Nanaimo voters opted for change on Saturday, November 15, 2008, by electing a new mayor, businessman John Ruttan, who took 46 percent of votes. Councillor Diane Brennan was second with 36 percent. Incumbent mayor Gary Korpan, who had served since 1993, went down in flames with only 16 percent. Korpan has been involved in an acrimonious lawsuit with downtown restauranteer Angela Negrin over a bumper sticker reading "Free Nanaimo from Koruption" and it seems Nanaimo citizens were turned off by Korpan's strong arm tactics. Negrin got 6,032 votes in her bid for city council while Korpan took only 3,119 votes in total. Negrin was just 132 votes short of being elected: Better luck next time, Angela.
All five council members running for reelection retained their seats: Bill Bestwick, Bill Holdom, Loyd Sherry, Larry McNabb, and Merv Unger. The three newly elected councillors are Jim Kipp, Diana Johnstone, and Fred Pattje. Johnstone is a business-lobby rightwinger while Pattje is a social democrat with an interest in urban development issues. Bill Holdom will be able to continue his work caring for our city's environment, while Jim Kipp will be the man to watch.
The nine trustees elected to the Nanaimo-Ladysmith School Board are Carol McNamee, Jamie Brennan, Donna Allen, Sharon Welch, Andrea Bonkowski, Ron Dale, Nelson Allen, Dot Neary, and David Murchie. Carol McNamee is a former teacher's union leader who ran provincially for the NDP in 2005. Jamie Brennan and Nelson Allen have also sought NDP nominations federally or provincially in recent years. The new school board will be challenged to secure additional funding for education in Nanaimo-Ladysmith from the provincial government in Victoria, and if the BC NDP can defeat the BC Liberals next May, the new team will be very well placed indeed.
It's also great to hear that Gregor Robertson has been elected Mayor of Vancouver. The winds of change are blowing across British Columbia and Gordon Campbell's days are numbered.


As balloting continued Tuesday for two seats on the LA Unified school board, a few complaints about polling issues in the District 4 race surfaced on neighborhood social media groups, but the Los Angeles City Clerk's office said no calls had been received about board race problems.
As of 3 p.m., only one investigation had been opened, into a complaint in the District 1 race for City Council, said Sandra Mendoza, a public information officer in the city clerk's office. She said no calls about LA Unified balloting problems had been received, but she encouraged voters who encounter issues to call 213-978-0444.
Mendoza had no information on voter turnout as the city does not conduct field assessments during the voting process, as the county had done during the March primary. "We won't be able to tell until we start counting" this evening, she said. But she reported that as of late Monday, 116,817 of the 866,567 ballots issued had been mailed in and processed, or 13.5 percent. "So there are 700,000 ballots out there that haven't been returned, you can tell that to your readers," Mendoza said, urging voters to get to their polling place to vote, or to drop off their ballots at any polling location or in any mailbox as long as the ballots are postmarked Tuesday.
Among a handful of complaints was a voter at Paul Revere Middle School reporting there was no signage indicating it was a polling place. Broken machines were reported at Cowan Avenue Elementary and Westside Center for Independent Living. At UCLA's Rieber Hall one person reported there was no box for the ballots. Some voters complained about their voting places being moved, and others reported very light turnout.


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How Inflatable Spacecraft Will Work
by Kevin Bonsor
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Inflatable space telescopes will be much lighter than their glass and metal predecessors, making them cheaper to put into orbit. See more pictures of inflatable spacecraft.
Photo courtesy of NASA
As the space industry continues to cut costs by using lightweight materials and alternative types of energy, it is opening up the possibility that you and I may one day have the opportunity to live in space. The idea of a colony on the moon or Mars might be made possible with new spacecraft technologies being developed today. One of the remaining barriers to affordable space travel or even placing spacecraft in orbit is still the high price of launching these spacecraft. At today's prices, it would cost $12,500 just to launch an object as light as an inflated basketball (1.25 pounds) into space. The heavier the spacecraft, the more rocket fuel is needed to get the vehicle off the ground.
NASA and other space agencies are working on constructing a new breed of inflatable spacecraft made of lightweight materials. The amazing thing about these inflatable spacecraft is that they can be squeezed into small canisters only a fraction of their full size and then inflated once they arrive in space using a sophisticated deployment system that releases an inert gas to push out the walls of the inflatable material.
Space inflatable technology has been around since the 1960s, but has played a minor role in space exploration to this point. With the ability to cut costs, space inflatables could once again be used to build 1,000-foot antennas, space habitats or solar sails, which wouldn't be practical with conventional spacecraft materials. In this edition of How Stuff Will Work, we will take a look at two kinds of space inflatables being developed and how they may pave the way for interstellar travel and Martian colonies.
Inflatable Telescopes and Solar Sails
This image illustrates how the ARISE telescope will inflate once it is delivered into orbit.
Photo courtesy NASA
Since it was put into orbit in April 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has been the primary tool for gathering images in space. But just getting the Hubble into orbit was a major accomplishment for NASA. Hubble is 43.3 feet (13 meters) long and 14 feet (4 meters) wide, and it weighs about 25,500 pounds (11,000 kg). It would cost more that $25 million to put that type of structure into space today, and that's not counting the costs for materials to build another Hubble. Yet, to extend our view into space, scientists must be able to place an even more powerful telescope in Earth orbit.
