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Ferrari F12berlinetta is GQ Magazine's "Supercar of the Year"
Ferrari has been honoured once again to receive a coveted award from GQ Magazine, one of the world's most influential men's lifestyle magazines, this time for the F12berlinetta which has been crowned "Supercar of the Year". This is the second time that Ferrari has won this prestigious award, with the 458 Italia taking the same title in 2010.
Commenting on the latest addition to the Ferrari range, GQ Magazine said: "The F12 is a classic Ferrari GT, but it's also the fastest, most powerful Ferrari production car ever. If its body looks too complex to be straightforwardly sinfully sexy, then bear in mind that all those scoops and ducts hustle air and bully physics more effectively than anything this side of an F1 car. And it's a V12."
The F12berlinetta strikes a perfect balance between maximum aerodynamic efficiency and the elegant proportions typical of Ferrari's most powerful front-engined V12 cars. Since its launch, the car has been the object of universal acclaim from the press and public alike, with the GQ Magazine award following several other recent awards from BBC Top Gear Magazine's "Supercar of the Year", Auto Bild's "Design Award", The Sunday Times Driving's "Best Supercar and Luxury Car" award and the Golden Steering Wheel award from Auto Bild and Bild Am Sonntag, the first time a Ferrari has ever taken this leading German industry prize. The Ferrari F12berlinetta's 6.3-litre V12 engine was also the winner of EVO magazine's "Engine of the Year" award in November.

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Poutvaara, Panu (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper analyzes educational choices and political support for subsidies to higher education in the presence of a time-consistency problem in income redistribution. There may be political support for so generous subsidization that it motivates the median voter to obtain higher education. As a result of increasing own income, the median voter prefers in the future lower taxes than without higher education. Therefore, the expansion of participation in higher education during the second half of the 20th century may have partly been driven by the aim to limit the political support for overly generous income redistribution. education, time-consistency problem, voting, subsidies to education URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7684
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Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob Roland; Schroll, Sanne; Rose Skaksen, Jan (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this paper, we use data from the first two rounds of the European Social Survey to analyze the extent to which differences in average attitudes towards immigration across the EU-15 countries may be explained by differences in socioeconomic characteristics and individually perceived consequences of immigration, using an extension of a decomposition technique developed by Fairlie (2005). We find that despite the significant effects of socioeconomic characteristics on attitudes, differences in the distributions of these characteristics can only explain a modest share of the cross-country variation in average attitudes. A larger part can be explained by differences in perceived consequences of immigration, but the main part is still left unexplained. Apart from providing useful input for policy makers working in the area of immigration policy, this raises a number of questions for further research for which the ESS data can be successfully applied. Attitudes, Immigration, Cross-country differences URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7687
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Fosse, Henrik Barslund (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Firms exporting to foreign markets face a particular challenge: to price their exports in a foreign market when the exchange rate changes. This paper takes on pricing- to-market using a unique data set that covers rm level monthly trade at great detail. As opposed to annual trade ows, monthly trade ows bring us closer to the transaction level where rm decisions are actually made. I nd that the utilization of monthly data does add new information about the average level of pricing-to-market, and the di¤erences between long-run pricing-to-market and short-run pricing-to-market. Furthermore, I nd industry di¤erences in pricing-to-market in terms of the magnitude (zero to complete pricing-to-market) and the timing (when do rms changes prices), and that pricing-to-market is stronger on high-income markets. As discussed in detail in the paper, all results are in-line with predictions of several theoretical contributions to the litterature on pricing-to-market and exchange rate pass-through. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8539
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Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper develops a theory of consumer boycotts. Some consumers care not only about the products they buy but also about whether the firm behaves ethically. Other consumers do not care about the behavior of the firm but yet may like to give the impression of being ethical consumers. Consequently, to affect a firm's ethical behavior, moral consumers refuse to buy from an unethical firm. Consumers who do not care about ethical behavior may join the boycott to (falsely) signal that they do care. In the firm's choice between ethical and unethical behavior, the optimality of mixed and pure strategies depends on the cost of behaving ethically. In particular, when the cost is (relatively) low, ethical behavior arises from a prisoners' dilemma as the firm's optimal strategy. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7706
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Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In European Welfare States, low-skilled workers are typically unionized, while the wage formation of high-skilled workers is more competitive. To focus on this aspect, we analyze how flexible international outsourcing and labour taxation affect wage formation, employment and welfare in dual domestic labour markets. Higher productivity of outsourcing, lower cost of outsourcing and lower factor price of outsourcing increase wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low-skilled workers. Increasing wage tax progression of low-skilled workers decreases the wage rate and increases the labour demand of low-skilled workers. It decreases the welfare of lowskilled workers and increases both the welfare of high-skilled workers and the profit of firms. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7696
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Kaiser, Ulrich; Grimpe, Christoph (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Determining the research and development (R&D) boundaries of the firm as the choice between internal, collaborative and external technology acquisition has since long been a major challenge for firms to secure a continuous stream of innovative products or processes. While research on R&D cooperation or strategic alliances is abundant, little is known about the outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper investigates the driving forces of external technology sourcing through contract research based on arguments from transaction cost theory and the resource-based view of the firm. Using a large and comprehensive data set of innovating firms from Germany our findings suggest that technological uncertainty, contractual experience and openness to external knowledge sources motivate the choice for engaging in contract research activities. Moreover, we show that internal and external R&D sourcing are complements: the marginal contribution of internal (external) R&D is the larger the more firms spend on external (internal) R&D. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7690
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Højbjerg Jacobsen, Rasmus (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: When a policy maker or an administrator decides on how many and which of a number of proposed policy measures to implement an important piece of information is whether the effort is "worthwhile". The precise meaning of the word "worthwhile" will depend on the context. In some cases, the question of whether a policy measure is worthwhile will be decided on a purely qualitative basis given the results of the policy measure. In other – and perhaps most – cases some sort of money evaluation will be attached to the results, and a total effect in money terms will be used to evaluate the results. This manual is concerned with the latter case. Given the large degree of competition between various projects for public funds, a compelling case for a specific project can be made if a well carried out cost-benefit-analysis shows a resulting surplus. While this criterion is obviously not the only one used, it could be an important factor when preparing policy makers to make decisions about a specific project. The basic idea behind cost-benefit-analysis is simple: calculate all benefits and all the costs associated with a specific effort, subtract the costs from the benefits while carefully addressing the time profile, and use the resulting number as an indicator for the economic profitability of the project. If the result is positive, the project produces an economic surplus, and if it is negative the project leads to an economic loss. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8878
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Hagen Jørgensen, Ole (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper shows how improved health conditions aect fertility decisions and economic growth. Survival rates for children and adults are incorporated into an overlapping generations model featuring endogenous fertility and altruism from workers towards their retired parents. The main nding is that a simultaneous increase in child and adult survival decreases fertility and increases savings and productivity growth. The analysis illustrates the key role of health in the demographic transition. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7695
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Er Danskere Specielle?Munch, Jakob Roland; Rose Skaksen, Jan; Schroll, Sanne; Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Denne artikel belyser holdninger til immigration blandt borgere i Danmark og de øvrige EU-15 lande - herunder holdningerne til immigration, der følger af den seneste EU-udvidelse. Det analyseres, hvilke faktorer der ligger til frund for disse holdninger, samt i hvilken udstrækning danskere afviger fra EU-gennemsnittet. Den typiske dansker er lidt mere skeptisk overfor immigration end andre europæere. Danskerne afskiller sig desuden ved, at forholdsvis få forbinder øget immigration med negative konsekvenser for arbejdsmarkedet, men forholdsvis mange forbinder det med højere omkostninger for velfærdsstaten. Når der tages hensyn til opfattelserne af de økonomiske konsekvenser af immigration, kommer Danmark til at fremstå som et væsentligt mere immigrationsskeptisk land, end hvad der kommer til udtryk i de ukorrigerede holdninger. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7564
