Shoppers hit mall for day-after-Christmas sales
December 26, 2004
Ashley Rojas, 15, handed her purse over to a friend. This was going to take two hands.
Blue jeans from J.C. Penney, $25. Anchor Blue sweater, $20. “Not just another pretty face” T-shirt, $8. Pink-sequined belt, $9, and it was barely 3 p.m. Ashley and her girlfriends had been at the mall a mere two hours and it wasn’t closing for another three.
Giggling about the deals she found, Ashley showed how $178 can go a long way the day after Christmas.
Nearly every store in the mall displayed signs for the day-after-Christmas sales. Prices for everything seasonal were slashed nearly in half at most places. Seven-foot Christmas trees at Dillards went for $100, carousels for $60, candle lamps dropped from $40 to $15. Hallmark had clay snowmen for $8.
Hundreds of people swarmed the mall, snatching up the after-Christmas deals that went beyond holiday-themed items. In addition to seasonal ware, people snagged silver jewelry, buy one get one half off at The Gold Mine, automatic shoe polishers and clothes.
Teenagers, such as Ashley, with Christmas money to spend, were dropped off by their parents and left for hours to comb sale racks at their favorite stores.
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Stephanie Winder, 15, Melissa Winder, 14, and Sidney Brown, 14, were just getting started with a couple of bags from Anchor Blue and The Buckle. They traded $70 for a jacket and four shirts.
People buzzed in and out of stores, excusing themselves up and down walkways crammed with people armed with shopping bags. But among the mall madness was a bit of solitude — his name is Bill Glover, and he was lounging, peacefully, on a comfy sofa in the middle of all the chaos.
Glover’s family, all of Yuma, buys presents the day after Christmas for the bargain deals. His wife hit the Greeley Mall while their daughters tag teamed at the Denver shopping centers, keeping connected via cell phones. With all the bases covered, Glover, 48, had time to run a few errands, such as filling the car up with gas and taking a 30-minute nap.
Refreshed and refueled he made an honest attempt to find his wife.
“I toured Dillards,” Glover said, where he thought she would be. But he couldn’t find her.
So while she unearthed bargains, he had time to do a little bit of digging himself, patiently waiting as his better half rummaged through sales.
“I enjoy doing this,” Glover said. “She gets to do what she wants, and I get to rest.”
Normally, he is able to catch a movie, but they arrived too late for that this time. There is a positive side to that, however.
“I figured out life … it took me two hours,” Glover said with a laugh. The secret is to “take ‘er easy.”


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Opening a Public Recreation Area to Revitalize Coastal Communities and Preserve Natural Resources in Louisiana: The Case of Elmer's Island
Paudel, Krishna P., Caffey, Rex H., Devkota, Nirmala, Hall, Larry M., Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics
The income capitalization approach is used, based on expenditure and nonmarket values collected from travel-cost and contingent valuation methodologies, to measure the feasibility of running a self-sustaining recreational site in coastal Louisiana. Through Internet and intercept surveys, a total of 2,696 respondents, 88% of them anglers, provided information on economic expenditures, destination preferences, and preferences for specific site amenities regarding Elmer's Island. The purchase and subsequent opening of the area to the public were found to be self-sustaining even when considering conservative economic estimates.
Key Words: coastal community revitalization, market valuation, nonmarket valuation, public purchase of private recreational area
JEL Classifications: O13, Q26
Coastal areas in the southern United States and elsewhere have been impacted by environmental and financial problems. In Louisiana, for example, 4,920 km^sup 2^ have been lost in the past century, primarily due to anthropogenic factors. Current rates of coastal land loss are 50-65 km^sup 2^ a year, a situation that disrupts the economy and livelihood of coastal parish residents (Barras). Federal and state governments have invested money in restoration efforts at a cost that now exceeds $500 million, and additional support is being requested at the multibillion-dollar level. Coastal restoration projects may be cost-prohibitive and, even if implemented, may take several decades to achieve their goals. Additionally, the community may one day abandon the area, causing unwanted population pressure in other neighboring areas.
As coastal infrastructures decline, the direct impact is most often felt by local economies. This translates into the need to support and preserve coastal resources at the community level. Significant costs can be incurred in the purchase, management, and maintenance of coastal areas. From the benefit-cost analysis perspective, a community would be willing to participate only if the realized benefit to society is higher than the cost incurred in preserving natural resources. Many public areas can be maintained while supporting the ecosystem and local community, the latter often dependent upon the tourist trade. We examine the economic feasibility of coastal resource use for community viability. The economic tools used in this assessment are market and nonmarket valuations of a recreational site visit. Additionally, we examine this issue using a traditional income capitalization approach. By doing so, we gauge the feasibility of a public purchase of private property to protect the integrity of the ecosystem and to support the local community.
Louisiana's abundant coastal resources have attracted an increasing amount of consumptive and nonconsumptive tourists in recent years; however, most of the state's coastal region is comprised of isolated marsh, and very few areas are accessible by road. Of particular importance is Elmer's Island, located approximately 50 miles due south of the city of New Orleans (Figure 1). Although commonly referred to as an "island," Elmer's Island is actually a 1,160-acre tract of coastal land comprised of interior wetlands and adjoining seashore. Elmer's Island is a continuation of one of only three land-accessible beaches on the Louisiana coast.
For the past 30 years, Elmer's Island has been operated as a commercial campground and primitive area. The property has become a popular destination for many thousands of Louisiana citizens and out-of-state tourists (Curole and St. Pe). For a nominal fee, users have had access to the location for fishing, bird watching, camping, and beachcombing. The area also provides significant habitat for numerous bird species and other forms of coastal marine life. In the summer of 2001, the land was closed to the public and advertised for sale. A resolution calling for state purchase and management of Elmer's Island was developed by the Louisiana Wildlife Federation in 2002 and unanimously supported by the Louisiana Legislature in April 2003 (Baldone et al. …

