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What causes neuroleptic malignant syndrome?
NMS: Neuroleptics (antipsychotics) block certain Dopamine receptors in the hypothalamus (hypothalamic d-2 receptors) resulting in an elevated temperature set point and impairment of the bodies ability to dissipate heat; it is also associated with blockade of other Dopamine receptors, which can result in muscle rigidity and increased body temperature.. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Malignant (Definition)
The term malignant can be used in several medical contexts, but is primarily used to describe cancers. More dangerous and disorderly than the benign growth of cells, malignant cells have developed genetic changes that can allow it to invade other tissues in an unregulated way. These tumors can later spread, or metastasize, to other parts of the body and ...Read more
How do you treat neuroleptic malignant syndrome?
Emergency : The most important thing is to stop any antipsychotic medication. Supportive treatment in a closely monitored setting. Some medications like bromocriptine or amantadine may also be used. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Who is at risk of neuroleptic malignant syndrome?
NMS: Can occur in anyone exposed to a neuroleptic/ drug blocker d2 (dopamine receptos). Although it can occur at any time during treatment it is more common after starting the medication or increasing the dose. It is very rare with an incidence of 0.07-0.2%. Men are at greater risk than women. Other risk factors include history of nms, increased environmental temperature, dehydration, agitation. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Can you please define neuroleptic malignant syndrome?
NMS: Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (nms) is a rare, but life-threatening, idiosyncratic reaction to a neuroleptic (antipsychotic) medication. The syndrome is characterized by fever, muscular rigidity, altered mental status, and autonomic dysfunction. ...Read moreSee 2 more doctor answers
How to tell if I have neuroleptic malignant syndrome?
You don't. : Nms is so severe that you will not be asking questions. Google can be good resource if you need to know more. ...Read more
What are the tests for neuroleptic malignant syndrome?
Several!: Neuroleptic malignant syndrome is a diagnosis of exclusion, so we have to make sure there isn't another problem like an infection. Blood count may show high white blood cells, urine test may have myoglobin. If tests like blood and urine culture show no signs of infection, ct/mri of the head show no brain problems and the patient is on or has taken an antipsychotic this points us towards nms. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Is the neuroleptic malignant syndrome really malignant?
NO!: Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (nms) is a life-threatening neurological disorder most often caused by an adverse reaction to neuroleptic or antipsychotic drugs. Nms typically consists of muscle rigidity, fever, autonomic instability, and cognitive changes such as delirium, and is associated with elevated plasma creatine phosphokinase. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
What are the symptoms of neuroleptic malignant syndrome?
Fever, stiff muscles: Fever, stiff muscles, changes in personality and thinking, and autonomic instability (racing heart, low or high blood pressure, sweating, leaking urine...) are symptoms of neuroleptic malignant syndrome. This is a very serious and life-threatening reaction to treatment with antipsychotic medications or withdrawal from certain medications. ...Read more
Could you explain what is neuroleptic malignant syndrome?
Complicated : "life-threatening condition that may develop anytime during therapy with neuroleptics—from a few days to many years (but 2/3 of cases occur within the 1st week). Muscular rigidity from Dopamine antagonism in the nigrostriatal pathway. Hyperthermia due to blockage of hypothalamic thermoregulation (more likely in the setting of benzodiazepine withdrawal)" from lexi drugs. ...Read more
What are the best home remedies for neuroleptic malignant syndrome?
