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Monster Farming
The creepy solution to the stem-cell debate.
The good news is that we may have figured out how to solve the moral problem that's been holding up stem-cell research. The bad news is that the solution will introduce a whole new kind of horror.
That's the implication of this year's final two presentations to the President's Council on Bioethics. The first, by Drs. Donald Landry and Howard Zucker of Columbia University, proposes that we take stem cells from embryos at the same point at which we take organs from children and adults: right after they die. All we have to do is agree on the point at which an embryo is dead. Landry suggests that this point is "the irreversible arrest of cell division," which conveniently applies to huge numbers of embryos frozen in IVF clinics. With further study, he argues, we can clarify the signs of irreversible arrest, which will tell us when it's kosher to start yanking stem cells. He cites an experiment in which stem cells from arrested frog embryos were injected into normal frog embryos. Twenty-five percent of the cells began to divide again and were absorbed into the new embryos.
The conservatives on the council like the idea. They have two concerns. They want to make sure the signs chosen to certify embryo death don't exclude some living embryos. They're also wary of the Columbia team's suggestion that stem cells could be harvested from embryos "in extremis," i.e., near death. But Landry and Zucker point out that these are the same issues ethicists have worked out in the case of a dying child or adult. We just need to iron out the details. That's the beauty of the proposal: It's conventional.
The second proposal, presented by council member William Hurlbut, is exactly the opposite. It's brilliantly, grotesquely unconventional. Hurlbut, an earnest young member of the council's conservative wing, has been working for two years on a scheme to end-run the problem of killing embryos. He seems to be the only person in this debate who has figured out that the Catholic fixation on the technical definition of a human embryo, which stem-cell researchers regard as a roadblock, actually presents an opportunity. Instead of whining about the church's insistence on the continuity of personhood from embryo to adult, Hurlbut has seized on the point of discontinuity: the non-personhood of anything before or less than an embryo. If it isn't an embryo, it's fair game.
The distinction Hurlbut wants to draw and exploit is between a whole embryo and its parts. He quotes Thomas Aquinas to the effect that an animal's life resides in its wholeness. "A living being is more than the sum of its parts," he argues. But while humanity may lie in the whole, utility may lie in the parts. As Hurlbut puts it in his presentation paper, "Incompletely constituted or severed from the whole, subsystems with partial trajectories of development may temporarily proceed forward with a certain biological momentum." In other words, the parts of an embryo—or the parts that normally would become an embryo—might produce stem cells, even if, to avoid the moral problem, we kept these parts incomplete or severed.
How could we create functioning parts of an embryo without the whole? By turning off one of the genes that guide embryo formation. Hurlbut's first choice is the human equivalent of cdx2, the gene in mice that directs the formation of the placenta. Without cdx2, the embryonic mouse cells divide but fail to take the shape of a mouse. The plan would be to follow the recipe for cloning—put the nucleus of a body cell into a gutted egg cell—but turn off cdx2. Then, once the cell begins to divide, reactivate the gene, too late to organize the embryo but early enough to make stem cells.
It sounds perfect, until you look up at the projection screen. Hurlbut has modeled his recipe on "aberrant products of fertilization" and teratomas, which, he explains, are "germ cell tumors that generate all three primary embryonic germ layers as well as more advanced cells and tissues, including partial limb and organ primordia." Limb and organ primordia? Yep, that's what's on the screen: a ball of tissue, grown inside some poor creature, full of bits and pieces of what would have been a body. Another slide shows an X-ray image of somebody's back. To the left of the spine, you can see a cluster of white spots that look like teeth. And that's exactly what they are, all dressed up and no place to chomp. You wanted disorganized development? You got it.
The things Hurlbut wants to create wouldn't get that far. And the important thing, from the standpoint of solving the stem-cell debate, is that they wouldn't be embryos. Hurlbut calls them "biological entities" or "pseudo-embryos," but he prefers the term "biological artifacts," which marks them, in his view, as "a human creation for human ends." They would have "no claim on the moral status due to a developing human life," he writes. James Q. Wilson, a council member who likes the idea and loves to garden, puts it more succinctly. The product of Hurlbut's technique, he suggests, would be "a weed."
The idea is so wild that others on the council, who usually know where they stand on embryo issues, aren't sure what to think. Gilbert Meilaender, a leader of the conservative bloc, worries that if it's OK to booby-trap the first week of embryonic development, it might become acceptable to booby-trap the eighth. Hurlbut says the sabotage he envisions would prevent the artifact from getting that far. But a footnote in Hurlbut's paper suggests the slope is slippery. "One could rightly argue that later deficiencies in axes formation, alignment of basic body plan and organogenesis also reveal a level of disorder that precludes organismal existence," he writes. If knocking out cdx2 doesn't work, he holds out the possibility of knocking out a different gene, Hnf4, "which is crucial to normal gastrulation." That would be two weeks into development, and Hurlbut has a list of other genes worth trying. His moral logic doesn't stipulate when the sabotage of embryonic development has to take effect. It only requires that the sabotage be done beforehand.
Paul McHugh, one of the council's moderates, finds the idea gruesome. He calls the proposed creation a "weird genetic hybrid" that is "very embryolike" and has been engineered to die. Hurlbut replies, coldly but correctly, that according to the technical definition favored by opponents of stem-cell research, the thing can't die because it was never alive. Leon Kass, the council's chairman, agrees, describing the thing as a "re-engineered entity" that is "embryolike" but not "embryonic." Michael Gazzaniga, the council's most liberal member, calls Hurlbut's strategy a perversion of science. Instead of tinkering with language to fit biology, he observes, Hurlbut is tinkering with biology to fit language.
Hurlbut stands his ground. He reels off a litany of biotech breakthroughs that were denounced as perversions in their time: blood transfusions, heart transplants, putting human genes into bacteria. He says we're already creating human-animal hybrids and are on the way to growing "whole organs or limbs." The crucial thing, he argues, is that such projects avoid "the moral ambiguity of the creation and destruction of full human embryos." What about the moral ambiguity of crippling a pre-embryonic cell so that it becomes a "creation" instead? Hurlbut is unmoved. "We're not trying to defend parts of things," he says.
If Hurlbut's proposal breaks the stem-cell impasse, this will be the reason: People who are deeply conservative about creating and destroying human embryos can be surprisingly liberal about creating and destroying anything outside that boundary. One of the council's hawks, Diana Schaub, calls the proposal "almost too good to be true." Another, Marry Ann Glendon, says it could be a historic turning point. Two others, Robert George and Alfonso Gomez-Lobo, are sympathetic as long as the technique reliably deprives the resulting cell of "the active disposition for self-organization and self-directed development in the direction of human maturity."
The only cautionary note among the conservatives comes from Schaub, who wonders whether we're "tampering with the organizing principle of life." Kass says he used to share that concern but has decided to set it aside, in part because it's "aesthetic," not moral. Kass, who once wrote an essay on "The Wisdom of Repugnance," seems to have decided that if lives can be saved by tampering with life's organizing principle, wisdom is the better part of repugnance.
I suspect the conservatives will get more than they bargained for. If Hurlbut's plan succeeds, it will, as promised, prevent the destruction of many human embryos. But it will also expose and weaken the fragile distinction between us and our parts. Tweak this gene or that, and a cell that would have become you becomes a weed, a monster, a multiplying mess. There, but for the grace of God, go you. And now that cell won't be at God's mercy. It will be at ours.


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The Fall-Guy Quiz
Do you have what it takes to take the rap?
So you want to be a fall guy. Do you have the skills and the knowledge to paint that bull's-eye onto your back? Take this simple quiz.
