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Biryani is nothing short of a magical food. Riddle a person who doesn't like biryani, and you've found yourself someone who hasn't found their kind of biryani yet! Despite having complicated origins and history, biryani continues to be a staple in the Eastern world. More prominently so in India and the Gulf regions that fall to its West.
You've hopefully had your share of biryani, but since there's no such thing as too much biryani, here are a few variations of biryani you can give a try.
Ambur Biryani
This is one biryani you'll come across nonstop if you're anywhere on the Bangalore to Chennai highway. Ambur is a small, sleepy town in Tamil Nadu that has gained popularity, thanks to its biryani style. It's made with mutton, beef, chicken, and even prawns sometimes. The meat is soaked in curd before being added to the rice, and it's served with raita and brinjal gravy.
Dindigul Biryani
Another town in Tamil Nadu famous for its biryani is Dindigul. The uniqueness factor comes in the form of rice, jeera samba. This adds a completely different flavor to the biryani. The mutton is also cut up into smaller pieces and a lot of pepper is used.
Lucknowi Biryani
Nawabs prefer their food to be mild yet aromatic, making this biryani slightly less spicy, yet still equally flavorful. It's made in the Persian style of Dum Pukht, where meat and rice are cooked separately and then layered and served in a pot.
Malabar Biryani
Served all over the coastal regions of Kerala and cooked using either mutton, chicken, or egg, this is a very popular biryani. This biryani uses a different kind of rice called Khyma rice, along with lots of raisins and cashew nuts. The rice and gravy are cooked separately and mixed right before serving.
Sindhi Biryani
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A sour and spicier variant of biryani, this one has its origins in the Sindh province in Pakistan. You'll find kewda and even prunes, along with a very tangy mix of all kinds of spices. And don't forget, lots of curd. This biryani has more curd than any other biryani.
Hyderabadi Dum Biryani
No talk of biryani is complete without a mention of this gem. It's a hallmark for biryani and uses a lot of coconut and saffron to impart a truly unique taste. The meat comes secondary to the saffron flavored rice, and the beautiful layers in which this biryani is served.
Bombay Biryani
Potatoes galore! If you like potatoes in your biryani, then Bombay biryani should be your go-to! It's also a little mellow on the spices and served in dum style. The city of dreams has a dream biryani named after it!
Keema Biryani
This is one biryani you might not have heard of. Usually made with minced lamb, lots of spices, and dry fruits, this biryani hits the sweet spot between sweet and spicy, and the minced meat is marinated in such a way that it has a very thick, gravy-like consistency.
Goan Fish Biryani
Love sea food, Goa, and biryani? Then this is the biryani for you! It's not for those with a sensitive palate though, since this biryani has a strong mix of spices along with marinated fish, and so much gravy, you'll be left licking your fingers.
Awadhi Mutton Biryani
From the royal Awadh kitchen, and mostly made with mutton, this biryani is also a popular favourite. The mutton is cooked amidst the very aromatic and fragrant rice and served in such a way that it's as much a treat to your scent buds as it is to your taste buds.
How many of these biryanis have you tried? If you're craving for one right now, fire up the Swiggy app and order in!


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All of the courses on display at the Open Championship are classic links, tough in the wind, honest in their shot demands. Still, there are a handful of golf holes from this esteemed group that are just plain odd or unusual. Here are the nine quirkiest holes on the Open Championship Rota.
1. St. Andrews (Old Course), No. 17, 495 yards, par 4
Perhaps the freakiest hole on the Open rota, the Road Hole calls for a blind drive over a corner of the Old Course Hotel, followed by an approach to a narrow green set on a diagonal. Guarding the left-front is the frighteningly deep, stacked sod Road Bunker. On a shot struck slightly long and right, a pebbled road—or a stone wall—will likely come into play. As five-time Open champion Peter Thomson once remarked of the 17th, "As a planner and builder of golf holes worldwide, I have no hesitation in allowing that if one built such a hole today, you would be sued for incompetence."
2. Royal Liverpool, No. 1, 429 yards, par 4
"The opening tee shot at Hoylake is the most terrifying I've seen in my life," said BBC-TV's (and former Ryder Cupper) Peter Alliss. Fortunately or unfortunately, this shot doesn't occur until the third hole in Hoylake's (as Royal Liverpool is known) renumbered Open configuration. The drive is played into the wind and the hole jackknifes to the right, around two sides of the practice grounds, with internal OB flush to the right side and a swale to the left. Scary, indeed.
3. Carnoustie, No. 17, 461 yards, par 4
Called "Island" for the sanctuary of fairway where most drives must land, the 17th features a watery loop of the Barry Burn that sinuously twists like a Formula 1 racetrack, first cutting in front of the tee, then darting across the fairway from left to right. From 240 to 290 yards off the tee, the fairway progressively narrows. making the layup tee shot a sensible play, but leaving a monstrously long second. It's awkward downwind, brutal into the wind.
4. Royal St. George's, No. 4, 496 yards, par 4
A par 5 until 2011, the 4th asks for a blind drive that flirts with the most terrifying bunker on the Open rota, a gigantic, gaping, 40-foot-tall mountain of sand that obscures the right-center portion of the crescent-shaped fairway. Once negotiated, the approach must ascend a five-foot-high false front to a severely sloping green atop a plateau.
5. Royal Portrush, No. 14, 210 yards, par 3
Called "Calamity Corner," for good reason, the aptly named 14th inevitably ushers in winds whipping off the Irish Sea, but the slightest pushed shot will plummet into a yawning, 75-foot chasm short and right of the hole. A "safe" play to the left is no haven, as the terrain is dotted with heathery hillocks.
6. Royal Lytham & St. Annes, No. 8, 417 yards, par 4
On a layout peppered with more than 200 bunkers and a slew of hard, similar-looking holes, the 8th stands out as unusual, as well as superb. From a highly elevated tee, the drive is complicated by a cavernous bunker left, and by trees and an active railway line to the right. Three cross bunkers are etched into an abrupt rise, 50 yards from the green. For those who miss the putting surface, two wicked pot bunkers, thorny gorse and a rough-choked slope await.
7. Royal Troon, No. 11, 482 yards, par 4
As a par 5, as it was until the 1997 Open, this was a rugged but fair hole. As a par 4, it's a horror story. Named "The Railway" for the commuter line that hugs the right side of the hole, the 11th demands a tee shot to a hidden fairway that avoids the OB/train tracks on the right, and thick gorse bushes on the left. The approach contends with the stone wall that runs the length of the hole. Fade your ball at any time and you could make a 10, as Jack Nicklaus did here in 1962.
8. Muirfield, No. 9, 554 yards, par 5
Host to 16 Open Championships, Muirfield will undoubtedly witness a few more. The funkiest—and perhaps greatest—hole on a course with little quirk is the 9th. A long, low gray stone wall forms the out-of-bounds feature to the left, while a bunker cluster well short-right of the green further dictates play.
9. Royal Birkdale, No. 5, 346 yards, par 4
While hardly the most distinguished hole on a course known as the fairest on the Open rota, the 5th is definitely the quirkiest, thanks to a risk/reward drive over the only pond in play on the entire rotation of championship courses. While prudence usually results in a layup off the tee on this dogleg right, the better to approach a long, back-to-front sloping green guarded by seven bunkers, a risky drive over the water can pay off with an eagle putt.

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Hymn for Lent (Day 30): Pray that Jerusalem may have
Today is the feast of Cyril of Jerusalem. Psalm 122 is appointed for this day, so I found this gem of a hymn text which was previously unknown to me. It's also unknown to Youtube, so I give you a lovely Anglican Chant setting of Psalm 122 below. Make sure you click the Cyril link if you don't know about him; it's good to remember him as we approach the Triduum Sacrum.
Pray that Jerusalem may have
Peace and felicity:
Let them that love thee and thy peace
Have still prosperity.
Therefore I wish that peace may still
Within thy walls remain,
And ever may thy palaces
Prosperity retain.
Now, for my friends and brethren's sake,
Peace be in thee, I'll say;
And for the house of God our Lord
I'll seek thy good alway.
Words: Scottish Psalter, 1650.
