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The LA Times is reporting that world famous product endorser Billy Mays was found dead in his home this morning by his wife. He was 50 years old.
Famous for his loud, in-your-face delivery of information of such products as OxyClean, Orange Glo, and Mighty Putty, Mays was also more recently featured on the fantastic Discovery Channel show Pitchmen, which followed him and Anthony Sullivan as they pitted "made for TV" products against one another, picking the superior one to provide their services to.
The cause of death is unknown, but a full autopsy is expected.
RIP, Billy.
Billy Mays July 20, 1958 – June 28, 2009
Oh my god. I can't believe Billy Mays is dead. It'll be so weird watching tv without his commercials!! And I feel really bad for him, because he was doing so well with his new tv show. RIP BILLY MAYS! Anyway, nice post.
I'll always remember him as the guy who tried to sell me oxyclean at three in the morning watching the original midnight run on Cartoon Network. RIP Billy, you did in fact get my whites whiter


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Funeral Wednesday for Stoney Creek Grad Andrew Singler
He was killed Saturday near Michigan State University, where he was a student.
A funeral is planned for Wednesday for Andrew Singler, a 2008 Stoney Creek High School graduate who died Saturday in Lansing.
Singler, a 23-year-old nutritional sciences student at Michigan State University, was stabbed by someone he knew at his apartment Saturday morning, according to police statements and news reports.
On Monday afternoon, an 18-year-old Okemos teen — whom Singler knew — was charged with murder in connection with his death, according to the Lansing State Journal.
Singler "died tragically and needlessly," his obituary states. He was set to graduate this spring from Michigan State and then continue to dental school.
On Monday, Singler's friends and family remembered him as a good-hearted guy who will be missed.
The investigation
At 4:13 a.m. Saturday, police in Meridian Township, located next to East Lansing, responded to a "subject that received a life-threatening injury" in the 6200 block of Rothbury Way, according to a news release.
Singler was later pronounced dead at an area hospital.
The memories
Singler was a musician and a soccer player with a "ridiculous and contagious laugh," according to a report in The State News, the campus newspaper for Michigan State. Read more memories of Singler here.
On the Rochester Patch Facebook page, Stoney Creek teacher Cara Lougheed was among those expressing their disbelief: "This is just horrible. Andrew was a very sweet young man. He will be missed terribly."
"He was loved and admired by hundreds and hundreds of friends who have chosen to remember him with all of their messages on Facebook," his obituary stated.
Singler is survived by his parents, Reeder and Janis Singler, as well as brothers Ryane, Matthew and Reeder and sister Aryn. He is also survived by nieces and nephews, aunts and uncles and a grandma, Helen Russell.
Visitation will be from 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. Tuesday at Pixley Funeral Home in Rochester. The funeral is planned for 2 p.m. Wednesday at St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Rochester.
In lieu of flowers, his family asks that memorial contributions in his name be directed to Little Kids Rock, 632 Pompton Ave., Suite 2, Cedar Grove, NJ 07009.
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This story has been updated with news that an 18-year-old was charged today in connection with Singler's death.
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What Does a Killer Think?
Is the Colorado shooter delusional, depressed, or psychotic? And how do we stop the next one? Dave Cullen, author of Columbine, searches for clues in the latest research on mass murderers.
From the moment news broke of another shooting in Colorado, the question reverberated: why? As the tragedies continue, our collective national frustration has boiled over: Aurora, Columbine, Tucson, Virginia Tech ... Why does this keep happening? Why can't someone explain?
In the 80 interminable hours it took to get a glimpse at the suspect, a second question emerged: what was a look at James Holmes going to reveal?
When he walked into court Monday morning, one thing was immediately obvious. Something was wrong with this guy. Which was weirder, the dazed expression he wore most of the 11 minutes of the hearing, or the sudden bursts of wild eyes, matching his ridiculous orange hair?
The obvious explanation, which many viewers and commentators embraced, was that he was out of his mind or, medically speaking, undergoing some sort of psychotic break. But a minority view pushed back, and hard: the hair, the eyes, the sensational getup for the attack were a little too cute: a cold-blooded killer, playing crazy.
You will never understand this man if you leap to either of these conclusions. Do not look for a unified theory of mass murder, a single coherent drive. It doesn't exist. Examining all the mass murderers together yields a hopeless mass of contradictions.
Forensic psychiatrists are not baffled by these tragedies. One drive will never explain them. Instead, experts have sorted them into types, which bring the crimes into remarkably clear relief. These researchers find that aside from terrorism, most of these mass murders are committed by criminals who fall into three groups: psychopaths, the delusionally insane, and the suicidally depressed. Look through these lenses, accept the differences, and some of our worst recent tragedies make more sense: Seung-Hui Cho, who shot up Virginia Tech, was delusionally insane; Dylan Klebold, at Columbine, was deeply depressed; and Eric Harris, his co-conspirator, was the psychopath.
Occasionally, there are combinations, or rare exceptions, involving brain tumors or substance abuse. The substance danger has made a resurgence with the abuse of bath salts, recently implicated in many violent crimes.
Alleged Colorado shooter James Holmes appears dazed in his first court appearance
Mass murderers do share a few common traits. The best meta-study on the subject is an exhaustive report by the Secret Service in 2002, which studied all school shooters for a 26-year period. In this cohort, all the shooters were male, 81 percent warned someone overtly that they were going to do it, and a staggering 98 percent had recently experienced what they considered a significant failure or loss.
Despite this last fact, the ubiquitous question "what made him snap?" leads us astray. The Secret Service found that 93 percent planned the attack in advance. Hardly spontaneous combustion. A long, slow, chilling spiral down. Early evidence in the Aurora case suggests it fits this pattern. James Holmes apparently spent months acquiring the guns and ammunition he used, and it's likely his descent began much earlier. What set him off down that path?
Psychopaths are the easiest to explain. They seem to be born with no capacity for empathy, a complete disregard for the suffering of others. The sadistic psychopath, a rarity, makes a cold-blooded calculation to enjoy the pain he inflicts. Killing meant nothing to Eric Harris at Columbine—humans were as disposable as fungus in a petri dish. "Just all nature, chemistry, and math," he wrote.
Harris was witty, charming, and endearing—like most psychopaths—but he artfully masked his hate. "I hate the f--king world," his journal begins, a year before the attack. Hate roars from every page, but it is contempt that really comes through. "You know what I hate?" he posted on his website. "People who mispronounce words, like 'acrost,' and 'pacific' for 'specific.' You know what I hate? The WB network!!!! Oh Jesus, Mary Mother of God Almighty, I hate that channel with all my heart and soul." What an ordeal for him to tolerate all us inferior beings.
