Repeated knocks to the head leads to newly recognized brain disease

ScienceDaily (Nov. 30, 2012) ? Reports on the danger of head trauma in athletes and soldiers has pervaded the news in recent years. NFL and NHL player deaths have catapulted this problem into the limelight, with stories appearing in the New York Times, NPR, ESPN, 60 Minutes and even television entertainment shows. Media attention has raced far ahead of the science on this degenerative condition. But scientists are catching on. They have given this disease its own definition -- chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

Different from traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, or ALS, they say CTE can strike adult and youths alike. Special coverage by Alzforum, the leading news source on Alzheimer's and related diseases research, summarizes the status of research in this burgeoning field as researchers take steps to diagnose and treat CTE.

?CTE can start months or years after brain trauma has occurred, either in contact sports, military service, or perhaps even partner violence,? Admiral Regina Benjamin, the U.S. Surgeon General, recently told scientists and advocates at the first-ever CTE conference at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, Nevada. There, experts came together to define CTE, exchange the latest data, develop a diagnosis, and lay out a research plan (see Part 1).

Some of the newest data comes from boxers and other martial artists who have joined the Professional Fighters Brain Health Study in Las Vegas. The fighters? history as well as fight statistics are combined with yearly mental tests, brain scans, speech samples, and a blood draw. The aim is similar to studies in Alzheimer?s that have helped identify early signs of disease and track its progression. Scientists want to find out how concussions match up with brain damage and symptoms. Once this study ends, it may generate a tool to help determine when fighters should retire (see Part 2).

Additional information will come from DETECT, a biomarker study of football players, as well as a growing tissue bank of athletes? and military veterans? brains. Of 136 tissue donations, 100 brains have been analyzed and 80 had CTE hallmarks. They showed a unique pattern of brain change?expansion in its fluid-filled cavities and shrinkage of its medial temporal lobe?and extraordinary deposits of a toxic form of the tau protein that expand with age. From this data, scientists have begun to outline stages of CTE from beginning to end. It seems some athletes and soldiers who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer?s or Parkinson?s may have had CTE instead (see Part 3).

Other research suggests that in CTE, toxic proteins creep from the site of impact to further areas of the brain. Because toxicity moves between cells, not people, researchers refer to the spread as ?templating,? not ?infectious.? They are developing mouse models to help determine how this spread occurs (see Part 4).

Scientists are also drafting up the best way to diagnose the disease during a person?s life (see Part 5) and are pushing for measures to prevent CTE in children, who are more susceptible to developing the condition after head trauma (Part 6).?

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Rising home prices may stall the housing recovery

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Diana Olick , CNBC.com

Home prices have been rising steadily for the past several months, but some fear the rapid increase could actually start hurting the housing recovery.

The reason is that the rise in prices is mainly due to investors, mostly large hedge funds, that have been swooping into the most distressed markets and inhaling properties as fast as their plentiful cash will allow. They are turning those properties into rentals, and getting anywhere from 8 to 12 percent returns on their investments, thanks to still hot demand. The trouble is, as home prices rise, those returns shrink.

?The worry with investment demand is that the very recovery in prices that it is driving will eventually reduce rental yields and undermine the investment case,? warns Paul Diggle of Capital Economics.

CNBC: New home sales disappoint - could it be 'cliff concerns?'

Today?s housing recovery, much like the recent crash, is like no other. While home prices fell nationally for the first time in history, they are recovering locally at drastically different paces. Some markets are still in the red, while others are surging forward with double-digit gains. Those that are seeing the biggest jumps are largely the markets that saw the deepest losses. Witness Phoenix home prices up over 20 percent from a year ago on the S&P/Case-Shiller home price index. The huge influx of investors there shrunk inventories and created bidding wars, hence the price gains.

CNBC: Yes housing starts surge, but rentals are the drivers

But even outside those hot markets, this national housing recovery is dependent on investors, who are largely all-cash buyers. The mortgage market is still too restrictive to support the kind of bulk-buying that needs to occur, and many potential buyers either lack the credit scores or the confidence to jump in. Another 14 million borrowers still owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth, according to Zillow, and are therefore unable to move.

Five million properties are either in the foreclosure process or their owners are delinquent on their mortgages. That means foreclosures will remain elevated for the foreseeable future, and investors will be necessary to absorb them. Another concern is that home prices are rising faster than income, which could push potential owner-occupants away just as they were starting to dip their toes in again.

The risk of sales dropping as investors leave is obviously higher in the markets that saw the biggest drop in home prices during the crash, again, like Phoenix. Other markets, such as Chicago, Atlanta, and even parts of Florida, where prices are still weak and distress is still a large share of the market, are still seeing improved sales, as investors shift their sights and cash to more yield-worthy ground.

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Rules devised for building ideal protein molecules from scratch

ScienceDaily (Nov. 28, 2012) ? By following certain rules, scientists can prepare architectural plans for building ideal protein molecules not found in the real world. Based on these computer renditions, previously non-existent proteins can be produced from scratch in the lab. The principles to make this happen appear this month in Nature magazine.

The lead authors are Dr. Nobuyasu Koga and Dr. Rie Tatsumi-Koga, a husband-and-wife scientific team in Dr. David Baker's lab at the University of Washington Protein Design Institute.

The project benefited from hundreds of thousands of computer enthusiasts around the world who adopted Rosetta@home for simulating designed proteins.

Protein molecules start as an unstable, high energy chain of amino acids. This chain then begins folding into various shapes to try to achieve a stable, low energy state. The end result is its distinctive molecular structure. Rosetta@home volunteers helped the project team to plot this energy landscape from protein structure predictions.

"The structural options become fewer as the interactions that stabilize the protein selectively favor one folding pattern over others," explained Koga.

"This decline in conformation options to eventually achieve a unique, ordered structure is called a funnel-shaped energy landscape," he said, drawing a tornado-like figure on a whiteboard. The researchers came up with guidelines for robustly generating this type of energy landscape.

