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Michigan Trip:
����������� On November 4, 2011, I was at the TTC�s Lawrence West subway station for the first of two farewell charters to the TTC�s fishbowls. While waiting for the charter buses to arrive, I photographed the oldest fishbowl in service #2855. The driver asked why we were taking pictures and then told me that we weren�t allowed to photograph TTC buses. However, the TTC�s website states otherwise and plus I was standing on a public sidewalk! Since the driver was wrong, I told him that photography was not prohibited. After a couple minutes of arguing (for lack of a better word), I was able to convince him I was allowed to take pictures.
����������� After the charter, I posted what happened on the Canadian Public Transit Discussion Board. Much to my disgust, many people responded by saying that our arguing was like �a couple squabbling 5 year olds� and that I was �giving transit fans a bad name� despite the fact I was completely in the right. They also accused me of doing something claiming I have the most problems. (How is it MY FAULT that transit employees don�t know the law?!?)
The ignorant driver of this fishbowl was the starting point of the trip.
����������� In my disgust, I began wondering �What if Rosa Parks� peers had accused her of giving black people a bad name? After all, she was technically breaking a bylaw!�
����������� For those who don�t know who Rosa Parks is; back in the 1950s in Alabama, black people were segregated on transit by having designated seats. If in rush hours more while people boarded the buses, then black people would be required to give up their seats to white people. On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery County, Alabama, Rosa Parks was riding a bus home from work when some white people got on. The driver of the bus told the people in Rosa�s row that they had to move. Rosa did not move. She told the driver she was not moving. As a result of not giving up her seat, Rosa Parks was arrested. The black community rallied behind her and organized a bus boycott that ended up going for over a year until the Supreme Court ruled that segregated transit vehicles was unconstitutional and black people would no longer have to give up their seats to white people and could sit anywhere in the bus.
����������� I believe that if Rosa Parks� peers had accused her of giving black people a bad name by refusing to move when she had to, the black community would have had a stronger argument that she was bad than the transit fans on the board since unlike Rosa Parks, I wasn�t breaking ANY BYLAWS by taking pictures and arguing with the driver of 2855. Also, if Rosa Parks� peers had accused her of giving black people a bad name, then today�s low floor buses could possibly be segregated! Even New Flyer XD40�s if any property in Alabama were to buy them could have been segregated if the black community had reacted like the people on the board!
����������� The bus that Rosa Parks was arrested on became part of an exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. After what happened on November 4th, I yearned to go see that bus and the exhibit since Rosa Parks proved that one person can make a difference by arguing with a bus driver who is acting like a total asshole!
����������� I opted to go in late March, but I saw on the Henry Ford Museum�s website that they were displaying artifacts from the Titanic in April, so I decided to wait until then as an alibi in case one of my friends who has appeared in previous reports found out since he was one of the people who mocked me standing up for my rights against the driver of TTC 2855. My gut told me the fewer transit fans knew about this, the better. I kept this trip plan on the down low telling only my parents, some of my friends in the U.S. who I knew weren�t on the board. I did tell one person on the Canadian Public Transit Discussion Board whom I knew would be on my side and was not involved in the discussion in the aftermath of my fight with the driver of 2855.
����������� My initial plan was to ride VIA train 95 to Niagara Falls and get a ride from my aunt to Buffalo-Depew. I would then take the Lakeshore Limited to Toledo and then connect with a thruway bus to Dearborn where I would visit the Henry Ford Museum. The next day, I would ride Amtrak Wolverine Service train 350 to Pontiac then return to Detroit on train 355. I would make my way to Windsor where I would spend another night before riding VIA train #76 back home.
����������� However, as a result of track work done by Norfolk Southern, Amtrak was running train 350 as far as Dearborn, but running other trains to Pontiac. My new plan was to ride train 352 to Pontiac the day I visited the Henry Ford Museum and spend the night there. The next day, I would ride train 353 to Detroit. The trip unfolded as follows.
����������� I left home around 3:00 pm. My dad gave me a ride to Finch station. After I got dropped off, I headed into the station. On the escalator, someone offered to sell me a TTC token for $2 which I took advantage of; especially since the TTC fare is $3.00!
����������� By the time I got to the platform, I had just missed a train of H-5 subway cars which are now the TTC's oldest subway cars since the H-4 cars were retired shortly after my last trip. As of this date, some H-5s have been retired and some have been photographed in a scrap yard in Hamilton. However, some H-5s and some H-6s will be sold to Lagos, Nigeria.
����������� I rode down on a train of Toronto Rocket subway cars. I ended up getting to Union over one hour and 45 minutes before train 95 was scheduled to depart. I decided to go to the skywalk and watch trains depart. I filmed a GO train departing which had two of GO's few remaining F59PH's bracketing 10 bi-levels. A few minutes later, I photographed another GO train with a similar consist as it arrived into Union.
����������� I stayed until VIA train 83 departed. I photographed it as well.
����������� I then made my way back to Union station. I became the first person in line for train 95.
����������� Boarding began around 5:25. I saw the train had Renaissance coaches. I was told I had to check my bag. I put it on a cart and got a claim ticket.
����������� I was seated in a business class coach despite having an economy class ticket. However train 95 only has economy class.
����������� Unfortunately, we learned that there was a fatality in Port Credit and we would be delayed. We were given the option to get off and take alternate transportation, but I chose to stay. Besides, my suitcase had already been checked! I logged onto VIA's WI-fi service.
����������� VIA again let people off the train. I got my suitcase and photographed the train when I stepped off.
����������� I made my way to the bus terminal and bought a ticket for a Greyhound leaving at 7:30 pm. I would get to Niagara Falls at 9:30 pm. I could still make it to Buffalo Depew if there were no further delays.
����������� I called my mom and my aunt to let them know of plan B. I bought a hot dog for dinner. A person asked me for money to get to Ottawa, I told him no. He called me a �f***in' f****t�! I gave him the finger. That guy was way ruder than the guy in Tucson, Arizona who kept asking me for $10! A less rude person also asked for money and I again told him no.
����������� I worked on this report for a few minutes before I went outside and boarded the bus which was a Provost Highway coach. The bus left on time.
����������� We hit the highway and encountered traffic. I saw the Toronto bound Maple Leaf pass. We soon cleared the traffic.
����������� The bus was scheduled to stop in Grimsby, but since no one wanted on or off, we passed there non-stop. We stopped at St. Catherines. We then went to Brock University. We departed a few minutes later. We took Thorldstone Road under the Welland Canal and soon we were approaching Niagara Falls. I phoned my aunt who said she'd meet me at the bus terminal.
����������� The bus arrived one minute late. I saw there was no train at the VIA station and I thought that I made the right choice. I photographed the bus after I got off.
����������� My aunt arrived a couple minutes later. Moments after, I saw the equipment from train 95 reverse into the station in preparation to go back to Toronto as tomorrow's train 90. I could have stayed on the VIA train! It would have been more comfortable than the bus. However, I didn't know how long we would be delayed. And the train got there a little while earlier.
����������� My aunt and I stopped at a McDonald's drive-thru before we headed for the border. On the way, I told her the whole story why I was going, but she knew I was going to see the Rosa Parks bus.
����������� There was no traffic at the Peace Bridge but the attendant had to sign on first. We got through okay. We then left the border. We stopped at a convenience store before we got to the Buffalo-Depew station at 10:30 pm. I said goodbye to my aunt and went inside. I worked on this report some more.
����������� I briefly chatted with a couple of railfans and kept checking when 49 was due. I found out it was running over 20 minutes late.
����������� Train 49 arrived 24 minutes late. As it arrived, I filmed it. I took some photos before I got on.
����������� I was seated in Amfleet 2 coach #25006, the first coach in the Boston section of the train. The coach was quite full and I had an aisle seat the entire time. My seatmate kept elbowing me during the night. We departed 24 minutes late.
����������� I slept off and on. We stopped in Erie. I slept off and on some more until we arrived in Cleveland. However, I was unable to step off at Cleveland so no pictures there. We departed.
