Is It Safe To Eat Mussels While Pregnant?
Are you particularly fond of eating seafood but are now very wary of doing so as you are pregnant? Do you want to know about the safety of eating mussels while pregnant?
If you are looking for answers to any of the above queries, it would be a good idea to read our post. Scroll down and get all the information you need about eating mussels during pregnancy.
Mussels are the name given to the family of sea clams, but mussels live in freshwater bodies as well.
Ensure that you cook the mussels until their shells open up, which is a signal that they are well cooked. In case some do not open, make sure you throw them away. Mussels use their shells to filter the water in order to get their food, which means that the shells contain various bacteria and viruses. You should break the mussels' shells before you eat them.
Eating raw or undercooked mussels can expose you and your unborn baby to the bacteria like Vibrio vulnificus. The type of bacteria that has a rod-like shape and can easily thrive in salt water. If you come in contact with Vibrio vulnificus bacteria, it can lead to food poisoning and other health issues (1).
Mussels contain lean protein that will help in the development of your unborn baby's muscles, cells and tissues.
The iron content in mussels will help to produce more blood in your body, which is a key requirement while you are pregnant. It will also keep you from tiring easily during pregnancy months.
Additionally, mussels also contain a good amount of zinc, vitamin C, potassium as well as calcium. These minerals are good for the development of your unborn baby as well as your health (2).
Make sure you speak to your doctor before trying to eat mussels while pregnant, and ensure that when you do, it is properly cooked. Here are a few recipes that use mussels as an ingredient. You can substitute ingredients that make you queasy, or the one your doctor asks you to avoid.
Place a pot over medium heat; once it is hot, add the olive oil.
Once the oil starts to heat, add the onions, the saffron, and the salt and make sure you keep stirring for about five to ten minutes or till the onions turn soft.
Add a little water and let it all come to a boil.
Now add the cream, the black pepper and the mussels. Cover the pot and keep cooking for about six to eight minutes or till the shells of the mussels open up.
Check all the mussels and in case some of them still have their shells intact, remove them immediately. Once you remove the unsafe ones, add the parsley and serve it warm.
Place the mussels in a big and heavy Dutch oven and cover with a lid. Cover the mussels with enough water and cook them over high heat till the shells of the mussels break open. Keep shaking the pan occasionally, for about five to ten minutes, till all the mussels' shells crack. In case some mussels' shells haven't broken, throw them away immediately.
Take the mussels out and place them in a bowl. Tent the bowl with foil. Don't drain the water in which you boiled the mussels but reserve it for later use.
Keep the same Dutch oven over medium heat and add the butter. Once the butter melts, add the shallots and the garlic and sauté everything for about three minutes or till it turns tender.
Add three tbsp. of parsley, lemon juice, and lemon peel. Next, add the water in which you had boiled the mussels that you had earlier kept aside.
Bring the mix to a boil over medium heat. Once it is done, season with the freshly ground black pepper and drizzle some garlic butter over the mussels. When you are about to serve, add one tbsp. of parsley on top as a garnish.
Place a big saucepan over medium heat. Once it warms up, place the chorizos inside and keep cooking them for about three to five minutes, or till they turn a medium brown color.
Next, add the onions and keep cooking, making sure you stir it nicely to avoid sticking. Cook for about three more minutes or till the onions turn soft.
Now add the tomatoes, the chiles, the cumin and the black pepper. Keep cooking and make sure you keep stirring as well, for about three minutes or till the tomatoes start to break down.
Add a little water to avoid the ingredients from sticking to the bottom and bring it all to a boil.
Add the mussels and reduce the heat to a simmer. Cover the saucepan and bring the heat to about medium to low and cook for another seven to eight minutes till the shells of the mussels have opened. Check all the mussels and in case some shells have still not opened, discard them immediately. Remove the pan from the heat and add the cilantro.
Place a pan over medium heat and once it starts to heat up, add the oil. Add the onion, the bell peppers, and the garlic and keep stirring properly. Cook it for about three minutes or till the vegetables turn tender.
Next, add the rice the broth, the thyme, the salt, and pepper as well as the saffron. Let it all boil over medium heat. Cover the pan and cook it for about five more minutes.
Now add the shrimp and the green peas and very carefully place the mussels on top of the rice in a proper and even layer. Cover the pan again and keep cooking till the shells of the mussels open. Also, check to see that the rice has turned tender. It should take about five to eight minutes for the mussels as well as the rice to cook properly.
Once done, remove the pan from the heat and keep it aside with the lid still on. Let it rest for about five minutes so that all the liquid can get absorbed in the rice.
While serving, add the lemon wedges as a garnish.
Preheat an outdoor grill and lightly grease it with oil.
Mix the butter, the garlic, the curry powder, the cumin and the salt in a bowl.
Take four sheets of aluminum foil and place them on a flat surface. Place the mussels in equal portions on each sheet of the foil. Add a little curry powder mix on top. Next, sprinkle the parsley and the red bell pepper on top. Add a lime slice on each mussel and close it tightly in the foil.
Place the foils on the preheated grill for about five to ten minutes or till the shells of the mussels have opened up. Check all the mussels and if some of them have still not opened up the shells, discard them immediately.
Take the mussels out of the foil and place in a bowl and a lime wedge as garnish while serving.
Place a pot over low heat and once it gets hot, add the oil. Make sure you use a pot that has a good tight-fitting lid. Add the garlic and cook it for about three minutes and stir it constantly, till it turns a nice golden color.
Now add the tomatoes and increase the heat from low to high. Keep stirring the tomatoes for about a minute or till they start getting a little tender. Add a little water and let it boil.
Next, add the mussels and cover the pot. Let the mussels steam in the tomato liquid. Make sure that you keep shaking the pot at regular intervals so that all the mussels can open up. Keep doing so for about three to four minutes. Once you have shaken up the pot and think that all the mussels have opened up, check them properly. If any shells of the mussels have still not opened, make sure to throw them out.
Take out the mussels and place them in a serving bowl. Drizzle the tomato broth over the mussels and sprinkle the parsley on top.
In a wok, mix the curry paste, the coconut milk, the sugar and the lime juice. Place the wok over high heat and let the mix come to a boil.
Keep stirring the mix till the sugar gets completely dissolved.
Now add the mussels as well as the leaves of the limes and cover the wok to help the fragrance mix in well.
Cook the mix for about five minutes or till all the shells of the mussels have opened up. Check the mussels and in case any mussel still has an unopened shell, discard it immediately.
Take out the mussels from the mix and place it in a bowl. Use the chilli and the coriander to garnish and serve with the warm cooked rice.
Peel the eschalots and the garlic and then cut them up in halves.
Cut out the white portion of the lemongrass and chop it up roughly.
Cut the chillies lengthwise in half and then chop them up roughly.
Take a food processor and add the eschalots, the garlic, the chillies and the lemongrass. Also add the turmeric and the oil and mix it well to form a smooth paste.
Place a large saucepan over medium heat and add the paste to the pan. Keep cooking at least for eight minutes or till you can start to feel the fragrance.
Now add the palm sugar as well as the fish sauce and keep stirring for another two minutes or till the sugar mixes in completely.
Add the water and the lime leaves and let it all boil. Once it starts to boil, put in the mussels and cover the pan with the lid. Keep shaking the pan for about five minutes at regular intervals, and keep checking that the mussels are done, and the shells are open. If there are still any mussels whose shells have not opened, discard them immediately. Alternatively, you can try and keep cooking the mussels whose shells have not opened by keeping them in the broth for longer.
Use a tong to divide the opened up mussels in different bowls. Now add the coconut cream to the broth and let it all simmer.
Next, ladle the broth on the mussels in the bowl and sprinkle the Thai basil leaves on top. Also add a generous sprinkling of the fried shallots.
Serve the mussels immediately while they are still warm along with the lime cheeks.
Take a pot and heat it for some time over medium heat. Once it becomes hot, add the butter and let it melt. Once the butter has melted, add the shallots and sauté them till they turn translucent.
Now add the stock of your choice along with the mussels. Add salt as per taste. Increase the heat from medium to high and steam the mussels for some time, for about five minutes or till the shells of the mussels have opened up. Check all the mussels to check for the shells. In case there are some mussels whose shells have not opened yet, you can try to cook them a little bit longer or discard them.
