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August 18, 2013 - By Samantha Nelson
New owners took over BlackFinn American Saloon's former space in Naperville at the end of May. While the look is still the same, The Wise Boxer Pour House is offering an entirely new menu of American fare with a gourmet flair, paired with a menu of craft beers meant to make the place more of a dining destination than purely a late-night hangout.
Motif:Wise Boxer kept BlackFinn's decor with plenty of TVs tuned to sports, leather booths with their own TV sets and small round tables set with tall stools. The upstairs areas, which can be used for overflow seating or private parties, mirror the same layout and there's an enclosed upstairs patio strung with lights that provides a place to enjoy the weather and chat without the loud music that can dominate the indoor spaces. The new owner plans to replace the Americana artwork, like a portrait of George Washington, with images of breweries and pieces for sale from local artists.
Crowd:The spot draws mostly casually dressed couples and small groups and plenty of big parties taking advantage of the upstairs rooms. While lunch and dinner have been bringing in bigger crowds than BlackFinn did, late night has been a bit slow.
Food:The goal of Pour House is to be a restaurant first and a bar second, so you won't see any sports bar standards like mozzarella sticks or wings here. The menu of entirely handmade food is still under development, so they've been printing it on paper to enable easy changes, but popular dishes have included tuna poke and beef carpaccio with white truffle oil. They also have a separate pastry chef whipping up treats like key lime panna cotta and espresso napoleons.
Liquid consumption:Beer is the focus here with an excellent selection of craft brews including Southern Tier Hop Sun and Lakefront Fixed Gear. While they're still running out of some stock from BlackFinn, the goal is to transition the entire list to craft beers and triple the number of craft bottles they stock.
Service:We were quickly greeted by a bartender who introduced himself and his colleague by name so we could flag them down with our orders. When I asked what a beer was like, the bartender happily poured me a taster so I could find out for myself.
Music: DJs spin Friday and Saturday nights and you can catch live acoustic music downstairs on Thursdays. On Wednesday, the bar plans to alternate between live band karaoke and DJs spinning country music.
Parking: There's a free lot nearby, though finding a spot can be tricky when downtown Naperville is bustling.
Overall:The changes at this venue are already worth checking out and with more in the works, Wise Boxer Pour House promises to become a new destination for Naperville diners and drinkers.
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Without the generous financial aid that I received at Bowdoin through the endowment scholarships, I would not be here and my vision of myself as a Bowdoin student would never have come true. I am forever grateful and indebted for this great generosity and opportunity and I plan to give back to the college in the future when I have the right resources. Why did you choose you major? I started out as a freshman with the idea of being biology major and I ended up with taking that route. Biology has always been one of my greatest interests. Who but biologists would have thought that the green and harmless grasses in your backyard are competing against each other for all the natural resources such as sunlight and soil space? I picked up my second major in Asian Studies after I took two classes in the program during my sophomore year: Theravada Buddhism and Chinese Politics. Although I was born in a Buddhist society, I never knew anything about the philosophy aspects of Buddhism until I took Theravada Buddhism. People like me from Buddhist societies tend to know only what we are doing and not exactly why we are doing it. The class showed me many new perspectives and ways to look at religions. Buddhism had a new meaning to me after I took the class. What has been your favorite course at Bowdoin? This is probably the trickiest question on this list. I have so many favorite courses. Theravada Buddhism, Chinese Politics, Transnational Chinese Cinema, Conquests and Heroes, Evolution, Biology of Marine Organisms, Biochemistry II, Organic Chemistry (OC), and Creative Reading just to name a few. If I had to choose just one favorite course, I would have to say it was Organic Chemistry II. It was taught by one of my favorite teachers here at Bowdoin, Brian Linton, assistant professor of chemistry. I learned why sugar tastes sweet and why artificial sweetener is not digestible. I used to dislike chemistry in high school, but the two semesters of OC changed my hatred for chemistry into a love and passion for the field, and I ended up minoring in chemistry. Have you engaged in any independent research while at Bowdoin? I actually did five independent studies here at Bowdoin: four in the biology department and one in Asian Studies. Within biology, I had been involved with an independent research project in Associate Professor Mike Palopoli's evolutionary genetics lab titled "Mapping the plg-1 Gene in Caenorhabditis elegans." I spent two of my summers and over two full years hunting down this gene using various mapping techniques, and I had narrowed down the estimated region of the gene to 0.65% of where I had started. I worked with several other undergraduate students on the project, and I finally wrote my senior honors thesis based on the work I did for Prof. Palopoli. I definitely enjoy doing genetic and molecular biology research, and I will be doing more genetic research in a zebrafish lab in Boston after graduation. For the Asian Studies Program, I did an independent study on the Mongol invasions of Southeast Asia during the Yuan dynasty for Tom Conlan, associate professor of history and Asian studies. The title of my project was "Portraying Mongols as the Main Cause for Ethnological Shifts of Thirteenth Century Southeast Asia," and I read over 150 primary and secondary sources in the Burmese, Chinese, and English languages for the project. Doing research in history is very interesting and, if not for my love of biology, I would have been a history major. What extracurricular or work experiences have you had at Bowdoin? For two of the summers, I stayed on the Bowdoin campus doing my independent research project. During the first summer, the project was funded through a National Science Foundation Grant awarded to my advisor Prof. Mike Palopoli. For the second summer, I received the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowship to do undergraduate biological research. Given the fact that Maine has its best weather during the summer, the campus looks extra beautiful and is an added incentive to stick and around and do research. I have been a student manager for Bowdoin College Dining Service in Thorne Dining Hall for all my four years at Bowdoin. The dining hall staff members are the best and the friendliest coworkers imaginable. They treated me as one of their family, and the dining hall staff is the one of the things that I am going to miss the most about Bowdoin. I also worked for the Chemistry Department as a laboratory assistant. I worked with Prof. David Page, Rene Bernier, and Judith Foster assisting other students in the chemistry labs. It has been a lot of fun interacting and making friends with all the young students who needed help in with their labs. I have also volunteered in the Hospital Elder Life Program at Maine Medical Center, where I provided assistance for patients over 65 years old with feeding, early mobilization, sleep enhancement, vision/hearing, mental stimulation, and socialization. I have also participated in other volunteer activities such as doing community service on Earth Days and Bowdoin's "Common Good Days." For Bowdoin Habitat for Humanity, I also helped to build a house for an underprivileged family and organizing the Sleeping on the Quad event to raise awareness of poverty in Maine and in the United States. Finally, I have also been involved with Asian Students Association (ASA), International Club, Korean American Students Association (KASA), and Russian Club, which are all student clubs here at Bowdoin. Did you study abroad during your time at Bowdoin? I did not study abroad during my eight semesters here at Bowdoin, but I did go to China for the summer after my sophomore year for an intensive Chinese language study through CET Academic Programs in Beijing. I received the Freeman Foundation Fellowship [for study abroad in Asia], which paid for the program. The experience of being abroad was a blast and changed my life in so many positive ways. My Chinese skills improved dramatically while I also became more mature as a person. At CET, I made many Chinese and American friends with whom I still keep in touch. One of my favorite memories was going to see some of the games of the 2004 Asian Cup, which was going on while we were there in Beijing. What is your best Bowdoin memory? This is the second trickiest question! I have so many best memories: skydiving during my first year, finally learning how to swim when I was a junior my third year, sleeping on the quad, going on trip to Quebec with the Russian Club, skiing with the International Club, paintballing with KASA, and being the beast in the ASA fashion show. If I have to pick just one memory, then it would be the making of the movie, "A Day in the Life of Aye and Mr. Honey," for my Transnational Chinese Cinema class. It was a group project and we spent two 8-mm tapes, filming over 50 hours of footage, for a seven minute-long comedy. Mr. Honey is my roommate Becca's cat, and we portrayed him as a human who has a life parallel to my own. Many of my friends were extras in the movie, and I called on them to shoot the classroom scene on a Friday night in Druckenmiller Hall just a few days before the premiere of the movie. Funnily enough, Mr. Honey won the Best Supporting Actor Award in this year's Bowdoin Film Festival. What are your plans for after graduation? I will be working as a research assistant in the Zon Lab at Children's Hospital Boston for the next two years. I will be doing cancer research using Zebrafish as our model, as well as finishing up the zebrafish genome project. The Zon Lab is one of the biggest academic research labs as part of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and they have over 100,000 zebrafish in their fish tanks. I am very excited to be a part of their research team before continuing my education with medical school. What advice would you give to a prospective student or first-year about the Bowdoin experience? Without a doubt, I can assure you that your four years at Bowdoin will be the best four years of your life. These four years seem like they have passed by faster than the life span of a nematode. I would advise everyone not to try to do too much or spread yourself too thinly. If you really want to do something here at Bowdoin, make sure you make time to do it. 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My colleagues and I drove 2,428 miles and remained in the same place.
