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Research Scientists to Use Network Much Faster Than Internet
The New York Times
The U.S. National Science Foundation has provided a five-year, $5-million grant to deploy a series of ultra-high-speed fiber-optic cables to link West Coast university laboratories and supercomputer centers into the Pacific Research Platform. The network is designed to keep up with the acceleration of data compilation in disciplines such as physics, astronomy, and genetics, moving torrents of data at speeds of 10 Gbps to 100 Gbps among participating labs and institutions. The network will not have a direct Internet connection, and Larry Smarr at the University of California, San Diego's (UCSD) California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology says it also will function as a template for future computer networks. "I believe that this infrastructure will be for decades to come the kind of architecture by which you use petascale and exascale computers," Smarr says. Moreover, the platform has been outfitted with hardware security measures to shield it from cyberattacks that typically target Internet-linked computers. The network also will enable new types of distributed computing for scientific applications. UCSD's Frank Wuerthwein cites as an example the migration of experimental data to a single location for use by researchers running experiments in remote sites as high-speed links become more widely available.
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The New York Times (07/31/15) John Markoff
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Facial Recognition Tool 'Works in Darkness'
BBC News
A new tool can identify people in complete darkness by using their thermal signature and matching infrared images with ordinary photos, using a deep neural network system to process the pictures and recognize faces. Saquib Sarfraz and Rainer Stiefelhagen at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology are behind the research into facial recognition in thermal images. During testing, the researchers say the system has demonstrated an 80-percent success rate, working 55 percent of the time with one image. However, "more training data and a more powerful architecture" could lead to better results, Sarfraz says. Tom Heseltine, head of research for U.K. face recognition company Aurora, says the ability to use thermal infrared and match the images against standard color photographs is an interesting approach, noting the biggest advantage is the ability to operate in the dark without active infrared illumination. The researchers note that with improved accuracy, the system could serve as a law enforcement tool.
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BBC News (07/30/15) Ian Westbrook
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NASA and Google's Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
iTech Post
A joint project between the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Ames Space Research Center, Google, and the Universities Space Research Association seeks to apply quantum computing to artificial intelligence (AI). The Quantum AI Laboratory team's goal is to collaborate on the implementation and testing of designs for inference processors and quantum optimization, based on knowledge from the D-Wave quantum annealing architecture and recent theoretical breakthroughs. The lab employs NASA's 512-qubit Vesuvius D-Wave Two quantum computer, which has been retrofitted to isolate it from noise and vibrations as well as cooling it to near-absolute zero. The Vesuvius system is being used by NASA scientists to investigate areas where quantum computing may significantly improve the agency's ability to solve optimization problems in space exploration, aeronautics, and Earth and space sciences. Pattern recognition, machine learning, distributed coordination and navigation, mission planning and scheduling, and system diagnostics and anomaly detection are among its potential uses. The advancement of machine learning is relevant to Google's success, and the company has set a new objective of applying its experimentation into quantum computing to real-world results. One goal is building more precise models for myriad processes via the combined power of traditional data centers and highly specialized extreme computing.
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iTech Post (07/30/2015) Vlad Tverdohleb
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Big Data Challenge for Food Resilience
Government Computer News
Microsoft Research and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have launched a new contest with the goal of exploring the impact of climate change on the U.S.'s food system. The Innovation Challenge for Food Resilience encourages developers and researchers to build applications that make use of USDA data to provide actionable insights to farmers, agriculture businesses, scientists, or consumers. USDA will make key datasets available on Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform, enabling complex models to be processed in a timely manner and results to be delivered remotely to users on laptops and mobile devices. Participants can combine the data with data from other government agencies. Microsoft has built a Farm Data Dashboard, which provides a basic interface to the datasets on Azure, and the company will grant cloud-computing awards to aid participants. Users can choose from more than 31 million available records and either download them in bulk or modify the application programming interface to pull specific data. The challenge offers $60,000 in prizes, including a top prize of $25,000. The deadline for entries is Nov. 20, and winners will be picked in December. "Microsoft and the USDA...hope that the challenge will provide a great incentive for developers and researchers interested in data science to put together some great applications helping address the USA's food resiliency needs," says Microsoft Research's Daron Green.
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Government Computer News (07/30/15) Derek Major
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How Google Translate Squeezes Deep Learning Onto a Phone
Google Research Blog
The latest version of Google Translate works with deep neural nets to enable object recognition/translation on a mobile phone without an Internet link. The first step is the app identifying letters in the image taken by the phone camera, which it does by studying blobs of pixels with similar color that are also near other similar blobs of pixels. A convolutional neural network trained on letters and non-letters helps the app recognize each letter, and the next step is to look up those letters in a dictionary to get translations. The final step involves rendering the translation on top of the original words in the same style as the original, by examining the colors surrounding the letters and using that to delete the original letter, and then drawing the translation on top using the original foreground color. To support visual, real-time translation on low-end mobile phones without a cloud connection, Google researchers developed a very small neural net, and severely limited how much training data it could handle. The researchers produced tools that would yield a fast iteration time and good visualizations. Achieving real-time performance required heavy optimization and hand-tuning the math operations by using the mobile processor's SIMD instructions and adjusting matrix multiplies to fit processing into all levels of cache memory.
