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Another Murdered FranchiseBy Austin Elek Score:
May 12, 2009 10:03PM PST
Short Version: Not nearly as good as the GBA version, save yourself time and aggravation and import the first Rhythm Heaven and completely forget about the DS version. (unless you like wasting money, then go right ahead)
Long Version: God damnit, Nintendo! If you're going to make bad games, make up new franchises and leave current ones alone. At least let them die with dignity, instead of being remembered as overly priced, gimmick filled, plain-out annoying "games".
The controls are byfar the worst part. Everything you do in this game is touch control. Everything. Why are players forced to tap the screen when they could just as easily press a button? Same with holding and releasing the touch screen. When they combine those 2 elements into one game, it only gets more frustrating. When you want to simply tap, you also for a brief second perform the same action you would when you hold down on the screen, since your hands can't really tap the screen for a split second and immediately lift off the screen. You can get away with this when going through the game normally, but if you want to get a "perfect" on these kinds of levels, it's impossible. And let's not forget the "flicking" mechanic. You hold down on the screen, then drag swiftly and lift the stylus off the screen. Unfortunately, the game relies on this heavily...very heavily. It doesn't even work half of the time. When all you do is flick in a mini-game, why not let us tap the screen instead? It's more accurate, less annoying, and more fun. Then, they could go a step up and let us use buttons...then we'd be on the same level as the GBA version. Actually, the GBA version also had directionals with the D-pad, which allowed for more control variety.
I played this game all the way through, I got all "splendids" (which means you missed very few times) on all 40 or so games. After a while, I noticed that I couldn't really recall any of the music from this game in my head. Right now I can go back and start whistling a tune from the GBA version, since those songs really stick with you. I went into the game and started listening to the game music, without playing the mini-games that they're attached too. The music in this game isn't half bad, but it's still not nearly as good as the GBA version. I realized that I had to concentrate so much to get the touch controls to work that I couldn't even enjoy the music while playing. Pathetic.
Since this game is so god awful hard, I can't figure out who they were marketing this game towards. The controls are too crappy for a real gamer to get into, but any casual gamer won't be able to get anywhere in this game without getting frustrated. And trust me, I have a sense of rhythm, I got perfects on all the levels in both Oendans (GREAT rhythm games for the DS, go and get 'em if you haven't yet) so when I say this game is hard, it's hard, but only because the controls majorly suck.
I'm glad I only rented this game (well you know, I still hate myself for thinking it would be somewhat bearable, but I'm glad in comparison to if I actually bought it), because it will never have the same replay-ability as the GBA version. So the moral of the story is.....get the GBA version. It's import-only from Japan, which means the game is in Japanese. Fortunately, the simplicity of the games will allow you to enjoy them, regardless of your knowledge of the Japanses language. Job well done on another thoroughly murdered franchise, Nintendo.

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University Research Award helps team explore regeneration in a critical layer of the cornea
Friday, December 9, 2016
The structure of the cornea.
(Keratomania.com eye diagram by
Chabacano,via Wikimedia Commons.)
On the backside of the cornea is a single layer of cells that plays an all-important role, maintaining just the right fluid balance to keep the cornea transparent so that light can enter the eye. Until recently, it was believed this layer, called the corneal endothelium, is incapable of replacing its damaged cells. As more cells become damaged, the cornea becomes opaque, leading to loss of vision and, ultimately, to as many as 30,000 endothelium transplants a year in the United States alone.
A team of University researchers is exploring the possibility that stem cells on the outer edges of the cornea, given the right stimulation, can migrate into the endothelium to replace damaged cells. (Undifferentiated stem cells develop into specialized cells.) The work raises the possibility of restoring vision without the need for transplants.
The team is led by Amy Kiernan, associate professor of ophthalmology, and includes Jannick Rolland, the Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering; Patrice Tankam, a senior scientist in the Center for Visual Science; Changsik Yoon, a graduate student in Rolland’s lab; Rebecca Rausch, a graduate student in Kiernan’s lab; and Holly Hindman, former associate professor of ophthalmology, now in private practice but still consulting on the project. They are supported with a $75,000 University Research Award. The URA program is designed to help researchers develop preliminary data or proof of concept needed to leverage larger federal or foundation awards to carry a promising project to completion.
There have been tantalizing clinical hints that the corneal endothelium may have regenerative capabilities, Kiernan says. For example, there have been cases in which endothelial transplants failed to engraft, but the cornea cleared up anyway, with regeneration of the endothelium occurring on its own. “So it seems that if something is done that stimulates a progenitor or stem cell population, most likely those in the periphery of the cornea, there is some regenerative capacity in the endothelium – just based on clinical studies,” Kiernan says.
Her team will attempt to identify the potential stem cells that might be stimulated to migrate to the endothelium to repair damage. They will use mouse models from Kiernan’s lab in which adult stem cells can be permanently tagged with fluorescent biomarkers and tracked even after they differentiate into other cells. The identification and tracking of those cells will be done by refining a novel imaging approach developed in Rolland’s lab. Called Gabor domain optical coherence microscopy, the technology allows rapid, noninvasive imaging of cellular structures beneath the surface of the skin or within the human eye – in greater detail than traditional imaging with optical coherence tomography.
“Think of it as a high-definition, volumetric imaging,” Rolland says. “But we also want to know what kind of cells we are looking at, so we are integrating fluorescence imaging with the high-definition volumetric microscopy so we can do both.” The team represents a combination of pertinent expertise: cell development and regeneration (Kiernan and Rausch), imaging (Rolland, Tankam, and Yoon), and the biological basis for corneal and ocular surface diseases in humans (Hindman). The University Research Award funding is helping support graduate students and technicians working on the project, and the cost of mice and supplies. “Pilot funding like this is so important, especially with NIH grants shrinking,” Kiernan says.
“It’s really helpful to be able to bridge this kind of interdisciplinary effort,” says Rolland. “You need to work together a little bit to understand the challenges involved and what you need to do to secure preliminary data, to show we have a pathway.
“It takes time to get data, so even a small grant that provides a bridge for a year or two can make a huge difference.”
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Nina Schor, M.D., Ph.D., William H. Eilinger Chair of Pediatrics at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), will step down as chair in June 2017. Schor served 11 years as pediatrician-in-chief at UR Medicine’s Golisano Children’s Hospital, and under her leadership, the Department of Pediatrics fulfilled a decades-long dream of building a standalone children’s hospital in Rochester; the new facility opened its doors to patients in July 2015. "I don’t want to downplay the significance of the new hospital, but it’s really what we do inside of it and because of it that’s so important,” said Schor. “I look at the academic physicians and physician scientists who came to Rochester with just a dream and a fire in their belly and how they’ve now brought those dreams to fruition — that’s what I’m most proud of.”
The Department of Pediatrics grew from 110 faculty members to over 170 during Schor’s tenure, creating new divisions in palliative care, sleep medicine, allergy, and hospitalist medicine. Research centers focused on premature infants, translational molecular programs, and red blood cell development also developed under Schor’s leadership.
“Not only was the new hospital built under Nina’s leadership, but she truly championed the project, ensuring that every detail was designed with patients and families in mind,” said Mark Taubman, M.D., URMC CEO and Dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry. “She has been the face of the children’s hospital and inspired trust in our families, physicians, and donors at a time when we very much needed the community’s support.”Read More: Nina Schor to Step Down as Children's Hospital Pediatrician-in-Chief
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
A new study challenges the hypothesis that nerve cells in the brains of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders do not reliably and consistently respond to external stimuli. “Our findings show there is no measurable variation in how individuals with autism respond to repeated visual and tactile stimuli,” says senior author John Foxe, the Kilian J. and Caroline F. Schmitt Professor in Neuroscience.Read More: Study Challenges Autism Brain Response Theory
NIH Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Award
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Matt Cavanaugh, a fifth year Neuroscience Graduate Program student in Dr. Krystel Huxlin’s lab was awarded an NIH Individual Pre-doctoral Fellowship from the National Eye Institute for his project entitled: Properties of training-induced visual recovery in cortical blindness (2016-2019).
Monday, November 28, 2016
Studies going back several years have shown that playing action video games (AVG) can help improve visual acuity. A new study by vision scientists at the University of Rochester and Vanderbilt University found that children with poor vision see vast improvement in their peripheral vision after only eight hours of training via kid-friendly video games. Most surprising to the scientists was the range of visual gains the children made, and that the gains were quickly acquired and stable when tested a year later.
