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By Jia You Fish larvae emit sound—much to the surprise of biologists. A common coral reef fish in Florida, the gray snapper—Lutjanus griseus (pictured above)—hatches in the open ocean and spends its juvenile years in food-rich seagrass beds hiding from predators before settling in the reefs as an adult. To study how larval snappers orient themselves in the dark, marine biologists deployed transparent acrylic chambers equipped with light and sound sensors under the water to capture the swimming schools as they travel to the seagrass beds on new-moon nights. The larval snappers make a short "knock" sound that adults also make, as well as a long "growl" sound, the team reports online today in Biology Letters. The researchers suspect that the larvae use the acoustic signals to communicate with one another and stay together in schools. If so, human noise pollution could be interrupting their communications—even adult fish have been found to "yell" to be heard above boat noises. © 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Keyword: Animal Communication; Aggression
Link ID: 20139 - Posted: 10.01.2014
Wild marmosets in the Brazilian forest can learn quite successfully from video demonstrations featuring other marmosets, Austrian scientists have reported, showing not only that marmosets are even better learners than previously known, but that video can be used successfully in experiments in the wild. Tina Gunhold, a cognitive biologist at the University of Vienna, had worked with a population of marmoset monkeys in a bit of Brazilian forest before this particular experiment. The forest is not wilderness. It lies near some apartment complexes, and the marmosets are somewhat used to human beings. But the monkeys are wild, and each extended family group has its own foraging territory. Dr. Gunhold and her colleagues reported in the journal Biology Letters this month that they had tested 12 family groups, setting up a series of video monitors, each with a kind of complicated box that they called an "artificial fruit." All the boxes contained food. Six of the monitors showed just an unchanging image of a marmoset near a similar box. Three of them showed a marmoset opening the box by pulling a drawer, and three others a marmoset lifting a lid to get at the food. Marmosets are very territorial and would not tolerate a strange individual on their turf, but the image of a strange marmoset on video didn't seem to bother them. Individual marmosets "differed in their reactions to the video," Dr. Gunhold said. "Some were more shy, some more bold. The younger ones were more attracted to the video, perhaps because of greater curiosity." © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Learning & Memory; Aggression
Link ID: 20138 - Posted: 09.30.2014
By David Z. Hambrick, Fernanda Ferreira, and John M. Henderson A decade ago, Magnus Carlsen, who at the time was only 13 years old, created a sensation in the chess world when he defeated former world champion Anatoly Karpov at a chess tournament in Reykjavik, Iceland, and the next day played then-top-rated Garry Kasparov—who is widely regarded as the best chess player of all time—to a draw. Carlsen's subsequent rise to chess stardom was meteoric: grandmaster status later in 2004; a share of first place in the Norwegian Chess Championship in 2006; youngest player ever to reach World No. 1 in 2010; and highest-rated player in history in 2012. What explains this sort of spectacular success? What makes someone rise to the top in music, games, sports, business, or science? This question is the subject of one of psychology's oldest debates. In the late 1800s, Francis Galton—founder of the scientific study of intelligence and a cousin of Charles Darwin—analyzed the genealogical records of hundreds of scholars, artists, musicians, and other professionals and found that greatness tends to run in families. For example, he counted more than 20 eminent musicians in the Bach family. (Johann Sebastian was just the most famous.) Galton concluded that experts are "born." Nearly half a century later, the behaviorist John Watson countered that experts are "made" when he famously guaranteed that he could take any infant at random and "train him to become any type of specialist [he] might select—doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents." One player needed 22 times more deliberate practice than another player to become a master. © 2014 The Slate Group LLC.
Keyword: Learning & Memory
Link ID: 20136 - Posted: 09.30.2014
By Gary Stix If it's good for the heart, it could also be good for the neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes, cells that make up the main items on the brain's parts list. The heart-brain adage comes from epidemiological studies that show that people with cardiovascular risk factors such as high-blood pressure and elevated cholesterol levels, may be more at risk for Alzheimer's and other dementias. This connection between heart and brain has also led to some disappointments: clinical trials of lipid-lowering statins have not helped patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's, although epidemiological studies suggest that long-term use of the drugs may help prevent Alzheimer's and other dementias. The link between head and heart is still being pursued because new Alzheimer's drugs have failed time and again. One approach that is now drawing some interest looks at the set of proteins that carry around fats in the brain. These lipoproteins could potentially act as molecular sponges that mop up the amyloid-beta peptide that clogs up connections among brain cells in Alzheimer's. One of these proteins—Apolipoprotein J, also known as clusterin—intrigues researchers because of the way it interacts with amyloid-beta and the status of its gene as a risk factor for Alzheimer's. A researcher from the University of Minnesota, Ling Li, recently presented preliminary work at the Alzheimer's Disease Drug Discovery Foundation annual meeting that showed that, at least in a lab dish, a molecule made up of a group of amino acids from APOJ is capable of protecting against the toxicity of the amyloid-beta peptide. It also quelled inflammation and promoted the health of synapses—the junctions where one brain cell encounters another. Earlier work by another group showed that the peptide prevented the development of lesions in the blood vessels of animals.
Keyword: Alzheimers
Link ID: 20135 - Posted: 09.30.2014
by Sarah Zielinski Small, silver fish called Mexican tetra (Astyanax mexicanus) live in some Texas and Mexican rivers. Some members of the species — eyeless and blind — can be found in nearby freshwater caves. Sometimes the sighted fish wash into a cave, but they don't do nearly as well as their blind brethren. Any surface dweller unlucky enough to end up in the dark would have some disadvantages: It would have to adapt to the loss of light and forage for unfamiliar foods, which may be not as abundant as those found in their home waters. But the fish's biggest disadvantage may be its metabolism. Blind cavefish have lost their circadian rhythms and have developed more efficient metabolisms than the fish that live in the light, researchers report September 24 in PLOS ONE. To measure tetras' metabolism, Damian Moran and colleagues at Lund University in Sweden placed fish in a contraption that let the fish swim in place while the researchers tracked their oxygen consumption, a measure of their metabolism. Surface and cave fish were placed in the tank under constant darkness or 12-hour light-and-dark cycles for 7 or 8 days. Then the researchers compared how the fish did under the different light regimes. All the fish took a few days to acclimate to the laboratory conditions. In the light-and-dark conditions, surface fish showed a clear circadian pattern to their oxygen consumption. These fish ramped up their metabolism by about 20 percent during the day. That increase in metabolism would let them have more energy for their hunts and feeding, which take place in the light. © Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2014
Keyword: Biological Rhythms
Link ID: 20134 - Posted: 09.30.2014
Christie Nicholson reports. Shakespeare called sleep the chief nourisher in life's feast. But today we know it's so much more. Insufficient sleep contributes to the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity. And now a study finds that too little or too much sleep are both associated with a significant increase in sick days away from work. Almost 4,000 men and women between 30 and 64 years old (in Finland) participated in the study, which followed them for seven years. The research revealed that the absence from work due to illness increased dramatically for those who said they slept less than 6 hours or more than 9 hours per night. The sleep time that was associated with the lowest number of sick days was 7 hours 38 minutes for women and 7 hours 46 minutes for men. The study is in the journal Sleep. [Tea Lallukka, Sleep and Sickness Absence: A Nationally Representative Register-Based Follow-Up Study] Of course these findings are associative and not necessarily causal. Other factors may be responsible for the under- or oversleeping to begin with. But sleep patterns are still a warning sign for increased illness and health complications. Shakespeare put it best: Sleep…that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care. © 2014 Scientific American
Keyword: Sleep
Link ID: 20133 - Posted: 09.30.2014
By Linda Carroll The debate over whether violent movies contribute to real-world mayhem may have just developed a wrinkle: New research suggests they might enhance aggression only in those already prone to it. Using PET scanners to peer into the brains of volunteers watching especially bloody movie scenes, researchers determined that the way a viewer's brain circuitry responds to violent video depends upon whether the individual is aggressive by nature. The study was published Wednesday in PLOS One. "Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, environmental stimuli are in the brain of the beholder," said Nelly Alia-Klein, the study's lead author and an associate professor at the Friedman Brain Institute and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. To test the importance of personality, Alia-Klein and her colleagues rounded up 54 healthy men, some of whom had a history of getting into physical fights, while the others had no history of aggression. The researchers scanned the volunteers three times: doing nothing, watching emotionally charged video and viewing a violent movie. "It wasn't the whole [violent] movie," Alia-Klein said, "just the violent scenes, one after another after another." Along with the brain scans, the researchers monitored blood pressure and asked about the viewers' moods every 15 minutes.