NASA scientists are now using inflatable technology to build a telescope that is nearly twice as large as Hubble but that weighs only about one-sixth as much as Hubble. The 82-foot Advanced Radio Interferometry between Space and Earth (ARISE) will also dwarf Hubble in how far it can see into space. According to early estimates, ARISE will have a resolution 3,000 times better than Hubble. Interferometry is a process by which more than one antenna is used to construct highly detailed photos. In this case, ARISE will be used to take pictures of black holes, interstellar planets and other stars.
Despite ARISE's much larger size, it is expected to be quite easy to transport into space. The ARISE telescope's reflector, or antenna, and poles will be constructed out of an advanced thin-film polymer material that can be folded up and stuffed into a small canister, which is then placed on top of the main spacecraft. The reflector itself will be woven into a mesh netting. The canister that holds the reflector is just 1.31 feet (.4 m) tall with a diameter of 5.9 feet (1.8 m). This page shows a good illustration of how the canister is stacked on the spacecraft carrying the ARISE telescope.
The ARISE spacecraft will likely be launched into space onboard a smaller spacecraft than is available today. When the ARISE spacecraft reaches orbit, the mesh netting antenna is released, but it is not this part of ARISE that actually inflates. Instead the three poles, or booms, that connect an inflatable ring around the netting to the spacecraft will inflate. To inflate the poles and the inflatable ring, the Sun's energy is focused on a heat exchanger containing liquid hydrogen on the spacecraft. This heat allows gas to form, which then flows into the poles and ring. Once the poles are rigid, the antenna will also remain rigid. The entire inflating process will take place in just minutes.
Solar sails, such as this one, may also use inflatable technology. As you can see, solar sails are very similar in construction to the ARISE telescope.
In 1996, the Space Shuttle Endeavor deployed an experimental antenna prototype to test this new technology. This 46-foot (14 meter) prototype was successfully inflated over several hours, and generated a great deal of interest in the further development of inflatable spacecraft. NASA has said that the ARISE telescope is scheduled for launch in 2008.
The same technology being used to develop the ARISE telescope could one day be used to construct solar sails that could propel spacecraft beyond the edges of our solar system at incredible speeds. Solar sails will unfurl in space using the same process that inflates the ARISE's poles and inflatable ring. The sail is actually an ultrathin mirror made of carbon fibers that can capture the sun's energy to propel an attached spacecraft to speeds up to 200,000 mph (324,000 kph).
Inflatable Space Habitats
Space inflatables, like the TransHab, will be used as living quarters for space travelers.
The use of space inflatables won't be limited to unmanned spacecraft and telescopes. NASA has a much more ambitious plan to build inflatable space habitats. The first of these inflatable space habitats, called TransHab, is already in development and could become the living quarters for the International Space Station (ISS) as soon as 2005.
The three-story inflatable will be blown up possibly using nitrogen gas that would fill the spacecraft with several blasts of air. TransHab has been tested to blow up in about 10 minutes once it docks with the ISS, and it should easily stay inflated in the vacuum of space for the life of the craft.
You might picture TransHab as a large balloon connected to the space station. And you might think that it would be susceptible to projectiles in space, such as small asteroids. In fact, tiny meteorites flying through space can travel at speeds seven times as fast as a bullet. Engineers building TransHab have taken this threat into consideration in building the space station residence.
TransHab's skin has been made of materials that allow it to deflect such projectiles. The one-foot-thick shell is composed of 12 different layers that are designed to break tiny particles of space debris that might hit the shell. The outer shell is made of a Kevlar webbing rated to withstand 12,500 pounds. The layers underneath are made out of Nextel, a ceramic fabric. These layers also protect the occupants from temperatures from 250 degrees Fahrenheit to minus 200 degrees Fahrenheit. Take a closer look at the layers of the TransHab on this page.
At launch, TransHab will have a diameter of 14 feet (4.3 meters), but once it is inflated it will have a diameter of 27 feet (8.2 m), and have a volume of 12,000 cubic feet (339.8 cubic meters). The interior of the 23-foot tall inflated space module will be divided into three floors. The galley and dining table will be located on the first floor. Six sleeping compartments (81 cubic feet per compartment) will be located on the second floor. Each compartment will contain a personal storage area and a computer entertainment center for recreation and personal work. And on the third floor, space station residents will find an exercise space, medical areas and bathrooms.
If humans are to ever go to Mars or set up temporary residence on the moon, we will need to develop closed habitats like the TransHab. Inflatables would be ideal for lunar and Martian colonies because they are compact enough for colonists to take with them.
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be a net butler & weeds thesis statement win to blow off everything you were supposed to do for the next few days to work. tags: education, college students Better Essays 930 words (2.7 pages) Preview - Procrastination has been a significant and a common issue in most if not all of the schools worldwide. Hamming used to go around actually asking people this, and it didn't make him popular. Perhaps writing this post is causing procrastination, actually, it definitely is causing procrastination. But through common sense and logic, anyone can see that it should be considered a negative aspect because it encourages procrastination, creates a false sense of security, and allows teenagers to explore the option of suicide. It will then further explain ways to adopt these skills and how to implement them in order to be successful in studies. Procrastination plays such a big role in a teenagers daily life that it becomes a true talent and skill. tags: education, discipline Better Essays 973 words (2.8 pages) Preview - Ive Got to Habit Overcoming bad habits or creating new ones is easier than one might think. Want to learn more about yourself?
