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Police: Burglar arrested in shower
JOSHUA TREE, Calif. — Police say a naked burglar has been arrested while taking a shower after he sipped champagne and ate a meal in a Southern California family's home.
San Bernardino County sheriff's Sgt. Steve Wilson says 25-year-old Michael Calvert was arrested at gunpoint by deputies while he lathered up in the shower Thursday night.
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The homeowners called 911 after returning home at 8:10 p.m. and hearing someone in the shower.
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Trick Tip: Noseslides to Fakie
I personally like this trick because it's like doing a boardslide to fakie. It's a more relaxed trick. You basically just let go with your front hand and fall off instead of trying to force it. So here goes:
Frame 1
Edge at the rail a little bit different than a regular backside boardslide. Start a little bit further away. You want to ollie like you would to a boardslide to fakie—light light ollie and let go with your front hand as you are olling.to lock into a good solid noseslide.
Frame 2
For this trick, locking into the noseslide is a bit easier. When you let go with your front hand both fins lock into the rail.
Frame 3
Now put 90 percent of your weight on your front foot and 10 percent on your back. Your backfoot is guiding this trick around.
Frame 4
Start thinking about going to fakie by starting to stand up and pull on your back hand.
Frame 5
Push down a little bit with your front foot and pull with your back hand to pop you to fakie.
Frame 6
Spot your landing and make sure you are getting ready to land on your heels. When you pull your arm forward it will pull your body around with it.
Frame 7
Keep your weight on you heels and get ready to ride it out.
Frame 8
Bend your knees to hold on to the landing and stay on top of you board.
Frame 9
Get ready to ride away clean.
Closing thoughs: Just make sure that you don't edge too much because then you won't lock into a noseslide, but if you don't edge enough you wont get into the noseslide at all. Remember 90/10 weight balance to keep your tail up and you'll be good to go!


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Bowles, Simpson back in the mix
Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson are back at it, pushing the White House and congressional Republicans to get off the partisan sidelines and strike a deal that can keep government debt in check.
But even with a new proposal in hand, the former heads of President Barack Obama's deficit commission don't seem optimistic that's going to happen.
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"The idea of a grand bargain is at best on life support," Bowles told reporters at a POLITICO Playbook Breakfast, where he and Simpson discussed a new debt-reduction proposal they unveiled Tuesday.
"It seems like both sides are beginning to retreat to their own talking points," Bowles said. "This may be good politics, but it doesn't put us any closer to having our fiscal house in order."
( PHOTOS: Bowles, Simpson at Playbook Breakfast)
The new proposal from Bowles, a former chief of staff to Bill Clinton, and Simpson, a former GOP senator from Wyoming, seeks to split the difference between debt-reduction proposals put forward by Obama and House Republicans.
The new plan would produce deficit savings of $2.4 trillion over the next decade, the duo said Tuesday. House Republicans want to cut it by $4 trillion, while the White House has set a $1.5 trillion goal.
The Bowles-Simpson plan would cut about $600 billion from health programs like Medicare and Medicaid; boost revenue by $600 billion by ending or curbing deductions and breaks; and provide an additional $1.2 trillion in savings from a combination of cuts to mandatory programs (such as payments to farmers), caps on discretionary spending, anti-fraud efforts and changes to how inflation is indexed in some federal programs.
The new plan, Bowles said, is intended to "push both sides out of their comfort zone" and move them closer to a deal.
But Bowles and Simpson both lamented the political stalemate in Washington and questioned whether lawmakers will be willing to move beyond talking points.
"These guys here aren't interested in winning — they're interested in making the other side lose, in fact rubbing the other side's nose in it," Simpson said.
As if on cue, the president and congressional Republicans on Tuesday quarreled over who will be to blame if a round of across-the-board spending cuts, known as the sequester, goes forward as scheduled on March 1.
"They haven't come together and done their jobs, and so as a consequence, we've got these automatic, brutal spending cuts that are poised to happen next Friday," Obama said of Congress. "Now, if Congress allows this meat-cleaver approach to take place, it will jeopardize our military readiness; it will eviscerate job-creating investments in education and energy and medical research."
Speaker John Boehner promptly responded, "Once again, the president offered no credible plan that can pass Congress — only more calls for higher taxes."
Bowles called the sequester a "stupid, stupid, stupid" idea that he believes will, nonetheless, go into effect at the end of the month.
He did, however, say there could be a silver lining if the broad reach of the cuts sparks a public outcry and forces Congress to consider a better debt-reduction plan.


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China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said in a statement it will solicit public opinion until February 6 on the plan, which would be a key step in liberalizing the world's largest mobile phone market, with more than a billion subscribers.
The Chinese mobile market has three telecom carriers, China Mobile Ltd, China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd and China Telecom Corp Ltd, but only about a fifth of subscribers are 3G users and the rest are low-end 2G users.
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shoutreel necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 35 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
We're 3 developers that aren't designers building a new web application that will transform the way users use forums again.
Our team:
Ammar - Backend Dev
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The 3 of us will be responding under the user 'shoutreel', so you will see many comments. We'll try to put our names if we remember on our comments.
