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アルフォンス: 地下への入り口は?
エドワード: なかった。
エドワード: だが、錬金術で塞いだ跡はあった。
エドワード: さすがに入り口を残しとくほどバカじゃねぇや。
アルフォンス: そっか。
アルフォンス: ここからホムンクルスに会いに行くのは無理みたいだね。
エドワード: ヤツら、オレのことを貴重な人柱だから死なれちゃ困るって言ってた。
アルフォンス: 僕も言われた。
アルフォンス: 扉を開けたから人柱になれるって。
エドワード: 人柱ってのは多分扉を開けて帰って来られる力量を持った術師のことだ。
アルフォンス: 地下への入り口は?
(Arufonsu: Chika e no iriguchi wa?)
地下 (chika): is a noun meaning "basement."
へ (e): is the locative particle. The locative case indicates a direction. It often gets translated as "to."
の (no): is the genitive particle. We're thinking that "e no" is a truncation of something longer, but we're not sure what. We might have to go to the dictionary for this one.
入り口 (iriguchi): is a noun meaning "entrance." the "Entrance of to the basement" is the "entrance to the basement."
は (wa): is the topical particle.
Translation: "Alphonse: The entrance to the basement?"
エドワード: なかった。
(Edowaado: Nakatta.)
なかった (nakatta): is the indicative, past, negative conjugation of the copula "aru." This is one of the cases where the copula is going to be translated in the vein of "to have."
Translation: "Edward: [It] did not have [one]." is fine for our purposes, but keep in mind that "aru" means that something is present, and so if it's negative it means that it isn't there, or it wasn't there. So one can also say: "[It] was not [there]."
エドワード: だが、錬金術で塞いだ跡はあった。
(Edowaado: Da ga, renkinjitsu de fusaida ato wa atta.)
だ (da): is the copula. This is part of an expression. What "da" is doing here is recapitulating what was said, something like "it is so…"
が (ga): is the conjunction from before. "da ga" as an expression can be translated to "but."
錬金術 (renkinjitsu): is a noun we've seen before, meaning "alchemy."
で (de): is the instrumental particle. The instrumental case marks the means or the cause of something to happen. One can translate this as "with" quite often.
塞いだ (fusaida): is the indicative, past, affirmative conjugation of " fusugu," meaning "to close up." Edward saw that where the entrance was the night before, there now stood an artificial wall, you see.
跡 (ato): is a noun meaning "signs" or "indications."
は (wa): is the topical particle.
あった (atta): is the indicative, past, affirmative conjugation of the copula "aru."
Translation: "Edward: But, there were indications that [someone] blocked up [the entrance] with alchemy."
エドワード: さすがに入り口を残しとくほどバカじゃねぇや。
(Edowaado: Sasuga-ni iriguchi wo nokoshit'oku hodo baka ja nee ya.)
さすがに (sasuga-ni): is the noun "sasuga," meaning "as one would expect" plus the adverbial suffix "ni."
入り口 (iriguchi): is the same noun as before.
を (wo): is the accusative particle. The accusative case marks the direct object of the verb. Its other functions are quite rare.
残しとく (nokotshit'oku): is a contraction of "nokoshite oku," which is, in turn, the gerund of the verb "nokosu," meaning "to leave behind," and "oku," a verb meaning many things, but here, "to prepare." "X(gerund) oku" can mean, roughly, "to prepare (or to do a job) by X-ing." All we mean to say is that in the their job of hiding their tracks, they (the homunculi) went and left the entrance open. A less odd way of translating this is often to say "to go ahead and X," which preserves a lot of nuances.
ほど (hodo): is a noun/adverb meaning "extent" "X hodo Y" means "Y to the extend that X." (It's really a noun, but gets used adverbially.)
バカ (baka): is a noun meaning "stupid." It is one of these "na-adjectives" you sometimes hear about.
じゃ (ja): is a contraction of the compound particle "de wa," which is equivalent to "wa."
ねぇ (nee): is a casual form of saying "nai," which is the indicative, imperfective, negative conjugation of "aru."
や (ya): is a casual form of "yo."
Translation: "Edward: As one would expect, they are not so stupid as to go ahead and leave it [as is.]"
アルフォンス: そっか。
(Arufonsu: Sokka.)
そっか (sokka): is a contraction of "Sou ka," which is an expression we've already seen.
Translation: "Is that so?"
アルフォンス: ここからホムンクルスに会いに行くのは無理みたいだね。
(Arufonsu: Koko kara homunkurusu ni ai ni iku no wa muri mitai da ne.)
ここ (koko): is noun meaning "here." This is the directional /k/ we've seen before.
から (kara): is the same post-position we saw before, meaning "from." This "koko kara" is a kind of metaphorical use, not meaning literally from where they're standing, but from the information they have.
ホムンクルス (homunkurusu): is a noun meaning "homunculus," which are the villains in this show. This is also plural, so we will see it as "homunculi."
に (ni): is the dative particle. The following verb's object takes the dative.
会い (ai): is the stem, or participle, of the verb "au," meaning "to meet with."
に (ni): is also the dative particle. Here it is marking the purpose of the following verb.
行く (iku): is the indicative, imperfective, affirmative conjugation of the verb meaning "to go."
の (no): is the same substantivizing particle as before.
は (wa): is the topical particle.
無理 (muri): is a noun meaning "impossible."
みたい (mitai): is a suffix meaning "seeming(ly)."
だ (da): is the copula.
ね (ne): is the dubitative ending particle. It expresses doubt or a desire for confirmation from the addressee.
Translation: "Alphonse: From here it seems impossible that we will go to meet with the humunculi, huh?"
エドワード: ヤツら、オレのことを貴重な人柱だから死なれちゃ困るって言ってた。
(Edowaado: Yatsu-ra, ore no koto wo kichou-na hitobashira da kara shinarecha komaru tte itte'ta)
ヤツら (yatsu-ra): is the casual pronoun "yatsu," meaning "that guy," which the pluralizing suffix -ra, making it "those guys." Note that we do not have a particle here. It would be "wa."
オレ (ore): is a casual first-person singular pronoun. "I."
の (no): is the attributive form of the copula "da." Don't worry too much about this. Just know that it isn't the genitive particle.
こと (koto): is a noun meaning "thing." When it comes to people "X no koto" is an expression that serves to emphasize X. So one can say "X itself." So it doesn't get translated as "the thing being X," though that'd be literal.
を (wo): is, to our understanding, a misuse of "wo," or at least a casual use of "wo." What this should be is "ga." We'll research this and get back to you on this.
