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Pullulan is a biopolymer with unique properties. It is a polysaccharide produced by the fermentation of carbohydrate (starch/sugar) by the ubiquitous fungus Aureobasidium pullulans. Chemically, it consists of repeated unit of maltotriose units where three glucose units in maltotriose are connected by an alpha-1,4 glycosidic bond and consecutive maltotriose units are connected to each other by an alpha-1,6 glycosidic bond. This typical linkage pattern in fact render some distinctive physical traits which are different from many known polysaccharide. One interesting characteristic is its high adhesevity that leads to the formation of strong films with very low oxygen permeability.
Pullulan is a white to off white powder and is flavourless, odourless and extremely stable. It is non toxic and non immunogenic in nature and readily dissolves in water.
Very quick delivery, well packaged and great value. Would be great if had size 0 capsules and capsulator for sale too as feedback on size 00 capsules is that they can be quite hard to swallow by some clients.


Next time hubby scolds you about kitty parties, you can guide him to this post.
There's science backed facts to encourage positive social bonds.
With lives getting busier,families smaller a nurturing social life is even more a priority.
Did you know captors use social isolation to torture prisoners of war?
Social isolation of healthy, well-functioning people can cause psychological & physical breakdown.
Adults who are socially connected are healthier and live longer .
That's why parents ,relatives and grand parents need us even more when they grow older.
Socially useful relationships make life meaningful .
(2) Social relationships affect health through behavioral, psychosocial, and physiological pathways.
(4) Relationships shape your health .
Humans crave social integration.The quality of the relationship is also important .
It's important that relationships give positive emotional support.
Poor quality social ties affect health.
It can impair immune functions,poor health and Mortality.
(Kiecolt-Glaser et al. 2002; Robles and Kiecolt-Glaser 2003).
Marriage is the most studied social tie.
Marital relationship, affects cardiovascular disease, chronic conditions.
Berkman and Syme (1979)showed that the risk of death among men and women with the fewest social ties was more than twice as high as the risk for adults with the most social ties.
Social ties decrease mortality risk among adults with documented medical conditions. Brummett and colleagues (2001) found that, among adults with coronary artery disease, the socially isolated had a risk of subsequent cardiac death 2.4 times greater than their more socially connected peers.
Cancer and delayed cancer recovery Slower wound healing (Ertel, Glymour, and Berkman 2009; Everson-Rose and Lewis 2005; Robles and Kiecolt-Glaser 2003; Uchino 2006).
Marriage is perhaps the most studied social tie. Recent work shows that marital history over the life course shapes a range of health outcomes, including cardiovascular disease, chronic conditions, mobility limitations, self-rated health, and depressive symptoms (Hughes and Waite 2009;Zhang and Hayward 2006).
What are positive Health Behaviors?
We live with our spouses after being pampered by our parents.So spousal support and understanding goes a long way in giving you positive health.
For children the home environment is their first chance of understanding social integration.
Unhappy marriage and parenthood have been associated with poor health behaviors .
Physical inactivity and weight gain are two negative effects of poor marital quality .
What is important is positive effect of any relationship.
If the effect of these ties are not positive. Then mental health is affected.
Mind and body are two sides of the same coin. They work together and act together. When your mind dreams your body does.
Both are actions.Just in their own way.
So positive health benefits from a relationship needs affects , mind and body .
What exactly does a poor marriage cause?
Compromised immune and endocrine function.
Depression (Kiecolt-Glaser and Newton 2001).
Sociological research shows that marital strain erodes physical health, and that the negative effect of marital strain on health becomes greater with advancing age (Umberson et al. 2006).
Nagasawa and colleagues (1990) found that negative social environments and their perceived barriers predicted poor compliance to medical regimens among diabetes patients.
What's happening at office and school can also interfere with health.
Social relationships are important for physical , mental and psychological health .
Quality and Quantity of relationships are both important .
Peer pressure,religious clans are examples of potentially negative social effects.
So any social company needs to be evaluated with respect to the positive effect they have.
This post is especially important for bloggers and solopreneurs.If you are doing anything alone , it's a strain on your mental health.
Join communities like Blogchatter and see how blogging becomes a social movement with tea parties thrown in.
In this busy world if your offline friends don't get your spirit , find your friends online.
I did .For #Microblog Mondays is easily the most fun twitter chat ever.
You find friends ,learn ,grow and just get support for your dreams.
