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A sales manager at a Melbourne car dealership is fatally shot after being involved in a crash during a test drive.Video Transcript
Breaking news tonight, a deadly case of Road Rage... One man is dead, another charged with his murder-- and police say it all started with a FENDER BENDER in Brevard County.. Good Evening, I'm Amanda Ober.. John Pratt was shot to death just after 9:30 this morning during some sort of argument following the minor accident in Melbourne .. It happed near Babcock Street and Brevard drive and that's where WESH 2's Travelle Eiland is standing by live with the breaking details.. Investigators say the victim's was the sales manager at this car dealership-- just down the road from the crime site. He was test driving a customers car when he was rear ended. Police say 55 year old william sherwood was behind the wheel of the blue toyota and crashed into the sliver SUV the victim was driving. An argument ensued and investigators say Sherwood opened fire on Jonathan pratt. Pratt's boss says he was shot twice and Emergency workers rushed him to the hos [TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES] WHERE HE DIED. INVESTIGATORS SAY THE SHOOTING WAS SPARKED BY ROAD RAGE, HIS BOSS SAID THAT HE WAS NEVER THE TYPE OF MAN TO LOSE HIS TEMPER. HIS LIFE WAS ENDED BECAUSE OF SOMEONE ELSE'S AGGRESSION. AND AGAIN, I CAN'T RATIONALIZE IT. THE HANDGUN USED IN THE SHOOTING WAS CONFISCATED. WILLIAM IS CHARGED WITH SECOND DEGREE MURDER. INVESTIGATORS ARE NOT CONFIRMING WHAT CAUSED THE SIMPLE CRASH TO ESCALATE INTO A DEADLY SHOOTING. THEY HAVE THE SUSPECT'S SIDE OF THE STORY. THEY'RE TALKING TO WITNESSES. WITNESSES ON THE SCENE TELL US THE SHOOTER IN THIS CASE IS CLAIMING SELF-DEFENSE. POLICE ARE NOT CONFIRMING THAT
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Life Science. Chapter 7 Vocabulary. Chapter 7 - Bacteria. Mrs. Robasky. Seventh grade. 2011. WBA. *Again, let me know if I have any errors.
chemicals produced by some bacteria that are used to limit the growth of other bacteria.
thick-walled, protective structure produced by some bacteria when conditions are unfavorable for survival.
simplest form of asexual reproduction in which two new cells are produced with genetic material identical to each other and identical to the previous cell.
long, thin whiplike structure that helps organisms move through moist or wet surroundings.
nitrogen-fixing bacteria
bacteria that convert nitrogen in the air into forms that can be used by poants and animals.
organism that uses dead organisms as a food source and helps recycle nutrients so they are available for use by other organisms.

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Yeah I caught that one on nutritionfacts and mercola.com. Turns out.....vitamin d is needed for immune function!
Well no shit. I suppose it's nice to know how it is though. Still, from nothing but clinical results and statistics, the virtues of vitamin d have been known for a long time. Boy I'm sure those vitamin d deniers feel silly right about now.


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Yes! Simplifying. That is exactly my goal. On Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 12:52:37 PM UTC-4, Tim Tetrault wrote: > > I feel the same way about my Sam. Congrats on simplifying. > > On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 3:28:15 PM UTC-7, Broccoli Cog wrote: >> >> Hello All, I am fairly new to the group and have been reading and taking >> in some of the information shared here for the last few weeks. My cycling >> history has been heavily influenced by racing. My competitive experience >> has been in road, mountain and cyclocross. I had gotten to the point where >> riding a bike was no longer simply just riding a bike. I called it >> "training" and I always followed a structured plan and even had a cycling >> coach. In short riding became like work and took all the fun out of it. I >> knew something had to change as I could no longer sustain my chosen path. >> At the end of the day I am just a guy with a regular job and a family. I >> had been aware of Grant Peterson and the folks at Rivendell for several >> years now. While my interest was piqued when I first learned of them I >> never fully embraced the Rivendell style. As I began to build up my >> conditioning for another season of racing I happened to read Grant's book >> "Just Ride" the words on the pages leapt out at me getting to the heart of >> everything that I had been thinking. It was time for me to make a change. >> While the book is full of many nuggets of wisdom there is one short >> sentence in the book that really resonated with me. It read, *A bicycle >> should make your life better, not take it over and boss you around*. My >> bike and my immersion in the racing subculture had taken over my life. So I >> took a giant step back and reevaluated the time and effort I was putting >> into the sport of cycling. I decided to sell off three bikes, several >> wheelsets and many random parts that I felt I no longer needed. Frankly, >> It's a little embarrassing to think about how much money I had spent on >> bikes and cycling equipment through the years. The money raised from >> selling off all of this stuff was used to purchase one awesome Sam >> Hillborne. I love this bike as much as one can love a bicycle. It's >> everything I need an nothing more. I have been riding it everywhere. On the >> road, bike paths, single track, gravel, you name it. Sam does it all well >> and it's comfortable as a bike can be. I thought I would post a picture of >> it so you can all see how it turned out. I went with the complete bike that >> Rivendell offers later adding a Marks Rack, SaddleSack X-small bag and a >> Swift Industries Handlebar bag. I love it! >> >> >> >>
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Volume 22 - Article 12 | Pages 289-320
The effects of shocks in early life mortality on later life expectancy and mortality compression: A cohort analysis
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I study how shocks in cohort-level early life conditions, as represented by deviations from trend in mortality before age 5, affect later mortality. I use data for six European countries and find that shocks that increase infant mortality decrease later life expectancy between ages 5-30. The effect is strong for England and Wales but small or insignificant for other countries. Shocks that increase mortality at ages 1-5 increase life expectancy between ages 5-30 and compress the mortality distribution. For both shocks the effects are weak at older ages. These results suggest that early life conditions have a transitory effect and potentially only little influence on old-age mortality.
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Mikko Myrskylä - London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
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From Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Mo (Drs Bierut, Heath, Bucholz, and Madden); Finch University of Health Sciences, The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, Ill (Dr Dinwiddie); and Queensland Institute of Medical Research (Ms Statham and Dr Martin) and Queensland University of Technology (Dr Dunne), Brisbane, Australia.
Depression affects more women than men and often aggregates in families. Using a community-based sample of twins, we examined the contributions of genetic and environmental factors to the risk of developing major depressive disorder and the effect of sex and different definitions of depression on the relative contributions of genetic and environmental effects. Sex differences in genetic effects were also studied.
