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Q: Where we live, we are frequently visited by deer. This will be my first year here and I would like to know what flowers to plant that are not to the deer's taste.
A: I've been answering deer questions when it comes to gardening for many years. The one thing that I have learned is that there is no such thing as a deer-proof plant. If the deer are hungry enough they will eat anything. Now, having said this, I have provided two lists (below) that offer options for the annuals and perennials that they rarely damage. These lists, of course, come with no guarantees.
Q: I have a question about peas. I have terrible luck growing the things and am wondering why. I was told that peas are one of those vegetables that can be planted very early, so that is exactly what I have been doing. I get the seeds into the ground as soon as the soil can be worked, but the peas just end up rotting away. Is it possible that I am planting too early? The second part of the question is about the peas that did come up did not do well. We had a dry spell last June and I was unable to water, as I was away. Would that have affected the plants?
A: There is some debate about when to plant peas. One school of thought says to plant them as soon as the soil can be worked, but another says that peas should not be planted in cold soil nor when the soil is wet. The result can be the rot that you describe. I would not plant peas when the frost has just left the soil.
As for the lack of water, peas are very fussy about being watered while growing. They should not be allowed to dry out, so even moisture but not wet is the best.
Q: Last fall, I saved some of my favourite varieties of geraniums and planted each one in a pot and placed them in a west window. With only a weekly watering, each of the plants continued to grow and bloomed sporadically. Each of the geraniums has grown impressively large, but not very full and bushy. Would it be best to plant them in a planter and let nature take its course, or should I have cut them back in hopes that they would have bushed out? I look forward to your advice.
A: Cutting the plants back would have been the way to go. Cutting back encourages the plant to bush out. How much to cut back? You could safely cut the plants back by one-quarter without harming the plant. I know that might seem like a lot but it's the old rule of gardening: You have to be cruel to be kind.
Since you missed doing the cutting while the plants were still indoors, you can plant the geraniums in the planter now and cut them back right after planting. This will encourage them to bush out as well. It will just take a bit longer
Gerald Filipski is a member of the Garden Writers Association of America. Email your questions to email@example.com. He is the author of Just Ask Jerry, available at local bookshops, garden centres and online at chapters.ca. To read previous columns, go to edmontonjournal.com/filipski
What to plant
These are some of the plants that deer will rarely damage:
Annuals: Dahlia; Heliotrope; Blue salvia; Dusty Miller; Marigold; Zonal geranium; Alyssum; Verbena; Snapdragon; Four O'clock; Ageratum; Edging Lobelia; Foxglove; Morning Glory; Poppy and Wax begonia
Perennials: Astilbe; balloon flower; Bergenia; Coreopsis; Lungwort; Ostrich fern; queen-of-the-prairie; Scilla; Evening primrose; Joe Pye weed; lily-of-the-valley; mint; oregano; oriental poppy; rhubarb; baby's breath; beebalm; bleeding heart; columbine; Jacob's ladder; lupine; painted daisy; blue flax; purple coneflower; ribbon grass; sage; Shasta daisy; statice; sweet William; tiger lily and yarrow


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Four Stockton Ports pitchers allowed just three total hits on Tuesday. But that doesn't help if you don't score any runs.
The solid pitching performance was wasted as the Inland Empire 66ers beat Stockton 3-0 in a California League game in front of 3,630 at San Manuel Stadium in San Bernardino.
Chris Lamb (3-2) started for the Ports and allowed all of Inland Empire's runs and hits in five innings. Relievers Omar Duran, Jonathan Joseph and Austin House each worked a hitless inning for the Ports (20-12 second half, 57-45 overall).
But the pitching for the 66ers (14-18, 39-63) was even better. Tyler DeLoach (10-4) gave up three hits in six innings and struck out seven. He didn't allow a walk. Relievers Mark Sappington and Kurt Spomer finished up.
Riley Good hit a two-run triple for Inland Empire in the second inning, and Dennis Raben drove in a run with a grounder in the third.
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Modernizations at Denver's Clerk and Recorder Office equals more and better service for the public
January 19, 2014 by admin
Comprehensive software system puts seven million Denver documents online to the public
(Denver) – Denver's Clerk and Recorder office takes a major step forward into the digital age with the formal launch of a comprehensive new software system, announced by Clerk and Recorder Debra Johnson. Among other things the system offers the public online access to over seven million Denver recorded documents with a searchable index.
In addition to placing Denver's recorded documents online, the new system offers the following modernizations and efficiencies:
- Electronic recording of documents is now much faster and easier. A key benefit of transitioning to e-recordings now is the quick return of recorded documents. Documents are recorded and returned to customers by email now in hours instead of in days.
- Couples applying for marriage or civil union licenses can now fill out their applications online. Applicants will still have to come downtown to show the required ID and sign the marriage license affidavit. However, the online application will save applicants time.
- The Clerk and Recorder can now take credit cards in payment for services with no additional service fees. Credit cards can be used in person over the counter for all but foreclosure-related fees, and can also be used online to pay for downloaded recorded documents.
The recorded documents online include a large preponderance of land and deed-related documents, along with marriage and civil union records, legal papers, liens, and many other kinds of records that residents have deemed important enough to make part of the public record over the decades.
"Initially, recorded documents available online go back to 1964," said Clerk Johnson. "The digitizing of Denver's recorded documents began in 2008 and has been ongoing ever since. As the scanning of older documents progresses, additional groups of records will be placed online until the entire historical recorded document repository all the way back to 1859 is online and available to the public."
Plans call for eventually adding other categories of Clerk and Recorder document collections to the searchable online repository including Council's historical ordinances, resolutions and minutes, plus a large collection of Denver's historical public records. The digitizing of these paper documents is underway. Because of the sheer size of the Denver Clerk and Recorder's paper document collections, this project is expected to take a number of years to complete.
The vendor for the new software system is PropertyInfo Corp., a Stewart Company, of Houston, Texas, which delivers state-of-the-art technology solutions to the real estate, closing and mortgage industries, and specializes in county record and recording technology.
To access the online records, apply online for a marriage or civil union license, or to obtain additional information on e-recording a document with the Denver Clerk and Recorder, please visit www.DenverClerkandRecorder.org.


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Monroe County Environmental Education Center will hold "Backyard Habitats" at 10 a.m. Saturday at Kettle Creek Wildlife Sanctuary in Bartonsville.
Environmental educator Darryl Speicher will discuss how to use native plants to achieve landscaping goals, while supporting local bird and other wildlife.
