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It sounds like one of those transfer stories that is too far fetched to be true, but widespread reports suggest Manchester United have made a move to sign Liverpool's Raheem Sterling.
Even though no player has been transferred directly between the two clubs since the transfer of Phil Chisnall from United to Liverpool in 1964, several newspaper reports have suggested that Louis van Gaal's side have expressed their interest in signing Sterling this summer.
The 20-year-old Liverpool winger is expected to ask to leave Anfield this summer after he turned down a new £100,000-a-week contract offer, with Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal all being linked with a move for the England star.
Sterling was booed by some Liverpool fans as he collected the club's Young Player of the Year award on Tuesday night, with the winger's position at the club set to be resolved in the coming days when his advisers meet Anfield officials.
The notion that he could end up at United may seem fanciful, with these kind of stories often emerging during a contract wrangle between a high profile player and his club. Might this transfer rumours be a leak from Sterling's camp to stir the pot a little more? Who knows.
If Liverpool do decide to cash in on Sterling this summer, it seems highly unlikely that they would sell one of their best players to local foes United.
Yet in a summer when the Premier League giants are expected to spend more money than ever before in the bid to bridge the gap on new champions Chelsea, maybe anything is possible.
This is what Liverpool great Jamie Carragher had to say about Sterling's contract wrangle earlier this week:


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Many people suspected that this would be the last console generation and that players would ditch consoles in favor of cheaper PC and mobile games. Three years in, that hardly seems likely.
In fact, they're selling well and now there are even more consoles! The Xbox One S released last month added some welcome, future-ready upgrades to Microsoft's console while refining the design, and now Sony has announced the PlayStation 4 Pro in return.
While some of the Xbox One S' biggest enhancements pertain to media, the PS4 Pro packs more gaming power and pushes the PS4 library to new heights with 4K resolution – either natively or upscaled, depending on the game. And it'll offer a big boost to virtual reality with the PlayStation VR headset, as well.
Of course, Microsoft has its own Project Scorpio console on deck for 2017, so we're sure to see a tit-for-tat battle for some time to come. But if you're eyeing an upgraded console this holiday season, here are your options – and our early recommendation on the one to get.
Power: Go Pro
While not a significant improvement over the original Xbox One, the S model adds a little extra GPU and CPU power for developers to work with. The power is primarily used to enable high dynamic range (HDR) lighting for wider contrast and perhaps help upscale the 1080p graphics into 4K for compatible TVs.
However, that little bit of added juice can also be used to smooth out the frame rate and maybe even lightly enhance the graphics. The Gears of War 4 developers at The Coalition admitted as much to Polygon back at E3. In practice, games upscaled to 4K can be a little hit or miss on the Xbox One S, but something like Rise of the Tomb Raider looks spectacular right out of the box.
Based on what we saw at Sony's event and the specs, the PlayStation 4 Pro's new GPU is significantly more powerful than the one in the standard PS4 model. From what we saw and played, some games will run natively in 4K while others will use a unique upscaling technique called "2160p checkerboard," but in any case, everything looked pretty fabulous.
From the looks of it, that should make multiplatform games on the Xbox One S and PlayStation 4 Pro run smoother and crisper on Sony's upgraded console, although we'll have to wait for the side-by-side comparison to be 100% sure. For now, Sony's got the nod here.
Winner: PlayStation 4 Pro
Design: The "S" is for Sexy
Let's be honest: neither the Xbox One or PlayStation 4 is the most appealing-looking console, but we'll take the thin PS4 slab over the massive original Xbox One any day of the week.
When it comes to the powered-up revisions, however, we have to change course. The Xbox One S is a sleek and attractive little guy, trimming 40% of physical size out while switching to white and adding some nice visual flourishes all the while. It's the console we wish we had under our TV three years ago, but hey, we'll happily take it now.
By contrast, the PS4 Pro is more akin to the original Xbox One: it's added extra bulk to the initial PS4 design, making it a hulking beast of a console. What's inside matters the most, of course, and looks won't matter in the bottom line – but the Xbox One S is easily the more stylish of the pair now. What a turnaround from 2013!
Winner: Xbox One S
Media: Blu's the news
With both the Xbox One S and the upcoming PlayStation 4 Pro, you can fling streaming 4K media on your 4K TV, with Netflix offering things like Breaking Bad and the incoming Marvel's Luke Cage in Ultra HD resolution. Netflix plans to have 600 hours of 4K content up by year's end, so that tally will only surge in time - as will the number of providers doing 4K streaming.
However, there's one huge difference here: the Xbox One S has a 4K Blu-ray drive inside, while the PlayStation 4 Pro doesn't. It's very surprising, given Sony's allegiances to the Blu-ray brand, but it probably came down to cost as they've packed in a more powerful (and surely pricier) processor for gaming.
The Xbox One S is by far the best value for a 4K Blu-ray player today, and if you're craving the highest-end experience for 4K movies, the discs are better than streams. In other words, if you plan on watching in 4K more than playing in it, the Xbox One S is your object of desire.
Winner: Xbox One S
Games: Pick your exclusives
Both the Xbox One S and PlayStation 4 Pro – and Xbox One and PS4, for that matter – will play host to a wealth of multiplatform games this holiday season, ranging from Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and Battlefield 1 to FIFA 17 and Final Fantasy XV. However, it's really the exclusives that set these consoles apart.
So far this generation, the PlayStation 4 has proven to be the more consistently intriguing option for one-of-a-kind games you can't play on another console and that looks true ahead as well. In the months ahead, we'll have The Last Guardian and RIGS: Mechanized Combat League, while recent months have given us Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Ratchet & Clank, and No Man's Sky.
On the Xbox front, Gears of War 4 and Forza Horizon 3 are big guns this holiday season, while the year has already given us Quantum Break, Inside (which has since come to PS4 too), and some lesser exclusive fare.
There are compelling exclusives on both consoles, but if you had to pick one, we see a broader array of titles on PS4 and unbeatable experiences from Sony – and that doesn't even take into consideration the games potentially looking better on the PS4 Pro, too.
Winner: PlayStation 4 Pro
The VR Edge: Obvious, really
Admittedly, this is a giveaway category for now, because Microsoft hasn't announced any VR plans. Rumours suggest that we might see Oculus Rift support for an Xbox console, perhaps next year's Project Scorpio, but it's unclear whether the Xbox One S could reasonably power the headset when it requires a high-end gaming PC right now.
On the other hand, Sony has the PlayStation VR headset coming out next month – and while it should run fine with a standard PS4, it'll see a big boost from the PlayStation 4 Pro's advanced GPU. That should improve and stabilize frame rates, as well as pack in more detail. And in any case, the Pro + PlayStation VR will still be about half the price of a gaming PC with a Rift or HTC Vive.
Winner: PlayStation 4 Pro
Upgrade Appeal: Sorry, One S
If you already have an Xbox One and you're not insistent on being on the constant cutting edge of technology, then you probably don't need to buy the Xbox One S. It looks nice and the 4K media boost is fantastic, but for gaming, the upgrade isn't dramatic.
