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Surviving Mossy Cells Enlarge and Receive More Excitatory Synaptic Input in a Mouse Model of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
2015; 25 (5): 594-604
Numerous hypotheses of temporal lobe epileptogenesis have been proposed, and several involve hippocampal mossy cells. Building on previous hypotheses we sought to test the possibility that after epileptogenic injuries surviving mossy cells develop into super-connected seizure-generating hub cells. If so, they might require more cellular machinery and consequently have larger somata, elongate their dendrites to receive more synaptic input, and display higher frequencies of miniature excitatory synaptic currents (mEPSCs). To test these possibilities pilocarpine-treated mice were evaluated using GluR2-immunocytochemistry, whole-cell recording, and biocytin-labeling. Epileptic pilocarpine-treated mice displayed substantial loss of GluR2-positive hilar neurons. Somata of surviving neurons were 1.4-times larger than in controls. Biocytin-labeled mossy cells also were larger in epileptic mice, but dendritic length per cell was not significantly different. The average frequency of mEPSCs of mossy cells recorded in the presence of tetrodotoxin and bicuculline was 3.2-times higher in epileptic pilocarpine-treated mice as compared to controls. Other parameters of mEPSCs were similar in both groups. Average input resistance of mossy cells in epileptic mice was reduced to 63% of controls, which is consistent with larger somata and would tend to make surviving mossy cells less excitable. Other intrinsic physiological characteristics examined were similar in both groups. Increased excitatory synaptic input is consistent with the hypothesis that surviving mossy cells develop into aberrantly super-connected seizure-generating hub cells, and soma hypertrophy is indirectly consistent with the possibility of axon sprouting. However, no obvious evidence of hyperexcitable intrinsic physiology was found. Furthermore, similar hypertrophy and hyper-connectivity has been reported for other neuron types in the dentate gyrus, suggesting mossy cells are not unique in this regard. Thus, findings of the present study reveal epilepsy-related changes in mossy cell anatomy and synaptic input but do not strongly support the hypothesis that mossy cells develop into seizure-generating hub cells. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
View details for DOI 10.1002/hipo.22396
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Increased Excitatory Synaptic Input to Granule Cells from Hilar and CA3 Regions in a Rat Model of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
2012; 32 (4): 1183-1196
One potential mechanism of temporal lobe epilepsy is recurrent excitation of dentate granule cells through aberrant sprouting of their axons (mossy fibers), which is found in many patients and animal models. However, correlations between the extent of mossy fiber sprouting and seizure frequency are weak. Additional potential sources of granule cell recurrent excitation that would not have been detected by markers of mossy fiber sprouting in previous studies include surviving mossy cells and proximal CA3 pyramidal cells. To test those possibilities in hippocampal slices from epileptic pilocarpine-treated rats, laser-scanning glutamate uncaging was used to randomly and focally activate neurons in the granule cell layer, hilus, and proximal CA3 pyramidal cell layer while measuring evoked EPSCs in normotopic granule cells. Consistent with mossy fiber sprouting, a higher proportion of glutamate-uncaging spots in the granule cell layer evoked EPSCs in epileptic rats compared with controls. In addition, stimulation spots in the hilus and proximal CA3 pyramidal cell layer were more likely to evoke EPSCs in epileptic rats, despite significant neuron loss in those regions. Furthermore, synaptic strength of recurrent excitatory inputs to granule cells from CA3 pyramidal cells and other granule cells was increased in epileptic rats. These findings reveal substantial levels of excessive, recurrent, excitatory synaptic input to granule cells from neurons in the hilus and proximal CA3 field. The aberrant development of these additional positive-feedback circuits might contribute to epileptogenesis in temporal lobe epilepsy.
View details for DOI 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5342-11.2012
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Surviving Hilar Somatostatin Interneurons Enlarge, Sprout Axons, and Form New Synapses with Granule Cells in a Mouse Model of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
2009; 29 (45): 14247-14256
In temporal lobe epilepsy, seizures initiate in or near the hippocampus, which frequently displays loss of neurons, including inhibitory interneurons. It is unclear whether surviving interneurons function normally, are impaired, or develop compensatory mechanisms. We evaluated GABAergic interneurons in the hilus of the dentate gyrus of epileptic pilocarpine-treated GIN mice, specifically a subpopulation of somatostatin interneurons that expresses enhanced green fluorescence protein (GFP). GFP-immunocytochemistry and stereological analyses revealed substantial loss of GFP-positive hilar neurons (GPHNs) but increased GFP-positive axon length per dentate gyrus in epileptic mice. Individual biocytin-labeled GPHNs in hippocampal slices from epileptic mice also had larger somata, more axon in the molecular layer, and longer dendrites than controls. Dual whole-cell patch recording was used to test for monosynaptic connections from hilar GPHNs to granule cells. Unitary IPSCs (uIPSCs) recorded in control and epileptic mice had similar average rise times, amplitudes, charge transfers, and decay times. However, the probability of finding monosynaptically connected pairs and evoking uIPSCs was 2.6 times higher in epileptic mice compared to controls. Together, these findings suggest that surviving hilar somatostatin interneurons enlarge, extend dendrites, sprout axon collaterals in the molecular layer, and form new synapses with granule cells. These epilepsy-related changes in cellular morphology and connectivity may be mechanisms for surviving hilar interneurons to inhibit more granule cells and compensate for the loss of vulnerable interneurons.
View details for DOI 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3842-09.2009
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Dysfunction of the Dentate Basket Cell Circuit in a Rat Model of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
2009; 29 (24): 7846-7856
Temporal lobe epilepsy is common and difficult to treat. Reduced inhibition of dentate granule cells may contribute. Basket cells are important inhibitors of granule cells. Excitatory synaptic input to basket cells and unitary IPSCs (uIPSCs) from basket cells to granule cells were evaluated in hippocampal slices from a rat model of temporal lobe epilepsy. Basket cells were identified by electrophysiological and morphological criteria. Excitatory synaptic drive to basket cells, measured by mean charge transfer and frequency of miniature EPSCs, was significantly reduced after pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus and remained low in epileptic rats, despite mossy fiber sprouting. Paired recordings revealed higher failure rates and a trend toward lower amplitude uIPSCs at basket cell-to-granule cell synapses in epileptic rats. Higher failure rates were not attributable to excessive presynaptic inhibition of GABA release by activation of muscarinic acetylcholine or GABA(B) receptors. High-frequency trains of action potentials in basket cells generated uIPSCs in granule cells to evaluate readily releasable pool (RRP) size and resupply rate of recycling vesicles. Recycling rate was similar in control and epileptic rats. However, quantal size at basket cell-to-granule cell synapses was larger and RRP size smaller in epileptic rats. Therefore, in epileptic animals, basket cells receive less excitatory synaptic drive, their pools of readily releasable vesicles are smaller, and transmission failure at basket cell-to-granule cell synapses is increased. These findings suggest dysfunction of the dentate basket cell circuit could contribute to hyperexcitability and seizures.