“Children who have profound visual deficits often expend a disproportionate amount of effort trying to see straight ahead, and as a consequence they neglect their peripheral vision,” said Duje Tadin, associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences at Rochester. “This is problematic because visual periphery—which plays a critical role in mobility and other key visual functions—is often less affected by visual impairments.”
“We know that action video games (AVG) can improve visual perception, so we isolated the AVG components that we thought would have the strongest effect on perception and devised a kid-friendly game that compels players to pay attention to the entire visual field, not just where their vision is most impaired,” said Tadin, who is also a professor in the Center for Visual Science. “As a result, we’ve seen up to 50 percent improvement in visual perception tasks.”Read More: Brain training video games help low-vision kids see better
Monday, November 21, 2016
Nina Schor, M.D., Ph.D., William H. Eilinger Chair of Pediatrics and the pediatrician-in-chief at UR Medicine’s Golisano Children’s Hospital, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society.
AAAS, which will publish the announcement on Nov. 25 in its journal Science, selects Fellows based on their scientifically and socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. Schor has spent much of her career investigating neuroblastoma — which is among the most common childhood cancers — and was recognized for “her distinguished contributions to developmental neuroscience and neuropharmacology, particularly using molecular neuroscientific discoveries to design innovative therapies for tumors of the developing nervous system.”Read More: Children’s Hospital Pediatrician-in-Chief Named Fellow of the AAAS
Monday, November 14, 2016
Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center believe they have identified a new means of enhancing the body’s ability to repair its own cells, which they hope will lead to better diagnosis and treatment of traumatic nerve injuries, like those sustained in car accidents, sports injuries, or in combat. In a study published today, the team showed that a drug previously approved for other purposes can ‘wake up’ damaged peripheral nerves and speed repair and functional recovery after injury.
The study appearing in EMBO Molecular Medicine, demonstrates for the first time that 4-aminopyridine (4AP), a drug currently used to treat patients with the chronic nerve disease, multiple sclerosis, has the unexpected property of promoting recovery from acute nerve damage. Although this drug has been studied for over 30 years for its ability to treat chronic diseases, this is the first demonstration of 4AP’s benefit in treating acute nerve injury and the first time those benefits were shown to persist after treatment was stopped.
Study authors, John Elfar, M.D., associate professor of Orthopaedics, and Mark Noble, Ph.D., Martha M. Freeman, M.D., Professor in Biomedical Genetics, and their laboratory team, found that daily treatment with 4AP promotes repair of myelin, the insulating material that normally surrounds nerve fibers, in mice. When this insulation is damaged, as occurs in traumatic peripheral nerve injury, nerve cell function is impaired. These researchers found that 4AP treatment accelerates repair of myelin damage and improvement in nerve function.Read More: Repurposed Drug May Offer Diagnosis, Treatment for Traumatic Nerve Damage
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
NGP student, Monique Mendes, was recently accepted into the SfN's Neuronline Community Leaders Program. This was a highly competitive process where only 35 of the nearly 100 applicants. Neuronline Community Leaders will be vital players in sparking and guiding different conversations by sharing their knowledge and insights with others in the field of neuroscience. Through their expertise and experiences, Neuronline Community Leaders will help create meaningful discussion and contribute to members feeling connected and supported between annual SfN meetings — playing a key role in SfN’s organizational mission to host great venues where great science gets shared.
Congratulations Monique!!!Read More: Monique Mendes Accepted to SfN's Neuronline Community Leaders Program
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
A new award from the CHDI Foundation will advance promising research that aims to slow the progression of Huntington’s disease. The funding, anticipated to total more than $10.5 million over next five years, will help University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) scientists develop a stem cell-based therapy that swaps sick brain cells for healthy ones.
The new award will go to the lab of Steve Goldman, M.D., Ph.D., the co-director of the URMC Center for Translational Neuromedicine, which has research operations in both Rochester and at the University of Copenhagen.
Huntington’s is a hereditary neurodegenerative disease characterized by the loss of medium spiny neurons, a nerve cell in the brain that plays a critical role in motor control. As the disease progresses over time and more of these cells die, the result is involuntary movements, problems with coordination, and cognitive decline, depression, and often psychosis. There is currently no way to slow or modify this fatal disease.
The new award will support research that builds upon findings published by Goldman earlier this year in the journal Nature Communications showing that researchers were able to slow the progression of the disease in mice by transplanting healthy human support cells, called glial progenitor cells, into the animals’ brains.Read More: Research Will Explore New Therapies for Huntington’s Disease
Armond Collins Presents his work from Fudge Lab
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Armond Collins, a second year medical student, presents the study he conducted with us this summer under the auspices of a Babigian Fellowship. Armond studied changes in myelination in amygdala and cortex of adult rats that had been exposed to 3 day bout of a repeated variable stressor during adolescence. His works follows up studies by Michele Saul, PhD that indicate that adolescent stress results in decreased oligodendrocyte precursors in the amygdala in the week following the stress.
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Maiken Nedergaard, M.D., D.M.Sc.
More than $4.5 million in new grants to the lab of University of Rochester Medical Center scientist Maiken Nedergaard, M.D., D.M.Sc., underscore the important role the brain’s waste disposal system may play in a range of neurological disorders. The new awards will advance understanding of how small vessel disease and traumatic brain injury can give rise to cognitive and behavioral problems.
Nedergaard and her colleagues first unveiled the brain’s unique method of removing waste – dubbed the glymphatic system – in a paper in Science Translational Medicine in 2012. The research revealed that the brain possesses a circulation network that piggybacks on blood vessels and uses cerebral spinal fluid to flush away waste products from brain tissue. Since that time, the team has gone on to show that the glymphatic system works primarily while we sleep, could be a key player in diseases like Alzheimer’s, and is disrupted after traumatic brain injury.Read More: New Grants Explore Role of Brain’s “Garbage Truck” in Mini-Stokes and Trauma
NGP Student Awarded NIH Fellowship
Monday, October 3, 2016
Rebecca Rausch, a fifth year neuroscience graduate student in Dr. Richard Libby’s lab was awarded an NIH Individual Pre-doctoral Fellowship from the National Eye Institute for her project entitled: The Role of Notch and BMP Signaling in Anterior Segment Dysgenesis (2016-2019).
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Aggressive forms of neuroblastoma contain a specific protein in their cells’ nuclei that is not found in the nuclei of more benign forms of the cancer, and the discovery, made through research from the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), could lead to new forms of targeted therapy.
EYA1, a protein that contributes to ear development, is present in the cytoplasm of many neuroblastoma tumors, but this protein migrates to the nucleus in the cells of more aggressive forms of the disease. The research, recently published in two medical research journals, allows for the development of targeted drugs that will work to prevent the neuroblastoma from reaching this more aggressive stage; researchers at URMC and elsewhere have already begun testing some of these potential treatments in a laboratory setting.
“Neuroblastoma is one of the most common and deadly forms of childhood cancer, and this discovery allows us to identify drugs that prevent the change in EYA1 structure and potentially minimize the danger to a child who has this disease,” said Nina Schor, M.D., Ph.D., professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience and the William H. Eilinger Chair of Pediatrics at URMC.
Read More: Nuclear Protein Causes Neuroblastoma to Become More Aggressive
Harris Gelbard Receives International Award for Neurovirology Research
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Harris “Handy” Gelbard, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Center for Neural Development & Disease, is slated to receive the Hilary Koprowski Prize in Neurovirology at this year’s International Symposium on Molecular Medicine and Infectious Disease at Drexel University. Gelbard will be recognized for developing an unconventional drug that shows promise in treating brain disorders associated with HIV.
Gelbard’s drug, URMC-099, calms the immune system when it goes awry, as happens in HIV Associated Neurocognitive Disorder (HAND). In HAND, immune reactions to HIV particles in the brain damage nerve cells and cause dementia. Because patients affected by HAND also have HIV, it was imperative that URMC-099 not interfere with the antiretroviral drugs that keep HIV-positive patients alive.
2016 Convocation Award Winners from Neuroscience
Thursday, September 8, 2016
Congratulations to the following people for winning teaching and student achievement awards at this year's SMD Opening Convocation.
Faculty Teaching, Mentoring & Diversity Awards
- Deborah Cory-Slechta, PhD
- John Olschowka, PhD
Medical & Graduate Student Achievement Awards
- Alexandra McHale - Irving L. Spar Fellowship Award
- Gavin Jenkins - Merritt and Marjorie Cleveland Fellowship
- Neal Shah - J. Newell Stannard Graduate Student Scholarship Award
- Grayson Sipe - Outstanding Student Mentor Award
Make sure to congratulate each of them when you see them.
