Vigil set Tuesday night for Mulvane teen who died of ... - Cancer Kick

A candlelight vigil will be held Tuesday night in honor of Mulvane teen Taylor Heersche, who died of leukemia hours before she was to return to home after months in the hospital.

The vigil is set for 10:30 p.m. at Mulvane?s Main Street Park, at Fourth Avenue and Main Street, following the Mulvane-Rose Hill football game. Taylor, 15, was set to return to her Mulvane home Tuesday after doctors at Kansas City?s Children?s Mercy Hospital told her family she had only a few days to live.

The town, which rallied around Taylor at Thursday?s football matchup with Clearwater, decorated Main Street with ribbons and signs in orange ? the color of leukemia awareness ? to welcome her around 5 p.m.

But Taylor died shortly before 8 a.m., following her second battle with leukemia.

DeAnne Heersche said Tuesday her daughter ? a bubbly, funny, outgoing teen who loved music, theater and her dog, Kaiser ? had a knack for uniting a community.

?I?ll bet every parent says that their kid was special. But she was a real people person. There were no strangers,? she said of her daughter.

?That kind of kid leaves a huge whole not only in our family, but in the community. We?re all going to miss her horribly.?

Crisis counselors will be available to talk to students, faculty and staff throughout the week at Mulvane High School, district spokesman Tom Keil said.

Taylor, a sophomore at Mulvane High School, was diagnosed with the leukemia in May 2008. She was 10.DeAnne Heersche said Taylor told her, ?I can live with leukemia.?

?And I said, ?Well, you can live with leukemia, so can we,? DeAnne Heersche said. ?And she lived with leukemia. She was a fireball.?

On Dec. 29, 2011 ? after treatment, chemotherapy and eight cancer-free months ? doctors announced the disease was back. This time, DeAnne Heersche said, ?it was a genetic mutation that could not be cured by chemo.?

?This last three months at Children?s Mercy was one setback after another,? she said. Taylor got shingles. A fungus grew in her lungs. A virus attacked her bladder.

?She was fighting too many things. We just couldn?t get her healthy.?

At 5:30 a.m. Tuesday, Taylor?s body started shutting down. By 8, ?she was in heaven,? DeAnne Heersche said.

Taylor is survived by her parents Dan and DeAnne Heersche; 13-year-old sister, Connor; grandmother Millie Hastings; grandfather George Heersche; and several members of her extended family.

Services are at 4 p.m. Sunday at Central Community Church, 6100 W. Maple in Wichita. Those attending are asked to wear a Taylor?s Gang T-shirt or another orange top with jeans.

She will be buried Monday in Mulvane?s Littleton Cemetery during a private ceremony.

Smith Mortuaries in Derby and Mulvane are handling arrangements.

The family is asking contributions be made to several funds in lieu of sending flowers: the Taylor Heersche Cancer Fund at Carson Bank locations in Mulvane, Derby and Wichita; the Mulvane High School Thespians Club, the Mulvane Lyons/Leo?s Club, the Mulvane United Methodist Church, and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in Wichita.

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CSN: Giants follow big win with small win

October 25, 2012, 9:24 pm

SAN FRANCISCO -- Game One of the 2012 World Series was played big, almost comedically so. Three homers from Pablo Sandoval on pitches most players would disdain as being beneath their scientific approach screams bigger than bigger than life.

So of course Game Two was very very small, almost to the point of being subatomic. Yes, the result was the same ? Giants win, 2-0, this time to take a lead of two-games-to-just-watching for the Detroit Tigers ? but the details that separated victory from defeat were subtle to the point of undetectable.

[INSTANT REPLAY: Giants ride Bumgarner to 2-0 series lead]

Madison Bumgarner, the starting pitcher who gave Giant fans the yips, stifled the Tigers on two hits over seven innings. The only threat the Tigers did mount ended because the Tigers, already sensing that scoring would be difficult, tried to get Prince Fielder to score from first on Delmon Young?s second-inning double. He didn?t, because Gregor Blanco, Marco Scutaro and Buster Posey made two throws faster than Fielder could cover the last 90 feet.

But the Giants, who nearly formed a Baseball Bugs conga line Wednesday night, had to get their runs in the tiniest way possible -- with a single, walk, line-hugging bunt and a double play grounder in the seventh, and then three walks and a sacrifice fly in the eighth.

