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American metalcore legends Unearth are back with their seventh album Extinction(s) which the band describe as an album “full of venom toward the wrongs of the world, fighting back against the precarious position civilization is in, determined to effect some kind of change.” The inevitability of death, loss, and tragedy is a persistent theme throughout.
The band entered Graphic Nature Studio with producer Will Putney to begin recording their new album. Drums were recorded by Adam Dutkiewicz, guitarist of fellow Boston band Killswitch Engage. Bass guitar, guitar solo and vocals were tracked at the Brick HitHouse.
Headphones on, I dive straight into this cacophony of sound with open ears. Ears which are forcibly greeted by the crunching rhythmic guitar of the album opener “Incinerate”. This is a powerful opener from the off with a winding guitar riff straddling the vocals through the chorus and an amazing guitar solo played over the verse at lightning speed. This is a great track full of piss and vinegar, the vocals are ferocious but then again what more would you expect? Check out the track’s video below.
Second track “Dust” is no different. Powerful and filled throughout with guitar histrionics. This one is much heavier than the last, punctuated with a plodding death metal sounding riff dropping into the mix in parts. With a good set of studio headphones on you can hear every cymbal tinkle away throughout this track which adds another dimension to it. The guitar work again is fast and furious and another great track is done.
I love this down-tuned out of tune riff over the opening bars of “Survivalist”. The vocals are a little more screamo over this one reminding me of bands like Bullet For My Valentine and Funeral For A Friend and in parts a little more decipherable than the tracks I’ve heard so far. This to my ears is a bit more throwaway and it seems as if it was written with the circle pit in mind.
“Cultivation of Infection” is a great title for a track, especially if it’s brutally heavy. It opens with a hauntingly plucked guitar before blasting into action with a cutting riff that blazes along with the vocals. Something different here with an almost melodic chorus but not a hint of melodic vocals to follow along. I love the building turning guitar riff that just grows and grows within the chorus.
“The Hunt Begins” almost reminds me of fellow Bostonian’s Killswitch Engage as the opening riff rains out with nothing but destruction in mind. This is a painfully heavy track that just smashes the shit out of everything before it. As it hits the 2-minute mark and that grinding riff takes over followed by a strung harmonic, I’m hooked. As the track comes to a close it drops down to what sounds like a rap track before bashing your ears in again as it closes.
“Hard Lined Downfall” has an industrial edge to it as the track begins it resembles something from Static X or Fear Factory with its almost machine-like riff and hyper speed drumming. Repetitive is the name of the game on this one and not my favorite track on offer here but not a bad one by all means. “King of the Arctic” the first track about the T.V. show Ice Road Truckers… just kidding… I don’t know, but there’s something about this track as it begins, it gives you a feeling of winter in its drawn-out chords. As we get further into the track the guitars start to Pogo all over the place but come back to bring in the cold once more as it rings out towards the end.
“Sidewinder” has a down-tuned grinding riff that is just guitar gold. This track rips, pounds and destroys everything in its path. The blast beats pour over the chorus as a distant voice screams out ‘sidewinder’ in a tone that’s dipped in agony. Oh yeah! That riff again is just chopping and cutting everything in its path. “No Reprisal” blasts off with a beautiful melodic guitar part that rings out over a guttural scream and punishing beat. The twin lead is sweet and sounds so perfect between the chaos that’s ensuing.
Here we are at the final track “One With the Sun” is a scorcher (pardon the pun). No, it really is, the riff is bouncing and there are some nice little melodic punches of guitar throughout. This is so fast and furious, the guitars are on machine gun setting again as is the drumbeat. The breakdown at the 2:30 mark is genius with its almost Gothic monk-like chanting in the background. Great track, amazing album. If you like your music heavy, fast, ferocious, futuristic, grinding, melodic and well just to go buy it and stop spending your hard earned dollars on Justin Bieber.
Extinction(s) is out now on Century Media.


Llangollen's two county councillors say temporary measures are being considered for over the weekend to help avoid more accidents before Castle Street's controversial bollards are removed on Monday.
The temporary lane defenders, or bollards, were installed by Denbighshire County Council last November as part of a package of moves to facilitate social distancing.
But a number of people - including two in one day earlier this week - have been injured by tripping over them leading to calls from campaign group Llangollen Advocate for their urgent removal, even before the county council replaces them with specially designed planters on Monday.
The row over the bollards, which has largely been played out on social media, has also attracted coverage in regional newspapers and, yesterday, on national Welsh TV news from the BBC and S4C.
Last night, Llangollen's two county councillors, Graham Timms and Melvyn Mile, issued a joint statement to llanblogger, which says: "We continue to be very concerned and upset by the recent injuries caused by falling over the lane defender bases on Castle Street over the last few weeks and our thoughts are with all those who have tripped and been injured.
"Llangollen has had the worst kind of publicity recently on national television about this issue which comes at a time when the town needs to attract visitors to support our local businesses in leisure, tourism and retail.
"Just over two weeks ago we said that the bollards would be replaced by planters. This work will be carried out on Monday 19th April and the specially designed planters will be firmly fixed to the road surface to prevent them moving. Their installation will also address the concerns about tripping, as they don’t have any protruding supports.
"As visitors begin to return to the town in large numbers it is vital that we continue with measures to help with social distancing whilst at the same time as protecting everyone’s personal safety.
"The extra space created by removing the parking on Castle Street will continue to help pedestrians and those queueing outside shops to maintain a suitable distance without having to step into the carriageway. It has also enabled a small increase in the width of the main carriageway too.
"During the modifications early next week more dropped curbs will be introduced around the Oak Street and Market Street area to make it easier to cross the road at a difficult junction.
"There are also plans to introduce designated crossing points on Castle Street but unfortunately that will not be possible until the autumn.
"In the meantime Denbighshire County Council are considering ways to introduce temporary measures over this weekend to prevent any further accidents before the changes on Monday.
"Let’s hope that after a really difficult few weeks and months the new changes will help us all to work and live together more united as we move forward and the dangers of the pandemic recede."
* Town councillor Stuart Davies has made the following response: "Our Town and County Councillors were warned specifically about the dangers of the bollards on the 25 Feb by myself."The warning was treated with sarcasm by one County Councillor and ignored by the other. One County Officer acknowledged the issue with a gracious email back pointing out that the Head of Planning and Public Protection was in charge of the scheme and that my email had been passed on to him. Nothing more was heard.
"People continued to be hurt; All avoidable injuries if they had acted on my warning and the opinions of many residents and businesses.
"I make no apologies for continuing to campaign against these dangerous obstructions in our town which have caused numerous injuries to members of the public.
"The petition which we collected from Llangollen stakeholders is nearing 600 now and yet the members and DCC did not act until now when faced with adverse media coverage and a tide of public opinion.
"The Corporate Director of DCC told me that politically he could not act because the local members wanted this scheme and would not give their consent to their removal.
The reference to “worst kind of publicity” is quite ironic considering that it is the perceived intransigence of the local County Councillors that has caused this situation.
"My requests for this issue to be debated again by Llangollen Town Council are a matter of public record. One one of the DCC members is also a Town Council member. I called for us all to work together to come up with an acceptable solution. Both my requests have been met in the main part with silence which is very telling.
"Questions on the suitability and safety of planters as a a substitute remain unanswered. As the decision to install planters was made over two weeks ago, there is no reason why DCC cannot show the public that they are safe and the risk of more injuries and harm to people has been risk assessed."