Harris's burning desire was a command performance to show us how powerful he really was: "I have a goal to destroy as much as possible," he wrote in his journal. "I want to burn the world. KILL MANKIND. no one should survive. "
For those bandying about terms like "evil," "bad seed," or "born bad," this is who you have in mind. Sadistic psychopaths are callous, vicious creatures, probably born that way, with cruelty to animals and a fascination with fire typically showing up by grade school. There is no known effective treatment or cure. It is what the otherwise eloquent Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper was describing when he went briefly astray and called the Aurora killer "delusional," "diabolical," and "demonic."
Can we spot these killers? Of the three types of mass killers, psychopaths leave the fewest warning signs. They are master manipulators who delight in deceit. People see them as kind, trustworthy, and endearing. But it is an elaborate ruse. Harris bragged that he deserved an Oscar for duping his parents.
Families who met with Wayne and Kathy Harris told me the Harrises realized in retrospect their boy was a psychopath, but were oblivious to that danger at the time. They knew he had anger issues, and legal run-ins; they were punishing him sternly, restricting his freedom (the surest way to infuriate a psychopath). They thought if he could find an interest or vocation in which to immerse himself, his idle hands would be out of the devil's playground. How were they to know he was flexing his creative muscles, staging an elaborate death ritual?
Those who saw Holmes's bizarre courtroom behavior as a calculated ploy to appear insane are describing a psychopath, also called a "sociopath" by clinicians. Psychopaths are not crazy in the sense that they don't know what they are doing. They are hyperrational—they just don't care about our pain. Psychopaths are remarkably like Heath Ledger's Joker in The Dark Knight, if you strip away the costume and theatrics. But psychopathic killers have one Achilles' heel: they revel in glory and like to brag. Look for clues as James Holmes's history comes to light.
While psychopaths kill for their own amusement, severe psychotics—a very different category of sufferers—are driven to slaughter to extinguish their torment.
Their agony is typically apparent to everyone. The official report on the Virginia Tech killings documented Seung-Hui Cho's steady disintegration, beginning in third grade and reaching homicidal ideation by eighth. It listed a dozen pages of "aberrant behavior," from "pathological shyness and isolation" to stalking women in the dorm. Cho wrote weird, angry plays for creative-writing class, which he refused to discuss. He sat silently, spurning eye contact, with his ball cap pulled down to shield his eyes.
Since the tragedy, Cho was widely diagnosed as psychotic—the clinical term for a broad spectrum of deep mental illnesses including schizophrenia and paranoia. Psychotic killers are, most commonly, suffering from schizophrenia, a disease marked by delusions, hallucinations, and loss of emotion, speech, or motivation. Schizophrenia seems genetically predetermined but generally lies dormant until the late teens or early 20s. Alleged Tucson killer Jared Lee Loughner, 22, and Reagan would-be assassin John Hinckley, 25, were both diagnosed as schizophrenics.
Severe psychotics like Cho are delusional, way out of touch with reality. And yet most who suffer from these mental illnesses, even some severely, pose no threat to anyone but themselves. So how does a mentally ill man like Cho make that awful journey to the trigger of a gun? Slowly. Days or months of planning are preceded by years of mental unraveling. As the disease sets in, the victim is typically perplexed and then distraught by the alarming thoughts ricocheting around his brain. Occasional flutters build to a chorus of angry chatter. "Schizophrenic delusions are usually grandiose and persecutory," noted psychiatrist Dr. Frank Ochberg explains. "There can be terror as a teen or young adult feels he is losing his mind." Cho was a red-flag assembly line. Everyone around him could see. Cho even checked himself in for a psych evaluation.
What we fail to grasp about killers descending into this kind of illness is the fear. Picture yourself waking up this morning, coherent enough to see that yesterday you were off your rocker. Likewise, three days ago. And two days last week. In and out, but drifting deeper into what you see quite clearly as the crazy pit. Could you get help? That would require confessing. Too dangerous. If you shared what you were up to yesterday, you'd land in a padded cell, electrodes attached to your head, medications administered to obliterate your personality. No way.
Most schizophrenics survive the internal terror, but for future killers, the delusion can be a coping mechanism: I'm not losing my grasp, you people are just out to get me. Arm yourself. Oh God. Which way to point it? Me? Them? For most mass murderers, it will end up being both.
"Do you know what it feels to be spit on your face and to have trash shoved down your throat?" Cho railed in his manifesto before killing at Virginia Tech. "You have vandalized my heart, raped my soul, and torched my conscience. You thought it was one pathetic boy's life you were extinguishing. Thanks to you, I die like Jesus Christ, to inspire generations of the weak and defenseless people." Cho found a way to help everyone. He would be the hero of this tragedy.
"There was pleasure in planning such a grand demonstration of 'justice,'" wrote Roger Depue, former chief of the FBI's Behavioral Sciences Unit, in the official report of the Virginia Tech Review Panel. "His thought processes were so distorted that he began arguing to himself that his evil plan was actually doing good."
These tortured minds can lurch momentarily from one extreme to the next, an exhausting ride. Ochberg explains that the flat affect tends to be rather constant, while the bizarre impulses and behavior tend to come and go in bursts. It can puzzle the untrained observer. Psychiatrists who consider Holmes, the alleged Aurora killer, psychotic, would not have been surprised to see him looking catatonic for most of his court appearance, with fits of crazy eyes. It's unclear whether Holmes is schizophrenic, but his behavior would fit neatly with the profile if he is.
The third type of killer is the hardest to fathom. Depression, for mass murder? We've all tasted depression, or some version of it, so we think. But it's not even close.
Dylan Klebold, before his rampage at Columbine, felt his soul dying. Hopeless. Helpless. Unrelenting despair. He documented it in a private journal for two years. He also left telling school essays and notorious videotapes. The wealth of information provides one of the most enlightening portraits of the depressive descent to a killing spree.
"Such a sad, desolate, lonely unsalvageable i feel I am," Klebold confided to his journal. "not fair, NOT FAIR!!! I wanted happiness!! I never got it!!! Let's sum up my life. the most miserable existence in the history of time."
Other days, Klebold's spirit soared. He dreamed of a blissful world, with himself vaguely superhuman, "this tranciever of the everything." It's glorious. Tranquil. Radiating with love. Klebold fills entire pages with elaborate hearts. "OH MY GOD," he gushes between suicidal gasps, "I am almost sure I am in love. Hehehe."
The despair returns. His writing grows erratic, fevered all-caps: "F--KIN DUM-ASS SHITHEAD…F--K!" He grows quiet, returns to his tidy penmanship to close out the entry: "No emotions. not caring. Yet another stage in this shit life. Suicide."
A startling wake-up call came three years after Columbine. The Secret Service found that 78 percent of shooters had a history of suicide attempts or suicidal thoughts. Sixty-one percent had a documented history of extreme depression or desperation.
The difficulty is not in recognizing a problem, but its severity. An angry, moping teenage boy? That describes much of the high-school population. Dylan's mother, Sue Klebold, wrote movingly about her experience in an essay for O Magazine in 2009: "I believed that if I loved someone as deeply as I loved him, I would know if he were in trouble." She saw only sadness. "He did not speak of death, give away possessions, or say that the world would be better off without him." Sue Klebold used the piece as a plea to other moms to take what appears like recurring sadness seriously. Good advice. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force estimates that 6 percent of American adolescents—2 million kids—suffer clinical depression. Most go undiagnosed.
