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Watch Matlab do parallel computing on a GPU very easily and quickly? Why use R, Hadoop, MapReduce, HBASE, etc?
Why use R which seems kind of premature compared to Matlab?
2Even if you used this Revolutionary Analytics project with Hadoop, you still have so much to set up and manage compared to Matlab's Parallel Toolbox. This R project is no where complete as compared to the maturity of Matlab.
Regardless of cost, I still feel this makes you much more productive as compared to setting and up managing hardware and underlying technologies like Hadoop/HBASE/MapReduce etc with R. It just seems to me, it would not add up as compared to the productivity you get out box with Matlab. Sometimes the cost of time needs to be factored into something like open source technologies which are free. Just my worthless two cents.
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Quant analytics: Do big data use cases require the data to be stored? Hadoop? MapReduce?
Recently I checked out some Hadoop use cases like index building, text analytics, etc, and it seems that most of them don't really want to save the data, only do the analysis, and then save the results – indexes, summary of text with link to source. It seems like Stream processing would be much more suitable and cost effect.
you need to do both. Regardless of whether or not you're a product manager for a stream processing solution. Normally, I would have deleted this post but am going to let it stand as a stark reminder to others who might think of posting something so self serving.
I would love to learn more how Stream processing can help there.
From my limited perspective I can say, many use Hadoop for performing machine-learning tasks for which batch-oriented computation is a great fit. Many use Hadoop for Top-K-like analysis which can be quite memory-demanding if not temporary results are serialized to disk. Recently, Hadoop gets used to build indexes on highly-dimensional data which used to be Relational DB's turf.
Can you give us some examples how Stream processing helps with these problems, or which tasks specifically can be better solved with Stream processing than with MapReduce?
Every use case is different. However many people like hadoop because it gives them a simple and inexpensive way to retain raw data for longer. IE before hadoop an enterprise could only store 2 months of raw logs and would have to summarize and delete, now with hadoop users can keep that raw data longer.
there are implementations of stream based map/reduce (several co's have them now). This allows the capabilities to be mixed and matched depending upon the specific use case. I think here is a cost/benefit analysis of processing data in flight vs the cost of storage because he's the product manager for Infostreams. The better way to look at this is to understand what real-time benefits can be realized in addition to storing the data for later research, etc. I have asked for some use cases before from the group to highlight what might be a standard big data, low latency data flow. I will post one of those diagrams later today that we use to explain this process.
you need both. Cloudscale (cloudscale.com) allows the same analytics program to run unchanged on, for example, two years of historical data (MapReduce-style) or on a live realtime stream coming in at a rate of millions of events per second (StreamProcessing-style). If you want our in-memory analytics engine in the cloud (AWS) we use S3 storage for the former, and AWS cluster nodes with dedicated 10GigE for the latter.
Stream beats MapReduce by 1000x or so in any case where low latency matters, i.e. where you have a window of between say 0.1sec to 10secs to go from raw data to analytics to action. The list of such applications in business, web, finance and gov is long and getting longer every day.
I just posted a presentation that shows one or two use cases incorporating streaming mr and traditional batch mr. Please comment as voraciously as I do….
Hadoop is not really meant for real time stream processing. I am interested in this area and have been learning about S4 from Apache and Storm from Twitter for real time distributed scalable stream processing.
Its important to remember that a lot of companies treat their Hadoop cluster as if its part of their 'sekret' sauce. That is its protected IP and it doesn't get talked about.
Agree that if you are doing analytic over long time horizon stream processing is not the way. However if your processing does not require any kind of history or even if it does and the time window is very short, stream processing is the right way, if real time response is critical.
One scenario where you need both is fraud prediction. You might build the prediction model using Hadoop through batch processing. But to detect fraud based on events that are happening now, you need real time stream processing, which will use the prediction model. You want to detect fraud now rather than through some batch process 2 hours from now, when the damage may already have been done.
Thanks for all the feedback – I'm certainly aware of many use cases that require both – create mining models, or text models with warehouses or hadoop historic data, then load into a Streaming system to detect and take action in real time. The group I work with offers a hadoop distribution and also warehouses, so it's natural we have those use cases. You can certainly interpret that I was fishing, but I really was interested to learn. It seems there are many use cases where they don't really want to save the data, such as sentiment analysis or geospatial or event processing. So, why was hadoop used? There weren't robust enough (or any depending on how long ago) streaming solutions?
Hadoop was used because you need to save the data. Disk is cheap. Infostreams is not. There have been streaming processing solutions now for close to 10 years. There have been EAI solutions (remember event processing before CEP?) for the past 20 years. They save the data because it's easier and so that it can be examined later. Specifically, in many instances, the creating of inverted indexes is often re-examined in the construction of complex keys (keys with embedded meaning) and to do that, even if you created the initial index with a stream processor, you might need to re-calculate those indexes down the road. If you didn't store the base info, you can't do that. You say you work with the group at IBM that offers Hadoop; perhaps they might have some insight into why they've persisted data for your clients?
The most obvious (extreme) cases where it *sometimes* makes sense to delete the primary raw data after high velocity live streaming analysis are certain RFID, sensor and location apps, where the raw data is a highly synchronous high frequency firehose, but it's amenable to simple, fast extreme compression, with no significant loss of information with respect to those apps.
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Even the CIA Thought the Steele Dossier Was Crap by Larry C Johnson
Well what do you know? John Brennan, the congenital liar and Obama's CIA Chief, actually made the right call when it came to the Steele Dossier. More importantly, we discover that Brennan inadvertently admitted that there was no substance to the Steele Dossier. If he had one shred of supporting evidence, you can be assured he would have been fully on board with the FBI request. But that is not what happened. According to a Senate Intelligence Committee report declassified this week, Brennan pushed back against the FBI's Jimmy Comey and Andy McCabe on the matter of whether to include the allegations reported in the Steele Dossier in the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian Interference in the U.S. Presidential Election. Chuck Ross reports that:
Documents declassified on Tuesday detail an intense debate between the CIA and FBI in late 2016 over the handling of information from Christopher Steele, with one CIA official telling the Senate Intelligence Committee that the former British spy's allegations about Trump-Russia collusion were "very unvetted."
Despite the CIA's concerns about Steele's allegations, the FBI successfully lobbied to include his information in an Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election. The bureau also continued using information from Steele to conduct surveillance against former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
Investigators have since debunked several of Steele's allegations.
The newly declassified information is from a Senate Intelligence Committee report released on April 21 that detailed the creation of an ICA released on Jan. 6, 2017.
I disputed the validity of Steele's work way back in January 2017, after BuzzFeed published the dossier. The errors and outlandish claims were so flagrant that even renowned Helen Keller, were she still alive, could see the problems. But I was wrong in believing that the media were capable of honest analysis or following simple logic. As a result, Steele's claims went virtually unchallenged by meme makers for more than two years and the American public was bombarded with the gargantuan lie that Russia's meddling in the 2016 Presidential Election paved the road for Donald Trump's victory. Democrats and media cretins insisted that Trump is nothing more than Putin's prison bitch.
But cold, hard facts began to emerge that exposed the falsehoods of the Steele document. The biggest blow came courtesy of DOJ Inspector General Horowitz's revelation that the FBI had identified and interviewed Steele's Russian sub-source and learned that he could not corroborate any of the wild, scurrilous claims made by Steele.
Now we have learned the identify to that source--Igor Danchenko. He is a Russian-born analyst living in the United States and was the primary source for Christopher Steele. More importantly, he is directly linked to prominent Democrats closely tied to Hillary Clinton. In particular, Strobe Talbott:
According to information he put online, Danchenko attended high schools in the United States in the 1990s as part of a student exchange program. He graduated from Perm State University in Russia and received a master's degree from the University of Louisville in 2005.
He worked for five years at the Brookings Institution as a Russia analyst. While there, he wrote a paper with Fiona Hill, who joined the Trump White House in 2017 as its top Russia expert.
Brookings has played a large role in the dossier saga. In 2016, it's then-president, Strobe Talbott, contacted Steele seeking a copy of the dossier. Hill told Congress last year that Talbott shared a copy of the dossier with her on Jan. 9, 2017, a day before BuzzFeed published the document online.
Christopher Steele's veracity and judgment took another hit in early July when a British Judge ruled he was guilty of libel in his claim that Russia's Alfa bank was part of an elaborate money laundering scheme that enriched Donald Trump.
The latest revelation from the Senate Intelligence Committee makes it clear that l'affaire Steele was an FBI creation. I assumed previously that the CIA also was involved in helping feed and prop up the Steele Dossier. But the Senate Report makes it very clear that the CIA put no stock whatsoever in Steele's claims. Shocking as it may be, the congenital miscreant, John Brennan, actually did the right thing and resisted repeated efforts by the FBI leaders--Jim Comey and Andy McCabe--to insert Steele's findings into the Intelligence Community Assessment on Russia's meddling.
This really puts Jim Comey and Andy McCabe in the trick box. If the CIA had facilitated the Steele Dossier and corroborated its claims, then Comey and McCabe could argue that they were relying on intelligence community findings in their acceptance of the Steele Dossier. That cannot go that route. They are fully exposed.
