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Live Event: Twenty Years After Bashar Al-Asad's Succession
By Salon Syria Reports|2020-07-22T15:35:41-04:0022 July 2020|Article|
Rountable Conversation:
20 Years After Bashar Al-Asad's Succession
On 17 July 2000, Bashar Al-Asad became President, surviving his father Hafez Al-Asad who ruled Syria for thirty years. The young ophthalmologist had promised a new and modern future for Syria and Syrians. Two decades later, Syria lies in ruins. Join us for a conversation on the transition, policies, institutions, uprising, and mayhem that characterized his rule.
Cosponsored by Jadaliyya and Salon Syria
1 PM Washington DC – 8 PM Beirut
Live on Jadaliyya's Facebook
Omar Dahi
Omar S. Dahi is a co-editor of Jadaliyya and an associate professor of economics at Hampshire College and co-director of the Peacebuilding and State building program and research associate at the Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research interests are in the political economy of development in the Middle East, South-South relations, comparative regionalism, peace and conflict studies, and critical security studies. He has published in academic outlets such as the Journal of Development Economics, Applied Economics, Southern Economic Journal, Political Geography, Middle East Report, Forced Migration Review, and Critical Studies on Security. His last book South-South Trade and Finance in the 21st Century: Rise of the South or a Second Great Divergence (co-authored with Firat Demir) explores the ambiguous developmental impact of the new economic linkages among countries of the global South. He has served on the editorial collective of Middle East Report and is a co-founder and co-director of the Beirut School for Critical Security Studies working group at the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS). Dahi is also the founder and director of the Security in Context initiative.
Katty Alhayek
Katty Alhayek is a scholar-activist from Syria pursuing a doctorate in communication at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Her research interests broadly center around themes of Syrian refugees, gender, media audiences, activism, and new technologies. Katty published peer-reviewed articles in journals like Gender, Technology and Development; Syria Studies; and Feminist Media Studies. Katty worked for organizations like The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women; The Online Journal of Space Communication; and Geneva Institute for Human Rights. A former Open Society Foundations fellow, Ms. Alhayek holds Master's degrees in International Affairs and Media Studies from Ohio University and a graduate certificate in Women`s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She earned an undergraduate degree in Media Studies from Damascus University in 2008.
Bassam Haddad (Moderator)
Bassam Haddad is Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of the forthcoming book, A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East (Forthcoming, Stanford University Press, 2021). Bassam serves as Founding Editor of the Arab Studies Journal and the Knowledge Production Project. He is co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film, About Baghdad, and director of the series Arabs and Terrorism. Bassam is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine and Executive Director of the Arab Studies Institute. He serves on the Board of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences and is Executive Producer of Status Audio Magazine. Bassam is Co-Project Manager for the Salon Syria Project and Director of the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI). He received MESA's Jere L. Bacharach Service Award in 2017 for his service to the profession. Currently, Bassam is working on his second Syria book tittled Understanding The Syrian Tragedy: Regime, Opposition, Outsiders (forthcoming, Stanford University Press).
Ibrahim Hamidi
Ibrahim Hamidi is a Syrian journalist, who heads the Damascus bureau of the Arab daily newspaper Al-Hayat, and contributes to several other international media outlets and think tanks. Previously, he served as head of the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC) office in Damascus, in addition to his work with al-Hayat, and as a senior writer for Forward Magazine in Damascus. Hamidi's work focuses on strategic issues in the Middle East, with special insight into Syria's internal and regional politics. He is also a Research Fellow and co-founder of the Syrian Studies Center at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Hamidi is also a co-founder of the Arab Investigative Journalism Program (ARIJ).
Lisa Wedeen
Lisa Wedeen is the Mary R. Morton Professor of Political Science and the College and the Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at the University of Chicago. She is also Associate Faculty in Anthropology and the Co-Editor of the University of Chicago Book Series, "Studies in Practices of Meaning." Her publications include three books: Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria (1999; with a new preface, 2015); Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power and Performance in Yemen (2008); and Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria (2019), which has won two awards from the American Political Science Association. Among her articles are the following: "Conceptualizing 'Culture': Possibilities for Political Science" (2002); "Concepts and Commitments in the Study of Democracy" (2004), "Ethnography as an Interpretive Enterprise" (2009), "Reflections on Ethnographic Work in Political Science" (2010), "Ideology and Humor in Dark Times: Notes from Syria" (2013), and "Scientific Knowledge, Liberalism, and Empire: American Political Science in the Modern Middle East" (2016). She is the recipient of the David Collier Mid-Career Achievement Award and an NSF fellowship, and is currently completing an edited volume with Joseph Masco, entitled Conspiracy/Theory.
Basileus Zeno
Basileus Zeno is a Syrian archaeologist pursuing a doctorate in Political Science at University of Massachusetts/Amherst. He holds a BA (2006) and MA (2011) in archaeology from the University of Damascus (Syria), where his studies focused on Hellenistic Antiquity and Islamic civilization. He was a graduate fellow at the Institut français du Proche-Orient (IFPO) from 2007 to 2012. Until summer 2012, Basileus was doing his Ph.D. in classical archaeology, researching the production of coins under the Seleucids in Northern Syria, but he couldn't complete his research because of the outbreak of the war. In 2013, he started his M.A. in Political Science at Ohio University, which he completed in 2015. Basileus is broadly interested in the areas of Comparative Politics, Contemporary Political Theory and Identity Politics. His scholarly interests primarily focus on nationalism, civil wars, sectarian transnationalism, refugees, and social movements in the Middle East.
About the Author: Salon Syria Reports
Salon Syria's Reports is a forum for disseminating statements, images, and videos produced by people on the ground in the region, as well as highlighting events and publications from/about the region. As such, the Reports Page features a broad range of content, including eye witness accounts of events (in textual, photographic, or video format), statements and press releases of interest, calls for participation in events and publications, report-backs from various events, and reports published by different local, regional and international organizations.


