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Nikola Vucicevic-Heart Plate Health Awareness
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Interview with Nikola Vucicevic : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Nikola Vucicevic : Principle is thinking functionally, act smart and simple. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Nikola Vucicevic : Raising the obesity awareness. Make some changes. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Nikola Vucicevic : To find a partners and build a join-venture by making this product available to those who need it. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Nikola Vucicevic : Not to long, but the execution took a while since my personal meters I moved from Europe to USA .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Nikola Vucicevic : I wanted to help US community by designing this product. I believe one of the missions for designers in general is changing the world and make it better place. I hope this is my little contribution. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Nikola Vucicevic : My design has not being used by any company. Commercial aspect depends on who will be interested in helping out its promotion and production. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Nikola Vucicevic : Terrible statistic of obesity in USA. More than one-third of Us Adults are obese, which means around 80 million people. Obesity has to do with the economy, life stile and pretty much choice that we make. In 2013 there was no state that had prevalence of redistricted obesity less than 20%. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Nikola Vucicevic : No. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Nikola Vucicevic : People with weight problems in USA. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Nikola Vucicevic : I am not familiar with similar concepts so I cannot compare. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Nikola Vucicevic : Heart Plate is logical description I would say and perfect verbal identity. We are currently working on a tag line.. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Nikola Vucicevic : Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, 3D Max, After Effects, etc... .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Nikola Vucicevic : Smart solution available to everybody. Everybody are using plates. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Nikola Vucicevic : I am an author, and my team help me out in presentation process. Ivan Apostoloski for 3D Visualization, Peter Sundays was in charge for video production... .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Nikola Vucicevic : So far this is a project in digital form, although we have one sample hand made in ceramics. Plan is to make Heart Plate using 3D Printing process. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Nikola Vucicevic : http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Nikola Vucicevic : The main challenge was to create perfect for of heart so we can place one plate on another while transportation. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Nikola Vucicevic : I like the philosophy and what A Design Award Stands for. Sine I believed in my Idea, I took my chances. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Nikola Vucicevic : I believe I could make a small contribution to the world by this project. And hopefully raise the awareness for obesity. That what makes me feel great. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Nikola Vucicevic : You can get more familiar with this project by visiting www.heartproject.com .
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Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is an American politician who is the 49th and current Lieutenant Governor of California. Previously, he was the Mayor of San Francisco, and was elected in 2003 to succeed Willie Brown, becoming San Francisco's youngest mayor in 100 years. Newsom was re-elected in 2007 with 72 percent of the vote.
Newsom graduated from Redwood High School in Larkspur, California, in 1985, and in 1989 from Santa Clara University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. His PlumpJack Wine Shop, founded in 1992, grew into a multimillion-dollar enterprise, and now includes bars, restaurants, and a Lake Tahoe hotel called Squaw Valley Inn. He was first appointed by Willie Brown to serve on San Francisco's Parking and Traffic Commission in 1996, and was appointed the following year as Supervisor. Newsom drew voter attention with his Care Not Cash program, designed to move homeless people into city assisted care. He defeated the Green Party's Matt Gonzalez 53% to 47% in a run-off in his race for mayor in 2003, becoming the youngest mayor of San Francisco since John W. Geary.
In March 2010, he announced his candidacy for Lieutenant Governor, setting off speculation about possible successors if he were to win. In June 2010, he received the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor. Newsom won the 2010 lieutenant governor election on November 2, 2010. On December 31, 2010, Gavin Newsom stated that he would not be sworn in as Lieutenant Governor until January 10, 2011, when his successor, chosen by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, takes office to succeed him as mayor.

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The Arizona Diamondbacks Foundation was established in 1997 before the D-backs ever played a Major League game. The mission of the Arizona Diamondbacks Foundation is to support three main areas of need: homelessness, indigent healthcare and children's programs of all types, including education and youth baseball and softball field building and renovation, outreach programs and equipment. In addition, the Foundation has created strategic programs that address the needs of our community including veterans, police, teachers, and firefighters - just to name a few.
The organization coined the phrase "D-backs Give Back" in 2012, a simple and concise phrase to explain the dedication and combined giving of the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Arizona Diamondbacks Foundation. To date, the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Arizona Diamondbacks Foundation have made charitable contributions totaling more than $60 million to non-profit organizations from across Arizona.
Of the $60 million total, $50 million has been distributed through the Arizona Diamondbacks Foundation. The majority of funds are raised through events and programs such as the annual Evening on the Diamond Gala, 50/50 Raffle, D-backs Celebrity Golf Classic, D-backs Race Against Cancer, Diamonds Back Field Building Program, License Plate Program, D-backs Authentics, Chase Field Tour Program, Mystery Ball, Online Auctions and major gifts from our players and partners in our community.
The Arizona Diamondbacks Foundation distributes funds through our Community Grants, and Grand Slam Awards, Diamonds Back Field Building, Education Initiatives, Youth Baseball and Outreach programs, and strategic partnerships with key community partners and non-profit organizations.
Our Community Grants and Ken Kendrick Grand Slam Awards application process is conducted on a yearly basis. Any 501(c)3 non-profit organization in Arizona is welcome to apply. The grants are reviewed by a committee of employees, the Executive Council, and season ticket holders who score the grants and make a recommendation to the Board. The Arizona Diamondbacks Foundation Board of Directors, a 13-member voting board consisting of Arizona Diamondbacks and Maricopa County appointees, is responsible for annually approving all grant applications. Final determinations are announced each Fall.
Since 2000, the Arizona Diamondbacks Foundation has built or refurbished 42 baseball and softball fields as part of the "Diamonds Back" Field Building Program representing a charitable investment of more than $10 million. In partnership with APS and a charitable gift from individual players, the program has allowed children from across the state to play baseball and softball at quality facilities. The fields generally feature new lights, an electronic scoreboard, new fencing and backstops, new irrigation and new grass and dirt. For a complete list of "Diamonds Back" Fields, or to download a field building application.
In 2012, the Arizona Diamondbacks Foundation partnered with the University of Phoenix to launch the D-backs School Challenge, a statewide grant program that challenged public, private and charter to school to "make their best pitch" for a $5000 grant. By the end of 2012, $250,000 had been awarded to 51 schools from across the state. The charitable grants funded everything from library upgrades to asbestos removal including a solar house project, multiple robotics programs, literacy projects, school gardens, and so much more.
To summarize the D-backs' commitment to establishing a footprint in communities throughout Arizona, the organization became the first professional sports team to win the inaugural 2010 United Nations NGO Positive Peace Award, beating out other MLB teams such as the Texas Rangers, Kansas City Royals, Chicago White Sox as well as the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers and Atlanta Hawks and NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers, Kansas City Chiefs and Indianapolis Colts. The award, which is viewed as a 21st century peace prize, honors and recognizes organizations positively impacting their communities through corporate responsibility. The D-backs were specifically awarded for their work with the Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center (SARRC) and the Boys & Girls Club of Metropolitan Phoenix.
The Arizona Diamondbacks take great pride in being recognized as a leader in community giving. Our commitment to the needs of our state will continue be a cornerstone of our corporate mission.
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Seoul (AsiaNews) - Chinese delegates taking part in the World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB) conference in South Korea left the venue in protest against Tibetan participation, organisers said. The Chinese government thus confirms its desire to crush Tibet even from a religious point of view, using diplomatic and economic blackmail to prevent Tibetan representatives from attending important international events.
The 17 Chinese monks and officials invited to the conference returned home two days before its end on Friday. A spokeswoman for the organising committee said that she had asked the three Tibetan delegates to leave. "The WFB secretary-general accepted the Chinese demand that the Tibetans leave so the meeting could go smoothly," a decision she calls "embarrassing". However, the three Tibetans are still taking part in other events at the five-day conference whilst the Chinese left South Korea on Wednesday morning.
About 400 delegates from some 30 countries are taking part in the biannual event in the southern city of Yeosu. Such conferences are held to allow Buddhists from around the world to discuss issues of doctrine that might be addressed in distinct manners in the various countries with substantial Buddhist communities.