Once you have separated the cooked and the uncooked mussels, take them out of the pot and place them in a serving bowl. Now very carefully pour the liquid over the mussels and sprinkle some fresh parsley over the top. Add the freshly ground black pepper on top to season the mussels. Serve immediately.
Heat a pan over medium heat and add the oil. Once it heats up, add the garlic and the onion and keep stirring for about five minutes or till it turns brown.
Now add the tomatoes, the fresh parsley, and the freshly ground black pepper and keep cooking for about two minutes or till the tomatoes start to turn tender.
Next, add the mussels and toss them well. Cover the pan with a lid and cook for another three to four minutes, making sure that you keep stirring the pan at regular intervals.
Serve the mussels in a bowl along with some crispy French bread to soak up the juices.
Speak with your doctor and if you are allowed to eat mussels while pregnant, try some of our recipes from above.
Did you eat mussels during pregnancy? What was your favorite dish? Tell us below.
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Justia Dockets & Filings Ninth Circuit Arizona District Court Parisi v. Arpaio Filing 4
Parisi v. Arpaio
ORDER (Service Packet) Pla's 3 Application to Proceed In Forma Pauperis. Count Three is dismissed without prejudice. Dft Arpaio must answer Counts One and Two. The Clerk of Court must send Pla a service packet including the 1 Complaint, this Order, and both summons and request for waiver forms for Dft Arpaio. Pla must complete and return the service packet to the Clerk of Court within 20 days of the date of filing of this Order. This matter is referred to Magistrate Judge Jay R. Irwin for all pretrial proceedings. Signed by Judge Mary H Murguia on 06/09/09. (ESL)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 TERMPSREF WO MDR IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA Joseph Sam Parisi, Plaintiff, vs. Joseph Arpaio, Defendant. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) No. CV 09-1165-PHX-MHM (JRI) ORDER Plaintiff Joseph Sam Parisi, who is confined in the Maricopa County Lower Buckeye Jail, has filed a pro se civil rights Complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. � 1983 (Doc. #1) and an Application to Proceed In Forma Pauperis (Doc. #3). The Court will order Defendant to answer Counts One and Two of the Complaint and will dismiss without prejudice Count Three. I. Application to Proceed In Forma Pauperis and Filing Fee Plaintiff's Application to Proceed In Forma Pauperis will be granted. 28 U.S.C. � 1915(a). Plaintiff must pay the statutory filing fee of $350.00. 28 U.S.C. � 1915(b)(1). The Court will assess an initial partial filing fee of $2.71. The remainder of the fee will be collected monthly in payments of 20% of the previous month's income each time the amount in the account exceeds $10.00. 28 U.S.C. � 1915(b)(2). The Court will enter a separate Order requiring the appropriate government agency to collect and forward the fees according to the statutory formula. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 TERMPSREF II. Statutory Screening of Prisoner Complaints The Court is required to screen complaints brought by prisoners seeking relief against a governmental entity or an officer or an employee of a governmental entity. 28 U.S.C. � 1915A(a). The Court must dismiss a complaint or portion thereof if a plaintiff has raised claims that are legally frivolous or malicious, that fail to state a claim upon which relief may be granted, or that seek monetary relief from a defendant who is immune from such relief. 28 U.S.C. � 1915A(b)(1), (2). III. Complaint In his three-count Complaint, Plaintiff sues Defendant Maricopa County Sheriff Joseph Arpaio. In each count, he alleges a violation of his Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. In Count One, Plaintiff claims Defendant Arpaio sets policy and instructs his staff to feed inmates only two meals per day. Plaintiff contends that the meals are stale, spoiled, and lack necessary nutrition. Plaintiff alleges that Defendant Arpaio deliberately provides an insufficient number of calories in order to cause daily hunger pains. In Count Two, he asserts that Defendant Arpaio sets policy and directs his staff to overcrowd the holding cells in the Fourth Avenue Jail. He claims that he was in the holding cell for three days with 22-26 men, there was no place to sit or lay down, the toilet was clogged and there was no toilet paper, the floor was wet from the overflowing toilet, and he was not given a blanket, a mat, or a place to sleep. In Count Three, Plaintiff asserts that he contracted a staphylococcus infection in the holding cell, he received no medical treatment other than a heat pack for seven days, the onduty doctor's request on day eight that Plaintiff be taken to a hospital for emergency treatment was denied by the doctor's supervisor, and Plaintiff received "emergency surgery to lance and drain the lump" on day nine. In his Request for Relief, Plaintiff seeks monetary damages and an order that sets cell maximums and directs Defendant Arpaio to provide adequate food for pretrial detainees and to correct all violations. -2- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 TERMPSREF IV. Failure to State a Claim To state a valid claim under � 1983, plaintiffs must allege that they suffered a specific injury as a result of specific conduct of a defendant and show an affirmative link between the injury and the conduct of that defendant. See Rizzo v. Goode, 423 U.S. 362, 371-72, 377 (1976). To state a claim against a supervisory official, the civil rights complainant must allege that the supervisory official personally participated in the constitutional deprivation or that the supervisory official was aware of widespread abuses and, with deliberate indifference to the inmate's constitutional rights, failed to take action to prevent further misconduct. See Ortez v. Washington County, 88 F.3d 804, 809 (9th Cir. 1996); Taylor v. List, 880 F.2d 1040, 1045 (9th Cir. 1989); King v. Atiyeh, 814 F.2d 565, 568 (9th Cir. 1987); see also Monell v. New York City Dep't of Soc. Servs., 436 U.S. 658, 691-92 (1978). There is no respondeat superior liability under � 1983, and therefore, a defendant's position as the supervisor of persons who allegedly violated Plaintiff's constitutional rights does not impose liability. Monell, 436 U.S. at 691-92; Taylor, 880 F.2d at 1045. In Count Three, Plaintiff does not allege any specific conduct by Defendant Arpaio, and does not allege that Defendant Arpaio personally participated in a constitutional deprivation or that he was aware of widespread abuses and, with deliberate indifference to Plaintiff's constitutional rights, failed to take action to prevent further misconduct, or that he formed policies that resulted in Plaintiff's injuries. Therefore, the Court will dismiss without prejudice Count Three. V. Claims for Which an Answer Will be Required Liberally construed, Plaintiff has stated claims in Counts One and Two. The Court will require Defendant Arpaio to answer Counts One and Two. VI. Warnings A. Release Plaintiff must pay the unpaid balance of the filing fee within 120 days of his release. Also, within 30 days of his release, he must either (1) notify the Court that he intends to pay -3- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 TERMPSREF the balance or (2) show good cause, in writing, why he cannot. Failure to comply may result in dismissal of this action. B. Address Changes Plaintiff must file and serve a notice of a change of address in accordance with Rule 83.3(d) of the Local Rules of Civil Procedure. Plaintiff must not include a motion for other relief with a notice of change of address. Failure to comply may result in dismissal of this action. C. Copies Plaintiff must serve Defendant, or counsel if an appearance has been entered, a copy of every document that he files. Fed. R. Civ. P. 5(a). Each filing must include a certificate stating that a copy of the filing was served. Fed. R. Civ. P. 5(d). Also, Plaintiff must submit an additional copy of every filing for use by the Court. See LRCiv 5.4. Failure to comply may result in the filing being stricken without further notice to Plaintiff. D. Possible Dismissal If Plaintiff fails to timely comply with every provision of this Order, including these warnings, the Court may dismiss this action without further notice. See Ferdik v. Bonzelet, 963 F.2d 1258, 1260-61 (9th Cir. 1992) (a district court may dismiss an action for failure to comply with any order of the Court). IT IS ORDERED: (1) (2) Plaintiff's Application to Proceed In Forma Pauperis (Doc. #3) is granted. As required by the accompanying Order to the appropriate government agency, Plaintiff must pay the $350.00 filing fee and is assessed an initial partial filing fee of $2.71. (3) (4) (5) Count Three is dismissed without prejudice. Defendant Arpaio must answer Counts One and Two. The Clerk of Court must send Plaintiff a service packet including the Complaint (Doc. #1), this Order, and both summons and request for waiver forms for Defendant Arpaio. -4- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 TERMPSREF (6) Plaintiff must complete and return the service packet to the Clerk of Court within 20 days of the date of filing of this Order. The United States Marshal will not provide service of process if Plaintiff fails to comply with this Order. (7) If Plaintiff does not either obtain a waiver of service of the summons or complete service of the Summons and Complaint on Defendant within 120 days of the filing of the Complaint or within 60 days of the filing of this Order, whichever is later, the action may be dismissed. Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(m); LRCiv 16.2(b)(2)(B)(i). (8) The United States Marshal must retain the Summons, a copy of the Complaint, and a copy of this Order for future use. (9) The United States Marshal must notify Defendant of the commencement of this action and request waiver of service of the summons pursuant to Rule 4(d) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The notice to Defendant must include a copy of this Order. The Marshal must immediately file requests for waivers that were returned as undeliverable and waivers of service of the summons. If a waiver of service of summons is not returned by Defendant within 30 days from the date the request for waiver was sent by the Marshal, the Marshal must: (a) personally serve copies of the Summons, Complaint, and this Order upon Defendant pursuant to Rule 4(e)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; and (b) within 10 days after personal service is effected, file the return of service for Defendant, along with evidence of the attempt to secure a waiver of service of the summons and of the costs subsequently incurred in effecting service upon Defendant. The costs of service must be enumerated on the return of service form (USM-285) and must include the costs incurred by the Marshal for photocopying additional copies of the Summons, Complaint, or this Order and for preparing new process receipt and return forms (USM-285), if required. Costs of service will be taxed against the personally served Defendant pursuant to Rule 4(d)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, unless otherwise ordered by the Court. -5- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 TERMPSREF (10) If Defendant agrees to waive service of the Summons and Complaint, he must return the signed waiver forms to the United States Marshal, not the Plaintiff. (11) Defendant must answer the Complaint or otherwise respond by appropriate motion within the time provided by the applicable provisions of Rule 12(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. (12) This matter is referred to Magistrate Judge Jay R. Irwin pursuant to Rules 72.1 and 72.2 of the Local Rules of Civil Procedure for all pretrial proceedings as authorized under 28 U.S.C. � 636(b)(1). DATED this 9th day of June, 2009. -6-

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The race for the Premier League title looks set to go to the wire with Liverpool and Manchester City fighting it out for top spot.
