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2014 Bentley Continental GT and GTC: Overview
Pros: New V8 brings down the pricing and ups the gas mileage; excellent torque and power at all speeds; practical enough to drive every day; nice to have all-wheel drive
Cons: Pricey compared to rivals from lesser brands; design starting to get old after a decade; you have to get the Flying Spur sedan to get any sort of rear seat room
What's New: The 2014 Bentley Continental GT and GTC are largely unchanged after major updates over the last two years.
The Bentley brand has long been synonymous with walking the fine line between opulent luxury and high-performance driving capabilities. Nowhere is that more true than with the Bentley Continental GT and GTC, which combine upscale touches with truly excellent performance. They also boast a handsome look, with the GT offering a 4-seat coupe body style and the GTC featuring a folding convertible soft-top.
That performance comes from one of two powertrains, which shoppers can choose between when picking their Bentley. For drivers who don't need the biggest and best, the base model Continental GT and GTC trims use a 500-horsepower turbocharged V8. Drivers who want a little more grunt can opt for a 567-hp twin-turbo W12, which can be tuned for 616 hp in the high-performance, coupe-only Speed model. All Continental GT and GTC trims use standard all-wheel drive and an 8-speed automatic transmission.
Of course, nothing comes cheap in the world of Bentley, and that very much includes these cars. A base-level, V8-powered 2014 Bentley Continental GT starts at around $178,000 with shipping, while the Continental GT Speed hovers around $216,000. Drop-top Continental GTC models range from $194,000 for a V8 to $217,000 for a W12.
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Mitali Kini, Sarah Yu TR Purple Research Proposal
Research Proposal
A brief project overview
General Topic: Detection and Prevention of Protein Aggregation and Misfolding
Specific Idea: Combining the biophysical study of cellular lipid membrane properties and their influences on protein aggregation and misfolding, with the protein engineering study of GFP or luciferase-based reporters in detecting protein aggregation, we propose the design and creation of a chimeric fluorescent protein reporter that can bind to cellular lipid bilayers and detect aggregate formation in different tissues. With this reporter, we hope to elucidate the mechanism and extent to which lipid membranes play a catalytic role in aggregate formation. We hope to potentially examine the effect of amyloid-forming protein-membrane binding on the viability of cells due to changes induced in membrane permeability, rigidity, and disruption of membrane surface properties. Specific proteins which we expect to study and track with our reporter are AB, htt, and IAPP, which are prominent in many neurodegenerative diseases resulting from aggregation of these proteins in the brain.
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Aggregate proteins cause many neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. It is important to be able to detect aggregates and, if possible, inhibit their activities. Detection can be done through known fluorescent reporters utilizing GFP or luciferase catalytic activity. Furthermore, it has been found that amyloid proteins form aggregates upon interaction with surfaces and lipid bilayers, and in some cases can cause cell death through permeability changes. The aggregate form of these proteins is promoted and stabilized by association with a rigid surface or with peripheral membrane receptors in physiological contexts, and can often integrate and disrupt cell membranes through the presence of transmembrane domains.
Project details and methods
- Design and generating chimeric proteins with membrane-binding domain and fluorescence domain
- Detection of aggregates without binding membranes (optimizing fluorescence of reporter protein)
- Fluorescence (GFP or luciferase) assay and/or aggregate structure analysis
- Potential use of flow cytometry
- Optimizing model lipids for maintaining surface rigidity and resembling physiological conditions
- Detection of cell viability where aggregates are present
- Testing cell aggregation with either a) different aggregate-forming cells or b) different surface properties (solid vs. lipid bilayers)
Predicted outcomes if everything goes according to plan and if nothing does
We hope to see an indication of process of protein misfolding/aggregation by changes in fluorescence. We intend to detect a decrease in cell viability where aggregation is most concentrated. If nothing goes according to plan, we expect to see no signals with our reporters, or increased cell death due to binding of our reporter to membranes, or incorrect signaling even in the absence of aggregates.
Needed resources to complete the work
We will need access to model bilayers, solid surfaces, and cell culture constructs to test in vitro binding of aggregates to membranes at physiological conditions. We will also require access to plate-readers for fluorescence assays, sequencing and PCR equipment to induce mutational changes/create chimeric proteins. Any additional technology-intensive experiments will require money to acquire equipment and time to learn use of the equipment.
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1. Burke KA, Yates EA, Legileiter J. Biophysical insights into how surfaces, including lipid membranes, modulate protein aggregation related to neurodegeneration. Fronteirs in Neurology 2013. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2013.00017
In many cases of protein aggregate formation, a key component is the interaction of amyloid proteins and cellular surfaces, especially lipid bilayer membranes. Bilayer-protein interactions have been shown in this paper to modulate protein misfolding and play a somewhat catalytic role in protein aggregate propagation. Furthermore, in cases such as the common AB amyloid-forming proteins as well as IAPP and htt, the binding to lipid bilayers can cause conformational changes in the permeability and stability of the membrane, leading to cell death. Furthermore, some bilayer-amyloid interactions can stabilize the aggregate form of the protein and promote propagation of the aggregation process. These interactions occur through transmembrane domains present in AB or chemical reactions that alter permeability and surface tension of the membranes. These cases allow us to understand the importance of direct cell membrane interactions with aggregate-forming proteins and the need to detect/identify specific proteins involved in these interactions in order to elucidate cell-to-cell signaling that are responsible for aggregate formation in neurodegenerative diseases.
2. Gregoire S, Kwon I. A revisited folding reporter for quantitative assay of protein misfolding and aggregation in mammalian cells. Biotechnology Journal 2012, 7, 1297-1307. doi: 10.1002/biot.201200103
In this paper, a simple non-invasive assay for protein misfolding and aggregation in mammalian cells was performed by fusing the GFP fluorescent protein to the C terminus of human copper/zinc superoxide dismutase mutants proteins. The results from this chimeric protein show that the extent of misfolding and aggregation of a target protein can be quantitatively estimated by the fluorescence intensity of the cells by GFP. Hence GFP-tagging of aggregated proteins can be used to determine residues causing protein aggregation and understand the aggregation process of SOD1 variants. These technique of fusing the fluorescent protein to the protein aggregate of interest will allow us to detect protein misfolding/aggregation in our potential in vitro experiment.
3. Gregoire S, Irwin J, Kwon I. Techniques for Monitoring Protein Misfolding and Aggregation in Vitro and in Living Cells. Korean J Chem Eng 2012. 29(6): 693-702. doi: 10.1007/s11814-012-0060-x.
This paper outlines some key techniques enabling monitoring protein misfolding and aggregation in vitro. These techniques include molecular probes for aggregate characterization (binding and fluorescence assays), methods for obtaining quaternary structure of aggregate species (electron microscopy), methods for obtaining secondary structure (CD and FTIR), and most importantly, the use of fluorescent protein reporters by fusion to the C-terminus of target protein in detecting aggregation, as well as enzyme-based reporters. These techniques will be useful in our own design of a fluorescent protein reporter, as well as understanding associated techniques to characterizing protein aggregation in specific membrane-bound species.


