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Developer Blog: The New Queues
By Andy (StrumSlinger) | Mon 14 Mar 2016 10:20:47 AM PDT
Getting players together for queued content is a challenging problem, and the developers are always trying to make the experience easier and better. We don't want the queueing process to get in the way of actually playing the game! Over the years, we've made many small incremental improvements to the queue system, but it finally got to the point where there were more patches than jeans and it was time to sew a whole new pair of trousers! Hmm, my metaphor might have gotten away from me there…
Queue Groups
The biggest change is that you have more control over who you play queued content with. You are no longer automatically queued with your party (though of course if you want to queue with them, it's easy). You can join a queue alone or you can invite other players, through any player menu in the game, to form a Queue Group. A Queue Group will play the content together, without the problems of the previous team-based system.
Queueing Solo:
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If your Queue Group is smaller than the number of players needed by the content, then other queued players will fill up the available spaces, but your Queue Group will stay together.
The most exciting thing is that this applies to the big queues too. Previously, you couldn't be guaranteed a shared game with a group larger than five - the maximum party size. Now you can make a Queue Group with 25 of your closest friends, and fight Tiamat together!
Private Queues
If you really want control of your play experience, then the new "private queue" feature is for you. You can check the "Private" setting and an instance will be created just for your Queue Group. Nobody will join the instance that you haven't invited, and certain class restrictions (such as needing one healer and one tank) are lifted.
Of course, our immediate plans are to address feedback and bugs that arise, but future features may include:
Easier ways to invite groups of people such as guildmates or the random people with whom you just played an instance
Queue Group officers, who would have some of the power of the Queue Group leader
Letting the Queue Group leader arrange the parties in large groups (such as the Tiamat and Demogorgon fights)
As well as these new features, the revised queue system has a whole bunch of under-the-hood improvements that should make matchmaking, leaving an instance, wait times, and many other things better. Revisit your favorite skirmish or dungeon with your friends, and with the new queue system in The Maze Engine!
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We're currently working on resolving issues with the queues. For an update from the developers, click here.
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Q: How to calculate the mean of elements of a lists inside a dictionary in python? Hi I have a dict in python that looks like that:
{{'NN3-001': {'diffe_1':[1,2,3,4],'mas_1':[10,20,30,40],'diffe_2':[5,6,7,8],'mas_2':[50,60,70,80]}},
{'NN3-002': {'diffe_1':[14,15,16,17],'mas_1':[100,200,300,400],'diffe_2':[18,19,20,21],'mas_2':[500,600,700,800]}}}

Where NN3-X is the id of the time series, and diff and mas are the name of the models and the numbers after the _ are the times that the model was executed.
And I would like to have the mean of each i element of the list corresponding with i element of the other list, that have the same name of the model,for example: 1, of diffe_1, plus 5, from diffe_2, the mean would be 3, and the final product would something like:
{{'NN3-001': {'diffe':[3,4,5,6], 'mas':[30,40,50,60]}},
{'NN3-002': {'diffe':[16,17,18,19], 'mas':[300,400,500,600]}}}

Thanks.

A: First: your example is not correct dictionary. You missed {} in some places.
You should have
{
    'NN3-001': {'diffe_1':[1,2,3,4],'mas_1':[10,20,30,40],'diffe_2':[5,6,7,8],'mas_2':[50,60,70,80]},
    'NN3-002': {'diffe_1':[14,15,16,17],'mas_1':[100,200,300,400],'diffe_2':[18,19,20,21],'mas_2':[500,600,700,800]}
}

To get single list you can use
values = data['NN3-001']['diffe_1']

and you can calculate mean
mean = sum(values)/len(values)

For all list you have to use for-loops with dict.items()
dictionary = {
    'NN3-001': {'diffe_1':[1,2,3,4],'mas_1':[10,20,30,40],'diffe_2':[5,6,7,8],'mas_2':[50,60,70,80]},
    'NN3-002': {'diffe_1':[14,15,16,17],'mas_1':[100,200,300,400],'diffe_2':[18,19,20,21],'mas_2':[500,600,700,800]}
}

for name, values in dictionary.items():
    print('=== time serie:', name, '===')
    for key, data in values.items():
        print('  key:', key)
        print(' data:', data)
        print(' mean:', sum(data)/len(data))
        print('---')

Result:
=== time serie: NN3-001 ===
  key: diffe_1
 data: [1, 2, 3, 4]
 mean: 2.5
---
  key: mas_1
 data: [10, 20, 30, 40]
 mean: 25.0
---
  key: diffe_2
 data: [5, 6, 7, 8]
 mean: 6.5
---
  key: mas_2
 data: [50, 60, 70, 80]
 mean: 65.0
---
=== time serie: NN3-002 ===
  key: diffe_1
 data: [14, 15, 16, 17]
 mean: 15.5
---
  key: mas_1
 data: [100, 200, 300, 400]
 mean: 250.0
---
  key: diffe_2
 data: [18, 19, 20, 21]
 mean: 19.5
---
  key: mas_2
 data: [500, 600, 700, 800]
 mean: 650.0

EDIT:
After changes in question I see that you need zip(diffe_1, diffe_2) to create pairs.
dictionary = {
    'NN3-001': {'diffe_1':[1,2,3,4],'mas_1':[10,20,30,40],'diffe_2':[5,6,7,8],'mas_2':[50,60,70,80]},
    'NN3-002': {'diffe_1':[14,15,16,17],'mas_1':[100,200,300,400],'diffe_2':[18,19,20,21],'mas_2':[500,600,700,800]}
}

result = {}

for name, values in dictionary.items():
    print('=== time serie:', name, '===')

    result[name] = {'diff':[], 'mas':[]}

    print('--- diffe_1, diffe_2 ---')
    for a, b in zip(values['diffe_1'],values['diffe_2']):
        mean = int( (a+b)/2 )
        print(a, '&', b, '=>', mean)
        result[name]['diff'].append(mean)

    print('--- mas_1, mas_2 ---')
    for a, b in zip(values['mas_1'],values['mas_2']):
        mean = int( (a+b)/2 )
        print(a, '&', b, '=>', mean)
        result[name]['mas'].append(mean)

print(result)

gives
=== time serie: NN3-001 ===
--- diffe_1, diffe_2 ---
1 & 5 => 3.0
2 & 6 => 4.0
3 & 7 => 5.0
4 & 8 => 6.0
--- mas_1, mas_2 ---
10 & 50 => 30.0
20 & 60 => 40.0
30 & 70 => 50.0
40 & 80 => 60.0
=== time serie: NN3-002 ===
--- diffe_1, diffe_2 ---
14 & 18 => 16.0
15 & 19 => 17.0
16 & 20 => 18.0
17 & 21 => 19.0
--- mas_1, mas_2 ---
100 & 500 => 300.0
200 & 600 => 400.0
300 & 700 => 500.0
400 & 800 => 600.0