Below them, Chelsea, Manchester United, Tottenham and Arsenal are all vying for the two remaining spots in next season's Champions League.
Manchester City: They have the best team and the deepest squad and, crucially, they have done it before.
In order for Liverpool to win the title, City will in all likelihood need to slip up more than once in their last eight games and I don't think that will happen.
Who will make up the rest of the top four?
Liverpool, Tottenham and Manchester United.
The fourth spot is the one that nobody seems to want to take ownership of but I think Arsenal and Chelsea's mental frailties are such that United will just sneak it.
Manchester City. They are the in-form team with experience of winning the title and a deeper squad than any in the Premier League.
For all the talk of a Quadruple bid draining City's resources, as it stands the FA Cup semi-final and a game in hand in the Premier League are the only fixtures they have to play that Liverpool don't.
Liverpool runners-up by a narrow margin. Tottenham still have enough about them to arrest their recent slump and finish in the top four.
I expect the other place to be between Manchester United and Arsenal as Chelsea continue to fall away, and United will just sneak it in the end.
Manchester City. They have momentum, they look comfortable, they have a game in hand and perhaps most tellingly, Mo Salah is not at full capacity for Liverpool.
Sadio Mane has been excellent in picking up the slack, but Salah needs to get back to his best to stop City.
Can the likes of Anthony Martial and Paul Pogba lead Manchester United into the top four?
Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham. The top two will take care of itself, but I don't expect Tottenham to move seamlessly into their new stadium. That could easily cost them third when you consider that Arsenal appear to be coming on strong.
Form and consistency isn't a given with Arsenal, granted, but as you look at it today, they are on the move. For the same reason, you have to wonder, perhaps foolishly, if Manchester United are slowing up.
Manchester City. They seem to be finding a way of manoeuvring every obstacle at the moment. That could change but with the title in their own hands, they have to be favourites right now.


I have 2 profiles setup for playback, > 0 0 use xv-blit and chromakey and > 1280 720 use xvmc-blit and ia44blend.
Went watching LiveTV everything up to 720p works fine with the OSD. However, in LiveTV, anything over 720p that should use xvmc does not display the OSD.
If I reccord the channels that are having this issue and watch the recording the OSD works.
MarkK believes he knows the cause: When starting livetv, a dummy video stream is created before the channel is tuned. This is standard def (720x576) and the player uses standard xv-blit (based on your profiles).
Something however isn't being reset properly when the real hidef stream starts playing - and the osd isn't working. Should just be a matter of figuring out what needs to be re-initialised.
I am seeing this in r20745. Earliest known version that has this is unknown at this time.
colorkey_patch.diff (530 bytes) - added by markk 10 years ago.
colorkey_patch_better.diff (531 bytes) - added by markk 10 years ago.
colorkey_v3.diff (959 bytes) - added by markk 10 years ago.
LiveTV-07-01-2009.log (35.9 KB) - added by Marc Tousignant <drayson@…> 10 years ago.
colorkey_v4.diff (1.2 KB) - added by markk 10 years ago.
Perhaps similar to #5025 and  ?
Not #5025. In my situation the correct profile is being used. It is just that the OSD gets turned off in LiveTV when using that profile. I know this because my system is not powerfull enough to do 1080i without offloading to the video card via xvmc.
It might be similar to the issue that  fixed with deinterlacing thou. But it is not a deinterlace issue, it is a reset OSD issue.
From what I gather from the explanation mark gave, is that when loading LiveTV it initially uses my other profile for the dummy stream. This dummy is using the chromakey OSD. But when switching to the other profile it is not resetting the OSD type and since chromakey does not work with nvidia cards after the 5 series it turns off chroma.
I am going to do some profile testing later tonight when I get home to see if using xvmc for all video bypasses the issue as well as seeing if using ia44blend, if I can, for both profiles works.
I had a chance to test using xvmc-blit with ia44blend for all formats, OSD worked in LiveTV on all channels. Xv-blit does not have an ia44blend osd renderer so I was unable to test that idea.
This reinforces the idea that mark believes is the cause.
For various reasons, I just can't recreate this particular scenario here.
Can you try colorkey_patch.diff, which I think is needed anyway, and see if it helps.
Failing that I'll have to give you a debugging patch to run with.
v3 compiled without complaints, but did not resolve the issue.
I'm fairly sure v4 should fix it (famous last words) - we were never actually removing the chroma_osd when changing inputs .
Last words indeed. Still no go.
(In ) Fix disappearing OSD when using XvMC and the profile switches from the Chroma OSD to ia44blend. Refs #6660. This has however exposed a similar issue whereby the chromakey osd is not initialised as needed following a resolution change only - fix to follow.
(In ) Rework the OSD initialisation in VideoOutputXv?. This should ensure the OSD in use matches the display profile preference (subject to hardware constraints). Refs r20785. Closes #6660.
Confirmed, resolved the reported issue.


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Spring cleaning your windows helps freshen up your home's exterior and boosts its curb appeal. Having shiny, clean window panes enhances the aesthetics of your home, but to aid HVAC performance and improve energy efficiency, it's essential to tackle window maintenance, too.
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Shooting his way into the market
By Jim Wyss Published on September 05, 2017 | 10:47 PM
Miguel Caballero, the maker of high-fashion bullet-proof clothing, shoots his wife Carolina Ballesteros, who is leading the company's push into the US. The 25-year-old Colombian company expects the United States to become its biggest market.
Miguel Caballero aimed his .38-calibre pistol, took a deep breath, and shot his wife – as gently as possible.
He wasn't happy about shooting the mother of his children for the second time in nine years. But when you're a purveyor of high-fashion bulletproof clothing trying to break into the biggest market in the hemisphere – the United States – you have to take a few risks.
Caballero's clothing line is based in Colombia, marketed under the name MC Armor in the US and newly available in Miami. It's both stylish and effective enough to stop a bullet. But it's Caballero's showmanship – the 49-year-old has shot more than 230 volunteers to prove how effective his clothing is – that has made him something of a CEO celebrity in Latin America.
Three months ago, the 25-year-old company set up a distribution centre in Miami to provide its bulletproof sports coats, safari jackets and T-shirts to the United States. And heading that project is Carolina Ballesteros, Caballero's wife – and target.
"I swore to myself I would never do that again," Caballero said, after he had pumped a shot at her stomach to make a promotional video for social media. "But she's trying to open up the American market and I'm helping her in every way I can."