Comey and McCabe committed a fraud on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court by repeatedly submitting an application to spy on Carter Page that affirmed the allegations in the Steele Dossier as truthful. They knew by the end of January 2017 that Steele's claims were unfounded and not corroborated. But instead of fessing up to the FISC Judge, they opted to lie.
This is not to suggest that John Brennan and Jimmy Clapper, the former DNI Chief, are exonerated of illegal conduct. Au contraire. They oversaw a massive intelligence collection operation, which included covert actions designed to ensnare George Papadopoulos, Michael Flynn, Roger Stone and others and to promote the meme that Trump was a creature of Moscow.
One of the most important takeaways from this week's revelations is the tacit admission that the intelligence community did not have a damn piece of compromising information on Donald Trump. Consider this--we know that John Brennan had access to parts of the Steele dossier in August 2016 and he briefed Democrat Senator Harry Reid on its contents. And there is no doubt that the members of Brennan's Trump Task Force at the CIA was tasked to scour all intelligence for proof that would transform Steele's trash into pure gold. But that did not happen. Instead, come December 2016, even John Brennan had to concede that Christopher Steele's wild claims could nor be corroborated nor verified.
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Brennan did not want the peepee dossier included, because it would expose himself as the dirty cop running the whole transnational Obamagate hit operation on DJTrump. Ya think? I suspect Brennan pushed back with a wink, when he confronted Comey.
Posted by: Deap | 30 July 2020 at 09:41 PM
Latest wrinkle - push Susan Rice for VP since you can't conduct investigations on a candidate that may "interfere with an election?
Impeachment didn't work, covid delays didn't work, burning cities down didn't work, attacking federal court houses didn't work, police brutality race riots didn't work, sticking it to Barr during the Judiciary hearing didn't work, Russiagate still plods on.
Time to bring in Obama fixer Susan Rice as Biden's VP 'candidate" just to finally put the screws on the Russiagate investigations. Is Rice their insurance policy?
Deap,
Rice isn't going to be the first to be getting investigated and running for office, or being in office, isn't going to protect her. You want to cut out her value as a shield for Barack and Biden then Pardon Obama. He'll enjoy testifying before a grand jury about what went on with nothing but a possible perjury charge to worry about.
Posted by: Fred | 30 July 2020 at 11:16 PM
How does someone like Brennan, a supposed Muslim and admitted supporter of Marxism, get a job mopping the floors at the Department of Labor, much less get hired on by the CIA?
Is the agency that corrupt or simply incompetent?
Posted by: Vegetius | 31 July 2020 at 12:45 AM
More on Igor Danchenko, Steele's main source for the dossier:
"The mysterious "Primary Subsource" that Christopher Steele has long hidden behind to defend his discredited Trump-Russia dossier is a former Brookings Institution analyst -- Igor "Iggy" Danchenko, a Russian national whose past includes criminal convictions and other personal baggage ignored by the FBI in vetting him and the information he fed to Steele...
The 42-year-old Danchenko, who was hired by Steele in 2016 to deploy a network of sources to dig up dirt on Trump and Russia for the Hillary Clinton campaign, was arrested, jailed and convicted years earlier on multiple public drunkenness and disorderly conduct charges in the Washington area and ordered to undergo substance-abuse and mental-health counseling, according to criminal records...
A newly declassified FBI summary of the FBI-Danchenko meeting reveals agents learned that key allegations in the dossier, which claimed Trump engaged in a "well-developed conspiracy of cooperation" with the Kremlin against Clinton, were largely inspired by gossip and bar talk among Danchenko and his drinking buddies, most of whom were childhood friends from Russia...
In March 2013 — three years before Danchenko began working on the dossier — federal authorities in Greenbelt, Md., arrested and charged him with several misdemeanors, including "drunk in public, disorderly conduct, and failure to have his [2-year-old] child in a safety seat," according to a court filing. The U.S. prosecutor for Maryland at the time was Rosenstein, whose name appears in the docket filings."
Danchenko was at the Brookings InStitute and was a protege of Fiona Hill. Strobe Talbot and his brother-in-law Cody Shearer were also involved in the group.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/07/24/meet_steele_dossiers_primary_subsource_fabulist_russian_at_us_think_tank_whose_boozy_past_the_fbi_ignored_124601.html
Posted by: johnf | 31 July 2020 at 02:11 AM
" covert actions designed to ensnare George Papadopoulos, Michael Flynn, Roger Stone and others and to promote the meme that Trump was a creature of Moscow."
So there are massive covert actions designed to promote memes then.
Posted by: Mathias Alexander | 31 July 2020 at 03:36 AM
Still this odd lacuna in the investigation.
We've become very familiar with Christopher Steele and his doings, often through statements or justifications in the media put out by Sir Richard Dearlove or by journalists with the same aims as Steele. We hear increasingly more about Mr Steele's actions and contacts at the American end as he worked at circulating and promoting his dossier.
But that's it. No further questions. Mr Steele himself seems to be taken for granted. A senior ex-Intelligence Officer, with continuing close contact with British Intelligence up to a senior level, meddling in American politics? Most normal thing in the world. Nothing out of the way there.
Like hell. The American authorities won't get to the bottom of Russiagate until they stop pretending it was nothing to do with HMG.
Posted by: English Outsider | 31 July 2020 at 06:19 AM
Mathias Alexander
Yes, in all the major countries.
Posted by: turcopolier | 31 July 2020 at 09:24 AM
Vegetius
I vote for incompetent.
EO,
You are correct about HMG. British Intel and their Anglophile cousins in US Intel ran/are running this coup. But Republicans would rather lazily bash Russia than think critically on the subject. There will be no real justice until this changes.
Posted by: Rick Merlotti | 31 July 2020 at 03:43 PM
The Theresa May (and probably the Cameron) governments were obviously involved in the campaign to derail the Trump Campaign and his nascent Presidency. This was probably from promptings by anti-Trump elements within the American intelligence community and Trump's anti-NATO stance.
To keep everything at arms length they employed Steele through his private company Orbis.
You can see the British involvement through PM Theresa May's horrified reaction to Trump's surprise election when, realizing Britain's blunder, with indecent haste she crossed the Atlantic as soon as he was inaugurated and held his hand in the Rose Garden.
Relations between the two countries remained frosty until Boris Johnson turned up. Elements of his nascent foreign policy are (probably) more closely aligned to Trump's.
Steele is now employed by the British Intelligence establishment to smear Johnson as a Russian agent.
Posted by: johnf | 01 August 2020 at 02:46 AM
johnf - if Mrs May was in the loop so was Mr Johnson. He'll have been briefed at the latest when he became PM and should have been briefed earlier.
Thing is, they must have been briefed to some extent. Never mind speculation about what happened earlier. The dossier scandal exploded in late 2016. There was no ignoring it. Any PM would ask "What's one of our people doing getting involved in all this?" and as a matter of course they'd have distanced HMG from the scandal.
They didn't. According to one of the experts here - Mr Habakkuk - they might have been on the point of disavowing Steele at one time. At the least it must have been one of the options discussed. We don't know why that option wasn't taken.
Turn it round the other way. Say some US Intelligence Officer spread scandal about Mr Johnson at the time he became PM. That's not what one friendly power does to another and no matter whether the scandal was true or not the US government would automatically distance itself from the affair. Or they would if they wanted to remain on friendly terms with HMG.
Turn it back round and you'll see that there are two indisputable facts. The scandal was spread by an ex UK Intelligence Officer. HMG did nothing to distance itself. That though the scandal was and remained politically embarrassing to the new President.
Odd as hell, the whole thing.
Trump's got an election coming up. Johnson, though he's got a spanking majority, is not that secure as PM and has got to get the Brexit deal squared away pretty soon. Maybe the thing'll be swept under the carpet until those two things are done.
Maybe it'll be swept under the carpet permanently.
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Thiel celebrating alumni, faculty, staff and students at College's Martin Luther King event
1/14/20 | Read Full Story  Print
Thiel College announces that as part of the celebration and recognition of Martin Luther King Jr., it will host its second annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Banquet that will honor members of the Thiel College community who embody the ideals of the civil rights leader.
Fred Staloff's selected works on display at Thiel College's Weyers-Sampson Gallery
Thiel College's Weyers-Sampson Gallery will present the works of Fred Staloff on loan from the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio.
Forbes magazine continues its recognition of Thiel College and its alumni for their giving
Thiel College continues its recent run of recognition from the leading financial news magazine Forbes, marking the second straight year it was among the 200 colleges and universities with the most generous alumni.
A look back at the College's Top 10 stories from 2019
12/31/19 | Read Full Story  Print
Stories about student and alumni achievement were among some of the most popular items in the Thiel College Newsroom in 2019. But one story stood out far above all the others in 2019. The following are the Top 10 stories based on the number of views in the Thiel College Newsroom, media attention and social media impact.
Thiel College announces role as a host site for Bike MS: Escape to the Lake 2020 event
Thiel College announces that it will be the overnight host in late spring 2020 for about 500 cyclists and volunteers as part of the Bike MS: Escape to the Lake 2020 fundraising ride that generates about $500,000 annually to fight multiple sclerosis.
New faces add flair to community tradition of Thiel College's 67th Annual Christmas Festival
The Thiel College Department of Music and Theatre presents its 67th Annual Thiel Christmas Festival Concert at 4 p.m. Dec. 8 in the William A. Passavant Memorial Center.
Thiel ensembles performing in Pittsburgh on Light Up Night; fraternity collecting for upcoming walk
Pittsburgh-area alumni and friends will get a special preview of Thiel College's 67th Christmas Festival with a special performance at First English Lutheran Church as part of 6 p.m. Vespers during the city's "Light -Up Night" on November 22.
Thiel College senior awarded national achievement scholarship from Zeta Tau Alpha
Thiel College senior Angela Campbell '20, a sociology, criminal justice and psychology major with minors in political science and legal studies, was one of 299 scholarship recipients from Zeta Tau Alpha women's fraternity for the 2019–2020 academic year.


