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A listing of news releases from other National Institutes of Health (NIH) institutes and centers, academic and non-profit institutions, and scientists or scientific societies related to NHGRI-funded work.
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- September 29, 2015: New Hope for Undiagnosed, Critically Ill Newborns at Rady Children's
From Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego: In his first week in office, newly recruited�president and CEO of the Rady Pediatric Genomics and Systems Medicine Institute (RPGSMI), Stephen Kingsmore, M.D., D.Sc., will participate in a major announcement. Today in Genome Medicine, Dr. Kingsmore and a team of researchers report whole-genome sequencing for diagnosis in critically ill babies in 26 hours. Prior to this, the fastest genome-based diagnosis was 50 hours, a mark set in 2012. Cutting diagnosis time in half adds precious hours for critically ill infants with unknown conditions whose bodies are rapidly failing. The work was funded by a $6 million grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute.
- September 29, 2015:�Children's Mercy Researchers Achieve 26-Hour Rapid Whole-Genome Sequencing In Critically Ill Infants�
From Children's Mercy, Kansas City: A study published today in�Genome Medicine�describes how researchers at Children's Mercy Kansas City cut in half the time needed for rapid whole-genome sequencing and genetic diagnosis in critically-ill infants, called STAT-Seq. Through a variety of enhancements, the Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine at Children's Mercy completed the STAT-Seq test in 26 hours compared to 50 hours, improving on a turnaround time that was already the fastest available in the world.�Children's Mercy is�one of four pilot projects to explore newborn genomics through funding by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), both parts of the National Institutes of Health.
- September 28, 2015:�A new single-molecule tool to observe enzymes at work
From University of Washington:�A�team of scientists at the University of Washington and the biotechnology company Illumina have created an innovative tool to directly detect the delicate, single-molecule interactions between DNA and enzymatic proteins. Their approach provides a new platform to view and record these nanoscale interactions in real time. As they�report Sept. 28 in Nature Biotechnology, this tool should provide fast and reliable characterization of the different mechanisms cellular proteins use to bind to DNA strands - information that could shed new light on the atomic-scale interactions within our cells and help design new drug therapies against pathogens by targeting enzymes that interact with DNA.�This discovery was made in the process of designing a nanopore system with which to sequence DNA, and the new capability can in turn be used to further improve the enzymes used in that DNA sequencing system.�The research was funded by the Revolutionary Sequencing Technology Development Program - $1,000 Genome - administered by the National Human Genome Research Institute.
- September 21, 2015: Consortium Awarded $12.4 Million to Study Genetic Heart Condition
From The Ohio State University: The Dilated Cardiomyopathy Consortium, led by Dr. Ray Hershberger at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, has been awarded $12.4 million in grant funding by the National Heart Lung Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). The Consortium, composed of researchers at 11 clinical sites, will study the genetic basis of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) over the next five years. The study is called 'Precision Medicine for Dilated Cardiomyopathy in European and African Ancestry. DCM is a condition in which the heart muscle weakens and the left ventricle enlarges. It is the most common cause for patients needing a heart transplant and it is responsible for about one in three cases of heart failure. �
- September 4, 2015: Genetic landscape can impact treatment for children with rare, aggressive cancer
From Geisinger Health System: Two Geisinger researchers, leading a large team of investigators, have been awarded more than $3.5 million as part of a national effort to better understand the genetic basis of disease and to tailor medical care to people based on their genetic makeup. Marc S. Williams, M.D., director of the Genomic Medicine Institute, and Marylyn D. Ritchie, Ph.D., director of biomedical and translational informatics, will spend the next four years combining DNA sequence information and health information in thousands of patients' electronic medical records to study two disorders: familial hypercholesterolemia and chronic rhinosinusitis. They will examine and test approaches to discussing familial hypercholesterolemia genomic sequencing results with patients and families, and also how family members communicate with one another. They also will look at the impact of the environment on chronic rhinosinusitis. The award from the National Institutes of Health was announced this week and is part of the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) network administered by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).
- September 1, 2015: Genetic landscape can impact treatment for children with rare, aggressive cancer
From University of Michigan Health System: For children with rare, aggressive and advanced cancer, precision medicine may help doctors determine their best treatment options, a new study finds. Using information from a patient's entire genome helped suggest personalized treatment options for nearly half of children with cancer, and led to specific treatment changes in a quarter of these patients, according to researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center and C.S. Mott Children's Hospital. The study�includes sequencing the tumor's DNA and RNA as well as normal DNA from children and young adults with cancer that has relapsed or that is rare. Results from the first 102 patients enrolled are published in the September 1 issue of�Journal of the American Medical Association. Funding for this study was provided in part by the National Institutes of Health Clinical Sequencing Exploratory Research (CSER) Consortium.
- August 7, 2015: Scientists adopt new strategy to find Huntington's disease therapies
From the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke: Scientists searched the chromosomes of more than 4,000 Huntington's disease patients and found that DNA repair genes may determine when the neurological symptoms begin. The results may provide a guide for discovering new treatments for Huntington's disease and a roadmap for studying other neurological disorders. For this study, scientists employed a novel application of Genome-Wide Association Study analysis, a technique that scientists typically use to search for single letter changes to the DNA code on patients' chromosomes, which may increase or decrease their chances of having the disease. This work was supported in part by grants from the National Human Genome Research Institute.
- August 3, 2015: Researchers awarded $14 million for two precision health projects
From Stanford School of Medicine: The National Institutes of Health has awarded the Stanford School of Medicine�$14 million in funding for two projects that will advance the practice of precision health. The first grant�is four-year, $10 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to expand their Pharmacogenomics Knowledgebase (PharmGKB). The second grant is a three-year, $4 million grant from the NIGMS and the National Human Genome Research Institute for the Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC), which publishes clinical guidelines that teach healthcare providers how to use information about their patients' genetics to guide and optimize drug prescriptions.
