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Study rebuts hypothesis that comet attacks ended 9,000-year-old Clovis culture

Jan. 30, 2013 ? Rebutting a speculative hypothesis that comet explosions changed Earth's climate sufficiently to end the Clovis culture in North America about 13,000 years ago, Sandia lead author Mark Boslough and researchers from 14 academic institutions assert that other explanations must be found for the apparent disappearance.

"There's no plausible mechanism to get airbursts over an entire continent," said Boslough, a physicist. "For this and other reasons, we conclude that the impact hypothesis is, unfortunately, bogus."

In a December 2012 American Geophysical Union monograph, first available in January, the researchers point out that no appropriately sized impact craters from that time period have been discovered, nor have any unambiguously "shocked" materials been found.

In addition, proposed fragmentation and explosion mechanisms "do not conserve energy or momentum," a basic law of physics that must be satisfied for impact-caused climate change to have validity, the authors write.

Also absent are physics-based models that support the impact hypothesis. Models that do exist, write the authors, contradict the asteroid-impact hypothesizers.

The authors also charge that "several independent researchers have been unable to reproduce reported results" and that samples presented in support of the asteroid impact hypothesis were later discovered by carbon dating to be contaminated with modern material.

The Boslough trail

Boslough has a decades-long history of successfully interpreting the effects of comet and asteroid collisions.

His credibility was on the line on in July 1994 when Eos, the widely read newsletter of the American Geophysical Union, ran a front-page prediction by a Sandia National Laboratories team, led by Boslough, that under certain conditions plumes from the collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with the planet Jupiter would be visible from Earth.

The Sandia team -- Boslough, Dave Crawford, Allen Robinson and Tim Trucano -- were alone among the world's scientists in offering that possibility.

"It was a gamble and could have been embarrassing if we were wrong," said Boslough. "But I had been watching while Shoemaker-Levy 9 made its way across the heavens and realized it would be close enough to the horizon of Jupiter that the plumes would show." His reasoning was backed by simulations from the world's first massively parallel processing supercomputer, Sandia's Intel Paragon.

On the one hand, it was a chance to check the new Paragon's logic against real events, a shakedown run for the defense-oriented machine. On the other, it was a hold-your-breath prediction, a kind of Babe Ruth moment when the Babe is reputed to have pointed to the spot in the center field bleachers he intended to hit the next ball. No other scientists were willing to point the same way, partly due to previous failures in predicting the behavior of comets Kohoutek and Halley, and partly because most astronomers believed the plumes would be hidden behind Jupiter's bulk.

That the plumes indeed proved visible started Boslough on his own trajectory as a media touchstone for things asteroidal and meteoritic.

It didn't hurt that, when he stands before television cameras to discuss celestial impacts, his earnest manner, expressive gestures and extraterrestrial subject matter make him seem a combination of Carl Sagan and Luke Skywalker, or perhaps Tom Sawyer and Indiana Jones.

Standing in jeans, work shirt and hiking boots for the Discovery Channel at the site in Siberia where a mysterious explosion occurred 105 years ago, or discussing it at Sandia with his supercomputer simulations in bold colors on a big screen behind him, the rangy, 6-foot-3 Sandia researcher vividly and accurately explained why the mysterious explosion at Tunguska that decimated hundreds of square miles of trees and whose ejected debris was seen as far away as London most probably was caused neither by flying saucers drunkenly ramming a hillside (a proposed hypothesis) nor by an asteroid striking the Earth's surface, but rather by the fireball of an asteroid airburst -- an asteroid exploding high above ground, like a nuclear bomb, compressed to implosion as it plunged deeper into Earth's thickening, increasingly resistive atmosphere. The governing physics, he said, was precisely the same as for the airburst on Jupiter.

Among later triumphs, Boslough was the Sandia component of a National Geographic team flown to the Libyan Desert to make sense of strange yellow-green glass worn as jewelry by pharaohs in days past. Boslough's take: It was the result of heat on desert sands from a hypervelocity impact caused by an even bigger asteroid burst.

In the present case

In the Clovis case, Boslough felt that his ideas were taken further than he could accept when other researchers claimed that the purported demise of Clovis civilization in North America was the result of climate change produced by a cluster of comet fragments striking Earth.

In a widely reported press conference announcing the Clovis comet hypothesis in 2007, proponents showed a National Geographic animation based on one of Boslough's simulations as inspiration for their idea.

Indiana Jones-style, Boslough responded. Confronted by apparently hard asteroid evidence, as well as a Nova documentary and an article in the journal Science, all purportedly showing his error in rebutting the comet hypothesis, Boslough ordered carbon dating of the major evidence provided by the opposition: nanodiamond-bearing carbon spherules associated with the shock of an asteroid's impact. The tests found the alleged 13,000-year-old carbon to be of very recent formation.

While this raised red flags to those already critical of the impact hypothesis, "I never said the samples were salted," Boslough said carefully. "I said they were contaminated."

That find, along with irregularities reported in the background of one member of the opposing team, was enough for Nova to remove the entire episode from its list of science shows available for streaming, Boslough said.

"Just because a culture changed from Clovis to Folsom spear points didn't mean their civilization collapsed," he said. "They probably just used another technology. It's like saying the phonograph culture collapsed and was replaced by the iPod culture."

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  1. M. Boslough, K. Nicoll, V. Holliday, T. L. Daulton, D. Meltzer, N. Pinter, A. C. Scott, T. Surovell, P. Claeys, J. Gill, F. Paquay, J. Marlon, P. Bartlein, C. Whitlock, D. Grayson, and A. J. T. Jull. Arguments and Evidence Against a Younger Dryas Impact Event. Climates, Landscapes, and Civilizations, Geophysical Monograph Series, 2012; 198: 13-26 DOI: 10.1029/2012GM001209

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Technology kills jobs for middle class | TribLIVE


By The Associated Press

Published: Saturday, January 26, 2013, 12:01?a.m.
Updated 14 hours ago

NEW YORK ? Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries the world over.