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Danville Pawn Shop Shooting: Christian Family Left Devastated as Parents Gunned Down in Botched Robbery (VIDEO)
A church-going Christian family has been left devastated after a mother and father to two young children were shot dead in a botched robbery on Friday morning in a Danville pawn shop shooting in Kentucky.
Michael and Angela Hockensmith were two of three victims in the shooting in which a man had entered their pawn shop with the intention to rob it. However, things went terribly wrong and just minutes later three people had been shot dead by the robber.
The Hockensmiths, who attend Mitchellsburg Baptist Church in Boyle County, leave behind two children; a 9 year old son, and a 20 month old girl.
It was in fact their 9 year old boy who made the emergency call to police from the ABC Gold and Games pawn shop in Danville, Kentucky, with authorities receiving his emergency call just after 9 a.m. on Friday.
Boyle County coroner Don Hamner later has identified two of the victims as Michael and Angela Hockensmith. Michael Hockensmith was the Christian co-owner of the pawn shop and took charge of the daily management of the store. Angela, his wife, occasionally assisted him at the pawn store.
The third victim was reported a man from Richmond, however, his name was not immediately released as police were awaiting to speak to his family before publicly identifying him.
Danville Police chief Tony Gray said, "The child reported what he called a robbery, and said three people had been shot… The door was locked from the inside, and we had to force entry by breaking glass into the business."
When authorities arrived they found the 9 year old boy and a 20 month old girl at the property.
Lee Ann Divine, who recently became a co-owner of the pawn shop with Hockensmith said, "They were just wonderful Christian people. You can't find nicer people. They were good parents, wonderful friends, very generous… Everything was looking up for this young family."
Police are still conducting a widespread search for the killer.


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Kate Gosselin: More Ferry Fun!
Jon & Kate Plus 8 mom Kate Gosselin affectionately cradles a female friend's baby while waiting to catch a ferry at Bald Head Island, North Carolina on Thursday (June 4).
The 33-year-old reality TV mom was accompanied by her bodyguard Steve Neilds and her three 5-year-old sons, Aaden, Collin and Joel. Yesterday, Kate took her three youngest daughters on their own ferry ride. It looks like she got in time with the boys and girls separately!
Kate and the sextuplets have been vacationing in North Carolina without papa Jon Gosselin, who has been back home in Pennsylvania taking care of twins Cara and Mady.


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Village residents, elected officials and historical organizations are reacting with relief to the news that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers no longer is considering breaching the Zoar Levee as an option to deal with problems with the flood-control structure.
Village residents, elected officials and historical organizations are reacting with relief to the news that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers no longer is considering breaching the Zoar Levee as an option to deal with problems with the flood-control structure.
"I'm pleased," U.S. Rep. Bob Gibbs, R-Lakeville, who represents northern Tuscarawas County in Congress, said Friday. "We worked hard to make the Corps aware of the unique situation there."
"To know that historic Zoar Village will no longer be threatened with being torn down but will remain intact for future generations to utilize and enjoy is great news," said Mayor Larry Bell.
Representatives of the Army Corps of Engineers met with Zoar residents Thursday evening at the Zoar Schoolhouse to share the news.
Since a major flood in 2008 exposed problems with the 1930s-era levee, the Corps has spent $4.5 million in remediation efforts.
In March 2011, the Corps classified the levee as a Dam Safety Action Classification 1, meaning that repairs were urgent and compelling. The federal agency launched a study to determine what should be done with the levee. One option was to breach it and flood the village.
The Corps completed its baseline risk assessment for the levee in October. In doing so, it reclassified the levee as a Dam Safety Action Classification 3, meaning the possibility of failure is moderate to high.
Earlier this year, Corps officials said they hoped to complete the study by 2016. Rodney Cremeans, project manager for the Huntington District of the Army Corps of Engineers, said Friday that the report now will be completed "in an expedited manner" in about a year.
"As we continue with the study, we will look at deficiencies that need to be addressed to certify the levee for a 1 percent event, a 100-year flood," Cremeans said. "One of the goals is to certify the levee."
The change in the levee's classification doesn't mean that the agency does not think there are risks with the structure that need to be addressed, said Aaron Smith, study manager for the project. "We will focus on rehabilitating the levee."
Adam Kays, geotechnical engineer on the project, said a levee in general is not going to decay, but its components can.
"What we will be addressing is the foundation of the levee, the soil it sets on and the water that can come through the foundation," he said.
Zoar's supporters mounted a campaign to save the village that garnered nationwide attention.
"Our stakeholders and the public made it very clear to the Corps that Zoar is an important place to recreate and learn our history," Smith said.
In 2012, the National Trust for Historic Preservation named the town one of the 11 most endangered historic places in the nation.
Gibbs — who serves as chairman of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, which oversees the Corps — brought high-ranking generals from the agency to Zoar to get a first-hand look at the historic community. In August, Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick, commanding general of the Corps, visited Zoar with the congressman.
Smith said the Corps hopes to hold public meetings in the next two to three weeks so the public can see what types of things the agency is considering to repair the levee.
"We want to encourage everybody to participate in our study," he said. "Without public input, our designs won't take into account public concerns."
He also stressed that the agency always has the authority to take emergency action in case a serious problem develops with the levee.
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"The Zoar Community Association is gratified that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has determined that preservation of Zoar is most important and that the Zoar Levee will be addressed and recertified. We appreciate the good working relationship we have had with the USACE project team as well as the support from elected officials at all levels, the Ohio Historical Society and the Ohio and Erie Canalway Coalition."ZOAR COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
"We are gratified to learn that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has dropped consideration of a plan to remove the levee that protects the historic Village of Zoar. Zoar is a national treasure — a unique and beloved place that tells important stories of immigration and utopian visions for the New World that resonate today as much as they did in the 1800s. We applaud the Army Corps for their willingness to take these historic and cultural values into account, as these values help draw thousands of visitors annually and contribute to the economic vitality of Northeast Ohio."
"To know that Historic Zoar Village will remain intact for future generations is great news. On behalf of the Village of Zoar, I want to thank the thousands of people who have contacted the Corps in support of saving our historic community. The National Trust for Historic Preservation designated Historic Zoar a National Treasure, which elevated our campaign to the national level and gave us a prominence that was needed. The Ohio Historical Society, the Ohio Preservation Office, Heritage Ohio, the Ohio and Erie Canalway Coalition, and others also gave support. I also want to thank all our county, state, and federal elected officials who supported saving Historic Zoar, especially Congressman Bob Gibbs for his tremendous effort."


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2013 Ford C-Max Hybrid: First Drive Video
To say that the Toyota Prius has sold well would be an understatement. Toyota could've copyrighted the word "hybrid," since the Prius has become the unofficial poster child for the green car segment. But other automakers also play the hybrid game. Ford, for example, has had an electrified version of the Fusion since 2010, and next year, the 2013 Ford C-MAX Hybrid will be available, too.
"What's a C-MAX?" you might ask. While it might sound like something out of a sci-fi movie, this fuel-sipping compact hatchback has been in Ford's European lineup since 2003. Built on the Ford Focus platform, the 2013 version of the C-MAX is the first to hit American dealerships, and it's the first model year to include a hybrid drivetrain, too.
From the outside, it looks slightly larger than the Prius, but slightly smaller than the Prius V. Its aggressive, Euro-hatchback styling is something you'll notice immediately about the C-MAX Hybrid. The overstated front grill with the sweeping body lines looks a lot like the newer designs coming from Ford, a la Focus and the 2013 Fusion. That is, until you look at the giant rear hatch, of course, which can be opened via the foot-activated hands-free lift gate.
If the European exterior styling doesn't win you over, the simplicity and well-laid-out interior might just do it for you. The vehicle's high roofline gives the cabin a spacious feel, despite the fact that we'd still consider the C-MAX to be a compact car. The front doors open to a full 90-degree angle and the seats are extremely easy to slide into. The 2013 Ford C-MAX's dash is simple and easy to navigate, and we didn't have any issues reaching the buttons while sitting behind the wheel.
One drawback to the C-MAX's unique styling was the massive A-pillar, and while it doesn't really hinder your vision, it took some getting used to. The Microsoft SYNC system wasn't as intuitive as we'd like, and we found ourselves repeating phrases like a robot when trying to switch between songs on our iPod. On the positive side, the features you'd like to see are all there, and the navigation was extremely easy to see from the driver's seat, while still being accessible from the passenger seat. While the rear seats felt a little snug, the rear storage area was large enough to fit three full-size carry-on suitcases and then some.
We drove the C-MAX Hybrid through Los Angeles and took to the hills above the Pacific Coastal Highway to get a feel of how the C-MAX performs in all conditions. While the C-MAX boasts 50 more horsepower than the Toyota Prius, it achieves similar fuel economy. We managed to squeak out 49 mpg after a full day with the C-MAX, and that's nothing to shrug at. We really didn't find ourselves longing for more power as with most hybrids, and the extra horsepower really came in handy on the hills and highways. The C-MAX felt balanced on the windy roads, and the 2.0-liter 4-cylinder engine and CVT kept the power up and shifts smooth.
The C-MAX makes the most out of its resources, and coincidentally it asks the same from the driver. The gauges provide constant feedback on how efficiently you're using the accelerator and brakes in order to train the driver to get better fuel economy.
The C-MAX Hybrid is sure to make some noise when it hits the US market later this year, and its base price starts right around $28,000. If you're in the market for a well-rounded hybrid with impressive fuel economy and room for weekend road trips, the 2013 Ford C-MAX Hybrid might be just right for you.


