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Home » Business » TikTok bans digital currency ads as UK regulator puts them on 'red alert'
TikTok bans digital currency ads as UK regulator puts them on 'red alert'
Business 14 July 2021
TikTok has banned branded digital currency ads on its platform. In an update to its policies, the popular social media platform prohibited branded content relating to financial services such as digital currencies, foreign exchange, forex trading, investment services and more. The ban comes at a time when a U.K. advertising regulator has labeled digital currency ads as an "absolutely crucial and priority area."
TikTok, which has close to a billion monthly users, is one of the globally popular social media platforms. Despite locking horns with the Trump administration, it has experienced explosive growth during the lockdowns. Digital currency influencers have flocked to the platform, shilling their favorite tokens, mostly without any regard for their followers and their financial well-being. TikTok is now out to curb this.
In an update which it quietly introduced in the past week, the platform has banned users from posting any branded content promoting any of the over 15 prohibited industries. These include alcohol, contraceptive products, drug-related products, weapons, age-rated films, sexual products and political content.
It has also prohibited branded content promoting financial services, most significantly digital currencies.
TikTok has become a significant driver of market movements, usually sparked by influencers who pose as subject experts but are only shilling digital currencies for pay. Dogecoin has been one of the biggest beneficiaries. The #DogecoinTikTokChallenge, for instance, became wildly popular, with the participants urging their friends to buy Dogecoin just to pump its price. The memecoin has been known to shoot up all thanks to TikTok promotion.
Influencers have also been known to promote 'worthless' tokens whose sole purpose is pumping and dumping.
Martin Bamford, head of client education at Informed Choice told FT Adviser, "We see a huge amount of this branded content on TikTok, usually from poorly informed commentators, who lure in followers with promises of riches, but in reality are making their money off people signing up via affiliate links."
While branded content is now prohibited, influencers can still shill their favorite coins as long as they don't get paid directly for it. They could stand to gain if their shilled coin pumps without having their accounts restricted by TikTok, leaving a big loophole waiting to be exploited.
Meanwhile, the U.K. Advertising Standards Authority will be taking a keen interest in digital currency ads. Speaking to the Financial Times, Miles Lockwood, the director of complaints at the watchdog stated, "We see this [cryptocurrency ads] as an absolutely crucial and priority area for us. Where we do find problems, we will crack down hard and fast."
Miles revealed that the regulator will be keenly monitoring digital currency ads on social media platforms and will take down any misleading or irresponsible promotions.
The ASA has already cracked down on digital currency ads in the past. In March this year, it banned an ad by U.K. exchange Coinfloor. The newspaper ad contained the phrase, "Today there is no point keeping it in the bank – the interest rates are insulting."
According to the ASA, this ad contained misleading information and targeted pensioners, a group that was unlikely to know much about digital currencies.
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Gordon breaks records with overdue win in Pocono race
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By RICK MINTER / Universal Uclick
Jeff Gordon's drought-breaking 86th career Sprint Cup victory likely will be remembered as a bittersweet one for the veteran driver.
The same rainstorms that played into Gordon's victory at Pocono Raceway also brought lightning that killed one fan and injured nine more, one of whom was in critical condition on Monday.
Gordon lined up sixth for what turned out to be the race's final restart, but surged into the lead when the front two cars of Jimmie Johnson and Matt Kenseth collided on the start.
Before racing could resume, storms hit the track, and the race was called after 98 of 160 laps.
"It's nice to know that things can still go our way," Gordon said. "The way our year has gone, we'll definitely take it like this. With all the things that have gone wrong for us this year, I'm hoping that this is the one that makes up for it all."
When he was told of the situation with the fans, Gordon acknowledged the impact on his victory, one that put him in great position to claim one of the two wild card slots for the Chase for the Sprint Cup.
"That's the thing that's going to take away from the victory, is the fact that somebody was affected by that," he said. "I mean, the fans here are so loyal and avid … so you hate to hear something like that."
Gordon's victory was record-setting on two fronts. He now has six at Pocono, the most of any driver, and his 86 Cup wins give him undisputed possession of third place on the all-time list. Although NASCAR's official records say otherwise, Bobby Allison and most of the sport's historians say he has 85.
And this win didn't come out of the blue. Gordon had a strong enough car at Pocono to drive to the front from his 27th starting position, and he's been competitive in recent weeks.
"All I will say is we've been on a nice streak of finishes," he said. "Even though they haven't been wins, they've been really solid finishes, top 5s, top 10s, that have gotten us further up in the points. That is something to build on, 'cause this year, the way things have gone, we haven't had a lot to build on.
"The last several weeks, we've had something to build on."
Two of Gordon's Hendrick Motorsports teammates escaped Pocono in better points positions than they might have had. Dale Earnhardt Jr. finished 32nd after breaking a transmission, but retained the series points lead. And Kasey Kahne finished second on a flat tire to maintain his position as the top-seeded wild card contender.

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Senior FBI Official Who Took Illegal Gifts From CNN and Lied to Investigators Was Not Prosecuted and Allowed to Retire With Full Benefits
Two more senior government officials who were prominently discussed in text messages exchanged by FBI personnel formerly assigned to the Trump-Russia investigation are leaving their positions.
Mike Kortan, FBI assistant director for public affairs, is set to retire next week, an FBI spokeswoman confirmed. In addition, the chief of the Justice Department's Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, David Laufman, resigned this week, a department spokesman said.
The list of officials frequently discussed in the texts who are no longer in their jobs seems to grow by the day. It includes former FBI Director James Comey, who was fired by Trump; former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe; Comey's chief of staff, James Rybicki; FBI General Counsel James Baker; as well as Strzok, who was booted off the special counsel investigation and sent to a job in the FBI's personnel division.
At the time, this was all hinted at being the move of men with "muh principles" of the highest order refusing to serve the lawless Trump.
Now some more light has been shined upon at least one of the cases .
The FBI's top press officer during the Hillary Clinton and Trump-Russia investigations accepted tickets to a Washington Nationals game from a CNN correspondent and lied about it repeatedly during interviews with the Justice Department's inspector general, according to a report obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. … Kortan accepted Nationals tickets from the reporter at least twice, for a May 9, 2016 game and another on Sept. 30, 2016. He also accepted tickets from a New York Times reporter in either 2014 or 2016.
The OIG report cites text messages which indicate that the FBI official attended the May 9, 2016 game with the reporter. The reporter contacted Kortan on Sept. 27, 2016, offering up four tickets.
"Nats v Marlins Friday night. I have to be away," the reporter wrote on Sept. 27, 2016. "Can you use four tix?"
"I'm good for 2 tix if that's OK," replied Kortan.
Kortan initially told investigators with the OIG in a March 29, 2017 interview, that he reimbursed the reporter for the tickets, and denied accepting any gifts from members of the press.
He also said that he had "probably daily contact" with the CNN reporter to discuss "the news of the day."
When asked whether he paid for the tickets, Kortan was initially adamant that he did.
"I have never accepted them without reimbursement," he said in the March 29, 2017 interview, referring to the tickets. "I always reimburse the amount of the ticket as a routine, just because I do."
But he was actually a lying sack of ordure which the IG discovered by observing that his lips were moving actually visiting the ball park and finding the tickets were in a reserved section.
Like with McCabe, this simply underscores the two-tiered justice system in this country. The elites can break laws with impunity in regards to the handling of classified information or taking bribes and nothing happens. But if you, Joe Citizen, does the same you will be hammered and DOJ will issue a press release spelling out your crimes against the Republic. In this case, despite (or because) of the fact that he was a senior executive who knew better, and who lied on multiple occasions, Kortan was allowed to retire with full benefits. The case was referred to Department of Justice Criminal Division and they declined to prosecute.
At some point, someone needs to remind these people that they are servants, not masters, of the people and the weight of the judicial system should fall much more heavily upon an FBI agent who tells multiple lies to investigators to cover up illegal acts than it should on some run of the mill street criminal.
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Threshold intrauterine perfusion pressures for intraperitoneal spill during hydrotubation and correlation with tubal adhesive disease
V. L. Baker, G. D. Adamson
Objective: To determine the minimum intrauterine perfusion pressure that will produce spill from the fallopian tubes into the peritoneal cavity and to correlate this pressure with the extent of tubal adhesive disease. Design: Hydrotubation was performed at laparoscopy and intrauterine perfusion pressure was measured. The extent of peritubal and fimbrial adhesions was graded at laparoscopy. Setting: Ambulatory surgery suites. Patients: Ten patients with infertility and/or pelvic pain were enrolled in the study. Data from nine patients were analyzed. Interventions: Measurement of intrauterine perfusion pressures. Main Outcome Measures: The minimum pressure that produced spill of dye from each fallopian tube and the correlation between extent of external tubal pathology and this threshold pressure. Results: The median threshold pressure at which dye spilled from at least one fallopian tube was 100 mm Hg, and no spill occurred at pressures < 70 mm Hg. The threshold pressure was correlated negatively with the extent of tubal disease. Conclusions: Fluid with the same viscosity as hydrotubation dye will not spill into the peritoneal cavity through normal fallopian tubes until the intrauterine perfusion pressure exceeds 70 mm Hg. The threshold pressure is higher when tubal adhesive disease that can be visualized by laparoscopy is present.
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Adhesives Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
Perfusion Medicine & Life Sciences 80%
Pressure Medicine & Life Sciences 69%
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Peritoneal Cavity Medicine & Life Sciences 21%
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Baker, V. L., & Adamson, G. D. (1995). Threshold intrauterine perfusion pressures for intraperitoneal spill during hydrotubation and correlation with tubal adhesive disease. Fertility and sterility, 64(6), 1066-1069. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0015-0282(16)57961-8
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In: Fertility and sterility, Vol. 64, No. 6, 01.01.1995, p. 1066-1069.
Baker, VL & Adamson, GD 1995, 'Threshold intrauterine perfusion pressures for intraperitoneal spill during hydrotubation and correlation with tubal adhesive disease', Fertility and sterility, vol. 64, no. 6, pp. 1066-1069. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0015-0282(16)57961-8
Baker VL, Adamson GD. Threshold intrauterine perfusion pressures for intraperitoneal spill during hydrotubation and correlation with tubal adhesive disease. Fertility and sterility. 1995 Jan 1;64(6):1066-1069. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0015-0282(16)57961-8
Baker, V. L. ; Adamson, G. D. / Threshold intrauterine perfusion pressures for intraperitoneal spill during hydrotubation and correlation with tubal adhesive disease. In: Fertility and sterility. 1995 ; Vol. 64, No. 6. pp. 1066-1069.
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using System;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics;
using Steropes.UI.Annotations;

