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5-9-07 - Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s future has been the topic of discussion this season, with seemingly everyone in NASCAR consumed with where the sport's biggest star will drive next year.
Tongues were really wagging Wednesday when Earnhardt, who's in the final year of his DEI contract, called a news conference for Thursday morning at his Mooresville race shop without releasing any details.
Reached at a sponsor appearance at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Wednesday night, Earnhardt told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution he planned to talk about ``some ideas I've got for the future'' but would not elaborate.
Rampant speculation Wednesday night had Junior set to announce he was leaving Dale Earnhardt Inc., the company founded by his late father and the only team he's ever driven for, to field his own Nextel Cup team.
Mike Davis, a representative for Earnhardt, refused to discuss Junior's announcement.
Earnhardt owns JR Motorsports, which fields a Busch team for Shane Huffman and several late-model teams. At the recent grand opening for JRM, he said he could see the organization fielding Cup cars. Earnhardt's sister Kelley Earnhardt Elledge, who runs JRM's business side, appeared taken aback by the remark and later said the duo had no plans to expand into NASCAR's top series.
The AJC reported that during Wednesday night's sponsor event, Earnhardt told fans that his plans for JR Motorsports might not include adding Nextel Cup cars and that his priority as a team owner is promoting young drivers and mechanics.
``I don't want the company to get too big,'' he said. ``I've got about 70 employees now, and I don't want to get too many more.''
If expansion is in the cards, Earnhardt would need help with engines and equipment. That could come from car owners Rick Hendrick or Richard Childress, who fielded championship-winning cars for Dale Earnhardt and currently leases engines to JR Motorsports.
Hendrick officials said they have no knowledge of Junior's announcement, and calls to RCR officials were not immediately returned.
But a person familiar with the discussions told The Associated Press that Hendrick recently offered Earnhardt engines if he decided to field his own team. That person requested anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss it. Hendrick, winners of seven of the past eight races this season, already leases engines to Ginn Racing and Haas-CNC Racing.
Calls to Earnhardt's sponsor Budweiser and race team DEI were not immediately returned Wednesday night. An e-mail to Elledge was not immediately answered.
Just two days ago, during testing at Lowe's Motor Speedway, Earnhardt complained DEI could not compete with Hendrick -- particularly in the Car of Tomorrow. Hendrick drivers have won all four COT races this season, which Earnhardt chalked up to the resources that team has devoted to the program.
``They've got a lot of resources. They've got a great company, two, three really good cars every week, great crew chiefs. They've really got the package right now,'' Earnhardt said Monday. ``Their cars, they handle pretty good. They're getting through the center of the corner better with the COT, and that's just because they test the hell out of it.
``I hear rumors they got Max Papis and road race guys at Sonoma testing and testing and testing and testing.''
Asked if DEI could keep up, Earnhardt didn't pause.
``No. Not many teams can do that,'' he said. ``There are a few that can do that, but not many. They put a lot back into their race teams, you know what I mean?''
Elledge has set a deadline for negotiations with DEI, saying a deal must be completed by the end of this month. And Earnhardt's sponsor Budweiser, which has an option on its DEI deal, is free to leave and follow Junior wherever he goes.
That has given Earnhardt the power in this latest round of contract negotiations with his stepmother, Teresa, and Junior and his sister have exerted it more than once. They've demanded at least 51 percent of the company in a bid to gain control of what they believe their father wanted them to have.
Both sides have stopped commenting publicly on the issue since Earnhardt was caught off guard last month by DEI president Max Siegel's remarks that the driver had been offered 51 percent of the company.
People familiar with the negotiations have told the AP that Teresa Earnhardt is willing to sell the shares to Junior for between $55 and $75 million. Those persons requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the deal.
Earnhardt and his sister, however, aren't convinced they should pay anything for the shares.
The two have been adamant that their only goal is to help Junior win Cup championships, something he's been unable to do at DEI. He has not been a legitimate title contender since 2004. In 2005, he had a horrendous season when Teresa Earnhardt split up his crew, and he failed to make the Chase for the championship.
He rebounded last year by making the Chase but was never a threat for the title.