Sometimes it just takes one more person to believe.
Zhang Zhenmei, Hayward Mark D. Gender, the Marital Life Course, and Cardiovascular Disease in Late Midlife. Journal of Marriage and Family.2006;68:639–57.
Willson Andrea E. Race and Women's Income Trajectories: Employment, Marriage, and Income Security over the Life Course. Social Problems.2003;50:87–110.
Nock Steven L. Marriage in Men's Lives. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998.
Amen, amen amen. We live rural and I know people don't get out enough.
This is a great post & so absolutely true! It is one of the main reasons I could never work at home all the time because I need to socialize!!!
I love being with people, but I also think that being alone is sometimes healthy too. I think it is a matter of balance between the two.
Mental health is one of the most ignored issues and because of the life style people lead these days it is the most important. The fact is despite technology having made connecting with people easier, social interaction has decreased. It is important to talk about mental health and man being a social being, social interactions are a great way to keep you on track.
I very much agree that Social relationships are so important in the current lifestyle we all live in and they definitely have a huge impact on one's mental health. When it comes to children it is so true that Unhappy marriage and parenthood plays a huge part inf affecting their life!
Thank you Lisa for your feedback.
Your post makes a great read! Being social is very important in today's life but I get disappointed when I see people taking efforts to get only virtually connected and becoming a slave of the social media. Most of the time I see people sitting together in a group and engrossed completely in their mobile without talking to each other physically present there!
I have always been an outgoing social person! 🙂 My mom used to call me a social animal.
Just like you said, the truth is, we humans would always crave relationships with people, and I bet introverts like myself do too.
You are so right, being social is a great way to develop yourself socially and remain healthy. Locking yourself away and distancing yourself from people is a dark path to go on.
Interesting! I try to be social, but sometimes I prefer to be alone. I am an only child so I'm used to that.
I have solid relationships with my husband and children. I don't get out much socially but I do take my dog to the dog park five days per week and have friends there.
This is so fun to read. I agree with you, we need people around us to exercise our mental health. We don't need to be friends with them all, but be nice and kind and polite will do. Surprisingly, we can learn a lot from others' experiences and testimonials.
So cute! I love this post – especially because my husband and I both live hundreds of miles from our family, so the friends we have here in Tennessee play a huge role in our lives!
Wow, this is such a good post., I have been guilty of curbing my social activities in the past few weeks. I think its unhealthy, but certainly at times I do not want to mingle and chit chat. I love my kitty parties but, I do take a step back if needed!
You are right Z we need to mingle and chat.Even if just to have a change of scene.
Agree with each and every point, Amrita. Being an island does one no good at all. Love the personal touch by adding your family pics. Enjoyed them.
Yes Mayuri so perfectly described.Being an island is draining.It's so buch better to have a community which is supportive.
Very true about solopreneurs. it's a pain planing, plotting and blogging everything alone. But few people like me work better as individuals than in a team. So, pros and cons weigh equal.
Thanks Bushra,it's true being social is very important for personal development.
I think this is so true. You need to people around you for mental health. Thanks for sharing and writing on this.


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Who Was Mayor of Houston When…?
Obscuria Houstonia Quiz #2?
Today's second Obscuria Houstonia quiz reveals another catch to the answers: Unless a reader correctly identifies the answer in the comment section that accompanies the inquiring story post, the question will remain an unanswered enigma until someone does. Whenever correct answers occur, I will acknowledge them as replies to correct answers provided in the comment section.
These little ytivia excursions are intended simply for fun and some minor educational purpose on the subject of Houston's more arcane historical facts. I have no interest or intention of running them all the time, but, when the whim strikes, look out. Here we'll go again.
Today's feature is totally about the history of Houston mayors. All you have to do here, if you are interested in trying, is name the ten mayors in Houston History who were in office when these identified events occurred? In each case, the mayor variably may have had something to do with the creation of the identified event – or, more likely, simply been the person in office when the thing expressed unfolded.
Obscuria Houstonia Quiz #2: Who was Mayor of Houston when…?
(1) …Houston selected it's first mayor ever?
(2)…Texas joined the United States of America?
(3)…the State of Texas seceded from the Union to join the Confederacy?
(4)…the original Houston Base Ball Club was founded in the city at a meeting on the second floor above J.H. Evans' Store on Market Square?
(5)…the Civil War ended?
(6)…the city fielded its first professional "base ball" team?
