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If you haven't already noticed, we've turned up the dial on IT coverage in recent weeks. Both Jon Brodkin and Sean Gallagher joined our ranks earlier this month. Now that they have had a little time to acclimate, I think it's fair to hand them over to the real bosses around here: you.
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Pizza Hut's Cheeseburger Pizza Crust Debuts in the UK
Never one to shy away from
ruining reinventing their pizza dough, Pizza Hut locations in the UK recently debuted the Cheeseburger Pizza Crust, a pizza with ten miniature cheese-topped beef patties that are embedded into the crust around the circumference of the pie. The damage? £17.95 (approximately $29 USD) for a large and approximately 3,000 calories (depending on which toppings you choose).
While most of the local press is focusing on the health implications of the pizza, specifically because Pizza Hut signed the Health Department's "Responsibility Deal"—a public health initiative that, among other goals, aims to help food and drink companies "reformulate their products to improve their nutritional content"—that's not what we find so terrible about it. High calorie foods can be worth it if they're awesome, but this pizza is not.
Here's how we know: the Cheeseburger Pizza Crust is nothing new. It's not even new to Pizza Hut. This pizza is practically a carbon copy of the Cheeseburger Crown Crust Pizza that debuted last April at Pizza Hut locations in the Middle East and was panned as a "mutant pizza" in a review on Slice.
The marketing of the Cheeseburger Pizza Crust, particularly the line "all the fun without the bun" is also a little suspect. The math just doesn't add up. Buns are an integral part of a burger's "fun level" (however you measure it), so to me, that marketing claim is a bit like saying "all the fun of pizza without the sauce"...which I'd estimate at approximate 66 percent, so not exactly something to brag about. Burgers need buns. Burgers without buns are therefore less fun/tasty/good.
Another thing: what is the deal with the beef? There's no way those "100% British Beef Burgers" aren't either pre-cooked (and then cooked again) or cooked frozen. Either way: yuck.
I can't help but see this type of food innovation as a blatant publicity grab, with little attention paid to the development of the actual food. Ultimately, these promotions devalue the brand itself, especially once negative reviews of the pizza (including photos of what it actually looks like) start showing up on food blogs, like this one and this one.
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SUPER BOWL WATCH: Parents' focus, ratings hopes
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Around the Super Bowl and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of everything surrounding the game:
Jack and Jackie Harbaugh know where they'll be after the Super Bowl.
"There's going to be one winner and one (son) that's going to be totally disappointed," Jack Harbaugh said. "Our thoughts go to that one that will not experience the thrill of victory."
With Baltimore Ravens coach John facing little brother Jim's San Francisco 49ers, the thrill of the NFL title game also puts Jack and Jackie in an awkward spot, knowing one son will celebrate the highlight of his career while the other will be absolutely gutted.
They got a "dry run" last season, when John's Ravens beat Jim's 49ers. On Thanksgiving Day.
"We opened the door to the Ravens locker room ... guys jumping up and down, the smile on John's face. They were just ecstatic," Jack Harbaugh said. "Then you realize that you're not needed here. So you walked across the hall to the 49ers locker room ... and finally saw Jim, all by himself in this room, just a table and a chair. He was still in his coaching outfit. His head was down in his hands and you looked into his eyes and you realized that this was where you're needed as a parent. Every single parent can identify with that.
"That thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. On Sunday night, we're going to experience both of those great emotions," Jack Harbaugh said.
-- Nancy Armour -- http://twitter.com/nrarmour
With 30-second spots going for as much as $4 million this year, the Super Bowl is advertising's biggest stage. Companies that shell out that cash want the more than 111 million viewers expected to tune in to remember their spot come Monday.
Most advertisers have released their ads already, trying to get a head start on capturing the buzz on social networks.
But some companies are still planning big reveals, including M&Ms, Chrysler, Oreo and BlackBerry.
"What we see on the night of the game is really important," said Kelly O'Keefe, professor at a professor, creative brand management, at the Virginia Commonwealth University Brandcenter.
-- Mae Anderson -- http://twitter.com/maetron
Any fan can show their love for their favorite player by wearing a jersey. Four Baltimore Ravens are doing it with entire outfits.
In addition to the heavy painted leather coats he and his fellow "Ravens Posse" members are wearing, Rick Bowlus (far left) has linebacker Ray Lewis' number and face painted on his jeans.
-- Nancy Armour -- http://twitter.com/nrarmour
Three years running, the Super Bowl has set a TV viewership record. CBS is hoping that happens again on Sunday.
Last year, NBC's broadcast hit an average audience of 111.3 million people.
But ratings are a mere point of pride for CBS heading into kickoff. The ads have already been sold (some at more than $4 million a pop), so the network can now only hope to put forth its best broadcast and redirect as much of the Super Bowl glow toward its other programs and its cable sports network.
Telecasters Jim Nantz and Phil Simms will call the game while more than 60 cameras cover the action -- with at least one keeping an eye on the parents of 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh and Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh.
-- Jake Coyle
There's only one way Robert Griffin III wants to go to the Super Bowl.
As a player.
The electrifying Washington Redskins quarterback came to New Orleans to pick up The Associated Press 2012 Offensive Rookie of the Year award. But he won't be going to Sunday's game between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers, planning to watch it with his family instead.
"I'm a firm believer you don't go to the Super Bowl unless you're playing in it," Griffin said.
-- Nancy Armour -- http://www.twitter.com/nrarmour
After heavy betting on the Baltimore Ravens, sports betting professionals and last-minute casual bettors in Las Vegas and around the world are heavily swinging toward San Francisco.
The 49ers were favored by 5 points when betting action started two weeks ago, meaning San Francisco bettors need them to win by at least two field goals to collect. But the spread encouraged lots of bettors to take Baltimore, pushing the line down to 3 1/2. Now, San Francisco supporters have moved the line back up to 4 points in most sports books and 4 1/2 in others, according to gambling expert R.J. Bell of Pregame.com.
Bell says that a few days ago, nearly two-thirds of the bets taken in Las Vegas and online sports books offshore were on the Ravens. It's close to 50-50 now and the 49ers are closing the gap quickly in the hours before the game.
Adjustments to the line are encouraging bettors on the fence to pick sides.
"The moves are taking a lot of money right now," Bell said.
An estimated $10 billion is expected to be wagered on the Super Bowl, with less than 1 percent of that coming from legal sports books in Nevada, Bell says.
-- Oskar Garcia -- http://twitter.com/oskargarcia
Rodolfo Rodriguez is in New Orleans all the way from Monterrey, Mexico, to cheer on his "Cuervos," the Spanish name for the Baltimore Ravens.
He's predicting a 28-24 Baltimore victory over San Francisco.
Rodriguez spent part of his weekend on Super Bowl Boulevard at Woldenberg Riverfront Park, waving toward a cruise ship arriving on the Mississippi River into the Port of New Orleans near the large Roman numerals for the Super Bowl.
-- Julio Cortez -- http://twitter.com/juliocortez_ap
The San Francisco 49ers prevented Lil Wayne's favorite team, the Green Bay Packers, from going to the Super Bowl. So the rapper wants the Baltimore Ravens to get a little revenge on his behalf.
"I'm salty about the team that beat us, so I gotta root against them, and that team is the 49ers," he said.
But his desire isn't all based on bitterness.
