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PREVIEW: Developing Patience & Persistence - With 'Humans' Casting Director Victor Jenkins CDG!
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THIS IS PRETTY BAD: "City says man killed by police in case of mistaken identity had no constitutional rights because he wasn't a citizen"
Posted by Jerry Derecha on October 1, 2019 0 Comments
Corrupt Cops
Ex-San Antonio police officer James Brennand arrested after unloading clip into the side of innocent teens car as he drove away. SAPD lies about teens condition which is critical and who's still fighting for his life.
#LiberalismIsADisease
Tyrant Mayor's Free Speech Meltdown | MAYOR MONIQUE OWENS: One of the dumbest politicians I've ever seen..EVER. Low LOW IQ Ex-cop Mayor embarrass herself during Town Hall. | Einstein Colorado Cop parks cruiser on train tracks w/ woman inside, train hits car, woman suffers SERIOUS injuries. | 3 Pigs Rape 13yo Girl Enrolled in Youth Program Who Goes on to Kill Herself. | Cops Carry-Out Unprovoked Drive-Bye Shooting
Tased in the Chest for 23 Seconds, Dead for 8 Minutes. Timothy Runnels Secures a Spot in the Piece of Shit Record Books For Nearly Killing 17 Year & Giving Him Permanent Brain Damage
IF YOUR EVER GOING TO SEE ME DEFEND AN ILLEGAL ALIEN, IT WOULD BE IN THIS CASE. WHAT'S THE LEGAL PRECEDENT HERE?
By Ralph Ellis and Amir Vera, CNN
Updated at 2057 GMT (0457 HKT) September 30, 2019
Ismael Lopez and his wife, Claudia Linares.(CNN) — An attorney for a city in Mississippi said in court documents a man who was shot by police in a case of mistaken identity has no Fourth or 14th Amendment protections because he was not a US citizen.Ismael Lopez was shot and killed at his mobile home in July 2017 after police mixed up his address with that of a man wanted for domestic assault. Murray Wells, an attorney representing Lopez's family, said an investigation commissioned by his firm revealed that Lopez died of a single bullet to the back of the head.Related Article: Attorney: Mississippi man shot in back of head by policeIn June, Lopez's family filed a $20 million wrongful-death lawsuit in federal court against Southaven, the city's police chief and the officers involved in Lopez's death.In response, an attorney for the city filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit on September 4, saying Lopez had no Fourth or 14th Amendment protections because Lopez was an "illegal alien" at the time of his death.A number of Supreme Court rulings, such as an oft-cited 1982 decision over the right to education in public schools, have found that constitutional protections do apply to undocumented immigrants. How that plays out in practice is frequent fodder for courtroom battles, including a litany of pending lawsuits over various Trump administration immigration policy changes.Read MorePAID CONTENT

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Obama is black, first and foremost because he looks black. That alone triggers all of the reflexive prejudice and animus that define the black experience in the United States. One could engage in a philosophical discussion on the nature of racial identity, personal affinity, culture, etc., but for practical purposes, races are a product of racism and racial habits-not the other way round. And racism is rather crude and simplistic. The typical racist identifies and hates black on sight-he doesn't care about the complexities of mixed parentage, Ivy League education, or immigration status. And even non-racists reflexively assign people a racial identity on sight. Because race is a social category and not a biological or genetic one, Obama's mixed parentage does not determine his race. Mixed parentage may influence one's appearance, and a person whose appearance is racially ambiguous can influence how she is perceived. In such instances, race may be a question of personal affiliation to some extent. And mixed parentage may influence how one chooses to identify. But for the most part, society assigns us our races. At any rate, Obama's appearance is not ambiguous, and he unquestionably identifies as black.
Richard Thompson Ford, "Chats: Is Obama Black, Bi-racial, or Post-racial?" Z�calo Public Square, September 7, 2011. http://zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2011/09/07/is-obama-black-bi-racial-or-post-racial/read/chats/
Posthistorical fiction and postracial passing in James McBride's The Good Lord Bird
Posted in Articles, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, Passing, Slavery, United States on 2017-12-22 19:54Z by Steven
Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
Gerald David Naughton, Associate Professor of American Literature
Gulf University for Science & Technology (GUST), Kuwait
This article examines James McBride's National Book Award–winning novel The Good Lord Bird (2013) as an example of both posthistorical fiction and postracial passing. These twin ambiguities, the article argues, structure McBride's neo-slave narrative, pointing toward the inherent ironies of racial, gender, and historical construction, both in the era of the novel's historical setting (the 1850s) and in the age of the novel's critical reception (the twenty-first century). Ultimately, the essay suggests, McBride's novel plays within these ironies, rather than attempting to unravel them. Identity and history in the text exist only as models of performativity, and constructs of essence or authenticity are eschewed.
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Tags: Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Gerald David Naughton, James McBride
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Colorblindness is not Progressive: a Review of "The Color of Water"
Posted in Articles, Book/Video Reviews, Media Archive, United States on 2016-07-10 00:31Z by Steven
Maya Williams
We should make it clear that the concept of colorblindness isn't just a white perspective to have or to talk about.
The Color of Water: a Black Man's Tribute to his White Mother (1995) tells the story of a mixed race man named James McBride and his Jewish mother coming of age in a time when mixed race visibility was relatively taboo. This nonfiction novel's format is such a unique one because while you read it, you can see how fluid time is and how history is capable of repeating itself for generations.
This is such a good book, you guys. After re-reading it, I was struck once more by the intricacies of McBride's storytelling, the parallels between McBride and his mother, and their human strength. Hands down, one of the most interesting people to read about in this book is Ruth McBride Jordan, the author's mom…
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Is There an Identity Beyond Race? Four Case Studies
Posted in Articles, Autobiography, Book/Video Reviews, Judaism, Law, Media Archive, Religion on 2015-10-30 00:47Z by Steven
Michigan Quarterly Review
Volume XLI, Issue 3, Summer 2002
Paula Marantz Cohen, Distinguished Professor of English
Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White. By Earl Lewis and Heidi Ardizzone. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001. Pp. 301. $26.95.
Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self. By Rebecca Walker. New York: Riverhead Books, 2001. Pp. 336. $14.
Pearl's Secret: A Black Man's Search for his White Family. By Neil Henry. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. 321. $24.95.
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother. By James McBride. New York: Riverhead Books, 1996. Pp. 228. $23.95 (hb), $14 (pb).
All four books under review here are concerned with telling dramatic tales about singular, real lives. But they are also books about race. They are driven by the larger goal of making the individual story stand for more than itself.
To write something that is true to the distinctiveness of human experience while also being socially and politically illuminating is hard to achieve. Earl Lewis and Heidi Ardizzone's Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White seems the most successful, perhaps because it is the only book in the group that is not a memoir. Lewis explains in an Afterword that he first stumbled on the subject while working on his dissertation seventeen years earlier, then returned to it when, as a professor at the University of Michigan, he began directing Ardizzone's doctoral research on interracial identity in the first half of the twentieth century. They eventually decided to collaborate. The long period of gestation as well as the collaborative approach help to account for the book's judicious tone in telling a story at once private and public, full of subjective elements yet illuminating of its social moment.