After the smoke had cleared, Caballero dug the bullet out from vest's multiple layers. As always, it had mushroomed into a harmless lead curio.
Caballero's clothing line is being sold in gun shops – 10 in Florida and others in Texas and California.
The company's flagship product is a patented lightweight and flexible bulletproof tank top that can be worn discreetly under regular clothes. The shirt comes with different levels of protection, but the most basic model weighs about 2.4 pounds and is rated to stop .38-calibre, .22-calibre and 9 mm bullets. It has a starting price of $495.
Like all ballistic vests, the item loses its warranty once it has been put to the test, but anybody unlucky enough to have that problem gets a free replacement and inclusion in Miguel Caballero's "survivors club."
Ballesteros, who's splitting her time between Colombia and the United States, said she's been impressed at how receptive US buyers have been.
"We've been selling at gun stores, to Uber drivers, to doctors, lawyers, professors," she said. "People have been very interested in the product."
When Caballero started the enterprise in the 1990s, Colombia was one of the most murderous countries in the hemisphere, and almost everyone seemed to be a potential target. It forced him to make some grim innovations: he produced bulletproof Bible covers for threatened priests, armoured backpacks for school children, and once, as a special order, he made a bulletproof kimono.
But as Colombia has grown safer, Caballero has been forced to look abroad. With sales of $25 million last year, about 76 percent of his merchandise is exported.
"If we had to depend on Colombia for business, we would have gone broke a while ago," Caballero said.
Now, violence-plagued Mexico and Central America are his top markets, but he also has distributors throughout Africa and the Middle East. The company recently opened two stores in Iraq.
Caballero's 4,500-square-foot factory on the outskirts of Bogota employs 470 people who churn out the reinforced fashion wear, along with more standard flak jackets and protective gear for the armed forces, including visors, riot gear and heavily armoured mine-clearing outfits.
The US market could be a game changer for the company. Home to anywhere from 270 million to 310 million guns and more than 6,100 gun stores, the United States is a hub for anyone selling weapon accessories or ballistic products.
Coming from Latin America, where weapon sales tend to be tightly restricted, Ballesteros said she's been impressed that gun shopping is a family affair in the United States.
"There are more than 5,000 gun shows every year – they're like flea markets – and you see young kids carrying rifles and people pushing shopping carts full of guns," she said.
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\section{Introduction}
Chest radiographs (CXR) are commonly used for the identification, assessment and localization of pathologies. CXRs enable a cost- and time-effective examination with low radiation dose and allow clinicians to detect a wide range of diseases, plan treatments and localize specific anatomic structures. Therefore, CXRs are the most performed imaging study with an annually increasing number of examinations \cite{united2008effects,raoof2012interpretation,CALLI2021102125,brady_error_2017}. A direct consequence of the increasing amount of CXR examinations is a significantly increased workload for radiologists. Therefore, radiologists need to assess a large amount of CXRs manually in their daily routine which can lead to an increased amount of human-errors \cite{brady_error_2017,Berlin2007}. Thus, a well-integrated computer-assisted tool that could give cues to the radiologists on what pathology might be present and where to look, could accelerate clinical workflows and reduce the number of human errors. Furthermore, such systems could be especially helpful for inexperienced radiologists and help to prioritize assessments of CXRs \cite{CALLI2021102125}.
Various computer-assisted tools, including feature engineering and later statistical models that learn from training data have been proposed in the past for this task.
Finally, the publication of large-scale data sets such as CheXpert or MIMIC-CXR \cite{10.1609/aaai.v33i01.3301590,johnson_mimic-cxr_2019} paved the way towards human-level classification performance on CXRs with deep-learning based CNNs \cite{10.1609/aaai.v33i01.3301590,CALLI2021102125,LITJENS201760}.
Furthermore, CNNs are proposed for a wide variety of tasks such as classification, localization, segmentation or automated report generation and have emerged to be the de-facto standard for the processing of radiographs. However, a recent publication challenges CNNs and proposes Vision Transformers (ViT) that use multi-headed self-attention between image patches instead of convolutions to learn meaningful feature representations from images \cite{dosovitskiy2021an}. Originally, transformer networks have shown strong performance for modeling and interpreting sequence-data like sentences and outperform traditional recurrent neural networks in many sequence-related tasks \cite{NIPS2017_3f5ee243}. Applying the core principles of Transformers to the image domain as it is done in ViTs has shown to outperform plain CNNs for large-scale databases of generic images such as ImageNet. \\ Beside the potential performance gains, ViTs share the appealing property of class-level local attention maps \cite{NIPS2017_3f5ee243}. These attention maps could be helpful not only for the classification task in CXRs but also for tasks where localization of anatomical structures is required. However, ViTs do not impose prior knowledge of the local connectivity of image pixels as it is the case with convolutions. Thus, ViTs require an excessive amount of training data and are often only applicable when pre-trained on large-scale data sets \cite{pmlr-v139-touvron21a}. \\ This opens the question, whether ViTs can be leveraged for multi-class classification problems with CXRs. As large-scale data sets are crucial for pre-training ViTs, it is of interest if their performance improvement against CNNs can also hold in an image domain different from ImageNet with smaller, medical data sets available for fine-tuning.
In this work, we leverage ViTs for the classification task of pathologies in CXRs and investigate the use of knowledge distillation for data efficiency.
\\ In summary, our contribution is three-fold:
\begin{itemize}
    \item We investigate the use of ViTs for multi-label classification in CXRs and compare their performance to CNNs.
    \item We study if knowledge distillation with data-efficient Vision Transformers (DeiT) \cite{pmlr-v139-touvron21a} can improve the classification performance.
    \item We systematically compare the effect of varying training set sizes for CNNs, ViTs and DeiTs, respectively.
\end{itemize}

\section{Methods}

\subsection{Data Set}
We use the publicly available CheXpert Data set \cite{10.1609/aaai.v33i01.3301590}. The data set consists of 224316 CXRs of 65240 patients together with 14 labels, that are automatically generated from radiology reports. There are three types of auto-generated labels. The labels 0 and 1 indicate positive and negative labels, respectively. The third label -1, denotes an uncertain decision. In this work, we treat all uncertain samples as positive samples. Further, we focus on the classification of five different pathologies, namely \textit{Atelectasis}, \textit{Cardiomegaly}, \textit{Consolidation}, \textit{Edema} and \textit{Pleural Effusion}. We split our data into a train, validation and test set. 20\% of the data are used for evaluation ($\mathcal{D}_{test}$). From the remaining data, we sample 5 data folds, each consisting of 80\% training data ($\mathcal{D}^i_{train}$) and 20\% validation data ($\mathcal{D}^i_{val}$), where $i$ indicates the fold. To simulate varying training set sizes we sample subsets including \{10,20,...,90\}\% of $\mathcal{D}^i_{train}$ for all folds respectively.
\\ We do not perform a specific pre-processing of the images but resize the images to a resolution of $224\times224$px. For data augmentation, we apply random augment \cite{NEURIPS2020_d85b63ef} and random erasing.