Keyword: Aggression
Link ID: 20132 - Posted: 09.30.2014
By Dr Michael Mosley BBC Do you have a "male" or "female" brain? Are there really significant brain differences between the sexes and if so, do these differences matter? BBC Horizon investigates. When it comes to the tricky and explosive question of how much, if at all, male and female behaviour is driven by brain differences, Professor Alice Roberts and I sit on different sides of the fence. I believe that our brains, like our bodies, are shaped by exposure to hormones in the womb and this may help explain why males tend to do better at some tasks (3D rotation), while women tend to do better at others (empathy skills), although there is, of course, an awful lot of overlap and social pressure involved. Alice, on the other hand, thinks these differences are largely spurious, the result of how the tests are carried out. She worries that such claims may discourage girls from going into science. "We live in a country where fewer than three out of ten physics A levels are taken by girls, where just 7% of engineers are women" she points out, before adding "and where men still earn on average nearly 20% more than their female colleagues." So the BBC's Horizon programme asked us to go and explore the science, put forward research that would support our different views, but also look for common ground. BBC © 2014
Keyword: Sexual Behavior
Link ID: 20129 - Posted: 09.29.2014
Posted by James Owen in Weird & Wild Bigger males may get a lot of attention, but sometimes being smaller—and sneakier—is more successful when it comes to mating. In the East African cichlid fish, Lamprologus callipterus, males come in two sizes: giants or dwarves that are 40 times smaller than their beefier rivals. (Watch a video of male cichlid fish fighting.) It's an example of male polymorphism, a phenomenon in which males of the same species take different forms. Though people vary in height, men don't come in two different sizes like the cichlids. Several research studies suggest that tall men—those over 5'7″—are more successful in dating and in their careers—but they get divorced at higher rates. But the variation in L. callipterus, which are found only in Lake Tanganyika (map), is "the most extreme there is," said Michael Taborsky, co-director of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Bern, Switzerland. "It's an enormous size difference." In a new study, published September 17 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Taborsky and his team linked this gulf in size to the female's unusual habit of laying eggs in empty snail shells. To attract females, the giant males collect hundreds of these shells, using their mouths to create nesting sites. But while their hefty build is ideal for lugging about the heavy shells and chasing off rivals, the giants can't access the chambers of their female harem, instead releasing their sperm outside the shell, Taborsky explained. (Also see "Small Squid Have Bigger Sperm—And Their Own Sex Position.") © 1996-2013 National Geographic Societ
Keyword: Sexual Behavior
Link ID: 20127 - Posted: 09.29.2014
By Bec Crew Mike meet everyone, everyone meet Mike. No, no, don't wave. He can't see, you're just making this awkward. Also known as Miracle Mike, Mike the Headless Chicken was a plump, five-year-old cockerel when he was unceremoniously beheaded on 10 September 1945. Farmer Lloyd Olsen of Fruita in Colorado did the deed because his wife Clara was having her mother over for dinner that night, and Olsen knew she'd always enjoyed a bit of roast chicken neck. With that in mind, Olsen tried to save most of Mike's neck as he lopped his head off, but in doing so, he accidentally made his axe miss Mike's jugular vein, plus one ear and most of his brain stem, and to his surprise, Mike didn't die. In fact, Mike stuck around for a good 18 months without his head. Immediately after it happened, Mike reeled around like any headless chicken would, but soon settled down. He even started pecking at the ground for food with his newly minted stump, and made preening motions. His crows had become throaty gurglings. Olsen, bewildered, left him to it. The next morning, when Olsen found Mike asleep in the barn, having attempted to tuck his head under his wing as he always had, the farmer took it upon himself to figure out how to feed this unwitting monstrosity. Mike had earned that much. All Olsen had to do was deposit food and water into Mike's exposed oesophagus via a little eyedropper. He even got small grains of corn sometimes as a treat. © 2014 Scientific American
Keyword: Miscellaneous
Link ID: 20126 - Posted: 09.29.2014
by Bethany Brookshire Isaac Newton famously showed that in physics, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. A similar push-and-pull of positive and negative inputs also exists in our brains. Brain cells can send out excitatory chemical signals, and they can also receive inhibitory chemical signals, putting the brakes on further signaling. This delicate balance of excitation and inhibition allows our brains to function normally and to react to the world around us. A new study shows that the same neurons contribute excitatory and inhibitory chemical signals in a brain area linked with how we process disappointment, and that antidepressants might be able to change this delicate molecular dance and stop some of the negative thought cycles associated with depression. But while the work finds an association, it's not yet proof that the balance of these chemicals holds the key to relieving depressive symptoms. The study, published September 19 in Science, focuses on the lateral habenula. This tiny area makes up the "stalk" connecting the pineal gland to the rest of the brain. It receives inputs from areas of the brain important in reward and emotional processing, including the basal ganglia. Some areas of the brain appear to specialize in predicting rewards, showing increases in activity in response to enjoyable things such as food, sex or drugs. Activity in these areas lets us know when things are about to get good. But for every high there is a low. The lateral habenula is thought to play a role in how we process negative events: Getting a lemon on the slot machine again or the empty inbox on your dating site. Studies in monkeys and other animals have shown that increased activity in the habenula is linked to depressive behaviors, and treatment with antidepressants decreases this activity. In addition, a study in rats and a 2009 case study in a human patient showed that deep-brain stimulation in the lateral habenula could relieve symptoms of depression. © Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2014.
