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BUFFALO, N.Y. — Not much goes on these days inside the First Niagara Center. Besides a few scattered concerts and events, the main team, the Buffalo Sabres, aren't sure when or if they'll even play this year.
"I miss it a lot. I wish they would get their act together and get the NHL back," said one hockey fan.
But soon a professional sports team will open their season there: The Buffalo Bandits.
"We're excited about this year's season," said East Amherst resident Dan Penberthy. "They're a lot of fun. Especially without a hockey season we're looking even more forward to coming back to the arena and enjoying some games."
And it wasn't exactly a rush for tickets, but a steady stream of fans did scoop theirs up when Bandits tickets went on sale to the public Monday morning. For some, seeing the indoor lacrosse team is an alternative for the so far non-existent hockey season.
"I'm a Sabres fan but since there's no hockey season so far I figured the Buffalo Bandits would be the next best ticket," said Kevin Curtin of Lockport.
The Bandits will play eight regular season games at the First Niagara Center starting on January 12, 2013. With the ongoing NHL lockout, that's 8 more than the Sabres can say.
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The U.S. Forest Service has decided to allow logging on nearly 52 square miles of the Sierra Nevada burned last year in a massive California wildfire, a move contested by environmentalists.
The U.S. Forest Service has decided to allow logging on nearly 52 square miles of the Sierra Nevada burned last year in a massive California wildfire, a move contested by environmentalists.
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China's river porpoises are rarer than pandas, but fishermen fighting to save them have been snared by a net of blackmail allegations, highlighting uncertainties faced by the country's emerging environmentalists.
The European Parliament on Tuesday narrowly rejected a ban on bottom-fishing trawlers, blamed by environmentalists for massive deep-sea destruction but defended by France and Spain.
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Hello Everyone,
I am very new in this forum. I am a graphic designer and have gotten a new PC recently I did get it custom build and the specs you may probably view in my profile?.
Anyway I have been using Win 7 straight from XP and WoW so many problems.
Every once in a while the internet explorer stops working when i right click on a folder to rename or open a folder, it doesnt even make sense and i looked the description and it just gives me the APPCRASH.exe.
I have looked online all over search engines to fix this problem and did so many different things like uninstalling Nero or Divx, then trying to turn off some programs that may run in the background and the problem is still coming up at least once a day for sure.
It gets frustrating. I am getting mad because i spend around $2g to get this baby how i want it and win 7 is not letting me enjoy it. Im a big fan of WIN i hate macs...
Someone help please...
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Hello, Welcome!
Have you tried uninstalling IE and reinstalling? See my post here.
Hope it helps, sorry you are having trouble.
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Thank you for your reply,
I didnt even try to re-install it, im not sure if that with help if i dont even use it.
The funny thing is that i am not even using the Internet Explorer, I use firefox.
I dont know what is wrong but it inter-fears with internet explorer and who knows what else and then it starts shutting down and not working. Every now and then i also get COM SURROGATES has stop working and then it links with internet explorer and they both wont stop coming up....... Annoying... im disappointed in windows for this.
Any help is great. Thanks
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In anticipation of Windows 7 for travel I bought a HP 13.3 laptop with Windows Vista and a free upgrade to Windows 7 when available.
Later I bought a HP 14.1 laptop with Windows 7 loaded for home use. To compare Vista to 7 I did not upgrade the travel comuter.
Both computers have had consistent problems:
"Internet explorer not respoding"
"Internet explorer not working:
Sometimes the system would reset, other times the system would hang up, and other times the system would continue after closing the pop-up notification window about solving the problem.
After searching the internet for a solution, today I downloaded Firefox. faster and after much testing, no problem.
Why does Microsoft let a free sofrware provider outperform them?
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I had this same problem for several months. I finally figured it out. You have to remove Norton from your computer. And you can't just manually remove it from your program list. A system restore won't help either. You have to actually go to Symantec's website, and download the Norton Removal Tool, and THAT will remove it. Then everything should work again. At least it worked for me. I hope it's something as easy as that. Good luck!
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So far, so good
I followed your advice and so far no problem. So far, so good. This seems like a simple answer to this problem. Both Norton and Microsoft should addredss and solve the problem. Thanks again for your advice.
Best to you in the coming New Year.
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I am so glad it worked for you! Check your system restore settings too. After I removed Norton, I couldn't restore my computer or set a restore point. I had to go under Start -> Services, find "Volume Shadow Copy" ...right click... Properties... change startup type to "automatic" then go under the "dependencies" tab and enable all the services listed there in the same manner. There were several services that I had to enable to get my computer running smoothly again, (like the Windows Installer), so I think your best bet is just to enable most Windows services. I discovered all this after fooling around with my computer for months, so you may not have the same issues. Anyway, glad I could help.
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HDE Live - The Line UpHDE Live presents the biggest line up in the history of the Heineken Music Hall. ONE EPIC VENUE - TWELVE LEADING LABELS - FORTY DEDICATED ARTISTS The full line up has just been announced at http://hde-live.com/#lineup
Vote for Bass Modulators in the DJ Mag top 100 DJs poll!Vote for Bass Modulators in the DJ Mag top 100 DJs poll! Looking back at the past year, Rick and Roland have been on fire! Next to own productions like 'Let Me See Ya' and 'Freaqs by Night' which was the official Freaqshow 2013 anthem, the duo got the opportunity to create some big remixes like 'Faster 'n Further' and 'One Moment', and even Two Loud's 'Big Bang'!
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New Release: Bass Modulators - Bounce & Break (Atmozfears Remix)To help you get through this monday, we release the epic remix of 'Bass Modulators - Bounce & Break (Atmozfears Remix)'! Show your support and get this track now!
New Release: The Prophet - One Moment (Bass Modulators Remix)Get ready for the weekend with a new release! 'The Prophet - One Moment (Bass Modulators remix)' is officially released on Scantraxx Recordz, get it now! #SCAN146
Get LOUDER now!Last week The Prophet - LOUDER was officially released! Have you got your copy already? If you order the album at Hardstyle.com, you will get the digital version for free!
