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Breezy gets six nods, Weezy trails behind him with five, and RiRi follows along with Kanye West and Drake with four.
Nomination list of this year's BET Awards has just been announced on "106 & Park" with Chris Brown leading the pack. The R&B artist, who sparked controversy with his emotional tribute to Michael Jackson when performing at the BET stage last year, scores a total of six nods.
Breezy is vying for Best Male R&B Artist against the likes of Cee-Lo Green, Bruno Mars, Trey Songz and Usher. He is also up for Best Actor, going head-to-head against Laz Alonso, Don Cheadle, Idris Elba and Jamie Foxx.
His song "Look at Me Now", which features Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes, is additionally nominated for Best Collaboration and Viewer's Choice Award. In the former category, the "Yeah 3x" singer gets a double nomination as his other track "Deuces" is also up for the battle.
"Look at Me Now" music video, meanwhile, is one of the Video of the Year contenders along with Marsha Ambrosius's "Far Away", B.o.B's "Airplanes", Keri Hilson's "Pretty Girl Rock", Willow Smith's "Whip My Hair" and Kanye West's "Runaway".
Following Breezy's domination on the list is Lil Wayne who receives five nominations. The Young Money rap mogul gets three of the nods from his guest appearance on Breezy's "Look at me Now". He is additionaly listed as a nominee for Best Male Hip-Hop Artist and his first post-prison single "6 Foot 7 Foot" is up for Viewer's Choice Award.
Rihanna, along with Kanye and Drake, trails behind Weezy with four nominations. The other nominees include Beyonce Knowles, Nicki Minaj, Wiz Khalifa, Jennifer Hudson, Cali Swag District, Diddy-Dirty Money and Marsha Ambrosius.
Beside honoring those working on music, the BET Awards also recognizes the best in movie. "Death at a Funeral (2010)", "For Colored Girls", "Takers", "The Book of Eli" and Tyler Perry's "Why Did I Get Married Too?" are competing for Best Movie. As for Best Actress battle, there are Halle Berry, Taraji P. Henson, Regina King, Zoe Saldana and Kerry Washington.
Winners will be announced at the 2011 BET Awards airing live June 26 from Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium. Kevin Hart is going to host the event, and Alicia Keys is the first confirmed performer for the upcoming star-studded ceremony.
Female R&B Artist:
- Nicki Minaj
- Diamond
- Cymphonique
- LoLa Monroe
- B.o.B ft. Hayley Williams - "Airplanes"
- Chris Brown ft. Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes - "Look at Me Now"
- Chris Brown ft. Tyga and Kevin McCall - "Deuces"
- Waka Flocka Flame ft. Roscoe Dash and Wale - "No Hands"
- Rihanna ft. Drake - "What's My Name?"
- Kanye West ft. Rihanna - "All of the Lights"
- Marsha Ambrosius - "Far Away"
- B.o.B ft. Hayley Williams - "Airplanes"
- Chris Brown ft. Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes - "Look at Me Now"
- Keri Hilson - "Pretty Girl Rock"
- Willow Smith - "Whip My Hair"
- Kanye West ft. Pusha T - "Runaway"
- Benny Boom
- Mr. Boomtown
- Chris Robinson
- Kanye West
- Hype Williams
- Byron Cage
- Deitrick Haddon
- Mary Mary
- Karen Clark Sheard
- BeBe and CeCe Winans
- Shenell Edmonds
- Keke Palmer
- Diggy Simmons
- Jaden Smith
- Willow Smith
- "Death at a Funeral (2010)"
- "For Colored Girls"
- "Takers"
- "The Book of Eli"
- Tyler Perry's "Why Did I Get Married Too?"
- Tamika Catchings
- Candice Dupree
- Maya Moore
- Serena Williams
- Venus Williams
- Chris Brown ft. Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes - "Look at Me Now"
- Lil Wayne ft. Cory Gunz - "6 Foot 7 Foot"
- Mindless Behavior - "My Girl"
- Nicki Minaj ft. Drake - "Moment 4 Life"
- Rihanna ft. Drake - "What's My Name"
- Trey Songz ft. Nicki Minaj - "Bottoms Up"
- VV Brown
- Chipmunk
- Laura Izibor
- Skepta
- Tinchy Stryder
- Tinie Tempah
- 2Face Idibia (Nigeria)
- D'Banj (Nigeria)
- D-Black (Ghana)
- Angelique Kidjo (Benin)
- Fally Ipupa (Congo DR)
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Texas' deal in Risperdal case finalized
A judge in Texas has finalized the $158 million settlement Johnson & Johnson (J&J) reached with the state in January over the marketing of its antipsychotic drug Risperdal.
Johnson & Johnson heads back to court in Risperdal suit
J&J will head back to a Texas courtroom to further discuss the $158 million settlement it had reached with the state in January.
No deal in Johnson & Johnson Risperdal case
Federal prosecutors have rejected a proposed settlement with Johnson & Johnson over the marketing of its drug Risperdal.


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Darius Miller has suffered a stress fracture in his left foot and is expected to miss eight to 12 weeks, the New Orleans Pelicans announced on Monday.
Team doctors discovered the injury after Miller experienced discomfort recently.
Miller will return to New Orleans on Sept. 10 to begin his rehabilitation process.
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Three goals in the first half hour of the game set the tone for a comfortable victory for the Bianconeri over El Dea, who had a man sent off early on.
Goals from Marko Vucinic, Andrea Pirlo and Claudio Marchisio in the opening half hour of the match set Antonio Conte's men on their way to a routine victory, as well as extending their run of clean sheets to five games.
With Inter having fallen to a narrow defeat away to Lazio earlier in the round, the Bianconeri had the chance to open up a seven point gap with the Nerazzurri. Atalanta meanwhile remained rooted in mid-table, regardless of results elsewhere.
The home side made a barnstorming start to the game, and took just two minutes to open the scoring. Vucinic handed Antonio Conte's side an early lead, after the Montenegrin had been played in by a crisp through ball from Giovinco. The striker then composedly took a touch to carve out a pocket of space, before curling past a helpless Andrea Consigli.
Atalanta very nearly leveled matters just moments later, only for German Denis to be brilliantly denied by Gianluigi Buffon. The Argentinian was allowed to run through on goal after Andrea Barzagli had failed to deal with a slicing pass, but was unable to show the finishing instinct which had seen his opposite number open the scoring minutes earlier.
The visiting side continued to pry for an opening around the Juventus area, but saw its deliveries parried by a resilient Juventus back line. Maxi Moralez was next to test Buffon, but his effort from range failed to trouble the Bianconeri skipper.
A moment of class from Pirlo then doubled the scoring in favor of the home side, after Arturo Vidal did well to draw a foul just outside the area. The Italy international lined up to take the resultant free kick, and fired home with a sumptuous curling effort into the top corner.
Vucinic spurned two clear chances to add to his goal tally shortly after. A scramble on the edge of the box allowed the forward to get a wayward shot away, before the Montenegrin's effort at the end of some delightful link-up play over the left flank and into the area was deflected to safety.
Juventus was not to be denied a third however, and Marchisio was on hand to further extend his side's lead just before the half-hour mark. The Italian midfielder was given far too much time to compose himself outside the area, and responded by rifling past a despairing Consigli.
Atalanta was then given another blow minutes later, with Thomas Manfredini sent off after receiving his second yellow card of the game. The Italian was unfortunate to see his final foul warrant a dismissal, but the referee saw enough in it to send the defender for an early shower.
Juventus came out of the break in full control of proceedings, with Pirlo dictating play. The midfielder very nearly saw his compatriot Giovinco snatch a fourth for the Bianconeri, but the forward's palm-stinging effort failed to find its way into the net.