With one quick skim of Klebold's journal, suicide is easy to understand. But why take others with you? Murder instead of suicide comes down to whom you blame. Through much of his journal, Klebold blames himself (he talks about suicide on the very first page). Sometimes God. But slowly, gradually, he focuses the blame outward.
Most vengeful depressives blame their girlfriend, boss, or schoolmates. Some just aim to kill those targets. But the eventual mass murderer sees it differently: it wasn't one or two mean people who drove him down, it was all of us. Society was brutal, the whole teeming world is mean. We all need to understand what we did to him; we all need to pay. "In 26.5 hours ill be dead, & in happiness," Klebold finally wrote. "The little zombie human fags will know their errors & be forever suffering & mournful. HAHAHA."
Two months before Columbine, he wrote a chilling short story for a creative-writing class—after Harris had already assembled the guns and some of the explosives. The story involved a single killer very much like Harris shooting down random "preps" in cold blood, with many of the same atmospherics planned for Columbine. The first-person narrator, apparently a stand-in for Klebold, is just an observer. He watches the gunman intently, and in the final moments, gets a good look and sees right into him. "I not only saw in his face, but also felt emanating from him power, complacence, closure, and godliness." Sounds pretty appealing. Especially compared to "the most miserable existence in the history of time."
These seem strikingly similar to Cho's rants, but Klebold understood what he was doing. Cho had lost the ability to discern reality from fantasy. In his reality, he was helping the world. Klebold knew he wasn't. He was just getting even.
Most mass murderers intend to die in the act. And most do. James Holmes was an exception, meaning a trial, a psychological evaluation, and answers about why it happened this time.
If Holmes is a psychopath, he probably had a ball Friday. He would have been gleeful through the months from conception to planning and attack. If he's not a psychopath, he may have spent months or years descending into his own private hell. But which hell? Insanity or suicidal depression? Anyone who claims they can answer these questions this early is ignorant or irresponsible. But we will learn.
Holmes's Dazed Court Showing
In his first appearance since allegedly killing a dozen people, the suspected Colorado shooter struggled to keep his eyes open as he faced the judge.
More on the Colorado Shooting
Inside Holmes's Booby Trap
New details from the second part of the Aurora shooter's evil plan: homemade napalm, a... More
Aurora Goes to Court
Theater shooter James Holmes is in court this week as prosecutors outline their case.... More
New Holmes Emails Revealed
Had few friends, but briefly dated. More
The Suspect
What We Know About James Holmes
American Gentility
The Batman Shooter's Mayflower Ancestry
The Shooter's Evil Plan
'This Could Have Happened Here'
Holmes's Life in Aurora
What About Gun Control?
My Gun Control Fantasy
Obama and Romney won't even mention the 'g' word after the tragedy in Aurora. That's pathetic, writes Judith Miller. What if four ex-presidents got together to do the right thing?
The NRA's Bizarre Priorities
No End in Sight
Carolyn McCarthy's Lonely Crusade
Seize the Moment
Endorse Gun Control, Mitt!
Photos & Video From the Scene
Tweets From the 'Dark Knight' Shooting
A gunman killed 12 and wounded countless others at a shooting 15 minutes into a midnight screening of 'The Dark Knight Rises' at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo. These are tweets, photos, and videos from the #theatershooting scene.
Witnesses on the Colorado Shooting
The Mind of a Killer
A Diabolical Villain
No one seems to know what set off the murders in a movie theater, but the discussion should be about whether the NRA is also culpable, writes Michael Daly.
Hazy Profile
What Makes a Mass Murderer Tick?
Expert Advice
How to Survive a Disaster
Hollywood Reacts
Hollywood Looks Within
Few in Hollywood think "The Dark Knight Rises' caused the tragedy in Colorado. But some do wonder if popular culture has desensitized people to the very real consequences of violence.
Will Fans Skip 'Dark Knight'?
Obama 'Heartbroken' By Shooting
At a campaign stop in Florida, the president said the day wasn't about politics. Ultimately, what matters most is 'how we choose to treat one another and love one another,' he told the crowd.


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Everybody Has a Story: Good news came to those — on two continents — who waited
In March 2010, during one of our usual Wednesday lunches, my friend Joann Stora first mentioned a new Romanian friend named Alexandra Bleoanca.
Yard sales unite neighborhoods
From Rose Village to La Center, events have gained popularity in Clark County
Rose Village's first neighborhood yard sale on June 8 gave people a chance to clear out unneeded items, raise money for good causes and share some neighborly pride.
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Golf invitational answers call to halt sex trafficking
Camas Meadows -- This year's annual invitational golf tournament held by the local Brigham Young University Alumni Association was a fundraiser for Called to Rescue, a Vancouver-based nonprofit organization that rescues children from sex trafficking, violence and abuse. The event was held May 30 at Camas Meadows Golf Club and there were approximately 100 golfers, netting about $6,000 for Called to Rescue. Participants and planners included folks from Crossroads Church, King's Church, Clark County Sheriff's Office, Vancouver Police Department, Evergreen Public Schools, Seventh Day Adventist Church, Holy Redeemer Catholic Church and many individuals who just wanted to help. A speech was given by Called to Rescue founder Dr. Cyndi Romine.
Students 'Imagine Tomorrow' with energy tracker
Camas — A team of Union High School students impressed judges in the Imagine Tomorrow problem-solving competition held May 17-19, winning first place for designing a device that can control and track energy use at home. The annual Washington State University competition asks high school students to design technology plans based around renewable energy. The Union High School team, with guidance from adviser Adam Schmierer, won first place in the technology challenge, one of four categories in the competition. Each member won $1,000, while $5,000 was given to their school. Other winning Clark County schools include: Hudson's Bay High School, second place in "Technology"; Camas High School, third place in "Behavior" and fourth place in "Biofuels"; Vancouver iTech Preparatory, "Best Project from a Newly Competing School."
Spudders end year with silly 'Olympics'
Ridgefield — Ridgefield High School's "Spudder Olympics" on May 31 added some silliness to the standard end-of-the-school-year festivities. The graduating class of 2013 and others celebrated the beginning of summer with wacky events that included Human Bowling and Competitive Food Eating. More than 150 students and a handful of teachers took part in the yearly event, which culminated in a championship tug of war competition. "The leadership class always impresses me with their ability to organize complex events like the Spudder Olympics," said leadership teacher Kim Allais in a press release.
