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NEW YORK (AP) ? Derek Jeter has broken his ankle and is out for the rest of the postseason.
Three innings after Raul Ibanez sent the 47,122 in Yankee Stadium into a frenzy with a tying two-run homer, the durable Yankees captain stunned the crowd silent when he didn't get up after making a diving stop on Jhonny Peralta's groundball in the 12th inning.
From delirium to terror in three innings.
The New York Yankees shortstop dived to his left for the sharp grounder and winced in pain as he flipped the ball toward second base. He then rolled onto his stomach, and a collective gasp was heard at Yankee Stadium when he didn't get up.
Jeter remained on his side, rolling slightly, as trainer Steve Donahue and manager Joe Girardi checked him out. He was helped up, and he put an arm around Girardi and Donahue. They coaxed him off the field with Jeter not moving his left leg as chants of "Derek Jeter!" rang out.
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Posted on: 10:00 am, October 14, 2012, by Andy Banker, updated on: 09:56am, October 14, 2012
If it seemed like a miracle for the Ferguson Christian Church youth band to be playing outside their new church, then it was the second such miracle here.
The 30 or so members in the sanctuary the night of the tornado made it into the basement only a minute or two before it building.? No one was hurt.
?The basement ceiling tiles that fell to the floor just had a stench of death.? What I held onto, what I clung to was that God wasn?t finished with us,? said church pastor, Stacy Garner.
?The cross was still there.? There wasn?t a scratch on it.? I find it amazing because it?s just metal and glass.? It should have gone with the rest of the roof, and it was still there,? said church member Lisa Arconati.
As the clean up and restoration crept slowly along, a big part of this story was happening away from this place, in a borrowed church Sunday, after Sunday, after Sunday. Members worshiped at St. Louis Christian College. Pastor Garner kept preaching faith at a time when it was hardest to believe in anything anymore.
?For all of us in this room, it gives us reasons, very important reasons, why we should thank God,? he said during a Mother?s Day 2011 sermon.?
He and church members admitted they did not see this spectacular renovated church coming.? But they always believed they were not alone.
?God keeps his promises.? When god makes a promise, he keeps it.? I knew he would work this out for us,? pastor Garner said.?
After food and fellowship Saturday, they?ll meet for worship in their own church, 10:30 Sunday morning.?
Garner said the church had gone into debt for the repairs and upgrades, but insurance and financial support from other churches covered most the estimated $1.6 million cost.
His church said his church had room to grow. There are about 50 members.? The church seats about 250.
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Source: http://fox2now.com/2012/10/14/ferguson-church-reopens-18-months-after-tornado/
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - Stanford Goodwin's take on the just opened $98 million renovation of the Purdue University recreational sports center was simple enough.
"I think it's amazing," the junior said after climbing on the bouldering wall. "It's not a prison cell anymore."
Now, the once 55-year-old facility, once known more for its aging equipment and lack of air conditioning, appears magically transformed into a glistening, high-tech matrix of health and fitness that is nearly 50 percent bigger than before. The job took two and half years. It's complete enough for most of the center to open this week for the campus community. Other parts will open in the next month.
"We wanted a building that was, 'wow,'" said Howard Taylor, director of recreational sports, who oversaw 20 focuses groups with students, a survey, and trips to other colleges' rec centers to guide the design process. "You just walk in and there is this wow effect."
The center, which will be named the France A. C?rdova Recreational Sports Center for the university's recent president, is open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily.
"I'm elated to see this student dream fulfilled, and deeply honored by the naming," C?rdova told the Journal & Courier (http://on.jconline.com/QVEnx5 ) in a statement. "This remarkable center is a tribute to the students' imagination, leadership and diligence.
C?rdova helped get lawmakers to back an idea to shift the cost of the project to students via a fee that is being phased in over three years. Purdue Student Government endorsed the plan. In fall 2011, new students started paying a $91 fee as part of their base tuition. This fall, a $182 fee was added to tuition.
Sunlight streams into the center through walls of glass that wrap around the corner of Martin Jischke Drive and Third Street. The east and west entrances are connected by a large atrium that spills into the middle of the facility to act as a meeting place. It has a wellness services and even offers snacks.
Taylor said increasing the amount of strength and cardio space, a running track, more basketball, volleyball and badminton courts were a priority ? as were windows.