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Do Police Reduce Group Violence?Priks, Mikael; Poutvaara, Panu (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
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Munch, Jakob Roland; Rose Skaksen, Jan; Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We propose a complementary approach to analyze the impact of immigration on the wages of native workers. Using linked employer-employee data from Denmark for a relatively long time period (1993-2004), we study the consequences of an increased use of immigrants at the most disaggregate level – the workplace. We find that an increase in the share of workers from less developed countries at the workplace has a signifi cantly negative effect on the wages of natives – also when controlling for potential endogeneity using both fi xed effects and IV. The use of immigrants from more developed countries also appears to be correlated with wages. However, these correlations disappear when controlling for unobserved fi rm and worker characteristics and are thus likely to reflect selection rather than a causal effect of these immigrants. Finally, we find a positive impact on the wages of native workers from having Eastern European co-workers. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7638
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Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper identifies several distortions which create barriers to entrepreneurship. First, in addition to the innate entry cost, there are entry costs caused by regulation. Second, union wage policies raise the opportunity cost of entrepreneurship. Third, inefficiencies in the transmission of tacit knowledge between generations of entrepreneurs can arise: with access to within-family ownership transfer, the outside market for entrepreneurship operates as a lemon's market. This problem becomes relevant when the economic life of a business idea exceeds the active life of an entrepreneur. barriers to entrepreneurship, tacit knowledge, occupational choice URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7711
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Rosholm, Michael; Scheuer, Christian; Sørensen, Anders (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of globalization, in the sense of increasing international trade, on the demand for skills in Danish manufacturing companies. The study is based on a unique data set that enables us to develop rich measures of international outsourcing and import penetration. Moreover, the data also allows several strategies to strengthen the causal interpretation of our results. The main finding of the analysis is that it is of crucial importance to distinguish imports - both in the form of outsourcing and overall imports - by country-of-origin. We find that international trade with low-wage countries leads to skill-upgrading. This is especially pronounced for import penetration with a ceteris paribus contribution of around fifty percent to skill-upgrading. Moreover, we find that import penetration in goods originating from high-wage countries lead to skill-downgrading. This latter result suggests that Danish manufacturing has comparative advantage in skill intensive production when compared to low-wage countries, but in unskill-intensive production when compared to high-wage countries. Skill-upgrading, Low-wage country outsourcing, Low-wage country import penetration, Comparative advantage URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7709
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Rent Sharing or Composition?Fosse, Henrik Barslund; Maitra, Madhura (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Offshoring firms are found to pay higher average wages than purely domestic firms. We provide a unifying empirical approach by capturing the different channels through which offshoring may explain this wage difference: (i) due to change in the composition of workers (skill composition effect) (ii) because all existing workers get higher pay (rent sharing effect). Using Danish worker-firm data we explain how much each channel contributes to higher wages. To estimate the causal effect of offshoring on wages we use China's accession to the WTO in December 2001 - and the soon after boom in Chinese exports - as positive exogenous shocks to the incentive to offshore to China. Both skill composition and rent sharing effects are found to be important in explaining the resultant gain in wages. We also show that the firm's timing in the offshoring process determines the relative importance of a channel. For firms offshoring to China in 2002 but not in 1999, only rent sharing explains the gain in wages. For firms offshoring to China both before and after China's WTO accession the wage increase is explained mostly by the skill composition effect. Moreover, these patterns are not discernible from the measures of skill composition and rent sharing available in typical firm level datasets - like ratio of educated to uneducated workers and sales per employee. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8540
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Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We consider the effects of income redistribution when people can migrate from one country to another, and when land within each country is heterogeneous. Taxes related to income can then affect property values, and can induce migration, which further affects property values. We show that under these conditions a utilitarian government should never equalize after-tax incomes. If migration is impossible, it may even transfer income from the poor to the rich, reducing the rents earned by absentee landlords. The redistributive tax on the rich may be higher or lower when the rich can migrate than when they cannot. A Rawlsian government in the absence of mobility will equalize after-tax incomes. Under mobility, Rawlsian governments cut their taxes if and only if the relative pre-tax income of the poor is sufficiently low. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7689
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Fehr, Hans; Habermann, Christian (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The present paper studies the growth and efficiency consequences of tax-favored individual retirement accounts in a general equilibrium overlapping generations model with idiosyncratic lifespan and labor income uncertainty. We distinguish between economies with rational and with hyperbolic consumers and compare the consequences of mandatory and voluntary retirement plans with and without annuitized benefits. While a full taxation of capital income yields the highest efficiency gains in the rational consumer model, annuitization and hyperbolic discounting substantially improve the economic efficiency of IRAs. We also show that annuitization alters the intergenerational welfare consequences of the reform substantially, since it reduces accidental bequests. Finally, even if mandatory saving programs have a clear cost advantage, they are only recommendable if consumers are myopic. individual retirement accounts, annuities, stochastic general equilibrium, hyperbolic consumers URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7710
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For Økonomi- og ErhvervsministerietJunge, Martin; Sørensen, Anders (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
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Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We measure the quantitative importance of labor mobility as a vehicle for the transmission of knowledge and skills across firms. For this purpose we create a unique data set that matches all applications of Danish firms at the European Patent Office to linked employer-employee register data for the years 1999-2002. The Danish workforce is split into "R&D workers", who hold a bachelor's or a master's degree in a technical field, and "non-R&D workers". We find that mobile R&D workers ("R&D joiners"') contribute more to patenting activity than immobile R&D workers. Furthermore, R&D workers who have previously been employed by a patenting firm ("patent exposed workers") have a larger effect on patenting activity than R&D workers without this experience. Patent exposed R&D joiners constitute the most productive group of workers: for firms that patented prior to 1999, one additional worker of this type relates to an increase in the number of patent applications of the new employer by 0.0646. This corresponds to a 14 percent increase in the mean number of yearly patent applications. We also find that mobility of R&D workers increases the joint patenting activity of the donor and recipient firms, confirming the importance of labor mobility for innovation in the economy. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7704
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Fosfuri, Andrea; Rønde, Thomas (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We study a situation in which an R&D department promotes the introduction of an innovation, which results in costly re-adjustments for production workers. In response, the production department tries to resist change by improving the existing technology. We show that firms balancing the strengths of the two departments perform better. This principle is employed to derive several implications concerning the hiring of talents, monetary incentives, and technology investment policies. As a negative effect, resistance to change might distort the R&D department's effort away from radical innovations. The firm can solve this problem by implementing the so-called "skunk works model" of innovation where the R&D department is isolated from the rest of the organization. Resistance to change, innovation, skunk works model, contest. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7691
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Labour Market, Health Care and Prescription DrugsHøjbjerg Jacobsen, Rasmus (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper uses a register dataset for the entire Danish population to examine the effect of early motherhood on labour market measures, health care measures and family measures for the mothers and their offspring. The dataset is divided into three groups according to the age of the woman at the time of her first child delivery. Using standard cross-sectional econometric techniques the results show that very young mothers (aged 16-21) have significantly lower employment rates, higher propensity to receive welfare benefits and a lower wage income. Children of very young mothers have a higher family replacement rate, more services received from General Practitioners and a higher propensity to receive ADHD-medications. The majority of the effects reported are also significantly greater for mothers who were aged 22-25 at the birth of their first child compared to older mothers. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8377
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One of the men killed in a plane crash in the Colombian Andes Friday, while working on a new Tom Cruise movie, was an innovative aerial cinematographer who'd recently posted several photos of his work with the actor to social media.
