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Within a Breath

I shut the door and turn off the light. Only the light from the computer screen gleams through the dark while I catch my breath, my only connection to life, the life I preserve and maintain. The breath I am now conscious of, a breath I do sustain: an artificial intervention marks the loss of human autonomy, the soul and the machine.It is an austere sound, yet calm, warm, and spiritual. I have never thought about my breath before, nor paid attention: then I recognized. Once, we were calmly gathered for the meeting, one at the “Art.” Students and faculty sat together and shared stories, their foes, love and death, fear and bravery: a breath to seal our consciousness. Now I remember it.Our soul is like a breath; God is like a breath; wind is Nature’s breath. I breathe, thinking about life, sorrows, happiness, and death. I close my eyes and imagine their smiles, their faces, their eyes. They melt into one another, yet their breath is one: simply following my breath gives me so much perspective, so many dimensions. Indeed, measuring space and depth, I use one word: breath.It is the first function, and it is the last; it is the entrance of our soul into this world, and it is the way out. Breath can be easy or it can be hard; it is calm or it is furious; it can be soft or grating; it is short and fast, it is long and paused. One breath… a life…It is time to open my eyes, turn on the light, and exit this call-room. As I walk down the hallway, my thoughts return to my daily business and bustling activities. I don’t want to forget though; I want to remember the breath of life.I enter “The Room,” where lights are on, where people are sitting and chatting. My hand turns the knob and the level of sound moves to about “5.” I want to remember. As “You,” my patient, are about to stop breathing, I turn on the ventilator. I hear your breath going away, and then a new breath starts.With your breath gone, another one started, I breathe again myself.“You” are keeping me alive.The author graciously thanks Rachel Remen, M.D., Kenneth Sapire, M.D., Rachel Lynn, M.D., Laura Morrison, M.D., and all the wonderful students from the Healer’s Art.

Recurrent Major Depressive Disorder of a Young Woman.

Questions are presented at “consideration points” that follow a section that gives information about the case. One or more choices may be correct for each question; make your choices on the basis of your clinical knowledge and the history provided. Read all of the options for each question before making any selections. You are given points on a graded scale for the best possible answer(s), and points are deducted for answers that would result in a poor outcome or delay your arriving at the right answer. Answers that have little or no impact receive zero points. At the end of the exercise, you will add up your points to obtain a total score.

Pharmacist 2.0.

In this month’s editorial, we present a new way of looking at pharmacy practice change. This work was a collaboration between the artist and the pharmacist to depict what pharmacists are facing in 2015. We are interested in hearing your thoughts on this work. What does it mean to you? Please write to us. We’ll collate some of your comments and our interpretations in the next issue of CPJ. ■

‘Let Me Hear Your Voice’: Re-hearing the Song of Songs through Pentecostal Hermeneutics

The Song of Songs has inspired numerous interpretations throughout history, ranging from mystical visions of God’s union with his people, to practical guidelines for marriage. This article examines the text from the perspective of Pentecostal hermeneutics, following the insights of early Pentecostal preachers and contemporary Charismatic leaders to showcase the Song of Songs as a story about the pathos-filled relationship of God and humanity. Through dialogue with these sources, biblical scholarship, and the philosophical hermeneutic of Ernesto Grassi, this article takes an inter-disciplinary approach to argue that the Song exists as a space within Scripture for prayerful dialogue. It will focus on the way that Scripture facilitates communion with God. Thus, the purpose of this article is not only to explore Spirit-filled interpretation of the Song of Songs, but through these interpretations, to theologize about the nature of the Bible itself.

