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Liu, N., Harper, R.J.ORCID: 0000-0003-0268-2917, Handcock, R.N., Evans, B., Sochacki, S.J., Dell, B., Walden, L.L.ORCID: 0000-0001-9714-3603 and Liu, S. (2017) Seasonal timing for estimating carbon mitigation in revegetation of abandoned agricultural land with high spatial resolution remote sensing. Remote Sensing, 9 (6). Article number 545.
Evans, B. and Lyons, T. (2013) Bioclimatic extremes drive forest mortality in Southwest, Western Australia. Climate, 1 (2). pp. 28-52.
Evans, B., Stone, C. and Barber, P.A. (2013) Linking a decade of forest decline in the southwest of Western Australia to bioclimatic change. Australian Forestry, 76 (3-4). pp. 164-172.
Evans, B., Lyons, T.J., Barber, P.A., Stone, C. and Hardy, G. (2012) Dieback classification modelling using high-resolution digital multispectral imagery and in situ assessments of crown condition. Remote Sensing Letters, 3 (6). pp. 541-550.
Evans, B., Lyons, T., Barber, P., Stone, C. and Hardy, G. (2012) Enhancing a eucalypt crown condition indicator driven by high spatial and spectral resolution remote sensing imagery. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 6 (1).
Conference Paper
Evans, B., Lyons, T., Barber, P.A., Stone, C. and Hardy, G. (2011) Detecting change in vegetation condition using high resolution multispectral imagery. In: 34th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, 10 - 15 April, Sydney, Australia
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Brouwers, N.C., Matusick, G., Ruthrof, K., Mercer, J., Evans, B., Lyons, T. and Hardy, G. (2011) Declines in forest health at the landscape-scale in the changing climate of southwest Western Australia. In: Ecological Society of Australia, 2011 Annual conference, 21 - 25 November, Hobart, Australia.
Harper, R.J.ORCID: 0000-0003-0268-2917, McGrath, J., Smettem, K.R.J.ORCID: 0000-0003-2650-4429, McGuire, D., Baker, T. and Evans, B. (2011) Drawing lessons for climate change adaptation from recurrent droughts in Australian plantation forests. In: Climate Change Research Strategy for Primary Industries (CCRSPI) Conference, 15 17 February, Melbourne, Australia.
Brouwers, N., Lyons, T., Hardy, G., Veneklaas, E., Renton, M., Barber, P., Stone, C., Behn, G., Dell, B. and Evans, B. (2010) Determining the impacts of climate change on iconic trees, woodlands and forest ecosystems in Western Australia. In: Forests for the Future: Sustaining Society and the Environment, XXIII IUFRO World Congress, 23 - 28 August, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Hardy, G., Enright, N.ORCID: 0000-0003-2979-4505, Lyons, T., Dell, B., Barber, P., Ruthrof, K., Moore, S., Fleming, T.ORCID: 0000-0002-0626-3851, Baudains, C.ORCID: 0000-0001-8340-864X, Evans, B., Wentzel, K., Schibeci, R., Hobbs, R., Veneklaas, E., Poot, P. and Renton, M. (2009) Climate adaptation: Forest, woodland and shrubland health in southwest Western Australia. In: NCCARF Climate Change Adaptation Symposium, 8 December, Murdoch University, Western Australia.
Evans, Bradley (2014) Monitoring and modelling forest and woodland declines under a drying climate, from individual tree canopies to landscapes across the southwest of Western Australia. PhD thesis, Murdoch University.
Evans, Bradley (2008) Modelling airborne dispersion in the Collie basin. Honours thesis, Murdoch University.
Medlyn, B.E., Zeppel, M.S.J., Brouwers, N.C., Howard, K.ORCID: 0000-0003-3977-1243, O'Gara, E., Hardy, G., Lyons, T., Li, L. and Evans, B. (2011) Biophysical impacts of climate change on Australia's forests. Contribution of Work Package 2 to the Forest Vulnerability Assessment. National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Gold Coast.


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The Buffalo News today offers readers a double dose of media myth, in a column ruminating about the journalism of Diane Sawyer, the anchor of "ABC World News Tonight."
The myths invoked have nothing to do with Sawyer (who used to work at the Nixon White House and was mentioned a few times as perhaps the elusive "Deep Throat" source who figured in the Washington Post's Watergate reporting; "Deep Throat" turned out to be Mark Felt of the FBI).
A double dose of myth in a single column is striking in that it's fairly uncommon. In this case, the myths invoked are about Watergate and about Edward R. Murrow, the legendary CBS News journalist.
Both are myths addressed, and dismantled, in my forthcoming book, Getting It Wrong.
About Watergate, the column says "it was, to use the current expression, a total 'game-changer' in newsrooms, journalism schools, etc., and not entirely to the good. It established journalism as an effective force in—essentially— removing a sitting president."
And about Murrow, the column declares: "he helped change history by denouncing Sen. Joseph McCarthy."
Watergate, first: That the press, and specifically the Washington Post, unraveled the intricate scandal that ended Richard Nixon's corrupt presidency is one of the most self-reverential stories American journalism tells about itself.
But it is a dubious and misleading claim.
As I write in Getting It Wrong:
"To roll up a scandal of such dimension required the collective if not always the coordinated forces of special prosecutors, federal judges, both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court, as well as the Justice Department and the FBI.
"Even then, Nixon likely would have served out his term if not for the audiotape recordings he secretly made of most conversations in the Oval Office of the White House. Only when compelled by the Supreme Court did Nixon surrender those recordings, which captured him plotting the cover-up and authorizing payments of thousands of dollars in hush money."
Amid the tableau of prosecutors, courts, federal investigations, and bipartisan congressional panels, the contributions of the American press were modest, and certainly not decisive to Watergate's outcome.
The Murrow-McCarthy myth is another self-reverential tale of the power of journalism to alter history through reportorial exposé, in this case through the steady eye of television.
As I further write in Getting It Wrong, Murrow supposedly "confronted and took down the most feared and loathsome American political figure of the Cold War, Joseph R. McCarthy, the Red-baiting Republican senator from Wisconsin," when no one else dared to take him on.
The myth revolves around Murrow's See It Now television program about McCarthy, which aired March 9, 1954. Interestingly Murrow and his co-producer, Fred Friendly, were resisted claims that the show was pivotal.
Jay Nelson Tuck, the television critic for the New York Post, wrote not long after the program aired that Murrow felt "almost a little shame faced at being saluted for his courage in the McCarthy matter.
"He said he had said nothing that … anyone might not have said without a raised eyebrow only a few years ago," Tuck wrote.
And Friendly wrote in his memoir, published in 1967:
"To say that the Murrow broadcast of March 9, 1954, was the decisive blow against Senator McCarthy's power is as inaccurate as it is to say that Joseph R. McCarthy … single-handedly gave birth to McCarthyism."
I note in Getting It Wrong that the legendary status associated with the See It Now program has "obscured and diminished the contributions of journalists who took on McCarthy years earlier, at a time when doing so was quite risky."
Notable among them was Drew Pearson who wrote the muckraking "Washington Merry Go Round" column.
Pearson's columns began addressing, dissecting, and dismissing McCarthy's claims as early as February 1950–more than four years before Murrow's famous program.


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Submitted to: Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 2/1/2008
Publication Date: 3/11/2008
Citation: Fu, J., Park, B., Siragusa, G.R., Jones, L., Tripp, R.A., Zhao, Y., Cho, Y. 2008. Au/Si Hetero-Nanorod-based Biosensor for Salmonella Detection. Nanotechnoloyg 19: 155502.
Interpretive Summary: Interpretive Summary Salmonella is one of the major causes of bacterial gastroenteritis in humans and a source of many food-related outbreaks. Detection of Salmonella is an important task in microbiological analysis to control food safety. Different methods have been developed in order to detect the Salmonella pathogen. However, the biggest challenges are the detection speed and sensitivity. Nanotechnology based biosensor has shown great potentials for protein and virus detection. Recently, among the many potential nanotechnology applications for food systems, development of nanoscale sensors for food safety and quality measurement are emerging. In this study, a novel nanorod-based biosensor for Salmonella detection was developed using gold and silicon materials for rapid detection of Salmonella with high sensitivity.