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William augustus, 18351915 the mine at calumet crouch, ida estelle. Crouch meaning in the cambridge english dictionary. Trapped the konrath dark thriller collective book 4 kindle edition by konrath, j. If you havent read the prior two books, pines and wayward, be. Jul 27, 2014 in a sense, the first book is almost like a pilot for an indefinite series. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. You can leave condolences in the guest book, buy sympathy flowers, and pay your respects. I was there myself, frantically scribbling notes on the back of my program book, and can testify that the sheer amount of devotion, excitement, and, okay, outandout lust that filled that crowded convention center when glory took the stage was enough to fuel a fullfledged crusade against the forces of darkness, or at least sell out every. View bruce crouchs profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. The author of when i was puerto rican 1993 continues to limn her past, this time focusing on her adolescence and young womanhood.
Fox brought some freedom with the characters and the story line in the tv arrangement. Daniel crouch rare books is a limited liability partnership founded in 2010 by daniel crouch and nick trimming. Bon hardcover, editors illustrated blue and black binding small in4 1 vol. A life well lived that was aired on the trinity broadcasting network back in june of 2016, this was before tbn changed its logo to a new blockletters. A beautiful new york editor retreats to a lonely cabin on a. Did tbn ministers paul, jan crouch cover up yearold. So, my rating cant attest to the follow through in the full plot. My old scrapbook november the only star the paupers burial pythias soon a spinsters soliloquy the trees untold. Peter crouch tells a good story about the night he and his family went out for a quiet dinner to celebrate his dads birthday in june just him, dad bruce, mum jayne and younger sister sarah. These books do stand on their own, but some context informs developments in each successive novel.
Paul crouch died of heart failure on saturday, at 79. It posits a victorian era britain in which great technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial inventor charles babbage succeeds in building a mechanical computer. Full text of the literary yearbook internet archive. She was lucky enough to be able to travel while she was growing up, living in a wide variety of countries across the world.
And not only that, but a rather handsome man was sat in the corner, his eyes peaking over the top of a large book, fixed on a woman wearing a kiss the chef apron and holding an apple cake in a baking tin. Five thousand packed the grassy slopes of the amphitheater and swarmed inside the race track. Media fanzine collection fully processed, 19672016. This page lists and links to every article published in the 3rd ser. Find bruce crouchs phone number, address, and email on spokeo, the leading online directory for contact information. The series began publication in the year 2012, when murder in adland was released. Crinkle, nym pictures of the plains crocker, harrie f. This was about 12% of all the recorded crouchs in the usa. At once a relentless pageturner and an intricate sciencefiction puzzlebox about time, identity, and memory, recursion is a thriller as only blake crouch could imagine itand his most ambitious, mindboggling, irresistible work to date. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the.
Created a bone chilling read with believable though not always likable characters. Crouch down,hold your knees when you are depressed. Bronwen griffiths is the author of a bird in the house 2014 and a book of short stories about the syrian crisis, not here, not us 2016. A california jury found the conduct of the late ms. Three nights on a small, deserted island off of michigans upper peninsula. Kentucky had the highest population of crouch families in 1840. She tracks down her wayward sister who enjoys attacking people with giant plants, and quickly washes her hands of the entire situation.
Preface, acknowledgments, contents, xi, text, 543 pages electrically encoded information periodic waveforms and the. Determine a book number from this same list, then select it from the frame below. Recursion was one of, if not my favorite book ive read all year. Find all the books, read about the author, and more.
Legend footballer, peter crouch, will be at waterstones leadenhall signing copies of his new book, how to be a footballer. Then martin told a campfire story about the islands history. In a patchwork of memories, she recalls her guilty longing to escape the brooklyn barrio, where she lived with her mother and large, extended family, and what she finds including an affair with an older man when she leaves. Bruce robert coffin books in order publication order of john byron books. D ear reader including all of you who send me fake email saying this newsletter isnt perfect. The men on the boat could not buy food because the manager did not stop, andor the villages were destroyed. See verb table examples from the corpus crouch i gestured to the remaining woodchuck to crouch. Just click the edit page button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the biography submission guide. In fight forward, brenda crouch bravely shares her story of overcoming the abuse she suffered as a child and an adult. Readers of horror who can tolerate cannibals will enjoy this fast paced, well written book. Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams 1 samuel 15. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover bruces. Peter james crouch born 30 january 1981 is an english former professional footballer who played as a striker. William crouch obituary washington, district of columbia.
February 22, 1962 april 6, 2017 arrangements under the direction of caballero rivero woodlawn south, miami, fl. View the profiles of professionals named bruce crouch on linkedin. One for the engine cooling system, a heat exchanger for the airtoliquid intercoolers, another for transmission oil, engine oil and she finally notices the expression on olsons face and natasha thinks it looks a little too. The project gutenberg ebook, the genius of scotland, by robert turnbull this ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. When david waldstreicher and i began doing the research for the article that would eventually become revolution in the quarterly. Blake crouch wraps up the wayward pines trilogy in the last town 2014. Subscribe here to get the gfile delivered to your inbox on fridays. This textbased pdf or ebook was created from the html version of this book and is part of the portable library of liberty. The new york times bestselling writer, whose brilliant wayward pines trilogy was adapted into a 201516 fox tv series, has delivered yet another lightningpaced technofantasy that lingers long after the last, mindnumbing page. Cant watch a film before listening to the book first.
David crouch has 32 books on goodreads with 1589 ratings. The book of lost things by john connolly stephen king meets the brothers grimm in this gruesome fairy tale about a motherless boy transported to a world where the path home leads home through a quest for the book of lost things. Repositioning social memory through twentiethcentury post. Heart of darkness by joseph conrad literature worms. For instance i discovered crouch s david pilcher and pam to be a great deal more merciless and wanton than their tv partners. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. However the network announced a second season and executive producer m.
Now, gotham and batman have a new young villain to deal with. Choose copy from your browsers edit menu copying the word. On imdb tv, you can catch hollywood hits and popular tv series at no cost. The book in the hut interests marlow because it reflects a task planned and done well.
This book is dedicated to my children, jackson and lauren. Severus and lucius hovered between mildly amused and highly disgusted. It reminded me so much of this, and figured id recommend it if you havent. Obsessed with a tv series and cant wait to delve into the audiobook. For instance i discovered crouchs david pilcher and pam to be a great deal more merciless and wanton than their tv partners. This is an e book formatted for amazon kindle devices. You can also be well acquainted with her salary, net worth, marital status, death, and more in this very bio of the very talented broadcaster. Social security death index ssdi howard crouch was born on october 10 1895. Forty years ago, he founded the trinity broadcasting network, now the countrys most successful religious tv enterprise.
You may have heard the name blake crouch before as he wrote the wayward pines series. Guardians of the gates part 1, the new breed jeff schanz. The second book in the internationally bestselling series that inspired the fox tv show. Western, us military, confederate, civilian, patents, racing. I only read about 20% of this novel because cannibals just ugh freak me out. This ongoing storyline is super secretive which makes it confusing as hell, but despite that, its imaginative and engaging enough to keep readers happily hanging i still havent watched the tv adaptation of this series. A book salesman with a grievance might pick up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. Trinity has also sold several multimillion dollar homes since paul crouch sr. The project gutenberg ebook, the genius of scotland, by.
The darkest demons are found within rather than without. With influences from blues, jazz, rock and country, bruce brings a. Or an exercise routine on a stationary bicycle, begun to reduce bad cholesterol, might take its rider on a captivatingand then terrifyingjourney. Jury finds televangelist jan crouch shunned granddaughter. Di skelgill investigates series by bruce beckham author bruce beckham writes the di skelgill investigates series of cozy mystery novels. Nestled amidst pictureperfect mountains, the idyllic town is a modernday eden. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title crouch. Paula crouched down and held her hands out to the fire. Bruce, cannot tell us how soon the monotheistic doctrine the jewish literature and traditions, which are at least arose. David crouchs most popular book is william marshal.
The most crouch families were found in the usa in 1880. Crouch, cofounder of the trinity broadcasting network, to be outrageous. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the. And im thrilled that wayward pines will begin a second season on may 25th. Trapped the konrath dark thriller collective book 4. I havent heard of blake crouch before monica but it looks a.
But as lily begins reading about mary kingsley, she becomes more and more fascinated and discovers in mary a kindred spirit. Series people the banner weekly the dime novel bibliography. Sign up to see what your friends are reading, get book recommendations, and join the worlds largest community of readers. If youre not familiar with crouch and his wife janice, they are the jim and tammy. The difference engine 1990 by william gibson and bruce sterling is widely regarded as a book that helped establish the genre conventions of steampunk. In her own life, lily feels trapped on the one hand, she craves family and. William crouch passed away in washington, district of columbia. The biography of jan crouch comprises of the details of his personal and professional life. Which is a pretty ballsy move by fox tv, because the three main books there are a tonne of extra stories you can download off the.
The wayward pines trilogy i cant make my mind up about wayward pines, but it doesnt really matter because fox tv made up their mind and its all going to be a mini series one of these days. You may copy it, give it away or reuse it under the terms of the project gutenberg license included with this ebook or online at. Based on blake crouch s book trilogy, wayward pines features a rare tv turn by matt dillon as a secret service man injured in a car crash as he. Trapped the konrath dark thriller collective book 4 ebook. Chapter iv after dinner there were two dances in the pavilion, and then the band led the way to the race track for the games. Choose from over 800 music genre stations on free online radio. I rated this book 5 stars because the author did an exceptional job doing what he set out to do. Learn more about recursion on penguin random house us. Something moved slowly along the tree line of the park. Bruces keyboard skills provide complementary tones and then some. He was a devout christian and took over as senior pastor of christ memorial church, california, on the death of his parents in 1995.
Regulus black was shouting insults to his own mirror image, waving his wand around, threating to hex his ugly opponent to within an inch of his life. The obituary was featured in the washington post on may 1, 2014, and wilmington starnews on may 2, 2014. Wayward pines, one of last summers surprise hits on fox, was supposed to be a oneseason event. Words will be on the left, and the book numbers on the right. Wayward, disobedient, and wicked children are a seed of evildoers isaiah 1. In 1840 there were 45 crouch families living in kentucky. Nestled amid pictureperfect mountains, the idyllic town is a modernday edenexcept for the electrified fence and razor wire, snipers scoping everything 247, and the relentless surveillance tracking each word and gesture. Grammy nominees bruce springsteen the beatles tony bennett. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free. Published by pandanus books, research school of pacific and asian studies. The cannibals hippomeat is rotten, smells, and makes marlow think of his own hunger. Join facebook to connect with bruce crouch and others you may know.
Janice wendell bethany was born in new brockton, ala. At first, all lily austin knows about 19thcentury explorer mary kingsley is that, 100 years before, she was the first white woman to venture into the heart of africa. Xl september 1958 may 1959 special registration edn moore hall new faculty student handbooks september 26. The dancers followed, and all through the grounds the picnic parties left their tables to join in. This is a facsimile or imagebased pdf made from scans of the original book. Six wayward teenagers whod run into trouble with the law, and their courtappointed guardians, sara and martin randhurst.
Currently he is serving on three boards of directors, brethren community foundation, genoa resort home owners association and friends of genoa. He was capped 42 times by the england national team between 2005 and 2010, scoring 22 goals for his country in that time, and appearing at two world cups. Cal and his friends find a magic book full of seemingly useless spells, but when they are transported to the world the book comes from, they will have to figure out how to make the magic work in order to save the last dragon. Kopers father, was forced off tbns staff and quit its board because of the acrimony. Because of that, i observed the books to be significantly more fulfilling. Bruce crouch bruce spent his career with home savings of america, retiring in 1995. Trapped the konrath dark thriller collective book 4 kindle. The crouch family name was found in the usa, the uk, canada, and scotland between 1840 and 1920.
Crouch is one of 28 players to have scored 100 or more premier league goals, holding the record for the. List of fiction employing parallel universes wikipedia. This is the second book ive read by the author consecutively and it was just as good as the. Jan crouch bio salary,net worth,husband,death, and more. A self taught talent from an early age, bruce is originally from the brisbane area and now resides in northern nsw. Are you going to write any more wayward pines books. Wayward pines author blake crouch on his wild new scifi. Bruce crouch sacramento, california area professional. However there is a lot more to blake than just that series. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading trapped the konrath dark thriller collective book 4. Six wayward teenagers whod run into trouble with the law, and their. David crouch obituary wilmington, nc wilmington starnews. The william and mary quarterly michael mcdonnell, professor. Daniel crouch has worked as a bookseller since the age of sixteen.
The fragile elements of time, identity, and memory intertwine in blake crouchs dark matter unforgettable new scifi thriller, recursion. It looks like we dont have any biography for bruce crouch yet. Hermione soon realised she was no longer in her kitchen, but was stood in a rather quiet room filled with books and herbs. A madly giggling barty crouch tried to curse anton dolohovs cock off, but only succeeded to cause dolohov to piss his pants. Wayward is the second installment middle book in blake crouch s multigenre trilogy titled. It would be a town called eureka, but grim, and surrounded by mutant cannibals, and run by psychos. I was never a huge bruce lee fan but give me jackie chan and im a happy camper.190 940 258 307 449 1587 1325 643 725 391 1639 1617 1129 115 1229 1556 367 299 769 87 1658 1401 1157 1347 1119 107 530 849 7 1398 1351 1107