"The students said, 'We are tired of being in this closed-in, boxed-in feeling,' " he said. "A goal was to have a place where everyone can be comfortable and have a space they can keep coming back to."
The center's four levels include more than 500 pieces of strength and cardiovascular equipment, including some that face windows; racquetball courts; an aquatic center with a 24-person spa; a 50-foot climbing wall; a wellness area with cooking and therapy; and fitness areas for cardio and other exercise areas. There is a basement gym for badminton and volleyball and 10 other courts for basketball. An overlook lounge to watch people and juice bar are on the second level.
The locker rooms were expanded to hold 50 percent more lockers and private showers.
The expansion has brought the size to about 355,000 square feet.
There also are two running tracks ? a one-eighth-mile, three-lane running track and a one-tenth-mile track. The track is made of 50 percent shock-absorbent material, an increase of the 18 percent used on most tracks, said Mitch Nettesheim, senior associate director of facilities and the sports center.
The center is open to students, faculty, staff and their family members. Retirees and alumni also can become members.
The center will not be completely finished until next summer. The last major addition will be the recreation pool, a 4-foot deep pool designed for relaxing, sports and rehabilitation.
Source: http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/local/north_central/purdue-approves-softball-stadium
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(Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co posted a record quarterly profit on Friday as falling interest rates and a recovering housing market brought big increases in mortgage lending.
The mortgage market, long a drag on bank results, is starting to lift lenders' earnings again, and JPMorgan Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said he was hopeful about the outlook for U.S. residential real estate.
"We believe the housing market has turned the corner," Dimon said in a statement.
JPMorgan suffered only modest losses in the latest quarter from the "London whale" trades that brought it $5.8 billion of losses in the first half of the year, signaling that it is moving on after the scandal.
The improving housing market brought the bank a 36 percent increase in mortgage lending revenue in the third quarter.
Analysts expect mortgage lending volume to continue to rise after the Federal Reserve said in September that it would buy up to $40 billion of mortgage bonds every month until the labor market improved materially.
That announcement from the Fed has lowered mortgage rates. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, applications for home loans jumped 16.6 percent in the week ended September 28 from the week before.
Wells Fargo & Co also benefited from the mortgage bonanza, posting a 22 percent increase in third-quarter profit on Friday.
The Fed's buying program also lifted JPMorgan's profits in fixed-income trading, which rose 33 percent, excluding adjustments for changes in the value of the bank's debt. That increase could bode well for other big investment banks due to report results over the next week, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Morgan Stanley.
JPMorgan's third-quarter net income was $5.71 billion, or $1.40 a share, up from $4.26 billion, or $1.02 a share, a year earlier.
Analysts had expected, on average, $1.24 a share, according to surveys by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. It was not immediately clear whether the analyst forecast was comparable to the reported results.
Profits at JPMorgan's investment bank, excluding accounting adjustments for changes in the value of JPMorgan debt, rose to $1.7 billion from $1.2 billion a year earlier, when the European debt crisis cast a darker shadow over the capital markets.
JPMorgan shares were little changed in morning trading. Through Thursday the shares were up 27 percent this year, almost twice the rise in the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index but about three percentage points less than the KBW Bank stock index.
The bank set aside an additional $684 million, before taxes, in the third quarter to cover legal settlements and judgments. A year earlier, it boosted its legal reserves by $1 billion.
JPMorgan was sued last week by the New York state attorney general over allegations that Bear Stearns, salvaged by the bank in a 2008 takeover assisted by the government, had deceived investors buying mortgage-backed securities in 2006 and 2007. Though the allegations were similar to ones already made by private investors in civil suits, the lawsuit raised concerns among analysts that there are more litigation costs to come for JPMorgan and other banks.
Dimon on Wednesday said the lawsuit was "unfair" because JPMorgan had done the Fed "a favor" by taking over a broken Bear Stearns.
(Reporting by David Henry, Jed Horowitz and Lauren Tara LaCapra in New York; editing by Dan Wilchins and John Wallace)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/jpmorgan-chase-profits-rise-mortgage-surge-110610831--sector.html
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I received an invitation last month to attend the launch party for DrinkDenver.com, the newest edition of the multi-city online magazine about imbibing in the United States. Along with fresh and original content about the drinking culture in the Mile-High City, Drink Denver features a searchable directory of the city?s best bars, a calendar of drink-related events, a happy hour finder and a location-aware mobile site.
