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Billy Crystal is now being criticized for appearing in costume as Sammy Davis Jr. in the elaborate pre-produced bit that opened the Oscar telecast Sunday night on ABC.
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Stackable Hee Dining Chair
Sometimes the biggest enhancements involve the smallest tweaks. Hee Welling is a master at pushing tradition into newly improved directions, both in form and function. Rolf Hay of Denmark's Hay discovered Hee at the Copenhagen fair just months after he graduated from Designskole. It's been a match made in design heaven. For his eponymous Hee chair series, he considered the most elemental of forms, ones that "would not impose" on the user. He also sought flexibility: a chair that can be used indoors and outdoors. As Mr. Hay points out: "Hee understands the paradox of simplicity: that it is in the details, the finishing touches, and in the meeting between the two that designing demands extreme precision. The ultimate in simplicity makes great demands on details and finish, and Hee is so very good at that. In that manner Hee has already made a place for himself in the modern and function-oriented Scandinavian furniture tradition. " To that we say: Hee Ya!
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Slatted Dining Chair
These contemporary slatted oak dining chairs are specially contoured for a comfortable seat. Sleek iron frames make them durable and easy to stack away for storage.


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Sole Thermidor
|Sole/Flounder fillet
|1 Pound
|Prepared court bouillon
|2 Cup (32 tbs)
|1 Tablespoon
|3 Tablespoon
|Dry mustard
|1 Teaspoon
|Sour cream
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Grated swiss cheese/Grated parmesan cheese
|4 Tablespoon
|To Taste
|To Taste
Neatly trim the fish fillets and poach in court bouillon.
Lift onto a hot baking plattei.
Combine the flour and melted butter and add the court bouillon in which the fish was poached.
Add the seasonings, the cream, the brandy and 2 tablespoons of the cheese.
Do not cook.
Pour over the fish, sprinkle with the remaining cheese and put close under the flame to brown instantly.
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Nutrition Rank
Nutrition Facts
Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 1439 Calories from Fat 734
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 82 g126.1%
Saturated Fat 48.4 g241.8%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 429.5 mg143.2%
Sodium 3354.3 mg139.8%
Total Carbohydrates 26 g8.7%
Dietary Fiber 7.2 g28.8%
Sugars 5.2 g
Protein 110 g219.2%
Vitamin A 57% Vitamin C 21.3%
Calcium 70% Iron 15.7%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet


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North Kingstown's Dominion Diagnostics LLC, which offers drug testing, prescription monitoring and blood-testing services, supports a healthy lifestyle for clients. In 2015, it increased its focus on the wellness of its employees as well, … more
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Chapter 3. Neurophysiology: The Generation, Transmission, and Integration of Neural Signals
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SINCE nobody really knows how brains work, those researching them must often resort to analogies. A common one is that a brain is a sort of squishy, imprecise, biological version of a digital computer. But analogies work both ways, and computer scientists have a long history of trying to improve their creations by taking ideas from biology. The trendy and rapidly developing branch of artificial intelligence known as "deep learning", for instance, takes much of its inspiration from the way biological brains are put together. The general idea of building computers to resemble brains is called neuromorphic computing, a term coined by Carver Mead, a pioneering computer scientist, in the late 1980s. There are many attractions. Brains may be slow and error-prone, but they are also robust, adaptable and frugal. They excel at processing the sort of noisy, uncertain data that are common in the real world but which tend to give conventional electronic computers, with their prescriptive arithmetical approach, indigestion. The latest development in this area came on August 3rd, when a group of researchers led by Evangelos Eleftheriou at IBM's research laboratory in Zurich announced, in a paper published in Nature Nanotechnology, that they had built a working, artificial version of a neuron. Neurons are the spindly, highly interconnected cells that do most of the heavy lifting in real brains. The idea of making artificial versions of them is not new. Dr Mead himself has experimented with using specially tuned transistors, the tiny electronic switches that form the basis of computers, to mimic some of their behaviour. © The Economist Newspaper Limited 2016.