Alan Purwin was a pioneer in the film industry, working on blockbusters like "Transformers," "Pearl Harbor" and "Tropic Thunder." He was in Colombia to work on a new Tom Cruise movie called "Mena."
Purwin was killed Friday when the twin-engine plane he was in with two other men ran into bad weather, killing Purwin and Venezuelan Carlos Berl, and leaving the third passenger seriously injured, Colombian officials said.
They crashed while returning to the city of Medellin on the twin-engine Piper-Aerostar 600 after a day of filming with Cruise for "Mena," which stars the actor as American pilot Barry Seal, a drug runner recruited in the 1980s by the CIA to try to capture the late cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar.
"Our hearts and prayers go out to the crew members and their families at this difficult time," Universal Pictures, which is distributing the film, said in a statement. It declined further comment, saying more details weren't available.
Purwin was a film and stunt pilot who in 1987 founded a helicopter company called Helinet, which is based in Van Nuys Airport near Hollywood.
The company serves the film and news industries; is the primary helicopter provider for Children's Hospital Los Angeles, transporting critically ill children; and is also involved in vital organ transportation.
"There are no words that can express our heartache for we have lost one of the world's greatest helicopter pilots and one of aviation's greatest leaders," Helinet CEO Steve Gatena said in a statement.
An airplane pilot at an early age, Purwin said he started flying helicopters at his father's suggestion when he got "bored going from point A to point B," he told the Los Angeles Times in 2005, about two years after flying a helicopter inside an automobile tunnel for "The Italian Job"
"I went on a quick ride and I was completely hooked," he said of his discovery of helicopters.
Purwin posted a picture on Instagram two weeks ago with Cruise, next to the plane that crashed.
On the Helinet website, the family is asking for donations to be made to Children's Hospital in Purwin's memory.
This is the second time an aviator has died while working on a film with Cruise. Famed stunt pilot Art Scholl went down in waters near San Diego while performing a nose dive during the 1985 making of "Top Gun."
Cruise's spokeswoman, Amanda Lundberg, had no comment on Friday's accident and the film's director Doug Liman as well as local and US-based producers did not reply to emails and phone calls from the Associated Press seeking comment.
Colombia's jagged terrain, heavy rainfall and long, empty distances makes it one of the most dangerous places in the world for aviators. Medellin's Olaya Herrera airport has been the site of numerous accidents since the 1935 crash that killed famed Argentine tango singer Carlos Gardel. It closes at night and allows only domestic flights.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Should auld acquaintance be forgot? Yes, if they're the auld Washington Redskins, the team that gave us Patrick Ramsey and Donovan McNabb and John Beck, Albert Haynesworth and Sherm Lewis and Jim Zorn (lead singer of Maroon, and Black, 5) and yes, even Joe Gibbs II, the second-worst sequel of the decade after "The Matrix Reloaded."
Sunday night deadened a lot of years of pain and suffering for Redskins fans, auld and young alike. So take a one-day holiday — in a happy coincidence, New Year's Day is available — and exorcise the demons of the past. Resolve to let go of the bad auld days and look forward to Sunday afternoon, and beyond. Especially beyond. Beyond looks pretty fantastic.
This season's NFC East title, courtesy of Sunday night's 28-18 victory over Dallas, is no guarantee of NFC East titles to come. The division will not remain as bad as it is now. However, the Cowboys are heading for upheaval — you only had to look at Jerry Jones's face, if you could stand it, after all those interceptions to realize that change is coming. The Eagles have already begun their upheaval, having dismissed Andy Reid. The Giants, while not necessarily heading for upheaval, are still loosely based in New York, birthplace of upheaval.
The Redskins, by comparison, needed seven games to become the division's most stable, rock-solid, hijinks-free franchise. They did it despite rookies at key positions, injuries to key players, and some really silly drug suspensions. (There is no better punishment for Cedric Griffin and Tanard Jackson than the team winning the division without them. Nancy Reagan had it right, fellas: Just say no.)
But the most positive aspect of this team is its age. Think about the Redskins of years past (just for a moment, then never again). Remember when it seemed owner Daniel Snyder was collecting just-past-their-prime NFL superstars as sort of his own live action figures? Forget "the future is now." Back then, the future had already past, if you follow me.
But the Redskins have stopped doing that. In fact, there is little evidence to suggest that over the past three years, there has been any of the owner interference that haunted the days of auld. Whether that change came with maturity, Bruce Allen, the Shanahans, whatever — who cares? It seems to have happened. Even Snyder cannot dispute the theory, now, that a team must be built through the draft, with veteran free agents sprinkled in — not the other way around. And yes, the Redskins gave up a lot of picks to get Robert Griffin III, but if you're still of the opinion that that move was a mistake, then I want to party with you, cowboy. I mean, seriously?
I admit, I never thought the Shanahan Plan would work. I was no great believer in the bullheaded determination to stick with a philosophy regardless of the skills of the players involved. Turns out that if you put a rookie of the year candidate at quarterback and a rookie of the year candidate at running back, and then bring in a nearly flawless kicker, your Plan suddenly looks pretty good. Mea culpa. Listening to the NBC announcers Sunday night speculate about Kyle Shanahan's head coaching future, I found myself hoping he was smart enough to stick around and work with Griffin. I would not have felt the same way in September.
And Jim Haslett's 3-4 defense? I had serious doubts about that, too. Then something clicked this year — despite the absences of Brian Orakpo and Adam Carriker and Brandon Meriweather. The Haslett Scheme is still too elastic for comfort, and the offseason shopping list must include help at safety, but somehow the Redskins' defense — led as always by auldie but goodie London Fletcher — survived the injuries and the drug suspensions and the position changes and managed to drive some offenses bonkers.