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Recently, EMI's own Devin Dennie did some Earth Science outreach with some young Oklahoma students/aspiring scientists.
Here's what Devin had to say about it:
"I had the opportunity to show off the fantastic rock kits provided by
the Oklahoma Geological Foundation last Friday, March 10th 2017, at the
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Piedmont's finest up and coming students!"
"We talked about the history of Oklahoma, the Rock Cycle, and many other
fun facts about the Earth in their lives. I even showed them a Geology Kitchen video or two! It was a great experience and a lot of fun!"
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Aspire K3 Quick Start Kit - Complete Starter Vape Kit
The K3 starter kit is designed to give you a quick start to vaping. The K3 is powered by a 1200mAh rechargeable cell and a 2ml tank Capacity.
The K3 Quick Starter Kit comes with a micro USB charging cable and plenty of replacement atomizer heads so all you need is to buy a bottle of ejuice and you're good to go!
The Aspire K3 is a pen-style battery and tank system that is reusable, rechargeable and refillable. You can choose from two colours: Black battery with black tank and pink battery with silver tank.
The Aspire K3 Battery
The K3 battery is the mid-sized device in the Aspire K family. It measures 84mm long (a little over 3 inches) with a diameter of 18mm. The barrel of the K3 battery is made of 100% stainless steel covered with a special coating that gives it that cool carbon fiber look.
Inside the device is a rechargeable lithium cell with 1200mAh capacity and a fixed output of 5.5 volts.Like in most open system vaporizers, the fire button of the K3 is located near the top of the battery so it sits right where your index finger or thumb is when you're holding the device. Click the fire button five times to turn the battery on or off.
Around the power button is a LED ring that glows blue to indicate activation or when the battery is ready to fire.
On top of the battery is a non-adjustable 510-type connector that holds the tank in place. Four inlets are carved into the metal top to let air in.
The K3 battery is charged from the bottom. Use the charging cable included in the Aspire K3 Quick Starter Kit to connect the USB port underneath the K3 battery to a USB power source such as a laptop or desktop computer. If you have a compatible wall or car adapter, you can also charge the K3 battery through an electric outlet or the cigarette socket in your vehicle.
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The Aspire K3 tank has four components: mouthpiece, glass tank, atomizer coil head, and base.
On top of the device is a removable plastic drip tip with O-ring seal to hold it in place. You can replace it with any 510-style mouthpiece available on the market.
The middle section is a hollow tube made of Pyrex glass. It can store up to 2ml of e-juice.
The K3 tank uses a 1.8ohm Aspire Nautilus Coil which is designed to last longer while creating the purest and cleanest flavors. Aspire Nautilus coils are made of Kanthal wire vertically arranged with organic cotton wicks for premium flavors. Around the atomizer are four small holes that draw the juice into the wicks and keep them well saturated.
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This sort of makes me wish I had a tv. What I need is a Tivo with
predictive powers. Did a phone interview with Tivo the other day and
had to tell them that I don't watch tv. They are pretty far in bed with the
crowd that wants total control over what you do with your digital media.
Well, I guess they think of it as THEIR digital media. You just have a
restricted viewing license. Their stuff runs on a pretty vanilla PowerPC
(soon to be MIPS, I hear) Linux. I get cognitive (or is that philosophical)
dissonance from it.
For a brilliant just-barely-alternate history take on the Cuban Missle
Crisis, there's one of 1999's outstanding novels, "Resurrection Day,"
by Brendan DuBois. I was young at the time, but my memory finds DuBois'
research impressive and his scenario chilling. It came out in paperback
fairly recently. The fiction of the period, notably "Fail-Safe" and "Seven
Days in May," is pretty good, too.
"History will record the fact that this bitter struggle reached its climax in
the late 1950s and the early 1960s. Let me then make clear as the President
of the United States that I am determined upon our system's survival and
success, regardless of the cost and regardless of the peril."
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He ruled the world of shooting for more than a decade and now after deciding to retire from the sport, he has set his sights on his new business venture. On Sunday, while talking to media persons, Abhinav Bindra revealed his future plans and also what all can be done to improve the quality of sports in India. Here are the excerpts...How do you look back at your journey?Abhinav Bindra: Shooting has given me everything. People still say why I am retiring, I have many more years left with me. I believe it's time to hand over the baton to the new generation. It's time to hang my boots. I take great pleasure in being an Olympic, World, Commonwealth and Asian champion in my sport. In Rio, I finished fourth in the finals but the performance gave me a great closure. It's been a fulfilling journey which taught me many life lessons.
How tough is it to win an Olympic medal?Abhinav Bindra: It's incredibly difficult. It requires a lot of hardship. In shooting, any of the top 15 or 20 ranked shooter can win a medal on a given day. The Olympic happens once in four years and everyone tries to get that ultimate sporting glory. It is about getting all your energies together and give your best. You can't control the other part.
How's the retirement life treating you?Abhinav Bindra: Well, it's easy. It's actually wonderful. I feel like a 13-year-old kid who has just learnt how to shoot.
What are you up to now?Abhinav Bindra: I am trying to earn a living. I am involved in some business to have good food on my plate. I am interested in sports, but then sports alone is not going to give me much money. So, I am involved in certain things to do with health and fitness. I am also looking at medical science as well as something on the high-performance side of the sports science.
Since you talked about the sports science, how important is it for athletes?Abhinav Bindra: The role of the sports science is incredibly important in a modern-day sport. You can't achieve success without it. I don't think the whole concept exists in our country.
What's your vision for Indian sport?Abhinav Bindra: I would like the Indian sport to grow and that's only possible if we are able to invest in our grass-root programme and put a system in place. There's support coming in for the elite athletes, but that must also trickle down to the grassroots as well. But, all this requires huge investment, expertise, professionalism and a lot of patience and will. When you start investing in the grassroot, you won't the returns immediately. There are nations which invest heavily in grassroots.
Have you seen the change in mindset of an average Indian towards sports?Abhinav Bindra: It's changing slowly as the younger generation today have much higher aspirations and they follow the Olympic Games with a lot more enthusiasm. The real breakthrough will come when the sports becomes a social activity in our country. When a family chooses sports over a movie on Sunday afternoon.
You are the chairman of the high-level committee formed by the NRAI to look into the Rio debacle in shooting. What are your thoughts on it?Abhinav Bindra: It's a huge task entrusted upon me. You can always break performances in black and white. That's why I have recused myself from the whole interview process relating to athletes. I feel that it would be unfair on my part to ask questions to them as we were part of the same contingent. I am more interested in trying to set a framework and put a protocol in place which would help the federation manage and monitor athletes performances in a more systematic manner. I am keen to deliberate on how we can do better.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has constituted a task force. How do you look at this development?Abhinav Bindra: I don't know what the mandate of the task force is or what it's supposed to do. What I know is that for the 2020 Olympics, we already know about the 70 per cent of athletes. Rest 30 per cent would come up within this period. The efforts should be to not only work with these 70 per cent, but to look beyond that pool because these athletes would no longer be there for the 2024 Olympics.
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Why is everybody copying version numbers all over the place in their distributions?
First, I agree that it presents problems to have more than one version number associated with a CPAN module distribution (since only one version number per distribution matters when uploading and sorting at CPAN and installing doesn't really support anything beyond "pick one version of the whole dist to install and use").
Second, I have written several module distributions that include more than one package and have never felt the need to expose version numbers except via one package per distribution. And I have never (in any module) done anything with version numbers beyond the default "let the user request 'at least version V'". Version numbers should clearly monotonically increase. So of far more importance to me than most possible aspects of version numbers is the clarity in sorting order. Most attempts to assign "meaning" to parts of version numbers usually just end up causing pain, IME.
So, in the theoretical case of me writing a module that includes multiple packages where there isn't one "main" package that always gets used and so is the only place that needs to support "require at least version V", here is how I would implement that (because it means that there is exactly one place where I track the current version number):
Nothing at all complicated about that. And if you don't want to pull in Exporter, then you have to have two simple lines in each "versioned" package instead of just the one.
Are there any ways in which that trivial solution is not better than any module that does work to copy-and-paste a version string into multiple files or that just checks that you did the copy-and-paste correctly?