View details for DOI 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6199-08.2009
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Bidirectional interactions between H-channels and Na+-K+ pumps in mesencephalic trigeminal neurons
2004; 24 (14): 3694-3702
The Na(+)-K(+) pump current (I(p)) and the h-current (I(h)) flowing through hyperpolarization-activated channels (h-channels) participate in generating the resting potential. These two currents are thought to be produced independently. We show here bidirectional interactions between Na(+)-K(+) pumps and h-channels in mesencephalic trigeminal neurons. Activation of I(h) leads to the generation of two types of ouabain-sensitive I(p) with temporal profiles similar to those of instantaneous and slow components of I(h), presumably reflecting Na(+) transients in a restricted cellular space. Moreover, the I(p) activated by instantaneous I(h) can facilitate the subsequent activation of slow I(h). Such counteractive and cooperative interactions were also disclosed by replacing extracellular Na(+) with Li(+), which is permeant through h-channels but does not stimulate the Na(+)-K(+) pump as strongly as Na(+) ions. These observations indicate that the interactions are bidirectional and mediated by Na(+) ions. Also after substitution of extracellular Na(+) with Li(+), the tail I(h) was reduced markedly despite an enhancement of I(h) itself, attributable to a negative shift of the reversal potential for I(h) presumably caused by intracellular accumulation of Li(+) ions. This suggests the presence of a microdomain where the interactions can take place. Thus, the bidirectional interactions between Na(+)-K(+) pumps and h-channels are likely to be mediated by Na(+) microdomain. Consistent with these findings, hyperpolarization-activated and cyclic nucleotide-modulated subunits (HCN1/2) and the Na(+)-K(+) pumpalpha3 isoform were colocalized in plasma membrane of mesencephalic trigeminal neurons having numerous spines.
View details for DOI 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5641-03.2004
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An involvement of trigeminal mesencephalic neurons in regulation of occlusal vertical dimension in the guinea pig
2003; 82 (7): 565-569
Although the occlusal vertical dimension (OVD) is strictly controlled, the neuronal mechanism of its regulation is still unclear. We hypothesize that neurons in the trigeminal mesencephalic nucleus (MesV) play an important role in the regulation of the OVD, because the MesV receives the projection from jaw-closing muscle spindles and periodontal mechanoreceptors. We measured the temporal OVD change in the guinea pig to study the effects of MesV lesions on the OVD. OVD-raised animals without MesV lesions showed a rapid OVD decrease to the same level as that in naïve controls, followed by an OVD increase after the OVD-raising appliance was removed. In contrast, OVD-raised animals with MesV lesions showed only a slight decrease in the OVD for 15 days after removal of the appliance, and then the OVD increased. The time-course of OVD development in normal-bite animals with MesV lesions was similar to that of naïve controls. These results suggest that MesV neurons are involved in OVD regulation.
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Behaviour that provokes terrorism will not be tolerated in the UK, the Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, said today as he opened an urgent consultation on broadening exclusion and deportation powers.
The Government is seeking views over the next two weeks, including those from key faith communities, on a proposed list of unacceptable behaviours.
The Home Secretary will use the list when deciding whether to exclude or deport non-UK citizens on the grounds that their presence in the country is not conducive to the public good.
The Home Secretary said:
"As a society we all hold essential values in common: democracy, liberty and diversity in strong communities.
"In the circumstances that we now face, while treading carefully in areas that relate to free speech, it is right to broaden the use of exclusion and deportation powers to deal with those who foment terrorism, or seek to provoke others to commit terrorist acts. I believe that these powers need to be applied more widely and systematically both to people before they come to the UK and when they are here.
"A full database of individuals around the world who have demonstrated the relevant behaviours will be developed, and will be available to entry clearance and immigration officers through the current warnings index.
"It is important that we come together to send a clear signal to people who seek to create division or promote terrorism that their activities will not be tolerated by our communities or by the Government."
The Home Secretary announced on 20 July that he would broaden his existing powers to exclude or deport those who present an indirect threat to national security, public order or the rule of law in the UK or to the UK's good relations with a third country. Consultation on implementing this decision was also announced.
The list of unacceptable behaviours covers any non-UK citizen whether in the UK or abroad who uses any means or medium including writing, producing, publishing or distributing material; public speaking including preaching; running a website; using a position of responsibility such as teacher, community or youth leader to express views which the Government considers:

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Film Technician Program
As a graduate from the Film Crew Technician Program you will be prepared for entry-level crew positions in motion pictures, television and electronic media production. This is a 28-credit-hour program designed to be completed in two terms.
As a graduate from the Post Production Technician Program you will be prepared to enter careers in many areas of developing visual media production across a wide variety of delivery platforms and formats. This is 31-credit-hour program designed to be completed in two terms.
Film Technology A.A.S.
This degree combines the hands-on technical skills required to work in the film industry with general education courses suitable for transfer to a 4-year program (will vary by institution). The program focuses on in-demand below the line skills including grip, camera, production assisting, sound, editing and art department, which you will learn while creating and producing your own original work. The degree can be completed in 2 years and is fully financial-aid eligible. All Film courses are held at the CNM Advanced Technology Center, home of CNM's film studio and state-of-the-art labs.
Construction for Film Certificate of Completion
High demand for set construction and prop fabrication skills combined working knowledge of below-the-line skills by the local New Mexico film industry inspired the creation of this certificate. Intended to be completed in two terms, this certificate combines a term of carpentry courses with a term of film classes, allowing you to develop marketable skills in both areas.


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In honor of Bach's 327th birthday today, we're celebrating with a Brandenburg Showdown. We asked you to tell us which of the six Brandenburg Concertos you like the best, you picked the Concerto No. 5 and we played it at 12 noon.
Here's the full breakdown
Concerto No. 5: 27%
Concerto No. 6: 20%
Concerto No. 3: 18%
Concerto no. 2: 15%
Concerto No. 4: 12%
Concerto No. 1: 8%
This is a redux of last year's Brandenburg Showdown, in which No. 4 was victorious.
