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Genotype imputation is an important tool in human genetics studies, which uses reference sets with known genotypes and prior knowledge on linkage disequilibrium and recombination rates to infer un-typed alleles for human genetic variations at a low cost. The reference sets used by current imputation approaches are based on HapMap data, and/or based on recently available next-generation sequencing (NGS) data such as data generated by the 1000 Genomes Project. However, with different coverage and call rates for different NGS data sets, how to integrate NGS data sets of different accuracy as well as previously available reference data as references in imputation is not an easy task and has not been systematically investigated. In this study, we performed a comprehensive assessment of three strategies on using NGS data and previously available reference data in genotype imputation for both simulated data and empirical data, in order to obtain guidelines for optimal reference set construction. Briefly, we considered three strategies: strategy 1 uses one NGS data as a reference; strategy 2 imputes samples by using multiple individual data sets of different accuracy as independent references and then combines the imputed samples with samples based on the high accuracy reference selected when overlapping occurs; and strategy 3 combines multiple available data sets as a single reference after imputing each other. We used three software (MACH, IMPUTE2 and BEAGLE) for assessing the performances of these three strategies. Our results show that strategy 2 and strategy 3 have higher imputation accuracy than strategy 1. Particularly, strategy 2 is the best strategy across all the conditions that we have investigated, producing the best accuracy of imputation for rare variant. Our study is helpful in guiding application of imputation methods in next generation association analyses.
Citation: Chen J, Zhang J-G, Li J, Pei Y-F, Deng H-W (2013) On Combining Reference Data to Improve Imputation Accuracy. PLoS ONE 8(1): e55600. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055600
Editor: ZhaoxiaYu, University of California, Irvine, United States of America
Received: July 9, 2012; Accepted: December 27, 2012; Published: January 30, 2013
Copyright: © 2013 Chen et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: The investigators of this work were partially supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (P50AR055081, R01AG026564, R01AR050496, R01AR057049, and R03TW008221), and the Edward G. Schlieder Endowment and startup funds from Tulane University. The work was also benefited by Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project (S30501). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Genotype imputation, using references with known genotypes and prior knowledge on linkage disequilibrium and recombination rates to infer un-typed alleles for human genetic variations at a low cost, plays an important role in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Imputation helps to increase both the number of SNPs and power of detection for GWAS. It also allows researchers to combine experiments carried out on different platforms (e.g. Illumina and Affymetrix arrays) for meta-analyses, replication and comparison of finding across studies [1]–[5]. The reference sets used by imputation approaches can be different types such as GWAS data and/or next-generation sequencing (NGS) data.
HapMap as reference sets has been used for most previous imputation studies. With the development of NGS technologies, using NGS data as reference sets for imputation provides comprehensive coverage for the genetic variants, as NGS technologies have the potential to discover the entire spectrum of sequence variations [6]: over 15 million SNPs have been recorded by the 1000 Genomes Project [7], and the number of datasets are increasing day by day. Various researches on imputation and relevant usage of reference sets have been conducted [1], [8], [9], showing that the imputation accuracy increased with increasing sample sizes for the reference sets. Wang et al. [10] created a new reference set with common and uncommon SNPs using existing reference to improve imputation accuracy. Li et al. [11] utilized high depth resequencing data for exons and flanking regions to increase the performance of genotype imputation for rare variants compared to traditional GWAS reference panel. The Oxford-GSK study used 1000 Genomes data as reference for imputation to refine a single genetic region and successfully identified a SNP with a more significant P-value than that without 1000 Genomes imputation [12]. The Sardiana study utilized the reference panels from HapMap2, HapMap3 [13], and 1000 Genomes Project [7] separately for the same set of GWAS data [14]. Despite of these efforts, how to efficiently and effectively integrate recently generated NGS data along with previously available references for imputation is still a challenging task, as different NGS data sets may have different call rates and coverage, making it difficult to directly combine data. NGS technologies may also have higher missing rates than the conventional sequencing methods [15]–[18]. Thus, it is important to systematically investigate how to best use multiple reference data to improve genotype imputation accuracy.
In this study, we evaluated three strategies on using NGS data and previously available references (e.g., HapMap data) for imputation. We focused our investigation on two types of data: one has low genotyping accuracy with high marker density (denoted as "R1"), and the other high genotyping accuracy with low marker density ("R2"). The strategies included:
Strategy 1: performing imputation using R1 as reference;
Strategy 2: performing two imputation analyses using R1 and R2, respectively, as reference, and combining the imputed results with results based on R2 selected when overlapping occurs;
Strategy 3: performing imputation using a combined reference based on R1 and R2. The combined reference was obtained through a two-step procedure: 1) imputed R2 by using R1 as reference, and 2) combined R1 and the imputed results from R2.
For investigating the performance of these three strategies, we used both simulated and empirical data. We evaluated three factors affecting imputation accuracy, including LD level, MAF, and marker density. We selected three commonly used imputation methods: MACH [19], IMPUTE2 [20], and BEAGLE [2], [21], all of which have successfully improved power in association analyses [5], [20], [22]–[24]. The results showed that strategy 2 has produced the best imputation accuracy across all the conditions that we have investigated.
Materials and Methods
Simulated data
To mimic the LD patterns of the observed human populations, we simulated our data based on HapMap3 [13] and 1000 Genomes datasets [7]. We selected these two datasets for two reasons. One is that they were the most popular reference sets used for imputation, and the other is that they provide a contrast in terms of genomic coverage and data accuracy. For example, the HapMap data were based on direct genotyping from previously discovered SNPs and have been scrutinized thoroughly, and were expected to be of high accuracy. On the other hand, the currently available 1000 Genomes datasets were based on low depth whole genome sequencing data, and thus were regarded to be of lower accuracy. Three segments of the chromosome 22 were selected for subsequent analyses, ranging from 2.1 Mb to 4.2 Mb in length, and with average recombination rates of 4.10 cM/Mb, 1.87 cM/Mb, and 0.85 cM/Mb, corresponding to regions with low, medium and high levels of LD. The simulations were performed in the software package HAPGEN2 [25], [26]. Ten replications were performed for each condition. Briefly, the simulation process included two steps:
Step 1: Sample and variant selection. We randomly selected eighty CEU (Utah Residents with Northern and Western European ancestry) individuals shared by HapMap3 project and 1000 Genomes project. The genetic variant data for the same individual from different projects were combined as follows: when genetic variants were observed in both projects, those from HapMap3 were used; and variants observed in just one project were kept as they were.
