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A personalized exosuit for real-world walking
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People rarely walk at a constant speed and a single incline. We change speed when rushing to the next appointment, catching a crosswalk signal, or going for a casual stroll in the park. Slopes change all the time too, whether we're going for a hike or up a ramp into a building. In addition to environmental variably, how we walk is influenced by sex, height, age, and muscle strength, and sometimes by neural or muscular disorders such as stroke or Parkinson's Disease.
This human and task variability is a major challenge in designing wearable robotics to assist or augment walking in real-world conditions. To date, customizing wearable robotic assistance to an individual's walking requires hours of manual or automatic tuning—a tedious task for healthy individuals and often impossible for older adults or clinical patients.
Now, researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new approach in which robotic exosuit assistance can be calibrated to an individual and adapt to a variety of real-world walking tasks in a matter of seconds. The bioinspired system uses ultrasound measurements of muscle dynamics to develop a personalized and activity-specific assistance profile for users of the exosuit.
"Our muscle-based approach enables relatively rapid generation of individualized assistance profiles that provide real benefit to the person walking," said Robert D. Howe, the Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering, and co-author of the paper.
The research is published in Science Robotics.
Previous bioinspired attempts at developing individualized assistance profiles for robotic exosuits focused on the dynamic movements of the limbs of the wearer. The SEAS researchers took a different approach. The research was a collaboration between Howe's Harvard Biorobotics Laboratory, which has extensive experience in ultrasound imaging and real-time image processing, and the Harvard Biodesign Lab, run by Conor J. Walsh, the Paul A. Maeder Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at SEAS, which develops soft wearable robots for augmenting and restoring human performance.
"We used ultrasound to look under the skin and directly measured what the user's muscles were doing during several walking tasks," said Richard Nuckols, a Postdoctoral Research Associate at SEAS and co-first author of the paper. "Our muscles and tendons have compliance which means there is not necessarily a direct mapping between the movement of the limbs and that of the underlying muscles driving their motion."
The research team strapped a portable ultrasound system to the calves of participants and imaged their muscles as they performed a series of walking tasks.
Ankle exosuit demonstration. Biodesign Lab, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science at Harvard University
"From these pre-recorded images, we estimated the assistive force to be applied in parallel with the calf muscles to offset the additional work they need to perform during the push off phase of the walking cycle," said Krithika Swaminathan, a graduate student at SEAS and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) and co-first author of the study.
The new system only needs a few seconds of walking, even one stride may be sufficient, to capture the muscle's profile.
For each of the ultrasound-generated profiles, the researchers then measured how much metabolic energy the person used during walking with and without the exosuit. The researchers found that the muscle-based assistance provided by the exosuit significantly reduced the metabolic energy of walking across a range of walking speeds and inclines.
The exosuit also applied lower assistance force to achieve the same or improved metabolic energy benefit than previous published studies.
"By measuring the muscle directly, we can work more intuitively with the person using the exosuit," said Sangjun Lee, a graduate student at SEAS and GSAS and co-first author of the study. "With this approach, the exosuit isn't overpowering the wearer, it's working cooperatively with them."
When tested in real-world situations, the exosuit was able to quickly adapt to changes in walking speed and incline.
Next, the research team aims to test the system making constant, real-time adjustments.
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"This approach may help support the adoption of wearable robotics in real-world, dynamic situations by enabling comfortable, tailored, and adaptive assistance," said Walsh, the senior author of the paper.
This research was also co-authored by Dorothy Orzel.
Human-in-the-loop optimization improves the function of soft, wearable robots
Individualization of exosuit assistance based on measured muscle dynamics during versatile walking, Science Robotics (2021). DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.abj1362
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Q: Modelling data that is bimodal due to missing data at the antimode I have a dependent variable that is responses to an ordinal seven-point oppose/support item. The variable is bimodal (few participants are neutral on the matter and many take a strong position):
               Strongly oppose   94
                        Oppose   20
               Slightly oppose   16
    Neither oppose nor support   26
              Slightly support   30
                       Support  115
              Strongly support  247

There is good reason to believe that the main (possibly only) reason for this bimodality is that the sample is self-selected (people who don't care much won't be very motivated to participate). I am trying to model the variable as a function of continuous and binary categorical predictors. I still have bimodality in my residuals (this is from a lmer() in R):

It feels wrong to use a mixture model when I don't have good evidence that there are two separable processes in the sample or population. There may be a real tendency for people not to be neutral in the population - but I think such a population bimodality would say more about the fact that it's psychologically easy to take a stance than it does about a real dual-process bimodality (i.e. the ordinal response scale does not map one-to-one to the psychological process scale, with the latter more compressed around the neutral point).
How should I model this, with the main purpose being examining effects of predictors? Ideally the model would be able to include a random factor but this isn't a deal breaker.
Although this question is primarily about the pure stats, R-specific advice aimed at a non-advanced-level user would be appreciated.