MyPlate Celebrates 4 Years

On June 2, 2011, MyPlate was introduced to the country to communicate key recommendations from the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and provide Americans with a new way to think about their daily food choices. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion has experienced phenomenal support for MyPlate, largely from registered dietitian nutritionists (RDNs) who are committed to improving health outcomes for individuals by encouraging healthier food and physical activity behaviors. The Guidelines are a foundation for many nutrition initiatives, and as we move forward in creating the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans we will continue to strengthen our relationship with nutrition and dietetics practitioners. Your hard work has led the way in developing innovative approaches to addressing adult and childhood obesity; providing relevant counseling and education; maintaining effective nutrition and food services; and building healthier school, work, community, and home settings to encourage healthier food and physical activity choices. The USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) is staffed with like-minded professionals who are responsive to your needs and have worked diligently to expand ChooseMyPlate.gov to offer you more. CNPP supports the efforts of those who work to improve the health of Americans and celebrates this fourth anniversary with a few highlights from the extensive array of resources and tools available for your education and outreach efforts. The growing range of ethnicities in communities across the country requires professionals to offer health education materials in various languages. In an effort to make the Guidelines more accessible, ChooseMyPlate.gov now features the MyPlate icon and select information from the 10 Tips Nutrition Education Series translated into 18 different languages, complementing our English and Spanish versions. The translated MyPlate icons and corresponding tip sheets can be used by providers to assist Americans from diverse language backgrounds in understanding how to build a healthy plate. SuperTracker reaches more than 5 million registered users and can further support your counseling and education efforts when implemented with the SuperTracker Worksite Wellness Toolkit and SuperTracker Nutrition Lesson Plans for High School Students. Our interactive food, physical activity, and weight tracking tool was launched in December 2011 and serves as the public interface for the Guidelines. The comprehensive tool addresses themes from the 2010 Dietary Guidelines and includes features that support individual weight goals and healthy eating patterns such as self-monitoring, personalized recommendations, and customizable goal setting. Get periodic announcements about campaigns, events, and the launch of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans delivered to your inbox. More than 420,000 individuals have subscribed to stay on top of current MyPlate activities. Becoming an e-mail subscriber to ChooseMyPlate.gov is one more way to keep MyPlate in mind. Social media has exploded in popularity and generates meaningful conversations that we want to participate in. As of June 2015, @MyPlate had amassed over 78,000 followers on Twitter and the MyPlate Facebook page had established a fan base of over 55,000. These MyPlate social media platforms offer a way for consumers and health professionals alike to stay connected and receive daily reminders and tips that encourage healthy lifestyles. We are listening to you and strive to provide content that speaks to your personal and professional networks. By sharing accurate, science-based nutrition information, you too can help drive the conversation online. ChooseMyPlate.gov promotes the Guidelines by featuring actionable information that can be used with specific audiences. Examples include the latest group education resource, MyPlate for My Family Toolkit, which includes a leader’s guide and four discussion sessions to assist registered dietitian nutritionists and other professionals in delivering education to families who have limited resources. The Healthy Eating on a Budget section of ChooseMyPlate.gov also provides consumer-oriented materials to address the daily routine of planning, purchasing, and preparing appealing, budget-conscious meals and snacks. We know that part of the answer to successfully addressing the challenges of chronic disease and obesity lies in being part of your team as you work on the front lines to make an impact. CNPP is motivated to do more and think broader to make your work a little easier as we continue to create new policy, strategies, and resources. Things to come include a new look and feel for ChooseMyPlate.gov, more consumer-oriented resources, new features for SuperTracker, and enhanced communication strategies to support the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. We will continue to dialogue with you and look forward to hearing your feedback as we all work to make the future healthier with MyPlate.

"Let Me Hear Your Handwriting!" Evaluating the Movement Fluency from Its Sonification.

The quality of handwriting is evaluated from the visual inspection of its legibility and not from the movement that generates the trace. Although handwriting is achieved in silence, adding sounds to handwriting movement might help towards its perception, provided that these sounds are meaningful. This study evaluated the ability to judge handwriting quality from the auditory perception of the underlying sonified movement, without seeing the written trace. In a first experiment, samples of a word written by children with dysgraphia, proficient children writers, and proficient adult writers were collected with a graphic tablet. Then, the pen velocity, the fluency, and the axial pen pressure were sonified in order to create forty-five audio files. In a second experiment, these files were presented to 48 adult listeners who had to mark the underlying unseen handwriting. In order to evaluate the relevance of the sonification strategy, two experimental conditions were compared. In a first ‘implicit’ condition, the listeners made their judgment without any knowledge of the mapping between the sounds and the handwriting variables. In a second ‘explicit’ condition, they knew what the sonified variables corresponded to and the evaluation criteria. Results showed that, under the implicit condition, two thirds of the listeners marked the three groups of writers differently. In the explicit condition, all listeners marked the dysgraphic handwriting lower than that of the two other groups. In a third experiment, the scores given from the auditory evaluation were compared to the scores given by 16 other adults from the visual evaluation of the trace. Results revealed that auditory evaluation was more relevant than the visual evaluation for evaluating a dysgraphic handwriting. Handwriting sonification might therefore be a relevant tool allowing a therapist to complete the visual assessment of the written trace by an auditory control of the handwriting movement quality.

Songs of Courage.