Our target audience are businesses and individuals who want to create simple online communities that are easy to use without any hassle to install complicated software like vBulletin or phpbb. We also want to integrate with mobile devices making apps for the iOS4 and Android market.
Simple is the key here. We would like something simple. One of our developers attempted a simple mockup of what we would like. You guys are the expert, so I'm sure you all will come up with something amazing. You don't necessarily have to follow what we made.
We do prefer a 3-column layout.
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Paul and Sam explore the possibilities of asking "How to…?" do something – whether it is drawing, cooking or starting a podcast! From opening a Pandora's box on Google, to discussing the merits of having a clear goal (or picture) vs simply knowing where to start; different styles can even affect our self-criticism!


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Procmail is a program for filtering, sorting and storing email. It can be used both on mail clients and mail servers. It can be used to filter out spam, checking for viruses, to send automatic replies, etc.
The goal of this article is to teach the configuration of procmail. This article asumes you already have either a email client (mutt, nmh, etc) or a mail server (sendmail, postfix, etc) working, that can use (or requires) procmail. It also assumes you have at least basic knowleadge on regular expressions. This article will give only a minimal explanation, for a complete manual, check the
man procmailrc
Install the package procmail from the official repositories.
Configuration format
The configuration is going to be saved on
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The configuration is composed of two sections; assignments and recipes.
The assignments section provides variables for procmail
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail DEFAULT=$HOME/Mail/inbox LOGFILE=/dev/null SHELL=/bin/sh
Recipes have the following format:
:0 [flags] [ : [locallockfile] ] <zero or more conditions (one per line)> <exactly one action line>
The conditions are extended regular expressions, with some few extra options. Conditions always start with an asterisk.
The action can be only a mailbox name, or an external program.
Flags and lockfile
For basic recipes, you don't need any flags. But they can be necessary if your script calls an external command. Here is a list of some of the most used flags:
- f Consider the pipe as a filter.
- w Wait for the filter or program to finish and check its exitcode (normally ignored); if the filter is unsuccessful, then the text will not have been filtered.
A condition is an extended regexp, starting with an asterisk, like this one:
* ^From.* someperson@\w+.com
An action can be something as simple as
in that case, the mail that complies with the condition will be saved on the
work inbox.
It could also start with a pipe, which means the message is going to be passed to the standard input of the command following the pipe. A line like that could be something like this:
| /usr/bin/vendor_perl/spamc
By default, once a recipe's action is used, the processing is over.
If the f flag was used, the command can alter the message and keep reading recipes. In this example, the spamassassin command will add headers to the mail, with its spam status level, which later can be used by another recipe to block it, or store it on a different mailbox.
Tips and tricks
Here is an example using spamassassin to block spam. You should already have spamassassin installed and working.
# By using the f and w flags and no condition, spamassassin is going add the X-Spam headers to every single mail, and then process other recipes. # No lockfile is used. :0fw | /usr/bin/vendor_perl/spamc # Messages with a 5 stars or higher spam level are going to be deleted right away # And since we never touch any inbox, no lockfile is needed. :0 * ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\* /dev/null # If a mail with spam-status:yes wasn't deleted by previous line, it could be a false positive. So its going to be sent to an spam mailbox instead. # Since we don't want the possibility of one procmail instance messing with another procmail instance, we use a lockfile :0: * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes $HOME/mail/Spam
An example using the clamav antivirus.
# We make sure its going to use the sh shell. Mostly needed for mail-only account that have /sbin/nologin as shell SHELL=/bin/sh # We'll scan the mail with clam using the standard input, and saving the result on the AV_REPORT variable AV_REPORT=`clamdscan --stdout --no-summary - |sed 's/^stream: //'` # We check if the word FOUND was in the result and save "Yes" or "No" according to that VIRUS=`echo $AV_REPORT|sed '/FOUND/ { s/.*/Yes/; q }; /FOUND/ !s/.*/No/'` # formail is a filter that can alter a mail message, while keeping the correct format. We use it here to add/alter a header called # X-Virus with either value Yes or No :0fw | formail -i "X-Virus: $VIRUS" # And if we just added "X-Virus: Yes", we will also add another header with the scan result, and alter the subject, again, with the scan result. # Since we are using the f flag, the mail is going to be delivered anyway. :0fw * ^X-Virus: Yes | formail -i "X-Virus-Report: $AV_REPORT" -i "Subject: [Virus] $AV_REPORT"


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Sweetwater, Texas — Adlie S. (Bud) Smith, Jr., 87, passed away Friday, March 2, 2012, at his daughter's home in Conroe, Texas. Visitation will be Tuesday, March 6, 2012, from 5-7 p.m. at McCoy Funeral Home. Graveside service and burial will be Wednesday March 7, at 11 a.m. at Garden of Memories. Rev. James Baker will officiate with McCoy Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.Bud was born April 3, 1924 in Dallas, Texas, to Adlie and Alice Smith. He was raised in McCaulley, Texas with four siblings. He graduated McCaulley High School in 1942 and joined the US Army Air Corps.Bud is survived by his wife of 59 years, Edna Barnes Smith; his daughter, Sheryl and son-in-law, Jim Gardner of Conroe, Texas; son, Joe B. and daughter-in-law, Bernice Smith of Manchester, Missouri; grandchildren, Angie Graves, Boyd Gardner, Taylor Smith, Alexandra Smith, Aubree Smith and Brent Smith; two great-grandchildren, Jack and Trip; two brothers, Bill Smith and wife Nita of Rotan and Joe Smith and wife Patty of Midland; two sisters, Helen (Sis) Allen and LaRue Giesler both of San Angelo; and many nieces and nephews.Pallbearers will be nephews, Buddy Allen, Randy Smith, Paul Landers, Donnie Kinney, Daron Kinney and Jim McKenzie.Special honorary pallbearers will be Jimmy Kinney and Ricky Armstrong.Online condolences may be expressed at www.mccoyfh.com.