New Release: 'Bass Modulators - Let Me See Ya'!Start your week with some new music! 'Bass Modulators - Let Me See Ya' is officially released! Get it now on you favourite download portal! #SCAN143
The Prophet announces album: LOUDERAfter over two decades of performing and producing, I decided time had come for me to produce MY FIRST ALBUM. For me the creative process has been a wild ride on the most insane rollercoaster: I was touched, challenged, shaken and flipped upside down at times. Not knowing which side was up or down, day or night. All in all a cathartic experience.
Visit Scantraxx' stand on Dancefair!Ook Scantraxx zal dit jaar op 15 en 16 februari aanwezig zijn op de Dancefair! Wij staan klaar om al je vragen te beantwoorden wat betreft het label en onze artiesten, maar ook vragen met betrekking tot marketing, management, branding, publishing en meer!
OUT NOW! Scantraxx Yearmix 2013Out now, the Scantraxx Yearmix 2013! We hope you enjoy it and we look forward to all that's coming in 2014!
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Defqon.1 Festival Australia | Bass ModulatorsThis September may mark their very first trip to Australia, but for the Bass Modulators, this is the next step in a career, which has already seen them headline events all over Europe. From Q-BASE to Freaqshow, Defqon.1 Festival to Q-dance @ Tomorrowland, as well as gigs in Switzerland, Italy, Sweden and the list goes on. They also produced the anthem for Team Yellow at this year's Hard Bass event in the Netherlands, titled 'Requi3m'. Signed to Scantraxx Recordz, they have a sound that is both hard and uplifting, and both their solo tracks and their collaborations have been igniting dance floors across the world. We spoke to them about what they have in store for us this year at Defqon.1 in Australia. This is your first trip to Australia, what are you expecting from the crowd here?We've seen some aftermovies of previous editions of Defqon.1 in Australia. We think the Australian crowd is full of energy and fully dedicated to the scene. We will definitely give the energy back to the crowd.
Bass Modulators join Platinum AgencyWith an ever growing list of hit productions, and a series of mainstage performances to match that, the Bass Modulators have grown to become one of the most anticipated acts in hardstyle. Now the time has come for Bass Modulators to take the next step in their carreer, they join Platinum Agency. Below you can read a personal message from Rick & Roland.
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Portland NBC-affiliate KGW aired a Fourth of July special Wednesday night that was perfect for those people who enjoy the sight of fireworks but can't handle the loud noises.
Due to an apparent technical mishap, KGW aired its live, half-hour fireworks special with no audio. Not only were viewers unable to hear the boom of the fireworks, they also couldn't hear anything that hosts Laurel Porter and Matt Zaffino were saying before and after the display.
KGW's special, which ran from 10:00-10:30, cut into NBC's coverage of the "Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular" in New York, which did have audio. Read more


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By Priyanka Pulla Humans are late bloomers when compared with other primates—they spend almost twice as long in childhood and adolescence as chimps, gibbons, or macaques do. But why? One widely accepted but hard-to-test theory is that children's brains consume so much energy that they divert glucose from the rest of the body, slowing growth. Now, a clever study of glucose uptake and body growth in children confirms this "expensive tissue" hypothesis. Previous studies have shown that our brains guzzle between 44% and 87% of the total energy consumed by our resting bodies during infancy and childhood. Could that be why we take so long to grow up? One way to find out is with more precise studies of brain metabolism throughout childhood, but those studies don't exist yet. However, a new study published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) spliced together three older data sets to provide a test of this hypothesis. First, the researchers used a 1987 study of PET scans of 36 people between infancy and 30 years of age to estimate age trends in glucose uptake by three major sections of the brain. Then, to calculate how uptake varied for the entire brain, they combined that data with the brain volumes and ages of 400 individuals between 4.5 years of age and adulthood, gathered from a National Institutes of Health study and others. Finally, to link age and brain glucose uptake to body size, they used an age series of brain and body weights of 1000 individuals from birth to adulthood, gathered in 1978. © 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Keyword: Development of the Brain; Evolution
Link ID: 19998 - Posted: 08.26.2014
By DAVID LEVINE MONTREAL — When twins have similar personalities, is it mainly because they share so much genetic material or because their physical resemblance makes other people treat them alike? Most researchers believe the former, but the proposition has been hard to prove. So Nancy L. Segal, a psychologist who directs the Twin Studies Center at California State University, Fullerton, decided to test it — and enlisted an unlikely ally. He is François Brunelle, a photographer in Montreal who takes pictures of pairs of people who look alike but are not twins. Dr. Segal was sent to Mr. Brunelle's website by a graduate student who knew of her research with twins. When she saw the photographs, she realized that the unrelated look-alikes would be ideal study subjects: She could compare their similarities and differences to those of actual twins. "I reasoned that if personality resides in the face," she said, "then unrelated look-alikes should be as similar in behavior as identical twins reared apart. Alternatively, if personality traits are influenced by genetic factors, then unrelated look-alikes should show negligible personality similarity." For 14 years, Mr. Brunelle, 64, has been working on a project he calls "I'm Not a Look-Alike!": more than 200 black-and-white portraits of pairs who do, in fact, look startlingly alike. "I originally named the project 'Look-Alikes,' but I felt it was boring and some of the subjects did not feel they looked alike," he said. "The new name gives ownership to the people I photographed and allows viewers of my website to decide for themselves if the people look alike or not." Most come to him through social media links to his website. "It has taken on a life of its own," he said. "I have heard from people in China — and even a man who has an uncle in Uzbekistan who is a dead ringer for former President George W. Bush." © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Genes & Behavior
Link ID: 19997 - Posted: 08.26.2014