These arguments we have with ourselves when faced with tasks, is the psychological behavior response to our lack of self-control with our behaviors, our emotions, moods, and personalities. There are an infinite number of things you could be doing. It's like going to Las Vegas and spinning the roulette wheel - once in a while you'll win, but most of the time you won't. To look at only college students would be bias however since it affects everyone, almost every day. The cost of an interruption is not just the time it takes, but that it breaks the time on either side in half. But this is, strictly speaking, impossible. By using these examples he overcomes his Resistance and encourages us to persevere and fight the Resistance.
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Building on last year's conference, extending conversations about documentation and observation to inform your instructional focus through interactive, teacher-driven activities.
Vocabulary that is rich and complex from the curriculum, as well as academic discourse.
Wondering how this links to our Essentials? See here in this summary.
Observing in the classroom to inform teaching and learning through the lens of the K1 and K2 progress reports, and using these observations for lesson planning and CPTs.
Looking at the long-term impact of powerful early learning experiences for children, achieving this through focused group work, inspiring stories from classrooms teachers, and engaging discussions around culturally sustaining teaching practice. As a result, they will deepen their knowledge of mathematics, science, and social studies standards to support curriculum and instructional best practices. They will also improve their instructional focus regarding culturally sustaining practice.
At the 2014 Kindergarten Conference BPS early childhood teachers and paraprofessionals had the opportunity to experience playing, creating, building, and exploring with loose parts materials, with the goal of reflecting on how these kinds of materials, and how opportunities for open-ended play with these sorts of materials, might positively impact teaching and learning in the classroom.
What are loose parts, and why do they matter?
Loose parts are materials that can be moved, carried, combined, redesigned, lined up, taken apart, and put back together in multiple ways. They are open-ended materials that encourage concrete experiences, problem solving, imagination and creativity in children. There is no specific set of directions regarding how to use loose parts materials- it is up to the child how the materials are used.
Loose parts can be found in the natural world: sticks, water, sand, pine cones, feathers, leaves, rocks, flowers, etc.
Loose parts can be found in the classroom: cardboard boxes, fabric, bottle caps, paper tubes, buttons, beads, string, etc.
When children play with loose parts they develop their skills in symbolic play, which has been shown to lead to positive outcomes in children's later reading and writing abilities. Additionally, loose parts provide concrete, child-directed opportunities for learning age-appropriate mathematics skills such as cardinality, ordinal numbers, one-to-one correspondence, and patterning.
Finally, when children play with loose parts they improve their social emotional skills as well, negotiating and communicating with their friends, and they develop increasing skills in self-regulation, which is important for continued academic success as children grow older.
For our 2012 Kindergarten Conference, Early Childhood hosted prolific writer and nationally acclaimed inspirational early childhood teacher and author, Vivian Gussin Paley. Ms. Paley, author of 13 books and winner of the prestige MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship, presented and demonstrated storytelling in the classroom and how it benefits student growth with regards to academic success and emotional development.


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Dr. Feng-Ru Tang
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ph.D. in Anatomy from University of Singapore, Singapore
Neurocytology
University of Singapore, Singapore
Xiao, X.L., D.L. Ma, J. Wu and F.R. Tang, 2013. Metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5) regulates proliferation and differentiation of neuronal progenitors in the developmental hippocampus. Brain Res., 1493: 1-12.
Tang, F.R. and W.K. Loke, 2013. Molecular mechanisms of low dose ionizing radiation induced hormesis, adaptive responses, radioresistance, bystander effects and genomic instability. Int. J. Radiat. Biol. .
Liu, J., Y. Liu and F.R. Tang, 2013. Survival of Calbindin, Calretinin and Parvalbumin positive neurons in mouse hippocampal CA area at chronic stage of Pilocarpine-induced epilepsy. J. Central South Univ. Med. Sci., 38: 437-442.
Wu, J., D.L. Ma, E.A. Ling and F.R. Tang, 2012. Corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) in the hippocampus of the mouse pilocarpine model of status epilepticus. Neurosci. Lett., 512: 83-88.
Tang, F.R. and W.K. Loke, 2012. Sulfur mustard and respiratory diseases. Crit. Rev. Toxicol., 42: 688-702.
Liu, J.X., C. Xia, Y. Liu and F.R. Tang, 2012. CCL28 in the mouse hippocampal CA1 area and the dentate gyrus during and after pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus. Neurochem. Int., 61: 1094-1101.
Tang, F.R., W.K. Loke and E.A. Ling, 2011. Comparison of status epilepticus models induced by pilocarpine and nerve agents - a systematic review of the underlying aetiology and adopted therapeutic approaches. Curr. Med. Chem., 18: 886-899.