China's decision was almost expected when it became known that the South Korean government had granted a visa to Samdhong Rinpoche, a former prime minister of Tibet's government-in-exile.
Although the Dalai Lama has never visited South Korea, Seoul has on several occasions called on China to grant Tibetans "justice and religious freedom". At present, Tibetans in China are caught between Han immigration and Beijing's repressive policies.
"This way of doing things is nothing new," a Tibetan source told AsiaNews. "China still hopes the world might forget and abandon us. Every time a Tibetan takes part in an international forum, they protest. However, as we speak, the Dalai Lama is on a tour of Europe, which goes to show that their efforts are hollow."


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[caption id="attachment_6280" align="alignnone" width="625"] A "support" crash course to guide you through difficult times (Photo credit: Adobe Stock)[/caption]
By Ken Druck for Next Avenue
(Editor's note: This essay is the latest in a series from author and speaker Ken Druck, based on work in his book Courageous Aging, which is about how all people can make peace with, and find joy in, every stage of life.)
Loss is an inescapable part of life. Whether we've lost someone to death, or are going through a living loss such as divorce, retirement, a life-threatening illness, a debilitating injury or a life-altering condition like dementia or addiction, support can make all the difference in helping us summon the strength, faith and courage to fight our way back into life.
Although we may want to reach out and lend a hand of support to our friends, family members and colleagues who are grieving, we're not always sure of how. Despite our best intentions, most of us could benefit from an advanced course on "Support." As someone who was worked with beareaved individuals, families and communities for 35 years, I believe that being there for someone in their time of need is one of the most caring, courageous and sacred things we can do.
Let this list of "Dos and Don'ts" guide you to say and do the kinds of things that have proven genuinely helpful to those who are grieving the loss of a family member, friend or colleague:
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At a meeting of the Steering Group the achievements of the last 18 months were reflect on. These include:
The Parish Counci is publishing regular updates on their progress against the Action Plan on this website, and the Steering Group believes that there is little more that they contribute at this stage. They therefore resolved to disband the Steering Group, and pass their remaining funds to the Parish Council, on the understanding that these are ring-fenced for expenditure related to delivery of the Action Plan. Thanks were given to all the members of the Steering Group for their hard work and commitment over the three years they have been together, all the members of the Parish who have supported the development of the Parish Plan, particularly those who helped distribute and collect the survey, and the Parish and District Councils that have adopted the Plan and made considerable progress in implementing many parts of it.
The Parish Council adopted the Parish Plan in September 2008. Since then we have been working towards delivering the actions that have been agreed by the community. Although the Parish Council has the lead responsibility for delivering the majority of the actions, we can not deliver them all on our own. We will rely on the support of the community to deliver many of them. The attached progress summary identifies who on the Parish Council has lead responsibility for each action. Progress against the actions will be discussed at Parish Council meetings, which are open to the public. We will also publish updates on the website every 3 to 6 months.
In March 2006 it was agreed by the Parish Council that a Parish Plan should be prepared as a response to the Government White Paper, Our Countryside - The Future.
The objectives of the Plan were to:
· Provide opportunities for all residents to define the way the community should develop into the future;
· Identity the aspirations, needs and concerns of the community;
· Develop a realistic Action Plan to address those aspirations, needs and concerns.
A open meeting was organised by the Parish Council in October 2006 to introduce the concept of the Parish Plan to the community and provide an opportunity for volunteers to support the process.
An initial grant was obtained from Defra. Further grants were obtained from Fenny Compton Parish Council and Stratford District Council Community Fund. These grants have funded the survey of parish residents, analysis of the results and presentation of these back to the community. A final grant was obtained from Awards for All which has funded the final production of this document.
A small Steering Group was set up in March 2007 to consult with parishioners and to develop a questionnaire to be sent to all houses in the Parish. The Electoral Register 2006 listed 340 properties in Fenny Compton and 601 registered electors. 258 or 80% of all households completed the questionnaires, ensuring that the conclusions of the survey were representative of the community as a whole.
The responses to the main Questionnaire were analysed by Warwick Network Ltd, including over 350 pages of comments, opinions and suggestions. All the information gained was displayed in the Village Hall in October 2007. All parishioners were invited to attend and give further comments on the results of the survey. More than 150 residents attended on the day, from the youngest to the oldest members of the community. Much discussion took place and many more suggestions were put forward for inclusion in the Parish Plan.
As the Action Plan was developed, regular progress updates were published in the Compton Chronicle, the monthly magazine for Fenny Compton and the surrounding villages. A draft of the Action Plan was displayed in the Village Hall in May 2008. Again, this open meeting was well attended with much discussion on the material presented.
By using all the responses, which represent the wishes of the community, an Action Plan is being drawn up by the Steering Group in consultation with the Parish Council.
The Action Plan will set out:
· The concerns of the community;
· The actions to be taken;
· The partners;
· The priorities and timescales for delivery.
The Parish Plan will fully represent the value placed on village life, its services, facilities and institutions by the community.
Fenny Compton Parish Council has played an important part in the production of the Parish Plan and we hope that the Council will formally adopt the Parish Plan and Action Plan in the coming months.
The Parish Council and others have already put in place several of the actions suggested in the responses to the Questionnaire and placed within the Action Plan.
Further working groups will be established to implement the Action Plan, reporting back to the Parish Council who will keep the Action Plan under regular review.
The Fenny Compton Parish Plan Steering Group are extremely grateful for all the support they have received, from DEFRA, the Parish Council, Stratford District Council, Awards for All and the community of Fenny Compton Parish. Without this support it would not have been possible to discover and record the wishes of the Fenny Compton community and set out an Action Plan for its future.
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I love a challenging, rich, not readily comprehensible movie (I'll go on at length about what flat-out great, important films Persona or Au Hasard Balthazar are), and I love movies about difficult characters who are hard to "like" (I've always had a hard time with measuring a movie by the "likeability" of its characters; it's much more important that the film lets us really see and understand them, likeable or not). I say this lest anyone infer from my nonplussed impression of Christophe Honoré's Making Plans for Lena that I was unimpressed because confounded by its meandering quality (I love digressive movies, truly digressive movies, too; Godard's abruptly leaping Weekend is just about a perfect picture), or put off because its main character -- the Lena of the title, who more or less rejects her ex-husband, her nice and well-meaning bourgeois family, and her own children, all after being a long-standing thorn in all of their sides -- is a distraught, indecisive, out of control person who habitually undermines herself and usually behaves in a way markedly less than noble or constructive. No, any of those things could be parlayed into something much more engaging and accomplished than Honoré's film. What niggles about this desultorily put together mess of a movie is that its appearances are fairly egregiously deceptive; it ends up proving that if there's anything worse than a flat-out conventional, dull-minded movie with nothing to say, it's a movie with very little to say that, through its style and narrative approach, behaves at every turn as if what it's doing is of tremendous importance, worth any unearned but easily whipped up art-film trapping that can be haphazardly superimposed onto its rickety scaffold.
It all begins with the handheld/breathless camera and perhaps cool-looking but unnecessary cut-ins of the opening sequence, when we meet Lena and her two children as they race through a busy station, trying to make the train that will take them to Lena's parents' (Marie-Christine Barrault, the golden-haired wife in Rohmer's My Night at Maude's, and Fred Ulysse) rustic country dwelling in Brittany. The already addled and panicky Lena (Honoré gives her three unpredictably alternating moods: distraught, put-upon, and pensive) is in the process of running away from her handsome, cheating American-expat husband, Nigel (Jean-Marc Barr, Europa) and her job as an anesthesiologist, throwing an old, painfully suffocating life away to start a new, as-yet-undetermined one. Back at home, she has to deal not only with her parents -- not so much her blasé dad as her sweet-faced but domineering mother (she's the one the title refers to, the one making the plans, much to Lena's resentful chagrin) -- but also with her inappropriate brother, Gulvet (a hammy Julien Honoré, the director's brother), who still lives with the folks, now with a goofy new fiancée in tow, and her pregnant sister, Frédérique (Marian Foïs, Four Lovers), a driven, responsible, but rather hardened and neurotic career woman who's now been unwillingly recruited to hook Lena up with some stopgap job and who can't stop finding fault with the disarrayed life of her self-involved, self-pitying older sister. As one more in a life-long series of acts of subterfuge, Lena's mother has taken the trouble to invite ex-hubby Nigel out to their house, too, leaving the squabbling siblings and fractured couple to stew in their own tense juices. This simmering pot of dysfunction simmers over the course of the film; by the time it comes to a boil, Lena has drifted to the edge and climbs out, circumstances having forced her to make the tie-cutting, family-divesting choice she reasonably should have made for herself long ago.