|By Mark Fischetti Parents, students and teachers often argue, with little evidence, about whether U.S. high schools begin too early in the morning. In the past three years, however, scientific studies have piled up, and they all lead to the same conclusion: a later start time improves learning. And the later the start, the better. Biological research shows that circadian rhythms shift during the teen years, pushing boys and girls to stay up later at night and sleep later into the morning. The phase shift, driven by a change in melatonin in the brain, begins around age 13, gets stronger by ages 15 and 16, and peaks at ages 17, 18 or 19. Does that affect learning? It does, according to Kyla Wahlstrom, director of the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement at the University of Minnesota. She published a large study in February that tracked more than 9,000 students in eight public high schools in Minnesota, Colorado and Wyoming. After one semester, when school began at 8:35 a.m. or later, grades earned in math, English, science and social studies typically rose a quarter step—for example, up halfway from B to B+. Two journal articles that Wahlstrom has reviewed but have not yet been published reach similar conclusions. So did a controlled experiment completed by the U.S. Air Force Academy, which required different sets of cadets to begin at different times during their freshman year. A 2012 study of North Carolina school districts that varied school times because of transportation problems showed that later start times correlated with higher scores in math and reading. Still other studies indicate that delaying start times raises attendance, lowers depression rates and reduces car crashes among teens, all because they are getting more of the extra sleep they need. © 2014 Scientific American
Keyword: Biological Rhythms; Development of the Brain
Link ID: 19989 - Posted: 08.25.2014
By PAM BELLUCK As a baby's brain develops, there is an explosion of synapses, the connections that allow neurons to send and receive signals. But during childhood and adolescence, the brain needs to start pruning those synapses, limiting their number so different brain areas can develop specific functions and are not overloaded with stimuli. Now a new study suggests that in children with autism, something in the process goes awry, leaving an oversupply of synapses in at least some parts of the brain. The finding provides clues to how autism develops from childhood on, and may help explain some symptoms like oversensitivity to noise or social experiences, as well as why many people with autism also have epileptic seizures. It could also help scientists in the search for treatments, if they can develop safe therapies to fix the system the brain uses to clear extra synapses. The study, published Thursday in the journal Neuron, involved tissue from the brains of children and adolescents who had died from ages 2 to 20. About half had autism; the others did not. The researchers, from Columbia University Medical Center, looked closely at an area of the brain's temporal lobe involved in social behavior and communication. Analyzing tissue from 20 of the brains, they counted spines — the tiny neuron protrusions that receive signals via synapses — and found more spines in children with autism. The scientists found that at younger ages, the number of spines did not differ tremendously between the two groups of children, but adolescents with autism had significantly more than those without autism. Typical 19-year-olds had 41 percent fewer synapses than toddlers, but those in their late teenage years with autism had only 16 percent fewer than young children with autism. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Autism; Development of the Brain
Link ID: 19988 - Posted: 08.22.2014
By TARA PARKER-POPE When the antidrug educator Tim Ryan talks to students, he often asks them what they know about marijuana. "It's a plant," is a common response. But more recently, the answer has changed. Now they reply, "It's legal in Colorado." These are confusing times for middle and high school students, who for most of their young lives have been lectured about the perils of substance abuse, particularly marijuana. Now it seems that the adults in their lives have done an about-face. Recreational marijuana is legal in Colorado and in Washington, and many other states have approved it for medical use. Lawmakers, the news media and even parents are debating the merits of full-scale legalization. "They are growing up in a generation where marijuana used to be bad, and maybe now it's not bad," said Mr. Ryan, a senior prevention specialist with FCD Educational Services, an antidrug group that works with students in the classroom. "Their parents are telling them not to do it, but they may be supporting legalization of it at the same time." Antidrug advocates say efforts to legalize marijuana have created new challenges as they work to educate teenagers and their parents about the unique risks that alcohol, marijuana and other drugs pose to the developing teenage brain. These educators say their goal is not to vilify marijuana or take a stand on legalization; instead, they say their role is to convince young people and their parents that the use of drugs is not just a moral or legal issue, but a significant health issue. "The health risks are real," said Steve Pasierb, the chief executive of the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids. "Every passing year, science unearths more health risks about why any form of substance use is unhealthy for young people." © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Drug Abuse; Development of the Brain
Link ID: 19976 - Posted: 08.19.2014
Claudia M. Gold When I hear debate over the association between SSRI's (selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, a class of antidepressant medication) and suicidal behavior in children and adolescents, I am immediately brought back to a night in the early 2000's. As the covering pediatrician I was called to the emergency room to see a young man, a patient of a pediatrician in a neighboring town, who had attempted suicide by taking a nearly lethal overdose. That night, as I watched over him in the intensive care unit, I learned that he was a high achieving student and athlete who, struggling under the pressures of the college application process, had been prescribed an SSRI by his pediatrician. His parents described a transformation in his personality over the months preceding the suicide attempt that was so dramatic that I ordered a CT scan to see if he had a brain tumor. It was normal. When, in the coming years the data emerged about increasing suicidal behavior following use of SSRI's, I recognized in retrospect that his change in behavior was a result of the medication. But at the time I knew nothing of these serious side effects. At that time, coinciding with pharmaceutical industry's aggressive marketing campaign directed at the public as well as a professional audience, these drugs were becoming increasingly popular with pediatricians. As the possible serious side effects of these medications came increasingly in to awareness, the FDA issued the controversial "black box warning" that the drugs carried an increased risk of suicidal behavior. Following the black box warning, pediatricians, myself included, became reluctant to prescribe these medications. We did not have the time or experience to provide the recommended increased monitoring and close follow-up.