Keyword: Depression
Link ID: 20125 - Posted: 09.27.2014
By ROBERT KOLKER Reggie Shaw is the man responsible for the most moving portion of "From One Second to the Next," the director Werner Herzog's excruciating (even by Werner Herzog standards) 35-minute public service announcement, released last year as part of AT&T's "It Can Wait" campaign against texting and driving. In the film, Shaw, now in his 20s, recounts the rainy morning in September 2006 that he crossed the line of a Utah highway, knocking into a car containing two scientists, James Furfaro and Keith O'Dell, who were heading to work nearby. Both men were killed. Shaw says he was texting a girlfriend at the time, adding in unmistakable anguish that he can't even remember what he was texting about. He is next seen taking part in something almost inconceivable: He enters the scene where one of the dead men's daughters is being interviewed, and receives from that woman a warm, earnest, tearful, cathartic hug. Reggie Shaw's redemptive journey — from thoughtless, inadvertent killer to denier of his own culpability to one of the nation's most powerful spokesmen on the dangers of texting while behind the wheel — was first brought to national attention by Matt Richtel, a reporter for The New York Times, whose series of articles about distracted driving won a Pulitzer Prize in 2010. Now, five years later, in "A Deadly Wandering," Richtel gives Shaw's story the thorough, emotional treatment it is due, interweaving a detailed chronicle of the science behind distracted driving. As an instructive social parable, Richtel's densely reported, at times forced yet compassionate and persuasive book deserves a spot next to "Fast Food Nation" and "To Kill a Mockingbird" in America's high school curriculums. To say it may save lives is self-evident. What makes the deaths in this book so affecting is how ordinary they are. Two men get up in the morning. They get behind the wheel. A stranger loses track of his car. They crash. The two men die. The temptation is to make the tragedy bigger than it is, to invest it with meaning. Which may explain why Richtel wonders early on if Reggie Shaw lied about texting and driving at first because he was in denial, or because technology "can hijack the brain," polluting his memory. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Attention
Link ID: 20124 - Posted: 09.27.2014
By Rachel Feltman With the help of electrical stimulation, a paralyzed rat is "walking" again. It's actually being controlled by a computer that monitors its gait and adjusts it to keep the rat balanced. When a spinal cord is severed, the electrical pulses sent out by the brain to control limb movement are interrupted. With this method of treatment, the rat's leg movements are driven by electrical pulses shot directly into the spinal cord (which has unfortunately been severed in the name of science). Scientists have been working on this method in humans for awhile, but have only had moderate success — some subjects have regained sensation and movement in their legs, but haven't walked on their own. In the experiment described in the video above, published Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine, researchers tweaked this use of electrical stimulation: They primed the rats with a drug to boost their ability to respond to the electrical signal. Then, while the rats were placed in treadmill harnesses to support their weight, the researchers trained a camera on their subjects. The camera tracked the rats as they took electrically stimulated steps, and corrected their movement in real time. This instant feedback made the system precise enough to get the rats up tiny sets of stairs. MIT Technology Review reports that the team hopes to use a human volunteer within the next year. If the system works on humans, doctors can prescribe its use in rehabilitation therapy. You can watch the actual experiment in the video below:
Keyword: Regeneration; Aggression
Link ID: 20122 - Posted: 09.27.2014
by Helen Thomson My, what big eyes you have – you must be trying really hard. A study of how pupils dilate with physical effort could allow us to make strenuous tasks seem easier by zapping specific areas of the brain. We know pupils dilate with mental effort, when we think about a difficult maths problem, for example. To see if this was also true of physical exertion, Alexandre Zenon at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, measured the pupils of 18 volunteers as they squeezed a device which reads grip strength. Sure enough, the more force they exerted, the larger their pupils. To see whether pupil size was related to actual or perceived effort, the volunteers were asked to squeeze the device with four different grip strengths. Various tests enabled the researchers to tell how much effort participants felt they used, from none at all to the most effort possible. Comparing the results from both sets of experiments suggested that pupil dilation correlated more closely with perceived effort than actual effort. The fact that both mental effort and perceived physical effort are reflected in pupil size suggests there is a common representation of effort in the brain, says Zenon. To see where in the brain this might be, the team looked at which areas were active while similar grip tasks were being performed. Zenon says they were able to identify areas within the supplementary motor cortex – which plays a role in movement – associated with how effortful a task is perceived to be. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Attention
Link ID: 20121 - Posted: 09.27.2014
By Roni Caryn Rabin When I was in college, my father David started walking with an odd, barely perceptible limp. He was in his mid-40s, a gregarious physician, teacher and researcher who was always upbeat. He told his four kids that he had a "back problem" — a deliberately vague cover story that I, for one, was willing to believe. I had never heard of the real culprit — amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or A.L.S. In fact, no one had. A.L.S. was a disease in the shadows. During my father's life, it didn't even have its own advocacy organization. This was the early '80s, long before support groups and the Internet and a colored ribbon for every cause. And it was way before ice bucket challenges. My parents continued to use their code — "back problem" — to talk about the disease. They used it to protect my younger sisters, who were about to start high school, but I think they were also protecting themselves. My mother was also a physician, and they both knew exactly what lay ahead. Saying "A.L.S." out loud was too threatening. But soon there was no getting around it. My father's legs were getting weaker, his muscles were wasting, and he started relying on a cane to get around. I was 19, and my mother and I were out running errands one afternoon when she pulled the car over to the curb and stopped. She told me the truth. This was no slipped disc. She laid it all out for me in black and white: A.L.S. is a progressive, degenerative neurological disease that causes paralysis in the entire body. It's fatal. There is no cure. It sounded like something from a horror movie. Over the next five years, as my father's health deteriorated, he remained remarkably determined. He ate a high-protein diet and swam laps every day in an attempt to maintain his muscle and fend off the atrophy caused by the disease. He kept on swimming laps in our next-door neighbor's pool, even when he had to use a walker — and later a wheelchair — to get there. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: ALS-Lou Gehrig's Disease
Link ID: 20120 - Posted: 09.27.2014
By Jennifer Cutraro and Michael Gonchar Marijuana is illegal in the United States. Yet 35 states and the District of Columbia permit some form of marijuana consumption for medical purposes, and, as of this year, two states now allow its recreational use. As national policy evolves on this issue, the New York Times editorial board this summer published a six-part series calling for legalization. In this lesson, we pull together those opinion pieces as well as many other Times articles, graphics and videos to offer starting points for science, social studies and English teachers aiming to use the debate as an opportunity for learning, research and discussion. Like other crops, marijuana is largely cultivated — legally and illegally — in greenhouse-type "grow houses" and on farms. And like other crops, marijuana comes from a plant — cannabis, originally found in the wild and cultivated over thousands of years. Have students research the history of cannabis, from its origins in South and Central Asia to its introduction to the Americas. How have people used the different parts of the plant throughout history? Then, have students work in groups to annotate a map of the world, tracing the history of marijuana cultivation. Marijuana is best known for its psychoactive properties. But how does marijuana bring about these sensations and how else does it behave in the body? To answer these questions, students might research how the active compounds in marijuana affect the body at the level of the cell, and draw parallels with how other drugs act in the body. As is the case with many other drugs — from legal, over-the-counter medications to illegal street drugs, like heroin — the active compounds interact with locations on the surfaces of cells called receptors. Cell surface receptors provide a means for cells to receive information and input from the environment; when a molecule attaches, or binds, to a cell surface receptor, it triggers a series of events inside the cell, like the release of hormones, neurotransmitters or other molecules. A discussion about marijuana's effects on the body might dovetail nicely with a broader class discussion or review of cell biology, the makeup and function of the cell membrane, and the function of neurotransmitters. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Drug Abuse