And the situation is even worse than it appears.

Most of the jobs will never return, and millions more are likely to vanish as well, say experts who study the labor market. What?s more, these jobs aren?t just being lost to China and other developing countries, and they aren?t just factory work. Increasingly, jobs are disappearing in the service sector, home to two-thirds of all workers.

They?re being obliterated by technology.

Year after year, the software that runs computers and an array of other machines and devices becomes more sophisticated and powerful and capable of doing more efficiently tasks that humans have always done. For decades, science fiction warned of a future when we would be architects of our own obsolescence, replaced by our machines; an Associated Press analysis finds that the future has arrived.

?The jobs that are going away aren?t coming back,? says Andrew McAfee, principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-author of ?Race Against the Machine.? ??I have never seen a period where computers demonstrated as many skills and abilities as they have over the past seven years.?

The global economy is being reshaped by machines that generate and analyze vast amounts of data; by devices such as smartphones and tablet computers that let people work just about anywhere; by smarter, nimbler robots; and by services that let businesses rent computing power when they need it, instead of installing expensive equipment and hiring IT staffs to run it. Whole employment categories, from secretaries to travel agents, are starting to disappear.

?There?s no sector of the economy that?s going to get a pass,? says Martin Ford, who runs a software company and wrote ?The Lights in the Tunnel,? a book predicting widespread job losses. ?It?s everywhere.?

The numbers startle labor economists. In the United States, half the 7.5 million jobs lost during the Great Recession were in industries that pay middle-class wages, ranging from $38,000 to $68,000. But only 2 percent of the 3.5 million jobs gained since the recession ended in June 2009 are in midpay industries. Nearly 70 percent are in low-pay industries, 29 percent in industries that pay well.

In the 17 European countries that use the euro as their currency, the numbers are worse. Almost 4.3 million low-pay jobs have been gained since mid-2009, but the loss of midpay jobs has never stopped. A total of 7.6 million disappeared from January 2008 through last June.

Experts warn that this ?hollowing out? of the middle-class workforce is far from over. They predict the loss of millions more jobs as technology becomes even more sophisticated and reaches deeper into our lives. Maarten Goos, an economist at the University of Leuven in Belgium, says Europe could double its middle-class job losses.

Some occupations are beneficiaries of the march of technology, such as software engineers and app designers for smartphones and tablet computers. Overall, though, technology is eliminating far more jobs than it is creating.

To understand the impact technology is having on middle-class jobs in developed countries, the AP analyzed employment data from 20 countries; tracked changes in hiring by industry, pay and task; compared job losses and gains during recessions and expansions over the past four decades; and interviewed economists, technology experts, robot manufacturers, software developers, entrepreneurs and people in the labor force who ranged from CEOs to the unemployed.

The AP?s key findings:

? For more than three decades, technology has reduced the number of jobs in manufacturing. Robots and other machines controlled by computer programs work faster and make fewer mistakes than humans. Now, that same efficiency is being unleashed in the service economy, which employs more than two-thirds of the workforce in developed countries. Technology is eliminating jobs in office buildings, retail establishments and other businesses consumers deal with every day.

? Technology is being adopted by every kind of organization that employs people. It?s replacing workers in large corporations and small businesses, established companies and start-ups. It?s being used by schools, colleges and universities; hospitals and other medical facilities; nonprofit organizations and the military.

? The most vulnerable workers are doing repetitive tasks that programmers can write software for ? an accountant checking a list of numbers, an office manager filing forms, a paralegal reviewing documents for key words to help in a case. As software becomes even more sophisticated, victims are expected to include those who juggle tasks, such as supervisors and managers ? workers who thought they were protected by a college degree.

? Thanks to technology, companies in the Standard & Poor?s 500 stock index reported one-third more profit the past year than they earned the year before the Great Recession. They?ve also expanded their businesses, but total employment, at 21.1 million, has declined by a half-million.

? Start-ups account for much of the job growth in developed economies, but software is allowing entrepreneurs to launch businesses with a third fewer employees than in the 1990s. There is less need for administrative support and back-office jobs that handle accounting, payroll and benefits.

? It?s becoming a self-serve world. Instead of relying on someone else in the workplace or our personal lives, we use technology to do tasks ourselves. Some find this frustrating; others like the feeling of control. Either way, this trend will only grow as software permeates our lives.

? Technology is replacing workers in developed countries regardless of their politics, policies and laws. Union rules and labor laws may slow the dismissal of employees, but no country is attempting to prohibit organizations from using technology that allows them to operate more efficiently ? and with fewer employees.

Technological innovations have been throwing people out of jobs for centuries. But they eventually created more work, and greater wealth, than they destroyed. Ford, the author and software engineer, thinks there is reason to believe that this time will be different. He sees virtually no end to the inroads of computers into the workplace. Eventually, he says, software will threaten the livelihoods of doctors, lawyers and other highly skilled professionals.

Many economists are encouraged by history and think the gains eventually will outweigh the losses. But even they have doubts.

?What?s different this time is that digital technologies show up in every corner of the economy,? McAfee says.

Peter Lindert, an economist at the University of California, Davis, says the computer is more destructive than innovations in the Industrial Revolution because the pace at which it is upending industries makes it hard for people to adapt.