Keyword: Robotics; Intelligence
Link ID: 22573 - Posted: 08.18.2016
By Simon Makin A technology with the potential to blur the boundaries between biology and electronics has just leaped a major hurdle in the race to demonstrate its feasibility. A team at the University of California, Berkeley, led by neuroscientist Jose Carmena and electrical and computer engineer Michel Maharbiz, has provided the first demonstration of what the researchers call "ultrasonic neural dust" to monitor neural activity in a live animal. They recorded activity in the sciatic nerve and a leg muscle of an anesthetized rat in response to electrical stimulation applied to its foot. "My lab has always worked on the boundary between biology and man-made things," Maharbiz says. "We build tiny gadgets to interface synthetic stuff with biological stuff." The work was published last week in the journal Neuron. The system uses ultrasound for both wireless communication and the device's power source, eliminating both wires and batteries. It consists of an external transceiver and what the team calls a "dust mote" about 0.8x1x3 mm size, which is implanted inside the body. The transceiver sends ultrasonic pulses to a piezoelectric crystal in the implant, which converts them into electricity to provide power. The implant records electrical signals in the rat via electrodes, and uses this signal to alter the vibration of the crystal. These vibrations are reflected back to the transceiver, allowing the signal to be recorded—a technique known as backscatter. "This is the first time someone has used ultrasound as a method of powering and communicating with extremely small implantable systems," says one of the paper's authors, Dongjin Seo. "This opens up a host of applications in terms of embodied telemetry: being able to put something super-tiny, super-deep in the body, which you can park next to a nerve, organ, muscle or gastrointestinal tract, and read data out wirelessly." © 2016 Scientific American
Keyword: Brain imaging
Link ID: 22533 - Posted: 08.09.2016
By James Gallagher Controlling human nerve cells with electricity could treat a range of diseases including arthritis, asthma and diabetes, a new company says. Galvani Bioelectronics hopes to bring a new treatment based on the technique before regulators within seven years. GlaxoSmithKline and Verily, formerly Google, Life Sciences, are behind it. Animal experiments have attached tiny silicone cuffs, containing electrodes, around a nerve and then used a power supply to control the nerve's messages. One set of tests suggested the approach could help treat type-2 diabetes, in which the body ignores the hormone insulin. They focused on a cluster of chemical sensors near the main artery in the neck that check levels of sugar and the hormone insulin. The sensors send their findings back to the brain, via a nerve, so the organ can coordinate the body's response to sugar in the bloodstream. GSK vice-president of bioelectronics Kris Famm told the BBC News website: "The neural signatures in the nerve increase in type 2-diabetes. "By blocking those neural signals in diabetic rats, you see the sensitivity of the body to insulin is restored." And early work suggested it could work in other diseases too. "It isn't just a one-trick-pony, it is something that if we get it right could have a new class of therapies on our hands," Mr Famm said. But he said the field was only "scratching the surface" when it came to understanding which nerve signals have what effect in the body. Both the volume and rhythm of the nerve signals could be having an effect rather than it being a simple case of turning the nerve on or off. © 2016 BBC
Keyword: Miscellaneous
Link ID: 22507 - Posted: 08.03.2016
By Jessica Boddy Ever wonder what it looks like when brain cells chat up a storm? Researchers have found a way to watch the conversation in action without ever cracking open a skull. This glimpse into the brain's communication system could open new doors to diagnosing and treating disorders from epilepsy to Alzheimer's disease. Being able to see where—and how—living brain cells are working is "the holy grail in neuroscience," says Howard Federoff, a neurologist at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., who was not involved with the work. "This is a possible new tool that could bring us closer to that." Neurons, which are only slightly longer than the width of a human hair, are laid out in the brain like a series of tangled highways. Signals must travel down these highways, but there's a catch: The cells don't actually touch. They're separated by tiny gaps called synapses, where messages, with the assistance of electricity, jump from neuron to neuron to reach their destinations. The number of functional synapses that fire in one area—a measure known as synaptic density—tends to be a good way to figure out how healthy the brain is. Higher synaptic density means more signals are being sent successfully. If there are significant interruptions in large sections of the neuron highway, many signals may never reach their destinations, leading to disorders like Huntington disease. The only way to look at synaptic density in the brain, however, is to biopsy nonliving brain tissue. That means there's no way for researchers to investigate how diseases like Alzheimer's progress—something that could hold secrets to diagnosis and treatment. © 2016 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Keyword: Brain imaging
Link ID: 22472 - Posted: 07.23.2016
By ANNA WEXLER EARLIER this month, in the journal Annals of Neurology, four neuroscientists published an open letter to practitioners of do-it-yourself brain stimulation. These are people who stimulate their own brains with low levels of electricity, largely for purposes like improved memory or learning ability. The letter, which was signed by 39 other researchers, outlined what is known and unknown about the safety of such noninvasive brain stimulation, and asked users to give careful consideration to the risks. For the last three years, I have been studying D.I.Y. brain stimulators. Their conflict with neuroscientists offers a fascinating case study of what happens when experimental tools normally kept behind the closed doors of academia — in this case, transcranial direct current stimulation — are appropriated for use outside them. Neuroscientists began experimenting in earnest with transcranial direct current stimulation about 15 years ago. In such stimulation, electric current is administered at levels that are hundreds of times less than those used in electroconvulsive therapy. To date, more than 1,000 peer-reviewed studies of the technique have been published. Studies have suggested, among other things, that the stimulation may be beneficial for treating problems like depression and chronic pain as well as enhancing cognition and learning in healthy individuals. The device scientists use for stimulation is essentially a nine-volt battery attached to two wires that are connected to electrodes placed at various spots on the head. A crude version can be constructed with just a bit of electrical know-how. Consequently, as reports of the effects of the technique began to appear in scientific journals and in newspapers, people began to build their own devices at home. By late 2011 and early 2012, diagrams, schematics and videos began to appear online. © 2016 The New York Times Company
Keyword: ADHD
Link ID: 22471 - Posted: 07.23.2016
By Emma Bryce In 1999, neuroscientist Gero Miesenböck dreamed of using light to expose the brain's inner workings. Two years later, he invented optogenetics, a technique that fulfils this goal: by genetically engineering cells to contain proteins that make them light-responsive, Miesenböck found he could shine light at the brain and trigger electrical activity in those cells. This technique gave scientists the tools to activate and control specific cell populations in the brain, for the first time. For example, Miesenböck, who directs the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at the University of Oxford, first used optogenetics to activate courtship responses in fruit flies, and even make headless flies take flight - groundbreaking experiments that allowed him to examine, in unprecedented detail, how neurons drive behaviour. Gero Miesenböck: There was almost a "eureka" moment. As is often the case, you tend to have your best ideas when you're not trying to have them: suddenly I had this idea - which I must have been incubating for a long time, because I was thinking about manipulating neurons in the brain genetically to emit light so I could visualise their activity. Suddenly I thought, "What if we just turn the thing upside down, and instead of reading activity, write activity using light and genetics?" That was the real breakthrough idea, and then of course came the big challenge of having to make it work. Brains are composed of many different kinds of nerve cells, and they are genetically distinct from one another. To deconstruct how the brain works we need to pinpoint the roles these individual classes of cells play in processing information. Optogenetics uses the genetic signatures that define individual cell types to address them selectively in the intact brain - that's the "genetics" component. The "opto" component is to use these genetic signatures to place light-sensitive molecules that are encoded in DNA within these cells.