We gathered a team, rented a car, checked the batteries in our recorders and cameras. We moved from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. We crossed deserts, plains and mountains. But all the while, we were living in Borderland — zigzagging across the frontier between Mexico and the United States.
We were seeking stories of people, goods and culture that cross the border. Heavily fortified though it is, the border remains the place where two nations meet, trade, clash and influence one another. It's a place to see history — how the United States spread across the West, into lands that once belonged to Mexico — and a place to glimpse both nations' emerging futures. We meant to explore big issues like immigration, crime and business through the personal stories of people who cross.
We began at the spot you see above, the mouth of the Rio Grande. The near shore, that's Texas; the far shore, where the trucks are parked, that's Mexico. People were grilling meat on the far side, so close we could smell it. The river was only 100 feet or so wide, and a Mexican fisherman stood knee-deep in the center of the channel. From there we planned to move up the Rio Grande to El Paso, Texas, then strike out across the desert, as the border does, toward the Mexican city of Tijuana.
Within an hour we'd gone from this peaceful spot to a parade: Mariachi music and marching bands celebrated Charro Days, an annual festival marking the friendship of Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas — sister cities on opposite sides of the river. We saw how the cities were linked (Brownsville residents competed in a grito contest to see who could deliver the longest and grandest Mexican howl) and also how they were separated. Brownsville residents look at Matamoros with foreboding these days, and many are reluctant to cross because of the drug-related violence and kidnapping of past years.
It was at Brownsville that we made our first half-dozen border crossings, going in and out of Matamoros by car and on foot, stopping by the old cathedral and also spending two nights in a Mexican Holiday Inn. Once we crossed with Oscar Casares, a novelist who grew up in Brownsville, though he confessed his friends were worried about him going. There was no line to cross the border into Matamoros, no one even to check our passports; there was a big wait at the security lines to get out. The city was calm.
In the central square of Matamoros, we met the first of six public radio correspondents who were adding to our reporting: NPR's John Burnett, a longtime veteran of border reporting. He told us a story of Santa Muerte — Saint Death — the patron saint of the drug trade, whose image has spread out of Mexico into much of the United States.
Many people think of the Borderland as a single region — north and south — linked by history, trade and often by blood ties. Of course the two sides of the border are different in many ways, but they were bound by a single shared experience, the border itself. We will hear their stories in days to come.
This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm David Greene.
And I'm Renee Montagne.
Let's listen to the start of a road trip along the U.S.-Mexico border. Steve Inskeep drove the whole of it from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific. He sought stories of people and goods and culture crossing the border, their stories about to immense country influence each other, and we'll ride along in the coming days.
STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE: We rented a car, packed a team of people inside...
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: All right.
INSKEEP: ...and set off toward La Frontera - as it's called in Spanish. We began our journey driving across the sand to reach the eastern-most end of the border.
OK. We're pulling out onto the beach. You can hear the surf coming in off the Gulf of Mexico. The beach was in South Texas, and we followed the tracks of vehicles that had come before.
Oh, this has got to be it. This must be the mouth of the Rio Grande.
The river that separates two nation - barely. I can't say it's a massive river - in fact, it might only be 100 feet or so wide at its mouth. A man stood knee-deep casting a fishing net by hand. I would say he is in the dead center of the river - which means he may be standing in a place where and foot is in Mexico in and foot is in the United States. He'd apparently come from the Mexican side. Pickup trucks were parked on the far shore. Men and women sat on chairs. Hola.
They waved back from Mexico, so close we could smell the barbecue they brought along.
So here it is. We're going to follow the course of this river, zigzagging across. At some point around El Paso, Texas, we'll strike out across the desert and continue following the border to the west all the way to Tijuana - which is more than 1,900 miles from here, as the border goes.
We wanted to see the border differently, exploring big issues - like immigration or trade - by finding personal stories of people who cross. Vamonos.
It was two and a half miles to the beginning of the paved road leading westward, and 40 miles to Brownsville, Texas, where we arrived in the middle of a parade.
INSKEEP: Marching band and mariachi bands were part of Charro Days. It's a kind of Mardi Gras for the border. It was a music festival and a grito contest.
Men and women competed to deliver the longest howl.
INSKEEP: The contest was inspired by the shout that declared the start of Mexico's war for independence in 1810. So the grito tradition stretches back to when Texas was part of Mexico. This year's winner was 19-year-old Clara Dawson, who is Anglo, but says she is Mexican in her heart.
INSKEEP: We watched the contest with Oscar Casares, a novelist who grew up in Brownsville.
OSCAR CASARES: This weekend is kind of a homecoming.
INSKEEP: When he was a teenager, he used cross the border to party in the Mexican city of Matamoros.
CASARES: There was an element of danger involved because you knew you were in another country, yet it was the next country over. I mean you knew the street. You probably had family over there, but yet you were in another country.
INSKEEP: But in recent years, spectacular violence - often drug-related - made the element of danger seem too real. The American floats in the Charro Days Parade - which used to cross the bridge to Matamoros - now stop short. Oscar Casares hadn't crossed in years, but agreed to walk over with us.
CASARES: We're roughly about two and a half blocks away from the actual river, but we can already see the wall. Homeland Security will call it the fence, but we call it the wall.
INSKEEP: So do you call it a fence if you want to minimize it and call it a wall if you really don't like it?
I think you call it a wall if you're being more honest.
Oscar Casares says he told his friends he was about to cross the bridge with us.
CASARES: I got these looks like, are you serious? Are you going across? And I...
INSKEEP: It's like a hundred feet.
CASARES: I know.
INSKEEP: But he admitted he was nervous too. We crossed the bridge, paid a toll and arrived at a pharmacy that offers Americans access to cheap medication. Business was slow.
The next morning we found the Matamoros central square. Even without the American floats, they kept up their side of that festival that is supposed to link two nations. Street vendors in tents sold bags of coffee, and churros, fried dough dipped in sugar. We were looking for one of the NPR correspondents we expected to meet during our road trip.
He's going to be hard to miss, he's six foot six. There he is. John Burnett was relaxing by a fountain, observing Mexican Marines who keep security.
Hey, good to see you, sir.
JOHN BURNETT, BYLINE: Hey, how are you?
INSKEEP: John lives north of the border, in Austin, Texas.
And around his home in Texas, he keeps seeing a bit of culture that has crossed to the U.S. from Mexico, something connected to the fear often surrounding the borderland.
BURNETT: Santa Muerte, Saint Death. It's a Mexican folk saint which is popular all over Mexico. And I've also seen her, she's crossed into the United States all over the Southwest. I've seen her image in Austin, in Dallas Fort Worth, in Houston, along the border here. And so I was really curious to track her back to her origins. So here we are in Matamoros. She's controversial here because Saint Death is associated with the drug trade, but you can find statues of her for sale just a few blocks away.
BURNETT: This is Mercado Juarez in downtown Matamoros. Here, amid the onyx chess sets and Yucateca hammocks, you find her: a statue of a female Grim Reaper dressed in a flowing gown. She is Santisima Muerte - Most Holy Death -revered on both sides of the international border. Shopkeeper Abel Ramirez doesn't much care for the death saint, but business is business.
ABEL RAMIREZ: (Spanish spoken)
BURNETT: Santa Muerte is sacred for people who mostly are involved in illicit businesses, like smuggling drugs and people, he says. For my part, I'll sell a statue, but I don't believe in her. Ramirez agrees to take me to a healer, or curandera, who works with Santa Muerte. Through a warren of souvenir shops, he leads me to a small store lined with shelves filled with votive candles, incense, soap, perfumes and figurines in the image of the Bony Lady, as she's called. The owner, who gives her name as Senora Tina, has neatly coiffed hair. A small figure of Saint Death dangles from her neck.