����������� The train stopped at Elyria and Sandusky. A little while later, we were approaching Toledo. I readied my stuff in preparation to get off. Train 49 arrived 20 minutes late. I stepped off and took some photos.
����������� I then went inside the station and went to the connecting bus. I boarded the bus and watched as 49 departed. I was wondering if 49 would have a Heritage diner or Viewliner diner prototype #8400. It had a heritage diner.
����������� The bus left a few minutes late. We hit the highway. There was a radio station playing on the bus.
����������� After more than an hour, we were entering Detroit. We passed under a street called Rosa Parks Blvd. We then stopped at Detroit. We soon departed and then arrived into Dearborn 17 minutes late. I got off and photographed the bus.
����������� I went inside the station building for a few minutes. I asked if I could leave my suitcase there but was told I couldn't.
����������� I then left the station and walked to the intersection of Michigan and Mercury. I caught a route 200 bus west to Oakwood Avenue. I wandered around for several minutes before I found a place for breakfast. I had breakfast and worked on this report some more.
����������� I briefly went online before I packed up and walked over to the Henry Ford Museum. It was a fair walk, but I soon arrived. I saw three Titanic related posters so I knew that this was the place! I photographed the posters before I went in.
����������� An employee of the Henry Ford Museum let me store my suitcase and my computer bag in a closet while I went to the exhibits. I paid my admission and went inside. I also bought a ticket to the Titanic artifacts exhibit.
����������� The first place I went was obviously the Rosa Parks bus; Montgomery County GM Old look #2857. Two more similarities between Rosa Parks' story and the incident that brought me here: Both buses were built by GM and the first three digits in the numbers were exactly the same! The TTC bus's number is 2 away from the number of the Rosa Parks bus. I took some photos of the bus inside and out. Including the seat Rosa Parks was sitting in when she refused to move.
Here�s Rosa Parks herself after the bus boycott ended.
This was where Rosa Parks was sitting when she refused to move.
����������� Montgomery County wasn't the only transit system in Alabama that had segregated transit vehicles. In 1952, the TTC purchased 48 used PCC streetcars from Birmingham, Alabama. When the cars were delivered to Toronto, TTC removed signs saying whether the seats were for white people or for coloured people. This is one thing the TTC did right! As far as I know, none of the ex Birmingham PCCs survive, but one car, ex TTC 4716; ex Birmingham 816, was used as an office at a farmers market in Richmond Hill until 2003 when it was scrapped.
This is former Toronto PCC 4716 (ex Birmingham 816) a couple months before it was scrapped.
����������� Besides having seats designated for coloured or white people, Montgomery County drivers often made black people walk outside of the bus after paying their fare and board through the center doors. Sometimes when an African-American was outside the bus, the driver would shut the doors and drive off! Ironically, a few hours before the incident with the driver of TTC 2855, I was made to board through the center doors of a York Region Transit D40LF. However, this was because of a transit strike that affected 60% of YRT routes and all VIVA routes and that bus was jam packed! Fortunately, the driver of the YRT D40LF didn't drive away while I was outside.
����������� I then lined up to see the Titanic exhibit. I phoned my mom to let her know I had made it to the Henry Ford museum. The Titanic exhibit was identical to the exhibit I had seen in Montreal in fall of 2009, however, they added a couple more things including a replica of the Titanic's grand staircase. Once again, I couldn't photograph the exhibits. I was given the name of a passenger I previously got when I visited the exhibit who was a third class passenger who died in the disaster almost 100 years earlier.
����������� In the gift shop, I bought a hoodie, two DVDs, and a Titanic shaped paperweight. I then went back and photographed various exhibits.
����������� Towards the back of the museum were some railway equipment and two streetcars. I photographed them.
����������� One of the exhibits was former C&O 2-6-6-6 #1601 which had its cab open. I photographed 1601.
����������� I continued to look around and photograph various exhibits. I photographed other railway equipment
����������� The Henry Ford Museum has a former PRR GG-1 electric locomotive, but it�s stored off site and is in rough shape. I then photographed an exhibit on early airliners.
I then made my way back to the Rosa Parks bus and photographed it and some other exhibits on the lead up to the Civil Rights Movement. There was one exhibit on the Ku Klux Klan {KKK} which is a white supremacy group which preaches segregation and murder of African-Americans. In the early to mid 1990s, the KKK joined the �Adopt a Highway� program in Missouri. Given how controversial the KKK was, the state tried to stop them but in the end, the KKK was allowed to adopt the highway. However, while the state couldn't stop them, they could rename the highway. As a result, the KKK became responsible for cleaning up a section of the �Rosa Parks Highway�! When Rosa Parks was asked what she thought about this, she said, �It's nice to be thought of�! If the black community had accused Rosa Parks of giving them a bad name, the state of Missouri would not have named the highway after her!
This sign indicated the Montgomery Bus Boycott has brought about a fare hike!
����������� A few years after Rosa Park refused to give up her seat, she and her husband moved to Detroit. She received many awards and even got to meet President Bill Clinton. Rosa Parks died in 2005. The bus driver who had her arrested died in 2002, so she outlived him.
����������� I looked in the Henry Ford Museum's gift shop before I got my suitcase and my computer bag. I then left the museum. I walked near the entrance to Greenfield Village and photographed in and some Gillig low floor buses.
����������� When I was planning my trip, my friend Karl in Chicago told me to look someone up that he knew. Unfortunately I found out from Karl hours before I left yesterday that Greenfield Village wasn't open until the Saturday after my trip, so I couldn't check it out which is too bad because they have some railway equipment.
����������� I then walked back to Michigan Avenue and caught a SMART route 200 bus to the Fairlane Centre mall where I had lunch at the food court. I also worked on my report some more. I then looked around the mall. I had a massage on a massage chair. I then went to the bus terminal and saw an RTS pulling away. I decided to wait to see if another RTS would show up. In the meantime, I photographed some more buses.
Note the destination sign of this bus. I�ll explain why it says Rosa Parks in the next part of this report.
����������� A woman asked if I was noting the times the buses came. I told her I was taking pictures because I like buses. She was okay with that. A minute later, an RTS showed up on route 22. I photographed before I got on.
����������� I rode the bus to Mercury Avenue, and got off and got a so-so video of the bus pulling away. I then walked back to the Amtrak station, though if I had known, I could have stayed on the RTS.
����������� When I got to the station, I saw Amtrak train #350 had arrived. It normally runs to Pontiac but since Norfolk Southern is doing track work, it's terminated at Dearborn. I took some photos of the train.
����������������������� Today wasn't my first time visiting Dearborn. 20 years ago, my family had visited for a weekend. At one point, we visited the Amtrak station where I got a penny that had been flattened by a Chicago bound Wolverine service train. The following week, I took it to school for show and tell! My teacher back then said when she was a girl, she used to put pennies on the railway track and wait for a train to flatten them.
����������� After photographing train 350 which would become 355 later, I phoned Julie and found out my train was over an hour late. I then worked on this trip report some more. I also watched one of the Titanic DVDs I bought.
����������� Train 355 started to board around 5:10 pm. I then had an idea. I bought a ticket to Ann Arbor; the first stop west of Dearborn. I would then buy another ticket back to Dearborn when I arrived.
����������� I was seated in Horizon fleet coach #54523. I noticed half the seats were reversed like on the Downeaster, Keystone service, and Vermonter.
����������� I figured with train 352 running over an hour late, I had nothing better to do. Besides, I've never covered the Wolverine service so it would be more new trackage for me. Train 355 departed at 5:35 pm. We were traveling slowly. We passed over a bridge. As we passed Greenfield Village, I filmed the railway line running through the village. We picked up speed. The train consisted of a P42, an Amfleet 1 cafe car with business class seats, three Horizon coaches, and another P42.
����������� We passed a bus garage by SMART; Detroit's bus system. There were a lot of railway crossings as the engineer kept blowing the horn. We crossed a diamond and past a Norfolk Southern freight yard. I got ready in anticipation to get off at Ann Arbor.