Take a listen to each concerto through the links below:
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050
Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B flat major, BWV 1051
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As a trumpeter I know I SHOULD vote with bias for #2. And #4 is also way up there for me--let's face it though, they're ALL great! But I actually would choose #5 as my favorite--& not necessarily for the cadenza in the 1st movement; I just really like Bach's melodic ideas in the 3rd movement & how He playfully uses polyphonic interplay to delicately weave them together...simply brilliant.
Here's a cheers to the next 327 years of J.S.Bach's music!
I can remember dancing around our living room listening to Bach's Brandenburg #4 on our little white Emerson radio when I was 4 years old. It is one of my first musical memories.
Tough choice. I'll go with number one. The only one with four movements. Thanks for making the world a better place.
Definitely the 5th. The cadenza at the end of the first movement is sheer ecstacy!!!!!
I wish you could play them all, but, barring that, my vote goes to #4, because of the exquisite recorder harmonies contrasting with the strings and harpsichord. I also don't think it is played as often as some of the others, like 5 and 6.
Why play only one? Why not fill out the hour with those gorgeous Brandenburgs?
Thanks, Jeff Spurgeon, for playing a bit of all 6 this morning so I could tell which one I like the most! I know which one I like the most by the way it sounds, not by the way it's numbered!
No one can argue that each of the Brandburgs is anything less than a gem -- if not a masterpiece. However, my vote goes for No. 5, which has always been my favorite. It is both exquisite and grand, and the harpsichord cadenza at the end of the first movement is, simply stated, an inspired moment of genius.
I think you did this same Showdown with the Brandenburg Concertos last year. Are you running out of ideas? Not that I mind hearing one of these concertos again, but Bach wrote so much music that I would think you could find some of his other works to include in the Showdown this time.
The 5th, because it is the most ambitious and interesting. The cadenza in the first movement paved the way for the modern concerto. I love my version with Murray Perahia playing the modern piano with the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields, but an authentic performance has its own advantages.
Number 6!
It was 1974 and I was sitting on a couch reading the Times when I asked my friend what record was playing. The Brandenburg Concerto, he said. I have been in love ever since, especially with the last movement of the 6th which is what caught my attention in the first place and captured my musical heart forever!
Brandenburg #3 has been my favorite since I first heard it back in 1969 on Walter Carlos's synthesizer recording of "Switched on Bach." Although I've heard it performed by many chamber music ensembles over the years, the driving rhythm and vibrant sound of the strings always reminds me why Bach is and will always be my favorite composer.
Number Five has always been my favorite as I love Baroque harpsichord music.
As others have already posted, no. 5 for the harpsichord cadenza.
Happy Birthday Bach! Though I voted for #2, they are all my favs! The music is so lively, cheerful, Uplifting, beautiful! Of course it is, it's Bach!
I'm voting for No. 5 because the opening theme has been in my head for years. And when I walk by a piano, I can't resist plunking it out. But I never thought about where it came from. So now I'd like to hear the work in its entirety.
I love them all, but I have to vote for #5. I love the harpsichord, which just goes totally off the charts at the end of the first movement. It gives me goose bumps every time I listen to it!
I'm voting for the 6th, just because it isn't played as frequently as the others. They are all beautiful!
No 5 is my favorite because the keyboard player gets to escape the polite continuo and go nuts. In the hands a an adventurous player this can get right nasty. Love it!
A difficult decision to be sure, all are wonderful pieces and IF I had my choice I would play they all!
Grand Stuff!!
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Jessica Alba and Mike Meyers to costar!
Jessica Alba, Verne Troyer (Austin Powers), and Romany Malco (Blades of Glory, 40-Year-Old Virgin) have joined Mike Myers in the cast of The Love Guru for Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment.
Myers will play Pitka, an American raised by gurus in India who moves to the U.S. where he gets involved in resolving a rift between a professional hockey player (Malco) and his estranged wife, who starts an affair with a rival hockey player.ÃÂ This sends Malco's character into a professional slump.
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A 5.7 percent stake in Toledo's N-Viro International Corp. was purchased by Worldtech Waste Management Inc., a privately held soil remediation company based in Saltville, Va.
Worldtech, which revealed its buy in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday, said it bought the stock as a long term investment and plans to add to it. The filing did not say when shares were purchased or at what prices.
Shares of N-Viro, which turns wastewater sludge and other wastes into agricultural and soil enrichment products, closed at 4 p.m. yesterday at $2.69 on Nasdaq, down by 6 cents. Worldtech's stake is equal to nearly 151,000 shares.


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Welcome to the future of programming. 2013 is marking perhaps the biggest gear change in how we watch television, as traditional network and cable outlets are going to be getting a serious run for their money from streaming services. Netflix drops "House Of Cards" next week and "Arrested Development" in the spring, and not to be outmatched, Amazon is right on their heels. And they're hoping a zombie comedy series can get them off and running.
Deadline reports that the company you buy your books from is in negotiations with Sony Pictures TV to snap up the project, with a straight-to-series order in the offing. The irony here, somewhat, is that "Zombieland" was first conceived as a TV series before it was even a movie. And then when the movie became a smash hit, the idea of continuing the brand on the small screen was brought up, and development has been happening for years. Back in 2011, Fox was looking at it, with the possibility of bringing it to the airwaves in 2012-2013, but obviously that never came to pass.
Original writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick will be back to write and produce, along with Gavin Polone flexing his producing muscle, but Ruben Fleischer won't be involved. Instead, Eli Craig of "Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil" is in talks to direct. With "The Walking Dead" proving to be a hit, and "World War Z" and "Warm Bodies" on the way, Amazon is hoping the hunger (ha) for zombies is still plentiful. No word yet on who will fill the roles.


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Cody Rhodes Says He Paid To Have WWE's White Intercontinental Title Belt Brought Back
Published On 11/24/2013 | News
In a new interview with Chad Dukes, Cody Rhodes noted that he paid to have the white Intercontinental Title, currently held by Big E Langston, brought back. He said:
"You have no idea how difficult that was to get the IC Title, the white IC Title, which Big E Langston is now our new Intercontinental Champion and that was such a cool thing for him, to see that and see it still around. It makes me feel happy because that was such a pain to get done. Not many people know this; I paid for the title to be recreated. I was refunded, heavily refunded, but I paid to show it to the man and say, "Listen, this will get a reaction, that you might not think it will and here's why," you know? And I'm very happy to see it still in existence."