Is it the rhythm of the beat or the harmony of the chords? I can feel my heart pounding to the beat of the drums, I can hear the troops marching with their eyes on the prize, I can feel my soul rising with yours in the skies I see you taking control in a situation beyond your control; Your voice is stirring like a singing bowl. I can see you holding on to the very last grain of strength, You've sown those seeds and now they've taken root; They've found a home in the heart of this youth. I hear your courage and thank you, For choosing to fight your battles, In your weakness you are strong, I hear it in your song, Your triumph over self is a reminder to us all, That everyone must take a step irrespective of a fall, That every one of us must take a step irrespective of a fall. My creative reflective piece Songs of Courage is inspired by songs that were written by the patients of the music therapist who led a session during the Creative Arts in Health and Illness course in the winter of 2013. We listened to songs, one created by a little girl who had lost her grandfather but had not had the chance to say goodbye and another by a woman who was dying; we also watched recordings of music therapy sessions with partially immobilised patients. It was interesting to hear how music therapy sessions had gotten through to these patients in various ways. In one case, it had helped one patient to cope with bereavement, in another, the patient was able to voice the frustration she felt with her condition, but also the distance it had put between her and the people around her. In the latter's song, she asks for support and lets the listener know that it is okay if they don't have all the answers. These people have used music to voice their emotions and their struggles, and that really connected with me. I love how these music sessions could appeal to people going through different situations. I feel that a range of emotions and ideas can be demonstrated through music, which is versatile by its very nature. In my poem, I applaud the bravery needed to reach out and allow the music to be a medium to do so. I relate musical themes and instruments to marching into a battle, so as to reflect the act of engaging in the therapy session. I think that music therapy acts as a bridge between a person and their emotions; the act of creating the music specifically frees up the minds to explore what is, rather than try to fit into a mould of what should be.

Six Poems from “Standing on Earth”

1 No one remembers his birth No one has ever returned from the dead Words and death give meaning to everything Only meeting those surrounded by death do words become proportionate You’re standing there your back to the window A star flickers near your eyes. Maybe the distance between us is longer than the life of all words I come to bed with you in the prehistory of words That star died centuries ago That light is just the last breath traveling through the void between stars through the void between words I kiss you and I don’t know through what void what words what history the flavor of this kiss has passed 2 A woman uses makeup in her effort to be a goddess. No woman uses makeup trying to be human. She says: look at me pray to me. In the solitude of all the goddesses she gives birth to the children half mortal half immortal. I always fail to describe her artificial beauty in my poetry. As much as the poem does not need beauty she needs my kisses. cover feature writing beyond iran Six Poems from Standing on Earth” by Mohsen Emadi Visit the WLT website to listen to bilingual recordings of some of these poems. 42 WLT MARCH / APRIL 2015 above Taraneh Hemami, Silent Tears (2011), from the series Alphabet of Silence (2000–2011), mixed media on ceramic, dimension variable, collection of Victoria and Albert Museum, photo courtesy of the artist. “ WORLDLITERATURETODAY.ORG 43 3 No woman could make me naked could expose me or cover me up. The voice I hear is coming from an imaginary corner unseen hands open my shirt my skin trembles and the cities built on it collapse and my body disappears in a cloud of dust. I close the curtains I unplug the phone I lie down on the floor and people are fleeing in the dust cloud of my body in pajama bottoms, in underpants, naked. Cracks open in the ground of my skin antique jars come to the surface, the skeletons of women buried in me birthday presents, letters, photos. The voice I hear enters the cracks in my skin. But now the room’s walls are moist now the roof is leaking now the doorbell is wet I open the door and the stairs are flooded. Your shoes, your voice, are soaking. You open the windows You sweep up the fragments of words. Kiss by kiss, you stitch together the cracks in my body You wrap me up. I hear your voice rising from a dark corner. I do not shake in your embrace. It’s night. You’ve left the house. Stars are dust. Nakedness is dust. Every night my room goes dark, gets light. 7 You looked at me and a faraway window opened and closed. You stroked me and I got wet from the rain beyond that window. You are here beside me and with your every movement something moves in the distance which makes something move in me. I was born in the year of your exile. In your eyes a woman was making dolls. In the shape of all her dead she was making dolls and was setting them on the windowsill in front of my eyes. One had my hat on his head. Another was wearing my shoes. I was being created from her losses. You were looking at me and the rain was still raining on your suitcases and the shoes and the hats of the dead. I kiss you and we exchange losses. 9 Death is when the heart does not beat and the clock beats. Love is when the heart beats and the clock does not beat. Perhaps this simple comparison explains why you glanced at your watch. You knew that waiting is the dense endurance of eternity and love, the miracle of mortals, makes eternity ashamed, but death does not wait for anybody. The long summer afternoon was going down on coffins and clock towers the ruins knew and you did not know that war makes waiting invalid and saving life (continued) the whole Truth. Was she dead? Had she fled without you? Or...