SENORA TINA: (Through translator) I have lots of clients who've turned away from Saint Jude and now follow La Santisima. Maybe they were in a terrible highway accident and they beseeched her to spare their life, and they walked away from the crash. She is the only one who can take a life, because she is Saint Death.
BURNETT: I ask Senora Tina why the cult of Santa Muerte is growing so fast north of the Rio Grande, where you see her prominently displayed in flea markets and religious curio shops.
TINA: (Through translator) In the U.S. there's lots of debauchery. Men are always changing partners. That's when the woman appeals to Santa Muerte to bring her man back home.
BURNETT: References to Saint Death date back as far as the colonial Spanish period, but her following exploded at the beginning of this century when she began to be identified in the media as the patroness of Mexican drug mafias. Last year a Vatican official came to Mexico and denounced the folk saint as sinister and infernal. Border mayors periodically order the destruction of public shrines to Saint Death that appear on the edges of poor colonias. The latest clean-up campaign is here in Matamoros. City Manager Jorge Villareal speaks carefully so as not to offend the murderous Gulf Cartel members in his city who venerate Saint Death.
JORGE VILLAREAL: (Spanish spoken)
BURNETT: In Mexico, anyone can believe in whatever religion they want, the official says, but they have to do so in temples and inside their homes, not in the public roads. The person who installed the statue of the Bony Lady in the median of the Beach Highway - which the city then hauled to the dump - is a middle-aged woman named Claudia Rosales. She says she's a businesswoman who sells clothing and shoes. She has several tattoos of the skeletal deity, and her office houses a large shrine to Saint Death. And there's a very impressive altar here that has six statues to Santa Muerte. And the altar is covered with fresh flowers and roses. And she's got a bottle of tequila here and she's put a picture of her daughter on the altar, asking for Santa Muerte's protection.
CLAUDIA ROSALES: (Spanish spoken)
BURNETT: Well, I think the mayor should not get involved in the beliefs of the people, says Mrs. Ramirez. God sent Saint Death to us as a messenger, as a mediator. She's like our lawyer.
INSKEEP: John Burnett, one of the NPR correspondents joining us as we travel the U.S.-Mexico border in the coming days. It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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The odds were stacked against the Algonquin boys hockey team for Friday's regular-season finale against non-league power Shrewsbury. The tourney-bound Tomahawks, unfortunately, got possibly the worst result they could have expected, an 11-2 loss at the hands of the Colonials at NorthStar Youth Forum in Westborough.
WESTBOROUGH — The odds were stacked against the Algonquin boys hockey team for Friday's regular-season finale against non-league foe and Central Mass. power Shrewsbury.
The tourney-bound Tomahawks, unfortunately, got possibly the worst result they could have expected, an 11-2 loss at the hands of the Colonials at NorthStar Youth Forum in Westborough.
The Tomahawks (10-8-2) extended their losing streak to five games after surrendering nine goals over the final two periods to the now 17-2-1 Colonials, who recorded the greatest regular-season finish in school history.
"They are a good team, we weren't getting our assignments done on defense and it is frustrating," said Algonquin coach Andy McGowan.
The Tomahawks' one bright spot was the first two-and-a-half minutes of the second period. Junior Matt Tozeski scored 25 seconds into that stanza, at which point Algonquin trailed just 2-1. Shortly thereafter Shrewsbury responded with a goal, but the Tomahawks pulled back within one with 12:31 remaining in the second on a goal by sophomore Alex DiPadua, assisted by Tozeski. DiPadua notched the assist on Tozeski's goal.
"D-zone coverage was a big thing in the first game," said McGowan, who saw his team give up four unanswered second-period goals in a 5-0 loss to Shrewsbury at DCU Center on Jan. 11. "We went over that in practice and (we'll) just continue to go over that as we prepare for the tournament."
But the Tomahawks could not stay close for the rest of the game. The Colonials scored the last eight goals of the game and had 36 shots on goal, compared to just nine for Algonquin. Tomahawks senior goalie Connor Henry did not play the third period.
"I thought we were in it until we started taking bad penalties and we just kind of gave up the momentum," Tomahawks senior Jack Mullin said. "Up until a few minutes into the second we were in the game."
Leading Shrewsbury were Tyler O'Keefe, Brayden Carroll and Matt Dillon with two goals apiece. Joe Buduo added four assists. The Colonials have won four straight and haven't lost since Jan. 27 against Leominster. They've scored 11 goals in two straight games.
"They see the ice really well," Mullin said of Shrewsbury. "Towards the end they'd always get the guy going backdoor and they'd always find him. They just have really good fundamentals all the way through."
Before its current five-game losing streak, Algonquin had rattled off six straight wins from Jan. 22 to Feb. 8, a streak that took them from 4-3-2 to 10-3-2 and earned them a spot in the playoffs.
The Tomahawks, meanwhile, have notched the bulk of their wins against sub-.500 opponents, with Leominster and Medway the only teams they beat that now have a winning record. With tournament seeding being announced Saturday, Algonquin is looking to improve its play against top-notch teams.
"Today we had quite a setback," McGowan said. "We can't hold onto this. We've got to learn from our mistakes and build off them."
Mullin echoed his coach's sentiments.
"We've got to play three complete periods," he said, "and if we play our game I think we should make a run in the playoffs."


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text: Home- Faculty Search- Faculty Directory- Eddie Watkins Colgate Directory FACULTY DETAIL < BACK TO RESULTS Eddie WatkinsAssociate Professor of Biology; Director, Center for Learning, Teaching and Research Biology, 129 Ho Science Center p email@example.com The work in my lab focuses on organismal plant ecology and physiology with a primary focus on ferns and their allies. Lab members work across many disciplines to include molecular biology, systematics, ecology, physiology, anatomy, and reproductive biology. I run a diverse ship, but the lab mainly focuses on how the natural world shapes the distribution of species in both modern landscapes and over evolutionary time frames. Central to our work are studies on plant stress physiology and developing a better understanding of the mechanisms behind stress tolerance and recovery. Learn more about my lab Degree BS, Auburn University, 1997 MS, Iowa State University, 2000 PhD, University of Florida, 2006 Post Doc, Harvard University, 2008 Teaching Experience OTS Specialty Course: Ferns and lycophytes of Costa Rica, Harvard University Graduate teaching assistantships at University of Florida, Iowa State University, and Auburn University Specialties Biological sciences; botany; plant ecology; plant physiology Professional Experience September 2006-June 2008: Harvard University, Mercer Post-Doctoral Fellow (adviser: Michelle Holbrook) Board Membership 2012: President elect of the America Fern Society 2008-Current: Associate Editor of the America Fern Journal 2008-Current: Council member to the American Institute of Biological Sciences to represent the American Fern Society. 2007-2009: Secretary of the Pteridological Section of the Botanical Society of America Publications Book Chapters Watkins, Jr., J.E., 2008. Fern Gametophyte Ecophysiology. In Biology and Evolution of Ferns and Lycophytes. Editors, T. Ranker and C. Haufler. Cambridge University Press. Pp 235-267. Refereed Publications (*Represents undergraduate student author) Watkins, J.E., Churchill, A.C., Holbrook, N.M. March 2016. A site for sori: Ecophysiology of fertile–sterile leaf dimorphy in ferns. American Journal of Botany Testo*, W.L. and Watkins, J.E., Jr. Submission Spring 2012. Stress physiology and ecology of the hart's-tongue fern, Asplenium scolopendrium: mechanisms of rarity. American Journal of Botany Watkins, Jr., J.E. and M.C. Mack. Submission Spring 2012. δ15N Natural abundance and nitrogen use of tropical fern gametophytes and sporophytes. Oecologia Britton*, M.R. and J.E. Watkins, Jr. Submission Spring 2012. Fertile/sterile dimorphy in ferns: long-term consequences of experimental frond removal. Journal of Experimental Botany. Testo*, W.L. and Watkins, J.E., Jr. In Review. Influence of plant size on the ecophysiology of the epiphytic fern Asplenium auritum Sw. from Costa Rica. Oecologia Watkins, Jr., J.E. and M.C. Mack. In Review δ15N Natural abundance and nitrogen use of tropical fern gametophytes and sporophytes. Oecologia Watkins, Jr., J.E., A. Churchill*, and N.M. Holbrook. In Review Physiological and morphological tradeoffs in fertile/sterile dimorphy among ferns. American Journal of Botany Watkins, Jr. J.E. and C. Cardelús. In Press. Ferns in an angiosperm world: Cretaceous radiation into the epiphytic niche and diversification on the forest floor Invited review for the International Journal of Plant Sciences for the special issue: Major Transitions in Angiosperm Ecology and Functional Biology Laurence, W. J.E. Watkins, Jr. and 48 other authors. 