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An Unorthodox 1-2
Appearing at the Royal Opera House Linbury Theatre 24th/25th November as part of Firsts '09.
An Unorthodox 1-2 is a spoken word and music piece commissioned in 2008 by Bifocals Community Arts as part of a residency at Barrow AFC. The piece combines field recordings, spoken word and instrumental material to explore the aural environment of the ground from the physical sounds of the game to the emotional response of the crowd.
Inspired by visits to the Holker Street ground, Glenn Boulter produced a series of texts that were later recorded with Barrow-based actor and Barrow fan Damian Rose. Drawing on early experimental radio dramas, these fragmentary monologues collaged together adverts for defunct local businesses, found text from programmes and details of local geography. Edited and looped, the spoken texts formed the starting point for three instrumental pieces, performed by Aurelie members Francis O'Donnell Smith, David Dhonau, Euan Roger and Ola Szmidt. Combined, the two elements attempt to capture the unique aura of match day in a South Cumbrian town and to make explicit the idea of the game as a performance in its own right.
Recent live performances have seen Aurelie joined by John Hall on laptop, including the opening night of the Arcola Theatre's Grimeborn Festival in August of this year.
Performances are accompanied by excerpts from Unbridled, a video installation focusing on memory, geography and football culture created by Francis O' Donnell Smith documenting an interview at with lifetime Barrow AFC supporter Geoff Payne.
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Paige Raises $45M to Expand AI-Native Digital Pathology Ecosystem to Accelerate Biomarker Discovery
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- Paige raises $45M in Series B funding led by Healthcare Venture Partners with participation from Breyer Capital, Kenan Turnacioglu, and others. - The funding will be used to accelerate commercial efforts of its AI-native digital pathology ecosystem in the U.S., Europe, Brazil, and Canada. Paige, a NYC-based leader in computational pathology transforming the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, today announced it has closed its Series B funding round of $45 million, bringing the Company's
Health Gorilla Becomes Largest Interoperability Provider in Puerto Rico
- Health Gorilla expands clinical interoperability efforts in Puerto Rico with four new partners adopting its secure interoperability solution. - Through its expanded client base and patient reach, Health Gorilla has become the largest interoperability solutions provider in Puerto Rico.Health Gorilla, a Silicon Valley-based secure interoperability solution, announced today new partners that have adopted its technology platform to advance clinical interoperability efforts in Puerto Rico. Health
Life Image, Graticule Launches Imaging Dataset In AWS Data Exchange
- Life Image and Graticule announced the availability of GLIMPS (Graticule Life Image Machine Parsed Set) data licensing subscriptions in AWS Data Exchange. - GLIMPS (Graticule Life Image Machine Parsed Set) is a de-identified patient-level data set including a summary of features generated from NLP processing on Life Image data. - The goal of GLIMPS is to provide a cost-effective patient-level snapshot to biopharma data science teams to fuel the necessary discussions about these data, leading
FDA Clears AI-Powered EchoGo Core for Early Detection of Cardiovascular Disease
- Ultromics has just become one of the first companies to have 510(k) FDA clearance for an AI medical device. - EchoGo will now be available for clinicians in the UK and US to use to help them identify cardiovascular disease earlier. - EchoGo automates cardiac measurements and is the first AI application to measure cardiac strain, improving patient care and outcomes.Ultromics, the UK-based health technology firm at the forefront of applying artificial intelligence to echocardiography has
Rock Health: 3 Central Themes Driving Digital Health Consumer Adoption
- Rock Health and the Stanford Center for Digital Health release their findings from the 2019 Consumer Adoption Survey. - In 2019, overall consumer adoption of digital health leveled off in 2019 near the 2018 high water mark. - Findings reveal consumer-clinician dialogue and transparency around data collection and sharing will be central to the growth of digital technology in healthcare.Digital health consumer adoption has leveled off in what appears to a slight moderation of digital health
Philips, Dept. of Defense Partner to Develop AI-Algorithm to Detect Infection 48 Hours Before Observable Symptoms
- Philips and the U.S. Department of Defense are teaming up to develop an AI-algorithm to identify infection more than 48 hours before observable symptoms. - Using large data sets & machine learning across biomarkers, innovative tech can speed time to detection, intervention & treatment, while improving outcomes & reducing the spread of disease. - Future research is currently being planned to leverage this information as an algorithm to be integrated into a wearable
SwipseSense Combines EHR Data With RTLS Data to Deliver Operational Insights
- Redox announced a partnership with SwipeSense to help eliminate waste and improve patient outcomes in healthcare delivery networks.- The partnership ensures that SwipeSense's growing portfolio of applications is fully interoperable with any EHR system, while greatly reducing the time and effort required to integrate into a hospital's existing suite of tools.- With Redox, SwipeSense will be automatically notified of all relevant patient admission, discharge, and transfer events, enhancing their
Eko Raises $20M to Expand Machine Learning Platform for Cardiac Monitoring/Analysis
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10 Considerations for Success In A Post-MACRA Value-Based Healthcare Reality
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Moshe Starkman, Senior Director, Value-based Reimbursements, nThrive The first two years of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) Quality Payment Program (QPP) are in the books and many organizations are wondering if their strong performances will ever be met with a significant upside adjustment. Year 1 (2017) enjoyed very high participation levels, 95% of eligible clinicians, but very low upside adjustments. Between the Test Pace option, artificially low bar

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'Over My Head'
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Over My Head
Updated Jan 2019
"We took our time to write this record, and I'm really glad we did," says Brittany Howard, lead singer and guitarist of Alabama Shakes, about the band's new album Sound & Color. "We were able to sit…
"We took our time to write this record, and I'm really glad we did," says Brittany Howard, lead singer and guitarist of Alabama Shakes, about the band's new album Sound & Color. "We were able to sit down and think about what's exciting to us, explore all the things we wanted to on our first album. This record is full of genre-bending songs—it's even harder now when people ask, 'What kind of band are you?' I have no clue."
Sound & Color is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the Shakes' 2012 debut Boys & Girls, which earned the group three Grammy nominations, including a nod for Best New Artist. The gold-certified album's breakthrough paved the way for the Shakes—Howard, guitarist Heath Fogg, bassist Zac Cockrell, drummer Steve Johnson, and touring keyboard players Ben Tanner and Paul Horton—to become one of the most celebrated live acts in the world, as they delivered unforgettable performances everywhere from Saturday Night Live to the main stages of such festivals as Bonnaroo and Glastonbury.
"There was definitely a slight wave of pressure after that success," says Fogg, "but everyone was really on the same page about letting that pass and making the record that we wanted to make, trying to be creative and free and not limit ourselves."
The album's twelve songs reveal a band honed by years on the road, and drawing from a wide range of influences. The bluesy groove of "Shoegaze" or the garage-rock freak-out on "The Greatest" give way to the psychedelic space jam "Gemini." The gently swaying, chiming title song opens the album with what Howard calls "more of a visual thing, I think of this whole scene going on," then explodes into the urgent, tightly-coiled funk of "Don't Wanna Fight." Long instrumental intros and passages create hazy atmosphere, and then the intensity of Howard's vocals snaps everything back into riveting focus.
She explains that there were a few specific recordings that were touchstones for Sound & Color. "The Superfly soundtrack, Gil Scott-Heron's music and how minimal it could be, David Axelrod—not so much wanting to sound like them, but all of their attention to small details. With 'Gemini,' I thought about how the Temptations used to write pop songs, but then got really far out on 'Cloud Nine' or 'Psychedelic Shack.' I imagined myself in the situation of the African-American groups in the '70s, when synthesizers had just come out and they were making all of this moody stuff."
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HBO's 'The Last of Us' co-creator made a major change from the video game so we'd be able to see Pedro Pascal's face
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Pedro Pascal in "The Last of Us."
"The Last of Us" co-creator made a change to the show's horrifying fungus so he could show the actors' faces.
Neil Druckmann told Polygon that HBO changed how the fungus spread from the hit video game it is based on.
"Characters would wear gas masks all the time," Druckmann said.
A co-creator of HBO's hit series "The Last of Us" made a major change to the show's biggest threat so they didn't have to cover star Pedro Pascal's face with a gas mask all the time.
