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Nightlight Christian Adoptions, et al. v. Thompson, et al. (2001)
Nightlight Christian Adoptions et al. v. Thompson et al. was a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on 8 March 2001. The suit was filed because Nightlight Christian Adoptions, a frozen embryo adoption agency, felt that the Guidelines for Research Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells published by the National Institutes for Health were unlawful and violated the restrictions on human embryo research put into place by the Dickey-Wicker Amendment. Additional plaintiffs with this suit were the Christian Medical Association, adult stem cell researcher Dr.
Format: Articles
Subject: Legal, Reproduction
The US President's Council on Bioethics (2001-2009)
The US President's Council on Bioethics was an organization headquartered in Washington D.C. that was chartered to advise then US President George W. Bush on ethical issues related to biomedical science and technology. In November 2001, US President George W. Bush created the President's Council on Bioethics (PCB). Convened during a nationwide cloning and embryonic stem cell research debate, the Council stated that it worked to address arguments about ethics from many different perspectives.
Format: Articles
Subject: Organizations, Legal, Ethics
The Singapore Bioethics Advisory Committee
Established in tandem with Singapore's national Biomedical Sciences Initiatives, the Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC) was established by the Singapore Cabinet in December 2000 to examine the potential ethical, legal, and social issues arising from Singapore's biomedical research sector, and to recommend policy to Singapore's government.
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Subject: Organizations, Ethics, Legal
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby (2014)
In the 2014 case Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the US Supreme Court ruled that the contraceptive mandate promulgated under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act violated privately held, for-profit corporations' right to religious freedom. The contraception mandate, issued in 2012 by the US Department of Health and Human Services, required that employer-provided health insurance plans offer their beneficiaries certain contraceptive methods free of charge.
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Subject: Legal, Reproduction
The Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology (1984), by Mary Warnock and the Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology
The Report of the Committee of Inquiry
into Human Fertilisation and Embryology, commonly called the Warnock
Report after the chair of the committee Mary Warnock, is the 1984
publication of a UK governmental inquiry into the social impacts of
infertility treatment and embryological research. The birth of Louise
Brown in 1978 in Oldham, UK, sparked debate about reproductive and
embryological technologies. Brown was conceived through in vitro
fertilization (IVF), a process of fertilization that occurs outside of
Format: Articles
Subject: Publications, Legal, Ethics
Hwang Woo-suk's Use of Human Eggs for Research 2002-2005
Hwang Woo-suk, a geneticist in South Korea, claimed in Science magazine in 2004 and 2005 that he and a team of researchers had for the first time cloned a human embryo and that they had derived eleven stem cell lines from it. Hwang was a professor at Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea. In the Science articles, Hwang stated that all of the women who donated eggs to his laboratory were volunteers who donated their eggs (oocytes) without receiving any compensation in return. In 2006, Hwang admitted that many of the results were fabricated.
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Subject: Legal, Ethics, Reproduction
Assisted Human Reproduction Act (2004)
The Assisted Human Reproduction Act (AHR Act) is a piece of federal legislation passed by the Parliament of Canada. The Act came into force on 29 March 2004. Many sections of the Act were struck down following a 2010 Supreme Court of Canada ruling on its constitutionality. The AHR Act sets a legislative and regulatory framework for the use of reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization and related services including surrogacy and gamete donation. The Act also regulates research in Canada involving in vitro embryos.
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Subject: Legal, Reproduction, Ethics
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989)
In the 1989 case Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, the
US Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a Missouri law regulating abortion care. The
Missouri law prohibited the use of public facilities, employees, or
funds to provide abortion counseling or services. The law also placed restrictions on physicians who provided
abortions. A group of physicians affected by the law challenged the
constitutionality of certain sections of it. The US federal district
court that first heard the case ruled many of the challenged sections of
Format: Articles
Subject: Legal
Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (1968)
The Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA or the Act) was passed in the US in 1968 and has since been revised in 1987 and in 2006. The Act sets a regulatory framework for the donation of organs, tissues, and other human body parts in the US. The UAGA helps regulate body donations to science, medicine, and education. The Act has been consulted in discussions about abortion , fetal tissue transplants , and Body Worlds , an anatomy exhibition.
Format: Articles
Subject: Legal, Outreach, Reproduction
China's One-Child Policy
In September 1979, China's Fifth National People's Congress passed a policy that encouraged one-child families. Following this decision from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), campaigns were initiated to implement the One-Child Policy nationwide. This initiative constituted the most massive governmental attempt to control human fertility and reproduction in human history. These campaigns prioritized reproductive technologies for contraception, abortion, and sterilization in gynecological and obstetric medicine, while downplaying technologies related to fertility treatment.
Format: Articles
Subject: Ethics, Legal, Reproduction
Planned Parenthood v. Danforth (1976)
On 1 July 1976, the US Supreme Court decided in the case Planned Parenthood v. Danforth that provisions of a Missouri law regulating abortion care were unconstitutional. That law, House Bill 1211, restricted abortion care by requiring written consent for each abortion procedure from the pregnant woman as written consent of the woman's husband if she was married, or the written consent of her parents if she was unmarried and younger than eighteen. House Bill 1211 also required that physicians make efforts to preserve the lives of aborted fetuses.
Format: Articles
Subject: Legal
A. Z. v. B. Z. (2000)
In A.Z. v. B.Z. (2000), the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in Boston, Massachusetts, affirmed a lower courtÕs decision, ruling that contracts that require a party to become a parent against his or her will are unenforceable and contrary to public policy. The case centered around A.Z. and B.Z., a divorced couple who had previously used in vitro fertilization (IVF) to start a family together during their marriage and had several preembryos cryopreserved as part of the process.
Format: Articles
Subject: Legal
Kass v. Kass (1998)
In Maureen Kass v. Steven Kass (1998), the Court of Appeals of New York in Albany, New York, ruled that the state should generally consider IVF consent forms signed by participants in an in vitro fertilization (IVF) program valid, binding, and enforceable in the event of a dispute. The court indicated that decisions regarding the handling of cryopreserved pre-zygotes, often called preembryos, contained within these consent forms should be upheld.
Format: Articles
Subject: Legal
Tucson Woman's Clinic v. Eden (2004)
The case Tucson Woman's Clinic v. Eden (2004) established that some of Arizona's abortion clinic laws violated physicians' and patients' rights to privacy, and it required those laws to be rewritten. The laws required most abortion providers to be licensed with the Arizona Department of Health Services and to submit to all the regulations the Department established for abortion clinics. The regulations allowed the state to search abortion clinics without warrants and to access patient records and ultrasound prints, among other provisions.
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Subject: Legal
US Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program
In 1996, the US Congress mandated that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) create and regulate the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program. The program tests industrial and agricultural chemicals for hormonal impacts in humans and in wildlife that may disrupt organisms' endocrine systems. The endocrine system regulates the release of small amounts of chemical substances called hormones to keep the body functioning normally.
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Roe v. Wade (1973)
In the 1973 case of Roe v. Wade, the US Supreme Court ruled that laws banning abortion violated the US Constitution. The Texas abortion laws, articles 1191–1194, and 1196 of the Texas penal code, made abortion illegal and criminalized those who performed or facilitated the procedure. Prior to Roe v. Wade, most states heavily regulated or banned abortions. The US Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade secured women's rights to terminate pregnancies for any reasons within the first trimester of pregnancy.
Format: Articles
Subject: Legal, Reproduction
State v. New Times, INC (1973)
In the 1973 case State v. New Times, INC, the Arizona Court of Appeals in Phoenix, Arizona, ruled that Arizona Revised Statutes 13-211, 13-212, and 13-213, collectively called the Arizona abortion statutes, were unconstitutional. The statues made it illegal for anyone to receive, provide, or advertise abortion services. The Arizona Court of Appeals reviewed a case in which a city court in Tempe, Arizona, convicted the New Times, a newspaper headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, of advertising abortion.
Format: Articles
Planned Parenthood Center of Tucson, Inc., v. Marks (1972)
In the 1972 case Planned Parenthood Center of Tucson, Inc., v. Marks, the Arizona Court of Appeals required the Arizona Superior Court to rehear the case Planned Parenthood Association v. Nelson (1971) and issue a decision on the constitutionality of Arizona's abortion laws. In 1971, the Planned Parenthood Center of Tucson filed the case Planned Parenthood Association v. Nelson asking for the US District Court to rule on the constitutionality of the Arizona Revised Statutes 13-211, 13-212, and 13-213, which made it illegal for anyone to advertise, provide, or receive an abortion.
Format: Articles
Subject: Legal
Barry Morris Goldwater (1909–1998)
Barry Morris Goldwater was a Republican Arizona Senator and US presidential candidate in the twentieth-century whose policies supported the women's reproductive rights movement. Goldwater, a businessman and Air Force reservist, transitioned into politics in the 1950s. He helped align popular support for a conservative Republican Party in the 1960s. Throughout his life, he worked to maintain personal liberty and to limit governmental intrusion into citizens' private lives. Goldwater, influenced by his wife Margaret (Peggy) Goldwater, supported women's rights to abortions.
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Subject: People, Reproduction, Legal, Religion
Nelson v. Planned Parenthood Center of Tucson (1973)
The 1973 case Nelson v. Planned Parenthood Center of Tucson established the legality of abortion in Arizona. The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled that the Arizona Revised Statutes 13-211, 13-212, and 13-213, collectively called the Arizona abortion statutes, were unconstitutional. The statutes had made illegal receiving, providing, or advertising abortions. After the Arizona Appeals Court heard the case, it decided that the Arizona abortion statutes were constitutional. However, two weeks later the US Supreme Court decided in Roe v.
Format: Articles
Subject: Legal
Planned Parenthood Committee of Phoenix v. Maricopa County (1962)
In the 1962 case Planned Parenthood Committee of Phoenix v. Maricopa County, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that Arizona Revised Statute 13-213, which banned the public advertising of contraceptive or abortion medication or services, was constitutional. However, the court also ruled that that Arizona Revised Statute 13-213 did not apply to Planned Parenthood's distribution of contraceptive information, allowing Planned Parenthood to continue distributing the information.
Format: Articles
Subject: Legal, Organizations
Forbes v. Napolitano (2000)
Forbes v. Napolitano (2000) was a US court case that established that Arizona researchers could use fetal tissues from induced abortions for basic scientific research, for instance, as a source of stem cells. The case challenged the constitutionality of the Arizona Revised Statute (ARS) 36-2303 in the Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals, a law that banned researchers from using fetal tissues from abortions for any type of medical experimentation or investigation. The Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals decision in Forbes v.
Format: Articles
Subject: Legal
York v. Jones (1989)
In the case York v. Jones (1989), the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia was one of the first US courts to address a dispute over a cryopreserved preembryo. Steven York and Risa Adler-York (the Yorks), a married couple, provided their gametes to doctors who created the preembryo, which the court referred to as a pre-zygote, as part of an in vitro fertilization (IVF) program at the Howard and Georgeanna Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine (Jones Institute) in Norfolk, Virginia.
Format: Articles
Subject: Legal
J. B. v. M. B. (2001)
In 2001, the Supreme Court of New Jersey decided a dispute between a divorced couple over cryopreserved preembryos created through in vitro fertilization (IVF) during the coupleÕs marriage. The former wife (J.B.) wanted the preembryos destroyed, while her former husband (M.B.) wanted them to be used for future implantation attempts, such as by an infertile couple. In J.B. v. M.B. (2001), the court declined to force J.B. to become a parent against her will, concluding that doing so would violate state public policy.
Format: Articles
Subject: Legal
Davis v. Davis (1992)
In Davis v. Davis (1992), the Supreme Court of Tennessee decided a dispute over cryopreserved preembryos in favor of Junior Lewis Davis, who sought to have the preembryos destroyed over the objections of his former wife, Mary Sue Davis. The decision in Davis, although not binding in other states, suggested a framework for resolving similar disputes in the US. That framework established that courts should follow the wishes of those who contribute their sperm and egg cells, or gamete providers, to create preembryos.
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This wonderfully detailed map of the West Indies and Central America was published in January 1970 with the article "The Netherlands Antilles: Holland in the Caribbean." It includes inset maps of over thirty islands, four cities, and the Panama Canal. A particularly unique feature of this map is the splashdown points of various space missions.
Coverage Area: Central America, West Indies