Love on Trial takes as its point of departure a sensational news story from the 1920s. Pursuing the story through careful research into court transcripts and newspaper archives, the authors piece together a fascinating narrative in which the personal intersects the social with tragic consequences.
The story centers on the marriage of Alice Jones, a nanny from Westchester, to Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander, a young scion of one of New York's oldest and richest society families. It seems that the couple met, courted, and married without apparent difficulty until their relationship became publicized by the New York press, probably through the instigation of Leonard's disapproving father. A scandal erupted when it was alleged that Alice Jones was black—a fact that Leonard subsequently claimed he did not know and which he made the basis for an annulment suit against his wife…
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Tags: Earl Lewis, Heidi Ardizzone, James McBride, Michigan Quarterly Review, Neil Henry, Paula Marantz Cohen, Rebecca Walker, Rhinelander v. Rhinelander
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Times Fluid, Mobile and Ambivalent: Constructing Racial & Personal Identity in James McBride's The Color of Water
Posted in Articles, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, United States on 2015-08-29 01:18Z by Steven
International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature
Volume 4, Number 5 (2015)
DOI: 10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.4n.5p.63
Yuan-Chin Chang
Department of Applied English Studies
China University of Technology, Wunshan District, Taipei City 116, Taiwan
James McBride's memoir The Color of Water provides a rich and nuanced history of the author – a Black American man – and his white mother. Using the theories of Bhabha regarding hybridity, ambivalence and a Third Space between different cultures or individuals, it is demonstrated that racial and personal identities are constructed, and historically reconstructed, as flexible and mobile entities in this memoir. The linking of narratives and voices across different decades demonstrates the Third Space in the relationship between McBride and his mother, and each individual's relationship to and understanding of themselves in a broader multiracial culture. Lacan's theories regarding rhetoric and signification are also used to underpin an exploration of the ways in which McBride portrays his own changing understanding of biracial identity in America.
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Crossing B(l)ack: Mixed-Race Identity in Modern American Fiction and Culture
Posted in Barack Obama, Books, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, Monographs on 2013-02-07 00:30Z by Steven
University of Tennessee Press
Cloth ISBN-10: 1572339322; ISBN-13: 978-1572339323
Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins, Associate Professor of English
The past two decades have seen a growing influx of biracial discourse in fiction, memoir, and theory, and since the 2008 election of Barack Obama to the presidency, debates over whether America has entered a "post-racial" phase have set the media abuzz. In this penetrating and provocative study, Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins adds a new dimension to this dialogue as she investigates the ways in which various mixed-race writers and public figures have redefined both "blackness" and "whiteness" by invoking multiple racial identities.
Focusing on several key novels—Nella Larsen's Quicksand (1928), Lucinda Roy's Lady Moses (1998), and Danzy Senna's Caucasia (1998)—as well as memoirs by Obama, James McBride, and Rebecca Walker and the personae of singer Mariah Carey and actress Halle Berry, Dagbovie-Mullins challenges conventional claims about biracial identification with a concept she calls "black-sentient mixed-race identity." Whereas some multiracial organizations can diminish blackness by, for example, championing the inclusion of multiple-race options on census forms and similar documents, a black-sentient consciousness stresses a perception rooted in blackness—"a connection to a black consciousness," writes the author, "that does not overdetermine but still plays a large role in one's racial identification." By examining the nuances of this concept through close readings of fiction, memoir, and the public images of mixed-race celebrities, Dagbovie-Mullins demonstrates how a "black-sentient mixed-race identity reconciles the widening separation between black/white mixed race and blackness that has been encouraged by contemporary mixed-race politics and popular culture."
A book that promises to spark new debate and thoughtful reconsiderations of an especially timely topic, Crossing B(l)ack recognizes and investigates assertions of a black-centered mixed-race identity that does not divorce a premodern racial identity from a postmodern racial fluidity.
Tags: Danzy Senna, Halle Berry, James McBride, Lucinda Roy, Mariah Carey, Nella Larsen, Rebecca Walker, Sika A. Dagbovie, Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins, Sika Alaine Dagbovie, Sika Dagbovie, Sika Dagbovie-Mullins, University of Tennessee Press
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Being Black and White
Posted in Articles, Book/Video Reviews, Media Archive on 2011-01-29 22:16Z by Steven
E. J. Graff, Associate Director and Senior Researcher
The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism
Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black By Gregory Howard Williams. Plume (1996), 285 pages, paperback
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother By James McBride. Riverhead Books (1996), 297 pages, paperback
Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self By Rebecca Walker. Riverhead Books (2001), 323 pages, hardcover
Divided to the Vein: A Journey into Race and Family By Scott Minerbrook. Harcourt Brace and Company (1996), 261 pages, hardcover
When I was 18, I learned, quite belatedly, that my father's brother had married a black woman. The wedding took place in 1958—the year I was born, the year after my parents married. Instantly I knew that racism had kept me from knowing my uncle (by then dead of a heart attack), my aunt, my cousins. Instantly I knew I would have to find them. But it was one thing to discover that the deepest, most volatile division in the country ran right through my family; actually crossing that divide to claim kinship was, for a long time, too daunting for someone whose only experience with "diversity" was being the sole Jewish kid among her semirural Ohio high school's 2,300 students.
And so it wasn't until my thirties that I finally met my aunt and cousins. To my surprise, they treated me not just as a cousin but as a living symbol of racial reconciliation. Once we'd met, told stories, and compared features—we share a long jaw and sharp chin—I started to notice how arbitrarily I'd sorted the world around me into "black" or "white." All around were black people who looked related to me. White friends had color in their families of blood or choice: a stepfather, a spouse, a sister-in-law, a dearest friend. I started to feel that every American whose family has been here more than a few decades is from a mixed-race family, that somewhere out there—however near or far—we all have relatives of the "other" color. African Americans know this, of course, often down to the name of at least one plantation owner in the family tree. But for a white girl in a color-bound world, this was news.
As it happened, the insight that was striking me so personally—that the color line is drawn in shifting sand—would soon strike the culture. In the past few years, the headlines have been full of such things as the 2000 census's mix-and-match option; genetic evidence that Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings (his dead wife's half-sister and slave) left a widening delta of descendants; and the ascending god Tiger Woods's refusal to reject his plural ethnicity. And since 1995, a number of mixed-race memoirs have hit our shelves, opening discussion of a new identity: biracial writers who have a black parent and a white one. These authors grapple with the sense that they don't quite belong anywhere, that they aren't fully claimed by either race. But their wide range of experiences reveals how deeply racial identity, like any identity, is affected not just by society but also by family, character, time, and place…
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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (10th Anniversary Edition)
Posted in Biography, Books, Europe, History, Monographs, United States, Women on 2010-05-14 02:15Z by Steven
Riverhead an Imprint of Penguin Publishing Group
8.26 x 5.23in
James McBride
James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut.
Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother.