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Google Research Blog (07/29/15) Otavio Good
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A Programming Language for Robot Swarms
Technology Review
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal researchers have developed Buzz, a programming language designed to govern the movements of heterogeneous robot swarms and lead to self-organized behavior. The researchers say Buzz accommodates two opposing swarm control strategies--a bottom-up approach in which each robot is controlled individually, and a top-down approach in which the swarm is controlled en masse. "We believe that a language for robot swarms must combine both bottom-up and top-down primitives, allowing the developer to pick the most comfortable level of abstraction to express a swarm algorithm," the researchers say. They also note Buzz enables intuitive command combinations with predictable outcomes that make it relatively simple to use. In addition, the language has scalability so it can be used in different-sized swarms. Team leader Carlo Pinciroli says the lack of a standardized programming language for swarms is a significant obstacle to future progress because there is no easy way for researchers to share their work and build on each other's advances. "We believe that one of the most important aspects of Buzz is its potential to become an enabler for future research on real-world, complex swarm robotics systems," the researchers note. Among the team's future plans is developing a library of established swarm behaviors that will become building blocks for the future work of others.
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Technology Review (07/29/15)
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These Artworks Were Made by Algorithms
The 2015 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) focuses on the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and art. Researchers are exploring how AI can contribute to the arts, and how the arts might contribute to the development of AI. Some of the works on display this week in Buenos Aires, Argentina, demonstrate the many different ways AI can be used to create art of its own. For example, artist Jon McCormack creates pieces with an automated software drawing program that uses principles of ecosystem dynamics and biological evolution to create an infinite number of line drawings. AI researcher Simon Colton created a piece using evolutionary software to evolve the placement of flowers in the individual circles. Another image assembles three-dimensional digital objects on a virtual canvas, based on a source image. Meanwhile, an algorithm called Photogrowth simulates the behavior of species of artificial ants using their trails to produce a rendering of an original input image. The exhibition and conference also features AI involved in disciplines including dance and music.
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Motherboard (07/29/15) Victoria Turk
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Study Shows Co-operative Robots Learn and Adapt Quickly Through Natural Language
CIO Australia
Robots can learn and adjust rapidly to their surroundings solely via natural-language processing, according to a study published as part of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Argentina. The researchers created a dialogue agent for a mobile robot that can be placed within a workplace environment and quickly learn to perform delivery and navigation tasks to assist human workers without needing to be initially trained on a large body of annotated data. The agent automatically induces training examples from conversations it has with people, using a semantic parser to incrementally learn the meaning of previously unseen words. The agent also can conduct multi-entity reasoning while performing navigation tasks. The researchers note this strategy is stronger than keyword search, and is applicable to any context in which robots are assigned high-level goals in natural language. More than 300 users engaged with the agent via the Amazon Mechanical Turk Web interface and 20 users via a wheeled Segbot in an office. The agent initially clarifies with the user what they mean by a request, prompting the user to ask the question another way so it can learn different ways of saying the same thing. Future development will concentrate on applying the agent to speech recognition software, with researchers probing whether it can automatically learn to correct consistent speech recognition errors.
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CIO Australia (07/29/15) Rebecca Merrett
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Beyond Just 'Big' Data
IEEE Spectrum
As new big data technologies advance and the challenges of extracting meaning from these massive data sets shift, it seems likely computer scientists will need an entirely new vocabulary to define these various trends. For example, big data enthusiasts sometimes categorize storage units as "brontobytes," each of which adds up to 1,000 trillion terabytes. A unit of 1,000 brontobytes is called a "geobyte." Accompanying the new lexicon of big data storage units are new terms for data professionals, which include specialists in building data models, or data architects; managers of data sources, or data stewards/custodians; translators of data into visual form, or data visualizers; and those who change how a company does business based on analyzing company data, or data change agents. Moreover, a new kind of journalism, data journalism or data-driven journalism, is emerging to apply statistics, programming, and other digital data and tools to generate or mold news stories. In addition, big data is being sub-categorized into finer definitions such as thick data, which refers to data combining quantitative and qualitative analysis. There also is long data--which extends back in time centuries or millennia---and hot data, which is used constantly and therefore must be easily and quickly accessible. Meanwhile, cold data can be less readily available, as its use is relatively infrequent.
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IEEE Spectrum (07/28/15) Paul McFedries
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UCF-Developed Software Analyzes Fat in Seconds
UCF Today
New computer-vision techniques can give doctors a more complete analysis of fat than images alone. In 2009, scientists discovered adults have brown--or good--fat cells that are beneficial for fighting off weight gain and potentially slowing cancer growth. Software developed by Ulas Bagci, an assistant professor in University of Central Florida's Center for Research in Computer Vision, and colleagues differentiates between brown and white fat tissues. Moreover, the software distinguishes whether the more common white fat lives just below the skin in subcutaneous cells or deeper in visceral cells, potentially wrapping around organs. The computer-vision techniques can analyze images much better than the human eye, and the software can read results from positron-emission tomography and computed-tomography scans in about a minute. "These computer-derived results can help a doctor plan a treatment or surgery more accurately and much faster than before," Bagci says. The software also functions with markers, such as contrast dyes, which can lead to an even more accurate understanding of the disease extent, severity, and cause. Bagci used similar software to help researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health studying vaccine approaches for MERS-CoV, a severe acute respiratory illness.
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UCF Today (07/28/15) Barbara Abney
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Quantum Computing: Diode-Like Breakthrough Surmounts Roadblock
EE Times
Niels Bohr Institute researchers have developed a diode-like component that enables single photons to be emitted and flow in only one direction depending upon whether their spin is "up" or "down." The researchers also developed a kind of photon delay line, and they say these new photonic components can be applied to developing practical quantum computers. "Our research focus is on the development of photonic hardware for quantum technology and [we] may have a number of technological applications, both short term and longer term," says Niels Bohr professor Peter Lodahl. The quantum dot single-photon emitter sends up-spin single photons in one direction down a waveguide and down-spin single photons in the opposite direction, creating a quantum computer component that separates quantum bits based on their encoding. "In future quantum computers it is essential to be able to control the interaction between light and matter--photons and quantum dots in our case," Lodahl says. The delay-line type of component for photons is similar to delay line components found in conventional electronics. "Our discovery of the different interaction depending on propagation direction opens new possibilities of controlling light-matter interaction enabling the construction of novel photonic chips constituting basic hardware for quantum-computing technology," Lodahl says.
