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The African Media Leaders Forum in Addis Ababa last week ended on a weak note: Politicians want the media to generate a new, positive African narrative.
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South Africa launched an online, 24-hour radio station on Thursday, 17 October that aims to showcase its foreign policy and shore up its position as a continental economic and political powerhouse.
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Is Africa the Dark Continent when it comes to the advertising industry? On the contrary, says Alan Edgar, Regional Creative Director, Ogilvy Africa and one of regional judges for African and Middle Eastern categories at this year's Loeries. It's alive and vibrant, but in dire need of world-class tertiary training institutions to tap into that potential.
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Y&R is committed to having 20 agencies on the African continent by 2015. Leading the charge to achieve this is Yossi Schwartz, chairman of Y&R South Africa.
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WASHINGTON, US: The International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) is seeking nominations for its 2013 Courage in Journalism Awards and Lifetime Achievement Award.
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The government of Malawi has pledged to further support media freedoms after meeting with an international delegation of press freedom organisations, which is campaigning for the repeal of criminal defamation and insult laws across the African continent.
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Malawi government on Friday asked graduating students from the Malawi Institute of Journalism (MIJ) to be innovative and to try self-employment instead of waiting on Malawi's small media industry to take them on board.
By Gregory Gondwe 19 Nov 2012 11:33
The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) has trained Malawi journalists on child reporting. An initiative MISA programme specialist for Media Freedom Monitoring and Research, Levi Kabwato describes as an on-going effort towards empowering journalists to report informatively and positively on children and child rights.
By Gregory Gondwe 16 Nov 2012 10:59
Malawi will host the seventh annual African International Media Summit (AIMS) from 17-18 November 2012 at the Bingu International Conference Centre in Lilongwe, Malawi. This year's theme "I am African" is in tune with the African Union's (AU) new campaign launch encouraging participation in the global initiative.
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The Public Affairs Committee (PAC), a predominantly faith-based organisation which is reportedly very influential in Malawi, has called on authorities in government to depoliticise state owned broadcaster, the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC).
By Gregory Gondwe: @Kalipochi 5 Nov 2012 10:10
The government of Malawi have reacted to the arrest of Justice Mponda, an online journalist, saying it is becoming increasingly concerned with the false publication by Malawi Voice where the journalist worked for. Mponda has since been released on bail by the Lilongwe Senior Magistrates Court.
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The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) has protested against the draft E-Bill which the government of Malawi released to the public to get more input as an enemy of media freedom and freedom of expression.
By Gregory Gondwe: @Kalipochi 8 Oct 2012 09:48
Woes for 300 employees retrenched when the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) merged with Malawi Television are still far from over.
By Gregory Gondwe: @Kalipochi 14 Sep 2012 12:04
President Joyce Banda last week engaged media managers to try to reason with them to project positive reporting over the border dispute that has ensued between Malawi and Tanzania.
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On a sunny afternoon, 10-year-old Harold Henry would prefer to be outdoors—birdwatching on the Bay or dipping his toes in the ocean. Like many kids his age, Harold is fascinated by space and astronomy and would like to be an astronaut someday.
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Robots Controlled by Gestures
February 19th, 2008
Most robots are controlled using a joystick or other traditional input device, but this new system allows operators to issue commands to robots using simple hand and body gestures.
Developed by engineer Tsuyoshi Horo at Tokyo University, the system uses a circular array of cameras to detect human movements in the room, then convey them to a robot as directional commands.
The system produces a real time 3-dimension volumetric model of people or objects inside the circle of cameras, allowing for precise tracking of movements. Be sure to check out this cool video clip showing what the cameras "see" once run through Horo's software:
Controlling robots is just one possible application for the gesture recognition software. Horo has also implemented several computer user interface prototypes using the same basic system. You can find more information on Horo's research website (translated from Japanese) and more videos over on his YouTube page.
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Terror as a turn-on? It seems that way! University of British Columbia researchers dispatched two sets of men to stand on two separate bridges—one reassuringly sturdy and another that was long, shaky and suspended 230 feet in the air. Next, they sent a beautiful female assistant to ask the two groups to fill out a survey. Those on the precarious bridge gave more risqué answers to her questions. Feeling threatened is linked to arousal in the brain, which may have spurred those men to open up. Who knew anxiety could be such effective foreplay?


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Maybe I'm just too cynical, but I began questioning Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" mob, to be held in D.C. this weekend, when he announced that it would be held at the Lincoln Memorial. Then I thought, "Why didn't Glenn or anyone else at the Fox News Channel complain about "dishonor" when the Bush administration lied America into war in Iraq, murdered thousands of civilians ("collateral damage"), operated torture chambers, and did all it could to eviscerate civil liberties? Was the Bush administration overflowing with honor?
On Glenn's Web site he lists only four speakers for the event: Himself, neocon heartthrob Sarah Palin, Alveda King of the Koch Foundation-funded Alexis de Tocqueville Institute (and M.L. King, Jr.'s niece), and former Navy SEAL Marcus Lutrell. According to her Wikipedia entry, Ms. King became quite notorious after she publicly stated that gay marriage was equivalent to genocide. I wonder if Sarah Palin is aware of this?
