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Welcome to the "Love of Art in Historical Fiction Series", a continuation of the Historical Novel Society's "Art in Historical Fiction Interview Series". Art in fiction is an ever-growing literary niche as you will see with our ongoing review/interview series.This month's featured author is Susan Vreeland and her recent release Lisette's List (Random House August 26, 2014). Yet again, Vreeland has created a vital story, one written as finely as a Pissarro painting, but in the rich colors of Cezanne's palette, of a woman awakening to the power, importance, and contributors to European art as she takes refuge and seeks consolation in Provence and Paris, France, before,in the midst of, and after World War II.
Lisette Roux departs Paris for Roussillon in southern Provence to help her art framer husband, André, care for his aging grandfather, Pascal, a former ocher miner whose pigments were used by famous painters of his day, Cézanne and Pissarro. Lisette longs to return to the vibrancy of Paris and its art scene, to pursue her dream of becoming a gallery apprentice. But surprisingly, through her caregiving and exchange with Pascal she begins to learn about art and artists. When André and his good friend Maxime, a Parisian art dealer, are enlisted in the war effort, Lisette must learn to fend for herself in her newly adopted home. As the war advances, she comes into direct contact with Marc and Bella Chagall, and a life affecting friendship develops along with a further understanding of art. The war plays out, as does everyone's new situations and complications, with an ensuing threat to lovers of art, art and artists.
In the wake of the two recent discoveries of 1,406 potentially Nazi-looted and labeled "degenerate artworks", uncovered in Munich in 2013, at the home of Mr. Cornelius Gurlitt and then at his second home in Salzburg, Austria, in 2014, Lisette's List transports us to the world and time period when these works were more than likely seized and absconded with. Through exquisite prose, poignant period and place details, and profound observations on art and war, Vreeland reveals the beauty, the struggles, and the losses of the World War II era.
Come, let the provincial light and Parisian culture warm your heart, while the mistral of war and endangered art and fleeing artists drawn by Vreeland sweep you into the past, showing what was at stake then and now, and which perhaps hasn't been completely lost forever.
Stephanie Renée dos Santos: Where did the inspiration for your protagonist, Lisette, stem from for Lisette's List?
Susan Vreeland: She came from my imagination of a woman with longings to participate in the art world, not unlike my own longings, a woman displaced, and a woman open to what the new environment had to offer, even to the degree of seeing her exile as her "holy ground." It's natural for me to write a character who has a developing spiritual sense. I wanted a character whom I could love for her goodness, her forgiveness, her willingness and sincerity, qualities I cherish.
SRDS: What drew you to the time period of the novel?
SV: World War II, of course, which provided trauma, upheaval, and tragedy, and the threat to Europe's artistic heritage. We must not forget that under the Occupation by the Third Reich, the war brought about the vast and systematized plunder of "degenerate art," motivated by thought control, revenge, and arrogance. Hear Hitler's rant as early as 1937: "We will, from now on, lead an unrelenting war of purification, an unrelenting war of extermination, against the last elements which have displaced our Art," horrifying words later reused relating to his "final solution."
Can you imagine France without its art? The Louvre emptied and turned into an arsenal or a warehouse? A Holland bereft of its Rembrandts and Vermeers would be a land without its heritage. It's a form of rape. What does that do to a people? My love for art made me outraged.
SRDS: How and why did you choose the book's settings, Paris and Roussillon in southern Provence?
SV: I had to have both–Paris for the art world that Lisette would be sad about leaving, and Provence for the ochre mines, the source of pigments for paint that she would be learning about during her exile. What we have in the two locales is the primitive material culture in the geology of Roussillon which represents the origin of art, and the completion of art is suggested in the paintings of Parisian museums and galleries. The two locales serve as bookends to the process from ore to frame, from earth to majesty. Pascal embodied both.
Also, to flesh out the novel with colorful human beings, Paris and Provence provided a contrast in the stereotypes at work between northern and southern France. In general, northerners, and specifically Parisians, were stereotyped as rational, cultured, sophisticated, and reserved, whereas the ethnological type of the Provençaux have been labeled coarse, clownish, and prone to explosive passion and impetuousness. Southerners have the spirit of joy, of exuberance, and also of exaggeration. Parisian men spend their afternoons in cafés discoursing on philosophy, literature, film, art, and politics, while Provençal men spend theirs on the boules court tossing around steel balls and arguing about their landing spots. Such stereotypes provided humor and a rich well from which I could draw.
SRDS: What unique historical objects and documents inspired the story?
SV: Chagall's historic "Letter to the Paris Artists", 1944, was a thrilling discovery for me. His deep concern about the loss of France's artistic heritage which he referred to as the soul of France moved me deeply. Before the end of the war, during the Occupation, he wrote from his exile in the United States, "Today the world hopes and believes that the years of struggle will make the content and spirit of French art even more profound, more than ever worthy of the great art epochs of the past. I bow to the memory of those who disappeared, and of those who fell in battle. I bow to your struggle, to your fight against the foe of art and life."
The discovery of this important letter led me to see that the novel was not just a narrow story of a woman retrieving her family's seven paintings. Her experience was a microcosm of the vast rape of Europe's art by what Chagall called "satanic enemies who wanted to annihilate not just the body but also the soul–the soul, without which there is no life, no artistic creativity." After reading the letter, Lisette saw this too. By focusing on one character's experience of potential loss, I could represent the larger issue of art ownership and national patrimony which is at issue even today.
SRDS: How is Lisette's List different from your other seven art-related novels?
SV: The novel is not centered on one artist and his or her development. That approach has given me much joy for a decade, but recently I began to feel it was too constraining. Lisette's List came from a need to outgrow that mode of turning art history into narrative, and instead, to completely invent a set of non-artist characters with their conflicts and circumstances, dipping into the lives of three painters only as they impacted pure fiction.
SRDS: What fascinating information did you uncover while researching but were unable to incorporate into the book, but can share here?
SV: Bits and pieces. Pissarro and [wife] Julie had seven children. Remarkably, five of them became artists. A leading spirit of the Impressionists, he was the only one who exhibited in all eight Impressionist shows. To speak of his determination, he suffered an eye infection and could no longer paint outdoors, so he painted through hotel room windows the busy urban scenes below.
New characters could have been inserted. For example, I discovered a Paris art dealer, René Gimpel, a Résistance fighter who was arrested and died in a concentration camp. He could have had him be Maxime's friend.
There are some great quotes by my three artist characters that I couldn't use. For example, amusingly Pissarro said, "God takes care of imbeciles, little children, and artists." And this lyrical sentence by Cézanne giving life to fruit: "When you translate the skin of a beautiful peach, or the melancholy of an old apple, you sense their mutual reflections, the same shadows of relinquishment, the same loving sun, the same recollections of dew." And Chagall's lament and consolation: "Neither Imperial Russia, nor the Russia of the Soviets needs me. They don't understand me. I am a stranger to them. I am certain Rembrandt loves me." What minds these men had! I revere them.
