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Covering loss, even as it comes to your own door
Sophia Eppolito
Associated Press/Report for America
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Louise Delfino was tough as nails. She worked as a legal secretary at the same law firm for more than six decades until she was forced into retirement at 84 when she broke her leg at the office. She was my mother's mom.
Julie Eppolito was an incredible cook. We didn't get to see her as much growing up because she lived on the other side of the country, but I remember how she loved experimenting with food and trying out different recipes. One of her favorite things to make her grandchildren was buttered pastina — always a family favorite. She was my dad's mom.
Last year, a few months into the coronavirus pandemic, I moved to Salt Lake City for a new job. I was headed there to be a politics reporter covering the Utah statehouse. And yes, I covered politics. Yet like most journalists working in 2020, I found myself consumed by stories related to COVID-19.
Hunched over my laptop in my new apartment, I spent weeks talking to people about how the pandemic had upended their lives and their families' worlds. And, though I realized it only gradually, the pandemic was upending my family's world, too.
In a wrenching coincidence that seemed made for 2020, I lost both grandmothers in four months — the only grandparents I had ever known.
Neither had COVID-19, and both lived well into their 90s. But the pandemic carved a deep, lasting impression upon the last few months of their lives — for them and for those around them.
Loss has been a shared experience this past year — for some more than others, of course. But there are few who have been untouched, whether it be through loss of financial stability, social interaction or, for many, the loss of loved ones through COVID and in other ways. We are left to mourn in a world already full of grief.
For my family, there was pain. There was distance, and heartbreak too. All the things we associate with 2020. Yet today, when I take off my journalist's hat and put on another one — that of a granddaughter — I feel that we were the lucky ones. Even now, months after they left, I can't help but focus on the blessings.
When the Pittsburgh nursing home where my dad's mom, Julie, lived stopped allowing visitors last spring, my dad and his sisters were terrified that they might never see their mother again. My aunt decided to move her hospital bed into her own living room so she could ensure her mother wouldn't die alone.
My father, who owns a small business in the event industry, was a fervent workaholic leading up to the pandemic. But when his business came to a halt last March, it gave him the freedom to travel back east and be with my grandma for the final month of her life.
Julie, my paternal grandmother, was a social butterfly who could make friends anywhere she went. But most of them lived in assisted-living facilities, so barely a dozen people came to the service when she died. They couldn't risk the potential exposure.
"This is a woman that went to everybody's funeral. And then when it was her turn to die, everybody was quarantining," says my aunt, Jeri McFadden. "But," she allows, "it could have been worse. It happened when it was supposed to happen."
I visited my mom's mom, Louise Delfino, for the last time over Mother's Day weekend 2020. I can picture her sitting in a hospital bed with a newly broken shoulder and her bony knees poking through the bedsheets as she demanded my mom tell her when she would start walking again.
Louise was moved from her assisted-living facility in Napa Valley, California, to a nursing home where my mother, an only child, could wave through the window. Sometimes, she even got inside to hold her hand. My mom commuted every other weekend from Los Angeles to see my grandmother and had to fight every time for the chance to spend 30 minutes with her while wearing full scrubs and a mask.
My mom, Cindy Eppolito, will be the first to tell anyone that losing my grandmother during the pandemic made the entire process a thousand times harder. Yet being there with my grandmother when she died, and knowing that she no longer has to live through such a chaotic time, has been, my mom says, nothing less than a blessing.
"So many factors were against us being together while she was dying," my mom says. "Now (that) she's at peace, that pressure has lifted. I don't have to worry if she's safe anymore."
For both my grandmothers, family mattered above all else. At every holiday, graduation or wedding, they made every effort to spend their time with the people they loved most. Now those milestones will pass without them. It feels wrong — especially when this year has brought us so much shared pain.
As someone who is constantly covering and living in the day-to-day tragedies of a pandemic, my instincts tell me: focus on the blessings. I think that I do so to the point that I brush off the feelings of grief I probably would have had if I had lost them a year earlier.
The coronavirus didn't take my grandmothers. That much is true. But it still took away my chance to spend those final days with them, to hug them goodbye. Within that, though, gratitude emerges: Despite all the pain my family has been through. I'm grateful I had my grandmothers as long as I did, and I feel indescribably blessed knowing that they died when they were supposed to.
Louise Delfino. Julie Eppolito.
Last summer, by the time one had died and the other was down to her final days, I had been in Salt Lake City just a few months. I had packed up my 2010 Ford Escape and driven the 10 hours from my parents' home in California to a place where I knew absolutely no one.
One recent day, I started going through a journal that I kept during those first months of quarantine. I found my entry from June 20, 2020 — the day after Julie died. I wrote about how the grief was finally starting to hit me. And I wrote about how I called Louise for support.
"As I started talking to her, I started thinking about what it would be like when she passed and I had to keep fighting back tears," I wrote.
"I'm really glad I called her," I said to myself. "I hope I keep calling until I can't anymore."
"Dispatches," an occasional series, explores the crossroads between journalism and life through the eyes of journalists across the United States. Sophia Eppolito is a corps member for the Associated Press/ Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a national service program from The GroundTruth Project that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Eppolito on Twitter at http://twitter.com/SophiaEppolito.


