ROMNESIA SPREADING! | Weekly World News

President Obama announced to the nation that a deadly disease, Romnesia, is spreading across America!

According to the Obama Administration and the CDC ?Romnesia? is a communicable disease that causing people to ?lose their minds? and act ?like morons.?

?The president and his staff believe that the ?Romnesia? is the perfect term for this new disease that seems to be affecting almost half the country.?

Romnesia hit this woman particularly hard:

Joe Biden told a crowd in ?Virginia., ?Boy, I tell you what, I hope y?all don?t get Romnesia. It?s a bad disease. It?s contagious. ?Please, don?t let anybody in your family become a moron.?

Unfortunately, Joe Biden caught the disease soon after his speech:

Although doctors say that Biden probably has had ?Romnesia? for decades.

Some people in Hollywood have come down with Romnesia as well. ?Arnold Schwarzenegger completely forgot that he had an affair with his maid. ?He was shocked when he read his own book:

President Obama told a crowd in Florida, ?If you say you?ll protect a woman?s right to choose, but you stand up at a primary debate and said that you?d be ?delighted? to sign a law outlawing that right to choose in all cases, man, you?ve definitely got Romnesia,? he said.

Soon after the speech, President Obama got Romnesia:

Riffing as if he was trying to remember why he was in Virginia, Obama said he had good news for anyone who suffers from Romnesia. ?Obamacare covers pre-existing conditions,? he bellowed. ?We can fix you up. We?ve got a cure! We can make you well, Virginia.?

Obama then announced his new Vice President. ?A woman who ?is also suffering from Romnesia. ?But I think she?s the greatest woman in America.? ?Here she is:

The White House estimates that close t0 50% of the country is suffering from Romnesia and is recommending that they all be quarantined until December ? at least. ??We can?t have morons walking around the country. ? Not until we come up with an antidote to Romnesia. ?For now, the best antidote is forcing these people to say home, especially on November 6th.?

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Source: http://weeklyworldnews.com/politics/52035/romnesia-spreading/

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Online Learning is Now More Mobile with ?Apps?! | Minnesota ...

Have you heard of the new Apps Tab in CampusConnect?? The Apps Tab provides students with access to online course specific software as well as all of the well-known Microsoft Office programs such as Word, Excel, and Access!? Keep in mind, there are 3 different ways software is published through this new resource:

• Published Apps
  • This software appears to be locally installed software, but is actually running in our server room and you?re accessing it via the Apps Tab
• Streamed Apps
  • Streamed Apps will be labeled ?with the word ?Streamed? in the title.? Streamed apps can only be run on Windows PC?s because the software runs locally on your home computer, without actually ?installing? the software.
• Desktops
  • Desktops are full virtual computers that run on our servers.? When you log in a full windows based computer will appear on your desktop.? You will have full permissions to download and install software on these computers, but when you log off all changes are lost, and the computer reverts to a new state.

So how does it work?? ?Students choosing to launch software via the Apps Tab on their home computer will need to install the Citrix receiver web client, and just know that Streamed Apps will require an additional streaming plugin.? These plugins, along with a good internet connection, are all that is required to access your software on your home PC or Mac.

What should I know before I use it?? After working on an assignment, you can also store all of your documents in your My Documents folder, and every student has a My Documents folder that is centrally stored on our servers.? ?Therefore, if you work on an assignment and save it in your My Documents folder, you can access it from anywhere at any time to continue working on it or submit it by your assignment deadline.? Keep in mind, students should be aware that when you close an app, if you don?t save the file to your My Documents folder, it will be lost and you?ll be unable to retrieve it for future use.

?Is this technology available on my mobile device? ?This technology is available on your favorite Apple iOS, Android, Blackberry & WebOS devices, but you will need to install the Citrix Receiver client from your device?s app store.? Once you?ve done so, setup instructions can be found by visiting the Apps Tab in CampusConnect!

Would you like to learn more?? You can access a training video about this technology by clicking on the Apps tab within CampusConnect and clicking on play.

If you have questions, please feel free to contact the Service Desk at 651-332-8100 or 1-877-862-0662 or via email at ServiceDesk@globeuniversity.edu.