The son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white, James McBride grew up in "orchestrated chaos" with his eleven siblings in the poor, all-black projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn. "Mommy," a fiercely protective woman with "dark eyes full of pep and fire," herded her brood to Manhattan's free cultural events, sent them off on buses to the best (and mainly Jewish) schools, demanded good grades, and commanded respect. As a young man, McBride saw his mother as a source of embarrassment, worry, and confusion—and reached thirty before he began to discover the truth about her early life and long-buried pain.
In The Color of Water, McBride retraces his mother's footsteps and, through her searing and spirited voice, recreates her remarkable story. The daughter of a failed itinerant Orthodox rabbi, she was born Rachel Shilsky (actually Ruchel Dwara Zylska) in Poland on April 1, 1921. Fleeing pogroms, her family emigrated to America and ultimately settled in Suffolk, Virginia, a small town where anti-Semitism and racial tensions ran high. With candor and immediacy, Ruth describes her parents' loveless marriage; her fragile, handicapped mother; her cruel, sexually-abusive father; and the rest of the family and life she abandoned.
At seventeen, after fleeing Virginia and settling in New York City, Ruth married a black minister and founded the all- black New Brown Memorial Baptist Church in her Red Hook living room. "God is the color of water," Ruth McBride taught her children, firmly convinced that life's blessings and life's values transcend race. Twice widowed, and continually confronting overwhelming adversity and racism, Ruth's determination, drive and discipline saw her dozen children through college—and most through graduate school. At age 65, she herself received a degree in social work from Temple University.
Interspersed throughout his mother's compelling narrative, McBride shares candid recollections of his own experiences as a mixed-race child of poverty, his flirtations with drugs and violence, and his eventual self- realization and professional success. The Color of Water touches readers of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son.
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Half + Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural
Posted in Anthologies, Autobiography, Books, Identity Development/Psychology, Media Archive on 2010-02-12 05:23Z by Steven
Pantheon an imprint of Random House
ISBN: 978-0-375-70011-8 (0-375-70011-0)
Edited by Claudine C. O'Hearn
As we approach the twenty-first century, biracialism and biculturalism are becoming increasingly common. Skin color and place of birth are no longer reliable signifiers of one's identity or origin. Simple questions like What are you? and Where are you from? aren't answered—they are discussed. These eighteen essays, joined by a shared sense of duality, address the difficulties of not fitting into and the benefits of being part of two worlds. Through the lens of personal experience, they offer a broader spectrum of meaning for race and culture. And in the process, they map a new ethnic terrain that transcends racial and cultural division.
Introduction by Claudine Chiawei O'Hearn
LOST IN PLACE by Garrett Hongo
THE MULATTO MILLENNIUM by Danzy Senna
THE DOUBLE HELIX by Roxane Farmanfarmaian
CALIFORNIA PALMS by le thi diem thuy
MORO LIKE ME by Francisco Goldman
THE ROAD FROM BALLYGUNGE by Bharati Mukherjee
REFLECTIONS ON MY DAUGHTER by David Mura
LIFE AS AN ALIEN by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
LOST IN THE MIDDLE by Malcolm Gladwell
THE FUNERAL BANQUET by Lisa See
A WHITE WOMAN OF COLOR by Julia Alvarez
A MIDDLE PASSAGE by Philippe Wamba
FOOD AND THE IMMIGRANT by Indira Ganesan
WHAT COLOR IS JESUS? by James McBride
POSTCARDS FROM "HOME" by Lori Tsang
FROM HERE TO POLAND by Nina Mehta
TECHNICOLOR by Ruben Martinez
AN ETHNIC TRUMP by Gish Jen
Tags: Bharati Mukherjee, Claudine C. O'Hearn, Claudine Chiawei O'Hearn, Claudine O'Hearn, Danzy Senna, David Mura, Francisco Goldman, Garrett Hongo, Gish Jen, Indira Ganesan, James McBride, Julia Alvarez, le thi diem thuy, Lori Tsang, Malcolm Gladwell, Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, Nina Mehta, Pantheon, Philippe Wamba, Roxane Farmanfarmaian, Ruben Martinez
Is That Your Child? Mothers Talk about Rearing Biracial Children
Posted in Books, Family/Parenting, Media Archive, Monographs, United States on 2009-10-13 17:15Z by Steven
Lexington Books, imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Cloth: 0-7391-2763-2 / 978-0-7391-2763-6
Paper: 0-7391-2764-0 / 978-0-7391-2764-3
By Marion Kilson and Florence Ladd
"Is That Your Child?" is a question that countless mothers of biracial children encounter whether they are African American or European American, rearing children today or a generation ago, living in the city or in the suburbs, are upper middle class or lower middle class. Social scientists Marion Kilson and Florence Ladd probe mothers' responses to this query and other challenges that mothers of biracial children encounter.
Organized into four chapters, the book begins with Kilson and Ladd's initial interview of one another, continues with an overview of the challenges and rewards of raising biracial children gleaned from their interviews with other mothers, presents profiles of mothers highlighting distinctive individual experiences of biracial parenting, and concludes with suggestions of positive biracial parenting strategies.
This book makes a unique contribution to the growing body of literature by and about biracial Americans. Although in the past twenty years biracial Americans like Rebecca Walker, June Cross, and James McBride have written of their person experiences and scholars like Kathleen Korgen, Maria Root, and Ruth Frankenberg have explored aspects of the biracial experience, none has focused on the experiences of a heterogeneous set of black and white mothers of different generations and socioeconomic circumstances as Kilson and Ladd do.
Marion Kilson is an anthropologist and the author of Claiming Place: Biracial Young Adults of the Post-Civil Rights Era (Bergin & Garvey 2000). Florence Ladd is a psychologist and won the Black Caucus of the American Library Association award for her novel, Sarah's Psalm (Scribner 1997).
Chapter 1: The Back Story of Is That Your Child?