In the hit video game series the show is based on, the Cordyceps fungus spreads through airborne spores, forcing the player's character to put on a gas mask to navigate through the toxic environment.
But, when the universe hit the small screen, co-creator Neil Druckmann told Polygon that they opted for tendrils of fungus — demonstrated in a horrifying scene in episode two — instead of to spores.
"The show [is] taking a more realistic approach to the story and the world," Druckmann told Polygon. "If we wanted to treat it realistically, and there are spores near, characters would wear gas masks all the time."
He continued: "Then we lose so much, which is maybe the most important part of the journey is what's going on inside behind their eyes, in their soul, in their beings. For that logistical reason, we were like, 'Let's find a different vector.'"
"The Last of Us" has been a hit for HBO Max. It was the streaming service's second-biggest launch of all time, behind only "Game of Thrones" spin-off "House of Dragons."
The gritty zombie apocalypse show would have been the second time Pascal was performing in a mask in a big-budget show. His character on Disney+'s "The Mandalorian" is famously helmeted — and even refuses to take it off in the show.
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Route Fifty December 13, 2019
Several Midwest cities like Indianapolis are experiencing an economic renaissance. Yet, the region's inability to attract people threatens long-term prospects.
The stereotype of the Heartland is of a left-behind post-industrial region full of cities with intractable problems. While there's some truth to that, especially when you look at struggling metros like Gary and Youngstown, it discounts the numerous successes of their neighbors. While these cities may not have the glamour of New York and Los Angeles or the growth rates of some Sunbelt boomtowns, they, nevertheless, belie the notion that the Midwest can't compete.
Indianapolis is a perfect case study. The city is home to a rapidly growing constellation of startups and frequently listed as a strong second-tier tech center. Big business is knocking at Indianapolis' door. Salesforce put its second largest U.S. office in the city and the company's logo now adorns the top of the state's tallest building. Amazon selected the city as a finalist in its HQ2 competition. And tech service giant Infosys is building a 3,000 person office, which upon completion will be the largest corporate training center in the country.
This low-cost city also happens to be located in a business-friendly state that is ranked 10th for its tax climate by the Tax Foundation. Additionally, Indiana is fiscally solid, AAA-rated and has $2 billion in the bank—positioning it well to navigate any economic downturn. These facts are potent symbols of how this Midwestern city has succeeded in transforming its economy for the 21st century.
Putting the cold and snowy winters aside, this approach features the same winning characteristics of many successful Southern cities. Beyond low costs and taxes, Indianapolis boasts the same downtown apartment boom, farm-to-table restaurants, trendy coffee shops and microbreweries as every other growing city. But it also has truly unique attributes, like its motorsports heritage. The Indianapolis 500 is world-famous, and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's recent sale to Roger Penske made global news. Indy is also the capital of drag racing and one of only a handful of global centers of the motorsports industry, with over 400 firms employing about 8,000 people locally, many of them in high-tech jobs.
The city's recipe of low costs, low taxes and quality amenities is working. The metro area is adding population at a rate almost 1.5 times as fast as the country as a whole, has added nearly 160,000 jobs since 2010, has a per capita GDP that's 15% higher than the U.S. average and is more educated than the country at large.
Indianapolis is not the only Midwestern success story. Cities like Minneapolis-St. Paul, Fargo, Grand Rapids, Kansas City, Madison, Des Moines and Columbus, Ohio, can make similar boasts. Minneapolis is full of blue-chip corporate headquarters. Columbus is home to the $1 billion Drive Capital venture fund. And the relatively small Fargo area in North Dakota hosts over 1,000 Microsoft employees.
As well as these cities are doing, they continue to have a weakness that limits and threatens their future: luring people from outside the region to fill open jobs. The Midwest is heavily dependent on people moving from their home state or within the region to fill the labor gap. To sustain labor growth, the Midwest needs to draw workers from across the country, but it is not yet a national draw.
Based on my analysis of Internal Revenue Service data, Indianapolis had a net gain of 27,000 people from within the state move to the area from 2010 to 2016. But it experienced a net loss in acquiring new residents from outside of Indiana. The same is true for all these Midwestern stars, according to my recent Manhattan Institute study, "Midwest Success Stories." In contrast, Sunbelt cities like Nashville and Raleigh draw people from across the nation and hardly rely on migration from within their home state. This might explain why Amazon decided to put its 5,000-person operations HQ in Nashville instead of Indianapolis, even though Indy has a larger population and more tech workers.
Midwest cities need to find a way to become national draws. The winters can't be changed, but cold-weather Boise is drawing so many people from California it's causing a backlash. If Idaho can lure people, surely Midwestern cities can too.
How? First, they need to make it easy to move altogether. Implementing regulatory changes like easier transference of out-of-state credentials like occupational licenses can help. Even more important is opening up social networks so that newcomers can make friends and avoid feeling isolated. Indianapolis is already excellent at this, but many Midwestern places aren't.
These cities also need to sell themselves more aggressively. Unlike Texas with its oversized braggadocio, Midwest cities like Indianapolis have always been modest. They need to learn the art of authentic civic boasting, and create the kind of mythos that Sunbelt cities like Nashville have. They need the same kind of focused effort on attracting newcomers that they do on luring conventions, tourists and new businesses.
The Midwest is more than just the Rust Belt. Cities like Indianapolis need to get serious about attracting people from outside their home state. Their potential is very high, but can only be realized if they are able to expand their draw beyond their own backyard.
This piece originally appeared at Route Fifty
Aaron Renn is a contributing editor of City Journal and author of the Manhattan Institute report, "Midwest Success Stories: These 10 Cities Are Blooming, Not Rusting."
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Ernestine "Ernie" N. Ceradsky, 93, Charles City
Coloff Media Send an email July 2, 2018
Ernestine "Ernie" N. Ceradsky, 93 of Charles City, died Thursday, June 28, 2018 at the Floyd County Memorial Hospital in Charles City.
Private graveside services will be held at a later date. Inurnment will be in Memorial Park Cemetery, Mason City, Iowa.
Ernestine Norene was born on September 3, 1924 in Mason City, Iowa the daughter of Joseph William and Bertha T. "Johnson" Morris. She graduated from the Oakdale High School in Louisiana with the class of 1941. She then attended Hamilton Business College in Mason City. On August 25, 1951 she was united in marriage to Garland Ceradsky at the Little Brown Church in Nashua.
She worked with her husband at Garland's Refrigeration for many years. Her memberships included the First Christian Disciples of Christ Church where she was a member of the Friendship Circle. She also was a member of the Women of the Moose #1190, Charles City woman's Club, the YMCA Heritage Club. She loved traveling with Garland DeWayne and Nancy and the Heritage Club tours. She enjoyed having coffee with her dear friends, reading, and doing counted cross stitch and crocheting. Ernie and Garland were often seen at the girl's softball games in town.
Those surviving her are her two sons DeWayne and his wife Nancy of Waterloo, and Kenneth and his wife Shirley of Wichita, KS; five grandchildren Shane (Amy) Ceradsky, Cameron (Karen) Ceradsky, Eric Ceradsky, Kim (Scott) Anderson, and Lynette (Rus) Hartman, 8 Great Grandchildren and 3 step-Great Grandchildren, 2 Great Great Grandchildren and 2Step-Great-Great-Grandchildren.
Preceding her in death are her parents, Husband Garland, Daughter Nola Marie Shorey, and three sisters Barbara Johnson, Connie O'Donnell and Lillian Lehman.
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EC provincial government continues to waste millions on rental space
Issued by Nqaba Bhanga, MPL
Shadow Eastern Cape Premier
Eastern Cape departments are splurging almost R20,3-million a month on office rental, costing taxpayers over R243-million a year.
This rental figure has escalated by over R5-million, up from the R238 million paid in 2018.
This money could rather be spent on purchasing suitable buildings or constructing fit-for-purpose office space, which would insulate the departments from rising rental costs.
Premier Oscar Mabuyane confirmed that the bulk of the rental expenditure is in the Amathole region, which accounts for over R15-million of the R20,268 million monthly rental bills.
The Department of Health, for example, is renting office space at more than R1,8 million a month in Bhisho, while splitting a bill of just over R1-million a month with the Department of Education for offices in King Williams Town.
The Department of Human Settlements are also paying in excess of R1,5-million a month on office rental in East London.
