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Washington state hopes the switch to Common Core standards will cut the college remediation rate, reports the Seattle Times. A majority of community college students fail college placement tests, especially in math. The new standards claim to prepare students for college and careers.
The Washington Student Achievement Council, a new state agency, wants to test 11th graders for college readiness using the new Common Core-aligned tests. Students could use 12th grade to get up to the college level.
But some warn about linking a college readiness strategy to Common Core.
"I think waiting on the Common Core, given the politics that have developed around that now, is a pretty risk strategy for linking K-12 and higher ed," said Penn researcher Joni Finney, one of the authors of a report that makes a long list of recommendations for improving higher-education outcomes in Washington. Finney praised the state of Texas for developing its own rigorous 11th-grade tests, and starting to beta-test the exams now.
Gene Sharratt, the executive director of WSAC, argues that Common Core is being well-received in Washington. The state is working with the Smarter Balance Consortium to develop 11th-grade tests, which are expected to be ready for beta testing in the 2015-16 school year.
Sharratt sees a slightly different risk ahead. His worry: That colleges may decide Common Core standards do not align with their requirements for college-level subjects. Even if students pass the 11th-grade tests, they still may need to take developmental classes in college.
In Maryland, community college leaders also hope Common Core standards will reduce the need for remediation, reports the Baltimore Sun.
Harford Community College faculty have been working with high school teachers to write learning objectives and lesson plans based on the new standards.
Core-aligned tests developed by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career, or PARCC, will replace state exams. PARCC evaluates 11th graders' college readiness, so they have a year to catch up. The PARCC exam eventually could be used as a community college placement exam, replacing Accuplacer.
Maryland legislates college readiness, completion
Maryland's college readiness and completion law is shaking up the state's education system, reports Paul Fain in Inside Higher Ed. The comprehensive law, passed six months ago, affects the K-12 system, community college and state universities.
The measure requires high schools to test students on their college readiness — in both math and English — before they finish their junior years. By 2015 high schools will need to create "transition" courses for students that are deemed unprepared for college-level courses in those subjects.
On the higher education side, public institutions in the state must require students to complete at least one credit-bearing, non-remedial math and English course as part of the first 24 credits they earn.
Community college leaders are optimistic the measures will help improve student success rates. Nearly all their "suggested amendments were adopted in the final version," writes Fain.
Some 44.4 percent of Maryland adults held an associate degree or higher in 2009. Legislators hope to raise that to at least 55 percent by 2025.
The legislation requires public, four-year institutions to accept more credits that students earn at Maryland community colleges. And it will make both community colleges and four-year institutions be more thrifty with their programmatic degree requirements. Under the law, four-year institutions must set a limit of 120 credits for bachelor's degrees, with some exceptions. Likewise, most associate degree programs will be 60 credits.
In Maryland community college graduates were accumulating an average of 75 credits to earn a degree in 3.8 years.
The law requires high schools to pay most of the cost for up to four dual enrollment courses. That's expected to boost the number of high school students taking college courses.
CCs cancel cheap health insurance
Many "students have found themselves in health care limbo this semester," reports CBS New York. "Community colleges in New Jersey used to offer cheap health insurance for hundreds of dollars a year" but cancelled coverage because the new federal health care law bans barebones policies.
Upgrading the college's plan to meet Obamacare rules would cost "more than a thousand dollars per student," said Stephen Nacco, a vice president at Union County Community College.
Students like Carlos Arias depended on the low-cost health care.
"I'm kind of healthy right now but I am worried that when something happens I'm not going to go to the hospital," Arias said.
If students can sign up for Obamacare, many should qualify for subsidized policies. So far, few have been able to navigate the web site. Younger students may be insured on their parents' health plans.
Community colleges in Maryland are cutting adjuncts' hours to avoid paying for health insurance, reports the Baltimore Sun. Employers must provide insurance to workers who average 30 hours a week or more.
Cash-strapped community colleges in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Howard and Prince George's counties, among other places, have pre-emptively limited adjuncts' hours, starting this year. Expanding health coverage to such instructors would cost schools across the state $17 million, officials at the Maryland Association of Community Colleges estimated.
Community colleges in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and other states also have limited adjuncts' work hours.
In Maryland, most adjuncts make less than $2,500 per course, which means less than $23,000 a year under the new limits.
Art history instructor Amy Poff can teach no more than three classes per semester at the Community College of Baltimore County this year. Poff, who also teaches at Harford Community College, has added a class at Howard Community College.
Immigrants learn English, job skills
Maryland community colleges have added English as a Second Language and GED programs to serve a growing number of immigrant students.
At Prince George's Community College's (PGCC) International Education Center, health care careers is the most popular program for immigrant students. But many need to improve their English. "PGCC and four other community colleges in Maryland created an accelerated program—modeled on Washington state's I-Best program—that provides language and skills training," reports Community College Times.
In addition to Latinos, PGCC draws students from Africa and other countries.
About 25 percent of the nation's 6.5 million degree-seeking community college students were foreign born in 2004-05, according to a U.S. Education Department report.
60 credits for a degree? Don't count on it
Credit creep is making it harder for community college students to complete an associate degree, according to a Complete College America survey. In theory, college students need 60 credits for an associate degree and 120 for a bachelor's degree, but none of 104 associate degree tracks surveyed had a median requirement of 60 credits or less.
Many associate degrees now require 70 credits or more, notes Inside Higher Ed.
Nate Johnson, a higher education data expert who managed the survey, said he was surprised that half of the community colleges surveyed did not have a single program limited to 60 credits, including general education degrees and those aimed at students who transfer to four-year institutions.
. . . The likely reason for the credit inflation, he said, is a common one in higher education. "People tend to add things without taking anything away."
Students who change majors often need to take extra courses. Some take more courses to earn credits that will transfer after realizing earlier credits aren't useful. On average, students who earn an associate degree have racked up 80 credits, according to Complete College America. Many give up before they complete a degree.