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Windows Essentials installer
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Windows Essentials (formerly Windows Live Essentials and Windows Live Installer) is a suite of Microsoft freeware applications that includes e-mail, instant messaging, photo sharing, blogging, and parental control software. Essentials programs are designed to integrate well with each other, with Microsoft Windows, and with other Microsoft web-based services such as OneDrive and Outlook.com.[3][4]
Windows Essentials 2012 includes the following applications:
- Photo Gallery
- Movie Maker
- Writer
- OneDrive (Not supported on Windows 8.1 or Windows 10)[5]
- Family Safety (Windows 7 only)[6]
Windows Essentials applications support installation on Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012.[6] Previous versions were also available on Windows XP and Windows Vista, and included Windows Live Messenger.[6]
Windows Live Dashboard[edit]
On August 25, 2006, Microsoft began seeking testers for their invitation-only Windows Live service named Windows Live Essentials. It was very similar to Google Pack in that it allows users to discover, install, and maintain a number of Windows Live application programs. However, the original Windows Live Essentials was referred to as the website serving the purpose of allowing users to discover new Windows Live services. The Windows Live Essentials website was integrated tightly with Windows Live Dashboard, an application which offers a view of the services the user already has and what new Windows Live software and services are available. Windows Live Dashboard required users to sign-in with their Windows Live ID to check whether the service has been downloaded or not. At that time, web-based services such as Windows Live Hotmail (then Windows Live Mail) was also part of the list.
Shortly after its initial beta release, the original Windows Live Essentials website became unavailable and the website was redirected to Windows Live Betas (then Windows Live Ideas), and as a result Windows Live Dashboard also became unavailable.
Windows Live Installer (Wave 2)[edit]
Subsequent reappearance of a Windows Live Dashboard is seen with the initial "Windows Live Wave 2" unified installers from Windows Live Messenger 8.5, Mail and Writer that was released on May 30, 2007. In the "Windows Live Wave 2" suite of services, Windows Live Installer was the name of the website and software given to serve the purposes of allowing users to discover, download and install Windows Live software and services. Users were able to select the Windows Live software they wished to install on the website, and the website would pass on the information to the unified installer software such that the installer will only download and install those applications selected.[7]
Windows Live Essentials 2009 (Wave 3)[edit]
The Windows Live Installer application was significantly updated with the subsequent "Windows Live Wave 3" release of applications, with the new inclusion of Windows Live Movie Maker (beta) and Microsoft Office Outlook Connector to its suite of products. On October 29, 2008, it was announced at the Professional Developers Conference 2008 that Windows Live Installer would be renamed as Windows Live Essentials, and would be integrated into Windows 7 to allow users to download the included Windows Live applications. However, the Windows Live Essentials applications will not be "bundled" with the Windows 7 operating system. This should allow more frequent updates to the Windows Live Essentials applications outside of major operating system releases.[4]
On December 15, 2008, the "beta refresh" versions of Windows Live Essentials applications were released.[8] This release included many changes since the previous beta release based on user feedback. A significant visual change in this release was the introduction of new application icons which added a common design theme to all the Live Essentials applications. The words "beta" were removed from most of the build numbers. On January 7, 2009, the "beta refresh" versions were released as the final versions, with the notable exception of Windows Live Movie Maker.[8]
Microsoft updated Windows Live Essentials Wave 3 on February 13, 2009[9] and again on August 19, 2009,[10] when Windows Live Movie Maker was released out of beta and significantly updated with additional features since the beta version released in December 2008.[11] The final build number was 14.0.8117.0416.
After the release of Windows Live Essentials 2011, which does not support Windows XP, Windows Live Essentials 2009 was renamed to Windows Live Essentials for Windows XP and is made available for Windows XP users to help maintain the product user base.
Windows Live Essentials 2011 (Wave 4)[edit]
Microsoft released a public beta for the next major update for Windows Live Essentials dubbed "Wave 4" on June 24, 2010.[12] The updated applications include Windows Live Messenger, Mail, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Writer, Family Safety, Mesh, and Messenger Companion. For Windows Live Mesh, the application has been rewritten to be based on the previous Live Mesh and will allow PC and Mac users to keep their documents, pictures and music in sync across multiple computers. It was also announced that Windows Live Toolbar will be discontinued and replaced by the Bing Bar.[13] In addition, the Ribbon user interface was introduced for the first time in Photo Gallery, Mail, and Writer. The Wave 4 beta has dropped support for Windows XP; Windows Vista or Windows 7 is required for its use.[12] The beta refresh of Windows Live Essentials 2011 was released on August 17, 2010. Microsoft released the final version of Windows Live Essentials 2011 on September 30, 2010. The applications were updated with a hotfix/QFE (except for Mesh and Family Safety) on December 1, 2010,[14] and that update became available through Windows Update from March 20, 2011.[15] On May 2, 2012, Microsoft announced the re-branding of Windows Live. Although all applications in Windows Live Essentials 2011 suite will continue to function on Windows Vista, 7, and 8, there will be no significant updates made to these applications in the future.[16] On June 2014, Microsoft announced that Windows Essentials 2011 will not be available for download on Windows Vista.
Windows Essentials 2012 (Wave 5)[edit]
Microsoft released Windows Essentials 2012 on August 7, 2012 for Windows 7 and Windows 8 users.[17] Windows Essentials 2012 included SkyDrive for Windows (later renamed OneDrive), and dropped Windows Live Mesh, Messenger Companion and Bing Bar. Microsoft Family Safety is also installed for Windows 7 users only, as Windows 8 has built-in family safety functionalities.[16] Further, Windows Essentials 2012 also dropped the "Windows Live" branding from the installer itself, as well as from programs such as Photo Gallery and Movie Maker, which have been branded Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Movie Maker respectively. These two programs have also received several updates and enhancements since their 2011 release, including video stabilization, waveform visualizations, new narration tracks, audio emphasizing, default save as H.264 format, and enhanced text effects for Movie Maker; as well as AutoCollage integration and addition of Vimeo as a publishing partner for Photo Gallery. No significant changes or re-branding were made in this release for other programs such as Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Mail, and Windows Live Writer.[18]
- ^ "Windows Essentials download options". Retrieved July 18, 2016.
- ^ "Windows Essentials". Retrieved July 22, 2016.
- ^ Foley, Mary Jo (5 August 2006). "Microsoft Seeks Testers for Windows Live Essentials". eWeek's Microsoft Watch. Ziff Davis Enterprise. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
- ^ a b Thurrott, Paul (6 October 2010). "Making Sense of Windows Live Wave 3, Part 1: How We Got Here". Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
- ^ "OneDrive system requirements". windows.microsoft.com. Microsoft. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
- ^ a b c "Windows Essentials 2012 Release Notes". Windows portal. Microsoft. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ^ Zheng, Long (7 September 2007). "The cookie magic behind Windows Live Suite installer". iStartedSomething. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
- ^ a b "Refreshing the Windows Live Essentials beta". Windows Live team blog archive. 15 December 2008. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
- ^ Protalinski, Emil (13 February 2009). "Windows Live Essentials updated to build 14.0.8064.0206". Ars Technica. Condé Nast. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
- ^ Protalinski, Emil (20 August 2009). "Windows Live Essentials Wave 3 updated again". Ars Technica. Condé Nast. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
- ^ Protalinski, Emil (20 August 2009). "Windows Live Movie Maker 14 finally comes out of beta". Ars Technica. Condé Nast. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
- ^ a b Sierra, Piero (June 23, 2010). "Announcing the new Windows Live Essentials beta!". Inside Windows Live. Microsoft. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
- ^ Sierra, Piero (2 June 2006). "Preview of the new Windows Live Essentials". Inside Windows Live. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
- ^ Kniskern, Kip (1 December 2010). "Windows Live Essentials QFE released: you can update now". LiveSide.net. Retrieved 19 November 2012.[unreliable source?]