Thursday, September 8, 2016
A $2.3 million Department of Defense grant will help neuroscientists develop new treatments for the emergency room and the battlefield. The research will focus on the development of new therapies that could help protect brain and other at risk organs following a trauma, heart attack, or stroke.
“While we have made significant progress in our ability to restore blood flow after stroke or cardiac arrest, the medical community does not have drugs at its disposal to prevent the secondary damage that occurs after these events,” said University of Rochester Medical Center neurologist Marc Halterman, M.D., Ph.D., the principal investigator of the study. “This grant will further our research on a promising class of drugs that possess both anti-inflammatory and cytoprotective properties that we believe will be suitable for use in both military and emergency conditions.”Read More: DOD Grant Explores New Drugs to Thwart Impact of Trauma, Stroke, and Cardiac Arrest
How Does Noise Damage Hearing?
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Join Pat White on Saturday, September 10 from 2-4pm at the Pittsford Barnes and Noble as she is featured at the UR Science Cafe discussion
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Over the typical course of Rett syndrome, initial language and communication abilities deteriorate dramatically between the ages of 1 and 4 years, and a majority of these children go on to lose all oral communication abilities. It becomes extremely difficult for clinicians and caretakers to accurately assess the level of preserved auditory functioning in these children, an issue of obvious clinical import. Non-invasive electrophysiological techniques allow for the interrogation of auditory cortical processing without the need for overt behavioral responses. In particular, the mismatch negativity (MMN) component of the auditory evoked potential (AEP) provides an excellent and robust dependent measure of change detection and auditory sensory memory. Here, we asked whether females with Rett syndrome would produce the MMN to occasional changes in pitch in a regularly occurring stream of auditory tones.Read More: Automatic cortical representation of auditory pitch changes in Rett syndrome - John Foxe et al.
Thursday, August 4, 2016
University of Rochester Assistant Professor of Nursing Feng (Vankee) Lin, Ph.D., R.N. will be presented with the Brilliant New Investigator Award from the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science (CANS) at the organization’s 2016 State of the Science Congress on Nursing Research, Sept. 15-17 in Washington, D.C.
The award recognizes the contributions of scientists early in their research careers who show extraordinary potential to develop sustained programs of research certain to have significant impact on the science and practice of nursing and health care. Nominees must show a record of building research productivity in an area of major significance to nursing and health care, research dissemination and translation to practice and/or policy, and emerging leadership related to the advancement of nursing science.Read More: Lin Honored as 'Brilliant New Investigator'
Pasternak Research Paper to be Published in J. Neuroscience
Thursday, August 4, 2016
The paper "Prefrontal Neurons Represent Motion Signals from Across
the Visual Field but for Memory-Guided Comparisons
Depend on Neurons Providing these Signals" will be published in J. Neuroscience shortly.
Visual decisions often involve comparisons of sequential visual motion that can appear at any location in the visual field. We
show that during such comparisons, the lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) contains accurate representation of visual motion
from across the visual field, supplied by motion processing neurons. However, at the time of comparison, LPFC neurons can
only use this information to compute the differences between the stimuli, if stimuli appear at the same retinal location,
implicating neurons with localized receptive fields in the comparison process. These findings show that sensory comparisons
rely on the interactions between LPFC and sensory neurons that not only supply sensory signals but also actively
participate in the comparison of these signals at the time of the decision.
Make sure to read the article when it comes out.
Monday, July 25, 2016
Researchers have identified an inner ear deficiency in children with Autism that may impact their ability to recognize speech. The findings, which were published in the journal Autism Research, could ultimately be used as a way to identify children at risk for the disorder at an early age.
“This study identifies a simple, safe, and non-invasive method to screen young children for hearing deficits that are associated with Autism,” said Anne Luebke, Ph.D., an associate professor in the University of Rochester Medical Center Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience and a co-author of the study. “This technique may provide clinicians a new window into the disorder and enable us to intervene earlier and help achieve optimal outcomes.”
“Auditory impairment has long been associated with developmental delay and other problems, such as language deficits,” said Loisa Bennetto, Ph.D., an associate professor in the University of Rochester Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology and a co-author of the study. “While there is no association between hearing problems and autism, difficulty in processing speech may contribute to some of the core symptoms of the disease. Early detection could help identify risk for ASD and enable clinicians to intervene earlier. Additionally, these findings can inform the development of approaches to correct auditory impairment with hearing aids or other devices that can improve the range of sounds the ear can process.”Read More: Luebke and Bennetto Explore Hearing Test That May Identify Autism Risk
McNair Summer Scholar Ashley Bui Talks Amygdala Circuits
Friday, July 22, 2016
Congratulations to Ashley Bui, a rising senior in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, on her presentation July 22, 2016. Her talk Projections from the Temporal Cortex to the Basal Nucleus of the Amygdala in the Macaque highlighted data from her summer project in our lab. The amygdala is required for computing which of the complex sensory stimuli that an individual encounters are emotionally meaningful, so that appropriate action can be taken. Ashley’s preliminary data shows that specific portions of the temporal cortex, which are critical for processing complex visual and auditory information, communicate with different regions of the amygdala. The results suggest that cortical areas that process complex visual information on 'what' and 'where' an object is (or is moving) are communicating with specific amygdala subregions. Thus, while determining the emotional importance of ‘what or who’ is important, biologic movements also likely influence amygdala activity and coding. We are happy that she will continue this work through the Fall semester.
NGP student plays with RPO
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Second year NGP student, Monique Mendes, had a unique opportunity to play alongside the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in their Side-by-Side Reading Session – a program that pairs amateur and professional musicians in a joint rehearsal and performance at Kodak Hall on July 21st.
Ryan Dawes defends thesis
Monday, July 18, 2016
Ryan Dawes successfully defended his thesis, "β-Adrenergic Receptor Signaling Constrains Breast Cancer Progression and
Modulates Tumor-Associated Exosome Content And Function" on July 18, 2016.
Congratulations Dr. Dawes!
Rebecca Lowery Defends Thesis
Thursday, July 7, 2016
Rebecca Lowery has successfully defended her thesis, "The Role of Microglia and Fractalkine Signaling in Experience-dependent Synaptic Plasticity". Congratulate her when you see her.
Congratulations Dr. Lowery!
Thursday, June 30, 2016
Sleep is critical for rest and rejuvenation. A human being will actually die of sleep deprivation before starvation--it takes about two weeks to starve, but only 10 days to die if you go without sleep.
The CDC has also classified insufficient sleep as a public health concern. Those who don't get enough sleep are more likely to suffer from chronic diseases that include hypertension, diabetes, depression, obesity, and cancer.
It's thus vital to get enough shuteye, but it turns out your sleep position also has a significant impact on the quality of rest you get.
Now, a neuroscience study suggests that of all sleep positions, one is most helpful when it comes to efficiently cleaning out waste from the brain: sleeping on your side.
The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, used dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI to image the brain's "glymphatic pathway." This is the system by which cerebrospinal fluid filters through the brain and swaps with interstitial fluid (the fluid around all other cells in the body).
"It is interesting that the lateral [side] sleep position is already the most popular in humans and most animals--even in the wild," said University of Rochester's Maiken Nedergaard. "It appears that we have adapted the lateral sleep position to most efficiently clear our brain of the metabolic waste products that build up while we are awake."Read More: The Sleep Hack Neuroscience Says Gives Your Brain Optimal Rest
Elissa Wong receives Neuman Scholarship Award
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Elissa Wong, a fifth year toxicology graduate student in Ania Majewska’s lab, received the Margaret and William F. Neuman Scholarship Award in Environmental Medicine for exemplary scholarship and citizenship. Dr. William Neuman was the chair of the Department of Radiation Biology and Biophysics for many years and helped to create the Toxicology Training Program and the Environmental Health Science Center. Dr. Margaret Neuman received her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Rochester. Later, working here, she researched the effects of uranium on bone biochemistry, and was an expert on the regulation of bone minerals.
The criteria for receiving this are as follows: 1) scholarship, 2) scientific excellence, 3) productivity, and 4) exceptional citizenship to the field of toxicology.
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Researchers have successfully reduced the symptoms and slowed the progression of Huntington’s disease in mice using healthy human brain cells. The findings, which were published today in the journal Nature Communications, could ultimately point to a new method to treat the disease.
The research entailed implanting the animals with human glia cells derived from stem cells. One of the roles of glia, an important support cell found in the brain, is to tend to the health of neurons and the study’s findings show that replacing sick mouse glia with healthy human cells blunted the progress of the disease and rescued nerve cells at risk of death.