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Bats and other animals use sound as a hunting tool—but their prey has also evolved ways to thwart detection
William E. Conner
The sophistication of military radar and sonar systems may seem to eclipse the efforts of animals that navigate and hunt using echolocation. But new discoveries about biological sonar show that is a marvel of sophistication, not only in how signals are produced and detected, but also in the evolutionary combat of countermeasures used by predator and prey. The author describes the discovery that bats can switch between frequencies during their calls, depending on whether they are detecting prey at a distance or require close-up accuracy. Their ears are often tuned to best receive the frequencies they use. But insects are not passive in this fight. Some will cluster to blend in with echoes from vegetation. Others have scales that dampen echoes. And others release their own streams of noise to jam signals. Bats have responded by reducing the intensity of their calls, so insects can't detect them until it's too late. The author suspects that there are many more surprising countermeasures awaiting discovery.
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Target has the wave 2 Cyberverse Commander w/ Base sets $2 off right now. I saw a few Megatrons and 1 Optimus Prime, but the Prime has really bland paint, and the trailer is truly cheapo in design, so I went with Megs.
CyCmdr Megatron is alright, they got detail in and a fairly nice transformation for a small figure. Paint is blah. He towers above Cmdr Optimus.
The trailer actually has much more going on than Hasbro seems to realize, the little guns link at the ends suggesting another shape, the "wings" are really mech arms that the instructions don't understand, and so on. Not fantastic, and the line is a ripoff at $15, but fun if you have imagination to figure out the trailer better than the Hasbro folks.
I'm complaining about Windcharger being 1 per case, but I believe the Voyager case is 1 per case for each figure as well.
Yeah, gotta make sure a mold that's pegwarmed hard can pegwarm hard in new colors rather than move one that's been hot every iteration of the mold's release. It's about focus, son!Quote:
That makes perfect sense. I mean, really. Who would toss in some low-demand classic character reissue and expect him to be nearly as popular as a random, made-up repaint of Seaspray? :rolleyes:
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I've got a feeling I'm just going to pick up every one of each I see (assuming I do see any), and find the extras nice homes among the folks here.
The scout listings for the Windcharger case are 1 per case for each character, including the physical case they had on display at Botcon that the official store was selling for $48. Total jerk move on Hasbro's part. I've also all but given up, and Hasbro's boys toys lines are depressing right now, total distribution failure for the last 6 months.
Ugh, so frustrating to hear that after dropping $20 on HTS for Warpath (stupid expensive shipping).
BTW, the toilet can still flush without the handle, though your ladies might not be interested. Either manually move the flush mechanism, or bypass it by pouring a lot more water into the bowl very quickly (a toilet system is a siphon, adding more water raises the water level causing the siphon to draw it all out, you don't even need the tank portion really).


text: Jockey's No Pany Line Promise® (NPLP) Tactel Chemise cami is featured in the June issue of All You in an editor's tip on the beauty tips and insider advice page. The editor states, "White dresses are a huge trend this summer. Wearing the look usually requires a nude slip, but I find shaper styles too sticky in the heat. Instead, I like a Tactel lace chemise ($38; jockey.com)." Pick up your Jockey NPLP Chemise and shop the NPLP collection.


text: LittleBits Offers LEGO-Like Electronic Projects You Can Do with Your KidsMelanie Pinola11/21/12 9:30amFiled to: Stuff we likeDIYDIY HacksDIY CreationsKidsFamilyLearningElectronics8EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Here's a cool family-friendly project for the holiday season (or any time): Create and build your own toy or gadget with a littleBits kit. LittleBits' LEGO-like electronics systems that snap together with magnets are easy enough for kids and adults with no programming experience to use. AdvertisementIn addition to the maker kits and individual parts, littleBits offers step-by-step tutorials and project guides. A new holiday kit ($49) can help you create a light-up tree ornament, dancing skater, New Year's party hat, or whatever your mind can conjure up. Other projects you can make with littleBits include a back massager and bubble maker.These kits are a great way to get kids interested in electronics and science—and started on the path of DIY pride.AdvertisementLittleBits | via Mashable


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Management Reform:
Agencies' Initial Efforts to Restructure Personnel Operations
GGD-98-93: Published: Jul 13, 1998. Publicly Released: Jul 13, 1998.
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GAO reviewed the effects of reductions in personnel positions at the Departments of Agriculture (USDA), Health and Human Services (HHS), the Interior (DOI), and Veteran Affairs (VA), focusing on: (1) the activities the agencies have undertaken in restructuring personnel offices and operations; (2) what performance measures are in place to gauge results of the restructuring efforts; and (3) issues agencies may commonly encounter when, in restructuring their personnel operations, they consider outsourcing automated personnel or payroll services to another agency or the private sector.
GAO noted that: (1) although the focus of agencies' restructuring efforts differed across the four departments, their streamlining plans included reducing the number of employees working in personnel operations and automating paper-based personnel processes to improve the responsiveness and quality of personnel-related services; (2) the reduction in the number of personnelists at the four departments ranged from 14 to 41 percent between September 1993 and September 1997; (3) even with reductions of this magnitude, the personnel servicing ratios for three departments did not change substantially; (4) the departments sought to boost the efficiency of their personnel offices by automating their largely paper-based operations; (5) to achieve this increase in efficiency, the departments generally planned to have new equipment and software in place before staff reductions were made; (6) however, that did not occur, and the departments fell behind their original milestones for implementing new personnel and payroll systems while initial personnel staff reductions occurred; (7) according to personnel officials, the four departments had few measures in place to gauge the results of their personnel operations before restructuring; (8) however, officials in all four departments recognized the need for measurement, were developing performance measures to assess future efforts, and, in some cases, were seeking to more fully assess current costs and performance to identify specific targets for improvement; (9) in addition to providing personnel services to their component agencies, the four departments were developing or purchasing automated personnel systems with the intention of selling payroll or other key personnel services to other agencies; (10) agency officials suggested that a framework was needed with which agencies could obtain information on the personnel services offered by other federal agencies, the cost of those services, and their performance characteristics, including service-level standards; (11) agency officials also suggested the need for a standard technical format and a core set of requirements for personnel data that agencies are likely to exchange with each other; and (12) since April 1997, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has rechartered the mission of the Federal Personnel Automation Council and tasked it to develop a set of core data elements and requirements for personnel information systems.
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Comments: OMB's guidance to OPM for its fiscal year 2000 performance plan calls for OPM to give agencies models for measuring their human resources operations. Therefore, OMB expected that OPM's FY 2000 budget submission and performance plan would detail the actions OPM intends to take to provide agencies with model measures. OMB and OPM agreed that this recommended action is important. However, OPM's FY 2000 budget submission and performance plan does not address this recommendation specifically. It does describe OPM's plans to work with the agencies in the year ahead to develop measures covering the broad spectrum of human resources management activities and issues. This work is being conducted by the Office of Merit Systems Oversight and Effectiveness. The primary purpose is not to reduce staff, but to heighten agency accountability for the efficient and effective use of human resources in support of agency mission accomplishment.