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What is of further outrage is that the Bhisho Office precinct, hailed by the provincial government as an answer to excessive expenditure on office rentals, has proven to be another source of wasteful extravagance.
This project has been touted by the provincial government 2016, and to date the only people who have seen any benefit from it is the string of consultants who have been paid close on R50-million rand in fees.
This project cannot be allowed to turn into a scam, by default, whereby consultants are endlessly benefitting, without any construction taking place.
Last week the Premier once again issued a call for proposals for the development of new offices in Bhisho. This despite the fact that Public Works indicated that groundwork for the project was scheduled to begin in April this year.
The reality is the Eastern Cape cannot afford to waste any funds on providing office space at exorbitant and ever-climbing prices.
I have posed questions to the Premier to outline the current state of the Bhisho Precinct in order to ensure that it serves its intended purposes.
The people of the Eastern Cape deserve adequate hospital buildings, clinics and schools, not costly offices for officials.
The DA demands that the Premier show that government is serious about curbing wasteful expenditure and providing adequate service delivery for the people of this province.
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Protests in the EC continue to rise as chaos trumps law and order ›


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Grypoceras is a  coiled nautiloid cephalopod from the Triassic of western North America, southern Asia, and Europe that belongs to the nautilid family Grypoceratidae.  Named by Alpheus Hyatt in 1883, the shell of Grypoceras is essentially involute with a  subtriangular cross section, widest across the umbilical shoulders, with flanks fairing toward a narrow flattened venter.  Sutures on flanks are with smooth, deep lobes and with shallow ventral lobes.

The earlier, related Domatoceras is evolute, with a more quadrate whorl section.  Gryponautilus, from the Upper Triassic, is more strongly involute and has a sharply keeled venter.

References
 Bernhard Kummel, 1964, Nautiloidea-Nautilida. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
Paleobiology Database Grypoceras entry  accessed 7 July 2012

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Moving to Albuquerque? Here's What You Need to Know
Published On: June 14, 2021By admin
Have you ever considered moving to Albuquerque? Well, if so, then here are some things you should know before you move. Nothing bad – Albuquerque is vibrant and full of culture. These are things you may not know yet, and that's our goal — to inform you about our vibrant city.
You probably know the weather (Albuquerque gets all four seasons, but mild and dry), but do you know everything? Let's find out!
The History of Albuquerque
If you're moving to Albuquerque, then you need to know about the city. Albuquerque has a very rich history that begins centuries before New Mexico even became a state. The city was officially founded in 1706 and has continued to grow into a large metropolitan area. Signs of the historic Albuquerque still remain today, including rock carvings at Petroglyph National Monument, Old Town Plaza, and the iconic Route 66.
Even long before that, though, Albuquerque was an epicenter for history. All the way back in 2,000 B.C, the Pueblo people lived and developed a sophisticated culture and mastered arts, crafts, masonry, and ceramics. These techniques have been passed along through generations and are still practiced today.
The first European visitors to the area were Spanish explorers in 1540 under the leadership of Francisco de Coronado.
By the 1700s, King Philip of Spain granted permission for a group of colonists to build a city along the banks of the Rio Grande. The city was named by the colony's first governor in honor of the Duke of Albuquerque back in Spain.
Many of the buildings erected by early Spanish settlers still stand today in Old Town Albuquerque.
Albuquerque Demographics
Albuquerque is the 32nd largest city in the United States, with well over half a million residents. It has a population density of 2,975 people per square mile, which is significantly higher than the New Mexico average as well as the nation's average. The median age in the city is 36, and families make up most of the population.
A majority of the residents do speak English as their first language, though about 25% of them are also fluent in Spanish. The city is a healthy mix of people who were born there and people who moved there, about 50% to each category.
It's also very diverse. The largest part of the population identify as Hispanics, and a large number identify as Caucasian, Asian, Black, and American Indian. If you're looking to become immersed in many different cultures, then this city is for you.
Art is All Around You
From nature to human-created art, Albuquerque is beautiful and picturesque. Albuquerque is one of the richests cities in the world when it comes to their culture, history, and their celebration of it.
Albuquerque residents can enjoy hiking, biking, and running at the Copper Trailhead in the Sandia Mountains. The Cibola National Forest borders the eastern edge of Albuquerque and is an ideal place to hunt, fish, and go horseback riding.
If you are a history buff, you can marvel at 700-year-old symbols and designs from Albuquerque's first settlers at the Petroglyph National Monument. Get a birds-eye view of the city 10,000 feet up on the Sandia Peak Aerial Tramway. Bordering the southern edge of the city is the Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge, a 570-acre nature preserve full of mountains, volcano tubes, and the Rio Grande River
In terms of art, the city has a wonderful local arts scene. The 516 Arts gallery is one of the most popular contemporary art spaces in the city and offers innovative exhibitions, events, workshops, and lectures.
The Richard Levy Gallery showcases contemporary work in the pop art, abstract, and geometric vein.
With more than 700 events a year, The National Hispanic Cultural Center promotes the preservation and importance of Hispanic culture and art. Colorful murals and public art pieces also decorate buildings and spaces nearly everywhere you look in ABQ. But the art in Albuquerque isn't only on the walls.
One beautiful holiday tradition is the lighting of luminarias, which is a 300-year-old custom where votives are put in paper bags and placed throughout the city as a way to celebrate the birth of Christ.
Why Move to Albuquerque?
If you're not convinced by all of this, then let us offer one final point: Albuquerque is the best of all worlds. The weather is perfect and you get all four seasons, you're close to many major cities and vacation destination locations, the cost of living is 5% lower than the national average, and you're surrounded by diversity.
It has every amenity you want and is a relatively large city. It also has access to the area's largest and best storage unit facility. What more could you want?
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Actor Tom Arnold was one of the contestants chosen for "Celebrity Cooking Showdown."
"Celebrity Cooking Showdown," 7 p.m., NBC. For the past three nights, NBC has had competitions pairing up celebrities with famous chefs. Here's the three-way finale. Viewers will even do part of the judging, which is odd since they can't taste the food. An on-site panel will do the actual tasting. Viewers will vote on other factors and the winner will be announced in a results show tomorrow.
"The 43rd Annual Merrie Monarch Festival," 6 p.m., KITV. Competitors tonight vie for the title of Miss Aloha Hula. Broadcast live from Hilo.
"Survivor," 7 p.m., CBS. One of the contestants is rushed from the island for medical reasons. No one is sure whether that leaves the person out of the competition.
"My Name is Earl," 8 p.m., NBC. Earl, it seems, has never found a gracious way to break up with someone. This rerun reflects one of his worst break-up techniques — faking his own death. When he tries to make amends the problem only grows.
"The Office," 8:30 p.m., NBC. In this rerun, Dwight is a little too into karate. When he accidentally knocks Michael down, Jim can't resist setting up a rematch.
"ER," 9 p.m., NBC. This rerun has Clemente secretly giving special care to a celebrity monkey. Abby and Neela help. Meanwhile, Sam is unhappy with her management responsibilities.
"Without a Trace," 9 p.m., CBS. A young man from a rich family had been helping at a home for indigent women; now he's missing and kidnapping is suspected.
Feel like seeing a movie this weekend but don't know which flick to pick? Tune in tonight to KHNL News 8 first at 5 as we preview this week's new movie releases. Plus, tonight on K5 News at Nine we take you to Las Vegas for an insider's look at Hawai'i's favorite vacation destination.


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Opposites Attract in 'Rooms' Musical | Omaha World-Herald
February 8, 2015 February 8, 2015 / thecandyproject
Another year, another musical few have heard of about to open tonight. This time the title is "Rooms: A Rock Romance."
But that's the mission of The Candy Project, an Omaha theater company that set its sights on staging new musicals with young adult themes that nobody else in town is doing.
Candy Project has had sweet success, first with "I Love You Because …" and then, last summer, "[title of show]," which is up for best musical at Sunday's annual Theatre Arts Guild awards.
"'Rooms' is new, edgy, smart and it rocks," said Cathy Hirsch, a Candy Project co-founder and producer of the show.
Her cast, just two young actors, enthusiastically agrees.
"I'm so in love with the music," said Omahan David Rubio, who plays Ian, an introverted Scottish guitar player. "Candy Project is great about getting the quality stuff onstage."