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ORAL TRADITION IN AFRICA: POETRY AS A MEANS OF PRESERVING CULTURAL HERITAGE AND ENGENDERING SOCIAL CHANGE AMONG THE YORUBA. FALADE, ADEOYE DENNIS SEPTEMBER, 2013 ABSTRACT A lot has been said about the slow death of the oral tradition aspect of indigenous communication.
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Townhouse Notes
Back to the New Old Offices
Ashley E. Bowen | Aug 9, 2021
This issue should arrive in your mailbox around the same time that AHA staff members arrive back at the townhouse after 18 months of working from home. For historians, the chance to step into our own time capsule is both jarring and exciting. What did we leave written on our whiteboards in early March 2020, when we believed we'd be out for just two weeks to flatten the curve? Will our conference badge collections bring back happy memories of mingling with peers or spark anxiety around travel, variants, and masking?
The return to the office is no such thing for about 40 percent of the AHA's staff. Eight current staff members, including myself, began working at the AHA after stay-at-home orders were put in place. We have known working here only as a combination of Zoom, Slack, Dropbox, and other digital productivity tools. This hasn't stopped us from feeling like a welcome part of the team. We've participated in everything from trivia contests to brown-bag lunches, informal chats over coffee, and Slack channels dedicated to pet photos. I expect that for us, the chance to be in the office will feel like a natural continuation of relationships forged through these technologies.
Perspectives has dedicated much of the last year to covering how the pandemic has changed our work and personal lives. The Remote Reflections series, originally imagined as a contained series of seven articles, now spans 15 articles covering everything from parenting to remote teaching techniques, mental health to tips for successfully continuing to write a dissertation during a pandemic. We may not yet be anywhere close to a post-COVID world, but we are ready to look to the future. We hope to transition from covering the incredible ways that historians adapted in the last 18 months to thinking about what changes will or should carry forward into the "new normal."
Many historians will return to changed workplaces this autumn (or they have already). All of us, regardless of our professional roles, face the question members of the Teaching Division ask in their "From the Division" column this month: "How can we keep our memories of the past year alive without being burdened by them?" As we return to offices unseen since March 2020 or step into new offices for jobs we began after the pandemic upended our lives, we face myriad big and small decisions that ask us what it really means to "go back" to the way things were.
It is my sincere hope that we remain in the townhouse through the autumn and winter. There are some tasks that are just easier in person—reviewing the printed issues of Perspectives, for example, is simpler when we can sit around a conference table and compare ink colors in different copies. However, we remain conscious that things can change quickly. As I write this in late July, the delta variant is surging in the United States and around the world. We cannot yet know whether—or, more likely, when—epsilon, zeta, and eta variants will emerge or how they will change our current plans. We may have to adjust our work plans, but I am confident that the quality of this publication and all the AHA's work will continue to be exceptional.
"You can't scare me, I'm a historian" reads a sticker distributed at the 2020 annual meeting and affixed to some of our laptops. It is one of those lines that AHA staffers throw around in times calling for gallows humor. We used it a lot in 2020–21; it suggests that we already know how bad things can get, so how could this be worse? At the same time, I suspect that the return to working, researching, teaching, and networking in person will be met with a bit of trepidation by many. I am grateful to my colleagues for their careful attention to how and when the townhouse should reopen. I am even more thankful for the grace, patience, and empathy we have shown one another and that we have received from members. May those traits continue to characterize our working environments as we "go back"—whatever that may mean.
Ashley E. Bowen is editor of Perspectives on History. She tweets @AEBowenPhD.
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Art in America: Tenth Street and After
Pat Passlof was a Master of Mid-Century American Paintings By Raphael Rubinstein
What tangible or visible traces remain, apart from the surviving artworks sitting in museums or private collections, of the hundreds of thousands of artists who have resided in New York over the last century? As far as I can see, not very much. In most of the neighborhoods they once frequented, from SoHo to Williamsburg, studios have been converted into luxury residential units, or entire buildings that used to house artists have been torn down to make way for yet more condo towers. Soon, it seems, the only evidence of the city's artistic past will be the foundations set up to preserve the legacy of a few individual artists. I'm thinking of institutions like the Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation on LaGuardia Place, where midcentury sculptor Chaim Gross (1902–1991) lived and worked, and the Judd Foundation on Spring Street, dedicated to preserving the New York residence of Minimalist Donald Judd (1928–1994) as well as the works he permanently installed in Marfa, Texas. The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, which opened in 2018 on Eldridge Street on the Lower East Side, is devoted to conserving and showing the work of Resnick (1917–2004) and Passlof (1928–2011), New York painters who were husband and wife. The foundation is housed in a former synagogue that Resnick occupied for several decades, and its renovation was largely funded by the sale of Passlof's nearby studio, also a onetime synagogue.In October, the The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation opened its third exhibition, "Pat Passlof: The Brush Is the Finger of the Brain," a survey of Passlof's paintings curated by Karen Wilkin. Comprising twenty-six works on three floors, the show efficiently and effectively samples Passlof's art from 1949 to 2011. Although she showed regularly in New York galleries (in recent decades, primarily at Elizabeth Harris), Passlof often garnered more attention for her active art-scene presence and her associations with other artists than for her own work. Happily, this seems to be changing. In 2017 the Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired its first work by Passlof, a ca. 1950 oil on paper that the museum has already shown twice, in "Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction" in 2017 and in the current reinstallation of the collection.
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"Why do I have to get a lawyer to review the franchise documents? I am not allowed to change anything anyway." We've heard that more than a few times. The question is quite reasonable.
First of all, let's dispel the myth that franchise documents are not subject to change. Yes, franchisors are usually reluctant to change their documents. However, a lot depends on the franchisor, the maturity of the system and the nature of the change. Therefore, you should not automatically assume that the franchise documents are written in stone.
Buying a franchise, especially a franchise in a well-established, successful system, is no small investment. In addition to investing your money, you will also invest your time and effort (which are things that you can never get back). Accordingly, it is vitally important that you understand what you are getting into.