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Server Images

It is a high performance image compatible with a specific canvas. It is
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You can make gets and puts on several canvases but they must be created
  using the same driver. It is possible to specify a part of the image to be
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It is called "server" images because the data is stored in a system private
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To create a server image there must be an active canvas of a driver with
  server image support. Only the base drivers Win32, GDI+, X-Windows, XRender
	and Cairo, support server images.

cdImage* cdCanvasCreateImage(cdCanvas* canvas, int w, int h); [in C]

canvas:CreateImage(w, h: number) -> (image: cdImage) [in Lua]

Creates a compatible image with size = <tt>w x h</tt> pixels. A
  compatible image has the same color representation (number of bits per pixel)
  of the active canvas. Once the server image is created it is independent of
  the active canvas. The server image can only be used with an other canvas of
  the same type as the canvas that was active when the image was created. The
  default background is the same as the canvas, <tt>CD_WHITE</tt>.

void cdKillImage(cdImage* image); [in C]

image:KillImage() [in Lua]

Liberates memory allocated for the image. If this function is not called in
  Lua, the garbage collector will call it.

void cdCanvasGetImage(cdCanvas* canvas, cdImage* image, int x, int y); [in C]

canvas:GetImage(image: cdImage; x, y: number) [in Lua]

Copies a rectangular region from the current rectangular context to the
  memory (<tt>image</tt>). <tt>(x,y)</tt>
  is the coordinate of the bottom left corner of the rectangular region. The
  width and length of the rectangular region are defined in the image structure
  (when the image is created).