(7)…the person who would hold that office longer than any other was first elected?
(8)…Houston launched both the professional football Oilers and the professional baseball Colt .45s?
(9)…Houston opened the Astrodome?
(10)…Houston opened the downtown baseball park first known as Enron Field?
... Good luck – and have a loving, blessed, and restful Easter Weekend too!
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A Monte Irvin Baseball Quiz.
Monte Irvin, Baseball Hall of Fame, 1973.
This little quiz focuses upon Hall of Famer Monte Irvin as the key to all its answers. If you are a deep water port baseball fan, it will be tough. If you are a casual fan to a non-fan, it will be impossible. Either way, don't take the test, or yourself, all that seriously. Life isn't fun for self-important people. And who needs that plague in particular or those boring people in general?
Just have fun with it.
The answers to this quiz are below. I wrote it honor of Hall of Famer Monte Irvin's appearance and discussion at our December 2009 meeting of SABR, the Society for American Baseball Research. We didn't get to the quiz until last night at our January 2010 meeting. Unfortunately, I neglected to bring the answer sheet with me, thus causing me to into brain-freeze on a couple of the answers until I got help from some of the members who hung with me long enough to take the test. I think that's what Wee Willie Shakespeare had in mind when he came up with the phonetic expression, "hoisted upon my petard."
This petard is a booger if you don't have the answer sheet handy, but that will not be a problem here. The answers really are listed below. Just try to resist scrolling too fast past the opportunity of giving the quiz your best shot.
Before you take the quiz, please make a note of the built-in clue. Since I originally wrote the quiz to honor Monte Irvin, the answers to the ten questions, in order, are each preceded by the letters of his first and last names: M-O-N-T-E I-R-V-I-N. These letters each represent the first letters of the last names of each person that is the answer to each specific question.
Got it? Good! Here is the question that applies to each of the ten "Monte Irvin" statements: What is the first and last name of the person we are talking about here? Remember, his last name will start with the bold-typed letter that precedes that particular statement. One more small hint: Each answer will contain the name of a Baseball Hall of Fame member, going all the way back in some cases to the 19th century.
M. He was no Bugs Bunny, but he had a lot of staying power.
O. His quirky batting style only got him into the Hall of Fame.
N. It's not how fast you throw, but what happens when you do.
T. He was last National Leaguer to hit .400 in one season.
E. In 18 years, he played every field position and hit .303 life.
I. His middle name is Merrill, but call him "Mr. Murder."
R. "The Hoosier Thunderbolt" won 31 plus, 4 straight years.
V. Reached the HOF with only 197 wins from 1916 to 1935.
I. Invert Route 66 upside down for his MLB career HR total.
N. Won 30 plus 7 times and won 361 games in MLB career.
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M. Rabbit Maranville
O. Mel Ott
N. Phil Niekro
T. Bill Terry
E. Buck Ewing
I. Monte Irvin
R. Amos Rusie
V. Dazzy Vance
N. Kid Nichols
Monte Irvin Notes: During his eight season MLB career (1949-56), Monte Irvin compiled a career slugging average of .475 and a career batting average of .295. His best season for a high batting average was 1953 when he hit .329. On February 25, 2010, God Willing, Monte Irvin will celebrate his 91st birthday.
Early Happy Birthday # 91, Monte Irvin, and thanks too for all the happy memories you've brought to us by your willingness to spend time with our SABR group. As a piece of baseball history, that two-hour DVD we did of you and Larry Dierker with interviwer Dave Raymond at our December 8, 2009 SABR meeting is a treasure that reaches far beyond all of our lifetimes as an item of historical value.
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A Short Baseball-For-Fun Quiz.
(1) If the great Negro Leaguer Josh Gibson really was the black version of Babe Ruth, and vice versa, what would be a good right-on-target nickname for the white version of Josh Gibson? How about …"The Cracker Jacker!"
(2) When former Astros slugger Jimmy Wynn throws a big celebration weekend, what do they call the small dinner-dance party that highlights festivities? Why, they call it "The Toy Cannon Ball," of course.
(3) Whenever former Astro phenom Rusty Staub had a really bad night of batting at the Astrodome, he was allowed to leave the ballpark by way of a private exit in an attempt to escape the media. What was this private exit appropriately called? What else could it be? They called it "The Rusty Gate."
