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Samsung has launched the latest in the line of Galaxy S smartphones with the Android 4.0 quad-core Galaxy S III.
Few Android phones will ever command the sort of attention of Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S III ahead of launch. Rumours and mooted features of the third-generation of the largest selling model of Android phone have been all over the web in recent weeks.
As such many of the features aren’t a huge surprise. First there’s the massive 4.8-inch Super AMOLED display with a 1280×720 resolution, even larger than the huge 4.65-inch display in Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus. Then there’s Samsung’s 1.4GHz quad-core Exynos 4412 and a predictable slew of benchmarks showing that the phone has regained the performance crown in CPU and GPU tasks.
Other rumours turned out to be guff with no sign of a ceramic body. Instead there’s a choice of finishes, "marble white" and "pebble blue". Strangely there’s no plain black. Overall it looks quite like the Galaxy Nexus, aside from somehow being bigger. We’d like to see one of Samsung’s favourite Korean female models holding this phone in one hand. They’d probably look rather like a waiter balancing a set of glases.
Impressively, despite the additional width and height, the Galaxy S III is noticably thinner than the already svelt Galaxy Nexus. It is, not to put too fine a point on it, ridiculously thin. Thankfully too, there is an SD card slot, something rumoured to be missing from the design, also like the Galaxy Nexus. The Galaxy S III will still come with either 16 or 32GB of flash on board.
In terms of new features not seen before, Samsung had a couple of surprises including Smart Stay – an eye-tracking feature that uses the front-facing camera to recognise when someone is peeping at the display. If it’s you, the screen unlocks automatically. Nifty!
Samsung have also daubed the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS in the firm’s Touchwiz front end, which isn’t particularly good but then it’s been done up with some "liquid" graphical effects. Maybe that means it’s not as bad as previous versions of Touchwiz… we wouldn’t bet on it.
The camera is the same 8MP model but now boosted with lag-free picture taking, just like the Galaxy Nexus and there’s some Samsung specific software camera goodness such as the 20-shot burst most Best Photo feature.
So that’s the Samsung Galaxy S III. Not particularly revolutionary but again at the head of the class with regards to specs, weight and Samsung’s luscious massive AMOLED display. Doubtless it’ll sell by the truckload.


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Celebrity News June 19, 2007
Stars in Crisis: Richie Sambora's Rehab Confession and the Latest Paris News
Paris Hilton is "settling in" to jail, said her parents, and now her friends are weighing in!
"Paris, we're thinking of you - and we love you," said former N'Sync member Lance Bass.
"I think you always need to take responsibility for your actions and what you do," added Paris BFF Kim Kardashian. "But I think they're definitely giving her a hard time and making an example of her."
Paris has no shortage of supporters, that's for sure - jail sources at Lynwood revealed she has received more mail than any other inmate in Los Angeles.
Kathy Hilton said that when she's not staring at the walls, Paris is "reading a lot of her fan mail and family letters and basically just reading and just sitting there thinking."
Paris is expected to be released next Monday.
Meanwhile, Lindsay Lohan could be out, too - of rehab.
Sources say she's expected to leave Promises treatment center in Malibu on June 28.
Just don't look for her to be celebrating her 21st birthday in Las Vegas - the party's just been called off.
Lindsay was supposed to have the big bash at Pure nightclub in Sin City, and it was reportedly sponsored by a vodka company.
But now that Lindsay is in rehab for the second time, the party is over - and that's something her estranged father Michael is happy about.
"She'll be out soon, but I'm happy to hear that the party at Pure, from what I understand, is cancelled," Michael told "Extra."
We caught up with Michael in New York, where he told us he's still waiting to hear from his daughter.
"I think it's in her heart that she's been ready to talk for a long time," Michael said. "It's just other people kind of put the wrong thing in her head. Maybe that's one of the reasons why she's where she is today."
Also on the mend is rocker Richie Sambora.
He entered a treatment facility a few weeks ago, but he set the record straight about his ordeal.
He told NBC's Matt Lauer, "I was just drinking too much, and I needed to get my life together. I'm still in therapy, but it's good; it's great. I feel fine."

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Italian Late Garlic (Allium sativum ‘Italian Late’)
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How does your garden grow? Once you decide to have a garden area you will definitely want to plant this Italian Late Garlic (Allium sativum ‘Italian Late’)! This Late Garlic is a fabulous way to enjoy a wider variety of Garlic and extend your harvest season at the same time!
Italian Late is a soft-neck variety of Garlic, soft-neck means it does not have the tough flower stalk of hard-neck Garlic that often needs to be removed to encourage bulb development. Soft Necks produce more cloves per bulb as well! The white flowers attract and support bees and butterflies when they bloom as well!
Italian Late’s flavor is robust but not overly hot. The taste is rich and lingers on the palate but can vary depending on the growing conditions. They store well. Hang to dry and once dry they will store well most of the winter, up to six months.
Versatile in the kitchen for fresh and dried recipes, Garlic grown at home has more flavor and loads more health benefits than storebought! Because who knows how long those bulbs have been stored and shipped around? Boost the flavor and health of your soups and stews, Italian meals, meat dishes and your Garlic bread with Italian Late Garlic cloves!
Plant these space-saving bulbs and their large cloves in your kitchen garden for easy access to flavorful cooking and garnish – because not only are the Garlic cloves edible, but also the leaves, scapes, and flowers too! Tuck in groupings or in rows throughout Herb gardens and are no-brainers for the Veggie garden too! Even container gardeners can grow Garlic in their mixed planters and in containers too!
These edible Bulbs are easy to grow. They will grow in a range of climates and soil types. Garlic bulbs need to be planted in a sunny spot with fertile soil. You might need to add some compost if necessary. The area will also need to drain well and avoid standing water for your Garlic. Plant these bulbs outdoors about six to eight weeks before the ground freezes in the fall. If you live in a warmer climate you can plant it as late as early spring. Water less the closer it gets to harvest.
Italian Late Garlic bulbs are easy-to-grow and flavorful edible flowering bulbs that your garden is sure to have room for this year!
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Matt's Monday Midfielder: Sizing Up Division I Men's Lacrosse
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defenseman Zach Badalucco, showing lacrosse players come in all
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A month ago, The Monday Midfielder asked you to close your eyes and crystal-ball gaze. Today, we ask you to shut your eyelids and draw an image of a lacrosse player. Paint a picture in your mind.
We'll give you a moment. We're not stalling.
What did you come up with? A specific person — Steele Stanwick, Mark Matthews or Rob Pannell? Or the general skeleton of a body?