The event is a fundraiser for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. It sounds to me like restoring neocons to power is the real purpose of Glenn's rally. That of course would not translate into a freer society but more war (with Iran, certainly), bigger government, more debt, more taxes — you know, the Bush administration all over again.6:06 am on August 24, 2010 Email Thomas DiLorenzo


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British actress Jean Kent, who starred in a number of films and television shows throughout the 1940s and '50s, died Saturday after falling at her home in England, BBC News reports. She was 92.
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In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl'. The film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Aurthur Miller (Dougray Scott).
Nearly 40 years on, his diary account The Prince, the Showgirl and Me was published, but one week was missing and this was published some years later as My Week with Marilyn this is the story of that week. When Arthur Miller leaves England, the coast is clear for Colin to introduce Marilyn to some of the pleasures of British life an idyllic week in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from her retinue of Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.
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Tun Fuad Stephens
Tun Mohammad Fuad Stephens, previously known as, Donald Stephens, was the first Chief Minister of the state of Sabah in Malaysia. He played a fundamental role in bringing the state of Sabah into the Federation of Malaysia in 1963. He held the chief minister post until 1964, and again in 1976. During his second term as Chief Minister he died in a controversial accident on 6 June 1976, in Kota Kinabalu, the state capital of Sabah. He was a passenger in an Australian made Nomad aircraft which crashed and killed everyone on board. His body was laid to rest at the State Mausoleum near the Sabah State Mosque, Kota Kinabalu. He was also the first Huguan Siou or Paramount Leader of the Kadazandusun community. Donald Aloysius Marmaduke Stephens was born on 14 September 1920. His father, Jules Stephen Pavitt, was half Kadazan and half British, while his mother was half Japanese and half British. For a number of years Donald Stephens held the post of High Commissioner of Malaysia in Australia. Tun Fuad Stephens founded the political party United National Kadazan Organization (UNKO) in August 1961. He played a key role in negotiating the independence of Sabah and the formation of Malaysia,  ( Wikipedia article )
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Following translation termination, ribosomal subunits dissociate to become available for subsequent rounds of protein synthesis. In many translation‐inhibiting stress conditions, e.g. glucose starvation in yeast, free ribosomal subunits reassociate to form a large pool of non‐translating 80S ribosomes stabilized by the 'clamping' Stm1 factor. The subunits of these inactive ribosomes need to be mobilized for translation restart upon stress relief. The Dom34‐Hbs1 complex, together with the Rli1 NTPase (also known as ABCE1), have been shown to split ribosomes stuck on mRNAs in the context of RNA quality control mechanisms. Here, using in vitro and in vivo methods, we report a new role for the Dom34‐Hbs1 complex and Rli1 in dissociating inactive ribosomes, thereby facilitating translation restart in yeast recovering from glucose starvation stress. Interestingly, we found that this new role is not restricted to stress conditions, indicating that in growing yeast there is a dynamic pool of inactive ribosomes that needs to be split by Dom34‐Hbs1 and Rli1 to participate in protein synthesis. We propose that this provides a new level of translation regulation.
Stresses such as glucose starvation generate inactive 80S ribosome complexes. Dom34‐Hbs1 together with Rli1 actively dissociate and re‐activate these complexes, offering a new level of translational control.
Non‐translating 80S ribosomes accumulating under stress conditions are actively dissociated into 40S and 60S subunits by the termination factor‐like complex Dom34‐Hbs1 and NTPase Rli1.
By making ribosomal subunits available for polypeptide synthesis, splitting of inactive ribosomes by Dom34‐Hbs1 is important for recovery from translation inhibiting stress.
By controlling ribosomal subunit availability, Dom34‐Hbs1 also modulates translation in non‐stressed cells.
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Amelia E. Barr
Amelia E. Barr (1831-1919), teacher and author of historical romances set in England and the United States, wrote Remember the Alamo (1888), based on Texas' War of Independence and highly acclaimed, inspiring the 1960s film version starring John Wayne. Barr led a full and adventurous life, full of hardship and glory, travelling far and wide in North America and Europe, and on it's own much fodder for one of her most astounding works, her remarkable autobiography All the Days of My Life (1913);
"ln my life I have been sensible of the injustice constantly done to women. Since I have had to fight the world single-handed, there has not been one day I have not smarted under the wrongs I have had to bear, because I was not only a woman, but a woman doing a man's work, without any man, husband, son, brother or friend, to stand at my side, and to see some semblance of justice done me. I cannot forget, for injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others."
Amelia Edith (née Huddleston) Barr was born on 29 March 1831 in Ulverston, Lancashire, England. Her parents were Mary Singleton (c.1806c.1858) and the Reverend Dr. William Henry Huddleston (d. c.1863), a Methodist minister. The Huddlestons moved frequently due to his Ministry so it happened that young Edith spent her early days in Shipley, Yorkshire. She had a vast collection of dolls which inspired her early characters. She was a voracious reader of the popular books of the time including Arabian Nights, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Encouraged by her parents, and reading aloud for her father she easily dealt with material deemed too sophisticated for most her age. Her education at some of the best schools was often interrupted by the moves, but she attended school in Cumberland for a time where she soon began her efforts at writing. When she was sixteen, witnessing her father's decline in fortunes and determined to support herself financially, she starting teaching at the boarding school in Downham Market, Norfolk.