?We create an up-to-date, easy-to-use, central location for everything drink-related in each city we enter. The fact that the beer, spirits and wine scenes in Denver are all so vibrant just makes our job here easier,? says Adam Schmidt, president & founder of The Drink Nation, adding, ?The best part is that our site is free, for users and for bars.?
More than just an online presence with daily articles and posts, Drink Denver (@DrinkDenver) brings the city?s nightlife to the user. The location-aware mobile site ? compatible with just about every smartphone ? will find all the happy hours and drink specials available nearby, or in any chosen neighborhood. With the app, a user can quickly search for upcoming events, read articles about a specific bar or scene and even call a taxi for those times they want help getting home.
The launch party was scheduled to be held at Highland Tap & Burger (@HighlandTapDen) in the Highlands neighborhood that is situated just southeast of downtown Denver; in the past couple of years this older neighborhood has seen a burst of growth and renewal and now it?s where all the cool kids hang out.
I met some of the owners and to a person they were warm, gracious and generous. They?ve worked hard to put together a place that while still a casual atmosphere where people can catch a game, will also hold promise of something other than fried foods and processed meats. They also offer a wide selection of craft brews for their clients and I?m sure if I really liked beer that would mean a lot to me! As long as they keep this cocktail on the menu, I?m good. :) Thanks Juan, Katie, Kevin, Kris and Brad?your generosity and welcoming presence did not go unnoticed!
I knew from the original invitation that Highland Tap & Burger would be serving what they call the ?Denver Donkey.? It?s a fabulous take on the Moscow Mule but with a bit more sass. The Moscow Mule became popular during the 1950?s when our country was on a vodka craze. Invented in 1941 by John G. Martin of G.F. Heublein Brothers, Inc., an East Coast spirits and food distributor, and Jack Morgan, President of Cock ?n? Bull Products (which produced ginger beer), the men decided one night to join two of their products with a splash of lime and the rest is history.
That Moscow attribution is simply a reflection of the notion that vodka is a Russian product. No more. The vodka used for this cocktail is Spring 44 Honey Vodka from Spring 44 Distilling, Inc?(@Spring44spirits) in Loveland, CO. I had a lovely conversation with one of their owners who agreed to have a bottle of this fabulous vodka on site at the Highland Tap & Brew for me to pickup and that luck was doubled when the folks at Highland Tap & Brew gave me two of the gorgeous copper mugs they had engraved especially for this cocktail. I tried one onsite and was completely hooked. Line and sinker. I made two for this post and in something out of character, I did not share. Nope?all mine. Hic.
Of note; the first post that began my series of ?The Friday Cocktail? was a Vootbeer from Boulder Distillery in September of last year. In one of those strange twists of fate, the master distiller at Boulder Distillery is now serving in that same role at Spring 44; one Mr. Rob Masters?super knowledgeable, nice as they come and someone that taught me what little I know about distilling! I hope to make a field trip to their place one day soon and further my education. Samples are fun too. :)
This cocktail was so good I would certainly advocate that you try and find a source for the Spring 44 Honey Vodka; the scent of honey when opening the bottle let me know this wasn?t just in name only. One sip and I was sold. This is honey like you?ve never tasted before aside from literally stealing a spoonful of that wildflower honey you bought at the artisan shop. Take a peek at this video on Westword about the trek the owners make to get their spring water?again, not in name only! Barring that? I would add a couple of drops of honey to the mix if using a ?regular? vodka. It won?t be the same though; find this vodka!
Moscow Mule Revisited as the Denver Donkey
A refreshing and bracingly cold beverage...suitable from Moscow to Denver.
Ingredients
Preparation
Notes
There is something about that copper mug but if you don't have them then use a cocktail glass; but either way, chill in the freezer for 5+ minutes before preparing.
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http://www.creative-culinary.com/2012/10/moscow-mule-revisited-as-the-denver-donkey/This recipe brought to you by ? Creative Culinary | A Food and Cocktail Blog | Website: www.creative-culinary.com
Drink Denver is a local online magazine and bar guide focused on providing information to the sophisticated drinker. Through a combination of drink special listings, an event guide, a venue directory and up-to-date informative articles, Drink Denver ?provides opportunities for educated drinking. Drink Denver is an edition of The Drink Nation, which started life as Drink Philly. In February 2011, Drink Philly and its founder, Adam Schmidt, ?received the Wharton Entrepreneurship Conference People?s Choice Award for best new startup company, a far cry from its modest origins as an Excel spreadsheet shared amongst a few friends. Currently, The Drink Nation has local editions in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C.., and Portland. For more information, visit DrinkDenver.com, follow @DrinkDenver on Twitter or find Drink Denver on Facebook.