For the purposes of this column, let's concentrate on this: How tall did you make the player? How muscular?
Using publically available data on team websites, The Monday Midfielder gathered height and weight information for every NCAA Division I men's lacrosse player.
So what do the stats say? A lot.
Maybe most notable: From 6-foot-5, 285-pound Duke goalie Christopher Shannon to 5-foot-5, 133-pound Towson attackman Max Siskind, lacrosse players come in all shapes and sizes. No one is too big, or too small, to play lacrosse.
Four players tower over everyone else, standing 6-foot-7, while eight more are 6-foot-6. Only one player, Marist's Zach Badalucco, is 5-foot-4, while seven others are 5-foot-5.
|Tallest Players||Shortest Players|
|Ben Young, Albany, So., D (79 inches)||Zach Badalucco, Marist, Sr., D (64 inches)|
|Sean Wright, Providence, So., A (79)
||Max Siskind, Towson, Fr., A (65)|
|Alex Beatty, Princeton, Fr., D (79)
||Alex Carros, Army, So., A (65)|
|Nolan Hickey, Navy, Jr., G (79)
||Matt Bellando, Stony Brook, So., A (65)|
|Mike Francia, Villanova, Fr., A (65)|
|Kevin Alexander, Mercer, Fr., D (65)|
|Matt Morrison, Navy, So., M (65)|
|Jake Thompson, Cornell, Jr., A (65)
Shannon, who also spent time as a reserve offensive tackle and long snapper on Duke's football team, tipped the scales as the heaviest player. He's also likely one of the strongest. Others weighed in anywhere from 260 to 133 pounds (like Siskind).
|Heaviest Players||Lightest Players|
|Christopher Shannon, Duke, Sr., G (285 pounds)||Max Siskind, Towson, Fr., A (133)|
|Rich Akapnitis, Manhattan, So. G (260)||Matt Thistle, Manhattan, Fr., A (135)|
|Forest Sonnenfeldt, Princeton, Jr., A (250)||Alex Carros, Army, So., A (138)|
|Ethan Kibrick, Bryant, Fr., G (250)|
How do teams and conferences compare to one another? What about players by position? Glad you asked.
|Tallest Teams||Shortest Teams|
|Lehigh: 72.9 inches||Wagner: 71.0 inches|
|Duke: 72.8||Hobart: 71.1|
|North Carolina: 72.5||Michigan: 71.1|
|St. John's: 71.1|
|Heaviest Teams||Lightest Teams|
|Lehigh: 198.0 pounds||Holy Cross: 179.3 pounds|
|Duke: 194.6||Marist: 176.5|
|Johns Hopkins: 194.1||Mercer: 173.3|
|Average Height, Weight, By Conference||By Position|
|ACC: 72.4 inches, 189.9 pounds||Attack: 71.2 inches, 180.3 pounds|
|America East: 71.7, 185.1||Defense: 72.9, 194.7|
|Big East: 71.8, 185.3||Goalie: 71.3, 181.8|
|CAA: 71.8, 182.6||Midfield: 71.5, 183.4|
ECAC: 71.8, 183.6
|Independent: 71.9, 185.2
|Ivy: 71.8, 184.5|
|MAAC: 71.5, 183.5
NEC: 71.6, 186.6
|Patriot: 71.9, 186.7
What about the best players in the country? Tewaaraton Award Candidates: 71.7 inches, 189.4 pounds.
Anecdotally, The Monday Midfielder has heard that lacrosse players are getting bigger, faster and stronger. Some have said that, with the sport's growth, lacrosse has attracted better athletes than ever before. Athleticism is hard to gauge off a number, but size isn't.
The average Division I men's lacrosse player stands 71.8 inches tall (just under 6-foot) and weighs 185.3 pounds.
How does this compare over time? With the help of US Lacrosse archivist extraordinaire Joe Finn, The Monday Midfielder pulled rosters from the national championship winning teams from 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago.
|Average Height, Weight of National Champions of Decades Past:|
|2002 Syracuse: 72.6 inches, 192.1 pounds|
|1992 Princeton: 71.5 inches, 178.8 pounds|
|1982 North Carolina: 71.1 inches, 177.0 pounds|
|1972 Virginia: 71.1 inches, 171.5 pounds|
Lacrosse players have gotten about a half-inch taller and 15 pounds heavier, which isn't too far off the growth of the average adult male over the same time period. (We're assuming, of course, that athletes have overstated their height and weight by similar margins over time.)
Make of these findings what you will, but know that lacrosse players are tall and short, heavy and light.
Now, back to your drawing... if you pictured Steele Stanwick as having the prototypical lacrosse player's frame, you weren't far off. The 6-foot, 190-pound Stanwick is a quarter-inch taller and five pounds heavier than average. His skills on the field, though, are anything but.
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Haven't digested enough numbers? Here are a few more...
10 – One-goal games played in Division I men's lacrosse this weekend, including five that went to overtime. Proponents of parity, take note. No team is safe, and there's no such thing as an easy win.
9 – Saves made by freshman goalie Bobby Wardwell, making his first career start, in Syracuse's 10-9 win over Princeton on Saturday. Coach John Desko admitted the decision to go with Wardwell was risky with the Orange having lost two straight and fighting for their postseason lives. But Wardwell, the acclaimed rookie, rose to the occasion. "They hit a couple pipes early, and some guys would maybe not get better as the game went on, and he got better as the game went on," Desko said. "He's very comfortable in tight. I think it showed his mental toughness today."
8 – Home victories for Duke in 2012, after Saturday's 10-9 close call against Marist, as the Blue Devils closed out the home portion of their schedule with a perfect record at Koskinen Stadium. All three of Duke's losses have come away from its friendly confines: Notre Dame, Maryland and Loyola. John Danowski is 58-6 in home games as Duke's head coach.
7 – Different goal-scorers for Massachusetts in its 14-3 win against Towson. Talk about balance. Junior Kyle Smith tickled the twine a game-high four times, while Colin Fleming (3), Will Manny (2) and Art Kell (2) all scored more than once for the Minutemen, which remained unbeaten and improved to a program-best 10-0 start. The Tigers, which should have been the Cardiac Cats in recent weeks for their late comebacks, held UMass close until halftime but were outscored 10-1 after intermission.
6 – Consecutive goals scored by Virginia in a 20-minute stretch during the second and third quarters of Saturday's 15-10 win over North Carolina, turning a 4-4 tie into a 10-4 lead. Steele Stanwick was his usual surgical self during that stretch, scoring two goals and dishing out a pair of assists. Even as the Tar Heels mounted a fourth-quarter rally, the Cavaliers' cushion built during that earlier stretch was the difference.
