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University awarded £5M to investigate how cells communicate
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have been awarded £5 million to investigate how cells respond to stimuli such as stress and UV radiation. (2007-11-27)
Biological warfare in bacteria offers hope for new antibiotics
Scientists are to study a group of proteins that are highly effective at killing bacteria and which could hold the key to developing new types of antibiotics. Researchers from the Universities of York and Leeds have been awarded £3.3 million ($5.4 million) from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council to find out how a family of proteins known as colicins force their way into bacterial cells before destroying them. (2009-07-02)
Nick Smith (R-MI) honored by 2 science coalitions in D.C.
The Coalition on Funding Agricultural Research Missions (CoFARM) and the Biological and Ecological Sciences Coalition (BESC) honored Chairman Nick Smith (R-MI) who, as leader of the House Sciences Subcommittee on Research, has championed numerous efforts for which the agricultural and biological science communities are grateful. BESC focuses on the vitality of research in the biological sciences across agencies including NSF. CoFARM works to raise awareness and support for the agricultural research community. (2003-04-04)
University of Southern Denmark receives Euro 8 M
New state of the art equipment benefits science at University of Southern Denmark. (2013-06-18)
Genetic safety switches could help curb potential bioterror risks
The potential threat of bioterrorism using man-made biological organisms could be reduced, thanks to a new method developed by scientists. (2015-01-26)
Scientists clock on to how sunlight shapes daily rhythms
Fresh insight into how biological clocks adjust to having less sunlight in the winter could help us better understand the impact of jet lag and shift work. (2010-11-22)
NIH and NSF team up to link math and biology at February 12 Symposium
The National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation are holding a symposium on (2003-02-05)
Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences to offer forum
The Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences will sponsor a scholarly forum open to both members and non-members of The Gerontological Society of America for recent scientific articles to be discussed and debated. (2003-07-29)
Parasite study paves way for therapies to tackle deadly infections
New understanding of a parasite that causes a million cases of disease each year could point towards effective drug treatments. (2017-10-10)
Lehigh receives $1.8 million from Howard Hughes Medical Institute for bioscience education
Lehigh University is one of 50 institutions receiving a total of more than $86 million over the next four years from HHMI. The funding will enable Lehigh to provide undergraduate students in a variety of fields with research-intensive experiences in biosystems dynamics. It will also help the university promote bioscience literacy. (2006-06-02)
Biological Clock Advanced By Two Hours Earlier In Morning Types
Researchers at Leiden University, financed by NWO, have discovered the biological reason for the difference between morning types (larks) and evening types (night owls), by observing a time difference in their bodies' daily temperature curve. The biological clock runs two hours earlier in morning types than in evening types. Up to now it was assumed that personality differences were involved. (1999-02-08)
Springer author receives 2011 Croonian Lecture from the Royal Society
The 2011 Croonian Lecture has been awarded to John Ellis for his pioneering contributions to biochemistry, molecular cell biology and plant sciences. Ellis, an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Warwick in the UK, is the author of the Springer book (2010-11-05)
The biological and toxin weapons convention - an analysis
The refusal of the US to sign the long awaited renegotiation of the Biological and Toxin Weapon Convention looks set to lead to the failure of the final round of talks, currently concluding in Geneva. Malcolm Dando and Simon Whitby from the Department of Peace Studies, the University of Bradford discuss the implications for the protocol and the responsibilities of the biomedical community during the verification procedures. (2001-08-17)
Pathogens use previously undescribed mechanism to sabotage host immune system
New research identifies a previously unknown enzymatic mechanism that subverts the early host immune response and promotes pathogenicity by manipulating a common signaling pathway in host cells. The research, published by Cell Press in the Dec. 14 issue of Molecular Cell, may have important implications for the food industry and for development of new antibiotics. In addition, the results lead to intriguing questions about whether mammalian cells can make use of a similar mechanism for potentially permanent and irreversible post-translational modifications. (2007-12-07)
For docs, more biology info means less empathy for mental health patients
Give therapists and psychiatrists information about the biology of a mental disorder, and they have less -- not more -- empathy for the patient, a new Yale study shows. (2014-12-01)
Reprogrammed mouse fibroblasts can make a whole mouse
In a paper publishing online July 23 in Cell Stem Cell, a Cell Press journal, Dr. Shaorong Gao and colleagues from the National Institute of Biological Sciences in Beijing, China, report an important advance in the characterization of reprogrammed induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPSCs. (2009-07-23)
Special journal issue furthers exploration of anti-aging claims
Continuing its series of publications and events related to anti-aging treatments, The Gerontological Society of America has released the second and final special section of The Journals of Gerontology: Biological and Medical Sciences (Vol. 59A, No. 7). (2004-08-11)
Research Links Healthy Biological Clock To Longevity
Aging hamsters who received a new biological clock had their lifespan increased by 20 per cent, proving the importance of circadian rhythms to the health and longevity of an organism. (1999-03-29)
Plant insights could help develop crops for changing climates
Crops that thrive in changing climates could be developed more easily, thanks to fresh insights into plant growth. (2014-09-08)
Tiny protein offers major insight into foot-and-mouth virus
Scientists have identified that a tiny protein, which plays a major role in the replication of foot-and-mouth disease virus, demonstrates a greater level of genetic economy than previously reported. (2017-10-03)
AIBS sponsors 2nd Biological Sciences Congressional District Visits event
The American Institute of Biological Sciences will convene the 2nd annual Biological Sciences Congressional District Visits event, which will be held throughout the month of August 2010. (2010-05-25)
Article series aims to educate on the truth of anti-aging claims
As part of a summer effort to present peer-reviewed research on the truth of anti-aging medicine, The Gerontological Society of America has released the first of two special sections in The Journals of Gerontology: Biological and Medical Sciences (Vol. 59A, No. 6). (2004-07-08)
Lost hormone is found in starfish
Biologists from Queen Mary University of London have discovered that the evolutionary history of a hormone responsible for sexual maturity in humans is written in the genes of the humble starfish. (2016-06-28)
Sens. Harkin and Bond receive Ag Science Award
Recognized for their long-time support of the agricultural and biological sciences, US Sens. Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Kit Bond (R-MO) received the BESC/CoFARM Award. The award was presented by the Biological and Ecological Sciences Coalition and the Coalition on Funding Agricultural Research Missions, which both promote federal support of the nonmedical biological sciences and the advancement of agricultural research, respectively. (2007-04-27)
Resonant mechanism discovery could inspire ultra-thin acoustic absorbers
New research led by academics at the University of Bristol has discovered that the scales on moth wings vibrate and can absorb the sound frequencies used by bats for echolocation (biological sonar). The finding could help researchers develop bioinspired thin and lightweight resonant sound absorbers. (2018-11-12)
Fruitful collaboration earns another NSF award for Medical College scientist
Stuart A. Newman, Ph.D., professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College, is one of seven scientists who have been awarded a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study biological self assembly using a technique called (2005-10-24)
NSF grant to Carnegie Mellon establishes research experiences for undergraduates site
The Department of Biological Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University has received a $407,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a Research Experiences for Undergraduates site. Beginning in late May, ten rising juniors and seniors will spend ten weeks at Carnegie Mellon conducting intensive, mentored research projects in molecular biosciences. Selected students include undergraduates from small colleges and universities that lack extensive research programs, with an emphasis on groups underrepresented in the sciences. (2005-05-18)
Non-destructive technique measures oxygen levels in 3-D cells used for toxicity testing
A non-destructive technique which can measure the concentration and consumption of oxygen in 3-D models of biological cells has been developed by Plymouth University in partnership with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. (2016-02-22)
Researchers detect receptor for day/night cycles
It's been something of a mystery to scientists - how are blind mice able to synchronize their biological rhythms to day and night? New research by a team of scientists, including one from the University of Toronto, seems to have uncovered the answer. (2003-06-23)
Biology groups partner to advance science education policy
The American Institute of Biological Sciences and the National Association of Biology Teachers are pleased to announce a new strategic partnership that will help advance the science and education policy interests of the biological sciences community. Through the arrangement, NABT members will be able to access and utilize a suite of AIBS public policy services and resources. (2010-08-30)
A new generation of biological scaffolds
Professor John Fisher from the University of Leeds is speaking July 14 at the UK National Stem Cell Network Annual Science Meeting in Nottingham about his team's research into how biological scaffolding will pave the way for off-the-shelf tissue transplants. (2010-07-13)
Four-billion-year-old chemistry in cells today
Parts of the primordial soup in which life arose have been maintained in our cells today according to scientists at the University of East Anglia. Research published today in the Journal of Biological Chemistry reveals how cells in plants, yeast and very likely also in animals still perform ancient reactions thought to have been responsible for the origin of life -- some four billion years ago. (2014-07-24)
Action needed now to curb biological warfare
Swift action is needed to curb the prospect of disease being deliberately applied for military or terrorist purposes through biological warfare, writes Stephen Pullinger, director of the International Security Information Service in this week's BMJ. (2000-04-20)
Rep. Sherwood Boehlert to receive award from AIBS
To cap off its 2006 Annual Meeting, the American Institute of Biological Sciences will present House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert, R-NY, with an award commending him for his distinguished record of service and his support for the biological sciences. (2006-05-17)
Deaf moths evolved noise-cancelling scales to evade prey
Some species of deaf moths can absorb as much as 85 per cent of the incoming sound energy from predatory bats -- who use echolocation to detect them. The findings, published in Royal Society Interface today, reveal the moths, who are unable to hear the ultrasonic calls of bats, have evolved this clever defensive strategy to help it survive. (2020-02-25)
Nobel Prize Laureate hosts webcast to explore impact of translational vs. basic research trends
2008 Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry, Dr. Martin Chalfie, will host a live webcast to address the impact of translational versus basic research trends and the powerful implications for the future of scientific research. The webcast is scheduled for tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb. 29th, 2012 at 9 a.m. Pacific Time/12 p.m. Eastern Time. (2012-02-28)
U of Minnesota researcher discovers how electricity moves through cells
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have created a molecular image of a system that moves electrons between proteins in cells. The achievement is a breakthrough for biology and could provide insights to minimize energy loss in other systems, from nanoscale devices to moving electricity around the country. (2010-03-11)
Researchers discover 2 paths of aging and new insights on promoting healthspan
Scientists have unraveled key mechanisms behind the mysteries of aging. They isolated two distinct paths that cells travel during aging and engineered a new way to genetically program these processes to extend lifespan. Cells embark upon either a nucleolar or mitochondrial path early in life, and follow this ''aging route'' throughout their entire lifespan through decline and death. At the heart of the controls the researchers found a master circuit that guides these aging processes. (2020-07-16)
AIBS recognizes diversity in the biological sciences
The American Institute of Biological Sciences is committed to increasing participation in the biological sciences of individuals from traditionally underrepresented groups, including women, minorities and persons with disabilities. Each year through the Diversity Scholars and Diversity Leadership Awards, AIBS recognizes the academic achievements of students from these groups, or a program dedicated to broadening participation in the biological sciences. The AIBS Board of Directors and Awards Committee are pleased to announce the 2009 honoree. (2009-05-15)
'Hair of the dog' may help alcohol withdrawal symptoms but it also increases alcohol dependency
Research defines alcohol's impact on signaling in nerve pathways. (2010-05-05)