According to Tatsumi-Koga, these rules require the interactions among the residues in the protein's amino acid chain to consistently favor the same folded conformation in forming its molecular shape. This is made possible, for example, by defining whether a specific unit will form a "right-handed" orientation or its mirror image, and disfavor others.

The researchers, she said, synthesized the proteins they had originally designed and tested "in silico" (on the computer) and physically characterized them through "in vitro" (laboratory test tube) experiments.

They also compared the molecular structures of the computer models with these laboratory-derived proteins to see how well they matched.

Koga stressed that the project looked strictly at protein structure. He smiled as he said his group was striving toward a "platonic ideal," a reference to Plato's theory of perfect forms.

In our imperfect material world, proteins are not always optimized for their stability, but can be beset by bulges, kinks, strains, and improperly buried parts. Many diseases arise from protein malformations.

During this project, the researchers achieved a library of five ideal structures, but since filing their report have added several more.

To make them accessible to other scientists, the designs have been deposited in the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics and the lab analysis of their chemical structure was put in the Biological Magnetic Resonance Database.

The team was not attempting to create specific new proteins that could carry out particular activities.

However, their design principles and methods, according to their report, should allow the ready creation of a wide range of robust, stable, building blocks for the next generation of engineered functional proteins.

Such proteins would be custom-made for the task, instead of repurposed from proteins with unrelated functions. The hope is that engineered proteins will be useful for drug and vaccine development, especially for formidable viruses like HIV or rapidly changing ones, like the flu.

Proteins designed to exact specifications might also prove therapeutically useful in cleaving mutated genes, and for speeding up chemical reactions important in industry and environmental reclamation.

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Zig Ziglar: 10 quotes from the motivational author

Zig Ziglar, born Hilary Hinton Ziglar, was a native of Alabama and worked as a salesman for many years before becoming a motivational speaker and author of more than 30 books. He said becoming a born-again Christian in 1972 was a major turning point in his life and prompted him to begin incorporating Biblical principles in his work. One of his most famous motivational books, 'See You at the Top,' appeared in 1975 and he was still writing as late as this year, with his book 'Born to Win,' co-written with his son, coming out this past January. During his speaking engagements, he took the stage with global leaders like Margaret Thatcher as well? as several US presidents. Ziglar died Nov. 28 in Plano, Tex. Here are 10 quotes from the author.

- Molly Driscoll,?Staff Writer

1. Sky's the limit

"If you can dream it, then you can achieve it."

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UK fighter tries to fake a glove tap, gets knocked out (VIDEO)

At Absolute Adrenaline Platinum in Dorset, England, Adam Fyfe tried to pull the old-fake-a-glove-tap-and-go-in-for-the-knockout shtick. It didn't work. His opponent Alex Thorne recognized it, then came back to knock Fyfe out in 29 seconds.

Fyfe was never taught the old adage that cheaters never win, and winners never cheat.

By the way, eight days after Fyfe was knocked out here, he made his pro debut and was knocked out in less than a minute. The UK regularly hosts the UFC and will do so again in February for an event at Wembley Stadium. It has several burgeoning smaller promotions, but it looks like their regulation leaves much to be desired.

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Majority of Britons want press watchdog backed by law - poll

LONDON (Reuters) - More than two-thirds of Britons are in favour of an independent press regulator established by law, according to an opinion poll published in the Guardian newspaper on Wednesday, a day before a judge is expected to issue a report on problems in the industry.

The poll found that 79 percent of Britons surveyed want the government to introduce legislation to create an independent press regulator. Only 9 percent oppose tough measures regulating the press.

Senior judge Brian Leveson is expected on Thursday to recommend a new independent body with statutory powers over the press instead of the current system of self-regulation that the industry wants to retain.

Leveson oversaw a year-long public inquiry into the press that was prompted by a phone-hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World Sunday, a News Corp (NWSA.O) tabloid the media tycoon then shut down.

The poll, conducted by YouGov on behalf of the Media Standards Trust, found that over 80 percent want national newspapers to be obliged to sign up to the new system by law.

Most of the British newspaper industry is opposed to a regulator underpinned by law, as they argue it would curb freedom of speech.

(Reporting by Stephen Mangan; Editing by Paul Simao)

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Gargantuan black hole baffles scientists

Astronomers on the hunt for supermassive black holes have discovered one so monstrous that its mass dominates the central hub of its galaxy in a way that defies scientists' expectations about how typical black holes behave.

Described in Thursday's edition of the journal Nature, the black hole may push theorists to revamp their ideas of how these mysterious structures grow and evolve.

Astrophysicists said they were scratching their heads at how thoroughly this gargantuan black hole ? seated in the galaxy NGC 1277, about 220 million light-years away ? hogs its galactic bed.

Supermassive black holes typically account for just 0.1% of the mass in a galaxy's stellar bulge, the cluster of older stars huddled around the center. This particular black hole, by contrast, takes up 59% of that central mass, shattering the previous record of 11%.

"This is an oddball," said Chung-Pei Ma, an astrophysicist at UC Berkeley who was not involved in the research. "It's a very big black hole for a small galaxy ? that's the most surprising part. It's a very interesting discovery."

An international team of scientists documented the giant black hole while peering at the centers of about 800 of the biggest galaxies in the local universe, using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at the University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory. The assumption was that the biggest galaxies would hold the biggest black holes, which is what the researchers were really looking for.

The team measured the speed of the stars close to the galactic heart as they orbited around the black hole ? the faster they traveled, the more massive the black hole. Their calculations revealed that the black hole at the center of NGC 1277 held the mass of 17 billion suns. (The Milky Way's black hole, by comparison, is a mere 4 million solar masses.) And yet this black hole, one of the largest known, dominates a galaxy that is only one-tenth the size and mass of the Milky Way.