"Who doesn't want to see (Ravens linebacker) Ray Lewis succeed? And also who also doesn't want to see (49ers wide receiver) Randy Moss get his first ring as well?" he said.
"I'm kind of iffy about this game. I don't mind the outcome of it, I think either or, it's gonna be beautiful for both of them."
Lil Wayne plans to be in a suite for the game -- after all, it's in his hometown. His friends and family all wanted tickets.
"I had to pay for those tickets and my team isn't even playing in that game -- ah man, that hit the pockets kind of hard," he laughed.
Lil Wayne is well-documented sports fanatic.
-- Nekesa Mumbi Moody -- http://twitter.com/nekesamumbi
Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh and San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh are hardly the only high-profile siblings who've squared off in their arena of expertise. The AP is asking some others who can relate how to handle going against a family member in the Super Bowl.
As the middle of three brothers, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers knows a thing or two about high-stakes competitions with siblings. It wouldn't matter if he was facing one of his brothers in the backyard or the sport's biggest stage.
"I'd want to beat them pretty bad," the 2011 NFL MVP said. "I really would."
Less than two years separates Rodgers and his older brother, Luke, now on Fuel TV's "Clean Break," and the two are "very competitive."
"My older brother and I had a lot of great matchups, great one-on-one games. We competed a lot in sports," Rodgers said.
There's still a chance Rodgers could wind up facing one of his brothers on the field, maybe even at the Super Bowl. Jordan Rodgers led Vanderbilt to its first nine-win record since 1915 last season and is now preparing for the NFL draft.
"I hope so," Rodgers said of the prospects of a "Rodgers Bowl." ''And I hope we would win if that ever happened."
-- Nancy Armour -- http://twitter.com/nrarmour
Americans on Twitter are already buzzing about the Super Bowl with about 6 hours until the game kicks off.
Four terms related to the game between the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers are trending in the United States: "Happy Super Bowl Sunday," ''49ers," ''Beyonce" and "Ray Lewis."
None, however, are trending worldwide yet.
-- Oskar Garcia -- http://twitter.com/oskargarcia
Washington lawmakers watching the Super Bowl in the beltway are getting a 30-second visit from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's gun control group.
Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a coalition of more than 900 mayors in 48 states, paid six figures for the local spot, according to a Bloomberg spokesman.
The ad calls on lawmakers to pass rules requiring background checks on guns. It is narrated by children with "America the Beautiful" playing in the background.
Andrew Luck has high praise for San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh, his old coach at Stanford. Even if he did pick an unusual way to express it.
"I always enjoyed playing under coach Harbaugh. He always brought a lot of energy and enthusiasm," the Indianapolis Colts quarterback said. "He was the type of guy you'd want in an alley fight with you. You could tell he wanted to win just as bad as the next guy."
-- Nancy Armour -- http://www.twitter.com/nrarmour
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On or off the court, Dwyane Wade certainly knows how to make an entrance. The Miami Heat guard proved to be the ultimate master of ceremonies at A Night on the RunWade, the annual fundraiser for his Wade's World Foundation, an organization that supports education, health and family service programs in low-income communities. To the delight of the guests in attendance at the Moore Building, the NBA champion kicked off the fashion presentation of the evening by being lowered from the ceiling on a harness, displaying the showman skills of a seasoned pop star. He then went on to walk the runway in an Etro ensemble as the crowd hollered in delight. Did he enjoy the attention? You bet! But he didn't forget the reason he was there. "We're involved in an organization that doesn't give you the option not to give back, and I'm happy to bring this event to life for a second year," he told us. "It fits Miami. It's sexy. And we have a really great time." Photography by Bob Metelus
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This Seagull 1963 is a reissued version of the Chinese Air force Mechanical Chronograph, a unique and classic masterpiece now searched for by collectors nearly as much as the original. Comes standard with a green nato strap.
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The short answer is that TeX doesn't know how to deal with UTF-8 (or rather non-ASCII) characters. XeTeX has been designed to work around these limitations. The easiest way to generate PDFs is to install Xe(La)TeX and use the 'xedemo' templates - these templates have been 'ported' from LaTeX to XeLaTeX.
Distribution specific install instructions listed below.
Debian / Ubuntu
Install texlive-xetex that includes xelatex
apt-get install texlive-xetex
but you need to patch LaTeX::Driver
Install liblatex-{driver,encode,table}-perl for latex
apt-get install liblatex-{driver,encode,table}-perl
and libmoosex-followpbp-perl for Template::Plugin::Latex
apt-get install libmoosex-followpbp-perlafter that:
apt-get install libtemplate-plugin-latex-perl (or cpan Template::Plugin::Latex)
LedgerSMB xelatex configuration
Install xelatex and change the LedgerSMB configuration from the menu:
System -> System Defaults -> Templates directory
Change to "xedemo"
Change a path
From the mailing list: (Chris Travers)
Right now, I am open to suggestions on a better approach, as the Template::Latex api's don't seem to work to do this, but I resorted to changing the paths in LaTeX::Driver::Paths directly (find the location with locate LaTeX/Driver/Paths.pm). This file gets written at installation time for the LaTeX::Driver module and so I consider it reasonably editable.
locate LaTeX/Driver/Paths.pm
If locate is not installed you can do: find /usr . |grep "LaTeX/Driver/Paths.pm"
/usr/share/perl5/LaTeX/Driver/Paths.pm ( Debian / Ubuntu )
Make a backup copy of LaTeX/Driver/Paths.pm (you have to have root priviliges to do this or use sudo)
cp /usr/share/perl5/LaTeX/Driver/Paths.pm /usr/share/perl5/LaTeX/Driver/Paths.pm.backup(Change the path to your path for LaTeX/Driver/Paths.pm)
User your text editor to edit LaTeX/Driver/Paths.pm (you have to have root priviliges to do this or use sudo)
In LaTeX/Driver/Paths.pm change
$program_path{pdflatex} = '/path/to/pdflatex;
$program_path{pdflatex} = '/path/to/xelatex';
This is the error you get, if you do not change:
/usr/share/perl5/LaTeX/Driver/Paths.pm (Debian path) :
latex error - pdflatex exited with errors:
l.26 \RequireXeTeX
! Fatal fontspec error: "cannot-use-pdftex"
! The fontspec package requires either XeTeX or LuaTeX to function.
! You must change your typesetting engine to, e.g., "xelatex" or "lualatex"
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! See the fontspec documentation for further information.
! For immediate help type H <return>.
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The utf8 character "hack fix"
Before making this change will UTF8 characters appear as squares in the PDF file. To print utf8 characters in pdf files, you must make the following change:
These are the steps:
su root
open /usr/share/perl5/LaTeX/Driver.pm
in your text editor
go to line 174 on Debian Squeeze (6.x) and line 176 on Debian Wheexy (7.x)
you see "write_file( ..." there
".tex", $source
".tex", {binmode=>':utf8'}, $source
Font fix
In order for Verdana to work, install the package ttf-mscorefonts-installer (Debian/Ubuntu)
apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
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Code reference to LedgerSMB
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Frank Turner - former Million Dead frontman turned politicised folkster - is visiting Scotland in November and could really do with a few promoters north of the border getting in touch.
The singer today sent a bulletin out via MySpace that reads as follows:
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I have a show in Inverness on 12th November. While I'm up that neck of the woods it'd be cool to play a few more shows, so if anyone here promotes or knows promoters, please get in touch here or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
So, Scottish promoters, what are you waiting for exactly?