SRDS: Which famous artists are celebrated in the novel? And why did you choose to focus on the art and artists you did?
SV: The choice of artists was easy. Since the novel is set in both Paris and Provence, I chose two painters, Camille Pissarro who painted the areas around Paris, and Paul Cézanne who was born and lived in the South of France in Aix en Provence. The fact that they were friends who valued each other's work sealed the deal. I imagine them to have made quips about being Impressionists, Pissarro calling themselves "the dear unwanteds" and Cézanne calling themselves "the great criminals of Paris." In truth, Cézanne called Pissarro "the humble and colossal Pissarro" and "my master, mon bon Dieu." In turn, Pissarro foresaw that Cézanne would lead painters to a new aesthetic, which he did: Cubism.
Certain paintings by each of them also prompted me to choose them. I recall seeing a Pissarro painting of a girl with a goat on an ochre-colored path by her vegetable garden. Although I have lost this painting, the cover painting, Côte Jalet comes close. All the cover designer needed to do was to paint in a goat, Geneviève. Another Pissarro painting convinced me that I had chosen rightly. Le Petit Fabrique pictured a rural paint factory where the ochre pigments from Roussillon were made into oil paint. What could be more perfect?
Cézanne's landscapes around Aix en Provence displayed the countryside that I described and that so enchanted Lisette. When I discovered his three paintings of ochre quarries, he definitely fit in to my narrative.
As for Marc Chagall, imagine my surprise and happiness when I discovered that during the War and Occupation, he and his wife hid from Nazis in the closest village to Roussillon, Gordes, only nine kilometers away. Now I could give Lisette her longed for experience of being in the midst of art as it was being made. And his "Letter to the Paris Painters" expanded my story to reflect the larger threat to art at the hands of the Reich's Chamber of Culture.
And finally, one Picasso study entered the story to fill the art historical gap between Cézanne and Chagall. Maxime, the art dealer in the novel, traces the connection thus: "The visible reality expressed through the handling of light and color of Impressionism–Pissarro–moved into the solid geometric shapes of Post-impressionism–Cézanne–to the modernism of distortion and Cubism–Picasso–and finally to the post-modernism of the expression of the invisible personal reality of dreams–Chagall." And, despite the fact that their work was considered "degenerate," they all fit into place in the most satisfying way.
About the author: Susan Vreeland is an internationally known author of art-related historical fiction. Four of her eight books have been New York Times Best Sellers: Girl in Hyacinth Blue, The Forest Lover, Clara and Mr. Tiffany, Luncheon of the Boating Party, and acclaimed novels,The Passion of Artemisia, Life Studies, What Love Sees, and Lisette's List. She has received four times the Theodor Geisel Award, the highest honor given by the San Diego Book Awards. Her novels have been translated into twenty-six languages, and have frequently been selected as Book Sense Picks. She was a high school English teacher in San Diego for thirty years.
For more about Susan's novels:
http://www.svreeland.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/susan.vreeland.9?fref=ts
To Purchase Lisette's List: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20175586-lisette-s-list
The Washington Post: "Love more. Love again, Love broadly. Love without reservation." Review: 'Lisette's List,' by Susan Vreeland – The Washington Post
Join us here next Saturday September 27th for an interview with Anne Girard, author of Madame Picasso.
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2014: August 30th Susan Vreeland, Lisette's List (new release), September 27th Anne Girard, Madame Picasso (new release),October 25th Yves Fey, Floats the Dark Shadow, November 29th Mary F. Burns, The Spoils of Avalon (new release), December 27th Kelly Jones, The Woman Who Heard Color
2015: January 31st Heather Webb, Rodin's Lover (new release), February 28th Alyson Richman, The Mask Carver's Son, March 28th Maureen Gibbon, Paris Red (new release), April 11th M.J Rose, The Witch of Painted Sorrows (new release), April 25th Lisa Brukitt, The Memory of Scent, May 30th, Lisa Barr Fugitive Colors, June 27th Lynn Cullen, The Creation of Eve, July 25th Andromeda Romano-Lax, The Detour, August 29th Frederick Andresen,The Lady with an Ostrich Feather Fan, September 26 Nancy Bilyeau, The Tapestry (new release)

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And I am not defending Bobby Brown. He was a disturbed and abominable wife-beating cokehead that wore the conductor's hat for Whitney's train ride to junkie hell. But was her destination inevitable? Was Bobby interchangeable?
Here is what we know.
In the late '80s Whitney had been linked to NFL quarterback, Randall Cunningham, Hollywood megastar, Eddie Murphy, and even her best girlfriend Robyn Crawford.
When Whitney met Bobby in 1989, the term power couple did not exist. If it did, a portmanteau would have been coined the moment they laid eyes on each other: Bitney? Bobnee? Brouston? Ominously, none of it works.
Whitney already had seven consecutive No. 1s, including One Moment in Time, Didn't We Almost Have It All and Where Do Broken Hearts Go. Her trophy case was filling up with Grammys and AMAs, she had sung for Mandela in front of 70,000 people and Forbes listed her as a money printing machine. She was 26 years old and the writing was on the wall. This rocket was heading into the stratosphere.
Twenty-year-old Bobby was also on a run. His second solo album had just gone platinum eight times over. And hit single My Prerogative was on everyone's radio. Little did Whitney or anyone else know that Bobby's rocket came out of a box of fireworks. It was already fizzling out.
So why Bobby? He had been diagnosed with ADHD and bipolar disorder (manic depression). Add a tablespoon of cocaine to that cocktail and the next stop is crazy as a sh*thouse rat. Even compared to Eddie Murphy, a tweaked out Bobby Brown must have been an out-of-body experience.
Whitney's lack of confidence must have been a magnet to Bobby's swagger. Kevin Costner alludes to Whitney's low self-esteem during his eulogy (which, btw, was weirdly out of place before becoming charming, warm and touching).
There are other factors that fed into Whitney's insecurity. The black community was whispering, "too white". And rumours about her sexuality were not going away.
With all of those pressures, Whitney Houston would have welcomed some fun in Bobby Brown's psychedelic bouncy castle. And with posthumous reports that she was dabbling in drugs before they even met, it kind of makes sense.
What happens next is Whitney goes nuclear. She runs the table on the music industry and Hollywood for five straight years. Her debut movie, The Bodyguard, does $410 million worldwide. She sings The Star Spangled Banner at Super Bowl XXV that, 20 years later, is still the standard for all others to be judged by. And the awards cabinets take up a wing of her mansion.
She also becomes a full blown addict. The only difference between Whitney and a corner store crackhead is $100 million and worldwide white glove treatment as an A-list celebrity.
The most important date to remember during this period is 4 March 1993. That was the day Whitney gave birth to her only child, Bobbi Kristina Houston Brown.