LINCOLN COUNTY, Oklahoma - The excessive heat in Oklahoma is taking a toll on firefighters.
On Thursday, the Chandler Wal-Mart donated a semi-truck load of bottled water to all the fire houses in Lincoln County.
There are 17 fire stations, and each of them received a full pallet of water and a big ice chest.
Wal-Mart also gave the Red Cross a pallet of water along with the Lincoln County Emergency Management and the Sheriff's Office.


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Lonborg still striking out... cavities
Former Sox Cy Young winner is a dentist in Hanover
Tom Joyce/Correspondent
He once was the American League strikeout leader, now he's striking out cavities, plaque and gum disease.
Former Boston Red Sox pitcher and Scituate resident Jim Lonborg accepts that he's not receiving a Cy Young Award for his work in his second career, but with over 30 years in the health industry, that hasn't stopped him yet.
Dr. Lonborg
Lonborg, who was a pre-med student at Stanford University before being signed by the Red Sox, is enjoying a more conventional line of work. A practicing dentist in Hanover with an office on Webster Street, formally he's known Dr. James Lonborg DMD. But he still goes by Jim or Dr. Lonborg.
While not everyone is overly enthusiastic about dental appointments, Lonborg couldn't imagine himself doing anything else.
"I think the best part of it is being in a position to help people with the needs," he said. "It's been great being a part of the community doing something like this.
"I couldn't be happier. I've had two great professions. Number one being lucky enough and talented enough to play professional baseball for 15 years. Also having other skills that have allowed to be a dentist for over 30 years."
All-Star Career
Over the course of 15 MLB seasons with the Red Sox, Milwaukee Brewers and Philadelphia Phillies, Lonborg compiled a 157-137 record with a 3.86 ERA and 1475 strikeouts.
The highlight of his career came in Boston, during the 1967 season, better known as 'The Impossible Dream.' Lonborg led the American League with 22 wins and 246 strikeouts, pitching 15 complete games to take home the AL Cy Young Award.
As the team's ace, Lonborg helped the Red Sox to an American League Pennant. Ultimately, the Red Sox fell in seven games to the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series. Lonborg went 2-1 in the series, tossing a one-hitter in game two of the series.
Although Lonborg hasn't pitched professionally since the 1970s, his fans don't forget him.
"I have a pretty solid patient base," he said. "Most everyone who comes in knows of my playing days. But they're probably more focused on what I can do as a dentist."
Between his office and home in Scituate, Lonborg still receives five to ten autograph requests and fan letters a week. He said he is honored to still be a part of the game and happy to see children learning about the history of baseball.
He might not work in baseball anymore, but that doesn't mean Lonborg is done pitching. On Aug. 27, Lonborg is set to pitch to one or two batters in Boston Herald Red Sox columnist Steve Buckley's annual Oldtime Baseball Game at St. Peter's Field in Cambridge. The event will benefit the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, providing scholarships for those in need.
Gentleman Jim
Since calling it a career, Lonborg, whose nickname was "Gentleman Jim" in his playing days, has developed many other interests outside of the diamond.
"We have some absolutely beautiful gardens here that I love maintaining," he said. "We play golf in the summer and ski in the winter. We've got six kids so visit them in different parts of the country to spend time with our grandkids."
A father of six, Lonborg's eldest son Nick operates Lonborg Woodcarving in Halifax. Many signs that he made can be seen all around the South Shore. But even that's a small sampling of his diverse portfolio of work.
Even with his job, the 73-year-old focuses much of his time and efforts on giving back to the community.
"I still do some meet and greets," he said. "I do corporate events at Fenway which are always a lot of fun. Also, I do fundraisers for Fragile Footprints, Jordan Hospital and Mass General Hospital. There's always the opportunity to go out and help."
His wife Rosemary and two of her friends operate a charity out of Scituate called Learn Live Love. It provides financial assistance to women cancer patients and their families on the South Shore.
It's safe to say charity is important to the Lonborg family.
"Absolutely," he said. "It's what you're supposed to do as a pro athlete. It's a lot of fun because these organizations do a lot of great things for New England."