- July 23, 2015: Study: Glioma Tumor's Genetic Profile More Telling Than Physical Appearance
From University of Cincinnati: In a study published the June 10 issue of New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from the researchers from the Brain Tumor Center at the University of Cincinnati (UC) Neuroscience Institute and the UC Cancer Institute discovered that some glioma tumors that appeared to be "lower grade" contained a genetic characteristic that caused them to behave like the most aggressive, high-grade gliomas, also known as glioblastoma multiforme. The study was recently published by the The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) network. TCGA is a joint project of the National Cancer Institute and the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health.
- July 22, 2015: Media Availability: Researchers Identify Promising Therapy for Rare Immune Disorder
From the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: Researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, and the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center report on a promising therapy for people with LRBA deficiency, a rare immune disorder that lacks effective treatments and is caused by mutations in the LRBA gene. The researchers found that the drug abatacept, which is FDA-approved for treating rheumatoid arthritis, may be an effective long-term therapy for LRBA deficiency. Furthermore, the team has discovered that LRBA protein plays a role in limiting the activity of immune cells. This work was supported in part by grants from National Human Genome Research Institute.
- June 18, 2015: Genomic discovery of skin cancer subtypes provides potential 'signpost' for drug targets
From MD Anderson Anderson Cancer Center: As part of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center identified four melanoma subtypes: BRAF, RAS, NF1 and Triple-WT, which were defined by presence or absence of mutations from analysis of samples obtained from 331 patients. The five-year study resulted from an international collaboration of over 300 researchers from more than five countries, including Australia, Germany and Canada. Results from the study were published in the June 18 issue of Cell. The TCGA is a joint project of the National Cancer Institute and the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health.
- June 15, 2015: Vulnerabilities in Genome's 'Dimmer Switches' Should Shed Light on Hundreds of Complex Diseases
From Johns Hopkins Medicine: Up to one-fifth of human DNA act as dimmer switches for nearby genes, but scientists have long been unable to identify precisely which mutations in these genetic control regions really matter in causing common diseases. Now, a decade of work at Johns Hopkins has yielded a computer formula that predicts with far more accuracy than current methods which mutations are likely to have the largest effect on the activity of the dimmer switches, suggesting new targets for diagnosis and treatment of many diseases. A summary of the research will be published online June 15 in the journal Nature Genetics. This work was supported in part by grants from National Human Genome Research Institute.
- June 11, 2015: Reclassifying brain tumors with precision
From Emory University: A ground-breaking study that is part of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network will change the way patients with diffuse gliomas, a form of brain tumor, will be diagnosed and treated in the future. More than 300 researchers from 44 institutions contributed to a molecular analysis of the tumors. They found that molecular diagnostics are much more precise and reproducible than looking at tissue under a microscope for classification. This is a major step in starting to classify and treat brain tumors based on their genetic makeup rather than their microscopic appearance, which has been the traditional diagnostic approach for over 100 years. The findings are published on line in the New England Journal of Medicine. TCGA was launched by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in 2006.
- June 8, 2015: Stanford researchers suss out cancer mutations in genome's dark spots
From Stanford University: Geneticist Michael Snyder, Ph.D., and postdoctoral scholar Collin Melton, Ph.D., recently combined information from The Cancer Genome Atlas, a national effort to sequence and identify mutations in the genomes of many different types of cancers, with data from the national ENCODE Project, which serves as an encyclopedia of DNA functional regions, or elements. Their aim was to better understand the roles that mutations in regulatory regions may play in cancer development. Snyder and Melton found that fewer than one of every thousand mutations in each cancer type occurs in the coding region of a gene. In contrast, more than 30 percent of the mutations occur in regulatory regions. The study was published this morning in Nature Genetics. Both ENCODE and The Cancer Genome Atlas are research programs from NHGRI.
- May 29, 2015: Single-cell analysis hits its stride
From the Broad Institute: The Human Genome Project gave us an incredible foundation from which to understand our potential genetic repertoire. In order to understand the actual roles of particular genes in disease, however, it is not only critical to identify genes, but also to know in which cells the genes are expressed and when. The research was funded in part by NHGRI.
- May 29, 2015: New platforms genetically barcode tens of thousands of cells at a time
From Harvard University: New platforms genetically barcode tens of thousands of cells at a time
John Franklin Enders University professor Matt Kirschner and Steven McCarroll, assistant professor of genetics at HMS, reported this week in separate papers that their labs have developed high-throughput techniques to quickly, easily and inexpensively give every cell in a sample a unique genetic barcode before it goes into the blender. The research was funded in part by NHGRI.
- May 27, 2015: Congressional Action Needed to Optimize Regulation of Genomic Tests
From University of Houston Law: The latest generation of genomic testing offers a chance for significant improvements in patient care, disease prevention and, possibly, even the cost-effectiveness of healthcare. However, Congress needs to act to incentivize the development of the massive data systems that doctors and regulators will need to make these tests safe and effective for patients, according to researchers. The Special Report by Barbara J. Evans, Ph.D., J.D. of the University of Houston Law Center, and Wylie Burke, M.D., Ph.D. and Gail P. Jarvik, M.D., Ph.D, both of the University of Washington School of Medicine, appears ahead of print in the May 27 online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, the leading U.S. journal of original medical research and commentary.
- May 13, 2015: Genome: Unlocking Life's Code Opens May 15 at the St. Louis Science Center
From the St. Louis Science Center: The first state-of-the-art exhibition about genomic science, Genome: Unlocking Life's Code opens May 15, 2015 at the Saint Louis Science Center. The exhibition is the result of a unique partnership of the Smithsonian Institution, NHGRI and the National Institutes of Health.
- April 27, 2015: Study Demonstrates Potential of Rapid Whole-Genome Sequencing in Critically Ill Infants
From Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City: A study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine and presented at the annual Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting reveals the early results of the clinical usefulness of rapid whole-genome sequencing in neonatal and pediatric intensive care units (NICUs and PICUs). Children's Mercy Kansas City's STAT-Seq test helped diagnose a genetic disease in more than one half of 35 critically ill infants tested, compared to just nine percent with standard genetic tests. As a result of receiving a specific disease diagnosis, clinical care was refined in 62 percent of infants, including 19 percent who had a markedly favorable change in treatment, and palliative care was initiated in 33 percent. The results underscore the importance of the larger pilot project to explore newborn genomics, partially funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).