With his lackadaisical pacing; distracted jumping from one relationship to another and haphazard introductions of memories and people from Lena's past (including Simon, her wannabe lover, played by The Dreamers's Louis Garrel); let's-see-where-this-goes plotting; and alternation of lingering, languorous camera with too-rapid, frazzled-feeling editing, Honoré seems to think he's Robert Altman or Bob Rafaelson. Or he wants to be Bergman: An incisive observation of complex and unraveling relationships between lovers, mothers, brothers, and sisters against the backdrop of a privileged life is something the Swedish master attempted many times, always with much more success than Honoré attains here. Neither Honoré's plans nor his a filmmaking sensibilities seem to have as much at stake as those distinguished filmmakers' work, in which the remarkable stylistic choices that exhilarate and impress come as the end result of much creative struggle and carefully-made, painstaking choices in service of a vision that's become exceedingly well-defined (however loose or patient the style) by the time it's made its way to the screen. Honoré seems to have only studied the surface of his role models' work and then rushed ill-advisedly ahead, overeager for an unearned tone of daring and gravity that little in his story seems to support. A great deal of Making Plans for Lena consists of awkward symbolism (e.g., the rescued injured bird at the train station in the beginning); unmotivated postcard views of the family's beautiful old country home or Britanny's stunning countryside; or lurching, naturalistically shot but stagily performed, overdetermined conversations/arguments that are supposed to be painful and revelatory but instead come off as textbook behavioral demonstrations. Sometimes, there's just strangely bad writing, as when the sibling rivalry between Lena and Frédérique is apparently meant to be rounded out on a nonchalant final beat up by the latter's announcing to everyone in the room, apropos of nothing and contrary to everything that's come before, "I love my sister!"
Almost all of it -- even, when it comes down to it, the nicely designed and edited photo-album montages of the family's past, or the intriguing and well-played audacity of seguing from a story of long-ago France Lena's son is telling her into a full onscreen depiction of that story that becomes a mini movie-within-the-movie (a sudden break in the flow that makes us do an impressed double-take only to gradually let us down as we realize it's just more blah, over-obvious symbolism) -- is pretty but pointless pictures, carts put before the horse, finely done cinematography (by Laurent Brunet, whose plentiful talents served something higher in Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's A Screaming Man), stylistic flourishes that miss any clear sense of what the characters are doing, what significance or truth there might be to it, or why Honoré is telling this story in the first place. With all the superficial and transparent narrative and aesthetic gestures, and only gestures, toward grand artistic seriousness on display in Making Plans for Lena, one suspects that an externally-motivated desire to be crowned an artiste and celebrated as such might have something to do with it (that means that Honoré's more convincing talent for working with his gifted and skilled actors to create light or flat-out comedic moments gets frustratingly short shrift; that kind of thing, though at least as difficult to work up and sustain as sprawling dead-seriousness, does not tend to announce its ostensible importance so showily). But real artistes have something deeper inside, some desperate need or inspiration or overwhelming urge, that drives them; whether they end up with accolades and awards or not, the reward is not so much the fawning regard of would-be sophisticates, but work that does just justice to and retains at least some of the urgency inflicted by what was burning in them when they got the crazy idea of making it.
Making Plans for Lena most often feels like the cinematic equivalent of that person we've all known (or, ahem, have perhaps even been ourselves at some point, which makes the recognition of it in someone else even more embarrassing) who has a newly acquired, convolutedly "sophisticated" vocabulary and can't wait to show it off, yet has only the most tenuous grasp on what the unfamiliar, fancy-sounding words actually mean. The film struts and preens, full of chic, self-regarding art-film moves, but you simply can't fake the rarefied depth, boldness, and astuteness with which it's attempting to adorn itself via shortcuts, trying to buy off the rack what can only work if cut and tailored from whole cloth to well-considered and exacting specifications. The word "pretentious" has been so overused, and so often misused to describe films or books or music that I find wholly and exaltedly successful, that I've come to loathe it as a lazily derisive synonym for "challenging" or "ambitious," and almost always avoid using it. But it does have a real meaning, which is more or less that the emperor has no clothes -- that the highfalutin tone and trappings and superficial behaviors of someone or something simply cannot disguise, to anyone with discernment, the fact that its reach exceeds its grasp. To that end, it's not only justified but actually called for to refer to Making Plans for Lena as what it is: not an out-and-out, unwatchable, incompetent failure by any stretch, but a film whose pretentions are so many and so persistent that they render it dull, top-heavily clumsy, and faintly ridiculous.
The transfer here presents the film at its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The picture quality is hit-or-miss but overall good and stable: There appear to be off-and-on problems with artificially over-smoothing DNR (digital noise reduction) and its evil twin, edge enhancement/haloing effects around edges, as well as a few rare instances of aliasing and an overall slightly dull look that doesn't give us an experience as immediately cinematic as the best transfers do. Still, it's a perfectly watchable edition in which the film's visual qualities are appreciable enough, if not to the extent that they might've been.
The Dolby Digital 5.1 surround track (in French with non-optional English subtitles) is clear and vivid throughout, with no distortion or imbalance at any point; all music, dialogue, and ambient sound has a full, round immediacy of presence that take good advantage of the DVD's sound capabilities.
Nothing except for the film's U.S. theatrical trailer.
Despite a number of good performances and at least a superficial aura of deep-thinking lyricism and aesthetic adventurousness, Making Plans for Lena is quite a bit less than the sum of its parts -- an enervated hodgepodge of art-film dramatic/narrative tropes and ways of shooting that often feels strangely rushed through, as if we're being distracted from the film's deficiencies by a high turnover rate of attitude-heavy but sterile scenes and events. There's certainly nothing wrong with its story idea of a torn, unpredictable, and distraught woman (Chiara Mastroianni, a lovely and clearly talented presence who simply is not in a position to keep the film afloat, cornered as she is by writer/director Christophe Honoré's unfocused, slapdash, yet oddly blunt approach) who seems not to know what she wants, and ultimately discovers that what she needs is more liberation, more discovery of life than her family of origin or her own husband and brood can offer (this is more or less the story told, much more effectively, by John Cassavetes's masterpiece A Woman Under the Influence; both literally and figuratively closer to home, Honoré's unsuccessful attempt at an eccentric mélange of styles in service of a dysfunctional-family story was pulled off magnificently by Arnaud Desplechin in A Christmas Tale). But most of the potential poignancy, insight, empathy, aesthetic inspiration, and charm gets lost in the shuffle, because Making Plans for Lena never seems to have a very clear idea what it's about: At one moment it feels like a loose contemplation of its characters and their relationships, but at the next it seems like a sterile, over-expository diagram of a drama whose faux-anguished characters can't stop telling each other (and us) exactly how they feel and why. It's worth a glance for its handful of interesting moments, but that's not only just enough motivation to watch it once, and certainly, nobody needs to have this movie as a permanent part of their DVD library; everything Making Plans for Lena has to offer, which is significantly less than its writer/director seems to believe it does, is easily gleaned from one viewing. Rent It.


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by Rachel Swirsky on Mar 5, 2013 in Short Fiction | 104 comments
1,000 Words
Nebula Award Winner
Hugo Award nominee
Listen to the podcast of "If You Were A Dinosaur, My Love"
If you were a dinosaur, my love, then you would be a T-Rex. You'd be a small one, only five feet, ten inches, the same height as human-you. You'd be fragile-boned and you'd walk with as delicate and polite a gait as you could manage on massive talons. Your eyes would gaze gently from beneath your bony brow-ridge.