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Home Radio News Mittman, Leven Agree To Exit Twin Tiers
Mittman, Leven Agree To Exit Twin Tiers
In May 2013, a small operator led by Bruce Mittman and Jim Leven agreed to acquire a group of radio stations in the Twin Tiers region of Western New York and extreme North-Central Pennsylvania.
This gave the company, Community Broadcasters, three FMs and three AMs in a market known for its world-famous NASCAR course and glass manufacturing, as well as and AM/FM combo in a town further west toward Lake Erie.
Now, Mittman and Leven are saying farewell to the Twin Tiers.
RBR+TVBR has confirmed that an asset purchase agreement has been struck that will send to Seven Mountains Media the stations Community Broadcasters purchased some 5 1/2 years ago.
The stations are:
CORNING-ELMIRA, N.Y.
CHR/Pop Class B WNKI-FM 106.1 "Wink 106"
Rock Class A WNGZ-FM "Wingz 104.9", licensed to Mountour Falls, N.Y.
Country Class A WPGI-FM 100.9, in Horseheads, N.Y.
News/Talk Class B WWLZ-AM 820, in Horseheads, N.Y.
Classic Country Class C WRCE-AM 1490 in Watkins Glen, N.Y.
OLEAN, N.Y.
* Country Class B WPIG-FM 95.7
* WHDL-AM 1450, which uses W296DB to broadcast as CHR/Pop "Hot 107.1," mirrored after co-owned Wink 106
The sale price was not immediately known.
Michael J. Bergner of Bergner & Co. was the Broker in this transaction for Seven Mountains. George Reed of Media Services Group represented Community Broadcasters.
Community Broadcasters purchased the stations, plus a now-defunct AM, from Barry Drake-led Backyard Broadcasting for $3.6 million in a deal brokered by Kalil & Co.
Seven Mountains executive Dave Taylor told RBR+TVBR while en route from a staff meeting in Olean to a similar meeting in Elmira Heights that those employed across the Community Broadcasters' Twin Tiers clusters need not fret about their job security.
"We never clean house," he said, noting that Market Manager Mark Boarman, who succeeded the now-retired Smitty O'Loughlin in August 2017, is staying on. So is WNKI-OM/PD/morning co-host Scott Free and wake-up companion Ally Payne, who celebrate 13 years on Wink 106 in May 2019.
Jim Loftus, COO, Seven Mountains Media
Seven Mountains is a Kentucky-based radio broadcasting company that has emerged as a leading small and medium-sized market leader across the Keystone State. In October, it lured the radio chairman of the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters and former leader of WBEB-FM in Philadelphia following its sale from Jerry Lee to Entercom, Jim Loftus.
Under CEO Kristin Cantrell, Seven Mountains is in growth mode. On July 9, Seven Mountains Media acquired an AM station with an FM translator proudly serving Mexico, Pa. One week later, the company acquired a translator serving the Wilkes Barre area.
Seven Mountains markets include Dubois, State College, Lewistown, Huntingdon, Selinsgrove, Bloomsburg, Wellsboro/Mansfield and Sayre, Pa.
Astute geography buffs will recognize the latter community as a part of the Elmira-Corning, N.Y. market.
Indeed, Seven Mountains in early April acquired Geos Communications' Class A WVYS-FM 96.7, branded as "Yes FM." Also included in that deal are booster WVYS-FM2 in Towanda, Pa., and translator W297BG at 107.3 MHz in Ulster, Pa.
WVYS shifted to 96.9 MHz and is now WZBF, a part of the "Bigfoot Country" network of stations.
The station has a city-grade signal over Elmira. However, it does not reach Corning or Watkins Glen.
Seven Mountains paid $360,000 for Yes FM's trio of facilities.
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En Shanghai se ha inaugurado la exposición itinerante Le Petit Théâtre Dior. Se puede visitar los trajes en miniatura más emblemáticos de la Casa Dior. / In Shanghai, it is opened the traveling exhibition Le Petit Théâtre Dior. You could visit the most emblematic miniature costumes of the House of Dior.