\subsection{Deep Learning Models}
For our experiments, we utilize DenseNets \cite{huang2019convolutional} as baseline CNNs as they have proven to be a strong baseline for the classification task on CXRs \cite{CALLI2021102125}. In general, CNNs utilize blocks of convolutions, together with a normalization, non-linear activation functions and pooling operations stacked on each other to map an input image to a feature vector. A linear layer maps the feature vector to the output vector which is compared with the class labels. DenseNets add specific skip connections between the convolutional blocks to allow training deep stacks of these blocks \cite{huang2019convolutional}. We compare different versions of the baseline CNN, namely DenseNet-121 and DenseNet-201 where the main difference is the depth of the architecture and thus, the number of trainable parameters.  \\
In contrast to CNNs, ViTs do not process image arrays by convolutions. Instead, the image $X \in \mathrm{R}^{H\times W \times C}$ is cropped into $N$ patches $x_p \in \mathrm{R}^{N\times(P^2\times C)}$, where $H,W$ is the dimension of the image, $C$ is the number of channels and $P$ the resolution of the cropped patches. The patches $x_p$ are flattened and mapped to a fixed dimension $D$ by a linear layer. Additionally, a class token is prepended to the mapping which is later used as input for a classification layer. Furthermore, A 1-dimensional position embedding is added to each patch embedding. The resulting sequence of image patches, class tokens and positional embeddings is used as input to the encoder of the ViT. The encoder includes multiple stacked transformer blocks. Each block consists of a multi-headed self-attention and a multilayer perceptron layer with a normalization layer and skip-connections in between. \\
We include different versions of ViTs in our experiments, namely ViT-Small (ViT-S) and ViT-Base (ViT-B). The differences between the versions are the number of encoder layers, the dimension of the embeddings $D$, the MLP configuration and the number of attention heads \cite{NIPS2017_3f5ee243}. \\
We further include data-efficient Vision Transformers (DeiT) \cite{pmlr-v139-touvron21a} to our study. DeiTs share the same overall architecture as ViTs. In addition to the class token, a distillation token is added to the patch embedding. Similar to the class token, the distillation token interacts with the patch embeddings through self-attention in the encoder blocks and is processed by a classification layer to obtain an output vector. It is used in a knowledge distillation framework, where the Kullback-Leibler divergence between the output of a teacher network and the output of the distillation token is added to the loss function together with the loss between the class token and the ground truth. The authors of \cite{pmlr-v139-touvron21a} speculate that by this, the inductive bias of CNNs can be distilled to ViTs, which makes DeiTs more data-efficient compared to plain ViTs. \\ We include the pre-trained versions Deit-S and Deit-B in our studies and investigate two use-cases of DeiTs. First, we use pre-trained DeiT networks that apply the knowledge distillation process only during pre-training on ImageNet. Second, we investigate using knowledge distillation with a trained DenseNet-201 as a teacher network during fine-tuning on the CheXpert data set. These distilled models are denoted as Deit-S-Dist and Deit-B-Dist, respectively. \\
We train our networks for a maximum number of 50 epochs and use early stopping based on the validation loss. We use binary cross-entropy loss as a loss function with inverse frequency weighting to account for the class imbalance in the training data. For both, CNNs and ViTs, we use AdamW as optimizer and a batch size of 128. We scale our learning rate with a cosine schedule and use two warmup epochs where we linearly increase the learning rate. While we use an initial learning rate of $lr=0.0001$ for CNNs, ViTs require a smaller initial learning rate of $lr=0.00005$. We search the hyperparameters based on the performance on the validation set $\mathcal{D}_{val}$.

\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[scale=.315]{lineplot_datasetsize.pdf}
\caption{Classification performance for different proportions of the CheXpert data set as training set. The average AUROC values of the 5-Fold cross-validation are reported in percent. Standard deviations are visualized as enveloping intervals. }
\label{fig:setsize}
\end{figure}

\section{Results}
We report the Area under Receiver Operator Curve (AUROC) and the F1 score to evaluate the classification performance. Both metrics are calculated as weighted averages over the five different pathology classes, where each class is weighted by the number of true instances for each label. We report the average performance of the 5-Fold cross-validation together with the standard deviation. \\
As shown in Table \ref{tab:results}, it can be observed that ViT models are on par with the DenseNet baselines. Notably, DenseNet-121 shows competitive performance to ViT-B while requiring significantly fewer parameters. Considering DeiT, both variants show superior classification performance compared to DenseNet and ViT. Comparing Deit-B and Deit-B-Dist, similar classification performance can be observed. \\
Figure \ref{fig:setsize} shows that for all models the data set size has a crucial impact on the classification performance. For DeiT-B-Dist, a higher performance gain can be observed compared to DenseNet-201 and ViT-B especially when training with larger training sets. Overall, it can be observed that even for small data set sizes, the transformer-based models show similar performance compared to DenseNets. \\
To visualize the pixel-wise attention of the networks, saliency maps are provided in Figure \ref{fig:cam}. For DenseNets, a Grad-Cam approach is used to visualize the attention. For transformer-based models, the self-attention weights are visualized. It is noticeable that both networks attend to meaningful regions in the CXR. While the visualization of the attention map weights of transformers leads to local attention maps, Grad-CAM-based saliency maps rather highlight coarse regions.
\begin{table}[t]
\begin{tabular}{lccc}
Model &     F1 &            AUROC & Param. ($10^6$) \\
\midrule
DenseNet-121 & 63.05$ \pm $0.77 & 81.91$ \pm $0.56 &             6.96 \\
DenseNet-201 & 62.79$ \pm $0.62 & 81.59$ \pm $0.71 &             18.10 \\
       ViT-S & 62.67$ \pm $0.24 & 81.79$ \pm $0.38 &             21.67 \\
       ViT-B & 62.32$ \pm $0.39 &  81.92$ \pm $0.50 &            85.80 \\
      DeiT-S & 63.85$ \pm $0.93 &  83.02$ \pm $0.70 &            21.67 \\
      DeiT-B & 64.93$ \pm $0.88 &  84.02$ \pm $0.90 &            85.81 \\
      DeiT-S-Dist & 63.97$ \pm $1.17 & 82.73$ \pm $1.06 &        21.67 \\
      \textbf{DeiT-B-Dist} & \textbf{65.51$ \pm $0.79} & \textbf{84.56$ \pm $0.91} &        85.81 \\
\end{tabular}
\caption{Classification Performance on the CheXpert Data set. AUROC and F1 scores are provided in percent and the average of 5 cross-validation folds is reported together with the standard deviation. Distilled indicates if a model is trained with knowledge distillation from a DenseNet-201 teacher. Param. denotes the number of trainable parameters in million. The suffix *-Dist denotes models that are fine-tuned with knowledge distillation with DenseNet201 as a teacher.}
\label{tab:results}
\end{table}
\section{Discussion and Conclusion}
Recently, ViTs show performance gains over classical CNNs on generic images from benchmark data sets such as the ImageNet data set. Furthermore, they add appealing properties like directly accessible and local attention maps. However, due to the missing inductive bias and the exceeding number of trainable parameters, training ViTs requires large-scale data sets \cite{pmlr-v139-touvron21a}.  \\
In this work, we investigate if we can utilize ViT models for multi-label classification on CXR images and compare their performance to a baseline CNN. We investigate the effect of different data set sizes and explore if  knowledge distillation can make the training more data-efficient.
\\
Our results indicate, that the amount of available training data might not be sufficient to reveal the true power of ViT models. We assume that for ViTs, increasing performance will occur at even larger data sets that are not included in this study.  In contrast to that, the more data-efficient DeiT model shows increasing performance already for smaller training sets. While we can conclude that the distillation process makes the training more data-efficient, it is hard to verify if the data efficiency is achieved by mimicking the inductive bias of the teacher CNN \cite{pmlr-v139-touvron21a}. Furthermore, even though the required amount of labelled training data is reduced, still, large data sets are required to achieve performance improvements over CNNs with transformer-based networks. However, regularizing the training by knowledge distillation shows to be beneficial and can help to efficiently train transformer-based models. \\
Besides the improved performance of the transformer-based models, they show local and dense saliency patterns. This observation indicates that the attention maps of transformers can be helpful for the localization of lung diseases from CXRs and have the potential to guide treatment planning.
\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[scale=.4]{vit_att.png}
\includegraphics[scale=.4]{dense_att.png}
\caption{Attention visualization for DeiT-B (left) and DenseNet-B (right). The exemplary shown image is labelled with \textit{Atelectasis} and \textit{Pleural Effusion}. For DeiT-B, the attention map is directly accessed form the last layer and interpolated to the image dimension. For DenseNet-B, Grad-Cam is used to generate the attention visualization.}
\label{fig:cam}
\end{figure}
\\
Overall, we show that self-attention-based ViT models can be valuable alternatives for multi-label pathology classification, especially in combination with knowledge distillation. \\Our results motivate the research on combinations of CNNs that enforce local connectivity priors and highly expressive ViTs with global attention. This could be a promising direction, especially for the application of ViTs in the medical domain, where annotated data sets are typically small.
\\\\
\textsf{\textbf{Author Statement}}\\
Research funding: This work was partially funded by Grant Number KK5208101KS0.
\\Conflict of interest: Authors state no conflict of interest.

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Exalted Reincarnated
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Exalted is a game where the heroes are demigods, fonts of power. That which mortals toil and test against fall easily against the might of the Exalts, and the Exalts now test their mettle against the monsters and problems of the world: from the chaotic Fae beasts which rip at the edges of the world, to the horrid effects of greed and systemic corruption that hides in the hearts of man.