The contentious contract talks started before the season even began, when Teresa Earnhardt questioned her stepson's commitment in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
``Right now the ball's in his court to decide on whether he wants to be a NASCAR driver or whether he wants to be a public personality,'' she said in the Dec. 14, 2006 story.
He was silent on the issue until preseason testing, when he admitted the comments bothered him and said his relationship with his stepmother ``ain't a bed of roses.''
``The relationship that we have today is the same relationship we had when I was 6 years old when I moved into that house with Dad and her,'' he said. ``It's always been the same. It hasn't gotten worse over the last couple years or last couple months.
``The way I felt about her then is the way I feel about her now.''


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GRAYSON COLLEGE, TEXAS -- It's a rare cause that brings together pink panthers, pink flamingos, superheros, 50s girls and a gorilla.
Even the men say they're proud to wear pink.
"Because it's breast cancer awareness day," Hazco fire students said.
It's a plethora of pink at Grayson College today, where students and staff have come together to rally against breast cancer.
Grayson College professor Kay Dishner founded the Just Doo It, as in doo rags, breast cancer benefit, in honor of her colleague.
"Last year, when we came back to school in the fall, Lisa, our librarian, was wearing a doo-rag. That was the first I knew she had been diagnosed," Dishner said.
It became Kay's mission to host this fundraiser for Women Rock.
Today they raised $2,500 for local breast cancer patients and survivors, like Gayle Radican.
"You feel so much hope and support and it's just so much," Radican said.
24 year-old Rozlyn Austin is also a survivor. She was diagnosed at age 23 with a rare form of breast cancer.
"July 18, 2012, I was announced cancer free," Austin said.
Money raised today will help fund a Women Rock safe-haven near Lake Texoma.
"It's just a wonderful thing for survivors or those going through treatment to be able to get away," Women Rock founder Luanna Daniel said.
"Just keep your head up, for one. Don't let it get you down. If you can push through it, you can make it," Austin said.

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Write it Your Way!
March 26, 2013
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For ages 13 to 18 years
Major support for children's and young adult programming is provided by the Mr. and Mrs. Timothy R. Barakett Endowment for Children's and Young Adult Programs and Services. Major support for children's and young adult programming is provided by the Katerina and Andreas C. Dracopoulos Family Endowment for Young Audiences. Additional support is provided by the Estate of Charles J. Mauro; the Estate of William C. Morris; the Estate of Esther Manes; Good Samaritan, Inc.; New York Life Foundation; MetLife Foundation; Sandra Priest Rose; Solon E. Summerfield Foundation, Inc.; Con Edison; Mr. and Mrs. John Klingenstein; Beth and Christopher Kojima; Milton S. Teicher; Mr. and Mrs. George T. Votis; The Walt Disney Company; The Edith Glick Shoolman Children's Foundation; and an anonymous donor.
Create a story for a graphic novel and then bring it to life using iPads and other writing tools. Learn how to craft characters, build a narrative, and tell your story. For ages 12 to 18 years old.
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Robin van Persie is approaching the level of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi according to Sir Alex Ferguson.
The Manchester United manager was speaking ahead of the Red Devils' Champions League last 16 first leg clash with Real Madrid when he claimed his star striker was close to the level of the world's two best players.
Van Persie has been in terrific form since his £24million switch from Arsenal to Old Trafford in the summer, already taking his goalscoring tally for the season to 23 – 19 of which he has scored in the Premier League.
The focus before Manchester United's clash with Real Madrid was mostly placed around the return of Cristiano Ronaldo to his old club.
However, Ferguson sent out a warning to Jose Mourinho's side to not forget his prolific Dutchman and the damage he is able to do.
"Robin is approaching the level of Ronaldo and Messi. His arrival at our place has been nothing but sensational," the Scot is quoted as saying in the Daily Telegraph.
"He has been a breath of fresh air to the young players and also a good coach to them. Twenty-three goals tells you everything."
Van Persie will be tasked with getting something for United to take back to Old Trafford for the second leg, which takes place on Tuesday, March 5.
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OTTAWA — The Conservative government's push to export oil and natural gas to more markets outside of the United States could add more than $4 billion a year to government coffers, but only if commodity prices rebound.
