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"Proximal-type" epithelioid sarcoma vs. malignant rhabdoid tumor of the vulva: A case report, review of the literature, and an argument for consolidation
Peter A Argenta, Sajeena Thomas, Justin C. Chura
Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health - Oncology
Background.: Vulvar sarcomas, which comprise less than 2% of vulvar malignancies, are a heterogeneous group of tumors. Sub-categorization of these tumors makes treatment strategies difficult to evaluate. "Proximal" type epithelioid sarcoma (PES) and malignant rhabdoid tumor (MRT) describe a rare subset of vulvar malignancies which share histologic features and an aggressive clinical course. Case.: We describe a case of vulvar PES/MRT in a 35 year old female treated with radical excision, inguinal-femoral lymphadenectomy, and adjuvant radiation who remains without evidence of disease 40 months after surgery. We review all English language reports of vulvar PES or MRT, and compare treatments and outcomes. Conclusion.: Vulvar PES/MRT is a rare disease attended by high rates of local and distant relapse. Radical excision remains the foundation of treatment. The role of adjuvant therapy, and particularly radiation, remains unclear but merits consideration.
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Argenta, P. A., Thomas, S., & Chura, J. C. (2007). "Proximal-type" epithelioid sarcoma vs. malignant rhabdoid tumor of the vulva: A case report, review of the literature, and an argument for consolidation. Gynecologic oncology, 107(1), 130-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygyno.2007.05.045
"Proximal-type" epithelioid sarcoma vs. malignant rhabdoid tumor of the vulva : A case report, review of the literature, and an argument for consolidation. / Argenta, Peter A; Thomas, Sajeena; Chura, Justin C.
In: Gynecologic oncology, Vol. 107, No. 1, 10.2007, p. 130-135.
Argenta, PA, Thomas, S & Chura, JC 2007, '"Proximal-type" epithelioid sarcoma vs. malignant rhabdoid tumor of the vulva: A case report, review of the literature, and an argument for consolidation', Gynecologic oncology, vol. 107, no. 1, pp. 130-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygyno.2007.05.045
Argenta PA, Thomas S, Chura JC. "Proximal-type" epithelioid sarcoma vs. malignant rhabdoid tumor of the vulva: A case report, review of the literature, and an argument for consolidation. Gynecologic oncology. 2007 Oct;107(1):130-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygyno.2007.05.045
Argenta, Peter A ; Thomas, Sajeena ; Chura, Justin C. / "Proximal-type" epithelioid sarcoma vs. malignant rhabdoid tumor of the vulva : A case report, review of the literature, and an argument for consolidation. In: Gynecologic oncology. 2007 ; Vol. 107, No. 1. pp. 130-135.
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The Gentle Storm | The Diary (album review) ★★★★★
Finally it's there! The first album 'The Diary' from The Gentle Storm. Released in Europe today (March 23, 2015)! The Gentle Storm is the Dutch symphonic/folk metal band, founded and created by composer and guitarist Arjen Anthony Lucassen and singer and lyricist Anneke van Giersbergen.
The Diary: a concept album
With a working relationship dating back to 1998, two of Holland's finest musicians have united for a new project dubbed The Gentle Storm. 'The Diary' is a concept album about a love story set in the 17th century. The Diary consists of two discs, each with the same tracklist: the "Gentle" side of the album consists of acoustic, softer songs, while the "Storm" side of the album is made of heavy metal versions of the songs with symphonic and progressive elements.
The album describes the lives of Joseph Warwijck (born in Amsterdam in 1644) and Susanne Vermeer (born in Delft in 1647). They were married in 1666, and lived in Lindengracht, Amsterdam. The story is set in the late 1600's during the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th Century, when the Dutch sailed to many far regions of the world; trading gold, silver, and goods with many other territories.
CD 1: Gentle
This is the part of the album most of our listeners won't be interested in that much. But when you listen closely to it, you discover that's it's perfect music for the moments you have a hangover or your family in law is hopping by… The compositions of the songs are just beautiful and take you into another world. Mid ages folk music and acoustic bombastic songs. Everything you here is played by Arjen and all the lyrics are from Anneke.
CD 2: Storm
This is the part of the album which most of us waited for. The same songs, but these are the heavy metal versions of the songs with symphonic and progressive elements. Abolutely beautiful and powerful! Additional musicians on this part of the album are Marcela Bovio (backing vocals, Stream of Passion), Ed Warby (drums, ex-Gorefest), Johan van Stratum (bass, Stream of Passion), Joost van den Broek (piano, After Forever) and many more.
This is a must have for people who like Dream Theater, Within Temptation, Epica and other related acts. Check the two official videos above (both part of the Storm part) and you know what I mean. The perfect compositions from Arjen like we know it from Ayreon and the amazing vocals of Anneke. Just perfect!
Score: 9.1/10 ★★★★★
01. Endless Sea (gentle version)
02. Heart of Amsterdam (gentle version)
03. The Greatest Love(gentle version)
04. Shores Of India (gentle version)
05. Cape Of Stoms (gentle version)
06. The Moment (gentle version)
07. The Storm (gentle version)
08. Eyes Of Michiel (gentle version)
09. Brightest Light (gentle version)
10. New Horizons (gentle version)
11. Epilogue: The Final Entry (gentle version)
12. Endless Sea (storm version)
13. Heart Of Amsterdam (storm version)
14. The Greatest Love (storm version)
15. Shores Of India (storm version)
16. Cape Of Stoms (storm version)
17. The Moment (storm version)
18. The Storm (storm version)
19. Eyes Of Michiel (storm version)
20. Brightest Light (storm version)
21. New Horizons (storm version)
22. Epilogue: The Final Entry (storm version)
More information: www.facebook.com/TheGentleStorm
VUUR – In This Moment We Are Free – Cities (album review) ★★★★☆ Mendel – Universal Omega (album review) ★★★★☆ Heidevolk – Vuur van Verzet (album review) ★★★☆☆
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A Son's Inspiration… A Life Changed
At 55, Chris is beginning a whole new life – one he could never have imagined even a year ago.
Chris's adulthood was marked by addiction and trouble with the law. Although he was college educated and had a good job, a number of influences – including a falling-out with his father, the sudden death of his mother, and failed personal relationships – led him to a life of drugs.
Thirteen years ago, Chris became a father. As with most people, becoming a parent was life-changing for Chris, but he was not equipped – mentally or physically – to really embrace fatherhood because of his addiction.
Then one day his young son came up to him, put his hands on Chris's face, and said, "Please stop what you're doing. I need my Dad in my life." Chris vowed to himself to conquer his addiction, and he was successful. But Chris had a lot of difficulty finding work – he says not only because of his background, but also because of all his tattoos.
Last year Chris was on social assistance when his case worker told him about the Food Services Training Program at The Ottawa Mission. Chris had always had a passion for cooking, so he immediately applied and was accepted – tattoos and all!
Chris is graduating from the five month program early in June, and is already working full time. And we hear that his son will be front and centre at the graduation ceremony. As Chris says, "I am so grateful to my son for being such an inspiration to me, and to The Mission for the training and encouragement they have provided. I have a career now, and I have hope for the future. And most importantly, I can provide for my son." Congratulations, Chris!