Chapter 2: Challenges and Rewards for Mothers of Biracial Children
Chapter 3: Profiles of Mothers of Biracial Children
Chapter 4: Nurturing Biracial Children: Some Lessons Learned
Appendix I: Interracial Marriages in the United States
Appendix II: Some Sociological Attributes of Mothers
Appendix III: Selected Multiracial Resources
Tags: Florence Ladd, James McBride, June Cross, Kathleen Korgen, Kathleen Odell Korgen, Maria P. P. Root, Maria Root, Marion Kilson, Rebecca Walker, Rowman & Littlefield, Ruth Frankenberg


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Fragmentation of the Golgi apparatus of motor neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): Clinical studies in ALS of Guam and experimental studies in deafferented neurons and in β,β'-iminodipropionitrile axonopathy
Z. Mourelatos, A. Hirano, A. C. Rosenquist, N. K. Gonatas
Previous morphological immunoenzymatic studies with organelle-specific antibodies have disclosed an apparent fragmentation of the Golgi apparatus in large numbers of motor neurons in 12 cases of sporadic, non-Guamanian amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in three cases of other types of motor neuron disease and in one case of a mitochondrial myopathy with cytochrome c oxidase deficiency. Motor neurons with fragmented Golgi apparatus were moderately atrophic; in these cells, discrete immunostained elements of the organelle were twice as many as in normal neurons, and the size of each Golgi element and the percentage of the cytoplasmic area occupied by the Golgi apparatus were reduced (Am J Pathol 1992, 140: 731-737). In this report we have confirmed the fragmentation of the organelle of motor neurons in the spinal cord in six sporadic cases of Guamanian ALS. In four of the six cases the clinical course was 1 to 2 years. The percentages of motor neurons with fragmented Golgi apparatus varied from 38 to 92. Motor neurons from three additional cases of Guamanian ALS of clinical duration from 5 to 7 years did not show fragmentation of the Golgi apparatus. In two cases of Guamanian ALS and in one non-Guamanian ALS, all neurons with ubiquitin-positive skein-like or granular inclusions believed to be pathognomonic for ALS had fragmented Golgi apparatus. To examine whether the fragmentation of the Golgi apparatus results from reactions to either neuronal deafferentation or to lesions of proximal axons, we conducted two experimental studies. In the first study, we examined in cats the Golgi apparatus of deafferented neurons of the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus. In the second study, we examined the Golgi apparatus of motor neurons in the spinal cord of rats with proximal axonopathy induced by β,β'-iminodipropionitrile. In these two experiments, the neuronal Golgi apparatus studied by immunoenzymatic techniques and morphometry, was not fragmented. Taken together, the results of these studies strongly suggest that the fragmentation of the Golgi apparatus of motor neurons in ALS represents an important and perhaps early change of the organelle that may be involved in the pathogenesis of ALS. The fragmentation of the Golgi apparatus of motor neurons is a fairly specific and easily recognizable marker of ALS and may be used together with other criteria for comparisons between the human disease and proposed animal models of the disorder.
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Mourelatos, Z., Hirano, A., Rosenquist, A. C., & Gonatas, N. K. (1994). Fragmentation of the Golgi apparatus of motor neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): Clinical studies in ALS of Guam and experimental studies in deafferented neurons and in β,β'-iminodipropionitrile axonopathy. American Journal of Pathology, 144(6), 1288-1300.
Fragmentation of the Golgi apparatus of motor neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) : Clinical studies in ALS of Guam and experimental studies in deafferented neurons and in β,β'-iminodipropionitrile axonopathy. / Mourelatos, Z.; Hirano, A.; Rosenquist, A. C.; Gonatas, N. K.
In: American Journal of Pathology, Vol. 144, No. 6, 1994, p. 1288-1300.
Mourelatos, Z, Hirano, A, Rosenquist, AC & Gonatas, NK 1994, 'Fragmentation of the Golgi apparatus of motor neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): Clinical studies in ALS of Guam and experimental studies in deafferented neurons and in β,β'-iminodipropionitrile axonopathy', American Journal of Pathology, vol. 144, no. 6, pp. 1288-1300.
Mourelatos Z, Hirano A, Rosenquist AC, Gonatas NK. Fragmentation of the Golgi apparatus of motor neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): Clinical studies in ALS of Guam and experimental studies in deafferented neurons and in β,β'-iminodipropionitrile axonopathy. American Journal of Pathology. 1994;144(6):1288-1300.
Mourelatos, Z. ; Hirano, A. ; Rosenquist, A. C. ; Gonatas, N. K. / Fragmentation of the Golgi apparatus of motor neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) : Clinical studies in ALS of Guam and experimental studies in deafferented neurons and in β,β'-iminodipropionitrile axonopathy. In: American Journal of Pathology. 1994 ; Vol. 144, No. 6. pp. 1288-1300.
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Amazon As discussed in the previous section, a function template is able to replace multiple functions using genericity. This is one way to reduce code size. However, this type of situation does not come up often because you normally make a function deal with only certain argument types.
Another way to replace many functions with one function is to generalize the meaning of the functions, and then write one or two functions that accommodate all of them. Sometimes this is achievable but not always.
Usually to achieve this effect, a flag is necessary as one of the arguments of the function. As an example, let's consider the following scenario. You are writing a server that serves a client's requests. Assume there are exactly five request types a client may issue. You decide to write five functions to serve the requests.
First you determine what the request is, then call the appropriate function. However, you can also write one function that servers a request given its identity, and you can merge the parts where the requests are doing the same things into one block of code, thereby reducing code size.
So you simply have one function in which there are several if or switch statements. This is actually in regards to the program I mentioned in the beginning of Chapter 4.2.


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Second X-ray of A's outfielder Ramón Laureano's hand is negative
Sports // Athletics
Matt Kawahara
May 24, 2022 Updated: May 24, 2022 11:28 p.m.
Oakland Athletics' Ramon Laureano plays during the first inning of the second baseball game of a doubleheader, Tuesday, May 10, 2022, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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SEATTLE — A second X-ray on Ramón Laureano's right hand came back negative Tuesday, and Oakland Athletics manager Mark Kotsay expressed hope the outfielder could return to the lineup Wednesday
"He said he felt a bigger improvement today in swinging in the cage," Kotsay said after the A's 7-5 win at Seattle on Tuesday night. "So we're optimistic about tomorrow."
Laureano was hit on the hand by a pitch Saturday in Anaheim. He had an X-ray that night that came back negative, but did not start the next three games. Laureano did pinch-run Monday in Oakland's loss but did not take an at-bat.
Kotsay said the A's sent Laureano for a second X-ray "to make sure we verified that there's nothing we missed."
On Neuse: Sheldon Neuse was also not in the A's lineup Tuesday against Mariners right-hander George Kirby. Kotsay said it was "just a day off" for Neuse, noting the A's are playing 13 days in a row.
Neuse was Oakland's hottest hitter in April, batting .328 for the month. He entered Tuesday hitting .190 for May. Neuse missed three games recently with groin tightness but Kotsay said that doesn't appear to still be an issue for the infielder.
"It looks like he's healthy," Kotsay said. "He hasn't said anything that would tell me it's still lingering."
Backup catcher: In the seventh inning Monday, Kotsay pinch-hit Seth Brown for Christian Bethancourt, who'd started the game at first base.
Bethancourt is also the A's backup catcher. Sean Murphy caught Monday, so had he needed to exit the game for some reason, the A's would have needed to use an emergency catcher.
Who would that have been?
"Chad Pinder," Kotsay said. "Maybe Sheldon Neuse."
Neither has caught in a professional game. Pinder recently pitched in an A's blowout loss and has now played every position in the majors except catcher.
"Let's hope it doesn't happen," Kotsay said.
Matt Kawahara covers the A's for The San Francisco Chronicle. Email: mkawahara@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @matthewkawahara


A BBC4 documentary, which was conceived by Dr Keith Kirby of Plant Sciences and filmed at Wytham Woods, has won the Science and Natural History Programme Award at the 2016 Royal Television Society awards.
Wytham Woods, an area of ancient semi-natural woodland to the west of Oxford, has been owned and managed by the University of Oxford since 1942. Used extensively for education and recreation, its 1000 acres are considered to be the most researched area of woodland in the world.