Link ID: 20118 - Posted: 09.27.2014
Some people don't just work — they text, Snapchat, check Facebook and Tinder, listen to music and work. And a new study reveals those multitaskers have brains that look different than those of people who stick to one task. Researchers at the University of Sussex scanned 75 adults using an fMRI to examine their gray matter. Those who admitted to multitasking with a variety of electronic devices at once had less dense gray matter in their anterior cingulate cortexes (ACC). This region controls executive function, such as working memory, reasoning, planning and execution. There is no way of knowing if people with smaller anterior cingulate cortexes are more likely to multitask or if multitaskers are shrinking their gray matter. It could even show that our brains become more efficient from multitasking, said Dr. Gary Small, director of UCLA's Memory and Aging Research Center at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, who was not involved in the study. "When you exercise the brain … it becomes effective at performing a mental task," he said. While previous research has shown that multitasking leads to more mistakes, Small said research remains important to our understanding of something we're all guilty of doing.
Keyword: Attention
Link ID: 20115 - Posted: 09.25.2014
by Greg Laden I heard yesterday that my friend and former advisor Irven DeVore died. He was important, amazing, charming, difficult, harsh, brilliant, fun, annoying. My relationship to him as an advisee and a friend was complex, important to me for many years, and formative. For those who don't know he was instrumental in developing several subfields of anthropology, including behavioral biology, primate behavioral studies, hunter-gatherer research, and even ethnoarchaeology. He was a cultural anthropologist who realized during his first field season that a) he was not cut out to be a cultural anthropologist and b) most of the other cultural anthropologists were not either. Soon after he became Washburn's student and independently invented the field study of complex social behavior in primates (though some others were heading in that direction at the same time), producing his famous work on the baboons of Kenya's Nairobi National Park. For many years, what students learned about primate behavior, they learned from that work. Later he and Richard Lee, along with John Yellen, Alison Brooks, Henry Harpending, and others started up the study of Ju/'hoansi Bushmen along the Namibian/Botswana border. One of the outcomes of that work was the famous Werner Gren conference and volume called "Man the Hunter." That volume has two roles in the history of anthropology. First, it launched modern forager studies. Second, it became one of the more maligned books in the field of Anthropology. I have yet to meet a single person who has a strong criticism of that book that is not based on having not read it. For many years, much of what students learned about human foragers, they learned from that work.
Keyword: Evolution
Link ID: 20114 - Posted: 09.25.2014
By SAM BORDEN Bellini, a Brazilian soccer star who led the team that won the 1958 World Cup and was honored with a statue outside the Estádio do Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro, had a degenerative brain disease linked to dozens of boxers and American football players when he died in March at age 83. At the time, his death was attributed to complications related to Alzheimer's disease. But researchers now say he had an advanced case of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., which is caused by repeated blows to the head and has symptoms similar to those of Alzheimer's. C.T.E. can be diagnosed only posthumously, and few brains of former soccer players have been examined. Bellini is the second known case, according to Dr. Ann McKee, a neuropathologist at Boston University and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Bedford, Mass., who assisted in examining Bellini's brain. McKee was also involved this year when researchers found C.T.E. in the brain of a 29-year-old man from New Mexico who had played soccer semiprofessionally. McKee said in an interview that she was aware of a third former soccer player who had C.T.E. but that she was not yet authorized to publicly identify the person. As C.T.E. began to gain widespread attention about six years ago, it was often thought of as an American problem. Many of the early cases of the disease, for which there is no known cure, were connected to boxers and American football players. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Brain Injury/Concussion
Link ID: 20110 - Posted: 09.24.2014
// by Jennifer Viegas Harems -- where a group of females share a single mate -- can be sexual bliss for the male, but the arrangement poses many challenges for him, according to a new study. Male leaders of harems are often overworked and tired finds the study, published in the latest issue of Royal Society Open Science. Gelada baboons exemplify the problems. "Being a gelada leader male is fairly exhausting," co-author David Pappano told Discovery News. "In order to keep the females within his harem happy, gelada leader males spend a lot of time grooming them." "When bachelors are around, leader males often engage in costly displays -- running around, climbing up a tree, and producing a very loud (ee-yow) display call," added Pappano, who is an NSF postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He co-authored the paper with Jacinta Beehner. © 2014 Discovery Communications, LLC.
Link ID: 20108 - Posted: 09.24.2014


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Grand Mauler Gauss Cannon
- This article is about the infantry support weapon. For the Battle Armor weapon, see Grand Mauler Gauss Cannon (Battle Armor).
|Gauss Cannon (Grand Mauler)
|Production information
|Medium/Support (B)
|Tech Base
|Inner Sphere
|Year Availability
|Technology Rating
|Availability Ratings
|Technical specifications
|Short Range
|14 kg
|Mass Per Reload
|4.5kg (5)
|Cost (unloaded)
|Ammo BV (2.0)
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The Grand Mauler Gauss Cannon is a Federated Commonwealth and later Federated Suns infantry support gauss rifle which was hailed as the ultimate personal assault weapon before it was even manufactured. While it has since met all expectations for firepower, it has also proven to be a bulky and unwieldy weapon to use. A trained operator must use a complex upper-body harness, of which getting into and out of takes considerable time, to provide a stable mount for the barrel. Aiming and firing the weapon is accomplished by the use of an elegant system of pulleys and counterweight. As with other gauss weapons the Grand Mauler requires both ammunition and power packs to operate but is amongst the most powerful personal armaments ever produced.[3]
With their introduction to the Inner Sphere following the Clan Invasion, the Grand Mauler has been adapted for use as a Battle Armor weapon, and conversely works equally well taking down enemy battle armor suits.[4]
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[edit] Specification
- Item:Grand Mauler Gauss Cannon
- Equipment Rating: E/X-X-D/E
- Armor Piercing/Base Damage: 6B/6
- Range: 45/120/375/1000 meters
- Shots: 5; 6 Power Points per Shot
- Cost/Reload: 6000/5*
- Affiliation: FS
- Mass/Reload: 14kg/4.5kg*
- Notes: Encumbering
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- ↑ TechManual, p. 300
- ↑ TechManual, p. 319
- ↑ Lostech, p. 42
- ↑ TechManual, p. 255
- ↑ A Time of War, p. 274


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What's In a Name - Zabar's Style
- Servorg Aug 12, 2011 07:23 AM
What's in a name? What's not in their "lobster salad?" Turns out lobster was the missing ingredient. 20 years of titling it "lobster salad" and using crayfish in place of the missing lobby was caught by a writer from the Big Easy who noticed that the list showed no lobster: http://online.wsj.com/article/AP48183...