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>>> and when the secretary of defense warns of a possible pending attack, it gets our attention. and this one just did, the new warning of the consequences of a cyber attack by iran that could create trouble in this area. our report.
>> reporter: it is predicted that cyber space will be the world's next big battle field. but defense secretary leon panetta warned that the threat of a defense cyber attack against america is already here.
>> the corrective result of these kinds of attacks could be a cyber pearl harbor .
>> reporter: panetta warned that cyber attackers have tried to shut down america's critical infrastructure , power, water, transportation and major financial institutions .
>> such a destructive cyber terrorist attack could virtually paralyze the nation.
>> reporter: while russia and china are prime suspects, for the first time u.s. officials blame iran for the recent jump in cyber attacks. officials tell them iran was around the recent attempts to disable the website to several u.s. banks. those attacks failed, but another attack nearly shut down saudi arabia 's oil production . using a website, they destroyed 30,000 computers. experts say this complex attack should be a warning to the u.s.
>> we do not have the proper level of security within the financial sector or the oil and gas sector, or any of our critical oil structures.
>> reporter: officials say if they pose a threat, the u.s. could launch their own cyber attack to shut down iran 's cyber system. but they warn it is a battlefield filled with many enemies, and that the u.s. and others must do more to combat this threat.
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Ya'll know October is my favorite month,?
what with Fall, my Birthday, and?
HALLOWEEN,
but it really rocked this year, when a HUGE box arrived bearing the
See's Candies logo on it!
Our family has been eating See's Candies for as long as I and my Mom can remember! I think Grandma found out that Mary See was from Canada like her, and that was that: we were a See's family! See's Old Fashioned Candies shops opened in 1921 in West Los Angeles, and started branching out almost immediately, with over 30 shops by 1936! That's pretty amazing as they survived the Depression and flourished. Which of course, just goes to show you that no matter how bad the times are, people want quality chocolates and caramels! Today the candy is sold in over 200 local and mall stores (in their classic black and white scheme), in the Western U.S., and?halleluajah, online! I have very very fond memories of going into the stores with my Grandmother and Mother! You always had to stop right inside and inhale. No matter what your mood, the smell could bring a smile to your face and all was well with the world. Just call it the original aromatherapy!
For our family, seeing their white box and classic logo (which hasn't changed) always has brought smiles to our faces! They have the highest quality of dark and milk chocolates in a commercial candy company, that are still reasonably priced!
We received a variety pack of products that we all adore!
The Nut and Chews box pictured above is the one pound box, and I think it was gone in 3 days! That is just HOW good and FRESH the candy is! The caramels literally melt like butter in your mouth, the marshmallows and nougats taste like they were just made and the peanuts/almonds/walnuts just got shelled! I love that you can select milk OR dark chocolate, if you prefer. We like the mix though, so everybody is happy!
Now my Grandfather, he was SERIOUSLY addicted to their Peanut Brittle!??Oh yeah, that bag on the left is nothing but buttery peanutty goodness! It may seam like a lot, at 2 pounds, but trust me, a week, it will be gone! It is SO fresh and the taste is just downright addicting! Just look at the close up above and you'll see be wanting a piece too! Trust me when I say no other peanut brittle taste like See's. They have a proprietary blend that can not be touched, hands down! Every time I eat it, I think of my Grandfather and can't help to smile. Isn't that what candy is supposed to do? AND they have the cutest Happy Halloween cover box this year!Oh yeah-when I was little these were THE thing! A caramel lollipop, also available in chocolate caramel?
Want to try some of these excellent candies for yourself and your family?
How about a $25 gift card to See's?
Woo Hoo- one of you is gonna have your own
candy delight session!
Disclosure / Disclaimer: I received these products for review purposes on this blog, free of charge, from See's Candies.No other compensation, monetary or in kind, has been received or implied for this post. Nor was I told how to post about it.