(4) (And here's a Harry Kalas favorite): Milwaukee Braves reliever Mel Famous once had a beer right before he was called into a game at the Astrodome in 1965. Pitcher Famous lost his usual pin-point control. He proceeded to issue a four-pitch base-on-balls to Nellie Fox of the Astros that forced in the winning run for Houston in the bottom of the 13th. And what did Fox say about that beer, once he later learned about it? Answer: "Well, I guess that makes it the beer that made Mel Famous walk me!"
That's it for now. It's Saturday morning and I'm long on errands and short on good ideas. Hope you each scored perfectly on all four questions. Here's one more riddle of a football nature, just in case you are doing this one with your girl friend, wife, or best bud and need a tie-breaker. The first three here were mine, but like the more famous Mel Famous line, I can't take credit/blame for this one, but I sure would've been happy to do so, had it first occurred in the slightly less dazzling humor chamber of my old porcupined brain. I think I wrote about this one several days ago, but nothing has changed to alter its veracity by way of another passing NFL weekend:
Question: What's the difference beween the Houston Texans and a dollar bill?
Answer: You can get four quarters out of a dollar bill.
Have a nice weekend, everybody!
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Baseball Quiz No. 1
I've something different for you this morning. It's just a little ten question baseball history quiz. It's really not all that hard. Just pay attention to what you are being asked and what you see. If you've followed baseball at all, and if you've done any baseball history reading, you should be able to get all ten answers right.
Have fun:
1. Frank Mancuso and Bobby Bragan were only two of the 37 major league catchers to receive for this starting pitcher over the course of his MLB career. Who was he?
2. He and Al Benton were the only two pitchers whose MLB careers spanned the eras of both Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle. Benton actually faced both Yankee legends. This second man just never got a chance to face Mantle. Who was he?
3. This man and Jack Powell are the only two pitchers in MLB history to have won more than 200 big league games and still finished their careers with a sub-.500 winning percentage. Who is he?
4. Who was the last big league player from the 1920s to still be playing at that level in the 1950s?
5. In poet Ogden Nash's "Lineup for Yesterday," he is the only player mentioned who didn't make it to the Hall of Fame. Who is he?
6. What pitcher won 30 games for the Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast League back in 1933?
7. He pitched for 9 distinct MLB franchise clubs over the course of 17 changes of big league team affiliation during his career. Who are we we talking about here?
8. He won exactly 20 games in a season twice as a big league pitcher, but he lost exactly 20 games in a season three times as a major leaguer. Who was he?
9. He is the only pitcher to play for one big league club on five separate occasions? Who is he?
10. He and Ray Kremer of the 1930 Pittsburgh Pirates are the only two big league pitchers in history to win 20 games and still post Earned Run Averages of over 5 runs per nine inning game over the course of a single season. Who is he?
When someone has posted the winning answers to all ten questions below as a comment on this quiz, I will confirm the winner with a comment post of my own.
Houston, Baseball, & Other Musings.

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Autonomous Vehicle Design Should Benefit Broader Group of Potential Drivers
Best Brothers Group of Companies - Automatic doors specialist > Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) > Autonomous Vehicle Design Should Benefit Broader Group of Potential Drivers
Americas, Transportation, April 4 2019
ITS America report underscores need for AVs to be accessible, inclusive
Washington – At a time when major automakers are planning to deploy greater numbers of autonomous vehicles (AVs), they have a unique opportunity to ensure people with disabilities have access to this transformational technology.
That is one of the conclusions of Driverless Cars and Accessibility: Designing the Future of Transportation for People with Disabilities, released today by the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America). The report calls for key players in the transportation, healthcare and consumer electronics fields to work together to encourage manufacturers to produce accessible designs for automated vehicle systems and notes that developing standards and focusing on universal design must happen now.
"This is a transformative time in transportation – everything is changing," said ITS America President & CEO Shailen Bhatt. "As automakers plan for automated vehicles, this is the perfect opportunity to reimagine and design cars in a way that makes them accessible for all potential drivers."
ITS America hosted two charrettes and conducted one-on-one interviews related to autonomous vehicles and people with disabilities. One key finding to emerge was that whether persons with disabilities can benefit from the deployment of automated vehicles is directly dependent on how early and to what extent manufacturers take accessibility into consideration in the design process.
Almost 20 percent of people living in the United States had a mobility, sensory, cognitive or other impairment in 2010, according to the U.S. Census. Many modes of transportation are inaccessible, unreliable or ill-suited to people with disabilities and older adults, which often means fewer opportunities for employment, housing, healthcare, and education.