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EE Times (07/29/15) R. Colin Johnson
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InBloom May Be Dead but the Dream Lives on at Carnegie Mellon
EdSurge (CA)
LearnSphere is a new $5-million federally funded project at Carnegie Mellon University that seeks to become the world's largest "open repository of education data," says project leader Ken Koedinger. He wants education researchers and software developers to upload their data comprising the millions of keystrokes students make as they answer questions, hit backspace, or even sit idly. Koedinger's team wants to form a "distributed infrastructure" that gives researchers access to data on someone else's computer. A key challenge for Koedinger's team is cleaning up the data so outside researchers can easily analyze it yet ensure no information identifies a student. The goal is translating research questions into computer commands that can be run on any dataset. Koedinger recently studied how much students learned when they were taking a free online course in introductory psychology. He asked what increased student learning the most--videos, reading assignments, or online interactive tasks. "Our model suggests, for every activity you do, you get six times the bump than for every video you watch," Koedinger says. He also notes there are key differences between LearnSphere and the defunct inBloom non-profit project, such as not allowing any personal information from school records to enter LearnSphere.
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EdSurge (CA) (07/28/15) Jill Barshay
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Lewis quits after nine months in Mercury job
Wednesday 13 September 1995
Mr Lewis's departure for "personal reasons" stunned City analysts. He was perceived to have been effective in cutting Mercury's costs and improving performance. His resignation was all the more shocking as it came the day after he delivered a swingeing attack on the industry regulator, Oftel, for doing too little to promote competition and to curb the power of BT.
Lord Young said: "I greatly regret Duncan Lewis's decision to resign on personal grounds. Over the last nine months he has refocused Mercury, laid the strategy and put the company back on the growth path. The result will become evident in the November interims."
He said Mr Lewis will be replaced by Peter Howell-Jones, at present deputy chief executive of the group's flagship, Hong Kong Telecom. "He knows the business well and inherits a strong management team to help him see the strategy through," Lord Young said.
Unlike his predecessors, Mr Lewis is leaving C&W completely rather than taking another post within the group. Previous heads of Mercury have moved within C&W after leaving Mercury, but none now remains with the organisation.
The change at Mercury is part of a wider reorganisation, which includes the appointment of James Ross, C&W chief executive, as deputy chairman - in addition to his present position.Win Bischoff, a non- executive director, is also appointed deputy chairman, but the group said there is no change in Lord Young's role.
Mr Lewis's appointment to Mercury at the end of last year coincided with the biggest shakeup in its 10-year history. The company announced plans to scrap its network of 2,700 payphones and to withdraw from directory inquiry services as part of a restructuring involving the loss of 2,500 jobs.
Mercury is also poised to sell its equipment manufacturing unit in Milton Keynes, which employs 1,000.
In the telephony market, the company has refocused on long distance operations and on services for small and medium businesses, effectively admitting that it will never be a major player in services for households.
One City analyst said: "I cannot understand it. Mr Lewis has been putting the company back on a growth path. On Monday he appeared to be at the heart of the debate over the future of the industry and on Tuesday he is gone."
In his speech to a London conference on Monday, Mr Lewis said Government policy and regulation had failed to deliver effective competition: "I have seen nothing which says we are not now headed for a catastrophe. We are at a point of crisis in the evolution of telecommunications regulation."
Another City analyst said that with the repeated change of chief executive, and of direction, there now has to be a question over Mercury's long- term future. He said that while cost cutting might improve immediate performance, Mr Lewis had been something of a company doctor who lacked strategic vision. Mercury has been widely criticised in recent years for failing to react quickly enough to competition after the Government ended the duopoly in 1991. Since then, almost 60 companies have been licensed to offer telephony services and dozens of cable television franchises have been authorised to provide local telephony within their area. Mercury has also seen margins severely squeezed in the price war with BT. The company has struggled to keep an edge over its rival, which must keep annual price changes on its basket of basic services to inflation minus 7.5 percentage points.
Cable and Wireless is also thought to have been in talks earlier this year with AT&T of the US concerning a possible stake in Mercury or the group as a whole, but to no avail.
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worst day ever
So I worked on the site pretty much all day yesterday. I fine tuned things a bit and then I set up the forum, which was, uh,,, time consuming. Anyway by 9PM the site looked sweet and the forum worked so i called in a night.
Then at about 10:30 I figured I would play with this blog a bit. BUT I could not login in to my account. After fooling with the site for about an hour i thought, "This is it. I'm done for- all that work down the drain". Well to cut to the chase I agonized over the problem for about 3 more hours, reading forums, posting questions, sorting through my databases…
The only good advice I got was from a buddy who has his own site. He recommended I got to sleep and give it the 'ole college try in the morning when I was fresh. Well after I woke up I looked at the problem for a bit and soon figured it out. I won't get into the boring details but it was the most ridiculous little thing in the database. Luckily now I know what to do, but it sure did suck.


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Айвазовский, не меньше )))
Looks like they are enjoy a chat Fabio
Hi Fabio
I wish you a lovely day
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Like! This is a very good photo! Greetings!
A lovely shot towards the Sun at a beautiful lake.