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Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe has vowed to continue fighting against early marriages blaming it for negatively affecting the lives of African children.
Speaking at a press conference organised in commemoration of the Day of The African Child, National Director of Women and Law in Southern Africa, Slyvia Chirawu said early marriage is affecting many children in Africa.
“Child marriages result in loss of productivity in all aspects of a girl’s life, it forces them to drop out of school and their babies are prone to insufficient care because of inexperience,” she said adding that 39% of girls in Africa are married before their 18th birthday while 13% are married before they turn 15.
Emphasizing on how child marriages are affecting young girls, Chirawu said, “It is evident that girls under 15 years are five times more likely to die during childbirth than women who are 20 years and above and a child of a mother who is below 18 is 50% more likely to die in the year of birth she added.
“Girls are exposed to higher risks of death, injuries in childbirth, sexually transmitted infections, cervical cancer and domestic violence.”
According to Zimstats 2014 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS), one in three girls in rural areas are married before the age of 18 with sharp differences between in urban (18%) and rural (43%) areas of Zim.
“Poverty, cultural and religious practices are key drivers of child marriages in Zimbabwe,” said Chirawu.
WCOZ through its members, Women and Law in Southern Africa (WLSA) AND Shamwari Yemwanasikana are implementing a two year project to galvanize action against child marriages, running with the theme, ‘Amplifying Community Voices Against Child Marriages’.
The project will be targeting areas with high prevalence for child marriages.
According to UNFPA, high prevalent provinces include Mashonaland East (36%), Harare (19%) and Mashonaland West (42%).
However, Chirawu urged government to take action and implement the constitutional provisions that protect children citing section 56 (3) of the constitution which calls for non- discrimination.

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MIT thinks it might be able to eliminate cooking forever through a series of research projects.
It’s looking into using 3D printing technology to produce meals at the touch of a button.
Ingredients are piped into a mixer and extruder head that can accurately deposit elaborate food combinations with sub-millimeter precision, says MIT. While this is going on, the food is heated or cooled as appropriate.
For those that like a slightly more personal touch, MIT is also working on a robotic chef.
The prototype consists of a toolhead and two robotic arms, with the toolhead holding all the chef’s traditional implements: “Drill bits, mineral and spices injection syringes, and a lower power laser diode, which can programmatically cut, cook and spice the food held by the arm,” says MIT.
The Cornucopia devices would make cooking a touch more predictable, and also allow completely new techniques.
“Far from simply bringing the production of processed food to the home, the Digital Gastronomy machines described here attempt to use the most advanced food technologies and techniques to retain the freshness of ingredients, increase the potential for personal creative expression and develop a new and tighter connection between food production and our digital lives,” says the team.
“We believe these technologies cannot only expand the palette available to cooks today, but can also do it in a networked, collaborative and accessible fashion, akin to the digital design and fabrication revolution that is well under way in industrial design and architecture.”
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Chosen for Summer 2018 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION for Non-Fiction.
Examining the origins of the First World War has been called “the ultimate who dunnit”. In his book, published on the anniversary of the assassination said to have triggered it, John Zametica, focusing on the Habsburg Empire and the Balkans, re-examines the evidence. This leads to a number of radical new interpretations and some remarkable revelations about the events that in 1914 led to the outbreak of the First World War. The centenary of WW1 has spawned many new books on the subject. Utilizing a wide range of Serbo-Croat and German-language sources, the author overturns most of what we have been led to believe about the respective culpability of Austria-Hungary and Serbia for the outbreak of war. He also re-examines the role of Russia and Germany in this. The reader is left to conclude that Britain was morally right to enter the war, because it did so in a conflict in which two small countries, one on each side of Europe, had been attacked simultaneously by Austria-Hungary and Germany without provocation. In Folly and Malice John Zametica reveals that:
- The First World War was kick-started by an ailing Austria-Hungary which believed that waging a successful war was the only way it could remain a Great Power;
- This empire, with its eleven squabbling nations, and with its statesmen unwilling to contemplate any meaningful internal reform, was the real powder keg of Europe;
- Franz Ferdinand, the Austro-Hungarian Heir to the Throne normally portrayed as a likely enlightened reformer of the Empire, was actually seeking to destroy the Dualist political compromise between Austria and Hungary and replace it with his own centralist autocracy;
- Serious antagonism between the Austria-Hungary and Serbia really only began as late as 1906 and had on the whole almost nothing to do with the supposedly crucial ‘South Slav’ question;
- Gavrilo Princip, Franz Ferdinand’s assassin, was impelled to do his deed by a Yugoslav ideology conceived and propagated from within Habsburg Croatia, not independent Serbia;
- The notorious Black Hand, the secret Serbian officers’ organisation, far from planning to assassinate Franz Ferdinand during his visit to Bosnia, was in May-June 1914 busy plotting to overthrow civilian rule in Serbia and replace it with a military-led dictatorship;
- The famous Serbian warning to Vienna, intended to thwart Franz Ferdinand’s assassination, was the work of Lieutenant-Colonel Apis, the leader of the Black Hand;
- In July 1914, Vienna also wanted its ‘good’ war against Serbia so as to dislodge Russia from the Balkans and thus secure complete regional hegemony for itself. Germany, harbouring ambitions for continental supremacy, approved and encouraged Austria-Hungary’s Balkan adventure. Both powers consciously risked the probability of a wider international conflict.
John Zametica is the editor of British Officials and British Foreign Policy, 1945-50 (Leicester University Press, 1990) and the author of The Yugoslav Conflict (Brassey’s, The International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1992). He lives and works in Vienna.
“It is an absolutely fascinating story …”
“… another wonderful page-turner … clearly demonstrates from all available evidence, that Serbia did not want a war in 1914…”
Emeritus Professor Alan Sked, www.ThinkScotland.org. Professor Sked also mentions it in The Times Literary Supplement.
“… a seminal work which forces readers to reflect further on issues they had thought settled … a powerfully argued work whose conclusions will be carefully studied by historians for many years.”
Vernon Bogdanor, International Affairs
“Through meticulous research he proves beyond doubt that the notorious Serbian terrorist group the Black Hand did not plan the plot, nor was the government involved … His vivid description of the murders on Jun 28 is the best we have.”
Mark Cornwall, The Times Literary Supplement
“Folly and Malice is a breathtaking display of how expert historical sleuthing works”
“Zametica’s erudition is awesome, the pace and detail of the narrative exciting”
Prof. Paul Miller of McDaniel College Washington DC in the Nov 20 edition of Hungarian Studies Review
“This painstaking and meticulous piece of scholarship offers a challenge to some widely-held assumptions about the events which led up to the outbreak of World War One … This book has been a revelation to me and, whilst it might be considered controversial in some quarters, its challenge to existing thinking makes it a very significant contribution to the continuing debate about the causes of the Great War.”
Trevor James, The Historian
“John Zametica has been controversial in his time, but let that not detract from what is a brilliant piece of historical writing on one of the most important aspects of the outbreak of the First World War. Not since Vladimir Dedijer’s The Road to Sarajevo in 1967 has a book of this power and authority addressed the subject. John Zametica’s scope is even wider than Dedijer’s, and his conclusions more compelling.”
Professor Sir Hew Strachan
“Zametica’s will be the automatic reference point for any future discussion … this writer has gripped the detail of the assassination story more fully than anyone before him … The book is both important and convincing. It will be essential reading for history undergraduates and should appeal to a broader audience …”
Dr Michael Stenton
“I hope it will not be too long before it gets critical acclaim and enters the canon as a seminal work that redefined how scholars and the rest of us look at First World War history. It’s a long and complex book full of painstaking research of both primary and secondary sources, creating one of the most exciting academic texts I’ve come across in ages.”
Tijana Delic, Britic
“If you consider yourself a scholar of history, or if your heritage goes back to these troubled lands, or if you merely wish to learn more about a region systematically and deliberately misrepresented for the past century, this book is for you.”

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3 wounded in drive-by shooting in SF’s Western Addition
Updated 10:56 am, Monday, September 19, 2016
A drive-by shooting in San Francisco’s Western Addition neighborhood over the weekend left three people wounded and police hunting for the shooter.
The attack happened early Saturday as the three victims, two men in their 20s and a 39-year-old woman, walked near Webster and Turk streets, police said.
Just after midnight, a sedan stopped alongside the group and a person in the backseat opened fire, police said.
The car then sped off in an unknown direction. No suspects were identified in the attack, but police believe there were three men in the vehicle.
One victim was shot in the hand and the other two had gunshot wounds to their legs, police said.
All three were treated and expected to recover.