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A National Alliance for Youth Sports resource helping coaches, parents and administrators provide the best youth sports experiences for children.
GAME CHANGERS: WEB SERIES
SURE SHOTS
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Lifetime love of the game
By Greg Bach
Growing up in a sports-loving family, Allie LaForce's youth was filled with athletic activities that included basketball, softball and track and field.
And that whirlwind of practices and games produced some unexpected – and mighty memorable – moments that she still cherishes these days.
"I remember finishing pitching a varsity softball game and running about 500 yards across the field to the track and competing in the 800 and finishing in second place," says LaForce, the popular TNT broadcaster and former college basketball player. "I changed into my track uniform in my mom's car, but I forgot to change my socks, so I had on tall softball socks and my track uniform. It was embarrassing, but fun!"
EXCELLENCE ON THE COURT
LaForce was a standout in basketball at Vermilion High School in Ohio. A terrific all-around player, she led the team in scoring as a sophomore; was Team MVP as a junior; and was named first-team all-district as a senior.
The daughter of athletic parents – her mom played tennis at Kent State and her dad played football at Wittenberg University – she walked on to the Ohio University basketball team and played two seasons.
We caught up with LaForce, who does sideline reporting for NBA games and the NCAA basketball tournament, to discuss her youth sports journey. Check out what she shared:
SPORTINGKID LIVE: How did you fall in love with basketball as a youth?
LAFORCE: This is an easy one! My mom and dad were both college athletes and instilled the competitor in me from a young age. They also both traveled a lot for work so my mom's sister, Connie, lived with us growing up and helped take care of us. Well, she happened to be a varsity basketball coach, so I lived in the gym! We set goals and posted them all over my room and ceiling about setting records and I dreamed of playing in college, ever since I knew what a basketball was.
SPORTINGKID LIVE: How did you learn to stay positive during games when faced with adversity?
LAFORCE: You just have to give it everything you have, know that even that much won't always be enough, and trust your teammates.
SPORTINGKID LIVE: Did a parent or coach ever say something to you about competing in sports that stuck with you and influenced how you approached practices and games?
LAFORCE: My dad always said, 'The harder you work, the luckier you get.' I believe that. It's not luck, it's a product of effort. And sometimes you get lucky.
SPORTINGKID LIVE: How did you learn to stay motivated and embrace working hard to gain improvement?
LAFORCE: I was never the most athletic or talented. I had to work for it. And my coach, Skip Davis, always said, 'It's not what you do when people are looking – it's what you do when no one is looking.'
SPORTINGKID LIVE: What did you learn through playing sports that has helped you lead a successful life?
LAFORCE: Everything! Your mind controls everything. We don't know our limits until we are pushed further, and we can always be pushed further. That the power of a team is always more powerful than an individual – with the right teammates. The importance of physical fitness, teamwork, balancing life, family, school, work, and a game. All of it.
Allie LaForce Basketball Softball Track and Field Confidence Goals Adversity Coaching Motivation
Plotting a path forward
Former Olympic swimmer Melinda Harrison, author of Personal Next, discusses life transitions, the value in being vulnerable, growing from failure, and more
From Fields to Films: The power of positive youth sports experiences
Actor Brad William Henke, appearing in Stephen King's THE STAND on CBS, shares his youth sports journey, his love of football, and how his parents and coaches impacted his life
Rodman, rebounding and value of multiple sports in soccer star's youth
U.S. Women's National Soccer Team forward Jessica McDonald is a strong advocate of kids playing multiple sports growing up. Learn how it helped her – and how it can benefit your young athlete, too
Valerie's Voice: Golden insights from Team USA softball standout
Valerie Arioto, former Pac-12 Player of the Year and Team USA Softball standout, on being a team player, performing at your best, the importance of playing a variety of sports during childhood, and more
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How to Follow the 2021 52 SUPER SERIES
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Azzurra 1 6 4 1 2 2 1 4 1 2 24
Interlodge 3 4 2 5 4 1 5 2 2 1 29
Rán Racing 5 2 1 2 3 3 2 3 6 4 31
Quantum Racing 4 1 5 3 1 4 3 1 5 5 32
Gladiator 2 3 3 6 5 6 4 5 3 6 43
Rio 6 5 6 4 6 5 6 6 4 3 51
Situated in the quiet side of Miami in Coconut Grove, the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club combines a decidedly casual atmosphere with serious sailing. The club's location at the north end of Biscayne Bay often means a commute south to the race area, but no one complains when sailing in the Bay's clear waters abundant with sea life. It's not uncommon to see manatees quietly grazing in the mangroves lining the channels from the club out to the Bay, and see dolphins, sea turtles, and the occasional shark out on the Bay itself.
The club is also at the epicentre of numerous midwinter Olympic class activities, drawing in talent from around the world to race and train at events like the ISAF Sailing World Cup.
The atmosphere needs little further explanation. South Beach, Miami boasts truly unique, Art Deco architecture amongst the beachfront skyscrapers, azure waters, and walkways filled with joggers, skaters and walkers.
Biscayne Bay Yacht Club
2540 South Bayshore Drive
Phone: +305 858-6303
Web: http://www.biscaynebayyachtclub.com
US 52 SUPER SERIES Overview 52 World Championship
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Audi Week of the Straits
September 10th - 14th, Porto Cervo
52 SUPER SERIES Facts
Quantum Racing & Azzurra are the only two teams to have won a 52 SUPER SERIES championship. Quantum won in 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2018, and Azzurra were winners in 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2019.
Nine new boats were built for the 2018 52 SUPER SERIES by two designers, Botin Partners & Judel Vrolijk.
After 50 races, there were only 11pts separating first and third place in 2017.
TP52 boat owners are captains of industry in a range of business activities
Twelve TP52 crews will take part in 2020, representing eight different nations: Italy, USA, Great Britain, France, Turkey, South Africa, Germany and Russia.
It takes an average of 2-3 seconds to hoist a TP52 spinnaker to the top of the 22-metre mast
Sailors from over 20 nations are represented onboard the 52 SUPER SERIES fleet in 2020.
TP52s are boats built under a box rule, meaning that each boat must fit within a set of measurement parameters defined by the class rule.
Downwind in a strong breeze TP52's can sail at well over 20 knots, which is why the owners just have so much fun racing them!
Over 8 million tons of plastic are dumped into the ocean every year. We're working hard to minimise our impact on the environment.


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Географическое положение
Посёлок расположен на острове Хоккайдо в губернаторстве Хоккайдо. С ним граничат город Абасири и посёлки Бихоро, Одзора, Сяри, Киёсато, Тесикага.

Население
Население посёлка составляет , а плотность —  чел./км².

Символика
Деревом посёлка считается Quercus crispula, цветком — Lilium pensylvanicum, птицей — лебедь-кликун.

Примечания

Ссылки

 Официальный сайт

Посёлки префектуры Хоккайдо
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This week, we're joined by #EthicalHour sponsor The Grass People to discuss the importance of clean-cut grass seed and how helping bees and other pollinators can start at home. By creating your own wildflower garden, you can help protect and preserve UK wildlife for generations to come.
This guest post is part of the #EthicalHour sponsorship programme – written by The Grass People.
In early February, The Guardian reported results from a journal article that revealed more than 40% of our insect species are declining and a third are now endangered. A damning statistic, we sometimes underestimate just how much insects underpin our ecosystem.
In the UK, butterfly species were the worst to succumb to the insect population plummet – falling by 58%.
Our beloved bees were not far behind them, falling by 46%. The last 50-year detrimental demise of bee numbers and species has been well recorded, but why is it happening and how can we stop it?
Scientists believe that there is a combination of factors affecting the fall of bees and other pollinators such as disease, pesticides and a lack of available habitats.
But it's not all doom and gloom – because there are things you can do at home to create habitats for the little fluffy fellas, and the fluttery ones too. By following our next six steps, you can #BeetheChange.
Create your own wildflower garden with a mix made for its bee attracting abilities!
Place a bee bath beside your wildflowers to give thirsty bees respite in hot weather.
Build or buy a Bug Hotel to provide shelter for bees and pollinators.
Help bees when you see them by introducing them to a 50:50 water / sugar solution on a spoon for them to suckle.
Don't use pesticides on plants and flora in your garden. Although you may be getting rid of 'pesky insects' you're harming bees and pollinators, too.
Help those who are already helping! The Bumblebee Conservation Trust and Plantlife are charities that promote the protection & preservation of all pollinators.
Here at The Grass People, our wildflower mixes contain wildflowers that are on the very esteemed RHS Perfect for Pollinators list.
This means that not only do they have the ability to attract bees and pollinators, but that they're very good at it, too.
By providing expert mixes made to invite bees and butterflies to their very own pollinator party, we hope we're doing our bit as best we can.
Through our yearly corporate membership with The Bumblebee Conservation Trust, we can help them continue to the amazing work that they do every day.
Last year, our contribution helped to fund 8 important landscape-scale conservation projects and enabled them to participate in 5 further partner-led projects across the UK.
You can follow our steps above on how to #BeetheChange, but you can also help support wildlife charities such as the Bumblebee Conservation Trust and Plantlife who work tirelessly to protect and preserve bees and pollinators and the environments they inhabit.
Here at The Grass People, we believe that what you put in, is what you get out. That's why all our grass seed, unlike the stuff you get from the sale rack in the garden centre, is high quality.
We know our grass seed grows – it's not a 'miracle', it's rigorous testing for successful germination, each and every time. We know our grass seed isn't cleaned with chemicals, and so should you – with no nasties going in, no nasty surprises come out.
We believe that Quality is Simple, and whether you've never picked up a pitchfork in your life or you're a seasoned professional – great growing grass and glorious green spaces, whatever their purpose, should be easy to look after and available to everyone.
The Grass People sell a Feed, Weed and Moss Killer for lawn use. Although weed killers are sometimes regarded as a pesticide, they are not harmful to bees and pollinators.
Currently, our grass seed and wildflower seed packaging is 100% recyclable although not made from recycled materials (we are working on this!).
You can reuse our bags to collect leaves off your lawn in autumn or use our wildflower seed bags for washing line pegs – these are just some of the uses our customers have found for their leftover bags!
Click here to download our 6 Steps to Bee the Change poster to put up in your office or home!


