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I wish I had a camera that could show the view from me:
Peripheral and everything I do and do not see.
And it would have to focus without zooming, and should stay
Attentive to the details and wide angles of each day.
Photographic memories! I've heard some people have them.
Not me, though, only words are stored, retrievable at random.
I cannot tell you what I saw unless I first told me!
Word pictures I'll remember. That's why I write poetry.
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Who won the debate?
While President Barack Obama and GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney faced off at their second presidential debate Tuesday night, the political class took to Twitter, offering their takes on the winner and loser of the moment. Here's a look, in real time, at how the town hall–style debate is playing online.
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Great start by Romney - exuding confidence. #PMTdebate— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) October 17, 2012
Someone say it: Neither man has said one thing of substance in first answer. Pure talking points. Candy, go for it!— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) October 17, 2012
And strong, specific-heavy, comeback by Obama. Game on. #PMTdebate— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) October 17, 2012
CW wrong: Both candidates not hesitating to attack the other.— Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) October 17, 2012
Romney immediately at ease, confident. Obama not connecting quite as well…so far— Beth Reinhard (@bethreinhard) October 17, 2012
Yup RT @ hblodget: Romney: Content free answer.— Joseph Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) October 17, 2012
Romney is stuttering. Obama is killing it.— Big Bird (@BigBirdRomney) October 17, 2012
Romney on defensive on auto bailout. He was never on the defensive last week. Opens up an issue for Obama. A mistake, I think. #debate— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) October 17, 2012
Basically by not being asleep, Obama has won the debate already. #debates— Callie Schweitzer (@cschweitz) October 17, 2012
This going to be a slug fest. Romney hits Obama for criminal action to save birds in the Bakken oil field in N Dakota.— Jonathan Weisman (@jonathanweisman) October 17, 2012
Romney hammering Obama on pipeline again. Candy Crowley tries to throw O a lifeline. #townhalldebate— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) October 17, 2012
Just like last debate, Obama looking and acting like the troubled teenager who's in trouble with Romney - the authority figure— Matthew Boyle (@mboyle1) October 17, 2012
Obama has to tread carefully in arguinga bad economy lowers gas prices. Can see that turned on him. #debate— Amy Davidson (@tnyCloseRead) October 17, 2012
Obama's back on. I recognize this guy. Energy; focus; ability to relate. thebea.st/V7xk8A— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) October 17, 2012
Mitt Romney is now defying the moderator. What a putz.— Brad Woodhouse (@woodhouseb) October 17, 2012
Obama's "use or lose it" answer wins …— davidfrum (@davidfrum) October 17, 2012
Obama is making Romney's point for him, but it was a mistake by Rom to yield time to O.Never do that.— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) October 17, 2012
Wal-mart moms (key swing voters) in Wisconsin were digging Romney's tax answer, per dial-in.— Naureen Khan (@naureenindc) October 17, 2012
If my Twitter feed is any indication, both sides LOVE what their guy is doing tonight, and think the other guy is a lying, blustering jerk.— Walter Russell Mead (@wrmead) October 17, 2012
So far this debate is not persuading anyone— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) October 17, 2012
Wow! Who's this feisty guy wearing the Obama mask?— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) October 17, 2012
Obama's split screen look is perfect. No more nodding at Romney's answers while looking down at his notes.— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) October 17, 2012
Angry that "Obama off the ropes" is already a cliched debate take, but it's clearly what's happening now— daveweigel (@daveweigel) October 17, 2012
Obama gives the answer on taxes he should have given the first time. #debates— The Fix (@TheFix) October 17, 2012
This is a good debate.— Josh Greenman (@joshgreenman) October 17, 2012
What is Romney talking about right now? #debates— Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) October 17, 2012
Wow, could @ mittromney get more condescending in this answer about women's economic security?— Lis Smith (@Lis_Smith) October 17, 2012
Does Romney talking over Crowley contradict his respect for women message?— davidfrum (@davidfrum) October 17, 2012
Romney is going to "help women in America get good work" #winning— Adam Kredo (@Kredo0) October 17, 2012


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Friday, May 1, 2009
You didn't think this would be easy, did you?
Really, did you think this season was going to be easy?
It was easy to forget this with some nice outings from Brian Tallet and Scott Richmond over the past few weeks, but what the Royals series has amply demonstrated is the fact that the Jays have a serious issue right now with their starting rotation. We're fortunate that the team got off to a quick start, because they will need to hold on for dear life over the next two weeks as they await the returns of Ricky Romero, Casey Janssen and Jesse Litsch from the DL. And in the case of those last two, we're really not sure what we're going to get upon their return.