A brief return to her father's financial stability allowed Barr to return to the Normal School in Glasgow where she learned the Stowe teaching method. Its principles are based on morality and lifelong learning, rather than learning by rote. On 11 July 1850, she and a prosperous local wool merchant, Scotsman Robert Barr, married. The couple emigrated to the USA in September of 1853, landing in New York city. In Chicago, Illinois Barr tutored at home, and established a school for girls, though she was not involved for long as her husbands' business prospects fell through and they travelled west to settle in Galveston, Texas, in 1866 where Robert Barr became an auditor for the state. Yellow fever claimed the lives of him and three of their children. Barr would have a total of twelve children but lose many in their early years. Of strong constitution and well-founded convictions, Barr did not escape the severe trials of life and love. She was quoted around her eighty-fourth birthday as saying;
"I keep my health because I keep my illusions. I do not believe that every one is false. I will not believe that hope tells a flattering tale or that friendship is only a name, or that true love has fled from the earth and that the fear of God has vanished. Love is life. So much love, so much life, and few women, have been so well loved as I."
Following her instincts and strong religious code, the widow Barr and her three remaining daughters returned to New York city where she resumed a teaching career in November of 1868. Through the encouragement of many, including Henry Ward Beecher whom she'd met in England, she turned her pen to writing short stories and essays on everything from opera to travel. One of her first sketches was Texas after the Civil War published in Appleton's in 1869. Other leading journals of the day that accepted her work were Christian Union, Harper's Bazar, Ladies' Home Journal and New York Ledger.
Her first novel's success, Jan Vedder's Wife (1885) encouraged her to continue. It was followed by the American revolution inspired The Bow of Orange Ribbon: a Romance of New York (1886) and The Maid of Maiden Lane (1900). Barr had found her niche, historical romance. Some of her critics bemoaned the predictable happy endings and sentimentality, but through extensive research, attention to detail, and wholesome characters her readers demanded more. She went on to produce over 60 titles in her lifetime. The Lion's Whelp (1901) is based on Oliver Cromwell's England and A Maid of Old New York (1911) on Peter Stuyvesant's New York. Red Leaves of a Human Heart (1913) contains an accurate description of life in 1800's Austin, Texas. Remember the Alamo is another story of the battle for Texas, following the life of San Antonio doctor Robert Worth and his family, divided by culture and beliefs but ultimately united by love. Barr created a few pseudonyms to increase her exposure, and by poetry alone it is said she earned more than $1000 a year. Her consistent success allowed her to maintain her country house, Cherry Croft, at Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York.
Amelia E. Barr died on 10 March 1919 in Richmond Hill, Long Island, New York. She lies buried in the Sleepy Hollow cemetery, near Tarrytown, New York. Her obituary appeared in the New York Times and the London Times on 12 March 1919, and the Richmond Hill Record on 15 March 1919.
other works by Barr include;
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On Tuesday the city's last two girls soccer teams were eliminated from the state playoffs. Well it is unfortunate that another season has come and gone, there were some notable teams this year.
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Saturday, May 7, 2011
My Mother Nourishes My Life….With LOVE!
Growing up, my mother was everything to me. She nourished me with wisdom, life lessons and love, to make me the person I am today. Being an only child, I was pampered but I was never spoiled. Though the journey we've been through in our lives was not always smooth, we have always managed to repair our relationship and learn from the past. She has always been and will always be an inspiration to me.
This Mother's Day, mom and are going to renew ourselves with a little manicure and pedicure session.
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- Claudia said...
Well, my mom is working in overseas, I can't celebrate with her. But I'll definately be sending her a card and give her a phone call. (:
- May 7, 2011 at 11:52 AM
- Ada said...
I'm not Malaysian but I think this is a sweet entry anyway :)
I booked tickets to the beach for my mom and we're going whale-watching :D
- May 7, 2011 at 12:13 PM
- Pepper said...
I'm in Sarawak and my mum in Sabah right now. I'd bought her birthday present earlier (her b'day on 20th April), and it's Lancome. For this mother's day, I'm gonna call my mum early tomorrow morning and have a long chat with her. Since she loves the Lancome present I got her, I'm gonna get another stuff from Lancome. I never bought luxury brand for myself, but my mum really deserves it!
My mum nourish my live with love in so many ways. I still remember why she lost her wedding ring. It was when I was 3 years old and my father was outstation. My father left some money for us enough for daily expenses until he come back. But one day, I had terrible asthma attack and she need more money, there are no way to contact my father that time. So what she did was, she pawn her wedding ring for some money. The sad thing is that, she never get back her ring because when she have enough money to get back the ring, it's already beyond the agreed time. Aside from that, she's also sacrifices so much for us. She work hard so that her children will always have new clothes for hari raya and books and school uniform when school year gonna start. The best thing in my opinion is that she let me choose the education path I want to take. Thanks for her support and love, I manage to further my education in degree and now I'm doing research for master degree. I still remember how happy and proud she is during my degree convocation. I can't wait to repeat the moment again!