The diminutive striker did put the ball in the net just before the hour mark, but saw his effort ruled offside. Ezequiel Schelotto then had a half-chance to bag a goal for Atalanta at the other end, but blasted well wide from the edge of the area.
The linesman was again Juventus' foil shortly after, with Fabio Quagliarella's effort off a rebound ruled out. The striker had strayed marginally offside as Pirlo tested Consiglio with a rifling effort, and the home side was thus made to wait for a fourth goal.
Giovinco then came close to extending his side's lead after working his way through the Atalanta defense, but the Italian's low effort was well wide and failed to threaten the visitors' goal. The Italian forward spurned two further chances to get on the score sheet shortly after, with Consigli parrying the 25-year old on both occasions.
The win sees Juventus provisionally seven points clear atop the Serie A table, but a win for Napoli later in the round would see the advantage cut to five.


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A high-ranking official with the Georgia Department of Education was fired Tuesday for social media posts that many have labeled racist and otherwise offensive.
Jeremy Spencer was associate state superintendent of virtual instruction. He posted and otherwise displayed controversial images and comments on his Facebook page that prompted a story from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which appeared online Monday afternoon.
Offensive Posts
Spencer posted, "If I read one more thing about the Finland educational system ... not everybody in the US public schools are WHITE!" A comment from someone else appeared on his page that showed a photo of a lynching victim with the words, "One way to solve the problem; Impeach and ..."
Other comments and images disparaged Muslims and the LGBT community. Some were direct posts from Spencer while others he allowed to be displayed on his page.
"Well, anytime you have those kind of situations, that's unfortunate, but it sounds like it's been remedied," Gov. Nathan Deal said.
"I think we try to train people to be sensitive and not to use the social media to say things that are inappropriate. So always, I think, when you have events like this, it's an opportunity to instruct from it and for others to learn from it," Deal said when asked about how to prevent these sort of instances in the future.
State School Superintendent Richard Woods issued a statement Tuesday morning signaling Spencer's dismissal:
"Like most people, I was disheartened and disgusted to see the posts made by Mr. Spencer on his Facebook page. These posts in no way reflect my opinions, or those of the Department of Education. As of this morning, Mr. Spencer is no longer an employee of the Department of Education. My job, and the job of all employees at the Department of Education, is to look out for the educational well-being of all of Georgia's 1.7 million students, and more than 100,000 teachers and educators."
Before the news that Spencer had been fired, State Sen. Vincent Fort of Atlanta called for his dismissal on the Senate floor Tuesday morning.
Bryan Long, executive director of the ethics watchdog group Better Georgia, spoke about Spencer's posts on "Closer Look with Rose Scott and Jim Burress." He applauded the choice to fire Spencer and says an investigation into the department's culture is necessary.
Long also noted that Jeremy Spencer is the twin brother of state Rep. Jason Spencer of Woodbine. Long said, "Jeremy Spencer was a political appointment."
He added, "I think there's a lot of questions that need to be answered about how Richard Woods hired his staff."
Woods said he hopes in the days and months to come, people will see the integrity the department expects of anyone working in education.
"In the age of social media, we have to be careful of what we put out there because it does set an example, it does send a message, and we want to make sure that what we're talking about is the children and focusing on them," Woods said.
Woods said the department will be reviewing its policies regarding social media and professional standards.
Update: Rep. Jason Spencer has released a statement about his brother's firing. You can read it below.
I do not stand in judgment for the reasons State Superintendent Woods dismissed my brother from his position inside the DOE. Mr. Woods has to lead the DOE for the entire state of Georgia. My brother's unfortunate postings on social media, albeit some taken out of context through the prism of political correctness, provoked comments from others who posted incendiary images. He failed to properly moderate his page.
I do know my brother's heart, and I do believe he will gain a tremendous amount of wisdom from this uncomfortable experience and grow as a person in the future. He is my brother, and I will help him on this journey to greater wisdom.
While it will be easy for others to invoke guilt by association, rest assured I will continue to represent all of my constituents like I have demonstrated in the past in a color blind manner.


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Chapter 3. Neurophysiology: The Generation, Transmission, and Integration of Neural Signals
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Kerri Smith Marta Zlatic owns what could be the most tedious film collection ever. In her laboratory at the Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, the neuroscientist has stored more than 20,000 hours of black-and-white video featuring fruit-fly (Drosophila) larvae. The stars of these films are doing mundane maggoty things, such as wriggling and crawling about, but the footage is helping to answer one of the biggest questions in modern neuroscience: how the circuitry of the brain creates behaviour. It's a major goal across the field: to work out how neurons wire up, how signals move through the networks and how these signals work together to pilot an animal around, to make decisions or — in humans — to express emotions and create consciousness. Even under the most humdrum conditions — "normal lighting; no sensory cues; they're not hungry", says Zlatic — her fly larvae can be made to perform 30 different actions, including retracting or turning their heads, or rolling. The actions are generated by a brain comprising just 15,000 neurons. That is nothing compared with the 86 billion in a human brain, which is one of the reasons Zlatic and her teammates like the maggots so much. "At the moment, really, the Drosophila larva is the sweet spot," says Albert Cardona, Zlatic's collaborator and husband, who is also at Janelia. "If you can get the wiring diagram, you have an excellent starting point for seeing how the central nervous system works." © 2017 Macmillan Publishers Limited
Keyword: Brain imaging
Link ID: 23944 - Posted: 08.10.2017
Michael Viney I first saw them by night, or rather by flashlight aimed beside the dinghy as we fished a mile beyond Brighton's pier. A whole shoal of them appeared beneath the boat, waving their arms, their button eyes glistening. We were not fishing for squid – too foreign a taste for England in those days. But this early glimpse left me fascinated with their kind, not least their giant, still greatly mysterious relative with eyes the size of hubcaps. The Brighton squids were the regular, long-fin Doryteuthis of inshore waters, not the huge, deep-water Architeuthis dux, snared this summer as trawler by-catch on the Porcupine Bank. The Cú na Mara (a nice echo) landed two separate specimens at Dingle a few weeks apart. Expiring on they way up, each was around 6m long, counting in the tentacles. They brought to seven the number landed in 350 years, including a remarkable three in 1995 alone. Two of those were trawled from the Porcupine Bank by a Marine Institute survey vessel. Dr Kevin Flannery, the Dingle marine biologist, would now like the institute to send its remote cameras for a proper look around. Meanwhile, the second squid, as dead as the first but in better shape, will soon be on display in the Dingle Oceanworld aquarium. What could seem strangest is that giant squid are soft-bodied molluscs, like limpets or winkles. Abandoning external shells to work on jet propulsion, they have developed genes and nerves of special interest to science. © 2017 THE IRISH TIMES
Keyword: Miscellaneous
Link ID: 23923 - Posted: 08.07.2017
Brandie Jefferson It wasn't long ago that there were no treatments for multiple sclerosis. In the 1970s, some doctors used chemotherapy to treat the degenerative neurological disease. Since then, more than a dozen drugs have been developed or approved, including infusions, oral medications and self-administered shots. None of these are a magic bullet for a disease that can be disabling and deadly. But now there is a new drug, Ocrevus, that looks like a game-changer. It uses a novel approach to blocking the inflammation that drives the disease and looks as if it's spectacularly effective. It also costs $65,000 a year. I have MS. Should I take Ocrevus? That, I discovered, is not a simple question to answer. But because I'm an MS patient and a science journalist, I was determined to try to figure it out. In March, the FDA approved Ocrevus (ocrelizumab) for the treatment of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, the most common form of the disease. People with RRMS tend to have flare-ups when their symptoms worsen, followed by periods of remission and, in some cases, a full or partial recovery. In two clinical trials sponsored by the drug's eventual manufacturer, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, RRMS patients who were given ocrelizumab had about 50 percent fewer relapses and up to 95 percent fewer new lesions on the brain and spinal cord than those who were given Rebif, a common therapy. MS is an autoimmune disease, meaning the body attacks itself. The body's nerve endings and the fatty tissue that coats them, called myelin, bear the brunt of the immune system's attacks. As a result, the central nervous system has difficulty communicating with the nerves, leading to a disease that manifests itself in different ways, such as pain, fatigue, disability and slurred speech. © 2017 npr