Step 2: Simulated sample generation, and reference and validation sample determination. Based on the samples and genetic variants selected in Step 1, we generated the phased haplotype samples of 250 individuals using HAPGEN2. Among these 250 individuals, fifty were selected as validation samples. For these validation samples, a proportion of SNPs were randomly selected as having known genotypes, and the remaining SNPs were considered un-typed and their genotypes would be inferred through imputation. The remaining 200 individuals simulated by HAPGEN2 were randomly put into two groups, each with 100 samples, as reference populations. The first reference population (R1) had its markers generated based on the 1000 Genomes marker map to mimic a high marker density population. It also had 2% randomly simulated error rate for its markers genotypes. The second reference population (R2) had its markers generated based on HapMap marker map, mimicking the low marker density populations. It had a randomly simulated error rate of 1% for its genotypes.
Empirical data
Phased haplotype data for CEU samples were downloaded from the HapMap3 and 1000 Genomes websites. To obtain the validation samples, we randomly chose 30 common individuals between HapMap3 and 1000 Genomes projects. The remaining individuals, 83 in the HapMap3 and 253 in the 1000 Genomes were assigned into the HapMap3 reference samples and 1000 Genomes reference samples, respectively. To make the coordinate consistency, we transferred the built 36 coordinates to build 37 coordinates through the UCSC LiftOver algorithm [27]. The same three chromosomal regions on chromosome 22 used for the simulated data were selected. In the validation samples, different proportions of markers were masked, for studying imputation accuracy. The analyses were then conducted for each of 10 replications, and imputation accuracy was reported.
Measures of imputation accuracy
Imputation accuracy was evaluated by two metrics: allele error rate and rare variant error rate.
Allele error rate (AER).
AER measures the proportion of incorrectly imputed alleles, which was calculated as the total number of errors divided by twice the total number of imputed loci (the product of the number of individuals and the number of loci). The number of errors was counted as 0 when the imputed and observed marker genotypes were identical, 1 if the real marker genotype was homozygous and the imputed genotype was heterozygous (or vice versa), and 2 if real and imputed marker genotypes were opposite homozygotes.
Rare variant error rate (RVER).
RVER was calculated as the total number of rare variant errors divided by the number of rare variants, in consideration that most of rare variant association analyses were based on rare variant number counts. The number of errors was counted as 0 when the imputed rare variant and observed variant types were identical, 1 if the real and imputed marker type were opposite. All the homozygous sites and heterozygous sites for rare variants were considered in the study.
Analyses of simulated data
We first assessed the performance of the three strategies under different LD levels (results shown in Figure 1A). Under every strategy, AERs under decreased remarkably as LD became stronger. For example, when the LD increased from low to high, AERs for MACH decreased from 2.87% to 1.91% for strategy 1, from 1.81% to 1.09% for strategy 2, and from 2.86% to 1.73% for strategy 3, respectively. Similar trends were seen for the other two imputation methods (Figure S1). Overall, strategy 2 yielded lowest AERs among three strategies, and both strategy 2 and strategy 3 produced lower AERs than strategy 1 under all LD levels simulated, indicating the performance advantages by strategies 2 and 3 over strategy 1.
The results are obtained through the software MACH using simulated datasets. (a) Effects of LD levels on AERs, under 25% marker density. (b) Effects of marker density, under medium LD level. (c) Effects of MAF bin of un-genotyped SNPs, under 25% marker density and medium LD level.
The effects of marker density on AERs were shown in Figure 1B. As expected, higher density of typed markers led to better performances for imputation. For strategy 1, under the medium LD level, the AER of MACH was 3.15% for 10% marker density (one SNP per 10 SNPs). When the marker density increased to 25%, 50%, and 75%, the AERs decreased to 2.65%, 1.20%, and 0.96%, respectively. For strategy 2, the AERs decreased from 2.30% to 0.69%, and the AERs decreased from 3.09% to 0.89% for the strategy 3, when the marker density increased from 10% to 75%. Similar trends were also observed for the other imputation methods. Overall, AERs attained by strategy 2 and by strategy 3 were similar under higher marker density, but for low marker density, AERs of strategy 2 was 26.91% lower under 10% marker density and 41.34% lower under 25% marker density than those of strategy 3. For all marker densities, strategy 2 and strategy 3 yielded lower AERs than strategy 1 did, again indicating the better performance of strategies 2 and 3 than strategy 1.
Figure 1C showed the impacts of different MAF levels on imputation accuracy for three strategies. In general, AERs increased as MAFs of un-genotyped markers increased for any combination of strategy and imputation software used. For example, when the MAF interval increased from 0.05 to 0.45, AERs for MACH increased from 1.65% to 4.98%, from 0.90% to 2.35%, and from 1.57% to 4.81%, under strategy 1, strategy 2, and strategy 3 respectively. When the imputation accuracy was compared across different strategies, superior results were usually obtained by strategy 2, relative to those for strategy 1 and strategy 3; and similar results were obtained for strategy 3 and strategy 1. The extent of superiority by strategy 2 varied with different MAF. (See Table S1, S2, S3 for the detailed estimates used in Figure 1).
The imputation accuracy for rare variants, measured by rare variant error rates (RVERs), under different situations were shown in Figure 2. In general, RVERs decreased as MAF of un-genotyped rare variants increased under medium LD level for all three strategies. For example, when the MAF interval increased from 0.50×10−2 to 4.50×10−2, RVERs for MACH decreased from 5.28% to 2.29%, from 4.71% to 2.08%, and from 4.82% to 2.28%, for strategy 1, strategy 2, and strategy 3, respectively. Similar trends were also observed for the other LD levels and/or imputation methods. For between strategy comparisons, RVERs for strategy 2 were on average 8.22% and 11.33%, respectively, lower than those of strategy 3 and those of strategy 1 across the MAF spectrum. Strategy 1 and strategy 3 were similar in terms of RVERs at the higher minor allele frequency, and at 0.50×10−2 of MAF, strategy 3 had 8.71% lower RVERs than those of strategy 1.