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Desktop-based Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointers (WIMP) interfaces have changed very little in the last 30 years, and are still limited by a lack of powerful and expressive input devices and interactions. In order to make desktop interactions more expressive and controllable, expressive input mechanisms like pressure input must be made available to desktop users. One way to provide pressure input to these users is through a pressure-augmented computer mouse; however, before pressure-augmented mice can be developed, design information must be provided to mouse developers. The problem we address in this thesis is that there is a lack of ergonomics and performance information for the design of pressure-augmented mice. Our solution was to provide empirical performance and ergonomics information for pressure-augmented mice by performing five experiments. With the results of our experiments we were able to identify the optimal design parameters for pressure-augmented mice and provide a set of recommendations for future pressure-augmented mouse designs.


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#include "shapes-def.h"
#include "mem-reg.h"

void usage(char * name)
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    struct rectangle * new_rectangle;
    struct circle * new_circle;

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    num_circles = atoi(argv[2]);
    num_rectangles = atoi(argv[3]);

    /*Initialize Memory Region Manager*/
    mem = mem_reg_new();
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        exit(1);
    }

    /*Create triangles*/
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            .b = i*4,
            .c = i*5
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    }
    printf("Created %d 3-4-5 triangles\n", num_triangles);

    /*Create circles*/
    for(i=0; i<num_circles; i++){
        new_circle = mem_reg_circle_new(mem);

        /*Assign the radius*/
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    }
    printf("Created %d circles\n", num_circles);

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    }
    printf("Created %d rectangles\n", num_rectangles);

    /*Free allocated regions*/
    mem_reg_free(mem);
    return 0;
}

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How Henry Ford, Who Published Racist Diatribes Against Jazz, Helped Popularize the Sound of Jazz and R&B
Henry Ford playing fiddle with his old-time dance orchestra on his 70th birthday in 1933. (From the collections of The Henry Ford)
Henry Ford was unquestionably a great man, but he was not a very good man. As an entrepreneur and industrialist, he may have changed the world — for the better, I personally think — but as a human being he had serious failings. According to Richard Bak's Henry and Edsel, the elder Ford would humiliate his son, Edsel, in public because Henry, a farm boy, worried that his only child would become the soft son of a rich man. That practice continued into Edsel's adulthood.
Clara (Mrs. Ford) had to make her peace with Henry's long-term relationship with Evangeline Cote Dahlinger, whom the industrialist met when he was 50 and she was 23 — his associate C. Harold Wills' secretary at the Highland Park plant. Her son John Dahlinger asserted that he was the son of Henry Ford, whom he strongly resembled.
Ford's public life was no less unsavory. His bigotries are well known. In his mind he divided the Jewish community between "good Jews" — those he personally knew, like architect Albert Kahn — and "bad Jews," the boogeymen "bankers" of his fevered imaginations. Less well-known is the fact that many of the most hateful things attributed to Ford were not his own words.
Ronnie Schreiber Jan 31, 2020

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This is the right track of reasoning…which will soon reach what I've been saying for the last few years.
And the mess that exist in this world between 'human brains' come from many causes, of which the following are the major ones.
1) Having a poor match between one's Frontal lobe with one's limbic system, called Values. Most people are feelings orientated and they are more emotional than objective. If this happens in their Right Brain, they are passionate about social issues and altruistic, philanthropy work. When it resides in the Left Brain, it is towards 'self' or one's own kind or a fixed boundary of spatial coordinates (as opposed to the Right Brain that is Open Space).
2) Too much Frontal lobe activity with lopsided match to Limbic system, called Values. These are the bookworms, thinkers, analyzers, objective scientists, etc. Again, if one is a Right Brain processor, it is a big picture thinker (usually Eastern style) with the tendency to 'miss the trees for the forest'. If one is Left Brain dominant, it is so detailed like Western thinkers, academics, scholars and scientists to the extent that one becomes a bookworm, tendency to 'sees the trees and miss the forest'.
3) Too much Limbic activity with lopsided match to Frontal lobe, called Values. These are the emotional types and their passion shows in almost everything. They tend to display more feelings than rigidly (due to left brain), dry stuff. Their frontal lobe Reasoning is often based on Feelings i.e., with lots of excuses for all their behavior…sounds so familiar, here and everywhere. You can guess whether it is Right Brain dominant or Left Brain with their strong Feelings towards one hemispheric side, followed by justification from their frontal lobe Reasoning, instead of equal match.
4) Faulty philosophies of life with false premises, presuppositions, assumptions and inability to match external Truth of Reality with internal perception, called Values. This is the cooking pot that everyone sits in. This is the mess that is circulating round and round including the outright lies, deceits, half truths, seemingly true, etc. Ultimately, the major fault lies in propagating a faulty concept of Anthropology…in the conceptual understanding of Body, Mind, Spirit, Soul, Person, etc. Again, Right Brain will behave differently from Left Brain processor.
In short, the pathway towards Balance and Harmony of the internal brain function is not easy, and is the cause of society's problems. The common denominator is the Value-system. The first step to reconcile this problem is to establish a bilateral bihemispheric brain function…led by the eyes. This cannot be performed like a robot or physical science because the Value-system is not based on physical dimensions. Although changing the physical dimensions will affect the value-system, the brain is now functioning beyond its own 4 dimensions. This leads us to the basic concept of Anthropology again.