With the PlayStation 4 Pro, we're likely to see a bigger upgrade in graphics quality. That's especially true if you have a 4K set, but as Sony pointed out, the added GPU power will also bring enhancements on a 1080p TV for anyone upgrading console before display.
It feels like a much bigger upgrade when it comes to gaming, and it's enough that we imagine a lot of die-hard PS4 fans will make the upgrade. When it comes to the difference between each console and its predecessor, the PS4 Pro seems like it has a lot more to offer upgraders.
Winner: PlayStation 4 Pro
Initial verdict
Really, that last point just about sums it up. When it comes to games, the PlayStation 4 Pro seems like the bigger leap ahead than the Xbox One S, which seems more focused on enhancing its media offerings for the 4K and HDR generation.
Next year's Xbox Project Scorpio could leapfrog the PlayStation 4 Pro, putting Sony at a disadvantage at that point – but for now, Sony's box seems like the new console of choice for TV players who want the best. We'll know for sure when we get the box in November, but between enhanced graphics and VR support, it just seems to have a lot more to offer.
On the other hand, if you're excited about 4K media as much as crisper games, then the 4K Blu-ray player of the Xbox One S can't be ignored.

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I couldn't come up with any great way to tie some of my random thoughts from this week together, so bear with my bullet point list here. And maybe one of you writer-types will know how to organize this into something more cohesive!
- First, some advice: Unless you're being referred to me by someone I know, whether it's an author, editor, colleague or friend, you are not a referral. And saying you've been referred when in fact you haven't is worse than not having a referral. We read everything that comes in, and it's obvious quickly when someone is playing games. So don't!
- Am I the only one who gets super tense when my schedule is thrown off? It's strange, because while I thrive on change (one of the reasons I love my job is that each day is different), I do not like to deviate once something is planned. I had to change some travel dates today, and boy was that stressful. But now that I'm all set again, I'm totally relieved. I guess what I really don't like is the unknown–the part where I know that one plan is off but I'm not sure what the replacement plan is. As writers, do you like to have plans? Do you plan your writing, both content and schedule, in advance? Does it stress you out when those plans are thrown off?
- The London Book Fair was this week, and the Bologna Book Fair was just a couple of weeks ago, and I keep calling and emailing people who are off gallivanting across Europe. I have to say, I'm eager for everyone to be back next week! But from various reports, it sounds like both fairs went very well (you can read about them here and here), and I'm glad to hear that people are generally more upbeat than in the past couple of years.
- Is anyone else reading Bossypants by Tina Fey? I've been sneaking chapters right before bed most nights, because a good laugh is the perfect way to end the day. As with all things Fey, I recommend it highly!
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Novelty and sensation seeking have been associated with elevated drug intake in human and animal studies, suggesting overlap in the circuitry mediating these behaviors. In this study, we found that C57Bl/6J mice readily acquired operant responding for dynamic visual stimuli, a phenomenon we term operant sensation seeking (OSS). Like operant studies using other reinforcers, mice responded on fixed and progressive ratio schedules, were resistant to extinction, and had sustained responding with extended access. We also found that OSS, like psychostimulant self-administration, is sensitive to disruption of dopamine signaling. Low doses of the dopamine antagonist cis-flupenthixol increased active lever responding, an effect reported for psychostimulant self-administration. Additionally, D1-deficient mice failed to acquire OSS, although they readily acquired lever pressing for food. Finally, we found that one common measure of novelty seeking, locomotor activity in a novel open field, did not predict OSS performance. OSS may have predictive validity for screening compounds for use in the treatment of drug addiction. In addition, we also discuss the potential relevance of this animal model to the field of behavioral addictions.
Novelty and sensation seeking have been associated with elevated drug intake in humans (Zuckerman, 1986; Cloninger, 1987), and reactivity to inescapable novelty is associated with increased sensitivity to the reinforcing effects of psychostimulants in rodents, (Piazza et al, 1989). These associations suggest an overlap in the neural substrates that encode the reinforcing values of both of these constructs. Consistent with this notion, novelty and predictable visual stimuli have been shown to serve as reinforcers in rat models, such as place preference (Bardo et al, 1989) and operant behavior (Stewart, 1960; Caggiula et al, 2001; Cain et al, 2006). Like natural (ie, food and sexual cues) and pharmacological (ie, drugs of abuse) reinforcers (for review, see Di Chiara et al, 2004), novel stimuli can also increase mesolimbic dopamine (DA) levels (Rebec et al, 1997). Interestingly, drugs of abuse increase DA levels specifically in the shell subregion (Pontieri et al, 1995; Di Chiara et al, 2004), whereas the natural reinforcers, such as food and sexual cues (Mitchell and Gratton, 1992), only increase DA within the core. Like drugs of abuse, novel stimuli have been shown to elevate DA specifically in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) shell, and not the core (Rebec et al, 1997). Novel food has been shown to increase NAc shell DA levels, but this effect disappears when the food becomes familiar (Bassareo et al, 2002). Disruption of DA signaling also differentially affects reinforcer types. For example, lesion of NAc dopaminergic afferents does not affect self-administration of morphine or food (Dworkin et al, 1988; Caine and Koob, 1994b), but does disrupt self-administration of cocaine (Caine and Koob, 1994b) and novelty place preference (Pierce et al, 1990). Likewise, D1 receptor-deficient mice fail to self-administer cocaine, but continue to self-administer food and opiates (Caine et al, 2007).
Operant models are powerful in assessing the reinforcing values of a variety of reinforcers and have a high degree of construct and face validity for the study of addiction (O'Brien and Gardner, 2005). To characterize the reinforcing effects of novelty/sensation seeking in an operant model, we tested the ability of varied visual stimuli to support operant responding in C57Bl/6J mice. We found that these mice will 'self-administer' varied visual cues without prior training, a task we refer to as operant sensation seeking (OSS). We further characterized OSS using a higher schedule of reinforcement and tested resistance to extinction as well as sensitivity to DA signaling. Like cocaine and heroin self-administration, OSS is sustained with extended sessions, and sensation seeking continues under extinction conditions (de Wit and Stewart, 1981, 1983; Ahmed and Koob, 1998; Ahmed et al, 2000). Our results suggest that dynamic stimuli are reinforcing to mice, and encoding of this type of reinforcement may be similar to drug reinforcement as opposed to that of other natural or nondrug reinforcers.
Male C57Bl/6J mice were obtained from Jackson Laboratories (Bar Harbor, ME, USA) at 3 weeks of age. DA D1 receptor (drd1a)-deficient mice were bred in house from heterozygous matings of animals backcrossed onto C57Bl/6J background >14 generations, and genotypes were determined as described previously (Stanwood et al, 2005). Mice were housed 2–5 per cage in a temperature and humidity-controlled environment (lights on 0600–1800 h). Mouse cages (30l×16w×14d cm) contained corn cob bedding supplemented with a small amount of cellulose bedding (Carefresh). Food and water were available ad libitum unless noted. Mice were handled for 3 days before the beginning of experiments. All procedures were approved by the Animal Care and Use Committee at Vanderbilt University.