namespace Steropes.UI.Platform
{
  public static class BatchedDrawingServiceExtensions
  {
    public static void Draw([NotNull] this IBatchedDrawingService ds,
                            [CanBeNull] IUITexture texture,
                            Vector2 position,
                            Rectangle? sourceRectangle,
                            Color color,
                            float rotation,
                            Vector2 origin,
                            float scale,
                            SpriteEffects effects,
                            float layerDepth)
    {
      if (texture == null)
      {
        return;
      }

      var rect = new Rectangle((int) position.X, (int) position.Y, (int) (texture.Width * scale),
                               (int) (texture.Height * scale));
      ds.Draw(texture, rect, sourceRectangle, color, rotation, origin, effects, layerDepth);
    }

    /// <summary>
    ///  Special purpose intersection function where the clipping rectangle is assumed to be
    ///  located within the texture rectangle.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="texture"></param>
    /// <param name="clipping"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    static Rectangle ClipBy(this Rectangle texture, Rectangle clipping)
    {
      var x = texture.X + clipping.X;
      var y = texture.Y + clipping.Y;
      var w = Math.Min(texture.Right, clipping.Right + texture.X) - x;
      var h = Math.Min(texture.Bottom, clipping.Bottom + texture.Y) - y;
      return new Rectangle(x, y, w, h);
    }

    public static void DrawBox([NotNull] this IBatchedDrawingService ds,
                               [CanBeNull] IBoxTexture tex,
                               Rectangle layoutArea,
                               Color color)
    {
      if (tex == null)
      {
        return;
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      var corners = tex.CornerArea;
      if (corners.Top > 0)
      {
        if (corners.Left > 0)
        {
          DrawImageFromAtlas(ds, tex,
                             new Rectangle(boxArea.Left, boxArea.Top, corners.Top, corners.Left),
                             tex.Bounds.ClipBy(new Rectangle(0, 0, corners.Top, corners.Left)),
                             color);
        }

        if (corners.Right > 0)
        {
          DrawImageFromAtlas(
            ds,
            tex,
            new Rectangle(boxArea.Right - corners.Right, boxArea.Top, corners.Right, corners.Top),
            tex.Bounds.ClipBy(new Rectangle(tex.Width - corners.Right, 0, corners.Right, corners.Top)),
            color);
        }

        DrawImageFromAtlas(
          ds,
          tex,
          new Rectangle(boxArea.Left + corners.Left, boxArea.Top, boxArea.Width - corners.Horizontal, corners.Top),
          tex.Bounds.ClipBy(new Rectangle(corners.Left, 0, tex.Width - corners.Horizontal, corners.Top)),
          color);
      }
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      {
        if (corners.Left > 0)
        {
          DrawImageFromAtlas(
            ds,
            tex,
            new Rectangle(boxArea.Left, boxArea.Bottom - corners.Bottom, corners.Left, corners.Bottom),
            tex.Bounds.ClipBy(new Rectangle(0, tex.Height - corners.Bottom, corners.Left, corners.Bottom)),
            color);
        }
        if (corners.Right > 0)
        {
          DrawImageFromAtlas(
            ds,
            tex,
            new Rectangle(boxArea.Right - corners.Right, boxArea.Bottom - corners.Bottom, corners.Right,
                          corners.Bottom),
            tex.Bounds.ClipBy(new Rectangle(tex.Width - corners.Right, tex.Height - corners.Bottom, corners.Right, corners.Bottom)),
            color);
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        DrawImageFromAtlas(
          ds,
          tex,
          new Rectangle(boxArea.Left + corners.Left, boxArea.Bottom - corners.Bottom,
                        boxArea.Width - corners.Horizontal, corners.Bottom),
          tex.Bounds.ClipBy(new Rectangle(corners.Left, tex.Height - corners.Bottom, tex.Width - corners.Horizontal, corners.Bottom)),
          color);
      }

      if (corners.Left > 0)
      {
        DrawImageFromAtlas(
          ds,
          tex,
          new Rectangle(boxArea.Left, boxArea.Top + corners.Top, corners.Left, boxArea.Height - corners.Vertical),
          tex.Bounds.ClipBy(new Rectangle(0, corners.Left, corners.Top, tex.Height - corners.Vertical)),
          color);
      }
      if (corners.Right > 0)
      {
        DrawImageFromAtlas(
          ds,
          tex,
          new Rectangle(boxArea.Right - corners.Right, boxArea.Top + corners.Top, corners.Right,
                        boxArea.Height - corners.Vertical),
          tex.Bounds.ClipBy(new Rectangle(tex.Width - corners.Right, corners.Top, corners.Right, tex.Height - corners.Vertical)),
          color);
      }

      // Content
      DrawImageFromAtlas(
        ds,
        tex,
        new Rectangle(boxArea.Left + corners.Left, boxArea.Top + corners.Top, boxArea.Width - corners.Horizontal,
                      boxArea.Height - corners.Vertical),
        tex.Bounds.ClipBy(new Rectangle(corners.Left, corners.Top, tex.Width - corners.Horizontal, tex.Height - corners.Vertical)),
        color);
    }

    public static void DrawImage(this IBatchedDrawingService ds, IUITexture image, Vector2 position, Color tint)
    {
      ds.DrawImage(image, new Rectangle((int) position.X, (int) position.Y, image.Width, image.Height), tint);
    }

    public static void DrawImageFromAtlas(this IBatchedDrawingService ds,
                                          IUITexture image,
                                          Rectangle destinationRectangle,
                                          Rectangle? sourceRectangle,
                                          Color color)
    {
      ds.Draw(image, destinationRectangle, sourceRectangle, color, 0.0f, Vector2.Zero, SpriteEffects.None, 0.0f);
    }
  }
}

