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About the INTO Manchester Center
The INTO Manchester Study Center is located in Bridgewater House, an impressive Edwardian building, right in the heart of bustling Manchester. It offers you the chance to study in one of the most exciting and culturally diverse cities in the world.
The Center's facilities have been designed with students like you in mind. You can take advantage of well-equipped classrooms and multimedia resources, giving you everything you need to study and socialise in one location.
Our academic programs are taught in a similar way to what you'll experience at university and our English language classes are taught in an interactive, inclusive classroom environment to help build your language skills through classroom participation.
The Center is also home to our friendly Student Services team, who are on hand to help. They understand the challenges that come with studying abroad, and provide a dedicated network of support. From visa and immigration advice, through to opening your UK bank account; you're in safe hands.
Regulated by the Office for Students (OfS) INTO Manchester is regulated by the Office for Students (OfS). The OfS aims to help students succeed in Higher Education by ensuring they receive excellent information and guidance and get a high quality education that prepares them for the future, while protecting their interests. For more information, visit Office for Students.
INTO Manchester's Study Centre has everything you need to successfully live and study in the UK. The Centre features:
45 classrooms featuring digital whiteboards
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comfortable break-out areas for private study and relaxing with friends
a Welcome Desk and the support of our friendly Student Services team
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Not sure where to start? Our friendly, experienced staff will help you make the most of the resources available.
The Learning Resource Centre is home to 5,000 study support materials, including books, CDs, DVDs, online journals, newspapers, and printing and scanning facilities. It's also the perfect place to revise, with silent study areas available throughout.
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Monday-Friday: 10.00am-5.30pm
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Centre director: Dawn Abbott
Centre address: INTO Manchester Bridgewater House 58/60 Whitworth Street Manchester M1 6LT
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QAA, the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, is an independent body entrusted with monitoring and advising on standards and quality in UK higher education. The main objectives of QAA are setting and monitoring the standards of UK higher education, including the development of the UK Quality Code for Higher Education.


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In tough times, we continue the search for good, inexpensive wines.
As I've written elsewhere, Chenin Blanc seems to be slowly slipped away in Washington. Despite a relative abundance of vines twenty years or older, the wine seems to have fallen out of favor somewhat with consumers and each year seems to bring fewer vines in the ground and fewer producers making the wine. A consistently enjoyable representation of the grape comes from Riesling specialist Pacific Rim. The winery's 2008 vintage Chenin continues that trend with (yet) another well priced, quality wine from this producer.
Columbia Crest is Washington's value leader with a lineup of wines that consistently outperforms their price points. The H3 series is named after the Horse Heaven Hills AVA, which both provide the grapes for this wine and is where the winery calls home. True to form, the 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon offers great bang for the buck.
As we get into spring – sort of – we are starting to see the first of the 2010 red wines hit the shelves, including this one from Charles Smith Wines. The Boom Boom! is Smith's entry level Syrah in a portfolio that marches all the way up to multiple $140 bottles.
Wines of Substance is a joint project from winemakers Jamie Brown of Waters Winery and Greg Harrington of Gramercy Cellars. The winery focuses on producing a wide number of varietally labeled wines at modest price points. The 2010 Sauvignon Blanc is 100% varietal hailing from Minick Vineyard in the Yakima Valley. Of note, the 2010 wines have seen a slight alteration to the label showing just the initials for the grape and a white square.
Pacific Rim Chenin Blanc Columbia Valley 2008 $10
(Good) Pale lemon yellow. A lightly aromatic wine with beeswax, citrus, and melon. The palate is medium-bodied, tart, and just off dry with mouthwatering, lemon-like acidity and a hint of citrus peel on the finish. Recommended
Pacific Rim Sweet Riesling Columbia Valley 2010 $10
(Good) Moderately aromatic with pear syrup, orange peel, botrytis notes, and honeysuckle. The palate is, as promised, medium sweet and full of orange and citrus flavors. 8.5% alcohol, 6.9% Residual Sugar.
Columbia Crest H3 Cabernet Sauvignon Horse Heaven Hills 2009 $15
(Good) A moderately aromatic wine with dust, mocha, cherry cola, and dark cherries. The palate is full of chocolate and cherry flavors with chalky tannins and a tart, slightly attenuated finish. 88% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Merlot, 3% Syrah, and 2% Malbec. Aged 18 months in French oak (40% new). 14.5% alcohol. Recommended
Charles Smith Wines Boom Boom! Syrah Columbia Valley 2010 $15
(Good) An aromatic wine with wild blueberries, bacon, and mesquite. The palate is soft but grainy – almost gritty – chock full of bacon and blueberry flavors, with a grapey, slightly sweet finish. 96% Syrah, 2.5% Grenache, 1.5% Malbec. Olsen Brothers, Outlook, Vinagium, Milbrandt, and Upland vineyards. 13.5% alcohol.
Substance Sauvignon Blanc Washington State 2010 $15
(Good) Leaps up from the glass with gooseberry, lime, kiwi, and herbal notes. The palate has a medium bodied feel with the fruit not quite as concentrated as recent vintages. 100% Sauvignon Blanc. Minick Vineyard. Aged in stainless steel (75%) and neutral French oak. 12.9% alcohol.
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Wilson Greatbatch has died at the age of 92. He was a lifelong inventor. And like many inventors, his most notable creation, the implantable cardiac pacemaker, was discovered accidentally.
In the 1950s, Greatbatch had left the Navy and was working as medical researcher. He was building an oscillator to record heart sounds when he pulled the wrong resistor out of a box. When he assembled his device, it began to give off a rhythmic electrical pulse. It was then he realized his invention could be used as a pacemaker. He spent two years refining his device and was awarded a patent for world's first implantable pacemaker.
Before then, pacemakers were the size of a TV and shocked patients during use, so you can imagine how an implantable device would change people's lives. His first pacemaker was implanted in a 77-year-old patient who lived 18 months with the device. In 1985, his pacemaker was recognized as one of the ten greatest engineering achievements of the last 50 years by the National Society of Professional Engineers.
As pacemakers improved, Greatbatch was increasingly frustrated with battery technology and the limitations it imposed. In the early 70s, he left the world of pacemakers and began manufacturing lithium batteries. His company, Greatbatch, Inc, eventually supplied 90% of the world's pacemaker batteries.
In his latter years, Greatbatch turned his passion towards the environment, AIDs research and educating the future generation. He was known for his inventor's spirit which never gave up on a project, even after repeated failures. His persistence paid off. When he died, he held over 150 patents.
Besides his scientific achievements, he was also a husband of 60 years and a father to five children. May he rest in peace. [BBC, Vega Science Trust and MIT]


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This documentary from the Shining Mountains series focuses on solutions to the conservation issues facing the Rockies. There, business, government and local residents are getting political and joining forces to ensure that the grizzly, the wolf and the caribou remain at home on their range. The film highlights a coalition known as 'Y2Y' - the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative - whose aim to connect wildlife corridors through half a million square miles, with participation from industry stakeholders. From visits with old-time mountain man Andy Russell, to a Kaska-Dene youngster heading out on his first moose hunt, Clarkson takes heart in the wisdom of those who know best what it means to live in harmony with Nature.
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Red Planet Mars - Published 1973
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It just wouldn't be spring without a school field trip to the nature center. So it's good news that Howard Christensen Nature Center, operated by Lily's Frog Pad, will reopen on April 15, after closing in January due to funding cuts.
Cindy Perski, who took the lead in creating Lily's Frog Pad, the non-profit group operating the center, will initially volunteer at the center full-time until they can find a part-time director. "We just don't have any income right now," she explained.
The operating budget for the center with a part-time director is $45,000. "We are working feverishly to find another organization to partner with, but we haven't had any bona fide offers yet," said Perski.
The property is owned by the Kent Intermediate School District, and Perski said that they have been "super supportive" in helping them reopen. "They rented the land to us for a $1 per year," she noted.
The center will have many of the regular ongoing programs such as school field trips, after school programs, summer camps, family programs, scout programs and more. Some newer programs include dog walking on Tuesdays and Thursdays, a children's craft time on Wednesdays, a 10-day adult outdoor wilderness survival, a seniors get together, and more activities. Families can even rent a 10-foot by 5-foot patch of land to grow a garden. For more information visit www.lilysfrogpad.com.
A volunteer orientation day is scheduled for Saturday, April 23, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. They are looking for people who enjoy volunteering outdoors to work with the naturalists, teach kids about nature, help maintain the trails, cleaning, data input and filing, donating goods, and more. RSVP by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com or calling (616) 325-4554.
Those wishing to make a donation to help with expenses should make checks out to Lily's Frog Pad Inc. Contributions can be mailed to 12380 Pine Island, Drive, Sparta, MI 49345.


