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Dr. M.L.P. Collins at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has developed a new method for making large quantities of active, viable proteins using Rhodospirillum rubrum as a host. R. Rubrum is a bacterium that has traditionally been studied for its simple photosynthetic system, has demonstrated recent success in expressing high-yield protein.
To provide a brief overview, R. rubrum possesses the unique characteristic of forming an intracytoplasmic membrane (ICM) in response to membrane protein synthesis. The ICM is non-essential for growth and can incorporate foreign and over-expressed membrane proteins without disrupting normal cellular function. This characteristic has stimulated the expression of active and correctly folded membrane protein where other systems have failed.
In an attempt to gather additional testing data, the UWM Research Foundation would like to provide free protein expression kits to laboratories or universities that are having difficulties with their current method of producing large-scale proteins. Having limited resources, our researchers have only had the ability to test a number of proteins but thus far have seen exceptional promise. We currently have 8 other universities or companies using the new kit and are now ready to distribute to other participants. The link listed below provides a more detailed explanation of the testing process including the specific proteins currently being tested. You may also view Dr. Collin's publication on her findings of using R. rubrum as a host. If you are interested in learning more about this new system or have any additional comments, you may email me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Testing Kit Link
http://www.uwmresearchfoundation.org/ge … -2013.aspx
Dr. Collin's Publication
Butzin, N.C; Owen, H.A.; and M.L.P. Collins. 2010. A new system for heterologous expression of membrane proteins: Rhodospirillum rubrum. Protein Expression and Purification, 70: 88-94.
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NEW YORK, May 2 (UPI) -- In defense of New York City's stop-and-frisk policy, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly says 75 percent of violent crimes are committed by African-Americans.
In a televised interview Wednesday, Kelly said the controversial police tactic, which many say disproportionately targets blacks and Latinos, may not be used enough, the New York Daily News reported.
"About 70 percent to 75 percent of the people described as committing violent crimes -- assault, robbery, shootings, grand larceny -- are described as being African-American," Kelly told ABC's "Nightline." "The percentage of people who are stopped is 53 percent African American. So really, African-Americans are being under-stopped in relation to the percentage of people being described as being the perpetrators of violent crime."
Meanwhile, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn continued to support a bill that would create an inspector general to oversee the NYPD, the New York Post reported.
Quinn, a mayoral candidate, said Wednesday her efforts would continue to slash the number of stop-and-frisks conducted by police officers, which were at an all-time high in 2011 with 684,000 and dropped to 525,000 in 2012.
"The [nearly] 700,000 number, which was at our height, it has gone down because of the intervention of my office and the council," Quinn said. "That's a number that is too high and clearly shows that many of those stops could not have been happening in a constitutionally sound way."

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I wasn't sure whether to include this in Philosophy or Science, but decided on the latter because, ultimately, I'd like to be see variable evidence.
Consciousness or Sentience, as well as the concept of the "Mind" are terms that we attribute to our personality, our perception of the world. We also often use these terms, especially Sentience, to differentiate between us and the rest of the animal world.
To my knowledge, however, neither Psychology nor Neuroscience has yet to understand what specifically forms out personality and whether there is such a thing as consciousness. If we study human evolution, we'll observe that there never was a point our development when we can say that humans all of a sudden became conscious. It was a gradual process, that can be seen in slowly enlarging cranium capacities and ever more sophisticated usage of various tools; as in, the difference between Achaeulian and Oldowan tool types, for instance.
It would be interesting to read a medical paper on this. Until then, I am inclined to believe that we are simply much smarter than other animals and that there is no such thing as consciousness or sentience. Other animals are as much conscious as we are, but their perception is limited by lower level of intelligence.
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Well, I would say there are several ways of perceiving consciousness. Here are the ones I am familiar with:
1. Nothing exists except consciousness - e.g., the idealistic pantheism of much of Hinduism. This idea seems non-parsimonious but if true I would not have any problem with it.
2. Consciousness is total illusion. Well, I think that might be going too far, unnecessarily.
3. There is a real and existing dualism of consciousness and matter, with the former being eternal and timeless and creating the latter, for whatever reason. E.g., monotheism. I think this is very non-parsimonious. I would need to see some real evidence to even consider this a plausible idea.
4. Consciousness is a secondary phenomenon, arising or evolving out of a material universe - being more of a verb than a noun - and dependent upon the prior existence of the material. It seems that no scientific observation or experiment has offered any refutation of this possibility, and science is utterly compatible with it. So this is my personal pragmatic choice, or working theory of existence. I leave the burden to prove otherwise to others. And good luck with that, others. LOL.
It depends on how you define consciousness. If you mean self awareness, I think it arose as we evolved to be social beings. We began to think about how others reacted to what we did, and how we behaved toward them. Im sure lower animals are aware of themselves, but they don't consider themselves "Living" because the never needed to form relationships beyond food and sex, so never had any reason to think much of other members of their species. ( Don't know how this would apply to pack animals.)
If you define it as thinking, I believe its the brains best guess at making sense of the information its being fed. It takes the information, forms a picture and then forms conclusions.
I think personalities arise because of how we learned (Genetically and developmentally) to react to certain situations. As a child, If we were raised in an environment that everyone is rude, we learn that that is the acceptable way to react, and that leaves an imprint on us.
when i was reading the magic of reality by Richard Dawkins, i really admired his view of Philosophy and his way of explaining Evolution. Consciousness perhaps is one of the most important and questions human kind ever have faced. so many people have many definitions, when seeing the development of science i am confident that we will one day be able to understand the complexity of the brain and what Consciousness really is, whatsoever i found this article recently on the internet which describes about human condition and Consciousness.
The best model for consciousness is a neurological feedback circuit within the brain. Ordinarily we think of consciousness as awareness of external stimuli, but such awareness occurs to some extent even with people who are unconscious. We've all experienced being awakened from deep sleep by a noise or a light turned on. Unconscious patients in hospitals show they still experience pain by groans when they are moved.
In a conscious state, the brain is aware of its own activity; in unconsciousness it is not. This has been verified by recent electroencephalograph experiments. The results are preliminary, but interesting.
Consciousness is simply our awareness of self and non-self (the material world). In fact our awareness is extremely narrow – most of it is filled in by previous experiences. At best our short term memory can retain no more than 7 items and our memories are only marginally reliable. The bulk of our behavior, including our supposition of "free will", is governed by our unconscious mind. That reinforces the idea that we have "free will" because we don't know what the unconscious mind is doing and dictating.
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BERKELEY, Calif. — Responding to questions following a lecture at the University of California-Berkeley on Wednesday, retired Marine Gen. James Mattis said that if Iran eventually builds a nuclear weapon, there would be "bleak options" in response, no matter who happens to be in the White House.