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Following the release of their fantastic and brilliant, sludgy masterpiece that is Solar Anus, the Norwegian noisemakers have just announced a trio of dates in England and Wales, starting in late October. Their live shows are also something to see. Check out the details below, will you?
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Editor's note: This morning on "Starting Point," anchor Soledad O'Brien fact checks Medicare cuts claims after her interview with Romney surrogate John Sununu. The video is posted above. What follows is a transcript of the script from the package.
Yesterday on "Starting Point", former New Hampshire Governor and senior Romney Campaign advisor John Sununu said this: "When Obama gutted Medicare by taking $717 billion out of it…It's a reduction in services a reduction in support for Medicare Advantage. That is taking money from the program."
He added his voice to a growing chorus of Romney supporters, and the candidate himself, making similar claims against President Obama on Medicare.
* RNC Chairman Reince Priebus on "Meet the Press" last Sunday says President Obama "stole $700 billion from Medicare to fund Obamacare. If any person in this entire debate has blood on their hands in regard to Medicare, it's Barack Obama. He is the one that's destroying Medicare."
* On AC36, Senior Romney adviser Barbara Comstock says "We are not stealing the $719 billion that Barack Obama took away from Medicare, from current seniors, from my parents who are retired."
* And yesterday, Governor Romney says "He cuts the payments that go to Medicare by $700 billion and he uses that to pay for Obamacare."
But where is this idea that the president's health care plan guts billions of dollars from Medicare coming from?
A Congressional Budget Office report says "If the Affordable Care Act is repealed, "[s]pending for Medicare would increase by an estimated $716 billion over that 2013-2022 period."
But that same CBO report says keeping "Obamacare" would not mean a $716 billion decrease in Medicare funding. The cost of Medicare would continue to rise, just not as rapidly. The CBO says this money – Democrats call it savings, Republicans call it cuts – would be achieved mostly through cutbacks in payments to providers and by changes to payment rates in private Medicare plans.
The Romney campaign argues all of this will ultimately lead to reduced access to health care.
"The fact is that he reduces services to Medicare beneficiaries currently on the package," Gov. Sununu claims in my interview with him yesterday on "Starting Point."
Independent fact checker Factcheck.org says that's not true. The site says:
"The law stipulates that guaranteed Medicare benefits won't be reduced, and it adds some new benefits, such as improved coverage for pharmaceuticals."
Senior citizen advocacy group AARP, which generally opposes any policies that would negatively affect seniors, tells its members this:
"The health care law strengthens Medicare by protecting and improving your guaranteed benefits and cracking down on waste, fraud and inefficiency. "
And we have the health care law itself, which clearly states this:
"Nothing in the provisions of, or amendments made by, this Act shall result in a reduction of guaranteed benefits under title XVIII of the Social Security Act."
So while we here at "Starting Point" enjoy healthy, even if at times heated debate, when it comes to the facts we like to hold all of our guests accountable – including Gov. Sununu.
Senior citizen advocacy group AARP on Medicare
Congressional Budget Office report on Medicare
good show on the Atlanta murders.
Thank you; so very often things are said on TV that are untrue and, rarely are they rebutted. God Bless You, Soledad!
Soledad, Thank you for standing your ground with these cretins!!!!!!!
Thanks for checking facts. I have never seen the show but I am impressed to see a journalist question the talking points and review FACTS – yes, facts do exist. I may start paying attention to CNN again. This is what the country has needed for a long time. (PS – I am not right or left, red or blue and neither are facts.)
Soledad is my hero! it's a tough job keeping these guys honest.
This is exactly what I was going to say! Soledad is my HERO, too!! It's just too bad Mr. Sununu's ears and mind are closed )-:
Sadly, both topics in this post reltae to the fact that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Please, everybody, keep quiet about Ryan's plan and let him sink his own party with the voters. The more he touts it and gets agreement from his peers, the worse they will look.As for the murdered child, doesn't it make you wonder about why Zimmerman called 911 nearly 50 times in less than 3 months? Was there really that much going on in his community? Or was he a pest who should have been dealt with rather than being allowed to play policeman? The gated community should be pretty calm and have few uninvited guests. What could have prompted 47 calls to 911 in such a place? And in just 75 days? Some years ago, militias were a popular thing among NC Repbulicans. They saw themselves as providing backup for police, but I never saw anything but a bunch of fat old farts who would have had to call home for their wives to bring extra blood pressure meds if the need arose for any activity beyond porch rocking. So: a black kid in a hoodie, drinking tea and eating Skittles gets shot, while bankers steal with a pen and a lie and walk free, having destroyed hundreds of thousands of people's financial lives. How long till it is Obama's fault that the first one happened? The second one is already his fault, it seems, since no one seems to know who was president before Obama.
As some of the comments here demonstrate not only does Sununu, Romney, and their spokespersons not know what they are talking about but neither do the rest of the Republicans. The 700 billion in savings largely involve the Medicare Advantage program which in which private companies are actually subsidized by Medicare to receive more money then is paid out for traditional Medicare.
In other words Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries are being subsidized by everyone else on Medicare and most of that subsidy goes to corporate profits and not to the Beneficiaries. Under the healthcare law most of the savings go to increase benefits to all and extend the life of Medicare. It so happens the Ryan budget has the same savings only they use it to cut taxes for the wealthy.
Sununu and the Rest of the Republicans are not just wrong on this issue but liars as well.
They do know what they are talking about, they are just playing dumb! They know their plan is HORRIBLE and destructive, so they spread lies after lies after lies......
Soledad, thank you taking the time to put this together. This is the kind of reporting that educates voters. I went to FactCheck.org to see what they are all about it it looks to me like a nonbias organization. In fact, they have a bunch or reports that speak against Obama misleadings as well, so they seem to be checking everyone. That is what voters should be looking for if they are truely interested in getting thru the mud to make a good decision. I'm still a Romney supporter but amd glad to know fact from fiction no matter what side its from. I hope to see this kind of reporting always as oppose to reporters getting into the spin game the politicians like to play.
trying again. Soledad – stop talking over everyone you disagree with. Have the curtesy to let them finish. You should not be so biased, opinionated – I thought you were supposed to report the news, not slant the news, and argue, and cut in,...etc. Can't watch – tuning in to Ashleigh Banfield – she reports and very well. Tuning out of The Starting point....
You think SHE wouldn't let Sununu finish? Are we referring to the same clip here?
You have no idea what you're tlaking about, but usually right-leaning people love to make up their own realities. If you had actually watched that debate, you would have seen Sununu try to bully his way over the entire segment, like he always does. Your statements just make you look rediculous.
haha ! I see you took off the earlier comment disagreeing with Soledad and you only posted the one above that was not on before – switching a pro-Soledad . What happened to the other one ! I feel like I am in a Communist regime – no guts to show the comments, huh ? and my earlier one also respectfully disagreeing with Soledad – that is gone too. too funny ! Shameful really – you make it look like it is objective but you don't follow through. Too funny – and sadly I actually half -expected that – that you would not show the ones who do not agree with your biased reporting. The only good thing about this – is that is it taking up someone's time to read this, and I will continue until there is a breakthrough and you have guts to print.
Renata – go somewhere, sit down and be quiet.