You are probably aware that typically buying a franchise may involve paying the franchisor some upfront money followed by an ongoing royalty. You likely also know that there are some rules that you, as a franchisee, must follow, such as how to dress at work, what key phrases to say, how to decorate your store front, what types of products to sell, and so on. However, you might not fully appreciate the legal and practical implications in the franchise documents.
Many franchisees are surprised to find that even though they are incorporated, the franchise documents that they sign make them personally liable to the franchisor and the landlord. Others are frustrated at the level of restrictions imposed by the franchisor, from what supplies to buy, to whom you can buy from (even if you know you can get the same supplies cheaper elsewhere). Some discover years later that in order to sell their franchise to someone else, not only must the potential purchaser be approved by the franchisor; a significant transfer fee must be paid to the franchisor in order to effect the transfer. Some franchisees who own more than one franchise in the system are stunned when the franchisor holds their successful franchises liable for the defaults of their less than stellar franchises, even though the franchises are owned by separate corporations.
Did you know that, as a franchisee, you could be in breach of your franchise agreement if you give advice or lend assistance to your buddy who is operating a competing franchise? Did you know that you could be required to pay rent on your leased premises even if (through no fault of your own) it was damaged to the point that you cannot operate your business from it? Do you know the real difference between arbitration, mediation and just going to court? What in heavens is an indemnity anyway?!
In provinces where there is franchise disclosure legislation, there are certain statutory rights and obligations that apply to you as a franchisee. Do you know what rescission is and when can you use it? What qualifies as a material fact? Is there an obligation on you to deal fairly with the franchisor? If so, what does that actually mean?
Those are just a handful of the many things that a legal review should help you understand (or understand better). In a nutshell, the reason you would get a lawyer to review the franchise documents is so that you, as a potential franchisee, can gain a better understanding of what you are actually buying, thus enabling you to make a well-informed business decision.
Even if you are so enamored by a franchise system, such that you are going to buy the franchise no matter what the franchise documents say (and we have seen a few of those brave souls), you could still benefit from understanding what you are getting into. That way, you can plan your affairs to protect yourself and your family (as much as possible), in the off chance that your dream of a franchisee empire does not materialize. A lawyer can help you with that planning as well!
Closely related to the topic at hand is the issue of legal fees. Most people cite legal fees as the top reason for their reluctance to have the franchise documents reviewed by a lawyer. Legal fees for reviewing franchise documents vary substantially. There are lawyers who charge a few hundred dollars, and those who charge several thousand dollars. We cannot say with any certainty that a lawyer who charges more will do a better job than one who charges less, or vice versa.
Some people think that they can save money if they simply ask a lawyer to look at a clause here and there in isolation. In our opinion, any lawyer who will do that and tell you what the clause means and how it affects you in your particular situation, without reviewing the context and the agreement from which such clause is found is not doing you any favours.
Given the size of a typical package of franchise documents, the job of meeting with you, reviewing the franchise documents thoroughly and properly reporting the findings to you, will take more than a few hours. The critical thing is to retain a lawyer who has experience in reviewing franchise documents. Beyond that, the value of the legal review is ultimately a personal one.
What is having the information that you need to make a wise business decision worth to you?


We are pleased to announce the completion of our new class levels!
A few years ago, we began to define the FVAD Syllabus for all levels, incorporating the British Royal Ballet School and Russian Vaganova Academy styles of training with the Royal Academy of Dance base syllabus. The result has been a much more advanced syllabus than in previous years, with enhanced skills at each level. As a result, it was necessary to re-label our class levels so that there was no confusion between our class levels and other studio ballet grades.
Students begin training at age 3, or whenever ready to follow instructions in a class setting, in our Pre-School Dance 1 sessions. Following Pre-School 2 Dance at age 4, students are generally ready at age 5 to enter Ballet Pre-Primary, then Ballet Primary. By age 7, formal foundation ballet training begins with Ballet 1. These ages are only guidelines as we assess each child individually.
After Ballet Primary, students progress through the FVAD graded syllabus starting with Ballet 1, at age 6-7, and continuing to Ballet 10 at age 16+. Ballet 7 is comparable to our previous Intermediate Foundation 2; Ballet 10 to Advanced 1-2.
FVAD ballet classes combine the basic RAD syllabus with more advanced open technique of the Russian Vaganova Academy and British Royal Ballet styles.
Students are introduced to National Dance training (European folk dances) at Ballet 1, continuing this essential aspect of classical ballet training in special classes to Ballet 4.
Conditioning (also known as floor barre or Russian gymnastique) is also begun at this level to enhance students' flexibility and strength required for classical ballet, using age-appropriate exercises.
Students are required to train in a minimum of two ballet classes per week from Ballet 1 and beyond, if they wish to progress each year. Students are encouraged to take Conditioning and National Dance, and later Contemporary, Pointe and Modern, for complete training at their level.
The Pre-Professional Academy has existed since 2011. After increasing success year-on-year (view Student Achievements), and more advanced class training across all lower levels, we have re-vamped the program for 2019-20. A new Junior Academy Program now exists for students in levels 1 to 3, and a new Senior Academy Program for levels 4 to 6. In addition, the original PPA levels 1 to 3 are now re-defined as Academy 7 to 10.
To enter the new Junior Academy 1-3 and Senior Academy 4-6, in preparation for the Pre-Professional Academy, students must be enrolled in all classes at their level. These classes are indicated by the same level number, such as National Dance "2" for Ballet "2" students, or Contemporary "4" for Ballet "4" students.
To enter the new Pre-Professional Academy levels 7 to 10, students must be invited by having Academy 7 to 10 classes included in their Pre-Approved Classes. New students may audition. See the links below for more information on all new programs and levels.


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Odessa, Catharine seek comprehensive plan input
ODESSA/CATHARINE—The village of Odessa and the town of Catharine are creating a joint comprehensive plan and are looking for public input.
The plan will provide guidance for decisions made by town and village officials and other local leaders on the future development of our community. The efforts of the 15-member volunteer committee, consisting of the planning boards of the two municipalities and community members appointed by the municipal boards, will depend on broad public involvement to draft a comprehensive blueprint for future development that accurately reflects the needs and interests of the community.