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Very nice to see the white swans
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Ukrainian government recaptures separatist Slaviansk
Ukraine's military has recaptured the separatist town of Slaviansk from pro-Russian rebel factions.
Ukraine's military has recaptured the separatist town of Slaviansk from pro-Russian rebel factions.
Most pro-Russian rebels and their top commander have fled their eastern stronghold of Slavyansk in Kiev's biggest success of the three month campaign, AFP reports citing Ukraine's interior minister.
Arsen Avakov said: "This morning, intelligence reported that Girkin (Igor Strelkov) and a substantial part of the rebels had fled Slavyansk".
Insurgents seized the city of nearly 120,000 people on April 6.
Those embarking across the Channel should prepare for disruption due to the problems at Calais terminals and the impact of Operation Stack.
Pensioner's photo evidence being used in the hunt for two men captured on a stolen bike in an incident that saw him suffer a heart attack.
Footage filmed at an industrial estate in Stourbridge has emerged showing suspected migrants from Calais fleeing a lorry.


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Sony has unveiled its latest edition of the RX100 compact cameras with the Cyber-shot RX100 IV. The new pocket camera features a familiar 20MP 1-inch sensor, albeit this time as the first stack CMOS sensor of the product family along with an attached DRAM memory chip for faster processing speeds. [Read more…]
Sony NEX-FS700 Gets $1000 Price Drop
The Sony NEX-FS700 is now available for $4999 (reg. $5999) after instant rebates. Additionally, you can get a free Metabones EF lens adapter free through June 30, 2015. The FS700 is capable of shooting 4K video and capture up to 960fps for super slow motion footage. Check it out here at B&H Photo.
Big Savings on Sony Mirrorless Cameras This Week
B&H has several good deals on Sony E-mount cameras this week, including the new A7II, which is $1798 (reg. $1998) with the 28-70mm OSS lens.
The A7II (body only) is $1498 (reg. $1698). And, if you want to step back to the first generation, the original Sony A7 is down to $998 (reg. $1298), which makes it the cheapest retail price for a full frame camera to date.
The 36MP Sony A7R is now $1898 (reg. $2298) with 4% rewards and includes a free Sony leather jacket case.
The Sony A6000 kit is available for as little as $598 (reg. $798) and the smaller Sony A5100 kit is $498 (reg. $698). If you already have a kit lens, the A5100 body is only $348 (reg. $548).
The Sony NEX-7 kit can be had for just $498 (was $1248).
Sony RX100 for $398 – Deal Alert
B&H has the Sony RX100 for $398 (reg. $498) with a free Sony 32GB SDHC UHS-I card and Ruggard camera case, as well as 2% rewards. Check it out here at B&H Photo.
Sony 64GB UHS-I Speed Class 3 '4K-Ready' SDXC Card for $27 – Deal Alert
B&H has the Sony 64GB UHS-I Speed Class SDXC card for $27.50 (reg. $38.30) through April 29 (tomorrow). The Speed Class 3 rating means that it is capable of recording 4K video in current cameras like the Panasonic GH4 that record on-board 4K video. You can learn more about Speed Class ratings and other SD card specs in this article – Demystifying SD Cards.
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Zeiss has announced a pair of new full frame lenses for Sony E-mount cameras – the Batis 25mm f/2 and the Batis 85mm f/1.8. Both lenses offer autofocus, which is a first for Zeiss full frame E-mount lenses. [Read more…]
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(ShareCast News) - Lloyds Banking Group on Friday reports its first quarterly results since it cut ties with TSB completely.
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Credit cards can be used to pay for virtually anything and, at the end of 2013 61.7 million were in use in the UK, according to the UK Cards Association. Most banks and building societies have their own ...
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HealthStream, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSTM), a leading provider of talent management and research solutions for healthcare organizations, today announced that Pensacola, Florida-based Baptist Health Care has entered into a five-year agreement to utilize HealthStream's comprehensive talent management solution for their 7,500 employees. The agreement was signed in conjunction with the transaction announced earlier today where HealthStream acquired Baptist Leadership Group, a consulting practice owned by Baptist Health Care.
"We are excited that Baptist Health Care has adopted our comprehensive talent management platform," said Robert A. Frist, Jr., Chief Executive Officer, HealthStream. "Our new collaboration provides an opportunity for Baptist to pilot outcomes-driven, next generation talent management solutions to enhance the patient experience, improve workforce knowledge of safety practices, and reduce the cost of compliance."
HealthStream's innovative talent management solution is provided with an underpinning of unique applications designed specifically for healthcare organizations. Baptist Health Care will use three SaaS-based applications: (1) a healthcare workflow-intuitive learning management application to develop their workforce – the HealthStream Learning Center™; (2) an interactive competency assessment & management application to accelerate and manage competencies – the HealthStream Competency Center™; and (3) a user-centric application to automate performance appraisals and drive organizational productivity – the HealthStream Performance Center™. Integrated in one, enterprise talent management platform, Baptist Health Care will benefit from having a single sign-on for its users and a unified, comprehensive solution to develop their workforce and achieve specific business and clinical outcomes.
Baptist Health Care is widely regarded as a progressive leader in the healthcare industry, having received numerous accolades in recent years, including the highly-respected Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Their commitment to their workforce is well known, as evidenced most recently by their recognition in Training Magazine's 2013 ranking of Baptist Health Care at #39 out of the top 125 corporate institutions in the U.S. for team training and people development.