Keyword: Sleep
Link ID: 22469 - Posted: 07.23.2016
By Minaz Kerawala, For years, gamers, athletes and even regular people trying to improving their memory have resorted, with electrified enthusiasm, to "brain zapping" to gain an edge. The procedure, called transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), uses a battery and electrodes to deliver electrical pulses to the brain, usually through a cap or headset fitted close to the scalp. Proponents say these currents are beneficial for a range of neurological conditions like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, stroke and schizophrenia, but experts are warning that too little is known about the safety of tDCS. "You might end up with a placement of electrodes that doesn't do what you think it does and could potentially have long-lasting effects," said Matthew Krause, a neuroscientist at the Montreal Neurological Institute. All functions of the brain—thought, emotion and coordination—are carried out by neurons using pulses of electricity. "The objective of all neuroscience is to influence these electrical processes," Krause said. The brain's activity can be influenced by drugs that alter its electrochemistry or by external external electric fields. While mind-altering headsets may seem futuristic, tDCS is not a new procedure. Much of the pioneering work in the field was done in Montreal by Dr. Wilder Penfield in the 1920s and 30s. ©2016 CBC/Radio-Canada.
Keyword: Alzheimers
Link ID: 22464 - Posted: 07.21.2016
BBC journalist Caroline Wyatt has said she is determined to make the most of her life after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS). In her first interview since revealing the news last week, Wyatt told the Radio Times: "It is what it is." "I am not angry, and I don't want bitterness to start eating away at me." One of the best known faces of BBC News, Wyatt recently stepped down as the corporation's religious affairs correspondent due to her condition. 'Incredibly blessed' "I feel really sad now because I'm not going to be a correspondent full-time anymore - I physically can't." Wyatt had been struggling with undiagnosed symptoms for 25 years but was only diagnosed with MS last July after she was paralysed down her left side. Wyatt, who was also the BBC's defence correspondent, said she has had moments where she has questioned her own mortality. "Reporting news is often about reporting death, particularly in the places I have been. But it's less terrifying to me to think of being blown up and dying than to think 'gosh, I might decline slowly day by day, losing a little bit of capability every day'." At the moment, she is a bit unsteady on her feet and is struggling with her vision but still says she is "incredibly lucky and incredibly blessed". She is currently on a long summer break but is hoping to return to radio broadcasting later in the year, along with covering the canonisation of Mother Teresa in Rome. In MS the protective layer surrounding nerve fibres in the brain and spinal cord - known as myelin - becomes damaged. The immune system mistakenly attacks the myelin, causing scarring or sclerosis. The damaged myelin disrupts the nerve signals - rather like the short circuit caused by a frayed electrical cable. © 2016 BBC.
Keyword: Multiple Sclerosis
Link ID: 22341 - Posted: 06.21.2016
Aggressive chemotherapy followed by a stem cell transplant can halt the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS), a small study has suggested. The research, published in The Lancet, looked at 24 patients aged between 18 and 50 from three hospitals in Canada. For 23 patients the treatment greatly reduced the onset of the disease, but in one case a person died. An MS Society spokeswoman said this type of treatment does "offer hope" but also comes with "significant risks". Around 100,000 people in the UK have MS, which is an incurable neurological disease. 'No relapses' The condition causes the immune system to attack the lining of nerves in the brain and spinal cord. Most patients are diagnosed in their 20s and 30s. One existing treatment is for the immune system to be suppressed with chemotherapy and then stem cells are introduced to the patient's bloodstream - this procedure is known as an autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). But in this study, Canadian researchers went further - not just suppressing the immune system, but destroying it altogether. It is then rebuilt with stem cells harvested from the patient's own blood which are at such an early stage, they have not developed the flaws that trigger MS. The authors said that among the survivors, over a period of up to 13 years, there were no relapses and no new detectable disease activity. All the patients who took part in the trial had a "poor prognosis" and had previously undergone standard immunosuppressive therapy which had not controlled the MS - which affects around two million people worldwide. © 2016 BBC.
Keyword: Multiple Sclerosis; Neuroimmunology
Link ID: 22314 - Posted: 06.13.2016
By Rita Celli, This is what Jennifer Molson remembers doctors saying to her about the high-stakes procedure she would undergo in 2002 as part of an Ottawa study that has yielded some promising results in multiple sclerosis patients. The 41-year-old Ottawa woman was in a wheelchair before the treatment. She now walks, runs and works full time. "I had no feeling from my chest down. I could barely cut my food," Molson remembers. Molson was diagnosed with MS when she was 21, and within five years she needed full-time care. "It was scary. [The procedure] was my last shot at living." MS is among the most common chronic inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system, affecting an estimated two million people worldwide. New Canadian research led by two Ottawa doctors and published in The Lancet medical journal on Thursday suggests the high-risk therapy may stop the disease from progressing. "This is the first treatment to produce this level of disease control or neurological recovery" from MS, said The Lancet in a news release. But The Lancet also highlights the high mortality rate associated with the procedure — one patient out of 24 involved in the clinical trial died from liver failure. "Treatment related risks limit [the therapy's] widespread use," The Lancet concludes. Results 'impressive' Nevertheless, in the journal's accompanying editorial a German doctor calls the results "impressive." ©2016 CBC/Radio-Canada.