Redskins management refused to use the "R" word — rebuilding — for a long time, but of course it was obvious that was the intention here. Why they couldn't just say that is beyond me, unless they were afraid attendance might take a hit. My guess is the ticket office won't have a lot of trouble selling plans, mini-plans, day planners and whatever else they have to offer to 2013. Just a hunch.
Of course, there is a playoff game to be played first. The Redskins aren't looking ahead to the draft or the players returning from injuries or free agent signings — they believe they can actually advance in the playoffs. And perhaps they can, although in the Seahawks they face a formidable rookie quarterback and a very strong defense.
And that seems to be the biggest difference in this franchise: no more shaking heads, wondering what went wrong, looking around the locker room for leadership and answers. These are the new, shiny Redskins, the low-mileage Redskins, the highly confident Redskins. They have their early '90s swagger back. Maybe they are the Redskins of auld after all.
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A Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation branch in Fairfax, Virginia partnered with the American Warrior Initiative (AWI) to honor a local U.S. veteran. Along with a donation, a residential housing "Boot Camp" was held to train real estate professionals and mortgage planners on how to handle with excellence the home purchase needs of active duty military and veterans.
The honoree at the event was U.S. combat veteran Zachery Herrick. While serving in Afghanistan in 2011, Zachery was shot in the face by an enemy sniper. After being severely injured, Zachery spent three years at Walter Reed Hospital where he underwent more than 25 surgeries to repair his face. American Warrior Initiative and Fairway Independent Mortgage surprised Zachery with a new car at the event. Additionally, real estate agents who attended the training donated a total of $4,000 to be used toward Zachery's car insurance and other family needs.
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A boy lost: Bartlomiej Palosz, 1998-2013
KALNA, Poland -- It's a cloudless second day in May when Bartlomiej Palosz is born in the green foothills of the Beskid Mountains. A round-faced baby boy with porcelain skin, he inherits his mother Anna's deep-set blue eyes and the shy demeanor of his father Franciszek.
His name is Polish for Bartholomew, one of Jesus' 12 apostles -- but everyone in this village without strangers calls him Bart.
Bart and his older sister Beata are the fourth generation in their maternal bloodline to grow up on this rural hamlet's only road in the beige stucco house with crocheted window curtains. The siblings eat slices of Bart's favorite homemade cheesecake surrounded by the same coal-burning stove and wall-hung crucifixes of their mother's childhood.
Outside in a yard lassoed with warped chain-link fencing, Bart and Beata race on foot, dodging apple trees, wooden benches, lopsided hedges, empty clotheslines, stray chickens and their father's hunting and fishing gear. In the distance, mountain peaks fill an otherwise empty horizon. Bart, who's never seen a skyscraper, finds these pillars of rock and earth mesmerizing.
In winter when the air bites, the siblings hunker indoors for Polish history lessons with their mother. They learn that nearby Bielsko-Biala, which has the only cinema for miles and where Bart begs to go on weekends for scoops of plain vanilla ice cream, was annexed during World War II by the Third Reich, and its Jewish population shipped to Auschwitz.
Like Bart, life here is simple and calm. But there are undertones of sadness and deep scars left by the region's past persecutors. Foreign architecture, war memorials made of barbed wire, and the people's fiery Polish pride.
Gradually, Bart begins to notice these dark spots in the landscape and within himself. He has none of his mother's spunk and confidence. He is more like his father, a quiet outdoorsman who spends weekends cocooned in the woods and does not smile for photographs.
Even the mountains Bart loves begin to radiate a sense of unease the way they ring around his home like a jaw of sharpened teeth.
When Bart is 4, a stunning twist of fate -- rare to the point of bizarre -- uproots the Palosz family from their rural homestead and catapults them to a distant planet, a place as wealthy, cosmopolitan and sophisticated as Kalna is not.
A lottery set up by the U.S. government grants permanent residency to 50,000 winning applicants from countries with low U.S. immigration rates, including Poland. With Anna out of work and Franciszek struggling to get by on a welder's salary, the family joins a pool of 10 million American hopefuls. Their chances of winning this Powerball for would-be immigrants are less than 2 percent.
"I can't believe it!" Anna keeps saying, in Polish, when the unthinkable occurs. "I can't believe it!"
Neither she nor Franciszek speaks English. They have saved almost no money for airplane tickets. But with the dream of steady work and a college education for the children, they borrow $500 in cash and, with Beata and Bart in tow, board a plane to John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Anna quickly finds work caring for children belonging to the moneyed elite of Greenwich. But the Palosz family is geographically and psychologically dislocated. Everyone struggles. Bart and Beata enroll in a public school with as many students as there are people in Kalna. Franciszek shortens his name to Frank and starts his own carpentry business, often working 12-hour days.
In this foreign world, the family grasps at threads of familiarity, most of which exist outside the gilded borders of their new hometown. In Stamford, they find a church where Mass is celebrated in Polish. They make trips to Greenpoint, a neighborhood in Brooklyn known as "Little Poland," where pierogies and cabbage soup are staples on menus they all can read. Frank joins a Polish hunting club and spends weekends fishing and shooting deer in the Catskill Mountains. Sometimes he packs tents and brings along Anna and the kids.
On Saturdays, Bart and Beata attend Polish language school so they can keep up with their relatives. Anna enrolls in evening English classes at Norwalk Community College to keep up with the kids. Frank learns just enough English to discuss flooring and cabinets with clients. At home, the family speaks only Polish.
In Greenwich, Beata begins to thrive. She makes good grades, joins the cheerleading squad and grows a head of gorgeous, long blonde hair. New friendships come easily with her confidence and chirpy persona. Her closest classmates become fixtures on the family's living room couch.
For Bart, it is a different story. Assimilation seems almost impossible. He is a large, lumbering boy, a head taller than most of his classmates. He can't shake his Polish accent. His best attempts at friend-making involve barging in on other kids' conversations, a method that more often makes him the butt of a joke. Alone in his bedroom, he masters the Battlefield video game series and teaches himself to deal with computer viruses. But mostly he longs to return to Poland, where the quiet countryside gives him peace.
There is one bright spot in this turbulent period of Bart's new life. Finally, on the playground of New Lebanon Elementary School, Bart finds a pal.
He and Izzy Johnson make a quirky, clumsy, wildly unconventional pair. They don't have much in common. Bart is a sensitive, well-mannered fifth-grader. Izzy, in the third grade, is brazen and holds his own. But they both feel like misfits, a trait that bonds them over afternoons of video games, fishing trips and Airsoft battles, firing plastic pellets at one another from guns that look frighteningly real. Instead of a ball, they use the Palosz family's pet ferret in gentle games of catch.
They are famous for breaking new toys within hours through disassembly and experimentation. When they don't have a robot in their hands, they fall back to dreaming up alternative rules for the universe.
A topic of repeated debate between Bart (a practicing Catholic who wears a crucifix) and Izzy (a self-proclaimed atheist) is, "If God exists, why is there war?" These debates typically escalate into arguments that end when Bart has had enough and stomps home.
