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Drake And Chris Brown Sued Again
A model who was injured during a bottle-throwing nightclub brawl between Chris Brown and Drake sued both singers and the owners of the New York City nightclub on Monday.
Romain Julien, who was sitting at a nearby table during the brawl, suffered a severed tendon in his right hand during the June 14 melee, according to a lawsuit filed in New York Supreme Court.
Julien also alleged that he endured lacerations from broken glass, cosmetic deformity and mental distress as a result of the fight.
The complaint accused Brown of having a "hot temper" and inciting the altercation with Drake.
The operators of the club Greenhouse and its basement lounge, W.i.P., are also named in the suit. Julien claimed the operators created a public nuisance by failing to provide adequate security in the club and serving liquor to intoxicated patrons.
Julien, a model with Re:Quest Model Management, is seeking actual and punitive damages. Representatives for Brown and Drake had no immediate comment.
A representative for Greenhouse and W.i.P. said they will "respond appropriately" after evaluating the lawsuit.
Last week, a company with ties to the club sought to hold Drake and Brown responsible for the melee in a $16 million lawsuit.
The suit filed by Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. faulted the artists for — at a minimum — doing nothing to stop the June 14 melee and said it sullied the chic Manhattan nightspot's name. The company owns the trademark for Greenhouse.
No criminal charges have been filed in the fight, which left Brown, NBA star Tony Parker of the San Antonio Spurs and others injured. Police say the fracas started after members of Drake's entourage confronted Brown on the dance floor as he was leaving W.i.P. Drake's representatives have said he was on his way out and didn't injure anyone.
Both lawsuits point to news accounts of bad blood between Brown and Drake, both of whom have dated singer Rihanna.

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The lesser of two evils on immigration
The president suggested he would hold off introducing his own immigration bill as long as bipartisan Senate negotiations were proceeding apace — until his own immigration bill mysteriously leaked precisely as bipartisan Senate negotiations were proceeding apace.
A naked political maneuver and a blunt warning to Republicans: Finish that immigration deal in Congress or I'll propose something I know you can't accept — and flog the issue mercilessly next year to win back the House.
John McCain responded (correctly) that President Obama was creating a "cudgel" to gain "political advantage in the next election." Marco Rubio, a chief architect of the Senate bill, called Obama's alternative dead on arrival.
They doth protest quite a lot. Especially because on the single most important issue — instant amnesty — there is no real difference between the proposals.
Rubio calls it "probationary legal status." Obama uses the term "lawful prospective immigrant." But both would instantly legalize the 11 million illegal immigrants living here today. The moment either bill is signed, the 11 million become eligible for legal residence, the right to work and relief from the prospect of deportation.
Their life in the shadows is over, which is what matters to them above all. Call the status probationary or prospective but, in reality, it is permanent. There is no conceivable circumstance (short of criminality) under which the instant legalization would be revoked.
This is bad policy. It repeats the 1986 immigration reform that legalized (the then) 3 million while promising border enforcement — which was never carried out. Which opened the door to today's 11 million. And to the next 11 million as soon as the ink is dry on this reform.
The better policy would be enforcement first, followed by amnesty. Yes, amnesty. But only when we have assured that these 11 million constitute the last cohort.
How to ensure that? With three obvious enforcement measures: (a) a universal E-Verify system by which employers must check the legal status of all their hires, (b) an effective system for tracking those who have overstayed their visas, and (c) closure of the southern border, mainly with the kind of triple fence that has proved so successful near San Diego.
If legalization would go into effect only when these conditions are met, there would be overwhelming bipartisan pressure to get enforcement done as quickly as possible.
Regrettably, there appears to be zero political will to undertake this kind of definitive solution. Democrats have little real interest in border enforcement. They see a rising Hispanic population as the key to a permanent Democratic majority. And Republicans are so panicked by last year's loss of the Hispanic vote by 44 points that they have conceded instant legalization. As in the Rubio proposal.
Hence Rubio's fallback. He at least makes enforcement the trigger for any normalization beyond legalization. Specifically, enforcement is required before the 11 million can apply for a green card.
A green card is surely a much weaker enforcement incentive than is legalization. But it still is something. Obama's proposal, on the other hand, obliterates any incentive for enforcement.
Obama makes virtually automatic the eventual acquisition of a green card and citizenship by today's 11 million. The clock starts on the day the bill is signed: eight years for a green card, five more for citizenship. It doesn't matter if the border is flooded with millions of new illegal immigrants (anticipating yet the next amnesty). The path to citizenship is irreversible, rendering enforcement irrelevant.
As for Obama's enforcement measures themselves, they are largely mere gestures: increased funding for border control, more deportation judges, more indeterminate stretching of a system that has already demonstrably failed. Except for the promise of an eventual universal E-Verify system, it is nothing but the appearance of motion.
And remember: Non-implementation of any of this has no effect on the path to full citizenship anyway. The Rubio proposal at least creates some pressure for real enforcement because green card acquisition does not take place until the country finally verifies that its borders are under its control. True, a far weaker incentive than requiring enforcement before legalization. But that fight appears to be totally lost.
In the end, the only remaining vessel for enforcement is the Rubio proposal. It is deeply flawed and highly imperfect. But given that the Obama alternative effectively signs away America's right to decide who enters the country, the choice between the two proposals on the table today is straightforward.
Charles Krauthammer's email address is email@example.com.
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Dennis Rodman worms his way into North Korea
PYONGYANG, North Korea - The Associated Press
Young North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is said to have been a fan of the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s, when Rodman won three championships with the club. Hürriyet photo
Former NBA star Dennis Rodman brought his basketball skills Tuesday and flamboyant style - neon-bleached hair, tattoos, nose studs and all - to the isolated communist country with possibly the world's drabbest dress code: North Korea.Arriving in Pyongyang, the American athlete and showman known as "The Worm" became an unlikely ambassador for sports diplomacy at a time of heightened tensions between the U.S. and North Korea. Or maybe not so unlikely: Young leader Kim Jong Un is said to have been a fan of the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s, when Rodman won three championships with the club.
Rodman is joining three members of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team for a Vice Media production to air on HBO in early April, Vice founder Shane Smith told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview before the group's departure from Beijing.
Smith said the Americans hope to engage in a little "basketball diplomacy" by running a basketball camp for children and playing pickup games with locals, and by competing alongside top athletes of North Korea - formally known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
"Is sending the Harlem Globetrotters and Dennis Rodman to the DPRK strange? In a word, yes," said Smith, who is host of the upcoming series. "But finding common ground on the basketball court is a beautiful thing."
Rodman might seem an odd fit for an impoverished country where male fashion rarely ventures beyond military khaki and growing facial hair is forbidden. During his heyday in the 1990s, Rodman was a poster boy for excess. He called his 1996 autobiography "Bad as I Wanna Be" - and showed up wearing a wedding dress to promote it.
Shown a photo of a snarling Rodman, piercings dangling from his lower lip and two massive tattoos emblazoned on his chest, one North Korean in Pyongyang recoiled and said: "He looks like a monster!"
But Rodman is also a Hall of Fame basketball player and one of the best defenders and rebounders to ever play the game. During a storied, often controversial career, he won five NBA championships - a feat that quickly overshadowed his antics for at least one small North Korean group of basketball fans.
Rodman's is the second high-profile American visit this year to North Korea, a country that remains in a state of war with the U.S. It also comes two weeks after North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test in defiance of U.N. bans against atomic and missile activity.
Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, made a surprise four-day trip to Pyongyang, where he met with officials and toured computer labs in January, just weeks after North Korea launched a satellite into space on the back of a long-range rocket.
Washington, Tokyo, Seoul and others consider both the rocket launch and the nuclear test provocative acts that threaten regional security.
North Korea characterizes the satellite launch as a peaceful bid to explore space, but says the nuclear test was meant as a deliberate warning to Washington. Pyongyang says it needs to build nuclear weapons to defend itself against the U.S., and is believed to be trying to build an atomic bomb small enough to mount on a missile capable of reaching the mainland U.S.
Vice, known for its sometimes irreverent journalism, has made two previous visits to North Korea, coming out with the "VICE Guide to North Korea." The HBO series, which will air weekly starting April 5, features documentary-style news reports from around the world.
The Americans also will visit North Korea's national monuments, the SEK animation studio and a new skate park in Pyongyang.
The U.S. State Department hasn't been contacted about travel to North Korea by this group, a senior administration official said, requesting anonymity to comment before any trip had been made public. The official said the department does not vet U.S. citizens' private travel to North Korea and urges U.S. citizens contemplating travel there to review a travel warning on its website.
In a now-defunct U.S.-North Korean agreement in which Washington had planned last year to give food aid to Pyongyang in exchange for nuclear concessions, Washington had said it was prepared to increase people-to-people exchanges with the North, including in the areas of culture, education and sports.
Promoting technology and sports are two major policy priorities of Kim Jong Un, who took power in December 2011 following the death of his father, Kim Jong Il.
Along with soccer, basketball is enormously popular in North Korea, where it's not uncommon to see basketball hoops set up in hotel parking lots or in schoolyards. It's a game that doesn't require much equipment or upkeep.
The U.S. remains Enemy No. 1 in North Korea, and North Koreans have limited exposure to American pop culture. But they know Michael Jordan, a former teammate of Rodman's when they both played for the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s.
During a historic visit to North Korea in 2000, then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright presented Kim Jong Il, famously an NBA fan, with a basketball signed by Jordan that later went on display in the huge cave at Mount Myohyang that holds gifts to the leaders.
North Korea even had its own Jordan wannabe: Ri Myong Hun, a 7-foot-9 star player who is said to have renamed himself "Michael" after his favorite player and moved to Canada for a few years in the 1990s in hopes of making it into the NBA.
