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Parents of little tykes starting out in kindergarten this year have likely received a package with an orange T-shirt and spiral booklet.
It's not a novelty gift, but rather, district officials hope, an overture in a long conversation about their child's education, development and successful graduation into the next phase of their life.
"We know that anytime schools, teachers and parents work together as a team, student learning goes way up," said School Board President Sharla Hales. "We wanted to do our part in that team work."
The program, called "Graduation Begins in Kindergarten," may seem like a stretch. But the more research shows learning habits are formed in early childhood, the more educators want to prepare children for the long haul.
"We are very excited to have your child join us for this very important journey," Superintendent Lisa Noonan says in an introductory letter to parents. "Your eager and enthusiastic five-year-old is actually a member of the graduating class of 2025. Before you know it, you'll be proudly cheering in an audience of parents who are watching their children cross the stage to receive their high school diplomas."
Essentially, the program takes the prospect of graduation and reverse-engineers a comprehensive outlook of interim goals and expectations from the starting point of kindergarten. The literature serves as a bridge between parents and schools.
"Developing this booklet is a difficult task because we know that programs and assessments will undoubtedly change over the next 13 years," Noonan writes in the book. "The elements required for graduation today may not be the same by the time your child enters high school. We present this information with the important caveat that your first assignment will be to stay in communication with your child's teachers, counselors, support staff and principals along the way."
Noonan said the program was funded by part of the district's $3.1 million Striving Readers federal grant, which targets student literacy all the way from birth to college.
"We're hoping to stretch that grant as far as we can for the next five years," she said. "Now, we are funded last year and this year, from birth to grade 12, and we have to do projects for each phase. Parent outreach is a component of the grant, and I had this idea a couple of years ago, but never had the funding."
This year, the cost of the kindergarten outreach was minor - $4,000-$5,000 for T-shirts and $2,000 for booklets. Noonan herself authored and compiled the literature.
"The book may end up being online on our website at some point," she said. "I like doing the book to the extent we can afford it. This year, we printed 450 copies."
A mountainous graphic at the end of the booklet, entitled "The Journey to the Top," shows benchmark goals as children make their way through the system.
Douglas educators expect students to be reading at or above grade level by the third grade.
"Reading is the most important subject in school. Why? Because a child needs reading in order to master most of the other subjects," writes education author Jim Trelease, whose reading facts are included as an appendix.
By the eighth grade, students should be advanced in their math skills, while exploring extracurricular activities, such as athletics and student clubs. In high school, besides being on track for credit attainment, students are encouraged to take at least one advanced placement course and prepare for college entrance exams.
"With the availability of information on the Internet in today's world, start looking at college university possibilities before your child even enters high school," Noonan writes.
More than wishful thinking, Noonan and her team back up this focus on the future with research.
Using sources as varied as the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Forbes Foundation, 24/7 Wall St., and the Millennial Branding Survey, they were able to present a picture of what the job market may look like in the future. Some of the top fields expected to grow include biomedical engineering, computer science, software engineering, and market research analysis, among others.
"Regardless of the publication reviewed, what is important to remember is that the jobs which existed for our parents and grandparents have changed with technology and may be different or obsolete in the future," the district writes.
Noonan said the packages went home the week of Thanksgiving.
"I'm looking forward to getting out there," she said. "I'm hoping to hear some positive replies. We certainly have put a lot into developing this, and it's unique to Douglas County."


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NEW YORK (AP) -- The lawyer for an accused madam of a multimillion-dollar New York brothel says he wants to gauge the possibility of a plea deal, but he cautions it doesn't mean she'll take one.
Anna Gristina remained behind bars Thursday. Her previous attorney offered to put up his apartment for her $2 million bond. But a judge said her lawyers need to complete official paperwork before he can consider the plan. The judge declined to lower the bond.
Lawyer Gary Greenwald told a court Thursday he'd like to talk with prosecutors "with a view toward a disposition or resolving the matter." He said later he just wants to find out what plea option she might have, and he'd do the same in any case.
Gristina has pleaded not guilty to promoting prostitution.
Accused of providing pricey prostitutes for 15 years and touting ties to law enforcement, Gristina has been held on $2 million bond since her February arraignment. Prosecutors have said her wealthy clients could help her flee, and they suggest the Scottish-born British citizen may have money hidden away to flee.
One of her lawyers, Peter J. Gleason, told a judge earlier this week that she's broke and he'd put up his $2.5 million downtown Manhattan loft for the bond. He also offered to have Gristina and her family move in with him, with her under house arrest and electronic monitoring.
He said Wednesday that he'd admired people who "were defined as much as by what they were willing to risk as by what they accomplished," and he'd made the offer in that spirit.
Prosecutors oppose the plan.
"There are ethical concerns," Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Charles Linehan told a court Monday.
State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said he didn't think there was an ethics problem but wanted to explore the issue further.
While not unheard-of, it's certainly unconventional for lawyers to post bail for clients. A 2009 Bronx court ruling said there was no clear prohibition on such arrangements in New York, and their ethics are "the subject of continuing debate."
Gristina, 44, and co-defendant Jaynie Baker, 30, have pleaded not guilty to promoting prostitution. Their lawyers have said they were working together to start a business as matchmakers, not madams.
Baker was released Tuesday on $100,000 bond after turning herself in.
Meanwhile, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Wednesday that a police sergeant had been cleared of any wrongdoing after internal-affairs investigators interviewed him in the matter.