Keyword: Multiple Sclerosis
Link ID: 23838 - Posted: 07.14.2017
By Matthew Hutson Artificial neural networks, computer algorithms that take inspiration from the human brain, have demonstrated fancy feats such as detecting lies, recognizing faces, and predicting heart attacks. But most computers can't run them efficiently. Now, a team of engineers has designed a computer chip that uses beams of light to mimic neurons. Such "optical neural networks" could make any application of so-called deep learning—from virtual assistants to language translators—many times faster and more efficient. "It works brilliantly," says Daniel Brunner, a physicist at the FEMTO-ST Institute in Besançon, France, who was not involved in the work. "But I think the really interesting things are yet to come." Most computers work by using a series of transistors, gates that allow electricity to pass or not pass. But decades ago, physicists realized that light might make certain processes more efficient—for example, building neural networks. That's because light waves can travel and interact in parallel, allowing them to perform lots of functions simultaneously. Scientists have used optical equipment to build simple neural nets, but these setups required tabletops full of sensitive mirrors and lenses. For years, photonic processing was dismissed as impractical. Now, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge have managed to condense much of that equipment to a microchip just a few millimeters across. © 2017 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Keyword: Robotics
Link ID: 23758 - Posted: 06.21.2017
By Neuroskeptic A high-profile paper in Cell reports on a new brain stimulation method that's got many neuroscientists excited. The new technique, called temporal interference (TI) stimulation, is said to be able to reach structures deep inside the brain, using nothing more than scalp electrodes. Currently, the only way to stimulate deep brain structures is by implanting electrodes (wires) into the brain – which is an expensive and potentially dangerous surgical procedure. TI promises to make deep brain stimulation an everyday, non-invasive tool. But will it really work? The paper comes from Nir Grossman et al. from the lab of Edward S. Boyden at MIT. Their technique is based around applying two electrical fields to the subject's head. Each field is applied using two scalp electrodes. It is the interaction between the two fields that creates brain stimulation. Both fields oscillate at slightly different frequencies, for instance 2 kHz and 2.01 kHz. Where these fields overlap, a pattern of interference is created which oscillates with an 'envelope' at a much lower frequency, say 10 Hz. The frequency of the two fields is too high to have any effect on neural activity, but the interference pattern does have an effect. Crucially, while the electric fields are strongest close to the electrodes, the interference pattern is most intense at a remote point – which could be deep in the brain.
Keyword: Brain imaging; Parkinsons
Link ID: 23740 - Posted: 06.14.2017
In a pair of studies, scientists at the National Institutes of Health explored how the human brain stores and retrieves memories. One study suggests that the brain etches each memory into unique firing patterns of individual neurons. Meanwhile, the second study suggests that the brain replays memories faster than they are stored. The studies were led by Kareem Zaghloul, M.D., Ph.D., a neurosurgeon-researcher at the NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). Persons with drug resistant epilepsy in protocols studying surgical resection of their seizure focus at the NIH's Clinical Center enrolled in this study. To help locate the source of the seizures, Dr. Zaghloul's team surgically implanted a grid of electrodes into the patients' brains and monitored electrical activity for several days. "The primary goal of these recordings is to understand how to stop the seizures. However, it's also a powerful opportunity to learn how the brain works," said Dr. Zaghloul. For both studies, the researchers monitored brain electrical activity while testing the patients' memories. The patients were shown hundreds of pairs of words, like "pencil and bishop" or "orange and navy," and later were shown one of the words and asked to remember its pair. In one study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, the patients correctly remembered 38 percent of the word pairs they were shown. Electrical recordings showed that the brain waves the patients experienced when they correctly stored and remembered a word pair often occurred in the temporal lobe and prefrontal cortex regions. Nevertheless, the researchers showed that the waves that appeared when recalling the words happened faster than the waves that were present when they initially stored them as memories.
Keyword: Learning & Memory; Epilepsy
Link ID: 23704 - Posted: 06.03.2017
Mo Costandi Since 1997, more than 100,000 Parkinson's Disease patients have been treated with deep brain stimulation (DBS), a surgical technique that involves the implantation of ultra-thin wire electrodes. The implanted device, sometimes referred to as a 'brain pacemaker', delivers electrical pulses to a structure called the subthalamic nucleus, located near the centre of the brain, and effectively alleviates many of the physical symptoms of the disease, such as tremor, muscle rigidity, and slowed movements. DBS is generally safe but, like any surgical procedure, comes with some risks. First and foremost, it is highly invasive, requiring small holes to be drilled in the patient's skull, through which the electrodes are inserted. Potential complications of this include infection, stroke, and bleeding on the brain. The electrodes, which are implanted for long periods of time, sometimes move out of place; they can also cause swelling at the implantation site; and the wire connecting them to the battery, typically placed under the skin of the chest, can erode, all of which require additional surgical procedures. Now, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have a developed a new method that can stimulate cells deep inside the brain non-invasively, using multiple electric fields applied from outside the organ. In a study published today in the journal Neuron, they show that the method can selectively stimulate deep brain structures in live mice, without affecting the activity of cells in the overlying regions, and also that it can be easily adjusted to evoke movements by stimulation of the motor cortex. © 2017 Guardian News and Media Limited o
Keyword: Parkinsons
Link ID: 23700 - Posted: 06.02.2017
By Gary Stix In April, DARPA announced contracts for a program to develop practical methods to help someone learn more quickly. In the ensuing press coverage, the endeavor drew immediate comparisons to the The Matrix—in which Neo, the Keanu Reeves character, has his brain reprogrammed so that he instantly masters Kung Fu. DARPA is known for setting ambitious goals for its technology development programs. But it is not requiring contractors for the $50 million, four-year effort to find a way to let a special forces soldier upload neural codes to instantaneously execute a flawless Wushu butterfly kick. The agency did award contracts, though, to find some means of zapping nerves in the peripheral nervous system outside the brain to speed the rate at which a foreign language can be learned by as much as 30 percent, a still not-too-shabby goal. Sending an electrical current into the vagus nerve in the neck from a surgically implanted device is already approved for treating epilepsy and depression. The DARPA program, in tacit acknowledgement that mandatory surgery might be unacceptable for students contemplating an accelerated Mandarin class, wants to develop a non-invasive device to stimulate a peripheral nerve, perhaps in the ear. The goal is to hasten, not just the learning of foreign languages, but also to facilitate pattern recognition tasks such as combing through surveillance imagery. © 2017 Scientific American,
Keyword: Learning & Memory
Link ID: 23699 - Posted: 06.02.2017
A cannabis compound has been proven for the first time to reduce the frequency of seizures in people with a rare, severe form of epilepsy, according to the results of a randomized trial. For years, parents have pointed to anecdotal benefits of cannabidiol (CBD), a compound in the marijuana plant that does not produce a high, saying it reduces seizures in treatment-resistant epilepsy. Now doctors have performed a randomized trial to show cause and effect, with the findings published in Wednesday's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. To conduct the study, the researchers focused on Dravet syndrome, a rare form of epilepsy that begins in infancy and is linked to a particular mutation that often resists combinations of up to 10 conventional seizure medications. They enrolled 120 patients who ranged in age from 2.5 to 18 years. Sixty-one patients were randomly assigned to cannabidiol, and the 59 others to placebo. Neither the researchers nor the families knew who received the medication to prevent bias. All continued to take their existing medications. "The message is that cannabidiol does work in reducing convulsing seizures in children with Dravet syndrome," said lead author Dr. Orrin Devinksy, who is director of NYU's Langone Comprehensive Epilepsy Center. For those in the cannabinoid group, the median number of convulsive seizures per month dropped from 12.4 per month before treatment, to 5.9 seizures, the researchers reported. The placebo group, in comparison, only saw their convulsive seizures fall from 14.9 per month, to 14.1. ©2017 CBC/Radio-Canada.
