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Firefighters prepare meals, give back to community
Kara Vensel, The Monroe News
Debbie Revard of Monroe was so thankful for the Thanksgiving meals she picked up from Mindy Hudson, wife of City of Monroe firefighter paramedic Chad Hudson Wednesday, November 24, 2021. The Monroe Firefighters International Association of Firefighters held its annual dinner as a walk-up or drive-up event at Oaks Village in Monroe.
The City of Monroe's fire department carried on their tradition of serving those in need this Thanksgiving season.
The annual Thanksgiving dinner, which is hosted by the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 326, was held Wednesday at Oaks Village.
Alexis Braggs and Christopher Pippens of Monroe picked up three Thanksgiving dinners prepared by the City of Monroe firefighters and paramedics Wednesday, November 24, 2021.
Union treasurer and Monroe City fire fighter and paramedic, Chad Hudson, has been in charge of organizing the dinner for the last three years. Hudson said that in the past, fire fighters funded the majority of the dinner themselves. But now local donations cover most of their needs.
"The last three years we've had so many donations from businesses in the area and private donors…," Hudson said. "In the past we've had to pay for probably half the stuff and now most of it is covered through donations, either monetary or actual items that are donated that we ask for."
Hudson said the crew starts preparing the turkeys and hams days in advance and prepares all of the sides - like mashed potatoes and gravy, corn, stuffing, and cranberries - the day of the event. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the event is no longer held inside. Instead, the crew assembles each meal to be picked up and taken to go.
"The guys look forward to doing their parts in the kitchen and contributing. It's a lot of work but they really enjoy it," said Hudson. "In the six years that I've worked for this department and that I've been a part of this in some way shape or form, we sit right around 1,000 meals (served)."
Hudson said he and his crew are happy to be able to give back to the community that they serve.
"We go on runs in this community a lot obviously, and we see people that are in hard times no matter what year it is…you see people that are really struggling, so it's nice to be able to give them this," he said. "This is such a staple in this community that they know that on this day, this meal is here."
Debbie Revard expressed gratitude as she picked up six meals on Wednesday for herself and other friends.
"This is a godsend…I give a couple (meals) to other senior citizens," said Revard. "This whole (Oaks) Village is a godsend…all of it."
City of Monroe Fire Chief Rob Wight, firefighter Daryll Yarger and Nicholas Hudson, son of firefighter Chad Hudson, start plate the Thanksgiving meals which were given out to folks outside at Oaks Village in Monroe Wednesday, November 24, 2021.
Daryll Yarger is also a fire fighter and paramedic for the department and is largely responsible for helping to secure donations each year. Yarger, who has sat as a member on the labor council for the last seven years, said the relationships he's been able to foster within the community have helped with this task. This year, 45 turkeys, 33 hams, 5 cases of stuffing and about 1,200 cookies were donated by various organizations and businesses.
"It's been a blessing having these relationships and I've told every donor that we've had we can't do this dinner without them," Yarger said. "This community dinner is really done by the community and our donors. We just cook it and provide it."
Firefighter/paramedic Chad Hudson with the help of his wife Mindy Hudson and daughter Josie, 6, wheel out the Thanksgiving dinners to handout at Oaks Village in Monroe Wednesday, November 24, 2021.
Monroe Firefighter/paramedics Matt Tata and Frank Palumbo put the final touches on the stuffing, which was part of the Thanksgiving meals they provided for pickup at Oaks Village in Monroe Wednesday, November 24, 2021.
Sherri Iacoangeli is the wife of retired fire fighter Paul Iacoangeli and has been helping with the event for over 20 years. Sherri helps to gather dessert donations from local businesses. She said she looks forward to being able to give back to her community.
"A lot of people don't know how lucky they are, and I've always been lucky, so why not do something for somebody else?" she said. "I just like doing it for the community, and to me, if it's something that you like to do, its not work."
One of the Thanksgiving meals prepared by the Monroe firefighter/paramedics Wednesday.
Oaks of Righteousness pastor and founder, Heather Boone, said she looks forward to the firefighters hosting the event at her community church each year. She said it has become a staple that community members rely on, and expressed gratitude for all of the hard work done by the fire department.
International Association of Fire Fighters Local 326 held its annual Thanksgiving dinner in Monroe on Wednesday, November 24, 2021.
"I live next door to the firehouse, so I watch them go on runs all day long," Boone said. "I know how hardworking they are, I saw how hard they worked during COVID… The fact that they give back to the community on top of all that is just amazing."
The fire department received donations from numerous individuals, businesses and organizations including United Auto Workers Local 723, the Monroe County Education Association, Eddies family restaurant, Merkle Funeral Home, Plumbers and Pipefitters, Gerdau Steel, Amayas Mexican Grill, Lume Cannabis Co., Monica's Baker Boy, Cakes by Stephanie, Monroe St. Tim Hortons, and Mrs. Fields.
This article originally appeared on The Monroe News: Firefighters prepare meals, give back to community
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Australia's first diabetes social media summit!
In the three years of my diabetes diagnosis, I have to admit that this was my first time participating in World Diabetes Day (WDD) celebrations. In fact it wasn't until last year that I realised November 14th is World Diabetes Day. If every WDD celebration was like the one just passed, I have definitely been missing out!
Did you know World Diabetes Day is held annually on the 14th of November in honour of Frederick Banting's birthday who helped discover insulin with Charles Best in 1922.
It all kick started with an invite to Australia's first ever Diabetes Social Media Summit (OzDSMS). Safe to say, this was my first invite to a summit of any kind. Hence, as the day drew closer, my excitement grew. Amidst my excitement there was also a hint of complete and utter panic. This was beyond my comfort zone and I had no idea what to expect. Yet I was comforted by knowing that some familiar names from our weekly Diabetes Online Community (DOC) chats were going to be there. The purpose of the OzDSMS was more than just a get together for those identified as leaders in Australian diabetes social media. It was definitely a lot more than all the food pictures that flooded the #OzDSMS twitter stream the night before at the cocktail party. In case you missed out, here's a brief recap on the amazing food we had at the D.O.C in Carlton (great venue choice by the way).
Our waiter introducing our selection of entrees.
As the famous saying goes, good food is made better with great company, which we were not short of that night.