- April 15, 2015: Mathematical Technique Reveals DNA Patterns That Increase Accuracy of Ovarian Cancer Prognosis
From the University of Utah: Nearly anyone touched by ovarian cancer will tell you: it's devastating. It's bad enough that cancer in almost 80 percent of patients reaches advanced stages before diagnosis, and that most patients are expected to die within five years. But just as painfully, roughly one quarter of women diagnosed have no warning that they are resistant to platinum-based chemotherapy, the main line of defense, nor that they will likely have 18 months to live. Now, University of Utah scientists have uncovered patterns of DNA anomalies that predict a woman's outcome significantly better than tumor stage. Published in the journal PLOS ONE, the patterns were discovered by using a new mathematical technique in the analysis of DNA profiles from the Cancer Genome Atlas, a national database containing data from hundreds of ovarian cancer patients.
- March 19, 2015: New understanding of the inner workings of our genetic tool kit should help us make smarter repairs
From the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine: We have made great strides in the past decade in understanding the role of DNA structural components, the so-called epigenetics, but still have major gaps in our understanding of the many roles of RNA. With CIRM-funding, a team headed by Howard Chang at Stanford has gotten around a major hurdle in unlocking this complex issue.
- March 9, 2015: The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA): The next stage
From The Cancer Genome Atlas: The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), the NIH research program that has helped set the standards for characterizing the genomic underpinnings of dozens of cancers on a large scale, is moving to its next phase. TCGA was launched by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in 2006 as a pilot project to comprehensively characterize the genomic and molecular features of ovarian cancer and glioblastoma multiforme. The program grew to include samples from 11,000 patients across 33 tumor types and represents the largest tumor collection ever to be analyzed for key genomic and molecular characteristics.
- March 6, 2015: Unregulated web marketing of genetic tests for personalized cancer care raises concerns in new study
From the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: Websites that market personalized cancer care services often overemphasize their purported benefits and downplay their limitations, and many sites offer genetic tests whose value for guiding cancer treatment has not been shown to be clinically useful, according to a new study from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Internet marketing of cancer-related gene tests is unregulated. Therefore, there is wide variation in how these services are presented - posing a challenge for consumers and their physicians, the researchers reported in the March 5, 2015 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. NHGRI's genetic testing fact sheet was cited by the consumer health website HealthDay as a good resource for information on genetic testing.
- March 4, 2015: Genetically speaking, mammals are more like their fathers
From UNC at Chapel Hill: You might resemble or act more like your mother, but a novel research study from UNC School of Medicine researchers reveals that mammals are genetically more like their dads. Specifically, the research shows that although we inherit equal amounts of genetic mutations from our parents - the mutations that make us who we are instead of some other person - we actually "use" more of the DNA that we inherit from our dads. The National Human Genome Research Institute and the National Institute of Mental Health funded the creation of the UNC Center for Integrated Systems Genetics (CISGen), which contributed to the development and funding of proof of principle experiments for the Collaborative Cross to find genetic and environmental factors important in psychiatry.
- February 18, 2015: Predicting Cancers' Cell of Origin
From Brigham and Women's Hospital: A study led by researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital suggests a new way to trace cancer back to its cell type of origin. By leveraging the epigenome maps produced by the Roadmap Epigenomics Program - a resource of data collected from over 100 cell types - the research team found that the unique genetic landscape of a particular tumor could be used to predict that tumor's cell type of origin. The study, which appears this week in Nature, provides new insights into the early events that shape a cancer, and could have important implications for the many cancer patients for whom the originating site of the cancer is unknown. NHGRI's mission is to fund and explore research in genomics - including epigenomics - that will support discovering the foundation of human health.
- February 18, 2015: New Insights into 3D Genome Organization and Genetic Variability
From the University of California San Diego: While genomics is the study of all of the genes in a cell or organism, epigenomics is the study of all the genomic add-ons and changes that influence gene expression but aren't encoded in the DNA sequence. A variety of new epigenomic information is now available in a collection of studies published Feb. 19 in Nature by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap Epigenomics Program. This information provides a valuable baseline for future studies of the epigenome's role in human development and disease. NHGRI's mission is to fund and explore research in genomics - including epigenomics - that will support discovering the foundation of human health.
- February 18, 2015: NIH-supported researchers map epigenome of more than 100 tissue and cell types
From the National Institutes of Health: Much like mapping the human genome laid the foundations for understanding the genetic basis of human health, new maps of the human epigenome may further unravel the complex links between DNA and disease. The epigenome is part of the machinery that helps direct how genes are turned off and on in different types of cells.Researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health Common Fund's Roadmap Epigenomics Program have mapped the epigenomes of more than 100 types of cells and tissues, providing new insight into which parts of the genome are used to make a particular type of cell. NHGRI's mission is to fund and explore research in genomics - including epigenomics - that will support discovering the foundation of human health.
- February 17, 2015: DNA Sequencer the size of a mobile phone
From the University of California Santa Cruz: Investigators at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute have optimized performance of a mobile-phone-sized MinIONTM DNA sequencer, marketed by Oxford Nanopore. Their work was reported in Nature Methods on February 16, 2015.The MinION device reads individual DNA strands base-by-base as they pass through a nanoscale pore (nanopore) under control of an applied voltage. This process is facilitated by an enzyme bound to the DNA. The study was supported by National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).
- February 13, 2015: Largest ever genome-wide study on body fat and BMI strengthen genetic links to obesity
From the University of North Carolina School of Medicine: There are many reasons why two people with the same diets and exercise regimens can gain different amounts of weight and why fat becomes stored in different parts of their bodies. Now, an international collaboration of scientists, including several from the UNC School of Medicine and the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has helped researchers home in on genetic reasons. Their findings were published in companion papers - genome-wide association studies - in the journal Nature.
- January 29, 2015: Neutron Beams Reveal How Two Potential Pieces of Parkinson's Puzzle Fit
From NIST Center for Neutron Research: A team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), NHGRI's Dr. Ellen Sidransky, have determined how two potentially key pieces of the Parkinson's puzzle fit together, in an effort to reveal how the still poorly understood illness develops and affects its victims.