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Dheeraj Mahajan, MD, CMD (2018) — Dr. Mahajan designed an initiative to reduce the incidence of urinary tract infection (UTI) in nursing home patients transferred to emergency departments.
Anuj Bhatnagar, MD, CMD (2017) — Dr. Bhatnagar teaches nursing and front-line staff about the fundamentals of assessing urinary tract infections (UTIs) in older adults.
David Smith, MD, CMD (2017) – Dr. Smith educates prescribers about acute UTIs and the use of antibiotics.
American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology
Kristin Sokol, MD (2016) — Dr. Sokol works to improve care for asthma patients and reduce overtesting for food allergies.
American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
Sean Donahue, MD (2016) — Dr. Donahue's efforts include initiatives to ensure children don't get glasses they don't need.
Jean Ramsey, MD (2016) — Dr. Ramsey has led efforts to defeat state legislation mandating pediatric comprehensive eye exams, instead requiring that all children undergo vision screening prior to starting kindergarten.
American College of Emergency Physicians
Carolyn Holland, MD (2018) — Dr. Holland and the QUEST team at the University of Florida created care pathways and embedded clinical decision rules into their electronic health record as guided by each of the ACEP Choosing Wisely recommendations. They have since measured decreased use of low-value care as a result.
Keith Kocher, MD (2018) — Dr. Kocher leads the MEDIC team, which uses data from hundreds of thousands of patients in Michigan to implement and assess initiatives to reduce unnecessary CT scan use in the ED, in line with Choosing Wisely recommendations. (Individual Award).
Henry Zeng, MD (2018) — Dr. Zeng created a system to identify patients appropriate for hospice care and link them to services directly from the ED. Dr. Zeng also created a didactic curriculum on palliative care in his department. (Resident Award)
Mark Baker, MD (2017) — Dr. Baker led a system-wide Choosing Wisely committee at Hawaii Pacific Health System in Honolulu, Hawaii; promoted incorporation of Choosing Wisely recommendations and decision-support tools into their electronic medical record; and gave numerous lectures and interviews on best practices for incorporating Choosing Wisely recommendations into emergency care.
Christina Creel-Bulos, MD (2017) — Dr. Creel-Bulos launched a program at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri to promote use of palliative care in the emergency department and led teaching sessions for both residents and nurses to support this change in practice.
David Zodda, MD (2017) — Dr. Zodda and his team at Hackensack University Medical and Trauma Center designed and implemented a series of institutional paradigms based on Choosing Wisely recommendations, including one focused on appropriate spine imaging.
American College of Radiology
Jeffrey P. Kanne, MD (2017) – Dr. Kanne helped create multiple ACR Appropriateness Criteria and reduced routine ordering of daily chest radiographs for patients in intensive care, and routine pre-operative chest radiographs for asymptomatic, low-risk patients.
American Geriatrics Society
Rebecca Dobert (2019) – A champion of age-friendly health systems, Ms. Dobert has led change to enhance screening for cognitive and functional impairment and markedly improved documentation of health care proxies and advance care planning in the inpatient and outpatient settings at Baystate Medical Center Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Care.
Alina Sibley, APRN, BC (2018) — At Baystate Medical Center, Ms. Sibley led a Geri-Pal interprofessional outpatient team that facilitated training for nurses and other Baystate staff, which helped reduce the use of restraints, antipsychotics, and benzodiazepines—a critical priority from the American Geriatric Society Choosing Wisely recommendations.
Eric Anthony Lee, MD (2017) — As co-chair of the High Risk Drugs in the Elderly Committee for Kaiser Permanente, Southern California, Dr. Lee is a recognized authority on appropriate prescribing for older men and women.
Ariel Green, MD (2016) — In addition to incorporating Choosing Wisely in her practice, Dr. Green has helped educate her colleagues, patients and families through local, national and international meetings.
Heidi Ann Courtney (2016) — Courtney's work has resulted in more than a thousand drug adjustments for patients, including an effort aimed at delirium prevention that decreased incidence from 20.8 to 15.1 percent in the first year.
Amy Jennings, OTD, OTR/L (2020) Dr. Jennings is an occupational therapist, providing services in a hospital-based outpatient neurorehabilitation setting. She presented the Choosing Wisely recommendations at the Washington Occupational Therapy Association (WOTA) annual conference in October 2019, focusing on the use of purposeful activity and generation of intervention ideas.
Cindy Kief, ND, COTA/L (2020) Ms. Kief is the academic fieldwork coordinator and professor in the occupational therapy assistant program at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College. She developed a form for students to use while completing Level II fieldwork to determine how closely the facility adheres to the Choosing Wisely recommendations.
American Medical Society for Sports Medicine
Anuruddh Kumar (A.K.) Misra, MD (2016) — An early adopter of Choosing Wisely, Dr. Misra incorporates regularly uses Consumer Reports' Choosing Wisely materials to help educate patients on a one-on-one basis in his clinical practice.
American Society for Clinical Pathology
Gary W. Procop, MD, MS, MASCP (2019) — Dr. Procop pioneered test utilization analysis at the Cleveland Clinic health system by introducing effective methods to control unnecessary testing, applying algorithms to electronic measures. With other pathologists and specialists in internal medicine, Dr. Procop initiated evidence-based analysis of utilization patterns and contributed to the identification of circumstances in which tests are ordered in an inappropriate manner.
Inova Laboratory Test Utilization Best Practice Team (2019) — Inova Health System Laboratories has successfully implemented several single test utilization control measures to create simple, rule-based order options related to CBC automated differential testing, BNP order guidelines, and CK-MB reflex order. With these simple changes, many unnecessary tests were reduced. The team also took on an ambitious project to create "Interval Test Allowance Rules" to control duplicate testing and unnecessary repeat testing based on clinically accepted interval rules.
Red Blood Cell Utilization Project Team, UCLA Health (2019) — UCLA Health utilized IT-enabled strategies to increase the number of guideline-indicated red blood cell transfusions and decrease the number of routine two-unit transfusions. Along with educational efforts, the initiative resulted in a sustained and continued improvement in overall red blood cell ordering practices.
Charlene Bierl, MD, PhD (2019) — While director of clinical laboratories at Cooper University Hospital, Dr. Bierl and her team developed high-level metrics to monitor the financial impact of utilization efforts, as well as feedback reports for ordering clinicians. Two of her published studies examine the impact of weekly feedback on test ordering patterns and cost per case mix index-adjusted hospital day as a measure of effective laboratory utilization efforts in a growing academic medical center.
Stephen Sibbitt, MD, MBA, FACP (2019) — Dr. Sibbitt is leading an initiative to achieve "Medicare Break Even" within the flagship hospital of Baylor Scott & White Health. He is guiding a multidisciplinary team to reduce unnecessary expenses related to reduction in length of hospital stay, unnecessary lab and radiology utilization, inappropriate utilization of high cost medications, and cost-inefficient variation in provider practice.
Rana Nabulsi, PhD, FACHE, MSc, CPHQ, SSGB (2019) — Dr. Nabulsi, a consultant in the Head of Quality Assurance Unit in the Pathology and Genetics Department at Dubai Health Authority, has promoted the Choosing Wisely guidelines in her training, meetings, and utilization committee, and has done speaker sessions for the same. She has implemented Choosing Wisely guidelines in her organization and conducted operational activities such as moving from ESR to CRP and limiting Vitamin D testing to only high-risk categories.
Ila Singh, MD, PhD (2018) — Dr. Singh created the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) document on test utilization, and her membership on the national committee on Lab Test Utilization and Stewardship that co-authored the consensus document on the subject.
Curtis A. Hanson, MD (2018) — Dr. Hanson led the incorporation of laboratory utilization rules into the inpatient hospital practice and Mayo's clinical decision support tool.
Diane George, DO (2018) – Dr. George led a group at Henry Ford Medical Group in Detroit, MI to establish a baseline of ordering volume and developed an analytics tool to monitor total volume, as well as highlight low and high utilizers. Within the first year of implementation, the number of Vitamin D orders decreased from 685 per month to 150 per month, and the number continues to decrease at an annual rate of 23 percent.
James Littlejohn, MD, PhD (2018) – Dr. Littlejohn evaluated data pulled from the operating room's electronic medical record and worked with a team to produce an intuitive user interface for the perioperative transfusion dashboard. The team then strategized the best approach to begin a perioperative blood management campaign, and produced and administered a survey on perioperative red blood cell transfusions.
Heather Signorelli, DO (2018) — Dr. Signorelli for created laboratory stewardship programs for two hospital markets that led to an annual savings of over $2 million.
Jack Jordan, MA (2017) — As Director of Performance Excellence and Quality at Henry Ford Health System, Dr. Jordan worked to make the utilization of laboratory services evidence-based, safer and compliant with Choosing Wisely recommendations.
Meghan Kapp, MD (2017) — Dr. Kapp served as a founding member and co-chair of VUMC's Choosing Wisely steering committee, educating house staff and faculty about the potential harm of daily labs, encourage discussions of lab results and the need for future labs during rounds and provide data feedback with peer comparisons.
Christopher Polage, MD (2017) — Dr. Polage published peer-reviewed research that contributed to the Infectious Diseases Society of America's (IDSA) Choosing Wisely recommendation for clinicians to avoid testing for a Clostridium difficile infection in certain situations.
Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Pathology (2016) — The Division of Laboratory and Molecular Medicine within the Department of Pathology hosts a highly active, division-wide laboratory utilization management program that includes participation from all division faculty.
Cedars-Sinai Health System (2016) — Cedars-Sinai has seen an annualized cost savings of more than $6 million and improved the quality and safety of care from implementing Choosing Wisely recommendations across the health system.
Geisinger Health System (2016) — The Geisinger Medical Laboratories has tackled various test utilization opportunities in anatomic and clinical pathology using a variety of modalities to effect change.
Dana Altenburger, MD, FASCP, FCAP (2016) — Dr. Altenburger has decreased inpatient blood product usage by 46% over three years.
Ilan Rubinfeld, MD, MBA (2016) — Dr. Rubinfeld has spearheaded several laboratory-related initiatives and projects.
American Society of Echocardiography
Patrick Hughes, MD (2016) – Dr. Hughes and his colleagues developed a tool called The Guide to Ordering Stress Tests to help referring physicians recognize when a stress test may not be appropriate for a patient – either because the patient was too low-risk for the test to be helpful or the patient was at such high-risk that a stress test might actually be harmful.
Adam Binder, MD (2018) — Dr. Binder and his colleagues at Montefiore Medical Center developed a process improvement initiative to increase the appropriate use of vancomycin for neutropenic fever over a 10-month period. This initiative led to a 17 percent increase in appropriate prescribing.
Ming Lim, MD (2018) — Dr. Lim helped implement a centralized hospital-wide protocol that coordinated testing and treatment of patients suspected to have heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT), which led to improved testing and management of these patients and substantial reduction in the use of direct thrombin inhibitors.
Prakash Vishnu, MD (2018) — Dr. Vishnu and his team at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL, designed and set up an electronic medical record-based restrictive RBCt program as part of a quality initiative at Mayo Clinic's hematopoietic stem cell therapy center. Clinicians, hematology trainees and nurses were educated about this program with weekly didactic sessions, pamphlets, and verbal instruction for two months. The intervention ultimately led to a significant decrease in transfusions and an estimated cost reduction of over $22,000.
Yulia Lin, MD (2017) — After observing a patient who was eventually determined to have iron-deficiency anemia (IDA) repeatedly visit the emergency department and receive repeated transfusions, Dr. Lin and colleagues worked to reduce inappropriate transfusions for patients with the same condition.
Matthew Schefft, DO (2017) – Dr. Schefft and colleagues used individualized pain plans (IPPs) to reduce pediatric emergency department admission rates for children with sickle cell disease presenting with vaso-occlusive crisis (VOC), a frequent event for children with the disease.
Marc S. Zumberg, MD (2017) – Dr. Zumberg and his colleagues worked with the College of Pharmacy and local blood bank to create institutionally approved indications for use of recombinant VIIa (rVLLA), prothrombin complex concentrates (PCCs) and blood products.
Maria Juarez, MD (2016) – To address variability in blood utilization across Baylor Scott & White Health's hospitals, Dr. Juarez and her colleagues developed an institutional clinical practice recommendation, modified transfusion workflow in the electronic health record (EHR), and launched an educational campaign ("Why Give 2 When 1 Will Do?"), resulting in single-unit transfusions increasing by approximately 17 percent.
Javier Munoz, MD (2016) – Dr. Munoz and his colleagues at Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center implemented an intervention designed to test whether an automatic alert in an EHR could remind clinicians to carefully weigh the anticipated benefits against the risks of post-treatment imaging scans for patients with lymphoma, and resulted in reducing the overall number of imaging studies from 48.3 to 25.3 scans per month.
Ravi Sarode, MD (2016) – After discovering approximately 85 percent of thrombophilia tests at UT Southwestern's two teaching hospitals were ordered incorrectly or incompletely, Dr. Sarode's team developed local guidelines and implemented them in the EHR via a series of cascading questions that providers must answer before ordering tests. After implementation of the intervention and an associated education campaign, UT Southwestern has reduced thrombophilia testing for inpatients in the university hospital by more than 90 percent.
American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
Sudip Saha, MD; Joseph Lodato, MD and Nancy Ortiz, MPH, CPHQ, PMP (2019) — For a multi-pronged approach to optimize nuclear cardiology testing and improve safety at Kaiser Permanente, Mid-Atlantic states (Virginia, Maryland and Washington, DC)
Benita Philip, DO; Barbara Schechter, DO; Denise Kale, CNMT and Renee P. Bullock-Palmer, MD, FASNC (2019) — For development of a patient-centered, cost-effective algorithm utilizing 99mTechnetium-Pyrophosphate imaging to diagnose ATTR cardiac amyloidosis
Anirudh Kumar, MD; Paul Cremer, MD; Rory Hachamovitch, MD, FASNC and Wael Jaber, MD (2019) — For a study on the impact of a novel myocardial perfusion imaging risk classification scheme on referral for coronary angiography, revascularization, and mortality
Chris Johnson, MD; Nadine Gauthier, MD; Angeline Law, MD; Eugene Leung, MD and Calvin Thompson, MD (2018) – The winners from The Ottawa Hospital spearheaded the project, Feasibility & Initial Results of a Decision to Test Algorithm Using DASI in Operable Lung Cancer Patients.
Sarah Cuddy, MB, BCh, BAO; Yin Ge, MD, Ron Blankstein, MD, FASNC; Marcelo Di Carli, MD; Sharmila Dorbala, MD, MPH, FASNC (2017) – For their project, "Advanced Protocol Planning in Nuclear Cardiology to Enhance Care Delivery" at Brigham & Womens Hospital in Boston
Felix Krainski, MD, Besiana Liti, DO and William Lane Duvall, MD, MASNC (2016) – Drs. Krainski, Liti, and Duvall were selected as winners of ASNC's Choosing Wisely Challenge for their submission "An Outpatient Pathway for Chest Pain Visits to the Emergency Department Reduces Length of Stay, Radiation Exposure and Is Patient-Centered, Safe and Cost-Effective" that proposed a novel testing algorithm for low-risk patients presenting to the emergency department.
Mitchell Humphreys, MD, Peter Black, MD and Ithaar Derweesh, MD (2017) — As part of their participation in the AUA Leadership Program, Drs. Humphreys, Black and Derweesh conducted a membership survey focused on adherence to Choosing Wisely statements, with a focus on the AUA's first list of recommendations, and worked with electronic medical record vendors to incorporate clinical decision support into systems to alert providers to the AUA's recommendations.
Danil Makarov, MD (2016) – Dr. Makarov has conducted research on physician adherence to clinical practice guidance documents that demonstrate the need for educational tools to inform appropriate care.