Keyword: Epilepsy; Drug Abuse
Link ID: 23659 - Posted: 05.25.2017
By Esther Landhuis On the heels of one failed drug trial after another, a recent study suggests people with early Alzheimer's disease could reap modest benefits from a device that uses magnetic fields to produce small electric currents in the brain. Alzheimer's is a degenerative brain disorder that afflicts more than 46 million people worldwide. At present there are no treatments that stop or slow its progression, although several approved drugs offer temporary relief from memory loss and other cognitive symptoms by preventing the breakdown of chemical messengers among nerve cells. The new study tested a regimen that combines computerized cognitive training with a procedure known as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared rTMS devices for some migraine sufferers as well as for people with depression who have not responded to antidepressant medications. Last month at the 13th International Conference on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases in Vienna, Israel-based Neuronix reported results of a phase III clinical trial of its therapy system, known as neuroAD, in Alzheimer's patients. More than 99 percent of Alzheimer's drug trials have failed. The last time a phase III trial for a wholly new treatment succeeded (not just a combination of two already approved drugs) was about 15 years ago. The recent study did not test a drug but rather a device, which usually has an easier time gaining FDA clearance. NeuroAD has been approved for use in Europe and the U.K., where six weeks of therapy costs about $6,700. The system is not commercially available in the U.S., but based on the latest results the company submitted an application for FDA clearance last fall. © 2017 Scientific American
Keyword: Alzheimers
Link ID: 23635 - Posted: 05.19.2017
Jon Hamilton Tiny, 3-D clusters of human brain cells grown in a petri dish are providing hints about the origins of disorders like autism and epilepsy. An experiment using these cell clusters — which are only about the size of the head of a pin — found that a genetic mutation associated with both autism and epilepsy kept developing cells from migrating normally from one cluster of brain cells to another, researchers report in the journal Nature. "They were sort of left behind," says Dr. Sergiu Pasca, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford. And that type of delay could be enough to disrupt the precise timing required for an actual brain to develop normally, he says. The clusters — often called minibrains, organoids or spheroids — are created by transforming skin cells from a person into neural stem cells. These stem cells can then grow into structures like those found in the brain and even form networks of communicating cells. Brain organoids cannot grow beyond a few millimeters in size or perform the functions of a complete brain. But they give scientists a way to study how parts of the brain develop during pregnancy. "One can really understand both a process of normal human brain development, which we frankly don't understand very well, [and] also what goes wrong in the brain of patients affected by diseases," says Paola Arlotta, a professor of stem cell and regenerative biology at Harvard who was not involved in the cell migration study. Arlotta is an author of a second paper in Nature about creating a wide variety of brain cells in brain organoids. © 2017 npr
Keyword: Development of the Brain; Autism
Link ID: 23545 - Posted: 04.27.2017
By KAREN BARROW The World Health Organization estimates that more than 50 million people worldwide have some form of epilepsy, a neurological disorder that is characterized by recurring episodes of seizure. While seizures come in various forms, those with epilepsy cope with similar issues: social stigma, complex treatment options and a feeling of powerlessness. Here, eight men, women and children discuss what it's like to live with epilepsy. Denise L. Pease, an assistant comptroller for New York City, began having complex partial seizures after a car accident in which she suffered a traumatic brain injury. But because Ms. Pease lives alone, it wasn't until a relative saw her having a tonic-clonic seizure, what used to be known as a grand mal seizure, that she realized she had developed epilepsy. Tonic-clonic seizures typically involve the whole body and can be very dramatic. Ms. Pease began to notice that she would get a strange taste in her mouth before a seizure, so whenever that happened she made sure she was seated in a safe location and waited for the seizure to pass. This sensation of an oncoming seizure, called an aura, is common among people with epilepsy. After eight years of trying different medications to control her epilepsy, Ms. Pease is happy to be back at work and no longer lives in fear of an imminent seizure. Ms. Pease is hopeful that she will soon be able to drive, and she continues to plan for her future. "When you have epilepsy, you have to be your own advocate," she said. Sallie Gallagher's son, Michael, started having complex partial seizures at age 4. This type of seizure doesn't cause the full-body twitching associated with tonic-clonic seizure, but it can cause a person to start to act strangely or be completely unaware of his surroundings. © 2017 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Epilepsy
Link ID: 23544 - Posted: 04.27.2017
By BENEDICT CAREY Well-timed pulses from electrodes implanted in the brain can enhance memory in some people, scientists reported on Thursday, in the most rigorous demonstration to date of how a pacemaker-like approach might help reduce symptoms of dementia, head injuries and other conditions. The report is the result of decades of work decoding brain signals, helped along in recent years by large Department of Defense grants intended to develop novel treatments for people with traumatic brain injuries, a signature wound of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The research, led by a team at the University of Pennsylvania, is published in the journal Current Biology. Previous attempts to stimulate human memory with implanted electrodes had produced mixed results: Some experiments seemed to sharpen memory, but others muddled it. The new paper resolves this confusion by demonstrating that the timing of the stimulation is crucial. Zapping memory areas when they are functioning poorly improves the brain's encoding of new information. But doing so when those areas are operating well — as they do for stretches of the day in most everyone, including those with deficits — impairs the process. "We all have good days and bad days, times when we're foggy, or when we're sharp," said Michael Kahana, who with Youssef Ezzyat led the research team. "We found that jostling the system when it's in a low-functioning state can jump it to a high-functioning one." Researchers cautioned that implantation is a delicate procedure and that the reported improvements may not apply broadly. The study was of epilepsy patients; scientists still have much work to do to determine whether this approach has the same potential in people with other conditions, and if so how best to apply it. But in establishing the importance of timing, the field seems to have turned a corner, experts said. © 2017 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Learning & Memory; Epilepsy
Link ID: 23520 - Posted: 04.21.2017
By David Noonan Like many people with epilepsy, Richard Shane, 56, has some problems with memory. But he can easily recall his first seizure, 34 years ago. "I was on the phone with my father, and I noticed that I started moaning, and I lost some level of consciousness," Shane says. After experiencing a similar episode three weeks later, he went to a doctor and learned he had epilepsy, a neurological disorder caused by abnormal electrical activity in the brain. The first medication he was prescribed, Dilantin (phenytoin), failed to stop or even reduce his seizures. So did the second and the third. His epilepsy, it turned out, was drug-resistant. Over the next 22 years Shane suffered two to five or more seizures a week. He and his doctors tried every new antiseizure drug that came along, but none worked. Finally, in 2004, as a last resort, a neurosurgeon removed a small part of Shane's brain where his seizures originated. "It was a matter of what sucks less," Shane says, "having brain surgery or having epilepsy." Shane has been seizure-free ever since. As many as three million people in the U.S. live with epilepsy, and more than 30 percent of them receive inadequate relief from medication, a number that persists despite the introduction of more than a dozen new antiepileptic drugs since 1990. Although surgery has helped some patients such as Shane, uncontrollable epilepsy remains a living nightmare for patients and an intractable foe for clinicians and researchers. "I hate to say it, but we do not know why" some people respond to medications and others do not, says neurologist Michael Rogawski, who studies epilepsy treatments at the University of California, Davis. And yet if the central conundrum continues, so does the determined quest for new and different approaches to treating the toughest cases. © 2017 Scientific American
Keyword: Epilepsy
Link ID: 23495 - Posted: 04.15.2017
Consider two children who have childhood absence epilepsy (CAE), the most common form of pediatric epilepsy. They both take the same drug — one child sees an improvement in their seizures, but the other does not. A new study in the Annals of Neurology identified the genes that may underlie this difference in treatment outcomes, suggesting there may be potential for using a precision medicine approach to help predict which drugs will be most effective to help children with CAE. The study was funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), both part of the National Institutes of Health. "A better understanding of genetic factors underlying a disease and the way that people respond to treatments may help healthcare providers select the best therapies for children with CAE," said Vicky Whittemore, Ph.D., program director at NINDS. A team led by Tracy A. Glauser, M.D., director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and professor of pediatrics in the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, investigated whether there may be a genetic basis for different responses to three drugs used for CAE (ethosuximide, valproic acid, and lamotrigine). The experiments focused on three genes that code for T-type calcium channels that are involved in CAE and one gene that codes for a transporter that shuttles the drugs out of the brain. T-type calcium channels help control the firing rate of brain cells. The current study is part of a 32-center, randomized, controlled clinical trial that compared the effects of the three most commonly used drugs in 446 children who were recently diagnosed with CAE.