During the entire lifetime of Bobbi Kristina, Whitney Houston was a drug addict. This alone speaks to the power of Whitney's demons. The majority of those years were spent with Bobby in a household gone bonkers. Spousal abuse, infidelity, drunk driving, separation, divorce, missed child support payments, child custody lawsuits, you name it. After the divorce in 2007, Whitney is linked to Snoop Dogg's cousin, Ray J, who is a singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. He is also 17 years younger than Whitney. She is now a 45-year-old woman in a young girl's game. Had yet another monkey jumped onto her back?
Whether with Bobby or Ray J, any glimmer of Whitney becoming sober was soon snuffed out by her next relapse. And Bobbi Kristina witnessed it all. The implications are a nightmare. In two weeks Bobbi Kristina will be 19 years old. There are reports that the Houston family is imploring Bobbi Kristina to enter a drug rehab facility.
I do not pray, but if I did, the words Bobbi Kristina would be in my supplications.
Whitney Houston's legacy is more bitter than sweet. She is the most awarded female recording artist of all time with two Emmys, six Grammys, 30 Billboard Music Awards and 22 AMAs. She sold over 200 million albums and singles worldwide. She was also an unstoppable crackhead for 20 years.
There were interventions that led to good weeks and months, but Whitney always chose crack-cocaine over friends, family and Bobbi Kristina.
In the end the hundred million was blown; her voice gone and body destroyed. It pains me to think about the depths Whitney may have sunk to score her next fix when the money ran out.
Bobby Brown. He is back touring with his old crew. The middle-aged men from New Edition have an upcoming casino gig in Thackerville, Oklahoma. And a bunch more like it. I guess when the Houston gravy train dried up, Bobby needed rent money. He walked out of Whitney's funeral last weekend. I hope he is smart enough to know he cannot walk out of what happened to Whitney. Bobby will be to Whitney what OJ is to Nicole. He has started his life sentence of public derision and private guilt.
The question, however, was whether the character played by Bobby Brown could have been filled by any body that fitted the bill in the tragedy that was Whitney Houston's life.
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Ken Meuleman's vast contribution to West Australian and Victorian cricket will be recognised when all future first-class matches between the states are played for the Meuleman Shield. The first Meuleman Shield match will start at the WACA Ground tomorrow, with the winner to hold the trophy until next year.
Meuleman, who died late last year, was a stalwart of WA cricket after moving from Melbourne in 1952.
He scored 1881 runs in 28 Sheffield Shield matches for Victoria, appearing in his sole Test in 1946, before adding 44 matches and 3035 runs for WA. But he probably had a greater influence off the field, coaching at state, club and individual level and inspiring scores of players, including Test opener Justin Langer.
Meuleman's son Bob, the second of three generations of the family to play for WA, was thrilled with the innovation.
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WA's best find this season, strapping Fremantle swing bowler Brett Dorey, will be given until today to prove his fitness after pinching a nerve in his calf.
The WA selectors added Darren Wates to the 13-man squad named for the match, which would move the third-placed Warriors to the top of the ladder with a win.
Champion leg spinner Shane Warne will boost the powerful Victorian team.
TEAMS - WA: Justin Langer (c), Michael Hussey, Chris Rogers, Murray Goodwin, Marcus North, Shaun Marsh, Ryan Campbell, Kade Harvey, Beau Casson, Brett Dorey, Darren Wates, Brad Williams, Ben Edmondson, Steve Magoffin (three to be omitted).
Victoria: Cameron White (c), Matthew Elliott, Jason Arnberger, Brad Hodge, David Hussey, Jonathan Moss, Ian Harvey, Shane Warne, Peter Roach, Mick Lewis, Allan Wise, Graeme Rummans (likely 12th).
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Crucio, now!
Two things blew up my life yesterday. The first:
Maybe you don't understand the drama, but there were a lot of parents trying to coax their teenagers out of the bathroom last night, OK? This is real pain.
And then…
The Dark Lord Funk came and soothed it. They know the world. They KNOW our world. That's what makes me so happy about this video – because it was created by legit students of magic. One of us. Or at least one of me. Because I belong to Slytherin House. And we won the House Cup. And I actually do HAVE a wand to drop.
A wand drop!
I don't carry my wand around with me every day, what the f-ck is my problem?
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Riding in cars with Mimi
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Report on EU and China: Unbalanced Trade? [2010/2301(INI)] - Committee on International Trade. Rapporteur: Marielle de Sarnez (A7-0141/2012)
Marielle de Sarnez introduced the report.
The following spoke: Viviane Reding (Vice-President of the Commission).
The following spoke: Jan Zahradil (rapporteur for the opinion of the DEVE Committee), Philippe De Backer (rapporteur for the opinion of the EMPL Committee), Yannick Jadot (rapporteur for the opinion of the ITRE Committee), Morten Løkkegaard (rapporteur for the opinion of the IMCO Committee), Iuliu Winkler, on behalf of the PPE Group, Gianluca Susta, on behalf of the S&D Group, Niccolò Rinaldi, on behalf of the ALDE Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Hans-Peter Martin, Robert Sturdy, on behalf of the ECR Group, Bastiaan Belder, on behalf of the EFD Group, Helmut Scholz, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Hans-Peter Martin, Non-attached Member, Daniel Caspary, Emilio Menéndez del Valle, Mara Bizzotto, Bruno Gollnisch, Jacek Protasiewicz and Véronique De Keyser.
IN THE CHAIR: Jacek PROTASIEWICZVice-President
The following spoke: Andrew Henry William Brons, Christofer Fjellner, Paweł Zalewski, Jim Higgins and Andrzej Grzyb.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Rareş-Lucian Niculescu, Mario Pirillo, Anna Záborská, Olga Sehnalová, Monica Luisa Macovei, João Ferreira and Elena Băsescu.
The following spoke: Karel De Gucht (Member of the Commission) and Marielle de Sarnez.
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Lighten up Bro.
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Be kind to yourself Roy, don't be too harsh on your brotheren.
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There may be consequences for not protecting software or technology developments. An example of this is seen in the issue involving the "Please Call Me" mobile messaging app for which MTN registered a patent. MTN was the first mobile communications company to launch the app, and Vodacom followed suit a few months thereafter. MTN, as the patent holder, could have enforced its rights against Vodacom, but it did not, and as such the latter dodged a bullet.
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Software piracy is a serious issue, and it has previously been reported by BSA, a non-profit trade association that protects the intellectual property rights of software providers, that millions of rands were paid in the past year alone by South African companies that made use of unlicensed software.
Legal counsel for BSA has been quoted as saying "software piracy negatively impacts software publishers and creates unfair competition for legitimate companies. It exposes organisations to legal, financial and reputational damage through security breaches and data loss." This is rather unfortunate. Some of these companies were ordered to pay damages for intellectual property right infringement.
This, again, clearly highlights the importance of protecting software and technology developments - even though right holders may not be aware of the infringement of their rights, there are various remedies available to them should the infringement be discovered.