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As Solly Lew lurks, Myer board takes pay cut in bid to avoid spill
October 26, 2018 — 12.05am
Myer directors have taken a pay cut and will be pushed to buy up shares in the troubled department store operator, as the company tries to stave off a second shareholder strike on pay and with it, a potential board spill.
Meanwhile, the total pay packet of the company's new chief executive, John King, will remain frozen at the same overall value as that of his predecessor, Richard Umbers, at $1.2 million. Mr King, who joined the company in June, will not receive any short-term bonuses until 2020, the company said.
Myer's chairman, Garry Hounsell, saw his pay packet cut by $50,000 to $300,000 in the wake of the group's almost half-billion loss reported in September - with his pay already sliced from the $400,000 paid in 2017.
Myer CEO John King, who joined the company in June, will not receive any short-term bonuses until 2020.
The board's non-executive directors will take a $30,000 cut in their fee, which will drop to $120,000. They will also need to purchase shares in the company worth at least one year's fee - a requirement they will need to meet within three years.
Myer faces the risk of a second strike on pay at its November 30 AGM, after shareholders handed the company a 29.3 per cent vote against its remuneration report last year. Companies including Telstra and Tabcorp have already received strikes amid a fractious AGM season, while APA narrowly avoided a strike on Thursday.
Fellow retailer JB Hi-Fi also came close on Thursday, with a 21.65 per cent vote against its remuneration report.
Under Australia's two-strikes ruke, two successive shareholder votes against a company's remuneration report over two years trigger a resolution on whether to spill the board. This would be a particularly intriguing prospect at Myer, where directors are bracing for another stoush with dissident shareholder Solomon Lew after he recently requested an update of the retailer's share registry.
Mr Lew, whose listed Premier Investments owns almost 11 per cent of Myer, has been a vocal critic of the company and has agitated for his own directors to be appointed to the board.
The retailer's annual report, released to the securities exchange on Thursday, also revealed that Mr Umbers received a termination payout of more than $540,000, which Myer said was the minimum payment required under the terms of his employment.
Mr Umbers stepped down from the under-siege department store chain in February, amid falling sales and profits.
Mr King will also be required to hold shares worth 75 per cent of his annual salary package, Myer said. Shares closed 3 per cent down to 47.5c.
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Ruth Williams investigates corporate governance, crime, financial regulation and whistleblowers.


