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The key wont turn in ignition switch, I can't change the gear (the button is locked sort of). 2000 Plymouth Neon Automatic. Is there a temporary fix to it? Never had this problem before.
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Can you turn the steering wheel? It can be in a lock position. If so, then turn slightly the steering wheel and retry your key.
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Spicy Winter Bread Pudding
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On a fall or winter night or after a holiday dinner, this fruity dessert made with healthy whole-wheat bread will thrill your guests.
Serves: serves 4
- 11/4 cups apple juice
- 4 cloves
- a little freshly grated ginger, or 1/2 tsp powdered ginger
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- good pinch grated nutmeg
- 1 tbsp honey
- 8 oz (250 g) assorted pitted or seedless dried fruit (prunes, apricots, raisins, apples, pears, etc.), washed
- twist of lemon peel
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- Preheat the oven to 325°F (160°C).
- In a saucepan over medium-low heat, stir together the apple juice with the cloves, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and honey.
- When it is boiling, add the fruit and the lemon peel and simmer very gently for about 25 minutes or until the fruit is soft. Drain, saving the juices.
- Meanwhile, grease a heatproof dish, then line with thin slices of bread.
- Fill with the fruit mixture, top with more bread, and pour on enough of the cooking liquid to saturate the bread.
- Sprinkle the top with a little brown sugar and cinnamon. Bake for 20-25 minutes.
- Pour the remaining cooking liquid over the pudding.
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The 5 Most Elaborately Hidden Video Game Easter Eggs
For the most part, secrets in video games are difficult to find, but not impossible. After all, the point of sticking something neat in a video game is for people to find it and bathe in its hot, sticky awesomeness. Some developers, however, prefer to hide their secrets like you would hide your particularly shameful pornography. As a result, it can take years before anyone finds them. Like ...
#5. Underground Duck Racing in Shenmue II
Despite Shenmue's laudable, perhaps excessive, attempts at immersion (who plays games to "realistically" get a part-time job?), there is one moment that breaks it all. We are referring, of course, to the underground duck racing circuit.
That's not Engrish. It's just a totally accurate description of events.
And as you can see, it's quite the dignified affair.
They never mention the ducks in the main game, nor do they even hint at the many ridiculous steps required to find them. To start, you need to talk to two random NPCs on opposite sides of the map, in places you have no reason to visit. Once you speak to them, walk down an obscure back alley, and pick up a bronze medal featuring a schoolgirl's face.
Or pick up actual women from elsewhere in the lot. Your choice.
Whoa there, partner! Don't spend that schoolgirl token at the used-panty machine just yet -- you need to use it to unlock the third floor of a local arcade. Inside the arcade is a fight club featuring the two NPCs you spoke to earlier. You must beat the tar out of them to continue and, of course, they're the toughest fighters in the game. Even though one of them is an unassuming shopkeeper. Once you win, you get the silver medal, and the shopkeeper introduces you to duck racing. You can bet on your favorite duck and everything, but no matter how often you win, you won't get the gold medal until you win with your own duck. Where do you get a duck? Why, from the duck tree, of course!
"Oh great, they're still in season!"
Yep: There's a duck stuck up in a random tree, apparently so drunk it's forgotten it has wings, and it's your job to knock him to the ground. Of course, to even see the duck, you must first catch several leaves from the tree at once. So this whole secret is all really banking on the player having severe, crippling ADHD, basically.
"My greatest regret is that my father didn't live to see this."
#4. The Secret Rules That Control Every Pokemon Game
The Pokemon Company
Since the series debut in 1996, Pokemon has featured hundreds of different creatures that you can abduct and force into combative slavery for your own amusement. Obviously, each species is different, since that's kind of the point. But as it turns out, every single individual Pokemon, even those within the same species, is also different. That's right: Those are unique snowflakes that you're stuffing into tiny, cramped prisons. Each has its own personality, complete with hopes and dreams, or at least, they used to, before you came along ...
And before they came along, you had a personality, hopes, and dreams.
The game's creators pulled this off by installing two hidden statistics that you never see, access, or hear about. Well, not unless you hack the game and change the internal poke-clock, which has been essentially deciding the fate of the game in secret while you toiled away in the long grass, kidnapping squirrels, thinking you're in charge. The statistics are called effort values and individual values (EV and IV if you're nasty.) EV secretly builds each time you defeat another Pokemon, but at least you have some influence over that one. You have less control over IV, which consist of the numbers between zero and 31 assigned at random, yet IV influences every single Pokemon's final stats. In other words, two identical Pokemon born at the same time, raised in the same way, and with the same kill record, will still be different from one another because your machine rolled invisible dice two different ways.
"Pikachu" is Japanese for "illusory choice; the futility of effort."
In short: Life is arbitrary, and you could get hit by a bus tomorrow. Gotta catch 'em all!
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In case 40 or so different Street Fighter games isn't enough Ryu and Ken for you, Capcom generously stuck their signature maneuvers, the Hadouken and Shoryuken, into the first two Mega Man X games. And all you have to do to get them is absolutely everything.
Mega Man X-1 offers up the Hadouken, which is the strongest attack in the game by far. Save for the final boss, it can destroy anything in just one hit. Before you can start your quest for ultimate power, however, you must first collect every single power-up and weapon in the game. Then, return to the Armored Armadillo stage (all the evil robot bosses are also giant animals, like something out of a Luddite zoologist's nightmares) and jump to an off-screen, completely unadvertised platform containing an energy pellet. Grab the pellet and then commit suicide.
Bad pellets'll do that to you, brah.
Seriously, the Hadouken appears only after you've collected the same pellet four times, so you might as well jump to your horrible, violent death and start all over. After three deaths, go back to the cliff, receive your Hadouken, and question exactly how much free time you have on your hands these days.
"I keep a sunlamp on to keep the rickets manageable."
The path to Shoryuken Heaven in Mega Man X-2 is just as insane. First, collect every item in the game again. Then, go to the second stage of Sigma Castle. Freeze a bat in order to climb up an otherwise-inaccessible ladder that just about nobody saw.
Scientifically possible, because of sonar.
Navigate some spikes by freezing more bats (what, you didn't think "frozen bat" was a viable method of locomotion?), jump down a chasm, and slide down the left wall until you fall into a completely hidden passageway. This leads to the Shoryuken that, again, kills just about anything with one hit.
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Is Cohen who had a vasectomy allowed to Bless the congregation? Also marry? What happens if he does marry?