����������� Train 355 arrived at Ann Arbor at 6:12 pm. I got off and photographed the train.
����������� I filmed the train departing. I then went inside the train station and had my ticket changed so I would be riding from Ann Arbor to Pontiac. I then phoned home to let my mom know of my spontaneous extra train ride.
����������� I walked a couple blocks because I had seen that there was a hopper on an isolated piece of elevated track. I found it and then photographed it.
����������� I then went back to Ann Arbor station and worked on this report some more. I then watched some more of the Titanic documentary on DVD.
����������� I went onto the platform thinking the train was due shortly. However, it was further delayed by waiting for train 355 to pass. While I was waiting, I saw some trespassers and three deer. I photographed the deer.
����������� At one point, I saw smoke coming from across the tracks from the station. I told the station attendant who said there was a homeless camp nearby and they were lighting a campfire. Train 352 arrived 2 hours and 30 minutes late. I filmed the train pulling in.
����������� I was seated in Horizon fleet coach #54536. My train consisted of a P42, five Horizon coaches, a Horizon cafe car with one section having business class seats, and another P42. The train left a few minutes later. I worked on my trip report some more. After my ticket was taken, I went to the cafe car for dinner.
����������� The sun went down. We passed the Norfolk Southern yard. A little while later, we stopped at Dearborn. I'm glad I made the trip to Ann Arbor to pass the time. We departed Dearborn a few minutes later. We slowed down as we crossed a CSX line at a diamond.
����������� The train went around a tight curve to the left. We continued to go slowly. I could see the Detroit skyline from the right hand side of the train. We passed a Detroit DOT bus garage. We stopped at Detroit. We departed a few minutes later.
����������� Shortly after leaving Detroit, we slowed to a crawl as we went around a tight curve to the left. After, we slowly began to pick up speed. We passed a CN freight going the other way. We were traveling faster now, but we were on jointed rail.� We seemed to be traveling through an industrial area. A few minutes later, we stopped at Royal Oak. A lot of people got off my coach. We soon departed. Another passenger seems to have lost his wallet. The train soon departed, but I don't know if the guy found his wallet. I asked the conductor who said he did.
����������� The train stopped in Birmingham, Michigan. After we departed Birmingham, I noticed there was only one other passenger besides myself in the coach.
����������� Soon, we were approaching Pontiac. I readied my stuff in preparation to get off. The conductor asked me to move 3 cars ahead which I did.
����������� Train 352 arrived 2 hours and 23 minutes late. I got off and took some photos.
����������� There were no taxis, so I had to phone one which took more than 15 minutes. It came and I got to my hotel safely. My friend Karl in Chicago said that the Pontiac Amtrak station was in a shady area of town. I checked in and phoned home when I got to my room. I worked on this report some more before I called it a night.
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Professor says law should allow refugees to travel anywhere
Human rights expert calls for freedom of movement for everyone on the planet
Tue, Dec 29, 2015, 01:00
Lorna Siggins
Prof William Schabas, former director of of NUI Galway's Irish Centre for Human Rights, who will speak at Music for Galway's midwinter festival on the theme of "captivity" next month. Photograph: Joe O'Shaughnessy
International law should be extended to allow freedom of movement throughout the planet, a leading human rights expert has said.
Such an extension may be decades away, but it will represent a "giant step" to end captivity, Prof William Schabas, former director of NUI Galway's Irish Centre for Human Rights, predicts.
Prof Schabas, who is due to give a keynote speech at Music for Galway's midwinter festival on the theme of "captivity" next month, said refugees fleeing persecution should not only have a right to asylum but should be able to move where they wish.
Government identifies locations of 26 refugee housing sites
Council of State to test validity of asylum Bill
Citing the experience of Palestinians facing enormous restrictions within and without their own territory, Prof Schabas said captivity involved not only detention, but also much broader notions of freedom of movement.
Prof Schabas, professor of international law at Middlesex University in London, resigned earlier this year from chairing the United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict, amid claims by Israel of bias.
He is acknowledged as a "world expert on the law of genocide" and is the son of Canadian-Jewish classical musician Ezra Schabas.
The imprisonment without trial in Egypt of Irish national Ibrahim Halawa, the situation of detainees in Guantánamo Bay and the countless numbers whose human rights are being breached worldwide will be remembered at the Music for Galway festival, according to artistic director and pianist Finghin Collins.
The festival will stage the Irish premiere of Marc Neikrug's Death Row Memoirs of an Extraterrestrial, which explores "the woes of an alien trapped in a human body". It will also screen The Lady in No 6 – a portrait of the life of Alice Herz-Sommer who survived Theresienstadt concentration camp and died last February at the age of 110. See musicforgalway.ie
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Effect of Transversus Abdominis Plane (TAP) Block Using Either 0.5% or 0.25% Bupivacaine on Analgesia for Cesarean Section Patients When Compared to Placebo.
The primary outcome measure for this study is the number of hours receiving steroid dosing.
A secondary outcome measure will be the difference between daily glucose levels, insulin requirements, and length of stay in the ICU.
Questionnaire#1, Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE).
Questionnaire#2, Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS).
Questionnaire#3, Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised (ECR-R).
Analyze hemodialysis (HD) access creation, arteriovenous (AV) fistula vs Graft, in elderly patients.
The primary objective of this pilot study is to evaluate the efficacy of an IV infusion of clevidipine as an antihypertensive for BP lowering in patients with AAE and elevated BP.
The secondary objectives of the study are to evaluate the safety of an IV infusion of clevidipine as an antihypertensive for BP lowering in patients with AAE and elevated BP.
Incidence of bacteremic infections at 6 months. Incidence of bacteremia as defined by a single positive blood culture that was not thought to be contaminated.
Safety of esophageal stenting by conducting an Omnipaque swallow and by the success of leakage stops and fistula healing.
Efficacy of esophageal stenting by the success of leakage stops and fistula healing.
Relief from the hot flashes as determined by the hot flashes scoring system.
To assess the relative efficacy of the combination of GM-CSF, Thalidomide and Docetaxel in patients with prostate cancer.
Collect data on hormonal responses produced by GM-CSF, Thalidomide and Docetaxel.
Evaluate safety and toxicity of the combination of GM-CSF, Thalidomide and Docetaxel for patients with hormone naïve prostate cancer.
Phase I: To establish the maximally tolerated dose (MTD) and safety profile of RAD001 in combination with Nexavar® in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (MRCC).
Assess the clinical benefit as measured by time to tumor progression of Abraxane plus hormonal therapy when applied to previously untreated patients with unresectable or metastatic adenocarcinoma of the prostate.
Assess safety and tolerability of the study drug regimen. Overall survival Duration of response PSA "lead-time" to symptomatic or radiographic progression.
To evaluate the effect of the combination of ketoconazole and mitoxantrone plus GM-CSF on time to clinical progression in patients with prostate cancer that has progressed on prior therapy.
To evaluate the objective response frequency of the combination of ketoconazole and mitoxantrone plus GM-CSF.
To investigate the safety of ketoconazole and mitoxantrone given in combination with GM-CSF.
To collect data on time to tumor progression produced by the study treatment.
Tumor objective response rate by RECIST criteria to TroVax® and TroVax® in combination with IFN-α.
Evaluate safety and toxicity of the combination of interleukin-2 and Bevacizumab for patients with progressive metastatic renal cell carcinoma.
Astellas Pharma Global Development, Inc.
Profile of sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic accuracy of rapid regadenoson stress CMR.
Evaluate time for performance of rapid regadenoson stress CMR protocol.
Number of participants without any infusional toxicity, occurring within 24 hours of infusion.
Number of participants without any acute rejection, graft loss, or death at 6 months post transplant.
Change in Connectivity as Measured by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) at Baseline as Compared to Post-Listening Exposure at Days 45 and 90.
Change in Motor Function Test Pinch Grip (pounds) at Baseline as Compared to Post-Listening Exposure at Day 45 and Day 90.