Teen's art garners Best in Show
Battle Ground -- A 17-year-old home-schooled student won Best in Show at the annual Battle Ground Art Alliance show for her piece titled "Sprung has Spring." Nearly 600 students from across Clark County entered the exhibition, which promotes the Southwest Washington art scene while raising money for the nonprofit alliance. Ruby Newton's winning entry used a splash of watercolor paint to add color to a pencil drawing of a woman's face. Newton is also planning to start a student-led art group for high-schooled students. She's been perfecting her art since she was 11, said Newton's mother Traci. "I took the television away and she had to find something to do."
Salmon Creek church grows garden to feed nearby residents
Salmon Creek -- The Salmon Creek United Methodist Church started a community garden in 2012, after the pastor chatted with the manager of a nearby manufactured home park and heard the residents don't have access to fresh, affordable produce. So the church built 12 raised beds; this year they doubled that. Tomatoes, squash, lemon cucumbers, green beans, cilantro and peppers are among the garden's main crops, which the church group would distribute in the residents every Saturday morning. "It took a few weeks before the residents trusted that we would be back the next week," said organizer Carol Peterson. "We also took boxes of used books which adults and children appreciated. Some of the women would share recipes." This year the church will team up with the new Chuck's Produce store in the area to add other foods to its fresh-from-the-soil offerings.
Legacy nurses raise money with flower badges
Salmon Creek -- Two local nurses transformed discarded medicine vial caps into flower-shaped badge holders which they sold to raise hundreds of dollars for charity. Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center emergency room nurse Maureen Palensky and critical care nurse Kelly Brady recently teamed up to design and sell special identification badge holders, which have become a hit at their hospital. The team has already raised more than $650 by selling the decorations at $3 each. The colorful creations are now for sale at the center's gift shop, with all proceeds going to the Legacy Salmon Creek Child Abuse Assessment Team.
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Paper Under Discussion Castellano JM, Kim J, Stewart FR, Jiang H, DeMattos RB, Patterson BW, Fagan AM, Morris JC, Mawuenyega KG, Cruchaga C, Goate AM, Bales KR, Paul SM, Bateman RJ, Holtzman DM. Human ApoE Isoforms Differentially Regulate Brain Amyloid-beta Peptide Clearance. Science Translational Medicine. 2011 June 29. Abstract
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ApoE reigns supreme as the number one genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (see AlzGene Top Results), yet 18 years of research since its discovery have so far failed to clarify exactly how the apolipoprotein, when inherited in its E4 isoform, hastens disease. In today's Science Translational Medicine, researchers led by David Holtzman at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and collaborators there and elsewhere, report a series of in-vivo experiments showing directly that ApoE influences the clearance of Aβ peptide from the brain. The ApoE4 allele is the slowest at ridding the brain of soluble Aβ, ApoE3 falls in the middle, and the rare, protective ApoE2 gets rid of brain Aβ the fastest.
The scientists first report that among cognitively normal people in their fifties and sixties, those with the E4/E4 genotype were the most likely to have biomarkers of brain amyloidosis, i.e., low CSF Aβ42 and a positive PIB-PET scan, followed in descending order by people with E3/E4, E3/E3, and E3/E2 genotypes. Moving to mouse studies to study mechanism, the authors first recapitulated this finding in PDAPP/targeted replacement mice that express human ApoE2, 3, or 4. Old PDAPP/E4 mice not only had the most hippocampal and cortical Aβ deposition, followed by the E3 and then the E2 mice, but, as measured by microdialysis, they also had the highest steady-state concentration of soluble Aβ in their brains' interstitial fluid. When the scientists halted Aβ production temporarily to measure how quickly the brain eliminated the peptide, they found that the half-life of Aβ in the brain's interstitial fluid was longest in old PDAPP/E4 mice, followed by that in PDAPP/E3 and then PDAPP/E2 mice. The same pattern of ApoE isoform influencing brain Aβ in an E4/E3/E2 sequential effect also held true in young mice, long before they start laying down Aβ plaques. It was also true in a different strain, the PS1/APP/TRE mice. In contrast, APP processing and rates of Aβ synthesis as measured by stable isotope labeling kinetics did not vary by human ApoE isoform.
These results make a strong case, in the authors' view, that the ApoE genotype a person inherits determines when Aβ begins to accumulate in the brain by way of influencing its rate of clearance. Not the entire genetic ApoE effect is necessarily due to clearance, the authors note. Packaging of the apolipoprotein with lipids, as well as the protein's concentration in brain, might play a role, too. But for now, they argue, this new set of data, in which mouse data closely parallel human data, provides strong in-vivo evidence that ApoE exerts its role in AD primarily via Aβ clearance. In this way, the results reinforce the rationale for therapeutic efforts aimed at removing Aβ from the brain, ideally during the preclinical phase of AD.
Comment by: Joachim Herz Posted 1 July 2011
In this interesting and important paper, Castellano and colleagues provide clear, quantitative evidence for the effect of the different human ApoE isoforms on Aβ clearance in the brains of humanized ApoE knock-in mice carrying also the PDAPP transgene. Using their signature microdialysis assay, the authors show convincingly that the half-life of Aβ in the interstitial fluid of ApoE4 mice is significantly greater than in the E3 or E2 knock-ins. Half-life of Aβ in the different strains also correlates well with Aβ deposition in aged mice. By contrast, Aβ production was identical and independent of ApoE isoforms, demonstrating that ApoE isoforms primarily affect turnover and deposition and not Aβ generation, at least not in the PDAPP mouse model in which APP is unphysiologically overexpressed.
It remains possible that this overexpression occludes a component of physiological Aβ production that might be regulated by synaptic activity (Kamenetz et al., 2003; Bero et al., 2011) and ApoE isoforms (Chen et al., 2010), and thus could be relevant for human disease. Nevertheless, the quantitative data on Aβ turnover this study provides represents a milestone in our understanding of the molecular basis by which ApoE4 so powerfully affects the age of onset of Alzheimer's disease.
Bero AW, Yan P, Roh JH, Cirrito JR, Stewart FR, Raichle ME, Lee JM, Holtzman DM. Neuronal activity regulates the regional vulnerability to amyloid-β deposition. Nat Neurosci. 2011 Jun;14(6):750-6. Abstract
Chen Y, Durakoglugil MS, Xian X, Herz J. ApoE4 reduces glutamate receptor function and synaptic plasticity by selectively impairing ApoE receptor recycling. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Jun 29;107(26):12011-6. Abstract
Kamenetz F, Tomita T, Hsieh H, Seabrook G, Borchelt D, Iwatsubo T, Sisodia S, Malinow R. APP processing and synaptic function. Neuron. 2003 Mar 27;37(6):925-37. Abstract
Comment by: Abdul Hye, Joanna Riddoch-Contreras Posted 1 July 2011
This study further supports our finding, published last year, showing ApoE genotype and plasma protein concentrations are associated with brain amyloid burden. Previously using PIB-PET, we have demonstrated that ApoE4 carriers show widespread increase in Aβ deposition in cognitively normal individuals. Furthermore, we were able to show a significant relationship between plasma ApoE protein concentration and Aβ deposition in the brain. This indicates that there may be a peripheral signature.