Even today, Jordan remains well-loved here. At the Mansudae Art Studio, which produces the country's top art, a portrait of Jordan spotted last week, complete with a replica of his signature and "NBA" painted in one corner, seemed an odd inclusion among the propaganda posters and celadon vases on display.
An informal poll of North Koreans revealed that "The Worm" isn't quite as much a household name in Pyongyang.
But Kim Jong Un was a basketball-crazy adolescent when Rodman, now 51, was with the Bulls, and when the Harlem Globetrotters, an exhibition basketball team, kept up a frenetic travel schedule worldwide.
In a memoir about his decade serving as Kim Jong Il's personal sushi chef, a man who goes by the pen name Kenji Fujimoto recalled that basketball was the young Kim Jong Un's biggest passion, and that the Chicago Bulls were his favorite.
The notoriously unpredictable and irrepressible Rodman said he has no special antics up his sleeve for making his mark on one of the world's most regimented and militarized societies, a place where order and conformity are enforced with Stalinist fervor.
But he said he isn't leaving any of his piercings behind.


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Study finds pregnancy nausea drug won't harm fetus
There's reassuring news for pregnant women miserable with morning sickness: A very large study in Denmark finds no evidence that using a popular anti-nausea drug will harm their babies.
One in 10 pregnant women has nausea and vomiting bad enough to need medicine but many forgo it out of fear of side effects. No drugs are currently approved for morning sickness in the United States although doctors are free to prescribe whatever they believe is best.
Zofran, sold by GlaxoSmithKline and in generic form for treating nausea from cancer treatments and other causes, has been the top choice. Yet women and doctors have been leery of it because a small study previously suggested it might raise the risk of a birth defect - cleft palate.
The new study of more than 600,000 pregnancies in Denmark found no evidence of major birth-related problems, so women should not be afraid to use Zofran if they need it, said Dr. Iffath Hoskins, a high-risk pregnancy specialist at NYU Langone Medical Center and a spokeswoman for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
"It's effective and it's safe," she said. "Nobody is giving you a gold star for suffering through this."
Poor nutrition because of excessive vomiting can harm the woman and the fetus, she said.
Hoskins had no role in the study, which was led by Dr. Bjorn Pasternak of the State Serum Institute in Copenhagen. Results appear in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.
Researchers used nationwide health registries to compare rates of miscarriage, stillbirth, birth defects, preterm delivery and having a baby that weighed too little among women who used Zofran during pregnancy and others who did not. They also looked separately at use during the first trimester of pregnancy, when risks to the developing fetus are highest.
No harms were seen from Zofran use, which occurred in 1,970 of the 608,385 pregnancies. The study looked at birth defects collectively, and cannot rule out a higher risk of specific ones, although the incidence of those is very small, researchers noted. The Danish Medical Research Council paid for the study.
As a first step, women should try treating morning sickness with crackers, ginger ale and certain B vitamins and use Zofran or one of the other prescription anti-nausea medicines as a last resort, Hoskins said.
"Whenever possible, nothing or simple is better" than a drug, especially in the first three months of pregnancy, she said.
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that's made for you and me?
Thanks to the amazing Sweet Designs Kitchen for having a sense of humor matched only by their talent. Wreck on, guys.
*So perky!
When professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong.
I LOVE it. That's hilarious.
LOL at "so perky!"
Mouse-mutton? I thought that came from sheep!
Minnie's revenge after being jilted, perhaps?
bwahahahahahahahaha *snort* WOOT
-Barbara Anne
I laughed out loud suddenly and hard enough to startle my husband.
This is awesome and really wrong and awesome and wrong.
That is awesome! I love it.
Mickey Mouse Club "sandwich"
This is too funny...and very well executed.
I am torn between feeling upset and cracking up! Darn you Cake Wrecks!:)
That is awesome! Bonus points for the Princess Bride reference--it gave me an extra set of giggles!
Hahaha that's fantastic! Totally made my day better! By the way, whatever happened to you taking Saturdays off? Not that I'm complaining...I love it! Thanks for being awesome!
"Sonny, true love is the greatest thing in the world. Except for a nice MLT, a Mickey, lettuce and tomato sandwich, where the Mickey is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe. They're so perky, I love that."
That's brilliant.
That's so wrong, and yet so funny.
I love Mickey. Poor Mickey. I didn't know he and Minnie were having such marital troubles recently.
I hope they are not having Clarabelle cow pie for dessert!
I love the extra touch of the toothpick spearing him (through the heart?) Made me actually lol!
Too funny! Except...Mickey was the *leader* of the Mickey Mouse club, not the center...
I've heard Mickey can only be killed by a sandwich stick driven through his heart.
Thank you for the wonderful birthday bonus wreck! What a great way to start my day!!
wv: nessag - Looks like Mickey finally got the nessag that Minnie was through with him!
Awesome! I wish I were that witty!
Literally LOL this time. I shared with my hubs, and we both had a good chuckle. Thank you Jen!
Donald Duck finally won!!!!!!!
Annnndddd..... there it is: "Anonymous said...
Too funny! Except...Mickey was the *leader* of the Mickey Mouse club, not the center..."
I'm sure they know, beyond a shadow of a doubt that Mickey was the leader, but in this case, he is the 'center of the club'... get it?
It pains me to see Mickey like that, but I hate to admit, I laughed...
Oh Anon,
I think the other Anon knows.
oh this is brilliant beyond description
@christy - i think i love you.
but he distinctly said, "to blave", and we all know that to blave means to bluff!
oh how i love this movie :)
and nice cake, too...no, really, i mean it!
So funny. I love this cake. Never was a big fan of Mickey Mouse, but I wouldn't mind having this as a birthday cake. It's just the kind of dark humor I like.
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE!! Did I mention LOVE?
Sick, twisted, AND lookin' delicious. LOVE.
It's about time. That damn mouse has been so happy and optimistic and gleeful and squeaky for too damn long. He deserved this.
You know he deserved this.
A different Anonymous
I think the cheese (just out of Mickey's reach) is a nice touch.
Andrew Zimmern would approve!
It reminds me of the joke about Chinese Disneyworld . . . buuuuuut, I won't share it here.
WV: meran
Meran away fast when I saw that sandwich.
But I'll share the punchline: "They were delicious!"
Brilliant! Does it come with Donald Duck sauce?
That's sick!
And also hilarious.
That gives me the steamboat willies.
Deeply satisfying humor. Perfect execution. Fabulous extra Saturday post. Well done!
Here I was having a perfectly crappy day, and you had to go and ruin it by making me laugh until I cried. I <3 Cake Wrecks!
I always get a chuckle out of these, but this brought on a fully blown belly laugh and tears!!
I think it needs to be my new desktop background.
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Thanks for slipping me a Mickey this morning...
You should've posted a keyboard spew warning with this. That's fabulous!!!
Looks like Mickey ordered Minnie to "get in the kitchen and make me a sandwich." And she did.
I was feeling sorry for myself about something and decided on a whim to see if there was a Saturday post this week.
Thank you for making me laugh.
wv: ouchal, synonym for "ouchie"; Ooh, Poor Mickey! You have an ouchal.
I so needed that laugh. . . and that is just my sort of sick, twisted humor. :)
I ***LOVE*** it!!!!!
Haha! I think I saw this in a Rubes comic frame once.
ah, nothing in the world better than a nice MLT when the Mickey's nice and lean.
Love the twisted humor and Princess Bride tie in.. great job!
Best Mickey cake ever!
I was hoping you'd see this one!
All those years and all really needed to rid ourselves of the rodent was a few slices of bread, some tomatoes and cheese!
Bahahaha...the Pincess Bride reference. *wipes tears from eyes*
I was at the library this morning, telling a friend about this site, and suggested she type it in to see what I meant. Well, up pops poor old Mickey, and she just lost it. I thought we were both going to get tossed out for making so much noise.
And she's the librarian!
oh, man, that is sooooo wrong.
WV: hasto -- I hasto have that one for my birthday.
haha - although a good MLT for me will always be Mutton, Lettuce, and Tomato... when the Mutton is nice and Lean :)
"Oh, Mickey, you're so flat:
Bet you will taste good like that:
Hey, Mickey!"
(Apologies to Toni Basil)
Hurt myself laughing on this one! So sweet, the pain!!
That is fabulous! Thanks for the laugh!
LOL! I'm going to put a link on my blog for this.
WOOHOO! I want this for my birthday this year!
*sniff sniff* :(
I guess I wasn't the only one who sent this photo/link to you?
I know what it was -- there were sooooo many people who sent it, that it was impossible to thank them all in the tiny italics section after the post, because, you know, there's limited space on the blog and there's only so much typing one can do before Fiery Finger Fatigue sets in, so, in order to save precious cakewrecky fingers, as well as the feelings of those whose names couldn't fit, all the names were left off?
Yeah, that must be it. *sniff* *wipes eyes*
Well, at least it got on Cakewrecks, to be seen and enjoyed by all (as well as cause unintentional library laughter and accidental soda spewing.)
You know I love you guys. ;)
Carmen, the Un-Stalker
Love it.
made me laugh, though my 3 year old mickey mouse fanatic daughter looked a little worried, lmao
Oh my goodness! Don't show this to any kindergarten kids!
Craig said...
"That gives me the steamboat willies."
like, like, a million times like!
Freakin' awesome.
I'm a DisGeek and love Mickey, in fact, we're having lunch together in a few weeks!! :-D But come on, that's hilarious!!
What I wouldn't pay for someone to take a good 8x10 or 11x14 of that with them into a meeting with the Mickster himself, just to see what might happen...
HA! Perfection!
This is so awesome--I want that cake. Love the PB reference!
