Josh Thomson, Matt Brown and Myles Jury headline UFC on Fox 7?s Three Stars

UFC on Fox 7 had knockouts, more knockouts, and even a proposal. But whose performance stood above the rest? With so many great performances, it was hard to pick just three.

No. 1 star -- Josh Thomson: After years in Strikeforce, Thomson was eager to prove that he belonged in the elite of the UFC's stacked lightweight division. He did that by TKOing Nate Diaz, which is the first time Diaz was knocked out in his career.

[Related: Winners and losers from UFC on Fox 7]

No. 2 star -- Matt Brown: If Dante Alighieri was alive and an MMA fan, he would add a 10th circle of hell -- facing Matt Brown. He was aggressive and relentless in his win over Jordan Mein. Even after body shots appeared to weaken him, Brown came back to win with a TKO in the second round. Brown is now hoping for a title shot. After five overwhelming wins, who can say he shouldn't get one?

No. 3 star -- Myles Jury: In his third UFC bout, Jury pasted Ramsey Nijem in the second round. He's yet to lose, and of his 12 wins, only one has gone to the judges. At just 24 years old, it's likely we're going to hear more from Jury. His next fight should be a considerable step up in competition in the UFC's lightweight division.

Who were your Three Stars? Speak up in the comments, on Facebook or on Twitter.

Related UFC video on Yahoo! Sports

Other popular content on Yahoo! Sports:
? Big contracts and big losses for Los Angeles baseball
? NBA postgame fashion showdown: Westbrook vs. LeBron
? Ravens LB Rolando McClain arrested in Alabama
? Ill-timed caution costs Dale Earnhardt Jr. a chance to win

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/josh-thomson-matt-brown-myles-jury-headline-ufc-134801496--mma.html

brandi glanville White Smoke Barcelona Kwame Kilpatrick New pope 2013 earthquake california earthquake california

Gone, but not forgotten

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

An international team of neuroscientists has described for the first time in exhaustive detail the underlying neurobiology of an amnesiac who suffered from profound memory loss after damage to key portions of his brain.

Writing in this week's Online Early Edition of PNAS, principal investigator Larry R. Squire, PhD, professor in the departments of Neurosciences, Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Veteran Affairs San Diego Healthcare System (VASDHS) ? with colleagues at UC Davis and the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Spain ? recount the case of EP, a man who suffered radical memory loss and dysfunction following a bout of viral encephalitis.

EP's story is strikingly similar to the more famous case of HM, who also suffered permanent, dramatic memory loss after small portions of his medial temporal lobes were removed by doctors in 1953 to relieve severe epileptic seizures. The surgery was successful, but left HM unable to form new memories or recall people, places or events post-operation.

HM (later identified as Henry Gustav Molaison) was the subject of intense scientific scrutiny and study for the remainder of his life. When he died in 2008 at the age of 82, he was popularized as "the world's most famous amnesiac." His brain was removed and digitally preserved at The Brain Observatory, a UC San Diego-based lab headed by Jacopo Annese, PhD, an assistant adjunct professor in the Department of Radiology and a co-author of the PNAS paper.

Like Molaison, EP was also something of a scientific celebrity, albeit purposefully anonymous. In 1992, at the age of 70, he was diagnosed with viral encephalitis. He recovered, but the illness resulted in devastating neurological loss, both physiologically and psychologically.

Not only did he also lose the ability to form new memories, EP suffered a modest impairment in his semantic knowledge ? the knowledge of things like words and the names of objects. Between 1994, when he moved to San Diego County, and his death 14 years later, EP was a subject of continued study, which included hundreds of different assessments of cognitive function.

"The work was long-term," said Squire, a Career Research Scientist at the VASDHS. "We probably visited his house 200 times. We knew his family." In a 2000 paper, Squire and colleagues described EP as a 6-foot-2, 192-pound affable fellow with a fascination for the computers used in his testing. He was always agreeable and pleasant. "He had a sense of humor," said Squire.

After his death, EP's brain was also processed at The Brain Observatory. The last five years have been spent parsing the data and painting a full picture of what happened to EP and why. Squire said EP's viral encephalitis infection wreaked havoc upon his brain: Large, bilateral, symmetrical lesions were found in the medial temporal lobe, portions of the brain responsible for formation of long-term memory; and whole, crucial structures were eliminated ? the amygdala and hippocampus among them. Additionally, other brain regions had atrophied and white matter ? the support fibers that transmit signals between brain structures ? had become gliotic or scarred.

Though HM is generally considered the "gold standard" of amnesia patients ? "he was the first case and studied so elegantly," said Squire ? EP provides new and surprising twists in understanding how memory functions and fails.