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The tears surprised me. They shouldn't have. I'm naturally emotional, over-sensitive. That's what made my boyhood so difficult. I felt everything acutely. The cruel words at school, my father's emotional abandonment, my mother's resentment. I held it all in back then, wondering what was going on, thinking every family was the same. Now, it surfaces easily. Must be my age.
Saturday, December 3, 2011
How Do You Do That?
The tears surprised me. They shouldn't have. I'm naturally emotional, over-sensitive. That's what made my boyhood so difficult. I felt everything acutely. The cruel words at school, my father's emotional abandonment, my mother's resentment. I held it all in back then, wondering what was going on, thinking every family was the same. Now, it surfaces easily. Must be my age.
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You do it by knowing that what you have now is the one true thing that is worth living for. That every moment is a gift and that no one is guaranteed a tomorrow.ReplyDelete
I really enjoyed reading this, because I see myself in it.
You know, Bill, I've thought about what you said, and I agree.ReplyDelete
At the same time, at least for me, I think the trick is not to dread something unfortunate happening to the ones we love, because that's living in the future and not getting the most out of the here and now. If something unfortunate did happen, we'd kick ourselves for not being in the present and getting everything out of the wonderful moments we did have together. Boy, do I need this lesson.
Thanks for getting me thinking about this, thanks for your kind words, and welcome as a Member. I sincerely hope you find other pieces here that you see yourself in. That's one of the biggest reasons why I write this blog.
- LorettaDecember 3, 2011 at 10:48 PM
My mother died in 1977, a month after I turned 18. When she died a piece of me died with her and because I was young and inexperienced with loss and grief I grieved for years. Eventually that piece of me that died was replaced with memories of my own life, my husband, my children, my friends, relatives, my life experiences. Now, some 35 years later her loss doesn't pain me; it was only a moment in time.ReplyDelete
How will I face the loss of my husband? I don't even think about it. Each day in 25 years has brought us challenges, pain, struggle, good times, laughter and love. Life has not been easy for either of us. Love has, sometimes been the only thing that has held us together. It has been enough. I know I will grieve my loss when his time comes but I will also cherish the memories of the hard times, the good times, all the time we shared together. All our experiences have, like the pieces of a puzzle, made our life what it was, what it is, and what it will be.
My life did not end with the loss of my mother, nor will it end with the loss of my husband. It will define a moment in time in this journey we call life. Until then we share this journey together. And if I must live it alone, the love we shared will be enough to comfort me. Love is always enough.
It comes from the knowledge of a life well spent. No regrets, just knowing that you were able to breathe the air they did, sharing in their joys, sorrows and everything in between.ReplyDelete
@Loretta: Everything you wrote here is so personal, so beautiful, and so real. I really appreciate you sharing your experiences with me.ReplyDelete
Basically, you're saying the same thing I did in a previous comment on this post, which is the only way it can be: Don't concern yourself with loss, even of the one you cherish most. Live fully and completely. Take it all in. Be in the moment.
We don't know the future, so why dread it? Give love everything you have because you will never regret it, not in life or in death.
I am deeply comforted by your comment. Thank you so much for your generosity. I sincerely appreciate it.
@chaoticGRRL: The message remains consistent from one reader to another. I've received the best possible answer from everyone.
Thank you so much for responding to this post, Heather. I see the truth in what you've written, and it helps. Believe me, it truly helps a lot.


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After a short-lived retirement, middleweight Tom DeBlass (7-2 MMA, 0-0 BFC) is returning to MMA.
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) today confirmed with sources close to the fighter that DeBlass has signed with Bellator MMA and is expected to compete at the promotion's as-yet-unannounced Bellator 95 event against an opponent yet to be named.
A venue for the event also has yet to be revealed.
DeBlass, a New Jersey native and resident, started his career 7-0 and won the heavyweight title and light heavyweight title for the New Jersey-based Ring of Combat promotion before getting the call to fight in the UFC in 2012.
This past April, he made his debut at UFC on FUEL TV 2 in Sweden, replacing an injured Jorgen Kruth to face Cyrllle Diabate on just 12 days' notice, but he dropped a majority decision.