None that I know of!: Real neuroleptic malignant syndrome is not a condition for home remedies. It is related to medications and is a very serious condition which almost always requires treatment in the hospital to manage the fever, unstable blood pressure, muscle rigidity, and other problems that are characteristic of this syndrome. The medication that caused nms to develop must be identified and stopped. ...Read moreSee 2 more doctor answers
Antipsychotics (Definition)
These are medications used among other things to treat psychosis. There are two poorly named classes: the typicals, because they used to be typically used, and the atypicals, which are now typically used. They differ in that the so called atypicals are non-neuroleptics and interact with both serotonin and Dopamine receptos, while the typicals ...Read more
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome (Definition)
Neuroleptic malignant syndrome is a rare, but potentially fatal, condition that is a reaction to taking an antipsychotic medication. Common symptoms include fever, muscle stiffness, and ...Read more
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Voting on voting with the feet: a cross-county analysis of the Tennessee popular referenda to secede from the union
We analyze a unique case of voting on voting with the feet, when Tennessee twice considered secession from the Union in 1861 by popular referenda. The initial votes to hold a convention, and to send disunion delegates to a convention, failed, but after the Confederate states adopted a new constitution and the bombing of Fort Sumter took place, a second set of votes to separate from the union, and to join the confederacy, passed. Regression results support the importance of both economic interests and political tendencies, along with regional differences, in explaining the variation in votes across counties. Class distinctions were not found to be significant. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2007
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Desc: Action/Adventure Story: In October 2002, Geordie's sister Kelly is kidnapped and he searches for her. Finding her he takes action to recover her. In doing so he loses more than he can imagine and learns he's only human. A boy is forced to take on the mantle of adulthood. WARNING - stories includes euthanasia, the mercy execution of a loved one. It is not graphic, but is described.
Born Keorn Kelly Ingrid Mary Amir on 10 November, 1990, a very bright and vivacious young girl not as smart as most of the clan, but no dummy, either. Due to being born late in the year, and her younger brother being born early in the year the year after next, she's in the class just ahead of her brother, Gordie. When she and Gordie walk to school you'd think he was the older. She's short for her age while he's tall for his, and he's a little taller than she is. Gordie is much smarter than her and his academic level is very high (he does most of his real studies at home after school), which is why he often helps her with her lessons. Because they use different surnames few people outside the clan realise they're brother and sister, most at the school think their families just work together. Kelly has many friends at school and around town.
The Danger
In 1994 U MAMA bribes a member of the Berant parliament. By 2000 they own him outright and have helped his political ambitions. Now he's a senior cabinet member in the current parliament. In the course of his normal duties he puts together some public facts and digs out some not so public facts. Everyone knows the King lives at the Royal Palace and Residence called Highcliff near Carmel. They know the royal clan name is Amir. The U MAMA spy finds out some of the King's children attend school at View Port, he passes this along to U MAMA in late 2000. Other U MAMA spies spend most of 2001 spying on the View Port schools and tracking the movements of any children by the name of Amir. They realise not all children with this name are the King's children because some are just very close relatives. By Christmas 2001 they've identified two children they're fairly sure belong to the King's immediate family. Kelly Amir, eleven years old, and Isobelle Amir, fifteen years old. Isobelle is a member of the school martial arts team and old enough to be a much harder target. The U MAMA team leader decides to target Kelly Amir. The plan is to kidnap Kelly and to force her to give them information: access codes needed to gain entry to Highcliff. Once inside they intend to murder the King and his family. Thus opening the way for the U MAMA agents in the parliament (they now own about one fifth of its members) to do away with the monarchy and invite the U MAMA companies back into the country. The U MAMA spies know most of Kelly's friends. In 2002 they target her friends' families to see if they can influence or bribe anyone to assist them. They also move one hundred mercenaries into the country, keeping them in the capital city of Berana until needed.
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At 4:00 p.m. Thursday 17th October, 2002 Kelly Amir is on her way to spend the afternoon at the home of a classmate. While she walks down the right hand footpath a van pulls up beside her. Two men jump out while two more men on the footpath jump to grab the girl. She's only eleven, nearly twelve, years old and they expect no trouble. She's quick to realise they intend her no good, and defends herself.
Throwing her bag at the two on the footpath she kicks the front foot of the lead man exiting the van. When he falls she snaps her left hand down, breaking his neck. At the same time she draws her belt knife with her right hand and slashes it up across the throat of the lead man on the footpath. Spinning away from the van she stabs the other man on the footpath in the chest while she hits the alarm on her belt with her left hand. Pulling the knife from the man's chest she throws it into the throat of the second man from the van, killing him. All this has taken only a few seconds, much less than it takes to recount. Another man who's watering the yard of a nearby house shoots her from behind with a stun gun. She drops like a stone, unconscious. He drops the hose to jump the low fence and pick her up. He jumps into the van and it drives off down the road at high speed.