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A man who has undergone a vasectomy is most likely in the category of Petzua Daka (crushed testicles) who is forbidden to marry a regular Jewess per Devarim 23:2 (although this might depend on the specific medical technique used). (See Shulchan Aruch EH 5:8,10.)
The Talmud (Yevamot 76a) discusses whether a Kohein who is a Petzua Dakah can marry a convert. (Note that generally a Petzua Daka can marry a convert, while a Kohein cannot.) It hinges the question on whether בקדושתיה קאי he retains his holy status. The Rambam (Issurei Biah 16:1-2) rules that he may marry a convert because he has lost his holy status, but he still may not marry a Mamzer. The Raavad argues on the Rambam and permits a Petzua Dakah to marry even a Mamzer. The Shulchan Aruch (EH 5:1) rules like the Rambam, while the Rama and Gra rule like the Raavad.
Chelkat Mechokek (EH 5:1) explains that when the Kohein loses his holy status by becoming a Petzua Daka, he loses it entirely and can now visit cemeteries but can no longer bless the people. Keren Orah (Yevamot 76a sv Hen) rejects this thesis and suggests that they only lose their holy status with respect to forbidden relationships. It would seem Bet Shemuel (EH 5:1) agrees, because he maintains that a Kohein Petzua Dakah retains the prohibition to divorcees and Zonot.
I'll note that the fact that he has a physical deformity does not alone prevent him from blessing the people as the Shulchan Aruch (OC 128:30) rules that only external visible deformities are problematic in this regard.
Ariel correctly points out that many vasectomies are reversible. The Shulchan Aruch (EH 5:4) is clear that if a Petzua Daka's problem is reversed, he reverts back to being a Kosher Jew. That said some (see Shu"t Chatam Sofer EH 1:14) argue that were this to be possible in a given man, then it will turn out he has always been a Kosher Jew. Accordingly, if there is a chance of reversal of the vasectomy, the Kohein Petzua Dakah shouldn't marry a convert or Mamzer lest it be reversible, nor should he marry a regular Jewess lest it not be reversible.
This is what the Rabbis Answeredabout Marrying with a Vasectomy The vasectomy procedure is done on the vas deferens (many, if not most times) inside the body cavity (as opposed to the sexual organ extremities). The person is therefore not considered a "Petzuah Dakah" of the Torah, and may marrry or remain with his wife if they had a proper orthodox marriage – (source: "Chazon Ish" E.H. 12:7). If the vasectomy was done on the outer organs, then if reconstruction surgery repairs the vasectomy damage, he may marry or remain with his wife (if he was married). If the reconstruction surgery is not successful, but the majority of the people who have the reconstruction surgery are able to procreate, then even the person who did not have successful reconstruction surgery is still allowed to marry, or remain with his wife (if they had a proper orthodox marriage) – (source: "Igrot Moshe" by R' M.Feinstein, E.H. IV 30).


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The Charlotte 49ers men's tennis team released their 2013 Fall Tournament Schedule. Coach Billy Boykin, who is in his fourth year at the helm of the 49ers men's tennis program, welcomes back nine letterwinners off a 2013 team which won 14 matches and reached the Atlantic 10 Tournament Semifinals. All-Atlantic 10 selections Alex Calott, Paul Cisti, Kamil Khalil, Jordi Massalle Ferrer and Jack Williams headline the returning letterwinners.
"We're looking forward to a productive fall season," Boykin said. "The events we're playing this fall will feature some of the top teams in the nation and will surely motivate and challenge our team. I'm excited to see our team grow together over the course of the fall semester."
The 49ers begin their fall schedule at the Southern Intercollegiates at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, September 13-16. For the second straight season, the 49ers will highlight the beautiful Halton-Wagner Tennis Complex by hosting the 49ers Invitational, September 27-29.
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Can the old trick of putting biscuits (cookies or crackers to Americans) in a plastic bag and hitting them with a rolling pin be improved upon?
Generally, I've only heard of the plastic bag or the food processor.
I have seen people who just bash the packet of biscuits on the kitchen top. Jamie Oliver likes to do that with slabs of chocolate!
Otherwise use a heavy duty snack-lock bag or else wrap the plastic bag in a tea towel.
It helps to have a small hole for the air to escape.
If neither a rolling pin or food processor are available substitute a wine bottle or large can of juice.
Why? It's quick, easy, and effective. If you're looking to avoid wasting a bag, then the food processor works well enough... But then you have a food processor to clean!
One suggestion: use a heavy rolling pin. I have a marble pin that's too awkward for most pastries, but works great for this: I don't really have to "beat" so much as just drop lightly and then roll...
I put the biscuits in a bowl, and mash them with a potato masher. It works well.
I prefer to put them in the food processor and pulse until I get the desired consistency.
I think the method can be improved the following ways but I don't have much call for crushed cookies myself, so if any of them don't work please let us know. Anyway, seems that what you need to cruch cookies/biscuits is some sort of crusher, something to prevent crumbs from flying all over your kitchen, and an easy way to transport the results around your work area.
In the original the plastic bag serves the purpose of the crumb catcher. You could use cheesecloth or a clean tea towel as a crumb catcher but those options don't seal and they pose a problem for the transportaion issue so I would say the plastic stays as the best of that part of the equation.
As the crusher, I find a rolling pin to be a poor one. Low curved surface area on your crusher just isn't what your looking for. I would suggest reaching for the best thing for pounding in your kitchen - your cast iron pan. It's heavy and nice and flat with a huge surface area, perfect for all you crushing needs.
Of course, we may not need even that, if your cookies are safely in a bag. You could just slam the bag into the counter top until you're left with the proper consistency. That seems labor intensive though, but maybe theraputic as well.
Also, a food processor like everyone else said is a great option.
I was making some lemon slice recently, and broke up my Marie biscuits by hand into small pieces and then whizzed them up in a foot processor for a bit. If you don't have a food processor -- maybe try gently breaking them up in a mortar and pestle?
I just put them in an air-tight bag and instead of being such a drama queen and bashing the bag, I roll over them with the rolling pin. Quicker, cleaner and much quieter :)
Other suggestions (mentioned here):
I have used a mortar and pestle before when I had no food processor. It worked fine.
Another option is to just get a big knife and chop like you might with vegetables.


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Bascially, this is chickpea pot pie meets whole wheat biscuits. It was easy to make, and the kids loved it. 'Nuff said.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Biscuits n' Chickpeas n' Gravy
Bascially, this is chickpea pot pie meets whole wheat biscuits. It was easy to make, and the kids loved it. 'Nuff said.