Change in Motor Function Test Grip Strength (pounds) at Baseline as Compared to Post-Listening Exposure at Days 45 and 90.
Determine the response rate of this regimen in this patient population.
Determine the progression free survival of this regimen in this patient population.
Determine the safety and tolerability of this regimen in this patient population.
To correlate response rate and progression free survival with pre-treatment and post-treatment NFkB, TRAIL, cyclin D1, histone acetylation, EBV related proteins, and CTA expression.
Change in disease progression in SCA1 and SCA3 as determined by change in scale for the assessment and rating of ataxia (SARA) score over time.
Change in disease progression in SCA1 and SCA3 as determined by change in Composite Cerebellar Functional Severity Score (CCFS) total score over time.
Change in disease progression in SCA1 and SCA3 as determined by change in timed 25 foot walk test (T25FW) over time.
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92 NCT01011257 Withdrawn Studying the Efficacy of Aspirin & Clopidogrel in Healthy Subjects With Stable Coronary Artery Disease.
To look if dual dosing of aspirin and/or clopidogrel will augment antiplatelet efficacy in patients with elevated reticulated platelet turnover.
Compare visual image quality of LGE-CMR when performed with Dotarem or Gadovist in a randomized fashion.
Compare quantitative signal enhancement of LGE when performed with Dotarem or Gadovist in a randomized fashion.
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Jean-Marc ist ein französischer Doppelvorname, der sich aus den Namen Jean und Marc zusammensetzt.

Namensträger
 Jean-Marc Aveline (* 1958), französischer Geistlicher und römisch-katholischer Erzbischof von Marseille
 Jean-Marc Ayrault (* 1950), französischer Politiker (PS)
 Jean-Marc Bacquin (* 1964), französischer Freestyle-Skier
 Jean-Marc Barr (* 1960), französisch-amerikanischer Schauspieler, Regisseur, Produzent und Drehbuchautor
 Jean-Marc Bellocq (* 1957), französischer Langstreckenläufer
 Jean-Marc Bideau (* 1984), französischer Straßenradrennfahrer
 Jean-Marc Birkholz (* 1974), deutscher Schauspieler
 Jean-Marc Boivin (1951–1990), französischer Alpinist
 Jean-Marc Bosman (* 1964), belgischer Fußballspieler
 Jean-Marc Brucato (* 1968), französischer Fußballspieler
 Jean-Marc Bustamante (* 1952), französischer Maler, Bildhauer und Fotograf
 Jean-Marc Chabloz (* 1967), Schweizer Biathlet
 Jean-Marc Chappuis (1924–1987), Schweizer evangelischer Theologe und Hochschullehrer
 Jean-Marc Degraeve (* 1971), französischer Schachmeister
 Jean-Marc Delizée (* 1959), belgischer Politiker (PS)
 Jean-Marc Deshouillers (* 1946), französischer Mathematiker
 Jean-Marc Dinant, belgischer Datenschutzexperte
 Jean-Marc Ela (1936–2008), kamerunischer Befreiungstheologe und Soziologe
 Jean-Marc Eychenne (* 1956), französischer Geistlicher und römisch-katholischer Bischof von Grenoble-Vienne
 Jean-Marc Fabre (* 1964), französischer Kameramann
 Jean-Marc Ferreri  (* 1962), französischer Fußballspieler
 Jean-Marc Foltz (* 1968), französischer Klarinettist
 Jean-Marc Fontaine (1944–2019), französischer Mathematiker
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Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Michael Kim recalls what he learned about his Korean American identity while volunteering in Armenia from 2010 to 2012.
Before departing for his service in Armenia five years ago, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Michael Kim packed up minimal expectations while preparing for that long-awaited adventure overseas. In two years, he welcomed moments that both fulfilled his aspirations and flourished unexpectedly – such as meeting his wife of three years.
"It would be disingenuous to say that I had zero expectations," said Michael, who served as an Education Volunteer from 2010 to 2012. "I expected the language learning to be very difficult and that ended up being true. I thought I wouldn't spend much time with other Volunteers during my service and that ended up being false. I also didn't expect to marry a fellow Peace Corps Volunteer, but I'm happy to say that we'll be celebrating our 3-year anniversary this July!"
While settling into his Armenian village, the Rock Hill resident taught English to students at a local secondary school, facilitated after school programs and developed curriculum and trainings for the school's faculty. He also spearheaded a cross-country awareness walk called "Border 2 Border," which involved two teams of six Peace Corps Volunteers walking from opposite ends of Armenia and touring different villages to conduct daylong workshops on children's health. Today, according to Michael, the awareness walk has since been adopted by new Volunteers and has grown into "something of a Peace Corps tradition in Armenia."
As his large-scale projects gained momentum – even years after his service – Michael learned during his time in Armenia that daily goals he achieved proved just as valuable in the long run.
"Coming into Peace Corps, I had heard time and time again about how one's service will be defined by the small victories and the relationships one builds," he explained. "I thought I had a pretty good handle on this advice, but I had little idea just how small some of those victories would prove to be. Ultimately, I think I learned how to be patient and understood the importance of building relationships, which became my proudest accomplishment."
When it came to forging such connections in his community, the Cornell University alum would often educate his neighbors on his identity as a Korean American in different ways, from teaching his students in English class and cross-cultural workshops to just informing people in daily conversation.
"Before getting to know me, people would often assume I was Chinese," Michael said. "However, the issue of my race never really came up once my villagers got to know me. I came to be known simply as the American Volunteer."
Though he faced some difficulty standing out from the popular majority in Armenia, Michael soon realized that embracing the odds worked even better than beating them as a figure of American diversity.
"Being a minority Volunteer in the Peace Corps will come with a unique set of challenges," Michael explained. "You may find that you're getting more stares than your fellow Volunteers. You may find that some locals will be incredulous when you tell them that you're American. You may even find that some of your fellow Volunteers will have trouble relating to what you're going through."
"However, I told myself that this was all part of why I had joined the Peace Corps," he continued. "One of our goals as Peace Corps Volunteers was to help our neighbors develop a better understanding of America and its people. I felt that I had a unique opportunity to help my villagers understand how America is truly a melting pot of cultures and ethnicities. In other words, I felt that I was there because I was different, not in spite of it."
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Sorry! It's been a little hectic here.
Mom had her 8th knee surgery on Friday and I brought her home on Monday after a whole bunch of mangled communication with the hospital.
So yesterday's myth? That people involved in patient care are capable of communicating clearly.
Anyway, she's home now with her leg in an immobilizer for the next 6 weeks. After that, she starts very gentle physical therapy. I'm just glad she finally got a good night's sleep and she's eating again. And would you believe that she's right now on the phone catching up on 600 messages. Not a typo. 600. Lots of well-wishes, but lots of clients, too. She's just not happy unless she's drowning in work!
Did the rubber band trick work?
I think I eventually figured out that she never deletes her messages. In reality, it was still over 20. As for Monkey Boy, the rubber bands kind of worked. The ones I had weren't thick enough so they didn't last long. Lesson learned, plus a trip to the office supply store for the heavy duty ones! Thanks for the tip!


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Police release video of shootout, attempted carjacking that killed retired Chicago firefighter
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CHICAGO (WGN) — Chicago police are looking for four suspects after a retired firefighter was killed during an attempted carjacking last week.
In an update Monday evening, Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan shared surveillance footage of the shooting. It shows retired Chicago firefighter Dwain Williams, 65, exiting a popcorn store in the 11700 block of West 118th Street at around 2:06 p.m. Thursday.
Three men exit a black sedan as Williams is walking with a bag in hand. He quickly realizes the situation and a shootout ensues. One suspect is possibly hit by gunfire before all three were able to get back into the vehicle and flee.
Williams was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Police found the suspected getaway car, which is believed to be a stolen Ford Fusion, this weekend.
Retired Chicago firefighter Dwain Williams
Community activists Andrew Holmes and Early Walker have added to the reward total, which is now over $30,000.
