, boutiques, art galleries, hiking trails and bathhouses. We fully expect that some conference attendees may never leave!
Here are some of the events that will be taking place during the conference and some other attractions we think you will enjoy during your stay.
The Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival (HSDFF) is the oldest non-fiction festival in North America and an Academy-qualifying festival in the category of Documentary Short Subject. Held on the doorstep of Hot Springs National Park, HSDFF is a culturally diverse and intergenerational event. The 25th Annual Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival will be held Oct. 7-16, 2016 at the Arlington Hotel and Spa, 819 Central Ave., in the Historic Downtown District of Hot Springs. Through screenings, panels, forums and special events, HSDFF brings cultural and social enrichment to all ages. For more information contact (501) 321-4747.
Bathhouse Row
Explore the wonders of the mineral water that made this town famous. Two of the original bathhouses, the Buckstaff and the Quapaw, still operate as bathhouses, and offer a full spa experience. Others serve as a visitors' center, gift shop and brewery.
Gallery Walk
A continuous tradition for 25 years, Gallery Walk in downtown Hot Springs is held from 5-9 p.m. on the first Friday of each month (Oct. 7th). Galleries stay open late to host new exhibits by local, regional, national and international artists. From contemporary to traditional art, the diverse offerings in this arts and cultural scene place Hot Springs at No. 4 among the 100 Best Art Towns in America.
The Hot Springs Pocket Community Theater, located at 170 Ravine St., presents Exit Laughing by Paul Elliot Oct. 7-9, 2016. Showtimes are at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students K-12. Tickets can be bought at the box office 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday-Sunday starting the week of the first performance, or at the door. Please note they do not accept credit or debit cards. Doors open 30 minutes before showtime. For more information, call 501-623-8585.
"When the biggest highlight in your life for the past 30 years has been your weekly bridge night out with the "girls," what do you do when one of your foursome inconveniently dies? If you're Connie, Leona and Millie, three southern ladies from Birmingham, you do the most daring thing you've ever done. You "borrow" the ashes from the funeral home for one last card game, and the wildest, most exciting night of your lives involves a police raid, a stripper and a whole new way of looking at all the fun you can have when you're truly living." – Synopsis from Dramatic PublishingMid-America Science Museum, located at 500 Mid America Blvd, is Arkansas' largest hands-on science center and the states first Smithsonian Affiliate. With over 100 engaging, hands-on exhibits that explore the wonders of energy, matter, life and perception, the Museum seeks to spark curiosity and enhance scientific understanding through inquiry, observational skills and discovery learning. Experience Arkansas Underfoot, the Bob Wheeler Science Skywalk, the brand new Workshop area and our state of the art Oaklawn Foundation Digital Dome where you can explore the stars and much, much more! For more information contact (501) 767-3461.
Lake Ouachita
What better way to spend an afternoon than playing in one of the nation's cleanest lakes? Surrounded by the Ouachita National Forest, Lake Ouachita is a picturesque setting of natural beauty with some 200 islands. At 40,000 acres, it is the largest manmade lake in Arkansas and is a popular destination for fishing, swimming, scuba diving, and boating. It is surrounded by 975 miles of primarily undeveloped shoreline, with just a handful of recreation areas and marinas that provide camping along its shores and access to its waters. Boat rentals of all sizes are available.
About a 30 minute drive from Hot Springs, Lake Ouachita State Park is located on the eastern shore of the lake and has a free swimming beach, a marina with boat rentals, hiking trails and low cost camping.
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Jonathan loves three things - Mariah's Vegas Show, texturizer, and Game of Thrones.
- May 12, 2015
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Jonathan Van Ness: Oh my god Tess, I'm so glad finally (inaudible) cherry with me.
Tess Holliday: I still have no idea what was happening.
> I got you girl.
So girl, basically at the beginning you had Baby Barack Obama...He's alive girl!