- January 28, 2015: Evolution of marine mammals to water life converges in some genes
From Baylor College of Medicine: When marine mammals such as whales, dolphins, manatees and walruses moved from land to water, a series of physical abilities --- limbs adapted for swimming, less dense bones that make them more buoyant and a large store of oxygen relative to their body size - made it possible. Yet these animals made the transition from land to water millions of years apart. In a report that appears online in the journal Nature Genetics, an international consortium of researchers that includes those at Baylor College of Medicine looked at the genomes of these four marine mammals and compared them to their closest land kin. The genomes of the whale and dolphin were compared to that of the cow, the walrus to the dog and the manatee to the elephant. NHGRI helped fund the research.
- January 21, 2015: USC neuroscientists lead global ENIGMA consortium to crack brain's genetic code
From University of Southern California: In the largest collaborative study of the brain to date, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) led a global consortium of 190 institutions to identify eight common genetic mutations that appear to age the brain an average of three years. The discovery could lead to targeted therapies and interventions for Alzheimer's disease, autism and other neurological conditions. An international team of roughly 300 scientists known as the Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics through Meta Analysis (ENIGMA) Network pooled brain scans and genetic data worldwide to pinpoint genes that enhance or break down key brain regions in people from 33 countries. This is the first high-profile study since the National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched its Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) centers of excellence in 2014. BD2K involves all institutes at the NIH, including NHGRI.
- January 16, 2015: Penn State and Geisinger announce new collaborative gene research project
From Penn State University: Marylyn Ritchie, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and director of the Center for Systems Genomics in the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences at Penn State University, will lead a collaborative effort between Penn State and Geisinger Research to connect the genome data of 100,000 anonymous patients with their medical histories, in order to identify the genetic and environmental basis of human disease. This new program was developed to harness the data resources being generated through a large-scale DNA-sequencing project at Geisinger in collaboration with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, where at least 100,000 Geisinger patients will be sequenced over the next five years. Dr. Ritchie is is the lead investigator in coordinating the genomic data in the eMERGE network, funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).
- January 14, 2015: Alexander Hoffmann, Douglas Black awarded NIH grant to study immune system's response to pathogens
From UCLA: UCLA professors of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics Alexander Hoffmann and Douglas Black have been awarded a three-year, $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's Genomics of Gene Regulation (GGR) program of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). Hoffman, director of UCLA's new Institute for Quantitative and Computational Biosciences (QC Bio), conducts research to understand and decode the language of the cell. Black, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, studies the regulation of alternative splicing in mammalian cells and the biochemical mechanisms that control changes in splice sites.
- January 7, 2015: NIH teams with industry to develop treatments for Niemann-Pick Type C disease
From the National Institutes of Health: Researchers from the National Institutes of Health have entered into an agreement with biotechnology company Vtesse, Inc., of Gaithersburg, Maryland, to develop treatments for Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC) and other lysosomal storage disorders. Lysosomal storage diseases, also known as lipid storage diseases, comprise about 50 rare inherited disorders that usually affect children. NHGRI scientists contributed to the research.
- January 6, 2015: UMMS receives $6.1 M to develop model for predicting gene expression in human dendritic cells
From University of Massachusetts Medical School: Jeremy Luban, MD, and Manuel Garber, PhD, will be principal investigators on a three-year, $6.1 million grant to develop a model for predicting whether a given gene will be turned on or off under specific conditions. Funding for the grant comes from the recently launched Genomics of Gene Regulation (GGR) program at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health. In total, $28 million in new grants aimed at deciphering the language of gene expression were awarded.
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What ever is going on in the world of archiving and storage on PC's??
My household is comprised of two humans who' re both writers.
Some of the writing we have created goes all the way back to the days of Wordstar files.
One of the things we now depend on is our Memeo "Tetra" byte storage and back up unit.
Over the years, as our personal and business related files have come to comprise over 6 gigs of memory, with M's music and film projects compiling a hundred times more, such a device is of great use.
But here is what is happening:
(Sorry this is so long, but don't know how to quickly and concisely explain it.)
Let's say that two years ago, I hooked the backup unit to the computer that was being used at that time. I find on the Backup Unit (Which our computer considers to be "J" part of My Computer) the folder I want, called "MAF'sBakup2009." That folder contains some 420 megs worth of info. Some of the sub folders are related to computer programs, but many of the sub folders are personal writings and information, etc.
So let's say that say the time that this folder had been put on the "J" device, it had numerous sub folders. Many of them labelled things like "Slam Poetry" or "Stolen Election2004." After those folders were installed onto the "J" device so many years back, I double checked to make sure that the files that I thought should be there were there. They were.
And so two years ago, when searching for a piece of Slam Poetry, I could find it by looking in that subfolder, which Memeo had faithfully preserved.
As time went on, over the last two years, I could transfer the personal files we were needing to a computer we were using, and all the files would transfer.
But as of the last three months, when I attempt to transfer the Big Folder called MAF'sBakup2009, when I click into that folder to find the sub folders - I end up shocked! Only the sub folders representing computer programs are there. So Adobe Illustrator Seven is there, and many other program folders. But the personal folders are not there!
I am talking about hundreds of sub folders!
This does not seem to matter as far as what model, make of computer or OS that I am using.
It is occurring on the one year old Toshiba with Windows Seven that Mark was given as a gift. Today, the last computer to be so badly affected is my old XP that has been upgraded to only use Linux. I could get the personal files on that computer even two months ago, but recently, less than two weeks ago, there was an upgrade to the Linux program and now I cannot!
What is going on? IS THIS A VIRUS, or what?
Any suggestions, ideas or information would be appreciated.
Posted by truedelphi | Thu Oct 1, 2015, 02:57 PM (20 replies)
Random comments abt the Lake County CA Valley fire - as a former evacuee (Just got home!!)
On Sunday Sept 13, at 7Am, I unexpectedly woke up to a huge and threatening sounding pounding on my front door.