Keyword: Epilepsy; Genes & Behavior
Link ID: 23480 - Posted: 04.12.2017
By Jia Naqvi An experimental technique reduces the tics, or involuntary movements and vocal outbursts, associated with severe Tourette's syndrome in young adults, a study published Friday found. The surgical technique, called thalamic deep brain stimulation (DBS), sends electrical impulses to a specific area of the brain that reduces the tics, according to the study published in the Journal of Neurosurgery. The finding adds to the growing body of evidence about the safety and effectiveness of deep brain stimulation, which might eventually lead the Food and Drug Administration to approve the treatment for Tourette's syndrome, according to the researchers. "Our study shows that deep brain stimulation is a safe, effective treatment for young adults with severe Tourette syndrome that cannot be managed with current therapies," said Alon Mogilner, an associate professor in the departments of neurosurgery and anesthesiology at New York University Langone and director of its Center for Neuromodulation, in a news release. "This treatment has the potential to improve the quality of life for patients who are debilitated through their teenage years and young adulthood." Tourette's syndrome, a type of neurological disorder, according to various studies afflicts from 0.3 to 0.6 percent of children in the United States, with around 138,000 ages 6 to 17 being diagnosed with the condition. The causes for the syndrome are not well known and are thought to be largely genetic, with unidentified environmental factors increasing the likelihood of the condition. Usually the syndrome begins in childhood and the condition improves with age for some people, but for others the symptoms become more severe to the point that people become socially isolated and unable to work or attend school. © 1996-2017 The Washington Post
Keyword: Tourettes
Link ID: 23468 - Posted: 04.08.2017
Sallie Baxendale, Temporal lobe epilepsy—a common form of epilepsy characterized by seizures that begin in the memory-regulating temporal lobe—does appear to influence personality, though not in the way many may think and certainly not in the way people have believed throughout history. The idea of the epileptic personality is an ancient one. Thousands of years ago people with epilepsy were thought to be possessed by either divine beings or demons. In fact, the notion that a seizure represents a kind of communion with another spiritual realm still holds sway in some societies today. In more recent history, Westerners largely perceived epilepsy as a punishment for morally lax behavior. In one 1892 paper, the author claimed that debauchery and excessive lust frequently led to epilepsy and that a person could trigger a seizure by listening to love songs and eating chocolate. More recently, scientists began investigating whether epilepsy, in fact, altered personality. In 1975 neurologists Stephen Waxman and Norman Geschwind, both then at Harvard University, published an analysis based on observations of their patients with temporal lobe epilepsy in which they reported that many patients had a tendency toward religiosity, intense emotions, detailed thoughts, and a compulsion to write or draw. This cluster of characteristics became known as the epileptic personality. Over the next decade other researchers added hostility, aggression, lack of humor and obsessiveness to the list of personality traits supposedly associated with the condition. © 2017 Scientific American
Keyword: Epilepsy; Emotions
Link ID: 23464 - Posted: 04.08.2017
Katherine Whalley The mammalian suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) can autonomously generate circadian oscillations in gene expression and neuronal activity, enabling it to fulfil its role as the brain's 'master circadian clock'. Although the contributions of specific neuronal populations to SCN function have begun to be elucidated, the potential influences of SCN astrocytes are relatively unexplored. Brancaccio et al. now reveal an important role for astrocyte–neuron signalling in SCN timekeeping. SCN neurons exhibit circadian oscillations in their intracellular calcium level ([Ca2+]i), peaking during the circadian 'day'. To determine whether similar fluctuations in activity are observed in astrocytes, the authors expressed a genetically encoded reporter of astrocytic [Ca2+]i in organotypic SCN slices. Long-term imaging revealed the presence of circadian oscillations in astrocytic [Ca2+]i, which was at its highest during the circadian 'night' and thus was anti-phasic to that of neurons. Astrocytes release 'gliotransmitters', including glutamate, in response to an increase in [Ca2+]i. When the authors expressed a genetically encoded sensor of the extracellular glutamate concentration ([Glu]e) in SCN slices, they observed circadian oscillations in [Glu]e that were in phase with astrocytic [Ca2+]i. oscillations. That astrocytes were the source of the measured [Glu]e was supported by the fact that the pharmacological inhibition of astrocytic glutamate catabolism or the genetic ablation of astrocytes, respectively, increased or reduced [Glu]e. © 2017 Macmillan Publishers Limited,
Keyword: Biological Rhythms; Glia
Link ID: 23436 - Posted: 04.01.2017
By KATIE THOMAS The Food and Drug Administration approved on Tuesday the first drug to treat a severe form of multiple sclerosis, offering hope to patients who previously had no other options to combat a relentless disease that leads to paralysis and cognitive decline. The federal agency also cleared the drug to treat people with the more common, relapsing form of the disease. "I think that this is a very big deal," said Dr. Stephen Hauser, the chairman of the neurology department at the University of California, San Francisco, and leader of the steering committee that oversaw the late-stage clinical trials of the drug, ocrelizumab. "The magnitude of the benefits that we've seen with ocrelizumab in all forms of M.S. are really quite stunning." The drug, which will be sold under the brand name Ocrevus by Genentech, showed the most notable results in patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis, appearing to halt progression of the disease with few serious side effects. In patients with the more severe form, primary progressive multiple sclerosis, the drug only modestly slowed patients' decline, but medical experts described it as an important first step. "This sort of opens the door for us," said Dr. Fred D. Lublin, who was a crucial investigator for the clinical trial and is director of the Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson Center for Multiple Sclerosis at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. "Once we open that door, then we do better and better and better. It's a very encouraging result." Genentech, which is owned by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche, said Tuesday that it would charge a list price of $65,000 a year, which — though expensive — is 25 percent less than an existing drug, Rebif, that was shown to be clinically inferior to Ocrevus in the two clinical trials that led to Ocrevus's approval. © 2017 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Multiple Sclerosis; Neuroimmunology
Link ID: 23421 - Posted: 03.29.2017
By Erik Vance The world's smallest arachnid, the Samoan moss spider, is at a third of a millimeter nearly invisible to the human eye. The largest spider in the world is the goliath birdeater tarantula, which weighs 5 ounces and is about the size of a dinner plate. For reference, that is about the same difference in scale between that same tarantula and a bottlenose dolphin. And yet the bigger spider does not act in more complex ways than its tiny counterpart. "Insects and spiders and the like—in terms of absolute size—have among the tiniest brains we've come across," says William Wcislo, a scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama City. "But their behavior, as far as we can see, is as sophisticated as things that have relatively large brains. So then there's the question: How do they do that?" No one would argue that a tarantula is as smart as a dolphin or having a really big brain is not an excellent way to perform complicated tasks. But a growing number of scientists are asking the question: Is it the only way? Do you need a big brain to hunt elusive prey, design complicated structures or produce complex social dynamics? For generations scientists have wondered how intelligent creatures developed large brains to perform complicated tasks. But Wcislo is part of a small community of scientists less interested in how brains have grown than how they have shrunk and yet shockingly still perform tasks as well or better than similar species that are much larger in size. In other words, it's what scientists call brain miniaturization, not unlike the scaling down in size of the transistors in a computer chip. This research, in fact, may hold clues to innovative design strategies that engineers might incorporate in future generations of computers. © 2017 Scientific American
Keyword: Miscellaneous
Link ID: 23418 - Posted: 03.29.2017


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Ronnie Lee Gardner is scheduled to be executed in a little less than an hour from the time at which I'm writing this.