Keyword: Depression; Development of the Brain
Link ID: 19975 - Posted: 08.19.2014
by Clare Wilson Figuring out how the brain works is enough to make your head spin. But now we seem to have a handle on how it gets its folded shape. The surface layer of the brain, or cortex, is also referred to as our grey matter. Mammals with larger brains have a more folded cortex, and the human brain is the most wrinkled of all, cramming as much grey matter into our skulls as possible. L. Mahadevan at Harvard University and his colleagues physically modelled how the brain develops in the embryo, using a layer of gel to stand in for the grey matter. This gel adhered to the top of a solid hemisphere of gel representing the white matter beneath. In the embryo, grey matter grows as neurons are created or others migrate to the cortex from the brain's centre. By adding a solvent to make the grey matter gel expand, the team mimicked how the cortex might grow in the developing brain. They didn't model what effect, if any, the skull would have had. Hills and valleys The team varied factors such as the stiffness of the gels and the depth of the upper layer to find a combination that led to similarly shaped wrinkles as those of the human brain, with smooth "hills" and sharply cusped "valleys". There are several theories about how the brain's folds form. These include the possibility that more neurons migrate to the hills, making them rise above the valleys, or that the valleys are pulled down by the axons – fibres that connect neurons to each other – linking highly interconnected parts of the brain together. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Development of the Brain
Link ID: 19974 - Posted: 08.19.2014
Sara Reardon The National Science Foundation (NSF)'s role in the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative is starting to take shape. On 18 August, the NSF awarded 36 small grants totalling US$10.8 million to projects studying everything from electrodes that measure chemical and electronic signals to artificial intelligence programs to identify brain structures. The three agencies participating in the BRAIN Initiative have taken markedly different approaches. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which received $50 million this year for the neuroscience programme, is concentrating on prosthetics and treatments for brain disorders that affect veterans, such as post-traumatic stress disorder. It has already awarded multi-million dollar grants to several teams. The National Institutes of Health, which received $40 million this year, has put together a 146-page plan to map and observe the brain over the next decade, and will announce its first round of grant recipients next month. The NSF, by contrast, has cast a wider net. The agency sent an request in March for informal, two-page project ideas. The only criterion was that the projects somehow address the properties of neural circuits. The response was overwhelming, says James Deshler, deputy director of the NSF's Division of Biological Infrastructure. The agency had expected to fund about 12 grants, but decided to triple that number after receiving nearly 600 applications. "People started finding money in different pockets," Deshler says. The wide-ranging list of winning projects includes mathematical models that help computers recognize different parts and patterns in the brain, physical tools such as new types of electrodes, and other tools that integrate and link neural activity to behaviour. © 2014 Nature Publishing Group
Keyword: Development of the Brain; Robotics
Link ID: 19973 - Posted: 08.19.2014
Helen Shen For most adults, adding small numbers requires little effort, but for some children, it can take all ten fingers and a lot of time. Research published online on 17 August in Nature Neuroscience1 suggests that changes in the hippocampus — a brain area associated with memory formation — could help to explain how children eventually pick up efficient strategies for mathematics, and why some children learn more quickly than others. Vinod Menon, a developmental cognitive neuroscientist at Stanford University in California, and his colleagues presented single-digit addition problems to 28 children aged 7–9, as well as to 20 adolescents aged 14–17 and 20 young adults. Consistent with previous psychology studies2, the children relied heavily on counting out the sums, whereas adolescents and adults tended to draw on memorized information to calculate the answers. The researchers saw this developmental change begin to unfold when they tested the same children at two time points, about one year apart. As the children aged, they began to move away from counting on fingers towards memory-based strategies, as measured by their own accounts and by decreased lip and finger movements during the task. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan the children's brains, the team observed increased activation of the hippocampus between the first and second time point. Neural activation decreased in parts of the prefrontal and parietal cortices known to be involved in counting, suggesting that the same calculations had begun to engage different neural circuits. © 2014 Nature Publishing Group
Keyword: Development of the Brain; Attention
Link ID: 19971 - Posted: 08.18.2014
by Andy Coghlan Pioneering studies of post-mortem brain tissues have yielded the first evidence of a potential association between Alzheimer's disease and the epigenetic alteration of gene function. The researchers stress, however, that more research is needed to find out if the changes play a causal role in the disease or occur as a result of it. We already have some evidence that the risk of developing Alzheimer's might be elevated by poor diet, lack of exercise, and inflammatory conditions such as diabetes, obesity and clogging of blood vessels with fatty deposits. The new research hints that the lifestyle changes that raise Alzheimer's risk may be taking effect through epigenetic changes. The idea is strengthened by the fact that the brain tissue samples studied in the new work came from hundreds of people, many of whom had Alzheimer's when they died, and that a number of genes identified were found by two teams working independently, one in the UK and one in the US. "The results are compelling and consistent across four cohorts of patients taken across the two studies," says Jonathan Mill at the University of Exeter, who led the UK-based team. "It's illuminated new genetic pathways affecting the disease and, given the lack of success tackling Alzheimer's so far, new leads are going to be vital." "We can now focus our efforts on understanding how these genes are associated with the disease," says Philip De Jager of the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, who headed the US team. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Alzheimers; Epigenetics
Link ID: 19969 - Posted: 08.18.2014