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Châteauneuf du Pape, Signature, 2012
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A blend of 14 parcels, mainly old vines Grenache, with 20% Mourvedre and the balance made up of Syrah and Cinsault. This offers wonderfully velvety ripe forest berry fruits, hints of strawberry, bullace sloe and damson. Glorious, crisp clear fruit flavours, enchanting and beguiling whilst boasting a more savoury, complex undertone of herb, sandalwood, salt and pepper.
About Domaine La Barroche
Julien Barrot, of Domaine la Barroche, is one of the young, emerging talents of the southern Rhône. After Julien completed his winemaking course in Montpellier he backpacked around the vineyards of France and Australia, thirsty for knowledge and eager to expand his experiences. He came back and joined his father in 2002, more convinced than ever of the importance of terroir. Julien's enthusiasm and passion rubbed off on his father and together they agreed to release the first Domaine-bottled wines in the 2003 vintage. For thirty years previously Julien's father Christian had been working the vineyards and making wine but selling it off in bulk to local merchants. Though Christian is still around to lend advice, he entrusted the entire Domaine to Julien as of the 2006 vintage. The estate is small, encompassing 12 ha, and is planted to the traditional varieties including Grenache, Mourvedre, Syrah, Cinsault, Terret Noir and Clairette. The average age of the vines is 60 years old and one third of the vineyard is more than 100 years old (Grenache.) Grapes are hand picked, wines are fermented in concrete vat and aged in a mixture of large old wooden foudres and smaller oak barrels. The wine is handled gently, everything is done by gravity, and extractions are gentle. This has rapidly become a stellar Domaine.
Appellation: Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Châteauneuf-du-Pape, literally the Pope's new castle, (referring to move of the papal court to Avignon the the 1300s) is a large appellation in the Southern Rhône and is considered the birth place of the Appellation Contrôlee system. In 1923 Baron Le Roy of Ch Fortia had successfully established a strict set of rules for the production of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, including delimiting an area for wine production and setting a minimum alcoholic strength of 12.5%. Reds and whites are produced, but the former is the far bigger of the two. Both colours produce rich, full-bodied heady wines rarely below 13.5 - 14% alcohol, distinctly southern and warm in character. The reds can vary from the hot, stewed or underipe to the rich, powerful, complex and tannic. The red wines can be aged for anything between 5 - 20 years depending on the quality of the individual wine. The sweetness and headiness of red Châteauneuf-du-Papes comes from thre Grenache grape, it makes wines of sweet fruit, high alcohol and light colour. This is the dominant variety. There are increasing amounts of Châteauneuf-du-Papes which are Grenache only. However the classic and most common version is a blend of up to 13 varieties, the main players being Grenache, Syrah (which lends colour complexity and finesse) and Mourvèdre (which also lends colour, complexity, tannic backbone and acidity). The other varieties include the decreasing Cinsault, Counoise - highly thought of for its acidity- and a number of white grapes that can also be blended into the red wines aswell as being used for makings whites, the most important of these are Grenache Blanc, Bourboulenc, the excellent Clairette and Roussanne.
The vineyard area extends over more than 3000 ha, the chief communes being Châteauneuf-du-Pape itself, Bédarrides, Courthézon, Orange, and Sorgues. The soils differ throughout the appellation from the classic large "Galet" stones which radiate heat to the low-trained old goblet vines, to varying degrees of clay, limestone and sand (the last of these can produce very sensual, silky wines the most famous of example of which would be Rayas.) Winemaking techniques vary from the traditional, all or part of the stalks included in the winemaking, fermentation and ageing in large old wooden foudres, to the more modern de-stalking, tank fermentation and new oak barriques maturation, or a blend of the two. The appellation is big therefore there are plenty of underperformers, however there is also, fortunately, an increasingly large selection of top class producers, including: Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe, Beaucastel, Clos des Papes, Domaine de Pegaü, Ch Rayas, Pierre Usseglio, Jean-Paul Versino, Vieux Donjon and Domaine de la Janasse. The best White Châteauneuf-du-Pape usually seems to have a high proportion of Clairette in it, though there is also an excellent single varietal Roussanne made by Beaucastel, the wines are powerful complex but are low in acidity and should usually be drunk in the first three years after the vintage.
Grape Blend: Grenache | Syrah | Mourvedre
A classic blend, whose ultimate expression is found in the wines of the Southern Rhône, namely Châteauneuf-du-Pape. The Grenache with its body, sweetness and warmth, Syrah with its colour tannic structure and black fruit characteristics, and Mourvèdre with its complex spiciness and density, makes for a match made in heaven. The resultant wines can be truly great and very long-lived. The success of the blend in the Rhône, has seen producers the world over trying to emulate it, particularly in California, Australia, Spain and South Africa.


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This HUD supports over speed reminding, the icon of over speed will alarm and flicker when the vehicle exceeds the speed limit which set up in advance.
This head-up display supports shift reminder, it will remind the driver to gear up or down to save fuel when the engine speed and vehicle speed come to a certain ratio.
This head up display supports automatic and manual brightness adjustment mode which also use nano-technology to eliminate unwanted reflections and can make display information sharper. Auto power on and off with vehicle started and shutdown, effective protection of the car battery; while retaining the manual switch mode, and more beneficial to control HUD.
This Windshield Head Up Display (HUD) is for drivers' safety, at high speeds, especially in high-speed driving at night, in order to avoid the driver to look down their head to watch the instrument. This can help to decrease accidents.
This HUD can display useful information such as speed, engine speed, water temperature, battery voltage, instantaneous fuel consumption, average fuel consumption, mileage measurement, shift reminding, fatigue driving reminding, low voltage alarm, high temperature alarm, speed alarm, engine fault alarm and fault code elimination. There is free switching between kilometre and mile.


Bilfinger GVA's latest Industrial Intelligence report shows that the availability of big sheds has increased for the first time in a number of years as speculative development responds to the supply shortage.
In the North West, 3.1 million sq ft of speculative construction is currently under construction or completed. Key schemes include Airport City, which is now let to Amazon, and Omega, near Warrington.
Nationally, in 2015 demand from retailers accounted for just under half of the big shed take-up, with non-food and discount retailing the most active. John Lewis, TK Maxx, Staples and Next all completed deals over 500,000 sq ft. Online retailing also remains a key driver, with over 1.5 million sq ft of big shed space being let to Amazon.
The report also shows that strong occupier demand continues across the country, with take-up of modern distribution units over 100,000 sq ft amounting to 21.8 million sq ft during 2015, 5% above the five year average. This is echoed in the North West, where take-up amounted to 3.3 million sq ft during 2015, 30% above the five year average.
Logistics providers accounted for 28% of take-up across the country, with Kuehne and Nagel, Great Bear Distribution and Clipper Logistics taking the largest amounts of space in this sector. On the manufacturing side, automotive companies took the major share of take-up, with JLR and its supply chain being particularly acquisitive and Vantec taking over 400,000 sq ft next to Nissan in the North East. In the North West, Plastic Omnium has acquired a 240,000 sq ft unit at Omega, Warrington.
As in the previous quarter, industrial land values continue to show strong growth. Values across the South East saw the greatest uplift, by an average of 65%, followed by the Midlands at 30%.
Across the 'northern powerhouse' cities of Manchester, Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield, values have increased between 10% and 20%. In Manchester, industrial land values are £325,000 per acre with prime rent at £6.50 per sq ft for a 50,000 sq ft unit.
Andrew Pexton, Bilfinger GVA's Director of Industrial and Distribution in Manchester, said: "The increase in land values has been fuelled by the lack of standing grade-A stock available to both occupiers and investors, particularly in locations where prime development sites are in short supply.
He added: "The distribution sector in the North West remains buoyant with a number of significant developments under construction.
"There are currently 13 speculative units of over 100,000 sq ft totaling three million sq ft that have been completed or are under construction. Three of the units comprising 555,000 sq ft, 18% of the stock, have already been let. The demand has been internet led with Amazon taking all three units. This shows the continuing focus of the distribution market being driven by the internet.
"Due to the limited availability of quality distribution site and the appetite from developers/institutional investors this has led to an increase in land values. This has meant that the typical rent for a unit more than 100,000 sq ft is now over £6 per sq ft.
Competition for industrial investment opportunities remains strong, with UK institutional investors accounting for around 37% of the value traded in 2015, while overseas buyers made up 18%. Whereas in the North West, investment volumes accounted for 13%.