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A MAN died when his car crashed in the Teign Valley late last night (Sunday).
Ambulance staff received a 999 call just a second before the stroke of midnight.
The man’s Daihatsu Fourtrak was heading towards Dunsford when it lost control, crossed the carriageway and ploughed into a hedge.
A police spokesman said: ‘The driver was removed from the vehicle but was unfortunately pronounced deceased a short time later.’
Officers from the police’s serious collision investigation unit attended the scene.
No other vehicles were involved in the accident.
Anyone with information should ring police on 101, quoting log 828 of January 31.

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new Delhi. Kerala State Lotteries Department has announced the lucky draw for Sthree Sakthi SS-344 today, Tuesday, 20th December at 3 PM. People participating in this lucky draw can download the results of Lottery Sambad by visiting the official website keralalotteries.com. The State Lotteries Department of Kerala conducts weekly lotteries and participants have to follow certain rules to claim the prize money.
The first prize winner in this draw will get Rs 75 lakh, while the lucky second prize ticket holder will get Rs 10 lakh. The winners of the third prize will get Rs 5,000.
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Contenders who are part of this lottery can check Kerala Lottery Result for Sreethi Shakthi SS-344 Draw 20th December 2022 online today and complete pdf result will be available usually by 4 PM. The Kerala Lotteries Sambad draw is conducted at Gorky Bhavan near Bakery Junction in Thiruvananthapuram. After the winners submit their lottery tickets, they get the prize money.
Sriti Shakti SS-344 Award Details
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Research Project – Emiel Hensen/Chong Liu
Zeolites are crystalline microporous solids built up from corner-sharing, tetrahedral silicate units. The isomorphic substitutions of framework Si atoms by Al atoms results in the formation of Brønsted acid sites (BAS) in their micropores. Zeolites are widely used as solid acid catalysts in petrochemistry and oil refining processes. Their catalytic activity depends both on the chemical composition and on the structural properties. Although the variation in Brønsted acidity of zeolites is usually only described in terms of the local chemical and topological properties of the zeolite framework, there are other factors that can very strongly influence zeolite acidity and therefore the catalytic activity. One of the most important and not understood yet factors of this kind is the synergetic effect of extraframework metal-containing cations (EFcation) and Brønsted acid sites inside the zeolite micropores. For example, Faujasite-type zeolites modified by extrafamework Al show increased acidity and enhanced alkane cracking activity.1 Alternatively, the introduction of La into low-silica zeolites not only improves their stability, but also enhances reactivity for alkane activation.2 The existence of extraframework cations is believed to have positive influence on the catalytic reactions of zeolites. However, the role of extraframework species on zeolite acidity and catalytic activity is complicated and has not been fully rationalized yet.
In this project, we will carry out a complete theoretical study on the mechanism of acidity enhancement and activity improvement by extraframework species in zeolites. The aim is to answer the question how the synergy between different components of zeolite catalysts gives rise to their unique catalytic performance. The main focus will be on the effect of extraframework Al and La species on the reactivity in such industrial processes as alkylation, cracking and dehydrogenation of hydrocarbons.
1. Almutairi, S. M. T.; Mezari, B.; Filonenko, G. A.; Magusin, P. C. M. M.; Rigutto, M. S.; Pidko, E. A.; Hensen, E. J. M.: Influence of Extraframework Aluminum on the Brønsted Acidity and Catalytic Reactivity of Faujasite Zeolite. ChemCatChem 2013, 5, 452-466.
2. Schüßler, F.; Pidko, E. A.; Kolvenbach, R.; Sievers, C.; Hensen, E. J. M.; van Santen, R. A.; Lercher, J. A.: Nature and Location of Cationic Lanthanum Species in High Alumina Containing Faujasite Type Zeolites. J. Phys. Chem. C 2011, 115, 21763-21776.

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Happy Birthday Pankaj Kapur: On his father’s 67th birthday, Shahid Kapoor shares an adorable picture with Pankaj Kapur
Today, Pankaj Kapur turned 67. As the actor shares his birthday, his son Shahid Kapoor shares an adorable picture with him to wish him on his special day.
Sharing the lovely picture, the Udta Punjab actor wrote, “Happy birthday dad.”
The father-son duo has worked together in films like Mausam which was released in 2011 and Shaandaar which was released in the year 2015. Mausam was a direction by Pankaj Kapoor and starred Sonam Kapoor opposite Shahid while Shaandaar was directed by Vikas Bahl and starred Alia Bhatt opposite Shahid. They both will again share the screen in the upcoming film Jersey and will play father and son.