The documentary, entitled Oak Tree: Nature's Greatest Survivor, was made by Furnace Productions, and focused on a year in the life of an oak tree, which has been flourishing in the woods for around 400 years. The Wytham team was involved in setting up and maintaining the time-lapse cameras that filmed for the entire period.
The 90-minute documentary is available to purchase from the BBC online store. It can also be previewed in a short clip on YouTube.


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Feud Season 2 Will Take Us Inside the Royal Family, but What Exactly Will We See?
At the end of February, FX announced a second season of Feud, Ryan Murphy's latest anthology TV series. While the first season went for the Hollywood jugular and highlighted Bette Davis and Joan Crawford's infamous decades-long hatred for one another, the second season is taking a surprising turn and highlighting the crumbling marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. In March, Ryan Murphy spoke to E! News and clarified his intentions for the season. "I was always very interested in that story of divorce and pain," Murphy explained. "I wanted to do a different kind of feud that's about broken hearts. And I think that's what that marriage was and that's what Charles and Diana is about."
Given the context of the quote, it seems like the struggles faced in season two will be much more internal than public. We decided to look back at Charles and Diana's relationship to figure out what moments may be highlighted over the course of the season.
1. The Wedding Nightmare
While the wedding was a public spectacle of its own, it wasn't until years later new information came to light in a biography. According to Vanity Fair, both Diana and Charles were not sure they could go through with the wedding. "I can't marry him, I can't do this, this is absolutely unbelievable," Diana said, while Charles was allegedly "desperate" and said, "I can't go through with it, I can't do it." This might mean we won't see much of the wedding at all, but rather we'll witness all the tension leading up to the big day.
2. The Affairs Behind Closed Doors
Here is another opportunity for Feud to capture what was going on privately, rather than what the world saw. The general public became well aware of Charles's affair with Camilla Parker Bowles in 1992 when a sexually explicit conversation was secretly recorded and published by the press. Will the series show Charles and Camilla in those conversations? Did Diana know? When did she find out? Were there more phone calls that we weren't privy to? Feud could give us a sense of how the couple handled everything on the inside.
3. Diana's Tell-All and the Horror Show at Home
After the monarchy publicly acknowledged the rift between Charles and Diana, both sides of the marriage gave two very different interviews. Charles cleared the air, so to speak, in 1994 with Jonathan Dimbleby, while Diana spoke with the BBC's Martin Bashir in a more candid tell-all chat. Here, we have a chance to examine everything that led up to these public moments. What went down between Queen Elizabeth II and Charles before this decision? How did he prepare himself for it? What happened that drove Diana to expose everything once and for all?
We have a long way to go until the 2018 premiere of Feud's royal season. With the British royal family shrouded so deeply in secrecy, though, it's clear there's plenty to explore and dig into to give us a compelling season.
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MURALS Symposium winners showcase scholarly, creative work
By Joe Giordano
Explore all of the MURALS projects at col.st/cEw2b.
This year's MURALS Symposium at Colorado State University spotlighted outstanding work among students across the university, with the top award-winning project providing an examination of the health disparities among racial groups in the United States.
More than 75 undergraduates participated in MURALS — Multicultural Undergraduate Research, Art and Leadership — in a virtual showcase March 25-26. As in previous years, the signature event highlighted student work in social sciences, humanities, STEM, creative arts and service learning and leadership.
This year's event marked the sixth time CSU has hosted the MURALS Symposium. The event is designed to celebrate the academic success of students of color and expose them to undergraduate research opportunities and other scholarly endeavors.
Janaye Matthews
Janaye Matthews, a senior biomedical engineering and electrical engineering student in the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering, was the overall winner and received a $1,000 prize.
Matthews' project spotlighted the widespread health disparities among racial groups in the U.S. amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The project allowed for personal exploration around health inequities, while also following the resurgence of the conversation around reparations for Black Americans.
"I'm really humbled by this honor," Matthews said. "In all honesty, I was completely surprised by it. Committing to MURALS this year was a bit of a personal push, and I wasn't really focused on the competition aspect. I'm kind of just a bit of a nerd who loves learning from others and seeing the world from my peers' perspectives."
Matthews added that she appreciated the collaborative environment of MURALS, which celebrated different forms of research and brought awareness to important issues.
Maya Siegel, a junior business administration student in the College of Business, was one of the five students to win a first-place honor, which included a $750 prize. For MURALS, Siegel shared information on Space to Speak, an organization she launched during her freshman year to give youth a voice in the sexual violence prevention movement.
In April 2020, Space to Speak partnered with organizations FreeFrom and The Survivor Coalition Project to help people experiencing domestic violence during the pandemic. In the span of four months, they helped raise over $118,000, which directly supported more than 470 survivors in FreeFrom's database, providing funds for rent, groceries, medicine and other critical needs. In total, the campaign raised over $266,000.
Maya Siegel
"I'm so grateful to the MURALS staff for affirming my potential and holding space for me to grow and shine," Siegel said. "It's easy to feel invisible at a big school, especially as a freshman, so being invited to participate in MURALS year after year — and then seeing faculty coming to the event and supporting the participants — means so much to me."
Christal Dominguez Vasquez, a senior fish, wildlife and conservation biology student in the Warner College of Natural Resources, was one of four second-place winners who received a $500 prize. Her project examined how the Soapstone bison have several intersectional stories through art.
"I feel validated that all the hard work, passion and creativity that I showed in my project was honored because it's hard to feel seen," she said. "Being a Latina in STEM is sometimes difficult because there is not enough space for people like me to be given a platform to show my work. Therefore, I am incredibly proud and grateful to have the opportunity to collaborate alongside other students of color and be celebrated for our success."
In all, more than 250 faculty, staff and graduate students assisted in MURALS, serving as faculty guides, judges, nominators, evaluators and volunteers.
MURALS is chaired by Bridgette Johnson, managing director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Student Success, and Melissa Edwards, associate director of Office for Undergraduate Research and Artistry.
Johnson said this year's event included a session featuring CSU alumni who shared the impact MURALS had on their careers, graduate school applications and professional successes. She explained MURALS can help students develop their senior thesis projects as well as spark an interest in research and affirm their academic success.
With the cancellation of last year's MURALS Symposium due to the pandemic, Johnson said she was impressed with the perseverance and commitment students displayed.
"With all of the things that are happening in the world, it was impressive to see how the students found the time to advance their academic journey," she said. "Students shared as they picked up their participation gifts this week that it is affirming to be in community with peers who look like me."
Matthew Yohannes, a senior neuroscience student in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, hopes to attend graduate school to study pharmacology. He said his MURALS project allowed him to learn about two different enzymes that can play an important role in regulating cellular function.
"I had a lot of fun putting together the presentation," he said. "Initially, I had done a lot of research on this topic, so it was a challenge trying to figure how I could fit that information into a 7- to 8-minute presentation. However, it was really rewarding, and helped me figure how to really 'get to the point' and explain complex topics to an audience in a very concise manner."