I'm going to try posting this comment anonymousely (ha! That was a typo, but I'm leaving it) to see if it goes through. I've been having major issues with errors for the last few days when I try to log in.
Melinda (one of them anyway--there seem to be at least two of us.)
wv--supgzxz: 'Sup, gzxz, with the weird error messages? (OK, I scrolled down and see that I'm still logged in. Here goes nothing...)
*blink*blink* Haha!
Andrew Zimmern.... Hehehe!
Steamboat willies... HAHAHA!
I love ya all!
Play by play of reading this post - Me: Awwww "::singing along:: M-I-C K-E-Y M....aaaaaahhhhhhh ::Gasp:: ack!!" Husband: "What!?" Me: "Cakewrecks" Husband: "Oh, okay." Me: "No! Look!" Husband: "Ha! Princess Bride joke, cool!"
Yep, that's my honey.
I'm now considering myself a Disney traitor, b/c I did indeed LOL IRL at this. Poor MM
Absolutely funny. Thanks for the PB reference today as well...*so Perky*
That's adorable!
So wrong but so funny!
I love Mickey, but really... this should have earned a Sunday Sweet posting, don't ya think?. It is really a piece of art, and I am considering making a framed poster!
Gotta watch some PB first though. Priorities right?
Oh. Ooooh! Good heavens. That was my laugh for the evening.
"Mickey Mouse Club Sandwich"---that probably wouldn't make the "before and after" category on Wheel of Fortune. (What would Annette say?)
One of your funniest posts ever---and that's really saying something!
That is wrong on so many levels but still soemhow funny
Hey Jen, do you have anything with Pooh Bear executed in it? I think I might like that... drowning in honey, killed by Piglet (we all know it's the quiet shy ones that you have to look out for...), anything???
A visual pun AND a Princess Bride reference in the same post - I thoroughly approve. :)
Bwahahaha! I love it!
Now that's the way to slip someone a Mickey.
My friend's reaction: "That's horrible!"
I loved it, though.
I just have to say, your hidden Princess Bride references make my day whenever I see them. Oh, thank you, Cake Wrecks.
...But that's not what he said---he distinctly said "To blave" and as we all know, to blave means to bluff, heh? So you were probably playing cards, and he cheated--
Liar! Liar! Liar!
Get back, witch!
I'm not a witch, I'm your wife, but after what you just said, I'm not even sure I want to be that anymore.
You never had it so good.
That is possibly the funniest cake. It is truly well done and intentionally and icky mickey!
That is hilarious! An icky micky club sandwich and the detail is awesome! too funny.
Mmm...when the Mickey is nice and lean...
I'm a huge Disney fan and usually hate when anyone "disses" the mouse, but this is totally hysterical... LOVE it.
The creativity is amazing and the work is incredible.
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I'm Michel Martin and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. They say it takes a village to raise a child, but maybe you just need a few moms in your corner. Every week, we check in with a diverse group of parents for their common sense and savvy advice.
Today, we want to return to an issue that's been a part of childhood for decades, if not forever, but which has lately become the subject of much national concern. We're talking again about bullying, and we're talking about it because parents, educators and policymakers have become aware of just how traumatic bullying can be for young people.
Now, though, a new study shows that these damaging effects can follow people to adulthood. The new study published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association's JAMA Psychiatry followed almost 1,500 children and found both victims and perpetrators of bullying had higher rates of psychiatric disorders as adults.
We wanted to talk more about this, so we're joined now by the study's lead author, William Copeland. He's an associate professor of psychiatry at Duke Medical Center. He's also a dad of two.
And we also called Rosalind Wiseman. She's the author of several books, including the best-selling "Queen Bees and Wannabes." That book actually inspired the hit movie, "Mean Girls," and she's the mom of two boys, also.
Thank you so much for joining us, both of you.
ROSALIND WISEMAN: Thanks for having me.
WILLIAM COPELAND: Good to be here.
MARTIN: Professor Coleman, I want to focus on the long-term effects, but one of the things that I wanted to point out that was interesting about your research is that you studied both bullies and victims and this might surprise some people, but you studied people who were both bullies and victims. Why is this important?
COPELAND: Yeah. Well, we really wanted to kind of get the full range of behavior and so, actually, we studied a representative group of kids and followed them up over time, so there's a fair bit of the sample that actually wasn't involved in bullying at all.
But I think, in order to really understand the long-term consequences of bullying, you really have to get at kind of both sides of this, because there's also a substantial group of kids that are both victims of bullying and bullies themselves. And in our study, they had the worst long-term outcomes.
MARTIN: I want to talk about that, but let's tease out a couple of these things. You found that children who are bullied are four times more likely to have an anxiety disorder as a young adult, compared with people who were not bullied. Now, that might not surprise some people, but you've found, as you just said, that people who both bullied other kids and were victims fared even worse. They were 14 times more likely to develop panic disorders as adults. Now, why might that be?
COPELAND: Well, it seems like these kids really have the worst lot and a lot of this may have to do with the type of kids that end up being kind of bully victims. So I think, typically, we think of these kids as kind of having difficulty, socially, to begin with, in school. And that may be one of the reasons that they get picked on. And they see the only way to kind of escape this, to escape getting picked on and to have some sort of, you know, social status is to kind of lash out at others. So these may be kids that are maybe a little bit more impulsive, a little bit more aggressive. And so, whereas a lot of people, if they're bullied, they might think, oh, this really hurts. I don't like this. I definitely don't want to do this to other people - these are kids where this really seems to be the only option for them and, obviously, this doesn't bode well for their future development.
MARTIN: Are you surprised that the effects last as long as they seem to?
COPELAND: I was. And, in fact, this study kind of came about because I was talking with one of my colleagues or, actually, I had somebody ask a question at a presentation and he asked us if we were paying attention to bullying. And I wasn't sure that this was going to actually be something that caused problems, you know, a decade down the road after the kids had, kind of, moved out of school and were now adults.
And so we, kind of, started this collaboration to see what would happen. And I think the results were as striking to me as they were to anyone that the victims, you know, really had these long-term emotional problems, particularly with anxiety, but then this kind of small group of bullied victims had depression, suicidality, anxiety. And this is over 10 years after we kind of first started studying them in childhood.
MARTIN: Rosalind Wiseman, one of the reasons we're glad you were able to join us is that I think a lot of people might be familiar with your work. If they're not familiar with any of the academic work, they might have read one of your books.
Are you surprised by this? What do you make of this?
WISEMAN: Oh, my gosh. I'm not surprised at all. I'm just so grateful that they did the study, because, so often, what happens is we talk about these things in extremes, like the kid who only is victimized or the kid who only bullies. And what we know, if you work in schools, is that this is a much more complex issue. And so the emphasis on the bully victim is so helpful to the discussion, the real discussion that we need to have to be able to help kids.
And so what I look at when I teach children is about the ease in which they're manipulated, sometimes, by other kids or that they react much more strongly than other children to what they see as perceived slights and that they need to do something about it and be aggressive, or that they are victimized by it.
And many, many parents, when their children get involved in these issues, they feel that their children are the victims. And they never think that part of this could be that their child is retaliating or doing something that contributes to the problem. And that's not about blaming the target. It's about understanding the dynamics so we can get to a place where we address it more effectively.
MARTIN: Roz, I wanted to ask you why do you think it is that the long-term effects of this have not really a part of the national conversation? I mean obviously, there have been a number of, you know, terrible tragedies where - not just in this country interestingly enough but in other countries where children have taken their own lives after having been bullied. But what happens later on in adult life, it doesn't seem to be something we talk about. Why do you think that is?
WISEMAN: Because I don't think we like to think about our own behavior as adults. I think we like to look at kids and their problems and then not think about how it impacts us systemically and individually. It is very clear to me that people's anxiety and people's - when we think about you're dealing with a parent who immediately goes from a small problem to an enormous problem and reacts so strongly and disproportionately to whatever it is that's in front of them. How did we get to this place? I mean if you work - if you're a teacher or a coach, you pretty much are going to have that experience when you're working with a parent, where you think wait a minute, what is going on that this has become such an incredible - that I'm being treated this badly and that I'm being bullied? That's not an uncommon experience, or that a parent has that about another parent or a teacher. We don't like to - we have a hard time thinking about our own experiences and the legacy that we bring as children.
And so what we talk about anxiety and about thinking that we are justified in going after other people to right a wrong, and this is one of the big challenges in parenting is that when you think that somebody has done something wrong to your child, you get to a place where you think you have a higher purpose or higher calling to go after that person, and that you don't have to treat them well, you don't need to treat them with dignity, you actually have the right to bully that person back. And that's really a problem and we've got to be able to look at that. And I would hope that this kind of a study would give us an opportunity to look at our own behavior.
MARTIN: I'm joined by best-selling author Rosalind Wiseman. That's who was speaking just now. I'm also speaking with the author of a study about the long-term effects of bullying. That's Professor William Copeland of Duke University.
Professor Copeland, one of the other staggering numbers you found is that boys who were, as you call them, bully victims, they were both bullied and they bullied other kids, is that they were 18 times more likely to have suicidal thoughts as adults compared with those who were not bullies or victims. What did you observe in this group? Why do you think that is?
COPELAND: Well, this was really one of the most striking findings that we had, that these kids were still at such risk way down the road. And one of the things we really wanted to kind of clarify in this study was that, you know, this risk was really related to their involvement in bullying. So we'd studied these kids extensively in childhood and were able to count for so much about their functioning in childhood and their family setting and their exposure to maltreatment and so on and so forth. But it really allowed us to just focus in on the long-term effects of being both a bully and a victim. And for those boys in particular, you know, the finding that there were such increased risk for suicidality, was really concerning.