Some states — Maryland, Indiana and South Dakota — are setting credit limits for associate degrees. California Gov. Jerry Brown wanted to limit community college students to 90 credits at the low in-state rate, but the Legislature rejected the idea.
Community colleges help train teachers
Community colleges are helping train a new generation of K-12 teachers, reports Community College Week.
Samuel Simpson, 54, a high school math teacher at All City High School in inner-city Rochester, is one of the first fellows of the Community Center for Teaching Excellence (CCTE), which is based at Monroe Community College (New York). "My efforts in doing the kinds of best practices that many people in the education field talk about doing — looking at data, using it to inform instruction, and teaching differently and smarter — have brought significant results," Simpson said.
Community college educators, university professors, high school teachers and the Center for Governmental Research are collaborating on "high-impact teaching strategies" through CCTE, reports Community College Week.
A number of fellows incorporated collaborative learning techniques in their classes, such as peer teaching, paired writing and group note-taking, to increase student engagement. A few teachers experimented with integrating 21st-century technology tools into their lessons, such as creating digital versions of their notes with embedded audio and having students contribute to blogs.
MCC Assistant Professor Maria Brandt and a colleague are working with a teacher at Rush-Henrietta Senior High School to create common writing assignments and assessments.
Focused on improving students' abilities to read critically and communicate coherently and accurately, they had students write summaries of selected authors' work and evaluate their own writing at the beginning and middle of the fall semester.
"Through the course of the semester, students in my English 101 class have improved in two areas: their ability to summarize a text and their sense of the importance of reading closely, that you cannot formulate an accurate and responsible argument without understanding the texts involved," Brandt said. "The students are much more aware now that they need to listen first or read well to grow as readers and writers."
"Our goal is to better understand the gap between how high school students are performing on average and how first-year college students are performing on average and help them have higher success levels," Brandt said.
Many schools need science, technology and math teachers. Community College Week looks at STEM programs at Cerritos College (California) and Rio Salado (Arizona), which belong to the National Association of Community College Teacher Education Programs (NACCTEP).
Ten Maryland community colleges now offer a fully transferrable associate of arts in teaching degree in secondary math, writes Colleen Eisenbeiser, director of the TEACH Institute at Anne Arundel Community College. Nine offer secondary chemistry and eight offer physics.
Two Maryland community colleges partner with their local school systems "to recruit, prepare, place, and instruct career changers in hard to fill secondary content areas, including math, chemistry, physics, and technical education." Anne Arundel has helped a variety of career changers become certified teachers, including a computer software engineer, a health information analyst lawyer, a nurse, researchers from a lab that studies the habits of migratory birds and the Institute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and a biologist who worked at the National Aquarium and National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases.
A new way to teach basic skills
Learning Matters TV's John Tulenko looks at how Maryland community colleges are rethinking remediation.
For-profits face tighter state rules
While new federal rules for for-profit colleges are stalled, for-profit colleges face more state-level regulation, reports Stateline.
Maryland's Legislature has passed legislation eliminating all state aid to for-profit schools, banning commissions or bonuses for student recruiting, and requiring for-profit schools to contribute to a fund to protect students if any college in their group breaches a contract. Gov. Martin O'Malley says he'll sign the bills.
California will restrict for-profit colleges' eligibility for Cal Grants, state-funded college scholarships.
Nebraska legislators are expected to approve a bill streamlining the regulatory process for all colleges, for-profit or not, and increasing accountability once colleges are approved.
However, tighter controls on the accreditation of for-profit colleges failed this year in North Dakota.
Bills regulating for-profit colleges have been proposed in Arizona, Iowa, Idaho, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, New York, Texas and Utah. In addition, attorneys general in Florida, Illinois, Iowa and Kentucky have launched investigations of for-profit schools.
"It is my job to ensure that businesses — and these schools are businesses — are following Kentucky's consumer protection laws," Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway wrote in an op-ed for the Lexington Herald-Leader.
Maryland colleges serve military vets
Maryland is mobilizing to serve military veterans attending community colleges and public universities, reports Community College Times. Colleges have signed the Maryland Campus Compact for Student Veterans pledging to create a "go-to" person or office to help veterans deal with GI Bill paperwork, counseling and other issues.
College of Southern Maryland (CSM), enrolls 456 veterans.
"Following the Marines, I wasn't getting the job I wanted. I knew I needed to get a degree," said (Vicente) Chavarria, who enrolled at CSM in January 2010 to begin his pursuit of a bachelor's degree in accounting.
Chavarria said that the process of applying for and using his GI benefits has been easy for him through CSM's online services.
"I go onto veterans services on the CSM website to file for my benefits," Chavarria said. "All paperwork and registration is done electronically, which makes everything easier."
Now experienced in the benefits process, Chavarria is a work-study student helping CSM advise and process paperwork for other student veterans.
The compact also requires "training for faculty, staff and student leadership to promote greater awareness of veterans' issues" and encourages campuses to create student veteran organizations to provide peer support.
Two new veterans groups are supporting — and attacking — for-profit colleges, writes Daniel Luzer in the Washington Monthly's College Guide.
Veterans who choose to use their GI Bill benefits at for-profit colleges are "discriminating customers" who see "good value," writes Paul Rieckhoff, founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.
Ryan Berg, founder of Returning Veterans of America, disagrees, arguing that for-profit colleges exploit veterans.
More degrees in Maryland
Many more Maryland students will earn associate degrees, pledge community college leaders. From the Baltimore Sun:
The Maryland Association of Community Colleges, made up of college presidents from the state's 16 community colleges, signed the pledge to increase the annual number of students earning degrees from two-year colleges by 7,300 students statewide. About 12,000 students currently earn an associate's degree or program certificate each year.
The goal would enable Maryland to do its part to meet President Obama's goal of making the U.S. the world's leading nation in college graduates by 2020.