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This workshop probes the living nature of the novel by illustrating how each reader makes a novel his or her own. It shows how the interpretation of a novel can change, depending on the reader's culture, class, generation, gender, and personality.. D
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Does The NY Times Donate To Wikipedia For Being A Massive Source Of Information?
from the questions,-questions dept
But the even more interesting point comes after that:
Every journalist I've spoken to since 2006 uses Wikipedia as their handy universal backgrounder. Funnily enough, there's a distinct lack of donations to the Wikimedia Foundation from newspapers and media organisations. How much did the New York Times donate in the fundraiser?Marcus Carab, who works in a newsroom, made a similar point in response to that article a few weeks ago when the NYTime's Bill Keller claimed that the Huffington Post was a "pirate site," in that newspaper reporters rely on tons of other sources that never get any credit, let alone payment (excuse Marcus' Canadianisms, he can't help it):
We do this stuff for everyone to use and reuse. Journalists taking full advantage of this is absolutely fine. But claiming we should then pay the papers for the privilege is just a little odious.
Forget the fact that pavement-pounding reporting is a form of aggregation from the public - newspapers actively aggregate from tonnes of published sources too. Every newsroom has a table covered in copies of every other newspaper in town - in case you missed something, or they got an angle you didn't, or you think one of the stories can be taken further. In addition to reporting, all journalists do research: they look up other articles on the topic, find past magazine interviews and pull data from published reports. Many science articles in newspapers are just summaries of journal articles.So this raises a really good point about the silly claims from the NY Times and others about how they need to get paid, since they believe that they're the "originators" of the news. I do wonder how many of the people at the NY Times did contribute to Wikipedia? I would bet many of the folks who insist that their own work needs to be paid for by users, have in turn never once contributed to Wikipedia.
And that's just what went on and still goes on in the traditional media ecosystem, amongst the old players. Newspapers actively aggregate from blogs too. Every journalist in entertainment or technology starts his morning looking for leads on blogs, and the first thing any reporter does when they get an assignment on a topic they aren't familiar with is look it up on Wikipedia.
Information comes in all sorts of forms from all sorts of places. The NY Times is good at what it does. No one is denying that. But it's delusional in its thinking that it somehow is the piece of the puzzle that is worth the most here.


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Hollywood executives are obsessed with finding TNT. I don't mean they've got some silly dispute with their local cable provider. By TNT, I mean The Next Twilight. It must have been exciting for the team behind "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones" to obtain the rights to Cassandra Clare's best-selling young adult book series, The Mortal Instruments. High fives all around! We have the next Twilight!
Musician Phil Collins' alluring, ingénue 24-year-old daughter Lily Collins plays Clary Fray, a young Brooklyn girl who lives with her mother ("Game of Thrones" star Lena Headey) and hangs out with her best friend, Simon (Robert Sheehan), listening to bad poetry in coffee shops. She also finds herself drawing a particular symbol for no apparent reason. Turns out, there is a reason.
Spoiler alert: Clary has grown up believing her father was a deceased Iraqi war veteran and her mother was a struggling artist who hung out with her best friend, a guy named Luke, who's helped raise Clary. Clary thinks her mother is stringing Luke along, which is exactly how Clary seems to be treating Simon. Bet you have no idea where this is going!
Turns out Harry Potter Clary, unbeknownst to her, has special powers that allow her to see a world that so-called Muggles Mundanes aren't equipped to see. It's a world of Shadowhunters, who protect humans from demons, vampires, investment bankers, etc. Clara's first glimpse into this world is when she witnesses dreamy Jace (Jamie Campbell Bower) seemingly committing a murder in a nightclub - something only she can see. For Clary, the world is suddenly a land of confusion. By the way, this scene is later explained by a quick aside from Jace but if you really think about everything that took place in that club, the explanation makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Nevertheless, Clary joins forces with the Shadowhunters, and the real fun begins.
By the way, Jonathan Rhys Meyers (TV's "The Tudors") plays a power-hungry Shadowhunter named Valentine. Rhys Myers, normally excellent, acts as if he truly was hungry, because there's a lot of scenery chewing going on here.
There's excellent chemistry between Collins and Campbell Bower, the kind of chemistry that I liken to emotional flypaper for the young adult demographic to which these books and movies are designed to appeal. And to be fair, "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones" is a step above Hollywood's most recent attempts at emulating Twilight, namely Beautiful Creatures and Twilight author Stephenie Meyers' The Host. Unfortunately, director Harald Zwart unsuccessfully tries to compress teen angst, love, passion, unfulfilled dreams and action into an overzealous, over-the-top, never-ending finale which seems about as well planned as throwing rocks and sand into a blender in the hope that if you blend it long enough at high-enough speed, you might wind up with a delicious milkshake.
I overheard two telling comments at the screening. A woman in her mid-to-late twenties sitting next to me leaned over to her friend during a scene in which the story's love triangle emerges, and said, "This isn't really believable." Of course, this was after learning the movie's central premise and witnessing numerous demons being slaughtered and improbable, gravity-defying events. Then on the way out of the theater, that same woman said to her friend, "That was really good!"
And that pretty much sums it up. "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones" is not a very good film by any stretch of the imagination. However, it does possess a slick, beautiful, young-adult aesthetic and a supernatural, emotional yet nonsensical love triangle that the film's target demographic goes crazy for.
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Broken Shin of the Night: Magomed Malikov Catches a Bad Break Against Brett Rogers [GIF]
(More proof that leg kicks finish fights. / Props: GrabakaHitman via MiddleEasy)
Seriously? How in the hell does this keep happening?
Proving that the MMA shin-break bug can strike at any time, Russian heavyweight Magomed Malikov snapped his leg earlier today while kicking Brett "Da Grim" Rogers at Fight Nights: Battle of Moscow 16. Rogers didn't even check the kick, Destruction-style — Malikov's leg just kind of fell apart on impact. Horrible. Anyway, good night everybody!Read More DIGG THIS