While Israel has long opposed an Iranian nuclear program, touting a "red line" that cannot be crossed, Mattis also offered his opinion of whether Israel would indeed launch an attack.
"Of course that's the $64,000 question," Mattis said. " ... Do I think Israel will act in its own best interest? Yes. Will they automatically attack? No, it'll be a calculated decision if they do."
If there is a diplomatic agreement reached between the U.S. and Iran, but it does not include limits to the number of nuclear centrifuges and allow U.N. the freedom to inspect the sites, then "we've got a problem," Mattis said.
"To get a deal like that, you've got a bad deal, and that's worse."
In addition to the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, the former commander of Central Command reasoned that other Arab states such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and U.A.E. would build their own nuclear weapons programs in response.
"If the Iranians come away from this with a nuclear program intact, I think there are very bleak options."
"Americans certainly have no appetite for attack," Mattis said, then paraphrasing Winston Churchill's opinion of how the U.S. responds to challenges, "'[But] once the Americans exhaust all possible alternatives, they'll do the right thing."
Although, he said, "Another war in that part of the world would be terrible."
Cautious about "forecasting" exactly what would occur, the general said that economic sanctions and diplomacy can help avoid a war, "but something's got to happen."


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Sources conflict over the true meaning of the name Hell Gate. The Dutch rendering, Hellgat, is translated as "open passage," and in this context refers to the East River as it opens into the Long Island Sound. Formed by a fault deep under the surface, the water, at over 100 feet in depth on the Manhattan side, is among the deepest sections of New York Harbor. Hell Gate earned its reputation as a difficult waterway with tricky tides and many obstructions with colorful names such as the Frying Pan Rock, Hen & Chickens, Shell Drake Rock, and Bald-headed Billy. Native American legend held that at low tide it was possible to jump from reef to reef and cross Hell Gate without swimming.
After the Battle of Long Island in August 1776, British General Robertson built batteries here that cannonaded American positions on the shore of Manhattan. Various British units occupied this spot throughout the American Revolution. On November 25, 1780, the frigate HMS Hussar carrying 150 men, including a number of American prisoners, and three years of payroll for the British naval garrison in Newport, sank in the passage. The treasure was never recovered and some suspect the sinking was actually a cover-up for the theft of the money.
It is estimated that the wrecks of over 1,000 ships lie in the Hell Gate. Starting in the 1840s, and continuing for the next 80 years, the Federal government tried various means to remove the rocks and reefs that made the Hell Gate dangerous to shipping. In October 1885, over 300,000 pounds of explosives were detonated, obliterating the once treacherous nine-acre Flood Rock. Nearly 100,000 people gathered on the Manhattan banks of the East River to watch what is said to have been the world's largest explosion prior to the atomic bomb. Windows rattled as far away as Princeton, New Jersey,
In 1942, Parks Commissioner Robert Moses (1888-1981) petitioned the City to assign this property, located along the East River at 26th Avenue and 2nd Street in the Hallet's Cove section of Queens, to Parks after the Board of Education stopped using the facility. Well maintained, the field already had a baseball diamond, running track, and grandstand, and needed only minor repairs. Moses argued that the site was necessary in this section of Queens, as the neighborhood lacked adequate opportunities for baseball and other forms of "adult recreation." In October of 1943 the site was assigned to Parks and became known as Astoria Athletic Field.
The City acquired this land in February 1906 and used it for Board of Education purposes. Beginning in 1907, the U.S. Government leased part of the site for a monthly fee of $16.66 to the Coast Guard so they could maintain a lighthouse and bell along the water at the site.
The lighthouse remained on the seawall until 1982, when it began to lean. The Coast Guard determined that the most cost-effective solution would be to create a new light, and it was relocated to a light stanchion on the field. In 1985 the park's name was changed to Hellgate Field by Commissioner Stern for the water passage that the park abuts.


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Leslie and Beckett's birth story
I promise this isn't going to turn into a birth story blog, but this is such a good one that I just had to share. Plus, like everyone I know is having babies at the moment which makes these stories major low hanging fruit in terms of blog posts.
Leslie is a good friend from college who welcomed her first little dude into the world in a pretty awesome way, just two weeks after Forrest was born. She's also a great writer and apparently born to give birth, both of which make for a great read.
Thursday, July 5th felt totally normal: I took Rowdy on a long walk, helped Scott at the shop, did a big grocery store run so I could cook up a storm before I went into labor… I even went to a wine bar on the wharf with Jen, stealing sips of her champagne flight as we gossiped! I did notice that I was having more of the "fake" contractions, and as I finally settled in at home around 8pm, I realized they were coming consistently about 10 minutes apart. My heart quickened a bit as I wondered if maybe these weren't fake after all, but they didn't hurt at all, which certainly wasn't what I expected labor to be like. I called my doula, Courtney, around 9pm just to give her a heads up that MAYBE something was happening, though I didn't really think so. She reassured me that even if this wasn't labor, my body was gearing up. Courtney encouraged us to get some rest and check in with her in the morning.
Scott fell asleep immediately (of course), but my head was swimming with questions and anticipation. I re-read Joy's birth story, looking for clues about what to expect, and the contractions started to pick up. She had mentioned something about tracking her contractions with an iPhone app- there seriously is an app for everything!- so I found one and downloaded it. When I started tracking at 12:10am, they were about six minutes apart, and at that point, felt similar to menstrual cramps. I tried to remember from our birth class how long the various phases of labor are supposed to last, with no luck, but according to the app's quick reference page, it appeared I was moving from "early labor" to "active labor". Eeeeeeeeee!
I woke Scott up around 12:45am to let him know this seemed legit. We were both excited but surprisingly calm. I decided to take a shower, and I yelled to Scott each time I had a contraction so we could keep tracking them with the app. Around that time things really cranked up: now the contractions were more like three minutes apart. I called our hospital to let them know I was in labor and would be coming in at some point, and when I gave the nurse details about my contractions she seemed to think we had plenty of time. My big concern had been that my labor would stall out midway and require interventions like Pitocin, which was part of why I wanted to labor at home as long as possible before going into the clinical environment of the hospital that often slowed things down. It's funny how opposite things turned out!
Timing the contractions with the app kept me somewhat distracted, but I was definitely in a good amount of pain, so we called Courtney around 2am to ask her to come over. I also called my parents; even though I knew it would freak them out, I felt like they should know what was going on! I announced to my mom "It looks like I'm having a baby!" and she responded "so what do I do?!" I assumed she could wait until morning to make the half an hour drive here and still catch plenty of the action.