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Sruti Bandopadhay and group presented a production that was one-of- a-kind, Jaya Jaya Bhanu Jaya Jayadeva. As the name suggests, it drew influences from Rabindranath Tagore&’s Bhanu Singher Padabali, composed when the poet was in his adolescence, and Sri Sri Geeta Govindam of Jayadeva Goswami from the 12th century.
Jayadeva&’s Geet Govinda is all about madhura bhakti, which is the essence of Vaishnavite cult. The story line followed by Sruti Bandopadhay is about the love of Radha and Krishna in which, she has eulogised sringer bhakti from the works of Jayadeva and Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore was in fact inspired by Jayadeva and Vidyapati in his formative years and that prompted him to write Bhanusingher Padabali in brajabuli about the ethereal love of Krishna and Radha.
The auditorium was consecrated because of the ambience created by the dancers, pung and Kartal players who entered from amidst the seated rasikas to sanctify the place making it not so difficult for the audience to imagine that they were watching an enactment of Radha and Krishna in Vrindavan.
Bandopadhay started with joyodhwani and went on to Bhanu, Jayadeva and Manipur after paying obeisance to Govinda who is an ocean of kindness and a friend to the world. The love story commenced with the astapadi, vasante vasanti-kusuma-sukumarair avayavair bhramanti kantare bahu-vihita-kanusaraam from Geet Govinda, which narrates the longing of Radha for Krishna and portrays her anxiety as she searches for her lover.
In the next scene, Tagore&’s Gahana Kusuma kunja Majhe mridula madhura bangshi baje shows the sakhi inviting the gopis to see the eyes of Sri Govinda and Rai, in the moonlit night, brimming with love. The devotee (Bandopadhay in this case) entreats the lord to play on his mohanabansi because she is still not satiated by the sweet notes from his flute. She is driven by desire and wishes to could merge with the sumadhura taan of his music in the moonlit kunjabitan where the spring wind blows.
The gopis then come in a group to warn Radha of an impending storm that makes the Yamuna overflow its banks. Radha&’s dilemma about going outdoors on a stormy night was beautifully rendered by Somabha Bondopadhay. In the following scene, the sakhi or friend, who has been assigned the role of a preceptor after seeing the plight of Radha goes in search of Kanha and finds him immersed in joyful pastimes with the beautiful gopis. Speaking in the words of Jayadeva, she conveys to Radha, Candana-carcita-nila-kalevara-pita-vasana-vana-mali/keli-calan-mani-kundala-mandita, gandha-yuga-smita-shali.
Radha&’s pride is seriously injured when the friend tells her about Krishna dressed in yellow holding a garland of forest flowers, smeared with sandalwood paste and in a joyful sringara mood with the gopis. Again, Jayadeva speaks through Radha&’s sakhi and reveals the activities of Krishna with the gopis. She is shown that one of the them is firmly embracing Krishna, Radhe, haririha mugdha-vadhu-nikare. Another gopi, lured by his looks is shown meditating on the lotus face of Madhusudhana. He arouses lust in the hearts of these sensuous young women with sidelong glances from his restless eyes. One voluptuous gopi has leant her face close to Krishna&’s cheek on the pretext of whispering a secret in his ear. Krishna reciprocates her feelings. She seizes this favourable opportunity to fulfil her most cherished desire. All of these amorous activities of Krishna were shown aesthetically in the vocabulary of Manipuri by Bandopadhay and her disciples. Remorseful and suitably humbled, Radha expresses her feelings through Tagore&’s verse, Hridayaka sadha misaolo hridaye Kanthe sukhaolo mala. She sees the futility of her love and of her youth. However, she still cannot help loving him and pines for his darshan. She asks her friend whether Shyam would ever come to her and she would tell him off.
The gopis who are in search of Shyam for Radha&’s sake, do not find him. Whole nature feels diminished in his absence and Radha pines to lay eyes on his beloved. At that point, Bandopadhay came veiled showing her despondency and does a piece of excellent abhinaya to Tagore&’s Maranere tuhu mamo Shyam Saman. She wishes death to engulf her eternally but the friend tells her not to lose heart.
Next, came an interlude when the pung artists and kartal cholom players showed their talents. In a beautiful piece of dance theatre with the choicest lyrics from the two eternal poets, it would perhaps have been better if the instruments were used only as accompaniments but they instead marred the flow of kavya and drishya kavya that the audience was immersed in.
Thereafter, happiness pervades the stage when the sakhis announce the arrival of Mridula gamana Shyam wearing pinaha jhatitha kusumaharo, pinaha nila angiya. Without further ado, they wish to dance and sing in the kunjaban. Radha, who wants to accept him with open arms, feigns reluctance. At that point, the memorable song Priye charusile, Dehi Pada Pallava mudaram by Jayadeva was used. The song where Krishna asks for forgiveness from Radha by touching her feet was supposedly written by the lord himself.
The last scene was the prayer of jugal murti of Radha and Krishna followed by an aarti in typical Manipuri style. Quintessentially Manipuri costumes –phanek and inafi- were worn all through, except in the last scene, where Radha was dressed in a green poloi- a magnificent and dazzling Manipuri costume. Every sakhi wore a red poloi as has been dictated by tradition.
The stage decorations were quite good considering the fact that they were artists from Kolkata who could not get procure the necessary props before performing in Imphal. The Manipui dancers Saswati Dasgupta, Misti Das, Abheri Gupta, M.Bir Singh, Suvasish Sarkar and Subhendu Manna from Bandopadhay&’s repertory did a great job. Debangana Chakraborty as Krishna was superb.