{
'NN3-001': {'diff': [3, 4, 5, 6], 'mas': [30, 40, 50, 60]},
'NN3-002': {'diff': [16, 17, 18, 19], 'mas': [300, 400, 500, 600]}
}

You may also use loop for prefix in ['diffe', 'mas']: to reduce code.
dictionary = {
    'NN3-001': {'diffe_1':[1,2,3,4],'mas_1':[10,20,30,40],'diffe_2':[5,6,7,8],'mas_2':[50,60,70,80]},
    'NN3-002': {'diffe_1':[14,15,16,17],'mas_1':[100,200,300,400],'diffe_2':[18,19,20,21],'mas_2':[500,600,700,800]}
}

result = {}

for name, values in dictionary.items():
    print('=== time serie:', name, '===')

    result[name] = {}

    for prefix in ['diffe', 'mas']:

        print('--- prefix:', prefix, '---')

        result[name][prefix] = []

        for a, b in zip(values[prefix+'_1'],values[prefix+'_2']):
            mean = int( (a+b)/2 )
            print(a, '&', b, '=>', mean)
            result[name][prefix].append(mean)

print(result)

A: First, yeah, your dictionary isn't valid, but that's probably because you wrote it on just two lines. You probably want to write it this way:
dictionary = {
    'NN3-001': {
        'diffe_1':[1,2,3,4],
        'mas_1':[10,20,30,40],
        'diffe_2':[5,6,7,8],
        'mas_2':[50,60,70,80],
        },
    'NN3-002': {
        'diffe_1':[14,15,16,17],
        'mas_1':[100,200,300,400],
        'diffe_2':[18,19,20,21],
        'mas_2':[500,600,700,800],
        },
    }

And for the mean-computing function:
def compute_mean(dictionary):
    new_dictionary = {}
    # Loop on 'NN3-' level
    for key, sub_dictionary in dictionary.items():
        new_sub_dictionary, accumulated_arrays = {}, {}
        # Loop on 'diffe_' level
        for sub_key, list in sub_dictionary.items():
            # Extract the sub_key without the _n
            sub_key = sub_key.split('_')[0]
            # If we already encountered this sub_key
            if sub_key in new_sub_dictionary:
                new_sub_dictionary[sub_key] += np.array(list)
                accumulated_arrays[sub_key] += 1
            # If we haven't encountered this sub_key
            else:
                new_sub_dictionary[sub_key] = np.array(list)
                accumulated_arrays[sub_key] = 0
        # Compute mean and convert back to list
        for sub_key, array in new_sub_dictionary.items():
            new_sub_dictionary[sub_key] = list(array / accumulated_arrays[sub_key])
        # Add to the main dictionary
        new_dictionary[key] = new_sub_dictionary
    return new_dictionary

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The king's scribes were quickly 1 summoned – in the third month (that is, the month of Sivan), on the twenty-third day. 2 They wrote out 3 everything that Mordecai instructed to the Jews and to the satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces all the way from India to Ethiopia 4 – a hundred and twenty-seven provinces in all – to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, and to the Jews according to their own script and their own language.
At once the royal secretaries were summoned—on the twenty-third day of the third month, the month of Sivan. They wrote out all Mordecai's orders to the Jews, and to the satraps, governors and nobles of the 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush. These orders were written in the script of each province and the language of each people and also to the Jews in their own script and language.
So the king's scribes were called at that time in the third month (that is, the month Sivan), on the twenty-third day; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, the satraps, the governors and the princes of the provinces which extended from India to Ethiopia, 127 provinces, to every province according to its script, and to every people according to their language as well as to the Jews according to their script and their language.
So on June 25 the king's secretaries were summoned. As Mordecai dictated, they wrote a decree to the Jews and to the princes, governors, and local officials of all the 127 provinces stretching from India to Ethiopia. The decree was written in the scripts and languages of all the peoples of the empire, including the Jews.
So the king's secretaries were brought in on the twenty-third day of the third month, the month of Sivan, and the order regarding the Jews was written word for word as Mordecai dictated and was addressed to the satraps, governors, and officials of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, 127 provinces in all, to each province in its own script and each people in their own language, including the Jews in their script and language.
Then at that time, on the twenty-third day of the third month, which is the month Sivan, the king's scribes were sent for; and everything ordered by Mordecai was put in writing and sent to the Jews and the captains and the rulers and the chiefs of all the divisions of the kingdom from India to Ethiopia, a hundred and twenty-seven divisions, to every division in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing and their language.
The king's secretaries were summoned at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day; and an edict was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews and to the satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, and also to the Jews in their script and their language.
So the king's scribes were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty–third day ; and it was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews, the satraps, the governors, and the princes of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, one hundred and twenty–seven provinces in all , to every province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.
2 sn Cf. 3:12. Two months and ten days have passed since Haman's edict to wipe out the Jews.
3 tn Heb "it was written"; this passive construction has been converted to an active one in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.