He returned for the promotion's debut in China this past November but again came out on the short end, falling by scores of 30-27 and a pair of 29-28s in his middleweight debut.
He was then released by the UFC and promptly announced his retirement.
"After a lot of talk with my family and coaches, I have decided to retire from fighting and focus on my family, my academy and helping my students to achieve their goals," DeBlass stated on his Facebook page.
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darn those socialists that want affordable education and healthcare for everyone!!!20 m or bust wrote: 3. Socialism is coming to america and Socialism does not equal freedom. We used to be for freedom...not being cared for cradle to grave.
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text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - Ideas for studying for studying for TOEIC and IELTS Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Ideas for studying for studying for TOEIC and IELTS Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> TOEFL and Other English Exams View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message matsumi23Joined: 18 Dec 2009Posts: 8 Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 3:57 am Post subject: Ideas for studying for studying for TOEIC and IELTS I am a Japanese girl that is currently studying for my IELTS examination. I have been preparing in a number of different ways. Right now, I have been focusing on listening to English learning podcasts. My favorite is at http://www.china232.com because they also include all of the words on a pdf file for me to see and they are funny. I think it is a good way to practice for the IELTS exam because they talk about real spoken English and they talk in a natural way I think. I listen on my Ipod on the way to school and like this kind of learning. I also might take the TOEIC test and think that these podcasts may also be good for this. How do you prepare for these examinations and which methods do you think are the best? My English is pretty good for written but not so good with the slang and real conversations so I think the podcasts are good for me Back to top teacherdominicJoined: 14 Apr 2009Posts: 6Location: UK Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 6:28 am Post subject: Seems to me that you are taking the right approach anyway and your written English looks high class. The podcasts idea is excellent: I really believe in this little but often approach to learning and I have a section dedicated to it on my website. http://www.dcielts.com/daily-exercises-2/daily-exercises/, showing you places that you can go to for free to learn daily. For you I would particularly recommend the Splendid Speaking site linked there. They do an excellent podcast and daily colloquial expressions. I wouldn't be too worried about slang: that isn't really part of the IELTS equation. Indeed, only the first part of the speaking test relates to conversational English: part 2 is a mini-talk/presentation and part 3 is more like an interview. If you are looking for advice for part 1, I'd say that you need to prepare the speed of your speech. You will need to answer about 10/12 questions in 4 minutes. This is particularly a problem for Japanese speakers who tend(not always of course) to want a little more time to answer. The one way to practise this is of course finding someone to speak to!_________________Dominic Cole Dominic Cole's IELTS Blog Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> TOEFL and Other English Exams All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Student Forums----------------ComputersCurrent NewsCultureEnglish SchoolsFamilyFilm and CinemaFoodHealth and FitnessHelp CenterHobbiesHolidaysLearning EnglishLiteratureMaking FriendsMusicOpinionsPetsScienceSportsThe Strange and MysteriousTOEFL and Other English ExamsTravel You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Dave's ESL Cafe is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Banner Advertising | Bookstore / Alta Books | FAQs | Articles | Interview with Dave Copyright © 2018 Dave's ESL Cafe | All Rights Reserved | Contact Dave's ESL Cafe | Site Map Teachers College, Columbia University: Train to Teach English Here or Abroad Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group


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Novell® Teaming + Conferencing is an enterprise collaboration tool that integrates with GroupWise®. The Conferencing component provides real-time, instant meetings to remove the distances between team members located throughout the world. Key conferencing features include:
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Messaging client available on Linux and Windows; works in conjunction with the open source Pidgin project
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The Conferencing server uses the system language by default. To use a different language, add the line export ZONLANG=language-code to file /etc/sysconfig/imidio_iic. After this setting is added, restart the Conferencing services from a console window as follows:
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Similarly, the HTML files used to display meeting invitations are located in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/imidio/invite. Copy the files under /opt/iic/locale/language-code/web/invite/*.html to /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/imidio/invite/*.html.
The desktop share viewer cannot establish a connection to the Conferencing server if the color depth is set lower on a Linux desktop.
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Conferencing Server Installation Guide.pdf
Conferencing Operations Guide.pdf
Conferencing User Guide.pdf
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Oh California, you give us so much craziness. From the always entertaining antics out of Hollywood to your love of marijuana, you never fail to make us say OMG. Latest case in point -- pot-infused wine that's said to be sparking a nationwide trend.
According to the Daily Beast, while this vino with a kick isn't brand new (though it's certainly new to me), it has had a resurgence, and California winemakers are leading the revival -- but, of course.
To produce the dope wine (and I don't mean that in a good way) winemakers apparently just take a bunch of pot (about a pound) and put it into a cask of fermenting wine. The ganja apparently goes best with grapes of the Cabernet variety best. Then they let nature take its course, and viola -- vino that will get you buzzed like none other.
Personally, I don't get it. Wine by itself has such a lovely, relaxing effect if sipped in moderation. It's refined and elegant and makes me think of chamber music; and while it has its virtues, pot makes me think of a Grateful Dead concert. Marrying the two just seems like a mess, and I don't see the point. Some things are better left alone.