Posted by Vegan Dad at 10:23 PM
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- Kristine said...
Vegan Dad!
Long (looong) time reader, first time commenter (I think). My internet has been so screwy lately, and I haven't been able to hold on to a good connection long enough to blog in my own blog...but I decided today to use what little internet time I can muster to let you know that this recipe and photograph just about made me pee in my pants with excitement! I just got overwhelmingly hungry and in the mood for a huge plate of these (with maybe a huge glass of barolo to accompany. I know, I'm so classy). THANK you SO SO SO much for inspiring me this evening. I must go clean the drool from my keyboard now.
- February 27, 2008 at 2:45 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
While spontaneous urination is generally not the reposne I am hoping to get with my food, I am glad to have inspired you. :)
- February 27, 2008 at 3:46 PM
- pleasantly plump vegan said...
looks great
- February 27, 2008 at 6:22 PM
- colleen said...
Now I know what I'm making for dinner tonight -- thanks! After almost two weeks of flu at this house, we're finally ready to cook again, and this looks comforting, easy, and yummy :)
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What format do you want the export to be? The existing format is sqlite, so you can convert it to ASCII like so:
For step one, you can jailbreak and then scp, or you can just search your backup folder for the file, no jailbreak required.
If your phone is not jailbroken, look on OS X in:
And, in my case, and according to various web sources, although not in all cases, is named:
To answer your other questions: Any OS, Free, Successful.
AllYourTexts - free - Windows
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I was looking for a solution to this myself and I was unhappy with the 3rd party offerings. I felt like they were overpriced or poorly designed, so I wrote my own.
I rely on PhoneView which you correctly note is a Mac OS X only paid solution.
It has always been updated very quickly by the developers each time a new iOS is released. I even received support several times for pre-release / beta versions of iOS and iTunes. Support emails are promptly answered and I have twice received custom builds from them to resolve issues using their product with pre-release iOS versions to assist me in managing the devices I use for iOS development.
I've used PhoneView to save data from a phone that iTunes said was broken and could only be erased and then restored. It's been a reliable swiss army knife for me filling in many gaps that iTunes and Xcode leave for managing iOS devices.
I used CopyTrans Contacts for Windows (not sure whether it also operates on Mac) to export my iPhone SMS and iMessage text messages to my PC.
Here is where I found out about the tool: How to export iPhone SMS
I do not know the price as I used their free version to export all of my 100+ messages I think you have to pay if you want to export a really large number of SMS text messages.
A windows software solution is Save The Message
The software is free (trial) however the costs after the 30 day trial are $9.99 for a basic account, $99 for a professional" account.
I'm on windows and I bought Decipher Text Message (Mac $7, Windows $10). It did the trick for my needs and backed up all my work sms messages from my iphone. My girlfriend uses it too however, she is on a mac. The cool thing is that the program also saved my sms images, which I hadn't even expected. Has anyone tried any of the other tools?? Curious about them.
Believe it or not, there's an app for that!
The app SMS Export ($4.99) will allow you to export your SMS to the software on both your Mac and Windows.
You can make a back-up of your entire SMS-database or export the SMS-messages to your computer:
Backuptrans iPhone SMS Backup & Restore for Windows
Backuptrans iPhone SMS Backup & Restore for OS X
It can backup iPhone SMS and More importantly Restore SMS back to iPhone or even to a new iPhone.
My destination for the export was a new Smasung Galaxy Note, so the Samsung Kies software (eventually) managed to import the SMSs from an unencrypted iPhone backup. Kies is free for Samsung phones. It was necessary to 'update drivers' from one of the menus in Kies before this worked for me. Kies also prevents me running Android File Transfer on 10.8, so I uninstalled Kies once the import was complete.
Otherwise, I've successfully used DiskAid on the Mac to export my SMSs to a flat text file. A useful reference, but I'd rather it exported a friendly (ie standard) SQLite database so I could easily use the data elsewhere.
DiskAid is $29.90 at the time of answer, but they also offer free educational licenses to folk with email addresses at tertiary institutions.
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Please enter your password. Again I'm asked for this minor piece of information before I can proceed with an online transaction.
The trouble is, I do not remember my password. It seems like such a simple thing – a little word with some numbers thrown in, right? But it escapes me once again. My husband tells me to write them down – all of them.
If I counted the number of passwords I needed to go about a normal workday, you might not believe me. Or maybe you are super organized and have this stuff down pat.
I recall when "Password" was just a popular TV game show.
For me it starts at the home computer. I usually have to "switch users," as my husband uses this home device more than I do. Then a password to enter and so on. If I want to check my balance on a credit card account, another password, of course, different than the first two I just entered, is required.
Then on to the office. I slide into my chair and face the screen. You guessed it, still another password is necessary to start my computer.
To sign up for various accounts or to comment on another website – you guessed it, I need to enter a password! Sometimes I am given about 10 seconds to come up with a suitable word/number combination. You would think that would be easy for someone who makes a living with words, but guess again.
Experts tell you never to use the same password for everything. And don't be obvious such as using your phone number or address.
Adding your high school graduation year is too common as well. Apparently those nameless, faceless computer hackers love those little clues about our lives and make bad use of such information.
Didn't that just happen to some government-sensitive materials?
Anything geared at making our lives better comes with a password. Cell phones require it and the various things your do on your mobile phones also insist on security password codes. Facebook, with a billion users or so, demands passwords.
Remember when the only two important pieces of necessary information you needed were your telephone and Social Security numbers? If you ordered something through the Sears catalogue, the store simply needed your name and address.
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There are some daily tasks I am too lazy to do: simple cleaning, washing dishes, etc. When I have no other pressing tasks, I end up not doing these simple tasks. However, when I have something coming up; i.e. an exam to study for, I tend to avoid starting to study by doing these simple tasks instead. I think "I can't focus on studying if my room is messy," or something along those lines. It there a way to manipulate this type of thinking to trick myself into doing simple day-to-day tasks without having more substantial tasks to complete?
I will block out time on my calendar each day for similar tasks. For example, in my practice I am not the best at returning calls, so I block out time day for making and returning calls. If you accept that everything on your calendar is an promise, either to yourself or someone else (in the case of an appointment), you might find it much easier to know out these tasks.
Along these lines, the technique detailed here (a modified version of the Pomodoro method) could help.
The answer provided by @aszekely is perfect. I will just add some tips I derived form my own experience of fighting (successful) with procrastination - and daily routine in particular.