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Source: http://blogs.msbcollege.edu/2012/10/17/online-learning-is-now-more-mobile-with-apps/

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I'm Really Conflicted About Kids and Video Games

I have dreams that my kid will be the next George Lucas or a spectacular Lego designer. That I?ll visit him at Skywalker Ranch where only people with wide ranging Star Wars vocabulary (Do you know what a Rancor is?) have a special key. Or maybe he?ll land in a creative position at some major gaming company.

Yet along with this technology/engineer career path fantasy come strings attached: an excessive amount of video games. There are some kids who would rather be outside shooting a ball in a hoop, and though my son loves a slam dunk, he?d rather punch rapid fire buttons so that Mario and Luigi can escape Bowser?s stomach.

I?m all for video and computer games.

I?m wildly impressed that my 8-year-old son can manipulate and create cartoon characters on multiple panels, and I shout like the house mascot when my 3-year-old daughter learns to read letters via some amazing pre-school iPad app. But just because my one-day-you?ll-be-a-brilliant-programmer fantasy feels relevant, it doesn?t mean I can allow a Skylander?s or educational app free-for-all in my house. Though it?s certainly tempting. (All day gaming = parental quiet time.)

I know I?m not the only parent who?s seen the unsettling paradox of video games. On the upside, all the research says games improve early literary skills, promote teamwork and positive test scores for college students. Certain schools (and colleges) have developed educational gaming tools and one New York City middle school even developed its entire curriculum around digital games. My son?s school offers a video-game making class and there?s multiple camps that offer all sorts of computer enrichment and development classes for kids as young as second grade. (There?s even one camp for hackers.)

There is a dark side to all of this as well: there?s the refusal to end a game without the ?one more level? argument, the overstimulation and the inherent sexism of the video game community. Plus, some new research out of Brock University, in Canada, and published in the journal Developmental Psychology, shows a link between aggressive video games and aggressive behavior. (Yet this study seems like a no-brainer. Light saber fights and wrestling with his stepfather also makes my son aggressive in the moment.). ?It?s also been proven that too much gaming will turn your brain to mush. That?s not an official study. That?s just my personal assessment.

This dark side is the side that concerns me most. It?s not the video game itself, really. My son is at an age that he?s playing relatively harmless games. My daughter is playing Dora?s Snow Princess. It?s their behavior that How do you shut them off? How do you get your child to stop?the kind of child who refuses to look up at you because his eyes are fastened to his DS, or the iPad, or the computer, or the Wii so the only sound he hears is the hum of the game that even drowns out your Want some cookies? offer. (Manners and video games is a topic I?ll save for another article.)

The answer is enforced balance. Maybe it?s a hardware-based timer that shuts off the computer after 30 minutes. (My friend tells me she installed one of these in her computer and all it does is allow her child to bug her for 15 more minutes on the computer.) Or a token system like the old pinball games. Meaning, if you don?t have a token, you can?t play. I?ve tried consequences, as in, ?You?re not playing for the rest of the week unless you turn it off now.? But those consequences work only until the next time one of them turns a game on.

Considering that Bill Gates once told an interviewer that he also times his kids?they?re allowed 45 minutes on weekdays and an hour on weekends?I?m thinking that limitations, even if it?s limiting their genius, is the right path.

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Source: http://mommyish.com/childrearing/kids-and-video-games-142/

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Colombia, FARC delay arrival for peace talks in Norway

OSLO (Reuters) - Colombian government negotiators and Marxist rebels have delayed their departure for peace talks in Norway aimed at ending nearly half a century of conflict but still plan to arrive in time for their only publicly scheduled event on Wednesday.

Colombian government officials, expected to have arrived in Norway over the weekend, will not come until Tuesday because of "logistical difficulties", a government spokeswoman said.

It remained unclear when the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) would arrive.

The sides agreed in August to start talks in the first two weeks of October but had already delayed their arrival once as they worked to iron out details for their talks, which will he held under the principle "that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed".

Norway, which has acted as a negotiator between the sides for years, declined to discuss the delay and a foreign ministry spokesperson said the sides still plan to attend a press conference on Wednesday, their only public event.