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Intel made some big changes to the way its processors consume power with the introduction of the Comet Lake-S series CPUs. However, it wasn't until now that the under-the-bonnet changes have been made clear. In brief, PL1 is equivalent to the processor's advertised TDP listed in the Intel Ark (i.e. 1x), PL2 can vary up to 3.5x depending on processor model, and Tau (length of time PL2 can be sustained) is either 28s or 56s depending on processor model.
German language tech site ComputerBase claims that Intel supplied the following details, charting the full values for PL1, PL2 and Tau for its Comet Lake-S range of desktop CPUs as follows:
In previous generations PL2 never crept above PL1 by more than 25 per cent, or 1.25x, claims ComputerBase. In the chart above there are some extraordinary PL2 values specced by Intel engineers, given that previous baseline. The recently reviewed Intel Core i9-10900K and Core i5-10600K, for example, have a PL2 increased by a factor of 2x and nearly 1.5x, respectively. In the table provided you will also notice that Intel furnishes these K suffixed processors with a Tau of 56s. All other consumer desktop processors will only maintain PL2 for 28s at the most.
Moving down the chart we see some of the biggest PL2 increase factors. For example the standard Core i9 and Core i7 Comet Lake-S CPUs with 65W PL1, have PL2 values of 224W. Moreover, traditionally power-sipping, efficient 'T' suffixed processors with a standard 35W TDP might consume up to 123W in bursts of nearly half a minute in length.
ComputerBase shares a similar chart for the Intel Comet Lake-S Xeon W chips (reproduced above). These workstation processors also sport PL2 values of up to 3.5x of the advertised TDP.


So, it is good news for all the Deadpool and Marvel fans as The Deadpool 2 trailer has arrived, and it is absolutely thrilling what Deadpool does with his toys, we can also expect a lot of plot hints about obscure X-Men and see the return of plenty of faces as it is not just Brolin who is a new face. Zazie Beetz will make her debut as a mutant, while Julian Dennison will also feature as an unidentified character. Let’s check out all the complete breakdown and Easter eggs.
Let’s first talk about the badass character Cable, as we see him fight through a terrible future of burning buildings. If you are not good with the comics, Cable is a character from future timeline who comes back to right what once went wrong.
We can also see a moment in the trailer when our hero Deadpool understands that the special effects on Cable’s arm aren’t done and then he does little movie promotions. Does that remind us of Toy Story!
We can see Deadpool and Cable fighting, but they also have a common enemy – the DMC (Department of Mutant Control). We see Deadpool in a yellow jumpsuit in a DMC prison. Cable is seen battling with DMC to make his way into the prison to kill Deadpool, but later we can see both Cable and Deadpool assaulting a DMC transport vehicle.
Before we ask, is that a gun with a knife? Yes, it is, and what a weapon to have. Zazie Beetz’s Domino is killer because her unique luck-based mutant powers enable her to ditch the bullet and ensure that her shots are on target.
While we are still not sure about the character of Julian Dennison, the shot of him surrounded by fire in the last teaser is giving us some hints to believe that he might be playing John Allardyce (Pyro), who is in the comics as a member of the Brotherhood of Mutants.
Well, it is very difficult to keep up with the casting news, we can see a surprise new cast in the trailer. Terry Crews, The Brooklyn Nine-Nine star standing alongside Deadpool, Domino, and with a few fighters in the back of a helicopter.
We can see Deadpool wearing a suit that has been repaired with duct-tape. The main areas repaired are his toes, his thigh, his midsection and his upper arms, which begs the question – what exactly has Deadpool healed from?


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A new report out of Japan alleges that the upcoming iPhone 7 will be 1mm thinner than the iPhone 6S. The latter is already pretty slender at 7.1mm and it looks like the former is set to be even slimmer at 6.1mm only.
Other than this reduction in thickness, the iPhone 7 will look similar to the iPhone 6 and 6S. This means the phone is set to have the same metal body, height and width. Furthermore, the rumor claims that Apple is not making the handset waterproof, contrary to what previous speculations have suggested in the past.
This is pretty disappointing news, considering Apple usually takes a stab at a new design in every non-S year. The major change coming this time round is still the lack of a 3.5mm headphone jack. It’s getting eliminated in the brand’s quest to make the smartphone thinner and may be replaced by a set of speakers.
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A stereo speaker setup in the iPhone 7 had been hinted at in a report earlier this month. All the iPhones so far have sported only a single mono speaker, so this addition might go a long way in improving its sound output. Macotakara (via 9to5Mac) also confirms talk that the future phone’s camera unit will be flush against the handset’s back instead of sticking out.
The new report also dismisses the notion that the iPhone 7 will sport a dual-lens camera system, though it doesn’t know if the iPhone 7 Plus could carry the feature or not. Finally, the Lightning connector port is apparently going to be smaller now. Note that this probably won’t affect cables and likely only means the cutout is going to take up less space.