Keyword: Multiple Sclerosis; Neuroimmunology
Link ID: 22309 - Posted: 06.11.2016
By JAMES GORMAN This summer's science horror blockbuster is a remake: Return of the Leaping Electric Eel! If you have any kind of phobia of slimy, snakelike creatures that can rise from the water and use their bodies like Tasers, this story — and the accompanying video — may not be for you. The original tale (there was, alas, no video) dates to 1800 when the great explorer Alexander von Humboldt was in South America and enlisted local fishermen to catch some of these eels for the new (at the time) study of electricity. He wrote that the men herded horses and mules into a shallow pond and let the eels attack by pressing themselves against the horses. The horses and mules tried to escape, but the fishermen kept them in the water until the eels used up their power. Two horses died, probably from falling and drowning. Or so Humboldt said. Though the story was widely retold, no other report of this kind of fishing-with-horses phenomenon surfaced for more than 200 years, according to Kenneth Catania, a scientist with a passion for studying the eel species in question, electrophorus electricus. In 2014, he reported on how the eels freeze their prey. They use rapid pulses of more than 600 volts generated by modified muscle cells and sent through the water. These volleys of shocks cause the muscles of prey to tense at once, stopping all movement. The eels' bodies function like Tasers, Dr. Catania wrote. But they can also project high-voltage pulses in the water in isolated couplets rather than full volleys for a different effect. The pairs of shocks don't freeze the prey, but cause their bodies to twitch. That movement reveals the prey's location, and then the eels send out a rapid volley to immobilize then swallow it. Dr. Catania noticed another kind of behavior, however. He was using a metal-handled net — wearing rubber gloves — while working with eels in an aquarium, and the eels would fling themselves up the handle of the net, pressing themselves to the metal and generating rapid electric shocks. © 2016 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Aggression; Muscles
Link ID: 22295 - Posted: 06.07.2016
James Gorman Fruit flies are far from human, but not as far as you might think. They do many of the same things people do, like seek food, fight and woo mates. And their brains, although tiny and not set up like those of humans or other mammals, do many of the same things that all brains do — make and use memories, integrate information from the senses, and allow the creature to navigate both the physical and the social world. Consequently, scientists who study how all brains work like to use flies because it's easier for them to do invasive research that isn't allowed on humans. The technology of neuroscience is sophisticated enough to genetically engineer fly brains, and to then use fluorescent chemicals to indicate which neurons are active. But there are some remaining problems, like how to watch the brain of a fly that is moving around freely. It is one thing to record what is going on in a fly's brain if the insect's movement is restricted, but quite another to try to catch the light flash of brain cells from a fly that is walking around. Takeo Katsuki, an assistant project scientist at the Kavli Institute at the University of California, San Diego, is interested in courtship. And, he said, fruit flies simply won't engage in courtship when they are tethered. So he and Dhruv Grover, another assistant project scientist, and Ralph J. Greenspan, in whose lab they both work, set out to develop a method for recording the brain activity of a walking fly. One challenge was to track the fly as it moved. They solved that problem with three cameras to follow the fly and a laser to activate the fluorescent chemicals in the brain. © 2016 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Development of the Brain; Genes & Behavior
Link ID: 22290 - Posted: 06.06.2016
Scientists say they have found a gene that causes a rare but inherited form of multiple sclerosis. It affects about one in every thousand MS patients and, according to the Canadian researchers, is proof that the disease is passed down generations. Experts have long suspected there's a genetic element to MS, but had thought there would be lots of genes involved, as well as environmental factors. The finding offers hope of targeted screening and therapy, Neuron reports. The University of British Columbia studied the DNA of hundreds of families affected by MS to hunt for a culprit gene. They found it in two sets of families containing several members with a rapidly progressive type of MS. In these families, 70% of the people with the mutation developed the disease. Although other factors may still be important and necessary to trigger the disease process, the gene itself is a substantial causative risk factor that is passed down from parents to their children, say the researchers. The mutation is in a gene called NR1H3, which makes a protein that acts as a switch controlling inflammation. In MS the body's immune system mistakenly attacks the protective layer of myelin that surrounds nerve fibres in the brain and spinal cord, leading to muscle weakness and other symptoms. Studies in mice show that knocking out the function of the same gene leads to neurological problems and decreased myelin production. © 2016 BBC.