The results are obtained through the software MACH using simulated data.
Analyses of empirical data
The observed effects of various factors, such as LD levels and marker density, on the AERs and RVERs in the empirical data were similar to those of the simulated data. For example, Figure 3A displayed the falling trend of AERs with increasing LD levels. In general, strategy 2 performed better than strategy 1 and strategy 3. Figure 3B showed the falling trend of AERs with increasing marker density, and Figure 3C showed the influence of MAF of un-genotyped markers. Generally, MAF also had similar influence on accuracy with that for the simulated datasets except for the high minor allele frequency of 0.45 (See Table S4, S5, S6 for the detailed estimates used in Figure 3). Similar trends were seen for the other two imputation methods (Figure S2). Figure 4 presented the falling trend of RVERs with increasing MAF of rare variants, and this pattern was similar to that in simulated data sets, too. Again, strategy 2 produced the best performance, and strategy 3 was superior to strategy 1.
The results are obtained through the software MACH using empirical datasets. (a) Effects of LD level on AERs, under 25% marker density; (b) Effects of marker density on AERs, under medium LD level. (c) Effects of MAF bin of un-genotyped SNPs on AERs, under 25% marker density and medium LD level.
The results are obtained through the software MACH using empirical data.
Missing genotypes can be imputed because unrelated individuals usually share an expanded haplotype across regions in the whole genome from common ancestors [1], [9]. The reference haplotype sets used for imputation methods are widely used by the human genetics, and their quality will affect the imputation accuracy in GWAS samples. When creating these reference datasets via imputation, it is clear that accuracy should be the most important factor. Next generation sequencing technology will allow researchers to assess many more SNPs. Specifically, 1000 Genomes panels will enable the imputation of many more rare variants with a frequency of 1–5%. Compared to HapMap3, the number of SNPs, haplotypes and populations in 1000 Genomes will increase remarkably. The challenges of imputation analysis will be in using the larger, more diverse set of references available for imputation. In addition, as any haplotype estimates produced from the 1000 Genomes Project data may have more instinctive uncertainty than the HapMap3 haplotypes, owing to the low-coverage sequencing used and the larger number of rare SNPs. As new reference sets with ever larger numbers of variants and haplotypes continue to be made available, GWASs will need to re-impute their datasets from these reference sets.
In this study, we investigated and compared the performance of three imputation strategies on the simulated and empirical data. Using both simulated and empirical data sets, in comparing the different strategies to one another, both strategy 2 and strategy 3 create the better results than the strategy 1, the reason is that both strategies is combing more reference information. More references will present supplementary information and will also create more reliable estimates of measured parameters, resulting in generally decreased error rate. For two combined strategies, strategy 2 produced better results than strategy 3, although most combined method was imputing each other first, and then combined these two references as one reference to impute the validation sample (strategy 3). The reason was that strategy 2 avoided the noise brought about because of repeated imputation (strategy 3), and retained more reliable genotype information from high accuracy reference. Another advantage of the strategy 2 was that it was general enough to be used in order to combine the other re-sequencing data with high coverage, due to avoid imputing reference with each other. Because of this, it was also easy to combine re-sequence data for special region to impute using strategy 2, e.g. Exon, function region. In addition, for our study, validation data and reference data were sampled from the same population, which was the basic assumption for most of the methods studied here. Imputation quality would be reduced with the individuals from a less common ancestry. Importantly, several previous studies have demonstrated the feasibility of using homogeneous samples for reference data [20].
In our research, for rare variants, the results showed that rare variant has higher RVER compared to the other frequency alleles. For the common variants from our study, imputation results were exceedingly accuracy and allow for integration of data sets in meta-analyses. There were some reasons for that. Firstly, rare variants were hard to impute computationally, a variant must be detected several times within its haplotype, due to need high-confidence haplotype information. Secondly, computational approaches cannot impute de novo mutations in an individual, unless mutations on the individual's relative are available. Thirdly, it was challenging to distinguish real rare alleles from sequencing errors, particularly when individuals are sequenced at low depth [28]. For solving these issues, sequencing data with high depth can be used with the development of the next generation sequencing technologies. In additional, based our strategies proposed, strategy 2 can increase the rare variant imputation accuracy by incorporating existing high accuracy reference or HapMap3 data into next generation sequencing data. It is also another choice to improve accuracy of the rare variant detection.
Our study provides a description of imputation performance for multiple references under three strategies. Analysis of real data and simulation study show that the strategy 2 (imputes samples by using individual available data sets as independent references and then combines the imputed samples) performs very well compared to the other two strategies. Considering our results, investigators may choose the most appropriate reference population and imputation tool(s) to use based on their specific experimental setting and available computational resources. Given the rapid increase in use of next-generation sequencing technologies, our results should be of value to both empiricists, during experimental design, and to bioinformaticians who seek guidance for selecting appropriate imputation tool(s) and reference populations for data analyses and who attempt improvement of the imputation.
The URLs for software and data presented herein are as follows, the default parameter were used for all the three impute software.
MACH: http://www.sph.umich.edu/csg/abecasis/MACH/download/
IMPUTE2: http://mathgen.stats.ox.ac.uk/impute/impute_v2.html
BEAGLE: http://faculty.washington.edu/browning/BEAGLE/BEAGLE.html
HAPGEN2: https://mathgen.stats.ox.ac.uk/genetics_software/hapgen/hapgen2.html
Hapmap3: http://hapmap.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/downloads/phasing/2009-02_phaseIII/HapMap3 r2/
1000 Genomes: ftp://ftp-trace.ncbi.nih.gov/1000genomes/ftp/release/20100804/
Supporting Information
Figure S1.
Effects of LD levels on allele error rates for three strategies with 25% marker density. (a) The results are based on software Beagle. (b) The results are based on software Impute2 using simulated data.
Figure S2.
Effects of LD levels on allele error rates for three software with 25% marker density. The results are based on strategy 2 using empirical data.