"Service excellence has long been the hallmark of Baptist Health Care—as provided by our world class employees. HealthStream's comprehensive talent management solution will support us in this commitment to our patients and communities, making them an outstanding partner for Baptist Health Care," said Brian Matson, Senior Vice President & Chief Strategy & Business Development Officer, Baptist Health Care. "We look forward to working collaboratively with HealthStream in a similar manner that we have historically worked with Baptist Leadership Group. We are excited about the opportunities that we can address together with the continued use of our organization's Living Laboratory to road-test new innovations."
About HealthStream
HealthStream (NASDAQ: HSTM) is dedicated to improving patient outcomes through the development of healthcare organizations' greatest asset: their people. Our unified suite of software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions are used by, collectively, approximately 3.3 million healthcare employees in the U.S. for training & learning management, talent management, performance assessment, and managing simulation-based education programs. Our research solutions provide valuable insight to healthcare providers to meet HCAHPS requirements, engage their workforce, and enhance physician alignment. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, HealthStream has additional offices in Laurel, Maryland, Austin, Texas, and Brentwood, Tennessee. For more information, visit http://www.healthstream.com or call 800-933-9293.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties regarding HealthStream. Investors are cautioned that such results or events predicted in these statements may differ materially from actual future events or results. This information has been, or in the future may be, included in reliance on the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Investors are cautioned that such results or events predicted in these statements may differ materially from actual future events or results. The Company's preliminary financial results, while presented with numerical specificity, are forward-looking statements which are based on a variety of assumptions regarding the Company's operating performance that may not be realized, and which are subject to significant uncertainties and potential contingencies associated with the Company's financial and accounting procedures and other matters referenced from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Consequently, such forward-looking information should not be regarded as a representation or warranty by the Company that such projections will be realized.
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Presidency of John Adams.
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [1975]
|John Adams; John Adams; John Adams; John Adams
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Ralph A Brown
|0700601341 9780700601349
|x, 248 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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The road to peace: Môrtefontaine --
The campaign and election of 1800 --
A new capital a retiring president --
A summing up: John Adams and the presidency.
|American presidency series.
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"The administration of John Adams was a period of rapid change, internal discord, and the continual threat of war. Few of the nation's chief executives have been subjected to such immediate and ever-present danger of foreign involvement and national destruction, to such bitter animosities and serious cleavages within their administrations, or to such constant need for decision making as was John Adams. In the face of such adversity Adams successfully pursued a policy of neutrality and consiliation and, in so doing, provided time for the country to grow strong and to prosper. Yet, despite the seriousness of the country's problems and the contributions of his administration, he is seldom designated as one of the great American presidents."--Publisher.
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12/18/2012 (2 years ago)
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Diagnosed with a degenerative brain disorder. 53-year-old Jan Scheuermann hasn't been able to feed herself for 13 years. Paralyzed from the neck down, Scheuermann has been able to feed herself thanks to a breakthrough in robot technology. Using mind-control, she's able to fed herself with a fluid motion that hasn't been seen in connection with such technology before.
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12/18/2012 (2 years ago)
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Keywords: Paralytics, robotics, mind-control, fluid motion
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center researchers planted two 96-channel intra-cortical microelectrodes in her brain. After only two days of training could move the arm. After 13 weeks she was able to perform more complex tasks.
"The participant was also able to use the prosthetic limb to do skillful and coordinated reach and grasp movements that resulted in clinically significant gains in tests of upper limb function. No adverse events were reported," the researchers stated in the study.
"This is the ride of my life," Scheuermann said in the university press release. "This is the rollercoaster. This is skydiving. It's just fabulous, and I'm enjoying every second of it."
Professor Andrew Schwartz from the University of Pittsburgh says that movements this good have not been achieved before.
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A dead white woman has been found among Islamic terrorists killed by soldiers as they stormed the mall where 62 shoppers were slaughtered this weekend, Kenyan officials said.
The claim, made by three sources to news agency Reuters, will fuel speculation that the dead woman is Samantha Lewthwaite, the widow of 7/7 bomber Jermaine Lindsay, who is wanted by Kenyan police on a string of terror charges. Police will also investigate the possibility that she is a hostage dressed in one of the terrorist's clothes.
Asked if it was Lewthwaite, dubbed the 'White Widow', an intelligence officer said: 'We don't know.'
Moments after the news broke, Al Shabaab, the Al Qaeda affiliated terror group behind the massacre at Nairobi's Westgate Shopping Centre, used their Twitter feed to claim that Lewthwaite was safe.
It comes as Kenyan special forces were today locked in a fight to the death with Islamic terrorists who have been barricaded inside the Nairobi mall with up to 40 hostages since Saturday.
Witnesses described hearing four large explosions at the Westgate Shopping Centre followed by the sight of thick plumes of smoke and the sounds of fierce gunfire after the military tried to break the three day siege by gaining access from the roof.
It is feared that some of the gunmen, who are from Al Qaeda affiliated group Al Shabaab, may have blown themselves up, though a Kenyan government minister said that militants had set fire to some mattresses in a supermarket as a decoy.
Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku said that three of the terrorists have now been killed and that most hostages were now free.
'We think the operation will come to an end soon', he said. 'We are in control of all the floors, the terrorists are running and hiding in some stores... there is no room for escape'.
The Red Cross has put the death toll at 62 - including four Britons - and say 63 are still missing. At least 175 were injured, including children.
The Westgate Shopping Centre is on fire and a fierce gun battle is underway as Kenyan special forces try to end the three day siege that has killed at least 62 people
Witnesses have reported hearing rapid gun fire at the shopping mall and Kenyan soldiers have been seen moving towards Westgate
A paramedic runs for cover outside the mall in Nairobi after a large explosion was followed by sustained shooting
Security forces say they have evacuated almost all the hostages from the shopping centre, which was on fire earlier on Monday
There are fears the death toll will rise as security forces search the upmarket shopping complex.