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Over the Easter break, I volunteered at the Oriel Davies Gallery in Newtown in order to gain some work experience.
Originally founded in 1982 as Oriel 31 in the nearby town of Welshpool, the gallery expanded three years later to the Davies Memorial Gallery in Newtown which had been built in 1967 specifically to be a gallery and community centre. This gallery was built with the legacy left behind by the well-known Davies sisters, Gwendoline and Margaret Davies. During the sisters' lifetimes, they lived in Gregynog Hall (not far from Newtown) and collected works of art, including art by: Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Cezanne and Pissarro. The two sisters are now recognised as Wales' most influential collectors of Impressionist and 20th Century art. On their passing, their collection was entrusted to the National Museum Wales, in Cardiff. Between 2002 and 2004, the gallery closed for refurbishment and upgrading, and then reopened with the new name, Oriel Davies Gallery in recognition of the Davies sisters.
The Oriel Davies Gallery now has three spaces in which it shows a range of works throughout the year, from: major exhibitions of national collections; newer work by established artists; to more experimental work by emerging artists. Aside from the gallery rooms, there is also a café and a shop, as well as there being workshops, courses, talks and other events held regularly.
During my time at the gallery, I did gallery guiding and worked on the front of house desk. Aside from meeting and greeting people and showing them around the exhibition, I also had to keep on top of other things such as: making sales from the shop; maintaining the cleanliness of the children's resource area and the shop; handing out visitor questionnaires, etc.
The exhibition that I was gallery guiding for was called, Vanishing Point, and was a display of new work by Cardiff-based artist, Kelly Best. The exhibition was created by Best specifically for the Oriel Davies Gallery space, meaning it was created to fit and suit its habitat exactly, and it offers a response to the architectural and physical space of the Oriel Davies' galleries. Her works feature interconnections between sculpture, painting and drawing, which work together to consider the site, space and surface.
Personally I loved her steel sculptures the most, some of which towered over and above you, and some of which you could actually interact with such as stepping over and through. Best works in a range of media, including steel, watercolour and coloured pencil but tends to always manipulate the piece's perspective, scale and light. I found with many of her pieces of show, particularly the steel sculptures, that depending on where you stood in the room and from what angle you looked at the piece from, the appearance changed. Although her work is rather minimal, which lead to some people being put off and unsure of what to think, the processes that she must have taken to reach the outcome of each piece is what I find particularly interesting when thinking about.
Although her pieces seemed almost too 'basic' at first, I really admired how simplistic and graphic they were. Her 'zig-zagged wall', as I called it, was a wonderful piece that looked amazing at both a distance and up-close. I loved how no two A4 pieces were the same – every single one was unique – and when looking more closely at the piece, you could see how the watercolours blended together, probably where Best had not washed her brush before changing colour. This process has meant that there are specks of blue left in the red and specks of red left in the blue, and where the brush has began to dry before being dipped back in water, the paper shows through creating a seemingly effortless aesthetic. You can see her experimenting with this drying out brush technique in some of her other pieces too. Really, I loved how something so simple could be so beautiful.
The pieces below really summed up the name of her exhibition, Vanishing Point, particularly the red one in which it feels you can look deeper and deeper into the painting to find the piece's 'vanishing point' to they eye. Each of these nine pieces were individually quite psychedelic – getting as close as possible to a piece so that the painting filled my whole view, created a great intensity and perspective.
Overall, it was great to have the work experience there at the gallery, and was also fantastic to meet people involved in and interested in the creative industry. I feel that it was definitely a really worthwhile experience for me and I look forward to hopefully going back and working there again, perhaps over the Summer.