The figure contained in the federal budget, along with veiled references to the contentious Keystone XL pipeline project, underscore the federal government's interest in selling Canadian oil because doing so successfully — and at the right price — could reduce the budget deficit faster than promised.
The budget deficit for the last fiscal year, which ends on March 31, is estimated to stand at $25.9 billion, down from the $26.2 billion recorded one year earlier.
Total federal debt is expected to hit $627.4 billion this fiscal year.
The government intends to slash the deficit by $7.2 billion to $18.7 billion by March 31, 2014, and then make a $12.1 billion cut to further reduce the deficit to $6.6 billion by March 31, 2015. By the end of March 2016, the Conservatives are projecting a budget surplus of $800 million.
All of those projections depress revenue expectations by $3 billion to adjust for risk.
If $4 billion or more could be added annually to federal coffers, the country would be in a surplus position one year earlier.
"The reason that Canada has done so well, compared to a lot of G7 economies … is because of our strong resource sector," said Dave Walsh, a partner with accounting firm Ernst & Young LLP.a.
"There's no doubt that if that sector explodes, the whole Canadian economy will (benefit)."
However, the budget offers little in way of tax incentives or other spending measures to further the government's focus on energy exports, Walsh said.
Observers predict that Canadian crude oil will close the current $22 per barrel price gap with American crude oil by mid-2014.
That would increase the value of exports by $8 billion a year.
If natural gas exporters received even half the price European producers earn for their product, the boost to the Canadian economy could total $20 billion.
Combined, that's a $28-billion boost in GDP, which could help decrease unemployment and increase government revenues on corporate and excise taxes.
"That's a big deal. There's nothing driving Canada's economy these days more than the oil business," said Gabe Hayos from Chartered Accountants of Canada.
But the country's GDP growth projections are subdued.
The Canadian economy is expected to grow 1.6 per cent in 2013, according to government estimates — a figure that doesn't include growth due to inflation. The growth is projected to increase to 2.5 per cent in 2014 and 2.6 per cent in 2015.
Over the same time period, unemployment is expected to drop modestly, with the rate holding at 7.1 per cent in 2013, and then falling to 6.9 per cent in 2014 and 6.7 per cent in 2015, according to government projections.
"There's no doubt the economic turmoil caused in 2008-09 has lasted longer than … predicted," said Walsh. The growth predictions, he said, are "low by historic standards."


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As a non-traditional student (age 64) I have found the process of submitting my thesis electronically to the Graduate School to be a daunting task. New technology is confusing to me. When I was directed to David Schremp for assistance, I discovered the old-fashioned meaning of the word service. He cheerfully read my thesis and supported me in finding help from his assistant, William Welling, who was also very kind and patient with an older learner like me. Many thanks are due to both of them for getting me over the hump with good will and kindness. We will miss David's smiling face around the library. I hope that Texas A&M will also appreciate him.
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Didn't we have this thread a week ago?
New GM is going to inherit quite a mess. IMO, would like to try and retain our critical talent and build team within draft. Utilize FA in terms of stop gap solutions..
Think Revis and Landry represent greatest talent.. if i were to lose one, it would be Landry. I think Revis is a once in lifetime player.. worthy of Jet for life...
Salary cap will be ugly to manage. The Draft is and will always be a critical aspect of building a championship caliber team.. With so many needs, Jets do not necessarily need to focus a specific postion.... although hard to imagine the jets not going OLB in round 1 or 2. based upon roster compostion and draft day 1 value.......
Do not consider trading for a veteran QB.... if they were any good, they would not be on trading block.... the future qb of jets is not playing in the league at this point in time... Stop gap QB is worthy of signing, but drafting a qb in 2013 is best scenario.
No substitution for youth!!! yet the young guys play.... FA signings will need to be made based on bargains... Jets are in no position to pay premium given current roster/cap situation.
Draft Physically Talented Players... Size, Speed and Power...
Didn't we have this thread a week ago?
Is safety that important of a position? Because if we follow your plan in addition to the $8+ million we pay cromartie and the $12 million revis will command, Landry is probably gonna get a $5 million/year contract. Is it wise salary cap management to tie up $25 million in your defensive secondary?