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Not content to leave all the fiery fun to exotic cars, a Chevy Impala recently decided to torch itself after a routine oil change. As you can see, everything appears to be business as usual until a service technician started the car and interrupted his co-worker's snack time by starting an unexpected engine fire.
As a Youtube commenter points out, the 3.8 liter V6 in this Impala is prone to developing a fuel leak at the fuel supply to fuel rail quick disconnect, which is exactly where it looks like this fire started. Although the flames were put out quickly,we'd guess it lasted long enough to do some expensive damage to the Impala's engine compartment.
There isn't any indication exactly where this Impala roast happened, but the video's terrible Bon Jovi soundtrack makes us suspect it occurred somewhere in the Garden State.
Hat tip to Dave!


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SURF: The Quiksilver King of the Groms is Back with All-Digital Global Qualifier
February 25, 2013
The Quiksilver King of the Groms is Back with All-Digital Global Qualifier
The Quiksilver King of the Groms surf competition has been the leading stage for international surfers ages 16 and under for the past twenty years. This year, the contest is getting a radical new online format which will largely increase the talent pool of the world's most exciting young surfers by bringing the competition into the digital stage.
Surfing hopefuls from all over the globe will have the opportunity to qualify for the world final by posting a video of their surfing exploits online at www.quiksilverlive.com. The field has been thrown wide open, now allowing for more competitors in the continental qualifiers than ever before. The new digital format will also create an online community of budding talent, along with exclusive content for participants to share. Competitors will be divided into 10 worldwide regions and their clips will be voted on first by the public, and then by a panel of legendary professional surfers in each region.
The finalists from each region will have the fortune of competing in the world final scheduled during the Quiksilver Pro France, September 27 to October 7, 2013.
The worldwide regions will be broken down as follows:
North America and Hawaii: 3 surfers
Central America, South America and Caribbean: 1 surfer
Brazil: 2 surfers
Europe, Reunion Island, French Indies: 2 surfers
Africa: 1 surfer
Asia and Middle East: 1 surfer
Japan: 1 surfer
Australia: 2 surfers
New Zealand: 1 surfer
Pacific and Oceania: 1 surfer
Three Wildcards
This year, three Team Quiksilver ambassadors will collect a wildcard to compete in the international final: Jack Robinson (Aus), Kanoa Igarashi (USA) and Leonardo Fioravanti (Ita). The talented trio, who have already taken part in several major competitions, will be sharing their qualifying experiences on Facebook and Twitter.
How to take part in the Quiksilver King of The Groms
From February 15 to June 30, young surfers everywhere are invited to post videos of their best waves on the event website at www.quiksilverlive.com. Clips should be no longer than 90 seconds. Entrants are encouraged to use their imagination and originality to showcase their best performance in the water and their personal philosophy on life.
Beginning July 1, the videos will be published online and members of the public will have the opportunity to select their favourite entries. Contenders will have the opportunity to post their videos to various social networks, in an effort to attract the most votes.
The first week in August, the 20 surfers with the highest number of "Likes" in each region will be pre-selected for the next stage of competition. Their videos will then be submitted for the scrutiny of our professional judging panellists, who will choose the winner(s) for each region. Altogether, 18 surfers will go forward to the world final of the Quiksilver King of the Groms in France (15 selected + 3 wildcards).
Who are the judges?
The Quiksilver King of the Groms has a long-standing association with some of the biggest names in the sport, such as Aritz Aranburu and Tom Carroll. This year, each region will have its very own team of judges from the world of surfing (pro surfers, photographers, competition judges, etc.).
Info, podcasts and pictures available on www.quiksilverlive.com