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MUSC has several innovative strategies to help patients quickly address and manage their heart conditions
"Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?” -- Pablo Casals
The heart is an amazing and coordinated machine. As a muscle the size of your fist, it will beat ~100,000 times each day and pump 1.5 gallons of blood through 60,000 miles of blood vessels every minute. As incredible as that is, sometimes the heart breaks.
Broken heart syndrome, or death from a broken heart, is an extremely rare heart condition. In contrast, heart disease — issues and deformities of the heart — is a group of common and serious heart conditions causing one in four deaths in the United States. Some of the more familiar types of heart disease include coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, arrythmia and heart failure. Oftentimes these conditions are treated with medication or surgery; however, doctors are constantly seeking to improve the lives of these patients.
MUSC is pioneering several strategies to help patients manage their heart disease. One strategy uses artificial intelligence to help physicians make detailed maps of the heart more quickly in patients with atrial fibrillation. The second strategy utilizes a novel medical device to rebalance the different arms of the nervous system in patients with chronic heart failure.
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The four chambers of the heart beat in a controlled, steady, rhythmic pattern. This pattern is controlled by an electrical system called the pacemaker. Normally, the electric pulse is initiated in the upper chambers, the atria, and travels to the lower chambers, the ventricles. Arrhythmias, which can become fatal, occur when the rhythmic pattern is disrupted, causing the heart to beat too fast (tachycardia), too slow (bradycardia) or irregularly (fibrillation).
Atrial fibrillation is one of the most common arrhythmias and causes the atria to twitch quickly. This added strain on the heart often leads to the formation of clots. In fact, one out of seven strokes in the United States is caused by atrial fibrillation. To manage it, patients are prescribed a daily medication regimen. If the medications fail to address the problem, patients can undergo a surgical intervention, called catheter ablation, in which a wire is inserted into the dysfunctional area and heated to disrupt the damaged area.
To ensure the safety and efficacy of this procedure, physicians need an accurate map of the heart, and artificial intelligence is providing a new, better map-making tool.
Pretreatment mapping of the left atrium is much quicker with the help of AI. The images show a standard heart CT scan (left), a scan with AI mapping (middle), and a detailed AI map of the left atrium (right).
“That’s where we come in,” said Jeremy R. Burt, M.D., associate professor of radiology and radiological science and director of cardio- vascular CT, who is using artificial intelligence to map the heart.
Normally, patients about to undergo catheter ablation are sent to the radiologist for a computed tomography (CT) scan or a magnetic resonance image (MRI). The radiologist then processes the image to give a detailed map of the left atrium and the pulmonary veins back to the electrophysiologist. This process can normally be completed in 10 to 15 minutes. However, Burt and his team have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm that can provide a detailed map of the left atrium with 95% accuracy in just 10 seconds.
“Artificial intelligence has such great potential,” explained Burt. “There’s a high threshold before you can reach that potential, but once you get past that, there are amazing things that we are going to be able to do. It is really going to change medicine, and radiology is a great example of where we can apply some of these artificial intelligence algorithms.”
This new technology will be highly beneficial for physicians, who generate these detailed maps several times a day, because it will save a significant amount of time. Although the technology is not quite available to physicians, Burt and his team are currently working to test the algorithm in a specific patient group with atrial fibrillation.
These new algorithms will also allow physicians to study the left atrium and learn important details about how it contributes to normal heart function.
“We don’t know very much about the left atrium,” described Burt. “For a long time, we thought it was just there to hold the blood, that it doesn’t really do a whole lot. Now we know it has an important function, and this algorithm is going to let us research that on a large scale."
Burt and his team are currently planning studies to look at the emptying fraction, the amount of blood pushed out of the left atrium into the left ventricle. To start, the team will examine healthy patients to monitor their blood volumes, emptying fractions and strain pat- terns. After defining these normal parameters, they can begin looking at different disease states, starting in patients with atrial fibrillation. Future work could focus on other heart conditions, including mitral regurgitation (the abnormal flow of blood from the left ventricle to the left atrium), mitral stenosis (an abnormal narrowing of the mitral valve that restricts blood flow out of the left atrium), and amyloidosis (an abnormal build-up of amyloid in the heart).
Overall, this new technology will allow physicians to more quickly map the left atrium of patients with atrial fibrillation and could provide the basis for a whole new understanding of how the left atrium functions.
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Heart failure occurs when the heart fails to efficiently pump blood around the body. It is estimated that heart failure affects 6.5 million people, with half of patients dying within five years of a diagnosis. Over the past 30 years, several medications and devices have improved patients’ morbidity and mortality; however, significant challenges remain.
“Despite the many advances we’ve made in heart failure, patients still have an unacceptable symptom status, an unacceptable burden of disease, and an unacceptable mortality rate,” said Michael R. Zile, M.D., the Charles Ezra Daniel Professor of Medicine, an MUSC distinguished professor, and chief of cardiology at the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center. “We know we need to make continued efforts to improve therapy.”
Heart function is regulated by two opposing branches of the autonomic nervous system — the sympathetic nervous system (SNS), which increases the heart rate and contractility among other heart functions, and the parasympathetic system (PNS), which reduces the heart rate. In heart failure, the SNS is in overdrive while the PNS is suppressed, leading to decreased myocardial efficiency, arrhythmia and inflammation.
A clinical trial, Baroreflex Activation Therapy (BAT) for Heart Failure (BeAT-HF), sponsored by CVRx and chaired by Zile, sought to rectify the dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system in heart failure patients by using a novel medical device called Barostim Neo. This device uses an electrical signal to modulate the nervous system.
“In patients with chronic heart failure, there’s an imbalance in the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems, such that the sympathetic tone is increased and the parasympathetic tone is decreased,” explained Zile. “When you stimulate the carotid baroreceptor with an electrical stimulus, you rebalance that by stimulating the brain. The brain acts to move the sympathetic down and the parasympathetic up.”
The device consists of a two-millimiter electrode that is attached to a pulse generator. The electrode is placed on the carotid sinus baroreceptor (on the carotid artery), while the pulse generator is implanted subcutaneously. Once implanted, a continuous afferent signal is sent to the brain. Importantly, this stimulus is titratable. Physicians can increase the signal stepwise over the course of a few weeks to reach a maximally tolerated strength.
The BeAT-HF trial began in a defined target population of greatest unmet need. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the trial for patients “who remain symptomatic despite treatment with guideline-directed medical therapy, are NYHA Class III or Class II (who had a recent history of Class III), have a left ventricular ejection fraction ltetSym 35%, an NT-proBNP < 1,600 pg/ml and excluding patients indicated for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) according to AHA/ACC/ESC guidelines.”
By all measures, the study was a huge success and proved to be safe. Patients who underwent BAT showed improvements in their six-minute walk and their quality of life score, and they raised their New York Heart Association score. They also showed a reduction in a critical biomarker that is resistant to the placebo effect.
The FDA saw significant improvement of patients and prioritized the BeAT-HF trial for review. The trial was one of the first protocols and devices approved under the 2016 21st Century Cures Act, a congressional act that strives to rapidly bring new therapies to patients. The FDA approved the Barostim Neo system on August 16, 2019, for patients who meet the FDA guidelines. Currently, most insurance companies don’t cover Barostim Neo, but it is under review with the Center for Medicare Services and they are enthusiastic about the device.
“This is the first neuromodulation device, to our knowledge, that has been demonstrated to be effective and has been approved by the FDA,” said Zile.
One of the greatest benefits of the Barostim Neo system over conventional treatment modalities is that patient compliance should be greatly improved. Rather than requiring several daily medications, the device continually modulates the autonomic nervous system and reduces the risk of patients failing to take their medicine.
In the future, it is possible that the Barostim Neo system could treat a broader range of heart failure patients. There is reason to believe that across the heart failure spectrum, the imbalance between the SNS and PNS is the underlying cause of disease. Zile believes that rebalancing the system to a homeostatic level should improve heart failure symptoms and outcomes in all patients with heart failure.
On the mend
Patients with heart disease continue to have significant morbidity and mortality despite decades of drug development. Physicians at MUSC are persistently striving to reduce patient suffering. One group of physicians is using artificial intelligence to aid in quickly mapping the atrium in patients with atrial fibrillation and may now have a platform to study the atrium in both health and disease. Another group has designed a novel medical device that rebalances the nervous system to significantly improve the quality of life for patients with chronic heart failure. Both of these advances will help patients experience a higher quality of life despite heart disease.