There's another thing that I just want to add kind of getting back to that last question about kind of what, you know, this means, and I think it's common, you know, certainly for myself as a clinical psychologist by training, but in society in general, that we think of a lot of the things that affect children the most as the things that happened within the home, and what is their relationship like with their parents and how are they treated, and are they mistreated? And these are the things that are going to affect them most emotionally long-term. And those things are obviously so important and we need to kind of continue to pay attention to them. But I think we often forget that kids spend as much time or more time at certain ages in the school setting and with their peers. And now with the Internet as well, a lot of kids are interacting with their peers when they're at home - maybe even when they're supposed to be interacting with their parents. So the idea that these kind of experiences, like bullying and being a victim, can affect them so profoundly long-term, perhaps shouldn't be as surprising as it is to us.
MARTIN: I do have to ask about that though, Professor Copeland, because at this point I'm guessing some people might say how do you know it's the bullying? How do you know what's going on at school as opposed to number one, underlying psychological issues that may lead the kid to be either a target or victim, right, or both...
COPELAND: Right.
MARTIN: ...or the stuff going on, you know, at home because unfortunately, you found a number of these incidents where a child acts out of school and then you find out that there's something terrible going on at home. How do you know it's what's going on at school as opposed to those other factors?
COPELAND: Well, it's absolutely the case that kids that are victimized at school are often, you know, having challenges at home too. And it could be that they're also being bullied at home, maybe by other peers - by their siblings and, of course, that's much worse for them if there is that kind of no escape from it in any setting. But the reason that we're so certain that what we're observing here is the long-term effects of being bullied and being a victim, is because we studied these kids. We've been studying these kids for 20 years, and when they were children, we we're asking them about their emotional functioning, and we're asking their parents about their home life and how they were parenting the child.
So these are all things that we could account for in our models and trying to predict these long-term behaviors. So we were really able to, you know, separate out and look at the independent effect of being bullied, and that's why we're so confident that what we're observing here are really the long-term effects of that kind of peer victimization and peer harassment. That's not to say that those other things don't play an important role in how a child responds to bullying and maybe how they do long-term. But at least in this case it really feels like it's the bully victimization and then also then kind of being a bully, which is affecting their long-term emotional functioning.
MARTIN: On the other side of it though, why is it that kids who are bullies - I think people can understand gee, if you were bullied you could understand why you'd carry that with you. But I think a lot of people might still be struggling with the idea that if you are the bully or both, why you're carrying that with you too. I'm thinking - and you say this actually in the introduction to the study that - I think for most people you sort of think well, the long-term affect of being the bully is you probably wind up being an offender, right? But you're saying it's way beyond that. Why? Why might that be?
COPELAND: Well, yeah. It's much more complex than that. You know, we had the three groups here. We had kind of peer victims. We had kids that were both victims and then also bullied others. But then we also had a group of kids that just bullied other kids. It was about five percent of the sample. And these kids did not necessarily have long-term emotional problems, but they had other kinds of problems which suggest that as adults they're continuing to mistreat those around them.
And I have to say, you know, the more that I've been talking to people in the last week, the more you realize bullying isn't something that ends with childhood either. I mean this is something that goes on at work and in all sorts of areas of life, certainly into adulthood. But the kids that are just bullies don't necessarily seem to have the emotional problems themselves. It's these kids that are both picked on but then also kind of see bullying as a way to kind of, you know, achieve some sort of power, success or social status in schools. And that's that target group that we really need to be, you know, getting at and treating and addressing these concerns or else we're going to have the kind of problems that we identified in the study.
MARTIN: Roz Wiseman, I know that you're just hearing this for the first time or just acquainting yourself with this research.
WISEMAN: Mm-hmm.
MARTIN: But as a person who spends a lot of time in schools and working with kids while they're in school and out of school, what does this suggest for you? Are there some things that suggest for you about the way we think about bullying and schools might need to change?
WISEMAN: Absolutely. I would love for people to see this as a more dynamic, complex situation. And that, you know, boys and girls who are perpetrators and targets, that - or bullies and victims - that if we understand that they are in the mix of this in both ways, then the way in which we discipline and address the problems can be much more effective. Because I'll give you a, you know, really easy, I think, way of hopefully an easy way out of seeing this. I always tell teachers you always see the second hit. You never see the first hit, which means that the kid who is lashing out probably has less social skills and is more reactive. And that the kid who probably is defined as that five percent that we were just talking about, if they have high social skills and are able to push, right, and be mean to somebody, but the other person that they're doing it to reacts and then they're the one that gets in trouble by the teacher because that's what the teacher sees, then they are disciplining ineffectively. In fact, it's so counterproductive because it looks like - and it really does look like - that the teacher is disciplining the kid who was just reacting. They actually aren't addressing the problem that started it.
And so if we have those kinds of responses, and unfortunately we do way too often in schools and in our own homes, then what we do is we never get to the root of the problem. And so that the kid who started it actually is emboldened and the child who gets in trouble is resentful and angry and understands or believes the adults cannot help them and don't see this and are part of the problem. And so many of our disciplinary responses in schools are about that. So if we can understand the complexity of the problem then we are going to go a long way to not only addressing it more effectively, but being more credible to kids. And when we're more credible to kids, then they feel like they can calm themselves down and feel like they can come to us for support and think through the problem. Otherwise, they're just going to keep reacting.
MARTIN: Professor Copeland, final thought from you?
COPELAND: Well, I think one of the things that that means to me is that we really need to be talking about this a lot more. And parents need to be asking their kids as just a matter of course, how are things going at school? How are you getting along with other kids? Is anybody giving you a hard time? So that they actually, you know, have some sense of what's going on in their child's, you know, peer life and so then they can kind of collect more information, maybe problem solve with the child, and in some cases may be even bring it to the attention of school officials.
MARTIN: William Copeland is an associate professor of psychiatry at Duke University. He was kind enough to join us from the studios at the campus there. Rosalind Wiseman is the author - among other books - of the best-seller "Queen Bees and Wannabes." She was with us from Boulder, Colorado.
Thank you both so much for speaking with us today.
WISEMAN: Thanks.
COPELAND: Thank you.
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Spicy Chicken Quesadillas
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These spicy Chicken quesadillas packed with shredded chicken, black beans, corn, and cheese are the perfect easy weeknight meal! Make them in a skillet, baked in the oven, or a sheet pan version to feed a crowd.
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1 cup cooked boneless skinless chicken breast
1/2 cup canned diced tomatoes with green chilies
1/2 cup canned black beans, rinsed and drained
1/2 cup canned corn, rinsed and drained
1/4 cup cilantro, chopped
2 tbsp canned chipotle peppers in adobo, minced (adjust to taste)
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp onion powder
4 flour tortillas (or low-carb tortillas)
1 1/3 cups shredded pepper jack cheese (or other cheese)
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Combine the chicken, tomatoes, black beans, corn, cilantro, chipotle peppers, garlic powder, and onion powder. Season with salt and pepper.
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Heat a nonstick skillet over medium high heat. Place the tortilla in the skillet and sprinkle one half with about 1.5 tbsp of cheese. Spread with about 1/2 cup of the chicken filling. Top with another 1.5 tbsp of cheese.
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Fold the tortilla over and cook on one side until the cheese is melting and the tortilla begins to brown. Flip over and cook on the other side for 2-3 minutes more until the tortilla browns and the cheese is fully melted. Repeat with remaining quesadillas.
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Prior to his work with the Arts Desk, Cole worked for three and a half years as an associate producer for NPR's daily classical music program Performance Today, and also for Morning Edition, where he coordinated, edited, and produced arts and culture stories.
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Over the course of his career, Cole has produced or collaborated on a number of public radio projects. He co-edited the Peabody Award-winning NPR documentary, "I Must Keep Fightin': The Art of Paul Robeson." He was also an advisor, contributor, and co-editor of the Peabody Award-winning series, "The NPR 100," the top 100 songs of the 20th century.
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is under observation at a New York hospital after being treated for a blood clot stemming from the concussion she sustained earlier this month.
Clinton's doctors discovered the clot Sunday while performing a follow-up exam, her spokesman, Philippe Reines, said. He would not elaborate on the location of the clot but said Clinton was being treated with anti-coagulants and would remain at New York-Presbyterian Hospital for at least the next 48 hours so doctors can monitor the medication.
"Her doctors will continue to assess her condition, including other issues associated with her concussion," Reines said in a statement. "They will determine if any further action is required."
Clinton, 65, fell and suffered a concussion while at home alone in mid-December as she recovered from a stomach virus that left her severely dehydrated. The concussion was diagnosed Dec. 13 and Clinton was forced to cancel a trip to North Africa and the Middle East that had been planned for the next week.
The seriousness of a blood clot "depends on where it is," said Dr. Gholam Motamedi, a neurologist at Georgetown University Medical Center who was not involved in Clinton's care.
Clots in the legs are a common risk after someone has been bedridden, as Clinton may have been for a time after her concussion. Those are "no big deal" and are treated with six months of blood thinners to allow them to dissolve on their own and to prevent further clots from forming, he said.
A clot in a lung or the brain is more serious. Lung clots, called pulmonary embolisms, can be deadly, and a clot in the brain can cause a stroke, Motamedi said.
Keeping Clinton in the hospital for a couple of days could allow doctors to perform more tests to determine why the clot formed, and to rule out a heart problem or other condition that may have led to it, he said.
Dr. Larry Goldstein, a neurologist who is director of Duke University's stroke center, said blood can pool on the surface of the brain or in other areas of the brain after a concussion, but those would not be treated with blood thinners, as Clinton's aide described.
Clinton was forced to cancel Dec. 20 testimony before Congress about a scathing report into the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. The report found that serious failures of leadership and management in two State Department bureaus were to blame for insufficient security at the facility. Clinton took responsibility for the incident before the report was released, but she was not blamed.