The upside is that this team, left for dead by many in the offseason, is six games over .500 at the beginning of May and is swinging the bats in a way that we haven't seen in years. Even in yesterday's 8-6 loss to Kansas City, the Jays continued to scrape and claw back into the game until the end. Were it not for the old bugaboo of the double play (a team record six yesterday), they may have busted yesterday's game open early on. If's and but's...
Say hello to the AL East
It seems absurd that this weekend's series agains the Orioles represents the Jays' first crack at their own division, but there you go. By the end of the month, the Jays will have played two series with the Orioles, two with the Red Sox and a three game series against the Yankees.
Add to that an interleague series against Atlanta and a five game western road trip, and you have the makings of a difficult and pivotal month for the team's fortunes going forward.
Roy Halladay: Not a moment too soon
After a couple of dubious outings from the starters and our second look at Brian Burres (who pitched his way back to Sin City), we get a very welcome visit from the Doctor tonight. Halladay (4-1, 3.75 ERA) takes on former Jay Mark Hendrickson, who is goofy-looking and occasionally owns the Jays.
13 comments:
- eyebleaf said...
"Fuck off, Burres."
I hope to never see that man again.
What an April. Here's to May.
- May 1, 2009 at 11:24 AM
Who's an idiot? Jamie Campbell. Why is he an idiot? This morning on the Fan, he said that Burres will likely start Tuesday for the Jays.
- May 1, 2009 at 11:38 AM
- eyebleaf said...
Gone to Vegas: Purcey (yes!), Burres (double yes!), Bullington.
Coming north: Cecil (boner), Robert Ray, Brian Wolfe.
- May 1, 2009 at 11:50 AM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Robert Ray!
Ray is totally our dark horse this year to come out of almost nowhere and tear it up. This year's Marcum.
We just went from six to midnight. Boner!
- May 1, 2009 at 12:03 PM
I hope your guys about Ray. Too bad they are bringing up Cecil. He did not look good in Vegas but I guess we will see what Arnsberg can do with him.
I would have really liked to see Wade Miller come up. He's at least had a cup of coffee or two in the Show.
- May 1, 2009 at 12:19 PM
"We just went from six to midnight. Boner!"
Come to my house big boy.
- May 1, 2009 at 12:44 PM
- eyebleaf said...
Layth: In Arnsberg We Trust.
Gay Jays Fan: That was some funny shit.
- May 1, 2009 at 1:00 PM
Do you think we can get some "In Arnsberg We Trust" shirts made up and sold at the Cable Box? They wouldn't sell like the Gaston jerseys we all see but I think they could be a hot item.
- May 1, 2009 at 1:17 PM
It's a big mistake, Cecil isn't ready yet. Castro would have been a much better choice. This is another one of Jp's fiascos. why fuck this kid up, now? They can bring Castro or anyone lese BUT Cecil. Jp is ruining these arams along with Arnsberg, what is this ? Don't be surprised if cecil is shelled when he pitches....he hasn't done that well in Vegas BTW.
- May 1, 2009 at 1:18 PM
Do you think we can get some "In Arnsberg We Trust" shirts made up and sold at the Cable Box? They wouldn't sell like the Gaston jerseys we all see but I think they could be a hot item.
You mean Arnie the Arm mangler shirt? Arnie can make a pitcher BUT boy how many pitchers are on the DL? Wilner claims that it's a coincidence BUT it's not. He's spinning big time that Wilner.
- May 1, 2009 at 1:20 PM
- eyebleaf said...
Shutup, Anonymous.
Layth, we're working on the shirts:
In Arnsberg We Trust
I Believe In Scott Rolen
The Cito Effect
- May 1, 2009 at 1:25 PM
I knew I could trust you to be working on something so great.
Although I will only start believing in Rolen if he decides to change his plate music. Maybe this recent road trip he was exposed to some more Rockin Rolen type music. He's one bad weekend away from walking up to the plate listening to The Fray.
- May 1, 2009 at 1:46 PM
- Darren Priest said...
I hope Robert Ray is good and that they play that "Jimmy Ray" song for his starts.
- May 1, 2009 at 2:29 PM


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A virulent, drug-resistant gut infection that causes potentially deadly diarrhea, especially among the old and sick, is up to 20 times more common than previously thought, a large survey of U.S. hospitals and health care centers finds.
Thirteen in every 1,000 patients were infected or colonized with Clostridium difficile, known as C. diff, according to surveys by nearly 650 U.S. acute care and other centers, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, or APIC, reported Tuesday.
That's between 6.5 and 20 times higher than previous estimates of the nasty bacterial infection tied to overuse of antibiotics and improperly cleaned hospital rooms, said Dr. William R. Jarvis, the study's lead author.