A volunteer sample of Australian twins (2662 pairs) was interviewed using an abbreviated version of the Semi-Structured Assessment for the Genetics of Alcoholism, a semi-structured lay interview designed to assess psychiatric disorders. Depression was defined using 3 different criteria sets: DSM-III-R major depressive disorder, DSM-IV major depressive disorder, and severe DSM-IV major depressive disorder. Genetic and environmental contributions to the liability to develop depression were estimated using genetic model fitting.
Lifetime prevalences were 31% in women and 24% in men for DSM-III-R major depressive disorder, 22% in women and 16% in men for DSM-IV major depressive disorder, and 9% in women and 3% in men for severe DSM-IV major depressive disorder. In women, the simplest model to fit the data implicated genetic factors and environmental factors unique to the individual in the development of depression, with heritability estimates ranging from 36% to 44%. In men, depression was only modestly familial, and thus individual environmental factors played a larger role in the development of depression. For DSM-III-R major depressive disorder, there were statistically different estimates for heritability for men vs women. For both sexes, the relative contributions of genetic and environmental factors were stable using different definitions of depression.
There was moderate familial aggregation of depression in women and this primarily was attributable to genetic factors. In men, there was only modest familial aggregation of depression. For both men and women, individual environmental experiences played a large role in the development of depression. Major depressive disorder as defined by DSM-III-R was more heritable in women as compared with men. The relative contributions of genetic and environmental factors in the development of depression were similar for varying definitions of depression, from a broad definition to a narrow definition.
MAJOR DEPRESSIVE disorder is one of the most common psychiatric illnesses and causes considerable impairment in social functioning, employment, and physical ability.1 Estimates from the US National Comorbidity Survey indicate that 17.1% of the population suffers from a DSM-III-R major depressive episode at some point in their lifetimes, and 10.3% of the population has experienced a major depressive episode in the last 12 months.2 Sex differences in rates of major depressive disorder have long been recognized; women are about twice as likely to suffer from a major depressive episode as men (21.3% of women and 12.7% of men).2
Depression is also an illness that aggregates in families. Family studies have observed an increase in the risk of developing major depressive disorder in the relatives of individuals with major depressive disorder, though the magnitude of risk has differed between reports.3- 6 To determine whether this clustering of depression in families is caused by genetic or environmental factors shared by family members, it is preferable to perform adoption and twin studies because these studies can separate genetic and common family environmental contributions related to the development of a disorder.
Results of adoption studies have not been consistent in either establishing or rejecting biologically heritable influences in the development of depression.7- 9 On the other hand, twin studies consistently have supported genetic effects in the development of depression.10- 14 A population-based sample of twins from Virginia showed modest genetic influence (heritability 39%-42%)11,14 on the development of DSM-III-R major depressive disorder. A similar finding was seen in a sample of male twins recruited from members of the military during the Vietnam War era (heritability 36%).12 Two studies of twins recruited from psychiatric treatment centers demonstrated strong genetic influences on the development of depression (DSM-IV major depressive disorder, heritability 70%13 and DSM-III-R major depressive disorder, heritability 60%10).
The influence of genetic factors, however, may not be equal for men and women. As part of the National Institute of Mental Health Collaborative Program on the Psychobiology of Depression, subjects with depression and their first-degree relatives were studied15 and the "transmissibility" of depression, which encompasses both environmental and genetic factors that are passed from parents to offspring, was examined. Women were found to have significantly greater transmissibility of depression than men.16 However, twin studies10,13,14 did not find any sex differences in the magnitude of genetic and environmental contributions to depression.
The purpose of this study is to examine the genetic and environmental contributions to major depressive disorder in a volunteer community-based sample of male and female twins to address the following questions. (1) Is there familial aggregation of depression in both men and women and, if so, is there a genetic contribution to the development of depression? (2) Is the genetic contribution to the development of depression similar in men and women? (3) Does the proportion of the genetic and environmental contributions to depression differ for broadly and narrowly defined depression?
Subjects were drawn from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Twin Registry, a volunteer sample of twins. The cohort first completed a mailed questionnaire in 1980-1982 when they were 18 years or older, and the twins were subsequently followed up with a second mailed questionnaire in 1988-1990.17,18 In 1992-1993, telephone interviews of twins were conducted, and this direct interview provided the data for analyses in this article.19
Data were obtained from both members of 2685 twin pairs. The mean age of the sample was 44 years (range, 28-89 years; SD, 12.35 years) in women and 42 years (range, 28-84 years; SD, 11.23 years) in men. Because this was a study of unipolar affective disorder, twin pairs were eliminated from analyses if one or both twins from a twinship screened positive for mania, which left 2662 twin pairs for the final analyses. Verbal informed consent was obtained from all subjects before the start of the interview.
Subjects were interviewed by telephone using an abbreviated version of the Semi-Structured Assessment for the Genetics of Alcoholism,20 a highly reliable, semi-structured interview designed to assess the lifetime prevalences of alcohol dependence, major depressive disorder, and other psychiatric disorders. Lay interviewers received intensive training in administering the interview, and when assessing a subject were blind to the results of a co-twin's assessment. Prior to data entry, an editor checked interview data for consistency and subjects were recontacted to clarify inconsistencies. (A fuller description is given elsewhere.19)
All diagnostic criteria were implemented using computer algorithms. Three different diagnostic criteria for depression were studied: DSM-III-R major depressive disorder, DSM-IV major depressive disorder, and severe DSM-IV major depressive disorder. Major depressive disorder as defined by the DSM-III-R, the broadest definition of depression, required 5 depressive symptoms occurring together during at least a 2-week period. Major depressive disorder as defined by the DSM-IV also required a clustering of 5 depressive symptoms during a period of 2 weeks or longer, and individuals must also report impairment in social relationships, work, or school or seek treatment for this depressive syndrome. Severe DSM-IV major depressive disorder was defined as 6 depressive symptoms during at least a 4-week period (instead of 5 symptoms for DSM-IV major depressive disorder). This narrower definition of depression is more likely to be reliably reported, since a depressive episode with more symptoms for a longer period is more often rereported at longitudinal follow-up.21,22 Depressive syndromes were included in analyses regardless of whether a subject reported a concomitant factor for the depressive episode (medications, alcohol or other drugs, serious medical illness, childbirth, or death of a loved one).