After the festivities and ice breaking at the cocktail night, we got straight down to work the next day bright and early. Following an inspiring talk from Kerri Sparling from sixuntilme.com (@sixuntilme) on her journey with diabetes and social media. Particularly, how the online diabetes online community has helped her throughout tough times. It then struck me how large our diabetes online community actually is. I have made friends from all over the world, thanks to our tweetchats with people from the DOC. True to what Kerri says, no matter what time it is, there will be someone online whom you can talk to (thank you time zones!). This was reflected again when Simon (@STroyCrow) told us his journey with his diabetes and how DOC gave him reason to keep living. Check out his story on twitter at #SimonPalooza and the heart warming Youtube video. Throughout the day, we had many discussions on how we can use social media to help bridge the gap between healthcare professionals and patient care. Particularly with emotional well-being of people living with diabetes. The DOC is a convenient platform to connect people living with diabetes for social support and positive emotional wellbeing. Furthermore, with emerging technology such as the iBGStar, where you have the convenient option of sending your results to your HCP, could this be the change we need to improve communications between with HCPs and our own diabetes management? We also explored the impact social media has on advocacy. A few recent great examples are the scraping of Chronic Disease Dental Scheme (which affected me personally), and more prominent now are the recent changes to driving guidelines for people with diabetes. One of the things that was discussed, which I felt very strongly about is any changes that are made within the diabetes world that may not affect you directly shouldn't be dismissed or ignored. It doesn't matter if you have type 1 or 2 or whatever diabetes, the bottom line is that WE have diabetes and WE should come together, collectively as a COMMUNITY to help each other out. If we can keep banding together to fight some thing good in the diabetes community, this will also help ease the discrimination and stand-offs between people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. I have type 2 diabetes. And I challenge the stereotype of someone with type 2 diabetes. So much so that most of my type 1 friends forget that I have type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is commonly lumped in together with laziness and poor lifestyle choices, and I may joke with my friends about diabetes when I'm having a good day but jokes aside, these jokes tend to hit a raw nerve when my defences are down or when I'm just having an off day. Therefore I strongly believe that the more the diabetes community works together, the more sympathetic we may be towards each other. One day I hope that people won't care what type of diabetes you have and will be just as accepting of you into the diabetes community.
The big question emerging from all this was: what do we present this to the world at the World Diabetes Congress next year in Melbourne? It was humbling and awe-inspiring to hear everyone's ideas and thoughts that were being thrown out. To be sitting in a room full of amazing people is one thing, seeing them all work together and a chance to be part of this team is MIND BLOWING! At the end of the day, my key take home message was how powerful our DOC is and that it certainly is not a fad!
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Field Trip becomes latest psychedelic firm to go public
George Underwood
Psychedelic therapy company Field Trip Psychedelics has announced that it will soon join the growing list of psychedelic companies going public.
Through a direct listing on the CSE, the company expects trading to begin on 7 October after entering into an amalgamation agreement in August with Newton Energy Corp.
Field Trip aims to "take a personalised approach to mental wellness" by blending legal psychedelic-enhanced therapy, mindfulness, and self-care with a series of sessions with trained psychotherapists.
It is also working on FT104, a novel synthetic hallucinogen that is an agonist of the 5HT2AR (serotonin 2A receptor). Phase 1 first-in-man pharmacokinetic studies are expected to start in Q4 2021.
On 24 August the company closed the first tranche of its Series B financing for $11M CAD, at a valuation of $2.00 per Class A share.
The company already has clinics in Toronto, New York and Los Angeles, treating patients with ketamine-assisted therapy protocol – and Chicago, Atlanta, and DC clinics are planned to open soon.
This month the company also launched its Trip app, designed to support consciousness expansion through meditation, breathwork and more.
The past few weeks have seen a flurry of companies in this space announce that they intend to go public.
UK-based Compass Pathways and its potential magic mushroom depression drug went public last month – and just a week later psychedelic therapy firm Mind Medicine announced it would be up-listing its shares on the Nasdaq.
Compass has a patented synthetic version of psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, and raised around $127.5 million with its IPO shortly after the announcement.
COMP360 is a crystalline formulation of psilocybin in phase 2b clinical development in patients who have not responded to standard therapy for depression.
Including an $80 million series B round in April, Compass had already raised more than $100 million to fund research into the compound, which is being developed for treatment resistant depression, a subset of patients with major depressive disorder.
It's the same indication targeted by Janssen with another medicine that drew inspiration from an illegal recreational drug – Spravato is an FDA-approved nasal spray containing esketamine, an isomer of ketamine.
Meanwhile, MindMed has a combination of the MDMA and LSD in a phase 1 clinical trial scheduled to start this year, to see if the drugs can be used to aid a psychedelic-assisted therapy session.
The hope is that using MDMA could reduce some of the negative mood effects of LSD and make patients more comfortable during the therapy session.
MindMed hopes that the combination of both substances could have longer-lasting effects than psilocybin or LSD taken as a monotherapy.
New partnership tests low-dose psilocybin
This week also saw another psilocybin-based medicine developer, Sansero Life Sciences, announce that it has partnered with the University of Toronto to complete a preclinical study on the effects of low-dose psilocybin.
The study hopes to bring new scientific understanding to psilocybin metabolism in humans and how low-dose psilocybin affects mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety.
Sansero is focused on developing pharmaceuticals that include a minimal effective dose (MED) of psilocybin in combination with other naturally-sourced ingredients.
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Modern Warfare is Increasingly Fought not with Guns and Bombs but with Weaponized Software.
State-backed hackers in North Korea are currently setting their sights on critical infrastructure in the United States with the aim of knocking out power in the country, cybersecurity researchers have warned.
Critical Infrastructure holds a unique and vital role in today's interconnected societies. The designation encompasses everything from financial infrastructure and power and distribution to transportation and industries critical to national defense. As such, critical infrastructure is consistently the most attacked industry when it comes to cyber attacks.
Securing critical infrastructure is a priority for national security reasons, but the traditional view of security solely as a defensive measure is not enough to protect these systems; a proactive approach to security in tandem with defensive tools is the best way forward to prevent catastrophe and keep people and commerce going.
For the vast majority of enterprise businesses, critical systems are defined as any system where an outage or failure will result in a high cost to the business; email, customer databases, accounting systems, etc. are all examples. In the event of a breach, enterprises face serious risks and penalties from lost or exposed customer data and transactions and loss of customer confidence that can affect their bottom line.
For critical infrastructure, however, the stakes are much higher. The consequences of a successful cyber attack can be catastrophic when measured by the human and business impact along with financial damages if systems were to fail or be controlled by an outside entity. The real life consequences of such an attack include widespread power grid shutdowns, failures of safety measures at nuclear power plants, or dams maliciously controlled to cause flooding.
An example from fifteen years ago illustrates the potential impact that can be caused by a cyber attack. The blackout of 2003, which in this case was caused by a software bug, led to approximately 55 million people being deprived of power for up to two days. It affected power generation, water supply, transportation, communication, and industry. It also led to almost 100 deaths and cost the US economy approximately $6 Billion.
With so much at risk, it should be self evident that the security of these critical systems is paramount. However, while defensive measures can keep most threats out, some will successfully breach them. What is required is a shift from a solely defensive or reactive posture to a proactive approach by assuming a compromise already exists and searching for it before it can cause damage. With so many industrial control systems designed without security in mind, making patching relatively useless as a security measure, according to Robert M. Lee of Dragos, assuming breach is the most effective way to begin searching for malicious activity.