Since then, Vuletic et al. (2008) showed a strong association between ApoE protein concentration in CSF and measures of both APP and tau metabolism in cognitively normal individuals. Together, these studies suggest intrinsic roles for ApoE gene and plasma ApoE protein in the brain amyloid cascade in older individuals at risk for AD.
Thambisetty et al. Proteome-based plasma markers of brain amyloid-β deposition in non-demented older individuals. J Alzheimers Dis. 2010;22(4):1099-109. Abstract
Vuletic et al. Apolipoprotein E highly correlates with AbetaPP- and tau-related markers in human cerebrospinal fluid. J Alzheimers Dis. 2008 Nov;15(3):409-17. Abstract
Comment by: G. William Rebeck Posted 7 July 2011
This paper provides really compelling data that one role of ApoE in AD pathogenesis is by promoting Aβ clearance. One strength of the work is that the authors use in-vivo systems to assess what is happening to the Aβ produced in the brain. The conclusion that ApoE4 mice are less competent at clearing Aβ from the CSF provides a clear model for how ApoE genotype affects risk of AD.
Like all good studies, these data also raise some interesting questions. Is the clearance of Aβ from the CSF to the blood, or into cells? Are there specific receptors that mediate this process? What other molecules besides Aβ are impaired in clearance from ApoE4 brains?
This study greatly helps our understanding of the ApoE genetic risk, and will help define the direction of future studies on other risk factors for AD.
Comment by: Leon Tai, Chunjiang Yu Posted 7 July 2011
The recent publication by Castellano et al. provides direct in-vivo evidence for the long-held hypothesis that ApoE mediates Aβ clearance in an isoform-specific manner.
Interestingly, the authors demonstrate that ApoE has no effect on Aβ production in PDAPP/TRE mice. However, Aβ transgenic mouse models overproduce Aβ, which could mask any ApoE-specific differences in Aβ production. Future studies could address whether ApoE isoforms affect Aβ production in non-demented and in late-onset AD patients, without FAD mutations.
A further interesting observation in the study is that the Aβ clearance rates are remarkably similar for young and old animals. These data are especially evident in PDAPP/ApoE4 mice, despite extensive Aβ deposition in older mice. This raises the questions: Would it be expected for Aβ clearance rates to change with age, as Aβ accumulates, and is ApoE-mediated Aβ clearance a major pathway for AD development?
There are some technical considerations that could be further clarified. Aβ clearance rates are calculated after treatment with a γ-secretase inhibitor. However, the pharmacokinetics (PKs) of the compound will greatly impact on the calculated Aβ- t1/2, and it would be optimal to know if there are any ApoE-isoform differences in plasma, ISF, or CSF drug PKs.
Comment by: Berislav Zlokovic Posted 15 July 2011
This important paper by the Holtzman group establishes the relationship between ApoE4 genotype and decreased clearance of the Alzheimer's disease (AD) toxin amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) from brain, both in humans and animal models. The idea that ApoE4 diminishes elimination of Aβ from the brain is not necessarily novel, per se, and has been previously suggested by some experimental studies from the Holtzman and other groups. However, it has never been proven so convincingly and in a such complete way in humans and animal models of AD as Castellano et al. have done in their present study. The authors should be congratulated for their approach.
The translational impact of this paper to the field carries, in my opinion, true, well-needed quality to help us reveal the mystery of how ApoE4 accelerates the development of AD. Findings showing that individuals with ApoE4/ApoE4 genotype have substantially reduced levels of Aβ in the CSF compared to other ApoE genotypes are important and fascinating. Genetic modeling in mice expressing different human ApoE genotypes and human Aβ precursor protein (APP) revealed substantially elevated levels of human Aβ in the mouse brain interstitial fluid only in the presence of ApoE4 compared to ApoE2 and ApoE3, convincingly demonstrating how the ApoE4 allele accelerates the development of Aβ/amyloid pathology by diminishing Aβ clearance but not affecting its production in brain.
However, the question still persists in the field as to whether ApoE4 affects, in any other major way, the nervous system and cerebrovascular function independently and/or in parallel with the demonstrated Aβ/amyloid accumulations. More research is needed to address this question.
Comment by: Lars Nilsson Posted 20 July 2011
The important early observation that PDAPP mice hemizygous for murine ApoE (PDAPP x mouse ApoE+/-) had less Aβ and amyloid burden than those with two copies (PDAPP x mouse ApoE+/+) (Bales et al., 1997; Bales et al., 1999) is unfortunately seldom mentioned in more recent publications. In our own studies, we also noticed that PDAPP x ApoE+/- mice tended to be intermediate to PDAPP x ApoE+/+ and PDAPP x ApoE-/- in terms of Aβ and amyloid deposition (Nilsson et al., 2004). Moreover, lower Aβ deposition was seen in an independent transgenic model (Tg2576; APP-Swe) when hemizygous for murine ApoE (Holtzman et al., 2000).
If ApoE mainly serves to clear Aβ, as suggested by Castellano and coauthors, wouldn't one then expect aged PDAPP x mouse ApoE+/- to have more extensive Aβ deposition? After all, the concentration of ApoE, which is supposed to help clear Aβ, was 50 percent lower in the brains of PDAPP x mouse ApoE+/- than those of PDAPP x mouse ApoE+/+. But the experimental findings were actually the opposite.
Here, in an impressive set of experiments, Castellano et al. convincingly demonstrate that human ApoE affects steady-state levels and half-life of extracellular Aβ in an isoform-dependent manner (ApoE4 > ApoE3 > ApoE2) in young PDAPP mice.
How can the seemingly inconsistent observations with human ApoE and murine ApoE be understood? Does human ApoE only clear Aβ perhaps, while mouse ApoE only facilitates Aβ fibril formation? I doubt it.
First, it is worth reflecting upon the fact that human ApoE, which interacts with multiple receptors, is being transferred into the mouse genome environment in the experiments. The human and murine lipoprotein receptors (and also ApoE itself) do not have identical amino acid sequences and structures. Thus, human ApoE will likely not communicate perfectly in the murine genome environment, and this could trigger complex feedback mechanisms, leading to altered cholesterol metabolism and lipoprotein particle composition in human ApoE knock-in mouse brain (as compared to non-transgenic mouse brain expressing mouse ApoE). Indeed, in-vitro data (on astrocyte-based models) suggest that this warrants concern (Fagan et al., 1999).
One way to explain the inconsistent observations with human ApoE and murine ApoE would be that ApoE exerts two separate, but opposing, mechanisms, simultaneously facilitating Aβ clearance and Aβ fibril formation, but that the net lifetime effect of having ApoE4 versus ApoE3 will be increased Aβ accumulation and deposition. Two separate and opposing mechanisms would, for example, explain how human ApoE4 could initially decrease Aβ deposition as compared to ApoE-knockout in young mice (Holtzman et al., 1999), but then increase Aβ deposition in aged mice (Fagan et al., 2002). In young mice largely devoid of Aβ aggregates, the ApoE effect on extracellular Aβ clearance would have greater impact. In contrast, once Aβ aggregates are present in the extracellular space of older APP mice, the ability of ApoE to catalyze Aβ fibril formation by a direct molecular interaction would vastly overshadow its effect on Aβ clearance (Potter et al., 2001).