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With so many Linux distributions to choose from, it can be difficult to keep tabs on them all. Over the past few weeks I've written about Bodhi Linux–a lesser-known but nice (and increasingly popular) flavor of Linux–as well as Arch Linux and Mandriva. But today I'd like to round up other distributions of the free and open source operating system that have released key updates recently.
Think Linux is just Ubuntu? Think again. Canonical's distribution may still be No. 1 on DistroWatch's list, but there are many other active players. Here are just a few that have been refreshed in the past few months since my last roundup.
1. Tiny Core Linux 4.0
As a 10MB graphical Linux desktop, Tiny Core is billed as "the world's smallest Linux distribution." Originally a fork of Damn Small Linux, the software runs entirely in memory and boots extremely quickly. Users, meanwhile, have complete control over which applications and additional hardware they want supported. Released just today, version 4.0 of this diminutive distribution updates numerous libraries as well as switching to Linux kernel 3.0.3, among other improvements.
2. Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2
It was just a few weeks ago that I covered the first beta version of Ubuntu 11.10, or "Oneiric Ocelot," and late last week the second beta version arrived. Among the improvements are that GNOME was updated to version 3.1.92 on the way to GNOME 3.2, the Linux kernel is based on version 3.0.4, and OneConf was integrated into the Ubuntu Software Center to help keep your installed applications in sync between computers. Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 also improves support for installing 32-bit library and application packages on 64-bit systems, and a new set of community-supported ARM architecture images will be available between now and the software's release.
Now at No. 25 on the DistroWatch ranking list, KNOPPIX was recently updated to version 6.7.1. The popular Debian-based live CD and DVD features the LXDE desktop. New additions in this latest release include an update from Debian "Squeeze"; Linux kernel 3.0.4 and X.Org Server 1.11; experimental free Nouveau graphics modules supporting Nvidia cards; LibreOffice 3.4.3, replacing OpenOffice.org; Chromium 13.0.782.220 and Firefox 6.0.2 web browsers; and eViacam, a program for controlling the mouse by moving your head using the webcam.
4. Scientific Linux 5.7
Targeting academic environments, Scientific Linux 5.7 is a free, enterprise-class distribution built from source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7. New in this latest release are Alpine 2.02, a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages; a stackable unification file system; gnuplot 4.2.6; Intel wireless firmware (ucode) Intel wireless; R 2.13.1, a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics; updated kernel modules for the XFS journaling file system; and updated kernel modules for OpenAFS and NDISwrapper.
5. CentOS 5.7
Working from the same version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is CentOS 5.7, a free enterprise Linux distribution. CentOS is a fully Red Hat-compatible version of Linux intended primarily for organizations and individuals that do not need strong commercial support. Included in this latest release are numerous bug fixes, updates and new functionality.
6. Chakra GNU/Linux 2011.09
This new release of Chakra is a desktop distribution originally forked from Arch Linux that features the latest version 4.7 of the KDE desktop along with Linux kernel 3.0. Chakra is currently No. 12 on the DistroWatch popularity list.
7. Zorin OS 3.1
This latest release of the Windows-like Zorin OS distribution is based on Ubuntu 10.04 and includes a raft of updates. Among them are an updated Linux kernel, security improvements, upgraded programs, application changes and some aesthetic updates. Zorin OS 3 will be provided with security updates until April 2013.
8. Puppy Linux 5.2.8
I've already covered Puppy Linux before, but not long ago version 5.2.8 of the small and fast Ubuntu-based desktop distribution was released. Also known as Lucid Puppy, the software "is the fastest and friendliest Lucid yet," the software's developers say.
9. Gentoo Linux 11.2
Just released last month was Gentoo Linux 11.2, a live DVD with several desktop environments that can be used to install Gentoo Linux to a hard disk. System packages include Linux kernel 3.0; desktop environments and window managers include KDE 4.7.0, GNOME 3.0.0, Xfce 4.8, Enlightenment 1.0.8, Openbox 3.5.0, Fluxbox 1.3.1, XBMC 10.1 Awesome 3.4.10 and LXDE-Meta 0.5.5. Office, graphics and productivity applications include LibreOffice 3.3.3, Abiword 2.8.6 and Scribus 1.3.9.
10. Ultimate Edition 3.0 'Lite'
Last but not least, back in early August the Linux Ultimate team released version 3.0 of Ultimate Edition "Lite," a Lubuntu-based distribution featuring the LXDE desktop environment. As a lightweight operating system targeting low-resource computers such as netbooks, Ultimate Edition Lite contains only the bare minimum, including a browser, a music player and a few other tools. The distribution's desktop environment is LXDE/Openbox, which offers a look similar to that of Windows XP. Version 3.0 of the non-Lite version of Ubuntu-based Ultimate Edition–which now ranks No. 22 on DistroWatch–is now in beta.
If you see something you like in this list, you can take it for a free test drive–and you're likely to find a Linux ready-made for your company's needs.


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I found myself "naturally" dealing with an object of this form:
X is a complex vector space, with a "product" (a,b) → {aba} which is quadratic in the first variable, linear in the second, and satisfies some associativity conditions. These conditions are actually complicated, but more or less say that {aba} looks like the product (aba) in an alternative algebra Y containing X as a subspace.
For example, the main "associativity condition" I am interested in is: {a{b{aca}b}a}={{aba}c{aba}}
- Symmetric matrices
- Octonions, or indeed any alternative algebra
- Let J belong to GL(n,ℂ), with tJ=-J and J²=-Id, and W={w∈M(n×n,ℂ)|JtwJ=-w}
all with the standard product {aba}=aba.
All of these examples are Jordan algebras, with respect to the symmetrized product a∘b=½(ab+ba), but I cannot see any direct link between the Jordan product and my product.


