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Clinical Conversation: The Black Woman's Psyche presents a workshop on The Blame, Shame, and Fame of "The Angry Black Woman" Building upon the discussion from the Black Woman's Psyche Round Table, the African American Women's Circle invites you to join … Read More
English grammar often seems arbitrary and mean, burdening students with unnecessary anxiety over writing their papers "correctly." This workshop proposes to help students fill in some of the gaps, but will also help students see the method behind English madness. … Read More
Inspired by U.S. Black History legacy, we will gather to reflect on lessons of empowerment and resistance learned from the civil rights movement and how these may apply to the case of immigration. Discussion will focus on the intersections of … Read More
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Our 42nd Annual Commencement exercises will be held on Sunday, June 22, 2014 at 3:00 p.m. at Royce Hall. Congratulations to our 2014 student speakers! Bridge Program – Manuel Mora BA in Liberal Studies- Misty Dawn Spicer MA in Education- … Read More
We are supporting the Food Bank's mission to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. 1 in 6 people in L.A. County experiences hunger. More than 1,000,000 people, including 400,000 children, are served through Food Bank programs annually. We … Read More
The Queer Studies Minor Concentration in Antioch University's Undergraduate Program and Lambda Literary's Emerging Writers Workshop present a special evening of the nation's most promising LGBT Writers. 7:00 pm Reception hosted by the Creative Writing Concentration in the Undergraduate Program 7:30 pm … Read More
Antioch University Los Angeles and Young Nonprofit Professional Network present: Learning to Lead The first of a three part workshop series designed to put you in the drivers seat of your career. Strategize your Future: This FREE dynamic workshop offers your … Read More
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Come have supper with us! Speaker Gopal Dayaneni, Climate Justice Fellow Eat a delicious vegan meal served by Sustainable Organic Local (SOL) Catering Cooperative Space is limited, so RSVP to email@example.com as soon as you can!
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Microaggressions and Everyday Life: A Guide to Battling Everyday Discrimination with Dr. Kevin Nadal This presentation will focus on microaggressions – subtle, often unconscious forms of bias and discrimination that negatively affect people, particularly those of historically marginalized identity groups. … Read More
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Join the Addiction Studies concentration for its one-year anniversary celebration! Celebrating community college addiction studies programs Speakers include Dr. Karen Gehart and Dr. Carlton Blanton Students will present demonstrations of learning Four CEUs available for CATC credential Lunch provided RSVP … Read More
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Join us in the library for our 2015 Tuesday workshop series! Brought to you by the AULA Library and the Teaching & Learning Center. – Time Management and Academic Success workshop will be led by Sylvie Taylor – Workshops are … Read More
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Unconditional Positive Regard: An installation of photographs by artist and AULA BA adjunct faculty Audrey Mandelbaum. February 3rd – March 3rd, 2015 | Throughout the 1st floor of Antioch University's Los Angeles campus Unconditional Positive Regard is a photographic project … Read More
Agency 102: Taking Control of Your Professional Career This workshop will emphasize strategies for taking a proactive approach to the development of your future career. Approaches to leveraging your educational experiences into professional contacts and employment opportunities will be discussed. … Read More
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Finding a church home is one of the most important things you can do. In a society where people are often separated from family and friends, it is nice to know that there is a place where you can be loved and accepted; where people are important and involved in making a difference in the world; where you can feel at home.
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UHCAN – Universal Health Care Action NetworkOver 20 years fighting for health care justice: affordable, comprehensive health care for all!
Metro NY Health Care for All Campaign (2010)
Cleveland, OH medical students (2015)
Connecting & Supporting
state and local health care justice groups and connecting them to national organizations working for health care justice
Moral Mondays/North Carolina NAACP (2014)
Forging Relationships
between the health care justice movement and other social and economic justice movements
The fight for health care justice is far from over. Many organizations are working hard to implement the Affordable Care Act, counteract efforts to delay or obstruct it, expand Medicaid in their states, defend against threats to undermine Medicaid and Medicare, eliminate disparities in health care, get coverage for all immigrants and move forward wherever possible toward affordable, quality health care for all.
We believe that the success of health care reform in our country hinges on the connections the health care justice movement makes with other justice struggles, so UHCAN also promotes building relationships with other struggles for social and economic justice.
National Calls & Alerts
UHCAN hosts national conference calls for health care justice leaders that cover a broad range of issues and campaigns, both state and national, important to the health care justice movement.
July 2016 UHCAN Call Agenda
What's health care's stake in the broad, new coalitions around campaign finance reform? Getter HOTTER: The ongoing fight on big insurance company mergers … What do the attacks on the VA health system mean for health justice?read more
Sign-on letter to DOJ re health insurance mega-mergers – Sign by June 23rd!
Up until very recently, there wasn't much hope that these mergers might be stopped, but that is changing.read more
Challenging Big Health Insurance Mergers: How-tos & resources
When insurers merge, consumers pay more. Premiums go up significantly, the networks are narrowed, and doctors are forced into assembly-line health care. The number of competitors clearly impacts how much consumers pay. Allowing five industry giants to become three, which is what these two sets of mergers will do, will be a horrible recipe for consumers."read more
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Street Medics: Health care justice on the streets of Cleveland
The local group for Street Medics, Rust Belt Medics, has trained and mobilized well over 100 volunteers to provide first aid to protesters and others caught up in events at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this week. The history of Street Medics dates back to their origins in 1964 in the Civil Rights Movementread more
Pressure builds to stop insurance mega-mergers
"The regulatory process is inadequate and failing the American public. It's time for the Department of Justice to take a good hard look at what's going on and do the right thing. These mergers should be stopped."read more
Is There a Cure for High Drug Prices? – Analysis from Consumer Reports
Our analysis suggests that high prices for generic and brand-name drugs stem in part from a battle over profit between mammoth industries—big pharma and insurance companies—with consumers caught in the middle.read more


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Earnings season is in full swing, but what holds the key for the market's next move? » Read More
All eyes are on earnings this week as 30 percent of the Nasdaq 100 reports — and traders are expecting some big moves from some of the names.
Shares of Deere and other leading farm machinery stocks were plowed down after Piper Jaffray predicted a longer ag downtuwn.
Analysts initiated shares of Allergan at an "outperform" rating, saying its diversified drug pipeline is underappreciated by investors.
Kimberly-Clark dipped more than 1 percent Monday even after the company surpassed earnings estimates.
All election outcomes point to "downside to U.S. equities" into year-end, according to HSBC.