Looking back on the history of Abacoa – a vibrant community of single family homes, townhomes, live/work units, retail, business, professional and commercial space – there were many individuals who played an integral role in bringing the vision of Abacoa to life. The late Bruce Rendina was one of those visionaries, and today his influence lives on as Abacoa continues to thrive.
It's been nearly 20 years since the first shovel of dirt was dug on 2,055 acres of land adjacent to Donald Ross Road.
The community within a community called Abacoa is nearing build-out – as the last single family/ townhome neighborhood, Windsor Park At Abacoa, is nearly sold out.
Abacoa is a thriving community of single family homes, townhomes, live/work units, retail, business, professional and commercial space.
It boasts Roger Dean Stadium, the Florida home of two bioscience giants, Scripps Research Institute Florida and Max Planck Society, the MacArthur campus of Florida Atlantic University with its invigorating Lifelong Learning Center, Abacoa Golf Club, Marriott's Courtyard Palm Beach Jupiter hotel, a 300-acre greenway, both middle and elementary schools, plus medical and professional buildings.
There are about 15,000 people who live in Abacoa, with about 5,700 homes upon completion and about 1.8 million square feet of commercial space when Abacoa is done. There are 14 purely residential neighborhoods, four mixed use neighborhoods in the community and a workplace district with five different neighborhoods as well.
Only about 50 acres, almost all earmarked for commercial development — one small parcel is slated for townhomes — remains of the vast piece of property that was once owned by insurance tycoon John D. MacArthur, who founded Palm Beach Gardens.
A key element is the presence of Scripps Florida and the Max Planck Society, which raised Abacoa and Jupiter from pleasant areas to live to desirable areas to live, work and play — the perfect combination for a community built on the principles of new urbanism.
Then Gov. Jeb Bush encouraged the bioscience behemoth, Scripps Research to come to Florida.
The Palm Beach County Commission designated an area west of West Palm Beach, known as the Mecca Farms and the adjoining Vavrus property as the area where Scripps would go. But environmental and infrastructure concerns as well as lobbying by Jupiter and other county areas prompted Scripps to reconsider where to locate.
Two possible locations were in the north and one in the south portion of the county, and eventually, county commissioners decided to have Scripps Florida headquartered in Abacoa, with additional acreage available just south of Donald Ross Road— the Briger property— for further expansion.
Two laboratory buildings created on the FAU campus in Abacoa temporarily housed the Scripps scientists until their building was completed in 2009. Soon afterward, another bioscience giant, Max Planck Society, located its Florida operation in Abacoa, using the now vacated buildings as temporary labs. These labs then reverted to FAU when Max Planck moved into its own building in Abacoa in 2012.
How did all this start? With a sketch on a napkin.
"Dale Smith, who was director of Florida operations for the MacArthur Foundation, and I used to have a weekly breakfast together," recalled George deGuardiola, the man who pioneered Abacoa.
"Dale was looking for land for FAU to expand north, since he was on the FAU task force, and I was on the task force to find a spring training facility for the Braves (at that time) and the Montreal Expos. During the breakfast, Dale said MacArthur wanted to be sure they located FAU in the right place, and I started to explain that it needed to be a community, where people could walk and bike without having to go on a collector road.
"I pulled out a napkin and drew it for him … this access is this way, and these housing types should be part of it, and there should be a central business district … it should be like a small town," de Guardiola said. "Dale asked if I would make a presentation to the MacArthur board about this concept. Three weeks went by, and I went to Chicago to talk to the MacArthur board.
"The concept became a New Urban community by default, because having an easily accessible internal community is what New Urbanism is," de Guardiola said.
There were several players in this scenario, including the MacArthur Foundation, which owned more than 40,000 acres throughout Florida, particularly along the eastern coastline.
MacArthur gave land to FAU to build its northern campus. Originally, FAU wanted 300 acres, but de Guardiola said that the university and the foundation, particularly the late Bob Friedman (a former FAU architect and later Jupiter Town councilor), negotiated the property to 137 acres.
"Bob Friedman never got the credit he deserved for his role in bringing FAU to Abacoa," de Guardiola said. Friedman had a significant role in creating the first two laboratory buildings at the FAU Abacoa campus that provided temporary workspace for Scripps and Max Planck.
Nothing could be written about Abacoa without the influence of the late Bruce Rendina, who was a partner with de Guardiola in the commercial areas, and a key player in the development of Abacoa. Rendina's son, Richard, now heads Rendina Healthcare Real Estate, a national name in the development of medical and healthcare offices.
To move the stadium project along, de Guardiola's group gave 90 acres to the county, and in turn the county gave the developers $25 million to build the stadium. Ground was broken in 1997, and with an extreme effort, Roger Dean Stadium was ready for the 1998 spring training season.
One of the most important individuals in Abacoa's infancy was then-Palm Beach County Commissioner Karen Marcus.
"Without Karen Marcus, forget-about-it," de Guardiola said.
"The property was a strawberry farm," Marcus said recently.
"When George came to us and wanted to do the project, I told him they needed to annex this property to Jupiter and they agreed," she said.
"One of the challenges was the fact that the property was large," said then-Mayor Karen Golonka, whom de Guardiola said saw the vision for Abacoa and was instrumental with shepherding the project through the Jupiter Town Council.
"Initially the property wasn't in the town, but they wanted to annex it to Jupiter to have the oversight of the town's elected officials for this huge project. The first hurdle was – did we want this size of property in Jupiter. Yes, we did," Golonka said.
Marcus, according to de Guardiola, did two things that helped the fledgling community.
She put the expansion of the bridges across the Intracoastal Waterway on Donald Ross Road and on Indiantown Road on the county's five-year plan, which would ease traffic into the community.
And she suggested that de Guardiola sit down with the environmental people who could have fought the project. As a result, everyone chose Pat Painter to do the environmental study.
"Basically, we went back to the original Army Corps of Engineers' photos of Abacoa before it was farmed and restored the naturalness to Abacoa, the natural flow of water. It was that simple," de Guardiola said.
Cypress Realty and the MacArthur Foundation needed someone on the ground to help take the napkin concept forward. That man was Nader Salour, the president of what was soon called the Abacoa Development Company. It was Salour and his team that created the infrastructure of Abacoa that would provide access to the new stadium, which he was also responsible for building.
Salour remembers the time crunch for the projects.
"It was very difficult, to, in essence, build the infrastructure where there were farm fields, to connect Central Boulevard and Frederick Small, and Donald Ross, to build the stadium while FAU was under construction and to have 12 months to do it.
The challenge for both the developers and for the Town of Jupiter was that the New Urbanism concept was not the norm for building in 1997 as it may be today. The overall concept is one of mixed use, a combination of commercial enterprises and residences.
"With Abacoa, we were not only looking at residential and commercial, but workplace, and trying to come to agreement about what that entailed," Golonka said.
"For a long time, we weren't sure what the workplace/industrial would look like or what we wanted it to look like. The idea of having townhouses and single family homes on the same block or across from each other with green space between them was different," she said.
To have this move forward, de Guardiola and his team worked with the Jupiter Town Council and its staff to create a new zoning code that would encompass all the moving parts of this New Urbanism community within the Town of Jupiter.
"It was a new concept for Florida, with the only other communities like this at Seaside (in the Panhandle) and Celebration (a Disney project near Orlando)," Golonka said.
The houses were a key element, and there was one name in Palm Beach County known for building exceptional houses. That name was Otto "Buz" DiVosta.
"Without Buz's commitment, Abacoa would be zero," de Guardiola said. "There is no one like Buz in the world and I have tremendous respect for him." Because the concept was so new, DiVosta built a street of homes in the first Abacoa neighborhood, New Haven, showing the homes, the alleys behind them, and the greenspace. "After DiVosta committed to Abacoa, he knocked the ball out of the park," de Guardiola said.
Eventually, Bruce Rendina bought all the commercial locations; and DiVosta, which now is a building division of Pulte Homes, but still builds under the DiVosta name, purchased all the residential properties.
The problem for the town, however, was that although DiVosta was known for quality construction, the houses tended to look alike, so a "pattern book" of exteriors was created to bring variety into the neighborhoods as they were built.
"The challenge residentially was to be mindful of maintaining the representations of the development that had been made, and make sure than the homes had a character and identity for all the neighborhoods, instead of homogenous architecture," said John Sickler, director of planning and zoning for the Jupiter.
The stadium, FAU and the residences were only part of the Abacoa equation.
Four years after Roger Dean Stadium was built, and the FAU buildings were going up, the Abacoa Downtown area was created.
Rendina and deGuardiola owned this property in the center of Abacoa, which featured a combination of restaurants and stores on the bottom floors and, at that time, rental units above.
"The commercial property was over 150 acres, which not only included the town's business district but what was then the movie theater," Richard Rendina said.
"That theater, owned by the Crown family, was later closed and torn down, and we bought the land back. We are now hoping to have a new concept there of a bowling alley and movie theater with the Frank family similar to what Bruce Frank has in Delray Beach at the CineBowl and Grill.
"Overall, there is a million square feet of commercial space in Abacoa, including medical office buildings that were developed either by my father or by me and my brothers," Rendina said.
Through a winding set of circumstances, Rendina and de Guardiola sold their interest in Town Center to Lehman Brothers, but when Lehman Brothers had financial problems, Rendina bought them out, retaining the commercial areas of the town's business district, but leaving the upstairs rental units to Lehman, who converted them to condos and sold them.
Golonka is also optimistic about Downtown Abacoa. "The new owners of the town center are able to see on a regular basis what the issues are and I think that there is a much better chance it will succeed," Golonka said.
With almost all of Abacoa completed, new ownership of Downtown Abacoa, bioscience firmly entrenched in the community, a long term spring training lease with the St. Louis Cardinals and the Florida Marlins, plus minor league play at Roger Dean Stadium – FAU flourishing and 15,000 people who are part of this New Urbanism concept – it looks as though Abacoa has moved from adolescence to adulthood.
"I sometimes come back to Abacoa," said de Guardiola, who now lives in Miami.
As Salour said, "Abacoa is almost exactly what George de Guardiola originally pictured" … during that long-ago breakfast with a sketch on a napkin.
Residential units built to date = 5,438. There remains up to 200 more residential units yet to be built.
Commercial square footage built to date and under construction presently = 1,341,000 square feet.
There remains a 4000 seat movie theater and approximately 450,000 square feet of commercial yet to be built.
Donna Cesaro/Cypress Realty of Fla.
Special thanks to the Jupiter Courier Newsweekly, Treasure Coast Newspapers, TCPalm.com and the USA TODAY NETWORK for allowing us to share this article.