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Animals, including dogs, dolphins, monkeys and man, follow gaze. What mediates this bias towards the eyes? One hypothesis is that primates possess a distinct neural module that is uniquely tuned for the eyes of others. An alternative explanation is that configural face processing drives fixations to the middle of peoples' faces, which is where the eyes happen to be located. We distinguish between these two accounts. Observers were presented with images of people, non-human creatures with eyes in the middle of their faces (`humanoids') or creatures with eyes positioned elsewhere (`monsters'). There was a profound and significant bias towards looking early and often at the eyes of humans and humanoids and also, critically, at the eyes of monsters. These findings demonstrate that the eyes, and not the middle of the head, are being targeted by the oculomotor system.
1. Introduction
Animals attend to social stimuli beyond what would be predicted based on physiology and sensory processing alone [1–3]. For example, monkeys and humans look more often towards higher-ranking animals than lower-ranking animals, and look more towards the head than the body [4,5].
Looking towards the head is especially important because it provides gaze information. Friesen & Kingstone [6] first reported that humans will attend automatically in the direction gazed at by a conspecific. Deaner & Platt [7] demonstrated with macaques that gaze following occurs across species, implicating neural substrates that are shared across primates. Other animals have also been found to follow gaze, including apes, birds, dogs, seals, goats and dolphins [8], indicative of a widespread biological process.
Gaze following in diverse species poses an important biological question: what neural mechanisms drive gaze selection and following? For primates there are two viable proposals: (i) a cortical neural system in the temporal lobe, the superior temporal sulcus (STS), is preferentially biased towards processing eye information [9], or (ii) the nearby fusiform face area (FFA), directs fixations to the middle of peoples' faces, which is where the eyes are located [10,11]. Resolving this issue will reveal not only the neural systems mediating social attention within primates, but also the computational and evolutionary links between social attention in different species. It will also inform why a subset of people may fail to select the eyes of others, and what brain mechanisms may be compromised, as in the case of autism. It has been argued, however, that distinguishing between these two accounts may be impossible because human eyes are in the centre of the face [12].
The present study resolves the issue. Observers were presented with images selected from the popular fantasy game Dungeons and Dragons (D&D; figure 1a). The images could be of humans, creatures with eyes in the centre of the face (humanoids), and creatures with eyes that are not on the face but broadly distributed on other parts of the bodies, such as the hands or the tail (monsters). The question is straightforward: will there be a preferential bias to select the eyes of monsters despite the fact that their eyes are not in the centre of their face? If people select the eyes early, and frequently, for monsters as well as humans and humanoids, it will show that eyes are selected and not just the centre of the face; if the bias to the eyes is manifested only for humans and humanoids, then selection is targeting the centre of the face.
2. Material and methods
Twenty-two naive student volunteers were instructed to simply look naturally at the images (1024 × 768 pixels). Eye movements were calibrated and monitored using an Eyelink 1000 system. At the beginning of each trial, a fixation point was displayed randomly in one of the four corners of the screen. Participants were told to fixate on this point and then press the spacebar to start a trial. This had the effect of constraining the initial fixation to one of the corners of the screen, correcting the eye tracker for any drift, and removing any central bias from the initial fixation. One of 36 pictures was then shown in the centre of the screen. Each image was chosen at random, without replacement, and remained visible until 5 s had passed. This process repeated until all pictures had been viewed. Data deposited in the Dryad repository: doi:10.5061/dryad.4rk06. While D&D images were used in the study, due to copyright, figure 1 presents exemplars.
3. Results
For each image, an outline was drawn around the region of interest. The eye region varied in size from 0.25° to 4.5°, with the average in each image category ranging from 1.7° to 1.9°. We also computed the relative visual saliency of the eyes to other regions in the scene [13] and replicated the finding [12] that the eyes in the images were not especially salient and that visual saliency did not predict fixations to the eyes. Figure 1b presents a scatterplot of the first 10 fixations, with red dots indicating fixations that landed on the eyes. Data are for all participants and images, with the first fixation on the peripheral fixation point at the start of the trial, through to the 10th fixation. What is immediately apparent is that for all images people first make a saccade that moves from the periphery to the centre of the image. This provides a compelling demonstration that there is a marked tendency to land in the middle of images. Note also that because monster eyes are oddly positioned, many of the initial saccades to the centre of the image landed on the eyes.
Figure 1b also shows that the second and subsequent fixations resulted in observers demonstrating a preferential bias to look at the eyes. This was manifested differently for the different image types. Fixations moved vertically up to the eyes of humans and humanoids. In sharp contrast, they remained centralized and distributed for monsters. This was confirmed statistically by comparing the average vertical fixation position in a repeated-measures ANOVA. The starting peripheral fixation was excluded. There was a main effect of image type, F2,42 = 83.0, p < 0.001, showing that fixations were closer to the top of the image in humans (mean position = 3.4° above centre; s.e.m. = 0.25) than in humanoids (M = 1.5°; s.e.m. = 0.18) or monsters (M = 1.3°; s.e.m. = 0.19). This interacted with fixation number, F16,336 = 12.5, p < 0.001, and Bonferroni-adjusted paired comparisons confirmed that fixations on humans were higher than those on monsters as early as the first saccade and that they remained spatially distinct for eight of the first nine saccades (with the exception of the eighth saccade; all other p < 0.01). This vertical shift was mirrored for humanoids but lagged by a single fixation, with the second and subsequent three saccades for humanoid fixations being consistently further up the image, indistinguishable from humans and reliably different from monsters (all p < 0.01). Thus fixations to humans and humanoids went first to the centre of the image and then immediately shifted vertically to their eyes; fixations on monsters went to the centre of the image and then moved in any number of possible directions as monster eyes were broadly distributed. To test whether the eyes were fixated more often than chance, we also compared the uncorrected proportion of fixations on the eyes to the area of the image that they took up. Across all images and fixations, the eyes were fixated much more often than their tiny area would suggest (one-sampled t-tests, all t21 > 4.5, p < 0.001).
These data indicate that where people looked was different for humans and humanoids versus monsters, but what they looked at—the eyes—was the same. This was confirmed statistically. We calculated the proportion of each participant's fixations that landed on the eyes, splitting the data over time by looking at the first fixation, the second fixation, and so on. Because some initial saccades to monster images landed on the eyes, as a conservative test and to ensure equity we examined only those trials where the initial central saccade was not on the eyes. Figure 2 shows the proportion of fixations on the eyes across the first nine fixations (initial corner fixation is excluded).
Across the whole trial, there was a significant effect of condition (F2,42 = 5.8, p < 0.01). Humans and monsters did not differ significantly (while humanoid eyes were looked at slightly less (p < 0.05)). Figure 2 shows a similar trend over time in all three conditions. There was also an interaction between image type and saccade number (F16,336 = 4.7, p < 0.001). Simple main effects showed that image types were different on the second and third saccade (p < 0.005, because humanoids were lower than humans and monsters) but not on subsequent saccades where there was no significant difference between image types.
4. Discussion
Participants' initial saccade targeted the centre of the image. This confirms that there is a bias towards looking at the geometric centre of objects [11]. For images of humans and humanoids, subsequent fixations quickly moved vertically to the eyes. Similarly, fixations to the eyes also occurred rapidly for monsters, but critically they were manifested in a very different spatial manner. As monster's eyes were unusually positioned, fixations to the monsters' eyes did not yield a vertical shift. Nevertheless, and despite this difference in the spatial allocation of fixations, the target of their fixations was the same as with the humans and humanoids—the eyes. Moreover, the time-course for the selection of monster eyes (e.g. peaking at the third fixation and declining thereafter) closely mirrored the time-course for the selection of human and humanoid eyes. These data cannot be explained in terms of mechanisms within the primate brain that guide selection based on simple visual saliency [13]. Nor can they be accounted for by computational models of eye movements that assume a face-selective mechanism that orients early fixations to the geometric centre-of-faces, e.g. the nose or cheek region depending on head orientation [11,14]. Rather the fact that participants select the eyes early, and frequently, even when they are not positioned in the centre of a face, provides strong and converging evidence that the neural substrate driving the selection of eyes is the STS.
The present study strongly supports the idea that the primate brain is specialized for acquiring social, behaviourally relevant information from others. As gaze selection is the key precursor to gaze following, which is common to both humans and non-human primates, and present in other animals as well, it is reasonable to speculate that this behaviour is subserved by a neural system that is shared within and across species, possibly the phylogenetically old subcortical system that is shared across all terrestrial vertebrates and processes coarse information regarding biological primitives (e.g. prey, predator, conspecific). In primates, the subcortical pathway passes information directly to 'higher' cortical systems such as the STS [15].
Our conclusion that human gaze selection is mediated by a specialized brain mechanism, sensitive to the eyes rather than only the head, sheds light on individuals with autism who often fail to select the eyes of others. Naturalistic studies of autism do not distinguish between gaze direction and head position, making it unclear whether individuals with autism are deficient at selecting and targeting the head, or eyes, or both. The present study indicates that typically developing individuals select gaze information, and therefore efforts to train individuals with autism to look at others in a typical manner should focus on the selection of the eyes of others rather than targeting the head alone.
This research was supported by a grant from the Natural Sciences Engineering Council (NSERC) of Canada to A.K. Special thanks to Rosemary Burd at Queen Mary Elementary School, Eleni Nasiopoulos for testing assistance and Walter Bischof for his support.
- Received September 9, 2012.
- Accepted October 5, 2012.
- © 2012 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved.