Yesterday, the US named the Russian government as the perpetrator of the 'Dragonfly' attacks against US power plants and the computer networks that control the power grid – attacks which were classified until now. Despite successfully piercing many layers of security, no evidence of actual sabotage has been found, yet. And late last year, a major oil and gas company in Saudi Arabia was successfully attacked by a malware dubbed Trisis. Shortly afterwards, Schneider Electric, the company who builds the safety instrumented systems (SIS) that the malware infects, posted a file containing parts of the virus on VirusTotal for analysis, which inadvertently made it available for download by anyone interested in using the malware. The malware sets the SIS to run in program mode, which allows an attacker to give the machine new instructions. Normally, SIS run in run mode, which does not allow for additional code execution. This fundamentally provides attackers a blueprint on how to build new malware based on this attack vector.
A key security challenge with Industrial Control Systems (ICS) is that although most of them are disconnected from the main network, there is a growing trend in interconnectivity between segments with the ICS and segments with the other endpoints in the network. This means that any compromised endpoint in the network can be used as a springboard to compromise other endpoints, including the ICS. This lateral movement is a hallmark of sophisticated cyber attacks and poses a real and present danger.
The UK is taking a proactive stance against growing threats by warning UK companies running critical infrastructure to boost cybersecurity or face fines of up to £17 million if they do not have effective cyber-security measures in place and suffer service outages as a result. As part of the new guidelines, regulators will assess critical industries to ensure the cyber-security setups at energy, transport, water, and health firms are as "robust as possible".
Today's security practices need to change to be effective against the increasing threats to critical infrastructure while complying with evolving regulations and avoiding penalties for non-compliance. The traditional defensive approach to security assumes that nothing will breach the network's defenses: firewalls, AV, endpoint detection, etc. A proactive approach acknowledges that no solution is 100% effective against every threat – new threats are released daily, and it is difficult for any technology to keep up in real-time.
Taking a proactive posture means accepting that malware and zero days will successfully evade defenses. Further, the defenses that have allowed malware to slip past them undetected cannot be relied upon to find the malware post-compromise. Defensive tools serve an important purpose, but in today's threat landscape it is critical to look to new technologies that complement existing security investments to gain insight into threats that have slipped past traditional first-line defenses.
Regularly assessing the compromise state of a network is crucial in a proactive security strategy. It is a necessary tactic to effectively limit and reduce attacker dwell time because the longer an attacker remains on the network, the more catastrophic the attack can be as the attacker has the time to move throughout the network and find critical data or systems to exfiltrate or exploit.
With Infocyte HUNT as a complement to the endpoint and network protection tools, you gain the ability to discover hidden compromises and malware lurking in places that the other tools are not able to see. The Infocyte HUNT threat hunting platform sweeps endpoints and analyzes live volatile memory to detect and pinpoint where the attackers are hiding malware and persistent threats before they can inflict damage. Re-imagining the way security is handled in our critical sectors is the best way to keep secure in the long term—and keep the lights on.


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Ana Sayfa > Yarışmalar > Mimarlık > International Ideas Competition for the Master Planning of the New Paris Courthouse
International Ideas Competition for the Master Planning of the New Paris Courthouse
Son Başvuru Tarihi: 16 Ekim 2006
Kimler Katılabilir: Mimarlar, Şehir Plancıları ve Mimarlık Öğrencileri
Web Sitesi: www.competitionparisjus...
The Établissement Public du Palais de Justice de Paris is launching an international ideas competition for the master-planning of the new Paris Courthouse on the Tolbiac–Halle Freyssinet site in the Paris Rive Gauche ZAC (Mixed Development Zone) under the joint patronage of the Minister of Justice, Mr Pascal Clément, and the Minister of Culture,
Mr Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres. This competition is open to architects and town planners, and to architecture students.
Over the past several years, the new Paris Courthouse - a project seen as essential to the modernization of the justice system in the French capital and to improving this public service function for all Parisians - has been the subject of numerous studies by the authorities. Of exceptional scope and great complexity, this project presents such intricate issues in the Paris setting - where available real estate is so scarce - that the task involves creating not only a major public facility, but also an authentic contemporary monument which will be worthy of the capital and give fresh expression to the values of the justice system.
In 2004, in the overall framework of its responsibilities, the Etablissement Public du Palais de Justice de Paris (EPPJP) carried out site searches and several feasibility studies which, in early 2005, led the Government to nominate the site known as "Tolbiac", in the heart of the Paris Rive Gauche ZAC (Mixed Development Zone) as its preferred location for the project. This redevelopment site, which lies close to the Seine and just across from the National Library of France, is imbued with a formidable array of challenges and possibilities.
Most of the site is occupied by a large industrial hall which, when built by the engineer Eugène Freyssinet early in the twentieth century, set a new benchmark in the development of concrete techniques. The reuse and showcasing of the hall is one of the key challenges of this project. The site is also located in an urban precinct which is undergoing rapid change, linking the "old" 13th District and the modern-day areas around the Library and the Seine. Keen to ensure that, to the extent possible, this State project proceeded in harmony with the urban development orientations that the Town Hall had at that time been drawing up, the EPPJP, in collaboration with the City of Paris, began a local consultation process in the summer of 2005. It carried out additional feasibility studies and further developed its site composition proposals as part of that consultation process.
The concerns and questions raised in the course of the consultation process, which seem to place increasing constraints on the project, today establish the need for a holistic approach to be adopted. With a view to determining the best possible means of settling the new Courthouse on the site - in other words, in order to further refine its brief prior to holding the architectural competition - the EPPJP wishes to invite submissions from a wide range of architecture and town planning professionals as well as architecture students, thus giving fresh impetus to the process of exploring ideas for the future of this urban precinct which has been selected as the site of an architectural and courthouse project of major proportions.
There are multiple issues at stake in this competition. Ways must be found not only to give this major court facility project - the court of the future - the best prospects of success, but also to create an ambitious architectural project which will enhance the standing of the capital while at the same time contributing a new element to a city precinct which is undergoing rapid change.
There is a specific need, so far as the Freyssinet Hall is concerned, relating to an issue of acute importance in the Paris setting, i.e. the reuse of a heritage asset. How can one develop projects which truly place the court in the city in such as way as to reflect the place of justice in society, projects which bring justice closer to the people it serves? How can one combine contemporary monumentality with high-quality urban development? How can one reconcile modernity and heritage?
These are among the key issues and objectives of this ideas competition. The results of this ideas competition will be given very wide exposure (exhibitions, publication etc). They will help to open up discussion and to achieve agreement on the most relevant architectural and urban development orientations for the project.
The ideas competition is open to architects and town planners, together with architecture students
Competition launch: 04 July 2006
Deadline for receipt of entries: Monday 16 October 2006
The competition brief and all related documents may be downloaded from site
The jury will grant monetary awards for each of the categories:
-Three monetary awards each worth 40,000 euros (excl. tax) per project for the "architecture and town planning professionals" category;
-Five monetary awards each worth 10,000 euros (excl. tax) for the "architecture students" category.