Recommendation: The Director, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), should require agencies to develop performance measures for personnel operations. The measures to be developed should assess key areas, such as the costs of personnel processes, customer satisfaction with personnel services, workforce capacity, and process effectiveness.
Agency Affected: Executive Office of the President: Office of Management and Budget
Status: Closed - Not Implemented
Comments: During FY 1999, OPM's Office of Merit Systems Oversight and Effectiveness completed and published the HRM Accountability System Development Guide, which was the product of an OPM-led interagency task force of human resource management (HRM) goals and measures. This publication includes potential measures of the efficiency and effectiveness of HRM in the federal government, and a framework for grouping and evaluating these measures. But the task force stopped short of identifying common measures against which all agencies should be evaluated, because it came to realize that these measures should always be viewed in their full organizational context and in relationship to each other. OPM found that cost comparisons across agencies are difficult to do accurately and are best used for broad benchmarking purposes rather than evaluation.
Recommendation: To develop measures that would have widespread application, the Director, OPM, in conjunction with the President's Administrative Management Council, should lead an initiative that helps agencies develop common measures that could be used to make performance and cost comparisons of personnel operations within agencies and across government.
Agency Affected: Office of Personnel Management
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Facebook recently sent a legal notice to users that may appear daunting at first glance, but before you relegate it to the trash bin you ought to take a look at it -- it could mean cash in your pocket.
The notice is meant to notify some of its U.S. members that their names, profile pictures, photographs, likenesses, and identities were unlawfully used to advertise or sell products and services through Sponsored Stories without obtaining those members' consent.
"Sponsored Stories" is targeted advertising that uses information about your friends to sell stuff to you.
To settle a class action lawsuit (Angel Fraley v. Facebook) resulting from those allegations of unlawful use of its members' content, the social network is proposing to pay $20 million into a fund to be used to pay members who appeared in the sponsored stories.
If you received the legal notice from Facebook, you may be paid up to $10 as part of the settlement.
There's no guarantee you will get the money, however.
As the notice points out: "The amount, if any, paid to each claimant depends upon the number of claims made and other factors detailed in the settlement. No one knows in advance how much each claimant will receive, or whether any money will be paid directly to claimants."
Since as many as 100 million Facebook members may be affected by the settlement, and the fund would be exhausted after paying $10 to 2 million members, there's a good possibility that the alternative distribution scheme outlined in the settlement will be implemented.
That alternative would divvy up the money among a number of non-profit organizations involved in educational outreach that teaches adults and children how to use social media technologies safely, or are involved in research of social media.
According to the long form of the legal notice [PDF], those organizations include the Center for Democracy and Technology, Electronic Frontier Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Joan Ganz Cooney Center, Berkman Center for Internet and Society (Harvard Law School), Information Law Institute (NYU Law School), Berkeley Center for Law and Technology (Berkeley Law School), Center for Internet and Society (Stanford Law School), High Tech Law Institute, (Santa Clara University School of Law), Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood, Consumers Federation of America, Consumer Privacy Rights Fund, ConnectSafely.org, and WiredSafety.org.
You can fill out a claim form and see what happens.
The Fraley case began winding its way through the courts in March 2011, when five Facebook members, including two minors, maintained they claimed to represent a class of people injured by the Sponsored Stories.
In June 2012, Facebook and its opponents in the litigation announced a $10 million settlement in the case in which all the money would go to social service organizations and advocacy groups involved in the protection of children in the context of social media.
About a month later, the federal judge presiding over the case -- Judge Lucy Koh, who also presided over Apple's successful intellectual property case against Samsung in the U.S. -- recused herself from the case without an explanation.
Judge Richard Seeborg, who took over the case from Koh, subsequently rejected the $10 million settlement . In denying the proposed settlement, the judge maintained that Facebook did not adequately justify the size of the final deal.
A deal with a new settlement amount was hammered out in October and received preliminary approval from Seeborg in December.
This story, "Facebook Legal Notice Could Get You Cash" was originally published by PCWorld.


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I work in the philosophy of mind. I have attempted to address questions about the most general nature, or essence, of the human mind, and about the place of the mind in the rest of nature.
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AA: Being in the industry for so many years has no doubt made you a bit of a design snob. I mean, I hope you are given what you do. Having said that, you aren't designing for other snobs, but rather regular people much of the time. How do you disassociate from your own tastes and put your mind in the body of the average person?
EM: I know only one way – read sell-out reports and interpret what could be the impact of a fashion trend on an actual best seller then try to design the next generation of commercial/fashion models.
AA: What types of designs have surprised you when they became popular sellers? Not even necessarily something that you made.
EM: You can always learn from products that surprise you in sales results. For example, I was surprised when the first Technomarine with diamonds was able to sell so many watches at a $2,000 price point. I still don't understand how many people could be attracted to over-dimension watches sold on television. However, if I have to talk specifics I would have to mention Chanel's J12 watch in ceramic. It looked just like a normal watch in its photo and was not the first watch made in ceramic, yet it was so highly requested. It wasn't until I could touch and analyze the watch in person that I was able to understand the success of this watch. It was then that I realized how perfect of a make and design this watch was with its incredible balance and quality materials. One watch that I had the pleasure of designing that surprised me was the first Emporio Armani model, which is still a popular seller. Initially, no one really understood how strong it was and after about a span of 12 years it has sold several million pieces.
AA: Are people's tastes in watches changing? Or are watch tastes relatively static and the role of a designer is to simply make them appear fresh?
EM: Watch design is pretty similar to the repetitiveness of fashion trends. Periodically there is always a wave of old fashioned styles that come back. Our capacity is to make these old fashion trends or styles fresh and up-to-date in terms of quality and technology. Sometimes watches from the 1960's can become high sellers again just by changing the material, dimensions, or technology.
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SYNOPSIS: Christina Walters (Cameron Diaz) is a carefree single whose golden rule is avoiding commitment and seeking only the right man for the moment. After a chance encounter with Peter Donahue (Thomas Jane), Christina decides to break her rule and pursue him. With best friend Courtney Rockliffe (Christina Applegate), Christina heads to the small California town of Somerset in search of her potential Mr Right.