1. How does a president signal that Cabinet Secretary Jones is about to lose his job?
A. "I will consider the charges against Jones and then recommend a course of action."
B. "Frankly, I have my reservations about Jones, but I want to give him the benefit of the doubt."
C. "Jones and I have had a full and frank discussion. I'll have more to say about that later."
D. "Jones has my full faith and confidence."
2.What were the two events in American history for which E. Howard Hunt took the fall?
A. Watergate and the Vietnam War
B. Watergate and Iran-Contra
C. Watergate and the overthrow of the Allende government in Chile
D. Watergate and the Bay of Pigs
3. St. Thomas à Becket was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by four perfidious knights. King Henry II punished these knights by banishing them and seizing their lands. What did King Henry say to the knights prior to Becket's murder?
A. "See that nothing happens to my good pal the Archbishop of Canterbury."
B. "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"
C. "Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?"
D. "I don't want anything to happen to him while my mother's alive."
4. Name George W. Bush's first fall guy.
A. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill
B. Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld
C. Vice-presidential Chief of Staff Scooter Libby
D. John Sununu, chief of staff to President George H.W. Bush
5. Which high-ranking official took the fall for the Bay of Pigs?
A. John Foster Dulles
B. Allen Dulles
C. Charles Foster Kane
D. Stella Dallas
6. Why did Joshua Steiner, Treasury chief of staff during President Clinton's first term, lose his job?
A. Because he permitted Jay Stephens, a Republican, to be appointed to investigate Madison Guaranty, a failed Arkansas savings and loan
B. Because he permitted Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman to recuse himself from the investigation of Madison Guaranty
C. Because he kept a diary
D. All of the above
7. Which current TV-news personality was reported to have chewed Steiner out over the handling of Madison Guaranty?
A. Tim Russert
B. Charles Gibson
C. George Stephanopoulos
D. Stephen Colbert
8. What is President Bush's nickname for Alberto Gonzales, attorney general of the United States?
A. "Lawyer guy"
B. "The judge"
C. "Fredo"
D. "Al Pal"
9. When Robert McFarlane, an early Iran-Contra fall guy, swallowed a bottleful of Valium, to which Washington Post employee did he leave a self-justifying note?
A. Ben Bradlee
B. Bob Woodward
C. Katharine Graham
D. Meg Greenfield
10. What is President Bush's preferred method of punishment for the fall guys of the current war in Iraq?
A. Harsh public words
B. Private ostracization
C. Blue-ribbon panel investigations
D. Presidential medal of freedom
Bonus Question:
Mix and match: Pair the fall guy with what he/she took the fall for.
|1. Joseph Califano
|A. Pearl Harbor
|2. Bernie Nussbaum
|B. FDR's court-packing scheme
|3. Husband Kimmel
|C. "Who lost China?"
|4. Roger Altman
|D. Hurricane Katrina
|5. John Sununu
|E. Jimmy Carter's malaise
|6. Joseph Robinson
|F. Tipped Clinton White House to criminal referral
|7. Michael Brown
|G. Filegate
|8. Walter Short
|H. Jimmy Carter's malaise
|9. John Paton Davies
|I. Pearl Harbor
|10. James Schlesinger
|J. George H.W. Bush's unpopularity
Answers: 1) d; 2) d; 3) b or c; 4) d; 5) b; 6) d; 7) c; 8) c; 9) d; 10) d
Bonus Question Answers: 1) e or h; 2) g; 3) a or i; 4) f; 5) j; 6) b; 7) d; 8) a or i; 9) c; 10) e or h
If you got more than six out of 10 correct on either the multiple choice or the mix and match, you've probably got too much on the ball to make a good fall guy. But don't lose heart! As I noted in an earlier column, you can be a good fall guy by making up in zealotry what you lack in dimwittedness.


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ANAHEIM, Calif. – Henrik Zetterberg took a few well-deserved deep breaths before he packed his bags in the Detroit Red Wings' dressing room.
After seven games, four overtimes, three trips to California, countless momentum swings and a few frantic minutes at the close of Game 7, the Red Wings finally finished off Anaheim.
Their captain scored an early goal and made a late mistake, but the Wings survived to earn a second-round series much closer to home.
Zetterberg and Valtteri Filppula each had a goal and an assist, and the Red Wings eliminated the Ducks with a 3-2 victory Sunday night.
Justin Abdelkader scored a short-handed goal and Jimmy Howard made 31 saves as the seventh-seeded Red Wings won three of the first-round series' final four games to oust the Ducks, who had the NHL's third-best record in the regular season.
For the first time in the series, the Red Wings didn't even need overtime to win. They largely dominated the anti-climactic clincher—until Zetterberg's delay-of-game penalty allowed Anaheim to get within one goal.
"We did a great job getting off to a good start, and then we protected it there at the end," said Zetterberg, who scored three goals in the series' final two games after getting blanked in the first five. "A lot of us have been in tough situations like this before, so we knew how to play this type of game."
Detroit faces top-seeded Chicago in the second round, and the Red Wings already are relishing the prospect of shorter flights during their final post-season in the Western Conference.
Zetterberg scored just 1:49 in, and the Stanley Cup-winning captain finished with seven points in the series' final three games after just one assist in the first four.
But Zetterberg also shot the puck over the glass accidentally in the waning minutes, and Francois Beauchemin put a power-play goal off Jonathan Ericsson's skate in front of Howard with 3:17 to play.
"It was not the best move by me, so it was tough to sit in the box," Zetterberg said. "But we still had a one-goal lead, and we've been in these situations so many times before."
Anaheim never really got close to tying it, and the Red Wings wrapped up a Game 7 victory on the road for just the third time in the franchise's lengthy history. Detroit is in the second round for the sixth time in seven seasons, but the Wings will have to recharge after surviving this memorable matchup.
"It had to go down as one of the best series in the last short while, at least," Abdelkader said. "It was fun to play in, back-and-forth, tightly checked. Both teams played well and played hard."
The Motor City's team even prevented the first Freeway Faceoff in NHL playoff history. Anaheim would have faced Los Angeles in the second round, the first post-season matchup for Southern California's two teams.
Emerson Etem scored and Jonas Hiller stopped 29 shots for the Ducks, who couldn't capitalize on home ice and failed in their second chance to close out their first playoff series victory since 2009. Another slow start doomed Anaheim, which fell behind 2-1 late in the first period on Abdelkader's goal.
"We felt we had a good thing going," Hiller said. "I think everybody thought we were going to go a long way, but it seemed like we didn't find that extra step for the playoffs. Detroit was just a little better than us. It's depressing. It makes you feel sad."
Anaheim had the best winning percentage in franchise history while claiming only its second Pacific Division title during the lockout-shortened season. The defeat also is a sadly familiar playoff disappointment for Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau, who never got the Washington Capitals past the second round after four standout regular seasons with his previous club.
The loss also could be the final NHL game for Teemu Selanne, the 42-year-old franchise scoring leader who flirts with retirement every summer. The Finnish Flash said he'll take his customary several weeks before deciding his future.
"It's very disappointing," Selanne said. "We had two chances to close the series, but couldn't. … As a group, we have to learn something from this. The playoffs are so much fun. We were looking forward to going forward and enjoying this a whole lot more."
Selanne didn't score a goal in the series' final six games—but Corey Perry, the Ducks' former 50-goal scorer and NHL MVP, didn't score a goal in the entire series despite 24 shots.
"It's not something you think is going to happen," Perry said. "You get the job done throughout the year, but it just didn't seem to be there in this series."