貴重な (kichou-na): is a noun meaning "precious," with the adjectival verbal suffix -na. It is adjectival because it is used to mark a noun modifying another, but it is verbal because it functions in an attributive verbal phrase (it's a pseudo-copula, you see.)
人柱 (hitobashira): is a noun meaning "human sacrifice."
だ (da): is the copula.
から (kara): is a conjunction, meaning "because."
死なれちゃ (shinarecha): is a contraction of "shirarete wa." The use of the gerund and the topical particle serves as a conditional expression. "shinarete" comes from "shinareru," which is the passive of "shinu," meaning "to die." This use of the passive is known as "the suffering passive," which means that the action is not passive itself, but its happening is an inconvenience to someone.
困る (komaru): is the indicative, imperfective, affirmative conjugation of the verb meaning "to get in trouble."
って (tte): is the casual quotative particle.
言ってた (itte'ta): is the contracted form of the periphrastic progressive, indicative, past, affirmative conjugation of "iu," meaning "to say." Periphrastic means that it is a conjunction created by more than one verb ("te oku" and "te chau" can also be considered periphrastic. What this perophrastic construction grants us is that it gives the verbs progressive aspect. Progressive aspect is to say that the action of the verb took place across a certain amount of time, not just at one time. In English, progressive aspect is expressed as "to be Xing"
Translation: "Edward: Those guys, they were saying that because I myself am their precious human sacrificed, if I died, they would get into trouble."
アルフォンス: 僕も言われた。
(Arufonsu: Boku mo owareta.)
僕 (boku): is a masculine first-person singular pronoun: "I."
も (mo): is a secondary particle. A secondary particle is a particle that acts in conjunction with another but adds some more information. "mo" adds the sense of "too" or "even," as in "I, too, ate a cookie." or "Even my brother can do that." In this case, it is the former: "too." When paired with "wa," "wo," and "ga," those particles drop out and you're just left with "mo." In this case, it was "wa" that was dropped out.
言われた (iwareta): is the indicative, passive, past, affirmative conjugation of the verb "iu."
Translation: "Alphonse: I, too, was told that."
アルフォンス: 扉を開けたから人柱になれるって。
(Arufonsu: Tobira wo aketa kara hitobashira ni nareru tte.)
扉 (tobira): is a noun meaning "door." In this show, there is a "door of truth" that alchemists can sometimes open at the cost of their body organs. That's what he's talking about.
を (wo): is the accusative particle.
開けた (aketa): is the indicative, past, affirmative conjugation of the verb "akeru," meaning "to open."
から (kara): is the same conjunction as before, meaning "because."
人柱 (hitobashira): is the same noun as before.
に (ni): is the dative particle. The following verb takes the dative.
なれる (nareru): is the potential, imperfective, affirmative conjugation of the verb "naru," meaning "to become." The potential mood describes the possibility of an action occurring.
って (tte): is the casual quotative particle. It shows up in many places, and whether or not it is a multi-functional particle, we don't know yet. So we do not want to say that this is a quote and that the verb "omou," "to think," has been dropped out, but it is a possibility.
Translation: "Alphonse: {Possibly: I think that} Because I opened the door, I can be a human sacrifice."
エドワード: 人柱ってのは多分扉を開けて帰って来られる力量を持った術師のことだ。
(Edowaado: hitobashira tte no wa tabun tobira wo akete kaettekorareru rikiryou wo motta jitsushi no koto da."
人柱 (hitobashira): is the same noun as before.
って (tte): is the casual quoting particle.
の (no): is the substantivizing suffix.
は (wa): is the topical particle.
多分 (tabun): is an adverb meaning "probably" or "perhaps."
扉 (tobira): is the same noun as before.
を (wo): is the accusative particle.
開けて (akete): is the gerund of the verb "akeru," which we've seen before.
帰って来られる (kaettekorareru): is the potential, indicative, imperfective, affirmative conjugation of "kaettekuru," meaning "to come back." You'll note, of course, that this is actually two verb "kaette," gerund of "kaeru," meaning "to return," and "kuru," meaning "to come."
力量 (rikiryou): is a noun meaning " ability" or "capacity"
を (wo): is the accusative particle.
持った (motta): is the indicative, past, affirmative conjugation of the verb "motsu," meaning "to possess."
術師 (jitsushi): is a noun meaning "technique user," but one can see it as an abbreviation of "renkinjitsu-shi," just keeping the last two parts.
のこと (no koto): is the same expression as before.
だ (da): is the copula.
Translation: "Edward: The 'human sacrifices,' they are probably the alchemists themselves that possessed the power that opens the door and can come back." (Note: If you want to say "power to open the door…" instead, that is fine and generally more appropriate.)


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The Hillary Clinton ticket was received with excitement by the women folk across the globe. This turn-around in the United States has sparked up lots of ideas, dreams and hopes for women who have been marginalized for such long years with the popular phase "the weaker sex" who is not capable of handling state matters.
With numerous charges of assault hovering round the Republican Party Presidential nominee Donald Trump, he is definitely not the choice of women. Many have said "for a man running for president to tag a woman NASTY in the public space, he may do worse things when he assumes power".
Sampling opinions from a number of women has revealed that women around the world have decided to take their destinies into their own hands regardless of what society has proposed. While reviewing the Clinton policy for women, it is an obvious fact that the successes of the movements for gender parity and the future of women in leadership positions will definitely be actualized with a Clinton Presidency.
Surely, no woman will want a situation where sexual harassment will be taken with a pinch of salt fully aware that she can do nothing about it. Violence of any sort has been despised by many over the years and when this salient clamour begins to take some shape, here comes a candidate who is not sensitive to the plight of the woman on the street, staying in her little corner for fear of being suppressed by the wealthy men of society. Let's look at some of Republican Donald Trump's statements about women in public scenes:
- "Frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don't think she'd get five percent of the vote. The only thing she's got going is the women's card."
- Trump won't have mothers' backs. He told a breastfeeding mother, "You're disgusting!" and forced a mother with a crying baby to leave a rally.
- FOX News anchor Megyn Kelly asked Trump about previous misogynistic comments. He responded by calling her unprofessional and said, "You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever."
- Trump questioned Carly Fiorina's qualifications to be president, saying "Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?"
- On his reality TV show Celebrity Apprentice, Trump quipped about a female businesswoman, "Must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees."
His views on abortion and Planned Parenthood though having some positive points, goes against the themes of the United States which largely promotes human rights such that each person is at liberty to choose whatever lifestyle suits them. A Trump Presidency seems to spell out a certain form of tyranny which undermines human rights.