|By Christie Nicholson Children who experience neglect, abuse and poverty have a tougher time as adults than do well-cared-for kids. Now there's evidence that such stress can actually change the size of brain structures responsible for learning, memory and processing emotion. The finding is in the journal Biological Psychiatry. [Jamie L. Hanson et al, Behavioral Problems After Early Life Stress: Contributions of the Hippocampus and Amygdala] Researchers took images of the brains of 12-year-olds who had suffered either physical abuse or neglect or had grown up poor. From the images the scientists were able to measure the size of the amygdala and hippocampus—two structures involved in emotional processing and memory. And they compared the sizes of these structures with those of 12-year-old children who were raised in middle-class families and had not been abused. And they found that the stressed children had significantly smaller amygdalas and hippocampuses than did the kids from the more nurturing environments. Early stress has been associated with depression, anxiety, cancer and lack of career success later on in adulthood. This study on the sizes of brain regions may offer physiological clues to why what happens to toddlers can have such a profound impact decades later. © 2014 Scientific American
Keyword: Stress; Development of the Brain
Link ID: 19967 - Posted: 08.18.2014
by Catherine Brahic Think crayfish and you probably think supper, perhaps with mayo on the side. You probably don't think of their brains. Admittedly, crayfish aren't known for their grey matter, but that might be about to change: they can grow new brain cells from blood. Humans can make new neurons, but only from specialised stem cells. Crayfish, meanwhile, can convert blood to neurons that resupply their eyestalks and smell circuits. Although it's a long way from crayfish to humans, the discovery may one day help us to regenerate our own brain cells. Olfactory nerves are continuously exposed to damage and so naturally regenerate in many animals, from flies to humans, and crustaceans too. It makes sense that crayfish have a way to replenish these nerves. To do so, they utilise what amounts to a "nursery" for baby neurons, a little clump at the base of the brain called the niche. In crayfish, blood cells are attracted to the niche. On any given day, there are a hundred or so cells in this area. Each cell will split into two daughter cells, precursors to full neurons, both of which migrate out of the niche. Those that are destined to be part of the olfactory system head to two clumps of nerves in the brain called clusters 9 and 10. It's there that the final stage of producing new smell neurons is completed. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Neurogenesis; Regeneration
Link ID: 19954 - Posted: 08.13.2014
Sara Reardon When the states of Colorado and Washington voted to legalize marijuana in 2012, the abrupt and unprecedented policy switch sent the US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) into what its director Nora Volkow describes as "red alarm". Although marijuana remained illegal for people under the age of 21, the drug's increased availability and growing public acceptance suggested that teenagers might be more likely to try it (see 'Highs and lows'). Almost nothing is known about whether or how marijuana affects the developing adolescent brain, especially when used with alcohol and other drugs. The new laws, along with advances in brain-imaging technology, convinced Volkow to accelerate the launch of an ambitious effort to follow 10,000 US adolescents for ten years in an attempt to determine whether marijuana, alcohol and nicotine use are associated with changes in brain function and behaviour. At a likely cost of more than US$300 million, it will be the largest longitudinal brain-imaging study of adolescents yet. Researchers are eager to study a poorly understood period of human development — but some question whether it is possible to design a programme that will provide useful information about the effects of drugs. "It's definitely an idea that's overdue," says Deanna Barch, a psychologist at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. "The downside is it's a lot of eggs in one basket." © 2014 Nature Publishing Group,
Keyword: Development of the Brain; Drug Abuse
Link ID: 19949 - Posted: 08.13.2014
Jia You Premature babies are more likely to produce piercing cries than their full-term peers are, researchers report online today in Biology Letters. Scientists have studied infant crying as a noninvasive way to assess how well a baby's nervous system develops. Previous research of full-term babies indicates that an abnormally high pitch is associated with disturbances in an infant's metabolism and neurological development. The team recorded spontaneous crying in preterm babies and full-term babies of the same age and compared the pitch of their sobs. They found that preterm babies whimper in a shriller voice, but not because they are smaller in size or grew at a slower rate in their mothers' wombs. Instead, the researchers suspect the high pitch could reflect lower levels of activities in a premature baby's vagal nerve, which extends from the brain stem to the abdomen. Vagal nerve activities are believed to decrease tension in the vocal cords, thus producing a lower pitch. Previous studies show that giving preterm babies massage therapies can stimulate their vagal activities, improve their ingestion, and help them gain weight. © 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Keyword: Development of the Brain
Link ID: 19946 - Posted: 08.13.2014
By Rachel Feltman Bioengineers have created the most realistic fake brain tissue ever – and it's built like a jelly doughnut. The 3-D tissue, described in a paper published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is so structurally similar to a real rat brain (a common substitute for human brains in the lab) that it could help scientists answer longstanding questions about brain injuries and disease. Currently, the best way to study brain tissue is to grow neurons in a petri dish, but those neurons can only be grown flat. A real brain contains a complicated structure of 3-D tissue. Simply giving the neurons room to grow in three dimensions didn't prove successful: While neurons will grow into more complicated structures in the right kind of gel, they don't survive very long or mimic the structure of a real brain. Led by David Kaplan, the director of the Tissue Engineering Resource Center at Tufts University, researchers developed a new combination of materials to mimic the gray and white matter of the brain. The new model relies on a doughnut-shaped, spongy scaffold made of silk proteins with a collagen-based gel at the center. The outer scaffold layer, which is filled with rat neurons, acts as the grey matter of the brain. As the neurons grew networks throughout the scaffold, they sent branches out across the gel-filled center to connect with neurons on the other side. And that configuration is about as brain-like as lab-grown tissue can get. The basic structure can be reconfigured, too.