These stories are always difficult for me to read, but for once I made it through to the end of one, and I'm struck by a number of things. First of all, this is all very bizarre. A spokesman for the State of Utah informs the media that the time of the execution has been settled, that the inmate has been moved to his observation cell, and that he's been occupying his time with sleep, eating, watching a movie, reading a book, etc. It's all a little too reminiscent of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five. One might even expect to hear Mr. Bureaucrat wish us a happy visit to the zoo at the conclusion of his remarks. Are events like this, rather than the Super Bowl, the modern American version of the Roman Coliseum? The controversial act of a State execution plays into both our curiosity and our barbaric need for occasional gore in life.
One can hardly miss the fact, too, that one of the five marksmen charged with this grim task will be given blanks, so that none of them really knows who fired the fatal shot. Question: If this is really a just act, why is this necessary? Say what you want about Medieval executions, but at least those executioners had the cojones to do what they did with awareness. Whatever the justice or injustice of their act, they had to live with their consciences. Heaven forfend that modern State functionaries should have to do the same thing. It brings a whole new meaning to the saying that an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
The death penalty is a touchy subject, and yet it shares some essential things with all kinds of conversations these days: When it comes up, people have a tendency to discuss the irrelevant and the unimportant rather than the crucial things which are really at stake. Deterrence and revenge are high on the list of fables that only serve to make the world a perpetually fallen place. State-sponsored execution was reinstated decades ago, and yet many of us live in cities which have not seen falling murder rates but rather quite the opposite. Ronald Reagan's sacred myths about the death penalty win elections but they don't save the souls of our cities.
Much as the deterrence mentality is mistaken, it is at least presumably offered up by those who mean well. The same cannot be said for people who simply want revenge. The punishment should fit the crime, etc. This, too, misses the point and is a maniacal application of the principle of proportionality. If this kind of logic were to be used, then one could argue that those accused of involuntary manslaughter should be eligible for an ignominious descent into That Good Night, courtesy of the local governor. In any case, revenge makes barbarians of us all; indeed, it makes apparatus of the State worse than the criminals, since executions are always well-planned. At least some murderers were acting in the heat of the moment. That means that they are quite possibly more gentle people than former Texas Governor George W. Bush.
The Catholic Church has done an admirable job of late of standing up against the death penalty. She has brought good arguments to the discussion which do approach the essence of the matter—issues such as human dignity and the sacredness of every life. This is all to the good. What most people don't realize, however, is that the Church still teaches that the State has the right to execute certain criminals who pose a particular threat to society. The late Dr. Wojtyla argued that this almost never happens anymore, given the high security of modern prisons. Ok. This is better, and largely a welcome outlook on all of this, as far as I'm concerned, but even with all the talk about the sacredness of life—surely an important matter—a crucial element is left undiscussed.
What few people seem to get, what even the commendable Catholic position has not approached, is the insidious implication in State-sponsored execution: If the State can execute you, then the State owns you. You do not belong to yourself. You do not have any self-determination. Your very life is in the hands of the State. Criminals may surrender certain rights by virtue of their misdeeds, but I do seem to recall that certain rights are inalienable. But the idea of inalienable rights is an achievement of the philosophers, and Americans don't know much about philosophy. "Ahhhh, what sort of thing is that?" asked the American tourists in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. Consequently, no one seems to ask the question after an execution: If the State can do this, what else can it do? I am personally frightened by that thought.
You may think I'm paranoid, and ten or twenty years ago that might have been a plausible reaction to my position. But now the U.S. government has given itself the authority to assassinate U.S. citizens which it considers to be threats. How could such a premise stand if we did not surrender, at least in principle, our very beings to the State?
"Oh, philosophy. That's the meaning of life— you know, why are you here?"
"Well we were in California last year and Miami the year before that…."
Ignorance is the bedrock on which tyranny is built.
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Package going out? Talk to the receptionist. That's a tired refrain United Parcel Service (UPS ) Inc. is eager to end with its new CampusShip service, workers can now operate virtual post offices on their desktops.
Whether in the office or on the road, an employee can track a package, print labels, build an online address list, and e-mail shipping notifications. So workers don't send Grandma in Alaska a box of chocolates on the company's dime, CampusShip lets managers set rules on who can ship what. Use of the free service, which is bundled in with other UPS services customers buy, has grown 20% in the past three months alone, for a total of 300,000 users at 6,000 companies. If this goes on much longer, mailroom employees may soon go the way of elevator operators.
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"Tide's Charitable Makeover"
In the April 10, 2009 issue of Brandweek, Booz & Company Partner Paul Leinwand (North America) said Procter & Gamble's redesign of its Tide detergent bottles, the most significant packaging change in the brand's 60-year history, could create issues for the company on the retain end. "The problem with that is it's just introducing a lot of complexities for the retailers," Leinwand said, adding that shelf space in the detergent aisle is precious. The packaging is part of P&G's marketing program to raise funds for disaster relief, and shows faces of real people Tide has helped. The new design is denoted by Tide "yellow cap." Major retailers will carry the bottles through June 2009.


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Episode Title: "Meet the New Boss"
Writers: Jonathan Tropper and David Schickler
Director: Ole Christian Madsen
Previously on "Banshee:"
In "Meet the New Boss," we learn a ton about Lucas Hood (Antony Starr). First off, he is "the new boss." And he will interpret that title as the right to break the bones and bite the flesh of any thug who challenges him. He's also angry and not as "kind" as he used to be, according to the woman who loved him before he spent fifteen years in jail getting beat down and shanked on the regular. We also learn that Lucas Hood is not for sale and he has pretty bad judgment when it comes to choosing sexual partners.
To be clear, "Meet the Boss" was a great episode of "Banshee," a show about an ex-con impersonating a sheriff and attempting to clean up a small town run buy a corrupt Amish businessman. If that sounds good to you, then this episode was the best yet.
It's still too early to place heavy judgment on "Banshee." Folks who don't like sex and violence probably already have, however. This episode had tons of it. But there was also a little bit of story laced throughout.
In attempt to cash in on a burgeoning Indian casino, Kai Proctor (Ulrich Thomsen) lured a high-profile cage fighter named Sanchez to the venue. A parody of every big-headed, hard-partying, womanizing prize fighter, Sanchez first got Sheriff Hood's attention when he challenged him to a sparring session during an exhibition at the casino. Then he had to go and brutally rape and beat a casino waitress.
Proctor and Sanchez' manager both tried to convince Hood to hold off on arresting their moneymaker until after the fight. And Hood did just that, giving Sanchez a career ending beating that was at moments hard to watch. Afterwards, Proctor stopped by Sugar's bar to deliver more veiled threats and make it clear to Hood that he, not the Sheriff, runs Banshee.
