State Senate Candidate Booked for Sexual Assault

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The Libertarian candidate running for the State Senate seat vacated by Iowa Senator-Elect Joni Ernst has been booked for 3rd Degree Sexual Assault.

Donald Brantz, 69, is also charged with 3rd Degree Assault, Disturbing the Peace, and Interfering with Public Service Commission (each charge he faces is a misdemeanor - including the Sexual Assault).

Bellevue Police say Brantz is accused of inappropriately touching a woman, threatening to choke her, and then disconnecting the line when the victim called 911.

The incident allegedly happened in Bellevue. Brantz lives in Glenwood, Iowa.

Brantz was arrested in October and shortly bonded out. He is set to appear in court for a pretrial conference tomorrow.

Brantz was nominated by the Libertarian Party of Iowa to run for Joni Ernst's old seat. The special election is set for December 30th.

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Candidate for Joni Ernst's vacant Iowa Senate seat is facing sexual abuse charges

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BELLEVUE, NE (KTIV) - The Libertarian candidate running for U.S. Senate-Elect Joni Ersnt's open Iowa Senate seat is being charged with sexual assault.

Bellevue, Nebraska Police say 69-year-old Donald Brantz inappropriately touched a woman in Bellevue and threatened to choke her.

He also disconnected her phone line when she attempted to call 911.

Brantz is charged with 3rd Degree Sexual Assault, 3rd Degree Assault, Disturbing the Peace, and Interfering with Public Service Commission, all misdemeanors.

Brantz was arrested in October and shortly bonded out, and is set to appear in court Friday.

He was nominated by the Libertarian Party of Iowa to run for Joni Ernst's old seat.

The special election is set for December 30th.

Brantz lives in Glenwood, Iowa.

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Cook Islands: Pacific play time

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Andrew Bain May 4 2014 at 3:00 AM

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Rarotonga is known for its stunning blue lagoons and sandy beaches, but there is much more to do than sit on the sun lounger, writes Andrew Bain.

As a tropical playground, Rarotonga is exceptional. The beating heart of the Cook Islands, it's ringed by reef and split by a sharp line of rainforest-covered mountains. Beaches step directly into turquoise shallows, and an interesting selection of tours showcases the island's natural assets.

Here is our pick of the five best day trips around the island.

KOKA LAGOON CRUISES

From the moment the Koka boat leaves Muri Beach, it's fun overload on the still waters of Rarotonga's lagoon. Ukuleles emerge and Koka's guides sing the boat out into the seas. Even the skipper steers with one hand as he beats a drum with the other.

From Muri Beach, the glass-bottomed boat heads south to the edge of a marine reserve, where visitors roll overboard in snorkels and masks, floating over coral bommies and clams enclosed in cages to protect them from hungry octopus.

The morning I'm here, a three-metre-long moray eel coils between bommies, looking like a train emerging from a tunnel.

Back on the boat there are pareu (sarong) tying lessons and more songs before a barbecue lunch on a sandy island just off Muri Beach. Colourful fish skirt the shores and there's time to laze on the beach before the entertainment continues with coconut-husking lessons, a hermit-crab race and a tree-climbing demonstration from a crew member who just happens to be the Polynesian coconut-tree-climbing champion - he shimmies up and down the palm in seven seconds this day.

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Falkland Islands given medal for showing 'indomitable will' during Argentine invasion

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The archipelago were today honoured for the "personal commitment" they showed in defending their right of self-determination during the 1982 war.

The South Atlantic medal was handed to almost 30,000 troops and civilians who served in the operation to liberate the Falklands from Argentine forces.

Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said: "I am pleased to inform the House that in 2015 the South Atlantic Medal will be presented, on behalf of Her Majesty The Queen, to the Falkland Islands, in recognition of the assistance provided to the Forces of the United Kingdom during the liberation of the Islands in 1982.

"The Islanders' individual acts of courage exemplified the indomitable will and personal commitment to defending the Islands' right of self determination."

Prime Minister David Cameron will honour the people of the Falklands Islands during his annual Christmas message to them.

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Three decades ago, UK forces stood with the islanders as they faced a direct and grave threat to their sovereignty

Prime Minister David Cameron

The Conservative leader will say: "Three decades ago, UK forces stood with the islanders as they faced a direct and grave threat to their sovereignty and it is absolutely right that we will be recognising this next year, when your islands will collectively receive the South Atlantic Medal."

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Hong Kong's Next Exclusive Hideout Or The Worst Joke In Real Estate? See Six Future East Asian Islands At This New …

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The 263 islands of Hong Kong are home to 7.2 million people. Thats 67,000 per square mile nearly three times more crowded than New York making Hong Kong one of the densest cities in the world. People seem to like the frenzy. (At least the average banker would rather live high atop Jardines Lookout than in the smog of Beijing.) So why not increase the population of Hong Kong by fifty percent? Thats the brilliant plan of the Chinese government.

With their combination of bureaucracy, corruption, incompetence and arrogance, governments are not always the wisest of urban planners. So visionary architects ranging from Frank Lloyd Wright to Le Corbusier to Archigram once made it their business to propose alternative futures. Though few of their plans were ever more than cyanotype dreams, their schemes challenged the status quo, helping people to envision what their society might become. The architect was a sort of public intellectual. It wasnt very profitable.

Hong Kong Is Land. 2014. The Island of Surplus. Courtesy MAP Office.