Thank you for standing up for facts. There are real and honest debates we need to have, but the misleading and fallacious claims help no one. Keep up the good work Solodad, you have won over a new fan.
When you make " cutbacks in payments to providers and changes to payment rates in private Medicare plans" you degrade the plan. Do you think providers - who, by the way, are doctors - can afford to receive even less than Medicare has traditionally paid them? Doctors are voting with their feet on that issue. Do you think that private Medicare plans will be able to absorb so-called "changes in rates" without passing along those "rate changes" to us? I love the Democrats double-speak - they are not taking money out of Medicare, they are just paying doctors less. And then they turn around and say that Romney and Ryan want to dismantle Medicare as we know it. I was born at night, just not last night.
If you had actually paid attention and read the bill, you would see that they are not paying doctors less, but regulating how much doctors are making from these pill makers, or I guess you could call them medical lobbyist, since they are getting paid to promote medicines as well as take money from Medicare. Look around you, doctors will be just fine.
My congrats to you, Soledad, on your interview with Sununu. This is what ALL people in the media should be doing in their interviews – holding their interviewees accountable to the FACTS and not allowing them to get away with just spouting their talking points as you rightfully pointed out. If this happened more often, they would think long and hard about doing so. But as long as they are pitched soft balls, they'll keep doing as they please. Excellent job!
Sununu is the perfect spokesperson for Romney/Ryan/Republicans: Like the rest of them he lies through his teeth as your review amply demonstrates. Thank you for a great job of standing up to him and his loud mouth bullying ways.


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Inspired by recipes from Darina Allen, founder of the renowned Ballymaloe House Cookery School in Ireland, as well as from our friends at the Irish Dairy Board, a cooperative responsible for Kerrygold butter and cheese, the version below is a good starting point for making your own St. Patrick's day dinner traditions. Whether you serve it with green beer or not is up to you, but we wouldn't go without it.
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1. Place potatoes in saucepot with enough salted water to cover potatoes by 1 inch. Heat to boiling on high. Reduce heat to maintain simmer. Cover partially and cook 12 to 15 minutes or until very tender.
2. Meanwhile, heat another pot of salted water to boiling on high. Add kale, reduce heat to maintain simmer, and cook 5 minutes or until kale is tender but not mushy. Drain kale well. Cool slightly, then squeeze dry and coarsely chop. To same pot on low, add 1 tablespoon butter and green onions; stir in chopped kale. Cook, stirring, 1 minute.
3. When potatoes are done, drain well and return to pot. Heat milk in microwave 1 minute, until hot. Add to potatoes, along with remaining 3 tablespoons butter, 3/4 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; mash well. Stir in kale and onions.
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1. Aghdam MA, Sharifi A, Pedram MM. Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Young Children Based on Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data Using Convolutional Neural Networks. Journal of digital imaging. 2019.
Statistics show that the risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is increasing in the world. Early diagnosis is most important factor in treatment of ASD. Thus far, the childhood diagnosis of ASD has been done based on clinical interviews and behavioral observations. There is a significant need to reduce the use of traditional diagnostic techniques and to diagnose this disorder in the right time and before the manifestation of behavioral symptoms. The purpose of this study is to present the intelligent model to diagnose ASD in young children based on resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) data using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). CNNs, which are by far one of the most powerful deep learning algorithms, are mainly trained using datasets with large numbers of samples. However, obtaining comprehensive datasets such as ImageNet and achieving acceptable results in medical imaging domain have become challenges. In order to overcome these two challenges, the two methods of "combining classifiers," both dynamic (mixture of experts) and static (simple Bayes) approaches, and "transfer learning" were used in this analysis. In addition, since diagnosis of ASD will be much more effective at an early age, samples ranging in age from 5 to 10 years from global Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange I and II (ABIDE I and ABIDE II) datasets were used in this research. The accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of presented model outperform the results of previous studies conducted on ABIDE I dataset (the best results obtained from Adamax optimization technique : accuracy = 0.7273, sensitivity = 0.712, specificity = 0.7348). Furthermore, acceptable classification results were obtained from ABIDE II dataset (the best results obtained from Adamax optimization technique : accuracy = 0.7, sensitivity = 0.582, specificity = 0.804) and the combination of ABIDE I and ABIDE II datasets (the best results obtained from Adam optimization technique : accuracy = 0.7045, sensitivity = 0.679, specificity = 0.7421). We can conclude that the proposed architecture can be considered as an efficient tool for diagnosis of ASD in young children. From another perspective, this proposed method can be applied to analyzing rs-fMRI data related to brain dysfunctions.
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2. Bernardo P, Coppola A, Terrone G, Riccio MP, Santoro C, Del Giudice E, Bravaccio C. Epilepsy in Rett syndrome : can seizures play an encephalopathic effect in this disorder ?. Minerva pediatrica. 2019.
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3. Boorse J, Cola M, Plate S, Yankowitz L, Pandey J, Schultz RT, Parish-Morris J. Linguistic markers of autism in girls : evidence of a "blended phenotype" during storytelling. Mol Autism. 2019 ; 10 : 14.
Background : Narrative abilities are linked to social impairment in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), such that reductions in words about cognitive processes (e.g., think, know) are thought to reflect underlying deficits in social cognition, including Theory of Mind. However, research suggests that typically developing (TD) boys and girls tell narratives in sex-specific ways, including differential reliance on cognitive process words. Given that most studies of narration in ASD have been conducted in predominantly male samples, it is possible that prior results showing reduced cognitive processing language in ASD may not generalize to autistic girls. To answer this question, we measured the relative frequency of two kinds of words in stories told by autistic girls and boys : nouns (words that indicate object-oriented storytelling) and cognitive process words (words like think and know that indicate mentalizing or attention to other peoples' internal states). Methods : One hundred two verbally fluent school-aged children [girls with ASD (N = 21) and TD (N = 19), and boys with ASD (N = 41) and TD (N = 21)] were matched on age, IQ, and maternal education. Children told a story from a sequence of pictures, and word frequencies (nouns, cognitive process words) were compared. Results : Autistic children of both sexes consistently produced a greater number of nouns than TD controls, indicating object-focused storytelling. There were no sex differences in cognitive process word use in the TD group, but autistic girls produced significantly more cognitive process words than autistic boys, despite comparable autism symptom severity. Thus, autistic girls showed a unique narrative profile that overlapped with autistic boys and typical girls/boys. Noun use correlated significantly with parent reports of social symptom severity in all groups, but cognitive process word use correlated with social ability in boys only. Conclusion : This study extends prior research on autistic children's storytelling by measuring sex differences in the narratives of a relatively large, well-matched sample of children with and without ASD. Importantly, prior research showing that autistic children use fewer cognitive process words is true for boys only, while object-focused language is a sex-neutral linguistic marker of ASD. These findings suggest that sex-sensitive screening and diagnostic methods-preferably using objective metrics like natural language processing-may be helpful for identifying autistic girls, and could guide the development of future personalized treatment strategies.
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4. Cordero C, Windham GC, Schieve LA, Fallin MD, Croen LA, Siega-Riz AM, Engel SM, Herring AH, Stuebe AM, Vladutiu CJ, Daniels JL. Maternal diabetes and hypertensive disorders in association with autism spectrum disorder. Autism Res. 2019.