An abbreviated assessment of mania was given. This section, though nondiagnostic, was considered "positive" for mania if the subject reported a week or more of euphoria and psychiatric treatment for this condition. Using these screening criteria, 23 subjects (0.4%) reported an episode consistent with mania. Clinician review of responses and interviewer notes confirmed that most of these subjects had a clear history of bipolar affective disorder.
Prevalences, probandwise concordance for monozygotic and dizygotic twins, and tetrachoric correlations were determined. The probandwise concordance is the proportion of co-twins of twins with depression who are also affected with depression; each affected twin is independently ascertained. Among men belonging to unlike-sex dizygotic twin pairs, probandwise concordance is defined as the number of affected brothers of affected women divided by the total number of brothers of affected women. A similar definition is used for women belonging to unlike-sex dizygotic twin pairs.
For genetic modeling analyses, the liability to develop depression is assumed to be a continuous normal distribution with a threshold above which individuals develop the disorder.23 This liability distribution receives contributions from both genetic and environmental effects. Phenotypic variance can then be partitioned into the proportion due to genetic effects, shared familial environmental effects, and unique individual environmental effects.
Models were fitted using MX24 to examine genetic and environmental contributions to the risk of developing depression. Thresholds for the underlying liability were allowed to differ for men and women, since there are prominent sex differences in the population prevalence of depression. The full model included additive genetic effects (A), unique (nonshared) individual environmental effects (E), and either shared family environmental effects (C) or dominant genetic effects (D), estimated separately for men and women. Simpler models were then fitted that included only additive genetic and individual environmental contributions (AE model), shared environmental and individual environmental contributions (CE model), or individual environmental contributions (E model) to depression. The fit of these models was assessed by a goodness-of-fit χ2 test. Parameters for genetic and environmental contributions were estimated, and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for these estimates were computed for the full model.25
After genetic and environmental contributions were estimated independently for men and women, parameters were constrained to be equal to test for differences in genetic and environmental contributions to the risk of developing depression by sex. Models were evaluated by a goodness-of-fit χ2 test. This was done for each definition of major depressive disorder. Subsequently, we fit models for sex-specific gene effects, that is, for a genetic correlation between genetic effects in opposite-sex siblings for each definition of depression; however, the power to detect any differences was low and CIs ranged from 0 to 1.
Finally, depression was modeled as a single underlying liability to determine whether genetic and environmental effects contributed similarly to the risk of developing narrowly and broadly defined depression. Depression was modeled as a 4-point scale (unaffected, DSM-III-R major depressive disorder, DSM-IV major depressive disorder, and severe DSM-IV major depressive disorder) by setting a multivariate threshold model26 with 3 different thresholds corresponding to the 3 different diagnostic criteria for depression. A poor fit of the model would be consistent with significantly different genetic and environmental influences contributing to the different definitions of depression. For example, a more severe disease may have a greater genetic contribution compared with a milder form of a disease. A goodness-of-fit χ2 test was used to evaluate this model of multiple thresholds on a single liability scale.
The lifetime prevalences for the various definitions of major depressive disorder are presented in Table 1. The broadest definition of depression, DSM-III-R major depressive disorder, was common in this population and affected 23.9% of men and 31.2% of women. Major depressive disorder as defined by DSM-IV, which in addition to DSM-III-R criteria required impairment in functioning during the depressive illness or seeking treatment for the illness, was less common (15.7% of men and 22.4% of women). Severe DSM-IV major depressive disorder, which required 6 symptoms of depression and an episode lasting at least 4 weeks, was the narrowest definition of depression (3.4% of men and 9.2% of women). Also presented in Table 1 are the proportion of cases reporting impairment in functioning, treatment seeking, and concomitant factors (eg, childbirth, bereavement) for each definition of depression.
Table 2 presents the prevalence and probandwise concordance for monozygotic and dizygotic twins. Tetrachoric correlations are also given. Female monozygotic twins had higher probandwise concordance rates than female dizygotic twins regardless of the diagnostic criteria used. Because monozygotic twins have the same genetic makeup whereas dizygotic twins share on average only half of their genes, a greater probandwise concordance rate in monozygotic twins is consistent with a genetic contribution to the development of depression. Results were not as straightforward for male twins. Probandwise concordance rates were fairly similar for monozygotic and dizygotic twins, suggesting a smaller or even nonexistent genetic contribution to the development of major depressive disorder in men.
Full genetic and environmental models were fitted to these 3 definitions of depression, and results of the model fitting are displayed in Table 3 and subsequent model fitting in Table 4. For DSM-III-R major depressive disorder, although the ACE and ADE models fit the data well, the simplest model to explain the data without a significant worsening of the fit of the model was the AE model for both men and women (likelihood ratio, AE vs ADE model: χ2=2.40, df=2, P=.30; AE vs ACE model: χ2=0.00, df=2, P=1.00). The CE model, which postulates that the familial resemblance of twins is due to shared familial environment with no shared genetic effects, could be rejected (likelihood ratio, CE vs ACE model: χ2=17.58, df=2, P<.01). Equal genetic and environmental effects for DSM-III-R major depressive disorder in men and women were then modeled by constraining parameter estimates to be equal across sexes. This model also could be rejected (likelihood ratio, separate parameter estimates for men and women vs equal parameter estimates for men and women, AE model: χ2=5.0, df=1, P=.03). Thus the magnitude of the genetic and environmental contributions to the development of depression in men and women were significantly different.
Data for DSM-IV major depressive disorder also were fitted with the ACE and ADE models. The simplest model to explain the data was again the AE model; that is, a model with additive genetic and unique environmental effects contributing to the development of depression (likelihood ratio, AE vs ADE model: χ2=1.51, df=2, P=.47; AE vs ACE model: χ2=0.00, df=2, P=1.00). Family resemblance was not solely explained by shared environmental influences (likelihood ratio, CE vs ACE model: χ2=8.71, df=2, P=.01). Parameter estimates were again constrained to be equal for men and women. The model of similar genetic and environmental contributions for men and women to the development of DSM-IV major depressive disorder could not be rejected (likelihood ratio, separate parameter estimates for men and women vs equal parameter estimates for men and women, AE model: χ2=2.61, df=1, P=.11).