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Flat Beans in Olive Oil
(Zeytinyagli Yesil Fasulye)
500 g flat beans, wash, trim both ends
50 ml extra virgin olive oil (half for cooking, half for after cooking)
1 small onion, chopped
1 garlic clove, chopped
1 tbsp sugar
2 tomatoes, peeled, diced
1 tbsp canned crushed tomatoes
1 1/2 cups warm water
Saute the onion and olive oil for 3-4 minutes in a medium size pot. Add the beans, tomatoes, crushed tomatoes, garlic, sugar and salt. Pour in 1 cup of water. Leave the lid half open and cook for 35-40 minutes or until they are tender, and add another half cup of warm water midway through. If needed, you can add more warm water later.
Let it cool down in the pot. Then, place on a serving platter. Pour the rest of the olive oil. Keep it in the fridge. Serve Flat Beans in Olive Oil chilled or at room temperature.
* This is a vegetarian dish.
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As Maine's original fast food take out, we specialize in hamburgers, cheeseburgers, steamed hot dogs, lobster rolls, french fries, onion rings and speedy service. Rapid Ray's has been an award winning restaurant and historic landmark in Saco for over half a century. Stop by today and see for yourself!
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I hope this is my last time changing blogs.. lol
I really wanted to use blogger, but the app for it is so not helpful. Not able to arrange pictures etc. I NEED THE PICTURES ARRANGED!!
So anyway yes, I have not been blogging coz I changed my blog, yet again.
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Teens killed in Las Vegas DWI crash
A 17-year-old faces multiple charges tonight after a double fatal accident near Las Vegas.
Police said Wayne Lovato crashed a car, killing two teens and hurting five others.
Alcohol may have played a role in the crash, police said
"Its just a real rough time for a lot of us. There were eight people in the car that I know of. That's eight families that are taking it real hard," said Leroy Maestas, the uncle of an injured passenger.
Kayla Martinez, 14, and Aleandra Sanchez, 12, died in the accident.
"We wanted to come out here and give a moment of silence," said Matthew Sandoval, a friend of an injured passenger.
The packed car went off the road, launched off of a concrete gutter and then flipped several times.
Alexandra De La O, 13, survived the accident.
"She woke up and when she came to, she couldn't feel her body. She had to crawl out, stop a car on I-25," Maestas said.
Lovato faces multiple charges in the crash including DWI and homicide by vehicle.
"Drinking and driving its against the law, you're not supposed to do it. If your are going to drink be home, drink don't go out. You can hurt yourself and everybody else," Sandoval said.
The other passengers injured in the accident are 21-year-old Reyes Rubio, 13-year-old Briana Sanchez, 17-year-old Kayla Esquibel and 21-year-old Joseph Martinez.


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Are you looking for a quick way to understand best practices when upgrading your Zen Cart site? The easiest way to view it is as "a rebuild while keeping all the existing data."
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Alas, poor Charlotte
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– Shelley-ton Pete
Hmm… hope I added some poetic justice to herald the return of this popular pop-culture popsicle.
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Fei-Fei Li is a big deal in the world of AI. As the director of the Artificial Intelligence and Vision labs at Stanford University, she oversaw the creation of ImageNet, a vast database of images designed to accelerate the development of AI that can "see." And, well, it worked, helping to drive the creation of deep learning systems that can recognize objects, animals, people, and even entire scenes in photos—technology that has become commonplace on the world's biggest photo-sharing sites. Now, Fei-Fei will help run a brand new AI group inside Google, a move that reflects just how aggressively the world's biggest tech companies are remaking themselves around this breed of artificial intelligence.
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Alongside a former Stanford researcher—Jia Li, who more recently ran research for the social networking service Snapchat—the China-born Fei-Fei will lead a team inside Google's cloud computing operation, building online services that any coder or company can use to build their own AI. This new Cloud Machine Learning Group is the latest example of AI not only re-shaping the technology that Google uses, but also changing how the company organizes and operates its business.
Google is not alone in this rapid re-orientation. Amazon is building a similar group cloud computing group for AI. Facebook and Twitter have created internal groups akin to Google Brain, the team responsible for infusing the search giant's own tech with AI. And in recent weeks, Microsoft reorganized much of its operation around its existing machine learning work, creating a new AI and research group under executive vice president Harry Shum, who began his career as a computer vision researcher.
Oren Etzioni, CEO of the not-for-profit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, says that these changes are partly about marketing—efforts to ride the AI hype wave. Google, for example, is focusing public attention on Fei-Fei's new group because that's good for the company's cloud computing business. But Etzioni says this is also part of very real shift inside these companies, with AI poised to play an increasingly large role in our future. "This isn't just window dressing," he says.
The New Cloud
Fei-Fei's group is an effort to solidify Google's position on a new front in the AI wars. The company is challenging rivals like Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM in building cloud computing services specifically designed for artificial intelligence work. This includes services not just for image recognition, but speech recognition, machine-driven translation, natural language understanding, and more.
Cloud computing doesn't always get the same attention as consumer apps and phones, but it could come to dominate the balance sheet at these giant companies. Even Amazon and Google, known for their consumer-oriented services, believe that cloud computing could eventually become their primary source of revenue. And in the years to come, AI services will play right into the trend, providing tools that allow of a world of businesses to build machine learning services they couldn't build on their own. Iddo Gino, CEO of RapidAPI, a company that helps businesses use such services, says they have already reached thousands of developers, with image recognition services leading the way.
When it announced Fei-Fei's appointment last week, Google unveiled new versions of cloud services that offer image and speech recognition as well as machine-driven translation. And the company said it will soon offer a service that allows others to access to vast farms of GPU processors, the chips that are essential to running deep neural networks. This came just weeks after Amazon hired a notable Carnegie Mellon researcher to run its own cloud computing group for AI—and just a day after Microsoft formally unveiled new services for building "chatbots" and announced a deal to provide GPU services to OpenAI, the AI lab established by Tesla founder Elon Musk and Y Combinator president Sam Altman.
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Even as they move to provide AI to others, these big internet players are looking to significantly accelerate the progress of artificial intelligence across their own organizations. In late September, Microsoft announced the formation of a new group under Shum called the Microsoft AI and Research Group. Shum will oversee more than 5,000 computer scientists and engineers focused on efforts to push AI into the company's products, including the Bing search engine, the Cortana digital assistant, and Microsoft's forays into robotics.
The company had already reorganized its research group to move quickly into new technologies into products. With AI, Shum says, the company aims to move even quicker. In recent months, Microsoft pushed its chatbot work out of research and into live products—though not quite successfully. Still, it's the path from research to product the company hopes to accelerate in the years to come.
"With AI, we don't really know what the customer expectation is," Shum says. By moving research closer to the team that actually builds the products, the company believes it can develop a better understanding of how AI can do things customers truly want.
The New Brains
In similar fashion, Google, Facebook, and Twitter have already formed central AI teams designed to spread artificial intelligence throughout their companies. The Google Brain team began as a project inside the Google X lab under another former Stanford computer science professor, Andrew Ng, now chief scientist at Baidu. The team provides well-known services such as image recognition for Google Photos and speech recognition for Android. But it also works with potentially any group at Google, such as the company's security teams, which are looking for ways to identify security bugs and malware through machine learning.
Facebook, meanwhile, runs its own AI research lab as well as a Brain-like team known as the Applied Machine Learning Group. Its mission is to push AI across the entire family of Facebook products, and according chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer, it's already working: one in five Facebook engineers now make use of machine learning. Schroepfer calls the tools built by Facebook's Applied ML group "a big flywheel that has changed everything" inside the company. "When they build a new model or build a new technique, it immediately gets used by thousands of people working on products that serve billions of people," he says. Twitter has built a similar team, called Cortex, after acquiring several AI startups.
The New Education
The trouble for all of these companies is that finding that talent needed to drive all this AI work can be difficult. Given the deep neural networking has only recently entered the mainstream, only so many Fei-Fei Lis exist to go around. Everyday coders won't do. Deep neural networking is a very different way of building computer services. Rather than coding software to behave a certain way, engineers coax results from vast amounts of data—more like a coach than a player.
As a result, these big companies are also working to retrain their employees in this new way of doing things. As it revealed last spring, Google is now running internal classes in the art of deep learning, and Facebook offers machine learning instruction to all engineers inside the company alongside a formal program that allows employees to become full-time AI researchers.
Yes, artificial intelligence is all the buzz in the tech industry right now, which can make it feel like a passing fad. But inside Google and Microsoft and Amazon, it's certainly not. And these companies are intent on pushing it across the rest of the tech world too.
Update: This story has been updated to clarify Fei-Fei Li's move to Google. She will remain on the faculty at Stanford after joining Google.