The jury may also award special commendations


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What to look for in this year's Super Bowl ads
Published: Jan. 29, 2020
This year's Super Bowl ads cost a whopping $5.6 million per 30-second spot. Kelty Logan, associate professor of advertising in the College of Media, Communication and Information (CMCI), says these are the key trends to look out for:
Funny will be a popular play...
In a hot-tempered environment like 2020, a more comedic angle to ads may work better with audiences.
"We are going to have political ads in the mix, and so I think a wise advertiser would go very, very hard on humor," Logan said.
...But diversity will still be prominent
Advertising for the big game has become increasingly diverse over the past few years, and Logan says that will be a central focus.
"This year, what they've figured out is the way to handle inclusivity is with humor," Logan said.
Olay's ad will feature an all-woman cast of actresses Taraji P. Henson, Lilly Singh and Busy Philipps, while hummus brand Sabra's ad will feature Kim Chi and Miz Cracker, drag queens who starred on RuPaul's Drag Race.
Plenty of new products and familiar faces
The cost of this year's ads is a record $5.6 million for a 30-second spot, and Logan says that cost, plus the large captive audience, may lead to brands focusing more on new products.
"You'd better have something that you want to say to 100 million people," Logan said, "and for that reason, a lot of the advertisers will be talking about new products." Among brands highlighting new products in their ads will be Little Caesar's, PepsiCo's Mountain Dew and Cheetos brands, and Kellogg's Pop Tarts brand.
Celebrities as well will be present throughout this year's ads; Queer Eye's Jonathan Van Ness will star in the aforementioned Pop Tarts ad, while Cheetos' ad will feature MC Hammer.
Holocaust Remembrance Day: How trauma persists
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A Course in Ordinary Differential
Randall J. Swift and Stephen A. Wirkus
Um Curso de Cálculo - Vol. 3
Guidorizzi, Hamilton Luiz
Curso Introdutório à Análise Complexa com Aplicações
Dennis G. Zill, Patrick D. Shanahan
The first contemporary textbook on ordinary differential equations (ODEs) to include instructions on MATLAB®, Mathematica®, and Maple™, A Course in Ordinary Differential Equations focuses on applications and methods of analytical and numerical solutions, emphasizing approaches used in the typical engineering, physics, or mathematics student's field of study.
Stressing applications wherever possible, the authors have written this text with the applied math, engineer, or science major in mind. It includes a number of modern topics that are not commonly found in a traditional sophomore-level text. For example, Chapter 2 covers direction fields, phase line techniques, and the Runge-Kutta method; another chapter discusses linear algebraic topics, such as transformations and eigenvalues. Chapter 6 considers linear and nonlinear systems of equations from a dynamical systems viewpoint and uses the linear algebra insights from the previous chapter; it also includes modern applications like epidemiological models. With sufficient problems at the end of each chapter, even the pure math major will be fully challenged.
Although traditional in its coverage of basic topics of ODEs, A Course in Ordinary Differential Equations is one of the first texts to provide relevant computer code and instruction in MATLAB, Mathematica, and Maple that will prepare students for further study in their fields.


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Professor with a phenomenal prediction record says Trump's going to pull off the win, and he's this sure . . .
Professor with a phenomenal prediction record says Trump's going to pull off the win, and he's this sure . . .
October 23, 2016 | Michael Dorstewitz | Print Article
A college professor with a phenomenal record for forecasting the outcomes of presidential elections is bucking many polls and political pundits by predicting a win for Donald Trump on November 8.
New York State's Stony Brook University Professor Helmut Norpoth has correctly predicted the elections in the last 20 years, and he believes that record of success will continue this year.
Norpoth told "Fox & Friends Weekend" host Tucker Carlson that he uses two models to make his predictions: The "primary model" and the "swing of the pendulum model."
"It usually turns out that the candidate who does better in his party's primary … beats the other guy who does less well," he told Carlson of his application of the first model, adding that he can track presidential primary elections from 1912.
Norpoth said the "pendulum swing" model is based on 200 years of presidential elections, which strongly favor a change in party after one particular party has occupied the White House for eight years. In this case, he believes the electorate will call for a change after Democrat Barack Obama's eight-year run.
He said that he's so confident of his prediction that he's even placed money on it.


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RevoluGen Continues Push Into IVD Market With New Nucleic Acid Prep Kit
Jun 13, 2016 | Elizabeth Newbern
This article has been updated from a previous version to clarify RevoluGen's corporate history.
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – RevoluGen, a privately held scientific research and development company that has spent the last several years digging into the in vitro diagnostics industry, last month launched a new IVD-specific nucleic acid purification and isolation kit.
The company has spent the last three years developing point-of-care diagnostic tests for Neisseria gonorrhoea and Chlamydia trachomatis, CEO Pieter Mulier told GenomeWeb. Both tests are currently in clinical trials at St. George Hospital as part of a study sponsored by Public Health England, and the company expects to report results from the trial in September, he said.
In the meantime, the company expects to get a CE IVD mark for its new sample prep kit, the Purispin Fire Monkey, later this year, Steven Minter, RevoluGen's chief scientist and inventor of the kit, told GenomeWeb.
RevoluGen is headquartered in Hannover, Germany, and runs a laboratory in Derbyshire, UK. While the company has been around for about 20 years, it rebranded itself as RevoluGen one month ago. Previously, it was known as Moorlodge Biotech Ventures. The company has spun off a number of successful businesses including Tepnel Pharma Services, now a subsidiary of Hologic, and Platform Diagnostics, which develops platform technologies for the in vitro diagnostics industry. Its recently recruited executive team has decades of experience in the biotechnology industry and the company is rapidly expanding.
Minter and his colleagues identified a need for a simple system to prepare target material for testing in a broad range of applications, including as sample preparation for the company's diagnostic assays. The result is the Purispin kit that allows researchers to "isolate and purify both RNA and DNA" from bacteria, tissue, and blood samples, he said.
The kit uses what the company calls a "gentler" chemistry that can produce longer DNA lengths, creates less contamination, and produces higher yields. It is an aqueous-based chemistry that is performed by centrifugation. It also doesn't use alcohols, which are often used to isolate and extract nucleic acids but can be toxic and require the process to be done under a fume hood. The worst offender, β-mercaptoethanol, is used in many competing kits which creates a healthy and safety risk for researchers performing the extraction, Minter said.
Purispin is "room temperature safe" and has at least a twelve-month shelf life, Minter said. Another advantage is its versatility: It can be directed midway through the extraction process to deliver total nucleic acid, pure DNA, or pure RNA from the same sample. The kit can be used to prepare samples for next-generation sequencing, PCR, and hybridization systems, Minter said.
Erling Refsum, a biotech analyst consultant for RevoluGen, told GenomeWeb that the kits have been independently tested by researchers at Dundee University, who have measured its DNA integrity number as 9.5 out of 10 compared to an average of 8.5 out of 10 for most competing kits, including from companies such as Qiagen and Roche.