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BOTUS, an exploration robot (AQRA) BOTUS, an exploration robot (Instructables)
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So, you were wondering who will win on Oscar night? Of course you were. Then, you were wondering, which wine would go best with each of the nominated films? Of course you weren't. Because Ben Lyons already figured it out for you.
ReserveYourNight.com, sponsored by Yellow Tail, now offers wine pairings for each oak-y film on the Academy's bloated list of 10 Best Picture nominees. The pairings are supplied by cinephile-cum-oenophile Ben Lyons, so you know they are solid. A publicist even sent out emails to various media outlets (although not this blog, mind you) asking:
As you prepare your content for the Oscars, I'm wondering if you're available for an interview with celebrity film critic Ben Lyons? Ben is available for interviews... for either phone or Skype interviews. If you prefer Skype, we can record it and provide back to you as a YouTube video.
During the interview, Ben can discuss his Oscar picks, as well as Oscar party planning tips. He is representing [yellow tail] Reserve wine* and can also discuss suggested movie and wine pairings. Appreciate your feedback. We only have a few slots left for the day, so I appreciate it if you could get back to me as soon as possible.
This text was provided by Jim Emerson, editor of RogerEbert.com, who was invited and chose to post a partial copy of the message along with a few snide comments. Better yet, PopEater (run by AOL) actually took the bait during what must have been a dreadfully slow news day. Make sure to stick it out to the end if you want to see Ben's recommendation with a proud little smirk on his face, or see my comments below.
You can check out the wine pairings at ReserveYourNight.com, where you can also put each movie on your Netflix queue, creating a Lyons/Yellow Tail/Netflix corporate sponsorship trifecta.
Their recommendations, based on the genre of each film, include a food pairing and some commentary to make it look like somebody actually took the time to think this stuff through. The pairings are below:
Black Swan - Genre: Intrigue, Pairing: Cabernet Sauvignon
According to somebody at the web site (and I am not convinced Ben Lyons did anything there besides sign a contract and cash a check), "you'll find flavor-filled red meat recipes that offer comfort as you the whole night." Missing a verb, I think. There are many things you might do the whole night, I suspect they are not referring to any of the activities you are thinking of.
The King's Speech - Genre: Drama, Pairing: Merlot
"There's no doubt, drama movies are emotional. Movie-makers certainly know how our emotional connections to each other pull at the heart strings!" Yes, somebody actually wrote those two sentences, although apparently nobody edited them.
Personally, I would recommend drinking something German to remind you of the pro-Nazi sympathies of the characters that the film conveniently ignores. And based on Ben's pairing, I assume he has never seen the movie Sideways.
Toy Story 3 - Genre: Comedy, Pairing: Pinot Grigio
No, I am not making this up. But in this case, why don't we just skip Yellow Tail altogether and get a Wine Cube juice box at Target and switch it out with the little ones' grape juice. They'll be out so quick you can send the babysitter home early!
The Kids Are All Right - Genre: Romance, Pairing: Chardonnay
I'm not sure where they got the idea this was a romance, unless you consider having one of your mom's cheat on the other mom with your biological father, thus destroying your family, to be romantic.
Along with your Chardonnay they recommend you "try out some of these great Asian, chicken, and vegetable dishes before you cuddle up in front of your TV." Yes, I think Jules might like something "Asian-y" and Nic would like a VERY large glass. But let's be honest, absolutely none of these characters would be caught dead drinking a $6 bottle of Yellow Tail.
The Fighter - Genre: Action, Pairing: Shiraz
Again, this is not an action movie. The horribly choreographed "kidney shot" scene is proof of that. And what you should be drinking while watching this movie to go with its working-class posturing is a really crappy beer, or "beah" as Markie Mark would say. The perfect choice would be a Coors, another corporate product touting its affiliation with the workin' man. It goes down nicely with notes of water, carbonation and the sweat of underpaid workers toiling over it.
Finally, if you are listening Ben Lyons, what I really want to know is which Yellow Tail wine would go best with a viewing of The Human Centipede? (If you don't know, don't ask. Trust me.)
* I will NOT refer to the Australian wine company as [yellow tail], as they prefer (does the comma go inside or outside the bracket?) lest e e cummings should arise from his grave and strangle me with a spare question mark. To read more about Yellow Tail and how they have helped destroy wine in their home country, read John Pilger's wonderfully titled exposé Australia's reds are revolting.


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PHOENIX (AP) Goran Dragic scored 21 points, including 4 of 5 shooting on 3-pointers, to lead seven Phoenix players in double figures and the Suns snapped Denver's four-game winning streak with a 110-100 victory over the Nuggets on Monday night.
Shannon Brown added 19 points, Michael Beasley 16 and Jared Dudley 15 for Phoenix. Markieff Morris added 13 points and had a crucial steal down the stretch. Marcin Gortat and Luis Scola added 12 points apiece for the Suns.
Andre Iguodala scored 17 for Denver. JaVale McGee added 16, pretty much all of them on thundering dunks, and Danilo Gallinari scored 15 for the Nuggets.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Rowing for the first time in the spring season, the MIT women's lightweight team competed in the annual Beanpot against crews from Boston University and Harvard-Radcliffe on the Charles River this morning. The Engineers had a total of three crews in action on their home course, racing a pair of Varsity 8 boats and as well as a Novice 4.
In the Varsity 8 race it was the crew from Harvard-Radcliffe that got off to a strong start. The Crimson were able to maintain their early advantage over the length of the 2,000-meter course and took the event with a time of 6:59.6. It then came down to a battle for second between the Engineers and the Terriers. In the end the Boston University crew pulled ahead to edge out MIT, finishing ahead of the Engineers crew by almost six seconds.
In the second Varsity 8 race the boat from Harvard-Radcliffe bested the MIT crew by nearly 30 seconds to take the win in a contest in which Boston Univ. did not field a boat. Things were closer in the Novice 4 race, which also featured just crews from MIT and Harvard-Radcliffe. The Crimson boat took this matchup as well, besting the Engineers crew by 18 seconds.
MT will be back in action on April 13 when it races at the Knecht Cup event on the Cooper River in Cherry Hill, N.J.
Beanpot Results
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Harvard-Radcliffe 6:59.6
Boston Univ. 7:18.9
2nd Varsity 8
Harvard-Radcliffe 7:26.0
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A 2 percent rise in the yen's value since Friday has some currency analysts calling a top on dollar-yen, just days after the currency pair looked poised to break through the key 100-barrier.
Bets to sell the yen appear to be off the table for now following Friday's weaker-than-expected U.S. economic growth numbers and uneventful Bank of Japan meeting.
(Read More: Japan to Hit 2% Inflation by End of 3 Years: BOJ)
The yen rose to 97.33 per dollar on Monday, its strongest level against the dollar in more than a week and well off a four-year low hit just shy of 100 earlier this month.
"In the near term, dollar-yen is looking a bit vulnerable," said Sean Callow, senior currency strategist at Westpac bank, who forecasts the yen to strengthen to 96 per dollar over the next month and to 93 by December. A move to 93 would imply a gain of more than 4 percent for the yen from current levels.
The Bank of Japan on Friday reiterated that it would pump $1.4 trillion into the economy to revive growth and end deflation. But doubts from central bank members over whether the BOJ can meet its inflation target of 2 percent in two years prompted some yen buying.
Data showing the U.S. economy grew by an annual rate of 2.5 percent in the first quarter, down on expectations of 3 percent growth, provided traders with another reason to sell the dollar and buy the battered yen.
According to Callow, two factors could now drive further yen gains: broad weakness in the dollar following softer U.S. data and the continued selling of foreign bonds by Japanese domestic investors.
"The latest data from the Ministry of Finance has shown that but for all of one week since January, Japanese investors have been net sellers of foreign bonds. Until they stop doing that, we could see continued strength in the yen," said Callow.
(Read More: Risk of Bond Market Revolt in Japan: Expert)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's pledge to turn the world's third largest economy around, partly through aggressive monetary easing, has knocked more than 20 percent off the yen's value against the dollar since November.
However, the weakening trend has slowed in recent weeks as the dollar failed to push above the key 100 dollar level, having flirted with the barrier on several occasions. Analysts say that options barriers may be a reason why the 100-level appears out of reach for now.
(Read More: Why the Hype Over Dollar-Yen at 100 Is Overdone)
Watch Those Speculators
"For the time-being yen weakness is reliant on foreign traders and hedge funds shorting the yen. If we see hedge funds start to take profits that could also drive further strength in the currency," said Westpac's Callow.
Craig Chan, head of FX strategy, Asia ex-Japan at Japanese investment bank Nomura, said it was too early to call a top on the dollar-yen pair. He forecast the yen to weaken to 100 against the dollar this quarter and reach 102 by December.
"We are still on an upward trajectory on dollar-yen, and I still expect the yen to break the 100 barrier," he said. "The recent (yen) strength is just a reaction to the Bank of Japan meeting where nothing new happened."
(Read More: Here's What Could Push Dollar-Yen Past 100)
With an important election coming up in July, Chan expects Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will strive to keep market sentiment strong by making sure the aggressive monetary policy action he has promised is put into action, a move that points to further yen weakness, he said.