In somewhat of a dream state, as I had stayed up until Three Am preparing for a women's festival, I staggered to the door, only to find a young woman I assumed was a local volunteer.
She announced, "Hey, You! The fire is coming our way. Grab up Mark and the animals and get in your car and get out."
The woman then came over and gave me a very grounding hug. Then came the realization that this woman was Jessica, a neighbor who had not spoken to me in three years over a minor but unbearably long lasting dispute.
Above me, the sky was dirty grey and the smoke stench was unbearable. My house is right under a rather towering hillside, limiting my field of vision, so for all I knew the fire that Jessica spoke of was imminent.
In twenty minutes, I did round up my spouse, the three cats, and the dog. Soon I safely put the tetra hard drive back up device into the car, so that the records of twelve years of our running a publishing business would go along with us. I had the HD from my computer, so my short stories and poetry and song writing would also go along. Meanwhile Mark got his meds, and some clothes and his guitar. (Later he would remark, "Honey, why didn't you take your guitar." And I quipped back, "Ya know, the Prius when filled with three cat carriers and a dog is not that big -- if I took my guitar, I would have had to leave you!"
During the twenty minutes we were packing, my landlord, who usually is in the SF Bay Area, well, he showed up to tell us that he could help us for a few minutes. He couldn't stay long - he had guests at their summer home a mile from us and needed to get them out. I was impressed with his looking out for us, but the only thing I could think of was that he drive his big truck into the driveway of my next door neighbors and honk the horn, and if no response, then go up and ring their bell. His doing that meant I could maybe grab some clothes and other items.
The Fire Marshall also came along, and since I hadn't seen the neighbors, I asked he do the same thing. It was more than likely that they were away, since they are always out and about on a Sunday morning, often before 7Am. But I didn't want to leave without ascertaining their house was indeed empty. (And luckily, they don't have any pets.)
Soon we were inside a long procession of cars, pickups and SUV's leaving the Clearlake Riviera neighborhood. It was very orderly.
Once safely out of the area where we were told the fire would hit, we ended up staying with a close friend in her beautiful Upper Lake home. (And four acres for my dog to enjoy!) She was the most gracious host, and our every need and wish was answered by her devotion to us. I now consider her a candidate for sainthood, as she is normally a very private person.
Here are some random thoughts:
If you have experienced your cat experiencing a catastrophe -- one thing you might find surprising about our cats last Sunday - they came in the house the moment I opened the door to find out why my neighbor was banging on my door. They had been out all night, and I put them on the living room couch, and get this! They sat perfectly still on the couch while I went downstairs into the basement and got out the cat carriers and brought them back up to the couch so they could be evacuated with us!
Such uncat-like behavior - What you usually hear about are behaviours of cats threatened by smoke hiding under beds and refusing to come out.
So that is how we were able to bring them along.
Being an evacuee during the computer age means once you have shelter inside a structure with Wi fi, you can plug in the laptop and gain info. We tried to ignore Facebook - too many rumors from local people who thought they knew this or that. We also mostly ignored the radio for the same reason. We did plug into the National Weather website, as the main thing about fire is that it is all wind directed. You can be half a mile from a major fire, but if your property remains "upwind" of the fire, your property can remain unscathed.
We also turned to Cal Fire's website, which remained our main source of news.
Over the hours, we tried to be occupied with small daily chores and chit chatting with our host inside our "new home." The animals needed a great deal of our time, as they were anxious and upset. A lot of phone calls and emails needed to be made. Especially to people who were worried about us, and to those connected to us by business and might not know that we were not able to fulfill any business obligations until we were back in our house, etc.
On Monday night, we went to the Blue Wing Saloon, in Upper Lake and had a rather extravagant dinner while listening to a fabulous blues band. We felt good patronizing this place, as this restaurant is managed and owned by a man who had lowered the prices on his hotel fees to anyone impacted by the fire! (Many hoteliers had raised their prices immediately upon hearing of how many people were displaced!) We also utilized the occasion to treat our host to a good meal out. (She had been preparing many delicious meals for us, and Mark and I worried that we were tiring her out.)
As normally budget conscious people I was amazed how the fact that our world was perhaps ending meant we loosened the purse strings. I also put my diet out the window for the duration.
Tuesday we were allowed some twenty minutes back into our home to gather items we needed but had not gotten to bring with us. We were escorted in and out by Cal Fire personnel, in part to prevent us from either returning to the house to live, or in case we might be looters posing as evacuees. (However, no one asked for our ID!)
Anyway, all day Wednesday, I called and called the Cal Fire local line to see if we could go home. And during dinner tonight at one of our favorite fast food places "Jimmy's" where the best Mediterranean food you can imagine is served - I finally got through to them. (Line was overwhelmed all day. it would ring once or twice and then it would cut out.)
But at 6Pm I finally got through and the young enthused fire volunteer told me in a very perky voice we could go home! (Few words have ever sounded as good!)
It turned out we could have gone home as early as 10Am on Wednesday - we just didn't know it.
Several tragic tales Mark heard while he was at the local gym: one of them involving a man who is devoted herbalist and who has extensive plants and seeds for healing, many of them from the Amazon, plus much research and documentation of what to use for different ailments and who has proven this or that. So his place went up in smoke and he lost his entire seed bank, and all the writing etc. Many herbalogists will truly miss this loss.
Also a 72 year old woman with MS died in the fire on Saturday on Cobb Mountain. So far this is the only human fatality, in both this and the Rocky Ridge fire that consumed some 75,000 acres earlier in July. Apparently the family had hired someone to only work until 3Pm. And this hired helper left at that time, not knowing that the fire would be racing down the hill twenty minutes later, killing her client.
Much blame being assigned to the care giver, not only by herself but by the press. Even the BBC!
Since this has been one of my career paths, I am rather outraged by people's insensitivity over this. For one thing, it is totally irresponsible for a family to not have full time care for a total invalid, at least they should have that full time care during a fire season like this one.
Or they should move the person out of the area to live with them, rather than leaving her in the remote areas of Lake County.
Now also let me make this point: I am certainly not advocating that a caregiver can look at a clock and say, "Well, the fire is headed your way, but too bad for you, I get to go home as my shift is ending." But this is not at all what happened.