And in the age of the jetsetting starchitect, it isnt exactly fashionable. With the death of Lebbeus Woods in 2012, many urbanists eulogized that visionary planning was in foreclosure. The Museum of Modern Art has taken the opposite tack, engaging contemporary architects in civic thought experiments. Uneven Growth presents six such tactical urbanisms for megacities ranging from Hong Kong and New York to Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro.

How to handle the imminent influx of Hong Kong immigrants? Easy enough, according to the team of Hong Kong and New York architects assigned to the project. Just make more islands. For instance, theres the Island of Surplus, an unstable archipelago of abandoned detritus shaped by years of accretion that resembles prehistoric vestiges of an ignorant civilization. And then theres the Island of the Self, a dark and wet labyrinth built inside a supertanker, offering a secretive feast of drugs, adventure and sex.

In case the names dont make it obvious, the architects assert that each of their eight new islands draws on one of Hong Kongs characteristics, exaggerating it to an absurd extent. Underlying their elegant visual presentation is a satirical prankishness reminiscent of the robotic Walking City designed by Archigram in the 1960s.

Yet the humor that animates this vision of Hong Kong also delimits it. Except in the most inspired of visions, satire is inherently reactionary. (On the other hand, schemes offered in utter sincerity such as Le Corbusiers towering 1925 Plan Voisin for Paris usually serve as inadvertent reminders of why architects should never be given absolute power.) Historically the most compelling urban visionaries have been those like Lebbeus Woods willing to risk ambiguity.

Reclaiming Growth. 2014. Perspective of Mumbai with ultra-light growth and supragrowth. Courtesy Ensamble Studio/MIT-POPlab.

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Fast-changing genes help malaria to hide in the human body

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Contact: Mary Clarke press.office@sanger.ac.uk 44-122-349-2368 Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute @sangerinstitute

A study of the way malaria parasites behave when they live in human red blood cells has revealed that they can rapidly change the proteins on the surface of their host cells during the course of a single infection in order to hide from the immune system.

The findings, which overturn previous thinking about the Plasmodium falciparum parasite's lifecycle, could explain why so many attempts to create an effective vaccine have failed and how the parasites are able to survive in the human body for such long periods of time.

In the study, Plasmodium falciparum parasites were kept dividing in human blood for over a year in the laboratory, with the full parasite genome being sequenced regularly. This gave the scientists snapshots of the parasite's genome at multiple time points, allowing them to track evolution as it unfolded in the lab. They found that the 60 or so genes that control proteins on the surface of infected human blood cells, known as var genes, swapped genetic information regularly, creating around a million new and unrecognisable surface proteins in every infected human every two days.

"These genes are like decks of cards constantly being shuffled," explains William Hamilton, a first author from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. "The use of whole genome sequencing and the sheer number of samples we collected gave us a detailed picture of how the var gene repertoire changes continuously within red blood cells."

The results show, for the first time, that the process of swapping genetic information, known as recombination, happens not when the malaria parasite is inside the mosquito, as previously thought, but during the asexual stage of the parasite's lifecycle inside human blood cells. This may go some way to explaining how chronic asymptomatic infection, a crucial problem for malaria elimination, is possible.

"It's very likely that mosquitos are re-infected with Plasmodium falciparum parasites at the beginning of each wet season by biting humans who have carried the parasites, often asymptomatically, for up to eight months during the dry season," says Dr Antoine Claessens, a first author from the Malaria Programme at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. "During those months the parasite's var genes are busy recombining to create millions of different versions - cunning disguises that mean they remain safe from the immune system and ready for the new malarial season."

While further work will be required to fully understand the mechanism driving the recombination of Plasmodium falciparum's var genes, scientists were able to calculate the rate at which it happens. They found that var gene recombination takes place in about 0.2 per cent of parasites after each 48-hour life cycle in the red blood cell. With about a billion parasites living inside a typical infected human, there is huge potential for the parasite to create new, recombined var genes inside each person with malaria. This pace of change far exceeds that of genes in any other region of the parasite's genome.

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The fine-tuning of human color perception

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Contact: Shozo Yokoyama syokoya@emory.edu PLOS

The evolution of trichromatic color vision in humans occurred by first switching from the ability to detect UV light to blue light (between 80-30 MYA) and then by adding green-sensitivity (between 45-30 MYA) to the preexisting red-sensitivity in the vertebrate ancestor. The detailed molecular and functional changes of the human color vision have been revealed by Shozo Yokoyama et al. Emory University and is published in the journal PLOS Genetics.

The molecular basis of functional differentiation is a fundamental question in biology. To fully appreciate how these changes are generated, it is necessary to evaluate the relationship between genes and functions. This is a difficult task because new mutations can produce different functional changes when they occur with different preexisting mutations, causing complex non-additive interactions.

The blue-sensitive visual pigment in human evolved from the UV-sensitive pigment in the ancient Boreoeutherian ancestor by seven mutations. There are 5,040 possible evolutionary paths connecting them. The team examined experimentally the genetic composition and color perception of the visual pigment at every evolutionary step of all 5,040 trajectories. They found that 4,008 trajectories are terminated prematurely by containing a dehydrated nonfunctional pigment. Eight most likely trajectories reveal that the blue-sensitivity evolved gradually almost exclusively by non-additive interactions among the seven mutations.

These analyses demonstrates that the historical sequence of change is critical to our understanding of molecular evolution and emphasizes that genetic engineering of ancestral molecules is the key to decode the complex interactions of mutations within a protein and their effects on functional change.

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