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New York University's Graduate Film Program today announced the 2013 selections on this year's prestigious Purple List, a short list of the best screenplays generated from the NYU Graduate Film program. Purple List selections are made annually by industry experts, which this year included Sundance Labs' Rachel Chanoff, IFP Labs' Amy Dotson, actor Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones), filmmaker Karyn Kusama and cinematographer Chris Manley (Mad Men).
Similar to Hollywood's Blacklist, the Purple List was created by NYU students Ash Bhalla and Shandor Garrison in 2012 to help promote the next generation of writer-directors. Submissions are received exclusively from the NYU graduate film program. Out of last year's Purple List winners, Shaka King's "Newlyweeds," was an Official Selection of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Kim Spurlock's "The Whispering Giant" was part of the IFP Emerging Narrative Lab and Chloe Zhao's "Lee," was accepted in both the Sundance Screenwriting Lab and the IFP Emerging Narrative Lab. It is scheduled for production in June 2013.
"After years of rejection from screenwriting labs, competitions, etc., 'Newlyweeds' seemed doomed to remain an unmade script," said King. "Then we made the Purple List and it was an incredible ego boost. Immediately after the list was announced I must have gotten over 30 inquiries about the status of the project from production companies and agents. It fortified my belief that 'Newlyweeds' was a movie folks wanted to see."
This year's purple list winners included "Arrow," by Emily Carmichael; "The Adderall Diaries" by Pamela Romanowsky; "Out There" by Jennifer Suhr; "Those People" by Joey Kuhn and Grainne Belluomo; "Manos Sucias" by Joe Wladyka and Alan Blanco; "Disposable Lovers" by Desiree Akhavan; and "Yosemite" by Gabrielle Demeestere. Selected scripts include projects already in pre-production as well as camera-ready screenplays with no financing or attachments.
"The students are in grad school, so they're obviously accomplished, but they still have the purity of film artists and the eagerness to explore with one end in mind: to make the best art," said Adjunct Professor James Franco, who is also an alumnus of the NYU Tisch Graduate film program. Franco's short story collection was the source material for one of the winning screenplay projects, "Yosemite." "'The Adderall Diaries' is a project I've been championing for years, and I turned to my NYU collaborators to help me put it together."
"Most importantly, the Purple List gives talented filmmakers a crucial opportunity to rise above the noise and receive the support they need to get their films made," added Franco.
John Tintori, chair of the graduate film rogram at NYU, views the initiative as a natural addendum to the program, which is the only one in the country that encourages students to produce feature-length films for their thesis project. According to Tintori, the combination of training students to create feature-length work while supporting their efforts to subsequently promote and finance their work, gives graduates a tremendous advantage when entering the world of filmmaking.
"We're so proud of the success of the Purple List, not only because it speaks volumes about the reputation of the NYU Tisch graduate film program – which produced such outstanding artists as Ang Lee, Debra Granik, Jim Jarmusch, Cary Fukunaga, and our Artistic Director Spike Lee – but because it gives us another valuable tool for celebrating and sharing the unique and diverse voices of the next generation of filmmakers," said Tintori.
In addition to Chanoff, Dotson, Dinklage, Kusama, and Manley, this year's judges included the following: James Belfer (Dogfish Pictures); writer Phil Hay; agent Lawrence Mattis (Circle of Confusion); Ram Murali (Cinetic Media advisors); writer Lynn Nottage; cinetmatographer Andrij Parekh; filmmaker Jessica Scharzer; manager Jeffrey Silver (Fourth Floor Productions); director and producer Alejandro Springall, Springall Pictures; and agent Lucy Stille (The Paradigm Agency).
On April 3, NYU will sponsor a launch party showcasing screenplays in a staged reading of excerpts hosted by filmmaker and Professor Alexandre Rockwell; invitees include the Purple List Judges, potential investors, and Spike Lee. The 2013 NYU Purple List is available at: http://gradfilm.tisch.nyu.edu/object/purple_list.html
About the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television
The Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at NYU Tisch School of the Arts is among the most selective film and television directing programs in the world, and counts among its alumni Martin Scorsese, Ang Lee, Spike Lee, Oliver Stone, Joel Cohen, Woody Allen, Tamara Jenkins, Cary Fukunaga and Amy Heckerling, among many others. For more information, visit http://www.tisch.nyu.edu.
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Scripts are listed in ALPHABETICAL ORDER
THE ADDERALL DIARIES by Pamela Romanowsky – DRAMA
Writer and Adderall enthusiast Stephen Elliott reaches a low point when his estranged father resurfaces, claiming that Stephen has fabricated much of the dark childhood that that fuels his writing. Adrift in the precarious grey area of memory, Stephen has to navigate the unstable terrain of truth and identity, led by two sources of inspiration: a new romance, and a murder trial that reminds him more than a little of his own story.
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ARROW by Emily Carmichael – SCI-FI COMEDY
Five years ago, three unlikely heroes banded together to secure the fate of their world, which is much like our world but has significantly more talking reptiles. Today, the three heroes are struggling to adjust to everyday life in alternate-reality Brooklyn. The two timelines interweave, mixing sci-fi action with a relationship-driven narrative that turns the conventions both genres inside-out.
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DISPOSABLE LOVERS by Desiree Akhavan - COMEDY
Shirin's a Brooklyn-based, bisexual child of Iranian immigrants who can't find her niche. After being dumped by her (secret) girlfriend, she embarks on a journey to rebuild her life and win back her ex.
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Phone: 845-346-661MANOS SUCIAS by Alan Blanco and Josef Wladyka - THRILLER2
A desperate fisherman and a naive kid embark on a dangerous journey trafficking drugs up the Pacific coast of Colombia. Hidden beneath the waves, they tow a narco torpedo filled with millions of dollars worth of cocaine. Together, they must brave the war-torn region while navigating the growing tension between them.
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com
Phone: 571-232-7162, 973-641-6295
OUT THERE by Jennifer Cho Suhr - DRAMA
When his deadbeat father takes off, 16-year-old Collum hits the road with his UFO-obsessed half brother to find his long lost mother.
Email: email@example.com
Phone: 847-778-6335
THOSE PEOPLE by Joey Kuhn & Grainne O'Hara Belluomo – COMING OF AGE
On Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young painter, Charlie, finds the man of his dreams in a charming older pianist from across the globe. If only Charlie weren't secretly in love with his manipulative best friend, Sebastian, who is embroiled in a financial scandal.
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: 917-847-3524
YOSEMITE by Gabrielle Demeestere – DRAMA
It's the fall of 1985. The intertwining tales of three friends unfold in the suburban paradise of Palo Alto, as the specter of a killer mountain lion looms over the community.
CHRIS, 10, encounters a dead body up close; his classmate JOE escapes the aftermath of his little brother's passing through the pages of Spiderman; TED, 10, battles his imaginary demons… and the mountain lion.
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Phone: 646-247-8751
Amy Dotson, Independent Filmmaker Project
Jeffrey Silver, Fourth Floor Productions
Karyn Kusama, Filmmaker
Lawrence Mattis, Circle of Confusion
Lucy Stille, The Paradigm Agency
Phil Hay, Writer
Rachel Chanoff, Sundance Labs
Ram Murali, Cinetic Media
Lynn Nottage, Writer
Alejandro Springall, Springall Pictures
Jessica Scharzer, Filmmaker
James Belfer, Dogfish Pictures
Andrij Parekh, Cinematographer
Peter Dinklage, Actor
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Remarkable women leaders and activists from around the globe will begin gathering in New York City tonight to address the most urgent challenges facing women and girls. From brave dissidents who fueled the Arab Spring to outspoken advocates fighting domestic slavery; from CEOs to artists to political influencers, our third annual Women in the World Summit—now expanded to Lincoln Center's David H. Koch Theater—uses vivid journalistic storytelling to showcase women who are battling the status quo, picking up the pieces in the aftermath of war and shattering glass ceilings. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is the newest leader to announce her participation—for the third year in a row.
Hosted by Newsweek and The Daily Beast, Tina Brown will join co-hosts Leymah Gbowee, Sheryl Sandberg, Meryl Streep, Diane von Furstenberg, Jane Harman, Lauren Bush Lauren, Nizan Guanaes, Maya L. Harris, Mellody Hobson, and Judith Rodin for the three-day event. IMF chief Christine Lagarde will share her insight into the global economy's next act. Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni will talk to historian Simon Schama about Israel on the brink. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will appear in a special finale. Mexican congresswoman Rosi Orozco will recount her battle against sex trafficking. We'll also welcome as moderators Barbara Walters, Christiane Amanpour, Andrea Mitchell, Lesley Stahl, Robin Roberts, Cynthia McFadden, Martha Raddatz, Charlie Rose and Juju Chang.
