Sometimes there's just nothing better than a piping-hot bowl of soup. I think I have a little alarm bell in my stomach that starts ringing for soup any time the weather dips below 85 degrees or there are clouds in the sky–and if it rains, forget it! You can be sure I'll be having soup for dinner. That being said, I made soup last night when it was well above 85 degrees and sunny, but it so happened that I had an exciting event to attend yesterday evening and I needed to make a really quick dinner before heading out. This chipotle black bean soup comes together very quickly, thanks to the use of a few convenience foods, such as canned black beans and tomatoes. If you have a food processor, then you can really save some time chopping the onions, garlic and chipotle peppers. Like any soup, the flavor is even better the following day, so if you have the time to make it ahead, definitely do so.
The inspiration for this soup came from this Dave Lieberman recipe. I've been making this soup for a few years and I've made a few alterations to make it a little spicier and a little smokier. During the holidays, I make it with leftover Christmas ham and it is amazing! The original recipe calls for lots and lots of bacon, and while I love bacon, I like to use diced pancetta because it's convenient and a little less fat than ten slices of bacon!
The soup has a spicy, smoky chipotle flavor due to the addition of canned chipotle peppers in adobo sauce. This can be found in the grocery store in the ethnic or Mexican food aisle. Chipotle peppers are smoked jalapeño peppers. They have heat, but in my opinion, they are not so fiery hot so that you need a glass of milk to go with your bowl of soup. They have a smoky, earthiness that really pairs well with black beans.
Cook the pancetta in a heavy bottomed pot on medium heat until the fat renders and the pancetta is crisp. Add the onions and garlic and sauté until softened. Add the ancho chili powder to the onions and garlic and cook for about 2 minutes. I think this is an important step because it allows the spices to distribute evenly in the soup, plus when you cook or toast spices, it deepens the flavor. Add the rest of the ingredients and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low, cover and simmer for an hour. You could cook it for a shorter amount of time, but a longer, slow simmer allows the soup to develop more flavor. If you would like to use a slow cooker, you could make the recipe through the addition of the chili powder and put the mixture into the slow cooker, then add the rest of the ingredients and cook for 4 hours on low heat.
To make the soup creamier, during the last ten minutes of cooking, remove two cups of the soup and puree in a blender or food processor, or use an immersion blender to puree it in the pot. After you've blended to your preferred consistency, add the cilantro (about 1/2 cup) and stir. Cook for ten more minutes and serve topped with cheese, cilantro, avocado and more cilantro leaves.
Oh, I almost forgot to tell you about the event! I had the opportunity to emcee a cooking competition at the Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts last night! It was so exciting to watch the culinary students compete and experience the frenzy of a restaurant kitchen firsthand! As soon as the photos are available, I'll be sure to link them so you can see!
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Nicholas Merten, a.k.a DataDash, is a young entrepreneur with libertarian ideas and one of the most popular YouTubers in the crypto industry with over 315,000 subscribers.
Here is what he has to say about himself and his journey into crypto.
When people ask you "What is your job?", what do you answer?
My job is to take the interests that I share with my audience to the next level. On a daily basis, I spend hours researching cryptocurrency and other markets such as equities, commodities, and traditional currencies. The reason I do this is because I trade markets from a macro perspective. I'm trying to give a big picture and show how intermingled crypto is with the world's economy. It's rare that someone can turn their passion into their day-to-day job, but I'm one of those lucky individuals.
How did you get into crypto?
I found out about Bitcoin in 2011. At the time, I was trying to understand the global financial system and I was going back to the same conclusion that we need to find an alternative system that would not leave banking institutions with the mantle of responsibility over our money. Then, by chance, I stumbled upon Bitcoin. Sadly, my cynical nature kept me from exploring the technology further and for years I had no idea what it is. This was the case until 2016, when I read the Bitcoin whitepaper. It was like a slap in the face. I wasn't mad that I missed a wonderful investment opportunity, rather, I was upset that the important thing in dismantling the archaic banking system had been in front of my eyes for years.
What is your educational and professional background?
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For more than seven years, I've immersed myself in just about every documentary, book, and Medium in order to understand economics, finance, business, and politics. Just a few years ago, I was pursuing a double major in business with a focus on finance, however, even ending the last semester of my freshman year with a 3.5 GPA, I dropped out. Then I joined Praxis [a 12 month startup apprenticeship], which lead me to working for a startup in Silicon Valley and founding the largest channel on cryptocurrencies.
The first DataDash YouTube video that we found was posted on July 12th 2017. Is it the first crypto video you ever made?
Yes, and with great humility, I thought no one would ever care to watch it.
What was your initial goal with this channel? Is it still the same?
The original goal of my channel was to teach people data analytics and SQL [a domain-specific language used in programming.] The channel was a part of a personal development project for an educational platform as I was pursuing a career in data analytics. However, it turned out that my two videos I did on crypto markets were very popular for a channel with no subscribers. So, I kept doing my research and producing videos. The rest is history. I would have never guessed that people would want to hear me ramble about markets on a daily basis.
I've started to provide more of a macro-perspective in my videos, covering different areas of finance, such as the stock market and commodities. This was not only to broaden content I produce, but also to demonstrate how many of these markets correlate with crypto, which excites me the most.
In your opinion, what problems cryptocurrencies could fix?
Many believe that blockchain will help revolutionize the way companies operate, and I don't doubt it will. However, I feel that crypto will mostly affect even more important thing in our daily live - it's currencies. Controlled by central authorities, traditional currencies have yet to see challengers to their dominance. Now, as many economies are experiencing debt, currency, and geopolitical crises, I think it's only a matter of time until we see a massive wealth transfer from fiat to the new era of decentralized cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrency properties such as immutability, censorship resistance, and finite supply will change the game.