When's the last time an All-Pro CB and S carried a team to a Super Bowl?
The NFL is about three positions: QB, OLB/DE and LT.
The rest can be filled in as the chips fall. Of course you can't have 19 other scrubs, but you get my point.
good read i agree.
if we cant dump sanchez for flynn then we need to take another approach.
theres a few unsigned qbs out there that can maybe give us more than mark sanchez does.
revis and landry key players on the defense.
10 years ago... you would have said that Safety was critical... but the value of position has gone up drastically due to passing rules.
understand basis of your points... Jets are going to draft a OLB.. most likely in 1st 2 rounds...
when was the last time an OLD, DE , LT carried a team to the super bowl?
You need a good QB and a special unit. The Jets defense has potential to be special.


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Thursday, Nov. 29
Jorge Lemus-Melara, 22, of 24 Palmer Court, Clinton, was arrested at 8:15 p.m. by detectives Karl Schmidt and Jeffrey Frisch and the Mass. State Police and charged with possessing/purchasing child pornography and dissemination of child pornography. According to Tim Connolly, communications director for the Worcester district attorney�s office, Lemus-Melara was arraigned Friday, Nov. 30, in Clinton District Court. He pleaded not guilty and his case was continued until Dec. 28. He was released on personal recognizance; as a condition of his release, Lemus-Melara is to have no access to the Internet and no contact with children under age 16, Connolly said.
Friday, Nov. 30
Candice L. Petruzzelli, 30, of 106 North Main St., Apt. 2, North Grafton, was arrested at 1:59 a.m. by officers Michael Frick and Christopher Willoughby and charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence of liquor, operating under the influence of liquor per se, operating without headlights, possession of an open container in a motor vehicle and illegal possession of a Class E substance.
Karina J. Tejeda, 23, of 50 Lakeside Ave., Clinton, was arrested at 3:04 p.m. by officers Earle Cadoret Jr. and Jeffrey O�Toole and charged with shoplifting by asportation of merchandise.
Sunday, Dec. 2
Robert E. James, 34, of 82-84 Water St., Apt. 4, Clinton, was arrested at 12:38 a.m. by Officer Brendon O�Malley and Sgt. Miguel Martinez and charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence of liquor, second offense, operating under the influence of liquor per se, a marked lanes violation and a stop sign violation.
James D. Wallace, 46, of 44 Princeton Road, Sterling, was arrested at 6:50 a.m. by officers Edward Jeffrey Jr. and Jeffrey Notaro and charged with shoplifting by concealing merchandise.
William A. Orantes, 43, of 151 Green St., 6D, Clinton, was arrested at 2:12 p.m. by officer Edward Jeffrey Jr. and Jeffrey O�Toole and charged with domestic assault and battery.
Lisa DiBenedetto, 45, of 367 Water St., Apt. 29, Clinton, was arrested at 11:32 p.m. by officers Richard Welch and Joanne Duggan and charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence of liquor and leaving the scene after property damage.
Monday, Dec. 3
Christopher Bermudez, 22, and Leeann E. Nichols, 25, of 157 Oak St., Clinton, were arrested at 12:08 p.m. by Officer Edward Jeffrey Jr. and charged with armed robbery, assault by a dangerous weapon, conspiracy and on a warrant.
James R. Prophet, 31, of the streets of Clinton, was arrested at 7:50 p.m. by Sgt. Tom Nelson and Officer Jeffrey O�Toole and charged with disturbing the peace, subsequent offense, disorderly conduct, subsequent offense, resisting a lawful arrest and two counts of assault and battery on a police officer.
Wednesday, Dec. 5
Yolanda I. Cortes, 30, of 201 Stone St., Clinton, was arrested at 1:27 a.m. by officers Michael Frick, Brendon O�Malley and Christopher Willoughby and charged with domestic assault and battery.
Gary C. Sotir, 53, of 18 Locust Ave., Worcester, was arrested at 5:25 p.m. by officers Earle Cadoret and Jeffrey Notaro and Sgt. Tom Nelson and charged with speeding and operating a motor vehicle after license suspended.