We had a sudden wind storm Saturday, the first wind storm in over nine weeks, which is not typical. During most summers, we always have had quite a few windstorms, but luckily we have not had them this summer. During the entire two and a half or three weeks of the Rocky fire, the wind was always under 8 miles an hour. (Otherwise, as bad as it was, it would have been much much worse.) Close to the fire, there were reports of winds as high as 45 miles an hour, but those were winds inside the fire, generated by the fire, and not the overall wind velocity.
Anyway, Saturday's blaze was first noticed around 1:30 Pm, and the wind storm hit about an hour later. Without that burst of wind, the fire would not have traveled at such a rate as to engulf that home without any advance notice. But as it was, the caregiver knew only that there was a fire in the area, and the disabled client had refused to evacuate when some of her friends came by and asked her to leave with them.
This lady was so incapacitated by MS that she was dead weight, so even had the caregiver stayed the extra twenty minutes, I don't know if she could have gotten her out of the home. It is more than likely that then they both would have died.
The other thing is -- this whole area has been so overwhelmed by fire for so much of the
summer that we are all have had moments when we are all blase about it right now. Try and imagine that you have spent your whole summer staying close to home or close to your invalid client because "Maybe the wind will shift and maybe there will be a wind storm." But it doesn't materialize and you start feeling total relief. (I had felt such relief from the moment the Rocky Ridge fire was put out all the way up to 7Am on Sunday morning.)
People who know the caregiver say she is devastated over the client's death. But the press should not allow themselves to run a muck and add to the woman's guilt. Care takers have a rough enough time of it, and the added peculiar situation this caregiver faced is not something that most journalists would ever encounter.
It is also hard for people in a city environment to understand the rural experience. If your neighbor needs to be taken out of her home away from calamity and you live in New York City, you can go across the condo's hallway and ask your neighbor. Here we are separated from our neighbors by acres of nothing.
Mark and I often jokingly tell relatives and friends in big cities that our neighbors are the deer, the squirrels, the birds, possums and skunk. Only it really is not a joke. But try to get a blue jay to flutter down and help you in an emergency and good luck! You will need it.
So the caregiver had no one else to go to to say, "Well, I am leaving for the day - make sure she gets out if for some reason the situation gets worse."
I am feeling so much sympathy for her, and cannot imagine the guilt she feels and the weight of the press analyzing the situation and pointing blame at her.
Anyway, for 72 hours the idea that our house was perhaps gone forever was cause of tremendous anxiety. Right now, to be back in my familiar space, with all the little things in place when I was imagining them all to be lost - I cannot explain the gratitude that I am experiencing right now. Throughout those 72 hours, we heard terrible rumors - that this or that landmark near our home was facing a firestorm, or that an arsonist had been at work using a flare to start a new fire in our community near my home. (This last "rumor" may be true; but I haven't yet gotten a source related to a fire official to explain if it was true or rumor.)
And the icing on the cake is that today it rained. It actually rained rather hard for a bit and maybe those of us in fire country can indeed relax for a while.
Another bit of happiness - the community has pulled together in a big big way. Many restaurants are offering free meals to those who have lost their homes, and even those who are only "evacuees." (Some evacuees did not have time to get their wallets or credit cards, so even some affluent people are without a means to pay.) People are volunteering at the Kelseyville Lions' club, gathering up food donations and helping to get it to those who need it. They are up at the Moose Lodge in Clearlake. They are running the Episcopal Thrift store in Lakeport, where gorgeous and wonderful clothing is given for free to the newly needy. Numerous animal rescue types are gathering up animal carriers to take to the shelters where the evacuees now live, so people with pets can relax a bit.
I will later tonight be posting a list of organizations to donate to, as I feel these local organizations are much better at helping than the Red Cross.
Posted by truedelphi | Thu Sep 17, 2015, 12:13 AM (23 replies)
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Posted by truedelphi | Tue Jul 28, 2015, 06:27 PM (2 replies)
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I just had my comment "Bite me" deleted by a jury decision.
This decision left me a little bit perplexed as having raised a teenager and thus watched a ton of Family Ratings Approved TV shows, many of which had young people addressing their own parents or siblings with that admonishment, I wondered what was going on.
So I did utilize the google to find out that there are two separate definitions for "Bite me"
In one case, it indicates annoyance at another person. (WHICH is where I was coming from. After all, this person I was annoyed with had baited me and had utilized tactics I would consider to be tactics not far removed from those of the Big Lie, also avoided using logic, etc.)
In another it indicates a more vulgar notion.
The URL is here: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/27753/meaning-and-usage-of-bite-me
But in common American useage, (I mean, for Pete's sake - TV shows on before 8Pm that have family ratings!) it is used without any intention of vulgarity - so I don't know why on DU it is considered to be a totally heinous expression. (I do admit I am not always up on things: I was in my late 30's, before I understood what "cut the cheese" meant.)
Do we need to have a glossary of things we can and cannot say?
Posted by truedelphi | Sat Jul 18, 2015, 06:15 PM (1 replies)
Close to one half million living healthy trees to be cut down around San Francisco!!
Close to one half million trees are to be cut down in areas in and around San Francisco.
A healthy living forest has a most natural management system that allows for the dampness of winter rains and then the fog and other moisture available all year long to be held inside the rotting vegetation. Left undisturbed, such a forest system is the reason why a well managed forest usually does not burn down.
Trimming away dead wood and culling the forest so that sick trees are removed
is a good way to manage a forest. This is truly the way to help Mother Nature.
But this latest totally crazy plan will call for cutting tens of thousands of trees, and then - Get THIS! - leave them to dry out and become dangerous fire fodder right where they have been cut.
Full article is here:
From the above URL:
IN BRIEF The plan to cut down over 450,000 healthy trees is an environmental disaster and creates multiple safety hazards. It will not achieve its stated objective of fire danger mitigation because:
1) the hillsides will be made MORE likely to catch fire when living trees are cut down into dead, drying wood LEFT ON THE GROUND as logs and wood chips, and not removed from the hills.