Sgt. Richard Wall had been ordered to turn over his work log for the past five years after someone reported he had been to the Upper East Side apartment building where prosecutors say Gristina arranged trysts.
Kelly said Wall was assigned to the area and went to the building on police work. Wall's lawyer had said the sergeant had nothing to do with Gristina.

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The buried history of the region has long intrigued the Courson family.
Since the early 1980s, the family has led ongoing archaeological endeavors that have unearthed countless ancient items from sites at their properties in the northeast Panhandle.
"We've always been interested in archaeology and preserving the heritage of these lands," said Kirk Courson, son of family patriarch Harold Courson. "It's a value we all share."
The Coursons' efforts were recognized recently when the Texas Archeological Society presented them with its highest honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award.
The distinction acknowledges 30 years of archaeological support and development.
The family's interest began in 1983 when Harold Courson bought the Sam Handly Ranch in Ochiltree County. The land includes a complex of ruins called the Buried City, one of the most significant historical sites in Texas.
The area, which was the first archaeological site discovered in Texas, in 1906, comprises three groups of stone house foundations on Wolf Creek. Experts believe several hundred people once occupied more than 20 houses on the property from about 1250 to 1500 A.D.
The Coursons granted a conservation easement on the ranch to the Texas Historical Commission that restricts the property from being used for anything other than archaeological research.
"The purpose is to preserve the historic and archaeological features of the property," Kirk Courson said.
The family granted a second conservation easement to the commission on their Lips Ranch in Roberts County, which also includes multiple archaeological sites.
The Coursons' willingness to deed the property to the state is commendable, said Texas state archaeologist Pat Mercado-Allinger.
More than 95 percent of land surface in Texas is privately owned, which requires property owners to take the initiative when it comes to archaeological research, she said.
"We rely on people like the Coursons to share their passion for archaeological preservation with fellow landowners," Mercado-Allinger said. "We hold them up as what good stewards of property should be."
Both the Sam Handly Ranch and the Lips Ranch have been the sites for major digs.
The Texas Archeological Society hosted weeklong field schools at the Buried City site during the summers of 1986 and 1987 and at the Lips Ranch in the summers of 2008 and 2009.
The digs have uncovered items dating to as early as 1000 A.D., from arrowheads and stone tools to pottery and various seeds, Kirk Courson said.
Many of the artifacts are on display at the Coursons' laboratory and at the Wolf Creek Heritage Museum in Lipscomb and the Museum of the Plains in Perryton.
"The things we've found have been of prehistoric significance," he said. "It's fascinating stuff."
The explorations and excavations continue daily. The family employs a staff of four to manage its archaeological laboratory.
"We've amassed such a tremendous collection, and we're hunting for something every day," said Danny Witt, an employee of Courson Archaeological Research.
The efforts, Kirk Courson said, provide a better understanding of the Panhandle's storied ancestry.
"In preserving the past, we have a greater knowledge of the present and also of where we're possibly headed tomorrow," he said.
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the previous FOUR assholes elected to the office of the president of the united states have been spending my money plus buckets of imaginary money to pay off the other assholes who helped them get into office. both the republican party and the democratic party are filled almost entirely with apathetic, hypocritical assholes. It is treasonous to spend a country into debt! The best way to stop treasonous asshole spending is to execute traitors. The fewer assholes the better.
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The worst kind of person. You cannot fully construct a meaning that fully encompasses what this vicious insult means. If you're an asshole, you are disgusting, loathesome, vile, distasteful, wrathful, belligerent, agoraphobic, and more. Assholes are human fecal matter. They are the lowest of the low. They transcend all forms of immorality. It is the very worst of insults; to be called an asshole is to have your very soul ripped apart and shat on. I say that the word "asshole" is the worst cussword of the english language, worst than fuck, shit, and cunt combined.
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Monday, a court date for Thomas Altimont was set for May 13. Altimont was released over the weekend on a $10,000 bond.
Altimont was arrested Friday on charges of kidnapping and domestic battery. A woman said she was held against her will, despite her attempts to escape and the intervention of Altimont's roommate.
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Last Thursday night, the weather was perfect for a drive to the Ruffed Grouse Bar & Grille, 10326 W. Main Road, North East. Amanda and I were joined for dinner by our friends Colleen Lanigan and Jake Hordych.
All of the burgers at Ruffed Grouse are made from fresh ground chuck, grilled to order, and served on a ciabatta-style roll.
The first burger I tried was Colleen's Cali Burger, a half-pound patty topped with bacon, lettuce, tomato, pickles, white onions, slices of avocado, the house's secret burger sauce and grilled onions, which she requested. The beef is cooked medium-well unless requested otherwise.
The Cali had a nice crust on the outside, which kept the inside tender and juicy. The fresh, crisp vegetables added some texture. The bacon gave it the right amount of smoke and salt, balanced by the flavor of the caramelized onions. Colleen ordered the burger sans cheese, and the avocado acted like a binder to hold everything together. This is a must-try burger for sure.
Jake's Blue Cheese BLT burger is pretty self explanatory: burger patty, BLT, blue cheese crumbles and dressing. I could eat blue cheese on just about anything and the funky tang of the cheese paired great with the beef and bacon slices.
The lettuce and tomato weren't in the spotlight like they would be on a normal BLT, but added some crispness, moisture and a fresh veggie flavor.


