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June 23 – Happy Birthday George Weiss
George Weiss was not an easy guy to get along with. Even his wife agreed with that, once complaining after he was let go by the Yankees that she didn't like having him at home too much. The reason George did not make friends easily could be summed up by his business philosophy, which was to never be satisfied with anything. He always felt things could be better and to him, better meant winning more world championships and becoming more profitable. That's the philosophy he used when he designed and built the Yankee farm system during the thirties and forties and also exactly how he ran the organization when he was named General Manager of the parent club in January of 1948. Weiss managed every detail at every level of the Yankee organization, regardless how small and that usually meant saving or making every penny possible.
My favorite story about "Lonesome George" took place in 1957. Mickey Mantle had won the triple crown in 1956 and finished the '57 season with a .365 batting average, 34 home runs and 94 RBIs. Weiss sent him a contract with a $17,000 pay cut. Mantle asked why. Weiss pointed out that Mantle had failed to repeat as triple crown winner. Weiss was GM of the Yankees from 1948 until 1961. During that time, New York won ten AL Pennants and seven Fall Classics. His greatest move as GM was hiring Casey Stengel. His biggest failure and the stain on his otherwise brilliant career was his refusal to sign black ballplayers.
Weiss shares his birthday with this Yankee catcher, who he traded to the White Sox for Eddie Lopat in 1948 . This one-time Yankee slugging prospect and this former Yankee pitching prospect were also born on June 23rd.


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People from different cultures have different conventions for answering seemingly innocuous questions like this. Users will become frustrated if when you ask for an email address, for example, if the response box only allows for 20 characters.

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History was made in the Westpac Stadium in Wellington, as hat-trick heroine Rosie White gave New Zealand their first ever victory in a FIFA women's competition, while eliminating Colombia from the tournament.
Although New Zealand had the better of the early exchanges, Colombia had two excellent early chances to score. Ingrid Vidal, getting on the end of a right-wing cross, missed from point-blank range in the third minute, and on 17 minutes Victoria Esson made a fine save from Tatiana Ariza, who had found space on the right. At the other end, Sarah McLaughlin was clean through on goal, but could not beat the sprawling figure of Stefany Castano.
Out of the blue came a stunning New Zealand goal, just before half-time. Rosie White moved down the right and sent in what was perhaps meant as a cross, but it became a fizzing low shot which deceived Castano and crept in at the near post.
The Young Football Ferns' tails were up, and they continued to go forward in great numbers after the break. Jessica Rollings had the ball in the net from a rebound on 50 minutes but was called offside, and seven minutes later a sweeping Kiwi move ended with White forcing a good save from Castano.
The home side looked to have made things safe on 81 minutes, when White pounced on a weak goal-kick and finished neatly with her left foot. But Colombia pulled one back immediately, with Vidal surging past the New Zealand back four and playing in Ariza, who finished from close range.
The two-goal cushion was restored on 87 minutes, however; Hannah Wall stole the ball by the right-hand by-line, and crossed for White to head home and complete her hat-trick.


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Dance Party- Trop Style
I have always been a huge fans of Industrial/Techo/ Electronic or whatever name they are using for this unique and special brand of rhythm and beats. I was a fan of the late night DJ induced music sets on the FM dial in my younger days, pumping the volume as loud as the speakers allowed me sometimes feeling the windows rattle in the car. The intense thumping of the amplified bass seemed to coordinate with my heartbeat. Both pumping, pushing and coursing music and life into my tired body as I listened to it religiously like the Siren's song.
That same vibe came back to me and about 5,000 other Rays fans who packed the AstroTurf of Tropicana Field for the Friday Fest Concert featuring International DJ Astrojack. This definitely was one of the loudest concerts held in Tropicana Field since possibly Janet Jackson's "Black Cat Tour", but during this performance, it was the crowd that seemed to have the choreographed dances moves. With the first note of bass, the assembled crowd began their rhythmic bouncing and hand raising saluting and following the grooves and pulsations streaming from the huge loud speakers.
Combining the mind-numbing bass from his selected play list with the electronic visual movements and designs flashing upon the stage and DJ platform, DJ Astrojack came to Tampa Bay to impress, and he delivered and then some on Friday night. Sure the Trop's seating bowl did not have its usual filled lower bowl seats staying to listen and watch the performance, but this style of music is not for everyone. Even today dancing to this type of music has to be a crowd inspired coordinated dance movement complete with hands raised high, extended arms to the heavens and letting your body absorb the pulsations.
I actually enjoyed the night from watching the glow-girl with her lighted hula hoop, to seeing both young and old doing their own versions of the "Night at the Roxbury" head bops and accelerated dance moves. It was definitely a musical event either you understood, or shook your head as you exited the Trop. I ventured outside the Trop to see just how loud it was inside the enclosed stadium, and wandered over to Ferg's and could still hear clear as a bell the music as it vibrated off the Teflon roof of the Trop.
The orange glow of the Tropicana Field roof made this inspired impromptu dance party seem more at home, and I swear I saw the roof flex and move to the music at least once. I eventually strolled back into the Trop. and listened to the last beat as it made its way through the Trop., echoing off the roof and finally coming back to my ears still leaving it's loud impression.
The concert was a success if you consider the people who stayed swayed and moved with the pulsations of the beats like blades of grass. I was exhausted when I finally stepped into the cool air outside the stadium, but the intense pulsations of the sounds tonight still had control of my heart. It was one of those nights you will remember because it was a first within the walls of the Trop., and hopefully it will not be the last.
Blogger's Note: Is it just me, or does DJ Astrojack look like a young Carlos Pena?


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How Horatio Gates Became an Officer and a Gentleman
Yesterday I mentioned Max M. Mintz's The Generals of Saratoga, published in 1990. It traces the careers of both Gen. John Burgoyne and Gen. Horatio Gates, and in doing so offers the latest and most comprehensive work about Gates's muddled ancestry.
Mintz's notes mention unpublished parish registers, Treasury and War Office records, and a letter Gates received after the Revolution from a second cousin on his mother's side, discussing their family. (He apparently never replied.) I haven't seen any of that stuff, but I have looked at some of the published material Mintz cites.
Sometimes his conclusions strike me as going a little beyond what those sources say. For instance, the book says that Gates's mother was born Dorothy Hubbock, daughter of John Hubbock. Perhaps those names appear in the letter or another unpublished source. But the cited source that I could check—Six North Country Diaries (Second Series)—contains information about two men named John Hubbock, their work as successive postmasters at Durham, and their children. But it doesn't list either one having a child named Dorothy or Dorothea. So what's solid and what's an informed guess?
Mintz suggests that Dorothy Reeves (her first married name) met Robert Gates when he delivered groceries to an estate in Wimbledon owned by the Duke of Leeds, where she was housekeeper. And that she was still employed there when she gave birth to Horatio, explaining why he was born in the nearby town of Old Malden (which people later misspelled as "Maldon").
However, The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Wimbledon, Surrey, by William Abraham Bartlett, says that while a future Duke of Leeds bought an estate in that town in the late 1600s, his heirs sold it in 1717, a decade before Horatio was born.
Despite holes like that, I still find Mintz's recreation of events convincing, with the exception of one point I'll discuss tomorrow. We can't be sure that the following account of the Gates family is accurate, but it seems like the most likely scenario of any published so far. The parts in boldface appear well documented, the rest—so far as I've seen—informed surmise.
Dorothy Hubbock came from a solid yeoman family. There were clergymen among her ancestors and cousins, and she learned to read and write. Dorothy married a man named Reeves and had a child they named Peregrine after her employer, the second Duke of Leeds. By the late 1720s Dorothy Reeves was that duke's housekeeper, and a widow.
Robert Gates was a waterman who sold food to the estates along the Thames; that was why he was later identified as a "respectable victualler in Kensington." At times, Gates did other, less legal work, which is how in 1724 he got arrested and fined by the Customs service.
Around 1727, Dorothy and Robert got married and had a child: Horatio. His mother used her friendship with a fellow servant to have Catherine, Lady Walpole's young son be the baby's godfather. In 1729, the Duke of Leeds died, prompting a change in the household management. At the same time, the third Duke of Bolton was setting up house with his new love, the actress Lavinia Fenton, and needed a good housekeeper. So he hired Dorothy Gates.
To ensure her services, the duke provided for her family as well. He pulled some strings at the Treasury, and the Customs office dropped Robert Gates's smuggling case in 1729, and even hired him and his stepson. In turn, Gates and Peregrine Reeves did services for Bolton. When the duke fell out of favor at court for political reasons in 1733, he valued loyalty from his household staff all the more.
Young Horatio Gates grew up in Greenwich, at least at first in the duke's house—hence Israel Mauduit's statement that he "lived with his father in the service of Charles Duke of Bolton." Greenwich had three comprehensive schools, and Horatio attended the "Green Coat" school for sons of watermen, fishermen, and mariners.
Between that education, his exposure to the Bolton household, and his natural intelligence and ambition, Gates gained the skills of a gentleman. He could write, speak French, make allusions to the classics, and so on. Most important for his career, Horatio also learned the art of putting superior gentlemen at ease.
In 1740, the Duke of Bolton squeezed back into favor, and started getting some lucrative sinecures again. The next year, the Treasury made Robert Gates the Customs Surveyor at Greenwich, explicitly on the duke's recommendation. This post had an annual salary of £60, plus a portion of seized goods. The Gates family accumulated enough money to buy their own house in Greenwich.
During the Highland uprising of 1745, Bolton offered to raise an infantry regiment. Since this was a new regiment, it fell outside the usual system in the British army of officers selling their commissions to men who wanted those ranks. Here was an opportunity for a young man with no fortune but good connections.
Mintz reports the end of this tale:
Horatio was commissioned an ensign in Colonel Thomas Bligh's Twentieth Regiment of Foot. This was to give him the entry rank from which he was then promoted to Bolton's own regiment. On October 14, 1745, the clerk in the War Office wrote down, "Horatio Gates, Gentleman to be Lieutenant," the fifteenth entry on the roster of Bolton's officers. Astoundingly, the sixteenth name was "John Burgoyne"…Thus, in his late teens Horatio Gates, son of a "common victualler" and a housekeeper, became an officer and a gentleman.
TOMORROW: Where did those whispers about Gates's parentage begin?