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YANKEES: Team hosts emotional anti-bullying presentation
NEW YORK -- Kirk Smalley stood directly in front of Andy Pettitte and held a photo of his son Ty inches from the Yankees star's face, pleading that such a tragedy should never again take place.
A father of four, Pettitte sat there stoic, nodding along as Smalley told the tale of his 11-year-old son who will never celebrate another birthday.
Afterward, though, the 41-year-old lefty had trouble containing his emotions.
"It's tough you try to hold the tears back. You see a man's pain. I got kids," Pettitte said, tears streaking his face, voice breaking. "It's just a hurt that won't quit hurtin' and you feel for him."
Pettitte along with several teammates, general manager Brian Cashman, Yankees vice chair person Jennifer Steinbrenner Swindal and the WWE's "The Big Show" joined about 500 students and adults in the Great Hall at Yankee Stadium to hear Smalley's anti-bullying presentation with his organization "Stand for the Silent" as part of New York's fifth annual HOPE Week.
A self-described private person thrust in front of a microphone by tragedy, Smalley ended up as the face of the organization formed after Ty committed suicide May 13, 2010.
Eighteen months after he began giving his talks, more than 700,000 people from kindergartners to corporate workers to prisoners and now, to the Yankees, including Joba Chamberlain, Boone Logan and Travis Hafner, have taken "Stand for the Silent's" oath, which ends with their motto: "I am somebody."
Smalley's son was bullied to the point of desperation. On the day Ty finally fought back, he was suspended from school. When he returned home to an empty house in Perkins, Okla. -- his parents were at work -- he took his life.
A few months after "living in a fog" as Smalley put it, he and his wife, Laura, saw a news program about a group of high school students in nearby Oklahoma State University's Upward Bound program who decided enough is enough. They were going to honor Ty, and try to prevent such a senseless thing from happening again.
They decided it was time to get involved and they've been on the road ever since.
"We honor him every day," Laura Smalley said.
Kirk does the speaking. Laura and their daughter Jerri Dawn, the organizing. They all provide each other support. The soft-spoken Kirk said he's on the road 320 days a year -- telling Ty's story sometimes four times a day.
As emotionally draining as it is, Kirk can't stop, won't stop. For one reason:
"I get messages from kids that we talk to that tell me we saved their lives. They actually had a plan to do what Ty did and after they had heard me speak, they aren't going to do that anymore," he said by phone Tuesday. "You get that many messages from that many kids saying that, how could you not do it?"
Wearing Chamberlain's unbuttoned No. 62 jersey over his "Stand for the Silent" T-shirt tucked into his blue jeans, Kirk folded his long, lanky body into a contemplative crouch next to a large photograph of his son that sat on a stand in front of the stage.
A few of the original 68 students who founded the group told the story of five youngsters from around the world who killed themselves after persistent bullying.
When Ariel Hernderson spoke of Ty, Kirk rose and turned to the photo. He whispered something to Ty and tenderly touched the image before turning to face one more crowd in one more city. Henderson introduced him as "Ty's dad."
His voice quavering, eyes full, Kirk implored the engrossed audience with a passionate message, "that we all learn respect for others."
He shared some staggering statistics: Suicide is the second-leading cause of death after car wrecks for young people and every 7 seconds someone is bullied.
He didn't let anyone off the hook, getting down on a knee to look a child in the eyes as he told him he could be the person who offers a hand.
Kirk turned to Pettitte and called him out by name, "Andy," and held up a book of letters written to the Smalley's after Ty's death.
Kirk taught everyone "Stand for the Silent's" hand sign -- it's the same as the American Sign Language symbol for "I love you" -- thumb out, forefinger and pinky raised high.
Kirk has a second meaning for it, "I've got your back," and he and the guests traded the gesture throughout with people in the audience raising their hand high unsolicited to show support for Kirk.
Throughout the presentation, Kirk used numbers to emphasize his torment. It was 1,166 days since Ty died. The time was 2:38 p.m. when he received the frantic phone call from his wife that awful day.
And finally, in the most assertive voice he could muster, an angry call to action, he said on Father's Day, a month and seven days after The Day, he made Ty a promise, to stop bullying in the world.
But he went on, "I can't do that alone. ... I'm not even asking you to do it for Ty."
"You got three kinds of people in your world," he said. "You got those that wish that things could happen. You've got those who make things happen. And you got those who wonder, 'What just happened?'
"Which one are you?" he asked.