Try ... buying a plant (flower)!
As far as I can judge from your question, what you want is to try to produce the same psychological effect for completing small tasks as if you were under pressure, whilst actually you are not. For many people it is difficult to keep promises when they promised something just to themselves. People need to have somebody or something they can take care of. But you obviously live alone, so if you don't want to make yourself happy or just feel comfortable with how things are now, then you should try to create better surroundings for other living things (in this case, a flower). Of course this sounds crazy, but it somehow helps.
Another reason is that nice flowers and unwashed dishes just don't match. If you are esthetic, you just couldn't bear this. A beautiful flower will keep you alert and make you do tasks that you are normally just lazy to do. This is a sort of psychological stimulation, when, instead of saying "I can't buy myself a flower, how ironic it will look in my messy room!" you just go and buy it, and think "It looks ironic that I bought myself a flower when my room is so messy! I need to clean it!".
Note that in the previous idea, a plant can be interchanged with whatever you like : posters on walls, books, soap, new clothes ("How ironic it is that I buy myself new clothes while the older ones are not washed!") etc. Just think of what thing you adore and buy it! So basically try to figure out what you like the most and use this as a motivation. This works better than the idea "I will buy myself this thing if I clean my room".
To sum both points up: "I can't make anybody happy if I am not even able to take care of a plant". Which implies you need to clean your room.
Just remember that there is always a "more substantial task", but sometimes people forget about it.
For me listening audiobooks works best.
On normal free time I can't do that, because I'm usually falling asleep and losing track of plot. On the other hand, I'm also losing track of the plot when I'm doing creative work. But time when I'm washing dishes, cleaning a room, or preparing meals is perfect for listening to an audiobook. If the book is interesting, the trick works like this: "This book is so cool that I need to listen to it a bit more. So I will wash dishes and clean a room so as not fall asleep like I would when I would just sit on couch."
The problem is that book should be cool enough to gain my attention but not so cool that I would drop everything from my schedule to just listen it more :)
Build it into a habit. Set up a cue for it, e.g. Friday night. Set a reward, e.g. an episode of your favorite show, a favorite game, or a special dessert. Then do the task upon the cue and end it with the reward. In time, you'll automatically do it.
Note that the reward is critical to this, but it doesn't have to be a major one. Febreze is sold almost entirely based on rewarding housewives for cleaning up the house, and that's also what things like the foam in toothpastes and shampoos are added for.
I find that a good time to do tedious work like laundry is at the end of the day, when you're too tired to think but want to do something. I found it very frustrating to use up a lot of my alert, active time like Sunday/Saturday mornings.
I listen to loads of interesting podcasts when I can't avoid doing slave work. That way my main activity is listening to the podcast, and I'm just doing some unpleasant stuff at the same time.


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I used the Reiser4 fs for some time and would love to see it get into the mainline kernel. I would think the project can still go forward even if Hans is not able to contribute these days. Is there any mention on a mailing list or elsewhere of plans to get Reiser4 into the mainline kernel?
The reason isn't so much technical or necessarily political, but perhaps pragmatic. Edward Shishkin says that before it goes mainline it needs vendor support
Hello Michael. I don't see any technical obstacles for Reiser4 inclusion. There are only organisation ones: I don't think it will be accepted without support from some vendor. One company might have an interest in developing Reiser4, as they said, however, there is no essential progress in this direction for now.. Thanks, Edward.
Perhaps that's true, but after Hans Reiser was convicted of murder in 2007, the company he founded and operated that was truly responsible for the filesystem code stopped operating, and things seemed to quickly grind to a halt.
Apparently Edward Shishkin is the current maintainer, or at least appears to be. He's noted a few times since 2009 that he wanted to push for mainline in the 2011-ish timeframe, with the last message suggesting the goal was back in January. The last Reiser4 patch is for kernel 2.6.38, while 2.6.39 is the current version and
In the linked mailing list message, it's clear that proposing Reiser4 for being mainlined isn't necessarily a political challenge, but is at least a technical one. In the linked mailing list post, Edward noted that:
It's not clear if this is done or not.


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It would greatly increase the repeatability of camera positioning and approached NN5+RD(x) setups to the templatability.
Nikon D200 and D300 which I used with NN stuff require minor modifications of current camera plate design - enlarge it a little and add a pin! It would increase the production cost on a couple of bucks, which I (and many customers) would gladly pay.
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My Samyang 7.5mm MicroFourThirds arrived today, and boy, is it small...
And of course I went out for a first pano.
After a quick calibration on the NN3 and in very dull weather (a bit of drizzle) this is the result.
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So I think it is a powerful little lens (considering the price) which can live happily on top of a pole.
The lens itself weighs 174 grams and together with my Olympus E-P1 the combo weighs 580 grams.
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Seven score and ten years ago...
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
In his anti-biography of St. Augustine, James O'Donnell has these two evocative paragraphs:
The Lincoln Memorial is a good place to go to think about Augustine. Nothing we know suggests that Abraham Lincoln was a particularly happy or well-adjusted man. His life was full of failures, personal and professional. His side won a war that it had seized almost every opportunity to lose.
But if you go up those steps and enter that space, you find yourself between two panels of words. One contains the Gettysburg Address, the other his second inaugural address. Those short texts have a fiery power that leaps across a century and a half. Go there of a Sunday afternoon and there will always be a half-dozen people standing or sitting quietly in alcoves, just reading those texts, slowly, carefully, from beginning to end, and going off thoughtfully afterwards.
And here is the Gettysburg Address as President Eisenhower might have delivered it–a parody written by Oliver Jensen, a journalist who later founded and edited American Heritage and who must have attended too many of Eisenhower's press conferences:
I haven't checked these figures but 87 years ago, I think it was, a number of individuals organized a governmental set-up here in this country, I believe it covered certain Eastern areas, with this idea they were following up based on a sort of national independence arrangement and the program that every individual is just as good as every other individual. Well, now, of course, we are dealing with this big difference of opinion, civil disturbance you might say, although I don't like to appear to take sides or name any individuals, and the point is naturally to check up, by actual experience in the field, to see whether any governmental set-up with a basis like the one I was mentioning has any validity and find out whether that dedication by those early individuals will pay off in lasting values and things of that kind. . . . But if you look at the over-all picture of this, we can't pay any tribute - we can't sanctify this area, you might say - we can't hallow according to whatever individual creeds or faiths or sort of religious outlooks are involved like I said about this particular area. It was those individuals themselves, including the enlisted men, very brave individuals, who have given the religious character to the area. The way I see it, the rest of the world will not remember any statements issued here but it will never forget how these men put their shoulders to the wheel and carried this idea down the fairway. Now frankly, our job, the living individuals' job here is to pick up the burden and sink the putt they made these big efforts here for. It is our job to get on with the assignment - and from these deceased fine individuals to take extra inspiration, you could call it, for the same theories about the set-up for which they made such a big contribution. We have to make up our minds right here and now, as I see it, that they didn't put out all that blood, perspiration and - well - that they didn't just make a dry run here, and that all of us here, under God, that is, the God of our choice, shall beef up this idea about freedom and liberty and those kind of arrangements, and that government of all individuals, by all individuals and for the individuals, shall not pass out of the world-picture.