He's alive! So then Christina Aguilera, she took all the heads at the tribes down
for their survival tribal counsel meeting, and she sacrificed all of those fuckers to
her dragon. Girl, when those dragons tore that man in half, I was thinking
they're fighting harder than my cats fight over their organic Paul Newman
wet food.
> Bitch got payback.
> And then after that we cut to Jon Snow. He went to join the Widlings, but
everyone is raging against that idea.
(a roar of displeasure is heard)
But meanwhile between jobs Jason Statham has much bigger fish to fry.
> Less enemies for us.
> Fewer.
> She's like not having false grammar.
But then as per usual we got Evil Elijah Wood being a real piece of
work when he tells his new side piece girl, "You better not bore me."
> You remember what happened to people who bore me.
> Girl, I hope he doesn't have to go to a mandatory salon meeting,
talking about, "You better be 15 minutes early or you're late."
Meh-meh-meh. It's like...oh my god, we look great.
> Amazing.
> Should we take a picture?
> Always.
> So then meanwhile back at the Meet the (inaudible), we have Evil Elijah Wood,
reacquaint Orphan Brown, with poor Baby Theon, but then never to be out grieved Evil Elijah's
daddy Ruth Bader Ginsburg tells them that he has some news of his own.
> We're going to have a baby.
> Then that Evil Elijah Wood
was body shaving his stepmother.
> How did you find it?
> Her vagina is not hard to find. I'm sure it's very easy, very gorge.
He needs to be beat like a little red-headed stepchild.
> Maybe not a red head.
> (whispers) You're not a natural red head.
> Shh.
> And then Baby Barack Obama was playing the hardest death bed game
I have ever seen. But then it turns out that they totally caught feelings,
and I was like, Solange is totally going to suck his dick-up, but
it's probably not going to get hard-up.
> Why won't it get hard?
> Because he's (inaudible), and they don't have...
> I don't get it.
> So then of course we had
Munch-munch and he was being the worse Disney Land Jungle Cruise tour guide ever.
> Where are we now?
> Long sullen silences.
> Where are we now?
> About the demons and the flames.
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> I am a person who drinks.
> Girl then all of a sudden we find out that Valtrex is infested with
Greyscale walkers. I was like, uh!
(she screams too)
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girl, but then they are on the beach. They are chilling like a Corona commercial,
but then we find out that Sir Carlisle is full on stage one preliminary
positive for Greyscale.
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if that ever happens to me you would have to help me with my special
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Rainbow Drops
Feel the power of love as you collect the rainbow hearts which will boost your speed up to the max! Call your best friend and both together enjoy competing in collecting Rainbow Drops, avoiding solid clusters or bombs while creating your own running path! Wrapped in cute music for kids, styled in never-out of fashion pixelated graphics, challenged with competitive running game play, Rainbow Drops is the 2 players game you need to enjoy sharing and playing with your closest friends! Have fun!
Player 1: Up/Down arrow keys to move up/down, Player 2: W/S to move up/down. P to pause the game and Esc to end the current game.
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A Work Opportunity Center for Minneapolis, Minnesota. Final Report.
Joseph, Michael P.; Almen, Roy E.
Many efforts have been made to reach the high school dropout in order to help him find employment and to graduate from high school. One such effort is the Work Opportunity Center in Minneapolis which was established to serve this group as well as the hardcore unemployed youth. Creative innovations, individualized attention, change, and flexibility are the guidelines for this well staffed program which offers instruction in vocational education. Half of the students selected for participation needed followup medical treatment, came from homes where parents were either divorced or separated, and ranked low on aptitude. A followup study of students completing the program showed that those students who attended the Center were better paid, possessed positive self concepts, and were better adjusted than their non-attending peers. This final report which provides detailed information concerning the center's activities will be of special benefit to those interested in establishing similar centers. It is also part of a set of related materials available as VT 011 518-VT 011 533 in this issue. (JS)
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Sponsor: Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. Bureau of Research.