Occupations that provided middle-class lifestyles for generations can disappear in a few years. Utility meter readers are just one example. As power companies began installing so-called smart readers outside homes, the number of meter readers in the United States plunged from 56,000 in 2001 to 36,000 in 2010, according to the Labor Department.

In 10 years? That number is expected to be zero.

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Job in Nairobi Kenya - Land O'Lakes Human Resources ...

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Human Resources Representative - International Development
Land O?Lakes, Inc. is a farmer-owned food and agricultural cooperative with annual sales of approximately $12 billion.?

Land O?Lakes is a leading marketer of a full line of dairy-based consumer, food service and food ingredient products across the United States; and provides farmers and ranchers with an extensive line of agricultural supplies (feed, seed, and crop protection products) and services.

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Corporate Business Unit: Corporate encompasses the core operational support for all Land O?Lakes businesses.

?It includes Business Development Services, Corporate Market Strategy and Communications, Finance, Law, Human Resources, Information Technology and Public Affairs.

Position Purpose: This position is located in Nairobi and provides human resources generalist support for the Land O'Lakes International Development organization.?

Provides HR business partner support to IDD, including support and coaching to internal customers (i.e. employee relations, performance coaching, HR technology, policies and guidelines), implement talent initiatives, provide organization change support, deliver training on HR related topics (formal and informal settings), assist with special projects as needed.?

The incumbent is well-versed in U.S. government funding program employment regulations and compliance and applies that knowledge to IDD employment contracts, policies and compensation programs.?

This position provides HR support to IDD staff outside the United States, including Expat, HCN and TCN employees.?

Based in Nairobi, Kenya, or Washington, DC, with relocation to Kenya in 1-2 years.

Required (Basic) Experience & Education:

  • BS/BA in Human Resources Management with a minimum of 5 years H.R. Generalist experience, including international HR experience
  • Prior experience with US government rules & regulations
  • Prior HR experience in the NGO sector in a developing country context
  • Demonstrated experience coaching managers and navigating employee relations situations
  • Demonstrated ability to work with business leaders to achieve business results; excellent business acumen.
  • Demonstrated experience in implementing organization change
  • Must have strong collaboration, facilitation, and leadership skills as well as demonstrated ability to exercise judgment and discretion in establishing and maintaining good working relationships with all levels of employees.
  • Must have solid communication skills (written, verbal), be an active listener, customer-focused, and demonstrate unquestionable ethics and values.
  • Must be able to research information and analyze data to arrive at valid conclusions, present facts and ideas clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing, make recommendations effectively, and execute plans of action.
  • Must have excellent organizational skills with an emphasis on attention to detail and accurate record keeping.
  • Must be proficient in MS office suite and experienced with HRMS systems and able to adapt to / learn various technology systems.

Required Competencies & Other Skills:

  • HR Professional Knowledge & Skills
  • Results oriented
  • Process Improvement & Technology
  • Managing Conflict
  • Planning & Organizing
  • Communication - especially Written

Preferred Experience & Education:

  • MAIR or MBA in HR
  • GPHR certification
  • Language skills, such as French or African languages
Percentage of Travel: 40%

Land O'Lakes, Inc. offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, including medical and dental insurance, retirement savings account, tuition reimbursement, PTO, paid holidays, and employee development opportunities.?

Land O?Lakes, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.?

Land O?Lakes, Inc. enforces a policy of maintaining a drug-free workforce, including pre-employment substance abuse testing.

Apply online at: http://bit.ly/13XFwdc

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Home Flipping vs Real Estate Investing The ... - Eliteratur-Blog

Which is preferable: house flipping or real estate investing?

In order to reach an answer, it will help to explain each phrase and put each one in perspective.

Home flipping is the strategy of buying a house and then selling it at a profit in the least amount of time manageable. A house flipper tries to make the most money in the shortest span of time, which is why its called house flipping.House flippers don?t hold onto house, they flip them quick. In fact, the shorter period of time the house flipper holds the property, the better their profits usually are.

Real estate investors want to keep the property for income then either keeping the house for a while and selling or keeping it for rental income.

The real estate investor might buy the property with the purpose of selling it at some time, but usually not in a short (two to three month) period of time.

Which form of investing is the best for you and your family?

The main differentiator is house flippers want fast cash back and real estate investors want appreciation and income from rent

House flip guys aim to get property for the cheap then rehab and sell quickly. In doing it this way, the house flipper locks in fast profits.

Frequently, the property will likely be purchased at a price a lot less compared to its selling price (within the cover anything from fifty to ninety percent of the market price).

Buying and renovating a home is the easiest way to house flip. The house flipper buys the house, renovates and sells it in a very short time.

House flip renovations are popular because if you estimate your fix up costs, you can turn a profit quickly. It can be easy to get professionals who identify the specified renovations needed and the house will look really good for a quick resale when it?s done.

This allows the house flipper to get a fast market for the house and at the same time fetching a really good price for the house.

House flipping tends to be more hassle free than real estate investing especially where the flipper is just buying a house and selling it without doing any renovations.

Where a house flipping pro works is important as well and this depends on the local real estate market in large part, the house flip professional can make a higher return of their invested dollars in shorter period of time if he flips the house quickly. The real estate investor holds the property and rents it to renters, thus making cash flow instead of a quick buck.

In buy and hold real estate investing, the scheme is more long term and for investors looking for a steady income. There is one major advantage in that the investor can build houses as per the needs of the current buyers (given the changing trends in life and buyers? requirements).

The profits fetched can also be higher if the investor is getting benefits such as economies of scale where he/she is able to buy building materials at a much lower price.

I am purely biased, but house flipping is my preferred way of making money in real estate, what do you think?