"Hopefully this will be a wake-up call about the importance of preventing this organism," said Jarvis, a private consultant who was formerly in charge of fighting hospital infections at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
On average, there may be more than 7,000 infections and 300 deaths in U.S. hospitals on any single day from C. diff., which can cause problems ranging from severe diarrhea and colitis to blood-poisoning and death, the study indicated.
EpidemiologistDr. L. Clifford McDonald, the CDC's C. diff expert, said previous analyses have estimated about 520,000 infections and up to 30,000 deaths a year, far lower than the APIC figures suggest.
The APIC study was the largest, most comprehensive review of its kind, Jarvis said. Other studies have been limited to a single hospital or a single state, or they used health care discharge data that overcounted some patients and left out others, he noted.
What no one questions, McDonald said, is the idea that C. diff is increasing.
"It's important data that confirms that there's an awful lot of this, that's the bottom line," McDonald said.
In recent years, McDonald and other infection control experts increasingly have been worried by the spread of C. diff, particularly the virulent NAP1 strain that produces roughly 20 times the toxins of a common, more benign variety.
The toxic strain is becoming resistant to all but the most powerful antibiotics, putting it the same category as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, the so-called superbug that riveted the nation's attention last year.
C.diff second only to MRSA
An APIC prevalence study in 2007 found that MRSA was present in 46 patients in 1,000, a rate about 10 times higher than previous estimates.
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"C. diff is a lot less than MRSA, but, having said that, it is still the No. 2 multi-drug-resistant organism," Jarvis said.
The new APIC survey asked the agency's 12,000 infection preventionists to count the number of patients with C. diff on any single day between May and August to provide the first-ever snapshot of the extent of the bug's reach.
Of some 110,550 patients in hospitals and health care centers in 47 states, C. diff was detected in 1,443 patients, with more than 94 percent infected rather than simply colonized with the germ.
Nearly 70 percent of those patients were older than 60, with many far older than that, Jarvis said. Nearly 70 percent had underlying diseases, such as kidney failure, diabetes or heart failure that made them more susceptible to infection.
More than a quarter of the patients had to be admitted to intensive care units, nearly 20 percent developed shock and more than 16 percent required aggressive treatment to combat plummeting blood pressure, the study showed.
C. diff infections typically lead to higher costs and longer hospital stays. If infections reported in the survey were extrapolated to all U.S. hospitals on a single day, patients would rack up an average of more than $32 million in costs and 40,000 extra days in the hospital.
The APIC survey confirms what many infection control professionals already believe: that the infection is sparked by antibiotic use that disturbs the normal flora in the gut. About 80 percent of the patients with C. diff in the APIC study had recently received antibiotics.
"We've long been encouraging the public not to demand antibiotics as a solution to all of their problems," McDonald said. "This brings it home to roost, doesn't it?"
The study also confirms suspicions that most cases of C. diff are contracted in health care settings. More than 72 percent of the infections in the APIC study were considered to be hospital-acquired, and more than 54 percent were acquired less than 48 hours after admission, the survey showed.
That means people are picking up the bug in the environment, mostly likely from inadequately cleaned surfaces. C. diff produces hard-to-kill spores that are transmitted through feces. People become infected when they ingest the spores, usually by touching surfaces and then touching their mouths, or by eating contaminated food.
Most common hospital cleaners don't eradicate C. diff, which is best cleaned with a strong bleach solution.
Antibiotic use, hospital hygiene are key
There are several keys to preventing C. diff infection, said Dr. Brian Koll, chief of infection control at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York.
Making environmental hygiene a priority that involves staff at all levels is vital, he said. So is emphasizing efforts such as proper hand hygiene for staff, patients and visitors; wiping down equipment between uses; and ensuring that staff members use bleach to kill the C. diff bugs.
"In many respects, our rooms are inspected with as much rigor, if not more, as the kitchen is," said Koll, whose hospitals have lowered C. diff infection rates to 4 of per 1,000 patients.
Patients also have to take steps to protect themselves, Koll said. Limit antibiotic use whenever possible, insist on proper hand hygiene and speak up about any cleaning concerns.
"Patients and their family members should know they can ask whether or not a piece of equipment has been cleaned or hands washed from any and every health care worker," he said.
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United Airlines joined several of its competitors by revamping its loyalty points program to base its rewards system on total dollars spent, not on miles traveled.
Other carriers such as Delta, Southwest and JetBlue have announced similar changes recently. United's change in its MileagePlus program takes effect March 1, 2015.