At first, the researchers thought they had a mistake.

"We were looking at it and we said, 'That's got to be wrong,'" said study coauthor Karl Gebhardt, an astrophysicist at the University of Texas at Austin. "So we kind of analyzed it to death."

The size of a galaxy and the size of its central black hole are thought to be linked, but scientists aren't exactly sure how. Assessing the mass of a black hole is a time-consuming process, and as a result, fewer than 100 of them have been examined properly. (Gebhardt's team had logged hundreds of hours of telescope time peering at galaxies for its survey; a typical experiment will get only a few dozen hours at the controls.)

Part of the reason for believing that black holes typically weigh in around the 0.1% mark is that there's a limit to the amount of matter a black hole can take in at one time, like a crowd trying to push through a doorway. When there's too much material, the black hole ejects some of it in jets, effectively limiting its growth rate, Gebhardt said.

If that's true, something strange has been happening in this galaxy to allow the black hole to keep feeding ? and the researchers aren't sure what it could be.

It's possible, Gebhardt said, that given the team's large sample of black holes, "of course we're going to find the weirdest weirdos out there."

But if they find more, he said, it could mean there's a whole new class of galaxies that requires fresh explanation. There are already signs that NGC 1277 may have siblings ? the researchers have identified other galaxies with similar properties, and they're currently analyzing the mass of their black holes.

Even if it's a new class of galaxies, it's a pretty small one.

"In the observable universe, there's about 100 billion" galaxies, Gebhardt said. "So this isn't even the tip of the iceberg. This is a snowflake on top of the tip of the iceberg."

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5 Reasons Why Women Have Affairs

There can be little other news that is more devastating to man, than to discover that his wife has cheated on him and has been having an affair with another man. The very thought of another man sexually penetrating his wife, or his wife enthusiastically giving oral sex to her new lover can make the jilted husband feel sick to the stomach for days, even weeks on end.
Unfortunately, an increasing number of men have been contacting us here at The Modern Man, trying to seek answers to the questions, ?Why did my wife have an affair? Why did she cheat on me? What causes women to have affairs? What did I do so wrong to deserve it? ? So, I?m going to share my advice here in a dedicated article on why women have affairs.

The Rules of the Game Have Changed

Relationships are not like how they used to be in the early 1900s or even a few decades ago, for that matter. Today?s women are constantly being bombarded with TV sitcoms and Hollywood movies telling them that if they are unhappy, they should get a divorce or have an affair. Unlike in the past, a woman isn?t surrounded by a society that is telling her, or even forcing her to remain married no matter what. A woman in 1900 for example, would feel like the ?scum of the Earth? for committing such a disloyal act as having an affair. However, when it comes to women of today?s generation, unless her man is able to create and maintain the right relationship dynamic, she will often act on what she believes to be valid reasons for an affair and she will feel fairly comfortable doing it.

At The Modern Man, we believe that if you get married, you should stay married. Marriage isn?t something you ?try,? it?s something you do for real. It?s for keeps. If there are problems in your relationship, you should work to fix them rather than giving up. In our opinion, affairs are never justifiable. If a relationship is unrecoverable and you absolutely have to break up, both people should, out of common decency, maturity and respect for each other, wait until that is done before they find someone new. However, to avoid an affair or break up even happening in the first place, here at The Modern Man we teach men how to create and maintain the right relationship dynamic, so affairs never become ?necessary? for a woman. It is much easier to avoid an affair occurring in the first place, than to try and save a devastated relationship after one has happened.

Here are some of the reasons why a woman will want to have an affair behind her husband?s back.

Reason One: Arguments That Don?t Lead to Change

When arguments become on-going between you and rarely a day passes without some degree of emotional upset in your relationship, a woman is going to start thinking of why she puts up with it. Women of past generations had to put up with it and try to work through it, even if the husband responded badly and his behavior got worse as a result. These days, if a man isn?t being the perfect man like the ones depicted in TV sitcoms and movies, it has unfortunately become socially acceptable for a woman to leave, or worse, have an affair behind his back.

Men who are successful in their relationships with women do not throw their hands up in the air in the face of an argument or blame the woman for all the arguing. When faced with a problem in life, a real man faces it head on and figures out how to fix it. Things are not always going to run smoothly in a relationship every hour and every day, but couples in successful relationships get through rough patches by facing problems and looking for ways to fix them, not running away and hiding from them. As a man, it?s your job to take the lead on fixing the problem. If you don?t know how to fix it, learn.

Why do the arguments happen in the first place? Read this article, ?Why Am I Always Arguing With My Girlfriend?? to understand what leads a woman to start arguments with you and how to turn them into an opportunity to deepen your love, attraction and respect for each other, rather than pushing you further apart.

Reason Two: She Doesn?t Feel Sexy Around You Anymore

There are some very sneaky men out there who prey on married women and women in long term relationships. They live by the old old saying, ?Show me a beautiful woman in a long-term relationship and I?ll show you a man who is bored of having sex with her.? To protect your relationship against these opportunistic men, you need to ensure that your woman feels increasingly sexy around you. Most men are able to make their woman feel sexy during the initial part of the relationship, where there is plenty of romance and natural lust. However, as they progress through the stages of a relationship, they are clueless as to how to retain that or build on it.

In The Modern Relationship, I explain the secrets to not only maintaining the degree to which your woman feels sexy around you, but how to increase it. When your woman feels sexy around you, she is going to be more open to sex and to doing ?sexual favors? for you, if you know what I mean. Making her feel sexy and sexually confident around you, also means that she will continually make an effort to look good for you. You?ll find that she wears sexier clothes, makes more of an effort to stay in shape and is generally much more fun to have sex with.