Jaimie Pruden, of Tucson, Ariz., took the role of Monica two weeks into rehearsals, when an actress left the project. While simultaneously rehearsing and appearing in "Church Basement Ladies" with the Nebraska Repertory Theatre in Lincoln, Pruden learned the massive role in just a few days while commuting daily from Lincoln.
"I had heard the music and thought it was awesome," Pruden said. "What drew me to the character is just the raw emotion and the amount of honesty. It's a very vulnerable position for an actor to be in, just two people onstage. But it's really worth the work."
While Ian's an introvert who's all about the music, vocalist Monica is driven by ambition and the dream of fame. Opposites attract, but the pair find their romance rocky because of their differences as they climb from obscurity in Glasgow to London and then New York City.
"We're playing characters our own age, but they're forced to mature so fast," Rubio said. "It's very challenging, unlike any role I've had."
Pruden said the interplay is often funny, but it's also a beautiful love story.
With Pruden arriving late to the rehearsal process, it was a help that she and Rubio live in the same off-campus house in Lincoln while working on voice degrees at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Both 20 and heading into their junior year, they are friends who have sung together before.
"It's great that we connect so well," Rubio said. "That musical connection that is the basis of the show happens onstage with us. It's a joy to do it every night."
–Bob Fischbach
Candy Project Gets Set to Rock ROOMS! | Theatrical Rights Worldwide
An Interview with Producer Cathy Hirsch
by Fred Stuart for Theatrical Rights Worldwide
Omaha, Nebraska's Candy Project, established in the winter of 2008, is a theatre company comprised of twenty-somethings bringing cutting-edge musical theatre to the prairie. Their next project is ROOMS: A ROCK ROMANCE, (music and lyrics by Paul Scott Goodman, book by Goodman & Miriam Gordon.)
The company has previously produced I LOVE YOU BECAUSE and [title of show]. The Candy Project has quickly become known for very high quality work in Omaha, which is home to a very hot local theatre scene. Their 2010 production of [title of show], the brilliant 2008 Broadway show, was called "can't miss theatre" by the Omaha World Herald. 2009′s I LOVE YOU BECAUSE was similarly lauded by the World Herald: "(I LOVE YOU BECAUSE is)…the debut show of The Candy Project, a new troupe of 20-somethings who plan to showcase small musicals with young themes. If their next offering is as refreshing, sassy and well-sung as this one, The Candy Project is in business. I Love You Because … ranks with the best of a busy theatrical summer…" Clearly, the relatively new troupe is talented and forward-thinking.
I recently spoke with Candy producer Cathy Hirsch about their upcoming production of ROOMS: A ROCK ROMANCE.
FS: Hi Cathy. Thanks for taking a few minutes to talk to me today. I know you are busy with getting pre-production going for ROOMS. So, I'm very interested in your choice of ROOMS for Candy's 2011 show. I saw the show in NYC at New World Stages and I fell in love with it. What drew you to the show?
CH: A couple of years ago I played a role locally in THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK THE MUSICAL that Leslie Kritzer had originated Off-Broadway. I loved her interpretation and since then have kept an eye on her work. ROOMS was attractive because of its small cast and rocking score. Our inaugural show was I LOVE YOU BECAUSE, also from the TRW catalogue, and we had such a great response to it I was happy to see ROOMS was also being licensed by the company. When I mentioned that it was on my "short list" of shows to pick from this year to one of the co-founders of The Candy Project, she really encouraged going with ROOMS having seen and loved the show Off-Broadway.
FS: How does ROOMS fit in with your mission at the Candy Project?
CH: Omaha is a very talented city, blessed with a wealth of live theatre. However, established houses with big budgets and big audiences also have to cater their seasons to their membership base. Newer musicals then also often need to be widely recognized in order to be considered for their seasons. Basically, there were all of these great shows out there that no one would touch because they were too edgy or the names weren't recognized. The original founders of The Candy Project wanted to bring those shows to Omaha, appealing to a younger generation who maybe wouldn't have otherwise considered themselves fans of musical theatre. ROOMS is new, edgy, smart and it rocks. It definitely fits our mission of captivating a young adult audience while bringing new musical theatre to Omaha.
FS: I think your comments are true for theatre communities across the country, Cathy. Kudos for doing these great new shows. So, does presenting rock 'n roll in a theatre setting present any special challenges? Amplification issues?
CH: Certainly it does. We do not have our own space so we create theatre in non-traditional venues. While this presents additional challenges, we are also in the position to stage pieces in unique and creative ways. ROOMS is being held in an art gallery which is essentially one big, nearly empty room.
FS: Sounds very cool!
CH: Yeah, it works for this show in particular as it evokes a sort of "garage band" feel that mimics the root of early punk rock bands. The current plan (today… tomorrow things could change) is to present ROOMS in a unique format. Not quite theatre-in-the-round but where the "stage" area is down the middle of the building with the audience set up on either side of it. We're still grappling with how to make this work with the placement of the band for the best sound to all audience members.
FS: Do you specifically seek out shows with small casts?
CH: Our first show had a cast of 6, followed by a cast of 4, and now we're down to 2… at this rate we'll have no cast at all for our next show! Yes, with our intimate spaces and small budget we pick shows with small, incredibly talented casts.
FS: What's on the horizon for the Candy Project?
CH: We were invited to perform a one night only performance of Kooman + Dimond's fantastic song cyle "Homemade Fusion" at the Omaha Playhouse as part of their 21 & Over series next May. At about that time we'll be announcing our musical for next summer but the show hasn't been decided on just yet. There are some fantastic shows on the list of possibilities! I'm very excited to see what we end up choosing next summer.
FS: Cathy, thanks a million for talking with me about ROOMS today. TRW is thrilled that the Candy Project is bringing ROOMS to life in Omaha!
CH: You are welcome!
ROOMS: A ROCK ROMANCE begins in late 1970′s Glasgow where Monica, an ambitious singer/songwriter meets Ian, a reclusive rocker. The two quickly become entangled creatively and romantically. Their music takes them first to London and ultimately to New York City, where they discover the vibrant new music scene and create an intimate partnership, their love deepening while their personalities drive them apart. A rock band accompanies these two characters as they search for the balance between ambition and happiness.
The Candy Project production will be held at the Bancroft Street Market, August 4-20th. Jaimie Pruden and David Rubio will portray Monica and Ian respectively. The production is directed by Daena Schweiger with music direction by Zachary Peterson. The Production Stage Manager is Lisa McNeil.
Review: Big talent in musical's small cast | Omaha World-Herald
By Bob Fischbach
The title stinks.
But everything else about the Candy Project's production of the musical "[title of show]" is can't-miss theater, especially for hard-core fans of musicals.
This micro-budget, small-cast show has more references to both megahit and obscure Broadway musicals and the people who create them than any other show I've ever seen.
It helps if you're in the know about all things musical, but "[title of show]" was cleverly constructed to work for just about anybody who likes good singing and comedy.
The young, appealing cast of four blends beautifully in some tight vocal harmonies.
The script, though profane at times, is very funny.
And though all of the cast — including keyboardist Zachary Peterson, who delivers a few one-liners — is great, Bill Grennan had audience members repeatedly doubled over, howling all night at a Thursday preview with his expressive face, physical schtick and line readings that created laughs out of thin air. He's the standout in a really talented cast.
Grennan's mischievous, sardonic sensibilities are simply perfect for the role of Hunter, who reluctantly signs on when his partner, Jeff (David Ebke), suggests they enter a New York festival for new musicals, even though the entry deadline is just three weeks away.
The show's nondescript title comes from the festival's entry form. Since Jeff and Hunter can't think of a title, they simply write in what the blank asks for: [title of show].
And though Hunter begins the project reluctantly, in the end he's the one who gets the most carried away with dreams of fame, fortune and a Tony Award.
The two decide they will write a musical about writing a musical, and the script for their show becomes the script for what we are watching.
They audition and hire a couple of women to co-star and help develop the show.
Heidi (Amanda Miller) is a comedienne who has been in the chorus of two Broadway shows, while Susan (Cathy Hirsch) is a compulsive foodie, none too bright, who has shelved dreams of stardom for a daytime office job.