The switch allows the airlines to reward their biggest spenders and reduces the number of travelers who fly long distances on the cheapest fares to collect points.
"These changes are designed to more directly recognize the value of our members when they fly United," said Thomas F. O'Toole, United's senior vice president of marketing and loyalty and president of MileagePlus.
Brian Karimzad, director of the loyalty rewards comparison website MileCards.com, said the biggest losers in the overhaul are leisure travelers and long-haul coach travelers who typically fly on the cheapest seats.
"A lot of business travelers spend weeks out of the year, flying on long trips, either across the U.S. or to international destinations, and their employer will only pay for the basic coach fare," he said on his website. "These are the biggest losers."
The new system also gives more mileage points per dollar spent to fliers with a higher airline status. For example, general passengers can earn five miles for every dollar spent while Premier Platinum members can earn nine miles per dollar. Premier 1K members can earn 11 miles per dollar.
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Re: Looking for Sample T&C's and Policy and Guidelines?daniel.marotta Mar 7, 2011 7:50 AM (in response to noreenp)1 person found this helpful
Hi Noreen,
Feel free to repurpose our community guidelines and terms of use policy
We conducted the same due diligence you're doing now. We took a look at other communities similar to the one we're standing up and tweaked them so they applied to our community's goals. We also had the assistance of the Legal Dept.
Good luck with the launch
Re: Looking for Sample T&C's and Policy and Guidelines?cflanagan17 Mar 7, 2011 8:15 AM (in response to daniel.marotta)1 person found this helpful
I just did a sample inventory myself recently. Here's some I gathered (all the links are viewable on the public internet).
- Using this Community (sample for our MU community) https://community.csc.com/community/meaningful_use/using_this_community
- Registered User Agreement http://www.csc.com/privacy/flx/57749-csc_community_registered_user_privacy_statement_and_user_agreement
- Privacy Policy http://www.csc.com/privacy
- Legal Disclaimer http://www.csc.com/legal
- Forrester's Online Community Guidelines For Participants http://www.forrester.com/community_guidelines
- TOS http://www.forrester.com/rb/termsOfUse.jsp
- IDC Community TOS Standards http://idc-insights-community.com/communities/industrynexus/terms.html
- Privacy http://idc-insights-community.com/communities/industrynexus/privacy.html
IBM DeveloperWorks
- IBM DeveloperWorks Community Terms of Use https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/terms
- HP Blog Community Rules of Participation http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/custom/page/page-id/hp.rulespage
- Community Guidelines/Blogging Code of Conduct http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/blogs/codeofconduct.html
- Standards of Business Conduct (public document) http://h30261.www3.hp.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=71087&p=irol-govConduct
Re: Looking for Sample T&C's and Policy and Guidelines?April Jacobs Mar 7, 2011 11:57 AM (in response to noreenp)
Hi Noreen,
Here is my external governance documentation. I begged, borrowed, and stole from lots of places to put them together.
I also have Employee Guidelines for participation. Let me know if you want those.
Re: Looking for Sample T&C's and Policy and Guidelines?cflanagan17 Mar 7, 2011 1:13 PM (in response to April Jacobs)
April, I want the Employee Guidelines for sure!
Re: Looking for Sample T&C's and Policy and Guidelines?jason.long Mar 7, 2011 1:19 PM (in response to April Jacobs)
+1 for Employee Guidelines. This is a timely and helpful thread; keep it coming!
Re: Looking for Sample T&C's and Policy and Guidelines?April Jacobs Mar 7, 2011 1:27 PM (in response to jason.long)
Ask and ye shall receive! I built the employee guidelines into our badging process. So, in order to receive an Employee badge in the community, someone must first get approval from their manager, view the training materials, register on the site, and finally agree to the guidelines below. (This is just a simple form on our internal SharePoint site.)
McAfee Community Employee Guidelines
These guidelines are intended to assist you in your use of the online McAfee Community as an individual. Please be aware that nothing in the use of this platform changes your responsibilities and obligations as an employee of McAfee. McAfee and its employees are required to act ethically, and it is every employee's obligation to understand and adhere to the Policies laid out in the McAfee Employee Handbook.
McAfee supports open dialogue and the exchange of ideas. While McAfee encourages all of its employees to join the community and participate, those wearing a McAfee "badge" in the community must understand what is recommended, expected, and required when discussing McAfee-related topics.
These guidelines reflect the principles that McAfee employees should follow when participating in the community. They are intended to provide you with an understanding of both the proper and improper uses of social computing in an effort to make your conversations and interactions as rich as possible.
Be who you are. McAfee discourages anonymity among our employees in the community by using pseudonyms or false screen names. We believe in transparency and honesty so that others can easily recognize and respect your contributions.