State Bank of India had release a recruitment notification to fill vacancies throughout the country. 600 vacancies will be filled through this notification; state bank of SBI has also announced the tentative date of examination in the notification which you can find at the end of this article. Applicants need to clear the entrance test if they want to get selected as a probationary officer.
Read the below given details about age limit, pay scale, probation period, examination pattern and selection process.
Candidate age should be at least 18 years to apply for SBI 2018 recruitment 2018, the upper age of the candidate should not exceed 28 years.
The total intake might increase or decrease depending upon the requirement of the bank, the number of vacancies proposed in SBI application form 2018 is not final.
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Probationary officers from in SBI are absorbed in the pay scale of 23700-980×7/30560-1145×2/32850-1310×7/42020. Freshly recruited probationary officer will receive a monthly pay of Rs.23, 700 per month.
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We Need An Adult In The Room
Written by Dr. Seshadri Kumar, 28 February, 2019
Copyright © 2019 Dr. Seshadri Kumar. All Rights Reserved.
What started off as a suicide bombing in India is now threatening to balloon into a full-fledged war between India and Pakistan, with terrible consequences for the entire region and the world. A benign end to the conflict that seems to be rapidly escalating is highly unlikely, unless the great powers of the world step in and recognize the dangers of this rapidly snowballing conflict.
India and Pakistan appear headed for a full-scale war. The cause of the war is the attack on India's Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) forces in Pulwama in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir on February 14, 2019, by a suicide bomber with links to the Pakistan-based terrorist group, Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM). The attack killed 49 personnel of India's CRPF, and inflamed passions in India, with many Indians screaming for revenge.
The Indian government promised retaliation, and it finally came in the form of air strikes at a town deep inside Pakistan, called Balakot, inside the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in the early morning hours of February 26, 2019. The Indian side claimed that they had specifically targeted JeM terrorist training camps operating in that town. It was reported that three locations were planned, but the location that was accurately hit was the camp in Balakot.
In response, Pakistan sent its attack aircraft across the line of control on the morning of February 27th, aiming to attack Indian military establishments. The Pakistani aircraft were met by Indian fighters, and a dogfight ensued, resulting in one Indian aircraft being downed and one Pakistani aircraft being downed. The pilot of the Indian aircraft ejected and was captured by the Pakistanis.
Following the Pakistani response, Pakistan PM Imran Khan issued an appeal to India on the 27th to resolve this issue through talks. Many on both sides of the border had hoped, in the interests of peace, that the Modi government in India would accept his offer.
Escalation of the Conflict and Its Causes
However, India rejected Imran's latest overture. Not only did the Indian government angrily reject the offer on the evening of the 27th, saying that the Pakistanis had escalated the conflict by attacking India, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley also compared the Indian attack on Balakot to what the Americans had done by taking out Osama bin Laden. This gloating was accompanied by India saying that there would be serious consequences to the Pakistani response. Most likely, there will be another attack from the Indian side, this time on a Pakistani military establishment, which will provoke another response from the Pakistani side, and so on. This suggests a continuous ratcheting of the pressure and an escalation of hostilities until a catastrophic end.
Why did Imran issue an appeal for peace on the 27th? And why did India reject his offer? There are multiple potential reasons, but let us look at a few.
The major reason for both Imran's peace offer and for India's rejection is to do with counting.
For the Indian side, Pulwama was Pakistan's attack no. 1; Balakot was India's response no. 1. Pakistan's attack on the morning of the 27th was attack no. 2, and therefore India must respond for parity to be achieved. It should be noted that after the Balakot attack, the Indian government said that it was satisfied with its attack and was not looking for further escalation or attacks.
For the Pakistani side, Pulwama was an internal matter, which, according to it, cannot be blamed on Pakistan, and Balakot was India's attack no. 1; and its response on the 27th was response no. 1, and so, according to Pakistan, the two sides are even and so, can talk peace.
In addition, India is making a distinction between its attack on Balakot on the 26th and Pakistan's response on the 27th. India characterizes its attack as a "non-military strike," by which it implies that since its target was a terrorist camp, not a Pakistani military establishment, it does not count as a military strike. Pakistan's attack on the 27th was targeted at Indian military establishments, which India views as an escalation. Whether this distinction will be accepted in international law is to be seen.
Of course, neither side is completely correct. Pakistan's response that it had nothing to do with the Pulwama attack is disingenuous considering that the JeM is free to operate with no restrictions inside Pakistan in spite of repeated protests by India; and once Indian fighters crossed the international border and attacked a target within Pakistan, it is an act of war, even if the target was a terrorist camp. India has violated Pakistani sovereignty. For instance, there is an Indian-origin economic offender by the name of Mehul Choksi, who has taken refuge in the country of Antigua and taken Antiguan citizenship, because that country does not have an extradition treaty with India. If India were to launch a clandestine commando operation to kidnap Choksi in Antigua and bring him to India, the Antiguan government could view it as an act of war, even though no military action was involved, because Antiguan sovereignty was violated. Since the justifications and counts of the two sides (India and Pakistan in this case) will never agree, this is going to be an escalating spiral of violence.
Sending attack aircraft 80 km behind enemy lines, successfully executing an attack on Pakistani soil, and safely returning without any casualties would have given India a lot of confidence. India probably feels that, given their success on the 26th, they can do a lot more damage to the terrorist infrastructure within Pakistan with another raid. Whether this is true or not will soon be verified. But another attack on Pakistan is very likely soon, within a time frame of hours to days, given the Indian official response that "there will be consequences." It is fair to say that a war is well underway. Retired air marshals are urging a continuation of hostilities on talk shows on Indian TV, saying that quitting while having the upper hand is not the right thing to do.
This could be the reason for Imran's peace initiative too - that he realizes they are getting hit, and wants to reduce further damage.
The relative failure of Pakistan's counter-attack on 27th morning has clearly emboldened India. Unlike India, which was able to evade Pakistan's aircraft defenses and go 80 km deep into Pakistan and return, Pakistan's aircraft could not cross the Line of Control (LOC) without encountering Indian Air Force (IAF) planes. While Pakistan managed to down an IAF plane in a dogfight, the damage India did at Balakot was likely a lot more. The IAF's experience in the Pakistani raid on the 27th must have confirmed to the Indian military that India has the capability to prevent a Pakistani air attack on its territory.
Again, Imran's peace overture may have to do with understanding the realities and the intrinsic weakness of Pakistan's conventional military capabilities.
Both Pakistan and India cannot sustain a long war due to lack of supplies, ammunition, and spare parts. This is well known. But Pakistan is in worse shape than even India is. India probably feels that if it continues the military pressure for a couple weeks longer, it can bring Pakistan to its knees. This will certainly hold if China does not come to Pakistan's aid.
Again, this calculation could not have escaped Imran's attention and that of the Pakistani military, and it certainly could be a reason for his peace initiative.
A Fatal Miscalculation
All this is certainly true, and this accounts for the triumphal reactions of the retired Air Marshals and Generals on the talk shows. There is a lot of enthusiasm in India to continue the attacks. Military analysts are saying that India should not stop the offensive until Pakistan agrees to stop support for terrorists, until all the terrorists have been flushed out, until Masood Azhar and Hafiz Saeed are in Indian prisons, etc.