“The role that glia cells play in the progression of Huntington’s disease has never really been explored,” said Steve Goldman, M.D., Ph.D., co-director of the University of Rochester Center for Translational Neuromedicine. “This study shows that these cells are not only important actors in the disease, but may also hold the key to new treatment strategies.” Read More: Swapping Sick for Healthy Brain Cells Slows Huntington’s Disease
Proposal by Amy Kiernan Receives University Research Award
Monday, May 23, 2016
A collaborative project involving Associate Professor Amy Kiernan of the Flaum Eye Institute has been chosen as one of the 2016-17 University Research Awards. One of just eight applications chosen by senior research leadership, the proposal entitled, "Understanding cell turnover and injury recovery in the corneal endothelium” will be funded $75.000 annually.
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
A new study shows that repeated radiation therapy used to target tumors in the brain may not be as safe to healthy brain cells as previously assumed. The findings, which appear in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics, show that the treatment also kills important support cells in the brain and may cause as much, if not more damage, than single dose radiation therapy.
“This study suggests that conventional repeated radiation treatments offer no significant benefit to brain tumor patients,” said Kerry O’Banion, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) Department of Neuroscience and lead author of the study. “It also shows that certain cell populations in the brain are vulnerable to radiation and this may help explain why so many brain cancer patients experience cognitive problems after treatment.” Read More: Conventional Radiation Therapy May Not Protect Healthy Brain Cells
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
A new study out today in the journal Translational Psychiatry sheds further light on the idea that schizophrenia is a sensory disorder and that individuals with the condition are impaired in their ability to process stimuli from the outside world. The findings may also point to a new way to identify the disease at an early stage and before symptoms become acute.
Because one of the hallmarks of the disease is auditory hallucinations, such as hearing voices, researchers have long suspected a link between auditory processing and schizophrenia. The new study provides evidence that the filtering of incoming visual information, and also of simple touch inputs, is also severely compromised in individuals with the condition.
“When we think about schizophrenia, the first things that come to mind are the paranoia, the delusions, the disorganized thinking,” said John Foxe, Ph.D., the chair of the University of Rochester Medical Center Department of Neuroscience and senior author of the study. “But there is increasing evidence that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way these patients hear, the way they feel things through their sense of touch, and in the way in which they see the environment.”Read More: When the Physical World is Unreliable: Study Finds Visual and Tactile Processing Deficits in Schizophrenia
Monday, May 2, 2016
Join us in congratulating Laurel for being selected as one of 4 Professors of the year from a extraordinary field of 63 candidates.
Laurel Carney, professor of biomedical engineering, won in the Engineering field. Her research focuses on the complex network of auditory nerve fibers that transmit the inner ear’s electrical signals to the brain with the goal of better hearing aids.
Carney earned her M.S. and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University and professor of biomedical engineering at Syracuse University before joining the Rochester faulty in 2007. She serves as professor in three departments – biomedical engineering, neurobiology and anatomy, and electrical and computer engineering.Read More: SA Government names Professors of the Year
Elissa Wong Awarded Individual Pre-doctoral Fellowship from NIAAA
Sunday, May 1, 2016
Elissa Wong, a 4th year Toxicology Graduate Program student in Dr. Ania Majewska's lab received a perfect 10 review score and was awarded an NIH (NRSA) Individual Pre-doctoral Fellowship from the NIAAA. The title of her project is: Synaptic plasticity and microglial-synapse interactions after developmental alcohol exposure (2016-2018).
NGP Graduate Alum, Grayson Sipe, Wins Doty Thesis Award
Friday, April 29, 2016
Grayson Sipe, recent doctoral graduate from the Majewska lab, received the Robert Doty prize for the 2016 outstanding dissertation in neuroscience. The Doty prize is named in the honor of longtime faculty member Robert Doty, who made great contributions to neuroscience research at the University of Rochester and nationally. It is awarded on the basis of the impact and importance of research, novelty of experimental design, independence and creativity of the student and research implications and relevance for neuroscience. Grayson’s thesis entitled “The Role of P2Y12 in non-pathological microglial functions during synaptic plasticity”, which he successfully defended on February 19th, 2016, embodied all these characteristics. Grayson has now moved to his postdoctoral position with Dr. Mriganka Sur at MIT. Dr. Peter Shrager presented Grayson the prize at the annual neuroscience retreat on Friday, April 29th.

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you will welcome to bbc news. you will i'm nancy kacungira. our top stories: britain's prime minister and his chancellor found to have broken the law after breaching the lockdown rules they imposed on the country. in all frankness, at that time, it did not occur to me that this might have been a breach of the rules. but, of course, the police have found otherwise and i fully respect the outcome of their investigations. president biden has for the first time referred you to russia's actions in ukraine as genocide. is next the family budget, the ability to fill up your tank — none of it should not impinge on whether a dictator
declares war and commits genocide a half a world away. we have a special report from the frontline in eastern ukraine as forces prepare for a major russian onslaught. police in new york say they're still hunting for a gunman after 17 people were injured in a shooting at a subway station. after two weeks�* covid lockdown in shanghai, officials admit they're struggling to feed the city's 25 million people. the two most senior members of the british government, prime minister borisjohnson, and his chancellor of the exchequer have been fined for breaking covid lockdown laws by attending a party
in downing street in 2020. it makes borisjohnson the first ever sitting prime minister to have broken the law. he's apologised but that hasn't stopped calls for his resignation. here's our deputy political editor, vicki young. we all have images we rememberfrom lockdown — the queen forced to sit alone at her husband's funeral. but for many in downing street, it was different. drinks in the office and garden, dancing in the basement — and now, police have decided that the wrongdoing went right to the top. today, the prime minister apologised but said he wouldn't resign. i understand the anger that many will feel, that i myself fell short when it came to observing the very rules which the government i lead had introduced to protect the public. and i accept, in all sincerity, that people had the right to expect better. and now, ifeel an even greater sense of obligation to deliver on the priorities of
the british people. but you did repeatedly say that all the guidelines were followed in downing street. that was a lie, wasn't it? when i said that, i spoke in completely good faith — because, as i've said to you just now, at the time that i was standing up for nine minutes in the cabinet room where i work every day, it didn't occur to me that iwas... you didn't understand your own rules, and everyone else had to follow them? it didn't occur to me that, as i say, i was in breach of the rules. i now humbly accept that i was. # happy birthday to you. this was the day borisjohnson broke his own rules — june 2020, his birthday. it started with a school visit — that was allowed. but later, there was a gathering in the cabinet room in downing street. carriejohnson turned up — she's also been fined. today, the prime minister explained that he'd had a busy day, the occasion lasted less than ten minutes, and it didn't occur to him at the time that he'd
done anything wrong. the chancellor, rishi sunak, was also there for a meeting, and tonight offered an unreserved apology. in a statement, he said... this is an extraordinary moment — a prime minister standing here in chequers, admitting he's broken the law. and this wasn't some insignificant rule, these were rules that kept families and friends apart for months, stopped people going to funerals. but in the darkest hours for some people, the atmosphere in downing street was very different, where people time and again broke the laws that they drew up. and for many, this is unforgivable hypocrisy. labour's leader says for the prime minister and chancellor, the game is up. this is the first time in the history of our country that a prime minister has found
to be in breach of the law — and then he lied repeatedly to the public about it. britain deserves better. they have to go. the police investigation isn't over yet — they're looking into a long list of events in downing street and other government buildings. more than 50 fines have now been issued, and there could be more. and these words could come back to haunt the prime minister. i have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there was no party, and that— no covid rules were broken, and that is what i have been repeatedly assured. political opponents say it's damning. if you mislead parliament, if you lie to parliament, then you resign. there's no ifs, there's no buts. we know that this prime minister has lied to parliament. he should be offering his resignation. i am absolutely clear now they must go, they must go immediately so we can
get fresh leadership. and if conservative mps won't do that, i feel they are directly associated with this wrongdoing. tonight, borisjohnson has received backing from his cabinet and, more importantly, tory mps, who just a few weeks ago were trying to oust him after months of damaging lockdown allegations. vicki young, bbc news. president biden has used the word genocide to describe russia's war in ukraine in an apparent escalati on of his criticism of president vladimir putin. he made the seemingly unscripted comment during a speech in iowa announcing measures to tackle rapidly rising fuel prices.