- Your username should match your NT domain username (first initial, last name) so you can be correctly identified by McAfee. Some possible exceptions to this are: you have existing account credentials that were imported, or your username is taken.
- Use your real name and a recent photo of yourself if possible so that it is clear who you are.
- Be sure to list your McAfee product expertise and related industry experience in your profile to add credibility.
Be smart about protecting yourself and your privacy. What you publish will be around for a long time, so consider the content carefully and also be judicious in disclosing personal details. Though not directly business-related, background information you choose to share about yourself may be useful in helping to establish a relationship between you and your audience, but this is entirely your choice.
- You should hide your email address in your profile if you do not want unsolicited email.
Speak in the first person. Use your own voice; bring your own personality to the forefront.
Add value. Community blogs and discussions should be used in a way that adds value to McAfee's business. If it helps you, your coworkers, our clients, or our partners to do their jobs and solve problems; if it helps to improve knowledge or skills; if it contributes directly or indirectly to the improvement of McAfee's products, processes, and policies; if it builds a sense of community; or if it helps to promote McAfee's Values, then it is adding value.
Don't pick fights. Avoid unnecessary or unproductive arguments. When you see misrepresentations made about McAfee, you may certainly point that out. Always do so with respect, stick to the facts, and identify your appropriate affiliation to McAfee. If you speak about a competitor, you must make sure that what you say is factual and that it does not disparage the competitor.
Be the first to respond to your own mistakes. If you make an error, be up front about your mistake and correct it quickly. If you choose to edit your post, make it clear in a new reply or comment that you have done so.
Don't forget your day job. Active contribution to the community can be time consuming, so you should make sure that your online activities do not interfere with your job or commitments to customers.
Respect your audience and your coworkers. Remember that McAfee is a global organization whose employees and clients reflect a diverse set of customs, values, and points of view. Don't be afraid to be yourself, but do so respectfully. This includes not only the obvious (no ethnic slurs, personal insults, obscenity, etc.) but also proper consideration of privacy and of topics that may be considered objectionable or inflammatory—such as politics and religion. It is fine for McAfee employees to disagree, but please don't use the McAfee Community to air your differences in an inappropriate manner.
Protect McAfee's clients, business partners and suppliers. Never identify a client, partner, or supplier by name without permission and never discuss confidential details of a client engagement. It is acceptable to discuss general details about kinds of projects and use pseudonyms for a client (e.g., Client 123) so long as the information provided does not make it easy for someone to identify the client or violate any non-disclosure or intellectual property agreements that may be in place. Furthermore, the McAfee Community is not the place to conduct confidential business with a client.
Respect copyright and fair use laws. For McAfee's protection and well as your own, you must show proper respect for the laws governing copyright and fair use, including McAfee's own copyrights and brands. You should never quote more than short excerpts of someone else's work. It is good practice to link to others' work.
Other Legal Considerations. Remember the following - do NOT talk about: perceived product defects or deficits; revenue projections; future product launch details; acquisition targets yet to be defined, or disclose corporate topics, product roadmaps, customer wins, our relationship to customers or partners or any other McAfee internal information.
Re: Looking for Sample T&C's and Policy and Guidelines?sanjivkvarma Mar 23, 2011 12:31 PM (in response to April Jacobs)
Hi April,
Any inputs on what has been your experience with community members or say an employee 'inadvertantly' posting a wrong answer and a customer ends up using it causing issues at customer end.
Are your employee badged folks who come to the community dedicated resources to support the community ? or just volunteers.
Are there any response guidelines or expectations you set for customers coming to the community looking for support ?
- Your username should match your NT domain username (first initial, last name) so you can be correctly identified by McAfee. Some possible exceptions to this are: you have existing account credentials that were imported, or your username is taken.
Re: Looking for Sample T&C's and Policy and Guidelines?noreenp Mar 10, 2011 10:28 AM (in response to April Jacobs)
Thank you so much! Everyone has been so helpful! Thank you!
Re: Looking for Sample T&C's and Policy and Guidelines?laurakelso Mar 8, 2011 2:31 PM (in response to noreenp)
Hi Noreen,
We also pulled ideas for our external-facing Community Guidelines from a variety of sources; then added some of our own industry related verbiage.
Good luck,
Re: Looking for Sample T&C's and Policy and Guidelines?gialyons Mar 11, 2011 10:28 AM (in response to noreenp)
Walp, it looks like I need to collate all this awesome into a document and feature it in this community now!
Re: Looking for Sample T&C's and Policy and Guidelines?jsummers Mar 15, 2011 6:13 PM (in response to gialyons)
This helps out alot. We are review this and will post when we are complet.