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Senator Pat Roberts's (R–KS) amendment to the Senate's budget plan (S.Con.Res. 8) to eliminate funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program's (SNAP) Employment and Training Program is a serious attempt at imposing some much-needed fiscal discipline in Congress.
According to the Government Accountability Office, officials at SNAP did not track any outcome measures for their employment and training program in fiscal year (FY) 2009. For example, SNAP officials failed to track how many program participants entered employment, how many experienced wage gains, how many attained credentials or education, and other obvious outcomes. (But this didn't stop Congress from appropriating almost $401 billion for the program in FY 2009.) There may be a good reason SNAP bureaucrats do not want to assess program effectiveness.
In the late 1980s, the Department of Agriculture sponsored a large-scale, multisite experimental evaluation of what was at the time called the Food Stamp Employment and Training Program. Over 13,000 study participants at the 53 separate local food stamp agencies from 23 states were randomly assigned to intervention and control groups. Similar to job-training and welfare-to-work programs of today, participants were required to engage in job search activities, job search training, welfare and work experience activities, and educational and vocational skills training. Study participants were followed quarterly for one year. Overall, the program "was found to have no effect on participants' employment and earnings, and only a relatively small effect on average food stamp benefits."
The program was found to be ineffective on all 20 measures of employment and earnings. For example, 54.5 percent of the control group found employment during the first year, compared to 51.6 percent of the intervention group. The difference was statistically indistinguishable from no impact at all.
The program also had no effect on the number of days worked by the intervention group and the hourly wages of their current or most recent jobs. In addition, the program had no effect on the total earnings of participants. For example, the average yearly earnings for the intervention group were $2,475.15, while the control group averaged $2,542.60.
The program was found to have a statistically significant impact on only one of 10 measures of welfare dependency. Participation in the employment and training program failed to reduce the overall receipt of welfare cash assistance, but it did have a slight impact on reducing the amount of food stamp benefits received over the course of a year. For the year follow-up, the intervention group averaged $920 in food stamp benefits, while the control group averaged $985.
While the Food Stamp Employment and Training Program failed on all measures of employment, earnings, and general welfare cash assistance, it appears to have had a minute effect on reducing food stamp benefit level.
In contrast, there is a model for policy that does help welfare recipients move from government dependence into employment: the 1996 welfare reform, which inserted work requirements into the largest cash assistance welfare program. It required that states have roughly half of work-eligible adult recipients working, preparing for work, or looking for work. As a result of this policy, welfare rolls declined by half within five years, employment rates among low-income individuals jumped, and child poverty rates plummeted.
Senator Roberts is right that the ineffective SNAP Employment and Training Program should be eliminated. However, following the successful pattern of the 1996 welfare reform, it should be replaced with a strong work requirement.


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Frome's Labour Monument
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One of the sights mentioned in the guide books is the Fromes Labour Monument in Frome. The monument is situated just on the main junction where the sugar canes are transported in to the sugar processing factory. This is the place in town where the traffic was most heavy due to all the sugar cane transport coming in and parking is not permitted and you are fined pretty heavily measured in Jamaican standards if you do.
The monument was raised in remembrance to the Labour leader Alander Bustamente and the Workers for their courageous fight in 1938 on behalf of the Working People of Jamaica.
I guess this monument has great symbolism for the Jamaican people.
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finding sequence to IL21 - (Mar/21/2009 )
Hi Everyone
I need some help with finding the cDNA sequence of humean IL21 split to each exon
and to know what is the sequence of the first intron in the whole gene sequence of IL21
and to know the first 500 bases of the promoter sequence and which factors it can link
What I usually do is:
Go to NCBI and search the "GENE" data base for your gene.
Go into it and scroll down to the bottom of the blue list on the rite.
Find Ensembl and press it.
Press on the Transcript ID number.
On the left hand side of the screen hit Exons
There you have it.
I find it e.z.er to find the gen in NCBI and that's why I change over in the middle instead of doing it all in Ensembl.
thanks for the help.
is there any chance you could help me find the introns sequences?
This link will lead you to IL21 sequence. Exons are high lighted. The sequence before the 1st exon is promoter sequence. If you only want the first 500 bp promoter sequence, click "Configure this page" link on the left of that page, and input 500 to the box "5' Flanking sequence (upstream): ".
For your convenience, I list the sequence here:
Promoter (500bp)
First intron:
fadlone on Mar 22 2009, 04:35 PM said:
is there any chance you could help me find the introns sequences?
When you are in Ensembl at the Exon view,
on the bottom left, hit "Configure this page"
check the "Show full intronic sequence",
scroll to the top and hit "SAVE and close"
thanks for the help
just one more question, is the promotor sequence is on the positive or negetive strand ( I think its on the negetive)?
and what sould I do if it on the negetive if I need in the next step to find witch Transcription Factor Binding Site are found on it?
Obtain the sequence for the reverse strand and then go to this site:
and search for transcription factor binding databases.
I didn't quite understood how I suppose to find if the sequence is on the positive or negative strand
fadlone on Mar 28 2009, 08:57 PM said:
You can see by the directions of the arrows that it's on the negative strand.


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It's official: beards are as trendy as boobs. So much that many men in New York's hipster-filled neighbourhoods of Williamsburg, Park Slope, and Bushwick, are coughing up as much as $7,000 to get a thicker and manlier coat of facial hair. This was recently discovered by website DNA Info, when they interviewed a few plastic surgeons. Dr. Jeffrey Epstein, a Midtown East surgeon, said that facial hair transplants are on the rise especially now that it's fashionable. In fact, he averages three beard implants a week, compared to only a handful a year a few years ago.
The procedure goes like this: the surgeon takes hair from the chest or scalp and plants it onto the face. Once transplanted, the root takes hold and it can then be treated like a normal beard. Shave it and it'll grow back instantly. Beard transplants range from $3,000 for patients with patchy beards, to $7,000 for patients who can't grow a scruff at all. Some clients even brought pictures of George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Tom Selleck, and Ryan Gosling as their beard inspirations. And the most popular beard implant style? The lumberjack-meets-roadie-hybrid.
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February retail sales show sustained growth, says Commerce and NRF
Retail sales continued their solid momentum with February data showing sequential and annual growth, according to data from the United States Department of Commerce and the National Retail Federation (NRF).
Retail sales continued their solid momentum with February data showing sequential and annual growth, according to data from the United States Department of Commerce and the National Retail Federation (NRF).
February sales, which include non-general merchandise like automobiles, gasoline, and restaurants, were $387.1 billion for a 1.0 percent increase from January and an 8.9 percent increase over February 2010, according to Commerce. Total retail sales for the December 2010 through February 2011 period were up 8.2 percent year-over-year, and Commerce revised the December 2010 to January increase from 0.3 percent to 0.5 percent. February represents the eighth straight month of increased retail sales, according to Commerce data, and is the highest month for retail sales since November 2007.