Shares of Outerwall jumped Monday after the company announced it would be bought for $1.6 billion by funds managed by Apollo Global Management.
Cramer said he is excited for what Verizon's $4.8 billion deal to buy Yahoo means for AOL CEO Tim Armstrong.
Santander Consumer USA looks to resolve issues regarding "discount accretion and credit loss allowance methodologies."
Wall Street is bracing for a lackluster earnings report quarter when Apple reports on Tuesday.
Shares of software company Tableau dipped Monday after analysts at Deutsche Bank downgraded the stock to "hold" from "buy".
Susquehanna just upgraded Mondelez to positive from neutral.
The final week of July is guaranteed to be one of the busiest of summer. The coming week is packed with potential market movers.
If you're riding the record breaking S&P 500 rally, you'll want to see this chart.
Some of the names on the move ahead of the open.
CEO Mark Dunkerley said lower fuel costs and strong demand propelled the strong quarterly results.
Cosmetics company L'Oreal has agreed to buy IT Cosmetics for $1.2 billion.
In a world of disappearing market returns and negative interest rates, the search for growth has become increasingly difficult, Goldman Sachs says.
Sell Pandora shares on weak profit potential, Pacific Crest said.
Despite Chipotle stock's 5 percent jump on Friday, some analysts are telling investors not to buy.
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Saudis Seek to Extend Influence-Buying With Lebanon Arms
Saudi Arabia's decision to send $3 billion of military aid to Lebanon's army is the latest sign of an increasingly assertive foreign policy that seeks to buy regional influence and counter Iranian power.
Saudi Arabia is spending billions to support its allies, and funneling money to confront its enemies, so far with little success in achieving either. The Arab world's largest economy has stepped up assistance to allies across the region, including $5 billion to the Egyptian authorities who overthrew President Mohamed Mursi, growing support for mainly Sunni rebels battling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and $3.25 billion for Yemen last year.
"Simply writing checks will not resolve deep-rooted causes of instability, especially in Yemen and Lebanon," said Paul Sullivan, a Middle East specialist at Georgetown University in Washington. "The $3 billion to Lebanon is to buy arms. This could lead to increased instability in that area depending on how the arms are used."
Lebanon is being destabilized by the sectarian conflict in Syria, which has become a proxy war pitting Saudi Arabia, the Gulf's leading Sunni power, against Shiite Iran and its proteges such as the Lebanese Hezbollah militant group. In Egypt, military targets are regularly attacked as violence escalates since the army toppled Mursi in July. Security in Yemen's capital Sana'a has deteriorated as al-Qaeda continues to attack government targets, raising concerns that Saudi Arabia's southern neighbor could become a failed state.
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Tensions between Sunni Muslims and Shiites in Lebanon have become especially acute because of the conflict in neighboring Syria, and are reviving concerns that the country may slip back into a civil war as tit-for-tat sectarian attacks intensify.
A car bomb killed former Finance Minister Mohamad Chatah, a Sunni Muslim and a member of a Western-backed coalition, in Beirut on Dec. 27. Other attacks targeted Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group, the Iranian embassy and supporters of Assad.
Saudi Arabia offered assistance to support Lebanon's army so it can protect the country from the threat of "sectarianism and extremism," Lebanon's President Michel Suleiman said yesterday. "Strengthening the army is a national and popular demand of everyone," he said in a televised speech.
'Important Gaps'
Lebanon will use the aid to buy arms from France, Suleiman said, adding that he hoped "Paris would accept this initiative quickly." The assistance was discussed by Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and French President Francois Hollande in their meeting this week in Saudi Arabia, Suleiman said, according to the country's National News Agency.
Lebanon will likely get defensive weapons, and arms that aren't a threat to neighboring Israel, retired Lebanese General Hisham Jaber, who served as military attache to France in the 1990s, said. The arms "will fill important gaps," he said.
Some of the French companies likely to benefit from the deal are government-owned Nexter Systems SA, which makes assault rifles, armored vehicles, and Eurocopter, which makes helicopters and is a unit of EADS, according to Jaber. Thales SA, which makes communications systems and MBDA, which makes anti-tank missiles, may also provide weapons to Lebanon.
Tighter Convergence
France and Saudi Arabia support "the Syrian opposition, which seeks to establish democracy and peace," Hollande said during a press conference in Riyadh on Dec. 29, as cited by the official Saudi Press Agency. The two countries have "agreement and identical positions on Lebanon's affairs," he said.
A convergence of Saudi and French interests in Syria and Lebanon "is leading to a tighter alignment between the two," Austin, Texas-based consulting firm Stratfor said in an e-mailed report today. France has "deep historical linkages" and has been "the most ardent" Western supporter of Syrian rebels, it said.
"It is too early to tell whether the Saudi-French partnership will achieve its goals, but their joint effort will undoubtedly aggravate matters in Lebanon, and the wider war in the Levant will continue to intensify," Stratfor said.
Saudi aid seeks to "counterbalance a long and deep Iranian investment in the Middle East and to compensate for the American withdrawal from the diplomatic scene" after its decision not to attack Syria in September, said Sami Nader, a professor of international relations at Beirut's St. Joseph University.
Sectarian Mosaic
The arms will bolster Lebanon's army and so counter Hezbollah's argument that it can't disband before there's a strong central military that can protect the country, Nader said. "A strong army is a strong state, a strong state is at the expense of any internal militia."
Still, the Lebanese army reflects Lebanon's sectarian mosaic of Christians, Shiites and Sunni Muslims, and in Tripoli it has failed to halt sectarian battles.
Even if the army gets more weapons, "it can't do much without political cover," said Riad Kahwaji, director of the Institute for Near East & Gulf Military Analysis in Dubai.
Saudi Arabia, which has historically acted behind the scenes in the Middle East, has adopted a more activist and public diplomatic approach in the past year. Saudi officials were particularly incensed when the U.S. decided not to attack Assad's Syria after chemical weapons were used in the country in August. Some royals have also expressed doubts about the Iranian nuclear accord negotiated with six outside powers, including the U.S., last month, even as the official response was cautious.
Arab Uprisings
The conflict in Syria began in March 2011 with peaceful protests, part of a series of uprisings that swept rulers of Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya from power. Saudi Arabia and the U.S. negotiated to end 11 months of protests in Yemen two years ago and led a push for donors to provide $6.4 billion in aid to the poorest country in the Middle East. The kingdom also provided Egypt with financial aid after Mursi's removal.