Multiple disparate effects of ApoE on Aβ metabolism unfortunately mean that there is no simple take-home message, such as "all presenilin and APP mutations increase Aβ42 synthesis." Many excellent studies, such as the one by Castellano et al., in which robust effects on Aβ phenotypes are consistently seen when the ApoE gene is manipulated in transgenic models, are somewhat disregarded. Strangely, to this day, many papers have an introductory statement saying that "the mechanism of ApoE in Alzheimer's disease is unknown" (which is hardly ever seen in papers on APP or presenilin). Bales KR, Verina T, Dodel RC, Du Y, Altstiel L, Bender M, Hyslop P, Johnstone EM, Little SP, Cummins DJ, Piccardo P, Ghetti B, Paul SM. Lack of apolipoprotein E dramatically reduces amyloid beta-peptide deposition. Nat Genet. 1997 Nov;17(3):263-4. Abstract
Bales KR, Verina T, Cummins DJ, Du Y, Dodel RC, Saura J, Fishman CE, DeLong CA, Piccardo P, Petegnief V, Ghetti B, Paul SM. Apolipoprotein E is essential for amyloid deposition in the APP(V717F) transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 Dec 21;96(26):15233-8. Abstract
Nilsson LN, Arendash GW, Leighty RE, Costa DA, Low MA, Garcia MF, Cracciolo JR, Rojiani A, Wu X, Bales KR, Paul SM, Potter H. Cognitive impairment in PDAPP mice depends on ApoE and ACT-catalyzed amyloid formation. Neurobiol Aging. 2004 Oct;25(9):1153-67. Abstract
Holtzman DM, Fagan AM, Mackey B, Tenkova T, Sartorius L, Paul SM, Bales K, Ashe KH, Irizarry MC, Hyman BT. Apolipoprotein E facilitates neuritic and cerebrovascular plaque formation in an Alzheimer's disease model. Ann Neurol. 2000 Jun;47(6):739-47. Abstract
Fagan AM, Holtzman DM, Munson G, Mathur T, Schneider D, Chang LK, Getz GS, Reardon CA, Lukens J, Shah JA, LaDu MJ. Unique lipoproteins secreted by primary astrocytes from wild type, apoE (-/-), and human apoE transgenic mice. J Biol Chem. 1999 Oct 15;274(42):30001-7. Abstract
Holtzman DM, Bales KR, Wu S, Bhat P, Parsadanian M, Fagan AM, Chang LK, Sun Y, Paul SM. Expression of human apolipoprotein E reduces amyloid-beta deposition in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. J Clin Invest. 1999 Mar;103(6):R15-R21. Abstract
Fagan AM, Watson M, Parsadanian M, Bales KR, Paul SM, Holtzman DM. Human and murine ApoE markedly alters A beta metabolism before and after plaque formation in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiol Dis. 2002 Apr;9(3):305-18. Abstract
Potter H, Wefes IM, Nilsson LN. The inflammation-induced pathological chaperones ACT and apo-E are necessary catalysts of Alzheimer amyloid formation. Neurobiol Aging. 2001 Nov-Dec;22(6):923-30. Abstract
Comment by: David Holtzman Posted 26 July 2011
I want to thank Lars Nilsson for his comments on our recent paper. I think it is important to point out that in the paper by Castellano et al., we demonstrate that human ApoE isoforms differentially influence endogenous Aβ clearance. However, we do not show whether human ApoE isoforms increase or decrease Aβ clearance relative to the absence of ApoE. I believe it is possible that human ApoE isoforms decrease Aβ clearance (E4>E3>E2) relative to no ApoE. If true, one would predict that two copies of human ApoE isoforms would result in greater amyloid deposition and fibril formation than one copy. This experiment has not yet been tested adequately in animal models. As Lars points out, two copies of mouse ApoE results is significantly greater amyloid deposition than one copy of mouse ApoE or than no copies. It will be important to see the effects of two versus one versus zero copies of human ApoE isoforms on amyloid deposition in mouse models.
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I thought we might get away with not having any snow this winter, but unfortunately I was wrong. We had about 10cm fall overnight, which may not sound a lot to those of you who live in countries that get proper snow, but in the UK, 10cm basically means everything stops. Schools are closed, trains and planes are cancelled, people work from home... I have every intention of not leaving the house at all today. There's also a chance that I may be sat here in my cosiest pyjamas, and it's 2:30pm.
Soo, what to eat when it's freezing outside? I thought a nice comforting veggie pot pie might go down a treat, but unfortunately puff pastry isn't something I usually have in the house, and there was no chance of me setting foot outside to get some - that would involve getting dressed, which is a ludicrous idea. Instead, I adapted my usual pie filling recipe to make a soup version. All of the flavours and all of the comfort of my favourite pie without having to go out in the snow. Perfect.
I love how pretty this soup is, with all the colourful vegetables poking out of the creamy liquid. This is definitely not one for veggie haters. It's hearty and filling, so perfect for the winter, but I think all the fresh veg make it a pretty good summer soup too. I served it with some crusty bread but honestly, it's substantial enough to be absolutely fine on its own.
If you wanted to, you could use this same recipe to make a normal veggie pot pie - just don't thin it down at all at the end, put it in a baking dish and cover with some puff pastry before baking. I do love a bit of pastry, but this version saved a few calories while remaining just as tasty.
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Veggie pot pie soup
Serves 2-3
1tbsp oil
1 onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 medium carrot, cut into 1/2cm dice
1/2 head broccoli
100g tinned sweetcorn kernels, drained
250ml vegetable stock (I used 1 stock cube plus 250ml hot water)
1/2tsp dried oregano
Black pepper
25g butter
4tbsp plain flour
150ml semi-skimmed milk
250ml hot water
Cut the broccoli into small florets. If you want to, you can also trim any tough parts off the stalk, and cut this into small dice.
Heat the oil in a large saucepan, and cook the onion, garlic, carrot and broccoli over a low heat for 10 minutes. Leave the pan covered, stirring every few minutes. Add the corn and vegetable stock, and season with the oregano and plenty of black pepper. Again, cover the pan and leave over a very low heat while you make a white sauce.
In a separate saucepan, melt the butter, and mix in the flour. Stirring constantly, cook over a medium-low heat for 1-2 minutes, before adding the milk a little at a time. Ensure each amount is fully incorporated before adding more.
Combine the two mixtures, and stir well to combine. Add hot water until the soup is at your desired consistency - I used about 250ml. If the vegetables are still not quite soft enough, leave to simmer very gently for a few more minutes. Otherwise, serve immediately.