Keyword: Robotics; Development of the Brain
Link ID: 19944 - Posted: 08.12.2014
By PAM BELLUCK The 40-year-old man showed up in Dr. Mary Malloy's clinic with sadly disfiguring symptoms. His hands, elbows, ears and feet were blemished with protruding pustules and tuber-like welts, some so painful it was hard for him to walk. He suffered from a rare genetic condition called dysbetalipoproteinemia, which caused his cholesterol levels to soar so high that pools of fatty tissue seemed to bubble up under his skin. But there was something else about this patient. He was missing a gene that, when present in one form, greatly increases the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Malloy, who co-directs the Adult Lipid Clinic at the University of California, San Francisco, and her colleagues saw an opportunity to answer an important neurological riddle: Does the absence of the gene — named apolipoprotein E, or APOE, after the protein it encodes — hurt the brain? If a person with this rare condition were found to be functioning normally, that would suggest support for a new direction in Alzheimer's treatment. It would mean that efforts — already being explored by dementia experts — to prevent Alzheimer's by reducing, eliminating or neutralizing the effects of the most dangerous version of APOE might succeed without causing other problems in the brain. The researchers, who reported their findings on Monday in the journal JAMA Neurology, discovered exactly that. They ran a battery of tests, including cognitive assessments, brain imaging and cerebrospinal fluid analyses. The man's levels of beta-amyloid and tau proteins, which are markers of Alzheimer's, gave no indication of neurological disease. His brain size was unaffected, and the white matter was healthy. His thinking and memory skills were generally normal. "This particular case tells us you can actually live without any APOE in the brain," said Dr. Joachim Herz, a neuroscientist and molecular geneticist at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, who was not involved in the research. "So if they were to develop anti-APOE therapies for Alzheimer's, we would not have to worry about serious neurological side effects." © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Alzheimers
Link ID: 19943 - Posted: 08.12.2014
By Smitha Mundasad Health reporter, BBC News Human brains grow most rapidly just after birth and reach half their adult size within three months, according to a study in JAMA Neurology. Using advanced scanning techniques, researchers found male brains grew more quickly than those of female infants. Areas involved in movement developed at the fastest pace. Those associated with memory grew more slowly. Scientists say collating this data may help them identify early signs of developmental disorders such as autism. For centuries doctors have estimated brain growth using measuring tape to chart a baby's head circumference over time. Any changes to normal growth patterns are monitored closely as they can suggest problems with development. But as head shapes vary, these tape measurements are not always accurate. Led by scientists at the University of California, researchers scanned the brains of 87 healthy babies from birth to three months. They saw the most rapid changes immediately after birth - newborn brains grew at an average rate of 1% a day. This slowed to 0.4% per day at the end of the 90-day period. Researchers say recording the normal growth trajectory of individual parts of the brain might help them better understand how early disorders arise. They found the cerebellum, an area of the brain involved in the control of movement, had the highest rate of growth - doubling in size over the 90-day period. BBC © 2014
Keyword: Development of the Brain; Brain imaging
Link ID: 19938 - Posted: 08.12.2014
by Aviva Rutkin What can the human brain do for a computer? There's at least one team of researchers that thinks it might have the answer. Working at IBM Research–Almaden in San Jose, California, they have just released more details of TrueNorth, a computer chip composed of one million digital "neurons". Under way for several years, the project abandons traditional computer architecture for one inspired by biological synapses and axons. The latest results, published in Science, provide a timely reminder of the promise of brain-inspired computing. The human brain still crushes any modern machines when it comes to tasks like vision or voice recognition. What's more, it manages to do so with less energy than it takes to power a light bulb. Building those qualities into a computer is an alluring prospect to many researchers, like Kwabena Boahen of Stanford University in California. "The first time I learned how computers worked, I thought it was ridiculous," he says. "I basically felt there had to be a better way." Aping the brain's structure could help us build computers that are far more powerful and efficient than today's, says TrueNorth team leader Dharmendra Modha. "We want to approximate the anatomy and physiology, the structure and dynamics of the brain, within today's silicon technology," he says. "I think that the chip and the associated ecosystem have the potential to transform science, technology, business, government and society." But how best to go about building a proper artificial brain is a matter of debate. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd
Keyword: Robotics
Link ID: 19932 - Posted: 08.09.2014
Posted by Ewen Callaway More than 130 leading population geneticists have condemned a book arguing that genetic variation between human populations could underlie global economic, political and social differences. "A Troublesome Inheritance", by science journalist Nicholas Wade, was published in June by Penguin Press in New York. The 278-page work garnered widespread criticism, much of it from scientists, for suggesting that genetic differences (rather than culture) explain, for instance, why Western governments are more stable than those in African countries. Wade is former staff reporter and editor at the New York Times, Science and Nature. But the letter — signed by a who's who of population genetics and human evolution researchers, and to be published in the 10 August New York Times — represents a rare unified statement from scientists in the field and includes many whose work was cited by Wade. "It's just a measure of how unified people are in their disdain for what was done with the field," says Michael Eisen, a geneticist at the University of California, Berkeley, who co-drafted the letter. "Wade juxtaposes an incomplete and inaccurate explanation of our research on human genetic differences with speculation that recent natural selection has led to worldwide differences in I.Q. test results, political institutions and economic development. We reject Wade's implication that our findings substantiate his guesswork. They do not," states the letter, which is a response to a critical review of the book published in the New York Times. "This letter is driven by politics, not science," Wade said in a statement. "I am confident that most of the signatories have not read my book and are responding to a slanted summary devised by the organizers." © 2014 Macmillan Publishers Limited
Keyword: Genes & Behavior
Link ID: 19931 - Posted: 08.09.2014
by Bethany Brookshire For most of us, where our birthday falls in the year doesn't matter much in the grand scheme of things. A July baby doesn't make more mistakes than a Christmas kid — at least, not because of their birthdays. But for neurons, birth date plays an important role in how these cells find their connections in the brain, a new study finds. Nerve cells that form early in development will make lots of connections — and lots of mistakes. Neurons formed later are much more precise in their targeting. The findings are an important clue to help scientists understand how the brain wires itself during development. And with more information on how the brain forms its network, scientists might begin to see what happens when that network is injured or malformed. Many, many brain cells are born as the brain develops. Each one has to reach out and make connections, sometimes to other cells around them and sometimes to other regions of the brain. To do this, these nerve cells send out axons, long, incredibly thin projections that reach out to other regions. How mammalian axons end up at their final destination in the growing brain remains a mystery. To find out how developing brains get wired up, Jessica Osterhout and colleagues at the University of California, San Diego and colleagues started in the eye. They looked at retinal ganglion cells, neurons that connect the brain and the eye. "It's easy to access," explains Andrew Huberman, a neuroscientist at UC San Diego and an author on the paper. "Your retina is basically part of the central nervous system that got squeezed into your eye during development." Retinal ganglion cells all have the same function: To convey visual information from the eyes to the brain. But they are not all the same. © Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2013
Keyword: Development of the Brain; Vision
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Got to page 37 and quit. I feel like the author was trying too hard to be clever. Got lost in the descriptions. Was not enjoyable at all.