Some conservative commentators suggested Clinton was faking the seriousness of her illness and concussion to avoid testifying, although State Department officials vehemently denied that was the case.
Lawmakers at the hearings — including Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman who has been nominated by President Barack Obama to succeed Clinton — offered her their best wishes.
Last Thursday, before the discovery of the blood clot, Reines said Clinton was expected to return to work this week.
The former first lady and senator, who had always planned to step down as America's top diplomat in January, is known for her grueling travel schedule. She is the most traveled secretary of state in history, having visited 112 countries while in the job.
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Neighborhood Crime Watch Seeks a Young Artist to Design Logo
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The North Adams Neighborhood Crime Watch seeks the participation of North Adams youth, not only at its meetings, but as a creative force.
The crime watch is soliciting logo designs for its program, and the winning designer will receive $100. The contest is open to students in grades six through 12 who reside in North Adams. The drawing/logo that will be chosen will be used on all Neighborhood Watch t-shirts, stickers and letterhead. It is important to think about using mediums that will transfer well into a logo or design that can be printed easily; thinking "outside of the box" is encouraged.
All drawings should be submitted on a standard white sheet of paper by April 10, 2010 and sent c/o NW Art, nbCC, 61 Main St., North Adams, MA 01247. Write your name, address and telephone number in black ink on the back of the submission.
The crime watch is a collaboration of the City of North Adams, North Adams Police Department and Northern Berkshire Community Coalition; it has 17 captains throughout the city who are volunteering to help organize their neighborhood and make it a safer place to live by simply connecting and communicating with their neighbors.
For more information, contact Ashley Benson at 413-663-7588.
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Stamford Crime Watch Sets Meeting
STAMFORD, Vt. — There is a meeting at the Stamford School at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 20, to start organizing our Neighborhood Watch Group.
Ken Sullivan-Bol will be handing out information and talking about his experience in Washington, D.C., at the National Neighborhood Watch certification class. Join us to discuss what we can do to make Stamford a better and safer community for all.
More information can be found at the Stamford/Clarksburg crime watch site www.towncrimewatch.com.
The community is encouraging anyone with a tip or a lead to speak up and contact the proper authorities. If you see anyting suspicious you must call law enforcement immediately. Call Vermont State Police at 802-442-5421 or Clarksburg Police at 413-663-7795. In an emergency, always call 911.
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North Adams Neighborhood Watch Captains' Meeting
The revitalized city Neighborhood Watch program will hold its first block captains' meeting on Thursday, Feb. 18, at 6 p.m. at 61 Main St. in Suite 218. The meeting's being hosted by the Northern Berkshire Community Coalition, Police Department and City Hall.
This meeting has been called in response to the heightened community concern about neighborhood crime and in follow up to the citywide Neighborhood Watch meeting held last Thursday. Anyone interested in being a neighborhood leader and liaison to the Neighborhood Watch Team is encouraged to attend. The captains' meeting will include a discussion of the breakdown of neighborhood areas, organization of neighborhood watch meetings and community communication.
Organizers say the expectation is that from this meeting, captains can return to their communities and begin the implementation of neighborhood watch in their designated areas.
It is important that as many neighborhoods as possible participate and have neighborhood leadership in this community initiative. Call Ashley Benson at the Coalition at 413-663-7588 with questions or if you are considering participating. The meeting is open to the public.
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Crime Watch Page Created for North Adams
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — There's a new crime watch page on Facebook for city residents.
The page was created by Jennifer Breen Kirsch, a local attorney who's become active in crime prevention after her parents' home was broken into days after Christmas. Kirsch, working with the city and local organizations, has spearheaded the community watch group.
The community effort has been prompted by a wave of break-ins that came to public attention last fall after a number of break-ins in Clarksburg and Stamford, Vt. A suspect believed to be the culprit in the majority of them — and dozens of others through Berkshire and Bennington (Vt.) County — was arrested and charged. However, several of those burglaries have not be resolved and numerous others have occurred in Williamstown, North Adams, Adams and Cheshire over recent months.
North Adams held a community meeting on Thursday night at City Hall to discuss crime and neighborhood action to prevent it.
The new Facebook page states:
Please join the new Neighborhood Crime Watch Group sponsored by Mayor Dick Alcombright, the NAPD through Officer Mark Bailey and Commissioner E. John Morocco, community representative Jenn Kirsch, and the NBCC, through Ashley Benson and Al Bashevkin. To find out more, please post questions and we will quickly reply. Our goal is to reduce the crime rate, as a community, in conjunction with City Hall and the NAPD. We need volunteers and neighborhood captains to run meetings. If you are interested, Officer Bailey, along with members of the team, will conduct a meeting for you and your neighbors, at your home. Let's unite under this common goal to reduce crime in our city! |
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North Adams Urging Crime Watch
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The city is hosting a community meeting on Thursday, Feb. 11, at 6 p.m. at City Hall to discuss neighborhood safety and crime watches. Mayor Richard Alcombright, whose home was burglarized last spring, talked a little about the issue at Friday's Northern Berkshire Community Coaliton forum.
The call for a crime watch is prompted by a spike in burglaries in the city and other parts of Berkshire County and Southern Vermont. The first indication of a rise in the area began last fall with a series of break-ins, many of which police say are linked to a Pittsfield man, Stefan Veremko. More recently, homes in North Adams, Adams, Cheshire and Williamstown have been broken into, including the parents of Jennifer Breen Kirsch.
Kirsch, a former Middlesex prosecutor, criticized the handling of the case and is now spearheading efforts to develop local crime watches.
"I think it's a bold attempt. We're going to bring the city, we're going to bring the private citizen, the Community Coalition together and, hopefully, folks will show up and consider the neighborhood watch as a solution to stopping crime in their neighborhoods," said Alan Bashevkin, executive director of the coalition, of next week's meeting.
Public Safety Commissioner E. John Morocco urged residents to contact the police about starting a neighborhood watch.
"Call us up. We'll show you [how] and we'll guide you through it," he said. "And we won't just leave. We'll show up every month at your meeting. ... But it takes a neighborhood to start a neighborhood watch program it takes somebody to step forward and say 'we're going to do this' and get the neighbors to show up."
In any case, said Morocco, "don't leave your car unlocked, don't leave your house unsecured."
Breaking and enterings, or B&Es, happen anytime, he said. "The recent rash were more bold, daytime, but they happen all times of day and night."
The commissioner said about 85 to 90 percent of all crimes - domestic violence, child abuse, larceny - here and nationwide can be attributed to substance abuse.
Liz Shiner of the Elizabeth Freeman Center, said domestic violence has increased and that the county's rate for retraining orders is 40 percent above the statewide rate. The center would be willing to teach neighborhood crime watches how to deal with domestic violence, she said.
Morocco shared some interesting information about how Veremko allegedly plotted the numerous burglaries across the county and into Vermont over the past year.
According to Morocco, Veremko kept a notebook with a list of likely houses. He'd case the house and look up the phone numbers, call and track when they weren't home. "He'd do his homework," said Morocco. "He was probably the most sophisticated burlglar I've ever seen."
Veremko is being held on $250,000 bail after being arraigned on numerous charges relating to the break-ins.
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Monday, September 27, 2010
Penne Pasta with Spicy Sausage Ragu – If You're Not Cheating, You're Not Trying
First of all, we're using ready-made marina sauce. Ideally, this is from a batch of homemade you whipped up after watching this video, but if not, I used a jar of Barilla, and you are free to do the same, guilt-free. Using a prepared sauce excuses you from the kind of mincing and dicing that can often turn a meal like this into a call to the local pizzeria.
The second, and most ingenious cheat is using spicy Italian sausage instead of plain old ground meat. Any decent brand should be packed with an array of spices, herbs, and garlic that traditionally accompanies the pork into the casing. Think about it; if you like the flavor of the Italian sausage you usually buy, then I'm thinking you'd like the flavor of this ragu.
I usually start this in a dry, cold saucepan, and cook over medium heat until it's ready for the wet ingredients. If your sausage seems particularly lean, you can toss in a glug of olive oil to get things going. Conversely, if there seems to be lots of grease in the pan, simply drain some off before continuing the sauce.
Of course, with all the options for different kinds of sauces and types of sausage, it goes without saying that you can embellish this a hundred different ways, and I hope you do. Who says cheaters never win? Enjoy!
Penne Pasta with Spicy Sausage Ragu Ingredients:
1 pound spicy Italian sausage
1 tablespoon freshly minced parsley, optional
1/2 cup dry white wine
3 1/2 cups (1 jar) marinara sauce
1 cup water (rinse the jar)
1/4 cup cream
14.5 oz dry penne pasta
grated Parmigiano-Reggiano
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87 comments:
Did anyone else think this recipe was gonna use Ragú (the ready-made sauce)?
- September 27, 2010 at 12:23 AM
- saltyseattle said...
Good god, man- your videos have me in stitches every time.
- September 27, 2010 at 2:43 AM
- Chef John said...
Thanks my friend! :-)
- September 27, 2010 at 3:38 AM
- Rita said...
you're just too funny. thanks for always making my day.
- September 27, 2010 at 6:28 AM
- blogagog said...
Cream in the sauce? Intriguing.
- September 27, 2010 at 11:00 AM
Chef John, you always make everything look so easy!! And fun to watch!! Thanks again! :)
- September 27, 2010 at 11:48 AM
Why white wine and not red(you were pretty emphatic about that)? And don't tell me that it has something to do with a reaction with the cream, because I wouldn't add cream to a tomato based pasta sauce for all the money in China(or Italy! We can figure out the international economic implications of that later).