void cdCanvasPutImageRect(cdCanvas* canvas, cdImage* image, int x, int y, int xmin, int xmax, int ymin, int ymax); [in C]
void wdCanvasPutImageRect(cdCanvas* canvas, cdImage* image, double x, double y, int xmin, int xmax, int ymin, int ymax); (WC) [in C]

canvas:PutImageRect(image: cdImage; x, y, xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax: number) [in Lua]
canvas:wPutImageRect(image: cdImage; x, y, xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax: number) (WC) [in Lua]

Copies an image in a rectangular region of the canvas with the bottom left
  corner in <tt>(x,y)</tt>. Allows specifying a rectangle inside the
  image to be drawn, if xmin,
  xmax, ymin
  and ymax are 0, then the whole
  image is assumed.

void cdCanvasScrollArea(cdCanvas* canvas, int xmin, int xmax, int ymin, int ymax, int dx, int dy); [in C]

canvas:ScrollArea(xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax, dx, dy: number) [in Lua]

Copies the rectangle defined by the coordinates <tt>(xmin,ymin)</tt>
  and <tt>(xmax,ymax)</tt> to the rectangle defined by <tt>
  (xmin+dx,ymin+dy)</tt> and <tt>(xmax+dx,ymax+dy)</tt>. It has the
  same effect as <tt>cdGetImage</tt> followed by <tt>cdPutImage</tt>,
  but it should be faster and does not require the explicit creation of an image
  to be executed. Note that the region belonging to the first rectangle, but not
  to the second, remains unchanged (the function does not clean this region).

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Northlink College is a Government higher education institution situated in Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa. It is fully accredited by the Council on Higher Education and Department of Higher Education and Training (DoHET)(South Africa). The College is quality assured by the South African Council on Higher Education (CHE).

History

It was founded in 2002, after a South African Government decision to merge four colleges Wingfield Technical College, Tygerberg  College, Bellville Technical College and Belhar College

Name

It's called Northlink due to it being situated in the Northern Suburbs of Cape Town, and through its campuses links them together.

Campuses

Apart from the main campus on Voortrekker Road in Bellville it has campuses in
Belhar, Goodwood, Parow, Protea, Tygerberg and Wingfield

Courses

Northlink College offers undergraduate tertiary qualifications. The college is also involved in partnership with organizations

Student numbers

2015 numbers exceed 10 000.

Principal

Leon Beeck is heading the college.

Alumni

Theodore Jantjies, actor

References

Educational institutions established in 2002
Colleges in South Africa
2002 establishments in South Africa