AgTech: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Growth

In this white paper, we provide an overview of a new emerging economic sector: sustainable agricultural technology or, more simply, “AgTech.” This sector has the potential to completely reshape global agriculture, dramatically increasing the productivity of the agriculture system while reducing the environmental and social costs of current ag production practices. Given that we must produce more food in the next forty years than during the entire course of human history to date, and must do so on a planet showing signs of severe environmental stress, AgTech innovations will be absolutely essential. We believe humanity can rise to the occasion and overcome these monumental global challenges, but to do so will require sustained attention, significant investment, and AgTech-specific entrepreneur support systems to help spur innovation in the field.Our purpose in writing this paper is threefold. First, we seek to increase awareness of the productivity and sustainability challenges of the food system and inspire entrepreneurs to enter the field. Total demand is expected to rise 70 percent by 2050, and current growth rates in agriculture are not sufficient to meet this goal. However, the ag sector faces an even greater challenge because of the uncertainty posed by climate change on future production and constraints posed by the limited availability of land, water, and other key resources. These twin challenges of productivity and sustainability translate to countless opportunities for innovation across the complete value chain, from inputs and agricultural production to transport, processing, distribution, storage, and waste disposal. Visionary entrepreneurs will have the ability to solve pressing societal challenges while capturing the economic value of their new AgTech products and processes.Our second purpose is to help increase the flow of capital to investments in AgTech. The agriculture sector as a whole is one of the world’s largest economic sectors, with net farm income of around $120 billion and farm assets at around $2 trillion with little leverage. Yet there has been relatively little investment in AgTech compared with other industries like clean energy. Venture capital firms compiling portfolios of new AgTech companies are seeing more startups seeking funding than available capital, and other investor groups thus far have not entered the field in significant numbers. Given the size of the potential market and the vital societal need for agricultural innovation, we expect that investors soon will realize the opportunity of AgTech and invest substantially in this emerging field.Our third purpose is to highlight the need for regional AgTech entrepreneur support systems to accelerate innovation. We believe that the American heartland provides an ideal example of a region poised to make great strides forward in developing an entrepreneurial sector for AgTech. The heartland has some of the world’s best growing conditions and natural resources, and currently produces 27.2 percent of the world’s corn, 29.75 percent of its soybeans, 6.7 percent of its beef, and 6.9 percent of its pork, making this region an epicenter of global agricultural activity. The heartland houses some of largest and most progressive agricultural companies in the world, looked upon as leaders in their field. The heartland is blessed with highly developed transportation networks along its waterways and railroads, allowing for efficient logistics and transport of ag products. In addition, the heartland has world-class AgTech research capabilities with its land-grant universities and city-level clusters of expertise, such as plant sciences in St. Louis and animal sciences in Kansas City. Given the overall AgTech entrepreneurial activity in the region and the large number of significant multinational players, the American heartland can be a powerful influence in driving the objectives of the AgTech revolution. Taken together, these resources indicate a regional competitive advantage in AgTech, similar to what the Silicon Valley cluster has provided for the IT industry. For these reasons, we believe a concerted effort to develop a regional AgTech entrepreneurial support system will result in immense benefits for the region itself and set an example for other agricultural communities across the world.We hope this paper launches a larger dialogue on the monumental challenge of sustainable food production for the next forty years and opportunities for the AgTech sector to help solve this challenge. We look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas on these important topics.

The Science of Consequences: How They Affect Genes, Change the Brain, and Impact Our World

The Science of Consequences: How They Affect Genes, Change the Brain, and Impact Our World