Over the next several weeks, the committee encourages all residents 18 years and older, as well as owners of businesses operating within the two municipalities to complete an online survey.
Paper versions will be available at both municipal buildings, the Dutton S. Peterson Library and other locations within the community. The survey is also available online here. Individual responses are strictly confidential and will be accepted until March 15. The survey will be followed by public meetings and discussions to clarify residents' interests, ensuring appropriate use and development of economic, social, cultural and natural resources.
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The Częstochowa Jewish Cemetery Today
- the third largest Jewish Cemetery in Poland
The Częstochowa Jewish Cemetery dates back to the late 18th Century. It is the third largest Jewish cemetery in Poland, containing around 4,500 graves in an area of about 8.5 hectares. The last burial here took place in 1973.
During World War II, the cemetery became the site of numerous mass executions. Not only were partisans killed here, but men, women and children who were deemed unfit for work were also murdered on this site.
Sadly, o ver time, the general condition of this cemetery has deteriorated. With the demise of its previous owner, the Częstochowa Żydowska Gmina, no one, until now, has been prepared to take the responsibility of restoring this sacred site to a state appropriate to its sanctity.
In time for our Fourth Reunion in October 2012, the Mayor of Częstochowa, Krzysztof Matyjaszczyk, and the Częstochowa City Council surprised us by not only restoring the Cemetery gates, but also by restoring the central memorial monument to an even better condition than its original state.
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Our recent years, thanks to World Society Vice-President and Chairman of the Association of Częstochowa Jews in Israel Alon Goldman, groups of students have been coming from Israel, and together with local students, have been working on creating an inventory of graves and have done massive clean-ups of major sections of the cemetery. Pictures of their past good works have featured in the NEWS section of our website – they will again!
In 2012, the Częstochowa Museum published the first volume of a major inventory of the cemetery graves which was created by Wiesław Paszkowski of the Częstochowa Municipal Archives.
Nearly all of us have relatives buried in this sacred ground and we ALL have the obligation to ensure that their final resting place is dignified and appropriately maintained. In the future, we will be calling upon landsleit to contribute towards the completion of this project.
THESE ARE OUR ANCESTORS – THIS IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY!
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If you intend visiting Częstochowa and need a tour guide, then Częstochowa's Jan Długosz University can help you! The university has established a service which offers student-guides who are both English-speaking and well-versed in the history of Jewish Częstochowa.
In fact, these guides can help you while you travel throughout the region between Częstochowa and Kraków.
All guides have been trained by our own Dr.hab.Professor Jerzy Mizgalski, a professor at Jan Długosz University, and Wiesław Paszkowski of the Częstochowa Municipal Archives.
This service came about at the initiative of Dr.hab.Professor Mizgalski and Alon Goldman, Chairman of the Association of Częstochowa Jews in Israel. Alon Goldman will act as a consultant to the service, working with the Service Co-ordinator, Malgorzata Lacka-Malecka.
The service's guides can provide tourists with an introduction to the city's history and culture of the entire region between Częstochowa and Kraków, with particular emphasis on the history and contribution of the Jewish population to the development of Częstochowa.
Your sightseeing programme can be tailored according to your needs and to specific sights, streets or regions which you may especially wish to visit.
To avail yourself of this service,
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Nothing is more certain than the indispensable necessity of government, and it is equally undeniable, that whenever and however it is instituted, the people must cede to it some of their natural rights in order to vest it with requisite powers.
It is well worthy of consideration therefore, whether it would conduce more to the interest of the people of America that they should, to all general purposes, be one nation, under one federal government, or that they should divide themselves into separate confederacies, and give to the head of each the same kind of powers which they are advised to place in one national government.
It has until lately been a received and uncontradicted opinion that the prosperity of the people of America depended on their continuing firmly united, and the wishes, prayers, and efforts of our best and wisest citizens have been constantly directed to that object.
But politicians now appear, who insist that this opinion is erroneous, and that instead of looking for safety and happiness in union, we ought to seek it in a division of the States into distinct confederacies or sovereignties. However extraordinary this new doctrine may appear, it nevertheless has its advocates; and certain characters who were much opposed to it formerly, are at present of the number.
Whatever may be the arguments or inducements which have wrought this change in the sentiments and declarations of these gentlemen, it certainly would not be wise in the people at large to adopt these new political tenets without being fully convinced that they are founded in truth and sound policy.
It has often given me pleasure to observe that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one connected, fertile, widespreading country was the portion of our western sons of liberty. Providence has in a particular manner blessed it with a variety of soils and productions, and watered it with innumerable streams, for the delight and accommodation of its inhabitants.
A succession of navigable waters forms a kind of chain round its borders, as if to bind it together; while the most noble rivers in the world, running at convenient distances, present them with highways for the easy communication of friendly aids, and the mutual transportation and exchange of their various commodities.
With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people--a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence.
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Similar sentiments have hitherto prevailed among all orders and denominations of men among us.
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To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection. As a nation we have made peace and war; as a nation we have vanquished our common enemies; as a nation we have formed alliances, and made treaties, and entered into various compacts and conventions with foreign states.
A strong sense of the value and blessings of union induced the people, at a very early period, to institute a federal government to preserve and perpetuate it. They formed it almost as soon as they had a political existence; nay, at a time when their habitations were in flames, when many of their citizens were bleeding, and when the progress of hostility and desolation left little room for those calm and mature inquiries and reflections which must ever precede the formation of a wise and wellbalanced government for a free people.
It is not to be wondered at, that a government instituted in times so inauspicious, should on experiment be found greatly deficient and inadequate to the purpose it was intended to answer.
This intelligent people perceived and regretted these defects. Still continuing no less attached to union than enamored of liberty, they observed the danger which immediately threatened the former and more remotely the latter; and being pursuaded that ample security for both could only be found in a national government more wisely framed, they as with one voice, convened the late convention at Philadelphia, to take that important subject under consideration.