2011. Global warminge, elevational ranges and the vulnerability of tropical biota. Conservation Biology. 144:548-557. doi: 10.1016 /j. biocon.2010.10.010. *Testo, W.L. and J.E. Watkins, Jr. 2011. Comparative development and gametophyte morphology of the hart's-tongue fern, Asplenium scolopendrium L. J. Torrey Bot. Soc. 138(4):400-408. 2011 Watkins, J.E., W.L. Testo*, and R. Merkhofer*. 2010. In situ gametophyte morphology of the tropical epiphyte: Oleandra articulata. American Fern Journal 101(1):50-56 Watkins, Jr., J.E., N.M. Holbrook, M. Zwieniecka. 2010. Hydraulic properties of ferns: consequences for ecological and evolutionary diversification. American Journal of Botany. 97(12):2007-2009. J.E. Watkins, Jr. and C.L. Cardelús. 2009. Habitat differentiation of ferns in a lowland tropical rain forest. American Fern Journal 3:162–175. Watkins, Jr., J.E., C.L. Cardelús, M.C. Mack 2008. Ants mediate nitrogen relations of an epiphytic fern. New Phytologist 150:5-8. Watkins, Jr., J.E., M.C. Mack, T. Sinclair and S.S. Mulkey. 2007. Ecological and evolutionary consequences of desiccation tolerance in tropical fern gametophytes. New Phytologist 176:708-717. Featured cover article with commentary Watkins, Jr., J.E., M.C. Mack, and S.S. Mulkey. 2007. Gametophyte ecology and demography of epiphytic and terrestrial tropical ferns. American Journal of Botany 94(4):701–708. Featured back cover article Watkins, Jr., J.E., P. Rundel, C.L. Cardelús. 2007 The influence of life form on carbon and nitrogen relationships in tropical rainforest ferns. Oecologia 153(2): 225-232. Watkins Jr., J.E. A.Y. Kawahara, S.A. Leicht, J.R. Auld, A.J. Bicksler and K. Kaiser. 2006. Fern laminar scales protect against photoinhibition from excess light. American Fern Journal 96(3):83–92. Watkins, Jr., J.E., C.L. Cardelús, R. Moran, R.K. Colwell. 2006. Diversity and distribution of ferns along an elevational gradient in Costa Rica. American Journal of Botany 93(1):144-156. Cardelús, C.L., R.K. Colwell, J.E. Watkins, Jr. 2005. Exploring causes of the mid-elevation richness peak in vascular epiphyte species in Costa Rica. Journal of Ecology. 93(6):73-83. Watkins Jr., J.E. and D.R. Farrar. 2005. Origin and taxonomic affinities of the disjunct fern Thelypteris burksiorum (Watkins and Farrar). Brittonia 57(2):183-201. Dute, R.R., D.R. Folkerts, J.E. Watkins, Jr., M.E. Saxon, and R.S. Boyd. 2004. Floral anatomy and pollination biology of Cyrilla racemiflora. Southeastern Naturalist 3(2):309–326. Moran, R. and J.E. Watkins, Jr. 2004. Lomariopsis X farrarii: a new hybrid fern between L. japurensis and L. vestita (Lomariopsidaceae) from Costa Rica. Brittonia 56(3):205-209. Watkins Jr., J.E. and D.R. Farrar. 2002 A new name for an old fern from North Alabama. American Fern Journal 92(2):171-178. Moran, R. and J.E. Watkins, Jr. 2002. The occurrence and morphology of Adiantum × variopinnatum Jermy & T. G. Walker (=A. latifolium Lam. × A. petiolatum Desv.; Pteridaceae). Brittonia 54:57-60. Yoko Y., J.E. Watkins, D.R. Farrar and N. Murakami. 2002. Genetic variation in populations of the morphologically and ecologically variable fern Stegnogramma pozoi subsp. mollissima (Thelypteridaceae). Japanese Journal of Plant Research 115:29-38. Boyd, R.S., M.A. Wall, and J.E. Watkins, Jr. 2000. Correlation between Ni tolerance and Ni hyperaccumulation in Strepanthus (Brassicaceae). Madroño 47(2):7-105. Watkins, J.E. Jr., A. Diamond, R.R. Dute. 2000. Distribution and new county records of the fern: Botrychium lunarioides (Michaux) Sw. in Alabama. Castanea 65(1):64-68. Watkins, J.E. Jr., and R.R. Dute. 1998. Spore morphology of Botrychium lunarioides (Michaux) Sw. American Fern Journal 88:86-92. Distinctions 2012: Elected as President of the American Fern Society 2010: Elected Fellow of the Linnaean Society 2009: Nominated for the Phi Eta Sigma Professor of the Year award, Colgate University 2006: Mercer Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University 2006: McLaughlin Dissertation Fellowship, University of Florida 2005: Edgar T. Wherry Award for best talk presented to the Pteridological section of the Botanical Society of America (Austin, Texas) 2004: Nominated for University of Florida teaching assistant award 2003: Nominated for University of Florida teaching assistant award 1999: Edgar T. Wherry Award for best poster presented to the Pteridological section of the International Botanical Congress (St Louis, Missouri) 1997: Young Botanist Award, Botanical Society of America 1997: Outstanding undergraduate poster presentation, Alabama Academy of Science


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Here is the basis of the case the U.S. government is making against Standard & Poor's Ratings Services in a 128-page lawsuit:
The government accuses S&P of knowingly giving high grades to risky mortgage-backed securities from about 2004 to 2007. The mortgages underlying those securities later imploded, costing investors billions in losses and helping fuel the 2008 financial crisis.
S&P is an agency that assigns ratings to investments. When an investment has a high rating, the risk is considered low. Even the most conservative investors, like some pension funds, can feel confident enough to buy it.
Banks and other financial firms approach S&P and other major rating agencies when they have an investment that needs to be rated. The system contains an oddity: The banks not only pay for the ratings they receive but can shop around to see which rating agency might give them the highest marks. This creates a conflict of interest: To earn business from the banks, the rating agencies can feel pressure to give high grades to the banks' investment products.
The government says S&P knowingly gave high grades to banks' risky mortgage-backed securities that later soured because it wanted to earn more business from the banks.
The government refers to comments by S&P executives that they wanted their ratings to be handled in a "business friendly" way. The lawsuit also points to emails in which an S&P analyst says the company's executives fear angering the banks by assigning low ratings to their securities. In another email, an analyst complains about missing out on a deal because S&P's criteria on a rating were stricter than those of its rival Moody's.
The government also refers to emails in which some S&P employees appear to know how severe the subprime mortgage crisis is, even though they still had high ratings on subprime-backed mortgage bonds. In one report, the performance of subprime investments was so bad that S&P employees thought the numbers must be typos. One analyst emailed a video of himself singing about the collapse of subprime mortgages, with colleagues laughing.
The Justice Department is the government arm that filed the lawsuit. The government has an obligation to make investing fair and safe. But it's been accused of failing to aggressively pursue wrongdoing related to the financial crisis. It has been under pressure to show it can bring and win lawsuits.
The lawsuit does not involve any criminal allegations. Critics have long complained about the government's failure to bring criminal charges against any major Wall Street players involved in the financial crisis. Criminal charges would require a higher burden of proof.
This is the first time the federal government has filed a lawsuit against a major credit rating agency over actions related to the financial crisis. S&P is also known as the rating agency that downgraded long-term U.S. debt in 2011.
S&P denies wrongdoing and says it can't be blamed for failing to predict the financial crisis. It notes that the government was also saying as late as 2007 that the subprime mortgage crisis would likely be contained. In addition, S&P says the lawsuit has taken its employees' emails out of context.