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Great place for family to reconnect, whether playing croquet on the lawn surrounding the cottage, combing for seaglass in the small cove across the quiet road, playing board games, stargazing, or sharing early morning coffee on the porch. This cottage, located in a small community of 1920's era homes which have been owned and maintained in many cases by the same families for generations feels like a very special place. The neighbors are welcoming and always stop to share stories of the community or at the very least wave hello. This was our second visit to this cottage and we had an opportunity on this visit to meet many of the wonderful family members who own and maintain this well kept and clean cottage. The smell of the salt air will be the first thing that greets you as you climb out of your car but the memories you build here will last long beyond that. Great location for exploring the mid-coast of Maine as well.
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My family had a fantastic time enjoying the coast of Maine in this cottage. It is very well appointed and updated nicely. The kayaks were great to use and the pier/dock were awesome. Hannaford's was only 10 minutes away and Freeport a quick 20 minutes. But nothing could compare with the location of this cottage. The sunsets were amazing and we loved kayaking to Sister Island, Birch Island and the other side of the Maquoit Bay. At Sister Island ledges, we were treated to kayak with the seals. Very cool! The house is perfect for 6 people and the gas fireplace was nice. The new TV was used to watch World Cup matches and Wimbledon. The owner, Sean, was extremely helpful before and during our stay. Mere Point is a nice community and we enjoyed the tennis courts several times. Since I married a Mainer, I have been to Maine many times (over 40 trips). This was definitely our most favorite house to stay in and we all had a great time.
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How not to sell your clothes on eBay
Well the only lesson to take away from this is always, always, ALWAYS check your mirrors/wear pants when you're taking pictures that are for the internet. Unless your whole thing is to not.
Aimi Jones was just trying to make a pretty penny by reselling her own clothes, when she mistakenly and unknowingly included a little too much in the image of the chosen item. Having not seen *ahem* herself, in the chosen photo, Aimi uploaded it to her eBay auction, and before you knew it, the world was familiar with her familiars.
The auction has seen a load of copycats since it went viral, and of course, a rake of photoshops and of course, a hashtag. #ebayyellowskaterdress is where you'll find the uncensored original in all its embarrassing glory. At least Aimi is taking it in her stride, saying it's 'so embarrassing' and 'ditzy' and that her boyfriend Andy 'thinks the whole thing is hilarious'. Well he'd want to.
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Classic cars are gearing up
Classic cars will be on display once again as the Lake Country Custom and Classic Car Show brings vintage vehicles together this summer.
"This will be the sixth year for the car show in Lake Country and each year it gets bigger," said show manager Ron Volk, who runs the event with his wife Kathy, along with Mark Jones. "We are expecting up to 400 cars this year and more than 4,000 people to go through the park on Sunday."
This year's show runs for two days, Aug. 23 and 24. The Saturday features a parade around Lake Country, with cars assembling on Main Street starting at 3:30 p.m. and the parade starting at 5 p.m.
After the parade the cars will return to Swalwell Park where there will be food vendors set up along with entertainment.
Sunday's portion of the show is at Swalwell Park from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. and features food vendors and the band Flashback playing.
Every car registered will have a chance to win the $1,000 grand prize and also one of many door prizes.
Lake Country Customs and Classics is a non-profit organization which donates all profits to charity organizations in Lake Country. Last year, $7,000 was donated towards the new building for the Lake Country Food Bank.
"We are committed to ensuring that this car show is one of the best in B.C. and are diligently working on attracting some of the nicest cars that you will ever see at an event such as this," said Volk. "We invite you to join us this year for what we believe will be one of the best car shows you will attend all year.
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Costumes of Downton Abbey is an original exhibition of exquisite designs from the award-winning television series. Forty historically inspired costumes from the television show will be displayed and supplemented by photographs and vignettes inspired by the fictional program and by real life at Winterthur. Visitors will have a chance to step into and experience the world of Downton Abbey® and the contrasting world of Winterthur founder Henry Francis du Pont and his contemporaries in the first half of the 20th…Find out more »
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The fashion designer has been invited to illuminate his world and creative vision through use of his collections and those of the museum. As a first step in this process, 19th Century prints selected from the Museum's archives by Dries Van Noten have been replicated and applied to garments of his collection for Men for his spring/summer 2014, unveiled on June 27th 2013 during the Paris Collections.Find out more »
Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love
"I want my clothes to make you smile"—that was the goal of late African American designer Patrick Kelly in creating his bold, bright, and joyful creations. Kelly achieved this on the streets, nightclubs, and runways of New York, Paris, and beyond in the heady, inventive, and often-subversive urban milieu of the 1980s. Runway of Love is an expansive retrospective showcasing some eighty ensembles that were recently presented to the Museum as a promised gift by Kelly's business and life partner,…Find out more »
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In June of 2006, preeminent photographer Bruce Weber travelled to Detroit for the first time while on assignment for W, a monthly fashion magazine. The idea was to photograph a well-known model—in this case Kate Moss—as a starting point for a much broader exploration of an unfamiliar place, its culture, and, most importantly, its people. While many photographers at that time were recording the vulnerability of Detroit, Weber was completely taken with the vitality of the city and its citizens.…Find out more »
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Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire
The Costume Institute's first fall exhibition in seven years, will be on view in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Anna Wintour Costume Center from October 21, 2014 through February 1, 2015. The exhibition will explore the aesthetic development and cultural implications of mourning fashions of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Approximately 30 ensembles, many of which are being exhibited for the first time, will reveal the impact of high-fashion standards on the sartorial dictates of bereavement rituals as they…Find out more »


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Grantville San Diego CA is near Grantville Park, N. Mountain View Mini-Park and Ward Canyon Park.
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Air- Conditioned second floor unit in centrally - located mission valley area. Neutral carpet and paint, one bedroom on either side of living room and both bath's have tub/shower combo. Balcony, plus complex features pool, spa and tennis. Walk to Qualcomm Stadium, deli, trolley, pub. Close to Mission Valley shopping center's, restautrants and SDSU. Easy access to 15 and 8, plus major through fares like Friar's and Mission Gorge. No Pets Please.
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Sullivan '99.9 percent' sure he's going to retire
Jul 29, 2013, 6:33 PM EDT
The 2013 season may have been the last for Steve Sullivan.