This convention composed of men who possessed the confidence of the people, and many of whom had become highly distinguished by their patriotism, virtue and wisdom, in times which tried the minds and hearts of men, undertook the arduous task.
In the mild season of peace, with minds unoccupied by other subjects, they passed many months in cool, uninterrupted, and daily consultation; and finally, without having been awed by power, or influenced by any passions except love for their country, they presented and recommended to the people the plan produced by their joint and very unanimous councils.
But this as was remarked in the foregoing number of this paper is more to be wished than expected, that it may be so considered and examined. Experience on a former occasion teaches us not to be too sanguine in such hopes. It is not yet forgotten that well-grounded apprehensions of imminent danger induced the people of America to form the memorable Congress of That body recommended certain measures to their constituents, and the event proved their wisdom; yet it is fresh in our memories how soon the press began to teem with pamphlets and weekly papers against those very measures.
Not only many of the officers of government, who obeyed the dictates of personal interest, but others, from a mistaken estimate of consequences, or the undue influence of former attachments, or whose ambition aimed at objects which did not correspond with the public good, were indefatigable in their efforts to pursuade the people to reject the advice of that patriotic Congress.
Many, indeed, were deceived and deluded, but the great majority of the people reasoned and decided judiciously; and happy they are in reflecting that they did so.
They considered that the Congress was composed of many wise and experienced men. That, being convened from different parts of the country, they brought with them and communicated to each other a variety of useful information.
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That they were individually interested in the public liberty and prosperity, and therefore that it was not less their inclination than their duty to recommend only such measures as, after the most mature deliberation, they really thought prudent and advisable.
These and similar considerations then induced the people to rely greatly on the judgment and integrity of the Congress; and they took their advice, notwithstanding the various arts and endeavors used to deter them from it. But if the people at large had reason to confide in the men of that Congress, few of whom had been fully tried or generally known, still greater reason have they now to respect the judgment and advice of the convention, for it is well known that some of the most distinguished members of that Congress, who have been since tried and justly approved for patriotism and abilities, and who have grown old in acquiring political information, were also members of this convention, and carried into it their accumulated knowledge and experience.
It is worthy of remark that not only the first, but every succeeding Congress, as well as the late convention, have invariably joined with the people in thinking that the prosperity of America depended on its Union.
To preserve and perpetuate it was the great object of the people in forming that convention, and it is also the great object of the plan which the convention has advised them to adopt.
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Examining the Complexities of Today's Multimedia Productions
Combining design, technology and the ever-expanding media, our Digital Animation and Motion Graphic course gives students the opportunity to dive into the complex world behind multimedia productions. This class aims to provide students with the conceptual and practical tools for understanding and creating the diverse range of time-based media that have come to be known as motion graphics and digital animation. Throughout the course, students will create visual effects and animated graphics for television, film, web, and other types of multimedia productions using:
By the end of this course, the student will:
Have an understanding of commercial motion graphics and animation production and film process
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Be able to create basic motion graphics and animations based on stories and infographics
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Currently she is teaching at University of Connecticut. She previously taught at The University of Montana in Media Arts, The School of Art Institute of Chicago in Art and Technology Studies, Bowling Green State University in Digital Art, and Columbia College Chicago in Interactive Arts and Media.
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Drake Rides 'Scorpion' To Eighth Straight No. 1, Earns 2018's Top Week
With his new album release, the biggest of 2018, October's Own has the view from the summit once again
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Released on June 29, Drake's 25-track Scorpion double album tops the Billboard 200 chart for July 14 at No. 1, Drake's eighth consecutive album to do so. Its debut week broke more records, including some of Drake's own, but his eighth No. 1 ties him with the Beatles, Jay-Z and Kanye West.
Scorpion sold 160,000 traditional albums in its debut week, but these were digital downloads only because the physical CD doesn't drop until this Friday July 13. Counting in track equivalents and album equivalents online, it moved 732,000 equivalent albums — the biggest week in 2018 for any album release.
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drake set the new record for largest streaming week by putting up 745.9 million US streams...compare this with the previous recordholder 'beerbongs & bentleys' which recorded 431.3 million 😳 https://t.co/q20x6gkj1m
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On-demand audio streams from Scorpion topped 745 million, another No. 1 of all-time statistic, surpassing the 431 million streams in Post Malone's late April debut for Beerbongs & Bentleys. Globally, on-demand streams passed 1 billion — a first-ever record for any album.
Among the top 10 weeks for on-demand audio streams, Drake's 2016 album Views was bumped down to No. 7, ever, with 245 million. His 2017 More Life release is at No. 3 with 384 million, for its debut, as well as at No. 7 with 253 million in its second week on sale. We'll see what the physical CD's release does to Drake's numbers next week.
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Poll: Who Do You Think Voters Will Pick For Best Rap Performance?
Cardi B; Drake; Kendrick Lamar with Jay Rock, Future and James Blake; Anderson .Paak; Travis Scott with Drake, Big Hawk and Swae Lee — who would you choose?
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The musical messages in the 61st GRAMMY Awards Best Rap Performance category examine life from many angles. Cardi B's romantic warning "Be Careful" lets potential partners know their love should be consistent, or else.
Meanwhile, in "Nice For What," Drake doubts assurances of support once it's time to come through.
And the team of Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Future and James Blake brought us "King's Dead," urging that presumptuousness is not advisable and giving a shout-out to Marvel's Killmonger.
Finally, Anderson .Paak's "Bubblin" celebrates a fountain of cash and its implications for living, and Travis Scott, along with Drake, Big Hawk and Swae Lee, takes us into "Sicko Mode": another dimension of playing for keeps.
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Who do you think GRAMMY voters will choose for Best Rap Performance at the 61st GRAMMY Awards? Vote and tune to CBS Feb. 10 to see if voters agreed with your pick.
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Cardi B, Shawn Mendes, Taylor Swift Top 2018 Teen Choice Noms
Voting is open now that the popular nominations have been announced
The 2018 Teen Choice Awards announced many of their nominees on June 13, putting an array of America's most beloved entertainers up for popular voting that is now open and sure to be extremely viral.