So who's drinking this stuff? One maker of the concoction told the reporter that since pot is pretty prevalent in California, the wine no longer garners a high (pun intended) dollar like it may have back in the day. Instead, "it's really just a party drink that winemakers break out whenever the mood strikes." So depending on what kind of circles you party in, you may want to give your glass an extra sniff lest you end up with some mad munchies, duuude.
Call me a buzz kill, but it just seems like way too much going on in one glass. I love my wine, but this just seems like a bad mixture, and I can't imagine how many crackers and cheese (and Doritos and Twinkies) I'd want to ingest after each glass.
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Over the past decade, more than 1 million US military service members have served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. According to the Congressional Research Service, of those deployed service members, more than 100,000 have returned from their time in combat with a diagnosis of traumatic brain injury (TBI), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or both. While their diagnoses may be the same, these soldiers will not only experience different levels of disability but also show varying levels of functional recovery over time. New research looking at the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene suggests that having a particular polymorphism could help predict which patients will respond to treatment in both cases.
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BDNF is a small protein found in both the brain and the peripheral nervous system. One of my own neuroscience professors affectionately called BDNF "brain fertilizer:" A neurotrophin, or nerve growth factor, BDNF helps to promote the differentiation, growth, and survival of nerve cells across the nervous system. Problems with BDNF have been linked to a host of neuropsychiatric disorders, including depression, motor disorders, PTSD, and TBI.
"This is a protein that has a function in preserving and promoting growth of neurons," says David Benedek, a psychiatrist at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, MD. "So it's not surprising that it would play an important role in a number of neurological and psychiatric disorders. And because BDNF had been identified as a potential biomarker for other illnesses, it seemed a reasonable thing to look at for PTSD as well."
In a study published earlier this year in Molecular Psychiatry, Benedek and colleagues looked at BDNF levels and genotypes of more than 400 US Army Special Operations soldiers. The researchers found that soldiers with a specific genetic variant for BDNF, Met/Met, were at a higher risk for development of PTSD after three or four lifetime stress events. Furthermore, that variant was also linked to stronger startle responses in the soldiers who had not yet developed the disorder.
"It's not just that this allele is a marker for an increased risk of PTSD with lower total life stressors," says Benedek. "It also marked a specific and single symptom of PTSD, even when full-blown PTSD is not developed. This gives us new clues into the role BDNF may play in the development of the disorder."
Benedek thinks the Armed Forces could one day use BDNF genotypes as a biomarker to identify which soldiers may be at an increased risk for PTSD. "This could help us identify people who may particularly vulnerable under specific conditions and get them the right kind of training to prevent it," he says. "But it could also, one day, be used to monitor disease severity after PTSD is developed to indicate the effectiveness of treatments."
Predicting response to PTSD treatment
A different BDNF variation, the Val/Val allele, has been linked to improved treatment outcomes in people with PTSD. After learning that direct shots of BDNF to the rat limbic cortex could all but extinguish the conditioned fear response, Kim Felmingham, a clinical psychologist who works with people with PTSD at the University of Tasmania, wondered if she could find any genetic markers for treatment response in individuals who had been through exposure therapy, a treatment program where patients are exposed to their fears in a controlled and safe setting in order to "re-wire" the fear pathways.
"It was really quite intriguing to me. I realized that we were sitting on all this treatment-related data, including genetic data, and we could actually just take a look and see if there was anything related to BDNF in our outcomes," she says.
Felmingham and colleagues found that, in a sample of 55 patients who had undergone an intensive 8-week exposure therapy program, those with the Val/Val allele showed a better response to the treatment than those with the Met/Met or Val/Met variations. The study was published in the June 2013 issue of Biological Psychiatry.
"The result is quite convergent with much of the animal literature," she says. "But we need to work to join the dots, and better understand just how BDNF may be involved in both the development of the disorder as well as in its treatment."
Predicting TBI outcomes
The BDNF gene has also been tied to how well a person recovers from TBI. Aron Barbey, a neuroscientist at the University of Illinois, says that makes sense-BDNF variance could influence several processes involved in regaining function after injury, including both pre-injury cognitive capabilities and spontaneous molecular repair mechanisms in the brain afterward. Many members of the Armed Forces are diagnosed with both TBI and PTSD.
Barbey and his colleagues looked at BDNF genotypes in 156 Vietnam War veterans with TBI. They found strong differences when it came to outcomes after injury. Those with the Val/Val genotype scored approximately 8 points lower on IQ tests than the others. They also showed greater impairment on cognitive skills like verbal comprehension and working memory than those with the Met/Met or Val/Met allele. The results were published in PLOS ONE in February of this year.
"The size of the effects we observed were quite remarkable. Both the scope and the extent of the impairment observed between these different genotypes was striking," says Barbey. "And by understanding the contribution of this particular polymorphism to TBIs, it may help us determine the best kind of treatment for each individual in the future."