The veteran forward, who turned 39 in early July, said that while he's not ready to officially announce his plans for the future, he's very close to having reached a decision.
"I wouldn't say 100%, but 99.9%," he told the Timmins Daily Press about the possibility of retiring. "I've had an unbelievable run."
Sullivan split last year between Phoenix and New Jersey — the Devils acquired him at the trade deadline — and he had a decent campaign, scoring 17 points in 42 games.
But with August creeping up and only "very informal" discussions with a few teams about employment for next season, Sullivan is ready to acknowledge his 17-year career could be coming to a close.
Sullivan appeared in over 1,000 NHL contests and enjoyed some banner seasons playing with Chicago and Nashville during the 2K era. He scored a career-high 34 goals with the Blackhawks in 2000-01 and, in the first year following the 2004-05 lockout, put up a 31-goal, 68-point effort in his first full season with the Predators.
(That's not to say his half-season in Nashville wasn't any good. After being acquired from Chicago during the 2003-04 season, he posted 30 points in 24 games.)
While he's not looking to get into coaching anytime soon — "not a very stable position," he says — Sullivan is hoping to remain active in the game.
"When the day comes, when we do announce the retirement, I definitely would love to stay in the game in some form, or fashion, for sure," he explained.
- modellforprez - Jul 29, 2013 at 7:31 PM
Well if this is it old man, Let me say the one year you spent in our city chasing Lord Stanley's Finest we enjoyed the ride and wish Sully the best
- slysipops - Jul 29, 2013 at 8:01 PM
great guy! hope you the best steve ! a little guy……………BUT A MAN'S MAN !
- taytay099 - Jul 29, 2013 at 9:15 PM
I'll always remember him for this:
- slysipops - Jul 30, 2013 at 8:05 PM
WOW ! somehow i must have missed seeing this . how sweet it was ! i can always remember DOMI ( TORONTO ) squirting water at the idiot green men at VANCOUVER . i always wished a LEAF fan in the building would run up and throw one of the TROLLS in the box with TYE !!!
- vshehane - Jul 29, 2013 at 9:42 PM
Great guy. Always welcome in Nashville.
- dprouse - Jul 29, 2013 at 10:31 PM
I always liked watching Sullivan play, and thought he was consistently one of the most underrated guys in the game. It's a shame he didn't get a chance to play more games foe Team Canada, because he was great on the big ice the few times he did. One of the good guys…
- tmi3rd - Jul 30, 2013 at 12:10 AM
Great player, and an absolutely wonderful guy in person. He was delightful when he came by our station in Nashville, and we were lucky to have him as long as we did there.
Good luck, Sully, and thanks for signing my jersey!
- vshehane - Jul 30, 2013 at 10:00 AM
Best memory, his hat trick in his first game in Nashville. Thanks for many great memories.
- kane987245 - Jul 30, 2013 at 1:09 PM
As a Devils fan, glad to know that the guy we drafted ended his career here. Great player and person. Thanks for the memories!
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Insect leg cogs a first in animal kingdom Philip Ball If you are a young plant hopper, leaping one metre in a single bound, you need to push off with both hind legs in perfect unison or you might end up in a spin. Researchers have discovered that this synchrony is made possible by toothed gears that connect the two legs when the insects jump. Zoologists Malcolm Burrows and Gregory Sutton at the University of Cambridge, UK, say that this seems to be the first example in nature of rotary motion with toothed gears. They describe their findings today in Science1. When the insect jumps, the cog teeth join so that the two legs lock together, ensuring that they thrust at exactly the same time (see video above and image at left). "The gears add an extra level of synchronization beyond that which can be achieved by the nervous system," says Burrows. Infant plant hoppers, known as nymphs, can take off in just 2 milliseconds, reaching take-off speeds of almost 4 metres a second (see video below). For motions this rapid, some mechanical device is needed to keep the legs synchronized and to avoid lopsided jumps that might lead to the insects spinning out of control. The problem does not, however, arise in all jumping insects: whereas the attachments of plant hoppers' hind legs are adjacent to each other, the legs of grasshoppers and fleas attach to opposite the sides of the body and move in parallel planes. This helps to stabilize the insects and even enables them to jump one-legged. © 2013 Nature Publishing Group
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By Athena Andreadis Recently, two studies surfaced almost simultaneously that led to exclamations of "Vulcan mind meld!", "Zombie armies!" and "Brains in jars!" One is the announcement by Rajesh Rao and Andrea Stocco of Washington U. that they "achieved the first human-to-human brain interface". The other is the Nature paper by Madeline Lancaster et al about stem-cell-derived "organoids" that mimic early developmental aspects of the human cortex. My condensed evaluation: the latter is far more interesting and promising than the former, which doesn't quite do what people (want to) think it's doing. The purported result of brain interfacing hit many hot buttons that have been staples of science fiction and Stephen King novels: primarily telepathy, with its fictional potential for non-consensual control. Essentially, the sender's EEG (electroencephalogram) output was linked to the receiver's TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation) input. What the experiment actually did is not send a thought but induce a muscle twitch; nothing novel, given the known properties of the two technologies. The conditions were severely constrained to produce the desired result and I suspect the outcome was independent of the stimulus details: the EEG simply recorded that a signal had been produced and the TMS apparatus was positioned so that a signal would elicit a movement of the right hand. Since both sender and receiver were poised over a keyboard operating a video game, the twitch was sufficient to press the space bar, programmed by the game to fire a cannon. © 2013 Scientific American
Keyword: Robotics
Link ID: 18623 - Posted: 09.10.2013
American researchers say they've performed what they believe is the first ever human-to-human brain interface, where one person was able to send a brain signal to trigger the hand motions of another person. "It was both exciting and eerie to watch an imagined section from my brain get translated into actual action by another brain," said Rajesh Rao, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington, in a statement. Previous studies have done brain-to-brain transmissions between rats and one was done between a human and a rat. Rao was able to send a brain signal through the internet – utilizing electrical brain recordings and a form of magnetic stimulation – to the other side of the university campus to his colleague Andrea Stocco, an assistant professor of psychology, triggering Stocco's finger to move on a keyboard. "The internet was a way to connect computers, and now it can be a way to connect brains," said Stocco. "We want to take the knowledge of a brain and transmit it directly from brain to brain." On Aug. 12, Rao sat in his lab with a cap on his head. The cap had electrodes hooked up to an electroencephalography machine, which reads the brain's electrical activity. Meanwhile, Stocco was at his lab across campus, wearing a similar cap which had a transcranial magnetic stimulation coil place over his left motor cortex – the part of the brain that controls hand movement. Rao looked at a computer and in his mind, he played a video game. When he was supposed to fire a cannon at a target, he imagined moving his right hand, which stayed motionless. Stocco, almost instantaneously, moved his right index finger to push the space bar on the keyboard in front of him. Only simple brain signals, not thoughts "This was basically a one-way flow of information from my brain to his," said Rao. © CBC 2013