The company believes that its product has many advantages over other products on the market. "Our Purispin Fire Monkey kit performs what the competitors need many different kits [to do]," Minter said. Qiagen, for example, sells different kits to extract DNA versus RNA, to extract sequences of varying lengths, and to deal with nucleic acid extraction and isolation from different types of sources.
The Dundee researchers also confirmed that the DNA they were able to extract using the kits comprised at least 60,000 base pairs, Refsum said. RevoluGen has also consulted with researchers at Warwick University, who have developed a new technique for measuring DNA lengths that suggests that the Purispin kit may yield DNA lengths of up to 120,000 base pairs, Refsum added. For researchers, the longer base pair lengths are desirable because they result in better quality sequencing reads with much lower error rates.
"It also does the whole range [of] RNA [base pair lengths] from the long all the way down to the small 17-base-pair RNA sequences, even when the original samples are old and poorly stored," Refsum said. The company demonstrated this by having researchers use the Purispin kit on some tiny, old, and badly stored leukemia samples. Previous attempts to extract DNA from these samples failed, but the researchers were able to extract DNA using RevoluGen's kit, he said.
The company is only marketing through one distribution partner — Nottingham, UK-based Scientific Laboratory Services, or SLS — and is limiting its product launch to Europe at the moment. The company said the list price for the product is £325 ($460) for 100 columns, but it is currently offering the kit at a discount price of £196 ($278) for 100 columns.
RevoluGen expects to get CE IVD marking for the kit by November. In addition, it plans to expand distribution across Europe and into the US market at a future date, CEO Pieter Mulier said. However, the company doesn't yet have a US-based distributor nor approval from the US Food and Drug Administration, which means that right now the kit can only be used for research purposes in the US, he said.
The company is also working on a version of the kit that would use magnetic beads rather than centrifugation, but with the same chemistry. "We suspect that [the magnetic beads] will be even gentler [on the DNA] and we will get even longer [sequences]," Refsum said. The company hopes to have the new version of the kit available for launch around January 2017.
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Former Putin Adviser: Russia Has No Place in G-8
A former advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin has said his country has no place in the Group of Eight, the world's seven leading industrial countries and Russia.
Andrei Illarionov writing Tuesday in several Russian and Western newspapers said countries attending the G-8 summit in St. Petersburg this July will be turning a blind eye to human rights violations and the erosion of political freedom in Russia.
Illarionov resigned as Mr. Putin's economic advisor last November, in protest over economic policies he described as Russian imperialism.
President Bush has said he will attend the July summit, despite calls from a group of U.S. senators to skip the event.
The bipartisan group of lawmakers has said democracy is fading in Russia and that Washington must take a tougher stand in response.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP and AP.


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Koloa Rum Co.'s Kauai Dark Rum received a gold medal in the Rum Renaissance Festival last month in Miami.
The Līhu'e-based company won the medal in the dark rum category at the May 5-9 event that featured 100 rums from around the world.
A panel of international rum experts conducted blind tastings and evaluations of rum in eight major categories, according to a news release from Koloa.
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Consolidated Theatres said it will launch a new big-screen format called "Titan Extreme Cinema" at its Ward Stadium 16 location later this month.
The format, which features a 66-foot-wide screen, enhanced 3-D effects and a 75,000-watt digital sound system, will debut June 18 with the release of Disney/Pixar's Toy Story 3 in 3-D.
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The Jewish New Year for me has always been a reason to take the day to relax and reflect. A few years ago when I moved to Oakland I decided that I would cook a Rosh Hashanah dinner to honor the New Year and to welcome friends into a new apartment in a new city with a new roommate. A year later, when I moved back to San Francisco, I fit seventeen people into my tiny little studio for the second annual tradition of the Rosh Hashanah dinner.
It seemed necessary, having moved once again, that I welcome new people in my life in a new apartment in a new city, with the unifying themes: food and drink. I took the day off on Thursday. The day included a walk to the the Medellin Market (my first time there) where fresh fruits and vegetables abound. Vivid colors of the rainbow line the stands, and as I walk b,y the vendors ask, "Que buscas?" wanting to make a sale, yes, but also when I say, "Hierbas?" point me in the direction of the spices.
I make most of my purchases at only one of the stands where the women that run it keep asking, "Que mas?" until my bag is bursting at the top with red peppers, celery stalks, cilantro, avocados, lettuce, cucumbers, carrots, potatoes, (something that I think are yams, but later turn out to be turnips, maybe?)chives, cherry tomatoes,and jalapeños. (One of the women points to the mushrooms. Championes? I laugh, pointing to my bursting bag and shake my head no).Outside the market, walking back to my apartment, I wonder if I should stop and get a bag of fresh cut-up mango as a snack. But how am I going to carry it?
I pass by the puestos where people sit on plastic stools eating fried blue corn tortillas with ricotta cheese and spices, the taco stands where the smell of carne asada abounds, and stop at the truck up the street from me. The couple is there every Thursday selling Oaxaqueño products: anything from manchego cheese to dried fruit, fruit candies, pistachios, almonds, and walnuts. I pick up a bag of raisins and prunes for the tzimmis and pistachios and almonds for the honey cake and lentil stew.
Ellen comes over to help. She brings measuring spoons (something that I can not find from from the small grocery store down the street to the big grocery store 10 minutes away, to the Walmart across town). The lentil stew, tzimmes, and salad are already made.
The only thing left is the honey cake, which at high elevation, I have no idea how it will be, and I am seriously wishing that my aunt, an incredible baker, is coming over with one. We measure everything out and stick in the oven (first time I used it!). Ellen lights it. I'm scared I'm going to blow up the kitchen!
Twelve people come over. I say the prayers I remember (I looked them up on the internet) and then in memory of my grandfather, give the signal to eat with a "Play ball!" There is wine, food, and a sunken honey cake (it sadly overflowed in the oven) that miraculously still tastes delicious. It is so wonderful to see people laughing, joking, drinking, and eating in my little two-room apartment.
There is a feeling of grounding and home here.
Shanah Tovah: May your year be filled with sweetness and love.
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Exxon Mobil Gains Upper Hand in InterOil Bidding
Thwarted bidder Oil Search has until July 21 to lift its offer, and says it still sees 'very material benefits' from the purchase.
Laura Berman and Laura Board
Updated Jul 18, 2016 7:14 AM EDT
InterOil (IOC) on Sunday named Exxon Mobil (XOM - Get Report) as the previously unidentified, rival suitor for the Papua New Guinea-focused gas explorer and declared its offer to be superior to that of agreed bidder Oil Search.
Exxon Mobil offered $45 per InterOil share, paid in ExxonMobil shares. InterOil shareholders are also in line to receive so-called contingent resource payments of an additional $7.07 per share for each extra trillion cubic feet of gas equivalent discovered at InterOil's Elk-Antelope field above 6.7 trillion cubic feet up to 10 trillion cubic feet, the target said.