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Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are neurodevelopmental disorders typically characterized by difficulties in social interactions and delayed or abnormal language development. Although ASD reportedly affects 1 in 88 people in the United States, to date there have been no distinctive biomarkers to diagnose the disease. In a special themed issue of Disease Markers, investigators report on the current understanding of ASD genetics and the possibilities of translating genetic research toward biomarker development in ASD.
"Although some individuals with ASD are highly functional, many are severely impaired and require permanent care. The significant level of impairment combined with the fact that no specific therapy is yet available for ASD, make ASD a devastating illness for patients and families, and a heavy financial burden for the healthcare system," says guest editor, Irina Voineagu, MD, PhD, RIKEN Omics Science Center, Yokohama, Japan. "The most effective intervention for ASD has proven to be early behavioral therapy. Thus the identification of biological markers for ASD, allowing very early detection, even before the onset of symptoms, would be of tremendous value."
Five articles comprise this comprehensive issue, providing an overview of ASD genetic models, an exploration of several key emerging concepts in understanding ASD's molecular basis, and discussion of current biomarker development, focusing on genomic data.
Following an introduction by Voineagu, Yuri Bozzi and colleagues review the phenotype characteristics of currently available mouse models of ASD. Carmen Panaitof then discusses the role of the songbird as an experimental model system for investigating the genetic basis of human language and its ASD-related impairments. Michael Bowers and Genevieve Konopka further explore language deficits and provide new evidence for the role of the FOXP gene to regulate language. Alka Saxena, Dave Tang, and Piero Carninci focus on the functional roles of the gene MECP2, which is mutated in most cases of Rett syndrome, one of the ASDs.
A review rounding out the issue is "Subphenotype-Dependent Disease Markers for Diagnosis and Personalized Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders," by Valerie W. Hu, PhD, The George Washington University, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, PhD, which discusses current progress toward identifying ASD biomarkers based on genome-wide data.
"Without genetic or molecular markers for screening, individuals with ASD are typically not diagnosed before the age of 2, with milder cases diagnosed much later," writes Dr. Hu. "Because early diagnosis is tantamount to early behavioral intervention, which has been shown to improve individual outcomes, an objective biomarker test that can diagnose at-risk children perinatally is a medical imperative."
Hu demonstrates the possibility and importance of developing ASD subtypes to help identify relevant disease markers, which can ultimately aid in developing specific targeted therapies.
Voineagu concludes, "It is exciting times for genetic research and although the phenotypic and genetic heterogeneity of ASD often seem to be a daunting conundrum, well-defined diagnostic criteria, larger cohort sizes for genetic studies and integrative approaches of genomic and epigenomic data already delineate a promising avenue for elucidating the mechanisms of ASD."
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Ko Nang Yuan
Surrounded by a variety of sites, with assorted hard and soft corals and an abundance of fish: the Nang Yuan Pinnacle, a granite pinnacle with boulder swim-throughs, morays and reef sharks; Green Rock, a maze of boulder swim-throughs, caves and canyons, featuring stingrays and occasional reef sharks; Twins, two rock formations covered in corals and sponges, with a colourful coral garden as a backdrop; and the Japanese Gardens, on the east side of the sand causeway, which get their name from the hundreds of hard and soft coral formations here and are good for beginners and popular among snorkellers.
White Rock
(Hin Khao) Between Hat Sai Ree and Ko Nang Yuan, where sarcophyton leather coral turns the granite boulders white when seen from the surface; also wire, antipatharian and colourful soft corals, and gorgonian sea fans. Plenty of fish, including titan triggerfish, butterfly fish, angelfish, clown fish and morays.
Shark Island
Large granite boulders with acropora, wire and bushy antipatharian corals, sea whips, gorgonian sea fans and barrel sponges. Reef fish include angelfish, triggerfish and barracuda; there's a resident turtle, and leopard and reef sharks may be found as well as occasional whale sharks.
Hinwong Pinnacle
At Ao Hinwong; generally for experienced divers, often with strong currents. Similar scenery to White Rock, over a larger area, with beautiful soft coral at 30m depth. A wide range of fish, including blue-spotted fantail stingrays, sweetlips pufferfish and boxfish, as well as hawksbill turtles.
or Northwest Pinnacle A granite pinnacle for experienced divers, starting 14m underwater and dropping off to over 36m, its top covered in anemones; surrounded by several smaller formations and offering the possibility of exceptional visibility. Barrel sponges, tree and antipatharian corals at deeper levels; a wide variety of fish, in large numbers, attract local fishermen; barracudas, batfish, whale sharks (seasonal) and huge groupers.