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Athabasca Basin and beyond
Uranium news from Saskatchewan and elsewhere for July 27 to August 2, 2013
by Greg Klein
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Alpha/Fission extend Patterson Lake South R390E zone by 30 metres
Just two weeks ago they were crowing about "the most abundant off-scale mineralization of any hole" at Patterson Lake South. Now Fission Uranium TSXV:FCU and 50/50 joint venture partner Alpha Minerals TSXV:AMW say they've surpassed that. Scintillometer readings for one of two shallow step-outs reported July 29 represent "the largest accumulation of discrete off-scale mineralized intervals in any drill hole at PLS to date." The two holes add 30 metres of strike to R390E, the middle of three zones along an 850-metre northeast-southwest trend. Including the 15-metre extension resulting from the hole announced July 18, the campaign's first three holes have extended the zone's strike by 75% to 105 metres.
The scintillometer measures gamma radiation from drill core in counts per second, up to an off-scale reading over 9,999 cps. Scintillometer readings are not assays, which are still pending. A radiometric probe will also be used to measure downhole radiation.
Hole PLS13-073, 15 metres grid east of the zone's nearest hole, showed:
- <300 to >9,999 cps over 19.5 metres, starting at 102 metres in vertical depth
- <300 to >9,999 cps over 11 metres, starting at 142.5 metres.
True widths weren't available. Drilled to a depth of 248 metres, the hole encountered Devonian sandstone at 50 metres' depth and a basement unconformity at 53 metres.
Hole PLS13-075, 15 metres grid west of the nearest hole, showed:
- <300 to >9,999 cps over 70 metres, starting at 57.5 metres in vertical depth
- (including 580 to >9,999 cps over 23 metres)
- <300 to 6,800 cps over 12 metres, starting at 130 metres
- <300 to >9,999 cps over 2.5 metres, starting at 146.5 metres
- 400 to 1,800 cps over 2 metres, starting at 151 metres
- 1,000 cps over 0.5 metres, starting at 157 metres
- <300 to 3,600 cps over 2.5 metres, starting at 160 metres.
Again, true widths were unknown. The 188-metre hole struck sandstone at 47 metres and the basement unconformity at 49.3 metres. The first PLS13-075 result above included 21.65 metres of mineralization over 9,999 cps in several intervals, which the JV partners call the project's "largest accumulation of discrete off-scale mineralized intervals" so far. They include 16.7 metres of continuous off-scale readings starting at 73.5 metres' depth. Although Alpha and Fission anticipate that its main zone of mineralization has been found, drilling on this hole continues.
As does the $6.95-million program, comprising ground geophysics and about 44 holes totalling 11,000 metres.
Paladin cancels sale; reports $180-million impairment, $81-million placement, fatality
Paladin Energy TSX:PDN has dropped negotiations to sell a minority interest in its Langer Heinrich mine in Namibia. In one of three August 2 announcements, the company said uranium's currently low price would drive down offers on an asset with expansion potential and a mine life of over 20 years.
Paladin also reported it expects a further non-cash impairment estimated at US$180 million before taxes, which the company attributed to its Kayelekera mine in Malawi, Niger exploration projects "and other smaller items." Paladin suspended work in Niger following May 23 terrorist attacks.
Within minutes of reporting the suspended sale Paladin announced it was offering a private placement "to provide adequate funding for the company into the September quarter" despite low uranium prices. Later the same day Paladin announced it closed the placement at $C81 million. The money came from 125.6 million shares, representing 15% of the company's existing issued capital, at a 30% discount to the stock's previous ASX close.
Paladin managing director/CEO John Borshoff said the money would help "reduce debt in the mid-term."
On July 31 the company reported a fatal accident in Kayelekera's engineering workshop.
Read about Paladin's last quarterly report.
Powertech forms strategic alliance with Asian uranium investor
A Vancouver-headquartered company with uranium projects in three American states announced a strategic alliance with Asia's "only significant uranium investment and development vehicle." On August 1 Powertech Uranium TSX:PWE reported Azarga Resources Ltd, a privately held Hong Kong-based company, agreed to a number of deals.
As of July 22 Azarga bought 24.65 million shares at $0.07 for a total of $1.72 million, giving the purchaser an initial 17.5% of Powertech. Azarga also provided Powertech with $514,350 in return for a debenture with the amount payable at 115% within 12 months or 130% within two years. Powertech may instead convert the principal into shares granted to Azarga at $0.07. Full conversion would leave Azarga with an approximate 22% interest in Powertech.
Azarga also agreed to buy a 60% chunk of Powertech's Centennial project in Colorado for $1.5 million over two years. Should shareholders oppose the purchase, $1 million of the purchase price would be converted to a debenture on the same terms as the other. On completing the 60% purchase, the two companies would form a JV with Azarga acting as project operator.
The deal would include a put option, in which Powertech could sell its remaining 40% after January 1, 2017, for $250,000, and a call option, allowing Azarga to buy the 40% after that date for $7 million or, within 10 days of a change of control at Powertech, for $1 million.
The companies further agreed to share data and expertise, with Azarga using "its best efforts to support any equity financings" undertaken by Powertech. In a statement accompanying the announcement, Powertech president/CEO Richard Clement said Azarga's "positioning in Asia will provide enhanced access and exposure to those markets."
The transactions are subject to shareholder and TSX approval.
Powertech released a preliminary economic assessment for an in-situ recovery (ISR) mine at Centennial in August 2010. Following local opposition, Colorado imposed new restrictions on uranium mining the following month. Powertech lost its court challenge against the new regulations in July 2012. By that time the company had already shifted focus to its Dewey-Burdock project in South Dakota, for which it released a revised PEA in April 2012. The project is now undergoing permitting and licensing with the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Powertech has two other uranium projects in Wyoming.
Azarga stated it currently has no plans to develop Centennial but will instead review the project's exploration and development potential. Azarga also holds an 80% operating interest in "the largest-known Soviet-era resource in the Kyrgyz Republic," as well as interests in other uranium projects in the U.S. and Turkey.
Forum begins airborne radiometrics over PLS-adjacent Clearwater project
On July 30 Forum Uranium TSXV:FDC announced airborne radiometrics had begun over its Clearwater project, adjacently southwest of Alpha/Fission's PLS property. The survey consists of 1,463 line-kilometres at 100-metre spacing over the 99-square-kilometre property to measure surface radioactivity in outcrops or boulder trains using a proprietary system of Goldak Airborne Surveys. Forum says preliminary interpretation of its magnetic and electromagnetic survey suggests one of Clearwater's conductors hosts the PLS discovery.
On further scrutinizing the airborne surveys, the company will begin prospecting, radon surveys and lake sediment geochemical sampling this month. Ground geophysics might also be used to identify drill targets.
In a collaborative effort, the surveys have also been covering PLS-area properties held by Aldrin Resource TSXV:ALN and the Western Athabasca Syndicate. The latter is a four-company strategic alliance consisting of Skyharbour Resources TSXV:SYH, Athabasca Nuclear TSXV:ASC, Lucky Strike Resources TSXV:LKY and Noka Resources TSXV:NX, which are jointly exploring a 275,361-hectare land package in the vicinity of the Fission/Alpha discovery. On July 23 the syndicate announced an extension of its portion of the surveys.
Earlier in July, Forum announced it extended the company's Key Lake-area holdings in the Athabasca Basin's southeast corner.
Ur-Energy begins Lost Creek production in Wyoming
Ur-Energy TSX:URE began mining its Lost Creek operation on August 2. The ISR project in Wyoming's Great Divide Basin took eight years and US$95 million to develop and should, according to an April 2012 PEA, produce about 7.38 million pounds uranium oxide (U3O8) over 14 years. The 2012 numbers assumed uranium prices ranging from $55 to $80 a pound, substantially higher than the current seven-year low of $34.50. But with those numbers the PEA used an 8% discount rate to calculate a pre-tax net present value of $181 million and an 87% internal rate of return.
Ur-Energy says it holds long-term contracts with several U.S.-based utilities and will begin deliveries in Q4.
On July 30 the company reported filing its Q2 report on sedar.com.
Cameco reports Q2 results, makes company and commodity forecasts
Cameco Corp's TSX:CCO Q2 report came out August 1, with the company reporting $421 million in revenue, 49% above the same period last year and a $99-million gross profit, up 98%. Net earnings attributable to equity holders came to $34 million or $0.09 a share. Adjusted net earnings were $61 million or $0.15 a share.
Cameco president/CEO Tim Gitzel addressed a conference call, speaking optimistically about Cigar Lake's imminent start-up, a planned 50% production increase and future uranium prices.
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The Dallas Stars have re-signed center Vernon Fiddler to a two-year contract worth a reported $2.5 million.
The 34-year-old recorded six goals and 17 assists in 76 regular season games with the Stars last season. He tallied a goal and two assists in last season's playoffs.
An 11-year NHL veteran, Fiddler has compiled 77 goals and 129 assists in 656 regular season contests, having also played for Nashville (2002-09), the Coyotes (2009-11) and Stars (2011-14).
"As a staff, we all agree that we had a special dressing room and Vern has been a driving force behind shaping that culture," said Stars general manager Jim Nill. "He is a hard-nosed, detailed player that brings intensity and passion to the game every time he steps on the ice. We value everything that he brings to the table and are thrilled to keep him in the fold for the next two seasons."


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Time for the latest entry in my series of Common EHR Implementation Issues. See also my previous posts on Unexpected EHR Expenses, EHR Performance Issues and a little follow up to avoiding the EHR performance issues altogether.
This weeks common EHR implementation issue is: Inadequate EHR Templates.
Before I begin with the major issues of inadequate EHR templates, it's worth noting that there are a few EHR software out there that use a different EHR documentation paradigm than templates. For example, some use voice recognition to power their documentation. Others have a system that learns your documentation over time and based on that learning remembers how you want to document certain procedures. Others, use lots of independent documentation methods (one EHR vendor calls them controls – check box, radio button, freetext field, etc.) which can be grouped and used in interesting ways.
However, even with all of the above alternative documentation methods, there's often an element of templating that's occurring. They're PR and marketing people will shudder at the term template, but concepts related to templates seem to pretty much always apply. For example, in voice recognition there's something called a Macro. That's basically a template. The EHR system that learns your documentation method is just using your initial documentation in the EHR to create personalized templates of how you like to document. The independent documentation methods often group those various "controls" into groups of common visits. That sounds like a template to me.
I'd be interested to hear of an EHR system that doesn't use the principles of templates. It is worth noting that all EHR templates aren't created equal. Some are much more flexible than others. Now to some details.
The inadequate EHR templates shows itself in a number of different ways.
No Specialty Specific EHR Templates – This has to be the complaint I hear the most. It usually goes something like this, "The EHR salesperson said they had
Incomplete or Unusable EHR Templates – You may have noticed a subtlety in the quote I put above. At the end the doctor says "templates I can use." Maybe the EHR salesperson isn't lying to you about them having those cardiology or neurology templates. Maybe they do have a bunch of templates for those specialties (or whatever specialty that interests you). However, just because they have templates for those specialties doesn't mean that you're going to want to use any of the templates that they've created.
My favorite complaint is when they say that the specialty templates seem to have been created be a general medicine doctor and not an actual specialist from that field. I've heard it far too much not to mention it.
The other major problem with this point is the unique documentation preferences of each doctor. Has there ever been any two doctors that document the same way? We could debate the good and bad merits of such documentation, but the point is that each doctor is very different. Some feel the need to over document the encounter. Other doctors want to just document the bare minimum. Plus, some (purposefully or not) do a terrible job documenting the visit. The templates in an EHR could reflect any of these various documentation patterns and depending on your perspective could mean that EHR has inadequate templates for your needs.
Hard to Modify, Add to, or Adjust – While not specifically an inadequate template, this is an important part of templates. Turns out that if a user can easily modify, add to or adjust a template that is inadequate, you're going to be a lot better off. Some template systems are like pulling teeth to modify. Others are amazing at how you can on the fly modify the template.
One promise I can make you, You WILL want to modify their templates. I can't say I've ever heard of someone using the templates perfectly out of the box. Well, maybe I've heard of one or two using them, but that was when they were complaining that they had no way to modify the things they wanted to change.
Avoiding EHR Template Inadequacies
The best way to avoid this issue is to test drive the EHR software and the specialty specific templates you hope to use. Run through the templates like you're charting on some common patients. You'll learn a lot about what templates are available doing this than anything else. You'll see if the templates are overkill or below standard for your needs.
Another great test is to try using multiple templates for a complex patient. How easily is that done and how well does the documentation display?
Then, during your EHR demo with the EHR salesperson, ask them to modify part of the EHR template they're using to document. Tell them you don't like to ask one of those questions, so you'd like to see them remove it from the template. Many are likely to respond, "It can be done, but I'd have to switch systems to do it or I'd have to call in to tech support to make the change." I think we all know the real message they're sending.
For those not interested in EHR templates, you might take a second to read Dr. West's Experience implementing EHR templates in his office.