i have released i million barrels of oil a day. of mariupol says he estimates that 21,000 civilians there have been killed. ukraine and russia continue to build up their forces in the east of the country, ahead of a new russian offensive. moscow says its war aim, is the complete liberation, of the donbas region. 0ur defence correspondent, jonathan beale, is in the city of kramatorsk in the donbas, travelling with ukrainian forces he sent this report. this is where the war in ukraine will be won or lost. the wide open landscape of the east. we went with ukraine's army to see artillery already firing on russian forces. nervously watching for signs of russian aircraft. explosions crack. at their position,
american—made stinger anti—aircraft missiles were ready to fire. the continuing supply of western weapons will be crucial to their success. ukraine's military might be smaller, but they have been more mobile. translation: if we stay in one position for more than a couple| of days, we usually become the target. but if we fire one or two shells, nothing will happen. well, these artillery pieces are well hidden, just hearing some artillery in the distance there. but they are targeting russian military positions through here. unlike the russian artillery, which seems to be often targeting ukrainian towns and cities. columns of russian armour have already been spotted moving from the north. western officials believe russia is trying to double, even treble, the strength
of its military forces here in the east. ukraine is also having to keep an eye on its own population. there is pro—russian sentiment in this region, those who they fear may be passing on information to the russians. this shows they are notjust having to worry about russian armour, a russian offensive coming in this direction, but they are also having to worry about the enemy within. it's a job made all the more difficult by the regular threat of russian air strikes and artillery. air siren wails. we have to head to a bunkerfor shelter. there, viktor tells me they are arresting people nearly every day. "we look for bad people who help the enemy. we find them and then hand them over to the intelligence
services." mournful singing. ukraine is already taking casualties. among the most recent, tatiana's only child, alexander, who was killed on the front line. there will be many more grieving families in the weeks to come. this next phase of the war could be decisive, but it will also be bloody. jonathan beale, bbc news, kramatorsk. the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons says it is concerned about unconfirmed reports of chemical agents being used in the besieged ukrainian city of mariupol. the international watchdog said it was monitoring the situation closely. the us secretary of state, anthony blinken has also expressed his concern. the reports you are referring to, we aren't in a position to confirm any either. let me say this —
we had credible information that russian forces may use a variety of riot control agents, including teargas mixed with chemical agents, that would cause stronger symptoms to weaken and incapacitate entrenched ukrainian fighters and civilians, as part of the aggressive campaign to take mariupol. a huge manhunt is underway for a gunman opened fire on a new york subway train during rush hour. the gunman flooded a train carriage with smoke from two gas canisters before shooting, injuring ten people. police say they've recovered a handgun and a range of potential incendiary devices. 0ur north america correspondent, david willis, is following the story.
what is the latest you have been hearing?— what is the latest you have been hearin: ? ., , been hearing? there was indeed an olice been hearing? there was indeed an police and — been hearing? there was indeed an police and identified - been hearing? there was indeed an police and identified what - an police and identified what they called a person of interest. he is a 62—year—old, frankjames, and they posted two pictures of him online. he thought to be the person who rented a u—haul truck and left it abandoned about five miles from the scene of the on monday. they linked it to him by virtue of a key that was found at the scene of the shooting and a credit card that is thought was used to pay for that higher of the van. police are not saying that frankjames is a suspect in the case but they are appealing to the public for its help in locating him. this is what the new york police commissioner told reporters a short while ago. the suspect is a dark—skinned male, and was wearing a green neon vest and a grey
college sweatshirt. we do have a person of interest in this investigation but we need the public's assistance with additional information. david, the investigation continues but already it has sparked another conversation, an ongoing conversation about gun laws?— an ongoing conversation about nun laws? ~ , ., ~ gun laws? absolutely. new york has seen a _ gun laws? absolutely. new york has seen a sharp _ gun laws? absolutely. new york has seen a sharp rise _ gun laws? absolutely. new york has seen a sharp rise in - gun laws? absolutely. new york has seen a sharp rise in gun - has seen a sharp rise in gun violence and violence of other kinds in the last year or so. indeed, over the last 12 months, subway crime has risen 60%, year—on—year. today, the mayor of new york, eric adams, quarantine at the moment after suffering covid—i9, issued a video appeal and said this was notjust a new video appeal and said this was not just a new york video appeal and said this was notjust a new york problem. the rise in violence was in his words an american problem as well. , . ,
words an american problem as well. , ., , ., . well. this rate, this violence, these guns. _ well. this rate, this violence, these guns, these _ well. this rate, this violence, these guns, these shootingsl well. this rate, this violence, i these guns, these shootings are an american problem and it has to take — an american problem and it has to take all— an american problem and it has to take all levels of government to solve it. it is going to take the entire nation to speak out and push back against the cult of death that is taking hold in this nation. that was new york mayor, eric adams. the police commissioner said today it was not being investigated as an act of terrorism but she went on to say that officials, detectives, have found a number of rather disturbing social media posts relating to a potential suspect in this case and those social media posts apparently addressed the questions of homelessness in new york. the city in general, and the role of the new mayor, eric adams, as a result of that, security around eric adams has been heightened tonight. david, thank you for keeping an eye on that. david willis reporting there. stay with us on bbc news, still to come:
lawyers forjohnny depp brand amber heard a liar in opening arguments of the defamation trial between the former spouses. pol pot, one of the century's greatest mass murderers, is reported to have died of natural causes. he, and the khmer rouge movement he led, were responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million cambodians. there have been violent protests in indonesia, where playboy has gone on sale for the first time. traditionalist muslim leaders have expressed disgust. the magazine's offices have been attacked and its editorial staff have gone into hiding. it was clear that paula's only contest was with the clock, and as for her sporting legacy, paula radcliffe's competitors will be chasing her new world—best time for years to come. quite quietly, but quicker
and quicker, she seemed just to slide away under the surface and disappear. this is bbc news, the latest headlines: britain's prime minister and his chancellor of the exchequer are fined for breaching the lockdown laws they imposed on the uk. president biden has for the first time referred to russia's actions in ukraine as genocide. there's been a slight easing of strict covid restrictions in the chinese financial capital, shanghai, after the first dip in infections since the beginning of april. the move is in response to complaints of widespread food shortages among the 25 million residents.