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New York police arrest tens of thousands of people each year for possessing small amounts of marijuana, and 85% of them are Black or Latino — even though White people use marijuana at higher rates. This saddles people with permanent criminal records and severe consequences. Please join us in calling on Senate President Dean Skelos and members of the NY State Legislature to end this unlawful and racially-biased practice.
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Dear Senate President Dean Skelos and members of the NY State Legislature,
I'm writing to demand that you put an immediate end to New York's unlawful, discriminatory, and costly marijuana arrests by passing the bi-partisan reform legislation S.5187/A.7620. If passed, this proposal would eliminate the false justification police are using for marijuana arrests, making public and private possession of small amounts of marijuana a violation similar to a traffic ticket and would not lead to arrest.
These arrests are racially biased and target young people. Almost 70% of those arrested are 16 – 29 years old. Nearly 85% of all those arrested are Black and Latino — even though government studies of high school seniors show Whites use marijuana at higher rates.
Many, if not most, of these arrests are the result of illegal frisks and illegal searches, or outright false charging by the police. The charges associated with these arrests create a criminal record that can stay with someone for the rest of their life, severely limiting their opportunities. The push for marijuana arrests affects not only those arrested, but entire communities who must endure invasive, illegal searches, and harassment from police every day.
These arrests are also astoundingly expensive. In 2010 alone, marijuana possession arrests cost NYC taxpayers $75 million. This money would be better spent on many other important priorities for the city and the state.
I urge you to end the practice of illegal frisks and searches, and stop the push for marijuana arrests.
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The death of Dallas Cowboys linebacker Jerry Brown in a car accident just gets sadder and sadder. According to a witness, teammate Josh Brent, who was driving the car when it crashed, had to be begged repeatedly to pull Brown from the burning wreckage in which he was trapped.
Stacee McWilliams was one of the first two people to come across the crash scene, she told the Dallas Morning News.
"When I first pulled up to the scene, there was a little bit of a flame coming from the flipped vehicle, like in the engine area. Just a very small flame and I wasn't too overly concerned for that. I jumped out of my vehicle and ran up to make sure that everyone was OK. As I got closer to the scene, there was a gentleman, which I later found out was Josh Brent, that was standing off to the right side of the wreckage, kind of pacing back and forth, you know, walking around.
"I asked him if he was OK, I said 'Is everyone OK?', 'Are you all right?', and he responded to me, he said that he was fine. The person that was in the other vehicle stepped out of her car and she said 'I've already called 9-1-1, they're on the way' .... But it took no time at all for this fire to really get engaged. It became very hot, very bright, very big and then I started to hear screams coming from inside the vehicle and it was a man's voice saying 'Help me', you know, 'Help, somebody help me'. And I turned and looked at the [Brent], and I said 'Is there a passenger? Is there somebody in the car?'. And he said 'Yeah'. And I told him 'Well, get him out of the car'.


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The new Ellis Fischel is designed with the most advanced patient- and family-centered care in mind. From an outdoor healing garden in which to find respite to what is the greatest comfort of all: knowing that here you will find healing and research against cancer that ranks with the finest in the nation.