If you had a chance, what would you tell Satoshi Nakamoto?
"Thank you for giving me hope that financial sovereignty in the 21st century can become a reality. Are you satisfied where Bitcoin is heading?"
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David Wiley struggles with these words from Teemu, "The aim of reaching everyone is immoral. It seems to be a project of expanding the banking concept of education where "knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing."
The crux of the matter: "Envisioning true help as a one way power relation and 'deposit' mechanism seems wrong to me."
There are three ways 'help' can become immoral:
- By attaching conditions to help. "I will help you, but you have to..." changes the 'help' relation to something else. Donors of help often ask for recognition, preferential treatment, payment in kind, or some such thing. This is no longer 'help' per se; it is a commercial transaction imposed under conditions of duress.
- By imposing help. Even if the help is genuine, the imposition of help creates or reveals an imbalance of power between the helper and the recipient. By imposing help, one is being clear that he could impose other measures as well - payment, performance or whatever. Imposed help is a sort of commercial transaction in which the possibility of payment is deferred. (p.s. forced piano lessons are not 'help' no matter how helpful they are).
- By creating the need for help. I suspect this concept lies behind the 'banking' argument. The need for help in the developing world arises as a result of the hoarding of wealth and resources by the wealthier world, and even the extraction of wealth and resources from the poor communities to the benefit of wealthy communities. The reason we need to 'provide' an education to such nations is that the conditions that would have otherwise enabled an education have been blocked by prior actions. What ought to happen, it would be argued, is that instead of a sort of 'help' being provided, rather, a 'repayment' for the hinderance we have already caused ought to be provided.
Frankly, I believe that much 'help' we provide the poor, either in our own countries or in developing countries, falls under one of these three categories. I met with someone in Nova Scotia recently who, through the best of intentions, is providing computer access and training to people on welfare in the United States. But in order to qualify for this help, the recipient must satisfy certain conditions - taking a course in computing, for example. At this point is ceases to be 'help' - it becomes a commercial transaction whereby one person is using his position of economic advantage to steer the development of another into a certain direction.
Foreigh aid routinely violates at least one of these conditions. Most aid programs, for example, require that the materials purchased for the provision of aid be purchased from the donot nation. Moreover, such aid very often carries significant obligations on the part of the recipient (these days, the obligation is to 'respect human rights', to 'promote democracy' or to 'fight terrorism'). No matter how beneficial the obligations, it is no longer 'help' but rather a commercial transaction - even if the donors don't see it that way (the recipients certainly do, though, which is why they express rather less gratitude than you might thing (just as you are somewhat less than effusive in your thanks to a grocery store clerk)).
To take another snippet from the post: "It has been my experience (both in everyday life and in multi-year service opportunities overseas) that the one who 'gives help' always receives greatly in return, and the one who 'receives help' always gives greatly in return." This may be true - it probably is true, and forms the heart and core of Taoism, but if this is the expectation and motivation for undertaking to help someone, then what is provided is not 'help' properly so called but rather an vendor-initiated transaction with deferred terms and conditions.
So what is help? 'Help' - properly so-called - is aid given, at the request or initiation of the recipient, without conditions or expectations of future gains, and where the helper is not the cause of the conditions necessitating help in the first place.
You find a wallet. You pick it up and return it to the person. This is 'help' if and only if:
- the person actually wants the wallet back,
- there is no expectation of reward for your honesty, and
- you didn't steal the wallet in the first place.
Finally, help in the instructional context. What would qualify as help?
- we make the materials and services for an education available for use by people who need it, but with no requirement that they do, and no expressions of anger or disappointment if they don't
- these materials and services are offered without conditions - we don't ask for recognition, money, links, thanks, or any other sort of recompense (this is not as easy as you think - people who support causes you genuinely detest will take advantage of your help, but it ceases being help the moment you restrict usage of your help to the 'good' people)
- these materials and services are genuinely new and cretaive enterprises, that is, they go over and above mere recompense for the wealth you have gained as a result of the exploitation of the developing world or the poor in your own country. What this, in practise, means, is that your help continues to be available even after they become as rich (or as well educated) as you are; there is not a condition of 'need' attached to your help. Help does not submit to a means test.
David is right. There is a great need for help in the world. What saddens me is that, despite so many ostentations pretensions of the offering of help, there is so very little genuine help in the world. Everybody, it seems, has an angle.
And it is that, I think, that Teemu was flagging - and while my advice would be most certainly not to take it personally, I think that his words serve as a healthy reminder how difficult genuinely moral behaviour can be.


London has its Gherkin and now Gateshead has one too – as the centrepiece of an art exhibition opening today at Baltic.
But whereas The Gherkin beside the Thames is really a skyscraper and could be likened to lots of other things, the gherkin beside the Tyne looks like... a gherkin.
It was made by artist Graeme Durant out of chicken wire, tennis balls and other materials and it rotates on a plinth at the centre of his debut exhibition at the centre for contemporary art.
Graeme doesn't call it a plinth, though. He calls it a ziggurat after the massive, pyramid-like structures to be found in the ancient land of Mesopotamia, incorporating parts of modern Iran, Iraq, Syria and Kuwait.
Graeme, who grew up in Whitley Bay and lives in Newcastle, is one of a select group of North East artists who have been granted an exhibition at Baltic, which prides itself on showing the best from across the world.