If you were a T-Rex, then I would become a zookeeper so that I could spend all my time with you. I'd bring you raw chickens and live goats. I'd watch the gore shining on your teeth. I'd make my bed on the floor of your cage, in the moist dirt, cushioned by leaves. When you couldn't sleep, I'd sing you lullabies.
If I sang you lullabies, I'd soon notice how quickly you picked up music. You'd harmonize with me, your rough, vibrating voice a strange counterpoint to mine. When you thought I was asleep, you'd cry unrequited love songs into the night.
If you sang unrequited love songs, I'd take you on tour. We'd go to Broadway. You'd stand onstage, talons digging into the floorboards. Audiences would weep at the melancholic beauty of your singing.
If audiences wept at the melancholic beauty of your singing, they'd rally to fund new research into reviving extinct species. Money would flood into scientific institutions. Biologists would reverse engineer chickens until they could discover how to give them jaws with teeth. Paleontologists would mine ancient fossils for traces of collagen. Geneticists would figure out how to build a dinosaur from nothing by discovering exactly what DNA sequences code everything about a creature, from the size of its pupils to what enables a brain to contemplate a sunset. They'd work until they'd built you a mate.
If they built you a mate, I'd stand as the best woman at your wedding. I'd watch awkwardly in green chiffon that made me look sallow, as I listened to your vows. I'd be jealous, of course, and also sad, because I want to marry you. Still, I'd know that it was for the best that you marry another creature like yourself, one that shares your body and bone and genetic template. I'd stare at the two of you standing together by the altar and I'd love you even more than I do now. My soul would feel light because I'd know that you and I had made something new in the world and at the same time revived something very old. I would be borrowed, too, because I'd be borrowing your happiness. All I'd need would be something blue.
If all I needed was something blue, I'd run across the church, heels clicking on the marble, until I reached a vase by the front pew. I'd pull out a hydrangea the shade of the sky and press it against my heart and my heart would beat like a flower. I'd bloom. My happiness would become petals. Green chiffon would turn into leaves. My legs would be pale stems, my hair delicate pistils. From my throat, bees would drink exotic nectars. I would astonish everyone assembled, the biologists and the paleontologists and the geneticists, the reporters and the rubberneckers and the music aficionados, all those people who—deceived by the helix-and-fossil trappings of cloned dinosaurs– believed that they lived in a science fictional world when really they lived in a world of magic where anything was possible.
If we lived in a world of magic where anything was possible, then you would be a dinosaur, my love. You'd be a creature of courage and strength but also gentleness. Your claws and fangs would intimidate your foes effortlessly. Whereas you—fragile, lovely, human you—must rely on wits and charm.
A T-Rex, even a small one, would never have to stand against five blustering men soaked in gin and malice. A T-Rex would bare its fangs and they would cower. They'd hide beneath the tables instead of knocking them over. They'd grasp each other for comfort instead of seizing the pool cues with which they beat you, calling you a fag, a towel-head, a shemale, a sissy, a spic, every epithet they could think of, regardless of whether it had anything to do with you or not, shouting and shouting as you slid to the floor in the slick of your own blood.
If you were a dinosaur, my love, I'd teach you the scents of those men. I'd lead you to them quietly, oh so quietly. Still, they would see you. They'd run. Your nostrils would flare as you inhaled the night and then, with the suddenness of a predator, you'd strike. I'd watch as you decanted their lives—the flood of red; the spill of glistening, coiled things—and I'd laugh, laugh, laugh.
If I laughed, laughed, laughed, I'd eventually feel guilty. I'd promise never to do something like that again. I'd avert my eyes from the newspapers when they showed photographs of the men's tearful widows and fatherless children, just as they must avert their eyes from the newspapers that show my face. How reporters adore my face, the face of the paleontologist's fiancée with her half-planned wedding, bouquets of hydrangeas already ordered, green chiffon bridesmaid dresses already picked out. The paleontologist's fiancée who waits by the bedside of a man who will probably never wake.
If you were a dinosaur, my love, then nothing could break you, and if nothing could break you, then nothing could break me. I would bloom into the most beautiful flower. I would stretch joyfully toward the sun. I'd trust in your teeth and talons to keep you/me/us safe now and forever from the scratch of chalk on pool cues, and the scuff of the nurses' shoes in the hospital corridor, and the stuttering of my broken heart.
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This is such an amazing story!
Lovely, lovely, lovely.
Y'all some weak people this story is not even sad come on now
This story is upsetting to certain people. Maybe you might not find it sad, and someone else might agree with you, but we all have different perspectives of the world and how we see things on a daily basis.
Exactly, Such a great love story. Amazing Reading Time Experience
Lovely. Just lovely.
A beautiful story of love.
Wow, thank you. What a well done story!
Wow. Just WOW.
I am weeping. Thank you, Rachel. This is beautiful.
Well, she knocked this one out of the park, didn't she!
Riveting and beautiful…I could not stop reading. Your flow was effortless and smooth. You communicated a really lovely combination of emotion and defiance.
I…I have no words….magnificent.
What a terrific story, Rachel!
I couldn't read past the first two sentenses.
Why? You really should. It is magnificently beautiful.
Beautiful is not the word I would choose, disturbed is far closer to the mark.
"…far closer…"?
"…far closer…"? Hmmm.
"Disturbed." Says Derfel.
Gotcha. Next….
The worst kind of story I can think of. It's childish. How could it win an award?
Because it captures grief.
And because those with a damaged empathy never fail to reveal themselves when they read it. It's like our little canary in a coal mine, giving us a fair warning.
Lovely. Thank you so much!
Glorious, poetic, moving.
A gorgeous story. Well done.
Fantastic story!
Loved this. Loved this. Loved this.
Terrific story. Poetic, lovely, with a gut-punch of an ending.
Oh Rachel,
This was amazing. Thank you for such strong and beautiful imagery.
Oh, that was devastatingly beautiful. Thank you.
OMG. Poetry masquerading as fiction. Story telling with a scalpel.
Wow. This was wonderful. Thank you!
Gorgeous and so sad–a wonderful story, thank you.
Just gorgeous. And great right brain/left brain imagination — the science was strong. Am currently working on a dream story and am stuck in plot clay. This may have helped at some subliminal level. Loved it!
Jesus, wow.
I've come back to this story at least ten times since it was published. Just wanted to say, "Well done."
Well-written and written with artistry, but I don't like what it says. I suppose we can expect that from works of writing. I don't like what Dostoyevsky's stories say either.
Seriously? "…works of writing"? I would say get a clue, but I'm quite sure you wouldn't recognize one.
Well, clues aren't anything a person is expected to recognize.
I have done a lot of reading in the past few months as I try to pursue my own writing career. I was reading so much because I wanted to find out what made a story worthy of a Nebula. I think I've found it. This story is…well, award worthy.
Surprising, touching and wonderful. A gentle lure before a hard squeeze on the heart.
Congratulations to Apex and to Rachel Swirsky for the effing HUGO NOMINATION for this piece! 😀
Wonderful prose and a good, creative, unusual story. Congratulations on your Hugo nomination.
whatever its an alright story. but a hugo and nebula award nomination? nonsense. asimov is rolling in his grave.
He can roll all he likes, so long as he stays there.
A brilliantly written love story with a sharp haunting edge to it.
Wow – It's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, only for grown-ups. Great story!
I was thinking that it is like The Runaway Bunny for grown-ups! In any event, a delightful, lyrical story.
Congratulations to Rachel Swirsky for the deserved Nebula Award. It's a great story!
Beautiful and haunting. One of those stories that leave me wishing I had written it. Rachel Swirsky, Congratulations on winning the Nebula. It is well deserved!
It's an okay story, but it's utterly mundane. This is not speculative fiction, as hard as it tries to make us think so. This does not deserve to be called the best short story the field can produce.