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Derry: We Continue To Make Strides
Shaun Derry was delighted with his team who continued their great form away from home…
The Manager spoke to the local media shortly after the impressive 1-1 draw at Chesterfield on Saturday and again praised his squad.
Notts can now boast a four-game unbeaten run, the best defensive record in League One and continue to be unbeaten away from Meadow Lane.
Derry admitted that it was a back against the walls at times after the interval, but praised his goalkeeper Roy Carroll.
He told Magpie Player: "I'm proud of them. I sound like a broken record at times, saying the same things, but the lads in there are an absolute pleasure to work with.
"The lads have the character and what a game that was.
"We got the first goal and perhaps should have scored a second at a crucial time, had half chances where we should have been a bit ruthless, but I've got no complaints today.
"Second half it was back against the walls and Chesterfield were magnificent. They deserved to get something out the game.
"I've got the best goalie in the league, the saves Roy Carroll made were Premier League class and that's why he's played at that level.
"Blair (Adams) did well for us in a new position, I thought the balance was good for us."
The boss also praised the black and white army who made the short journey north up the M1.
He added: "I think the 1,200 fans stayed right until the end and it was great for the boys to give them a clap at the end and show their appreciation.
"It's not just the boys in the starting 11, but the whole squad who work hard at training, it's the coaching staff, it's the fans, it's the club.
"We continue to make strides and we are a team developing.
"It's a big week coming up. We've made sure we stayed unbeaten before Crewe and it's job done."
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Coros takes a SafeSound approach to bike helmet audio
By Ben Coxworth
Coros takes a SafeSound approa...
The Road version of the Coros SafeSound helmet
The Urban version of the Coros SafeSound helmet
The Coros SafeSound helmet features an LED tail light
The Mountain version of the Coros SafeSound helmet
The Coros SafeSound helmet is controlled via a handlebar remote
Back in 2016 we first heard about the Bluetooth-equipped Coros Linx bike helmet, which streams audio from the user's smartphone to bone conduction transducers in the head straps. Well, Coros is now trying something different and reportedly better, with its SafeSound line.
Bone conduction transducers work by converting sound waves into vibrations that pass through the user's cranial bones, bypassing the eardrum and transmitting directly to the cochlea – it's the sensory organ that translates sound into nerve impulses for the brain to interpret.
On the Linx, a couple of the transducers are located on the straps just in front of each ear, where they buzz the wearer's cheekbones. This leaves the ear canals open to hear important sounds such as traffic noise. When taking phone calls, the user's voice is picked up by a wind-resistant microphone in the front of the helmet.
Instead of bone conduction, the new SafeSound helmets use what is known as the Ear Opening Sound System (EOSS). This replaces the transducers with what are essentially tiny water-resistant speakers with openings in the back, that funnel sound into the ear canal while still leaving that canal open.
A Coros rep tells us that as compared to bone conduction, EOSS has less sound leakage, the straps don't need to be as tight against the skin, there are no vibrations, the volume can be set higher, and it accommodates a wider variety of head shapes.
Wearers utilize an included wireless bar-mounted remote to adjust volume, skip music tracks, take/end phone calls, and perform other tasks. That remote can also be used to power up and switch between modes on an LED tail light that's built into the helmet.
In the event of an accident, sensors in the helmet detect the telltale impact. This triggers an accompanying app to send an alert to people on a predetermined emergency contacts list (that alert including the user's current GPS coordinates), plus it causes the tail light to start flashing in a Morse code SOS pattern. The Livall smart helmet offers similar functionality, as does the ICEdot Crash Sensor, which can be installed on third-party helmets.
Prospective buyers can choose between Urban, Road and Mountain versions of the Coros SafeSound helmet, priced at US$180, $200 and $220 respectively. They weigh between 300 and 340 grams – depending on the model and size – with battery life sitting at a claimed maximum 10 hours per charge.
Source: Coros via Bike Radar
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Based out of Edmonton, Canada, Ben Coxworth has been writing for New Atlas since 2009 and is presently Managing Editor for North America. An experienced freelance writer, he previously obtained an English BA from the University of Saskatchewan, then spent over 20 years working in various markets as a television reporter, producer and news videographer. Ben is particularly interested in scientific innovation, human-powered transportation, and the marine environment.
Atpfirefly November 26, 2018 03:13 PM
Wearing ear buds, or anything similar, is illegal in many States due to safety factors. You absolutely need to hear what is going on around you. Even though it is possible to make use of these type of music devices it does not mean we should. I ride motorcycles and cannot imagine being isolated from my surroundings with devices such as these. Just because "we can", does not mean "we should".
Carbon fiber bike light powers up with a magnetic mount
Smart bike light makes a point of keeping things simple
LeMond carbon commuter ebike weighs in at less than 30 pounds
HAVN may just be the ultimate ebike parking spot


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A. We return 7 starters on offense and 7 on defense. We will have a good deal of experience.
A. Development of depth at all positions. Junior quarterback gaining experience. Finding a new kicker and punter.
A. Zaire Bruner (Sr., OL), Brandon Davis (Sr., OL), Tyler Stafford (Sr., OL), Andrew Manning (Sr., WR/DB), Jake Sullivan (Sr., DB/Special Teams), Rondarius Wash (Sr., DL), and Jake Bratton (Sr., DL).
A. Returning a good number of starters from a good team last year. Team speed is good, and we have more size in the lines that we have had in the past.
A. We must develop a new punter and kicker. We have to find quality depth at a number of places. We must avoid injuries.
A. We played our best football from week 7 and continued to improve during the playoff run.
A. Basic schemes will not change. We will see what parts of our system fit this group of players best.
A. Team speed is good. Sincere Quinn at RB has dynamic speed. Kyrell Sanford, Tylan and Tahj Cargle, Andrew Manning, and Jake Sullivan are fast players.
The move up to 6A will present a challenge. Our schedule is very difficult and each game will present a quality opponent. We hope to be able to compete as we have in 5A but must find depth and avoid injuries. Our numbers are very good. Our players have always had a great work ethic and that must continue.