Previous studies have shown complications of pregnancy, often examined in aggregate, to be associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Results for specific complications, such as maternal diabetes and hypertension, have not been uniformly consistent and should be investigated independently in relation to ASD in a large community-based sample. The Study to Explore Early Development (SEED), a US multisite case-control study, enrolled children born in 2003-2006 at 2-5 years of age. Children were classified into three groups based on confirmation of ASD (n = 698), non-ASD developmental delay (DD ; n = 887), or controls drawn from the general population (POP ; n = 979). Diagnoses of any diabetes or hypertensive disorder during pregnancy were identified from prenatal medical records and maternal self-report. Logistic regression models estimated adjusted odds ratios (aOR) and confidence intervals (CI) adjusting for maternal age, race/ethnicity, education, smoking during pregnancy, and study site. Models for hypertension were additionally adjusted for parity and plurality. Among 2,564 mothers, we identified 246 (9.6%) with any diabetes and 386 (15.1%) with any hypertension in pregnancy. After adjustment for covariates, any diabetes during pregnancy was not associated with ASD (aOR = 1.10 [95% CI 0.77, 1.56]), but any hypertension was associated with ASD (aOR = 1.69 [95% CI 1.26, 2.26]). Results were similar for DD, and any diabetes (aOR = 1.29 [95% CI 0.94, 1.78]) or any hypertension (aOR = 1.71 [95% CI 1.30, 2.25]). Some pregnancy complications, such as hypertension, may play a role in autism etiology and can possibly serve as a prompt for more vigilant ASD screening efforts. Autism Res 2019. (c) 2019 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc. LAY SUMMARY : We studied if common complications in pregnancy are associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in a large sample of mothers and children. Our results show an association between conditions marked by high blood pressure and ASD, but no association with conditions marked by high blood sugar and ASD. Associations were similar for children who had a developmental disorder that was not ASD, suggesting that this relationship may not be specific to ASD.
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5. de la Torre R, de Sola S, Farre M, Xicota L, Cuenca-Royo A, Rodriguez J, Leon A, Langohr K, Gomis-Gonzalez M, Hernandez G, Esteba S, Del Hoyo L, Sanchez-Gutierrez J, Cortes MJ, Ozaita A, Espadaler JM, Novell R, Martinez-Leal R, Mila M, Dierssen M. A phase 1, randomized double-blind, placebo controlled trial to evaluate safety and efficacy of epigallocatechin-3-gallate and cognitive training in adults with Fragile X syndrome. Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland). 2019.
BACKGROUND & AIMS : Despite the wide spectrum of experimental compounds tested in clinical trials, there is still no proven pharmacological treatment available for Fragile-X syndrome (FXS), since several targeted clinical trials with high expectations of success have failed to demonstrate significant improvements. Here we tested epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) as a treatment option for ameliorating core cognitive and behavioral features in FXS. METHODS : We conducted preclinical studies in Fmr1 knockout mice (Fmr1-/y) using novel object-recognition memory paradigm upon acute EGCG (10 mg/kg) administration. Furthermore we conducted a double-blind placebo-controlled phase I clinical trial (TESXF ; NCT01855971). Twenty-seven subjects with FXS (18-55 years) were administered of EGCG (5-7 mg/kg/day) combined with cognitive training (CT) during 3 months with 3 months of follow-up after treatment discontinuation. RESULTS : Preclinical studies showed an improvement in memory using the Novel Object Recognition paradigm. We found that FXS patients receiving EGCG + CT significantly improved cognition (visual episodic memory) and functional competence (ABAS II-Home Living skills) in everyday life compared to subjects receiving Placebo + CT. CONCLUSIONS : Phase 2 clinical trials in larger groups of subjects are necessary to establish the therapeutic potential of EGCG for the improvement of cognition and daily life competences in FXS.
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6. Deserno MK, Borsboom D, Begeer S, Agelink van Rentergem JA, Mataw K, Geurts HM. Sleep determines quality of life in autistic adults : A longitudinal study. Autism Res. 2019.
Many individuals with autism report generally low quality of life (QoL). Identifying predictors for pathways underlying this outcome is an urgent priority. We aim to examine multivariate patterns that predict later subjective and objective QoL in autistic individuals. Autistic characteristics, comorbid complaints, aspects of daily functioning, and demographics were assessed online in a 2-year longitudinal study with 598 autistic adults. Regression trees were fitted to baseline data to identify factors that could predict QoL at follow-up. We found that sleep problems are an important predictor of later subjective QoL, while the subjective experience of a person's societal contribution is important when it comes to predicting the level of daily activities. Sleep problems are the most important predictor of QoL in autistic adults and may offer an important treatment target for improving QoL. Our results additionally suggest that social satisfaction can buffer this association. Autism Res 2019. (c) 2019 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc. LAY SUMMARY : Many individuals with autism report generally low quality of life (QoL). In this study, we looked at factors that predict long-term QoL and found that sleep problems are highly influential. Our results additionally suggest that social satisfaction can buffer this influence. These findings suggest that sleep and social satisfaction could be monitored to increase QoL in autistic adults.
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7. Eldevik S, Aarlie H, Titlestad KB, Kazemi E, Elsky G. Effects of Functional Discrimination Training on Initial Receptive Language in Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder. Behav Modif. 2019 : 145445519841052.
The success of behavior-analytic procedures to teach language to individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been well established in the literature. Nevertheless, some individuals may not learn any receptive or expressive language following extensive teaching efforts. We examined the effects of two reinforcement contingencies, functional and arbitrary, on increasing the level of auditory-visual conditional discriminations in children with ASD with a history of having difficulty learning discriminations. We evaluated the effects of the reinforcement contingencies by comparing the number of trials needed to establish discriminations in an adapted alternating treatment design. We found that five out of eight participants showed more rapid acquisition and demonstrated discrimination between more items in the functional reinforcement condition. The remaining three participants did not exhibit any discrimination in either condition within the allotted 500 trials/20 days. These findings suggest that using functional reinforcement procedures may be a helpful alternative for individuals who do not learn discriminations through traditional procedures.
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8. Hoffman BL, Felter EM, Chu KH, Shensa A, Hermann C, Wolynn T, Williams D, Primack BA. It's not all about autism : The emerging landscape of anti-vaccination sentiment on Facebook. Vaccine. 2019 ; 37(16) : 2216-23.
BACKGROUND : Due in part to declining vaccination rates, in 2018 over 20 states reported at least one case of measles, and over 40,000 cases were confirmed in Europe. Anti-vaccine posts on social media may be facilitating anti-vaccination behaviour. This study aimed to systematically characterize (1) individuals known to publicly post anti-vaccination content on Facebook, (2) the information they convey, and (3) the spread of this content. METHODS : Our data set consisted of 197 individuals who posted anti-vaccination comments in response to a message promoting vaccination. We systematically analysed publicly-available content using quantitative coding, descriptive analysis, social network analysis, and an in-depth qualitative assessment. The final codebook consisted of 26 codes ; Cohen's kappa ranged 0.71-1.0 after double-coding. RESULTS : The majority (89%) of individuals identified as female. Among 136 individuals who divulged their location, 36 states and 8 other countries were represented. In a 2-mode network of individuals and topics, modularity analysis revealed 4 distinct sub-groups labelled as "trust," "alternatives," "safety," and "conspiracy." For example, a comment representative of "conspiracy" is that poliovirus does not exist and that pesticides caused clinical symptoms of polio. An example from the "alternatives" sub-group is that eating yogurt cures human papillomavirus. Deeper qualitative analysis of all 197 individuals' profiles found that these individuals also tended to post material against other health-related practices such as water fluoridation and circumcision. CONCLUSIONS : Social media outlets may facilitate anti-vaccination connections and organization by facilitating the diffusion of centuries old arguments and techniques. Arguments against vaccination are diverse but remain consistent within sub-groups of individuals. It would be valuable for health professionals to leverage social networks to deliver more effective, targeted messages to different constituencies.