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Taking the University to the People: The University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Oral History Project documents the 150 year history of the University of California as a land-grant university that has provided scientific assistance and technology for the Golden State's agricultural community and citizens in a system past UC President Robert Dynes described as the "R, D & D" model (Research, Development and Delivery). At the time of the project's inception over two hundred living retirees from ANR provided a wealth of institutional memory. These oral histories document the work and accomplishments of men and women who bridged the gap between the university and the land, working for a sustainable agricultural economic future for California. This process of taking the University directly to the people is a unique occurrence in the university world.
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Recently, Amazon cracked down on over a thousand fake review providers on Fiverr, going as far as to target them in a court lawsuit. A grand total of 1,114 'John Does' were listed in the filing- the defendants were so named because Amazon didn't have a list of their full names. This lawsuit came months after Amazon sued four websites for selling fake reviews, including the website Buy Amazon Reviews.
With Amazon going after fake reviews, you simply can't risk creating them for the benefit of better product search rankings and appearance on Amazon's Choice. However, getting real honest reviews is tough…or is it?
7 Ways to get Amazon reviews legitimately
1. Excel at customer service.
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It goes without saying that you should always provide a great customer experience. Whether or not the product is liked or even eventually returned, you should always strive to answer customer questions promptly, ship quickly, and address complaints as soon as possible. Likewise, you should always strive to provide the best and most accurate product description possible so that consumers don't feel misled.
2. Write your customers.
Contact your customers personally and ask them for feedback. This can be automated through a free software platform like FeedbackFive, which is designed specifically for Amazon merchants. Alternately, you can email your customers directly and ask that they consider leaving you a product review. Emphasize that you are a small time merchant who is hoping to grow her online business, or state some interesting feature/benefit about your merchandise.
Try to send your customers at least three feedback emails that are interspersed over a period of two to three weeks. This ensures that your customers have had enough time to unpack their product and (hopefully) try it out. Also, a series of emails provides your customers with several opportunities to provide a review.
3. Solicit through your newsletter.
If you have an email newsletter, and some of your customers subscribe to your newsletter, then you should definitely solicit product reviews through that medium. Explain why you are seeking product reviews, whether good or bad, and then provide a handy link to your Amazon merchant page. To avoid any fallout from Amazon, do NOT offer to compensate your reviewers in any way for their reviews. This includes offering to review one of their products in exchange for their review.
4. Solicit through your website/blog.
If you operate a website or blog, devote a few pages or blog post paragraphs to soliciting reviews on Amazon. In this case, keep in mind that your readers must have purchased your product through Amazon (as noted in Amazon's Review Creation Guidelines). However, if your readers have purchased your products through your website only, they can still provide a product review on your website.
5. Seek competing reviewers.
Within Amazon, you can look for reviewers of products similar to yours by going to your product pages and then the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" and the "Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed" areas. Technically, these customers and viewers are looking at your competition's products. However, you might be abe to garner a review from these individuals by reading their past reviews, figuring out how invested they are in the competition, and then reaching out to them.
In many cases, it won't be too difficult to locate reviewers' email address or social media links through their reviewer pages on Amazon. Once you find this information, send an email to them and as if they would consider reviewing your product.
Here's where you'll need to have some product on-hand for your reviewers. If the product is a book or some other 'consumable' that is easily (and cheaply) distributed, you'll be able to get many willing reviewers. Otherwise, you'll have to bite the bullet and pay for wholesale product and shipping. You'll simply have to consider this a cost of doing business and appropriate funds accordingly. Hopefully for your more expensive products, you'll find honest reviewers who send your demo product back to you when they are finished with their reviews. To this end, you can provide return shipping stickers and boxes.
6. Check the top reviewers.
Amazon provides a handy listing of its top reviewers at the Amazon's Top Customer Reviewers web page. Here, superstar reviewers are grouped by the number of reviews that other readers noted as helpful. In most cases, these reviewers also provide their contact email, enabling you to reach out to them.
In some cases, you may even find a reviewer's specifications on what products he will (or will not) review:
7. Stick to a schedule.
You won't get far with product reviews if you only ask for those reviews once in a great while. To be successful in this endeavor, you'll need to systematically generate and send feedback emails to new customers and existing readers. You'll also have to set aside X amount of money each month or quarter for demo product.
However, if you keep up with a given routine of review solicitation, you'll soon differentiate yourself from your competitors who only have the requisite 14 reviews. Set a goal each month to accumulate 10 reviews, and it won't be long before your product has hundreds of Amazon reviews.
And this free video will show you exactly everything you need to do to get started. Click here to watch it now.
The Bottom Line
In the world of Amazon, product reviews are the coin of the realm, so to speak, helping to boost your listings to the top of this shopping engine's search results.
With the recent actions taken by Amazon to end fake reviews, you certainly don't want to do anything illegal when soliciting for product reviews. This includes the obvious no-no of going to Fiverr and buying fake reviews, but also includes the far more common practice of paying reviewers for their 'unbiased' product reviews.
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text: Professor Michaela Mahlberg PhD Department of English Language and LinguisticsChair in Corpus LinguisticsDirector, Centre for Corpus Research Contact details Telephone+44 (0)121 414 email@example.com@MichaMahlberg View my research portal AddressArts BuildingUniversity of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT UK As a corpus linguist, I am interested in language as a social phenomenon and the way in which we use language to understand and shape the world we live in. A large part of my research focuses on the language of Dickens's fiction, literary linguistics, and discourse analysis. I am currently Principal Investigator on the AHRC funded CLiC Dickens project. I speak about Corpus Linguistics on this Hay Levels video (i.e. a 3-minute masterclass for A-level students). Michaela Mahlberg on ResearchGate orcid.org/0000-0002-4598-8011 Qualifications 2008 Certificate in Professional Studies (CPS) in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (University of Liverpool, UK) 2004 PhD in English Linguistics (Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany) 2000 Staatsexamen, English and Mathematics, (University of Bonn, Germany) Biography After completing a Staatsexamen in English and Mathematics at the University of Bonn (in 2000), I became increasingly interested in corpus linguistics, so I went on to do a PhD on high-frequency nouns and graduated from the University of Saarbruecken in 2004. Before joining the University of Birmingham in 2015, I taught English language and linguistics at the University of Bari (Italy), Liverpool University College (UK), the University of Liverpool (UK) and the University of Nottingham (UK). Teaching I have been teaching a range of modules on corpus linguistics, Dickens, literary linguistics, discourse analysis, grammar, and research methods. I am currently convenor of the second year module Voices in Fiction and teach on several MA modules. Postgraduate supervision I am interested in supervising dissertations in a range of areas of corpus linguistics, Dickens's fiction, literary linguistics, and discourse analysis. Please do get in touch if you want to discuss ideas for proposals. I am also always looking out for potential PhD candidates who would like to get involved in research projects and work for the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. Find out more - our PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics page has information about doctoral research at the University of Birmingham. Research Studying texts with corpus software - Michaela Mahlberg My main research interests are in corpus linguistics and contextual approaches to meaning. In the field of corpus linguistics I have published on the relationship between lexis and grammar and the way in which phraseology contributes to cohesion in texts. Another major focus of my research is corpus stylistics, an area of research that employs corpus linguistic methods for the study of literary texts. I am particularly interested in textual patterns of body language presentation and have worked