I received my B.S. in Nutritional Sciences from Cornell University in 1991 and completed a dietetic internship at Emory University in Atlanta, GA in 1992. I then started my clinical career practicing as a registered dietitian focusing on the nutritional care of oncology, general medicine, and geriatric patients. I furthered my clinical training at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, graduating in 2001 with an M.D. degree.
My research career started in the area of AMP-activated-kinase in skeletal muscle in the Department of Medicine at Dartmouth investigating the impact of alterations in AMPK activity on glycogen metabolism and exercise capacity. Although working at the cellular and murine model level intrigued me, I felt too removed from the patient population and moved to human based research. Maintaining a strong interest in geriatrics, I conducted research in the area of health care decision-making in the oldest-old at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Care Policy and Clinical Practice. Through this qualitative research, I observed that older adults desire maintenance of quality of life over quantity of life. I then completed an NIH T32 Post-doctoral Fellowship within the Geisel School of Medicine focusing my work in two areas (1) sarcopenia and obesity in older adults and the impact on functional status and (2) healthy eating in those with obesity and serious mental illness. In 2013 I received a young investigator award from the Obesity Society for my work in the area of obesity and nutritional status in those with serious mental illness.
At Cornell, I have continued my research in the area of geriatrics/older adults, expanded my work in the area of altered eating behaviors, and initiated novel research in the area of social media and nutrition. Through community based participatory research I am investigating the implementation and impact of the aging in place program, Full Circle America Steuben, to improve successful aging in Steuben County, NY. Considering the contribution of obesity and sarcopenia to reduced functioning in older adults, I investigate interventions that improve health behaviors in young and middle aged adults with the aim of preventing later life medical and functional disability. This work includes study of the Body Positive Cornell program, a peer delivered program to improve body appreciation and reduce disordered eating and the Weigh2Go study for promotion of weight maintenance in early-mid adulthood. Social media provides a means for communicating about nutrition and eating behaviors to a broad audience of all ages. In this area, my lab focuses on describing food and eating related posts on social media and exploring their association with dietary intake and eating behaviors.
The overarching goal of my research program is to reduce obesity and sarcopenic obesity in late life adults. Using a biopsychosocial model for obesity, I aim to identify biological, psychological and social modifiable risk factors across the lifespan for obesity and sarcopenia in later life and develop interventions that target these factors. Recognizing disordered eating as a psychological risk factor for obesity in later life, I am studying Body Positive Cornell, a peer led program that promotes body acceptance to reduce and prevent disordered eating in young and middle aged adults. To address the modifiable biological risk factors of age related weight gain and weight cycling, I am investigating the effectiveness of daily weighing to promote weight maintenance in middle aged adults. Using netnographic methodology, I am investigating food related communications on social media and their potential impact on eating behaviors. In late life adults, I am conducting an effectiveness-implementation study using community based participatory research to investigate Full Circle America Steuben, a multi-modal aging in place program for at risk late life adults living in Steuben County, NY.
Levitsky, D., Sewall, A., Zhong, Y., Barre, L., Shoen, S., Agaronnik, N., LeClair, J., Zhuo, W., Pacanowski, C. Quantifying the imprecision of energy intake of humans to compensate for imposed energetic errors: A challenge to the physiological control of human food intake. Appetite. 2019; 133: 337-343.
Jimenez, D. E., Burrows, K., Aschbrenner, K., Barre, L. K., Pratt, S. I., Alegría, M., & Bartels, S. J. (2016). Health behavior change benefits: Perspectives of Latinos with serious mental illness. Transcultural psychiatry. 2016; 53(3), 313-329.
Batsis, J., Zbehlik, A.J., Barré, L., Scherer. E.A., Bartels, S. Impact of Obesity on Disability, Function and Physical Activity: Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative. Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology. Epub June 2015 ahead of print.
Batsis, J., Zbehlik, A.J., Barré, L., Scherer. E.A., Bartels, S. Normal Weight Central Obesity, Physical Activity, and Functional Decline: Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Epub 2015 ahead of print.
Zbehlik, A.J., Barré, L.K., Batsis, J.A., Scherer, E., Bartels, S.J. Vitamin D supplementation and functional knee osteoarthritis progression in older adults with obesity: Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative. Journal of Aging Research and Clinical Practice. Epub Feb 2015 ahead of print.
Aschbrenner, K. A. Naslund, J. A., Barré, L. K., Mueser, K. T., Kinney, A., & Bartels, S. J. Peer health coaching for overweight and obese individuals with serious mental illness: Intervention development and initial feasibility study. Translational Behavioral Medicine. 2015; 5 (3): 277-284.
Aschbrenner K, Mueser K, Bartels S, Carpenter-Song E, Pratt S, Barre L, Naslund J, Kinney A. The other 23 hours: A qualitative study of fitness provider perspectives on social support for health promotion for adults with mental illness. Health & social work. 2015 Feb 19;40(2):91-9.
Bartels, S. J., Pratt, S. I., Aschbrenner, K., Naslund, J. A., Barré, L.K., Wolfe, R., Xie, H., McHugo, G.J., Jimenez, D.E., Jue, K., Feldman, J., Bird, B.L. Pragmatic replication trial of health promotion coaching for obesity in serious mental illness and maintenance of outcomes. American Journal of Psychiatry. Epub 2014 ahead of print.
Batsis, J., Zbehlik, A.J., Barré, L., Mackenzie, T., Bartels, S. The Impact of Waist Circumference on Function and Physical Activity in Older Adults: Longitudinal Observational Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative. Nutrition Journal. 2014;13:81.
Naslund, J., Aschbrenner, K., Barré, L., Bartels, S. Feasibility of Popular mHealth Technologies for Activity Tracking Among Individuals with Serious Mental Illness. Telemedicine and e-Health. 2015: 21(3); Epub 2014 December 23.
Batsis, J.A., Mackenzie, T.A., Barré, L.K., Lopez-Jimenez, F., Bartels, S. Sarcopenia, Sarcopenic Obesity and Mortality in Older Adults: Results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2014; 68: 1001-1007. Epub ahead of print 2014 June 25.
Bynum, J., Barré, L., Reed, C., Passow, H. Participation of Very Old Adults in Healthcare Decisions. Medical Decision Making. 2014; 34: 216-230. Epub 2013 October 8.
Bartels, S.J., Pratt, S.I., Aschbrenner, K.A., Barré, L.K., Jue, K., Wolfe, R.S., Xie, H., McHugo, G.J., Santos, M., Williams, G.E., Naslund, J.A., & Mueser, K.T.. Clinically significant improved fitness and weight loss among overweight persons with serious mental illness. Psychiatric Services. 2013; 64(8):729-36. Epub 2013 May 15.
Batsis, J., Barré, L.K., Lopez-Jimenez, F., Mackenzie, T., Pratt, S., Bartels, S. Variation in the prevalence of sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity in older adults associated with different research definitions: Dual energy x-ray absorptiometry data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2004. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2013; 61(6): 974-80. Epub 2013 May 6.
Barré, L., Ferron, J., Davis, K., & Whitley, R.. Healthy Eating in Persons with Serious Mental Illnesses: Understanding and Barriers. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal. 2011; 34(4): 304-10.
Barré, L., Richardson, C., Hirschman, M.F., Brozinick, J.T., Fiering, S., Kemp, B.E., Goodyear, L.J., Witters, L.A.. A genetic model for the chronic activation of AMP-activated protein kinase leads to glycogen accumulation. American Journal of Physiology 2007; 292(3):E802-11. Epub 2006 Nov 14.
Hurley, R.L., Barré, L.K., Wood, S.D., Anderson, K.A., Kemp, B.E., Means, A.R., Witters, L.A.. Regulation of AMP-activated protein kinase by multi-site phosphorylation in response to agents that elevate cellular cAMP. Journal of Biological Chemistry 2006 Dec 1;281(48):36662-72. Epub 2006 Oct 5.
Collaboration with Steuben Senior Services Fund, Inc. a non-proift organization supporting aging-in-place initiatives in Steuben County, NY.
I teach within the Post Baccalaureate Program, preparing students for future careers in the health sciences. Today's clinicians confront an overwhelming barrage of information with research results, expert opinions, and clinical guidelines being published and updated regularly online. New information needs to be efficiently deciphered, sorted, and integrated with existing knowledge to allow for application. This process requires strong core knowledge and the ability to think critically about new and existing information. My goal is to teach students critical thinking and to inspire a love of learning, so that they can welcome this daily deluge of information and become lifelong learners.
Each student brings a unique combination of prior knowledge, perspective and cultural context to the classroom. To address these individual differences and use them to enhance learning for all students, I use a variety of teaching methods. My classes are combinations of didactic sessions, interactive class activities and small group learning. I use a "flipped classroom" model with core knowledge being learned outside of the classroom and application of the information practiced in the classroom through case studies, problem based learning, and laboratory exercises. I emphasize a collaborative and team based approach to learning. No one person can know everything and thus students need to learn how to effectively and efficiently communicate and work with one another to solve clinical problems.
In terms of mentoring, I emphasize self-reflection and goal setting. I encourage the post baccalaureate students to reflect on the areas of study they are passionate about or find intellectually interesting and to self-identify strengths and weaknesses to aid in planning current courses of study and future career directions. For my research mentees, I encourage independent work with regular meetings to discuss progress on research projects, as well as, personal and professional growth. Finally, I strive to mentor my graduate TA's in teaching and subsequently involve them in most aspects of course planning and delivery.
NIH T32 Postdoctoral Fellow (2008-2011) Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH.
M.D. (2001) Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH.
Dietetic Internship (1991-1992) Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA.
B.S. Nutritional Sciences (1991) Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.