February's 1.0 percent gain is the largest recorded by Commerce in the last four months.
And the NRF reported that February retail sales, which exclude automobiles, gas stations, and restaurants, were up 0.6 percent from January on a seasonally-adjusted basis and up 4.2 percent unadjusted year-over-year.
"February retail sales are in sync with evidence of the expanding economy," said NRF Chief Economist Jack Kleinhenz in a statement. "While February is typically a slow month for retailers, consumers showed their spending power, though it's too soon to tell what type of impact the spike in gasoline prices will have on consumers this spring."
Shippers and carriers have told LM that with retail sales showing sustained growth for eight consecutive months that it is possible freight transportation volumes will be more in sync with retail numbers, when it comes to both sets of data growing.
But despite this growth pattern, retail sales numbers—and freight volumes—remain below pre-recession levels, but there is a feeling of optimism that things will continue to improve regarding freight data, especially retail-oriented freight.
This appears to be happening to some degree already, according to Ryan Daube, President and CEO of AFN Worldwide, a non asset-based 3PL in Chicago.
"The market is as tight as it has ever been in February since we have been in business," said Daube. "There is no question that it is exploding right now, in the sense that demand is growing."
FTR Associates Managing Director and Senior Consultant Noel Perry said on a recent Webcast hosted by his firm that the economy is entering a period of consumption, which includes both services and goods, and he added that retail sales are growing at a stronger level than they did during the 2003-2004 economic recovery.
While retail sales showed forward progress in February, oil and gas prices have gone up significantly in recent weeks, which could potentially hinder future retail sales numbers, as money that consumers may spend could shift towards gasoline expenses, as well as potentially change consumer buying patterns.
This was evident in data released today by Thomson Reuters and the University of Michigan which showed that U.S. consumer sentiment declined in March, according to a MarketWatch report. Their data found that the consumer sentiment levels fell to 68.2 in March from 77.5 in February, marking its biggest decline since the onset of the financial crisis in September 2008.
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This is a black and white print from the 1854 Winterhalter portrait showing Eugénie in a sultry pose.
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Fairlawn Rehabilitation Hospital congratulates its therapists who have advanced through the hospital's Clinical Ladder Program by furthering their professional knowledge and skills. The therapists achieve clinical ladder levels through their involvement in quality improvement initiatives, specialty certification and/or continuing education programs, student precepting, and hospital committees. A luncheon was recently held in their honor.
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November 15, 2006
TBL: What Is Life? Pt. I
It is probably one of the most deceptively simple questions in any scientific field. Defining life becomes a problem of attribution, finding commonalities of matter reliant on energy.
With each new technological breakthrough things get more complicated. Microscopes become successively more powerful, able to penetrate the depths of body, cell and nucleus, revealing new life, different life, unclassifiable by common convention.
This process has repeated itself throughout history, and continues today. We live in a biological world of genes and molecules, far flung from the macro days of limbs and organs.
As a microbiologist, FSU Biology Professor Dr. Scott Fritz studies the boundaries in this world of the infinitesimal.
"It really is a fascinating question," says Fritz. "We [biologists] have a working definition: something organic that can obtain energy, independently reproduce and have the ability to adapt to its environment."
But Fritz and other biologists wonder if the definition is adequate.
"It's all in your perspective," says Fritz. "Are viruses life? That is still a very controversial question that may or may not ever be resolved."
Viruses spark controversy because of their inability to independently reproduce. They essentially hijack the host's reproductive machinery in order to multiply; without the host they cannot survive.
But viruses have all of the other components of life; they feed, they adapt with profound efficiency and they are organic in nature. Viruses possess the same basic components as all other life, nucleic acids (DNA, RNA), amino acids, sugars and lipids, which are each composed of simple, carbon based, organic molecules.
Back in the 1950's, the decade when DNA was finally pinned down as the genetic blueprint of life, a grad student named Stanley Miller tried to reproduce these organic compounds by replicating the harsh atmospheric conditions of Earth 3,800 million years ago, pulsing electric charges through the hydrogen, methane, ammonia and water vapor soup.
Miller's experiments produced amino acids, commonly called the building blocks of life. Subsequent experiments by Miller and others in this new field of "abiotic chemistry" would yield purine and pyrimidine, sugars integral to the structure of both RNA and DNA. Miller and company proved that life's components could be synthesized from an inorganic substrate.
He found the pieces, but how do they fit in the puzzle?
"That's the real question," says Fritz. "How do you go from [organic compounds] to life? How do the components of life rise up and coalesce into an organism?"
Certain organic structures, such as bacterial flagella, viral capsids (capsules) and the lipid bilayer of eukaryotes, are able to self-assemble, meaning that if the proteinous components of the structure were to discorporate, they are "programmed" to reform into the original structure.
Fritz suggests that this mechanism might have something to do with the assemblage of early life.
Once life assembled, it was compelled to persist, to survive. In order to survive, it had to be aware of its surroundings on some level; in order to obtain energy, to adapt. That meant an exchange of information. Some would define the acquisition and use of information intelligence. Is intelligence another attribute of life?
"It depends on how you define intelligence," says Fritz. "Is it the ability to learn or to reason, to draw conclusions? Is it physiological in nature? Does it require a complex neural network, or merely a set of chemoreceptors?"
Recent research has suggested that bacteria are able to draw conclusions and make decisions in some respects. For example, certain bacteria will preferentially use one sugar over another.
"Are they making an intelligent decision?" says Fritz. "If so, then intelligence takes place at the level of the gene. Bacteria have no neural network, no brain."
As a comparative psychologist, Dr. Erica Kennedy uses some of the most brainy of animals to explore reasoning "analogs" in the animal kingdom: Capuchin monkeys.
"We look for patterns, comparisons and possible ways that these reasoning abilities may have developed under certain circumstances in different organisms," says Kennedy.
The monkeys explored two-dimensional computer mazes with a simple joystick, and then compared their ability with the abilities of chimpanzees. The capuchins were not as capable as the chimps, but did exhibit the ability to make decisions and draw conclusions.
"The process requires a lot of training," says Kennedy. "[The monkeys] don't know the question, so you have to find the clearest way to get across what you want them to do. Researchers also have to be careful to avoid unintentially giving animals cues that could influence their behavior.
"As far as 'what is life,' I would have to go with the biological explanation," she says.
Fritz believes that we will be asking the same question years into the future.
"I'm always amazed by microorganisms in particular," says Fritz. "Life is all around us, within us and we just take it for granted, forgetting how complex it really is."
But is life confined to Earth, to the biological carbon base? Can artificial intelligence and software be categorized as life?
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Yes it is. The definition of life is that of a self replicating entity. There is the question of evolution and survival of the fittest. Genetic Algorithms can find some quite surprising solutions. The problem is defining a criterion of fitness.ReplyDelete
A full Von Neumann replicator is a living being and can evolve. Evolution is in fact undesirable and a Reed Soloman code will prevent it, as there will then be no chance of the genetic code mutating.