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I love my soup, seems like I've been posting nothing but soups the past few weeks! I will definitely have to try this, I love chicken pot pie. Thanks for sharing!
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Well,this is pretty late, but I will do it any way. Last year my only resolution was 'to learn Qt' and I did it! Although I didn't 'master' Qt, but at least I am now able to write programs with GUI and I am happy with it. I also learnt something outside the plan-client side web development, and I think it seemed more fun. So this is the plan for this year-a much detailed one...
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"Red Devils" fans in the United Arab Emirates can rejoice after the Manchester United's Supporters Club (MUSC) in the UAE has been made an official supporters club of the Premier League giant, seven years after its formation.
"Manchester United have 185 official supporters clubs around the world and welcomed the fact of adding the UAE onto that map," MUSC-UAE chairman Mustafa Ibrahim told Al Arabiya.
"When you become official, people trust you more. You'll be endorsed," he added.
The news brought in added perks for the club.
"Getting tickets as an individual is difficult. An official supporters club has allocated tickets for each home game," Ibrahim said. "Members will have the opportunity to acquire tickets to watch a live match in Old Trafford, Manchester."
Ibrahim also said that the club has set out a mission to create events to incorporate the entire family. "We want to come across as something for the community."
This isn't the first Manchester United Supporters Club in the region. The first club was officiated in Bahrain, and Ibrahim expressed his joy in having a relationship with the neighboring club.
While the status of the club has just been enhanced, Ibrahim spoke of future desires.
"MUSC-UAE would be aiming to build a friendly relationship with supporter clubs of other teams within the UAE," he said.
Ibrahim added that the club "would love to have joint events with other Manchester United Supporters Clubs in the region."
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Odelay | ||||
Studio album by Beck | ||||
Released | June 18, 1996 | |||
Recorded | 1994–1996 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock, anti-folk, alternative hip hop, noise rock | |||
Length | 54:13 | |||
Label | DGC, Bong Load Custom | |||
Producer | Beck Hansen, The Dust Brothers, Mario Caldato, Jr, Brian Paulson, Tom Rothrock, Rob Schnapf | |||
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Singles from Odelay | ||||
Odelay is the fifth studio album by American alternative rock artist Beck, originally released on June 18, 1996, by DGC Records.
Odelay featured several hit singles, including "Where It's At", "Devils Haircut", and "The New Pollution". The album peaked at #16 on the Billboard 200 chart and eventually sold over 2 million copies in the United States. It was also Beck's first hit album in the United Kingdom, making #17; it has since gone platinum in the UK.
On January 29, 2008, Odelay was reissued as a two-disc package featuring a number of bonus tracks. As of July 2008, the album had sold 2.3 million copies in the United States.[1] Since its release, the album has appeared in numerous publications' lists of the greatest records of the 1990s and of all time.
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Background [edit]
Musical style [edit]
The sessions for what would become Odelay originally began as a subdued, acoustic affair. In 1994, Beck started to record tracks for his follow-up to Mellow Gold with Bong Load producers Tom Rothrock and Rob Schnapf. Hansen had recently experienced a number of personal tragedies (including the death of his grandfather, Al Hansen), and the tone of the songs as well as their production were considerably somber. Only a handful of tracks from these sessions have been released: "Ramshackle", "Feather in Your Cap", and "Brother". All three of these songs are acoustic, sparse, and melancholic, and have a haunting sound very different from the more upbeat, "party" style of Odelay. Beck would eventually return to this Downbeat style with his 1998 album, Mutations.
He would eventually abandon work with Rothrock and Schnapf, opting to work with the Dust Brothers instead. The Dust Brothers' production style was notably more upbeat and hip-hop-focused; their résumé included work with Beastie Boys and Tone Lōc.
Title and artwork [edit]
The title is a phonetic English rendering of the Mexican slang interjection "órale," which translates roughly to "listen up" or "what's up?" The phrase "odelay" is repeated in the lyrics during the outro of the song "Lord Only Knows". However, according to Stephen Malkmus, the title is actually a play of words on Oh Delay, since the album took very long to record.[2]
The album's unusual cover is a real photo of a Komondor, a rare Hungarian breed of dog with thick matted hair. The image was chosen at the last minute after Beck failed to decide on an album cover. The image was presented to him by his girlfriend and was chosen almost out of desperation. The typeface was chosen by a record company worker.[citation needed]
Reception [edit]
Professional ratings | |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
Pitchfork Media | (9.8/10)[3] |
Allmusic | [4] |
Entertainment Weekly | A−[5] |
Slant Magazine | [6] |
Robert Christgau | A−[7] |
Rolling Stone | Deluxe Edition[8] |
Odelay was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 1997, as well as a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for "Where It's At". It was ranked 16 in Spin's "100 Greatest Albums, 1985-2005". Odelay was awarded Album of the Year by the American magazine Rolling Stone. It was voted as the best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll, and also in the NME's annual critics poll. In 1998, Q magazine readers voted Odelay the 51st greatest album of all time. In 2003, the album was ranked number 305 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Voters in Channel 4's 2005 "100 Greatest Albums" poll placed it at number 73. The music website Pitchfork Media ranked it at #19 on their top 100 albums of the 1990s.
Track listing [edit]
Original issue [edit]
All songs written by Beck, John King and Michael Simpson, except where noted.
Produced by Beck Hansen and The Dust Brothers, except where noted.
- "Devils Haircut" – 3:14
- "Hotwax" – 3:49
- "Lord Only Knows" (Beck Hansen) – 4:14
- "The New Pollution" – 3:39
- "Derelict" – 4:12
- "Novacane" – 4:37
- "Jack-Ass" – 4:11
- "Where It's At" – 5:30
- "Minus" (Beck Hansen) – 2:32
- Produced by Beck Hansen, Mario Caldato Jr. and Brian Paulson.
- "Sissyneck" – 3:52
- "Readymade" – 2:37
- "High 5 (Rock the Catskills)" – 4:10
- "Ramshackle" (Beck Hansen) – 7:29
- Produced by Tom Rothrock and Tom Schnapf.
- Includes a hidden track called "Computer Rock"
- Some non-U.S. versions contain "Diskobox" and/or "Clock" as bonus tracks.
Deluxe Edition [edit]
On January 29, 2008, Odelay - Deluxe Edition was released.[9] The two-disc set contains the original album, plus 19 B-sides, remixes and previously unreleased songs. The liner notes feature complete lyrics and artwork as well as an essay from Thurston Moore and the transcript of 15 high school students interviewed by Dave Eggers. The cover art was deliberately edited to appear as if it was a personalized copy of the album, with stickers carelessly half-ripped off and various doodles on it (such as a face drawn on the dog and rainbows behind it) and including the phrase 'Property Of Michael' written on the back. The exclusion of Diskobox may have been done as a deliberate nod to the cover art having the 'strictly limited edition bonus track' sticker partly torn off.