Review by Richard Kuipers: Dear Cameron Diaz, Comediennes as talented as you are rare. Your ability to play ditzy and smart at the same time puts you in the company of greats like Goldie Hawn, Carole Lombard and Marilyn Monroe. You're such a good sport - remember the 'hair gel' in There's Something About Mary and how dowdy you looked in Being John Malkovich?. Even in this sorry misfire you can make us laugh when the script has failed. So please, Cameron, don't be such a good sport in the future and say no to films that waste your wonderful gifts.
The Sweetest Thing hits the wrong note in the opening scene and stays there for the following 89 minutes. Cameron Diaz is 'vogueing' along the streets of San Francisco to prove how supremely groovy her character is. At least I think that's the intention and I think we're supposed to laugh but it's hard to tell. An attempt to duplicate the gross-out humour of films like There's Something About Mary, this one packs in every body function gag not covered by the Farrelly Brothers, but these filmmakers don't understand that intelligence and a deft hand are required to make this kind of humour work. Most of the set-ups are all wrong and director Roger Kumble (Cruel Intentions) is clumsy executing the pay-offs. An oral sex emergency scene could have been hilarious but the reason for the panic is totally unbelievable. Likewise a scene in a women's toilet in which we're expected to believe a girl as smart as Christina would want to press her face up close to a glory hole. Even in the realms of gross out we have to believe in the possibility of situations and that's what's missing most of the time. Fortunately this has the divine Diaz, Christina Applegate and Selma Blair throwing themselves in so enthusiastically that it avoids total disaster, but only just. At the public preview I attended the audience laughed a lot for the first forty-five minutes and not much afterwards. It's okay for a giggle or two but Diaz and we deserve better. Review by David Edwards: Crassness in comedy isn't confined to men. In The Sweetest Thing, Cameron Diaz and company prove that sisters can do it too. Quite apart from Ms Diaz, the film shares much in common with There's Something About Mary. Bodily fluid and bodily function jokes abound in this light-hearted romp. The film alludes to a girl power sensibility but never really takes it anywhere, which is a pity. The script by Nancy Pimental won't tax the brain to any extent, and there's never really any doubt about how the story will end, but it has enough comic detours on the rocky road to romance to hold your attention. Director Roger Kumble doesn't come close to his achievements in Cruel Intentions, but it's certainly a step up from his intervening effort, the awful Cruel Intentions 2. He keeps things barrelling along, even allowing for digressions like the "movie montage" he throws in. Despite its often-astonishing bad taste, The Sweetest Thing rises above fare like Tomcats because of the sheer enthusiasm of the mostly-female cast. Cameron Diaz and Christina Applegate look like they're having a blast as the two friends out to rip true love from the jaws of jaded cynicism. Both have a great comic touch, and while they're no Thelma and Louise, make a pretty good pairing on-screen. Selma Blair gets the rough end of the script's often-prickly pineapple, but makes the most of what she's given, and Parker Posey has a sparkling cameo. The men however don't fare so well, with Thomas Jane a bland love interest (I'm still trying to work out what Christina sees in his character). John Bennett Perry though has a hilarious turn as a very peeved father-of-the-bride. The Sweetest Thing is a feather-light but tasteless look at love in the age of distrust. It's clearly not meant to be taken seriously; so while it'd be easy to be critical, the best advice is to simply go with the flow on this one, and you just might enjoy it.
CRITICAL COUNTFavourable: 0Unfavourable: 1Mixed: 1
CAST: Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, Selma Blair, Thomas Jane.
PRODUCER: Cathy Konrad
DIRECTOR: Roger Kumble
SCRIPT: Nancy Pimental
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Anthony B. Richmond
EDITOR: Wendy Greene Bricmont, David Rennie
MUSIC: Ed Shearmur
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Jon Gary Steele
RUNNING TIME: 84 minutes
AUSTRALIAN DISTRIBUTOR: Columbia TriStar
AUSTRALIAN RELEASE: July 25, 2002
VIDEO DISTRIBUTOR: Columbia TriStar Entertainment
VIDEO RELEASE: January 2, 2003


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It's been a while since we have had an entry in the "Progressing Through" series, and since we are coming full circle with the 2012 EA first-person shooter this could be considered the premiere article in volume two. While developer DICE handled the multiplayer of the previous entry in the Medal of Honor series, Danger Close has handled both the single and multiplayer components of Warfighter. They chose an unusual blend of mechanics from other games for their method of progression.
Warfighter uses the familiar class-based system, with unlocks coming at certain levels. The hook in Warfighter is that a heavy emphasis is put on picking a country to affiliate with, which means you'll unlock certain nationalities for a class at a given level. So, for example, at level 24 you may unlock the US Navy Seals Demolition class, which would presumably unlock a variation of the AA12 automatic shotgun. At this point you don't have to play as the Seals faction to use the AA12, as the weapon becomes available to the whole Demolition class. This means you can still pridefully represent the Russian Alpha Group and use the powerful AA12 if the other weapons don't suit your fancy.
Country affiliation plays into the meta-game of medals, as well. Each country has a medal for killing x amount of enemies as said-country. There is no trophy tied to getting all of the medals, mind you, but I know some people who work towards medals in Battlefield 3. I was one of them. Aside from differences in appearance, country-specific medals, and the flag by your name, there isn't a meaningful difference between in-game nationalities. The Russian Alpha Group Demolition class is mechanically the same as the US Navy Seals Demolition class; except the Russians have a cool looking helmet.
As you level up, you'll unlock nationalities and guns, including various gun parts that you can swap out for whatever gun you happen to be using. There are a lot of similar guns, but each can have different parts associated with them. Each gun has a variety of parts to mix and match, but only once you unlock the part. The most important component from my experience is scopes, but barrels, stocks, magazine clips, paint, and more can be switched around to customize your gun. I have seen a similar system used before, and much more effectively, but it's a fun mechanic to toy around with.
Objective A – Recon the Area
Keeping in style with the Progressing Through series, I picked the Assault class as my test bed. I feel more comfortable with an assault rifle in most situations, though I can rock a shotgun like nobody's business in a lot of games. The first hour I picked a game mode called Hot Spot. There were not a lot of choices, and I had no idea what I was in for. Hot Spot resembles Headquarters from the Call of Duty series, only with one team always attacking and one team always on defence (instead of the first team to the point). It's a best-of-five match and tends to run longer than the other modes I played.
Five matches were played during this 50-minute block, with 60 kills (averaging 12/per game) in total. I end up at Level 7 after the first hour was up. This ended up unlocking five new class nationalities to play as. Of course, since you aren't just unlocking a nationality in the class you are playing, it may be a few levels before you get a new Assault nationality. I mentioned gun parts being unlockable, but the unlocks per gun came in small doses. During the entire three hours I played as my Russian Alpha Group Assault soldier, I only unlocked iron sights (my rifle had a red dot standard issue) and a magazine clip (solely for looks). Those two were unlocked in the first hour. Paint gets unlocked at every level or so, and I unlocked five paint skins in hour one (these are not gun-specific and can be used across all unlocked weapons).