here's our correspondent robin brant, who's one of people dealing with lockdown. protestors chant. more than two years after covid first emerged here, china is still trying to keep it out. and this is how it's doing it. tens of thousands of people forced into government—run quarantine. in one of china's most advanced cities, the conditions, for some, are awful. translation: the moment i really broke down - was when i entered the cabin hospital. we spoke to this 26—year—old — she tested positive a few days ago. in china, symptoms or no symptoms, you are forced to quarantine. we were first assigned to the shared area. the condition was terrible. my roommate and i found two camp beds. there was only one rest room and one washbasin on each floor. forced quarantine is one of two often brutal measures that
china is using to try to beat covid — the other is citywide lockdowns. i'm two weeks into the one here, along with the other 25 million people that live in shanghai. now, for many, that means you can't step out of your gate. for some, it means you can't even go beyond your front door. and also, daily worries about food — for some, even about water. for some, the plight is now desperate — a battle to place an order on your phone, or a fight with the authorities, alljust to get food in. seeing video of communist party officials berated like this is rare here, but the party is digging in. everyone's being repeatedly tested — but this has become less about science. it's now a battle between a resurgent virus and communist party credibility. no one has officially died here from covid,
and zero—covid remains the goal. china is still determined to prove it can beat nature. robin brant, bbc news, locked down in shanghai. alessandro pavanello is currently in an isolation facility after testing positive for covid in shanghai. hejoins me now. thank you for talking to us. walkers through a little bit of a timeline, how did you end up in isolation?— in isolation? good morning, everyone. — in isolation? good morning, everyone. yes. _ in isolation? good morning, everyone, yes, the - in isolation? good morning, everyone, yes, the first - in isolation? good morning, | everyone, yes, the first time in isolation? good morning, l everyone, yes, the first time i tested positive with an antigen tested positive with an antigen test was on 26 march. then i received my first positive swab on 29 march. basically, since the 29th i have been waiting and lockdown at home to be taken to one of these isolation centres. i was taken from my home on 9 april and eventually managed to reach this current centre where i am out on 10
april at 2am in the morning. how long will you be there? that is unclear at the moment. first of all, i should have two negative tests, so i shouldn't have a swab then. we have swabs here every two days. when i get two negative results, then we start the process of putting me on a list of people that are going to be released, which has to be approved by another person that i don't know who he is aware he is at, he is definitely not in this place. then they have to arrange transport for me. so, this process after receiving the two negative tests, it is really not clear how long it will last and i really don't know how much time they will have to be here. my girlfriend is in a separate isolation centre and she has been inside for 17 days. she has received her second last negative test on 18 april. it shows a lot of disorganisation and bad
management for this, and we just have to wait, we have to wait. ., ., wait. tell me more about the conditions? _ wait. tell me more about the conditions? what _ wait. tell me more about the conditions? what is - wait. tell me more about the conditions? what is a - wait. tell me more about the conditions? what is a typical| conditions? what is a typical day like in the facilities? i notice you have your mask on, either lots of rules you have to follow as well?— to follow as well? there are rules, there _ to follow as well? there are rules, there are _ to follow as well? there are rules, there are a _ to follow as well? there are rules, there are a few - to follow as well? there are | rules, there are a few rules, there is a big area outside we are not allowed to go to ad every time. there are specific moments in the day. the rest, like, there are no specific rules but the conditions here are borderline terrible. you cannot see it, and i am supposed... isuppose cannot see it, and i am supposed... i suppose i should move the camera but i have another person i don't know sleeping at one metre from my bed. i am sleeping on my bed now. there are thousands of people around me. the bathrooms, obviously... luckily, we are one of the centres that has men and women bathrooms separated, but you can imagine thousands of people
going to want bathrooms which are not cleaned on a regular basis. we don't have showers, so we have a little... this to clean ourselves with, we put some water inside and we use a towel to, you know, just wash ourselves off a little. it really feels like i have lost all my dignity and i am somehow being mistreated. as a westerner, i am being mistreated. as a westerner, iam not being mistreated. as a westerner, i am not really enjoying being here, of course, but i need to go through this process, i will go through it and just hope it ends as soon as possible. thank you, alessandro, i do hope that ends for you soon. that was alessandro pavanello in an isolation facility in shanghai after testing positive. scientists in the us have warned about the possibility of a new outbreak of the mosquito—borne virus, zika. researchers say a single mutation in the virus
would have the potential to trigger a rapidly spreading variant. in 2016, the virus sparked a global medical emergency. thousands of babies were born with brain damage after their mothers became infected while pregnant. lawyers for the actor, johnny depp, and his former wife amber heard have given their opening statements in his defamation case in the united states. mr depp is suing ms heard for $50 million over an article she wrote about being a survivor of domestic violence, that didn't mention him by name. david sillito reports from virginia, where the trial is taking place. fairfax, virginia, and in court today, a hollywood star — johnny depp, who was here to sue his ex—wife, amber heard, for libel. this is a defamation case. it's a case about how devastating words can be when they are false and uttered publicly. in court, both barely even glanced at one another as this $50 million libel suit began, a case about an article in the washington post, in which amber heard talked
about enduring sexual assault and how institutions protect violent men. she did not namejohnny depp, but his lawyers say she didn't need to — everyone knew who she was talking about. his legal team said the allegations were all lies. amber heard was the abuser, notjohnny depp. and she has been preparing to give the performance of her life in this trial. but this trial is about the evidence. it's about a man's reputation. his legal team described johnny depp as as a kind soul, who would never raise his hand to a woman. amber heard was characterised as being troubled, manipulative, but it's worth remembering this is not the first time the couple has met in a libel court. at a previous hearing in london, a judge ruled almost overwhelmingly in amber heard's favour. may i approach? yes, sir. and, just as in london, amber heard's lawyers today
presented a very different picture of the star — a man prone to rages, a hidden side amber heard described as "the monster". you're going to see - who the realjohnny depp is. behind the red carpets, i behind the fame, behind the money, behind the piratel costumes, you're going to see who that man really is. so, two years on from that case in london, a second attempt to clearjohnny depp's name begins, this time with a jury. jurors have been told this could take up to seven weeks. david sillito, bbc news, fairfax, virginia. a global publishing deal has been struck over the king of rock �*n' roll, elvis presley's back catalogue. universal music publishing group said it would approve and collect avenue when his songs are used in media,
films or television, including hits such as jailhouse rock, love me tender, and viva las vegas. stay with us on bbc news. hello. the easter weekend is just around the corner, and as we move closer to it, things will turn drier and warmer for many. not always sunny, complicated slightly by some mist and low cloud lingering, and here we could see some patchy rain at times, but a lot of dry weather in the forecast. it is looking drier for many, as we head through wednesday. the area of rain we had on tuesday came courtesy of this area of low pressure, and it is pulling away into the north sea through wednesday. still close enough to scotland that it will bring more cloud, still some patchy rain into northern scotland and the northern isles through the morning, that will pull away. some mist and low cloud likely to linger through some northern and western coasts through the day, but elsewhere, some spells of sunshine developing, but also some sharp afternoon showers, perhaps with a rumble of thunder. the winds will be
a light—to—moderate westerly for many, and that means a warmer day across north—eastern coasts, where we have the best of the sunshine through wednesday afternoon, temperatures quite widely into the mid or high teens. pollen levels, though, will be high for much of england and wales through wednesday, moderate across northern england, and also moderate across southern scotland, and into northern ireland, as well. so through wednesday evening, most of the showers will fade. many of us will see some clearer skies, although mist and low cloud will start pushing back in to wales, south—west england, north—west england, and also more cloud nudging into northern ireland and the western isles. again for many, it is a mild night, with temperatures typically between six and nine celsius. so for thursday, we've got this area of high pressure, which is the dominant feature, and i'm sure you can see these fronts trying to push in from the west, and will bring much more cloud across northern ireland, mainly some patchy rain, particularly for western areas through the afternoon. some of that could just push into the western isles, too. once again, mist and low cloud will be slow to clear for some northern and western areas, but elsewhere, spells
of sunshine developing through thursday, particularly the further east you are, and here is where we will see the highest temperatures, mid—to—high teens for many, perhaps 19, 20, maybe even 21 celsius in south east anglia and south—east england. frontal systems trying to push in from the atlantic, they will be fairly weak affairs, but particularly as we head into easter sunday, then we could begin to see some more showery outbreaks of rain into the north and the west, but for most, over the easter weekend, it is looking warmer, it is mainly dry — yes, there will be some overnight mist and fog, but also some sunshine, too. goodbye.
this is bbc news, the headlines: britain's prime minister, borisjohnson, and his finance minister, rishi sunak, have rejected calls for them to resign after they were fined by police for breaking covid lockdown rules by attending a party in twenty -- 2020. mrjohnson's wife, carrie, was also fined. president biden has used the word �*genocide' to describe russia's war in ukraine in an apparent escalation of his criticism of president vladimir putin. he made the unscripted comment during a speech in iowa announcing measures to tackle rapidly rising fuel prices. police in new york say they have recovered a handgun and a range of incendiary devices at the brooklyn station where a man opened fire on commuters on tuesday
morning. the gunman flooded a train carriage with smoke from two gas canisters before shooting, injuring ten people. a major manhunt is underway. now on bbc news, panorama. the cost of living is rising at its fastest rate for 30 years. £1 .36 left on the gas. it's four days until i get money. and it's freezing. so how is britain coping? i do see my mum skipping meals sometimes. panorama has been following three families through three difficult months. if we are struggling,


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And I'm not talking about the cut across it, because I've done that myself, on purpose.
It all was going quite well from the beginning - okay, I lost several stitches on the edges but it was more or less even, and then, (just where I marked it with a blue line) - a disaster!... I suddenly lost a lot of stitches and it started to look really akward. I don't know what happened - maybe I just watched some interesting movie and didn't concentrate enough on the naalbinding in my hands... Anyway, I tried to patch it up, adding more stitches in the reds and oranges, planning to add stitches in the dark reds and browns later, but then I thought that it wouldn't do.
So, I took my scissors and solved the problem in a brutal way. *sigh* (No, I did't think about unwinding all the stitches back to the brown row!...)
(terrible flash photo not showing the purples and maroons properly...)
I'm going to sew the small bit of naalbinded fabric into a purse and felt it, and I'll try to continue the shawl properly counting the stitches and not loosing them again! ^^
Which means, I'm probably not going to wear it on Saturday, during the battle event we are attending (I'll definitely take pictures and have some pictures taken of myself in my Viking outfit, girls! ^^).
And have I told you what I got as a birthday present from my friend, who owns a printing company? ^^
He printed two of my photos in a huge format on a special rubber paper, so my husband decided to frame them and put them on our living-room wall...