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Ethnic Studies Research
A Few REALLY Important Journals
Finding Books
Important Core Research Databases
Asian Pacific Americans
Latinas/os
A Few Journals You Should Know About
While there are hundreds, even thousands, of periodicals that have articles relevant to ethnic studies research, the ones listed here are particularly highly regarded in the field, and you should get to know them! The links here will take you to a database where you can keyword search for articles within that single journal. Of course, the different databases listed here will also lead you to articles in these journals as well as many, many others.
Asian American Journal of Psychology
"The Asian American Journal of Psychology is the official publication of the Asian American Psychological Association and is dedicated to research, practice, advocacy, education, and policy within Asian American psychology. The Journal publishes empirical, theoretical, methodological, and practice oriented articles and book reviews covering topics relevant to Asian American individuals and communities, including prevention, intervention, training, and social justice." (their homepage)
Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology
"... publishes theoretical, conceptual, research, and case study articles that promote the development of knowledge and understanding, application of psychological principles, and scholarly analysis of social-political forces affecting racial and ethnic minorities." (ulrichsweb)
Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race
This esteemed journal, a forum for discussions on race from all disciplines, is published by Cambridge University Press for the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
Ethnic and Racial Studies
"This prominent journal, published ten times a year, highlights a variety of interdisciplinary viewpoints on topics related to race, ethnicity, and nationalism. Peer-reviewed research articles, written by a diverse group of international scholars, focus on theory and empirical evidence and discuss sociological, economic, and political issues. " (Ulrichsweb)
Ethnicities
"New cross-disciplinary journal, centred on sociology and politics, that will provide a critical, interdisciplinary dialogue on questions of ethnicity, nationalism and related issues such as identity politics and minority rights." (Ulrichsweb)
Ethnicity & Health
This is a very highly ranked international journal publishing original research from all disciplines concerned with investigating the relationship between ethnicity and health, in the sciences, social sciences and even humanities!
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power
This very academic, international, interdisciplinary journal publishes articles on questions of race, ethnicity and culture.
Journal of American Ethnic History
This is the official publication of the Immigration History Society. Articles deal with all aspects of immigration and ethnic history in the U. S., acculturation and social interaction of ethnic groups and immigration policies and issues.
Journal of Black Studies
Perhaps THE top African-American studies journal, it began in 1970 during the height of the Black Studies movement.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
This highly regarded, interdisciplinary monthly journal publishes articles on migration and its effects around the world, covering topics like ethnic conflict, discrimination, racism, nationalism. Individual issues are often focused on a specific theme.
Journal of Refugee Studies
This multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal is associated with the Refugee Studies Center at Oxford University. It attempts to provide a forum for contributions from both academics and practitioners exploring the problems of forced migration and national, regional and international responses.
Race & Class
This really is very probably (as they claim on their homepage) "the foremost English language on racism and imperialism in the world today". It is certainly very highly respected by academics for its longstanding multidisciplinary approach.
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Sick girl sought after mom takes her from hospital
PHOENIX (AP) -- Authorities in Arizona are looking for an 11-year-old girl with leukemia and a heart catheter who they say could die in a matter of days if she isn't brought back to a hospital after her parents inexplicably took her out of the facility last week.
The girl, Emily, had been receiving chemotherapy at Phoenix Children's Hospital for about a month, Phoenix police Sgt. Steve Martos said Monday.
An infection forced doctors to amputate her right arm and insert a catheter in her heart. The device was set to be taken out before her mother removed an IV from the girl, changed her clothes, and walked her out of the hospital Wednesday night.
Police said if the catheter is left in too long, it could lead to a deadly infection.
"If she contracts an infection, it really could just be a matter of days that could result in the young girl's death," Martos said. "It's pretty serious."
Authorities had been stymied by health privacy laws that kept them from releasing the parents' names, but police said Monday that U.S. Border Patrol stopped the girl's father, Luis Bracamontes, 46, as he crossed into Arizona from Mexico over the weekend.
Martos said the man provided no clues to the girl's whereabouts and denied having any involvement in removing her from the hospital. Police released his name, along with that of the girl's mother, Norma Bracamontes, 35, in hopes it will help locate the child.
Neither parent is charged with a crime yet, but authorities want the child brought back to the hospital before it's too late, Martos said.
He said the family lives a "nomadic" life without a permanent residence, but they have relatives in Arizona, California and Mexico, none of whom have been able to provide police with information about their whereabouts.
The girl's father is a Mexican citizen with a U.S. resident alien identification card. The child and her mother are U.S. citizens, Martos said.
Phoenix Children's Hospital spokeswoman Jane Walton declined comment, citing health privacy laws.
Authorities don't know why the child's parents took her from the hospital, but speculate they might have been concerned with paying the bill.
Surveillance footage shows the mother pushing an IV stand through a hospital hallway. The girl with her right arm removed above the elbow and wrapped in a bandage is seen walking beside her.
"We just don't know what their intent was," Martos said. "But this could become extremely serious if she contracts an infection ... Our primary concern is she get the proper medical care so we can prevent obviously the worst case scenario here."


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Today I went to a Superman/Batman double feature.
Recently, I contacted the Ilya Salkind Company again, this time to ask what happened to the Siegel and Shuster biopic I saw announced on their site last year but which had since been taken down. Today Ilya's assistant kindly responded and told me that the film is back on the site, though on the back burner in terms of development. I didn't ask why it had been taken down, though I wanted to. It's obviously none of my business.
Last Friday, I heard from the congenial producer of a documentary about Bob Kane to be packaged with this summer's animated DVD Batman: Gotham Knight. He'd learned online that I have Bill Finger photos beyond the only two that are continually republished. He wants to give his viewers something they haven't seen before—props for that—and asked if he could use any of the photos I've gathered in the film.
For about half an hour today, we spoke about how we might help each other. In exchange for use of the photos, he offered me screen credit and a spot on their Comic-Con panel (both bat-cool), but I asked for something else instead. We both doubt he'll be able to wrangle it due to the delicate nature of Bill Finger's status at DC, but if so, then you could see at least one of the new Finger photos on the copper screen (or whatever the TV equivalent of "silver screen" is). If not, you'll see them anyway, here and possibly elsewhere.
Also bear in mind that these are technically not my photos. Living people sent them to me on good faith. They've given permission for me to use them for my book (which this blog is an extension of), but for any purpose beyond that, I'd go back to them for clearance.
In the end, though, most of them want what I want: to coax Bill Finger out of the shadows at long last.