InterOil's board "in consultation with its legal and financial advisers, has determined that the ExxonMobil offer constitutes a "Superior Proposal," as defined in InterOil's arrangement agreement," with Oil Search. "InterOil has provided notice of such determination to Oil Search," it added.
The Irving, Texas interloper is competing against a May agreement for Oil Search to buy InterOil, its partner in the Elk-Antelope project in Papua New Guinea, for $2.2 billion, a roughly 27% premium to the New York-listed target's undisturbed share price.
Oil Search owns both an interest in Elk-Antelope and in the nearby PNG liquefied natural gas project. It responded to its target's announcement on Monday by saying it is considering its position. Under the May 20 deal it has until July 21 to match Exxon Mobil's offer and stands to receive a $60 million breakup fee if InterOil goes with the U.S. bidder. Oil Search's bid partner, Total, of France, would receive 20% of that fee, said Oil Search, which noted that it would more than cover its costs.
"Total SA, with which Oil Search has a memorandum of understanding regarding the InterOil assets, is aware of these developments and Oil Search's right to submit a revised offer. The parties are in active dialogue and have the flexibility to submit a revised offer either during the three day notice period or after InterOil enters into an arrangement agreement with ExxonMobil," it said.
"Oil Search's board and management are committed to acting in the best interests of shareholders at all times and are presently considering their position. The proposal from ExxonMobil endorses Oil Search's view on the quality of the Elk-Antelope gas fields and the value of the Papua LNG Project. Given its existing material interests in both the PNG LNG Project and in the Papua LNG Project, Oil Search is well placed to participate in the potentially very significant benefits that are expected to arise from cooperation between, and/or integration of, the projects," it said, promising an update in "due course."
It also said it would delay a second-quarter update scheduled for Thursday in light of the development.
Total is effectively financing Oil Search's bid with $1.67 billion of secondary agreements to buy most of InterOil's assets,
TheStreet previously reported that Exxon Mobil's proposal was superior for a variety of reasons beyond its higher valuation, including InterOil's listing, like Exxon Mobil's, on the New York Stock Exchange, and additional potential cost synergies.
"People were very suspicious that Exxon would bid given the fact of how conservative Exxon is, cause this is anything but a conservative buy," Jim Cramer, TheStreet's founder, said Monday. "Now all in not that much money for them, but it's in New Guinea it's not in Texas."
Exxon Mobil operates the PNG liquefied natural gas field located close to Elk-Antelope and could derive efficiencies from owning stakes in both.
InterOil shares closed in New York on Friday up 19 cents at $47.61.
The Oil Search offer was based on 8.05 of its own shares per InterOil share, or A$58.36 ($44.29 ) per share based on Monday's close.
Oil Search closed up 3.9% at A$7.25 in Sydney on Monday.
Exxon Mobil closed up 17 cents at $95.12 in New York on Friday.
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Eric Trump Introduces New 2020 Slogan – Shows It Off On Donald's Signature Red Hat
By Ben Dutka|November 30, 2019
Eric and Donald are sending a strong message to the Democrats – take that!
I love the "Make America Great Again" slogan. Don't you?
It's exactly what President Donald Trump has been trying to do for the past three years.
However, while MAGA is indeed fantastic, we might have to embrace another slogan…
And this one reflects the turmoil our Commander-in-Chief faces every single day, and I think it's 100 percent accurate.
Eric Trump Jr. unveiled a brand new red hat over the Thanksgiving holiday — and it doesn't say "MAGA" on it.
Nope, this one says "LOPA."
Via The Daily Caller:
President Donald Trump's son, Eric Trump, tweeted out a photo of a red hat on Thanksgiving which has the abbreviation 'LOPA' on it, which he said stands for 'leave our president alone.'
What do you think? Here's a look:
I think it's perfect!
It's exactly what millions of Americans want: for the media and all the impeachment Democratsj to "leave our president alone"!
Now, Trump hasn't confirmed that he'll be selling this hat for his upcoming 2020 campaign, but I think he should.
It's a fitting partner to the MAGA hat, and it makes a very strong statement:
As Donald faces seemingly endless attacks and accusations, he continues to work hard for the American people.
But it must be weighing heavily on him, especially with the impeachment proceedings kicking into high gear.
So, Trump needs our support! He needs us to tell his attackers to leave him alone!
Just let the man do his job, and maybe Democrats should consider doing THEIR jobs as duly elected officials.
Wouldn't it be great if everyone in Washington actually did their jobs, and not just Trump…?
SHARE if you love Trump's new slogan "Leave Our President Alone!"
Source: The Daily Caller
Ben Dutka
Ben S. Dutka is a journalist, writer and editor with over two decades of experience. He has worked with three newspapers and eight online publications, and he has also won a Connecticut short story contest entitled Art as Muse, Imaginary Realms. He has a penchant for writing, rowing, reading, video games, and Objectivism.


Anadolu Efes Istanbul came on strong down the stretch to defeat visiting Laboral Kutxa Vitoria Gasteiz 95-86 and take over second place in Group B with one regular season game left. Down 72-77 midway through the final quarter, Thomas Heurtel led Efes on a late 10-0 run to tie the visitors with a 5-4 record, good for second place on point difference between them. Laboral had won their first game 92-90 in Vitoria. Heurtel had 25 points and 9 assists for the winners, putting him 2 assists away from 500 for his Euroleague career, something only 17 players have done before. Efes, which had trailed by double digits in the first half, got 12 points from Dario Saric and 9 from Alex Tyus 9. The hosts made the most of 22-for-26 free-throw shooting to offset Laboral's 14-for-27 three-point accuracy. Darius Adams had 6 of those triples for the visitors and finished with 20 points. Jaka Blazic added 15, Mike James 14 and Ioannis Bourousis 12. While taking a high lead of 33-45 in the first half, Laboral shot 7 for 10 (70%) on threes but only 5 for 11 (45%) at the foul line.
Tornike Shengelia was left open for a triple to get the scoreboard ticking over for the visitors. Tyus got one layup blocked and missed a second but put down his third with a free throw to tie 3-3. Darko Planinic spun in the paint for a bank shot and Adams punched in a transition triple as Laboral pulled away 3-8. Adam Hanga made a finger roll that Jon Diebler matched with a jump hook at 5-10. When Adams lined up and hit from the arc again, Laboral had a 5-13 lead. Derrick Brown and Tyus each split free throws for Efes to cut the difference, but Shengelia detonated a dunk to match them. Tyus swished a jumper and Cedi Osman came on to complete a three-point play on a great pass from Heurtel to get Efes within 12-16. Laboral missed several free throws, but found another three-pointer, this from Blazic, that Heurtel answered with a pair of free throws at 14-19. Blazic and Hanga connected on a fastbreak alley-oop before Brown completed the first quarter scoring with a jump shot that left Laboral holding a 16-21 lead.