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If we lived in a perfect world, doughnuts would be vegetables, Matthew McConaughey would have my abs and I would have his, and work would be a high-paying activity that involved naps.
Also in a perfect world, a thing called The Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013 would be a good idea. This is not, however, a perfect world, as evidenced by my non-McConaughey-like abs.
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I've always been a fan of the badass. So you can bet I was more than pleased to discover a video of this brand new little gaffer flipping her Daddio the bird.
I mean, she's a mere 15 minutes old and already asserting herself and letting her thoughts be known. Sure, maybe (likely), it's all coincidence. I'd like to think that this sort of thing (babies giving the middle finger), could be the best thing a babe could do, to let their unhappiness be known. With actual intent.
Think of it. Instead of crying they could give us the finger. Gas? The finger. No crying. Poopy diaper? The finger. No crying. Hungry? The finger. No crying. Issuing clear distaste for the ridiculous tutu they can't even crawl in it it's so big and gargantuan fluorescent flower bandanna with curly ribbin hitting the ceiling you just bedecked them in? The finger. (As obnoxious as that run-on sentence was, so is that sort of get-up. Sad but true fact to the guilty parties.)
Now, don't get me wrong. It's only cute and acceptable for a baby to do. Once they are able to start walking or talking, you've got to wean that sh*t out. (A swear was only appropriate). As with many other things we must wean our children from/off of; boobies or bottles, paci's, diapers – the list goes on. We could add flipping the bird to that list. I for one would have taken the finger any old day over the colic. Just sayin'. (If only slightly in jest). Video after the jump.
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MOSCOW — Russia has evacuated all its embassy staff and their families from Libya to Tunisia after its mission in Tripoli was attacked, the foreign ministry in Moscow said on Thursday.
The ministry said the decision had been made after Libya's foreign minister said Libyan authorities were no longer able to guarantee the staff's safety after Wednesday's attack. The embassy staff were to fly to Russia today.
Russia's embassy in Tripoli came under fire on Wednesday and a group of up to 60 people tried to force their way into the compound, the ministry said.
Diplomatic sources in Libya said security guards fired shots to disperse the protesters who had approached the embassy.
An attempt to enter the building was repelled and according to the foreign ministry no diplomats were wounded.
"The attackers opened fire and tore the Russian flag," the Russian Itar Tass news agency cited unnamed sources as saying.
Embassy staff had been taken to the airport as a precaution.
The attack was symptomatic of volatility in Libya two years after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. Tribal rivalries, as well as Islamist groups, have flourished in the absence of strong central government. Security services, themselves riven, have struggled to maintain order.
Western states, using air power, led the military campaign that ultimately toppled Mr Gaddafi.
Russia, which had had close relations with Mr Gaddafi, did not take part in the action and condemned what it called the West's abuse of a United Nations Security Council motion to intervene.
There have been several attacks on western diplomats by militant groups. Militants linked to al-Qaeda affiliates attacked the US consulate in Benghazi and killed ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans on September 11 last year.
However, one Libyan security source said the attack did not appear to be directly linked to any militant group. He said the crowd were angered by the killing, as they saw it, of a Libyan by a Russian woman. "The group attacked the compound as an act of revenge," said the source.
The embassy was empty at the time. Sources said Libyan authorities were searching for the gunmen.


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Figure 1. The white proximal portion of the fingernails is sharply delineated from the distal brownish portion.
Abnormal fingernails may be pathognomonic of systemic disease. In chronic renal failure, the half-and-half fingernail is an occasional but extremely specific finding. It is estimated that up to 40% of patients with renal insufficiency have half-and-half fingernails during the course of their disease.1 The characteristics were first described by Bean2 who, in 2 patients with renal failure, recognized the condition as a dark distal band occupying 20% to 60% of the total nail contrasting with a white portion resembling ground glass. Although Bean originally described the distal portion as red or slightly orange, the color can also be brown. The condition has also been observed in toenails, but it is most common in fingernails.
No studies document the prevalence of half-and-half nails in children. The youngest patient documented to have this condition was 22 years of age.3 There is no known relationship between the band width and the degree of renal failure, proteinuria, or the concentrations of serum creatinine, serum urea nitrogen, total protein, or albumin.1,4 In one report, the abnormalities disappeared over several months after successful cadaveric renal transplantation, but were unchanged by hemodialysis.5
Leyden and Wood 4 proposed that the discoloration was secondary to melanin deposition, based on the results from nail biopsy. They hypothesized that renal failure led to acidosis and uremia that stimulated nail matrix melanocytes to produce melanin. The associated slow growth of the nail in renal failure also exacerbated the resulting discoloration. Others postulated that changes in the nail bed rather than in the nail were responsible for the discoloration and patterns.3 Specifically, they attributed the changes to an increase in the number of capillaries and a thickening of the capillary walls in the nail bed.
A similar finding that is nonspecific for renal disease is Terry nails, first described in 1954.6 Terry nails have a distal pink-to-brown transverse band, 0.5 to 3 mm wide, a proximal white or light pink nail, and may have a lunula.7 Unlike half-and-half nails, which are specific to renal disease, Terry nails are associated with aging in general. Disorders such as cirrhosis, chronic congestive heart failure, and adult-onset diabetes may expedite the development of Terry nails.