Colombian newspaper El Espectador said the new hold up is the result of a late change in the FARC's negotiating team, which has generated concern in the Colombian government.

FARC rebels included Dutch national Tanja Nijmeijer in their team, a move the Colombian government refused to accept because she was not a Colombian citizen, the paper said.

Rebels, however, argued that the terms of their agreement allow them to freely pick the members of their team.

Colombian officials could not immediately comment on the paper's report while FARC officials could not be reached.

A 10-year military offensive has weakened the FARC but has been unable to end the conflict, leaving President Juan Manuel Santos vulnerable ahead of elections in 2014.

Peace talks have already failed several times before.

Talks in Oslo are expected to focus on laying the groundwork for later negotiations and the parties are then expected to move to Havana for the substantive part of their discussions.

Norway and Cuba have agreed to act as guarantors at the talks while Venezuela and Cuba will act as "accompaniers".

(Reporting by Balazs Koranyi, Anna Valderama and Alister Doyle; Editing by Myra MacDonald)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/colombia-farc-delay-arrival-peace-talks-norway-092105861.html

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Football notebook: Marlboro, New Paltz coaches deal in respect

Wallkill's Villafane needed to sit one out

Marlboro RB Austin Beck, left, and his teammates will play rival New Paltz on Friday night.DAVID DOONAN/For the Times Herald-Record

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Marlboro football coach Rich Ward and his counterpart at New Paltz, Tom Tegeler, were first introduced as rivals.

Just like this season, Marlboro and New Paltz are usually at the top of Section 9. Two years ago, in Ward's first season as coach, the Iron Dukes beat New Paltz to clinch the Class B regular-season championship. New Paltz came back to defeat Marlboro for the Class B playoff title two weeks later.

A competition was born and, after a while, a friendship developed between two of the most intense local coaches. The coaches and their teams will go at it again in another big-time matchup when New Paltz (6-1, 4-1 Class B) hosts Marlboro (7-0, 5-0 Class B) at 5 p.m. Friday.

"I have the utmost respect for Tom and his program," Ward said. "We are friends. I think this is like playing against your brother. You want to kick his you know what. At the same time, it's not the end all."

Tegeler and Ward talk at least once a week, breaking down opponents, plays and each other's teams.

"I'm sure Rich has every one of our game tapes and is prepared," said Tegeler, who has won three Section 9 titles in 12 years at New Paltz. "I have to be prepared, too. I know I have to be ready against Rich."

Marlboro beat New Paltz 34-12 last October in the regular season and went on to win its first Class B championship in school history. The Iron Dukes had previously been 0-8 in Section 9 title games.

"I think it's funny that they are close friends," said Marlboro linebacker Matt Tamburri. "They are so much alike. They are intense, they have this fire about them. I think both of them will have something up their sleeve for this game."

Wallkill's Villafane sits one out

It was a tough decision, but Wallkill running back Josh Villafane felt it was the right one.

Calling himself "banged up," Villafane voluntarily sat out the Panthers' 24-6 non-league loss at Washingtonville on Saturday. Villafane took a beating, sustaining several big hits, in a 38-24 Class A loss to Cornwall on Oct. 5. He had trouble getting out of the pile on several plays, but still rushed for 177 yards and two touchdowns.

Villafane will return for Friday's Class A game against Saugerties ? his last home game.

"It was my own decision to be healthy for the playoffs and the (Class A) championship," Villafane said. "I might have sat this game out, too, but I wasn't going to miss my last home game. Coach (Brian Vegliando) understands and respects it. I will be ready for the playoffs."

Wallkill quarterback Joe Pillitteri also missed the Washingtonville game, after sustaining an apparent head injury against Cornwall. He is also expected to return against Saugerties.

DV hasn't forgotten beating

Delaware Valley (Pa.) coach Keith Olsommer doesn't want to be taken to the "woodshed" again on Friday against rival Scranton.

By Olsommer's own admission, Delaware Valley took one on the chin in a 59-21 loss to Scranton last season. It marked the first time in eight years that Scranton beat Delaware Valley. Delaware Valley will host Scranton at 7 p.m. Friday.