While not yet household names, many of this year's participants will again be making headlines as we reveal their role in today's most riveting news stories:
- The joint head of the U.K.'s Forced Marriage Unit will describe the dramatic rescue of a British bride from Islamabad, where she was forced by her family to marry against her will—illuminating a disturbing trend in which Western parents abduct their daughters and send them abroad to wed.
- As Africa undergoes enormous political, economic, and social changes, women are poised to become powerful leaders. Cameroon's former presidential candidate Kah Walla will offer insight into female politicians' meteoric rise.
- Domestic workers make up a global economy worth billions of dollars—yet tens of thousands are trapped in appalling conditions. We'll hear from one woman who escaped oppressive employers and now fights for "the help."
- Valerie Jarrett, chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls, will discuss what the latest research reveals about the role and promise of women in the economic recovery.
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If you've played a game, you've probably encountered some form of environmental storytelling. In Left 4 Dead, safe rooms have notes scrawled on the wall from past apocalypse survivors, frantic missives to whomever comes along. In Fallout 3, a long-abandoned gas station reveals that its past occupant liked to play dominoes. And, perhaps most famously, the wall of a hidden room in Portal betrays the sinister nature of the Aperture test facility, and a vital truth about the cake.
Environmental storytelling usually exists alongside a game, a storytelling garnish to another, more direct tale. But what if environmental storytelling was the entire point of the game? That's the premise of Gone Home, an adventure and exploration game from the Fullbright Company, due out on PC, Mac and Linux in the second half of 2013. It's a game steeped in mystery and atmosphere, and one that hits a rhythm that isn't quite like anything I've recently played.
In the game, you play as a young woman named Katie who is returning from traveling overseas to her home in fictional Boone County, Oregon in 1995. She returns to find her house empty, with a note on the front door from her teenaged younger sister Sam asking Katie not to look for her. And that's the whole setup—players must then move about the house, picking up and examining items and gradually plumbing the depths of the building and learning the story of those who lived there. The house itself was partially inspired by Japanese "Haikyo" houses, abandoned buildings in Japan that can go undiscovered for years, leaving behind clues about their inhabitants.
I played through an early build of Gone Home comprising of its first act—two floors of the house, through which I learned a great many things about Katie's little sister Sam, as well as some smaller, more subtle things about their parents. Letters from her father's employer at a Hi-Fi equipment review magazine, coupled with a bottle of whiskey hidden atop a shelf, painted a picture of a man frustrated with the rote nature of his job, a writer who wished to bring more personal expression to his work, much to the chagrin of his bosses. A mug from the Oregon Forestry Department showed me that Katie's mother used to work outdoors.
Everything is arranged just so, and everything can be picked up, manipulated, and put down. When you find a crucial clue, you'll hear an audio diary a la BioShock. The audio diaries aren't really explained in the game's fiction—you aren't finding tapes lying around. This actually makes things feel more believable, not less. In the first act, the audio diaries all came from Sam, and recount some of her small personal misadventures growing up and finding herself. The diaries are all wonderfully performed and written, and combined with artifacts of Sam's that I'd found—a mixtape with a sharpied note from a friend, an X-Files poster, a stashed magazine, a concert flyer—painted a vivid, affecting picture of the young sister I'd never known. (I don't want to spoil any specifics—this is a game that entirely revolves around discovery, so I'll leave it to you to discover them on your own.)
I emailed some with Steve Gaynor, leader of the small team making Gone Home. (Full disclosure: Gaynor and I are friendly; I've liked the guy since meeting him at the Game Developers' Conference a couple years back.) I asked him about how it's possible to form a human connection with a character you never even see. "That's kind of the point, right?" he said. "To forge a human connection with this character, in a totally different way than most games do."
"In that way," Gaynor said, "maybe what we're doing is kind of a reaction to other games. A lot of times you'll see developers try to make you connect with a character by making you watch them do a lot of animations, emote straight into the camera, get big shiny tears on their faces and dance all over the uncanny valley to try and win you over... we wanted to make a game where you really get to know these characters, make a connection with them and come to understand them personally, not by watching them perform for you—in fact by cutting them out of the scene entirely, and giving you access to all the ephemera of their lives: Where they lived, what they left behind, how they communicated with each other and what they hid from each other and what they hid from themselves. We hope that you'll come away from Gone Home feeling a deeper connection to these characters than you've felt in other games."
From what I played, it's working. In part, that's because the writing is strong—Sam is a writer, and she leaves bits and pieces of her short stories lying around. As I read them, I got a sense of an immature but strong voice revealing itself, and other, more personal truths, hiding between the lines. In a particularly nice touch, Sam has one of her childhood stories tucked away in her closet: The poor spelling and little-kid scrawl still show a bright imagination at work. I was reminded of the stories I used to write as a kid, and the many ways I'm still writing those stories today.
Despite its unorthodox design, it's actually Gone Home's 1990s setting that might resonate most with players. Many games these days trade on nostalgia, but it's nostalgia of a very specific sort: Games use chiptune soundtracks and retro graphics to make us remember the games we played when we were kids. However, they're rarely actually set during a time that gamers of my generation can easily recognize. One look at the concert posters, magazines, mix-tapes, and VHS tapes littering the house in Gone Home and I was transported to a home I'd never visited, but that felt achingly familiar.
Gaynor said that he thinks Fullbright is lucky to be out on the cusp of the current 90s nostalgia wave, at least as it pertains to video games. "I think in video games specifically it's the case that very few games can take advantage of the familiarity of domestic life, because of the constraints of genre," he said. "You make a shooter, or an RPG, or a strategy game and you have to make an excuse for why there are so many dudes to kill... you make a puzzle game, and why all the crazy puzzles? Gone Home is just a house, maybe a kind of eccentric house but a house where a normal family lived, with no overarching requirements for genre conventions. It gives us the freedom to explore themes that people have actually experienced in their own lives, and have a genuine connection with."
It's difficult to articulate the feeling of exploring the house in Gone Home, particularly as I got deeper and deeper into the first act (which, all told, I played through in around an hour). It feels familiar yet strange; Gaynor told me they're trying to evoke the feeling of visiting a friend's house and not quite knowing where everything is, but understanding the people based on the items laying about. That feels about right. There's a specificity to everything—there are often individual books on the shelves with legible spines, and they're never repeated—unlike most games, you won't see the same half-dozen books throughout the house. The same thing goes for VHS tapes, photos, paintings and magazines—anything in the house that is specific is also unique.
Gaynor has written in the past about the concept of "specific violence," and how the anonymity and repetitiveness of most video game violence robs it of its impact. Citing BioShock in particular, (Gaynor worked on both BioShock 2 and BioShock Infinite, and wrote the fantastic BioShock 2 DLC Minerva's Den), he talks about how much more impactful the death of the singular and unreplaceable Andrew Ryan was than a run-of-the-mill, copy-pasted Splicer.
There may not be any shooting or electrocuting in Gone Home, but a similar ethos prevails—everything in this house is specific and unique, and as a result, has weight. That coffee mug you just found was mom's coffee mug, and it lends the world far more weight than a thousand copy-pasted bottles of Fallout's Nuka-Cola.
Despite my soft poking at the metaphors that may exist in this big, empty house, Gaynor insists that Gone Home is "extremely literalist," a game that's not an allegory, nor one filled with symbolism. And yet I found it to be rich with metaphor.
At the start of the game, you stand in a foyer, shadows hiding the corners of the large room before you. As you move through the house, each new room you come upon is dark, and you must turn on the lights, one by one. In so doing, you slowly shine a light on this family and these people, uncovering and illuminating them, one clue at a time.