Keyword: Multiple Sclerosis; Genes & Behavior
Link ID: 22278 - Posted: 06.02.2016
By Frances Marcellin A shirt and cap that can diagnose epilepsy quickly and easily has been approved for use by European health services, including the UK's NHS. Epileptic seizures are the result of excessive electrical discharges in the brain. The World Health Organization estimates that over 50 million people worldwide have the condition, including 6 million in Europe, making it one of the world's most common serious neurological conditions. Brain implants and apps have been developed to warn of oncoming seizures. But to diagnose the condition, someone must typically have a seizure recorded by an EEG machine in a hospital – with sensors and wires attached to the scalp. "An EEG reading is at the heart of a reliable diagnosis," says Françoise Thomas-Vialettes, president of French epilepsy society EFAPPE. But seizures rarely coincide with hospital appointments. "The diagnosis can take several years and is often imprecise." Seizures are so difficult to record that 30 per cent of people with epilepsy in Europe are misdiagnosed. In developing countries that lack medical equipment and healthcare the situation is even worse. To make diagnosis easier, French start-up BioSerenity has developed a smart outfit called the Neuronaute that monitors people as they go about their day. The shirt and cap are embedded with biometric sensors that record the electrical activity of the wearer's brain, heart and muscles. If a seizure occurs, the outfit can send an EEG recording of the brain to doctors via a smartphone. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Epilepsy
Link ID: 22271 - Posted: 06.01.2016
Sara Reardon Every time something poked its foot, the mouse jumped in pain. Researchers at Circuit Therapeutics, a start-up company in Menlo Park, California, had made the animal hypersensitive to touch by tying off a nerve in its leg. But when they shone a yellow light on its foot while poking it, the mouse did not react. The treatment is one of several nearing clinical use that draw on optogenetics — a technique in which light is used to control genes and neuron firing. In March, RetroSense Therapeutics of Ann Arbor, Michigan, began the first clinical-safety trial of an optogenetic therapy to treat the vision disorder retinitis pigmentosa. Many scientists are waiting to see how the trial turns out before they decide how to move forward with their own research on a number of different applications. "I think it will embolden people if there's good news," says Robert Gereau, a pain researcher at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri. "It opens up a whole new range of possiblilities for how to treat neurological diseases." Retinitis pigmentosa destroys photoreceptors in the eye. RetroSense's treatment seeks to compensate for this loss by conferring light sensitivity to retinal ganglion cells, which normally help to pass visual signals from photoreceptors to the brain. The therapy involves injecting patients who are blind or mostly blind with viruses carrying genes that encode light-sensitive proteins called opsins. The cells fire when stimulated with blue light, passing the visual information to the brain. Chief executive Sean Ainsworth says that the company has injected several individuals in the United States with the treatment, and plans to enroll a total of 15 blind patients in its trial. RetroSense will follow them for two years, but may release some preliminary data later this year. © 2016 Nature Publishing Group
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 22235 - Posted: 05.21.2016
Bret Stetka Last year, in an operating room at the University of Toronto, a 63-year-old women with Alzheimer's disease experienced something she hadn't for 55 years: a memory of her 8-year-old self playing with her siblings on their family farm in Scotland. The woman is a patient of Dr. Andres Lozano, a neurosurgeon who is among a growing number of researchers studying the potential of deep brain stimulation to treat Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. If the approach pans out it could provide options for patients with fading cognition and retrieve vanished memories. Right now, deep brain stimulation is used primarily to treat Parkinson's disease and tremor, for which it's approve by the Food and Drug Administration. DBS involves delivering electrical impulses to specific areas of the brain through implanted electrodes. The technique is also approved for obsessive-compulsive disorder and is being looked at for a number of other brain disorders, including depression, chronic pain and, as in Lozano's work, dementia. In 2008 Lozano's group published a study in which an obese patient was treated with deep brain stimulation of the hypothalamus. Though no bigger than a pea, the hypothalamus is a crucial bit of brain involved in appetite regulation and other bodily essentials such as temperature control, sleep and circadian rhythms. It seemed like a reasonable target in trying to suppress excessive hunger. To the researcher's surprise, following stimulation the patient reported a sensation of deja vu. He also perceived feeling 20 years younger and recalled a memory of being in a park with friends, including an old girlfriend. With increasing voltages his memories became more vivid. He remembered their clothes. © 2016 npr
Keyword: Learning & Memory
Link ID: 22213 - Posted: 05.14.2016
By John Elder Robison Manipulating your brain with magnetic fields sounds like science fiction. But the technique is real, and it's here. Called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), it is approved as a therapy for depression in the US and UK. More controversially, it is being studied as a way to treat classic symptoms of autism, such as emotional disconnection. With interest and hopes rising, it's under the spotlight at the International Meeting for Autism Research in Baltimore, Maryland, next week. I can bear witness to the power of TMS, which induces small electrical currents in neurons. As someone with Asperger's, I tried it for medical research, and described its impact in my book Switched On. After TMS, I could see emotional cues in other people – signals I had always been blind to, but that many non-autistic people pick up with ease. That sounds great, so why the need for debate? Relieving depression isn't controversial, because there is no question people suffer as a result of it. I too felt that I suffered – from emotional disconnection. But changing "emotional intelligence" to relieve that comes closer to changing the essence of how we think. Yes, emerging brain therapies like TMS have great potential. Several of the volunteers who went into the TMS lab at Harvard Medical School emerged with new self-awareness, and lasting changes. While I can't speak with certainty for the others, I believe some of us have a degree of emotional insight that we didn't have before. I certainly feel better able to fit in. As fellow participant Michael Wilcox put it, we have more emotional reactions to things we see or read. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Autism
Link ID: 22187 - Posted: 05.07.2016