Authoring Institution: Minneapolis Public Schools, Minn. Work Opportunity Center.
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Change = Transition = Adjustment = Stress
Even positive change can feel stressful, very stressful. The Life Change Index lists significant life changes that we experience, along with a rating scale. You can check off life events to appreciate the degree of stress brought on by transition. I had happened to be living five such life events simultaneously just over a year ago—all due to to saying "Yes!" to the man I wanted to marry. The resulting buying a home, renovating, move, and marriage felt so overwhelming….


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- Ultra-lightweight full-size twin stroller
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- Five point safety harness
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Dream On Me 447, Twin Stroller is an ultra-lightweight, rugged full-size twin stroller. You can walk along with two children with comfort and style. This stroller features five point safety harness, fully reclining seats, 2 adjustable canopies, and abundant storage space for necessities. The compact umbrella style design makes travel easy, fun, and safe.


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Color & Trends
As a prior member of the Color Marketing Group, one of about 1800 designers in the world, Hilary worked closely with designers from all industries in helping to create a unified color palette for the contract and residential market.
As an independent consultant for a major corporation Hilary created a yearly design and fashion trends portfolio for direction in color, scale, geometry, imagery and trends going on at the time. Hilary has a unique eye for innovative and cutting edge design, which she brings into each new project.
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NEW: February 28, 2018
Graduate student Simon Lock and coauthors present a new model for lunar origin within a terrestrial synestia. The model was developed by a multidisciplinary team of physicists, cosmochemists and dynamicists and emphasizes the crucial link between the pressures and temperatures of the environment around the growing Moon and the final composition of the Moon.
This work is published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets (a preprint is on arXiv).
UC Davis press release: How the Moon Formed Inside a Vaporized Earth Synestia
The model was developed by Simon Lock, Sarah Stewart (planetary physics), Michael Petaev and Stein Jacobsen (cosmochemistry), Zoë M. Leinhardt, Mia T. Mace, and Matija Ćuk (planetary dynamics).
The Moon accretes within a synestia, a special type of astronomical body that is created by a giant impact. The Moon's chemistry can be explained by formation at the high pressures and temperatures of the synestia.
Image by Sarah Stewart. Modified from NASA PIA 20700.
Graduate student Simon Lock and Sarah Stewart describe a new type of planetary object that is created by a giant impact: a synestia. This structure is not like a planet or a traditional planet with an orbiting disk, it something distinct that has different internal structure and dynamics than other planetary objects.
This work is published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets and posted on arXiv.
UC Davis press release
AGU press release
Fleeting phase of planet formation discovered
Scientists propose new kind of planet: A smashed up torus of hot vaporized rock
Where did the word synestia come from?
The name synestia means connected structure. The word is derived from Hestia, the Greek goddess of the hearth, home, architecture and syn means together.
The initial shape of an impact-generated synestia is a biconcave disc. A synestia will change shape as it cools over time.
Image by Simon Lock.
Sarah Stewart's research group investigates the formation and evolution of planetary bodies. Our primary techniques are shock wave experiments to measure material properties and numerical simulations of planetary processes. We tackle a broad range of problems in planetary science by focusing on understanding the feedbacks between physical processes and changes in material properties.
We have a new model for the tidal evolution of the Moon, published in Nature. The model begins with a giant impact that tilts the Earth about 70 degrees from the ecliptic. Learn more about the Origin of the Moon. (Image from eskipaper.com)
UC Davis: New Theory Explains How the Moon Got There
SETI: Did Early Earth Spin on Its Side?
U. Maryland: New model explains the moon's weird orbit
Stewart Group News
New Model for Lunar Origin
We present a new model for lunar accretion with a terrestrial synestia. The Moon is depleted in volatile elements compared to Earth. Our model explains the pattern and magnitude of depletion of these elements. The [...]
New postdocs!
Welcome to Bethany Chidester and Megan Duncan!