Joining the dots
While these studies suggest that BDNF is important to two conditions that plague the military community today, all of the researchers are quick to say that these studies are very preliminary. As Felmingham said, both clinicians and basic scientists need to work together to "join the dots" in order to gain full understanding of how this neurotrophin influences PTSD and TBI, both in terms of development and recovery.
"What you see are many studies with low sample sizes. We know that, with any disorder, there's not going to be some single genotype effect. Everything is polygenic," she says. "We need to start investing in large-scale studies with thousands and thousands of people in them. We have to look beyond just one genotype. But, that said, I think we've made some really remarkable gains in the past 5 to 10 years and those gains have the power to one day to improve outcomes for the patients who really need help. You have to start somewhere."
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My sisters and I grew up on a diet of fish fingers, beans, sausages, spaghetti bolognese, toast, scrambled egg, chips and boil in the bag cod with rice. My mother occasionally made a concession to our general education, by giving us Alphabites, with which we would construct rude words on our plates. We never had to eat vegetables or salad or anything we didn't want to, although it was always available.
Eventually we started eating that stuff of our own accord ,when we reached an age when we thought eating vegetables might make us thin and get rid of our spots. (Misguided of course. In order to be thin it doesn't matter what you eat, as long as you eat almost none of it, and in order to get rid of your spots you need some sort of pharmaceutical assistance.)
So I do not labour under a thing where I think Kitty ought to be eating a lot of fruit and vegetables. Do you even really NEED fruit and vegetables up until the age of about 12? I thought all babies and toddlers and small children need is carbohydrate and a bit of protein. That's all they want anyway. That and the food group known as CAKE.
Anyway it's a good thing I am very relaxed about all this, because Kitty doesn't want to eat any of that vegetable shit, thanks very much. She used to make a good fist of eating broccoli but now doesn't care for it much. From 8 months old onwards she has survived on about seven different kinds of spoonable stew that we make and freeze, mostly bean and animal fat-based.
And she has never, ever been interested in fruit. I must have placed a hundred different pieces of banana, apple, grape and clementine segment on her tray table only for her to discard them with various different disgusted faces. She did once put a piece of banana in her mouth, while mesmerised by one of her cousins - but I think she thought it was cheese.
Now she has reached a stage where she won't eat anything she hasn't eaten before. She will put it in her mouth but then hook it out with her forefinger with the word "Mmlair". Or simply open her little beak and let the food roll out.
The fact that you cannot bribe, cajole or otherwise force a pre-verbal toddler to eat something it doesn't want to is both frightening and liberating. She doesn't want it. There's nothing I can do except try again another time.
But even though I privately think that she can eat whatever the hell she wants, I must maintain a pretence in front of my husband and other middle-class people that I think she needs to eat vegetables.
So I purchased the River Cottage Babies and Toddlers Cookbook and set about making what I thought looked like a very tasty fingerfood, called Courgette Polpette.
They are really, really yummy and easy and I heartily recommend them as a delicious canape for your next soiree. Kitty hated them, obviously. But, thankfully, I don't give a fuck.
Courgette polpette
500g courgettes, finely diced
Grated zest of 1/2 a lemon
1 beaten egg
2 tbsp grated parmesan or pecorino
1/2 ball mozarella
50g breadcrumbs
1 tbsp chopped parsely
1 garlic clove, finely sliced or grated
salt and pepper
1 Heat some oil in a frying pan and fry the courgette over a medium flame for 10 minutes (time it) until they have taken a bit of colour and have collapsed just slightly
2 Allow to cool for as long as you can be bothered and then combine with all the other ingredients. The mixture will be quite wet and sticky
3 Form walnut-sized blobs and place on a greased baking sheet. Bake for about 15 minutes and serve


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Our next major patch of the Heart of the Swarm beta is coming very soon, and with this update, beta players are going to be able to join us in testing a new feature for StarCraft II. Leveling introduces a progression system to the game that offers rewards to players of all skill levels.
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In the Heart of the Swarm leveling system, players earn experience while playing Blizzard matchmaking modes and custom games on Blizzard maps. You'll earn XP for the race you're playing with each unit you build or destroy. Experience is awarded at the end of the match, and accumulates as you level up from 1 to a maximum level of 20 for each race.
Getting into the game and playing as much as possible will earn you XP and rewards. Build up powerful armies, wreak havoc on the map, fight to the bitter end, and you'll be rewarded for your efforts! There will also be ways to earn bonus experience points for a match. We're already working on concepts like "bonus XP for your first win of the day" and "extra XP when you play in a party with a Battletag or Real-ID friend". We're considering "bonus XP weekends" and other sorts of activities, which will be tested in the beta.
The rewards
The Leveling system is how you will earn most portraits and decals in Heart of the Swarm. We're creating a multitude of new images for players to collect and display. Your cumulative (Protoss+Terran+Zerg) level will also be displayed right next to your player portrait, so others will be able to easily see how far you've gone in mastering the races of StarCraft II.
Each level you earn awards either a decal or a portrait for the race that you're playing. These rewards get more and more epic as you progress in a race. The rewards will be different for each race, so truly dedicated players can push themselves to great heights for each of the three races.