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The Air Force's top civilian on Tuesday all but ruled out a return to segregating the sexes in basic training as a response to the sex scandal at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.
"I think there is a general sentiment in our Air Force leadership, although we have not completed and finalized all the reports, but there is a sense that we need to train as we fight," Secretary Michael Donley told the San Antonio Express-News.
In town to discuss the issue with commanders, Donley didn't share details of a recently completed investigation.
That probe, to be released next month, is expected to launch initiatives to prevent a repeat of a scandal that so far has ensnared 22 instructors and 47 victims, all women.
The number is up slightly from last week.
Donley called the scandal "damaging to the good reputation of the basic military trainers and to our Air Force."
The scandal has grown since the Air Force revealed last December that a basic training instructor, Staff Sgt. Luis A. Walker, was accused of illicit sexual contact with 10 women in basic training. He got 20 years in prison last summer.
Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, said a congressional commission in 1997 called for men and women to be trained separately in boot camp because mixed-gender training resulted in poorer discipline and unit cohesion. Only the Marine Corps trains men and women separately.
"Problems of sexual assault are getting worse, they're not getting better," said Donnelly, who served on a 1992 presidential commission that looked at women in combat. "Everything that has been tried has not worked because there seems to be a lack of clear thinking, too many slogans running around."
Donley said women in the Air Force work in a wide range of specialties and that it "has been very gender-friendly for a number of years, so we live and work in an integrated environment, and we probably ought to train that way as well."
The Pentagon said 3,192 cases of sexual assault involving service members were reported in 2011 — far below an estimated 19,000 thought to have occurred. Critics say the system is broken.
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One House measure would take control of sexual assault investigations away from the chain of command. Backers of the bill say commanders fear reporting cases could hurt their careers, but Donley said it's been his experience that commanders support those who hold wrongdoers accountable.
"I think it would be a mistake to try to take this responsibility outside the military chain of command," he said. "But if it were to occur it would not reflect well on the confidence of the Congress that the military as an institution can police itself internally, so I think it's very important that as part of our military culture that we take responsibility for holding standards of behavior and demonstrate that we do hold people accountable for misconduct."


text: Sounds Orchestral was, for a time, Pye Records' answer to EMI's Sounds Incorporated, although unlike their better known rivals, they were more of a studio ensemble and never got into the position of touring with the Beatles. The group was formed in early 1965 by Pye Records producer John Schroeder, who perceived an audience looking for a sound other than the driving Liverpool beat that had dominated the British airwaves and charts for almost two years. The original line-up included veteran pianist John Pearson, born in 1925 and a bit long-of-tooth to be competing in the rock 'n' roll world, and ex-Johnny Dankworth drummer Kenny Clare, along with 21-year old bassist Tony Reeves, later of Curved Air, Greenslade, and Colosseum, among other bands. Schroeder got some considerable help from Reeves, who brought him a 1960-vintage Vince Guaraldi-trio record called "Cast Your Fate To the Wind". In the hands of Sounds Orchestral, the tune made it to number three on the British charts and even cracked the top 10 in America. It was to be their only major chart entry, but that was enough to yield a pair of LPs and several singles over the ensuing half-decade, and the group continued releasing music intermittently, in one form or another, at least thru the 1970's and early 1980's. Their rendition of "Black Is Black" was also a popular dance record, and has turned up on several Northern Soul collections. ~ Bruce Eder


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Homemade wooden portal-CNC-mill
by armageddon on Jan.15, 2011, under Projects
About one and a half years ago I started a project together with a friend. Our goal was to be able to directly drill PCBs. The result was a relatively big portal-CNC-mill.
The workpiece is moved along the X- and Y-Axis and the tool is providing the remaining Z-Axis. The three stepper-motors are controlled by an atmega32 microcontroller. All PCB's on the rear of the device are made by the device itself. This was possible because at that time, most of the parts were just hacked together mid-air or on breadboards.
The mill is communicating with the PC via a simple USB-to-RS232 converter and is talking some strange custom protocol. On the PC-side I am running a very crude python-script that can basically just parse HPGL. I plan to rewrite everything in Java. This allows me to have a nice GUI and it makes keeping the code clean much easier.
Here you can see the mill in action. It is drilling the shackspace logo in acrylic glass.
Since we used stepper motors and stepper motors make noise, we can also have fun with them.
On those two pictures you can see the the device painting on a PCB with permanent ink. Notice the high precision of the drawn lines.
This is a snapshot while drilling the holes in a PCB.
This was one of our first attempts in two-sided PCB's. As you can see, the alignment worked quite well. However, some of the signals lines dissolved during the etching process.
Feel free to comment and ask for more details. It is always hard to explain everything at once, so if you want to know something specific, just ask.
You will find more blogposts about the mill over at http://project-insanity.org