Only in NY? lol At least out here in LA when the dearly departed "Hump" told you they were giving you "whale sushi" they meant it (even though when the news got out it killed the restaurant...at least they gave you what was promised). ;-D>
Such an interesting story, not least because the main ingredient of the lobster salad was always listed as crayfish. And Saul Zabar's "defense" of the mislabeling truly boggles the mind.
re: small h
"And Saul Zabar's "defense" of the mislabeling truly boggles the mind."
Add that to the fact that his new name "Seafare Salad" is still wide of the truthiness mark since crayfish are fresh water critters and you see a man who never let the facts get in the way of marketing.
As someone who grew up a few blocks from Zabar's, this won't make me love it any less. At least he was using crayfish and not fake crab. ;-)
Edited to add that I'm not condoning this behavior or saying I don't care. It's pretty darned lame.
Sad. Sad.
I wonder how many people who were buying it all this time noticed the discrepancy between the name of the dish and the ingredients list.
article from the Maine Lobster Council
CH's often discuss the importance of reading labels, understanding what you're paying for and taking responsibility for what you eat.
For a deli of this reputation and longevity to be selling salad at a premium with casual concern for truth in advertising says alot about what consumers buy and how closely they pay attention (even for a high end item). This particular salad could have gone on forever labeled this way if it weren't for the trained palette of a "CH."
Announcements like this only serve to remind us all to read every label and ask what we're buying.
I just finished reading the article and six pages of responses.
There's one thing missing from the responders who keep calling crawfish cheap. A pound of southern Crawfish aren't anywhere near $4 a pound unless they're still in their shells. Imported from someplace where you don't know what was in the water....those are the cheap ones. Also, crawfish aren't going to be fresh when they are out of season, so all those tons of salads for quite a few months of the year were using frozen crawfish and probably haven't been from the USA for at least a decade.
Let me retract my previous post.
At least on the most recent version of the label before the name change, it's not like the ingredients were listed in tiny print that you couldn't read.
You won't see it in the WSJ online article, but there's a photo of the label with the NY Times article.
The label clearly stated "wild fresh water crayfish" in fairly large print and right below the name of the dish.
So calling it "lobster salad" is misleading, but perhaps less misleading than it might have been with a different style of label.
I guess anyone misled by the label either didn't read it, or thought the crayfish was an ingredient *in addition to* the (non-existent) lobster?
re: racer x
Then why not call it "Crayfish Salad" in that case? Perhaps because the concept of "Lobster" sells better me thinks... ;-D>
Zabar's isn't the only one. My local Japanese grocery, Sakura-ya, sells "lobster salad" also made from crayfish. In some respects, its not bad...the crayfish works well, texture-wise, and the salad covers up for its lack of flavor. And at least Zabars said "crayfish" even if it was in small letters. But I do not believe it is wild. Except for the live crawdads I see in markets in the spring, all....and I mean all...crayfish I see is farmed in China.
New Yorkers who read labels have always known this--it's there in big print right on the same label that says "Lobster Salad," and it's not easy to miss. I'm pretty sure that once upon a time the first ingredient listed was not crayfish, but langoustine (which is also not lobster as we know it).
Not excusable (although how much pork is there in a can of "Pork and Beans"? Calling it lobster salad but labeling the ingredients honestly is an over the line sales gimmick, but not exactly a war crime).
So, I assume this must be true of the lobster rolls at Nathan's in Coney Island as well? Because, if true, I guess I should be outraged but I'm pretty sure I don't care. They are delicious and at six bucks apiece it's not like I feel like I'm being gouged in any way if I'm getting a crayfish roll rather than an actual lobster roll.
re: ratgirlagogo
In a city that requires some restaurants to display calorie information...it boggles my mind that no fine has been mentioned.
Guess what I know and expect a Big Mac to be caloric and I expect something labeled Lobster Salad to be Lobster.
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It's 4:30AM and we're on the road.
We left Denver around 11:00 after an amazing first show. The Denver audience couldn't have been better. Really made us feel at home.
Now that we're half-way through our most grueling drive, I can say with some amount of certainty that this is the best crew I could have ended up with. Despite the many curve balls that this tour has thrown us so far (in particular, not having any heat in the van and having to get it repaired before our long drive north) we've managed to prevail. We've also been having a great time making meals, hanging out and (of course) playin bomb-ass music together.
We stayed at this great airbnb place last night. It's such an incredible way for musicians to get around. There are five of us on the road, and that means either three hotel rooms or one awesome house. So if you're ever in Denver and need five beds, I highly recommend Jason's original historic 1880 Farmhouse.
A few things you should know about the band members:
-they all have very good teeth and great smiles.
-they all have impressively high EQs (as well as IQs, but no one really "uses their branes" on tour).
-Josh Fossgreen plays a mean upright bass, and is also very good at hug-giving.
-Ryan Lerman has done a masterful job of rearranging all the songs on my album for the stage, and his guitar solos will rock your (probably very thick) socks off (especially if you're in Salt Lake).
-Craig Macintyre holds his own on the drums, so much so in fact that if everybody else left in the middle of the set, you probably wouldn't notice.
-Riki Feldmann has done an exceptional job managing the tour, and that's a giant understatement. We would all be freezing our butts off in a broken down van if it weren't for him. More importantly, I think I would be a total basket case if we didn't have someone in charge of knowing where to go and how to handle everything. There's just too much to know.
So yeah. I'm pretty much the luckiest person in the world to be touring with these folks. And you know it must be true because it's been a long night and I'm still smiling.
If you can make it to our show in Salt Lake City tonight, that would be amazing. We're headlining, so I'll know if no one came to see me. Which reminds me: a huge thanks to Ben Folds again for letting me open for him. It's been really encouraging to have people come up to me and tell me they'd never heard of me but love my stuff. Whenever people who didn't know you give your album a chance, it's just such a great feeling. Oh and if you're still on the fence about coming to see me play live, and you don't have my album, I should mention that "How I Knew Her" is currently available at any of my live shows.