BTW - We are intelligently designed, if we define "intelligence" in terms of the way we think. Ray Kurzweil has characterized human creativity in terms of random noise. This is a GA - no more no less.
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Atletico Madrid striker Diego Forlan has dismissed suggestions that he'll replace Samuel Eto'o at Inter.
Forlan has been named as a potential Nerazzurri signing as Eto'o edges nearer to a switch to Anzhi.
Reports in Italy today even claimed that his agent had arrived in Milan, but the player himself has noted that he's happy in Spain.
"I have received no offer from Inter," the Uruguayan international is quoted as saying in the AS newspaper.
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The Wild & The Innocent juxtaposes portraits of bodies and landscapes culled from various photographers' personal archives. How do these pictures of the human body and natural landscapes relate to one another? How do the two, when shown together, affect our perceptions of nature and ourselves? The Wild & The Innocent seeks to complicate the modern oppositional relationship between the body and nature in order to explore the truths of our own transience and infinitude -- our dual limitlessness and powerlessness -- as reflected in the wilds of nature and the slopes of the human form.
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Movie Review: The Ten Commandments (2007)
The Immaculate Misconception, is a small indie film had been released in 2005. It was the first feature-length film by writer/producer P.J. Leonard. The budget for this flick was comparable to a brand new Cadillac. Even though that may seem low for a movie, the execution was what one might expect from the above mentioned car.
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Game Rush: Flames vs. Senatorsby Torie Peterson / Calgary Flames
OTTAWA, ON -- The Calgary Flames gained the lead twice against the red-hot Ottawa Senators but fell 3-2 on Tuesday night as they closed out their three-game road trip in the nation's capital.
The top line was the story for the Flames as Niklas Hagman, Matt Stajan and Jarome Iginla combined for six points and 11 shots on net. The three have been building chemistry since the two former Maple Leafs came to Calgary and this was their finest game as a trio.
Despite their fine performance, the team was not happy with the way they let the win slip through their fingers. The team had been excellent defensively in the first period, only allowing two shots on through the first 12 minutes of regulation, and continued that through part of the second period. That's when it fell apart. Defenseman Adam Pardy pointed to not playing a full 60 minutes as the culprit.
That's the way we have to play," Pardy told the assembled media. "But we're playing for our playoff lives. We can't just play 15 minutes. We've got to play a full 60, 65 if needed. It's disappointing because it's two points that we need and we should've got."
Hagman opened the scoring at 16:51 of the first stanza. His first as a member of the Flames came after a great play by Iginla. The captain drew a crowd of Senators to him as he entered into the offensive zone. He held the puck just long enough to let Hagman enter into the zone all alone and then made a quick pass to the Finn. Hagman wasted no time and wired the puck past Brian Elliott with authority.
The Senators answered back just 19 seconds later when Alex Kovalev scored on a power play. His shot just seconds after a faceoff bounced off Daymond Langkow and past Miikka Kiprusoff.
Another former Maple Leaf gave the Flames a lead early in the second period. Stajan was the recipient of another great Iginla pass, leading to his 18th goal of the season. This time, Iginla took a nice pass from Hagman through the neutral zone and carried it into the offensive zone with three Senators hanging off of him. Stajan went ahead of the captain however and Iginla threw it up to the streaking forward. Stajan put the puck over Elliott's glove in a highlight reel goal.
The Senators rallied and put two goals past Kiprusoff by the end of the second period. First, Jarko Ruutu threw an errant pass into the back of net from the slot. Then, Jason Spezza kept his hot streak alive when he scored with just under 4:00 left in the frame.
After the game, head coach Brent Sutter couldn't hold in his frustration with the way the tide had turned in the second frame.
"In the second period, we got totally off our game," he stated. "We got really sloppy. We tried to make the perfect plays in the neutral zone. We tried to use speed but not with intelligence. We were looping away with no support."
The third period was pretty quiet offensively until the final minute when the Flames nearly put in an equalizer while techinically killing a penalty. Jay Bouwmeester took a late holding call and the Flames opted to pull Kiprusoff and play five-on-five. It nearly paid off as once again the top line generated a great scoring chance when Hagman threw the puck on net at a sharp angle with Stajan waiting on the doorstep but the centerman couldn't whack the puck past Elliott.
Sutter was less than pleased with the effort his team put forth in the final period.
"They pressured us, but that's what we were supposed to be doing in their zone," said Sutter. "But we didn't do that enough because we wanted to make the perfect play, the fancy play, in the neutral zone."
The Flames are back in the C of Red on Thursday when they square off against the Dallas Stars. The puck drops at 7:30 p.m. on Calgary Flames PPV & The FAN 960.
|The Flames were territorially dominant for the first two periods before allowing the Senators to take over the pace of the game in the final frame. The Flames were only able to put six shots on net in the third period and only a couple were good scoring chances. The Senators defense clamped down and the Flames couldn't manage to generate a good forecheck for most of the third period. In comparison, the Senators put 10 shots on net in the third period and were constantly surrounding the Flames net, prowling for rebounds.
|D Aaron Johnson and F Brian McGrattan were healthy scratches for the Flames. F Rene Bourque sat out with an undisclosed ailment but did skate on Tuesday morning. The Senators left out F Shean Donovan and D Erik Karlsson.
|13 - Multi-point games for Iginla this season.
21 - Goals for Hagman this season. He has 1 as a member of the Flames.
30 - Assists on the year for Iginla.
2 - Shots on net for the Flames through the first 15 minutes of the third period.
5 - Shots for Iginla and Christopher Higgins
|"It's nice to have him . . . the depth there where you can slide someone in if someone gets hurt, it's huge. He's contributed for us at different times. We certainly need that. I thought that his play had dropped off there a little bit. Because it's not just about the offensive part of it, it's other areas on the ice and the things you have to do. Now he's going to get an opportunity, he has to take an advantage of it." - Sutter on Lundmark.
in the second period, we got away from our game," said Stajan.
"We can't give away points like that. We gave them the lead and couldn't get it back." - Stajan on the team's performance.
"We've got to get a few practices under him How many that is, who knows? It's a good sign that he's fully practising now." - Sutter on Nigel Dawes, who joined the team in Ottawa and has started taking part in team practices.
|Jarome Iginla
2 great passes led to both Flames goals, 5 shots on net
|Niklas Hagman
Scored his 1st as a Flame, 1 assist, great in all 3 zones
|Miikka Kiprusoff
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Indians Minor League Magazine 6/7 (Ep 7)
The show recaps the week that was in the system and also features interviews with Low-A Lake County outfielder Anthony Gallas as well as an interview with Double-A Akron Executive VP Jim Pfander.
Once again this year I am writing the "Diamond In the Rough" feature which focuses on some guys who slip through the cracks because they are not considered a high level prospect or have kind of been overlooked. This week the "Diamond In the Rough" was High-A Kinston infielder Tyler Cannon.