It turns out there's another thing these boys have in common outside their eccentricities. Each becomes a target of bullying at school.
In silence, Bart endures verbal attacks from peers who pick on him for his uncommonly tall stature. His Polish accent. His extra weight. The pimples on his face. When they have almost run out of names and insults, his eyes brim with tears, inviting a new round of taunts.
Bart says nothing to his classmates when they shove him into the thorn bushes every morning on his walk to Western Middle School. Not a word when they call him "gay" because he won't fight back.
But Bart does tell his family. Anna meets with school administrators. She confronts a boy who's made a game of pushing Bart down into the thorns. She tells Bart it's OK to push back. But Bart is too timid to stand up for himself. Anna starts driving her son to school so he won't arrive with scratches on his arms.
Izzy also finds trouble fitting in. His outside-the-box personality makes him the plaything of four bullies in his fourth-grade class. Then one day Izzy calls one of the boys fat. Instantly, the bullying ceases.
Bart could squash the squirts who terrorize him with no more effort than it takes to snap his fingers. But there isn't a drop of aggression in him.
Boy Scout outings also provide Bart a sense of connection. He feels at home in the wilderness, so fishing, hiking and camping with boys his own age feels more or less comfortable -- though not always.
One of Bart's first excursions with Troop 9 is a camping trip at Seton Reservation, in western Greenwich. Feeling like one of the boys after a long hike in the rain, Bart joins in as the scouts one by one peel off their saturated shirts and fly them high above their heads.
But the scouts turn on Bart, teasing him when he reveals his round belly. Standing shirtless in the rain with a half dozen sets of judgmental eyes fixed on his stomach, Bart retreats to his tent. He spends the rest of the evening alone while the other boys banter around the glow of a campfire. Anna helps chaperone future camping trips because Frank is often working and Bart feels better with a parent there.
One other source of happiness in Bart's life never fails him -- his visits home to Poland. Mountain hikes and bike rides with cousins always await him. No one there belittles him for the way he talks, even though he has developed an American accent when he speaks Polish.
The love and acceptance he feels in Kalna magnifies the summer after he turns 13. He meets his first girlfriend. She's pretty and Bart is smitten.
The girl buys Bart a piggy bank, telling him to save up so he can make more frequent visits. Bart gives her a web camera that Beata helps him pick out. Now they can Skype when summer ends and Bart must return to Greenwich.
Before his flight home, Bart stands alone in a grassy field, hands on hips, and poses for a photograph. He's not smiling, but he looks at ease. His face is shadowed by a baseball cap.
Behind him is a brown cow. Behind the cow is more grass leading to a hill covered with leafy trees.
It is the picture of a boy at home in nature.
Later, on his computer, Bart adds a big, bold caption: "This is what success looks like."
For his 14th Christmas, Bart asks for two things: new clothes and a bed set patterned with soccer balls, basketballs and footballs. Bart has no interest in sports, and the seemingly odd request does not signal a sudden enthusiasm. It's a yearning for the one gift he wants more than anything -- to fit in with other kids his age.
Psychologically, Bart is flailing. Now a freshman at Greenwich High School, he's grasping at social connections, but receding into the alternative worlds where he passes long chunks of his days with the aid of the Internet and his video game console.
As he retreats, part of Bart continues to yearn for acceptance from the people around him. On one of his social media accounts, he writes, "If this comment gets more than 10 (likes), I will tell a secret that I never would tell anybody not even my closest friends or my family I just gotta get it off my chest."
The comment gets one "like." The secret goes unshared. The long drift of his mind accelerates.
Kids continue to find new ways to tease Bart. A group of boys pesters him about having a "fake" Polish girlfriend, so he writes her an email and breaks it off. But soon there's a new girl at school from China who captures his heart. Bart carries a picture of her in his wallet. In his pocket, he keeps the white handkerchief embroidered with a heart that she gave him. They exchange text messages and talk when they see each other in the halls at school.
Then the girl moves back to China, leaving Bart feeling alone once again.
Bart meets regularly with his guidance counselor and school psychologist. But he doesn't say much outside of head nods and monosyllabic answers. He insists everything is "fine," never letting on to the depths of his feelings of isolation.
Anna, desperate to make her son feel better at the end of each torturous school week, organizes hikes and fishing expeditions and camping trips for Bart. Frank teaches him to load, shoot and clean a rifle, hoping to spark a shared father-son interest in hunting. Unbeknownst to them, they're only making things worse.
"I'll have nothing to do when my parents force me to go to a remote forest in upstate NY," Bart writes on his computer.
The woods he once loved have become nothing more than an Internet dead zone.
Beata, now a senior, is her brother's fierce protector. She sits with him in the high school cafeteria. She hunts down a boy in Bart's biology class who purposely smashes her brother's brand new Android cellphone. "Do you think it's OK to do that? Do you really think that's OK?" She reports Bart's social struggles to the student support staff. She invites him out to the movies with her friends.
Bart loves his sister. But he also starts to resent her. Tiny beads of ill-will bubble inside him when he sees the ease with which she walks down the halls of their high school, a friend, a boyfriend, an admirer always at her side. She is his closest ally, and yet she cannot help because she is everything he is not -- bubbly, popular, happy. And it makes him feel that much more alone.
Bart's friendship with Izzy fades as the boys' interests split, so Beata tries to forge new friendships on her brother's behalf. She recruits the GHS football player she's dating to help talk Bart into trying out for the team. After all, Bart could fill a doorway with his bulky build. But Bart refuses. It would only give kids another opportunity to make fun of him, he says.
Beata monitors her brother's text messages to make sure he isn't being harassed. But that stops one day when Bart decides to lock his cellphone with a password.
When her brother's distracted, she secretly skims his email inbox and checks the browser history on his laptop. Mostly, he talks about video games with people he meets online. He seems to have lots of virtual friends, at least.
One of these virtual friends is a boy Bart's age from a small town 300 miles away, just outside Rochester, N.Y. They meet online playing the fantasy role-playing game RuneScape. The game is set in a medieval realm where vampires, trolls and armored knights collect ingredients for magic potions and duel on the bows of pirate ships.
What begins as a brief email exchange about the game swiftly develops into one of the most significant relationships Bart has ever had outside his family. In emails and postmarked letters, the boys discuss everything -- homework, music, current events, their goals for the future and their families. They call themselves long lost brothers.
Bart confides that he is bullied so badly that he sometimes thinks about killing the kids at school who bother him. He says he feels worthless.
The boy suggests Bart take out his anger on the shooting targets in his video games and on hunting trips with his dad, or punch a pillow instead. He listens without ever passing judgment on Bart.
Bart tells no one about this confidante whom he never meets. He tells no one else his darkest thoughts -- not his parents, not even his sister.
On June 3, 2013, Bart opens his laptop and logs on to Google+, where his profile picture shows him with an American flag hoisted over one shoulder and the Polish flag drawn in paint on either cheek. Bart's personal page on the social network is public, but no one who knows him in reality knows about it.