Meanwhile, her security squad, who are spread out along the street in their normal deployment pattern, draw their hand guns and head for the fight. A number of armed men appear from yards and vehicles, a short gun fight ensues. The security squad are all killed. The surviving ambushers don't have time to collect their dead. They leave four men killed by their juvenile target and twenty-two killed by the security squad, three die later from their wounds. They'd expected to lose four or five men to the security team, but lose twenty-nine. This is a great upset to the organisers, especially because of the ones killed by the eleven year old girl; a supposedly soft target and no danger at all.
The alarm brings an instant response from the command centre with a general alert to all Guards and police in the area. Although they reach the scene in minutes they're too late to catch the kidnappers. All they find are the dead and her bag.
Police and security personnel interview everyone who lives in the street, to no avail beyond the van's description. It turns up a few streets away, abandoned with all of Kelly's clothes on its floor. Checking the dead is hard, because they have no identification on them. Although it's clear the kidnapping was set up in advance no one knows why Kelly was in that street at that time. There are no leads to follow up on.
That night a clan meeting is called. Everyone is told what happened and asked if they can spread any light on why Kelly was in that street. No one knows a thing. Because of the kidnapping security tightens for everyone, double squads until further notice and everyone to miss school the next day.
Sunday the news arrives they've identified some of the kidnappers. They're known mercenaries who work for U MAMA companies and one is a CIA agent. The King, the clan, and the Claymore aren't happy, to say the least. The kidnapping of a young school girl is made public knowledge, because there are too many witnesses. But the relationship to the King isn't made public. They identify her as the unnamed daughter of a wealthy local businessman. The police and security forces are doing everything in their power to find her and the kidnappers.
Monday morning and all the children are back at school with larger security teams about the schools. Determined to find his sister Gordie speaks to all of Kelly's school friends and classmates. No one at the school is surprised to find him looking for Kelly because they're always looking for each other, many think they're going steady. At the start of lunch he speaks to Ingrid, one of her closest classmates.
He says, "Do you know where Kelly Amir is, have you seen her lately?"
Ingrid says, "No, not since lunch on Thursday. And she stood me up Thursday afternoon! When you find her tell her off for me, please."
Gordie is interested in this, asking, "What was the plan for Thursday afternoon?"
"Wednesday afternoon Daddy bought me the latest Spiderbait CD. I spoke to Kelly about it at lunch on Thursday, because she's a big fan. She said she'd come around after band practice to listen to it. She never showed. I waited at home all afternoon for her, if she wasn't coming she could've called to let me know."
Quietly, he asks, "Who else knew she was going to visit you?"
She says, "Only Daddy, when I got home I had to let him know I was expecting a visitor, and who it was."
He says, "When I see her I'll let her know you're upset and why." Turning away, he walks out of the lunch room and out of the school.
Gathering his security detail he leaves the school to go to the town square and study a large scale map of the town. The street Kelly was kidnapped from is the only street anyone going from the school to Ingrid's house has to go down. There are many choices at both ends, but that one is the only one linking the two suburbs. It passes between two natural bush areas on ridges. If anyone knew Kelly was going to call on Ingrid they can easily and quickly set up an ambush. The leader of his security detail, Senior Corporal Amy Jones, is watching closely while he reads the large map. When he taps the school, kidnap point, and the suburb beyond it she immediately sees the connections. He reaches a decision.
Climbing into the van the security team are using he directs them to Ingrid's house. Pulling up down the street they notice a brand new car in the driveway. Gordie knows Ingrid's family doesn't have much money, so this is very interesting. They're about to get out when a car pulls up and a man gets out. Amy recognises him as a known U MAMA agent. Bingo! Opening the van's glove box Gordie gets out a tracking device, they keep some in there. Exiting the vehicle he walks up the road to cross near the car and slip the tracker onto the car when he passes it. Going around the corner he's soon joined by the van.