Another onychopathologic finding specific to renal disease is triangular lunulae associated with the nail-patella syndrome. Nail abnormalities that occur in patients with renal disease but that are not specific to the disease include splinter hemorrhages and slow nail growth.8 Although Mee lines are classically associated with arsenic poisoning, the transverse white bands have also been seen with chronic renal failure.9
The variety of nail abnormalities in patients with renal disease suggests that routine nail inspection is an important part of the physical examination and can assist in the diagnosis of the disease.
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Author Affiliations: Department of Genetics and Cell Biology (Drs Spruijt and Smeets and Ms Hendrickx) and Research Institute Growth and Development (Dr Smeets), University of Maastricht, Maastricht; Department of Human Genetics, University Medical Centre Nijmegen, Nijmegen (Dr Spruijt); The Rotterdam Eye Hospital (Dr Bettink-Remeijer) and Departments of Clinical Genetics (Dr Maat-Kievit), Biochemistry (Drs Schoonderwoerd and Sluiter), and Neurology (Drs de Coo and Hintzen), Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
To report a novel mutation that is associated with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) within the same family affected by spastic dystonia.
Leber hereditary optic neuropathy is a mitochondrial disorder characterized by isolated central visual loss. Of patients with LHON, 95% carry a mutation in 1 of 3 mitochondrial DNA–encoded complex I genes. The complete mitochondrial DNA was screened for mutations in a patient with LHON without 1 of these 3 primary mutations. The heteroplasmy level and biochemical consequence of the mutation were determined.
A pathogenic 3697G>A/ND1 mutation was detected and seemed associated with an isolated complex I deficiency. This family has similar clinical characteristics as the previously described families with LHON and dystonia with an ND6 mutation.
The 3697G>A/ND1 mitochondrial DNA mutation causes the LHON and spastic dystonia phenotype in the same family. This mutation can also cause MELAS syndrome (which encompasses mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke), and other genetic factors may contribute to the clinical expression.
Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is a mitochondrial inherited optic atrophy, characteristically presenting with (sub)acute bilateral vision loss.1 More than 95% of all cases are caused by 1 of 3 primary mitochondrial DNA mutations (11778G>A, 3460G>A, or 14484T>C) that are all encoding a subunit of complex I.
The association of LHON with spastic dystonia is rare (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man 500001), and all mutations thus far have occurred in the ND6 subunit of complex I. The common characteristics are optic atrophy and spastic dystonia, asymptomatic basal ganglia lesions, and nearly absent complex I activity.
In this study, we sequenced the complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of a female patient with LHON in whom the primary mutations were absent. This search for a novel mtDNA mutation was also motivated by the fact that the brother of the patient had childhood-onset spastic dystonia with unknown cause.
We found a rare pathogenic 3697G>A/ND1 mutation in both patients, which has only once been reported in association with mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke (MELAS).2 To our knowledge, this report is the first of an ND1 mutation causing LHON and spastic dystonia. The family had a presentation similar to the previously described families with LHON and spastic dystonia who had ND6 mutations.
The proband is a 35-year-old white woman with sequential left and right vision loss, reaching a level of bilateral visual acuity of counting fingers in 14 months. Ophthalmoscopy revealed no abnormalities at the start of the symptoms; after 6 months, optic nerve atrophy became apparent. Color vision was disturbed, and visual fields showed a bilateral central scotoma. Visual evoked potentials and contrast vision were disturbed in both eyes. The results of a neurological examination were normal. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain showed only a few aspecific punctuated white matter abnormalities in both hemispheres. Serum and cerebrospinal fluid lactate levels were increased to 19.8 mg/dL (2.2 mmol/L) (normal, <16.2 mg/dL [<1.8 mmol/L]) and 33.3 mg/dL (3.7 mmol/L) (normal, <18.0 mg/dL [<2.0 mmol/L]), respectively. The results of a muscle biopsy showed a discrete increase of fiber type diameter variation, without ragged red fibers or other signs of mitochondrial myopathy. The patient smoked 10 cigarettes per day and did not abuse alcohol. She has 2 healthy children, aged 2 and 4 years. Three years after the initial onset of symptoms, the visual acuity of her left eye improved to 0.05% and the scotoma in the left visual field became smaller.
Her younger brother (by 1 year) had developed a slowly progressive (later stationary) generalized spastic dystonia that had appeared at the age of 3 years. He has been wheelchair bound since the age of 27 years and has mental retardation, scoliosis, dysarthria, and bilateral divergent strabismus without ophthalmoplegia. His serum lactate level was increased (27.0 mg/dL [3.0 mmol/L]), and there was accumulation of swollen mitochondria on electron microscopic analysis of a sural nerve biopsy specimen. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain showed bilateral hyperintensities in the putamen. The family history was unremarkable, except for frequent occurrence of migraine. The mother of both siblings is healthy.