Southwest Pinnacle
One of the top sites in terms of visibility, scenery and marine life for experienced divers. A huge pyramid-like pinnacle rising to 6m below the surface, its upper part covered in anemones, with smaller pinnacles around; at lower levels, granite boulders, barrel sponges, sea whips, bushy antipatharian and tree corals. Big groupers, snappers and barracudas; occasionally, large rays, leopard and sand sharks, swordfish, finback whales and whale sharks.
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(Hin Bai) Midway between Ko Tao and Ko Pha Ngan, emerging from the sand at a depth of 40m and rising 15m above the sea's surface. Visibility of up to 30m, and an amazing 10m underwater chimney (vertical swim-through). Antipatharian corals, both bushes and whips, and carpets of anemones. Large groupers, snappers and fusiliers, blue-ringed angelfish, batfish, kingfish, juvenile clown sweetlips and barracuda; a possible spot for sighting whale sharks and mantas.
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Best Buy said its third-quarter net loss was $13 million, or 4 cents a share, compared with year-earlier net earnings of $173 million, or 47 cents a share.
Excluding restructuring charges, the company earned 3 cents a share and its revenue fell to $10.75 billion uring the quarter from $11.145 billion the previous year.
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One of the many problems with the "guilty until proven innocent" approach to tackling unauthorized filesharing is that it's not clear exactly who should get the punishment. For example, in France, we saw someone convicted not for infringement that he had committed, but something his then-wife had done and even admitted. And it's not just spousal activity that is problematic, as TorrentFreak reports in this interesting case from Germany:
A ruling handed down yesterday by Germany's highest court represents a blow to rightsholders in their quest to clamp down on illicit file-sharing. The court ruled that the parents of a teenager who had made available more than 1,100 songs on file-sharing networks can not be held responsible for their son's infringements, nor be required to monitor or hinder his online activities.
What's particularly interesting here is that Germany's top court not only threw out the original fine, but did so without imposing any unreasonable conditions on the parents, for example by requiring them to spy on their child:
The Court ruled that the parents had met their parental obligations when they informed their child of "basic do's and don'ts" including that file-sharing copyrighted content online is illegal.
Of course, not everyone was happy with this result, which could have major implications for imposing fines in Germany, since it seems likely that much unauthorized file sharing there as elsewhere is carried out by teenagers in their family homes. The Netzpolitik.org blog pointed us to an interesting comment made by a representative of the music industry (original in German):
Furthermore, the Court ruled that the parents were not required to monitor their child's online activities nor install special software to restrict his online behavior. This would only be required should the parents have "reasonable grounds" to presume that their child would engage in infringing activities online.
The case shines "a harsh light" on the fact that, for many parents, the concept of upbringing has become a foreign word, the legal representative of the music industry complained, according to the AFP news agency at the hearing before the federal court in Karlsruhe. While before "an occasional slap didn't hurt", today children are kept on a loose leash.
This hankering after the good old days when parents could hit children to cow them into submission is hardly surprising: it's the physical equivalent of the disproportionate legal punishment the music industry would like to see meted out to all those caught doing naughty things online like sharing files without permission.
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NEW YORK - Lifetime is going back to the 1990s with a TV movie on the Saturday morning show "Saved By the Bell."
The network said Thursday that its film, "The Unauthorized Saved By the Bell Story," is being made in Vancouver and will premiere on Labor Day. It will examine the life of young unknown actors in Hollywood trying to maintain the clean image of their characters while growing up amid the temptations of show business.
The same person who cast the original series will handle that role for the TV movie.
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Syria Opposition Nears Choice of New Leader
Two U.S.-educated Syrians emerged as leading candidates to become prime minister of an interim government, as the Syrian government shelled targets in Lebanon in what the U.S. called a "significant escalation" of the war. Nour Malas reports. Photo: Getty Images.
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(DALLAS) -- Intent on capturing her 3-year-old daughter in one final, bittersweet moment, Amber Thomas pressed record on her camera. The sounds of laughter filled the hospital room.
"Her laugh is the most beautiful sound. She has a really funny sense of humor," Thomas said, recalling the week before her daughter's surgery. "I had to sit there and stare at her and know I wasn't going to hear her next week."
Emily Thomas was about to undergo a life-saving surgery, a permanent tracheotomy. The procedure would enable her to breathe, but would put a hole in her neck and render her unable to communicate vocally for the rest of her life.
For Amber Thomas, it was the only choice. But it also meant silencing one of the only sounds her daughter could make.