Before OSS, mice were tested for open field locomotor activity in a novel environment as described previously (Olsen and Winder, 2006). Mice were tested in a 1-h session using automated experimental chambers (27.9×27.9 cm; MED-OFA-510; MED Associates, St Albans, VT) under constant illumination within a sound-attenuated room. Analysis of open field activity was performed using activity monitor v5.10 (MED Associates).
Operant training chambers are as described by Olsen and Winder(2006), with levers mounted 2.2 cm above the grid floor and cue lamps (yellow LEDs) mounted 2 cm above them. At the beginning of each session, the house light and exhaust fan were turned on. In the OSS group, a compound visual/auditory stimulus was presented after completion of the required ratio (detailed below), whereas presses on the inactive lever were counted but had no programed consequence. The compound stimulus was a presentation of flashing cue lights (random duration of 2, 4, 6, or 8 s; random flash rate of 0.625, 1.25, 2.5, or 5Hz), with each flash randomly on the right or left side of the chamber, and the house light was turned off during the visual stimuli. The auditory stimulus was activation of an infusion pump located within the cubicle (no infusion is made). There were no results of pressing either lever in control mice, therefore levers are denoted as 'lever 1' or 'lever 2', and were counterbalanced across chambers.
Subjects were tested in 1-h sessions without any prior training or dietary restriction. Active lever assignment (left or right lever) was counterbalanced across animals. Mice received varied visual and auditory stimuli following each active lever press (FR-1), whereas inactive lever presses had no consequence. Initially, eight mice were tested for OSS (Figure 1a). Fifteen additional mice were tested in a replicate study (Figure 1b–d), this time with the inclusion of a control group (C mice) that received no consequence of lever pressing (eight OSS and seven C mice). As the goal of this experiment was to characterize OSS, no exclusion criteria were set.
A separate cohort of 16 mice tested on a PR schedule of reinforcement. This experiment consisted of three phases: (1) FR-1 OSS, (2) PR OSS, and (3) extinction. After 14 days of FR-1 OSS, mice responded for stimuli on a PR in five daily 2-h sessions. Mice that did not meet acquisition criteria for FR-1 OSS (mean ≥60% lever accuracy and ≥20 active lever presses during the last five sessions) were removed from the experiment. One mouse was excluded based on this criterion. During PR sessions, the schedule of reinforcement was increased in the following pattern: 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 12, 16, 20, 25, 30, and so on. (Colby et al, 2003; Olsen and Winder, 2006). To facilitate acquisition of PR, only the active lever was available. To control for any nonspecific increase in lever pressing that could occur due to stimulus presentation, control mice received yoked presentations of the stimuli and their lever pressing (there was no consequence of lever pressing in control mice) was measured. During the PR phase, OSS mice continued to receive visual stimuli as a reinforcer, whereas C mice received yoked stimuli. Lever responses by C mice remained without consequence.
Following the PR phase, mice were tested for extinction in hourly sessions separated by a 5-min period (levers were retracted, and the fan and house light were extinguished). During extinction, OSS mice received presentation of the pump sound in response to active lever pressing and there was no result of lever pressing in control mice. Extinction was performed 3–4 days following PR experiments. Extinction continued until a criterion of ≤20 active lever presses for 2 consecutive hours was met or the maximum eight sessions had been completed (these mice received a value of eight trials to extinction).
A separate cohort of 16 mice was used to determine the effects of DA antagonism on FR-1 OSS. Mice first underwent 14 sessions, then half of the mice were assigned to the OSS group (FR-1 OSS as described) and half of the mice were in the control group (no consequence of pressing either lever). All mice were habituated to the injection procedure (10 ml/kg s.c. 30 min before the beginning of the session) during the last three sessions. Two mice were removed due to not meeting acquisition criteria (see Experiment 2). A final session was performed 30 min after saline injection for 'baseline' active lever pressing values in OSS and C mice. cis-(Z)-flupenthixol (Sigma, St Louis, MO, USA) was dissolved in saline and given at doses of 0.01, 0.03, 0.09, 0.15, and 0.21 mg/kg (10 ml/kg s.c., 30 min beore) across sessions. Mice received each dose 48 h apart using a within-subjects Latin square design, with nondrug (saline injection) OSS sessions run in between doses.
Nineteen DA D1 receptor (drd1a) null and wild-type (WT) littermate mice underwent 14 FR-1 OSS sessions as described. To characterize performance of all of these mice in OSS, no exclusion criteria were set. To determine whether D1 null mice are capable of acquire FR-1 operant behavior using another reinforcer, a separate cohort of nine D1 null and WT mice were allowed to lever press for food. Mice were food restricted (food available ~6 h/day) and trained to lever press for food as described (Schramm-Sapyta et al, 2006). Briefly, mice were trained to self-administer 25% vanilla Ensure on an FR-1 schedule in daily sessions. A session ended when a subject obtained 50 reinforcers or after 1 h.
A separate cohort of 23 mice was tested for the effects of extended access on OSS. All mice had an initial 10 days of 1-h FR-1 OSS sessions. Four mice did not meet acquisition criteria (mean ≥60% lever accuracy and ≥20 active lever presses during last two sessions) and were removed from the study. Following the 10 sessions, mice were divided into two groups counterbalanced by the number of active lever presses on day 10: a 1-h access group (n=9 mice) and a 6-h access group (n=10 mice). Ten more sessions were run, and then extinction sessions were performed as described 7–9 days following the last OSS session.
OSS data were analyzed by multivariate repeated measures ANOVA (session (repeated), factor B, lever or group where appropriate, factor C, lever or group where appropriate) followed by Fisher's LSD multiple comparisons. An exception to this is in cis-flupenthixol experiments, where the repeated factor was dose and factor B was group. Games–Howell multiple comparisons were performed when variances were significantly heterogeneous (as measured by Levene's F).
Subjects were tested without prior training or dietary restriction on an FR-1 schedule. In response to active lever pressing, mice received varied visual stimuli whereby each reinforcer consisted of flashing of stimulus lamps with random frequencies and durations (see MATERIALS AND METHODS for details). The stimuli supported operant behavior as shown by significantly elevated active lever pressing relative to inactive lever pressing across sessions. There were significant main effects of both lever (F(1,208)=30.4, p<0.0001) and session (F(13,208)=10.5, p<0.0001) as well as an interaction effect (F(13,208)=3.5, p<0.0001) Post hoc tests showed significant differences between levers across several sessions (Figure 1a). We repeated the experiment using separate mice, including a control group, which received no consequence of pressing either lever. Mice receiving visual cues (OSS mice) again acquired operant behavior, whereas controls (C mice) did not (Figure 1b and c). Three-way ANOVA revealed significant effects of group (F(1,390)=17.5, p<0.001), lever (F(1,390)=11.4, p<0.01), and session (repeated factor, F(13,390)=6.4, p<0.0001). All interactions were also significant (p<0.0001). Figure 1d shows the time course of active lever presses by an OSS mouse and lever 1 presses from a control mouse on session 10.