An amazing story. Congratulations on your win!
This is 100% a speculative fiction story. It is told in the conditional tense, but that doesn't ban it from the genre–if anything, that heightens its "speculative" tone.
One of the most unconventional stories I have ever read, and one that pays off with infinite rewards. It's not a story for me, but I don't care: it's awesome and you should be proud of it.
Ignore the Philistines and the trolls, milady Swirsky. You have given us a moving, quirky, poetic, heart-wrenching, loving story. Best of luck, both in the awards process and in all of your writings!
This is very, very well-written. It is a work of art, it shows excellent mastery of the writer's craft, and I commend you, Ms Swirsky, for your accomplishment. But I very much don't like it.
For those pondering whether it truly counts as SF, consider this: it is a metafictional story. The person telling us an SF story is not Rachel Swirsky, it is the unnamed fiancee of the brutalized paleontologist.
Perhaps that's why I don't like it. The inner narrative is joyously strange and exuberantly weird, but the frame story is mundane and tragic and brutal and sad and mournful and viciously, heartbreakingly ordinary.
Defying the literary standards at such a fundamental level can produce remarkable, memorable work; I'm reminded of Tom Godwin's "the Cold Equations", for instance, or Elizabeth Hand's "the Maiden Flight of McCauley's [i]Bellerophon[/i]". People are still angry about "Equations" over fifty years later, and it took me over a year to properly understand what Hand was doing with "Flight". But both of those are undeniably SF. Here, that's not really the case: the distancing effect of metafiction leaves us, ultimately, in Stein's Oakland.
Nebula Award Winner and, thus far, Hugo Award Nominee. Well done, friend. Write on.
Wonderful, memorable story.
I was all smiles until you wrung tears from me. I loved it!
I'm melancholy tonight, too much prose in my life. I didn't know I was thirsting for poetry until I read your story. Thanks and congratulations on your award.
A deeply compelling story found from Escape Pod. You should have won the hugo award for this odd but powerful and touching piece. Thank you for inspiring me.
Is it a story or poem? Beautiful!
I loved every word of this. I was awed and, I dare even say, humbled by your writing. If I could give it an award I'd do so. All I can say is, I wish I'd written it. And that, coming from me, is the highest praise I can bestow.
I never cease to be amazed by this story.
Wow, that was devastating.
Wow. I loved this.
Wow, such bigotry in a story. Such ignorant fear of the unknown, of the working people you have never deigned to speak to, so never understood outside the arrogant prejudices of the "educated" left. Sarah Hoyt (a far better writer) was quite right about this nasty, childish little tale.
By the way, I am a graduate of an older, better-known university than any of those commenting here attended, ironically in Earth Sciences which includes palaeobiology, but one who has worked with and made friends of more working men and women than academics or writers. None has ever so much as commented negatively upon my education except in positive terms, nor on anyone else's skin colour or background. The only bigotry I ever see is from the educated people, especially the socialists.
I think the assumptions by some of the more libertarian bent people like Hoyt are hilarious about this story. They assume that the description of "gin soaked " and "brandishing pool cues" is somehow an attack by the writer on working class people. That implies that working class normal people are drunks,play pool and are bigots. Trust me when I say that is utterly untrue. Rich people are also drunks, pool players and bigots.So if you assume that from reading it, what does that about your own assumptions. I also love that the people who are decrying this as ignorant are showing their own ignorance in their assumptions.
I'm a "working class" woman. And, I make no assumption that this story vilifies working class people at all. When I read it, I wondered if it was based on a real incident. I couldn't help but notice the specificity.
Doubting Rich, just out of curiosity, how do you know what universities the other commenters attended? I'm asking since you said that your university was better than theirs.
correction on my part, you said "older, better-known", you did not say "better". My mistake.
After reading this story and the comments I await the child proclaiming that the emperor has no clothes.
Not only is the emperor nude, but this "story" stinks!
The quality of the negative replies tells you everything you need to know about the merits of the story.
None of the naysayers seems capable of coherent thought, much less quality writing.
The funny thing is that if you change those five blustering gin-soaked pool players into demographic profiles more reflective of who is relatively most likely to beat someone senseless….
….then this story stops being funny at all, and starts being hate speech.
Funny how that works — how whether revenge-murder porn is just that, or Art, or something worse, depends chiefly on whose gory death is being fantasized.
Are you kidding me?? Hate speech against whom?! Can you take a moment to appreciate the forest before rebuking a single shrub? Criminy, what an oversensitive crowd!
I don't mean to speak for him, but the meaning I took is that if the antagonists in this story were minorities from an urban area, the reaction would be very different.
… who says they weren't?
Drivel. Neither science fiction NOR a story. "If you give a mouse a cookie" was more riveting and had the added advantage of having beautifully rendered pictures that catered to my apparently slavish tastes in literature. It is a good thing Ms Swirsky was blessed with an XX Chromosome otherwise this drek would not get a second glance.
Heinlein wept.
Think about this. It's a story about a woman telling herself a science fiction story.
It's not science fiction, it's science fiction fiction. In the same way that "Misery" isn't a romance novel, but is a novel about romance novels.
For those of you who say that the narrator is disturbed – perhaps that's supposed to be the point? She's emotionally shattered, after all.
Now you are in "Inception" territory mate. That was rubbish as well.
This is a comment about a comment about yet another comment.
A woman was walking down the street with her young child. Up ahead she sees a black man walking toward her. This young woman has never actually spoken to a black person, let alone had any meaningful interaction. The woman has a vivid premonition that the man has raped her and hooked her child on crack. Pulling the child by the shirt collar, she crosses the street and ducks into a grocery. Safe.
Simple. Assuming. Biased. Lacking in theme, character arc and denouement.
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meh, it's derivative of Rachel Swirsky, and your imagery isn't SFnal enough. Maybe if the woman imagined that the man was an alien who would abduct her?
Also, there's no cash prize involved, just the block of lucite.
I came prepared not to care for the story…and was pleasantly surprised. It was quite beautifully done. I'm glad, though, that it was a short short story.
Thank you.
This isn't a story.
This is a Tumblr rant.
That wasn't a review, it was Twitter snark.
"That wasn't a review, it was Twitter snark."
And a well written and entirely correct one.
The one good thing about this horrid tripe of a story is that it's one of the things that gave us "Sad Puppies".
I suppose the world should at least be thankful for that.
A magnificent story. Nearly perfect, I'd say.
Reading stories like this discourage me from pursuing my own interest as a writer.
If everyone else thought about my stories the way I feel about yours, I would be so ashamed.
What a bizarre comment. The existence of stories you don't like discourages you from being a writer? Wow.
Luckily for Ms. Swirsky, "everyone else" *doesn't* feel about her story the way you do.
Meh. Just meh.
Something horrible happened, yet the author managed to decouple the event (through poor choice of the kids' poetry device) from its horror, and the perpetrators (through tired stereotype) from the visceral feeling you should have for them.
Have no familiarity with the genesis of the story/poem whatever–whether this event really happened, or if details were changed in the telling–but it doesn't really matter.
I read and I rebel, because things are rarely this cut and dried, rarely as simple as they are portrayed here, like this person, hate those, these are the good guys, those are the bad: I can get easy simple polarized views at any particular biased news outlet of my choice, and this is junk, no offense to anybody who may or may not have been hurt in any inspiring incident that may or may not have occurred. Of course.
This so perfectly tells the story of Reginald Denny. Thank you!
I came to this having been primed to find drek.
This yarn is not drek. It's gold. Very well-written and moving.
I'm not sure what the negative commenters are seeing when they picture "five blustering men soaked in gin and malice" who beat up an apparently fragile-looking palentologist but I suspect it's got more to do with their own preconceptions and with whom in the story they are identifying than what the words say.
Loved this story. Thank you.