The clubs alternated victories until the final two games of the series, with the Ducks taking three straight one-game leads before Detroit caught them. The Wings earned a third trip to California with an overtime win in Game 6 on Friday night—and they made it count with their fourth win in six appearances at Honda Center this season.
Detroit took the lead for good when Abdelkader stole Beauchemin's pass near the blue line during a power play late in the first period, beating Hiller on a breakaway for his first goal since returning from a two-game suspension.
Filppula put the Wings up 3-1 when he jumped on a loose puck and punched a backhand through Beauchemin's legs for his first goal of the post-season.
NOTES: Anaheim D Toni Lydman missed his fourth straight game since getting hit in the head by Abdelkader, who served a two-game suspension and returned for Game 6. … The Red Wings scratched C Cory Emmerton for the first time in the series and activated RW Patrick Eaves, who sat out Game 6. D Carlo Colaiacovo stayed in the lineup for the second straight game. … Anaheim's only previous Game 7 at Honda Center was in 1997, when the Ducks beat Phoenix for the franchise's first playoff series victory. Selanne was in his first full season with the club.


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Lionsgate's 'The Last Stand' Starts Production
The Arnold Schwarzenegger-starrer is shooting in New Mexico and Nevada, with Forest Whitaker, Luiz Guzman and Johnny Knoxville rounding out the cast.
TORONTO - The Last Stand, directed by Kim Jee Woon and produced by Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, has started production in New Mexico and Nevada.
Besides lead Arnold Schwarzenegger, the latest talent line up from Lionsgate includes Forest Whitaker, Luis Guzman, Johnny Knoxville, Jaimie Alexander, Eduardo Noriega and Harry Dean Stanton.
The modern western drama portrays an ageing small-town sheriff who finds himself and his inexperienced staff as the only thing standing in between a fugitive cartel leader and the Mexican border.
Korean action-suspense master Kim Jee-Woon is directing the film, which is based on a spec script by Andrew Knauer that was rewritten by Jeffrey Nachmanoff.
Lionsgate has domestic and international distribution rights.
Knoxville is repped by CAA, Guzman is repped by the Gersh Agency, and Whitaker is represented by WME.
Stanton is repped by Bresler-Kelly and Associates.


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DRAMA CLUB: Kill Me Heal Me Episode 12 Recap
Cha Do Hyun has woken up to find new memories and the aftermath Se Gi has left him with. To his surprise, not all of it is bad. The new memories however, give us more concrete clues about what happened 21 years ago and just how deep the rabbit hole goes. Join Cici and I, Wendilynn as we discuss this episode of Kill Me Heal Me.
Cici: So Do Hyun "wakes up" in his father's hospital room. Yikes, what a shock that must have been for him. Did you notice that the father, although in a coma, has the exact same finger strum that Se Gi has?
Wendilynn: I didn't make that connection, I just viewed it as him twitching with maybe the potential of waking up. Kdramas always show waking up from comas by the twitching of fingers. What I couldn't believe is that Se Gi led them to him. He KNEW he was being followed. Why did he go to the hospital room? Unless giving Do Hyun more of his memory back was part of the plan. Making him face his abuser.
Cici: I can think of two possibilities, neither one of which paints Se Gi in a favorable light. First, he may have headed straight to his father's room planning to "help him rest in peace" before Grandma tracked him down and prevented it. The other possibility is that he deliberately brought the subconscious Do Hyun there, hoping that the shock of seeing his father would keep him huddled in fear forever. We already know that Se Gi is hoping to take over Do Hyun's body permanently.
Wendilynn: Both very plausible and completely in character for Se Gi and the situation. And it would explain the taunting Se Gi was doing to him as he woke up having had the dream about the child in the basement.
Cici: So Se Gi really is a dangerous...polite words elude me.
Wendilynn: Yes, he is, but I also think his response is equal to the brutality of what he went through.
Cici: I have read of many psychopaths whose back story helped me understand them. That doesn't necessarily excuse their behavior, but I can understand how they got that way. I feel that way about Se Gi. I was just so relieved that he didn't actually murder his father. And I was really impressed with the strength that Do Hyun displayed when he had to go about cleaning up that mess!
Wendilynn: In 11 years, Se Gi has never killed anyone. Sent them to the ICU, yes, but never killed. I was surprised he sent dad to a hospital. I would have expected less than ideal conditions for his abuser, but he still took care of him responsibly….well as much as he's able to be. Before we get into Do Hyun's clean up and what needed it and didn't, I want to talk about Ri Ohn. Getting caught by his sister with the Cha family records and history. I have to hand it to him, he was quick on the ball in covering his reasons. I was sure that Ri Jin was going to learn it all in that moment. A part of me was glad he kept her role in it from her.
Cici: He is still certain that finding her memories would destroy their happy family, and that he is doing the right thing in keeping what he knows a secret. I don't think he realizes that the recovery of her memories has already begun, and that it is inevitable.
Wendilynn: It is inevitable, and I agree with you. He's trying to protect his family in his own way. He's been afraid all this time that Ri Jin and Do Hyun are developing feelings for each other. That scene in front of Do Hyun's house calmed him down a little. Although, her warning of introducing him to Yo Na as punishment cracked me up. Oh, the boy has NOOOOO clue the trouble waiting for him. lol
Cici: I'm not so sure how Yo Na would feel, being employed as a secret weapon, lol. But she surely is! I had been wondering why Ri Ohn was so afraid of the effect of Ri Jin's memories on his family. They are so strong and supportive, and his parents obviously know her backstory already. So what is the big deal? But then I realized that he was afraid of what making her history public might trigger in Do Hyun's family. If they were to find her and go out to get her, there would be little he or anyone else would be able to do to protect her.
Wendilynn: He's been overhearing his parents agonizing over Ri Jin lately. I'm sure he doesn't want to break their hearts by telling them, "Oh by the way, Ri Jin remembers she's not really a member of the family". But I agree, they are so close as a family, that when it all comes out, everything will be okay. They have enough love to envelope all the pain Ri Jin and Do Hyun have suffered.
Cici: Well, it's nice that Do Hyun won't be alone on the clean-up crew. What did you think of his confrontation with Grandma? She clearly was startled by the abrupt change in his demeanor. No wonder she went to Dr. Suk and demanded an explanation.
Wendilynn: Yeah, she was confused, for sure. But why did Dr. Suk tell her what he refused to tell Ki Joon? I mean, it was sort of appropriate considering she already had a clue, but patient confidentiality man. Why didn't it apply to Grandma?
Cici: I was wondering the same thing! The only thing I could think of was that she was the closest thing to a direct relative he has, besides his mother, and he probably hoped she would be supportive and give him the love and care that he needs to get through this. Ha, keep dreaming, buster! The cynic in me suspects that Dr Suk fears her wealth and power just enough to tell her what she wants to know, though.
Wendilynn: He knows very well what that family is like, I'm thinking since their group is a major contributor to that hospital, it probably played a role. But Do Hyun needs the truth his Grandmother and Mother hold to heal. So, it could go either way.
Cici: Thank you. I really like Dr Suk, so I'm hoping that this was a sincere attempt to get Do Hyun the help he needs, from the only source available. Of course, Do Hyun is going to have to depend on himself in the long run. But nice try, Doc.
Wendilynn: I'm glad Do Hyun is awake now. When he was getting chewed out by Ri Jin as if he were Se Gi, and watching him smile at her, only to have her cry in relief as she realized Do Hyun was back was so touching. I loved that kiss to her forehead.