But Hood isn't afraid of Proctor and we can't really blame him. So far, "Banshee's" big bad is just your garden-variety money-hungry psychopath. We've seen this guy on countless other shows, except this time he's Amish. The same can be said about "Mir. Rabbit" (Ben Cross) the soft-spoken Ukrainian criminal mastermind who enjoys sipping tea and starring intently at a chessboard for hours. Even Proctor's bowtied, bespeckled enforcer seems way too familiar, especially if you remember Brother Mouzone from "The Wire."
And this is where it's easy to feel conflicted about "Banshee." There's a lot of potential in the premise, but so far, the characters aren't living up to it. "Meet the Boss," with it's cringe-worthy violence and gratuitous sex was certainly an intense spectacle, but does it matter to the story?
A couple things that might matter are the fact that Carrie/Anastasia (Ivana Milicevic) is Mr. Rabbit's daughter, but as of right now it only makes their relationship that much harder to believe. Also, Rebecca the "Amish Girl Gone Wild" is Proctor's niece and there may or may not be some creepy sexual tension between them. Oh and a security guard at the casino got Hood's annihilation of Sanchez on video and now it's on YouTube. Remember what I said about fake sheriffs in the Internet age? I'm glad to see "Banshee" go there and not rely on its Pennsylvania Dutch setting as an excuse to keep Sheriff Hood from being Googled.
Seeing as we're still putting roots down in "Banshee," I'm looking forward to seeing where things go from here. We still don't know much about the town, despite the fact that it's the show's namesake. And all we really know about the two men attempting to run is that they're both loners who've alienated the people they love the most. In fact, they may have more in common than they realize. "You're delusional and dangerous," Hood told Proctor at the end of hour – this coming from the fake sheriff. As these two characters prepare to destroy each other, hopefully they'll bring out the best in each other – or at least something we haven't seen before.


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Rutgers scandal brings down AD
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Rutgers' coaching scandal spiraled deeper Friday, bringing down the popular athletic director and a school vice president while donors threatened to cut off their contributions to the university.
The day of mounting troubles began with athletic director Tim Pernetti resigning over his failure to immediately fire coach Mike Rice, who was caught on video hitting, kicking and taunting players with anti-gay slurs at practice.
Also resigning Friday was John B. Wolf, interim senior vice president, who is believed to have recommended against firing Rice in December.
The video prompted outrage nationwide and on campus, where in 2010 a student committed suicide after his roommate used a webcam to record him kissing another man.
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Rice was fired by Pernetti on Wednesday, but the AD immediately came under criticism for only suspending and fining the coach after the video was brought to his attention four months ago.
Rutgers president Robert Barchi came under harsh questioning from reporters at a news conference Friday over what he knew months ago.
"This was a failure of process. I regret that I did not ask to see this video when Tim first told me of its existence," Barchi said. "I want to apologize to the entire Rutgers community for the negative impact that this situation has had on Rutgers."
Pernetti said that "my first instincts when I saw the videotape of Coach Rice's behavior was to fire him immediately. However, Rutgers decided to follow a process involving university lawyers, human resources professionals, and outside counsel."
Pernetti was given the video by former employee Eric Murdock, who filed a whistleblower lawsuit Friday alleging Rutgers violated an employee protection act and his contract.


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Help Big Brothers Big Sisters of Acadiana by bowling this Saturday!
The Boys and Girls Club of Acadiana will hold their annual Celebrity Waiter Dinner and Auction in Abbeville on July 24.
School starts in Lafayette Parish today and that means the Boys & Girls Clubs of Acadiana's after school programs are about to kick off. The after school programs will run from 3:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. They have openings for youth ages 6 to 18. Programs include education, career, character, leadership, arts, sports, fitness, recreation, and health and life skills.
Join me at Trynd Cafe Thursday for "On The Rocks With Holiday Spirits". It's a fundraiser for the Acadiana Symphony & Conservatory's Boy's & Girls Club Music Program.


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Iraq and Egypt are attempting here to pressure the United States into forcing Israel to make drastic concessions to prove the American Government's friendship for the Arabs.
Iraq's former Prime Minister Nuri as-Said, who is still considered one of Iraq's leading statesmen, met today for the second time within a few days with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. He was also received today by President Eisenhower, but refused to divulge details of his talk with the President.
Yesterday, Secretary Dulles received Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi and discussed the Middle East situation with him for more than an hour. It is believed that he hinted the United States could seize the initiative from Russia by a new approach to the question of Israel's boundaries and the Arab refugee issue. Arab diplomats have been spreading reports that Moscow is preparing to launch a campaign for a return to the 1947 partition boundaries of Israel.
Mr. as-Said, who was Premier of Iraq twelve times since 1922, is believed to have urged Secretary Dulles to adopt a tough new U.S. policy toward Israel, arguing that this would strengthen the position of pro-Western Arabs. Mr. as-Said is understood to advocate the view that substantial sacrifices must be extracted from Israel, in territory and funds for compensation of Arab refugees, before the Arab-Israel dispute can be settled.
He also advanced the view that settlement of the Arab-Israel conflict is imperative for the defense of the Middle East against Soviet penetration since Moscow is playing on Arab sentiments by pretending that the Soviet Government is helping the Arab states defend themselves against Israel.


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Ah, September: A three-day weekend to wrap up summer. Back to school. First day of fall. Maybe even some early musings about the perfect Halloween costume. Nice. Did you know that the ninth month of the year is also Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month? In the midst of all the usual happy firsts in September, over 1000 children will be diagnosed with cancer. That's 1000 families whose lives are turned upside down in an instant and who must suddenly face difficult treatments and odds no parent should have to confront. The question: How can we find a cure? The answer: Raise funds for research. It's actually that simple.
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Make a list. Check it twice. To whom should you mail a dozen of our scrumptious cookies? Holiday cookie packages are what started it all at Cookies for Kids' Cancer, and they're still a vital part of our search for a cure. Spread the word to friends, neighbors, co-workers, everyone you know. Bonus points for suggesting Cookies as a scrumptious source for corporate or client gifts, if you know anyone who makes those decisions. Sweeten the deal for them with a reminder that Cookies is an officially IRS-recognized 501c3 organization; purchases are deductible as allowed by law. Go to www.cookiesforkidscancer.org for more information.
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Mom of: Cooper – age 2 and Carter – age 5 months
Lives in: New York City
Cookie Connection: Longtime co-worker and dear friend of Gretchen and Larry Witt, Cookies co-founders
Why she volunteers, in her own words: Things to do today: Sign up for soccer, re-order diapers, make doctor's appointment, cure pediatric cancer. Wait, really?
From the sound of it, curing cancer seems farfetched. But that's before Gretchen and Larry's son Liam was diagnosed, before their family's world imploded, and before I knew the facts. The good news is that there are really wonderful and promising treatments that are just on the horizon for children struggling with cancer. The bad news is that some of the protocols are literally stopped in their tracks due to lack of funding. I decided to look at this not as a $1 billion dollar problem per se, but as a cookie by cupcake, mother-by-mother-we-can-do-this problem.
So I threw a bake sale. And honestly, it wasn't that hard because everyone who heard about it wanted to help. I asked for a core team of volunteers from our staff at Oxo, and together we brainstormed a way to make our bake sale bigger than big. We solicited donations from local sweet shops and bakeries, we commandeered "outposts" (aka card tables) on different office floors, we asked companies for a corporate match for what we raised, we papered the building with fliers. I baked my grandmother's famous banana pudding (which I now realize is the recipe from the back of the Nilla Wafers box, but it's still delicious). We had bakers, and sellers, and money takers, and it was a good old fashioned bake sale that made everyone who took part in some way feel a little better—and we raised over $10,000.