Bourousis made his presence felt by making a back-down hook shot and an open jumper as Laboral went up 16-25 at the start of the second quarter. Brown faked and dunked for Efes, and following Bryant Dunston's block at the other end, Heurtel scored on a layup. After Adams scored falling down, Heurtel drilled a triple, but Kim Tillie did the same for Laboral, which now led 23-30. A turnover led to Jayson Granger scoring on the break for Efes, but the hosts then left Blazic open on the arc to make it 25-33. Granger got to the basket easily, as did Heurtel on a broken play, but it only served to narrow the gap to 29-33. Ahmet Duverioglu enter the game and slammed for Efes before Bourousis buried a triple and Blazic finished a fastbreak to make it 31-39. Heurtel and Duverioglu connected for another dunk, but Bourousis found Tillie for a three-point play and Laboral's first double-digit lead, 33-43. James stepped back and added a jumper to that margin, but Duverioglu rolled to the basket again for his third dunk! Free throws by Bourousis kept the Laboral lead at 11 points. Duverioglu barely missed his next dunk try, but Granger tipped it in, then the big man was back with another basket and Diebler finished the half at the foul line, getting Efes back within 41-46.
Saric scored his first points to open the second half as Planinic answered inside for Laboral. Saric and Planinic kept going with dueling jump hooks. Tyus dove to the rim next and got a three-point play out of it, cutting the distance to 48-50, but he left the game limping. Great ball movement to Saric for a corner triple - just the second for the hosts - put Efes in front 51-50. Planinic and Heurtel exchanged basket, but the Efes point guard returned for a stop-and-pop jumper to lead 55-52. Bourousis put back an offensive rebound for Laboral but Diebler erased it with free throws. A running layup by James drew his team closer but Furkan Korkmaz matched him at the foul line as Efes went up 60-56. Adams stepped on the floor and drilled a triple that James then copied as the visitors surged in front, 60-62. Saric was having none of it, however, and buried his own shot from the arc to make it 63-62. Heurtel went high off the glass to keep Efes ahead and then added a jumper from deep. Adams was ready in response with a running triple at 67-66, which is how the third quarter ended.
Birkan Batuk of Efes drilled a corner triple to jump-start the final quarter, but Adams took a long bounce pass from Tillie and made his own at 70-69. Osman and Batuk teamed up for a put-back, but Blazic blasted a game-tying three-pointer for Laboral at 72-72. Adams was not about to be outdone, however, and stepped up to the arc on the next fastbreak, burying his sixth triple to put Laboral in front 72-75. After a timeout, Blazic gave the visitors the next basket, to which Efes responded with a corner triple from Batuk at 75-77. James pulled up for an elbow jumper before the scoring stalled until Heurtel jumped off the bench for a triple. Bourousis made a great back-door bounce pass to Blazic for a basket that Brown matched by soaring for a put-back at 80-81. Heurtel got to the free throw line to retake the lead, 82-81, then he fed Dunston for a dunk. When Granger hit 2 free throws, too, the hosts had their biggest lead of the game, 86-81. Diebler added to it with his own free throws, but James answered from downtown to make it 88-84. Bryant turned a steal into a transition basket before Saric flipped the ball behind his back to Heurtel for a game-clinching three-pointer from the top at 93-84 with 47 seconds left as Efes held on for the tie-break difference to move into second place in Group B.
"In the first half, we put the team of Laboral in the rhythm they wanted. And after that, I think that my team focused at the last moment. It was very, very big desire, very good team playing, and I think we deserved this victory. It was a very, very exciting game. Both teams had already qualified to the Top 16, but if you look at the game, it was two teams fighting until the last minute to win today. A very high quality game. I don't like these kinds of games as a coach because we shouldn't allow 86 points. We started the game badly. We missed very easy layups and open shots at the beginning of the game. In this period in the game, Laboral got 13 easy points and we did not make any fouls in this part. They made 7 of 10 field goals in the first quarter and 52% of three-point shots over the game. From our side, we played best at the end of the last quarter. We deserved this victory. We have to continue working. "
"We started the game very good. We controlled the first half. With the beginning of the third quarter, Efes started playing very tough. Especially in the last two minutes of the game, Efes decided everything. We made crazy shots at that moment. Heurtel and Saric performed very well. But in the last minutes of the game, we had bad shot selection and a bad defensive performance. Congratulations to Efes."
"I think in the last quarter we showed our character, we showed our defense, and we need to play like that the whole game. We kenw that to finish second, we would have to win every game. Our motivation is big, so we tried to play our defense and our offense the same, and tonight we did it."


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Villagers continue wind farm protest
Joe Tyler
VILLAGERS continued their protest against a wind farm plan last weekend by raising a blimp to the height of the proposed turbines – 126.5 metres.
Around 50 members of the Stop Heydon Wind Farm Action Group gathered at Heydon Grange, where energy company Volkswind are planning to erect between eight and 11 turbines, on Sunday afternoon.
Jason Cross, Chairman of the Stop Heydon Wind Farm Action Group, said: "We wanted to show the local community how much of an impact these turbines will really have on the surrounding countryside.
"The turbines that Volkswind are proposing are some of the largest in the country and they will have a devastating effect on this area.
"Flying the balloon at the same height as the turbines has really given everyone an idea of how big they will be, and I think it has helped a lot of people understand the scope of the proposals. This is not just one or two unobtrusive wind turbines; these are massive pieces of industrial infrastructure that will ruin the countryside."
Peter Jones from the Action Group said: "You can see the balloon from all the surrounding villages – Elmdon, Melbourn and even Royston – so imagine what it will be like if the proposals go ahead. If they do go ahead, this will affect everyone for miles around and we want to urge everyone, not just people from Heydon, to get involved in supporting our cause."
A planning application is expected to be submitted to South Cambridgeshire District Council this year, with a decision set to be made soon after that.
10 Imperial War Museums launches first ever IWM Live event at Duxford this year
MP for South Cambridgeshire Andrew Lansley recently lent his support to the action group's cause, calling for the plans to be abandoned.


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There has been a great deal of controversy about the use of bots in an automated trading function. Auction website eBay has been to court in an attempt to suppress a third-party company from using bots to traverse their site looking for bargains; this approach backfired on eBay and attracted the attention of further bots. The United Kingdom-based bet exchange Betfair saw such a large amount of traffic coming from bots that it launched a WebService API aimed at bot programmers, through which it can actively manage bot interactions.
