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SONOMA, Calif. It's been a continuous search for consistency at Chip Ganassi Racing, where the NASCAR program has never matched the performance levels of its dominant IndyCar entries.
But there's no bitterness from Juan Pablo Montoya or Jamie McMurray, who have watched from afar as IndyCar counterparts Dario Franchitti and Scott Dixon race for wins and championships every year.
"I don't think we are jealous," McMurray said. "We are happy for those guys."
Franchitti, the four-time IndyCar champion, won his third Indianapolis 500 last month, and Dixon reached Victory Lane a week later at Belle Isle and is currently in the thick of the title race. But they both had to overcome early season struggles, which hasn't been lost on Montoya.
"I laugh because this year has been the hardest year for them for quite a few years, and I am like `Welcome,' " he said, smiling.
Indeed, welcome to the up-and-down battles that Montoya and McMurray have faced the last several years in Ganassi's NASCAR program. The two head into Sunday's race at Sonoma at just about the halfway mark of another rebuilding year for the organization.
McMurray is 18th in the Sprint Cup Series, Montoya is 19th and combined they have only five top-10 finishes all season. But they say their cars are better, they've had increased speed of late and they are pleased with the direction of the race team.
"I think we've done a lot of progress," Montoya said. "If you really go through the team right now and see how different everything is working, it's pretty amazing. We haven't had the results we want to have, but I think there has been a lot of really good changes and we've been putting people in the right places.
"You want to run better overnight, but things have got to change. Everybody has got to adapt, and it's a process. But I really feel we made a lot of gains with the car and a lot of gains in how the engineering program is working and we definitely have been making progress."
Ganassi and co-owner Felix Sabates had arguably the most aggressive offseason in NASCAR as sweeping changes were made to the organization. Competition director Steve Hmiel and longtime team manager Tony Glover were replaced, and Brian Pattie left the organization at the end of the season after being removed as Montoya's crew chief in late July.
Ganassi brought in Max Jones as general manager, John Probst as technical director and lured Chris Heroy away from Hendrick Motorsports to crew chief Montoya. There has been added personnel, improved engineering and a cohesiveness that was absent last season, when both drivers went winless and failed to contend for spots in the 12-driver Chase for the Sprint Cup championship field.
It was a dramatic drop-off from 2010, when McMurray won three races - including the Daytona 500 and the Brickyard 400 - and the drivers were far more competitive.
"It seemed like everything was going in the right direction, and the next year (in 2011) ... we just dropped the ball completely," Montoya said. "Last year was frustrating, it was more about arguing. Once we changed everybody on the team - it's nice to be here, it's really fun to be here. We have really good people and you know they are working their butts off together to give us better race cars every weekend."


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If you are looking for a modern version of Hrishikesh Mukherjee's much-loved film of the same name, then Shashanka Ghosh's "Khoobsurat" may disappoint you.
Mukherjee's film was centred on Manju (incidentally the name of the main character's mother in the remake), a rather effervescent heroine who steamrolls her way to everything and takes it upon herself to change the lives of a rather dull family.
Movie Review: Finding Fanny
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In Homi Adajania's version of Goa, there are winding pathways, crumbling mansions, and the sleepy village of Pocolim where "life doesn't pass you by, it passes you by at the pace you want it to."
There is an oddball cast of characters to add to the picturesque location, and some lovely lines. The setting is perfect for a road movie with quirky characters, but Adajania's film falters for want of a strong premise and its inability to see these characters and their story to some sort of a rightful conclusion.
Movie Review: Mary Kom
(Any opinions expressed here are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters)At a crucial point in Omung Kumar's biopic of MC Mary Kom, the boxer's husband urges her to get back to the sport after giving birth to their twin sons. He eggs her on to train while he handles household responsibilities and in one scene, tells his wife to have a glass of milk to gain strength. Mary Kom stops him right there and says, "Don't add any sugar, I am going to use Sugar Free."
Immediately, any empathy you were feeling for this character and her struggle is lost. Kumar's retelling of one of India's sports success stories is replete with such examples. Not only do they take away from the story's authenticity, but also cheapen Mary Kom's real-life struggle, reducing it to a hackneyed Bollywood script.
Movie Review: Raja Natwarlal
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Kunal Deshmukh, going by his filmography, loves two things – Emraan Hashmi and cricket. After "Jannat" – a movie about cricket and match fixing – and the caper film "Jannat 2″, director Deshmukh seems to have combined the storylines for his latest offering – a caper film about cricket starring Hashmi.
"Raja Natwarlal" is a flimsily written and half-heartedly directed film, which falls short of its lofty ambitions because no one associated with it seems to have any concern for detailing or authenticity on celluloid.
Guns and Gowns: Documentary shows two faces of the Indian woman
Cosmetic surgeon Jamuna Pai inspects the face of the Miss India contestant before her in Mumbai, furrows her brow and points to a blemish. The verdict: the young woman needs a botox injection in her chin because the "proportions are off by 0.6 percent."
About 400 kilometres away in the town of Aurangabad, worlds apart from India's financial capital, a middle-aged woman in a sari lectures adolescent girls about wanting careers.
Movie Review: 2 States
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Abhishek Varman's "2 States", based on a Chetan Bhagat novel of the same name, is a good example of a movie subject that would appeal to a new, younger Indian audience.
It features two youngsters who are freethinking, unencumbered by tradition and apparently able to take their own decisions. But they are respectful enough not to implement those decisions without their families' approval.
A Minute With: Alia Bhatt
Alia Bhatt made her Bollywood debut as a lead actress in the 2012 college romance "Student of the Year". In February, she won over critics with her performance in the offbeat film "Highway", playing a woman who starts caring for her kidnapper.
In the romantic comedy "2 States", which opened in cinemas on Friday, the 21-year-old plays a woman from Tamil Nadu who has to battle cultural stereotypes to marry her Punjabi lover.
Movie Review: Bhoothnath Returns
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The one thing to be said for Nitesh Tiwari's "Bhoothnath Returns" is that it has impeccable timing. At a time when India is caught up in election fever, and every TV news channel is celebrating "the dance of democracy", the film delivers the same message, albeit with a higher budget and a stronger medium than public service advertisements.s
Combining a children's film with a sermon on the importance of voting couldn't have been easy, and at times, the film falters. Yet, you cannot help but warm up to the characters and the rather uneven storyline, thanks to the generous dose of honesty that director Tiwari brings to the table.