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And both wins still look the same if you squint your eyes hard enough. At least that would be Brandon Crawford?s position.

The Giants shortstop handled more questions about his role in the Blanco/Scutaro/Posey relay (Blanco threw the ball over Crawford?s head to Scutaro, essentially) then about his double play grounder that scored Hunter Pence with the winning run. But since it was his best double play grounder ever, he talked happily about it, from the Blanco bunt that rolled just inside the third base line (?Oh, I thought it was a great bunt,? he laughed) to his own work.

?Frankly, I didn?t really know what to expect,? he said. ?I mean, I think I?d seen him (Tiger pitcher Doug Fister) a couple of times in Double-A, but that was it. I wasn?t trying to let a lot of things go through my head. I just tried to approach it as a two-strike at-bat.?

In other words, he walked to the plate with the bases loaded and nobody out in the second game of the World Series with the score 0-0 and thought of . . . well, nothing.

Okay, next to nothing.

?I sort of thought if I put the ball in play on the ground, they?d probably go for two rather than come home,? he said. ?I mean, I looked up, and they were playing back, so I sort of knew what they wanted to do.?

And to the Tigers? delight AND despair, he delivered that.

?We played double play depth because we felt that we couldn?t give them two runs,? Detroit manager Jim Leyland said. ?To be honest with you, we were absolutely thrilled to come out of that inning with just the one run, absolutely thrilled. I mean, we had to score anyway. You give them two, it makes it tougher, obviously, but we felt like we didn?t want them to open it up. We got the double play ball and we got out of it, and it actually worked really good for us.?

Well, except for the double play producing the only run the Giants would actually need. San Francisco scored again in the eighth, denying the locals the satisfaction of knowing that the last double play that produced the only run of a World Series Game was Game 7 in 1962.

Yes. The Bobby Richardson game. The one where the Yankees beat the Giants when Willie McCovey?s two-out line drive with Matty Alou at third and Willie Mays at second went right at Richardson, killing San Francisco?s chances of winning their first Series 48 years before they actually did.

So Brandon Crawford was denied a chance to bookend San Francisco baseball history because of Pence?s bases-loaded sacrifice fly off Phil Coke in the eighth. He was also denied a chance to be in on the relay that may have crushed Detroit?s spirits.

But he delivered the tiny little run that created the tiny little win that will disappear next to the comic-book win the night before. The win that counts just the same as the one before it. The one that sends the Giants to Detroit with a choke hold on a series that skewed heavily Tiger before it began.

And yes, in the World Series, wins come in one size. The one that fits all.

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Egypt activists try to stop holiday sex harassment

Wearing vests painted with the slogan 'Anti-harassment', a group of volunteers confront a group of teasing young boys near Cairo's Tahrir Square. Instead of taking to the streets with air horns and toy guns and hissing at women like many of their peers, the small group of young Egyptian men tried to secure the streets of downtown Cairo during Eid al-adha, one of Islam?s most important holidays, a time when fears of sexual harassment spike. Their effort largely failed, but it shows the extent of the sexual harassment scourge facing Egypt and the government?s failures to address it. (AP Photo/ Maggie Fick)

Wearing vests painted with the slogan 'Anti-harassment', a group of volunteers confront a group of teasing young boys near Cairo's Tahrir Square. Instead of taking to the streets with air horns and toy guns and hissing at women like many of their peers, the small group of young Egyptian men tried to secure the streets of downtown Cairo during Eid al-adha, one of Islam?s most important holidays, a time when fears of sexual harassment spike. Their effort largely failed, but it shows the extent of the sexual harassment scourge facing Egypt and the government?s failures to address it. (AP Photo/ Maggie Fick)

CAIRO (AP) ? A group of Egyptian men had a mission for this year's Eid al-Adha, Islam's biggest holiday, which began Friday. They wanted to make some effort to stop sexual harassment of women, which in past years has spiked in Cairo during the holiday celebrations with the crowds of rowdy men in the streets.

Their idea was simple: to patrol downtown Cairo and shame men who harass women by cornering them and spray-painting "I'm a harasser" on their backs.

That proved pretty much impossible, however. The small group was outnumbered by boys and men who mocked them, some of them blaming women for bringing harassment by the way they dress.