Reason Three: Bad Sex or Lack of Sex

Once again, most guys are able to please their woman fairly well during the initial stages of a relationship. However, once familiarity has set in and they fail to increase the degree to which a woman feels sexy around them, the sex can become boring and predictable. The secret to avoiding this is to make your woman see you as her ?sex god,? so to speak. To her, no other man is necessary because to be sexed by you touches her and satisfies her on the deepest levels of her being.

Now, don?t get me wrong here. I?m not talking about spending loads of hours on tantric sex, or any other ?Sensitive New Age Guy? rubbish like that. I?m talking about deeply penetrating your woman?s body and mind as you have sex with her, without needing to spend time on foreplay or doing unnecessary things like dressing up and role playing. You don?t need any of that when you know how to deeply penetrate her body and mind during sex. It doesn?t matter if you do it for 5 minutes or 30 minutes; when you sex a woman right, she will be the best girl you?ve ever had in your life. You tell her to make you a coffee and she will jump at the opportunity to please you. Tell her to give you oral sex while you watch TV and she will feel LUCKY to be doing it.

However, if the sex is boring or if there is a lack of pleasurable sex, modern women (especially those who watch TV sitcoms that glamorize affairs and divorce, rather than condemning it) will often start thinking that maybe an ?exciting affair? will liven up their life again. Unfortunately, when a woman consults with her friends, they will often encourage it and even help make it happen. The best strategy to protect your relationship in the modern world, is to become the type of man that women desperately want to be with. You can no longer just be an ?okay option? or maintain a boring, sexless relationship. If the woman isn?t feeling fulfilled, she is more likely to have affair or just up and leave you.

So, how do you create the right relationship dynamic and how do you penetrate a woman?s body AND mind during sex? It?s about being a masculine man, being present and making her feel like a feminine woman. Watch Better Than a Bad Boy to learn how. When you have sex with women in the way I suggest, you will be amazed at how much good treatment you?ve been missing out on from women. The truth is, a woman WANTS to be in a position in the relationship where she feels lucky to be having sex with you. If you don?t give her that gift and make her feel lucky like that, you?re leaving her wide open to being preyed on by men who seek out unhappy women for easy sex.

Reason Four: Lack of Excitement

One of the traits that women find most attractive in men is unpredictability. I?m not referring to wild unpredictability where you do crazy or dangerous things, I?m talking about interesting unpredictability where you are not boring! I teach guys how to be unpredictable when talking to women for the first time, on the phone and on dates in The Flow and I explain how to do it in a relationship in The Modern Relationship.

All relationships go through stages and there can be no doubt that the early stages of infatuation with one another make everything about the relationship feel extremely exciting. It can feel fun and exciting to be even sitting together on the couch, cuddled up and watching TV?but, after a while it will stop feeling fun if you don?t maintain and grow the love and attraction you feel for each other. As the relationship grows, the ?love rush? of the early days is replaced with a different kind of emotional connection and this is when some women can slip into thinking that something is missing in the relationship. An affair is then used as a way of finding out if the something that?s missing can be found in someone else.

Reason Five: You?re Not Being a Man For Her

Let?s face it; if a woman is extremely happy in her relationship with her man, she?s not going to be interested in having an affair. Generally speaking, a woman will seek to have an affair when she isn?t happy and thinks that another man will provide the happiness she is lacking. As you may know, we are each responsible for our own feelings of happiness and shouldn?t solely rely on another person (or people) to make us happy. Much of it has to come from within, from our purpose in life, the love we share with others and our perception of the world around us. However, you can?t rely on a woman to know that and live by it. Your woman may think that happiness is found in a man, in buying shoes and in eating cake, who knows!

As a man, you need to take personal responsibility for the relationship you have with your woman. You can literally guide her into happiness, love and total surrender to you by being a man for her. The more of a man you are and the more you guide her into being a true, feminine woman, the happier both of you will be. These days, a lot of men unknowingly guide their women into depression, unhappiness and lack of desire because they simply don?t understand how to ?be the man? in a relationship.

Men and Women Have Changed, But Are Still the Same

Although modern women have become more confident, independent and in a way, more masculine in their behavior and thinking due to entering the workforce and taking on bigger roles, changing attitudes in society and the after effects of the feminist movement ? women still want you to be a man. Women are not the new men, they just have more voice, choice and freedom. Deep down, under the superficial layer of masculinity they have to put on to survive in the modern world, they are still just girls?and want to be treated that way behind closed doors.

These days, most men are unsure how to behave around the confident, new aged women and unfortunately, they end up looking to TV for the answers. However, when a modern man watches TV, he?ll often see TV commercials where husbands are depicted as clumsy, sex-starved idiots who are trying to do whatever they can to please their wife, who always seems to be on the verge of hitting him across the head with something. Why do they show this stuff on advertisements? Well, they can?t have men treating women that way, can they?

Companies advertising their products cannot depict women as wanting to be bent over the couch by their husband, as a reward for her doing the housework or cooking a good meal. Yet, the truth is, women do want to be in a position where they are rewarded for their good behavior. The better they behave and the more they please you, the more of your attention, love and sex they will get. That?s what women want. Yet, if you believe what you see on TV commercials, you?ll end up thinking that you will get more sex, love and respect from your woman if you do the housework and stay out of her way?or else she?ll get mad!

If you want to get a real education on how to be a man, watch Better Than a Bad Boy. Trying to learn how to be a man by watching TV sitcoms, Hollywood movies and the odd TV commercial is only going to cause you more confusion, frustration and problems now and in the long run. If you don?t want to invest years of your life and loads of your time and money into a relationship, only to have a woman turn around one day and say, ?I need to tell you something. I?ve been having an affair. I am in love with another man? then get educated and enjoy a relationship the way it should be enjoyed. That being, where the love, respect and attraction you feel for each other GROWS rather than fades away into arguments, infidelity and divorce.

Source: Themodernman.com

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The Associated Press Bans Homophobia

Margie J. Phelps protests outside Manhattan's City Clerk's Office as same-sex couples wait to marry in July 2011

Photo by Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images.