"Yemen is a basket case," Sullivan said. "The Saudi money might help to bolster the present government, but the causes of its instability are far more complex and deep rooted than a few billion could resolve. Egypt's sources of potential instability also cannot be cured by throwing money at them."
Senior Saudi royals, including Prince Turki al-Faisal, the former head of the kingdom's intelligence department, and Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz, Saudi Ambassador to London, have called for a more pro-active Saudi approach to regional developments.
"We believe that many of the West's policies on both Iran and Syria risk the stability and security of the Middle East," Prince Mohammed wrote in the New York Times on Dec. 17, "This is a dangerous gamble, about which we cannot remain silent, and will not stand idly by."


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Too High, Too Far, Too Soon is the humorous, tragic and searingly honest memoir of a man who survived childhood tragedy, Catholic boarding school and chronic drug addiction. Simon Mason graphically details his experience of teenage angst in a tatty seaside town before he ran away to London and then onwards to the crack-infested streets of LA. He recounts his numerous decadent adventures at Glastonbury Festival and the notoriety that came during his stint as personal chemist to the biggest bands of the '90s, before he himself descended into a helpless period of heroin addiction. After several incidents of petty crime stemming from his drug problem, Simon launched numerous failed attempts to become a bona fide rock 'n' roll star and even more failed attempts to get clean, finally being 'rescued' by Banksy from a stolen camper van, covered in blood in the Spanish countryside. Too High, Too Far, Too Soon is a rock 'n' roll memoir with a difference, written by a man who lived the life and attained the drug habits of the most extreme rock stars, yet whose attempts to break through to the big time always eluded him.
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Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Nicholas Carr. Quaz4r comments on Physics misconceptions stickied thread: What are popular misconceptions about physics, and who is at fault? Is there something you've heard about physics that may be a misconception? Rosemary85 comments on As a historian, do you edit Wikipedia? How are the quality of articles on Wikipedia for your field of history? Mehworth comments on WATCH: Rand Paul Says Dick Cheney Pushed for the Iraq War so Halliburton Would Profit. /u/mywan explains why the older generations tend to be more blind to police misconduct than the younger generations. : bestof. Thebusterbluth comments on Highway 401 at Dixie Road [3485x2032]
Teens of Reddit what's cool nowadays? : AskReddit. Hobby Lobby and contraception: How conservative evangelicals went from not caring about abortion and birth control to being obsessed with them. Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images In its challenge to the "contraception mandate" of the Affordable Care Act, Hobby Lobby claims that certain forms of birth control—Plan B, "ella," and IUDs—induce abortion and therefore go against the owners' religious beliefs.
The government's response is that none of these contraceptives ends a pregnancy. _AnonymousCoward_ comments on ELI5: Why do Americans put so much importance on the thoughts of their founding fathers? Dwwo explains why corporate income tax isn't as big a problem as it's made out to be. : bestof. As an Australian I have grown up with universal health care and see it as a necessity in a western democracy. Im curious, why is it Americans are against "Obama Care" or universal health care for all? : AskReddit.
Britain's five richest families worth more than poorest 20% : worldnews. If Other Businesses Worked Like the Cable Company. Where Good Grows - Recycle. WGG Use Terms These Use Terms form part of the Service's Terms and incorporate WGG's General Terms by reference.
This means that the General Terms supplement these Use Terms and you are bound by them as part of your contract with WGG. Important Provisions Our Terms contain a number of words and phrases which have specific meanings and most of which are capitalised. Our Glossary contains these words and phrases. Texpeare comments on Why do actors in modern movies today feel more "real" than the acting we see in old movies like Casablanca? /u/DashingLeech ELI5 in /r/politics the importance of unions in the free market. : bestof. Wilbarp comments on Did celebrity efforts like Band Aid's "Do they know it's Christmas?" and USA for Africa's "We Are The World" actually help alleviate famine in the 1980s? She Thinks Too Much [Such Girls Are Dangerous] My Grandfather's childhood toy : WTF. That's Zef: The True Story Behind Die Antwoord's Mysterious Style. Ghostalker474 comments on Rant: A good portion of people I deal with are incompetent, not just IT staff.
Take a Look At These Fascinating Happiness-Related Word Clouds. A thoughtful reader sent me the link to Michael Kelley's piece, "Scientists Used Facebook for the Largest Ever Study of Language and Personality, about a fascinating study done by University of Pennsylvania researchers, "Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media."
They used 700 million words, phrases, and topic instances taken from Facebook, from 75,000 volunteers, to analyze linguistic patterns. This might not sound fascinating, but looking at the word clouds generated by this study is riveting. They generated word clouds that track the traits of introversion and extroversion, neuroticism and emotional stability, gender, and age. It's quite funny to compare the word clouds generated by 13-18 year old, 19-22 year olds, 23-29 year olds, and 30-65 year olds (I didn't notice an explanation of why they picked these particular age groupings).
Chinese immigrants find Australian small talk too awkward. Are language skills alone enough to ensure overseas Chinese fit well into their new home?
The answer is no, according to a study of the social experience of recent Chinese immigrants in Australia, which found that their biggest barrier to communication is not language or knowledge, but the ability to make small talk. The experience of 25-year-old Fei - a financial adviser who has lived in Melbourne for seven years, speaks fluent English and considers himself outgoing - is typical.
Every time the company holds a social function, he's reluctant to join, he says. His First 4 Sentences Are Interesting. The 5th Blew My Mind. And Made Me A Little Sick. John Green: Good morning, Hank, it's Tuesday.
I wanted to talk today about why healthcare costs in the United States are so phenomenally, fascinatingly expensive, but first I have to blow your mind. Alright, so you've probably heard that the reason people enjoy "free" healthcare in Australia and the UK and Canada, etc., etc., is that they pay higher taxes. That money then goes into a big pot and is used to pay for peoples' healthcare. But IN FACT, in the United States, we spend more tax money per capita on healthcare than Germany, Australia, the United Kingdom, or Canada. YkLLtyl.jpg (309×600) The World of 100 : Toby Ng Design. The Science of Familiar Strangers: Society's Hidden Social Network. We've all experienced the sense of being familiar with somebody without knowing their name or even having spoken to them.
These so-called "familiar strangers" are the people we see every day on the bus on the way to work, in the sandwich shop at lunchtime, or in the local restaurant or supermarket in the evening. These people are the bedrock of society and a rich source of social potential as neighbours, friends, or even lovers. But while many researchers have studied the network of intentional links between individuals—using mobile-phone records, for example—little work has been on these unintentional links, which form a kind of hidden social network.