"The automobile industry has a rare opportunity to create an innovative product that can be used by everyone, including wheelchair users, which will reduce much of the waste and associated with customization," said Henry Claypool, policy director for the Community Living Policy Center at the University of California, San Francisco.
The report notes for a future autonomous vehicle to be fully accessible, automation must apply not only to driving but also to how it is dispatched, how it parks or docks, and how it secures passengers and manages their entry and exit.
It also lays out issues related to public and private mobility services and accessibility, particularly as they relate to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
"The ultimate aim in creating accessible, autonomous passenger vehicles is for everyone – regardless of age or ability – to travel independently," Bhatt said.
Participants in the charrettes and follow-up interviews included representatives for people with permanent communicative disabilities, permanent physical disabilities, and the conditionally impaired – those who were injured, veterans and older adults, among others. Representatives from automakers, ride-sharing and technology companies, and public agencies also participated.
The project was funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research and the Administration for Community Living. It was conducted as a project of the Community Living Policy Center at the University of California San Francisco.
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The Problem with CPLR R. 3211(a)(7)
Thomas v Thomas, 2010 NY Slip Op 01586 (App. Div., 1st, 2010)
Because the instant motion is pursuant to CPLR 3211, the complaint "is to be afforded a liberal construction (see, CPLR 3026). We accept the facts as alleged in the complaint as true, accord plaintiffs the benefit of every possible inference, and determine only whether the facts as alleged fit within any cognizable legal theory." (Leon v Martinez, 84 NY2d 83, 87-88 [1994]). Applying this standard, plaintiffs have stated a cause of action for a constructive trust. As a preliminary matter, it is accepted that a constructive trust over real property can be imposed even where an underlying agreement is not in writing (see Sharp, 40 NY2d at 122). The complaint clearly alleges that Janet Thomas promised to transfer the property back to plaintiffs. It can be inferred that plaintiffs relied on that promise, or they would have not made the transfer. That plaintiffs meant to convey in their complaint that Janet Thomas would be unjustly enriched without judicial intervention can be similarly assumed.
While it is not clearly spelled out in the complaint that plaintiffs and Janet Thomas had a confidential relationship, Janet Thomas's affidavit, submitted in support of her motion, provides sufficient information to draw such an inference. Specifically, the affidavit volunteers the existence of the partner program and the fact that, until shortly before the transaction at issue, the parties were co-venturers in a quasi-banking enterprise, however informal that enterprise may have been. This is sufficient to infer that the parties had fiduciary responsibilities to one another [*3]which elevated the relationship from one of mere acquaintances to a "confidential" one. We disagree with the dissent's position that we may not consider Janet Thomas's affidavit. On a CPLR 3211 motion a plaintiff's affidavit "may be used freely to preserve inartfully pleaded, but potentially meritorious, claims" (Rovello v Orofino Realty Co., Inc., 40 NY2d 633, 635 [1976]). It follows, a fortiori, that admissions in a defendant's affidavit may similarly be used to ascertain whether a plaintiff has a valid cause of action.
ROMÁN, J. (dissenting)
Since I believe that the majority misconstrues well settled law, applicable to motions to dismiss pursuant to CPLR § 3211(a)(7), I dissent.
When deciding a motion to dismiss a complaint, pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(7), all [*4]allegations in the complaint are deemed to be true (Sokoloff v Harriman Estates Dev. Corp., 96 NY2d 409, 414 [2001]; Cron v Hargro Fabrics, 91 NY2d 362, 366 [1998]). All reasonable inferences which can be drawn from the complaint and the allegations therein stated shall be resolved in favor of the plaintiff (id.). In opposition to such a motion, a plaintiff may submit affidavits to remedy defects in the complaint (CPLR 3211[c]; Cron v Hargro Fabrics, 91 NY2d at 366; Leon v Martinez, 84 NY2d 83, 87-88 [1994]; Amaro v Gani Realty Corp., 60 AD3d 491, 492 [2009]). If an affidavit is submitted for that purpose, it should be given its most favorable intendment (Cron v Hargro Fabrics, 91 NY2d at 366).
