Famous couples and BFFs paired up for some excellent Halloween costumes this year! See what iconic duos Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber, Sarah Hyland and Wells Adams and "Riverdale" pals Camila Mendes and Lili Reinhart dressed up as over the holiday weekend.
Wendy Williams talks about 10 seasons of The Wendy Williams Show and shares the grocery store lessons she learned from her mother.
Benicia Main Street’s annual Benicia Waterfront Festival is on Saturday, July 28th and Sunday, July 29th from 11am-6pm on the First Street Green, located at First and B Streets.
Over two days, Benicia will celebrate its picturesque waterfront locale on the First Street Green with live music, craft beers, wine, tasty foods, vendor village, and kids’ activity alley with bounce houses.
On Saturday, musical entertainment kicks off with Highwater Blues (Blues) at 11:30am, followed by TinMan (Classic Rock) at 1:30pm, and finishing the day with Divalicious (Top 40 Hits) at 4:00pm. Sunday opens with House of Floyd (Pink Floyd Tribute Band) at 11:30am, followed by West Grand Boulevard (Motown, R&B, and Soul) at 1:30pm, and closing the festival with Tortilla Soup (Latin Funk) at 4:00pm.
Entrance fee to the Benicia Waterfront Festival is $10 for adults, $5 for seniors, and free for kids less than 12 years accompanied by an adult. A $15 2-day weekend pass will also be available. A "Buy One, Get One Free" adult daily admission coupon can be picked-up at Benicia Main Street and many downtown businesses as well as downloaded from www.BeniciaMainStreet.org. Coupon cannot be used with the senior discount or weekend pass.
Benicia Main Street is a non-profit downtown revitalization program that focuses on the enhancement of Downtown Benicia. For more information, visit www.beniciamainstreet.org.
Benicia Main Street’s annual Benicia Waterfront Festival is on Saturday, July 28th and Sunday, July 29th from 11am-6pm on the First Street Green, located at First and B Streets!
Entrance fee to the Benicia Waterfront Festival is $10 for adults, $5 for seniors, and free for kids less than 12 years accompanied by an adult. A $15 2-day weekend pass will also be available. A "Buy One, Get One Free" adult daily admission coupon can be picked-up at Benicia Main Street and many downtown businesses as well as downloaded from here.
Benicia Main Street is a non-profit downtown revitalization program that focuses on the enhancement of Downtown Benicia. For more information, click here.
Visual artist Sophia Dawson writes a tribute to those killed by police officers during the 2016 AfroPunk Music Festival at Commodore Barry Park. The event is a yearly celebration of Afrocentrism, multicultural otherness and experimentation that has closed out the summer months in Brooklyn, N.Y. for the past 11 years. Afropunk has become a palpable force in its own right and is considered the forefront of African-American creativity. The statements featured below are a few opinions on the current state of Black America.
Laura Walton, left: "We're going through a lot of changes that should've taken place a long time ago... Afropunk gives us an opportunity to talk about it face to face, rather than on social media, which a lot of people say hides the true leaders of the movement. And I feel like the actual leaders of the movement are at festivals like this."
Daria Harper, right: "I think we could use a little more unity as far as moving forward politically and economically... I feel we're a little bit too divided to make the proper moves we need in order to really reach a point of stability."
"I think there have been improvements and there's also been some setbacks. But I think we're on the right path. We're still staying strong. We're gonna keep it going. This [Afropunk festival] is a good representation of how young black people are getting together. This next generation is not gonna stand for anymore bull."
"We should be together as one. We should enjoy life, but also cut the violence. A lot of violence is going on and it's going on within us as a community. But if we get 'us' together then we can fight the other things to come."
"We have a renaissance going on right now. The current state of the black community is 'artist mode.' I've seen so many artists come up out of this. When there's a lot of crazy things going on... It's all about shifting it into a positive thing."
"I'm scared. It feels like they're just killing us everyday. It's very scary to know you're being targeted... Afropunk, I love it. Once a year I get a chance to express myself. Within these two days I can really be myself and just feel free."