Operation B – Controlling the Field
The second hour of my Progressing Through experiences are usually the most fun; the maps start to feel familiar, the gun physics start clicking a little more, and sometimes I just happen to hit my groove. With Warfighter, I didn't actually hit a groove during my second hour of play time. If you count my kills per game, I actually performed worse than my first hour. I played Sector Control, which is akin to Battlefield's Conquest game mode. Three designated capture points are on the map and the team holding the most of these will reach the required score total quicker. It's pretty simple and you can get a significant quantity of experience points from it if you choose to play while focusing on the objective.
I played twice the amount of matches in hour two, to the tune of ten games. Sector Control games obviously go much faster than Hot Spot, so if you want to get more games in (an extra 500 xp for playing the match, and another 500 xp for winning the match) you'll be happy that there is a quick, objective-based game mode. Though I played more matches per hour, my kills weren't much higher, reaching 78 by the end of the second hour (5 kills per hour). I also gained an addition four levels (and classes), but nothing for the gun I was still using.
Operation C – Home Stretch
I mixed it up a little this hour, as I was not particularly fond of team deathmatch at this point in time. With other shooters, that mode takes a while to grow on me, and Warfighter is certainly one of those games. The bulk of this hour was spent playing standard team deathmatch and one match of Home Run (aka Capture the Flag) which has no respawns. I did surprisingly well during that one match, having no idea what the hell I was doing, and ended up with seven kills and three deaths when all was said and done.
By the end of the third hour, I'd played in eight games with 70 kills (8.75 kills/game) in total, which was in between the first hours high and the second hours low kills per game average. Level ups still came pretty frequently, with four levels gained. I'm not going to lie, I was eager to switch up classes by this point. I loved my grenades and grenade launcher, don't get me wrong, but the third hour is always the roughest for me as I was ready to sample what the other classes had to offer.
The Final Numbers
(Please note, I have included the numbers from a few games in this series of editorials to use as a benchmark. Please refer to "Progressing Through the Modern Battlefield", "Progressing Through Starhawk", "Progressing Through the Future (Soldier)", and "Progressing Through (Spec Ops) The Line" for further reading.)
Games Played:
Medal of Honor: Warfighter: 23
Battlefield 3: 15
Modern Warfare 3: 24
Total Kills:
Medal of Honor: Warfighter: 208
Battlefield 3: 208
Modern Warfare 3: 294
Final Level:
Medal of Honor: Warfighter: Level 16
Battlefield 3: Level 7
Modern Warfare 3: Level 23
Weapons Unlocked:
Medal of Honor: Warfighter: 13 classes unlocked, 14 paint schemes
Battlefield 3: 5 guns, 21 attachments
Modern Warfare 3: 8 guns, 16 attachments
Field Report Conclusion
The fun part is seeing how the game in question stacks up statistically against other games in its genre. Medal of Honor: Warfighter isn't painfully slow in its progression like Battlefield 3. While the matches (depending on the game mode, of course) go quicker a la Modern Warfare 3, kills just don't come as frequently as they do in a Call of Duty game.
Post-research playtime has been just as fun, though. I find myself playing every day or so, even if it's just a game or two while I wait for my wife to get ready to play Borderlands 2. The process of unlocking soldiers one by one seems to be pretty quick, too. Just tonight, I went from level 34 to 36 after an hour and a half. The unlock system certainly has more depth to it than other shooters this year so far, and I would love to see some countries/weapons added as DLC in the future.


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The World Anti-Doping Agency has asked the Indian government whether it supports the stand taken by the Board of Control for Cricket in India on its contentious 'whereabout' clause.
WADA president John Fahey said he was still hopeful of the international cricket community, including the Indians, to come to the fold and join the global drive against doping.
"The ICC are WADA code compliant and India is a member of the ICC. We have taken the matter up with Indian authorities and made a request if the Indian government supports the stand taken by the Board of Control for Cricket in India," Fahey said.
"Our whole purpose and mandate is to ensure that there's harmonisation of the rules around the world including the cricket community which involves India," he added.
The ICC had said that it would ask WADA to consider a cricket-specific code for the "whereabouts" rule after the BCCI backed its players who refused to sign the clause saying it was a breach of privacy and posed security threats.
"I think there has been and still is confusion that have not been properly informed by their anti-doping organization or they do not fully understand the system," said Fahey.
"Even if they have not been selected to be part of a registered testing pool, athletes can still be tested anywhere and anytime," Fahey added.
Fahey, however, noted that WADA would review the out-of-competition rule at the end of the year and make any necessary changes if needed.
"We'll review it, and in practical terms, if there's anything that needs to be done then we're happy to be practical," said the Australian, who will chair a WADA executive committee meeting on Saturday.
The BCCI also received support from other cricket boards and ICC set up a five-member panel to look into the matter.


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The A350 XWB flight test aircraft, MSN2 and MSN4, have both taken to the skies above Toulouse, France today for their respective first flights, bringing the total number of A350 XWBs now flying from two to four.
To date, the first two A350 XWB test aircraft to fly, MSN1 and MSN3, have already performed close to 1100 flight test hours out of the programme's total 2500 hours planned for certification.
MSN2, with its special "carbon" inspired livery, will be the first A350 XWB test aircraft to feature a full passenger cabin. This allows Airbus to start testing and validating all the cabin and passenger related systems. As part of these cabin tests, MSN2 will carry the first A350 XWB passengers during the Early Long Flights (ELF) in spring.
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Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger (1819 - 1883) was a leading German Catholic theologian and author of the Enchiridion Symbolorum et Definitionum (Handbook of Creeds and Definitions) commonly referred to simply as "Denzinger".
Life of Denzinger
Heinrich Denzinger was born on 10 October 1819 at Liege. In 1831 his father, who was a professor at the Liege University, took him to Würzburg, the original home of the family. Here he attended the gymnasium and studied philosophy at the university, where he received the Ph.D. degree. In 1838 he entered the Würzburg seminary, went to the German College at Rome in 1841, was ordained priest in 1844, and the following year took a degree in theology.