Courtney arrived just before 2:30am, watched me moan through a contraction, looked at the handy list on the app charting the duration and frequency of my previous contractions, then promptly took my phone away from me so I could focus on the labor instead. Darn her! She encouraged me to loosen up as the contractions came, especially my shoulders, and I suppose that helped. However, that point it was hard to find any position that was remotely comfortable: I leaned on Scott, we "danced" in the kitchen, I leaned on walls, and finally I was on all fours on the couch with Courtney next to me rubbing my back.
At around 3:30am I decided this was as intense as things needed to get at home; I was ready for the security of being surrounded by medical staff at the hospital. Scott had to stop by the shop to put up a sign indicating we would be closed that day (because we were having a baby!). He was gone no more than 10 minutes, but by then I was starting to go a little nutty. The short drive into the hospital was brutal, and as we tried to walk in I doubled over in pain with another contraction. I'd said all along that I wanted to go as long as possible without any pain medications- ideally making it through to the end- but the idea of some relief was starting to sound really great.
As the medical staff started the check-in process, I could see why people claimed the hospital atmosphere could slow things down. They couldn't find my pre-registration, so I was forced to answer questions about my Social Security number, my phone number, etc… all while in intense labor! I was alternating between pacing around, leaning on the bed, moaning/ screaming, and I heard the nurse say to someone on the phone "I think we'll end up admitting this one." You think?
After what felt like forever, the nurse checked me and declared I was five centimeters dilated. I hadn't held any expectations about where I should be at that point, but that seemed pretty good. I figured I was about at the midway point after less than five hours of "real" labor, which certainly made the 24 hour labor (or more!) that I'd feared less likely.
Around this point I started asking about pain medication options, and Courtney encouraged me to get in the giant tub first to labor in water. "They call it the midwife's epidural; it could really help!" she reassured me. A real epidural didn't seem so bad at this point, but since I had been looking forward to the tub (if that's the right way to phrase anything involving labor?!) I did want to try it. I had actually bit down on Scott's shoulder and wept during one of the contractions, so he was freaking out a bit at seeing me in that kind of pain and seemed open to whatever might help.
The tub is when my memory of everything gets less clear, probably because I was a bit out of my mind! Every contraction would take over my entire body, starting right underneath my chest, and I felt completely out of control. It was beyond intense and somewhat scary. As promised in our birth class, I started to doubt myself and tell Courtney I didn't think I could do this, to which she calmly but firmly responded that I could. During one of the seemingly brief breaks between contractions, I reasoned with myself that there was no reason for me to suffer like this when I could have pain meds, and if nothing else I just needed a break, so I apologetically told Courtney that I wanted to try fentanyl. It would "take the edge off" for about an hour, which sounded dreamy. Courtney reassured me that I'd done great, and while I don't remember it, apparently she asked if I wanted to be checked again first. The nurse (who had barely been around at this point) popped back in, I requested the drugs, and since she still needed to draw blood for some reason anyway, she said she'd be back to set up an IV lock.
Scott was also in and out of the room; he called my parents with an update (again thinking they could probably wait until morning), and then he left to use a restroom out in the lobby.
My water still hadn't broken, and I started to feel an incredible amount of pressure. I reached down and discovered what felt like a balloon bulging out between my legs. When I told Courtney, she said that I could push a bit to help it break. I pushed and felt it get bigger; at this point the pain was accompanied by an intense burning. I don't know exactly how many times I pushed, but I just wanted to make the crazy pain go away, and in my head I was determined to break that darn balloon.
No more than a few minutes later, I felt the pop of my water breaking, accompanied by a powerful gush. The relief was immediate and AWESOME. I sighed "thank God!" and sat there blissfully catching my breath for a second. When I opened my eyes I noticed all sorts of nastiness around me in the tub… and to my surprise, floating next to me was what appeared to be an umbilical cord. I recall thinking "that's not supposed to be out yet, is it?" as I continued to look around in the dim mood lighting Courtney had set up.
Then I noticed something larger floating in the tub. As I reached to scoop it up, I realized it was a baby. Yep, a BABY. He was still perfectly curled in the fetal position, angelic and quiet. I was in such shock that I didn't even have time to worry if he was okay or not before Courtney started yelling "BABY!!!!"
I sat there, holding the baby up like a prize I happened upon and wasn't sure I had earned, as suddenly all sorts of hospital staff came running in. A moment later, Scott came in, equally confused and with tears in his eyes, and I hoisted the baby a little higher in his direction, kind of like "Hey, look what I did while you were gone!" At some point during all this commotion, our baby started crying.
It's funny how fuzzy those few minutes after birth are in my memory, but I suppose my brain was busy trying to wrap itself around the fact that I'd just had a baby essentially by myself, in a bathtub. As much as I knew things don't always go according to plan in labor, this was miles away from anything I ever would have imagined. And as the hospital staff would point out, both at that point and repeatedly throughout the next two days of our stay, patients aren't supposed to give birth in the tub, so they were all rather baffled by the situation as well.
I think they drained the tub then refilled it with clean water to rinse us both off, then an entire team of people lifted me out (while I held the baby close) into a wheelchair to transfer me to the bed. As I recall, it wasn't until then that it occurred to anyone to ask if it was a boy or a girl, so I pulled him away from me to confirm we had indeed gotten the boy we'd expected. From there I pretty much just stared at the tiny baby on my chest as the hospital part of this whole experience kicked in: Various people examined and discussed the condition of my lady parts. A doctor finally showed up, though not mine, as I had figured I could wait until a reasonable hour to call her since she wasn't technically on duty that day. Someone offered Scott scissors to cut the umbilical cord. I was jabbed with a needle then the unknown-doctor delivered the placenta. More shots and some stitches. I still couldn't believe that this had all actually happened so fast.
I was admitted to the hospital at 3:45am, and Beckett Radford Ruble was born at 4:51am. (At least that was the guess, given that no one was in the room to officially record it.) He didn't mess around. Beckett weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces, measured 19 inches long, and he had a solid amount of blonde hair. Not surprisingly, we found him to be absolutely perfect.
Pretty amazing, right? I thought you all would enjoy. I don't know if I could ever tire of birth stories. They're all so different and all so miraculous, each and every one.


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All the single ladies! Sisanie has the perfect recipe to whip up this Valentine's Day in the latest episode of Off-Air With Sisanie in the video above. There's been a longstanding recipe for an "engagement chicken" which allegedly is so delicious it'll make your partner want to commit.