"Take a close look at this video, if you know this is your loved one, call the detectives," Holmes said. "Sooner or later, you're gonna get a knock at your door and you wish you had."
Williams' wife, Karen Armstrong-Williams, said she is heartbroken.
"He was the rock of our family. Now he's gone," she said after the slaying.
Williams was a highly decorated 65-year-old fire lieutenant who retired just two years ago.
"There's someone out here that knows who these individuals are. Do the right thing, remain anonymous," Walker said. "One of the distinct things in our reward money is that you can receive a portion of the funds immediately. If you need those funds to relocate, to move, we just want justice for that family."
No suspects were in custody Monday evening as Area South detectives continue the investigation. If you have any information, you can leave an anonymous tip at cpdtip.com.


The Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned Jahangir Tareen's counsel over the trust through which the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader bought property in Britain.
A three-member apex bench ─ headed by Chief Justice Saqib Nisar and comprising Justice Umar Atta Bandial and Justice Faisal Arab ─ is hearing a petition filed by PML-N leader Hanif Abbasi which seeks the disqualification of Tareen and PTI Chief Imran Khan over the alleged non-disclosure of assets, existence of offshore companies, as well as receiving foreign funding for PTI.
When asked about the documents pertaining to his argument, Tareen's counsel Sikandar Bashir Mohmand promised the court that he would submit them along with the money trail of the amount that was sent outside Pakistan by his client.
However, the bench appeared dissatisfied with his answer, with the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar commenting that the court had asked for all the documents, including records from the Finance Department, on the first day of the hearing.
Mohmand informed the court that residential land in Britain was bought through Shiny View Limited, an offshore company kept as a trust.
The CJP asked for further explanation of the offshore company and the trust while Justice Umar Atta Bandial asked who the trustee of the trust was.
Mohmand responded that EFG Bank was the trustee while Tareen was the trust settlor. He said that a trust is first made and later bought by an offshore company. In Tareen's case, the trust was created on May 5, 2011.
He said that the documents for the trust and statements of Tareen's children would be provided to the court, but should not be made public.
The court, however, said that it had the powers to ask for any documents it deemed suitable and the lawyer should tell the court why they should be kept secret.
The lawyer further stated that a residential plot worth 2 million pounds was bought through the company and a loan was obtained for its construction by offering the property as collateral.
He said that the company conducts no business activities and Tareen does not have any assets in either the trust or the offshore company.
When asked if Tareen pays off the loan, Mohmand responded that the offshore company pays it back while Tareen funds it via the trust.
"We want to see when and how the funds for the company were sent," the CJP said.
Justice Faisal Arab observed that a public office holder has made a trust using allegedly unlawful funds and does not show them as his assets.
To this, Tareen's counsel responded that making a trust and buying a company is legal. He stated that not even Tareen's children own the house in question.
"The actual question here is about integrity," the CJP said. "Tell us how the money was sent abroad for the company."
Justice Bandial said that Tareen needed to show that he had no control over Shiny View Limited and his directives were not binding on the company.
"Who sends the money to the offshore company?" he asked.
He said that it is unfathomable that Tareen made a house for his children but they are not its beneficial owners and that they can only live in the house but cannot sell the asset.
"Tareen trusted a foreign bank's representatives instead of his own children," Justice Bandial wondered.
"A trust like this is a camouflage for hiding assets," Justice Arab commented.
"What benefit would Jehangir Tareen get from such a camouflage?" Mohmand asked.
He would not have to list it as an asset in his nomination papers, Justice Bandial responded.
Mohmand clarified that Tareen sent his lawful income abroad and that the trust and the company were declared in his children's statements.
Unlike the Avenfield apartments of the Sharifs which had no trail, Tareen has presented the complete money trail, he said.
Presenting details of the property in question, Mohmand said that it is called Hyde House and covers an area of 12 acres. It was bought for 2.1m pounds while an agreement for the construction of the house was worth 2.5m.
The money was transferred through banks, he said.
"Did the tax authorities have access to all of the amount as it was transferred?" Justice Bandial asked.
On this Mohmand said that a foreign currency account is fully protected under the law.
The court adjourned the hearing until Wednesday.


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And OK, I'll admit, Frida wasn't the only one who might have swooned a little. I had a hard time reminding myself that I'm not a teeny-bopper any more . . even though I might have been attending an actual teeny-bopperfest. At least until it came time to get in line to get Frida's CD signed. That's when reality came crashing back, as we found ourselves surrounded by a mob of thirteen- and fourteen-year-old girls, all wearing sparkly low-rise jeans exactly like Frida's, and all clutching slips of paper on which they'd written the name to whom they wanted Gabriel to personalize their CD .
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In this Kit the Fluke 3000 FC Wireless Digital Multimeter is combined with both the Fluke v3000 FC wireless AC Voltage Module and theFluke v3001 FC wireless DC Voltage Module.
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Dedham is part of this community too. When my parents were first married they lived in a town house development owned by Arthur Stivaletta in Dedham not far from where Vinnie Marino's Brickhouse is today. This Dedham Brickhouse is cozy and serves massive quantities of quality Italian food.
A few weeks ago, coming back from an early morning reporting trip in New Hampshire, I happened to spot a new sign on a strip of Bridge Street for Santoro's Sicilian Trattoria. I entered and found a family behind a small deli counter bustling to get ready for one of their first days of business. I ordered "the Agostina," basically a dressed-up version of a classic Italian, and an older woman said to me "that's me. Agostina." She told me how years ago she had owned a bakery in Roslindale Square at which the original John, of John's Bakery, learned his trade. I didn't quite catch the name of this Ur-neighborhood bakery, but I think it was "Aggie's." The new place is run by her peppy daughter, Tina Santoro Asmar, who has so far demonstrated strong culinary instincts.
I've subsequently had three meals at Santoro's — eggplant parmigiana, chicken parmigiana and pizza. I have to say I found the thin-crust Sicilian pizza topped with sausage the best. The sauce was tasty and the thinner-than-usual crust a welcome change from the usual approach to Sicilian pizza I've experienced in New England and New York. The bread and rolls, which I believe are homemade, are also outstanding. I don't think Santoro's will replace the superior "Tutto Italiano," which lies 3 miles away in Readville. But it doesn't have to. I would say that Santoro offers a good new alternative to the other Italian delis in and around Dedham Square.


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Amazing - great move by the company. At the end of the day nothing bad can come from this, only good!!
It might not be a silver bullet, but it's a good idea. As long as they follow through with the idea of merging improvements, I like it.
Hm. From my knowledge of the GPL, this could cause problems. If they're planning on maintaining an open source, and closed source tree (implied by the article), where Desura is a closed source version of Desurium with more features or whatever, they may run into problems. Chromium is licensed under the BSD license, which effectively lets you do anything with the code - that's why they can take all the features into the closed-source Chrome. On the other hand, Desurium will be licensed under GPLv3, so they won't be so lucky - it's fine for their own code, which they can easily change the licenses of, but for the code of others, they will either have to publish the source of Desura (ie making Desura, Desurium), or not use it at all.
Well, I tend to be fairly cynical on the whole, but I'm not sure I agree. The upside of this for Desura is that they'll have to pay less towards development costs.
The upside for the developers is that they've spent their time improving a piece of software which, as it stands, exists solely for the purpose of purchasing. It's equivalent to Scan or eBuyer open-sourcing their web software to try and get people to look for fixes - sure, you're improving software, but in the end they'd just do it themselves, so you're not gaining much. It's like cutting off your left ear to make cutting off your right slightly less painful.
Of course, if you just want a credible Steam alternative, it's probably a great thing to contribute to.
Brilliant. My biggest complaint about steam has always been how rigid their GUI is. As a bit of a coder myself, I love the idea of switching over to something I can readily modify and integrate into my other projects. Unfortunately I don't see a switch being feasible until the program gains popularity, and can contend with steam's social network.
Good luck to them, they have some good stuff on offer.
The Mods for a lot of my favourite game are generally very good, often as good as the original.