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Well we missed the 2012 Tuscon Festival of Books but, it's an annual event. I think we should all put it on our calendars for next year. Check out their line up of Authors and Illustrators! Next year we will let you know ahead of the event when it's happening.


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Radio 1's Chris Moyles took it there with Victoria Beckham, live on air in an interview. He blatantly asked her about her implants, catching Victoria completely off guard.
We have no proof at this stage if he is still drawing breath or if he has been the victim of a Louboutin heel to the jugular.
Chris Moyles, as we've mentioned before, is not one of our favourite radio personalities, but we give him full props for asking questions that are none of his bid-niz.
Chris: "Everybody knows they're fake, Victoria, just admit it – we don't have a problem with them. Seriously, you go jogging without a bra and they don't move."
Victoria: (laughing uncomfortably) "I don't go jogging."
Chris: "I think the surgeon did a great job. I think that you should be really proud of them. I bet David loves them. It's like a big Christmas present come early."
Victoria: "He loves them."
Is it time for Lady V to come clean? Does anyone care anymore?
Leaked legal documents from years back have the implant surgery admitted, but Victoria has consistently denied publicly that she's had help, saying it's all the work of a good bra. A bra from the Denial line at Magic lingerie.
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You're looking at the bruising damage 2011 Playmate of the Year Claire Sinclair claims she suffered at the hands of Hugh Hefner's son during a violent rampage this weekend.
TMZ broke the story ... 21-year-old Marston Hefner was arrested Sunday night after allegedly kicking and punching Sinclair during an argument in their Pasadena, CA apartment.
Now, 20-year-old Sinclair tells us ... the Playboy heir has physically abused her on SEVERAL OCCASIONS ... but she's still willing to forgive the guy.
"I don't condone domestic violence, but if one ounce of good can come from this bad experience, then I can live with it and move on" ... Claire says.
"That is why I will not press charges against Marston Hefner if he keeps his word to give a public apology for physically abusing me on several occasions, and seeks psychiatric help for his anger issues."
Hugh also released a comment on the situation ... saying, "If they care about each other, they'll patch it up."
So, we gotta ask ...
She won't leave him, because she lives in his "house." I do agree, THIS is the playmate of the year? And if you think i'm harsh, this type of publication RUNS ON ATTRACTIVE WOMEN!! Too bad Kate Upton wants to be considered a "real model", she'd be a perfect candidate, I mean, she's only famous because of them DAMN BOOBAYS... and her face, but face second.
And if you really wanna get mad about domestic abuse, go to peta.org and see their vegan sex ad. It depicts a victim of domestic violence, sexualizes her with an upskirt shot, and ultimately was made because vegan men are wimps, LMAO!
I voted yes -- with the same conditions she puts on: IF he gives a public apology and seeks help for his anger issues.
If we can't forgive people who admit their mistakes and try to improve, we might as well give them the death penalty.
Somebody should kick her A$$ for not pressing charges!
You're not going to press charges because you want to continue to work for the creep father of your craterfaced "boyfriend". They're the pimps, you're the hoe. Money talks - bullsh*t walks. That's all.
Forgive and then forget this g-he's an abuser , who to him, you are someone beneath him. You're worth more than that dear. Don't believe the lies, don't believe the punches, don't believe the names he calls you and DON'T believe his apologies. PROTECT yourself. Now you know what he is, do you want to live?
"If they care about each other they'll patch things up". That's what the abuser's father said-no more explanation needed why the pig was raised w/no conscience. Who hits women, anyway?? Look at the size of the guy on top of it all! Nice choice of words, too, Hef you icky old codger, "patch things up" when the woman was injured.If you had any conscience yourself-let alone the obviously useless empty-headed Playmate mother-you'd pull his allowance and see if he's mature enough to take care of himself, instead of being a hulking child who still lives off of mommy and daddy. Hef and his whole brood, including the women who hang around the mansion, are total wastes of humanity who contribute nothing to society. It would be no loss to the world if a natural disaster wiped out the property and everyone on it.
With all that cash he has and the last name ill let him smack me around too .... J/k
It's very interesting that 90% of people voted that she should NOT forgive him, yet people are all for Chris Brown performing twice and winning at the Grammy's!?!!?!? It's one thing to "forgive" a guy who allegedly struck a woman, but to see the undeniable proof in her face that looked like hamburger, which he followed up with homophobic slurs and furniture-throwing tantrums it something completely different. Why not forgive Hef's son? Because he can't dance?
that does not look like domestic violence,domestic violence looks like Chris and Rihanna
Cause' if you don't kill him he's gonna kill you,
You can't hold hands when they make fists.
Apparently Huge didn't teach his son to respect women, wonder who mom is she should have a talk with her son. At age 21 he's probably jealous of everyone who looks at her. Too young to be playing house he may need more confidence in himself and the ability to keep his women interested. Now you know why Muslim men want their women to wear burkas/what ever those women wear maybe we can turn this into an international event take an oath not to do it again or maybe talk to John Wayne Bobbit.
**** that bitch...stank ass gold digging ****ing whore. just trying to set her bank account sraight. One bruise on the arm..What a ****ing dumb ****ing stank bitch..You need to take after your dad dude and chill the **** out and **** as many bitches as possible..you might be the dumbest ****ing dude out there..wake up dumbass there is ***** everywhere..


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LAS VEGAS (AP) – Derek Holland allowed one hit in four scoreless innings, and the Texas Rangers beat the Chicago Cubs 12-7 Saturday in a split-squad game at Cashman Field.
Holland struck out two and walked none, and Mike Adams struck out the side in the fifth.
Cubs starter Jeff Samardzija retired his first nine batters before Elvis Andrus singled leading off the fourth and scored on Josh Hamilton's single. Julio Borbon hit a two-run single in the fifth.
Samardzija allowed one run and three hits in four innings with three strikeouts and no walks.
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Helpcast – Blogging with Audio and Video
Once you have your blog set up with Hipcast it is a very simple matter to publish your audio and video files in updates. I'll be starting from where I left off with my last post: Helpcast - Setting up my first blog. I'm currently ignoring the player theme and advanced blog options for simplicities sake, but I will be posting a tutorial on that later.
In this example, I will be uploading an audio file and publishing it to the Blogger blog that I used in the last tutorial. It looks like this:
Pretty bland, but Blogger has a huge array of tools to spice it up. Start by logging into Hipcast and selecting Upload Audio under the Audio tab.
Complete the form by selecting the file (mp3, wav, etc) and giving it a title and description for organizational purposes.
Then select the file quality (I usually pick the highest since most users can stream it easily) :
Then select the blog or feed that you set up earlier if you do not need to customize your player and click Upload. (UPDATE: Customization Instructions)
Once the file is uploaded, it will take a moment (depending on file size) to convert it to a usable web format and post it to your blog. You may want to go edit the post on your blog once it completes to fine tune and relocate the player. Unless you have modified any of the posting options, you should end up with something like this:
The next tutorial will cover the advanced blog features and customizing your media player.