Gathering on Friday afternoon on Tahrir Square, the epicenter of Egypt's 2011 revolution, about 20 men ? mostly university students ? donned neon yellow vests marked "Anti-Harassment."

They steeled themselves for confrontation with the throngs of young men and boys who had taken to the streets with spending money they received as holiday gifts on the first day of the four-day Eid, or Festival of Sacrifice, celebrated by Muslims worldwide. Many in the crowds were blaring air horns and other holiday noisemakers.

"There's no solution but grabbing them and trying to stop them," said organizer Shadi Hussien, 19. "If there were (anti-harassment) laws, we could discuss those. And if the police did their jobs, then we wouldn't be here."

Hussien and the group of mostly strangers who he organized through Facebook and Twitter say their effort is a last-ditch attempt at forcing the new Egyptian government to respond to sexual harassment, a reality of daily life for Egyptian women.

Notably, no women showed up to join their group. "No women are coming today, it's too dangerous," Hussien said. "They might be attacked."

The only two women that showed up were Egyptian journalists covering it. "I expect there will be problems today because of this event," said Aya Dabis of the Egyptian paper The Seventh Day.

In past years, the Eid has seen major instances of harassment, with crowds of young men groping passing women ? so heavily that women had to flee into shops, and for days afterward newspapers decried the mob attacks.

Harassment is a constant problem, and has only become more prominent amid Egypt's revolution, with several instances of crowds attacking women in Tahrir. In June, as women marched through Tahrir Square demanding an end to harassment, a crowd assaulted them, overwhelming their male guardians and molesting several of the female marchers.

On Friday, the anti-harassment campaigners set out, walking toward a bridge normally dotted with young couples enjoying the Nile breeze. On Friday, there were a few families but almost no women walking alone among the crowds.

But the activists became victims of harassment themselves. Hordes of all male onlookers shouted taunts and blew air horns at them. Some of the yellow vest wearers responded, slapping them away and throwing water.

"Harassment happens, why?" said Ahmed Sobhi, 17, standing nearby as the yellow vests and angry onlookers shouted at each other. "There are girls that do this to themselves, they wear jewelry and makeup. What are we supposed to do?"

Ahmed Ashraf, 20, one of the yellow vest wearers, stood on the Qasr el-Nil bridge and grimaced as some of his fellow anti-harassment campaigners ran to chase down someone they suspected of harassment while a cluster of police officers sipped tea and gazed disinterestedly at the scene.

"I see this issue of harassment every day, I finally had to do something" said Ashraf, a mild-mannered engineering student at Cairo University. "I'm just hoping that our idea will inspire some more people to take action." He politely but repeatedly asked a group of teenagers to move away from The Associated Press reporter interviewing him.

Fellow vest-wearer Ahmed Nassar, 20, said harassment was a cultural problem worsened by the government's failure to take responsibility for securing the streets so that women can walk safely.

"We try to stop the problem peacefully but the harassers respond with violence, so then we do too," he said.

Associated Press

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Rare ladybug in Montana behaves like a turtle

Rare ladybug: The 'headless' ladybug is a new genus that can tuck its head in its throat. How rare is it? Only two of the bizarre-looking ladybird beetles have ever been collected, a male in Montana and a female in Idaho.

By Laura Zuckerman,?Reuters / October 25, 2012

A newly discovered ladybug tucks its head into its throat - making it not only a new species but an entirely new genus. With just two specimens ever collected, scientists say it's the rarest species in the United States.

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The newly discovered insect tucks its head into its throat - making it not only a new species but an entirely new genus, or larger classification of plants and animals.

Ross Winton captured the insect in 2009 in traps he set in a sand dune while an entomology graduate student at Montana State University. Winton, now a wildlife technician in Idaho, at first thought he had parts of an ant but then discovered the bug can hide its head, much like a turtle ducking into its shell.

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Winton sent his discovery to scientists in Australia working on this group of insects and the headless ladybug was formally described in a recent issue of the peer-reviewed journal Systematic Entomology, a publication of the Royal Entomological Society.

Just two specimens of the tan, pinhead-sized ladybugs, also known as ladybird beetles, have ever been collected, a male in Montana and a female in Idaho, scientists said, making it the rarest species in the United States.

Entomologists historically used males to describe beetle species so the credit for the new discovery went to Winton.

However, the new species - Allenius iviei - was named after his former professor and Montana State University entomologist Michael Ivie.