The ACE and ADE models fit the data well for severe DSM-IV major depressive disorder. For both men and women, the AE model fit the data without a significant deterioration of the fit of the model (likelihood ratio, AE vs ADE model: χ2=2.10, df=2, P=.35; AE vs ACE model: χ2=0.00, df=2, P=1.00) and the CE model was rejected (likelihood ratio, CE vs ACE model: χ2=6.33, df=2, P=.04). The model could be further simplified and for men, a significant familial resemblance could not be detected though there was a trend for familial clustering (likelihood ratio, AE vs E model for men: χ2=3.34, df=1, P=.07). However, the lifetime prevalence of a severe depressive syndrome was low in men, and the statistical power to model familial resemblance was weak. In fact, a model of equal genetic and environmental parameter estimates for men and women also could not be rejected (likelihood ratio, separate parameter estimates for men and women vs equal parameter estimates for men and women, AE model: χ2=0.00, df=1, P=1.00).
Finally, when depression was analyzed as a disorder with a normal liability distribution and thresholds corresponding to mild, moderate, and severe cases, there was a reasonable fit of the model (χ2=47.17; df=41; P=.23). Thus, the assumption of equal genetic and environmental contributions to broad and narrow forms of depression was not rejected.
The purpose of this study was to examine the contributions of genetic and environmental influences in the development of major depressive disorder in a community-based sample of male and female twins.
Using 3 different definitions, we examined the familial aggregation of major depressive disorder. In women, major depressive disorder, regardless of definition, aggregated in families and this familial clustering was best explained by shared genetic factors in the family as opposed to shared family environment. In men, there was also familial clustering of DSM-III-R and DSM-IV major depressive disorder; however, this clustering was not as pronounced as in women. This translated into lower concordance rates among male relatives, so that men related to an individual with major depressive disorder had a lower relative risk of developing major depressive disorder compared with women, even after taking into account sex differences in population prevalence. As in women, the familial aggregation of depression in men was best explained by shared genetic influences.
The narrowest definition of depression, severe DSM-IV major depressive disorder, showed no significant familial aggregation for men. That is, in our data set, the liability to develop a severe major depressive episode could be explained solely by unique environmental influences in men. However, this does not mean that there were no familial factors in the development of a severe major depressive episode in men. Instead, a more likely explanation is that our ability to detect familial influences, either genetic or environmental, was low given the decreased prevalence (3.4%) of severe depressive episodes in men. Twin studies have decreased in power when examining less-common disorders,27 and the ability to accurately estimate heritability is low.
Regardless of the definition of depression, unique environmental experiences played the strongest role in the development of major depressive disorder for both men and women. However, the environmental parameter estimate included both an estimate of environmental influences on the development of depression and measurement (diagnostic) error, and measurement error can reduce heritability estimates. For example, Kendler et al28 found that assessing subjects at 2 time points can reduce error in diagnosis and subsequent model fitting resulted in major depressive disorder having high estimates of heritability but moderate measurement reliability.
Though genetic factors contributed to the development of DSM-III-R major depressive disorder in both men and women, the magnitude of these contributions differed between sexes. Genetic factors accounted for a significantly greater proportion of the liability to develop DSM-III-R major depressive disorder in women compared with men. Genes also contribute to the development of DSM-IV major depressive disorder, and there was a trend for the relative contribution of genetic factors in the development of depression to be greater in women compared with men for DSM-IV major depressive disorder. However, the model of equal genetic contributions was not rejected.
For the most stringent definition of depression, severe DSM-IV major depressive disorder, there was evidence of genetic factors in the development of depression in women but not in men, also implicating that the magnitude of genetic contributions differs between sexes for this disorder. However, the model of equal genetic contributions again was not rejected.
When we examined the effect of narrowing the definition of depression on the magnitude of genetic and environmental contributions to the development of depression, there was little change in the heritability of major depressive disorder. Results of fitting a multiple-threshold model also did not suggest differential heritability or different genetic and environmental determinants of broadly and narrowly defined depression. In women, genetic effects explained between 36% and 44% of the variance. In men, the heritability estimates for depression had more variation, ranging from 1% for the narrowest definition of depression to 24% for the broadest definition. However, these estimates had extremely wide CIs owing to the lower prevalence of depression in men, and thus there may be no true differences in heritability for broadly or narrowly defined depression.
Overall, these results agree with those from the study by Kendler et al11 of a general population of Virginia female twins. We obtained similar lifetime prevalences for major depressive disorder (31% for both studies) and estimates of heritability (42% heritability for Kendler et al vs 44% in this study). The extension of the Virginia twin study14 to include male twins found a somewhat lower prevalence of major depressive disorder in men (16.4% for Kendler et al vs 24% in this study) and higher heritability (39% vs 24%, respectively). Although the Virginia twin study concluded that genetic risk factors were not the same for men and women, the magnitude of genetic effects was equal. This differs from our finding of a greater genetic influence in the development of depression in women as compared with men. Our findings were also consistent with a recent study by Lyons et al.12 Though our population prevalences for DSM-III-R major depressive disorder in men differed (9% for Lyons et al vs 24% in this study), heritability estimates were reasonably similar (36% heritability for Lyons et al vs 24% in this study). Comparable methods were used in these studies—all studied community-based samples, used personal semi-structured interviews, and blinded interviewers for assessments.
These results more strongly differ from those reported in 2 clinically ascertained twin studies.10,13 Both studies reported no sex differences in heritability and much higher estimates of heritability (60%10 to 70%13 heritability). Though both studies had a large number of clinically ascertained twin pairs (217 clinically ascertained pairs of 486 total pairs10 and 177 clinically ascertained pairs13), their power to detect modest sex differences in heritability was likely low. Both studies had several important methodological differences from the current study that may contribute to differences in findings. In the study by Kendler et al,10 twins were clinically ascertained and matched with a population-based control group, assessments were done by questionnaire, and both major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder were combined in the analyses. In the report by McGuffin et al,13 twins were also clinically ascertained, population estimates of lifetime rates of major depressive disorder were used, assessments were a synthesis of personal interviews when available and medical records, and some assessments were not blinded. The simple explanation that twins recruited from a treatment setting for depression had a more severe syndrome and thus a more heritable syndrome cannot explicate the differences in heritability estimates, since we found no increase in heritability with a more stringent definition of depression.
An explanation for the difference in heritability between the McGuffin et al13 study and the current report may be that different estimates of lifetime rates of major depressive disorder were used in the analyses. McGuffin et al used an estimated population prevalence of DSM-IV major depressive disorder of 8.4% for women and 3.5% for men. In contrast, this study used the prevalence derived from the sample for the genetic analyses (22.4% in women and 15.7% in men). As noted by McGuffin et al, when estimates of lifetime prevalences of major depressive disorder obtained in the US National Comorbidity Study were used (21% in women and 13% in men), the heritability of depression decreased to 48%.