To determine whether the novel stimuli would support PR responding on a more demanding schedule, a cohort of mice was tested on a PR following 14 days of FR-1 responding. In daily 2-h sessions, OSS mice maintained high levels of responding, whereas C mice responded very little (Figure 2a–c). Comparing lever pressing across sessions (Figure 2b), there was a significant main effect of group (F(1,60)=25.5, p<0.001), but not session (F(4,60)=2.0, NS), or interaction (F(4,60)=0.74, NS). Following the 5 days of PR sessions, mice underwent 1-h extinction trials within a single day until reaching criteria or until the maximum number of trials had been reached (Figure 2d). OSS mice responded persistently during extinction trials, taking a mean of 7.4 ± 0.4 sessions to meet extinction criteria, whereas C mice had much lower responding and met criteria in 2.3 ± 0.3 sessions. OSS mice that had gone through extinction sessions following 1- or 6-h FR-1 sessions showed a typical pattern of extinction responding that gradually declined over six sessions (Figure 4d).
A separate cohort of mice was tested for OSS following pretreatment with the DA receptor antagonist cis-flupenthixol. OSS and control mice first had 14 1-h sessions as described (there was never any consequence of lever pressing in control mice), then were tested following pretreatment with varying doses of cis-flupenthixol in a Latin square design. As baseline responding was different between groups (OSS: 90.0±25.3; control: 15.5±6.2), responses were analyzed as %baseline responding. There was not a significant main effect of group (F(1,70)=1.87), although there was a main effect of dose (F(5,70)=12.0, p<0.0001), and a significant group × dose interaction (F(5,70)=3.30, p=0.01). Specifically, low doses of flupenthixol increased active lever pressing in OSS mice (Figure 3a), an effect reported for self-administration of cocaine (Caine and Koob, 1994a; Ahmed and Koob, 2004) and intracranial self-stimulation (ICSS; when using parameters that mimic the kinetics of drug infusions; Lepore and Franklin, 1992). These effects have been interpreted to indicate that DA receptor blockade attenuates the reinforcing efficacy of cocaine and ICSS (Lepore and Franklin, 1992; Caine and Koob, 1994a). DA antagonism does not have this effect on opiate self-administration (Ettenberg et al, 1982), but low doses of opiate antagonist do, consistent with the idea that responding increases to compensate for decreased reinforcing efficacy of the drug (Goldberg et al, 1971; Weeks and Collins, 1976; Ettenberg et al, 1982). Next, D1 null mutant mice were allowed to perform OSS in 14 daily FR-1 sessions. Analysis of active lever pressing revealed significant main effects of genotype (F(1,247)=12.9, p<0.01) and session (F(13,247)=11.2, p<0.0001) and a significant interaction (F(13,247)=5.65, p<0.0001). Analysis of lever accuracy also showed significant effects of genotype (F(1,247)=7.77, p<0.05), session (F(13,247)=3.50, p<0.0001), but not interaction (F(13,247)=1.16, NS). Compared with WT littermates, D1 null mice did not increase active lever responding (Figure 3b), nor did they show a preference for the active lever (Figure 3c), consistent with earlier reports of D1 null mice being insensitive to novelty (Holmes et al, 2004). D1 null mice had similar inactive lever presses as WT littermates did during sessions 11–14 (D1 null: 57.8±20.6, WT: 37.4±9.5, NS), suggesting that lever pressing is not impaired. Additionally, D1 null mice acquired lever pressing for food (Figure 3d) as reported previously (Caine et al, 2007).
An interesting aspect of the varied stimuli reinforcers used in this study is that there should not be a cumulative effect of the reinforcer itself, ie, there is no drug level that the animal is trying to maintain nor is there a satiety signal following sufficient food consumption. This would suggest that like intracranial self-stimulation studies, levels of responding may be maintained for very long periods of time (Schaefer and Michael, 1992). In fact, sustained responding during extended sessions would indicate that this type of reinforcer would be highly efficacious. A hallmark of drugs of abuse in self-administration studies is that total drug intake increases, and the first hour responding escalates with extended access (Ahmed and Koob, 1998; Roberts et al, 2007). Following OSS acquisition, 10 of the mice were allowed extended access to OSS to determine whether this would (1) increase active lever responding, (2) lead to response escalation during the first hour, or (3) make the mice more resistant to extinction. Analysis of active lever presses revealed a significant effect of session length (F(1,171)=8.18, p=0.01), but no effect of session (F(9,171)=1.12, NS) or interaction (F(9,171)=1.12, NS). When given long access sessions (6 h), mice responded on the active lever significantly more than the mice given short-term access (1 h) during several of the sessions (Figure 3a). This resulted in responding at a mean rate of 93.5±6.2 presses per hour for mice in the extended access group compared to 82.9±2.9 presses per hour for mice in the short access group (t(12)=1.56, NS). First hour responding was not significantly different between 1- and 6-h access mice, as indicated by a lack of effect of session length (F(1,152)=1.97), session (F(8,152)=0.79), or interaction (F(8,152)=0.98; Figure 3b). The majority of the variance in first hour responding of extended access mice was due to two mice, which responded much more than the group mean (Figure 4c). Comparison of active lever presses during extinction sessions (7–9 days following the last operant session) revealed no significant effect of session length (F(1,95)=0.27, NS), but there were significant effects of session (F(5,95)=9.90, p<0.0001) and interaction (F(5,95)=2.52, p<0.05). Post hoc tests revealed that extended access mice responded significantly more during the first hour than short access mice (Figure 4d).
As 'novelty seeking' as measured by locomotor response in a novel open field correlates with operant drug intake (Piazza et al, 1989; Cain et al, 2005; Davis et al, 2008), we investigated the same 'novelty seeking' parameters in relation to OSS. Novel open field locomotor data from 38 of the mice in this study were plotted against operant responses following acquisition (mean active lever presses of sessions 9 and 10). Total distance traveled did not correlate with active lever pressing (r2=4.3×10−6, Supplementary Figure S2A), and mice grouped as 'high' or 'low' responders by median split of distance traveled had no difference in active lever pressing (p=0.79, individuals shown in Supplementary Figure S2B).
Static visual and auditory stimuli have been shown to support operant behavior in rats and mice, with more complex stimuli eliciting greater response (Marx et al, 1955; Stewart, 1960; Baron and Kish, 1962; Cain et al, 2006) First, we found that a reinforcer without pharmacological effect (such as a drug of abuse) or endogenous motivational drive (such as food or water) supports operant responding, even on a high response requirement (progressive ratio) or after extended access. This expands on earlier studies, which have focused on responding under fixed ratio or fixed interval reinforcement schedules in sessions typically lasting 1 h or less (Stewart, 1960; Barnes and Baron, 1961; Donny et al, 2003; Cain et al, 2006). Although PR responding for audio and visual stimuli has been reported, this has been performed when investigating the stimuli as conditioned reinforces, not with the stimuli as reinforcers themselves. Specifically, the stimuli had been paired with nicotine or sucrose administration, and controls still received sucrose solution within the testing chamber under conditions of hunger (although unpaired to the cues, they were presented in the same context as the stimuli) (Caggiula et al, 2001; Chaudhri et al, 2006). Additionally, animals in these studies that did not have a history of explicit pairing of the stimuli with sucrose decreased PR responding over subsequent sessions. This lack of PR responding may be due to the consistent nature of the stimuli, as opposed to the dynamic nature of OSS stimuli, or it could be a species difference (rats vs mice). Indeed, in rats that were in social housing conditions, varied visual stimuli did not lead to operant responding (Cain et al, 2006), consistent with the idea that there could be differences in the reinforcing effects of visual and auditory stimuli between rats and mice.