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So, after blogging about my dreams yesterday, I had a dream about the same couple yesterday night. Hee. Tomorrow is going to be an amusing day.
There is a light switch in my hallway, right outside the bathroom door. It operates my hall light. You might think this is neither surprising nor a problem. Well, you would be wrong.
Every house that I lived in while in Glasgow had the bathroom light switch in the hallway. That is the way things work there-- you turn the light on before entering the room. Surprisingly enough, turning the light off on someone just isn't the amusing prank you might think it would be. It doesn't happen a lot (and remember, I lived with a six-year-old and a teenager for a while).
So, naturally, when entering our bathroom, I flick the light switch to turn the light on. And even after living in this apartment for four months, I am still surprised every time that the bathroom light fails to turn on. This usually leads to some under-the-breath muttering: "Grrr... stupid American bathroom... what a dumb place for a light switch..." etc.
So please, come visit me. But use the loo at your own risk.
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Normal topics suspended for the A to Z Challenge. It's all books from April 1-30.
If you're here from the A to Z Challenge hoping I'll comment back if you comment first: Sorry to disappoint, but that probably won't happen. I work full-time and I grad school full-time, so I can't give the time to blog commenting that I would like. I'll visit after the end of the semester, I hope.
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Fellner, Eric
Most widely held works by Eric Fellner
Atonement by Joe Wright ( Visual )
23 editions published between 2007 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 2,673 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In 1935, thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will take is one spark for this relationship to combust. When it does, Briony - who has a crush on Robbie, is compelled to interfere. She goes so far as to accuse Robbie of a crime he did not commit. Cecilia and Robbie declare their love for each other, but, ultimately, he is arrested. Briony bears false witness and the course of three lives is changed forever. As Briony grow older, she continues to seek forgiveness for her childhood misdeed. Through a terrible and courageous act of imagination, she finds the path to her uncertain atonement, and to an understanding of the power of enduring love
Love actually by Richard Curtis ( Visual )
36 editions published between 1985 and 2013 in English and Spanish and held by 2,357 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
It's all about love and holiday cheer in London. The Prime Minister is smitten with his caterer; a widower's young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother copes with her potentially unfaithful husband; and a lovelorn American is desperately attracted to a colleague
About a boy by Nick Hornby ( Visual )
19 editions published between 2002 and 2011 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 2,333 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Will is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is to avoid any kind of responsibility. So he decides to invent an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms. Will gets a lesson about life from a bright but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will struggles to teach Marcus the art of being cool, Marcus teaches Will that you are never too cool to grow up
Pride & prejudice by Jane Austen ( Visual )
22 editions published between 2005 and 2011 in English and Chinese and held by 2,244 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The story of lively and rebellious Elizabeth, one of five unmarried daughters living in the countryside of 19th century England, in a world where an advantageous marriage is a woman's sole occupation
Les misérables by Tim Hooper ( Visual )
11 editions published between 2012 and 2013 in English and held by 2,208 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In early 19th century France the paroled prisoner Jean Valjean seeks redemption, regains his social standing, and rises to the rank of mayor. He encounters a beautiful but desperately ill woman named Fantine and cares for her daughter, Cosette, after her death. All the while he is obsessively pursued by the policeman Javert, who vows to make him pay for the crimes of his past
Frost/Nixon by Ron Howard ( Visual )
8 editions published between 2008 and 2011 in English and held by 2,121 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Richard Nixon is the disgraced president with a legacy to save. David Frost is a jet-setting television personality with a name to make. This is the legendary battle between the two men and the historic encounter that changed both their lives. For three years after resigning from office, Nixon remained silent. But in the summer of 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions of his time in office and the Watergate scandal that ended his presidency. Everyone is surprised that Nixon would select Frost as his televised confessor, intending to easily outfox the breezy British showman and secure a place in the hearts and minds of Americans (as well as a $600,000 fee). Likewise, Frost's team harbors doubts that their boss will be able to hold his own. But as cameras roll, a charged battle of wits results
Bridget Jones's diary by Helen Fielding ( Visual )
38 editions published between 1985 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 2,106 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This is the chronicle of the misadventures of a London single woman in her early 30s--a goodhearted, overweight, insecure, bumbling, and desperate-to-be-attached Everywoman Bridget Jones--a woman who loves men and loves sex. A true believer in the possibility of romantic fulfillment, on New Year's Day Bridget resolves to lose 20 pounds, cut down on alcohol, cigarettes, and sweets, and find the right man, or indeed, any man. Bridget charts her own progress in her diary, from "tragic spinster" to "wanton sex goddess," with an intrepid spirit, and a delightfully rueful sense of humor
Elizabeth the golden age by Shekhar Kapur ( Visual )
15 editions published between 2007 and 2010 in English and held by 2,056 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1585: Philip II's Catholic Spain is the most powerful empire in the world. Only England, ruled by Protestant Elizabeth, stands against him. The Queen is threatened by a depleted treasury, constant threats of assassination, and plots by Philip to install her cousin, Queen Mary of Scotland, on her throne. To which end a great armada is poised to invade England--as punishment for the capture of his treasure-ships, and to make Europe safe for Catholicism--even as Elizabeth's attention is diverted to Sir Walter Raleigh, returned from the New World with two gifts: the territory of Virginia and tobacco. Facing her greatest challenge, Elizabeth must rally her country to safeguard her kingdom, destroy her enemies, and secure her position as "Mother to her people."