He is also the latest to have graduated from Baltic 39 – formerly known as Waygood – on Newcastle's High Bridge and which Baltic now runs as a gallery for up-and-coming artists and those who wish to experiment.
Graeme's work was in a group show there last year. Part of his contribution was a rough-and-ready version of a famous war memorial designed by Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi.
He draws his subject matter from the sublime to the ridiculous and accepts that some people might judge his art to be one or the other.
"I like my work to be accessible to people on one level but there are also quite a lot of references here to art history and architecture," he said at Baltic.
"There are puns, too, which I like. Some of the things I do are a pastiche of work by artists I admire.
A multi-coloured column from floor to ceiling references Roman architecture, as does the exhibition's punning title, When in Roam.
"It's because I roam through my practice with various lines of inquiry and using different materials," Graeme explained.
As well as the rotating gherkin, there is a wall-mounted exhibit made from a Venetian blind which repeatedly flicks opens and closed to reveal different paintings of a lucky cat – a common image across Asia, according to Graeme.
High on the opposite wall there is a flashing eyebrow which references a work by the octogenarian American artist John Baldessari who "finds photographs and manipulates them".
Graeme finds things, too. According to Baltic's literature, he "appropriates everyday materials with a collage mentality" and gives them new meaning through a process of "recycling, improvisation and low-tech construction".
One of the most startling examples of his recycling is the old rug that has been stiffened into a shape resembling a very grand vase.
"This was a lucky find," he said. "I found it in a back lane in Heaton, an old Persian rug. It was next to a pair of pretty decent trainers.
"I didn't feel right taking the trainers but the rug was perfect because of the thousands of years of tradition it represents.
Other exhibits feature casts of Graeme's hands making Italian gestures, rubber brains and a baseball cap, this slung over a painting done in homage to Van Gogh's famous painting of a chair.
Graeme, who studied art at Newcastle College and Northumbria University, was delighted to be offered the Baltic show.
When In Roam runs in Baltic's Level 2 gallery space until February 22 next year.


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Monday, July 12, 2010 - 05:32 PM
A horror crash in which eight men died was today called the worst on record in the Republic of Ireland.
Seven of the dead, from parishes across the Inishowen peninsula, were in a car which collided with another vehicle on a rural road before smashing into a third.
The driver of the third car was also killed. Hugh Friel, a 66-year-old unmarried man from Dunaff, Clonmany, was returning home after an evening at bingo in Buncrana.
All the men died at the scene.
The others were named as Paul Doherty, 19, from Ardagh, Ballyliffin, Ciaran Sweeney, 19, from Ballyliffin, Patrick McLaughlin, 21, of Rockstown, Tooban, Burnfoot, Mark McLaughlin, 21, from Ballynahone, Fahan, Damien McLaughlin, 21, from Umricam, near Buncrana, Eamonn McDaid, from Ballymagan, Buncrana, and James McEleney, 23, from Minaduff, Clonmany.
The driver of the car carrying eight people was named as Sean Kelly, from Urris. He was in a critical but stable condition in Letterkenny General Hospital.
Prayers were offered at a morning Mass in Buncrana for all those caught up in the tragedy.
The crash happened at about 10.40pm on Sunday on a stretch of road between Buncrana and Clonmany in the townland of Glassmullen.
Assistant Commissioner Kieran Kenny said it was the worst road accident he has dealt with in his 34 years in the force.
"This is a very, very sad and tragic and stressful time and we will do what we can to get those people through the next few days," he said.
Traffic officers said eight young men were in the northern-registered black Volkswagen Passat saloon. It is believed to have collided with a Donegal-registered white Renault Megane hatchback before the driver lost control and ploughed into a red Toyota Corolla, also Donegal-registered, 200 metres away.
The senior garda added: "It is a short stretch, a straight stretch which comes between two bends. It would appear at this time that the two incidents were part of the same action."
Taoiseach Brian Cowen, on a trip to New York, extended his sympathy to the families of those killed on the roads this weekend.
"I am deeply saddened to learn of these deaths and I want to extend my sincere sympathies to everyone who lost loved ones. Each death on our roads is tragic and brings untold suffering to families, friends and the entire community," he said.
The smash happened on the R238 – 10 stretches of which are classed as collision-prone zones on official garda files.
However, Assistant Commissioner Kenny said the straight stretch of road had a good surface which was dry at the time.
Both the Passat and the Corolla ended up in a ditch while the Megane remained on the road with a damaged front wing and wheel.
Father Rafal Januszewski, who celebrated mass at St Mary's in Buncrana, spent time comforting relatives in Letterkenny General hospital last night.
"Many, many people were there inside – there were maybe 20 people in the corridor but they were very quiet. Nobody was talking but some people were crying," the Polish priest said.
"They were distraught. We were talking about this tragedy and offering words of comfort to help to give them peace."
It is understood relatives of some of those who died were out of the country and others were due to return home from the Oxegen music festival in Co Kildare.
Scores of people attended the mass in Buncrana, while a small number of locals gathered at the scene of the crash, leaving flowers at the roadside.
A special helpline was set up for health service staff to offer support.
Father Eddie McGuinness, Curate at St Mary's Cockhill, also in Buncrana, said news was just sinking in of the tragedy and he spoke of the challenges facing everybody.
"We are human beings and I know I will shed my own tears," he said.
Buncrana town councillor Michael Grant was returning from a family get-together in Ballyliffin when he came across the accident.
"I felt shocked and horrified, I can only imagine how the families feel," Mr Grant said.