The entire mtDNA coding region was amplified with two 25-μL polymerase chain reactions,3 using a polymerase chain reaction system (Expand Long Template PCR System; Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Mannheim, Germany). After purification, fragmentation, and labeling, the products were hybridized on a prehybridized oligonucleotide microarray (MitoChip), as described in a resequencing array protocol (CustomSeq Resequencing Array Protocol) (both available from Affymetrix Inc, Santa Clara, Calif). The chips were washed and stained on a fluidics station (GeneChip Fluidics Station 400; Affymetrix Inc) using the preprogrammed resequencing wash-and-stain protocol (DNA ARRAY-WS2). The oligonucleotide microarrays (MitoChips) were scanned (GeneChip Scanner 3000; Affymetrix Inc), creating CEL files for subsequent batch analysis. DNA analysis software (GeneChip DNA Analysis Software, version 126.96.36.199 beta; Affymetrix Inc) was used for the analysis. The presence and percentage of a mutation were determined by mutation-specific restriction digestion of a fluorescently labeled polymerase chain reaction product and gene scan analysis on an analyzer (ABI3100 Genetic Analyzer; Applied Biosystems, Foster City, Calif).3
Tissue homogenates were prepared from frozen muscle in 0.25M sucrose, 10mM 4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazine-ethanesfulfonic acid, and 1mM EDTA, pH 7.4. Citrate synthetase was measured according to Srere.4 The activities of the complexes of the mitochondrial respiratory chain were measured in muscle homogenates, as previously described.5- 7
The 3697G>A/ND1 (G131S) mutation was detected (Figure 1) with an oligonucleotide microarray (MitoChip). The sequence can be deduced from the oligonucleotide with the strongest signal that hybridizes best to the template. The mutation load was greater than 97% in the muscle of the patient with LHON. The mutation load was 56% in her blood and 88% and 19% in the blood of her severely affected brother and healthy mother, respectively (Figure 2).
Mitochondrial DNA analysis showing the wild-type sequence (A) and the 3697G>A mutation (B). Each column shows the 4 alternative nucleotides in the middle position of the oligonucleotide. The sequence can be deduced from the oligonucleotide with the strongest signal that hybridizes best to the template.
Pedigree reflecting the differences in mutation load and complex I residual activity in correlation with the clinical presentation. Circles indicate females; square, male; unshaded symbol, unaffected subject; and shaded symbols, affected subjects.
The polymorphisms 709G>A, 1888G>A, 4917A>G, 10463T>C, 13368G>A, 14905G>A, 15607A>G, and 15928G>A (homoplasmic) indicated that this family belongs to the European haplogroup T.8 The other polymorphisms (750A>G, 1438A>G, 2706A>G, 4216T>C, 4769A>G, 7028C>T, 8697G>A, 8860A>G, 9899T>C, 11251A>G, 11719G>A, 14766C>T, 15326A>G, and 15452C>A) were all known variations of the Cambridge sequence.
Respiration and enzyme studies in muscle tissue of the patient with LHON and her brother revealed an isolated complex I residual activity to 8% and 16%, respectively, compared with the control subject (Figure 2). The other complexes were normal. The level of citrate synthetase was increased in the sister (168%) and brother (216%), compared with the citrate synthetase activity of 50 controls.
The 3697G>A/ND1 mutation was reported once before, in a young boy with a typical MELAS phenotype.2 The mutation changes an evolutionary highly conserved amino acid (G131S) within the hydrophilic extramembrane loop of the mitochondrial ND1 protein. Pathogenicity was confirmed by cybrid studies.2 The mutation causes an isolated complex I defect as well, in our patients and in the patient with MELAS. Haplotypes differed between the patient with MELAS and those with LHON and spastic dystonia (H1 and T, respectively); however, although specific mtDNA haplotypes may confer a higher risk for the expression of certain complex diseases,9 it is unlikely that this is the case and the difference merely indicated that the 3697G>A mutation occurred independently and is not caused by a common founder. The mutation load (in blood, muscle, and fibroblasts) was comparable in the presently described patients and in the previously described patient with MELAS and, therefore, is unlikely to explain the clinically distinct presentations.
In this report, we show that the 3697G>A mutation can cause LHON or infantile spastic dystonia in siblings, which is different from the previously reported MELAS phenotype.2 Optic atrophy and spastic dystonia are uncommon features for MELAS. In the present patients, there were no indications of strokelike events or mitochondrial accumulation in muscle tissue. Ragged red fibers, which are associated with MELAS, were absent. Moreover, brain magnetic resonance imaging findings of a patient with MELAS2 showed several lesions of the right side of the thalamus, the basal ganglia, and the bifrontal cortical region, while, in our patients, there were a few punctuate hyperintensities in one and specific lesions in the putamen in the other. Lactic acidosis, in particular in the cerebrospinal fluid, and isolated complex I deficiency, however, are features that are shared among the 2 families. We conclude that the 3697G>A mutation causes an isolated severe complex I defect, leading to lactic acidosis and functional defects in the central nervous system and variable clinical phenotypes.
A pathogenic point mutation (3376G>A) in the mitochondrial MTND1 gene (the mitochondrial gene encoding the ND1 protein of complex I) has previously been described in association with an overlap syndrome comprising the clinical features of LHON and MELAS in a patient with an isolated complex I deficiency.10 The combination of spastic dystonia and LHON (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man 500001) is extremely rare and has been reported in only a few unconnected families with a 14459G>A/ND6 mutation,11- 15 families with a 14596T>A/ND616 mutation, or families without an mtDNA mutation.17 The present family with LHON and spastic dystonia shares a remarkable similar presentation with those families. The reported clinical presentation was LHON only, spastic dystonia only, or LHON and spastic dystonia.12- 15,18,19 When comparing this present patient with the other 9 described families with LHON and dystonia,12- 15 the first striking similarities are the bilateral lesions in the basal ganglia, in particular in the putamen; the isolated and severe complex I defect; and the extreme clinical variable phenotype within a family. Spastic dystonia has consistently been observed as associated with basal ganglia lesions, mainly in the nucleus lentiformis (putamen and globus pallidus). Spastic dystonia develops universally before the age of 5 years, and causes a moderate to severe generalized movement disorder sometimes associated with mental retardation. The mutation load might correlate with the phenotype (Figure 2), which has also been reported in most,12,14 but not in all,13,15 families with the 14459 mutation. The 14459G>A mutation occurs in the hydrophilic extramembrane loop of the ND6 protein, between the transmembrane helixes C and D, facing the intermembrane space, and the present 3697G>A mutation is also situated in the extramembrane loop between the same transmembrane helixes C and D in the ND1 protein; however, this mutation is facing the mitochondrial matrix.