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When it comes to Christmas shopping, people fall in to one of two buckets.
Bucket one? These are the people who LOVE being part of the chaos of Thanksgiving Evening and Black Friday shopping. Most, if not all, of their shopping is done in the store. Bucket two? These are people like me who want to sit around in their PJs with a cup of cocoa and click on gifts that magically show up at your door a few days later.
If you find yourself falling into bucket two, this is the time of year when you're scouring the internet to find as many free shipping promo codes as you can to save some serious cash getting those gifts to the Treasure Valley. Well, Amazon just saved you a ton of time by offering FREE standard shipping to everyone, even non-Prime shoppers! They offered a similar deal to non-Prime shoppers in 2017, but they had to spend at least $25 through the online retail giant to unlock the discount.
It's unclear how long the holiday deal will last, but many believe it will be through at least mid-December as Amazon competes with Target and Walmart for generating the most holiday revenue this year.
If you're hoping to save on shipping costs by shopping Target and Walmart online, here's what they're offering this year.
Walmart is offering FREE two day shipping on more that 1.6 million items. Order by 2 p.m. in our time zone and your items will be delivered to your home or office within two business days. They DO require a minimum purchase of $35 to unlock the shipping discount.
Target is trying to do one better than Walmart by offering FREE two day shipping on hundreds of thousands of items with NO minimum purchase required. Their cut off is usually 12 p.m. in our time zone. They're offer is available now through December 22.


Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz is a senior group leader at Janelia Research Campus. Her research uses live cell imaging approaches to analyze the spatio-temporal behavior and dynamic interactions of molecules in cells. Lippincott-Schwartz earned a master's degree in Philip Hanawalt's lab at Stanford University and a PhD in Douglas Fambrough's lab at Johns Hopkins University. She did postdoctoral work with Richard Klausner at the National Institutes of Health, where she later became a primary investigator and Chief of the Section on Organelle Biology in the Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch. In 2016, Lippincott-Schwartz moved her lab to Janelia, where she continues to investigate cell biology, but in the context of the brain.


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Planning Board to hold hearing cluster development changes
Brian Early bearly@seacoastonline.com
KITTERY, Maine — The Planning Board will hold a public hearing at their meeting Thursday night on proposed town code amendments relating to cluster residential and mixed-use developments.
The changes are to Article XI of Title 16.8 of the town code. Title 16 is the land use and development section.
Planning Board Vice Chair Karen Kalmar called the changes "minor."
"They are not major changes. They are for clarification, guidance and implementing the ordinance," she said. "By and large we are defining some terms that were previous undefined."
The amendments, if passed, would also align town definitions on cluster developments with state language, she said.
The board has been developing the proposed amendments since last May, according to town documents. The original ordinance was implemented in 2012.
On Feb. 1, the board is scheduled to hold a workshop with the Town Council to discuss the amendments among other topics. The Planning Board is not expected to vote on the proposed changes until late February at the earliest. If the board approves the changes, the amendments would then be considered by the Town Council for a final decision.
The Planning Board meets at 6 p.m. in the Town Council Chambers at Kittery Town Hall. The proposed amendments can be found online in the Agendas & Minutes section of kitteryme.gov in the subsection Planning Board Meeting Materials.


In 2014, the Spirit of Harmony Foundation partnered with Walter Payton College Prep High School in Chicago, collecting 25 new and used iPods/MP3 players for the "Making Memories through Music" project.
A student advisory group at Walter Payton began a multi-year, ongoing project with senior citizen home Warren Barr Pavilion to craft relationships with resident patients who are suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's. The students have visited the facility several times and begun to create those relationships.
The students at Walter Payton Prep who participated in the Making Memories With Music project. Representing Spirit of Harmony foundation is Cathy Lee Brandstetter (2nd row from the bottom, far left) and Jean Lachowicz (same row, far right).
The devices were loaded with a thoughtful selection of musical pieces, with plenty of room for students to add more music to suit the particular taste and interests of the seniors. The students will share the donated players and music with the hope that this medium will stir memories and/or conversation. Through the use of "splitters" both the student and the resident can be listening to the music "together", hopefully spawning some collaboration.
This project is the students' idea, but the benefits of music for dementia and Alzheimer's patients is well documented. For inspiration and information, please watch the trailer for "Alive Inside" an award-winning film documentary that chronicles the astonishing experiences of individuals who have been revitalized through the simple experience of listening to music.
The students were very excited to work with the Spirit of Harmony Foundation on this project and we've brought smiles to many faces!
What follows is an account of one student's experience with the project.
I noticed that he started to cry when I sang "What a Wonderful" world in the rec room. His name was Tim, or Tom–I had trouble hearing a few things that he said, as he spoke rather quickly and didn't quite enunciate. But that was okay, because meeting people is about finding out who they are, not what their name is. So, for the sake of this entry, I'll call him My Friend. My Friend mentioned that he liked my shirt. It was a Van Halen album tee-I figured then that he must really enjoy the music we'd brought to Warren Barr! So I grabbed one of the MP3 players and we started listening to rock music, as he said was his favorite genre. As Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, and a few other bands began singing their timeless classics into our ears, he started to cry again.
My Friend had previously mentioned that he'd seen Van Halen, David Bowie, and a few other alternative and classic rock bands live when he was younger.
"Is it just that you're remembering all the times you went to concerts and stuff as a kid?" My Friend nodded. He just smiled, nodded, and kept tapping his foot to the music as I sat beside his wheelchair.
It was inspiring to be able to make someone so happy after their entire life has become getting pushed around in a nursing home each day. It made me feel like a better person, and I was overjoyed as well. True, there was a therapy dog there that really loved me and was jumping all over me, but the truest joy I found at Warren Barr on Sweetness Day was helping My Friend to remember that there is more to life than doctors and medical tests.
Truly, music can bring people together. And only music can bring that kind of emotion to the heart and mind through sound.
Jean D. Lachowicz is Executive Director of the Spirit of Harmony Foundation. For the past 30 years, she headed nonprofits specializing in youth development, social justice, and human services. She lives in Chicago, IL. Kirie Ritchie is a student at Walter Payton College Preparatory High School in Chicago.