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While Connecticut's system of self-government has a long history-- the State was settled in 1633, the Superior Court dates from 1667, and our tripartite system of Government from 1818 -- the Office of the Attorney General was created relatively recently, in 1897.Endnote 1.
The statute establishing the office declared:
There shall be an attorney general chosen by ballot in the same manner as other state officers, on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, 1898, and quadrennially thereafter, to hold this office for a term of four years... The attorney general shall be an elector of this State, and an attorney-in-fact of at least ten years active practice at the bar of this Court.
The statute set as the office's mission the general supervision over all legal matters in which the State is an interested party, except criminal matters, over which "the state's attorneys have direction." Endnote 2. It was only in 1970 that the statutory reference to the Attorney General was incorporated into the State Constitution. Amendment I, Connecticut Constitution of 1965. H.J.R. No. 95, §1 (1969).
For at least 25 years prior to 1897, a steady succession of governors and other public officials had emphasized the need for an attorney general in Connecticut to handle civil litigation for the State. Endnote 3. At the founding of Connecticut, each county had a "king's attorney," who became, after the revolution, a "state's attorney" to handle criminal prosecution for the state. These men were quite prominent and highly respected criminal prosecutors. Appointed by the judges, some served twenty years or more; Hartford State's Attorney William Hamersley, who served from 1868 to 1888, later went on to become Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court. Hugh Alcorn, the Hartford State's Attorney from 1908 to 1942, came to symbolize Connecticut's tough, yet fair, approach to criminal justice.
Before 1897 the state's attorney did handle some civil matters of a more controversial nature, such as quo warranto, mandamus, or public utility disputes.Endnote 4. However, the routine legal issues facing the State and its agencies were resolved in a variety of ways -- none quite adequate. Some agencies resolved matters of legal advice according to custom or their own judgment. Others retained private attorneys. Endnote 5. In an effort to eliminate political considerations in the selection of private counsel, a rule developed that whenever the Secretary of State was an attorney, he would try to resolve the matter or render advice. When the Secretary was not an attorney, he would still determine what cases went to which private litigators. But the high fees charged by the attorneys and the unavoidably political nature of the assignment process gradually convinced the legislature to establish the Office of the Attorney General -- to provide an authorized public figure advising on the law in an official manner.
Since the Secretary of the State exercised many of the attorney general's functions before creation of the office, it comes as no surprise that the first Attorney General, Charles Phelps, had been Secretary of the State from 1897 to 1899. He was 46 years old when he ran for Attorney General in the election of 1898, and he took office in January 1899. A native of Rockville, Phelps maintained a practice there, also serving as county coroner and prosecuting attorney. Subsequent to being Attorney General, he was State's Attorney for Tolland County from 1904 to 1915. He died in 1940 at age 88. Phelps also served as a war correspondent for the Hartford Courant, which resulted in such dispatches as "Finds Europe Aflame With War," published in 1916.
As Attorney General, Phelps was provided space at the State Capitol, and a library consisting of state and federal statutes, constitutional treatises, hornbooks, reports of attorneys general in other states, and one volume entitled "Extraordinary Relief."
Phelps, who received a salary of $4,000, stated in his first annual report in 1899 that "the office is open during the week, but the attorney general is in attendance only on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, reserving Fridays for appointments in court incident to matters upon short calendar." He had no deputy or assistants, only a secretary. Some departments, like the tax department, had their own legal staff and private attorneys were still frequently employed.
The attorney general continued to be a sole practitioner until 1927. Two years earlier, in the 1925 annual report, Frank Healy, a two-term attorney general from Windsor Locks, urged the legislature to authorize the appointment of assistants:
While all of my time is devoted to the duties of this office, I cannot help the feeling that this department in point of service does not begin to measure up to the standard of efficiency which obtains in the public service of the state. In an effort to remedy this condition I asked the last General Assembly for an appropriation sufficient to employ assistance in this office so as to expedite its business, but my request was refused. Former Attorneys General have called to the attention of the General Assembly the need of extra assistance in this department with like results. As this department is practically the only one in the state without a deputy, I recommend the enactment of a law providing for such an appointment with absolute authority to act for and in behalf of the state in the absence of disability of the Attorney General.
In 1927 the legislature saw the wisdom of this recommendation and authorized a deputy, as well as "such other assistants as shall deem necessary subject to the approval of the Board of Finance and Control." An effort was made to decrease legal staff at the agencies as well.
This legislative act slowly led to the establishment of the office as we know it today. In 1934 there were four assistants, and three clericals; in 1935, six assistants; in 1942, ten assistants and a law clerk. In 1950 there were eleven assistants and nine staff members. The largest growth came between 1960 and 1970, when the office grew dramatically from 23 full-time employees to 92 full-time employees. By 1974 the office consisted of 135 employees of which 72 were attorneys; in 1981, 197 employees, and 1982, 204, of which 123 were attorneys. The office continued to be located on the second or third floor of the Capitol until 1964, when it moved to 30 Trinity Street.
The salary of the attorney general was usually quite minimal. As indicated, Phelps received $4,000, in 1920 Healy received $6,000, in 1935 the post paid $8,400, in 1965 the legislature raised the compensation from $12,500 to $20,000, in 1972 to $30,000. When the legislature made the attorney general a full-time position in 1982, the salary was increased to $50,000. Historically one inducement to the position seemed to be its role in launching a subsequent career with the judiciary: one third of the incumbents became judges.
The volume of work of the office has, except for the first few years, been very substantial. The statute creating the office stipulated that the attorney general represented the state officers and heads of all boards and commissions in all suits and civil proceedings. He was to appear before the general assembly when legislation was pending concerning the state treasurer. State officers and boards were to rely on the Attorney General for legal services -- with the proviso that only a branch of the general assembly could authorize the Attorney General to give a formal opinion to the assembly. The statute, from the first, contained a traditional power of attorneys general -- the protection of charitable trusts from improper invasion or misuse. Endnote 6.
The work of the first attorney general consisted to a great degree in statutory interpretation. He was swamped with what he called "perplexing questions" arising from special legislation, and was forced to explain "the reasons which justify special legislation in one case and not in another." During the legislative session he attended numerous committee meetings to protect the state's fiscal interests.
Of the twenty court cases Phelps had in the first two years as Attorney General, fifteen were mortgage foreclosures. A series of mortgage foreclosures "in the western states," mostly Ohio, were handled by probate attorneys in the locality on a fee basis. (The fees ranged from $20 paid to one W.H. Phipps of Paulding, Ohio to $400 paid to Cable & Parmenter of Lima, Ohio.)
With the growth of state government, the Office diversified greatly. In 1934, the Office had important cases involving highway suits and appeals. One case that received attention was a water diversion suit between Connecticut and Massachusetts. Another concerned a series of cases regarding the structure of the health licensing boards.Endnote 7. Liquor Control Commission cases were also common.Endnote 8.
By 1950 the Office had taken over all workers compensation claims of state employees -- some 3,500 active cases. It settled a large case involving gasoline tax retained by distributors for $91,000. The Attorney General appeared before the United States Congressional Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives to testify on an inter-governmental matter.
After World War II, two new issues came to the attention of the Attorney General: The first, labor and employment regulation, Endnote 9.the second, the condemnation of land for highway purposes, as the federal government began to fund these roadway projects. Endnote 10.
The 1955 report of the Attorney General mentions an important decision on welfare collections -- the Connecticut Supreme Court had ruled support orders nondischargeable. Endnote 11. During the year 336 cases were decided, including one in federal district court, 12 in the Connecticut Supreme Court, 153 in superior court, 161 in common pleas court, two in municipal court and seven in probate court. One of the earliest cases argued by the Attorney General's Office in the United States Supreme Court was Poe v. Ulman. Endnote 12. The Court refused to decide the constitutionality of the State law banning the sale of contraceptives.
By 1964, with 2,200 Attorney General cases pending, the federal court work of the office had greatly increased. The office was heavily involved in litigation over the reapportionment of the State legislature based on the 1960 census. By 1970, the Office had become active in providing representation of and assistance to the Connecticut Human Rights and Opportunities Commission.