The Associated Press announced this week that its new stylebook would bar the use of the word homophobia in political or social contexts (along with Islamophobia and ethnic cleansing). AP Deputy Standards Editor Dave Minthorn told Politico that the term is ?just off the mark? and ?seems inaccurate??oddly amorphous phrases for a standards editor. ?We want to be precise and accurate and neutral in our phrasing,? he said.

If that?s true, let?s hope the AP doesn?t define ?political and social contexts? as broadly as it explains its style updates. Applying homophobia more precisely is a good idea, but banning it outright is a mistake.

The AP, whose guidelines set news industry standards, defines phobia as an ?irrational, uncontrollable fear, often a form of mental illness.? But the ?mental illness? part is surely too literal?no one accuses arachnophobes of needing an asylum. The term homophobia was first used in the 1960s when psychologists began to notice how vehement their own colleagues? reactions were to gay people?far more irrational, it seemed, than feelings around other outsider groups. ?They had no argument, just repugnance,? says George Weinberg, a clinical psychologist who popularized the term in a 1972 book and opposes the AP?s move to drop the word. ?They felt this way even about their own children. I realized this thing is deeply emotional and is based on fear.? As Weinberg and others used it, the term meant a dread or fear of close contact with gay people and a strong discomfort with homosexuality.

In those days, there was little tolerance for research on why people?s rationality broke down when it came to homosexuality. But we now know a lot more than we did then about anti-gay bias and the extent to which it is, in fact, rooted in irrational fear. Some of this knowledge has come simply because we?ve learned how seldom humans consult their rational brains about anything, especially sex. But this is particularly true not only when it comes to pleasure but also fear.

Neuroscientists have shown that the pathway of the brain?s fear response sidesteps the higher brain functions on its way to the fear-processing center. This helps explain a famous story in which a man entered a convenience store and instantly walked out, feeling fear but having no idea why; moments later a policeman entered the store and was shot. The two men had interrupted an armed robbery, but the lucky one who left in time had processed a threat in his brain?s fear center and made the snap decision to leave before his rational brain could even catch up.

In this case, it was the right decision. That?s because our brains have evolved to give us a fight-or-flight mechanism that often saves us from harm before our rational minds?which can be more helpful for long-range planning?do the job. But this same system can lead us astray. Fear instincts that may be rational in one instant or context are not perfectly attuned to others, and one result of irrational fear is bias. Research now suggests that instinctive responses of fear and disgust help explain prejudice, especially negative feelings about homosexuality, which can trigger people?s disgust sensitivities?also designed by evolution to keep us safe, in this case from dangers to our health.

Here?s how this works: People come to associate a particular group of outsiders with the things that trigger their primary disgust sensitivities?symbols of our mortality and animalism such as waste and various bodily fluids. This mental link gives rise to a layer of ?secondary disgust??beliefs, reinforced through a cultural narrative, that the group carries with it the same threats of danger and disease as do sources of primary disgust, like tainted blood or feces. This is why many of the same people want to keep both gays and immigrants at bay?they have a heightened fear of people they believe spend their time in distant or walled-off places mixing their dangerous fluids together and threatening to spread them to others with deadly force. Such a fear doesn?t have to be conscious to be this specific. Nor is it always wrong. American Indians were right to fear white settlers, whether or not they knew the precise nature of the threat. As it turned out, Europeans decimated Native Americans through a deadly combination of just what their brains probably feared most: murder, poaching, and the spread of disease.

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Second Saturn 'Pac-Man' spotted

27 November 2012 Last updated at 06:25 ET

Astronomers have seen that the temperature of Saturn's moon Tethys has hotter regions uncannily like the 1980s arcade game character Pac-Man.

A similar feature was spotted in 2010 on Mimas, another Saturnian moon.

A report in Icarus suggests the effect is due to high-energy electrons bombarding the sides of the moons that face their direction of orbital travel.

That compacts the surfaces to a hard, icy texture that does not heat or cool as rapidly as the unaffected surface.

Thermal images of both moons were obtained by the Cassini-Huygens mission, launched in 1997 to study the Saturn system in detail.

The temperatures seen by the spacecraft are distinctly chilly - the warmest parts of Tethys were at - 183C, but inside the "mouth" of the Pac-Man shape it was 15C cooler still.

At the time of the finding of the first Pac-Man shape on Mimas, scientists were unsure what might be the cause, theorising that differing surface textures probably played a role.

The existence of another such shape nearby has cemented the idea that fast-moving electrons are responsible.

"Finding a second Pac-Man in the Saturn system tells us that the processes creating these 'Pac-Men' are more widespread than previously thought," said Carly Howett, of the Southwest Research Institute in Texas and lead author of the study.

"The Saturn system - and even the Jupiter system - could turn out to be a veritable arcade of these characters," she said.

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Scientists image brain structures that deteriorate in Parkinson's

ScienceDaily (Nov. 26, 2012) ? A new imaging technique developed at MIT offers the first glimpse of the degeneration of two brain structures affected by Parkinson's disease.

The technique, which combines several types of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), could allow doctors to better monitor patients' progression and track the effectiveness of potential new treatments, says Suzanne Corkin, MIT professor emerita of neuroscience and leader of the research team. The first author of the paper is David Ziegler, who received his PhD in brain and cognitive sciences from MIT in 2011.

The study, appearing in the Nov. 26 online edition of the Archives of Neurology, is also the first to provide clinical evidence for the theory that Parkinson's neurodegeneration begins deep in the brain and advances upward.

"This progression has never been shown in living people, and that's what was special about this study. With our new imaging methods, we can see these structures more clearly than anyone had seen them before," Corkin says.