The show becomes cleverly self-referential. Example: Hunter might suddenly say, "I really feel like we need to get out of this scene, 'cause it seems too long," and the lights instantly go to black.
The laughs are consistent, the songs are both witty and insightful, and the performances admirable. No costumes beyond street clothes, no set beyond four chairs, and just that fine keyboardist in the band.
But it's all you need for a fun, entertaining evening of musical theater. "[title of show]" runs about 95 minutes with no intermission.
Word to the wise: It's a small theater and a limited run, so make your reservations early.
Candy Project returns with inspirational [title of show] | The Weekly Reader
February 8, 2015 January 23, 2016 / thecandyproject
by Warren Francke
The musical called [title of show] opens with "Untitled Musical Number" and lets its creators sing, "Two Nobodies in New York," while one of their girlfriends warbles, "I Am Playing Me."
That leaves room for such songs as "An Original Musical" and "The Tony Award Song."
That's more than a hint of what the Candy Project brings to the Pizza Shoppe Collective in Benson this weekend. It's known as "a musical about two guys writing a musical about two guys writing a musical."
And they invite two actress friends along for the fun, so two of the original Candy pals, Cathy Hirsch and Amanda Miller, share the small stage with four chairs and two men: Bill Grennan and David Ebke, who play Jeff Bowen, creator of the music and lyrics, and Hunter Bell, who wrote the book. Then there's Zach Peterson on keyboard, who inspires some dialogue about why the accompanist never gets to talk. Which he does, by the way.
Bowen and Bell played themselves, winning Obies when it ran off-Broadway before a triple-digit run on Broadway. They conceived the show when struggling to complete an entry in three weeks for the New York Musical Theater Festival. That's when they realized their conversations about what to write were more interesting than any of their ideas for a story.
"From the onset of the Candy Project," Hirsch recalled, "this was what we wanted to produce. As we were banding together (Hirsch, Miller, Dan Chevalier and Andy King) in late 2008, the show was closing its run. I had the CD already spinning on repeat in my car and I distinctively remember talking to Dan and how he said that he rarely loved a show so instantly as this."
Unfortunately, Andy moved away and Dan took a new job that kept him out of the cast. "But we struck some serious gold" with Grennan and Ebke, "and Randall Stevens jumped at directing." Miller is music director, Jamie Fields stage manager.
Cathy explained that her group "couldn't help but relate to the show, so much that we purchased the rights to some of the songs to perform at our cabarets before they were widely available." They'd hear rumors of the overall rights becoming available soon, and after the licensing announcement, she "began emailing them" monthly to check on its status.
After their first big show, I Love You Because, closed, word came on the release of rights, and "I applied that day and they were granted a week or so later."
Hirsch and friends have never seen the show, but eagerly followed the cast's Youtube.com series of webisodes that pushed the path to Broadway. "Each time they would release a new one," Cathy reported, "we would email it to each other and nerd out over it."
Since then "a lot of little things we incorporated in both our marketing and our performances were lovingly inspired by [title of show]," even down to the font in their logo.
Now they've produced some Youtube and Facebook webisodes and received encouraging feedback from the creators.
"It's pretty amazing to be in rehearsal to play Susan Blackwell and Susan Blackwell sends you a message on Facebook."
If all this isn't serendipitous enough, the show fits perfectly on the tiny Pizza Shoppe stage.
But a large part of its attraction to the friends who formed the Candy Project is that it features four friends "getting together and talking in the way friends talk in a language they share," Hirsch noted. And that includes "finding ways to inspire each other."
[title of show] runs Aug. 6-21, at the Pizza Shoppe Collective, 6065 Maple St., Fri.-Sat. at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15, $12 for students and TAG members. For reservations call 597.2827 or email thecandyproject@yahoo.com.
Bob's Take: Best of year's stage shows should take another bow | Omaha World-Herald
Other than the French documentary "La Danse" at Film Streams and Bollywood's "3 Idiots" at Oak View, no new movie titles are opening this week in the metro area. Just this once a year, my movie column becomes a theater column, saluting the best of the year on local stages.
And a fine year 2009 was, too. Here are my top 10 picks, plus a few more titles that were just too good to go unmentioned.
1. "Bat Boy: The Musical," Omaha Community Playhouse. Tim Abou-Nasr's performance as an anguished half-bat, half-human was mesmerizing in this campy, bloody, funny show that also managed to be poignant, thanks to Carl Beck's sharp direction and standout ensemble work.
2. "I Love You Because …," The Candy Project. A new company of 20-somethings broke the laugh meter with this musical tale of dating woes in New York City. Amanda Miller, Dan Chevalier, Andy King and Cathy Hirsch added shows to a sellout run at P.S. Collective.
3. "Compleat Female Stage Beauty," SNAP. Michal Simpson was at the top of his game as a Shakespearean actor specializing in female roles who must yield to women on the stage. A powerhouse ensemble included Randy Vest, Jennifer Gilg, Connie Lee, Denny Maddux and more, ably directed by Michele Phillips.
4. "Rent," SNAP. Lush, big-voice harmonies marked this intimate production of Jonathan Larson's rock musical. Tight quarters seemed to amp up the emotional electricity, along with soaring solo work by Audrey Fisher, Jason Carroll, Wayne Moore and others. An extended run failed to quench ticket demand.
5. "Reefer Madness," Blue Barn Theatre. This musical spoof of a 1936 anti-marijuana propaganda film was sexy, cheesy and over-the-top funny. Great set, great costumes, great choreography — this show had it all, plus terrific leads Paul T. Hanson and Jenn Witt ably backed by talented character actors.
6. "Almost, Maine," Omaha Community Playhouse. The aurora borealis casts a romantic spell on a small town, and a cast of six playing 19 quirky characters casts a comedic spell on the audience. Director Amy Lane made magic with this frothy concoction of light fun, sweet sentimentality and just a touch of frostbite.
7. "Speech & Debate," SNAP. New faces, new title, new ground to cover as three misfit teens face inner turmoil and sexual scandal together. Joe Fogarty, Noah Diaz and Colleen O'Doherty captured the psyche of contemporary youth, and director Daena Schweiger steered audience mood at will from howling laughter to squirm-inducing discomfort.
8. "Joe Turner's Come and Gone," John Beasley Theater. If you only experienced the transcendent moment of dance known as a Juba, you got your ticket's worth. But August Wilson's play set in a 1911 boardinghouse delivers so much more. Carl Brooks, TammyRa, John and Tyrone Beasley led a standout production.
9. "Loose Knit," Great Plains Theatre Conference. Hardly anyone saw this one-night stand, but the ensemble was so good that the show will open again May 27 at SNAP. A group of knitters finds more in common than yarn as details of their love lives intertwine. Having playwright Theresa Rebeck there for a Q-and-A added to the fun.
10. "Wit," Blue Barn Theatre. Phyllis Doughman held an audience spellbound with her polished, nuanced turn as Dr. Vivian Behring, battling ovarian cancer. A sparkling script, innovative scenic and lighting design and fine direction from Kevin Lawler combined for a memorable evening.
Added sparks:
Visual feast: The Blue Barn's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" produced alchemy, thanks to Susan Clement Toberer's innovative staging, Carol Wisner's lights, Martin Scott Marchitto's scenic design and Jennifer Pool's costumes, along with the cast.
Best original work: "Mountain Lion" and "Mrs. Jennings' Sitter," Shelterbelt. Omaha playwright Ellen Struve's sharp writing about suburban life was enhanced by outstanding acting and direction.
Overachieving ensemble: The cast of "Twelve Angry Men" at the Omaha Community Playhouse rocked, and so did Sara Houston's scenic design that allowed for a real rainstorm to interrupt the symbolic one in the jury room.
Overachieving ensemble II: The inmates and mental health staff of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" at the John Beasley Theater. Director Tyrone Beasley had a very sane day when he cast this finely performed show.
Tough love award: Butch Reel and Stan Spurgeon for retelling Omaha's civil rights history honestly, yet wrapping it in the sugar and spice of the Motown era. "What's Goin' On" had something important to say, and said it well.
I <3 Candy | Omaha City Weekly
Yummy debut by The Candy Project
You don't need to wait for "The Odd Couple" theme played during intermission to understand that these people couldn't be less suited for one another.
"I Love You Because," the sparkling musical comedy from The Candy Project that runs through August 16th at the P.S. Collective, is a study in contrasts.