Briton Ross Langdon, 33, has been confirmed as one of the dead. The award-winning architect, who had dual nationality with Australia, died alongside his heavily pregnant Dutch partner Elif Yavuz.
She was a a Harvard-educated malaria specialist who worked for the Clinton Health Access Initiative and was just two weeks away from giving birth to her first child.
The identities of the rest of the dead Britons have not been released. But late last night a British man told The Daily Telegraph that he had lost his wife and daughter and had identified their bodies from photographs shown to him by police.
Peruvian national Dr Juan Jesus Ortiz-Iruri, 63, who was due to start work at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine next month, was confirmed among the dead today.
The Kenyan interior ministry said 'almost all' the hostages have been evacuated from the mall hours after it was rocked by a series of blasts.
In a Twitter message it added 'some individuals' have been arrested at Nairobi airport.
In a series of updates, it said 16 Kenyan soldiers had been injured, adding that the focus of the operation is now clearing the building.
Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku said security forces now have control over all four storeys of the shopping mall and are confident there is no escape route for the surviving terrorists.
He said: 'We are doing anything reasonably possible, cautiously though, to bring this process to an end.
'The terrorists could be running and hiding in some stores, but all floors now are under our control.'
A Kenyan minister claimed the heavy black smoke billowing from the shopping mall on Monday was caused by burned mattresses
The area around the mall was teeming with Kenyan soldiers and armoured personnel carriers, as emergency workers and reporters were told to take cover
Kenyan police said they have rescued some hostages after storming the mall and said they are 'increasingly gaining advantage [over] the attackers'
Ross Langdon, 33, was killed alongside his heavily pregnant Dutch partner Elif Yavuz
As Kenyan soldiers and more armoured personnel carriers descended on the mall, a spokesman for terror group Al Shabaab Ali Mohamud Rage said in a statement posted on an Islamist website that those held inside will 'bear the brunt of any force' used by soldiers against the militants.
The statement read: 'We authorise the mujahedeen inside the building to take actions against the prisoners as much as they are pressed.
'We are telling Christians advancing onto the mujahedeen to have mercy for their prisoners who will bear the brunt of any force directed against the mujahedeen.'
There were conflicting reports about the identity of the attackers. Al Shabaab claimed on Twitter last night that the group was being led by Samantha Lewthwaite, who was married to Jermaine Lindsay, one of the 7/7 suicide bombers.
Known as the White Widow, she is wanted by Kenyan police over links to a suspected terrorist cell planning bomb attacks.
A link between Lewthwaite and the Westgate attack was made after soldiers claimed they had seen a white woman in a veil shouting orders to gunman in Arabic.
Meanwhile, a Twitter account claiming to represent Al Shabaab yesterday claimed that terrorists from seven nations are involved in the attack, including the U.S., Britain and Canada.
The HSM Press Office account, which has been suspended twice, claimed the group were Ahmed Nasir Shirdoon, 24, from London, UK; Gen Mustafe Noorduiin, 27, from Kansas City, U.S., Abdifatah Osman Keenadiid, 24, from Minneapolis, U.S., and Ahmed Mohamad Isse, 22, from Saint Paul, U.S; Ismael Guled, 23, from Finland; Abdirizak Mouled, 24, from Ontario, Canada; and Zaki Jama Caraale, 20, and Sayid Nuh, 25, both from Somalia.
A top Kenyan military official said he believes the attackers are 'a multinational collection from all over the world.'
Police officers take cover following a string of explosions and fierce gun fire on Monday - the third day of the siege
Militants inside Westgate Shopping Centre have threatened to kill the remaining hostages as Kenyan security personnel try to end the siege (pictured)
Kenya Security personnel take cover outside the Westgate Mall. Islamist terror group Al Shabaab claimed it carried out the atrocity in which four Britons were killed and 175 people were left injured
Kenyan military said last night that 'most' of the hostages have been freed but a spokesman admitted today that the situation is still not clear
Militants inside the shopping centre said hostages would 'bear the brunt' of any action by the Kenyan military
Terror link: Samantha Lewthwaite, 29, originally from Buckinghamshire, was described as a 'brave lady' by Islamist terror group Al Shabaab
General Julius Karangi said fighters from an array of nations participated in the attack claimed by Al Shabaab, a Somali group allies with al-Qaida.
We have an idea who they are, their nationality and even the number. We are fighting global terrorism here and we have sufficient intel (intelligence) to suggest that.'
As the stand-off entered its third day, sustained bursts of rapid gunfire erupted at dawn and lasted 15 minutes, and soldiers posted around the complex ducked for cover.
This was followed by three big explosions, AFP correspondents at the scene said.
A Kenyan special forces officer said troops had moved in to end the siege with force.
'I saw them only once, I could not see them much," he said. 'It was hide-and-seek, hide-and-seek, hide-and-seek. In the end we had to use full force, we had to finish with these guys.'
Al Shabaab have not said how many people were being held by the dozen-or-so attackers, who marched into the Israeli-owned four-storey complex at midday Saturday, spraying shoppers with machine gunfire and tossing grenades.
One security officer said within half-an-hour of the attack the mall had been turned into 'an abattoir' as gunmen wearing Islamic scarves but Western clothes went on the rampage.
Police chief David Kimaiyo said today that some hostages have been freed. However, a group claiming to represent the Al Shabaab terrorists said they are still fighting inside the building.
In a message on Twitter Mr Kimaiyo wrote: 'Thumbs up to our multi-agency team, we have just managed to rescue some hostages. We're increasingly gaining advantage of the attackers.