Keyword: Robotics; Aggression
Link ID: 18583 - Posted: 08.29.2013
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS As a clinical psychologist and sleep researcher at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, Kelly Glazer Baron frequently heard complaints from aggrieved patients about exercise. They would work out, they told her, sometimes to the point of exhaustion, but they would not sleep better that night. Dr. Baron was surprised and perplexed. A fan of exercise for treating sleep problems, but also a scientist, she decided to examine more closely the day-to-day relationship between sweat and sleep. What she and her colleagues found, according to a study published last week in The Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, is that the influence of daily exercise on sleep habits is more convoluted than many of us might expect and that, in the short term, sleep might have more of an impact on exercise than exercise has on sleep. To reach that conclusion, Dr. Baron and her colleagues turned to data from a study of exercise and sleep originally published in 2010. For that experiment, researchers had gathered a small group of women (and one man) who had received diagnoses of insomnia. The volunteers were mostly in their 60s, and all were sedentary. Then the researchers randomly assigned their volunteers either to remain inactive or to begin a moderate endurance exercise program, consisting of three or four 30-minute exercise sessions a week, generally on a stationary bicycle or treadmill, that were performed in the afternoon. This exercise program continued for 16 weeks. At the end of that time, the volunteers in the exercise group were sleeping much more soundly than they had been at the start of the study. They slept, on average, about 45 minutes to an hour longer on most nights, waking up less often and reporting more vigor and less sleepiness. Copyright 2013 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Sleep
Link ID: 18575 - Posted: 08.28.2013
By Katherine Harmon The eight wily arms of an octopus can help the animal catch dinner, open a jar and even complete a convincing disguise. But these arms are not entirely under the control of the octopus's brain. And new research shows just how deep their independence runs—even when they are detached. The octopus's nervous system is a fascinating one. Some two thirds of its neurons reside not in its central brain but out in its flexible, stretchable arms. This, researchers suspect, lightens the cognitive coordination demands and allows octopuses to let their arms do some of the "thinking"—or at least the coordination, problem-solving and reaction—on their own. And these arms can continue reacting to stimuli even after they are no longer connected to the main brain; in fact, they remain responsive even after the octopus has been euthanized and the arms severed. The research is in the special September 2013 issue of the Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology called "Cephalopod Biology" (we'll check out the other fascinating studies in days and weeks ahead). The researchers, working at St. George's University of London and the Anton Dohrn Zoological Station in Naples, Italy, examined 10 adult common octopuses (Octopus vulgaris) that had been collected and used for other studies. After the animals were euthanized, their arms were removed and kept in chilled seawater for up to an hour until they were ready for experimentation. Some arms were suspended vertically, and others were laid out horizontally. When pinched, suspended arms recoiled from the unpleasant stimulus by shortening and curling in a corkscrew shape within one second. © 2013 Scientific American
Keyword: Miscellaneous
Link ID: 18573 - Posted: 08.28.2013
By Felicity Muth Humans love their victory displays. You only have to watch a game of football (or soccer to US-readers) to see some victory displays of the most ridiculous kind. Why do people do such things? If there was no crowd there, it is unlikely that they would perform such displays. But is it for the sake of the sex they are wishing to attract, or perhaps to put people they are competing with in no doubt of their accomplishment? Other animals, of course, also compete with each other, for food, resources and mates. And, like humans, how they behave once they win or lose a competition may depend on who's around to see it. Male spring crickets fight with each other for territories and females Male spring field crickets fight with other males. The winners tend to do a lot better with the lady crickets, as the winners may gain the best territory, and because females of this species prefer dominant males. Now for the part that may surprise you: the males that win these fights will perform a victory display just like humans – after beating another male, the male winner performs an aggressive song and jerks his body in a particular way to show off that he's won this fight. But, like with humans, the question arises: why do males do these victory displays? Is it to show the loser male that he has lost, or to show other males and females that he's won? © 2013 Scientific American
Keyword: Sexual Behavior; Aggression
Link ID: 18569 - Posted: 08.27.2013
Philip Ball He is sometimes called the first rock star. He would whip his long hair around as he played, beads of sweat flying into the audience, and women would swoon or throw their clothes on to the stage. This is not Mick Jagger or Jimmy Page, but Franz Liszt, the nineteenth-century Hungarian pianist whose theatrical recitals made the composer Robert Schumann say that "a great deal of poetry would be lost" had Liszt played behind a screen. But who cares about the histrionics — it's the music that matters, right? Not according to the latest study, which shows that people's judgements about the quality of a musical performance are influenced more by what they see than by what they hear. The findings, reported this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by social psychologist Chia-Jung Tsay of University College London1, may be embarrassing and even shocking to music lovers. The vast majority of participants in Tsay's experiments — around 83% of both untrained participants and professional musicians — insisted at the outset that sound was their key criterion for assessing video and audio recordings of performances. Yet it wasn't. The participants were presented with recordings of the three finalists in each of ten prestigious international competitions, and were asked to guess the winner. With just sound, or sound and video, novices and experts both guessed right at about the same level as chance (33% of the time), or a little less. But with silent video alone, the success rate for both was about 46–53%. The experts did no better than the novices. © 2013 Nature Publishing Group
Keyword: Emotions; Aggression
Link ID: 18540 - Posted: 08.21.2013