Austin (Andy "Velvet" King) is an uptight doormat of a man imprisoned in a sweater vest (argyle, no less) who makes a living as a greeting card writer. He falls for Marcy (Cathy Hirsch), an artsy, free-spirited photographer. Austin's equally opposite sidekick Jeff (Dan Chevalier) is a lovable yet Lebowski-like slacker who wears "Chick Magnet" and "Wanna Go Halfsies on a Bastard?" t-shirts. He hits it off with Diana (Amanda Miller), a bespectacled, hair-in-a-bun, by-the-numbers actuary.
And the results couldn't be more delightful, especially as the first fully staged work from the inventive twenty-somethings of The Candy Project.
Supported by an onstage band and backed by Katie Miller (NY Woman) and Joey Galda (NY Man) in a variety of roles, "I Love You Because" is a smart, sassy, sophisticated-without-being-snarky introduction to a group of New Yorkers looking for love across all five boroughs and, at times, even in the wilds of Hoboken.
Large stackable boxes laminated with Gotham-centric images make for seamless scene changes and a simple rotation (think here of a Rubik's Cube) is all it takes to transport us from the neon glare of the Great White Way to a bachelor pad to O'Dennehey's Bar, "the home of the heartbreak crowd." Removing the set pieces – as in the clever strap-hanging subway scene peppered with those classic "I<3NY" t-shirts – allows the troupe to vie for what might be a P.S. Collective record by cramming nine people onto the microchip-sized stage.
It's a Sisyphean task to pick favorites in such a talented cast, but there's nothing quite like King's velvety voice, especially when climbing to a higher register in his solo, "Maybe We Just Made Love."
Or maybe it's the buoyant bounce of Amanda Miller belting it out in "We're Just Friends" or in spitting the motor-mouth ditty "The Actuary Song," where she uses both an adding machine and a laptop to crunch the numbers on Marcy's "RT" quotient – that's her recommended "Rebound Time" when it's only logical that she date Mr. Wrong (Austin and his Bat Man thermos) before pining for Mr. Right (same thermos).
Hirsch shines in a solo of her own, the tender yet soaring "Just Not Now" and the always hilarious Chevalier rocks it throughout the evening in a goofy idiom that is all his own. Katie Miller and Galda are splendid as a comedic backdrop, especially when striking that iconic cherub pose. You know the one…the seraphs with chins resting on hands tableau that may as well be straight from one of Austin's lame greeting cards.
Sweet without being saccharine. Cute without being cloying. The Randall T. Stevens-directed "I Love You Because" is, just like the sugary snacks found at all of their shows, a treat that has this reviewer proclaiming "I ❤ Candy."
Through August 16
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.
Sundays at 1 p.m.
Tickets $15, $12 for TAG members & students
P.S. Collective
thecandyproject@yahoo.com
-David Williams
Musical plays up the perils of dating | Omaha World-Herald
It's like an R-rated musical version of "Friends."
"I Love You Because … ," a small, off-Broadway musical that hit it big in 2006, follows four 20-somethings through the trials and tribulations of dating in contemporary New York City.
And boy is it fun, and funny, to watch.
It's the debut show of The Candy Project, a new troupe of 20-somethings who plan to showcase small musicals with young themes.
If their next offering is as refreshing, sassy and well-sung as this one, The Candy Project is in business. "I Love You Because …" ranks with the best of a busy theatrical summer, thanks in no small part to savvy direction by Randall Stevens.
A late-July preview at the P.S. Collective in Benson found this talented cast of six (two chorus members play multiple roles) more than ready for an audience a full two weeks before the show's official opening, which is tonight. Fair warning: The bawdy script doesn't shy away from sex talk or occasionally profane language.
The show kicks off when buttoned-down Austin (Andy King), a greeting card writer, finds his girl in bed with another guy. His older brother, Jeff (Dan Chevalier), advises him the best way to win her back is to pretend not to care. Jeff sets up a double date with new women.
Meanwhile, free-spirited photographer Marcy (Cathy Hirsch) dumps her boyfriend, and her actuary gal pal Diana (Amanda Miller) works up a formula for how long it will take to rebound.
Soon Jeff and Diana are pretending to be "just friends" who have sex, while opposites Austin and Marcy war over their differences.
Lyrics by Ryan Cunningham and music by Joshua Salzman capture the pitfalls of dating with comedic flare and originality, and it's a pleasure to listen to their tuneful score. Just as pleasurable: the vocal blend of all six cast members, who are as good at funny character bits as they are at shaping a melodic line.
Highlights include Austin and Marcy's first date, in which he goes on and on about his ex ("But I Don't Want to Talk About Her"); Diana's breakup-dating formula ("The Actuary Song"); Jeff's fear of becoming a real couple ("That's What's Gonna Happen"); and all four of them, alone and miserable, singing "But I Do."
Katie Miller and Joey Galda are screamingly funny as the show's chorus, mostly playing a succession of coffee baristas, bartenders, restaurateurs and waiters. They sing great as well on numbers like the cynical "Perfect Romance."
Chevalier, who has gotten better and better as a singer, retains his gift for bug-eyed, rubber-faced physical comedy in a hilarious scene in which his back goes out as he and Diana get it on.
Cast and show are so good, you won't mind a shoestring budget at all. Scenery is just a platform, a screen on one side and six wooden boxes that shift and rotate to become a sofa, a taxi, a subway car, whatever.
The money got spent where it mattered, on a kicking instrumental trio: Luke Furman on keyboards, Anthony King on bass guitar and Vince Krysl on drums. They're a real part of the show, onstage behind the actors.
-Bob Fischbach
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By Michael Hardy
The Obama administration is poised to ask for new Internet regulations that could potentially open any and all electronic communication to scrutiny.
The proposed changes pertain to the technological capabilities of online communications providers.
"Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable communications -- including encrypted e-mail transmitters like BlackBerry, social networking Web sites like Facebook and software that allows direct 'peer-to-peer' messaging like Skype -- to be technically capable of complying if served with a wiretap order," according to a New York Times report. "The mandate would include being able to intercept and unscramble encrypted messages."
James Dempsey, vice president of the Center for Democracy and Technology, expressed serious reservations about the plan. In earlier testimony regarding the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, Dempsey told Congress that technology is outpacing legal protectons that seek to balance the individual's right to privacy, the government's need for tools to conduct investigations, and the interest of service providers in clarity and customer trust.
"The personal and economic benefits of technological development should not come at the price of privacy," he said in that testimony. "In the absence of judicial protections, it is time for Congress to respond, as it has in the past, to afford adequate privacy protections, while preserving law enforcement tools and providing clarity to service providers."
Regarding the administration's planned legislation, Dempsey told the Times: "They basically want to turn back the clock and make Internet services function the way that the telephone system used to function."
An FBI spokeswoman said the effort is aimed at providing tools for interceptions of communications that are already legal under the current law. "We're not talking expanding authority. We're talking about preserving our ability to execute our existing authority in order to protect the public safety and national security," the spokeswoman said.
Michael Hardy is the managing editor/daily report for the 1105 Government Information Group.


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As most genre fans know, famed author Isaac Asimov established Three Laws of Robotics that would define how 'bots worked in his fiction. Basically, robots cannot injure a human or allow a human to be injured by inaction; a robot must obey human orders (unless ordered to harm a human); and a robot must protect its own existence (so long as it doesn't break rules one and two).
To put Asimov's First Law to the test, roboticist Alan Winfield of Bristol Robotics Laboratory in the U.K. built an ethical trap for a robot that tasked the 'bot with protecting automatons (standing in for humans) from falling into a hole. The findings? When tasked with protecting one person, the robot was successful. No problem.
But put two humans into the mix? The robot spent so much time panicking and fretting, trying to make a decision as to who to save, it let both humans fall into the hole 42 percent of the time. Oops. Well, at least the robot isn't taking its responsibility lightly.
As a stellar piece at New Scientist notes, Ronald Arkin, a computer scientist at Atlanta's Georgia Institute of Technology, is working on similar tech in regard to military robots that could eventually be used in the battlefield. They've developed a set of algorithms called the "ethical governor" to help the warzone 'bots make better decisions to minimize casualties. At least that's how it's working out in simulations.