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Quantum dots in brain could treat Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases
Health 9 July 2018
By Clare Wilson
Quantum dots may break up proteins in the brain that cause Parkinson's disease
May C. Schiess, Roger Back, UT Medical School/Science Photo Library
Tiny particles called quantum dots reduce symptoms in mice primed to develop a type of Parkinson's disease, and also block formation of the toxic protein clumps in Alzheimer's. They could one day be a novel treatment for these brain disorders, although tests in people are some years away.
Quantum dots are just a few nanometres in size – so small they become subject to some of the strange effects of quantum physics. They have useful electronic and fluorescent properties and are found in some TV screens and LED lights.
Unlike most medicines, their tiny size means they can pass from bloodstream into the brain. Byung Hee Hong of Seoul National University in the South Korea and his colleagues wondered if they would affect the molecules involved in Parkinson's or other brain disorders.
Parkinson's disease involves gradually worsening tremors and movement problems. It is thought to be caused by a protein called synuclein found in nerve cells folding into the wrong shape, which triggers a chain reaction of misfolding in nearby synuclein molecules. This leads to a build-up of long strands or "fibrils" of the protein, killing neurons.
Quantum surprise
Hong's team found that in a dish, quantum dots made from graphene – a form of carbon – bind to synuclein, and not only stop it from clumping into fibres, but also cause existing fibres to break up into individual molecules. "We didn't expect the quantum dots to induce disaggregation of fibrils," says Hong.
Next the team injected quantum dots into mice dosed with fibrils, which normally trigger gradually worsening movement problems. Six months later, the mice showed improvement on two different physical tests.
If the treatment affects people the same way, Hong says it is unclear how much benefit this would bring. "It's hard to translate the results in mice to actual patients, whose systems are way more complicated. But we do believe quantum dots can make positive impacts to some extent."
Read more: Parkinson's disease may start in the gut and travel to the brain
Another team has found that quantum dots show promise for Alzheimer's disease; in a similar fashion, they bind to a protein called amyloid, and reduce it from clumping together, a process thought to be involved in this dementia. However tests in an animal version of Alzheimer's haven't yet been reported.
"This might be a universal effect on any kind of fibrillation process related to disease," says Hong. His team is investigating using quantum dots in Alzheimer's and motor neuron disease – the condition that affected Stephen Hawking – which also involves protein clumping.
Sebastien Paillusson of King's College London, who was not involved in the work, says the findings in mice are promising, but should not raise anyone's hopes until the approach has been tested in people. "Unfortunately in Parkinson's there have been a lot of compounds shown to work in mice but not in humans."
Paillusson added, though, that it was unusual for anything to reverse the fibre-forming process. "This is a very novel approach."
Hong says if safety tests in animals go well, they hope to start trials in people in about two years.
Journal reference: Nature Nanotechnology, DOI: 10.1038/s41565-018-0179-y
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I just had a once in a lifetime experience when I went to see Blue Man Group and had a VIP Jam Session with Josh Matthews, the amazing drummer in The Blue Man Band.
Let me tell you, I have a lot of amazing experiences as a Kid Reporter, and I mean A LOT, but this was definitely the most unique, cool, and awesome one I've ever had.
My mom says that if you live in New York, you HAVE to experience Blue Man Group at least once, and I think she's right – but I'm adding that you also HAVE to experience jamming with a band member! It literally doubles the coolness and excitement that you already have when you're about to see the show, if that's even possible. And guess what? It is! I have to admit, I was a little nervous before I met Josh. I mean, he's in The Blue Man Band! And I'm in Fifth Grade!
My mom told me that Blue Man is all about being creative and not being uptight with rules and stuff, and she told me that she was sure that anyone in The Blue Man Band would automatically be cool and easygoing. She was right!! From the second I met Josh, I felt comfortable and ready to rock! I felt like I was not just with a member of the band, but like I WAS a part of the band, and it was AMAZING!
We went into a private room that had a custom built instrument and UV lighting ( the UV light made cool pictures made of special paint show up on the wall) made me feel like I was a rock star before I even started playing. Josh handed me some drumsticks, gave me a little tutorial, and then he started a beat that I played along with and it felt SO AMAZING to be playing right by a MASTER Rocker! I never played drums (or a custom built Blue Man instrument, obviously) and I was really surprised at how I could keep up with the rhythm. Then it was time for the Grand Finale when he turned on some Blue Man Music and we played along and I felt like I really was a true Rock Star! I even discovered that I'm kind of good at playing drums!
It's hard to describe just how awesome this experience was. I really felt special and like I was having a really unique experience, but at the same time, I felt like I was with a good friend of mine that I have known forever. And I had only met Josh like half an hour ago! Want to feel like a rock star before you see Blue Man Group? Then you HAVE to experience a VIP Jam Session! It makes going to see Blue Man Group even more amazing – and that isn't an easy thing to do, that show is so fun and, well, as they say, "hard to describe but easy to love" – but I'll get to the actual show later! Check out my Kid-Terview with my new friend Josh Matthews, who let me sit in with him while he was getting ready for the show. Yes, I'm very lucky… but you're lucky too, because you can "sit in" with us and watch him prepare along with me, and hear his awesome answers and advice!
Josh really rocks, don't you agree? And now…it's showtime! Time for me to see (and hear) Josh in action as he plays in the Blue Man Band for Blue Man Group! We put our raincoats on (VIP Jam Session tickets give you the best seats, also!) and got ready for … anything. There was a big group behind me on a school trip from Michigan (Hmm, I guess they took "Go Blue " literally… or should I say "Go BLUE MAN GROUP! [corny joke alert!] ) and they did not know what to expect. My mom and I were like, "Just wait. Your mind is about to be blown." My mom thought it was cool that their "New York Experience" was to see Blue Man Group and said they were definitely in the right place to experience our city.
As you see, the fun starts even before the show starts! The teleprompters scroll funny things that gets everyone in the audience in the mood for fun, and they definitely throw in some hysterical surprises! There is excitement in the air and then Blue Man Group comes out, looking kind of confused, and the band is up high on top of the action, and just like Josh said, the music they make sets the mood and lets us into what is going inside their minds! Now we know why Blue Man Group doesn't speak – they have an awesome band to do it for them! Although they also play drums, of course….
I definitely paid special attention to how the band worked with them, and how they created suspense and added to the experience of sitting there nervously as the Blue Man Group went out into the audience, searching for someone….and they also created excitement and fun when the drums exploded and everyone went crazy with rock star movements…and sometimes, the band just stopped and everything was quiet. As for the show itself, it's SO AWESOME! It's like a million things at once – color, music, drums, paint, captain crunch, paint balls, strobe lights, twinkies, toilet paper – YES I SAID TOILET PAPER – and it's the most interesting and unique fun you can have in New York City. Like my mom says, everyone has to see it once, if you live here in NYC, or if you live somewhere else, like Michigan. GO BLUE MAN! I promise, you will love the band, the show, The Blue Man Group, and the toilet paper.
After the show, if you're lucky enough to have a VIP Experience ticket (which is separate from the Jam Session) you can even hang out with Blue Man Group and ask them questions (and find out for yourself if they actually ever DO speak) -and you can even take home a really cool souvenir… that was another amazing experience that I will remember forever!
The coolest blue guys you'll ever meet!
You really have to experience Blue Man Group for yourself to know what I mean, and when you do, make sure you look up at the band and wave to Josh for me! Once you experience it, I dare you to try to describe it….but I won't have to dare you to love it.
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* Convenience method that estimates the trip departure time rather than explicitly requesting it.
* Convenience method, clarifying that this can be called without giving the mode.
Class acting as an intermediate between clients needing to compute routes and all registered RoutingModules. It provides convenience methods to route an individual trip with a desired mode or to identify trips.
See tutorial.programming.ownMobsimAgentUsingRouter.RunOwnMobsimAgentUsingRouterExample for an example how to use this API from your own code. See tutorial.programming.example12PluggableTripRouter.RunPluggableTripRouterExample and tutorial.programming.example13MultiStageTripRouting.RunTeleportationMobsimWithCustomRoutingExample for examples how to extend or replace this behavior with your own.
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Gives access to the stage activity types, for all modes.
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Prem Ratan Dhan Payo Trailer: Prem is Back!
1. Oktober 2015 /in Allgemein /von Nabela Ali
Salman Khan & Sooraj Barjatya come together after a span of 16 years to mesmerize you!
#PremIsBack with his charm in this magnum opus! Also starring Sonam Kapoor, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Anupam Kher and others.
Produced by Rajshri Productions (P) Ltd and presented by Fox Star Studios, Prem Ratan Dhan Payo releases this Diwali on 12th November 2015!
Story: Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (English: Got the Treasure of Love) also known as "PRDP" is an upcoming Indian family drama film, directed by Sooraj Barjatya. Salman Khan will be seen in a double role. As 'Prem' he is a Prince while 'Vijay' is a fighter. Khan was last seen in a double role inJudwaa. Salman and Barjatya have previously worked onMaine Pyar Kiya and Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! The film is produced under Rajshree Productions best known for "Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!", Hum Saath-Saath Hain andVivah. It stars Salman Khan, Sonam Kapoor, Neil Nitin Mukesh in lead roles, with Swara Bhaskar in supporting roles.
Principal photography began in June 2014 and the film is scheduled for release on 12 November 2015 coinciding with the Diwali weekend in Hindi,Telgu and Tamil Languages.
Its first teaser poster released on 29 september 2015.
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package storage

import (
	"bytes"
	"context"
	"io"
	"io/ioutil"
	"math/rand"
	"testing"
	"time"

	"github.com/marpio/mirror/crypto"
	"github.com/marpio/mirror/storage/remotebackend"
	"github.com/spf13/afero"
)

const encKey = "b567ef1d391e8a10d94100faa34b7d28fdab13e3f51f94b8"

var ctx context.Context = context.Background()

type readCloser struct {
	io.Reader
}

func (readCloser) Close() error { return nil }

type writeCloser struct {
	io.Writer
}

func (writeCloser) Close() error { return nil }

func TestWriteRead(t *testing.T) {
	afs := afero.NewMemMapFs()
	b := remotebackend.NewFileSystem(afs)
	c := crypto.NewService(encKey)
	rs := NewRemote(b, c)

	path1 := "path1"
	sizes := []int{10, 1000, 65536, 80000, 131072, 328000, 1234567}
	rand.Seed(time.Now().Unix())
	for _, s := range sizes {
		data := make([]byte, s)
		for i := 0; i < s; i++ {
			data[i] = byte(rand.Intn(256))
		}
		w := rs.NewWriter(ctx, path1)

		io.Copy(w, bytes.NewReader(data[:]))
		w.Close()

		r, _ := rs.NewReader(ctx, path1)
		var dst bytes.Buffer
		_, err := io.Copy(&dst, r)
		if err != nil {
			t.Errorf("error reading from remote storage: %v", err.Error())
		}
		r.Close()

		f, _ := afs.Open(path1)
		res, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(f)
		blockSize := c.BlockSize()
		addOne := len(data)%blockSize != 0
		var mult int
		if addOne {
			mult = len(data)/blockSize + 1
		} else {
			mult = len(data) / blockSize
		}
		expectedLen := mult*(c.NonceSize()+c.Overhead()) + len(data)
		actualLen := len(res)
		if actualLen != expectedLen {
			t.Errorf("expected len of the uploaded data: %v, actual: %v. data not written or encryption broken.", expectedLen, actualLen)
		}

		if !bytes.Equal(data[:], dst.Bytes()) {
			t.Error("downloaded data does not match the uploaded.")
		}
	}
}