More often than not, they will succeed in what they have set their mind to-yet they must explore the consequences and repercussions of such actions.
To play Exalted, there are a few core setting themes that should be followed:
Actions are Momentous
The Player Character is the right person at the right time to change the world—for better or for worse. This blessing and burden cannot be given to another, and the Gods are restrained in their actions for reasons ranging from arcane laws, to being involved in their own machinations, to being too weak to do anything.
From the small, personal stories to world-shattering changes, the Exalt stands at the center of it.
What is Done Cannot be Undone
Exaltations cannot be rescinded, the dead cannot return to life except in a hollow mockery of what they once were, and the progress of time is constantly moving forward. Exalts must face the consequences of all their actions.
The Heroes are Flawed
Despite all of their powers and might, Exalts are still human and carry with them their flaws—and this does not make them any less of a hero.
Exalted Reincarnated uses multiple ten-sided dice (d10s). It is suggested to have fifteen dice (real or virtual). The dice will represent digits between 1 and 10. (Some dice will have a 0, treat that as a 10).
Exalted, by Onyx Path Publishing, is a role-playing game blending together high-action combat, social intrigue, and epic-scale actions from demigod heroes.
The setting is full of rich lore, intricacies, and horrors that inspire and captivate the mind, begging to be explored by a hero of grand scale.
However, the complexity and sheer size of the rules structure makes playing the game a daunting task, even for experienced role-players.
Exalted Reincarnated is a fan-made work to rebuild and recreate Exalted from the ground up to better match its rich Lore, Setting, and Style.
This is Fan-Made material. It is unofficial, and makes no claims of ownership over Onyx Path Publishing materials.
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Creation trembles, poised at the turn of a new age. She strains as the systems and rules which long held her together collapse around her. Her population have become thrown into chaos, a time uncertain.
The mighty Realm, whose reach expanded even out of the Blessed Isle, has lost her Empress with no heir declared. Now, each Dragonblooded Clan vies to claim the throne for their own, whether it be by politics or by force—ignoring all else that goes on around them.
The Silver Pact, that loose association only tied together by their hatred and resistance to the Realm, find their alliances crumbling. Their stances mutate and shift just as their Lunar leaders do. Deep rivalries and opposing systems clash as they turn their attention from the faltering and collapsing Realm onto each other.
The Great City of Thorns has fallen, another wellspring of Death and her servants bubbling up from the ever-present threat of the Underworld.
The silent and secretive Sidereals, those Seers from their hidden places, watch, attempting to hold together what strands of Fate and Reality they might, bickering on what Is and what Shall Be.
All the while, the minor powers seek to claim their own lands and hold in this uncertain time.
In this time, the Sun has brought his Chosen back, those great heroes, those terrible Mad Emperors.
The Time of Glory
In the First Age of Mankind, the Exalted—those mortals gifted with a portion of the god's powers—reigned from above. And at their forefront were the brightest among them, the Chosen of the Sun—the Solars.
The First Age was a marvel. Few, if none, had want for bread, nor suffered from diseases, nor lacked purpose. The lands of Creation advanced in grand workings—vast interconnected empires spread across the land, with networks of great trade. Rivalries of course existed, and the occasional skirmish was fought, but mostly it was a time of peace, where the greatest thread to Creation came from the vast chaos of the Wyld—disturbed by the constant expansion of Creation.
The Time of Madness
But in the heart of this First Age lived something dark, something that festered and grew just as the borders of Creation grew. Inside of mankind's lies a corruptive force, a so-called Great Curse that is a part of us all, but shows itself most to those who have great power. And the Exalted had so much power.
Alongside great civic works grew monuments of great ego, held together soley by force of will. Hard, necessary labor soon became the sentence of criminals and undesirables—a definition that grew to encompass more and more peoples over time. What were once rivalries between empires soon descended into endless, bloody wars that threatened the very fabric of Creation itself.
And, at the forefront of this madness were the Solars—just as they were during peace. In a shining moment of ultimate pride, one of them attempted to Usurp their Patron: the Unconquered Sun. The heavens quaked and nearly shattered at the battle, but eventually the Sun kept true to his name and defeated his Chosen, but not without great, debilitating wounds that led to his collapse. Nights—once a conscious gift—became a necessity for so that he might recover: and nights have gotten steadily longer as the years have passed on.
The Heavens raged at this affront and sealed themselves off from Creation. This was enough to shock the Exalted, and though it was bloody, they managed to survive though the lands of Creation were permanently scarred and changed.
The Time of Sorrow
The Dragonblooded, the most numerous and most mortal of the Exalted, were those that were left to pick up the pieces in the rubble of the First Age. Slowly, over millennia, they rebuilt. While it was a shadow of what it once was, it became a peace of sorts. They managed to stabilize the world, beat back a thousand dooms and angry Gods that threatened the mortals of the broken, shrunken lands of Creation.
But over time, the natural distrust of the other Exalts and their actions turned to fear, eventually turning their gaze inward into a sort of pride. Left to pick up the pieces, to salvage the mess of others, they soon started to feel it was their divine duty, and in a way a judgment that their worth was better than all others.
This Pride soon became doctrine, and one mandated by their new Scarlet Empress. All other Exalts, should they not swear fealty to the Dragonblooded, would be seen as dangers to be removed.
This pride only grew when the Outer Provinces rebelled and separated at this mandate. It only grew as their Empress was slain—now a martyr to the cause. A Holy Symbol of their greatness shattered and broken by the morally corrupt "Other."
The Time of Tumult
Today, the lands of the central Realm is in a constant state of a civil war—though none dare to call it a war. Each Dragonblooded house vies for the throne, each declaring an (often dubious) tie to the great Scarlet Empress as proof. Among them is Mnemon, a proven descendant of the Empress, but she has Exalted as a Solar and all have banded against her to stop her.
A great Lunar General rebelled against the House Tepet, splitting their Northern lands in twain. He has renamed himself the Bull of the North, and has become a constant threat from the outside.
Among all this chaos, in the central realm and the scattered city-states of the rebellious Outer Provinces, wander the Wyld Hunt. What was once a unified, independent gathering of Exalts tasked with dealing with demons, Fae, angry Gods, and other threats to Creation, has become fractured. Some chapters of the Wyld hunt stick true to their goals—recruiting new Exalts to serve Creation itself. Others have become little more than political extensions, threatening any who do not agree with their ideology.


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The Seagulls were the only side with a 100 per cent record via a hat-trick of clean sheet wins over West Ham, Newcastle and Wolves.
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UC San Diego Biologists Find Way to Lower Tumor Risk in Stem Cell Therapies
Mice with dysfunctional immune systems that receive human embryonic stem cells produce tumors called teratomas.
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One of the characteristics of embryonic stem cells is their ability to form unusual tumors called teratomas. These tumors, which contain a mixture of cells from a variety of tissues and organs of the body, are typically benign. But they present a major obstacle to the development of human embryonic stem cell therapies that seek to treat a variety of human ailments such as Parkinson's, diabetes, genetic blood disorders and spinal cord injuries.
Now a team of biologists at UC San Diego funded by a grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the state's stem-cell funding agency, has discovered a way to limit the formation of teratomas.
In this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers report that they have identified a new signaling pathway critical for unlimited self propagation of embryonic stem cells. Using small molecule compounds that inhibit this pathway, the scientists were able to dramatically reduce the potential of embryonic stem cells to form teratomas.
"Human stem cell therapy involves differentiating human embryonic stem cells into the kinds of cells needed for the treatment," said Yang Xu, a professor of biology who headed the team that published the report. "But this differentiation is never complete, meaning that the final product is a mixture of cells inevitably containing undifferentiated embryonic stem cells. So by transplanting these cells into a patient, there's clearly a risk of producing teratomas."
If researchers could halt the propagation of human embryonic stem cells during lineage-specific differentiation before they are transplanted, they could avoid the risk of producing teratomas.
"This is a proof of concept to show how we can avoid teratomas in human embryonic stem cell therapies by studying the basic biology of these cells," said Xu. "At this point, we only see a significant but partial effect because we are targeting only one pathway. Once we identify more pathways required for teratoma formation by embryonic stem cells, we might be able to completely suppress the formation of teratomas by targeting multiple pathways simultaneously."
Other scientists involved in the discovery were Steven Briggs, a professor of biology at UCSD, and UCSD biologists Matteo Moretto-Zita, Hua Jin, Zhouxin Shen and Tongbiao Zhao.