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9. Lempriere S. Autism mutation produces hyper-connected neurons. Nature reviews Neurology. 2019.
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10. Nagib W, Wilton R. Gender matters in career exploration and job-seeking among adults with autism spectrum disorder : evidence from an online community. Disabil Rehabil. 2019 : 1-12.
PURPOSE : The purpose of this study was to explore the role of gender in career exploration and job-seeking experiences among adults with autism. METHODS : The study drew on qualitative content analysis of 714 randomly sampled posts (357 by women and 357 by men) from an online autism forum. The stages of considering work : contemplation, preparation, and action informed the analysis. RESULTS : The analysis showed several similarities and some differences. In the initial stage of deciding whether or not to seek employment, low self-esteem, rejecting paid employment as a life goal, fear of losing disability benefits and parental overprotection influenced both genders. Gender role and family responsibilities further constrained women. In the stage of defining career goals, common issues included the need for autism-tailored career-matching tools and sector-specific guidance, and lack of self-employment support. Women were further limited by assumptions about stereotypical jobs to which they should aspire. In the job search stage, overly specific job descriptions, a lack of social networks, and transportation barriers influenced both genders. While women talked more frequently about unfavorable experiences in employment support services, men recounted more difficulties with job applications and interviews. CONCLUSION : Gender-sensitive vocational approaches are needed to assist adults with autism throughout the career decision-making process. Implications for rehabilitation Vocational psychologists, clinicians, and policymakers should help to overcome the psychological, social, and financial reasons that may lead adults with autism to decide not to pursue paid work. To assist in setting career goals, vocational specialists need to be aware of the challenges facing adults with autism across various employment sectors and provide them with tailored career-matching tests and tools. Vocational rehabilitation specialists and educators should encourage women with autism into non-traditional areas of employment. Vocational rehabilitation services should empower both males and females with autism by encouraging negotiation and self-advocacy, promoting autism-focused programs, and reducing paperwork and processing time. Vocational rehabilitation specialists should tailor their practice to the gender-specific needs of adults with autism throughout their career decision-making process.
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11. Nomura K, Yamaguchi M, Yokoyama M, Shiota M, Ohno K, Maegaki Y. A Study on the Incidence and Comorbidities of Autism Spectrum Disorders Accompanied by Intellectual Disabilities in Yonago City, Japan. Yonago acta medica. 2019 ; 62(1) : 8-13.
Background : Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) with intellectual disabilities may be associated with many factors. This study focused on patients with ASD with intellectual disabilities, defined by a threshold intelligence quotient (IQ) or development quotient (DQ) of 70. We also discuss comorbidities and other factors related to ASD. Methods : We extracted case records of patients born between April 1995 and March 2001 who lived in Yonago City, as of January 2011, and had visited the two specialist institutions for consultation regarding developmental issues. The list was further narrowed down to patients identified, as having ASD by pediatric neurologists based on Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fifth Edition) (DSM-5). We selected patients with < IQ/DQ 70 using the most recent intelligence/development test to determine comorbidities and other factors related to ASD. Results : The data of 81 patients (59 males and 22 females) were extracted, corresponding to an incidence of 76.2 patients out of every 10,000 births. The male-to-female ratio was 2.7:1. Comorbidities and related factors of ASD were observed in 25 cases (30.9%). Eleven cases had perinatal abnormalities. Other abnormalities were observed in 17 cases, including epilepsies in 7, chromosomal abnormalities in 4, familial mental retardation in 1, and acquired brain injury in 1. Conclusion : It is important to treat and support individuals with ASD and intellectual disabilities taking into account the characteristics and prognosis of the comorbidities and related factors.
12. Pandelache A, Baker EK, Aliaga SM, Arpone M, Forbes R, Stark Z, Francis D, Godler DE. Clinical and Molecular Differences between 4-Year-Old Monozygous Male Twins Mosaic for Normal, Premutation and Fragile X Full Mutation Alleles. Genes. 2019 ; 10(4).
: This study describes monozygotic (MZ) male twins with fragile X syndrome (FXS), mosaic for normal size (NS : <44 CGGs), premutation (PM : 55(-)199 CGG) and full mutation (FM alleles >/= 200) alleles, with autism. At 4 years of age chromosomal microarray confirmed monozygosity with both twins showing an XY sex complement. Normal size (30 CGG), PM (99 CGG) and FM (388(-)1632 CGGs) alleles were detected in Twin 1 (T1) by standard polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and Southern blot testing, while only PM (99 CGG) and FM (672(-)1025) alleles were identified in Twin 2 (T2). At 5 years, T2 had greater intellectual impairments with a full scale IQ (FSIQ) of 55 and verbal IQ (VIQ) of 59, compared to FSIQ of 62 and VIQ of 78 for T1. This was consistent with the quantitative FMR1 methylation testing, revealing 10% higher methylation at 80% for T2 ; suggesting that less active unmethylated alleles were present in T2 as compared to T1. AmplideX methylation PCR also identified partial methylation, including an unmethylated NS allele in T2, undetected by standard testing. In conclusion, this report demonstrates significant differences in intellectual functioning between the MZ twins mosaic for NS, PM and FM alleles with partial FMR1 promoter methylation.
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13. Sturm A, Kasari C. Academic and psychosocial characteristics of incoming college freshmen with autism spectrum disorder : The role of comorbidity and gender. Autism Res. 2019.
There is a pressing need to better characterize the college-bound population of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), as prior studies have included small samples, consisting of individuals who are either recruited due to diagnosis or are treatment seeking. As postsecondary institutions look to respond to the growing need for support services for individuals with ASD, insights derived from large, population-based samples is a necessity. The current study included a sample of over 2000 incoming postsecondary students who self-identified with ASD as a part of surveys distributed by institutions nationally. The impact of heterogeneity (gender, comorbid attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder [ADHD], and/or learning disability) on demographic characteristics, and psychosocial (psychological health, interpersonal self-confidence) and academic (self-regulated learning, intellectual self-confidence) domains critical for success in postsecondary education were compared to a matched sample of students with ADHD or no diagnoses. College-bound students with ASD broadly endorsed similar rates of ADHD, LD, and psychological disorder comorbidity to clinic-referred samples, and were more similar than different from their typically developing peers. A comorbid diagnosis of ADHD was associated with greater academic disengagement. Females with ASD and those with any comorbid disorder were more likely to self-report poorer psychological health. Findings revealed that self-reported levels of functioning in critical domains differed by self-reported comorbid disorders and gender. Findings have implications for targeted support service recommendations based on unique sources of heterogeneity (e.g., gender, presenting comorbid disorders) and are detailed in the current study. (c) 2019 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc. LAY SUMMARY : College-bound students with ASD feel academically competent ; however feel less confident with their peers. Students with ASD and another diagnosis (e.g., ADHD, learning disability) and girls with ASD may be particularly at risk of experiencing poorer psychological health while enrolled in postsecondary education. Using this information, postsecondary institutions can provide more targeted support services to students with ASD enrolled in postsecondary education.