"Hey," he types, "if I were to stab my eye out due to school caused insanity, who would miss me?"
With his cellphone camera, Bart snaps a selfie while holding the tip of a knife to his pupil. He posts the photo alongside his question.
The cry for help garners zero comments.
On June 7, Bart posts a goodbye note.
"I have chosen to go with 3 peoples advice and kill myself," he types, adding that he has just swallowed pills. "I just wish it was faster."
This time, Bart's warning shot gets attention.
When other Google+ users assure him his troubles will pass, he replies that he has been bullied at school every day for the last 10 years.
Now Bart's bloodstream is surging with pharmaceuticals. He can't stand up straight and feels zoned out.
"I'm still alive," he reports on June 8, "never trust my mind."
Summer vacation brings long, hot days without structure and Bart responds by receding deeper into his own psyche, where the dividing line between his reveries and realities is blurred and increasingly distorted. Bart's family has no idea how dark his world is becoming.
He loses 10 pounds from June to August walking for an hour, three times a day, alone, with his iPod earbuds sunk in his head. One of his favorite routes brings him over the Byram River into Port Chester, N.Y., home of his favorite place on earth: a GameStop store. Bart loves to loiter there, surrounded by shelves of alternative worlds and boxed fantasies.
Bart spends sunny afternoons indoors with his laptop, drawn to the strange characters he finds on the Internet. He watches propaganda videos for Anonymous, the collective of hackers and activists credited with carrying out cyber-attacks against the FBI, the CIA and the Vatican, and pledges to join its ranks. He devours anime clips depicting intergalactic travel, mass suicide and accidental death. He becomes enraptured by a haunting song by Hatsune Miku, a Japanese pop star avatar with turquoise pigtails. It accompanies a video about a teenage girl who dies after being struck by a speeding truck. Bart chooses it as the song he wants played at his burial.
On his computer, he writes:
"I would love for a country to invade America, most people would just stay home and die unlike Poland which everybody fought and died for their country and I'm proud to be Polish."
"I think the cops are on my ass about something. I've tracked a dos signal to the white house. One way or another I will find the truth."
"I am now hiding in a closet. #closet"
"I notice if I sound sad I'm normal and if I act happy, cheerful, and 'normal' there is a high chance that I will try to poison myself, cut myself, commit suicide, or jump in front of a truck :)"
Bart argues constantly with his mother. He refuses to complete household chores such as vacuuming and taking out the trash. He refuses to get off the Internet.
Anna repeatedly tells him: "You have to get good grades."
"No, I don't. Bill Gates didn't get good grades."
Insubordination is a new behavior for Bart. His family thinks it's a stage and blames it on his age.
Bart forgoes his annual trip to his beloved Poland, figuring it might be easier to retain friendships over the summer if he stays put in Greenwich. Anna brings Bart to the beach with his Polish friend, Radek, who lives 30 miles away in Fairfield. Beata takes him out for frozen yogurt. Dad takes him fishing.
But the family's focus is on readying Beata for college. She is the first family member from any generation to seek out a college degree. There is a buzz of excitement and a half-dozen dorm room shopping trips to Bed Bath & Beyond.
Bart also plans to go to college. He wants to study computer programming at New York University. After that, he plans to return to Poland. His family's house in Kalna will be passed down to him and his sister some day and Beata doesn't want it. Beata sees herself landing a job in marketing, marrying her high school sweetheart and raising a family in the United States. She can't imagine packing up her big, American life and fitting it in a tiny Polish village.
The promise of a $225 stipend gets Bart outdoors collecting storm debris and planting trees for two weeks with other 15-year-old boys as part of the Greenwich Youth Conservation Project. After lunch, there are field trips and guest speakers. A representative from Kids in Crisis talks to the teens about local youth counseling services, which Bart never considers tapping.
Bart spends his earnings from the program on a noise-canceling headphone set. He also buys a poster of Hatsune Miku and tapes it on his bedroom wall.
On his YouTube account, he writes that he would do anything to attend a Hatsune Miku concert, "Even jump off a building."
He also posts a running commentary of his thoughts:
"Where I live most teachers don't care, I remember last year I had a great teacher who made class fun, he would make bets with us like if we all did our homework the rest of the week there would be no home work, or once he bet the class that if %90 or more of the class got a 90 or higher on a test he would lick his shoes and throw them out a window, the next day the test was given out and one person got less than a 90. Now I cram all night into books and still barely pass."
"I have been bullied till point of suicide, you need to just get over it and find one thing to help you survive. For me my Chinese friend, for you no clue."
"to be exact after the columbine shooting, they found that one of them made maps for doom and it was said he made a map to practice killing people with the outline of the school."
"I don't smoke, I have a life and a loving family"
"Hey you should be happy I'm a freshman and if the rest is this bad then I'm screwed."
"I always wonder who pays for repairs if someone jumps and falls on your car?"
Bart sends frequent email to his confidante, saying a couple of kids from school are threatening to kill him. He says they steal all sorts of belongings from him. He says they hold him still and cut him with a knife.
Together, Bart and his confidante conclude these bullies are unfortunate saps. They are Grinch-like humans who behave the way they do because no one loves them, and no one ever will.
For the first time, Bart feels heard, accepted and completely understood.
Before Beata leaves for college, Bart sends her a text message revealing a big secret.
"I'm gay."
"Mom and dad will never accept that."
"I can't change who I am."
On Aug. 27, the sun rises on the first day of Bart's sophomore year. Bart begs Anna to let him stay home from school. Reluctantly, he dresses in red gym shorts and a white T-shirt with a stripe down the sleeves. Outside, a warm rain begins to fall.
Bart eats a breakfast of milk and Nutella spread over a slice of white bread, then buckles into the passenger seat of his mother's Toyota Solera. Anna drops him off at the main entrance of Greenwich High School.
Feelings of anxiety and dread explode in Bart's head as he stands alone in a mob of laughing faces with backpacks.
On the afternoon bus ride home, Bart sends Anna a text message listing the school supplies he needs. Three notebooks. Three binders. Pens and pencils. He also complains of a stomachache. He says he feels like he's going to throw up.
Anna tells her son to let out Teddy, the family's fluffy Papillon dog, and then take a nap. She'll check on him when she gets home from her work day spent at the Stamford Nature Center with the little girl she baby-sits.
Bart lets out the dog and retreats to his second-floor bedroom, which is technically the family's guest room. Bart sleeps in his real bedroom on the third floor only when his grandmother visits from Poland. Otherwise, he prefers to avoid the extra set of stairs.
In the guest room, there's a potted palm tree on the floor. On the walls are the Polish flag, the certificate Bart received when he was confirmed and a picture of the Virgin Mary that his grandmother asked him to hang.
Opposite the twin bed is a gun safe. Inside the locked safe are the five rifles Bart's father uses for hunting.
Bart begins typing an email to his confidante.
"Goodbye brother I will always appreciate everything you have done for me and always being there for me and being the best friend anyone could ever have hopefully our pathes will cross again when the time comes for you to enter the next world.