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Mama | Movie Reviews | Kelly Vance | East Bay Express

A story within a story within a story. The main protagonists in Andy Muschietti's Mama are Annabel, a self-centered, tattooed bass player in a rock band, played by Jessica Chastain, and her mild-mannered boyfriend Luke (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), a struggling illustrator. Annabel and Luke's existence, like their relationship, is muddling along unremarkably when we first meet them, but the nondescript slacker couple's lives are about to be turned inside out because of something that happened five years ago in the hills.

At that time, Luke's brother Jeffrey (also played by Mr. Coster-Waldau), fresh from running away in disgrace from his corporate job ? evidently a financial scandal ? murders his wife in front of their two toddler daughters, then hurriedly gathers up Victoria (Megan Charpentier) and her younger sister Lily (Isabelle N?lisse), flings them into the family car, and speeds into the twilight on a treacherous, snowy, mountain road as if he intends to kill himself and his family. They end up in the proverbial lonely, decrepit cabin in the woods, where strange things come to pass.

The balance of the unshakably creepy scenario ? written by Argentine-born, Barcelona-based international filmmaker Andy (aka Andr?s) Muschietti and his sister Barbara Muschietti with screenwriter Neil Cross, adapted from a short film by the Muschietti siblings ? shows what happens when little Victoria and Lily, after five long years living in the cabin, are rescued and come to stay with their Uncle Luke and "Aunt" Annabel, who win temporary guardianship of the girls over their stuffy maternal aunt (Jane Moffat). The girls don't seem to have grown at all during their time in the forest, perhaps because they survived on a diet of wild cherries, but we'll let that pass.

The kids are practically feral, with matted hair, dirty faces, and a built-in apprehension that causes them to stare off into the nearest dark corner ? there's always a dark corner nearby in this movie ? at the slightest provocation. Victoria, elder of the two, gradually readjusts to "normal" life and welcomes her new pair of eyeglasses. However Lily, the wilder sister, scuttles around on all fours like a crazy crab and seems to take her cues from an unseen presence in the shadows.

That's because the girls are haunted by the ghost of a "mad woman" who lost her child as well as her life in those same woods many years before. Mama ? a startlingly grotesque wraith who grows out of a mold spot on the wall, played by Spanish actor Javier Botet from the [REC] movies ? has adopted the abandoned girls, and wants them back. Woe to anyone who stands in her way or shows too much affection for Victoria and Lily. We're looking at a custody battle.

The Muschiettis, with presumed input from executive producer Guillermo del Toro, invest this seemingly routine spooked-children yarn with a bounty of narrative and visual refinements, not least of which is the unaccustomedly dark-haired Chastain's performance as the reluctant stepmom. Annabel's initial annoyed dismissal of the orphans gives way to a tenacious maternal devotion that adds real-world emotion to the fantastic goings-on. On the heels of Chastain's big-screen overexposure in the past year and a half, we were skeptical on seeing her name in the credits, but her acting and the role itself turn out to be unusually fine-grained, better than anything she did in either The Tree of Life or Zero Dark Thirty.

Filmmaker del Toro has always shown a preference for stories of lost children (The Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth, and the upcoming Pinocchio), and to the tough-love scenario he and the Muschiettis bring a coat of classic gothic visual splendor ? la Murnau, Dreyer, Lang, and Lewton. The monochromatic night scenes in the forest and on the cliff are enthralling in their light-and-shadow poetry.

Someone needs to go out to that decaying cabin in the dead of night. Annabel is impelled to open that closet door in the dark bedroom where the girls play after midnight, instead of sleeping. Everything in a movie like this depends on the visuals, and when they're as sure-footed as this, the whole nightmare springs to life before our eyes. Parts of Mama are absolutely terrifying. It will take days, and long winter nights, for the tingle of this enthralling fantasy to fade away.

Source: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/mama/Content?oid=3441851

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Studies provide insights into inherited causes of autism

Jan. 23, 2013 ? The most consistent finding of autism research lies in the revelation that the disorders are incredibly complex. Two new studies in the January 23 issue of the Cell Press journal Neuron that add to the growing appreciation of this complexity focus on identifying inherited genetic mutations linked with autism spectrum disorders. The mutations -- which are distinct from the spontaneous mutations that have been the focus of previous studies -- may provide valuable insights into the causes of autism.

"It's long been known that autism is a heritable condition and that some cases appear to run in families. Our studies are among the first to begin to address this heritable component," says Dr. Christopher Walsh of Boston Children's Hospital, who is the senior author of one of the papers.

Both groups sequenced the portion of the genome that codes for proteins, also known as the exome, in individuals with autism, their relatives, and controls. In one study, investigators focused on rare mutations that completely abolish the function of particular genes -- and therefore the expression of a protein. "We utilized new genome-sequencing technologies to discover a component of autism that can be traced to recessive inheritance -- that is, when a child inherits two broken copies of the same gene, one from each parent who is a carrier," explains senior author Dr. Mark Daly of Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute. "There were twice as many autism cases as control individuals that were apparently missing an important protein somewhere in the genome," he adds. Their findings suggest that 5% of autism risk is linked to inherited mutations that completely disrupt the functions of genes.

Like Dr. Daly and his colleagues, Dr. Walsh and his team identified and characterized cases of autism due to the inheritance of two gene mutations, one from each parent. In this work, though, the researchers found that the partial loss of a gene's function -- not only complete absence of function -- is linked to autism spectrum disorders. They identified several genes -- such as those involved in neurometabolic pathways -- that were not previously associated with autism risk, and they revealed a striking variability of autism severity despite inheritance of similar genetic mutations.