In 1974 the attorney general noted that 7,567 cases were pending, including 608 in federal court. The office had been asked several times by the federal court to prepare an amicus brief on points of Connecticut law under challenge. Endnote 13. In annual reports during the 1970's, mention is made of the vast amount of money collected for the state and the savings achieved in settling claims against various departments.
In the 1980s the Office's development continued. The Attorney General took significant steps to protect consumers from fraud, residents from environmental hazards and workers from industrial injury and disease. Through the Attorney General's Office, the State became increasingly involved in antitrust protection. The tough issues of prisoner's and the disabled rights have been tackled. As the federal government retreated from its historic role as the chief protector of citizens, the Attorney General's Office took on extra work, including suits against the United States itself over unsafe trucks, OSHA regulations and the cable television industry. Endnote 14. The Office has also continued to defend numerous state officials sued for their official actions. Endnote 15.
Beginning in 1983, the office embarked on a program of public outreach and education. A series of columns and public service announcements called "Connecticut Law in Plain Language" explains a variety of state citizen rights and responsibilities in easy-to-understand terms. Brochures have been organized to explain the statutes of environmental and antitrust laws to businesses, citizens and municipalities. The office has also established liaison with a variety of citizen groups to keep them informed of the progress of litigation affecting their interests, and to assist them in advocating legislative changes.
Also in 1983, the office became more active in developing and advancing a legislative package before the General Assembly. Headed up by the new position of Counsel to the Attorney General, a legislative team has enjoyed success in helping pass new laws involving missing children, child support, ticket scalping, student loans, limiting youth access to tobacco products, environmental enforcement, consumer protection, child protection and water pollution.
From the days of a sole practitioner the Attorney General's Office has come a long way. During the fiscal year 1995-96, $27,000,000 was collected for the state treasury as a result of the office's litigation. Over 14,000 written and oral opinions were delivered, and 11,000 court cases were handled.
With all this growth, certain things have not changed. Personnel issues have been constant. William Hadden, Attorney General from 1945 to 1951, and formerly Lieutenant Governor, strongly urged in 1946 that the legislature raise the salaries for assistants, so that they would not depart for private practice. In an attack on the merit system, Hadden lamented that assistants were hired through competitive exams.
For me to appoint an assistant attorney general simply because he finished within the first three in the Merit System examination when the need at the office at that time is for a capable trial lawyer would be comparable to employing a general medical practitioner to perform a delicate brain operation.
Civil service hiring has been somewhat revised since 1983, allowing for continuing recruitment. Reorganizations of staff to obtain better efficiency have been undertaken in the 1930s, the 1950s, the 1980s and the 1990s.
Perhaps the most consistent theme of the various reports issued by the office has been the remarkable expansion of the office since its founding. 1925: "The constant increase in the state's activities in new lines of endeavor, and the great expansion of its numerous departments has added to the manifold duties of this department." 1934: "There has been an almost unbelievable growth and expansion of the activities of the Office of the Attorney General since its inception in 1899." 1960: "The office is gradually expanding. The additional legal needs of the various departments are gradually being met. We do not have sufficient quarters or space within which to house and adequately staffed office. It is hoped that with the future occupancy of new state buildings this problem will soon be solved." 1970: "The reason for the compulsory expansion is a continued increase in volume of legal work handled by the office."
The Office of the Attorney General began as a legal innovation and tool of reform for Connecticut's system of state government. As the legal demands of state agencies grew and as the law became more complex, the office expanded its staff and restructured its internal organization in an effort to keep pace with the changes in law and government.
By the 1980s, when the Office ranked as one of the largest law firms in the State, it became clear that a part-time Attorney General simply could not manage the crush of important legal issues facing the State. By making the Attorney General's post full-time, the legislature effected perhaps the most significant reform in the history of the Office.
This was soon followed in 1983 with the sweeping reforms proposed by the Blue Ribbon Commission. The reforms are set up to make the Attorney General's Office more equipped than ever to handle the diverse legal challenges facing Connecticut's state government.
With the turn of the decade came an overall expansion of the office of the Attorney General. By the fiscal year 1995-1996 the average number of full time employees was 362. During the 1995-1996 fiscal year, the Attorney General's Office generated more than four dollars for the State's General Fund for every one dollar it expended for its operations. In addition, the Office recovered more than $3 million in revenue for special state funds and as restitution for consumers. The total revenue generated for the State's General Fund that year was $73, 194,019.
The Attorney General also participates in the legislative process, maintains an active communication with citizens and investigates, in conjunction with the State Auditors, Whistleblower complaints. The overall work completed by the Attorney General's Office in fiscal year 1995-1996 was summarized as follows:
Court cases completed -- 21,800
Court cases pending -- 25,964
Legal documents examined -- 8,559
Administrative proceedings -- 13,115
Appeals completed -- 139
Appeals pending -- 198
Formal opinions rendered -- 20
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Endnote 1
Chapter 191 (1897). Analogously, while the Attorney General of the United States and the United States Attorneys in each Federal Judicial District date from 1789, the Department of Justice was created in 1870 in an effort to settle claims arising from the Civil War. See Olson, "Challenges to the Gatekeeper: the debate over federal litigating authority," 68 Judicature 70 (1984. In the States, Attorneys General have an early history; 34 states created the office at statehood.
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Virtually identical language may be found in Conn. Gen. Stat. § 3-125 (Rev. 1985). For the first six months of the office, the Attorney General was to "advise and assist the State's attorneys if they so requested." This authority was repealed in June, 1899. In 1984 the office received legislative permission to conduct prosecution of "regulatory" crime. P.A. 84-406 (1984). The attorney general also had the interesting duty to appear for the State whenever the legislature considered granting a divorce. Conn Pub. Acts. Ch. 20 § 1 (1899).
A review of the history of the office may be found in the 1934 State Register and Manual, written by then Attorney General Warren Burrows.
See, e.g. New Haven and Northampton Co. v. State, 44 Conn. 376 (1877) (State's Attorney Hamersley represented the State in a mandamus action.)
See, e.g. State v. Phoenix Bank, 34 Conn. 205 (1867) (a case involving the State Treasurer's Office; C. Chapman and Hubbard appeared); State v. New York, New Haven & Hartford R.R. Co., 71 Conn. 43 (1898) (mandamus, William H. Ely appeared.)
In one interesting case, the Attorney General became involved in the doctrine of approximation where the daughter of the owner of the Hartford Times left her estate for the creation of drinking fountains on Main Street for horses. See Seymour v. Attorney General, 124 Conn. 491 (1938).
Licensing Board cases were frequent during this period. See Slabotsky v. State Department of Health, 108 Conn. 88 (1928); Mower v. State Department of Health, 108 Conn. 65 (1928); Brein v. Conn. Electric Examining Board, 103 Conn. 65 (1925). The Hartford State's Attorney held a Grand Jury in 1925 on medical licenses and referred cases to civil authorities.
See e.g., Guillara v. Liquor Control Commission, 121 Conn. 441 (1936); Bonardelli v. Liquor Control Commission, 127 Conn. 708 (1940); Divirgilio v. Liquor Control Commission, 134 Conn. 143 (1947).
See e.g., Arnold College v. Dananher, 131 Conn. 503 (1945); Adm'r Unemployment Compensation Act v. Conon, 141 Conn. 236 (1955); Imperial Laundry, Inc. v. State Board of Labor Relations, 142 Conn. 457 (1955).
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Jack Rubin, now retired, was active in the defense of these cases. See South Meadows Realty Corp v. State, 144 Conn. 289 (1957). Some of the other Assistant Attorneys General in the 1940-1950 period were Harry Brooks (medical cases), Harry Silverstone (labor), Frank Flood (tax), Louis Weinstein (appellate) and Joseph Hoffenberg (opinions).
Connecticut v. Murxyn, 142 Conn. 329 (1955).
327 U.S. 497 (1961). (Ray Cannon, AAG). See also , 381 U.S. 479 (1965). The earlier cases were State v. Travelers Ins. Co., 185 U.S. 364 (1902) which Phelps argued, Spector Motor Service v. O'Connor, 340 U.S. 602 (1951) and Spector Motor Service Inc. v. McLaughlin, 323 U.S. 101 (1944).
One of the earliest cases to solicit amici curiae briefs from other States was Sullivan v. United States, 359 U.S. 169 (1969) (F. Michael Ahern, AAG).
United States v. Connecticut, 566 F.Supp. 571 (D.Conn.1983) (tandem Trucks); United Steelworks v. Aucher, Dkt. No. 83-3554, (3rd Cir. decision issued May 29, 1985) (validity of OSHA regulations which have recently been amended); City of New York v. Federal Communications Commission, Dkt. #85-1274) (D.C.Cir. 1985) (challenging Cable television monopoly.)
See e.g. Horton v. Meskill, 172 Conn. 615 (1977) (allocation of State funds for education.) Pellegrino v. O'Neill, 193 Conn. 670 (1984) (Funding of judicial branch); Connecticut v. Teal, 457 U.S. 440 (1982) (Personnel rule on promotions and Title VII.)
State of Connecticut: Digest of Administrative Reports to the Governor. Volume L. (1995-1996).