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Jennifer Lopez took an adorable outing in LA on Saturday night. The singer, actress and designer has already celebrated the launch of her shoe line in collaboration with American brand Revolve. An opportunity for the star to appear in the evening with a look suitable for disco evenings in Studio 54.
Wearing a split lamé dress, complete with a feathered jacket, J.Lo made her arrive in front of the paparazzi. In addition to her XXL earrings and handbag, the 53-year-old singer wore a pair of silver sandals from her new collection for Revolve.
In addition to the outdoor synchronized swimming show, Jennifer Lopez and her guests enjoyed fruit cocktails and appetizers with a view of the illuminated City of Angels. There was singing duo Chloe and Halle Bailey, as well as Christina Milian, wife of the patriotic Mr. Pokora.
Ben Affleck, J. Lo’s husband, was conspicuous by his absence on Saturday night. And with good reason, the actor was in Austin, Texas, promoting his next movie, “Air” (April 5 on Amazon Prime Video) with friend Matt Damon.
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For her part, in addition to her career as an actress and designer, Jennifer Lopez is preparing to make a comeback in music. Five years after the release of “AKA,” the mother of Emme and Max, 15, has announced the highly anticipated release of her ninth studio album, titled “This Is Me…Now.” Planned release in 2023.
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He, as the “expert” of war leads the reader through the story. Since O’Brien has experienced the actual war from a soldier’s point of view, he should be able to present the truth about war... ... middle of paper ... ...r because it seems impossible to reconstruct an event from this objective point of view. Maybe the point of telling stories is not trying to recreate the reality of a past event, but it is the message that matters because that might be in the end the only thing that does not necessarily depend on single details of the story, but on the overall picture of an event. That is why to O’Brien another important component of a war story is the fact that a war story will never pin down the definite truth and that is why a true war story “never seems to end” (O’Brien, 425). O’Brien moves the reader from the short and simple statement “This is the truth” to the conclusion that, “In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself and therefore it’s safe to say that in a true war story nohting much is ever very true” (O’Brien, 428).
He does not want the reader to know the difference between the two because in his opinion that fact is irrelevant. O’Brien obviously thinks outside the box and has everyone questioning reality. However, this fact is truly ironic, because the point is not to care what type of “truth” it is, but to instead feel the raw beauty of the emotion and to accept it as the truth. While trying to define “story-truth” and “happening-truth,” a couple chapters in particular focus on the idea of truth, “How to Tell a True War Story,” “The Man I Killed” and “Good Form.” O’Brien believes that the most important thing for a reader is to experience the emotion of the story, be it “story-truth” or “happening-truth,” as long as the real emotion is conveyed and understood by the reader, then it is as true as it could possibly be. In the chapter “How to Tell a True War Story”O’Brien elaborates on how the differences between the “story-truth” and “happening-truth,” A true war story is never moral.
The truth behind stories is not always what happened, with each person 's perspective is where their truth lies. In the beginning of the novel, you start to think that it is going to be the same old war stories you read in the past, but it changes direction early. It is not about how the hero saves the day, but how each experience is different and how it stays with you. From his story about Martha, to how he killed a man, each one is so different, but has its own meaning that makes people who have not been in war, understand what it is like. Tim O’Brien can tell a fake story and make you believe it with no doubt in your mind.
In Tim O’Brien’s novel, “The Things They Carried,” imaginations can be both beneficial and corrosive. This novel consist of story truth and real truth. Throughout the novel, imagination plays a big role. Tim O’Brien wrote his book about the war mainly based on his memory of the war. He did not remember every details of the war, thus he made up some false details to the stories to make it seems more interesting.
Tim explores the connection between war events and the art of narrating those events. However Tim does not make a conclusion on exactly what is a true story of war (King, 183). He sees that a person cannot as well generalize a story. Tim feels that war can be seen as anything from beauty and love to the most callous event ever experienced. Meaning is not necessary in the story.
Dissection of Tim O’Brien’s Prime Narrative Against Herzog’s Fifth Hypothesis In one of the most influential pieces of postmodern literature, Tim O’Brien in The Things They Carried introduces us to a war fact/fiction writing where two of these themes intermingle into each other to such degree that nothing remains clear in the end but the emotional communication that attempts to convey the horrors of the Vietnam War. This writing style has distinguished Tim O’Brien from many other authors that wrote in the same genre and conveyed their respective style. In The Things They carried, the treatment of the Vietnam War is very precise, in the meaning of the nature of the war itself. It is a collection of short stories that contain near-fictional characters accounting their experiences in the Vietnam War. This near-fiction becomes troubling for the readers of Tim O’Brien.
. . [in] contemporary war fiction” (Smith 12). Like Hemingway,1 O’Brien takes on a journalistic approach to his novels. Narrating with his typical method of fragmented stream-of-consciousness, Tim O’Brien recalls his past experiences as a soldier and creates a meta-fiction that illustrates the Vietnam War as a senseless paradox.
As previous passages focus on this idea of emotion, inherent limits of storytelling, and questioning all war stories for its truth, O’Brien ultimately says, “Absolute occurrence is irrelevant” which means truth is not subjected to a nonfictional representation of an event. This concept breaks the boundary between fiction and nonfiction accounts of war as all stories are representations of an experience. However, this experience, according to O’Brien, also does not have to have occurred because it is what the story conveys that represents truth. It is through this convention that allows The Things They Carried to further expand the war story genre by defining truth within a story to include works of
O’Brien shows that it matters not that a story is fiction, so long as it represents the truth as it seemed. The novel The Thing They Carried is a compilation of short fiction that explores the theme of the distinction between factual truth and story truth. The quotation in the short story “How To Tell a True War Story” distinguishes between what is true in a war story and what is not. This quotation, through the use of figurative language, imagery and other stylistic devices makes the reader reconsider the meaning of truth in a war story. The quote sums up a central idea of the short story collection and gives meaning to the events in the book.
In “How to Tell a True War Story” by Tim O’Brien, Orwell’s ideas are questioned and the competition between the truth and the underlying meaning of a story is discussed. O’Brien’s story depicts that the truth isn’t always a simple concept; and that not every piece of literature or story told can follow Orwell’s list of rules (Orwell 285). The story is told through an unnamed narrator as he re-encounters memories from his past as a soldier in the Vietnam War. With his recollection of past encounters, the narrator also offers us segments of didactic explanation about what a “true war story” is and the power it has on the human body (O’Brien 65). O’Brien uses fictional literature and the narration of past experiences to raise a question; to what extent should the lack of precision, under all circumstances, be allowed?

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WELL WORTH A VISIT.
The famous collection of roses at Mottisfont Abbey is enjoying a longer than usual period in bloom thanks to the cool June weather.
Despite a very warm spring bringing the flowers into bloom early, the recent cool temperatures has slowed flowering down. The collection of old-fashioned roses has yet to peak, and should be looking their best over the next three weeks, say the National Trust.
“The prolonged warm dry weather in May resulted in blooms appearing earlier than they have in 30 years and we were concerned that many rose lovers who make the annual trip to our walled rose garden in mid-June may miss out,” said Howard Brisland, a senior gardener at Mottisfont.
“This cooler weather is just what we needed in order to slow down the growing process, and the result is a longer flowering period than we have experienced in many years. There will be exceptional rose displays throughout most of June.”
Mottisfont’s gardening team are running an informal “Gardener’s Question Time” every day from 2pm to 3pm in the Gardeners’ Information Room.
Mottisfont is extending its opening hours to to 8pm on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays throughout June. On Mondays to Thursdays, the garden is open from 10am to 5pm.
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The Christmas Rose at Carnegie Hall Will Feature Jane Seymour and the Tim Janis Ensemble
05 Nov 2012
The Open Hearts Foundation will present Jane Seymour and the Tim Janis Ensemble: The Christmas Rose, a night of music, dance and drama featuring Emmy winner Jane Seymour and composer Tim Janis, Nov. 29 at Carnegie Hall.
The evening is scheduled to begin at 6:30 PM on the Perelman Stage in the Stern Auditorium.
The Christmas Rose, conducted by John Page and Paul Geer, will also feature The Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra, The American Boychoir and dance group Damhsa as well as dancers from the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre, Broadway Dance Center's Children and Teen Program, The Nutmeg Ballet and the Princeton Ballet School.
Seymour, who was seen on Broadway in Amadeus, is a two-time Golden Globe Award winner for her work on "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" and "East of Eden." She also received an Emmy Award for "Onassis: The Richest Man in the World."
Carnegie Hall is located at 57th Street and Seventh Avenue. For more information and tickets, visit CarnegieHall.org.
Radio City Christmas Spectacular: Buy One, Get One Free!
The Rockettes® dazzle in brilliant dance numbers and Radio City® shines with the joy of the season.
Follow Santa on his sleigh ride, see ice skaters swirl across the stage, and catch a snowflake or two
in this immersive theatrical experience like no other. And this year, delight in the magic of Santa’s enchanted toy factory! We’re bringing back a fan favorite to Santa’s workshop, with charming ragdolls that come to life.