Technical Abstract: Technical Abstract Among several potentials of nanotechnology applications for food industry, development of nanoscale sensors for food safety and biosecurity measurement are emerging. A novel biosensor for Salmonella detection was developed using Au/Si nanorods. The Si nanorods were fabricated by glancing angle deposition method and the Au was sputtered onto the Si nanorods. Alexa 488-succinimide dye was immobilized onto the annealed Si nanorods via the attachment between the dye ester and the primary amine supplied by the 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES). The anti-Salmonella was conjugated to Au via Dithiobis [succinimidylpropionate] (DSP) self-assembly monolayer (SAM). Due to the high aspect ratio nature of the Si nanorods, hundreds or thousands of dye molecules attached to the Si nanorods produced enhanced fluorescence signals. These biologically functionalized nanorods have been successfully used to detect Salmonella. This new nanoscale biosensor will be of great significance in the food safety and security.


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New York cop convicted in cannibalism plot
NEW YORK - Police Officer Gilberto Valle's lawyers said he was just spinning sick and twisted fantasies for his own pleasure when he chatted online about abducting, roasting and eating women. A jury, though, decided he was deadly serious.
Valle, 28, was convicted Tuesday of conspiracy in a macabre case that opened a window on a shocking Internet world of cannibalism fetishists. He could get life in prison at sentencing June 19 but is likely to face much less.
His lawyers branded the outcome a "thought prosecution" that sets a dangerous precedent, while federal prosecutors said the verdict proved that Valle crossed the line from fantasy to reality and was genuinely bent on committing "grotesque crimes."
Valle slumped in his chair, dropped his head and wept when the verdict in what the tabloids dubbed the "Cannibal Cop" trial was announced after more than two days of deliberations: guilty of conspiracy to commit kidnapping and guilty of illegally using a police database.
The jurors left the courthouse without comment. Most did not immediately respond to emails and phone messages or declined to discuss the case.
Valle's mother, Elizabeth, shook her head.
"I'm in shock and want to be left alone," she said. As she sat on a wooden bench after almost everyone had left the courtroom, she said loudly: "This is going to kill my mother."
Prosecutors said Valle plotted in lusty, lip-smacking detail to abduct, torture and cannibalize six women he knew, including his wife. While none of the women were ever harmed - and only his wife discovered his schemes - prosecutors said he took concrete steps to carry out his plot.
They said the New York City police officer looked up potential targets on a restricted law enforcement database; searched the Internet for how to knock someone out with chloroform and where to get torture devices and other tools; and showed up on a woman's block after striking an agreement to kidnap her for $5,000 for a New Jersey man who wanted to rape and kill her. That man was also arrested and is awaiting trial.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement: "Today, a unanimous jury found that Gilberto Valle's detailed and specific plans to abduct women for the purpose of committing grotesque crimes were very real and that he was guilty as charged. The Internet is a forum for the free exchange of ideas, but it does not confer immunity for plotting crimes and taking steps to carry out those crimes."
The defense insisted all along that he was just fantasizing and never intended to harm any of the women.
"This was a thought prosecution," his attorney Julia Gatto said outside court after the verdict. "Obviously, the case involved thoughts that were unusual and bizarre and frankly very ugly. We think that the jury couldn't get past that and they never got to the law."
Another Valle lawyer, Robert Baum, said of the verdict: "It sets a dangerous precedent."
In one of the numerous online conversations shown to the jury, Valle told a man he met in a fetish chat room, "I want her to experience being cooked alive. She'll be trussed up like a turkey. ... She'll be terrified, screaming and crying."
In another exchange, Valle suggested a woman he knew would be easy prey because she lived alone. The men discussed cooking her, basted in olive oil, over an open fire and using her severed head as a centerpiece for a sit-down meal.
"I'm dying to eat some girl meat," Valle mused in yet another exchange.
During the trial, Valle's wife tearfully testified that she fled the couple's home with her baby and contacted the FBI after putting Internet tracking software on his computer and discovering what he was up to.
Members of the jury recoiled upon seeing what appeared to be mostly staged Internet images from a sexual fetish site Valle visited. The images included photos of wide-eyed women with apples stuffed in their mouths like roasted pigs and a video of a chained, naked woman screaming as flames appeared to scorch her crotch.
Marcellus McRae, a former federal prosecutor in Los Angeles now in private practice, said it was a stretch by the defense to claim Valle was prosecuted for his thoughts because the jurors were required to find that he took one or more concrete steps to carry out the conspiracy.
"It's not just a thought crime. It's a thought-and-action crime and conviction," he said.


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Lisa Vanderpump's Husband Accused of Assault
Lisa Vanderpump's husband Ken Todd is being sued by two brothers who claim he assaulted them while they were working construction at a bar, TheWrap.com reports.
Kevin and David Cazaref say Todd criticized Kevin's technique of demolishing concrete "in a rude and aggressive manner" at P.U.M.P. Lounge in West Hollywood last October, according to a lawsuit filed last week and obtained by the site. He then allegedly pushed Kevin in the chest after Kevin asked him to be more polite. Todd owns P.U.M.P with his wife, one of the stars of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Do you know these stars' real names?
Authorities were called, and the Cazarefs claim that they negotiated a fee that Todd would pay them as "a gesture of good faith." But before Todd could withdraw the money, the trio began arguing again and Todd accused them (loudly) of trying to "blackmail" him, the lawsuit alleges.
Previously, Todd had sued the Cazarefs over the same incident, claiming that Kevin threw a concrete chipper at him, resulting in "serious and permanent injury to [Todd's] lower body, including his hip, leg and knee," according to TheWrap.com. He also accused the brothers of "attempted shakedown and extortion." That lawsuit was dismissed in March.
Kevin and David Cazaref are now accusing Todd of battery, assault, slander (for accusing them of blackmail within earshot of others) and abuse of process, and are seeking unspecified damages.
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"It's hard to know where to start," she said with a twang and a flip of her pigtails. "I'm desperate."
It was a hot August afternoon in 1999. We were sitting at a booth at the Roxy Cafe. Her name was Brianna Stewart, and she was a 17-year-old runaway from Mobile, Ala.
Brianna bore none of the protective coloration--the dyed hair, the pierced septum--of the typical street kid. Dressed in blue bib-overalls and a striped blouse, she was respectful and demure, a country girl adrift on the streets of Portland.
Over the next two hours, she proceeded to elaborate an incredible tale involving her mother's death, brutal molestation by a sinister Navajo stepfather and a desperate cross-country journey--at the age of 13--in search of her real father.
Despite bouncing in and out of foster care since arriving in the Pacific Northwest, she had valiantly stayed in high school. "You know how hard it is to do your homework under an awning when it's raining and you can't go to the shelter until 9 o'clock?" she asked.
She showed me a scrapbook crammed with photographs and smiley faces and told me how she joined the tennis team, how she took a date to Homecoming. She also showed me a copy of an ancient Romanian prayer, worn at the creases, that she kept as a memento of her albino grandfather.
Brianna's immediate problem was that she had nothing to support her identity. No birth certificate. No medical records. No Social Security number. And the federal government would not issue her a new Social Security number unless she could track down her real parents--or at least show evidence of their existence. She hoped a good reporter could solve the mystery--and get a scoop at the same time.
From my point of view, Brianna's story was a bust. It was just possible that a dogged investigation might turn up a clue to her past. But other agencies--including the FBI--had already tried and failed. It was far more likely that I would rack up hundreds of dollars in telephone bills and come up empty-handed. Reluctantly, I closed my notebook and suggested she try a lawyer. We shook hands and returned to our separate worlds--I to my office and she to the streets of Portland.
It turned out I was wrong. Brianna did have a compelling story; it just wasn't the one she was telling. There was no Navajo stepfather, no dead mother. The truth was far, far stranger.
Last week, Brianna was arraigned in a Clark County, Wash., court on seven counts of theft and perjury. Prosecutors say she is not Brianna Stewart of Mobile, Ala., but Treva Throneberry of Electra, Texas, and that she defrauded the state of Washington out of more than $15,000.
Most amazing of all, they say she is not a homeless teenager, but a 32-year-old con artist who has concocted more than a dozen youthful identities and made repeated accusations of rape, often against the very people who tried to help her.
News of Brianna's arrest stunned those who thought they knew her. "My reaction was one of shock and disbelief," says Principal Jim Hudson of Evergreen High School, from which Brianna graduated last year. "Most people are glad to get out of high school."
"I was flabbergasted, to say the least," says Portland police officer Richard Braskett, who rescued Brianna from the street and took her into his home. "I was angry. She had caused a lot of strife in our family, and then she turned out to be a big fraud."
It also stunned Clark County prosecutors. Three years ago, they convicted a C-TRAN security guard, Charles Blankenship, of statutory rape for having sex with Brianna in his car when she was--supposedly--only 17 years old. Blankenship served 50 days in jail and lost his job because of the incident.