- May 7, 2011 at 12:57 PM
- ilif said...
I really wish I can celebrate mother's day with my mum but I'm currently studying and not able to come home at the moment. The best thing I can do is call her :)
My mum nourish my life with love by all the cliché thing mum's did for her children. Being together doing things like shopping, accompany her to hospital or bank, helping her cook. Those thing makes me happy. I'm not the best daughter out there, really. But my mum is definitely the best mum ever.
- May 7, 2011 at 2:44 PM
- Salveen said...
Me and mom will also be having mani/pedi sessions on Mother's Day! Usually me and her spend time together just bonding or i cook her a special meal :)
My mom nourishes me with love in any way she can.. She's always been a source of inspiration to me and i will always love her :)
- May 7, 2011 at 3:52 PM
- lavender said...
My mom is not in KL now, so this year I can't celebrate with her. So, I will call her instead. When I meet her again next month, I will bring her for shopping. My mom nourishes my life with love in so many ways but she does not demand any return. Sometimes when I want to spend her she will refuse as she said the item is too expensive. She has sacrificed herself in may ways raising me up. I really thank God for a wonderful mom.
- May 7, 2011 at 4:47 PM
- thian said...
I'll have a homemade cake for my mum, this will be the first time I bake a cake, I hope I won't spoil anything
- May 7, 2011 at 6:02 PM
- Vina said...
I'll be celebrating mothers day with my mother tomorrow by taking my mum out for lunch and a little shopping treat.
My mum nourishes me by being the best mother ever..My mum is a working mum, who holds a senior possition in her organization. She is like a superwoman who is an all rounder, who excels in her job and also takes care of the whole family. Last year she completed her degree, with a perfect score of 4.00.
She is just so awesome, I dont know how she does it..
- May 7, 2011 at 8:07 PM
- Atousa said...
I'm far far away from my mother, I'm a student in Malaysia while my mother is in my country. I can just call her and wish her a happy day. i can't imagine my life without my wonderful mom, she is an idol to me!
- May 8, 2011 at 12:43 AM
- Miss Sunshine Kelly said...
My mother is currently in China, I have called to wish her and chit-chat with her. I really miss her. So I will be going to Shanghai next week to meet her and celebrate belated Mother's Day with my family. We will definitely go shopping together, visit relatives, go to spa and eat eat eat (lots of food). My family loves to eat.
My mom nourished my life with love, care and education. She gave me life, pamper me love, take care of me and nourished me with all the good thoughts and education. My mom is a Super Mom and Wonder Women. She had to juggle her precious time between her career and family. She sacrifices for the family most of the time. She is my super Hero.
- May 8, 2011 at 9:23 AM
- Vixen said...
How will you be celebrating Mother's Day? / How did you celebrate Mother's Day? How does your mother nourish your life with love?
Well today I'm not actually going to celebrate Mother's Day because I have my exams at the moment but as soon as I'm done, I'm treating her to a spa (also as a birthday present cum wedding anniversary present) and a week later I'm treating her to go to a macaron workshop together which is amazing because she's only the best cook in the world :))
My mother is an actual superhero actually. She is the backbone of the family and she always always puts her children first, irregardless of how much she wants what she wants. If she makes an extra penny, it would all be spent on us and not a single one on herself and what she wants to get. She's so hardworking and selfless and she's exactly what I hope to be one day. If I even come close.. Ugh I miss her. At least I get to spend time with her Right After this blasted exam is over :D
- May 8, 2011 at 10:27 AM
- kay kamal said...
I wish to b home too but since i started working, things are nvr d same anymore.
Mom complains we rarely cm bk home (in temerloh nw) & i feel sad i dissapointed her. At d same time she felt guilty cz she was d one who put me into medschool.
Nw dat im a wife n working,i knw hw hard it is for my mom to juggle watever she had to deal w cz i dun thk ill b anle to par her.she wud forever me my idol,my mentor,my joy,my everything
N btw,d best i cud gv her ws an mms of me in my usual labcoat ;p
- May 8, 2011 at 11:52 AM
- jy said...
I'll be spending a whole day watching telly with my mum at home. She dislikes going out to crowded places, prefers alone time at home. Not gonna cook for her cos she dislikes ppl messing up her kitchen, so will be bringing her out for dinner.
Mum works hard for the family, really hard. <3
- May 8, 2011 at 1:08 PM
- slowbrogal said...
I just celebrate my Mother's Day with my family yesterday by treating her a good seafood meal and also celebrating my dad's birthday. As Sunday I will be back to Spore for work, therefore I replaced it on Saturday.
- May 8, 2011 at 1:45 PM
- Mabel said...
How will you be celebrating Mother's Day? / How did you celebrate Mother's Day? How does your mother nourish your life with love?
for me. i would only be able to give her a phone call and i sent flowers to hers. we are 7 hours away. my mum means a lot to me. she has been the most patient woman when i was a rebelious child, patient with me when i am extending my studies with my failures and gives me encouraing words. i love my mama :)
- May 8, 2011 at 3:26 PM
- || Lynn || said...