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Oct. 9 Mike Matheny workout day interview
Q. Quick housekeeping question, why Miller, say, over maybe another lefty down in the pen?
MIKE MATHENY: You know, that really was the decision that came down to the end was to bring back a Sam Freeman, but with this roster against the Nationals, felt like we have more of a need with potentially a pitcher that could go a long ways, especially after we just took Lance Lynn out by him throwing the amount pitches that he threw yesterday. We would need multiple innings and we would need a guy who has worked up to that, and that would be Shelby at this time.
Q. There seemed to be a little bit of, I don't know what the right word would be, skepticism or confusion, about how the whole thing with Jaime went down among your clubhouse last night. I didn't know to what extent you were surprised, frustrated, whatever the verb would be, and how do you see the whole dynamic playing out with his health situation and this obviously not being the first time he's had a shoulder concern that's surprised some people.
MIKE MATHENY: Well, after a player has already had previous injury during the season, I don't think you're completely surprised. Frustrated never really entered the picture, more so didn't really have time for that.
And then once you do have time to kind of digest everything, you hurt for the player, realizing that they put a lot into trying to do their piece to be here for this. But fortunately we were in a spot where we had a couple options to go to, we had some guys that were stretched out and that could jump in, and especially looking at the kind of season that Lance has had and to be able to do that.
But as far as the injury itself, that's part of the game. That's just kind of the nature of it; when they put their bodies through what they put it through, at times, that's kind of the end result at times, you try to stay away from it. He did all his work and got the best of him.
Q. Could he handle it better in terms of having any heads up of what he was dealing with before the game actually started?
MIKE MATHENY: No, you know, he went back and forth just like every guy does. You don't know exactly how you're going to feel until you get out there. There are times you don't feel good, and I know that we have had some pitchers wondering if they can make pitch one and next thing you know they are standing on top of the mound in the eighth inning.
I respect these guys' preparation that they have going into a game, how they push through things, and try and make something out of nothing at times.
If you waited around until you felt perfect, you would never play this game. So I know where you're going with this, and that's not the case.
Q. Will you hold Lance Lynn out of the rest of the series in case you need him to start the next series?
MIKE MATHENY: We are going to have to keep a close eye on him. He didn't get up to the real high pitch count, but he's also thrown a couple other days, he threw the day in Atlanta, threw the first game in the series in Washington, low pitch count but still got hot. So we're going to have to see. We are kind of in unchartered territory because of the frequency he's thrown and the elevated pitch count yesterday. We'll have to see how he feels tomorrow and kind of take things from there. I don't rule out having him available later.
Q. Now that you've announced Carpenter as your starter for Game 3, at least put him on the board there, could you elaborate or discuss how you went with Carp over Lohse, who would have been the guy on regular rest and the guy you went to when elimination was a factor?
MIKE MATHENY: It really comes down to wanting to get Carp on the mound and trying to figure out where it fits best. Didn't want to drag it on too far out, realizing what he brings, and his experience; what he brings with the success he's had in the post season and in his career in general.
So to us, we were really juggling all the balls from the beginning to see where he would fall in there, because you could just as easily thrown him game one and five with what he's done in his career. And to me he's been better every time he's thrown, so there's enough reason there to make a case in a couple spots. But this is what we felt gave us the best chance.
Q. You guys have a roster with plenty of experience, lots of guys that were on the team last year what. What does it mean to have a guy like Carlos Beltrán in the room and who has a little bit different experience and has that hunger to get to the World Series?
MIKE MATHENY: Yeah, it is always good to have that veteran presence that has not quite won the ring yet. You saw last year, the Cardinals really rally around Rafael Furcal who had been in the post season so many times.
The guys just -- it means a lot to them, there's no question. And it's also nice to see Carlos Beltrán start to really get locked in like he was yesterday.
These guys, they are motivated to excel, and that's a message we have had since the beginning is striving for excellence. And it is good for the guys who have never been there, but it's not any less important to the guys who already have a couple World Series rings. It's about being the best you can and trying to develop into something special, and that's really what they are doing.
Q. A lot of your guys obviously have familiarity with Edwin Jackson. What do you take out of his two starts against you this year, completely different starts?
MIKE MATHENY: Yeah, we saw him in two completely different ways, and when we saw him last year in Washington, he was very, very good. So we are going to put that game plan into our mind as that's what we are going to see and figure out what kind of adjustments we need to make to be prepared for that.
But the guys, as far as a game plan goes, they have an individual idea of what they need to do to be successful, and it's just a matter of execution after that.
Q. With Shelby, now three rookies in the bullpen, how does this change at all the way you look at how you use these guys going forward?
MIKE MATHENY: Well, we put Joe Kelly there yesterday; that game was still close and fortunately Jon Jay makes one of the best plays that I've seen to get the first out.
But he came in and threw strikes. The ball was coming out of his hand very nice. Just a matter of getting him just a little bit acclimated. Trevor Rosenthal came in and had a little more cushion at that time, but I thought threw the ball extremely well. So just getting out there is a key.
But for us with Shelby, I think we've seen enough of him to be excited about the opportunity for him to get on the mound; and as he progresses in his career -- I'm not all that concerned. I think a lot of it has to do with the pressure we put on these guys down the stretch. Every game to us was a playoff style intensity where it seemed like every game, everything was on the line.
We weren't afraid to go to our young guys in high leverage situations, so they have proved the fact that they are ready to pitch. Now it's just getting the repetitions.
We have had a young staff from the beginning. You look at how our bullpen was made up; we had Jason Motte really being our experience in the bullpen with very little time under his belt. That was something that we talked about, bringing in a veteran presence. And it never happened.
But these guy, until we did get Edward Mujica, but they developed into their own really kind of their own being down there; they figured it out. They figured out how to take care of each other and who is going to lead. And Jason Motte and Mitchell Boggs did a great job of that.
Q. This is your first go around in your current role. What's this like for you, and is this much different from regular season ball for you?
MIKE MATHENY: Well, you can't deny the urgency with post season play. But we have been consistent with our message, and that message is we play the same all the time. That's an advantage to us when the guys go about it that way; that we have an expectation of how we should play, whether it's middle of the season or whether it's in the World Series or anything in between. It's the same expectation, and when that expectation is pretty clear, I think it gives a good foundation for what the expectation what they need to do every day.
So it is a great environment, and I love it just as much as a manager as I did as a player. There's nothing like it in the game to be able to be a part of post season baseball. But when it comes down to making it happen, you just go out we are very clear about just do what you've been doing, nothing more, nothing less.
Q. You talked about wanting to get Carpenter into this series; can you describe what his experience gives you this time of year?
MIKE MATHENY: I think it's an invaluable experience, when you talk about a Chris Carpenter, an Adam Wainwright, a Yadier Molina who have won twice. There are a lot of players who think they can perform at the highest level and come together and witness what it takes for a team to collectively do what we all set out to do in April. But it's a rare few that actually get to do that; and to use the wisdom and the experience that they have from what they learned along the way and from former players who have been successful in the post season, those are just nuggets of gold to the young players.
That is really an advantage for those guys moving forward in their careers. We lean on Carp a lot. We lean on Yadi, and we lean on Wano, guys who have not just been there, but been there and been successful.


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Woodbury County Recorder's Office
620 Douglas Street - Room 106
Sioux City, Iowa 51101
Patrick F. Gill - Auditor and Recorder
Diane Swoboda Peterson - Real Estate/Recorder Deputy
Woodbury County's real estate records began in the mid-1800's. The county's plat and transfer books are housed in this office for public view. The responsibilities of this area include maintaining the plat books, up-dating the transfer books, and changing the respective computer parcel records in accordance with the documents recorded. The records reflect information for taxation purposes only. This area works in conjunction with the GIS Mapping Department.
This area keeps the official records of all drainage ditches in the county. This includes documents and plats for over 22 main ditches and 61 lateral ditches. Levy rates are calculated and applied to respective parcels once a year.
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text: Writers and Words_Jan 009 michellejunot.com on January 20, 2015 Advertisements Published by michellejunot.com Michelle Junot is a writer, designer and copy editor in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the author of Notes From My Phone* as well as and the floor was always lava. View all posts by michellejunot.com Leave a comment Leave a Reply Cancel reply This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.


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Read more about their visit on page 3 of the Winter/Spring 2013 issue of Ethics Central [PDF]
Also read more in an article recently featured in The Hoot
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Introductions by Cynthia Cohen [video]
Original Ulafa'a Reconciliation Art Project Video [video]
Ulafa'a Project: Bahraini Artist Visit and Exhibition
April 14-28, 2013
Bahrain/Brandeis: Ulafa'a Reconciliation Art Project
Recasting Reconciliation through Culture and Arts
Tamadher Ali (right) and Khalid
Ulafa'a Reconciliation Art Project is an initiative supported by the US Embassy in Bahrain in partnership with Bahraini artists and the Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts at Brandeis University. Since the fall of 2012, project coordinators Tamadher Alfahal and Nada Alaradi have been recruiting a group of artists working in a variety of genres to participate in the project in Bahrain. Through a series of events that include film screenings, panel discussions, live performances, and trainings, Ulafa'a artists will engage in conversation with community members and learn how to develop community-based art initiatives that strengthen relationships across differences.
At Brandeis University, from April 14th through 20th, ten young visual artists from Bahrain will be attending an intensive one-week training conducted by Cynthia Cohen, director of the Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts.
Edd Ibrak, a team member of
Ulafa'a is an Arabic term (plural) that describes a group of people who are familiar with each other and possibly share common feelings. Ulafa'a is an art project that aims to create opportunities for people to express themselves and to strengthen relationships of respect and understanding among the different communities of Bahrain. The project is based on the belief that people can express themselves through a variety of artistic forms, and that these expressions can facilitate communication and the sharing of stories.
You can follow them on Twitter or read their blog.
Ulafa'a Project: Finding Common Ground
through Oral History and the Arts
Presentation by the Ulafa'a Visual Artists of Bahrain
April 16, 2013
Pearlman Lounge
Ulafa'a team representatives will present their collaborative work done in Bahrain as a part of the Ulafa'a Reconciliation Project: Recasting Reconciliation through Culture and Arts. Free and open to the public. View the events flyer.
Ulafa'a Reconciliation Art Project:
Exhibition by the visual artists of Bahrain
April 19–28, 2013
Shapiro Campus Center, Multi-Purpose Room (MPR)
Opening Reception: Friday, April 19 (12:00 - 2:00pm) *Note: Due to the closure of MBTA and directives from local authorities, Brandeis University is closed today, Friday, April 19. Opening Reception has been cancelled, but the exhibit is opened to students who are staying on campus. The artists are in the gallery and would like students to come see the exhibit.
As a part of the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts, a team of Bahraini artists will be exhibiting the artworks and documentation from their Ulafa'a project. Please come and meet the artists at the opening. Light refreshment will be served. Free and open to the public. View the events flyer.
Ulafa'a team members in front of their stand in market 338,
Ulafa'a Team members with Sarah McCarty, a Brandeis student