Thenextosama.com. Paula Deen's Racist Wedding Fantasy Was Once Reality. Paula Deen is in trouble.
Last month, in a deposition for a discrimination suit brought by an employee, the Food Network star blithely admitted to using racial slurs. Perhaps equally disturbing, she also said she had fantasized about throwing a slavery-themed wedding for her brother, an idea that came to her after eating at a restaurant with an all-black staff.
Deen has apologized, though the Food Network has announced that it won't renew her contract. Generation X: An Inconvenient Era. A data-based look at the financial context of the past 30 years from the perspective of Gen X.
I am honored to publish an insightful essay by longtime contributor Eric A. on the inconvenient financial era Generation X finds itself in. What sets this essay apart from most other generational analyses is its focus on data and charts. In The Brewing Generational Conflict (May 15, 2013), I mentioned the Cultural Monster Id (CMI) that arises whenever inter-generational emotions are freely expressed. Every generation-- the Baby Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y/Millennials--is slammed for its supposed character flaws. Generation X: An Inconvenient Era. I don't hate millennials anymore! Is 'Adventure Time' One Big Allegory For Discovering Sex? Cuber presents five more short graybles in latest "Adventure Time.
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This early reader book is a sweet bedtime story about a bear who wants to share a story before he goes in to hibernation for the winter. The only problem is that everyone else is preparing to hibernate as well, so bear has no one to share his story with. When he wakes up, he no longer remembers his story, but he finds that he and his friends have created a story all their own. I didn't discover any profound message or deep human implication from this story, but by the end I did feel sleepy. I suppose if I were a parent of young children, I would look for books that made my kids feel sleepy at bedtime above all else.
I liked this book because in the end all of the bears friends got together and helped the bear remember and tell the story that he had been wanting to tell.
This is a fantasy book about a bear who is about to hibernate for the winter but has a story he wants to tell to his friends. All of his friends (a variety of different animals) are getting ready for the winter too, though, and don't have enough time to listen to his story, but bear helps his friends get ready for winter. After bear's hibernation, he forgets his story, but his friends help him remember. This is a really great animal fantasy book because it's believable - the animals can talk and have very human emotions while still doing normal animal things. The animals illustrate kindness and loving friendships. I would use this book to talk about what good friendships look like and how we should do our best to help our friends in need. This is a good book to talk about patience with as well. The illustrations are oil paintings.
As the title suggests, this story is about a bear with a story to tell before hibernation. He goes and visits all his animal friends, but ends up in a cycle of not remembering the story, hibernating, making the book a full circle. It's a good fantasy because it incorporates that talking animals with the natural process of hibernation, making this book a great possibility for teaching in a science setting as well as reading.
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Bear really wants to tell a story to all his friends, but they are too busy getting ready for winter. When spring comes around and his friends are ready to listen he forgets his story. They come up with a story together and the book makes a full circle starting and ending with the same sentence. GENRE: fantasy. USES: to teach seasons, talk about working together. MEDIA: watercolor and pencil.
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New Findings Help Balance the Cosmological Books
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Published: February 9, 1999
CHICAGO— In a kind of summit conference on the universe, the world's leading cosmologists have assessed their theories and pronounced them healthy, saying that a wealth of new research that at first seemed puzzling turns out to strengthen the intellectual framework that has shaped decades of debate about the origin and evolution of the universe.
The astonishing discovery last year that the universe's expansion is not slowing down, as assumed, but seems to be speeding up jolted theorists of the Big Bang whose concept for the explosive beginning and expanding evolution of the universe had, as Sir Martin Rees of Cambridge University in England put it, ''lived dangerously for 30 years.''
An indispensable corollary, introduced in 1981 and known as inflation, had breathed new vitality into the theory with a plausible explanation of how, in its first microseconds, the universe made the transition from initially featureless conditions to the ripples out of which mighty galaxies would grow. But scientists had been short on evidence to support the reality of inflation.
So, in a six-day meeting that ended here on Wednesday, the cosmologists were relieved to find their inflationary Big Bang theory more robust than ever.
''Two years ago, we couldn't have had this meeting,'' said Dr. Michael S. Turner of the University of Chicago, who organized the Pritzker Symposium and Workshop on the Status of Inflationary Cosmology. ''We didn't have the data. Now we do, and the data say we have a flat universe.''
Flatness is the large-scale geometry for the universe predicted by the inflation concept. It means that the expanding universe will not collapse or thin out into infinity, but should maintain a gravitational balance between the two alternatives through a coasting expansion.
The cosmologists were also a little surprised by the outbreak of good feelings over issues that used to provoke intellectual donnybrooks. No one questioned the Big Bang itself, which would not have been the case earlier in the decade.
Only a few entered mild objections when Dr. Alan Guth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, originator of the first inflation concept, proclaimed, ''Everything about inflation is incredibly solid,'' adding, ''It's hard to imagine any alternative.''
Yielding to this triumphal spirit, some of the bolder theorists seemed eager to crack even grander cosmic mysteries, like the possible existence of many more universes. Perhaps believing that cosmology abhors a vacuum of dispute, these bold ones stunned their colleagues by recommending the controversial anthropic principle be applied in determining the nature and properties of forces and matter in the universe. In anthropic reasoning, simply put, the physical laws of the universe must be such that they allow for the existence of humans.
The primordial spurt of inflation would seem to meet the anthropic standard. Inflation was supposed to leave on space an imprint of ripples, temperature fluctuations as microwave signatures of slight density variations.
The Cosmic Background Explorer spacecraft detected these signatures in 1991, and more detailed observations recently have convinced scientists that these are the seedbeds of all the large structure that eventually appeared in the universe, the stars and galaxies and clusters of galaxies. Without them, there would be no intelligent life.
Cosmologists had thus traced the ultimate origin of galaxies back to the first instant after the Big Bang, and inflation, they said, had passed a critical test.
They also felt they were coming close, or close enough, to knowing the age of the universe: probably somewhere between 13 billion and 15 billion years old.
Two teams of astronomers still feud over differing calculations, with Dr. Wendy Freedman of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, Calif., preparing refined data for a report in June.
But at least new research shows that, contrary to earlier reported estimates that were paradoxical and highly embarrassing, the oldest stars are not older than the universe.
All could agree that the evidence of a low-density universe is overwhelming.
There is not enough mass in ordinary matter, the stuff of stars, planets and people, or even the hypothesized exotic particles called cold dark matter to stop the universe from expanding forever.