They wait until the U MAMA agent leaves. Geordie walks up to the house with Corporal Jones. They knock, no answer. They enter the house. Ingrid's father is lying face down on the kitchen table with an almost empty bottle of whiskey beside him. Also on the table is an envelope with a large amount of money in it. Checking his pulse they find he's dead. Taking the packet of money for safe keeping they place it in a plastic bag. They do the same with the whiskey bottle after they put the lid on it, because they suspect it's poisoned.
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A UNIQUE PARTNERSHIP between a military hospital and UCLA Medical Center will help several Armed Services personnel wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. The first patient is U.S. Marine Cpl. Aaron P. Mankin, who was burned over 25 percent of his body and whose face was severely disfigured by a roadside bomb in Iraq in May 2005. Mankin began a series of facial-reconstruction surgeries in September that will take several months to complete.
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Officials at Churchill Downs--home of the Kentucky Derby--have revised the number of horses displaced by the June 22 tornado that damaged nine barns at the Louisville, Ky., track, estimating that between 75 and 100 were relocated as a result of the storm's damage.
Churchill officials initially estimated as many as 150 to 200 horses were removed from the damaged barns, but adjusted the number late in the day on June 23 as they continued to assess the full extent of the damage from the storm that hit with little warning shortly after 8 p.m. EDT on June 22. Thirty of the displaced horses were relocated to Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky., some were moved to other areas within the Churchill stable area, and others went to private farms or training centers.
Additionally, Churchill reported that 6 1/2 of the nine damaged barns have been declared uninhabitable by fire department officials.
In a press release Churchill said Joe Sullivan of the National Weather Service (NWS) office in Louisville toured the stable area June 24 and confirmed that the damage was inflicted by a tornado that packed top winds of 105 miles per hour as it roared through the Churchill stable area and was rated as an F1 storm on the Fujita Scale, the official classification system for tornado damage.
After being closed June 23, Churchill Downs is expected to resume live racing with the June 24 edition of the track's popular "Downs After Dark" racing program.
Racing secretary Ben Huffman said owners and trainers--even those in the storm-damaged barns--pledged their support for the track's plan to resume its spring meet, which has eight racing days remaining following the storm-related cancellation.
"So far every trainer that had barn damage and had horses in (Friday) night has reported their horses are fine and they're running," Huffman said. "That goes for (June 25) as well. Our horsemen are resilient and they are supporting us 100%, and we could not be more proud of our horsemen for stepping up during this adversity. It's trying times, but they are absolutely with us in getting this together so that we can race."
While tornado damage to some barns was substantial, no injuries were reported to humans or horses. The story was quite different in the track's clubhouse and grandstand. Vice president of operations David Sweazy said those areas, and the track's signature Twin Spires, were untouched.
"The frontside (of the track) has sustained no damage at all," Sweazy said. "We don't have water damage; there isn't a blade of grass bent over on the frontside. We have done a complete assessment. We've walked on the rooftops and through every area and tested everything, and there is no damage."
Structural engineers and architects were on hand June 24 to inspect the storm-damaged barns as track officials worked to assess the total damage caused by the storm. Members of the track maintenance team combed the dirt track and turf course for storm debris, and used magnetic devices to search for nails or other metal items that could have fallen on the track as the storm's swirling winds passed by.
National Weather Service records indicate the June 22 tornado was not the first to hit Churchill, which conducted its first race meet in May of 1875. Records of tornadoes recorded in Jefferson County, Ky., describe an unusual winter tornado that touched down at about 7:20 a.m. Jan. 19, 1928. That storm damaged homes on Longfield and Dresden avenues near the track before it crossed into what is now the stable area of Churchill.
The number of barns located on the property now is significantly larger than in 1928, but a NWS map indicates the path of that larger storm was very similar to the June 22 tornado.
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Discussion in 'Fan Zone' started by TheRomoSexual, Oct 14, 2013.
I didn't exclude that game...I provided needed context.
He's been horrible this season. Some of those throws were crazy bad last night.
Whole picture is nobody knew the Giants were going to do that. It was the first game and maybe Dallas provided the blueprint to force the Giants into this turnover machine. Whole picture. Every team has games where they get 4+ turnovers. How about we exclude every teams turnovers against the Giants. This is silly
He is a screen QB and a "one read" QB. He is not that good and is extremely overrated.