The Heart of the Swarm beta
After the next major beta patch, testers can try this system and start earning XP in the beta. We're planning on making adjustments over time, so it's likely that XP resets will happen during beta. We're going to pay very close attention to the leveling curve and the fun factor of this system, so it's important that we have a lot of playtest results to work with. We'll give beta testers notice in advance of resetting the system so testers can help us try different methods of gaining XP.
So, what do you think? We're very interested in your feedback, and we're pushing to get as many players as possible into the beta to try out the new Leveling system. Join us in this discussion thread to talk about it.


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Now, five years later, the founders of CU's Left Right TIM improve group have graduated, leaving their vision in the hands of 14 students who entertain a crowd of more than 120 students every week. Left Right TIM member Lauren Cross said the troupe will host a one-of-a-kind show in celebration of their fifth anniversary tonight beginning at 8 p.m. in Hale, room 270.
"(Tonight's) show is a whole new format for us," the CU junior said. "It's a bit of a secret but we wanted to surprise our regulars and try something new."
CU junior Dylan Dragassa said the show is keeping a musical trend this year that was driven by Corey Garretson, a musically-talented member who was willing to share his skills with the group.
"The shows have been pretty fresh this semester since we've added in more musical components," Dragassa said. "We've done one show with the Buffoons, an a cappella group on campus, and we've always been fans of freestyle rapping, but this is the first time we've been serious about pulling it into public performances."
The group performs an improv show every Friday, filling the room with 120 to 200 students, which includes a mix of regulars, occasional guests and newcomers, the members said.
The shows are $3 for students, making it the "the cheapest and funniest date ever," Cross said.
Left Right TIM member Kailyn Bennett said the troupe has become the leader of improv comedy on the Boulder campus, inspiring other students, including some of its own members to launch similar projects.
CU's The Sweater Vest Sketch Comedy and Side Effects, which recently moved to Chicago with several of its founding members, were founded by and made up of mostly Left Right TIM members. Side Effects members then launched Mea Culpa, The Secret Recipe sketch group, which does not currently have any Left Right TIM members. Bennett is also a manager for CU's Umbrella Improv Initiative, which was created to train future Left Right TIM members, she said.
"It's a breeding ground for upcoming improvisers," Bennett said. "LRT looks for show-ready performers but Umbrella looks for potential."
Left Right TIM has opened for stand-up comedians like Tig Notaro, who has been featured on Comedy Central and "Last Comic Standing" contestant Natasha Leggero. The group has also brought improv troupes like Mission Improvable and the Upright Citizens Brigade to CU.
The team also competes in the College Improv Tournament, where they won regionals last year and were named in the top six groups at nationals, members said.
Despite increased interest during auditions over the past five years, the members said they have not allowed more than 16 members into the group at a time in an attempt to maintain close relationships and stay focused on individualized training and improvement.
"To provide the professional show that we want to put on, we need to give personalized attention to the performers," Dragassa said. "It's easier to maintain that quality in a smaller group."
Cross said the group tends to change with its members due to the nature of improv, but they hope they have been able to maintain the founders' intentions to provide funny, witty shows to their peers.
"What makes improv a unique experience is that everyone is bringing something new to table," Cross said. "It's not a script, it's not Shakespeare, so it's about different people interpreting their own characters for a magical capacity on state."
"Because of that, the team morphs with every member that graduates and every member we take on but we always try to stay true to the original intent that was established five years ago, providing a fantastic performance."
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What: Five years of Left Right TIM
When: Tonight at 8 p.m.
Where: Hale, room 270
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By Lady Liberty
I woke up this weekend to a winter winderland outside my window. Mother Nature had conspired to provide exactly the temperature, humidity, stillness, and cloud saturation to result in a winter scene right off the front of the most beautiful holiday card. The ground was covered in a blanket of several inches of pristine white. Every tree branch was outlined in sparkling snow; power lines were coated not heavily enough for danger of outages but just thickly enough for beauty. Even the grey cloud cover wasn't enough to prevent all of that whiteness from reflecting what little light there was and turning the view into something out of a backlit snow globe.
Even as I looked in appreciation at the scene framed by my window, puffy fat snowflakes continued to float to earth. The natural sound-dampening properties of a thick, wet coat of snow made the noises generated by those few people already out and about a distant consideration. I took an extra moment at my window just to look around and take mental snapshots of what I saw. Everywhere I looked, the beauty was flawless and exquisite.
Within the hour, I was out the door and ready to begin a busy day of such routine errands as banking and grocery shopping. I had to remove the snow from my car before I could go anywhere, a chore I usually resent. But not on this day! No, as I worked, I could see the trees in the front yard looking as if they were transplants from fairy land. When I moved around to the back of my car, I noted that the Victorian house across the street was utterly charming behind a veil of falling snow.