It originated from Kim Bonnell, a fashion editor at Glamour magazine, following a trip to Italy. As the story goes, in 1982, Bonnell gave the recipe to a co-worker to prepare for her boyfriend and soon afterwards, the couple got engaged. The recipe then made the rounds in the office and three other women in the office got engaged shortly after making the dish for their boyfriends.
Sooo why not give it a shot?! Sisanie is obviously married but we're here to help all our single friends out!
Watch the video above to learn the secret of the "engagement chicken" and get the detailed recipe below:
1 whole chicken (approx. 4 pounds)
1/2 cup fresh lemon juice, plus 3 whole lemons including 1 sliced for garnish
1 tablespoon kosher or coarse sea salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
Fresh herbs for garnish (4 rosemary sprigs, 4 sage sprigs, 8 thyme sprigs, and 1 bunch flat-leaf parsley)
Position an oven rack in the upper third of the oven and preheat the oven to 400°F. Remove the giblets from the chicken, wash the chicken inside and out with cold water, then let the chicken drain, cavity down, in a colander for 2 minutes.
Pat the chicken dry with paper towels. Place the chicken breast-side down in a medium roasting pan fitted with a rack and pour the lemon juice all over the chicken, both inside and out. Season the chicken all over with salt and pepper inside and out.
Prick 2 whole lemons three times in three different places on each with a fork and place them deep inside the cavity.
Put the chicken in the oven, lower the oven temperature to 350 degrees F, and roast, uncovered for 15 minutes.
Remove the roasting pan from the oven. Using tongs or two wooden spoons, turn the chicken breast-side up. Insert a meat thermometer in the thigh, and return the chicken to the oven and roast for about 1 hour to 1 hour and 15 minutes or until the meat thermometer reads 180 degrees F and the juices run clear when the thigh is pricked with a fork. Continue roasting if necessary. Keep in mind that cooking times in different ovens vary; roasting a chicken at 350°F takes approximately 18-20 minutes per pound, plus an additional 15 minutes for a stuffed chicken that is 4 pounds.
Let the chicken rest for 10 minutes before carving.
And the secret: Pour the juices from the roasting pan on top of the sliced chicken -- this is the "marry me juice." Garnish with fresh herbs and lemon slices.
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Zoning Code Update Packet #134
Contents of Update Packet #134 (effective 09/18/09)
This Code update is the result of the Hayden Island Plan.
Code Update Packet: 134
Effective Date: September 18, 2009
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Amends Chapters: 33.470, 33.532 (new)
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Onur Yenigun, MS1, administers his 30th flu vaccine of the day.
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By Jeffrey Chen, MS 1
It's 6:45 am on a Saturday. The sun has yet to rise, and the early-morning San Francisco wind whips my face as I climb the steep hill to Parnassus to meet up with eight of my fellow medical students. Despite the chilly hour, we are all eager to head out to rural Monterey County, two hours south.
Since 2011, the UCSF Flu Crew has been mobilizing teams of medical and nursing students to give out free flu shots throughout the Greater Bay Area. For this particular event, the team is heading to the Royal Oaks Mushroom Farm near Salinas, CA, to vaccinate scores of workers and their families.
After a pit stop in San Jose to load up on vaccines and supplies, we drive to the farm and set up a makeshift clinic in a conference room. We had learned our injection techniques two weeks earlier: sterilize, pinch, dart, aspirate, inject, band-aid. The process was simple enough. But we also learned the "social touch": Greet our patients with a smile and a handshake, then thank them after the injection. Now is our chance to put these skills to use and meet some of our first patients in the community.
As farm employees trickle in, we work in pairs—one student preparing the vaccines, the other greeting, injecting, and thanking the patients. Our two faculty preceptors, Dr. Walt Newman and Dr. Jordan Rinker, make sure the process runs smoothly, and if a student forgets to reach out a hand before sitting the patient down, they remind us of the importance of the social touch.
"It's so important that new medical students learn effective bedside manner early," emphasizes Dr. Newman, as the line outside the clinic grew longer and longer.
Throughout the day, we meet mushroom growers, pickers, cleaners, and packers. We meet their spouses and their kids. Many speak Spanish and very little English, while most of our team speaks very little Spanish. However, armed with our social touch and essential phrases such as "¿Cómo estás?", we each meet and vaccinate around 30 patients.
In the process, we see different human stories unfold. There is the 10-year-old girl who bravely goes first to set an example for her nervous mother. There is the worker who tells us he's been happily working at the farm for over 25 years, before many of us were even born.
By the time we wrap up the clinic, we've given out a total of 228 free flu shots, along with our greetings and thank-you's. And every single patient thanked us in return, including the 4-year-old boy who at first came in crying.
"It was so different and powerful to shake someone's hand before and after a medical procedure than in any other circumstance," remarks Hannah Joo, a fellow first-year medical student on this team. "It was the most significant contribution I have made directly to anyone's health, and I felt proud to be part of the UCSF Flu Crew."
At the end of the day, we had refined both our injection techniques and bedside manners. We were rewarded with thanks, stories, and mushrooms. As medical students, this is exactly what we signed up for.


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The Plano fashion blogger and model who lost an eye and her hand in a runway accident last December told the NBC's Today Show on Thursday that she was feeling good and hasn't had any pain since January, which "is a blessing."
Lauren Scruggs talked with Today Show host Savannah Guthrie in London, where NBC is broadcasting the Olympics. The model said she wanted to come out to the games because she found inspiration in the athletes and their perserverance, including 16-year-old Gabby Douglas, the first African-American woman to ever win the gold in the Olympic all-around competition.
Douglas, who had just finished an interview with her teammates and Guthrie, then came out and gave Scruggs an embrace to the applause of the show's outdoor audience.
Scruggs who has written a memoir due to be published in November about her experience, titled "Still Lolo: A Spinning Propeller, a Horrific Accident, and a Family's Journey of Hope" said documenting the accident was "really healing for me personally."
She credits her faith for helping her get through the recovery, and cope with the physical losses.
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One September morning when I was five
My daddy said, "Son, rise from your bed."
I thought, I must be dreaming, it's still dark outside
He said, "Son if you fall behind you'll never get ahead
Here's your little brown cowboy shirt, put it on
Here's your little brown cowboy pants, put 'em on
Here's your little brown shoes, can you tie them yourself?
Get into the car, we're gone!"
We drove, it seemed like forever,
Further than I'd ever been away from home
Then my daddy stopped the car, and he turned to me
He said, "Son it's time to make us proud of you,
It's time to do what's right
Gonna have to learn to work hard"
I said, "Work? What are you talking about?
You're not gonna leave me here, are you?"
He said "Yes I am!"