Hmmmm. Ill be taking her out for dinner. She's spending time with my aunts therest of the day.
Sending her off for a holiday to australia as her mother's day gift!!!
happy mother's day to everyone!
- May 8, 2011 at 5:04 PM
- Shop Women's Bracelets, Rings, and Hair Accessories said...
Me and my Mother spent together, were on vacation now :) Happy Mother's day to everyone
- May 10, 2011 at 6:18 AM
- vina said...
I have received my lotion bottle today..Thanks Connie
- May 25, 2011 at 3:47 AM
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Combination of N-acetylcysteine and Risperidone Improves Irritability in Autistic Disorders More Than Placebo and Risperidone
In a 2013 study of 40 children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders published by Ahmad Ghanizadeh and Ebrahim Moghimi-Sarani in the journal BMC Psychiatry, the combination of the over-the-counter nutritional supplement n-acetylcysteine (NAC) and the atypical antipsychotic risperidone alleviated irritability more than the combination of placebo and risperidone. Side effects were mild. The data extend 2012 observations by A.Y. Hardan et al. in which NAC improved irritability and stereotypy (repeated behavior) in autism more than placebo did.
The two studies taken together support the effectiveness of NAC prescribed either alone or in conjunction with an atypical antipsychotic for the treatment of autism.
Irritable, Elated, And Combined Bipolar Subtypes in Children Are Similar
Research on early-onset bipolar disorder has often hinged on identifying the key characteristics of the disorder. At a symposium on the course of bipolar disorder in children at the 2013 meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), Jeff Hunt of Brown University discussed findings from COBY, the Collaborative Child Bipolar Network. He described the course of illness in 446 children with bipolar disorder, including 10% who had irritability at baseline, 15% who had elated mood at baseline, and a majority (75%) who had both irritability and elation at baseline.
Most factors such as positive family history of bipolar illness and comorbidities including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) did not differ across the three groups. The three subtypes (irritable, elated, or mixed) did not remain stable, and most of the children eventually converted to the combined irritable and elated subtype. These data contrast with those of Ellen Liebenluft et al., who found that those with severe mood dysregulation or chronic irritability (but not other key characteristics of bipolar disorder) did not go on go on to receive a bipolar diagnosis and tended not to have a family history of bipolar disorder.
NAC Improves Irritability and Repetitive Behaviors in Children with Autism
The antioxidant N-acetylcysteine (NAC), which can be found in health food stores, seems to be effective for irritability and repetitive behaviors in children with autism. In a small controlled study that was published by Hardan et al. in the journal Biological Psychiatry in 2012, 33 mostly male children with autism (aged 3-12 years) received either placebo or NAC at doses of 900mg daily for 4 weeks, followed by 900mg twice daily for 4 weeks, then 900mg three times a day for 4 weeks. Beginning in week 4, the children receiving NAC showed significantly improved irritability scores, and a trend for improvement in repetitive behaviors.
Social responsiveness did not improve significantly, but the children receiving NAC did show some improvement in some areas of social behavior, such as social cognition and autism mannerisms.
There were few side effects associated with NAC. The most significant were gastrointestinal side effects, but these were mild, especially when compared with the side effects associated with FDA-approved treatments for autism, such as the atypical antipsychotics risperidone and aripiprazole.
The authors of the study plan to expand their research in a study of more than 100 children with autism.
Editor's Note: It should we previously summarized this study in the BNN based on research presented by Fung et al. at a meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry two years ago. The study has now been published.
Arbaclofen May Improve Social Behavior in Fragile X Syndrome and Irritability in Autism
Fragile X syndrome is a genetic condition that is the most common single-gene cause of autism and inherited cause of intellectual disability. In addition to mental disabilities it is also characterized by certain physical characteristics (elongated face, protruding ears, and large testes in boys), stereotypic movements such as hand-flapping, and social anxiety.
When autism is associated with Fragile X, a mutation in the Fragile X gene is responsible for the autism. (It is also possible to have autism without Fragile X, or to have Fragile X without autism.) Fragile X is a genetic disorder like Downs Syndrome, while autism is a complex behavioral disorder, likely involving multiple genetic and environmental vulnerabilities.
A new drug called arbaclofen seems to improve social avoidance and problem behaviors in adults and children with Fragile X. Researchers hypothesize that normal social stimuli overwhelm a Fragile X patient because of a defect in inhibition, and arbaclofen acting on presynaptic GABA-B receptors reduces glutamate release, thereby reducing the overactive signaling associated with this defect.
In a 6-week placebo-controlled study of arbaclofen among 63 patients with Fragile X ranging in age from 6 to 39, patients 11 years old and younger received 10mg twice a day and patients 12 and up received 10mg three times a day. The drug was well-tolerated, with only a few reports of sedation or headache. While problem social behaviors and neurobehavioral function improved, irritability did not. The study considered irritability because that is the aspect of autism most often improved by other Federal Drug Administration-approved drugs for autism, such as risperidone and aripiprazole. In another study of arbaclofen in autism spectrum disorders, it did improve irritability and agitation.