Cici: Yes! That is one of my favorite Kdrama gestures. I was just a teensy bit worried that Dr Oh was falling under the spell of Se Gi again, since he was so awesome in the last episode. So I was relieved when she collapsed in a blubbering mess when she realized that Do Hyun had become strong enough to return, despite Se Gi's best efforts to prevent him from doing so. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for poor Chae Yeon. Se Gi has seriously messed up her mind.
Wendilynn: She was already messed up to start with. Its not like her relationship with Ki Joon is all that great. I had to laugh at the two scenes where Ri Jin had to put Chae Yeon down and Do Hyun had to hold his own against Ki Joon. I LOVED that Do Hyun had the strength and confidence to stare his cousin down AND to apologize to Chae Yeon for his "crazy" talk.
Cici: I am not an advocate of drinking, but isn't it a convenient excuse for bad behavior? It sounds so much better than just admitting, "Hey, I was having a psychotic break. Sorry!"
Wendilynn: Works for me as a plot device. I don't drink but I was a wedding DJ for a long time and I saw many a person change after getting a few. It does happen.
Cici: So, I was really happy that Do Hyun got to see some of the positive sides of Se Gi's actions. Here he is trying to clean up the mess left behind, only to find out that Se Gi actually pulled off a few tricks that he would have been incapable of as Do Hyun. That happy ending with the J.I. episode cracked me up.
Wendilynn: Oh yes. I love that Do Hyun was able to see that Se Gi could be a good source instead of always thinking he's going to destroy everything. Secretary Ahn's words about Se Gi having confidence because he knows Do Hyun is there to fix or support whatever happens was very insightful. I also cracked up at the scene with J.I AND the wave at the girls in the foyer. J.I just wanted someone to believe in him and the girls just wanted to swoon over a handsome man. Do Hyun needed those pushes of confidence.
Cici: I just need to say that Manager Ahn is one of my favorite supporting characters. He not only understands Do Hyun, but he understands that Se Gi and Do Hyun are different facets of the same person. Next to Ri Jin, I think he will be the most important character in helping Do Hyun's personalities become reintegrated.
Wendilynn: He has certainly been a solid strength and support for the last 11 years. I have to hand it to him for sneaking the recording device onto Se Gi so that he could record that confrontation with the Grandma and learn about the other child. Finally the picture is starting to open up.
Cici: Well, if he ever had any doubts, Do Hyun now knows for certain that Grandma is a bald-faced liar. It's good to know your enemy, I suppose, but my heart cried a little when he had to give up the last hope that his Grandmother would ever love him or think of him as a human being.
Wendilynn: Yeah, that last scene was rough. I think Do Hyun knew he was never really considered family. I don't think that was a surprise, but now he knows that to heal, he must stay and see this through. I think that after seeing the good that Se Gi produced at work, the small confidence it also gave Do Hyun to be more assertive is playing a role here.
Cici: This episode was a lot heavier than the previous one, but I did appreciate the little bits of comic relief that the writers managed to throw in. I laughed so hard when Do Hyun asked about the Se Gi Wheel of Fortune!
Wendilynn: I was laughing as he was delighted that "the gods" were on his side. I mean, that wheel is totally outrageous, and to learn he won the spin. Oh my gosh, that was funny. He was very impressed how Ri Jin was able to turn the loss into a way to get Se Gi's cooperation.
Cici: I keep thinking that there is no way he will ever be able to let her go. Who else will give him the confidence to relax and be himself? She's the only person who has ever been able to build a positive rapport with all of his personalities.
Wendilynn: Agreed. I don't think his heart will let her go either. Except for Yo Na, the rest of them like her a lot. I think Se Gi would be very jealous to know how many times Do Hyun's lips touch Ri Jin's skin. lol For all his bravado, Se Gi doesn't push the romantic aspect with her.
Cici: That last scene was the first time that I felt truly hopeful that in a war of wills, Do Hyun might be able to beat Se Gi. Telling the mirror Se Gi, "If you did it, then I will do it" felt like a real breakthrough. And that while facing that terrifying image of Se Gi's scornful smile. I'm not sure I could have pulled that one off.
Wendilynn: Acting wise, it was a powerful scene. I will say this. I think Do Hyun is finally starting to understand the pain and guilt that Se Gi is carrying. And the only way he can re-integrate himself is to take on that pain, too. He's very correct. He is Se Gi and Se Gi is him. Do Hyun has been fighting them all as separate people, but they are all just aspects of himself. He has finally started accepting that and not being afraid of it, I think. Now, we just need to help Ri Jin not be afraid. That vision she had in the basement of her childhood. Oh, boy.
Cici: I have to admit that she has always hidden her trauma so well, that I did not really take it seriously enough. Right now it looks like Do Hyun may actually be able to face his past more successfully than Ri Jin. Here's hoping he can be the kind of strength for her that she has been for him.
Wendilynn: Considering what we suspect was going on in that basement. Oh yeah. I think that it may take both of them together to fix all the broken pieces because it seems they shattered together.
Do Hyun is finally going to confront his memories and their pain head on. What will become of everyone when the secrets hidden for 21 years come to light? Give us your thoughts on what's been happening so far in the comments below.
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Warsaw High School voices will join
Manchester College's for a workshop and concert of women's choral music
on Monday, March 12. The public is invited to the free performance at
7:30 p.m. in Wine Recital at the College.
The 20-voice Intermediate Women's Chorus of
Warsaw Community High School, conducted by Scott Avery and accompanied
by Deb Bishop will perform first. Then, the College's Cantabile women's
choir will perform, joined for two songs by the A Cappella Choir women,
conducted by Alan Chambers and accompanied by Michael Good.
The concert will close with all choirs
performing under the baton of Dr. Debra J. Lynn, Manchester College
director of choral organizations and voice.
The A Cappella Choir in May heads for an
encore performance at the legendary Carnegie Hall in New York City. The
choir, directed by Dr. Lynn, also has performed in the Vatican and
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Will Smith: Wachowskis' Robin Hood?
The Wachowskis are planning their next project, a modern take on the story of Robin Hood!
The duo, who wrote the script and will direct the film, are keeping details hush-hush. THR reports that insiders say Will Smith has been contacted about the role!
The Wachowskis are also gearing up to shoot Cloud Atlas next summer, which Halle Berry has already signed on for!
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Dead Birds is a 1963[1] documentary film by Robert Gardner about the Dani people of New Guinea. It was produced as part of the Harvard-Peabody Expedition to study the highlands of New Guinea, at that time one of the few remaining areas in the world uncolonized by Europeans.[2]
The premiere of Dead Birds took place at the Loeb Drama Center at Harvard University in October 1963. In 1998, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
The film's title is borrowed from a Dani fable that Gardner recounts in voice-over. The Dani people, whom Gardner identifies mysteriously as "a mountain people," believe that there was once a great race between a bird and a snake, which was to determine the lives of human beings. Should men shed their skins and live forever like snakes, or die like birds? The bird won the race, dictating that man must die.
The film's plot revolves around two characters, Weyak and Pua. Weyak is a warrior who guards the frontier between the land of his tribe and that of the neighboring tribe. Pua is a young boy whom Gardner depicts as weak and inept.
Though stylistically impressive, Dead Birds has been criticized with respect to its authenticity. The characters who speak in the film are never subtitled, and even then the voice itself is not always what it seems. What the audience perceives as Weyak's voice is actually a post-filming dub of Karl G. Heider speaking Dani. Gardner himself did not speak Dani, and so all his interpretations of events are second-hand. The battle sequences are made up of many shots taken during different battles and stitched together to give the appearance of temporal unity. The apparent continuity stems from the post-synchronized sound, and in fact all the sound in the film is post-synched. Heider, himself, admits in his book Ethnographic Film, that some of the battle films were edited out of sequence, intercut with scene from the women at the salt pool, which was also taken at a different time.[3]
- ^ Nonfiction Film:A Critical History, p295, Richard Meran Barsam, Indiana University Press, 1992, ISBN 0253207061, 9780253207067
- ^ "Bringing Faraway Worlds Closer, And Questioning Western Intrusions". New York Times. November 10, 2011.