Tang, F.R., K. Kato and W.K Loke, 2011. Kainic acid induced seizures and brain damage: Mechanism and relevant therapeutic approaches. In: Chemical-Induced Seizures: Mechanisms, Consequences and Treatment, Tang, F.R. and L.W. Keong (Eds.)., Chapter 7, Bentham Science Publishers Ltd., USA., pp: 89-106.
Tang, F.R. and W.K. Loke, 2011. Pilocarpine and warfare nerve agent induced seizures: Similarities and differences. In: Chemical-Induced Seizures: Mechanisms, Consequences and Treatment, Tang, F.R. and L.W. Keong (Eds.)., Chapter 8, Bentham Science Publishers Ltd., USA., pp: 80-88.
Liu, J.X., Y. Liu and F.R. Tang, 2011. Pilocarpine induced Status epilepticus alters hippocampal PKC expression in mice. Acta Neurobiol. Exp., 71: 220-232.
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Liu, J., F. Tang and Y. Liu, 2011. Neuron activation, degeneration and death in the hippocampus of mice after pilocarpine induced status epilepticus. J. Central South Univ. Med. Sci., 36: 1071-1078.
Zhang, S., Y.Y. Xia, H.C. Lim, F.R. Tang and Z.W. Feng, 2010. NCAM-mediated locomotor recovery from spinal cord contusion injury involves neuroprotection, axon regeneration and synaptogenesis. Neurochem Int., 56: 919-929.
Xu, J.H., L. Long, J. Wang, Y.C. Tang, H.T. Hu, T.W. Soong and F.R. Tang, 2010. Nuclear localization of Cav2.2 and its distribution in the mouse central nervous system, and changes in the hippocampus during and after pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus. Neuropathol. Applied Neurobiol., 36: 71-85.
Tang, F.R. and W.K. Loke, 2010. Neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of patients and animal models of temporal lobe epilepsy. In: Neurogenesis, Neurodegeneration and Neuroregeneration, Tang, B.L.( Ed.)., Research Signpost, Kerala, India, pp: 43-58.
Tang, F.R. and W.K. Loke, 2010. Cyto-, axo- and dendro-architectonic changes of neurons in the limbic system in the mouse pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsy Res., 89: 43-51.
Liu, J.X., Y.C. Tang, Y. Liu and F.R. Tang, 2010. Status epilepticus alters hippocampal PKAβ and PKAγ expression in mice. Seizure, 19: 414-420.
He, D.F., D.L. Ma, Y.C. Tang, W.L. Lee, J. Engel Jr., A. Bragin and F.R. Tang, 2010. Morpho-physiological characteristics of dorsal subicular network in mice after pilocarpine induced status epilepticus. Brain Pathol., 20: 80-95.
Zhang, S., S. Khanna and F.R. Tang, 2009. Patterns of hippocampal neuronal loss and axon reorganization of the dentate gyrus in the mouse pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy. J. Neurosci. Res., 87: 1135-1149.
Xu, J.H., L. Long, Y.C. Tang, J.T. Zhang, H.T. Hu and F.R. Tang, 2009. CCR3, CCR2A and MIP-1α, MCP1 in the mouse hippocampus during and after pilocarpine induced status epilepticus. Neuropathol. Applied Neurobiol., 35: 496-514.
Tang, F.R., H.F. Bradford and E.A. Ling, 2009. Metabotropic glutamate receptors in the control of neuronal activity and as targets for development of anti-epileptogenic drugs. Curr. Med. Chem., 16: 2189-2204.
Tang, F.R., D.L. Ma and W.L. Lee, 2009. Entorhinal cortex in temporal lobe epilepsy. In: Pan Brain Abnormal Neural Network in Epilepsy, Tang, F.R. (Edt.). Chapter 8, Research Signpost, Kerala, India, pp: 121-133.
Tang, F.R. and W.L. Lee, 2009. Hippocampal mossy fiber reorganization in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). In: Pan Brain Abnormal Neural Network in Epilepsy, Tang, F.R. (Edt.). Chapter 3, Research Signpost, Kerala, India, pp:23-40.
Ma, D.L. and Y.C. Tang and F.R. Tang, 2008. Cytoarchitectonics and afferent/efferent reorganization of neurons in layers II and III of the lateral entorhinal cortex in the mouse pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy. J. Neurosci. Res., 86: 1324-1342.
Liu, J.X., Y.C. Tang, Y. Liu and F.R. Tang, 2008. MGluR5-PLCβ4-PKCβ2/PKCγ pathways in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons in pilocarpine model of status epilepticus in mGluR5+/+ mice. Epilepsy Res., 82: 111-123.
Kaur, C., V. Sivakumar, J. Lu, F.R. Tang and E.A. Ling, 2008. Melatonin attenuates hypoxia-induced ultrastructural changes and increased vascular permeability in the developing hippocampus. Brain Pathol., 18: 533-547.
Xu, J.H., L. Long, Y.C. Tang, H.T. Hu and F.R. Tang, 2007. Cav1.2, Cav1.3 and Cav2.1 in the mouse hippocampus during and after pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus. Hippocampus, 17: 235-251.
Tang, F.R., P.M. Chen, Y.C. Tang, M.C. Tsai and W.L. Lee, 2007. Two-methyl-6-phenylethynyl-pyridine (MPEP), a metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 antagonist, with low doses of MK801 and diazepam: A novel approach for controlling status epilepticus. Neuropharmacology, 53: 821-831.
