Interview with Grace Reef by Diane Dewhirst

Biographical NoteGrace Reef grew up in Portland, Maine, with her father, Norman Reef, an attorney, and her mother, Patricia Reef. In 1974, as a twelve-year-old, she was the first female Little League baseball player, having sued to integrate girls into the program. She first heard of Senator Mitchell when he ran for governor in 1974. She attended Colby College, graduating in 1983 with a degree in public policy. During college she interned in Mitchell’s Senate office in Washington, D.C.; she worked as a legislative correspondent and was later promoted to be a legislative assistant, eventually becoming one of Mitchell’s senior advisors on children and poverty issues and economic development. She worked for minority leader Tom Daschle after Mitchell retired in 1994, continuing to work on issues of welfare reform and child care. She also worked for Senator Chris Dodd as the minority staff director of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee on Children and Families. She has served as director of intergovernmental affairs for the Children’s Defense Fund. At the time of this interview, she was chief of policy and evaluation for the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA). SummaryInterview includes discussion of: interning in Mitchell’s Senate office; the legislative process; tax reform in the mid-1980s; Mitchell’s decision-making process; the Family Support Act; doing research on child care providers in Maine; child care and development block grants; the Better Child Care Act; the structure of the Senate and the work Mitchell had to do to get legislation passed; Title 4A At Risk Child Care; the compromise on child care vouchers (church-state); Mitchell’s “divide and conquer” approach to dealing with different senators’ doubts and bringing them on board; the Family Medical Leave Act; anecdote of Reef’s presence in the Rose Garden with Mitchell when the Family Medical Leave Act was signed; George H.W. Bush’s saying that they needed a “kinder, gentler nation”; Environment and Public Works Committee work and highway funding; the formula for gas tax returns; miscalculating the formula and watching the bill on the floor of the Senate for three weeks; the National Affordable Housing Act; Mitchell and the Maine delegation; Mitchell’s patience as his greatest attribute; and Mitchell’s sense of humor

Alien Registration- Reef, Sam (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Try These: Tackling Representations of Rugby in Recent South African Texts

Rugby in South Africa has long been an important facet of white, male, and Afrikaner culture. Scholars concur that the sport has been profoundly associated with Afrikaner nationalism and power, and with the violences of the apartheid state. As a corollary, rugby has also been related to and influenced by constructions of apartheid hegemonic masculinity. This study examines representations of rugby in selected texts. Identifying a trope, it argues that in these works, rugby is used as a metonym to relate (in the sense of both to narrate and to connect ) other forms of violence in South African society. These include racism, homophobia, detention, torture, censorship, and xenophobia. John Carlin\u27s book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation and the film Invictus, directed by Clint Eastwood, kick off discussion in this study. Four novels, Alan Paton\u27s Too Late, the Phalarope; Damon Galgut\u27s The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs; Mark Behr\u27s Embrace; J. M. Coetzee\u27s Waiting for the Barbarians, and Neill Blomkamp\u27s film District 9 constitute the project\u27s core. Several poems and Behr\u27s short stories Boy and Esprit de Corps supplement discussion. The study\u27s theoretical underpinnings include Marxism, postcolonialism, masculinity and queer theory, and sport sociology and history. The project is undergirded by the violence studies theory tendered by Peace Studies scholar Johan Galtung. He argues that there are three kinds of violence: direct (somatic) violence, structural, and cultural. These work together to facilitate exploitation, a defining feature of a violent structure. This is the first sustained study of representations of rugby in South African texts. Its foundation in literary texts offers an unusual way to examine how violence functions in society. The project exposes the ways in which sport is implicated in popular culture and represented in literature as such. This dissertation would interest scholars of literature, African and South African studies, history, anthropology, psychology, sociology, gender studies, sports studies, international studies and political science, postcolonial studies, and popular culture

Interview with Norm Reef by Mike Hastings

Biographical NoteNorman S. “Norm” Reef was born on August 16, 1933, in Portland, Maine, where he grew up with his parents, Samuel Reef and Dora Reef, and seven siblings. His father emigrated from Lithuania at age fourteen and worked as a cobbler. Norm grew up in the Jewish community of Portland, and the family struggled to make ends meet during the Depression and World War II. He attended Boston University and after two years joined the Army; the Korean War ended just as he completed training. He returned to study public relations at Boston University and then attended law school to help with his brothers’ insurance finance business. After being married, he set up a law practice in Portland. He became part of the fund-raising group for the Maine Democratic Party and encouraged Governor Brennan to appoint Mitchell to the Senate. He has also done legal work for Mitchell and is a personal friend. His daughter, Grace Reef, worked as a legislative assistant in Mitchell’s U.S. Senate office. He retired in 1989 from full-time practice of law. At the time of this interview, he was working on bringing about the production of a patent he holds for an industrial waste incinerator that generates power, associated with the firm Maine Microfurnace. SummaryInterview includes discussion of: family and educational background; the Jewish community in Portland; growing up in a large family during WWII; the Army and being a dental technician in Texas; Boston University and being president of a fraternity; working with his brothers and going to law school; joining the finance committee for the Maine Democratic Party; Muskie’s swearing in as secretary of state 1980; meeting President Clinton; why Mitchell lost the 1974 gubernatorial race; a meeting in Augusta and Brennan’s decision to appoint Mitchell to the Senate; Mitchell at hockey games and his involvement with the Red Sox; Mitchell’s relationship to Muskie; Mitchell as U.S. attorney; humorous anecdotes about Grace’s internship in Mitchell’s office; Reef’s retirement and return to work; the Microfurnace patent; and Mitchell’s exceptional character

Ultraviolet absorbing compounds provide a rapid response mechanism for UV protection in some reef fish.

The external mucus surface of reef fish contains ultraviolet absorbing compounds (UVAC), most prominently Mycosporine-like Amino Acids (MAAs). MAAs in the external mucus of reef fish are thought to act as sunscreens by preventing the damaging effects of ultraviolet radiation (UVR), however, direct evidence for their protective role has been missing. We tested the protective function of UVAC's by exposing fish with naturally low, Pomacentrus amboinensis, and high, Thalassoma lunare, mucus absorption properties to a high dose of UVR (UVB: 13.4W∗m(-2), UVA: 6.1W∗m(-2)) and measuring the resulting DNA damage in the form of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs). For both species, the amount of UV induced DNA damage sustained following the exposure to a 1h pulse of high UVR was negatively correlated with mucus absorbance, a proxy for MAA concentration. Furthermore, a rapid and significant increase in UVAC concentration was observed in P. amboinensis following UV exposure, directly after capture and after ten days in captivity. No such increase was observed in T. lunare, which maintained relatively high levels of UV absorbance at all times. P. amboinensis, in contrast to T. lunare, uses UV communication and thus must maintain UV transparent mucus to be able to display its UV patterns. The ability to rapidly alter the transparency of mucus could be an important adaptation in the trade off between protection from harmful UVR and UV communication.CB was funded by a research grant by the SeaWorld Research and Rescue Foundation to UES and CB and a UQ International Fellowship (UQI). UES was funded by the Australian Research Council (DP140100431).This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2016.04.02

NEURO-PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS IN THE BANTU

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Treatment of severe parkinsonism with L-Dopa

The beneficial effect of L-dopa in the treatment of Parkinson's disease is confirmed, although the success rate was slightly lower than reported in other studies. This can be explained by the fact that only elderly and very severely disabled patients were treated. Akinesia and rigidity were the symptoms which responded best to this form of treatment. Tremor responded poorly and most of the therapeutic failures were in patients where tremor was the major complaint. It is possible that this symptom may respond to very much larger doses