The intrafamilial variation in clinical expression indicates that modifying nuclear factors are likely involved, playing a role in the clinical expression of mitochondrial disease. A recent report17 of a family with LHON and dystonia without an mtDNA mutation but with a severe isolated complex I defect is another indication for this. Patients with sporadic focal dystonia who have an isolated complex I defect have been identified. Cybrid studies in these families showed that in these patients the complex I defect was not caused by an mtDNA mutation.20 These data indicate that prognosis or counseling based on the mtDNA mutation and percentage only is troublesome and should be done with great care. It also means that female carriers have no reliable reproductive option to prevent the birth of a severely affected child. Despite this, we advise that patients with LHON or with LHON without the common LHON mutations but with a complex I deficiency be screened for additional mutations in the mtDNA, preferably the ND genes.
Correspondence: Hubert J. Smeets, PhD, Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Maastricht, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, the Netherlands (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Accepted for Publication: August 15, 2006.
Author Contributions:Study concept and design: Spruijt, Sluiter, and Hintzen. Acquisition of data: Spruijt, Smeets, Bettink-Remeijer, Maat-Kievit, Schoonderwoerd, de Coo, and Hintzen. Analysis and interpretation of data: Spruijt, Smeets, Sluiter, de Coo, and Hintzen. Drafting of the manuscript: Spruijt, Smeets, Hendrickx, Bettink-Remeijer, Schoonderwoerd, de Coo, and Hintzen. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Spruijt, Smeets, Maat-Kievit, Sluiter, de Coo, and Hintzen. Statistical analysis: Spruijt. Obtained funding: Spruijt and Smeets. Administrative, technical, and material support: Spruijt, Maat-Kievit, and Hintzen. Study supervision: Spruijt, Smeets, de Coo, and Hintzen.
Financial Disclosure: None reported.
Funding/Support: This study was supported in part by the Netherlands Society for Ophthalmologic Research; the Netherlands Society for Prevention of Blindness; and the EU-FP6 STREP MITOCIRCLE.
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AMONG TV'S FRESHMAN CLASS OF '74, HAPPY DAYS had to be Least Likely to Succeed: a post-Watergate sitcom set in Eisenhower-era Milwaukee? Its savviest character a swaggering biker in a black leather jacket? "Aaaay," said Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli, in the role that made Henry Winkler an overnight star—and viewers responded with the Fonz's trademark thumbs-up, making Happy Days the top-rated series in the 1976-77 season. As a retro pop-culture phenomenon, it helped define a decade. Its 1972 pilot had inspired George Lucas's American Graffiti and its plot lines launched Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy and Joanie Loves Chachi. By the time ABC pulled the plug in 1984, "Sit on it!" and other Fonzisms had become national catchphrases, and the Fonz's jacket was deemed worthy of display in the Smithsonian, where it now hangs. (Aaaay—talk about leaving skidmarks!)
Since Happy Days celebrated nostalgia, it was only a matter of time before Fonzie and his friends—squeaky-clean Richie Cunningham, amiably dopey Ralph Malph, musically mellow Warren "Potsie" Weber (who all live on in syndicated reruns)—got together for one last song on the jukebox. For two memory-laced days, nine of the show's stars assembled at a Burbank, Calif., studio to tape a film-clip-and-savor class reunion that will air March 3 on ABC. During breaks, they fill each other in on how their lives and careers have fared since those happy TV Tuesdays when Elvis was young, U-2 was a plane, and Richie had to borrow his dad's wheels.
Richie's folks, Howard and Marion Cunningham—actors Tom Bosley and Marion Ross—are schmoozing about old times at a table in the studio lunchroom. Suddenly Richie himself, Ron Howard, 38, slides in next to Ross, who squeals and gives him a maternal hug. Then she notices the cap he's wearing, emblazoned with the name of his production company, Imagine Films. "Look at him!" she declares. "Selling all the time!" In fact Hollywood has been sold on Howard as a director ever since the former child actor (Opie on The Andy Griffith Show) made a Splash in 1984 with his hit fantasy starring Daryl Hannah as a fish-out-of-water mermaid. He followed up with Cocoon, Willow and Backdraft, and this summer takes us Far and Away in a romantic epic starring young marrieds Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.
Ron's steady has been Cheryl, his wife of 16 years. The couple live far from the Hollywood whirl—in Cos Cob, Conn., with daughter Bryce, 11, twins Jocelyn and Paige, 7, and son Reed, 4. Ron recalls his Happy Days days as "a pretty goddamn good time." Of course, he adds, "It's much easier to embrace your past when the past isn't a limitation. Being the kind of director I dreamed I'd be, I don't have to fret about whether or not people think of me as Richie or Opie."