Limitations of this study include that it is a volunteer sample of Australian twins, telephone interviews were done, and equal environment assumptions for monozygotic and dizygotic twins must be made. First, although this is a volunteer sample, it nonetheless contains individuals with a broad range of educational and socioeconomic levels. Our analyses did not include an assessment of the effect of these variables on development of depression; previous analyses showed no effect on other disorders such as alcohol dependence.19 Telephone interviews were performed because of the large and geographically diverse population and several studies support the comparability of telephone and face-to-face interviews.11,29 Finally, the classic twin study assumes that monozygotic and dizygotic twins are treated equally in their homes so that familial differences are related to genes alone. Another report studied this assumption of equal environments in the development of depression and found that it is unlikely to cause significant bias.30
In conclusion, major depressive disorder aggregates in families and this clustering is best explained by shared genetic factors and unshared family environment. Our results also suggest that, at least for a broad definition of depression, there are sex differences in the magnitude of genetic contributions to depression, with stronger genetic influences in the development of depression in women. Finally, depression can be viewed as a disorder along a liability continuum, with similar genetic and environmental factors effecting a broad to a narrow definition of depression.
Accepted for publication February 23, 1999.
This work was supported in part by grants MH14677, AA00231 (Dr Bierut), AA07535, AA07728, and AA10249 (Dr Heath) from the US Public Health Service, Washington, DC, and by grants 941177 and 971232 (Dr Martin) from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council, Canberra.
Presented in part at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, San Diego, Calif, May 19, 1997.
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KAHULUI - A two-time National Press Photographers Association military photographer of the year, who was injured in battle in Iraq, will be discussing combat photography Monday at the University of Hawaii-Maui College.
Stacy Pearsall will be appearing with her husband, Andy Dunaway, also a combat photojournalist, at the gathering in the Pilina Building beginning at 6 p.m. Their appearance is a prelude to the second Maui Photo Festival & Workshops that runs from Wednesday to Aug. 29 at the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort & Spa.
Pearsall is one of only two women to win the NPPA Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have won it twice. During her three tours in Iraq, she earned the Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart and Commendation with Valor for heroic actions under fire, according an article on the U.S. Air Force website.
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Stacy Pearsall, an award-winning combat photographer of the year, will be giving a free talk with her husband, Andy Dunaway, on Monday as a prelude to the Maui Photo Festival & Workshops, Wednesday to Aug. 29.
She was wounded twice in action; the second injury forced her to give up being a combat photographer and retire from the Air Force, the article said.
Pearsall currently owns the Charleston Center for Photography, which is a photographic education center and studio rental source in Charleston, S.C., the Eddie Adams Workshop website said.
Her husband has more than 20 years of experience as a combat photojournalist and has had his work published in National Geographic, Newsweek, The New York Times and Time. He was chosen to be Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's personal photographer, the Eddie Adams Workshop website said.
Their talk is free.
The couple will be leading classes on digital photography basics at the five-day festival. They also will supervise a pair of doors-off helicopter excursions as part of the festival, which celebrates the growing popularity of digital photography.
The festival brings top digital photography training to Hawaii and offers workshops for the novice to professional in classroom sessions, demonstrations, locations shoots and hands-on events.
More than 52 on-site sessions taught by 26 top digital imaging professionals are available to registered attendees and included in the festival fee. Evening programs Thursday to Saturday, beginning at 7:30, are free and open to the public on a first-come, first-serve basis.
The $595 fee includes the opening reception, three full session days and the awards ceremony. The kamaaina rate for five days is $495. One- and two-day passes are available. An educational rate of $395 applies to both students and teachers with credentials.
Presenter, downloadable class schedule and registration information are available on the website www.mauiphotofestival.com.
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The Flyers did not overcome astronomical odds in Monday's NHL draft lottery. As a result, they will select 11th in the first round.
Colorado won the lottery and is expected to select defenseman Seth Jones with the No. 1 pick in the June 30 draft in Newark, N.J. Coincidentally, Jones, whose father, Popeye, used to play and was an assistant coach for the NBA's Denver Nuggets, learned how to skate while growing up in Colorado.
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1 September 2010: The International Energy Agency (IEA) has published the 2010 edition of its annual publication "Key World Energy Statistics," covering national production and consumption characteristics, regional trends, and other key indicators for over 130 countries.
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WARREN - The Trumbull County Engineer's Office employee who sought to use sick time donated by a co-worker after she exhausted all her time off for cancer treatment has been fired.
Assistant personnel director Nancy Guerini was notified by a letter sent Friday that she had been removed from the office's payroll logs, effectively terminating her employment.
Engineer Randy Smith, who did not provide a copy of the letter Tuesday because it might contain sensitive health information, said he believes Guerini has abandoned the position. He said she did not respond to several attempts to discuss her status.
Smith said the last time leave was approved for Guerini was Jan. 7.
''I'm definitely worried about her well-being, but at the same time, I can't have an employee be basically AWOL for six months and not communicate with us,'' Smith said.
Guerini, diagnosed with cancer in 2011, admitted the office attempted to speak with her. She said she returned telephone calls made to her and left messages for her boss, one of Smith's top aides, Herb Laukhart, director of finance and personnel.
''They haven't called me back. That's where I'm at,'' said Guerini, who estimates she made five return calls.
Smith said Guerini was called four times in February and finally after not connecting, the first letter was sent certified mail on March 25. It asked about her status and explaining she needed to apply for additional unpaid leave, Smith said.
Smith didn't provide a copy of this letter, either, saying like the latest letter sent to Guerini, it might contain sensitive health information and he needed legal clearance to release it.
Follow-up letters were sent April 18 by regular mail, and on May 15, the office followed up with a letter delivered by a courier. Both letters released by Smith ask Guerini to contact the office.
Guerini said she's been unable to return to work because of radiation treatment for the cancer that spread to her brain. She said she is now in ''maintenance treatment,'' which means her cancer is status-quo.
''It's not getting any better, it's not getting any worse,'' said Guerini, who says she's been taken off chemotherapy treatment, but still takes intravenous medicine.
''This is good news,'' Guerini said. ''The cancer in the liver has almost cleared up. They feel the that the cancer in the brain, they've pretty much gotten it, but I still have to go every six weeks to be monitored for that.''
Guerini said she recently returned from staying with her sister in Alabama, where she was for about two weeks because her family believed she needed an escape from ''the too much drama going on.''