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|Painting of Wabash Generations, Rudolph Hangs in Hays Center
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A stunning painting by Kat Rohrbacher that both honors her late friend, Ken Rudolph '05, and celebrates generational friendships formed by Wabash men, now hangs in the Hays Alumni Center living room.
Rohrbacher, a Fort Wayne area artist, created the painting after learning of the death of Ken Rudolph in a tragic automobile accident. Titled "February 21, 2006, 12:30 a.m.," the oil painting was formally dedicated at an on-campus ceremony that included Ken's parents, Laura and Rhys, his sisters, and the artist.
The inspiration came from a tiny snapshot photograph taken at a Commencement party honoring the Class of 2005. Featured in the photo, taken by former Classics Professor Patrick Myers, are Jon Pactor '71, Mark Shreve '04, Myers' son, and Rudolph. Rohrbacher saw much more than Wabash friends celebrating Commencement and imagining the future. In her artist's statement, she writes:
"Initially, I was drawn to the light. The light in the room was the kind of light I like to paint. The image made me pause because it captured Ken in such a thoughtful, contemplative moment. After Ken's death, I went back to that photo and saw so much more. I saw it being religiously symbolic. I labeled the three other people as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Father was holding the Son and the Holy Spirit was speaking to Ken. These labels could also be completely interchangeable at the same time. In a conversation with Patrick Myers, we discussed another way of looking at the painting. That in it, Ken seems to confront the three ages of a person: childhood, youth, and adulthood, and he is directly communicating with the age he never became. The painting was left 'unfinished,' an unfinished painting of an unfinished life. I painted this to honor the life of Ken Rudolph because he has touched my life and so many others."
Rudolph had a significant impact during his four years at Wabash. He re-organized the Wabash Commentary as its editor and reinvigorated the Commentary's speaker series, bringing to campus a half-dozen national figures including syndicated columnists Jonah Goldberg and Ann Coulter. Rudolph also spent a summer studying in Scotland, a profound experience that further shaped his young life.
Rudolph's family and friends have established the Kenneth Rhys Rudolph Memorial Fund for European Summer Study Abroad. The fund provides need-blind financial support for a student or students from Wabash who choose to study in a European country during the summer. It was established by his parents, Rhys and Laura, and his sisters, Kathryn and Lauren.
Click here to view and download a high resolution photo of the painting, "February 21, 2006, 12:30 a.m."


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guys when i try to attack myself it tells me to put a Quick Port/Custom Port and gives me 3 options people/webistes teamspeak and minecraft and then there is a blank line underneath what do i put in it?
A ddos almost like clicking the refresh button on a page 100 times in 10 seconds, just with someones ip. If you were hoping for a free ddoser, there are plenty out there, they are just hard to find. My favorites are Hoic (High Oribital Cannon) & Loic (Low Orbital Cannot). Although, if none of these are working, just use the cmd way.
The code below is what you type into the console to ddos
ping (targets ip goes here) -t -l (Number of packets, I suggest 100-500)
ping 188.8.131.52 -t -l 100
If you are planning on trying to find the ip of a website, type this code
ping (URL)
ping www.google.com
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Are Quality Jobs being Created?
The pessimists have claimed that the US is generating low paying jobs. Nearly every monthly jobs report is followed by what seems to be a canned retort. The media picks up on the story and continues to regenerate it. Earlier in the recovery, the argument made sense. It makes less sense now.


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Starting combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) at the threshold of 500 CD4 cells/microliter, rather than at 350 or lower, significantly reduces HIV patients' risk of progressing to AIDS, a new study shows.
US recommendations indicate treatment at the 500-cell point for asymptomatic HIV patients, while European and World Health Organization guidelines call for treatment at the 350-cell level. The authors of the current study -- Dr. Lauren E. Cain, with the Harvard School of Public Health, and colleagues -- said information from randomized trials is inadequate to decide between the two approaches, and two large observational studies have yielded conflicting results.
Cain and associates pooled observational data from a collaboration comprising 12 prospective cohort studies from five European nations and the United States. The researchers examined all-cause mortality and a combined endpoint of AIDS-defining illness or death in a cohort of 20,971 HIV-positive, treatment-naïve patients with no previous AIDS-defining illnesses, with follow-up starting the first time the CD4 cell count fell below 500.
Compared with starting ART at the threshold of 500 CD4 cells/microliter, the hazard ratios of AIDS-defining illness or death were 1.38 at the 350-cell level and 1.90 at 200 CD4 cells. Also compared to initiating therapy at the 500-cell threshold, the overall mortality hazard ratio was 1.01 at 350 cells and 1.20 at 200 cells.
The results demonstrate the advantages of early testing as well as early treatment, the authors wrote.
In an accompanying editorial, Drs. Jason V. Baker and Keith Henry, of the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, highlighted another benefit of early treatment. Because the lower viral load resulting from treatment is associated with less risk of transmission, "Expanded use of combined ART could substantially curtail the future HIV epidemic," they wrote.
The study, "When to Initiate Combined Antiretroviral Therapy to Reduce Mortality and AIDS-Defining Illness in HIV-Infected Persons in Developed Countries: An Observational Study," and the editorial, "If We Can't Get What We Want, Can We Get What We Need? Optimizing Use of Antiretroviral Therapy in the Current Era," were published in the Annals of Internal Medicine (2011;154(8):509-515 and 563-565, respectively).