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Dear, Ubisoft, I heard your DRM servers are causing people a few issues.
Apparently people haven't been able to play for most/all of Sunday. Of course the thread is only 7 pages long with a few hundred posts, so either not a lot of people are having problems or not a lot of people bought the PC version of your game.
I think this marks my last Ubisoft DRM post. At this point all of the bad things I assumed would happen have and I'm getting tired of feeling negative. I may change my mind if they do something monumentally stupid, but I'm not sure how they could top themselves.


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NPC lab work
Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC) disease is a rare, fatal neurodegenerative disease for which there is currently no cure. NPC primarily strikes children before and during adolescence and affects one in every 150,000 children. The disease causes cholesterol and other lipids to build up in the body's cells, which results in symptoms such as delayed motor development, deterioration of memory and balance, and seizures.
New research from the University of Notre Dame may lead to a therapy for NPC. Researchers are Kasturi Haldar, the Nieuwland Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Parsons-Quinn Director of the Boler-Parseghian Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases in the College of Science, and Dr. Suhail Alam and Michelle Getz in the Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases.
The researchers used an existing FDA-approved drug in a novel approach to treatment with promising results. The finding involves substances known as histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACi). HDACi are a large class of compounds designed to treat many genetic diseases. They include drugs for cancers and potentially neurological disorders.
"Unfortunately, HDACi do not cross from the blood to the brain efficiently and, in higher doses, quickly become toxic because the histone deacetylases that they block are needed for brain development and function," Haldar said.
Haldar, Alam and Getz developed and tested a new triple combination formulation that was used to deliver the FDA-approved HDACi prescription medication Vorinostat across the blood brain barrier and into brain tissue of mice with Niemann-Pick Type C disease. They also developed a long-term treatment regimen with the formulation that is safe, improves brain function, treats the symptoms of NPC and prolongs mouse survival.
"These findings suggest that this new Notre Dame triple combination formulation may be developed as a therapy for Niemann-Pick Type C disease and possibly other types of neurological diseases as well," Haldar said.
The research findings have led to the establishment of a new company, NPC Therapeutics, by Notre Dame alumni William Claypool, class of '72, and Dennis Wilson, class of '73.
"These are very exciting results," William K. Warren Foundation Dean of the College of Science Mary Galvin said. "It is now important that the researchers determine whether the ND triple combination formulation is safe and effective in humans."
"We are very hopeful because all components of the formulation are separately approved for human use," Haldar said. "The best dosing for both adults and children will have to be developed. We will also test how broadly the formulation can be used with other neurological disorders. HDACi have potential to treat many other rare neurological diseases, and our study suggests that the formulation may possibly also act with other rare diseases like Gaucher's Krabbe and Morquio, which are also rare lysosomal disorders like Niemann-Pick Type C, and rare neurological diseases like nonketotic hyperglycinemia as well as more prevalent disorders like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Studies on other disorders will first be done on mouse models of the disease to establish that the formulation is safe and active in treating these diseases."
"This new study provides a robust foundation from which to effectively guide development of therapies for NPC and possibly other rare disorders," Crislyn D'Souza-Schorey, Pollard Professor and chair of Notre Dame's Department of Biological Sciences, said. "It is also testament to our efforts to overcome the barriers and constraints associated with studying rare diseases and influencing change at the most fundamental level."
The research findings appear in the journal Science Translational Medicine and can be found here: http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/8/326/326ra23.
Contact: Kasturi Haldar, 574-631-1474, email@example.com
Originally published by William G. Gilroy at news.nd.edu on February 25, 2016.


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Beneficial spiders
Delaware spiders more friend than foe, UD experts say
9:34 a.m., Oct. 26, 2011--A big, furry, fake spider, dangling over a doorway or front porch, should produce a few screams from unsuspecting trick-or-treaters -- before they dissolve in giggles when they discover that this particular arachnid is made of plastic.
As for real spiders, people don't have much to fear, especially here in Delaware, according to Brian Kunkel, an entomologist with University of Delaware Cooperative Extension.
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Most large, hairy, and scary-looking spiders, such as the wolf spider, will hurt a fly but they won't hurt you.
"Delaware's native spiders are more friend than foe," says Kunkel. "Only one poisonous spider is found in Delaware, the black widow. Of course, for those who are allergic, any spider bite can be a problem."
Spiders are considered beneficial because they keep insect populations in check. Insects and spiders are both classified as arthropods but insects have three body parts and six legs, while spiders have two body parts and eight legs. In addition, spiders have two hand-like appendages called pedipals that they use to hold food. The pedipals contain sensory organs that allow spiders to taste their food. These sensory organs also are found on the spider's legs.
The majority of spiders have eight eyes but despite all those eyes most spiders have bad vision, says Kunkel. An exception is the jumping spider, which relies on its keen eyesight to locate its next meal. After spotting its prey, this spider takes a flying leap and, if successful, lands right on top of it. The wolf spider also captures its prey by hunting and chasing it down, though it's more a sprinter than a jumper.
Another group of spiders captures its prey by using the ambush method – they just hang out, motionless, until a tasty little insect comes along into easy grasping range.
Constructing a web is the most common method that spiders use to capture prey. Web spinners in Delaware include the orb weaver, comb-footed, sheet web and funnel web spiders.
When it comes to dining habits, spiders are generalists, meaning they're a lot like the guy at the smorgasbord sampling one of everything. In contrast, the monarch butterfly caterpillar is a specialist because it eats milkweed and only milkweed. If you want to attract spiders to your yard – so they'll gobble up all the bad bugs – plant a variety of plants and plant types, says Kunkel. Use as little pesticide as possible; it can kill spiders as well as the pest insects.
"Spiders are a sign of a healthy garden," says Kunkel. "They are often the most important biological control of pests in the home landscape as well as on cropland. In addition, spiders are a good source of food for birds and small mammals, particularly in winter and spring."
Doug Tallamy, chair of UD's Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, can personally attest to the role of spiders in controlling pests. The first summer he lived in his house it was overrun with flies, thanks in part to a nearby horse barn.
Then Tallamy and his wife began transforming their barren yard. "When we moved in, the yard supported little more than mustard grass and ragweed," he says.
After he planted a wide variety of native trees and plants, the wildlife came – everything from bluebirds to spiders.
"One predator, in particular, that I saw pouncing on the flies is a species of jumping spider," says Tallamy. "These small but powerful spiders learned that our windows are great hunting grounds for flies."
Because our trees and shrubs have grown since that first summer, the jumping spider now has plenty of places to hide and lay its eggs. And our native plantings provide an alternative food source, as well."
So go ahead and scare someone with a fake spider this Halloween – just don't scare off the real, beneficial spiders in your yard and garden.
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A licensed commercial pilot from the time she was 18, Jerrie Cobb held three world aviation records, piloted 64 different types of planes and, by the time she was 21, was at the stick delivering military aircraft to American Air Force bases around the world. In 1959, when NASA was selectingastronauts, she and a handful of other women were invited to submit their applications. But there was a catch: NASA required astronauts to have experience flying jet fighters and the military forbade women from applying for those positions. That was a neat little box that no woman—at least at that time—could escape. Cobb, one of America's most gifted aviators, never flew in space.
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Although you may return home a few days after the completion of your coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedure, it may take several months before you can return to all of the activities you enjoyed prior to surgery. Recovery from major surgery has both physical and emotional aspects.
For the first month or two after you are discharged from the hospital, you will be working to return to your pre-surgical level of activity. You might attend a cardiac rehab program to help you recover and get your strength back. Or your doctor will set goals for you to reach and will place restrictions on strenuous activities that would slow your recovery.
As you heal and get stronger, you can think about setting goals to make lifestyle changes that will help keep your heart and body healthy. These changes might include being more active and eating healthy. A cardiac rehab program can teach and support you as you try to make these changes.
The pace of your physical recovery will depend significantly on your health before you received bypass surgery. For example, if you had coronary artery disease (CAD) but no other medical conditions, it will probably take you less time to resume a normal activity level than if you are older or have other medical conditions.
Your recovery will take at least 4 to 6 weeks. During your recovery from CABG surgery, your life will probably be quite different from how it was before your surgery. The table below lists "normal" physical conditions after CABG surgery.
It is normal to:
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Not have much of an appetite.
The thought of food makes you feel nauseated, or you cannot taste anything.
Have swelling in your arm or leg where blood vessels were removed.
You have incisions there as well as missing blood vessels that your surgeon used to bypass your coronary arteries.
Have difficulty sleeping.
You are in pain and/or are not very physically active.
Have sore or tight muscles in your shoulders and upper back.
You were in the same position during your surgery and early recovery.
Have a lump over your incision.
Your skin and muscle are healing.
Be constipated.
It is a side effect of some medicines, and/or you are not very physically active.
Recovering from CABG surgery means not only getting back your physical strength but also your emotional and mental well-being. The fatigue and pain you might be experiencing may make you feel depressed. You may:
Also, limitations on your physical activity can leave you with few options to get out of the house and clear your head.
You should be aware that these feelings of depression are common for people who have had major heart surgery. You may also feel lonely and envious of other people who are living their lives without the discomfort and pain that you are experiencing right now.
Remember that you are going to start feeling better very soon. You are working to get back to your life—a life that may be more comfortable than before. Your new life is one with bypassed coronary arteries and more blood flowing to your heart. What this means for you is that you will not experience the chest pain, shortness of breath, or other symptoms that you had before.
It can be important to keep your family and friends around you during your recovery. They can go on walks with you or just sit and chat. You can ask your family or friends to put your children, grandchildren, or pets in your lap so you can feel close to them. Even though you need to be careful of your chest wound, you should continue to be affectionate with your family and friends. Affection can improve your mood and make you feel less lonely.
If you think you might be depressed, talk to your doctor. The sooner you know if you are depressed, the sooner you can get treatment. Treating depression is good for your health. You doctor may refer you to another doctor who diagnoses and treats depression.
Your recovery at home after CABG surgery can be both physically and emotionally demanding. Knowing what to expect and what you can do to help your recovery can make it easier.
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Author: Healthwise StaffMedical Review: Rakesh K. Pai MD, FACC - Cardiology, ElectrophysiologyBrian D. O'Brien MD - Internal MedicineE. Gregory Thompson MD - Internal MedicineAdam Husney MD - Family MedicineMartin J. Gabica MD - Family MedicineJohn A. McPherson MD, FACC, FSCAI - CardiologyDavid C. Stuesse MD - Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery
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Police waiting to the sides of the crosswalks are slapping drivers who don't stop with fines starting at $191.
The festive campaign underscores a sobering problem in southern Nevada. Safety advocates say 46 pedestrians have died so far this year in Clark County, where Las Vegas is located. That's ahead of last year's pace.
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Evangelical Romney Adviser Calls for Gun Control in Aftermath of School Shooting
Mark DeMoss, known in political circles as one of Mitt Romney's top evangelical advisers and a longtime supporter is now calling for gun control on the heels of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting that left 20 children and six adults dead.
"I'm a conservative and a Republican, and I believe in the Constitution and all of the amendments. But the reality is, there are restrictions on lots of our freedoms," DeMoss told Politico on Saturday. "We cherish the freedom of speech, but it doesn't give you the right to yell 'fire' in a crowded theater."
He contends that legislation to limit gun control would not necessarily infringe on constitutional liberties many believe are protected by the second amendment of the U. S. Constitution.
"I have trouble defending a position that says there should be no restrictions on any guns or ammunition, and this slippery slope argument that if you allow the slightest bit of [gun] control, then that's the start of taking away all our freedoms."
"Somebody's got to break ranks on one side or the other, it seems to me, and talk in a rational and thoughtful way, which will probably come with great risk to whoever does that," he said. "I imagine a Republican who speaks on this will probably be opposed in their next election."
DeMoss, who for years has lead one of the nation's leading public relations firms from his offices outside of Atlanta, Ga., may be right in his assessment that Republicans who advocate gun control will be punished at the ballot box.
A poll taken by Gallup in 2011 points out that 54 percent of Americans believe the sale of firearms should be less stringent than they are today. Interestingly and in 1991, only 19 percent of Americans felt the same way.
But a brand new Gallup poll released on Sunday and just two days after the Sandy Hook school shooting showed only 44 percent of Americans want gun laws to be stricter, virtually unchanged since 2010.
Rep. Susan Lynn, a Republican state representative in Tennessee, feels strongly that legislators should be pressured into weakening gun laws in the wake of several nationwide shootings.
"I would absolutely reject any legislative attempt to tighten gun control law in Tennessee," Lynn told The Christian Post. "People need to be able to protect themselves from someone like this young man. If those inside the school were allowed to have a gun then maybe the tragedy in Connecticut could have been prevented.
"The other tragedy is when citizens of a state are not allowed to protect themselves. Whenever handguns are restricted from law-abiding citizens, you see the crime rate go up."
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who by reputation is one of the senate's most liberal members, vowed Sunday to introduce a bill to ban assault weapons as soon as Congress begins their new session in January.
"I'm going to introduce in the Senate and the same bill will be introduced in the House, a bill to ban assault weapons," Feinstein said on NBC's "Meet the Press" during a discussion about guns following Friday's deadly mass shooting at the Connecticut elementary school. "It will ban the sale, the transfer, the importation and the possession. Not retroactively but prospectively. And it will ban the same for big clips, drums or strips of more than 10 bullets."
"So there will be a bill. We've been working on it now for a year."