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Managing Director & Senior Partner
Teemu Ruska is a member of BCG's Operations Leadership Team and is the managing partner leading BCG in Finland.
Since joining BCG in 2001, Teemu has acquired deep knowledge and experience advising clients across a number of industries, especially private equity, energy, and process industries.
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In 2008, the Obama team's massive ground game left a few local party officials openly skeptical. In Western North Carolina, they wondered until late October where they fit into the Obama Election Day strategy, or if the strategy was simply all about Obama.
In the end, the Obama team led voter registration and drove an intense get-out-the-vote effort targeting first-time voters, leaving poll greeting and ballot education at the polls to county parties. The hounds to the hunters.
It worked. In Buncombe County, Democrats won 36 of 36 races and tipped the state blue by 14,000 votes.
In the 2010 midterms, however, the DNC and Organizing for America will have to convince voters who went to the polls for the first time to vote for Obama to vote for Democratic candidates and incumbents lacking Obama's charisma. The Pew Research Center's Andrew Kohut describes Obama's legion of surge voters as "relatively sleepy" since the election. The challenge will be to wake them up and get them back to the polls again.
Leading that effort has fallen again to Obama confidant David Plouffe. Matt Bai writes in the New York Times Sunday Magazine:
"Let's be clear -- these are not Democratic voters," Cornell Belcher, the Obama campaign pollster, cautioned me. "They're Obama voters." The lesson that Plouffe and his operation took away from the dismal 2009 elections is that Obama can act like a matchmaker of sorts, introducing the party's candidates to new voters and vouching for their intentions, but it's only going to matter if the candidates themselves embrace the so-called new politics. What that means, practically speaking, is that the White House is urging candidates to divert a fair amount of their time and money -- traditionally used for buying TV ads and rallying core constituencies -- to courting volunteers and voters who haven't generally been reliable Democrats.
That could be a tough sell. The thrust of Bai's article is that Obama never earned his stripes in the party trenches before running for office and never worked as a party strategist. He is "a genuine outsider who spends a fair amount of energy reassuring Democrats that he really does care about the organization."
OFA may have "virtually supplanted the party structure." But there is a difference between moving in and fitting in. As in 2008, there is the same recurring question: Are OFA's activities meant to help the party or to help OFA? So long as the question still gets asked at the county level, the marriage of the DNC and OFA will remain unconsummated.
There remains "something of a cultural chasm between the White House and the party apparatus," Bai writes. Older Democrats "have a harder time imagining that a bunch of volunteers and a dozen virtual town-hall meetings are going to matter more than labor endorsements and some killer 30-second spots." Insiders remain unconvinced that OFA is anything more than a fad, and Obama's election anything more than a fluke fueled by voter dissatisfaction and "an absurd amount of money."
Yet back in Buncombe County -- Democratic Rep. Heath Shuler's conservative district -- progressive Patsy Keever embraced the "new politics" and ousted an incumbent state representative in the recent North Carolina Democratic primary. Even though outspent 4-to-1, Keever's boots-on-the-ground campaign -- led by an Obama field veteran -- trounced a traditional one built around ad buys and bulk mail.
That may be change progressives can believe in. But for many party stalwarts the honeymoon is still on hold.


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NXT Motors and Servos Overview
|For ROBOTC NXT Motor and Servo functions, check out Motor Functions and Servo Functions!
Motor Speed / Power Control
|Motors are controlled by specifying a power level to apply to the motor. Power levels range from -100 to +100. Negative values indicate reverse direction and positive values indicate forward direction. To move motor 'A' forward at 50% of full power, you would use the following statement:
|motor[] is the ROBOTC array variable that controls the motor power and motorA is an enum variable for motor A.
|With brand new alkaline batteries a motor can move at almost 1,000 encoder counts per second. But with a partially discharged motor and a motor that has had some wear and tear the maximum speed may reduce to 750 counts. This has an impact on speed regulation.
Encoder Value
|nMotorEncoder[] is an array that provides access to the current value of the motor encoder. To wait until the motor moves to a specific encoder position, you might use the following:
|nMotorEncoder[] is a 16-bit variable. The maximum value before it overflows is 32,767 which allows for about 95 motor rotations. In long running applications, you may want to periodically reset the value in your application program to avoid overflow situations.
Moving to a Specific Encoder Value
|You can move a motor a specific amount with the variable nMotorEncoderTarget[]. This indicates the number of encoder ticks to move. If you specify a positive value the motor will slow to a stop at this position. A negative value will leave the motor in coast / float mode when the encoder position is reached.
Synchronizing Two Motors
|A very common application is two motors used to power the 'left' and 'right' motors on a robot. The robot will travel a straight line if both motors are rotating an exactly the same speed. The variable nSyncedMotors is used to synchronize two motors so that the second motor's speed is slaved to the first motor.
|The synchronization "mode" is specified with the variable nSyncedTurnRatio. This ranges in value from -100% to +100%. The magnitude (0 to 100) represents the ratio of the slave speed to the primary motor speed. The sign indicates same (positive) or opposite (negative) direction of travel for the slave vs. the primary. A value of less than 100 will cause the robot to turn.
|The following example will drive robot in a straight line and then turn the robot:
|A value of 100 indicates that the slave will travel in the same direction and at exactly the same speed as the primary motor. Sync ratio -100 indicates that slave will travel at same speed but in opposite direction.
Brake vs. Coast/Float Mode
|Motor speed is controlled via a technique called pulse width modulation (PWM). PWM applies "pulses" of power to the motor thousands of times a second. Each pulse is a square wave containing a period of on or powered time followed by a period of off time. The ratio of on-time to off-time adjusts the power applied to the motor. Full battery voltage is applied during the on-time; this is a better technique for speed adjustment than systems that applies partial battery voltage to regulate the speed.
During the "off" time, power is not applied to the motors. During off-time the motors can be either "open-circuited" ore "short-circuited". Open circuit results in a "floating" voltage where the motor is coasted. Short circuit results in a braking action. ROBOTC has a variable that controls which mode is used.
|Brake mode works best for the NXT motors. This is the default mode. You can change the default mode within the ROBOTC "preferences" setup when under the "Expert" menu level. The ROBOTC compiler will automatically generate code at the start of your program to setup the brake or float mode.
Reflected or Mirrored Motors
|Forward and reverse direction for a motor can be somewhat arbitrary. You may build a Lego model where the forward / reverse direction of the motor is the opposite of what seems logical. This can be easily handled in ROBOTC with the bMotorReflected[] variable which flips or mirrors the motor direction.