Table S1.
Effects of LD levels on allele error rates. The results are based on the simulated data. The values in each cell are mean±SD. The results are presented in Figure 1A in the main text. The data are included here to allow distinction of lines, as certain lines in the figure are close and may be difficult to be distinguished.
Table S2.
Effects of marker density on allele error rates. The results are based on the simulated data. The values in each cell are mean±SD. The results are presented in Figure 1B in the main text. The data are included here to allow distinction of lines, as certain lines in the figure are close and may be difficult to be distinguished.
Table S3.
Effects of MAF bin of un-genotyped SNPs on allele error rates. The results are based on the simulated data. The values in each cell are mean±SD. The results are presented in Figure 1C in the main text. The data are included here to allow distinction of lines, as certain lines in the figure are close and may be difficult to be distinguished.
Table S4.
Effects of LD levels on allele error rates. The results are based on the empirical datasets. The values in each cell are mean±SD. The results are presented in Figure 3A in the main text. The data are included here to allow distinction of lines, as certain lines in the figure are close and may be difficult to be distinguished.
Table S5.
Effects of marker density on allele error rates. The results are based on the empirical datasets. The values in each cell are mean±SD. The results are presented in Figure 3B in the main text. The data are included here to allow distinction of lines, as certain lines in the figure are close and may be difficult to be distinguished.
Table S6.
Effects of MAF bin of un-genotyped SNPs on allele error rates. The results are based on the empirical datasets. The values in each cell are mean±SD. The results are presented in Figure 3C in the main text. The data are included here to allow distinction of lines, as certain lines in the figure are close and may be difficult to be distinguished.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JC JGZ JL HWD. Performed the experiments: JC. Analyzed the data: JC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JGZ JL. Wrote the paper: JC JGZ JL YFP HWD.
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Many games strive to be realistic. Games with graphics and stories like Uncharted and Heavy Rain are so down-to-earth and realistic, don't include the small amount of supernatural enemies in the Uncharted games, that it feels like real life. There's my problem. Video games aren't supposed to be about real world problems or something that can happen in real life. Video games are supposed to be about being sucked into a world that has supernatural creatures or fantastic open worlds that should be explored for their hidden secrets. Games that have a very down-to-earth feel hit much too close to home to feel comfortable. I'm not saying that games like Heavy Rain that have a very emotional feel are bad; but I feel that games should be focused on telling a story that can't happen in real life. Even games with realistic graphics can be unrealistic and suck you in without making you think about the hardships of the real world. Think about the PlayStation 4 meeting that just happened. One of the main points was about the war against reality. Video games and the real world should only collide in the most extreme situations and even then just barely. Otherwise, games should try to do something that is new and unrealistic to the world.
inFamous is a game that is unrealistic in many ways. However, the game starts off with someone (Cole MacGrath) that is just a normal person; yet his problems are what is unrealistic. When he turns into a conduit along with many others, the story turns to the supernatural. This is when the game becomes interesting. Imagine playing the game if Cole, or with the new game Delsin, was just a normal person. How boring would that be! The fact that he can shoot electricity out of his hands and then either ice or oil powers is so much fun. Even thinking about taking that away makes me unhappy. While the game looks and sounds like a real-world experience, the game has many unrealistic characteristics that make the game what it is and that make it fun.
Borderlands and Most Other Shooters
Borderlands, a new IP developed by Gearbox a few years ago, was a huge success, critically and commercially. Borderlands 2 was an even bigger success. The reason that this happened isn't because of its realism, which it has none of. The fun of this game goes from the guns, the multiplayer, the story, and more. Obviously, all of these are very unrealistic. First, the guns. They supposedly have "89 bajillion" guns. Enemies, which vary drastically, drop them when killed. If this were realistic, the game wouldn't be any fun whatsoever. Also, the story is all about a person who wants to take over the world, which is almost physically impossible. Then there are other shooters like Call of Duty and Battlefield. The campaigns of these games include enemies that are extremely stupid and run up to try to kill you without thinking anything about their safety. If it was anything like real life, it would be very tense but very inactive because people care about their safety. The reason this is fun is because it provides almost constant action. If the campaign resembled anything realistic, players would rarely ever play and they would complain because it would be almost completely camping, which most people already complain about in multiplayer.
Every Open-World RPG
Open-world RPG's are the epitome of unrealism in games being fun. Take Skyrim. This game was so hyped and it lived up to its expectations. The dragons, huge open world, and "FUS RO DAH" of the game were just parts of what made the game so amazing. Although it didn't work on PS3 (which I'm still bitter about), it still entertained an insanely large amount of people and it wasn't because of its realism, which, as the other games I've talked about, it doesn't have. First, the dragons. They're not real. I hope I didn't ruin anyone's dreams right there. Second, the dragonborn. Again, not real. Nobody will be "FUS RO DAH"-ing anytime soon in the real world. If this were realistic, there would just be a bunch of wildlife that you would have to try to either avoid or kill on your way to anywhere because it would be all "quests" to go to other places, although I haven't heard of that in real life very much either. As RPG's in general, most of the time they involve some kind of leveling up and changing your character. This is like the real life journey, sort of, but there is no leveling up in real life. The thing that makes this fun in games is because it provides a goal. You always want to get to the next level to see what's next and how you can make your character better every time you progress.
A lot of games want to be realistic; but many strive to be something else. While games like Uncharted and Heavy Rain are some of my favorites of all time, I feel that games that aren't realistic in the least are better at being a video game than the others. As I said, video games are supposed to take you into a different world with a different story that interests you. When this happens, I have a fantastic time with a game. But when a game becomes too personal, I realize it and, while I still love the game, I may not get sucked in like I should. Video games shouldn't be about real life in my opinion, but instead they should try to tell a new story that hasn't been told before. Just as Sony said in the PlayStation 4 announcement conference, it's about the war against reality, meaning they should not intersect in any way. As we go into the new generation of consoles and games, this is something that I think developers should think of just as the developers of many games, like the inFamous series, shooters, and RPG's, do already.