- September 27, 2010 at 4:51 PM
Excuse my ignorance - could someone explain why to cook it for 1 hour? Why not just until the meat is done? Does it increase the flavour? Happy cooking :)
- September 27, 2010 at 5:14 PM
Chef John,
What could I use instead of the white wine which would have no alcohol in it?
Thanks! - September 27, 2010 at 5:15 PM
- Chef John said...
the simmering time is to give the flavors from the sausage a chance to melt into the sauce. and to make the meat soft and tender.
- September 27, 2010 at 6:21 PM
Hey Chef John,
This is unrelated to this post, but I thought you might be interested. This video uses the same song that you do in the opening to your videos:
I didn't know if you owned it or something. Maybe you could sue them and get some cash and spend it on a manicure so that your videos are even nicer.
Jack - September 27, 2010 at 6:49 PM
Would chicken stock work instead of the dry white wine?
Thanks! :-) - September 27, 2010 at 7:24 PM
- Chef John said...
Non-wine peeps... use a tablespoon of white wine vinegar and a 1/2 tsp of sugar instead of wine.
- September 27, 2010 at 8:18 PM
Chef John, this may be a dumb question but what does the "ragu" mean when referring to the sauce? And another dumb question, can this be used as a spaghetti sauce? And last but not least did you ever post a lasagna recipe video? And if not, could you? Thank you for all your work! Love your site and videos!
- September 27, 2010 at 8:34 PM
- Chef John said...
ragu is just a generic word for an Italian meat sauce. You can use it on any pasta you want! (but you knew that right? ;-)
I haven't done a lasagna yet. - September 27, 2010 at 8:37 PM
Tried it tonight and loved it! the best part aside from it being effortless is that I had all the ingredients on hand. Chef John, people like you, and especially you are the reason I love to cook. All cookbooks be damned!
- September 27, 2010 at 10:02 PM
Am feeling a little smug right now because I do have your homemade marinara sauce ready to use in this recipe. It is in lovely frozen portions... right next to the lovely frozen portions of 12 hour chicken stock. Life is good, baby.
- September 27, 2010 at 11:02 PM
- SugarPlum said...
Chef John - I made this last night and it was delicious! I also made your parmesan crisps to go along with the pasta. Very, very good! Love your videos and your humor! Keep up the good work and thank you!
- September 29, 2010 at 11:15 AM
thanks a bunch for this recipe!
:) - September 30, 2010 at 2:07 AM
About how many servings will this recipe give?
I want to make it for my family of four (three adults, one teen). - October 1, 2010 at 5:31 PM
Chef John this was absolutley amazing! I went to Eataly (Italian Market in NYC) last night got everything except penne, I used fresh tagliatelle instead. I have left quite a few comments on your blog and as always....it was OH SO GOOD! Everyone, please give this a try!
- October 12, 2010 at 12:42 PM
- Chef John said...
Glad you enjoyed it!!
- October 12, 2010 at 12:44 PM
Great recipes!
Greetings from Germany.
(But just three recipes from Germany are not many much;-)) - October 14, 2010 at 3:32 PM
- Ge said...
Dear Chef John, is there a substitute for White wine in this recipe?
- October 19, 2010 at 11:24 AM
- Chef John said...
Check wine comments, thanks!
- October 19, 2010 at 12:25 PM
Hey Chef - It's been a while since I made one of you dishes and after making this one I asked myself, "Why did I wait this long again?"
This dish was easy as it was magnificent!
Thank you, Chef John! You make the world a better place. :-)
Daniel - October 21, 2010 at 8:55 PM
- Unknown said...
dude~ when u took a forkful of that deliciousness i drooled while leaning forward. The science teacher part is funny too, the whole video is :D
- October 22, 2010 at 10:38 PM
please make a lasagna video real soon! :)
p.s. i love all your vids!! - November 3, 2010 at 12:33 PM
- Unknown said...
This recipe came out really good... of course. It's my favorite lazy weekend go-to recipe. Thanks Chef John!!
- November 6, 2010 at 8:34 PM
I made this tonight as the main course for the in-laws, it was pretty amazing. Everybody loved it and commented on what a great cook I was.
Haha, thanks for making me look good. :) - November 14, 2010 at 11:17 PM
- KiliMats said...
THanks for the delicious recipe, I was wondering if you leave the lid closed or open during the 1 hour simmer
- December 9, 2010 at 10:12 PM
- Ash88 said...
Chef John I am pretty sure you answered this question, But can I use water instead of wine?
- December 20, 2010 at 1:29 PM
- Chef John said...
of course! :-)
- December 20, 2010 at 2:01 PM
Chef John,
Your website and recipes are by far my favorite!! I just made this Penne pasta in Vodka sauce. AMAZING!!! I suddenly felt like a chef after making this recipe of yours.
Thanks for another wonderful recipe!!
Any chance you will make more dishes with scallops with different sauces to go with it?? - December 23, 2010 at 4:29 PM
- Ash88 said...
I agree with Gracie I have a seafood Alfredo dish that I make that uses crab meat shrimp and scallops and it is great however I was wondering if you can put your own twist on it. I also make this Spicy sausage ragu penne pasta dish and within hours it was gone!! ALL GONE!! I will be making this again for a surprise birthday party!
My husband said Thanks for posting this recipe since it helped me get out of my comfort zone! - December 23, 2010 at 8:44 PM
is there a check box to just print the receipe? can't seem to find it. Thanks.
- February 1, 2011 at 9:35 AM
- Chef John said...
Sorry, blogspot doesn't have that feature, and I don't write out the recipes, only the ings.
- February 1, 2011 at 9:59 AM
Thanks Chef John!
This was delicious, I made a big batch it was easy and cost very little money or effort. The flavours were great, I didn't even use salt!
Here is a photo of how it turned out
Thanks again,
Tristan - February 10, 2011 at 11:14 PM
- Unknown said...
thank you, thank you, I have made this recipe 3 times now and it is awesome. Last time I had my 16 yr old daughter make it, so she will be half way prepared for cooking in college, if she gets this simple recipe under her belt. this tastes as good as any italian restaurant!
- February 12, 2011 at 9:17 PM
- Unknown said...
Thank you, thank you, I've made this 3 times now and it tastes awesome, as good as any italian restaurant. Also had my 16 yr old daughter make it last time. I figure is she can master this simple recipe, she will have a good start in cooking while in college!
- February 12, 2011 at 9:21 PM
- Chef John said...
You, my friend, are a great mother. :-) Thanks!
- February 12, 2011 at 9:38 PM
Heey Chef John:) umm is there any substitute for whine, at all? and the answer can't be no:) Thanks
- February 14, 2011 at 5:28 PM
- Chef John said...
There really isn't! Just leave it out.
- February 14, 2011 at 5:39 PM
- Unknown said...
Hi chef John,
Ive been a long time watcher (Student of yours I would say more likely haha!) But never commented. I've cooked so many of your recipes and loved them all! (My husbands favorite dish is the brown sugar buttermilk meatloaf believe it or not.) Anyway, I am a red wine drinker not a white wine drinker BUT I follow your recipes religiously as to not mess them up. I looked through all the comments and didn't see if you recommended a brand or type of white wine? Since not all wines taste the same =P Thank you so much and I cannot wait to make this.
~ Sarah F. - February 22, 2011 at 4:58 AM
- Chef John said...
Any white table wine will work! Chard, Sauvignon blank, etc. Thanks!
- February 22, 2011 at 5:34 AM
- chefchipdes said...
I don't pretend to be an expert on Italian cuisine. It's always been my understanding that milk (or in this case, cream) also acts as a tenderizer for the meat. I believe it also helps neutralize the acidity of the sauce, no? I do find that fresh pork sausages need a long cooking time to tenderize the meat.
I like this dish--it will be on my family's dinner table next week! Thank you! - March 23, 2011 at 2:56 PM
- dave said...
Covered or uncovered on the 1 hour simmer?
- April 19, 2011 at 9:23 PM
- Chef John said...
Uncovered. Enjoy!
- April 20, 2011 at 1:42 AM
- john said...
Can you expand on covered versus uncovered for simmering--what are advantages/disadvantages of either covering or uncovering--thanx
- May 18, 2011 at 5:14 PM
Nice job, Chef :o) It's quick, easy, tasty recipes like this that working people need in their repertoire. Made it with hot Italian sausage, maybe too hot. Next time I'll use mild and add some chili flakes or cayenne. Thank-you for your blog!
- July 21, 2011 at 10:23 AM
Hi Chef John,
The printed recipe calls for a cup of water, but you don't mention it in the video. Is that just a precautionary measure in case the sauce becomes too thick when simmering? - August 31, 2011 at 4:31 PM
- Chef John said...
As you'll see in the ingredients, the water is to rinse the jar of tomato sauce out. And yes, to keep from being too thick.
- August 31, 2011 at 4:47 PM
Chef John
I can't tell you how much I enjoy your videos. I did this exactly as played and written (even used white wine). Drove my hubby crazy that I simmered as you said - he took one mouth-full and jumped up and gave us (that's U & me) a round of applause! Awesome - keep up the EXCELLENT videos!
Jan - December 8, 2011 at 4:49 PM
Hi there! Is heavy cream same as thickened cream?
I've all the ingredients and i don't wanna screw it up with the wrong cream :/ Hope to hear from you soon! - March 8, 2012 at 12:14 PM
- Chef John said...
Never seen that product before, but should work.
- March 8, 2012 at 1:28 PM
- lovnber2008 said...
My son had a severe dairy allergy, does the heavy cream have to be in there?
- March 9, 2012 at 8:29 PM
- lovnber2008 said...
My son had a severe dairy allergy, does heavy cream have to be in there?
- March 9, 2012 at 8:30 PM
- lovnber2008 said...
My son had a severe dairy allergy, does the heavy cream have to be in there?