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Revival of a Concept Einstein Discarded
If standard models of inflationary cosmology are correct, a universe that does not eventually collapse on itself (a closed universe) or expand forever into infinity (an open one) should have a critical density, expressed as omega equals one, and a flat geometry. The gravity of a critical density should slow expansion to a kind of coasting equilibrium between collapse and vanishing infinity.
By most measures reported at the meeting, based on studies of the light and motions of galaxy clusters, the density of mass in the universe may be no more than 20 to 30 or at most 40 percent of the theorized critical density. Only 5 percent is in the readily observed form of luminous stars, and perhaps another 10 percent is composed largely of the interstellar clouds of hydrogen gas. The rest is presumably mostly cold dark matter, unknown and so far undetectable.
Even the discovery, reported last year, that pervasive subatomic particles known as neutrinos have a slight mass does not add enough to the cosmic density to be significant, scientists said.


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What Were We Talking About?
By Maggie Jackson
(Prometheus, 327 pages, $25.95)
According to the received wisdom, computers are a godsend for productivity. Word processors relieve us of the burdens of flawless typing; digital files zip onscreen faster than the paper kind can be found and are easily mined for the smallest detail; and the Internet, with its document sharing and virtual conferencing, offers new paths to smooth workplace collaboration.
But the practical experience of working in a modern office can be remarkably frazzled. Instant-communications technology and the natural impatience of co-workers and bosses can create an unholy alliance designed, it seems, to rob the workday of any sustained interval of unbroken attention to a particular task. Social life, allegedly enhanced as networks of acquaintances wire themselves over networks of computer hardware, can be equally jumpy, with constant "friend requests" and "status updates." From email to instant messaging to Twitter – an update service devoted to what-are-you-doing-at-this-moment inanity – the interval between interruptions appears to be approaching zero.
In "Distracted," the free-lance writer Maggie Jackson takes a searching look at this trend, especially the distractions that technology has helped to bring about. The result is a scattershot tour that ranges from anthropology and neuroscience to fast food and the rites of meditating monks. Along the way, Ms. Jackson samples from the thinking of a series of experts – often described as visionaries or mavericks – who study our habits of attentiveness and diversion. The result is more reverie than argument, but "Distracted" does concentrate the mind on a real problem of modern life.
In the workplace, a distracted knowledge worker is a fallow asset. Thus current research into worker habits is especially valuable. In the spirit of Fredrick W. Taylor's scientific management, Ms. Jackson reports, researchers have found that workers "typically change tasks every three minutes" and "take about twenty-five minutes to return to an interrupted task . . . usually plugging into two other work projects in the interim." By one estimate, "interruptions take up to 2.1 hours of an average worker's day and cost the US economy $588 billion a year." Many distractions turn out to be self-initiated: It appears that we just can't wait to read the next email or blog entry or check to see what might be happening in an online discussion.
Ms. Jackson, a working mother and columnist on work-life balance, has a keen eye for the fractured dynamics of family life. One of the pursuits from which we are distracted, she finds, is the home-cooked meal, a ritual that used to focus a lot of family attention. Today, though, "food is fuel," and not very good fuel at that. "Just 47 percent of in-home meals," Ms. Jackson notes, "contain a 'fresh' item, such as a vegetable." Television may be the culprit, distracting adults not only from the kitchen but also from their kids: Researchers have found that when a TV is running in the background, parents interact with their children 20% less than they otherwise would and are likelier to give passive responses to whatever their children are doing or saying.
If certain tech products make parents less engaged, others have the opposite effect, Ms. Jackson observes, though here too she is not pleased with what she sees. Parents keep their kids under constant surveillance, she says, using everything from baby monitors to online class attendance records. "Raising our children under the telescope of our permanent gaze is costly," Ms. Jackson argues, because children ought to "gradually, with inevitable stumbling, learn to take responsibility for their actions. . . . Surveillance erodes their freedom to fall." The infantilizing experience of having to explain every pop quiz or cellphone call to Mom and Dad, in turn, discourages children from taking responsibility for their daily activities and may keep them – or so Ms. Jackson suggests – from learning to focus on what is important.
So what to do? In "Distracted," self-discipline proves the key to the attention puzzle. Martin Seligman and Angela Lee Duckworth, two psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania, recently adapted a famous experiment that tested the willingness of young children to defer gratification: If you put them in a room with some prize – a toy, a marshmallow, an envelope full of money – will they take the prize immediately or hold out for a greater future reward?
Mr. Seligman and Ms. Duckworth turned their attention to eighth-graders, surveying the students about their habits and drawing on the reports of teachers and parents as well. They found that students' purported level of self-control – their willingness to delay gratification – proved "twice as predictive as IQ" when it came to "final grades, selection into a competitive high school, hours spent doing homework, hours spent not watching television, and time of day at which homework was begun." Yet for every article about self-discipline and academic achievement in the PsychInfo database, an online exchange for research papers, there are more than 10 about achievement and intelligence.
In the end, Ms. Jackson makes her way to a Buddhist monastery, where people are learning to practice samatha – that is, to exercise voluntary control over their attention. Mountain retreats may not be for everyone, but the spirit of such an effort makes obvious sense in an era of information glut and tech-driven interruptions. Of course, if samatha – or something like it – turns out to be a good idea, it will be blogged about, praised in group emails, discussed online and debated in instant messages. Work will just have to wait.
Mr. Robinson is associate director of Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy, which studies the social effect of digital technology.
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Kingston star shortstop Olivia Lattin arrived to the 2013 PONY Eastern National World Series last week with one goal — championship or bust.
Lattin and her Dutchess Debs teammates didn't leave Sterling, Va., disappointed earlier this week. The Debs are the under-16 national champions.
"We knew what we wanted and we worked together," said Lattin, named a Varsity845 first-team all-star as a sophomore last spring after hitting . 431 with eight homers and 29 RBI. "We were all loud in the dugout and intense. We were definitely hungry, and it was a great experience."
Other Section 9 standouts who played for the Debs are Middletown's Allison Marcano, Maggie Paras and Katie Moos of S.S. Seward, Monroe-Woodbury's Savannah Hiller and Eleni Wechsler of Warwick. Moos hit .437 during the tournament, and Lattin finished at .405 for the Debs, who went 10-1, outscoring opponents 69-19. The team went 59-7-3 this summer, coming off a win in the U-16 USSSA World Series last year in Orlando, Fla.