The area has seen a number of multiple deaths in road accidents, including five young people killed in a crash involving a drink driver near Quigley's Point in 2005 and five eastern Europeans killed in a two-car crash near Buncrana in 2006.
However, Ireland's road safety record has dramatically improved, with the number of deaths down by 41% over the last eight years.
Gardaí appealed for anyone who was in the area or who was travelling on the Buncrana to Clonmany road between 10pm and 11pm last night to contact Buncrana Garda Station.
Politicians said towns and villages across the Inishowen region had been thrown into a state of shock by the tragedy.
Fine Gael TD Joe McHugh said close-knit communities across a wide area of the peninsula were affected by the deaths.
"Even though you are talking about different boys coming from north-west Inishowen and south-west Inishowen, there are still families connected and communities connected and it's the worst possible nightmare for the families involved," he said.
Mary Clinton, who founded the A-Ceart (Action Campaign for Education Against Road Tragedies) in Donegal several years ago, offered her condolences.
"There's nothing as devastating as losing a child. Losing a child is the most horrendous thing that can happen to anybody. It does not bear thinking about," she said.
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Quinoa is such a trendy food, isn't it? Seems like it's everywhere and a big go-to in the world of vegan cuisine due to its diverse culinary applications as well as its dense nutritional profile including high protein content.
Never fear, budding Raw Foodies! You can eat quinoa on a raw food diet, too. It's actually very easy to make, and quite delicious.
Most people think quinoa is a grain, but it's actually a pseudo-grain or "pseudo-cereal" thus tolerable for many people with gluten sensitivities. That said, it contains a protein that might be similar enough to gluten to trigger a response in people with Celiac disease. It is also sometimes cross-contaminated in processing plants, so check your source and pay attention to how quinoa affects your body. Talk to your doctor about any dietary and health concerns you might have.
Quinoa is light with a mild savory flavor. Raw quinoa recipes can be sweet or savory, though, as quinoa adapts to what is added to it. In this Mediterranean-style quinoa dish I've paired traditional ingredients like juicy tomatoes, basil, and peppers along with some fresh raw peas straight from my garden. The result is a light yet filling protein-packed vegan meal that's exploding with the taste of seasonal plants.
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10th April, 2012 Documentary Like
Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, A Tale of life
Werner Herzog has never been a filmmaker to shy away from tackling tough subjects in his documentaries. Throughout his prolific career, his non-fiction work has seen him cover the effects of the Gulf War on Kuwaiti oil fields (Lessons of Darkness), a pilot's escape from his captors in the Vietnam War (Little Deiter Needs to Fly) and one man's tragic obsession with bears (Grizzly Man). In his previous documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Herzog travelled to France to document the Chauvet caves, infamous for housing the earliest known cave paintings ever to be discovered. In true Herzogian fashion though, his film transcended its historic roots and evolved into a breathtaking "examination of all that makes us human". Now, in his latest creation Herzog casts his insightful gaze on the USA's continuing use of capital punishment, featuring an in-depth portrait of two death row inmates.
In his fascinating exploration of a triple homicide case in Conroe, Texas, master filmmaker Werner Herzog (Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Grizzly Man) probes the human psyche to explore why people kill—and why a state kills. In intimate conversations with those involved, including 28-year-old death row inmate Michael Perry (scheduled to die within eight days of appearing on-screen), Herzog achieves what he describes as "a gaze into the abyss of the human soul." Herzog's inquiries also extend to the families of the victims and perpetrators as well as a state executioner and pastor who've been with death row prisoners as they've taken their final breaths. As he's so often done before, Herzog's investigation unveils layers of humanity, making an enlightening trip out of ominous territory. (www.ifcfilms.com)
Where his previous documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams had been described as 'a remarkable 3D journey' in its trailer, Into the Abyss is a film a lot less concerned with creating an aesthetic impact. With Herzog's documentaries we've become used to the inclusion of a certain amount of visual poetry, whether it's the apocalyptic vision of Lessons of Darkness (a documentary stylised as science fiction) or the majestic wilderness and ethereal underwater worlds captured in Encounters at the End of the World, a certain amount of visual flair is usually expected. Into the Abyss not only seems to be lacking this ocular beauty, but appears to have purposefully shied away from it, with Herzog opting for static camera shots, jump cuts and long takes. Of course, it could be argued that Herzog had no option but to shoot like this due to the minimal production timeframe and locations, but for a filmmaker of his talents and experience these stylistic decisions certainly seem to have been made through choice rather than by the demands of the situation.
With this lack of cinematic style throughout Into the Abyss it is left to the interviews (although Herzog prefers to refer to them as a 'discourse' rather than interviews) to inject the film with momentum and keep its viewers engaged. This could seem a monumental task for many filmmakers, but Herzog's unusual approach with interviewees means he not only asks the questions others may not have even considered, but coaxes admissions from them with a fluid ease at times. In one particularly emotional scene, Herzog asks a death row chaplain to describe an "encounter with a squirrel" on a golf course (who else could get away with asking that question?) and ends up somehow receiving a moving response on the man's involvement in the capital punishment process. At times Herzog's mere presence seems to be enough to elicit responses from his interviewees; often he simply waits, sitting in extended silence until the camera's gaze takes hold of his subject and they feel compelled to talk.