While a plaintiff can cure pleading defects by submitting an affidavit, it does not follow that any such defects in a plaintiff's pleadings can be cured by a defendant's submissions, affidavit or otherwise. Here the majority finds that the existence of a confidential relationship by virtue of an affidavit submitted by Janet Thomas in support of her motion to dismiss the complaint. While the majority's position finds some support in Rovello v Orofino Realty Co., 40 NY2d 633 [1976], where the court held that affidavits can be used to correct pleading defects in a complaint, without ever stating whose affidavits could be so considered, in Leon and then again in Cron, the Court of Appeals, while citing Rovello, nevertheless implicitly narrowed the holding in Rovello, stating that "[i]n opposition to such a motion [one pursuant to CPLR 3211], a plaintiff may submit affidavits to remedy defects in the complaint' and preserve inartfully pleaded but potentially meritorious claims'" (Cron v Hargro Fabrics, 91 NY2d at 366, citing Rovello v Orofino Realty Co., Inc., 40 NY2d at 635-636 [emphasis added]). Thus, it is only a plaintiff's affidavit which can be used to remedy a defect in the complaint (id.; see Leon v Martinez, 84 NY2d at 88; Amaro v Gani Realty Corp., 60 AD3d at 492; see also Fitzgerald v Federal Signal Corp., 63 AD3d 994, 995 [2009]).
The bold is mine. (a)(7), like (a)(1), and like 5015, is constantly construed differently. Someone needs to clear this mess up.
Author DMGPosted on February 26, 2010 Categories CPLR R. 3211, [App Div 1st Dept]
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What is the Constitutional Right To A Sound Basic Education?
Safeguarding Sound Basic Education: Constitutional Violations in New York State.
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New York's highest court ruled in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) case that the state has a constitutional obligation to provide every student the opportunity for a sound basic education, which it characterized as a "meaningful high school education." The Court and Regents have defined that education as one that will allow each student to meet a challenging set of academic standards and will prepare every high school graduate to be "college and career ready" and a productive civic participant.


Individuals in the categories listed below may audit courses at the Divinity School without charge. In all cases permission of the instructor is required. Auditing is permitted only during the regular academic year.
Students enrolled in degree programs at Yale University.
Individuals enrolled in the Exchange, Visiting Fellow, and Ph.D. Research programs at Yale Divinity School.
Members of the Yale faculty, emeritus/emerita faculty, and World Fellows.
Supervisors of Yale Divinity School students engaged in an internship or supervised ministry.
Spouses or domestic partners of regularly enrolled students at Yale University.
Spouses or partners of full-time or emeritus/emerita Yale faculty members.
Employees of the University and their spouses or partners, in accordance with applicable personnel policies.
Alumni/ae of Yale Divinity School.
Individuals currently serving as Annand Program mentors through Berkeley Divinity School.
Formal auditing by individuals not in any of the above categories is possible after securing the permission of the instructor, submission of the Audit Form, and payment of the $250 audit fee through the Admissions Office. The registrar's office does not keep a record of courses audited. It is not possible, therefore, for a student's transcript to show that a course has been audited, or for a transcript to be issued that records the auditing of a course.
It is the usual expectation that an auditor does not take tests or examinations or write papers for a course for evaluation by the instructor. Occasionally, however, an auditor may wish to do such work and may request the instructor to evaluate it. If the instructor wishes to cooperate with the auditor in this way, the instructor does so on a voluntary basis and not as an obligation.


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Maria Panaritis, 'I only answer to God. Bishops don't bother me.', Philly.com
March 22, 2016 /in Pennsylvania /by SOL Reform
The three veteran investigators were speechless.
'I only answer to God. Bishops don't bother me.'
For just a few months, they had waded into a probe of clergy sex abuse in central Pennsylvania. They didn't yet know much. But they had heard about a man near Altoona named George Foster.
Foster, they were told, had long been "making noise" about eliminating abusive priests in the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown – writing letters in the local papers, meeting with church leaders. Daniel Dye, the deputy attorney general leading the investigation, knew he was someone worth meeting.
But Dye and the two agents with him were not prepared for what they saw as Foster arrived at a Pittsburgh hotel to meet them for a cup of coffee in late 2014.
Foster came carting an armload of manila folders. Each was labeled. "Victim 1." "Victim 2." And so on. Others bore the names of priests. Inside were detailed accounts from victims and others.
Years' worth.
"You kept files?" Dye asked incredulously.
"Oh, yeah," he told them. "People have been coming to me for years."
"Why didn't you ever take these files to the police?" Dye asked him.
"Well," Foster said, "some of what's in here, I'm getting from the police."