But there is a serious miscalculation in all of this.
Let us grant, for argument, that the Indian military is superior to the Pakistani military, both in training and equipment.
Let's grant that the Indian military can outlast the Pakistani military in a conventional war.
But what's the endgame here? Are the Indians being realistic?
Do Indian military chiefs really think Pakistan will agree to all the camps of the LeT and JeM in Pakistan being destroyed by the IAF at will? Do they really think Pakistan will submit to such humiliating terms as are being discussed on Indian TV channels, often by retired Air Marshals and Generals, such as Pakistan handing over top terrorists and destroying terrorist camps that they have themselves built and sustained for decades?
Do the Indian planners really think that they can keep inflicting defeat after defeat on Pakistan and nothing will happen in return?
Does the Pakistani political and military leadership not need to face their people? Can they afford the optics of continuously being beaten by the Indians? Will they not need to show a victory on their side to save face?
What happens if they cannot produce victories? If they lose face, then it is curtains for both the political and military leaders of Pakistan. Can they afford that?
NO. They cannot. That's when the nuclear option becomes a reality.
Pakistan's Nuclear Option
If it is a question of their political survival, and if their backs are to the wall, they may not hesitate to use the only trump card they possess - the nukes. A small military setback may be acceptable to them. A comprehensive and crushing military defeat at India's hands would end the careers of Pakistan's top politicians and generals. Nobody in power in Pakistan wants that.
They may not be able to deliver the nukes using their planes, as India's air defense is very strong, and their planes will certainly be intercepted before they can reach any significant targets.
But they do have ballistic missiles. And we cannot stop an ICBM fitted with a nuclear warhead, especially if they launch multiple nukes at once. At present, Pakistan is estimated to have about 120 nuclear weapons.
To be sure, if they launch nuclear weapons at Indian cities like Amritsar, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, or Delhi, India too can lob their nuclear ICBMs at Karachi, Lahore, Multan, Sialkot, etc.
But is this the endgame that India wants? A nuclear holocaust that will destroy both countries?
This is not an exaggeration. If the Pakistanis do not have a face saver and a way out with honour, the world might be staring at Armageddon.
And it is clear from the past few days that if the Pakistanis do have some victories - if they do manage to evade India's air defences and bomb some defence establishments in India - then the chorus to escalate and retaliate will only rise in India. Just one pilot being captured and one plane being downed has the Indian government promising to escalate the situation further. Imagine if the Pakistanis had a major success.
So, whether India succeeds in dominating militarily over Pakistan or not, unless India compromises, the end of the current hostilities can only end in a terrible tragedy.
Unless the mood in India changes, and unless Indians put pressure on the government to ease off, the world could be staring at an apocalyptic future.
So far, China has stayed out of this conflict. But if the conflict continues over several days, and if Pakistan is continuously losing (to take the best Indian scenario), then would China sit idly by? A dominant India is not in China's interest - that is why it has opposed India's attempts to corner Pakistan in international fora such as the UN; why it has opposed India's entry to the NSG unless Pakistan is also admitted; and why it has objected to Hafiz Saeed being labelled as a global terrorist. It is unlikely that China would just sit idly and watch its client state Pakistan go down in flames. This is especially true given how much it has invested in Pakistan as part of its Belt Road Initiative (BRI). Condoning a single attack from India on a JeM camp is one thing. Doing nothing over multiple days as its ally is getting pulverized is quite another. If China enters the war, even indirectly, Indian casualties could rise, and this could provoke more demand for retaliation. This could either force India to stop the hostilities without a clear achievement of its goals, or it could lead to the nuclear holocaust discussed before. Either way, it does not look good for India, Pakistan, or the world.
India should look at history for a clue. In the Korean War, Douglas MacArthur took his troops right up to the Yalu river in his counterattack starting with the Inchon raid, and he was convinced (like many Indian planners today) that China would not intervene.
But China, after being quiet for a long time, did intervene, and their intervention almost completely annihilated the American force in Korea. At that time, MacArthur issued calls to use nuclear weapons on China, for which he was relieved of duty. His successor Matthew Ridgway stabilized the situation.
Closer to home, we all know what happened in 1962 when Nehru and Krishna Menon implemented their "forward policy" — Menon ignored intelligence reports that the Chinese were unlikely to take this provocation lying down, and the rest is history. We suffered our worst defeat in history.
So China has a history of watching carefully and intervening at the right time for them. If Pakistan is pushed too far into a corner, India may have a nasty surprise awaiting them.
Both India and Pakistan are locked into this game of one-upmanship. India will only talk of de-escalation when it has the upper hand, and so will Pakistan. This can only escalate to dangerous levels.
The only thing that can prevent this from becoming a nuclear holocaust is intervention by countries like America, Russia, and China, possibly with the aid of the UN. Only such an intervention can stop the childish behavior of both countries which are both currently saying "He did it first." To be sure, both have compelling reasons domestically. Modi is facing general elections in May (this may be postponed if the war continues) and cannot afford to look weak. In the current hyper-nationalistic atmosphere in India, he has very little wiggle room, and any concession may be viewed as weakness. Modi has backed himself into such a corner with his rhetoric that now he needs to show a comprehensive victory to save face. Even a proposal like that floated by the French, the British, and the Americans in the UN to brand Masood Azhar a global terrorist, if China does not veto it, may not go far enough for India in the current atmosphere. In the same way, Pakistan's PM and military cannot afford to look weak in front of their population. Both leaders have almost no room for compromise, and so the only benign outcome from this confrontation is if the big powers intervene and negotiate a settlement.
And they should because it is very much in everyone's interest in the world to stop a nuclear holocaust. If a dozen nuclear bombs are exploded in the Kashmir border, in Pakistan, and in Delhi and other Indian cities, the consequences will be faced by far more than just India and Pakistan. The radiation clouds will spread to China (Xinjiang and Tibet), to central Asia, to Iran, Turkey, the central Asian republics, the Ukraine, and southern Russia. The rivers originating in the Himalayas, including the Ganga and the Yangtze, will become poisoned by radioactive elements such as cesium. Northern India and Pakistan will both become wastelands, incapable of habitation for at least 50 years. There will be mass starvation on an unprecedented scale in India as the bread basket of India will be destroyed (all of Pakistan will likely be destroyed as well.) The world will not recover from this shock for decades.
And unless the rest of the world steps in, this is exactly what will happen in a few weeks' or months' time.
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Spain's National Court has agreed to hear charges of genocide filed by Tibetan exile groups against former Chinese president Hu Jintao, the South China Morning Post reported Friday. In ruling in favor of the Tibetans' appeal, the court's criminal division said on Thursday its decision in June to dismiss the case had to be overturned because one of the plaintiffs, Thubten Wangchen, is a Spanish citizen and because China had not carried out its own investigation into the allegations, according to the newspaper. Courts could hear cases of crimes against humanity even if they occured outside the Spanish territory on the legal principle of universal competence, although in 2009, the universality was limited to cases in which Spanish citizens are the victims, the report said. China has denounced the trial proceedings, it added.