- ^ de Haan, Arthur (21 March 2011). "QFE1 for Windows Live Essentials 2011 now available through Microsoft Update". Inside Windows Live. Microsoft. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
- ^ a b Jones, Chris (May 2, 2012). "Cloud services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone: Windows Live, reimagined". Building Windows 8. Microsoft. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
- ^ Weed, Brad (7 August 2012). "Introducing the New Windows Photo Gallery and Movie Maker". Windows Experience Blog. Microsoft. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
- ^ "Windows Essentials 2012 Q&A". Windows Experience Blog. Microsoft. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
Further reading[edit]
- "How do I install Windows Essentials while offline?". Windows Essentials Help & How-to. Microsoft Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2011.


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The representatives of Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers' Union Limited that operates 65 year old Amul Dairy are likely to visit US next month to shape its ambitious plans to go international. The delegation will prepare a detailed report for costs and logistics.


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SAN ANDREAS - Botched steel fabrication and concrete work at the Calaveras County Jail that is under construction in San Andreas had to be redone so many times that the project went over its budget for inspections, and the county had to spend extra for architects to engineer corrections.
On Tuesday, the county Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to approve two change orders for almost $100,000 for the extra work.
"The county is going to seek to recover the cost of these reinspections that were required due to the failed inspections," Calaveras County Administrative Officer Lori Norton said to the board.
About $60,000 of the extra work will be deducted from payments to contractor Flintco Pacific, according to county documents. The rest will come out of other jail construction funds, including $10,000 from the project's contingency fund.
County reports on the project said "non-conforming" work during the erection of precast concrete panels was a major factor in the failed inspections and the repair work.
The reports said extra inspections were also required because of steel that had to be reinstalled and because of incorrectly fabricated steel that had to be repaired in the field.
Construction Testing Services is the firm that did both the inspections and the reinspections.
Architect PSA Dewberry and Dewberry's consultant Buehler & Buehler produced the structural repair designs.
The $59 million jail and sheriff's administration building project is now due for completion on Sept. 17, or 91 days after the contractual completion date of June 18.
The 160-bed jail replaces the present 65-bed jail. The current jail is almost constantly full, forcing the early release of inmates.
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When someone travels to high altitude the atmosphere is different in two ways. Specifically, the air pressure is lower and there is less oxygen. The lack of oxygen is what makes climbers sick. When a climbers quickly gains a lot of altitude their body reacts in several ways:
However these changes are just a short term adjustment. When your body actually acclimatizes to the lack of oxygen many other changes occur. These changes are:
These changes though, do not occur all at once. Acclimatization is a slow process. Therefore, one should gain altitude slowly to give their body time to make these changes. If you do gain altitude rapidly the lack of oxygen can actually make your body sick. This sickness is calleed acute mountain sickness (AMS). Symtoms of acute mountain sickness include:
The best treatment for AMS is to descend 2000 to 3000 feet. AMS normally hits you within a day of initial ascent. The best way to avoid AMS is to gain altitude slowly and allow your body to make the acclimatization changes previously mentioned. About half of the people that go to 10,000 feet from living at the sea level feel some effects of acute mountain sickness.
There are more severe altitude conditions called High Altitude Pulmanary Edema (HAPE) and High Altitude Cerebral Edema (HACE). These two conditions are extemely serious but fortunately we will not encounter them at 13,500 feet. Here is an X-Ray image of a lung with HAPE:
Here is a list of the ways to help deal with the altitude:
Mountaineers that climb peaks in Nepal and other really high places develop strageties for dealing with the elevation. These may include tactics such as climbing high and then descending a few hundred feet to sleep. All large mountain expeditions plan to spend a lot of time at a base camp to aclimatize.


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The river waterfowl retriever will require specialized training beyond basic duck dog work. A dog unfamiliar with the effect of current can easily lose a bird due to lack of experience. For instance, a dog trained to mark a bird down on land or still water will likely drive out fast to pick up a bird which fell in moving water only to be surprised that our duck has drifted well away. The bird will not be where the dog marked it down, as is normally the case. Without training to understand the concept of moving water , how to continue a search downstream and the ability to take hand signals from their handler for direction, our bird may well be lost to the amazement of our hunting dog.
Next, our hunter must understand the effect of the current on their direction of travel once they jump into the current. Being swept downstream is always a surprise for a dog's first attempt at capturing a bird on moving water.
In training, toss bumpers upstream… the dog runs to the fall area, and then they must learn to recognize the direction of the drift working their way back downstream for the pick. Toss a training dummy downstream. Allow the dog to watch the bumper fall and begin its drift. After steadying the dog briefly, make the release and the race is on.
Similarly, a bird falling across the river to the far bank offers a special challenge. Our hunting dog sees the bird drop on the far bank, enthusiastically takes a straight line toward the fall, and then enters the water only to be swept completely off his line of travel. An exit downstream in an entirely different area than the dog intended may prove confusing. With practice and experience our hunting dog will learn to swim into the current to compensate for the effect and become a much better marker of birds across swift water.
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No Human Remains in Debris from 9/11 Plane
The city medical examiner's office didn't find human remains among the recently discovered wreckage believed to be from one of the passenger jets used in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, officials said Wednesday.
The four-member team of anthropologists from the medical examiner's office concluded their sifting of debris Wednesday morning at the site where the machinery was discovered last week, a spokeswoman said.
No remains were found along with the 5-foot-tall, 3-foot-wide wreckage that was a support piece attached to the wing of one of the aircraft that flew into the World Trade Center, the spokeswoman said.
The debris was discovered April 24, more than 11 years after the attacks, by surveyors in a 20-inch-wide space behind 51 Park Place, about 1,230 feet from where the towers stood.
The wreckage was placed in the custody of the NYPD, the spokeswoman said. Emergency Service Unit officers transported the part from the building to the Erie Basin Property Clerk's office in Brooklyn.
It is unclear where the machinery will eventually end up. Other pieces from aircraft involved in the terror attacks have been considered historical artifacts and included in museum collections.
The debris was initially believed to be landing gear, but a technician from Boeingfirmed to the NYPD that it was a "trailing edge flap actuation support structure," the NYPD said in a statement earlier this week.
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We have experimented with this unit on an 8" vacuum desiccator and found it pulls only about 5 to 8 inches Hg, negative gauge. The hand pump does not have the power to evacuate large containers; on anything more than about 700 mL total volume, the full vacuum of ca. 24 inches Hg won't be attainable. To evacuate a desiccator properly, one should use an electric pump such as a Gast.
This pump is primarily for suction filtration on a filter flask, for which we've found it to work very well. Make sure your flask and funnel are securely held in place by support stand & clamps; the stand should be anchored firmly to your bench top.
Pump includes a piece of tubing to connect to the side tubulation of a filter flask. Unit is constructed mostly of polychloroethylene plastic. There is a pressure release valve (red lever) which can be used to re-normalize pressure without having to remove the hose.