Several of our results show similarities of this reinforcer with psychostimulants, including resistance to extinction, sensitivity to disruptions in DA signaling, and maintained responding with extended access. Although extinction has been examined in regards to operant responding for sensory stimuli, this has been performed in limited duration sessions (Stewart, 1960; Baron and Kish, 1962). The present data suggest that resistance to extinction is seen following responding on both PR and FR-1 schedules of reinforcement in repeated within-day sessions. Next, we found that both pharmacological and genetic disruption of DA signaling altered OSS. Low doses of the DA antagonist cis-flupenthixol increased responding for OSS stimuli, an effect that has been previously shown for self-administration of cocaine (Ettenberg et al, 1982; Ahmed and Koob, 2004), but not seen heroin (Ettenberg et al, 1982). Mice lacking the D1 DA receptor also failed to acquire operant responding for OSS stimuli, although they acquire operant behavior when food or opiate is the reinforcer (Caine et al, 2007). To our knowledge, this is the first report of interruption of DA signaling affecting the reinforcing effects of sensory stimuli. Next, we compared OSS in mice that were allowed extended access compared to continued short access sessions following acquisition. Earlier studies using sensory stimuli as a reinforcer have focused on relatively short sessions, typically 1 h or less (Stewart, 1960; Barnes and Baron, 1961; Donny et al, 2003; Cain et al, 2006). Extended access leads to escalated intake of cocaine, amphetamine, and heroin when measured by increased total and hourly intake (Ahmed and Koob, 1998; Ahmed et al, 2000; Kitamura et al, 2006; Rogers et al, 2008). Compared to mice with short access OSS, mice with extended access had elevated total session responding and maintained hourly rates of responding similar to short access mice. However, neither group showed escalated responding compared to their previous performance and extended access mice did not have significantly increased first hour responding relative to short access mice. Thus, extended access to OSS did not result in significant habituation or escalation. It is unclear why high and consistent response rates were maintained during repeated sessions, but with such extensive exposure, 'novelty seeking' is not likely responsible for this persistent behavior. One explanation for the high response rates, especially during extended sessions, could be that responding has transitioned from action–outcome based to stimulus–response (habit) based, whereby performance is repetitive, but no longer goal directed (Adams and Dickinson, 1981; Everitt and Robbins, 2005; Graybiel, 2008). The high levels of extinction responding following OSS suggest this as a possible explanation, although additional experiments including devaluation of OSS stimuli are necessary to properly test this hypothesis. Other explanations for persistent OSS may lie in the lack of food availability during sessions. Concurrent choice experiments show the ability of competing rewards (including chow on the floor of the testing chamber) to decrease responding for other reinforcers (Cousins et al, 1994; Lenoir et al, 2007). It is also possible that extended sessions in the absence of food increases stress and/or hunger, and both of these states have been shown to increase operant responding (Lu et al, 2003). Despite the maintenance of responding throughout extended sessions, escalation was not observed. Although escalation of intake is a characteristic of extended access to psychostimulants and opiates, neuroadaptations that are thought to contribute to addiction are still observed in conditions that do not produce escalation (ie, 1–2 h drug self-administration sessions). For example, depression in basal NAc glutamate levels (McFarland et al, 2003), altered spine density and morphology in the cortex and NAc (Robinson et al, 2001), and disrupted synaptic plasticity within the ventral tegmental area and NAc (Martin et al, 2006; Chen et al, 2008), all occur following short access drug self-administration sessions. Although OSS mice did not show escalation, this does not preclude the possibility that long-lasting alterations in motivational circuitry could also accompany 'self-administration' of this nondrug reinforcer. Therefore, we suggest that the use of OSS in mice may be an invaluable tool in the study of the behavioral genetics underlying motivational and addiction-related processes.
In this study, we showed that C57Bl/6J mice will readily learn an operant response for varied visual stimulation. We found that a reinforcer without pharmacological effect (such as a drug of abuse) or endogenous motivational drive (such as food or water) supports operant responding, even on a high response requirement (progressive ratio). In rats, novelty has been shown to be reinforcing using place conditioning (Bardo et al, 1989; Besheer et al, 1999), and static visual stimuli support operant behavior on fixed ratios of reinforcement (Marx et al, 1955; Stewart, 1960; Baron and Kish, 1962). In primates, operant responses will be maintained for visual stimuli (Butler, 1961), and responding increases as they become more dynamic (Blatter and Schultz, 2006). Dynamic visual stimuli have also been shown to support operant behavior in rats, but there is a significant effect on rearing conditions (Cain et al, 2006). As environmental enrichment has been shown to increase habituation to novel stimuli (Zimmermann et al, 2001), it may be expected that increasing housing enrichment may attenuate OSS. Consistent with this, rats that were reared in an isolated environment acquired operant responding for dynamic visual stimuli, whereas those reared in socially and environmentally enriched housing did not (Cain et al, 2006). In this study, mice were not environmentally enriched (no novel or complex objects were included in housing), but were socially housed (2–5 mice per cage). An interesting question that remains is whether isolation will increase or further environmental enrichment will decrease OSS responding in mice. We found that fixed ratio responding (lever presses and accuracy) is comparable to levels we have reported previously for cocaine (Grueter et al, 2006) in this strain, and responding for varied visual stimuli is maintained on the same PR schedule that supports cocaine self-administration in mice (Colby et al, 2003; Olsen and Winder, 2006). Cis-flupenthixol has been shown to induce rightward shifts in the dose–response curve of FR-1 self-administered cocaine, resulting in an increase in responding with low antagonist doses and a depression of responding with high doses (Ahmed and Koob, 2004). This trend was observed in this study using OSS, suggesting that the visual stimuli are not near a reinforcement threshold; rather, there is a measurable decrease in reinforcing efficacy (resulting in higher lever pressing) before it becomes subthreshold. This idea is supported by performance on the PR schedule of reinforcement.
It is difficult to directly compare novelty/sensation seeking between humans and rodents. A key aspect of novelty or sensation seeking between both species, however, is that there is a theoretical spectrum of stimuli, where low- and high-intensity stimuli elicit an avoidance response (ie, boredom and fear, respectively), and optimal stimuli elicit approach behavior (ie, approach or engaging in an activity; for example, see Hughes(2007). Although the mice in the OSS task are not pursuing the same stimuli as humans, the OSS stimuli elicit approach and are reinforcing as evidenced by acquisition and maintenance of an operant response.