Well against the Dolphins the Aint's had 4 turnovers. So we probably should exclude that too correct?
LOL. He was historically one of the best qb's against the blitz last season. Now he's overrated. You guys man.....if he's overrated than so is every other QB in the league.
Please I've been saying since before he was drafted he was overrated. So you cherry pick one stat? If you can't read the defense you are not a QB. He torched everyone last year because if the read option play and defenses allowed players to get open.
And NO got a third of theirs against Miami, week 4. They have since registered a single TO per game.
There you go. Again, Ryan's D and Kiffin's are producing about equivalent turnovers...but N.O. has been stronger in yards and points allowed.
They are a terrible team. That is the picture.
Look at our last 5 games. We have given up ton of yards. We are 30th in league for yards allowed actually. And have only forced 6 turnovers?
We our on pace to shatter the franchise records for most yards allowed in a season. Look at it however you want. That 1st game is the definition of an aberration.
Well if you only count the Washington game we're averaging 2 a game!
You kind of have to count All games played for the average.
Silliest post of the day. There is no league-wide "blueprint" to turn an opposing team into a turnover machine. Ridiculous. The 0-6 Giants merely suck beyond words and we were lucky to play them before they pulled David Wilson.
If this new Kiffin defense is vastly improved in creating turnovers then it should be flashing big in multiple games.
But again, Ryan's defense is creating just as many turnovers...and their trend line is running higher.
Yup. This nails down the thread in about as clean a summary as there is.
A blue print in how to play a team and force turnovers is not silly.
Oh I get it you are in the remove the first game group. Gotcha so that means his statement is the end all. They've created 4 TO the last 2 games.
Bingo, everyone say hello to the term "outlier"...
There's a difference between counting 1 game and multiplying it numerous times and counting numerous games. If we finish with 6 TOs in the first game and 15 TOs in the next 15 games, you can't say, "Well, if you multiply the Giants game 16 times, it's kinda like we produced 96 TOs this season." But you could say, "Despite forcing 21 TOs this season, aside from the Giants game, we were just as effective as we were last year."
It's no fair bringing up outliers when our data set consists of a grand total of six observations. Yes, we our high average is due in significant part to that first game but that's how averages work.
Yes, but we haven't played 16 games. A full 16.7% of our games are extremely high turnover games. If we wind up victimizing another team that gives the ball away a lot later this year then that average will hold up. But those games are in the future. All we've got are six results so lopping off one of them at an outlier isn't valid. There's next to nothing to conclude about this extremely small sample size statistically.
Outside that Giants game, we also have a losing record. It's not an outlier. Turnovers win and lose games in the NFL.


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The Overland Park Police Department has fired an officer following an investigation into a Facebook post he made from his personal social media account. Lanaydra Williams lives in Dallas, TX, and tells KCTV5 she had a couple pictures posted to her personal Facebook account back in October 2014. About 11:50 p.m. Thursday she got a notification that a new comment had been made on them. That's when she read the comment that she found both horrifying and alarming. "We'll see how much her life matters soon..better be careful leaving your info open where she can be found :) hold her close tonight, it'll be the last time," stated the post. "I was upset because this is my child," Williams said. "If it had been me, it would have been different but this is my child." The comment was posted hours after violence erupted in Dallas. At least one sniper shot 12 officers, killing five, during a protest over deadly police shootings of black men in other states. Williams says she doesn't know anyone from Overland Park. She was shocked when she went to the man's Facebook page and found a picture of a police uniform. "I saw that he was a cop and I was like, 'This is outrageous. This is not acceptable at all,'" she said. OPPD launched an investigation into the post when Williams reported it. "I immediately initiated an investigation into the officer's actions and requested it be completed in a timely manner," Overland Park Police Chief Francis Donchez Jr. said. During an investigation by the department's Professional Standards Unit, Donchez said they learned his officer did in fact make the post. "It was obvious that our officer did not meet the standards of professionalism for the Overland Park Police Department," Donchez said. The police department immediately terminated the officer.