What does this election hold for African women? It is amazing how situations seem to be turning all rosy for women across the globe and Africa is not left out. US Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton, serves as the symbol of the voice of women. Little wonder why it has been observed that more women in Africa are engaging in political activities even to the point of vying for the topmost leadership spots of their countries; a practice which was very alien before now.
With its male-domineering leadership structure, the African continent has seen strong male leaders who refuse to leave the seat of power and are ready to hold on to such state powers like it is an inheritance. Women have watched quietly over the years, seemingly plotting graphs and waiting for the appropriate motivating factor to steal the reins of power. Slyvie Kinigi opened the way for African women in 1993 as acting head of state in Burundi, there after Ivy Matsepe-Casa burri as acting president of South Africa in 2005, then a woman of repute Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who has made Liberia livable since 2006. Rose Franchine Rogombe also served as interim president of Gabon in 2009, Agnes Monique Ohsan Bellepeau as acting president of Mauritius in 2012 and 2015, Joyce Banda as President of Malawi from 2012-2014, Catherin Samba-Panza as acting head of state, Central African Republic in 2014, and the current president of Mauritius Ameenah Gurib-Fakim. These women have done well for the African continent as regards female inclusion in the workspace and overall gender parity challenges, and are ready to do more with the motivation from foreign female leaders.
There is no doubt that more of these strong women are yet to come with the candidacy of the likes of Fadumo Dayib for President in Somalia, Isatou Touray of Gambia, and very recently MacDella Cooper of Liberia who has joined the 2016 presidential race to continue what President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has started. A Clinton Presidency will therefore strengthen the resolve of women in Africa to take up the mantle of leadership with the knowledge that they will be backed by global women rights as well as women-friendly foreign policies. It will further pull women out of the miserable shell which society has hidden them in with the belief that the only place for a woman is in the KITCHEN. After all, Madam Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has made waves as African Union Chair, as well as other notable women who have attain top management positions.
A number of people have applauded Donald Trump's proposed radical immigration reforms which have also been perceived as having the capability of causing another civil war in the United Stated with the "Island" image Trump paints. The question is: If only Americans lived in America, would the country be this great? What will happen to those who have contributed to the growth of the American economy? To say the least, it will be heartbreaking to see families split because of an attempt to rid the system of immigrant who have largely contributed to the economic growth of the United States. What is Clinton's position on this? "We need comprehensive immigration reform with a path to full and equal citizenship. If Congress won't act, I'll defend President Obama's executive actions—and I'll go even further to keep families together. I'll end family detention, close private immigrant detention centers, and help more eligible people become naturalized". The family system is the focal point of society and as such must be preserved with all seriousness. Only women who are actually sensitive to the need of the home can adequately preserve this system.
It is now or never. Now is the time for women to seize the reins on power and create the life they have always dreamed of which seeks growth, development, and notable achievements on all fronts. A time where the youths will be gathered in love to work for the growth of society, a time where the education of a woman means the education of a nation.
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Fanjeaux Pilgrimage
All of the "pilgrims." There were forty-three faculty, staff, and students representing eleven Dominican institutions.
On Memorial Day, I, along with A.J. LaPoint, assistant director of campus ministry, and two students, Stephanie Rivera and Ilci Valarde, flew to Fanjeaux, France to study medieval France, Saint Dominic de Guzman, and the Dominican order. Upon arrival we met the other members of our pilgrimage group, thirty-nine faculty, staff, and students from ten other Dominican institutions. Over the next two and a half weeks we discussed the Dominican charism and how it forms the shared foundation of the missions of Dominican colleges and universities.


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A perfect match
February 2012
It seems a logical enough extension of personalized medicine: pairing diagnostics with drug therapies to produce the best possible results, exactly matching patients whose genes predict they will be cured by a specific therapy. The field has been rapidly gaining traction, with new deals, mergers and acquisitionsboth friendly and hostilegrabbing headlines.
Ever since the diagnostic and treatment combo Herceptin and its companion HercepTest was given the nod in 1998, the race has been on to match the two capabilities to patients and their needs exactly, with efficiency and cost-effectively.
"Molecular diagnostic markets are experiencing double-digit growthand oncology, one of the key biomarker applications, remains a key investment area for in-vitro diagnostics companies and the healthcare industry overall," says Dr. Winny Tan, an analyst for business research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan.
Although cancer is the headline-grabber, the field is seeing growth in applications for infectious diseases and in prenatal care, with a number of companies rapidly entering the field of non-invasive prenatal diagnostics. This rapidly growing market segment also relies upon molecular techniques like sequencing or arrays.
Using the companion diagnostic not only may improve therapeutic outcomes, but also may save patients and healthcare systems a significant amount of money since the newer classes of drugs can cost tens of thousands of dollars. By determining mutation status, doctors can potentially prescribe the relevant drugs only to patients who are expected to benefit from them.
Molecular diagnostics and arrays: A primer
Molecular diagnostics, or analysis of nucleic acids for guiding healthcare decisions, has the greatest level of integration into medical practice. There is increasing adoption of these tests as doctors are getting more familiar with and appreciate the improved sensitivity of these methods. This is the most mature segment of this diagnostic area, as the largest volume of test development from clinical laboratories and companies is occurring in this space. It seems as if new genetic tests are introduced every week, and the recent published development rates, such as those posted on the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) website, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/GeneTests/, bear out that out.
Array-based diagnostics are maturing and continuing to have clinical applications, with an ever-increasing volume of clinical studies being published. More recently, clinical sequencing applications are coming to the fore, especially since next-generation sequencing (NGS) platform manufacturers are lowering the cost of sequencing the whole genome.
"A $1,000 genome is price-competitive with some of the genetic tests that are currently reimbursed," says Tan. "Even at the more basic techniques in molecular diagnostics, like PCR-based tests, will continue to grow due to infectious disease applications."
A small sandbox, with a lot of sand
According to a 2011 Frost & Sullivan report, more than 75 percent of the molecular diagnostics market is controlled by nine companies: Roche Diagnostics, QIAGEN, Gen-Probe, Abbott Diagnostics, Siemens, Becton Dickinson, Cepheid, bioMérieux and Beckman Coulter. Roche is the undisputed market leader with an almost 30 percent share and an unparalleled product portfolio, which includes molecular diagnostic tests for oncology, virology, microbiology and blood screening.
International diagnostics company QIAGEN's growth rate has outpaced competitors over the past three years, and the company has continued to announce and plan for new deals at the dawn of 2012. Emerging from primarily a sample-preparation technology and PCR reagent vendor, the company has aggressively expanded its business to the extent that approximately half of its sales now come from molecular diagnostics.
Similarly, Gen-Probe's growth rate has outpaced the industry average. The company is currently the global market leader in chlamydia and gonorrhea testing, and its innovative human papilloma virus test, which is CE-marked in Europe, is eagerly awaited in the United States.