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Gay marriage and "God's law"
Re: "Judge's ruling on Colorado gay marriage ban," July 15 letters to the editor.
Letter-writer Gary Craven sees the July 11 Denver Post photo of two women kissing as "not worthy of the front page." He writes, "That picture has opened the door for confusion amongst children of all ages." He advocates "being obedient to God's law first and the law of the state."
Isn't God's law "Love one another"?
So where's the problem?
Fred Knauke, Denver
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Chapter 3. Neurophysiology: The Generation, Transmission, and Integration of Neural Signals
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by Tina Hesman Saey BOSTON — A variant in a gene involved in breaking down chemicals in smoke triples a smoker's risk of multiple sclerosis, a study shows. Smoking increases by 30 to 50 percent a person's risk of multiple sclerosis, a disease in which the immune system attacks a waxy coating around nerve cells. Scientists don't know exactly how smoking contributes to the disease. Farren Briggs of the University of California, Berkeley and his colleagues searched DNA of thousands of people in Northern California, Norway and Sweden for genetic variants associated with both smoking and multiple sclerosis. The team found hundreds of variants in three genes involved in breaking down chemicals found in smoke, Briggs said October 24 at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics. In particular, people who smoke and who have two copies of a variant in the NAT1 gene have a risk of getting MS that is three times higher than that of smokers without the variant. For nonsmokers, the variant doesn't increase MS risk. Citations F.B.S. Briggs et al. NAT1 in an important genetic effect modifier of tobacco smoke exposure in multiple sclerosis susceptibility in 5,453 individuals. American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting, Boston, October 24, 2013. Further Reading N. Seppa. Old drug may have new trick. Science News. Vol. 184, November 2, 2013, p. 16. N. Seppa. Black women may have highest multiple sclerosis rates. Science News. Vol. 183, June 15, 2013, p. 15. © Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2013
Keyword: Multiple Sclerosis; Genes & Behavior
Link ID: 18832 - Posted: 10.26.2013
Special Note to Teachers: The content of the following lesson plans compares the "normal" brain to a "zombie" brain. Zombies are not real but there are plenty of diseases that effect real people and students may have people in their lives who have suffered because of them. The following lessons about neuroscience have been inspired by the book, "The Zombie Autopsies", written by Steven C. Schlozman, M.D., and are intended to compliment it. "The Zombie Autopsies" was inspired by George Romero's 1968 cult-classic horror film "Night of the Living Dead". These original lessons build upon each other and have an accompanying plot line where the world is fighting a zombie apocalypse and the best and the brightest young people are being trained as medical students – with a specialty in neuroscience – with the hopes that they will be able to provide a cure to this terrible epidemic and save humanity. For a richer experience have the students read the book in class and as homework (see suggested reading schedule) along with the class activities. Although the materials are organized as a unit, lessons can be used as stand-alone or can be shaped to fit the needs of you and your students regarding time and content. For example, Lesson 3 is perfect for the day of Halloween. © 2013 MacNeil-Lehrer Productions
Keyword: Learning & Memory
Link ID: 18824 - Posted: 10.23.2013
A narrowing of the veins from the brain is unlikely as a cause multiple sclerosis, say researchers from B.C. and Saskatchewan who found the narrowing is a common and normal finding in most people. Italian Paolo Zamboni made headlines in Canada four years ago for his belief that clearing blocked or narrowed neck veins could relieve MS symptoms. Since then probably more than 3,000 Canadians have gone out of country for dilation treatment, said Dr. Anthony Traboulsee of the University of British Columbia. In Tuesday's online issue of the The Lancet, Traboulsee and his co-authors published their findings on the prevalence of narrowing, known as chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency or CCSVI, in people with MS, their siblings and unrelated healthy controls. Using catheter venography to directly visualize veins, the researchers found three people tested positive for CCSVI: One of 65 (2 per cent) of those with MS. One of 46 (2 per cent) of siblings. One of 32 (3 per cent) on unrelated controls. "This was a big surprise to all of us," Traboulsee told reporters. "We were really expecting to find many more people with this feature." When the researchers used ultrasound to look for CCSVI, they found narrowing in more than 50 per cent of all three groups. The hypothesis that vein narrowing has a role in the cause of MS is unlikely since its prevalence was similar in all three groups, the study's authors concluded. © CBC 2013
Keyword: Multiple Sclerosis
Link ID: 18765 - Posted: 10.09.2013
At the TEDx conference in Detroit last week, RoboRoach #12 scuttled across the exhibition floor, pursued not by an exterminator but by a gaggle of fascinated onlookers. Wearing a tiny backpack of microelectronics on its shell, the cockroach—a member of the Blaptica dubia species—zigzagged along the corridor in a twitchy fashion, its direction controlled by the brush of a finger against an iPhone touch screen (as seen in video above). RoboRoach #12 and its brethren are billed as a do-it-yourself neuroscience experiment that allows students to create their own "cyborg" insects. The roach was the main feature of the TEDx talk by Greg Gage and Tim Marzullo, co-founders of an educational company called Backyard Brains. After a summer Kickstarter campaign raised enough money to let them hone their insect creation, the pair used the Detroit presentation to show it off and announce that starting in November, the company will, for $99, begin shipping live cockroaches across the nation, accompanied by a microelectronic hardware and surgical kits geared toward students as young as 10 years old. That news, however, hasn't been greeted warmly by everyone. Gage and Marzullo, both trained as neuroscientists and engineers, say that the purpose of the project is to spur a "neuro-revolution" by inspiring more kids to join the fields when they grow up, but some critics say the project is sending the wrong message. "They encourage amateurs to operate invasively on living organisms" and "encourage thinking of complex living organisms as mere machines or tools," says Michael Allen Fox, a professor of philosophy at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. © 2013 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Keyword: Animal Rights
Link ID: 18755 - Posted: 10.08.2013
By Julianne Chiaet It has taken a century so far for scientists to not figure out the cause of multiple sclerosis (MS). The inflammatory disease, which affects more than 2.1 million people worldwide, has been blamed on toxins, viruses and even food. Most recently, scientists have placed their bets on two major ideas: The first (and far more popular) hypothesis suggests MS begins in white matter, which influences how parts of the brain work together. White matter consists of bundles of axons covered in myelin, a white insulating fatty layer. In people with MS myelin degrades and nerve fibers are left exposed, causing problems in motor coordination and loss of senses. The second hypothesis suggests that MS begins in the gray matter, which affects thinking and learning. The white matter hypothesis overshadows its alternative in part because white matter's impact is easier to observe. When using a microscope to look at brain tissue, scientists are struck by the degradation in the myelin in samples from patients with MS. And when analyzing MS in the clinic, the overt symptoms experienced by a person with the disease can be attributed to the myelin. Symptoms associated with dysfunctions in gray matter are less obvious, such as the loss of an IQ point. Now, new evidence lends support to the less-favored gray matter hypothesis. Scientists at Rutgers University in Newark tried a new approach to look into the gray matter of MS patients. They analyzed proteins in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which can be thought of as the central nervous system's "blood." By comparing the quantity of specific CSF proteins in patients who were newly diagnosed or had the relapsing remitting variety of MS with that of healthy patients, the researchers found an uneven distribution of 20 proteins among the three groups. © 2013 Scientific American