For example, HM's declarative memory was almost nil ? half an hour after lunch, he would have forgotten what he ate or if he had eaten at all ? but in tests, HM showed some small capacity to learn new things. "His ability to learn was nowhere close to zero," Squire said, "so the thinking was that maybe there were other ways that information was getting in, that there was something special about the capacity for learning facts."

EP undermines that notion. Due to the total destruction of specific memory-linked brain structures, EP was utterly unable to learn anything new. "It really was absolutely zero," said Squire. "That suggests there isn't any special mechanism. HM simply retained some ability because he retained some residual tissue."

Squire noted that the massive scope of EP's brain damage also appeared to trigger secondary consequences. "If a lesion gets large enough, it results in other negative changes due to the loss of connectivity," he said. In EP's case, one result was his impaired semantic knowledge, which wouldn't have been harmed by damage to medial temporal lobes, but was the consequence of subsequent atrophy in adjacent tissues.

Finally, EP presents a continuing, confounding mystery. In most patients with retrograde amnesia, memory loss is limited. They can't remember things within a few months or years of the brain impairment. In EP's case, he suffered amnesia extending back 40 to 50 years, affecting memories that theoretically should have been well-established and consolidated, though he could recall his childhood on a central California farm.

Squire said the effect is likely the result of lateral temporal damage caused as a secondary consequence of the initial disease-related brain damage. For researchers and clinicians, he said, EP is a cautionary and troubling tale.

###

University of California - San Diego: http://www.ucsd.edu

Thanks to University of California - San Diego for this article.

This press release was posted to serve as a topic for discussion. Please comment below. We try our best to only post press releases that are associated with peer reviewed scientific literature. Critical discussions of the research are appreciated. If you need help finding a link to the original article, please contact us on twitter or via e-mail.

This press release has been viewed 27 time(s).

Source: http://www.labspaces.net/127865/Gone__but_not_forgotten

emma stone Frys tryptophan BestBuy.com Kohls Black Friday www.walmart.com Macho Camacho

Feds delay policy to allow small knives on planes

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Federal officials say they're delaying a policy that would allow passengers to carry small knives, bats and other sports equipment onto airliners.

The Transportation Security Administration said Monday that the policy change has been delayed to accommodate feedback from an advisory committee made up of aviation industry, consumer and law enforcement officials.

John Pistole (PIH'-stohl), head of the Transportation Security Administration, proposed the policy change last month, saying it would free up the agency to concentrate on protecting against greater threats. TSA screeners confiscate about 2,000 small folding knives from passengers every day.

The policy was to go into effect Thursday. The TSA's statement said the delay was temporary, but no new date for implementation was provided.

The policy has been fiercely opposed by flight attendants' unions.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/feds-delay-policy-allow-small-knives-planes-000334255.html

wnba draft tax day april 17 tu pac hologram shuttle pippa middleton space shuttle discovery

TV Anchor Fired for On-Air Swearing, General Awkwardness

Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2013/04/tv-anchor-fired-for-on-air-swearing-general-awkwardness/

friends tracy mcgrady tracy mcgrady awkward awkward Girls Love Beyonce gun control

Prayer and waiting in Texas town rocked by blast

Lisa Crowder, facing camera, is is hugged by a friend before a service for the First Baptist Church held in a field Sunday, April 21, 2013, four days after an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. Crowder's home was destroyed after a massive explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. Wednesday night that killed 14 people and injured more than 160. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Lisa Crowder, facing camera, is is hugged by a friend before a service for the First Baptist Church held in a field Sunday, April 21, 2013, four days after an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. Crowder's home was destroyed after a massive explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. Wednesday night that killed 14 people and injured more than 160. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Jason Reyes walks past a damaged apartment complex is seen Sunday, April 21, 2013, four days after an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. The massive explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. Wednesday night killed 14 people and injured more than 160. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Michael Ainsworth, Pool)

Part of a destroyed nursing home that resulted from an explosion at the West Fertilizer plant, on Sunday, April 21, 2013, in West, Texas. The massive explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. Wednesday night killed 14 people and injured more than 160. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Michael Ainsworth, Pool)

Wheelchairs are seen outside a damaged apartment complex Sunday, April 21, 2013, four days after an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. The massive explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. Wednesday night killed 14 people and injured more than 160. (AP Photo/Dallas Morning News, Michael Ainsworth, pool)

Volunteer relief workers listen to a service for the First Baptist Church in a field Sunday, April 21, 2013, four days after an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. The church could not meet in their building because it was in a damage zone after a massive explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. Wednesday night that killed 14 people and injured more than 160. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

WEST, Texas (AP) ? The First Baptist Church in the tiny Texas town where a fertilizer plant exploded is still off-limits, so the Rev. John Crowder put folding chairs in a hay pasture and improvised a pulpit on a truck flatbed. At the elementary school, an official carted extra desks and chairs into the only public school campus that's left.