Another notable absence from Into the Abyss is the 'Voice of Herzog'. It is of course present off camera when questioning interviewees, but the rambling dulcet tones we've come to expect narrating his documentaries is nowhere to be heard. It's almost become a given that a Herzog documentary comes a Herzog narration; "I've always had my voice as commentary….it's just a question of authenticity and credibility. I don't care whether my accent is a German accent or not, I can make myself understood". This lack of narration may be down to the director not wanting his emotional feelings about capital punishment to cloud the film or perhaps he felt it disrespectful for a film tackling subjects of life and death. However, producer Erik Nelson put the overall sparseness of Into the Abyss down to the power of the film and its story:
Into the Abyss is deliberately spare in its scoring, in its cutting, and most importantly in its lack of narration by Herzog. Werner has become a justifiable legend for the richness of his narration — and the flights of narrative fancy that drive that narration. On this film Werner says nothing, and lets the story speak for itself. That is a testament to the power of Into the Abyss. (Metropole Film Distribution: Into the Abyss)
Feature, Germany, Review, Werner Herzog


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Canary Center
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PHIND Symposium
Mar 23 @ 9:30 am – 4:05 pm Virtual Livestream
Join us for the annual Precision Health & Integrated Diagnostics Symposium. This all-day virtual event will showcase the exciting PHIND work that is going on campus wide. The featured presentations will be from current PHIND investigators and Precision Health experts. We hope you can join us and look forward to building the PHIND community together.
The agenda and speaker information are available on the PHIND website. The event is fully virtual and the livestream link will be posted on the PHIND website closer to the event.
Categories: PHIND
PHIND Seminar – Manuel Garcia-Toca, M.D. & Oliver O. Aalami, M.D.
Apr 20 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Zoom - See Description for Zoom Link
PHIND PHIND Seminar Series
PHIND Seminar Series: Impact of the Veterans Affairs National Abdominal Aortic Screening Program
Manuel Garcia-Toca, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Surgery
Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC)
Oliver O. Aalami, M.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery, Vascular Surgery
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Webinar URL: https://stanford.zoom.us/s/98417624095
Dial: US: +1 650 724 9799 or +1 833 302 1536 (Toll Free)
11:00am – 12:00pm Seminar & Discussion
Background: The U.S. Federal Government enacted the Screen for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Very Efficiently Act in January 2007. Simultaneously, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) implemented a more inclusive AAA screening policy for veteran beneficiaries shortly afterwards.
Our study aimed to evaluate the impact of the VA program on AAA detection rate and all-cause mortality compared to a cohort of patients whose aneurysms were identified by other abdominal imaging.
Methods: We identified veterans with an AAA screening study using the two existing Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes (G0389 and 76706). In the comparison group, eligible abdominal imaging studies included ultrasound, computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) queried according to CPT codes between 2001 and 2018.
We used a difference-in-differences regression model to evaluate the change in aneurysm detection rate and all-cause mortality five years before and eleven years after the VA implemented the screening policy in 2007.
We calculated survival estimates after AAA screening or non-screening imaging of patients with or without AAA diagnosis and used multivariate Cox regression model to evaluate mortality in patients with a positive AAA diagnosis adjusting for patient characteristics and comorbidities.
Results: We identified 3.9 million veterans with abdominal imaging, a total of 303,664 of whom were coded has having an AAA US screening between 2007 and 2018. An AAA diagnosis was made in 4.84% of the screening group vs. 1.3% in the non-screening imaging group P<0.001, yet more aneurysms were found with general imaging studies (50,730 vs.15,449) (Fig 1).
On Kaplan-Meier survival analysis, patients with an AAA diagnosis had higher overall mortality than patients who screened normal; patients with aneurysms found with non-screening imaging had the highest mortality, log-rank P<0.001 (Fig 2).
The difference in differences regression analysis, showed that the absolute AAA detection rate was 1.55% higher (95% CI 1.2- 1.8), and the mortality was 13.89 % lower (95% CI 10.18 %-16.66 %) after the introduction of the screening program in 2007.
Multivariate Cox regression analysis in patients with AAA diagnosis (65-74-year-old) demonstrated a significantly lower 5-year mortality [HR 0.45 (95% CI 0.43-0.48)] for patients in the US Screening group P<0.001.
Conclusions: In a nationwide analysis of VA patients, implementation of AAA screening was associated with improved survival and a higher rate of AAA diagnosis. These findings provide further support for this program's continuation versus defaulting to incidental recognition following other abdominal imaging.
ABOUT MANUEL GARCIA-TOCA
Dr. Garcia-Toca earned his medical degree at the Universidad Anahuac in Mexico 1999. He has a master's degree in Health Policy from Stanford University.
He received his general surgery training at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brown University in 2008. He then completed a Vascular Surgery fellowship at Northwestern University in 2010. Dr. Garcia-Toca is board certified in both surgery and vascular surgery.
Dr. Garcia-Toca joined Stanford Vascular Surgery in 2015. He is currently Clinical Professor of Surgery in the Division of Vascular Surgery. Dr. Garcia-Toca had previously served as an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Brown University. Dr. Garcia Toca is a Staff Surgeon at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose.
His research interests include new therapeutic strategies and outcomes for the management of vascular trauma, cerebrovascular diseases, dialysis access, aortic dissection and aneurysms.
ABOUT OLIVER O. AALAMI
Dr. Aalami is a Clinical Associate Professor of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery at Stanford University and the Palo Alto VA and serves as the Lead Director of Stanford's Biodesign for Digital Health. He is the course director for Biodesign for Digital Health, Building for Digital Health and co-founder of the open source project, CardinalKit, developed to support sensor-based mobile research projects. His primary research focuses on clinically validating the sensors in smartphones and smartwatches in patients with cardiovascular disease to further precision health implementation.
Hosted by: Garry Gold, M.D.