The world has no shortage of impostors, most with predictable motives. They do it for the money, or to avoid the law, or sometimes for the sheer thrill of the masquerade--as in the case of the Gresham man arrested two weeks ago for impersonating a Multnomah County sheriff's deputy. Their alter egos usually crumble at the first challenge.
But Brianna's case is harder to explain. First, she had no clear motive. Second, she managed to hoodwink a platoon of professional skeptics--including cops, lawyers, reporters and teenagers--even after their suspicions had been aroused. She was so convincing, in fact, that she probably would never have been unmasked but for her insistence on solving the "mystery" of her origins.
Third, despite a mountain of evidence identifying her as Throneberry--including fingerprints, photographs and dental records--Brianna has never wavered from her story, even from her jail cell.
All of which raises an unsettling question. Is it possible that Brianna Stewart, like the tattooed protagonist of the thriller Memento, is stuck on replay, doomed to reenact a fatal scenario whose prologue she has forgotten?
In the spring of 1997, a 16-year-old girl materialized at the Glad Tidings Church, a 1,500-capacity megachurch on the eastern sprawl of Vancouver, Wash., where birdsong mingles with the chirp of backhoes paving the farmland into subdivisions.
At Glad Tidings, Brianna Stewart repeated a tale she had told, with variations, many times before. She grew up outside Mobile, Ala. Her mother died when Brianna was 7, after which she was raised by her stepfather, Allan Reeves, a Navajo Indian who worked for the sheriff's department.
Reeves had a shady past--he once worked as a gun-runner off the Ivory Coast--and subjected her to physical and sexual torture. When money ran low he made pornographic videotapes of her. She tried to turn him into the authorities when she was 13 years old, but nothing happened, so she ran away.
With the desperate optimism of adolescence, she hitchhiked her way across the country in search for her real father--Michael Stewart of Vancouver, Wash.--staying with friendly strangers along the way, working on farms, earning enough for bus fare from one dusty town to the next.
When she finally arrived in the Portland area, she tracked down a Michael Stewart in Aloha. He wasn't her father, but he let her move in with him. Unfortunately, he turned out to be a drug addict. He introduced her to crack and cocaine, and kept her prisoner in his apartment. After a couple of months, she ran away and hit the streets, where she met a youth pastor for Glad Tidings, who encouraged her to attend services.
Brianna's story shocked and moved the congregation. Various church families let her stay with them until she could get back on her feet.
"I knew she was homeless, and she said her parents were very cruel," says church receptionist Debbie Fisher. "We didn't want her to wind up back on the street, so we took her in."
Fisher thought Brianna seemed old for her age. Whenever someone remarked that she looked older than 16, however, Brianna got "very upset," Debbie remembers.
Brianna had one teenage trait down cold, however--a certain surliness towards parental authority. Over the next few months, tensions mounted in the Fisher household over chores and bedtime hours.
Meanwhile, Brianna was engaged in one of the most brazen charades of her entire career. She persuaded officials at Evergreen High School to let her enroll as a sophomore--even though she was actually 28.
"When I first saw her, I thought she was a teacher," says Evergreen classmate Joey Gambetta. "Then she sat down at a desk like everyone else, and I put that aside."
"She looked older than the others," says instructor Steve Nowacki, who taught Brianna psychology and sociology her senior year. "But street kids often have a lot of miles on them."
Fellow students were aware that Brianna had been on the streets. But in most other respects, she appeared to be an average student. She earned a GPA of 2.85. She joined the tennis team. She hung out at the Vancouver mall.
"She was the queen of the mall rats," recalls Evergreen classmate and ex-boyfriend Ken Dunn, an aspiring actor who met Brianna at the Sweet Factory early in their sophomore year.
Dunn had never had a serious girlfriend before. "I was in love with her," he says. Dunn dated her for almost 18 months.
In the beginning, Brianna was a positive influence--she even took Dunn to services at Glad Tidings. "We made out a lot," he says. "But we never had sex--never. I kept my hands to myself."
As time went by, however, the relationship became a burden. "I would sit up and worry all night," he says. "She said people were following her, and I believed her." Dunn was also disturbed by Brianna's bottomless appetite for Ritalin--prescribed for an attention-deficit disorder.
By May 1998, the Fishers had reached the end of their tether. Strife about the chores continued, and Brianna's stories grew increasingly outlandish. She said her stepfather was involved in a satanic cult, and that she was raised as a high priestess. She said a senator from the Midwest had gotten her pregnant while she was working on his re-election campaign. "At night your head would spin because it was so awful and so much," Fisher says.
Finally, after an argument over vacuuming the living room, the Fishers gave her two weeks to move out.
Scrambling for shelter, Brianna persuaded caseworkers at the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services to put her in a foster home--using her student body card as documentation.
That fall, however, Brianna's carefully crafted identity faced its first serious challenge, when a dentist noticed that her wisdom teeth had been extracted and the scars fully healed.
The dentist considered this so unusual for a 16-year-old that he shared his suspicions with Brianna's caseworker, Jan Shaffer. On Oct. 13, Shaffer confronted Brianna, warning her that defrauding the foster-care system was a crime.
Brianna was not intimidated. She wrote a five-page, single-spaced letter lambasting her caseworker. Although purportedly written by a 16-year-old girl, the letter sounded more like a jailhouse lawyer on speed.
"I feel that remaining in foster care is not safe for my physical, mental and emotional well-being," she wrote. "I feel that I have been abused by the very system that I asked for help."
In the face of this blistering defense--and, perhaps, fearful of adverse publicity--DSHS officials backed down. But Brianna would have no truck with anyone who questioned her integrity. Instead, she moved in with another Evergreen High School family, David and Theresa Gambetta.
The Gambettas made Brianna part of the family. They cleared out the study so she could have her own room and gave her an allowance of $10 a week and a stereo for Christmas.
But five months later, Brianna called 911 and accused David Gambetta of spying on her. There were cameras in the light fixtures in her room, she said, and Gambetta had been making videotapes of her. She also claimed he exposed himself to her and to his two young daughters.
Police ultimately concluded that Brianna's accusations were groundless. Theresa Gambetta was outraged. "The state could have taken away my family because of her and her lies," she says. "She could have wiped my family out."
Once again, Brianna was back on the streets. But a few weeks later, in May 1999, she scored her biggest triumph yet. She persuaded Portland police officer Richard Braskett to take her into his home.
A seven-year veteran on the force, Braskett had heard a lot of stories from a lot of street kids. But something about Brianna touched him. She was respectful and polite. She was a student at Evergreen. And her story was so pathetic--and mysterious--that he decided to take a chance. "It was the ultimate way of being able to help someone," he says. "Which is why I'm in this business in the first place."
Braskett and his wife bought her clothes and shoes and helped her pay for summer school. He gamely tried to track down traces of her mother and father. "I just kept running into dead ends," he says.
Throughout this turmoil, Brianna remained determined--even obsessed--with establishing her identity. She wrote a six-page letter to Washington Gov. Gary Locke, asking his support in obtaining a Social Security number. She met with a detective from Daphne, Ala. The Mobile Register wrote an article about her. Far from obscuring her origins, Brianna was flaunting them--even going so far as to call the Montel Williams Show about doing an on-the-air session with a psychic.
Brianna Stewart graduated from Evergreen High School in June 2000. "Evan, I DID IT!!!" she wrote to Evan Burton, an advocate at Greenhouse, a Portland drop-in center run by the Salvation Army. "Thanks for all your help. I really appreciate all the great advice (+ verbal kicks in the arse when I needed it!!)."
After she graduated, however, Brianna's need for a Social Security number grew more acute. Without it, she could not work legally--nor could she apply for financial aid for college.
To this end, she approached Mark McDougal, a Portland lawyer with a reputation as a champion of the underdog. Although McDougal declined to speak to WW about his legal work for Brianna, it appears that he provided her with considerable support. He lent her a cell phone and subsidized a visit she took to the University of Montana as a prospective student.
Before he petitioned the feds for a Social Security number, however, McDougal wanted to cover his bases. He asked Brianna to submit her fingerprints to the FBI.
Why did Brianna agree? Did she think the check would come up clean? Or had she somehow convinced herself she really was Brianna Stewart?
Either way, the results, when they came back, ripped Brianna's identity to shreds. According to the FBI, the fingerprints belonged to one Treva Throneberry, age 31, arrested in Altoona, Pa., in 1996 for making a false police report.
"I can't believe it," Brianna said, according to McDougal. "There must be some mistake."
Shocked--or feigning shock--Brianna stormed out of McDougal's office and went to Greenhouse, where she told advocate Burton about her latest setback.