Really? This is SciFi? Has anyone on this comment board ever actually read SciFi? Clearly SciFi has evolved into the same pointless dross as modern art – a minimum amount of effort on the part of the artist looking for the maximum return. Please go away. far away. Far, far away from the SciFi genre. From any genre. Just go.
wow. this is not science fiction. this is a fever dream of a woman who has issues. and even then it does not qualify as science fiction but as fantasy. there is no science central to this prose that holds this thing up, and without the science as a backbone it ain't science fiction. how in the hell did this ever get nominated let alone win anything?
i think i could write an actual scifi story and i haven't taken any sort of writing class since i was in high school over 10 years ago.
I first read this story when it was nominated for a Hugo. I remember thinking it was beautifully written, but I struggled wtih seeing it as SF. Reading it again now, I have no problem seeing it as speculative fiction, and I agree with BaguetteDuSorcier's comment. My idea of what makes something SFnal has broadened over the past couple of years by reading diverse works that treat SF in different ways. I'm so happy to get something more–something richer for my mind–out of this story now.
Wow…. you're a twisted person.
Terrible story, by the way.
These pieces really set a standard in the inrsutdy.
If you gave the Haydens a cookie, they'd expect to control the Hugos EVERY year.
you misspelled "puppies".
(hey, jordan. LTNS.)
It's not as bad as the detractors say it is, but it's a blatant Mary-Sue revenge fantasy. It doesn't deserve the accolades.
I thought the end made the story work.


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Ashford University, as a whole, showed me that they were with me 100% of the way.
Marcus Allen
BA in Education Studies,
Less than eight months after graduating magna cum laude at the age of 36 with a Bachelor's degree in Social Science, Education concentration* and then completing an alternative certification program and passing a special education content exam, as required by the state of Texas, Ashford alum Marcus Allen signed his first teaching contract at Spring High School (SHS) in Spring, TX. He now instructs special education/structured learning classes for students with autism. His work at SHS was recently recognized when he won a Red Apple Award from Capital One Bank after being nominated by a thankful parent. WatchMarcus getting surprised with the award on the Houston morning news.
Marcus enrolled in the U.S. Army shortly after graduating high school in 1995. He was honorably discharged after eight years of service as an Airborne Infantryman, due to increasing vision loss in his left eye. In search of a new career, he began attending a community college but found it impossible to balance full-time work while also attending classes. He put college on hold and went to work in the construction industry for approximately seven years, which required him to be away from his then-fiancé (now wife), daughter, and stepson on a regular basis. "I got tired of it. I decided I wanted a career that let me spend the maximum amount of time possible with my family," he says. "I had always been interested in being a teacher, but I knew I'd have to go back to school and earn a degree. Luckily, I found Ashford, where I could work full time and finish school as well."
Using the Montgomery G.I. bill for financial assistance, Marcus chose Ashford because of its veteran-friendly reputation, saying, "At first the online experience made me nervous. However, once I finished the first few classes I found the experience to be very enriching. The initial process of getting registered was also very smooth and stress-free."
Marcus says he learned a lot at Ashford that he has been able to apply to his everyday life and work. He credits his professors for much of these lessons. "I learned so much from all of my instructors at Ashford," he says. "They always answered my questions in a timely manner; in most cases they'd even leave multiple ways to contact them. Ashford University, as a whole, showed me that they were with me 100% of the way. My success was their success."
Marcus plans on eventually obtaining his Master's degree in special education. He says, "My experience at Ashford has given me so much confidence, I feel as if I can accomplish anything. The sky is the limit!"
*This program was replaced with the Bachelor of Arts in Education Studies.


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People always talk about building for the future, but as we all know the future is impossible to predict. You have to go for it all when you have the chance and that is what Danny Ainge has done. While other GM's may have blown up the team, Danny decided to bring in veterans hungry for a title. This coupled with last year's core seeking revenge from the finals loss to the Lakers makes them extremely formidable.
On paper, this team is better than last year, especially on the bench. The Tony Allen and Tom Thibodeau losses will hurt, especially on the defensive end. However, I think the additions they made make up for it. Delonte West is a solid back up point guard and can also play the 2 against some teams. With the additions of rookie Avery Bradley, Von Wafer, and the return of Nate Robinson, Rondo finally has some help behind him. Imagine what Rondo can do when he doesn't have to play 40 minutes a game.
The front court was beefed up as well. The loss of Rasheed is a good thing for the Celtics. Did he help during the playoffs? Yes, but the guy was a cancer to the team for the most part. I think Jermaine O'Neal was a good signing. As long as he stays healthy he can put up some solid numbers this year, especially since he won't have the pressure to be the 2nd or 3rd option anymore. Then of course there is Shaq Diesel. I still won't truly believe he's a Celtic until I see him step on the court tonight. Say what you want, but the guy still needs to be accounted for. With Perk always in foul trouble we needed a reliable back up center and Shaq fills that void.
At the end of the day it comes down to injuries. Will Perk be the same Perk we saw last year when he comes back in February? Will Garnett have the same lift he had during the Cleveland series? Will Pierce and Ray stay injury free? The rookies may have an impact as well. Both Harangody and Bradley have a chance to play some meaningful minutes on this team and I think can contribute right away.
At any rate, I think we all need to thank Danny for what he did in 2007. Whatever this year holds, the last few years of Celtics basketball have been a great ride and I look forward to more great moments for years to come. Karl Dillinger 10/06/2010 12:37:00 PM Tweet Edit
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The Telltale Games factory has added one more property to its lengthy episodic games portfolio, NBC crime procedural Law & Order: Los Angeles. With Back to the Future, Jurassic Park, The Walking Dead and many, many more episodic series on its plate, why Law & Order?
Well... "Law & Order: LA fits very well with the style of episodic entertainment experiences Telltale has been building since our very first days," said Telltale co-founder and CEO Dan Connors in a release. "The talents and skills that we've been building at Telltale are ideally suited for the structure and storytelling approach of televised procedurals like 'Law & Order.'"
A fairly convincing argument, Mr. Connors!
Law & Order: Los Angeles—the video game(s)— will "take the crime solving focus to interrogation and criminal investigations, with a heavy dose of courtroom drama on each case," according to the announcement.
Like many of the episodic series Telltale are known for, future Law & Order LA games will come to the PC, Mac, unspecified consoles and mobile platforms. The first Law & Order games to feature the virtual likenesses of Alfred Molina, Skeet Ulrich and Terrence Howard will arrive sometime in 2011.


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Many American women are prescribed estrogen to combat the negative effects of menopause, such as bone loss and mood swings. Now, new evidence from a Tel Aviv University study suggests that hormone replacement therapy might also protect them ? and younger women ? from schizophrenia as well.
Prof. Ina Weiner of Tel Aviv University's Department of Psychology and her doctoral student Michal Arad have reported findings suggesting that restoring normal levels of estrogen may work as a protective agent in menopausal women vulnerable to schizophrenia. Their work, based on an animal model of menopausal psychosis, was recently reported in the journal Psychopharmacology.
"We've known for some time that when the level of estrogen is low, vulnerability to psychotic symptoms increases and anti-psychotic drugs are less likely to work. Now, our pre-clinical findings show why this might be happening," says Prof. Weiner.
A hormonal treatment to address a behavioral condition
In their study, Weiner and Arad removed the ovaries of female rats to induce menopause-like low levels of estrogen and showed that this led to schizophrenia-like behavior. The researchers then tried to eliminate this abnormal behavior with an estrogen replacement treatment or with the antipsychotic drug haloperidol. Estrogen replacement therapy effectively alleviated schizophrenia-like behavior but haloperidol had no effect on its own. Haloperidol regained its effect in these rats when supplemented by estrogen.
"When the level of estrogen was low, we could see psychotic-like behavior in the animals. Moreover, the sensitivity to psychosis-inducing drugs went up, while the sensitivity to anti-psychotic drugs went down," Prof. Weiner says. This is exactly what we observe in women with low estrogen levels," she says. "But we also found that estrogen, all by itself, combats psychosis in both male and female rats." Furthermore, in low amounts estrogen increases the effectiveness of anti-psychotic drugs.