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Eva Vivalt Did Not Show QALYs/$ of Interventions Follow a Gaussian Curve
(Epistemic status: I have zero statistics background, but damned if I won't give this a shot anyway.)
In a recent blog post, Robin Hanson said Eva Vivalt's data indicate that the distribution of charity impacts is close to Gaussian, and is not a fat-tailed power law like Effective Altruists claim. If that's true, it pretty much undermines Effective Altruism altogether, because it means that there's not a big difference between a decent intervention and the best intervention.
Suppose the following three interventions had identical effect sizes: feeding people carrots, handing out chess strategy manuals, and deworming.
I hope you're currently wondering what the hell I just asked you to suppose, because the previous sentence was nonsense. You can only talk about the "effect size" of carrots if you're measuring an additional thing besides carrots. The additional thing is probably not "handing out chess strategy manuals", because then the effect size of carrots would be a measure of how good carrots are at handing out chess strategy manuals.
How about if I'm studying "feeding people carrots to make them taller", "handing out chess strategy manuals to make them smarter", and "deworming to eliminate intestinal parasites"?
That's much better! Now it makes sense to talk about effect sizes for these things. There's some amount of taller people get when you give them carrots, some amount of smarter people get when you give them chess strategy manuals, and some amount of dewormed people become when you give them wormicide.
Now what does it mean for these things to have identical effect sizes?
There are actually several reasonable answers, but here's the one I'm seeing in Eva's slides.
Say that the average height is 5'7", and most people are between 5'5" and 5'9". So the usual variation in height is "within 2 inches of average", or a range of 4 inches. When I give somebody a bundle of carrots, they grow an inch. 5'8" plus bundle of carrots equals 5'9". We can express the effectiveness of carrots in terms of variation in the general population: If everybody gets their Height stat by rolling a four sided die to adjust away from human average of 5'7", eating a bundle of carrots gives you a plus one to your Height roll. It's like a 25% bonus to randomness.
Now say that the average IQ is 100, and most people are between 95 and 105: the usual variation in IQ is "within 5 points of average", or a range of 10 points. When I give somebody a chess book, they gain two and a half IQ points. We can express the effectiveness of the book in terms of variation in the general population: If everybody gets their Intelligence stat by rolling a ten sided die to adjust away from human average of 100, reading a chess book gives you a plus 2.5 to your Int roll. It's a 25% bonus compared to randomness.
Then we can (sort of) compare the effect sizes of carrots and chess books: Carrots give a 25% bonus, and chess books also give a 25% bonus.
Is that useful information, though? Why does it matter if carrots give the same size of bonus to growth that chess books give to IQ?
Now if carrots happened to also make people smarter, then comparing effect sizes would be useful. We'd be talking about two different interventions aimed at the same outcome. Furthermore, we could dispense with the standardized statistical effect size stuff, and look directly at the absolute number of IQ points gained from a dollar's worth of chess books, and the number of IQ points gained from a dollar's worth of carrots.
If it turned out that all intelligence interventions gave the same Int bonus per dollar, then we might as well flip a coin to decide between carrots and chess books. Same thing if it turned out that we weren't good enough at measuring things to tell the difference between the effects of carrots and chess books on intelligence. Any time spent "picking the best one" would be wasted.
But what if you don't know how much chess books and carrots cost? And what if you don't know how many carrots are in a bundle? Maybe you know that a "bundle of carrots" - whatever number of carrots the charity is distributing per person - has the same effect as a chess book, but you don't know that the chess book costs four times as much as the bundle of carrots. It would be premature to say that time spent choosing between carrots and chess books is wasted, because if you learned the cost, you'd fund the carrots.
It might even be that the effect of carrots only seems to match the effect of chess books because the carrot people kept putting more carrots into the bundles until a bundle was as good as a chess book, and then they stopped. (Because that's where they reach some socially agreed-upon level of 'statistical significance', perhaps?) Maybe if you put twelve carrots into the bundle instead of six, you get twice as many IQ points as a chess book causes, and for half the price! But you don't know; you just know that as things are now, the carrot charity is making people about as much smarter as the chess charity.
And that, it seems to me, is what Eva's data actually say. When I emailed her for clarification, she said that, "Most of the interventions can't be statistically distinguished from each other for a given outcome." She also said cost wasn't factored in yet (though she suspected it wouldn't change much). So if she's right, then as far as we can tell, all the deworming interventions are currently equally good at killing worms, all the microfinance interventions are equally good at alleviating poverty, and so on for the top 20 international development programs.
If it's true that the top 20 international development programs are just as good at whatever they do as all the other programs they're directly competing with, even when you factor in cost, this has significant implications for Effective Altruism. It means we can stop evaluating individual charities once we've identified the "pretty good" ones.
But there's a stronger claim it's easy to confuse this with. (Eva's presentation was called "Everything You Know Is Wrong", and a couple of her slides said, "Anyone who claims they know what works is lying". I tend to expect confusion when such strong System 1 language accompanies abstract statistical analysis.) The stronger claim is "the top 20 interventions are equally good at saving lives, regardless of how they go about it". If that were true, it would chuck the premises of Effective Altruism right out the window.
If you want to compare two interventions with different outcomes - medicated mosquito nets vs. microfinance - you're going to need some way of converting between malaria and poverty. When we're talking about altruism, the common factor is Quality Adjusted Life Years.
There's some amount of better a person's life is when they don't have malaria, and some amount of time they remain malaria-free after you give them mosquito nets. There's also some amount of better a person's life gets when they're fifty bucks less poor, and some amount of time they stay fifty bucks less poor after you give them fifty bucks. So you can compare bug nets to microfinance through QUALYs once you've got data on 1) effect sizes, 2) how nice it is to be healthy or less poor, 3) how long people stay healthy or less poor once they get that way via bug nets or microfinance.
You need all three of those things. The fact that the effect sizes are identical doesn't matter if a medicated mosquito net is worth orders of magnitude more QUALYs than fifty bucks. Eva's data only include effect sizes.
It doesn't make sense to compare "how many worms a deworming intervention kills" with "how much AIDS a box of condoms prevents" until you know how much those problems affect quality of life, and for how long. So even if all deworming interventions are equally effective, the choice between "deworming" and "condoms" could still be massively important.
And that's the central claim I take EA to be making.
Eva's analysis says nothing about distribution of QUALYs over all EA interventions under consideration. Maybe it's Gaussian after all, but this isn't new evidence either way.
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Uninhibited Fancy Feet
Helpful context: Tortoise Skills page, Effective Rest Days, Inhibition: Game Plan, Tortoise Report 3: Empathy
I was thinking about ways to trick my brain into being more like it is on a rest day, even though there's specific work I plan to do today, when I noticed a feeling of "not being allowed to do that". I inferred that I must have just wanted something and shut down the wanting without even being aware of it. So I examined my recent memory, and found a desire to get a pedicure. (That counts as "noticing an impulse", at this stage, so I tapped my fingers together.)
My natural reaction was to wonder whether it makes sense for me to indulge the impulse, and why I shut it down to begin with. Why am I "not allowed" to get a pedicure? This isn't a new thing; I really like getting pedicures, but I hardly ever do it.
Money is one reason, but it's not sufficient to stop me getting the occasional pedicure just because. Doing things that make me happy is what having money is for. Even System 1 believes that at this point, so it's not where most of the "not allowed" is coming from.
Actually, I'm embarrassed about how beaten up my feet are from running. Although I'm not missing any toenails, the bottoms of my feet are covered in calluses and blisters. I'm averse to making the manicurist deal with them. (I note that this inhibition falls under "taking care of other people", which I've hypothesized is the main kind of inhibition that wears me out.)
What does a manicurist experience when a runner comes in? If I imagine the situation from my own perspective, looking down from my chair, I simulate her with a disgusted look on her face, as though I've been terribly inconsiderate, coming to a nail salon with feet like that. She does her work as quickly as possible, with reluctance and resentment.