There has been a recent trend toward considering behavioral addictions (such as pathological gambling or compulsive eating) to be highly similar to substance abuse and dependence (Wang et al, 2004; Volkow and Wise, 2005; Grant et al, 2006). Behavioral addictions fit the classical definition of addiction that includes engaging in the behavior despite serious negative consequences (Holden, 2001; Hyman et al, 2006), and manifest in similar psychological and behavioral patterns, including craving, impaired control over the behavior, tolerance, withdrawal, and high relapse rates (Marks, 1990; Lejoyeux et al, 2000; National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) et al, 2002; Potenza, 2006). These patterns suggest that neuroadaptations similar to those induced by drugs of abuse may be occurring, even in the absence of a pharmacological reinforcer. The present data also provide evidence that addictions involving nondrug reinforcers may have similar neural underpinnings as drug addiction. As OSS does not use a pharmacological reinforcer and leads to both reinforced behavior and seeking, it could have high face validity for the study of behavioral addictions. OSS is not designed to model behavioral addictions per se, but it results in motivated and persistent behavior, which is not driven by a pharmacological or food reinforcer. Thus, OSS may be a novel early step in identifying substrates specific to behavioral addictions in humans.
The trait of novelty or sensation seeking has been associated with increased drug use in numerous human populations (Zuckerman, 1986; Cloninger, 1987; Jaffe and Archer, 1987). Rodent models of novelty seeking have also revealed a similar trend, as novelty seeking correlates with the degree of drug reinforcement in individuals (Piazza et al, 1989; Klebaur and Bardo, 1999). There are also other indications that the reinforcing effects of novelty are mediated by some of the same neural substrates as drugs of abuse. Exposure to a novel environment has additive effects with cocaine on locomotor activation, and immediate early gene expression (Badiani et al, 1998) and visual stimuli (similar to those used in this study, but static) are synergistic with nicotine in operant reinforcement (Caggiula et al, 2001). Further, exposure to novel stimuli can compete with the reinforcing effects of psychostimulants in self-administration and conditioned place preference (Bardo et al, 2001; Reichel and Bevins, 2008). We found that pharmacological and genetic disruption of DA signaling was capable of altering the reinforcing value of dynamic stimuli, suggesting that the neural substrates may be more similar to psychostimulants than food. It is unlikely that DA disruption had a nonspecific effects on operant responding (except at high doses of antagonist), as DA is not critical for acquisition of an operant task, especially when task requirements are low (Holmes et al, 2004; Salamone, 2007). Additionally, inactive lever pressing on session 1 was comparable between D1 null and WT mice (15.0±4.9 and 16.7±4.5, respectively), suggesting that lever pressing was not impaired in these mice. This study lends further support to the idea that novelty/sensation seeking is closely related to drug seeking and that OSS can be used to study processes relevant to drug and other addictions.
We also found that mice were resistant to extinction, as they exhibited high levels of 'seeking' behavior during extinction sessions (Figure 2d and Figure 4d). At first glance, it may be tempting to consider the high first hour extinction responding in long access mice relative to short access ones as the 'incubation' effects on seeking as reported for cocaine (Grimm et al, 2001). A comparison of first hour responding of these same mice during extended access to the reinforcer, however, reveals that first hour extinction values are not significantly different than the last operant session before extinction. Interestingly, short access mice had significantly lower responding in the first hour of extinction relative to their last operant session (p<0.01). Nonetheless, mice with either short or long access experience still had greater extinction responding than control mice. In fact, mice in this study showed levels of 'seeking' (extinction responding) similar to or greater than other studies following cocaine (Fuchs et al, 2003; Mead et al, 2007) or methamphetamine (Yan et al, 2006) self-administration in C57 mice. This behavioral persistence is a hallmark of animals following drug self-administration and provides further evidence that this method may have predictive validity for screening treatments for drugs of abuse (ie, can treatment reduce the reinforcing effects of novelty or subsequent seeking behavior?).
We thank Gregg Stanwood, PhD for providing breeding pairs of D1-deficient mice. This work was supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (DGW; DA19112) and by the National Institute of Mental Health via a Neurogenomics Training Grant (CMO).
Christopher Olsen and Danny Winder have no conflicts of interest.
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Finding a graduate career in the UK
Learn all about life after graduation for international students in the UK
Learn all about life after graduation for international students in the UK
Armed with your fresh qualification, you're finally ready to leave student life behind and take on 'the real world'. But whilst life in the UK can be exhilarating and exciting, finding a job amidst the bustle can seem intimidating at best. EU students will not need a visa to study or work in the UK, but there are still plenty of opportunities for non-EU international students to remain in the country to work. Let our guide to your post-study options as an international student in the UK help make things a bit clearer.
Named the fastest growing economy in Western Europe, job prospects in the UK are probably one of the brightest across the continent. The market for graduate jobs in the UK is at its strongest since 2007, with the service sector creating jobs at the fastest rate in four months.
At the end of 2013, graduates of Medicine (95%) and Medical-related subjects (93%) showed the highest proportion of employment, followed by Media and Information Studies (93%), Technology (92%), Agricultural Sciences (91%), Architecture (90%), Business and Finance (90%). Interestingly, the a 2013 BBC report named Social Science students as the most likely to gain employment, calling them the most likely to be in managerial or senior roles. 84.2% of Social Science graduates were said to have found employment within three years of completing their studies.
Employment vacancy trends have shown a 94.4% growth in available jobs in the public sector, followed by those in computing (77.1%) and retail (58.4%). Students in fields of IT, Computer Science and Software Engineering also face particularly good prospects: the computer industry is a key national employer, with IT services the leading producer of exports.
The UK's fastest growing sector, the creative industries have also shown substantial advances in the past few years, making up 5.6% of the overall workforce. Film, television and music industries have been key driving forces for the sector, illuminating new opportunities for graduates of Media, Film, Writing and Sound Engineering.
EU students do NOT need a visa to work or study in the UK, and so have the right to remain and pursue employment for as long as they'd like. Students NOT from the EU however will need to apply for a work visa to remain in the UK to work.
You will be able to apply for a work visa if you have either already been offered a professional job whilst still on your student visa, or meet specific investment or skill requirements. There are two general categories of work visas: Tier 1 and Tier 2.
There are a number of subcategories for each visa type depending on your specific circumstances, but most students who have been offered a job before their student visa expires will need to apply for a Tier 2 (General) visa. Students eligible for Tier 1 visas will either need to demonstrate outstanding entrepreneurial qualities, substantial intention to invest in the UK or be endorsed by an accredited body for their exceptional talent in a particular field.
Eligibility requirements for each visa are incredibly specific, each with a separate set of fees, required documents, processing times and allowed duration of stay in the UK. You should check these details thoroughly on the visa section of the Immigration UK website.
The amount of time you'll be able to stay in the UK after your student visa expires will vary depending on your study programme, and will be stipulated when you're first granted your student visa. For example, study programmes of one year or more usually allow students four months to either apply to extend their visa or switch visa categories. Generally speaking though, to remain in the UK to work after you've finished studying you will need to have been offered a job of professional calibre, with a salary of at least £20,500 (US$34,458) before your student visa expires.