She said she intends to challenge the termination.
Her situation caused county officials, including commissioners, to examine and then implement policy setting employee guidelines for the donation of sick and vacation time.
After Guerini had used up her time off, including unpaid Family Medical Leave Act time, she sought to use sick hours donated by a co-worker, but Smith didn't allow it, saying he couldn't because the office didn't have a policy and commissioners didn't have a policy in writing.
Sick time has been donated among employees in the past, but commissioners didn't adopt a formal policy until September. There have been time-sharing agreements in three union contracts as well as the county sheriff's office, since 2002.
Still, questions lingered, and Ohio's attorney general's office was brought in to provide an opinion.
Among the conclusions: Commissioners can create individual leave donation programs for different county agencies, but those rules can be overrode by a collective bargaining agreement if they conflict with contracts that also have rules for employees to donate time.
The state also concluded the policy put into place by commissioners cannot let an employee use donated leave for time taken off before the policy was approved and lets other elected county-level officials create their own leave donation policy. And if the latter is the case, those policies ''may be more, but not less generous,'' than the program created by commissioners.


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Today, Chris Clemons was officially placed on injured reserve, a move that should surprise no one after Clemons tore his ACL against the Redskins last Sunday. Somewhat more surprising was the announcement that Steven Hauschka was also put on IR, which means Ryan Longwell will be the Seahawks' kicker for the duration of the playoffs.
To fill the empty spot on the roster, DE Patrick Chukwurah was signed off the street today. Chukwurah played for three NFL teams from 2001 to 2007 mainly as a special teamer, although he did manage to rack up nine sacks in limited defensive snaps Since then, he's worked as a personal trainer and played two seasons in the UFL. I've read a few reports that say Chukwurah led the UFL in sacks during those seasons, but that's hard to verify since the league doesn't seem to keep an official stat book of any sort (and possibly never will, since they suspended operations halfway through their 2012 season).
I know signing a 33 year old pass rusher who's five years removed from his last NFL action isn't the most thrilling move, but the pickings are slim this time of year. According to Ian Rapaport of NFL.com, the Seahawks also brought in Aaron Maybin, Ray Edwards, and Travis LaBoy for tryouts, so at the very least we know Pete Carroll thinks he's a better choice (or at least a better fit) than those three guys.
ADDENDUM (12:56): Chukwurah was on the Buccaneers' roster in 2008, but only briefly. He spent about three or four days with Tampa Bay in late August before being released, then was signed again for the last two weeks of the season. He didn't appear in any games.


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Victim identified as Jeremiah Conlin
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Police said a bicyclist who was hit by a car in Kansas City, Kan., on Tuesday afternoon has died of his injuries.
The bicyclist, Jeremy Conlin, of Kansas City, Kan., was struck about 2 p.m. near Ruby Avenue and South Valley Street. The cyclist was taken to a hospital, where he died.
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If the No. 1-ranked Valencia girls tennis team has an Achilles heel, it could end up being its all-sophomore doubles pairs.
Although very solid, powerful and fundamentally sound, at times the three doubles teams can be beat by even better tandems. The Vikings are No. 1 in the CIF-SS Division III tennis coaches' poll, which was released Monday.
One such example was a 10-8 loss Monday to Crescenta Valley, in which the Vikings doubles teams fell, 6-3. It was the second setback this season for Valencia (3-0 in the Foothill League).
But on Tuesday in a Foothill League match at Saugus, Valencia's doubles teams were dominant in winning eight out of nine matches, in a 17-1 victory.
The only defeat came at the hands of Centurions No. 3 team Christina Callas and Megan Soucy, who beat Andrea Zammit and Chelsie Dietz, 6-1.
"Our doubles bounced back from (Monday)," Valencia head coach Annie Kellogg said. "They need to build some confidence. They didn't come out inspired against a team that wanted to avenge a loss last year. We wanted to get more first serves in, and we did."
Clarice Fraczek won all three of her doubles matches, one with her usual partner Eunice Pack, 6-4, in a nip-and-tuck win over Saugus' Rachel Marucut and Bea Araujo.
Fraczek took the other two matches with Maxine David, 6-0, 6-1.
"We're moving our feet more and closing the net," Fraczek said. "We don't leave any part of the court open."
Saugus' doubles teams played strong as well. Senior Mariah Aguinaldo and freshman Pilar Araujo trailed just 4-3 to Ashley Karzin and Emily Fraczek.
The Centurion pair lost 6-3, but both girls made nice charges at the net and showed plenty of ability of lengthy volleys against a quality team.
"It was so much fun," Aguinaldo said. "It's awesome playing against the hardest team in the league and not sucking."
Valencia's singles players dominated as expected. The Vikings' No. 1 player, Isabella Fraczek, swept, 6-0, 6-1, 6-0. Thalia Wilczinski, who has battled the flu since the beginning of the season, still won all three of her matches by 6-0 scores.
Amanda Janson, a sophomore who is normally Emily Fraczek's No. 2 doubles partner, showcased her skills in singles, winning 6-4 over Saugus No. 1 player Emily Wilson, 6-4, 6-3.
The Centurions (1-3 in league) are trying to fight off Hart for the No. 3 spot in Foothill League play and the final spot to qualify for the CIF-SS Girls Tennis Tournament.
The Indians won the first match, 11-7, but Saugus had plenty of tight losses.
"I thought we played well in spurts," Saugus head coach Allan Hardbarger said. "I think we're playing better than we have the past few weeks. There's a lot of tennis left to play."
At 8 a.m. at Valencia High, all six Foothill League teams and three others will play in the Valencia Fall Brawl. St. Bonaventure, ranked No. 5 in the Div. III coaches' poll, is also scheduled to be there.


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Suffering from a cold, aches and pains, or heartburn? Head for the over-the-counter section of the local pharmacy. But if your blood cholesterol numbers are sky-high, better see your family doctor.
That's always been the best medical advice, since out-of-kilter cholesterol levels can put patients at risk of heart attack and stroke. So it was good to see a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel affirm that advice. The panel of experts voted, 20-3, Friday to reject a request to legalize nonprescription sales of the Merck & Co. statin Mevacor.


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Earlier this year, Senior Master Sgt. Phillip Monk became a cause célèbre for the Religious Right after he was supposedly relieved of duty for opposing gay marriage; so much so that his tale of victimization was even the focus of an entire panel at the annual Values Voter Summit.