Source: http://blesstheirheartsmom.blogspot.com/2012/10/product-reviewgiveaway-sees-old.html
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 11, 2012) ? The European Space Agency's Huygens probe, ferried to Saturn's moon Titan by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, bounced, slid and wobbled its way to rest in the 10 seconds after touching down on Titan in January 2005, a new analysis reveals. The moon's surface is more complex than previously thought.
Scientists reconstructed the chain of events by analyzing data from a variety of instruments that were active during the impact, in particular changes in the acceleration. The instrument data were compared with results from computer simulations and a drop test using a model of Huygens designed to replicate the landing.
The analysis reveals that, on first contact with Titan's surface, Huygens made a dent 4.7 inches (12 centimeters) deep, before bouncing out onto a flat surface. The Huygens probe, which had a mass of about 400 pounds (200 kilograms), hit the ground with an impact speed that was similar to dropping a ball on Earth from a height of about 3 feet (one meter). The probe, tilted by about 10 degrees in the direction of motion, then slid 12 to 16 inches (30 to 40 centimeters) across the surface. It slowed due to friction with the surface and, upon coming to its final resting place, wobbled back and forth five times. Each wobble was about half as large as the previous one. Huygens' sensors continued to detect small vibrations for another two seconds, until motion subsided nearly 10 seconds after touchdown.
"A spike in the acceleration data suggests that during the first wobble, the probe likely encountered a pebble protruding by around an inch [2 centimeters] from the surface of Titan, and may have even pushed it into the ground, suggesting that the surface had a consistency of soft, damp sand," said Stefan Schr?der of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, lead author of the paper reporting the results in the journal Planetary and Space Science.
Previous work measured the firmness of Titan's surface during the Huygens impact. Those results found the surface to be quite soft. The new work goes one step farther to demonstrate that if something put little pressure on the surface, the surface was hard, but if an object put more pressure on the surface, it sank in significantly.
"It is like snow that has been frozen on top," said Erich Karkoschka, a co-author at the University of Arizona, Tucson. "If you walk carefully, you can walk as on a solid surface, but if you step on the snow a little too hard, you break in very deeply."
Had the probe impacted a wet, mud-like substance, its instruments would have recorded a "splat" with no further indication of bouncing or sliding. The surface must have therefore been soft enough to allow the probe to make a sizeable depression, but hard enough to support Huygens rocking back and forth.
"We also see in the Huygens landing data evidence of a 'fluffy' dust-like material -- most likely organic aerosols that are known to drizzle out of the Titan atmosphere -- being thrown up into the atmosphere and suspended there for around four seconds after the impact," said Schr?der.
Since the dust was easily lifted, it was most likely dry, suggesting that there had not been any rain of liquid ethane or methane for some time prior to the landing.
"This study takes us back to the historical moment of Huygens touching down on the most remote alien world ever visited by a landing probe," added ESA's Cassini-Huygens project scientist, Nicolas Altobelli. "Huygens data, even years after mission completion, are providing us with a new dynamical 'feeling' for these crucial first seconds of landing."
A new animation of the landing can be seen here: http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMJP13S18H_index_0.html.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) ? South Korean security officials screened a man with a bulletproof vest before he got on a flight to Los Angeles, but a banned smoke grenade made it through in his checked luggage, along with a cache of knives, handcuffs, a gas mask and other weapons, a U.S. official said Wednesday.
Yongda Huang Harris and his carry-on luggage were thoroughly searched, but authorities found nothing suspicious and he boarded the flight, said a Homeland Security official briefed on the investigation. The official was not authorized to discuss the case publicly and spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
Harris, 28, was arrested in Los Angeles last week during a stopover on a trip from Japan after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers noticed the bulletproof vest. A search of Harris' checked luggage uncovered the smoke grenade and an array of suspicious items, including leg irons, body bags, a hatchet, billy clubs, a collapsible baton, duct tape and a biohazard suit.
U.S. officials were working with South Korean authorities to determine whether Harris' checked bag was screened.
Harris is not cooperating with federal officials who are trying to determine why he was headed to Boston with the cache of weapons, authorities said. The smoke grenade was X-rayed by police bomb squad officers, who said the device fell into a category that is prohibited on board passenger aircraft.
Tom Blank, a former deputy administrator at the Transportation Security Administration, said the U.S. will likely look at whether the failure to detect the grenade on a U.S.-bound jet was a one-time lapse or part of a wider security vulnerability.