2) fast-growing, flammable plants like thistle, broom and poison oak will flourish post-clearcuts, dry out in summer/autumn, becoming their own fire hazard;
3) thousands of gallons of toxic herbicides Monsanto Roundup and Dow Garlon herbicide will be applied twice/year in perpetuity, leaching into soil, groundwater, mammals, birds, plants, and humans;
4) hundreds of acres of 2-foot-deep piles of wood chips (20% of the 2,000+ acres of treatment area) will be left on the ground. Forests will be turned into ground fuels, capable even of spontaneous combustion.
5) no replanting of any kind is planned, native or otherwise. (Not that saplings could replace large, mature trees anyway.) This is large-scale deforestation, not habitat restoration.
Posted by truedelphi | Thu Jul 16, 2015, 11:02 PM (112 replies)
What is the best webinar hosting company ?
My spouse is using onstreamedia.com
He tested the ability to hold a webinar a week ago - having just one or two friends listen in.
Everything worked well, so he felt confidant that tomorrow, Sunday, he could produce and play his webinar at One PM our time.
Well yesterday he played around and discovered that he was getting error messages, including this one:
The audio connection could not be established. Please contact support.
If you just want to listen to the conference without speaking, you don't have to dial in from your telephone. Simply make sure that your computer speakers are on and that the volume is turned up.
If you want to actively participate in the conference, please dial the number below and follow the instructions you hear on the telephone. You will also need to click here to mute the built-in audio.
By the time he tried to figure out that he could not figure things out, as far as the above issue, it was 3Pm here in Calif, and the support team for onstreamedia.com had gone home for the weekend.
So now he has to tell paying subscribers that he has no ability to offer them the program they had paid for.
We use Windows XP with Mozilla as the browser. But get this: He also tried his brand new HP laptop with Windows Seven, and that didn't work either.
He feels like the settings on the webinar company's end of things have been changed, but the earliest he will have that confirmed would be Monday.
Any thoughts or suggestions? (At least it is a free trial, so he is not paying for the crappy product.) He would really like to switch to a different company!
Posted by truedelphi | Sat Jul 11, 2015, 04:04 PM (0 replies)
Nationally known environmentalist alarms Monsanto - Is this story being suppressed?
Anyone who knows mushrooms knows Paul Stamets.
But what many people do not yet know is that Mr Stamets has filed for patent protection for a significant and revolutionary idea.
However doing so has come with a steep price. He is now being slimed by most pesticide manufacturers, and the entire idea he proposes has been blacklisted by TV and newspaper journalists.
Mushroom researcher and activist challenges Monsanto
In 2006, a patent was granted to a man named Paul Stamets. Though Paul is the worlds leading mycologist, his patent has received very little attention and exposure. Why is that? Stated by executives in the pesticide industry, this patent represents the most disruptive technology we have ever witnessed. And when the executives say disruptive, they are referring to it being disruptive to the chemical pesticides industry.
What has Paul discovered? The mycologist has figured out how to use mother natures own creations to keep insects from destroying crops. Its what is being called SMART pesticides. These pesticides provide safe & nearly permanent solution for controlling over 200,000 species of insects and all thanks to the magic of mushrooms.
Paul does this by taking entomopathogenic Fungi (fungi that destroys insects) and morphs it so it does not produce spores. In turn, this actually attracts the insects who then eat and turn into fungi from the inside out!
This patent has potential to revolutionize the way humans grow crops if it can be allowed to reach mass exposure.
Full article is at below link:
Posted by truedelphi | Wed Jul 8, 2015, 06:26 PM (13 replies)
Big huge Food Repression ALERT for all 37 million Californians!
As some here may be aware of, last summer a most repressive piece of legislation became law, courtesy of the California legislature.
Farmers and Consumers Unite!
In support of small farmers and consumers, the California Grange will sponsor Seed Freedom Day on July 1, 2015.
AB2470 was passed by the California State legislature last summer.
This legislation is super restrictive, and a bad law. It seriously impairs the right of farmers to share and sell their seeds, gives the Secretary of Agriculture authority to decide what foods we can and cannot grow in California's counties and cities, and supports the notion that corporations have the same rights as people.
The legislation makes it illegal for a farmer to distribute their seeds beyond three miles from their farm, unless they adhere to a strict and onerous packaging process. Under this law, a farmer is not allowed to share seeds at a swap meet that takes place more than three miles away, or make a gift of seeds to a friend who lives more than three miles down the road without jumping through the same hoops that a big commercial seed retailer does like Monsanto.
Under AB2470, any ordinance adopted by a county or municipality after January 1, 2015 that would restrict the production of GMO crops is subject to approval by the Secretary of Agriculture.
AB2470 was intended to be a weed abatement bill, warns California Grange President Bob McFarland, but in black & white the bill goes far beyond that purpose and becomes another set of onerous regulations that undermine the work of small farmers. Under this bill, agricultural freedoms that have been practiced by humankind for 10,000 years are aborted.
On July 1, the California Grange will sponsor Seed Freedom Day. Farmers and consumers across the state will celebrate our agricultural heritage. In an act of civil disobedience, farmers will draw a white line exactly three miles from their farm and stand inside that line holding seeds theyve produced. At exactly twelve noon, the farmers and supporters will simultaneously step across the three mile line with seeds in hand, in defiance of the unfair provisions of AB2470.
For more information and to participate in Seed Freedom Day, please go to www.californiagrange.org/seeds or phone the office of the California Grange at (916) 454-5805.
Posted by truedelphi | Tue Jun 30, 2015, 04:51 PM (19 replies)
EPO therapy puts blood and oxygen to the brain - It gets
utilized by athletes in sports (although it is usually illegal to gain advantage in sporting competitions by using it.)
Is it being used in the USA to help elderly people? Is it being used for people with severe anemia, including cancer victims whose treatment leaves them anemic?
EPO stands for Erythropoietin. I know there have been tests on its use done in Europe, and I know this was one of the therapies Lance Armstrong utilized to win his Tour De France cycling adventures.
But is it getting to patients who need it? If not, why not?