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I've been having breathing issues lately, & I have been feeling pressure in my left eye socket, so I went to an ENT that stuck the camera up my nose and told me that I have a deviated septum that tilts to the left, but the non-breathing thing is because the insides of my nose are really swollen. I mentioned that I have been OD'ing on Afrin lately too, because it was the only thing that would open me up & allow air in my nose! So I too an allergy test & it turns out I'm slightly allergic to pollen & dust mites. They gave me Qnasl & some other allergy steroid spray (something with a "P"), and told me that a septoplasty wouldn't really help me. I somehow think that if I fix the septum, it would at least make it slightly easier to breathe, allergies or not.
Let me sidetrack here, I have always hated the tip of my nose. It looks like a damn christmas tree lightbulb, the one from the 50's. I have a slight hump across the bridge, but that isn't my main issue here, lol.
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Environment Matters - Africa versus the 'hood
What if you took junior high school–aged boys, rated as "high risk" in their low-income, high-crime urban neighborhoods, and plopped them down in a low-enrollment high-quality school in rural Africa? That's the premise behind the Baraka School, a project put together in Kenya, East Africa, by American volunteers and foundations for early-teen boys from Baltimore, Md. Why Kenya? Besides being less expensive than a lot of places, it is a place where "boys can live the lives of boys," spokesmen say. The kids, instead of vegetating in front of video games, can swim in natural streams, terrify each other with pet reptiles and watch real elephants parade through real forests.
A year in the lives of one group from Baltimore is chronicled in The Boys of Baraka, a critically acclaimed documentary by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady that played briefly in theaters in 2005. What happened to them? Mostly, they thrived. As portrayed in the movie, they arrive at the mostly white-run school jet-lagged, homesick and shocked by the prospect of an academic year without Game Boys, let alone reliable electricity. But they adjust. Their tough, defensive street attitudes slowly melt. They take on a new excitement about learning, teamwork and the vast dimensions of true manhood in a world beyond the 'hood back home.
"This school is very strict!" says Richard, an aspiring preacher. "You fail one class, you're going back. You know what? I'm going to keep on trying until I can't try no more. Some people give up but this is the only chance I got!"
Another boy's mother is arrested while he is in Kenya. His grandparents keep the news from him. He arrived street-hard, but eventually is so transformed that, back home, he earns the highest score in all of Maryland on a state math test and gains admission to Baltimore's most competitive high school.
But the Baraka School's story ends sadly. Terrorist uprisings in Kenya force Baraka to close in the summer of 2003 before the boys featured in the film can begin their second year. Their parents are distraught and outraged. Their sons' performance has blossomed from mediocre to outstanding. Now, as one mom says, "If you send them to Baltimore, you're sending them to jail."
"It's a war zone here," one father argues with a Baraka representative. "They're more likely to be killed over here than over there."
During its seven years of operation, the program served about 95 boys. Most arrived at the school three to four grade levels behind. So far, a Baltimore Sun follow-up found that in March their graduation rate exceeded that of their non-Baraka peers. Of those who could be located, eight alumni went to college; two joined the Navy; one joined the Army; one spent time in prison.
The Baraka project teaches something critical about the impact of environment on learning and behavior. No kid should have to leave his home, family and country to get an education free of shots fired in the night and police helicopters overhead. But, as this film shows, the change could do a lot of kids a lot of good. And there's another, more controversial lesson the Baraka story offers: a powerful argument for more school choice, even if that means vouchers for private schools. The earnest parents in this movie, mostly moms and grandparents fighting hard to get their kids a better chance at life, illustrate why polls show growing support for private school–vouchers among African-American parents, so long as they do not take money from the public schools.
Housing vouchers have offered similar help to a fortunate few. One now-famous example emerged out of a class action racial discrimination lawsuit filed 40 years ago by Dorothy Gautreaux and three other Chicago public housing residents. Thanks to a Supreme Court ruling in their favor, more than 6,000 poor Black Chicago families have moved out of densely concentrated Black neighborhoods and integrated into mostly white suburban neighborhoods with the help of Section 8 federal housing vouchers. The result mostly has been a win-win all around. Studies by the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University found, in the program's first two decades, that at least children's attitudes toward school improved in their new neighborhoods. Their grades did not suffer, and they were more likely than their city counterparts to graduate from high school, get good jobs and enroll in four-year colleges.
Environment matters. Responsible parents often do a better job than government agencies of deciding what schools and neighborhoods are best for their kids. They deserve a chance to show it.
Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune columnist and editorial board member, is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner.
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Sometimes it takes seeing things from a different perspective to realize what the big picture is. In the case of "The Light Thief" which plays at the SFIFF later this week, this small deftly made film plugs into social and environmental justice themes then wraps the story around colorful characters and a stark backdrop.
Set in a remote village in Kyrgyzstan, "The Light Thief" spotlights a local electrician, who the locals refer to as Mr. Light. His radiance shows through in the first scene where he monkeys with the wires in an old man's house so that he doesn't have to pay for electricity. In this case Mr. Light shows his benevolence and concern for the community as he helps them steal electricity that they can't afford. He eventually gets caught but the villagers (as well as the audience) know that Mr. Light's heart is in the right place.
Besides his role as a do-gooder, Mr. Light acts as an environmentalist of sorts. With his iconic energy producing windmill in his front yard, he constantly tinkers with his sustainable invention. The fact that others in his village consider him an eccentric electrician only frustrates him.
Things quickly change when a greedy developer who has his mind set to developing much of the village hires Mr. Light to not only work but expand on his windmill idea. Mr. Light soon finds himself in a dilemma – work for the greedy developer who he learns to dislike but who can make his windmill farm a reality or continue fighting the system.
This little allegory of big business and politics versus the community and the common man seems a little rough around the edges but the simple style that director Aktan Arym Kubat (The Chimp) brings home his points. Perhaps small town villagers can use The Light Thief as a rallying point for those going up against the large energy companies of the world. For those in the big cities, we just have to hope that The Light Thief sees the light of day in some movie theaters.
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Fenwick was a surname belonging to a British wizarding family. There was also one known Muggle with the surname Fenwick, but whether he was related to the wizarding family of the same name is unknown.