The insect, with the proposed common name "Winton's Ladybird Beetle," may prey on aphids and other plant pests.

"The species is very unusual not only because of its small size, unique habitat and rarity, but the fact that its head is pulled back into a tube in its thorax makes its biology quite a mystery," Ivie told Montana State University News Service.. "It was so unique that it was placed, along with another new species known from Baja California, in a new genus. While discovery of a new species of beetle in the USA is not an everyday event, a completely new genus is quite rare."

He said it was unclear why the beetle slips its head into a tube in its midsection.
"It's a whole new kind of ladybug. Whatever this does, it is very specialized. It's quite the exciting little beast," Ivie said.

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U.S. sues BofA over alleged mortgage fraud

The United States filed a civil mortgage fraud lawsuit against Bank of America, accusing it of selling thousands of toxic home loans that later defaulted to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, leading to more than $1 billion of losses.

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Who Wouldn't Want a Flying Car That Floats?

So, Tim Cook just dropped what he thought was an "Oh, snap!" worthy diss on Microsoft Surface, saying, "I suppose you could design a car that flies and floats, but I don't think it would do all of those things very well." But wait. More »

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Brain waves reveal video game aptitude

ScienceDaily (Oct. 24, 2012) ? Scientists report that they can predict who will improve most on an unfamiliar video game by looking at their brain waves.

They describe their findings in a paper in the journal Psychophysiology.

The researchers used electroencephalography (EEG) to peek at electrical activity in the brains of 39 study subjects before they trained on Space Fortress, a video game developed for cognitive research. The subjects whose brain waves oscillated most powerfully in the alpha spectrum (about 10 times per second, or 10 hertz) when measured at the front of the head tended to learn at a faster rate than those whose brain waves oscillated with less power, the researchers found. None of the subjects were daily video game players.

The EEG signal was a robust predictor of improvement on the game, said University of Illinois postdoctoral researcher and Beckman Fellow Kyle Mathewson, who led the research with psychology professors and Beckman Institute faculty members Monica Fabiani and Gabriele Gratton.

"By measuring your brain waves the very first time you play the game, we can predict how fast you'll learn over the next month," Mathewson said. The EEG results predicted about half of the difference in learning speeds between study subjects, he said.

The waves of electrical activity across the brain reflect the communication status of millions or billions neurons, Mathewson said.

"These oscillations are the language of the brain, and different oscillations represent different brain functions," he said.

The researchers also found that learning to play the game improved subjects' reaction time and working memory (the ability to hold a piece of information in mind just until it is needed), skills that are important in everyday life.

"We found that the people who had more alpha waves in response to certain aspects of the game ended up having the best improvement in reaction time and the best improvement in working memory," Mathewson said.

This project is a part of a larger collaborative effort to determine whether measures of brain activity or brain structure can predict one's ability to learn a new video game. One analysis, led by Beckman Institute director Art Kramer (an author on this study as well), found that the volume of specific structures in the brain could predict how well people would perform on Space Fortress. That study used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to measure the relative sizes of different brain structures.

But MRI is expensive and requires that subjects lie immobile inside a giant magnet, Mathewson said. With EEG, researchers can track brain activity fairly inexpensively while subjects are engaged in a task in a less constricted, less artificial environment, he said.

The new findings offer tantalizing new clues to the mental states that appear to enhance one's ability to perform complex tasks, Mathewson said. Alpha waves are associated with relaxation, but they also are believed to arise when one is actively inhibiting certain cognitive functions in favor of others, he said. It is possible that everyone could benefit from interventions to increase the strength of their alpha waves in the front of the brain, a region associated with decision-making, attention and self-control.

"You can get people to increase their alpha brain waves by giving them some positive feedback," Mathewson said. "And so you could possibly boost this kind of activity before putting them in the game."

The study team also included researchers now at the University of Texas at Dallas and Florida State University.

The U.S. Office of Naval Research, the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the Beckman Institute supported this research.

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1. Kyle E. Mathewson, Chandramallika Basak, Edward L. Maclin, Kathy A. Low, Walter R. Boot, Arthur F. Kramer, Monica Fabiani, Gabriele Gratton. Different slopes for different folks: Alpha and delta EEG power predict subsequent video game learning rate and improvements in cognitive control tasks. Psychophysiology, 2012; DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2012.01474.x

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