By Jennifer Jolly Every January for the past decade, Jessica Irish of Saline, Mich., has made the same New Year's Resolution: to "cut out late night snacking and lose 30 pounds." Like millions of Americans, Ms. Irish, 31, usually makes it about two weeks. But this year is different. "I've already lost 18 pounds," she said, "and maintained my diet more consistently than ever. Even more amazing — I rarely even think about snacking at night anymore." Ms. Irish credits a new wearable device called Pavlok for doing what years of diets, weight-loss programs, expensive gyms and her own willpower could not. Whenever she takes a bite of the foods she wants to avoid, like chocolate or Cheez-Its, she uses the Pavlok to give herself a lightning-quick electric shock. "Every time I took a bite, I zapped myself," she said. "I did it five times on the first night, two times on the second night, and by the third day I didn't have any cravings anymore." As the name suggests, the $199 Pavlok, worn on the wrist, uses the classic theory of Pavlovian conditioning to create a negative association with a specific action. Next time you smoke, bite your nails or eat junk food, one tap of the device or a smartphone app will deliver a shock. The zap lasts only a fraction of a second, though the severity of the shock is up to you. It can be set between 50 volts, which feels like a strong vibration, and 450 volts, which feels like getting stung by a bee with a stinger the size of an ice pick. (By comparison, a police Taser typically releases about 50,000 volts.) Other gadgets and apps dabble in behavioral change by way of aversion therapy, such as the $49 MotivAider that is worn like a pager, or the $99 RE-vibe wristband. Both can be set to vibrate at specific intervals as a reminder of a habit to break or a goal to reach. The $80 Lumo Lift posture coach is a wearable disk that vibrates when you slouch. The $150 Spire clip-on sensor tracks physical activity and state of mind by detecting users' breathing patterns. If it detects you're stressed or anxious, it vibrates or sends a notification to your smartphone to take a deep breath. © 2016 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Learning & Memory
Link ID: 22171 - Posted: 05.03.2016
By Julia Shaw In the last couple of years memory science has really upped its game. I generally write about social processes that can change our memories, but right now I can't help but get excited that memory science is getting an incredible new toy to play with. A toy that I believe will revolutionise how we talk about, and deal with, memory. This not-so-new sounding, but totally-newly-applied, neuroscience toy is ultrasound. Ultrasound is also called sonography and is essentially a type of 'medical sonar'. It has revolutionized medicine since the 1940s, giving us the ability to look into the body in a completely safe way (without leaving icky radiation behind, like xrays). Beyond predicting whether your baby shower will be blue or pink, lesser known applications of ultrasound include the ability to essentially burn and destroy cells inside your body. As such, it has been successfully used to do surgery without making any cuts into the human body. This is a technique that has been used to remove cancerous cells while not affecting any of the surrounding tissue, and without any of the side-effects associated with other kinds of cancer treatment. This is referred to by scientist Yoav Medan as focused ultrasound. If you are unfamiliar with this, you need to watch this TED talk. Non-invasive procedures like this are the future of surgery. Non-invasive procedures are also the future of neuroscience. It is at this point that we find ourselves at the application of this astonishing science to memory research. © 2016 Scientific American
Keyword: Brain imaging; Learning & Memory
Link ID: 22170 - Posted: 05.03.2016
By Emily Underwood Earlier this month, György Buzsáki of New York University (NYU) in New York City showed a slide that sent a murmur through an audience in the Grand Ballroom of New York's Midtown Hilton during the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. It wasn't just the grisly image of a human cadaver with more than 200 electrodes inserted into its brain that set people whispering; it was what those electrodes detected—or rather, what they failed to detect. When Buzsáki and his colleague, Antal Berényi, of the University of Szeged in Hungary, mimicked an increasingly popular form of brain stimulation by applying alternating electrical current to the outside of the cadaver's skull, the electrodes inside registered little. Hardly any current entered the brain. On closer study, the pair discovered that up to 90% of the current had been redirected by the skin covering the skull, which acted as a "shunt," Buzsáki said. For many meeting attendees, the unusual study heightened serious doubts about the mechanism and effectiveness of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), an experimental, noninvasive treatment that uses electrodes to deliver weak current to a person's forehead, and the related tACS, which uses alternating current. Little is known about how these techniques might influence the brain. Yet many scientific papers have claimed that the techniques can boost mood, alleviate chronic pain, and even make people better at math by directly affecting neuronal activity. This has spawned a cottage industry of do-it-yourself gadgets promising to make people smarter and happier. © 2016 American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Janie Crawford was forced into her first marriage at 17. Her grandmother, who was born a slave, wanted Janie to be taken care of for the rest of her life. Janie agrees thinking that eventually she will love the old man her grandmother has chosen. She learns that she can't force herself to love someone he ones a 60-acre potato farm. Janie's heart continued to wander.
And so it wanders to Joe Starks, through whom she learns she has a voice he won't let her use. They stay married until he dies twenty years later.
And then there was Tea Cake. My heart sighs at the sound of that name. Read it to understand why.
The first chapter is brutal. Zora Neale Hurston writes poetically, but her characters talk like their from deep south (it is early twentieth century Florida). Once you get into the vernacular and can handle the transitions between speech and narration the book flows smoothly. It takes you from Eatonville to the "muck" in the Everglades. It takes you three marriages and forty years of life. It ends in peace and even though a part of you will be left in the last chapters, you'll feel as whole as Janie.
There are very few stories I would describe as perfect, but this is one of them. Janie learns her mind, body, and soul through the love of a man who wanted her, not what he could make out of her.
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Christmas Cheer
July 22nd, 2009
This is what happens when you wait all year for a Mr Coffee.
(submitted by Joseph)
OMG!! Iknow him I really do!!!! Joe!! LOL haaaaaaaaaa
" I said Atari…ATARI…..not MISTER FREAKING COFFEE!!!!"
the tree looked chocolatey 🙂
So why is the tv wrapped in plastic wrap? weird!!!!!
This looks like Russel from Pixar's "UP"
this kid looks like cousin Rocky Johnson, from Christmas Vacation
ROFL, he does look like a young Wormtail doesn't he? Hehee.
lol i almost peed my pants when i read this
Did they wrap the TV in saran Wrap?!?
@Kayla: His shoes aren't grounds for assuming he is disabled! And nobody was making fun of him by commenting on his shoes!
@Shaneeequa: I think those are these special shoes that pro atheletes wear in order to improve their coordination and muscles in their legs. I don't know what they're called, but I know that a lot of basketball players wear them while training. 🙂
I had those curtains in my house as a kid.