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Posted on Sep 25, 2014 in Alumni News, Campus News, and News
KU’s 102nd Homecoming celebration is taking place this week. Learn about past Homecomings through our Throwback Thursday posts, and check out our social media hub to see what students, alumni and fans are posting about Homecoming on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using #kuhomecoming. For a full list of activities and other information about Homecoming, visit www.homecoming.ku.edu.
As seven sorority-fraternity teams prepared to compete in the traditional Jayhawk Jingles competition Sept. 24, the line of students arriving at the Adams Alumni Center to cheer their favorites—and sample free food—stretched to the corner of 13th and Oread. By the time the first group took the stage, the crowd filled the parking lot for a highlight of the annual Homecoming celebration.
For those who haven’t witnessed the competition, think of Jayhawk Jingles as Rock Chalk Revue song-and-dance skits but with a common Homecoming theme—this year, Roll with the ’Hawks. Two other distinctions are worth noting: Teams have only a couple of weeks’ preparation and rehearsal before strutting their stuff, amd they have only seven minutes onstage to dazzle the audience. Even so, the creative competitors manage to craft lyrics, costumes, choreography and a more than a few cringe-worthy jokes—all set to music provided by venerable Lawrence disc jockey Scott Simpson.
The best seats went to this year’s alumni judges from Lawrence: Julie Thies Dunlap, c’98; Beth Anderson Easter, c’93; and Greg, m’91, and Becky Innes Orth, ’92, who scored the performances and determined the winners.
This year’s Jayhawk Jingles champions are the women of Delta Delta Delta and the men of Alpha Tau Omega. Their skit highlighted a guitar solo, harmony, a hapless Texas Longhorn fan, and energetic dance moves—including a back flip.
Second place went to West Campus Road neighbors Sigma Kappa sorority and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, who incorporated fun facts from the history of KU and favorite board games along with song and dance.
Alpha Chi Omega sorority and Phi Gamma Delta fraternity teamed up to take third place for their KU version of Monopoly.
Other teams included Kappa Alpha Theta and Alpha Epsilon Pi, Alpha Gamma Delta and Sigma Chi, Alpha Delta Pi and Theta Chi, and Delta Gamma and Kappa Sigma. After the competition, the Homecoming spirit rolled on, as the performers and the audience took the stage for a rousing final dance. Rock Chalk!
—Jennifer Jackson Sanner
Watch our slideshow below to see pictures from Jayhawk Jingles, or click here to view the photos on Flickr.


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25-year-old woman killed in overnight crash near Ballard Bridge
Published 6:49 am, Monday, November 6, 2017
A 25-year-old woman was killed in a crash early Monday near the Ballard Bridge, emergency officials said.
Police and medics responded to the scene, at 15th Avenue West and West Emerson Place, at about 1 a.m. after receiving reports of a serious accident.
A car was found crashed into a guardrail, and a 25-year-old woman was found dead at the scene, said a Seattle Fire Department spokesperson.
The circumstances leading up to the crash are under investigation.
West Emerson Place remains closed near the crash scene as of 6:30 a.m.
This is a developing news story. More information will be posted as it becomes available.


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Mild cognitive impairment is the stage between normal forgetfulness of aging Cognitiva and the development of diagnosed dementia itself. Even though you might have problems with thinking and memory, if they don't interfere with everyday activities and are the result of normal forgetfulness you need not be concerned. Some of the symptoms include forgetting recent events or conversations, trouble doing more than one task at a time, trouble solving problems and taking more time to do a more difficult mental activity.
It seems that ignoring obsessions is an easier task to achieve if obsessions are only mild, however even those with severe or even extreme OCD can eventually use this strategy effectively. As we know and understand, obsessions are completely unwanted and they are very intrusive. Anybody can have unwanted thoughts of course and obviously you do not have to have OCD to experience unwanted thoughts. I'm sure we have all had unwanted thoughts even if these thoughts were along the lines of horrid dreams or nightmares; it is normal.
Most people while experiencing unwanted thoughts in an awakened state would ignore thoughts that are unpleasant; they would pay them no attention. They may recognise them, but quickly dismiss them. Of course, thoughts can come into anybody's mind and sometimes a thought that just pops into one's mind may have an element of pleasure such as suddenly thinking about taking a vacation; a thought out of the blue.