Planet Cakes!
The Origins Group finds many reasons to throw a party. The latest reason was making planet cakes! We made Jupiter and Earth with Pangea. (Image gallery -- click on the cakes)
Synestia, a New Type of Planetary Object
Graduate student Simon Lock and Sarah Stewart define and explain a new type of planetary object. A synestia is formed by a giant impact. Synestias are an important stage of terrestrial planet formation, leading to mixing [...]
New Center for Frontiers in High Energy Density Science
U. California has funded a new center in high energy density science. This center is a collaboration between 5 UC campuses, LLNL and LANL. One of the themes of our center is material properties under [...]
Graduate program application deadline is December 15
Please contact Sarah if you are interested in our graduate program in planetary sciences. Our application deadline have moved to December 15.
Stewart Group Videos
Check out the Stewart Group YouTube Video Stream
Building the New Lab
UC Davis Shock Compression Laboratory under construction.
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Department Of Justice
Preferred Care settles for $540,000 in whistleblower upcoding caseJuly 06, 2018
Nursing home chain Preferred Care agreed to settle False Claims Act charges for $540,000, the Department of Justice has announced.
Former Florida health official sentenced for leaking 'surprise' inspection info for cashDecember 19, 2017
A 30-year employee of the state's Agency for Health Care Administration took bribes in exchange for providing confidential information about survey dates, prosecutors say.
HCR ManorCare 'vindicated' as DOJ announces plan to drop lawsuitNovember 09, 2017
The Department of Justice on Wednesday filed a motion to drop a False Claims Act lawsuit it had joined against HCR ManorCare in 2015.
Judge orders DOJ to pay legal fees for HCR ManorCare in rehab claims caseNovember 06, 2017
The Department of Justice will have to pay HCR ManorCare legal fees after a judge slammed its handling of a whistleblower case against the provider.
DOJ joins Omnicare lawsuit over alleged Abbott Depakote kickbacksDecember 31, 2014
The Justice Department has filed a False Claims Act complaint against Omnicare Inc., alleging the pharmaceutical giant received millions in kickbacks from Abbott Laboratories over a 10-year period.
$1.3 million settlement marks second recent deal over SNF supervision of therapy providersSeptember 16, 2014
A Maryland nursing home company has agreed to a $1.3 million settlement over charges that it did not prevent overbilling by its contracted therapy provider, federal authorities announced Monday. This is the second such settlement this month involving therapy company RehabCare Group East Inc.
Latest therapy-billing showdown could be ominous sign for long-term care providersSeptember 10, 2014
Don't let anyone tell you that long-term care operators don't know how to read between the lines. They might not have known to fear a McKnight's Monday news item before it broke, but it definitely has their attention — and apprehension — now.
DOJ forces observation stay showdownSeptember 01, 2014
Hospitals have been cast in a harsh light by long-term care advocates recently for allegedly over-using "observation stay" status. The practice can ultimately deny some patients subsequent Medicare coverage for nursing home admission.
Largest US hospital chain to pay $98 million in observation stay caseAugust 06, 2014
The nation's largest hospital organization has agreed to a $98 million settlement to resolve charges that it overbilled by admitting individuals as inpatients rather than keeping them under observation, the Department of Justice announced Monday.
Provider networks: Too big to succeed?January 28, 2014
At this point, you're well aware that the Affordable Care Act is putting pressure on post-acute providers to partner with hospitals and physician groups. A recent whistleblower case in California highlights just how important this systemic transformation is — but another legal battle making headlines underscores how difficult it might be to "right size" the U.S. healthcare system.
Government, Abbott Laboratories reach $5.5M settlement over stentsJanuary 07, 2014
The Department of Justice and Abbott Laboratories agreed to a $5.48 million settlement on Dec. 27 related to allegations that physicians received kickbacks for pushing stents.