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The pump's enclosed instructions claim the unit can create a vacuum of 50 mm Hg absolute pressure, which equates to a negative gauge pressure of 710 mm or 27.4 inches Hg. However, that depends on the size of the vessel being evacuated. These units can generally pull a vacuum of 620 mm Hg (24.4 inches Hg), negative gauge, on small vessels. This is more than enough for general vacuum filtration, considering we've successfully done filtration with negative gauge pressures of only 5 inches Hg. The actual pressure markings on the pump's gauge go all the way to 760 mm Hg (negative gauge) just for reference.
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Published: Saturday, April 5, 2014 at 11:00 p.m.
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FLORENCE | Making it the music business can be tough, and singer John Paul White of The Civil Wars is going to teach a class about the challenges at the University of North Alabama.
The Grammy Award winner will lead a workshop this month called "Surviving the New World in the Music Business."
The school says White will provide real-world examples about the amount of education, networking, hard luck and work that are required.
White is half of a duo with Joy Williams that has won four Grammy Awards.
The workshop is Friday, April 11, at the campus in Florence, and the cost is $40. White attended North Alabama.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Authorities in West Virginia say a star of the MTV reality show "BUCKWILD" and two passengers all died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Twenty-one-year-old Shain Gandee, his uncle and another passenger were found dead Monday. Gandee's 1984 Ford Bronco was stuck in a deep mud pit, its tailpipe submerged. It's possible the gas could have filled the cabin because of the clogged exhaust pipe.
The Kanawha County Sheriff's Department says autopsies completed Tuesday confirmed the three men died from the gas.
Their deaths have been ruled accidental.
The victims' bodies have been released to funeral homes, but no arrangements have yet been announced.
Shooting for the second season of the show set around Sissonville and Charleston has been suspended.
Gandee, nicknamed "Gandee Candy" by fans, was a breakout star of the show that followed the antics of a group of young friends enjoying their wild country lifestyle. It was filmed last year, mostly around Sissonville and Charleston. Many of its rowdy exploits were his idea. In one episode, he turned a dump truck into a swimming pool.
MTV issued a statement saying it was shocked and saddened to learn of its star's death.
"We are waiting for more information but at this time, our main concern is for the Gandee family and their friends," the statement said. "Our thoughts and prayers are with them. Shain had a magnetic personality, with a passion for life that touched everyone he met and we will miss him dearly."
Shooting for the second season of "BUCKWILD" had begun, but MTV spokesman Jake Urbanski said Monday afternoon it has been suspended.
Gandee was a true outdoorsman, shedding modern conveniences such as cellphones and computers for his proud redneck ways. He loved to hunt, ride all-terrain vehicles and go "mudding," or off-road driving. He went mudding in the show's first episode and ruined his pickup truck's motor.
"Shain always rides with these kids in four-wheelers and trucks," said a neighbor, Swanna Frampton, who had known him since he was a small child. "They were just out riding and having a good time."
Frampton said the 21-year-old Gandee "loved to live and have fun. He was a great person. He did what (the show) wanted him to do, but he wasn't like that. He was a real person. If you needed help, if (you) needed something, he would come help you no matter what."
Kanawha County Sheriff's Cpl. B.D. Humphreys said Gandee, his 48-year-old uncle, David Gandee, and 27-year-old Donald Robert Myers were last seen around 3 a.m. Sunday at a bar and they told people they were going driving off-road.
State police were getting ready to send out an aviation unit to search for the men when authorities received a call Monday morning. Humphreys said the SUV was found by one of Shain Gandee's friends next to a trail used by four-wheel drive vehicles, about 15 miles outside of Charleston.
The terrain in the Thaxton Hollow area was "very muddy, very rough," Humphreys said, and responders had to use all-terrain vehicles to get to the site.
Humphreys did not provide details on the condition of the bodies.
Kanawha County Commission President Kent Carper said the news was devastating for the small community near Charleston.
"It's a very sad day for the Sissonville area and for these families," he said. "This is a small community, and most of us know directly members of these families. We're keeping them in our hearts and prayers."
MTV said the half-hour series in the old "Jersey Shore" time slot was pulling in an average of 3 million viewers per episode since its premiere and was the No. 1 original cable series on Thursday nights among 12- to 34-year-olds.
Shain Gandee is the third BUCKWILD cast member to make headlines.
Last week, 24-year-old Salwa Amin was sent back to jail for violating the terms of her bond following a February arrest. She was charged with two counts of drug possession with intent to deliver and initially jailed on $200,000 bond. That was later reduced to $100,000, but Amin remained behind bars without bond Monday.
State Police say a multi-agency task force arrested Amin and two other people at a Summersville residence after getting a tip from an informant. A search found oxycodone pills, heroin and $3,000 in cash.
Another cast mate, Michael Douglas Burford, was charged in February with driving under the influence.
Urbanski said none of Gandee's cast mates was available to do an interview Monday, and none immediately planned to issue a statement. But their feelings came through on Twitter, where Ashley Whitt called her friend "the most amazing person I've ever known."
"I know you will be watching over me every time I hit a mudhole. You will always be my best friend, I love you!" she wrote.
Cast mate Cara Parrish and others asked fans to pray for Gandee's parents, Loretta and Dale. "This is the emptiest I've ever felt," she wrote in a tweet.
Associated Press Writer Vicki Smith in Morgantown, W.Va., contributed to this report.


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Russell Feingold on Education
Democratic Jr Senator (WI)
Proponents support voting YES because:
Rep. OBEY: This bill, more than any other, determines how willing we are to make the investment necessary to assure the future strength of this country and its working families. The President has chosen to cut the investments in this bill by more than $7.5 billion in real terms. This bill rejects most of those cuts.
Opponents recommend voting NO because:
Rep. LEWIS: This bill reflects a fundamental difference in opinion on the level of funding necessary to support the Federal Government's role in education, health and workforce programs. The bill is $10.2 billion over the President's budget request. While many of these programs are popular on both sides of the aisle, this bill contains what can rightly be considered lower priority and duplicative programs. For example, this legislation continues three different programs that deal with violence prevention. An omnibus bill is absolutely the wrong and fiscally reckless approach to completing this year's work. It would negate any semblance of fiscal discipline demonstrated by this body in recent years.
Veto message from President Bush:
This bill spends too much. It exceeds [by $10.2 billion] the reasonable and responsible levels for discretionary spending that I proposed to balance the budget by 2012. This bill continues to fund 56 programs that I proposed to terminate because they are duplicative, narrowly focused, or not producing results. This bill does not sufficiently fund programs that are delivering positive outcomes. This bill has too many earmarks--more than 2,200 earmarks totaling nearly $1 billion. I urge the Congress to send me a fiscally responsible bill that sets priorities.
The National Education Association has a long, proud history as the nation's leading organization committed to advancing the cause of public education. Founded in 1857 "to elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching and to promote the cause of popular education in the United States," the NEA has remained constant in its commitment to its original mission as evidenced by the current mission statement:
To fulfill the promise of a democratic society, the National Education Association shall promote the cause of quality public education and advance the profession of education; expand the rights and further the interest of educational employees; and advocate human, civil, and economic rights for all.In pursuing its mission, the NEA has determined that it will focus the energy and resources of its 2.7 million members toward the "promotion of public confidence in public education." The ratings are based on the votes the organization considered most important; the numbers reflect the percentage of time the representative voted the organization's preferred position.