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Don't worry. It's not like everyone outside New Zealand with half a brain cell doesn't see what the ultra wealthy are doing there. Once enough states around the globe start to fail and the civil unrest becomes bad enough... one bitter group or anther will drop a few thermo-nuclear weapons on New Zealand just out of resentment and spite.
This is why the Billionaire fantasy about running the world into the ground and collapsing western civilization then escaping to New Zealand fantasy is so ridiculous. It is just a fantasy they tell themselves so they can believe they are fk'n over everyone but themselves and that their fk you I got mind mode of operation isn't going to lead to personal consequences for them and their families.
Honestly. New Zealand isn't a big place and there will be plenty of people in the rest of the world who eventually realize who is ultimately responsible and prioritized their own shortsighted personal accumulation of wealth over everything else then tried to escape all personal consequences. If nuclear armed nations in North America, Europe, or Asia have their governments collapse there will be the means for such groups of people looking to enact vigilante justice on those who robbed them and their families of a future. Even without military WMDs there is also people who work in the fields of biology, virology, and other sciences who would be just as fk'd over as anyone who isn't ultra wealthy, out of work, and just as vulnerable as anyone else who feels robbed of a future to becoming radicalized.
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Pier 57 Taps TNT/MPG to Handle Engine Building Services
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Just a few blocks from the new Pier 57 Marine facility in Gurnee, Ill., noted auto racing engine builder TNT/MPG Race Engines will be handling all of the new and pre-owned high-performance powerboat dealer's engine building, rebuilding and major engine service business. (As a certified Mercury Racing service center, Pier 57 will continue to offer basic service work for under-warranty Mercury Racing engines.) That's the word from Scott Sjogren, the owner of Pier 57 Marine.
TNT/MPG has everything it needs, including its own dyno, to handle Pier 57's engine builidng, rebuilding and major engine service needs.
"Part of our new facility is a 5,000-square-foot service center with five 45-foot-long service bays," Sjogren explained. "We know that service is a big part of our future—people are already restoring and rehabbing their existing boats—but we are not an engine builder or rebuilder. From an in-house perspective, we can swap out engines and provide rigging services and we can completely dress out and rig engine compartments. But we are not in the engine-building and rebuilding business, and we don't want to be.
"That's where our partnership with TNT/MPG as our engine builder comes in," Sjogren continued. "We are growing and we need to align ourselves with an engine shop that can grow with us and has the technology to handle the types of engine products we deal with every day. TNT/MPG is well known in the auto-racing world and has some of the most sophisticated machinery, as well as its own dynamometer, available. They can build new engines and handle engine rebuilds, valve jobs and everything else in house. There is nothing they can't do."
Tom Olsen, the 31-year-old owner of TNT/MPG said he is delighted to team up with Pier 57. He also said his company, which has been in its current location for seven years, is ready to handle "100 percent" of the dealership's major engine building and rebuilding work.
"I am definitely looking forward to it," Olsen said. "We have all of our own CNC machine equipment, and all of our CNC work on each engine is done in one setting—in one machine—so that all machining can be accomplished without moving the engine. Anytime you move the engine from one CNC machine to another, you increase the possibility for inaccuracy. We do all our work in house—there's nothing we send out."
While Olsen said his company's primary experience has been in building auto-racing engines, he is confident that experience has him and his team well prepared for building high-performance powerboat engines.
"For drag racing, we might make an engine that has to produce 3,000 hp for five minutes over its entire lifetime," said Olsen. "For boats, we might have to build one that produces 1,000 hp for 300 hours. Both present challenges, but both are totally doable."
TNT/MPG has a complete machine shop with state-of-the-art CNC equipment.
Editor's Note: The new website for TNT/MPG is currently under construction. Additional information on the company is available through Pier 57.
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Ram and Kalpana, the founders at Metaome brought domain focused informatics experience to the table to solve this problem. From the onset it was clear that conventional database technologies that were tied to fixed schemas would not yield satisfactory solutions. New paradigms that allowed expressive and open-ended exploration of the relationships across the data needed to be developed.
Metaome's flagship product DistilBio, combines proprietary graph search and data integration technologies to accelerate drug discovery by connecting across diverse data in the life sciences. For the first time scientists have an easy to use, intuitive tool for knowledge discovery and data-driven hypothesis generation. DistilBio also has applications in a wide range of related verticals including personalized medicine,
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Before the rest of the world started talking about "Big Data", the life sciences had already been snowed under by large amounts of data that sat in silos across several databases. At Metaome we are commited to help make sense out of this data. We do this by intelligently connecting the dots.
Ram and Kalpana, the founders at Metaome brought domain focused informatics experience to the table to solve this problem. From the onset it was clear that conventional database technologies that were tied to fixed schemas would not yield satisfactory solutions. New paradigms that allowed expressive and open-ended exploration of the relationships across the data needed to be developed.
Metaome's flagship product DistilBio, combines proprietary graph search and data integration technologies to accelerate drug discovery by connecting across diverse data in the life sciences. For the first time scientists have an easy to use, intuitive tool for knowledge discovery and data-driven hypothesis generation. DistilBio also has applications in a wide range of related verticals including personalized medicine,
data driven clinician decision support and basic life sciences research.