If the U.S. determines a country's airport doesn't meet U.S. standards, it can ask for stronger security measures and even prohibit flights from flying directly to the U.S. from that country.
"This clearly looks like an error. Something slipped through that should not have slipped through," Blank said of the grenade.
Many of the other belongings authorities say they found in Harris' luggage ? including the hatchet and knives ? wouldn't violate TSA guidelines for property in checked luggage. Also, bulletproof vests and flame-resistant pants like the ones Harris was wearing aren't listed among prohibited items aboard flights.
There is no indication that Harris, who does not have a criminal record, is linked to a terrorist organization or planned to damage the plane, and it's not likely a smoke grenade could bring down the aircraft, the federal official said.
But the smoke grenade is banned from planes under the United Nations' explosives shipping rules. Depending on the conditions when it is ignited, the grenade could fill the cabin with smoke or cause a fire, officials said.
Customs officers also believed that the lead-filled, leather-coated billy clubs and collapsible baton might be prohibited by California law, according to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court.
Rules, or the lack of them, that govern what passengers can do, carry or wear on flights can seem alternately reasonable or unfathomable.
Increased airline security after 9/11 sought to armor flights against terrorist threats, but they can also test credulity for those getting on board.
An intrusive pat-down by security or the discovery of a too-big bottle of tanning lotion can leave a passenger feeling violated, while Harris, outfitted in a bulletproof vest, flame-retardant pants and knee pads underneath a trenchcoat, with weapons in his luggage, appears to have triggered no suspicion before arriving in Los Angeles.
"The one thing that concerns me is he was able to board a plane internationally with all these weapons and whatnot, and nobody in Japan, nobody in Korea, bothered to find these things until he got to America," said Gadisa Goso, 29, a school administrator and neighbor of Harris' mother in Boston. "That's a big concern for, like, for the U.S."
Harris has been charged with one count of transporting hazardous materials, an offense that carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. He made a brief court appearance Tuesday but his arraignment was delayed until Friday and he was ordered held until then.
Harris is a U.S. citizen whose permanent residence is in Boston, though he recently started living and working in Japan, officials said.
Attempts to reach Harris' family in Boston were unsuccessful. His attorney, Steven Seiden, was unavailable, said spokesman Chris Williams, who described Harris as very intelligent, earning A's in high school and college calculus.
Harris traveled from Kansai, in western Japan, to Incheon, South Korea, before landing in Los Angeles.
Security at Japanese airports is similar to the U.S. They use metal detectors and X-ray screening on every person and every bag, both checked and carry-on. Airport and immigration officials at Kansai International Airport said Wednesday that airlines are primarily responsible for luggage inspection, but no problematic cases have been reported recently.
An immigration officer at Kansai, Masahiro Nakamoto, said authorities did not report anything suspicious at the time Harris boarded, but arriving passengers are checked more closely than those leaving the country. Spokesman Keisuke Hamatani said Kansai security officials had not reported any suitcases containing the hazardous materials U.S. authorities say they found in Harris' luggage.
Yasunori Oshima, an official at Japan's Land and Transport Ministry's aviation safety department, said there had been no official inquiry or request from U.S. authorities to look into the case, which he said would have been more of a concern if the hazardous materials were brought on board rather than checked.
"The case does not seem to pose any immediate concerns about aviation security measures in Japan," he said.
Airport police said they do not believe the case constitutes illegal conduct under the Japanese domestic criminal code, but Japan may cooperate at the request of U.S. investigators.
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Sullivan reported from Washington. Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Shaya Tayefe Mohajer in Los Angeles, Rodrique Ngowi in Boston, Eric Talmadge and Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo, and Alicia A. Caldwell in Washington.
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 11, 2012) ? Scientists have observed the neurological mechanism behind temperature-dependent -- febrile -- seizures by genetically engineering fruit flies to harbor a mutation analogous to one that causes epileptic seizures in people. In addition to contributing the insight on epilepsy, their new study also highlights the first use of genetic engineering to swap a human genetic disease mutation into a directly analogous gene in a fly.
In a newly reported set of experiments that show the value of a particularly precise but difficult genetic engineering technique, researchers at Brown University and the University of California-Irvine have created a Drosophila fruit fly model of epilepsy to discern the mechanism by which temperature-dependent seizures happen.