Jacob Leavitt, a junior biochemistry student in the College of Natural Sciences, said MURALS gave him the opportunity to gain experience designing, implementing and presenting research to a collective of his peers.
"Little did I know I would stumble across my thesis project for the culmination of my bachelor's degree," he said. "Through working on my MURALS' project, I have decided to research paid laboratory training programs that seek to cultivate success in students from historically underrepresented populations with the intent of creating and implementing one such program that centers around biochemistry laboratory techniques."
Yohannes added that the experience allowed him to connect with professors to expand his research network.
"It was a great way for me to make connections with individuals involved in my field of study," he said. "It also led me to make new connections with people who I would have never met otherwise."
2021 MURALS award winners
Judges' decisions were based on a combination of submitted abstract, poster and oral presentations. See all of the MURALS projects by visiting col.st/cEw2b.
"America's Responsibility to Invest in Reparations in the Form of Healthcare Initiatives for Descendants of Enslaved Africans"
First-place winners
Alexa Ware
College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
De'Von Washington
"A Love Story Like Queen and Slim"
"Amphibian CTmax"
"Space to Speak, Giving Youth a Leading Voice in the Sexual Violence Prevention Movement"
Sage Mednansky
"If Butter Doesn't Kill You, Settler Colonialism Will"
Second-place winners
Cristal Dominguez-Vasquez
"Reintroducing an Icon: A Story Portrayed Through Art & Science"
Hannah Lucero
"Determining Use of Alternative Genes to Increase Microbial Production of Ethylene via High-Throughput Assays"
Fernanda Alarcon-Avila
"Mental Health Support for Undocumented Students"
Alejandra Cuevas
"Addressing Mental Health Stigmatism in Active-Duty Service Members"
Rising Star winners
Marlena Giannone
"The Intersection of Poetry and Mathematics"
"The Acne Reducing Face Mask"
Dom Baca
"Circle Forward: Using Restorative Practices to Combat Incidents of Bias"
Kira Douglas
"Marginalized Media: A Look at the Perceptions and Portrayal of Minorities in TV and Movies"
Social Justice winners
Maab Abdalla
Makida Worku
"Is Social Media Making You Antisocial?"
Emily Christine Guerra
"Feeding Sovereignty: Understanding Regenerative Kinship Relationships Within Indigenous Food Sovereignty Movements"
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Baxter Int'l. (BAX) Stock Gains on Trial Update Ahead of Drug Division Spin Off
Baxter Int'l. (BAX) shares are rising after the company reported positive results from its hemophilia B treatment trials.
Tony Owusu
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Baxter International (BAX) - Get Free Report shares are up 1.57% to $71.78 after the company provided an update for the early stage trial results for its gene treatment hemophilia B treatment candidate.
Patients participating in the Phase 1/2 trials have experienced no bleeding episodes and have gone without regular infusions, though one of the two patients treated with the highest dose of the drug did need an infusion after having a negative immune response.
Earlier this month Baxter's board approved the planned separation of the company's biopharmaceutical business into an entity known as Baxalta.
Baxter will retain a 19.5% stake in Baxalta following the spin off which is scheduled to be completed by July 1 with Baxalta trading under the symbol 'BXLT' on the New York Stock Exchange.
TheStreet Ratings team rates BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC as a Hold with a ratings score of C+. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC (BAX) a HOLD. The primary factors that have impacted our rating are mixed - some indicating strength, some showing weaknesses, with little evidence to justify the expectation of either a positive or negative performance for this stock relative to most other stocks. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its notable return on equity, reasonable valuation levels and expanding profit margins. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including unimpressive growth in net income, generally higher debt management risk and weak operating cash flow."
Highlights from the analysis by TheStreet Ratings Team goes as follows:
The return on equity has improved slightly when compared to the same quarter one year prior. This can be construed as a modest strength in the organization. When compared to other companies in the Health Care Equipment & Supplies industry and the overall market, BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC's return on equity exceeds that of the industry average and significantly exceeds that of the S&P 500.
The gross profit margin for BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC is rather high; currently it is at 54.25%. Regardless of BAX's high profit margin, it has managed to decrease from the same period last year. Despite the mixed results of the gross profit margin, BAX's net profit margin of 11.42% compares favorably to the industry average.
The debt-to-equity ratio of 1.38 is relatively high when compared with the industry average, suggesting a need for better debt level management. Along with the unfavorable debt-to-equity ratio, BAX maintains a poor quick ratio of 0.84, which illustrates the inability to avoid short-term cash problems.
Net operating cash flow has significantly decreased to $96.00 million or 82.82% when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, when comparing to the industry average, the firm's growth rate is much lower.
You can view the full analysis from the report here: BAX Ratings Report
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social problems and religion
church | public | Pew Research | social issues | American public
By Martin E. Marty|July 25, 2016
Meanwhile. . . .
Other things than political campaigns are going on this summer, but they have a hard time gaining notice. Media attention to them crowds out other events and spheres of life. Some of the latter do not suffer: sports, celebrity worlds, markets, etc. do well. Among the obscured ones come those under the category of "religion" or, institutionally, "churches," "synagogues," and the like. The Pew Research Center (see "Resources") measures activity on their front, as Michael Lipka did in his report of July 18.
The headline is a question and a comment: "Are churches key to solving social problems? Fewer Americans now think so." Accompanying graphs and statistics report not on whether churches are attempting to solve social problems, but what the observing public observes them doing or not doing. On that front, there are no surprises: only 58% think they are doing a "great deal" or "some," while a growing number, now 39%, say "not much" or "nothing." The number of those who say and see "not much" or "nothing" has grown 17% since 2008.
One hopes that the responses to the survey will be illuminating. Most responding bloggers, in the short space their format allows, cannot deal with complexity, nuance, or corollary and secondary themes, but these have to be kept in mind. Such blogs allow people who have a case, to enlarge it: note how the anti-religious, anti-church, etc. folks can be seen and heard venting ideologies. Some of the implied critiques can be helpful to problem-solvers who are members and advocates of churches and synagogues, and we can have no doubt but that these findings will reach many a pulpiteer or thoughtful congregation. Yet merely pointing, weeping, or wailing will not do anyone much good.
So there are questions: were perceptions of church involvements in 2008 or earlier accurate? Has the change come through changes in the media? What does "solving social problems" mean? Are the big ones "solvable," or are they only "addressable.?" Who really pictures the epochal refugee crises of our day as being "solvable." Or the destructive human issues in "climate change?" And are any religious institutions capable of addressing the issues on such a vast scene that it is fair to ask thus about them?
Let it be noticed that, on this question, the most positively concerned members of the public are themselves the members of church and synagogues who measure current priorities and actions in the light of their core beliefs or the mandates, calls, invitations, and judgments which their animating and judging texts keep vivid. Close-up observers know that some "decline" results from changes in the cultural environment. Thus, leaders in much immigrant and refugee relief and attempts to care for the poor and ill, used to use their resources, based on "charitable giving," to link with governmental agencies. But in many cases (as in our own state of Illinois) most of the governmental funds are unavailable because of political binds.