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Beating Off To Bond..
August 5, 2020 August 4, 2020 Rob Says1 Comment
I'm bringing up this topic today because I've been thinking about it for a while now. Any time someone brings up James Bond, I start thinking, "Here we go again, we're beating off to Bond."
That's because inevitably the discussion goes somewhere along the lines of his "masculinity" or his way with the ladies, or his ability as a killer or some-such. The truth is, James Bond is a fiction.
I'm sure you are all well aware of that…. But are you?
James Bond is not only an archetype, but he's also a caricature. Think about it. He's smooth and debonair with the ladies. He always knows what to say and when to say it. He never misses a beat and always has the right lines. He's calm, cool, and collected. And that is before we get to the fact that he's an international spy and killer.
He's many men rolled into one. The perfect, masculine, always says the right thing, always get the girl, and always gets the bad guy, guy. The same could be said of John McClaine.
The problem is, I think many guys while consciously nodding their heads and agreeing that James Bond or John McClaine are in fact, a work of fiction, they secretly wish that they were a reality. And they wish that they were him.
The real reality is that many guys freeze up when an attractive woman looks at them. They forget what they wanted to say. They stutter and stammer. Sometimes they just stand there like a deer caught in the headlights of a moving car. Ask me how I know.
I've talked to some guys recently and we were having a discussion about films made in the 40's and 50's. Talks about how men were men and women were women were abound. The problem is, these movies, even back then were works of fiction. They don't call it the silver screen for nothing. Going back to the days of silent movies and Charlie Chaplin, while Charlie may have done many if not most of his own stunts, it was still a work of fiction. A caricature. Charlie even embodied that. Movies of the 40's and 50's had a narrative just like films of modern times. The only difference that I can tell is that the women looked better as well as the men. Otherwise the story was scripted and was a work of fiction. Just like today.
All movies, even "documentaries" are works of fiction in one form or another. Directors take their slant or spin on the topic and either preach how great someone is or was, or they shit on them. Even the people who authorize and star in their own biographies put a spin on what they have said and done. It's human nature.
I think a lot of guys watch films, looking for role models, and the problem is that they confuse the character with the actor. Good acting will do that. You get so engrossed in the character development and the plot, you get so caught up in the story that you forget that it is all fiction. That's what a good movie will do for you. There's nothing inherently wrong with that. I love it when a film can capture my attention and I can suspend my disbelief for the duration of the film and truly enjoy it.
The problem is when the film ends and it's time to come back to reality.
A good actor or actress will make you believe that their character is real. That's what being a good actor is all about. That's what a good story is all about. The problem is many people assume that the actor is actually the character (see the actor who played Geoffrey in Game of Thrones and how fans hated the actor because of how well he did with the character.)
Guys talk about women from "back in the day." Ah, those were women. Those were the days and those were the dames. I think they may be confusing fiction with reality. Those "dames" were actresses playing a role. They were reading lines from a script. Just like today. The only difference is the narrative from then and now. The only real difference is that women were thinner then than they are now. The character may have been a real dish or a catch on screen, but the actress herself? Think about it. Who was that actual woman? Would you have found the actual woman attractive if you had gotten to know her?
My first real heartthrob was Alyssa Milano.
Back in the late 80's and throughout the 90's she was the bomb for me. All of the characters that she played. She was HOT. Fast forward to today and it's a different story. Not just because she has gotten older, but because of what she says. The character and the actual person collide. On screen she is one thing, the living breathing person appears to be something else entirely.
Brad Pitt. Now there's a masculine man if there ever was one! You've seen Fight Club and Troy right? Except those were characters. Have you seen Brad Pitt in real life? Have you seen the relationship and the drama with Angelina Jolie? There's your "real man" for you.
Marilyn Monroe. Quite the bombshell for her time. And yet she had failed relationship after failed relationship and she struggled with addiction, depression, and anxiety resulting ultimately in her death. Not nearly so glamorous. In many cases, she sounds a lot like modern day women.
The point I'm getting at is that Hollywood has always been a fiction. Always has been and always will be. Using fictional characters as a point of reference for acting in certain ways may not be a totally bad idea, but keep your head in reality and realize that those fictional characters are in fact, fiction.
This is why I don't like beating off to Bond. He's a fictional character based off of a multitude of men, or the traits of multiple men. Striving to "be like Bond" is going to get you nowhere ultimately. Same could be said of any character whether hero or villain. All of them are a work of fiction and discussing the merits or the flaws of them, while entertaining, are ultimately exercises in masturbation. Human nature is what it is and it honestly hasn't changed all that much in the last 70 years. People were cheating, drinking, drugging, and fucking back then just like they are today. Life was messy then as it is now. The more things change the more they stay the same. Don't confuse the character with the actor. Don't confuse the story with reality.
Enjoy films by all means, I do. Enjoy the cinematography, the mood, the lighting, the story, all of it. But always keep in mind that it is a work of fiction. All of your heros and villains are archetypes at best and caricatures at worst.
Trying to embody your hero or that character that you idolize is going to turn you into a caricature. A LARP. Do you really want to be seen as that? There are guys right now, in real time that are doing that very thing. I just can't take them seriously. What about you?
A final thought:
I don't mind talking about movies from any era or epoch, it's great fun and a great way to get to know someone else. I don't like dissecting movies because it takes away the magic of it. Also, I would rather get to know a person and deal with reality than sit around talking about fantasies. I've spent plenty of years living in my head in a fantasy world and now I've found that reality is far more entertaining and fulfilling.
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Aarron Walter inspires us to always try and see the big picture. He challenges us to produce more grounded work by getting outside our bubbles, and feeling a bit more pain. He shows us how storytelling is central to the human experience and transcends our medium. He also inspires us to maintain plenty of inputs in order to craft more interesting experiences for our users.
Aarron Walter (The Falcon) is the VP of Design Education at InVision. Prior to this he founded the UX practice at MailChimp (along many other accomplishments too numerable to mention here). He's the author of A Book Apart published Designing for Emotion. He's a frequent speaker at conferences around the world, and his design guidance has helped the White House, the US Department of State, along with dozens of startups and venture capitalists. He's run with the bulls in Pamplona, met 3 presidents, been blessed by the Pope, and bungee jumped off a 10 story crane. Eat your heart out most interesting man in the world.
Secret Identity (2:34)
Origin Story (4:47)
How Important Is Storytelling To Our Work? (9:49)
Has Film Influenced You As A Designer? (13:08)
Biggest Superhero (19:45)
Second Career Choice (22:37)
Biggest Failure (25:38)
Awkward Testing Story (33:44)
Design Superpower (39:29)
Design Kryptonite (40:58)
Design Superhero Name (43:50)
Fight For Users (44:28)
Future Of UX Design (46:39)
Habit Of Success (51:45)
Invincible Resource (53:02)
Book Recommendation (55:25)
Best Advice (57:35)
Most Excited About (58:16)
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AWKWARD TESTING STORY
I don't really have a good story of awkward, but I can tell you a story about a time I felt really uncomfortable. So we would do these interviews, we called them "switch interviews". Essentially, this is part of the jobs to be done methodology where you want to understand people's motivations and what shapes their behavior. You talk to people who just bought, or just left your product. We were interviewing a customer who just left MailChimp and she was telling us a story as to why. We try to frame it like a documentary—we ask them where they were and what time of day it was. We try to put ourselves into the place where the decision was made because that really gives us the context to understand the situation and the behavior very clearly. So asking a bunch of questions. She was at her shop, she was there at around 8:30 at night, and she was trying to design an email. It wasn't going so well. She couldn't figure out how to do it, she kept trying to format a specific piece of text, trying to make a column, and it just would not apply the formatting that she wanted. She hadn't had dinner, her family was at home waiting for her. It was just getting later and later. She was so tired and she wanted to go home. She saw an ad for our competitor, and some sort of banner ad embedded in a piece of software she was using. She clicked on that because she was so frustrated with MailChimp. She went over to our competitor, and tried to sign up and it failed. So she called them and said, "I want to sign up." They said, "Okay, and we'll design your email template for you. And it'll be this monthly fee which is like 10x more than what we cost. And designing your template will cost X hundreds of dollars. With us she was paying like 15 bucks a month or something, So it was like a crazy jump in price. So the person she was talking to, hung up on her. She called back again and got a different person. They signed her up, but she couldn't login. She went back-and-forth with these people. She finally got to a point where she got a person on the phone again, and it was like the fourth call where she was trying to switch and she told them, "Just take my effing money!" She just had this intense rage and anger. Turns out she had some bad code in this template, Maybe there was some things we could've done, but it was a bit out of our control. Man, I just felt her pain. I felt so awkward having this conversation with her when she felt so angry, but I think it's good to hear that sort of thing, because it helps you. It definitely lit a fire under me to where I'm like, what can I do to make this product experience better? That's important.