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The Patriot-News of Harrisburg marked the occasion by correcting its earlier editorial judgment. In 1863 the paper (then the Patriot & Union) panned the speech. Now they officially regret the error:
Our predecessors, perhaps under the influence of partisanship, or of strong drink, as was common in the profession at the time, called President Lincoln's words "silly remarks," deserving "a veil of oblivion," apparently believing it an indifferent and altogether ordinary message, unremarkable in eloquence and uninspiring in its brevity.
In the fullness of time, we have come to a different conclusion.
They have also republished the original editorial on the ceremonies at the Gettysburg battlefield, which is a fascinating document. The Patriot & Union's editors weren't simply dismissive of Lincoln's remarks because of their brevity or simplicity, although there is an element of condescension -- and indeed outright contempt -- for the president's intellectual abilities. However, the bulk of the commentary is an expression of disgust toward the ceremony itself. The editors felt that the memorializing of the fallen was insincere, a distasteful act of political calculation. I'd heard that people found Lincoln's remarks inappropriately brief and unadorned. This perspective, however, isn't part of the legend as I've heard it, and it strikes me as not only surprising but surprisingly modern:
[H]ow was it with the chief actors in the pageant, who had no dead buried, or to be buried there; from none of whose loins had sprung a solitary hero, living or dead, of this war which was begotten of their fanaticism and has been ruled by their whims?...
They stood there, upon that ground, not with hearts stricken with grief or elated by ideas of true glory, but coldly calculating the political advantages which might be derived from the solemn ceremonies of the dedication....
On that ground which should have been sacred from the pollution of politics, even the highest magnate in the land, next to the President himself [i.e., the secretary of state], did not hesitate to proclaim the political policy and fixed purpose of the administration; a policy which if adhered to will require more ground than Gettysburg to hold our dead, and which must end in the ruin of the nation.
To paraphrase Abe: "You can please all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot please all of the people all of the time". He truly is though quite a remarkable man and he had his own demons of depression and melancholy to wrestle with. Ironically, one of the greatest leaders of all times, in all countries would probably not have fared well in our media saturated age. But America is lucky to claim him as their own!
Still, I like Ike and have to love that paraphrase!
I've rea that the Gettysburg Address is now being taught as poetry in some American colleges. It certainly has some of the characteristics of great poetry -- simplicity plus at the same time it is miraculously crammed full of highly important meaning, not to mention the strong free verse rhythm of the words which intensify the meaning and the resolve.
As a combination of narrative plus a committment or binding, it's a "performative utterance". It not only *says* something, it *does* something, which is much more powerful than merely saying something. In Lincoln's case it committed the people to continuing the struggle for justice and continuing unity of the country. Such use of words is like taking an oath which both says and binds the speaker, and like the very words of the Consecration of the Mass which say what is going on but also cause the presence of the Lord in the community in a special way. It wasn't just a speech.
On several occasions I've read the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural on the walls of the Lincoln Memorial, and it's always been a moving experience for me. Not bad speeches for a man who had but two years total of formal schooling, but who had internalized the rhythms and language of the King James Bible and Shakespeare from repeated readings on his own. Garry Wills's excellent book on the Gettysburg Address reveals just how finely crafted that speech was.
And while Eisenhower was far from the wordsmith Lincoln was, he didn't give a half-bad speech (massaged by speechwriters no doubt) on the 100th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address on 11/19/63, filling in for President Kennedy who made the fateful trip to Dallas at least in part to quell political fires in his VP's home state.
Eisenhower's speech in its entirety:
"We mark today the centennial of an immortal address. We stand where Abraham Lincoln stood as, a century ago, he gave to the world words as moving in their solemn cadence as they are timeless in their meaning. Little wonder it is that, as here we sense his deep dedication to freedom, our own dedication takes added strength.
Lincoln had faith that the ancient drums of Gettysburg, throbbing mutual defiance from the battle lines of the blue and the gray, would one day beat in unison, to summon a people, happily united in peace, to fulfill, generation by generation, a noble destiny. His faith has been justified - but the unfinished work of which he spoke in 1863 is still unfinished; because of human frailty, it always will be.
Where we see the serenity with which time has invested this hallowed ground, Lincoln saw the scarred earth and felt the press of personal grief. Yet he lifted his eyes to the future, the future that is our present. He foresaw a new birth of freedom, a freedom and equality for all which, under God, would restore the purpose and meaning of America, defining a goal that challenges each of us to attain his full stature of citizenship.
We read Lincoln's sentiments, we ponder his words - the beauty of the sentiments he expressed enthralls us; the majesty of his words holds us spellbound - but we have not paid to his message its just tribute until we - ourselves - live it. For well he knew that to live for country is a duty, as demanding as is the readiness to die for it. So long as this truth remains our guiding light, self-government in this nation will never die.
True to democracy's basic principle that all are created equal and endowed by the Creator with priceless human rights, the good citizen now, as always before, is called upon to defend the rights of others as he does his own; to subordinate self to the country's good; to refuse to take the easy way today that may invite national disaster tomorrow; to accept the truth that the work still to be done awaits his doing.
On this day of commemoration, Lincoln still asks of each of us, as clearly as he did of those who heard his words a century ago, to give that increased devotion to the cause for which soldiers in all our wars have given the last full measure of devotion. Our answer, the only worthy one we can render to the memory of the great emancipator, is ever to defend, protect and pass on unblemished, to coming generations the heritage - the trust - that Abraham Lincoln, and all the ghostly legions of patriots of the past, with unflinching faith in their God, have bequeathed to us - a nation free, with liberty, dignity, and justice for all."
I'd just add for those interested in more about Lincoln's oratory, Ronald C. White Jr. has written two very good books (in addition to his excellent biography of Lincoln) that focus on Lincoln's rhetorical skills: "Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural" and "The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words."