Sponsored by the PHIND Center and the Department of Radiology
Categories: PHIND PHIND Seminar Series
Racial Equity Challenge: Race in society
Apr 30 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Zoom
Canary Center IBIIS MIPS PHIND Radiology RSL
Targeted violence continues against Black Americans, Asian Americans, and all people of color. The department of radiology diversity committee is running a racial equity challenge to raise awareness of systemic racism, implicit bias and related issues. Participants will be provided a list of resources on these topics such as articles, podcasts, videos, etc., from which they can choose, with the "challenge" of engaging with one to three media sources prior to our session (some videos are as short as a few minutes). Participants will meet in small-group breakout sessions to discuss what they've learned and share ideas.
Please reach out to Marta Flory, flory@stanford.edu with questions. For details about the session, including recommended resources and the Zoom link, please reach out to Meke Faaoso at mfaaoso@stanford.edu.
Categories: Canary Center IBIIS MIPS PHIND Radiology RSL
PHIND Seminar – Patricia A. Deverka, MD, MS, MBE & Kathryn A. Phillips, PhD
May 18 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Zoom - See Description for Zoom Link
PHIND Seminar Series: Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Tests – "Liquid Biopsy Tests" – Are Here – But Will Payers Provide Insurance Coverage?
Patricia A. Deverka, MD, MS, MBE
Deverka Consulting, LLC
Kathryn A. Phillips, PhD
Professor of Health Economics and Health Services Research
Founding Director, UCSF Center for Translational and Policy Research on Personalized Medicine (TRANSPERS)
The emergence of Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Tests (MCED) – "liquid biopsy screening tests" – has generated enormous interest because they could fundamentally shift how cancer screening is done. One company is already offering an MCED test for clinical use as a "lab developed test" (LDT) – and thus addressing the question of "who will pay" has become urgent. These tests offer potentially transformative screening and clinical benefits, but their characteristics present unique challenges to payer coverage decision-making and generate concerns about the potentially high cost of widespread adoption.
We will present our ongoing work on examining the unique challenges that MCED present for payer coverage decision-making, drawing on our extensive experience with coverage and reimbursement for new technologies. We will focus on identifying the evidence generation strategies that could be pursued now to inform payer decision-making so that coverage policies can be developed that are appropriate and equitable for this ground-breaking technology.
ABOUT PATRICIA A. DEVERKA
Dr. Deverka is the Executive Director at Deverka Consulting, LLC where she focuses on helping biotechnology companies and start-ups develop evidence to support payer coverage and clinical adoption of innovative technologies. Her most recent projects have focused on breakthrough tests and drugs focused on population genomic screening, cancer, and ultra-rare disorders. Prior to starting her consulting practice, Dr. Deverka has worked in the fields of health economics and outcomes research in both non-profit and for-profit settings as a researcher, educator, and department head. She has extensive experience with patient-centered outcomes research, drug and diagnostic reimbursement planning, cost- effectiveness analysis, and bioethical issues surrounding the use of new technologies. While working in academia and several non-profit firms, she has participated in numerous NIH-funded studies to evaluate policy barriers to clinical integration of new genomic technologies and has published extensively on strategies to promote evidence generation and data sharing. She is a member of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)'s Genomic Medicine Work Group and serves as a member of NHGRI's Advisory Council. Deverka has a medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh and is board certified in General Preventive Medicine and Public Health. She also has a master's degree in bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania and completed a policy fellowship at Duke University's Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy.
ABOUT KATHRYN A. PHILLIPS
Kathryn A. Phillips founded and leads the UCSF Center for Translational and Policy Research on Personalized Medicine (TRANSPERS), which focuses on developing objective evidence on how to effectively, efficiently, and equitably implement precision/personalized medicine into health care. Kathryn has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles in major journals including JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, Science, and Health Affairs. She has had continuous funding from NIH as a PI for over 25 years and was recently awarded a 5-year NIH grant to examine payer coverage and economic value for emerging genomic technologies (cell-free DNA tests and tests based on polygenic risk scores). Kathryn serves on the editorial boards for Health Affairs, Value in Health, JAMA Internal Medicine, Genetics in Medicine; is a member of the National Academy of Medicine Roundtable on Genomics and Precision Health; and has served on the governing Board of Directors for GenomeCanada and as an advisor to the FDA, CDC, and the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. She has also served as an advisor to many diagnostics, sequencing, and pharmaceutical companies. Kathryn is Chair of the Global Economics and Evaluation of Clinical Sequencing Working Group, and a member of an evidence review committee for the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER).
PHIND Seminar – Pablo E. Paredes, Ph.D.
Jun 15 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Zoom - See description for more information
PHIND Seminar Series: Pervasive Computing With Everyday Devices To Build & Sustain Resilience & Wellbeing
Pablo E. Paredes, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and, by courtesy, Epidemiology and Population Health
Zoom Webinar Details
12:00pm – 12:15pm Reception
As society progresses towards increasing pervasive computing levels, I design and build technology-enabled solutions to repurpose everyday devices to help people build resilience and grow wellbeing. I leverage biological and behavioral knowledge to design systems that balance user needs and health outcomes while mitigating surveillance and agency risks. In this talk, I present my research on efficacious and engaging sensors and interventions necessary in the population and public health domains. I share a series of research projects exploring and validating novel ideas on passive sensors – less dependent on subjective surveys or wearables – and subtle interventions that minimize workflow disruption. I show the promise of repurposing existing signals from computing peripherals (i.e., mouse and trackpad) or cars (steering wheel) into "sensorless" sensors and repurposing existing media as just-in-time micro-interventions that can work across multiple scenarios and populations. I discuss how these data could be used in collaboration with domain experts to study topics as varied as the interaction between stress and productivity in office workers, burnout prevention among clinical practitioners, or the prevention of depression among rural health workers. Finally, grounded in theories from neuroscience and behavioral economics, I propose the evolution of everyday "mundane" devices, such as chairs, desks, cars, or even urban lights, into adaptive and autonomous wellbeing-optimizing interventions. I close with a discussion of the research needed to systematically study ethics in pervasive technology for resilience, and wellbeing.