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It's nearly that time in the year again for the Bicycle Film Festival to roll into London. Like every year, sure this one will be bigger and better than the last.
The European premier of Hit 'Em in the Mouth, a polo documentary about Seattle Bike Polo, will be screening at this years festival.
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Naomi Duguid's Kachin Pounded Beef with Herbs
She doesn't mention it in the recipe headnote, but Naomi Duguid's Kachin Pounded Beef with Herbs in her Burma must be a kissing cousin to Laos and Thailand's laab. Instead of hand-chopped meat that is tossed with spices, however, this Burmese version is pounded in a mortar and pestle, grinding the aromatics into gently simmered beef. The result is a meltingly tender bowl of fragrant beef with a texture akin to rillettes but with the taste of Southeast Asia.
Why I picked this recipe: I'm a huge fan of laab, so trying out this Burmese take was an obvious choice.
What worked: Once again, the balance of spice and aromatics here were top-notch. The numbing Sichuan peppercorns were particularly nice with the tender, mellow beef and grassy cilantro.
What didn't: Since I don't have a mortar and pestle, I had a bit of a hard time pounding the beef straight out of the pot. Things were much easier once I pulsed it a few times in my food processor. (If you have neither a food processor nor a mortar and pestle, I'd suggest chopping the cooked beef a bit before stirring in the flavor paste).
Suggested Tweaks: I found myself drizzling extra shallot oil (from the Banana Flower salad) over the beef as I ate the leftovers. A little bit of sesame oil would also be welcome. I'd also follow Duguid's suggestion of serving the beef after an overnight rest for the deepest flavor.
Reprinted with permission from Burma: Rivers of Flavor by Naomi Duguid. Copyright 2012. Published by Artisan. Available wherever books are sold. All rights reserved.
- Yield:serves 4
- Active time: 20 minutes
- Total time:40 to 50 minutes
- Rated:
- Beef
- About 1 cup water
- 1 to 1 1/4 pounds stewing beef or boneless beef shoulder, trimmed of fat and cut into approximately 1-inch cubes
- 1 teaspoon ground Sichuan pepper
- 1 scant tablespoon peanut oil or vegetable oil
- Flavor Paste
- 1 tablespoon chopped ginger
- 2 teaspoons chopped garlic
- 2 dried red chiles, stemmed
- 1 teaspoon lightly toasted Sichuan peppercorns
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1/2 cup loosely packed Vietnamese coriander, coarsely torn or chopped, or substitute coriander leaves
For the beef: Pour 1/2 inch of water into a wok or wide pot, add the beef and Sichuan pepper, and bring to a boil. Cook at a low boil until the meat is tender, 20 to 30 minutes, decreasing the heat gradually as the water evaporates. There should be very little liquid left. Remove from the heat.
Place a heavy skillet or a wok over medium heat, add the oil, and tilt the pan to coat the cooking surface. Add the meat and cook, turning occasionally, until all surfaces have changed color a little, about 6 minutes. Set aside.
For the flavor paste: If you have a large mortar, combine the ginger, garlic, dried chiles, Sichuan peppercorns, and salt and pound and grind to a paste. Add the coriander and pound to incorporate it. Add the meat and pound to blend the flavor paste thoroughly into the meat. (If your mortar is too small to accommodate all the meat at once, remove half the paste and then work with half the meat and half the flavor paste at a time.) The meat will soften and break down but should not be completely pulverized.
Alternatively, mince the ginger and garlic very fine and set aside in a small bowl. Use a spice grinder or coffee grinder to reduce the dried chiles and Sichuan peppercorns to a powder. Stir the powder into the garlic and ginger, then add the salt and use the back of the spoon to blend them together. Chop the coriander fine and blend into the flavor paste. Place the meat in a wide bowl, add the flavor paste, and use a wooden mallet or a wide wooden spatula to press and pound the flavoring into the meat. Serve at room temperature.
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Complete Story
Another Look at Cord-Cutting: No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
By: Paul Rodriquez, Cable Tech Talk
Online viewing of video is on the rise. This is a fact.
But if you take the news coverage and blog posts about the "cord-cutting" phenomenon at face value, you would have the impression that this is a widespread phenomenon involving millions of consumers canceling their multichannel video subscriptions in favor of online distribution. I certainly think the issue of online video is worthy of examination, but these articles on cord-cutting seem predicated on two arguments:
- You can easily replace your multichannel video subscription by going online.
- Significant numbers of people are choosing to "cut the cord."
I thought it would be useful to address this issue again, but this time to split the topic in to two parts. Today, I'll look at the content portion of cord-cutting.
I also think, before I go any further, I ought to link to our previous posts on this topic:
- The Roles of TV and the Internet
- More Cord-cutting Coverage
- Should All Content Be Online for Free?
- Are Stories of Cable "Cord Cutting" a Myth?
Is Everything Online?
In online circles, there is the impression that almost anything can be found through the Internet. The Library of Congress is "the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections." Only a fraction of that material can be found online. The same is true for TV content.
I love online video. I catch up on episodes I miss, do time-shifting while traveling, check out shows that friends recommend. But, there's an important distinction to be made here: If you're talking about TV shows streamed free online, that category largely consists of over-the-air broadcast programming from networks like ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX. (For some reason, The Big Bang Theory is MIA. What up?) Some cable networks do offer some shows online. But not nearly as much as broadcasters do, as noted in this recent Washington Post article on cord-cutting:
Thanks to dozens of videocasting Web sites, such as Hulu, TV.com, Joost and Fancast, full-length episodes of more than 90 percent of the shows carried by the major broadcast networks are legally accessible within a day of being broadcast, according to Forrester Research (only about 20 percent of what's on cable is similarly available). [emphasis added]
Let's say I want to watch news. On my way to work, I'll watch the previous evening's Countdown and The Rachel Maddow Show on my iPod. But suppose there's a breaking news story? You can't watch live streaming cable news. I don't care about sports, so it doesn't matter to me that you can't watch sports programming online. And while some cable programming can be found online, much cannot.
So, the perception is that tons of television content is available for free online, but the reality is that this is not completely true for cable programming. The extra irony is that since the 2001/2002 TV season, the ratings for cable networks have topped those of all national broadcast networks collectively. For the '07/'08 season, U.S. homes spent an average of 38.6 hours per week – on a total day basis – tuned in to ad-supported cable networks compared to 26.7 hours per week for all commercial broadcast sources combined.
So, the programming available through broadcast television, with viewership that has been steadily declining over the last 15 years, is freely available online. The programming of cable television, whose viewership has been on the rise for that same period? Not so much.
Why Isn't All TV Online?
Once you've addressed the question "Is all video online?," you then have to ask, "Why isn't it all online?" You might take a look at this Online Media Daily article or my recent post on the issue: A Lively Debate About Online Video. But the short answer is that there's currently a specific business model for cable programming. Most cable networks have a dual revenue stream from advertising and from subscriptions. Right now, although companies are experimenting, moving all their video online for free doesn't seem to make economic sense.
James Ledbetter accurately addressed the central problem in a recent column: Call It Free, But It Will Cost You:
The problem is that — outside of a handful of examples, almost all of which are Internet- or digital-based — giving things away does not work in any significant way. Here's why: Just about any activity that merits the title "business" has a cost of producing its goods or services… Businesses need to recover labor and capital costs, and giving things away for free doesn't meet that need.
Ledbetter talks about how this applies to the business of law or oil, but the television industry absolutely needs to recoup productions costs.
It seems to me that a key factor in cable's success has long been our original programming. SpongeBob SquarePants,Iron Chef America, Hannah Montana, SportsCenter, The Closer, or Burn Notice - people love cable shows. Those shows cost money to produce; if the revenue for those shows decreases, then their existence may be threatened.
There's a lot of original video available online and some it is quite good. But where are the online shows that have the quality of these cable shows? It's not because of talent; it's a question of how you pay for such programs. To quote again from the Post article:
…there are significant financial questions about whether "free" online video can ever become a viable business. One problem: TV shows that migrate online carry fewer commercials — often no more than two minutes of ads per half-hour program, compared with eight minutes on conventional TV. While the research company eMarketer.com predicts that online video sponsorship will grow 44 percent to $850 million this year, that's still a tiny fraction of the $70 billion spent on cable and broadcast TV ads in 2008.
And a recent Daisy Whitney column discussed how digital studios that produce online video are struggling with the economic reality that "There's just not enough money to go around on the Web."
Some people seem to prefer to see cable operators as hostile to over-the-top online video. NCTA's President & CEO Kyle McSlarrow recently addressed this point on this very blog:
…it is somewhat tiresome to have Free Press repeatedly assert that every effort by network providers to examine any new approach or idea in our or related industries is somehow designed to protect against the supposed "threat" of "Internet video." This is so stale, and so at odds with the facts, that it really should not be necessary to point out the obvious:
- Over the last few years, the use of broadband connections to view Internet video has grown at a faster rate than any other application. According to one estimate, traffic generated by YouTube video in 2008 alone was more than the sum of traffic crossing the Internet backbone in 2000.
- Far from fearing online video, our industry is courting and exploring partnerships to bring Internet video to the television screen;
- Our industry has worked – and continues to work – cooperatively with consumer electronics manufacturers to ensure TVs can receive Internet video by building in the necessary ports;
- Our industry is the largest provider of broadband in America, and we view the health and growth of the Internet ecosystem as fundamental to our success, which means the applications and services on the Internet must thrive too;
- Our industry is aggressively deploying next generation broadband across America in order to enable, not restrict, new applications.
This analysis, of course, refers to current business models. Even now, the cable industry is experimenting with methods of offering cable programming online to subscribers, and things may change even further in the future. In my next post, I'll examine whether people are really cutting the cord in significant numbers.
Source: http://www.cabletechtalk.com/broadband/2009/05/26/another-look-at-cord-cutting-no-such-thing-as-a-free-lunch/


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Stress-Free, Flexible Book Club
I'd always rather fancied being a member of a book club. Surely discussions started with "My book club is reading…" would add an air of sophistication to my less-than-sophisticated demeanor. But as responsibilities and commitments mounted, reality set in – joining a book club would be stressful! What if I didn't have the time to […]Read more