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Marijuana tech gets cold shoulder at Consumer Electronics Show
Posted on January 12, 2016 January 12, 2016 by Bloomberg News
By Joshua Brustein
One of the final events at this year's Consumer Electronics Show was the Extreme Tech Challenge, a contest for startups in emerging areas of technology.
Among the participants was MassRoots, a sort of Facebook for potheads.
The arrival of marijuana at the tech industry's biggest trade show caused some discomfort for both the Consumer Technology Association, which oversees CES, and the organizers of the contest. This kind of tension is likely to grow for the show as cannabis legalization spreads.
It could hit particularly close to home for CES by next year. The show is always held in Las Vegas, and Nevadans will vote on a proposal this November to make recreational pot smoking legal.
MassRoots, founded in 2013 in Colorado, claims 725,000 users. Its apps let people discuss their cannabis- related experiences, learn about pot dispensaries, and follow developments in the state-by-state campaign to liberalize drug laws. It's a potentially attractive destination for marijuana-related businesses to advertise, given the targeting opportunities and the lack of prohibitions that they often find on general-interest sites.
"We're not re-creating the wheel," said Isaac Dietrich, one of the site's founders and its chief executive officer. "We're just taking the business model that works for Facebook and Twitter, and applying it to the cannabis industry."
The company is on firm ground legally. It said it operates only in the 23 states where medical marijuana is legal and is basically a place for people to communicate.
But some companies want little to do with it anyway. Organizers of the Extreme Tech Challenge courted Dell in the hopes that it would send a judge and prizes to the contest, but Dell decided against it after MassRoots was named one of the ten semi-finalists.
"Our goal with programs like this is to provide computers to influencers who create positive impact through technology," Dell said in a statement. "We declined to participate because one of the companies in the contest did not meet our criteria."
Kym McNicholas, the contest's executive director, said she couldn't discuss conversations with potential backers. "It would, however, make sense that some companies might be extra-sensitive to industries that are subject to shifting legal landscapes," she said. On the company's blog, she's used MassRoots's participation as a way to play up the contest's with-it-ness, boasting about how it would be "touching on the edgy topic of cannabis legalization."
The association is also distancing itself from MassRoots. CTA CEO Gary Shapiro is one of the judges at the contest. But when asked about the organization's approach to companies focused on cannabis, CTA spokeswoman Allison Fried said it had no oversight over the contest or its participants. Cannabis tech is not an officially approved category at CES, which means cannabis- related companies are banned from the exhibiting on the show floor. "If by chance a company sneaks on with such products, we could in theory pull them from the show floor," said Fried. "The stance here comes down to relevance."
It's unclear if or when cannabis would become relevant to the CTA. Marijuana-related tech is a niche market but one likely to grow if the current trend toward looser regulation of the drug continues. Pot smokers will want their versions of electronic cigarettes, and people who grow marijuana plants need things like software systems to track their operations and waterproof printers for humid nurseries.
Even though they are officially banned, some pot-related companies have quietly made it onto the show floor. Renting a small booth between a smartwatch company and a startup with an app to encourage kids to brush their teeth was PotBotics. The company makes a brain scanner intended to help medical marijuana professionals determine which strains of marijuana to recommend. But the booth made no mention of cannabis, and displayed under the brand name Brainbit.
"The consumer wearable EEG is something that goes beyond cannabis," said David Goldstein, the company's CEO. "It's technology." Asked where he expected his startup to make money in the future, he said he was focused on pot.
Leslie Bocskor, an investor who focuses on marijuana- related companies, was at the floor at CES looking for potential business opportunities and said he found some in the form of e- cigarette companies with potential to expand into pot. When asked whether these companies were openly touting this use of their products, he played it coy, saying, "It depends what you mean by openly."
Dietrich of MassRoots said he's frustrated with the barriers that the mainstream tech industry puts in the way of businesses like his. He took his company public after not being able to raise money from venture capitalists and said some potential employees are wary of working in the field. But he is also trying to leverage his outsider status to his advantage. Dietrich complained loudly after TechCrunch prevented the company from participating in Startup Battlefield, a competition at its conference in New York last spring. The snub was an example, he said, of how tech companies "hold themselves up as the most progressive companies in the country, but when it comes to cannabis, they have the most regressive policies." TechCrunch didn't respond to requests for comment. When it held the most recent Battlefield contest this fall, Green Bits, a pot-focused software company, was the runner-up.
More fundamentally, both Bosckor and Dietrich said, the mainstream skepticism provides a layer of protection for those companies willing to work on cannabis-related businesses. If bigger competitors aren't willing to enter a market, it makes it much easier for a few guys from Denver to gain a foothold before it gets big enough to be attractive.
Meanwhile, the three companies that emerged from the pack – winning a February 11 date at Necker Island, are Bloom Technologies, GIROPTIC, and Sphero, reports ConsumerAffairs.com.
Bloom Technologies has designed wearable powered analytics to better predict and manage pre-term birth.
GIROPTIC is in the virtual reality (VR) market, offering a native hardware technology to instantly produce fully immersive photos and videos.
Sphero makes connected entertainment robots. The company says it takes the best of what kids and adults love about their smart devices and and fuse it with its robots that exist in the real world.
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The K-Cineplex cinemas in Limassol, Nicosia, Paphos and Larnaca will show the Russian film "Moscow Never Sleeps".
On the day when Moscow is celebrating yet another anniversary, every one of the five main characters will have to make an important decision which will affect their future life. Their destinies will interconnect and charge forever.
The Entrepreneur will have to defend his business, which is threatened by governmental employees; the amateur singer will have to decide between love and money; famous actor, who is kidnapped during the day will have an opportunity to have time on his own and tell the truth; a young individual is looking for the opportunity to repay his debt and to satisfy his desires; and two step-sister who hate each other, after one dangerous night, will unite.
By being closely interconnected, the characters are portraying the megapolis on the anniversary day. The unstoppable energy of one of the largest cities of Europe will unveil during the fireworks show.