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End college tax credits for affluent families and subsidized loans. Put the savings into Pell Grants for low-income students. Enroll all borrowers in income-based repayment. Increasing Return on Investment from Federal Student Aid by the National College Access Network recommends prioritizing need-based aid over merit aid. The network, which includes groups trying to help low-income and first-generation college students, calls for restoring year-round Pell Grants and meeting the estimated $5 billion funding shortfall for the 2014 fiscal year with no new eligibility restrictions.
The proposals would help community colleges, which enroll many Pell-eligible students and relatively few borrowers. Restoring the year-round Pell Grant would encourage summer enrollment, making it easier for students to complete a credential.
Expect more ideas on how to change student aid, predicts Libby Nelson on Inside Higher Ed. The Gates Foundation has given grants to 16 groups to develop proposals. Pell faces a funding "cliff" at the start of the next fiscal year in October. Congress will face tough financial aid decisions.
Congress has chipped away at subsidized loans when looking for budget cuts to sustain other financial aid programs, eliminating subsidized graduate loans and then the interest-free grace period for undergraduates. As income-based repayment has grown, subsidized loans have come under increasing criticism from policy researchers as an inefficient use of federal spending, although the loans still have staunch defenders among private colleges because they reduce the long-term cost of student loans.
NCAN also called for eliminating another politically popular program: some of the tax credits for higher education. The credits have strong support from both parties and from the public — President Obama called for making one, the American Opportunity Tax Credit, permanent as part of his re-election campaign — but are sometimes criticized for providing help to middle-class and wealthy students who would go to college without government help.
The white paper calls for the elimination of the tax credit for individuals with incomes over $50,000 or families with incomes over $100,000 per year. Tax credits for high-income families, it said, are "inefficient at best and morally questionable at worst."
The report also suggests distributing "campus-based aid, such as the Perkins student loan or Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, based on a competitive formula" that rewards colleges that enroll and graduate more low-income students than comparable institutions. Enrolling students who never graduate would not be rewarded.


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Cougar Tracks: BYU Football with Head Coach Bronco Mendenhall, Week 12
11/21/2012 8:07amA constant theme from the 2012 BYU Football season has been quarterback play--and quarterback health.
Mendenhall, Whittingham have had poor seasons because of abysmal offenses
11/21/2012 10:42amAs defensive-minded head coaches, BYU's Bronco Mendenhall and Utah's Kyle Whittingham have enjoyed lots of success. However, that hasn't been the case this season and it's because of a lack of offensive production at both schools.
Across the Cougar sideline: Scouting the New Mexico State Aggies
11/21/2012 11:42amThe BYU Cougars play their last regular season game Saturday against the New Mexico State Aggies. Despite battling injuries, the game should be an easy win for BYU against the Aggies, who have a 1-9 record this season.
Game against New Mexico State least of Cougars' worries
11/21/2012 3:10pmBYU hopes to finish off the regular season with an easy win over New Mexico State, pushing the Cougars to a winning record. But in even bigger Cougar football news, rumors concerning a return to the Mountain West Conference abound.
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Sam Allardyce says West Ham can go and win at Tottenham on Sunday
Sam Allardyce has told his team they are in a good position to pull off West Ham's first win at Tottenham in 13 years.
Last Updated: 20/11/12 3:25pm
The Hammers, promoted as Championship play-off winners, have surpassed all expectations so far this season and currently sit in joint sixth position in the Premier League after 12 matches.
The Londoners last week earned a creditable win at Newcastle, but they now embark on a difficult run of fixtures that includes games at Spurs, Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool.
West Ham have not won at White Hart Lane since Ian Wright and Marc Keller guided them to victory in 1999, but Allardyce thinks his team are shaping up well ahead of the short trip across London.
He told the club website: "We go to Tottenham full of confidence and hope to get some of the injured players back. We'll need to be as good if not even better than we were in our away wins at Queens Park Rangers and Newcastle as an attacking force.
"We've got to rely on our superb defensive qualities and then we've got to try to work on the areas that Tottenham leave exposed, particularly when we get got hold of the ball. If we can marry those two together then hopefully we can give a performance similar to our recent ones and try to get a result.
"We'll have to be on top of our game, as we had to be against Stoke. We played our top game in the second half and deserved to beat them but couldn't quite do it."