Editor's Note: The GABA-B agonist arbaclofen has previously shown positive effects in motor spasticity. The positive effects noted here in the social domain of autism spectrum disorders and Fragile X are very promising.
Irritability and Unipolar Depression in Kids
At the 2012 Pediatric Bipolar conference sponsored by the Ryan Licht Sang Foundation, Graham J. Emslie gave a talk on irritable mood and unipolar depression in youth.
Irritability is common in unipolar depression. Emslie suggested that if a child's irritability is severe and the child destroys objects and denies being irritable, bipolar disorder might be likely. Irritable unipolar depressed children will generally acknowledge being irritable.
Emslie reported that 96% of youth in his randomized placebo-controlled studies of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants (SSRIs) recovered from their unipolar depression, but 46.6% relapsed. Those children with residual depressive symptoms were at double the risk for relapse into a depression compared to those who remitted completely. In those without residual depressive symptoms, there were no relapses if the children stayed on their medications.
Children were excluded from Emslie's study if they had a positive family history of bipolar disorder, and perhaps because of this, very few participants switched into mania with antidepressants.
MORAL: Treat to remission and stay on the antidepressants associated with the remission. This has previously been found to be important for adults as well. (Emslie added that he would advise that a child stay on an antidepressant for at least a year after a remission was achieved, and longer if the child had difficulties in academic performance or relationships at school.)
Children with unipolar major depression who had a few manic symptoms at a subsyndromal level had poorer outcomes in Emslie's study. The presence of subsyndromal manic symptoms in bipolar depressed adults is a risk factor for increased switching into mania when antidepressants are added to a mood stabilizer.
Comorbid substance abuse is another risk factor for poor outcome in childhood depression.
N-acetylcysteine Improved the Irritability Associated with Autism
At the 57th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) in October 2010, Lawrence Fung of Stanford University reported that N-acetylcysteine (NAC), a compound sold over-the-counter in health food stores, improved irritability and other symptoms of autism in children aged 8 to 17. In this double-blind, randomized study of NAC compared with placebo, the children who received NAC were treated with 900mg once a day for four weeks, then 900mg BID (twice a day) for four weeks, and finally 900mg TID (three times a day) for the last four weeks of this three-month study. These doses significantly improved irritability and stereotypy (repetitive behaviors) compared with placebo. Side effects were minimal.
Editor's note: The potential for a safe compound such as N-acetylcysteine to show efficacy in autism is striking. Currently only risperidone and aripiprazole are FDA-approved for effectiveness treating irritability in autism. There has also been a positive study of valproate compared with placebo in autism, although it is not FDA-approved for this purpose.
Most double-blind, placebo controlled clinical trials of NAC have been in adults, so this is the first report that suggests NAC can safely be used in children.
NAC's ability to improve irritability in autism raises the possibility that this drug may be useful in the treatment of irritability and repetitive behaviors in bipolar disorder, particularly since N-acetylcysteine has also been reported to improve mood, especially depression, in adults with bipolar disorder in the studies of Mike Berk and colleagues published in Biological Psychiatry in 2008.
This study adds to the evidence that suggests N-acetylcysteine may reset the brain's habit system in the ventral striatum (also called the nucleus accumbens), which is involved in the assessment of the reward value of a variety of substances of abuse and behaviors (as described in BNN Volume 14, Issue 1 from 2010). NAC improves a number of habit-related syndromes including cocaine, heroin, and gambling addictions, trichotillomania (compulsive hair-pulling), and now the irritability and stereotypic behaviors of autism.
In light of NAC's profile of efficacy and safety, systematic exploration of the drug in childhood-onset bipolar illness is indicated. We are aware of at least one group that is planning such a study.
Aripiprazole (Abilify) Now FDA-Approved to Decrease Irritability in Children with Autism
In a recent study, children 6-12 years old with autism were treated with aripiprazole and showed improvement in irritability. The study lasted 52 weeks and had an open-label flexible-dose design (ranging from 2-15 mg/day) with an average dose of 9.6 mg/day. Few discontinuations occurred due to adverse effects, suggesting that aripiprazole is generally safe for use in this patient cohort. Increase in weight gain was the reason seven subjects (2%) discontinued the drug, although weight gain appeared to plateau with continued treatment.
Aripiprazole is already FDA-approved for the treatment and prevention of mania in adults and children (10-17 years). It is also approved as an adjunct (add-on) to poorly effective antidepressants in adults with unipolar (non-psychotic) major depression.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The general safety and tolerability of aripiprazole for the treatment of irritability in children with autistic disorder in this study means the drug can be added to the list of potential treatments for patients with autism. Previously, only risperidone had shown strong placebo-controlled data for efficacy in autism. A study by Hollander published in Neuropsychopharmacology this year indicated that valproate was also significantly better than placebo in treating irritability in children with autism spectrum disorders.