According to the Journal of Medical Internet Research, "Chatbots are [...] increasingly used in particular for mental health applications, prevention and behavior change applications (such as smoking cessation or physical activity interventions).".[48] They have been shown to serve as a cost-effective and accessible therapeutic agents for indications such as depression and anxiety.[49] A conversational agent called Woebot has been shown to significantly reduce depression in young adults.[50]
Efforts by servers hosting websites to counteract bots vary. Servers may choose to outline rules on the behaviour of internet bots by implementing a robots.txt file: this file is simply text stating the rules governing a bot's behaviour on that server. Any bot that does not follow these rules when interacting with (or 'spidering') any server should, in theory, be denied access to, or removed from, the affected website. If the only rule implementation by a server is a posted text file with no associated program/software/app, then adhering to those rules is entirely voluntary – in reality there is no way to enforce those rules, or even to ensure that a bot's creator or implementer acknowledges, or even reads, the robots.txt file contents. Some bots are "good" – e.g. search engine spiders – while others can be used to launch malicious and harsh attacks, most notably, in political campaigns.[2]
A.L.I.C.E. was written within the frame of Artificial Intelligence Markup Language (AIML), an open standard for creating any kind of chatbot, also developed by Wallace. Most AIML interpreters are offered under a free or open source license. Therefore, many "Alicebot clones" populate the internet, having been created based upon the original implementation of A.L.I.C.E. and its AIML knowledge base. This video shows a speech as given by dr. Wallace about A.L.I.C.E., AIML and the chatbot history in general.
However, as irresistible as this story was to news outlets, Facebook's engineers didn't pull the plug on the experiment out of fear the bots were somehow secretly colluding to usurp their meatbag overlords and usher in a new age of machine dominance. They ended the experiment due to the fact that, once the bots had deviated far enough from acceptable English language parameters, the data gleaned by the conversational aspects of the test was of limited value.
The idea was to permit Tay to "learn" about the nuances of human conversation by monitoring and interacting with real people online. Unfortunately, it didn't take long for Tay to figure out that Twitter is a towering garbage-fire of awfulness, which resulted in the Twitter bot claiming that "Hitler did nothing wrong," using a wide range of colorful expletives, and encouraging casual drug use. While some of Tay's tweets were "original," in that Tay composed them itself, many were actually the result of the bot's "repeat back to me" function, meaning users could literally make the poor bot say whatever disgusting remarks they wanted.
Chatbots are predicted to be progressively present in businesses and will automate tasks that do not require skill-based talents. Companies are getting smarter with touchpoints and customer service now comes in the form of instant messenger, as well as phone calls. IBM recently predicted that 85% of customer service enquiries will be handled by AI as early as 2020.[62] The call centre workers may be particularly at risk from AI.[63]
"There is hope that consumers will be keen on experimenting with bots to make things happen for them. It used to be like that in the mobile app world 4+ years ago. When somebody told you back then… 'I have built an app for X'… You most likely would give it a try. Now, nobody does this. It is probably too late to build an app company as an indie developer. But with bots… consumers' attention spans are hopefully going to be wide open/receptive again!" — Niko Bonatsos, Managing Director at General Catalyst


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Learning to cook with a pinch of panic and a dash of daring.
Zucchini Bread & Muffins: Substitutions for the Win!
Recently we were away visiting my partner's brother on the family farm. Aside from a lovely piece of land and variety of animals, they also have a fantastic garden that creates more gigantic zucchinis than one knows what to do with!
We came home with four and today I finally used up a couple of them.
I think I see a stir fry in our future!
Click here for the recipes or scroll to the bottom of the post.
So, to use up the zucchini we had, I decided to make zucchini bread and chocolate zucchini muffins. The bread turned out awesome! Moist and yet dense enough that it doesn't fall apart when you cut and butter it.
The muffins are brilliant too…the only problem is that I left them in 3 or 4 mins too long and the bottoms started to burn. Luckily they're slightly crisp but it's really not noticeable, especially when you're distracted by the chocolatey goodness!
I have to say that I'm extra happy with how they turned out…since I had to substitute ingredients because there were items I either didn't have or that ran out as I worked. Substitutions for the win!
Here are the substitutions I made….
I have altered the recipes below to include my substitutions since I really like how everything turned out.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter or grease a muffin tin.
Whisk together flour, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, cocoa powder in a small bowl until combined. Set aside.
Beat together sugars, oil, and eggs until slightly fluffy.
Stir in vanilla and yogourt.
Fold in the grated zucchini (and zest if using).
Add to the dry ingredients. Stir to combine and add the chocolate chips. Don't stir too much or the dough will bake denser than desired.
Fill your muffin tin, each spot a bit over halfway.
Fold wet mixture into dry mixture until just combined and then fold in the zucchini.
Transfer the pan to a wire rack to cool slightly, and give it about 15 minutes before transferring the bread from the pan to the rack.
Seedy Shortbread Cookies – making my taste buds happy!
Shortbread with chocolate, flax seeds, pumpkin seeds and a hint of cinnamon.
I am now on the hunt for a recipe as my grandmothers shortbread recipe creates cookies that I feel are too flaky to handle the addition of seeds.
Anyone have a recipe out there??
it's an amazing thing for someone who, two years ago, didn't know her way around her own kitchen.
A couple of weeks ago, I was at a friend's house and we were all waiting for some out-of-town guests to arrive. About thirty minutes before the scheduled arrival time, my friend's husband (who is also my friend of course!) commented that "perhaps I'll make some cookies".
What came out of the following conversation was the point that once you'd made a food enough times, you could do it effortlessly and quickly…at any time. He had so much experience making cookies that he could throw the basic recipe together in minutes and simply add whatever cookie…accessories, shall we say….that he had on hand.
I haven't gotten to that point with cookies yet. I have worked with substitutions but I still need a recipe.
But yesterday, I had a similar moment with muffins. I had company coming over and shortly before arrival, not 30 mins I admit…more like an hour and a half ahead of time, I suddenly decided to make muffins. Again, I don't necessarily have a basic recipe memorized, but I have mixed the base ingredients enough times now that it felt do-able.
It was an awesome feeling!
To feel confident enough to start making a mess in the kitchen as company were on their way, knowing that you could finish and even have the dishes done before they arrived!
It has taken a long time to feel that kind of comfort in my kitchen.
and suddenly every vegetable in your kitchen has been grated while you were zoned out dancing to Peter Murphy!
Dry ingredients in one bowl…wet in another.
Fold the wet into the dry and then add the zucchini and cheddar.
Mixed dough, ready to be baked!
So, for the 2 eggs, I substituted 2/3 cup applesauce.
For the buttermilk, I made my own using lemon juice: 1 1/4 tbsp lemon juice in a measuring cup, followed by enough milk to have 1 1/4 cups.
Then, I lightly coated my muffin tray with some butter, filled the cups? (Is that what you call them?) and placed the tray in the 400 degree oven for 25 minutes.
These muffins didn't rise very much so you can really fill the tray. I left 1/4″ or less at the top of each and that worked out well.
Make them just before company arrives. I dare you!
Whisk together dry ingredients: flour, baking powder and soda, sugar, salt.
Mix eggs OR applesauce, buttermilk, butter in another bowl. Gently fold that mixture into the dry mixture.
Fold in the zucchini and cheddar.
Prepare a muffin tray, I added a light coating of butter. These muffins didn't rise too much so I was able to fill my tray, leavning the slightest bit of room at the top of each.
Bake 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Allow to cool for 10 min before removing from tray.
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