5 – Fourth-quarter saves made by Penn State's Austin Kaut to help the Nittany Lions hang onto a 10-9 defeat of Drexel. Penn State rode a 7-4 second-half rally and stellar pay by Kaut down the stretch to win its sixth game of the year. With wins over Notre Dame, Ohio State and Villanova that will stand the test of time, and losses to near-lock tournament teams North Carolina, Denver, UMass and Lehigh, the Nits have built a strong postseason resume.
4 – Regular-season weekends remaining before the start of the NCAA tournament, with first-round games scheduled for May 12-13. Can you feel it?
3 – Teams tied atop the Patriot League standings with a 3-1 record after Colgate snapped Lehigh's nine-game winning streak and Bucknell's eight-game streak ended against Army in double overtime. The Bison will play Lehigh April 14 and Colgate April 20 with a chance to take the conference crown. How the selection committee handles the Patriot League come Selection Sunday could be interesting.
2 – Combined goals scored by Loyola's Eric Lusby and Mike Sawyer in the Greyhounds' 8-6 defeat of Fairfield, a season-low for the dynamic left-righty duo from Evergreen. Lusby was held scoreless on six shots Saturday, and Sawyer found the back of the net twice in what was only the second time all year Loyola has been held under double-digit goals. But as coach Charley Toomey said: "That's who this team is. ... Somebody is going to get this team going and then we're all going to rally."
1 – Goal allowed by Notre Dame's vaunted defense against Providence in Saturday's 9-1 victory, the fewest the Fighting Irish have given up in a game this year. That's saying something, considering they've held opponents to five or fewer scores on five occasions. Notre Dame also did it without star senior captain Kevin Randall, who has been battling an undisclosed upper body injury. Junior goalie John Kemp made seven saves, and the Friars took only 18 shots.
Good day, and good lacrosse.
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Meru Governor Kawira Mwangaza is now facing allegations of nepotism, conflict of interest and irregular recruitment, after appointing more family members to county positions.
Days after appointing her husband Murega Baicu as the county’s Youth Patron and Hustlers’ Ambassador, Mwangaza is reported to have now appointed her two sisters to county positions, one as a personal assistant and another one as a bodyguard.
The recent developments have raised the Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission’s (EACC) radar on her. The antigraft agency has already written a letter demanding explanations for her recent actions.
“It is reported that you have employed two of your sisters to public office, one as your personal assistant and another as security personnel,” EACC says in the letter.
According to EACC, Baicu has been giving orders to county employees, despite his role being obscure.
“Further, reports indicate that Mr Baicu has been attending official county meetings and issuing directives to county employees yet it is not clear whether he is a public officer,” the EACC says in the letter.
“The Commission notes that these allegations constitute serious ethical issues and if true would amount to a serious breach of the integrity and ethical requirements governing the conduct of State officers. While the information within our knowledge is that Mr Murega Baicu will be performing his duties without pay, we find this inconsistent with this provision because the office he occupies is a public office within the meaning of this article whether or not he draws a salary,” the letter states.
Mwangaza has been put to task to explain her instructions directing the Meru Teaching and Referral Hospital to spend its revenues at the source against the dictates of the Public Finance Management Act which demands that all money raised by the county government must be paid into the revenue fund.
Mwangaza has already fallen out with Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) two months after her elections, with the MCAs accusing her of arrogance.
On Wednesday, October 19, there was drama at Meru County Assembly after the MCAs stormed out of the assembly as the governor was making her address.
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Our GiT spouse Janara Kushueva sent us regularly beautiful stories. This time “Folium’ (Latin for ‘leaf’) about leaves and the changes in their leaf lives .. a current autumn theme .. Enjoy!
I’m a maple leaf, my name is Folium. We, leaves, are about 40,000 friends here on our tree. I have quiet and happy life, because I don’t need much in this life, some sunlight, water, and maybe just hearing children laughing. I like rain, when drops wash me gently, and I feel fresh again.
I don’t like wind if it is cold, if it blows much and it is hard for me to hold on my mother-tree. Sometimes, when wind is mild, we, leaves, sing and dance altogether. We sing about blue sky, clouds, angels; birds hear us and come to us, sit on our branches and we sing together.
Now, when we don’t get much sunlight, when temperature changes, we change our colors because amount of pigments inside us decrease. We become red, orange, yellow, russet, golden-bronze, bright scarlet etc. I became bright yellow :).
Some people come to us saying: “What a beautiful tree!” They take pictures of us.
What is beauty for me? I think it is simplicity, sincerity, admitting that you are not perfect.
I’m also not perfect, I cannot speak in the way people speak, I cannot move freely like them, but it is my destiny to be a leaf, and maybe it is better for me, I should feel grateful for what I have, I have easier life than humans.
Humans, especially women, have pressure about being beautiful, staying young etc. However, I believe that every woman/man can be beautiful in his simple way, just little bit skin/face care, decent clothes and the most important inner feeling of ‘beauty in imperfection’, inner soul-beauty, which makes you seem attractive to other people. Look at me, I’m just a leaf changing colors, and I’m already beautiful! 🙂 I’m blessed to be a leaf.
Also I think children are beautiful. I love children; a child associates with words innocence, freedom, playing, seeing world in different ways. They don’t pretend to be something, they say what they think, they believe in peoples’ words…Sometimes I want to play with them, but I can’t move; never mind, maybe my life would lead me to that somehow…
Today is Sunday. I’m just watching people who came here to the park; listening to them, trying to smile to them, but nobody notices 🙂
I see a man with his small son. He was talking to his father: ”…yes daddy, I wanna be a pilot in future, make a plane take off and land, wanna fly!….oh, look at these pretty leaves, can I tear one off? I’d like to put it in my book and dry it!”
“No, let it live there. Why you always want to destroy something? Let the flowers, leaves, grass be where they are supposed to be.”
‘However, the boy didn’t listen to him, and secretly tore me from my mother-tree. I’m ok with that! I’ll get dry and be in his book forever; he would play with me carefully, talk to me or maybe attach me to a card designed to his mother on Mother’s Day or something. It is fun. Otherwise, I’d be torn off by strong wind, fall on the road, fall on dirt and dust of this road, people wouldn’t notice me; just step on me…uhh.