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Sprouts, herbs, seedlings – vitamins from the windowsill
It takes a while for the first fruits and vegetables to sprout in our beds. If you want to shorten the time until the first harvest, you can start harvesting your vitamins from the windowsill. Sprouts and herbs are great sources of nutrients and thrive if you take a few things into account.
Sprouts and seedlings
Sprouts and seedlings are delicious, very healthy and ideal for growing in your own kitchen. They contain a lot of vitamins, minerals, trace elements and secondary plant substances.
This makes them nourishing ingredients in salads. But the small power packs also cut a tasty figure on sandwiches, in soups, or as baking ingredients.
The principle of sprouting and germination is simple: Seeds germinate and we consume them at a very early stage of development.
The germination creates small plantlets from the protein and nutrient-rich seeds. The germination process creates additional vitamins that were not yet present in the seeds.
In contrast to seeds, sprouts not only contain vitamin C, but the content of B vitamins also increases, as does that of other vitamins and secondary plant substances.
Seedlings from the sprout glass
In order to germinate seeds, we must supply them with plenty of water or wash them thoroughly. There are a variety of options for this: the most common are the rung glass and the rung tower.
Once in the sprout jar, water rinses the seeds, and the tilted jar allows the residual water to flow out again through the perforated lid.
If you don’t want to invest money, you can easily build a sprout glass with a cucumber glass. Sprouts thrive best at 64-68 degrees Fahrenheit. You should never expose them to the blazing sun.
You can germinate legumes, such as lentils, peas, fenugreek and soybeans, and cruciferous vegetables such as cress or mustard. Germinable cereals include wheat, barley, sunflower seeds, amaranth, quinoa, pumpkin seeds.
You can, furthermore, use most vegetable seeds like broccoli, radish, radishes and beets, too. The same goes for leafy greens, e.g., Swiss chard and endive. Brussels sprouts and leek are also a benefit to your health.
All nightshade plants such as tomatoes, peppers or potatoes are not suitable for consumption. Because their germs are poisonous.
Also, rely on organic seeds
The germs of all cruciferous plants, such as cress, broccoli, radish, mustard, cabbage, radishes, etc., are particularly healthy.
They have a slightly spicy note, which is due to the mustard oil (a glucosinolate) contained in these sprouts. Glucosinolates help the cells to reduce free oxygen radicals and the associated oxidative stress.
Of course, when buying the seeds, you should take care that they come from controlled organic cultivation and are suitable for sprout cultivation.
Such untreated seeds contain no crop protection residues and health food stores or organic food stores often offer them.
Sprout breeding and mold
If you suspect that your sprout breeding has mold, do an odor test. If it smells moldy, it most likely is mold.
If the germs smell fresh, pungent and strong, then you are probably confusing the furry-fluffy fiber roots of the sprouts with mold.
This white fiber root fluff forms especially with the germination seeds mustard, radish, and alfalfa during growth. Cereals (wheat, spelt, oats) also form fiber roots when they germinate.
To prevent mold, use high-quality organically grown seeds. Sort out non-germinated seeds early and rinse the sprout glass or sprout tower with fresh water once a day.
If mold does form, dispose of the moldy seeds, wash the seed germinator thoroughly with hot water and put fresh sprouts back on.
For potted herbs on the windowsill, we make a distinction between annual and perennial herbs. You can enjoy herbs for several years if you harvest them properly.
Always ascertain that you do not damage the root tips, buds and shoot tips, otherwise, the plants will not continue to grow. With annuals, it is often worth harvesting the whole plant.
Herbs are not all the same
With herbs such as thyme, sage or rosemary, I advise you to harvest the shoots regularly. As a result, the plants rejuvenate, can sprout better and become bushy.
Chives, parsley and dill, on the other hand, you should only harvest in portions to give the plants time to regenerate. Gradually, you can harvest cress and chervil completely; they don’t grow back.
The right location for herbs
So that the potted herbs on your windowsill thrive, you should take a look at their location: rosemary, thyme, sage and oregano are best placed in a south-facing window. This is how they get the full load of the spring sun.
Parsley, lovage, chives and basil grow well on the east or even north windows. They don’t get along well with direct sunlight and prefer partial shade or shady niches.
Tips for your kitchen herbs
1- Repot the herbs after purchase. This allows you to replace the soil with high-quality herbal soil and the often too small plastic pots with larger, more beautiful ones.
2- Leave them alone after repotting. Allow the herbs a week or two to get used to their new location and possibly the new soil and to build up leaf mass.
3- It is best to water kitchen herbs in the morning. Southern herbs also tolerate an evening portion of water in midsummer. But every plant needs different amounts of water. Pay attention when watering, otherwise there is a risk of rotting if there is too much water in the pot.
4- Sow herbs regularly. If you want to have annual herbs such as dill, parsley, chives or basil available all year round, you should sow them every two weeks, especially at the beginning. This way, you don’t have to hold back during the year and can cook and season with sufficient herbs.
Who knew that vitamins from the windowsill are not only extremely nutritious, but they also bring out the hobby gardener in you.
It’s fun to take care of your seedlings, gives you a sense of responsibility and trains your green thumb. Another bonus: You can share them generously with your family and friends, so they too can stay healthy.
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Aberdeen Airport is set to introduce a second taxi firm to their ranks in a bid to make more taxis available to travellers. The operation, which is scheduled to commence by the end of the summer, has been implemented to cater for the increasing numbers of customers travelling through the airport.
Thanks to new routes and destinations being added, Aberdeen Airport has seen an extra 314,000 passengers pass through their doors over the last year. In order to provide the best service possible, airport officials feel that they have to ensure plenty of taxis are available to take customers to and from the airport. However, it is thought that this move could anger commuters in the city.
New taxis working at Aberdeen Airport will be taken out of the city to meet new demands, which means a shortage of taxis available in other parts of Aberdeen. Airport bosses argue that they have to meet demand and with the number of passengers using Aberdeen Airport having soared by more than ten per cent over the last year, extra methods of transportation have to be executed in order to cater for people requiring these services.
Another popular method of getting to and from airports is Meet and Greet services available at most airports. It makes getting to your desired airport easier as you don’t have to haul your luggage on trains or busses and worry about them being late or busy. You are even offered a money back guarantee if they are late to meet you. Using these companies also means cheap parking at Aberdeen Airport with the guarantee that you’re car is going to be safe and brought back to you in one piece.
Extra taxis and meet and greet services are especially needed when flying is required to get to popular events and it’s a great method of securing long term parking at Aberdeen Airport. The number of passengers passing through Scotland’s three biggest airports, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh, reached record levels in May due to the Uefa cup final. Nearly 2 million customers passed through these airports in May which is 5.5 percent up on the same month last year.
An increase in the number of taxis and meet and greet services available can only be a good thing as Aberdeen Airport has consistently been among the fastest growing of BAA’s UK airports.
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A cohesive unified theory on the purpose of art rendered incoherent by being like really tired of a lot of things.
Here's an opinion that I sort of developed a while ago, and in the intervening years, have found no reason to abandon: the purpose of art is to express some sort of personal experience, and the purpose of consuming art is to try and acquaint ourselves with the perspectives of others—to promote kindness, better social cohesion, the gradual erosion of the self as the ultimate end, that sorta thing.
That's one of the big motivators behind writing, for me—it's why I kept my two blogs while I lived in Japan, and it's one reason that I keep this blog 1. Unfortunately, I've somehow gotten a lot worse at this in the years since getting back from Japan. I'm still trying to figure out why this is.
The most obvious reason is that I just don't write as much. I don't. I'm out of practice. Getting back into a regular rhythm will shepherd the words and images and metaphors back to me. Shepherd? Clearly they're not back with me yet.
I think a second reason is that I'm feeling a sort of... internal malaise, almost? A sort of disassociation with myself. Not a daily bad feeling by any means, just like taking a step back and being like, Right, let's get our bearings. It's been living with me, or I with it, for a little while now, and I don't know what to do about it, and I haven't worked through it, if it's work-through-able. Anyway, it doesn't make for good writing—yuck.
Another big reason is that in the past I was going through a mid-20s David Foster Wallace kick and it was easy to hide behind a sort of faux-rambling DFW schtick and not really have to think about what I was saying. It was certainly easier to write that way, but it feels transparent and hacky when I read that stuff nowadays. Also yuck.
Anyway, that's not what I want to talk about. I want to talk about art.
Art that resonates
So: some art falls flat with me. Some music, some visual art, some performative art, whatever. Movies. I'll experience the art, and I'll sort of internalise it and digest it and it just comes out the other end of me in a grey lumpen mass and I don't think about it. It's not that it's bad art; it just doesn't resonate with me.
Which is fine—I think that everyone's experience of art is Intensely Personal, so a piece of art that resonates with me might not resonate with you, and that's ok, that's something that we can agree on.
But by resonate, I mean that the art, like, echoes with me, or echoes with you, over some period of time after experiencing the art. I'm sure you know the feeling: you can't stop thinking about it; it builds connections with other pieces of art you've consumed or experiences you've had.
When I was a teenager I read Jerry Spinelli's Stargirl and I just desperately wanted to be different and artsy-fartsy and noticeable and it stuck with me, and resonated powerfully in my teenage shell for like months.
Anyway, I've been thinking about all of this because I watched Bo Burnham's Inside. I don't have anything to say about it that other people haven't said better, or more wryly, or ad nauseam. It's good, and you should watch it.
To be fair, I'm almost certainly his exact target audience: educated, middle-class, white, On The Internet. I can identify intmately with the context of his work. He makes himself, not only understood to me, but powerfully human in a way that I think a lot of people can respond to. Litle cults of personality always grow up around people who achieve fame through an abundance of talent and then pivot to create art about their human reaction to that fame, especially when there's a big anxiety element to that fame.
This, like so many other things, is probably the Internet's fault. Fame Anxiety is just a concentrated form of Social Media Anxiety. The twisting feeling you get in your guts when thousands, millions of eyes are on you all of the time. The only palpable difference between someone like Bo Burnham and someone posting about their anxiety on Twitter is that Burnham is a lot better at expresing what it's like.
If the face of the art coin is Expressing, the obverse is Identifying. Specifically Identifying with other people: seeing some experience or feeling or something in there and latching on to it. That echoing feeling of resonance: that's Identifying. I Express myself; you Identify with me—or more often: you Express yourself, I Identify with you.
Right, I'm done with the capitals now.
You don't need to have a big Netflix budget for me to identify with you. I identify with tweets all the time, and make no mistake: these tweets are, in their unassuming way, capital-A Art. (Ok I wasn't done.) Blog posts are art, if they're made with intent to express; an article in a fancy online magazine is art. Journalism can be art.
Does the intent matter? If I identify with something that wasn't intended for identification, is that art? That's neither here nor there, and I'm not going into it. "What is art?" Get bent.
Anywhere that someone has made themselves clearly understood, or has plucked a string somewhere inside of you, or has allowed you to walk a few steps in someone else's shoes (& it doesn't have to be the artist's shoes, incidentally), is a good high-quality piece of art in my opinion.
And I have massive awe for people who can do this sort of thing at will. I don't know how they do it, but when I see someone do it, my whole body just collapses out from under me in total awe.
Other little thoughts w/ nowhere to put em
Here's a conundrum: what happens when I identify with something not as myself, but like, identifying as some idealised version of myself? When I respond to motivational image macros posted on Reddit? When the art (???) doesn't speak to me, but speaks to the kind of person that I wish I was? Untangle that one.
Here's another: what happens when people identify publically (e.g. in the comments section of a YouTube video, in the lobby of a theatre, crowded shoulder-to-shoulder with iPhone-toting tourists in the Coliseum)? When people respond to art the same way that I do, in some place where I can see them having the same response? Does it disrupt my identification to know that it's some sort of common response among people like me? Does it cheapen my response, if I know that it's normal? And what happens when people publically respond to art differently from me?
I don't know what the point of all this is. Trying something out here. I might not identify at all with this when I come back to it in like 2 months' time. Wish me luck.
Other stuff that happened this week
Sam and I walked the 60-kilometer Esk Valley Walk. It was painful but it gave me a lot of time to clear my head and reset my internal chemistry in some non-negligible way. I'm looking forward to walking St. Cuthbert's Way next weekend.
1. Why I keep this blog: 1) to express myself, somehow, 2) to try and figure out what I think about stuff, helping me work through my opinions, 3) for tech industry clout. ↩
I can never remember quite how PGP encrpytion works (mostly because I never use it), so I'm writing it down here to refer back to when someone starts talking wonky crypto stuff at me.
I'm extremely tired of the powerful in tech holding the rest of us hostage in the name of innovation.