The NYT's Disunion feature this morning is about "The Other Gettysburg Address," the day's main oration, delivered at great length and after much preparation by Edward Everett.
The rest, as they say, is history. Some prescient observers sensed the power of Lincoln's achievement immediately. Everett was among them. The next day, he wrote to Lincoln: "I should be glad, if I could flatter myself, that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes." Lincoln replied gracefully.
Thanks for this post, Joe. There is another quote from O'Donnell on the same page which is spectacular. Talking about the words of LIncoln and Augustine, O'Donnell writes: "They can still sneak up on the unwary and overwhelm them with insights so persuasive and so beautifully expressed as to seem to defeat all debate. And even if the persuastion is resisted, the persuasivenss and the beauty remain undeniable. Accomplishment like that transcends its moment, is rewritten regularly, and persists because of its ability to remake itself." Lincoln, Augustine and Kennedy were deeply flawed men. Yet their ability to express themselves, along with our need for heroes/saints, makes us want to idolize them and give them immortality. It is far from certain that the savage Civil War was necessary, and quite dubious that a man who told us we could kill Christians and that babies would go to hell was in the right frame of mind. JFK had serious character defects.
It is heresy to criticize them. Yet all three are idolized beyond credibility. The need for heroes overrules veracity. It is this kiind of thinking that gets us into wars like Iraq. The reason it took the Boston Globe and the courts to persuade Catholics that there was a serious pedophilia problem among the clergy.
A note on O'Donnell and Catholic scholars. They loved his work on the Confessions which made it easy to teach in their courses and write about in their books. But in his monumental work, "Augustine" they ran for cover as if candy was taken away from them. Too lazy to decipher a brilliantly original work and give up long held beliefs. .
Bill, thanks for updating us as to these men's character flaws. Could you please tell me the flaws of the following historical figures?
- Hamilcar Barca
- Æthelred the Unready
- Jim Henson
- Louis Blériot
- Orville Redenbacher
- Anne of Cleves
- Robin Gibb
It's good to have an expert on hand.
Nemo dat quod not habet. Or if you prefer: ex nihilo nihil fit.
Thanks so much for being solicitious to learn.


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They say that the best revenge is living well. And that's probably true, but you know what's even better? REVENGE. Nothing scratches the itch of injustice like a giant flaming ax made out of vengeance. Just ask any of the following folks. They'll tell you that there just ain't no wrath like cold-blooded wrath, 'cause cold-blooded wrath don't stop ... until those who have wronged you are dead, dead, dead.
#5. Princess Olga of Kiev
In 10th century Kiev, Princess Olga was married to Prince Igor. She lived an idyllic 10th century princess life, which was presumably slightly less plague- and parasite-infested than normal life -- until 945, when Igor, out collecting tribute from the neighboring Drevlians, was killed. Because her son was too young to take the throne, Olga took over as ruler of the Kievan Rus' Kingdom.
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God decreed that she kick ass and chew bubblegum. But the Kingdom of Man was all out of bubblegum.
As a ruler, the Drevlians considered Olga a pushover -- an unwed woman, ha! -- and because marriage would unite the two areas under their rule, the Drevlians sent suitors to make something useful out of the princess: a wife. Still wrapped up in a soft, Downy blanket of rage, Olga managed to put on her party smile and welcomed the visitors. She told her noble suitors that her people would carry them in their boats to the castle, so they wouldn't have to walk. And they did. But when they got to the castle's courtyard, the carriers dumped the suitors, boat and all, into a giant trench. Olga, smiling, had them all buried alive.
10th century Russian catfishing was serious business.
Sending word that she had accepted the proposal, even more Drevlians came down to help prepare the wedding. They were sent to a bathhouse when they arrived, where the doors were immediately barred behind them, and the whole building was set on fire. Still not getting the hint, several more Drevlian dignitaries came over to attend the funeral. Apparently not the least bit worried about the freshly dug mass grave or the smoldering remains of a bathhouse, the Drevlians got their mournful drink on. With every Drevlian well past drunk, even by Russian standards, Olga stepped in and killed them. Five thousand of them, to be exact.
And yet, Olga still wasn't done. She now directed her wrath to the Drevlian capital city itself. When an all-out assault didn't work, Olga offered a gesture of peace. If all the houses in the city gave her a token tribute -- a few measly doves -- she would leave the next day. They gladly acquiesced and delivered the birds. That night, while the city slept, Olga had hot coals attached to the birds' feet with strings, and then sent them all home. The entire city burst into flames. She then killed, enslaved, or extorted everybody who passed her trying to flee the fire.
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"So, uh, does this mean the whole marriage thing is off?"
Olga ruled both hers and her newly conquered kingdoms until her death in 969, helping spread Russian Orthodoxy throughout the land. In honor of this accomplishment, the church later made her a saint. We'd make a joke about the apparently low standards of sainthood back in the day, but honestly, if we were the church, we'd have done the same thing. You just do not piss off a Russian princess.
#4. Benjamin L. Salomon
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In 1937, Benjamin L. Salomon became a dentist. He had a bright, if boring, career path in front of him. Then, in 1940, he was drafted into the Army. You can imagine his trepidation: Oh god, what is a mild-mannered dentist going to do against the friggin' Axis?! Luckily, by the time war was declared, Salomon was transferred over to the Army Dental Corps. He eventually reached the rank of Captain -- and all by staying behind the lines helping keep teeth clean. At this point in Salomon's life, the most badass thing he'd ever done was give a perfect root canal.
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"And a handful of non-consensual cavity removals."
Then shit got real: Salomon was sent to Saipan in the Pacific Theater, where he served as an impromptu regimental surgeon to the troops. While treating the wounded, Japanese forces overwhelmed Salomon's field hospital. Four enemy soldiers stormed the tent, and when one of them bayoneted an American soldier Salomon had just pretty much finished saving, he channeled some of that infamous dentist rage.
"You haven't been flossing, have you? Have you?"
Salomon shot two of the soldiers outright, kicked a knife out of another's hands, and headbutted the last into submission. He then ordered all of the wounded out of the tent. But since his soldiers didn't have any cover fire, Salomon took up a machine gun and provided it. Just stop and imagine being a soldier in that tent: You're hurt. You know the end is near. The enemy is in your base, and there are no able-bodied guards -- just a single, solitary dentist ...