For some quick tastes from the top categories, Choice Female Artist nominees are Camila Cabello, Cardi B, Ariana Grande, Dua Lipa, Demi Lovato, and Taylor Swift. This year's Choice Male Artists include Drake, Niall Horan, Bruno Mars, Shawn Mendes, Ed Sheeran, and Louis Tomlinson. Those are great selections to choose from.
Voting is open either online via TeenChoice.com or by Twitter hashtag, one per Tweet by pairing a name with #ChoiceMaleArtist or #ChoiceFemaleArtist. The limit on enthusiasm is 10 votes per day, per category, for each platform user ID, a wrinkle some multiplatform fans are likely to use effectively. Among other things, for the musical artists, this really is a chance for their fan bases to show their love.
Get ready to move those thumbs — voting is officially OPEN for the 2018 #TeenChoice Awards! Submit your vote by tweeting with the category hashtag the name/handle of your choice, or head here: https://t.co/vqru7XJP9J pic.twitter.com/OwC0bx0kWh
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The competition in each category is interesting, for example Choice Latin Artist nominated J Balvin, Becky G, CNCO, Daddy Yankee, Luis Fonsi, and Maluma. J Balvin is super fresh, Becky G has many teens who identify with her, and Daddy Yankee and Luis Fonsi had last summer's biggest hit.
So the viral chase is on for fans to vote their Teen Choice Awards favorites up the ranks. On August 12 the winners will be announced live on Fox.
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Drake Reveals Upcoming Release Date For New Album, 'Scorpion'
The GRAMMY-winning rapper has officially begun promoting his next album release
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Fresh off of dethroning himself from the No. 1 slot atop the Billboard Hot 100, replacing his own single "God's Plan" with the smash hit "Nice For What," and becoming just the 13th artist in history to replace their own No. 1 single atop the chart, GRAMMY-winning rapper Drake has begun to drop hints about his forthcoming fifth album Scorpion.
Celebrating his chart win, Drake hopped on Instagram on Monday to drop some good news for all the fans who've been patiently waiting for the Toronto native's next official LP release sing 2016's quadruple-platinum-certified Views.
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While the pair of IG posts, both captioned "JUNE 2018," are the first tease of the album's title and release date, Drake did drop some additional hints during his appearance at a Toronto Raptors game in March, telling the hometown crowd at halftime, "I love each and every one of you …I'm happy to be home. I'm working on this new album for the city."
Details on the specific date in June when Scorpion will drop are still forthcoming.
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Drake Adds Shows At Las Vegas' XS Nightclub As Part Of New Partnership
Two dates in the high-profile partnership are set for May with three more expected later this year
News of 61st GRAMMY Awards winner Drake's 2019 return to Wynn's XS Nightclub for five more shows was confirmed on Feb. 28 with the first two scheduled for May 4 and 18 after the superstar concludes his Assassination Vacation Tour in Europe.
After performing at the XS Nightclub on Jan. 10, Drake, who won his fourth GRAMMY award when "God's Plan" won Best Rap Song at the 61st GRAMMY Awards, enthusiastically Instagram-ed the message "new home." "I'll be back here at XS all year," Drake called out during the set. "You'll have a lotta chances to see me."
While the first two are coming in May, the subsequent three are not yet announced, and Wynn Las Vegas wants it understood that Drake's performances in its medium-size venue are about more than their rumored $2-million-apiece price tag.
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"This can't just be about a show, about dates on a calendar," said XS Executive Vice President and Managing Partner of Nightlife Alex Cordova. "It has to be more important." Rather than a "residency," both XS and Drake's team are viewing the additional dates as a "partnership" presenting up-close-and-personal experiences impossible in an arena. "This is more about how we bring Drake into the concept of Wynn Las Vegas," he said.
Tickets are available at the XS Nightclub's website. 360-degree virtual tours of XS Nightclub and its Encore Beach Club surroundings are also available, but Cordova said plans are afoot to modify the medium-size stage environment for Drake's May performances. Cordova believes the venue's creative collaboration with Drake will lead to more artists seeking residency-plus relationships with Las Vegas venues in the future.
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Man Utd 'increasingly confident' of Jadon Sancho deal as talks get underway
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Manchester United are in talks with Borussia Dortmund in the hope of finally agreeing a transfer for England winger Jadon Sancho, a player who has now been at the forefront of their recruitment plans for the past two years.
Sancho recovered from a disappointing first half of the 2020/21 campaign with Dortmund to finish on an impressive 36 combined goals and assists in 38 appearances across all competitions, while he could now potentially play a big role for England at Euro 2020.
Securing a right winger remains a transfer priority for United this summer and 21-year-old Sancho has long been seen as the ideal candidate.
90min first revealed way back in September 2019 that United were 'confident' of signing Sancho. They were willing to pay big for the ex-Manchester City academy player until the coronavirus pandemic hit, but Dortmund didn't lower their valuation and the summer of 2020 resulted in an impassable stalemate over the price.
Sancho finished the 2020/21 with 36 goals & assists in all competitions / ANNEGRET HILSE/Getty Images
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But United never lost their interest in Sancho, even when his form did dip at the start of 2020/21, and were confident that the gamble of refusing to meet his asking price last year would pay off.
90min revealed last month that United were hopeful of striking a deal worth £75m before Euro 2020. Although time is running out before the tournament kicks off, Sancho would prefer to have his future sorted beforehand and there is an acceptance from Dortmund that he will be sold.
The Athletic has now reported that United are 'increasingly confident' a deal will be agreed. Journalist Laurie Whitwell has separately tweeted that talks are ongoing, although there is still a £20m gap in the valuations each club places on the deal.
#MUFC pressing ahead with talks to sign Jadon Sancho. Hope rising a deal can finally be done with Borussia Dortmund.
But there is a gap on valuation, of around £20m as Dortmund stick closer to last summer's price than expected. Add-ons discussed.https://t.co/JtvOtihEF8
— Laurie Whitwell (@lauriewhitwell) June 4, 2021
It could be that if United are willing to commit £80m, Dortmund would settle for £20m in add-ons. Clearly, there is still a degree of compromise that must be reached.