The only problem was that his tale of anti-Christian persecution was false:
The Air Force has found unsubstantiated the claim of a senior master sergeant who said he was reassigned after making known his religious objections to same-sex marriage.
Senior Master Sgt. Phillip Monk, now assigned to the 59th Medical Wing, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, said he was relieved July 26 of his duties as first sergeant of the 326th Training Squadron and forced to take leave because he disagreed with his commanding officer's position on gay marriage.
The investigation, initiated Aug. 15 by Col. Mark Camerer, 37th Training Wing commander at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, found the claim unsubstantiated. The investigation also concluded Monk made false official statements, but did not violate Articles 107 or 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
"The weight of the evidence shows that religion was never discussed between the two," Camerer said in an Air Education and Training Command release.
"In the end, this is a case about command authority, good order and discipline, and civil rights — not religious freedoms," he said.
Monk was not removed from his position, but rather moved, as scheduled, to another Lackland unit, an assignment he was notified of in April, the release says.
Like so many other right-wing myths, the fact that the central claim is entirely untrue does not in any way stop the Religious Right from repeating it endlessly, as demonstrated by the fact that the Family Research Council has produced a new video featuring Monk claiming that "his punishment was intended to have a chilling effect on service members throughout the military."
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If you go there, make sure you find the Hoyay in everything, especially when it isn't there at all.
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Miss Alli's recaps of The Amazing race are teh coolest! Not everybody can make fun of a wife-beating bastard like she can! Oh crap, I'm off topic, and she banned me. Dammit. Now I'll have to get a life.
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A website, Television Without Pity, where a large group of overeducated people, with Masters degrees or higher, use their grammar whore skills to bitch about the Amazing Race, and out-snob each other. Avoid like the plague.
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Description: Framed oil painting of bark JENNY LIND (bu. 1850, Mystic, CT) by J. Hansen. Starboard broadside of vessel w/black hull & painted gunports. Flying American flag, flag of Eagle line of NYC. Pilot boat appears at right, another bark at left. Men at deck. In grey strip along bottom length: "Jenny Lind of New York, Capt. E. D. Bunce. 1850." Label on stretcher printed "J. HANSON/ MARINE PAINTER/ 304 Pearl Street/ NEW-YORK".
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They were the legends of the North Atlantic... the largest moving objects in the world... born of a tranquil era, their lives turned out very different than had been originally planned. Three sets of three ocean liners - a trio of trios - were conceived during the Edwardian era. Cunard's Lusitania, Mauretania and Aquitania, the White Star Line's Olympic, Titanic and Britannic, and the Hamburg-Amerika Line's Imperator (later Cunard's Berengaria), Vaterland (later the U.S. Line's Leviathan) and Bismarck (later White Star's Majestic). The Edwardian Superliners: A Trio of Trios tells their story ...
This book was one of the most hotly-anticipated maritime books of 2012. It saw release in June of 2012 in the UK, and quickly received astonishing reviews from every trade reviewer whose desk it crossed. The Southern Daily Echo said this in its lengthy review:
'... [The book is] so crammed with remarkable photographs, information, facts and figures that it is almost as sumptuous as the older liners, which are the subject of this magnificent volume. ... The Edwardian Superliners, A Trio of Trios by J. Kent Layton is destined to be recognised as the definitive work on this golden age of ocean travel.' - 19 August 2012.
'... [The book is] so crammed with remarkable photographs, information, facts and figures that it is almost as sumptuous as the older liners, which are the subject of this magnificent volume. ... The Edwardian Superliners, A Trio of Trios by J. Kent Layton is destined to be recognised as the definitive work on this golden age of ocean travel.' - 19 August 2012.
The volume sold out very quickly after its release, and a Second Edition now been printed (remaining in hardcover with dustjacket format).
Book Features:
Although this book follows a similar structure to my 2005 and 2009 self-published books named Atlantic Liners: A Trio of Trios, it has been significantly altered, eradicating errors which had crept into the previous versions, and expanding on their contents. The volume is packed with little-known or previously unpublished accounts and details. Thorough research has shown that a number of dearly-held "truths" about maritime history were little more than oft-repeated legends. Each chapter is thoroughly referenced with endnotes (literally hundreds of them, in total) which cite original source material; in some cases, the endnotes provide extensive background information on certain point without needlessly cluttering up the primary text.
I was very fortunate, within the last few years, to have made the friendly acquaintance of many of the most authoritative researchers on the great liners. I have thus been able to utilize their input and suggestions in making the text of the entire volume, particularly the Titanic chapter, as balanced and well thought-out as it could possibly be. (For those with a particular interest in the Titanic, make sure that you also order a copy of On A Sea of Glass: The Life & Loss of the RMS Titanic.) There were occasions when oft-debated topics were touched on, and the pros and cons of each side were thoroughly investigated and researched in order to see what conclusions were best supported by cold, hard facts. Where conclusions were open to interpretation, I have tried my best – through footnotes and endnotes – to present the whole picture, or to give evidence as to why one conclusion was chosen over another.
The photographs in this book can be called nothing short of "breathtaking." We carefully went through and selected 746 black and white photographs and illustrations, as well as an additional selection of photographs and illustrations. That means that there are nearly 800 photos and illustrations, many of them rare or previously unpublished - not even in the prior releases of Atlantic Liners. This attention to the photographic record has made for a fascinating balance between a "good read" and "visual interest."
For those who acquired one of my self-published volumes, you will find that the printing and binding quality of this volume is far superior, giving great clarity to each of the reproduced photographs, and making for a pleasant tactile and visual experience with the words on the printed page.
The Edwardian Superliners: A Trio of Trios is now available directly from the publisher, and through fine retailers everywhere, both in Europe and the United States.
Signed & Numbered Copies. I will also be making copies available in a signed and numbered limited-edition release. There will be no availability of this signed and numbered special edition except directly through the author. Please place your pre-order for this now to help avoid delays in
Maritime researcher and author Mark Chirnside has kindly penned an introduction for the book, which helps to "set the stage" for the rest of the volume very nicely. At this time, I have to take a minute to thank everyone who has lent a hand on the project (they know who they are)... their assistance has proved invaluable in producing an exciting text packed with valuable information and plenty of photographs.
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Recommendation: If your interest is on the Lusitania in particular, please take a look at my previous book, R.M.S. Lusitania: An Illustrated Biography (December 2010), which is also available through our online store.


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Like alot of people im haveing trouble signing into Xbox right now but I can sign in here on Xbox.com, Only I cant access my account info (get the oops messages) and my friends list is empty along wth recent activity. Probably is part of the service alert but just thought I'd point it out.