And drove off into the morning light
For a while I stood there, on the sidewalk
A Roy Rogers lunch pail in my hand
Then I heard sweet children's voices calling
And I began to understand
They said, "Four eyes! Look like you're still sleeping!"
"Four eyes! Look like you're dead!"
"Four eyes! Where have you been keeping yourself?"
"Look like you been whupped upside the head."


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Ypsilanti City Council honors retired Fire Chief Jon Ichesco
Recently retired Ypsilanti Fire Chief Jon Ichesco was honored by city council Tuesday for his 28 years of service within the department.
Courtesy Kate de Fuccio
Ichesco, 66, began working for the city in June 1984 as a firefighter and was promoted within the department. In 1994, he became the fire marshal and the fire chief Jan. 13, 2007.
In recent years, Ichesco served as both fire marshal and fire chief. Ichesco retired Dec. 31 and Captain Max Anthouard was named interim chief Dec. 20.
Council presented Ichesco with a certificate and resolution commending him for his "unparalleled service" to the citizens of Ypsilanti.
"It's been a pleasure and an honor to serve and I won't be going too far away," Ichesco said. "It was fun serving people and that was my reward."
A roast will be held for Ichesco from 2 to 5 p.m., Jan. 20 at the Michigan Firehouse Museum located at 110 W. Cross St.
Katrease Stafford covers Ypsilanti for AnnArbor.com.Reach her at email@example.com or 734-623-2548 and follow her on twitter.
Thu, Jan 10, 2013 : 2:34 p.m.
Thank you Chief, for your many years of service! You are a fantastic human, and excellent leader! Enjoy your retirement!
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 7:22 p.m.
The citizens of Ypsilanti will surely miss you Chief. I salute you for your service and trying to run a Department with very little resources or manpower which you had no control over. I live on Washtenaw and I see and hear the trucks going by all the time and then I hope they have a safe return. The new chief will have some big shoes to fill when they find a replacement. Hopefully they will promote within, as in giving the position to the interim chief since he is already doing the job that the council felt he could handle by appointing him. Then get us another 2 firefighters back on the job and let city council start taking cuts out of their paychecks and budgets. It's time for the tax payers to start demanding more protection from both the Fire and Police. Bring our men and women back so the city can control all the crime going on and make us feel safer with more man power on both departments. Hey maybe city council could get laid off for a few months and let them see how it feels to not have a job. Don't forget Mr Mayor and Council Members, the citizens voted you in, just takes a petition drive to have you recalled. Find the money and staff the departments in a safer level, even if you all have to cut your paychecks in half.
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 9:09 p.m.
I echo your support for restored police and fire staffing, but councilmembers only make somewhere between $5,000 and $7,000 a year as it is. I suppose you could make the council positions volunteer, but what quality of people would end up with? There is no more fat to cut in the Ypsi City budget, and there hasn't been for a long time. Revenue needs to be increased at this point.
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Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 5:03 p.m.
Jon Ichesco deserves many thanks for years of outstanding commitment.


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Hi, so I've been working on several simple text rpgs for a long time, and I think this one is my best yet. For some reason, my battle system only seems to work when I tried doing just a battle in the main method:
package game; import java.util.*; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { Battle battle = new Battle(); Player p1 = new Player(); Monster m1 = new Monster(); battle.bMain(p1, m1, 50); } }
Here's what I actually want to have written in main:
package game; import java.util.*; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { Player p1 = new Player(); p1.setName(); System.out.println("You're standing in the middle of a dirt road in the country."); Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in); in.nextLine(); System.out.println("You look around and decide to follow it south."); in.nextLine(); System.out.println("You're not entirely sure how you got here, but you've got a strange determination to keep going."); in.nextLine(); System.out.println("After walking for a while, you start to feel the hairs on the back of your neck rise up."); in.nextLine(); System.out.println("Suddenly, something jumps out at you!"); in.nextLine(); Battle b1 = new Battle(); Monster scarecrow = new Monster(); scarecrow.setName("Scarecrow"); b1.bMain(p1, scarecrow, 50); System.out.println("It appears the scarecrow has dropped something..."); Item lhat = new Item(); lhat.hMod(p1, 5); in.nextLine(); System.out.println("It's a leather hat! It adds 5 hp."); in.nextLine(); } }
Here's my battle class:
package game; import java.util.*; public class Battle { public void bMain(Player player, Monster monster, int x) // x = experience gain from defeating monster { Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.println("You've encountered a "+monster.mName); player.calcAtk(); // calculate player battle statistics player.calcDef(); player.calcHP(); in.nextLine(); while(player.hp > 0 && monster.hp > 0) { pTurn(player, monster); if(monster.hp <= 0) { System.out.println(monster.mName+" has died!"); monster.setXP(x); player.getXP(monster.xpdeath); System.out.println("You've gained "+monster.xpdeath+" experience!"); break; } in.nextLine(); mTurn(player, monster); if(player.hp <= 0) { System.out.println("You have died!"); player.isAlive = false; break; } in.nextLine(); } } public void pTurn(Player player, Monster monster) { System.out.println("You attack!"); Random rand = new Random(); int roll = rand.nextInt(10); int hchnc = roll + player.atk; if(hchnc > monster.def) { int rolldmg = rand.nextInt(10); System.out.println("You strike "+monster.mName+" for "+rolldmg+" damage"); monster.hp = monster.hp - rolldmg; System.out.println(monster.mName+ " has " +monster.hp+ " hp."); } else if(hchnc <= monster.def) { System.out.println("You miss!"); } } public void mTurn(Player player, Monster monster) { System.out.println(monster.mName + " attacks!"); Random rand = new Random(); int roll = rand.nextInt(10); int hchnc = roll + monster.atk; if(hchnc > player.def) { int rolldmg = rand.nextInt(10) + monster.bossplus; System.out.println(monster.mName+" strikes for "+rolldmg+" damage"); player.hp = player.hp - rolldmg; System.out.println("You have "+player.hp+" hp."); } else if(hchnc <= player.def) { System.out.println(monster.mName+" misses!"); } } }
When I run the actual main method instead of the test one, it just doesn't call the battle method. It skips right to the part where the first Item is created. None of the print lines in the method happen. It's as if there were just two nextline methods from my scanner.