The wounded managed to make it out safely, and the last thing they saw of their camp was a meek, glasses-wearing dental technician, completely alone, mowing down wave after wave of enemies with a machine gun. When the Americans came back and retook the area the next day, they found Salomon dead. It was a tragic loss -- for the Japanese: They also found nearly 100 enemy troops dead in front of Salomon.
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Cranky patients, bad breath, destroying platoons of Japanese soldiers; all in a day's work for Ben Salomon.
Salomon had been shot more than 70 times, most of which he shrugged off, because you can't down a dentist with anything less than an elephant gun -- everybody knows that. Salomon earned a posthumous Medal of Honor for taking out two entire platoons of enemy soldiers single-handedly. So here's to you, Benjamin Salomon: Thank you for scraping away the plaque of evil with the little ... scraper thing(?) of justice.
#3. Alec Turner Unchained
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Alec Turner was the real life inspiration for Django Unchained. If not officially, then certainly in spirit: He was born into slavery on the Gouldin tobacco plantation in Port Royal, Virginia in 1845. The plantation owner's granddaughter made the stupid mistake of being a decent person in the southern half of America during the mid-1800s: She supposedly taught 5-year-old Alec how to read and write in secret. Unfortunately, Alec and his tutor were caught playing librarian by the girl's mother. The transgression would not go unpunished: The much whiter Zephie received a severe scolding for conceiving, orchestrating, and practicing the crime, while young Alec was subsequently beaten with a whip for being in the general vicinity of the crime.
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"Gosh, I hope Alec's scolding wasn't as bad as mine!"
When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Alec, now a teenager, escaped from the Gouldin plantation in search of the Union Army. He met up with a Union colonel named Ferdinand Dayton and successfully joined up with the First New Jersey Cavalry. Now an armed soldier for the Army of the Potomac, Alec led a mounted posse back home to do some reading of his own. Blood reading.
That, uh ... that sounded better in our heads. We're not much for vengeful one-liners.
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Alec Turner's "book club" was not to be trifled with.
Just like in Django, Alec's nemesis -- the cruel, heartless taskmaster who made his life a living hell -- was actually a fellow slave, made overseer for his devotion. According to audio records, when the overseer heard the posse approaching, he stuck his head out an upstairs window and shouted: "Who is it? Who's there?"
Alec replied: "This is me! This is Alec! I'm going to shoot you!"
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Shooting a man without first introducing yourself simply wasn't done back then.
Alec apparently wasn't much for vengeful one-liners either. But he was, at least, accurate: The former slave then personally shot and killed his former overseer. After the war, Alec moved to Vermont, where he bought a 100-acre farm he called "Journey's End." He spent the next 50 years of his life on his farm, presumably teaching a horse to moonwalk.


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Bresnahan M, Schaefer CA, Brown AS, Susser ES. Prenatal determinants of schizophrenia: what we have learned thus far? Epidemiol Psichiatr Soc. 2005 Oct-Dec ; 14(4):194-7. Pubmed Abstract
Bresnahan M, Schaefer CA, Brown AS, Susser ES. Prenatal determinants of schizophrenia: what we have learned thus far? Epidemiol Psichiatr Soc. 2005 Oct-Dec ; 14(4):194-7. Pubmed Abstract
Over the past six years, Alan Brown and colleagues have published an impressive series of epidemiological findings on schizophrenia in the offspring of a large cohort of carefully studied pregnant women (reviewed by Brown, 2006). Their work has confirmed and greatly extended prior findings linking maternal infection in the second trimester with increased risk for schizophrenia in the offspring. Moreover, Brown et al. found an association between anti-influenza antibodies in maternal serum and increased risk for schizophrenia, as well as a similar association with elevated levels of a cytokine in maternal serum. In a new paper (Babulas et al., 2006), this group reports a fivefold increase in risk for schizophrenia spectrum disorders in the offspring of women who experienced a genital/reproductive infection during the periconception period. The infections considered were endometritis, cervicitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, vaginitis, syphilis, condylomata, venereal disease, and gonorrhea. Strengths of the study include physician documentation of the infections and face-to-face assessments of schizophrenia. Although sample size was modest, these results extend a prior finding that elevated maternal anti-herpes simplex type 2 antibodies are associated with increased risk of psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia (Buka et al., 2001).
The mechanism of how maternal infection increases risk for schizophrenia could involve pathogens invading the fetus. Although this is certainly possible in the case of some of the infections studied by Babulas et al., in the case of a respiratory virus such as influenza, this explanation appears unlikely. A more parsimonious mechanism would involve activation of the maternal immune system, and action of soluble mediators such as cytokines at the level of the placenta or the fetus. Support for this hypothesis comes from animal studies. An antiviral immune response can be evoked in the absence of the pathogen by injection of synthetic double-stranded RNA (polyI:C). When this is done in pregnant rats or mice, the adult offspring display a number of behavioral abnormalities reminiscent of those observed in schizophrenia. These include deficits in prepulse inhibition, latent inhibition, and social interaction, as well as enhanced amphetamine-induced locomotion and anxiety under mildly stressful conditions (Shi et al., 2003; Zuckerman et al., 2003; Ozawa et al., 2005). Moreover, some of these deficits are ameliorated by treatment with antipsychotic drugs and exacerbated by psychotomimetics (Shi et al., 2003; Ozawa et al., 2005), and the offspring also exhibit dopaminergic hyperfunction (Zuckerman et al., 2003; Ozawa et al., 2005). Some of these abnormalities are also seen in the offspring of influenza-infected mothers or mothers injected with the bacterial cell wall component, LPS (Borrell et al., 2002; Fatemi et al., 2002; Shi et al., 2003).
The most recent advance in this growing cottage industry is the finding that there are critical periods of maternal immune activation that determine the type of adult behavioral dysfunction and neuropathology found in the offspring (Meyer et al., 2006). Injection of polyI:C during stages of mouse gestation corresponding to first-to-second versus second-to-third trimesters of human pregnancy yields different deficits in exploratory and perseverative behavior, postnatal reelin expression, and hippocampal apoptosis. Moreover, these two different stages of injection evoke diverse cytokine responses in the fetal brain. It would further be interesting to know which of these abnormalities is specific to the period corresponding to the human second trimester, as this is the key time of vulnerability for risk of schizophrenia associated with maternal infection.
Other fascinating questions for this increasingly popular model are, what mediates the effects of maternal immune activation (e.g., cytokines, antibodies, corticosteroids), and do they act directly on the fetus or via the placenta? Can imaging be used with the rodents to explore dopamine receptor occupancy? Which of the observed pathologies are most relevant for each of the behavioral abnormalities?