And one has to ask what "churches" here means. Ecumenical and denominational resources have little to offer, though many try. It comes down to congregations, gatherings, and voluntary organizations to do their part in "addressing," if not "solving" social problems. We see that on some of our personally chosen social fronts: micro-lending, refugee resettlement, educating the disadvantaged and the like. When churches and synagogues are not only observed and reported on as losing heart or finding other priorities than the "social" ones, but actually failing and falling, millions get hurt. Attending to these local and voluntary fronts is, in dated language, "where the action is." On some scales, some problems, if not solved, are there addressed, and the "social" scene and the people who make it up experience life enhanced.
Hammill, Ryan. "Do Churches actually help solve social problems? Americans increasingly say 'no.' Sojourners. July 18, 2016.
Lipka, Michael. "Are churches key to solving social problems? Fewer Americans now think so." Pew Research Center. July 18, 2016.
Martin E. Marty is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Modern Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His biography, publications, and contact information can be found at www.memarty.com.
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September was about as productive as that lesson. My project plans were in place, the materials ready, the eagerness to make was there, and yet somehow things didn't end up quite like I had planned. I'd like to tell you this is out of the ordinary… then again, I'd also like to tell you I didn't lose a cardigan for a month, only to find it stuffed into the top of our entryway coat closet, buried under a pile of mittens.
School is now well and truly underway, and my ability to remain functional, let alone awake, later than about 9:00 p.m. has seriously deteriorated. Those late night hours are typically my time to chip away at one of my in progress knitting projects, tape pdf patterns together, or sew drapes into play clothes for all of the Von Trapp children. Instead, I've found myself lounging in the big green chair with my laptop, researching new projects or falling fast asleep after only one row of knitting. Fortunately, those single rows did help me to move forward on a few WIPs (which for most makers stands for "Works In Progress." I find "Waiting In Piles" to also be quite apt).
This remarkably poor photo makes my knitting needles look glow in the dark. Unfortunately, they are not.
This is my #fringeandfriends knit along sweater. The challenge was to knit a top down sweater without a pattern. I decided to make a bulky weight cardigan out of Puffin from Quince & Co. This is meant to be a sweater I toss on over PJs while making coffee, wear with jeans to go out to dinner, or sweat through while jumping around with children at work. My hopes and dreams for this sweater are great – my ability to finish it – not so much. Sure, I've made progress since my last post, but that was a month ago, and this sweater is knit with big yarn on big needles. I should be wearing it already. I am happy to report that I'm at least 3/4 of one sleeve farther along than this photo shows. However, there is a chance I'm going to rip that sleeve out and reknit it so it doesn't look as though I was trying to make it big enough to fit both of my arms at once.
This teeny-tiny sweater received some attention during an unexpected trip to the laundromat. Ginger the bulldog created a situation which required us to give the sheets, duvet, and down comforter a thorough washing. I actually mucked up the first row of the lace pattern after dividing for the sleeves because counting stitches is something I tend to regard as a "suggestion." In the photo you can see where I had just ripped the lace out and made a panicked dive to save the live stitches for a do-over. Fortunately, the caffeine saw me through the dicey moments, and victory was mine.
I've made some minor headway on a few other things this month, with one notable exception – this blog. This is where I admit that one of my great pet peeves is following a blog where the blogger rarely blogs (try saying that five times fast). Ironic, isn't it? So, this month's project list includes some much needed new garments for fall, as well as a few more blog posts… and perhaps, if the mood strikes, I'll make myself a pair of super soft pants.


Of all the areas in Salt Lake City, 15th & 15th has to be one of the most desired and coveted neighborhoods around. This neighborhood has an adorable little retail district with high end restaurants like The Paris Bistro and the famous Tony Caputo's Food Market & Deli. Walk to one of Salt Lake's favorite book stores, the Kings English and stop by the 15th Street Gallery.
Tucked away in this coveted neighborhood is this truly amazing home. High end finishes throughout and some spectacular features make this home unique unto itself. Equipped with a true walk in closet in the master bedroom, a master bath to die for, a private entertaining patio, and an amazing two car garage. The kitchen is open and bright with elegant marble countertops and an beautiful hardwood floor. Great living spaces inside and out make living in this home an experience that rarely is found in a home that is over 70 years old. Loaded with old charm, but upgraded like a new home. this home is ready for it's new owner.
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Emergency Medicine Physicians for Mount Sinai Queens in Astoria, NY!
Mount Sinai Health System in New York is currently seeking full-time Emergency Medicine Physicians to join Mount Sinai Queens. The Mount Sinai Health System Department of Emergency Medicine is one of the largest in the country and serves one of the most ethnically diverse communities in the world. In total, our System has over 180 faculty, treats over 500,000 patients annually, and owns/operates one of the only designated trauma centers in Manhattan. Our research division is a national leader, ranked #2 by Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research in EM NIH funding: two faculty ranked in the top 10 funded EM researchers nationally.
As healthcare evolves, Mount Sinai is continually committed to developing innovative, best-in-class emergency medicine programs, and is seeking candidates who share this passion. All physicians will be eligible for a Faculty Appointment at the world renowned Icahn School of Medicine and will have the opportunity for leadership positions as we continue to expand our footprint.
Mount Sinai Queens has been serving the western Queens community and beyond since 1999 when The Mount Sinai Hospital acquired the former Western Queens Community Hospital. The Hospital has been delivering health care in this location for 120 years.
With 235 licensed acute-care beds, Mount Sinai Queens provides medical and surgical services. Physicians representing nearly 40 medical and surgical specialties and sub-specialties serve the needs of the diverse population of our community.
The new Mount Sinai Queens Pavilion, which opened in 2016, is helping to expand the range and quality of medical care in the Borough of Queens. Within the new six-story, 140,000-square-foot facility are the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Emergency Department which has significantly expanded the Hospital's ability to serve the growing urgent and emergent needs of patients; Mount Sinai Doctors, a large, multi-specialty medical practice opened where today more than 40 physicians on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine in all specialties are providing outpatient care in an attractive and state-of-the-art environment; Mount Sinai Imaging is offering a full range of radiology testing; and brand new operating rooms, including robotic surgery, offer the latest technology.
Mount Sinai Queens is the only hospital in Queens to bear the prestigious Mount Sinai name and is now one of seven hospitals, with the Icahn School of Medicine, that form the Mount Sinai Health System. The hospital combines the medical excellence of an academic medical center with the compassionate, caring environment expected at a community hospital.