Keyword: Multiple Sclerosis; Neuroimmunology
Link ID: 18684 - Posted: 09.21.2013
by Andy Coghlan Parts of the brain may still be alive after a person's brain activity is said to have flatlined. When someone is in a deep coma, their brain activity can go silent. An electroencephalogram measuring this activity may eventually show a flatline, usually taken as a sign of brain death. However, while monitoring a patient who had been placed in a deep coma to prevent seizures following a cardiac arrest, Bogdan Florea, a physician at the Regina Maria Medical Centre in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, noticed a strange thing – some tiny intermittent bursts of activity were interrupting an otherwise flatline signal, each lasting a few seconds. He asked Florin Amzica of the University of Montreal in Canada and his colleagues to investigate what might be happening. To imitate what happened in the patient, Amzica's team put cats into a deep coma using a high dose of anaesthesia. While EEG recordings taken from the surface of the brain – the cortex – showed a flatline, recordings from deep-brain electrodes revealed tiny bursts of activity originating in the hippocampus, responsible for memory and learning, which spread within minutes to the cortex. "These ripples build up a synchrony that rises in a crescendo to reach a threshold where they can spread beyond the hippocampus and trigger activity in the cortex," says Amzica. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
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Link ID: 18683 - Posted: 09.21.2013
By Associated Press, Former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart has a new piece of equipment accompanying him on his latest tour: a cap fitted with electrodes that capture his brain activity and direct the movements of a light show while he's jamming on stage. The sensor-studded headgear is an outgrowth of collaboration between Hart, 70, and Adam Gazzaley, a University of California at San Francisco neuroscientist who studies cognitive decline. The subject has been an interest of the musician's since the late 1980s, as he watched his grandmother deal with Alzheimer's disease. When he played the drums for her, he says, she became more responsive. Since then, Hart has invested time and money exploring the therapeutic potential of rhythm. Thirteen years ago, he founded Rhythm for Life, a nonprofit promoting drum circles for the elderly. Hart first publicly wore his electroencephalogram cap last year at an AARP convention where he and Gazzaley discussed their joint pursuit of research on the link between brain waves and memory. He wore it again while making his new album, "Superorganism," translating the rhythms of his brain waves into music. Hart's bandmates, with input from other researchers in Gazzaley's lab, paired different waves with specific musical sequences that were then inserted into songs. © 1996-2013 The Washington Post
Keyword: Brain imaging; Robotics
Link ID: 18656 - Posted: 09.17.2013
Two pioneers in the study of neural signaling and three researchers responsible for modern cochlear implants are winners of The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation's annual prize, announced today. The prestigious award honoring contributions in the medical sciences is often seen as a hint at future Nobel contenders. The prizes for basic and clinical research each carry a $250,000 honorarium. Richard Scheller of the biotech company Genentech and Thomas Südhof of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, got their basic research Laskers for discovering the mechanisms behind rapid the release of neurotransmitters—the brain's chemical messengers—into the space between neurons. This process underlies all communication among brain cells, and yet it was "a black box" before Scheller and Südhof's work, says their colleague Robert Malenka, a synaptic physiologist at Stanford. The two worked independently in the late 1980s to identify individual proteins that mediate the process, and their development of genetically altered mice lacking these proteins was "an ambitious and high-risk approach," Malenka says. Although "they weren't setting out to understand any sort of disease," their discoveries have helped unravel the genetic basis for neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease. This year's clinical research prizes went to Graeme Clark, Ingeborg Hochmair, and Blake Wilson for their work to restore hearing to the deaf. In the 1970s, Hochmair and Clark of the cochlear implant company MED-EL in Innsbruck, Austria, and the University of Melbourne, respectively, were the first to insert multiple electrodes into the human cochlea to stimulate nerves that respond to different frequencies of sound. © 2012 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Keyword: Hearing; Robotics
Link ID: 18625 - Posted: 09.10.2013
By Athena Andreadis Recently, two studies surfaced almost simultaneously that led to exclamations of "Vulcan mind meld!", "Zombie armies!" and "Brains in jars!" One is the announcement by Rajesh Rao and Andrea Stocco of Washington U. that they "achieved the first human-to-human brain interface". The other is the Nature paper by Madeline Lancaster et al about stem-cell-derived "organoids" that mimic early developmental aspects of the human cortex. My condensed evaluation: the latter is far more interesting and promising than the former, which doesn't quite do what people (want to) think it's doing. The purported result of brain interfacing hit many hot buttons that have been staples of science fiction and Stephen King novels: primarily telepathy, with its fictional potential for non-consensual control. Essentially, the sender's EEG (electroencephalogram) output was linked to the receiver's TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation) input. What the experiment actually did is not send a thought but induce a muscle twitch; nothing novel, given the known properties of the two technologies. The conditions were severely constrained to produce the desired result and I suspect the outcome was independent of the stimulus details: the EEG simply recorded that a signal had been produced and the TMS apparatus was positioned so that a signal would elicit a movement of the right hand. Since both sender and receiver were poised over a keyboard operating a video game, the twitch was sufficient to press the space bar, programmed by the game to fire a cannon. © 2013 Scientific American
Keyword: Robotics
Link ID: 18623 - Posted: 09.10.2013
According to new research on epilepsy, zebrafish have certainly earned their stripes. Results of a study in Nature Communications suggest that zebrafish carrying a specific mutation may help researchers discover treatments for Dravet syndrome (DS), a severe form of pediatric epilepsy that results in drug-resistant seizures and developmental delays. Scott C. Baraban, Ph.D., and his colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), carefully assessed whether the mutated zebrafish could serve as a model for DS, and then developed a new screening method to quickly identify potential treatments for DS using these fish. This study was supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health and builds on pioneering epilepsy zebrafish models first described by the Baraban laboratory in 2005. Dravet syndrome is commonly caused by a mutation in the Scn1a gene, which encodes for Nav1.1, a specific sodium ion channel found in the brain. Sodium ion channels are critical for communication between brain cells and proper brain functioning. The researchers found that the zebrafish that were engineered to have the Scn1a mutation that causes DS in humans exhibited some of the same characteristics, such as spontaneous seizures, commonly seen in children with DS. Unprovoked seizure activity in the mutant fish resulted in hyperactivity and whole-body convulsions associated with very fast swimming. These types of behaviors are not seen in normal healthy zebrafish.