Roche is the clear leader in the oncology segment. Roche has the capacity to design drugs and diagnostics, but it still does work with other companies. It recently made headlines as the company behind the hostile bid to take over Illumina. That deal would be critical as Illumina is known for its gene-mapping equipment, and is said to be on the verge of building a device that can map a sequence in a day, rather than in weeks or even months. Questions on that deal were referred to representatives of Genentech, another major player in the field, and part of the Roche family.
Dr. Bob Wasserman is a personalized healthcare strategy expert in oncology at Roche. He is responsible for the overarching personalized healthcare strategy and implementation across Roche's pRED oncology discovery and translational areas and the preclinical and clinical portfolio.
"Oncology is our biggest therapeutic area," Wasserman says, "and we have a full pipeline of new molecules to treat cancers. Everybody's aware of this need. Cancer's clearly moving toward a world where more drugs are approved with companion diagnostics. The key question to answer is, 'What is it about those cancers that makes them respond' to a particular therapy?"
Drilling down to the unique way a tumor behaves in a patient drives the way the field is integrating this double-barreled approach. Currently, at Roche, this has gone beyond the clinic into identifying patients and enrolling them in the appropriate studiesfor them, and for their tumors.
"I can confirm that in 2011, we put three new antibodies into the clinic for which we enrolled patients based on them having tumors that expressed the protein that was the target or related to the target of the antibody therapy," says Wasserman. "We used a biomarker to select patients, and we did this starting from the very first dosing in humans. I think this may be unique for the industry."
What makes cancer the answer?
According to Tan, a large number of cancer biomarkers have been unsuccessful to date because of their non-specificity to the disease.
"Some biomarkers are generalized indicators of an immune response to the disease rather than the disease itself," she says. "Also, some blood markers are difficult to localize the disease when detected which is important in cancer for example. Understanding the mechanism of why the biomarker appears helps in determining specificity."
Tan says she thinks this is why disease signatures are getting more complex.
"The overly simple, single-biomarker test for a condition as complex as cancer is pretty unrealistic. The predictive value goes up when more markers are factored in," she says. "I think the reason why cancer biomarkers in research don't become successful diagnostic markers is that researchers aren't necessarily considering if a biomarker is useful or meets an unmet need for the doctor's decision-making as this is specific to patient management area. If they did, I think the publications would include proof of clinical utility in addition to just higher specificities and sensitivities."
The bottom line? If a biomarker can detect disease earlier or pre-disease, she offers, does that mean something can be done by the doctor or patient? If that answer is no, the test won't be ordered by the doctor.
Roche's Wasserman offers a similar opinion.
"Cancers are very complex," he says. "If we can't find the one thing that's driving it, it could be that the solution is made up of a group of biomarkers in the future."
Dr. Nicholas Kenny, executive vice president of oncology for contract research organization INC Research, has a good perspective on the state of the field, since his company has conducted more than 350 Phase I through IV oncology trials and investigated nearly 130 new and various anticancer therapies, including the introduction of more than 30 new chemical entities in first-in-man trials. Kenny says that lung cancer is a good example of how this approach works, and that combination diagnostics/drugs have come out the end of the pipeline.
"We're seeing this come up in the news all the time," Kenny says. "We're finally seeing targeting becoming a reality. A good example of this is in lung cancer. We came to early-phase trials in that area in a hurry. With chemotherapy, we treated everyone almost the same. What we are able to get out of a biopsy now, it's really remarkable."
Lung cancer duos gaining ground
As just one example of Kenny's point, in August of last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved crizotinib (Xalkori) to treat certain patients with late-stage (locally advanced or metastatic), non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC) that express the abnormal anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene. Xalkori is a Pfizer product.
Xalkori was approved with a companion diagnostic test that will help determine if a patient has the abnormal ALK gene, a first-of-a-kind genetic test called the Vysis ALK Break Apart FISH Probe Kit. It is the second such targeted therapy approved by the FDA this year. The probe kit is a product of Abbott Molecular, approved under the priority treatment program, which allows for priority approval of drugs with special promise.
This ALK gene abnormality causes cancer development and growth. About 1 to 7 percent of those with NSCLC have the ALK gene abnormality. Patients with this form of lung cancer are typically non-smokers. Xalkori works by blocking certain proteins called kinases, including the protein produced by the abnormal ALK gene. At the point of approval, this was the second combination approved by the FDA last year.
Leaders of the pack
Another leader of the pack is diagnostics company QIAGEN, which has made several strategic moves of late. QIAGEN continues to build its international profile as a leading independent provider of molecular technologies for personalized healthcare, currently offering more than 30 assays that include tests for the biomarkers KRAS, BRAF and PI3K.
QIAGEN is expanding its presence in the personalized healthcare field through regulatory submissions, such as two completed in mid-2011 in the United States for the KRAS biomarker that are the result of an extensive range of research and development partnerships. It most recently announced a new assay, its therascreen EGFR Mutation Detection Kit RGQ in Japan. That tool detects genetic mutations to identify patients likely to experience a positive outcome with EGFR-inhibitor drugs targeting NSCLC. EGFR, the epidermal growth factor receptor, has been shown to play an important role in certain cancers and is the target of many new anticancer drugs.
QIAGEN's reps call this a milestone for the company's personalized healthcare strategy, as Japan is one of the world's largest markets for companion diagnostic tests. In April 2011, QIAGEN's therascreen KRAS Mutation Detection Kit was approved in Japan, targeting a different biomarker that is also used to guide cancer treatment decisions. The potential patient population alone in Japan for EGFR and KRAS testing is estimated at approximately 100,000 per year.
Next up for the company? QIAGEN also acquired the French diagnostics company Ipsogen last year, gaining rights to a portfolio of biomarkers including JAK2 and BCR-ABL that are believed to play a role in various blood cancers.
"Greater use of companion diagnostic tests such as our EGFR and KRAS assays may help overcome significant challenges by maximizing the efficacy and safety of therapies and improving patient outcomes," says Dr. Steve Little, vice president of global personalized healthcare at QIAGEN. "Japanese and other East Asian populations generally have a higher rate of EGFR mutations than other groups, and non-smoking East Asian women are the largest potential market for EGFR-inhibitor anticancer drugs. This approval allows QIAGEN to market our companion diagnostic along with major pharmaceutical companies offering certain EGFR-inhibitor drugs."