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The Yorkshire Post has teamed up with Welcome to Yorkshire to produce the official 2018 Tour de Yorkshire race programme.
The 68-page glossy guide includes everything you need to know about the event, which takes place from May 3-6 and has eight host towns: Beverley, Doncaster, Barnsley, Ilkley, Richmond, Scarborough, Halifax and Leeds.
There are route maps, stage information for the men's and women's races, team profiles, tips on the best spectator spots, jersey listings, and details on topography.
Read more: The best places to watch the Tour de Yorkshire 2018
We've also secured exclusive interviews with some of cycling's biggest names, including sprinter Mark Cavendish - winner of thirty Tour de France stages - and Lizzie Deignan, the 2017 Tour de Yorkshire women's champion from Otley who is taking a break from competition to have her first child.
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With the Internet becoming more accessible,what better way can
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Leveraging The PCI Express x16 Interface
The current crop of PCI Express (PCIe) graphics cards are not too different from their AGP counterparts with the exception that they have been redesigned to communicate with the new PCIe x16 interface. The immediate gain achieved is the vast bandwidth that the PCIe x16 slot offers and of course faster transfers since PCIe operates at higher base frequencies than the AGP 8x slot. However, they aren't quite yet designed to take advantage of PCIe's advantages. The PCIe bus also allows concurrent bidirectional communication to and from the host controller with equal bandwidth. AGP too allows bidirectional communication, but that's at half duplex mode (unlike PCIe's full duplex mode) and its upstream bandwidth is insignificant compared to the AGP 8x downstream. For those of you who don't quite recall what full and half-duplex represent, the former allows data transfer in both directions simultaneously while the latter restricts data transfer at any particular point of time to a single direction. Here's a table to easily differentiate the key advantages:-
|Graphics Card Interface
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|Max. Downstream Transfer Rate
|Max. Upstream Transfer Rate
|PCI Express x16
|AGP 8x
In reality, current PCI Express graphics cards only perform limited upstream transfers because existing games and applications are designed based on the days of the PCI and AGP architecture. Back in June during Computex 2004, demos were being run to showcase the bidirectional bandwidth advantage of the PCI Express bus in the realms of high definition (HD) video capture, editing and playback of multiple HD video streams. Although this was something to look forward on the average desktop computer, it requires maturity of both hardware and software to realize this and at this point of time, it's not quite ready for mass usage yet. Besides, this would only benefit a select user group dabbling in high quality video.
Since the introduction of the first PCI Express graphics cards, both ATI and NVIDIA have been trying to put all that extra bandwidth into better use, such as going back to the early AGP days where its DIrect Memory Execute (DIME) feature allowed AGP Texturing. This allowed the use of the system memory to store large textures to be read by the AGP graphics card. Practical implementation of AGP Texturing in gaming however, didn't quite turn out as useful as was envisioned and graphics cards steadily bumped up local frame buffer memory to prevent the need to use that feature. However that's all in the past and with the new PCIe x16 interface, things are looking up as we venture into the first such useful implementation by NVIDIA that is now dubbed the TurboCache technology and it does a lot more than AGP's DIME.
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Would you like to work from home on a regular basis? This is possible if your supervisor permits it and your work allows it. Leiden University does not have a telecommuting policy. There are however, certain facilities and features you can use.
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Remote Workplace gives you access to your University workplace from any location. You can, for example access the files on your personal disc, your email, University information systems such as SAP, Self Service and the desktop of the PC at your workplace.
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Trainer Tools and Resources
Trainer Options
NumPad1: Unlimited Bounty
NumPad2: Unlimited Credits
Unlimited Bounty:
While active on mission open the explosives tab and you have unlimited bounty.
Unlimited Credits:
While active you have unlimited credits. You may need to purchase an upgrade first.
Mute Hotkeys:
Press CTRL+H at any time to temporarily mute all hotkeys.
Press again to unmute. You can change this hotkey in the trainer settings.
You can also mute specific hotkeys by changing the hotkey you want to mute to 'NONE'.
VR Mode
- HTC Vive
Click on the 'VR Mode' button. Trainer options will now be drawn as buttons. Activate the trainer as usual with your keyboard. Put your HTC Vive on and when you are ingame press the 'Menu' button on the hand controllers to open the steam overlay. At the bottom you can click on the 'Desktop' button and you can easily press options on the trainer with your hand controller now.
- Oculus Rift
As of now the oculus has no unique input device and uses keyboard or xbox controller. Both are support by the trainer already.
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Wilderness Solutions Inc. has designed a geothermal heating and cooling system for its solar powered, completely self-sustaining park model cabin.
The Indiana-based company has tested the geothermal unit this summer at its prototype unit and pronounced the test a success, Carey DePalma, president, told Woodall's Campground Management.
"With the on board water filtration system, we're taking water at approximately 64 degrees directly out of the lake and turning it into potable water and also using that water for the geothermal unit. This is has been pretty hot and the unit is working fine," DePalma said.
The prototype is equipped with a 1-ton air conditioner system, but DePalma considers the need for it pretty slim.
In the winter months the lake water drops to around 48 to 52 degrees, which is fine when the unit is not occupied. "It eliminates having to wonder if you have enough propane, and the cost to running a 40,000-Btu furnace," he said. Plus, he added, geothermal uses a lot less power than the air conditioner or the furnace, eliminating the run the back-up generator.
"The geothermal heating and cooling unit is a great addition to our Wilderness Cabins," DePalma said.
DePalma is working with several state park systems on public/private partnerships to install the Wilderness Cabin rental units in remote, secluded locations where utilities and infrastructure are either not available or too costly to install. The units provide a great additional revenue stream with no up-front infrastructure cost.
Wilderness Solutions Inc. after a year of testing unveiled its Wilderness Cabin with its little caboose earlier this year. The little caboose is the hub of the cabin. Nestled alongside or beneath the extended frame design, it houses the fresh and gray water filtration system, solar equipment, battery bank and back-up generator.
The Wilderness Cabins conform to park model requirements. These one- and two-bedroom units are completely furnished and are equipped with full-size kitchen appliances, flat screen TV and surround sound.
Several interior floorplans and choice of interior and exterior finishes make these four season cabins perfect for campground rentals, resort cabins, vacation homes, hunting or fishing cabins or mountain retreats, he said.
For more information call Carey DePalma at (317) 753-4684 or visit the website www.thewildernesscabin.com.
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We are a Home theater company in Boston which provides innovative home entertainment and technology solutions for exceptional custom built homes and offices.
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We are a Home theater company in Boston which provides innovative home entertainment and technology solutions for exceptional custom built homes and offices.
We sell, install and configure whole house audio and video systems, home theaters, media center systems, speakers, plasmas, LCDs, projectors, remote control systems etc.
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Latvian Folk Art Museum
In 1964, the Chicago Latvian Association and the Latvian Artisans' Association (Daiļamatnieku savienība) in the United States established a Latvian folk art collection in the Latvian community center. Jeweler Osvalds Grīns along with his daughter Astra Reveliņš visited various Latvian communities seeking out pieces to display in the museum. To ensure the successful continuation of this work, the Latvian Folk Art Museum was founded as a separate non-profit organization in 1978. A space was renovated in the community center to house the Museum's displays. Currently, there are more than 300 items exhibited in the Museum, including folk costumes, ceramics, jewelry, weavings, mittens, and woodworking pieces.
Many prominent Chicago Latvians have served on the museum's board. The most active of these was Pēteris Rieksts, long-time board chairman and woodworker whose creations are displayed in the museum. Several years ago, the Latvian Folk Art Museum joined the Chicago Cultural Alliance, an umbrella organization for ethnic museums and cultural centers in Chicago. Through this organization, Museum volunteers share their experience with other ethnic museum staff and help popularize Latvian folk art among non-Latvians in Chicago.
Latvian Folk Art Museum Board:
President: Māra Jauntirāns
Vice President: Dace Ķezbers
Treasurer: Mārīte Plūme
Secretary: Daina Jauntirāns
Directors: Astra Reveliņš, Linda Zušēvics
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At a recent town hall on Latino education, President Obama was asked if he owns an iPad. Yup! What about a computer? Uhh.
His reply:
"I'm the president of the United States. You think I've got to go borrow somebody's computer..? Hey man, can I borrow your computer? How about you? You got one?"
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FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas coach Bret Bielema was busy retooling his staff this season after three assistants left the program for new positions.
FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas coach Bret Bielema was busy retooling his staff this season after three assistants left the program for new positions.
None of the changes came from his offensive staff. So Arkansas defensive coordinator Jim Chaney believes it's a big advantage with spring practice underway.
"Stability amongst the staff, I don't know if it can be rated," Chaney said. "I mean, It's overwhelming. I don't know how you put a number on it, but it's incredibly important that everybody knows one another and knows what the goals are and knows how it needs to be done. I don't know how you rank that, but in the big picture it's incredibly important as far as the stability in the staff to have success."
Chaney, Sam Pittman (offensive line), Joel Thomas (running backs), Michael Smith (receivers) and Barry Lunney Jr. (tight ends) are in their second spring at Arkansas. The staff is working with most of Arkansas' key contributors from 2013, too.
The Razorbacks must replace two starting offensive linemen and lost two of its veteran receivers, but has nearly everyone else back. Arkansas quarterback Brandon Allen said the familiarity has made a big difference so far.
"It's night and day. It's completely night and day," Allen said. "I'd say last spring there were so many different mistakes and just mental errors not being familiar with the offense. And now we cut back on a lot of that."
Said running back Jonathan Williams: "Everybody's able to recall what we did in the past year. I feel like we can move forward."
Of course, there's plenty of improvement that must be made after the group struggled to move the ball through the air last season.
Arkansas was ranked 114th in the nation in passing offense (148.5 yards) and 116th in completion percentage (49.8). The Razorbacks also were 12th in the SEC in scoring offense (20.7 points) and 11th in total offense (357.2 yards).
But Chaney said another year of experience – with familiar faces – can only help as Arkansas moves through its first week of spring drills.
"We talk about it all the time," Chaney said. "You know everyone in your room. You know their personalities a little bit better and they know the offense better. … I hope our kids have a good understanding of the big picture and what we're trying to accomplish. I think they do. I think they get it a little bit more than a year ago."
Splitting Reps
Arkansas plans to open up quarterback competition this spring, but returning starter Brandon Allen is logging more of the repetitions the first week.
"We're not evenly distributing. Right now Brandon is getting a little bit more," Chaney said. "I'm just trying to get a good look at everybody in the room and just see where everybody is at and evaluate the talent and understanding of what we're trying to do. We'll continue down that path for a little while. As long as we possibly can or until we make some decisions on what we want to do."
Brandon Allen said he has been getting first-team work, while A.J. Derby and Austin Allen have been working with the second-team offense. Damon Mitchell and newcomer Rafe Peavey have been working with the third-team to open the spring.
"It's definitely a competition at the QB spot," Brandon Allen said.
O-Line Starters
Center Travis Swanson and tackle David Hurd are preparing for the NFL Draft, leaving Arkansas looking for two new starters for its offensive front this spring.
Offensive line coach Sam Pittman said his first-team group to open spring practice consists of left tackle Dan Skipper, left guard Grady Ollison, center Luke Charpentier, right guard Denver Kirkland and right tackle Brey Cook.
Skipper started eight games at guard last season, but has moved back outside.
"It's different out there, because you have more space to cover," Pittman said about Skipper's return to tackle. "But we obviously recruited him to play left tackle. After the first two days, he's got some technique things he needs to correct, but there's not anybody that's going any harder than he is at it. And he's very talented and very athletic, so we think we have him in the right spot."