AgTech: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Growth

In this white paper, we provide an overview of a new emerging economic sector: sustainable agricultural technology or, more simply, “AgTech.” This sector has the potential to completely reshape global agriculture, dramatically increasing the productivity of the agriculture system while reducing the environmental and social costs of current ag production practices. Given that we must produce more food in the next forty years than during the entire course of human history to date, and must do so on a planet showing signs of severe environmental stress, AgTech innovations will be absolutely essential. We believe humanity can rise to the occasion and overcome these monumental global challenges, but to do so will require sustained attention, significant investment, and AgTech-specific entrepreneur support systems to help spur innovation in the field.Our purpose in writing this paper is threefold. First, we seek to increase awareness of the productivity and sustainability challenges of the food system and inspire entrepreneurs to enter the field. Total demand is expected to rise 70 percent by 2050, and current growth rates in agriculture are not sufficient to meet this goal. However, the ag sector faces an even greater challenge because of the uncertainty posed by climate change on future production and constraints posed by the limited availability of land, water, and other key resources. These twin challenges of productivity and sustainability translate to countless opportunities for innovation across the complete value chain, from inputs and agricultural production to transport, processing, distribution, storage, and waste disposal. Visionary entrepreneurs will have the ability to solve pressing societal challenges while capturing the economic value of their new AgTech products and processes.Our second purpose is to help increase the flow of capital to investments in AgTech. The agriculture sector as a whole is one of the world’s largest economic sectors, with net farm income of around $120 billion and farm assets at around $2 trillion with little leverage. Yet there has been relatively little investment in AgTech compared with other industries like clean energy. Venture capital firms compiling portfolios of new AgTech companies are seeing more startups seeking funding than available capital, and other investor groups thus far have not entered the field in significant numbers. Given the size of the potential market and the vital societal need for agricultural innovation, we expect that investors soon will realize the opportunity of AgTech and invest substantially in this emerging field.Our third purpose is to highlight the need for regional AgTech entrepreneur support systems to accelerate innovation. We believe that the American heartland provides an ideal example of a region poised to make great strides forward in developing an entrepreneurial sector for AgTech. The heartland has some of the world’s best growing conditions and natural resources, and currently produces 27.2 percent of the world’s corn, 29.75 percent of its soybeans, 6.7 percent of its beef, and 6.9 percent of its pork, making this region an epicenter of global agricultural activity. The heartland houses some of largest and most progressive agricultural companies in the world, looked upon as leaders in their field. The heartland is blessed with highly developed transportation networks along its waterways and railroads, allowing for efficient logistics and transport of ag products. In addition, the heartland has world-class AgTech research capabilities with its land-grant universities and city-level clusters of expertise, such as plant sciences in St. Louis and animal sciences in Kansas City. Given the overall AgTech entrepreneurial activity in the region and the large number of significant multinational players, the American heartland can be a powerful influence in driving the objectives of the AgTech revolution. Taken together, these resources indicate a regional competitive advantage in AgTech, similar to what the Silicon Valley cluster has provided for the IT industry. For these reasons, we believe a concerted effort to develop a regional AgTech entrepreneurial support system will result in immense benefits for the region itself and set an example for other agricultural communities across the world.We hope this paper launches a larger dialogue on the monumental challenge of sustainable food production for the next forty years and opportunities for the AgTech sector to help solve this challenge. We look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas on these important topics.

Let's hear your thoughts!

Let's hear your thoughts!

The Loudproof Room

The Loudproof Room Kate Lebo (bio) an earmoir I was born with a strawberry hemangioma splashed over the bottom half of my right ear and two inches down my neck. The sort of red that has purple trapped inside it. A swollen, shocking hue. For the first year, I had no hair to disguise it. The sight of me made strangers uncomfortable. My birthmark was so red and angry and I cried so murderously when my parents bathed it that it became, as I grew, the explanation for a lot of things. Why I was teased in school, why I cried easily. Why I couldn’t hear conversational tones out of my right ear. By the time I was ten the skin faded to a mottle of mostly normal looking tissue. It looks enough like a burn scar that no one asks what happened. Mostly I forget it’s there. When a new friend asks me “what’s up with your ear?” I need a second to remember what she’s talking about. My father and I were in a motorcycle accident when I was five, I say. It tore my ear half off. When she looks sorry for asking, I tell her I was born this way. Which isn’t exactly the truth. If it was, I’d still have a stoplight for an ear. Until my family began to comment on how deaf I was—when my back was to them I didn’t respond to direct questions, didn’t know they were being asked—I didn’t know my hearing was going. I’d gotten so used to having a half-deaf ear that it didn’t occur to me the aural slips I’d been experiencing might be the fault of the other ear, the good one going bad. I booked an appointment in the otolaryngology department at the city’s biggest hospital. The nurse who took my vitals said “you’re the youngest person I’ve talked to all day” in a way that was supposed to make me feel better but didn’t. Dehiscence is a word botanists use to describe a flower bud that’s about to burst into bloom. Otolaryngologists use dehiscence to describe two spots in my skull, one over each superior canal of my hearing organs, that have thinned to two tiny gaps. The gaps leak sound waves into my body and allow body noises to echo too loudly in my ears. To diagnose me, the doctor asked if I could hear myself blink. Yes, I said. Can you hear your heels when you walk? Yes. He rapped a tuning fork on my ankle. Can you hear that? No. That’s a good thing, he said. My pulse, my flexing knees, my neck bones as I turn my head on the pillow, my teeth as they crunch into chips, all these sounds are louder than the conversation of the person sitting next to me. Now I understood why I could sing on key but never hold a tune: when I make a melody with my body, it mutes the music that’s outside my skull. [End Page 96] The doctor said my superior canal dehiscence could be cured with minor surgery that involved a night in the ICU. That doesn’t sound like minor surgery, I said. Nothing to worry about, he said. When would you like to schedule your pre-op? I wouldn’t, I said. The next doctor I visited was the teacher of the first doctor. He was cautious, patient, uneager to cut me open. I liked him immediately. He said my condition represented “multiple pathologies”—a stiff stapes bone, a collapsed eardrum, dehiscence, possibly something else. My symptoms muddle the identity of each individual malady. What mattered, what wasn’t a mystery: I had significant hearing loss in both ears. We decided to try hearing aids first. If they worked, I would wear them the rest of my life. I preferred this decision. It is reversible. You see, half sensibility has benefits. Not knowing what I’m missing can be a different kind of knowing. open the window My friend, I’ll call him Carl, was...