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The decaying bodies of 10 out of the 12 policemen killed by militants at the weekend were recovered in oil-rich Bayelsa Sate in southern Nigeria, authorities announced on Tuesday.
The bodies were deposited at the Federal Medical Center in Yenagoa, the state capital, on Tuesday. Journalists were barred from the hospital morgue, but the stench from the one ambulance used in conveying the bodies confirmed the recovery.
A police source confirmed the number of the bodies to the journalists but declined to give more details. The 12 policemen were killed in their boat on their way to a function along a river of the state.
Nigeria's main militant group said on Sunday they killed more than 15 security forces during a fierce gunfight at Azuzama area of the state.
The ambush in the village of Azuzama was the most serious attack in months in the region and came against the backdrop of threat by the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) to resume hostilities to protest the recent conviction of Henry Okah for terrorism by a South African court.


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Literary hypertext has a long history that isn't always well understood or well acknowledged by interactive fiction authors, even though with the growing popularity of Twine and other hypertext tools, the techniques are more than ever relevant to us.
Recently Eastgate released Storyspace 3, a new version of software used to produce many canonical works of literary hypertext; and, to accompany it, their chief scientist Mark Bernstein wrote a book, Getting Started with Hypertext Narrative, in which he discusses the challenges and the craft of writing in this form.
Whether or not you are interested in using Storyspace or writing literary hypertext, the book is worth reading, not least because it offers terminology and insights from a body of work IF authors seldom study.
In the exchange below, Mark and I discuss various sections of his book, together with other relevant tools in the space. We find some common structures and implementation strategies that cross over from one tradition to the other, and notice that Storyspace 3 might be a viable alternative to StoryNexus for people who want to experiment with quality-based narrative structures but don't want StoryNexus' art requirements or styling: what Mark describes as "sculptural hypertext" shares a lot in common with QBN.
All blockquotes are from the text of Getting Started with Hypertext Narrative: I sent these to Mark with my comments, and in some cases he had thoughts in response, so this is actually sort of a three-cornered conversation between the book, the author, and me. Thanks to Mark for supplying the text and taking the time to answer, and also for his patience with how long it took me to bring this together.


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What software makers can learn from Japanese manufacturing
Kanban is another framework used to implement agile. Back in the 1940s, Toyota optimized its engineering process by modeling it after how supermarkets stock shelves. Supermarkets stock just enough product to meet consumer demand, a practice that optimizes the flow between the supermarket and the consumer. Because inventory levels match with consumption patterns, the supermarket gains significant efficiency in inventory management and optimizing for the customer. When Toyota brought that idea to its factory floors, teams (such as the team that attaches the doors to the car's frame) would deliver a card, or "kanban", to each other (say, to the team that assembles the doors) to signal that they have excess capacity and are ready to pull more materials. Although the signaling technology has evolved, this system is still at the core of "just in time" manufacturing today.
Kanban does the same for software teams. By matching the amount of work in progress to the team's capacity, kanban gives teams more flexible planning options, faster output, clear focus, and transparency throughout the development cycle.
A kanban team is only focused on the work that's actively in progress. Once the team completes a work item, they pluck the next work item off the top of the backlog. The product owner is free to re-prioritize work in the backlog without disrupting the team, because any changes outside the current work items don't impact the team. As long as the product owner keeps the most important work items on top of the backlog, the development team is assured they are delivering maximum value back to the business. So there's no need for the fixed-length iterations you find in scrum.
ProTip: Savvy product owners always engage the development team when considering changes to the backlog. For example, if user stories 1-6 are in the backlog, user story 6's estimate may be based on the completion of user stories 1-5. it's always a good practice to confirm changes with the engineering team to ensure there are no surprises.
Cycle time is a key metric for kanban teams. Cycle time is the amount of time it takes for a unit of work to travel through the team's workflow–from the moment work starts to the moment it ships. By optimizing cycle time, the team confidently forecast the delivery of future work.
Overlapping skill sets lead to smaller cycle times. When only one person holds a skill set, that person becomes a bottleneck in the workflow. So teams employ basic best practices like code review and mentoring help to spread knowledge. Shared skills mean that team members can take on heterogeneous work, which further optimizes cycle time. It also means that if there is a backup of work, the entire team can swarm on it to get the process flowing smoothly again. For instance, testing isn't only done by QA engineers. Developers pitch in too!
In a kanban framework, it's the entire team's responsibility to ensure work is moving smoothly through the process.
Multitasking kills efficiency. The more work items in flight at any given time, the more context switching, which hinders their path to completion. That's why a key tenant of kanban is to limit the amount of work in progress (WIP). Work-in-progress limits highlight bottlenecks and backups in the team's process due to lack of focus, people, or skill sets.
For example, a typical software team might have four workflow states: to do, in progress, code review, and done. They could choose to set a WIP limit of 2 for the code review state. That might seem like a low limit, but there's good reason for it: code that hasn't been reviewed not only hasn't shipped yet, but may need significant re-work before it is ready to ship. So it's important to take action on code reviews right away, and setting a WIP limit helps the team hold themselves accountable to that. It forces the team to knock out those reviews before pulling in new work.
One of kanban's core values is continuous improvement. But how do teams ensure they're continuing to improve? One word: visuals. When the team can see data, it's easier to spot bottlenecks in the process (and remove them!). Two common reports kanban teams use are control charts and cumulative flow diagrams.
A control chart shows the cycle time for each issue as well as a rolling average for the team.
ProTip: The team's goal is to reduce the amount of time an issue takes to move through the entire process. Seeing the average cycle time drop in the control chart is an indicator of success.
A cumulative flow diagram shows the number of issues in each state. The team can easily spot blockages by seeing the number of issues increase in any given state. Issues in intermediate states such as "In Progress" or "In Review" are not yet shipped to customers, and a blockage in these states can increase the likelihood of massive integration conflicts when the work does get merged upstream.
We know that continuous integration–the practice of building and validating code incrementally throughout the day–is essential for maintaining quality. Now let's meet CI's older, more sophisticated cousin: continuous delivery (CD). This is the practice of releasing work to customers frequently–even daily or hourly. Kanban and CD beautifully complement each other because both techniques focus on the just-in-time (and one-at-a-time) delivery of value.
The faster a team can deliver innovation to market, the more competitive their product will be in the marketplace. And kanban teams focus on exactly that: optimizing the flow of work out to customers.
Kanban and scrum share some of the same concepts but have very different approaches. They should not be confused with one another.