These songs by these artists failed to make the Top 10 in the UK but are still heard on some radio and music channels so please rate and give the peak position you think they should have made.
8 Bryan Adams "Summer Of 69" (No.88) Think this got to #41, deserved a Top 30 hit.
10 Kylie Minogue & Nick Cave "Where The Wild Roses Grow" (No.11) Should be a #1, but I'd take Top 5.
Bryan Adams "Summer Of 69" (No.88) Think #15 would have been a fairer position.
Elton John "Candle In The Wind" (original) (No.11) #38 not a fan!!
Quite surprised with the reaction to "Driving Home For Christmas" thought it was more popular than some of the ratings.
I'll have to do this later. Some of them had peaks in my chart, of course. My favourite song on your list is "The Show Must Go On". Was #1 in my chart even before Freddie died.
03 - Bryan Adams "Summer Of 69" (No.88) - not a great fan, but should have been at least 5.
06 - Queen "The Invisible Man" (No.12) - one of the 3 Queen songs I can bear. 12 sounds about right.
Don't worry Steveh, I'm a big fan of "Driving Home For Christmas". I didn't get into it until about 13 yrs after it's release. Happened upon it literally driving home for Christmas hols around 2001. It came on the radio. Definitely a 10/10.
The La's are a 10/10 for me too. And Tina gets a 9/10.
08 - Bryan Adams "Summer Of 69" (No.88) - #3, come on it's a lost classic, but actually he has another even better lost classic "Heaven"
10 - REM "Losing My Religion (No.19) - #1, should have!!!