By Ella Davies Reporter, BBC Nature An unusual caterpillar uses the sun to navigate as it jumps to safety, according to scientists. The larva of Calindoea trifascialis, a species of moth native to Vietnam, wraps itself in a leaf before dropping to the forest floor. It then spends three days searching for a suitable place to pupate, despite not being able to see out of its shelter. Experts found the insect used a piston-like motion to jump away from strong sunlight. "We believe the object of the jumping is to find shade - to avoid overheating and desiccation," explained Mr Kim Humphreys from the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada who conducted the research alongside Dr Christopher Darling. Their findings are published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters. Although Mr Humphreys described the caterpillar as "non-descript" in appearance, he said its behaviour makes it unique in a number of ways. "Caterpillars or larvae that jump are rare in themselves," he said. "[This] caterpillar is remarkable for its jumping, which no other insect does in this way. It also makes its own vehicle [or] shelter to jump in." "It is also the only one I know of that jumps in an oriented way." BBC © 2013
Keyword: Animal Migration; Aggression
Link ID: 18539 - Posted: 08.21.2013
By John von Radowitz TARGETING poor housekeeping in cells could lead to new treatments for Parkinson's disease, scientists believe. Research has linked the disease to a genetic defect that stops cells clearing out defective mitochondria, tiny metabolic generators that supply energy. Dysfunctional mitochondria are potentially very harmful. Cells normally dispose of them through a "hazardous waste" management system called mitophagy that causes the bean-like bodies to be digested and broken down. Scientists have now discovered a biological pathway that allows mutations in a gene called FBxo7 to interfere with mitophagy. In people with Parkinson's, this leads to a build-up of defective mitochondria that may result in the death of brain cells. The study, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, indicates that mitophagy might be the key to new treatment options for the disease. Dr Helene Plun-Favreau, one of the researchers from the University College London Institute of Neurology, said: "These findings suggest that treatment strategies that target mitophagy might be developed to benefit patients with Parkinson's disease in the future. "What makes the study so robust is the confirmation of defective mitophagy in a number of different Parkinson's models, including cells of patients who carry a mutation in the Fbxo7 gene." News Ltd 2013 Copyright
Keyword: Parkinsons
Link ID: 18502 - Posted: 08.14.2013
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Over the past decade, in study after study in animals and people, exercise has been shown to improve the ability to learn and remember. But the specifics of that process have remained hazy. Is it better to exercise before you learn something new? What about during? And should the exercise be vigorous or gentle? Two new studies helpfully tackle those questions, with each reaching the conclusion that the timing and intensity of even a single bout of exercise can definitely affect your ability to remember — though not always beneficially. To reach that conclusion, scientists conducting the larger and more ambitious of the new studies, published in May in PLoS One, first recruited 81 healthy young women who were native German speakers and randomly divided them into three groups. Each group wore headphones and listened for 30 minutes to lists of paired words, one a common German noun and the other its Polish equivalent. The women were asked to memorize the unfamiliar word. But they heard the words under quite different circumstances. One group listened after sitting quietly for 30 minutes. A second group rode a stationary bicycle at a gentle pace for 30 minutes and then sat down and donned the headphones. And the third group rode a bicycle at a mild intensity for 30 minutes while wearing the headphones and listening to the new words. Two days later, the women completed tests of their new vocabulary. Everyone could recall some new words. But the women who had gently ridden a bicycle while hearing the new words — who had exercised lightly during the process of creating new memories —performed best. They had the most robust recall of the new information, significantly better than the group that had sat quietly and better than the group that had exercised before learning. Those women performed only slightly better than the women who had not exercised at all. Copyright 2013 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Learning & Memory
Link ID: 18475 - Posted: 08.08.2013
Lying in bed, unable to move a muscle, so-called locked-in patients have few ways to communicate with the outside world. But researchers have now found a way to use the widening and narrowing of the pupils to send a message, potentially helping these patients break the silence. Doctors use the constriction of pupils under bright light to test whether a patient's brain stem is intact. But our pupils also show the opposite response—dilation—based on our thoughts and emotions, says Wolfgang Einhäuser, a neurophysicist at Philipps University of Marburg in Germany. Einhäuser had been struggling to interpret changes in pupil size during decision-making when he began to wonder about a different application. He contacted Steven Laureys, a member of the Coma Science Group at the University Hospital of Liège in Belgium, to explore how the pupil could be used to communicate a choice. Laureys works with locked-in patients, who have normal mental acuity but are paralyzed and unable to express thoughts to those around them. Many can control only the muscles that move their eyes; some, not even that. They can learn to communicate using EEG technology, in which electrodes on the scalp detect changes in brain activity. But applying the electrode cap is time-consuming, and the equipment is expensive, Einhäuser says. "If you imagine doing that every day, basically to communicate, that's troublesome." To find a different technique, Einhäuser, Laureys, and colleagues reached back in time. "The pieces have been there since the early '60s," Einhäuser says. A 1964 study showed that our pupils dilate when we perform mental arithmetic, like attempting to multiply 27 and 15 with no pencil and paper, and that harder tasks led to more dramatic dilation. The team set up a camera and a laptop to explore this automatic response. © 2012 American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Keyword: Movement Disorders; Aggression
Link ID: 18466 - Posted: 08.06.2013
By NICK BILTON Scientists haven't yet found a way to mend a broken heart, but they're edging closer to manipulating memory and downloading instructions from a computer right into a brain. Researchers from the Riken-M.I.T. Center for Neural Circuit Genetics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology took us closer to this science-fiction world of brain tweaking last week when they said they were able to create a false memory in a mouse. The scientists reported in the journal Science that they caused mice to remember receiving an electrical shock in one location, when in reality they were zapped in a completely different place. The researchers weren't able to create entirely new thoughts, but they applied good or bad feelings to memories that already existed. "It wasn't so much writing a memory from scratch, it was basically connecting two different types of memories. We took a neutral memory, and we artificially updated that to make it a negative memory," said Steve Ramirez, one of the M.I.T. neuroscientists on the project. It may sound insignificant and perhaps not a nice way to treat mice, but it is not a dramatic leap to imagine that one day this research could lead to computer-manipulation of the mind for things like the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, Mr. Ramirez said. Technologists are already working on brain-computer interfaces, which will allow us to interact with our smartphones and computers simply by using our minds. And there are already gadgets that read our thoughts and allow us to do things like dodge virtual objects in a computer game or turn switches on and off with a thought. Copyright 2013 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Robotics; Aggression