Liam has been living with cancer for almost three years now. Money raised by Cookies for Kids' Cancer has advanced some promising treatments that are helping him. But there is so much more to do. We are literally building a life raft, cookie by cookie. He needs that raft to help ferry him to safety, and so do so many other children. It is not outside the realm of possibility. Science is exploding with new technology, ideas, tests, studies. Many of those opportunities need seed money to get off the ground. I know that as a mother, Gretchen is racing against time to find the best chances for Liam to beat cancer. I also know that as a mother, the saying, "There but for the grace of God go I" is so true. Cancer knows no boundaries. I look at my sweet boys and I never want them to know the pain of a playground slight or the heartache of first love. I know that Gretchen would like nothing more than for Liam to know the heartache, and the joy, of a first love.
I have promised Gretchen that we will dance together at Liam's wedding, and we will laugh and sing and have far too many cocktails. If adding a bake sale to my list of things to do today will make that promise come true, I'm all in. Won't you join me?


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Just take gain of free of charge inspections, but will not just have them repair every little thing on the checklist. There will most likely be 1 or two additional objects added on that usually are not strictly necessary. If you are light-weight on money, request the technician which products are the most essential to keep the auto managing safely and securely. Get these accomplished immediately, and help save up for the rest of the perform.
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In celebration of Illinois Chamber Week, the Greater Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce and Oswego Chamber of Commerce are partnering up to bring you this special event and luncheon with speaker Jeanie Martin! Join us on Wednesday, September 13th from 8:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. at Kennedy Point Restaurant, 2245...
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Dodge Repair Questions? Ask a Mechanic for Answers ASAP
IGNITION SYSTEM NOTE: These engines use a fixed ignition timing system. Basic ignition timing is not adjustable. All spark advance is determined by the Powertrain Control Module (PCM) .This engine uses a distributor, crankshaft sensor and ignition coil. Basic ignition timing is not adjustable. The system's main components are the distributor, distributor pickup, camshaft signal, crankshaft signal and ignition coil.The crankshaft position sensor and camshaft position sensor are hall effect devices. The camshaft position sensor and crankshaft position sensor generate pulses that are inputs to the PCM. The PCM determines crankshaft position from these sensors. The PCM calculates injector sequence and ignition timing from crankshaft position. For a description of both sensors, refer to Camshaft Position Sensor and Crankshaft Position Sensor.
IGNITION INTERLOCK All vehicles equipped with automatic transaxles have an interlock system. The system prevents shifting the vehicle out of Park unless the ignition lock cylinder is in the OFF, RUN or START position. In addition, the operator cannot rotate the key to the lock position unless the shifter is in the Park position. On vehicles equipped with floor shift refer to the - Transaxle for Automatic Transmission Shifter/Ignition Interlock.


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"Cloud computing" refers to providing Internet-based access to shared resources that are available on demand. The resources can be a combination of hardware, software and other information, and the resources can be the use of a single set of hardware and software for multiple purposes or a single purpose, either for a single company or for multiple customers. This "shared" use is very different from outsourcing which uses the infrastructure of the customer, managed by a third party. It is also a departure from the traditional enterprise license of software or purchase of on-premises hardware equipment.
The important characteristics of cloud computing are resource pooling (the resources are dynamically assigned and reassigned according to demand), flexible access (accessible across a variety of platforms such as laptops, PDAs and mobile devices) and rapid elasticity (the services can be provisioned elastically and rapidly, frequently automatically). However, the term "cloud computing" actually encompasses three basic business models that can be made available through a variety of methods.
The three basic business models are:
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): The customer receives access to additional IT infrastructure, such as storage, processing or network bandwidth or other resources that is often shared with other customers.
- Platform as a Service (PaaS): The customer can develop and operate applications by accessing a computing platform provided by the cloud service provider, which may include programming tools, databases, security software and other applications that make up a complete development platform.
- Software as a Service (SaaS): Rather than receiving an enterprise license to software to be installed on the customer's own on-premises servers, the customer receives access to a software application or suite of applications remotely and on-demand.
Each of the three business models can be provided in a variety of methods but there are four options that have emerged as the most prominent:
- Public Clouds: Infrastructure, platform and software are typically provided through services that are usually accessible through online terms of use and paid for based on actual usage. Amazon Web Services is an example of a company that provides cloud computing capabilities through a public cloud.
- Private Clouds: A private cloud is where dedicated cloud computing resources are made available to specific customer. These services are typically provided through negotiated service agreements but because the resources are dedicated, may result in a greater capital investment.
- Hybrid Clouds This model may be used by a customer who desires the ease of use of a public cloud but desires some level of dedicated resources afforded by a private cloud:
- Managed Clouds: This model is actually similar to outsourcing except that rather than having the customer owning the infrastructure and outsourcing its management to a third party, the customer owns the cloud computing capability and is outsourcing the management of the cloud to a third party.
Our next article will discuss some of the key legal issues surrounding cloud computing service agreements from the perspective of the vendor and the article after that will discuss some of the key legal issues from the perspective of the customer.
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Alias Smith and Jones/The Great Shell Game
From The TV IV
|The Great Shell Game
|Season 1, Episode 5
|February 18, 1971
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Glen A. Larson
John Thomas James
|Richard Benedict
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The Girl in Boxcar 3
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Return to Devil's Hole
|Alias Smith and Jones — Season One
Guest Stars: Diana Muldaur, Sam Jaffe
Special Guest Star: Peter Breck
With: Ken Mayer (Marshall Slater), Paul Micale (Man), Jim Malinda (Hotel Clerk)
Plot Overview
Grace Turner double crosses the Kid when he is in Mexico on business and gets the $10,000 reward for his capture.
However, she regrets her action as she finds that she has fallen in love with the Kid and later breaks him out of prison. This has the unfortunate effect of making it look as though Heyes and Curry were involved in collecting their own reward money.
Heyes sets up an elaborate 'sting' with Soapy Saunders called The Big Store to get the money back from Grace and thus to clear his and the Kid's names.


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The first fine china created in America dates circa 1769, in Philadelphia. By the 1840's,
East Liverpool, Ohio had become one of the country's most vibrant centers of pottery
production, including American Rockinghamware. Yellowware, redware,
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The first video of the J.T. Petty's Western thriller has provided horror movie fans with an encounter with the gruesome species.
Lionsgate Film have presented a brand new clip from "The Burrowers". Reeling in a first look into the horror film, the clip lets out how a man is being attack at night by an acid spitting monster. Though the footage doesn't really display the monster, it can be seen that it paralyzed its victim first before dragging him along.
Set in Dakota territories in 1879, "Burrowers" tells the story of a group of men becoming a prey of something more than human. When a family is brutally abducted at night, an Irish immigrant, a naive teenager, an ex-slave and a pair of aging Indian-fighters are gathered together to form a rescue team. Expecting to encounter great dangers of the Old West, they are faced with an even more terrifying situation as a gruesome species is stalking their every move.
Directed and written by J.T. Petty, the horror thriller will be making its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival sometime next week before celebrating its U.S. premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin on September 21. Set to be premiered on DVD in April 2009, it will also be screened at Screamfest in October. The movie stars William Mapother, Clancy Brown, Sean Patrick Thomas, Laura Leighton, Alexander Skarsgard and others.
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March Snow Total Tops That Of A Typical January
The calendar says spring, but Mother Nature says otherwise with snow storms hitting central Ohio late Sunday into Monday morning.
March in Ohio can mean temperatures in the 70s and 80s like in 2012, or excessive rain and flooding like Marion County had in 2011.
This last blast of winter brings Columbus' snow total for March to more than 11 inches.
That number tops what is seen in a typical January--traditionally the snowiest month in Columbus.
The 11 inches of snow this month is more than double what Columbus usually gets in March.
The city has seen more than 40 inches of snow this season -- triple what it got last year, but still not as much as Columbus had in winter of 2009-2010 — our second snowiest winter on record.
In February of that winter, Columbus saw two separate days with more than 9 inches of snow and more than 30 inches the entire month.
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