Emily's communication has been limited ever since she had a stroke at 10 days old, but her mother said they always found a way to talk. It was through those laughs, or the noises she'd shout during Dora The Explorer, or the sounds she'd make rough-housing with her brothers, ages 4 and 2.
But two weeks ago, the little girl from Tyler, Texas, caught a common cold and nearly suffocated.
She was airlifted to the Children's Medical Center in Dallas where Amber Thomas and doctors watched over the toddler, trying to help her regain her health before she underwent a permanent tracheotomy.
On Tuesday, Emily had her last laugh. Doctors created a hole in Emily's throat and inserted a tube leading directly to her trachea.
Although she has had a few setbacks in recovery, Emily began to breathe on her own on Thursday and was taken off a ventilator.
Thomas said it's been gut wrenching to see her daughter cry now silent tears.
"You don't hear it and that really upsets me," she said. "I feel like I can't leave the room. Now you have to be staring at her to know."
Recovery will continue to be an uphill battle, as will adjusting to life without Amber's laugh, but Thomas knows her daughter will continue to bring joy to the family.
"Anyone who works with her tells me her disability stops with her body," she said. "She isn't afraid of anything. She's the most positive person I know and that helps all of us."
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The McMillan Legacy 30-06 is a 24" barrel with a 1x12 twist rifle system. The Legacy Hunter Rifle comes with a McMillan Classic Sporter Stock with optional right or left hand configuration on all models. Receiver is a matte black finish with NP3 Bolt and black textured stock. Rifle includes a Talley scope base and a hard case with wheels.
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Normally, you would have to pay a stiff 13 euros to obtain a copy of the magazine, but it appears that the publisher has decided to put my article up at the website as the free teaser. So you can get it by clicking this link. Absolutely no guarantees that it will stay online!
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- The experience of the fight for survival has disappeared almost completely from contemporary Western life. But we still want to experience it vicariously or as an illusion. (Think of watching Die Hard or bungee jumping.)
- Most art (including Die Hard) is not very good at giving us the experience of survival, since it follows the convention of the novel, which is that the death of the protagonist, if it takes place, must be meaningful. (Walter Benjamin.) But when we fight to survive, we fight against a meaningless death.
- Early RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons were uniquely suited for the purpose of representing survival, since they combined meaningful characters and meaningless death, and let the player struggle against this death.
- But the reality of meaningless and irreversible death worked against the basic mechanic of amassing treasure and going level up.
- Solution: decrease the chance of death, make death reversible, and so on. (Think World of Warcraft, were death equals a small loss of time, but nothing else.) Thus, the experience of survival was once again taken away.
- Planescape: Torment manages to put death in the centre again, but... by adopting the conventions of the novel.
- If we wish to experience the fight for survival, we must create RPGs that combine the meaningless deaths of early D&D with rules that do not work against this. (And we must perhaps wish for this experience, if only because it will allow us to understand better all those people in the world who are still confronted with the struggle for survival.)


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March 10 ( Bloomberg) -- Foxconn Technology Group, targeted by labor groups for criticism over its working conditions, is seeking a safety and security officer, a lifestyle services manager and two fire chiefs for a China unit that supplies Apple Inc.
Foxconn's Integrated Digital Products Business Group advertised the positions in the southern China city of Shenzhen on human resources website cjol.com. The group is one of two Foxconn units that supply to Apple.
Apple, which contracts Foxconn to make its iPhones and iPads, in January became the first technology company to join the Fair Labor Association, opening up suppliers' factories to inspections by the Washington-based group after complaints by human rights organizations. The group found "tons of issues," while also seeing "dramatic" improvements, FLA Chief Executive Officer Auret van Heerden said last month.
"Yes we are hiring these positions," said Louis Woo, chairman of Foxconn's retail division, declining to comment further. Foxconn, the world's largest custom manufacturer of electronics, employs more than 1.2 million people in 18 countries, most of them in China. In addition to Apple, customers include Microsoft Corp., Sony Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc.
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Apple, criticized by organizations including China Labor Watch for conditions at its suppliers, has said infractions occurred including excessive overtime and environmental violations. It didn't specify which companies breached its supplier code of conduct.
Foxconn, founded by chairman Terry Gou in 1974, last month raised the base pay for junior workers by as much as 25 percent and said it pays wages higher than government mandates.
The lifestyle manager will be responsible for conditions at the company's dormitories, canteens and health departments, according to the advertisement. The safety and security post requires a college degree in criminal investigation or legal- related disciplines, while the fire chiefs must have at least four years of related experience.
Those positions are among more than 20 advertised on cjol.com in the past month for the Shenzhen unit, including production line managers, waste management engineers and energy conservation engineers.
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