Known family members
- Benjy Fenwick — member of the Order of the Phoenix killed in the First Wizarding War
- Marcus Fenwick — a Ravenclaw at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the 1990s[1]
- Mervyn Fenwick — the Keeper for the Tutshill Tornados in the 1990s[2]
- Robbie Fenwick — a Muggle and patient of Mr. Granger
Fenwick is an English and Scottish habatational surname derived from the name of any of several villages (two in Northumberland, one in West Yorkshire, and one in Ayrshire, Scotland), from Old English fenn, "marsh," and wic, "dairy farm."[3][4]
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Portobello, Cheese and Arugula-Pesto Panini
This hot pressed mushroom sandwich is slathered with peppery arugula pesto and a bright pickled-cherry-pepper mayonnaise.
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- 2 tablespoons pine nuts
- 4 ounces baby arugula (2 packed cups)
- 1/4 cup freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- Kosher salt
- 6 portobello mushrooms (about 2 pounds), stems discarded
- 3 store-bought pickled red cherry peppers, seeded and minced
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
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- 10 ounces Taleggio cheese, rind removed, cheese sliced 1/3 inch thick
How to make this recipe
Preheat the oven to 400°. In a small skillet, toast the pine nuts over moderate heat, shaking the pan, until golden, about 4 minutes. Transfer the pine nuts to a mini food processor and let cool. Add the arugula, Parmigiano-Reggiano, garlic and 1/4 cup of the olive oil and process until smooth. Season the pesto with salt.
Using a spoon, scrape the brown gills from the underside of the portobello mushroom caps. Place the mushrooms on a baking sheet, top side up, and brush with the remaining 1/4 cup of olive oil. Season the mushrooms with salt and roast for about 20 minutes, turning once, until tender. Let cool. Transfer the mushrooms to a work surface and thinly slice them.
Heat a panini press or griddle. In a small bowl, stir the cherry peppers into the mayonnaise. Spread the mayonnaise on the bottom halves of the ciabatta rolls. Top with the Taleggio, portobello and pesto and close the sandwiches. Cook the panini until golden and crisp outside and the cheese is melted within: 3 minutes in a press or 3 minutes per side on a griddle. Cut the panini in half and serve.
Make Ahead
The sliced roasted portobellos can be refrigerated overnight. The arugula pesto can be made earlier in the day and refrigerated with a piece of plastic wrap pressed against its surface.
Suggested Pairing
Even though there's no meat in these panini, the mushrooms and Taleggio make them hearty enough to stand up to a big red wine like Syrah.


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CUBAN TERRORISTS WARN U.S. ENVOY; Attack the First Secretary's Auto in Havana -- Say He Must Leave Country. AMBASSADOR IS GUARDED Caffery Reveals Earlier Firing at His Home -- Bombers Continue Activities. CUBAN TERRORISTS WARN U.S. ENVOY
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Lidija Dimkovska! At the Paris Review Daily!
For the Paris Review Daily's recent Windows on the World series, they've tapped Slovene poet Lidija Dimkovska (her UDP book Do Not Awaken Them With Hammers is a must-read) to give us her vision of things. An excerpt:
…On a typewriter then, on a laptop now, but preferably in a small notebook with lines.
I look outside often; the pictures have become very familiar. Two brothers used to live in the building with their families and their old mother, a small, tiny woman in black who always was screaming at her grandchildren, often beating them or running after them. They also were screaming, and that noise was present in the air until the parents would come home from work. Later, I found out that they moved the grandma from the first floor to the cellar, where she died. One of her daughter-in-laws was Serbian; once, the Serbian woman sent me and my friends to the shop to buy her a special orange juice, Fructal. She opened it, and for the first time in my life I tried this juice that my family could not afford.
The roof of the building was always in my view. In the mornings a stork would come to the chimney on the roof and look through my window. We looked each other in the eyes, and we understood each other.
A small one for your Monday cap; but think of it as an opening to Dimkovksa's work, which is wonderful….
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We pursue diverse and dynamic research programs that are linked by a single broad objective – to understand the evolution of the Earth's surface through Earth history. A major component of our research involves the use of established and novel geochemical and isotopic tracers to investigate and characterize modern global oceanic biogeochemical cycles, to better understand material fluxes at the surface of the Earth, and in particular their impact on the chemistry and biology of the ocean. We apply the understanding to the past Earth, using sediments and rocks that record past ocean chemistry and biology, to document perturbations in these geochemical cycles though time and their inter-relationship with Earth's climate, environment and biosphere.
The group's research interests follow three main themes.
Earth's biogeochemical cycles, past and present
One of our principal research goals is to understand the global cycling of trace elements, how these cycles link to those of carbon and water, and how they are reflected in, and influence, Earth's biosphere. Our ultimate aim is to use the trace element chemistry and isotope geochemistry of the oceans and their sediments to learn about the past environment of the Earth, including its evolving biosphere.
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Large rivers carry the products of physical and chemical weathering of the continents to the oceans. As such they are a major influence on ocean chemistry, both now and in the past. The spatial and temporal pattern of chemical weathering is also an important part of the long-term (geological) carbon cycle, the driver of icehouse/greenhouse worlds on Earth, and the climate of the planet generally. We seek to use the chemistry and isotope geochemistry of large rivers and their sediments to understand these major processes.
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The Nebraska Unified District #1 was established in 1999 with Mr. Al Schlueter at the helm. This development was made possible as incentive money was available for schools, Verdigre Public School, Orchard Public School, and Clearwater Public School formed what is now known as the Nebraska Unified District #1 allowing each district to maintain their school buildings.
In July of 2001, Mr. William Kuester became the superintendent as Mr. Schlueter retired. Many changes took place for the Unified District as Verdigre Public School built a new school and Clearwater and Orchard schools reorganized.
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V.25 No.26 | 6/30/2016
Restaurant Review
A Hidden Home
Crazy Fish is crazy good
Crazy Fish is crazy good.
V.25 No.25 | 6/23/2016
Restaurant Review
Cats, Cookies and So Much More
Patrons of Gatos y Galletas will feel right at home
Gatos y Galletas isn't your average Albuquerque cafe.