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Daily Fantasy Basketball
DeMar DeRozan ruled out Thursday vs. Pelicans [UPDATE]
Bulls All-Star is dealing with a adductor injury and may be held out.
By Benjamin Zweiman@BenZweimanDKN Updated Mar 24, 2022, 11:00am PDT
Share All sharing options for: DeMar DeRozan ruled out Thursday vs. Pelicans [UPDATE]
Update, March 24 — DeRozan has been ruled out for Thursday night's game vs. the Pelicans. Zach LaVine is available to play. We could see Coby White or Ayo Dosunmu enter the starting lineup in place of DeRozan. Williams is also a candidate for that. All three of those players will see a bit of a bump in usage. LaVine becomes the go-to scorer with DeRozan sidelined.
Chicago Bulls SF DeMar DeRozan is questionable to play in Thursday night's game vs. the New Orleans Pelicans due to an adductor strain. That's a fancy way of saying DeRozan is dealing with a groin injury. The Bulls are coming off another blowout loss to the Milwaukee Bucks and remain winless against the top teams in the Eastern Conference this season. If DeRozan sits, it could mean more woes for Chicago.
If DeRozan ends up being out, we can lean on Zach LaVine in GPPs on DraftKings. Both players haven't been spectacular lately, as you can see by how the Bulls are performing. LaVine will need to step things up on offense if DeRozan is out. Patrick Williams is back and could end up in the starting lineup for DeRozan. The second-year wing has been on a minutes restriction, however, so he's not as viable a fantasy basketball option.
This definitely feels like a spot we can lean into the Pelicans, though they are also dealing with an injury to Brandon Ingram. With Ingram doubtful, New Orleans and Chicago are more even. The over/under could be a good way to approach this game. Or just slamming player props given the potential lack of defense.


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Q: How does firefox achieve rendering PDFs as HTML when their own PDF.js only renders to either canvas or svg? It appears firefox uses PDF.js to render a PDF file as HTML when loading it. Using Inspect Element, its clear that the PDF has been converted to HTML. But PDF.js claims it only supports rendering to either canvas or SVG. I would like to include a PDF file into my website in such a way that it feels like an extension of the website (ie, no pages, no borders, just flowing text). PDF.js seams to perfect choice for this, unfortunately when rendering to canvas, it becomes impossible to select the text. And their SVG implementation is incomplete.
So does PDF.js actually support rendering to HTML? If no, how does Firefox do it? And could I use whatever that is to preprocess my PDF files to HTML? If yes, why are there no resources on how to render to HTML?

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Melody Gardot's debut recording, released in 2007, came two years after she suffered a near fatal automobile accident, the differently able Gardot triumphing in accomplishing what many others, including her, could only dream of. This project has her singing and playing guitar and a little piano, but more so presenting this project of all original material. Gardot has an interesting personal story, but even more intriguing music that straddles the line between lounge jazz, folk, and cowgirl songs. She's part sophisticated chanteuse, college sophomore, and down-home girl next door. Her innocence, sweetness, and light are very alluring, much like the persona of tragic songbirds Eva Cassidy and Nancy LaMott. Feel empathy for Gardot, but don't patronize her — she's the real deal much more that many of her over-hyped peers. "Quiet Fire" is definitely her signature tune, as it speaks volumes of where her soul is at, in a jazz/blues mode, yearning for true love. The title track follows a similar tack, a slow, sweet, sentimental slinky blues that will melt your heart. A finger-snapping "Goodnite" leaves you wanting that night to continue, but also exudes a hope that permeates the entire recording. She might be a bit down on men during the nonplussed "All That I Need Is Love," but her subdued optimism glows cool. "Sweet Memory" might possibly parallel Feist or perhaps KT Tunstall in a rural country mode, while "Gone" is clearly folkish, and the slow "Some Lessons" expresses a contemporary Nashville precept. The laid-back music behind Gardot is basically acoustic, incorporating hip jazz instrumentation, especially the trumpet of Patrick Hughes and occasional organ, Wurlitzer, or Fender Rhodes from Joel Bryant, but with twists including violin, lap steel, and Dobro. The concise nature of this recording and these tunes perfectly reflects the realization that life is precious, every moment counts, and satisfaction is fleeting. Likely to be placed in the Norah Jones/Nellie McKay/Madeleine Peyroux pseudo jazz/pop sweepstakes, Gardot offers something decidedly more authentic and genuine. She's one-upped them all out of the gate.
The story of vocalist Melody Gardot is as remarkable as any who perseveres against abject adversity. Born in New Jersey in 1985, she took up piano and played as a youngster on the nightclub scene of Philadelphia, influenced by jazz, folk, rock and pop musics. At age 19 she was a fashion student at the Community College Of Philadelphia.
But, on a fateful day, while riding her bicycle, the driver of a Jeep made an illegal turn, hurdling into Gardot and leaving her in the street for dead. Hospitalized for months with multiple head injuries and pelvic fractures, her love for music was the best therapy she could receive. While in her hospital bed, she wrote and recorded songs that would become the EP "Some Lessons." Upon her eventual release from intensive care, Gardot found the strength and determination to further her career as an artist. Blessed with a beautiful voice and grand insight as a songwriter, her cognitive powers slowly but surely became pronounced, leading to the independent recording and release of her debut CD, "Worrisome Heart," which was reissued in 2007 by Verve records. Her music could be described as a cross between Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Eva Cassidy and Shania Twain, but goes deeper than mere pop convention. Gardot is hypersensitive to light and noise, thus she wears dark glasses, and uses a cane to walk. On stage she requires a special seating unit, and wears a Transcutaneous Electro-Nerve Stimulator, a TENS device, to assist in alleviating her neuralgic muscle pain. As amazing as her story is, what is more evident is that she posesses a blue style and persona that reflects not only her afflictions, but conversely the hope and joy of making personalized music that marks her as an individual and original. Though touring is difficult, she has been performing in major cities on the East Coast to support her recordings.
Recently Melody can be heard on the latest USA TV Ad for the 2008 Chevrolet Malibu singing "I've Got You Under My Skin".
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Canine-assisted therapy uses dogs to promote health and healing. Like other animals, dogs are accepting, comforting and non-judgmental, making them ideal therapy companions. Therapy dogs undergo extensive training before working with patients.
Since the mid-1970s when canine therapy was introduced in clinical settings, this treatment has been offered in therapeutic boarding schools, special needs programs, hospitals, nursing homes, prisons and mental health facilities. It is effective for children, adolescents and adults.
A variety of people can benefit from canine therapy, including those with autism, learning disabilities, behavioral problems and substance abuse. It is particularly beneficial when the patient is resistant to treatment or struggles to communicate verbally. Because of its hands-on approach, canine therapy is also useful for children and teens that have difficulty focusing.
Following these tasks, the therapist processes the experience with the patient, gaining insights into their feelings about the experience as well as the way the lessons learned can apply to other situations.
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Because dogs often mirror the feelings of the patient, canine therapy can help teach people to manage their emotions. The calmer the patient is, the more agreeable the dog becomes.
Canine therapy can be immensely healing. Children and teens respond particularly well to canine therapy, developing trust and strong bonds with the animals. Many find it easier to open up and talk when the focus is on the dog. The therapist working with the patient can gain valuable insights by observing the interactions between patients and their canine companions.
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Happy Epiphany! This is a mountaintop near Sedona, AZ. I was there in 2009 and took this picture. The Frank Lloyd Wright inspired chapel is a favorite place.
18-21 But haven't there been plenty of opportunities for Israel to listen and understand what's going on? Plenty, I'd say.
Their message to earth's seven seas.
but cold shoulders and icy stares.
This passage encouragement to 'tell everyone' that when they trust in God and call on God to save our lives is also a frustrated rand that the people of Israel did not tell others of God's saving grace. And not only did Israel not tell about God, but got upset when the 'unworthy' were invited into a saving relationship with God. And, Paul accuses them of not faithfully living out their relationship with God.
Trusting God to guide each day, each moment; and trusting God over and over again each day . . . that's salvation. John Wesley saw it as a process. It is no wonder it understood it as a daily, eternal revealing of our lives after he read Paul.
I think we have a hard time surrendering to God. It would be better if we were like the boy on his knees, knowing our part is to mess things up and it is God's part to forgiving, again, and again, and again and set us on a good path again.
Surrendering to God means knowing that we are NOT God. That we are not capable of anything on our own, but with God all things are possible. It is a wonderful sense of humility and release that comes in letting go of all of the details and plans and pride; to know God sees us as we are, forgives us what we have done, and lets us begin again – healed – new – open to the possibilities that the day came bring to let God's light (not our light) shine through us.
It's a great way to being 2016.