Liu, J.X., X. Cao, Y.C. Tang, Y. Liu and F.R. Tang, 2007. CCR7, CCR8, CCR9 and CCR10 in the mouse hippocampal CA1 area and the dentate gyrus during and after pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus. J. Neurochem., 100: 1072-1088.
Jiang, F.L., Y.C. Tang, S.C. Chia, T.M. Jay and F.R. Tang, 2007. Anticonvulsive effect of a selective mGluR8 agonist (S)-3,4-dicarboxyphenylglycine (S-3,4-DCPG) in the mouse pilocarpine model of status epilepticus. Epilepsia, 48: 783-792.
Tang, F.R., S.C. Chia, F.L. Jiang, D.L. Ma, P.M. Chen and Y.C. Tang, 2006. Calcium binding protein containing neurons in the gliotic mouse hippocampus with special reference to their afferents from the medial septum and the entorhinal cortex. Neuroscience, 140: 1467-1479.
Ma, D.L., Y.C. Tang, P.M. Chen, S.C. Chia and F.L. Jiang et al 2006. Reorganization of CA3 area of the mouse hippocampus after pilocarpine induced temporal lobe epilepsy with special reference to the CA3-septum pathway. J. Neurosci. Res., 83: 318-331.
Ma, D.L., S.C. Chia, Y.C. Tang, M.L.J. Chang, A. Probst, J.M. Burgunder and F.R. Tang, 2006. Spastin in the human and mouse central nervous system with special reference to its expression in the hippocampus of mouse pilocarpine model of status epilepticus and temporal lobe epilepsy. Neurochem. Int., 49: 651-664.
Tang, F.R., S.C. Chia, S. Zhang, P.M. Chen and H. Gao et al ., 2005. Glutamate receptor 1-immunopositive neurons in the gliotic CA1 area of the mouse hippocampus after pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus. Eur. J. Neurosci., 21: 2361-2374.
Tang, F.R., 2005. Agonists and antagonists of metabotropic glutamate receptors: anticonvulsants and antiepileptogenic agents? Curr. Neuropharmacol., 3: 299-307.
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Wen, Q., M.K. Sim and F.R. Tang, 2004. Reduction of infarct size by orally administered des-aspartate-angiotensin I in the ischemic reperfused rat heart. Regul Pept., 120: 149-153.
Tang, F.R., W.L. Lee, H. Gao, Y. Chen, Y.T. Loh and S.C. Chia, 2004. Expression of different isoforms of protein kinase C in the rat hippocampus after pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus with special reference to CA1 area and the dentate gyrus. Hippocampus, 14: 87-98.
Tang, F.R., S.C. Chia, P.M. Chen, H. Gao and W.L. Lee et al., 2004. Metabotropic glutamate receptor 2/3 in the hippocampus of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy, and of rats and mice after pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus. Epilpesy Res., 59: 167-180.
Sim, M.K., F.R. Tang and X.G. Xu, 2004. Effects of des-aspartate-angiotensin I on neointima growth, cardiac hypertrophy and arteriosclerosis. Regul. Pept., 117: 213-217.
Tham, M., M.K. Sim and F.R. Tang, 2001. Location of renin-angiotensin system components in the hypoglossal nucleus of the rat. Regul. Pept., 101: 51-57.
Tang, F.R., W.L. Lee, J. Yang, M.K. Sim and E.A. Ling, 2001. Metabotropic glutamate receptor 8 in the rat hippocampus after pilocarpine induced status epilepticus. Neurosci. Lett., 300: 137-140.
Tang, F.R., W.L. Lee, J. Yang, M.K. Sim and E.A. Ling, 2001. Expression of metabotropic glutamate receptor 1alpha in the hippocampus of rat pilocarpine model of status epilepticus. Epilepsy Res., 46: 179-189.
Tang, F.R., T.T. Yeo and W.L. Lee, 2001. Expression of the group I metabotropic glutamate receptor in the hippocampus of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. J. Neurocytol., 30: 403-411.
Tang, F.R., J.F. Yeo and S.K. Leong, 2001. Qualitative light and electron microscope study of glutamate receptors in the caudal spinal trigeminal nucleus of the rat. J. Dent. Res., 80: 1736-17341.
Tang, F.R. and W.L. Lee, 2001. Expression of the group II and III metabotropic glutamate receptors in the hippocampus of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. J. Neurocytol., 30: 135-141.
Tang, F.R. and M.K. Sim, 1999. Pre- and/or post-synaptic localisation of metabotropic glutamate receptor 1alpha (mGluR1alpha) and 2/3 (mGluR2/3) in the rat spinal cord. Neurosci. Res., 34: 73-78.
Yeo, J.F., F.R. Tang and S.K. Leong, 1997. Ultrastructural study of the distribution of NADPH-d in the rat caudal spinal trigeminal nucleus. Int. J. Neurosci., 91: 429-443.
Yeo, J.F., F.R. Tang and S.K. Leong, 1997. Expression of glutamate receptor subunit 1 and nitric oxide synthase in the hypoglossal nucleus and dorsal vagal nucleus in the rat after neurectomy. Int. J. Neurosci., 90: 9-20.