The Christian Coalition voter guide [is] one of the most powerful tools Christians have ever had to impact our society during elections. This simple tool has helped educate tens of millions of citizens across this nation as to where candidates for public office stand on key faith and family issues.
The CC survey summarizes candidate stances on the following topic: "Voluntary prayer in public schools and facilities"
Faith2Action.org is "the nation's largest network of pro-family groups." They provide election resources for each state, including Voter Guides and Congressional Scorecards excerpted here. The Faith2Action survey summarizes candidate stances on the following topic: 'Less federal and more state / local control of education'
A bill to amend the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to require the exclusion of combat pay from income for purposes of determining eligibility for child nutrition programs and the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children.
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The GE Edison Awards
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A majority of lighting products used on projects must be GE LED Lighting Products.
Congratulations to Claudio Ramos, Hiram Banks, Erin Sudderth, Matt Landl of BANKS|RAMOS Architectural Lighting Design (San Francisco, California, USA) for winning the 2014 GE Edison Award for lighting Square Inc. Headquarters in San Francisco, California, USA. A personalized Steuben crystal was presented by GE Lighting on May 4, 2015 in New York, New York, USA.
The 2015 GE Edison Award competition, sponsored by GE Lighting, is open to those lighting professionals who creatively employ significant use of GE LED Lighting Products, including LED systems, LED luminaires, LED architectural products, LED lamps and modules, and lighting controls ("GE LED Lighting products") in a lighting design project completed during the 2014 and 2015 calendar years (from 01 January 2014 through 31 December 2015). Deadline for submissions is 18 January 2016 by 5:00 pm EST. Also required: a GE Photography Release Form complete with required signatures, which must be received for the entry to be considered complete for judging.
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Qualifying projects are eligible for the awards indicated below. The annual GE Edison Award winner is chosen from the winners of Awards of Excellence.
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Projects scoring the highest number of points qualify for Awards of Merit and Awards of Excellence. The judges may also select Awards for Environmental Design and an Award for Residential Design based on the presence of entries that encompass the exemplary and outstanding design features that support each category. GE reserves the right to not make an award in one or more categories.
Qualifying entries remain anonymous throughout the judging process. See Entry Form for details.
A prestigious panel of five judges selected this year's winners for their superiority in the following categories: functional excellence; architectural compatibility; effective use of state-of-the-art lighting products and techniques; appropriate color, form and texture revelation; energy effectiveness and cost effectiveness. This year's judges were:
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Alexandria, Virginia, USA
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Winning projects receive Awards of Excellence, Awards of Merit, Awards for Environmental Design and/or an Award for Residential Design. The GE Edison Award Winner is selected from among the Awards of Excellence.
Designers of the winning projects receive personalized plaques in recognition of their lighting design achievements. GE reserves the right to not make an award in one or more categories.
The GE Edison Award Winner receives a personalized Steuben crystal trophy and continued publicity throughout the following year. A distinctive plaque is also presented to the owner of the winning installation.
Winners and qualifying entrants are recognized at a private event, which is held annually on the evening prior to the opening of LightFair International.
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ASK A QUESTION quevo
what does quevo mean'
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Eddy, I'm not directing this at you, but your sentence above is a good example of why English speakers have so much trouble with the subjunctive in Spanish. They often don't know how, or forget, to use it properly in English. And this is so pervasive that people who do use the English subjunctive properly are in a tiny minority.
It should be "If it were queso we could have provided an answer." This is a good example of hypothetically assuming something that isn't true. It isn't queso, but if it were...
Again, I'm only mentioning this because I think it helps people use the subjuntivo in Spanish.
Si fuera queso, te podríamos dar una respuesta.
I am afraid it comes from years of ignoring the subjunctive. Heavens, I am even saying "God saves the queen"
Oh, you don't have to convince me that the subjunctive is widely misused in English by native speakers. It seems to be on life-support. But I think it still serves a useful purpose in some cases, so I will continue using it.
Old post but, since I see no answer, I'll give one...
A contraction of "¿Que uvo?", used as slang as in English "What's happening?" Also a magazine popular in late '70s Bay Area CA.
Nothing, as far as I know. It's a surname. What is the context'
If it was queso we could have provided an answer.
I think that word not exist. The word it occured to me more similar is güevo (Huevo)=slang word, also Que va
James, as a matter of interest, look at this below.
I also remember a song, I think it was by the pet shop boys, which stated "if I was you". No excuse I know but that is the way it appears to be going.
Is it also correct to say, "si fuera queso, te pudiéramos dar una respuesta."'
Yes, I believe that is also correct.
Not sure how it is supposed to be spelled. But in the context someone compared two cherry tomatos to grapefruit and quervos! Did understand what they were saying.
Then what would that mean? They used the word in comparison to two cherry tomatos and grapefruit. Didnt know if they were referring to breast or testicles.
Huevo is slang for testicle.
Que va means what rubbish, not as in a question but an exclamation.


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Look Ma! No Glasses 3-D
By Juro Osawa and Daisuke Wakabayashi
From Japan Real Time:
Toshiba in December will start selling the world's first 3-D televisions that work without those clunky glasses, but the company gave reporters a sneak peek at the new 3-D screens sans eyewear.
Initially, Toshiba plans to sell the televisions in small sizes –- 12-inch and 20-inch models. But behind a heavy black curtain in a dimly lit room in the back of the company's booth at this week's Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies, also known as CEATEC, Toshiba showed off a prototype of a mammoth 56-inch version of the technology.
While some of the technology was impressive in displaying depth, it was pretty obvious that this is still very much a work in progress. The picture quality wasn't quite as sharp as what consumers can find in current 3-D models using glasses, and the colors on the glasses-free screens also seemed darker. The lack of sharpness was perhaps most obvious on the 56-inch screen.
What's more, the 3-D effect on the large display seemed slightly less consistent, with some images looking clearer and deeper than others. However, it's not clear whether that is the fault of the display or the content being shown.
Toshiba acknowledges that picture quality had to be sacrificed somewhat compared to a conventional 3-D modelin order to be able to make the images viewable in 3-D without glasses. A Toshiba engineer said the color can be adjusted and it will likely be improved before the product goes on sale.
So how do those new TVs work without glasses? The TVs can convert ordinary 2-D images into 3-D by creating nine images from a single image and then allowing that video to be viewed from nine different directions. Simply put, Toshiba is using nine pixels to create the 3-D effect for an image that requires only one pixel in 2-D. To offset some of the reduced picture quality, the new TVs use newly developed LCD panels with about four times as many pixels as a conventional full high-definition image.
But overall, the biggest hurdle that remains may be the one that has plagued the development of glasses-free 3-D for years. The image can get blurry with sudden head movement and the picture is not consistent once the viewer moves out of the optimal viewing area.