Babulas V, Factor-Litvak P, Goetz R, Schaefer CA, Brown AS. Prenatal exposure to maternal genital and reproductive infections and adult schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry. 2006 May;163(5):927-9. Abstract Borrell J, Vela JM, Arevalo-Martin A, Molina-Holgado E, Guaza C. Prenatal immune challenge disrupts sensorimotor gating in adult rats. Implications for the etiopathogenesis of schizophrenia. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2002 Feb;26(2):204-15. Abstract Brown AS. Prenatal infection as a risk factor for schizophrenia. Schizophr Bull. 2006 Apr;32(2):200-2. Epub 2006 Feb 9. Abstract Buka SL, Tsuang MT, Torrey EF, Klebanoff MA, Bernstein D, Yolken RH. Maternal infections and subsequent psychosis among offspring. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2001 Nov;58(11):1032-7. Abstract Fatemi SH, Earle J, Kanodia R, Kist D, Emamian ES, Patterson PH, Shi L, Sidwell R. Prenatal viral infection leads to pyramidal cell atrophy and macrocephaly in adulthood: implications for genesis of autism and schizophrenia. Cell Mol Neurobiol. 2002 Feb;22(1):25-33. Abstract Meyer U, Feldon J, Schedlowski M, Yee BK. Towards an immuno-precipitated neurodevelopmental animal model of schizophrenia. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2005;29(6):913-47. Abstract Meyer U, Nyffeler M, Engler A, Urwyler A, Schedlowski M, Knuesel I, Yee BK, Feldon J. The time of prenatal immune challenge determines the specificity of inflammation-mediated brain and behavioral pathology. J Neurosci. 2006 May 3;26(18):4752-62. Abstract Ozawa K, Hashimoto K, Kishimoto T, Shimizu E, Ishikura H, Iyo M. Immune activation during pregnancy in mice leads to dopaminergic hyperfunction and cognitive impairment in the offspring: a neurodevelopmental animal model of schizophrenia. Biol Psychiatry. 2006 Mar 15;59(6):546-54. Epub 2005 Oct 26. Abstract Shi L, Fatemi SH, Sidwell RW, Patterson PH. Maternal influenza infection causes marked behavioral and pharmacological changes in the offspring. J Neurosci. 2003 Jan 1;23(1):297-302. Abstract Zuckerman L, Rehavi M, Nachman R, Weiner I. Immune activation during pregnancy in rats leads to a postpubertal emergence of disrupted latent inhibition, dopaminergic hyperfunction, and altered limbic morphology in the offspring: a novel neurodevelopmental model of schizophrenia. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2003 Oct;28(10):1778-89. Abstract
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Meyer and coworkers provide interesting new data on the role of the immune system in mediating the damage caused by viral infections during pregnancy on the developing nervous system of the fetus. Not just the timing of the infection appears to be critical, but the developing fetal immune system appears to play a role, too.
Polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid (polyI:C), which was employed by Meyer et al., is frequently used to mimic viral infections. It is a synthetic double-stranded RNA and has adjuvant-effects (Salem et al., 2005). PolyI:C binds to target cells via the "Toll-like receptor 3" (TLR3). TLR3 serves as a receptor in trophoblast cells and uterine epithelial cells mediating local immune activation at the maternal-fetal interface after viral infections (Abrahams et al., 2005; Schaefer et al., 2005). Glial cells like microglia and astrocytes also express functional TLR3 (Farina et al., 2005; Park et al., 2006; Town et al., 2006). Thus, TLR3 plays an important role in immune responses, and its natural function appears to be immune activation in addition to cross-priming the immune system to virus-infected cells (Schulz et al., 2005). Given the expression of TLR3 at the maternal-fetal interface and on glial cells, the polyI:C-TLR3-model appears to be useful to study the basic mechanisms of viral infections and their consequences for brain development in animal models.
However, several limitations are evident: PolyI:C is not a virus, and different immunological pathways may be activated by intact viruses after binding to their appropriate receptors. Findings from the immune system of rodents cannot be directly transferred to humans, and it may be difficult to dissect—on a molecular level—the protective aspects of an immune response against a viral infection from its putative detrimental effects on human neurodevelopment. Still, such mechanisms may now be studied in the rodent models used by Meyer and coworkers and other groups, and this will help to pave the way for future studies in humans. This will hopefully lead to a better understanding of the role of the immune system and viral infections in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia.
Abrahams VM, Visintin I, Aldo PB, Guller S, Romero R, Mor G. A role for TLRs in the regulation of immune cell migration by first trimester trophoblast cells. J Immunol. 2005 Dec 15;175(12):8096-104. Abstract
Farina C, Krumbholz M, Giese T, Hartmann G, Aloisi F, Meinl E. Preferential expression and function of Toll-like receptor 3 in human astrocytes. J Neuroimmunol. 2005 Feb;159(1-2):12-9. Epub 2004 Nov 11. Abstract
Park C, Lee S, Cho IH, Lee HK, Kim D, Choi SY, Oh SB, Park K, Kim JS, Lee SJ. TLR3-mediated signal induces proinflammatory cytokine and chemokine gene expression in astrocytes: differential signaling mechanisms of TLR3-induced IP-10 and IL-8 gene expression. Glia. 2006 Feb;53(3):248-56. Abstract
Salem ML, Kadima AN, Cole DJ, Gillanders WE. Defining the antigen-specific T-cell response to vaccination and poly(I:C)/TLR3 signaling: evidence of enhanced primary and memory CD8 T-cell responses and antitumor immunity. J Immunother. 2005 May-Jun;28(3):220-8. Abstract
Schaefer TM, Fahey JV, Wright JA, Wira CR. Innate immunity in the human female reproductive tract: antiviral response of uterine epithelial cells to the TLR3 agonist poly(I:C). J Immunol. 2005 Jan 15;174(2):992-1002. Abstract
Schulz O, Diebold SS, Chen M, Naslund TI, Nolte MA, Alexopoulou L, Azuma YT, Flavell RA, Liljestrom P, Reis e Sousa C. Toll-like receptor 3 promotes cross-priming to virus-infected cells. Nature. 2005 Feb 24;433(7028):887-92. Epub 2005 Feb 13. Abstract
Town T, Jeng D, Alexopoulou L, Tan J, Flavell RA. Microglia recognize double-stranded RNA via TLR3. J Immunol. 2006 Mar 15;176(6):3804-12. Abstract
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