"These two studies firmly establish that recessive mutations contribute importantly to autism, not just in specialized populations but in the population at large," says first author Dr. Timothy Yu, of Boston Children's Hospital.

With follow-up work, identifying the various genes that are silent or partially disabled in autism cases can provide key clues to understanding the underlying biology of autism spectrum disorders and potentially help generate new therapies.

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  1. Timothy?W. Yu, Maria?H. Chahrour, Michael?E. Coulter, Sarn Jiralerspong, Kazuko Okamura-Ikeda, Bulent Ataman, Klaus Schmitz-Abe, David?A. Harmin, Mazhar Adli, Athar?N. Malik, Alissa?M. D?Gama, Elaine?T. Lim, Stephan?J. Sanders, Ganesh?H. Mochida, Jennifer?N. Partlow, Christine?M. Sunu, Jillian?M. Felie, Jacqueline Rodriguez, Ramzi?H. Nasir, Janice Ware, Robert?M. Joseph, R.?Sean Hill, Benjamin?Y. Kwan, Muna Al-Saffar, Nahit?M. Mukaddes, Asif Hashmi, Soher Balkhy, Generoso?G. Gascon, Fuki?M. Hisama, Elaine LeClair, Annapurna Poduri, Ozgur Oner, Samira Al-Saad, Sadika?A. Al-Awadi, Laila Bastaki, Tawfeg Ben-Omran, Ahmad?S. Teebi, Lihadh Al-Gazali, Valsamma Eapen, Christine?R. Stevens, Leonard Rappaport, Stacey?B. Gabriel, Kyriacos Markianos, Matthew?W. State, Michael?E. Greenberg, Hisaaki Taniguchi, Nancy?E. Braverman, Eric?M. Morrow, Christopher?A. Walsh. Using Whole-Exome Sequencing to Identify Inherited Causes of Autism. Neuron, 2013; 77 (2): 259 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.11.002
  2. Elaine?T. Lim, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Stephan?J. Sanders, Christine Stevens, Aniko Sabo, Daniel?G. MacArthur, Benjamin?M. Neale, Andrew Kirby, Douglas?M. Ruderfer, Menachem Fromer, Monkol Lek, Li Liu, Jason Flannick, Stephan Ripke, Uma Nagaswamy, Donna Muzny, Jeffrey?G. Reid, Alicia Hawes, Irene Newsham, Yuanqing Wu, Lora Lewis, Huyen Dinh, Shannon Gross, Li-San Wang, Chiao-Feng Lin, Otto Valladares, Stacey?B. Gabriel, Mark dePristo, David?M. Altshuler, Shaun?M. Purcell, Matthew?W. State, Eric Boerwinkle, Joseph?D. Buxbaum, Edwin?H. Cook, Richard?A. Gibbs, Gerard?D. Schellenberg, James?S. Sutcliffe, Bernie Devlin, Kathryn Roeder, Mark?J. Daly. Rare Complete Knockouts in Humans: Population Distribution and Significant Role in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Neuron, 2013; 77 (2): 235 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.12.029

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Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron walks past a map of Europe on a screen as he walks away after making a speech on holding a referendum on staying in the European Union in London, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013. Cameron said Wednesday he will offer British citizens a vote on whether to leave the European Union if his party wins the next election, a move which could trigger alarm among fellow member states. He acknowledged that public disillusionment with the EU is "at an all-time high," using a long-awaited speech in central London to say that the terms of Britain's membership in the bloc should be revised and the country's citizens should have a say. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron walks past a map of Europe on a screen as he walks away after making a speech on holding a referendum on staying in the European Union in London, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013. Cameron said Wednesday he will offer British citizens a vote on whether to leave the European Union if his party wins the next election, a move which could trigger alarm among fellow member states. He acknowledged that public disillusionment with the EU is "at an all-time high," using a long-awaited speech in central London to say that the terms of Britain's membership in the bloc should be revised and the country's citizens should have a say. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

British Prime Minister David Cameron addresses a panel session of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron)

(AP) ? British Prime Minister David Cameron wants nothing to do with a United States of Europe, an idea that's gaining currency as the countries that use the euro struggle to fix their debt crisis.

A day after he shook up Europe's political landscape by offering citizens the prospect of a vote on whether to stay in the 27-country European Union, Cameron insisted Thursday he wants Britain to remain an integral part of the bloc but that more unification would not be the answer.

"To try and shoehorn countries into a centralized political union would be a great mistake and Britain would not be a part of it," he said in a speech at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos.

Over the past few months, many in the EU, particularly among the 17 countries that use the euro, are on a drive for closer unification, and that's raised particular concerns in Britain, which has often viewed the bloc through a business prism.

"If you mean that Europe has to be a political union, a country called Europe, then I disagree," said Cameron, who insisted he is arguing for a more flexible EU ? not to walk out on it. On Wednesday, Cameron put an end to months of speculation by revealing he intends to hold a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU if he wins the next general election, expected in 2015.

But many politicians in Europe think closer political ties are exactly what is needed to maintain continental unity in the face of a debt crisis that's laid bare fundamental flaws in the euro. The European Union, which last year won the Nobel Peace Prize, effectively started amid the rubble of World War II ? the motivation to avoid future wars.

Some even think Europe's end-game has to be to resemble the United States of America. Countries would be so tied together in their economic and social fabric to make war inconceivable.

A number of European leaders have accused Cameron of putting the bloc at risk to deal with domestic political problems. His Conservative Party has a hardcore element that is highly skeptical of the EU, while an anti-EU party, the UK Independence Party, is gaining ground in the polls most notably at the expense of Cameron's Conservatives.

Italian Premier Mario Monti said Britain should set aside ideology and look at its membership in the EU with "pragmatism, which should be a British attitude of mind."