Outwardly, Burton was sympathetic, but his pulse was racing. Until then, he had swallowed his misgivings about Brianna's stories. But scanning the FBI printout, his smoldering suspicions burst into flame. Burton knew Brianna had sent a man to jail for statutory rape--a conviction whose legal basis now seemed doubtful, to say the least.
A few days later, Burton took a fateful step--a step that no one else had taken since Brianna first arrived in the Portland area. He called the police.
Brianna's charade, which had escaped detection for almost four years, was now beginning to unravel--at the hands of the same Vancouver detective who nabbed Blankenship, the C-TRAN guard, in 1998.
Detective Scott Smith was fooled once. He wouldn't be fooled again. Over the next three months, he dug through police reports, child welfare records, and an FBI dossier to piece together a remarkable puzzle.
Fingerprints revealed that Brianna Stewart, a.k.a. Treva Throneberry, was born May 18, 1969, in Wichita Falls, Texas. She grew up in the one-light town of Electra, Texas, the youngest daughter of Carl Throneberry, a hardscrabble oilman, and his wife, Patsy. "She was the baby of the family," her sister Carlene Merritt told WW in a telephone interview. "She was Daddy's favorite girl. She did everything with him."
On Dec. 19, 1985, at the age of 16, Treva accused her father of putting a gun to her head and raping her.
"That blindsided the whole family," Merritt says.
There were holes in her story, however, and prosecutors dropped the case after she said in court that the man who raped her was not her father.
Carl Throneberry has always maintained his innocence. And three of Treva's sisters--Merritt, Sue Baker and Kim Simpson--all insist that their father was incapable of such an act. "My father wouldn't hurt a fly," Simpson says. "It was like a knife through his heart."
Nevertheless, there was an ugly secret lurking in the Throneberry household: The three sisters told WW that they--and Treva--were repeatedly molested by their uncle. As often happens in child-abuse cases, the girls never told their parents. The uncle is now dead.
Child welfare officials put Treva in foster care. In May 1986, she was committed to a state mental hospital. Later she moved to a girls' home in Fort Worth, where she graduated from high school in 1987. Her mother and sister Kim attended her graduation. But Treva was standoffish and hardly acknowledged them.
When she turned 18, she left the home and bounced around the streets of Fort Worth. In 1988, Treva visited Kim in Wichita Falls. It was an awkward visit. Treva told stories about ritual abuse--drinking blood and making sacrifices--and left the next day. No one from her family ever saw her again.
Over the next decade, according to court documents, Treva posed as a teenager from coast to coast, peddling dark tales of abduction, satanic cults and sexual abuse. In 1992--when she was actually 23--she told Corvallis police she was Keili Smitt, 19, and that her father had forced her into his car and raped her. The following year, she claimed a Portland police officer was her father and accused him of sexually assaulting her.
In 1994, she was Cara Leanne Davis in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. In 1995, she was Emily Kara Williams in Texas. And in August 1996, she was 16-year-old Stephanie Lewis in Altoona, Pa.
In Altoona, however, her story backfired. While she was staying at a youth shelter, a child welfare worker figured out she was actually Treva Throneberry, then aged 27. Treva pleaded guilty to filing a false police report and spent nine days in jail. Shortly thereafter, she returned to the Pacific Northwest--as 16-year-old Brianna Stewart.
On March 22, 2001, Det. Smith confronted Brianna with the evidence identifying her as Treva. Brianna denied everything. The FBI report was a clerical error, she said. Smith ticked off his other evidence--dental records and photographs--but Brianna stuck to her story. "I am me," she told him as he put her under arrest. "I can remember being me since I was 4 years old."
The game was up, but Brianna would not abandon the pretense, even as Smith took her to the Clark County jail, where she now awaits an October trial. Prosecutor Mike Kinnie says she would probably serve five years in prison if convicted on all counts.
Several people who knew Brianna Stewart--including those with little sympathy for her--are convinced that her biggest victim was herself.
"I honestly think she believed her own stories," says Evergreen mom Theresa Gambetta.
"I believe Brianna Stewart is telling the truth--her truth," says one individual who had extensive contact with her. "There is no fraud, in my opinion. This is who she thinks she is."
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association does recognize a kind of hysteria known as "dissociative fugue," characterized by the total obliteration of a person's identity, often coupled with the assumption of a new one. Such cases are rare, according to Portland psychiatrist Ron Turco, but they do occur--usually as a way to escape an intolerable conflict. Some patients cling to their new identity "in an unshakable way," adds OHSU psychiatrist Harold Boverman.
Oddly enough, Carl Throneberry says Treva would call home from time to time--but pretend to be someone else. "I told her, I said, 'I know you're Treva. I know your voice. You're my little girl,'" he says. "And she'd say, 'I'm not--I wish I was.'
"And I said, 'You're still Treva. Always will be.'"
Meanwhile, Brianna Stewart continues to maintain her innocence. Last month, she demanded a blood test to compare her DNA to that of Carl and Patsy Throneberry--a test she insists will prove she is an abductee, an amnesiac, a runaway--anything but the little girl from Electra.
Originally published 6/27/2001


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WASHINGTON/PARIS/ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Boeing Co's 737 MAX 8 and 9 planes will be grounded for weeks if not longer until a software upgrade can be tested and installed, U.S. lawmakers said on Thursday, as officials in France prepare to begin analyzing the black boxes from a jet that crashed in Ethiopia.
Boeing said it had paused deliveries of its fastest-selling 737 MAX aircraft built at its factory near Seattle but continues to produce its single-aisle jets at full speed while dealing with the worldwide fleet's grounding.
Investigators in France will be seeking clues into Sunday's deadly Ethiopian Airlines crash after take-off from Addis Ababa killed 157 people from 35 nations in the second such calamity involving Boeing's plane since October.
Possible links between the accidents have rocked the aviation industry, scared passengers, and left the world's biggest planemaker scrambling to prove the safety of a money-spinning model intended to be the standard for decades.
U.S. Representative Rick Larsen said after a briefing with U.S. aviation officials the software upgrade would take a few weeks to complete, and installing it on all aircraft would take "at least through April." He said additional training would also have to take place.
Boeing has said it would roll out the software improvement "across the 737 MAX fleet in the coming weeks."
Relatives of the dead stormed out of a meeting with Ethiopian Airlines on Thursday, decrying a lack of transparency, while others made the painful trip to the crash scene.
"I can't find you! Where are you?" said one Ethiopian woman, draped in traditional white mourning shawl, as she held a framed portrait of her brother in the charred and debris-strewn field.
After an apparent tussle over where the investigation should be held, the flight data and cockpit voice recorders were handed over to France's Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA).
Technical analysis would begin on Friday and the first conclusions could take several days, the BEA said, posting a picture of the partly crumpled, orange-cased box.
Nations around the world, including an initially reluctant United States, have suspended the 371 MAX models in operation, though airlines are largely coping by switching planes.
Nearly 5,000 MAXs are on order, meaning the financial implications are huge for the industry. Moody's rating agency said the fallout from the crash would not immediately affect Boeing's credit rating.
"We continue to build 737 MAX airplanes while assessing how the situation, including potential capacity constraints, will impact our production system," Boeing spokesman Chaz Bickers said.
Boeing would maintain its production rate of 52 aircraft per month, and its newest version, the MAX, represents the lion's share, although Boeing declined to break out exact numbers.
The investigation of Sunday's crash has added urgency since the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wednesday grounded the 737 MAX aircraft, citing satellite data and evidence from the scene that indicated some similarities and "the possibility of a shared cause" with October's crash in Indonesia that killed 189 people.
Though it maintains the planes are safe, Boeing has supported the FAA move. Its stock is down about 11 percent since the crash, wiping more than $26 billion off its market value. It fell 1 percent on Thursday.
U.S. and Canadian carriers wrestled with customer calls and flight cancellations and Southwest Airlines Co and American Airlines Group Inc, the largest U.S. operators of the 737 MAX, said they had started flying empty MAX aircraft to be parked elsewhere during the ban.
U.S. President Donald Trump, an aviation enthusiast with deep ties to Boeing, said he hoped the suspensions would be short. "They have to figure it out fast," Trump told reporters at the White House.
A software fix for the 737 MAX that Boeing has been working on since the Lion Air crash in October in Indonesia will take months to complete, the FAA said on Wednesday.
And in what may presage a raft of claims, Norwegian Air has said it will seek compensation from Boeing for costs and lost revenue after grounding its fleet of 737 MAX.
Japan became the latest nation to suspend the 737 MAX planes on Thursday. And airline Garuda Indonesia said there was a possibility it would cancel its 20-strong order of 737 MAXs.
Under international rules, Ethiopians are leading the investigation but France's BEA will conduct black box analysis as an adviser. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) was also sending three investigators to assist.