Tang, F.R. and M.K. Sim, 1997. Metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype-1 alpha (mGluR1 alpha) immunoreactivity in ependymal cells of the rat caudal medulla oblongata and spinal cord. Neurosci. Lett., 225: 177-180.
Tang, F.R. and M.K. Sim, 1997. Expression of glutamate receptor subunits 2/3 and 4 in the hypoglossal nucleus of the rat after neurectomy. Exp. Brain Res., 117: 453-456.
Tang, F.R., C.K. Tan and E.A. Ling, 1996. Ultrastructural localization of substance P-like immunoreactivity in the intermediolateral column of spontaneously hypertensive rats and Wistar-Kyoto rats. Histol. Histopathol., 11: 303-311.
Tang, F.R., C.K. Tan, E.A. Ling, 1995. The distribution of NADPH-d in the central grey region (lamina X) of rat upper thoracic spinal cord. J. Neurocytol., 24: 735-743.
Tang, F.R., C.K. Tan, E.A. Ling, 1995. Light and electron microscopic studies of the distribution of NADPH-diaphorase in the rat upper thoracic spinal cord with special reference to the spinal autonomic region. Arch. Histol. Cytol., 58: 493-505.
Tang, F.R., C.K. Tan, E.A. Ling, 1995. A comparative study of NADPH-diaphorase in the sympathetic preganglionic neurons of the upper thoracic cord between spontaneously hypertensive rats and Wistar-Kyoto rats. Brain Res., 691: 153-159.
Tang, F.R., C.K. Tan and E.A. Ling, 1995. An ultrastructural study of the sympathetic preganglionic neurons that innervate the superior cervical ganglion in spontaneously hypertensive rats and Wistar-Kyoto rats. J. Brain Res., 36: 411-420.
Tang, F.R., C.K. Tan and E.A. Ling, 1995. A light-microscopic study of the intermediolateral nucleus following injection of CB-HRP and fluorogold into the superior cervical ganglion of the rat. J. Auton. Nerv. Syst., 50: 333-338.
Tang, F.R., C.K. Tan and E.A. Ling, 1995. A comparative study by retrograde neuronal tracing and substance P immunohistochemistry of sympathetic preganglionic neurons in spontaneously hypertensive rats and Wistar-Kyoto rats. J. Anat., 186: 197-207.
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I am about to share how discovering the arbutus tree is a great metaphor for living an ordinary life in a series of photographs from a recent walk. But before I do, I have an update for us on "The Moon Is No Longer There" series of work.
My extended leave to travel is drawing to a close. My purpose has been to bring you "the moon" in a way you will remember and notice for all time. In order to do this, I am living my best life. I am traveling deeper and even more focused than ever before. My intention remains clarified. My inner compass set. My resources and research materials are in full use. I continue my journey to capture something unforgettable, rare and valuable – our ordinary, everyday, natural world. When I started in January, I didn't know if this new series of work "The Moon Is No Longer There" would take a year or a life time. Only one thing was absolutely clear – my spiritual, emotional and physical bags were packed. I was ready.
In addition, this intention has also set me on a path that has allowed me to share paintings from as far back as 2012 in my brand new Terrill Welch Gallery. In just two weekends, for 5 hours each day, I have confirmed a most compelling personal discovery.
The moon is always visible in my work and most viewers can see it even if they wish not to do so – like the "Last View Chesterman Beach Tofino Tsunami" painting.
What has changed since last January you might ask? Well, since the international art fair in Vancouver in late May and opening the gallery on Mayne Island a couple of weeks ago, I have had the pleasure of watching viewers respond to my work before they can edit their body language or even realize I have seen them. These observations are not just at a brief opening that is hectic and I occupied with hosting. These observations have taken place over several hours on a specific day. It is a fascinating, almost voyeuristic, observation practice I do not get from sharing my work online. I know, you do tell me how you experience my work. This is true but it is not the same as seeing your unedited responses for my own self. This has given me confidence, not just in the work but also in the viewer. The essence of the moon is always there for those that are present and to my profound delight – you are all, for the most, part present! A deep relishing pleasure in an ordinary day in nature is a common desire and a treasured experience. Painter and viewer are most often one and the same in front of the finished work. We understand each other's language as presented on the canvas. Oh, I will always keep striving to go deeper, to refine the engagement to its purest most intense form but I shall never again doubt my ability to render its significance – nor the viewer's ability to receive its strength. I have discovered that moon is always there for those that wish to see it and we do!
Now, my latest engagement with arbutus trees.
At first, there is just a massive tangle of branches that confront the sensory apparatus with its confusion.
Eventually, a branch comes into focus but it is not clear yet what is of importance.
I walk on and sink close to the ground observing a whole arbutus tree beside the path.
I look way up at another, naked to the waist, in the cool August evening shadows.
Another juts out into a swiftly moving patch of sun. By now my brain can quickly categories and name even a partial branch of an arbutus tree. The unorganized tangle and variation of each tree is recognizable.
Then I come upon the perfect specimen!
My search is complete. I continue along the path in the fading light, knowing I will never be finished with these special trees… but it is enough for today.
How do you learn a subject that gets under your skin and refuses to let go of your attention?