The boy took Folium, gently touched it, put it carefully in his big pocket. When he came home he put it in his big colorful book. He was going to show it to his teacher and ask all information about the leaf, what parts do they have, how water comes to it, what happens inside the leaf during a day having sunlight and during night, how they breath, how are they useful for our atmosphere…and many more questions. He liked the nature; he wanted to know our invaluable nature better to be closer to it.
He and Folium became friends.


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Then head out to the recreated village with its entry maze and (sadly run down) long house.
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This place used to be nice. There is nothing left outside. The only longhouse they have is falling apart and not even built as per native did back then.
The gift shop is small and very pricy.
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Stumbled on this place completely by accident. I’m so glad I did, I an absolute treasure. The display, consisting of artifacts from the local area dating back to the paleo era, was informative and well put together. Plus the staff are all well informed, helpful...More
This museum is not the easiest to find, and is not extremely large, but seems to do the best with its limited resources. The exhibits themselves are pretty straightforward, but they do well with the recreated village and the virtual reality portions of the museum....More
This is a small museum in the eastern suburbs of London, with a well-done exhibit on the First Nations people who lived in the area prior to the arrival of Europeans. There is a digital video that presents a virtual tour of a long house...More
We felt that our visit here was well worthwhile. Our small group of three was shown around by a very knowledgeable guide. Two of our group tried the virtual reality experience and found it quite interesting. At the time of our visit there was a...More
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The logo is really good, if I has roblox, I wanted to ask for a logo
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It’s pretty good! The background feels a bit dark though.
The background should be a bit brighter, and the text/explosion vectors would be better as a text logo placed in the corner rather than being huge in the center.
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More often than I would like, I have interactions with people that remind me that not everybody thinks like me. Bummer. This is especially disappointing when it comes to stuff that I’ve been writing about for a long time, like the prevalence of sexism or the crap women have to go through to be fans of anything. I immerse myself in those subjects so much that I think surely other people will have heard of this by now, when, in the real world, not a whole lot has changed.
The other day, the interaction was about video games.
The first video game I ever played was Halo 2. I was taking a computer tech class in high school (admittedly, only to fill an occupational-ed credit), and because it was first period, one of the guys would bring in his new Xbox so he and his friends could play Halo 2 before class. Occasionally, they would let me play. Naturally I spent most of the time not knowing which screen I should be looking at, and inevitably discovering I was the one stuck in the corner, spinning around with my gun pointed at the sky.
(I relied heavily on Needlers during that period.)
But I learned, and I got to college and started playing more video games. I got my own Xbox. (Okay, it was an Xbox shared between three people, but I was the majority shareholder.) I played the rest of the Halo games, Fallout 3, Need for Speed, Assassin’s Creed, and of course way too much Mario Kart and Guitar Hero. For me, the experience of playing video games fell somewhere in between reading a book and living out a movie. I finally found a place where I could play the hero, and it was awesome.
So when I discover (or rather, rediscover) that people still don’t think women should be playing video games, or that video games are only shoot-’em-up military games with no story, I just feel sad. I feel sad in the same way that I feel sad for vegetarians who can never share in the joy of a bacon cheeseburger, or for people who live in the Midwest and can’t get to the beach easily, or for people who don’t like the same books I like, because obviously all the books I like are awesome.
Suffice to say, all those things make me very sad. Which is why I’d like to take this opportunity to address some video game myths that apparently still need to be addressed.
1. Video games are for loners. You know the stereotype: the overweight dude with neckbeard, who’s in his 30s but still lives in his mom’s basement, who lives on Cheetos, trolling, and Mountain Dew. Sure, many video game players are that guy. But some of them are me. Some of them are my friend Tess, who plays Mario Kart socially and has dabbled in Zelda. Some are this dude who loved a particular game so much that he built a customized pilot’s chair specifically for that one game.
Some are cosplayers. Some draw fan art. Some follow indie developers religiously. Some camp out waiting for the newest console. Some are perfectly happy to exist on used games.
Some play on their phones or tablets. Some play on PCs. Some play on consoles.
Some play story-intensive games, and play them alone. Some play games that are designed to be played with thousands of other people. Some get together every week to play with their friends. Some play online once a month as a means of keeping in touch with friends who live far away.
Bottom line: there is no one type of gamer, and there’s no “right kind” of gamer. If you think there is one acceptable “type” of gamer, you’re gatekeeping, and we’d like you to stop.
2. Video games are only for boys. Half of all gamers are women. There. Okay? That’s all there is to it.
Okay, fine, here’s more. That’s up from 36% in 2006. 38% of Xbox users are female. 30% of women who game play stereotypically violent games, like Call of Duty.
Video games still cater largely to men, but do you think Tomb Raider would’ve gotten such a dramatic makeover if so many women weren’t playing video games and demanding fair and realistic representation? And women aren’t just playing more – they are becoming more involved in the industry, too. It’s a slow crawl, but from 1989 to 2012, the number of women in the gaming industry went up 9%. (It’s up to a whopping 12%, but given growing demand and increased awareness, that number is sure to keep climbing.)
Plus, video games are becoming more of a family and kid-friendly activity. 51% of US households own a gaming console and 35% of parents play video games with their kids weekly. The Lego franchise has sold over 50 million games to date – same as the Halo games, and more than the Guitar Hero, Gears of War, and Mortal Kombat franchises.
Which is why my hackles go up every time there’s an incident involving women being shut out of, or mistreated in, gaming communities. It’s like saying only English girls can drink tea, or only fifth-graders can read Harry Potter, or only men can eat bacon cheeseburgers. It limits people’s exposure to something cool, and worst of all, it normalizes this. As long as developers keep excluding women and conventions refuse to enforce sexual-harassment policies and forums refuse to admit there’s a problem, the problem will continue. Daughters will grow up thinking only their brothers should play video games. Parents will continue to think their kids’ habits are bizarre and antisocial. (Okay, they could be, but maybe he or she is making friends on another continent he or she would ordinarily never have a chance to meet.) Men will continue to harass cosplayers at conventions because they think they can get away with it.
So yes, every time this comes up, I will address it, until I don’t have to anymore.
3. Video games are only about violence and shooting and killing things. Want to take a guess at the best-selling video game franchise of all time?
I’ll give you a minute.
Ready? It’s Mario.
The Mario games have sold over 400 million units. The best-selling stereotypically violent game franchise is Grand Theft Auto, with 185 million units sold. Call of Duty, arguably the most popular modern first-person shooter franchise after Halo, has sold 120 million units. Gears of War, famous for its gory alien deaths, has sold 19 million. Simply judging by the numbers, the violent, gory games are not the most popular, nor are they the most in demand.