"If we can get them to function well in environments when we don't know exactly all the circumstances they'll encounter, that's going to open up vast new applications for their use."
What do you think of Winfield's experiment? Can we trust our robot friends, or are we eventually doomed to a Skynet-level apocalypse?


We all know the feeling. Bad business habits linger from quarter to quarter, and they can really slow you down. There's no better time than the new year to nip them in the bud. On January 18, Curalate Client Solutions Manager Shezeen Ali joined our marketing team for a webinar to chat about six digital marketing bad habits brands should scrap in 2017. Read on for our tips and feel free to add more bad habits in the comments section!
Problem: Platforms like Snapchat and Instagram Stories can be stressful … so where do you start? Who manages this? Vertical videos disappear after 24 hours in most cases, so it can seem futile to spend so much time creating them.
Solution: Though it seems like a lot of work, don't put vertical video on the back-burner this year. Smaller brands with smaller budgets are getting in on the action by creating behind-the-scenes content on a weekly basis. Another tip: The majority of people watch vertical videos without sound (think commutes, lunch breaks, etc.) So it's best to incorporate a text overlay (like a question or slogan) and pair it with great visuals. With this strategy, your viewers are stopped in their scrolling 'tracks' and can quickly view and share. It's also worth exploring your options for making vertical video content accessible outside of social media. Think about options for allowing it to be viewed on a 'community' part of your site or on your blogs — which will extend its 24-hour lifespan. Martech options in this area have expanded so get in on the early adoption!
What's the future of vertical video? Curalate Tilt, a vertical, shoppable video platform that connects consumers to brands and lasts far longer than 24 hours. Learn more here.
Problem: With so many platforms in the digital space, there isn't enough bandwidth to create content for every single one. And, the content tends to be disorganized. It's unclear how to repurpose it across channels or even acquire content from new external sources.
Solution: Don't make the mistake of ignoring the content that's available to you! Your blog, print/digital catalog, brick-and-mortar locations, and user-generated content are a goldmine. Also, remember that product shots tend to be a snooze for consumers — lifestyle content is typically a better bet. You might also be surprised by what's under your nose — a lot of brands have not tapped into content from other departments, and the volume and quality can be striking.
Problem: We're overwhelmed by our own data. What's more important: engagement vs. clicks? How should teams be communicating around data? In too many companies, questions like these go unanswered.
Solution: Successful data strategy has nothing to do with numbers. Before you get to this step, think about what kind of calls-to-action you're promoting. If you're asking for more followers or social engagement, it doesn't make sense to only measure traffic and revenue. Additionally, you need to get to know your audience better. Who are they? What kind of products and services do they respond best to? Behaviors will tell you a lot about how to focus your strategy so it attracts more like-minded consumers. You can make your ads data smarter by building custom audiences based on consumers who have engaged with your products.
Problem: It's been awhile since your brand has done a messaging refresh, and you're suffering from a robotic brand voice that only talks about itself. Finding authentic voices or fun lifestyle messaging to represent your brand takes time and collaboration, and sometimes it's daunting to think about pushing away loyal customers by changing up the brand voice.
Solution: A refreshed brand voice helps you draw in new customers, and gives loyal ones a fresh perspective on your brand and offerings. That refreshed voice can come from your consumers, too! Take some time once a month (or even once a quarter) to define your brand voice, think about new ways to position it, and get creative about how you express yourself as a brand.
You can also bring in influencer and customer content to spice things up. Maybe feature social 'takeovers' for a day or weekend. And, focus on campaigns — that way, your brand voice gets more specific and intriguing based on what you're featuring.
Problem: Ads, social and ecomm teams are busy working on specific campaigns and projects, which make it hard to share insights. Additionally, content is often created in silos and not always repurposed among teams. There's also not a good place/format to share insights, data and plans.
Solution: Working in a silo doesn't help anyone. Great content or campaign insights should be shared between teams. Larger companies we work with may have e-commerce and social teams in different floors or buildings, but Curalate tools help bridge that gap.
Problem: Creating an influencer marketing program can seem like a daunting task. How much does it cost? How do I find influencers? How do I measure success?
Solution: Find a solution that helps you do everything in one place, fast. Seems impossible for an influencer strategy, right? But Curalate clients are seeing great results with Explore. Explore makes it easy to discover and work with high-quality content at scale. Whether you want to discover this content piece-by-piece, find influencers to work with, or form relationships with micro-influencers offering an authentic voice, Explore can help.
Check the expiration date on content, and make sure you're focused on what's fresh.
Vertical video isn't going anywhere — get ahead of the game!
Metrics matter so know what you're tracking.
Your brand voice should stand out from the crowd.
When your team is communicating, everyone works better.
Optimize your influencer strategy to reach a bigger, better audience.
You're making awesome vertical videos for Snapchat and Instagram Stories — and then, your content disappears. With Curalate Tilt it doesn't have to. Tilt brings vertical video to where people are making purchase decisions – your website and apps – and enables consumers to easily go from watching a video to buying what's inside of it. Learn more here.
Julia is a Digital Marketing Specialist at Curalate, always seeking out new examples of how brands express themselves and connect with consumers. She has a passion for podcasts, Instagram filter tricks, and all things food and cooking.
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New research from analyst firm Heavy Reading showed that the majority of tier one mobile operators plan to integrate policy servers with existing charging and billing systems rather than deploy pre-integrated policy and charging systems from a single vendor.
The report, "Policy, Charging & Billing: What Tier 1 Operators Want," finds that scaling pre-integrated solutions based on proprietary interfaces between policy and charging may be a stumbling block here, especially if it entails high professional service costs.
Mobile broadband solutions provider, Tekelec, sponsored the Heavy Reading survey of 30 respondents in network planning, engineering, CTO, sales, marketing, product development and customer support departments for service providers with revenues above $1 billion.
"Only a minority of the Tier one respondents said they would deploy pre-integrated policy and charging solutions in the medium term," said Graham Finnie, chief analyst at Heavy Reading and author of the report. "The majority is seeking good interoperability and integration of policy with independent charging systems, using standardized interfaces wherever possible."
In the report, nearly 70 percent of tier ones said they will use the policy server (a policy and charging rules function, or PCRF) to perform some charging or rating functions and that tier one operators have run into significant challenges implementing online charging for data. For example, almost 60 percent cited higher costs due to customization and professional services.
The survey also shows that more than one-third of service providers believe that the new Sy interface, due out in 2012, will simplify integration between policy servers and charging systems.
"Service providers want maximum flexibility, scalability and signaling efficiency in their policy servers, coupled with an easy-to-use rules engine and analytics to create and evolve services. An independent, best-of-breed policy server is the best way to meet these requirements," said Doug Suriano, chief technology officer at Tekelec. "We have integrated our policy server with charging systems across dozens of tier one operators. The release of the new Sy interface will improve integration with charging systems and eliminate cumbersome, proprietary approaches that limit scalability and increase costs."


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United Cannabis Corporation Receives Notice of Allowance for New Patent Covering Methods of Preparing and Using Cannabinoid Formulations
United Cannabis Corporation (OTCBB: CNAB) (the "Company" or "United Cannabis") announced today that it has received a Notice of Allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") for its application for a new patent that claims methods of using and preparing cannabinoid formulations. The allowed application will mature into an issued patent once the issue fee is paid to the USPTO.
The allowed application is a divisional of the application that was previously allowed by the USPTO and which matured into the Company's US Patent No. 9,730,911 (the "'911 Patent"). The '911 Patent was issued on August 15, 2017.
Jesús Vázquez, Vice President and General Counsel of the Company and who was recently named as one of the "50 Most Influential People in IP 2019: Industry Leaders" by the publication "Managing Intellectual Property," commented: "The new patent will compliment and will have the same priority date as our '911 Patent. It will be a valuable addition to the Company's patent portfolio."
Vázquez added: "The USPTO concluded that the claims in the new patent "are neither anticipated nor rendered obvious over the record." This is significant because the materials in the "record" that were reviewed by the USPTO include materials that our adversary in pending litigation has argued invalidate our '911 Patent. If those materials do not invalidate the claims in the new patent, they do not invalidate the claims in the '911 Patent."