Tinker tailor soldier spy by John Le Carré ( Visual )
18 editions published between 2011 and 2012 in English and held by 1,965 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
At the height of the Cold War, a former agent for the British Secret Intelligence Service is called back to root out a Russian spy who has infiltrated the organization's highest levels
Anna Karenina ( Visual )
13 editions published in 2013 in English and held by 1,936 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Set in late 19th century Russia high-society, aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky
Elizabeth by Shekhar Kapur ( Visual )
39 editions published between 1998 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 1,847 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
England, 1554. Henry VIII is dead. The country is divided, Catholic against Protestant. Henry's eldest daughter Mary, a fervent Catholic, is Queen. She is childless. The Catholics' greatest fear is the succession of Mary's Protestant half-sister, Elizabeth. After Mary's death, Elizabeth ascends to the throne, thrust into an edgy world of political and religious flux she struggles to protect her power, life, and independence as the court boils with intrigue and conspiracy. Elizabeth begins her reign in a land divided by bloody turmoil, and becomes a cunning strategist, weighing the counsel of her mysterious advisors, thwarting her devious rivals, and denying her own desires for the good of her country
Burn after reading by Joel Coen ( Visual )
10 editions published between 2008 and 2011 in English and Spanish and held by 1,801 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Cuando un cd contiene, algunos de los secretos más irrelevantes de la CIA, y éste se encuentra en manos de dos determinados, pero tontos, empleados de gimnasio, éste dúo es absorto en la explotación de su hallazgo. Pero desde que el chantaje se ha vuelto el mejor trato por parte de los expertos, los acontecimientos pronto irán en una espiral fuera de control, causando una serie continua de eventos divertidísimos".--Envase
State of play ( Visual )
19 editions published between 1985 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 1,695 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A petty thief and a pizza deliveryman are gunned down in an alley. A US Congressman's assistant falls in front of a subway train - three seemingly unrelated deaths. The dead assistant was the chief researcher for Congressman Stephen Collins, spearheading hearings into the role of private security firm PointCorp. She was also his lover. Cal McAffrey, a rumpled, old-school metro reporter at the Washington Globe is covering the first story. He was Collins' college roommate, and had a brief affair with Anne, Collins' wife. Their personal history may be exploited, as Cal spies a conspiracy waiting to be uncovered. Teamed with aspiring young Globe political blogger Della Frye by his crusty editor, evidence begins to pile up, and new pieces start to fall into place. Leads are run down, supporting reporters are brought in, as Cal and Della work together in an attempt to connect the dots before the clock runs out. Cal will discover at least one truth: when fortunes are at stake, no one's integrity, love, or life is safe
Definitely, maybe by Adam Brooks ( Visual )
7 editions published between 2008 and 2012 in English and held by 1,675 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Will Hayes is a 30-something Manhattan dad who is in the midst of a divorce. His 10 year old daughter, Maya, starts to question him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to know absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love. Will's story begins years earlier when, as a young, starry-eyed aspiring politician, he moves to New York in order to work on the Clinton campaign. Will attempts a "PG" version of his romantic relationships with three very different women for his daughter and changes the names of the women so Maya has to guess who he finally married. Maya puts together the pieces of her dad's romantic puzzle and begins to understand that love is not so simple or easy. As Will tells her his tale, Maya helps him to understand that it's definitely never too late to go back, and just maybe, find a happy ending
A serious man by Joel Coen ( Visual )
3 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 1,602 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
One ordinary man's quest to become a serious man. Physics professor Larry Gopnik can't believe his life, His wife is leaving him for his best friend, his unemployed brother won't move off the couch, someone is threatening his career, his kids are a mystery and his neighbor is tormenting him by sunbathing nude. Struggling to make sense of it all, Larry consults three different rabbis and their answers lead him on a twisted journey of faith, family, delinquent behavior, and mortality
Green zone by Paul Greengrass ( Visual )
12 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 1,583 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
During the Iraq war, U.S. Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller leads Mobile Exploitation Team-Delta (MET-D) on a fruitless search of suspected WMD sites. When he wonders out loud why the intelligence is all wrong, he's told not rock the boat. Soon Miller, working with a local Iraqi informant named Freddy, is going after a Ba'athist general named Al-Rawi. CIA agent Martin Brown and journalist Lawrie Dayne share Miller's doubts; each have some pieces to the puzzle. They try to help Miller out, but Department of Defense official Clark Poundstone treats the WMD problem like a PR kerfuffle. When a Delta Force squad is dispatched to intimidate him and shut his team down, Miller's questioning mutates into a quest: to learn the identity and motives of "Magellan," the highly protected source of this faulty information
Big miracle ( Visual )
4 editions published in 2012 in English and held by 1,394 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Based on a true story. A small town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer are joined by rival world superpowers to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle
Wimbledon by Richard Loncraine ( Visual )
6 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 1,244 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An aging male tennis star has one last shot, and two weeks, to win the greatest tennis tournament and the heart of an upcoming women's tennis star
Mr. Bean's holiday by Steve Bendelack ( Visual )
15 editions published between 2007 and 2010 in English and Spanish and held by 1,225 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Mr. Bean enters a church raffle and wins a vacation to France as well as a camcorder. Boarding a Eurostar train and arriving in Paris, the French language proves to be a barrier for Bean. He struggles to catch his train to the south of France. He orders a seafood meal and finds the consumption of the platter to be a challenge. Just before catching his train, he asks Russian film director Emil, who is on his way to be a judge at the Cannes Film festival, to record his boarding. Emil is inadvertedly left behind. Bean attempts to cheer up the director's son, Stepan, as the train continues south. Matters are made more hectic when Emil reports that his son has been kidnapped. Bean heads in the direction of Cannes, but finds himself disrupting a commercial shoot. He and Stepan finally hitch a ride with the young and vivacious actress Sabine who is heading to Cannes. After Bean sneaks into the showing, his camcorder images are destined to enliven the proceedings
Pirate radio ( Visual )
3 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 1,191 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A rogue band of DJs captivate Britain in the 1960s. The music they play defines a generation and the DJs stand up to a government that, incomprehensibly, preferred jazz. The Count is a big, brash, American god of the airwaves; Quentin is the boss of Radio Rock. Radio rock is a pirate radio station situated in the middle of the North Atlantic that's populated by an eclectic crew of rock and roll DJs that include: Gavin, the greatest DJ in Britain who has just returned from his drug tour of America who wants to reclaim his rightful position; Dave, an ironic, intelligent and cruelly funny co-broadcaster; and a fearsome British government official out for blood against the drug takers and lawbreakers of a once-great nation
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Scanning the Savanna searches the web for Detroit Lions news and notes each morning and brings it to your fingertips in one easy location.
If Brandon Pettigrew walks, UNC's Eric Ebron could be option for Lions' first-round pick
Kyle Meinke – MLive.com
North Carolina tight end Eric Ebron, who has drawn comparisons to the star New Orleans tight end, is widely considered the No. 1 prospect at the position for this year's draft. NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock believes Ebron is good enough to warrant a top-10 pick.
Tim and Mike: What to expect from the NFL Combine
Tim Twentyman & Mike O'Hara — DetroitLions.com
Tim Twentyman and Mike O'Hara will be down in Indianapolis for the NFL Scouting Combine and take a look at some of the things they'll have an eye on for the next five days
Lions Gab: Four things the new coaching staff must improve immediately
Anthony Kuehn — Detroit Free Press
Every new coaching staff is replacing a staff that didn't live up to expectations, as such, they usually come in and talk about what they will do differently. Usually these discussions include clichés and vague promises. These coaches never come in and say, "I inherited a total disaster; this is going to take some time to clean up."
The Lions aren't quite a rebuilding team. There have been some glimpses into the coaches' plans for 2014 and there are a few key areas that I believe will significantly improve.
Breaking Down the Detroit Lions Franchise Tag Decisions
Jeff Risdon — Bleacher Report
This is a bit of an unusual year for the Detroit Lions. Most years, there are several free agents the team strongly desires to keep in the den, and the franchise tag is one of the critical tools at its disposal to ensure that valued free agents don't get away.
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