Right-back Joey O'Brien was the unlikely goalscorer in the 1-1 draw with Stoke and the 26-year-old is also feeling positive ahead of the game at Spurs.
He added: "I picked up the ball and tried to play a one-two with Momo Diame but it did not come back to me, as it went wide to Gaz O'Neil instead. He has a lot of quality on the ball and his delivery is very good so I continued my run and took a chance.
"He smashed it across goal and I was in the right place at the right time and the ball was just where I wanted it.
"We will go (to Tottenham) to get at least a point, but we know it is going to be a very tough game because they are a top team. We have shown in recent weeks how well we can defend against Manchester City and Newcastle United. Nobody expected those results so we know, if we play well, we can take something from the game."


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Oct 15, 2013
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The University Human Resources team tasked with reviewing and revising Ohio University's compensation structure is on track to complete the Compensation (COMP) 2014 project by the December 1, 2014 deadline.
As part of Phase III, the UHR Compensation Team is now performing assessments designed to analyze the data collected through employee job questionnaires in 2012. The COMP 2014 project originated after a Department of Education audit identified some specific items the University was required to remediate. The scope of the COMP 2014 project includes:
Establish consistent job classification systems for the administrative and professional employees and the non-bargaining classified employees
Create market-based pay range structures and guidelines to ensure that pay is competitive in the market
Ensure that the compensation plans are fair and equitable in their design and implementation
Provide career path direction for employees in these pay systems
The goal of Phase III of the project is to review each individual position included in the project, identify commonalities with other like jobs and define a subset of common jobs. From there, team members (along with the project's compensation consultant for this step) will group positions into common job families (for example "Information Technology") and within those families, categorize market comparable jobs (for example "Network Administrator" within the "Information Technology" family).
This process will take place over the next 12 weeks and will include several all-day sessions with leaders from these job families and COMP 2014 steering committee representatives. The group will use industry-accepted position descriptors to develop standard job descriptions.
Once Phase III is complete, the work will yield a compensation structure that will become the foundation to begin a market analysis of the respective salaries as part of Phase IV. Team members will compare salaries with those surveyed from comparable positions at peer higher education institutions.
"Positions may shift grades as we develop and transition to the new structure," Senior Associate Vice President for Finance and Administration Deborah Shaffer said in a message to the University community. "However, employee pay will not be reduced as a result of this effort. That commitment was made to our employees at the inception of this project and it has not changed."
For more information about the COMP 2014 project, visit http://www.ohio.edu/hr/compensation/comp2014 and read Compass for upcoming project progress reports.


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As the cruise industry expands and grows, its one-size-fits-all vacation model is changing to include — and often feature — specialty theme cruises. From arts and education to dancing, sports, and offbeat cultural trends, those who never thought of themselves as "cruise people" might now be tempted to climb aboard.
BASEBALL GREATS MSC Cruises hits a home run hosting a series of baseball-themed cruises in the eastern Caribbean aboard MSC Poesia. Each voyage features at least five baseball stars, including Cookie Rojas, Ken Griffey Sr., Stan Bahnsen, and Rico Petrocelli. Players host trivia games, question-and-answer sessions, and storytelling events. Hone your skills in pitching, hitting, and defense strategy clinics, and enter the passenger pitching contest. At the end of each cruise the players sign autographs. Round trip from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Feb. 23, March 9, April 6. Rates from $559 (February) and $499. 877-665-4655, www.msccruisesusa.com/us_en/Cruise-Departures/Theme-Cruises/Baseball-Greats-Cruise.aspx