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Gene therapy pioneered at St. Jude shows early success against "bubble boy" disease
Early results suggest novel gene therapy is safe and effective for treatment of inherited immune disease, according to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Memphis, Tennessee, April 20, 2016
(From left) Brian Sorrentino, M.D., Timothy Lockey, Ph.D., Sheng Zhou, Ph.D., and Michael Meagher, Ph.D., are the St. Jude representatives who contributed to the study.
Adolescents and young adults with a severe inherited immunodeficiency disorder improved following treatment with novel gene therapy developed at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. The results of this study appear today in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
The study involved five males with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID-X1), also known as "bubble boy" disease, who were all treated at NIAID. This inherited disorder involves a mutation in the IL2RG gene that affects males and occurs in 1 of every 50,000 to 100,000 live births, leaving them with little to no immune protection.
"This study demonstrates that lentivirus gene therapy, when combined with busulfan conditioning, can rebuild the immune system and lead to broad immunity in young adults with this devastating disorder," said co-senior author Brian Sorrentino, M.D., a member of the St. Jude Department of Hematology. The vector, a re-engineered lentivirus that is used to deliver a correct copy of the mutant gene to the blood-producing stem cells of patients, was developed and produced at St. Jude.
"While additional clinical experience and follow-up is needed, these promising results suggest gene therapy should be considered as an early treatment for patients in order to minimize or prevent the life-threatening organ damage that occurs when bone marrow transplant therapy fails to provide a sufficient immune response," Sorrentino said. The study's first and corresponding author is Suk See De Ravin, M.D., Ph.D., of NIAID. The co-corresponding author is Harry Malech, M.D., of NIAID.
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Patients in this safety and efficacy study were 7 to 23 years old. They all had chronic viral infections and other health problems related to SCID-X1 after one or more bone marrow transplants failed to fully correct their immune function. Like two-thirds of SCID-X1 patients, study participants lacked a tissue-matched sibling to serve as a hematopoietic stem cell donor. Instead, they had received blood-forming stem cells without any chemotherapy or myeloid conditioning from a parent donor who provided only a partial genetic match.
The clinical trial included a number of firsts for gene therapy of SCID-X1, including the first use of a lentiviral vector and a streamlined stable production system that increased the vector supply. The vector included novel features designed to increase safety and effectiveness. The study also marked the first use of the chemotherapy drug busulfan in gene therapy for SCID-X1 to help the gene-corrected stem cells become re-established and functional after being infused back into SCID-X1 patients.
More than two years after undergoing gene therapy, the first two patients were producing a greater percentage of immune cells, including T, B and natural killer cells, with the corrected gene. The gene therapy had also restored antibody production in response to vaccination. The percentage of immune cells with the corrected gene ranged from 13 to 55 percent of T cells to 38 percent of B cells and 56 to 76 percent of NK cells, and 9 to 10 percent of bone marrow stem cells. This high level of genetic correction in all different types of blood cells was not obtained in previous gene therapy studies for SCID-X1.
The patients' health also improved as their chronic viral infections resolved and they put on weight as their protein absorption improved. One patient's disfiguring warts also eased. Both ended life-long immune globulin therapy. Despite the improvements, one patient died from pre-existing lung damage more than two years after receiving gene therapy, which highlights the importance of earlier intervention before irreversible organ damage occurs.
In addition, promising levels of the normal gene from the gene therapy increasing in multiple immune cell types were reported in the three other study patients six to nine months after gene therapy.
Safety results were also reassuring. There was also no indication of possible pre-cancer cell proliferation. "The lentiviral vector has design features, including genetic insulators to block activation of adjacent genes, that make it fundamentally safer," Sorrentino said.
Meanwhile, St. Jude has opened a gene therapy trial using the same lentiviral vector and busulfan conditioning for newly identified infants with SCID-X1 who lack a genetically matched sibling hematopoietic stem cell donor. "Based on the safety and health benefits for older patients reported in this study, we hope this novel gene therapy will help improve immune functioning and transform the lives of younger patients with this devastating disease," said Sorrentino, who is leading this study with Ewelina Mamcarz, M.D., an assistant member of the St. Jude Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cell Therapy.
The other authors of the current study are R. E. Throm, S. Zhou and M. Meagher, all of St. Jude; X. Wu, L. Su and D. Kuhns, all of Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD; S. Moir, L. Kardava, S. Anaya O'Brien, J. Ulrick, N. Kwatemaa, P. Littel, N. Theobald, U. Choi, M. Marquesen, D. Hilligoss, J. Lee, C.M. Buckner, K.A. Zarember, E. Kang and C. Hadigan, all of NIAID; G. O'Connor and D. McVicar, both of the National Cancer Institute; L.D. Notarangelo, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School; I.C. Hanson, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston; M.J. Cowan, Benioff Children's Hospital and University of California, San Francisco; and J.T. Gray, Audentes Therapeutics, San Francisco.
The study was funded in part by grants (A100644, A100988, HL53749) from the NIH; the Assisi Foundation of Memphis, and ALSAC.
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Lentiviral hematopoietic stem cell gene therapy for X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency.
Sci Transl Med. Epub ahead of print: April 20, 2016. Doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aad8856
Gene therapy research for treatment of SCID
St. Jude researchers have pioneered a gene therapy vector with early success treating X-linked Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID)
Dr. Sorrentino was a committed researcher at St. Jude for 25 years. His personal battles with childhood cancer gave his work special meaning. In 2018 he succumbed to secondary effects of his treatment.
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Dog taken from Montana home to West Virginia starts journey home for the holidays
by: Hannah Goetz
CHARLETON, W.Va. (WOWK) – We first introduced you to Zeus last week, the pit-bull mix was taken from his home in Montana and ended up here in Charleston, West Virginia.
On a rainy Tuesday morning at the Kanawha Charleston Humane Association, there was a ray of light for one of its residents.
"He is excited, he is going to be happy to see his family I know that for sure," says Julie Hypes, an animal behavioral specialist at KCHA.
Zeus is finally em"barking" on his 2,000-mile journey home to his family in Butte, Montana after he was taken from them in October and found at KCHA.
Zeus will start his journey in Charleston, and Many Paws Volunteer Transport has coordinated a four day, 30-leg trip that will require numerous volunteers to eventually get him back home to his humans Cassandra and her two little girls in time for Christmas.
"it's wonderful this is a great experience a great opportunity to show the people and communities across the United States offering to help jumping on this to help reunite this dog with its family," said Jenn Robles, a volunteer with Many Paws Volunteer Transport, during a Skype call from her home in California.
Zeus couldn't leave without some words from his new Mountain State friends.
"We are so happy for you Zeus we are going to dearly miss you here but we are happy to get you'll get the best Christmas gift ever and that's to be reunited with your family," says Tiffany Steele, KCHA playgroup monitor.
The car loaded up, Zeus is officially on his way home.
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Why The UK Is Leading West's 'Propaganda War' Against Russia
London is taking a hardline against Moscow since Trump's departure left Putin increasingly isolated.
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MOSCOW — Seven years after Russia was expelled from the club of Western democracies, the U.K. is calling for another war with Moscow — an information war — creating collective mechanisms to contain the Kremlin's "propaganda and disinformation."
A three-day meeting of the G7 foreign ministers will resume the work of the "club of leading Western democracies," which was suspended in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Last year's summit, which was to be held in the United States during the final stage of Donald Trump's presidency, suffered an unenviable fate: The face-to-face meeting of world leaders scheduled for June did not take place. The summit at Camp David was disrupted after German Chancellor Angela Merkel refused to attend it under the pretext of a pandemic, a move she made amid acute disagreements between Washington and Berlin over the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project.
Trump, who hoped to make the 2020 summit a symbol of a return to normal life, moved the forum to September. However, even after the forced timeout, the G7 was still not on track.