- ^ Heider, Karl. Ethnographic Film. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1978.
See also[edit]
- Ruby, Jay. Picturing Culture: Explorations of Film and Anthropology. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 2000.
- Heider, Karl. Ethnographic Film. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1978.
- Kirsch, Stuart. "Ethnographic Representation and the Politics of Violence in West Papua". Critique of Anthropology 30(1):3–22, 2010.


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Want to taste formaggio di fossa? Join us in Emilia-Romagna for a culinary tour of the region, with hands-on foodcraft classes and more.
In the afternoon after our day of making preserves with Marzia, we took a field trip to nearby Sogliano al Rubicone, a small hill town on the southern edge of Romagna. As we arrived at our destination, we had a marvelous view of nearby San Marino, the tiny republic contained wholly within the nation of Italy.
Vanessa told us that, due to being a papal state for centuries, there was, and remains, strong anti-clerical sentiment in the region. In Sogliano, residents made a cheese from sheep's milk, but in an effort to conceal anything they didn't want stolen or taxed, they began to carve pits in the rock under their homes.
Sogliano is perched on a promontory of porous tufa, or limestone. As locals packed their fresh pecorino into these pits, a few things happened. First, the pressure of the weight of all the cheese would malform the wheels, resulting in nobby, irregular hunks. But after aging in the pits for a few months, they also noticed that the flavor of the cheese had changed. And so this sharp pecorino became a local delicacy, formaggio di fossa -- pit cheese.
At Fosse Brandinelli, owner Marino took us, three at a time, up a James Bond-esque oval elevator carved into the cliff face. Some years ago, the Brandinellis purchased the home the next level up. When they went to clear out the basement, they discovered that they were the proud owners of several of these traditional pits, that had been filled up with earth.
Not every home in Sogliano has these pits, so they knew they had something special. After clearing the pits out, they were faced with a new destiny: To become artisan cheese makers.
After showing us around the cellar and the pits (you can see some photos on their site), and explaining the process of lining the pits with hay and packing the cheeses in, we settled in for a tasting.
Formaggio di fossa is firm, almost chalky, with a sharpness typical of sheep's milk cheeses. The seasoning from the tufa pits gives it even more piquancy, making it almost spicy. It's delicious, especially when paired with sweet and acidic things, like the savor we had made earlier in the day.
Luckily, you can bring any cheese aged more than 60 days into the US; formaggio di fossa is aged up to 180 days. So I happily brought home a 2.2 kg wheel.
Brandinelli also makes a grana-style cow's milk cheese, similar to Parmigiano-Reggiano. It, too, was delicious, but we were headed to Parma the next day to see Parmigiano production, and I knew I'd end up taking home a chunk of that.


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I didn't expect the hate—especially not in CMC's Stark Hall.
It seemed as if someone had been specifically targeting the LGBT posters ever since they went up, ripping them and flipping them over so their contents weren't visible. The other posters looked in good shape. On Friday, February 8, someone wrote an ignorant comment on a Spectrum poster depicting what appeared to be a male with red fingernails: "Your [sic] a man, act like it."
Who would expect LGBT hate here at the Claremont Colleges? Most 5C students might agree that this occurrence is less unexpected at Claremont McKenna College.
While exploring online forums about CMC before admittance, I remember reading a thread about CMC being the least LGBT-friendly campus at the Claremont Colleges. However, I soon brushed it off when I "prospied" and my host mentioned a male friend's latest guy crush.
Taking classes at the Keck Science Department and interacting with non-CMC students, I could see more active support of the queer community and gender-based issues from the other colleges, including more lectures, social events, and conversations about these topics. Of course, this does not mean CMC does not offer support for other social issues; we are just particularly deficient in LGBT support. The Athenaeum celebrates the "Spectrum of Leadership" by inviting speakers like Dan Savage and Tony Kushner, but is the student body as inviting?
Claremont McKenna has only one not-so-large club, the Alliance for Queer Appreciation and Understanding (AQUA), that supports the campus's LBGT community. The existence of off-campus 5C resources like the Queer Resource Center does not mean that the CMC campus is as supportive.
Is our community not supportive enough to deter unacceptable behavior like the vandalism of LGBT posters? While it is impossible to convince every person on this planet to stop spreading hate, we can seek to foster an environment in which no one will think this kind of thing is acceptable here at CMC.
The LGBT community in the U.S. has made significant headway, gaining the right to marry by popular vote in Maine, Maryland, and Washington this past election. But with progress comes backlash. There is staunch resistance against the gay community. There is hate. But at least on our campuses we can create an understanding home for our students.
I urge the CMC student body to support our LGBT community and AQUA by attending events and participating in Ally Week in April. Show these people that hate is not what CMC is about.
Viva CMC. Viva a supportive community.
AQUA meets Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the Auen Hall lounge. There will be a Queer and Ally Social 1-4 p.m. in C-Hall this Saturday, February 22.


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Today is the launch of PS4's next major system update codenamed "Musashi" which updates some social features and adds remote play for both PC and Mac users. Some of the new social features include being able to appear offline, choose to be notified when a friend is online, create a scheduled event to play online with your friends, and to be able to see what members of a party are playing in order to jump directly into other games with them. Playstation has outlined more details on their blog…
but let's get down to the meat and potatoes…remote play!
Remote Play allows a PS4 owner to play games, streamed over Wi-Fi on PC or Mac using the remote play software, a PS4 and a wired PS4 controller. You don't need to be on the same network for it to work but it's recommended. You can adjust video quality and frame rate settings but if you care enough to even use this setting then you'll probably want the most optimal experience. Hardwiring your PS4 at home and the device your streaming to is probably the ideal situation if you're going to be streaming elsewhere but at least hardwiring the PS4 is strongly recommended.
Remote Play on PC / Mac is compatible with the following system software:
- Windows 8.1
- Windows 10 or later
You'll be able to select from the following resolution and frame rate options, depending on your Internet bandwidth.
- Resolution options: 360p, 540p, 720p (Default: 540p)
- Frame rate : Standard (30fps), High (60fps) (Default: Standard)
I haven't tested it myself but we'll keep you posted on any issues we come across!
Playstation's official announcement can be found in video form on their Facebook page.


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The station takes its name from the nearby Baths of Diocletian (in Latin , thermae , arum ) on the opposite side of the main entrance of the station.
The first station was opened to the public in 1863. Several renovations has undergone during the course of history, also made necessary as a result of damage caused by bombing during the Second World War.
Nowadays, Termini Station is characterized outwardly by the long winding concrete shelter popularly called the " dinosaur " , which is accentuated by thin horizontal strip windows . The form was not random but framing the outline of the ancient walls of Rome , the Servian walls . Access to trains is via a pedestrian gallery which connects via Giolitti to Via Marsala.
The Morgana Hotel is situated a few steps from Termini station, a strategic location for those who want to reach Rome by train and also for those arriving from the airport; by the railway line "Leonardo Express" that connects directly to Fiumicino Airport to Termini Station, you can reach the city center from the airport (and vice versa) in just 40 minutes
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I have been asked and am happy to give my opinion on real-time bidding (RTB) and branding. The underlying question for me is more about the definition of 'display media for branding'.