Xu recently received a $1.2 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine for another research effort to explore a new strategy to induce immune tolerance to grafted cells derived from human embryonic stem cells.
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Yang Xu, (858) 822-1084, yangxu@ucsd.edu
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Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
November 25, 2015 Gordon Maples	7 Comments
Today's feature is yet another reviled sequel, and one of the most hated video game adaptations of all time to boot: Mortal Kombat: Annihilation.
The screenplay for Mortal Kombat: Annihilation was written by the duo of Brent V. Friedman (Foodfight, Prehysteria 2, Prehysteria 3) and Bryce Zabel (M.A.N.T.I.S., Dark Skies), while story credit was given to producers Lawrence Kasanoff and Joshua Wexler, along with creators of the source video game series, John Tobias and Ed Boon.
Moral Kombat: Annihilation was directed by John Leonetti, who was also behind The Butterfly Effect 2 and Annabelle, and shot movies like Child's Play 3, I Know Who Killed Me, The Scorpion King, The Mask, and the original Mortal Kombat.
The cinematographer for the film was Matthew F. Leonetti, who also shot Santa's Slay, The Butterfly Effect, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Red Heat, Action Jackson, Commando, Weird Science, and The Bat People, among many others.
The editor for Mortal Kombat: Annihilation was Peck Prior, whose astounding list of credits includes Pixels, Disaster Movie, Epic Movie, Master of Disguise, Meet The Spartans, Vampires Suck, and Weekend At Bernie's II.
The team of producers for the movie included Alison Savitch (Foodfight, Mortal Kombat), Joshua Wexler (Foodfight, Beowulf), Brian Witten (Detroit Rock City, Dark City, Spawn), Kevin Reidy (Ever After), Lawrence Kasanoff (Foodfight, Class of 1999, CHUD II: Bud the Chud, Blood Diner, Mortal Kombat), Carla Fry (The Mask, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Lost In Space), and Gerrit V. Folsom (Queer Eye For The Straight Girl).
The effects work on Mortal Kombat: Annihilation was provided by a team that included Shaune Harrison (Jupiter Ascending, Children of the Corn II), Matt Jordon (Seed of Chucky), Melissa Lackersteen (Game of Thrones, Judge Dredd), Chris Lyons (Guardians of the Galaxy, Blade II, Fat Slags), Gary Pollard (Doctor Who, Game of Thrones, Little Shop Of Horrors), Michelle Taylor (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Judge Dredd), Larry Arpin (The Dentist, Maniac Cop 3, Leprechaun, Maniac Cop 2, Blood Diner, Maniac Cop, The Ambulance), Everett Burrell (Re-Animator, Trick or Treat, Castle Freak), Chuck Comisky (Rush Hour, Jaws 3-D, Battle Beyond The Stars), Jeff Matakovich (Small Soldiers, Battlefield Earth, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), Linda Drake (From Beyond, Chopping Mall, Troll, Dr. Alien), Ron Trost (The Omega Code, Mortal Kombat, Slipstream (2007)), Neil Todd (The Avengers, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), Mark Meddings (Krull, Gladiator), and Kevin Mathews (The Avengers, Judge Dredd, The Brothers Grimm).
The musical score for Mortal Kombat: Annihilation was composed by George S. Clinton, who also provided music for such movies as The Love Guru, Catch That Kid, 3000 Miles To Graceland, Beverly Hills Ninja, Mortal Kombat, Brainscan, and American Ninja 2.
The cast of Mortal Kombat: Annihilation includes Robin Shou (Mortal Kombat, Beverly Hills Ninja), Talisa Soto (License to Kill), James Remar (Dexter), Sandra Hess (General Hospital), Lynn Williams (American Gladiators), Brian Thompson (Hard to Kill, Cobra), Musetta Vander (The Cell), and Irina Pantaeva (Zoolander).
The plot of Mortal Kombat: Annihilation picks up right where the previous movie left off, following the surprising appearance of Shao Kahn after the conclusion of the Mortal Kombat tournament. For vague reasons, the evil leader given the human heroes six days before he permanently merges the dimensions and conquers Earth, which gives them time to train and come up with a plan.
A third Mortal Kombat movie was already in planning when Mortal Kombat: Annihilation came out, but the overwhelmingly negative reception to the movie effectively forced those plans into cancellation.
The character of Sheeva, a multi-limbed antagonist, was cut down to have minimum screen time once it became clear that the necessary effects to portray the character were cost prohibitive for the production.
Johnny Cage's very limited role in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation was possibly due to the original actor, Linden Ashby, refusing to sign on to join the sequel's cast.
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation was made on a production budget of $30 million, on which it grossed just over $51 million in its total worldwide theatrical release.
In spite of the movie being ultimately profitable, it was absolutely hated by critics and audiences alike. It currently holds a 3.7 user rating on IMDb, alongside Rotten Tomatoes scores of 3% from critics and 25% from audiences.
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is an absolute trainwreck of a movie from top to bottom. To start with, the movie shouldn't have been pushed forward on such a weak script, which was enough to turn numerous actors away from the project from the start. The generally rushed production is something that is definitely evident on screen, as just about everything about it feels unfinished, like it needed to percolate longer.
The most evident visual problem with the movie is the effects work. While the writing is bad, that would have been forgivable if the movie had provided decent action and special effects, but unfortunately it doesn't deliver in either category. It is hard to blame this on the workers particularly, as both time and the budget were clearly shackled with unreasonable constraints. Still, the product on screen looks like something from the mid 1980s, not 1997, which particularly evident in the "animality" fight during the climax.
One of the other problems with this film is that it tries to crunch too much content into the movie, particularly in the form of characters. It is one thing to try to appease a fan base by including favorite characters from the source material, but there is a point where there are so many characters that none of them have the time to get fleshed out. Fans of the games certainly love Ermac and Noob Saibot, but they (and many other characters) are wasted in the movie, as they are too prominent to be background characters, but not important enough to be real members of the cast.
Overall, the movie is on the edge of being entertainingly terrible. Some bad movie fans are much higher on it than others, but I'm in the camp of people that finds it to be a little too boring to be elite. There is certainly some amusing incompetence across the board here, and it isn't unwatchable, but it is far from the top of my bad movie list. It is still worth giving a shot for bad movie fans, and definitely a must-see for fans of the video game franchise.
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Organization name changes and corporate restructurings may trigger work permit-related issues for temporary foreign workers employed in Canadian organizations and may have an impact on the employer compliance regime.
In corporate restructurings, the holder of the LMIA must contact Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)/Service Canada (SC) to inform them of the change. The LMIA is issued by ESDC/SC and allows Canadian employers to hire foreign nationals in a variety of occupations.
The LMIA application imposes conditions on the employer to abide by a prevailing wage, a specific job location and specific job duties when the work permit is issued. Therefore, each LMIA is tailored to fit a particular job offer by a particular employer.
Specific conditions under section R209.2 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations are imposed on the organization when the work permit is issued to the foreign national. The conditions on the employer are for the whole period of the work permit.
In addition to the conditions imposed, there may also be specific LMIA exemption program requirements that may be affected by a corporate restructuring, such as the intra-company transferees who require a qualifying corporate relationship between the foreign and Canadian entities. Therefore, if a qualifying relationship ceases to exist in the wake of a corporate restructuring, there is no basis for the emerging Canadian entity to continue to employ a temporary worker as an intra-company transferee.
In situations where the original organization still exists after the restructuring, they continue to be responsible for the temporary workers unless the new organization has become the "successor in interest" for the portion of the organization where the temporary workers were employed.
The new organization is responsible for ensuring that it only employs a foreign national in a capacity in which the foreign national is authorized under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) to be employed, as per paragraph A124(1)(c).
If an organization changes only its name or address and there are no other changes to the structure of the company or to its Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) business number, the organization will be considered by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to be the same employer. They will therefore be assessed against their past compliance in providing their previous temporary workers with the wages, occupation and working conditions previously offered, when a new foreign national is applying for a work permit or at the time of an extension application. Where the work permit processing officer or the case analyst in an inspection learns of a name change, they should verify that there have been no other changes to the company.
Officers who are aware of changes in organization names should advise the employer that they must update the organization's information in the Employer Portal. Officers should then place a note on the "Organization" tab and add the address as type "Other" to differentiate it from what the employer provides in their offer through the Employer Portal.