Not that we have space for such big pictures, and I thought they would be overwhelming in such a small room (even half a room, the other half is a kitchen...), but apart from the fact that I look at myself all day (*^O^*) they really fit nicely. I may change them into posters with other views but similar in size, now when I know how such huge pictures fit. ^^


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There is a war raging in America. On one side sits religion and freedom. On the other side, atheism and Statism. American liberty hangs in the balance. In this timely and well-documented expose, author Brad O'Leary takes you deep inside the battle to save our nation's Judeo Christian identity, and with it, our liberty. From attacks on Christian holidays, to government efforts to stamp-out homeschooling, to the courtroom assault on Christianity and free speech, O'Leary leaves no doubt that there is a concerted effort underway to replace allegiance to God with allegiance to government. If you cherish your God-given freedom, this book is a must read. If you're ready to fight back, this book is an essential weapon in your arsenal!
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Mr. O'Leary is former President of the American Association of Political Consultants. He is the author of 11 books, including Presidential Follies, Triangle of Death, and Are You a Conservative or a Liberal?

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Sir Alex Ferguson tells Paul Scholes not to entertain idea of retirement
Sir Alex Ferguson, the Manchester United manager, has left the door open for Paul Scholes to earn a new contract at Old Trafford.
Scholes, whose present deal ends next summer, continued his fine start to the season by scoring the only goal in United’s victory over Besiktas in group B of the Champions League in Istanbul on Tuesday evening.
He may turn 35 in November and no longer be the player who, during his pomp, would ghost into the penalty box and score for fun, but his form has helped him to leapfrog Michael Carrick in the midfield pecking order this season and Ferguson raised the prospect yesterday of Scholes having to put his retirement on hold.
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Bus from Petrovac to Novi PazarSee timetable and Buy Ticket
The bus from PETROVAC to NOVI PAZAR pass through the cities of BERANE, KOLAŠIN, MOJKOVAC, PODGORICA, ROŽAJE, SUTOMORE (depending on the route). On this route there is only one departure. The road is about 284 km. Average length of travel according to the timetable is 06 hours and 50 mins.
As the bus crosses the border during the tourist season unforeseen maintenance are possible. Be sure to bring your identification documents. Bus crew will create a list of the names of passengers before crossing the border. Luggage is usually paid per bag on all departures depending on the carrier.
Buses are generally high-class with air conditioning, ABS, comfortable passenger seats and similar.
Timetable From PETROVAC to NOVI PAZAR can be found for days:
Bus companies which operate from PETROVAC to NOVI PAZAR are:BOŽUR.
Novi Pazar is located in the valleys of the Jošanica, Raška, Deževska, and Ljudska rivers. It lies at an elevation of 496m, in the southeast Sandžak region. The city is surrounded by the Golija and Rogozna mountains, and the Pešter plateau lies to the west. The total area of the city administrative area is 742 km². It contains 100 settlements, mostly small and spread over hills and mountains surrounding the city. The largest village is Mur, with over 3000 residents.
The Main bus station Novi Pazar is located near the city center. Novi Pazar Bus Station holds the license for C category. Near the bus station there are restarurants ''Havana'', ''Monako'' and hotels ''Vrbak'' and ''Tadž''.
Bus station Novi Pazar
Address: Omladinska, 36300 Novi Pazar
Phone number: +381 (0)20 25 963

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[Potential MILD SPOILERS for Guardians of the Galaxy ahead!]
That the Mad Titan himself, Thanos, has a role to play in Marvel Studios' upcoming film, Guardians of the Galaxy, has long been regarded as a given, if only because a number of the movie's confirmed villain-types traditionally have ties to the character, in the Marvel comic books. The question is how significant a role will Thanos play in the plot of Guardians - a question that's become all the more intriguing, since we now know that Josh Brolin will be portraying him in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Thanos made his big screen debut during a mid-credits scene featured in Joss Whedon's The Avengers, where actor Damion Poitier portrayed the character via motion-capture; another mid-credits sequence, this time attached to Thor: The Dark World, planted yet another seed that looks to lead to the famous Infinity Gauntlet story (a comic storyline featuring Thanos) being explored in Avengers 3, down the line in 2018, most likely.
There've long been rumors that Thanos will make an appearance in next year's Avengers: Age of Ultron, though the general outlook right now is that it will be James Spader as the eponymous power-hungry android, who serves as the primary antagonist in Whedon's sequel (while Thanos watches from afar - literally, quite possibly). First, though James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy movie will plant a few more seeds - the kind that establish how much influence Thanos is having, both on the events that unfold during Marvel Studios' first expedition deep into the unexplored cosmic realms of the MCU - and developments in the larger universe, in general.
Vulture is claiming to have the low-down, with regard to not just how Thanos will figure into the storyline for Guardians, but also how much screen time he'll have in the film - not to mention, what form he shall appear in:
Though Thanos didn't appear until the very end of The Avengers, Vulture has learned that he'll emerge in the first act of Guardians of the Galaxy.
Thanos will be communicating remotely via hologram for most of the film — a move the Mad Titan likely cribbed from the equally enigmatic Emperor Palpatine in The Empire Strikes Back — though he does show up in the purple flesh for a scene that also features Ronan the Accuser (Lee Pace) and Nebula (Karen Gillan), who do Thanos's bidding and serve as the primary adversaries in Guardians.
Still, though Thanos is only briefly glimpsed throughout Guardians, his presence is palpable throughout: Characters reference him often and fearfully, and he has familial ties to Gamora (Zoe Saldana), our green-skinned female lead.
Keeping in mind that the above details aren't confirmed, they're nonetheless in line with our previous expectations for Thanos' role in Guardians of the Galaxy. As mentioned before, it doesn't seem as though Thanos will play any major role in the Avengers sequel - though his influence may be felt throughout a la Guardians - so there's no reason for Gunn's movie to spend too much time on establishing and fleshing out the character, like what the first Thor installment did with Loki (before the latter served as the main antagonist in Whedon's first Avengers movie).
The trick, of course, will be for Guardians of the Galaxy to emulate Empire Strikes Back and portray Thanos as an Emperor-like manipulator who's pulling the strings on the film's central villains - allowing his presence to be unobtrusive to the film's stand-alone narrative, yet still somewhat essential (beyond just building the shared universe further). So long as Gunn's cosmic superhero adventure can manage to pull that task off, then introducing Thanos at that stage could benefit both the film and Marvel Studios' larger movie-making plans.
Now, the question is, will Brolin be doing some motion-capture work for his role as Thanos in Guardians of the Galaxy - or will it just be voice-acting only, for now? We're hoping it's the former, frankly, because the sooner we get to see leaked images of Brolin pulling expressions like this, the better.
Guardians of the Galaxy opens in U.S. theaters on August 1st, 2014.

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Drawing inspiration from the characteristic “Ksemonia”-the stone-built isolated towers of Messinian Mani-, Monolithoi housing complex offers contemporary hospitality in harmony with the beautiful landscape that surrounds it.
Monolithoi is a synthesis of two separate stone houses that develop in dialogue with the natural contour, creating a composition that re-interprets the traditional tower-houses of the Lefktro area. The stone composition of Monolithoi is highlighted by two dynamic expressions in the form of towers. Both Monolithoi houses incorporates the symbol of the Mani tower in their narrative: Around this powerful social element for traditional architecture and local history, evolve the two houses welcome areas, the living rooms and the master bedrooms with ensuite bathroom on the towers’ second level. In the extension of the tower, the central, linear part of the structures, host the kitchens and the dining areas that can be transformed into semi- outdoor spaces, being wisely set among the back yard and the pool big frame openings. On the same level of the houses are two double bed bedrooms, -one of them with ensuite bathroom-, and a bathroom. For the outdoor areas and the entrance of the houses, a dynamic arrangement allows privacy and additional spaces definition: Stone levels are shaped and impressive sea view zones that host leisure activities unfold around the infinity pools, build-in lounges and shaded dining areas.
Monolithoi services are designed by travel professionals, with the promise to offer an authentic and meaningful staying experience to the Houses’ guests. Exclusively managed by Square Lime Hospitality, Monolithoi is a unique case study were the local is introduced to the world through a holistic hospitality imprint that is based on emotions. Profoundly connected with Mani nature and culture, Monolithoi Houses are ideal to bridge the privacy of luxurious leisure with the discovery of the area’s identity.

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Thanksgiving is a time of gratitude to God, our Creator and Provider, whose guidance and care go before us, and whose love is with us forever.
Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on the changes, to remember that we, too, grow and change from one season of life to another.
Thanksgiving is a time of changing seasons, when leaves turn golden in autumn’s wake and apples are crisp in the first chill breezes of fall.
Let us remember the true meaning of Thanksgiving.