Posted by truedelphi | Tue Jun 23, 2015, 05:44 PM (5 replies)
Perhaps the most important, overheard political conversation ever:
Most here are probably unaware of one of our nation's first highly regarded women journalists, a lady named Dorothy Thompson.
Given that we are heading into contentious territory regarding the upcoming Democratic primary, I think her story bears repeating:
George Seldes, who was a Chicago Tribune correspondent during the late Nineteen teens and up until 1929 relates the following conversation that he had with Dorothy Thompson -another news reporter and the wife of Sinclair Lewis:
Thompson told Seldes in 1935 that while en route by ocean liner from France to NYC how a Mr. F. Sinclair, a Big Money Guy, took her away from the table where they were eating to talk privately with her.
"See those folks at the table who were eating with us?" F Sinclair asks Thompson?
"Yes," answers Dorothy.
"Well, all of us are the ones who decide who gets nominated to run for the Presidency and who gets to win that office."
Among those he indicated was an important associate of the Giannini family, who established Bank of America. (Giannini family headed up Bank of America.)
""We give money on both sides of the aisle, so that no matter what, one of our people is always in a place to do our bidding."
"What about FDR?" asked Dorothy.
"Our support for him was a major misjudgement on our part. We saw to it that he had money and of course, we fully expected for him to say the sort of things that he always said. We just didn't expect him to act on those statements."
Sinclair went on to state for the purpose of Thompson's enlightenment that the Inner Circle of Power Brokers was attempting to raise some five to twenty million to defeat FDR in 1936.
But the voting machinery during FDR's era was still non-hackable back in that era. And FDR had millions upon millions of everyday people to vote him back in.
How we progressives could ever get one of our own into office remains to be seen.
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Rumor: Paul Pierce Punched LeBron James After Game Four
File this under "questionable rumors." There's a story spreading on social media that Paul Pierce punched LeBron James in the jaw after the game Monday night, and that ten men (!) had to stop LeBron from killing Pierce. I mean, internet rumor so hard, internet. World Star!
This really is funnier than the time people wanted to believe Blake Griffin slapped a shirtless Justin Bieber in a Starbucks. Seriously, though, we wish that Bieber story were true.
It appears the LeBron rumor began on Media Take Out. The story is as follows:
May 13, 2014: It was going DOWWWWWN last night in Brooklyn after the Miami Heat-Brooklyn game. According to one of our HOMIES THAT PLAYS ON THE BROOKLYN NETS . . . LeBron James and Paul Pierce got into it in the players tunnel after the game. Our source tells us that Paul started talking SLICK . . . and LEBRON said the wrong thing.
Then . . . BLOOP . . . Paul Pierce allegedly (not trying to get anyone fined) PUNCHED LEBRON RIGHT IN HIS JAW. Let us repeat that . .. BRON GOT SNUCK IN THE FACE!!!
According to our insider ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE when LeBron got touched . . . and Bron had to be restrained by up to 10 MEN. We're told LeBron looked like a crazed man!!
Anyways here is the BEST PART . . . somebody got it on cell phone footage. We're in the process of BIDDING FOR THE FOOTAGE right now . . . but TMZ got way deeper pockets than we do. Either way, expect to see it either HERE or THERE before the day is up. If any of y'all wanna give us a couple of dollars . . . . maybe we can BEAT THEM OUT this time. Sheesh, can we get at least ONE of these tapes. #TheirPocketsIsDEEPTho#
OK, first of all, you would think if that many people had to hold LeBron back, you would have heard about it happening by now. You know, because the Miami Heat and its surroundings are sort of paid attention to 24/7.
Second, LeBron James did a postgame presser and looked calm as could be -- no sign whatsoever he was just in a "scrum" in the tunnel. He actually looks tired, which tends to happen sometimes when you score 49 points in 43 minutes.
Is there any chance in the world this happened? Just the other day, LeBron, in response to some of the smack Paul Pierce was talking to the media following the Heat's game-three loss in Brooklyn, said, "I let my game do the talking". He did just that in game four, so to think he felt the need to seek out Pierce and tell him about it in the tunnel afterward is pretty far-fetched.
Everyone have a good laugh? Good. Now let's enjoy the Heat clinching its fourth consecutive Eastern Conference finals tonight. Nothing to see here. Well, unless the cell-phone footage of this is actually real; then there's something else to see, I guess.
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Gabriel Aubry and Olivier Martinez got into a physical altercation at Halle Berry's home on Thursday, Nov. 22, Us Weekly has confirmed.
A Hollywood division watch commander for the LAPD tells Us "the investigation is ongoing" and says "the cause of the fight between the two men is unknown." However, law enforcement sources tell TMZ the fight began when Aubry showed up with his daughter, Nahla, 4, for a custodial handoff to Berry. After Martinez (the Academy Award winner's fiance) reportedly told the model, "We have to move on," Aubry pushed the actor and threw a punch at him.
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The two continued to struggle until Martinez managed to pin Aubry to the ground, according to TMZ. The site also claims Aubry sustained a broken rib, contusions on his face and a possible head injury. Martinez may have broken his hand and suffered neck injuries.
Police were called to make a citizen's arrest for battery against Aubry, 36. The watch commander tells Us that "no one has been booked yet. One man was transported with unknown injuries to a local hospital. I do not know the extent of the injuries or if he remains in the hospital." UPDATE: The Associated Press reports that Aubry was arrested and booked for investigation of battery, a misdemeanor charge; he was released on $20,000 bail, with a court date set for Dec. 13.
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According to Radar Online, Martinez, Aubry and Berry were cordial during a pre-holiday party Nov. 21.
Earlier this month, a judge ruled that Berry, 46, will not be able to move to France full-time with Nahla. Following their April 2010 split, the exes have been engaged in a nasty custody battle.
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Twice-married Berry has been engaged to her Dark Tide costar Martinez, 46, since late 2011. Aubry briefly dated Kim Kardashian in late 2010.
This article originally appeared on Usmagazine.com: Gabriel Aubry Hospitalized, Arrested After Fight With Olivier Martinez at Halle Berry's Home on Thanksgiving
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