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Global warming: The new eugenics
By Henry Lamb
Published December 27, 2008 at 12:00am
Eugenics pioneer, Francis Galton, defined eugenics as "the study of all agencies under human control which can improve or impair the racial quality of future generations."
Global warming can be defined as: "The study of all agencies under human control which can improve or impair the environmental quality of future generations."
The eugenics movement and the global warming movement are similar in many respects. Both ideas were introduced by scientists, advanced by politicians, popularized by the media, embraced as a moral necessity, resulted in severe consequences and eventually rejected as harmful hogwash.
Eugenics, thankfully, has run its course. Global warming, however, is approaching its zenith, just before imposing severe consequences, and is, perhaps, still a generation away from being rejected as the hogwash it is.
Early in the last century, eugenics was called a science that justified public policies that promoted selective breeding among humans and attempted to force sterilization among the "lower classes" of people who did not fit the vision of popular eugenicists. In this century, what is called science is used to justify public policies that promote prescribed lifestyles and attempts to penalize people whose choices do not fit the vision of popular global warming zealots.
Scientists, politicians, preachers and ordinary people who doubted the doctrine of eugenics were outcasts, subject to ridicule and worse. Scientists, politicians, preachers and ordinary people who doubt the doctrine of global warming are outcasts, ridiculed and worse.
The eugenics movement, carried to its logical conclusion by Hitler, killed millions of innocent people. Global warming, when carried to its logical conclusion, will kill far more people than eugenics, and cause incomprehensible agony to people who desperately need affordable energy to survive and prosper.
The goal of the global warming movement is to end the use of fossil fuel. Proponents of this movement claim that fossil fuel use is "killing God's green Earth," as one popular TV ad declares. They claim that the use of alternative energy will save the planet for future generations.
Eugenics proponents claimed that selective breeding would constantly improve society by eliminating the lower classes destined for perpetual poverty. They were wrong. Global warming proponents are also wrong in their claims. The use of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide which certainly does not kill God's green Earth – it enhances it. Carbon dioxide is to vegetation what oxygen is to people – essential to life. It is an indisputable fact that vegetation growth and production is enhanced in direct proportion to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide.
The idea that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is "killing God's green Earth" is as preposterous as the idea that society would be better if it consisted only of blond-haired, blue-eyed Aryans.
Were President-elect Obama taking office 100 years ago, he would undoubtedly be filling his cabinet with eugenics experts. This is a reasonable conclusion because he has obviously bought into the popular global warming movement and is filling his cabinet with people who share his vision.
The more than 31,000 scientists who reject this vision are outcasts, and are ridiculed by the elite politicians who are caught up in the global warming movement. More than 650 climate scientists, many of whom have been a part of the U.N. global warming studies, have publicly renounced the claims of the global warming movement.
These people too, are outcasts, ridiculed by the Obama global warming elite.
The tragedy is that the consequences of the proposed global warming policies will be as painful as the consequences of eugenics policies. People will die. Many more millions will be denied access to energy that could provide affordable life-saving refrigeration, heat, transportation and energy for industry.
These consequences are unnecessary. Fossil fuel energy is affordable and available for at least another century. Laws that arbitrarily deny use of this available resource are as unconscionable as the laws that forced sterilization 100 years ago.
Society was not made better by the eugenics movement; the planet will not be made better by the global warming movement.
From all the studies produced by billions of dollars of research in the last two decades, the only thing that has been learned for sure is that climate change is a natural function that the human race has not begun to comprehend. Science has barely scratched the surface. It is the height of arrogance to think that Congress can enact laws that nature will obey. As it always has, the climate will change according to the dictates of the architect of the universe, not according to the dictates of Barack Obama, Al Gore, Carol Browner, the U.S. Congress, or even the U.N.'s International Panel on Climate Change.
The climate change movement is, indeed, quite similar to the eugenics movement. In a generation or two, people will look back and wonder what on Earth was wrong with this generation to get caught up in such foolishness.
Henry Lamb
Henry Lamb is the author of "The Rise of Global Governance," chairman of Sovereignty International and founder of the Environmental Conservation Organization and Freedom21 Inc.
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Supreme Court rejects challenges to gun silencer laws
Posted 6:49 AM, June 11, 2019, by CNN Wire
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday left intact a federal law that requires the registration of some firearms, including silencers, and turned away a request to consider whether such firearm accessories are protected by the Second Amendment.
An appeals court had held that a silencer is not a "bearable" arm protected by the Constitution.
The case comes as a silencer was used during the recent Virginia Beach massacre and President Donald Trump suggested he'd look into restrictions on gun silencers. The Trump administration had also urged the court not to take up the issue.
The order was issued without comment or recorded dissent.
Shane Cox owned an army surplus store in Kansas where he sold unregistered homemade silencers and Jeremy Kettler bought one of them. They were convicted under the National Firearms Act, passed in 1934, which requires individuals to register silencers and to pay a federal tax of about $200. The law has the effect of limiting the number of silencers, but not banning them. It also makes it harder to transfer them.
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A dynamin mutant defines a superconstricted prefission state.
Sundborger AC, Fang S, Heymann JA, Ray P, Chappie JS, Hinshaw JE.
A pseudoatomic model of the dynamin polymer identifies a hydrolysis-dependent powerstroke.
Chappie JS, Mears JA, Fang S, Leonard M, Schmid SL, Milligan RA, Hinshaw JE, Dyda F.
Structural Insights into the Mechanism of Dynamin Superfamily Proteins.
Structure and function of yeast Atg20, a sorting nexin that facilitates autophagy induction.
Popelka H, Damasio A, Hinshaw JE, Klionsky DJ, Ragusa MJ.
Antonny B, Burd C, De Camilli P, Chen E, Daumke O, Faelber K, Ford M, Frolov VA, Frost A, Hinshaw JE, Kirchhausen T, Kozlov MM, Lenz M, Low HH, McMahon H, Merrifield C, Pollard TD, Robinson PJ, Roux A, Schmid S.
Poxviruses Encode a Reticulon-Like Protein that Promotes Membrane Curvature.
Erlandson KJ, Bisht H, Weisberg AS, Hyun SI, Hansen BT, Fischer ER, Hinshaw JE, Moss B.
Sambuughin N, Goldfarb LG, Sivtseva TM, Davydova TK, Vladimirtsev VA, Osakovskiy VL, Danilova AP, Nikitina RS, Ylakhova AN, Diachkovskaya MP, Sundborger AC, Renwick NM, Platonov FA, Hinshaw JE, Toro C.
Dynamins and BAR Proteins-Safeguards against Cancer.
Regulating dynamin dynamics during endocytosis.
Dynamin: membrane scission meets physics.
ArfGAP1 promotes COPI vesicle formation by facilitating coatomer polymerization.
Shiba Y, Luo R, Hinshaw JE, Szul T, Hayashi R, Sztul E, Nagashima K, Baxa U, Randazzo PA.
An endophilin-dynamin complex promotes budding of clathrin-coated vesicles during synaptic vesicle recycling.
Sundborger A, Soderblom C, Vorontsova O, Evergren E, Hinshaw JE, Shupliakov O.
OPA1 disease alleles causing dominant optic atrophy have defects in cardiolipin-stimulated GTP hydrolysis and membrane tubulation.
Ban T, Heymann JA, Song Z, Hinshaw JE, Chan DC.
A possible effector role for the pleckstrin homology (PH) domain of dynamin.
Bethoney KA, King MC, Hinshaw JE, Ostap EM, Lemmon MA.
Autoinhibition of Arf GTPase-activating protein activity by the BAR domain in ASAP1.
Jian X, Brown P, Schuck P, Gruschus JM, Balbo A, Hinshaw JE, Randazzo PA.
Cassidy-Stone A, Chipuk JE, Ingerman E, Song C, Yoo C, Kuwana T, Kurth MJ, Shaw JT, Hinshaw JE, Green DR, Nunnari J.
A corkscrew model for dynamin constriction.
Mears JA, Ray P, Hinshaw JE.
Filling the GAP for dynamin.
Mdv1 interacts with assembled dnm1 to promote mitochondrial division.
Naylor K, Ingerman E, Okreglak V, Marino M, Hinshaw JE, Nunnari J.
A BAR domain in the N terminus of the Arf GAP ASAP1 affects membrane structure and trafficking of epidermal growth factor receptor.
Nie Z, Hirsch DS, Luo R, Jian X, Stauffer S, Cremesti A, Andrade J, Lebowitz J, Marino M, Ahvazi B, Hinshaw JE, Randazzo PA.
Dnm1 forms spirals that are structurally tailored to fit mitochondria.
Ingerman E, Perkins EM, Marino M, Mears JA, McCaffery JM, Hinshaw JE, Nunnari J.
Assay and functional analysis of dynamin-like Mx proteins.
Kochs G, Reichelt M, Danino D, Hinshaw JE, Haller O.
Rapid constriction of lipid bilayers by the mechanochemical enzyme dynamin.
Danino D, Moon KH, Hinshaw JE.
The stalk region of dynamin drives the constriction of dynamin tubes.
Chen YJ, Zhang P, Egelman EH, Hinshaw JE.
Nuclear pore complexes exceeding eightfold rotational symmetry.
Three-dimensional reconstruction of dynamin in the constricted state.
Dynamin and its role in membrane fission.


It's nearly time to grab a bunch of shamrock and paint the town green to celebrate St. Patrick's day! I'm looking forward to attending the parade in London (and stocking up on Kerry Gold butter and Barry's Tea at the stalls!) and to mark the occasion I have come up with a super easy no bake recipe featuring Ireland's favourite snack – Tayto's!!!
First grease your baking tray with butter and line the bottom with grease proof or parchment paper. To prepare the bottom layer first melt the marshmallows and 30g of the butter in a saucepan over a gentle heat. When it is all melted start adding the Rice Krispies and mix until well combined. Spoon into the baking tray and spread it evenly – I tore off some extra parchment paper and used it to press down the Rice Krispie mix.
Pour the chocolate ganache over the Rice Krispie layer and spread out evenly. Grab a bag of Taytos and crush them up until you just have small Tayto bits. Sprinkle over the chocolate layer. Cover and pop into the fridge for the chocolate layer to set. Before serving sprinkle regular uncrushed Taytos over the top and cut into 9 squares for the perfect sweet and savoury Irishy treat!