As we see the beauty of autumn, let us acknowledge the many blessings which are ours, let us think of our families and friends, and let us give thanks in our hearts.- Author Unknown
It may be challenging for us, this year, to truly embrace the spirit of Thanksgiving. With so many challenges behind us and still more ahead perhaps none of us is feeling as thankful as we would normally feel. For the fourth Thursday in November is a date when we’d gather with extended family, see friends from across the miles and sit together, way closer than six feet and celebrate- as one year draws closer to and end and another looms on the horizon.
There’d be talk of Christmas gifts, holiday gatherings, midnight mass plans, and for our youngest family members the thrill of knowing that Santa’s time is once again at last at hand…these are the feelings that Thanksgiving envokes—truly the “advent” of the joyful holiday season.
How then, do we find joy this year, amid our frustrations, fears and sorrows? For those of us who lost someone, Thanksgiving will be missing something this year. For those of us who have not seen family in months and months, our tables will feel empty no matter how much we can embrace “virtual” gatherings. For those of us who had travel plans, celebratory plans, or even Black Friday shopping plans, those may not come to full fruition this year. Thanksgiving is almost upon us and it is up to each of us to find a way to capture the joy of the season and keep it with us until we can ring in 2021.
I have no firm solution as to how to make this holiday full of joy…but here’s one thing I do know. Like so many other things this year, it will be memorable. This will be the Thanksgiving you’ll remember the rest of your lives—the one you’ll tell your grandkids about and your children will tell their grandkids about someday. It may very well be the most memorable Thanksgiving since the very first one; because it will be so different from what we’ve come to know.
So, capture the memories, celebrate live with those whom you can and virtually with those who cannot join you this year. Embrace the love of family and friends; in person or through a screen. And as Thanksgiving night draws to a close, take a photo or two—save them forever. 2020 has the potential to be the Thanksgiving you’ll remember for the rest of your life.

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Here are 12 of The King's Singers' favorite works of the European Renaissance in their own performing editions, with general introductions to the era and background of each work. Titles include:
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The Tomorrow War starring Chris Pratt is an American military sci-fi movie directed by Chris McKay. Chris McKay who started out as an animator for Robot Chicken and then later went on to direct various episodes of it is also known for working with the Lego Movie team. Tomorrow War is written by Zach Dean.
This is one of those movies that only Hollywood can pull off. It wouldn’t be too far-fetched to say the emotion while watching this movie would remind one of 90’s hit ‘The Independence Day’ and ‘Edge of Tomorrow’, starring Tom Cruise.
James Daniel “Dan” Forester Jr played by Chris Pratt is an ex-military turned biology teacher in a high school, who is visibly upset with not getting ahead in his career. Things take a different turn when soldiers from the future arrive in the present and ask for help fighting an alien invasion in the future. Dan, like other citizens across the world, is sent to the future.
What happens next forms the crux of the movie.
This is one of those typical sci-fi/time travel/military/action thrillers starring humans and aliens. Every once in a while a movie such as this comes out and viewers as usual are invested in it, for all the mind-numbing action. This time the emotion was a tad different, you really want the human race to win. It’s just a ‘pandemic thing’. When the real, tangible world around you is constantly up against an invisible enemy, a movie such as this was relatable in ways we would not have felt before. You want the bad guys gone for good. The movie successfully packs in emotion and family drama too. There are times when one would feel that you have seen this before. In reality, there is nothing that keeps this movie apart from any other alien sci-fi movies of the past. The ‘edge of the seat’ kind of thrill is all that keeps it moving forward. If you are tired of pandemic related restriction and serious cinema, this action-packed distraction would only do you good. The discussion for a sequel is already on. The movie is currently available on Amazon Prime.


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Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and Spacex, believes Twitter is in material breach of its merger agreement with him and has the right to terminate the deal. The social media giant is refusing to provide important information related to spam and fake accounts on its platform, Musk’s lawyers explained.
Elon Musk may terminate his $44 billion Twitter takeover offer
in alettersent to Twitter Inc. Monday, also filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Elon Musk’s lawyers wrote:
Twitter Inc. . has refused to provide information that Mr. Musk has repeatedly requested since May 9, 2022 to facilitate the evaluation of spam and fake accounts on its platform.
“Mr. Mask has made it clear that he does not believe the company’s lax testing methods are adequate and that he needs to conduct his own analysis,” Mask’s lawyer added.
The letter noted that Twitter is required under the merger agreement to provide the data requested by Mr. Mask. Moreover, Mr. Musk’s lawyers argued that the requested data was necessary to form a complete and accurate understanding of Twitter’s active user base, which is “the very core of Twitter’s business model.”
Tesla’s CEO suspects that Twitter’s refusal to comply with its merger agreement obligations means that “the company is withholding the requested data out of concern that it will be revealed by Musk’s own analysis of that data,” the lawyers detailed.
In addition, the Spacex boss said that Twitter “under the merger agreement … . actively resisting and interfering with his information rights,” the letter explains, adding.
This is a clear and material breach of Twitter’s obligations under the merger agreement, and Mr. Musk reserves all resulting rights, including the right not to consummate the transaction and to terminate the merger agreement.
According to Twitter’s April proxy statement, Musk rushed to make a $44 billion “best and final” offer without conducting any due diligence. The social media company said in its proxy statement that “Mr. Musk did not ask for a confidentiality agreement and did not ask for any non-public information about Twitter”; Twitter used this reason to deny Musk’s data request.
On Monday, a Twitter user explained that the social media giant can be held liable for omitting or misleading material facts. He clarified that waving due diligence does not mean that he must accept unauthorized disclosures, such as understating the number of spambots.
Musk agreed and tweeted.” Correct.”
Musk had been complaining about spambots on Twitter for quite some time. He called it Twitter’s “single most annoying problem,” and promised to fix the problem if he succeeded in taking over the platform. ‘If I succeed in taking over Twitter, I will defeat the spambots or die!’ he assured. Since his offer was accepted by Twitter, Musk has discussed ways to solve the problem of spambots on the platform, including using the meme cryptocurrency dogecoin.
However, he announced last month that his Twitter acquisition deal is now on hold, tweeting that ” The Twitter deal is on hold temporarily pending details supporting the calculation that spam/fake accounts actually represent less than 5% of users.” Musk believes that more than 20% of users are faking.
According to the merger agreement, Musk must pay Twitter a $1 billion fee if he terminates a $44 billion cash deal for the social media company. However, this changes if Twitter is in breach of the agreement.
Wedbush analyst Dan Ives believes Musk is considering terminating his contract with the social media company, noting that Twitter would counter the accusation, he tweeted Monday.
Our view; Musk is considering walking away from the deal.
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Update March 11, 2021: President Biden has signed this measure into law.
Read full text of the American Recovery Act 2021
By Miriam Raftery
March 8, 2021 (Washington D.C.) – By a 50-49 margin without a single Republican vote, Senate Democrats passed a COVID-19 relief measure that now heads back to the House to approve changes. The House is expected to approve the bill as early as Tuesday, which President Joe Biden has said he will sign into law immediately.
The measure includes a new round of stimulus checks for most Americans and extension of unemployment benefits, but also many less-publicized forms of aid ranging from expansion of child tax credits to relief for restaurants, event venues, and other businesses hardest hit by the pandemic and much more.
One major element removed in the Senate version of the bill is a minimum wage increase, which the Senate Parliamentarian ruled did not fit the rules required to pass the stimulus bill by a simple majority vote needed to avoid a filibuster. The Biden administration is expected to propose a separate bill to address the minimum wage issue in the future.
Here are highlights of what the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill includes:


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#OneFamily Launch Day
Avery Healthcare has launched its Staff Well-being Strategy, #OneFamily, alongside newly created values. Throughout the last year, it was clear from speaking to staff, residents, relatives and the businesses community partners that Avery is recognised for having 3 embedded cultural values – these are Proud, Supportive and Caring.
Lisa Soper, Avery Healthcare’s Deputy Chief Operating Officer who headed up the project said, “Our staff are our most important asset, and we want to ensure that the culture we have worked hard to develop and maintain over the years continues as we grow. This culture is really all about a sense of belonging. Our goal is to build a family culture to drive Staff Well-being.”
On the lead up to its April launch day, the team held a series of staff well-being roadshows, working with the Home Managers and Well-being Co-ordinators to develop ideas to benefit all. They produced icons to visually display the values, along with posters of Well-being and Activity Co-ordinators who have embraced the strategy with great enthusiasm, nomination cards to help staff celebrate each other’s achievements and a series of videos.
Watch the Avery #OneFamily launch video:

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