Only France and the United States have the experience gleaned from being present at almost every crash involving an Airbus or Boeing respectively.
The cause of the Indonesian crash is still being investigated. A November preliminary report, before the retrieval of the cockpit voice recorder, focused on maintenance and training and the response of a Boeing anti-stall system to a recently replaced sensor, but gave no reason for the crash.
The pilot of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 had reported internal control problems and received permission to return, before the plane came down and burst into a fireball on arid farmland.
Reporting by Richard Lough, Tim Hepher and John Irish in Paris, Duncan Miriri and Aaron Masho in Addis Ababa, Jeff Mason and David Shepardson in Washington, Omar Mohammed and Maggie Fick in Nairobi; Danilo Masoni in Milan, and Eric M. Johnson in Seattle, Tracy Rucinski in Chicago, Allison Lampert in Montreal; Writing by Andrew Cawthorne and Ben Klayman; Editing by Jon Boyle, Nick Zieminski and Grant McCool
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ABC hasn't had ratings success on Sundays at 10pm in awhile. Pan Am, 666 Park Avenue, GCB, and Red Widow were all cancelled. Will Betrayal be a different story and end up renewed for a second season? Time will tell.
On Betrayal, the extra-marital affair of two professionals gets even more complicated when their families end up on the opposite sides of a murder trial. The cast includes Stuart Townsend, Hannah Ware, Henry Thomas, Chris Johnson, Wendy Moniz, Braeden Lemasters, Elizabeth McLaughlin, and James Cromwell.
The ratings are typically the best indication of a show's likelihood of staying on the air. The higher the ratings (particularly the 18-49 demo), the better the chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available — usually the next day, around 11:30am EST/8:30am PST. Refresh to see the latest.
5/11 update: Betrayal has been cancelled by ABC and won't return for a second season.
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Volume 19 - Article 42 | Pages 1551–1574
Adult mortality and children's transition into marriage
|Date received:
|28 Jun 2007
|Date published:
|02 Sep 2008
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|adult mortality, HIV/AIDS, marriage, orphans
Adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS and other diseases is posited to affect children through a number of pathways. On top of health and education outcomes, adult mortality can have significant effects on children by influencing demographic outcomes including the timing of marriage. This paper examines marriage outcomes for a sample of children interviewed in Tanzania in the early 1990s and re-interviewed in 2004. We find that while girls who became paternal orphans married at significantly younger ages, orphanhood had little effect on boys. On the other hand, non-parental deaths in the household affect the timing of marriage for boys.
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Kathleen Beegle - World Bank, United States of America
Sofya Krutikova - University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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Mechanisms of cannabinoid action against brain tumors
Cancer is a leading cause of death in industrialized countries. So far, the treatments available from the pharmaceuticals mostly have limited efficiency, as well as a significant toxicity and strong undesirable side effects. It is known that the marijuana plant can help in a natural way and relieve symptoms of cancer and chemotherapy: pain relief, nausea, vomiting, greater appetite, improvement of mood, sleep, relationships with the environment… And we all know how important it is to have a good quality of life when fighting against any disease.
New studies show efficiency of Cannabis against Cancer (2013)
Therefore, we can now find something even more interesting: some cannabinoids in the marijuana plant have a healing action against different forms of cancer. Several testimonies are available now in social networks, particularly in the United States, where medical marijuana is much more accessible than in Europe. Examples of the most common cures are leukemia and brain tumors (gliomas), usually in children and even babies. However, these numerous testimonies are not sufficient evidence to convince the medical and scientific communities, which need reliable studies to confirm these claims. In order to rectify the situation, we propose here a (non-exhaustive) list of 68 international scientific publications, drawn from the best research laboratories, demonstrating the efficiency of the cannabinoids found in marijuana plants in the treatment of cancer.
Studies on the action of cannabinoids against cancer
◾Anti-tumor effects of marijuana. Updated publications on the website of the National Cancer Institute of the Government of the United States in May 2014.
◾Preparation and characterisation of biodegradable microparticles filled with THC and their antitumor efficacy on cancer cell lines. Study published in the Journal of Drug Targeting in September 2013.
◾The endocannabinoid system: a therapeutic target for regulating the growth of cancer.
◾Study published in the Life Science journal in March 2013.
◾CBD Cannabidiol as a potential anticancer drug. Study published in the British Journal of Pharmacology in February 2013.
◾Cannabinoids as anticancer modulators. Study published in the Progress in Lipid Research journal in January 2013.
◾CBD inhibits angiogenesis by multiple mechanisms. Study published in the British Journal of Pharmacology in November 2012.
◾Towards the use of cannabinoids as antitumour agents. Study published in Nature in June 2012.
◾Cannabinoid-associated cell death mechanisms in tumor models. Study published in the International Journal of Oncology in May 2012.
◾Cannabinoids, endocannabinoids and cancer. Study published in Cancer Metastasis Reviews in December 2011.
◾The endocannabinoid system and cancer: therapeutic implication. Study published in the British Journal of Pharmacology in July 2011.
Pr. Manuel Guzman, Cannabis vs Cancer: THC, CBD and TMZ (2014)
Marijuana against brain cancer (glioma, glioblastoma…)
◾Cannabidiol (CBD), a non-psychoactive cannabinoid compound, inhibits the proliferation and invasion in U87-MG and T98G glioma cells through a multitarget effect. Study published in the Public Library of Science journal in October 2013.
◾CBD, a novel therapeutic target against glioblastoma. Study published in Cancer Research in March 2013.
◾Local delivery of cannabinoid-filled microparticles inhibits tumor growth in a model of glioblastoma multiforme. Study published in Public Library of Science in January 2013.
◾Cannabinoid action inhibits the growth of malignant human glioma U87MG cells. Study published in Oncology Reports in July 2012.
◾A combined preclinical therapy of cannabinoids and temozolomide against glioma. Study published in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics in January 2011.
◾Cannabidiol enhances the inhibitory effects of THC on human glioblastoma cell proliferation and survival. Study published in the Molecular Cancer Therapeutics journal in January 2010.
◾Cannabinoid action induces autophagy-mediated cell death in human glioma cells. Study published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation in May 2009.
◾Cannabinoids inhibit glioma cell invasion by down-regulating matrix metalloproteinase-2 expression. Study published in Cancer Research in March 2008.
◾Cannabinoids and gliomas, a study published in Molecular Neurobiology in June 2007.
◾Cannabinoids inhibit gliomagenesis. Study published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry in March 2007.
◾A pilot clinical study of THC in patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme. The results were published in the British Journal of Cancer in June 2006.
◾Cannabidiol inhibits human glioma cell migration through an independent cannabinoid receptor mechanism. Study published in the British Journal of Pharmacology in April 2005.
◾Cannabinoids inhibit the vascular endothelial growth factor pathway (VEGF) in gliomas. Study published in the Journal of Cancer Research in August 2004.
◾Antitumor effects of cannabidiol, a nonpsychoactive cannabinoid, on human glioma cell lines. Study published in the Journal of Pharmacology in November 2003.
◾Inhibition of glioma growth in vivo by selective activation of the CB2 cannabinoid receptor. Study published in the Journal of Cancer Research in August 2001.
Mechanisms of cannabinoid action against brain tumors
Marijuana against breast cancer
◾Targeting multiple cannabinoid antitumor pathways with a resorcinol derivative leads to inhibition of advanced stages of breast cancer. Study published in the British Journal of Pharmacology in June 2014.
◾CBDA, an acid form of CBD found in fiber-type cannabis, is an inhibitor of MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cell migration. Study published in Toxicology Letters in November 2012.
◾Cannabinoids: A new hope for breast cancer therapy? Study published in Cancer Treatment Reviews in June 2012.
◾Pathways mediating the effects of cannabidiol on the reduction of breast cancer cell proliferation, invasion, and metastasis. Study published in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment in August 2011.
◾CBD induces programmed cell death in breast cancer cells by coordinating the cross-talk between apoptosis and autophagy. Study published in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics in May 2011.
◾Cannabinoids reduce ErbB2-driven breast cancer progression. Study published in Molecular Cancer in July 2010.
◾CBD as a novel inhibitor of Id-1 gene expression in aggressive breast cancer cells. Study published in Molecular Therapeutics Research in November 2007.
◾Antitumor activity of plant cannabinoids with emphasis on the effect of cannabidiol on human breast carcinoma. Study published in the Journal of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics in May 2006.
◾THC inhibits cell cycle progression in human breast cancer cells through Cdc2 regulation. Study published in Cancer Research in July 2006.