And let's not forget
Another player of late has been Ventana Medical Systems Inc., a member of the Roche group, which recently launched a strategic collaboration agreement with Bayer Pharma AG for the development of a molecular companion diagnostic test that can help identify patients most likely to benefit from a novel Bayer antibody-drug conjugate (ADC). The deal accompanies other pacts that Ventana has inked with Pfizer and Sydndam Pharmaceuticals.
And in the lung cancer space, Ventana is also developing the first fully automated and standardized immunohistochemistry companion diagnostic test for anaplastic lymphoma receptor tyrosine kinase (ALK) gene rearrangements. The test will identify NSCLC patients with ALK gene rearrangements who may benefit from Pfizer's Xalkori, the drug approved for use in the United States last August.
Where do we go from here?
Infectious disease testing is at least 60 percent of the molecular diagnostics market, says Tan, but the general diagnostics industry is undergoing a huge amount of change in regulatory, reimbursement, coding and healthcare areas. Overall, she adds, the general expectation is that reimbursement levels will continue to fall for all diagnostics, and that the molecular diagnostic segment isn't immune.
QIAGEN's Little says that what's significant is that it's difficult for a diagnostics company to do all the work themselves from a clinical perspectivethat's why importation partnerships are key.
"The industry has begun to believe in using diagnostics to identify patient responders," he says. "After several years of slow movement, the pharmaceutical industry has begun to believe that. We are somewhat hampered by not doing clinical trials ourselvesideally, an objective randomized clinical trial," he says. "With our global reach, QIAGEN has become a company of choice for drug companies."
Little concludes by adding that, while the bulk of his company's partnerships are in oncology, he says its next important area is in inflammatory disease. QIAGEN is also working in the neurology and psychiatry spaces.
Insurance reimbursements aside, Tan says the ability to stratify patients with companion diagnostics, no matter the disease, is driving the healthcare field closer to personalized medicine. Embracing the concept that people respond differently to potential therapies and that some of that response is tied to the genetic makeup of the individual is a huge stride.
Truly personalized medicine, she surmises, would be at the individual genome level. For that to happen, she opines that that would have to wait for NGS to get cheaper and for clinical researchers to be able to pull out the clinically relevant conclusions.
"We probably don't even want this granularitywe pretty much want clear conclusions to be able to make effective actions," she says. "I think the most important role of companion diagnostics in the industry today is to help change the low valuation of diagnostics in health management. What I mean by this is that people are generally willing to pay a lot of money for life-saving drugs, but the diagnostics are so cost-sensitive. Changing the cost-sensitive nature of in-vitro diagnostics is so critical as the current dynamics of the industry is leading to a decreasing trend in reimbursement for laboratory tests."
Over at Roche, Wasserman says the company 's development pipeline in the cancer space is full.
"There are currently 20 projects in oncology that have a diagnostic test component as part of their development," Wasserman says. "Although for some of these projects, we would likely use a test already available, and due to anticipated attrition in the pipeline, we would not expect all 20 projects to make it to the market."
INC Research's Kenny says progress in this area is "nothing short of remarkable."
"We're not curing people overnight, but if we can get more people to a stable condition more quickly, it's wonderful," he says.
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Coffee is something that many of us enjoy from time to time. Some of us more than others. The effects of coffee can be considered one of natures greatest gifts. Gives us a boost of energy, a new-found alertness, and the motivation to get up and get going. Some of us simply like coffee to enjoy the taste, and warmth. So what's in that cup of coffee that makes us feel that way? Many of us think there is no way there could be a health benefit, and some believe that coffee affects your health in a negative way.
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It's also great for in-store performances, and on Saturday the folks at Logan Hardware are hosting their first live show in the space with local house DJs Matt Warren and Miguel Garcia. The pair helped start eccentric Chicago house label Sunset Records in the 80s; as Miles Raymer wrote in a recent B Side cover story, the label failed to attract the attention of majors, but here's hoping its music will make its way to more people now that Still Music released a catalog-spanning Sunset compilation, Kill Yourself Dancing: The Story of Sunset Records Inc. 1985-1989.
Still Music honcho and Chicago DJ Jerome Derradji is helping throw the in-store, which starts at 6 PM. Warren and Garcia played a Kill Yourself Dancing release party at the Mayne Stage last month, and I heard they spent the performance editing classic house and disco tracks on the fly—I imagine they'll do the same at Logan Hardware, which billed the show as a live production set. It's also the first of several in-stores at the record shop; on Sat 11/23 Chicago fixture and former Sun Ra Arkestra member Phil Cohran will play and do a Q&A to support a new reissue of his 1968 album, On the Beach; on Sat 12/7 "Alabama Love Man" Ralph "Soul" Jackson performs; and on Sat 12/14 bounce originator Ricky B makes his first live appearance in Chicago behind Sinking City and Urban Unrest's 2013 compilation, B Is for Bounce: New Orleans Rap Classics 1994-95.


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Since the discovery of the Warburg effect in the 1920s cancer has been tightly associated with the genetic and metabolic state of the cell. One of the hallmarks of cancer is the alteration of the cellular metabolism in order to promote proliferation and undermine cellular defense mechanisms such as apoptosis or detection by the immune system. However, the strategies by which this is achieved in different cancers and sometimes even in different patients of the same cancer is very heterogeneous, which hinders the design of general treatment options.
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Milky Way season is over up here at 51 degrees N, so its time for the annual roundup of my five favourite milky way shots!
2018 was a much better year for chasing the Milky Way and clear skies than the previous year, although July and August did get smoked out again from forest fires. I have an ongoing list of locations that I want to explore or have planned Milky Way shots for. A lot of these require shooting during specific months or certain conditions to be met. It's easy to miss a window because of weather or other commitments (or smoke the last two years). During this Milky Way season, I was able to get quite a few images that I had visualized and pre-planned during previous years.
This year I finally bought a star tracker. A star tracker (sometimes just referred to as a tracker) is a motorized tracking mount that will move your camera at the same speed as the stars moving across the sky. I'll be putting together a post on that soon (ish…I'll admit I started the draft months ago and somehow have not completed the write up).
The photos are listed in the order they were taken.
The first image on the list is one I have been waiting for since my first visit to Abraham Lake. This lake is very popular (maybe a bit crowded on winter weekends) for methane bubbles trapped in the ice. For the core to be visible past Mount Michener, you have to wait for the end of winter/beginning of spring. The ice may melt before getting this composition is possible. Luckily it was still quite cold when I went out to capture this pano. My friend Dani and I drove seven hours for just an hour of shooting. We both had to be back in Calgary in the morning. Totally worth it.
Minnewanka Milky Way
This is another shot I have had in mind before 2018, but never had the right conditions and timing to capture the arc over Minnewanka. There is actually quite a bit of light pollution from Banff and Canmore in the background. I was hoping there would be more openings in the ice at this point but was pleased with how this composition worked with the trees.