Keyword: Epilepsy
Link ID: 18603 - Posted: 09.04.2013
By Scicurious Optogenetics likes to light up debate. Optogenetics is a hot technique in neuroscience research right now, involving taking a light-activited gene (called a channel rhodopsin) targeted into a single neuron type, and inserting it into the genome of, say, a mouse (yes, we can do this now). When you then shine a light into the mouse's brain, the channel rhodopsin responds, and the neurons that are now expressing the channel rhodopsin fire. This means that you can get a single type of neuron to fire (or not, there are ones that inhibit firing, too), whenever you want to, merely by turning on a light. I actually remember where I WAS when I first heard of optogenetics. I came into the lab in the morning, was going about my daily business, and hadn't checked the daily Tables of Contents for journals yet (I get these delivered into my email). I remember the postdoc, normally a pretty phlegmatic person, actually putting a little excitement into their voice, "hey guys, look at this." The paper was this one. We all crowded around. It took us all a few minutes to "get it". As it began to sink it, I had two thoughts. The first? "WHOA, THAT IS AWESOME." The second? "Great, I know what's going to be the hot stuff now." There are fashions in science. Not the kind where everyone dyes their lab coat plaid or creates cutoffs out of their Personal Protective Equipment (though that would be hilarious). There are experimental fashions. Lesions were once really "in". Knockouts were hot stuff in the 90s. fMRI enjoyed (and still does enjoy) its moment in the sun, electrophysiology often adds a little je ne sais quoi to a paper. DREADDs, CLARITY. And when a new thing comes along and is going to be hot? You can sniff it out a mile away. For next year? I'm betting on GEVIs, myself. They'll be all the rage. © 2013 Scientific American
Keyword: Miscellaneous
Link ID: 18565 - Posted: 08.27.2013
By Scicurious There are lots of challenges when it comes to studying the brain, but one of the biggest is that it's very hard to see. Aside from being, you know, inside your skull, the many electrical and chemical signals which the brain uses are impossible to see with the naked eye. We have ways to look at neurons and how they convey information. For example, to record the electrical signals from a single neuron, you can piece it with a tiny electrode, to get access inside the membrane (electrophysiology). You can then stimulate the neuron to fire, or record as it fires spontaneously. For techniques like optogenetics, you can insert a gene into the neuron that makes it fire (or not) in response to light. When you shine the light, you can make the neuron fire. So you can make a neuron fire, or see a neuron fire. With things like voltammetry, we can see neurotransmitters, chemicals as they are released from a neuron and sent as signals on to other neurons. Techniques like these have made huge strides in what we understand about neurons and how they work. But…you can only do this for a few neurons at a time. This becomes a problem, because the brain does not work as one neuron at a time. Instead, neurons organize into networks, A neuron fires, which impinges upon many more neurons, all of which will react in different ways, depending on what input they receive and when. Often many neurons have to fire to get a result, often it's a single specific pattern of neurons. An ideal technique would be one where we could see neurons fire spontaneously, in real time, and then see where those signals GO, to actually see a network in action. And where we could see it…without taking the brain out first. It looks like that technique might be here. © 2013 Scientific American
Keyword: Brain imaging
Link ID: 18496 - Posted: 08.13.2013
Brain cells talk to each other in a variety of tones. Sometimes they speak loudly but other times struggle to be heard. For many years scientists have asked why and how brain cells change tones so frequently. Today National Institutes of Health researchers showed that brief bursts of chemical energy coming from rapidly moving power plants, called mitochondria, may tune brain cell communication. "We are very excited about the findings," said Zu-Hang Sheng, Ph.D., a senior principal investigator and the chief of the Synaptic Functions Section at the NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). "We may have answered a long-standing, fundamental question about how brain cells communicate with each other in a variety of voice tones." The network of nerve cells throughout the body typically controls thoughts, movements and senses by sending thousands of neurotransmitters, or brain chemicals, at communication points made between the cells called synapses. Neurotransmitters are sent from tiny protrusions found on nerve cells, called presynaptic boutons. Boutons are aligned, like beads on a string, on long, thin structures called axons. They help control the strength of the signals sent by regulating the amount and manner that nerve cells release transmitters. Mitochondria are known as the cell's power plant because they use oxygen to convert many of the chemicals cells use as food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the main energy that powers cells. This energy is essential for nerve cell survival and communication. Previous studies showed that mitochondria can rapidly move along axons, dancing from one bouton to another.
Keyword: Miscellaneous
Link ID: 18414 - Posted: 07.27.2013
Silk has walked straight off the runway and into the lab. According to a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, silk implants placed in the brain of laboratory animals and designed to release a specific chemical, adenosine, may help stop the progression of epilepsy. The research was supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), which are part of the National Institutes of Health. The epilepsies are a group of neurological disorders associated with recurring seizures that tend to become more frequent and severe over time. Adenosine decreases neuronal excitability and helps stop seizures. Earlier studies have suggested abnormally low levels of adenosine may be linked to epilepsy. Rebecca L. Williams-Karnesky, Ph.D. and her colleagues from Legacy Research Institute, Portland, Ore., Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU), Portland, and Tufts University, Boston, looked at long-term effects of an adenosine-releasing silk-implant therapy in rats and examined the role of adenosine in causing epigenetic changes that may be associated with the development of epilepsy. The investigators argue that adenosine's beneficial effects are due to epigenetic modifications (chemical reactions that change the way genes are turned on or off without altering the DNA code, the letters that make up our genetic background). Specifically, these changes happen when a molecule known as a methyl group blocks a portion of DNA, affecting which genes are accessible and can be turned on. If methyl groups have been taken away (demethylated), genes are more likely to turn on.