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Categories // Disease Area // Cancer biology and pathology
Viral-gene therapy could improve breast cancer reconstruction surgery outcomes
25 Jan 2018 Breast | Cancer biology and pathology | News | Preclinical research and trials
Researchers have demonstrated that a novel viral gene therapy could protect healthy tissue from the harmful side effects of radiotherapy. The team believe the clinical application could extend to preventing radiotherapy side-effects in women who have had breast reconstruction surgery and spare women a second operation to repair the damage caused by delayed side-effects.
The findings from the study, conducted by researchers from The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust (both London, UK), were recently published in Science Translational Medicine.
In order to appraise the protective features of the viral gene therapy, the team injected rats with a modified and harmless version of a type of virus termed lentivirus. The virus delivered extra copies of a gene termed SOD2, which plays a key role in limiting the stress response to the harmful particles released by radiotherapy.
The team then delivered a second viral treatment in order to block the activity of another gene termed CTGF, which is involved in the scarring response to radiotherapy.
To ensure that the protective effect was isolated to solely healthy tissue and to model the situation in which the gene therapy would be delivered in the clinic, the viral therapy was injected into blood vessels in tissue before it was transplanted.
In transplanted rat tissue treated with a combination of SOD2 and CTGF gene therapy, the tissue shrunk by 15% whilst the tissue of untreated rats shrunk by 70%.
Additionally, the tumours in rats that had been treated with the gene therapy responded more favourably to radiotherapy, with tumour growth stopped for 40 days in four out of five animals.
"We have developed a new viral gene therapy that can help healthy tissue protect itself from the damage caused even by modern, more precise forms of radiotherapy. Now that people with cancer are surviving longer, it is increasingly important to address the long-term impact of cancer treatments," explained Kevin Harrington from The Institute of Cancer Research.
Furthermore, the team observed that SOD2 and CTGF did not increase in the area outside the transplanted tissue, confirming that the tumor cells were still vulnerable to radiotherapy.
"It's exciting that the new viral treatment has successfully protected healthy tissue and at the same time also improved outcomes in rats, and it raises the real possibility that this could become a new way of improving quality of life in cancer patients," commented Paul Workman from The Institute of Cancer Research.
Sources: ICR press release
Updated 19 December, 2018
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MONALEESA clinical program: a review of ribociclib use in different clinical settings
Treatment options for triple-negative breast cancer with Ahmad Awada
Breast cancer researcher, V. Craig Jordan, appointed CMG by Queen Elizabeth II


Thursfields Solicitors has helped a Midlands business couple to realise their dream of owning and running a holiday park by the seaside.
Thursfields' acted for Joanne and Warren Dixon's £1.5m purchase of Calloose Caravan and Camping Park, near St Ives in Cornwall, and on the set up of a new trading company to run and develop the business.
The Dixons, based in Redditch, were already owners of two local exhibitions and events companies, but had long desired to move into a more rural leisure business.
Joanne Dixon, aged 36, said: "We've been running successful local businesses for years but have always dreamed of doing something different, and having a lifestyle change at the same time.
Thursfields' Worcester office handled the project with Gareth Burge, director of the Corporate & Commercial team, leading the business transaction, assisted by senior associate solicitor Tim Edwards. Michelle O'Hara, director of the employment team, advised on the employment side.
That local knowledge came from associate solicitor Katie Williams, of Thursfields' Commercial Property team, who advised on the purchase of the site itself.
Katie said: "The Dixons are already successful business people in Redditch and were looking for a new venture in the holiday park sector.
The Calloose site, which has 25 static units and 108 electric pitches for campers and caravanners, is now being fully refurbished before reopening in May.
The Dixons, who between them have four children aged between 11 and 27, are selling their Redditch home to move down to Cornwall to be close to the new business.
As a result, they are restructuring their existing local firms, Abbey Display and Inside Out Events, to be managed in their absence.
Calloose Caravan Park Ltd has two other shareholders, Jonathan and Alison Cox, who are already based in Cornwall as the site's management team.
The business currently employs three people full-time and up to 20 seasonal workers, although Mrs Dixon said they hoped to increase staff numbers once the business is fully developed.


The ECF Board have decided to institute monthly grading lists. I have advised and the board have accepted that an Elo system would be the most appropriate algorithm, although there is a consultation on this. There is a lot of detail missing from this proposal which can be sorted when more is settled about administration. This document gives a direction of travel.
As many games as possible should be graded.
At least in the early stages, there should be tolerance of delayed reporting, particularly for leagues and internal club results.
There will need to conversations with interested parties on what might replace the categories used in the current list. At present a player becomes inactive as opposed to active, if there have been no graded results in the latest year. At present there is a category F grade which gives an indication of strength, but is not treated as an acceptable grade for some purposes. These is issues are parked for when the ECF is closer to settling the mechanics. A proposal of those mechanics is set out below based on statistical analysis aiming at the Board's requirements.
There will be extended deadlines for the July list to facilitate late reporting and corrections. This will be the principal list.
Each month, all previous monthly lists after the last principal list will be recalculated to take into account late reported results.
All results dated in the last month, plus some brought forward (see below) are collected and current grades assigned to each player. These records are then duplicated so that there is a record of each result is considered for a player point of view with each opponent.
The ug results are first graded and these grades are inserted into the gu and ug groups. These groups are then combined with the gg group and all these results are then graded for each player.
The uu group are carried forward to the next month for potential grading then.
Each ungraded player will be deemed to have drawn with an 1850 graded opponent as an extra result on initial grading.
The k factor will be 20 except that in a month where a junior player has outperformed expectation, then the k factor will be 40.
These grades are to be used for grading calculation only. Some sifting will be required for seeding or section limits, as outlined above.
I have much affection with the current ECF system and would defend it against alternatives for six monthly lists. However it does not outperform Elo and the efforts to maintain a 30-result average, where possible, makes it relatively cumbersome. For adult players there would be no reason to change, but the junior calculation is not fit for purpose on a monthly basis. The smaller samples obtained increase the, likely rare, unconnected and therefore ungradable groups not linked to the main network. The calculation can also be unreliable where the link to a graded player is through other ungraded players. Finally the theory assumes that results are all independent which is acceptable in large samples, but at the other extreme two players just playing each other gives rise to total dependence.
Moving to Elo means that players only have to understand one formula whether FIDE or ECF.
At present all half results are allocated a grading and this method continues this practice. As I understand it monthly lists are advocated for players who want more instant updates on performance, it would seem that this argument is stronger for that initial grade.
Various methods were investigated by grading all results for the years 2012-2016, both standard play and rapid play, and testing the progressions. The key indicators were: inflation or deflation measured in several ways including a split by seniors and juniors, "stretch" being the underperformance of the stronger player against their expectation, percentage of results graded, volatility of monthly change, and number of active graded players.
Both the FIDE and Yorkshire Grading System worked well for adult players, but did not handle junior improvement satisfactorily. The Yorkshire system is more complex, and it is not clear how to fix the junior problem.
The FIDE system in an English context is materially deflationary for junior player grades with contamination into adult grades. There are two reasons for this embedded in its methodology: 1. Where juniors play each other both get a k factor of 40; so there is reallocation with no recognition of general improvement. 2. The calculation of initial rating is biased downwards. Also since players must wait 5 rated games to be rated just under 10% of half results are discarded. The "stretch" in FIDE ratings deteriorates over 5 years. The ECF stretch is fairly good and this is embedded in the starting grades. There are signs that the FIDE stretch performance is levelling off, but the modifications proposed slightly improve on current ECF.
The proposal can be viewed as a modified FIDE system addressing these issues. The inclusion of an initial dummy result is an idea that Jeff Sonas has aired for the FIDE method. It provides stability to the list and since most of the new players will be juniors, tends to anticipate their improvements. The 1850 was selected as it optimises the stretch statistic in the fifth year and maintains the average grade. The k=40 boost for overperforming juniors appears, over the period, to inject the right amount for junior improvement to stabilise average list grade.
The use of an initial grade based on one result continues what happens under the existing method. It is quite clear that this grade would be inappropriate for seeding or section limits. The FIDE system uses a higher k factor for the first 30 rated results and does not rated anyone without 5 rated results. It appears that the higher k factor period adds as much noise as it does for reliability. There is no evidence to suggest that the period improves any of the key indicators mentioned above. The proposal goes for simplicity and inclusion.
As grading manager for many years, I am aware of how fragile a grading system can be. Stability depends on a reasonably constant profile of entrants and exits. Fortunately this has been the case in recent times. This proposal meets the enduring issues encountered in all rating systems in a relatively simple way, focusing on the key issues. It appears to work well over a recent 5 year period.