This was Sunday in West. Four days after the blast that killed 14 people and injured 200 others, residents prayed for comfort and got ready for the week ahead, some of them still waiting to find out when ? or if ? they will be able to go back home.

"We have lost our friends and neighbors. We lost the safety and comfort of our homes," said Crowder, raising his voice over the whirr of helicopters surveying the nearby rubble from overhead. "But as scary as this is, we don't have to be afraid."

The explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. rocketed shrapnel across several blocks and left what assistant state fire marshal Kelly Kirstner described Sunday as "a large crater." A section of the flat farming town near the crater, including Crowder's church, is still behind barricades.

One school campus was obliterated, and on the eve of 1,500 students returning to class for the first time since Wednesday's blast, Superintendent Marty Crawford said the high school and middle school could also be razed.

Nearly 70 federal and state investigators are still trying to determine what caused the fire that set off the explosion, Kirstner said. Authorities say there are no signs of criminal intent.

Robert Champion, the special agent in charge for the Dallas office of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, said experts plan to enter the crater in the next few days and start digging in search of an explanation.

"It's a slow process, but we're getting there," Champion said.

Slow is the normal way of life in West. But the last several days for many of its 2,800 residents have melded into an anguishing and frustrating stretch of wait-and-hear ? whether about the safety of family and friends, or the fate of their homes.

Six firefighters and four emergency medics were among the dead, and city officials announced that a memorial service would be held Thursday at Baylor University.

Professional organizations and family and friends on Sunday identified four of the first responders who died: brothers Doug and Robert Snokhous, who were both firefighters with the West Volunteer Fire Department; Jerry Chapman, a firefighter with the Abbott Volunteer Fire Department; and Kevin Sanders, who worked with West EMS and another area volunteer fire department.

At least one of the West volunteer firefighters who was killed, Joey Pustejovsky, was a member of St. Mary's Church of the Assumption that held a solemn first Mass since the blast.

Firefighters and emergency workers in bright yellow jackets kneeled in the pews as the Rev. Boniface Onjefu recalled driving toward the fire after the explosion rattled his house.

"I stopped at the nursing home," Onjefu said. "I noticed a lot of people trapped. I assisted. I prayed with some and held the hands of some that needed comfort. I saw him in the eyes of everyone."

Said Onjefu, "God heard our prayers and prevented another tank from exploding."

Edi Botello, a senior at West High School, is Catholic but stood in a roadside pasture with friend Chelsea Hayes for the First Baptist Church service that drew more than 100 people. "We needed this," Botello said.

They wore gray "(hash)prayforwest" shirts that have become ubiquitous in the town. On the night of the explosion, Botello asked his mother if Hayes, who lived close to the plant, could come over. He said his mom still wonders what might have been if she had said no.

"Every time I close my eyes, all I can think about is the explosion," Botello said. "People running around. People evacuating. There was one point I couldn't even talk. I just stuttered."

Wendy Castro, a clerk at a nearby Wal-Mart, was among the first allowed back into her home, which sits on the outmost edge of the barricaded area. Broken windows and screen doors twisted off hinges is about the worst damage in her neighborhood.

The streets look like a bad storm rumbled through, not the deadliest fertilizer plant explosion since 31 were killed in Toulouse, France, in 2001. Dozens of homes close to the blast ? some of which were leveled ? may not be accessible to owners for another week or more.

Among the scorched buildings in the shadow of the plant were the town's high school and intermediate school.

Crawford said the track team probably would have been at the high school when the plant erupted if they hadn't stopped to eat on their way back from a meet. On Sunday, he checked on volunteers furnishing three portable classrooms trucked to the elementary campus. Starting Monday, the school that usually has 350 students will be crowded with twice that.

Crawford noticed the proximity of the schools to the fertilizer plant when he came down from Dallas to interview for the superintendent job. "A red flag went up," he said. Teachers are practiced in emergency drills and there's an evacuation plan on paper in the district office.

Had the explosion happened hours earlier, Crawford is certain it would have made no difference.

"We would have tried our best," Crawford said. "But I couldn't see us being successful. I don't have to describe to you in graphic detail what would have happened."

___

Associated Press writer Nomaan Merchant in Dallas contributed to this report.