If an organization changes its business type (for instance, from proprietorship to corporation) and the change results in the issuance of new business number, the organization should contact IRCC using the Employer Portal mailbox and request that the CRA business number be corrected. This will ensure the original organization is linked with the ongoing one.
An acquisition is the takeover of the controlling interest of one entity by another, and both entities retain their legal existence after the transaction.
Mergers and consolidations are the joining together of two entities into a single entity called a surviving entity. The surviving entity assumes all of the assets and liabilities of the merged entities (that is, it purchases the stock, assets and liabilities of the other entities, absorbing them into one corporate structure).
A contraction is the reduction in size of a corporation, and it can take several different forms: divestitures, equity carve-outs, spin-offs or split-offs, and split-ups. A divestiture is a sale of a portion of the firm to an outside party. An equity carve-out is a variation of a divestiture that involves the sale of an equity interest in a subsidiary to outsiders. A new legal entity is also created in a standard spin-off. In a split-up, the entire firm is broken up into a series of spin-offs.
The specific characteristics of the restructuring will dictate the resulting action that is required of the employer and the foreign worker.
The main consideration for temporary workers who hold employer-specific work permits is whether the new organization can be seen to be a successor in interest employer or, in the case of an acquisition, the same employer.
Note: Changes in ownership structure should not require a new LMIA or offer of employment if the new organization is a successor in interest.
Intra-company transferees: Processing officers must ensure that the qualifying relationship continues to exist between the foreign entity and the Canadian entity. See the guidance on intra-company transferees for more information on qualifying relationships.
Provincial nominations: The employer-specific nomination must still be supported by the province when a business is sold or restructured. See information about provincial nominee employer-specific work permit applications.
To establish a successor in interest, the successor entity must demonstrate that it has substantially assumed the interests and obligations, assets and liabilities of the original owner and that it continues to operate the same type of business as the original owner.
Documentation: The successor in interest can be established through a transfer of ownership document that provides the details about the restructuring.
If some assets or liabilities are not assumed by the successor entity after the corporate restructuring, the successor in interest may not exist. This may occur when a shelf corporation is created and a minimal asset or liability is left with a corporation. Shelf corporations have no activity. They are usually sold to individuals who would prefer to have an aged corporation rather than a new one. A business entity that is created through a process other than incorporation (such as a limited liability company) is simply called a shelf company.
Below are some economic determinants to assist processing officers and case analysts in establishing whether an entity has assumed the required interests, obligations, assets and liabilities of the previous owner.
Where an organization sells or otherwise transfers their business to a new organization, the original organization is still responsible for ensuring that conditions were met until the time of transfer. The new organization may be responsible for continuing the compliance if they are the successor in interest.
Changes in ownership structure should not require a new LMIA or offer of employment if the new organization assumes the previous owner's assets and liabilities (including those of the previous owner relating to the hiring and retention of temporary workers [for instance, where a successor in interest can be demonstrated]).
The take-over organization meets the requirements under which the LMIA-exempt work permit was issued (for instance, a qualifying relationship for intra-company transferee), or the take-over organization assumes the LMIA contract.
The worker's employment conditions as per the original offer of employment (for example, the wages, duties and location) have not changed.
If the take-over organization does not become a successor in interest (that is, it does not assume all of the interests, obligations, assets and liabilities of the original organization), a new LMIA or offer of employment and new work permits are required for all temporary workers holding employer-specific work permits, and the employees should cease working for the take-over organization until new work permits have been obtained.
The new organization is responsible for ensuring that it only employs a foreign national in a capacity in which the foreign national is authorized under the IRPA to be employed, as per paragraph A124(1)(c).


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The Grand Paris Express - Transforming a city for the future
5/15/2018 Paris New Revolution
Hundreds of kilometers of new subway lines are being built in Paris. They are part of The Grand Paris Express - at the moment the largest construction project for public transportation in Europe. With it come new homes, work opportunities and a serious ambition to really give new life to the suburbs of Paris. "We are defining a new kind of metropolis," says Isabelle Rivière, Territory Relations Manager, Société du Grand Paris, the public agency that is in charge of realizing the project.
For a long time now, the public transportation system in Paris has suffered from growing pains. Imagine a belt, tightly drawn around the city, squeezing harder and harder. The existing subway lines, both subterranean and above ground, are overpopulated during rush hours. The roads surrounding the city, in particular the so called Périphérique, are dividing the greater Paris area with the inner city. The result? Constantly jammed roads and time consuming commuting for the citizens of one of Europe's biggest cities.
The solution can, and most probably will, be The Grand Paris Express. In about one decade's time, it will ease the pain, and loose the belt. 200 kilometers of subway lines are right now being built. A number of big construction companies are involved, including Volvo CE. It is a huge and ambitious project, and Europe has never seen anything like it. Isabelle Rivière explains the challenges that needed to be met when it all started, in 2008.
"People lived, and live, in the east and go to work in the west. So we had to modernize our public transport network. Currently we have a star-shaped network with Paris at the center whereas most travels are actually from one suburb to another. The idea of a circular subway line came up, joining the tips of the star in order to create connections so that people don't have to go through Paris to go from one suburb to another."
Isabelle Rivière, Territory Relations Manager at Société du Grand Paris.
Apart from the pure transportation issue in the city, the project also aims to connect the smaller cities around the center with each other. A vivid example of this connection, is the construction of one the Grand Paris Express hubs in the small city of Clamart, just south of Paris. Here, the work started some years ago and the construction site is huge.
"With this station, the small cities Clamart, Vanves, Malakoff and Issy-Les-Moulineau will be connected in a way that we haven't seen before. When it is finished, it will save loads of time for the commuters", says Gualtiero Zamuner, project manager for the site on behalf of Société du Grand Paris.
He shows around on the site, where the beginning of a gigantic tunnel takes up most part. Descending, it is hard to imagine what it will look like in just a few years. Here, travellers and commuters will mingle and board subway trains, taking them in different directions.
Gualtiero Zamuner, project manager at Société du Grand Paris.
"The Bouygues construction company is currently doing work around us to build the second flooring of the future station. Then, we'll dig further to get to the next level below, and then further again, to create a station for the subway," he says and sweeps with his arm around the area.
Besides the actual station, the citizens of Clamart can look forward to other effects in the future.
"An urbanistic project is taking place right now, conducted by the Clamart mayor. 300 apartments, a day nursery and schools will be built. A good example of that The Grand Paris Express is not only about transportation," says Gualtiero Zamuner.
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Being a large project, Grand Paris Express is also observed by other major cities, and Isabelle Rivière reveals that a delegation from Moscow paid a visit to Société du Grand Paris a few years back for advice. And it is not only the pure construction they want to know more about. In a world where we need to think more and more about how to travel together, efficiently and with minimum effect on the environment, a project like The Grand Paris Express means so much more.
"This is truly a revolution. We are defining a new kind of metropolis. With efficient public transport, we can also imagine that in the future, people will use their cars less or in a different way and use public transport," concludes Isabelle Rivière.
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To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 16 December 1808
Treasury Department Decer. 16th 1808
In conformity with the suggestions arising from the complaints made respecting the French vessel ready to sail from Baltimore, the collector of that port was directed to stop the departure & to report a full statement of the case. This having been done, the vessel now waits your decision; and I have the honor to enclose both the original correspondence connected with the permission given to the French minister, & the report of the collector.
It was on receipt of the letter of 22d August from the department of State that the permission was granted and the instructions of 29th August given to the collector.
Of the two vessels, one sailed in Nover.; and the other, the Atalanta, is that which is now stopt.
The surmises on that subject appear altogether removed by Mr M'Culloch's letters; and the only two points which seem to require examination are 1st. whether the number of persons to be put on board is proportionate to the tonnage of the vessel—2dly whether the amount of provisions allowed by the collector is too great & should be reduced.
On the first point, although it be true that the number of sailors, put on board either that vessel or the Natalia, does not correspond with the former broad assertion of the French minister that there were 1500 French seamen in the United States, the number of persons embarked (56) is not much less than what the vessel which measures only 154 tons, could carry.
On the second point, the statement enclosed in the Collector's letter of 13th instt., will give full information. The quantity may if thought too great be diminished; & the vessel be then permitted to depart.
I have the honor to be with the highest respect Sir Your obedt. Servant
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