extensively on Dickens's fiction. I am currently Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded project (with Co-investigator Peter Stockwell) "CLiC Dickens - characterisation in the representation of speech and body language from a corpus stylistic perspective". Other activities I am the Director of the Centre for Corpus Research. I am the editor of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. Together with Wolfgang Teubert I edit the book series Corpus and Discourse (published by continuum). I am a member of the following Editorial/Advisory Boards: Corpora (peer-reviewed journal, EUP), Studies in Corpus Linguistics (book series edited by Elena Tognini-Bonelli, published by John Benjamins), Korpuslinguistik und Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Sprache - Corpus linguistics and Interdisciplinary perspectives on language (CLIP) (book series edited by Holger Keibel, Marc Kupietz, Christian Mair, published by Gunter Narr), Diskursmuster - Discourse Patterns (book series edited by Ingo H. Warnke and Beatrix Busse, published by de Gruyter). I am a member of the AHRC's Peer Review College, the Board of ICAME and the following professional societies: Pala, ISLE, BAVS. Publications Copies of my publications can be downloaded from: https://bham.academia.edu/MichaelaMahlberg Mahlberg, M., Wiegand, V., Stockwell, P., & Hennessey, A. (2019). Speech-bundles in the 19th-century English novel.Language and Literature, 28(4), 326–353. Wiegand, V., & Mahlberg, M. (Eds.). (2019). Corpus Linguistics, Context and Culture. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Wiegand, V., & Mahlberg, M. (2019). Introduction. In V. Wiegand & M. Mahlberg (Eds.), Corpus Linguistics, Context and Culture (pp. 1–9). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Mahlberg, M. and Wiegand V. (2018). Corpus stylistics, norms and comparisons: studying speech in Great Expectations, in R. Page, B. Busse, N. Norgaard (eds.) Rethinking Language, Text and Context. Interdisciplinary Research in Stylistics in Honour of Michael Toolan (pp. 123-143). New York & London: Routledge. [PDF, 1024 KB] Huntley, S.; Mahlberg, M; Wiegand, V.; van Gennip, Y.; Yang, H.; Dean, R.; Brennan, M. (2018), 'Analysing the opinions of UK veterinarians on practice-based research using corpus linguistic and mathematical methods', Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 150, 60-69. Hennessey, A., Wiegand, V., Mahlberg, M., Tench, C. R., & Lentin, J. (2017). CorporaCoCo: Corpora Co-Occurrence Comparison (Version 1.0-2). [R package] Mastropierro, L. & Mahlberg, M., (2017), Key words and translated cohesion - A corpus stylistic analysis of Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness and its Italian translation, English Text Construction. 10 (1), 78-105. Mahlberg, M., Stockwell, P., de Joode, J., Smith, C., O'Donnell, M. Brook, (2016) CLiC Dickens – Novel uses of concordances for the integration of corpus stylistics and cognitive poetics, Corpora, 11 (3), 433-463. Mahlberg, M. & Stockwell, P., (2016). Point and CLiC: teaching literature with corpus stylistic tools, in M. Burke et al. (eds.) Scientific Approaches to Literature in Learning Environments (pp. 251-267). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Mahlberg, M. (2016). Corpus Stylistics. In V. Sotirova (ed.) The Bloomsbury Companion to Stylistics. London & New York: Bloomsbury (pp. 139-156). Mahlberg, M. (2015). Corpus Linguistics. In M. Giovanelli, A. Macrae, F. Titjen and I. Cushing (eds.) English Language and Literature. A/AS Level for AQA. 284-286. Mahlberg, M. (2015). Literary Style. In D. Biber and R. Reppen (eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics (346-361). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Stockwell, P & Mahlberg, M. (2015). Mind-modelling with corpus stylistics in David Copperfield, Language and Literature, 24: 129-147. Mahlberg, M. (2014). Corpus linguistics and discourse analysis. In K. P. Schneider & A. Barron (Eds.), Pragmatics of Discourse (pp. 215-238). Berlin: De Gruyter. Mahlberg, M. (2014). Corpus stylistics. In M. Burke (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics (pp. 378-392). London & New York: Routledge. Mahlberg, M. (2014). Grammatical configuration. In P. Stockwell & S. Whiteley (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics (pp. 249-262). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Mahlberg, M. Conklin, K., Bisson, M.-J., (2014). Reading Dickens's characters: textual patterns and their cognitive reality, Language and Literature, 23(4), 369-388. Mahlberg, M. (2013). Corpus Stylistics and Dickens's Fiction. London: Routledge. Mahlberg, M. (2013). Corpus Analysis of Literary Texts. In C.A. Chapelle (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Mahlberg, M., Smith, C., & Preston, S. (2013). Phrases in literary contexts: Patterns and distributions of suspensions in Dickens's novels. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 18(1), 35-56. doi 10.1075/ijcl.18.1.05mah Mahlberg, M. (2012). Corpus stylistics - Dickens, text-drivenness and the fictional world. In J. John (Ed.), Dickens and Modernity (pp. 94-114). Cambridge: D. S. Brewer. Mahlberg, M. (2012). The corpus stylistic analysis of fiction or the fiction of corpus stylistics? In M. Huber & J. Mukherjee (Eds.), Corpus linguistics and variation in English: Theory and Description (pp. 77-95). Amsterdam: Rodopi. Mahlberg, M., & Smith, C. (2012). Dickens, the suspended quotation and the corpus. Language and Literature, 21(1), 51-65. O'Donnell, M. Brook, Scott, M., Mahlberg, M., Hoey, M. (2012). Exploring text-initial words, clusters and concgrams in a newspaper corpus. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 8 (1), 73-101. Mahlberg, M. (2011). Corpus Linguistics. Section 8.10 in Chapter 8 "Fields of Linguistics". In McCabe, A. An Introduction to Linguistics and Language Studies. London: Equinox, 351-354. Mahlberg, M., & McIntyre, D. (2011). A case for corpus stylistics: Ian Fleming's Casino Royale. English Text Construction, 4(2), 204-227. Mahlberg, M., & Smith, C. (2010). Corpus approaches to prose fiction: Civility and body language in Pride and Prejudice. In D. McIntyre & B. Busse (Eds.), Language and Style (pp. 449-467). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Mahlberg, M. (2010). Corpus linguistics and the study of nineteenth century fiction. Journal of Victorian Culture, 15(2), 292-298. Mahlberg, M. (2009). Corpus stylistics and the Pickwickian watering-pot. In P. Baker (Ed.), Contemporary Corpus Linguistics (pp. 47-63). London: Continuum. Mahlberg, M. (2009). Local textual functions of move in newspaper story patterns. In U. Römer & R. Schulze (Eds.), Exploring the Lexis-Grammar Interface (pp. 265-287). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Mahlberg, M. (2009). Patterns in news stories: a corpus approach to teaching discourse analysis. In L. Lombardo (ed.). Using Corpora to Learn about Language and Discourse. Bern: Peter Lang, 99-132. Mahlberg, M. and O'Donnell, M. Brook (2008). A fresh view of the structure of hard news stories. In S. Neumann and E. Steiner (eds.) Online Proceedings of the 19th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference and Workshop, Saarbrücken, 23-25 July 2007. URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-scidok-17005 Hoey, M., Mahlberg, M. Stubbs, M. & Teubert, W. (2007). Text, Discourse and Corpora. Theory and Analysis. London: Continuum. Mahlberg, M. (2007). A corpus stylistic perspective on Dickens's Great Expectations. In M. Lambrou & P. Stockwell (Eds.), Contemporary Stylistics (pp. 19-31). London: Continuum. Mahlberg, M. (2007). Clusters, key clusters and local textual functions in Dickens. Corpora, 2(1), 1-31. Mahlberg, M. (2007). Corpora and translations studies: textual function of lexis in Bleak House and in a translation of the novel into German. In V. Intonti, G. Todisco, & M. Gatto (Eds.), La Traduzione. Lo Stato dell'Arte. Translation. The State of the Art. (pp. 115-135). Ravenna: Longo. Mahlberg, M. (2007). Review of M. Hori (2004). Investigating Dickens' Style: A Collocational Analysis. Language and Literature, 16(1), 93-96. Mahlberg, M. (2006). but it will take time... points of view on a lexical grammar of English. In A. Renouf & A. Kehoe (Eds.), The Changing Face of Corpus Linguistics (pp. 377-390). Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi. Mahlberg, M. (2006). Lexical cohesion: corpus linguistic theory and its application in ELT. Special issue of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 11(3), 363-383. Mahlberg, M. (2005). English General Nouns: A Corpus Theoretical Approach. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Barnbrook, G., P. Danielsson, M. Mahlberg (eds.) (2005). Meaningful Texts: The Extraction of Semantic Information from Monolingual and Multilingual Corpora. London: Continuum. Teubert, W. and M. Mahlberg (eds.) (2005). The Corpus Approach to Lexicography. Thematischer Teil von Lexicographica. Internationales Jahrbuch für Lexikographie, 20. Danielsson, P. and M. Mahlberg (2003). There is more to knowing a language than knowing its words: using parallel texts in the bilingual classroom. English for Specific Purposes World. Online Journal for Teachers, 3 (6), Vol. 2. Mahlberg, M. (2003). The textlinguistic dimension of corpus linguistics: The support function of English general nouns and its theoretical implications, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 8:1, 97-108. Mahlberg, M. (2002). Review of István Kenesei and Robert M. Harnish (eds.). (2001): Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse. A Festschrift for Ferenc Kiefer, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 7:1, 107-131. View all publications in research portal


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Last weekend, I took part in the annual Novel in a Day writing event, hosted by Literature & Latte. I didn't actually write an entire novel in a day, that would probably be impossible. At least for me. No, NaiD is much more interesting than that.