Dark Matters
This is definitely my favourite shot of the year. I put my camera in a slightly precarious position to capture this self-portrait. I really wanted to include the geology of the ridge in a Milky Way shot. The ridge had almost a 90-degree bend to the spot I was standing, but all along the edge was sheer drop. I found a spot where I could set up my tripod, but it was sitting on "step" just below the ridge. Luckily it was a windless night, so I was reasonably sure that once I had the legs set up properly, the camera wouldn't go anywhere. I did not notice that mars had just risen above the mountain range on the left of the photo until I was editing the image.
Bow Lake Reflections
This was my third time using my new star tracker. The sky exposure was 2.5 minutes with the tracker on and then another shot was taken for the foreground with the tracker turned off. With such a long exposure I was able to bring my ISO down to 1600 and thus have less noise in the image. Most of my single exposure Milky Way photos are taken at ISO 6400.
A Night with Three Sisters
In June our skies do not get fully dark, but the Milky Way still stands out nicely. The last shot on this year's list is another tick off the list of shots I've been waiting for. I wanted the Milky Way lined up over the Three Sisters at a vantage point that made both the mountains and galaxy appear large in the frame. I shot quite a few compositions as the Milky Way moved through the night. This particular one was also done using my star tracker. It was windy, and some clouds were hanging out in the Northern part of the sky, making it difficult to align the tracker properly. I did make four one minute exposures work and stacked them together later to reduce noise in the image.
If you would like to learn how to photograph the night sky, I offer workshops around Alberta. Send me a message to set up a session!
I will be in Edmonton on Nov 29 and have my Night Photography Seminar running and my Night Photography Processing workshop on Dec 2.


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The Democratic presidential candidates sparred over their differing visions of healthcare reform Sunday night at a candidates' debate in Charleston.
"The Democratic party in the U.S. worked since Harry Truman to get the Affordable Care Act (ACA) passed," said former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. "We finally have a path to universal healthcare; we've accomplished so much already. I don't want to see the Republicans repeal it and I don't want to see us start over again with a contentious debate. I want to defend and build on the ACA and improve it."
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) disagreed. Repeatedly calling healthcare "a right," Sanders also had an alternate view of history: "[President Franklin Delano] Roosevelt and [President Harry] Truman, they believed healthcare should be available to all our people," he said at the debate, which was sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus Institute and broadcast on NBC and YouTube.
"I was on the committee that wrote the Affordable Care Act ... I voted for it. But right now, what we have to deal with is the fact that 29 million still have no health insurance ... What my 'Medicare for all' program does is finally provide healthcare for every man, woman, and child as a right ... We're not going to tear up the ACA, but are going to move on top of that to a 'Medicare for all' system."
Former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley used a different tack. "We should talk about things that are actually working," he said. "In our state we moved to an all-payer system; we now have moved all of our acute care hospitals away from fee-for-service and pay them based on how well they keep patients out of the hospital. We need to build on the Affordable Care Act, do things that work, and reduce costs and increase access."
Clinton piggybacked on that answer. "What Governor O'Malley just said is one of the models we'll be looking at," she said. "We do [want to] limit a lot of the unnecessary costs we still have in the system. But to start over again with a whole new debate I think would set us back."
Debate moderator Andrea Mitchell of NBC asked Sanders about the cost of his "Medicare for all" proposal, noting that Sanders' own state of Vermont tried to implement a single-payer system but later backed away because it would require tax increases. Sanders declined to engage in the discussion, saying instead, "You might want to ask the governor of the state of Vermont why he could not do it -- I'm the senator from the state of Vermont."
Sanders then took the opportunity to talk about what he considered the real reason why the U.S. doesn't yet have a single-payer system.
"You know why we can't do what every other major country on earth is doing? Because we have a campaign finance system that's corrupt; we have SuperPACs, we have the pharmaceutical industry pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into campaign contributions and lobbying, and the private insurance companies as well ... This is about whether we have the guts to stand up to the private insurance companies and all of their money, and to the pharmaceutical industry as well."
The war on drugs -- and the drug abuse that's fueling it -- also was a topic during the debate. "I have tried to come out with a comprehensive approach that does tell states, 'We will work with you from the federal government, putting more money -- about $1 billion a year -- to help states have a different approach to dealing with this epidemic,'" said Clinton.
"Police officers must be equipped with [the overdose reversal drug] narcan and should be able to administer it ... We have to move away from treating the use of drugs as a crime and move it to where it belongs, as a health issue. And we need to divert more people from the criminal justice system into drug courts, into treatment, and recovery."
Sanders agreed with Clinton, but added," It is a responsibility of the part of the pharmaceutical industry and the drug companies producing all of these drugs and not looking at the consequences of it. We need a revolution in this country in terms of mental health treatment. People should be able to get the treatment they need when they need it and not 2 months from now, which is why I believe in universal healthcare."
Healthcare became an issue even before the debate started; earlier on Sunday, Sanders released financing details of his "Medicare for all" plan.
The plan would be paid for by increasing taxes for all Americans, especially the wealthy, according to a press release posted on Sanders' website. "Sanders' Medicare-for-all plan would save $6 trillion over the next 10 years compared to the current system, according to a detailed analysis by Gerald Friedman, an economist at University of Massachusetts at Amherst who is a leading expert on health care costs."
The plan would be paid for by a 6.2% tax on employers and a 2.2% income tax on U.S. households, based on their income. Marginal tax rates would also increase -- for example, families with incomes between $250,000 and $500,000 would have a marginal tax rate of 37%, a few percent more than what they currently pay, while those with incomes of more than $10 million -- a group which includes 0.01% of taxpayers -- would have a marginal tax rate of 52%, up from their current 39.6%.


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The Jakarta Post
The government has given the country's leading pulp and paper company PT Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper (RAPP) a slap on the wrist even though it has violated President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's peatland moratorium policy.
Jokowi issued the policy in 2015 after massive land and forest fires that claimed the lives of 10 people and caused approximately 500,000 cases of respiratory tract infections.
The President ordered that even with licenses, all peatland was prohibited from being cleared until the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) finished mapping the location to see which areas were in protected or production zones. Peatland clearing is a major cause of forest fires.
On Friday, PT RAPP admitted that an operation to convert the peatland into a currently ongoing acacia plantation had occurred on their concession on Padang Island, Meranti Islands regency, Riau.