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The "national convention on inclusive education for children with special needs" came up with suggestions to ensure right to education of children with special needs within the education system of the country, a statement by the human resource development ministry said. "It aimed at identifying the specific concerns of children with special needs while taking stock of the status of inclusive education with specific reference to Right of children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009," said the statement.
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It's hard to say what the "average" body measurements are because it depends on your height so greatly. Like someone who had 43" hips at 5"11 would look pretty "average", but if someone had the same hips at 5'0 they would be quite overweight.
Measurements 36, 25, 36 - I consider myself pretty average at 5'4.
I'm 5' 5" and my measurements are 30-23-33. I have a very small frame but long bones so I look lanky.
The average size for women in America is a size 14 and overweight. It would be hard to translate that into body measurements because it will depend on how a person carries their weight.
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The average - Overweight.
Body measurements - 30-22-34.
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I observed him watching his yearning for affection.
Yet his mind becomes convuluted and irritation is much stronger.
While the agitation burdening him, causing him to blame himself for his anger.
When his mind starts to confuse him and blacken out the light, its not a force of his own just an unnatural neurological interference.
He holds it in the back of his subconcious and it slowly creeps like a theft in the night, taking his joy away.
I listen and watch him concerned of 'what will happen next?' Or 'what will he do?'
The depression has been sinking in its unforgiving claws into his back.
I steady him, healing his wounds with all the love i can give.
I am trying to keep a positive outlook on this.
When he mentions how he 'hates his life', i become noticable that what dark force is about him seems to be oppressing him.
Perhaps if he sees the light, his look out may change.
I look as positive as i can and comfort him to the best of my ability because i will NEVER GIVE UP ON HIM.
i notice life is much harder for for others and sometimes more simpler for others.
Life happens differently for many people.
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Facebook will now assist blind users, by recognizing and describing what's in the images their friends share. Facebook calls it Automatic Alternative Text (AAT), because the artificial intelligence system fills in missing 'alt' text, which can then be read aloud by the screen readers of those with a visual impairment.
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What's the craic? Megan Rose Dickey waxes metaphorical—Facebook's tool to help the blind "see" images:
Facebook has launched a tool...for blind and visually impaired people to "see" images on the site. [It] uses object recognition technology to generate descriptions of photos.
Now, someone could hear "image may contain three people, smiling, outdoors." [It's] based on a neural network with billions of parameters...trained with millions of examples.
AAT is currently available for iOS screen readers set to English. ... Facebook will soon add the functionality to other platforms and languages.
It's about preventing exclusions. At least, that's according to Nic Healey—Facebook is getting better for the blind thanks to clever AI:
Studies have shown that blind people often feel excluded...on social media. ... A new feature from Facebook hopes to fix that.
Back in the early days of the internet...alt text...was an important part of putting your webpage together. [It] is what shows up when images broke or failed to load. [And it] means that blind or visually impaired users...get short descriptions of the images people are posting...via screen readers.
The company has been working on automatic alt text for around ten months. ... It follows Twitter recently allowing users to manually add alt text to their pictures. [It] is only available...in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Let's hear from some Facebook engineers and scientists. Darío García García, Manohar Paluri, and Shaomei Wu let us peek Under the hood:
While this technology is still nascent, tapping its current capabilities to describe photos is a huge step. ... Facebook's mission is to make the world more open and connected. [So] we want everyone to have equal access. [But] more than 39 million people are blind, and more than 246 million have a severe visual impairment.
It is quite challenging to teach a machine to provide...useful information...while acknowledging the social context. [It] is a formidable task given the scale and diversity of the visual material.
The engine is a deep convolutional neural network with millions of learnable parameters. ... We carefully selected a set of...concepts based on their prominence in photos [and] the accuracy of the...engine:..such as people's appearance...nature...transportation...sports...and food. ... Our goal is to keep increasing the vocabulary...and making a more inclusive Facebook experience.
How do you switch it on? Queenie Wong rules, dude: [You're fired -Ed.]
To access the tool, people turn on the...VoiceOver feature. ... Then open the Facebook app.
Facebook...isn't the only tech firm that is trying to [be] more accessible. ... Smartphones and apps from the iPhone's VoiceOver feature to...Android's TalkBack are allowing the blind to become more independent.