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|Teams should strive to not make changes to the sprint forecast during the sprint. Doing so compromises learnings around estimation.
|Change can happen at any time
Some teams blend the ideals of kanban and scrum into "scrumban." They take fixed length sprints and roles from scrum and the focus on work in progress limits and cycle time from kanban. For teams just starting out with agile, however, we strongly recommend choosing one methodology or the other and running with it for a while. You can always get fancy later on.
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(CDC, Public Domain)LONDON, ENGLAND—The Black Death of the mid-fourteenth century was not spread by fleas on rats, according to a new study of plague DNA extracted from 25 skeletons unearthed in London last year. Tim Brooks of Public Health England thinks that the Yersinia pestis bacterium must have been transmitted through coughs and sneezes in order for it to have spread through the population so quickly. Archaeologist Don Walker and Jelena Bekvalacs of the Museum of London add that the skeletons show that the people were in poor health when the plague struck—they suffered from rickets, anemia, malnutrition, and bad teeth. A study of the wills registered at the Court of Hustings by archaeologist Barney Sloane estimates that as many as 60 percent of Londoners succumbed to the Black Death. "As an explanation [rat fleas] for the Black Death in its own right, it simply isn't good enough. It cannot spread fast enough from one household to the next to cause the huge number of cases that we saw during the Black Death epidemics," Brooks told The Guardian.
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I just updated word press to the latest version. Since I did that, the calendar hasn't worked at all. It's as if all of my events are gone and only shows the events on the side under "upcoming events." .
Can you suggest a fix for this?
I just updated word press to the latest version. Since I did that, the calendar hasn't worked at all. It's as if all of my events are gone and only shows the events on the side under "upcoming events." .
Can you suggest a fix for this?
I don't know if you have resolved this or not, but I had the same issue when I upgraded WP. However, it was actually a conflict with another plugin that didn't develop until after I upgraded WP.
I had to disable all my plugins and then enable them one at a time. Hope this helps.
I too am experiencing this. Help please.
I went from v0.9.9.2 of the plugin to 1.0.2 (Manually updated it by coping and over writing plugin files)
If you have FORCE_SSL_ADMIN set to true in your wp-config.php file, Ajax Event Calendar (AEC) will not work properly. The reason is because the URL it uses for the "admin-ajax.php" page is wrapped in a call to admin_url(). Despite the name of that PHP file, it is not used just for administrating the plugin--it is also how AEC retrieves the list of events for display to visitors of your site.
The fix is pretty simple: edit line 538 (at least in AEC version 1.0.2) of ajax-event-calendar.php and change the
'ajaxurl' => admin_url('admin-ajax.php'), to
'ajaxurl' => 'http://your.blog.host.com/your-blog-path/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php', and AEC will magically start working.
plugin stop working when upgrade to WP 3.4
After upgrading to 3.4, the calendar desappears of the frontend. Widgets and backend is working normal. Someone has the same problem?
In the console of Chrome I found this message:
Uncaught TypeError: Object function (a,b){return new e.fn.init(a,b,h)} has no method 'aecDialog'
Thank you in advance for any help...
*TehWalrus, I tried your solution but it doesn't work for me...
I've upgraded to WP 3.4 and I now can't add events in nearly all of the main browsers as when you go to add an event the add event window starts to pop up and then disappears totally.
Just realised it's when you double click that it disappears (which I do automatically as that is what my mouse is set to respond to) if I just single click the Add Event form / pop-up appears!
did anyone figure this out Im still having issues. Please help this seems like an ongoing battle for a few of us.
Thanks very much TehWalrus for your fix.. that is what the problem was for me - it had to do with force ssl on admin. I had to edit the plugin and change as you instructed:
'ajaxurl' => admin_url('admin-ajax.php'), to 'ajaxurl' => 'http://your.blog.host.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php',
After that - clear the cache if you're using W3 Total Cache or similar.
All fixed and relieved..
I tried the same to the ajax.php but had no luck am i using the wrong path. I dont have a cache plugin in do i need to clear my browser history.
'ajaxurl' => 'http://foodchef.net/fcmain/wp-content/plugins/ajax-event-calendar/admin-ajax.php',
Doesn't work for me...please help
Unfortunately, even with these tricks my Ajax Event Calendar not work since it is the same as the member Vissa, ie nothing appears even with WP deactivated Super Cache. I think the number of post's an update was even necessary for the mess in the code with other versions coming out could bring more problems to our wordpress. Thanks and look forward to reviewing Ajax Event Calendar because it is what I use in my projects and would not change.
Atticus_Finch12's solution worked for me. In this case it was the WP Socializer. On other sites, the Socializer works just fine for me, but I think these two plugins are just not compatible.
This is an excellent way to circumvent this problem we made by the chris1407. For me it worked but was in the functions.php of my project instead of the Header. This is the link http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ajax-event-calendar-calender-dont-show-since-yesterday?replies=11#post-3082509. Thank you.
Here is the fix for the issue with jquery 1.8. After modifying my theme my calender stopped working. My new theme uses Jquery 1.8. In turn if your site uses Jquery 1.8 this is the fix for you.
open the file in the calendar plugins javascript folder called jquery.fullcalendar.min.js and do a find and replace for curCSS to css.
There are about twenty curCSS that you need to modify to css. after you make those changes and save and uploaded back to the plugin folder were it goes. It should work. Make sure to back up your data just in case. Hope this helps
Thank you @johnaustinny, that worked for me.
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Wow, that's a tough one. I would probably call the mom and explain that one of the gifts are missing and that your calling all the parents to see if one of the girls brought it home by mistake. I would also call the other mom's just so I'm not lying about calling all of them and because memories aren't always accurate and one of the other girls might have seen it or noticed the other girl take it.
We had a friend of ours sons steal his game boy sp and a game. We knew for a fact which child it was so when we went over to their house (they were all friends of ours) we mentioned to the child in front of his parents that our son would like his game boy sp and game back now and that maybe he could 'borrow' it again another time. However this boy said he couldnt find it and the parents didnt do anything to hold the child accountable. Fast forward a few months and we were over there and the child was playing with my sons things. My son said in front of his parents that he would like his things back now and their son said that he never found them but that these were from another friend. Parents still did nothing about it.
I dont understand adults like this. If it had been my child i would have been pretty upset by the whole thing.
oh and dh did talk to the parents about it after the first visit over there, so that they knew their child took it without asking.
even so they did nothing to help return our sons things.
needless to say, we dont have much to do with that family any more.