You're working away at your computer when suddenly, up comes an error message or worse, your computer comes to a screeching halt. Deciphering what computer problemsyou have and how to fix them can be difficult, especially if you don't know as much as you'd like about your PC. Here are five common computer problems that system repair software can help you fix.


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Extracts from my notes written chiefly soon after the close of the war
Josiah Gorgas (1818-1883) was a General and Chief of Ordnance for the Confederate States Army; later, president of the University of Alabama.
The collection includes a typescript copy of General Gorgas' notes concerning the arms and artillery of the Confederate States Army during the U.S. Civil War. Gorgas reports on the distribution of rifles and muskets at the beginning of the war, the resources needed to supply the armies with arms and ammunition, the manufacture of infantry, artillery and cavalry equipment; the organization of the Bureau of Ordnance; the transfer of guns to the South; and his role in coordinating everything from his post in Charlotte, NC. Gorgas makes observations about specific types of artillery, such as the Napoleon Field Gun and the Borman Fuze, and describes three explosions at Confederate arsenal laboratories. A list of principal issues from the Richmond Arsenal, July 1, 1861 to Jan. 1, 1865, is also included. A copy of a 1911 letter from Gorgas' son William C. Gorgas to General William Crozier says that President Jefferson Davis used extracts from these notes in a book about the Confederacy.
The typescript copy was made at the Birmingham District Ordnance Office, April 8, 1926.
Papers of Jesse Addison Udall
John C. Delbridge Diary
World War I Poster Collection
World War II Poster Collection


Dr. Alexander Yadegari is a board certified orthodontist originally from Vancouver, Canada. After completing his dental education at the University of Sydney, he worked in private practice in Australia before completing a two-year Advanced Education in General Dentistry program at the University of Connecticut. He subsequently completed his specialty training in the field of orthodontics at Jacksonville University. Dr. Yadegari is an active member of the American Board of Orthodontics, American Association of Orthodontists, Southern Association of Orthodontists, and Florida Association of Orthodontists. As part of his orthodontic residency, he conducted research that explored whether prospective patients would be willing to pay more for shorter orthodontic treatment times. He has been trained in a wide variety of orthodontic techniques including interceptive and comprehensive treatment, multidisciplinary treatment and Invisalign.
In his spare time Dr. Yadegari enjoys spending time with his wife Nickoe, working on his tennis game, and adding to his ever-growing sneaker collection.


In doing some research on the nutritional value of whole wheat flour, I came up with some interesting facts. When researchers analyzed more than 13 international studies involving more than 15,000 people they concluded that the people that got the most fiber had a substantially lower risk of developing colon cancer. Researcher also estimated that if people would increase their amount of fiber intake by 39 grams a day, they could lower their risk of cancer by as much as 31 percent.Our bodies produce an enormous amount of free radicals on a daily basis. Free radicals are harmful oxygen molecules that have lost an electron. These molecules go racing through our bodies grabbing extra electrons wherever they can find them. In the process they damage cholesterol in the bloodstream. This makes the blood sticky and more likely to stick to the artery walls and cause a heart attack. Researchers have found that people who ate more whole wheat bread had a much lower risk of heart disease.Honey has trace amounts of minerals and B vitamins. In larger quantity consumption honey can aid in the speed of healing wounds, ease ulcer pain and relieve constipation and diarrhea.
Blackstrap molasses is an excellent source of manganese and copper. It is a very good source of iron, calcium, potassium and magnesium. In addition, blackstrap molasses is a good source of vitamin B6 and selenium. When using the above recipe I sometimes increase the molasses to two tablespoons and add ¼ c sun flower seeds.This recipe is one that I use two or three times a week. It takes less than fifteen minute to prepare. There is very little clean up, just a few utensils. We toast it for breakfast in the morning adding a little peanut butter. The grand children love it and you know they are getting the nutritional benefits that are needed to grow up healthy.


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Danny Boyle to head Shanghai film festival jury
The British film-maker rides a wave of approval in China, with censors relaxing strict quotas on foreign-made films to permit wide release of his Slumdog Millionaire
Ben Child
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Wed 25 Mar 2009 13.12 EDT First published on Wed 25 Mar 2009 13.12 EDT
Things are looking up ... Danny Boyle in Beijing for the Chinese premiere of Slumdog Millionaire. Photograph: Andy Wong/AP
His Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire is a love letter to Mumbai, but its rags-to-riches story of a young orphan who rises from the slums to win a gameshow has found Danny Boyle favour across the border in China. The movie was recently approved for wide release by the country's famously restrictive censors, and Boyle was today named jury president of the 2009 Shanghai international film festival.
Speaking at the premiere of his film in Beijing, Boyle described the appointment as "fantastic". He said he had never been on a festival jury before but added that he would not make a list of criteria by which to judge the films in competition.
"It's very rare in normal life, going to a cinema, that you know nothing about the film," he told the Xinhua state news agency. "You should always approach those films with a completely open mind. And that's what I'll be doing."
Slumdog Millionaire, which won eight Oscars last month, opens across mainland China from tomorrow. Weng Li, spokesman for the film's distributor, China Film Group, said he was confident Chinese cinemagoers would considerably boost the film's global box office, which currently stands at more than $200m (£137m).
Tang Lijun, the festival's general manager, said: "Slumdog Millionaire is a perfect example for the cultural exchange between the eastern and western world."
Last year, the Shanghai film festival jury was presided over by Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai. This year's event runs from 13-21 June.


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Q: Are deltas on Thinking Sphinx polymorphic indexes updated when association has been modified? In my index file I have delta turned on and have setup my polymorphic index like such:
polymorphs colorable
indexes colorable.description

However, when the colorable's description changes it appears that the index is not updated. A manual ts:index is required for the changes to reflect.
I am not using realtime indexing however the deltas seem to work just fine.
Do polymorphic indexes get updated when the association is updated? If not, what is the best way to handle this?
Thanks

A: Association updates - whether polymorphic or standard - do not automatically update the parent model's delta flag. You'll want to add a callback in your colorable models to update the delta flag in the parent model whenever that colorable model is saved.
There's an example in the documentation - about halfway down the page under the 'Deltas and Associations' section: http://freelancing-gods.com/thinking-sphinx/deltas.html