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Znop asked if I would start a discussion concerning embryonic and adult stem cells. I said that I would start with a summary and hope that others will contribute to the discussion. ]\
Before we begin the discussion, it is important that we define the terms because there is so much misunderstanding and misuse of the terms:
- Stem cells. These are cells that can make many different kinds of cells, as well as themselves. There are many types of stem cells
- Embryonic stem cells. These are cells that are derived from blastocysts, a very early stage of development that occurs during the first two weeks after fertilization. A blastocyst is a small ball that contains about 200-300 stem cells. The blastocyst is pre-embryonic. A developing fertilized egg becomes an "embyro" only after a midline appears. This usually occurs shortly after implantation of the egg into the uterus and a "primitive streak" develops. So, the term "embryonic stem cells" is a misnomer. They should be called "pre-embryonic stem cells".
- Fetal stem cells. These are cells that are derived from fetuses. A fetus refers to the stage of development when body parts are evident, including a head, arms, and legs, usually starting 6 weeks after conception and continuing until birth. Many types of stem cells are present in fetuses, associated with the various organs of the body that are developing. These include:
- Fetal neural stem cells. These are obtained from the developing brain.
- Fetal bone marrow stem cells. These are obtained from developing bone.
- Fetal stem cells isolated from various tissues, including skin, blood, bone, etc.
- Neonatal stem cells. These are cells that are derived from cells collected from newborns. These include:
- Umbilical cord blood stem cells. These are obtained from umbilical cord blood collected from the umbilical cord shortly after birth.
- Umbilical cord and placental stem cells. These are obtained from the umbilical cord and placenta shortly after birth.
- Adult stem cells. These are cells that are derived from cells collected from any person older than newborn, from several days to elderly. They include:
- Bone marrow stem cells. These are cells obtained from bone marrow, usually autologous or from the same person that will receive the transplant. Although the markers for bone marrow stem cells are well defined in humans, many investigators use CD34+ which is a maker for hematopoietic stem cells (i.e. stem cells that make blood cells). Please note that we did not know that there were pluripotent stem cells in bone marrow until 1999.
- Mesenchymal stem cells. These are cells collected from a variety of tissues, including peripheral blood. There are some markers, such as CD144+ but the markers are controversial. Tuli, et al. (2003) for example reports that mesenchymal derived from human trabecular bone are CD73(+), STRO-1(+), CD105(+), CD34(-), CD45(-), CD144(-) while Mayer (2004)]Mayer (2004)[/url] suggests that bone cells are CD13+, CD44+, CD90+, CD147+, CD14-, CD34-, CD45- and CD144- in elderly women, Mitchell, et al. (2006) suggests that such cells obtained from adipose (fat) tissues are CD13, CD29, CD44, CD63, CD73, CD90, CD166 are initially low but increase progressively with passage. Kuwana, et al. (2006) report that human monocyte derived multipotential cells are expressed CD31, CD144, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) type 1 and 2 receptors, Tie-2, von Willebrand factor (vWF), endothelial nitric oxide synthase, and CD146, but CD14/CD45 expression was markedly down-regulated.
- Neural stem cells. We have only known since the mid-1990's that there are neural stem cells in adult brain that continue to make neurons throughout adult life.
- Enteric glia. These are stem cells from the gut. Although known for a long time to be able to produce neurons, these cells are now believed to be a type of stem cell or a neuroprogenitor cell.
- Progenitor cells. These are cells that make several different kinds of cells but are usually more limited than stem cells and may not be able to make themselves. The difference between progenitor and stem cells is not clear and may become moot as if becomes clear that it is possible to "dedifferentiate" cells to become stem cells.
- Precursor cells. These are even more limited than progenitor cells and make only a few types of cells and cannot make themselves. These are further down the differentiation path from progenitor cells.
There are several possible goals for using stem cells for treating spinal cord injury.
- Bridging the gap. The injury site is frequently a "bombed out" tissue that has lost many cells and is filled with macrophages and other inflammatory cells in the weeks that follow injury. In the months and years after injury, it may be taken over by reactive glial cells that may express substances that repel axonal growth. One of the goals of spinal cord injury repair is to fill this site with cells that are conducive to axonal growth.
- Growth factors. Many stem cells and progenitor cells are believed to secrete growth factors that stimulate growth of cells. Many of these factors are also produced by other cells. These include neurotrophins (that stimulate neurons), proliferative factors such as fiberblast growth factor (FGF) and epidermal growth factor (EGF), survival and protective factors such as glial-derived neurotrophic factor, insulin-like growth factor (IGF), and others.
- Remyelinating axons. Injury damages oligodendroglial cells (the cells that provide myelin for axons). Oligodendroglia come from oligodendroglial precursor cells called O2A. These cells may be in short supply or cannot migrate well into the injury to to remyelinate axons. Note that regenerated axons are "naked" and need to be remyelinated in order to conduct efficiently.
- Replacing neurons. Neurons may be lost, particularly when the injury is close to the lumbar enlargement where the neurons from the legs are present or in the cervical enlargement where the neurons for the arms are located. The sacral tip of the spinal cord or conus contain neurons that innervate the bladder, anal sphincter, and other important functions.
Tissue niches for stem cells. As investigators gain more experience with stem cell transplants, it is becoming clear that many tissues don't have the factors that tell a stem cell what to do, what kind of cells to produce. In adult tissues, stem cells must interact with other cells, sometimes called a "niche" in order to produce other kinds of cells. This may be a very important regulator of stem cells so that they do not produce the wrong type or wrong number of cells. For example, it would not be good if bone marrow stem cells produced blood cells in the spinal cord. In general, many investigators attempt to differentiate stem cells in culture before transplantation so that they will produce the right type of cells. For example, one can differentiate embryonic stem cells by treating them with a factor called retinoic acid which pushes them to differentiate towards neural stem cells and then using factors such as sonic hedghog (SHH) to differentiate the cells further to become neurons. These approaches have worked to produce neurons in the brain and motoneurons in the spinal cord.
Neural stem cells. During development, the stem cells of the central nervous system are radial glial cells. These are very specialized looking cells that have[ur long processes that go all the way from the ventricles to the surface of the brain. These cells disappear with maturation and are absent from adult brain. However, certain populations of cells that look like glial cells (astrocytes) remain in certain areas of the brain (such as the subventricular zone or SVC) and these cells migrate to various parts of the brain and can make new neurons in the hippoaompus and the olfactory bulb. While stem cells are believed to be present in the spinal cord and several investigators have successfully isolated cells from the spinal cord that behave like stem cells, it is not clear what form these cells are in the spinal cord itself. One possibility is that they are microglia (the small non-descript cells that are activated by injury to produce large numbers of macrophages. Astrocytes also can be transformed by injury and can produce additional astrocytes. The oligodendroglial precursor O2A cells make oligodendroglial cells.
Stem cells versus differentiated cell transplants. Most of cells transplanted into the spinal cord in animal studies and human clinical trials are not stem cells and, even if they are, it is not clear that they are performing as stem cells. For example, olfactory ensheathing glia are not stem cells. Likewise, while nasal mucosa may contain some stem cells, it is not clear transplanted nasal mucosa are producing neurons in the spinal cord after transplantation. The only exception has been embryonic stem cells. These cells appear to behave like stem ells when transplanted into the spinal cord, producing some neurons, astrocytes, and oligodendroglia. To date, neither adult bone marrow nor umbilical cord blood cells have been reported to produce neurons or glia in the spinal cord after transplantation. In fact, most umbilical cord blood and bone marrow cells simply remain undifferentiated when they are transplanted into the spinal cord. While they may proliferate (i.e. produce additional cells), it seems that they produce more of themselves and not necessarily neurons, astrocytes, or oligodendroglia. However, they may stimulate endogenous cells to remyelinate the spinal cord axons.