Just as the skies started to lighten the shapes in the valley below, I rise and quickly make coffee. It is just after 4:30 am. I am ready to leave the house at 4:50 am which will put me in Reef Bay at 5:10 am. Sunrise is at 5:26 am. I park down the short trail by the beach. I am the only one here at this hour. Gathering my camera, cell phone, coffee; I meander over the sandstone as the tide slips farther out to sea. The light is still in the blue pink range.
But it warms quickly and the gulls toss themselves up in the air, before circling around and landing out on the reef beside me.
Pouring my second cup of coffee, I settle into an occasional breeze picking up salty licks and hints of seaweed as it reaches the shore.
Then the sun is up!
My heart clings to the moment as my eyes run up the beam of light across the Strait of Georgia.
I marvel at the prisms of light on the sea. Glorious!
And now, we have started a new day!
As you are reading this I am waiting for the ferry to Vancouver with a carload of paintings and a few long days ahead of me with the Art! Vancouver Fair. However, at any moment I can check back and find my centre with this sunrise. It is like a tether anchoring me to my best self.
What tether anchors you to your best self?
Note: If you are in the city I encourage you to come down and say hello. It is not often I show my work in Vancouver and I don't have any immediate plans to do so again anytime soon.
Pungent sage brush rustles with a family of wild turkeys as the heavy clouds lift up from the horizon. It is morning, early morning. Low hills glisten with the dampness of departing rains. Why not revisit? After all, it has been five years has it not?
I pick up my brush and begin reworking the canvas. After an hour or so of stepping back and forth, it seems to be coming along.
The morning light sliced through the heavy storm clouds over the high desert in Orville Washington.
I am happier with it now I think. Those variations of blues make the photo editing program cross-eyed. You will just have to believe me when I say it is much nicer in person. Details and purchase information is available in the on online gallery HERE.
Mostly, this week has been a time of catching up and preparing for the next show which is Art!Vancouver Fair, May 25 – 28, 2017 at the Vancouver Conference Centre, East 999 Canada Place. I am showing my paintings with three other Canadian artists in 30 feet of booth space sponsored by Artists in Canada. I would love to see you there and your friends too for that matter 😉 The details regarding advance tickets and such are on the website HERE.
Other than that it has been long walks sometimes in sun and sometimes in rain.Spring is here. Taxes were done on time. Life is good.
What are you enjoying most about your week so far?
"I don't know how she does it, but Terrill's paintings make me feel the rush of being there, of being part of it," comments Anita Lewis, who shared on Google Plus the following completed painting.
I wish I had an adequate answer for Anita. The truth is I am not exactly sure. I can tell you that the landscape painter must have the courage to stand in the moment with as much raw, unfiltered honesty as possible. In this case, I am standing with the sea.
At first this standing is about the grey that shifts continuously in rolling spring storms. It is about a tide that seems to neither want to come in or go out as I set up the easel.
It is about enduring the dreariest gulf islands spring since the beginning of weather records. This has followed on a winter that saw snow on the west coast during most months.
I have come to realize that we are likely to miss out on are usual warm days of spring this year. Now my endurance is settling on an early summer. But at the moment rain is coming. It is time to pack up and leave with the 22 x 28 inch canvas roughly blocked in using walnut oil paints.
The next day it rains a steady drizzle. No plein air painting is going to be possible. I sigh and move on to other tasks. The following day seems like it may be promising. But it isn't. As the painting class and I huddle under a gazebo in the national park near the painting location, they get a good chortle. The sun is shining through the rain but it isn't going to be enough to break the spell and let us plein air paint. We retreat to the Mayne Island Community Centre and I provide tutorial examples while answering various painting problems posed by the students. The day is salvaged through our collective flexibility.
It is a long day which becomes even longer that evening when I learn that a long-time friend has lost his gallant 20 or-so-year battle with cancer. We had spoken only a few short weeks earlier. He had basically called to say good-bye. At the time he commented that he wasn't sure if the cancer would get him or if his heart would fail first from an unrelated issue. In the celebration of life notice his family has asked that donations be made to the Heart and Stroke foundation instead of bringing flowers. I am assuming this might be a clue to how his question was answered.
From the time we could barely call ourselves teenagers, through our wild years, into young adults, on into our mature years and finally to becoming grandparents – we never lost sight of being friends. Even if years sometimes passed without so much as a phone call, there was no question – we were friends. Though I will miss him, I cannot help thinking he suffered more than his share to remain with us as long as he did. He fulfilled one of his greatest wishes and saw his children grown and had time to enjoy his grandchildren. He knew great love and what deep caring really means through his relationship with his partner. His life was fully lived around what I feel matters most – love, family, friends, frank honesty and hard work.
The next morning has offered up the promised sun. I am standing before a grey-scale roughed in painting with a heavy heart, squinting into the sky blues. Yes, I definitely will miss him. I look across the Strait of Georgia which seems to widen with every glance. I put up the sunshade to keep my canvas neutral.