The researchers used a technique called homologous recombination -- a more precise and sophisticated technique than transgenic gene engineering -- to give flies a disease-causing mutation that is a direct analogue of the mutation that leads to febrile epileptic seizures in humans. They observed the temperature-dependent seizures in whole flies and also observed the process in their brains. What they discovered is that the mutation leads to a breakdown in the ability of certain cells that normally inhibit brain overactivity to properly regulate their electrochemical behavior.
In addition to providing insight into the neurology of febrile seizures, said Robert Reenan, professor of biology at Brown and a co-corresponding author of the paper in the Journal of Neuroscience, the study establishes
"This is the first time anyone has introduced a human disease-causing mutation overtly into the same gene that flies possess," Reenan said.
Engineering seizures
Homologous recombination (HR) starts with the transgenic technique of harnessing a transposable element (jumping gene) to insert a specially mutated gene just anywhere into the fly's DNA, but then goes beyond that to ultimately place the mutated gene into exactly the same position as the natural gene on the X chromosome. HR does this by outfitting the gene to be handled by the cell's own DNA repair mechanisms, essentially tricking the cell into putting the mutant copy into exactly the right place. Reenan's success with the technique allowed him to win a special grant from the National Institutes of Health last year.
The new paper is a result of that grant and Reenan's collaboration with neurobiologist Diane O'Dowd at UC-Irvine. Reenan and undergraduate Jeff Gilligan used HR to insert a mutated version of the para gene in fruit flies that is a direct parallel of the mutation in the human gene SCN1A that causes febrile seizures in people.
When the researchers placed flies in tubes and bathed the tubes in 104-degree F water, the mutant fruit flies had seizures after 20 seconds in which their legs would begin twitching followed by wing flapping, abdominal curling, and an inability to remain standing. After that, they remained motionless for as long as half an hour before recovering. Unaltered flies, meanwhile, exhibited no temperature-dependent seizures.
The researchers also found that seizure susceptibility was dose-dependent. Female flies with mutant strains of both copies of the para gene (females have two copies of the X chromosome) were the most susceptible to seizures. Those in whom only one copy of the gene was a mutant were less likely than those with two to seize, but more likely than the controls.
While the researchers at Brown compared the seizure susceptibility of whole flies, O'Dowd, lead author Lei Sun, and colleagues at Irvine studied individual fly neurons implicated in seizure activity to see how they behaved as the brains were heated. What their measurements revealed in the mutant flies were flaws in how "GABAergic" neurons take in sodium through channels in the cell membrane. Under normal circumstances, the neurons inhibit brain overactivity. But the mutants' mishandling of sodium led them to fail electrically.
"When [O'Dowd's team] isolates those currents due to the sodium channel, which is what's mutated in this case, and she compares the normal animals to the disease-model animals, what happens is the mutant channels pass too much current," Reenan said. "The channels open too easily and they take more effort to close. They open too soon and they close too late. That effect is magnified at higher temperature. Then the neuron can't send any [inhibitory] signals."
Searching for therapies
With a useful genetic model of epilepsy in fruit flies, Reenan said he is optimistic that researchers can now look for potential treatments for the disease. The next step, he said, is to use the practice of "forward genetics" to look for further mutations that might counter febrile seizures.
Given thousands of flies with model of the disease, scientists can purposely subject them to different DNA-altering conditions and then look to see if any flies lose their propensity for seizures. Among those that do, the researchers can then identify the specific genetic alteration responsible and determine whether that could ever be clinically applied. For example, if it turns out that a mutation proves therapeutic because it causes a certain protein to be overexpressed, then perhaps that protein could be refined into some kind of biologic pharmaceutical.
Reenan said he'd expect to see researchers follow a similar roadmap for other diseases as well.
"Knock-in of specific disease-causing mutations into the fly genome has the potential to provide a rapid and low-cost platform for studying the cellular mechanisms of heritable human diseases," the authors wrote. "In addition, knock-in flies can be used in combination with forward genetic screens to identify suppressor and/or enhancer mutations, a strategy that is challenging in humans and rodent models but well established in Drosophila."
In addition to Reenan, Gilligan, O'Dowd and Sun, other authors are Cynthia Staber of Brown and Ryan Schutte and Vivian Nguyen of UC Irvine.
In addition to the National Institutes of Health, the Howard Hughes Medical Institue and the Ellison Medical Foundation funded the research.
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