Earnie Blackmon, Chief Executive Officer of United Cannabis, commented: "This development further confirms and protects our innovative approach to the advancement and use of cannabinoids for medical applications. As the broader medical and regulatory communities begin to recognize the opportunities within the sector it is increasingly important that we protect the innovations we have developed and the investment we have made along the way."
About United Cannabis Corporation
United Cannabis Corporation is a biotechnology company dedicated to the advancement of cannabinoids for medical applications and is building a platform for designing targeted therapies to increase the quality of life for patients around the world. The Company develops, produces and distributes proprietary cannabis-centric products and technologies, including its patented product brand, Prana Bio Nutrient Medicinals, and has established a strong presence in the hemp-derived CBD market, with a state-of-the-art grow, processing, testing and production facility in Colorado. United Cannabis also licenses its intellectual properties relating to the legalized growth, production, manufacture, marketing, management, utilization and distribution of medical and recreational marijuana and marijuana-infused products. Most importantly, United Cannabis is always driven by its underlying mission to help people in pain.
United Cannabis trades on the OTCQB under the symbol CNAB.
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Q: Prove that a matrix is invertible Show that the matrix
$A = \begin{bmatrix} 1 & \frac{1}{2} & \ldots & \frac{1}{n}\\ \frac{1}{2} & \frac{1}{3} & \ldots & \frac{1}{n+1}\\ \vdots & \vdots & & \vdots \\ \frac{1}{n} &\frac{1}{n+1} &\ldots &\frac{1}{2n-1} \end{bmatrix}$
is invertible and $A^{-1}$ has integer entries.
This problem appeared in Chapter one of my linear algebra textbook so I assume nothing more is required to prove it than elementary row operations. I've been staring at it for a while and considered small values of $n$ but there doesn't seem to be a clever way of easily reducing it to the identity matrix. Could someone give me a hint or a poke in the right direction rather than a full solution as I'm still hoping to work it out myself.

A: If your linear algebra textbook is Kenneth Hoffmann and Ray Kunze's Linear Algebra book then I was in the same situation you're right now a few years ago, but I was adviced at the moment that this particular exercise wasn't as easy as one might expect at first.
The matrix you have is called the Hilbert matrix and the question you have was already asked a couple of times in math overflow here and here. They have excellent answers so I will just point you to them.

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It was considered a major breakthrough in the field of bariatric surgery and could soon become one of the best decisions for nominally invasive operation for patients who are obese. Single Incision laparoscopic Surgery is an innovative procedure whereby the doctor uses a single incision to insert the camera and the tools to carry out bariatric surgery procedure. Single-Port Laparoscopic (SPL) is also known as Single Port Access Surgery (SPA), the Single-Port Incisionless Convensional Equipment-utilizing Surgery (SPICES), Single-Incision Laparoscopic Surgery (SILS) Single-Access Endoscopic Surgery (SAES) Laparo-Endoscopic Single-site Surgery (LESS), One-Port Umbilical Surgery (OPUS) and Natural-Orifice Transumbilical Surgery (NOTUS), is a recently developed laparoscopic technique. It is a minor invasive surgical process in which the surgeon operates nearly all through a single entry point, typically the patient's umbilicus. Unlike an old multiport laparoscopic approach, Single-Port Laparoscopy leaves little scar. Here's a look at how the process work and what its main advantages.
Technical SILS was used to perform many types of surgery, including adjustable gastric band, appendectomy, colectomy, cholecystectomy, hernia treatment, hysterectomy, sleeve gastrectomy, and Sacrocolpopexy nephrectomy. SILS was used by surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic for clinical trials and the Geneva University Hospital in Switzerland. Despite a series of single-incision use of specialized technical instruments, many SILS surgeries in the United States of America and Europe have used the standard instrumentation. TriPort+ can be inserted with its device through an incision 15 mm in the navel. This device allows you to use four instruments simultaneously. LESS cholecystectomy period a fourth instrument becomes essential for the critical vision. Until now, surgeons had the invention as to retract the infundibulum; Sutures were reported and other means retraction novel. The instrument channel allows a fixed curved grasper Infundibular is added; which contributes to reproduce the methodology currently practiced in the traditional four-port laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
Laparoscopic single incision surgery may be performed by making a small incision in or near the navel and the insertion of laparoscopic instruments required directly into the body. For gastric banding procedures, the implementation of adjustment port requires to make a small flap subcutaneously. For gastric bypass procedures, perhaps the doctor will make a small vertical incision around the navel only.
Once the incision is made, the physician uses the Veress technique, where the instrument panel is raised and the needle is inserted directly into the incision. Many surgeons may decide to use a port that makes it easy to view all the layers of fabric. A flexible tube which can be moved at least 180 degrees can also be used with this method. The instrument provides the surgeon with a wider field of view and work at every stage of the operation quickly and efficiently.
Technology, Equipment and Training
SPL is achieved through a single 20 mm incision in the umbilicus (navel or belly button), or only 11 mm incision in the navel, which minimizes scarring and incisional pain associated with multiple entry points used for traditional laparoscopic surgery. Specialized equipment to the SPL surgery is divided into two major categories; Access and hand tools ports. There are a number of different ports, including Applied Medical GelPOINT system, the SILS device Covidien, the TriPort +, and TriPort15 QuadPort More Advanced Surgical Concepts and Uni-X P navel. Hand instruments are available in three standard configurations - rigid joints and pre-folded. Standard hand tools are rigid in design and have developed over the past 30 years for use in laparoscopy. The seal is designed to overcome one of the challenges inherent in the SPL, reduced triangulation of tools. Many factors influence the decision of a surgeon to use standard or articulated hand tools, including access to the port by using own surgical skills and express the cost of the instruments are much more expensive than standard instruments.
SPL is enhanced by the use of specialized equipment, such as the SILS Port Multiple Instrument Access manufactured by Covidien and the angle of common instruments Laparo made by Cambridge Endoscopic Devices, Inc. The flexible port medical devices that can be installed through a small incision in the navel to allow laparoscopic surgeons use up to three devices simultaneously. Some instruments of articulation can be inserted through said specialized ports, offering surgeons maneuverability and access to the target tissue of a single access laparoscopic appendectomy point. However single port also made using a single 10 mm standard "Y" shaped operating telescope which an instrument channel 5mm also.
Although knowledge of the single port surgery is high among surgeons, using specialized instruments with this limited access, it requires skill and considerable training. This training and operational knowledge is currently limited and numerous bad insights of increased operating time and complications with this surgery are maintained. A recent study suggests future absorption depends largely on the availability of testing, training, implementation and cost reduction.
Key benefits of surgery
According to Dr. Ovunc Bardakcioglu, a gastrointestinal surgeon at SLU Hospital which several gastrointestinal procedures through single incision laparoscopic technical, The procedure of simple incision is revolutionary in the surgical field as gastro researchers and physicians, we are always looking for the most effective and least invasive techniques for the benefit of our patients. Incision laparoscopic surgery one may soon become the preferred method for the future method. The first lap band surgery a single incision was completed in summer 2008 by surgeons at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Texas.
This procedure offers several advantages including:
- Faster healing time
- Fewer Injuries
- Reduction of future scars
- The scars remain hidden
- Short hospital stay
Laparoscopic surgery is performed only by a few dozen of surgeons in the United States. It continues to be an attractive alternative for patients who do not submit to the ancient stomach bypass or stomach banding procedure.
What to expect after surgery
Patients who undergo laparoscopic technique gastric bypass surgery with a single incision typically spend between one and three days in the hospital for recovery. The Cleveland Clinic advises patients taking between two and four weeks off to fully recover from the procedure, and the patient should follow a healthy diet to accommodate the size of the stomach smaller.
Dr. Seema Yadav
Apr 27th, 2020 4:41 am
Thank you so much for this inspirational video. Thanks for posting of Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery (SILS) video.
Dr. Dipankar Das
May 18th, 2020 11:57 am
Your lecture is very informative and well presented. It was very interesting,Thanks for posting of Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery (SILS) video.
Dr. Vinay Rajpoot
May 23rd, 2020 5:40 am
It was as a really very interesting video presentation of Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery (SILS).Thanks for the refresher!
Dr. Raman Bhalla
Jun 12th, 2020 8:24 am
Great surgery and great demonstration by great surgeon, Thanks Dr. Mishra for sharing this video of Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery (SILS).
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