### Subfields of AI Being Used
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Kalpana Krishnaswami
Kalpana has over two decades of experience in US and India. During her career she has led efforts to develop, manage and bring new products to the market. Her technical background is in computational chemistry and software development.
Kalpana has extensive start up experience. She co-founded Jigyasa, an NSF funded eLearning venture in the US. She was also the founding member of Instantiations Inc. (now acquired by Google), Oregon, where she was responsible for their Smalltalk products.
Prior to founding Metaome, Kalpana worked for CambridgeSoft as Director Major Accounts and anchored their sales and business development activities in India. Earlier, Kalpana managed the chemoinformatics product portfolio at Jubilant Biosys and led the molecular modeling efforts in the polymer group at GE (JFWTC, India). Kalpana was at UNC-Chapel Hill and the North Carolina Supercomputing Center. She has conducted several National Level workshops in chemoinformatics for Tripos.
Kalpana has an integrated MS from IIT, Delhi and a second MS in computational chemistry from Wright State University, US.

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Mortal Kombat 11: The New Update Gives Problems on Nintendo Switch
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Last week came the latest update of Mortal Kombat 11, which was supposed to fix several bugs on the Nintendo Switch, but which instead seems to have done more harm than good to players on the Nintendo hybrid console.
Many users have in fact reported several problems connecting to game servers, such as to prevent them from participating in different modes, given the online nature of the game.
On Reddit in particular, one user told his own experience, revealing that after several reports he managed to get a response from Warner Bros. customer service, which explained to him that the company was working on more reports than as usual, but that did not impute the problem to Mortal Kombat 11.
So the proposed solution was to restart the console, clear the cache and delete and reinstall the game. However, these solutions have not solved the problem, not even to other users who in addition to the disconnections also complain about an unusual number of game crashes.
In short, it seems that the masterpiece of NetherRealm. Does not really go along with the latest update on Nintendo Switch, but for now, it remains only to report any problems and wait for any patch that fixes things. Did you also have any problems with the game?
Meanwhile, the software house has revealed the next fighters arriving on the videogame: Shang Tsung will be in Mortal Kombat 11, along with Spawn, Nightwolf and Sindel.
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The Dorset Waste Partnership (DWP) is to introduce charges at its household waste recycling centres (HWRCs) for the disposal of some materials.
From 1 September, residents will be charged for plasterboard, tyres, asbestos, gas bottles, construction waste and soil while all trade waste will be rejected.
Plasterboard will cost £2.50 a bag, construction waste and soil £1.50 a bag and tyres £5 each. Residents will be charged more for the disposal of asbestos and gas canisters.
The council said these materials were expensive to deal with and it was not obliged to handle them as they do not come from the day-to-day running of a regular household.
The money raised will go toward the cost of processing the materials. Similar charges have been introduced at HWRCs across south-west England.
There will no longer be a limit on how much of these materials can be brought onto a site, apart from asbestos.
Chairman of the DWP joint committee Tony Alford said: "When considering the introduction of these charges, the DWP focused on materials that cost a lot of money to process but are not dropped off by most residents on a regular basis.
"Rather than remove the facility to accept these items entirely, we are providing a compromise that will maintain convenience for the public but also save money for our partner councils.
"Funds raised from these charges will allow us to process those materials without passing the cost on to the taxpayer.
The DWP move follows other councils' attempts to avoid construction and DIY waste being disposed of at their HWRCs.
More than 1,500 residents in Surrey have signed a petition calling for its introduction of charges at nine of its 15 HWRCs to be scrapped.
Essex County Council is refusing to allow access to vans or multi-axle trailers at 12 of its 21 HWRCs from October after reporting increases in DIY and construction waste.
But trade union GMB organiser Dave Powell warned councillors the ban would make recycling more difficult and lead to an increase in fly-tipping.