"By the way I have burned all the letters you have sent to me and deleted all the emails you have sent to me and I have sent to you for the sake of no one finding out about our friendship
"Love and rememberance, Bart Palosz"
Bart walks into the kitchen and reaches for the tin cup on the shelf above the oven. He removes a small key.
He returns to his bedroom and opens the gun locker with the key no one knows he's found. He takes out a Smith & Wesson semi-automatic shotgun and loads it.
On the other side of the wall, Bart's cellphone rings in the living room with a call from his mother. She's on her way to Staples to pick up Bart's school supplies.
The call goes unanswered.
About 6 p.m., Beata's cellphone rings in her dorm room overlooking the Elizabethtown College campus.
It's her neighbor back in Greenwich.
"Why are the police storming your house with AK-47s?" the high school student blurts.
Beata dials her parents, but the police, treating the house like a crime scene, answer and will not let her speak to them.
Another call from the neighbor: "Your dad's leaning against your car, crying, and your mom's hysterical in front of the house, and --" Pause. "And she just yelled, 'Bart shot himself!'"
Beata's body starts shaking. Did he miss? Is he hurt? Is he alive?
When she arrives home, the house smells of cleaning agents. Her goldfish, plopped in a puddle of water in a frying pan, have died. Her family is broken.
Four days later, Beata eulogizes her brother at a Mass celebrated in English and Polish.
The boy who felt so alone has 400 people packed inside the Holy Name of Jesus Roman Catholic Church in Stamford for his funeral. Among the mourners are members of Bart's Boy Scout troop. The Greenwich High School football team is standing in back, clad in red jerseys. Superintendent of Schools William McKersie is there, as is Greenwich Police Chief James Heavey, who wears his Boy Scout uniform in a show of solidarity.
What Beata asks them all to remember is the way Bart was when he was happy.
"He never judged anyone."
The cemetery lies at Kalna's edge, nestled against a forest of leafless birches near where Bart's life began. Notes from Bart's family are tucked in the pockets of his new school clothes, the ones he wears in his coffin.
The Palosz family, now an unsteady three, wonders how they could have saved him. How could they have known his internal suffering was so great? When the shock and sadness subsides a bit, a surge of guilt takes hold of them.
Beata blames herself for going off to college when her little brother most needed her. Frank gives up hunting. Anna is so overcome with grief she decides to stay awhile in Poland after the rest of them return to America, back to their jobs and their schooling. Anna loses her job as a babysitter. She feels she has failed her job as Bart's mother.
Three times a day, Anna visits the son beneath her feet. She brings him flowers and she prays.
"I think if God wants to give you something, you will have it. If he takes it away, there is a reason he doesn't want you to have it," she says.
"That's what I believe. And that's what Bart believed."
Anna organizes the colored lanterns at the foot of the grave. She has just been released from the psychiatric ward of a local hospital where she spent 16 days dealing with her grief. With slow, steady hands, she relights the flames that died out while she was away and removes the wilted flowers.
The air is damp and cold. There's a thick fog floating in over the headstones. A light wind lifts Anna's blonde flyaways as she works on hands and knees.
Anna rises to her feet and buries her chin in the neckline of her sweatshirt. She prays for several minutes. She makes the sign of the cross, lifts her head and locks eyes with her son.
He is forever young, wearing a red robe and crimson necktie on the day he was confirmed. His lips are pursed. His thick, chestnut hair is neat. His stare is piercing.
"Beloved Bart," reads the lettering in Polish below the portrait on the headstone, "parting is our fate, meeting is our hope."


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Metabolic disorder underlies Huntington's disease
A metabolic disorder underlies the brain effects found in those with Huntington's disease, researchers report in an advance article publishing online October 19, 2006. The article will appear in the November 2006 issue of the journal Cell Metabolism, published by Cell Press.
Their new evidence ties a metabolic defect to the loss of neurons in the striatum, the brain's "movement control" region. That neurodegeneration leads to the uncontrollable "dance-like" movements characteristic of the fatal, genetic disorder.
The findings may help to explain other symptoms of the disease, including weight loss, and could point to new avenues for therapy, according to the researchers.
"Huntington's has been thought of primarily as a neurological disease," said Albert R. La Spada of the University of Washington, Seattle. "Our findings underscore the fact that the condition includes other, underrecognized aspects."
The findings in Huntington's disease further highlight the possibility that other neurological conditions might also have a strong metabolic component, La Spada added.
Huntington's is relentlessly progressive, the researchers said, as patients succumb to the disease 10 to 25 years after its onset. The disease is caused by a genetic defect in which a repetitive sequence of DNA in the "huntingtin" (htt) gene gets expanded to encode an abnormally elongated protein.
Although the mutant htt protein is widely present, only certain populations of neurons degenerate and only a subset of other cell types are affected, they said. And exactly how the htt protein causes disease has remained uncertain.
The researchers made their current discovery after stumbling onto evidence that mice with Huntington's disease suffer extremely low body temperatures that worsen as the disease progresses.
"These mice have been around for at least a decade," La Spada said. "They have been the subjects of dozens, if not hundreds, of studies, but no one had checked one of their most basic vital signs.
"When you do, you find that the mice have a dramatic abnormality in temperature--which is normally tightly regulated."
Early on, the animals' temperature registered one or two degrees below normal, La Spada said. As their condition worsened, body temperatures fell substantially, he added, sometimes below 30°C. Like humans, the normal body temperature of mice is about 37°C.
To trace the causes of the animals' hypothermia, the researchers first looked to the brain region that controls body temperature. The animals brains, however, appeared to register and respond to cold normally.
The problem, they found, lay instead in fat cells known as brown adipose tissue (BAT). In rodents, BAT is the primary tissue that controls body temperature. When the brain signals that the body is cold, the gene called PGC-1б increases production of a protein in BAT that leads the cellular powerhouses known as mitochondria to generate heat instead of energy.
In the BAT of hypothermic Huntington's mice, PGC-1б levels rose but failed to elicit the other events required to maintain normal body temperature, they found.
The link to mitochondria-regulating PGC-1б led the team back to the brain, and specifically to the striatum. That brain region is most affected in Huntington's disease and is particularly sensitive to mitochondrial dysfunction.
The researchers found that tissue taken from striatums of Huntington's disease patients and mice showed reduced activity of genes controlled by PGC-1б. They further found reduced mitochondrial function in the brains of Huntington's mice.
The findings suggest a link between two theories to explain Huntington's disease, the researchers said.
The earlier finding that the striatum is particularly sensitive to mitochondrial dysfunction suggested that the cellular powerhouses might play a role in the disease. Other evidence suggested that mutant htt might interfere with "transcription factors" that control gene activity.
"PGC-1б transcription interference may provide a link between transcription dysregulation and mitochondrial dysfunction in Huntington's disease," the researchers said. "More importantly, our study underscores an emerging role for metabolic and mitochondrial abnormalities in neurodegenerative disease."