DESIGN SUPERPOWER
I think my design superpower relates to seeing the big picture. Kind of a broader vision of what could be. That was always my role at MailChimp…looking down the road. Understanding what our customers are doing, and being able to read between the lines instead of asking customers what they want. Listening to what they're doing, understanding their business and seeing a future where we can make for products that solve a problem for them that they can't even see just yet. It's always been about seeing what's coming next. That skill of being able to see the big picture is a critical thinking skill that I think I got from painting. And that's about connecting the disconnected and seeing what could be possible. The research is sort of the fodder that informs that.
DESIGN KRYPTONITE
I can't say that I love getting into every single minute detail in design. I love working with people who are obsessed with the details, and I am an appreciator of sweating the details, But man for me to I want to look through the telescope, not the microscope.
SUPERHERO NAME
HOW DO YOU FIGHT FOR YOUR USERS?
Just by paying attention. Just by listening and observing and being curious. I think that that's so important. I've always been a fan of learning from our customers. Part of it is listening to what they're struggling with, which as I said earlier it's it's really uncomfortable a lot of times especially with usability testing—when someone leaves and tells you why they left. But also fighting for the user by understanding the broader trends in the market, and culture, and how technology and culture intersect. Trying to create a vision for a better future that we could shape by making new tools. That's something that we always did at MailChimp. We had the luxury of having a research team that had a generous budget and a lot of time to really learn from customers. Often times we would find ideas for the next product by just getting to hang out and do ethnographic studies with our customers. We'd go to their businesses, Hang out with them and watch them work. We'd see the hardware they are using, see the constraints of the space, see how they're interrupted. See how they learn about new things. Start to kind of absorb the value system of their culture. As you do that over and over again, you start to see patterns in behavior, and patterns in problems. When you can see those problems, you start to realize how you can make a new product that can solve those problems for them.
FUTURE OF UX
I will say it seems really complex. It's getting ever more complex. I would say that the future of UX is it's getting faster—lower friction with tools tailored to our needs. I think that it's cross-device focused. I think that it's really rich with lots of different types of media and motion. Things start to feel alive and a lot less static. I'm not a huge fan of fetishizing our tools, but I think we're at an inflection point right now with our tools. It is a very important thing to recognize. We are reducing friction over and over again to realizing ideas. So there's just less time and effort required from idea to high-fidelity prototype that just feels so real you can't tell that it's fake. That's a big deal because it makes it possible for us to learn faster. It means the types of experiences we're going to be able to create will be ever more sophisticated. We're going to be able to see the possibilities of the work more easily. If we're able to come up with a product idea and prototype that in the same morning perhaps (which is totally feasible now), and the prototype we're producing has animation built in and multiple pathways—you can enter content into a form, the thing feels real. You can scroll, pop-out and so forth. If we can start a prototype with motion and we can have more sophisticated motion that mimics physical objects in the real world.
Basically, we just continue to bend technology back towards us instead of we bend towards technology which is what we've been doing historically. The idea of a mouse is such a hack to teach humans how to interact with a computer versus a touchscreen device where the technology bends towards us where we have the pointers built-in, we don't need an external device to hack that for us. It's just natural for us to interact with it with our body parts doing what humans do. So I just see that continually coming back to us. I'm interested in what happens with language with things like Alexa and we'll be able to input more effortlessly.
We have a long ways to go from where I stand, we still have a lot to figure out there. Our software is going to be more ubiquitous, it's just in everything. It helps us expedite things, it helps us quantify things, it helps us reduce the friction of life.
HABIT OF SUCCESS
I make sure that I have plenty of inputs. I think that's a really important thing, and choosing where we get inputs is important. I think that a lot of times especially in the web design world, people look for inspiration from inside of the medium, and that creates a bit of an echo chamber. I try to take inspiration from a lot of different types of places. I mentioned architecture earlier, literature, lots of different types of news and podcasts. The world's a big place. History is vast. I feel like there's so much more that we can learn, and so much more we can do to enhance our medium and craft by looking beyond just inspiration from the web.
BEST ADVICE
Stay humble. I just see super-talented young designers who can get so confident and cocky in their work that they can no longer learn. Staying humble is going to help you collaborate with other people, and help you learn from other people. It's going to keep you trying new things.
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Building a Giant 2D Map of the Universe to Prepare for the Largest 3D Map
January 13, 2021 sarah Jonas	Dark Energy, dark energy spectroscopic instrument, data, Department Of Energy, DESI, DOE, Galaxies, High Energy Physics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, NERSC, NOIRLab, Quasars, Spectroscopy
Before DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, can begin its 5-year mission from an Arizona mountaintop to produce the largest 3D sky map yet, researchers first needed an even bigger 2D map of the universe.
Quasar Discovery Sets New Distance Record
January 12, 2021 sarah Jonas	Early Universe, Galaxies, Galaxy Evolution, Quasar
Astronomers have discovered the most distant quasar yet found. The quasar is seen as it was only 670 million years after the Big Bang, and is providing valuable clues about how huge black holes and their host galaxies formed in the early Universe.
VLA Sky Survey Reveals Newborn Jets in Distant Galaxies
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Comparing data from VLA sky surveys made some two decades apart revealed that the black hole-powered "engines" at the cores of some distant galaxies have launched new, superfast jets of material during the interval between the surveys.
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New VLA images show how the crowded environment of a cluster of galaxies affects the individual galaxies, helping astronomers better understand some of the complex details of such an environment.
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October 27, 2020 sarah Jonas	ALMA telescope, astronomy & astrophysics, Big Bang, Galaxies, Stars, Universe
ALMA telescope conducts largest survey yet of distant galaxies in the early universe
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October 6, 2020 sarah Jonas	Astronomy, Black Hole, Contest, Galaxies, Image, Planet, radio astronomy
Winners in NRAO's VLA 40th Anniversary Image Contest are from around the world, and their works illustrate a fascinating variety of celestial objects. Entries combined observational data from the VLA with data from optical, infrared, and X-ray telescopes, and from computer simulations.
Galaxy Simulations Could Help Reveal Origins of Milky Way
August 27, 2020 sarah Jonas	Astronomy, Big Bang, dark matter, dust, Galaxies, Gas, Gravity, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, Milky Way, Modeling, NASA, New Jersey, NJ, Research, RU, Rutgers, Rutgers University, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Rutgers-New Brunswick, Science, Space, Stars, Supercomputers, Telescopes, U.S. Supreme Court, Universe, University Of Oklahoma, University of Washington
Rutgers astronomers have produced the most advanced galaxy simulations of their kind, which could help reveal the origins of the Milky Way and dozens of small neighboring dwarf galaxies. Their research also could aid the decades-old search for dark matter, which fills an estimated 27 percent of the universe. And the computer simulations of "ultra-faint" dwarf galaxies could help shed light on how the first stars formed in the universe.
IMAGE RELEASE: Magnetic Field of a Spiral Galaxy
July 21, 2020 sarah Jonas	Galaxies, Magnetic Fields
A new image from the VLA dramatically reveals the extended magnetic field of a spiral galaxy seen edge-on from Earth.
New Distance Measurements Bolster Challenge to Basic Model of Universe
June 11, 2020 sarah Jonas	Cosmology, Galaxies, Hubble Constant
A cosmic measurement technique independent of all others adds strong evidence pointing to a problem with the current theoretical model describing the composition and evolution of the Universe.
DESI Team Prepares for Telescope Instrument's Restart after Unexpected Shutdown
May 22, 2020 sarah Jonas	Arizona, Berkeley, Berkeley Lab, Dark Energy, dark energy spectroscopic instrument, DESI, Galaxies, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, LBNL, Quasars, Telescope
Despite a temporary shutdown of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument in Arizona – which was in its final stages of testing in preparation to begin mapping millions of galaxies in 3D when the pandemic struck – a variety of project tasks are still moving forward.
Exoplanet climate 'decoder' aids search for life
May 18, 2020 sarah Jonas	Astronomy, astronomy & astrophysics, Exoplanets, Galaxies, Solar system
After examining a dozen types of suns and a roster of planet surfaces, Cornell University astronomers have developed a practical model – an environmental color "decoder" – to tease out climate clues for potentially habitable exoplanets in galaxies far away.