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Repeat this two more times…or as is comfortable.
See yourself slowly floating toward the moon.
It's energies become magnetic as you get closer.
Alas the moon is before you.
Moves around you, until you become one with it.
It is here that all knowledge is stored and created.
You have entered the consciousness that creates our reality.
Now is your time to connect with creation, and your part in it.
Please stay as long as seems comfortable.
Open your mind and go beyond your thoughts.
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Aubrey McClendon's fracking legacy - the good, the bad, the ugly
Energy pioneer Aubrey McClendon died in a car crash just a day after he was indicted on conspiracy to rig bids for oil and natural gas leases.Business Insider | March 04, 2016, 08:50 IST
CEO, Chairman, and Co-founder of Chesapeake Energy Corporation McClendon walks through the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana
Energy pioneer Aubrey McClendon died in a car crash just a day after he was indicted on conspiracy to rig bids for oil and natural gas leases.
The former Chesapeake Energy CEO rose to prominence by pioneering production techniques that unlocked America's supply of shale gas, which helped wean the country from its reliance on foreign oil.
His indictment came on the heels of a four-year federal antitrust investigation which found that his company had planned to rig the price of land leases in Oklahoma, Reuters reports.
While McClendon's own life was cut short, he left a legacy that will shape American energy policy - for better or for worse - for years to come.
His company, Chesapeake Energy, pioneered the use of oil and natural gas locked up in shale rock, a technique commonly known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The technique allowed America to unlock decades' worth of energy, but has also been linked to serious environmental and health concerns.
Fracking: The good, the bad, and the ugly
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Fracking involves the injection of fracking fluid - consisting of pressurized water, sand or other ceramic materials, and thickening agents - into a hole drilled in the ground. This produces cracks in the shale rock that allow oil and natural gas to flow more easily.
The first fracking experiment took place in 1947 in the Hugoton gas field in Grant County, Kansas. One thousand gallons of napalm and sand from the Arkansas River were injected into a limestone rock formation that was clogged by mud from drilling operations. The attempt wasn't very successful, but the technology has advanced significantly since then.
Today, the Society of Petroleum Engineers estimates that 2.5 million fractures have been pumped worldwide over the last 60 years; more than a million of them have been in the US. The technique has unlocked large sources of energy that would otherwise be inaccessible. For example, the Marcellus Shale in western New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, is thought to contain enough natural gas to supply the United States for more than 40 years.
But fracking is incredibly controversial. Opponents say it can release harmful chemicals that contaminate air and water supplies, possibly trigger earthquakes, and cause human health problems.
While scientists are just beginning to study the effects of fracking on the environment, some evidence suggests it can be done safely. As Scientific American reported in 2013, a study funded by the National Science Foundation and published in the journal Science found that fracking has "no irrefutable impact" on ground water quality.
The problem is, it's not always done safely. If the cement casing that surrounds a fracking well is made incorrectly, natural gas can leak along its sides or through cracks, releasing harmful gases like methane to the environment. Methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases, which trap heat in the atmosphere and exacerbate climate change.
Another problem is the wastewater from these wells, which can contain toxic or even radioactive chemicals. The same NSF study found that fracking wastewater is already starting to contaminate rivers and other major waterways.
A number of countries and states have banned fracking, but it continues to be a major source of American energy.
McClendon's rise and fall
Under McClendon, Chesapeake Energy grew from a small operation into the second-biggest natural gas producer in the United States, exceeded only by Exxon Mobil, according to The New York Times. With Wall Street backing, the company leased land all over the country for fracking, including Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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As the Times reports, they produced so much energy that natural gas prices collapsed, and Chesapeake's shares tanked. McClendon also used his investments in the company to shore up as much as $1.1 billion in loans to pay off the cost of drilling the fracking wells, and he was later forced out of the company.
On Tuesday, the Justice Department indicted McClendon in a conspiracy in which two unnamed companies agreed not to bid against each other for oil and gas leases in northwest Oklahoma between late 2007 and early 2012, a charge he denied.
McClendon died in a car crash less than 24 hours later. Investigators have not yet determined the cause of death.
"He was a major player in leading the stunning energy renaissance in America," Texas energy investor T. Boone Pickens said in a statement. "No individual is without flaws, but his impact on American energy will be long-lasting."
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ECG solves the problem of power outages by buying prepaid power.
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The company that distributes power told ECG that customers who had trouble buying credits can now do so at the endpoints.
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) said that the technical problem that stopped people from buying prepaid credit in the country has been fixed.
In a statement released on October 1, 2022, it said, "The Electricity Company of Ghana wishes to inform all stakeholders, especially our valued customers on our prepayment metering system, that the problem with the 3rd Party Vending Points has been fixed."
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It said, "Clients can now buy electricity credits at vending machines near them and at all ECG District offices, including tomorrow, Sunday, October 2, 2022, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m."
Earlier, ECG said that the power outages were caused by a technical problem, and they are working hard to fix the problem.
After problems with its prepaid metering systems left customers stranded, the utility company can now sell credit at its district offices.
Electricity can be bought at ECG district offices in the Greater Accra, Central, Eastern, Western, and Volta Regions.
ECG told people who use its prepaid metering systems that its team is "working step by step to fix the technical problem that made it hard to buy electricity."
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Q: RSS/XML of all Categories and/or Tags Is it possible to get an RSS / XML feed of all WordPress Categories and/or Tags?
I've searched the Codex, which was very helpful in giving examples on how to access specific, individual RSS feeds, but have not been able to find any source on how to display all Categories of a site.
Using examples from the Codex, specific Categories can be found with the following structure:

example.com/category/categoryname/feed

I'm looking for something along the lines of:

example.com/category/*/feed

OR

example.com/categories/feed

Any thoughts? Solutions? Suggestions?