Link ID: 18460 - Posted: 08.06.2013
Elizabeth Pollitzer Transplanting muscle-derived stem cells into diseased muscle regenerates it — a phenomenon that holds major potential for human therapies. But for years, researchers were puzzled by the unpredictability of these cells — sometimes they would promote fast regeneration, at other times none at all. Then, in 2007, a group led by Johnny Huard, a stem-cell researcher at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, hit on the rather surprising explanation — sex1. Muscle stem cells taken from female mice regenerate new muscle much faster than those from male mice when transplanted into diseased muscle of mice of either sex. Researchers have also found that cells taken from male and female mice respond differently to stress2, and that human cells exhibit wildly different concentrations of many metabolites across the sexes3. Evidence is mounting that cells differ according to sex, irrespective of their history of exposure to sex hormones. These differences could have major implications for the susceptibility to and course of many diseases, their diagnosis and treatment. However, most cell biologists do not note whether the cells they are using come from males or females4. Between 1997 and 2001, ten prescription drugs were withdrawn from the market by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), eight of which were more dangerous to women than to men (see go.nature.com/ksindo). The ingredients used in non-prescription drugs can also pose greater health risks to women. In 2000, for instance, the FDA took steps to remove phenylpropanolamine, a component of many over-the-counter medications, from all drug products because of a reported increased risk of bleeding into the brain or into tissue around the brain in women but not in men. Such drug therapies are developed through basic research — but what if sex-related differences in studied cells contribute in a significant way to the observed effects? © 2013 Nature Publishing Group
Keyword: Sexual Behavior; Aggression
Link ID: 18440 - Posted: 08.01.2013
By Melissa Hogenboom Science reporter, BBC News Several ancient dinosaurs evolved the brainpower needed for flight long before they could take to the skies, scientists say. Non-avian dinosaurs were found to have "bird brains", larger than that of Archaeopteryx, a 150 million-year-old bird-like dinosaur. Once regarded as a unique transition between dinosaurs and birds, scientists say Archaeopteryx has now lost its pivotal place. The study is published in Nature. A recent discovery in China which unveiled the earliest creature yet discovered on the evolutionary line to birds, also placed Archaeopteryx in less of a transitional evolutionary place. Bird brains tend to be more enlarged compared to their body size than reptiles, vital for providing the vision and coordination needed for flight. Scientists using high-resolution CT scans have now found that these "hyper-inflated" brains were present in many ancient dinosaurs, and had the neurological hardwiring needed to take to the skies. This included several bird-like oviraptorosaurs and the troodontids Zanabazar junior, which had larger brains relative to body size than that of Archaeopteryx. This latest work adds to previous studies which found the presence of feathers and wishbones on ancient dinosaurs. BBC © 2013
Keyword: Evolution
Link ID: 18439 - Posted: 08.01.2013
By David Brown, Charles Sabine, who spent more than two decades as a television reporter for NBC covering wars, revolutions and natural disasters, is familiar with something he calls "real fear." He's seen it in the eyes of people about to die or be killed. It chilled his blood when a Bosnian guerrilla held a gun to his chest as he stood near a bullet-pocked execution wall. He felt it when he walked point for his camera crew in Baghdad during Iraq's sectarian war. But nothing terrified him like the news he got eight years ago after taking the gene test for Huntington's disease, whose slow downward course toward death makes it one of mankind's most dread afflictions. "I learned that the disease that took my father and is inflicting on my brother the same terrible decline in his prime will take me, too," said Sabine, 53, an Englishman who worked for NBC for 26 years. And yet Sabine has turned that knowledge to a purpose that can only be called thrilling. He's on a mission to make Huntington's the model for a Hopeless Disease About Which There's Hope. He wants to put it at the forefront of the "patient-centered care" movement, the effort to always ask patients what they consider success or hope to get out of treatment. He wants to make sure there are Huntington's patients ready for clinical trials that are just around the corner. He wants to get everybody to think a little more sophisticatedly about genetic testing. Closer to home, he's turning the knowledge of his biological fate into a tool to help him savor every day, be a good father and husband, make amends, not deceive. © 1996-2013 The Washington Post
Keyword: Huntingtons; Aggression
Link ID: 18428 - Posted: 07.30.2013
By Glen Tellis, Rickson C. Mesquita, and Arjun G. Yodh Terrence Murgallis, a 20 year-old undergraduate student in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology at Misericordia University has stuttered all his life and approached us recently about conducting brain research on stuttering. His timing was perfect because our research group, in collaboration with a team led by Dr. Arjun Yodh in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, had recently deployed two novel optical methods to compare blood flow and hemoglobin concentration differences in the brains of those who stutter with those who are fluent. These noninvasive methods employ diffusing near-infrared light and have been dubbed near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) for concentration dynamics, and diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) for flow dynamics. The near-infrared light readily penetrates through intact skull to probe cortical regions of the brain. The low power light has no known side-effects and has been successfully utilized for a variety of clinical studies in infants, children, and adults. DCS measures fluctuations of scattered light due to moving targets in the tissue (mostly red blood cells). The technique measures relative changes in cerebral blood flow. NIRS uses the relative transmission of different colors of light to detect hemoglobin concentration changes in the interrogated tissues. Though there are numerous diagnostic tools available to study brain activity, including positron emission tomography (PET), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and magnetoencephalography (MEG), these methods are often invasive and/or expensive to administer. In the particular case of electroencephalography (EEG), its low spatial resolution is a significant limitation for investigations of verbal fluency. © 2013 Scientific American