Despite violating Jokowi's moratorium policy, RAPP president director Tony Wenas claimed that the company's operations in the area was legal because it adhered to the company's working plan (RKU), which had been approved by the Environment and Forestry Ministry in 2013. "We always follow the rules and all the actions we take are in accordance to the decree that we received from the [ministry]," he said after a closed meeting with the ministry and the BRG in Jakarta.
Tony added that the operation to convert the peatland had been ongoing since the end of 2014.
The company disclosed the peatland conversion operation after an impromptu visit on Monday by BRG head Nazir Foead, who discovered the area had freshly been planted with acacia seedlings.
Nazir decided to pay the visit after receiving a report about the company planting in the area, which has been disputed over by locals for years.
Since RAPP started its operation in Pulau Padang in 2011, residents have been protesting the company's presence, resulting in the ministry issuing a decree that returns 7,000 hectares of land that were initially in the company's concession area to three villages: Bagan Melibur, Mengkirau and part of Lukit. However, the decree has failed to ease tensions, which are still ongoing.
During the visit, Nazir also discovered that the company had built a canal over 3 kilometers long in the middle of the acacia plantation, suspected to be used to dry out the peatland to make way for the acacia seedlings to grow.
Tony said the canals were constructed to save water following forest fires last year, not to dry out the peatland.
BRG's education, participation and partnership division deputy Myrna A. Safitri said the agency could not accept the company's excuses as building a canal was also forbidden in peatland areas.
Despite the violation, the ministry decided to only give a verbal warning to the company. "There's no sanction so far," ministry's secretary-general Bambang Hendroyono said.
Nazir said the ministry had only given the verbal warning to the company during their meeting.
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The Cautionary Tale of Kevin Belcher
You know who Kevin Belcher is, right?
Belcher was the 153rd player chosen in the 1983 NFL Draft, the draft that is well-known for having possibly the best crop of quarterbacks ever in one draft. Belcher was an offensive lineman coming out of Texas-El Paso when he was selected in the sixth round by the New York Giants.
Belcher saw action in all 16 of the Giants' games in 1983, a season where the team went 3-12-1 and nearly cost new coach Bill Parcells his job. Belcher was the starting center in 1984, and even had a four-yard pass reception in a 31-21 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals on Dec. 9.
But before the 1985 season, Belcher's career ended when he got in a car accident that exposed nerves. The Giants struggled to replace him until they acquired Bart Oates from the Philadelphia Stars of the USFL.
Belcher's brief career is relevant today because history may be repeating itself. The Giants recently acquired safety Chad Jones in the third round of the 2010 NFL Draft. Jones, a two-sport star out of LSU, was hyped as a talented player who would bring much-needed depth at the safety position, a luxury the Giants sorely missed in 2009.
"I think right at the end of the OTA's, (Jones) was starting to emerge and doing things very well on special teams and in the secondary," Giants coach Coughlin said after New York's recent mandatory minicamp.
But Jones's career met the figurative and literal obstacle, as his SUV crashed into a pole Friday morning in New Orleans. Two passengers in the car walked away with minor injuries, but Jones wasn't as fortunate. He reportedly fractured his left leg, and left arteries and nerves exposed. He underwent surgery in the late morning to return blood flow to his foot, and doctors now believe that he won't have to lose the foot.
It may seem insensitive to speculate on Jones's career at this point, but let's be honest. Hundreds or thousands of people get in accidents every day, yet you're reading about this one because who he is. Whether you're a LSU student or alumni, a Giants fan, a football fan, or just a sports fan, you're reading this because it's Chad Jones.
Like Belcher, it's hard to imagine Jones playing another down in the NFL. His foot is/was in danger of being amputated, and his had ARTERIES and NERVES exposed. Frankly, it's a miracle he's not dead.
Which brings us back to Belcher. In 2003, 18 years after his accident, Belcher passed away due to "undisclosed reasons." It may have been something completely unrelated, or perhaps it's due to complications from the accident. We really don't know. But it's curiously coincidental enough to state that while his career is probably over, we can only hope and pray for Jones's continuing recovery.


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If migraine is the "third most common disease in the world", then why is there still a stigma attached in the workplace? To support the Migraine Trust's dedicated awareness week this September, we're sharing their crucial advice and some hard-hitting stats for organisations to take on board.
An estimated 23%* of UK adults have experienced a migraine in their lifetime.
These painful headaches can be caused by anything from stress to lack of sleep, hunger to changing hormones – and often provoke disturbed vision, sensitivity to light and sound, and severe sickness and dizziness.
Migraine's impact on workplace productivity
Now let's be honest, migraines in the workplace are a massive headache. Skilled and passionate people who suffer from migraine can experience debilitating symptoms that make them unable to perform, while organisations can experience a drop in productivity as they lose their most valued assets to frequent and/or long-term migraine absenteeism.
And there's proof in the numbers. As UK productivity levels, in particular, are low, a 2018 study by the Work Foundation found that each year an estimated 86 million workdays are lost in the UK due to migraine-related absenteeism and presenteeism, with the indirect costs of migraine due to lost productivity being estimated at just under £8.8 billion per annum!
The indirect costs of migraine due to lost productivity being estimated at just under £8.8 billion per annum!
But cold hard stats aside, how organisations deal with migraine in the workplace evidently needs to change to support the health and wellness of their workers. The stigma and sometimes lack of support that employees can experience often leaves them struggling through their workload, gradually getting worse before they eventually go home and are potentially absent for longer.
What's worse, the Work Foundation also found in their study that migraine is the second largest cause of years lived with disability worldwide, so it's really is no wonder that the Migraine Trust is campaigning for immediate action and migraine acceptance by organisations.
Time to take action
The Migraine Trust promote that a better understanding and accommodation of migraine within organisations would initially help to remove the workplace stigma, enabling employees to feel more confident in voicing their symptoms and so preventing more extreme eventualities.
The trust's dedicated website is rich with advice for organisations, and – in association with their 2018 awareness week (2-8 September) – the trust has created a Help at Work guide for employees and are promoting a fantastic research paper by the Work Foundation entitled 'Society's Headache: the Socioeconomic Impact of Migraine'.
Team Hive couldn't be more supportive of the Migraine Trust's awareness initiatives and would urge organisations – including our customers – to consider potential causes or accelerators of migraine in their workplace.
Do you know who in your company sufferers from migraine? Are they experiencing high levels of stress due to lack of support? Do they work long hours due to a heavy workload? Is anyone struggling to perform due to loud or uncomfortable working environments?
By asking employees, accepting their responses and introducing measures that help employees prevent and manage migraine symptoms – an organisation can promote a happier, healthier and more productive workforce.
Be sure to check out the Migraine Trust's dedicated website and Help at Work guide, and you can also support the campaign on social media by sharing their graphics with the hashtag #mindfulofmigraine.