V.25 No.24 | 6/16/2016
Restaurant Review
"Panza Llena, Corazón Contento"
Revisiting Los Cuates for the gazillionth time
The food is still consistent in flavor and presentation; delicious and detailed—with history and hot chile.
V.25 No.23 | 6/9/2016
Monica Schmitt
Restaurant Review
Steamy, Wonton Romance
May Café serves a tantalizing Thai tea
Never judge a book by its cover, and never judge a restaurant by its exterior. To miss out on good food because of poor judgment is a sin, so when you see a massive armless lumberjack looming above the plain outer surface of May Café, don't be alarmed.
V.25 No.22 | 6/2/2016
Restaurant Review
The Artist Formerly Known As...
Middle Eastern Food & Kabobs doesn't need a flashy name
All in all, I have to say this was the best dining experience I've had in this city to date.
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Asian Pear, You are Beautiful
Korean café serves delectable dishes with a smile
Go try out this happy little spot downtown; the food will not disappoint.
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Cervantes, Swords and Tequila
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Due to its out-of-the-way location, one-of-a-kind atmosphere and choice menu, Cervantes is indeed a hidden pearl in the oyster of Albuquerque.
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Bar Food for 'Mericans
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The mediocre American food was not terrible but it was much more satisfying when I was exhausted and deliriously hungry.
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Restaurant Review
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M'Tucci's Italian has American crust
The service is outstanding, the presentation is gorgeous, and the food is … well, we'll get to that in a minute.
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Restaurant Review
Truckin' to the Table
Loyola's is cool and comforting
Loyola's features a selection of traditional New Mexican food, its variations and a wide variety of comfort-inducing diner fare. We will be here again.
V.25 No.15 | 4/14/2016
Restaurant Review
Mixxed Feelings
Baja Mexican food brings the noise
Megan Reneau treks downstairs to try Mixx Food Bar.
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Restaurant Review
Cover Your Mouth
Mimmo's Ristorante and Pizzeria's home-style Italian is worth the patrons
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Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 294528, 11 pages
Pilot Study with regard to the Wound Healing Activity of Protein from Calotropis procera (Ait.) R. Br.
Infectious Diseases Programme, Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117597
Received 5 March 2012; Revised 16 May 2012; Accepted 28 May 2012
Academic Editor: Fatma U. Afifi
Copyright © 2012 Ramar Perumal Samy and Vincent T. K. Chow. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
We provide the scientific basis for the use of Calotropis procera for treating skin and wound infections in traditional medicine. The aqueous extract of stem-bark of C. procera exhibited more pronounced potent antimicrobial activity. Calo-protein was purified and identified from the most-active aqueous extracts of C. procera and showed broad-spectrum activity. Calo-protein inhibited the growth of S. aureus and E. aerogenes effectively at 25 μg/ml concentration. Mice topically treated with Calo-protein revealed significant wound healing after 14 days comparable to fusidic acid (FA) as positive control. This protein was devoid of cytolytic effect even at higher concentrations on skin cells after 24 h. Further investigation of this Calo-protein of C. procera on bacterial inhibition may provide a better understanding of the scientific basis and justification for its use in traditional medicine.


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Danish film tackles Iraq war, economic migrants
By Mike Collett-White
BERLIN (Reuters) - In a new Danish film the main character Lotte is a female soldier who returns from a tour of duty abroad to her native Denmark, where she cuts herself off from a society that seems not to care.
"Little Soldier" (Lille Soldat) explores the difficulties soldiers face when they return home from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- in Lotte's case it is not clear which.
Often a country's decision to join a military campaign abroad is unpopular, meaning returning troops face hostility from their own people.
On one level Lotte, powerfully portrayed by actress Trine Dyrholm, is rescued by her father who employs her as his driver.
But life becomes complicated when she discovers that he runs a prostitution ring made up of illegal immigrants from Africa.
Migrant workers, and how globalization has allowed people to move around the world more easily, is one of the dominant themes this year at the Berlin film festival, where Little Soldier has its international premiere on Friday.
"The developed countries are faced with a very different reality to just 10 or 20 years ago," said Danish director Annette Olesen, referring to the increasing movement across borders, whether legal or illegal.
"The social and political reality (of the developing world) is moving right up to our doorsteps because the world is moving closer in on us," she told reporters after a press screening. Continued...


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Do You Have Any Regrets??
The average person spends 44 minutes a week thinking about their regrets . . . that's six minutes a day, or 38 hours a year.
Here are the top 10 regrets . . .
#1.) Not having saved more money.
#2.) Not having worked harder at school.
#3.) Not having exercised more.
#4.) Not doing enough traveling or seeing the world.
#5.) Taking up smoking.
#6.) Not keeping in touch with people.
#7.) Not taking better care of your body when you were younger.
#8.) Not appreciating someone before they died.
#9.) Not taking more photographs growing up.
#10.) Getting married too early.
83% take the blame for their own regrets . . . 17% blame someone else. And two-thirds of people say they've learned from their mistakes.


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Don your green and purple, pull out your beads and grab a piece of King Cake on the way: The countdown for 2011 Mardi Gras is on. Only 11 days, 8 hours and 4 minutes remain until Krewes, balls and mayhem take over the streets of New Orleans, beginning on March 8th.
Not able to make it to the Big Easy this year? No worries. Even the world's oldest carnival has gone high tech, so now you can say, "Throw me something, mister!" from your home computer, laptop, or phone. Read on for the top social media tools to, as they say in New Orleans, "Laissez les bon temps rouler!"
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OK Go has become the masters of creating very cool videos. The band's now hitting the road to promote its new CD, " Of the Blue Colour of the Sky" and its new video "This Too Shall Pass."
The indie rockers are doing all this with their new in-house label called Paracadute, as the band recently parted ways with EMI.
It's all good in OK Go land. The new CD rocks and the Rube Goldberg-style video for "This Too Shall Pass" is brilliant.
Plus, OK Go's coming to Denver to play the Bluebird Theater on Tuesday.
Read the OK Go interview with bassist Tim Nordwind — and check out the new video!http://www.coloradodaily.com/music-news/ci_14838693#axzz0kXTFYi31


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The WACA recognise volunteers are the life blood and are essential in delivering cricket which is fun, competitive, social and safe. However, like most sports there is a high turnover of volunteers with recruiting and retaining activities an ongoing demand on resources.