EDIT:
I'm not looking for a feed of posts, rather a feed of all actual categories or tags. Ideally, this feed would contain only the categories themselves, no specific post data. Using the categories in the feed, however, I'd be able to then gather posts as needed by looking at each of the categories specific RSS feeds.
An example of what I'm looking for would be a feed that returned the following list:

*

*Category 1

*Category 2

*Category 3

*Category 4

Iterating over that, when needed, could give me the posts for each.

A: Demo plugin for JSON export:
I'm not sure the RSS feed structure suits your needs, for example taxonomies and terms   don't have any dates for the public date field. So here's an example how you can retrieve all the terms for a given taxonomy:
/**
 * Plugin Name: WPSE - JSON export all terms for a given taxonomy.
 * Plugin URI:  http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/151908/26350
 * Version:     0.0.1
 */

add_filter( 'query_vars', function( $qv ){
    $qv[] = 'wpse-export-taxonomy';
    return $qv;
});

add_action( 'template_redirect', function(){

    $tax = get_query_var( 'export-taxonomy' );

    if( ! empty( $tax ) )
    {
        if( taxonomy_exists( $tax ) )
        {
            $data = get_terms( sanitize_key( $tax ),
                array(
                    'hide_empty' => true,
                    'orderby'    => 'name',
                    'order'      => 'ASC',
                )
            );

            if( count( $data ) > 0 )
                wp_send_json_success( $data );
        }
    }

    // Error:
    wp_send_json_error();

} );

where you can modiy the get_terms() arguments to your needs.
Usage Examples:
Categories export:
http://example.com/?wpse-export-taxonomy=category

Post tags export:
http://example.com/?wpse-export-taxonomy=post_tag

Custom country taxonomy export:
http://example.com/?wpse-export-taxonomy=country

The category export could look like this:
{"success":true,"data":{
"0":{"term_id":"65","name":"animals","slug":"animals","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"75","taxonomy":"category","description":"id:65","parent":"0","count":"5"},
"1":{"term_id":"61","name":"birds","slug":"birds","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"70","taxonomy":"category","description":"id:61","parent":"65","count":"8"}
"2":{"term_id":"13","name":"falcons","slug":"falcons","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"15","taxonomy":"category","description":"id:13","parent":"61","count":"3"}
}}

I hope this helps.


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My son has gone away to study abroad. I'm a little worried he won't be behaving & is wasting my money! Should I go and check up on him?
Let him be independent and trust him.
You shouldn't, he's is your son and he should get to do what he wants without you checking on him the whole time.
I would, you don't know what he is doing and you want him to be safe don't you?
No, let him do his own thing.
No, you should trust him. He is your son so trust him!
No, you should trust your son.
He is your son. If I were you, I definitely would.
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Vincentio: It is quite simple really; I am here to see how my son Lucentio is doing in his studies at your world-famous university here in Padua.
PN: Has he been in Padua long?
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PN: Yes, I can see that might have been sensible. Young men together, I think we all know what they can be like! So, what do you hope to find when you meet him?
Vincentio: I hope to find Lucentio filled with delight in his studies and also that he is beginning to show that his behaviour is guided by virtue. I hope to find Tranio has been influenced by his master's studies as well and transformed into an ideal servant. However, I fear the worst!
PN: Well, thank-you Signor Vincentio, I do hope that you find your son and his man as you wish them to be.
"Bye @Lucentio (peace at last!) #Family""
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Cochlear implants boosted by gene therapy plus tiny LEDs
Health 7 July 2016
By Clare Wilson
Optogenetics holds hope for helping restore hearing
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Can light restore hearing in deaf people? Researchers hope that through optogenetics, they can use micro-LED lights to make better cochlear implants than those used by deaf people today.
Standard cochlear implants function by stimulating nerves using an electrode placed inside the cochlea, a tiny spiral cavity inside the ear. These work, but sounds are distorted and muffled.
That's because people who aren't deaf can normally discriminate between about 2000 different sound frequencies, whereas cochlear implants allow only about a dozen to be distinguished. As a result, these implants make human speech sound a bit like that of a dalek, and music can be unpleasant.
Extra channels
It's hard to create cochlear implants with more frequencies, known as channels, because each extra one needs to stimulate auditory nerves at a different point along the cochlea. The fact that electricity can spread through living tissue means that frequencies merge when channels are too close to each other.
In contrast, light doesn't spread through tissue, says Tobias Moser at the University Medical Center Göttingen in Germany. "You can focus light more conveniently than current."
Moser and his team plan to develop an optical cochlear implant with 100 channels, using micro-LEDs as the light source. By using optogenetics – gene therapy that makes nerves sensitive to light – they hope to make much more sophisticated implants.
They have already shown that this approach works in mice when a single-channel optical implant is used. And this week, Moser announced at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, that his team had restored hearing to deaf rats with a 10-channel version of the implant.
Optogenetic approach
For this technique to work, the animals first have to undergo gene therapy four weeks before the device is implanted. Using a harmless virus called adeno-associated virus, Moser's team gave the rats a gene that made their auditory nerves become active when exposed to light.
A similar optogenetic approach is already being trialled in people as a treatment for blindness. But Moser says he and his team are some years away from testing their own technique in people, because they need to find a way to make the LEDs last longer. "First we have to demonstrate they are safe and reliable," he said.
Martin Sumser at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, thinks that some people would be willing to have gene therapy if it gave them more sensitive hearing. "There are plenty of people who are not happy with existing cochlear implants," he says.
Moser says he is already getting enquiries from musicians, music fans and those who need to communicate with people in noisy environments.
Read more about the promise of optogenetics: Fixed by light: Flick a switch to banish pain and blindness
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