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Recorded between Summer 2008 and Summer 2009, Saints & Scoundrels is the new studio album from Sharon Shannon, Ireland's multi-platinum selling and award winning accordion player. Saints & Scoundrels includes several newly penned tracks by the accordion maestro herself and boasts a hoard of special guests including Shane MacGowan, Iimelda May, Jerry Fish, Carol Keogh (Automata), Justin Adams (Robert Plant Band) and introducing the mighty Cartoon Thieves. One of her instrumentals, "Cape Clear", will be featured in the new Neil Jordan movie, Ondine, in which Sharon stars as herself alongside Colin Farrell. (This will be premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2009)
Perhaps the most musically important track is "Saints and Angels" written by chief Waterboy Mike Scott. This track was written for their Fisherman's Blues album (but was never included on the album). The new recording features the first ever reunion of that classic 1989 line-up that includes Mike, Steve Wwickham, Anthony Thistlethwaite, and Sharon. The instrumentation is largely made up from Sharon's touring band, which includes drums, bass, Hammond organ, electric guitars, and sax, which provides a muscular rhythm to Sharon's accordion, fiddle and whistle playing. Once again the variety and talent of the guests who contribute on Sharon's Saints & Scoundrels new release serves to highlight her musical versatility, wide appeal, and huge respect from within the musical community.


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IRVINE, California (REUTERS) - Nissan Motor Co Ltd said it will be ready to bring fully self-driving vehicles to market by 2020.
The Japanese automaker said it plans to offer "multiple, commercially viable" vehicles that are capable of autonomous operation without driver input.
The self-driving vehicles will be sold "at realistic prices for consumers," the company said at a media event in Irvine, California.
Nissan said its goal is to offer autonomous cars "across the model range within two vehicle generations" - about 10-12 years after the projected 2020 launch.
The company said it has been researching and developing autonomous vehicles "for years" with such top universities as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford, Oxford, Carnegie Mellon and the University of Tokyo. It is building a dedicated test track in Japan for autonomous vehicles that will be completed by next spring.
Google Inc, the Internet search leader, launched an autonomous car program in 2010 and has built and is testing several different versions, including one based on Toyota Motor Corp's Prius.