- March 9, 2012 at 8:31 PM
- Chef John said...
- March 9, 2012 at 10:30 PM
Can I make this and then bake it to have a baked ziti dish?
- April 11, 2012 at 2:01 PM
chef john i found your site a couple months ago. since then i feel like i am living that movie where the woman is trying to complete julia childs recipes. my husband is ecstatic. he will love this one. thanks for the hard work and humor!!!!!!!!
- May 6, 2012 at 9:11 PM
I am sorry. I can only give this recipe a 5. Yep! Only a 5!!!
Ok so I can only give it a 5 out of 5!
I also took a couple of cans of mushrooms, drained the mushroom juice into the marinara jar and used that to rince it out, and added both the mushrooms and the rince/mushroom juice/water to the pot at that time, and got to enjoy this dish.
This was wonderful! It is nowon my date dinner list. - May 18, 2012 at 9:13 PM
Note to Indra and anyone else who may be wondering. Heavy cream according to Wiki is a cream with a high milk fat content of 36% or more. I used whipping cream of 30-36% (mine was 33%) and it was fine.
- May 18, 2012 at 9:20 PM
I've always wondered how the meat in a good Ragu get so tender...now I know! I made this last night for some hearty boys - and they loved it! Delicious and EASY meal...cheap too!
- July 3, 2012 at 8:49 AM
Hey, no video :0(
- July 4, 2012 at 11:19 PM
This technique is seriously good.
I can't believe I've been throwing separately cooked meat and cold pasta sauce from the bottle into a pot with pasta all of these years.
Simmering the meat and sauce on low for at least an hour takes some getting used to (patience, for me at least) but the flavor is amazing compared to what I'm used to.
Andrew - July 18, 2012 at 7:56 PM
- Chad said...
Chef John,
I love this recipe as I do with all of your recipes! This is such a flavorful dish. Thank you. - August 21, 2012 at 7:55 PM
At our table tonight, it was "Let's give Chef John a "Round of Applause"!!!
- September 5, 2012 at 4:47 PM
- Unknown said...
should we skim the fat off the top as it's simmering?
otherwise great quick recipe.
on a side note, i love watching your vlog :)) thank you for making life just a little more interesting :)) - September 9, 2012 at 12:46 PM
- Chef John said...
I usually do! Thanks!
- September 9, 2012 at 12:52 PM
- mellybooboo said...
what sausage brand do you use???
- November 4, 2012 at 3:26 PM
- Chef John said...
It was from a butcher's case, not a brand. Anything will work!
- November 4, 2012 at 4:25 PM
- Cheryl said...
This was my daughters first attempt at following a recipe. Because of your comfortable way of teaching she has now caught the cooking bug. She did an amazing job making this and has since tried 3 other recipes. Tomorrow she will make her 5th. I am thinking I will have to stop counting soon. She just turned 12. You are an amazing teacher
- December 16, 2012 at 10:59 PM
- Chef John said...
Thanks for sharing! So cool!
- December 17, 2012 at 12:58 AM
- Michele Cryan said...
did you forget to mentino adding salt or are the sausages and jarred sauce suppose to cover that?
- July 23, 2013 at 6:39 PM
- Chef John said...
I don't remember, but we always check for salt and seasoning at the end, plus we always really salt the water well for the pasta. Enjoy!
- July 23, 2013 at 7:30 PM
- Unknown said...
Just made this tonight, It was soooo good!! Thanks so much for giving us the knowledge to make great dishes like this.
- January 24, 2014 at 6:12 PM
- Silly Ninja said...
Chef John,
I've made variations of this recipe dozens of times because it's easy and incredibly delicious. That said, I do have a question for you about it. Is there a benefit to buying/using hot italian sausage in the casings versus going with ground hot italian sausage. Do the spices preserve better inside the casings or something? I've always mindlessly followed your instructions because you're like the Jesus of cooking, but I'm curious to know if there's really a benefit in this case...
Thanks Chef! Keep it real. - April 15, 2014 at 6:20 PM
- Chef John said...
It doesn't matter! Thanks!
- April 16, 2014 at 1:57 PM
- Unknown said...
Made this with milk and spaghetti and it turned out great. Also didn't have parsley and didn't have to add salt or pepper at the end. I bought a Trader Joe's sauvignon blanc for about five dollars and drank some of it with the meal too. I'm glad I tried this recipe. Thanks Chef!
- November 1, 2014 at 6:17 AM
- Unknown said...
can you use vinegar instead of wine because i'm not into cooking with winei want to try this without the wine
- December 2, 2014 at 4:15 PM
- Adrian said...
This is the 20th time I made this dish...everyone who tries it loves it! I play it off as my own recipie...just kidding. You make cooking fun and rewarding. Keep the recipies coming. Thanks Chef John.
- March 18, 2015 at 11:29 PM
- Just Me said...
I just about drove myself crazy looking for this recipe! I was craving it so badly, but could not for the life of me remember the website! Thank goodness for pinterest... penne+italian+sausage+wine... if I had kept going, I probably would have remembered the whole recipe! Thanks for so many great recipes.I love your videos! Thanks Chef John!
- July 1, 2015 at 10:09 PM
- Unknown said...
Hi Chef John,
Sorry to read about your mother's passing on Mother's Day. My sincere condolences.
I actually come to this site because I am looking for a good classic penne ALL'ARRABIATA RECIPE from FOOD WISHES and the internet sends me to this terrific spicy ragu with tomato and milk, but it is not a classic arrabbiata sauce. Can you come up with a simple Italian-style PENNE ALL'ARRABBIATA using FRESH tomatoes? I have fresh tomatoes, not canned ones. It would be great for summer - and the recipe on ALLRECIPES is terrible. That is my food wish!! Thanks a million.
PS: Do you think it is worth removing the skin when using fresh tomatoes for this sauce? - May 10, 2016 at 2:43 PM
- Unknown said...
Chef John, can I make this sauce, oh, a day ahead of when I plan to use it? Will the cream "break apart?" Thanks!
- February 13, 2017 at 9:19 PM
- Unknown said...
Hi Chef John,
I am a huge fan of your recipes. This is one of my favorites!
I was going to make it for my friend, but she doesn't eat red meat :(I know it wouldn't be the same, but can I use chicken sausage instead of Italian sausage? Do you have any suggestions?
Thank you! Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated! - May 16, 2017 at 3:26 PM
- FoodwishesAddict said...
Wow! So many wonderful comments!
I've used and shared this recipe so many times, and always, folks are amazed how good it is.
Thanks, Chef John, you are my go to guy for recipes on everything!
- April 4, 2019 at 9:10 PM


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20.109(S13):Journal club II (Day8)
Logistics of Paper Sign-Up and Presentation
- Once you have decided on a paper for your presentation, please "reserve" it by putting your (initials/lab section/team color) next to the listing here. If you would like to discuss a paper not on the list below, please email it (as .pdf) to 20109.talk AT gmail DOT com with a brief description for approval.
- For visibility, please use the following format to sign up if possible, substituting in your own initials and team color: [ANS/WF/Purple]. Thanks!
- The same paper may be presented by a T/R and a W/F student, but may only be presented once per section.
As you prepare your talk be sure to follow the specific guidelines for oral presentations in this class.
- Please email your finished journal club presentation to 20109.submit AT gmail DOT com no later than 1 pm on the day of your presentation. The order in which your presentations are received will be the order of speakers.
- Both Day 6 and Day 8 presentations will begin at 1:30 pm sharp in room 16-336.
Paper Options
The list of papers below is provided as a guideline for the types of papers that might be relevant for your presentation. You are not limited to the primary research articles on this list. The list is provided simply to give you an idea of the kinds of subjects that could make suitable presentations for the class. Search PubMed yourself to find articles of interest to you.
The easiest way to locate each paper is to type the "doi" (digital object identifier) in at the DOI website. If that approach gives you an error for some reason, or in future cases where you might not know the doi, you can try typing the title of your article into PubMed to find it. If you have trouble accessing your article directly from there, go to http://libraries.mit.edu/vera, which is MIT's collection of journals online. Try selecting "exact title" from the search pulldown menu if the name of your journal is a common word such as Science. For older articles, you need to choose the JSTOR rather than Highwire interface.
Microbe/Disease Detection
- Ahmed, W., Sawant, S., Huygens, F., Goonetilleke, A. & Gardner, T. Prevalence and occurrence of zoonotic bacterial pathogens in surface waters determined by quantitative PCR. Water research 43, 4918-4928, doi:10.1016/j.watres.2009.03.041 (2009).[ANS/Example Sign-Up/Just an Example]
- Choudhary, M. L. et al. Development of a multiplex one step RT-PCR that detects eighteen respiratory viruses in clinical specimens and comparison with real time RT-PCR. Journal of virological methods 189, 15-19, doi:10.1016/j.jviromet.2012.12.017 (2013).[ME/WF/red]
- de Boer, R. F., Ott, A., Kesztyus, B. & Kooistra-Smid, A. M. Improved detection of five major gastrointestinal pathogens by use of a molecular screening approach. Journal of clinical microbiology 48, 4140-4146, doi:10.1128/JCM.01124-10 (2010). [EC/WF/Blue]
- Etienne, K. A., Kano, R. & Balajee, S. A. Development and validation of a microsphere-based Luminex assay for rapid identification of clinically relevant aspergilli. Journal of clinical microbiology 47, 1096-1100, doi:10.1128/JCM.01899-08 (2009). [JV/WF/Purple]
- Kuhn, R. C., Rock, C. M. & Oshima, K. H. Occurrence of Cryptosporidium and Giardia in Wild Ducks along the Rio Grande River Valley in Southern New Mexico. Applied and environmental microbiology 68, 161-165, doi:10.1128/aem.68.1.161-165.2002 (2002). [HH/WF/Pink] [DS/TR/orange]
- Lee, S. Y., Lee, S. S., Lyoo, Y. S. & Park, H. M. DNA detection and genotypic identification of potentially human-pathogenic microsporidia from asymptomatic pet parrots in South Korea as a risk factor for zoonotic emergence. Applied and environmental microbiology 77, 8442-8444, doi:10.1128/AEM.05343-11 (2011). [MK/TR/purple][SWC/WF/Green]
- Liu, J. et al. A Laboratory-Developed TaqMan Array Card for Simultaneous Detection of 19 Enteropathogens. Journal of clinical microbiology 51, 472-480, doi:10.1128/JCM.02658-12 (2013). [AC/WF/pink]
- Lu, X., Trujillo-Lopez, E., Lott, L. & Erdman, D. D. Quantitative Real-time PCR Assay Panel for Detection and Type-Specific Identification of the Epidemic Respiratory Human Adenoviruses. Journal of clinical microbiology, doi:10.1128/JCM.03297-12 (2013).[NG/TR/blue]
- O'Leary, J., Corcoran, D. & Lucey, B. Comparison of the EntericBio multiplex PCR system with routine culture for detection of bacterial enteric pathogens. Journal of clinical microbiology 47, 3449-3453, doi:10.1128/JCM.01026-09 (2009).