Though advances in technology are improving the collection and dissemination of information to volunteers, volunteering remains a 'people, face to face game'.
Volunteers are increasingly more prepared to commit to a well-organised and professional organisation for a specific task and/or a finite period. To this end, the WACA has undertaken the development of a Volunteer Management Framework to assist affiliated Associations and Clubs enhance a volunteer's experience and improve the volunteering.
It is acknowledged that a number of strategies and initiatives are already undertaken by Cricket Australia, the WACA, affiliated Associations and Clubs to recruit and retain volunteers.
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Living LIVE News Report 04.09.12
Welcome everyone to another issue of the Living LIVE News Report, and as always, I'm your host for the evening, Trace Aber.
BioWare Announces Multiplayer and Ending DLCs
Since the game's release, fans have been adamant about their disappoint to the ending of BioWare's epic trilogy, Mass Effect 3. While many have claimed the company of ignoring the outcry, it would appear as though BioWare has indeed been listening, if their two recent announcements have anything to say.
BioWare announced last week that they would be releasing an "Extended Cut" DLC for free, which promises to bring closure to the series. It does not appear that there will be any playable parts, but instead a detailed epilogue tailored to your decisions. Co-founded Ray Muyzka has the following to say in regards to the DLC:
"We are all incredibly proud of Mass Effect 3 and the work done by Casey Hudson and team. Since launch, we have had time to listen to the feedback from our most passionate fans and we are responding. With the Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut we think we have struck a good balance in delivering the answers players are looking for while maintaining the team's artistic vision for the end of this story arc in the Mass Effect universe."
Executive producer Casey Hudson went on to clarify what we can expect, "We have reprioritized our post-launch development efforts to provide the fans who want more closure with even more context and clarity to the ending of the game, in a way that will feel more personalized for each player."
For what it's worth, BioWare has officially stated that no new ending would be given, due to the team's firm belief in their "artistic vision." They probably should have used better wording, as those upset have been mocking those words for weeks now. Instead, they will simply "expand" the existing endings through epilogue scenes and cinematics, which will hopefully fix many of the plot holes.
"Much of the focus of the Extended Cut is to expand on the variety of consequences of player choices and degrees of success," a spokesperson said, "so, with the new content, the player's choices should result in a much more varied experience."
Finally, perhaps as a show of goodwill on their part, BioWare also announced DLC to be released tomorrow, which focuses on multiplayer content. The Resurgence Pack offers new playable characters, two new maps, and weapons as well. And it's free! Below is the trailer;
I think BioWare is making the best out of this situation, and hopefully the extended cut DLC, which drops this summer, pleases people. For many, this is BioWare's last shot at proving themselves. Let's hope it works out, for everybody's sake.
New York State bans 3,500 Online Sex Offenders
Last week, thousands of gamers found themselves unable to log into their profiles, thanks to an operation between New York State and major video game companies, including Microsoft. In New York, sex offenders are required to surrender all e-mail addresses and internet screen names to the state, which is then sent those website and they delete the accounts. It's all part of "Operation: Game Over."
It's the first time the law has been used to prevent access to online gaming, but according to the press release, Game Over has some very powerful supporters in the industry;
As a result of Operation: Game Over, 3,580 accounts of New York state sex offenders have been purged – or their communication privileges suspended – from the gaming platforms owned by Microsoft, Apple, Blizzard Entertainment, Electronic Arts, Warner Bros. and Disney Interactive Media Group.
The operation was created as a response to multiple instances where children were led astray by sexual predators thank to online gaming. And it makes sense, though "sexual offender" does not necessarily mean "sexual predator." All consoles feature parental control settings as well, though those typically go ignored by parents.
Christian Genetski, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of ESA released an official statement discussing the operation, as well as a reminder to parents;
"Our industry welcomes appropriate efforts allowing people of all ages to play games in a safer environment. Online game play with friends is a social experience and we encourage parents to be aware of what games their children are enjoying and with whom they are interacting in the virtual space. Through the use of robust parental controls and awareness of the online world, playing games online can be a fulfilling and rich experience."
Microsoft also responded with their own comment;
"At Microsoft, we continually evaluate ways to manage safety for our 40 million Xbox LIVE members and particularly for children on our service. Our partnership with the Office of the New York Attorney General helps further this cause. By leveraging the online identity information all registered sex offenders are required to provide, we are able to help reduce potentially harmful situations. We're supportive of Attorney General Schneiderman's efforts to make the Internet, including online gaming environments like Xbox LIVE, safer for everyone."
The E-STOP law, as it is called, is both well-intentioned and guaranteed to cause controversy. We will have to wait and see before the results of Operation: Game Over are truly known, but we can expect plenty of debate about the topic before it's all said and done.
How do you guys feel about Operation: Game Over? Would you want to see it implemented in your state, or do you feel like it's going too far?
Random News and Notes
-Capcom has announced the newest piece of Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City DLC, set to hit LIVE for free this week. It's a new mission featuring US Spec Ops characters are included, which tells the game's storyline from their point of view. The first mission is free, but the six DLC missions to follow will be charged when they're eventually released.
-Developer Wayforward recently announced that Double Dragon: Neon will be released on Xbox Live this summer. A trailer can be found below;
-That Skyrim 1.5 Patch has finally be released on LIVE. This update features new kill cams and other bug fixes.
-It is now possible to rent your own Battlefield 3 server. Price starts at 120MP/a day or 2000MP/month. Server owners are allowed to name users as VIPs, as well as the ability to ban and kick obnoxious players.
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Arcade Games
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Diabolical Pitch (800MP)
Anomaly Warzone Earth (800MP)
Games on Demand
FIFA Soccer 12 ($59.99)
Singularity ($29.99)
Game Party In Motion ($19.99)
The Theater
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier – Network Trailer
Far Cry 3 Multiplayer Modes
Borderlands 2 World and Lore Interview
Rock Band Blitz – Debut Trailer
Kinect Star Wars – Princess in a Battle Gameplayer (REALLY!?)
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