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Q: Verification of Proof that a nonabelian group $G$ of order $pq$ where $p$ and $q$ are primes has a trivial center
A nonabelian group $G$ of order $pq$ where $p$ and $q$ are primes has a trivial center

My Proof is as follows:
Assume we have nonabelian group $G$ of order $pq$ where both $p$ and $q$ are primes.  When $G$ has a trivial center it means subgroup $Z(G)=\{e\}$.  If a group is of order $pq$ then the order of its subgroup must divide pq meaning $Z(G)$ has to be of order $1$, $p$ or $pq$.  It cannot be $pq$ otherwise $Z(G)$ would be a group equivalent to $G$ and not a subgroup.  It cannot be $p$ or $q$ because otherwise $Z(G)$ would be cyclic and therefore abelian.  So $Z(G)$ must be or order $1$.
Is this correct?  A hint I was given was to use the fact that if $G/Z(G)$  is abelian then it is cyclic.  How would that be incorporated?

A: I think the correct hint is:

If  $G/Z(G)$ is cyclic then $G$ is abelian.

$Z(G) \subseteq G$ and so we can have $$|Z(G)| = 1, \ p , \ q , \ pq $$ $G$ is nonabelian and so $|Z(G)| \neq pq $.
If $|Z(G)| = p $ or $|Z(G)| = q $ the quotient group $G/Z(G)$ has prime order, whence is cyclic and by the hint $G$ is abelian.
Thus $|Z(G)| = 1$

A: Your result can be proved directly:
Suppose $Z(G) \neq \{1 \}$. Because $G$ is not abelian, $Z(G)$ has order $p$ or $q$; say $|Z(G)|=p$. In particular, there exists $x \in Z(G)$ of order $p$. Let also $y \in G$ of order $q$. Now, it is easy to notice that the set $$X= \{ x^m y^n \mid 1 \leq m \leq p, \ 1 \leq n \leq q \}$$ has cardinality $pq$, hence $G=X$. Now, because $x \in Z(G)$, we clearly deduce that $G$ is abelian: a contradiction.

A: Let's assume $|Z(G)|=q$; then $|C_G(g)|=q$ for every noncentral $g\in G$, whence $\frac{|G|}{|C_G(g)|}=\frac{pq}{q}=p$ for every noncentral $g\in G$. From the Class Equation ($pq=q+q(p-1)$), follows: $q(p-1)=kp$, where $k$ is the number of noncentral conjugacy classes of $G$: contradiction, because $p\nmid q(p-1)$. The same argument holds by swapping $p$ and $q$, and hence $|Z(G)|\ne p$ as well. As $G$ is nonabelian, we are left with $Z(G)=1$.

A: More generally, let $G$ be of order $pq$. If it has center of order $p$, then every noncentral element $g$ has centralizer of order $kp$ for some integer $k>1$, because $Z(G)<C_G(g)$, and then necessarily $k=q$, because $C_G(g)\le G$ and for the primality of $q$. But then $C_G(g)=G$, and hence $g\in Z(G)$: contradiction. Same argument and conclusion if the center has order $q$. Therefore, the center has order $1$ or $pq$. So, if $G$ is assumed nonabelian, it must be centerless.