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The underpinnings of autism are turning out to be even more varied than the disease's diverse manifestations. In four new studies and an analysis published June 8 researchers have added some major landmarks in the complex landscape of the disease, uncovering clues as to why the disease is so much more prevalent in male children and how such varied genetic mutations can lead to similar symptoms.
Large genetic studies have ruled out the idea that the malfunction of a universal gene or set of genes causes autism. And the new papers, which assessed the genomes of about 1,000 families that had only one autistic child, revealed that the genetic mutations that are likely responsible for the disorder are exceedingly rare—sometimes almost unique to an individual patient. Even some of the most common point of mutations were found in only about 1 percent of autistic children.
This finding means that the number of genes lurking behind autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is at least "in the hundreds," says Matthew State of Yale University's Program on Neurogenetics and co-author of one of the new studies. "That's a significant change from the '90s when it was [thought to be] five to 15." And getting a handle on such rare genetic mutations—even in the growing autistic population—is challenging.
Despite the rarity of these genetic code errors, researchers could detect some important patterns in the disparate data. One aberrant gene has already been linked to other social disorders. And by analyzing the role of these genes in neural development, one team of researchers suggests different genetic mutations might often disturb an entire common network.
Down the road, these developments might benefit treatment, too. "It sets the stage to think about it in a new way," says State, whose group's work appears in Neuron.
These large studies are "a good step forward," says Simon Gregory, an associate professor of molecular genetics and microbiology at Duke University, who was not involved in any of the new research. They "enable us to confirm what we'd thought about genetic rearrangements" and are "very important" in having pinpointed new relevant pathways, he notes.
Family patterns
Although autism has been established as a genetically based disease, it does not seem to be passed along in families in the same way that Huntington's disease is. Because those with ASD rarely end up having children of their own, mutations are unlikely to become widespread in populations.
Studies of twins and other families in which more than one child has ASD have shown that autism does have strong genetic roots, but the new studies sought to get past the commonalities and search instead families in which only one child has the disease.
"You see clearly that if you compare the autistic kids with their [unaffected] siblings, they have more of these mutations," says Dennis Vitkup of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University and co-author of one of the new studies published in Neuron.
In assessing such a large and diverse data set several of the studies all alighted on a genetic explanation for one of the most striking patterns in ADS: why at least four times as many boys than girls are diagnosed with the disease.
Girls, it seems, might better resist the development of autistic signs: Bigger genetic disruptions are necessary to cause ASD to manifest in girls than in boys, according to the new analyses. Girls might be better protected against autism-causing genetic anomalies, Vitkup suggests, because they tend to have stronger social inclinations than boys.
Although the ability of girls to withstand genetic mayhem might seem to predispose them to become silent carriers of autism, the new analysis shows that mothers were no more likely than fathers to pass on harmful mutations.
Social genes
To decipher the code of autism, researchers are also looking outside of the ASD patient community to other developmental and social disorders.
One of the few rare mutations that cropped up in some autistic children in the studies were extra copies of 7q11.23 (shorthand for denoting the positions, or loci, of the genes on the chromosome—in this case on the long arm, or "q," of chromosome 7). As several of the research teams pointed out, deletion of this region has been implicated in Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS), a disease that tends to make people especially gregarious, empathetic and social.
"There's clearly something in that small region—of 25 or so genes—that's having a significant impact of social interactions," State says. "Within that relatively very small region in the genome there are going to be keys to studying neurology and social development."
Mutations at other regions of the genome did crop up more than once in the study group. And a copy error at 7q11.23 or other loci did not necessarily translate into similar levels of IQ or developmental disability in different patients. Hence, factors other than errors at these loci must also be playing a role in the manifestation of ASD.
Rather than wait for additional genome scans to turn up more potential mutations, however, many research teams are already creating models of how these mutations might impact neurological development.
Although such model building might seem premature given the ever-changing genetic terrain of the disease, "having a way to begin to interrelate them might actually help to study them," says Huda Zoghbi, of the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics of Baylor College of Medicine, who co-authored an analysis of the three Neuron studies published online today. So rather than get mired in finding each possible gene, she says, it makes sense to "go back and forth between the genetics and the functional studies."
Finding the function—and dysfunction
Vitkup and his team conducted just such a functional, model-based approach. Their paper, published online in the same issue of Neuron, looked closely at the location and likely effects of the mutations among families that have only one ASD child. By figuring out which genes communicate with each other, he says, you can "see if mutations try to disrupt genes that are next to each other," and thus what common pathway different mutations might be messing up. He likens it to a hunt for a criminal that might be committing robberies in different states but with the same modus operandi, perhaps choosing similar targets each time.
With a little computer-assisted detective work he and his team found one cluster of pathways that many of the errant genes seemed to be interrupting. And it turned out to be a crucial cluster, involved in synaptic development and the movement of neurons in the young, developing brain. As neurons branch out to form connections, if some pathways are disrupted, the connections can become abnormal. In a sample of about a dozen cases, Vitkup says, most of the patients had disruptions that would encourage an overabundance of particular neuronal connections. Such a pattern provides evidence for the excess of connections in autistic children producing the opposite behavior pattern from WBS, whose patients have fewer than normal connections. But, he says, the jump from genetic mutations to social skills is difficult.
Nevertheless, that mutations implicated in ASD would be linked to this sort of neuronal network "is logical by the phenotype," Vitkup says. And for future studies and diagnoses, he says, it "can help because we can now look to see if there is a new mutation somewhere in the genome and we can see how close—or how related—the new mutation is to our cluster."
He and his team currently have several dozen genes mapped into their network, but he expects the list to grow to as many as 500 in the next few years as more individuals with ASD are included in these studies and as sequencing technology improves. And there might well turn out to be other key clusters of pathways that are discovered, which will have an entirely different list of implicated genetic mutations, Vitkup says.
Zoghbi and her team, whose work published online June 8 in Science Translational Medicine, have gone through much of the same data to find patterns in the types of proteins that these rare mutations might be affecting. A new genetic mutation can change the way proteins are made—they might be made incorrectly, too often or not at all. "This can have a domino effect on many other proteins that could affect how a neuron talks to another neuron," Zoghbi explains. She likens it to a self-contained neighborhood in which each person has a particular skill set. If everyone is present and working well together, the garbage will get collected and the streetlights will stay on. But if one or two people are missing or unable to do their work properly, major systems will start to falter, "because the other ones don't have those skills," she says. Likewise, "a group of proteins is needed for a cell to function well."
With just a couple dozen proteins flagged a few years ago, Zoghbi and her team now have hundreds that they have added to the growing list of autism instigators.
"The more we understand the function of the proteins involved in autism—and by what pathways they might impart that change—we might begin to ask, 'Where can we intervene, and would one intervention help just one patient or a group?'"
Screening and treatment
By better understanding the numerous routes autism can take to perturbing common pathways, new avenues of treatment might open up sooner. Currently, treatment is based on behavior or serendipity, State says, adding, "we're very far behind other areas of medicine in that respect." But, he says, if a genetic screen can find even a rare mutation in a child before symptoms appear—or even in utero—behavioral therapy could start earlier, improving that child's level of functioning.
And for pharmaceutical development, if treatments can be pinpointed to improving a common pathway, rather than fixing a particular genetic error, they might be able to treat a wider range of ASD patients instead of each individual type of mutation. But interventions like these are "easier said than done," Zoghbi notes. "There are lots of proteins involved and lots of genes involved."
Genetics are, of course, just part of the increasingly complex autism puzzle. "Two people can have exactly the same mutation" and not have the same degree of developmental disorder, State says. "The question of why is the multimillion-dollar question."
To help sort out this increasingly urgent answer, Gregory advocates for a broad-spectrum approach. "It's not going to be one thing, it's going to be a collection," he says. "Between genetic, genomic and epigenetic, we'll identify what causes the spectrum." (Epigenetics refers to the environmental modification of genetic activity; such changes can be heritable.) And within these, the environment is often another complicating factor, as a person's genetic makeup can render them more or less sensitive to environmental influences—whether that is from social bonding or purported chemical influences.
But one thing is well established in autism research: as scientists look deeper into the disease the complexities multiply almost exponentially. Gregory suggests that one of the next steps will be to assess the mechanisms behind epigenetic influences in autism. But "that becomes a harder thing to answer," he says, speaking from experience in that field. DNA methylation and its effect on genes varies in different types of tissue, adding another layer of challenge to parsing the interdependent effects.
The other research teams are also hard at work on the next batch of studies. State's group is expanding their study to include some 1,600 more families as well as homing in on gene regions that they have already found.
The rush of studies in the past couple years has been thanks in large part to technological advances as well as a push to study the disease more closely. "The down payment in the early part of this century is really paying off," State says. But Gregory is eagerly anticipating "the next big leap forward" in higher-resolution sequencing, which will allow is group and others to "identify these very small changes" that researchers are now only just getting a taste of.
Autism's Tangled Genetics Full of Rare and Varied Mutations
Several new studies highlight the complexity of autism's genetic roots, revealing why it strikes boys more than girls and offering clues for possible new treatments
The underpinnings of autism are turning out to be even more varied than the disease's diverse manifestations. In four new studies and an analysis published June 8 researchers have added some major landmarks in the complex landscape of the disease, uncovering clues as to why the disease is so much more prevalent in male children and how such varied genetic mutations can lead to similar symptoms.