His information became a critical building block for investigators as they developed the case that led this month to the release of two grand jury reports outlining years of child sex abuse by clerics in the eight-county Altoona-Johnstown Diocese.
The grand jury was livid that parents sought justice but civil authorities took no action to help them. Instead, people with badges and law degrees deferred to bishops and other Catholic leaders, who largely buried what was known about child abusers under their charge.
Foster, however, refused to turn away. For that, Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane and the grand jury branded him a hero.
"This is not about a religious order. This is not about Catholicism," Kane said last week, taking a moment in her news conference at the University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown to point out Foster, a silver-haired man with hazel eyes. "This is about the law. And this is about people standing up for other people."
Dye put it another way.
"George became like a compass" for the investigation, he said in an interview. "George got us there quicker."
Inspired by his faith
A devout Catholic and family man, Foster, 55, is like and unlike many who live in the Altoona-Johnstown area.
He has spent his whole life in the neighboring postindustrial cities, which are shells of what they once were. He is married, has six children, and adheres to church dogma with deep loyalty.
"I don't think I did anything special," he said in his office in Duncansville, surrounded by photos of his family and a Star Trek cup and saucer.
But where fierce devotion to the church blinded others from taking action, Foster drew on his faith as fuel to do the right thing.
"I only answer to God," he told the grand jury. "Bishops don't bother me."
The path that led him there had begun more than a decade earlier.
In 2002, a man in his 30s showed up without an appointment at Foster's workplace, the Altoona-area office for the billboard and advertising giant Lamar Advertising Co.
As the clergy sex-abuse scandal was unfolding nationally, Foster had already taken bold stands in letters to the local paper about removing abusive priests. The man knew this. Foster and he were about the same age.
"I came to you," he said, "because you're not afraid of the diocese."
The stranger told Foster that as a youth he had been sexually abused by a local priest and then berated by the priest's jealous lover – another priest, who worked at the high school the victim attended.
"The one guy's abusing me, and the other guy's screaming at me when I'm at school," he explained, according to Foster.
The victim said the diocese leaders knew about the sexually abusive priest but did nothing. He wanted to rent a billboard to expose the priest as a molester.
Foster was shocked. And yet, he instinctively reached for a notebook: "I immediately started writing things down. I said, 'Let me look into this.' "
Foster had come from a devout family. An uncle and a brother were priests. And he knew a lot more priests, too. So he called one and asked, discreetly, about the alleged abuser.
"Oh, yeah," the priest replied. "I think he could do that."
Wow, Foster thought. The priests knew.
More phone calls and visits followed.
Foster also heard about a 1994 Blair County civil trial and guilty plea delivered by an accused predator named the Rev. Francis Luddy. So he went to the courthouse, found the case file. Couldn't believe what he read.
"It was like the roots of a tree spreading out," Foster said. "I realized, if I'm just a lay person and just asking a few questions, I'm getting all this information, how widespread and deep is this?"
Bearer of influences
A Johnstown native who lives in a once-grand Hollidaysburg house built for a 19th-century banker, Foster carries profound influences forged in childhood.
His father, James, said the rosary every night. He enlisted at age 17 to serve in World War II, and then raised seven children as a life-insurance salesman, proud he had what he considered a noble job.
James Foster went to every client's funeral. When he died in 2000, so many came to his, you couldn't get in, recalled his son, John.
To him, George is a lot like their father.
"George is one of the few guys who puts his life where his mouth is," said John Foster, 59, of Collingswood, N.J., the only one of seven siblings who moved away.
But George recalls the righteous passions of his mother, Patricia.
"She was like the Blessed Mother – but with a machine gun," he said.
"We grew up with pictures of aborted kids on the kitchen table," Foster went on. "A lot of that burned into me."
And yet, as strong as her religious identity was, he is convinced that his mother would have insisted he do nothing other than what he has done the last 14 years. Her maternal and advocate soul would have agreed.
"Child molestation is wrong," Foster said. "And it doesn't take a bunch of psychiatrists or a bunch of bishops to hold a meeting to figure that out."
The first grand report alleged decades of clergy sex abuse ignored or concealed by the leaders of the diocese. Prosecutors say as many as hundreds of children may have been assaulted, but that the statute of limitations, or the deaths of accused priests, prevented them from bringing charges.
In a potentially groundbreaking prosecution, however, Kane last week announced charges against three priests who as leaders of a Franciscan order allegedly failed to remove a friar suspected of sexually assaulting more than 100 minors since the 1980s.