Dear Gun, and Master Sommelier Blind-Tastes a Glass of Water

Dear Gun, and Master Sommelier Blind-Tastes a Glass of Water David Hernandez (bio) Dear Gun Again you’re on television,printed repeatedly in newsprint,on pages of overcast sky that crackle when turned.On monitors too,glowing bluely across America. On our minds and tongues,your word, monosyllabic, justthree curled fingers. Let me tell you:I’ve had it with hearing your name.I am tired of seeing your L-shape design, the black sickle of your trigger.How dumb you lookwith your little round mouth open all the time.Say something insightful for once.Or is that opening your nostril? Perhaps your navel?To be honest, I do not care anymore.You will never speak for yourself.How helpless and useless you arewithout a human hand. [End Page 60] Master Sommelier Blind-Tastes a Glass of Water for Shara McCallum This glass: did you rinse it?I ask because there’s sedimentswirling like a time-lapse of a galaxyif stars were debriswithout their shining. So you rinsed it. With gutter waterI presume, then dried itwith a mechanic’s rag.Then it’s tap. Now on to the nose: the chlorine isoverwhelming, wow, whoshoved me into a swimming pool?It’s positively tap. I’m also picking upsome witchgrass and moneywort, it’s noteasy with all this sodium chlorideassaulting my sinuses. Penny,I’m detecting old penny, a hintof natural gas. I have to say I amhesitant to taste this. Here it goes: O, damnmy astute taste buds! There is definitelychlorine in this ghastly thingI refuse to call water. It’s just bleach,weeds, petrol, brass, butmostly bleach. No mineral noteswhatsoever. [End Page 61] I’m going tapfrom a brass faucet, from a regionruined by fracking. This isNew World, possibly United Statesor Brazil. I’m callingUnited States, Pennsylvania, Laurel Highlands, 2013 vintage. I have to say: This faucet you found?The small town where you found it?Their mayor does notlove them enough. [End Page 62] David Hernandez David Hernandez’s most recent collection of poems, Hoodwinked, won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize and was published by Sarabande Books in 2011. Visit his website at www.DavidAHernandez.com. Copyright © 2014 Middlebury College Publications

Four Poems

May–August 2014 • 43 photo : nick fedele Four Poems Jeongrye Choi Catkind cats don’t grow to be tigers as a rose unfurls the blossom thorns fiercely wait there are tigers in all cats petals roll like small, unfolded tongues yellow eyeballs dizzy as moonlight running through centuries cats in their silver sleep grind teeth and clench claws cherishing the wild dreams of blood look inside any cat and there! the apricot of a tiger’s eye, shuddering like an apricot tree crouched in by an eagle now going on its way why are the strawberries so sweet probably to propagate their kind asks to be tasted then planted again and again people are devouring the pelvic curves of strawberry in their own ways shrewd, hiding stories in their seed each story disappearing like strawberries, there is another you inside you who laughs for the sweetness of strawberries a baseball geek, a dictator, a drunk stubborn while sons and daughters yell without reason you, you, and you, a suite of gifts that cannot be received just consider yourself from a distance, that you wearing the shirt and tie cancer cells hidden by an “I’m okay” hiding whims and unbending ideologies, “I love you” a small force that works like a cold, can be treated with a bowl of broth or sex, “I love you” only arrives when hiding inside other sentences because 44 worldliteraturetoday.org photo : hiram pascoal Jeongrye Choi has published seven award-winning books. Her poems have appeared in journals across the world, and in 2006 she participated in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Together with Wayne de Fremery and Brenda Hillman, Choi cotranslated an Englishlanguage collection of her poems, Instances (Parlour Press, 2011). She has a PhD from Korea University. Dan Disney is an assistant professor with Sogang University’s English Literature Program. Un Gyung Yi is a PhD candidate in English literature at Sogang University. Daye Jeon is completing her master’s degree in English literature at Sogang University. from east to west window a woman is hanging out laundry she has toiled, but still isn’t clean enough you are the one who chose this sunlight moves from east window to west the woman considers shifting the laundry you are the one who chose this not knowing it would be this way the sunlight hanging on the window will leave soon there was once a Spring, once sometimes a poem can be only just so despite all efforts it feels wrong but there can be no anger a coat that must be worn in any case be courteous, stay clothed things once frozen have melted now those which were enmeshed are freed, and this was meant to be, must be, had to be this way what good can be done saying things like this anyway there’s him on the radio, the younger brother joyriding in the Piano Academy’s bus becomes the pianist on the radio the mountains far from my old house are now gray apartments in my new house is coincidence the ardor of destiny a force touches, then confluence, that’s how I am here wandering lost on the streets, six years old and one note against another coincidence and destiny flirting with each other the shadow from the opposite building arrives on the western window a tired body coming darkly home from work Why Am I Writing Your Travelogue You leave by Aeroflot. Abandoning the ground. Penetrating the clouds. I watch vacantly. You who are no longer seen. Then seen again. Aeroflot. The word floats in the air. I see it clearly after it’s gone. Then I hear your flight is delayed. Waiting and waiting. Nothing. No word of anything . No food or water. No money. The airport. They took away my passport. Put me on a bus. And now they are taking me somewhere. I don’t know but the snow outside is piling up. Nobody knows where this place is. A shabby hostel finally. Filthy blankets. Frozen faucets. Bugs. No one should take Aeroflot. The only thing Aeroflot has done for me is yell. What’d I do wrong. Dragging me for...