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List of Apple Varieties
By: Judy Wolfe
apples image by Dina from Fotolia.com
Even the most ardent apple-a-day believer would need more than 20 years to sample all of the world's apple varieties. More than 7,500 types of apples grow around the globe, according to the Best Apples.com website. Breaking down those choices according to their most common uses simplifies things considerably. Classifications rate an apple's eating, baking, pie, sauce, salad and freezing qualities. Some versatile apple varieties earn high marks in several categories.
Scoring excellent ratings across the board in the U.S. Apple Association's Apple Guide, Golden Delicious apples first came to market in West Virginia during the early 20th century. These apples have crisp, white flesh that holds its color exceptionally well in salads. Named for its sweet flavor and golden yellow skin, Golden Delicious is always commercially available.
Even the most ardent apple-a-day believer would need more than 20 years to sample all of the world's apple varieties.
Scoring excellent ratings across the board in the U.S. Apple Association's Apple Guide, Golden Delicious apples first came to market in West Virginia during the early 20th century.
Also getting excellent ratings on all Apple Guide counts is Granny Smith, an Australian apple dating to 1868. Legend has it that the fruit is a descendant of grandmother Anna Maria Smith's crabapples. Like Golden Delicious, this apple finds its way into lunch bags, pies and applesauce at any time of year. A chartreuse green skin protects white flesh that stays crisp over a long shelf life. Granny Smith has a refreshingly tart taste.
Cameo is a Washington State apple that's not available in September. First marketed in 1987, it's a crunchy, sweet fruit with distinctive, golden-pink red-marbled skin. Its creamy white flesh remains crisp over a long period, notes Allaboutapples.com. While Cameo doesn't freeze as successfully as Golden Delicious or Granny Smith, it matches their excellence in all other categories.
Also getting excellent ratings on all Apple Guide counts is Granny Smith, an Australian apple dating to 1868.
Red Delicious is America's best-selling snacking and salad apple variety, according to Bestapples.com. The apple is native to Iowa and arrived on the market in 1874. Always available, it's very crunchy but not overly sweet. Red Delicious, however, gets low marks as a sauce, pie, baking or freezing apple.
Honey Crisp
Rated good as a cooking apple and excellent in all other respects, Honeycrisp is a light green and red fruit from the University of Minnesota. It was bred to handle the short growing season and cool summers of the northern United States, and has a long shelf life. Pleasantly sweet and tart, Honeycrisp's flesh is juicy and crunchy, states Bestapples.com.
Red Delicious is America's best-selling snacking and salad apple variety, according to Bestapples.com.
Rated good as a cooking apple and excellent in all other respects, Honeycrisp is a light green and red fruit from the University of Minnesota.
Cripps Pink
An Australian apple introduced in 1985, tangy, sweet Cripps Pink is an excellent snacking, pie, salad and sauce apple. It's rated good for freezing and baking. A late October harvest means that the fruit isn't available during September and October. Because it remains on trees for a long while, this apple develops the rosy pink color for which it is named, according to Bestapples.com.
Washington Apples: Apple Varieties
U.S. Apple Association: Apple Guide
AppleJournal.com: Varieties Descriptions
Passionate for travel and the well-written word, Judy Wolfe is a professional writer with a Bachelor of Arts in English literature from Cal Poly Pomona and a certificate in advanced floral design. Her thousands of published articles cover topics from travel and gardening to pet care and technology.


Congressman John Lewis is a legislator who has earned the respect of colleagues from both sides of the aisle. Lewis grew up as the son of a sharecropper, but he had no intention of following in his father's footsteps. Lewis craved knowledge, pursued education, and dreamed of being a preacher. But as a young adult, his life direction was forever changed when he became a torchbearer for the civil rights movement in America.
Over the years, Lewis experienced severe brutality; yet, he remained a strong advocate for civil rights through nonviolent protests. He refused to be defeated or to give up the idea of equal treatment for all. Since 1987, Lewis has served as a U.S. congressman.
In 2013, Lewis, along with staffer Andrew Aydin and cartoonist Nate Powell, worked to bring Lewis' story to life through a graphic novel trilogy entitled March (Top Shelf Productions).
Last year the first of your three graphic novels was introduced. The reaction and reception has been stellar. Communities and schools have adopted March: Book One as essential reading. Further, it has received several notable honors including being named as a best book on numerous lists and being designated as a New York Times and a Washington Post bestseller. Did you ever expect this level of success?
John Lewis (JL): I never dreamed, or thought that this book would receive as much attention as it has, but I'm very, very pleased that thousands of young people—and people not so young—are reading March. And not just reading, but being inspired to live a nonviolent way of life.
Andrew Aydin (AA): When this project was just an idea, we saw that it had potential and it was an absolutely necessary contribution to the national conversation. That doesn't always translate into public recognition, but in this case it did. I think a lot of that has to do with how hard we worked to make the March series authentic in the way in which John Lewis' story is told. But more than anything, it speaks to how much of a contribution John Lewis has made to this country, and how thirsty young people are today to learn from real heroes who were young and frustrated and who were not afraid to risk their very lives to achieve meaningful progress. This generation is different. They are not as interested in chasing money or material possessions. I believe that this generation is more interested in seeking social change and a more just society than any generation since those that brought about the civil rights movement and the struggles for human dignity of the 1960s.
Nate Powell (NP): I was aware that this project would have a higher level of visibility than any other book I've done thus far, but none of us had any idea exactly the potential scope or scale until the month that Book One rolled out. We've worked hard to adapt to the changing and expanding role of the book itself in real time, concurrent with our work creating Book Two and Book Three (and keeping the work itself at the forefront of our priorities). Much of the reason we weren't quite able to gauge the project's impact was precisely because of the personal, powerful responses from readership, libraries, and schools—that's really where the book must speak for itself to carry its own weight.
Why did you choose the graphic novel format for such an important story?
AA: I have been a comic book fan nearly all my life. My fascination began as a refuge after my father left because it was within the stories told in comics that I could find heroes who fought for justice and where outcasts or misfits could find purpose and commonality. But over time I have come to love comics as a medium for its ability to tell stories with tremendous depth and emotion that in some ways go beyond what is possible solely with the written word.
Growing up in Atlanta, I was often exposed to the stories of the civil rights movement. After working for Congressman Lewis for a few years, during which time I often heard him tell these amazing firsthand accounts of his life in the struggle to young people who would hang on his every word, my eyes were opened to how necessary and important it was to find a new way to make his story accessible and available to everyone, those who are young and those not so young. Call it fate or the Spirit of history, but when Congressman Lewis told me about the 1957 comic book Martin Luther King & The Montgomery Story and how it had helped inspire young people to join the civil rights movement, it felt like I had a mission to convince him to write his own comic book.
Why did you choose to create a trilogy instead of just one book?
AA: The first draft of the script for March that was completed in 2011 called for 284 illustrated pages and was 315 pages in length. It was very dense because we were trying to fit in as much information as possible while keeping the length manageable for a single volume. After Nate took a look at it, he told us there was no way to fit everything into that length, that we had to draw it out and let the pages have space for the visuals to tell the full story. That was an important turning point, because then we started looking at a 500-600 page story which would take years to draw. So we agreed to split it up and tell the story in pieces. Essentially we broke it up into the three acts so that Book One is act one, and so on. This turned out to be much better for all of us, because it allowed me and the congressman to go back and tell more of the story, adding anecdotes and facts that might otherwise have been cut, and it also allowed Nate the space to dive into the visuals and draw out those moments of tension and emotion that would have been shortchanged, so we can fully utilize the strengths of the comics medium.
The first book carries us from Congressman Lewis' childhood through to the gathering on the steps of city hall. What can readers look forward to in Book Two and Book Three?
JL: In Book Two and Book Three, readers should be prepared for an unbelievable ride. Book One set the stage, but I tell you, Book Two and Book Three will make it plain, and crystal clear, what I lived through, what I witnessed: through the Freedom Rides, the March on Washington, the March from Selma to Montgomery … if it hadn't been for some of these pivotal moments in my life, I wouldn't be the person that I am today.
AA: We sometimes joke that if Book One is Star Wars, then Book Two is The Empire Strikes Back. The heroes are more powerful, but the risks are also much greater. After the Nashville students learn the principles of nonviolence and use them to bring down one target, Book Two shows the development of a national student movement and how they brought themselves to the forefront of the broader civil rights movement. Among other milestones, we get a firsthand look at the 1961 Freedom Rides and go behind the scenes of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
How did the collaboration between the three of you work?
NP: Andrew and the congressman spent a few years working up the basic script before I came on board; for each volume, the story now manifests itself nearly in real time. We all (including our editor Leigh) spend time every day doing research and reference, digging up questions to the established historical record at times, as I pencil the book and send it back to everyone for notes. Congressman Lewis, Andrew, and I spend a lot of time on the road doing presentations, too, and during those trips we sometimes are able to take time to sit together and discuss the book in progress. The script and artwork change and are refined constantly, from the pencil stage through several intense weeks of 20-hour editing days, leading right up to the deadline. It's a very hands-on experience for everyone involved.
JL: The collaboration worked very well. Book One, Book Two, and Book Three will continue, I think, to emerge as pieces of classic literature, not just on the civil rights movement, but on the philosophy and discipline of nonviolence.
The country has come a long way since segregation was commonplace. Why do you feel it is important to bring the ugliness back to life? March definitely does not smooth over the nastiness; rather, it portrays the horrors of that time: beatings, killings, and the "N" word. Why is the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s relevant enough to produce books for today's young people?
JL: Well, I think it is important. I think it is a must for young people and generations yet to come, to understand, to feel, to touch, to almost smell the drama of what happened a few short years ago. So maybe, just maybe, we will never ever repeat this unbelievable time in our history. We have to tell it all, and make it plain, and make it clear, so people will never ever forget the distance we have come, and the progress we have yet to make.
I hope March will inspire another generation of people, and not just children and young people, but all Americans, and people from around the world, to be committed to a life of service, committed to a way of peace and nonviolence, to help leave our little planet a little more peaceful and a little more human. March will say to humanity that we are one people, we are one family, we all live in one house: the world house.
NP: If it's not the whole story, it isn't the story at all. There are plenty of whitewashed recollections of the movement or of the Jim Crow South in general. Also at the forefront of our minds is our increasingly short collective cultural memory.
I was born in the late '70s and grew up in the deep South, and I was very much still of an era where racism was a casual part of white people's public and private lives, though it had been pushed more into its own little echo chamber by then. As a five year old, I saw a fully costumed Klan circle, complete with burning cross, on a town square in rural Alabama at high noon.
A decade passed between King's assassination and my birth, but the older I get, the more acutely aware I become that 10 years is nothing. Still, I spent most of my adult life before March with the assumption that most young people grew up with a general, working knowledge of the civil rights struggle and its figures. I was very wrong.
The struggle has never ceased, and has only become more and more important, but I now understand that losing these immediate, first-person accounts of our collective history is one of the major factors allowing for the inequality, oppression, and brutality we continue to see throughout our society. So we make it real, make it plain, make it something that shows the dedication and impact of young people who were much like any of us.
A center point in the civil rights movement, according to March, is nonviolent actions. Recent events, however, demonstrate that perceived discriminatory issues are still alive and well and the associated protests are far beyond peaceful. What is your advice to today's protesters, especially young people? Rather than inciting violence, what are productive and peaceful ways for students to take a stand in our current society and to make changes in our country?
JL: Young protesters, or all protesters today, must learn from March. They must learn from what we did during the '60s. We didn't strike back. We didn't throw rocks. We didn't hate. We accepted nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living. Because if you want to create what we called the Beloved Community, a community at peace with itself, if that is the end, then the way we protest, our means, must be one of peace and one of love.
March is saying that we are not out to destroy property, or harm people—we are out to redeem people, to redeem our society, and create an American community, a world community, at peace with itself. March is saying to the generation of young people, and especially those protesting today, that nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.
NP: Violence from protesters themselves is extremely rare, but has been made into a talking point by those who stand to benefit from breaking the perceived legitimacy of organized protest and resistance. Organized, disciplined nonviolent resistance is alive and well, and we see it all around us in cities across the country. The rules have changed as information and technology evolve, but it's essential that people stay in the streets, stay visible in their communities, on the news, on the Internet, and in this crucial public discussion. There are a million people just like you (or me), sharing the same doubts, fears, and insecurities that keep us from speaking out. Finding each other in our neighborhoods, online, in the streets—this is what keeps us from believing we're alone, from giving in to hopelessness.
As a pillar of the civil rights movement in America, Congressman, what is your perspective on how far we've come as a nation in regard to rights and racism? If you were to be involved in civil actions and protesting, what would be your issues of concern today?
JL: Today, we have come a distance. We have made a lot of progress. That cannot be denied. You cannot dispute the fact that our country is so different from 50 years ago. But we still have problems. There are too many people that have been left out and left behind, and they are African American, they are White, Latino, Asian American, and Native American.
We have so many issues today that we need to confront. Comprehensive immigration reform. We have to solve the issue of poverty, the issue of hunger, the issue of war—spending billions of dollars to kill rather than to build. We have to deal with the fact that all of our children should be receiving the best possible education. There are hundreds and thousands of young Americans who cannot or will not receive an education, because in order to get an education, you have to spend money. Students come out of college and universities with unbelievable debt. It's not right, it's not fair, and it's not just, in a society such as ours. And those dollars are not going to the teachers.
As the last member of the "Big Six Leadership" in the civil rights movement, do you feel a responsibility to pass on the torch or do you already see new faces taking over?
What can readers look forward to seeing from you in the near future? What are your plans?
JL: Oh we have plans to continue to write, to travel, to see America, but also to see the world. The lessons of nonviolence are universal. Not just for America. There was a little brown man in India—Gandhi—who carried that message to South Africa, and then came back to India, and helped to liberate India from the British. And it was individuals like Mordecai Johnson, president of Howard University, who traveled to India, met Gandhi, came back, and started speaking here and there. Then Dr. King heard Johnson, Howard Thurman, and others, speaking about Gandhi, when he was a student at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. He was greatly influenced and inspired by what he learned.
NP: I'm currently doing some animated illustrations for a documentary about the Voting Rights Act that's being produced by Southern Poverty Law Center and their Teaching Tolerance publication; it's slated to hit 50,000 schools and a million students next year. In the fall of 2015 from Top Shelf, I'll be releasing You Don't Say, a collection of a decade's worth of shorter, out-of-print stories. Once the March saga is complete, I'm also slated to draw an as-of-yet unannounced 10-issue series with writer Van Jensen for Dark Horse, and will finally get back to work on my next graphic novel, which is called Cover, and should be released in 2018 from Top Shelf.
Do you respond to fan mail? If so, what is the best way for readers to contact you?
NP: I respond whenever I can via email (seemybrotherdance@yahoo.com), or at my site (www.seemybrotherdance.org).
JL: You can always write to me through my office in Washington. I love to hear from teachers, librarians, and young people, especially when they are reading March together and discussing it. Sometimes a school or a university will have their whole class read the book, hundreds and thousands of students at a time, and then invite us to come talk about it with them. I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.