Last summer, United fell foul of Dortmund's self-imposed deadline, which came nearly two months before the real transfer deadline in October. The Bundesliga side wanted to be sure that they would have sufficient time to replace Sancho and fully integrate a new signing if they agreed to sell, but the United hierarchy naively failed to take it seriously enough.
BVB position around Jadon Sancho is clear. They have a gentleman's agreement for him to go IF their valuation is met before their deadline (which last season was start of pre-season). United knew this last year but thought BVB would change their minds. They didn't.
— Simon Stone (@sistoney67) June 4, 2021
The BBC's Simon Stone has reported that the situation is similar in 2021. Dortmund have an informal agreement with the player that they will sell him if his valuation is met but any deal must be done before their own deadline. It is not clear when that is going to be this time around, although last summer it was the start of their pre-season training camp.


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MANY successful people have discovered that being able to make others like them is the first step in building meaningful relationships — both in business and social spheres.
Many others have still not worked it out. These are the ones who make a great second or third impression — but a lousy first impression, which means, unfortunately, that most people they meet never get to see their "good side".
While a few successful people are born with the quality of "instant likeability", most aren't — they are the ones who learned these techniques and rigorously applied them until they became life skills.
You can do it too. And if you believe you have this ability already, then you could always do better!
Never underestimate the power of the sincere compliment. Also never underestimate people's ability to detect an insincere one. It is so easy to find a genuine compliment for everyone you meet.
If you meet them in their space (home or office), say something complimentary about it. If they have chosen the venue, compliment their choice. If you have chosen the venue, compliment their navigation skills. If they are there voluntarily, compliment the fact that they turned up!
The hint is to compliment their achievements and/or their decisions. We all love to have our achievements recognised and we all like having our decisions validated.
I always ask about someone's lapel pin. If I recognise it (for example, a Rotary pin), I will ask how long they have been a member and get them talking about the latest fund-raising project.
If I see one of the pins that shows that they have been awarded a civil honour, I will ask what they were given their award for — they love it!
Compliment the accessories they are wearing — a tie for men and brooch or other jewellery for women. Again, this is validating their decision to choose that particular item.
So often in conversation, we listen to the other person just long enough to identify something that we can say; and, from that point forward, we just listen for an opportunity to say it.
Your main aim in your quest for "instant likeability" is to get them talking about themselves. To do this, you should be listening for the question that you can ask that will get them talking more about themselves.
Now, it is also important to share a little of yourself — particularly if you have identified some potential common ground — but never forget that the more they talk about themselves, the more they like you.
It makes sense that people with whom you have common ground will find it easier to like you because — at least in this one instance — you are more like them.
Of course, it is great if you support the same football team or share an interest in gardening, but something as incidental as the fact that you have lived in the same town is a very effective rapport-builder.
We all find it easier to like and respect confident people. Confidence is like a magnet, creating an irresistible pull that gives those that possess it enormous power to influence.
The trouble is — in our quest to be liked — we sometimes exhibit the type of behaviour that is the exact opposite of what confident people do.
For many people, their eagerness when they meet new people gives the appearance of trying "too hard".
They are more lively, exuberant, sometimes even louder. To create a confident appearance, you need to move and speak a little more slowly and deliberately.
So, you can see how easy it is to get it wrong. Go too far one way and you seem like an excited puppy; go too far the other and you're acting like an arrogant snob.
So, when you are meeting people for the first time, take a deep breath, take your time and exude calmness and confidence.
Do this, and your likeability is guaranteed to improve — and you might even end up liking yourself more!
Article by Kevin Ryan, an international speaker, workshop leader and author with Training Edge International. He is a business communication expert specialising in the areas of employee and client engagement, sales, humour, intelligence and presentation skills.


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Manteca High point guard Sharon Washington gets behind Ceres defender Lily Jaimes. - photo by JONAMAR JACINTO/The Bulletin
Plan B worked out beautifully.
With Ceres down two and needing a quick foul to regain possession, Manteca's Cynthia Perez, with no one open in front of her, sent the inbounds pass flying over the Bulldogs' fullcourt press and hit Sharon Washington in stride.
Washington laid it in with six seconds left and drew the foul. Her missed free throw didn't matter, as Manteca went on to prevail 45-41 for its third straight Valley Oak League victory while ending Ceres' win streak at five Tuesday at Winter Gymnasium.
"We weren't even planning on running that (play), and at the last second I heard coach (Andrea Hiatt) yell my name," said Washington, who continued her recent tear with 20 points, five rebounds and four assists. "I just saw Cynthia throw it, so I ran. It was the perfect pass."
Manteca (4-7, 11-13) won three in a row for the first time all season but must stretch that streak in order to sneak into the Sac-Joaquin Section Division II playoffs.
The Buffaloes are currently ranked 18th according the latest postseason power ratings and needs to crack the top 16 to get in. Ceres (7-4, 11-12), which now trails VOL leader East Union by two games with three to go, is 14th in Division III.
"We're playing well right now," Hiatt said. "The girls recognize their roles and we're playing as a team."
Ceres threatened to steal it late after Aimee Gunzenhauser (nine points) nailed two free throws with 48 seconds left to make it 40-38. She later drilled a 3-pointer from the right wing with nine seconds to go.
Manteca managed to stay within striking distance after going down by as much as eight, 14-6, early in the second quarter.
Ceres' frontcourt combination of Jode Johnson and Jamie Beck was brilliant during that stretch, with Beck dishing it to Johnson in the paint from the high post for easy buckets on three consecutive possessions.
Despite getting outrebounded 26-9 in the first half, Manteca was down just 20-18 going into the break. Johnson scored 10 of her team-high 19 points in the second quarter, while Beck turned in 11 points, 11 rebounds and five assists.
"In the first half we were outhustled," Hiatt said. "We came out flat and didn't show intensity. They're a good team.