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In an article written by Jason Kane for PBS News Hour, he states that the United States spends $8,233 per person on health care annually. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/health-costs-how-the-us-compares-with-other-countries/
"According to the CMS (Centers for Medicare/Medicaid Spending), the average American spent $9,596 on healthcare last year, up significantly from $7,700 in 2007. Healthcare spending per person is expected to surpass $10,000 in 2016 and then march steadily higher to $14,944 in 2023." http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/03/15/the-average-american-spends-this-much-on-healthcar.aspx
Compare this with American incomes: the Federal Reserve Economic Data website states that in 2015, median personal income in America was observed at $30,240 and mean personal income was at $44,510.
Median Income: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
Mean Income: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MAPAINUSA672N
ACA Pros: http://www.aarp.org/health/health-insurance/info-08-2013/affordable-care-act-health-benefits.html
Benefits of ACA: http://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/11/23/13719388/obamacare-health-insurance-repeal-trump
ACA CONS: Taxation as a punishment for not signing up, rising costs of insurance premiums, high deductibles from $10k – $50k.
ACA for CA state in 2017: Rising costs of insurance premiums and medical insurance in CA state: "But as Californians receive their premium rates for next year, some — including those who make too much to qualify for those government subsidies — are learning their hikes will be far higher than the average statewide increase of 13.2% announced by the state insurance exchange in July." http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-covered-california-premiums-20161026-story.html
ACA for WA State 2017: Rising costs of insurance premiums and medical insurance in WA state: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/health-insurance-premiums-rise-here-in-state-but-not-as-high-as-elsewhere/
Professor Peter C Gøtzsche graduated as a Master of Science in biology and chemistry in 1974 and as a physician in 1984. He is a specialist in internal medicine; worked with clinical trials and regulatory affairs in the drug industry 1975-1983, and at hospitals in Copenhagen 1984-95. With about 80 others, he helped start The Cochrane Collaboration in 1993 with the founder, Sir Iain Chalmers, and established The Nordic Cochrane Centre the same year. He became professor of Clinical Research Design and Analysis in 2010 at the University of Copenhagen.
Peter has published more than 70 papers in "the big five" (BMJ, Lancet, JAMA, Ann Intern Med and N Engl J Med) and his scientific works have been cited over 15,000 times. Peter has also authored 3 other books.
"Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime" written in 2013 by Professor Peter C Gøtzsche.
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"And screening has not reduced the number of advanced cancers, 3 which is a prerequisite for screening to work. In Denmark, the overdiagnosis was 33% after 17 years with screening, 4 in good agreement with the 30% estimate from the trials."
http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(12)61216-1.pdf
Dr. Atul Gawande's TED Talk from March 2012:
https://www.ted.com/talks/atul_gawande_how_do_we_heal_medicine?language=en
The Atlantic, November 29th, 2016. In the article it describes Cuba's healthcare system, which costs 1/10th of what America's costs and achieves higher life expectancy as America. http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/11/cuba-health/508859/
Open-ended question: Should we have to continue to pay for true healthcare out of our pockets and savings? Is healthcare a human right?
NPR – "How do pharmaceutical companies establish drug prices"
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/05/465748256/how-do-pharmaceutical-companies-establish-drug-prices
Only 13% of all orthodox medicine has been proven to have benefit AND another 23% is shown to have likely benefit:
http://www.dcscience.net/garrow-evidence-bmj.pdf
Stats on people with Diabetes in USA — CDC says 30 million diagnosed in 2017:
https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pdfs/data/statistics/national-diabetes-statistics-report.pdf
This is equal to just over the population of Texas and around 85% of the population of Canada.
Prices getting spiked
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/whats-behind-skyrocketing-insulin-prices/
http://www.wsj.com/articles/mylan-faces-scrutiny-over-epipen-price-increases-1472074823
http://www.businessinsider.com/epipen-cost-increase-healthcare-insurance-2016-8
Life Expectancy Drops in the USA for unknown reasons according to NPR:
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/12/08/504667607/life-expectancy-in-u-s-drops-for-first-time-in-decades-report-finds
Generic Medications FAQ from the FDA Link:
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72-year-old Patrick Macklin died today when he was fatally struck in a Boynton Beach pedestrian accident. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office says that Macklin was walking on Woolbright Road early in the afternoon when he was hit by a BMW. According to one witness, Palm Beach County Fire Rescue workers told her Macklin might have survived the traffic crash if someone had conducted CPR on him before rescuers arrived.
In Florida, which is a haven for many seniors and retirees, there are often elderly residents out walking. It is important for drivers to realize that some older pedestrians may not be as alert or as quick to respond as their younger adult counterparts, which is why motorists should exercise caution when they seem them on the road and sidewalks.
•	Elderly pedestrians are at higher risk of dying in a traffic crash than younger adult pedestrians.
•	Over half of older pedestrian deaths occur at non-intersections.
•	Dangerous driving behaviors that can lead to elderly pedestrian accidents include red light running, failure to yield, distracted driving, failure to spot pedestrians, blocking the crosswalk, drunk driving, and cell phone-related driving accidents.
Not only can it be harder for older pedestrians to get out of the way of an approaching car, but also their hearing and vision may be diminished. These slight impairments can make it hard for them to notice an auto until it is too late.
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The Islamic State militant group in Syria is using heavy weaponry and artillery in ongoing fighting in the beleaguered Yarmouk refugee camp, a PLO official said Sunday.
Ahmad al-Majdalani, the PLO envoy to Syria, told Ma'an that despite heavy fighting with the Syrian army IS have maintained their positions in the camp and have redeployed to arrange future attacks.
"Political solutions regarding the Yarmouk crisis are over as IS has closed all doors on any political solution and is currently gathering its forces in the Yalda area in Syria in preparation to attack the camp," the official said.
Al-Majdalani, who returned from Syria at the weekend, will meet with President Abbas upon his return from Moscow to discuss the crisis.
Pierre Krahenbuhl, who heads the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA, on Monday called on all sides to respect the beleaguered civilians trapped inside Yarmouk.
Yarmouk, which is Syria's largest refugee camp lying seven kilometers south of Damascus, was initially attacked by IS on April 1, and the group subsequently took over the majority of the camp.
Although hundreds of residents have been evacuated, up to 18,000 residents remain trapped inside the camp, which has been besieged by the Syrian army for more than a year.
The camp was once home to 160,000 people, Syrians as well as Palestinians, but its population has dwindled since the uprising erupted in March 2011.
Although the PLO has publicly rejected Palestinian involvement in a military campaign, citing a longstanding policy of non-interference in the internal affairs of Arab nations, on Saturday Majdalani said the situation was out of the hands of the Palestinian leadership.
He told Ma'an that the resort to military action had been imposed on Palestinian groups inside the camp.