Along with 24 other writers, I received an outline for one chapter in a novel. I got bare bones character sheets for the characters I needed to include. I got a basic setting sheet for the locations. That's it. I had less than 24-hours to write the chapter.
It seems like a lot, but it's really not. I had to guess how the character would react in the situations. I couldn't describe the setting in too much detail in case it clashed with what someone else wrote. Do I need to introduce the side characters by first and last name, or would other writers introduce them?
When I received my chapter assignment, I had no idea what to expect – not even the genre I was supposed to be writing. As I read my brief, I realized the book was a spy mystery set in London. Not my genre or my country.
But the more time I spent playing around with my outline the main character, the more comfortable I became. It didn't matter that the book was a genre I wasn't familiar with. I had a character, I had her start and end points, I knew where I had to take her. I just had to keep pushing her forward.
It was a fun experiment and I'll definitely do it again next year!
Read Section 7 (NaiD 2014)
My chapter is sixteen, but I definitely recommend reading the whole exciting book!


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With a new expansion coming out soon, and the addition of a new split ranking system, Blizzard has announced some rather massive Hearthstone Nerfs. It's no secret that Card games start becoming bloated with new releases, and the whole delicate balance becomes ever increasingly hard to enforce. This is also the case with Hearthstone, after having several new cards added since its release, the game became very hard to balance, resulting in cheesy decks and blizzard nerfing cards to try and balance stuff.
Whispers of the Old Gods is the new Hearthstone expansion coming out next week, and besides the obvious new cards and themes, introduces a new game changing system that will strike a balance between the ever increasing cards and competitive PvP matches. Rankings will be split into 2 different Ladders, Standard and Wild. In the Standard mode you will only be able to use classic Hearthstone cards and cards from the latest game update. Cards from previous expansions and updates will be unavailable in this mode. On the other hand, Wild will be the same as the current Ladder, meaning you can use any card ever released, with Blizzard not promising it will be 100% balanced, hence the name "Wild"
In order to make the new Standard ladder more balanced Blizzard announced several Hearthstone Nerfs coming to its classic card decks. These nerfs are being put in place to futureproof any other balance issues that may arise with additions of new cards and to make the devs lives easier by having less to think about.
Below is the complete Nerf list, and while all these sound logical it does strike me like they overdid it a bit with some of these nerfs. Time will tell if this was a good move, for now we can only speculate.
- Ancient of Lore – Draw a card (was "Draw 2 cards")
- Force of Nature – Cost: 5 (was 6), Treants no longer have charge.
- Keeper of the Grove – 2/2 (was 2/4)
- Ironbeak Owl – Cost: 3 (was 2)
- Big Game Hunter – Cost: 5 (was 3)
- Hunter's Mark – Cost: 1 (was 0)
- Blade Flurry – Cost: 4 (was 2), no longer does damage to opponent
- Knife Juggler – 2/2 (was 3/2)
- Leper Gnome – 1/1 (was 2/1)
- Arcane Golem – 4/4 (was 4/2), no longer has charge
- Molten Giant – Cost: 25 (was 20)
- Master of Disguise – Now grants stealth until end of turn only


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It's here! It's here! The September issue of Connecticut Cottages & Gardens is here!!
You might remember my blog post back in May about the trip I took with a few antique hunter friends to Mercanteinfiera in Parma, Italy. (If not, click here to brush up.) Since then, we've been dying to see what CTC&G editor, DJ Carey, would choose to portray from our three day experience abroad. "Italian Treasures" from the September issue, which happens to be appropriately titled "Curated Style", was worth waiting for.
I truly dislike the question: "What is your design style?" but if I had to choose a label, "A Curated One" is what I would select. I think the best designers are inspired by different sights, sounds, smells, colors…everything in their environment, including, what interests their clients. Why do you think so many designers showcase their travels on Instagram? Each new hotel, restaurant, garden, museum or antique market is inspiration. And this being inspired is what fires our creativity. It allows us to hone our ability to mix furniture from different periods or draw together unexpected colors. It is this curiosity in our environment that enables us to create unique spaces for our clients. For me, Italy, and more specifically, Mercanteinfiera, was an amazing way to immerse myself in new sights, sounds, and feels…not to mention the tastes and smells. For more about our trip to Italy, pick up a copy of the issue.
And again, many thanks to Toma Clark Haines, The one and only Antiques Diva, Margaret Schwartz and Kelly Maguire of Modern Antiquarian, and of course…DJ Carey of CTC&G.
"Italian Treasures" was originally published in Connecticut Cottages & Gardens September 2018.


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Archive for the 'healthcare' Category
Cray Cray and the PGA
Happy Friday.
For golfers everywhere, it's an especially special week (and weekend).
Normally, the PGA Championship is the last major championship of the year, played in the heat of the August sun.
This year, the tournament has been moved up to mid-May, and is being played at what they call the "peoples' country club," Bethpage Black.
Bethpage Black is the hardest of a number of golf courses open to the general public in Bethpage State Park in Long Island, New York.
It has also been home to a couple of U.S. Opens, one in 2002 and again in 2009…it was, in fact, the first public golf course to host a U.S. Open.
So, that's the backstory. And while everyone is excited to hear about Tiger Woods play after winning the Masters this year, it was Brooks Koepka, three-time major and one-time PGA Championship winner who sunk putts from every which direction and every which length yesterday who took the lead at 7 under par.
Koepka is due back on the Black this PM, and while he has a couple of great players making chase, including Jordan Spieth who's in today at a cumulative 5 under and Dustin Johnson (-4), it appears Koepka is in charge of his destiny this PM.
As for destiny, let's jump over to some Friday PM tech news.
First up, for those of you who remember the hey day of supercomputing (whenever that was), you'll remember Cray Inc.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is taking Cray off the board for $1.30 billion, roughly $35 per share and a premium of 17.4 percent to Cray's last close, according to Reuters.
At last count, Cray's supercomputing systems can handle big data sets, converged modeling, simulations, AI, and analytics workloads.
If this news makes you ill, you might want to check into Health at Scale. TechCrunch is reporting that the AI healthcare startup has raised $16M in a Series A round.
The startup has founders with both medical and engineering backgrounds, and writes that it "wants to bring machine learning to bear on healthcare treatment options to produce outcomes with better results and less aftercare."
The idea is to make treatment decisions more data-driven. While they aren't sharing their data sources, they say they have information, from patients with a given condition, to doctors who treat that condition, to facilities where the treatment happens. By looking at a patient's individual treatment needs and medical history, they believe they can do a better job of matching that person to the best doctor and hospital for the job. They say this will result in the fewest post-operative treatment requirements, whether that involves trips to the emergency room or time in a skilled nursing facility, all of which would end up adding significant additional cost.
Anything to improve the condition of the American healthcare system.
CVS to Buy Aetna in $69 Billion Deal
CVS Health said on Sunday that it had agreed to buy Aetna for about $69 billion, in a deal that would combine the drugstore with one of the biggest health insurers in the United States, according to a report from The New York Times.