The disagreements became even more acute after Trump — in the midst of the U.S. presidential race — announced his intention to invite Vladimir Putin to the meeting. This was despite the fact that Russia had been expelled from the club in 2014 in connection with the Ukrainian conflict — and Trump's proposal was greeted with hostility by G7 allies.
Now, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is determined not to make the same mistake. The U.K. will host the upcoming summit, to be held June 11-13 in the resort town of Carbis Bay on the Atlantic coast of the Cornwall Peninsula.
As part of London's post-EU foreign policy strategy, Johnson is trying to assert the U.K."s new ambitions as an independent global power center in relation to the G7. He has two objectives in mind: Firstly, to show that the G7 is not a closed Western "gentlemen's club" disconnected from reality and the rest of the world's centers of power.
Secondly, to demonstrate that the unity of the U.S. and its Western allies, shaken under the Trump era, has been restored and that inviting Russia is out of the question. Moreover, together with the new administration of President Joe Biden, the G7 states must unite to create new mechanisms for containing Moscow.
The main event will not be the fight against COVID-19 or the education of girls, but a new strategy for containing Russia.
For the first task, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell; the foreign ministers of Australia, India, South Korea, and South Africa; and the Secretary General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have been invited to London in addition to the G7 foreign ministries.
The G7 meeting will demonstrate how "global Britain" unites the world's largest economies to face common challenges, promises UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who set out ambitious plans to tackle vaccine distribution, education, hunger and climate change.
Still Raab made it clear that the the main event will not be the fight against COVID-19 or the education of girls, but rather a new strategy for containing Russia, which is being developed by London. This control is not only political and diplomatic, but also about economics and communication. Apparently, this initiative is designed to become a new means of consolidation of the G7 and help its members quickly forget about the return of Putin.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and other G7 leaders at Lancaster House in Central London — Photo: Andrew Parsons/Avalon/ZUMA Press
The foreign secretary has urged allies to take the Russian information threat seriously. "Pro-Russian trolls are posting comments on Ukraine and other areas, both to influence opinion here but to be played back in the Russian media," Raab told The Sunday Times. At London's initiative, the G7 foreign ministers will consider creating collective rapid response mechanisms to contain Russian "propaganda and disinformation."
The Foreign Office said last Saturday that the BBC World Service, which broadcasts in 42 languages, will receive an additional £8 million ($11 million) in 2021-2022 to combat disinformation and fake news and expand its overseas audience. Britain's plan to counter "Russian propaganda" also calls for support for independent media, particularly in Russia's neighboring countries.
Still, it's not clear if the G7 will rally behind London's information war with Russia. Unlike Raab, new US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has made it clear that Washington is more concerned with a different aspect of containing Russia: the future of the NordStream 2 gas pipeline project, which the U.S. administration believes may still be curtailed.
The BBC World Service will receive an additional £8 million to combat fake news
Despite the fact that this very issue became a bone of contention within the G7 a year ago, leading to Merkel"s no-show for Trump's invitation to the Camp David summit, Biden's Secretary of state Antony Blinken intends to raise the issue again during his meeting with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas.
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova chose not to cite Raab, Blinken, Vladimir Putin or Sergei Lavrov, but turned instead to the authority of the early Christian monk and hermit Anthony the Great.
"On the bright holiday of Easter, I allow myself to respond by quoting the Venerable Anthony the Great, who said: "There will come a time when nine sick people will come to a healthy one and say: you are sick because you are not like us," Zakharova posted on Facebook, "It makes you wonder why the countries sick as hell with propaganda, which have used it more than once to justify armed invasion and overthrow of governments (this is how Britain and the US acted in Iraq, inventing the story about chemical weapons), blame our country for their own sins."
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Why U.S. Vaccine Diplomacy In Latin America Makes "Good" Sense
Echoing its cultural diplomacy of the early 20th century, the United States is gifting vaccines to Latin America as part of a renewed "good neighbor'' policy.
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Roosevelt's administration put businessman Nelson Rockefeller — grandson of the U.S. oil magnate and richest person in modern history, John D. Rockefeller — in charge of the Office for Inter-American Affairs. The aim was to conquer the hearts and minds of Latin Americans through exchanges of works of art. In spite of being a dictatorship at the time, Argentina was not excluded, which allowed works like Green-Gray Goblet, by Emilio Pettoruti, or New Chicago Athletic Club by Antonio Berni, to enter the collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art.
Argentinian art thus came to prominence at a time when Latin American identity had been primarily associated with the Mexican muralists for over a decade.
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None of this was coincidental. The works were paid for from a special U.S. government fund Rockefeller's mother had helped start, and of which he was the treasurer and president. He had previously earned himself a government appointment after public donations totaling $4.5 million.
An example of the utility of such diplomatic strategies is the following case: at one diplomatic reception, the Argentine ambassador was seated at the table next to David Rockefeller (Nelson's brother).
Bringing different viewpoints closer requires experience and guile
The ambassador was aware that David Rockefeller might have had only a scant interest in Argentina, but nevertheless commented on the rising value of his purchases of Argentine and Latin American works of art.
Thus began a conversation that continued for the evening, and repeated itself whenever the two met at a venue. It took time, persistence, and knowledge to institutionalize such exchanges, maintain the conversation on art, and eventually transfer that conversation to other topics. Bringing radically different viewpoints closer together requires experience and guile.
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Cultural diplomacy for COVID times
In the last two years, the United States' Good Neighbor policy has focused on the coronavirus pandemic. Its new, soft diplomacy is not about buying pictures and sculptures, but vaccines and COVID-19 tests. Unlike its predecessor, the administration of President Biden has moved fast in this regard, though the Argentinian government's erratic foreign policy initially led it to reject help from the "American friends," before reluctantly accepting the offer.
The soft diplomacy that spoke of aesthetic and cultural exchanges has, in this pandemic, given way to vaccine donations as an effective way of winning friends. Because when the lives of millions are at risk, the beneficiaries will not forget how their North American neighbor gave them a helping hand when things were tough.
*Matallana (PhD, Torcuato di Tella University, Buenos Aires), lectures in sociology at the universities of Buenos Aires and Torcuato di Tella.
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Victorino Chua, who worked at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, was last month handed a life sentence for murdering two people and harming 19 others by poisoning them with ampoules and saline drips contaminated with insulin in 2011.
The trial went on for three months, with the jury delivering its verdict after deliberating for 11 days.
Mr Chua was later told by a judge that he would spend a minimum of 35 years in prison for his crimes.
The Filipino nurse pleaded not guilty to 36 charges, including three counts of murder throughout the trial, which took place at Manchester Crown Court.
His lawyer Jeremy Moore at CM Solicitors released a statement yesterday, confirming that Mr Chua maintained his innocence and was appealing against his conviction.
"CM Solicitors would like to announce that we have today launched an appeal against conviction on behalf of our client Victorino Chua. Mr Chua maintains his innocence of any wrong doing," said the statement.
According to media reports, Mr Moore confirmed his client's appeal had been lodged on the grounds that the trial judge made incorrect rulings.
Yeah, quite easy to accidentally draw up insulin, inject it into saline bags and leave them on the shelves for your co-workers to administer unknowingly to patients.
Shame we can't deport him to Texas USA.
There may be more victims too. My father died at Stepping Hill, ultimately from bowel cancer, but suffered a hypoglycaemic seizure shortly before his death while receiving IV saline and dextrose. The standards of care there were appalling, and unfortunately it was very difficult to get a reliable update on my fathers condition due to the poor communication skills of the overseas nurses. This is not good enough when you need information about your loved ones "end of life" prognosis! Could communication be more important than at this time for the patient and the family??
After reading the above comment I feel that this case may have ripple effects to even include the whole standard of care and management in this hospital at the time of the incidents.