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Here it is, the Apple Borg Store at Market and Stockton in Union Square. It's packed these days with people checking out the new iPod Touch.
See? The greeters at the door sometimes say, "We are Borg. You will be assimilated." They know they're not supposed to say that, but sometimes they'll forget and say it anyway.
But what's this? Straight out of Seattle (by way of China) comes the new Zune HD!
Its message? "Hello from Seattle." That's what it says right on the left edge of this tiny little thing. See?
First read up on "From OLED to Tegra: Five Myths of the Zune HD" from the Apple fan-boys (you know, to get up to speed 'n stuff) and then tune in to this blog later on to get the first impressions (like digital radio – how does that work in hilly San Francisco) of the new mp3 player from the kids at Microsoft.
It'll be fun.
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The California Drought is Making Life Pretty Rough for Bees
When it comes to food, the California drought has affected many things that we eat: berries, beer and avocados just to name a few. Now there's yet another item to add to that list: honey.
Traditionally, California has been one of the top producers of honey. Now, however, with fewer crops on account of the drought, honeybees have had fewer places to forage, and they're producing much less honey because of it. Since the drought began three years ago, honey production in California has fallen from 27.5 million pounds in 2010 to 10.9 million pounds in 2013, according to the AP reports. This year, things are expected to be even worse.
"Our honey crop is severely impacted by the drought," Gene Brandi, a beekeeper in Los Banos, a farming town in California's Central Valley told the AP.
That's bad for business and it's also bad for the honey consumer. There was already a worldwide shortage of honey, and the drought has helped pushes prices to an all-time high. "Over the past eight years, the average retail price for honey has increased 65 percent from $3.83 to $6.32 per pound, according to the National Honey Board," reports CBS News.
To keep their bees alive, some beekeepers are having to supplement with sugar syrup or high-fructose corn syrup since there is a lack of the honeybees' usual diet of nectar.
"Not only are you feeding as an expense, but you aren't gaining any income," beekeeper Mike Brandi told the AP. "If this would persist, you'd see higher food costs, higher pollination fees and unfortunately higher prices for the commodity of honey."
While feeding the bees sugar keeps them alive, it doesn't get the bees producing honey, and it doesn't keep the bees as healthy; without the same nutrients as the pollen, keeping bees on a sugar diet makes them susceptible to diseases.
Given their current situation, that's a bit of a slap in the face if you're a honeybee. Bees have already been having a rough go of things, what with Colony Collapse Disorder and all. Have you seen the pictures of what your grocery store aisle would look like without bees? It's pretty dismal. As pollinators, bees are essential to our food production, and without them we risk the threat of a global food crisis.
We need bees, and they need food; a good reminder of how interconnected our food systems truly are.
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Zuni and El Morro National Monument - After spending the morning worshiping in Zuni, students will explore El Morro. Imagine the comfort and refreshment of finding water after days of dusty travel. A reliable waterhole hidden at the base of a sandstone bluff made El Morro (the headland) a popular campsite for hundreds of years. Here, Ancestral Puebloans, Spanish and American travelers carved over 2,000 signatures, dates, messages, and petroglyphs.


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PARCA coalition sends letter to oppose removal of "non discrimination" clause from the Affordable Care Act The Patient's Access to Responsible Care Alliance (PARCA) has sent a letter to Congressmen Fred Upton (R MI) and Henry Waxman (D CA) to
PARCA coalition sends letter to oppose removal of "non-discrimination" clause from the Affordable Care Act
The Patient's Access to Responsible Care Alliance (PARCA) has sent a letter to Congressmen Fred Upton (R-MI) and Henry Waxman (D-CA) to register PARCA's strong opposition to H.B. 2817. The bill was introduced by a coalition of MD specialty organizations to remove the non-discrimination clause, Section 2706, from the Affordable Care Act. The bill is disingenuously entitled "Protect Patient Access to Quality Health Professionals Act of 2013." PARCA argues, in part, that "limiting patient access to and choice of qualified, licensed and certified non-MD/DO health care providers as H.R. 2817 intends, would further reduce competition and concentrate market share and economic benefit into the hands of select providers -a misguided policy that would increase costs for consumers and the delivery system as a whole."
The PARCA coalition comprises the American Academy of Audiology, American Association of Nurse Practitioners, American Association of Nurse Anesthetists, American Chiropractic Association, American College of Nurse Midwives, American Occupational Therapy Association, American Optometric Association, American Physical Therapy Association, American Podiatric Medical Association, American Psychological Association, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists, and the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners.
Comment: These professions used to be called "allied health providers." Ever since the American Medical Association's Scope of Practice Partnership was created in 2006 to beat back and corral these "allies" into ever smaller corners of turf so as not to threaten medical hegemony, the set of disciplines should perhaps be better characterized as "non-aligned health professions." Witness the recent Cochrane review on the better outcomes from midwives over that of obstetricians, reported under Professions, this Round-up. The American College of Nurse Midwives are part of PARCA. Take a guess if the medical OB-Gyn's organization is a supporters
of 2817. There is a good reason that it has taken organized medicine 100 years to begin to organize itself around the values of better patient experience, enhanced population outcomes and lower cost. The values can be
unfriendly to their interests. (The group backing 2817 is family doctors, ophthalmologists, dermatologists, anesthesiologist, plastic surgeons, otolaryngologists and yes, obstetricians.)
Integrative MD leader Delia Chiaramonte in key role in Maryland win for chiropractors on manipulating children
The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) recently celebrated an important win for the field in the state of Maryland. The September 5, 2013 ACA e-news prefaced their comments this way: "Despite past advocacy efforts by the ACA and the profession, CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield (CareFirst) has had a long-standing policy against pediatric spinal manipulation." Then: "However, thanks to the persistent efforts of many, CareFirst recently changed its policy on spinal manipulation by removing any 'limitations related to age.' This is a significant step forward for DCs in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia." The new policy went into effect July 22, and CareFirst has stated that any existing contracts with pediatric manipulation restrictions will be changed to reflect the new policy. Among those thanked was Delia Chiaramonte, MD, an integrative medicine leader at the University of Maryland Program in Integrative Medicine. Contacted by the Integrator about her role, Chiaramonte responded via e-mail: "My chiropractic colleagues thought it might be helpful to include a physician champion in the discussions with CareFirst's medical director. I was happy to help and am pleased with the outcome."
Comment: A simple, good news article, of mutual respect and collaboration. This follows a series of other advances for chiropractic doctors that I document in this recent piece: Chiropractic Doctors Hit a Trifecta in Move for "Cultural Authority". Nice work, Dr. Chiaramonte.