Further reading and sources
Migraine Awareness Week – website and social media graphic downloads
Migraine Trust – Help at Work Guide
*Stats included in this piece are taken from the Work Foundation's recent research paper, 'Society's Headache: the Socioeconomic Impact of Migraine'


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Investors like the look of the transformation going on at Michael Kors.
Shares are up 13.6% Monday after the company reported earnings per share of $1.33 on revenue of $1.1 billion, both of which exceeded analysts' expectations. Kors' margins, a measure of profitability, rose during the quarter, which the company attributed to both cost cuts and a higher mix of pricier bags.
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Management raised its revenue forecast for the full year, which ends in March.
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Beauty contests are often a feature of Thai festivals and the Loy Krathong celebrations are no exception.
According to legend Noppomas was a consort of the King of Sukothai in the fourteenth century. She was the daughter of a Brahmin priest at the King's court. She made the first krathong out of banana leaves in the shape of a lotus flower and presented it to the King. He lit the candle and the incense stick and floated it on the water, so starting the tradition we know today. In fact, the floating of krathongs began as a Sukothai tradition, but was later grafted onto these festival celebrations all over Thailand.
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So you are saying she got too much things to do beside wasting her time here, I guess I am a loser since I spend so much time on this forum..
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I was having dinner… in London… when eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part about "Your country's never been invaded." And so I said, "Let me tell you who those bad guys are. They're us. WE BE BAD. We're the baddest-assed sons of bitches that ever jogged in Reeboks. We're three-quarters grizzly bear and two-thirds car wreck and descended from a stock market crash on our mother's side. You take your Germany, France, and Spain, roll them all together and it wouldn't give us room to park our cars. We're the big boys, Jack, the original, giant, economy-sized, new and improved butt kickers of all time. When we snort coke in Houston, people lose their hats in Cap d'Antibes. And we've got an American Express card credit limit higher than your piss-ant metric numbers go. You say our country's never been invaded? You're right, little buddy. Because I'd like to see the needle-dicked foreigners who'd have the guts to try. We drink napalm to get our hearts started in the morning. A rape and a mugging is our way of saying 'Cheerio.' Hell can't hold our sock-hops.
We walk taller, talk louder, spit further, fuck longer and buy more things than you know the names of. I'd rather be a junkie in a New York City jail than king, queen, and jack of all Europeans. We eat little countries like this for breakfast and shit them out before lunch."
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Ten Years of Blog Complexity
We mean: Happy 10-Year Anniversary of the Complexity Blog
Lance Fortnow is famous for many things, but one is his blog Computational Complexity, which he created exactly ten years ago today. It endured a brief hiatus in early 2007, but has come back stronger than ever with the partnership of Bill Gasarch. It has averaged almost 200 posts per year.
Ken and I wish to congratulate Lance—and Bill—on this great accomplishment.
The theory community would not have been the same this last decade were it not for their hard work. Their posts also have some computer-science attributes. One has been their efficiency. Another is maintaining "invariants" like we do—in their case, most notably the famous light-green background:
So we would like to thank Lance. Well besides doing so online, I can now just walk down the hall to the Chair's Office, while Ken can go through a specially-tight kind of social network. Ken calls this the "-Mate Graph": roommate, officemate, housemate, mate-mate…, with links defined by shared living or work space. Ken's wife's college roommate's husband shared an office with Lance while they were graduate students at MIT. We both look forward to many more years of keeping Lance "in the family" and online.
Early Posts, and a Comment on Comments
Lance has noted the brief first post he made ten years ago today, while his post the following day had the first complexity content. It noted a "breakthrough result," record attendance at the Complexity 2002 conference, and Madhu Sudan's Nevanlinna Prize. Then it asked a question about randomness which we reproduce below. The next post gave a nice evocation on changes in how results are communicated, along lines we recently covered.
Then came a pre-announcement of an invariant feature, the "Complexity Class of the Week." Nice to relate, the first one, the class , connects Buffalo to Georgia Tech. Namely, Alan Selman's student Samik Sengupta showed that if has polynomial-sized circuits then the polynomial hierarchy collapses to . This class sits inside the original upper bound from my theorem with Dick Karp, and inside improved upper bounds such as that came later.
This post also was the first one to draw a comment—but the comment itself came in October 2010 and was undoubtedly intended for a different post. It took a long time for real-time comments—by members of the community and onlookers alike—to become a feature of the blog.
Now many of Lance and Bill's posts, especially on topical issues, have gathered many dozens of comments. This is an important function, as it enables timely conversations of the kind that Ken and I would experience on such a scale only at conferences, often months after the fact. Comments do mean a lot of below-the-surface work for the bloggers, not so much in syntactically "moderating" them but in semantically moderating the discussions when needed or as appropriate. We are thankful that the theory community has for the most part been substantive, well-behaved, and constructive.
Open Problems
Lance's second post passed on a query from Joe Kilian, and since comments weren't in effect then, maybe it is timely now:
Primality, until now, has always been the key example of a problem that we knew how to solve quickly with a probabilistic algorithm but not without using randomness. If the new primality algorithm had been discovered in the 70's would randomized complexity still have developed as well as it did?
Again, we wish the Computational Complexity weblog many more years.
Update: Lance tells me (Ken) that Blogger did not have a comments option when he started. He used a third-party method, but those comments are now lost.
Istvan permalinkAugust 22, 2012 11:22 pm
The intersection of FPRAS and sharp-P is not empty, so still there is a place for random algorithms/randomized complexity. So unless FP = sharp-P, random algorithms remain important.
Istvan permalinkAugust 23, 2012 12:03 am
Whoops, I ment that the intersection of FPRAS and sharp-P-complete is not empty… So unless FP = sharp-P random algorithms remain important, since some of the 'hard' counting problems are easy to approximate.


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Screwed stars some of the UK's best acting talent including James D'Arcy (W.E, Master & Commander), BAFTA Award winning actor Noel Clarke (Kidulthood, 188.8.131.52) Frank Harper (The Football Factory), Jamie Foreman (Layer Cake), Andrew Shim (This Is England) and Kate Magowan (Stardust).
Fresh from a traumatic tour of Iraq, Sam Norwood (James D'Arcy) finds himself forced to take a job as a Prison Officer in one of her Majesty's most brutal institutions. On the inside he learns the ropes from his colleagues, a bunch of hardened 'screws', but his life begins to spiral out of control as he drinks and takes drugs to help him deal with the stresses and strains of the job and his past. As he nears rock-bottom, he is unprepared to learn the hardest lesson of all: that the screws are often as corrupt as the criminals they keep.
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