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This was the week. My Hay House calendar for Tuesday said “Today is the beginning of a positive turning point for me.” I decided to take that seriously and get up and go out into the world of my former life. I went for a 2 mile walk and felt pretty accomplished, a little out of shape, but happier. I considered it a meditation walk, contemplating the houses, trees, birds, dogs out for their morning walks and listening to the sounds in the neighborhood and in my head.
Wednesday I decided to take the big step and return to yoga. I haven’t been since early March, unable to face the introspection and solitude on my yoga mat, but my body craved the stretch, the familiar asanas and the quiet reward of the savasana at the end of class. I walked into the studio and was asked if I had cancelled my membership. No, I’ve just been gone for a while. I’ve had some stuff going on. I have seen the payment going out of my account each month. No problem. Walking into the room I run into a teacher I know who is a member of my community. She knows everything and gives me a hug and encouragement, “It will be good, just what you need, really.” I hope so.
Laying out my mat, I assemble the familiar props, foam blocks, blankets and a strap; I lay down, breathing in the calm. The teacher is smiling and positive, speaking slowly and demonstrating every new posture and walking around the room helping to make small adjustments. The bamboo floor is smooth and lovely, the blue walls are tranquil and the view out the windows is of children playing on a leafy climbing structure. I breathe, arms circling up and folding forward, then fingertips to shins stretching out and folding down again. Stepping back into plank, the most difficult for me, I breathe into the rigidity of the pose and then down, chaturanga dandasana, pushing slightly up to a low cobra and elevating into downward facing dog. Stepping forward on my mat, arms circling, reaching up, I look up at my hands and then bring them to my heart center. There is nowhere else to look, except in my heart.
Today I went to yoga, the second day back was not as dramatic, no questions, just smiles and hellos by name. I settled in and welcomed the calm, the warmth of the room and the returning familiarity of sun salutations. Today we work on balance. Triangle pose and preparation for half-moon, standing on one leg, lifting the other straight out and up using the foam block for support. I need practice on balancing, my leg wobbles and I am glad for the support of the block but it still doesn’t guarantee an easy balance. It still takes work, repositioning and focusing on the breathing through it all.
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Love that you are back to yoga and walking. I love yoga! I continue to know health, healing, peace and love for you and your family. ❤
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Glad you are not only seeking that balance, by finding it little by little. xo
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Brad Evans offers an enigma. He may be more valuable to the US National Team than he is to his club. Certainly, the young midfielder has value to the club, particularly once he settled back to a box-to-box midfield role inside Sigi's Arrow, but for long stretches his role was unknown. While with the US MNT Evans has settled into a Right Back role, but that isn't where his strength lies, nor his chances of being the one or two selected from the January camp to travel to South Africa this Summer.
His strong tactical knowledge is complimented by at least MLS average passing, shooting and defensive skills at the MLS level this means that he is a capable starter that can fill in at many positions and roles. It means that his ability to act like a coach on the field, knowing his own coaches tactics and philosophy so well. For the National Team though, he is a man without a specialty on a team of specialists. How does a generalist make the roster?
Because of its holes. He allows Bradley to mix and match things and knows that there will be someone available to cover any role in any formation. It is why Brad Evans has played Right Back so far, but it is why he's likely to make the roster. Because if only 23 make the roster, they can't all be specialists and the generalist has to be someone who has strong tactical knowledge and not just the typically strong physical attributes of American soccer players.
Offense: Evans' strongest offensive skill lies in his ability to execute the short pass well. His tactical awareness gets him into great spaces of opportunity, and he used that to score some solid goals. He lacks the ability to beat an opponent with the dribble, but sees other ways to move the ball forward.
Defense: Without the ball Brad does a great job in the more forward defensive band in a four band system. His tactical vision helps him occupy space to shut down channels, and he can read up-coming long passes well. Not the strongest on ball defender this puts him at a slight weakness as a Right Back against a highly technical player.
Set-Plays: Evans will not be the primary target nor defender on a corner, but his awareness helps capitalize on the offense and prevents the opposition from getting the unfortunate rebound. He has the opportunity to get an assist from a corner when he's the target so that he can than hit an open man when the defense reacts.
Defining Moment: How can you forget a classic goal celebration of 5-Hole? It takes a certain confidence for a player to not shoot around the keeper but instead to go right through them. And in celebration he just holds up a single hand with all five fingers out.
Plus/Minus - 12 | 10
Plus/Minus Per 90 - 0.47 | 0.45
Productivity in League Play - 0.31
Productivity in All Competitions- 0.31
Ratings from Prost Amerika - 6.29 (10th)
Second +/- listed uses Climbing the Ladder's data. Of note a Plus/Minus system should capture exactly the type of player that Brad Evans is.
Short Term Peak - Evans might be the constant Rotational player in that he won't start in the same role every match. He can and has played the CM, CAM, RM, RDM, CDM, RB and RWB for the Sounders and even has some time at Forward. He would be an excellent stabilizing force in non-League competitions when most of the players have less experience.
Thoughts on Brad Evans chances with the National Team or his future role with the Sounders?
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Medical Marijuana & PTSD featuring Dr. Jennifer Dress
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In this episode, Dr. Dress talks about Medical Marijuana and PTSD.

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A review of behavioral and neurobiological data on mood and mood regulation as they pertain to an understanding of mood disorders is presented. Four approaches are considered: 1) behavioral and cognitive; 2) neurobiological; 3) computational; and 4) developmental. Within each of these four sections, we summarize the current status of the field and present our vision for the future, including particular challenges and opportunities. We conclude with a series of specific recommendations for National Institute of Mental Health priorities. Recommendations are presented for the behavioral domain, the neural domain, the domain of behavioral-neural interaction, for training, and for dissemination. It is in the domain of behavioral-neural interaction, in particular, that new research is required that brings together traditions that have developed relatively independently. Training interdisciplinary clinical scientists who meaningfully draw upon both behavioral and neuroscientific literatures and methods is critically required for the realization of these goals.

Social neuro-science has recently started to investigate the neuronal mechanisms underlying our ability to understand the mental and emotional states of others. In this review, imaging research conducted on theory of mind (ToM or mentalizing) and empathy is selectively reviewed. It is proposed that even though these abilities are often used as synonyms in the literature these capacities represent different abilities that rely on different neuronal circuitry. ToM refers to our ability to understand mental states such as intentions, goals and beliefs, and relies on structures of the temporal lobe and the pre-frontal cortex. In contrast, empathy refers to our ability to share the feelings (emotions and sensations) of others and relies on sensorimotor cortices as well as limbic and para-limbic structures. It is further argued that the concept of empathy as used in lay terms refers to a multi-level construct extending from simple forms of emotion contagion to complex forms of cognitive perspective taking. Future research should investigate the relative contribution of empathizing and mentalizing abilities in the understanding of other people's states. Finally, it is suggested that the abilities to understand other people's thoughts and to share their affects display different ontogenetic trajectories reflecting the different developmental paths of their underlying neural structures. In particular, empathy develops much earlier than mentalizing abilities, because the former relys on limbic structures which develop early in ontogeny, whereas the latter rely on lateral temporal lobe and pre-frontal structures which are among the last to fully mature.

The nature of the affective deficit that characterizes social anhedonia is not well understood. Emotionally evocative visual stimuli were presented to undergraduates identified as anhedonic or normal, based on their scores on the revised Social Anhedonia Scale. The affective stimuli were chosen to elicit positive and negative emotion; a subset of slides were specifically chosen to include social-interpersonal content. In the acoustic startle paradigm, participants were administered startle probes (50-ms 95 dB white noise bursts) while viewing images from the International Affective Picture System. Socially anhedonic individuals did not differ from normally hedonic individuals in terms of their physiological response to the stimuli, regardless of the nature of the content of the stimuli. However, on the self-report measures of trait affectivity, the socially anhedonic individuals reported significantly lower levels of positive affect and higher levels of negative affect. These findings suggest that the affective deficits reported by socially anhedonic individuals are not global in nature.
In children, behavioral inhibition (BI) in response to potential threat predicts the development of anxiety and affective disorders, and primate lesion studies suggest involvement of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) in mediating BI. Lesion studies are essential for establishing causality in brain-behavior relationships, but should be interpreted cautiously because the impact of a discrete lesion on a complex neural circuit extends beyond the lesion location. Complementary functional imaging methods assessing how lesions influence other parts of the circuit can aid in precisely understanding how lesions affect behavior. Using this combination of approaches in monkeys, we found that OFC lesions concomitantly alter BI and metabolism in the bed nucleus of stria terminalis (BNST) region and that individual differences in BNST activity predict BI. Thus it appears that an important function of the OFC in response to threat is to modulate the BNST, which may more directly influence the expression of BI.
Positive affect elicited in a mother toward her newborn infant may be one of the most powerful and evolutionarily preserved forms of positive affect in the emotional landscape of human behavior. This study examined the neurobiology of this form of positive emotion and in so doing, sought to overcome the difficulty of eliciting robust positive affect in response to visual stimuli in the physiological laboratory. Six primiparous human mothers with no indications of postpartum depression brought their infants into the laboratory for a photo shoot. Approximately 6 weeks later, they viewed photographs of their infant, another infant, and adult faces during acquisition of functional magnetic resonance images (fMRI). Mothers exhibited bilateral activation of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) while viewing pictures of their own versus unfamiliar infants. While in the scanner, mothers rated their mood more positively for pictures of their own infants than for unfamiliar infants, adults, or at baseline. The orbitofrontal activation correlated positively with pleasant mood ratings. In contrast, areas of visual cortex that also discriminated between own and unfamiliar infants were unrelated to mood ratings. These data implicate the orbitofrontal cortex in a mother's affective responses to her infant, a form of positive emotion that has received scant attention in prior human neurobiological studies. Furthermore, individual variations in orbitofrontal activation to infant stimuli may reflect an important dimension of maternal attachment.
The purpose of this study was to examine pathways in a model which proposed associations among parent mindfulness, parent depressive symptoms, two types of parenting, and child problem behavior. Participants' data were from the baseline assessment of a NIMH-sponsored family-group cognitive-behavioral intervention program for the prevention of child and adolescent depression (Compas et al., 2009). Participants consisted of 145 mothers and 17 fathers (mean age = 41.89 yrs, SD = 7.73) with a history of depression and 211 children (106 males) (mean age = 11.49 yrs, SD = 2.00). Analyses showed that (a) positive parenting appears to play a significant role in helping explain how parent depressive symptoms relate to child externalizing problems and (b) mindfulness is related to child internalizing and externalizing problems; however, the intervening constructs examined did not appear to help explain the mindfulness-child problem behavior associations. Suggestions for future research on parent mindfulness and child problem outcome are described.
Examined were electroencephalogram (EEG) asymmetries during the presence of discrete facial signs of emotion among 10-month-old infants who were tested in a standard stranger- and mother-approach paradigm that included a brief separation from mother. Data underscore the usefulness of EEG measures of hemispheric activation in differentiating among certain emotional states. (RH)