"We have a lot of problems right now with the police. There's need for a change now more than ever."
"I think we're in a period of awakening. The current threat upon our culture and our lives is only strengthening us."
The benefits of medicinal cannabis are gaining credibility through evidence based research according to international researchers.
The advantages of the controversial treatment were high on the agenda in Newcastle on Friday, where experts spoke about debunking the myths.
Four NCAA student-athletes have been named Rhodes scholars for 2014. A fifth scholar, Alexander Diaz, managed Harvard’s men’s basketball team.
Approximately 80 winners are selected each year—32 from the United States. The American students will join an international group of scholars selected from 14 other jurisdictions around the world.
The Rhodes Scholarships provide awardees a fully funded opportunity to study at the University of Oxford in England for at least two years. The awards, among the most prestigious in academia, have a value of approximately $50,000 per year.
Clarke Knight is a rowing and cross country student-athlete at Smith College. A chemistry major, she was awarded a grant at the University of Tasmania to investigate two diseases that had a significant impact on the global potato crop, resulting in the discovery and marketing of a new chemical that neutralized the disease and increased global potato production by an estimated one billion.
She was awarded a fellowship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study the stability of biological samples from people exposed to mercury. Clarke also has authored a book on the history of women architects and biographies on early Smith chemistry graduates.
She plans to continue her education at Oxford where she will enter the master’s of philosophy program, studying geography and the environment.
Brian McGrail is a senior cross-country student-athlete at Williams College. A Truman Scholar member of Phi Beta Kappa, McGrail interned with Elizabeth Warren’s Senate campaign and is president of the Williams College Democrats.
He is doing research on the effect of tax rates on income inequality and volunteers to help low-income individuals prepare their taxes. While attending Oxford, McGrail plans to complete the master’s in comparative social policy.
Miles Unterreiner was a two-time All-American in track and field and cross country at Stanford and received the 2012 NCAA Winter Postgraduate Scholarship. Unterreiner received his bachelor’s and master’s in history and was given Stanford’s award for the graduating varsity athlete with the highest grade point average.
The recipient of the Robert Novak Collegiate Journalism Award, he was a writer, columnist and managing editor for opinions for The Stanford Daily. Unterreiner has an interest in international human rights and plans to do the master’s of philosophy program in international relations at Oxford.
Jessica Wamala graduated in May with a degree in political science from Villanova and is currently pursuing a master’s. She is the co-captain, forward of the women’s basketball team and is a Truman Scholar, a Rangel Scholar, and a Gates Millennium Scholar.
Wamala was a sophomore walk-on for the Wildcats and has interned at the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade and at the State Department office of Near Eastern Affairs. She plans to pursue a master’s of philosophy in modern Middle Eastern studies at Oxford.
Rhodes Scholars are selected in a two-step process that includes nomination by their universities and a detailed finalist interview. In determining the award, the committee considers criteria set out in the will of Cecil Rhodes, including “high academic achievement, integrity of character, a spirit of unselfishness, respect for others, potential for leadership and physical vigor.”
Among previous NCAA student-athlete Rhodes recipients are Princeton graduate and former U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley, former Florida State football safety Myron Rolle, Southern California graduate and Athletics Director Pat Haden and former associate justice of the Supreme Court Byron White. White won football’s Heisman Trophy at Colorado and also was a recipient of the NCAA’s Theodore Roosevelt Award.
Morphologically distinct worker castes of eusocial insects specialize in different tasks. The relative proportions of these castes and their body sizes represent the demography of a colony that is predicted to vary adaptively with environments. Despite strong theoretical foundations, there has been little empirical evidence for the evolution of colony demography in nature. We show that geographically distinct populations of the ant Pheidole morrisi differ in worker caste ratios and worker body sizes in a manner consistent with microevolutionary divergence. We further show that the developmental mechanism for caste determination accounts for the unique pattern of covariation observed in these two traits. Behavioral data reveal that the frequency of different tasks performed by workers changes in a caste-specific manner when caste ratios are altered and demonstrate the importance of the major caste in colony defense. The population-level variation documented here for P. morrisi colonies supports the predictions of adaptive demography theory and illustrates that developmental mechanisms can play a significant role in shaping the evolution of phenotype at the colony level.