He argued that Britons, for all their hostility to EU regulations and bureaucracy, benefit so much from the single market that they would be scared to leave ? a ready access to markets and over half a billion people would be a gamble too far.

Most of British business appears to want to stay in the EU but out of the integrationist drive ? the question is whether that can be achieved.

"The vast majority of businesses across the UK want to stay in the single market, but on the basis of a revised relationship ..... that promotes trade and competitiveness," said John Langworth of the British Chambers of Commerce.

He was among 55 British business leaders who issued a public letter to the Times of London on Thursday complaining about demands from Brussels and calling for a "a more competitive, flexible and prosperous European Union that would bring more jobs and growth for all member states."

Growth is certainly something that Europe is craving. The eurozone as a whole is in recession and figures Friday are expected to show the British Economy, the EU's third-largest, half way back to its third recession in four years ? a recession is commonly defined as two successive quarters of negative economic growth.

The leaders of Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands and Denmark ? also in Davos for the gathering of political and business elites ? stressed the importance of Britain's place in the EU.

But Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt acknowledged Cameron's budget concerns.

"Every morning we need to get up in the morning and ask, are we spending public money in the right way," she said. "If we are doing it at the member state level we should be doing it at the European level as well."

Britain's relations with Europe have been strained since the end of World War II. It did not join the European Steel and Coal Community, the forebear of what would later become the European Union, in 1951.

Britain later realized there were benefits accruing from joining up with some of its wartime friends and foes, and joined the evolving European bloc. It has stood against many efforts to forge closer ties, notably the creation of the euro, but has been at the forefront of the drive to create a single market.

Associated Press

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Inaugural Column of the Soyuz Postsocialist - Anthropology News

Dialectic Lenins, photo by Kristen Ghodsee

Dialectic Lenins. Photo courtesy Kristen Ghodsee

This marks the beginning of the Soyuz Network for Postsocialist Cultural Studies? online Anthropology News column.? Soyuz is an interest group of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and an officially recognized unit in the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), formerly the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS).? Soyuz is a loose scholarly association of researchers interested in cultural studies, and although many of us are anthropologists and ethnographers, the Soyuz membership is interdisciplinary and includes historians, political scientists, sociologists, philologists as well as those in literary, film and media studies.? Traditionally, the network has provided a platform for those doing rich qualitative research informed by fieldwork in postsocialist countries.

The primary activity of the network has been a yearly symposium, which brings scholars together to share current research at a host university in the US.? Soyuz symposiums are unique in that they showcase the work of graduate students and international scholars in an intimate setting where there is only one panel at a time.? In 2013, the Harriman Institute at Columbia University is hosting this symposium.

The Soyuz Network is an heir of the old East European Anthropology Group of the AAA.? Originally, most Soyuz members did their research in the Central and East European and Central Asian countries emerging from state socialism between 1989 and 1991 (hence its ongoing affiliation with the Slavic Studies association). Over the years, however, there has been a concerted effort to expand the critical purchase of the term ?postsocialist? to include countries that experimented with a socialist path to development during the Cold War (eg, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Zambia, Ethiopia, Angola, Tanzania, and so forth) as well as those nations that are nominally still socialist in some form (eg, Cuba, China, North Korea).? The philosopher Nancy Fraser uses ?postsocialist? to refer to the politics of all states (including the US and those in Western Europe) after the demise of the Eastern Bloc.

Because of these ambiguities, the term ?postsocialist? is contested. ?Scholars from Central and Eastern Europe are often uneasy about labels that include the words ?socialist? or ?communist? more than two decades after the so-called democratic revolutions of 1989.? ?How long beyond the demise of an ?-ism? should it be saddled with the prefix ?post?? ?Another problem is whether the term is just a temporal marker versus being a critical, theoretical tool.? In the former case, a study of pickle making in contemporary Bulgaria might fall under the rubric of postsocialist studies merely because the activity is happening in the country after 1989.? In the latter case, the pickle making research would only be considered postsocialist cultural studies if the study engaged critically with the political economy of pickle making in Bulgaria from the state socialist era, through the process of privatization in the 1990s, and within the neoliberal climate of the present day.? For many scholars, the term ?postsocialist? is only useful if it is part of an intellectual project that historicizes the lived experience of 21st century global capitalism.

In a groundbreaking 2009 article in ?Comparative Studies in Society and History?, Sharad Chari and Katherine Verdery investigate the genealogy and continued salience of the terms ?postcolonialism? and ?postsocialism.?? They argue that: ?It is time to liberate the Cold War from the ghetto of Soviet area studies and postcolonial thought from the ghetto of Third World and colonial studies.?? Chari and Verdery call on scholars to get rid of the terms ?postsocialism? and ?postcolonialism,? and replace them with one unified term: ?post Cold-War.??? This idea of ?post-Cold War? studies would encompass all geographic areas and might be defined by a particular methodological or critical approach to the legacies of the demise of the Second World.

At our last business meeting in San Francisco, Soyuz members expressed a host of anxieties around the continued use of the term ?postsocialist? in our name. ?There were others in attendance, however, that argued that there was some continuity and similarity in the experiences of countries that experimented with various forms of state socialism during the 20th century.? In a keynote address at the Soyuz Symposium at Princeton University in 2007, Stephen Kotkin argued that there is a material reality that still unites the former communist countries: from the architecture of the apartment blocks, to the socialist realism of the monuments, to the appliances still working in people?s homes.? For those who feel that there is something uniquely ?postsocialist? to the term ?postsocialism,? Soyuz does provide an important home for those doing research in these particular parts of the world (scholars who feel lost or marginalized within ?European Studies? or ?Asian Studies?).? Whether you embrace or reject the word ?postsocialist,? the Soyuz network is a key venue for these ongoing debates.