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Glom readers know I've been thinking a lot about SharesPost, one of two major sites where trading of pre-IPO shares is flourishing. Secondary markets were in the news twice last week. First, SharesPost agreed to pay the SEC an $80,000 fine for failing to register as a broker-dealer--which seems like a slap on the wrist, particularly since everyone knew that it was breaking the rules. Second, the SEC sued two money managers for failing to disclose hidden commissions when trading for their clients on the secondary market.
Descriptions of the secondary market for pre-IPO shares range from "a bit of a free for all" to "an illiquid, opaque bazaar populated by shady characters" Everyone seems to agree that the Facebook IPO frenzy is fueling a lot of the excitement. But it seems to me that when Facebook eventually does go public, the SharesPost might catch some flak. I see two possible scenarios:
Scenario One: Facebook experiences a huge first-day pop, that much-desired wild ride where the shares' initial offering price is outstripped-sometimes wildly outstripped--by the price at the market's close. A big pop would be good for those lucky enough to buy Facebook at the IPO, and fantastic for those who bought pre-IPO. Traditionally, this latter group included early employees, friends and family, angel investors, and venture capitalists. Now it also probably includes everyone who bought Facebook on the secondary market.
So what's the problem? The risk for SharesPost is that the public sees this as another example of what Reuters terms "special rules for the rich." Because not just anyone can buy shares on the secondary market. You need to be an accredited investor--i.e., rich. I could see popular opinion taking this as another case where the rich get access to special deals the rest of us poor schlubs can't, and they make money as a result while we're left on the sideline. Not good for SharesPost.
Scenario Two: Facebook shares don't pop on the IPO. They go sideways or even down. It's not unheard of. Then what matters is the delta between the price secondary market investors paid and the offering price. If that gap is high enough, then secondary market buyers will still make a profit. If it's low--or if some secondary market investors lose money on Facebook (it IS possible, especially when factoring in those commissions), then suddenly buyers will cry foul. And fraud. And that's bad for SharesPost, too.
Does anyone else feel like the secondary market right now is like the NYSE in September of 1929?
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For one of the largest universities in the nation, technology plays a critical role in the advancement of student and learner success.
Recently, over 500 team members from Arizona State University’s IT community united at Empower, celebrating the collective impact of technology-driven innovation happening within the university. From immersive learning environments to intelligent chatbots, ASU stands at the forefront of educational advancements.
Five teams from across the university took the stage at Empower for the 5x5 Technology Showcase to share how their projects are enhancing the digital ecosystem at ASU and beyond. Below is a glimpse at those presentations.
1. Unlocking learning in virtual reality at Dreamscape Learn
Presented by Hasrah Thomas
ASU’s Dreamscape Learn offers fully immersive learning environments, providing students with engaging, interactive educational experiences. Seamlessly blending cutting-edge virtual reality technology and innovative pedagogy, Dreamscape Learn enhances and complements traditional learning methods, propelling students into the future of education.
At Empower, Hasrah Thomas, director of Realm 4 initiatives at Dreamscape Learn and EdPlus at ASU, delved into recent research on the success rate of nearly 700 students participating in the Dreamscape Learn biology course.
“We found that the students participating in Dreamscape Learn labs not only enjoyed the experience but also significantly outperformed their peers in the non-DSL labs, leading to greater student success and confirming the effectiveness of this innovative approach,” Thomas said.
In recent studies, students’ lab grades were 9% higher than those in the conventional courses. The median lab grade for students in Dreamscape Learn was 96%, compared with 87% for the other group. Additional findings highlighted the positive impact of the full-immersive course on collaboration and engagement, with students expressing overall enjoyment and giving it a high rating of 4.4 out of 5.
2. Exploring credit mobility to advance student and learner agency
Presented by Bobby Gray and Kate Giovacchini
Research shows that there are 39 million learners in the U.S. who have some college but no degree. Bobby Gray, executive director of products and programs at Enterprise Technology, and Kate Giovacchini, director of the Trusted Learner Network at Enterprise Technology, took to the stage to share a suite of tools being developed by ASU’s Enterprise Technology to improve credit mobility.
First, the Trusted Learner Network (TLN) is designed as a central credential repository. Institutions and organizations that are part of the TLN can securely store evidence of an individual's credentials inside the network. Students can then access their full evidence of achievements from across their lifetimes in one, easy-to-access portal.
Tools like the Interactive Degree Planner (IDP) and ASU Pocket — which can operate within the TLN and as stand-alone products — allow students to apply their credentials to better navigate the lifelong learner journey.
ASU Pocket is a digital wallet for students to carry evidence of their earned credentials. The digital wallet uses a self-sovereign identity model that gives individuals full ownership and control of their digital identities and associated credentials — such as degrees, digital badges or certificates. Individuals can directly share verified credentials with institutions and organizations using their digital wallet.
Interactive Degree Planner is the most recent development. The service, which is still in the design phase, will provide prospective and current students with a portal to map out their academic journey. The planner helps students explore up to five academic plans, track progress toward their degree, plan their courses each semester and ensure they meet the requirements for graduation.
“These critical mobility initiatives are designed to reduce friction for all of our learners and students, recognizing that they come to us from completely different pathways, backgrounds and experiences,” Giovacchini said.
3. Bridging educational gaps with Study Hall
Presented by Wayne Anderson and Sean Hobson
EdPlus Chief Design Officer Sean Hobson and Wayne Anderson, director of strategic design and development, took the stage next to share about one of the university’s most recent initiatives.
Study Hall is a collaboration between ASU, Crash Course and YouTube to offer accessible educational content for millions of viewers and learners for transferable college credits. The project focuses on three main areas: a series on “how to college,” a series on fields of study and majors called Fast Guides, and a first-of-its-kind pathway from curiosity on YouTube to college credit.
“By leveraging the technology and access on YouTube, we're pushing new bounds in our learning architecture, ultimately bridging the gap between informal and formal education and making enriched and scalable experiences for our learners,” Hobson said.
ASU faculty worked closely with the Crash Course team, led by Hank and John Green, to develop the Study Hall series, which has garnered over 3.4 million views. The seven-week courses include subjects such as English composition, college math, U.S. history and human communication. This innovative method is meeting learners where they are and providing new ways to engage with the university experience, thus expanding the university's mission to democratize learning online.
4. Empowering ‘100 Million Learners’ around the world
Presented by Laura Polk
The Francis and Dionne Najafi 100 Million Learners Global Initiative, led by the Thunderbird School of Global Management, aims to offer online, global education in 40 languages at no cost to the learner. With the aim of being the boldest and most ambitious global education initiative in higher education history, this program was designed to provide world-class education to individuals who might not have access to traditional learning resources.
The program offers three pathways to help advance the learner’s personal and professional development — a foundational entrepreneurship boot camp course (for learners at any level of education) and intermediate and advanced pathways for learners at the high school, undergraduate or graduate levels. In order to reduce language barriers, the program's content has been translated into 20 languages, prioritized based on the number of native speakers and greatest areas of educational need.
Future plans include adding another 20 unique languages in order to reach all learners — no matter where they live — across the globe. Participants who satisfactorily complete the intermediate or advanced programs can apply for academic credit, which can be used toward degrees at ASU and universities around the world.
“Our focus is on delivering transformative learning experiences that not only cater to the unique needs of our learners but also continually adapt and evolve in this ever-changing educational landscape,” said Laura Polk, executive director of digital initiatives and learning experience at the Thunderbird School of Global Management. “Through this commitment, we're reshaping the boundaries of global education, ensuring that every learner, regardless of their location or native language, has access to an empowering educational journey.”
5. Bridging the AI knowledge gap with Simpli-fAI
Presented by Mickey Mancenido
The Simpl-fAI project aims to make artificial intelligence more accessible and understandable to a broader audience. Mickey Mancenido, an AI researcher and assistant professor at the School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, highlighted the need for simplifying AI education.
Mancenido, who is also a graduate of Enterprise Technology’s T4 Leadership Academy, proposes using social media as a tool for AI education, using short, engaging informational videos and leveraging social media’s popularity among younger generations to dispel misconceptions surrounding the new generative technology. At Empower, he emphasized the importance of a well-informed society in our increasingly technology-driven world, highlighting the Simpl-fAI project's commitment to bridging the gap between AI and the general public.
“One approach we can take as educators is to use social media as a platform to educate learners and the broader public on artificial intelligence technologies,” Mancenido said. “We can simplify AI concepts and counteract the fear and sensationalism that often surround them.”
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This is just one more example of Apartheid Israel and one more reasons to boycott firms that do business with Israel and ecourage divestment, which was proven successful in ending Apartheid in South Africa. The white/Jewish people of Israel must learn that their racism will not be overlooked and that it will come with a price. BTW: Is it just a coincidence that Peretz looks just like Joseph Stalin or is he related to the former dictator.
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There are many types of storage such as cloud storage, NAS, DAS, and backup appliances, the list goes on. Data storage helps to protect your agency’s important history and information from any major data loss. Protecting your users’ and agency’s vital files and document archive with storage solutions is a vital to a federal organization’s success.
What is Data Storage?
The act of digitally recorded files and documents saved in a storage system for future use. Storage systems may rely on electromagnetic, optical or other media to preserve and restore the data if needed. Utilizing data storage makes it easy to back up files for safekeeping and offers fast recovery in the event of a computing crash or possible cyberattack.
Data can be kept on disk drives, physical hard drives, USB drives or virtually in the cloud. Nonetheless, the most important thing is that your files are backed up and easily accessible in the case your systems crash beyond repair. A few important factors to consider in choosing a solution are reliability, the security features, and the cost to implement/maintain the infrastructure. TVAR can offer different data storage solutions and applications to help you arrive at the choice that best fit your agency’s needs.
Types of Data Storage
DAS (Direct Attached Storage)
DAS is physical storage connected to your computer. This is generally accessible to one machine. Some common devices are:
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In comparison to NAS, DAS solutions are more affordable. This storage is great for creating local backups but sharing data between machines can be problematic.
NAS (Network Attached Storage)
Simply put, NAS allows multiple machines to share storage over a network. This is accomplished with multiple hard drives or other storage devices in a RAID configuration. One of the key benefits of utilizing NAS is the ability to centralize data and increase collaboration. Data can be easily shared among connected machines, and permission levels can be set to control access. While NAS solutions tend to be more expensive than DAS solutions, they are still affordable as storage technology continues to advance.
Types of Data Storage Devices
Hybrid Flash Arrays
Hybrid flash arrays are flash memory drives and hard disk drives for balanced performance. Offering a low-cost startup, reasonable performance costs and fast data access on demand. All-flash arrays offer lower latency and faster performance than hybrid flash but may cost even more.
Hybrid Flash Storage
Hybrid flash storage devices include both flash memory drives and hard disk drives for balanced performance. This storage option offers a low-cost startup, reasonable performance costs and fast data access on demand. While all-flash arrays offer lower latency and faster performance than it’s hybrid flash competitor it may cost more.
Backup servers, and backup and recovery appliances are often costly investments. Accumulate backup software and hardware components within a single device. Backup appliances offer a turnkey and all-inclusive backup solution that provides a central interface for backup processes, tools and infrastructure. Configurations may be complicated and reliability may be at risk with misconfigurations during install or incorrect software tuning.
Set it and forget it with convenience. This software for system and enterprise backups typically comes with a license or a subscription rate billed monthly or annually.
Cloud-based solutions offer virtual data storage and easy access to your materials from anywhere, not just a local computer or external hard disk. This type of storage is very reliable, but federal organizations need to configure their cloud storage security strategy before implementation.
SSD Flash Drive Arrays
Utilizing only flash memory, these solid-state storage systems offer quick data transfer between SSD and a smaller physical size than a typical disk array. The cost of this storage is paid upfront, but there’s great potential to pay a lower cost over time and help to pay for itself.