Parkinson's disease currently affects 1 to 2 percent of people over 65, totaling five million people worldwide. The disease gradually destroys the brain cells that control movement, leaving most patients wheelchair-bound and completely dependent on caregivers. "A major obstacle to research on the causes and progression of this disease has been a lack of effective brain imaging methods for the areas affected by the disease," Ziegler says.

In 2004, Heiko Braak, an anatomist at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, classified Parkinson's disease into six stages, based on the appearances of the affected brain structures. He proposed that during the earliest stages, a structure deep inside the brain, known as the substantia nigra, begins to degenerate. This structure is critical for movement and also plays important roles in reward and addiction.

Later, Braak proposed, degeneration spreads outward to a brain region known as the basal forebrain. This area, located behind the eyes, includes several structures that produce acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter important for learning and memory.

Neuropathologists (scientists who study the brains of deceased patients) had found evidence for this sequence of events, but it had never been observed in living patients because the substantia nigra, deep within the brain, is so difficult to image with conventional MRI.

To overcome that, the MIT team used four types of MRI scans, each of which uses slightly different magnetic fields, generating different images. By combining these scans, the researchers created composite images of each patient's brain that clearly show the substantia nigra and basal forebrain. "Our new MRI methods provide an unparalleled view of these two structures, allowing us to calculate the precise volumes of each structure," Ziegler says.

After scanning normal brains, the researchers studied 29 early-stage Parkinson's patients. They found significant loss of volume in the substantia nigra early on, followed by loss of basal forebrain volume later in the disease, as predicted by Braak.

The findings appear to correlate with the appearance of symptoms in Parkinson's patients, says Joel Perlmutter, a professor of neurology at the Washington University School of Medicine. "This suggests that two different systems of the brain -- one dopaminergic and associated with motor control, and one cholinergic and associated with cognitive function -- have different timing," Perlmutter says.

In future studies, this MRI technique could be used to follow patients over time and measure whether degeneration of the two areas is correlated or if they deteriorate independently of one another, Corkin says.

This approach could also give doctors a new way to monitor how their patients are responding to treatment, she says. (Most patients are treated with dopamine, which helps to overcome the loss of dopamine-producing neurons in the substantia nigra.) Researchers could also use the new imaging tools to determine the effects of potential new treatments.

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'We kept on focusing on to be ridiculous as possible,' Psy says about the concept for the hit that has racked up 826 million views.
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Thanksgiving Day parade confetti included police docs

A parade-goer watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on New York's Upper West Side noticed that the confetti that fell on him and some friends contained what appeared to be confidential personal information about Nassau County Police Department employees, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, bank routing numbers?even references to Mitt Romney's motorcade during last month's presidential debate at Hofstra University.

Ethan Finkelstein, a Tufts University freshman who was home on Thanksgiving break, showed WPIX-TV some of the confetti, which led to a police investigation.

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"I'm just completely in shock," Finkelstein said. "How could someone have this kind of information, and how could it be distributed at the Thanksgiving Day parade?"

"The Nassau County Police Department is very concerned about this situation," Nassau County Police Inspector Kenneth Lack said in a statement. "We will be conducting an investigation into this matter as well as reviewing our procedures for the disposing of sensitive documents."

Macy's, for its part, maintains that the confetti it used during the parade did not include badly shredded police documents.

"[We use] commercially manufactured, multicolor confetti," a spokesperson for Macy's told the network, "not shredded paper."

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Alzheimer's disease in mice alleviated: Promising therapeutic approach for humans

ScienceDaily (Nov. 25, 2012) ? Pathological changes typical of Alzheimer's disease were significantly reduced in mice by blockade of an immune system transmitter. A research team from Charit? -- Universit?tsmedizin Berlin and the University of Zurich has just published a new therapeutic approach in fighting Alzheimer's disease in the current issue of Nature Medicine. This approach promises potential in prevention, as well as in cases where the disease has already set in.

Alzheimer's disease is one of the most common causes of dementia. In Germany and Switzerland alone, around 1.5 million people are affected, and forecasts predict a doubling of the number of patients worldwide within the next 20 years. The accumulation of particular abnormal proteins, including amyloid-? (A?) among others, in patients' brains plays a central role in this disease. Prof. Frank Heppner from the Department of Neuropathology at Charit? and his colleague Prof. Burkhard Becher from the Institute for Experimental Immunology at the University of Zurich were able to show that turning off particular cytokines (immune system signal transmitters) reduced the Alzheimer's typical amyloid-? deposits in mice with the disease. As a result, the strongest effects were demonstrated after reducing amyloid-? by approximately 65 percent, when the immune molecule p40 was affected, which is a component of the cytokines interleukin (IL)-12 and -23.

Relevant for human therapy

Follow-up experiments also relevant for humans showed that substantial improvements in behavioral testing resulted when mice were given the antibody blocking the immune molecule p40. This effect was also achieved when the mice were already showing symptoms of the disease. Based on the current study by Prof. Heppner's and Prof. Becher's team, the level of p40 molecules is higher in Alzheimer's patients' brain fluid, which is in agreement with a recently published study by American colleagues demonstrating increased p40 levels in blood plasma of subjects with Alzheimer's disease, thus showing obvious relevance for human therapy.

The significance of the immune system in Alzheimer's research is the focus of current efforts. Prof. Heppner and Prof. Becher suspect that cytokines IL-12 and IL-23 themselves are not causative in the pathology, and that the mechanism of the immune molecule p40 in Alzheimer's requires additional clarification. However, they are convinced that the results of their six-years of research work justify the step toward clinical studies in humans, for which they plan to collaborate with a suitable industrial partner.

IIn the context of other illnesses, such as psoriasis, a medication that suppresses p40 in humans has already been applied. "Based on the safety data in patients," comment Profs. Heppner and Becher, "clinical studies could now be implemented without delay. Now, the goal is to bring the new therapeutic approach to Alzheimer patients quickly."