The goal of this new Soyuz column for Anthropology News is to share with other anthropologists around the world the vibrant intellectual work being done in ?postsocialist cultural studies,? however broadly defined.? The column welcomes contributions from both Soyuz members and from scholars whose work will be of specific interest to our membership.?? Through ongoing dialogue and exchange, the Soyuz Network for Postsocialist Cultural Studies will continue to foster a community of researchers whose work examines the histories, ideologies and lived experiences of perhaps the only fully realized (though far from perfect) political and economic alternative to neoliberal capitalism.

Kristen Ghodsee is contributing editor of the Soyuz column in Anthropology News.

Source: http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2013/01/22/inaugural-column-of-the-soyuz-postsocialist-studies-network/

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Sting's daughter to make her off-Broadway debut

FILE - This Sept. 7, 2012 file photo shows actress Mickey Sumner at the "Imogene" premiere during the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto. Sumner has signed up to make her off-Broadway debut in Craig Lucas's new comedy ?The Lying Lesson.? The Atlantic Theater Company said Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, that Sumner, daughter of musician Sting and Trudie Styler will star opposite Carol Kane in the comic thriller. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, file)

FILE - This Sept. 7, 2012 file photo shows actress Mickey Sumner at the "Imogene" premiere during the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto. Sumner has signed up to make her off-Broadway debut in Craig Lucas's new comedy ?The Lying Lesson.? The Atlantic Theater Company said Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, that Sumner, daughter of musician Sting and Trudie Styler will star opposite Carol Kane in the comic thriller. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, file)

FILE - This Sept. 7, 2012 file photo shows actress Mickey Sumner at the "Imogene" premiere during the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto. Sumner has signed up to make her off-Broadway debut in Craig Lucas's new comedy ?The Lying Lesson.? The Atlantic Theater Company said Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, that Sumner, daughter of musician Sting and Trudie Styler will star opposite Carol Kane in the comic thriller. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, file)

(AP) ? Sting's daughter Mickey Sumner has signed up to make her off-Broadway debut in Craig Lucas's new comedy "The Lying Lesson."

The Atlantic Theater Company said Tuesday that Sumner, whose credits also include the new Noah Baumbach film "Frances Ha," will star opposite Carol Kane in the comic thriller.

Kane plays a woman who may or may not be legendary screen star Bette Davis and Sumner will portray a woman who tries to discover her true identity.

Previews begin Feb. 20 with an opening set for March 13. Tony Award-nominated director Pam MacKinnon will replace Anna D. Shapiro as the play's director.

Sumner, whose mother is Trudie Styler, made her New York stage debut in a Culture Project workshop of "The Seagull" and is featured in the Showtime series "The Borgias."

Associated Press

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New York City extols virtues of tiny apartments

NEW YORK (AP) ? Sam Neuman jokes that he doesn't casually throw off his coat when he gets home at night ? it would take up half his apartment.

Such is life in his walk-up studio a few blocks from Manhattan's bustling Times Square, which at 280 square feet is barely the size of a one-car garage, with just enough space for a bed, a desk, a TV stand on one wall and a kitchen against the other.

"I've developed this weird Stockholm Syndrome, which you identify with your captors," said the 31-year-old publicist. "When I go to other people's apartments, I think, 'Why do they need more than one bedroom?' I'm really very happy here. There's not really time to let things accumulate because ... where would I put them?"

The Big Apple is legendary for its legions of residents who live in really, really small apartments. Many of them are fiercely proud of it and can even find the humor in their cramped quarters. Now the city is about to see just how small New Yorkers are willing to go.

With the population and rents expected to keep climbing, New York City planners are challenging architects to design ways to make it tolerable ? even comfortable ? to live in dwellings from 350 square feet to as small as 250 square feet.

The city wants to incorporate those designs into an apartment complex to be built on Manhattan's east side next year featuring mostly "micro units." The aim is to offer more such tiny apartments throughout the city as affordable options for the young singles, cash-poor and empty nesters who are increasingly edged out of the nation's most expensive real-estate market.

If the pilot program is successful, New York could ultimately overturn a requirement established in 1987 that all new apartments be at least 400 square feet. Smaller living is a concept already endorsed by some cities. San Francisco recently approved construction of apartments as small as 220 square feet. And Tokyo and Hong Kong have long offered tiny units.

As a way to get New Yorkers to think small, the Museum of the City of New York is opening an exhibit Wednesday featuring a fully furnished 325-square-foot studio apartment that incorporates the latest space-saving designs. There's the bed that folds out over a couch, a padded ottoman containing four nesting chairs, a fold-out dinette table tucked neatly under the kitchen counter and a TV that slides away to reveal a bar.

Neuman was amazed at how much more spacious and airy the demonstration apartment felt than his own flat.

"If they hooked up the cable and plumbing, I'd move in tomorrow," Neuman said during a walk-through of the exhibit with a reporter. "You could actually have a cocktail party in there without it feeling like the subway at rush hour."

Other amenities in the 12-foot-by-24-foot model include a cute bathroom that is 5 feet 9 inches by 7 feet 9 inches, a refrigerator and separate freezer tucked under the counter, and the holy grail of New York apartments, a dishwasher. The Murphy bed, like most of the features, glides out with only a light touch of the hand.

"It's almost like a space shuttle or an ocean liner in how it's designed," said Donald Albrecht, the co-curator of the exhibition.