I’ve already mentioned the Lego games. There are a slew of sports games, music related games, puzzle games, racing games, RPGs, and old-school side scrollers. There are games where you fight with guns, swords, flamethrowers, hidden blades, sledgehammers, magic wands, turtle shells, guns you build out of vacuums, or with no weapons at all. There are games where you don’t even fight. Limbo is one of them – a beautiful, black-and-white adventure about a little boy trying to find his missing sister. Along the way, he evades electrified traps, giant spiders, and murderous forest people, and he does zero fighting.
And there are plenty more. There’s Little Big Planet, where you can team up with your friends to solve puzzles and explore beautiful levels with a handcrafted aesthetic. There’s Rocksmith, in which you can actually learn to play guitar. There’s Depression Quest, a game designed by Zoe Quinn to help teach people about depression, and to help sufferers cope. There’s Okami, a beautiful game where you save the world with a magic paintbrush.
And there are dozens more games that I haven’t had the chance to play, like Journey, Gone Home, Portal, Minecraft, and Fez, all of which are nonviolent. And of course there are plenty of violent games that I’m looking forward to trying: the Bioshock games, Tomb Raider, the Metro games, Destiny, and The Order: 1866.
Shoot, that’s a lot of games.
I’m very glad I live in a time and place where I feel free to play them.
Now I just need my tendonitis to clear up…

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Scottish policing remains ‘financially unsustainable’, says Auditor General
The Scottish Police Authority (SPA) has improved how it operates but policing in Scotland is still not financially sustainable, says the Auditor General for Scotland.
Leadership of the SPA and Police Scotland has stabilised, and the authority has made progress in financial planning and management, as well as in its business support and governance functions.
But in his report published today (December 11), Auditor General Stephen Boyle says the authority is still unable to balance its budget. The SPA overspent by a total of £26.6 million in 2019/20, with the Scottish government making up the gap in additional funding.
More than 85 per cent of the Scottish police budget is spent on officer and staff wages.
A previous SPA plan to achieve financial balance by 2020/21 depended on reducing officer numbers. However, the Auditor General said due to concerns around the impact of EU withdrawal, and in agreement with the Scottish government, those planned reductions were cancelled.
Police Scotland has yet to develop a detailed workforce plan, said Mr Boyle, and the force, together with the SPA and the Scottish government, urgently need to identify a model for policing in Scotland that is financially sustainable.
“The SPA has made progress in the past year while faced with the significant additional challenges of Covid-19 and preparing for the UK’s withdrawal from the EU,” said Mr Boyle.
“It is now a matter of urgency that the SPA, Police Scotland and the Scottish government reach agreement on what needs to be done to achieve financial sustainability. Without firmer progress on the key areas of budget balance and workforce planning, the SPA and Police Scotland will not be able to deliver the ambitions of the new Joint Strategy for Policing.”
The report coincides with publication of the SPA’s Annual Report and Accounts for the 2019/20 financial year.
The SPA said the accounts confirm that policing managed its finances during 2019/20 within the revised budget set by the authority and approved by the Scottish government. The final reported outturn for the period was a deficit of £26.6 million, which includes an additional £2.2 million of expenditure incurred in March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The amount spent on policing during the year was:
- £1,144.7 million Police Scotland (revenue and capital);
- £33.2 million Forensic Services (revenue and capital);
- £3.7 million SPA Corporate (revenue); and
- £24 million reform funding across all policing.
Responding to both the publication of the SPA’s Annual Report and Accounts and the Audit Scotland report, SPA interim chair David Crichton said: “I warmly welcome the Auditor General’s report and the acknowledgement that the authority has benefited from a period of stability and continued to strengthen its governance of policing.
“I want to thank the authority’s leadership and staff team as well as my fellow board members who have invested significant time and energy in this improvement work.
“The Auditor General rightly raises the ongoing financial challenges for policing. The authority’s position has been well documented and we remain of the view that the deficit is unsustainable, and without an increase in core budget or a reduction in officer numbers there is no short-term route to eliminating it.
“The authority continues to engage with the Scottish government and Police Scotland to identify options for delivering financial sustainability.”
Lynn Brown, interim chief executive and accountable officer for the £1.2 billion policing budget, added: “Audit Scotland has issued an unqualified opinion of the SPA’s accounts, which is welcomed and acknowledges the significant progress that has been made within the authority to strengthen governance and accountability within policing.
“Important progress has been made in the last 18 months to improve the authority’s oversight of policing, organisational capacity and focus. Work continues to develop and build a more assertive and outward facing authority that acts in the public interest and I am confident further progress will be made in the months ahead.”
She added: “Audit Scotland also identifies the need for Police Scotland to produce a detailed Strategic Workforce Plan. The authority recognises that this is an essential element of a financially sustainable police service and we will continue to work with Police Scotland to ensure this is delivered and underpinned by clear understanding of service demand.”


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AG Jerry Brown Goes After OC Mortgage Loan Modifiers
|AG Jerry Brown and his suede-denim secret police are coming after OC loan modification companies.|
The post, which was based on a Salon reporter's visit to a loan modification seminar in Long Beach, included a reference to Shawn Kolahi and Irvine-based Loan Processing Center, which turns up on Brown's list of Orange County companies that have not registered with his office.
A commenter named "Jason" posted an article about disciplinary charges being filed against lawyer Sean Rutledge with United Law Group in Irvine. Kirkland Holdings/United Law Group at 2400 Main St., Second Floor, Irvine, also turns up on Brown's list.
But to give an idea of the murky nature of the business, which often has companies and officials changing their names and affiliations, there is also a United Law Group in Las Vegas singled out by the AG's office. Meanwhile, names very similar to those mentioned in the Poorhouse piece and comments, located in the same OC cities, take up Brown spots as well.

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Nov. 5th Tournament
Come out and join the Notre Dame Department of Athletics for the First Annual Playing for Peace International Soccer Tournament! We will be playing a small-sided World Cup format tournament featuring a community division and a student division. Prize to be announced for the winners. The timing and basic rules are below. There are limited spots available so don’t wait to sign up!
Registration is closed. We have reached our maximum capacity.
Please click here to download the waiver of liability form that needs to be completed and turned in at check in on Nov. 5th.
Date: November 5th
Check in: 9:30 am
Tournament: Start at 10:00 am with the Finals being played at 4:00 pm.
Location: Riehle Fields(Located next to the Stepan Center on the north side of campus)
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House hit by gunfire near 56th Street, Grand Avenue
A house was hit several times by gunfire early Monday morning, Omaha police said.