The merger comes at a time of turbulent transformation in health care. Insurers, hospitals and pharmacy companies are bracing for a possible disruption in government programs like Medicare as a result of the Republicans' plan to cut taxes. Congress remains at an impasse over the future of the Affordable Care Act, while employers and consumers are struggling under the weight of rising medical costs, including the soaring price of prescription drugs. And rapid changes in technology have raised the specter of new competitors — most notably Amazon. A combined CVS-Aetna could position itself as a formidable figure in this changing landscape. Together, the companies touch most of the basic health services that people regularly use, providing an opportunity to benefit consumers. CVS operates a chain of pharmacies and retail clinics that could be used by Aetna to provide care directly to patients, while the merged company could be better able to offer employers one-stop shopping for health insurance for their workers.
– via www.nytimes.com
But as the Times goes on to observe, critics worry customers could find their healthcare choices sharply limited (i.e., less choice of where to fill a prescription or get care if so many roads lead through a combined CVS/Aetna.
But in the announcement, the companies pointed out clear synergies that would benefit patients:
the two companies emphasized their ability to transform CVS's 10,000 pharmacy and clinic locations into community-based sites of care that would be far less expensive for patients. "We think of it as creating a new front door to health care in America," CVS Health's chief executive, Larry J. Merlo, said in an interview. The merger would establish a new way of delivering care, with nurses, pharmacists and others available to counsel people about their diabetes or do the lab work necessary to diagnose a condition, Mr. Merlo said. "We know we can make health care more affordable and less expensive."
– via www.nytimes.com
Looming in the background, the Times observes, a lingering Amazon and Jeff Bezos, rumored to be preparing for an entry into the pharmacy business.
As to antitrust considerations, both companies played down the prospect of regulation, arguing that the takeover is a "vertical merger" combining companies in two different industries.
JDRF and IBM Collaborate to Research Risk Factors for Type 1 Diabetes in Children
IBM and JDRF, the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research, today announced a new collaboration to develop and apply machine learning methods to analyze years of global T1D research data and identify factors leading to the onset of T1D in children.
T1D affects approximately 1.25 million Americans, and it currently does not have a cure. This research collaboration is expected to create an entry point for T1D in the field of precision medicine, by combining JDRF's connections to research teams around the globe and its subject matter expertise in T1D research with the technical capability and computing power of IBM.
"At JDRF, we are absolutely committed to seeing a world without type 1 diabetes, and with this partnership, we're adding some of the most advanced computing power in the world to our mission," said Derek Rapp, JDRF President and CEO.
"JDRF supports researchers all over the world, but never before have we been able to analyze their data comprehensively, in a way that can tell us why some children who are at risk get T1D and others do not. IBM's analysis of the existing data could open the door to understanding the risk factors of T1D in a whole new way, and to one day finding a way to prevent T1D altogether."
IBM scientists will look across at least three different data sets and apply machine learning algorithms to help find patterns and factors at play, with the goal of identifying ways that could delay or prevent T1D in children. In order to match variables and data formats and compare the differing data sets, the scientists plan to leverage previously collected data from global research projects.
Data analysis will explore the inclusion of genetic, familial, autoantibody and other variables to create a foundational set of features that is common to all data sets. The models that will be produced will quantify the risk for T1D from the combined dataset using this foundational set of features. As a result, JDRF will be in a better position to identify top predictive risk factors for T1D, cluster patients based on top risk factors, and explore a number of data-driven models for predicting onset.
"Nearly 40,000 new cases of type 1 diabetes will be diagnosed in the U.S. this year. And each new patient creates new records and new data points that, if leveraged, could provide additional understanding of the disease," says Jianying Hu, Senior Manager and Program Director, Center for Computational Health at IBM Research. "The deep expertise our team has in artificial intelligence applied to healthcare data makes us uniquely positioned to help JDRF unlock the insights hidden in this massive data set and advance the field of precision medicine towards the prevention and management of diabetes."
Future phases of the collaboration may consist of furthering the analysis of big data toward the goal of better understanding causes of T1D. They may also consist of analyzing more complex datasets, such as microbiome and genomics or transcriptomics data. Finally, but no less importantly, the knowledge gained through these efforts could also help JDRF in its pursuit of a cure for people with T1D.
IBM and University of Alberta Publish New Data on Machine Learning Algorithms to Help Predict Schizophrenia
IBM scientists and the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, have published new data in Nature's partner journal, Schizophrenia1, demonstrating that AI and machine learning algorithms helped predict instances of schizophrenia with 74% accuracy.
This retrospective analysis also showed the technology predicted the severity of specific symptoms in schizophrenia patients with significant correlation, based on correlations between activity observed across different regions of the brain. This pioneering research could also help scientists identify more reliable objective neuroimaging biomarkers that could be used to predict schizophrenia and its severity.
Schizophrenia is a chronic and debilitating neurological disorder that affects 7 or 8 out of every 1,000 people. Those with schizophrenia can experience hallucinations, delusions or thought disorders, along with cognitive impairments, such as an inability to pay attention and physical impairments, such as movement disorders.
"This unique, innovative multidisciplinary approach opens new insights and advances our understanding of the neurobiology of schizophrenia, which may help to improve the treatment and management of the disease," says Dr. Serdar Dursun, a Professor of Psychiatry & Neuroscience with the University of Alberta. "We've discovered a number of significant abnormal connections in the brain that can be explored in future studies, and AI-created models bring us one step closer to finding objective neuroimaging-based patterns that are diagnostic and prognostic markers of schizophrenia."
In the paper, researchers analyzed de-identified brain functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data from the open data set, Function Biomedical Informatics Research Network (fBIRN) for patients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders, as well as a healthy control group. fMRI measures brain activity through blood flow changes in particular areas of the brain.
Specifically, the fBIRN data set reflects research done on brain networks at different levels of resolution, from data gathered while study participants conducted a common auditory test. Examining scans from 95 participants, researchers used machine learning techniques to develop a model of schizophrenia that identifies the connections in the brain most associated with the illness.
The results of the IBM and University of Alberta research demonstrated that, even on more challenging neuroimaging data collected from multiple sites (different machines, across different groups of subjects etc.) the machine learning algorithm was able to discriminate between patients with schizophrenia and the control group with 74% accuracy using the correlations in activity across different areas of the brain.
Additionally, the research showed that functional network connectivity could also help determine the severity of several symptoms after they have manifested in the patient, including inattentiveness, bizarre behavior and formal thought disorder, as well as alogia, (poverty of speech) and lack of motivation.
The prediction of symptom severity could lead to a more quantitative, measurement-based characterization of schizophrenia; viewing the disease on a spectrum, as opposed to a binary label of diagnosis or non-diagnosis. This objective, data-driven approach to severity analysis could eventually help clinicians identify treatment plans that are customized to the individual.
"The ultimate goal of this research effort is to identify and develop objective, data-driven measures for characterizing mental states, and apply them to psychiatric and neurological disorders" said Ajay Royyuru, Vice President of Healthcare & Life Sciences, IBM Research. "We also hope to offer new insights into how AI and machine learning can be used to analyze psychiatric and neurological disorders to aid psychiatrists in their assessment and treatment of patients."
The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative of NIMH emphasizes the importance of objective measurements in psychiatry. This field, often referred to as "computational psychiatry", aims to use modern technology and data driven approaches to improve evidence-based medical decision making in psychiatry, a field that often relies upon subjective evaluation approaches.
As part of the ongoing partnership, researchers will continue to investigate areas and connections in the brain that hold significant links to schizophrenia. Work will continue on improving the algorithms by conducting machine learning analysis on larger datasets, and by exploring ways to extend these techniques to other psychiatric disorders such as depression or post-traumatic stress disorder.
You can learn more about IBM Watson Health solutions here.
IBM Watson Training To Scan For Retina Abnormalities
IBM Research has announced new research developments in IBM Watson's ability to detect abnormalities of the eye's retina.
The Melbourne based IBM researchers have trained a research version of Watson to recognize abnormalities in retina images, which could in the future offer doctors greater insights and speed in their early identification of patients who may be at risk of eye diseases – such as glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness in the developed world.
The research began in 2015 and the latest work has focused on streamlining some of the manual processes experienced by doctors today. This includes distinguishing between left and right eye images, evaluating the quality of retina scans, as well as ranking possible indicators of glaucoma.
Glaucoma has been named "the silent thief of sight" as many patients remain undiagnosed until irreversible vision loss occurs. Glaucoma can be treated but early detection is critical, with doctors currently relying on regular eye examination screening programs.