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The UK is an incredibly big place with thousands and thousands of job openings across every imaginable sector. It can be intimidating to take on a foreign job market, let alone one so expansive and competitive. Regardless of your nationality, you will have access to the same job searching tools as local students, and should start out by sourcing some information about the current state of affairs in the UK and the state of the particular sector you're looking to enter. This is also a great way to get an idea of some of the key players in your field, and potential paths to your ideal position. You can find a list of links to various industry reports and statistics on the RBA website, as well as an overview of the labour market on the UK National Statistics site.
Looking for a job online is probably your easiest bet. There is a broad range of websites and recruitment services available for job-seekers, most of which are free of charge. You should proceed with caution if you're told you need to pay for a recruitment service: unless you have very specific needs or are very stuck, there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to find a job on your own. You should take a look at Jobsite.co.uk, Monster or TotalJobs for a job search engine in any discipline, or simply search the name of your field and follow on from there. There are also many industry-specific search engines that are likely to crop up, such as Mediargh for Media and Communications graduates, or Just Engineers for students of Engineering.
Some bigger companies will advertise their vacancies directly from their website, so you should be sure to follow all the companies in your field you'd be interested in working for. A great way to do this is via Twitter, or by signing up for a newsletter if they provide one. Some companies will even give you the option to sign up for job alerts when a position that matches your search criteria becomes available. You can also look in newspapers such as The Guardian or The Times for job ads, or consult Job Centre Plus: the national department for work and pensions. The UK Government website also has a thorough list of links to help point you in the right direction.
You host university will always have a careers centre or student services office that at the very least will be able to point you in the right direction in looking for a job. For example, the University of Leeds runs a career centre with a separate set of services for international students that offers application advice, support, and help in approaching employers and lodging complete applications. You can also access information on market trends, search directly for a job and get advice on improving your CV.
You should always make your host university your first port of call in gaining advice and help securing a job. Thousands of international students seek employment in the UK every year and your host will be well versed in the processes you'll need to go through, and how best you should begin your search.
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Monica Karpinski received her BA (Media and Communications) and Diploma in Modern Languages (French) from the University of Melbourne, Australia. An art and culture aficionado, in her spare time Monica enjoys film, reading and writing about art.
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JLL acquires international residential project sales business of leading Malaysian real estate advisor Henry Butcher
SINGAPORE -- (ACN Newswire) -- JLL (NYSE: JLL) has today confirmed the acquisition of the international residential project sales business of Henry Butcher, a leading Malaysian-based real estate advisory firm. The 13-strong team, headed by Jazmine Goh is widely recognised as one of the leaders in sales of overseas residential properties to Malaysian investors.
The Henry Butcher team joins JLL's international residential sales team. Based in London, Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, Sydney and Melbourne, the team provides best-in-class services to developer clients and offers investors access to the highest quality opportunities globally.
Chris Fossick, Head of Southeast Asia at JLL said: "Our decision to strengthen our offering to Malaysian investors reflects the demand that we are seeing in the country. Investors in Malaysia are increasingly looking further afield for investment opportunities and we are able to offer exactly this kind of opportunity in a wide range of markets, from the ever popular and established London market to newer locations such as Tokyo, New York and Sydney."
He continued: "Jazmine and her team were the obvious international residential expert for JLL to team up with in Malaysia. We have already been working in close cooperation with Henry Butcher for several years and are delighted that the team is joining JLL. We pride ourselves in our global connectivity combined with on the ground, local knowledge and expertise and the Henry Butcher team is a great fit with JLL. We are also grateful to Henry Butcher for the many years of cooperation and a very smooth transition."
Jazmine Goh said: "My team and I are excited to be joining JLL, having built a strong and successful relationship with the firm over the past six years, in particular with the team in London. I believe that our combined capability will further enhance the scale and depth of expertise we can offer to our clients. Joining JLL means that we will be able to provide our clients with access to more global investment locations, as well as provide them with market leading intelligence. This is the beginning of a wonderful and exciting chapter and we look forward to sharing it with all our clients."
High levels of wealth and savings in Malaysia are driving investor interest in investment in overseas real estate, both in the residential and commercial sectors. Malaysian investors have long been buyers of Singapore residential property, but as cooling measures in Singapore have taken hold over recent years and opportunities have opened up elsewhere, Malaysian investors have become increasingly interested in assets globally in locations such as the UK, Japan and Australia. JLL expects this trend to continue, as wealth across Asia continues to increase, and investors become more comfortable investing overseas therefore seeking opportunities outside of their domestic markets.
The Henry Butcher team joins the 17-strong JLL Malaysian business, headed by Country Head YY Lau, and will be moving into to JLL's new offices in the KL Sentral area.
Notes to Editors:
1. JLL established its presence in Malaysia in June 2014 with the acquisition of a leading and highly respected transaction business, YY Property Solutions led by YY Lau. The acquisition formed JLL Property Services (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, specialised in capital markets, consulting, office leasing, industrial and logistics, hotels and hospitality, retail and residential, servicing clients in Malaysia and internationally.
2. Jazmine Goh joined Henry Butcher Malaysia in 2004 and was Director of International Marketing. Jazmine pioneered international residential project marketing in Malaysia, specialising in international properties in Australia, London, Singapore and New York.
3. Please contact Lois Avery with requests for interviews with Chris Fossick or Jazmine Goh
About Jones Lang LaSalle
JLL (NYSE:JLL) is a professional services and investment management firm offering specialized real estate services to clients seeking increased value by owning, occupying and investing in real estate. With annual fee revenue of $4 billion and gross revenue of $4.5 billion, JLL has more than 200 corporate offices, operates in 75 countries and has a global workforce of approximately 53,000. On behalf of its clients, the firm provides management and real estate outsourcing services for a property portfolio of 3.0 billion square feet, or 280.0 million square meters, and completed $99.0 billion in sales, acquisitions and finance transactions in 2013. Its investment management business, LaSalle Investment Management, has $53.0 billion of real estate assets under management. JLL is the brand name, and a registered trademark, of Jones Lang LaSalle incorporated. For further information, visit www.jll.com
JLL has over 50 years of experience in Asia Pacific, with over 28,000 employees operating in 80 offices in 16 countries across the region. The firm was named 'Best Property Consultancy' in seven Asia Pacific countries at the International Property Awards Asia Pacific 2014, and won nine Asia Pacific awards in the Euromoney Real Estate Awards 2013. www.jll.com/asiapacific
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New England residents are spoiled by an abundance of fresh seafood, so it's no surprise that some of the best seafood restaurants are located here. The Straight Wharf Restaurant on Nantucket is one such restaurant. Their Smoked Bluefish Pâté served with Melba toast and pickled vegetables is a Straight Wharf signature dish worth traveling to Nantuket for. Luckily for the rest of us, the bluefish in their recipe is smoked, so you don't have to live by the sea to make it at home. Straight Wharf shared their recipe with Food & Wine, and I nabbed it from them, made it, photographed it and ate it. All for you.