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NOJHL leaders have talent, heart
So much skill.
So much heart.
It's a tough combination to beat.
Talented and tireless, no team in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League works harder than the Soo Thunderbirds.
Winners of 20 straight games, the Thunderbirds are atop the NOJHL standings with 78 points in 44 games from a record of 38-4-2 going into action this weekend.
Veteran forward Grant Syrette, a Garden River First Nation product who played parts of two seasons in the Ontario Hockey League with the Mississauga Steelheads, said hard work is as much responsible for the Thunderbirds success as their skill level.
"We know that we have a really good team with so many good players but we know that doesn't mean a lot if we don't work hard," said Syrette, a hulking winger who has 8 goals, 18 assists, 18 points in just 22 games with the Thunderbirds and is one of the NOJHL's most-feared players.
Syrette noted that while the skill level of the Thunderbirds is apparent, it's their conditioning, commitment and effort that has carried them in the close games.
"We may be on a major winning streak but a lot of the games have been decided by one or two goals," said Syrette. "We have won a lot of games because we just kept working and wouldn't give up when we got down by a goal or two. How hard we work is the one of the best things about this team."
Seasoned defenceman Jeremy Solomon echoes the sentiments of Syrette.
"We have got so many guys who can score and we are four lines deep with good defence and good goaltending but for sure we are where we are because of how hard we work," said Solomon.
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What you think about "NOJHL leaders have talent, heart"
Great site RR! Congradulations on both the look & the content!
Randy Russon says:
Thank you! Rob Boudreau designed the site, kudos to him.
Ken Theriault says:
Great site Randy. Congrats. Brings it all together in one spot.
Keep up the good work. The NOJHL needs your support.
Thanks, Ken.
Metro Jets Fan 1 says:
I would like it if the "Metro Jets" would be able to play Exhibition Games against some of the Canadian Teams from the N.O.J.H.L. League. I have always liked the way Canadians play hockey and I think this would be a great expearience for all of the Players.
HOCKEY GUY says:
Great job on the site Randy. The Soo does have talent I won't take that away from them. But I find a total lack of class on the ice and to fans when they visit. They came off the ice insulting fans and screaming at them. Just saying i know that young men can be hard to handle at times (i think i was one at one time haha) but come on time to have them respect the game a bit more.
T-Bird Talk says:
23 Wins in a row for the T-Birds!


Google is looking to help 50 million women in India to use the internet for the first time with the launch of its dedicated Helping Women Get Online (HWGO) website.
Currently just 30 per cent of the 200 million internet users in India are female, an imbalance that Google India MD Rajan Anandan is looking to redress with a range of support and guidance. Anandan believes that the internet is vital for empowering Indian women and that access to the web will allow many of the poorer women in Indian to transform their lives.
"Internet can help women achieve self esteem, express their views freely, open up new opportunities and help them to gain education. Our new campaign aims to bring 50 million women online in the next one year so that they can reap the benefits too."
In addition to these support pages, users can also watch videos telling the story of how the internet has had a positive impact on the lives of a number of Indian women. With internet usage in India expected to rise by at least 60 million this year, Google is hoping for many more success stories in the near future.
Rachel Hand, head of content at theEword, commented: "The internet has had a tremendous impact on the lives of countless people around the world, and now Google is clearly hoping this positive influence will spread to India. Only time will tell whether the target of 50 million additional women going online will be reached, but this is certainly a positive step."