The researchers applied deep learning techniques and image analytics technology to 88,000 de-identified retina images accessed through EyePACS®, to analyze key anomalies of the eye.
The research results demonstrate Watson's ability to accurately measure the ratio of the optic cup to disc – which is a key sign of glaucoma – with statistical performance as high as 95 percent. The technology has also been trained to distinguish between left and right eye images (with up to 94 percent confidence), which are important for downstream analysis and for the development effective treatment programs.
The research is expected to continue to improve over time as the research technology expands to detect features of other eye diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration.
You can learn more about IBM Research efforts here.
IBM Announces Joint Blockchain Collaboration Initiative With U.S. Federal Drug Administration
IBM Watson Health has signed a research initiative with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) aimed at defining a secure, efficient and scalable exchange of health data using blockchain technology.
IBM and the FDA will explore the exchange of owner mediated data from several sources, such as Electronic Medical Records, clinical trials, genomic data, and health data from mobile devices, wearables and the "Internet of Things." The initial focus will be on oncology-related data.
Transformative healthcare solutions are possible when healthcare researchers and providers have access to a 360-degree view of patient data. Today, patients have little access to their health data and cannot easily share with researchers or providers.
Giving patients the opportunity to share their data securely, for research purposes or across their healthcare providers, creates opportunities for major advancements in healthcare. Blockchain technology, which enables organizations to work together with more trust, is designed to help make this a reality.
By keeping an audit trail of all transactions on an unalterable distributed ledger, blockchain technology establishes accountability and transparency in the data exchange process. In the past, large scale sharing of health data has been limited by concerns of data security and breaches of patient privacy during the data exchange process.
IBM and the FDA will explore how a blockchain framework can
potentially provide benefits to public health by supporting important use cases for information exchange across a wide variety of data types, including clinical trials and "real world" evidence data.
New insights combining data across the healthcare ecosystem can potentially lead to new biomedical discoveries. Patient data from wearables and connected devices for example, can help doctors and caregivers better manage population health.
The collaboration will also address new ways to leverage the large volumes of diverse data in today's biomedical and healthcare industries. A secure owner-mediated data sharing ecosystem could potentially hold the promise of new discoveries and improved public health.
The initiative with the FDA is a two-year agreement. IBM Watson Health and the FDA plan to share initial research findings in 2017.
You can learn more about IBM Blockchain capabilities here.
Dr. Watson Finds Bedside Manner
Back in September of 2011 I mentioned in this blog post that one of Watson's first jobs outside of playing Jeopardy! was going to be in the healthcare industry.
Well, earlier today WellPoint, Inc. and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center today unveiled the first commercially developed Watson-based cognitive computing breakthroughs.
These innovations stand alone to help transform the quality and speed of care delivered to patients through individualized, evidence based medicine.
Check out this short video to learn more about how physicians and other medical professionals are able to use IBM's Watson technology to help them with their medical diagnostic tasks.
The American Cancer Society projects that 1.6 million new cancer cases will be diagnosed in the U.S. this year alone. Studies suggest that the complexities associated with healthcare have caused one in five health care patients to receive a wrong or incomplete diagnosis.
These statistics, coupled with a data explosion of medical information that is doubling every five years, represents an unprecedented opportunity for the health care industry and next generation cognitive computing systems, to combine forces in new ways to improve how medicine is taught, practiced and paid for.
For more than a year now, IBM has partnered separately with WellPoint and Memorial Sloan-Kettering to train Watson in the areas of oncology and utilization management.
During this time, clinicians and technology experts spent thousands of hours "teaching" Watson how to process, analyze and interpret the meaning of complex clinical information using natural language processing, all with the goal of helping to improve health care quality and efficiency.
"IBM's work with WellPoint and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center represents a landmark collaboration in how technology and evidence based medicine can transform the way in which health care is practiced," said Manoj Saxena, IBM General Manager, Watson Solutions (see my interview with Manoj at last fall's InterConnect event in Singapore further down in the post).
"These breakthrough capabilities bring forward the first in a series of Watson-based technologies, which exemplifies the value of applying big data and analytics and cognitive computing to tackle the industries most pressing challenges."
Evidence Based Medicine: Addressing Oncology Issues By Quickly Assimilating Massive Amounts Of Medical Information
To date, Watson has ingested more than 600,000 pieces of medical evidence, two million pages of text from 42 medical journals and clinical trials in the area of oncology research.
Watson has the power to sift through 1.5 million patient records representing decades of cancer treatment history, such as medical records and patient outcomes, and provide to physicians evidence based treatment options all in a matter of seconds.
In less than a year, Memorial Sloan-Kettering has immersed Watson in the complexities of cancer and the explosion of genetic research which has set the stage for changing care practices for many cancer patients with highly specialized treatments based on their personal genetic tumor type.
Starting with 1,500 lung cancer cases, Memorial Sloan-Kettering clinicians and analysts are training Watson to extract and interpret physician notes, lab results and clinical research, while sharing its profound expertise and experiences in treating hundreds of thousands of patients with cancer.
"It can take years for the latest developments in oncology to reach all practice settings. The combination of transformational technologies found in Watson with our cancer analytics and decision-making process has the potential to revolutionize the accessibility of information for the treatment of cancer in communities across the country and around the world," said Craig B.Thompson, M.D., President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. "Ultimately, we expect this comprehensive, evidence-based approach will profoundly enhance cancer care by accelerating the dissemination of practice-changing research at an unprecedented pace."
The Maine Center for Cancer Medicine and WESTMED Medical Group are the first two early adopters of the capability. Their oncologists will begin testing the product and providing feedback to WellPoint, IBM and Memorial Sloan-Kettering to improve usability.
Speeding Patient Care Through WellPoint's Utilization Management Pilot
Throughout WellPoint's utilization management pilot, Watson absorbed more than 25,000 test case scenarios and 1,500 real-life cases, and gained the ability to interpret the meaning and analyze queries in the context of complex medical data and human and natural language, including doctors notes, patient records, medical annotations and clinical feedback.
In addition, more than 14,700 hours of hands-on training was spent by nurses who meticulously trained Watson. Watson continues to learn while on the job, much like a medical resident, while working with the WellPoint nurses who originally conducted its training.
Watson started processing common, medical procedure requests by providers for members in WellPoint affiliated health plans in December, and was expanded to include five provider offices in the Midwest. Watson will serve as a powerful tool to accelerate the review process between a patient's physician and their health plan.
"The health care industry must drive transformation through innovation, including harnessing the latest technology that will ultimately benefit the health care consumer," said Lori Beer, WellPoint's executive vice president of Specialty Businesses and Information Technology. "We believe that WellPoint's data, knowledge and extensive provider network, combined with the IBM Watson technology and Memorial Sloan-Kettering's oncological expertise can drive this transformation."
Watson-Powered Health Innovations
As a result, IBM, Memorial Sloan-Kettering and WellPoint are introducing the first commercially based products based on Watson. These innovations represent a breakthrough in how medical professionals can apply advances in analytics and natural language processing to "big data," combined with the clinical knowledge base, including genomic data, in order to create evidence based decision support systems.
These Watson-based systems are designed to assist doctors, researchers, medical centers, and insurance carriers, and ultimately enhance the quality and speed of care. The new products include the Interactive Care Insights for Oncology, powered by Watson, in collaboration with IBM, Memorial Sloan-Kettering and WellPoint.
The WellPoint Interactive Care Guide and Interactive Care Reviewer, powered by Watson, designed for utilization management in collaboration with WellPoint and IBM.
New Interactive Care Insights for Oncology
- The cognitive systems use insights gleaned from the deep experience of Memorial Sloan-Kettering clinicians to provide individualized treatment options based on patient's medical information and the synthesis of a vast array of updated and vetted treatment guidelines, and published research.
- A first of-its-kind Watson-based advisor, available through the cloud, that is expected to assist medical professionals and researchers by helping to identify individualized treatment options for patients with cancer, starting with lung cancer.
- Provides users with a detailed record of the data and information used to reach the treatment options. Oncologists located anywhere can remotely access detailed treatment options based on updated research that will help them decide how best to care for an individual patient.