Keyword: Language
Link ID: 18426 - Posted: 07.30.2013
By Dina Fine Maron All eyes were on Perry Cohen when he froze at the microphone. His voice failed him. He couldn't read his notes. Eventually, the once-powerful Parkinson's disease speaker had to be helped off the stage halfway through his speech. That was in February 2012, but the memory of that day is emblazoned in his mind. "It was the adrenaline and the pressure of speaking — it drained all the dopamine out," Cohen says, referring to the brain chemical that is found lacking in the neurodegenerative disorder. "That's why my symptoms got worse." When Cohen learned he had Parkinson's disease 17 years ago his symptoms were subtle. In the past couple years, however, the deterioration of his nervous system has become increasingly obvious, ultimately threatening to silence one of the most prominent voices in the Parkinson's patient community. Cohen is now first in line to try a novel treatment he hopes will halt or even reverse the symptoms of his Parkinson's disease. Two months ago he became the inaugural patient to undergo a gene therapy treatment led by the National Institutes of Health. The trial attempts to devise an intervention for Parkinson's disease at the root of the problem: protecting dopamine in the brain. Researchers in this trial are attempting to surgically deliver a gene into the body that will make a natural protein to protect dopaminergic neurons, the brain cells attacked by the disease. To date no Parkinson's treatment is geared toward reversing the progression of Parkinson's disease. © 2013 Scientific American
Keyword: Parkinsons; Aggression
Link ID: 18410 - Posted: 07.27.2013
Recycling is not only good for the environment, it's good for the brain. A study using rat cells indicates that quickly clearing out defective proteins in the brain may prevent loss of brain cells. Results of a study in Nature Chemical Biology suggest that the speed at which damaged proteins are cleared from neurons may affect cell survival and may explain why some cells are targeted for death in neurodegenerative disorders. The research was supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health. One of the mysteries surrounding neurodegenerative diseases is why some nerve cells are marked for destruction whereas their neighbors are spared. It is especially puzzling because the protein thought to be responsible for cell death is found throughout the brain in many of these diseases, yet only certain brain areas or cell types are affected. In Huntington's disease and many other neurodegenerative disorders, proteins that are misfolded (have abnormal shapes), accumulate inside and around neurons and are thought to damage and kill nearby brain cells. Normally, cells sense the presence of malformed proteins and clear them away before they do any damage. This is regulated by a process called proteostasis, which the cell uses to control protein levels and quality. In the study, Andrey S. Tsvetkov and his colleagues showed that differences in the rate of proteostasis may be the clue to understanding why certain nerve cells die in Huntington's, a genetic brain disorder that leads to uncontrolled movements and death.
Keyword: Huntingtons
Link ID: 18403 - Posted: 07.23.2013
By Melinda Wenner Moyer Many studies over the past decade have pointed to pesticides as a potential cause of Parkinson's disease, a neurodegenerative condition that impairs motor function and afflicts a million Americans. Yet scientists have not had a good idea of how these chemicals harm the brain. A recent study suggests a possible answer: pesticides may inhibit a biochemical pathway that normally protects dopaminergic neurons, the brain cells selectively attacked by the disease. Preliminary research also indicates that this pathway plays a role in Parkinson's even when pesticides are not involved, providing an exciting new target for drug development. Past studies have shown that a pesticide called benomyl, which lingers in the environment despite having been banned in the U.S. in 2001 because of health concerns, inhibits the chemical activity of aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) in the liver. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, U.C. Berkeley, the California Institute of Technology and the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center wondered whether the pesticide might also affect levels of ALDH in the brain. ALDH's job is to break down DOPAL, a naturally forming toxic chemical, rendering it harmless. To find out, the researchers exposed different types of human brain cells—and, later, whole zebra fish—to benomyl. They found that it "killed almost half of the dopamine neurons while leaving all other neurons tested intact," according to lead author and U.C.L.A. neurologist Jeff Bronstein. When they zeroed in on the affected cells, they confirmed that the benomyl was indeed inhibiting the activity of ALDH, which in turn spurred the toxic accumulation of DOPAL. Interestingly, when the scientists lowered DOPAL levels using a different technique, benomyl did not harm the dopamine neurons, a finding that suggests that the pesticide kills these neurons specifically because it allows DOPAL to build up. © 2013 Scientific American,
Keyword: Parkinsons; Aggression
Link ID: 18396 - Posted: 07.20.2013
Here's yet another reason to get off the couch: new research findings suggest that regularly breaking a sweat may lower the risk of having a stroke. A stroke can occur when a blood vessel in the brain gets blocked. As a result, nearby brain cells will die after not getting enough oxygen and other nutrients. A number of risk factors for stroke have been identified, including smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes and being inactive. For this study, published in the journal Stroke, Michelle N. McDonnell, Ph.D., from the University of South Australia, Adelaide and her colleagues obtained data from the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study. REGARDS is a large, long-term study funded by the NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) to look at the reasons behind the higher rates of stroke mortality among African-Americans and other residents living in the Southeastern United States. "Epidemiological studies such as REGARDS provide an important opportunity to explore race, genetics, environmental, and lifestyle choices as stroke risk factors," said Claudia Moy, Ph.D., program director at NINDS. Over 30,000 participants supplied their medical history over the phone. The researchers also visited them to obtain health measures such as body mass index and blood pressure. At the beginning of the study, the researchers asked participants how many times per week they exercised vigorously enough to work up a sweat. The researchers contacted participants every six months to see if they had experienced a stroke or a mini-stroke known as a transient ischemic attack (TIA). To confirm their responses, the researchers reviewed participants' medical records.
Keyword: Stroke
Link ID: 18393 - Posted: 07.20.2013


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you know when i die i'll probably just be in the afterlife blogging like
"heaven has no free wi-fi? fuck this shit i'm going to hell"
how do you know hell has wifi
satan owes me several favors
*reblogs as fast as possible*
I'm a thinker, not a talker.
My 6 word memoir