Drug stimulation of stem cells. Some drugs seem to stimulate certain cells to produce more growth factors. For example, lithium seems to do this and this may be one of the reasons for the beneficial effects of lithium when used to treat depression. Lithium has been reported to stimulate bone marrow cells to grow. Erythropoeitin is known to stimulate bone marrow stem cells. Several bone marrow stimulation factors are known to stimulate bone marrow cell prolieration and differentiation. This approach may enhance the neuroregenerative and remyelinative effects of bone marrow and umbilical cord blood cells. This is one of the reasons why we are interested in assessing the effects of lithium on spinal cords that have been transplanted with umbilical cord blood mononuclear cells. Mononuclear cells presumably include mesenchymal stem cells. There is also substantial interest in the effects of lithium on neural stem cells because this is one of the theories as to why lithium is beneficial as a treatment of manic depression. It would be of interest to see if lithium stimulates transplanted bone marrow cells as well.
Many therapies regenerate the spinal cord without stem cells. Marie Filbin and her colleague have reported that increased cAMP levels inside neurons will allow axons to grow despite the presence of growth inhibitors. Thus, there was a great deal of excitement when Mary Bunge and colleagues at the Miami Project showed that treatment with rolipram and dibutyryl cAMP and Schwann cells (a source of growth factors and a cell that supports axonal growth) allowed large numbers of axons to grow across the contusion site of injured spinal cords, associated with improved functional recovery. Schwann cells are not stem cells. Likewise, olfactory ensheathing glial cells are not stem cells.
Embryonic stem cells need to be combined with other therapies. Douglas Kerr and colleagues has shown that human embryonic stem cells transplanted to the spinal cord will not only survive and produce motoneurons but, when stimulated with rolipram and dibutyryl cAMP, send axons out of the spinal cord to re-innervate muscle. So far, only embryonic stem cells have been shown to do this. But, it is important to note that embryonic stem cells alone cannot do this. They must be pre-differentiated and combined with other therapies in order to achieve the objective of replacing neurons for these neurons to regenerate and reconnect with muscle.
Stem cells must be differentiated before they are transplanted. Much evidence suggest that it is important to differentiate the stem cells before they are transplanted. In the case of embryonic stem cells, it is necessary to differentiate them or else they may produce inappropriate types and numbers of cells in the spinal cord. Note that it is not necessary for embryonic stem cells to become cancers (i.e. cells that have lost their growth control). All they have to do is produce the wrong number and types of cells. For example, it would not be good if embryonic stem cells produced fibroblasts (skin cells) or hair cells in the spinal cord. To avoid this, most investigators pre-differentiate embryonic stem cells before they transplant them into the spinal cord. Thus, what is being transplanted are not stem cells but rather progenitor or even precursor cells that produce astrocytes, oligodendroglia, or neurons in the spinal cord. In fact, Steven Davies and his colleagues recently reported that it is helpful to differentiate fetal neural stem cells into a particular kind of astrocyte before transplanting them into the spinal cord, to encourage regeneration.
Embryonic stem cells are important. Embryonic stem cells are potentially a source of all the cells in the body. They provide the possibility of producing cells rather than having to harvest the specific cells from different organs for transplantation. While this is controversial, I personally believe that we (not our group but scientists in general) someday should be able make many kinds of cell of the body behave like stem cells. However, in order to reach this goal, it is critical that scientists be allowed to study human embryonic stem cells, find out what makes them pluripotent, identify factors that cause them to produce or differentiate into different kinds of cells, and how to regulate them. Why can't this be done in animal cells? There are important differences between animal and human cells. In fact, for reasons that we still don't understand, scientists have had very little success growing rat embryonic stem cells even though we can grow mouse, human, and primate embryonic stem cells. The fact that we cannot grow rat embryonic stem cells should give people an idea how little we understand of the factors that control and sustain embryonic stem cells and that there are species differences that we don't understand.
Embryonic stem cells alone are not a cure. It is important that people don't expect a cure from just by transplanting human embryonic stem cells into the spinal cord for several reasons. First, there is no reason why embryonic stem cells should or would know what to do when they are plugged into an injured spinal cord. Second, the studies with embryonic stem cell transplants in animal spinal cord injury models have been done shortly after injury and in chronically injured spinal cords. Third, there is the problem of immune rejection of transplanted cells. Although several laboratories have hypothesized that embryonic stem cells are not rejected when transplanted into the spinal cord, this is not the experience of most investigators. That is the reason why there is strong interest in cloning of embryonic stem cells. Fourth, the mechanisms of immune rejection in the central nervous system may be different from immune rejection in other parts of the body.
Adult stem cells alone are not a cure. Likewise, it is important that people don't expect a cure from just infusing umbilical cord blood cells into people. Many clinics are advertising umbilical cord blood treatments as if umbilical cord blood stem cells injected into the bloodstream will go directly to the spinal cord and start to produce the right types of cells and the right types of growth factors to repair the spinal cord. I am very skeptical of claims that are saying that umbilical cord blood cells are doing this. For the past two years, at the Rutgers Keck Center, we have been transplanting umbilical cord blood cells into the spinal cord and finding that the cells do not produce neurons, astrocytes, or oligodendroglial cells. Yes, when they are transplanted directly into the spinal cord, umbilical cord blood cells do produce growth factors that may be beneficial for the spinal cord. However, when we have injected human or rat neonatal blood cells intravenously into rats after spinal cord injury, we find that few or none of the cells go into the spinal cord, even when we suppress the immune system.
Stem cells are one of several tools that we should use to repair the spinal cord and stimulate regeneration. Scientists must be allowed to study a diversity of human embryonic stem cells to understand what and how they do what they do. By understanding stem cell biology, we should be able to make any cell behave like a stem cell. After all, a stem cell is just a cell that is expressing certain genes. Also, it is important to understand how the central nervous system recognize "foreign" cells and reject them. If we know the mechanisms, we may be able to trick the spinal cord to accept transplanted cells are "native" to the spinal cord. Finally, we need to know the factors needed to get the cells to do what we would like them to do, to stimulate regeneration, to provide a substrate that is conducive to axonal growth, to replace neurons, and to remyelinate the spinal cord.
No reason to be discouraged. After reading the above, many may conclude that it will take a long time before treatments become available to restore function to people with spinal cord injury. I don't think so for the following reasons. First, stem cells do provide an important substrate of regeneration in the spinal cord. For regeneration, it may not be necessary for the transplanted cells to stay there forever. For example, once the cells have created a bridge and the axons have grown across, it may not be necessary to keep the bridge. In fact, it might even be a good idea for the bridge to go away. In fact, this may be one reason why stem cell transplants have been relatively safe. Second, stem cells are a very efficient way of delivering growth factors to the spinal cord. I am quite excited by the discovery that umbilical cord blood cells secrete most of the growth factors that are known to stimulate regeneration and remyelination in the spinal cord. Third, although we may not understand the mechanisms, many studies have reported beneficial effects of stem cell transplants to the spinal cord.
Nogo receptor blockers. Many studies indicating that blockade of axonal growth inhibitors will allow regeneration to occur in the spinal cord. For example, there are phase 1 trials of the Nogo antibody by Novartis and Cethrin (the blocker of Nogo receptor intracellular messenger rho) by Bioaxone. Dozens of studies have shown the beneficial effects of chondroitinase in animal studies. Likewise, Biogen has identify other blockers of the Nogo receptor. These need to be taken to clinical trial. When these are combined with cell transplants and sustained growth factor support, I hope that we will see substantial regeneration in human spinal cords. It is not trivial to get such complicated combination therapy trials tested. We have to develop the clinical trial infrastructure now so that we are ready when the therapies are available to be tested in humans.