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Ore. girl, 7, is medical marijuana patient

By NBC News staff and wire reports

PORTLAND, Ore. - A 7-year-old girl suffering from leukemia has become one of Oregon's youngest medical marijuana patients.

Mykayla Comstock's?mother credits the drug with helping put the cancer into remission.

But her father, worried about the effects of the drug on her brain development, alerted child welfare officials to the treatment.

Mykayla was diagnosed with leukemia last spring and the marijuana eases the effects of chemotherapy, according to her mother.?The girl takes a gram of cannabis oil daily, The Oregonian?reported.

"First you get hungry," Mykayla told the paper. "Then you get really funny, and then you get tired."

Her mother,?Erin Purchase, 25, administers Mykayla's cannabis with the help of her boyfriend.

Mykayla's mother credits the drug for the leukemia's remission.

"As a mother, I am going to try anything before she can potentially fall on the other side," said Erin Purchase, 25, who administers Mykayla's cannabis together with her boyfriend.

Mykayla's father, who is divorced from the girl's mother and lives in North Dakota, contacted child welfare officials, police and her oncologist.

Jesse Comstock said his concerns were prompted by a visit with Mykayla in August.

"She was stoned out of her mind," said Comstock, 26. "All she wanted to do was lay on the bed and play video games."

Comstock pays child support to Purchase and covers Mykayla's health insurance, the paper reported.

Oregon law requires no monitoring of a child's medical marijuana use by a pediatrician.?

Three states will decide on Tuesday whether to take the unprecedented step of legalizing marijuana. NBC's Pete Williams reports.

Comstock, who says he used pot in the past, told the paper that he doesn't object to people over 16 using medical marijuana. But he worries about his daughter's well-being and the potential for addiction.

"She's not terminally ill," Comstock said. "She is going to get over this, and with all this pot, they are going to hinder her brain growth.

Weed wars: If states legalize marijuana, will feds still crack down or steer clear?

Purchase believes marijuana heals, and also credits the drug for curing her stepfather's skin cancer.?She herself is an Oregon medical marijuana patient.

"She's like she was before," she said of Mykayla. "She's a normal kid."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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It's all about the readers' happiness | TribLIVE

By Eric Heyl

Published: Saturday, November 24, 2012, 8:56?p.m.
Updated 1 hour ago

The business plan isn?t ideal.

Giving away a product that you also are selling tends to depress profits, but Chris Rodell isn?t at all depressed. He?s quite content, and he wants you to be as well.

Rodell has written a whimsical self-improvement book titled ?Use All the Crayons!? It?s an enlightening guide to being happy in tension-plagued times even if you?re wondering how you?ll make the next mortgage payment.

If you want a copy, Rodell will provide one for free.

He would prefer you pay the $15.95 cover price. He?s as fond of regular meals as the next person.

But if you can?t spare the coin and you?d still like to read his ideas for leading an enriching existence, just email him at storyteller@chrisrodell.com.

He?ll send you the book.

?This is something that I want people to have,? said Rodell, 49, of Latrobe. ?I know a lot of unhappy people going through tough times. Making $15.95 (on a book sale) is a poor excuse to keep someone marginally less cheerful.?

Rodell is a veteran freelance writer whose work has appeared in publications such as People, Playboy, Sports Illustrated and the National Enquirer. It wasn?t an easy way to earn a living in the best of times. When the Great Recession hit, writing gigs dried up faster than spit in the desert.

Rodell and his family were flat-out broke.

?We should have been miserable, we should have been angry,? he recalled. ?We weren?t.?

That?s when he got the idea for the book. He compiled a list of things he found inspiring or amusing, eventually interspersing 501 suggestions on how to lead a more colorful life with 33 essays illustrating how he provides pigmentation to his own.

Preachy, it?s not. A sampling of the advice offered:

? Mow the lawn in different patterns each week. Ask the neighbors to vote on their favorite.

? Never fail to include in your cards to newlyweds this sage advice for a long and happy marriage: Always argue naked.

? Get a $75 tattoo of an $18,000 Rolex for your wrist.

I?d reveal more, but then you won?t want to buy the free book.

?Crayons? was rejected by numerous publishers that Rodell said had more qualms about him than his work. ?A lot of them wondered how they could sell a self-help book by a guy who can?t even help himself,? he said.

Rodell published the book himself, but recently sold the audio rights to the Gildan Media Corp. He reports brisk sales at the Greensburg Barnes & Noble, where he?ll have a book signing on Dec. 1.

He also contends that giving the book away actually has been an effective sales technique.

?It hasn?t been unusual for a recipient to turn around and buy copies for other people,? he said. ?One guy I sent a copy to ended up buying 25 copies, one for each of his employees.?

The business model doesn?t guarantee Rodell a windfall, but that?s OK.

He might not ever get rich, but he?s already wealthy in other ways.

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iPhone 5 vs. Droid DNA: Which phone should you get?

No sooner does Apple released the iPhone 5 than HTC and Verizon escalate with the Droid DNA. Where the iPhone 5 is slim and sophisticated, the Droid DNA is big and brutally powerful. Where Apple is anodized aluminum, HTC is soft-touch polycarbonate. Where iOS is consistent across all Apple's mobile products, HTC Sense changes up the Android interface for good or for ill. From atom to bit, the iPhone 5 and the Droid DNA couldn't be more different. So if you're looking for a new phone on Verizon, how do you choose between them?

HTC Droid DNA

The HTC Droid is huge. It's not part tablet, part phone, if such things concern you, but with a 5-inch screen, it's about as big as a phone can get. What's more, that 5-inch screen houses and incredible 1920x1080 (1080p) screen at a retina-rupturing 440ppi. It's the biggest, densest display on the market today. However, all that screen-power is being driven by the same Snapdragon S4 Pro horse-power that drives other, much smaller displays, like the 720p Nexus 4. HiDPI comes at a performance price, after all. The cameras are both excellent, with an 8 megapixel f/2.0, 1080p sensor with BSI on the back, and a 2.1 megapixel, 1080p sensor, also with BSI, on the front. The bad news is that the battery is only 2020mAh, which some will find acceptable and others won't, and Verizon is only offering the Droid DNA with 16GB, no more. And that's not a lot of space when you're dealing with 1080p.