One person was still awake at 1:45 a.m. when they heard gunshots outside the home near 56th Street and Grand Avenue.
Officers found as many as five bullet holes in the house, but said nobody was injured.
Investigators weren't sure whether the shots were fired from a car or if someone approached the home. Police are still searching for suspects.


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Phryne the Impious
Phryne the beautiful courtesan of whom it was said
her glorious body odor shamed the rose
one day found herself in trouble, accused of impiety.
She trembled before the basalt-eyed jurors.
She could feel the cold reeking cheek of the cup of hemlock
jammed against her own
when suddenly her lawyer in lewd inspiration
ripped her gown open from throat to waist.
Now it was the jurors who trembled.
They found her innocent on the spot.
The lawyer juror contended,
"Just because she did it doesn't mean she's guilty."
The priest juror reasoned,
"The gods must have loved Phryne very much
to give her this righteous pair."
The scholar juror noted, "Her bust is classically bathykolpian,
if we give Bathy and Kolpos their ancient meanings of
Deep and Gulf. Let the fair-clefted darlings swing free!"
The goat farmer juror thought of his randy ungulates
and stared at her with his dirty, pretty yellow eyes.
He mumbled, "Plenty of the best cream went into those.
I'd like to be her goat daddy, prance on my cloven hooves
up and down the sway of her spine
and bleat my moans on her hip gold."
Another sighed only, "Sweet honey in the rock."
But the last juror of all remembered a flower he'd seen,
impossibly rooted in a wall of stone:
the flushed round of a peony gazing up
with its pointed red-gold eye,
lifting its pink to the dangerous sky.
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Having a chance to change your life for good reasons is a delightful idea. If it is in bits and pieces the still people would love to follow that path. How about changing your environment that will definitely soothe your aesthetics and make you feel a real change? It is all set in mind but some ideas come in for proper execution and display. You will find the best stuff and how you will look for the better reasons of exploration and to give a changeable change. With an addition of a custom cut glass table top to living room will be a delightful addition.
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Normally the market and even the home décor trends are so rapidly changing that it becomes hard to understand what sorts of things are in fashion. But everybody has a unique taste and if you like a look of an oriental oval wall mirror then it is your right to get it. If it is not available in market then you can look for custom cut glass to size as per requirements. You can ask your local home décor shop to adjust or make a brand new table top with your desired size and shape. If it is not possible there then you can look for customization on online stores. You will definitely find an easy job with these stores to order and get delivery at your doorstep!
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Clef taps Flocka for a new trap music and rock infusion on his April Showers mixtape.
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The season finale had more in common with the ending of ‘Lost’ than you might think. By Kevin P. Sullivan
Multi-hyphenate knows his upcoming movie is all about the power of food. By Alex Zalben, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
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Welcome to The Incarnate Process Episode 75 – Box Cover Color
Project: Ascended Kings
Product Packaging: Box Cover Color
So some progress on the cover art. This is sort of block out stage to make sure we’re hitting on big shapes, color and lighting.
All the architecture at this point is modeled, textured, and lit. There’s a lot of over-painting that needs to happen to get rid of seams, add edge wear and additional textures, soften shadows, add water to the base of the star globe, and obviously position Apsu on the surface. Once that’s take care of in the next update I’ll move onto the background and get the city structures and Sentinel figures placed on the ground and out in the water. And I’d also like to play around with some of the cloud shapes to make it feel a bit more fantastical.
Other than that, we’re just moving right along. Let me know what you think!
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Black Spire III: A Twisted King
The Black Dragon has awoken.
A tide of green flesh rises from the Hag Fens, an empire of barbarians, of tattooed orcs, frothing goblins, stalking bugbears and raging trolls. Decades after the rise of the Second Alkerathi Empire, a new realm is being forged in the West, spearheaded by conquest and war.
But not all of the orc tribes unite under the Kha-Khatun’s banner. Some, on the fringes of the fens, still resist unification. And so the orcish empire stalls, as yet unnamed, until all the tribes have been gathered under its banner. But for the tribes in the Northwest, resistance might not be an option for long.
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2018 Sea Ray SLX 400 in Boston, MA
Sea Ray's SLX 400 is a great mix of entertainment options, luxury amenities and performance. The largest bow-rider on the market is the perfect day boat to enjoy the sunshine in the Boston area. The boat has dual grills, seating for 18 and a full bathroom to accommodate your day on the water. You step aboard a wide swim platform (with a center section that lowers for easy water access), and the teak-planked starboard side drops down to create a huge waterfront patio. There’s also a big sun pad in the rear with a backrest cushion that transforms by spinning to create several sitting and lounging areas. While on the expansive deck you can enjoy the 40 inch flat screen TV or your favorite tunes via the 3 zone sound system. Winner of a 2017 NMMA Innovation Award, the SLX 400 combines peak performance, superior comfort, incredible versatility and style, and state-of-the-art technology. The result is more than a boat - it's a premium socializing environment. The SLX 400 banks like an F-15 going after a target. It tops out at over 50 mph, and it is surprisingly happy cruising at 3,500 rpm and 30-plus mph. The boat is equipped with QuietRIDE Technology which includes a Vibration Dampening Material Laminated Throughout Hull, Deck and Liner for Enhanced Sound Deadening and Acoustical Insulation. Bottom line is that the boat is very quite and smooth at top speeds. If you want to get out of the sun the boat has a huge retractable sunshade that deploys electrically from the hardtop. The small cabin that sleeps 4 is air conditioned with 2 Flat screen TV's and is perfect if you need to take a nap. Boat is docked at the Hingham Shipyard which offers free parking and multiple excellent restaurants just steps from the boat slip. Getting on board the boat at Hingham Shipyard is both simple and safe. We have a huge 10 person floating island that can be inflated as well as equipment to go tubing. You can bring food and drinks including alcohol or we can make arrangements to have a meal catered and brought on board. Based on the size of your group, we may have a first mate in addition to the captain as part of the crew in order to make sure that everyone is safe and has an awesome time.
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It is known that the Lancia is the most successful team in WRC historyhaving won his title constructors' championship 10 times with iconic cars such as Stratos and the Deltawith the latter having the most wins in the institution, with 46.
The Italians they left the world of rallying after it ended 1992, focusing more on the motoring part, rather than the racing. However, for quite some time now it is said in the Italian media that Lancia is preparing to re-enter racing.