On Manhattan's west side, it doesn't take long for 67-year-old school finance director Jack Sproule to give a tour of the studio apartment he owns with his wife. At 290 square feet, there's just enough room for the bed that folds into the wall, a kitchenette and an adequately appointed bathroom, which Sproule jokes is the only place to escape when there's an argument.

But the signature feature is the picture window at the far end of the unit.

"Look at that view," Linda Sproule said, pointing to the sprawling expanse of Central Park, with the reservoir, the great lawn and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the distance.

The let's-get-small initiative taps into that trade off ? an ultra-tiny apartment for the opportunity to live in one of the world's great cities.

It grew out of a confluence of sobering statistics. New York City, which already has 8.2 million people, is projected to grow by about 600,000 people by 2030. A third of the city's households consist of just one person, a percentage that climbs to 46 percent on the island of Manhattan. Residents face average market-value rents of $2,000 a month for a studio apartment and $2,700 a month for a one-bedroom.

Newly constructed tiny apartments, depending on location, are expected to go for the price of a current studio but would have the added state-of-the-art amenities.

Sproule said living small has personal benefits.

"It helps us focus on one another," he said. Without a lot of maintenance, "it's amazing how much free time we have to be with one another. It also allows us to explore New York more."

Neuman would not say how much he pays for his tiny studio, other than it is less than market value for his neighborhood.

After five years of living there, claustrophobia has been replaced by a much different fear.

"Maybe every two years I have some version of an anxiety dream where my apartment is enormous," Neuman said. "It completely terrifies me."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/york-city-extols-virtues-tiny-apartments-075142018--finance.html

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Enlightened, Season 2

Laura Dern and Mike White. Laura Dern and Mike White.

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Every week in Slate?s Enlightened TV club, Jeffrey Bloomer will have an IM conversation with a different fan of the show. This week, he rehashes episode 2.2 with Nicholas Kemp, who produces digital content for the Film Society of Lincoln Center and watches more than his share of TV.

Jeff Bloomer: A stormy day at Abaddon proved to be a good one for us. We have to start with Tyler: Did you buy his wide-eyed glee at taking down Omar? I think he actually scared Amy, and maybe me, too.

Nicholas Kemp: I guess I did buy it. His long-bullied character relished the opportunity to get back at Omar. His face was so evil as he rolled his chair over to her ?

Jeff: It was! I was taken aback by his maniacal joy. Amy has kept him under her finger since she walked into that basement, even while she was claiming to prop him up. But then Omar piled on (?In my country, someone with his skin tone is considered, like, a devil?), and suddenly Tyler became a total predator.

Nicholas: The crazy thing is Amy missed the consequences of the plan playing out. She was so obsessed with Krista?s hospital visit that she didn't even see it unfold in front of her. Kind of classic Amy?the big ideas fall away at the slightest hint of a personal issue, or when the next thing to feel guilty about comes along.

Jeff: Who knew that maybe it's Amy who doesn't have the stomach for this thing?

Nicholas: She just doesn't know it yet.

Jeff: Should we quickly discuss Krista?s visit to the hospital? This character is past her expiration date?she was there last season as a way to force Amy to realize that her fall at Abaddon is final. And yet here Krista is again, the doe-eyed martyr showing how little progress Amy has made.

Nicholas: It's nuts how different Amy suddenly acts around Krista, to me. Amy is at her most unbearable around that cohort, and we used to feel bad about the way they treated her. The thing Amy said about the miscarriage? So cringe-worthy.

Jeff: It's difficult to watch, which I guess is my point: Haven't we seen this side of Amy enough? Really, this was just a wacky episode all around, even for this show: The strident score, the crazy dream sequence where Amy takes everyone down. Was it just me, or were those agents in that scene some kind of odd '60s throwback? Does Amy think she's some kind of new-age freedom fighter?

Nicholas: From the very beginning the music was cranked up to freaky. During the dream sequence it literally went medieval, chants and all. The agents were totally Black Power. Of course Amy would co-opt that in her dreams?especially since she was probably feeling guilty because she was hushed at the club. The guilt on that one.

Jeff: Forgot about that. Amy?s reaction was hilariously sad.

Nicholas: I do love the music on this show. Not to mention all the great shots of the office park this season. You really get a sense of the geography. With the crazy retro-futurist windows in the basement, doesn?t Abaddon resemble some sort of giant, evil spaceship these days?

Jeff: Not sure about a spaceship, but the complex is certainly some kind of mythic fortress. I Googled ?Abaddon? the other day because I forgot how to spell it. It's actually a Hebrew word for "destruction," involving an evil angel who leads an army of locusts. I'm a little worried we'll be seeing a literal re-enactment of that at some point.

Nicholas: It certainly fits with the music in this episode. So if it's a fortress of destruction, what about the hedge-lined plaza where they eat their salads? I think my knowledge of plagues and biblical strongholds is too weak for this metaphor. At least Amy took a moment to pray.

Jeff: Ha, I'm afraid mine is, too, but the quasi-religious tone of this episode is unmistakable. And you're right, it was also explicit: Connie, the scary office mom, told Amy that there is no such thing as karma and that everything is in God's hands. Amy being Amy, she almost seems to believe her.

Nicholas: It was a fascinating counterpoint to all of the self-help teaching Amy brought back from Hawaii, which seems to be slipping away. And the religious themes don't surprise me, given that Mike White's father was so involved in the evangelical movement.

Jeff: You wonder why Amy has totally avoided therapy, given her devotion to her recovery. In any case, I think we give the last word this week to Helen, who makes a brief appearance at the breakfast table with Amy and gets in the best line of the episode: ?You?re not doing anything funny, are you?? Maybe the person Amy really needs to convince is Helen.

Nicholas: Good luck to her.

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