Getting into the Nation's team-care movement: HRSA-funded Center opens website and invites participation
A recent post from Barbara Brandt, PhD, director of the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (NCIPE) announced the opening of the Center's website – nexusipe.org. The site notes that the Center "is the only such organization in the United States, designated by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as the sole center to provide leadership,
scholarship, evidence, coordination and national visibility to advance interprofessional education and practice as a viable and efficient health care delivery model." The Resource Exchange invites contributions from all interested in the subject area. Individuals and organizations are invited to create profiles and engage in forums. The Center is fueled with $4-million from the US Health Resources Services Administration and $8.1-million from four foundations. The project is presently funded for 5 years.
Comment: I just signed up, personally, and will soon be signing up the organization with which I am affiliated and posting some documents that will be useful to the field. Only roughly 150 people have yet signed up. (I saw the name of one registrant who is of a naturopathic physician I know, Dhai Barr, ND.) This is the big round table for convening that many have dreamed about for years. As George Thibault, MD, CEO with Center-funder the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation said at a related Institute of Medicine meeting, US health care needs to "widen the circle" of players who can be helpful. (See Widening the Circle: ACCAHC Report from the 1st IOM Global Forum on Interprofessional Education.) Get in the game!


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Sen. Ruben Diaz has released a statement that despite Sen.-elect Hiram Moserrate's Saturday expression of support for would-be Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith, he will not commit himself until after the Gang have met tomorrow. As expected, gay marriage is the stcking point for Diaz, also an ordained minister:
To clear the air and avoid any misunderstandings, there is a commitment – a handshake commitment — between Senator-elect Espada, Senator Kruger, Senator-elect Monserrate, and myself that we will not do anything until we meet Tuesday, November 11, 2008, and that any decision will be made public by the four of us after said meeting.
If Senator-elect Hiram Monserrate has made a decision in Puerto Rico to endorse Senator Malcolm Smith, that is his decision. I have not made a decision yet and hope the others have not either. I have not committed myself to anybody, and my position as an ordained minister and a pastor will not allow me to support any would be leader that will bring gay marriage to the Senate floor.
This is nothing new. Mr. Smith and all my colleagues have known my position for more than a year. That does not make me a Republican. Where is it written that in order to be a Democrat you have to support gay marriage? And where is it written that if you do not support gay marriage you are not a good Democrat? I have always been a Democrat. I remain a Democrat, and I will continue to be a Democrat. A Democrat who rejects gay marriage and abortion based upon my beliefs.


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Researchers at the Pedagogy First Foundation have uncovered a phenomenon that countered every one of their hypotheses about academic excellence. According to experiments conducted over the past ten years, their groundbreaking work on best practices will be published in the Journal of Higher Excellence next month.
"We have always assumed that educators who maintain up-to-date knowledge about effective academic practices would report having better practices than those who don't," said lead researcher Douglas Bahlm. "In fact, many of our past research methodologies presumed that master learners were more likely to be master practitioners."
"Five years ago, we stumbled on a university that, in an effort to cut costs, had banned all journals and books related to practitioners' areas of work," said statistics analyst Meghaen Portnoy. "As a favor to a friend at that school, we ran a little study pro-bono in hopes of showing that the work of those educators had declined. Boy were we surprised."
"That school's staff actually indicated that they were doing even better work compared to their peers at other institutions," said Bahlm. "We assumed this was an anomaly so we replicated the study at several other campuses that had discontinued intellectual development."
"Every single school that had abandoned keeping up with best practices self-reported that their practices were the best," said Portnoy. "Whether the school had terminated their learning for budget reasons or because their staffs just weren't the 'reading type,' without exception, those schools knew they were better than all others."
"This comes as no surprise to us," said Provost Clarence Obervine of Hickory Nut College. "We've done everything 'they' tell you not to do – underpaying staff, failing to keep up with academic technology, letting our curricula get outdated – but as long as we don't go back to wasting our money on trying to keep up with other institutions, we are confident that we are still the best."


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Shootin' The Breeze With Swedish Producer Baba Stiltz
Is everything.
Dismantled pop songs and left-field house categorise Baba Stiltz as an artist for the outsider — a voyeur observing planet Earth and processing its sounds through his filter of atonality and icy techno soul.
We spent a morning in Harmony Park with Baba who'd beamed in for Sugar Mountain Festival as well as gigs in Sydney and Perth. He played music off his phone while we snapped some photos and conversed on a grey morning in Sydney. His latest EP Is Everything dropped in the same week via Studio Barnhus.
Claudio Santoro: Do you like London?
Baba Stiltz: It's too much! London's not so fun I feel. It's so much work, at least for me, every time I'm down there. And it's not beautiful like New York can be beautiful. I like when shit's at different levels, it's good for your brain.
CS: Sydney's like this.
My friends Nick and Michael took me to Bondi last year. But it was shit weather, raining and cold, but it was kind of nice, 'cause I got to see it for real.
Martha Zakarya: Do you skate?
No, but I like skate culture and I like video games but I don't play video games. There's only so much time in a day. I like being the voyeur. Too bad these tiles are skate stopped though.
CS: I always think of video games when I listen to 'Reality Sparks'.
It's funny how people like that track. I didn't think it would be a track people were into. There's so much in it. All those old tracks feel like a long time ago.
CS: Would you ever go back to practicing ballet?
No way. Graffiti and ballet are kind of similar because you get nothing out of it. If you're good, you get some respect out of your peers but you sacrifice your body.
MZ: I had a colour reading last night and found out that red's my colour. It's scary hearing about yourself.
I always wanted to be blue. I think with my complexion I'm like red or yellow, olive maybe. I'm Virgo, so, like, a sensitive egomaniac. It's ok — I'm fine with it.
CS: What artists are you listening to at the moment?
Drake is really a top artist for me. I guess like Ricardo Villalobos and all my friend's music. Views is the latest album I've been listening to. I've also been listening to Aenna Lockwood, the kind of stuff where you can take a brain break, a bit more structureless music.
CS: Why do you think so much good music comes from Sweden?
I don't know. We are super privileged and have too much time and money. We have good music programs for people, like high schools that focus on music.
CS: You said before your SoundCloud account was taken down because you forgot to pay for it. There are ads on there now as well. Do you think it has become too regulated?
It's kind of counter-productive on their part. Like, the whole spiel of SoundCloud was that it was like bootleg heaven but now they wanna make some money I guess. People like streaming music and buying subscriptions so it's good for them. To me, it's kind of weird when you're trying upload one of your own tracks and it's like, "Yo, SoundCloud, it's my music. No samples. It's all me!"
CS: Do you party much when you're at home?
No. I do party but there's a time and place. I like being sober. I like being awake during the weekdays and being able to focus when I'm working.
CS: How do you relax when you're back home?
I watch people play video games on the internet. I like cooking. My dad's Filipino so I cook a lot of Filipino food. Rice is nice. Pickling is cool. I like soups with rice in them, and then you put, like, chicken balls, that's the best. Then chilli, and I do like raw shallots. Shallots are my favourite onion. I like garlic a lot. I don't understand people who don't like garlic. It's really essential.
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