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[253 U.S. 219, 220] Mr. Vincent Victory, of New York City, for appellant.
Mr. John A. Garver, of New York City, for appellees.
Memorandum opinion by direction of the Court by Mr. Justice DAY.
The Consolidated Gas Company of New York brought suit to enjoin the enforcement of the New York 80-cent gas law. The jurisdiction was invoked solely upon the ground that the rate was confiscatory and hence violated constitutional rights of the company. The city of New York applied for leave to intervene as a party defendant in the action. The District Judge denied the petition for intervention, stating that the Public Service Commission, the Attorney General, and the district attorney properly represented private consumers; that the city had no interest in the litigation as a consumer, was not the governmental body which had fixed the rate, and was not charged with the duty of enforcing it. From the order (Consolidated Gas Co. of New York v. Newton, 256 Fed. 238) denying the application to intervene, the city of New York prosecuted an appeal to the Circuit Court of [253 U.S. 219, 221] Appeals, and the latter court (260 Fed. 1022) affirmed the order of the District Court.
The application was addressed to the discretion of the District Court, and the order appealed from was not of that final character which furnished the basis for appeal. Ex parte Cutting, 94 U.S. 14 , 22; Credits Commutation Co. v. United States, 177 U.S. 311, 315 , 20 S. Sup. Ct. 636; Ex parte in the Matter or Leaf Tobacco Board of Trade, 222 U.S. 578, 581 , 32 S. Sup. Ct. 833. As the jurisdiction of the District Court was based upon constitutional grounds only, the case was not appealable to the Circuit Court of Appeals. But, an appeal having been taken and a final order made in the Circuit Court of Appeals, we have jurisdiction to review the question of jurisdiction of that court. Judicial Code, 241 (Comp. St. 1218); Union & Planters' Bank v. Memphis, 189 U.S. 71, 73 , 23 S. Sup. Ct. 604.
The proper course is to reverse the judgment of the Circuit Court of Appeals, and remand the case to that court, with directions to dismiss the appeal. Four Hundred and Forty-Three Cans of Egg Product v. United States, 226 U.S. 172, 184 , 33 S. Sup. Ct. 50; Carolina Glass Co. v. South Carolina, 240 U.S. 305, 318 , 36 S. Sup. Ct. 293.
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text: Spenco™ was started in 1967 by Dr. Wayman Spence. Spenco is an innovative healthcare company whose mission is to help people walk more comfortably. The core business is based around producing high quality insole and foot care products. Spenco also provides the most advanced sports medicine and first aid products. In addition to its superior quality foot care products, the company is 100% committed to providing the best customer service on the market. From supportive footwear to medical foot care, Spenco helps you find the solutions for all your health and foot care needs.


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Police say they've found the man suspected of opening fire in a crowded downtown Austin entertainment district and killing a bystander.
The suspected gunman had been previously identified as 24-year-old Endicott McCray. The Austin Police Department said U.S. Marshals arrested a suspect in Atlanta on Wednesday morning.
The man had been wanted since the shooting early Sunday that police say caused "chaos" along Austin's famed Sixth Street of music clubs.
Authorities said he was likely aiming for someone else when a bullet struck and killed a 20-year-old woman who was downtown with her wife.
Three other women were also hospitalized.
A judge this week signed a warrant and set bond for the suspect at $2 million.
Court documents show that a witness told police that the man pulled a handgun out of his waistband and began firing after being shoved by another man.


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1 can (10 3/4 ounces) reduced-sodium, reduced-fat cream of chicken soup
3/4 cup fat-free milk
6 ounces (1 1/2 cups) chopped, cooked turkey (white meat, no salt added, either leftovers or precooked turkey breast from the deli counter)
2 cups frozen mixed vegetables
1 small tube of refrigerated, prepared biscuit dough (10 small biscuits)
Preheat oven to 350 F. Pour cream of chicken soup, fat-free milk, chopped, cooked turkey, and frozen mixed vegetables into a casserole dish. Stir until well combined. Open container of prepared biscuits. Place 8 biscuits on top of soup mixture. (Reserve remaining 2 biscuits for another meal.) Place casserole in oven. Bake for approximately 25–30 minutes until biscuits are golden-brown and contents are heated through.
Yield: 4 servings
Preparation time: 7 minutes
Baking time: 25–30 minutes
Serving size: 1 cup casserole and 2 small biscuits
Nutrition Facts
Per Serving:
Calories: 298
Carbohydrate: 43 g
Protein: 25 g
Fat: 3 g
Saturated fat: 0 g
Sodium: 768 mg
Fiber: 5 g
Exchanges per serving: 2 1/2 starch, 1 non-starchy vegetable, 2 very lean meat
Carbohydrate choices: 3


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My Favorite Nook: Playhouse Under the Stairs
What she had to say about it: "My favorite nook in our house is a teeny tiny space I can barely fit into - its the little playhouse we created under the basement stairs for our 3 year old daughter Chloe. We originally planned to turn this area into additional storage but then realized it would be much more fun to make it into a secret hideaway. I imagined what I would love if I was a little girl and poured all of those ideas into this one wee space. From the scalloped awning I sewed, to the stenciling which took me days to complete, and the miniature 3D boxwood hedge her father made, everything in this nook was handmade and crafted with love. In decorating this space, I learned that good design doesn't have to happen on a grand scale. Little touches can add up to a big impact and with a bit of effort, the most uninteresting spaces can become magical. I remember playing under the stairs when I was a child and I hope my daughter creates her own fond memories in this little nook."
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Take Away Design Tip: No space is too small to make fabulous!
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This is so sweet! A little hideaway like this is every child's dream! I used to make forts in my walk-in closet... but this takes the cake :)ReplyDelete
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Archaeology in Oklahoma
Connecting Archaeology and History
How are history and archaeology related?
History and archaeology both study ancient people and things. Specifically, historians study older documents and artifacts and create an interpretation of the past for the public. Archaeologists excavate artifacts that both the archaeologists and historians study. Archaeologists also look at historical documents, but they typically use them for background information on a site. The fields of history and archaeology study very similar things but do so from different viewpoints.
How are history and archaeology different?
History and archaeology are different in that they study the artifacts from different perspectives. Archaeologists are more concerned with the physical evidence (artifacts); historians rely more on documentary evidence to support their work.
Why is this important?
Even though historians and archaeologists study the past differently, they are connected. It is important to remember that when studying early history, the evidence historians use most likely comes from an archaeological site discovered by a professional. When an archaeologist is preparing for a dig, they do background research and use historical archives to help estimate who might have lived there.
Impact on today?
Archaeology sites are found all over the world every day leading to new insights of the past. The artifacts the archaeologists find, after being analyzed, go to museums all over the world to share the past with their visitors. Maybe one day the toy you played with as a child will be found in an archaeological site and be put on display for the world to see and interpret.
How does this connect to museums, and where can you learn about the field of archaeology?
Artifacts are objects made or used by humans. Artifacts are typically found because they were discarded, someone lost them, or they were broken. Once the object has been found, cleaned, and analyzed, it typically goes to a museum for safe-keeping and to show the public what was found. The Oklahoma History Center is a repository for Oklahoma artifacts. They have artifacts from all over Oklahoma, which cover all of the state's history. Many of these artifacts are archaeological items donated by the Oklahoma Archeological Survey (OAS) in Norman. The mission of the Archeological Survey is to conduct basic research on Oklahoma's prehistory and early history, to work with the citizens of our state in preserving archaeological sites significant to the state's cultural heritage, and to disseminate the results of their work through teaching, public lectures, and publishing the results of their findings. Research faculty of the Survey hold advanced degrees in anthropology with a specialization in archaeology. Universities in Oklahoma at which you can obtain these degrees include University of Oklahoma, University of Tulsa, and Oklahoma Baptist University. Oklahoma State University does not have an anthropological degree at this time.