Explanation of cannabinoid action against breast tumors
Marijuana against blood cancer (leukemia, myeloma, lymphoma…)
◾The effects of cannabidiol and its synergism with bortezomib in multiple myeloma cell lines. Study published in the International Journal of Cancer in December 2013.
◾Enhancing the activity of CBD and other cannabinoids against leukaemia. Study published in Anticancer Research in October 2013.
◾Cannabis extract treatment for terminal acute lymphoblastic leukemia of Philadelphia chromosome (Ph1). Study published in Case Reports in Oncology in September 2013.
◾Expression of type 1 and type 2 cannabinoid receptors in lymphoma. Study published in the International Journal of Cancer in June 2008.
◾Cannabinoid action in mantle cell lymphoma. Study published in Molecular Pharmacology in November 2006.
◾THC-induced apoptosis in Jurkat leukemia. Study published in Molecular Cancer Research in August 2006.
◾Targeting CB2 cannabinoid receptors as a novel therapy to treat malignant lymphoblastic disease. Study published in Blood American Society of Hemmatology in July 2002.
Dr William Courtney, Cannabis VS Cancer (2013)
Marijuana against lung cancer
◾Cannabinoids increase lung cancer cell lysis by lymphokine-activated killer cells via upregulation of Icam-1. Study published in Biochemical Pharmacology in July 2014.
◾Cannabinoids inhibit angiogenic capacities of endothelial cells via release of tissue inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinases-1 from lung cancer cells. Study published in Biochemical Pharmacology in June 2014.
◾COX-2 and PPAR-γ confer CBD-induced apoptosis of human lung cancer cells. Study published in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics in January 2013.
◾CBD inhibits lung cancer cell invasion and metastasis via intercellular adhesion molecule-1. Study published in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in April 2012.
◾Cannabinoid receptors, CB1 and CB2, as novel targets for inhibition of non–small cell lung cancer growth and metastasis. Study published in Cancer Prevention Research in January 2011.
◾THC inhibits epithelial growth factor-induced (EGF) lung cancer cell migration in vitro as well as its growth and metastasis in vivo. Study published in the journal Oncogene in July 2007.
Cannabinoids induce apoptosis of various cell types
Cannabinoids against colorectal cancer
◾Inhibition of colon carcinogenesis by a standardised Cannabis Sativa extract with high content of CBD. Study published in Phytomedecine in December 2013.
◾Chemopreventive effect of the non-psychotropic phytocannabinoid CBD on colon cancer. Study published in the Journal of Molecular Medecine in August 2012.
◾Cannabinoids against intestinal inflammation and cancer. Study published in Pharmacology Research in August 2009.
◾Action of cannabinoid receptors on colorectal tumor growth. Study published by the Cancer Center of the University of Texas in July 2008.
Marijuana against stomach cancer
◾Cannabinoid receptor agonist as an alternative drug in 5-Fluorouracil-resistant gastric cancer cells. Study published in Anticancer Research in June 2013.
◾Antiproliferative mechanism of a cannabinoid agonist by cell cycle arrest in human gastric cancer cells. Study published in the Journal of Cellular Biochemistry in March 2011.
Marijuana against prostate cancer
◾Non-THC cannabinoids inhibit prostate carcinoma growth in vitro and in vivo: pro-apoptotic effects and underlying mechanisms. Study published in the British Journal of Pharmacology in December 2012.
◾The role of cannabinoids in prostate cancer: Basic science perspective and potential clinical applications. Study published in the Indian Journal of Urology in January 2012.
◾Induction of apoptosis by cannabinoids in prostate and colon cancer cells is phosphatase dependent. Study published in Anticancer Research in November 2011.
Mode of action of cannabinoids against tumor cells
Marijuana against liver cancer
◾Involvement of PPARγ in the antitumoral action of cannabinoids on hepatocellular carcinoma (CHC). Study published in Cell Death and Disease in May 2013.
◾Evaluation of anti-invasion effect of cannabinoids on human hepatocarcinoma cells. Study published on the site Informa Healthcare in February 2013.
◾Antitumoral action of cannabinoids on hepatocellular carcinoma. Study published in Cell Death and Differentiation in April 2011.
Marijuana against pancreatic cancer
◾Cannabinoids inhibit energetic metabolism and induce autophagy in pancreatic cancer cells. Study published in Cell Death and Disease in June 2013.
◾Cannabinoids Induce apoptosis of pancreatic tumor cells. Study published in Cancer Research in July 2006.
Marijuana against skin cancer
◾Cannabinoid receptors as novel targets for the treatment of melanoma. Study published in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in December 2006.
◾Inhibition of skin tumor growth and angiogenesis in vivo by activation of cannabinoid receptors. Study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, in January 2003.
Cannabis to cure Cancer ? (David Triplett, 2010)
Marijuana against other types of cancer
◾Bladder: Marijuana reduces the risk of bladder cancer. Study published in the Medscape site in May 2013.
◾Kaposi sarcoma: Cannabidiol inhibits growth and induces programmed cell death in Kaposi sarcoma–associated herpesvirus-infected endothelium. Study published in the journal Genes & Cancer in July 2012.
◾Nose, mouth, throat, ear: Cannabinoids like THC inhibit cellular respiration of human oral cancer cells. Study by the Department of Pediatrics at the State University of New York, published in June 2010.
◾Bile duct: The dual effects of THC on cholangiocarcinoma cells: anti-invasion activity at low concentration and apoptosis induction at high concentration. Study published in Cancer Investigation in May 2010.
◾Ovaries: Cannabinoid receptors as a target for therapy of ovarian cancer. Study published on the American Association for Cancer Research website in 2006.
Finally, it's worth highlighting from these publications that the efficacy of cannabinoids against cancer depends on the dose: the higher the dose, the more important the action. Since it is difficult to obtain high and constant blood concentrations of cannabinoids by consuming marijuana plants in the usuall ways (smoking, vaporizing…) most patients use extractions of cannabinoids. The most popular extraction is called Rick Simpson's oil .
Efficiency of cannabinoids against cancer
We advise you to use a high CBD marijuana strain for your extractions, for this non-psychoactive cannabinoid seems to be the one with best anti-tumor properties.
We greatly appreciate the research work carried out by Dr Manuel Guzman's team at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid for their current work on the use of cannabinoids against cancer.
Do not hesitate to share this information in your community, particularly if you know doctors who do cancer research, and obviously with people suffering from this disease and seeking a natural, effective and safe complementary therapy.
The current legislation on medical marijuana is not adapted to the medical information available today.


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Though sleek and compact, the FC3 Plus is capable of playing games from 3 different consoles. Enjoy all the classics from the NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis. Game cartridges are conveniently top loaded, and system selection is as easy as
flicking a button. An LED light will indicate which mode the system is set to, and the power and reset buttons are easily accessible on the left of the console.
Two 8 button Genesis style controllers are included, providing control for the respective formats. The buttons include the standard directional pad, select, start, as well as x, y, z on the top row, and a, b, c on the bottom row. L and R shoulder buttons are on top for SNES control.
Also included is an NES light gun (zapper), the ducks are in trouble!!! The gun is only compatible with NES games that support it, and can only be used with a standard TV. This means that LCD, Plasma, and Projection TV's are not compatible.
The included AC adapter provides power, and the composite AV cables provide output to any television with the RCA inputs - Yellow for Video, and Red/White for stereo audio.
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text: Full Playlist ENTER THE COMIX ZONE: THE FIRST TRULY INTERACTIVE COMIC BOOK! Play as Sketch Turner, a street-wise comic book artist who gets trapped in the comic book world of his own creation. Warp into the Comix Zone with all the action and adventure of your favorite comics! Battle panel by panel through full comic book pages drawn by real comic book artists! Sharpen your fighting skills to defeat mutant enemies drawn in by Mortus, public enemy no. 1. Rip up the page with superhero power-ups and tons of intense fighting moves!


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I don't think I'm too far off when I say that most people are fascinated by hummingbirds. Delicate yet swift, they confound gardeners, bird watchers, and photographers alike – all of whom wait patiently for one to appear. And when one does, an excited whisper passes through the crowd, as if Beyonce has just walked up to the feeder.
"Oh, there she is. She's right there. Oh, look at her . . ." Then, as quickly as a hummingbird appears, it zips away.
I haven't seen a hummingbird since I was a child, but that certainly hasn't dampened my fascination. So when my friend Michele suggested a field trip to the Baiting Hollow Hummingbird Sanctuary, I jumped at the chance. Would I see one? Would I even be able to snap a picture?