As metabolic function generally diminishes in older people, such a connection might explain why many neurodegenerative diseases--such as Lou Gehrig's, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's diseases, for example--tend to emerge and worsen with age, La Spada said.
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Marquette player's eyeball popped out (PHOTO)
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Chris Otule is a big piece of Marquette's run to the Elite Eight.
He also has only one eye; he popped out the artificial one for CBS' Jeff Goodman after Thursday's 71-61 defeat of Miami (Fla).
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"I guess you could call it glaucoma," Otule told said in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "I was born with one eye, actually, and the other one wasn't fully developed. So I had to get an artificial (left) eye, since I was one or two. And every time I grew out of it, I had to go back to the doctor and they'd make a new one.
"I've always had one eye," Otule said. "It didn't happen in the middle of my life; I've had it since birth. If I hadn't had it since birth, it would probably be difficult to adjust to. But I've always been used to it, since I've had it since birth."
A redshirt senior, Otule has come a long way in his time with the Golden Eagles. He told CBS of the first impression he made on coach Buzz Williams in high school.
"He told me I sucked," Otule said. "But he said that I would improve at Marquette. That's how he earned my trust. He was brutally honest."
Did Williams remember the interaction differently?
"He did suck," Williams added. "He was a bad player, but we really need a big guy."
Williams knew of Otule's ineptitude on the court, but he didn't know he was blind until the team doctor Ernest Eugene evaluated Otule the summer before his freshman year.
"Coach, you have a few minutes?" Eugene said. "Did you know Chris was blind?"
"What the hell are you talking about?" Williams responded.
That's when Eugene told Williams about Otule's glass eye.
"I couldn't believe it," Williams said.
Well, now we are all believers.


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Atletico ended Villa's Premier League plan
New Atletico Madrid striker David Villa had his heart set on a move to the Premier League until "the best team in world" showed their hand.
The 31-year-old was unveiled at the Vicente Calderon on Monday evening after completing a cut-price 2.1million euro (£1.8million) move from Barcelona. The fee paid to the Spanish champions will rise to 5.1million euro (£4.4million) if Villa sees out the entirety of a three-year deal.
The Spain international started fewer than half of Barca's league games last season to put a host of European clubs on high alert, with Tottenham among the Premier League clubs closely linked with a move for the former Valencia forward.
But when Atletico approached him in early July, he knew his future lay with the capital club.
He told reporters: "We had a move to the Premier in mind but then Atleti appeared and within three days all my personal terms had been agreed.
"From a career point of view, they weren't lacking anything. They finished third and will play in the Champions League. They beat Real Madrid to win the Copa del Rey. Starting from today, the best club in the world for me is Atletico Madrid."
Villa's challenge will be replacing the goal threat that disappeared to Monaco when Colombian hitman Radamel Falcao made a surprise switch last month.
Falcao hit 28 league goals in the 2012-13 season and 52 in just two years with Atleti, but Villa hopes his own goal record will stand up to scrutiny in south Madrid. The Asturian has scored 282 career goals for Sporting Gijon, Real Zaragoza, Valencia and Barcelona, with his 91-cap adventure with Spain yielding 56 goals to date.
"I have to talk to the coach (Diego Simeone) about playing in a number nine role, where Falcao played," Villa added. "But I am simply at his disposal and will play wherever he wants. (Falcao) was loved here but hopefully I can make sure his absence isn't felt."
Briefly touching on his reasons for leaving Barcelona after three successful seasons, he added: "I left Barca because I wasn't playing, not because the World Cup was on the horizon. I love this game and I wanted to play it."
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Memory Eternal! + Michel Baik
Update: His Grace Bishop ANTOUN attended the firefighters' memorial on Friday, July 30. An estimated 8,000 firefighters attended the service.
Update, from the Connecticut Post:
As many as 10,000 firefighters from across the nation and Canada are expected to attend funeral services for Lt. Steven Velasquez, 40, and firefighter Michel Baik, 49, who died while battling a house fire on Saturday.
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Firefighter Michel Baik was a lifelong member of St. Nicholas Church in Bridgeport, CT. He lost his life fighting a house fire on Saturday, July 24.
The arrangements for Michel are as follows:
The wake will be Thursday, July 29, at the Abriola Parkview Funeral Home, 419 White Plains Rd., Trumbull CT, from 4-8 PM.
The funeral service will take place at St. Nicholas Church on Friday, July 30, beginning at 2 PM, followed by the internment. The mercy meal will follow within the facilities of St. Catherine of Sienna Church, 220 Shelton Rd., Trumbull CT.
Because a very large turnout is expected, there will be additional seating in the church hall with an audio/video feed of the funeral service for those who cannot get a seat in the church.
A remembrance from the Connecticut Post:
Firefighter Autumn Waggoner said Baik was always excited to come to work. "You could set the clock by him; he was always here at 3 o'clock on the dot," she said. "Mitch was a sweet teddy bear of a guy, all hairy and huggable but a firefighter through and through."
Robert Shawah, who grew up with Baik, said despite his large build, there was nothing scary about him. "He was a very intimidating looking guy, but once you got to know him he was a teddy bear," he said, standing outside the Funston Avenue home where Baik, whose family is from Syria, grew up.
"He was the best guy in the world," added childhood friend David Matthews. "His heart was immense. He always wanted to help people."
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- Saying goodbye to two Bridgeport heroes | WTNH.com Connecticut
- Hundreds Mourn Fallen Firefighters - Photos - WFSB Hartford - Slide show
- Fallen Firefighters Laid To Rest - Photos - WFSB Hartford - Slideshow
- Bridgeport Firefighter Michel Baik Laid To Rest - WFSB
- Bridgeport Firefighter Michel Baik Laid To Rest - CT Post
From the Hartford Courant: Bishop Antoun and Priests at St. Nicholas Antiochan Orthodox Church pray before the casket of Bridgeport firefighter Michel Baik.


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China's Students Educated Overseas for the Summer
An increasing number of students from Hong Kong and Mainland China are spending their summer breaks in U.S. and U.K. summer camps. William Vanbergen of BE Educations tells the WSJ's Wei Gu what they can learn from these programs.
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It's not exactly a revelation that Denver's art scene is steadily growing and improving. But that point was driven home Aug. 12 on the 3100 block of East Colfax Avenue, which up until recently was hardly known as an artistic hotbed.
The new GroundSwell Gallery, a handsome, window-lined art space in a mid-century modernist building at 3121 E. Colfax Ave., was hosting the opening of a solo show devoted to a promising new talent — Alan Kitchen. (The gallery shares quarters with a swank-looking marijuana dispensary — an entrepreneurial combination that is either clever or off-putting, depending on your point of view.)
That event alone would have been strong evidence of Denver art scene's continuing upswing, but there was more. A few doors down at 3109 E. Colfax Ave., Plastic Chapel, a kind of underground design toy store, was unveiling a tiny show of new works in its tiny rear display space by the always-interesting Denver artist, Dave Seiler. His latest creations are a group of ships in bottles with lighthearted yet pointed political messages.
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