Circadian gene Clock contributes to cell proliferation and migration of glioma and is directly regulated by tumor-suppressive miR-124. - PubMed - NCBI
Circadian gene Clock contributes to cell proliferation and migration of glioma and is directly regulated by tumor-suppressive miR-124.
State Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China.
Although the roles of circadian Clock genes and microRNAs in tumorigenesis have been profoundly studied, mechanisms of cross-talk between them in regulation of gliomagenesis are poorly understood. Here we show that the expression level of CLOCK is significantly increased in high-grade human glioma tissues and glioblastoma cell lines. In contrast miR-124 is attenuated in similar samples. Further studies show that Clock is a direct target of miR-124, and either restoration of miR-124 or silencing of CLOCK can reduce the activation of NF-κB. In conclusion, we suggest that as a target of glioma suppressor miR-124, CLOCK positively regulates glioma proliferation and migration by reinforcing NF-κB activity.
Decoding microglia responses to psychosocial stress reveals blood-brain barrier breakdown that may drive stress susceptibility.
Contributions of the adaptive immune system to mood regulation: Mechanisms and pathways of neuroimmune interactions.
Social defeat induces depressive-like states and microglial activation without involvement of peripheral macrophages.
Urine scent marking (USM): a novel test for depressive-like behavior and a predictor of stress resiliency in mice.
PACAP-deficient mice show attenuated corticosterone secretion and fail to develop depressive behavior during chronic social defeat stress.
Induction of IDO by bacille Calmette-Guérin is responsible for development of murine depressive-like behavior.
Thermoregulatory responses of rats to conventional preparations of lipopolysaccharide are caused by lipopolysaccharide per se-- not by lipoprotein contaminants.
Using intervention mapping to design a self-management programme for older people with chronic conditions.
Measuring health-related quality of life of care home residents, comparison of self-report with staff proxy responses for EQ-5D-5L and HowRu: protocol for assessing proxy reliability in care home outcome testing.
Academic career preparation for residents - are we on the right track? Prevalence of specialized tracks in emergency medicine training programs.
Palliative long-term abdominal drains versus repeated drainage in individuals with untreatable ascites due to advanced cirrhosis: study protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial.
That’s the picture that pops into most of our heads. And it’s not surprising — this is the dominant image of philanthropy in the United States. From Andrew Carnegie to Warren Buffett, these are the faces of philanthropy most familiar to us.
For some new images of philanthropists, take a look at a wonderful new video, “I Am a Philanthropist: Diverse Voices in Giving.” This video will help populate your mind with philanthropists, such as Shirley and Bernard Kinsey (pictured at right), an African American couple who have amassed a large collection of African American art and historical documents that they loan for exhibitions, or Susan Lowenberg and Joyce Newstat, who support the communities they identify with most closely – Jewish and LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender).
“I Am a Philanthropist” premiered at an event last November presented by D5, a coalition of funders, joint affinity groups, the Council on Foundations and the Foundation Center to grow philanthropy’s diversity, equity and inclusion. More than 200 people gathered at the event in Los Angeles to shine a spotlight on the diverse face of philanthropy. As the board chair of the National Center for Family Philanthropy, one of the sponsors of the event, I was interested in learning more about diversity in family philanthropy. In my own 20-plus years of experience with my family’s philanthropy, I have seen how incorporating diverse perspectives into our grantmaking and practices has enriched our connection to the community. I have witnessed how fresh vision can open one’s eyes to different ways of seeing community needs. Sometimes it takes a newcomer to show what you haven’t seen, simply because you haven’t been looking for it. I wanted to see what more I could learn about philanthropy by looking at the growing diversity in the field. My curiosity was rewarded.