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It's a cold Saturday afternoon – the sky is clear and blue, but there's no heat in the early March sun as yet. I'm wandering the rooms of the Tate Britain, the Thames sparkling outside, constantly chasing after a runaway girlfriend who darts from work to work with the kind of gleeful grin usually reserved for young children come Christmas. I know I should care more about the exhibits; that I should really lean into the vivid colours created by Chris Ofili and Peter Doig and see, if not feel, something beyond the superficial shrug of "S'alright". But I don't; it's not how I work, at least not right now. In a crowd, as I am at the Tate, I like my art spoon-fed: brash, bright, and easily digested without need for isolation, isolation for considered thought and analysis. I guess that's why I love rock and roll so much more than I do pictures on a wall; why I learn more by shakin' all over than I do from strolling corridors that lead to near-silent rooms of whispered speculative conceptual pyschobabble. Lessons learned from the Tate today: stick a fisheye lens on a camera and any old footage can look interesting; the line between high art and pornography grows thinner with each passing season; and Napoleonic War painters liked the Bible.
Sole lesson learned from rock and roll, taken to this heart o' mine all of twenty-odd years ago: it fucking rules. I love it. Giant Drag love it, too. So, I love Giant Drag?
Yes and no: the Los Angeles pair – Annie Hardy on guitar and vocals and Micah Calabrese on drums and keys, simultaneously – certainly know their way around a sweet riff or two, but every interview to date – every article that makes up the band's press pack that I receive prior to our delayed-from-the-week-before interview (they shot a video instead) – seems utterly preoccupied with Hardy's mannerisms on stage and off it. Certain adjectives are repeated from review to review: quirky, kooky, eccentric, cute; one live review highlights Hardy's claim that she's not cute, in turn only emphasising the point that they are further. Up until a second before my eyes meet hers, 48 hours before my Tate trip, I'm hoping that Hardy's previously reported actions and reactions are simply part of a performance; however, the tape's not even rolling and she's behaving, well, oddly. She's effortlessly endearing, granted, despite her persistent phlegm spitting, but certifiably odd.
I meet Calabrese just before Hardy waddles into view: neatly bearded and instantly welcoming, the drummer-cum-keyboard player – who's also in Radio 4 – is a perfect gentleman. During our interview he generally allows Hardy to speak first before clarifying particulars lost in translation from her brain to trim-lipped and cigarette-sucking mouth. He smiles when the camera is directed toward him and proves too polite to specify on record which old tour companions left him cold; he does mouth something, but it simply wouldn't be professional to put it in here. But any thunder he may possess when we initially shake hands is soon stolen by his colleague: she shuffles closer, slowly, mumbling something through illness and nicotine about the window being open and how it shouldn't be. We move away from it.
Gaunt under many layers and porcelain of face, eyes like an angel's, Hardy is very beautiful, strikingly so; when she chooses to smile, the chill in the air vanishes entirely. Even though she's racked with a cold – she contracts some illness or other every time she leaves California for Britain – she merrily laughs her way through our time together; that said, I still depart wondering exactly how much of herself she reveals with each interview, and what's simply there for show. The band's debut album, Hearts And Unicorns, is awash with epic swathes of gloomy sound effects – thanks partially to the involvement of members of fellow LA residents and fans the Icarus Line – echoing their way around songs pierced by the occasional blast of super-amplified guitar; it's an album that suggests its makers aren't in an entirely happy place, that they're not quirky, kooky, or cute. Eccentric? Maybe, but not in the way articles 'til now have implied. Annie Hardy, to my mind, isn't some impetuous Polly Jean wannabe prone to outbursts of childlike chatter for no apparent reason; she's an artist entirely unto herself, with demons enough to do away with the standard girl-with-guitar comparisons. But, questions akin to those that have come before need to be asked regardless. So…
…So I put my tape recorder on the table, microphone pointing upwards. Hardy takes a marker and draws an outline around it, "just in case it moves."
Annie, you're here, in Britain, moaning about the weather and feeling ill: why do you keep coming back if it treats you so poorly?
Hardy: Oh, I'm only saying that I don't like it being cold in here.
But do you like touring Britain? You seem to be here a fair bit…
Calabrese: Yeah, definitely. The drives are a lot shorter than they are in the US…
Hardy: …That's good.
Because you've got a headline tour booked for April now, right?
Hardy: Yeah. I think it's our only headline tour over here, to date.
And what are your plans between now and then?
Calabrese: Oh, we'll go back home and have a few weeks off.
Hardy: That's by default, because our tour with the Cribs, in the US, was cancelled. It was with Nine Black Alps, too. The Cribs got themselves on a tour with Death Cab For Cutie and Franz Ferdinand instead, and tickets weren't really advertised or on sale.
Have you actually had much time off of late, what with the album coming out in the States last year and now here early this year?
Calabrese: We had a good month and a half, over Christmas.
And does doing what's essentially the same promotional work all over again, for the album over here, feel like a bit of a drag, no pun intended?
Calabrese: We never quite did a full tour for the album in the US. We did some smaller ones, and then came here.
Hardy: We've not done any backbreakers yet, but soon enough, though. We're going out for five weeks soon. I mean, I'm a wreck right now… that'll finish me completely.
And how long does it take before you get homesick for the Californian sunshine?
Hardy: About two-and-a-half weeks.
Two-and-a-half weeks is roughly two weeks on top of the standard 'we miss home' answer: it's perhaps needless to say, then, that Giant Drag are a band happy enough on the road. If they weren't, they surely wouldn't come to Britain so often. Then again, the domestic press has been very kind to the pair, thus far: although the same comparisons crop up from magazine to magazine – My Bloody Valentine, PJ Harvey, The Breeders – and certain journalists are rather too keen to prioritise Hardy's between-song quips in their pieces than the songs themselves, generally the reception's been warmer than the weather. Surely, though, they must tire of reading the same shit, time after time; those carbon-copy adjectives, cut 'n' pasted from critique to critique, must bug the fuck out of them by now.
The common descriptive words that characterise reviews of your gigs – cute, kooky, quirky, et cetera – must get on your nerves, right? You're a rock band, playing rock music – rock's not meant to be cute!
Hardy: Fine. Call me whatever you like, but just don't call me late for dinner.
But do you not think that such summarisations sell you short? If I went solely on some of your reviews to date, I'd never have known that your record is a loud rock and roll record. Sure, it's got its eccentricities, but mostly it's about amplification and fuzz-rockin' fun. Don't the pieces that concentrate on your behaviour neglect the music, and thereby might put off potential fans?
Hardy: Yeah. I think that, perhaps, my sweet riffs are underestimated. People want to talk about shit that they think will be interesting, and that's not music, it's song titles like 'You Fuck Like My Dad'.
But when that's repeated from review to review – 'Giant Drag have songs titles like this, blah blah' – doesn't it piss you off?
Hardy: Check out our next album! There's not gonna be a fucking goddamn funny song title on it, and then we'll see if people still like us, or if we're boring and just make music. Look at the bands that do that – they make wonderful music but you don't know shit about them, and they don't talk. Who cares about them?