The Droid DNA shops with Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean, but should get an Android 4.2 update at some point. As usual with HTC devices, instead of the stock Google experience, you get the Sense interface, in this case, Sense 4+. You get 5 Home screens, adorned, of course, with the iconic HTC clock. You've also got a suite of Amazon media apps, whose streaming capabilities should help reduce the burden on the 16GB of storage (technically 11GB once the OS and apps are factored in), and a few other pre-installed apps, courtesy of Verizon.

In the Verizon Droid DNA review, Phil Nickinson of Android Central summed it up like this:

The simple fact is this: Alongside the Samsung Galaxy S3, the HTC Droid DNA is the best Android phone you can get on Verizon. Display, power, camera, and it's running Jelly Bean out of the box. What more do you need?

In the U.S., the Droid DNA is exclusive to Verizon, though versions of the same basic phone, with different names, will likely show up on different networks, especially internationally, at some point.

• Complete Verizon Droid DNA review
• HTC Sense 4+ walkthrough

Apple iPhone 5

The iPhone 5 has a completely re-engineered unibody aluminum chassis to allow for a bigger 4-inch screen in a phone that's 12% smaller by volume. It's taller but not wider, thinner and also lighter. That 4-inch screen uses in-cell technology to combine the touch sensor right into the LCD so the pixels look painted on. At 1136x640 and 326ppi, it's still backlit LED, and still IPS, and while nowhere near the biggest, it's still one of the most advanced panels on the market. Apple also rolled their own, manually-set Apple A6 processor this time, based on ARM v7s, for high performance and excellent power management.There is CDMA, HSPA, and international LTE. And you can get it in 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB versions. There's still no NFC or wireless charging, however.

iOS 6 comes loaded on the iPhone 5, and includes a new, controversial Maps app, some great extensions to Apple's virtual assistant, Siri, deep Facebook integration, Passbook for tickets and vouchers, and enhancements to FaceTime, Mail, Safari, Photo Stream, Panorama, and Accessibility. And because Apple makes both the hardware and the software, there's no integration cost, no added interface layers, and a seamless experience overall.

iTunes has the biggest international content footprint, so if you're into buying your music, TV, and movies, there's a better chance Apple will take your money than anyone else. They also have the free iCloud service for backup, restore, and sync, as well as Apple Retail Stores with Genius Bars which, if you ever break your phone, you'll absolutely consider a killer service.

In the iPhone 5 review, I summed it up as follows:

Taller, thinner, faster, lighter, brighter; the iPhone 5 represents nothing more nor less than the latest, relentless iteration on the Platonic ideal Apple has been striving towards for almost a decade. Redesigned in every way but shape, compromised but true to its purpose, the iPhone 5 is once again the best iPhone Apple has ever made, and one of the best phones ever made. Period.

The price on-contract price for an iPhone 5 is $199 for 16GB, $299 for 32GB, and $399 for 64GB, unlocked and off-contract is $650, $750, and $850 respectively.

• Complete iPhone 5 review
• Complete iOS 6 review

Apple iPhone 5 vs. HTC Droid DNA: The bottom line

The Droid DNA has absolutely the biggest, sharpest screen on the market, and if pure pixel density is your measure, the best one too. HTC Sense is a mixed blessing -- some love it, others hate it. Like the Verizon crap-ware that comes pre-installed, however, you'll have to root and flash a different ROM, like Cyanogen, to get an experience that's closer to stock. Also, while Android Central didn't encounter major battery or performance issues, other reviews have found them problematic (but then, the same could be said about the iPhone.) 16GB of storage is anemic, however, no matter how you slice it. Still, but for that, and from a pure tech and spec perspective, the Droid DNA is arguably the baddest ass Android phone on the planet now. And if you're on Verizon, or willing to switch to Verizon, and don't want an iPhone, it really looks like the phone to beat.

The iPhone 5 manages to fit a 4-inch screen into a phone that's ludicrously thin and light, and built like nothing else on the market. iOS 6 is iOS 6 on every iPhone that supports it, so there's no third-party layer on top of the core operating system. That's either a plus or a negative, depending on how you feel about iOS. There's also no crap-ware, however, and no carrier pre-installed anything. There's also 32GB and 64GB options if you want to store more apps and media on your iPhone. And you can get the iPhone 5 -- the same iPhone 5 -- on almost any carrier you choose. You can also get iTunes content in more countries than any other media store, and Apple Retail provides the best customer care in the business.

If you're on Verizon and want an LTE phone, and the even the idea of 1080p display sends you heart racing, get the HTC Droid DNA. Otherwise, for most people, most of the time, the cliche remains true -- get the iPhone.

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Need more help choosing between the iPhone 5 and the Nokia Lumia 920? Here's where you can have your questions answered!

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From November 23rd through December 20th, AT&T will feature AT&T employees? ?wish list? items as gift of the day as part of the AT&T?s Wish-A-Day Sweepstakes! For those that enter they will get the chance to win smartphones, tablets and more! Wish list items include products like the FitBit Zip,? SportClips II earphones, and the Rhythm Heart Rate Strap. You can also help someone else?s holiday wishes come true and nominate a friend. AT&T has partnered with the Make a Wish Foundation for this sweepstakes and every week someone?s nomination will win an additional prize.

Click to enter or learn more about the AT&T Wish-A-Day Sweepstakes.

I have received SportClips II earphones in exchange for sharing this information.? This post has not been monetarily compensated. Please note that any personal opinions reflected in this post are my own and have not been influenced by the sponsor in any way.

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Category: Announcements

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