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Last time I remember this happening: 2011.
Jerry Crasnick has written what is the first genuinely positive feature piece on the Phillies in years. In a well-rounded, 360 look at the entire organization, Crasnick notes:
Shortstop J.P. Crawford, catcher Andrew Knapp and the prospects acquired in Amaro’s flurry of trades reflect a deeper, more talented farm system. A new, $2.5 billion TV deal with Comcast SportsNet kicks in next year, and Howard, Ruiz and Lee will come off the books (with the exception of their buyouts) after making $58.5 million in 2016. The Phillies rank 25th in the majors in attendance and probably will draw less than two million for the first time since 2002. But apathy has yet to take root in the city, and it’s not outlandish to see Citizens Bank Park rocking again the way it did when the Phillies sold out 257 straight games a few years ago.
“That organization is a gold mine,” said one competing executive. “Look at the ballpark. Look at the spring training facility. Look at the television deal. This is a goose that’s going to lay a golden egg. No wonder Andy MacPhail came out of retirement.”
Interesting. Recent quotes about the Phillies have been more like “Amaro is an over-eager idiot” or “they’re the most antiquated, misguided big-market team in history.” Certainly, this is something I thought we might never see again:
The Phillies have even hitched a ride on the sabermetrics train. The franchise’s new proprietary computer system, PHIL (short for Phillies’ Holistic Information Location) will be up and running in September.
PHIL! Their SABR machine even has a cheeky name!
What’s more, Crasnick becomes yet another voice to whisper that maybe, just maybe potentially undead zombie manager Pete Mackanin – who has genuinely done the best job possible given the circumstances – could be given a shot to prove himself for another year or two while the Phillies are rebuilding (I agree he should be given the chance).
This is a great piece, the likes of which I forgot could exist surrounding the Phillies. The only thing Crasnick misses on is that line about apathy not having set in. I’d say that’s exactly what has happened the last three seasons, but, with the good times so near in the rear-view, it’ll be easy to get back on board once things start turning the corner. Perhaps that’s already happening?


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Whether you are at home or on the go, you can remotely control the on/off of your smart bulb by installing the smart life app from your phone or tablet. Easily set a schedule for your smart lamp or create different groups to control the lights in your home. Only works with 2.4GHz Wi-Fi network.
The smart light bulb perfectly works with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant. Just simply give a voice command to turn on/off or dim/brighten your light and turn your light to a specific color as needed. No hub required, no subscription required and easy to install.
You can set up multiple schedules to turn the lights on and off according to the pre-set time you want. The schedule can be repeated daily or weekly.
You can edit eight preset scenes according to your wishes, four scenes designed as party, reading, sleep, leisure mode and other four scenes, or create a custom scene and let your creativity run free.
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GerryMANdering Harris County
"Gerry-MAN-dering" was the dirty word of the Harris County primary season. Maps matter. Words matter. NUMBERS matter.
Gerrymandering is the practice of subverting the vote to disproportionately under-represent citizens in a discriminatory fashion.
If WOMEN don't have Constitutional Protection from discrimination, who is likely to blame for those maps???
Yet the NAME of one of our Major Houston thoroughfares has been WEAPONIZED AGAINST WOMEN.
There are no less than 7 voting districts where I live in zip code 77057 as seen on my Voter Registration Card below. Each one of the little squares on the right represent a corresponding Electoral Office such as Senate District, Congressional District, Commissioners Court & so on.
Some of these maps criss-cross the area in an impossible fashion.
One example of a Harris County Precinct Map:
77057 is in Precinct 3. Much of the work I did to help in our recent Democratic Primary is in Precinct 4 as I watched my candidate run herself ragged from one side of the county to the other.
Look at the area she had to cover to reach all of the voters that she won the right to Represent pending the outcome of the official vote in November.
I'm exhausted & I'm not even on the ballot.


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The Lori Harvey-Future love affair has come and gone. MTO News has confirmed that Steve’s daughter is no longer dating the rap superstar.
Lori and Future started dating this summer, and their relationship went from 0 to 100 real quick. In just a few months, Lori moved out of her parents home, and into Future’s Hollywood condo.
But the relationship appears to have fizzled out, just as quickly as it took off. Lori has moved back to Step and Marjorie’s Beverly Hills mansion.
One of Lori’s close friends told MTO News, “There wasn’t anything bad that happened. Lori’s young, and Future’s always on the road. It didn’t work out.”
But according to Lori’s pal, the couple are still friends. Lori’s pal explained, “It’s no beef. They’re cool.”
Steve Harvey must be happy – we’re pretty sure that Lori and Future breaking up was close to the TOP of his Christmas list. And Lori managed to get out of her relationship with Future without getting pregnant – that’s pretty impressive.
But the real question is – which baller is Lori going to start dating next???

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Another big week of releases is on its way to the Nintendo Switch eShop. Also of note is that starting on March 10 (Mario Day) and lasting until March 25, Super Mario Run will be 50% off on the App Store and Google Play.
This week’s Nintendo Download includes the following featured content:
- Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch
- The Trail: Frontier Challenge – Join pioneers from across land and sea in an epic journey across an undiscovered country. Walk down the single-track path of destiny at a calm and measured pace. Get out there and make your mark upon the world, adventurer! Every person you meet on The Trail is another player who will trade with you at campfires located along the way.
- TurtlePop: Journey to Freedom – TurtlePop: Journey to Freedom is a platform puzzle game that introduces Bebo, Deephi, Slimmie, Smarts, Willis and Sparky the Turtle. Master the gameplay with multi-character control and turtle-linking, environment manipulation and item deployment and match-three mechanics that make challenges even more fresh, intense and fun. TurtlePop: Journey to Freedomlaunches March 9.Nintendo eShop sales:
- Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch, Nintendo 3DS and Wii U
- Super Mario Run MAR10 Day Discount: Take advantage of a 50 percent discount on the Super Mario Run game from Mar. 10, 2018, through Mar. 25, 2018. Time your taps to pull off stylish jumps, midair spins and wall jumps to gather coins and reach the goal. You can download and enjoy a portion of Super Mario Run for free on the App Store and Google Play.
- Turn Gold Points into Games: Members of My Nintendo, Nintendo’s free rewards program, have a new way to use their rewards points. Members can now redeem Gold Points toward the purchase of digital games (and DLC!) for the Nintendo Switch system, whether they buy on Nintendo.com or Nintendo eShop on the system (where available). Learn more about the program and this update at https://my.nintendo.com/about_gold_point.Also new this week:
In addition to video games available at retail stores, Nintendo also offers a variety of content that people can download directly to their systems. Nintendo adds new games weekly to Nintendo eShop on the Nintendo Switch console, the Wii U console and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.


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The latest rumble between the Jets and the Sharks has come to a close as director Steven Spielberg wrapped production on his iteration of West Side Story. The official Amblin Twitter account posted pics from the set as well as a letter of gratitude from the Oscar-winning filmmaker, who notes that the production officially wrapped on September 28 in Brooklyn.
“This has been a journey without precedence: a joyful, stunning, moving, endlessly surprising encounter with the story and score of one of the world’s greatest musicals,” Spielberg wrote in his letter. “My brilliantly talented, fiercely committed, generous and apparently inexhaustible cast and crew of hundreds have given our film everything they’ve got, and already I can say that the film we’ll be releasing on December 18, 2020, owes everything to them as does its immensely grateful director.”
Spielberg continues giving gratitude to being able to walk in the footsteps of the “four giants” before him: Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, Jerome Robbins and Stephen Sondheim.
He continued: “We filmed West Side Story all over New York, Flatbush to Fort Tryon Park. The city lent us its beauty and its energy, and we drew deeply upon its grand multicultural, multifaceted spirit.”
Amblin posted pics of Spielberg with the film’s core cast of Ansel Elgort (who plays Tony) and Rachel Zegler (Maria) as well as Ariana DeBose (Anita) and David Alvarez (Bernardo). In another photo he is seen with Rita Moreno, who won an Oscar for playing Anita in the 1961 film version of West Side Story. In the new version, Moreno plays Valentina, a new version of corner store owner Doc from the original. There also is a photo of what seems to be the Jets and the Sharks looking a little grimy right after a rumble.
Spielberg’s West Side Story is one of two adaptations of the classic musical in development, with the other an upcoming Broadway production to be directed by Ivo van Hove, produced by Scott Rudin, Barry Diller and David Geffen, with new choreography by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. Previews are set to begin Dec. 10 at the Broadway Theatre, with an opening night of Feb. 6, 2020.
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