Both teams' enter the game 7-0, 3-0 Lackawanna League.

"It was a woodshed job last year," Olsommer said. "It was 59-21 and it wasn't even that close. I still have splinters in my backside. It was one of those deals. But I think we are playing a lot better, like a team with a lot of seniors."

Delaware Valley quarterback Bryan Schor, who will play at Division I Miami (Ohio) next year, has thrown for 1,576 yards, with 18 touchdowns and three interceptions. Joe Santiago leads Delaware Valley in rushing with 579 yards and five scores.

Newburgh-Kingston still big

Newburgh Free Academy's Class AA playoff hopes were dashed on Friday despite beating Monroe-Woodbury 16-10.

Still, the Goldbacks have something to play for ? the Newburgh-Kingston rivalry. Kingston will host Newburgh at 7 p.m. Friday at Dietz Stadium.

It's a rarity when this game doesn't have Class AA playoff implications. This marks the first time that either Newburgh or Kingston won't be in the postseason since the AA classification was introduced in 1996. The Tigers beat Newburgh 3-0 last year on a 49-yard field goal by Korey Jubie with 5:07 remaining and lead the all-time series 51-50-5.

"I know it's a big rivalry and I'm excited to go up there," said Newburgh quarterback Donovan Fields. "Going up there, with those fans, it's like us against the world. I'm ready for that challenge."

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Researchers uncover molecular basis of infection of tick-transmitted disease

Monday, October 15, 2012

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers have identified the "keys" and "doors" of a bacterium responsible for a series of tick-transmitted diseases. These findings may point researchers toward the development of a single vaccine that protects against members of an entire family of bacteria that cause disease in humans, domestic animals and livestock.

Survival for many bacteria is dependent on their ability to invade human or animal cells. And it needs to be done in a very precise fashion. Bacteria use a specific set of "keys" on their surfaces to unlock specific "doors," or entryways into their host cells.

By understanding how these bacteria invade cells, researchers are able to identify potential targets to block the spread of infection, and from there, develop safe and effective vaccines.

In the study, now published online and appearing in the November (Volume 80, Issue 11) issue of the journal Infection and Immunity, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology, researchers reported that a protein called OmpA on the surface of Anaplasma phagocytophilum is important for invading host cells. Anaplasma phagocytophilum is an Anaplasmataceae bacterium that infects humans to cause granulocytic anaplasmosis. It is the second most common tick-transmitted disease after Lyme disease in the United States, and it also is found in Europe and Asia.

The team also identified the particular sugar residue on the surfaces of host cells to which OmpA binds.

"In other words, we identified both a key and door that together promote Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection," said lead investigator Jason A. Carlyon, Ph.D., associate professor and a George and Lavinia Blick Scholar in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the VCU School of Medicine.

"These findings are important because our data also establish a direction for development of a single vaccine that protects against members of an entire family of bacteria that cause disease in humans, domestic animals and livestock," he said.

According to Carlyon, the region of OmpA that mediates infection is shared among other Anaplasmataceae bacteria.

Experts have seen a steady rise in the incidence of human infections caused by tick-transmitted bacterial pathogens in the past several years. Many tick-transmitted bacterial pathogens are considered "emerging pathogens" because it was only recently discovered that they infect humans. Moreover, evidence suggests that many of these infections go unrecognized, signifying that the prevalence of human diseases caused by Anaplasmataceae pathogens is even higher, said Carlyon. Livestock infections carry a significant economic burden, costing the U.S. cattle industry $100 million per year, he added.

Researchers in Carlyon's lab are presently refining their understanding of how OmpA promotes infection and testing its efficacy in protecting against infection by A. phagocytophilum and other Anaplasmataceae members.

The findings of the VCU-led study were also highlighted in a commentary that appeared in the same issue of the journal, authored by two experts in the field, including Guy H. Palmer, DVM, Ph.D., director, Creighton chair and Regents professor in the Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health at the Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine, and Susan M. Noh, Ph.D., also with Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine.

For this work, VCU has filed a patent. At this time, U.S. and foreign rights are available, and the team is seeking commercial partners to further develop this technology.

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