If there is one way to write a pantomime, Cinderella and The Beanstalk by Sleeping Trees at Theatre 503 tears up any rulebook.
It is a crazy little show full of as many pantomime or nursery rhyme characters. The end result is a frenzied and funny take on the pantomime and Christmas traditions.
The premise of the show is that James, Joshua and George have written a script, booked a venue and hired one lonely musician (in the form of Mark Newnham). But they have forgotten one small thing. Hiring any actors. After checking that it is alright with the audience (who are we to say no?), they decide that they are going to have to perform all the roles themselves.
And so begins the odd tale of Cinderella, who is on a dangerous adventure at the behest of Rumpelstiltskin. He has blackmailed her to climb a beanstalk to retrieve some golden eggs. Meanwhile Prince Charming, a Fairy Godmother and a heavily pregnant cow do their best to get in the way.
So much is happening in this piece at once, that often the jokes collide into each other. In the end it is hard not to go along with this fast-paced and crazy take on pantomime conventions.
A hat or a jacket on top of some awfully Christmassy onesies is all that signifies a character change. Which helps when they are trying to portray several people in a single scene. And Mark Newnham and the boys keep things light and with some clever songs peppered throughout the piece.
Not everything works. The re-enactment of scenes from the movie Home Alone feels like an attempt to drag the show out. But the likability of the performers and the good natured and clean fun they are having, make for a fun evening of comedy and panto.
Sleeping Trees is the comedy trio consisting of James Dunnell-Smith, Joshua George Smith and John Woodburn. Theatre 503 staged this show last year. It was such a success it is having a repeat showing this year. Next year they plan to do Scrooge and the Seven Dwarves, which by the title alone is continuing in their messed up, frenzied tradition.
In the meantime, Cinderella and The Beanstalk runs at Theatre 503 through to 2 January.