A few days ago, the Italian company revealed the renewed HF logo (High Fidelity), with which her team Lancia topped repeatedly. The HF signal will be fitted to all of the Italians' upcoming high-performance models, with the first pure electric Ypsilon HFwhich will take effect 240 horsepower and will accelerate from standstill to 100 km/h in 5,8 sec.
At the same time, during the premiere of the film Race for Glorywhich revisits 1983, where Lancia and Audi had their own battle for the WRC titlethe managing director of the company, Luca Neapolitanohinted that the Italian brand is actively considering the possibility re-entering the world of rallying.
“On the occasion of the premiere of the film Race for Glory in major Italian cinemas, I am delighted to unveil the new HF logo, which will make its debut on the new Lancia Ypsilon HF, before being used on future high-performance models of the company, ” he said.
“Following the launch of the new Lancia Ypsilon, the first car of our new era, today we are taking another step towards the Renaissance to emphasize the wild and extreme soul of the brand and its commitment to high-performance models.
«Should we go back to rallying? We are working on it.»
In accordance with Autosporthowever, the imminent return it is not about the top level of racing, at least not for now. On the contrary, the most likely scenario wants the Italians to enter the category Rally4where after all the group Stellarto which it also belongs Lanciaalready has two entries, with the Peugeot 208 Rally4 and Opel Corsa Rally4.
Lancia turns its back on SUVs and Alfa Romeo is “to blame”.
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The UK’s leading designer and manufacturer of vegetable handling equipment has appointed a new financial controller to head up its accounts department.
Emma Johnson joined Haith last month, reporting to Nigel Haith, Managing Director.
With nine years financial experience gained at an industrial hose manufacturer, Emma has been given responsibility for managing all aspects of Haith finances, dealing with day-to-day financial administration as well as producing monthly accounts, forecasting and budget management.
“We’re very pleased to welcome Emma to the team,” says Nigel. “We are enjoying a buoyant period, with a very encouraging order book and a pleasing number of enquiries. As we continue to grow, the amount of work our accounts department has to undertake also rises, so we’ve decided to recruit and are delighted to have found someone with Emma’s experience and skill set.”
Ms Johnson is pleased to be joining the company at an exciting period. “Haith is well known and is synonymous with excellence in the farming sector. I’ve only been here a few weeks, but it is clear that the company is growing. As the team here focus on meeting the increasing demand, we need to ensure the financial side of the business runs as smoothly and effectively as possible. I’m looking forward to working with the accounts team to ensure this continues.”
Outside of work, Emma enjoys spin biking, swimming and gym sessions as well as travelling.
Emma’s appointment follows Jen Brindley’s decision to take some time away from the business to care for her son, who was seriously hurt in a motorcycle accident before Christmas.
Incorporated as a limited company in 1964, Tickhill Engineering, which trades as Haith has a long tradition of innovating vegetable handling. The company invented the modern barrel washer in 1961, developed the brush roller bed in the 1970s, which was superseded in the ’80s by the Hydro Flow washer. The company introduced the Self Clean washer at the beginning of this century.


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LIFE TRIVERS - Implementing the Water Framework Directive to temporary rivers: tools for the assessment of their ecological status.
Project Phase : Planning
Project Location : Spain
Project reference : LIFE13 ENV/ES/000341
Duration : 02-JUN-2014 to 01-JUN -2018
Total budget : 1,407,943.00
EU contribution : 682,962.00
The sustainable management of Europe s water resources are a real challenge for water system managers in the context of climate change and demographic developments.
The European Environment Agency %State of Water% report highlights worrying trends, showing an increase in, and wider prevalence of, water scarcity and stress. By 2030, this is expected to affect about half of EU river basins. To respond to this, in addition to improving water allocation based on ecological flow, water efficiency measures should be taken to save water and, in many cases, to save energy too.
These issues are addressed by the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD), which establishes a legal framework to protect and restore clean water in Europe, and to ensure its long-term, sustainable use. The directive%s approach to water management is based on river basins, which are the natural geographical and hydrological units. The WFD sets deadlines for Member States to protect aquatic ecosystems, and covers inland surface waters, transitional waters, coastal waters and groundwater.
However, measuring the ecological status of temporary rivers and how this affects their management remains an open question to be dealt with under the WFD, for the following reasons: 1. The WFD requires rivers to be classified on the basis of well defined typologies in order to apply appropriate river basin management plans. However, the typologies considered so far at European level do not explicitly refer to temporary streams. Spanish and Italian transpositions of the WFD recognised the need for defining diverse types of temporary streams, but did not develop guidelines for status assessments or temporary-river management; 2. In most cases, because of the lack of regulations and procedures, managers are forced to apply perennial river management principles when making decisions about the ecological status of temporary rivers, and when undertaking measures such as water allocation, river engineering, effluent discharge and restoration; and 3. The distinct hydrological variability of temporary streams clearly affects their pollution dynamics. Practical measures related to: (i) inputs from nutrients and organic matter from sewage effluent; (ii) erosion; (iii) remediation of stream sediments containing hazardous substances; and (iv) integrated flood management, should be included in management plans for temporary rivers.
The project will contribute to solving the problems related to the assessment of the ecological status of temporary streams through the development of software (TRESH) which, using hydrological and climatic data, can evaluate the river typology and the hydrological situation of the water body concerne
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MOSCOW, August 29. (Itar-Tass) – Just Russia chairman Nikolai Levichev proposed naming a united opposition candidate for Moscow mayoral election; he is even willing to quit the race himself, Alexander Ageev, head of Levichev’s campaign office, told Itar-Tass.
The spokesman explained that Just Russia members propose to hold talks between all mayoral candidates in order to name the strongest one to run against acting Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
“Levichev is ready to go all the way, but he’s also willing to work with others in order to secure a run-off election. He may withdraw himself from the race in favor of any other candidate except the one supported by the current rule,” Ageev emphasized.
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Deep brain stimulation induces more healthy neurons and sustained memory benefits in Rett animals
A recent study from the lab of Dr. Jianrong Tang, associate professor at Baylor College of Medicine and principal investigator at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas Children’s Hospital shows that deep brain stimulation (DBS) of a specific brain region results in a significant and sustained improvement of memory in Rett mice. Moreover, they found that this treatment promotes the generation of new healthy neurons in these mice.
The study, published in the journal Brain Stimulation, provides crucial preclinical evidence that supports the development of DBS as a feasible treatment for Rett syndrome patients.