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An Israeli settler was stabbed to death by a knife-wielding Palestinian in the northern West Bank on Tuesday, in the first fatal anti-Israeli attack in the territory in 18 months, officials said.
The attack, which took place near Tapuah junction south of Nablus, prompted clashes between Jewish settlers and Palestinians in a nearby village, security sources said.
"The Palestinian suspect stabbed an Israeli sitting at a bus stop. He died," police spokeswoman Luba Samri told AFP.
"He grabbed the (victim's) weapon and fired towards the border police force that was in the area. They fired back and neutralised him," she added, saying he had been arrested and taken to an Israeli hospital for treatment.
Police named the victim as Eviatar Borovsky, saying he was a father of five in his 30s from the nearby hardline settlement of Yitzhar.
The Israeli army confirmed details of the incident and said the attacker had been evacuated in "moderate to severe condition."
Palestinian security sources identified him as 23-year-old Salam Mohammed al-Zaghal from the northern town of Tulkarem who had been released last month after completing a three-year term in an Israeli jail.
Following the incident, Jewish settlers began attacking Palestinian cars in the area, pelting them with stones, an AFP correspondent at the scene said.
They also hurled rocks at a passing school bus, causing some light injuries, security sources said.
Israeli police shut down the main road leading north to Nablus, the correspondent said.
In the nearby village of Urif, more than 100 settlers attempted to attack a mosque, leading to clashes with locals that left several people injured on both sides, security sources and witnesses said.
Speaking to reporters, Captain Barak Raz, the military spokesman for the West Bank, said the stabbing was the first such deadly incident in 18 months.
"After about a year and a half of quiet, we have an incident in which a Palestinian male attacks an Israeli, stabs him and takes his gun," he said, indicating there had been several attacks at the same junction, including a stabbing in January.
"It reinforces our assessment that the threat posed through terrorism is still very present and clear," he said.
The last time Israelis were killed in the West Bank was in September 2011 when Palestinians threw stones at a car, causing the driver -- a Jewish settler -- to lose control and crash, killing him and his infant son.
Six months before that, a couple and their three young children were stabbed to death in a brutal attack, which took place in Itamar settlement, also close to the Tapuah junction.


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The number one reason for pruning fruit trees is both a selfish and profitable one.
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The first thing that we need to remember:
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To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, Mattel has unveiled its new Barbie line featuring Kirk, Spock and Uhura from the original series.
Entertainment Weekly has the official reveal, but dolls can already be found on retail sites like Target.com, where you can get a closer look.
Following in the footsteps of Funko and LEGO, Mattel has unveiled its own Comic-Con International-exclusive toys for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
Debuting this morning in USA Today, the lineup includes a two-pack of 6-inch action figures based on the likenesses of Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill ($30); a Hot Wheels Batmobile with limited-edition packaging ($25); and a 12-inch Wonder Woman Barbie based on Gal Gadot's likeness (Batman and Superman will also be part of a new Barbie line).
Warner Bros. Consumer Products has renewed its 15-year-old partnership with Mattel in a multi-year deal that expands the toymaker's rights to include upcoming DC Comics-based films and television series.
Under the terms of the agreement, Mattel will be able to develop toy lines based on the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League movies as well as the TV adaptations Arrow, The Flash, Constantine, Gotham and iZombie.
Mattel, which on Wednesday unveiled its full slate of Comic-Con International exclusives, has DC products spread across its brands, from vintage-style Batman Classic TV Series action figures to Hot Wheels DC Universe cars to the Fisher-Price Imaginext Super Friends line. The company also rolled out merchandise based on Man of Steel and Christopher Nolan's Batman movies, and the popular Arkham video games.
"Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment have an unrivaled portfolio of characters and a strong slate of content across all platforms which is essential to driving our global consumer products business — a business anchored by our long-term partnership with Mattel," Brad Globe, president of Warner Bros. Consumer Products, said in a statement. "With so much opportunity on the horizon, we know Mattel will bring the talents of its world-class organization to create and market product lines for fans of all ages."
The Walking Dead has walked at a brisk pace from comics to television to video games and more, and now an enterprising doll modder known as Peewee Parker is bringing the series' deadliest zombie killer to Barbie.
Revealed in a series of photos replete with special effects, Parker has created a custom Barbie doll made to look like Michonne from The Walking Dead. The mod is based on the television version of the character (played by Danai Gurira) rather than the one from the comics, but Parker earns high marks for this detailed custom work.
It looks like Mattel may be pulling a bit of a Marvel on fans.
Variety reports that Mattel, the world's largest toymaker, has created a new in-house studio called Playground Productions to manage the creative direction of its properties, such as Barbie, He-Man, Max Steel and Hot Wheels. The new division will reportedly oversee the development of scripts for television and film, and control how the toys are adapted for books, live events, video games — and, by logical extension, comics.
Mattel already has one of its properties already in the comics world — DC's He-Man & the Masters of the Universe title — but given this new push to better organize and monetize its brands, we could see a lot more.


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A half-dozen paraplegic rats recovered movement in all lower joints after being transplanted with Neuralstem's NSI-566 spinal cord stem cells—a result the company said could aid in treating human spinal cord injury.
The six were among 12 rats experiencing lower-body paralysis after undergoing complete spinal transections. The six were assessed over seven weeks and compared to a control group that had not received transplants. Neuralstem published results of its spinal cord stem cell transplant in the journal Cell, in a paper titled "Long-Distance Growth and Connectivity of Neural Stem Cells After Severe Spinal Cord Injury: Cell-Intrinsic Mechanisms Overcome Spinal Inhibition."
According to the study, rats treated with NSI-566 showed significant locomotor recovery, with most (57%) of the grafted cells turned into neurons. Also significant, according to the company, was the number of axons that emerged, extending over 17 spinal segments both above and below the point of spinal cord lesion. The axons expressed synaptic proteins in the host gray matter, suggesting they made synaptic contact with host spinal neurons.
"The fact that these cells induce regeneration of axons and partial recovery of motor function makes them relevant for testing for the treatment of human spinal cord injury," Karl Johe, Ph.D., Neuralstem's chairman and CSO, said in a statement.
According to the paper, retransecting the spinal cord immediately above the graft abolished functional gain, a finding that Neuralstem said indicated that the regeneration of host axons into the human stem cell graft was responsible for the functional recovery.
Neuralstem has submitted an application to the FDA for a trial to treat chronic spinal cord injury with NSI-566. The cells were used in a recently completed Phase I clinical trial for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease).
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