Pablo Paredes earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2015 with Prof. John Canny. He is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department and the Epidemiology and Population Health Department (by courtesy) at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He leads the Pervasive Wellbeing Technology Lab, which houses a diverse group of students from multiple departments such as computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, anthropology, neuroscience, and linguistics. Before joining the School of Medicine, Dr. Paredes was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University with Prof. James Landay. During his Ph.D. career, he held internships on behavior change and affective computing at Microsoft Research and Google. He has been an active associate editor for the Interactive, Mobile, Wireless, and Ubiquitous Technology Journal (IMWUT) and a reviewer and editor for multiple top CS and medical journals. Before 2010, he was a senior strategic manager with Intel in Sao Paulo, Brazil, a lead product manager with Telefonica in Quito, Ecuador, and an entrepreneur in his native Ecuador and, more recently, in the US. In these roles, he has had the opportunity to hire and closely evaluate designers, engineers, business people, and researchers in telecommunications and product development. During his academic career, Dr. Paredes has advised close to 40 mentees, including postdocs, Ph.D., master's, and undergraduate students, collaborated with colleagues from multiple departments across engineering, medicine, and the humanities, and raised funding from NSF, NIH, and large multidisciplinary intramural research projects.
"The Invisible Future of Health Monitoring" – PHIND & CDH Seminar
Jun 23 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm Zoom - See Description for Zoom Link
PHIND & CDH Seminar: "The Invisible Future of Health Monitoring"
Join Stanford CDH and PHIND on Wednesday, June 23rd at 3:15 PM PDT to hear some of the industry's leading experts talk about embedded sensors, longitudinal data collection, the future of remote monitoring, and real-world applications of precision health technologies. The panel will feature: Nicolas Genain, MS, Withings; John O Moore MD, PhD, Fitbit Health Solutions at Google; Pablo Paredes, PhD, MBA, MS, Stanford University; and Michael Synder, PhD, Stanford University. The discussion will be moderated by Jun (Alex) Gao, MS, Samsung America.
3:15pm – 4:15pm: Panel Discussion
Sponsored by the PHIND Center and Center for Digital Health
PHIND Seminar – Alberto Salleo, Ph.D.
Jul 20 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Zoom - See Description for Zoom Link
PHIND Seminar Series: Plastic-based sensors for wearable technologies: fundamentals and applications
Alberto Salleo, Ph.D.
Professor of Material Sciences and Engineering
The continuous monitoring of human health can greatly benefit from devices that can be worn comfortably or seamlessly integrated in household objects, constituting "health-centered" domotics. One of the key aspects for these devices to be successful is to be invisibly integrated and disappear in the background of our lives. Our group works on thin film devices made with plastic materials that can be used for electrochemically sensing of common analytes from easily accessible bodily fluids (e.g. sweat, saliva, urine) and can be easily multiplexed. I will describe electrochemical transistors that detect ionic species either directly present in body fluids or resulting from a selective enzymatic reaction (e.g. ammonia from creatinine) at physiological levels. I will also show that non-charged molecules can be detected by making use of custom-processed polymer membranes that act as "synthetic enzymes". Using these membranes in conjunction with electrochemical transistors we demonstrate that we are able to measure physiological levels of cortisol in real human sweat. Importantly, transistors can amplify signals and I will show what architectures must be used to observe 1000x amplification of sensing currents.
Finally we have developed a process that allows us to fabricate sensor arrays on flexible substrates thereby opening the door towards ultra-thin, flexible sensor arrays for wearable technologies.
Alberto Salleo is currently Full Professor of Materials Science and Department Chair at Stanford University. Alberto Salleo holds a Laurea degree in Chemistry from La Sapienza and graduated as a Fulbright Fellow with a PhD in Materials Science from UC Berkeley in 2001. From 2001 to 2005 Salleo was first post-doctoral research fellow and successively member of research staff at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. In 2005 Salleo joined the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Stanford as an Assistant Professor in 2006. Salleo is a Principal Editor of MRS Communications since 2011.While at Stanford, Salleo won the NSF Career Award, the 3M Untenured Faculty Award, the SPIE Early Career Award, the Tau Beta Pi Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, and the Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, Stanford's highest teaching award. He has been a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher since 2015, recognizing that he ranks in the top 1% cited researchers in his field.
PHIND Seminar – Orestis Vardoulis, Ph.D.
Aug 17 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Zoom - See Description for Zoom Link
PHIND Seminar Series: Peace of mind for those affected by stroke
Orestis Vardoulis, Ph.D.
ZeitMedical
There is a growing population of over 10 million Americans that live with an elevated risk of having a stroke.
Each year approximately 1 million Americans survive a stroke or a ministroke, often severely affected by its debilitating effects. A more disabling stroke frequently occurs after the seminal events, leaving patients and their families scarred for life.
TIME = BRAIN. Early hospital presentation is the most critical determinant in good stroke outcomes. However, most patients arrive at the hospital often hours after the event, with less than 10% receiving any form of treatment (thrombolysis / thrombectomy).