Prof. Weiner points out that the medical community is hotly debating the pros and cons of estrogen replacement as an add-on to conventional treatment in schizophrenia. Detractors point to higher chances of cervical cancer and heart attacks in those who receive estrogen supplements. But according to her study, which looked at very specific factors possibly related to schizophrenia, estrogen replacement therapy could have positive behavioral effects, she concludes.
Assessing the possibility for prevention
During the course of a woman's lifetime, estrogen levels do not remain constant. During her reproductive years, these levels are affected by the menstrual cycle. There are also dramatic changes in the levels of estrogen just after a woman gives birth ? a change, which can trigger "post-partum blues", and in extreme cases lead to clinical depression and psychosis.
As a preventative therapy, estrogen could be given to women at certain points in time when they are most at risk for schizophrenia, Prof. Weiner suggests: in their mid-twenties and later during the menopausal years.
"Antipsychotic drugs are less effective during low periods of estrogen in the body, after birth and in menopause," says Prof. Weiner. "Our research links schizophrenia and its treatment to estrogen levels. Men seem less likely to begin schizophrenia after their 40s, which also suggests that estrogen is the culprit."
Prof. Weiner is continuing her research.
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Of course they do! Well, at least in one town. Hakone, Japan, which is located outside Tokyo, has Neon Genesis Evangelion electric car changers.
Evangelion is set in Hakone, which is renamed "Tokyo-3" for the anime.
In Hakone, as part of an Eva campaign and environmental promotion, IT Media reports that Evangelion branded Panasonic Elseev electric charging stations are being rolled out at two locations in the town.
Don't assume these Eva chargers will ever become a nationwide thing. Most likely they won't, but you can still dream.
Other Eva car chargers are also planned:
エヴァンゲリオンデザインの充電スタンドが箱根に出現 [IT Media]
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About a year ago, I bought the missus a low-end Lenovo laptop so I could reclaim my own. However, from day one she hated it, complaining that it was slow and that she kept getting strange, annoying pop-ups.
There were two reasons for this. The first was that Lenovo likes to add value with a whole bunch of additional software that runs on top of the operating system. And the second was that the operating system was Vista. Put these two things together and the machine was just a dog. The better half struggled with it for a while, but basically gave up on it despite the fact that I switched off as much of the Lenovo software as I could.
However, with the onset of winter and the unwilligness to want to head down to the bottom level of our house where it's much colder, the laptop was brought out again this week. Then we had all sorts of trouble getting it to connect to the network (which I finally solved by resetting the router and rebooting the computer). I'd had enough. So I decided I'd try Windows 7 on the basis that even if it destroyed the laptop, it would only be mildly more useless than it was at the present.
So did the upgrade last night and from the moment it booted up, Windows 7 has been a joy. The laptop is humming along nicely and the wife loves the new look OS and I think I've been able to clean up the desktop and simplify how she gets to her major apps. So well done, Microsoft. I'm now dying to get all on our machines on Windows 7 so I can finally get them all networked, which has been a problem forever in our household since I introduced Vista machines into the network mix.
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Gers complete revenge mission
David Templeton and Andy Little supplied the goals as Rangers avenged their only Irn-Bru Third Division defeat so far this season with a 2-0 win over Stirling Albion.
Bottom side Binos had claimed a shock win at Forthbank in October but were left empty-handed this time.
Rangers used the match at Ibrox to celebrate their 140th year, having come through one of the most turbulent spells in their history which saw them suffer administration and liquidation before being re-launched in Scottish football's bottom tier.
Around 40 former players were welcomed on to the pitch at half-time by pundit Andy Gray, including members of the 1972 European Cup Winners' Cup winning side and players from the Nine in a Row era.
There was also a card display and fireworks for the season-record crowd of 49,913, although visiting fans refused to join in the festivities and displayed a banner of their own which read: 'More Like 140 Days'.
Ally McCoist had stressed beforehand the importance of marking the occasion with three points and ensuring Rangers remain top of the table.
Templeton and Kyle Hutton both started, with Little on the bench and Ian Black missing through injury.
Sixteen-year old Tom Walsh was named as a substitute for the first time, while Lee Wallace made his 50th appearance for Rangers.
Perhaps it was the celebratory mood or a desire to avenge that defeat which saw Rangers pile on the pressure from the first whistle.
After Marc McCulloch went into the referee's book for a hard challenge on Templeton with seconds on the clock, Lewis Macleod forced a decent save from Mark Peat at his near post.
Templeton then lashed inches past the post from distance, before the winger was again the victim of a poor tackle which saw Daly McSorley cautioned on this occasion.
There was little respite for Stirling early on and Macleod's blistering strike was just off target and the goalkeeper was called into action again to block an angled drive from Barrie McKay.
The best chance so far came when Kevin Kyle knocked down into the path of the onrushing Macleod in front of goal, but he connected awkwardly and the effort bounced over the crossbar.
Albion duo Ross McGeachie and Jamie Bishop then collected yellow cards in quick succession - also for fouls on Templeton, who was making his first start since suffering ankle ligament damage in mid-September.
Kyle had netted in the last two outings but was denied by the woodwork just before the break when his shot smacked off the post as Stirling survived the onslaught to head into half-time on level terms.
Rangers still looked dangerous after the restart and the breakthrough finally came after 59 minutes.
McKay burst down the left wing and supplied a lovely ball across the face of goal where Templeton was waiting to lash home.
Kal Naismith almost added his name to the scoresheet when he raced on to a McKay pass and forced a save from Peat, before fellow substitute Little rippled the side-netting with the rebound.
There was a tense moment for Rangers when Albion's Josh Flood saw his strike crash off the post.
McSorely was sent packing for a second yellow with five minutes to go, before Gers youngster Walsh was handed his debut.
Little then put the gloss on the win when he slotted home into the bottom corner in the final minute.
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Selecting a Seat before the Open House
For many Dodger season ticket holders, today is a day that they look forward to all winter long. We had hundreds of people here picking out their seat locations and having their first Dodger Dog of the winter.
The event continues tomorrow for existing season seat holders and then this Saturday, from 10-3, there's an open house for those who are new to the season ticket family come down and get to pick their seats. Everyone who shows up gets a Dodger gift item and the only way to guarantee Opening Day seats is by purchasing a ticket package (or season seats).
So did any of you make it down here? How did it go? And did you change seats or are you back in the same spot? Anyone coming down tomorrow?
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Hello Gang!! Spring is just around the corner. Go Dodgers!!!! I'm anxious to see how Frank and Ned's latest product performs!!!
I'll vote with Nellyjune. However, I don't think managment will give Xavier a shot at the position.
After Hall & Oates, this one?s for kpookiemon. Grateful Dead ? Truckin
Suckin? Ned?s got drips signed on. Keep suckin?, cuz that Frank?s duh man
Together, more mess of the same, just keep suckin? on
Harrowing billboards proclaiming the people of My Town
Navarro, ?Ribe, Garland and a bunch other more clowns.
A typical Neddy offseason of bringin? in drag queens (not that there?s anything wrong with that)
Heads hang cuz we know what tomorrow brings
Gwynn, he?s got no OBP, Gibbons, just have to wait and see
Thames? just a DH it seems, parkin?s a fifteen fee
Most of the Gnats fans are braggin? cuz they are champ-yuns
While all Frank can do is hit up Fox for a loan
One of these days young guns are gonna be goin?
But for now Neddy throws Grandpa Joe an old bone
Suckin?. Oh yeah Frank?s ?Da Man.? Ask Jamie, he overplayed his hand
Sometimes marriage ain?t worth a damn, when chauffers come around
Our starting staff clubs view with envy
Line-ups a mess that all can see
No power nor OBP. What a wrong, Gnat tool Ned?s been.
What in the world ever happened to Johnny?
He lost his heater and now his pitching is tame.
Loney and Kemp, Ethier, A. and Raffy
We gotta hope that they don?t shoulder the blame.
Suckin?, up in old Frisco. They?re stinkin down in San Diego
Next time, tell ol? Frank where to go, things just keep suckin? on
Swimmin? and wearin her clothes of high fashion
Her lawyers kickin? at Frankie?s naddies again
One of these days with the bang of a gavel
The community property rule is gonna come in
Disgusted, that?s what I am. Fed up, with their lavish sins
Tell ya, their act is wearin thin. Why don?t they hear our pleas?