Keyword: Epilepsy
Link ID: 18409 - Posted: 07.27.2013
by Carl Zimmer Inside each of us is a miniature version of ourselves. The Canadian neurologist Wilder Penfield discovered this little person in the 1930s, when he opened up the skulls of his patients to perform brain surgery. He would sometimes apply a little electric jolt to different spots on the surface of the brain and ask his patients–still conscious–to tell him if they felt anything. Sometimes their tongues tingled. Other times their hand twitched. Penfield drew a map of these responses. He ended up with a surreal portrait of the human body stretched out across the surface of the brain. In a 1950 book, he offered a map of this so-called homunculus. For brain surgeons, Penfield's map was a practical boon, helping them plan out their surgeries. But for scientists interested in more basic questions about the brain, it was downright fascinating. It revealed that the brain organized the sensory information coming from the skin into a body-like form. There were differences between the homunculus and the human body, of course. It was as if the face had been removed from the head and moved just out of reach. The area that each body part took up in the brain wasn't proportional to its actual size. The lips and index finger were gigantic, for instance, while the forearm barely took up less space than the tongue. That difference in our brains is reflected in our nerve endings. Our fingertips are far more sensitive than our backs. We simply don't need to make fine discriminations with our backs. But we use our hands for all sorts of things–like picking up objects or using tools–that demand that sort of sensory power.
Keyword: Pain & Touch
Link ID: 18407 - Posted: 07.25.2013
By SABRINA TAVERNISE WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration announced on Monday that it had approved the first brain wave test to help diagnose attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children. The test uses an electroencephalogram, or EEG, with sensors attached to a child's head and hooked by wires to a computer to measure brain waves. It traces different types of electrical impulses given off by nerve cells in the brain and records how many times those impulses are given off each second. The test takes 15 to 20 minutes, and measures two kinds of brain waves — theta and beta. Certain combinations of those waves tend to be more prevalent in children with A.D.H.D., the Food and Drug Administration said in a news release. The disorder is one of the most common behavioral disorders in children. About 9 percent of adolescents have A.D.H.D. and the average age of diagnosis is 7, the drug agency said, citing the American Psychiatric Association. Children who have it tend to be hyperactive, impulsive and exhibit behavioral problems. The maker of the testing device, NEBA Health of Augusta, Ga., gave the F.D.A. data from a study of 275 children and adolescents, ages 6 to 17, with attention or hyperactivity problems. Clinicians used the device, called a Neuropsychiatric EEG-Based Assessment Aid, in combination with traditional testing methods, like listing the criteria in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, behavioral questionnaires and I.Q. testing. An outside group of researchers then reviewed the data and decided whether the child had the disorder. The results showed that the device helped doctors make a more accurate diagnosis than using traditional methods alone, the F.D.A. said. An agency spokeswoman said it did not release the study's data. © 2013 The New York Times Company
Keyword: ADHD
Link ID: 18380 - Posted: 07.16.2013
Gregory Gage is being honored as a Champion of Change for his dedication to increasing public engagement in science and science literacy. Science has a rich history of everyday citizens assisting in great discoveries, and I am honored that our work to encourage amateur neuroscience has been selected by The White House for the Citizen Science Champion of Change award. We know a lot about how our amazing brain works, but there is much, much more that remains to be discovered. In fact, we have no cures and only insufficient treatments for neurological disorder, even though about 1 out of every 5 people will be diagnosed with a brain disease. Change is indeed needed in our nation's approach to science education to bring more focus on neuroscience. I am a "DIY" neuroscientist. I co-founded a low-fi company called Backyard Brains with my grad-school labmate, Tim Marzullo. While working on our Ph.D., we would often go out to local public schools to talk about the importance of studying neuroscience. We developed our lesson plans using models and analogies about how the brain works, but what we really wanted to teach the students was "electrophysiology"... as this is truly is how the brain works. The brain is an electrical organ, and the cells (neurons) communicate with "spikes": a brief pulse of electricity. In my research at the university, I would record these spikes to learn what the neurons were telling us about how the brain worked. Traditionally, to do experiments with electrophysiology, one needs to be in a Ph.D. program and use expensive equipment (our electrophysiology rig cost $40,000). To make this accessible for our outreach goals, Tim and I set out on a self-imposed engineering challenge: to reduce this equipment down to the basic components, and record a spike for <$100. Less than a year later, we got our first prototype to work and were able to bring spikes into the classrooms! After getting requests from colleagues and teachers, we launched Backyard Brains. We are now a growing education company with neuroscience gear in over 45 countries on all 7 continents!