S&P says it "deeply regret(s)" that some investments didn't perform as well as expected. But it adds, "20/20 hindsight is no basis to take legal action against the good-faith opinions of professionals."


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You're Next (US - DVD R1 | BD RA)
Lionsgate has release news and cover art for this fantastic horror/comedy hybrid...
Starring: Sharni Vinson
Released: 14th January 2014
Further Details:
Early next year, Lionsgate will be releasing Adam Wingard's
You're Nexton Blu-ray and DVD Combo Pack. This crisp and simple home invasion black comedy was one of the best surprises of the summer and I, for one, cannot wait.
The Combo Packs will include:
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- 1080p, 2.35:1 video (Blu-ray); Anamorphic 2.35:1 (DVD)
- DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English and Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish audio (Blu-ray); Dolby Digital 5.1 English and Spanish (DVD)
- Audio commentary with Director Adam Wingard, Writer Simon Barrett and Actors Sharni Vinson & Barbara Crampton
- Audio commentary with Director Adam Wingard and Writer Simon Barrett
- No Ordinary Home Invasion: The Making Of You're Next featurette
Quote: Aubrey and Paul Davison decide to celebrate their wedding anniversary by inviting their four children and their significant others to a family reunion at their remote weekend estate. But the family reunion goes awry when their home comes under siege by a mask-wearing team of crossbow-bearing assailants. The family has no idea who's attacking them, why they're under attack or if the attackers are inside or outside the cavernous, creaking house. All they know for certain is that nobody is safe.
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matt86 Member Join Date: March 2008 Location: United States Posts: 868
This was a cool movie. I liked the big group of characters all in an enclosed setting. I also thought it had a good amount of scares and the twist was nice. It doesn't try to overcomplicate things. More horror films should take this route. This is so much better than the Paranormal films and even the James Wan films. It's tons of fun and it works.
losthighway Member Join Date: January 2008 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 309
One of the worst horror films released this year. It got a very plain and simple marketing campaign here in the UK and had some decent reviews and yet I honestly don't know anyone who actually liked it. It just failed to deliver on all levels and was essentially nothing but a clichéd mess. One to avoid!
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,713
Well, now you know two people who actually liked it.
horrorfreak8 Member Join Date: June 2012 Location: United States Posts: 16
What an awful film
hogaburger Contributor Join Date: April 2007 Location: United States Posts: 1,153
Day one buy for me. This was a lot of fun.
djblack1313 Member Join Date: April 2006 Location: United States Posts: 529
i thought the movie was decent/pretty good-ish. what saved the movie IMO, and helped me like it as much as i do, is awesome Sharni Vinson. not a huge deal but i really wish we had seen the axe trap that Erin set up (at the front door) actually used on one of the attackers.
i know for me, after hearing about how this movie was THE MOST AMAZING MOVIE TO COME OUT IN YEARS (several sites i frequent said as much) for about 6 or 7 prior to the film's regular release, it was hard not to get my expectations up due to all the hype. again, it's not a horrible/bad movie but IMO it wasn't what many sites/reviews made it up to be.
i know for me, after hearing about how this movie was THE MOST AMAZING MOVIE TO COME OUT IN YEARS (several sites i frequent said as much) for about 6 or 7 prior to the film's regular release, it was hard not to get my expectations up due to all the hype. again, it's not a horrible/bad movie but IMO it wasn't what many sites/reviews made it up to be.
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Not a great film by any means but still a lot of fun. It's purely satire without directly spoofing any particular films, instead targeting primarily the sub-genre of Friday the 13th knockoffs of the early 80s, complete with a delightful synthesizer soundtrack John Carpenter himself would likely appreciate. I'd be willing to add it to my collection for my October horror marathons, just wish it was coming out in time for this year.
loomisfit Member Join Date: November 2007 Location: United States Posts: 3
Loved the Ty West cameo. This was without a doubt a cut about average horror. Sans the god awful last 20 seconds that smells of a studio note, though I know this was an acquisition. But loved most of the film. I recommend it. And the score was full of 80s chesse and simply greatness.
djblack1313 Member Join Date: April 2006 Location: United States Posts: 529
i agree guys the score (most notably the synth parts) was VERY good. not as amazing as the MANIAC (remake) score is but it was still very good!
horrorfan25 Member Join Date: November 2007 Location: United States Posts: 1,080
The first act of this movie was a perfect example of how NOT to make a horror movie. A terribly cliche opening, some of the worst dialogue; it was all there. The second act was alright, I thought "maybe they're learning". That last act? What a blast! So much fun and energy, it was like being on 5 hour energy haha. On a 10 scale, a solid 6.5. Not bad, but definitely shaped up by the end.
matt86 Member Join Date: March 2008 Location: United States Posts: 868
Gabe Powers wrote: Well, now you know two people who actually liked it.
Mel Armoogan Member Join Date: August 2004 Location: United States Posts: 154
Gollllddbeeerrggg Goooollldbeerrrg Gooooollllldberg
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Talk about split opinions, this one is right down the middle.
Veronica0420 Member Join Date: September 2007 Location: United States Posts: 19
This movie was awesome. I will be counting down the days to its release. Although this cover art is pretty awful...
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Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) officially became the nation's first female presidential candidate to represent a major party when a DPP committee confirmed her as the party's candidate yesterday afternoon
Tsai released a statement saying she would reclaim the presidency for the party and steer Taiwan "in the right direction."
The unanimous decision by a DPP committee follows Tsai's narrow victory over former premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) in the party's official telephone polls held last week.
Sources who were at the closed-door committee meeting said Tsai was given a rousing ovation after the nomination was made official and no objections were raised.
The committee did not address the issue of Tsai's running mate.
The confirmation makes Tsai the second official candidate for next year's presidential election. She will face off against President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), who is seeking re-election.
"For Taiwan, the presidential election will be about rebuilding the nation's values, overturning the route of [this] administration and finding the power of the next generation," Tsai said in the statement. "To be able to become the DPP's candidate is an honor and, even more, a responsibility."
Media polls conducted last week show Tsai holding a slight lead over Ma, but well within the polls' margins of error. The surveys showed that the public believes her weaknesses include cross-strait issues and economic policy — two areas that Ma is likely to emphasize in the campaign.
Tsai did not address those concerns yesterday, but sought to emphasize that the election wasn't simply between the DPP and the KMT, or Ma and herself. It was about finding the will to once again lead the nation down the correct path, she said.
"It's not just about winning. It's about accumulating the power to change the future during the [election] process. After we regain control, [we will] steer Taiwan back in the right direction," Tsai's statement read.
Talking about on the upcoming campaign, she also asked Ma to contest an election based on the spirit of democracy and "reasonable values" — suggesting that such a move would rebuild Taiwanese confidence in the political system.
Tsai is facing a busy month as she shuffles her campaign office and also returns as DPP chairperson -after an extended leave-of-absence. Party officials said she is expected to return to her party post sometime next week.
Her position as both the DPP presidential nominee and leader of the party will likely boost her prospects after a Central Election Commission decision merged the legislative and presidential elections last month.
The combined election will take place on Jan. 14 — the first ever joint elections in Taiwan.
The DPP yesterday also announced its latest round of eight confirmed legislative nominees, which included political commentator Ho Po-wen (何博文) and two former local administrators.
Former Taitung County deputy commissioner Liu Chuan-hao (劉櫂豪) and former Tainan mayor Hsu Tain-tsair (許添財) will both run in their respective areas, DPP spokesperson Lin Yu-chang (林右昌) said.
Ho will run in New Taipei City's (新北市) Danshui District (淡水), likely against KMT Legislator Wu Yu-sheng (吳育昇), who was involved in an extra-marital affair that dominated the headlines last year.


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Uploaded this demo yesterday (apologies for video and audio quality) and wondering if anyone can ID the first and last few banks featured. The first one came from an EII owned by Dave Bascombe but never heard the track before. Some of the ones in middle are from TFF, Shannon and SOS band but never been able to ID the last few. Anyone heard these before?
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SiriusXM's Town Hall Radio Series Featuring Kevin Hart
The seriously funny, Kevin Hart sat down with SiriusXM as part of their "Town Hall" Radio series. The intimate Q&A was moderated by Sway Calloway. During the interview, the stand up comedian answered questions from a select group of listeners at the SiriusXM studio in New York City.