Open letter to the Society for Neuroscience

Open letter to the Society for Neuroscience

Open Letter to The American Association for the Advancement of Science

This is an open letter concerning the recent launch of the new open access journal, Science Advances. In addition to the welcome diversification in journal choices for authors looking for open access venues, there are many positive aspects of Science Advances: its broad STEM scope, its interest in cross-disciplinary research, and the offering of fee waivers. While we welcome the commitment of the Association to open access, we are also deeply concerned with the specific approach. Herein, we outline a number of suggestions that are in line with both the current direction that scholarly publishing is taking and the needs expressed by the open access community, which this journal aims to serve. The first of these issues concerns the licensing terms of the journal articles. The default choice of a non-commercial licence (CC BY-NC) places unnecessary restrictions on reuse and does not meet the standards set out by the Budapest Open Access Initiative. Many large funders, including Research Councils UK and the Wellcome Trust, do not recognise this as an open license. The adoption of CC BY-NC as the default license means that many researchers will be unable to submit to Science Advances if they are to conform to their funder mandates unless they pay for the upgrade to CC BY. There is little evidence that non-commercial restrictions provide a benefit to the progress of scholarly research, yet they have significant negative impact, limiting the ability to reuse material for educational purposes and advocacy. For example, NC-encumbered materials cannot be used on Wikipedia. The non-commercial clause is known to generate ambiguities and uncertainties (see for example, NC Licenses Considered Harmful) to the detriment of scholarly communication. Additionally, there is little robust evidence to suggest that adopting a CC-BY license will lead to income loss for your Association, and the $1,000 surcharge is difficult to justify or defend. The value of the CC BY license is outlined in detail by the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. We raise an additional issue with the $1,500 surcharge for articles more than 10 pages in length. In an online-only format, page length is an arbitrary unit that results from the article being read in PDF format. Can the AAAS explain what the additional costs associated with the increased length are that would warrant a 50% increase in APC for an unspecified number of additional digital pages? Other leading open access journals, such as PeerJ, the BMC series, and PLOS ONE, offer publication of articles with unlimited page lengths. The extra costs create constraints that may adversely incentivize authors to exclude important details of their study, preventing replication and hindering transparency, all of which are contrary to the aims of scholarly publication. Therefore it seems counterproductive to impose this additional charge; it discriminates against researchers' best effort to communicate their findings with as much detail as necessary. We feel that the proposed APCs and licencing scheme are detrimental to the AAAS and the global academic community. As such, we recommend that Science Advances: 1. Offers CC BY as standard for no additional cost, in line with leading open access publishers, so authors are able to comply with respective funding mandates; 2. Provides a transparent calculation of its APCs based on the publishing practices of the AAAS and explains how additional value created by the journal will measure against the significantly high prices paid by the authors; 3. Removes the surcharges associated with increased page number; 4. Releases all data files under CC0 (with CC BY optional), which has emerged as the community standard for data and is used by leading databases such as Figshare and DataDryad. We hope that you will consider the points raised above, keeping in mind how best to serve the scientific community, and use Science Advances to add the AAAS to the group of progressive and innovative open access scholarly publishers. We hope AAAS will collaborate with the academic community to facilitate the dissemination of scientific knowledge through a journal committed to fully embracing the principles of Open Access. We kindly request that you allow your response(s) to be made public along with this letter, and look forward to hearing your response soon. (Please note that the views expressed here represent those of the individuals and not the institutions or organization with which they are affiliated)