So has the way you've been received so far ultimately beneficial? It's got people talking about you, after all…
Calabrese: If they're checking out the music, then I guess.
Hardy: It was never intentional, us being this way. I'm just me, being myself, and finding out what happens when you do that.
When Hardy is herself, magazines swoon. Some to date have tackled her well-documented weirdness astutely and intelligently – The Stool Pigeon accurately noted that 'You Fuck Like My Dad' isn't no-brainer retro pop-rock dressed provocatively, but actually an exercise in no-little despondency, tinged with sadness and a hint of domestic violence ("You and your gun," is repeated, while she adds "I'll kiss your fist" on 'Blunt Picket Fence'); they also rightfully pointed out that the pair make a royal racket and no mistake – while others have tagged her onto the end of their cool lists and compared her endlessly to PJ Harvey. Still, coverage is coverage, and right now Giant Drag are enjoying their highest profile since their inception three years ago, even if one magazine ran but a single quote from Hardy in their brief piece, and that was about losing one's anal virginity. Music, again – rock and roll, again – takes a backseat to juicy soundbites.
Giant Drag aren't just responsible for the music aspect of the complete take-me-home-CD package – the scribbled cartoons that dance about the cover of Hearts And Unicorns were drawn by Hardy. Their website, too (read Hardy's regular blogs for a laugh), is in tune with the cover art, and the band have control over how they're presented, visually, to a degree, at least.
Is how you're presented, through your album covers et cetera, of importance to you?
Hardy: Every aspect is important, but I don't think we set out to be a certain package.
So you've got control? No designer is taking things away from you without your say so…
Hardy: Yeah. We're not on, like, a fucking major label that tells us what to do. Basically, the less albums they think you're going to sell, the more freedom you get. So, from the beginning we've had a lot of freedom, at least until we recorded a cover of 'Wicked Game', and now people are trying to tell us to do things. Everyone loves a fucking cover song…
Pick up Hearts And Unicorns in the UK and you'll see the magic, shiny 'Special Edition' sticker that so often indicates the presence of 'bonus' material, however anything-but-special it usually is. In this case, it's there because the powers that be decided that that cover, 'Wicked Game' (oh you know: Chris Isaak doesn't want to fall in love), would be a fine 'n' dandy way of attracting an audience completely unaware of the duo's original material. As covers go it's not bad – Hardy's guitar cracks like thunder throughout, while her slacker vocals really do suggest that falling in love is the last thing on her mind – but it's a sore topic of discussion nonetheless.
So, did you have no say on whether or not the cover was to be included on the album over here?
Hardy: Well, we just thought we were making a bonus track for the UK version of the album, and all of a sudden all these people at Interscope that didn't even know we existed are asking for more copies of it, to send to radio, and now they want to release the American version with that on it. So, it's like: 'This band wasn't selling any records, let's put this fucking song on it'. But really they didn't care if we sold any albums in the States. It's going to come off wrong. I just hope we don't become the next Alien Ant Farm. Actually, Micah's not fat enough.
But was the album done before your deal with Interscope come about?
Hardy: No.
So how did the Lemona EP (a five-tracker released in 2004) get picked up here by Wichita?
Hardy: That was way before the album. We just recorded that for free, put it out in the States on a small label and then Mark Bowen (Wichita boss man) got his hands on it. We never expected it to happen, but I think that's how we got a US deal, because he knew a girl at Interscope and showed us to her. Then she stole us from him by giving us a worldwide deal. But they're not paying us any bucks.
When Lemona was released here, that was when these regular comparisons began cropping up. Did you find them, or do you find them, flattering at all?
Calabrese: It seemed like an easy way out…
Hardy: Yeah. The first quotes that were ever printed up about us, and were put into our bio – by whoever made that – most people have just copied that. But, at the same time, I like PJ Harvey and My Bloody Valentine, so they're not embarrassing comparisons. I hear the My Bloody Valentine, but I'm not sure about the Polly Jean.
Well, you're a girl with a guitar: it's either gonna be Polly or Courtney…
Hardy: Oh Polly, definitely!
I guess that, come album number two, a lot of these comparisons will fade away, as critics become accustomed to what you're doing… is that some kind of goal perhaps?
Hardy: We don't look at anything as a goal, I don't anyway. When I'm at home writing a song on an acoustic guitar, I'm not thinking, 'I'm gonna have Micah add five layers of whammy guitars right here, and it's gonna sound fuckin' just like something off Loveless, bro'. All I'm doing is writing a song. Today I realised, in a previous interview, that I started writing songs in the 1990s, and perhaps the similarities to these 90s acts is because of my lack of progression as a song writer.
Well, perhaps, but whatever comes through in your music must also stem from the fact that you like these acts?
Hardy: Well, I do, but I don't think that… If I were forced, raped into saying my influences, I don't think it would be any of those bands. But, whatev's…
In defence of quick-to reference critics, and to paraphrase what Hardy's already said, there are parts of Hearts And Unicorns that do bear a slight similarity to Loveless: track two, 'Cordial Invitation', possesses a brilliantly droning guitar that lurches quite splendidly à la Kevin Shields in full flow for some three minutes (it also features a little vocal help from Icarus Line singer Joe Cardamone). Hardy's lyrics, even so soon into the album, are already implying that there's an epic darkness just below the band's bubbly surface: "Your dream is my nightmare," she repeats. After our interview, at the band's headline Camden Barfly show, the crowd reserves its most enthusiastic cheering for the introductions of the pair's singles to date, album opener 'Kevin Is Gay' and the lead track from Lemona, 'This Isn't It'. The latter will see a re-release soon enough, but is now feeling particularly old to its makers.
New songs: how are they coming along?
Calabrese: We've written a few things. We had a little practice in Newcastle – we rented a little room – and we've got some new ideas.
Are you looking to expand on the noise you're capable of making now? You're a two-piece, but come across a lot louder, with more layers, than many other duos…
Hardy: If anything, I'd like to simplify it even more.
Calabrese: We seem to be rockin' harder when we play new songs.
I guess that's because they still feel fresh, though?
Calabrese: Yeah, that's probably why we're more into them.
Hardy: They seem different to me. They're… I dunno… better, basically. They're harder. In my opinion some of our songs, like 'You're Full Of Shit (Check Out My Sweet Riffs)' and 'Kevin Is Gay', are upbeat and happy, and these new ones, like 'White Baby' (which they play that evening), are not that way.
Calabrese: I'm sure we'll have a few happier ones, too.