Katy Guillen began playing guitar when she was eight years old. By the time she was 14, she was playing open mic nights and blues jams in the Kansas City area. She says that from the moment she picked up the guitar, she was hooked.
Her early live performances were like her schooling, she says, and she adds that she wouldn't change the experience of going to those open jams and open mics.
Guillen and her band The Girls have earned a reputation for incredible live shows in the Kansas City area and beyond, and the trio's cross-section of blues and rock has meant that they can draw on a diverse audience.
Guillen says that music has transformed her on at least one important personal level.
Katy Guillen and The Girls perform at the Wichita Art Museum on Friday evening.


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Absentee voting bill will return to Senate after passing in the House
Alexa Shrake
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INDIANAPOLIS — In the Indiana House session Tuesday, a bill that would require either a driver's license number or the last four digits of a Social Security number when applying online to vote absentee passed 71-21.
Senate Bill 353 was amended in committee, which took out the language that restricted a governor from changing the time, date and manner of an election or expanding absentee voting. In 2020, Gov. Eric Holcomb delayed the primary election from May until June and loosened restrictions on absentee voting as Indiana coped with the outbreak of COVID-19.
The bill is developing at the same time as fallout from a similar bill in Georgia and as Kentucky's governor signs a bill that will expand voting. While the bills have significant differences both require additional documentation when applying for an absentee ballot.
Nationwide, 43 states are looking to pass similar election bills which some criticize as voter suppression.
The House sponsor of Indiana's bill, state Rep. Timothy Wesco, R-Osceola, urged others' support.
"Senate Bill 353 seeks to ensure that a person requesting an absentee ballot application online is the person they claim to be," Wesco said.
The bill will return to the Senate for review.


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Motorcyclist Killed In Collision
Coroner: Victim Died From Blunt Force Trauma
Updated: 10:16 AM EDT Mar 17, 2012
A crash between a motorcycle and another vehicle killed on person in Oconee County around 9 p.m. on Friday.Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis said Larry Brooks, 46, of Seneca, died from blunt force trauma.Addis said Brooks was operating a Harley Davidson motorcycle on Wells Highway when a vehicle turned into his path.Brooks, who was not wearing a helmet, died at the scene, Addis said.The coroner ruled Brooks' death accidental.Troopers told WYFF 4 that a 17-year-old was driving the other vehicle. The teen driver and a 16-year-old passenger were taken to Oconee Medical Center.There is no word on their conditions.
OCONEE COUNTY, S.C. —
A crash between a motorcycle and another vehicle killed on person in Oconee County around 9 p.m. on Friday.
Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis said Larry Brooks, 46, of Seneca, died from blunt force trauma.
Addis said Brooks was operating a Harley Davidson motorcycle on Wells Highway when a vehicle turned into his path.
Brooks, who was not wearing a helmet, died at the scene, Addis said.
The coroner ruled Brooks' death accidental.
Troopers told WYFF 4 that a 17-year-old was driving the other vehicle. The teen driver and a 16-year-old passenger were taken to Oconee Medical Center.
There is no word on their conditions.


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Crystal Kelly lives in the Appalachian mountains of Boone, North Carolina. Ms. Kelly received a master's degree in social work from Appalachian State University and a postgraduate Certificate in Maternal and Child Health Leadership from the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Public Health. Ms. Kelly has worked at every level of the nonprofit sector and has served as the executive director of the Children's Council, a nonprofit organization that focuses on the birth-to-five population for the past seven years.
Under her leadership, the Children's Council has grown in scope to serve as the resource hub for children and families in Watauga County. Ms. Kelly is a graduate faculty member in the Social Work Department at Appalachian State University and was recently selected as a Pritzker Fellow for the National Collaborative for Infants and Toddlers with a specific focus on intensive system building and strengthening local investments for Watauga County's prenatal-to-three population.
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Judith M. Tanur is an American statistician and sociologist who is Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita of Sociology at Stony Brook University.

Judith Tanur was born to Edward Mark and Libbie Berman Mark on August 12, 1935 in Jersey City, New Jersey. When Tanur was young, her family moved from New Jersey, where she was born, to Great Neck, New York. She graduated from Great Neck High School in 1953 and entered Antioch College, studying psychology and statistics there, but in 1955 she transferred to Columbia University, in part because it was closer to the University of Pennsylvania where her future husband was studying dentistry. At the same time, she took a job at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
Tanur completed a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1957 and began graduate studies at Penn, but became pregnant and dropped out.
Eventually, she returned to graduate school, completed a master's degree in mathematical statistics from Columbia University in 1963, and took a new job as an editor for William Kruskal at the International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences. She became a lecturer at Stony Brook in 1968, still only holding a master's degree, and later completed her Ph.D. in sociology at Stony Brook.

With S. James Press, she is the author of The Subjectivity of Scientists and the Bayesian Approach (Wiley, 2001; Dover, 2016).

In 1980 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. She is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a winner of the Founder's Award of the American Statistical Association, and the 2006 winner of the Geoffrey Marshall Mentoring Award of the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools.

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