On his return home he was first curate at Hassfurt-on-the-Main, became professor extraordinary of dogmatic theology at Würzburg in 1848, and ordinary professor in 1854. He continued to occupy this position, in spite of ill-health, until his death. Denzinger was one of the pioneers of positive theology and historical dogmatic (Dogmengeschichte) in Catholic Germany. In the generation after Johann Adam Mohler (d. 1838) and Döllinger (1799-1890) he carried on their methods and helped to establish what was the special character of the German school, exact investigation of the historical development of theology, rather than philosophical speculation about the corollaries of dogma.
He died on 19 June 1883 at Würzburg.
The Enchiridion Symbolorum et Definitionum
Nearly all his important works are in the nature of historical theology. The best-known and most useful is his Enchiridion Symbolorum et Definitionum (first ed., Würzburg, 1854), a handbook containing a collection of the chief decrees and definitions of councils, list of condemned propositions, etc., beginning with the oldest forms of the Apostles' Creed. The first edition contained a mere 128 documents, the sixth edition, the last edited by Denzinger himself, had 202.
After Denzinger's death, Professor Ignatius Stahl continued the work of re-editing the Enchiridion with additional decrees of Leo XIII. Clemens Bannwart, S.J., prepared a revised and enlarged edition (10th ed., Freiburg) in 1908.
Since then, the Enchiridion has been repeatedly republished, with considerable additions by different editors. As a result, the numberings in more recent editions in no way correspond to those in the original. The numbering that scholars in recent decades (since 1963) have usually cited for the entries is that introduced in the edition prepared by Adolf Schönmetzer, S.J. This explains the abbreviation "DS" (for "Denzinger-Schönmetzer") used to specify this numbering, very different from that in earlier editions.
The latest editions have added doctrinal statements of the second half of the twentieth century, including the teachings of the Second Vatican Council and recent Popes.
By no means all the entries are conciliar or papal ex cathedra definitions, but they are all considered to be of high authority for knowing the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church.
Other works by Denzinger
Denzinger also wrote Ritus Orientalium, Coptorum, Syrorum et Armenorum (2 vols., Würzburg, 1863-1864), a long treatise on Eastern rites; Vier Bücher von der religiösen Erkenntniss (2 vols., Würzburg, 1856-1857), Über die Aechtheit des bisherigen Textes der Ignatianischen Briefe (Würzburg, 1849), Die spekulative Theologie Günthers (Würzburg, 1853). He also wrote a number of shorter treatises, on Philo Judaeus (1840, his first work), on the Immaculate Conception (1855), and papal infallibility (1870). At the time of his death he was preparing a complete compendium of dogmatic theology.
He edited a number of theological works: Habert, Theologia Graecorum Patrum vindicata circa materiam gratiae (1853); De Rubeis, De peccato originali, (1857); P. Marani, Divinitas D. N. Jesu Christi (1859). He was appointed a consultor of Propaganda for Eastern rites in 1866.
Online sources for text of the Enchiridion
(Note that the latest editions are not available online.)
- Latin text - documents to 1957
- French translation - documents to 1959
- English translation documents to 1950 and old numbering only
This article incorporates text from the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913, a publication now in the public domain.cs:Denzinger-Schönmetzerja:ヘンリク・デンツィンガー


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First, a question of my own: When you say "supplement for squats", are you meaning instead of or in addition to? I'm not trying to pick on you here, but I think it's a good question in this case.
As far as what is a super squat, I don't know that such an exercise exists. Super Squats is a book which lays out a diet and workout plan meant to yield serious gains, naturally, iirc. I read the book way back when and from what I recall it advocates 2+ gallons of whole milk a day in conjunction with a 5000 calorie (ballpark) diet.
I used to do the full workout and do not recommend it for anyone that isn't already in very good lifting condition or juicing. I saw little to no gains and it is very taxing on the body as stated before. It's a full body workout done 2 or 3 days a week at most.
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1Supplement usually implies in addition to, so I assume he means lunges and squats together are a good combo.
If the Smith Machine is all you have, you can likely still do your intended workout. But your gains will be different, and being able to squat x amount in a smith machine doesn't mean you can squat it with a barbell.
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Yeah, I only asked because things can get... lost in translation.
I'm wondering if walking lunges could hit the core in ways the Smith Machine can't. Hmmmm think brain hurts.........
I checked out the weight room at school and lo and behold they have a squat cage!! Now, I think anyway, the big question is would the aforementioned schedule be too much on my poor ol' legs? (Run Mon, Squats Tue, Run Fri)
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--Sounds fine to me. I was doing Judo twice a week and squatting three times a week at one point.
If all else fails, try it long enough to get through the initial extra soreness and find out.
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As Russ said, Super Squats is a mass building routine. You will get stronger, but it's mostly about getting bigger legs.
I recommend you look into 5x5 for strength gains.Last edited by CoffeeFan; 2/13/2013 11:04am at .
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No I get it, but I think you need to define what decent amount of weight is. Would you want to be able to squat 225 for 20 reps without rest? Have clearer goals and you can develop a better routine.
I'm curious, why can't you throw people now? Is there an injury you haven't mentioned?
In the context of Super Squats as a whole-body workout, I was going to do a modified version (Bent over row, dumbbell press/bench press, shoulder press, squats); so it shouldn't be as taxing on my body as the full workout or alternate program. Though as I said, if there are any areas in the lower body the squats alone are missing or not hitting as hard as they could be hit, I would be open to add to the workout.
Edit: I was worried about overtraining my legs due to the running. Would it be as bad if I had to run the day before? eg Run Mon, Squats Tue, Run Fri
Edit2: When I start back MA training, I'll be at most training twice a week and will probably sub another running day, and the training days would be limited to Thu and/or Sun unless I hit striking on Friday, but that one is not a priority for me. These are both just hobbies for me.
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Re: Squat Machine
225 is about body weight for me, so I think that's a good goal!
And I'm currently rehabbing my shoulder (bursitis/secondary tendonitis), so that is why I'm not currently throwing anyone. I'm hoping another month and I'll be able to slowly start doing upper body work (I'm including any MA training as upper body work). This is all pending my followup appointment with the shoulder specialist on the 20th of this month.
Squats are good, although it's always good to include other leg exercises that hit different muscle groups. Lunges, deadlifts, high cleans, side lunges, straight leg deadlfts, etc.
I'm confused, is your overall goal focused more on strength gains or participating in martial arts? If martial arts, which one(s)?
I have never been a fan of protein bars, too much sugar and too caloricly dense. I prefer an actual meal like chicken, rice, and veggies but if you have no other option a bar is fine.
I may look at some mass gainers since you mentioned a protein shake, but then the sugars come back into place. I just don't like how most protein shakes don't have many, if any, carbs.


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