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Working with the 117th Congress to Deliver on a Consumer-Focused Tech Agenda
By Greg Guice
The 117th Congress has convened at an inflection point in our nation's history, unprecedented in more than a century. These are serious times, with the country going into its eleventh month of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, unemployment running high, and families facing so many challenges in their work and personal lives. Such times demand serious policy solutions to address a host of structural needs that have languished for far too long. Inaction, the hallmark of the last four years (and frankly longer), can no longer be an effective solution to our nation's problems. Now, we must act.
Public Knowledge urges members on both sides of the aisle to come together to do the hard work of legislating on a tech agenda that reflects the needs of Americans. Such an agenda must focus on ensuring our residents have access to opportunity through broadband affordability, greater broadband deployment, and digital equity. It will require addressing long, lingering issues in copyright law that the digital age has amplified. It will require focusing on promoting forward-looking technology competition policies, including addressing present market concentration. It means moving forward with meaningful privacy legislation that empowers consumers as the owners of their information.
Broadband Policies
Affordability and Deployment
Public Knowledge urges Congress to provide serious funding to promote both broadband affordability and deployment. As part of the COVID-19 relief package, Congress provided funding for broadband connectivity to ensure low-income Americans and those facing economic hardship due to the crisis could afford to keep or finally connect to broadband service. This was a great start, but once that funding lapses, many Americans that are outside the criteria to qualify for the Federal Communications Commission's low-income broadband program (Lifeline) will once again face the question of how to afford their broadband service given the other competing needs in their constrained budgets. Even those who do qualify for the Lifeline program only get $9.25 a month – an amount insufficient to pay for many broadband plans. In order to get more people connected, we urge Congress to once again consider taking up the Accessible, Affordable Internet for All Act ("Affordable Broadband Act"). The legislation provides significant funding for broadband deployment; provides subsidies to help Americans pay for broadband service; and includes a mandate that internet service providers offer an affordable option for consumers. This type of legislation is foundational to addressing the digital divide across America, regardless of whether the user is in a rural, suburban, or urban area.
Quality Service for All
In addition to addressing affordability and deployment issues, Congress should ensure that Americans, regardless of where they live in a community, have access to broadband service that is comparable to others in their community. Digital redlining, which occurs when companies select to provide broadband to certain neighborhoods or communities while bypassing adjacent neighborhoods because of demographics or other criteria, must not be allowed to occur, particularly as providers are in the early stages of 5G deployment. Providers should be required to serve everyone in a service area, not just those in well-off neighborhoods. We cannot afford to repeat the mistakes of past deployments and condemn those in less fortunate circumstances to outdated technologies. Congress should also call for reliability standards to address poorly maintained networks in some of our communities, and slow response to outages in others. Finally, as Public Knowledge requested of the FCC this past year, broadband speed needs to meet the needs of users, Congress should call for raising the speed standard to 100/100 Mbps symmetrical.
The Affordable Broadband Act incorporates the Digital Equity Act, which promotes solutions to help individuals and communities access the technology tools needed for full participation in the society and economy of the United States. It seeks to achieve the goal of full digital inclusion through digital literacy training and financial assistance to families for acquiring broadband-capable devices. This helps ensure that all communities have the tools and means needed to more fully compete and thrive in our ever-increasing broadband economy.
Achieving Our Broadband Objectives
In addition to the important steps Congress can take to promote broadband affordability, deployment, and digital equity, it is critical that there be an expert agency focused on helping to meet Congress' goals. Fortunately, there is no need to stand up a new federal agency. Instead, the existing federal agency, the FCC — which Congress empowered to "make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States, without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, a rapid, efficient, Nation-wide, and world-wide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges" — needs to reassert its authority to fulfill this mission. The FCC regrettably made the erroneous decision in 2017 to cede much of its authority over broadband, abandoning its mission to promote and advance broadband policies that can fulfill Congress' charge to connect all Americans. Public Knowledge looks forward to working with Congress — and working with the FCC, whose authority over broadband under Title II has been affirmed by reviewing courts — to correct this error from 2017, so that all Americans have access to "wire and radio communication services with adequate facilities at reasonable charges."
Notice-and-Takedown Regime
First and foremost, Congress must create copyright policy that protects internet users against bogus legal claims that are abusive and require takedowns of lawfully created materials. The current notice-and-takedown system created by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act suffers from a disproportionate number of bad notices that limit the ability of users and creators to use the internet for creativity and free expression, and hide information from public view. This problem is further compounded by platforms creating algorithmic systems that automatically remove speech, rather than doing the difficult work of actually determining if the content in question actually violates copyright. Furthermore, under the DMCA broadband providers are required to turn off a person's access to the internet if that person has been accused of repeat copyright infringement. The pandemic has made clear that internet access is a necessity, not a luxury. This Congress should prioritize reforming Section 512(a) of the DMCA to ensure that bare accusations of a civil offense can no longer disconnect an entire household from the broader internet.
Public Knowledge also believes that a general right to repair is crucial both for individual autonomy and institutional resilience. In recent years, software has made its way into more and more goods — from thermostats to tractors to lifesaving medical devices. This software comes with new, restrictive contracts which claim to bar device owners and independent shops from repairing these devices when they break. In practice, this means that farmers lose valuable harvest days waiting for a licensed repair technician, and hospitals cannot repair ventilators that malfunction in the middle of a global pandemic. Proposals to restore a meaningful right to repair must include (1) designing products with repairability in mind; (2) requiring manufacturers to make service manuals and repair parts available; and (3) preventing warranties, terms of service, and consumer contracts from limiting consumer rights in this area.
Controlled Digital Lending
We also call on this Congress to consider codifying Controlled Digital Lending (CDL), which is a fair use framework under which libraries, archives, schools, universities, consortia, and other institutions loan digital copies of works that they already have in their physical collections. CDL allows an institution to scan a book, digitize the page image as a searchable PDF, and loan the books out in a one-to-one owned-to-loaned ratio. As a fair use under Section 107 of the Copyright Act, this practice does not violate exclusive rights under copyright law; however, because fair use is a four-factor test that can only be definitively determined by litigation, many institutions are hesitant to adopt these basic, common-sense practices for fear of being sued. Moreover, because of the endemic funding crisis facing libraries, archives, and schools, the prospect of copyright's massive statutory damages (up to $150,000 per instance) is enough to chill even the most diligent institution from instituting basic CDL. We believe that clear statutory language, clarifying that CDL is not a copyright violation, would provide certainty to lending institutions and encourage more widespread adoption.
Platform Competition Policies
During the last Congress, the House Judiciary Committee's Antitrust Subcommittee committed itself to a bipartisan investigation into the state of competition in the digital economy. That investigation culminated in a report that outlined a series of business practices undertaken by four dominant players (Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon) that helped these companies obtain and then maintain their market power in ways that are anticompetitive. The abuses outlined in the Committee's report signal the urgency of acting in the next Congress to bring about changes not only to promote competition but to protect consumers from the abuses the Committee found.
In addition to new laws to promote competition on and against dominant digital platforms, Congress must move forward on federal privacy legislation to ensure these companies are restricted in their data collection practices and consumers have control over their information so they can correct it, delete it, move it, or have it accessible for whatever alternative service they choose. A critical component is to provide consumers greater control over their personal information, an input that has been mined with little to no guardrails and with inadequate user controls. As Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) has noted, it simply cannot be that consumers in the European Union or those in California are more deserving of privacy protections than other Americans.
Congress strived in the last Congress to move forward, through real and difficult negotiations, to complete a federal privacy law. They got close, but fell short. There were many areas of agreement, in terms of consumer controls, but the sticking points were just too much. Public Knowledge urges Congress to pick back up its work on federal privacy legislation and restart these discussions understanding that consumers are demanding privacy. These privacy policies would put obligations on companies to not collect personal data beyond what is needed (data minimization), and would allow consumers both access and rights to the data that is collected about them — including the right to correct, delete, and port that data. Such privacy legislation is beyond the nation's current consent structure that has been debated for decades and is more reflective of the rights consumers need in today's market. A number of proposals in the 116th Congress reflected this understanding and Public Knowledge believes if lawmakers redouble their efforts, they can overcome the remaining obstacles to federal privacy reform. We welcome a dialogue to assist in moving this forward.
The ability to precision-target content based on user data has amplified the problem of misinformation on digital platforms. Effectively managing misinformation and the real-world harms it can cause entails both reducing misinformation and elevating authoritative information. Public Knowledge created a policy proposal that alleviates the twin problems of our information ecosystem: the virulent spread of misinformation on digital platforms, and the crisis in local journalism. Our "Superfund for the Internet" proposal would compel platforms to include a fact-checking process in their content moderation, while providing a new source of revenue for local journalism. It establishes a federal "trust fund" administered by an independent government body that would be funded through a user fee imposed on digital platforms that meet certain standards. That fund would encourage the development of fact-checking services as a new source of revenue among qualified news organizations. We look forward to working with Congress to implement this proposal.
Public Knowledge will continue to advocate for reforms to the digital marketplace that will both address the power of platforms and empower and protect consumers. Interoperability, which would enable different systems and organizations to communicate with each other, is one such reform that both limits network effects, which lock consumers into platforms, and provides consumers greater control over their data. In addition, reforms such as non-discrimination requirements could ensure that fair, consistent, and transparent access for firms that are vertically reliant on platforms for access to reach consumers, helping to curb anticompetitive discrimination and even facilitate competition against these platforms.
Ultimately, the U.S. needs a regulator that has the expertise and the tools to address the problems posed by big platforms — from content moderation, to competition, to privacy and consumer protection. Such a regulator does not yet exist. Public Knowledge will continue to advocate for the creation of such an agency.
Although there are challenges beyond technology that this Congress will have to address, the long-term health of our economy — which is a digital economy — requires action. Issues like the digital divide, harmful copyright regimes that impact users, the power of dominant platforms, and consumer privacy abuses clearly demonstrate that Congress needs to engage and find solutions to correct these failings if we're to recover as a nation.
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Global Health Reach will return on a medical mission trip to Vietnam. Volunteers will travel to rural villages near Ha Giang, Vietnam (located 7 hours North of Hanoi). GHR is excited to continue our services in a new village that we added in January, 2018.
Limited access to preventative health care – health care services are only sought when problems become an emergency.
Insufficient means to pay for health care – patients often are too poor to transport themselves to a hospital, pay for food, and purchase drugs or supplies that are not covered by the government-subsidized insurance.
Insufficient health education – communities are not empowered with education to prevent common illnesses and to promote well being.
This trip is not for the faint of heart, but for the more adventure-minded volunteers. GHR volunteers can expect an authentic experience, staying with the most gracious H'mong hosts and be treated to traditional tasty cuisine while staying in a local homestay. Homestays are clean and safe, but facilities are not typical of those found in the USA. The team will conduct four days of clinics at two locations, treating patients with a wide variety of conditions and educating them on sanitation best practices. These trips are perfect for pre-med students and other students looking to learn medicine, build character and push yourself to be a better you. . While team members should not expect five-star luxuries, all of the basics will be covered!
Medical clinics will be conducted at two different H'mong communities in the mountainous region of Ha Giang, Vietnam (locations not disclosed due to security reasons). Volunteers will be given all supplies (equipment and medicine) necessary to provide medical services. Logistics (transportation, translators, food, water, etc.) is all handled by GHR so that volunteers can focus on the patients! We are expecting to see approximately 500 patients.
Want to extend your stay after the medical mission? That's perfectly fine! Just let us know what your travel plans are and we'll do our best to accommodate.
Do you have questions regarding the trip? Please complete the form below and we will reach out to you shortly!