Keyword: Miscellaneous
Link ID: 18349 - Posted: 07.06.2013
by Anil Ananthaswamy Name: Sandra Condition: Ecstatic epilepsy "It's like when you have an orgasm. You don't get to the orgasm in one step. You go progressively. [My seizure] was the same kind of thing." Sandra thinks she had her earliest epileptic seizures when she was just 4 years old. But they were no ordinary seizures. Hers gave her an intense feeling of bliss. Blissful is not how most of us think of epilepsy. Fabienne Picard at the University Hospital Geneva, in Switzerland, says Sandra experienced a form of partial seizure – one localised to a specific region of the brain – known as an ecstatic seizure. These were immortalised in literature by the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, who also had them. Dostoevsky described his seizures in a letter to a friend: "I feel entirely in harmony with myself and the whole world, and this feeling is so strong and so delightful that for a few seconds of such bliss one would gladly give up 10 years of one's life, if not one's whole life." To explain how she felt during her seizures, Sandra makes an analogy with a highly pleasurable event. "It's like when you have an orgasm," she says. "You don't get to the orgasm in one step. You go progressively. [The seizure] was the same kind of thing." However, "it was not a sexual feeling", she says. "It was more psychological." © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Epilepsy
Link ID: 18298 - Posted: 06.22.2013
by Alyssa Danigelis Next time you happen across an enormous cockroach, check to see whether it's got a backpack on. Then look for the person controlling its movements with a phone. The RoboRoach has arrived. The RoboRoach is a system created by University of Michigan grads who have backgrounds in neuroscience, Greg Gage and Tim Marzullo. They came up with the cyborg roach idea as part of an effort to show students what real brain spiking activity looks like using off-the-shelf electronics. Essentially the RoboRoach involves taking a real live cockroach, putting it under anesthesia and placing wires in its antenna. Then the cockroach is outfitted with a special lightweight little backpack Gage and Marzullo developed that sends pulses to the antenna, causing the neurons to fire and the roach to think there's a wall on one side. So it turns. The backpack connects to a phone via Bluetooth, enabling a human user to steer the cockroach through an app. Why? Why would anyone do this? "We want to create neural interfaces that the general public can use," the scientists say in a video. "Typically, to understand how these hardware devices and biological interfaces work, you'd have to go to graduate school in a neuro-engineering lab." They added that the product is a learning tool, not a toy, and through it they hope to start a neuro-revolution. Currently the duo's Backyard Brains startup is raising money through a Kickstarter campaign to develop more fine-tuned prototypes, make them more affordable, and extend battery life. The startup says it will make the RoboRoach hardware by hand in an Ann Arbor hacker space. © 2013 Discovery Communications, LLC
Keyword: Robotics
Link ID: 18264 - Posted: 06.12.2013
Kerri Smith Researchers have both created and relieved symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in genetically modified mice using a technique that turns brain cells on and off with light, known as optogenetics. The work, by two separate teams, confirms the neural circuits that contribute to the condition and points to treatment targets. It also provides insight into how quickly compulsive behaviours can develop — and how quickly they might be soothed. The results of the studies are published in Science1, 2. Brain scanning in humans with OCD has pointed to two areas — the orbitofrontal cortex, just behind the eyes, and the striatum, a hub in the middle of the brain — as being involved in the condition's characteristic repetitive and compulsive behaviours. But "in people we have no way of testing cause and effect", says Susanne Ahmari, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Columbia University in New York who led one of the studies. It is not clear, for example, whether abnormal brain activity causes the compulsions, or whether the behaviour simply results from the brain trying to hold symptoms at bay by compensating. "There's been a big debate in the field," says Satinder Kaur Singh of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, who studies molecules involved in OCD-like disorders but was not involved in the new studies. "What the Ahmari paper shows is that it is causative." © 2013 Nature Publishing Group
Keyword: OCD - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
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This volume brings Rick Atkinson's magisterial history of the US Army in Europe in World War Two to a close. Like its predecessors "An Army at Dawn" and "The Day of Battle", it's an impressively detailed but still readable history. Refreshingly, it doesn't hide occasional incompentence and poor leadership under "greatest generation" rhetoric.
I'd characterize the book as traditional military history. The author's focus is on the high command, not a "Band of Brothers" style narrative about individual soldiers. That said, he doesn't completely ignore the GI experience.
The conluding chapter, which describes the often-ignored story of the recovery of US dead is especially interesting. Though I've been to the moving Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, I had never thought or read about the ships full of thousands of coffins that returned fallen soldiers to the United States so that they could be buried in their home towns.


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Torakusu Yamaha
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|Torakusu Yamaha
April 20, 1851
Kii Province, Japan
|August 8, 1916
(aged 65)
Tokyo, Japan
|Entrepreneur, Industrialist
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|founder of Yamaha Corporation
Torakusu Yamaha (山葉 寅楠 Yamaha Torakusu; April 20, 1851, Kii Province – August 8, 1916) was a Japanese entrepreneur who was the founder of the Yamaha Corporation.
Yamaha was a watchmaker who built his first portable reed organ in 1887. Then, he became the president of Nippon Gakki Co. (later renamed the Yamaha Corporation) which makes Yamaha motorcycles and musical instruments.
The Yamaha brand trademark, YAMAHA, comes from the name of its founder Torakusu Yamaha who pioneered the production of Western musical instruments in Japan. Born to a family of a Kishu Tokugawa (today's Wakayama Prefecture) clansman, Torakusu was captivated by Western science and technology from early on. Fascinated by the watches that were gaining popularity in Osaka at the time, he took up watchmaking, studying business along the way. Over time, Torakusu began repairing medical equipment and was invited to visit a hospital in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture.
On one occasion, the hospital asked him if he would try to repair a reed organ. He agreed and was able to repair it successfully, marking the first step toward the birth of the Yamaha brand. Recognising its business potential, while repairing the organ, Torakusu created a blueprint for the inside of the organ, later creating his own prototype organ. To deliver it to the then Music Institute (today's Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music), Torakusu slung his creation over his shoulder on a carrying pole and crossed the mountains of Hakone. This historic trek was later immortalised as a bas-relief.
The organ, however, was criticised harshly for its poor tuning. Undaunted, and starting from zero, Torakusu began studying music theory and tuning. After four months of seemingly endless struggles from early morning to late at night, he was finally able to complete the organ. It is easy to see how he came up with the concept of the tuning fork mark, inspired by the difficult experience of studying tuning while holding a tuning fork in his hand.
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OSLO, Norway (AP) — American actress Sarah Jessica Parker praised the EU on Tuesday for winning the Nobel Peace Prize for pacifying Europe and uniting its different cultures after World War II, and she said the bloc should serve as an example to the United States, given the divisions its recent elections have brought to the surface.
Parker said that while it might be controversial to have awarded the 27-nation EU the prestigious award as it struggles with a financial crisis that is causing hardship to many, it is "a terrific blueprint for us," and one the U.S. should learn from.
"I don't know how we can't," she said in an interview before the Nobel Concert she is hosting with Scottish actor Gerard Butler. "It is also a story that we are trying to tell in our country. We are trying to say to one another: We are different. We are a divided nation, but our goals in many ways are the same.
"We have had two elections that have been really painful for our country."
Not everyone approved the decision to give the prize to the EU, which was created 60 years ago as Europe was struggling to recover from a war that killed millions of people. Three Peace Prize laureates — South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland and Adolfo Perez Esquivel from Argentina — said the bloc should not receive the $1.2 million in Peace Prize money because it relies on military force to ensure security.