Parents of 53 children categorized as behaviorally inhibited or uninhibited at age 30 mo were assessed on measures of affectivity, personality, and behavior. Parents of inhibited children showed lower extraversion, higher avoidance and shyness and faster drawing times on a task involving uncertainty than did parents of uninhibited children. Faster speed on the uncertainty task was interpreted as evidence of increased anxious responding. The Extroversion, Avoidance, Shyness, and Sociability scales loaded heavily on a single factor, the scores of which differed significantly by group. Child behavioral inhibition (BI) negatively correlated with maternal scores on the Extroversion scale and the extracted factor, and positively correlated with maternal scores on the Avoidance scale. BI correlated with both maternal and paternal scores on the uncertainty task in the predicted direction. Low parental extraversion, high paternal avoidance and shyness, and parental tendency toward anxious responding were associated with BI in children.

This article examines how power influences behavior. Elevated power is associated with increased rewards and freedom and thereby activates approach-related tendencies. Reduced power is associated with increased threat, punishment, and social constraint and thereby activates inhibition-related tendencies. The authors derive predictions from recent theorizing about approach and inhibition and review relevant evidence. Specifically, power is associated with (a) positive affect, (b) attention to rewards, (c) automatic information processing, and (d) disinhibited behavior. In contrast, reduced power is associated with (a) negative affect; (b) attention to threat, punishment, others' interests, and those features of the self that are relevant to others' goals; (c) controlled information processing; and (d) inhibited social behavior. The potential moderators and consequences of these power-related behavioral patterns are discussed.
Responses to individuals who suffer are a foundation of cooperative communities. On the basis of the approach/inhibition theory of power (Keltner, Gruenfeld, & Anderson, 2003), we hypothesized that elevated social power is associated with diminished reciprocal emotional responses to another person's suffering (feeling distress at another person's distress) and with diminished complementary emotion (e.g., compassion). In face-to-face conversations, participants disclosed experiences that had caused them suffering. As predicted, participants with a higher sense of power experienced less distress and less compassion and exhibited greater autonomic emotion regulation when confronted with another participant's suffering. Additional analyses revealed that these findings could not be attributed to power-related differences in baseline emotion or decoding accuracy, but were likely shaped by power-related differences in the motivation to affiliate. Implications for theorizing about power and the social functions of emotions are discussed.
We examined a non-specific or relationship variable as well as a specific or technical variable (i.e. homework compliance) and their prediction of cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT) outcome for children with anxiety disorders. Therapist ratings of the therapeutic relationship (TR), but not homework compliance (HC) predicted CBT outcome at posttreatment (n = 138) and at 1-year follow-up (n = 121) for anxious children (aged 9 to 13 years). Findings from this study suggest the therapeutic relationship is a hardy non-specific factor in CBT of anxious children. Implications for the treatment of children with anxiety disorders using CBT and recommendations for research are offered.
Individuals with fragile X syndrome (FXS) commonly display characteristics of social anxiety, including gaze aversion, increased time to initiate social interaction, and difficulty forming meaningful peer relationships. While neural correlates of face processing, an important component of social interaction, are altered in FXS, studies have not examined whether social anxiety in this population is related to higher cognitive processes, such as memory. This study aimed to determine whether the neural circuitry involved in face encoding was disrupted in individuals with FXS, and whether brain activity during face encoding was related to levels of social anxiety. A group of 11 individuals with FXS (5 M) and 11 age- and gender-matched control participants underwent fMRI scanning while performing a face encoding task with online eye-tracking. Results indicate that compared to the control group, individuals with FXS exhibited decreased activation of prefrontal regions associated with complex social cognition, including the medial and superior frontal cortex, during successful face encoding. Further, the FXS and control groups showed significantly different relationships between measures of social anxiety (including gaze-fixation) and brain activity during face encoding. These data indicate that social anxiety in FXS may be related to the inability to successfully recruit higher level social cognition regions during the initial phases of memory formation.
Temperamentally anxious individuals can be identified in childhood and are at risk to develop anxiety and depressive disorders. In addition, these individuals tend to have extreme asymmetric right prefrontal brain activity. Although common and clinically important, little is known about the pathophysiology of anxious temperament. Regardless, indirect evidence from rodent studies and difficult to interpret primate studies is used to support the hypothesis that the amygdala plays a central role. In previous studies using rhesus monkeys, we characterized an anxious temperament endophenotype that is associated with excessive anxiety and fear-related responses and increased electrical activity in right frontal brain regions. To examine the role of the amygdala in mediating this endophenotype and other fearful responses, we prepared monkeys with selective fiber sparing ibotenic acid lesions of the amygdala. Unconditioned trait-like anxiety-fear responses remained intact in monkeys with >95% bilateral amygdala destruction. In addition, the lesions did not affect EEG frontal asymmetry. However, acute unconditioned fear responses, such as those elicited by exposure to a snake and to an unfamiliar threatening conspecific were blunted in monkeys with >70% lesions. These findings demonstrate that the primate amygdala is involved in mediating some acute unconditioned fear responses but challenge the notion that the amygdala is the key structure underlying the dispositional behavioral and physiological characteristics of anxious temperament.

Background : Although mindfulness meditation interventions have recently shown benefits for reducing stress in various populations, little is known about their relative efficacy compared with relaxation interventions. Purpose : This randomized controlled trial examines the effects of a 1-month mindfulness meditation versus somatic relaxation training as compared to a control group in 83 students (M age=25; 16 men and 67 women) reporting distress. Method : Psychological distress, positive states of mind, distractive and ruminative thoughts and behaviors, and spiritual experience were measured, while controlling for social desirability. Results : Hierarchical linear modeling reveals that both meditation and relaxation groups experienced significant decreases in distress as well as increases in positive mood states over time, compared with the control group (p<.05 in all cases). There were no significant differences between meditation and relaxation on distress and positive mood states over time. Effect sizes for distress were large for both meditation and relaxation (Cohen’s d=1.36 and .91, respectively), whereas the meditation group showed a larger effect size for positive states of mind than relaxation (Cohen’s d=.71 and .25, respectively). The meditation group also demonstrated significant pre-post decreases in both distractive and ruminative thoughts/behaviors compared with the control group (p<.04 in all cases; Cohen’s d=.57 for rumination and .25 for distraction for the meditation group), with mediation models suggesting that mindfulness meditation’s effects on reducing distress were partially mediated by reducing rumination. No significant effects were found for spiritual experience. Conclusions : The data suggest that compared with a no-treatment control, brief training in mindfulness meditation or somatic relaxation reduces distress and improves positive mood states. However, mindfulness meditation may be specific in its ability to reduce distractive and ruminative thoughts and behaviors, and this ability may provide a unique mechanism by which mindfulness meditation reduces distress.