As a result, at risk individuals struggle daily with the fear, a stroke might happen during night-time or when they are alone. Unfortunately a stroke that goes unnoticed for hours, is most often not treatable due to the lack of salvageable tissue.
To alleviate that fear, we are creating an AI-powered, smart-headband that analyzes brain waves to detect the onset of an event immediately, and alert the patient, caregivers and 911.
Our stroke detection AI has already been shown to detect ischemia during high-risk surgeries with 90% sensitivity and no false positives.
We have received FDA breakthrough designation for our solution and are currently running a pilot human factors and signal quality study.
Our vision is to provide peace of mind and optimal brain health for everyone.
Orestis is the CEO and Co-founder of Zeit Medical, a telehealth company that offers at home monitoring and alert solutions for patients at risk for stroke. Prior to starting Zeit, Orestis was a Stanford Biodesign Innovation Fellow where his team developed the initial idea about at-home stroke detection. Orestis trained as a Mechanical Engineer, at Aristotle University, Greece, earned his PhD in Biotechnology and Bioengineering at EPFL, Switzerland and conducted cutting edge research in flexible wearable electronics with the Bao Group at Stanford Chemical Engineering. He has authored more than twenty publications in prestigious journals and has filed for a variety of patents at the intersection of materials technology and medical devices. Orestis currently lives in San Francisco, where he also contributes to the UCSF-Stanford pediatric device consortium as a technology advisor. He also maintains close ties with the med-tech and health-tech communities in Switzerland and Greece, contributing to regional Biodesign educational workshops.
PHIND Seminar – Sindy KY Tang, Ph.D.
Sep 21 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Zoom - See Description for Zoom Link
PHIND Seminar Series: Towards precision diagnostic and prediction of food allergy
Sindy KY Tang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor, by courtesy, of Radiology – PHIND Center
Food allergy has reached epidemic proportions. Accurate in vitro methods that are efficient and easy to use to identify offending food allergens are lacking. Oral food challenge, the gold standard for food allergy assessment, is often not performed as it places the patient at risk of anaphylaxis. As such, food allergy is often identified only after an adverse reaction that could be life-threatening. Our long-term goal is to develop a food allergy diagnostic test that is accurate, safe, rapid, and accessible, so that food allergy can be easily identified prior to the occurrence of an adverse reaction, and that the efficacy of immunotherapy for food allergy can be tracked more effectively. This talk will discuss our recent work on developing such a test. Our approach is based on the Basophil Activation Test (BAT), which measures the activation of basophils in whole blood after stimulation with specific food allergens ex vivo. The BAT has been shown to be highly predictive of allergic reactions. However, the need for flow cytometry has limited its broader use. We are developing a miniaturized, standalone version of the BAT. We envision that the test can be used at the point of care, such as the doctor's office or at a local pharmacy.
Prof. Sindy KY Tang is the Kenneth and Barbara Oshman Faculty Scholar and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and by courtesy of Radiology (Precision Health and Integrated Diagnostics) at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in Engineering Sciences under the supervision of Prof. George Whitesides. Her lab at Stanford works on the fundamental understanding of fluid mechanics and mass transport in micro-nano systems, and the application of this knowledge towards problems in biology, rapid diagnostics for health and environmental sustainability. The current areas of focus include the flow physics of confined micro-droplets using experimental and machine learning methods, interfacial mass transport and self-assembly, and ultrahigh throughput opto-microfluidic systems for disease diagnostics, water and energy sustainability, and single-cell wound healing studies. She was a Stanford Biodesign Faculty Fellow in 2018. Dr. Tang's work has been recognized by multiple awards including the NSF CAREER Award, 3M Nontenured Faculty Award, the ACS Petroleum Fund New Investigator Award, and invited lecture at the Nobel Symposium on Microfluidics in Sweden. Website: http://web.stanford.edu/group/tanglab/
PHIND Seminar – Christina Curtis, Ph.D.
Oct 19 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Venue coming soon!
PHIND Seminar Series: Topic TBA
Christina Curtis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine (Oncology) and of Genetics
Location: Venue coming soon!
RSVP coming soon!


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Q: How do I get money in the Wasteland? I'm playing back through the original Wasteland game, in anticipation of the kickstarted sequel. With all the strategy guides around, most of it is easy and rewarding, but I'm stuck for how to get money once the game has started.
All the old walkthroughs say to make junk characters and sell their gear to load up on cash before the game even starts, but I'm a bit into the game now and didn't do that. I'm loathe to delete my characters just to sell off gear for cash.
What ways are there to make money inside the game? It's so very different to play an RPG where the random encounters don't drop a few coppers.

A: Exploring new areas will yield you lots of loot to sell. In the beginning try the caves, ag center and Rail Nomads camp, then Quartz & Needles.
The beginning of the game is fairly loot-light, but once you get any sort of armor you can reduce your usage of ammo and defeat most enemies using Hand-to-Hand fighting. This means that you will have lots more ammo to sell.
Once you are on to the middle and later areas you will be mostly swimming in loot and/or money. The hard part will be finding a place that sells the equipment you want (most of the best gear is found, not purchased).
Once you have few thousand that you don't need to spend, you can gamble (at the Rail nomads is best) with one character with the Gamble skill & high luck. Once you get to gamble skill 5+ you will come out ahead. If you end up getting gambling to a high enough level than you can exploit the skill-point allocation wraparound bug: you gain skill points for allocating high levels of a skill at a library if the skill would cost more than 255 points to allocate.

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