The pretty veneer of snow dressing up my neighborhood reminded me of the beautiful people and clothes we see at presidential inaugurations. "Who are you wearing?" is as common a question these days in the high halls of politics as it is on the red carpets of Hollywood. There will be bright lights and balloons. There will be parades and ceremonies. Bands will play and famous singers will sing, all while those Americans lucky enough to actually be in attendance will celebrate the second term of President George W. Bush. It will be majestic and more than a little attractive in its presentation, and those who look will doubtless appreciate the sparkling spectacle.
Bemused and still smiling, I got into my car and stepped on the gas. That's when I discovered something not nearly so attractive underneath the coating of new-fallen snow: a layer of smooth and very slippery ice. Fortunately, I'm familiar enough with winter driving that I hadn't made even an attempt at a quick or abrupt acceleration. I remained in complete control and was able to stop without incident before I reached the end of the driveway. I took a firm mental note of the treacherous roads that lay just beneath the innocent-seeming surface of the snow, and pulled out onto the street with great care.
In Washington, the rich and powerful mingle with the rich and famous at inauguration parties more so than at any other time of the year. Movie stars and longtime politicians almost always show up for the festivities. Smiling faces beam into cameras stationed outside every door, waving exclusive tickets and making audiences across the country wish for a moment that they were among the select. Speeches will be given and oaths will be taken. But behind the promises will be exceptions; berneath the vows will be unspoken "buts." And among the crowds and just past the glitter are people we may not recognize, but who make up in spades for their lack of fame with their stores of power. The famous who publicly prevaricate for our pleasure, and the less famous who also wield real and dangerous powers we cannot always see, make the festivities at these premier events a mere curtain covering the real and far more treacherous story.
Fortunately for me and my chores, there was very little traffic and so I could go as slowly as necessary for safety without holding anybody else back from their desire to live dangerously. With the snow still falling, few plows had been out and even fewer salt trucks had attended to the streets. Even at 20 miles an hour, control was difficult. At higher speeds, it would have been impossible. I paid strict attention to my driving, of course, but still had moments when I could glance around and see that the city parks had never been more spectacular, and the historic downtown buildings couldn't have looked better even when they were brand new.. The hazardous road conditions, however, meant that I couldn't afford to be distracted for long without risking life and limb (and almost as importantly to me, my new car).
George W. Bush and his second term agenda aren't moving anywhere near a slow, safe speed. In fact, with ironic and exceedingly unfortunate thanks to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, his first term agenda moved in bursts of power. Congress, meanwhile, showed little inclination to apply the brakes. (To be fair, I'm not entirely sure the brakes would have proved effective on the slippery slope toward a police state this administration seems determined to navigate. But that doesn't mean the effort shouldn't have been made! Judiciously and with a careful effort, even a slipping vehicle can be stopped or at least brought under some semblence of control.) Now, with a second term in its beginning phases, it's clearer than ever that the state is careening across dangerous ground.
With care and patience, I eventually made it to the grocery store safely. Frankly, I'm glad I didn't wait for the roads to be cleared and salted because it meant I had the store almost to myself. There were no lines, and no impatient or rude shoppers. The few of us who'd made it there early in the morning smiled when we passed in the aisles largely, I think, because we had made it there. Clerks had time to be friendly and chatty. We talked, of course, about the weather.
By the time I finished my shopping and paid for my purchases, over an hour had passed. In that time, plows had been out on the main roads and traffic had increased considerably. I left the store parking lot lamenting the changes such a short time had wrought. Where I'd looked earlier at a spotless blanket of snow that gave everything a clean and new appearance, I now saw mud-spattered slush and stained snowbanks. Given what was underneath the new snow, this was to be expected. I mourned my loss anyway.
In politics, motives—at least the stated ones—are typically as pure as the, well, driven snow. "It's for the children!" we're told, or "It's for your safety!" we hear. Since we all want our children to be well taken care of, and our safety to be assured, it's difficult to argue against these sentiments. But underneath the purity of the stated reasons is the filth of power, money, influence, and greed. Somehow, anything that benefits the children or enhances safety almost always also increases the power of those in Washington while it decreases the liberty of those outside it.
It's a matter of fact we all accept that winter can be beautiful enough to warm our hearts. At the same time, it can be ugly, dangerous, and bitingly cold. In the same way and at least as obviously, government can be good (national defense) or it can be bad (the current national offense against civil liberties). Whether pretty or ugly, though, the bottom line where winter is concerned is that rising temperatures force it to give way to spring. And without straining the series of metaphors, it seems entirely fair to say that if we raise the heat under Congress, the chilling effect of many government policies created "for the children" or "for our security" might also melt away.
The worst thing that could happen if we light a few ideological fires for freedom is that the thin and outwardly attractive coating of "for your own good" and "we have your best interests at heart—really" will give way to all the dirt that lies immediately underneath. Perhaps there are still some in America that need to be shown the mess before they understand the necessity for cleaning it up. Either way, it remains that we have to slog through the mud and likely get our hands dirty before we'll see the regrowth of spring—or liberty—again.
Lady Liberty is a graphic designer and pro-freedom activist currently residing in the Midwest. More of her writings and other political and educational information is available on her web site, Lady Liberty's Constitution Clearing House, at http://www.ladylibrty.com. E-mail Lady Liberty at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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