The sit down will re-air today at 7:00 pm ET; and Thurs 1/17 at 3:00 pm ET. Check out a few pictures of the "Real Husbands of Hollywood" star's town conference.


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What are the three most common mistakes parents make in preparing their kids for kindergarten?
Experts: The kindergarten teachers of the River Edge Elementary Schools, NJ (combined early childhood teaching experience: ninety-two years)
1. Focusing on Academic (Not Real-World) Skills
The biggest mistake parents make is thinking they need to prepare their kids academically for kindergarten. In lieu of academic preparation they should be teaching them self-sufficiency skills: how to open a juice box, how to walk down the stairs alternating feet, how to turn their sleeves inside-out and put their own jackets on. Parents should teach them how to listen carefully so that their teachers don't have to repeat instructions three or four times.
As far as their preparation skills, parents need to take the time in the morning to have their child put on their shoes themselves. Sure, it may take you longer to get ready to go to daycare, but practice it on the weekends. Or let them start to open the juice box, and if they can't finish it, fine. Step in only when you need to.
Personal hygiene skills are also important. Before school starts, parents should take their kids to public restrooms. Too often, kids don't know how to use a paper towel dispenser or even how to wash their own hands! They ask us to do it for them, and then they take the paper towel and hand it to us after they've dried their hands and go "Here." We need them to be able to go into a bathroom on their own, wipe themselves and then wash their hands and use paper towels afterwards and then throw them away. It sounds so simple. But it's a major life skill that they don't have when they walk in the door. Oh yes – and they need to learn how to flush toilets for themselves, and not be afraid of the sound of a flushing toilet. Quite a few of them walk out without flushing.
2. Being Your Child's Yes-Man
The second thing is about setting limits, saying no – teaching your children that if they hear no, it's okay. Things aren't always open-ended, there are going to be limits, there are going to be things that you're going to have to accept. They need to be emotionally prepared to handle not being chosen, or not getting the color block that they want, or the fact that they're not going to be able to play in the center they want to that day, for whatever reason. Things like that. Little disappointments.
How should parents prepare them? They can do this in their home: give them limited choices. For example, "Do you want milk or apple juice for lunch?"instead of, "What would you like to drink?" Because then they're going to say, "Soda!" Things like that. "Do you want to wear your blue shirt or your red shirt?" Those are choices, and that teaches them that there are limits.
3. Confining Their Learning to the Classroom
Expose your kids to everyday things in life – things outside – weather, seasons. Experience and talk with the children – not to the children, with the children – about things they see and feel, so they're aware of their environment. Go to zoos and museums. Observe all the different things you see when you walk down the street. You don't necessarily need to teach them to add; just count doors, count windows.
Before they enter kindergarten, kids should know their name, first and last name; they should know the letters of their name; they should know their address and their telephone number. They should know how to write letters of the alphabet from top to bottom. (Children begin to write letters from bottom to top, and letters are written from top to bottom, so we spend a lot of time on that.) They should know songs and poems. They should be familiar with books and how to handle them. We don't want them to read, we just want them to know how to handle a book, to know what a book's all about. They should be read to frequently. They should love books.
Everything comes down to teaching your children responsibility: in caring for themselves, being considerate of others, and respecting their environment. Sounds simple, but in practice, it's a big job.
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The fish's unique way of swimming could improve deep-sea vehicles' agility and fuel efficiency
by Marcene Robinson
University at Buffalo
Stingrays swim through water with such ease that researchers from the University at Buffalo and Harvard University are studying how their movements could be used to design more agile and fuel-efficient unmanned underwater vehicles.
The vehicles could allow researchers to more efficiently study the mostly unexplored ocean depths, and they could also serve during cleanup or rescue efforts.
"Most fish wag their tails to swim. A stingray's swimming is much more unique, like a flag in the wind," said Richard Bottom, a UB mechanical engineering graduate student participating in the research.
Bottom and Iman Borazjani, UB assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, set out to investigate the form-function relationship of the stingray - why it looks the way it does and what it gets from moving the way it does.
They will explain their findings at the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics. Their lecture, "Biofluids: Locomotion III - Flying," is at 4:45 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 24, in Pittsburgh.
The researchers used computational fluid dynamics, which employs algorithms to solve problems that involve fluid flows, to map the flow of water and the vortices around live stingrays.
The study is believed to be the first time the leading-edge vortex, the vortex at the front of an object in motion, has been studied in underwater locomotion, Borazjani said. The leading-edge vortex has been observed in the flight of birds and insects, and is one of the most important thrust enhancement mechanics in insect flight.
The vortices on the waves of the stingrays' bodies cause favorable pressure fields - low pressure on the front and high pressure on the back - which push the ray forward. Because movement through air and water are similar, understanding vortices are critical.
"By looking at nature, we can learn from it and come up with new designs for cars, planes and submarines," Borazjani said. "But we're not just mimicking nature. We want to understand the underlying physics for future use in engineering or central designs."
Studies have already proven that stingray motion closely resembles the most optimal swimming gait, Bottom said. Much of this is due to the stingray's unique flat and round shape, which allows them to easily glide through water.
Borazjani and Bottom plan to continue their research and study the differences in movement among several types of rays.


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Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization
The two systems of traditional and Western medicine need not clash. Within the context of primary health care, they can blend together in a beneficial harmony, using the best features of each system, and compensating for certain weaknesses in each. Many countries have brought the two systems together in highly effective ways. In several countries where health systems are organized around primary health care, traditional medicine is well integrated and provides a backbone of much preventive care and treatment of common ailments.
Dr Chen, honourable ministers, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen,
First and foremost, let me say how pleased I am to be in Beijing to address this WHO congress on traditional medicine. I also want to extend my thanks to the Chinese Ministry of Health and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine for co-hosting the event together with WHO.
I will speak about traditional medicine in three contexts: the current reality, the renewal of primary health care, and the rise of chronic diseases. In doing so, I will focus on how each of these contexts provides some compelling reasons to make better use of traditional medicine and its practitioners.
I will also speak about some of the challenges faced in efforts to bring traditional medicine into the mainstream of health care, appropriately, effectively, and above all safely.
Let me begin with the current reality, which on at least one level, is quite straightforward. Traditional medicine is generally available, affordable, and commonly used in large parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
For many millions of people, often living in rural areas of developing countries, herbal medicines, traditional treatments, and traditional practitioners are the main – sometimes the only – source of health care.
This is care that is close to homes, accessible, and affordable. In some systems of traditional medicine, such as traditional Chinese medicine and the Ayurveda system historically rooted in India, traditional practices are supported by wisdom and experience acquired over centuries.
In these contexts where traditional medicine has strong historical and cultural roots, practitioners are usually well-known members of the community who command respect and are supported by public confidence in their abilities and remedies.
This is the reality, and this form of care unquestionably soothes, treats many ailments, reduces suffering, and relieves pain. This is the reality, but it is not the ideal.
When we see estimates that around 60% of young children in some African countries suffering from high fever, presumably caused by malaria, are treated at home with herbal remedies, we have a very serious problem. Malaria can kill within 24 hours. Modern drugs can greatly improve the prospects of survival.
During this year, WHO estimates that around 136 million women will give birth. Of these women, around 58 million will receive no medical assistance whatsoever during childbirth and the postpartum period, endangering their lives and that of their infants.
Again, we have a very serious problem. The consensus is now solid. The stubbornly high numbers of maternal deaths will not go down until more women have skilled attendants at birth and access to emergency obstetric care.
The point I wish to make is straightforward. Traditional medicine has much to offer, but it cannot always substitute for access to highly effective modern drugs and emergency measures that make such a critical life-and-death difference for many millions of people.
This is not a criticism of traditional medicine. This is a failure of health systems in many countries to deliver effective interventions to those in greatest need, on an adequate scale. In the context of the drive to meet the health-related Millennium Development Goals, this failure is now widely acknowledged. Intensive efforts are under way to correct this failure, to strengthen basic health infrastructures, services, and staff.
But there is another side to the current reality, and this is also indicative of inadequacies in the way our world is delivering health care. This is the striking increase, in affluent societies, in the popularity of treatments and remedies that complement orthodox medicine or sometimes serve as an alternative to conventional treatments.