Patient evaluations
Ongoing care including medical management
Collaborative treatment planning with multiple clinical disciplines
Supervision of residents and other clinical staff
Benefit from the educational, research, and clinical programs of the Icahn School of Medicine
Opportunity to apply for a faculty appointment
Significant opportunities for leadership and career development
Additional support staff
Position Qualifications:
Medical Degree from an accredited university
New York State Medical License
Board Certified or Board Eligible in Emergency Medicine
DEA required
Strong teaching and leadership skills
Excellence in communication, organization and bedside manners
A strong work ethic and desire to participate in and grow a team-oriented, performance-driven department
About the Mount Sinai Health System:
The Mount Sinai Health System is New York City's largest integrated delivery system, encompassing eight hospitals, a leading medical school, and a vast network of ambulatory practices throughout the greater New York region. Mount Sinai's vision is to produce the safest care, the highest quality, the highest satisfaction, the best access and the best value of any health system in the nation. The Health System includes approximately 7,480 primary and specialty care physicians; 11 joint-venture ambulatory surgery centers; more than 410 ambulatory practices throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and 31 affiliated community health centers. The Icahn School of Medicine is one of three medical schools that have earned distinction by multiple indicators: ranked in the top 20 by U.S. News & World Report's "Best Medical Schools", aligned with a U.S. News & World Report's "Honor Roll" Hospital, No. 12 in the nation for National Institutes of Health funding, and among the top 10 most innovative research institutions as ranked by the journal Nature in its Nature Innovation Index. This reflects a special level of excellence in education, clinical practice, and research. The Mount Sinai Hospital is ranked No. 14 on U.S. News & World Report's "Honor Roll" of top U.S. hospitals; it is one of the nation's top 20 hospitals in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Geriatrics, Gynecology, Nephrology, Neurology/Neurosurgery, and Orthopedics in the 2019-2020 "Best Hospitals" issue. Mount Sinai's Kravis Children's Hospital also is ranked nationally in five out of ten pediatric specialties by U.S. News & World Report. The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked 12th nationally for Ophthalmology and the South Nassau Communities Hospital is ranked 35th nationally for Urology. Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai St. Luke's, Mount Sinai West, and Mount Sinai South Nassau are ranked regionally.
Please specify Job Title of interest and send CV with Cover Letter to:
Alex Cano
Executive Director Physician Recruitment
alex.cano@mountsinai.org


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Intifada is an Arabic word which literally means "shaking off", though it is popularly translated into English as "uprising", "resistance", or "rebellion". Since Israeli occupation of Gaza territories there have been two intifada (in 1987 and in 2000).
The Israeli soldiers occupied territories of Gaza Strip and West Bank during the Six-Day War of 1967 fighting Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem in 1980 and the Golan Heights in 1981 has not been recognized by any other country. The International Court of Justice, the UN General Assembly and the United Nations Security Council regards Israel as the "Occupying Power" though Israeli government prefer the term "disputed territories" in the case of the West Bank. Israel opened its labor market to Palestinians in the occupied territories and Palestinians were recruited mainly to do unskilled or semi-skilled labor jobs Israelis didn't want. By the time of the first Intifada, over 40 percent of the Palestinian work force worked in Israel daily. High birth rates, limited allocation of land for new building and agriculture, unemployment, even for those with university degrees created even more political tension and foundation for the Intifada. Palestinians regard the Intifada as a justified protest against Israeli repression which includes extrajudicial killings, mass detentions, house demolitions, forced migrations, relocations and deportations.


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Disease and decomposition : contrasting aspects of UV-B effects on microbes.
Paul, Nigel D. and Moody, S. (1999) Disease and decomposition : contrasting aspects of UV-B effects on microbes. Photochemistry and Photobiology, 69 (S1). 62S-62S. ISSN 0031-8655
Increased UVB radiation, arising from stratospheric ozone depletion may influence crops and native vegetation by altering a range of plant-microbe interactions, including disease and decomposition. Such effects of UVB may result from direct effects on micro-organisms or indirect effects, mediated via changes in the host plant. The responses of plant diseases to increased UVB reflect both direct and indirect effects. However, our studies of Septoria tritici infecting wheat highlight the role of direct UVB effects on the fungus in this system. In controlled environment experiments infection was significantly decreased by elevated UVB after inoculation, but UVB prior to inoculation had no effect. Field experiments using a modulated UVB supplement also showed significant reductions in natural S. tritici of a wheat crop, but such reductions were transient. appeared to be dependent on weather conditions. and resulted in no change in crop yield. The responses of microbial decomposition to increased UVB also reflect both direct and indirect effects. For example, we have shown highly marked interspecific variation in the response of decomposer fungi to direct UVB exposure. and changes in the fungal decomposer community following decomposition under increased UVB conditions. lndirect UVB effects on decomposition also occur, and are evident in altered patterns of microbial respiration. Such responses may reflect changes in host nitrogen concentration, and may have their greatest ecological effects via changes in nutrient cycling.
Photochemistry and Photobiology
Dr Nigel Paul


The House of Commons Treasury Committee is going to see if there are any serious disadvantages for investors in the British cryptocoin market in its current form. In addition, this new inquiry will help this Committee to find out potential market benefits.
Chairman of the Treasury Committee, Nicky Morgan, made it clear that it was absolutely critical to find the right balance between the regulation and innovation. She has also voiced support for the innovations in the sphere of blockchain and for distributed ledger solutions. This gives grounds to describe the Committee's position as cautiously optimistic.
Despite this, the Committee will not ignore the dark side of cryptocurrencies: money laundering, tax evasion and other illicit finance activities have already been highlighted as unacceptable by the Prime Minister of Great Britain.
The major cryptocurrency companies of Great Britain have recently formed an organization which will protect the interest of the market members and will discuss regulative initiatives with the authorities. According to the recent survey poll of the British corporations, half of 750 interviewed have crypto-related assets.


Rational-Choice/Behavioral Economics/Kahneman: An economic theory that follows the rational choice approach needs fewer axioms.
Rational Choice/New Development: the theory has been reinterpreted as a normative theory, because it tells us how to behave if we want to maximize our benefits. Thus it is no longer tautological like the descriptive variant. (See VsRational Choice).
Politics: The idea that both parties and voters are benefit maximizing and democracy has no intrinsic value is one of the central assumptions of (almost) all rational-choice-inspired democracy theories and election analyses.


Sony has kept an ACE in the hole and after having already recovered from the surfeit of mobile at MWC has presented the single Xperia. A terminal with a rather curious technology that in Xataka Android we explain how it works. We have also seen how Ice Cream Sandwich came finally to the Galaxy SII, I teach how to install it; News for users of the Galaxy Note: you will still have to wait a little bit. By the way, it seems that the new HTC are just around the corner.
This week we have concluded our special Ice Cream Sandwich talking about management of memory, the launchers, the unofficial ROMs, I have taught you some tricks and we finally talked about updates of the manufacturers. CyanogenMod has shown us a scheme with which we can know if we will receive this ROM or not. We have also seen how Google Maps has been updated with support for Cercanías and Madrid metro network.
The Formula 1 season It has become, although we will not have free application. It is very good, but we have to proceed to checkout. The newspaper El Pais meanwhile has launched their official app for Android and Readability finally opens on this operating system. If you're a developer, surely that Testdroid interested to test your creations. For lovers of photography this week we recommend Streamzoo, remember that Instagram will arrive shortly.
If you ever have tried ROM secure MIUI than your file Explorer has loved you. Well, thanks to a user of XDA is now possible to have it on any device. To end our overview we leave with a couple of games: Another World, which returns for its 20th anniversary, and NBA Jam along with your impossible moves.