___

Follow Paul J. Weber on Twitter: www.twitter.com/pauljweber

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/386c25518f464186bf7a2ac026580ce7/Article_2013-04-21-Plant%20Explosion/id-a4dcc47edc854799a2df80f082749099

Walmart.com detroit lions Thanksgiving Day cooking a turkey toysrus how to carve a turkey ipad 2

They sing and they dance (oh way oh) (Unqualified Offerings)

Share With Friends: | | Politics - Top Stories Stories, RSS Feeds and Widgets via Feedzilla.

Source: http://news.feedzilla.com/en_us/stories/politics/top-stories/300552124?client_source=feed&format=rss

earthquake bay area clear channel drexel dale george will obama birth certificate nick cannon

Artists demand cancellation of anti-immigrant TV show Border Security

By:?Obert Madondo?|?The Canadian Progressive:?

Over 100?actors, directors, producers, directors, technicians?and other cultural professionals?have signed an open letter demanding the immediate cancellation of anti-immigrant TV series?Border Security. The letter is addressed to National Geographic,?Force Four Entertainment, Shaw Media, Global BC, the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA), ?and all other producers, financiers, and broadcasters of Border Security?.

The signatories include award-winning author Naomi Klein.

The letter is part of a protest that started in March after a?reality TV?crew filmed a CBSA raid on a Vancouver construction site, and detention of allegedly undocumented immigrants.?Canada?s Public Safety Minister?Vic Toews?personally approved the raid.

In March, the?BC Civil Liberties Association?filed a formal complaint with the federal Privacy Commissioner, arguing that the filming was illegal and violated the immigrants? rights under the federal Privacy Act.

More than 23 000 people have signed a petition calling on?National Geographic Channel, Force Four Entertainment and Shaw Media to cancel Border Security. ?Amnesty International,?LeadNow, the?Council of Canadians, Vancouver?Mayor?Gregor Robertson, NDP and Liberal?MP?s?and NDP?MLA?s?have also spoken out against the show. According to?http://www.cancelbordersecurity.ca/

The letter:

To Force Four Entertainment, Shaw Media, Global BC, National Geographic, Canadian Border Services Agency, and all other producers, financiers, and broadcasters of Border Security: Canada?s Front Line,

We are?actors, performers, producers, directors, technicians?and a wide variety of?cultural professionals?who work across media platforms that include?film, TV, and live performance.

On March 13, 2013 a film crew from Vancouver-based company Force Four Entertainment was embedded with Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) agents during a raid at a construction site. They filmed eight workers being arrested and jailed in a humiliating spectacle. The footage was shot as part of an ongoing television series Border Security: Canada?s Front Line.

Several of the men arrested have since been deported, and their families have been torn apart.

We write this letter out of?serious concern for those already affected and those who may be harmed?by future episodes of this show. Border Security makes no effort to show the lived realities or perspectives of those featured in the show. Rather, it packages and sells entertainment made from genuine human crisis and humiliation, particularly of those who are vulnerable migrants and refugees. This show is based on sensationalizing their stories and spreading fear.

At best, this TV show is an invasion of privacy with questionable ethics on informed consent.?At worst, it can put the lives of vulnerable migrants and their families at risk by commercially exploiting their stories for broadcast.?As Amnesty International notes, ?Amnesty International believes that filming and broadcasting these raids has jeopardized the basic rights of these undocumented workers, as protected under the international conventions that Canada has ratified.?

This comes at a time when there is little quality television that deals with the real-life pressures that force people to migrate. We also find it extremely troubling that the federal government has approved of and dedicates resources to this production. This is not the Canadian entertainment or cultural production that so many are proud to call their own.

We are calling on Force Four, CBSA, Shaw Media, and Global TV to end production of Border Security, and all associated partners to withdraw their support for the show. Deportation is not entertainment. We seek to uphold legally-affirmed human rights and respect for basic human dignity.??Please join us in our efforts towards being conscious and ethical cultural producers.