Empathy time (gosh, that one's turning out to be so useful!): If I imagine the situation from her perspective, looking at me and my feet, she thinks, "another runner," and goes about her business, doing as much as she can and not worrying about the rest, just like she does every time a runner comes in. Or anytime anyone comes in, really. It changes literally nothing in her routine.
If I try to color in the simulation with a specific emotion, it's the one I'd feel in her position; something like "Her poor feet! I'm glad she came to me to have them cared for properly." When I offer that feeling to my brain with an interrogative tag, beside the "disgust/resentment" hypothesis, it clicks as a correctness feeling, while the other is rejected with a "that's not the real world" feeling.
But back to inhibition: Even if she is disgusted and inconvenienced, I'm paying her to care for my feet. I never signed a contract saying I'd only bring in feet that are already in perfect condition.
This is not an inhibition I endorse. Getting a pedicure is a perfectly good way to help me into a more rest-day-like frame of mind. Decision:
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Inhibition: Game Plan
I benefit a lot from "rest days" that are more about acting on my immediate impulses than about resting physically or cognitively.
Sometimes a rest day is an emergency, because I've completely exhausted myself in a particular way that makes the prospect of serving others feel threatening.
On rest days, I often find that I've suppressed an impulse that I should obviously have acted on, or that I'm in the process of suppressing such an impulse. (Example: I realize that I've been thirsty for the last half hour and have repeatedly denied the urge to get a glass of water because I wasn't done reading an article I set out to read.)
I find social interaction exhausting, especially social interaction with large groups of strangers, even when I'm enjoying myself.
I find social interaction much less exhausting when I drink alcohol.
I am happier when I drink alcohol in a way that feels more like a barrier to emotion being removed than like any particular extra sensation being pleasant. (I sometimes end up sadder if I start out sad.)
I am smarter, in a certain sense, when I drink alcohol. Ideas come more easily, combine with other ideas more easily, and inspire actions (like expressing ideas) that I immediately execute.
A successful rest day feels a lot like being slightly tipsy.
Both rest days and the effects of alcohol feel like they have something in common with the creative state of mind I enter when thinking of a mnemonic image.
Inferences and Speculation:
I ordinarily waste a lot of cognitive resources inhibiting impulses unnecessarily.
Social exhaustion is caused, at least in part, by the same inhibitory patterns that can cause rest days to be emergencies.
I have gained a little control over inhibition under some circumstances (rest days and mnemonics).
Hypotheses:
I will be substantially happier, smarter, and more socially resilient if I learn to be less inhibited.
I can learn to be less inhibited.
What does a failure to apply the skill look like? It looks like subconsciously exerting control to prevent an action whose outcome would be neutral or beneficial. Concretely: I'm riding my bike when I see a certain plant, and want to know what it looks like up close. I don't slow down to find out, even though I don't have any time constraints or other reasons not to slow down besides "I am biking".
(Hm, this suggests I'm attached to my current activity, whatever that might be, by default. And looking at that thought is slightly painful. I'm afraid that if I believe my problem comes from being attached to my current activity, I'll start to frequently tear myself away from my current activity, which will hurt. Message received: If this comes down to needing to frequently pull myself away from my current activity, I'll be sure to find a pleasant, non-damaging way to do so. And I don't actually expect this to be a big problem. Remember what rest days are like? They're happy, not painful. Am I still clinging to being attached to my current activity even given that? No, I think I trust myself with this.)
Success will probably come in two stages. In the first stage, I'll bring my impulses into direct conscious examination, choosing deliberately whether or not to act on them. That would be like noticing I want to know what the plant looks like up close, asking myself whether I should stop to look at it, and then stopping to look at it if I get a "yes". In the second stage, I'll have eliminated the bias toward inhibiting impulses, and I'll act on impulses that seem beneficial or neutral without need for conscious effort. That would look like a smooth motion from wondering what the plant looks like to stopping to look at it.
My first hypothesis for a trigger is "wanting something". I'll tap my fingers together every time I notice myself wanting something (even when I'm not taking the day off). I expect this to be sufficient for the first stage of success; once I'm aware of wanting something, I expect deliberately choosing whether to have it will be easier than not deliberately choosing.
I'll also try exploratory study pf the phenomenology of wanting and inhibition under the influence of alcohol, and during a mnemonics exercise.
I won't be surprised if the second stage of success just comes with practice, but training may turn out to suggest faster or more reliable ways of internalizing the habit.
Do I risk losing important abilities I won't be able to get back if I succeed at this? Yes. I risk automatically acting on impulses it would have been better to inhibit. But this only seems like a risk with the second stage of success, and not with the first. With the first stage I'll be deliberately choosing. To mitigate this, I'll look for sensations that can distinguish helpful inhibition from harmful inhibition that happen before I have an opportunity to notice actual wanting. My goal will eventually be to be able to predict when an impulse I should deny is about to occur, and when an impulse I should indulge is about to occur. The risk isn't obviously worse than the current state of affairs. I'm happy to cross that bridge when I come to it, so I'll go ahead and begin to train "noticing wanting".
Results will be in the next Tortoise Report.
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Tortoise Report 5: Defensiveness
What's a "Tortoise Report"? See the Tortoise Skills page.
Habit: Staying Sane While Defensive
Duration: 2 Months (This one took some time to get a handle on.)
Success: 7/10
Trigger: A feeling of being drawn into my solar plexus and closing a shield around myself for protection from attacks during interactions with other people
Action: Empathy
Result: I'm not sure I've reduced the frequency with which I get defensive very much, which is my long-term goal with this. But the feeling doesn't get the chance to do nearly as much damage.
If I'm defensive and Eliezer says "that sounds like a bad idea," I hear, "your idea is bad and you are bad and you should feel bad". So I fear that he's updated toward "I am bad", and want to persuade him that he's made an error, and in fact I am good. (My attempt is extremely clumsily given my state of unreflection and confusion, of course, and I end up completely undermining it right from the start). I fear he'll enforce "you should feel bad" with further statements that will make me feel worse, so I feel I need to convince him that it's false that I should feel bad. All of that defending, of course, gets tied up with a defense of the idea itself.
It's a giant mess.
He never actually means anything like "your idea is bad and you are bad and you should feel bad". When he says "that sounds like a bad idea", he means something like "I predict that acting on the expressed beliefs and inferences will result in outcomes neither of us wants". Which is blatantly obvious to me the moment I bother to simulate his mental state at all.
Empathy works surprisingly well against defensiveness for me. When I'm defensive, I tend to interpret everything that's said to me as indicating a value judgement, which seems to be where most of the insanity comes from. Now, when I realize I'm defensive, I imagine what it might be like to be the other person, and what states of mind are most likely to be motivating their behaviors. I usually find my defensiveness-motivated interpretation was completely ridiculous, and I have the opportunity to check when it's not so clear. I also have the opportunity to say, "I'm feeling defensive," which can lead to having the rest of the discussion when I'm feeling more secure, or when I've eaten or exercised. But even when, upon reflection, I simulate the other person as actually wanting to hurt me, I end up feeling more compassion for them than any need to protect myself.
I don't yet have an action that reliably leads to me leaving the defensive state of mind, nor a trigger that might allow me to prevent defensiveness in the first place. But being able to not suddenly go completely bonkers when I feel defensive is a pretty big deal.
Side note, one of my main methods when it comes to cognitive habit training is "seek opportunities to practice". That does not seem to work for me with defensiveness. I had a Facebook thread where I asked people to post about a few topics I consider more or less "emotionally triggering" for me, or to post about things they expected would make me defensive, and it totally failed. Lots of great posts, no defensiveness. There was exactly one minor success, which caused something more like "competitiveness" than the thing that makes me crazy. (I felt compelled to spend many hours defending a certain interpretation of Indian Buddhist doctrine and my inferences from it, and to intellectually dominate the people who were wrong.) But for the most part, I felt a lot of closeness and trust with everyone in that thread, especially the people who expressed negative emotions about me specifically. I felt like, "This is beautiful, I wish I'd done this a long time ago!"