A Positive Placebo-Controlled Trial of Valproate (Depakote) in Autism
A recent issue of the Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology reported that a placebo-controlled trial of valproate (Depakote) showed the drug is effective in treating irritability in those with autism. Approximately 50% of the participants were less irritable on valproate compared with only about 15% on placebo. Valproate was also generally well-tolerated.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a particularly important finding, both for clinical treatment and for its potential theoretical implications. Valproate, in addition to its properties as a mood-stabilizing anticonvulsant that increases brain GABA levels and exerts a variety of other neurobiological effects, is also a histone deacetylase inhibitor.


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Remove the negative battery terminal Installation 1. Secure the relay to the next to the fuse block with wire ties 2. Attach the ring terminal with 2 black wires to ground 3. Attach fog light 12v red wire to open spade inside the fuse block as shown in picture 1 Picture 1 4. Locate the large vehicle harness grommet on the left side. Cut the auxiliary wiring access nipple off the grommet and push small 2-wire connector through firewall. Note: Extra caution should be taken not to damage connector 5. Run wires along the driver side of the engine compartment. Secure with wire ties as needed 6. From inside the cabin remove dash panels and locate the little small connector that was pushed through in step 4. Plug it to the switch harness. 7. T-tap orange/black wire from fog light harness to connector 2C pin 32 green wire. Pin 32 is on the left side of the connector 7th pin up from bottom of the connector. Connector 2C located left of the steering column above big white wire picture 2 Picture 2 8. T-Tap green/black wire from fog light harness to connector L47 pin 11, pink wire (it is the last pin to the left). Connector L47 is on the steering column and plugs into the headlight control arm picture 3 Picture 3 9. Mount switch into switch knockout of dash (picture 4) FOG LIGHT KIT INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS TPR-301 TOYOTA PRIUS 2010+ Picture 4 10. Install switch harness 11. Reinstall dash panels 12. Route the fog light wire under car. 13. Remove fog light cover plates and lower splash shields 14. Mount fog lights into bezel by sliding fog light tabs into slots and secure other side with supplied screw (see picture 5) Picture 5 15. Install both fog light bezels 16. Plug in left side fog light into harness plug 17. Run right fog light wire harness and plug into right fog light. Secure with wire ties 18. Reattach the lower splash shields


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We've been working on Chasing Aurora since October 2010. We've kicked off the project by making dozens of prototypes loosely tied together by the fact that they were all concerned with flight. After a few months, a couple of concepts remained and we set in stone that they will form the foundation of Chasing Aurora: The thrill of flight, the hostile nature of the Alps and the coming of age of an individual. We call this the Triforce of Chasing Aurora.
We tested most of the early prototypes at parties. One of them, which was a racing game at heart, turned out pretty good. It was a competitive two player game. We kept some parts of it and threw away the rest. Then we extended the game, and added a fun multiplayer mode for four players. We showed this game around quite a lot, even brought it to PAX and revealed it to the public. The game was planned to be a long single player game with a few multiplayer modes thrown in for good measure. In other words, we were overambitious. Our next step was to create the single player content. Months went by and the game became bigger and bigger. Also, it became better and better. It provided hours and hours of gameplay, but only because it was not well-balanced yet. Instead, it was an unforgiving game. And it was already beautiful, so we released a mood teaser trailer.
Then we learned the approximate deadline for our Wii U release. We had to make a decision. There was no way that we could finish the whole project before the deadline. So we had to decide which part to cut. We did not want to throw away any of the two half-finished, but promising games. We decided to cut the game into its two parts again and create an explorative single player action game and a party-compatible multiplayer game. Given the fact that the multiplayer was so much fun during play-tests we figured it would be better to work on the multiplayer game first and release the single player subsequently. From that moment on all our energy went into making the most awesome and fun multiplayer game we could. We invented a few new multiplayer modes, threw away a number of them and, sometimes, kept the one or other idea. We ended up with three game modes. After showing the multiplayer game to even more people and being asked for single player gameplay we realised we had to add solo gameplay to the multiplayer game.
In a way we went back to the beginning of the project to pick our new single player gameplay. The time when Chasing Aurora was a racing game. Peter implemented a single player racing mode over the weekend and all of the team immediately enjoyed it. So we ran with it. We added course after course to level after level. We added special effects and tuned the timing. We compared our high scores to learn who's racing fastest on which track. We added a special wind layer that is only active during a race. I've personally played the mode for hours.
In a few weeks, we will continue to work on the exploration game that was once called Chasing Aurora.
Single player Mode: Rules of Play
If you are playing the single player mode, you race against the clock. Your goal is to fly through the gates of a course for as long as possible. Every gate slightly increases the time you can spend racing and adds a point to your score. Every 20 gates, a multiplier gate gives you a larger time bonus and also raises your multiplier, which makes each gate count more. Also, you become faster with a higher multiplier. Every 20 multiplier gates there's a special multiplier gate. This one triggers a special multiplier mode for a limited duration. During special multiplier mode, every gate counts five times its normal value. That includes multiplier gates. If you pass a gate that would normally net you 20 points with multiplier 20, it nets you 100 points during the special multiplier mode. If you pass a multiplier that would normally raise your multiplier by 1 it now adds 5 to your multiplier. The special multiplier mode only lasts for a few seconds.
At the end of the race you get rated. The maximum rating is three stars. 500 points net you one star. Race to 5000 points to unlock the second star. If you manage to make more than 50000 points you unlock the third and last star. You need at least one star to unlock the next level.