The day was packed. The screening of “I Am a Philanthropist” was followed by panel discussions, a live performance by Tony award-winning artist Sarah Jones, and an interview with Academy Award-winning actress Geena Davis, who spoke about her philanthropic interest in funding women and girls. (For those of you who would rather be reading E! instead of Family Giving News: Geena Davis is still gorgeous, and she’s smart and articulate. Can you believe that Thelma and Louise was released 20 years ago?)
I asked Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ Judy Belk (a former NCFP board member) and event sponsor and emcee, how family philanthropy fits into the D5 effort. Belk, who led a very special NCFP Teleconference on this topic on April 12, 2012, said, “Family is one of the major motivations for diverse donors in philanthropy, just as it is a motivator for many philanthropists. They want to give, and they want to inspire the next generation. We are looking at ways to support these new families in philanthropy.”
Bernard and Shirley Kinsey’s interest in collecting African American historical documents and artifacts started when their son had difficulty researching a book report about his ancestry. This desire to help their son with his schoolwork blossomed into a collection that travels to museums around the country, including the Smithsonian. The Kinsey ethos about sharing their blessings comes from a strong belief that “If you want to play catch, you have to throw the ball back. You have to throw the ball back to make this world work. In other words, you just can’t have all the money, you’ve got to share it.” Philanthropy is “not just sharing money but sharing ideas, sharing your relationships, your networks.” Bernard and Shirley’s philanthropy has included major gifts to and fundraising for their alma mater Florida A & M, a historically black university.
The overall theme of the D5 effort is to recognize that a diversity of approaches and viewpoints strengthens philanthropy. Deborah Santana (pictured at left), one of the subjects of the “I Am a Philanthropist” video, remarked that growing up as a biracial child gave her empathy for people who are different, and most people in need of funding are also different in that they are outside the mainstream. She has a particular interest in supporting women in developing countries who are often marginalized. Incorporating diverse perspectives like Deborah’s into philanthropy helps us better understand the communities in which we wish to work.
The event caused me to reflect on how diversity impacts the work of the Durfee Foundation, the family foundation started by my grandparents in 1960. To look at a photo of our extended family twenty years ago, you would have seen the basic WASP portrait: a lot of white people, most of them tall. But that picture is changing, as illustrated by a conversation I had several years ago with my son Will when he was six years old. Will and I were in a bookstore and he was looking at a book about Martin Luther King, Jr. The following exchange ensued:
After explaining to Will that our family ancestry from Northern Europe is not the same as “just plain,” I reflected on how our extended family is becoming more and more diverse. Some family members have married spouses whose ancestors came from different parts of the globe, and they have had children. My cousin Halina, who serves on the Durfee Foundation board with me, is married to her wife Kim, and last year they adopted an adorable baby daughter.
This diversity within my family enriches all of us, and enriches The Durfee Foundation’s grantmaking. Many years ago when Halina joined our board, she initiated grants in the LGBT community and opened a new program area that is very consistent with the foundation’s mission to support people and organizations that have difficulty obtaining funding. Halina’s perspective adds a new dimension to our work.
The data is all out there about the changing demographics of the U.S. According to a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, by 2050 the United States will have a majority nonwhite population. This is already true in California, where our family foundation is based. It’s not surprising, then, that as the face of America changes, so does the face of family philanthropy. I am excited by these changes, and believe that as philanthropy welcomes and learns from its new members, grantmaking will become more connected to the communities we serve, and more supportive of diverse communities.
Those of us in mainstream philanthropy (Will might have called it “just plain” philanthropy) have a lot to learn from diverse philanthropists. Just as Halina opened up the eyes of the board of my family’s foundation to the LGBT community, other diverse philanthropists can show the way to giving in communities that we may not have given much thought to, simply because we hadn’t been living in those worlds.
I will leave you with a quote from Bishop Desmond Tutu that was cited by Deborah Santana in the video:
This sentiment resonates with all philanthropists, and gives us reason to welcome newcomers and celebrate one another for the work that we do.
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