A French woman said she was freed by the Islamic terrorists because they told her they only wanted to kill Kenyans and Americans.
The woman, who only gave her name as Pauline, said she escaped with her two young children, who were given Mars bars by the gunmen.
Pauline said she was asked for forgiveness by the terrorists who told her 'we are not monsters'.
The mother of two, who was in the supermarket when the attack began, said once she agreed Muslims were not 'bad people' they gave her children, Emily, 6, and Eliot, 4, chocolate.
She told The Independent: 'He said we only only want to kill Kenyans and Americans. He then told me I had to change my religion to Islam and said "do you forgive us? do you forgive us?'
She said she was able to escape with another two children, including a wounded 12-year-old boy whose mother had been murdered.
Terrified children wait by the body of a man after escaping from the shopping centre. Militants have today threatened to kill the remaining hostages
Fleeing: A child runs to safety across the shopping mall following the deadly attack in Nairobi, Kenya. Four Britons have been killed in the attack
Terror: Armed police guide a woman carrying a child to safety at Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi
Desperation: A crowd of people hold their arms out to catch a Kenyan woman as she jumps out from the air vent where she had been hiding from the gunmen
Moving quickly: An image grab taken from AFP TV shows civilians taking cover following an attack by masked gunmen in a shopping mall in Nairobi
Canadian diplomat Annemarie Desloges was among the 68 people known to have died in the attack. Her husband Robert Munk was injured
President Uhuru Kenyatta's nephew Mbugua Mwangi and his nephew's fiancee Rosemary Wahito were killed.
Radio and TV personality Ruhila Adatia-Sood, was also killed after hosting a cookery competition at the mall.
Reports said she was recently married and six months pregnant.
Kofi Awoonor, a Ghanaian poet, professor and former ambassador to Brazil, Cuba and the United Nations, died after being wounded in the attack, Ghana's presidential office confirmed.
Ghana's ministry of information said Awoonor's son was injured and is responding to treatment.
Two Canadians, including a diplomat, died in the attack, according to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
He paid tribute to the victims and noted the loss of diplomat Annemarie Desloges, who served in Canada's High Commission to Kenya as a liaison officer with the Canada Border Services Agency.
Her spouse Robert Munk was wounded in the attack, but has since been released from the hospital, the Canadian Press reported.
Two Indians, 8-year-old Parmashu Jain and 40-year-old Sridhar Natarajan, were killed, and four others were wounded in the attack.
The Foreign Office have confirmed that four UK nationals have been killed in the attack.
Prize-winning architect Ross Langdon, who had dual British and Australian citizenship, is believed to be one of the dead.
A British man, who refused to give his name, said his wife and daughter were both killed in the atrocity.
The Foreign Office warned the number of British dead is 'likely to rise as further information becomes available.'
Two French women were killed, President Francois Hollande said.
One South African citizen was killed, according to the country's International Relations Department.
A 33-year-old Dutch woman died in the attack, believed to be Elif Yavuz, the heavily pregnant partner of British architect Mr Langdon.
Seven other Dutch citizens who were in the mall escaped unharmed, Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said.
A 38-year-old Chinese woman with the surname Zhou who worked in the real estate industry was killed in the attack, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported. Her son was injured in the attack and was in stable condition in a hospital, according to the Chinese Embassy in Kenya.
A retired staff member of UNICEF from Peru was killed, the agency's regional office for Eastern and Southern Africa said.
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine confirmed today that Dr Juan Jesus Ortiz-Iruri, 63, who had worked in Britain, was among the dead.
Colleague Professor Nynke van den Broek said: 'He had dedicated his professional life to improving health systems in Africa and Asia, particularly in the area of maternal, child and new-born health. Juan had worked with us on a range of maternal and new-born health programmes for some time from his base in Nairobi and we were all looking forward to welcoming him as a full time member of staff in Liverpool later this week. His loss will be felt by us all both professionally and personally.'
Five American citizens were injured, U.S. officials said.
Andrew McLaren, 34, a New Zealander who managed a factory in Kenya for the avocado oil company Olivado, was wounded in the attack, the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed. He was hospitalised in stable condition.
The Swiss government confirmed that one of its citizens was injured in the attack. It said its embassy in Nairobi is in contact with the victim's family and local officials, but would not provide further detail on the victim's name.
Tense: Kenyan paramilitary officers walk towards a small shopping arcade adjacent to the Westgate shopping mall where the fate of the hostages remained unclear on Monday morning
Tense: Soldiers from the Kenya Defense Forces walk out of the mall, following the sound of explosions and gunfire
Distressing: A woman holds a baby sitting with other injured people who are crying for help after gunmen went on a shooting spree in the Westgate shopping centre
Shock: A soldier directs people up stairs inside the Westgate shopping mall. Some fled and sought refuge in shops, bank vaults and store rooms as grenades exploded and bullets fired around them
Al Shabaab - which means 'The Youth' in Arabic - was formed in Somalia in 2006 as an offshoot of the Union of Islamic Courts.
Experts say it has up to 9,000 fighters, including foreigners.
In 2010, the group carried out a double bombing in Uganda, targeting people watching the football World Cup final.
A total of 77 people were killed.
The group formally ran large parts of Somalia's south but has been pushed back by the African Union force in the past couple of years, in which Kenyan troops played a large part.
Al Shabaab, which is banned in the UK and the U.S., was forced out of Somalia's capital of
Mogadishu in 2011.
'I saw them only once, I could not see them much,' he said. 'It was hide-and-seek, hide-and-seek, hide-and-seek. In the end we had to use full force, we had to finish with these guys.'