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To commemorate his 30-year anniversary in music, guitar legend George Lynch (DOKKEN, LYNCH MOB) is releasing a series of 200 fine art original canvases. An anniversary self-portrait utilizing mixed media (photography, acrylic, ink on canvas), each piece measures 40 inches by 30 inches.Lynch began working on the series in May of 2008 with notorious creativity house SceneFour in Los Angeles. SceneFour has played instrumental roles in design for MARILYN MANSON, BECK, NINE INCH NAILS and MTV. All 200 Lynch canvases combine the pin-hole photography of Evan Stone (HENRY ROLLINS, JOHNNY ROTTEN, BEASTIE BOYS) with Lynch's original handprints set onto the piece using acrylic paint. Each handprint is uniquely designed by the iconic guitarist. "Some are tiger-striped like the Bengal guitar he's made famous," says SceneFour creative director Cory Danziger. "Some are really vibrant, and others are just bizarrely beautiful. Lynch is creatively brilliant, and the canvases reflect that." Lynch fans and art collectors can learn more and reserve their canvas (numbers 1-100) at www.legacyoften.com. Canvas ship dates begin in December.
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[Truro, NS] - A series of community suppers will enable participants to get a taste of local, seasonal foods during this month's Winter Fresh campaign.
"We live in a province that offers families many opportunities to enjoy a variety of delicious local foods in the winter months," said Agriculture Minister John MacDonell. "When Nova Scotians support farms and retailers by choosing local products, they're helping to create good jobs and grow the economy."
For the third straight year, the community suppers are being held this month in schools, church halls and community centres throughout the province, including two in Colchester County as part of the Select Nova Scotia campaign.
There are also a number of fruit and vegetable samplings planned in grocery stores around the province to allow Nova Scotians to taste the local food advantage.
The schedule for the two local suppers are as follows:
Feb. 11: John Calvin Christian Reformed Church Community Supper, John Calvin Christian Reformed Church, 69 Glenwood Dr., Truro, 5:30 p.m.
Feb. 12: Tatamagouche Farmers Market Community Supper, Tatamagouche Center, 259 Loop Route 6, Tatamagouche, 4:30 p.m.
Truro Daily News


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Kim Romano has just finished updating the lengthy Employee Manual. Now she needs to finalize the document. Let me show you how Kim can use Microsoft Word's Backstage View to finish and print the Employee Manual document. Backstage View puts the commands you commonly use in one central location, whether you are creating a new file, opening a file, or finishing a document. Whether you are adding descriptive data, printing, sharing a document, or saving it as a PDF or XPS, you will find all the tools you need for Word 2010, simply by stepping Backstage.
Let's click the File tab to open Backstage View. We have a current document open, so it moves automatically to the Info tab, but let's take a look first at New. If you are creating a new document, you have access to a lot of different templates: templates that were installed on your computer, templates that you created, templates you have used recently, but also a wealth of templates available on office.com, from Invitations, to Newsletters, to Minutes, to Resumes, you can create any kind of document you haven't created before.
Check Backstage first and see if there's a template that will help you create that document and save you time. We can also open documents we have worked on recently, whether or not we saved them. Notice that this file was closed without saving and yet it's available here for us to open again. If I have a document that I know I want to return to frequently, or it's just hard to find and I would like to be able to keep it close for the few times I do use it, I can pin that document to my Recent Documents list, and it will be moved to the top of the list.
Here are documents that I want to make sure are always accessible to me here Backstage. If I change my mind about one of those, or I am done using it on a regular basis, I can simply unpin it and return it back to the list of Recent Documents. We have a document open, so let's go take a look at our Information that we have on this document. This is a dashboard that shows us everything that we know about this document, information that we would formerly have had to go to Windows to get or to a Properties dialog box. For example, here is information on the Size of the document, on our Page Count, now that we have trimmed it down, number of Words, Total Editing Time for this version of the document, who was the original Author, who modified it.
I can open the File Location for this document. This is actually a neat feature, because if you have a group of documents, and you know what one of the them is, and you are looking for their location, you can simply go to that document, open it up, go Backstage, and open the file location for that documents folder. We can also set the document's Permissions and prepare it for sharing by Checking Issues, by running the Document Inspector, by checking its Accessibility, by checking Compatibility. How easily will this document be used by folks using former versions or earlier versions of Microsoft Word? Kim needs to mark this document as final, because it's done and ready for posting, and we don't want anyone to accidentally edit this document.
Kim chooses Protect Document, marked as final, chooses OK, and notice now on the Info tab the Permission show, this document has been marked as final to discourage editing. Any other user who opens this document can step Backstage and the Info pane will show them that it's been marked as final to discourage editing. Kim can also print this document, and there are some really nice new printing features here in Word 2010, in the Backstage. For example, I have this wonderful preview that shows me that if I change my margins, my document will now look like this.
If I change Orientation from Portrait to Landscape, this is how my document will look. So I can make informed choices here Backstage by taking a look at how the document will actually look based on the selections that I am making, and I can then print this document. I can easily, after I have printed it, make another set of changes and print the document in a different format, for a different use. I can Share the document Backstage. I can send a document Using E-mail as an Attachment. If it's stored in a shared location, like a SharePoint site, I can send a Link to the document, rather than the entire document.
I can send this document to another user as a PDF, or as an XPS, or as an Internet Fax, if I have a fax service provider. Perhaps though I want to send the document to a broader audience. I can save this document to a free SkyDrive, which would allow me to share this document publicly with everyone, not what I am likely to want to do with our Employee Manual, or I can share it with myself, so that I can access this document when I am in another location, working in another office perhaps or on vacation and checking in to do a little bit of extra work.
I can also save directly to SharePoint. Finally, Backstage View includes the Options dialog that allows me to change how Microsoft Word 2010 works for me. I can click Options about how Microsoft Word works, from General choices, Display choices, Saving choices, Advanced choices. I can also modify the Quick Access Toolbar, which I was able to do in earlier versions of Word, but in Word 2010, I can customize the entire Ribbon.
I can add new tabs very easily, and collect commands that allow me to work in a particular way, or to run Macros that I had recorded and stored earlier. Creating a new tab is easy. Simply choose New Tab and a new tab will be inserted. This tab will be added to the end of the default Ribbon, so the items that appear below are tabs that are not turned on all the time. I can then Rename this tab, and add Commands or Groups of Commands to the Ribbon, customizing Word 2010's interface to work the way I work.
Backstage View lets you print, publish, share, and view your Word documents with just a few clicks. Using the Backstage options, you can also customize Word to fit the way you work.


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WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Snow is falling and travel becomes treacherous. Office of Personnel Management has declared all Federal Offices closed today in the Washington, D.C. area. Employees encouraged to travel cautiously if travel is necessary.
Non-emergency employees (including employees on pre-approved paid leave) will be granted excused absence (administrative leave) for the number of hours they were scheduled to work unless they are:
*required to telework,
*on official travel outside of the Washington, DC, area,
*on leave without pay, or
*on an alternative work schedule (AWS) day off.
Telework-Ready Employees who are scheduled to perform telework on the effective day of the announcement or who are required to perform telework on a day when Federal offices are closed must telework the entire workday or request leave, or a combination of both, in accordance with their agency's policies and procedures, subject to any applicable collective bargaining requirements.
Emergency employees are expected to report to their worksite unless otherwise directed by their agencies.
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Non-verbal Autism Research Highlighted at IMFAR
By Leanne Chukoskie, Autism Speaks
In 2008, Autism Speaks kick-started research in the area of non-verbal autism through its High-Risk High-Impact initiative. This year at IMFAR, Autism Speaks-funded research was featured in the Invited Educational Symposium titled Characterizing Cognition in Non-verbal Individuals with Autism: Innovation, Assessment and Treatment.