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CES 2012 Sets Multiple All-Time Records
Dylan Duarte
Although the final numbers are not yet in, the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show has already set multiple records. Though a trip to Las Vegas would be enticing, after looking at these statistics, boy am I glad that I got to cover the event from the comfort of my own home. My home is definitely slightly less crazy.
A total of 1.86 million net square feet were claimed for exhibition space, creeping past 2008's 1.857 million. There were over 3,100 exhibitors, again, not too much over 2008's 3,072 exhibitors. Finally, the confirmed number of attendants is already over 153,000, breaking the 2006 record of 152,203. That covers attendants who actually showed up and claimed a badge. By all accounts, CES was unbelievably hectic, and I see no reason to think that CES 2013 will be any different.
I almost feel bad for Stephen Fung and Michael Kwan. Almost.
via Engadget
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2012 International CES Sets Show Record at 1.86 Million Net Square Feet of Exhibit Space
Keynotes from Ericsson, Ford, Verizon, Xerox, eBay, YouTube, Facebook Are Mid-Week
Highlights of 2012 International CES
LAS VEGAS, Jan 12, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — –CEA's Shapiro Discusses Policy with FCC Chairman Genachowski and the Global Retail Climate with Best Buy's Brian Dunn
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) (R) announced today that the 2012 International CES(R) is the largest in the show's 44 year history, with 1.861 million net square feet of exhibit space. The previous record was 1.857 million net square feet of space at the 2008 International CES. Owned and produced by CEA, the 2012 International CES, the world's largest tradeshow for consumer technology, runs through Friday, January 13 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
In other show news, a keynote address by Ericsson's Hans Vestberg, the Innovation Power Panel with leaders from Ford, Verizon and Xerox, a Brand keynote from executives from AT&T, Walmart, Facebook and GE, an LIT keynote from eBay's John Donohue and a keynote from YouTube's Robert Kyncl were mid-week highlights of the 2012 International CES(R).
The Innovation Power Panel on Wednesday morning featured Ford President and CEO Alan Mulally, Xerox Chairman and CEO Ursula Burns and Verizon Enterprise Solutions President John Stratton. The panelists discussed how innovation must be a strategy for their respective companies and for the United States. The conversation centered on how to stimulate innovation through investment and employment.
In his 2012 CES keynote, Hans Vestberg, President and CEO of Ericsson, discussed "The Networked Society" connecting everyone and everything through mobility. "We have a responsibility to build networks that can carry innovation," said Vestberg. Ericsson predicts there will be 50 billion connected devices worldwide by 2020.
The CES Brand keynote panel featured the marketing minds of the world's top brands. The retail and branding effects of social media, healthcare-related technologies, connectivity and the explosion of wireless were all discussed during the session. The panelists agreed that people are becoming more connected to their devices, and because of this, to each other. "Our core belief is that the entire web is being rebuilt around people," said Facebook's Vice President of Global Marketing Solutions Carolyn Everson.
In an afternoon SuperSession with CEA President and CEO Gary Shapiro, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski stressed the importance of broadband, particularly wireless, in the future of consumer electronics. "The demand for spectrum has grown because people love these products," said Genachowski, stressing the need for Congress to pass incentive spectrum auction legislation. "We need to get it done now."
After touring the show floor, Genachowski noted the "endless rows of innovative new products," addressing fitness, education and healthcare, among other purposes. The session also covered net neutrality, antitrust issues and Genachowski's broadband-driven agenda at the FCC.
Wednesday's SuperSession with Brian Dunn, CEO of Best Buy, and CEA's Shapiro talked about hot selling products this holiday season and the retailer's strategy. "We'll have more doors and less square footage," Dunn told Shapiro in a question and answer session. "Stores have an important place in the ecosystem." When it comes to product trends, Dunn expects tablets and smartphones to stay hot while he opined that it was the "best time in the history of man to buy a TV."
Bringing the digital lifestyle safely into the car was the main topic at Wednesday SuperSession, "Connect2Car: Connecting Automotive and Consumer Electronics Lifestyles." Several main trends were discussed including, driving green, driving connected, driving safe and driving cool. The panel agreed that collaboration is the key, when integrating apps and other technology into the car.
TheVerge's Joshua Topolsky moderated an "Argue the Future" SuperSession on Wednesday that featured Drew Bamford of HTC, Ryan Bidan of Samsung, Nilay Patel of The Verge and Aaron Woodman of Microsoft. The participants debated the challenges of differentiation versus commodization, the goal of launching less phones but more consumer choice, perhaps by offering hardware customization options, and the best ways to curate and deliver personal content to the cloud.
On Wednesday evening, John Donahoe, president and CEO of eBay, delivered the keynote address at the Leaders in Technology (LIT) dinner. Donahoe discussed how the intersection of technology and retail is having a profound impact on consumers' shopping experience and predicted that the next three years of "shopping and paying" will see more profound change then what we've seen over the past 10-15 years.
Thursday morning featured a keynote from Robert Kyncl, Vice President of Global Content Partnerships, YouTube. Kyncl described how content, distribution and marketing of video have come together to make it a transformative and accessible viewing option around the world. According to Kyncl, by 2020, 75 percent of all channels will be transmitted or born on the Internet, due to closed systems that have no opened up.
In other 2012 International CES news, Lytro won the Last Gadget Standing SuperSession competition, beating nine other finalists, including the Playstation Vita, Autom Robot, Cotton Candy, WIMM, Origami, Svivl, Basis Body Band, Lenovo Yoga and Samsung Note.
More, the LG 55EM9800 55-inch OLED TV was named CNET's Best of CES winner, with Razer's Project Fiona winning the People's Choice online voting award.
Note to Journalists: Please note the correct event reference is 2012 International CES. Media information is available in the "For the Press" section of CESweb.org. For the latest information on the 2012 CES, including product launches, visit CESweb.org.
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Dylan Duarte is a freelance writer who's covered film, television, videogames, and of course tech! He's also an aspiring screenwriter and likes that watching movies is considered "work" because of it. You can follow him on twitter @dylanduarte, but be warned that it's mostly the nonsensical ramblings of a potty-mouth.
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