The HSM Press Office account, which has been suspended twice and claims to have contact with the terrorists inside, wrote today: 'They've obtained large amounts of ammunition and are, by the blessings of Allah alone, still firm and still dominating the show #Westgate.'
The attacks have a chilling similarity to those in Mumbai in 2008 where terrorist besieged hotels, community centres and streets in 12 co-ordinated attacks, leaving more than 170 dead.
Following chairing a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee in Whitehall, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said the UK had offered assistance to Kenya.
He said: 'Cobra met this morning and had an updated assessment of the situation. I can confirm that there is a fourth British national confirmed dead and the next of kin have been informed.
'We're in close touch with the Kenyan authorities and we stand ready to provide them with any additional assistance they require.'
A British businessman said four members of his family were killed in the atrocity.
Samir Bharma, from Spinney Hills, Leicester, was last night making arrangements to fly to the Kenyan capital and said his relatives were killed while taking part in a recording of a television programme called Masterchef Junior.
He said: 'They were young people who were taking part in a cookery contest that was taking place in the centre. Unfortunately they have all passed away.
'An aunt - my dad's cousin - she's critical in hospital. I've spoken to my father who is there, but contact is difficult.'
Another Leicester man said his parents and brother and sister were in the shopping mall when the terrorists struck.
The man, in his 20s, wishes to remain anonymous after his mother warned him that terrorists had hacked into Facebook accounts of Nairobi residents and left the chilling warning 'we are watching you'.
He said: '[My mother] was just passing by in the upper mall. The whole thing was taking place on the ground floor and she just saw gunmen wandering around everywhere and shooting people. She saw her best friend being shot straight in the head.
'My sister just froze to the spot. My brother dragged my sister out into the parking lot. At that point the parking lot was secure and people could leave.'
Hunting down the terrorists: Soldiers from the Kenya Defence Forces arrive at the Westgate Shopping Centre in the capital Nairobi
Help: Relatives and friends of victims line up to donate blood in Nairobi, following the overwhelming numbers of casualties from the Westgate mall shooting
Siege: People look at the Westgate shopping mall in the distance where hostages were held for three days
Survivors of the siege told today how terrorists, their faces hidden with Islamic scarves, stormed the shopping mall and started tossing grenades and spraying shoppers with AK-47s.
The gunmen ordered all Muslims to leave before carrying out rudimentary tests to see if hostages could recite the Koran and name the mother of the Prophet Mohammed.
As soldiers began working their way through the shopping centre yesterday they discovered that piles of bodies had been pushed against doors to slow their progress.
Reports on where the terrorists are holed up differ, with some reports suggesting they have barricaded themselves and dozens of hostages in a toilet block on the ground floor.
A French woman, known only as Pauline, said the terrorists told her they only wanted to kill Kenyans and Americans.
Al Shabaab has demanded that President Uhuru Kenyatta must pull out Kenyan troops from Somalia.
Troops have pushed the militants on to the defensive over the past two years as part of an African Union-backed peacekeeping mission. Kenyatta refused.
The president, who lost a nephew in Saturday's killing, vowed to hold firm in the 'war on terror' in Somalia and said, cautiously, that Kenyan forces could end the siege.
'I assure Kenyans that we have as good a chance to successfully neutralise the terrorists as we can hope for,' he said. 'We will punish the masterminds swiftly and painfully.'
Horror: Shoppers hurry down an escalator with their hands in the air as they make their way out of the shopping centre to safety
Killings: The fate of the hostages remained unclear this morning despite earlier statements from police saying most of those held had been rescued
Desperation: An injured woman, whose face and clothes are drenched in blood, lies on the ground outside the shopping mall screaming for help
Escape: Women carrying children run for safety after al Shabaab terrorists stormed Westgate shopping center in Nairobi, Kenya armed with guns and grenades
Spree: Shots are still being heard in the mall as police and terrorists engage in a stand-off
Hands up: Hostages of all nationalities head for the exit with their arms raised to show they are not carrying any weapons
Scramble: People crawl on their stomachs to safety as security forces keep a lookout at the Nairobi mall on Saturday
Judges at the International Criminal Court adjourned the trial of Kenyan Vice President William Ruto today for a week to allow him to return home to deal with the hostage crisis.
Ruto and Kenyan president, Uhuru Kenyatta, face charges of crimes against humanity in relation to their role in coordinating a wave of violence that swept Kenya in the aftermath of the country's contested 2007 elections.
The court's unusually swift decision was taken during an emergency session after prosecutors said they had no objection to a short delay in proceedings, and a representative for the witnesses broke down in tears in the courtroom, saying Ruto should be allowed to attend to the urgent matter.
Wounded: A Kenyan policeman sits clutching his stomach alongside his rifle while a colleague exchanges fire with the terrorists
Scared: Clearly distressed, this family join hands as they make their way out of the building. Bullet wounds can be seen in the glass behind them
Cat and mouse: A security officer points out the location of where some of the terrorists may be hiding to his colleagues, all three of whom have their pistols at the ready
Protection: A mother and her children lie on the floor as they attempt to hide while the gunmen armed with automatic weapons go on the rampage
Terrified: A young girl in tears is led away form the terror by a police officer
Children: A soldier carries one of the survivors to safety as armed police hunt for the gunmen
Rescue: A policeman carries a baby to safety on the barrel of his gun while a woman ducks for safety behind him
Rescue: A woman is shipped to an ambulance in a shopping trolley by centre staff
Family mall: Customers who had planned a Saturday of shopping were forced to run following a shootout between unidentified armed men and the police
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