Needed a leader so young guns wouldn?t unravel
Couldn?t get Girardi so went and got JoJo The Clown
I hope that Donnie B don?t leave us cryin?
Hope that he?s clover and not always stepping in brown
Sometime?s the blight?s all that I can see
Other times hope is the key
Lately this just disturbs me. What a long bad trip its been
Suckin, Frank go to Bos-tone. Take Jamie, back where she belongs
Stay there, if you?ve got the stones, and get back to suckin on
� NedCo Broken Records 2011
Hey Nelly, how good would Grady Sizemore look in our outfield now? LOL!!!!
Grady is still recovering from knee surgery, and should be ready for Opening Day. I would love to take a chance on him!! However, in all fairness, keep Matt in center field and give Xavier Paul a legitimate shot is what I really want to see happen.
Simply amazing enchanted 🙂
Andre alert!!! Andre appeared in the first and second episode of "The Traveler's Guide to Life" on the Travel Channel. He mentioned his days playing in the minor leagues in Midland, Texas. The man just loves playing baseball. The Ethieraholic in me is thinking he is looking pretty good too. Can't wait to see him in Dodger Blue again.
22 Days until pitchers and catchers report 🙂
Thanks, enchanted…any excuse to get the Dead in people's brain cells. I know this is Dodgerland, but if you want to see substance meet style, check out Jerry rapping with Hef as the Dead visit Playboy After Dark in early 1969:
Great job E! Wow! Jerry looks good there! I am sending this to a friend of mine 'cause Jerry looks so much like him. He just needs a poncho like that.
I am going tomorrow! I took a day off from work, not only to go there and have my first Dodger Dog, see friends and but I got a few personal things to take care afterwards. I'll end the day by going to the Central library in Downtown to see author Carlos Fuentes.
Oh, I cannot go on Saturday because I am already committed to go to the SABR Day from 10 to 3. If anyone wants to go take a look at the link in my blog. There are some great locations East, West, MidWest, South and outside the US. The one in New Mexico is at the Isotopes Park.
Enchanted ~ you never cease to amaze!
I went yesterday and wrote about it in my MLBlog.


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The Voice finale is known for being a lively few hours of splashy song and dance, but before the top three performed on Monday, the series paid a touching tribute to the fallen children and faculty killed in Friday's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Coaches Adam Levine, Christina Aguilera, Blake Shelton and CeeLo Green joined the top three, host Carson Daly, Christina Milian and former Season 3 contestants on stage for a moving rendition of "Hallelujah."
The Voice: Who should win (and who will)?With candles lining the stage, each cast member held up a card displaying the name and age of one of the deceased. The Voice follows in the footsteps of Saturday Night Live, which forwent its typical lighthearted cold open in favor of a children's choir performing "Silent Night" in honor of the Newtown, Conn., victims.Watch the tribute below.


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Or limit it to Compliments and Recommendations? Just a passing thought...-Renegade (April 21, 2011, 01:15 PM)
What exactly is the value of having it separated from other discussion areas? It really does just draw attention to it (good or bad).- Oshyan-JavaJones (April 21, 2011, 01:25 PM)
$0.02 -> Keep the section (there must have been a rationale for creating it in the first place) but have some strong guidelines that people must view and adhere to before posting. No personal attacks, etc, etc. That way it's all confined to one place and people are well aware of what they should/shouldn't be doing before they post.-nosh (April 21, 2011, 01:01 PM)
It is possible to ignore individual threads in the DC forum. Would it not be a good idea to be able to have an option like 'ignore forum section', so none of the threads created in that section will appear for those who do want that?Seems the best compromise to me, giving anyone the option to ignore sections if they so desire. -Shades (April 21, 2011, 01:37 PM)
Honestly I think having a whole section for it invites *more* topics of that kind, and makes for more contentious ones as well. Granted you could have the occasional thread turn nasty in the main forum, but I suspect it would be less often, and in general be less abused.-JavaJones (April 21, 2011, 01:56 PM)
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It's been a quiet holiday, with not a single crack, whiz, snap or boom since there's a ban on fireworks and campfires in Colorado this summer. It didn't quite feel like the 4th, with no fireworks, celebrating on a Wednesday, and knowing I had to get up for work this morning.
I woke up in the middle of the night Tuesday night after some very strange dreams, and felt completely disoriented. In the back of my mind, I knew I had the day off work, but wasn't quite sure why. At 3am, my thoughts don't really make sense, and I couldn't remember if we had the day off for a holiday, or if it was the weekend already... But either way, it sure felt good to sleep in a little before a relaxing lunch.
We met my parents for lunch out at Famous Daves, after which we went back to their house for dessert, a red, white and blue berry cream cheese pie I made. This is a cool and creamy, no-bake pie (except for the graham cracker crust), with a pudding-like, slightly lemony, cream cheese filling swirled with jam, and fresh berries piled on top. We all agreed that it was completely wonderful, and the perfect light dessert to follow our lunch of ribs, pork, shrimp, beans and coleslaw.
I don't remember my dad ever shooting off any fireworks at our house when I was a kid, but we used to go watch the city fireworks every year at the county fairgrounds. Those were some of my favorite times, lying back in the grass on a blanket, nibbling popcorn and whispering secrets with my sister. There was the smell of mosquito repellant on my skin, the waiting and waiting for the sky to get dark enough... and then, at last, the fireworks would start, and we'd watch the explosions in awe, all exclaiming that this year was even better than the last.
My oldest niece was born on July 2, and as she started to understand what her birthday was all about, she thought that the fireworks every summer were in her honor! But since she just turned 13, she's no longer under that illusion. :)
I realize this post is coming after the holiday, but if you have any weekend cookout plans, then I don't think anyone will mind you carrying on the red, white and blue theme just a little bit longer. After all, these colors are too pretty to only celebrate once a year.
Summer Berry Cream Cheese Pie
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- 1 sleeve graham crackers, finely crushed
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 1 pound (two 8-ounce packages) reduced fat cream cheese, softened to room temperature
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- zest and juice of 1 lemon
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1/3 cup jam or preserves (such as blueberry or seedless raspberry)
- 2 cups assorted berries (strawberries, blueberries, blackberries and/or raspberries)
Preheat the oven to 350. Spray a deep-dish pie plate with non-stick spray.
In a bowl, combine the crushed graham crackers, sugar and salt. Drizzle with the melted butter and toss with a fork to combine. Press evenly into the bottom and sides of the pie pan. Place in the freezer and freeze for 15 minutes.
Bake the crust for 10 minutes. Set aside to cool completely.
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the softened cream cheese for 2 minutes. Beat in the powdered sugar, lemon zest and juice, and vanilla until smooth and creamy, about 2-3 minutes.
In a separate bowl, whip the heavy cream until soft peaks form. Fold cream into the cream cheese mixture. Spoon the filling into the cooled crust. Dollop the jam on top of the filling and gently swirl with a knife, taking care not to disturb the crust. Arrange the berries on top.
Refrigerate for 4 hours, or overnight, before serving.
Yields 8 servings.
Recipe from Curly Girl Kitchen


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Consistent Plot Styles across multiple MMA files and data sets
So, here's my problem; I have a lot of data that is shown in different plots.
I want all the plots to have the same options (
FrameTicks, etc...).
I also want to be able to modify these options (because the size and
FontSize change depending on where I want to use the plots, in my thesis or in a presentation) and do that without having to change each
Plot function by hand.
I guess what I'm looking for is something like this:
optionPacket = PlotStyle -> {RGBColor[1, 0, 0]}, Frame -> True,
BaseStyle -> {FontSize -> 20};
and then use it like this:
ListPlot[mydata, optionPacket]
ListPlot[mydata2, optionPacket]
Is there any way to accomplish this? (What I just posted obviously doesn't work or I wouldn't be asking).