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14. Tan Y, Thomas S, Lee BK. Parent-reported prevalence of food allergies in children with autism spectrum disorder : National health interview survey, 2011-2015. Autism Res. 2019.
Food allergies are frequently reported to co-occur with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but the prevalence of this co-occurrence remains uncertain. In the present study, we examined parent-reported prevalence of co-occurring food allergy and ASD in a nationally representative sample of US children ages 2-17 in the National Health Interview Survey, study years 2011-2015. All analyses used survey weights to account for the complex sampling design. In the analytic sample of 53,365 children ages 2-17, there were 905 children with parent-reported ASD (prevalence of 1.7%) and 2,977 children with parent-reported food allergy (prevalence of 5.6%). Parent-reported food allergies were nearly 2.5 times more common in children with ASD (prevalence of 13.1%) than in children without ASD (5.4%). These results indicate that food allergies commonly co-occur with ASD, which may have etiological implications. Autism Res 2019. (c) 2019 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc. LAY SUMMARY : Food allergies are frequently reported to occur with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but the prevalence of this co-occurrence remains uncertain. In the present study, we examined parent-reported prevalence of co-occurring food allergy and ASD in a nationally representative sample of United States children. In the sample of 53,365 children ages 2-17, 1.7% of children were reported to have ASD, and 5.6% were reported to have food allergies. Parent-reported food allergies were nearly 2.5 times more common in children with ASD (13.1%) than in children without ASD (5.4%).
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15. Vilidaite G, Norcia AM, West RJH, Elliott CJH, Pei F, Wade AR, Baker DH. Autism sensory dysfunction in an evolutionarily conserved system. Proceedings Biological sciences. 2018 ; 285(1893) : 20182255.
There is increasing evidence for a strong genetic basis for autism, with many genetic models being developed in an attempt to replicate autistic symptoms in animals. However, current animal behaviour paradigms rarely match the social and cognitive behaviours exhibited by autistic individuals. Here, we instead assay another functional domain-sensory processing-known to be affected in autism to test a novel genetic autism model in Drosophila melanogaster. We show similar visual response alterations and a similar development trajectory in Nhe3 mutant flies (total n = 72) and in autistic human participants (total n = 154). We report a dissociation between first- and second-order electrophysiological visual responses to steady-state stimulation in adult mutant fruit flies that is strikingly similar to the response pattern in human adults with ASD as well as that of a large sample of neurotypical individuals with high numbers of autistic traits. We explain this as a genetically driven, selective signalling alteration in transient visual dynamics. In contrast to adults, autistic children show a decrease in the first-order response that is matched by the fruit fly model, suggesting that a compensatory change in processing occurs during development. Our results provide the first animal model of autism comprising a differential developmental phenotype in visual processing.


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Robert Allbritton hopes his ambitious new print and Internet ventures will lure political junkies and benefit from a fast-changing media landscape.
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Kathy Kiely (firstname.lastname@example.com) covers Congress and politics for USA Today.
If skinny, 37-year-old Robert Allbritton is looming as a bigger hero in the journalistic pantheon than First Amendment author James Madison these days, no wonder: While most other media moguls seem to be laying off reporters, he's hiring.
Adding to his contrarian aura: Allbritton is underwriting an ambitious Internet news venture by starting up a--get this--dead tree publication.
The Politico, his newspaper cum Web site (www.politico.com), launched January 23, just in time for President Bush's State of the Union address. As the name suggests, it is based Inside the Beltway, covering Congress, and everybody else who wants to run for president.
Allbritton already has generated some buzz by plucking off big-name talent, most notably John Harris, the new publication's editor in chief, and Jim VandeHei, his executive editor. Both left plummy jobs at the Washington Post, where Harris was national political editor and VandeHei a national political correspondent, to join the upstart hybrid. They in turn raided Time magazine to get Mike Allen and snared Roger Simon, a veteran political columnist.
All told, the Politico has recruited 19 writers and 11 editors. Among the prize catches are well-connected congressional reporters John Bresnahan, late of Roll Call, and Josephine Hearn and Patrick O'Connor, both veterans of the Hill newspaper. Bill Nichols, who has covered foreign policy and the Clinton administration during his 23 years at USA Today, will be the Politico's deputy managing editor and editor for special projects. Another "critical hire," says Harris, is Kim Kingsley, who spent the last two years helping to get Washington Post correspondents on radio and TV. She'll be instrumental in building the Politico's street cred by getting its stories and reporters noticed in more established media.
Synergy is a big part of Allbritton's formula. The Politico's founder already has cut a deal to give his reporters and editors high-profile exposure with regular appearances on CBS. In addition to the Internet site, the Politico's team will produce a daily television show for Webcast and potential syndication.
But the foundation for Allbritton's multimedia buzz machine will be, at least initially, good old-fashioned newsprint. Three days a week, when Congress is in session, Allbritton plans to paper Capitol Hill and the K Street lobbyists' corridor with 24,000 copies of a tabloid, also called the Politico. As the name suggests, it will chronicle the doings of DC's political-industrial complex.
And profit from it as well, according to Allbritton's plan. He hopes to tap into a lucrative, only-in-Washington market of advertisers: government contractors and lobbyists who are trying to shape the opinions of opinion leaders. Their "issue advertising" dollars already keep two Capitol Hill-based publications afloat--Roll Call and the Hill. Allbritton thinks there's more than enough money to support a third, and it's easy to see why he thinks so. According to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, corporations and special interest groups spent $2.28 billion lobbying Congress and federal agencies in 2005. Further evidence of the market's strength: Allbritton says he started making ad sales for his new publication before it even had a name. "It was the ultimate in vaporware," he says.
Allbritton sees the paper version of the Politico as the key to the overall venture's success. "You can get infinitely more advertising money if you have a print product," he says. Publishing strictly on the Internet is "the future," he adds. "It's not here yet."
Allbritton has been studying the Washington media market from his perch as head of Allbritton Communications, a family-owned string of TV stations that includes Washington's ABC affiliate, WJLA. The initials stand for Joseph L. Allbritton, the current CEO's dad and former owner of the late, lamented Washington Star.
The younger Allbritton, who vividly remembers "getting allergy shots from the nurse at the Star" when he was in grade school, says he's been yearning to expand the family media footprint in Washington for years. Roll Call or the Hill seemed appealing buys because, he says, a non-daily paper with limited circulation doesn't violate the FCC's cross-ownership ban. But after crunching the numbers, Allbritton concluded "we can start our own more cheaply."
He sought advice from two veterans of Capitol Hill's newspaper wars: Martin Tolchin, a former New York Timesman who helped found the Hill, and Andrew Glass, who wrote a column for the Hill after retiring as the Washington bureau chief for Cox Newspapers. He hired Bruce Drake, formerly of NPR and New York's Daily News, to serve as managing editor.
Allbritton's original vision morphed considerably after Harris and VandeHei came aboard. The two ex-Posties say they had been having some pie-in-the-sky conversations about starting a political Web site, and had even gone as far as talking to some contacts in the business world. They had just concluded that they didn't have the business know-how or infrastructure to make a go of it ("We can't even do our expense accounts," says Harris) when Allbritton approached VandeHei about a job at what was then to be a newspaper called the Capitol Leader.