Sincerely,

Khalilah Alwani, Performance Artist
Annie Banks, Artist and Cultural Producer
Samuel Pruneau Beaudry, Composer and Performance Artist
Hauke Boettcher,? Filmmaker and Editor
Sam Bradd, Artist and Cultural Producer

Diego Brice?o, Independent Media Producer

Zain Burgess, Multimedia Artist
Angelina L. Cantada, Curly Tail Pictures

Nicola Cavendish, Actor and Playwright
Patricia Chica, Filmmaker and TV Content Producer
St?fanie Clermont, Documentary Filmmaker
Martina Comstock, Writer and Director
Andrea Curtis, Producer
Amber Dawn, Film Festival Programmer and Author
Deborah de Boer, Writer and Curator
Ruby Smith D?az, Filmmaker
Farzana Doctor, Coproducer and Author
Jadis Dumas, Documentary Filmmaker
David Emanuel, Actor and Director
Jesse Freeston, Independent Filmmaker and Journalist
Julien Fr?chette, Director
David-James Fernandes, Filmmaker

David William Murray Fisher, Actor, Writer

Amy Fox, Producer, Trembling Void Studios

Richard Fung, Video artist and Filmmaker
Damien Gillis, Documentary Filmmaker
Gordon Grdina, Musician and Composer
Malcolm Guy, Director and Producer
Deblekha Guin, Project Manager and Film Producer
Freda Guttman, Multimedia Artist
Callista Haggis, Documentary filmmaker
Christopher Heffley, Creative Director
Glenn Hodgins, Filmmaker
Audrey Huntley, Independent Documentary Filmmaker
Troy Jackson, Singer and Producer

Reg Johanson, Poet

Rosina Kazi, Singer and Producer
Ali Kazimi, Filmmaker
Sara Kendall, Performance Artist and Filmmaker
Noura Kevorkian, Filmmaker
Arshad Khan, Filmmaker

Sarah Khan, Professional Writer,?Women, Action, & the Media (WAM!) Vancouver

David Khang, Artist and Art Educator
Margo Kidder, Actor

Lois Klassen, Artist and Research Ethics Professional

Bonnie Klein, O.C. (Order of Canada), Filmmaker
Naomi Klein, Filmmaker and Writer
Erica K?hn, Artistic Director and Filmmaker
Zoe Kreye, Artist and Professor

Min Sook Lee, Filmmaker
Diana Leung, Filmmaker and Cultural Planner
Avi Lewis, Documentary Filmmaker and TV Host
Franklin L?pez, Media Saboteur
Jessica MacCormack, Artist and Professor
Laurie MacMillan, Documentary Filmmaker
Alex Mah, Filmmaker
David Maidman, Community Television producer
Marc-Andr? Manseau, Producer and Director
Richard Marcuse, former Western Representative for Canadian Actors Equity Association
Claudia Medina, Filmmaker

Lindsay Miles, Facilitator and Writer
Amy Miller, Director and Producer
Elizabeth Miller, Documentary Filmmaker & Professor

Yvette Narlock, Soundscape Design/Music Producer for Film and Television

Jan Nathanson, Producer
Cecily Nicholson, Artist and Arts Administrator
Isaac Oomen, Filmmaker and Journalist
Christina Panis, Arts Administrator

Shauna Paull, Poet and Teacher
Nicholas Perrin, Writer and Artist
Summer Pervez, Filmmaker and Professor
Helgi Piccinin, Documentary Filmmaker
Imtiaz Popat, Producer, Monkeyking Motion Pictures
Ian Iqbal Rashid, Independent Filmmaker
Rhona Raskin, Production Company Owner and Radio Producer
Vanessa Richards, Artist and Cultural Worker
Velcrow Ripper, Filmmaker
Ally Robertson, Multimedia Artist
Emilio Rojas, Filmmaker and Performance Artist

Javier Romero, Editor and Cultural promoter
Tom Sandborn, Writer
Igor Santizo, Artist and Teacher

Regine Schmid, Producer
John Sharkey, Videographer and Programmer
Rupinder Singh Sidhu, Composer and Producer
Adrian A. Stimson, Curator and a former Canadian Immigration Officer
Jordan Strom, Visual Art Curator

Sid Tan, Media Producer
Jeremy Todd, Interdisciplinary Artist and Educator
Genevi?ve Trudel, Art Historian
Kim Villagante, Multimedia Artist and Singer-Songwriter
Mark Vonesch, Director of Reel Youth
Tamara Vukov, Filmmaker and Educator
Harsha Walia, Independent Filmmaker and Writer
Shannon Walsh, Director and Writer
Maggie Wheeler, Actor
D Lee Williams, Filmmaker and Artist
Sandy Wilson, Film Director and Screenwriter
Rita Wong, Writer

Don Xaliman, Technical Director
b.h Yael, Filmmaker and Professor
Marcus Youssef, Actor and Playwright
Alejandro Zuluaga, Documentary Filmmaker

?

?

Like this:

Like Loading...

Source: http://www.canadianprogressiveworld.com/2013/04/21/artists-demand-cancellation-of-anti-immigrant-tv-show-border-security/

carmen whitney houston last performance cpac straw poll i will always love you whitney cummings maine caucus whitney houston has died