So here we go, careering towards a future of HAL 9000 and the rise of the Machines. Steven Loeb thinks not—Facebook uses AI:
A feature like this should remind us of the power that artificial intelligence has to...better the lives of people. ... I have recently thinking about blind people and their role in our ever changing society. We have all this great new technology...but is anyone doing anything to help those who can't see experience it as well?
There's a lot of fear and demagoguery that goes on with new technology. But we should also remember the good it can do.
Update 1: But could it go horribly wrong? Casey Newton gravitates towards the dark side-Facebook begins using artificial intelligence:
Similar technology powers keyword searches in Google Photos and Flickr. ... Last year, Google was forced to apologize after Photos tagged two black people as "gorillas."
It's a cliché for tech companies to describe a project as "just the beginning," but in this case it feels particularly true. ... The team is already pushing hard on...recognizing objects in videos...and something it calls "visual Q&A." ... You might ask who is in a photo...and it would tell you the names of the Facebook friends who appear.
It's difficult to imagine Facebook without photos. Yet for millions of...visually impaired people, that's...reality.
Update 2: Get off my lawn. Or so Andrea Peterson seems to say-How Facebook is helping the blind 'see':
The early days of the [web] were actually easier for blind users. ... If a picture shows a couple overlooking the ocean while wearing sunglasses...the new alt text will look something like this: "This image may contain: two people, smiling, sunglasses, sky, outdoor, water."
Most major tech companies have dedicated accessibility teams. ... Many tech companies, including Facebook, along with several universities are...focused on better preparing students to create inclusive technology.
Getting to this point has been tough. ... The National Federation of the Blind...has brought legal action against tech companies in the hopes of making their services more accessible. ... Those legal actions are generally brought under the Americans With Disability Act. But the 1990 law was put in place before the [web]. The Justice Department has delayed guidelines that will cover...online services...until 2018.
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Liana Technologies' mother company ranked on the Deloitte Fast 500 EMEA for the fourth time in a row
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Published: 10-Dec-2013 09:05 am
Publisher: Liana Technologies
Liana Technologies' mother company, Koodiviidakko Oy, ranked Number 387 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2013, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). Rankings are based on percentage revenue growth over five years.
"This was the fourth year in a row that we made on Deloitte's list. I'm proud of our whole team", Liana Technologies' CEO Samuli Tursas comments.
"Making the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 is commendable in today's highly competitive technology industry," said David Halstead, Deloitte United Kingdom, partner in charge of the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA programme. "We congratulate Liana Technologies on being one of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in the region."
Liana Technologies is an agile software company specialized in digital marketing and communication tools. Liana's user-friendly digital toolkit entails solutions for email marketing, website and eCommerce platforms, marketing automations and PR tools.
Liana Technologies has had a busy year with new offices opened in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Shenzhen, China and in Moscow, Russia. The company's future plans entail developing the international activities further as well as recruiting local staff to its new offices. Liana Technologies' mother company with its headquarters is located in Finland where the company holds a market leader position.
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About Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ EMEA
The Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA programme is the region's most objective industry-ranking to focus on the technology field, recognizing technology companies that have achieved the fastest rates of revenue growth in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) during the past five years. Combining technological innovation, entrepreneurship and rapid growth, Fast 500 companies – large, small, public and private – span a variety of industry sectors, and are leaders in hardware, software, telecom, semiconductors, internet, media, life sciences and emerging areas, such as clean technology.
The programme is supported by the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 initiatives, which rank high growth technology companies by location or specifically defined geographic area and is run by the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited's Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) global industry group. Co-sponsors include Ciklum, a leading supplier of technical personnel and teams, software development and agile business consulting to high growth companies, Fidelity Growth Partners Europe, a venture and growth capital investor which backs entrepreneurs with aspiration for greatness in the IT and clean technology sectors across Europe, Silicon Valley Bank, the premier bank for technology, life science, private equity and premium wine businesses and Taylor Wessing, a leading International law firm with a focus on the industries of tomorrow,. More information on the programme and prior year winners is available on www.deloitte.com/fast500emea.
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