The rest is history in the making.
Harris, 43, is a 21-year veteran of the Post and author of two political books, "The Survivor," a well-reviewed memoir of Bill Clinton's White House--which Harris covered--and "The Way to Win," a handbook for '08 presidential candidates, co-authored with ABC News Political Director Mark Halperin. VandeHei, 35, is such a political junkie that he moved to Washington after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and worked for a bricklayer before catching on at Roll Call. From there he headed to the Wall Street Journal and then the Post.
In an interview, Harris and VandeHei had only good things to say about their former employer. But the chance to start "something genuinely new," Harris says, was irresistible.
The two ex-Posties' vision, heavy on the Internet and national political reporting, "dovetailed with what we were thinking we wanted to be," Allbritton says, and inspired him to accelerate his plans. Those call for big-time coverage of the presidential race, including staffing the astronomically expensive campaign planes.
Counting photographers, a cartoonist and advertising salespeople, Allbritton had nearly 50 people working for the Politico on launch day. He says he's prepared to lose money at first--though he's vague when it comes to how long he'll tolerate red ink. "Anybody who expects to make money in a media venture in year one isn't realistic," he says. "What you're talking about is changing people's habits. It takes a little while for people to discover a reason to change."
Some political journalists, meanwhile, seem to have already discovered a reason to change.
Harris and VandeHei aren't the only big journalism names to abandon high-profile jobs in the mainstream media for a startup Internet venture. Ron Fournier, 43, recently walked away from his post as the Associated Press' top political writer to join HotSoup.com, a politically oriented social networking site launched by an unusual combination of former Clinton and Bush staffers. Fournier says it's no surprise that some reporters are getting ahead of their corporate bosses. "We're all curious people who are always looking around the next corner," he says. While some in the business see the Web as a threat, Fournier argues it's a tremendous opening. "The Internet has created so many opportunities for journalists," he says. "We no longer have to work at the big paper in town. The buffet has gotten a whole lot bigger."
The Politico's new editors see that kind of risk-taking attitude and willingness to change as critical components for success in 21st-century journalism. Asked what he's seeking as he recruits new hires for his newspaper/Internet site/broadcast operation, Harris doesn't mention software skills or camera-ready presence. Instead, he says, he wants a certain mind-set.
He's not looking for people who want jobs like the one he had at the Post for two decades, "almost like a 1950s career model," Harris says. "People who want that kind of stability and that kind of career are not going to find journalism an attractive profession." To succeed in today's media market, he adds, journalists need "a more entrepreneurial ethic."
Harris is also seeking a new style of writing. "The austere, voice-of-God detachment which is the classic newspaper style can be an impediment to engagement with the reader and a genuine understanding of what's going on with a story," he says. VandeHei says he wants "provocative content" and "reporters to be comfortable with letting readers know more about them."
Are they ahead of the curve? Maybe, but to some Internet veterans, the Politico sounds a lot like PoliticsNow.com and AllPolitics.com, two competing ventures that started up during the 1996 presidential election campaign. Neither lasted much past it.
Evans Witt, a former AP reporter who was the editor of PoliticsNow, says his site and others demonstrated that there are people interested in a Web site that covers the business of politics. "The question we still don't have an answer to is 'How many of them are there, and who is going to pay the bill?'
"I still don't know if there are enough people who will go to a politically focused Web site day in and day out and year in and year out and whether advertisers will want to advertise to them," Witt says.
But Witt, now CEO of Princeton Survey Research Associates International, also acknowledges that "times have changed" from the days his team was hand-coding Internet pages. "In '96, the focus was getting the Web site put together every day," says Witt. With more advanced technology and the luxury of being able to focus on breaking stories, Witt thinks the Allbritton venture might have more staying power.
"I really hope they are successful," he says. "I can't tell you how happy I would be."


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Family of alleged Federal Reserve bomb plotter Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis shocked at allegations
DHAKA, Bangladesh Just a few hours before he was arrested in an FBI sting operation, a Bangladeshi man accused of trying to blow up New York's Federal Reserve building calmly spoke via Skype with his parents back home and updated them on his studies, his family told The Associated Press.
They were stunned Thursday morning to find out that the banker's son from a middle-class Dhaka neighborhood was accused of trying carry out a terror attack. They denied he could have been involved.
"My son couldn't have done it," his father, Quazi Ahsanullah, said weeping.
"My brother may have been a victim of a conspiracy," said Fariel Bilkis.
The FBI arrested 21-year-old Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis on Wednesday after he tried to detonate a fake 1,000-pound car bomb, according to a criminal complaint.
A U.S. official told CBS News that Nafis considered targeting President Obama before settling on the Federal Reserve building just blocks from the World Trade Center site but those considerations never got beyond the discussion stage.
On "CBS This Morning" Thursday, CBS News senior correspondent John Miller reported that Nafis had made statements that he was in contact with a Qaeda network before he arrived in the United States in January. But there was no allegation that Nafis actually received training or direction from the terrorist group.
In conversations recorded by the FBI, Miller reports Nafis allegedly said he admired the radical U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who inspired the "underwear bomber," Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, and the accused Fort Hood shooter, Maj. Nidal Hasan. Even after Awlaki was killed in a drone strike, his magazine, called Inspire, supplied Nafis with the outlines for his plot.
Prosecutors said Nafis traveled to the U.S. on a student visa in January to carry out an attack.
Hours after his arrest, Bangladeshi detectives were at his family's three-story home in the Jatrabari neighborhood in south Dhaka.
"We are just collecting details about Nafis from his family," one officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
Nafis' family said he was incapable of such actions and he went to America to study business administration, not to carry out any attack.
Nafis was so timid, he couldn't even venture out onto the roof alone, his father said. "He used to take someone to go the roof at night. I can't believe he could be part of it (the plot)."
"He is very gentle and devoted to his studies," he said, pointing to Nafis' time studying at the private North South University in Dhaka.
However, Belal Ahmed, a spokesman for the university, said Nafis was a terrible student who was put on probation and threatened with expulsion if he didn't bring his grades up. Nafis eventually just stopped coming to school, Ahmed said.
Ahsanullah said his son convinced him to send him to America to study, arguing that with a U.S. degree he had a better chance at success in Bangladesh.
"I spent all my savings to send him to America," he said.
CBS News reports that Nafis was enrolled at Southeast Missouri State University for the spring semester earlier this year and that he was pursuing a degree in cyber security; he is no longer enrolled there. He was pursuing a bachelor's degree in cybersecurity.
University spokeswoman Ann Hayes told The Associated Press that Nafis requested a transfer of his records in July and the university complied, though she couldn't say where the records were transferred.
Mohammad Arif Akunjee, a childhood friend, said Nafis wanted to be a businessman.
Just a few hours before his arrest, Nafis talked to his mother over Skype to update her on his plans, Bilkis said.
"My brother told my mother that he was doing well in studies in the U.S. and was transferring to a college in New York," said his sister.
Early Thursday, a relative living in Switzerland called to tell the family Nafis had been arrested.
"We woke up with this terrible news. We just can't believe it," she said.
Ahsanullah called on the government to "get my son back home."
Bangladesh does not have the same record of involvement in global terrorism as Pakistan, with which it once formed a nation before winning its independence in 1971. At least one Bangladeshi was among those detained by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.