Rett syndrome (RTT) is a rare but devastating neurodevelopmental disorder that causes regression of motor, social, cognitive, and language skills along with the development of autistic behaviors and seizures. It is caused by mutations in the X-linked gene that encodes the methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MeCP2) protein and thus, primarily affects young girls. Since the loss of cognitive skills is one of the tragic aspects of this condition, there has been intense interest in developing therapeutic approaches to mitigate this loss.
Forniceal DBS induces significant and sustained improvements in learning and memory among RTT mice
DBS is a neurosurgical procedure that involves the placement of a medical device called a neurostimulator to send electrical signals through the electrodes that have been implanted in targeted brain regions to treat various neurological conditions such as movement disorders (e.g. Parkinson’s, tremors, dystonia), neuropsychiatric disorders (e.g. obsessive-compulsive disorders, depression), and epilepsy.
“Inspired by a study which showed that stimulation of the fornix region of the hippocampus improved memory in Alzheimer’s disease, a few years ago we performed forniceal DBS in a mouse model of RTT and found that two weeks of a specific regimen of this treatment improved learning and memory in female RTT mice,” Dr. Jianrong Tang said. “While those findings demonstrated the potential of DBS to mitigate learning and memory deficits in RTT, it was not clear how long the benefits of this treatment would last.”
Their goal in this study was to address that question. Using well-established behavioral assays, they discovered that DBS improved contextual fear memory in RTT mice and these beneficial effects persisted for 6 to 9 weeks after the treatment. Further, repeated DBS - specifically in the fornix, not other brain regions - maintained the contextual memory improvement in RTT mice.
Forniceal DBS induces the production of new hippocampal neurons in adult RTT mice
Adult hippocampal neurogenesis - the process of forming new neurons in specialized regions of the hippocampus of adult animals – is critical for the neurons to ‘learn and remember’.
Previous studies from the Tang lab revealed that right after the DBS treatment, there was a significant formation of new neurons in specialized regions of the hippocampus. Since it takes anywhere between 2-5 weeks for newborn neurons to be mature and functionally integrate into the neural networks, this correlated with improved contextual memory in these mice three weeks later. Here, they found this close correspondence between the DBS-induced birth of new neurons and improvements in contextual memory persisted several weeks after the treatment as well.
Forniceal DBS promotes a neuroprotective environment with healthy neurons
In female mice that carry one copy of defective MECP2, the expression of this gene is switched off/inactivated in some neurons. This means some newborn neurons in RTT mice will be healthy and have MeCP2 while others may not express MeCP2. Interestingly, the Duncan NRI team found that forniceal DBS preferentially induced the birth of more healthy neurons with MeCP2 in Rett mutants.
Moreover, DBS treatment also induced the production of a key neurotrophin -brain-derived neurotrophic factor(BDNF) – which is a neuroprotective molecule essential for the survival and growth of neurons as well as for their plasticity i.e., their ability to learn and remember.
“The findings from this study are very promising. We found forniceal DBS not only results in a significant and long-lasting improvement to memory in Rett animals, but that it also promotes a favorable neuroprotective environment in the brain and leads to the production of more healthy neurons – which together suggests DBS could be an excellent therapy to treat Rett patients,” Dr. Tang said.
Others involved in the study were Qi Wang, Bin Tang, Shuang Hao, Zhenyu Wu and Tingting Yang. They are affiliated with the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine. The study was funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to Baylor College of Medicine Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (IDDRC), Neuroconnectivity Core, Circuit Modulation Core, Neurovisualization Core, In Situ Hybridization Core, the In Vivo Neurophysiology Core of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital, the Chao Family Foundation, and the Cockrell Family Foundation.

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American Meteorological Society Robert E. Horton Lecture, January 14, 2004, Seattle.
A new framework is proposed for understanding the land surface coupling in global models between soil moisture, cloud base and cloud cover, the radiation fields, the surface energy partition, evaporation, and precipitation.
The land surface coupling, a crucial element of the climate system, is explored in the recent 40-yr European Centre for Medium-Range Forecasts (ECMWF) reanalysis (ERA-40) model. In seasonal forecasts for the Northern Hemisphere summer, initialized with idealized soil moisture fields, the ERA-40 model has a large evaporation–precipitation feedback over the continents, and the memory of initial soil moisture is longest at high northern latitudes. Thirty years of hourly data from the ERA-40 reanalysis are averaged over the Madeira, Red–Arkansas, and Athabasca River basins. Although the model fully resolves the diurnal cycle and has an interactive prognostic cloud field, the transitions in the boundary layer climate over land can be mapped with remarkable precision by the daily mean state and daily flux averages. The coupling to cloud processes plays an essential role in the surface and boundary layer equilibrium. Soil moisture, cloud base, cloud cover, radiation fields, and evaporative fraction are coupled quite tightly on daily time scales. The long wave flux control by cloud-base height and cloud cover is particularly strong across all basins. Evaporation can be regarded as being determined somewhat indirectly by the dependence of net radiation on cloud cover and cloud base, and sensible heat flux on subcloud-layer processes. Cloud and boundary layer processes and the land surface components of a model must be evaluated as a tightly coupled system, not as independent components. This analysis provides a new framework for comparing global models with each other, and for evaluating them against observations.
Betts, A. K., (2004): Understanding Hydrometeorology using global models. Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 85, 1673-1688.


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Some heart disease patients may not be able to grow new blood vessels around blocked arteries because they can't make enough of a vital protein, according to a report in the latest issue of Circulation. If confirmed by larger trials, the finding could lead to a diagnostic test that will help cardiologists identify and treat high-risk patients.
When an artery supplying blood to the heart becomes clogged, the vessel can sometimes build an alternate route around the backup, a process called angiogenesis. But only about half of all patients are able to grow these new vessels.
Suspecting that a difference in expression of the VEGF gene might account for the varying ability of the heart to build its own bypass vessels, Andrew Levy and his colleagues at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, used angiography pictures to rank 51 heart disease patients into three groups, based on the number of new blood vessels their arteries had grown in response to a clog. They then measured a patient's VEGF expression by harvesting blood cells called monocytes, which are believed to be involved in angiogenesis. A low-oxygen environment--comparable to a vessel wall not receiving enough blood--caused cells from patients with a high angiogenesis score to make more than three times as much VEGF RNA.
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"The potential diagnostic applications are exciting, but a great deal more work needs to be done," says William Li, president and medical director of the Angiogenesis Foundation in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Most important, the study needs to be repeated with a larger patient group, he says, but adds that the researchers can't yet rule out the possibility that some patients may not make enough VEGF receptors. He says the findings are also of crucial importance to Genentech and other biotech companies now conducting clinical trials of VEGF therapy.


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