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U of A Bookstore
University of Arkansas Bookstore meets all of the requirements to be LEED certified, however, due to time and budget constraints the official certification could not be secured before the start of construction.
The goals of the U of A Bookstore are to help reduce our carbon footprint on both the U of A campus, NWA area, and nationwide. We are working towards our sustainability goals by doing the following:
We utilize natural lighting whenever possible. Our lighting system uses a control panel that dims all Bookstore lighting as it gets brighter outside.
We strive to produce minimal waste. Business materials are reused to the furthest of their extent whenever possible.
We intentionally selected a centralized location on campus so all on campus deliveries, whenever possible, could be done on foot. This also allows for our location to be a main receiving area for the entire campus to lesson the gas used to deliver to the campus community.
Our retail bags are 100% recyclable and biodegradable.
We are the campus cell phone, printer cartridge, and battery recycling hub.
We recycle both rechargeable and non-rechargeable batteries, printer and toner cartridges, and cell phones. Our bins that accept these items can be found around campus in the following locations:
Administration Building, 4th floor
Facilities Management, past the key office
Grad Ed Building, 1st Floor Student Lounge
Kimpel Hall, 1st Floor
Old Main, 5th Floor
Uptown, 1st Floor West Wing
On Campus Sustainability Events
The University of Arkansas is a leader in campus sustainability efforts, in large part due to its commitment and dedicated resources to reduce its environmental impact and neutralize its carbon footprint.
Our daily habits on campus are becoming more sustainable. Over the past five years, U of A has improved our recycling diversion rate from 25% to 32%, reduced waste sent to the landfill by 10% per student, reduced building energy use—both per square foot of building space and per student, doubled the number of bike loops on campus, and invested over $15 million on campus in energy conservation and efficiency. There's more to come, with an additional $23 million of energy and water conservation improvements planned for installation in campus buildings over the next 24 months.
The University will lessen its enviromental impact:
Through education of students and citizens about environmental stewardship and sustainability.
Through research to develop knowledge and technologies that facilitate sustainability and improved environmental stewardship.
By committing to become a carbon neutral institution as soon as it is practical.
By committing to become a zero-waste institution as soon as it is practical.
By serving as an exemplar of environmental stewardship for our community, Arkansas, and the world.
Recycling and Waste Minimization
Razorback Recycling
Razorback Recycling is responsible for the collection, processing, storage, and marketing of all recyclable materials from the University's educational and general purpose (E & G) facilities. Recycling services may be purchased by campus auxiliaries, student living groups, and recognized University organizations. Razorback Recycling diverted about 35% of solid waste produced on campus to recycling markets, for a total of more than 500 tons of paper, glass, aluminum, plastic, and 17 other types of materials each year. If it can be recycled, U of A has a means and a market for diverting it from our landfill.
There are over 900 bins located in buildings across campus, allowing opportunities to recycle white paper, mixed paper, cardboard, cans and bottles.
The University of Arkansas Computer Store is offering a technology trade-in service for the University of Arkansas community. Electronics that are brought in to the store will be evaluated based on their condition – like new, good, or busted. Many devices, including smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles, and laptops, can be exchanged for a U of A Bookstore gift card to be used in the Computer Store, Bookstore, or any of the four Razorback Shop locations.
Students, faculty, staff and community members who would like to participate in the trade-in program may bring their personally owned electronics by the Computer Store in the U of A Bookstore to get an estimate. If the device doesn't have a trade-in value, the Computer Store also offers electronic recycling at no charge.
It's as easy as 1, 2, 3:
Bring your device into the Computer Store and an associate will determine one of three conditions:
Like New: unit has no flaws, scratches, scuffs, cracks or dents, must either be or appear brand new and fully functioning
Good: unit looks good, may have minor scratches or scuffs, but no cracks or dents and must be fully functioning
Busted: unit is damaged, has missing parts or is not functioning
Agree to the value provided by our national trade-in company, and give the associate your device
Get your gift card for the value of your trade-in
Deskop/Laptop
Printer/Copier/Scanner
Cell Phone/Smart Phone
Tablet/E-Reader
Non-Accepted Materials
Any electronics with fluid
CRT monitors and televisions
LCD monitors and televisions
Solder pastes/solder guns
Bio-fluids/medical equipment
For your convenience you may drop inks/toners and any batteries except lithium primary batteries into the appropriate receptacle located in the following locations:
Administration Building 4th floor
Facilities Maintenance – past the key office
Grad Ed Building 1st floor student lounge
Kimpel Hall 1st floor
Mullins Library lobby
Old Main 5th floor
The Parking Spot in the Harmon garage
Uptown 1st floor west wing
TRADE IN FAQ
Visit U of A Computer Store for assistance in evaluating the trade-in eligibility of your device. This is a quick and simple process of examining the device and answering a few questions. After confirming the information, you will be given a quote. If you accept the quote at the time you will be given a U of A Bookstore gift card for the value of the quote in exchange for your used device. Once your exchange is processed, you will no longer have access to your trade-in device, so be sure to copy any important data prior to trade-in! All items will be securely wiped before being re-circulated or recycled and all stored information will be unattainable.
What kind of technology do you accept for trade-in?
iPhones, iPads, iPods, Tablets, E-readers, Laptops, and MacBooks are just some of the items offered. We are adding more devices; at better prices, on a regular basis to better serve our customers.
Once a quote is entered, and you have accepted the quote, the U of A Computer Store will issue payment for your trade-in in the form of a gift card for the trade-in value. This is the only eligible form of payment available and can be redeemed for any item purchase in the U of A Bookstore, Razorback Shops and Computer Store, including credit towards new devices.
What can I use the gift card for?
Anything in the store! The gift card you will receive is not limited to certain products or departments. If you want to use your gift card for clothing or textbooks; go ahead! If you are considering that new Apple product you've always wanted, feel free to use your gift card towards the purchase. As an added bonus, your gift card never expires. Use it until the amount on the card is gone!


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//  Created by bestkai on 2017/3/15.
//  Copyright © 2017年 bestkai. All rights reserved.
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#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@interface NSString (BKSystem)

/**
 *  获取app  Version
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/**
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/**
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/**
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The Basilica of Santa Maria Novella of Florence has been for centuries the reference point of the religious order of Dominicans and it is one of the most important monumental complexes in Florentine scene. Visit the Church and the environments of the Museum of Santa Maria Novella, where art and spirituality merged together. The church is composed by many chapels decorated with frescoes by Domenico Ghirlandaio, Filippino Lippi, Paolo Uccello and many others. The amazing Stories of the Genesis are painted on the walls of the Green Cloister, the Cloister of the Dead, so called for his ancient cemetery function; the Spanish Chapel is famous for its intact frescoes by Andrea di Bonaiuto; you\'ll find also the Last Supper by Alessandro Allori inside the Refectory, and the Chapel of the Florentine Ubriachi family. The complex preserves important masterpieces like the two Crucifixes of Giotto and Brunelleschi, and the Masaccio\'s Holy Trinity. The original church was situated outside the city walls, it was called indeed Santa Maria tra le Vigne (\"between vineyards\"). Consecrated in 1094, you can still admire some remains of the ancient building under the current sacristy.


How do you combat an escalation of violent crimes and deadly clashes between police and the public? By bringing a water pistol to a gun fight.
Apple has revealed a set of new emoji coming to its iOS 10 update this autumn, including the notable redesign of the revolver emoji as a plastic water pistol.
The new characters and "beautiful redesigns of popular emoji" adds a greater scope of gender diversity to Apple's emoji offering, including female athletes and professions, single parent families and a rainbow flag.
The move to replace the revolver with a water pistol would appear to follow Apple's recent strong stance against weapon emoji: the tech group joined Microsoft in objecting to the inclusion of a marksmanship rifle emoji amongst a release of 72 new designs. Tabled as part of a series of Olympic emoji set to celebrate this summer's Rio games, Apple and Microsoft were successful in ensuring the design wouldn't receive a full colour design.
The redesign of the revolver emoji has been well received by anti-gun groups in the US: the New Yorkers Against Gun Violence (NYAGV) group, which set up the website disarmtheiphone.com last year, praised Apple's move. "Apple has stood up to the bullying tactics of the NRA and gun industry by showing that there are many more life-affirming ways to express oneself than with a gun," said Leah Barrett, NYAGV's Executive Director.
Here's the full set of Apple's redesigned emoji, headed to handsets this autumn.


The biggest scare from Dover, Massachusettes, in the 1970s was caused by a small humanoid creature known as The Dover Demon. There are multiple witnesses who had the "luck" to encounter this little demon. Although there are many cryptozoologists interested in this creature, it disappeared.
How does The Dover Demon look like?
Due to the big number of witnesses, we have a really accurate description of the demon. People described it as the very well known "gray aliens". Although it had a different skin. The demon's skin being described as a rosy orange. It has a small thin humanoid body. And a really big head compared to the size of the body. It has glowing eyes. Some reported them as orange, others as green.
The Dover Demon walks on all four. Although, people described that it sometimes walked as a human and then went back to all fours. Switching between the two. The creature is also naked. It does not wear any clothes.
Although it had been compared to the gray aliens, it does not present the traces of high intelligence. It does not communicate. The Dover Demon only wanders around on its own, sometimes bumping into humans.
The first sighting of The Dover Demon took place on April 21, 1977. At 10:32 pm, three seventeen years old boys were driving north from Farm Street. Bill Bartlet, the driver, spots on the left side of the road a creature creeping along a low wall of loose stones. Although he firstly though that it was just a dog or cat, getting closer changed his mind. The headlights of his car uncovered a weird creature that looked nothing like a pet. The creature didn't get scared by the lights. It even turned to face them.
Unfortunately, Bartlet was the only one of the three boys who saw the creature. It all happened in the matter of a few seconds as the car passed by The Dover Demon. Later the boy went home, told his father what he saw. And he even draw a sketch.
The second witness of The Dover Demon is John Baxter. The 15 year old left his girlfriend at around midnight and continued his way home. He walked already about half a mile when he sees someone or something approaching him. He calls out multiple times with no response. They keep approaching each other, until the creature stops. Than Baxter asks "Who Is That?".
Due to the dark sky, the boy sees only a shadowy humanoid figure. He tries to take a closer look, stepping toward the figure. But it quickly ran away. Not being as easily scared as I am, Baxter followed the creature to a shallow wooded gully. The he sees the creature clearer, being only 30 feet away from him. The boy looks at the creature several minutes, until he realizes that he never seen something like that before. And he starts to feel uneasy. He backs off slowly and then walks away really fast. When he gets to Farm Street, a couple picks him up in their car and drive the boy home.