No not really, at least it doesn't feel like it in Indy. We reached 88 degrees today and that means summer to me. I was expecting to take pics of them with leaves soon but who knows when that will happen. I can't bring myself to buy a pumpkin when it is this warm out!
Here are some pics that I took this week because that is what I do, stay home and take pictures.
I like getting my picture taken!
Look at them.. ALL personality!!! I love it!
I'm also having a tough time with this whole 80 degrees thing... I have new sweaters to wear! Argh!


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Nycteris madagascariensis () è un pipistrello della famiglia dei Nitteridi endemico del Madagascar.

Descrizione

Dimensioni
Pipistrello di medie dimensioni, con la lunghezza totale di 115  mm, la lunghezza dell'avambraccio di 50 mm, la lunghezza della coda di 55 mm, la lunghezza del piede di 14 mm e la lunghezza delle orecchie di 28 mm.

Aspetto
La pelliccia è lunga e lanosa. Il colore generale del corpo è bruno-grigiastro chiaro, più grigiastro al centro dell'addome. Il muso è privo di peli e con un solco longitudinale che termina sulla fronte in una profonda fossa. Le orecchie sono molto lunghe, strette, con l'estremità arrotondata ed unite anteriormente alla base da una sottile membrana cutanea. Il trago è corto, con l'estremità arrotondata e ricoperta di peli e un profondo incavo sul bordo posteriore. Gli arti inferiori sono lunghi e sottili, mentre i piedi, le dita e gli artigli sono molto piccoli. La coda è lunga, con l'estremità che termina con una struttura cartilaginea a forma di T ed è inclusa completamente nell'ampio uropatagio.

Biologia

Alimentazione
Si nutre di insetti.

Distribuzione e habitat
Questa specie è conosciuta soltanto attraverso due esemplari catturati nel 1910 nel Madagascar settentrionale, a nord di Ankarana, nella valle del fiume Irodo.

Stato di conservazione
La IUCN Red List, considerato che questa specie è conosciuta soltanto attraverso due esemplari risalenti al 1910 e non ci sono più osservazioni da allora, classifica N.madagascariensis come specie con dati insufficienti (DD).

Note

Bibliografia

Voci correlate
Fauna del Madagascar
Pipistrelli del Madagascar

Altri progetti

Microchirotteri
Mammiferi endemici del Madagascar

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// if you do not already have composer installed.
//
// Once composer is installed, execute the following command in your project root to install this library:
//
// composer require google/apiclient:^2.0
//
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Load the Google API PHP Client Library.
require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

// Use the developers console and download your service account
// credentials in JSON format. Place the file in this directory or
// change the key file location if necessary.
putenv('GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS='.__DIR__.'/service-account.json');

/**
 * Gets the Google client refreshing auth if needed.
 * Documentation: https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/OAuth2ServiceAccount
 * Initializes a client object.
 * @return A google client object.
 */
function getGoogleClient() {
	return getServiceAccountClient();
}

/**
 * Builds the Google client object.
 * Documentation: https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/php/auth/service-accounts
 * Scopes will need to be changed depending upon the API's being accessed.
 * array(Google_Service_Analytics::ANALYTICS_READONLY, Google_Service_Analytics::ANALYTICS)
 * List of Google Scopes: https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/googlescopes
 * @return A google client object.
 */
function getServiceAccountClient() {
	try {
		// Create and configure a new client object.
		$client = new Google_Client();
		$client->useApplicationDefaultCredentials();
		$client->addScope([YOUR SCOPES HERE]);
		return $client;
	} catch (Exception $e) {
		print "An error occurred: " . $e->getMessage();
	}
}
?>


text:
if defined?(MiniTest::TestCase)
  MiniTest::TestCase.add_setup_hook do |instance|
    unless ::RSpec::Matchers === instance
      ::RSpec.deprecate("rspec-expectations' built-in integration with minitest < 5.x",
                        :replacement => "`include RSpec::Matchers` from within `Minitest::TestCase`")

      MiniTest::TestCase.send(:include, RSpec::Matchers)
    end
  end
elsif defined?(Test::Unit::TestCase)
  Test::Unit::TestCase.class_eval do
    def setup
      unless ::RSpec::Matchers === self
        ::RSpec.deprecate("rspec-expectations' built-in integration with Test::Unit",
                          :replacement => "`include RSpec::Matchers` from within `Test::Unit::TestCase`")

        Test::Unit::TestCase.send(:include, RSpec::Matchers)
      end

      super if defined?(super)
    end
  end
end


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FrontiersDriverlessBusinessHope	33 views
Ford Adding To Austin Self-Driving Car Operation
Ford Motor Company is adding to its self-driving car testing operation in Austin, saying it has secured two pieces of real estate that will be central to the project. The Michigan-based automaker said it purchased property near Austin-Bergstrom International Airport to serve as a command center for its fleet of self-driving cars. Ford is also leasing space in east Austin that will function as a terminal for the fleet.
Ford announced in September that it would test self-driving auto technology in Austin, using a small fleet of fewer than 10 cars. Ford has partnered with Pittsburgh-based Argo AI since 2017 through a $1 billion investment to support its foray into the autonomous vehicle market.
As part of the partnership, Ford provides vehicles, such as the Ford Fusion Hybrid, to be outfitted into self-driving cars through the use of Argo AI technology, which currently uses lidar, radar, and cameras. Ford declined to share the exact location of the new terminal, along with the new command center, citing security-related concerns.
Source: Statesman
Name of Author: Hojun Choi
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