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ZUG, Switzerland, March 4 (UPI) -- Engineering company Foster Wheeler said Tuesday it landed a contract to build a liquefied natural gas terminal from Kuwait National Petroleum Co.
Foster Wheeler said it was awarded a contract for preliminary engineering design for an LNG import terminal expected to start commercial operations in 2020.
The company said the terminal will have an initial design capacity to process 1.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day. Future expansions could add more storage to the facility.
In a 2013 country report, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said Kuwait has put more emphasis on natural gas exploration and development to meet domestic demand. The country is a net importer of natural gas
Foster Wheeler didn't disclose the value of the contract. There was no statement from the Kuwait National Petroleum Corp.
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Under first-year men's basketball coach Doug Wojcik, College of Charleston went 24-11 overall and 14-4 in the Southern Conference.
The Cougars advanced to the SoCon tournament finals against Davidson and were picked to play in the College Basketball Invitational tournament, losing to George Mason, 78-77, on a last-second tip-in last Tuesday night.
Charleston went 11-2 on the road and 13-3 in games played away from TD Arena. They also lost to Division II Anderson at home and were beaten by SoCon rival Davidson three times.
Wojcik sat down with Post and Courier beat writer Andrew Miller to discuss the Cougars' season and the future of the program.
Q: What was your overall impressions of the season?
Wojcik: "Overall, really happy with 24-11 record and 14-4 record in the league. Not many teams around the country can say they won 24 games. Were there disappointments? Sure there were. I would have liked to have won more games at home and played better at home. I'm right there with the fans on that. There were ups and downs like in all seasons — the win at Baylor, the loss to Anderson — but overall, I think we improved and got better as the season went on. I'm proud of the guys and the way they competed all season and bought into what we were trying to do and build here."
Q: Your philosophy and (former CofC coach) Bobby Cremins' philosophy are a little different. How much pushback did you get from the players?
Wojcik: "Not as much as people might expect. I got some, no question, from some of the older guys, but overall the guys bought into what we're trying to do. Contrary to what people might think, I'm not a 'defensive guy' or a 'rebounding guy,' but I think you win championships by playing good defense and rebounding. No question, we got better in those areas this season."
Q: Was there one game or one area that stood out to you more than anything else this season?
Wojcik: "I think it was the Louisville game. I think that game really affected us throughout the year. I think that affected us with our students, and I'm not saying that's wrong. Now, Louisville is a really good team, I mean I picked them in my bracket, but our fans are used to that one signature performance against a big program. We had that on the road against Baylor, but we didn't have that at home. We just didn't play well that night. I think that carried over for us. I wish I could have that game back."
Q: What area are you most proud of, where you guys made the biggest improvement?
Wojcik: "I think with the defense across the board. Scoring defense. Rebounding. By the end of the season, we were very good in both areas. We went from being outrebounded as a team a year ago to being the best rebounding team in the conference and one of the best defensive teams in the league."
Q: What surprised you about this team?
Wojcik: "I think the way we played on the road. We were 13-3 away from TD Arena. We had the second-most road wins of any team in the country. I think winning at Baylor and then at Elon early in the season and even against Charleston Southern gave us some confidence and momentum that we just rode the rest of the season."
Q: How do you get better at home?
Wojcik: "You work at it. Trust me, we tried everything this season. We even put the guys in a hotel the night before the George Mason game. We'll keep tweaking it. I'm not sure what that mojo is at home, but we need to get it. We're going to keep working at it because our fans deserve it."
Q: Is there any explanation for the loss to Anderson?
Wojcik: "You are always going to have letdowns. Every team has that one game. We were coming off of exams, but there's no excuse. There are some games, some performances you just can't explain, and that's one of them."
Q: Did this team meet your expectations?
Wojcik: "Yes and no. The 24 wins and the 13-3 mark away from TD Arena were great. I thought we'd be a pretty good team going into the season. There are a few games I'd like back. I'd like to have the Auburn game back with a healthy Andrew Lawrence. I'd like another shot at Louisville. Certainly Anderson. I'd like to have the Samford game at home back and the Georgia Southern game on the road. But again, overall I think we had a great season."
Q: One of the biggest issues for you this season was having only two ballhandlers — Andrew Lawrence and Anthony Stitt. You played them a lot of minutes, did they get worn down?
Wojcik: "They did play a lot of minutes, but we had to have them out on the floor. A third ballhandler to relieve them would have been nice, and I think we might have won another game or two with a third ballhandler. It would have been nice to have Jordan Scott return. I never met the guy, so I never got the chance to talk him into staying."
Q: What can you do for next season about getting more depth at the guard position?
Wojcik: "I think Canyon Barry will be a guy that can handle the ball, and (incoming freshman) Joe Chealey will play right away. I thought Anthony Thomas got better at handling the ball as the season went on. We need Theo Johnson to develop into an Anthony Thomas kind of player that can handle the ball on the perimeter."
Q: With Trent Wiedeman transferring, that gives you an extra scholarship for next season. What kind of player are you looking to bring in?
Wojcik: "I'm not locked into one position. There are a lot of options out there. We're going to get the best available player. I don't know it that's a high school kid or maybe, if the situation is right, get a transfer. It's early, so we've got some time to bring the right guy in."
Q: Is this the kind of season you can build a foundation on?
Wojcik: "Absolutely. We went from 10-8 in the conference to 14-4. We won 24 games. My two lions — Adjehi Baru and Anthony Stitt — roared against George Mason. Those are two guys I'm building this team around for the next two seasons. I think we've got an unbelievable foundation for the future."


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2012 Honda Ridgeline: New Car Review
Pros: Innovative chassis and suspension design; large passenger space
Cons: Poor fuel economy; spare tire is inaccessible when bed is filled
Originally out in the U.S. in 2005 as a 2006 model, the Ridgeline has remained virtually unchanged, but for 2012, Honda has added a new Sport model to the Ridgeline lineup. Starting at $29,250, the Ridgeline is available in RT, Sport, RTS and RTL form. The RTL is available with navigation, which includes such features as Zagat restaurant information.
The Ridgeline is based on the same unibody construction as the Honda Pilot and Acura MDX. But Honda has added a secondary ladder-truck frame to the Ridgeline, which adds further strength. Differentiating the Ridgeline further from the rest of the pickup market is its four-wheel independent suspension. It creates extra space under the bed that Honda has used for below-bed trunk space.
The Ridgeline has only one engine and transmission combination: a 250-horsepower 3.5-liter V6 and a five speed automatic transmission, just like Honda's Pilot SUV.
Comfort & Utility
The Ridgeline features a 60/40 split lift-up rear seat. Lifting the rear seats provides enough additional storage space to accommodate a golf bag or even a mountain bike, if you remove the front wheel.
The tailgate can be opened in the traditional fold-down method, like most modern pickups, but also in a swing-out fashion. This is especially useful for access to the 8.5-cubic-foot in-bed trunk. This trunk area is about the size of a large cooler and, like a cooler, has removable rubber drain plugs that allow ease of drainage.
Behind the passenger cabin is a five-foot cargo bed with eight tie-downs and four lights for use in nighttime loading and unloading of the bed and the in-bed trunk. It has a payload rating of 1,100 pounds.
Standard features on the 2012 Ridgeline include cruise control, power windows and door locks and a power sliding rear window, keyless entry, a heated wiper zone and a six-speaker, 100-watt audio system with CD and MP3 playback capability.
The 2012 Ridgeline, like the rest of the Honda lineup, is available with satellite navigation with voice recognition. If you choose a Ridgeline with the navigation system, it has a digital compass that eliminates the compass in the rear-view mirror on other Ridgeline models, adding to rear visibility..
Featured on upper-level Ridgeline models are XM satellite radio, Bluetooth connectivity, a multi-information display and a backup camera.
Performance & Fuel Economy
As with its SUV stablemate, the Honda Pilot, the Ridgeline is only available with one engine and transmission combination: a 3.5-liter V6 producing 250 horsepower and 247 lb-ft of torque, mated to a five-speed automatic transmission. The Ridgeline's towing capacity is 5,000 pounds, and it has a half-ton of in-bed payload capacity. Every Ridgeline includes an all-wheel-drive system that saves fuel by primarily operating as a front-wheel-drive system. When the front wheels begin to slip, however, the system sends power to the rear wheels to help with traction.
The combination chassis design is extremely flexible and strong. However, it does add weight, which cuts fuel economy. The EPA has rated the Ridgeline at 15 mpg in the city and 21 mpg on the highway.
All 2012 Ridgelines are equipped with multiple standard airbags and restraint systems, including driver and front passenger airbags, front side airbags with passenger-side occupant position detection system, two-row side curtain airbags with a rollover sensor, front seat active head restraints; a tire pressure monitoring system and daytime running lights. The Ridgeline also includes Honda's electronic stability control, which applies brake force to a wheel suffering from limited traction and sends power to another wheel with more traction.
Driving Impressions
The Ridgeline is a stand-alone vehicle, because of its design but also because of the way it feels to drive. Unlike other pickup trucks on the market, the Ridgeline has a mostly front-wheel-drive setup. The powertrain, identical to that of the Honda Pilot, feels the same as the SUV to drive. The Ridgeline's power delivery is peppy and smooth, although the five-speed transmission means it suffers in performance at highway speeds.
Aside from the annoyances of having a mid-size pickup truck with torque steer issues, the Ridgeline is quite refined. The driver and passenger seats are comfortable, steering is light and responsive and braking is sharp. For someone looking for the utility of a truck without the feeling of driving a truck, the Ridgeline is perfect. It will be disappointing, though, to those who enjoy and want the true truck-driving feel and experience.
Other Cars to Consider
Chevrolet Avalanche - Starting at $36,800, the Avalanche is stylistically the closest competitor to the Ridgeline. The base Avalanche is rear-wheel drive only and features a 5.3-liter V8 producing 320 horsepower. Surprisingly, in spite of having 70 more horsepower than the Ridgeline, the Avalanche has the same EPA fuel economy ratings.
Suzuki Equator - To option the Equator up to a four-door, four-wheel-drive version, customers will need to shell out $28,699. At that price, the Equator is fitted with a 4.0-liter V6 producing 261 horsepower.
Toyota Tacoma - As with the Equator, to option the Tacoma up to a utility level equivalent to the Ridgeline, customers will be looking at paying $27,335. The double-cab four-wheel drive Tacoma has a 4.0-liter V6 producing 236 horsepower coupled with a five-speed automatic transmission.
AutoTrader Recommends
Aside from the addition of navigation, the Ridgeline doesn't change much as customers ascend the model range. We recommend buyers stick to the basics with the base RT model, priced at $29,250.