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Phuket Vegetarian Festival 2011: Participants Pierce Faces With Skewers In Thailand (GRAPHIC PHOTOS)
This vegetarian festival might turn spectators away from meat -- even though it turns people into shish kebobs.
Participants in the Phuket Vegetarian Festival in Thailand pierce their faces with skewers, knives, drill bits, umbrellas and even model helicopters as a part of the annual body purification ceremony.
Believed to have been celebrated by the city's Chinese community since 1825, the tradition started in the Kathu district, the home of many Chinese residents and shrines, according to a festival website.
When members of a visiting Chinese opera troupe fell ill in Phuket amidst a deadly outbreak of disease, the performers realized they had failed to honor two Taoist gods on the first nine days of the ninth Chinese lunar month, according to lore.
After adopting a vegetarian diet, the performers recovered -- wowing the locals.
Every year since, Chinese residents of Phuket have held the Vegetarian Festival, abstaining from meat, alcohol and sex. Other festival guidelines include wearing white and keeping clean -- especially when it comes to kitchen utensils, according to PhuketVegetarian.com's list of 10 festival rules.
People who are mourning and women who are pregnant or menstruating are urged not to attend the celebration, the site notes.
Worshippers start the ceremony by rising "go teng" poles into the sky at dusk, according to the Phuket Gazette.
The poles, which are adorned with nine lanterns for the gods, remain upright until the end of the festivities when they are lowered, meaning the gods have gone back to the heavens, the paper notes.
Many participants don't eat meat for the last three days of the festival, which stretches from Sept. 27 to Oct. 5, this year, according to the International Business Times. Some choose to go vegetarian for the entire duration of the rite, a Phuket tourism website notes.
But the festival is best-known for a more extreme act of devotion.
Participants called "ma song" or "mah song" -- meaning "horses of the gods" or "spirit mediums" -- inflict pain on themselves, absorbing bad energy to keep it away from their communities.
Some of the ma song, who say their bodies are taken over by gods during the festival, dress in white and stride across hot coals or climb and descend ladders made of knives.
Others stick things through their faces.
SEE GRAPHIC PHOTOS OF THE VEGETARIAN FESTIVAL:
Phuket Vegetarian Festival
In processions with fireworks and drummers -- believed to help drive away evil spirits -- the ma song march through the city.
According to a festival website, people become ma song for two reasons -- they are either specifically chosen by the gods to play the role, or they have received a bad omen and are hoping to alter their fate.
By sticking foreign objects -- which range from blades to firearms -- through their cheeks, many ma song believe they can keep bad karma away from other people.
"I know that the spirit pierces my cheeks with the object, with no anesthetic, but I feel no pain at all," ma song Khun Uten told Phuket.com. "It's lucky that, in my case, he never uses any of the large, frightening objects you see some ma song carrying."
"Every time my body is taken over by the god, I know what's going to happen, and I want to stop it," the 35-year-old Phuket native and father of two, who has pierced his face at the festivals since he was 15, told the website. "I want to run away. But, as I said, my body is not mine anymore and I cannot resist."
WATCH GRAPHIC VIDEO FROM A PREVIOUS YEAR'S FESTIVAL:
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Phuket's Vegetarian Festival
A devotee of the Chinese shrine of Kathu Shrine, pierces his cheeks with skewers during a procession of Vegetarian Festival on October 4, 2011 in Phuket, Thailand. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Getty Images)


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package hex.schemas;

import hex.DataInfo;
import hex.glrm.GLRM;
import hex.glrm.GLRMModel.GLRMParameters;
import hex.svd.SVDModel.SVDParameters;
import water.api.API;
import water.api.KeyV3;
import water.api.ModelParametersSchema;

public class GLRMV3 extends ModelBuilderSchema<GLRM,GLRMV3,GLRMV3.GLRMParametersV3> {

  public static final class GLRMParametersV3 extends ModelParametersSchema<GLRMParameters, GLRMParametersV3> {
    static public String[] fields = new String[] {
				"model_id",
				"training_frame",
				"validation_frame",
				"ignored_columns",
				"ignore_const_cols",
				"score_each_iteration",
				"loading_name",
				"transform",
				"k",
				"loss",
                "multi_loss",
                "period",
				"regularization_x",
				"regularization_y",
				"gamma_x",
				"gamma_y",
				"max_iterations",
				"init_step_size",
				"min_step_size",
				"seed",
				"init",
                "svd_method",
				"user_y",
                "user_x",
                "expand_user_y",
                "impute_original",
				"recover_svd"
		};

    @API(help = "Transformation of training data", values = { "NONE", "STANDARDIZE", "NORMALIZE", "DEMEAN", "DESCALE" }, gridable = true)  // TODO: pull out of categorical class
    public DataInfo.TransformType transform;

    @API(help = "Rank of matrix approximation", required = true, gridable = true)
    public int k;

    @API(help = "Numeric loss function", values = { "Quadratic", "Absolute", "Huber", "Poisson", "Hinge", "Logistic", "Periodic" }, gridable = true) // TODO: pull out of enum class
    public GLRMParameters.Loss loss;

    @API(help = "Categorical loss function", values = { "Categorical", "Ordinal" }, gridable = true) // TODO: pull out of categorical class
    public GLRMParameters.Loss multi_loss;

    @API(help = "Loss function by column (override)", values = { "Quadratic", "Absolute", "Huber", "Poisson", "Hinge", "Logistic", "Periodic", "Categorical", "Ordinal" }, gridable = true)
    public GLRMParameters.Loss[] loss_by_col;

    @API(help = "Loss function by column index (override)")
    public int[] loss_by_col_idx;

    @API(help = "Length of period (only used with periodic loss function)", gridable = true)
    public int period;

    @API(help = "Regularization function for X matrix", values = { "None", "Quadratic", "L2", "L1", "NonNegative", "OneSparse", "UnitOneSparse", "Simplex" }, gridable = true) // TODO: pull out of categorical class
    public GLRMParameters.Regularizer regularization_x;

    @API(help = "Regularization function for Y matrix", values = { "None", "Quadratic", "L2", "L1", "NonNegative", "OneSparse", "UnitOneSparse", "Simplex" }, gridable = true) // TODO: pull out of categorical class
    public GLRMParameters.Regularizer regularization_y;

    @API(help = "Regularization weight on X matrix", gridable = true)
    public double gamma_x;

    @API(help = "Regularization weight on Y matrix", gridable = true)
    public double gamma_y;

    @API(help = "Maximum number of iterations", gridable = true)
    public int max_iterations;

    @API(help = "Initial step size", gridable = true)
    public double init_step_size;

    @API(help = "Minimum step size", gridable = true)
    public double min_step_size;

    @API(help = "RNG seed for initialization", gridable = true)
    public long seed;

    @API(help = "Initialization mode", values = { "Random", "SVD", "PlusPlus", "User" }, gridable = true) // TODO: pull out of categorical class
    public GLRM.Initialization init;

    @API(help = "Method for computing SVD during initialization (Caution: Power and Randomized are currently experimental and unstable)", values = { "GramSVD", "Power", "Randomized" }, gridable = true)   // TODO: pull out of enum class
    public SVDParameters.Method svd_method;

    @API(help = "User-specified initial Y", required = false)
    public KeyV3.FrameKeyV3 user_y;

    @API(help = "User-specified initial X", required = false)
    public KeyV3.FrameKeyV3 user_x;

    @API(help = "Frame key to save resulting X")
    public String loading_name;
    // public KeyV3.FrameKeyV3 loading_key;

    @API(help = "Expand categorical columns in user-specified initial Y")
    public boolean expand_user_y;

    @API(help = "Reconstruct original training data by reversing transform")
    public boolean impute_original;

    @API(help = "Recover singular values and eigenvectors of XY")
    public boolean recover_svd;
  }
}