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
1/2 medium red onion, minced
4 to 6 dashes of hot sauce
1/4 cup minced chives
1/2 pound skinless, boneless smoked bluefish, flaked (got mine at Whole Foods)
Bagels, toasts or crackers, for serving
In a bowl, blend the cream cheese with the Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, parsley, onion, hot sauce and half the chives. Fold the bluefish into the cream cheese mixture. Sprinkle with remaining chives and serve open faced on a bagel or on Melba toast as they do on Nantucket.


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The nobles of Heian worked to make their city beautiful. They greatly admired Chinese architecture and modeled Heian after the Chinese capital, Chang'an. Basically they copied the Chinese style. The nobles like simple, airy designs. Most buildings were made of wood with titled roofs and large, open spaces inside. To add to the beauty of these buildings, the nobles surrounded them with elegant gardens and ponds. Similar gardens are still popular in Japan.
Performing Arts
The performing arts were also popular in Japan during the Heian period. The roots of later Japanese drama can be traced back to this time. People often gathered to watch performances by musicians, jugglers, and acrobats. These performances were wild and fun. Especially popular were the plays in which actors skillfully mimicked other people. These types of performances later developed into a more serious form of drama called Noh. Created in the 1300s, Noh plays combine music, speaking, and dance. These plays often tell about great heroes or figures from Japan's past.
Modern Day Compared To Ancient Japan
Obviously things in Japan have changed over the years such as Fashion. Nowadays Japan is famous for its amazing street fashion. One of the most popular Japanese fashion styles is known as Cosplay, which is a part of Japanese subculture concentrated at dressing in a similar way as one of your favorite characters from Manga, Anime, Video Games and Fantasy Movies. Just like modern day Fashion the modern day arts and modern day performing art is different. The Japanese began increasing their knowledge of the world through the study of books. Now they are more focused on bands who now perform more than plays are performed. Their art unlike the other ancient customs has not changed.


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Germany's complicit 1-0 victory over Austria saw both teams progress at the expense of the North Africans back in 1982 — leaving fans and neutrals alike outraged.
Algeria's debut in the competition in 1982 almost blossomed into an epic story. Drawn alongside Chile, West Germany and Austria, the nation started its campaign against the Germans, which was in a bullish mood ahead of the match.
"We'll dedicate our seventh goal to our wives, and the eighth to our dogs," one player boasted. Coach Jupp Derwall joked that he would "jump on the first train back to Munich."
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Algeria defender Chaabane Merzekane recalled that one of the West Germany stars claimed he would play the game with a cigar in his mouth. Their hubris would soon be punished.
Despite Karl-Heinz Rummenigge's strike, the Fennec Foxes emerged victorious to become the first African team to beat a European side at the World Cup. They lost their second game 2-0 to Austria but recovered to record a triumph over Chile.
They had four points from their three games (back when it was two points for a win), but their chances of emerging from the group hinged on West Germany failing to beat Austria the next day. Fate intervened.
The Germans came out of the blocks at lightning pace, quickly taking the lead when Horst Hrubesch met a left-wing cross at the near post to guide the ball home. But after that the match assumed a slightly different tone, with the teams settling into easy possession in defense knowing that a 1-0 result would see them both progress.
The universal reaction was one of outrage. By the time the full-time whistle had gone, ARD commentator Eberhard Stajek had refused to continue his work. His Austrian counterpart Robert Seeger told viewers to change the channel.
Locals in the crowd furiously protested as the two teams passed the ball around. Algerians waved money at the players, implying that it was a fix. The Spanish press went as far as dubbing it "El Anschluss" in reference to Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria in the 1930s.
In the wake of the game, Algerian officials lodged a complaint over what had come to pass in Gijon, but the two teams had not broken any rules. FIFA could do nothing. Since then, though, the final round of group stage games in both the European Championship and the World Cup have kicked off at the same time to prevent any more convenient results.
This year ended 32 years of pain for Algeria, though. Islam Slimani's goal against Russia saw it progress from the group for the first time in its history and it is perhaps fitting that it will face Germany in the last 16.
Current Algeria coach Vahid Halilhodzic reflected on the highly controversial match, saying he doesn't have good memories of that game.
"I happened to be in Spain at the time, I was playing for a team," he said. "A very bad memory for me. I saw the victory of Germany, a lot of talented players. Everybody said that Germany vs. Austria topped Algeria, the team got knocked out. But this is history, there are many things that can happen in football, I hope it ends in a different way for us.
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photo credit Nasa / Goddard Space Flight Center / Reto Stöckli The History Of The Skittles Around 1976, skittles were first being sold in Europe. In 1911, Frank and his wife Ethel began making candy out of their kitchen. they named their company Mars. Skittles are now marketed through Wrigley, a secondary to Mars. Skittles started to be imported into the United States for sale in 1979. At that time the U.S. started to manufacture its own skittles. In 1982 the manufactured candy was no longer shipped to the U.S. Then in 1989 more flavors were introduced:Tropical and Wild Berry Orange, Lemon, Lime, Grape, and Strawberry were some of the "original" flavors when skittles first started coming out. Sour Skittles were next to hit the market in 2000 In 2009 they started to manufacture over 2,000,000 indevidual skittles. over 47,00 bags of skittles each day. As a young boy Frank C. Mars made candy with his mom. And that is the history of the skittles!!! <3333Full transcript


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Zaxby's Chicken Fingers Dipping Sauce
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This recipe was posted in the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper. Zaxby's fans have tried to duplicate the restaurant chain's core dipping sauce. This one posted on Recipelink.com. Zaxby's co-founder Tony Townley took a look, saying the recipe was about half-right. Try it to see if you don't think it's almost right! The cooking time is the refrigeration time for this recipe since there is actually no cooking involved.
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I don't even know what Zaxby's is but I do know we loved this sauce. I love that it has easy ingredients which add up to a great little dipping sauce. I'll be using it often. Thanks for posting! Made for PAC Spring 2009.
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- 1⁄2 cup mayonnaise
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- Mix together the mayo, ketchup, and garlic powder, blending well. Add Worcestershire sauce and blend well. Cover the surface of sauce with lots of black pepper until just coated. Blend well. Repeat process covering surface with black pepper and stir until belnded well. Refrigerate for at least two hours prior to use to allow the flavors to mingle. Serve with chicken fingers.


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There's more to say on this vast topic. Experts stress the importance of thoroughly discussing nonfinancial issues as a prelude to formal planning. "Focusing on the money alone is a mistake if you don't look at what's important to the family as a whole," says Lauren Wolven, an estate expert at Horwood, Marcus & Berk in Chicago.
To that end, Wolven has developed a checklist families can use in discussing their values and the legacy they hope to leave. Here are 10 areas to address.
1. What is the source of the family's wealth? The manner in which the wealth was produced often has a significant impact on family values.
2. What, if any, concerns does the senior generation have about passing its wealth on to following generations? Are there spendthrifts, substance-abuse problems, difficult spouses?