Henry Winkler, 46, isn't fretting much these days either, even though he knows that, to a generation of boomers, he'll forever be the Fonz. "I'm at peace with my past, with the character and with what I'm doing," Winkler says. What he has mostly been doing, following a short-lived movie acting career (Night Shift, The One and Only), has been working behind the camera—as coexecutive producer of ABC's MacGyver, which ends its seven-season run this spring. Now he's directing Burt Reynolds in Cop and a Half for his pal Howard's production company. "Ronnie's the boss," says Winkler. "Ronnie's always the boss." Their ties run deep: Henry and his wife, Stacey, married 14 years, are godparents to the Howards' kids. And they have two of their own—Zoë, 11, and Max, 8—with whom they live in North Hollywood. "I have an incredibly good life," says Winkler, "the foundation of which is Happy Days."
Life has also been good to the former Mr. and Mrs. C. Tom Bosley, 64, went from delivering an exasperated "Rich-ard!" to a querulous "Jessica!" as Cabot Cove sheriff Amos Tupper, who had a flinty friendship with super-snoop Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) on Murder, She Wrote. Bosley then got to star in his own 1989 whodunit, Father Dowling Mysteries. His proposed new series, in which he'd play the only man in a household of women, is now being shopped at the networks by Kimberly Beebe, a production executive who is also Bosley's 27-year-old stepdaughter from his marriage to his second wife, Patricia. (His first, Jean Eliot, died in 1978.)
Bosley still chats occasionally with his TV ex, Marion Ross. But whenever fans approach Ross, 63, to say how much they enjoyed her as Richie's mom, it's Jewish grandma Sophie Berger who stares back and replies: "Yes, but are you vatching da show now?" Da show, of course, is CBS's critically acclaimed Brooklyn Bridge, which has made Ross's career as hot as Sophie's chicken soup. Her social life isn't bad either. Ross, who divorced actor Freeman "Effie" Meskimen more than 20 years ago, is currently dating Tevye the dairyman—actually, Paul Michael, 65, who recently starred in a touring production of Fiddler on the Roof. (Performing is a family tradition: The Meskimens' son Jim, 32, and daughter Ellen Plummer, 30, are both actors.) Marion also maintains ties to her Happy Days brood. Winkler is a close friend, and he showed up last year at the Christmas party Ross threw at her San Fernando Valley home, along with two costars she hadn't seen in years: Anson Williams and Donny Most—the show's Potsie and Ralph, respectively.
Of all the returning alumni, Most, 38, may have had the least luck shaking his TV persona. After Happy Days, he wound up in low-profile movie and TV roles, including the voice of an adventurer named Eric in a Dungeons & Dragons special. Recently, though, Donny found a way out of the career dungeon by directing his first play, Doubles, in Los Angeles. On Valentine's Day, he opened as a star of another L.A. play, Till Death or Whatever Do Us Part. Married for 10 years to Morgan Hart, a former actress, Donny lives with his wife and daughters, Madison, 5, and Mackenzie, 3, in Agoura Hills, an L.A. commuter town where, once or twice a month in the local supermarket, he will hear someone inquiring, "Say, weren't you...?"
Williams, 42, was able to parlay his singing talents as Potsie into a glitzy Vegas-style act. But by the mid '80s, he says, "I put the mike down and never picked it up again. It's not what I was meant to do." Ron Howard told him, "You should be directing," and Williams went on to oversee episodes of L.A. Law and Hooperman. Recently old friend Howard hired him to direct Williams's first feature film, All-American Murder, starring Christopher Walken. Split in 1986 from Lorrie Mahaffey (who played Potsie's sorority sweetheart Jennifer on Days), Williams lives in Malibu with his second wife, Jackie Gerken, a former vice president of production for Dino De Laurentiis. The couple's only coproduction so far is daughter Hannah, 2.
Scott Baio, 30, who played Fonzie's studly cousin, Charles "Chachi" Areola, is still single and active on the L.A. dating scene. When he shows up at the reunion taping, most of the snacks put out for the cast seem to have vanished and Scott is left with a bag of potato chips. "That's the change in the business," he grumbles. Baio shouldn't beef. Though his Joanie Loves Chachi spin-off lasted only a season (1982-83), he went on to score as a college-age baby-sitter on Charles in Charge (first on CBS, then in syndication) and is currently playing an apartment superintendent on ABC's Baby Talk. Before going off to rap with his ex-castmates, Scott talks about the one most conspicuously absent: his former TV bride Joanie, Erin Moran. "Do I miss her? Yeah!" he says sadly. "I hope she's happy, but I don't know what she's doing."
Reached by phone at her Southern California spread, Moran, 31, says she was invited to the Happy Days reunion but flatly declined. The actress who once played Richie's perky kid sister now claims that every member of the cast is "evil," adding, "I pray for them." She also charges some relatives with being "bloodsuckers" who are after her money and accuses the government of conspiring to hook the country on crack and speed. Moran refutes tabloid reports that she herself was a drug addict and scoffs at rumors that she has "found God." Says Erin: "I've always had God." For the past five years she has been married to Rocky Ferguson, a singer whose style she describes as "eclectic" and for whom she recently produced a demo tape. As for future acting plans, Moran, who began her TV career at age 7, says, "I want to do a movie about my life as a child star."