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Macro trends like demographics, shifts in global wealth and, especially, sustainability will impact the way all business is conducted.
For the aluminum industry, these trends will combine to create more demand than even the most aggressive projections have so far realized.
With all the newly commissioned smelters and mills in China, India and other developing countries, there's a lot of hand-wringing about the dangers of overcapacity. However, I believe these macro trends will, over the next few decades, create so much demand that we could easily encounter an aluminum manufacturing capacity shortfall.
The burgeoning populations of India, China, Brazil, parts of Africa and Southeast Asia correlate with a rise in urbanization. Indeed, for the first time in history more than half the world's population now lives in cities vs. rural areas. Moreover, because it's concurrent with rapid industrialization, urbanization means economic advancement for those waves of people moving from the countryside to cities.
In just the next few years, more than 2 billion people will graduate from subsistence lifestyles to lives that people in the developed world would recognize as working class. They'll want housing, beverage containers, packaged food, appliances and a host of other products demanded by an ascendant consumer class.
In transportation alone—products like shipping containers, trucks, commuter trains and automobiles—the opportunity is bigger than most observers have recognized.
China and India are on pace to become the third- and fifth-largest consumer economies by 2020, and to challenge or surpass the United States and the European Union in gross domestic product by 2050.
But all that growth comes at an environmental cost. China will produce 44 percent of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and 46 percent by 2050, and India will double its share over the same period. The evidence linking greenhouse gas emissions to environmental degradation is compelling.
Which leaves us with the urgent dilemma of sustainability. The last three centuries of human history have demonstrated clearly that the cure for poverty is industry. Unfortunately, we are now in urgent need of a cure for industry.
Alternative energy sources like wind power, solar power and even nuclear power are solutions that show marvelous potential, but all work more efficiently if the objects of their propulsion are lighter weight. Light-weighting is already inextricably entwined with the next generation of environmentally conscious design. The auto industry is well along this road.
Because aluminum offers light-weighting without compromising strength, the percentage of aluminum in vehicles manufactured in the United States has been slowly climbing for decades—from 2 percent in 1975 to a projected 10 percent in 2020. Obviously, the more aluminum supplants steel in the manufacture of cars, the more light-weighting we can achieve.
Sustainability concerns are pushing this percentage to a tipping point. We may see a sharp turn in the next few years that makes our current demand projections look extremely conservative. The discussions we've been having with automobile manufacturers are more than encouraging on that point. These original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are looking at more than design advantages. Around the world, government regulators are beating the drum for light-weighting in a way that makes aluminum the most obvious solution.
When the European Union set CO2 emission standards in the early 1990s, and then 10 years later set end-of-life standards for recycling, it resulted in a new generation of hybrid designs featuring light-weighted, aluminum content. New U.S. regulations have set a 35-mile-per-gallon standard for the year 2020, which would increase fuel economy by 40 percent. The most plausible path forward for design engineers is the incorporation of more aluminum components.
China is still industrializing, still urbanizing, still inventing itself. We can't expect China to patiently graduate through generations of technology that have characterized the Western industrial experience. The Chinese will institutionalize the most efficient solutions contemporary technology can provide. And that standard incorporates state-of-the-art light-weighting, and therefore a lot more aluminum.
Indeed, we are already seeing a sort of leapfrog effect in developing nations where the incremental trend lines of Western business history are being superseded by wholesale adoption of new technology.
Novelis Inc. foresees an emerging generation of consumers and regulators ready to assign greater value to aluminum in automobiles, trains, trucks, beverage containers, personal technology, appliances, construction and packaging. In a sustainable business model, this demand is for a metal that is strong, malleable, versatile, recyclable and—most importantly in a world constrained by fuel—light weight.
The global recession has clouded a lot of crystal balls, but our best-informed outlook is extremely bullish for our company and our industry. We believe this will be our time to shine. PHILIP MARTENS
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I am Raja Tamilarasan, currently working as a Product Technologist for the Dell OEM and IoT Solutions Group. I started at Dell as an intern back in 2008. After finishing my internship, I came back to Dell full time in January 2009.
What has your experience like as a University hire been? How did you hear about Dell and what was the application process like?
I heard about Dell everywhere, starting with my first PC while I was in middle school to the data centers that I helped setup as part of my first job out of college, I have always been a Dell customer in one way or another. My experience as a University hire has been incredible starting with the great professional network I have acquired over the years. In addition to expanding my professional network, I have had the opportunity to grow from an intern to an entry level programmer to an engineering leader and now a technologist of the internet of things group, which I believe is the most the most cutting edge field in the industry at the moment. I have also had a great group of mentors who have guided me at every step of the way and helped me make decisions that would have otherwise been extremely difficult to make.
Why did you choose to come work at Dell?
Dell was a very familiar name to me, especially during my first job setting up data centers for television stations across Asia, we used a lot of Dell products in those data centers. Reflecting on my memories, I remember being in a very remote part of Sri Lanka and setting up a brand new datacenter for one of Sri Lanka's leading television networks. We ordered a lot of Dell products that we would then install, configure to automate the television station operations. During these projects, I got used to seeing the Dell logo everywhere, especially for someone setting up a data center that was all you say during the day.
Did you participate in any internships or rotation programs before you were hired? If so, tell us about your experience.
Yes, I started as a summer intern. The internship experience was a great learning experience for me. My manager at that time was very open about his expectations from me as an intern. When I started I thought an internship was all about finishing the project that was assigned to me. It was my manager that guided me and explained that as an intern, completing my project was just one among the many things I should be doing at Dell. He encouraged me to connect with as many people within Dell as I could and also learn about all the other groups within Dell.
What are some projects that you have recently been involved with and some of your career highlights at Dell?
I feel like I have been fortunate with many highlights in my Dell career. Starting as an intern I remember the intern group meeting with Michael Dell, where our group of about 180 interns got to spend about an hour with Michael Dell. After my internship, I started working on a highly complex embedded firmware engineering project, which was almost a dream come true for someone who graduated with a computer science degree. To me it was as technical as things could get all the way down to the 0's and 1's. I quickly started excelling in my role and within a span of few years, thanks to the trust my managers and mentors put in my work, I was offered the opportunity to lead the same team that I started with. I also wanted to go back to school and pursue an MBA or a Masters in Engineering Management.
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Since our founding in 1871, Ursuline has been dedicated to serving the community. Beginning with the College's curriculum, students are immersed in an environment that fosters leadership skills. This unique environment encourages life-long learning and includes opportunities to develop the whole person in preparing leaders for local and global communities. Ursuline students are encouraged to develop their values, find their voices and establish their vision for a stronger future.
The Ursuline community is proud to participate in numerous service opportunities throughout the year. From Volunteer Day to service learning trips are students, faculty, staff and alumnae are dedicated to giving back to the community in Northeast Ohio and beyond. Our community efforts have reached from Pepper Pike to El Salvador.
For more information about service oppurtunties with Ursuline and ways in which you can give back with us check back at ursuline.edu/communityengagement.
A Drop in the Bucket. The First Annual Community Meet of Miles was held on September 30, 2012 on the Ursuline College campus. More than 100 people came out to support the event which raised money for 'Drop in the Bucket,' a non-profit organization that builds wells and works to improve sanitation in Africa.Click here for a recap of Meet of Milles.


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Add a touch of flair to an otherwise simple fireplace necessity. The Utility Outdoor Wood Rack will hold plenty of firewood up off the ground for better air circulation. Made of durable steel with a sturdy powder coat finish to withstand the weather.
This great rack includes storage space for a variety of garden tools and firewood supplies. Store everything from a garden hose to kindling, this log rack holds it all.
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