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Michelle Osborn
Dr. Osborn has done extensive field work in Kenya, and her doctoral thesis, 'Authority in a Nairobi Slum: Chiefs and Bureaucracy in Kibera' examines local-level urban politics, focusing on the position of chief and how that authority has shifted due to changes in Kenyan rule. Dr. Osborn is currently in the process of publishing three other articles, which stem from her research, and is developing a new research project that will examine the role of chiefs within the new Kenyan constitution, which passed in 2010. Dr. Osborn specializes in political, urban, and medical anthropology in East...Read More
Karen Brison
Karen Brison, Professor (B.A., McGill, and Ph.D., University of California, San Diego)(on TAB for FA 2013, and on leave WI & SPR 2014), specializes in anthropology of childhood, religion and the study of language and culture. She lived and did research in Papua New Guinea for two years and published a book on oratory and village politics. She has also published a book about personal and cultural identity and a second book about social class in kindergartens in Fiji, where she started working in 1997. She is currently studying the participation of Fijians and Papua New Guineans in global Pentecostal networks.Read More
Linda E. Cool
Professor and Department Chair (B.A., Bryn Mawr, and Ph.D., Duke University), has conducted long-term research on the island of Corsica and in Paris, France on the development of regional/ethnic political movements, the changing roles of older people, and the relationship of land tenure, inheritance, and family structure from the eighteenth century to the present. In addition, she has focused on Portuguese immigration to California, especially the integration of immigrants from the Azores into both the Portuguese "colony" in California and the larger American society. Most recently, she has...Read More
George Gmelch
George Gmelch (B.A., Stanford and Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara) is a cultural anthropologist. He did his early research in Ireland among a nomadic group known as Tinkers or Travellers. Since then he has done research on migration in Ireland, Newfoundland and Barbados, studied the ecology of salmon fisherman in Alaska, Gypsies in England, professional baseball players in the United States, and tourism workers in Barbados and the Napa Valley. He is the author and editor of ten books and seventy articles dealing with these subjects.Read More
Sharon Bohn Gmelch
(B.A., Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara) is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in ethnic identity, visual anthropology, and tourism. She has conducted research with Irish Travellers, Barbadian villagers, Tlingit Indians in Alaska, and tourist guides in several countries. She is the author and editor of six books and the co-producer of an ethnographic film on the Tlingit.
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Stephen C. Leavitt
Stephen Leavitt, on leave, (B.A., Swarthmore and Ph.D., University of California at San Diego) is a psychological anthropologist who has written on religious movements, family relations, sexuality, adolescence, and responses to bereavement. He and his wife Karen Brison supervise a term abroad in Fiji, where students learn the fundamentals of anthropological field work while living independently with families in different villages. Leavitt's research in Fiji involves self definition in the age of postcolonial development.
Prof. Leavitt did his doctoral field research in 1984-1986 among the Bumbita Arapesh people of the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. His primary research looked at how a contemporary religious revival movement was informed both by local colonial history and by continued emotional conflicts in family relationships.
Steve Leavitt is on extended leave from the department while serving as Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students. He may be reached at 518-388-6116 or by email.
Robert N. Samet
Robert N. Samet, Assistant Professor (B.A. Duke University, M.A. Columbia University, Ph.D. Stanford University), specializes in media, urban violence, and the politics of security in Latin America. A legal and political anthropologist, he has been conducting fieldwork in Venezuela since 2006. His first research project was alongside crime journalists in Caracas. It is the subject of a book manuscript in progress Who's Afraid of Caracas?: Sovereignty and Spectacles of Security in Venezuela. Currently, he is beginning a pair of new research projects. The first is on security as it relates to...Read More
Jeffrey Witsoe
Jeffrey Witsoe (B.A. University of California, Santa Cruz, M.A. University of Chicago, and Ph.D. University of Cambridge) has done research focusing on a critical rethinking of democracy and the postcolonial state through an examination of lower-caste politics in Bihar, a populous state in north India where he has been engaged in ethnographic research since 2000. He is the author of a forthcoming book, Democracy Against Development (University of Chicago Press) and several articles and book chapters on lower-caste politics in India. His current research explores the political economy of...Read More


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Noob on B.S but followed the clumsyninja here to plus one his point.
Can't watch the vid im Strikistanian's post as its set to private..liking the others tho for sure..my opinion is worthless on MMA but enjoying the fights, good on ya for stepping up and doing what you love and what a large part of this forum is about!
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Guy Who Pays the Bills and Gets the Death Threats Style: MMA (Retired)3
Every time the discussion of whether Bullshido should sponsor big name fighters comes up, I always point out that we have fighters here that we have our own fighters here, like Kin, we should focus on helping get their start in MMA.
We could set up a training camp fund for Kin (or others), possibly. Perhaps a "fighter sponsor" tag or something could accompany donations.
Getting subbed via guillotine verses Kin at an early throwdown, allowed me to know how to later survive a neck crank with ill intent by a larger opponent in a str33t situation.
Mark my words, should I find my success, I'll actively work to further/support his career, in any way that I can.


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I was 10 years old on 9/11, when the towers fell and I lost my father. Here's what Osama bin Laden's death means to me.
I was in the fifth grade when it happened. I had just arrived at school. My teacher picked up the phone in our classroom, and I could tell something wasn't right. He hung up and told me to go to the office. My mom was there, hysterically crying. That was 10 years ago, but I still remember her face. She said someone had flown a plane into the World Trade Center and we hadn't heard anything from Dad. By the time we got home, Tower Two had just fallen.
My dad worked on the 103rd floor of the first tower. He was the director of global infrastructure at Cantor Fitzgerald. The day before he died, I remember, we had a really good night. He was quoting from the Pink Panther movies that we used to watch and chasing me around the house. Then he had to pick up my sister from somewhere, so I went to bed. That was the last time I ever saw him.
It took me awhile to accept he was gone. It was all so surreal. At 10 years old you don't understand that much. My mom said the thing she'll never forget was when, about two weeks after the towers fell, she finally came to me and said we're going to start preparations for a memorial service. I told her, "Absolutely not. I know where Dad is: he's walking home." She said that broke her heart.
After Dad died, I kind of started latching onto things. Baseball was my thing, because it was one of the sports my dad and I did together. He coached me from when I was little. He came home from work -every day to see me play. After 9/11, my mom begged the coach not to hesitate to let me play. I was back playing a few days later. That helped tremendously.