Meanwhile, a couple of seasoned character actors, Pat Morita and Al Molinaro, are embracing each other in the lunchroom upstairs from the taping. Morita, 59, confides that "for a long while it felt like I would be the one [cast member] who wouldn't go anywhere." Not content with playing Matsuo Takahashi, better known as Arnold, the original owner of the drive-in eatery where Richie, Fonzie and the gang hung out, Morita became an early Happy Days' dropout, leaving in 1976—only to star in back-to-back sitcom flops, Mr. Tand Tina and Blansky's Beauties. Then, after a brief return to Happy Days in 1982, Morita wound up with a beauty of a role: the wise martial-arts guru Mr. Miyagi in 1984's The Karate Kid and its two sequels. Divorced four years ago from his wife, Yuki, with whom he has two daughters (Aly, 21, and Tia, 16), Pat commutes between his L.A. home and Hawaii, where he has formed a home-video company. First release: a tape on shiatsu massage, due out this spring. Meanwhile, Morita has just finished work on Honeymoon in Vegas, with James Caan and Nicolas Cage, scheduled for this summer.
Molinaro, 72, who took over Arnold's as avuncular Alfred Delvecchio, may be close to hanging up the apron. After costarring with Gregory Harrison in last season's The Family Man, Molinaro. a onetime musician and TV producer, says, "I've done acting for 20 years and now I'm getting tired of it." For the past couple of years, he has been developing sitcom ideas. On the front burner, Al and former costar Anson Williams are partners in Big Al's, a chain of 14 restaurants in the Midwest, which they launched five years ago. Al and his wife, Sidney, live in Glendale, an L.A. suburb, and he has a son, Michael, 30, from a previous marriage. But Molinaro still feels the pangs of separation from his "other" family—never more strongly than at the cast reunion, where he hugs everyone in sight. "We went through marriages, divorces, babies, deaths in the family," Molinaro recalls. And it's hard for him, he says, to think about all that now. "I'm too emotional. It makes me crazy. In a week, though," he adds sadly, "I'll be terrible."
ANDREW ABRAHAMS, JOHN GRIFFITHS and CRAIG THOMASHOFF in Burbank, Calif.
A Cast Replays Its Happy Days
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"In this first month we have received 70 requests for assistance," said effort coordinator Hal Black.
At a news conference Thursday the group announced a $100,000 donation to the effort by The Bosch Group. Bringing its bank account to $160,000.
To get help you just need to live in Lehigh and Northampton Counties, have damage from Sandy, and have a maximum household income that's double the poverty rate. That means, for example, a single resident must make $22,340 or less a year, the income for a household of two can't be more than $30,260, and for a family of three they need to earn $38,180 or less. The money can even be used to pay your insurance deductible.
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Some fans arriving at Monday's BCS championship game found their seats taken up by members of the media in a ticket mix up. Sugar Bowl officials turned the top two rows of a section in the upper deck into an overflow work area for the media covering the game.
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Fall is Here!Sandra Lee
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Guru of the Week #33: Inline [2] http://www.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=339574418The deal is OAOO and DRY and DTSTWCPW apply after you have dealt with your language's technical requirements. Slamming out a Java-style class in C++ is real cute up front, but your crows will not come home to roost enough for you even before the time comes to upgrade or profile or optimize. Just get a proto-Refactoring Browser for C++ like http://www.genitor.com/genitor/ocs.htm and live with lots of text duplication and manual "Small Design Up Front" to manage dependencies. -- PCP I don't inline to optimize the speed of the running code - I do it to optimize the speed with which I can write the code. If I had different tools I might behave differently. As it is, what I do works for me - but only, perhaps, because I do all of what I do. One thing I do is to put compilation firewalls between packages. Another is to make my packages small. Since I expect to recompile the entire package no matter what I do (because it's so cohesive that it's likely that any interesting change in functionality will mean changing most of the files in the package anyway) inlined classes don't make any difference in my compile times. Dependency management seems to be the only reason to ExtractImplementationFromHeader. Coding speed is really the only reason not to. Given the right set of tools I could easily see myself going the other way. I don't mind the existence of duplicate text if that's what the compiler needs - I just don't want to spend any time at all maintaining it. -- PhilGoodwin One major point of that 'Inline' thread - 'inline' changes performance profiles. More often than not it speeds something up. But it can also slow things down. I was not accusing you of thinking it automatically meant fast. But if you believe in compilation firewalls, use the most basic one; the H file CPP file paradigm. -- PCP Right, when I use them that's the first thing I do.
class complex { float re, im; !inline void print(ostream& os = cout) const { os << '(' << re << ',' << im << ')'; } };In this, as in many other areas, C++ violates one of the basic principles of language design: there should be ways to explicitly turn and and off a feature, as well as a default (e.g. signed char, unsigned char, char). Defining method implementations within the class definition is mainly just a convenience for the coder. When you say "muscle memory" I say "tool". Extracting .h header files automatically is pretty easy. It's especially easy when you have a coding standard for indentation. I suppose that there is a need for a general tool that comprehends the language, as opposed to relying on indentation. (Hmmm... HowWouldRefactoringGoFromIndentationToParsing?) With C++, of course, you are required to generate a .h interface file, and a .c object source code file, and the original "fat" class definition file should not be directly compiled and linked, courtesy of the One Definition Rule. At some point, of course, your class definition gets so bulky that you, the programmer, want to move implementation bodies out of the class definition just to make the class easier to read. That is a useful refactoring - useful in the sense of being human oriented, rather than tool oriented. -- AndyGlew