"Diskobox", which appeared on the original UK and Japanese pressings of Odelay, was not included on the deluxe edition for unknown reasons. The Odelay sessions version of "Debra" (later re-recorded for Midnite Vultures) is also absent, despite initial statements to the contrary.
Some of the bonus tracks on the Deluxe Edition (specifically "Deadweight" and "Clock") appear to be from lossy (e.g. MP3) sources. Some of the tracks included have been altered beyond simple remastering.[10] No official explanation for these changes has been given. Some of these alterations are listed below:
First CD:
- - "Hotwax" has a more double tracked vocal during the verses
- - "The New Pollution" has the same synthesized beeps from the original version, but played at a different pitch
- - "Sissyneck" has a slightly extended 'breakdown' part at around 2:00
Bonus CD:
- - "Thunderpeel" is folded down to mono from the regular stereo version
- - "Electric Music And The Summer People" is an alternate mix
- - "Erase the Sun" runs at a faster speed (the original release may be slowed down)
- - "Trouble All My Days" is folded down to mono from the regular stereo version[11]
Disc 1
- "Devils Haircut" - 3:15
- "Hotwax" - 3:49
- "Lord Only Knows" - 4:15
- "The New Pollution" - 3:39
- "Derelict" - 4:13
- "Novacane" - 4:37
- "Jack-Ass" - 4:12
- "Where It's At" - 5:30
- "Minus" - 2:32
- "Sissyneck" - 3:57
- "Readymade" - 2:37
- "High 5 (Rock the Catskills)" - 4:11
- "Ramshackle" - 4:47
- "Hidden Track (Computer Rock)" - 0:43
- "Deadweight" - 6:12
- "Inferno" (previously unreleased) - 7:03
- "Gold Chains" (previously unreleased) - 4:59
Disc 2
- "Where It's At" (U.N.K.L.E. remix) - 12:26
- "Richard's Hairpiece" (remix by Aphex Twin) - 3:19
- "American Wasteland" (remix by Mickey P.) - 2:42
- "Clock" - 3:17
- "Thunder Peel" - 2:40
- Different version than the one on Stereopathetic Soulmanure.
- "Electric Music and the Summer People" - 4:38
- "Lemonade" - 2:21
- "Feather in Your Cap" - 3:46
- "Erase the Sun" - 2:56
- Sped up from the originally released length of 3:16.
- "000.000" - 5:25
- "Brother" - 4:47
- "Devil Got My Woman" - 4:34
- "Trouble All My Days" - 2:25
- "Strange Invitation" - 4:06
- "Burro" - 3:13
Sampled music [edit]
- "Devil's Haircut"
- "I Can Only Give You Everything" by the MC5 (Interpolated by Beck)
- "Out of Sight" by Them
- "Soul Drums" by Pretty Purdie.
- "Hotwax"
- "Song for Aretha" by Pretty Purdie
- "Dookey Shoe" by Rasputin's Stash
- "Universal Rhythms" by Mandrill
- "Up on the Hill" by Monk Higgins & The Specialties
- "Lord Only Knows"
- "Lookout for Lucy" by Mike Millius
- "When It Comes" by Edgar Winter
- "The New Pollution"
- "Venus" by Joe Thomas
- "Novacane"
- "Get Up and Dance" by Freedom
- "I Just Want to Celebrate" by Rare Earth.
- "Jack-Ass"
- "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" by Them
- "Where It's At"
- "Sex for Teens (Where It's At)" by Dr. Stanley Z. Adams
- "Needle to the Groove" by Mantronix
- "I Don't Care If U Disrespect Me (Just So You Love Me)" by The Frogs
- "Military Scratch - Scratch Mix" by Grand Wizard Theodore
- "Get Out of My Life, Woman" by Lee Dorsey
- "Sissyneck"
- "The Moog and Me" by Dick Hyman
- "A Part of Me" by Country Funk
- "Life" by Sly & The Family Stone
- "Readymade"
- "Desafinado" by Laurindo Almeida and The Bossa Nova All Stars
- "Admit It" by Rory Gallagher
- "High 5 (Rock the Catskills)"
- Symphony no. 8 "Unfinished" (first movement) by Franz Schubert
- "Mr. Cool" by Rasputin's Stash
- Part of the noise section of "Novacane" can be heard
- "Inside-Looking Out" by Grand Funk Railroad
Personnel [edit]
Musicians [edit]
- Beck Hansen – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar, bass, analog keyboards, electric piano, organ, celeste, clavinet, harmonicas, percussion, drums
- Mike Millius – scream (on track 3)
- Joey Waronker – drums (6, 9), percussion (3, 12, 13)
- Mike Boito – organ (8, 10, 12), trumpet (8)
- David Brown – saxophone (8)
- Greg Leisz – pedal steel guitar (10)
- Charlie Haden – bass (13)
- Jon Spencer - keychain (14)
- Ross Harris - "(The Enchanting Wizard of Rhythm)" (unknown)
Production [edit]
- Beck Hansen, Dust Brothers – production, mixing (exc. 9, 13, 14)
- Beck Hansen, Brian Paulson, Mario Caldato, Jr. – production, mixing (9)
- Tom Rothrock, Rob Schnapf – production, mixing (13)
- Beck Hansen, Jon Spencer, Dust Brothers - production, mixing (14)
- Bob Ludwig – mastering
- Shauna O'Brien – coordination, production coordination
- Mark Kates - A & R
- John Silva - management
Artwork [edit]
- Beck Hansen, Robert Fisher – art direction, design
- Al Hansen, Manuel Ocampo, Zarim Osborn – collage images
- Manuel Ocampo – inlay painting
- Ludwig - cover photography
- Nitin Vadukul – photography of Beck
References [edit]
- ^ "Ask Billboard". Billboard. 2008-07-18. Archived from the original on 2008-08-01. Retrieved 2008-07-18.
- ^ "Q&A: Stephen Malkmus on New LP, Beck + More". Retrieved 2011-07-07.
- ^ 1996 Pitchfork Media Review
- ^ Allmusic Review
- ^ Entertainment Weekly Review
- ^ Slant Magazine Review
- ^ Robert Christgau Review
- ^ Rolling Stone 2008 Review
- ^ Beck's Odelay Given Deluxe Reissue Treatment
- ^ Beck Forum • View topic - Odelay Remastered ??? (or something)
- ^ [1][dead link]
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- High density foam offers the ultimate support and comfort for your body while you sleep while adding durability and resiliency to the unit as a whole.
- Our Symbol Foam on the bottom side of the bed adds profile and support to the unit.
- The foam allows for the body to be properly contoured which provides improved blood circulation and molds to your body to support it evenly to promote more restful sleep because of pressure relief which reduces tossing and turning.
- Motion transfer is reduced meaning if there is movement on one side of the bed there are no vibrations felt on the other side of the bed.
- Dust mite and antimicrobial resistant.