Minutes before announcing those charges, Kane met privately with Foster to thank him. He came at her invitation.
Dye also shook his hand – again.
"You can't have mercy," Foster told Dye, "without justice."
At home the next day, Foster's wife of 27 years, Katie, 51, said she does not view him so much as a hero as a man who strives to live by his faith. She kissed him on the cheek as she spoke of him.
"George is a father," she said. "I think that maybe that instinct is what came through."
Both are relieved that "truth has been heard." But they are sad – that the scandal has driven people away from their faith, that it has caused so many souls so much damage.
"It took this long to be heard," Katie Foster said. "How many people were hurt in the interim?"
Foster is convinced he was guided by an invisible hand. "I got wrapped up in this," he said, "and that was God's will."
Perhaps his late father helped keep him strong, too. Long before the grand jury's work was made public – and his name in it – word had spread through the local church that he was an agitator, worthy of excommunication.
One day not long after his father died, in 2009, one of his dad's friends – "Uncle Harry" to the seven kids – called from Johnstown with a message.
"I just want you to know," Harry told him, "your dad would be proud."
As he recalled the message last week, tears welled in Foster's eyes.
"He knew," Foster whispered, "I was taking heat for this."
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This Brainless, Single-Celled Blob Can Make Complex 'Decisions'
By Yasemin Saplakoglu published 6 December 19
S. roeselii is shown here contracting down to where it's holding onto a surface. (Image credit: Courtesy: Bill Porter)
Tiny, brainless blobs might be able to make decisions: A single-celled organism can "change its mind" to avoid going near an irritating substance, according to new findings.
Over a century ago, American zoologist Herbert Spencer Jennings conducted an experiment on a relatively large, trumpet-shaped, single-celled organism called Stentor roeselii. When Jennings released an irritating carmine powder around the organisms, he observed that they responded in a predictable pattern, he wrote in his findings, which he published in a text called "Behavior of the Lower Organisms" in 1906.
To avoid the powder, the organism first would try to bend its body around the powder. If that didn't work, the blob would reverse the movement of its cilia — hairlike projections that help it move and feed — to push away the surrounding particles. If that still didn't work, the organism would contract around its point of attachment on a surface to feed. And finally, if all else failed, it would detach from the surface and swim away.
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In the decades that followed, however, other experiments failed to replicate these findings, and so they were discredited. But recently, a group of researchers at Harvard University decided to re-create the old experiment as a side project. "It was a completely off-the-books, skunkworks project," senior author Jeremy Gunawardena, a systems biologist at Harvard, said in a statement. "It wasn't anyone's day job."
After a long search, the researchers found a supplier in England who had collected S. roeselii specimens from a golf course pond and had them shipped over to Gunawardena's lab. The team used a microscope to observe and record the behavior of the organisms when the scientists released an irritant nearby.
First, they tried releasing carmine powder, the 21st century organisms weren't irritated like their ancestors were. "Carmine is a natural product of the cochineal beetle, so its composition may have changed since [Jennings'] day," the researchers wrote in the study. So they tried another irritant: microscopic plastic beads.
Sure enough, the S. roeselii started to avoid the beads, using the behaviors that Jennings described. At first, the behaviors didn't seem to be in any particular order. For example, some organisms would bend first, then contract, while others would only contract. But when the scientists did a statistical analysis, they found that there was indeed, on average, a similar order to the organisms' decision-making process: The single-celled blobs almost always chose to bend and alter the direction of their cilia before they contracted or detached and swam away, according to the statement.
What's more, the researchers found that, if the organism did reach the stage of needing to contract or detach, there was an equal chance that they would choose one behavior over the other.
"They do the simple things first, but if you keep stimulating, they 'decide' to try something else," Gunawardena said. "S. roeselii has no brain, but there seems to be some mechanism that, in effect, lets it 'change its mind' once it feels like the irritation has gone on too long."
The findings can help inform cancer research and even change the way we think about our own cells. Rather than being solely "programmed" to do something by our genes, "cells exist in a very complex ecosystem, and they are, in a way, talking and negotiating with each other, responding to signals and making decisions," Gunawardena said. Single-celled organisms, whose ancestors once ruled the ancient world, might be "much more sophisticated than we generally give them credit for," he said.
The findings were published Dec. 5 in the journal Current Biology.
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