We are testing and running branding campaigns depending on clients' wishes, but there is still lots to learn about what is possible and what makes sense for our clients.
For a DR (direct response) campaign we have clear KPIs, such as CPA targets, driving revenue or just simply CTR. However, you could argue that branding is more about an advertiser being seen on a certain publisher or in an environment of a specific audience.
Traditionally, branding used to be measured through surveys valuing the impact of online display, TV or outdoor.
Whilst through RTB you could target certain publishers, you have a disadvantage of available volume on any one of them. You cannot guarantee a certain amount of impressions on any publishers, nor an even delivery on them.
We have tested this for some clients, trying to get as much awareness on certain premium inventory, and the results are mixed. However, for most of our branding clients KPIs like user engagement measured through various metrics seems to be the most successful model, particularly if paired with data to buy their desired audience.
Is it possible to reach my audience on premium inventory through RTB at all?
Microsoft explained it a few weeks ago in an interview: "we offer our inventory (tier one) as self service via RTB in the Microsoft exchange, but also as a more convenient buy through our network".
I believe that a great amount of premium publishers will soon follow suit in order to sell more of their premium inventory potentially at a higher floor price via RTB. So your audience can be reached on premium sites more and more so.
Branding seems to really be about seeing a nice ad for a nice product on a reputable publisher. A quick look at the Financial Times website showed a Rolex ad, a perfect example.
Also, Rolex sponsors golf events, so if they are after golfers, maybe they should consider the golf blogs and social media sites about golfing? The likelihood is they won't, but not because they don't find their audience on these sites but because they want their brand associated with a different environment/context.
URL-centred and audience-centred branding
I guess we have to differentiate branding that is URL-centred and branding that is audience-centred. For the latter the exercise is about driving awareness with the consumer and target audience, and RTB buying would work very well for that.
This can be achieved either through available targeting options, like demographic or contextual targeting, or even through third party data integration and building audience profiles that are targeted across the RTB platforms.
This can be done whilst the consumer is browsing their favourite social media site, reading their newspaper online or watching a video. And, you could exclude UGC (user generated content) if you wish and only focus on the top tier publishers.
To complete the picture, there are new technologies that become available which measure whether users have been exposed to an ad and for how long. Whilst still in testing mode, those technologies might also be able to leverage RTB inventory for branding campaigns.
Speaking to various "brand measuring companies" the general consensus is that the learning is not as robust as they would like, however it is something that we will be monitoring very closely. We continue testing new providers, and will update once we have findings that are presentable. However, the golden egg still hasn't been found.
Video and RTB
Before I conclude, I believe there is a key to getting brands onto RTB, the available inventory in video RTB.
Brands will be very keen to access pre roll and video inventory through RTB in order to reach the same audience they would on TV but much cheaper and in REAL TIME.
Will IPTV be next? Forrester suggest that static ads will be having a minority share for all display campaigns in favour of video and rich media ads by 2016 at the very latest.
When video RTB goes mainstream, and this is not too far off, we will see a real measurable branding value. Then at the very least brand marketers consider RTB as a standard audience buy with high impact branding effectiveness.
Did you notice me saying "audience buy"?
Summing up: RTB could make a lot of sense for "window shopping" and URL centred branding buys but I believe it adds more value for brands focusing on targeting its audience.
RTB delivers cost-effective brand awareness to consumers through various targeting options and channels such as display and video.
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I'm not sure about any broad brush approach along the lines of 'does this media work for brands or not'. It depends on the brand. Branding is not about 'seeing a nice ad for a nice product on a reputable publisher'. It is about getting your target audience to choose you above your competitors. If your core brand proposition is about price, pricing has to feature front and centre in your communication, the 'niceness' of your ad is irrelevant.
By definition, inventory available for real time bidding has not been sold in a more planned context so is unlikely to meet the criteria of a brand with a highly specific target audience. However, if you use time-limited offers either as a core proposition or as a marketing tactic, RTB could work very well for you. The question 'does RTB work for brands' requires a nuanced answer.
Hi Chris,
Thanks for your comment. I'd agree that a "broad brush approach" doesn't work. Guess it never does because each brand has a different character and therefore each branding campaign has a different goal.
I am glad we agree about "getting in front of your target audience" is important; however, I am not quite getting the point about the planned context: not only can you look at targeting audiences and contextual targeting but you can look at URL targeting within RTB. A very planned approach. Is that what you mean?
As with any offer in an ad, we look more into a DR campaign really.
Chris, thanks again for your comments. Curious to hear a more nuanced approach. This post was really to get the ball rolling on the discussion about RTB and branding. There is more to come, e.g. from a technology point of view and attribution modelling we are testing new solutions. Maybe I can share more about that soon.


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JCLMargaretO Oct 05, 2017
I've always loved the music of the Beach Boys, but wasn't aware of their personal lives, especially that of Brian Wilson. So heartbreaking, yet successful in spite of it all. You'll never listen to their music the same way again.
JCLBrentW Jul 17, 2017
This was actually the best film of 2015. Paul Dano is especially good.
JCLKatieS Apr 02, 2016
This movie rubbed me the wrong way. The story was good but how it was done was a little too unconventional for my taste. There was a lot of jumping back and forth with pretty intense sound bites that were intended to be the noise in Brian Wilson's head and while Paul Dano did a great job at portr... Read More »
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Directed by Bill Pohlad in 2014, this American biopic delves into the life of Brian Willson---the Beach Boys' co-founder and leader who struggles with mental illness during the 1960s and 1980s.
You can see the scenes that closely recreated Wilson's studio recording methods during the making of Pet Sounds (1966).
If you're a Beach Boys' fan, this is a must-see.
Rated 5/10. I found this to be an interesting story, as opposed to an "amazing" one, which was the way it was described on the DVD cover.
The acting was nothing special, other than the role Elizabeth Banks played. She was great!
Another good "music movie" that satisfies my desire to simultaneously enjoy a good movie and be exposed on a deeper level to music or a musician that was perhaps before my time or I didn't know much about. I found the scenes with the "young Brian" were compelling, fascinating, and interesting (esp as a music-lover) and the arc with the "old Brian" were good as well as we face issues of corruption and post-career hopes and dreams.
I appreciated and enjoyed the sympathy, love, and compassion shown by the female lead to the aging Brian.
From the books, magazines, newspaper articles, and discussions in other movies and documentaries I know on the history of The Beach Boys and Brian Wilson, this is accurate, though I agree with others, sort of underwhelming, even if it touches on all the main points.
The Bonus Features are pretty good.
John Cusack and Paul Dano portrayed Brian Wilson (as old and young) excellently.
Paul Giamatti did a great job as the manipulative psychiatrist that held power over Brian for years.
It was alright but nothing special! I never knew Brian Wilson had such trouble!!
Paul Dano (Brian Wilson) didn't give me a convincing performance. He seemed lost and simple. His cousin was a gothic drag. I appreciate the musical genius that they tried to convey. Interesting to see how his music came about and his background. I think I wanted more of a biopic than a Hollywood reenactment. Still not sure what Brian Wilson's diagnosis is: Schizophrenia? Autism? Paranoid? Scared of his creepy dad? Too many anti-psychotic drugs? I am confused why we let our musical genius's, i.e. Elvis, Brian Wilson, Prince, Michael Jackson, etc., be treated by quack doctors. Don't get that.
The movie is a gem. Life and times of Brian Wilson. Paul Dano could've played Brian Wilson from young to old without any problems but John Cusak did a pretty nice job too. Paul Giamatti as Eugene Landy and Elizabeth Banks as Melinda gave very strong performances.