New WellPoint Interactive Care Guide and Interactive Care Reviewer
- Delivers the first Watson-based cognitive computing system anticipated to streamline the review processes between a patient's physician and their health plan, potentially speeding approvals from utilization management professionals, reducing waste and helping ensure evidence-based care is provided.
- Expected to accelerate accepted testing and treatment by shortening pre-authorization approval time, which means that patients are moving forward with the first crucial step toward treatment more quickly.
- Analyzes treatment requests and matches them to WellPoint's medical policies and clinical guidelines to present consistent, evidence-based responses for clinical staff to review, in the anticipation of providing faster, better informed decisions about a patient's care.
- WellPoint has deployed Interactive Care Reviewer to a select number of providers in the Midwest, and believes more than 1,600 providers will be using the product by the end of the year.
Watson: Then and Now
The IBM Watson system gained fame by beating human contestants on the television quiz show Jeopardy! almost two years ago. Since that time, Watson has evolved from a first-of-a-kind status, to a commercial cognitive computing system gaining a 240 percent improvement in system performance, and a reduction in the system's physical requirements by 75 percent and can now be run on a single Power 750 server.
The transformational technology, named after IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, was developed in IBM's Research Labs. Using advances in natural language processing and analytics, the Watson technology can process information similar to the way people think, representing a significant shift in the ability for organizations to quickly analyze, understand and respond to vast amounts of Big Data.
The ability to use Watson to answer complex questions posed in natural language with speed, accuracy and confidence has enormous potential to improve decision making across a variety of industries from health care, to retail, telecommunications and financial services.
For more information on IBM Watson, please visit www.ibmwatson.com.
You can also follow Watson on Facebook here, and via Twitter at hashtag #IBMWatson.
And below, you can see the aforementioned video where I interviewed IBM Watson general manager Manoj Saxena about Watson's future at last year's IBM InterConnect event.


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The New Wires of Christmas Future
Sort the Mess
If you're organizing an existing wire mess (or adding to it with a new device), the first thing you'll want to do is untangle your cords and get them sorted out. Unplug all of the devices from the power source and from each other, then untangle them and sort them by device.
Label Your Cords
While it won't hide your cords or keep them from tangling, your next step should be to label your cords. This can be done by using pre-printed labels or tabs, a label maker, or whatever you have around the house. For example, masking tape doubled over a cord can be written on to designate what the cord is for. It doesn't matter how you label them; what matters is being able to tell at a glance which cable is for what device. Generally speaking, you'll want to label the end that plugs into an outlet or another device. This ca
n also be very useful for the huge collection of power charges you've collected over the years for phones, mp3 players, tablets, and other devices.
Bundle Your Cords
Once you've sorted and labeled all of the cords in your wire mess, you may want to bundle cables that are going to the same areas. As an example, you may want to bundle the power cords of your TV, DVD player, and cable box together so that they aren't moving around and getting tangled with each other. You can do this with reusable cable ties or in a number of other ways. However, you'll want to make sure that your bundle solution allows you to easily separate them if needed.
Hide Your Cords
At this point, you may choose to hide your cables and cords from sight in order to have a cleaner area that is less prone to tangling. While this can be done with different types of tape, that doesn't necessarily look any better than the loose cords, and it doesn't offer any protection to your cords either. If you want your cables to be properly hidden and protected, you'll want to look into a cord channel for use along walls and/or a cord protector & concealer for use on the floor.
Cable management might take a little time and effort, but it's worth it. If you're interested in any of UT Wire's products for wire mess organization, you should check into where to buy them.


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CaSandra is a native of Marshall, Texas, a graduate of Marshall High School. She is a devoted member of Griggs Chapel Missionary Baptist Church where she is active in the Youth Ministry, serves as a new member orientation instructor, a member of the Women's Chorus and is the founder of Sisters In Christ Book Club.
CaSandra is a lover of Gospel music and public speaking, she is also a Christian Fiction Author and her hobbies include reading, travel, and spending time with her family. CaSandra is married to Richard McLaughlin and they have two children, Nick and Chloe.
CaSandra has been a part of the KGGR family since 2010 where she is affectionately known as Cassie Mack and can be heard Monday through Friday from sunrise until 8:45am. She shares the best in GREAT GOSPEL MUSIC!! Cassie states "I enjoy interacting with the listening audience from across America. On Tuesday during the 'Testimony Tuesday' segment, we all enjoy the listeners testifying about the goodness of the Lord, we are truly a family and it gives me joy in knowing that my family members are seeking God for direction. Each Friday, we have a great time reminiscing during the Flashback show. We talk about things from our growing up years, of what our grandparents taught us, stories our parents told us, and things we did growing up from riding bikes, playing with dolls, walking to the corner store and playing on the slip and slide. Flashback Friday is bound to leave you laughing so hard that you'll have tears in your eyes and look forward to the next Friday."
Call all of your friends and tell them to tune in to Testimony Tuesday & Flashback Friday at 7:35am to share in the joy and to become a part of the KGGR family.
CaSandra find comfort in this passage of scripture: 'And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.' – Romans 8:28


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A tanning salon receptionist was shocked when a man looking for a prostitute asked her: "Is this the naughty shop?"
The punter left after being told he was in the wrong place and walked up an alleyway to get into flat above the Hemel Hempstead salon, where a woman was running a brothel.
Local businesses and residents in Hemel Hempstead High Street had been complaining about activities at the two bedroom flat, St Albans crown court heard Wednesday 24th September.
Over 7 months, men were seen to be visiting provocatively-dressed, heavily-made up women who were operating from there.
Prosecutor Catherine Rabaiotti said the police raided the High Street flat on 29 January 2013. They found sex toys, condoms, pornographic material, a massage booth, £200 cash and mobile phones. Two diaries were also recovered: they contained a log of takings from the brothel and prices for the services offered.
The woman who lived there was arrested. Text message recovered from her phone included: 'Hello what ladies are on tonight?' and 'How much for two girls?' Men were requesting the services of 'Hot Thai Nadia' and 'Naughty Vicky.'
Ms Rabaiotti said when the defendant was interviewed she admitted working as a prostitute, but said she did so independently. She said she earned £300 a day. £27,000 in cash went through her bank account in the 7 months. Adverts for the brothel had been placed in newspapers and on adult network sites on the internet.
The 35 year old pleaded guilty to keeping a brothel between 22 June 2012 and 17 January 2013.
Andrew Kerry, defending, said; "She accepts she managed the brothel she was the tenant. She has never denied she is a working girl and other girls were working there.
He said the Thai woman had lived in the UK for 12 years and had no convictions or cautions. For 6 or 7 years she had been a 'working girl.'
Mr Kerry said she had a serious gambling habit, which involved her losing hundreds and hundreds of pounds every day on the internet. He said that she had not made £27,000 and that the cash going through her account was as a result of her transferring money from other banks.
He argued that she had spent the equivalent of a 10 month sentence on remand while awaiting trial and asked the judge to pass a term that would prevent her returning to prison.
Recorder Patrick Fields agreed and passed a 9 month sentence, meaning she will spend no more time in jail. The judge told her: "Flat 4 was operating as a brothel under your management and directions. The evidence from the local residents is that these premises were a nuisance to the neighbourhood."
A confiscation hearing will be at a later date.


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John 6:39 King James Version (KJV)
39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
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You use your login for the website to upgrade the installed application.
If you use use the full app installation, first install the full app by downloading from this page:
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I also created this Small Fry word sort. The kids really were involved and it seemed to be just enough of a challenge for my higher students. This was because I accidentally had multiples of words. Therefore, they had to make sure there were not repeats.
I also used this great resource as well. I was lucky enough to buy it during the TPT sale. This inspired me to create this document to further help my struggling readers. I plan on having them cut out the words so that I can staple to the bottom of the document. They will flip the words down as they sing the song. To further motivate them, I am going to let them use fly swatters! (I apologize in advance if it off beat. I am nowhere musically inclined! Thankfully, my kiddos don't mind.)
If you use it in your classroom, I'd appreciate a comment on how it worked for your students.
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