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TELL CITY - Voters in Troy Township, except those in the Cannelton school district, may vote in a Nov. 3 referendum on further construction work at Tell City High School.
Schools Superintendent Ron Etienne said at a regular school-board meeting Tuesday he may be able to get interest-free stimulus funding for $2 million worth of the $10 million in further work, for which a 1028 hearing will begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the high-school auditorium.
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TELL CITY - The Perry County Substance Abuse Committee awarded grants totaling more than $59,000 during a breakfast July 8 at Bill & Dave's Smokin' Pit. Awards serve local schools, police departments and service providers working to crub the fight against substance abuse.
As in past years, grants were awarded in three areas, prevention and education, law enforcement and justice, and treatment and intervention.
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TELL CITY - As the county commissioners approved a number of budgets for 2010 July 6, one noted that the highway department's budget would lose $411,000 due to a lack of gas sales in the county.
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TELL CITY - A Tell City man arrested last week for two counts of dealing in marijuana was released Friday after no formal charges were filed.
Aaron M. Brown, 21, of 13516 Old State Road 37, Tell City, was released from the county jail. As Monday's News reported, Brown was allegedly spotted July 7 selling marijuana near the John F. Kennedy Pool. In most cases the state has 48 hours from an arrest to file criminal charges. Prosecutors could refile charges later.
TELL CITY - One of the popular events from last year's sesquicentennial is back in 2009: Scavenger hunts.
This year's hunts will involve businesses in the city. The Perry County Chamber of Commerce has hidden a wooden token outside a Tell City business. Here are the clues for finding the token. Remember, the token is outside the business.
"Now that you have your copy of The Perry County News, start looking for the wooden token downtown. Start at Tassels and work your way to Lincoln Hills Development Corp.
TELL CITY - The Perry County Convention and Visitors Bureau is wrapping up work on a new visitors guide. As a promotion, coupons in the guide allow guests to receive a free gift at the CVB office.
The bureau is looking for businesses who want to partner in the project, said Bev Minto, executive director of the bureau.
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The Egyptians have overthrown the 30-year autocratic reign of Mubarak for police brutality, a never-ending state of emergency, no free elections, no free speech, government corruption, willful negligence over the plight of the people, high unemployment rates, low wages for the employed, high food price inflation, and most important, no hope of change for the future. The new "caretaker" government is the military with the defense minister as nominal head of state. While this may look like change, it really isn't as the military has been running Egypt since 1956 when Nasser established his rule. However it's possible that the military, rarely a supporter of democratic traditions, will permit open elections. No matter who or what rules Egypt, certain economic facts will not go away. The longevity of whoever or whatever replaces Mubarak depends on how these are handled.
Egypt is a nation of young people. The median splits the shaded age profile into two equal areas, which, as seen below, is somewhere between 25 and 30 years.
There are virtually no employment opportunities for the young — hence the venting of frustration in Tahrir Square. Interestingly, Egypt has allowed Chinese imports to close its factories exacerbating the unemployment problem. One course of action that could be taken is to ban Chinese imports to force the factory owners to stop importing, which is far easier than running factories, and reopen the factories to restore the domestic economy.
Why can't low waged Egyptian workers be able to compete with the Chinese? I recently purchased a "Made in U.S." food blender whose price was about the same as the imports. The mantra that U.S. workers can't compete just isn't true. The Chrysler slogan "Imported from Detroit" hits the nail on the head. If it's possible for U.S. workers to compete with the Chinese, certainly Egyptian workers can.
The other problem is population growth, which has averaged 2.2% over the last 40 years. While this does not sound particularly high, the Egyptian population is marching merrily along pushing the outskirts of Cairo to the very edge of the Pyramids.
2.2% sounds modest, but at this rate, the population doubles about every 33 years; or, around 2045 there will be 160 million Egyptians. Agricultural land is finite. The Egyptians have been able to increase their agricultural output thanks to the Aswan Dam, although output is suffering in the Nile Delta with the cessation of the annual floods. Increases in food production have been brought about by more land under cultivation and greater reliance on fertilizers. But Egyptian agriculture cannot keep up with the growing population. Egyptian imports of foodstuffs were limited after the Aswan Dam was built. Today, 44% of wheat and corn, stables in the Egyptian diet, must be imported.
Egypt does export about 1 million tons of rice annually plus cotton, another agricultural crop. However, as the Egyptian population grows, food imports will have to increase. A portion of these imports falls under the U.S. Foreign Aid program; that is, paid for by U.S. taxpayers.
Egypt earns foreign exchange by tourism, Suez Canal and Sumed pipeline tolls, export of natural gas to Israel, and oil exports. As the following chart shows, revenue from oil exports is history.
The trend lines indicate that Egypt will be importing oil, placing a further drain on the nation's balance of payments, which has switched in recent years from positive to negative.
What Does This All Mean?
It means that the United States will be on the hook to keep Egypt in the western camp. We cannot afford to have Egypt fail no more than we could afford to have Mubarak fail. Only this time it is going to be far more expensive because of rising expectations of the Egyptian people. Of course, it would be in the interests of Saudi Arabia to also contribute to avoid an extremist government in Egypt, but if history is a guide, they won't give one red cent. Egypt will turn out to be another large welfare burden placed on the backs of U.S. taxpayers.
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One does not have to be a Middle East expert to realize that other Arab governments are worried and have every right to be worried. They are, as a group, uncaring autocratic regimes that treat their people badly, stifle expression, plunder what little the people have offering next-to-nothing in return. Everyone is guessing who'll blow up next with a list of candidates that encompass just about every nation in the region including Saudi Arabia.
My eyes are on Iran. The collapse of that regime will compensate for whatever losses may be suffered from the fall of other regimes that we have unsuccessfully propped up. Ahwishihadabrain rejoices in the uprising in Arab nations as a blow against the United States and Israel. A few days ago, Iranians held a nation-wide demonstration to mark the 32th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution victory with massive crowds, waving flags and chanting "Death to Mubarak!" and "Death to America!" These staged demonstrations may turn into un-staged riots. Iranians have taken to the streets before to voice their dissatisfaction with a government intent on turning loose the demons of destruction to force the appearance of the 12th Iman. What are the mullahs going to do if millions of demonstrators are marching in the streets of Teheran? Order the police and military to shoot them all? It'll be far easier for the police and military to shoot all the mullahs.
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