This is a good film about the chief songwriter for the Beach Boys- Brian Wilson. It follows him at the apex of his abilities as a songwriter, to the period later in his life when he struggled with mental problems. Both Paul Dano and John Cusack give good performances as Wilson.
I've always loved the music of the Beach Boys, but wasn't aware of their personal lives, especially that of Brian Wilson. So heartbreaking, yet successful in spite of it all. You'll never listen to their music the same way again.
This well-meaning, but so-so biopic of head Beach Boy Brian Wilson (Or beach man as he once insisted to his overbearing father.) tries to tell two distinct stories, one about his brilliant work in the 60s, in which he's played by Paul Dano, and one about the woman (Elizabeth Banks) who saves him from his manipulative, malicious shrink (Paul Giamatti). In the this story he's played by John Cusack, who looks nothing like Wilson. There are good moments (especially when Wilson is working) and the acting is good, but it's uneven and tries to cover too much material. I actually would have preferred a straight documentary. For more about Wilson's mental health issues and musical genius, there's Peter Ames Carlin's book "Catch a Wave." God only knows if this movie could've been better.
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Wilson on "The Wrecking Crew," (excellent documentary 2015 film for 60's & 70's pop music fans:)
Wilson: I want you to meet Tony Asher. Tony Asher, this is Hal Blaine. The greatest drummer working today. And you never heard of him, have you? ... the whole band.
I mean, they're probably... the best in the business, but they're studio musicians... so nobody's ever heard of them. It's crazy!
A Wrecking Crew member to Wilson:
Chuck: Let me tell you something. We're all pros, you know? We've played with everyone. Heard it all. You name them, we've played with them. Sinatra, Dean Martin... Elvis, Phil Spector... Sam Cooke, everyone! And we all studied in goddamn
conservatories, for Christ's sake. But... but you... you got to know... that you're touched, kid. You've blown our minds.
Wison: More than Phil Spector?
Chuck: Ah, Phil's got nothing on you.
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Ph.D., Hofstra University, 2002
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Psychology Department
Queen's University
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Neurocognition in Psychosis
Functional Outcomes in Psychotic Disorders
Novel Behavioral Assessment Methods
Early Intervention and Prevention of Severe Mental Illness
Pharmacological and Behavioral Treatment of Cognitive Deficits
Publications from last three years:
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Best MW, Gupta M, Bowie CR*, Harvey PD. A Longitudinal Examination of the Moderating Effects of Symptoms on the Relationship between Functional Competence and Real World Functional Performance in Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, In Press. *Corresponding Author
Chengappa KNR, Bowie CR, Schlicht PJ, Fleet D, Brar JS, Jindal R. Randomized placebo-controlled adjunctive study of an extract of Withania somnifera for cognitive dysfunction in bipolar disorder.J Clin Psychiatry, 2013, 74:11
Depp CA, Strassnig M, Mausbach BT, Bowie CR, Wolyniec P, Thornquist MH, Luke JR, McGrath JA, Pulver AE, Patterson TL, Harvey PD. Association of obesity and treated hypertension and diabetes with cognitive ability in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Bipolar Disorders, In Press.
Ho J, Moore R, Cardenas V, Bowie CR, Patterson TL, Mausbach, BT. Direct and mediated effects of cognitive function with multidimensional outcome measures in schizophrenia: the role of functional capacity. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, In Press.
Porter RJ, Bowie CR, Jordan J, Malhi G. Cognitive remediation as a treatment for major depression – a rationale, review of evidence, and recommendations for future research. Australia and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, In Press.
Holshausen K, Bowie CR, Mausbach BT, Patterson TL, Harvey PD. Neurocognition, functional capacity, and functional outcomes: The cost of inexperience. Schizophrenia Research, In Press.
Bowie CR, Grossman M, Gupta M, Oyewumi LK, Harvey PD. Cognitive remediation in schizophrenia: efficacy and effectiveness in patients with early versus long-term course of illness. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, In Press.
Harvey PD & Bowie CR. Improving cognition in schizophrenia. Minerva Psichiatrica, In Press.
Lepage M, Bodnar M, Bowie CR. Neurocognition in relation to clinical and functional outcome in schizophrenia. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, In Press.
Iftene F, Bowie CR, Milev R, Hawken E, Talikowska-Szymczak E, Potopsingh D, Hanna S, Mulroy J, Groll D, Millson R. Identification of primary polydipsia in a severe and persistent mental illness outpatient population: A prospective observational study. Psychiatry Research, In Press.
Best MW, Fitzpatrick M, Milev R, Bowie CR, Jokic R. Utility of the Berlin Questionnaire for Predicting Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Individuals with Treatment-Resistant Depression. Sleep and Breathing, In Press.
Gupta M, Holshausen K, Best M, Jokic R, Milev R, Bernard T, Gou L, Bowie CR. Relationships among neurocognition, symptoms, functioning in treatment-resistant depression. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 2013, 28, 272-281.
McClure MM, Harvey PD, Bowie CR, Iacoviello B, Siever LJ. Functional outcomes, functional capacity, and cognitive impairment in schizotypal personality disorder. Schizophrenia Research, 2013, 144, 146-150.
Bowie CR, Gupta M, Holshausen K, Jokic R, Best, M, Milev, R. Cognitive remediation for treatment resistant depression: Effects on cognition and functioning and the role of online homework. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorders, 2013, 201, 680-685.
Holshausen K, Harvey PD, Elvevag B, Foltz PW, Bowie CR. Semantic coherence predicts formal thought disorder and adaptive behavior in older inpatients with schizophrenia. Cortex, In Press.
Bowie CR, Gupta M, Holshausen K. Cognitive remediation therapy for mood disorders: rationale, early evidence, and future directions. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 2013, 58, 319-325.
Mausbach BT, Moore RC, Davine T, Cardenas V, Bowie CR, Ho J, Jeste DV, Patterson TL. The use of the theory of planned behavior to predict engagement in functional behaviors in schizophrenia. Psychiatric Research, 2013, 205, 36-42.
Cardenas V, Abel S, Bowie CR, Tiznado D, Depp CA, Patterson TL, Jeste DL, Mausbach BT. When functional capacity and real world functioning converge: the role of self-efficacy. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 2013, 39, 908-916.
Best M & Bowie CR. Neurophysiological responses to schizophrenia-associated communication abnormalities. Schizophrenia Research, 2013, 148, 157-162.
Chengappa KNR, Turkin SR, DeSanti S, Bowie CR, Brar JS, Schlicht PJ, Murphy SL, Hetrick ML, Bilder R, Fleet D. A preliminary, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of L-Carnosine to improve cognition in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 2012, 142, 145-152.
Harvey PD, Bowie CR. Cognitive enhancement in schizophrenia: Pharmacological and cognitive remediation approaches. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2012, 35.
Bowie CR, McGurk SM, Mausbach BT, Patterson TL, Harvey PD. Combined cognitive remediation and functional skills training for schizophrenia: effects on cognition, functional competence, and real world behavior. American Journal of Psychiatry, 2012, 169, 710-718.
Gupta M, Holshausen K, Mausbach B, Patterson T, Bowie CR. Predictors of change in functional competence and real world behavior following Functional Adaptation Skills Training for schizophrenia. Journal of Mental and Nervous Disease, 2012, 200, 705-711.
Gould F, Bowie CR, Harvey PD. The influence of demographic factors on functional capacity and everyday functional outcomes in schizophrenia. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 2012, 34, 467-475.
Depp CA, Mausbach BT, Bowie C, Wolyniec P, Thornquist MH, Luke JR, McGrath JA, Pulver AE, Harvey PD, Patterson TL. Determinants of occupational and residential functioning in bipolar disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2012, 136, 812-818.