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Jack Sarfatti shared a link.Yesterday near San FranciscoWhat people do not seem to understand is that the vacuum Higgs field is a Glauber coherent state of off mass shell spin zero Higgs quanta.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent_statesIt's actually a virtual time crystal in Wilczek's sense.http://www.technologyreview.com/view/426917/physicists-predict-the-existence-of-time-crystals/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_particleVirtual particles are stabilized frozen into the macro-quantum coherent ground states by P.W. Anderson's phase rigidity. This is distinct from their role as random zero point fluctuations. The latter is analogous to the normal fluid with the former as the superfluid condensate in He4 for example.Gapless acoustic phonons that correspond to transverse crystal distortions seem to be analogous to spin 1 quanta. However, the Lorentz group does not describe crystals in the v/c << 1 limit.Representation theory of the Lorentz group - Wikipedia, the free ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation_theory_of_the_Lorentz_groupThe Lorentz group of theoretical physics has a variety of representations, corresponding to particles with integer and half-integer spins in quantum field theory.Lorentz group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_groupIn physics (and mathematics), the Lorentz group is the non-abelian group of all Lorentz transformations of ..... Twofold coverings are characteristic of spin groups.Why is a phonon a boson?www.physicsforums.com › ... › Atomic, Solid State, Comp. Physics6 posts - 6 authors - Nov 6, 2005Phonons are bosons because of their spin 0 value. A better question would have been : why do phonons have spin 0 ? Their is a really easy ...Goldstone boson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldstone_bosonThe field can be redefined to give a real scalar field (i.e., a spin-zero particle) θ without... In general, the phonon is effectively the Nambu–Goldstone boson for ...You've visited this page 4 times. Last visit: 7/3/12A note concerning the spin of the phononwww.springerlink.com/index/VQ586X9593U5P082.pdfby AT Levine - 1962A Note Concerning the Spin ol the Phonon. A. I). LEVIY~. Wayne State U~dversit! ! - Detroit, Mich. (ricevuto il 12 Luglio 1962). This is a report on work being ...[PDF] Sound-Particles and Phonons with Spin 1www.ptep-online.com/index_files/2011/PP-24-12.PDFFile Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick Viewby V Minasyan - 2011 - Cited by 2 - Related articlesOct 20, 2010 – phonons with spin 1. In this letter, we estimate the masses of Sound Boson- Particles which are around 500 times smaller than the atom mass.Sent from my iPhone[0708.3344] Higgs-mass predictionsarxiv.org1Like · · Unfollow Post · ShareRoosevelt McCarter, Leonardo Varesi and 2 others like this.Jack Sarfatti Other examples:12 minutes ago · LikeJack Sarfatti 2) Static Coulomb field of a point charge q, i.e. e/r potential is a coherent Glauber state of longitudinally polarized spin 1 virtual photons of frequency f = 0 and wave numbers k weighted by 1/k^2 (see Wikipedia on Feynman propagators)10 minutes ago · LikeJack Sarfatti http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PropagatorPropagator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaen.wikipedia.orgIn quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, the propagator gives the probabil...See More9 minutes ago · Like ·Jack Sarfatti 3) ordinary space crystal ground states are Glauber coherent states of virtual phonons again of frequency f = 0 but now with wave vectors k ~ harmonics of 1/lattice spacings of the unit cell.7 minutes ago · LikeJack Sarfatti Note there are both acoustic and optical phonons. The acoustic phonons are analogous to the gapless Goldstone phase modes. The optical phonons with an energy gap are analogous to the Higgs bosons with mass of 125 Gev.4 minutes ago · LikeJack Sarfatti http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhononPhonon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaen.wikipedia.orgIn physics, a phonon is a collective excitation in a periodic, elastic arrangeme...See More2 minutes ago · Like ·Jack Sarfatti In the case of the Higgs field, if it is a time crystal then it has a spectrum of frequencies f =/= 0 if it changes in time as well as a spectrum of wave vectors k =/= 0 if it also is inhomogeneous in space. The past and future cosmological horizons provide long wave cutoffs.
a few seconds ago · LikeOn Aug 28, 2012, at 1:19 PM, JACK SARFATTI <email@example.com> wrote:What people do not seem to understand is that the vacuum Higgs field is a Glauber coherent state of off mass shell spin zero Higgs quanta.It's actually a virtual time crystal in Wilczek's sense.Sent from my iPhoneOn Aug 27, 2012, at 8:40 PM, Carlos Perelman wrote:Dear Jack and Tony : Thank you very much for your links. A friend of mine sent me a compilation history of Higgs masses in the link by Thomas Schucker, version 8, 2011 : http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.3344 Best wishes carlos


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Provincial poll aggregations to be added
The Pollcast: The state of the Conservative leadership race
With Michael Chong launching his leadership campaign this week, the race to replace Stephen Harper now has three contestants. What are their chances?
With a year to go before members of the Conservative Party cast ballots, Chong has joined fellow Ontario MP Kellie Leitch and Quebec MP Maxime Bernier in the marathon race. None of them, however, are seen as front runners — which is why they have launched their campaigns early in order to build up their profile and organization.
Can they use the time ahead of them to build a constituency large enough within the party to prevail? What impact might the upcoming party convention have on the race? And who will be the next Conservative to throw his or her hat into the ring?
Joining me to break down the race are Conservative insiders Tim Powers of Summa Strategies and Chad Rogers of Crestview Strategy.
You can listen to the latest episode of the Pollcast here.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton: not a coin toss yet
Last week, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll showed that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump had drawn almost even in a general election match-up. The gap between the two candidates had dropped to just one point.
Headlines blared that the race for the White House was a toss-up. Clinton and Trump were neck-and-neck. Much ink was spilled.
The next day, Reuters/Ipsos was back in the field with their five-day rolling poll. This time, the gap between the two candidates had widened again to four points, a more conventional margin. The poll went mostly unnoticed.
Welcome to the fevered coverage of public opinion polling in the U.S. presidential election, which will culminate a mere 173 days from now. Expect polls which show a competitive race to get outsized attention compared to their duller counterparts.
You can read the rest of this analysis of the U.S. election here.


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Nic Kelman has been tapped by the fine people at Mandalay Pictures to take over the script writing for the big screen adaptation of the graphic novel "Ramayan 3392 A.D.". The writing process had begun way back in 2008 with John Collee, of John Collee and the Beaver Brown Band fame (google it, it's hilarious) originally being chosen for the writing job. Must not be "Eddie and the Cruisers" fans.
Did you see "Ginger Snaps" and immediately get a crush on Katharine Isabelle? Then you're a sicko and you belong in jail! Anyway she's in a new film called "13 Eerie" and now that she's at a more respectable age you can go ahead and get all fluttery over her. The film is a trapped on and island zombie romp and stars a bunch of other people but you don't care about... sicko.
Lara Flynn Boyle will play a teen eating witch in a new horror/comedy titled "Black Forest: Hansel and Gretel & The 420 Witch". If you couldn't have guessed already the film tells the story of a witch who lures kids to her California home with a special blend of pot and then cooks them for dinner. I don't know why it's taken so long for Hollywood to combine the whimsical charm of children stories with the joy of pot smoking.
And lastly it's my sad duty to report that David Hess, star of films like "Last house on the Left" and "Smash Cut" passed away yesterday at the age of 69.
Our review of "Ginger Snaps: Unleashed" leads us to spirited discussions on the pseudo-illness "female hysteria" and the disturbing trend of "purity balls".
This week we get in touch with our inner menstruating lycans with the 2000 film "Ginger Snaps".


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International perspectives
Fostering a global community
Whether it's welcoming and supporting international students or developing partnerships abroad, the University of Victoria is connected to the world.
The UVic International Plan: Making a World of Difference 2017-2022, launched in October 2016, takes our global commitment another step further by identifying key objectives and strategies to move us forward in this era of heightened connectivity, complex geopolitics and increased international collaboration.
UVic attracts international students (nearly 4,000 in total, including almost 3,000 students here on study permits from 118 countries around the world) and faculty from around the world. Discovery, creativity and innovation come naturally here, in a vibrant Pacific Rim community rich with international perspectives.
An international focus is an important part of the UVic experience. It's found in our wide range of international research and development projects and the international content in our curriculum.
Agreements with higher education institutions in 60 countries give our students a wide range of choices to study or work internationally.
Each year, more than 800 UVic students also pursue formal international learning experiences including field schools, exchange programs, practica and co-ops.
UVic is also a hub for international collaboration. Our researchers publish a higher proportion of internationally co-authored scientific papers than any other Canadian university.