Im still empty to. My friend cant even delete me. I also can not seem to locate them on matchmaking.
Having the same problem. Kind of odd because my sons account is fine and he has his friends but mine is wiped out. This is very inconvenient I can't even add my friends back. Microsoft please fix this you are ruining my defiance game and that's all I was going to do today was play the dam game for my birthday. Thanks MS good looking out.
No friends either. I'm afraid to buy something now.
My husband is having the same issue,however my friends list is fine.
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On the status page it says "We are aware of an issue members are having sending and receiving messages, seeing friend's statuses, sending or receiving game and party invites, and accepting friend requests on Xbox LIVE."
Does that have to do with the people like us who just lost all of our friends? I also lost my background.
yea, sadly it does :(
my friends list is empty but my sons isnt both accounts are linked to same email on his account im on his list and it shows im online. anything i can do to fix this? lol i called xbox live, didnt get very far before it told me to "call back later, goodbye"
Good to know the problem isn't something on my end. My son has no friends on his friend list on his xbox only. (If signing another gamertag on that xbox same issue.) However when he signs onto his sister xbox everything seems fine. Hope this gets fixed soon .
Xbox just got hacked
Same issue. And it won't let me send out friend request to most of my friends; I believe this is because when speaking with one of my friends that I was trying to request again he said I was still on his friends list. So issue for me is compounded even more as I can't even repopulate my list.
me too is empty.. but my brother has friends, but he can't invite and join partys
Ok so at least i'm not alone; this is complete bs i hope they can make up for it..
mine are gone too!! vo not renewing my live until she was 100%.
Mine are also gone. My friend's account is fine but before this I wasn't able to join or invite people to a party. Now, it says i have no messages and no friends. I'm not glad but im a little bit happier that more than 1 person is having this issue, because i thought i did something. please get this fixed microsoft
my list is gone but the guy next door to me is just fine ??? so win are thay going to say anything abought the prob on the suport website and win is this going to get fixed??? saying thay are working on it is all fine and good but thare is being nothing dun that i can see every one that has had this prob still hasent got any help just the same person in every post saying thay are working on it.? but nothing has bin dun yet iv bin wateing over 7HR's for a call back from suport and got nothing not evin an e-mail i just renewed my gold membership not evin 48HR's ago and now this???? but sony has the same service for free and thay are up and running just fine.???? so what is all this mony we spend going for if not a usable service.... come on xbox ya got out mony give us what we pay for.....


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I think saying that he might be a "hired hand" is going a bit too far. He's just trying to say that he heard it wasn't a scam from a source he considers to be reliable and therefore wants to contribute to the discussion by explaining this.Lloyd_Humph said:To be honest I find your argument a bit dispersuasive - I mean, there's not a drop of punctuation and grammer is awful, and to me you seem like a hired hand used to promote the site rather than a genuine user.dscrizzy said:*snip*
Smells fishy.
On the other hand, it would be nice to know just how legitimate this really is. I mean, has anyone actually been hired yet? And is this an initiative by Microsoft, or another company (and if so, why would another company be interested in employing "Windows Gurus" unless they are representing Microsoft and hiring people for them).


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As you may have gathered from my criticism of the Japanese nationality laws, I believe that if you have ancestors from a particular country, you should be allowed citizenship of that country. So, I am very disappointed that Finland has changed the rules. But, I'm sure they had a good (probably economic) reason to do so.
And thank you for pointing out about the strictness of the Estonian laws. The member that suggested that possibility later admitted that they were guessing in their suggestions!
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The Role of Freedom, Growth and Religion in the Taste for Revolution
Robert MacCulloch
Imperial College London - Tanaka Business School
Silvia Pezzini
Hong Kong Monetary Authority; Bank of England
September 2002
LSE STICERD Research Paper No. DEDPS36
A fundamental issue for economists is what determines civil conflict. One unsettled question is the relative importance of political freedoms versus economic development. This paper takes a new approach to provide an answer by using micro-data based on surveys of revolutionary preferences of 130,000 people living in 61 nations between 1980 and 1997. Controlling for personal characteristics, country and year fixed effects, more freedom and economic growth both reduce revolutionary support. Losing one level of freedom, equivalent to a shift from the US to Turkey, increases support for revolt by 4 percentage points. To reduce support by the same amount requires adding 14 percentage points on to the GDP growth rate. Being Muslim in a free country has no effect on the probability of supporting revolt compared to a non-religious person. However, being Muslim in a country that is not free increases it by 13 percentage points. Being Christian in a free country decreases the chance of supporting revolt by 4 percentage points, compared to a non-religious person, and in a not-free country by 1 percentage point.
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THE dung beetle, with a brain the size of a grain of rice, is the first animal proven to navigate by the Milky Way.
South Africa has about 800 species of dung beetle, out of a global total of 6,000, says Marcus Byrne, a professor of zoology and entomology at Wits University.
About 10% of those 800 roll balls of dung — with the others simply burying themselves in it — and a few species out of those 80 do so at night.
In a paper written by Lund University's Emily Baird, co-authored by Prof Byrne and published in online science journal Plos ONE, Prof Baird explains: "An interesting feature of dung beetle behaviour is that once they have formed a piece of dung into a ball, they roll it along a straight path away from the dung pile.
"This straight-line orientation ensures that the beetles depart along the most direct route, guaranteeing that they will not return to the intense competition (from other beetles) that occurs near the dung pile," the paper says. "Before rolling a new ball away from the dung pile, dung beetles perform a characteristic 'dance', in which they climb on top of the ball and rotate about their vertical axis."
"We think that (when they dance) they're getting a celestial fix, and responding to navigational queues," Prof Byrne says.
This latest research, which will be published in Current Biology, shows the dung beetles use the Milky Way to keep in a straight line.
"Although their eyes are too weak to distinguish individual constellations, dung beetles use the gradient of light to dark provided by the Milky Way to ensure they keep rolling their balls in a straight line and don't circle back to competitors at the dung pile," the university says.
However, Prof Byrne notes there is a hierarchy of preference, in terms of celestial bodies, so if the moon is visible, dung beetles will use the stronger light source.
He also says the dung beetle is not singular in its use of the Milky Way as a navigational tool.
"There are absolutely other animals, but you can't measure it," he says. "Dung beetles are such co-operative animals. You don't have to train them or coax them. Give them poo and they behave."