Geraldine Dawson, Ph.D., Autism Speaks' Chief Science Officer, chaired the session and set the stage for the audience to appreciate the importance of this particular topic. An estimated 30% of individuals living with autism are functionally non-verbal, yet very little research effort was directed toward helping this group communicate their wants and needs. The inability to communicate leads caregivers and clinicians to the presumption that the cognitive skills in these individuals were low because the tests typically used to assess cognitive skill require verbal or behavioral responses that this group of individuals does not readily produce.
The first speaker was April Benasich, Ph.D. of Rutgers University, who received an Autism Speaks grant for her research. Dr. Benasich presented data on innovative new studies on 3-7 year old non-verbal children with autism. Using tasks that were designed to assess children's capacity to identify mismatches between sights and sounds. For example, a picture of a frog might be presented with the spoken word "frog" or "cow." The latter, obviously incorrect, pairing generates a spark of electrical activity in the brain called a mismatch negativity about 400 ms after the stimulus was presented. This sort of task can also be used to probe contextual understanding in non-verbal children by pairing, for example, the frog with "green" or "pink." Even greater complexity can be tested by presenting sentences with errors in syntax. When heard by children who understand language, these syntax errors generate the same kind of brain potential.
Dr. Benasich and her colleagues developed a training protocol to get the children comfortable with the application and wearing of the EEG net as well as exposing them to all of the concepts presented in the experiment. The results revealed some similarities and some differences in the processing of sensory stimuli in the non-verbal children and this is not unexpected as they continue analyzing these data and also new data on older non-verbal children.
However the real power of using EEG techniques for assessing cognitive capacity is that it can tell us for an individual what we cannot get from standardized cognitive tests. Dr. Benasich presented results from individuals, some of whom were picking up the mismatches in the pictures and sounds, or sentence errors and some of whom did not.
This was the launching point for the next presentation from John Connolly, Ph.D., of Mc Master University. Dr. Connolly typically studies individuals who suffered traumatic brain injury and must be assessed to appropriately design rehabilitative therapy. He and his colleagues adapted a standard test for word comprehension called the Peabody Picture Vocabulary test (PPVT) into a tool that can be used by measuring brainwaves – no oral or manual response required. A grant from Autism Speaks allowed him to adapt his methods to work with non-verbal individuals with autism. By learning exactly what these non-responsive adolescents can and cannot understand, one can more appropriately design therapies to help them move to the next stage of learning.
Nicole Gage, Ph.D. of UC Irvine relayed her studies of both speech and sound processing in minimally-verbal children with autism using a different brain measurement tool called magnetoencephalography or MEG. One advantage of MEG for children is that nothing actually touches the child during the measurement. Although they must lie very still, there is no noise and the device resembles a fancy salon hair dryer. Using this technology, Dr. Gage and her colleagues are finding differences in very early in brain processing responses to tones and mature early in human development. These responses occur at the level of the auditory brainstem and may be at least partially responsible for the atypically responses measured to both tone and speech sounds observed by both Dr. Gage and other researchers at the later stages of brain processing in auditory cortex.
Lastly, but perhaps most importantly, Connie Kasari, Ph.D., of UCLA and the organizer of this special session presented her Autism Speaks-funded treatment research specially tailored for non-verbal children between the ages of 5 and 10 years old. Dr. Kasari uses structured play-based methods to build a scaffold and provide context for encouraging communication in these children. Her randomized controlled trial design encompasses treatment sites at UCLA, Vanderbilt, and Kennedy Krieger and involves the play based therapy especially designed for these children and also a treatment arm that includes an alternative and augmentative communication device. Dr. Kasari showed data from the group thus far – after three months of the six-month treatment trial. Not only are some individual children making incredible strides toward initiating functional communication, but overall 75% of the children in the study are responding to the therapy. Interestingly, looking back at the detailed assessments taken on the participating children upon their entry into the study no particular features distinguished the responders from the non-responders thus far.
These studies break new ground in reaching those with autism who cannot speak. However, the next steps will almost certainly be the most exciting. As more researchers and clinicians learn about these studies and are able to take advantage of the results presented, we will be better able to understand and assist individuals who are now non-verbal. These sentiments were perhaps captured best in the enthusiastic response the speakers received from the loved ones of those affected.
Making Friends
This is a guest post by John Robison, author of Be Different and Look Me In The Eye.
I've just come from a morning at the Parents/Families/Community conference that's associated with the big IMFAR autism science meeting. The conference moves around every year (some of the scientists have a reputation for getting wild) and this year we're in San Diego. I flew in late last night just in time to sleep three hours and get up bright and early for the cab ride to the University of California at San Diego.
As long as I remain functional, I will be reporting on events here and at the main conference for the next three days. In addition, I hope to visit the San Diego container terminal and perhaps capture novel and exciting images of shipping and transportation.
As much I love ships and trains, I recognized my commitment to autism science and dutifully appeared where I was supposed to be, before I was supposed to be there. I was just in time for the keynote sessions, which I found totally fascinating.
The first talk I'd like to share with you concerned a program called PEERS, which was developed by Liz Laugeson, Psy.D. and Fred Frankel, Ph.D. of UCLA, and presented by Liz at this morning's session.
PEERS is a science-based program that helps kids make friends. I say its science based because she actually tested and proved out the various concepts in PEERS through trials. By doing that, she was able to quantify what worked and what didn't.
And that, folks, is a really important thing in the world of therapy.
Most therapists who work with folks on the spectrum do not have autism themselves. Therefore, things that may seem obvious to them may be totally obscure to the folks they are trying to help. Consider the example of a teen who has trouble getting into conversations with strangers.
A person who does not have autism instinctively reads the non verbal signals from people around him. He knows when to speak up and when to be quiet, and he knows how to join a conversation smoothly. At least, that's the idea. A therapist who grew up with those skills naturally assumes everyone else is similar. That being the case, conversational skill is simply a matter of polishing one's skill.
Unfortunately, for most autistic people, "polishing" does not work. We lack the ability to read other people, so "watching and slipping in smoothly" is not something we can do at all, without special training and a lot of practice. Yet that deficiency may not be at all apparent to a nypical therapist, even after he's studied autism. Therefore, the advice that worked for him may totally fail for us, and he may not have any idea why, except to say "we just can't get it."
That's where science and evidence-based therapy development come in. Researchers can try different ways of helping people solve problems, and then measure how well that training works in real life. By testing different strategies, it becomes possible to separate what works from what doesn't, and to refine what works well into what works better. That is what Drs. Laugeson and Frankel have done with PEERS.
I could cite example after example from the book, but frankly, if you have a personal stake in helping people make friends, I urge you to buy the workbook. It's written to do group therapy for high school students but it's immediately obvious to me that the concepts can be used for self-study and even for Asperger adults. I mentioned that to Dr. Laugeson and she agreed but was quick to point out that the work had not been validated yet in adults.
So if you're an adult Aspergian, or you know one… you can be among the first to try these ideas out. Let me know what you think.