Depp CA, Mausbach BT, Harmell AL, Salva GN, Bowie CR, Harvey PD, Patterson TL. Meta-analysis of the association between cognitive abilities and everyday functioning in bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disorders, 2012, 14, 217-226.
Mausbach BT, Roepke SK, Chattillion EA, Harmell AL, Moore R, Romero-Moreno R, Bowie CR, Grant I. Multiple mediators of the relations between caregiving stress and depressive symptoms. Aging and Mental Health, 2012, 16, 27-38.
Harvey PD, Bowie CR. Cognitive Remediation in Severe Mental Illness. Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience, 2012, 9, 1-4.
Bowie CR, Mclaughlin D, Carrión RE, Auther AM, Cornblatt BA. Cognitive changes following antidepressant or antipsychotic treatment in adolescents at clinical risk for psychosis. Schizophrenia Research, 2012, 137, 110-117.
Lowenstein DA, Czaja SJ, Bowie CR, Harvey PD. Age-associated differences in cognitive performance in older patients with schizophrenia: a comparison with healthy older adults. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2012, 20, 29-20
Gupta M, Bassett E, Iftene F, Bowie CR. Functional outcomes in schizophrenia: understanding the competence-performance discrepancy. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 2012, 46, 205-211.
Harvey PD, McClure MM, Patterson TL, McGrath JA, Pulver A, Bowie CR, Siever LJ. Impairment in functional capacity as an endophenotype candidate in severe mental illness. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 2012, 16, 27-38.
Mausbach BT, Depp CA, Bowie CR, Harvey PD, McGrath JA, Thornquist MH, Luke JR, Wolyniec PS, Pulver AE, Patterson TL. Sensitivity and specificity of the UCSD Performance-Based Skills Assessment (UPSA-B) for identifying functional milestones in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 2011, 132, 165-170.
Bowie CR, Gupta M, Holshausen K. Disconnected and underproductive speech in schizophrenia: Unique relationships across multiple indicators of social functioning. Schizophrenia Research, 2011, 131, 152-156
Larochette AC, Harrison AG, Rosenblum Y, Bowie CR. Additive neurocognitive deficits in adults with ADHD and depressive symptoms. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 2011, 26, 385-395
Adelsky MB, Bowie CR, Goldberg TE, Serper MR. Adaptive competence impairment and cognitive deficits in acutely ill schizophrenia patients residing in nursing homes. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2011, 19, 752-756
Depp CA, Mausbach BT, Harvey PD, Bowie CR, Wolyniec PS, Thornquist MH, Luke JR, McGrath JA, Pulver AE, Patterson TL. Social Competence and observer-rated social functioning in bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disorders, 2010, 12, 843-850
Leifker FR, Patterson TL, Bowie CR, Mausbach BT, Harvey PD. Psychometric Properties of Performance-based Measurements of Functional Capacity: Test-Retest Reliability, Practice Effects, and Potential Sensitivity to Change. Schizophrenia Research, 2010, 119, 246-252
Bowie CR, Depp C, McGrath JA, Wolyniec P, Mausbach BT, Thornquist MH, Luke J, Patterson TL, Harvey PD, Pulver AE. Prediction of Real World Functional Disability in Chronic Mental Disorders: A Comparison of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 2010, 167, 1116-1124
Mausbach BT, Harvey PD, Pulver AE, Depp CA, Wolyniec PS, Thornquist JR, McGrath JA, Bowie CR, Patterson TL. Relationship of the Brief UCSD Performance-based Skills Assessment (UPSA-B) to multiple indicators of functioning in people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disorders, 2010, 12, 45-55
Harvey PD, Reichenberg A, Bowie CR, Patterson TL, Heaton RK. The course of neuropsychological performance and functional capacity in older patients with schizophrenia: influences of previous history of long-term institutional stay. Biological Psychiatry, 2010, 67, 933-939


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By Andrew Willis, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The global ethanol market received a shakeup this week, with the largest sugar and ethanol trader in Brazil, Copersucar, set to take control over U.S. biofuel marketer and logistics company Eco-Energy. The deal will create the largest global ethanol trader, the Brazilian firm said Monday, November 5th.
"With this partnership, Copersucar becomes a truly global company in the biofuel market, expanding the scale of its operations to the two main ethanol markets in the world," Luís Roberto Pogetti, Copersucar's Chairman, said in a statement, referring to the U.S. and Brazil.
The deal consists of an investment by Copersucar in Eco-Energy, giving it a controlling share in the U.S. company, a communications official clarified. The release of further details on the deal is blocked by a confidentiality clause.
The investment will see the combined companies handle twelve percent of the global ethanol market, with a supply capacity of ten billion liters per year. Excellent growing conditions for sugarcane, coupled with progressive government policies that currently require the country's fuel mix to contain twenty percent ethanol, have helped cement Brazil's image as a leader in the renewable energy form over the past decade.
Carbon emission targets in Europe and elsewhere across the globe are seen as boosting demand for biofuels in the years to come, with firms such as Copersucar hoping to take advantage of this. The company plans to ramp up operations in the U.S., as well as increase exports to Europe, once the deal is completed.
For the current growing season (2012-13), Copersucar expects to market roughly 24 percent of production from the sugarcane crop in Brazil's Center-South region – the principal growing area. This equates to a volume of 4.8 billion liters of ethanol and 8.7 million tonnes of sugar, the company said.
Copersucar's business model links production from 48 member mills and roughly fifty non-member units to an integrated system of logistics, transportation, storage, and commercialization.
As ethanol is largely produced from sugarcane in Brazil and corn in the U.S., the company tie-up will enable Copersucar to moderate some of the risks associated with poor sugarcane harvests in Brazil. These are typically caused during years with too little, or too much rain.
The deal will also give the Brazilian firm greater penetration into the U.S. market. Founded twenty years ago, Eco-Energy is an integrated biofuel supply chain company focused on the marketing, trading, transportation, and distribution of biofuels, and currently has annual sales totaling $3.0 billion.
"The biofuels industry continues to evolve and expand beyond the borders of North America, and we need to constantly be working to open new markets, while also being in a position to meet the current biofuel requirements domestically," Eco-Energy CEO Chad Martin said in the statement.
"This partnership builds on the great platform and team we have created at Eco-Energy and opens up significant opportunity for our producer partners," he added. The agreement between the two companies is still subject to regulatory approval.


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South Phoenix got more than 3/4 of an inch.
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It's clear that with the S5 Cervelo has not forgotten triathletes, which make up one of the largest groups of riders interested in aero road bikes. We see this bike finding it's place under two groups of triathletes. First, those who need a slightly taller head tube and less weight on the front end, but who aren't willing to give up any aerodynamic performance. The S5 has a significantly taller front end than it's predecessor the S3, allowing many athletes the ability to achieve their desired position without the use of extra spacers or an upturned stem. The second group are those looking for the ultimate single-bike quiver, a machine that has the ability to race road races, triathlons and time-trials.
Looking at the aerodynamic tube shapes found on the S5, including the wide seat tube and unforgiving-looking seat stays, our guess was that the ride of the S5 would be rather harsh. But our experience proved that you simply can't judge a book by its cover, especially in terms of carbon fiber's ability to tune the feel of a frame's ride quality. The S5 is smooth and confident, even when descending at high speeds as we did on our way back down into town after our recon of the Vail TT course.
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Food scraps can be temporarily stored at a Lents transfer station following a state ruling Wednesday that backed an earlier decision by the Portland City Council.
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