Recent studies conducted in North America and Europe indicate that these remedies tend to be used most in groups with higher incomes and higher levels of education. In many cases, the costs are not covered by medical insurance schemes. The use of these complementary and alternative therapies has become a multi-billion dollar industry that is expected to continue its rapid growth. This is not the poor man's alternative to conventional care.
What does this trend represent? The reaction of the medical establishment is predictable and, I believe, largely legitimate. This trend has some dangers.
As I said, some systems of traditional medicine have histories dating back thousands of years. Over a comparatively short period of time, modern medicine has developed powerful methodologies for proving efficacy, ensuring quality, standardizing good manufacturing practices, testing for safety, and conducting post-marketing surveillance for adverse effects.
Many, but not all, traditional medicines have an inadequate evidence base when measured by these standards. Tests for quality and standards for production tend to be less rigorous and controlled. Products may escape the strict regulations set up to ensure drug safety. Practitioners may not be certified or licensed.
These concerns are legitimate, but we are still left with a central question: what explains the sharp rise in the use of complementary and alternative medicines? Again, we can turn to the medical establishment for some explanations. Some commentators in journals such as the British Medical Journal, The Lancet, and the New England Journal of Medicine interpret this trend as a biting criticism of high-technology, specialized medicine, despite all its well-documented merits.
Medical care has become depersonalized, some would even say "hardhearted". In most affluent countries, the number of family physicians and primary care doctors continues to decline. The trend towards highly specialized care works against a sympathetic doctor-patient relationship. In too many cases, the patient is no longer treated as a person, but rather as an assembly line of body parts each to be managed, often with great expertise, by an appropriate specialist.
In the views of at least some commentators, the rise of alternative medicine is a quest for more compassionate, personalized, and comprehensive health care. The trend is almost certainly also fuelled by a growing faith in so-called natural products as intrinsically good and safe, which is not at all a valid assumption. This faith is easy to exploit commercially.
It is less easy to exploit when traditional medicine is in the hands of properly trained, experienced, and licensed practitioners performing an ancient, culturally respected, and useful art of compassionate care and healing.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Last month, WHO issued its World Health Report, this year focused on primary health care and subtitled "Now more than ever". The report responds to calls made from all regions of the world for a renewal of primary health care.
Primary health care is a people-centred, holistic approach to health that makes prevention as important as cure. As part of this preventive approach, it tackles the root causes of ill health, also in non-health sectors, thus offering an upstream attack on threats to health.
Decades of experience tell us that primary health care produces better health outcomes, at lower costs, and with higher user satisfaction.
Let me stress this last point: higher user satisfaction. I personally find this one of the most striking findings in the report. As societies modernize, social expectations for health are rising all around the world. People want health care that is fair as well as efficient, comprehensive, and affordable. Studies show wide agreement. People surveyed in a range of countries believe that all members of society should have access to care and receive treatment when ill or injured, without going bankrupt as a result.
With this support from the World Health Report, my main conclusions should be obvious. I believe that the strong calls we are hearing for a renewal of primary health care create an ideal opportunity to revisit the place of traditional medicine, to take a positive look at its many contributions to health care that is equitable, accessible, affordable, and people-centred.
I believe this view is also captured in the draft Declaration of Beijing that you will be considering during this congress.
The two systems of traditional and Western medicine need not clash. Within the context of primary health care, they can blend together in a beneficial harmony, using the best features of each system, and compensating for certain weaknesses in each. This is not something that will happen all by itself. Deliberate policy decisions have to be made. But it can be done successfully.
Many countries have brought the two systems together in highly effective ways. In several countries where health systems are organized around primary health care, traditional medicine is well integrated and provides a backbone of much preventive care and treatment of common ailments.
Here in China, herbal therapy of proven utility in many disorders is provided in state hospitals throughout the country, alongside conventional medicine.
As I mentioned at the beginning, safeguards must be in place in the form of systems for regulation, training, and licensing or certification, and strict controls of product safety. Validation of the efficacy and safety of traditional medicines requires special research methodologies. WHO is providing support in this area, especially through the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases.
The time is also right to view traditional medicine as a precious resource. It needs to be respected and supported as a valuable source of leads for therapeutic advances and the discovery of new classes of drugs. I need mention only artemisinin for malaria to make this point.
Research and development in traditional medicine is part of the WHO global strategy and plan of action on public health, innovation and intellectual property adopted at this year's World Health Assembly. Apart from setting out a research agenda for traditional medicine, this action plan also addresses the need to prevent misappropriation of health-related traditional knowledge. WHO, together with the World Intellectual Property Organization, is also providing support in this area.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Public health owes the notion that prevention is better than cure to China and the Huangdi Neijing, the most important book of ancient Chinese medicine.
During its 3000-year history, traditional Chinese medicine pioneered interventions such as diet, exercise, awareness of environmental influences on health, and the use of herbal remedies as part of a holistic approach to health.
Other ancient medical systems in other countries, such as Ayurveda in India, offer similar approaches to health. These are historical assets that have become all the more relevant given the three main ills of life in the 21st century: the globalization of unhealthy lifestyles, rapid unplanned urbanization, and demographic ageing. These are global trends with global consequences for health, most notably seen in the universal rise of chronic noncommunicable diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and mental disorders.
For these diseases and many other conditions, traditional medicine has much to offer in terms of prevention, comfort, compassion, and care.
This congress comes at an opportune time. The time has never been better, and the reasons never greater, for giving traditional medicine its proper place in addressing the many ills that face all our modern – and our traditional – societies.
Thank you.


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By Harriet McLeod
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - In a House race where personalities have overshadowed politics, Democratic Party newcomer Elizabeth Colbert Busch's message often has been lost in the din.
The first-time candidate has tried to present herself as strong on jobs and education while opponents accuse her of cashing in on the celebrity of her well-known brother, TV political satirist Stephen Colbert.
In campaign appearances she has largely avoided taking swipes at Republican Party opponent Mark Sanford who while South Carolina governor in 2009 disappeared for days, telling aides he was hiking the Appalachian Trail when he was, in fact, visiting his mistress in Argentina.
That hasn't kept his foibles out of the race.
A barrage of negative political ads have highlighted Sanford's personal lapses, while his ex-wife Jenny Sanford accused him of violating their divorce agreement by trespassing at her home. That prompted the National Republican Congressional Committee last month to drop its financial support of Sanford's campaign.
The focus on personalities appears to have played out in favor of Colbert Busch, who political analysts say has a legitimate chance of winning the May 7 special election in a heavily Republican district.
"These latest allegations against Sanford have led a number of those voters who were on the fence to not plan to vote at all or to switch sides to Colbert Busch," said Kendra Stewart, a political scientist at the College of Charleston.
"She has an advantage among independents, and she is actually pulling some Republicans, especially Republican women," Stewart said.
A victory for Colbert Busch, 58, would make her the first Democrat to represent the state's coastal First Congressional District since the early 1980s and only the second woman in South Carolina to be elected to Congress.
Sanford appeared to hold an early edge in the contest to replace Tim Scott, who vacated his House seat after being appointed to the Senate. Despite Sanford's affair scandal, he had broad name recognition and held the seat in the Republican-leaning district from 1995 to 2001.
He is now engaged to marry the woman he visited in Argentina, journalist Maria Belen Chapur.
A Public Policy Polling survey released on April 22, shortly after Jenny Sanford's trespassing accusation in February became public, showed likely voters preferred Colbert Busch over Sanford 50 percent to 41 percent. Campaign finance records show she has raised nearly $1.2 million to Sanford's $788,000.
Leslie Turner, head of a group called Republicans For Colbert Busch, said she decided to support the Democratic candidate after realizing she was "pretty moderate."
"We can't afford to send Mark Sanford back to Washington because we simply don't trust him," Turner said at a campaign event last week.
Colbert Busch, the business development director of Clemson University's Restoration Institute who previously worked in the shipping industry, touts herself as a fiscal conservative.
"I've been in business for 25 years," she told Reuters in an interview. "When you're in global trade, you understand currency impacts, you understand political impacts and social impacts and what kind of impact does that have on your business."
A married mother of three who is known to family and friends as Lulu, her young adulthood was shaped by tragedy. She was in college when her father and two of her 10 siblings died in a plane crash in 1974.