The northern parts of the country comprising the trio hilly states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand often see the worst of the Winter season in December and January. This time, January has turned out pretty harsh for both Himachal and Jammu and Kashmir. Especially, the state of Jammu and Kashmir has been witnessing rain and snowfall since a month or so. All credit goes to the series of Western Disturbances affecting weather over here. Today as well, the weather does not hold much hope for the sun and that the scattered rain and snowfall will continue.
However, January 20 onward, present weather conditions will take the hilly states by a whirl on account of approaching intense weather systems. This is going to be a long spell lasting up to January 24 or beyond. Initially on January 20, the severity will be over Jammu and Kashmir, while the rest states will only see scattered rains. However, activity would peak by January 21 and 22. It will rain and snow over Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, January 22 onward.
On remaining days of the month, we expect the same weather conditions to continue with back-to-back Western Disturbances approaching the Himalayan region with few short breaks in between.
Such prolonged spells of sub-zero temperatures and continuous snowfall makes the hilly states susceptible to incidences of Avalanches. Already an accident has took place in Khardung La in Ladakh, where more than 10 people are feared dead and at least four vehicles are reportedly trapped in the Avalanche.
Such incidences affect life to a great extent by halting connectivity and transportation. Moreover, rescue and recovery is a tremendous task which often involves a lot of risk. Coming days ask for people in these areas to remain extra cautious against such happenings.


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The 330e is BMW's first mid-range plug-in hybrid. It has a system performance of 185 kW, of which 65 kW are generated by its electric motor. This lets the 2-liter, 4-cylinder engine almost feel like a regular 6-cylinder BMW engine.
Auto industry executives gathering this week for the Paris Motor Show see plenty of reasons to worry: from global trade tensions to challenges posed by e-cars and stringent emissions targets. Janelle Dumalaon reports.