Located on a bluff overlooking Long Island Sound, the Sanctuary is more than a labor of love for its founder, Paul Adams. It is a passion. His three-and-a-half acre garden is, at first glance, in a natural state – filled with native trees that provide perches and nest building materials for his guests of honor, hummingbirds that migrate from Mexico and Central America.
Then, all around, are splashes of sweet nectar and color, thanks to butterfly bushes, salvias, cardinal flowers, trumpet vines, honeysuckle, and a selection of tropical flowers to make the hummingbirds feel more at home.
There is a small, tree-shaded area for parking and, fortunately, I listened to Michele about wearing a good pair of walking shoes. The ground is uneven, and there are some crudely built steps to help visitors negotiate the ups and downs of the garden. And be sure to mind the hand-painted signs – all of which are there to help you safely explore.
The first stop for Michele, me, and two other friends, Jeannie and James, was a hollow, accessible by a tighly packed dirt steps.
At the bottom, a large sign reminded us to be quiet – and it was like entering a church. We were dwarfed by walls of butterfly bushes, accented with the stained glass hues of butterfly wings.
We then strolled under a canopy of wild cherry, oak, and beech trees, all the time keeping our eyes glued to the various feeders, hoping to catch a glimpse of a hummingbird. My hands gripped the camera.
Eventually, we made it to the cottages, one of the most peaceful locations on the property. Here, visitors sat patiently in Adirondack chairs, cameras in hand, waiting for a hummingbird to arrive by a feeder or to enjoy the nectar from any of their favorite flowers.
Behind the cottage closest to the bluff, there was an amazing view of Long Island Sound and the steady buzz of bees. A hummingbird made a quick appearance, but then flew away faster than I could say, "Hum."
We ultimately returned to the garden between the two cottages, one of which is where Mr. Adams spends his summer months. The rest of the year, he's a professor of neuroscience at Stony Brook University, on Long Island. On this visit, we were his pupils, as he taught us about the life and habits of hummingbirds. Then, in midsentence, he said, "There's one at the feeder now."
Every head turned and there was the collective whisper of awe. Instinctively, I snapped a photo. There was no time to zoom and I hoped the digital camera would be able to focus faster than a hummingbird's wings.
At some point, I began to wonder if the hummingbirds were playing with all of us. It's as if they knew we were waiting to capture their image, and when they saw all of the cameras take aim, off they flew. One even hovered above the deck where Mr. Adams was speaking to us, but as the cameras were lifted, so too did the hummingbird. Gone.
Just as I was about to pack up the camera, one hummingbird seemed to feel sorry for us and sat on a branch, preening and posing itself.
And I had my close up. At last.
Not only is it remarkable to have seen a hummingbird in the wild, it's an inspiration to meet a man so passionate about his love that he is willing to share it with the public for free. Yes, you read that correctly. The Sanctuary has no admission fee. In fact, Mr. Adams will not even accept a monetary donation (his website encourages donations to other specified organizations), although sturdy old chairs and plants are always welcome.
The Sanctuary is only open in August. For more information about the species, the Sanctuary, the battle to protect it from development, starting your own hummingbird-friendly garden, as well as days and hours of operation, please visit either the website or blog.


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Joe Bonamassa: Muddy Wolf at Red Rocks (CD) (Released: 2015)
Joe Bonamassa's new CD features his incredible concert from August 31, 2014 which took place at the famous and drop-dead gorgeous Red Rocks Amphitheatre. The show is a spectacular celebration of the music of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, featuring many of the two blues legends' greatest songs and a few Bonamassa classics. This CD is not to be missed!
TRACK LIST:Disc One-(Muddy)
- "We Went down to the Mississippi Delta..."
- Muddy Waters Talking
- Tiger In Your Tank
- I Can't Be Satisfied
- You Shook Me
- Stuff You Gotta Watch
- Double Trouble
- Real Love
- My Home Is On The Delta
- All Aboard
Disc Two-(Wolf & Joe)
- Howlin' Wolf Talking
- How Many More Years
- Shake For Me
- Hidden Charms
- Spoonful
- Killing Floor
- Evil (Is Going On)
- All Night Boogie (All Night Long)
- Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)
- Oh Beautiful!
- Love Ain't A Love Song
- Sloe Gin
- The Ballad of John Henry
- Mississippi Heartbeat (Opening Title)
- Muddy Wolf (Credits)


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Ok–drumroll…the winner is–though I love you all–Eliza, the 13 year old cheesemaker! I love her moxie and enthusiasm. Don't worry, there will be other contests like this in the future…
No, don't worry–I haven't mastered it. But, you know who has? A woman named Gianaclis Caldwell. She has a Nigerian Dwarf goat farm and farmstead cheese operation up in Oregon, called Pholia Farm. She wrote a DIY book about starting a creamery, and she makes some dank-yum cheeses. Now Caldwell has an excellent book out called Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking.
You might be surprised to hear I once took classes at the Vermont Institute of Artisan Cheesemaking. When I was five months pregnant, I suddenly panicked that I would never have the chance to learn from the pros how to make cheese once the bambino came along. I imagined that I would sink into a deep depression because I had no time to study the art and science of cheesemaking post-baby; that I would yearn for what I hadn't done. I was actually right–I won't be able to take a two week-long class in Vermont for the next, oh, 10 years–so it was good to get it out of my system. I did love Vermont–and I loved classes there. We made huge f-ing vats of gouda and stabilized soft cheeses. We learned about the science of how milk becomes cheese, how the molecules are interacting during the setting process; about different kinds of rennet; about pH, and how that makes a cheese behave a certain way. And, I also learned that I would never be a professional cheesemaker. I'm not sanitary enough for bulk production, and I'm easily bored with repetitive tasks.
But I do love making cheese at home. In the past I've used New England Cheesemaking direct set kits–little packets which include the cultures and some rennet; but after cheese school, I started buying culture and rennet separately, and being a bit more experimental with it. If it turns out funky (sorry mom, about that cat hair fig leaf number I sent you last autumn), I can just throw it out. If it's good, I can share it with friends and feel a little god-like. So I don't regret spending the time and money to go to Vermont.
It turns out, though, that I didn't have to go to cheese school at all, because Caldwell's book covers all the stuff I learned in class. I'm offering a galley copy of the book to a reader who posts the best comment about why they would like to read the book.
One of the sidebars in the book is about making rennet out of cardoons. I happen to have a lot of cardoons (they are pretty but weedy), so I was eager to try making my own vegetarian rennet (I once made my own rennet from a goat's stomach, and it took forever…). First I picked the cardoons when they had bloomed and were purple.
Then I sat around and pulled out the stamens. As directed, I tried to dry the stamens then grind them up, but they wouldn't grind. So I just soaked them in water water for 30 minutes, then decanted the liquid and put it in a jar, ready for cheesemaking. Except then someone thought it was just a jar of dirty water and poured it down the sink. Undaunted, I picked more stamens and soaked them in water. While that happened, I heated up the milk as Caldwell directed, to make chevre. Then Franny kicked the container of the second batch of cardoon water over. So I used rennet I had in the fridge, and the tailings of the cardoon water.
Maybe it's the book, maybe it was the small amount of cardoon–but this cheese turned out better than any I've ever made. It's super creamy and yum. I innoculated with some geotrichium, so the ones allowed to age will form a nice bloomy rind. Thanks Gianaclis!! And to D's goats who provided the milk.


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February 20, 2007
Malware Warnings in Image Search
In the new interface of image search, the domain name is less visible, as you have to hover over the thumbnail to see it. So these malware warnings could help you avoid sites that might damage you computer.
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Hi Ionut,ReplyDelete
The malware warning did not work for me, and my computer was attacked. It was caught by the anti-virus and quarantined, however you might want to warn your readers about this. I am using the "CustomizeGoogle" Firefox extension, which is pretty popular, and I had the following option selected: "Re-write links to point straight to the images". This might be a reason while the malware warning didn't work for me... Or maybe Google hasn't rolled out this feature on all servers yet.
- AnonymousFebruary 20, 2007 at 9:42 PM
Firefox? Theres your problem. FF = EvilReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 21, 2007 at 2:48 AM
Oh yeah, FireFox is soooo evil. I bet you use Flock. Or wait, what is that other shit browser? Opera? Man, the establishment is so horrible. Cheers to you, anonymous, and next time you're in town I'll treat you to a generic brand cola-drink.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 21, 2007 at 3:06 AM
Please Google, don't become the next Microsoft. If i want help, i'll ask for it. If i want to go to crackserver.com, that'll be for a reason and i don't want you to stop me or even warn me.ReplyDelete
If i don't have a drivers license, i shouldn't drive a car. If i don't know what to do and what not to do with a computer, i shouldn't use a computer.