In her first political race, she has struggled to make sure people knew how to say her name. Unlike her brother Stephen, who has hosted fund-raising events for her, Colbert Busch pronounces their last name as "Col-burt" with a hard "t" rather than "Col-bear" preferred by him.
At times, she also scrambled to find her political legs during the constricted four-month campaign season. Critics say she has failed to address issues and policy in depth.
Sanford, 52, accuses her of having ties to unions and to House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, saying Colbert Busch has been bought by the national party.
"We've talked a lot about how with the support my opponent is receiving from Nancy Pelosi and friends - to the tune of $1 million - that she'll be anything but an independent voice in Washington," Sanford said in a statement this week.
Colbert Busch insisted that "nobody tells me what to do" during a debate on Monday when the moderator opened the night by saying some "in the national media seem to think it's a race between Jenny Sanford and Stephen Colbert."
Later that evening, Colbert Busch took one of her few public jabs at Sanford's past troubles, criticizing his use of state money in 2009 to visit Chapur in Argentina.
To many, it was the debate's most memorable moment.
College of Charleston political scientist Gibbs Knotts said Colbert Busch held her own against her more seasoned opponent.
"She did a really good job of going after him, which can galvanize those folks that are on the fence and also motivate her base," he said.
Among those who thought Sanford would win before the trespass complaint became public, Knotts said he was surprised to see a Democrat be so competitive in a race in the Deep South.
"I think it's a real tossup," he said.
(Editing by Colleen Jenkins, Paul Thomasch and Grant McCool)


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The enormity of the current U.S. budgetary standoff is in the forefront of strategic thinking by the global financial community and our various comments will have to be tempered until which time as a resolution is achieved.
Overview and Observation: "No laughing matter"…..When the proposed budget "deal" was offered this week by the Democratic Party and their point man, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Senate Republican Mitch McConnell laughed in disbelief. The offer for 1.3 trillion dollars of new taxes against 450 billion of spending cuts is really no laughing matter. It shows a further "chasm" between the two major U.S. political parties. The markets showed their "disdain" by wavering back and forth in all sectors and we are once again left with no clear direction for which to base our opinions. However, on the basis that we feel a deal will be cut before the Dec. 31 deadline, we will try to offer viable suggestions for each of the markets we follow while bearing in mind, our "feeling" of a deal compromise is not "cut in stone".
We continue to believe that if President Obama abandons his stipulation that earners of $250,000 are "millionaires and billionaires" and reverts to a more realistic $500,000 or even $1,000,000 a deal can be achieved. However, 1.3 trillion of new taxes hopefully will not fly during a recessionary trend, which we believe is accelerating in conjunction with an already accepted "recession" condition in Europe. Now for some actual information.
Interest Rates: We have switched to the March contract for U.S. Treasury bond futures. Even so our trading range assumption remains the same at 145 to 155.
March Treasury bonds closed at 149-27, down two ticks as the market is awaiting definitive finality to the current budget negotiations currently progressing in slow motion between the two rival political parties. Until which time as an agreement is or is not achieved before the Dec. 31 deadline it is almost impossible to predict the direction of interest rates and therefore the direction of Treasury bond prices. For now we maintain our expectation that prices will remain in that projected range of 145 and 155. Trading within that range can be simply stated as "buy between 150 and 145 and sell between 150 and 155". That, of course, is for well capitalized traders.
Stock Indices: The Dow Jones Industrials closed at 13,025.58, up 3.76 points and managed a weekly gain of 0.1%. For the month however, the Dow lost 0.5%. The S&P 500 closed at 1,416.18, up 0.23 points and for the week managed a meager 0.5%. The tech heavy Nasdaq closed at 3,010.24, down 1.79 points and for the week gained 1.5%. For the month the Nasdaq managed a gain of 1.1%. We continue to view the markets as in a state of flux with businesses awaiting a definitive decision on the budget so as to determine strategies for going forward. Failure to come to a decision could prompt a return to recession, which, in our opinion, is unavoidable. The party of "Robin Hood", i.e. "take from the rich and give to the poor" overlooks the plight of the middle class which includes small business, the "hirers" of the middle class worker. Factors such as "Obamacare" and the extension of the Bush Tax cuts remain in question but in the case of Obamacare, fining families having difficulty meeting expenses for not purchasing health care represents the transfer of responsibility of basic health care services from the Government to individual families. The ongoing failure of responsibilities of both parties is putting the economy on the "road to perdition" in my opinion. Washington is engaging in a game of Chess which the American public as"expendable" pawns. Once again I suggest strongly the implementation of hedging strategies which we have developed over the years for investors with large equity portfolios.
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Andy Schachat's On the Run: Relentless runners send a messageANDY SCHACHAT
April 21. 2013 1:12AM
It didn't take long after the bombing of the Boston Marathon for the running community to issue its response. The message was loud, and it was strong.
In case you missed it, anyone else who would attempt to shut down our sport's most iconic event or get in the way of doing what we love to do, here it is again:
We will not be stopped.
We are runners, constantly moving forward, leaving behind where we were to get where we want to go. It's what we do, day after day, week after week, month after month, and many of us have been doing it for decades.
Sure, you slowed temporarily, but shut us down? We run when temperatures drop to single digits in the winter and when they climb to the 90's in the summer. Pouring rain? That only cools us down so we can run some more.
Do you have any idea how tough we are? Watch us bust our guts at a track workout as we do 400-meter repeats, go home and rest, then come back the next day for a thigh-burning hill workout. And if conditions prevent us from running outdoors, we jump on a treadmill and keep on running.
We will not be stopped.
Yes, you brought the Boston Marathon to a halt, but don't kid yourselves. All you did is stop a few thousand runners from running a few miles. By sundown that night, there were 10 times that many who had hit the streets for a run, and get this: They did that to show solidarity with the Boston Marathon runners and support for those who support us. By breakfast the next day, there probably were 100 times the typical number of runners on the streets, trails and paths of America.
Maybe you knew you couldn't stop each of us from our daily runs so you targeted our road races. Well, guess what: The night after the Marathon, there were more than 300 runners at a road race in Lowell, Mass., a city less than 40 minutes from Boston.
This weekend alone, I will be announcing at three road races in New Hampshire, one of the smallest states in the U.S. Multiply that by rest of the country, and you get the picture. Moreover, since Monday, countless non-competitive group runs have take place to honor the victims at Boston.
We will not be stopped.
I know what you're thinking: You showed us that there are forces out there beyond our control.
Been there, done that. We have dealt with unexpected injuries to parts of our body we never knew existed before we started running. Can you even spell "plantar fasciitis"? How about "meniscus," the part of the knee just about every veteran runner among us has torn at one time or another? We didn't know those injuries were coming, but we dealt with them. We took time off, healed up, resumed running. In fact, we came back more determined than ever.
We will not be stopped.
You have to know this is no fad. As a group, we've been at this for more than a century, and if you look at our race results, you'll see we are not slowing down - literally or figuratively. And see all those kids lining up at the start line? They're the next generation. Long after Monday's marathoners are gone, those kids will be running races, probably in greater numbers than the big fields we're seeing now. They will bring their kids along, and those kids will become runners who eventually have kids of their own.
We will not be stopped.
The cowards who killed three people and injured more than 100 more - some severely - caused incalculable grief but they achieved nothing. We've shed blood, and we've shed tears, but our resolve is stronger than ever.
Within seconds of Monday's explosions, runners sprang into action to help one another and those who had come to support them. We aided each other, comforted each other, and then we did what runners do. We grabbed our running shoes, headed for the door, and we ran.
Since Monday afternoon, we've done training runs, fun runs and road races. Individuals, small groups, large groups, very large groups - we've been running to make sure our message is heard and understood.
We will not be stopped.
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RUNNING SHORTS: Next Sunday marks the second running of a special event, the Chief Maloney Unity Run. Covering the 5.6 miles between the Portsmouth and Greenland police departments, the event is in memory of Michael Maloney, the Greenland chief killed in the line of duty last April, and in honor of all of New Hampshire's first responders ... In closing this special edition of my column, please indulge me one more personal comment about the Boston Marathon. Knowing that race-announcing partner Steve Moland and I were near the finish line, many of you reached to check on our safety and offer support. Words can not describe how grateful we are.
Andy Shachat's column regularly appears every other week in the New Hampshire Sunday News. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.