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...and this one belongs to the Reds.
I was reading the Florida boards and apparently he's been playing at being a thug for many years, now he gets to live the life for real.
...and this one belongs to the Reds.
Championships for MY teams in my lifetime:
Cincinnati Reds - 75, 76, 90
Chicago Blackhawks - 10, 13, 15
University of Kentucky - 78, 96, 98, 12
Chicago Bulls - 91, 92, 93, 96, 97, 98
Everything that happens before Death is what counts.
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
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So, when do these kinds of stories start to affect the number of people that watch and follow the NFL? If this were an NBA player, this would be seen as an indictment of the league and would turn people off to it. But, I don't get the feeling that this is putting the NFL in a similar position. The NFL shield is truly Teflon.
Variatio delectat - Cicero
Revering4Blue (06-27-2013)
A couple of big reasons why the NFL is so popular is that most of the games are on Sunday - where most people have the day off - and there are only 16 regular season games. So every game is important and you have a week's buildup to the next one. Plus the NFL had a huge head start on the NBA not just in longevity but in presence on television. The NFL's been around since the 1920s while the NBA didn't begin till the late 40s. For the NFL, the TV watershed moment for them was the 1958 championship game. That didn't happen for the NBA till the 80s. If you said to a 17 year old kid that once upon a time, the NBA finals were televised on a tape delay they would think you were pulling their leg. About the only thing that would sink the popularity of the NFL is some radical rule change where it would literally become touch football. People like the violence on the field.
They also like living vicariously through these people. We can go down to the gym and play pickup hoops with our friends. Certainly not anywhere in the same universe as the NBA but we can make a jump shot or get a layup or a rebound or even in some instances, dunk. We can go out on the softball field and get a hit or catch a ball. We can go out on a golf course and sink a 20 foot putt or hit a long drive down the middle like the pros do. We can go out and play a game of tennis and have long rallies and make drop shots and hit aces. We just don't do it as well or consistently enough as the pros do. You don't see guys lining up and playing tackle football for recreation. You may go out and play flag or touch football and maybe the touch becomes a little rougher than that but very few people suit up in full pads and get 10 other guys to play full contact football recreationally. Even if you are playing flag football and you complete a pass to your buddy, you know it's not the same as what Tom Brady and Peyton Manning do. We admire people who can do things we can't.
thatcoolguy_22 (06-27-2013)
oneupper (06-27-2013)
In the NFL, most people cheer for (or against) a team or set of teams, rarely do they care about the specific players on the team (other than their ability to win/lose games). How many people in Indy were opening up a brand new Manning Broncos jersey this past christmas???? I'm assuming a very small % to the number of people opening up their brand new Andrew Luck jersey. How many people in Ohio picked up a new Lebron Heat jersey in the last couple of season vs the number that picked up a new Cavelier Irving jersey?
The NFL career is so short, so many go from superstar to afterthought in the blink of an eye, that we only care about what they're doing today, not what they did yesterday. As bucksfan states, the NFL is largely a faceless league, the NBA is driven by their stars. Its why Jordan had a jersey retired in Miami despite never playing for that franchise. Think that would ever happen in football or baseball (aside from the Jackie Robinson situation?)
I also think we live in a different time than when the NBA was at their peak in thugishness. Go back 20-25 years, and athletes getting in trouble (at least publicly) was a new(er) thing. Prior, many transgressions were swept under the rug; the 24 hour new cycle was in its infancy, something happened in california, doesn't mean you automatically hear about it in ohio. At first there was a lot of shock/outrage at the things high profile athletes were getting in trouble for. Then flash forward and its almost the norm. My mother in law used to love tiger, and now dispises him, she asked how I could still root for the guy. to me, its easy, I'm rooting for the performance on the course, I've long since got past the notion that these guys are angels off the field. Sadly, while the vast majority of them are great citizens/role models, there are far too many that are something less that they overshadow those that are doing things "right"
I understand everything that you guys are saying. The NFL is certainly the easiest sport to consume and the general anonymity of the players makes it easier to forget them, but it does seem like you have to continue more and more to put your head in the sand to watch the game. I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I can't see someone take a big hit and think, "how much did that take off their lifespan?" I dont know if there is any connection between the violence of football and the continued violence off the field, but that is constantly creeping into my mind when I watch now.
Variatio delectat - Cicero
Assembly Hall (06-27-2013)
How stupid is Hernandez to even get this close to a murder? Look at the life he's living. He's got a lot to lose. Why risk it all for that?
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Handmade pasta with grandma
Handmade pasta with grandma
1074 reviews
Roll and enjoy an Italian mainstay with a multi-generational local family.
4.5 hours
Group size
Up to 12 people
Hosted in
English, French, Polish, Russian, Spanish
Handmade pasta with grandma
Handmade pasta with grandma
1074 reviews
Roll and enjoy an Italian mainstay with a multi-generational local family.
4.5 hours
Group size
Up to 12 people
Hosted in
English, French, Polish, Russian, Spanish
What you'll do
UPDATE! Nonna goes Live! If you're currently unable to travel to Italy don't worry: Italy will come to you! Nonna will cook live in your home! Grab your laptop, buy the ingredients and be ready to prepare your handmade pasta with grandma through a live streaming from Palombara. Feel free to book the 25 euro instances on our calendar and I'll contact you to give you more details. Cook with one of the best chefs ever: Our grandma, Nonna Nerina. She and her sisters will show you how to prepare the perfect pasta—no machines, just your hands, the freshest local ingredients, and love. You'll be part of our crazy family for a day and join us as we walk the tiny medieval streets to Grandma's kitchen, located in the old winepress where my great-grandpa used to make wine that the community tapped straight from the barrel. It's a special place for my family and the entire village.
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Whenever I sat in my grandma's kitchen growing up, she'd make pasta while sharing memories of her own mom and grandma. I soon realized my generation was missing something important: The handmade pasta techniques and traditions passed down through the ages. I asked if I could post photos online, to which she replied, "Do what you want, I don't understand you at all." Today, she knows what an impact she's making because people from all over the world come to our home to cook with her, making her very happy.
What's included
Three kinds of handmade pasta and bruschetta made with local, extra virgin olive oil, which the Romans called liquid gold
Two kinds of wine and coffee
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We'll meet at Piana Bella di Montelibretti Station and travel together to Palombara Sabina, a small village known for its castle and famous olive oil. We'll share our time in grandma's cozy cucina.
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Handmade pasta with grandma
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