I work diligently as if without skin and bone protecting the most vulnerable parts of my being. I listen to the sea as it rolls waves forward with each passing boat and ferry. The moments are filled with frequent commas from song birds that are occasionally punctuated more heavily by seagulls and eagles. The sea lions roll up to the surface with their unmistakable breathing raising the hairs above my pinched shoulder blades. I am consumed by salt air, spring grass and exposed seaweed. The breeze lifts the branches of the fir trees behind me and the escaping sun warms my back in brief fragmented caresses. What blue? What blue do I need most? I mix and layer and release the colours onto the canvas within the rhythms of the sea, the rhythms of life…. and the rhythms of our immediate and pending death. Finally the brushes still.
I take the painting back to studio. After letting it rest for a bit, I add a few more brush marks over the afternoon and a few more the next day before calling it done.
The painting was only five days from start to finish. Yet, the world, my world, is forever changed. I am reminded of a line from a poem "The Speed of Darkness" by Muriel Rukeyser – The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
A final photograph is still needed of course but this one will do for today.
So the "how does she do it" remains a mystery in some ways, even from me – hidden in unedited, intuitive renderings of experiences from life onto a canvas.
When was the last time you stood by the sea and asked it to share with you its greatest mystery?


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SPOT Festival 2018: ABEKEJSER
SPOT Festival is THE festival Good because Danish is looking forward to the most each year and 2018 is no different. Because where else to go if we want to find out what's new and hot in Danish music, than to Aarhus in May? The answer is simple: there is no other place to be! The line-up of this year's SPOT Festival is shaping up pretty awesome and we started digging into it to see what are our top #mustsee acts. Check out the blog the next weeks to read which SPOT Festival concert we will attend for sure.
Apart from the Main Program SPOT Festival 2018 also includes a rich and packed Partner Program with different musical acts, musicians, bands, and singers with very different styles. So don't miss your opportunity to discover wonderful new artists!
ABEKEJSER
The five guys, Jon, Jeppe, Rasmus, Frederik and Adrian, from Aarhus produce music that is more than just tones. Abekejser clearly doesn't fit easily into a single genre. They are infusing electronic elements and sometimes hip-hop sounds to their jazzy music. But like Jazz and Electronic music themselves, their music is diverse which makes them so interesting. They released their first single "St. Puma" summer 2016 and just released their third single "Dr. Robotface" beginning of the year. Abekejser explores an atmospheric space where they take their listeners on what feels like an adventurous but also dreamlike rainforest trip with its mysterious landscapes and animals (by the way, Abekejser is Danish for English Emperor Tamarin or in German Kaiserschnurrbarttamarin, a little monkey living in South America). You should definitely join them when they take you into their world at SPOT Festival this year, and to make things even more exciting read our little interview!
You are a team of five, how do different ideas grow into one song? Where do you get your ideas?
Abekejser: Well, we have been hanging out and playing with each other in different constellations way before we started Abekejser. So as well as a band, we're all just homies and understand each other socially as well as musically. We kinda understand each other's strengths and weaknesses and we try to complement each other musically that way. So basically, when some come to the band with an idea for a new track, everyone kind of contributes to their own thing. Jon (keys) and Jeppe (guitar) starts molding the melody and harmonies, Rasmus (drum machine) and Frederik (drums) starts building a beat that fits the style, while Adrian (Bass Synth) is the glue between the rhythmic and harmonic part, and tries to make a bassline that combines the whole thing into one piece. From there on we just mess around with the idea, jam, break it up and try to put it into form. It's very much like a collective old-school band in that way.
Who are the people behind Abekejser, can you describe each other with three adjectives?
Jeppe: Man of many faces, Calculated & Beardy
Jon: Down to earth, Fresh & Positive
Frederik: Patient, Faithfull & Temperamental
Adrian: Calm, Mysterious & Rational
Rasmus: Volatile, Creative & Friendly
From a commercial perspective, Instrumental music is quite a niche. How did this come about?
Yeah, well in relation to popular music it is pretty niche. It all depends on the context. Our music is a mixture of many things, and many of the inspiration has been instrumental music context. The four of us are also jazz musicians and inspired a lot by the very broad spectrum of classic and contemporary jazz music. When jazz was popular, it was actually mostly played instrumentally. Then there is the dance/club component, which is often also instrumental. But then there's the more pop/rock-oriented side. And actually, in some of our recent tracks, we have incorporated some vocals in the form of vocoder sounds (which is singing through a synthesizer to make an altered vocal sound). We will keep trying different things if that is what inspires us, and we feel the musical universe can handle it.
You just released your third single "Dr. Robotface". Tell us, what is the story behind it?
So the first two singles actually came out with an animated video to them. Behind the music is a fictitious universe they will be told in story form throughout our releases. "Dr. Robotface" is one of these characters, and even though the track didn't get its own animated video this time, it is something we are working with a team of graphic animators to create in the future. So we can't spoil too much of the story of "Dr. Robotface", because you will be able to see it in the upcoming videos.
So what are your plans for the future and after SPOT Festival?
Right now we are in the process of recording tracks for a coming full-length album. We hope to release it sometime this year with animations. We have a lot of concerts in Denmark and hope to get out of the country again. We just went on a big tour in Russia and shall go there again next summer. And in the meantime, we will just be playing and practising as much as possible, and try to get our music out to a broader audience.
SPOT Festival 2018
09-13.05.2018 – Aarhus (DK): different locations – Event on Facebook
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