This is amazing…He looks sooooo dissapointed
I think he reminds me a little of the "kid Grinch" In the remake with Jim Carrey. But less facial hair. But not that much less green..
… And then they brought out the real gifts… cheeseburgers.
nice wicker chair to amp up the 80s factor
THis kid is a cutie, probably tired because dad woke him up so dad could open hs Mr. Coffee.
Check out that groovy tv – scary thing is I remember those. *hangs head in shame*
Somehow, the light in that room and the general feeling of the picture give me the impression it's actually July…………. weird…??!?!
There is a lot of work gone into that tree.
It could be worse. He could have gotten a pink bunny suit from Aunt Millie!
Love how the new digital watch is in the picture, too. I wonder if it had a calculator on it so Joseph could make it through his fourth-grade times tables.
It's DAnny Devito
this kid is amazing
This is a great photo to scroll down. First, I saw the gold valance and the tree topper. Then, some lame ornaments. Then, the top of a wicker chair. Then, the grand finale, all at once, the mad li'l dude, the Mr. Coffee, and the TV-in-a-bag.
I wonder if one of the other boxes is Mr. Radar.
that tree is like a monster of angst. to much harry potter? 🙂 lovely child.
Mom behind the camera: "Come on now, SMILE! It's Christmas!"
We may have to chain the boy down for his birthday.
Actually, the more I look at the little guy the more I think it's a young Bruce Banner. He looks pretty p!$$ed and I believe he is about to turn into the hulk. (Rawr)
If you straighten the picture the tree's crooked.
This made me laugh out loud ! This is so funny. "I wanted stretch armstrong not a strong cup of coffee mom!!!"
somebody's a grumpy christmas elf!
GRUMPY CHRISTMAS ELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hahahahahahahaha!
Anybody else curious to hear stories about how these people are doing NOW after 20 or so years have gone by??
That would kind of destroy the magic. Don't you think? If you're not left to wonder… it's kind of like explaining a joke, you know?
I agree. I'd love a "where are they now" photo of almost ALL these 1960s to 70s families. lol
What about the TV covered in plastic in the background??
Apparently the family is too awkward to watch television.
That kid is hilariously cute.
"How does this prepare me for my BarMitzvah?"
What's with his shoes? He has 5″ soles.
That is not even funny, he can not help his physical disabilities!!! Something is wrong with people who make fun of others who can not help it.
Something is wrong with people who can't take a joke. As a comedian I can tell you that most people with disabilities love when you poke fun at them. So many people (people like you) tip toe around them and make them feel excluded from the general population. It's like a breath of fresh air when someone realizes that they're people too and perfectly capable of taking a good joke. There's a difference between joking and bullying. I'm not saying we should all just pick on people with disabilities. I just think people (people like you) need to lighten up. Most of the time you're probably more offended than they are.
Oh yes, most people just LOVE being made fun of.
I'm not physically disabled! I mean, I was fat, but that doesn't count.
do you feel offended when its even mentioned that someone is fat?
Those aren't soles of his feet; he's wearing slippers! It was a joke from the camera angle. No one's making fun of any disability.


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Club Hotel, Arzachena
- Free full breakfast, free WiFi in lobby, and free parking
Main amenities
- 106 guestrooms
- On a private beach
- 3 restaurants
- Free use of bicycles
- Airport shuttle
- Terrace
- 24-hour front desk
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
- Garden
- Car rentals on site
- Front desk safe
For families
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Garden
- Terrace
- Furnished balcony
What's around
- In Baja Sardinia
- Proteus Diving (0.3 mi / 0.4 km)
- Aquadream (0.9 mi / 1.4 km)
- Orso Diving (1.8 mi / 2.8 km)
- Gregoland (3.9 mi / 6.2 km)
- Stella Maris Church (4.1 mi / 6.6 km)
Club Hotel, Arzachenafrom $268
- Double Room, Sea View
- Family Room
- Classic Double Room
- Superior Double Room
- Superior Triple Room
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Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 106 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 3 floors
- Check-in time 2 PM-midnight
- Check-out time is 10 AM
- Express check-in/out
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- No cribs (infant beds)
- Pets allowed *
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Airport shuttle (available 24 hours) *
- Free self parking
Nearby Four Star Arzachena hotels
In the hotel
- Free full breakfast
- 3 restaurants
- Bar/lounge
- Beach bar
- Room service (during limited hours)
- On private beach
- Use of nearby fitness center (discount)
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
- Multilingual staff
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
- Year Built 1970
- Elevator/lift
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Garden
- Terrace
- Television in common areas
In the room
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Furnished balcony
- Private bathroom
- Bathtub or shower
- Bidet
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Satellite TV channels
- Desk
- Phone
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
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DiningBouganville - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
On Site
- Free bicycles on site
- Mountain biking on site
- Scooter/moped rentals on site
- Scuba diving on site
- Snorkeling on site
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
Club Hotel, Arzachena's small print
Also known as
- Club Arzachena
- Club Hotel Arzachena
All guests, including children, must be present at check-in and show their government-issued photo ID card or passport.
Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation.
For transfers, guests must contact the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Optional extras
Rollaway beds are available for an additional charge
Pets are allowed for an extra charge of EUR 30 per pet, per day
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of EUR 99 per vehicle (one way)
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
Recent reviews
Excellent 4.0 /5 from 8 reviews
Incredible location and excellent staff. The hotel is beautiful and the food wonderful. What more could you ask for? I will definitely be back!