There are 20 tracks set in over 10 levels in Chasing Aurora. From simple round courses to devilishly difficult rides through thunderstorms. Can you unlock them all?


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|Mon, 03-17-2014 - 9:28am
I feel that my issues relates to many of the boards, but I thought that writing it out here would be a good start. My boyfriend, now ex, just broke up with me again last week. We've been together for 4 years and on and off the last two years.
In short, we met, things went well; then he started telling me that I was not speaking up enough and that I held back. I felt that I spoke my mind. After this began a long strong of him cheating and saying that he did it because he could not control himself in those situations. He likes provocative women and clearly I was too wholesome (his words) for him.
I stayed because I loved him but also that after each time he cheated, he always came back and said that he loved me, that he wanted to make things better. Now, looking back I feel that I lost myself in an unhealthy relationship that was not loving but manipulative. We were not in an open relationship and I found out about the cheating because his phone would be off at night or the next morning or he did not come home when we lived together. I just kept thinking that things would get better and that we could work on our problems. He proposed last year and I said no that I wanted to think about it because a few months before the proposal I found condoms in his pocket. So for me while it was nice that he proposed I did not believe that his cheating was done. We worked past that issue and stayed together. I believed that he was trying to improve and he was still open to being with me after I declined his proposal.
A year later around my birthday I put his phone on the charger and saw a message that he was on plenty of fish. A week later I was looking at an ipod he gave me (one of his old ones) and discovered porn movies he made with other women in the bed we used to share.
That was finally rock bottom for me. I felt used, disrespected, just horrible. What happened next is a surprise to me, he went from giving me space to wanting to work on things to saying that I was not sexually challenging him and that if I was more seductive that he would not work late and would be more eager to see me on time. He's always late.
So my question to this board is if anyone has experienced something similar where their man cheated and said that it happened because they were not satisfied at home. I'm confused because in the beginning he said that he could not control himself, he thought he was a sex addict. And now I feel that he's flipping the script by saying that I did not sexually satisfy him. I understand that some jabs have truth behind it. But for me I would have been so much more open to his wants if he said it before he cheated.
Now I don't see why he's not considering my feelings since I saw his home made porn movies on his ipad with other women and its like he wants me to sexually stimulate him while I feel more betrayed than ever. I feel that I am to blame because I let it last this long. My feelings changed each time he cheated and pushed me further away from being a better person in the relationship.
Overall, I feel like a loser who is too wholesome as he says and wonder if I will have the same problem with another guy or if I am so down on myself after being in a horrible situation for too long that severly affected my confidence and self esteem.
Help, opinions appreciated.
|Mon, 03-17-2014 - 11:01am
You are who you are, he is who he is, the two of you do not belong together. If you were in a healthy relationshp, your partner would make you feel great about yourself, and would accept you for who you are. Alternatively, your partner would, in a loving way, work with you through any issues you were having. That this man used manipulation to put the blame on you for his liaisons tells me a lot about him. It says that he does not care at all for you and your feelings. Unfortunately, you have been in this situation for so long, that I can see how you would start thinking there was something wrong with you that he would do these things. I will tell you that this is NOT your fault, not by any means. The faster you can get away from this man, and find yourself again (perhaps counseling would help out there), the sooner you will realize that you were just a pawn in his game.
25 of every 100 people are sociopaths, or fall somewhere in the sociopathic spectrum, from the postings I've read on this board, it's obvious that is very true. So many women fall for these charming men who in fact have no emotion behind their words, and will do whatever they want, knowing they can get way with it. They get away with it because the rest of society finds it so difficult to believe or understand how someone could be so cruel, so lacking in conscience. I highly recommend you read the book, "The Sociopath Next Door", it's a real eye opener. There is no curing a sociopath, they don't want help, they just want to lead their lives as they see fit, and could care less about the devistation they leave in their wake.
This will not be easy, but just like anything you can only take one day at a time. Reach out to your family and friends, take on a new hobby or other interest to get yourself moving in a healthy direction. Do not dwell on what you could have done differently to make the relationship work, it takes two, and in reality, you were the only one invested in the relationship.
|Mon, 03-17-2014 - 12:32pm
Thank you for your feedback! I will definitely check out that book. By the way you describe the content, I am sure that I will find it very insightful.
I am going to see a counselor next week. I had seen one before because of him and sought her out again to discuss the most recent issues but also why I stayed for so long and I can avoid that type of relationship in the future. I think my big issue is that I am too nice and gave him leeway instead of standing firm in my values and walking away when I should have. I put a lot of trust and responsibility on him since I am in a new area where I did not have friends and family when I moved here and had to build my network all over again. Either way, its time that I break the cycle and not go bananas over this when I have too many positive things to focus my attention towards.
I agree with you that if I am away from him completely, that I can work on my confidence and self esteem. I have a few friends that I can talk to about this, but I am now realizing that I lost some friendships because of him. Going though these problems over time kept some friends from reaching out to me. So overall, I will be thankful for the friendships I have left and work on myself to be healthier.


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