Then I tried reading internet criticisms of Eliezer through Tumblr and Rationalwiki. It all felt silly and actually made me kind of happy, I'm not totally sure why but maybe because I'm proud to be serving someone who gets such strange and outrageous criticisms. "I don't get the impression that he's really an earth-shatteringly good mathematician." Also, did you know? Less Wrong "hopes to make humanity more rational, protect the universe from the development of evil(or "unfriendly") AI and usher in a golden era where we will all be immortal deathless cyborgs having hot sex with sexbots on a terraformed Mars." There's some great stuff out there.
I think defensiveness is one of the things that mostly dissolves under scrutiny. I noticed big improvements in my reactions long before I felt like I had any idea what to do with the things I was feeling. There must be some kind of feedback loop in defensiveness that relies on my attention being elsewhere. And if I'm actively expecting to become defensive, the cycle can't even complete its first loop.
Edit: This report should really contain detailed descriptions of my usual experience of defensiveness before training, and my usual experience of defensiveness now.
Unfortunately, my memories of defensiveness before two months ago are far less detailed, since I'd never explicitly paid attention to those experiences. But I do have some vague memories of, for instance, reading one of Person's blog posts criticizing the LW community about a year ago, and I recall stuff like this: Reading the title, I feel a flash of fear/foreboding, plus a strong attraction. While reading the article, I feel compelled to continue reading, the way I'm compelled to keep looking at a car accident for as long as possible while I drive by it. I feel sort of poised to pounce, on high alert for phrases and claims I might be able to use as ammunition. I also feel almost overwhelming "wanting to move away from the possibility of harsh criticisms that might be true". Afterward, it's like there's a movie playing on repeat in my head, containing bits and pieces of the article, anger directed at Person, counterarguments, and fantasies of publicly stomping on them intellectually while everyone else cheers. I probably don't actually write anything (or at least I don't recall ever having done so), but the thoughts themselves feel totally out of my control. There's definitely an absence of awareness of that fact as well, but that's just a retrospective observation about the memories, of course, not a particular thing I felt at the time.
And here's an experience of defensiveness from last night: Late at night I started talking about a thing with Eliezer. He told me that there's a pattern he'd like to break, where I keep waiting until he's much too sleepy to think clearly before I try to talk to him about anything interesting. I started trying to explain why I think it sort of makes sense for that to happen, emphasizing things more under his control than mine, like "whenever you're not tired, you're usually either working or reading, and I don't want to interrupt you at those times". As I was talking, I noticed that I'd been feeling the following sensations: "wanting to hide inside myself for safety", "holding onto something", "fear of losing something", "needing to protect something", "not having a very clear view of what was happening in my mind". I stopped explaining why it made sense for me to end up talking to him late at night, and became curious about what I was afraid of, what I was holding onto, and reasoned that there's probably something I cherish that part of me believes I can only get by talking to Eliezer late at night. The thing I wanted to protect was probably the cherished thing, and being slightly aggressive - convincing him that the things he wants lead to me talking to him late at night, suggesting that he'd have to give up things he wants if he forced me to stop talking to him late at night - served to reduce the risk that I'd lose my grasp on the cherished thing. I offered this hypothesis to my brain with an interrogative tag, and it responded with emotional sensations of "correctness" and "mild relief/security at having been understood". I mostly paused the conversation since he didn't want to talk late at night, but a fantasy version of the conversation continued in my head, and the topic changed to "what exactly do I think I can get only from talking to him late at night, and are there actually ways to get that elsewhere?" This was accompanied by a mild feeling of frustration and maybe indignation that I couldn't have the fantasy conversation out loud at that moment. The fantasy conversation felt deliberate, not obsessive, and it was easy to let go of when I decided to do that.
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Tortoise Report 4: Verbal Processing
Habit: Verbal Processing
Duration: 1 Week
Trigger: Distress or loss of concentration when hearing more than one verbal stream at once, or when reading while people are talking nearby or music with lyrics is playing
Action: Reflective attention (didn't get any farther than that)
Result: I'm much more likely to invite conversation partners away from larger groups, and to immediately put in earbuds playing rain when trying to read or write while hearing music with lyrics. (Previously I'd waste time and attention attempting to focus despite distraction.)
This continues to not look like low-hanging fruit. It's important and I hope to make progress on it eventually, but there are more important things right now.
A Walking Meditation
There is a road stretching from here to a future I imagine.
In that future, there are experts of domain-general reasoning, of prediction, and of cognitive boot-strapping toward accuracy and effectiveness. Many of them have explicit knowledge of how to masterfully wield human intelligence, in the way a present-day fencing instructor knows how to wield a foil. The children there can become such masters in a single lifetime (though to be fair, a single lifetime is probably a lot more than 80 years).
What do you think the bricks on that road are made of?
These bubbles represent possible bricks you yourself could lay on the road to the future I imagine - things that might carry you toward it. What happens when you arrange them in order from the smallest, least important brick to the largest, most important brick?
What are the implications of the fact that you have an answer to that question, even if you're not very confident in your answer?
What is the largest brick you could lay right now?
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Morrisons to offer all NHS heroes 10% off their shopping - here's all the details
The discount will last for the next 12 weeks
Louise LazellSenior Reporter
Morrisons in Melbourne, Chelmsford
Morrisons is offering all NHS heroes a brand new shopping discount during the coronavirus pandemic.
From Thursday, NHS workers will receive 10% off their shopping at all stores across the country.
While many of us sit at home in isolation, our doctors, nurses and hospital workers are working day and night to help care for our loved ones, putting the health of others above their own.
And it's this very reason that Morrisons has decided to give all NHS a discount to support them through this public health crisis.
The discount will last for the next 12 weeks in all Morrisons stores across the country.
NHS Thanks a Million
It is something that has, at some point, touched all our lives.
From cradle to grave, the National Health Service, and the incredible professionals within it who care for us, is a part of British life.
Today, more than ever, we should cherish those who dedicate themselves to our care, heedless of own health as they work tirelessly to care for people in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
We have never needed our doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other carers more.
So let's show them some love, and create a living map of gratitude from every corner of Britain - visit www.thanksamillionnhs.co.uk to drop a heart on the map wherever you are in the world.
By dropping a heart on the map, you're saying you appreciate the efforts undertaken daily in the NHS.
Thanks a million, NHS workers - we love you.
In an announcement on their website, they said that NHS staff are going "beyond the call of duty", as they face "unprecedented challenges" during the coronavirus crisis.
Here's all the details you need to know.
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The 10% discount will come into effect this Thursday as a thank you to the 1.5 million National Health Service workers.
It will then last until July 12, when it will be reviewed.
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Front Mission — серия видеоигр в жанре тактической ролевой игры, разработанная компанией Squaresoft. Первая игра серии, Front Mission, была выпущена в 1995 году в Японии для игровой консоли Super Famicom. Впоследствии она была портирована на другие игровые консоли и получила ряд продолжений. Первые две игры серии были выпущены только в Японии. Третья игра серии, Front Mission 3, стала первой, выпущенной в США и единственной, выпущенной в Европе.

На выставке Tokyo Game Show 2017 была анонсирована Left Alive — находящаяся в разработке компьютерная игра во вселенной Front Mission. Выход игры запланирован на 2018 год на PlayStation 4 и Windows.

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First Kaggle participation with Tim and Fahrad for Machine Learning in Practice (Radboud University). Using convolutional neural networks with Caffe. Too late and average results at best, but tried and learned a lot. Code 80-90% mine, not made for reuse.
First project for the Radboud University course Pattern Recognition in Practice 2015 for the team ''planZ''.
To implement a classifier, which will choose at a node in the species tree, subclass BaseClassifier. E.g. nn_caffe/neural_net.py should be implemented for a neural network.
The installation instructions are at http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/installation.html . The source code is already in the repository at /caffe/ .
You can press ctrl+C to stop following the output; the command will keep running. You can check this with top .
If this says something about merge conflicts, check the files it mentions (you can see again with git status). Some extra stuff has been added, try to fix these files then commit changes.
git commit -m "type a short description here"