"You want to continue to use Google as search engine! Allow / Deny"
It didn't in work in Firefox but worked in IE, Avant Browser. Please let us know how to do the same in Firefox. Thanks for the article.ReplyDelete
It works for me in any browser. Here's the interstitial page (the one you see in the screenshot).ReplyDelete
Also, if you find a better query (without the site: operator) that triggers the warnings, please let me know.
cgull posted a comment here, but I had to delete it, because he included a huge URL that broke the whole layout. When you post a link, either use the <a&br; tag or make a short link with TinyUrl.ReplyDelete
The original comment of cgull (minus the links):
"This new link shows, but the link in the main article just gives standard result, I changed the protection to the highest level in Google. It still shows error."
My response:
You should see that warning AFTER you click on a search result marked as unsafe by Google. This is not related to the Safe Search.
Thanks Alex, I will try the same and also let my friends know. Great suggestion and nice one from Google. Thanks a lot. Cheers :)ReplyDelete
How about presenting this waring only for IE ?ReplyDelete
Other web browsers aren't vulnerable to this kind of exploits, except for what I see in the 1st reply :S
- AnonymousJune 7, 2007 at 9:03 PM
"If i don't have a drivers license, i shouldn't drive a car. If i don't know what to do and what not to do with a computer, i shouldn't use a computer."ReplyDelete
But you use a tyre pressure guage so you don't underinflate your tyres; you use a speedometer so you don't get caught speeding; the dashboard is full of warning lights to alert you if your engine is overheating, or has some other fault... There are lots of automotive technological devices to keep you safe and your car functional, why shouldn't a search engine also have some?
I personally think it's a great idea...ReplyDelete
While I am all in favor of increased web security, and I do trust Google, I have a problem with this and their other interstitial efforts: THEY BREAK WEBSITES! It is fine to give me a warning, but once I ignore it needs to go away for the entire domain. I recently had one of these errors reoccur for every subpage of a domain and I could not use the site's functionality because of it. That is not helpful, it is unacceptable.ReplyDelete


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I love preserving in vinegar. Vinegar is an acid, and acids have the ability to draw out minerals. If you add some vinegar in the liquid when you make stocks with bones, this will help bring the minerals from the bones into the broth; a similar thing happens when you soak mineral-rich herbs/wild plants in vinegar.
I knew I would make something with herbs, because consuming herbal vinegar made with culinary herbs or wild plants is a very healthy practice. I chose to make a vinegar featuring lemon balm, and I added some of my garden strawberries, as well.
Lemon balm (Melissa officianalis) is is an herb that I love. It's in the mint family and has a reputation for being invasive like mint, but I've found it to be very easy to grow and no trouble at all.
Lemon balm is known as a "nervine" (meaning it helps to soothe the nerves). It's also good for your digestion, and has anti-bacterial activity.
But you don't have to use lemon balm. I've been making herbal vinegars with plants such as burdock, nettles, dandelion, chickweed, lamb's quarters, red clover, violet, and even pine needles (renowned herbalist Susun Weed frequently praises pine needle vinegar), for years. All of these plants are extremely nutritious; they are high in calcium, magnesium, and iron, and these minerals are extracted into the vinegar in which they are soaked.
You could also use common culinary herbs, edible flowers, fresh or dried fruit: whatever you want to use to provide flavor and nutrition to your vinegar.
You might choose any single herb or combination of herbs such as basil, dill, mint, lemon balm, rosemary, tarragon, thyme, oregano, and/or sage. All of these taste great and have some health-enhancing properties, as well.
Chives, chilies, garlic, ginger, and shallots are also possibilities: all of these impart wonderful flavor on their own or in a combination, and they too are very healthy.
Fruits can also be used. Berries, fresh or dried, are particularly nice, and do well when combined with some lemon balm or mint. Edible flowers such as bee balm and nasturtium are also nice choices.
The first thing you need to make an herbal vinegar is a glass jar (I buy mason jars by the box; they are inexpensive and this guarantees I always have them around to make recipes like this). You could also use old pickle or spaghetti sauce or similar jars that have been cleaned very well. Keep in mind that vinegar eats away at metal so you can't close these up with a metal lid unless you put a layer of plastic wrap secured with a rubber band underneath. You could also use jars with plastic lids or ones that have a cork. Vinegar is an excellent preservative and this project is pretty much foolproof. There is no need to sterilize the jars.
Then, you will need some plant material, something from one of the lists above.
After you have readied your jars and chosen what you are going to preserve, you need some vinegar. If you are making a large quantity of flavored vinegars, I recommend purchasing inexpensive vinegars such as wine or apple cider varieties by the gallon to use as your base. I personally use raw organic apple cider vinegar that I buy by the gallon.
But you could also use red or white wine vinegar, rice vinegar, balsamic vinegar, or sherry vinegar. Just don't use white vinegar as it is highly processed.
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Flavored vinegars keep very well, and it's nice to have a bunch of them on hand to make marinades and dressings more interesting; they also make nice gifts.
Use your vinegars in salad dressings, or just drizzle them on to your greens and grains, soups, etc. This helps make the minerals in your foods more available to your body. You can even have some (1 tablespoon or so) in warm water with a bit of raw honey or maple syrup as a tonic- this makes a nice substitute for tea or coffee in the morning or afternoon, believe it or not!
For more information, Going Wild in the Kitchen: The Fresh & Sassy Tastes of Vegetarian Cooking has a great chapter on flavored oils and vinegars.
This post is linked to the 7th edition of Simple Lives Thursday!
How to Preserve Culinary Herbs, Wild Plants, and/or Fruit in Vinegar
- 1. Clean and chop up whatever plant material you are using (the amount of plant material you'll need depends on the size of your jar(s). If using berries, they don't need to be chopped. Fill up your jar(s) with your chopped herbs/plants. If you are using fresh plants, you should pack the jar(s) full (squish as much plant material as you can in there); if using berries or dried plants, just fill your jar half way.
- 2. Pour in your vinegar, cap your jar, and let steep for 2-8 weeks in a dark cabinet (if using fresh fruit, 2 weeks is enough; the other plants can sit for 6-8 weeks). Check your vinegar every few days and see if the vinegar is getting low- add some to cover the plant material if needed.
- 3. When the recommended time has passed, strain out the plants (or eat them!) and label your vinegar so you know what you used to make it (honestly this is a good idea- don't rely on your memory. If you are anything like me, months from now you'll stare at all of your different bottles and you'll have no idea what's in them!). Put your vinegar(s) into pretty jar(s) if you are giving as a gift and are so inclined.
- 4. Put the date on your label too so you'll know when it's no longer good. These keep for 1-2 years, but after that you should probably make a fresh batch.


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Far far away in deep auditory space, Heyoka has been abducted, cosmically mind probed, upgraded and reconfigured in an extra terestrial lab on a planet known as Marklar. Fortunately he has returned almost entirely unharmed, and now shall be known as the artist currently know as Andreilien….
Andrei Olenev first emerged as HEYOKA on the San Francisco underground glitch/bass scene in 2006. By 2009 he was touring extensively and quickly became a staple sound in the rapidly growing bass music scene of North America. With a constantly evolving, original style, he stood out amongst bass music producers as one who keeps the vibe going strong while venturing to explore new realms of sonic experience. Playing always live sets of his own original tracks, his music has been described as a journey through fractal soundscapes and alternate realms while riding the waves of fat glitch beats and earth rumbling sub bass.
Andrei has brought his signature sound to North American festivals including: Symbiosis, Sonic Bloom, Raindance, Lightning in a bottle, Big Bounce, Alchemeyez, and large Burning Man sound camps such as Nexus, El circo, Temple of Boom, Entheon Village, Roots Society and Fractal Nation. He has also played several international electronic music festivals such as Shambhala (Canada), Boom (Portugal), Earthfreq and Winter solstice (Australia), and Luminate (New Zealand). He frequently tours nightclubs and concert venues through the States and Canada, as well as internationally in Australia, New Zealand and Russia.
As Heyoka, Andrei released his first ep in 2008, and by 2011 had produced over six albums through San Francisco's Muti Music, a leader in the glitch hop and bass music scene. In "Dub Iteration," Andrei's newest album and first official release as Andreilien, he revisits the dubby vibe of some of the earlier Heyoka releases with a newer fatter twist.
Further expanding artistic horizons, Andrei has been continually working to develop a multimedia project with original Visionary and 3D art to create full sensory fractal journey in a dimension of its own.
So, for a sonic journey so thick you can smell it, keep listening to signals from beyond for Andreilien playing in a noosphere near you…