Johnson & Johnson to pay $2 billion in settlement over antipsychotic drugs in nursing homesNovember 05, 2013
Pharmaceuticals giant Johnson & Johnson and some subsidiaries will pay more than $2.2 billion to settle claims that they inappropriately promoted antipsychotic drugs for use in nursing homes, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday. The agreement is one the largest ever of its kind, and will also settle charges that the companies paid kickbacks to the nation's largest long-term care pharmacy, Omnicare.
Latest Medicare fraud allegations just an appetizerMay 10, 2013
As we've been predicting here for some time, allegations of mismanaged therapy care are starting to land nursing homes in some seriously hot water.
False Claims lawsuit, government report raise questions about expensive types of hospice careMay 08, 2013
A government lawsuit and a memorandum from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General raise questions about the two most expensive types of hospice care.
Ensign settles with DOJApril 23, 2013
The Ensign Group announced a settlement with the Department of Justice on Monday in which it will pay $48 million. The case has been pending since 2006, when the company was accused of overbilling.
Feds join lawsuit against nursing home operatorDecember 17, 2012
The Department of Justice has joined a whistleblower fraud lawsuit against a former nursing home operator in Mississippi. The lawsuit was originally filed by Academy Health Center, which says the operator of the Lumberton facility charged Medicare and Medicaid for services that were not provided.
Former exec alleges Florida hospice filed claims for patients not terminally ill; government joins lawsuitSeptember 10, 2012
The federal government has joined a whistleblower lawsuit against a Florida hospice over what it says were fraudulent Medicare payments, the Department of Justice announced.
Nursing home residents targeted as part of massive Medicare schemeMay 04, 2012
Beneficiaries from nursing homes were a target of a group filing false claims in what authorities call the largest Community Mental Health Center services fraud case.
Assisted living manager pleads guilty to a Medicare fraud and kickback schemeNovember 18, 2011
In the latest fallout from a massive Medicare fraud kickback scheme in Florida, an assisted living manager has admitted he referred residents in exchange for money.
Department of Justice files suit against Johnson & Johnson in connection with kickback scheme with OmnicareJanuary 19, 2010
The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday filed a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson for its alleged role in a kickback scheme with Omnicare, the nation's largest long-term care pharmacy chain.


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Dress up delicious lasagna with healthy, delicious spinach. Vegetarian friendly without losing any of the comfort of traditional lasagna.
Spinach Lasagna
Published on January 9, 2017 | By CervasiUSA |0 Comments
- 2 medium garlic cloves, minced
- 1 (15- to 16-ounce) container whole-milk ricotta cheese
- 2 10-ounce packages frozen spinach, thawed and drained
- 1 c. Cervasi Parmesan, grated
- 1 large egg
- 2-3 (14.5-ounce) cans tomato, marinara or your own homemade sauce
- 1lb Cervasi Lasagna
- 1lb fresh Mozzarella, pre-sliced
- ¼ c. water
- Kosher salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
- Preheat oven to 350°F. In a bowl, combine garlic, ricotta, spinach, half of the Parmesan, and egg until smooth. Add salt and pepper to taste. Set aside.
- In 9x13 baking dish, spread a fifth of the tomato sauce on the bottom of the baking dish. Place one layer of noodles on top of the sauce.
- Add another layer of tomato sauce on top of the base layer of noodles. Top with a third of the ricotta mixture (will spread as it heats, so don't worry about completely even coating) and a quarter of the sliced mozzarella.
- Repeat layering noodles, red sauce, ricotta mixture and mozzarella. Sprinkle remaining Parmesan on top of the last layer of mozzarella.
- Pour the water around the edges of the lasagna. Cover baking dish with aluminum foil.
- Bake for approximately 35 minutes, or until the lasagna bubbles around the edges.
- Remove foil, top with more cheese if desired, and bake for an additional 15 minutes or until the top is light golden brown.
- Let lasagna rest for 15 minutes before serving.
- Servings : 6-10
- Ready in : 90 Minutes