"Their Beck-Johnson duo is tough to defend. We practiced what they were going to do and they still beat us with it. They're a very well-coached team."
Manteca captured its first lead at 22-20 two minutes into the second half when Davina Bennett laid it in off a nice feed from Washington. Bennett finished with 12 points and five rebounds.
The road only gets tougher for the Buffaloes, who host Weston Ranch, which previously handed them a 62-45 defeat, Thursday before heading to second-place Sonora next week and taking on rival East Union for the VOL finale.
"We're going into a stretch where we have tough teams ahead of us, so we're going to prepare one day at a time," Hiatt said.


Taiwan Academy in Los Angeles is proud to present Mulan, Make Up! Queer Art Exhibition from Feb. 22 to April 6 2019. Curated by Yu Cheng-Ta, Mulan, Make Up! is a multidisciplinary exhibition combining film screenings, a visual arts exhibition, and a series of performances. Through a discussion about the appearance of gender and the body in a contemporary context, the exhibition seeks to investigate the politics of the body from a global mindset, and to strip down gender to its most raw form. The opening reception will be held at 7pm on Friday, February 22 at Taiwan Academy in Los Angeles. Hua Mulan is a well-known figure from Chinese literature who famously took her father's place in the army by dressing up as a man. For Mulan, Make Up! Hua Mulan acts as a symbolic figure to open up societal stereotypes and dispel the traditional binaries of yin and yang, spirit and body, hardness and softness, thereby pushing self-identity beyond the two-dimensional framework of gender.
In addition, Mexican-American artist Sebastian Hernandez will bring a new performance piece to the exhibition opening, and Mutant Salon, created by Korean-American artist Young Joon Kwak, will present Attack Sustain Release Decay, a video work created in collaboration with Experimental Half Hour and Project Rage Queen.
All of the participating artists center their work around the dichotomy of the physical body, offering different ways to think through how the transformation of the body can transcend culture, history, tradition, and gender identity. In a time when digital information is exploding and the human body has been liquified, these works ask us to contemplate whether or not individuality, an inimitable essence, is still possible, and to examine the meaning of existence in a consumer society where desire has already died.
Besides the opening reception on Feb. 22, there will also be a Special Screening and Performance Party at human Resources on March 2, 2019 from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m.


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CHD2 myoclonic encephalopathy is frequently associated with self-induced seizures
Thomas, Rhys H.; Zhang, Lin Mei; Carvill, Gemma L. et al
in Neurology (2015), 84(9), 951-958
Objective: To delineate the phenotype of early childhood epileptic encephalopathy due to de novo mutations of CHD2, which encodes the chromodomain helicase DNA binding protein 2. Methods: We analyzed the ... [more ▼]
Objective: To delineate the phenotype of early childhood epileptic encephalopathy due to de novo mutations of CHD2, which encodes the chromodomain helicase DNA binding protein 2. Methods: We analyzed the medical history, MRI, and video-EEG recordings of 9 individuals with de novo CHD2 mutations and one with a de novo 15q26 deletion encompassing CHD2. Results: Seizures began at a mean of 26 months (12–42) with myoclonic seizures in all 10 cases. Seven exhibited exquisite clinical photosensitivity; 6 self-induced with the television. Absence seizures occurred in 9 patients including typical (4), atypical (2), and absence seizures with eyelid myoclonias (4). Generalized tonic-clonic seizures occurred in 9 of 10 cases with a mean onset of 5.8 years. Convulsive and nonconvulsive status epilepticus were later features (6/10, mean onset 9 years). Tonic (40%) and atonic (30%) seizures also occurred. In 3 cases, an unusual seizure type, the atonic-myoclonic-absence was captured on video. A phenotypic spectrum was identified with 7 cases having moderate to severe intellectual disability and refractory seizures including tonic attacks. Their mean age at onset was 23 months. Three cases had a later age at onset (34 months) with relative preservation of intellect and an initial response to antiepileptic medication. Conclusion: The phenotypic spectrum of CHD2 encephalopathy has distinctive features of myoclonic epilepsy, marked clinical photosensitivity, atonic-myoclonic-absence, and intellectual disability ranging from mild to severe. Recognition of this genetic entity will permit earlier diagnosis and enable the development of targeted therapies. [less ▲]
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The phenotypic spectrum of SCN8A encephalopathy
Larsen, Jan; Carvill, Gemma L.; Gardella, Elena et al
Objective: SCN8A encodes the sodium channel voltage-gated α8-subunit (Nav1.6). SCN8A mutations have recently been associated with epilepsy and neurodevelopmental disorders. We aimed to delineate the ... [more ▼]
Objective: SCN8A encodes the sodium channel voltage-gated α8-subunit (Nav1.6). SCN8A mutations have recently been associated with epilepsy and neurodevelopmental disorders. We aimed to delineate the phenotype associated with SCN8A mutations. Methods: We used high-throughput sequence analysis of the SCN8A gene in 683 patients with a range of epileptic encephalopathies. In addition, we ascertained cases with SCN8A mutations from other centers. A detailed clinical history was obtained together with a review of EEG and imaging data. Results: Seventeen patients with de novo heterozygous mutations of SCN8A were studied. Seizure onset occurred at a mean age of 5 months (range: 1 day to 18 months); in general, seizures were not triggered by fever. Fifteen of 17 patients had multiple seizure types including focal, tonic, clonic, myoclonic and absence seizures, and epileptic spasms; seizures were refractory to antiepileptic therapy. Development was normal in 12 patients and slowed after seizure onset, often with regression; 5 patients had delayed development from birth. All patients developed intellectual disability, ranging from mild to severe. Motor manifestations were prominent including hypotonia, dystonia, hyperreflexia, and ataxia. EEG findings comprised moderate to severe background slowing with focal or multifocal epileptiform discharges. Conclusion: SCN8A encephalopathy presents in infancy with multiple seizure types including focal seizures and spasms in some cases. Outcome is often poor and includes hypotonia and movement disorders. The majority of mutations arise de novo, although we observed a single case of somatic mosaicism in an unaffected parent. [less ▲]