When you walk into the hotel, you're in shock from how old the lobby and rooms are. You are greeted by the hotel manager who never greeted us again because we are Americans. We were three people, and the third person was charged 280 euros on top of the daily rate. At that point you have no choice but to pay because you payed an 85 cab fare from the Olbia airport. The view was breath taking, so it made it somewhat ok to pay that rate. But, every time we passed through the hotel lobby or sat on the couches, we were never greeted and only "Italians" were greet with great respect. Everyone stared at us during our stay including the workers, there was a lack of respect from everyone, even though we are all equals ,paying the expensive rate during the high season. The private beach that is only open to club hotel guests is very pretty and private but it is difficult to swim, and after seeing the public beach, you want to spend your day their, but you will also have to pay for chairs and unbrellas. The included breakfast is good, some workers were friendly and some were ignorant. Checkout time was at 10am, we extended it to 11am due to our late flight, and at 11:10 they called our room to let us know that they are waiting for our checkout. At that point, you had enough of there audacity. Overall, if you want to stay at a resort with a beach view, you can suck it up for your stay and stay in an old building, that is very clean, and easy access to the beach and plenty of resturaunts, that you should dress up for. (you will starred at all night long).
Club Hotel is comfortable and has bright, clean, pleasant rooms. Service is helpful, food, particularly breakfast, is good and we liked the bar and the evening entertainment - it's like having your own Eurovision song contest. What makes the hotel special is its position - right on an excellent sandy beach in a pretty bay with a small traffic free resort offering a choice of restaurants and shops within 3 minutes walk. The sea view rooms in the hotel overlook the bay and beach - it's beautiful. The hotel has a private beach with bar but this is tiny and is about 500m walk away along a slightly tricky rocky path. We preferred the main beach next to the hotel but you need to pay for a place. €24 a day in high season gets you a sunshade and two loungers, but the hotel provides towels.
Lovely hotel, great food and very friendly and helpful staff, fantastict views if you book a sea view room, would love to return again soon
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The season starts. Not expecting much this year. The drought here and the
chewing damage throughout the winter and still ongoing is surely going to
have a negative effect. This one is way out of sequence. That may mean
that many that tend to bloom earlier aren't going to bloom at all. The
stalks on this plant appear to have only the terminal bud. It usually has
3-4 buds. On the other hand it looks like it has pollen this year. In all
the years I've had this one bloom it's never had pollen before. The
seedling is AT LAST X LUELLA DEE and has been posted before. I finally got
viable seeds from it and have three seedlings growing in pots now. It's a
dark red and I lightened the balance on the photo. It's a little too
bright, but the original was so dark the pattern didn't show and that's
visible when viewing it in the garden. Any trick to taking photos of dark
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Sell rather than trade...? Price?
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Post up a sale price. This is what I have been looking for
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bump for a beautiful car
Yes sir, but what it's worth to me might be way off base of what your thinking. I'm not out to insult anyone and this is not eBay lol. Pm me a figure if you would.
I survived the illeststance Gangbang of 2011
wait.... I could have sworn this car was totaled like 5yrs ago by a drunk driver? new shell?
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haha im under the impression that this car isnt actually up for trade or for sale and richardbachman is just messin with everyone haha, love this rabbit tho!! bump for a fresh clean blue beast
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"MOJO" - Swagger 100 X Rock Star
Welcome to Sundown Farms and B-K-L Show Lambs where our goal is raising quality sheep for showing club lamb projects or for commercial breeding. We have incorporated some very good genetics from some of the top breeders, and we continue to work on making improvements to our program so we can offer some of the best sheep around. Currently we have a solid ewe flock of about 50 and are very excited about the ewes we added this past year. We are very fortunate to add the proven sire "Sweepstakes" to go along with our current sires and are anticipating some very good show lamb prospects. Our 2015 lambs did very well overall and had much success in the showring (pictures posted under the "Winners" tab). If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to give us a call or send us an email.
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Our small herd currently consists of Schminke, Hayes/Sloan, Hindman, Ott, Doty, Shroyer, Medhus, Wright, and Thomas genetics. Some of our ewe base sires include: Blow Out, Last Call, Amazon, Ammo, Sweepstakes, TAZ, Swagger 100, EZ Money, Bulletproof, Bearcat, Iron Mike, Dundee, and MGM. Our new addition "Sweepstakes" was bred by Schminke Genetics (out of "Taz" X "Ammo") and is a truly proven buck. Another buck "T.J." was also bred by Schminke Genetics (out of "TAZ" X "Last Call" - which is by Stitzlein Club Lambs). They will join our existing sire "MOJO" out of Swagger 100 (Hayes/Sloan Show Lambs), which has produced some solid lambs for us. We would like to thank all the breeders that have given us the opportunity to purchase some very nice sheep.
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I love doing close readings of scripture. The normal way to do this is reading linearly through the entire book of scripture. An other great way is to study by topic. Each helps you see things you might miss using only the other method. While I'm glad our gospel doctrine has encouraged reading all scripture, part of me kind of wishes there was something akin to the Gospel Principles class. Just with broader topics and focused on reading our key texts rather than simple answers. My goal here is to do that sort of thing with a particular focus on the Book of Mormon. It'll take time and may follow a somewhat circuitous route. With luck I'll make a post each week in this series. I'll be mixing the two methods I mentioned slightly as I'll typically pick a few texts related to the topic and then do a close reading of them. I was kind of encouraged by a recent…
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What death can teach us about heaven and hell
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Thought I'd send an overall pix of the spacing between these.
It was also about the same spacing between plants on the Butter Pecan
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