If this book has been missing since Feb. 2nd, can't you send me another copy? There seem to be other copies at other libraries. I need it for a book group at Webster Library.
The characters are compelling and the story line is good although not riveting. And Chabon's descriptions are amazing. My problem was that he just seems to go into too much detail which bogs things down. I saw Jerry Seinfeld at the Paramount a few years ago and he commented that with all the layers of decoration and glitz, how did he know when they were done? I felt the same way about this book. Some times you just say a chair is a chair, and you don't need a whole paragraph about it. It felt like Chabon went a bit over board at times...
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It might be a very good book but I just couldn't read it. So much "jazzy" language that I didn't understand what I was reading.
I have read a number of Chabon's books with enjoyment, while remaining somewhat skeptical of the acclaim he routinely receives. He is certainly at the front ranks of the perpetual skirmish over great American novelist (neck and neck with Franzen!), though it is rarely questioned whether he deserves to be there. Like Franzen, he is clearly a master of prose and of the old fashioned narrative novel, but I find both of them lacking something. This sprawling, energetic, multi-racial, intergenerational novel encompasses a small group of friends and family in and around Berkley and touches on family, love, adolescence, geek culture, record collecting and money, among other things. The record store culture will remind some readers of "High Fidelity." It's ambitious in its scope, but falls somewhat flat in its characterization and thematic nuance. You decide whether a chapter long sentence is virtuosic or just showing off. Obama has a cameo.
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Universal and Illumination Entertainment repeated their 'Despicable Me' box-office success once again with 'The Lorax' this month, which opened to big numbers and is already a sizable hit. Now, Universal looks to be in the Dr. Seuss game and looks to re-do a classic property of his that they previously botched majorly.
Deadline says that Universal will team up with Illumination Entertainment's Chris Meledandri to adapt the Dr. Seuss book 'The Cat in the Hat' into a movie again. Keep in mind that the property was already adapted into an awful Mike Meyers live-action project that even the writer's wife Audrey Stone Geisel hated to the core. But now, they want to make it a 3D CGI animation feature just like 'The Lorax', which was another Seuss project which worked out quite fine. Rob Lieber is writing the script.
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A second man fled but was caught a few minutes later. He was identified as Cedric Slayden, 18, of Boston. He was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm.
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I just want to draw your attention to a very quick and easy fruit bake, which makes it easy to justify your long runs (after all, someone will have to bring home the blackberries, blueberries, raspberries,...):
2 Tbsp butter
3/4 cup flour (I use whole grain)
1/4 to 1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 to 3 cups of fruit (berries, or diced)
1Tbsp lemon juice
ground cinnamon (e.g. for black- or blueberries) or ginger (e.g. for peaches)
In a deep 9x13 cookie sheet, or a deep pie dish, or a n oven-proof glass or ceramic dish, melt the butter (I do this by placing the dish with the butter in the oven for a few minutes while pre-heating to 350 F).
Mix flour, sugar (adjust amount to taste and sweetness of the fruits), baking powder and salt.
Wash fruit if needed, add lemon juice, mix gently.
Add vanilla to milk, and then the milk to flour mixture, blend quickly until smooth.
Swirl butter in baking dish to cover the surface, then pour batter into hot butter. Quickly sprinkle fruit over batter. Sprinkle a dash of spice on top.
Bake at 350F for about 30minutes, until edges are slightly brown, and center is set (test with a toothpick, if it comes out clean, it is done, but the fruit might stick to the toothpick).
It tastes great warm out of the oven, or cold, with whipped cream, or ice cream.
You can also add your favorite streusel or crumble topping before baking.
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Today most people take freedom for granted. They were born in freedom, they were raised in freedom and they enjoy its fruits not knowing any other way of life. Perhaps, that is why we became so ignorant of the heritage of our Founding Fathers. I was astonished reading the article by Stephen Ambrose "Flawed Founders" and looking at the history of freedom and democracy from this fresh perspective. The author is being simply realistic about what he writes. He is not praising founders of our independent state with an inflated style as I often used to see in History books at High School. He admits the contradictions surrounding our first presidents, but nevertheless pays a deserved tribute to their contribution to the kind of democratic state we live in today.
The essence of this article is best explained in the following quotation: "The Washington Monument and the Jefferson and Lincoln memorials remind us that greatness comes in different forms and at a price. Jefferson, by his words, gave us aspirations. Washington, through his actions, showed us what was possible. Lincoln's courage turned both into reality." 5 Perhaps, it was not meant to have a single person create the kind of country we live in, which by all definitions is the most humanistic, democratic and free. Perhaps, no human being could handle such challenge. Moreover, human beings are not perfect and that is why it is unrealistic to expect the presidents, who are human beings too, to hold all those virtues, which an ideal person is expected to have.
Either way, the author wanted to show us that the evaluation of our country's heroes should be objective. There is no need to pretend that our founding fathers were ideal people who always lived by their convictions and were superheroes in every aspect of their life. However, it's also wrong to be deluded by modern wave of "rediscovering founding fathers"6 and ignoring their contribution and role in the history of our country, as if that turning point when Declaration of Independence was proclaimed should be left blank. We should never forget whom we own our freedom and independence.
In this article the author takes an interactionist's approach pointing through the example of Thomas Jefferson that presidents are only humans with their weaknesses and contradictions. Presidency in this article is not viewed as an executive branch or another institution. It is given rather personal touch, uncovering the truth not about what kind of president Thomas Jefferson was, but rather what kind of person.
A particularly interesting feature about this article is that instead of focusing on interaction between individuals, which is one of the branches within interactionist perspective, the author is rather concerned with "shared meanings" provided that these "shared meanings" are imposed on the society as people within it interact. What I mean by this is that Stephen Ambrose shows that Thomas Jefferson seemed to be an aggressive opponent of slavery promoting in his Declaration of Independence that "all people are created equal". Meanwhile, he was a hypocrite, because he owned slaves himself and was not brave enough to break this tradition.