- Pickering, J. W., Larson, M. T., Martins, T. B., Copple, S. S. & Hill, H. R. Elimination of false-positive results in a luminex assay for pneumococcal antibodies. Clinical and vaccine immunology : CVI 17, 185-189, doi:10.1128/CVI.00329-09 (2010). [ZA/WF/purple] [DF/TR/yellow]
- Rota, J. S. et al. Comparison of the Sensitivity of Laboratory Diagnostic Methods from a Well-Characterized Outbreak of Mumps in New York City, 2009. Clinical and vaccine immunology : CVI, doi:10.1128/CVI.00660-12 (2013). [KB/TR/Grey]
- Sambol, A. R. et al. Use of rapid influenza diagnostic tests under field conditions as a screening tool during an outbreak of the 2009 novel influenza virus: practical considerations. Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology 47, 229-233, doi:10.1016/j.jcv.2009.12.015 (2010). [KV/WF/Yellow] [TH/TR/Pink]
- Schnee, C. et al. A novel rapid DNA microarray assay enables identification of 37 Mycoplasma species and highlights multiple Mycoplasma infections. PloS one 7, e33237, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033237 (2012).
- Sidhu, J. P., Hodgers, L., Ahmed, W., Chong, M. N. & Toze, S. Prevalence of human pathogens and indicators in stormwater runoff in Brisbane, Australia. Water research 46, 6652-6660, doi:10.1016/j.watres.2012.03.012 (2012). [KG/WF/Orange][MC/TR/pink]
- Zangger, H. et al. Detection of leishmania RNA virus in leishmania parasites. PLoS neglected tropical diseases 7, e2006, doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0002006 (2013). [SER/WF/Grey]
- Fagan, P. K., Hornitzky, M. A., Bettelheim, K. A. & Djordjevic, S. P. Detection of Shiga-Like Toxin (stx1 andstx2 ), Intimin (eaeA), and Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) Hemolysin (EHEC hlyA) Genes in Animal Feces by Multiplex PCR. Applied and environmental microbiology 65, 868-872 (1999). [AC/TR/red]
- Metzgar, D. et al. Evaluation and Validation of a Real-Time PCR Assay for Detection and Quantitation of Human Adenovirus 14 from Clinical Samples. PloS one 4, e7081, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007081 (2009). [SY/TR/Purple]
- Jones, M. S., Hudson, N. R., Gibbins, C. & Fischer, S. L. Evaluation of Type-Specific Real-Time PCR Assays Using the LightCycler and J.B.A.I.D.S. for Detection of Adenoviruses in Species HAdV-C. PloS one 6, e26862, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026862 (2011). [SS/WF/Blue]
- van Belkum, A., Renders, N. H. M., Smith, S., Overbeek, S. E. & Verbrugh, H. A. Comparison of conventional and molecular methods for the detection of bacterial pathogens in sputum samples from cystic fibrosis patients1. FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology 27, 51-57, doi:10.1111/j.1574-695X.2000.tb01411.x (2000).[NF/TR/red][AC/WF/pink]
Characterizing Microbial Communities
- Deleon-Rodriguez, N. et al. Microbiome of the upper troposphere: Species composition and prevalence, effects of tropical storms, and atmospheric implications. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, doi:10.1073/pnas.1212089110 (2013). [ARM/WF/Orange] [ST/TR/Orange]
- Tunney, M. M. et al. Detection of anaerobic bacteria in high numbers in sputum from patients with cystic fibrosis. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 177, 995-1001, doi:10.1164/rccm.200708-1151OC (2008). [JDK/TR/Green]
- Bittar, F. et al. Molecular Detection of Multiple Emerging Pathogens in Sputa from Cystic Fibrosis Patients. PloS one 3, e2908, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002908 (2008). [JW/WF/Yellow]
- Smith, D. et al. Free Tropospheric Transport of Microorganisms from Asia to North America. Microb Ecol 64, 973-985, doi:10.1007/s00248-012-0088-9 (2012). [DA/WF/Red]
- Bibby, K. & Peccia, J. Identification of Viral Pathogen Diversity in Sewage Sludge by Metagenome Analysis. Environmental Science & Technology, doi:10.1021/es305181x (2013). [EL/TR/Grey]
- Brugger, S. D. et al. 16S <italic>rRNA</italic> Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism for the Characterization of the Nasopharyngeal Microbiota. PloS one 7, e52241, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0052241 (2012).[DNN/TR/Green]
- Phan, T. G. et al. The Fecal Viral Flora of Wild Rodents. PLoS Pathog 7, e1002218, doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1002218 (2011).
Related Topics
- Compton, A. A. & Emerman, M. Convergence and Divergence in the Evolution of the APOBEC3G-Vif Interaction Reveal Ancient Origins of Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses. PLoS Pathog 9, e1003135, doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1003135 (2013).[JZ/TR/Blue]
- Zanetti, F., Berinstein, A. & Carrillo, E. Effect of host selective pressure on Newcastle disease virus virulence. Microbial pathogenesis 44, 135-140, doi:10.1016/j.micpath.2007.08.012 (2008).[KH/WF/Green]
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Fed-up with declining tourism spending and tax revenue during the government shutdown, four Utah counties dependent on National Park and public lands visitors have declared states of emergency.
And Republican Gov. Gary Herbert has responded with a plea to President Obama to reopen the region's National Park areas with state, local and private funding.
"These closures must end immediately," Herbert wrote in a formal request to the President. "The unwarranted shut down of the national parks and other federal facilities is devastating to individuals and businesses that rely on these areas for their livelihood."
Seventeen years ago, during the last shutdown of the federal government, the state of Arizona provided funds to keep open the south rim of Grand Canyon National Park.
A spokesman for the National Park Service says the agency is considering a response to Utah's request.
Utah has five of the nation's most attractive National Parks, especially to foreign visitors, who arrive by the busload this time of year. Communities with hotels, restaurants, outfitters and other tourism businesses outside Zion, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, report cancellations and worker layoffs.
Grand Canyon National Park is just south of Utah in Arizona and is also a major tourism driver for southern Utah counties.
The state also has 16 National Monuments, National Recreation Areas and National Forests that are magnets for sightseers, boaters, fishers and hunters.
"October is a peak season for tourism in many parts of Utah," Herbert wrote. In a news release, Herbert claimed the shutdown has had a $100 million impact in the state so far, including furloughs of workers at military bases and federal offices.
Four counties in southwestern Utah say they're losing as much as $300,000 a day in tourism spending and tourism-related tax revenue. So, county commissioners in Iron, Washington, Kane and Garfield counties met in emergency sessions Monday and declared states of emergency.
Under Utah law, the declarations can lead to emergency state or federal funding but county officials say they don't expect state or federal checks. They want action instead.
"These are pleas from county leaders for Congress and the administration to get the parks open," says Dean Cox, the administrator in Washington County, which hosts many of the 3 million people who visit Zion National Park each year.
Springdale, Utah, is Zion's gateway community and it normally sees 10,000 visitors a day in autumn. "It's a virtual ghost town," Cox says.
Garfield County includes Bryce Canyon National Park and officials there say 75 per cent of the county's revenue is dependent on tourism, which also provides more than 40 percent of the jobs.
"People are out of work," says Falyn Owens, the director of the Garfield County Office of Tourism. "And we're not collecting taxes" derived from tourism visits.
Garfield is a rural county nearly the size of the state of Connecticut but with just 5,000 people. Ninety-six percent of the county is public land managed by the federal or state governments. Taxes paid by tourists are a major part of local government funding.
Neighboring Kane County is 86 percent federal land and includes some of the most stunning red-rock and canyon scenery in the world. Filmmakers and domestic and foreign tourists flock there. English is sometimes a rare language heard in visitor's centers.
Sightseeing and adventure trips account for 1/3 of the local economy, according to the county's tourism office. October is a busy month for visitors avoiding the summer heat and crowds.
Some have been unable to retrieve permits obtained months in advance to hike stunning rock formations such as "The Wave," which looks like ocean waves frozen in red sandstone. The permit office is crowded every morning with dozens of people often from Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the United States seeking ten highly-prized "walk-in permits" that are usually distributed daily.
"This closure is having a devastating impact," the Kane County Commissioners wrote in their emergency declaration.
Washington County's Cox says "we're not going to throw any punches at anybody" in response to a question about who is to blame for the shutdown. "You point your finger at everybody."
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