International Society for Autism Research News

http://www.autism-insar.org/ I hope you are already getting ready for INSAR's annual conference, which in 2014 will take place in Atlanta, Georgia (May 14th-17th). This year we'll be trying a slightly different arrangement for sessions, with fewer individual talks and more panels of talks on a specific theme. Reviewers for these submissions will give special consideration to interdisciplinary and inter-group panels, and to the inclusion of student or early career speakers. There will also be plenty of space for posters, and you can for the first time submit a poster and a paper as first author. It promises to be a great meeting, so send in your submissions now. Don't delay, the online abstract submitter will be closing soon. Please see the INSAR website for submission deadline and details. Looking ahead, we are just finalizing the locations for future IMFARs. In 2015 our conference will take place in Salt Lake City, in 2016 we will meet in Baltimore, and in 2017 the planned location is San Francisco. For IMFAR 2018 we will be choosing an international location outside North America, and before that we hope to have INSAR satellite meetings more globally in partnership with local autism groups. I look forward to your participation in INSAR, and to hearing your suggestions and ideas for how to make your professional society even better.

Growing gains!

CPNP is in a period of growth which can only benefit our membership and the patients we serve. Membership has increased to approximately 1300 strong with students and residents representing a fourth of the membership. There are now student CPNP chapters at 11 different pharmacy schools and this will be the 2nd year where a segment of the annual meeting programming is designed just for them. These student chapters increase awareness of careers in psychiatric pharmacy and provide valuable networking opportunities. In addition, they have the opportunity to liaison with NAMI through such programs as NAMI on campus, a program designed to let college students know that they are not alone in dealing with mental illness. Increased student member involvement outside of organized chapters is also welcomed and appreciated through activities such as attendance at and participation in the poster session at CPNP's Annual Meeting, contributions to the MHC, and active participation in the email list.Psychiatric pharmacy residency positions have almost doubled in 2013! CPNP's residency directory shows 52 unique program listings representing approximately 90 PGY-1 and PGY-2 residency positions in neuropsychiatry. There is clearly growing interest in our specialty and increasing interest in training psychiatric specialists to move into direct patient care roles. CPNP recognizes the need to create more positions for residency graduates and board certified psychiatric pharmacists. To this end, CPNP has worked diligently on legislative efforts aimed at securing provider status for qualified pharmacists using comprehensive medication management (CMM) as the practice model. CPNP will offer the first in a series of CMM webinars this October to get members up to speed with how psychiatric pharmacists can provide CMM as part of team-based care in the affordable care act's medical home.CPNP's Mental Health Clinician has grown tremendously in scope, influence and scientific rigor since its inception in 2011. The ongoing transition from editorial board review to external peer review has been an important step toward improving our visibility and being indexed. The MHC has become the “go-to” page on cpnp.org. In August of 2013, there were over 13,000 page views, nearly triple what was experienced in August of 2012.The number of pharmacy schools has grown substantially from 72 accredited schools in 1987 to 129 schools with either full accreditation status or candidate status in 2013. CPNP leadership is interested in influencing the offering of quality pharmacy school curriculum in neuropsychiatry in schools of pharmacy. One project in development that could potentially enrich pharmacy school curricula is CPNP's casebook on topics in neuropsychiatry which will roll out in late 2013. This product could be utilized during residency training including ambulatory care or community pharmacy residencies.With so much growth happening, CPNP strategic planning groups have been working on prioritizing initiatives to maximize 1) membership value 2) synergy 3) quality and 4) connections. These are the four strategic areas that will be addressed during our strategic planning meeting in Arizona in late October. We are always interested in hearing your ideas on priority initiatives for CPNP. Feel free to contact me, any board member, or staff to communicate your ideas. We want to hear from you!

International Society for Autism Research News

www.autism-insar.org Nothing ever stands still in autism research! In May we saw the launch of DSM-5, which brought significant changes to the diagnostic categories relevant to autism. Researchers, clinicians and stakeholders are all waiting to see what the impact of these changes will be. Perhaps some of you are already collecting data and getting ready to present new findings at IMFAR 2014 in Atlanta. The Meeting Chair, Professor Ami Kiln, and Scientific Program Co-Chairs, Professors Laura Grofer Klinger and Joseph Piven, are working hard to make this meeting the best ever. They have some great new ideas for social events around our popular poster sessions, and I'm pleased to say there will be space for plenty of poster presentations. IMFAR 2013 was a huge success, but the smaller venue meant many excellent presentations had to be turned away. If you were one of the unlucky ones in 2013, don't be discouraged from submitting your best research for IMFAR 2014; we want to see you in Atlanta! Membership in INSAR is open to individuals engaged in academic or research activities (full membership), graduate and medical students and post-doctoral researchers (student members), and to other community members (affiliates) with an interest in the study of autism spectrum disorders. Become part of this thriving community of researchers, parents and advocates who are committed to making scientific progress in understanding autism. Online membership applications are now available at http://www.autism-insar.org/membership. I look forward to your participation in INSAR, and to hearing your suggestions and ideas for how to make your professional society even better.