The article by Stephen Ambrose is not biased, because the author shows the same problem from different perspectives. On one hand he reveals the truth about American president showing that Thomas Jefferson was not that kind of hero as we wished we could think of him, since he is the author of one of the most fundamental documents in the history of our country. On other hand, though, the author emphasizes that failure to recognize the contribution of Thomas Jefferson is a failure to accept freedom and democracy so much praised in our country, which we own to Thomas Jefferson in part one way or another. Thus, the author doesn't appear to be biased towards one camp that praises Thomas Jefferson, or the other that condemns it. He simply shows that we must accept the reality as it is, not as we want it to be.
- Ambrose, Stephen. "Flawed Founders." Smithsonian 33(8), pp. 126-33, November 2002.


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Sunday over hyped, but still good surf in the morning
MUCH smaller than yesterday. Started out about consistent head high. Occasional over head + sets. GLASSY in the morning, turning to mush later in the day. Small now.
Andy Irons was back at Manasquan Inlet today... Heard Kelly Slater was there, but never saw the face.
Around 4ish. Got out of the water around 7:30 and I got to talk to him. Chill dude
Skeglegs : Sorry dude, yea your right, I musta read over saturday NIGHT, my bad. And Chris Joyner, thanks for the support but he was right and yes, it does make sense that it was smaller on Saturday MORNING as I witnessed, as compared to Saturday EVENING, to which Skeglegs was referring to. Gonna check the pics out now, hope everyone got some good ones


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first off some body told me recently that i look like a gnome. not even close....i am shorter and less hair. and my red hat isn't quite so tall.
rode up emigration, down the backside and back home. short little easy ride in the fog and inversion(pollution).
i have been useing my totobobo mask lately. it rocks. i use the densest filter and it a little hard to breath thru on really steep hills or exertions. kinda like your 5,000 feet higher than you are.
but the fact that you are breathing completely clean air makes it better. its one of the only masks that does that. it screens out every kind of pollutant and germs/bacterias.
my lungs feel great and no weezing like i would if i was breathing all that yukky smog and car exhaust.
you have to make sure you get the straps just right. one going up high and one low to keep it in place as your breathing gets going.
it was kinda cold the other day so i took a pic of the teprature gauge in my car.
so two hours of easy/medium effort not exceeding 170HR. the fenders did a great job of keeping me dry again as there are many puddles and snow melt on the street.


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Jaded for the Holidays
The Santaland Diaries at The Box Performance Space
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There should be a bumper sticker that reads "Take the mas out of Christmas." More gifts. More decorations. More shopping. More debt. The season of giving often means more stress than celebrating, so why not say "No mas!" and hit the eggnog? Or just take a holiday breather with The Santaland Diaries—a one-man, one-act based on an essay by David Sedaris that says "Up yours!" to the mas.
The Santaland Diaries begins with a man sitting in a coffee shop reading the "Help Wanted" section of the classifieds. With a mix of glee and shame, he calls to set up an interview at Macy's department store for a full-time position as an elf in Santaland—after all, the man's got to eat. A few humorously tense moments later, he's pulling on a green velvet elf costume over his head and slapping the name "Crumpet" on his chest. From there, Crumpet (Ross Kelly) takes the audience for a tour of the other side of Santaland's tinsel-coated exterior. Grumpy elves, overachieving dwarves, fast-paced Santas and screaming children torment Crumpet as a voice from the intercom counts down the shopping days 'til Christmas and Crumpet's freedom.
Crumpet's time under the florescent lights of Macy's is a creepy metaphor for the modern holiday season that will prod the Scrooge-like nerve under your skin. The falsity inherent in folds of fake snow and über-happy elves, paired with the unrelenting bid for your dollars is enough to make anyone nuts. And here's Crumpet, nearly penniless and in candy-striped tights, lying to kids about Santa's favorite kind of cookie. Through Crumpet, the audience gets to look straight into the eyes of the beast known as Christmas Commercialization and laugh unabashedly.
Kelly plays the silver-tongued Crumpet like a second personality. At every turn, Kelly regales us with the secrets of Santaland as if the memories were his own, an especially hard task for what's essentially an hour-long monologue. This confidence and an array of clever props sears through the entire performance, making even the most potentially boring moment pop with humor. Who knew watching someone eat lunch could be so enjoyable? Kelly makes Crumpet so likable and fun throughout the show that when he proclaims he's not a good person, it's the only unbelievable line in the whole production. Bitter and jaded? Yes. Not good? No way.
But The Santaland Diaries isn't an anti-holiday tale. Although it mocks many aspects of the "holi-daze," it still has that sweet, warming what-the-holidays-are-all-about moment--even if it's only for five seconds. Sedaris is known for his dark humor and cynical outlook, so it's not surprising this tale could be viewed as an all-out, holiday-bashing obscenity fest. However, Santaland is similar in yuletide spirit to A Christmas Story, only instead of a kid trying to get a Red Ryder BB gun while dealing with bullies and accidently letting out a cuss word we've got a 20-something gay man trying to get on "One Life to Live" while dealing with stupid people and blurting out a lot of cuss words. Crumpet is a holiday anti-hero, the Abominable Snow Monster to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the primal scream while standing in line at Box-Mart. He relieves us from the peppermint-striped pressure cooker by voicing everything we've ever thought but dared not say for fear of killing the elusive Christmas magic. The Santaland Diaries isn't your typical Christmas story, but it will take the edge off even better than eggnog with extra rum.
The Santaland Diaries , by David Sedaris and adapted by Joe Mantello, runs through Sunday, Dec. 23, at The Box Performance Space (1025 Lomas NW, 404-1578) with shows at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and 6 p.m. on Sundays. Tickets are $10.
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