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for children (MBCT-C) is a manualized group psychotherapy for children ages 9–13 years old, which was developed specifically to increase social-emotional resiliency through the enhancement of mindful attention. Program development is described along with results of the initial randomized controlled trial. We tested the hypotheses that children randomized to participate in MBCT-C would show greater reductions in (a) attention problems, (b) anxiety symptoms, and (c) behavior problems than wait-listed age and gender-matched controls. Participants were boys and girls aged 9–13 (N = 25), mostly from low-income, inner-city households. Twenty-one of 25 children were ethnic minorities. A randomized cross-lagged design provided a wait-listed control group, a second trial of MBCT-C, and a 3-month follow-up of children who completed the first trial. Measures included the Child Behavior Checklist, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children, and Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children. Participants who completed the program showed fewer attention problems than wait-listed controls and those improvements were maintained at three months following the intervention [F (1, 1, 18) = 5.965, p = .025, Cohen’s d = .42]. A strong relationship was found between attention problems and behavior problems (r = .678, p < .01). Reductions in attention problems accounted for 46% of the variance of changes in behavior problems, although attention changes proved to be a non-significant mediator of behavior problems (p = .053). Significant reductions in anxiety symptoms and behavior problems were found for those children who reported clinically elevated levels of anxiety at pretest (n = 6). Results show that MBCT-C is a promising intervention for attention and behavior problems, and may reduce childhood anxiety symptoms.
Although once considered disruptive, self-conscious emotions are now theorized to be fundamentally involved in the regulation of social behavior. The present study examined the social regulation function of self-conscious emotions by comparing healthy participants with a neuropsychological population--patients with orbitofrontal lesions--characterized by selective regulatory deficits. Orbitofrontal patients and healthy controls participated in a series of tasks designed to assess their social regulation and self-conscious emotions. Another task assessed the ability to infer others' emotional states, an appraisal process involved in self-conscious emotion. Consistent with the theory that self-conscious emotions are important for regulating social behavior, the findings show that deficient behavioral regulation is associated with inappropriate self-conscious emotions that reinforce maladaptive behavior. Additionally, deficient behavioral regulation is associated with impairments in interpreting the self-conscious emotions of others.

OBJECTIVES: The study objectives were to develop and objectively assess the therapeutic effect of a novel movement-based complementary and alternative medicine approach for children with an autism-spectrum disorder (ASD). DESIGN: A within-subject analysis comparing pre- to post-treatment scores on two standard measures of childhood behavioral problems was used. SETTINGS AND LOCATION: The intervention and data analysis occurred at a tertiary care, medical school teaching hospital. SUBJECTS: Twenty-four (24) children aged 3-16 years with a diagnosis of an ASD comprised the study group. INTERVENTION: The efficacy of an 8-week multimodal yoga, dance, and music therapy program based on the relaxation response (RR) was developed and examined. OUTCOME MEASURES: The study outcome was measured using The Behavioral Assessment System for Children, Second Edition (BASC-2) and the Aberrant Behavioral Checklist (ABC). RESULTS: Robust changes were found on the BASC-2, primarily for 5-12-year-old children. Unexpectedly, the post-treatment scores on the Atypicality scale of the BASC-2, which measures some of the core features of autism, changed significantly (p=0.003). CONCLUSIONS: A movement-based, modified RR program, involving yoga and dance, showed efficacy in treating behavioral and some core features of autism, particularly for latency-age children.

Theories of knowledge such as feature lists, semantic networks, and localist neural nets typically use a single global symbol to represent a property that occurs in multiple concepts. Thus, a global symbol represents mane across HORSE, PONY, and LION. Alternatively, perceptual theories of knowledge, as well as distributed representational systems, assume that properties take different local forms in different concepts. Thus, different local forms of mane exist for HORSE, PONY, and LION, each capturing the specific form that mane takes in its respective concept. Three experiments used the property verification task to assess whether properties are represented globally or locally (e.g., Does a PONY have mane?). If a single global form represents a property, then verifying it in any concept should increase its accessibility and speed its verification later in any other concept. Verifying mane for PONY should benefit as much from having verified mane for LION earlier as from verifying mane for HORSE. If properties are represented locally, however, verifying a property should only benefit from verifying a similar form earlier. Verifying mane for PONY should only benefit from verifying mane for HORSE, not from verifying mane for LION. Findings from three experiments strongly supported local property representation and ruled out the interpretation that object similarity was responsible (e.g., the greater overall similarity between HORSE and PONY than between LION and PONY). The findings further suggest that property representation and verification are complicated phenomena, grounded in sensory-motor simulations.
Although several studies have examined anterior asymmetric brain electrical activity and cortisol in infants, children, and adults, the direct association between asymmetry and cortisol has not systematically been reported. In nonhuman primates, greater relative right anterior activation has been associated with higher cortisol levels. The current study examines the relation between frontal electroencephalographic (EEG) asymmetry and cortisol (basal and reactive) and withdrawal-related behaviors (fear and sadness) in 6-month-old infants. As predicted, the authors found that higher basal and reactive cortisol levels were associated with extreme right EEG asymmetry. EEG during the withdrawal-negative affect task was associated with fear and sadness behaviors. Results are interpreted in the context of the previous primate work, and some putative mechanisms are discussed.

Subregional analyses of the hippocampus have suggested a selective role for the CA1 subregion in intermediate/long-term spatial memory and consolidation, but not short-term acquisition or encoding processes. It remains unclear how the direct cortical projection to CA1 via the perforant path (pp) contributes to these CA1-dependent processes. It has been suggested that dopamine selectively modulates the pp projection to CA1 while having little to no effect on the Schaffer collateral (SC) projection to CA1. This series of behavioral and electrophysiological experiments takes advantage of this pharmacological dissociation to demonstrate that the direct pp inputs to CA1 are critical in CA1-dependent intermediate-term retention and retrieval function. Here we demonstrate that local infusion of the nonselective dopamine agonist, apomorphine (10, 15 microg), into the CA1 subregion of awake animals produces impairments in between-day retention and retrieval, sparing within-day encoding of a modified Hebb-Williams maze and contextual conditioning of fear. In contrast, apomorphine produces no deficits when infused into the CA3 subregion. To complement the behavioral analyses, electrophysiological data was collected. In anesthetized animals, local infusion of the same doses of apomorphine significantly modifies evoked responses in the distal dendrites of CA1 following angular bundle stimulation, but produces no significant effects in the more proximal dendritic layer following stimulation of the SC. These results support a modulatory role for dopamine in the EC-CA1, but not CA3-CA1 circuitry, and suggest the possibility of a more fundamental role for EC-CA1 synaptic transmission in terms of intermediate-term, but not short-term spatial memory.

BACKGROUND: Excessive behavioral inhibition during childhood marks anxious temperament and is a risk factor for the development of anxiety and affective disorders. Studies in nonhuman primates can provide important information related to the expression of this risk factor, since threat-induced freezing in rhesus monkeys is a trait-like characteristic analogous to human behavioral inhibition. The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and amygdala are part of a circuit involved in the processing of emotions and associated physiological responses. Earlier work demonstrated involvement of the primate central nucleus of the amygdala (CeA) in mediating anxious temperament. This study assessed the role of the primate OFC in mediating anxious temperament and its involvement in fear responses. METHODS: Twelve adolescent rhesus monkeys were studied (six lesion and six control monkeys). Lesions were targeted at regions of the OFC that are most interconnected with the amygdala. Behavior and physiological parameters were assessed before and after the lesions. RESULTS: The OFC lesions significantly decreased threat-induced freezing and marginally decreased fearful responses to a snake. The lesions also resulted in a leftward shift in frontal brain electrical activity consistent with a reduction in anxiety. The lesions did not significantly decrease hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) activity or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) concentrations of corticotrophin-releasing factor (CRF). CONCLUSIONS: These findings demonstrate a role for the OFC in mediating anxious temperament and fear-related responses in adolescent primates. Because of the similarities between rhesus monkey threat-induced freezing and childhood behavioral inhibition, these findings are relevant to understanding mechanisms underlying anxious temperament in humans.
Drawing on recent claims in the study of relationships, attachment, and emotion, the authors hypothesized that romantic love serves a commitment-related function and sexual desire a reproduction-related function. Consistent with these claims, in Study 1, brief experiences of romantic love and sexual desire observed in a 3-min interaction between romantic partners were related to distinct feeling states, distinct nonverbal displays, and commitment- and reproductive-related relationship outcomes, respectively. In Study 2, the nonverbal display of romantic love was related to the release of oxytocin. Discussion focuses on the place of romantic love and sexual desire in the literature on emotion.

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