Well try not to write too many in the British gloom…
Hardy: Ha ha, we'll write a Joy Division album like everyone else in LA. What the fuck's up with that? It's all sunny and they're all, 'I'm depressed now and everybody's gonna see me cry…'
I suppose you're lucky insomuch as you've not been lumped into any scene, or pigeonholed alongside a series of other bands doing the rounds right now. I mean, you're from Orange County, originally, but you're pretty far removed from the emo-pop that soundtracks the show of a very similar name…
Calabrese: That's good.
An example: I was at Death Cab the other night, and all these new 'fans' were talking all the way through their set. I guess if that happened to you you'd get fucked off?
Hardy: I don't like that shit, it's rude. I'm into common courtesy. It doesn't matter what I'm doing up there – reading a book, telling a joke, playing a song – but don't be rude, anywhere in life.
Calabrese is suddenly distracted: a passing face in the window has caught his eye. "I think I just saw Martin," he says. "What, Martin from Nine Black Alps? You didn't… did you?" The bands toured together last year, and quite obviously struck up quite a healthy relationship. They've hung out. Hardy likes their music. I tell her I don't rate it. She laughs: "We're lucky to have actually toured with bands we like, and have become friends with, and that are pretty hot."
Being on what is a major label, though, you must know that one day a pairing might come up that you're not happy with…
Hardy: With real shitters? It's a possibility…
Calabrese: Or perhaps it's happened already.
Hardy: What? Wait, who was it?
Calabrese: I'm not saying anything.
Hardy: Whisper it in my ear!
I turn the tape recorder off. The photographer for the evening laughs as Calabrese reveals to her the band that they really didn't enjoy their time with; without naming names, they're American, were hyped a little and their second album's now in stores. That narrows it down, hardly.
Hearts And Unicorns is a wonderful quick-fix of a rock and roll record: lyrics are delivered with bite, and the riffs bristle with aggression and echoes of acts past, without ever coming across as rip-offs. Don't go thinking they're a one-trick act, though, based on the singles to date: 'Smashing' is an atmospheric slow-burner, while the closing 'Slayer' is silky summertime pop let down only by the album's only pronounced fade out. Fade outs in rock and roll: cheating. The songs grow even louder, mutating and evolving, when served live, Calabrese's skills at his drum-kit-keyboard set-up becoming absolutely apparent – I make a point of announcing, loudly, my respect for his talents when another in the crowd remarks that Hardy is, well, a bit lovely (there are a few unwise calls for her to get her 'kit off'; those responsible should feel ashamed). It's not something I usually do, but that's beauty and the power of rock and roll: it makes you do things you wouldn't, usually; it makes you forget yourself, temporarily and fantastically. Hardy, though, remains a mystery: she's open and seemingly happy to talk about any subject, but there's a veil to how she presents herself that isn't quite right, not to a cynical Brit anyway. But… perhaps I'm simply looking for something that's not there.
Yeah, I know those works on the wall are pretty swell, but these riffs are sweet. You debate the process of assimilating influences to inspire art; I'll just dance my soles clean through under these skies of blue. Rock and roll: fucking rules, don't it?Photography by Lucy Johnston


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Showtime's Dexter returns later this month, and fans are understandably eager to see the fallout from the events of the season six finale. A new behind-the-scenes featurette has landed online that features some tantalizing clips from season seven as well as interviews with castmembers like Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter talking about what to expect when the show returns. I won't get into specifics for fear of spoiling those that haven't caught up, but fans of the series will definitely find this featurette quite interesting.
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Leutscher family
Leutscher is a Dutch Mennonite family, descending from the Swiss Mennonite family of Lötscher, Latscha. Among the Swiss emigrants forced to leave the country and moving to the Netherlands in 1711 was Emanuel Lortscher (Leutscher), a farmer from Erlenbach (Berner Oberland) and his family. They settled on the farm of Vinkhuizen, near Hoogkerk, about five miles (eight km) from the city of Groningen. Numerous descendants are still living in the Netherlands. Some of them were preachers and elders of the Swiss Mennonites: Rudolf Leutscher, who according to Naamlijst served 1755-1761, but according to other information was already a preacher in 1741, Izaak Jannes Leutscher, born 1740, died 20 November 1826, a farmer first at Noorddijk, then at Noordhorn near Groningen, serving 1791-1811, and Christiaan Jacobs Leutscher, a farmer at Hoogkerk, died 8 August 1824, serving 1812-1824 at Groningen. After Rudolf's death the Swiss congregation at Groningen merged with the United Mennonites; in Sappemeer the Swiss congregation had united with the Dutch Mennonites some time before. The son of preacher Izaak Jannes Leutscher, Jannes Izaak Leutscher (1772-1866), a farmer, at Noorddijk, Noordhorn, and Hoogkerk until his death, even after the Swiss congregation had dissolved, faithfully held to the Swiss simplicity of dress and style of living.
Huizinga, J. Stamboek . . van Samuel Peter (Meihuizen) en Barbara Fry. Groningen, 1890: passim, see Index, 124.
Ter Nagedachtenis van C. Leutscher. N.p., n.d.
Naamlijst der tegenwoordig in dienst zijnde predikanten der Mennoniten in de vereenigde Nederlanden. (Amsterdam, 1829): 61.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: II, 694 f.
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It's been 15 years since movie fans first met Middle-earth's heroic companions in "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring." To celebrate the big anniversary, five of the fellowship members got together for a reunion, complete with an epic cave battle reenactment.
On Monday, Dominic Monaghan, who played resourceful hobbit Merry Brandybuck, shared photos to his Instagram of the gathering. Monaghan snapped a picture with Viggo Mortensen, who brought the valiant Aragorn to life. Monaghan captioned the photo with a quote from the movie describing the heir to the kingdom of Gondor: "My captain. My king."
Monaghan also got a shot with his on-screen cousins: Elijah Wood, who played main protagonist and ring-touting Frodo Baggins, and Billy Boyd, who played loyal hobbit Pippin Took.
A third photo really got Monaghan's Instagram followers excited, collecting more than 50,000 likes. The four actors, along with Orlando Bloom, who played the vigilant elf Legolas, posed to recreate one of the film's pivotal scenes: A battle against orcs in the mines of Moria.
With eating utensils in hand, the five men made sure to prepare for the cave troll.
Monaghan's photos, which seem to show the fellowship strong as ever, came after Empire magazine published a nostalgia-packed anniversary interview Jan. 25 with the nine actors, who all asked each other nine questions. Monaghan included the magazine in the captions of his posts.
"The Fellowship of the Ring" premiered in December 2001, and the trilogy's last film, "The Return of the King," opened in 2003. Some of the actors reprised their roles in Peter Jackson's recent adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit."
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