The PEERS workbook is in many ways a clinical version of my "Be Different" book. In that book, I talk about the strategies I've used to find success, and how I made the most of my autistic gifts while minimizing my disability. What PEERS does is take those ideas to the next level.
I wrote about making friends from the perspective of my own success as a person with Asperger's. PEERS approaches the same problem but from the perspective of many young people with autism, not just me.
PEERS was developed with funding from the National Institutes of Health. To me, it's a great example of the kind of research we should encourage in the autism community. This is work that will be of tremendous benefit to many people growing up with autism now.
Over the next few days, I'll be looking at all sorts of research. I'll see work from biologists, geneticists, psychologists, neurologists, and psychiatrists. I'll even be looking at studies from public health people and statisticians. Stay tuned as I report on highlights to come… after I walk over the check out the container terminal
You can find the book on amazon "Social Skills for Teenagers with Developmental and Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Peers Treatment Manual"
Many journeys to the same location – methods that 21st century scientists are using to identify genes that cause autism
We have asked several scientists who gave presentations at the April 10-11 DAN! conference in Baltimore to share their research and perspectives from the meeting with you here on the blog. The following piece is from Dr. Simon G. Gregory, Ph.D. Dr. Gregory is an Associate Professor in the Center for Human Genetics, Duke University Medical Center His primary area of research involves identifying the complex genetic factors that give rise to cardiovascular disease and multiple sclerosis, Dr. Gregory's group is also applying high-resolution genomic arrays to the discovery of chromosomal abnormalities and identification of epigenetic factors associated with autism.
For decades scientists have relied on traditional genetic approaches to identify genes that contribute to the development of autism. These approaches have included collecting extended, multi-generation families that contain one or more individuals with autism. Once a sufficient number of these families have been collected, hundreds of DNA markers that can highlight differences between us all at a genetic level (a bit similar to DNA fingerprinting used in CSI) are used to identify a region of the genome is linked with the disorder in the families. More recently, higher resolution technologies that benefitted from the completion of the human genome project have been developed to allow us to look at hundreds of thousands of markers simultaneously. This approach differs from the family-based approach in that it uses thousands of unrelated cases and age/sex/ethnicity matched controls. Together, both approaches have been successful in identifying genes, or at least regions of our chromosomes, that play a role in the development of autism. However, we know that many more genes will likely contribute to autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and that not all mechanisms that disrupt the normal function of a gene will be based on a single DNA mutation or a variant present in the general population.
My group at the Duke Center for Human Genetics recently embarked on a journey to identify autism genes using an approach that looks at chromosome content, and yet we reached an interesting finding using another technique that doesn't rely on the sequence of our DNA. For many years it has been known that ASDs can be caused by loss (deletion) or gain (duplication) of chromosomes. These genomic rearrangements can be large or small and some have been shown to cluster in particular regions of the genome, for example on the long arm of chromosome 15 (15q11-13). Our journey began by assessing the genomic content of 119 unrelated autistic children from families that we had collected over a number of years. We used genomic microarrays (microscope slides with printed content spanning our genome) to identify novel or common regions of deletion or duplication within one autistic child from each family. Although we identified a handful of novel regions and confirmed dozens of rearrangements that have increasingly been shown to exist within the 'normal' population, we decided to focus on a single deletion in one individual. The deletion, which contained five genes, sparked our interest because one of the genes, the oxytocin receptor (OXTR), had been previously implicated in autism. Previous studies using the traditional genetic approaches (mentioned above) had shown that OXTR was genetically associated with autism, other studies had shown that levels of oxytocin (a neurotransmitter that the receptor binds to OXTR) is important for pro-social behavior and that a knock-out of the receptor in mice can affect this behavior, and very recent studies have tested the supplementation of oxytocin in adults with autism.
After identifying the deletion in the one affected child we screened his family to see if it was novel and causative of his autism, or if he inherited the deletion from his parents. Somewhat disappointingly, his mother also had the deletion, but interestingly she had self reported obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) for which OXTR has also been implicated. Although we could have stopped the journey at this point, we decided try a different approach. Previous studies have shown that OXTR is controlled in the liver by a chemical group (methyl –CH3) that sits on top of the DNA but which doesn't change its sequence (click here for more information on epigenetic changes as they relate to autism). The phenomena of DNA methylation is a normal mechanism by which our cells silence parts of the genome that they don't want to be active (mainly repeat and retro-viral sequences) but they also use it as a switch to turn on or turn off genes for protein production. Significant in our journey was that the child with autism who had the OXTR deletion also had an affected brother. This is significant because when we assessed the methylation status of the whole family we noticed that the affected brother has very high levels of methylation in five different CG bases (among the A's C's G's and T's of our genome where the methyl group resides) in a 1,600 base pair window that had previously been identified as being methylated in the liver OXTR.
Differential methylation isn't a novel finding as a possible cause of autism. Previous studies in Rett syndrome, which has ASD like symptoms, have shown that mutations in the methyl CpG binding protein 2 (MECP2) gene not only contributes to the development of Rett syndrome but that these mutations affect the normal functioning of the gene which regulates the expression of other genes by altering their DNA methylation state. Additionally, imprinting (the silencing of a maternal or paternal copy of a chromosome by DNA methylation) has also been established as the basis for the development of Angelman and Prader-Willi syndromes that, again, have ASD like symptoms. Our next step was to validate the observation that increased methylation of OXTR in the affected brother may be a causal mechanism of autism. We expanded our analysis to include evaluation of the methylation status of OXTR in the peripheral blood of 20 controls and 20 individuals with autism, and in a second dataset of the post-mortem samples of temporal cortex tissue (a center for language and learning) in eight controls and eight children with autism. In both datasets we were pleased to see that the individuals with autism had higher levels of methylation than the controls. We next measured the level of gene expression of OXTR because we would expect that increased DNA methylation would result in decreased gene expression – which it did in a very small number of samples that we could test.
So you're asking yourself, how, if all these other studies had pointed to OXTR being implicated in autism, is this discovery significant? Well, we hope that we have found a unique autism-associated DNA methylation signature in a receptor for a neurotransmitter that is important in social cognition in autism. The next more exciting journey will be to substantiate what we have found in a larger number of samples and to establish if oxytocin treatment can help


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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) � Heavy wet snow has caused slippery roads and scattered power outages in parts of Maine and New Hampshire.
More than 1,000 outages have been reported in New Hampshire by Sunday morning.
The snow is expected to continue throughout the day.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning, with a total of 6 to 10 inches expected in southern and central Maine.
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Activists reach out to the Elizabeth Warren wing'
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has not expressed any interest in running for president. Yet that hasn't stopped members of the Democratic Party's left flank from using her name to put pressure on other 2016 hopefuls.
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Sept 15 | Autobiography of Childhood Montreal Launch
Acclaimed poet and literary blogger Sina Queyras will launch her very first novel, the stunning Autobiography of Childhood, in Montreal on Thursday, September 15, at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly. She'll read from the brand-new book and answer a few questions from host Jason Camlot.
Autobiography of Childhood Launch
featuring Sina Queyras
hosted by Jason Camlot
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 211 Bernard O.
Montreal, QC
7 p.m.