BARBIE PREMIUM EXPERIENCE Royal Caribbean International is partnering with Mattel to feature a Barbie cruise package for girls 4 to 11. Staterooms decorated in the doll's signature style feature keepsakes such as a Barbie doll and fashions, blanket and pillowcase, tote bag, toothbrush, and toiletries bag. Activities include a "Tiaras and Teacups" party, mermaid dance class, fashion design workshop, fashion show, and more. Available on Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas, and on the rest of the fleet in March. Add-on package cost $349. 866-562-7625, www.royalcaribbean.com/statichtmlpage.do?pagename=Barbie
"DANCING WITH THE STARS" Kick up your heels on one of Holland America Line's dancing cruises. Here's your chance to meet the dancers, take lessons, and enjoy performances starring the pros and celebrity competitors from the TV show, including two-time champions Mark Ballas and Kym Johnson, and Tristan MacManus and Lacey Schwimmer. Various dates and destinations: Feb. 16, MS Eurodam, seven-day eastern Caribbean; June 22, MS Veendam, seven-day Canada and New England; June 30 and July 7, MS Oosterdam, seven-day Alaska, and more. Rates depend on destinations. 2013 from $899; 2014 from $699. 877-932-4259, www.hollandamerica.com/pageByName/Simple.action?requestPage=DWTS
STEAMPUNK Pack your best retro-futuristic Victorian duds and set sail on Royal Caribbean's Navigator of the Seas on the First Annual Steampunk Cruise and High Seas Ball. Billed as "Downtown Abby meets Jules Verne," this fast-growing genre of literature, fashion, music, and culture is best described as Victorian science fiction. The seven-night trip departs from New Orleans and sails to Grand Cayman, Jamaica, and Cozumel, Mexico, March 16-23. Features author G.D. Falksen, music by This Way to the Egress, appearances by writer and puppeteer Mary Robinette Kowal, a Chrononauts Parade, a Great Mad Scientists Monologue Competition, film festival, vintage bathing suit contest, and more. Cabins for two from $909 per person. 855-783-2600, www.steampunkcruise.com
ARCHEOLOGICAL TOURS Visit archeological sites while enjoying Sicily's rugged beauty on the Sicily, Malta, and the Aeolian Islands voyage, April 29-May 7, sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). Lecturer and host Albert Leonard Jr. leads the group on a circumnavigation of the islands, highlighting the ways that Greek, Roman, Arab, Norman, Christian, Jewish, Byzantine, and Muslim cultural experiences intermingle. All accommodations aboard the 290-foot Corinthian are suites with sea views, some with balconies. All AIA Tours small ship cruises anchor at ports and historic towns that larger ships cannot visit. Pricing from $6,990 per person, double occupancy. 800-748-6262, www.archaeological.org/tours
WINE AND FOOD CELEBRATION Cruise Specialists, a luxury world cruise agency, offers six food and wine themed voyages aboard the intimate, 684-guest ships of Oceania Cruises. Designed to satisfy the most serious foodies and oenophiles, these 10- to 25-day voyages feature cooking classes and demonstrations in the Bon Appetit Culinary Center — with 24 hands-on work stations — plus wine seminars, tastings, and wine and food pairings run by wine specialists and growers. The executive culinary director for Oceania Cruises is Jacques Pepin. Voyages offered to Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, Panama Canal, and South Pacific. The 20-day Grand Panama Canal cruise departs Lima May 6 and ends its journey in New York. Rates from $4,589. Book by March 31: free air, 2-for-1 fares plus bonus savings. 800-544-2469, www.cruisespecialists.com/cruise-package-detail.aspx?packageId=2257
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Skip to comments.They thought I was easy pickins': Mayoral candidate beaten up by two teenage girls with a billy club
Posted on 12/28/2013 6:23:01 PM PST by BBell
A former Minneapolis, Minnesota mayoral candidate was mercilessly beaten up by two teenage girls after having his cellphone stolen at a Mall of America Starbucks.
Mark Andrew came in second to Betsy Hodges in the most competitive mayoral race Minneapolis has seen in a generation.
The former Hennepin County Commissioner had just hung up the phone and was in the middle of writing his New Year's resolutions Thursday evening when a young man came up and swiped his iPhone 4S off the cafe table.
'I was targeted because the phone was out and I'm 63 years old, and I'm sure they thought that I was easy pickins,' he told the Star Tribune.
Not one to sit ideally by while a wrong is committed, Andrew got up and chased after the man but was stopped by his two teenage girl friends.
'If somebody is gonna do that to me or somebody else, I'm not a bystander by nature I'll go in and fight,' he told CBS Minnesota.
The women, one of them armed with a billy club, didn't let Mr Andrew get away and mercilessly beat him over the head until he started bleeding profusely.
When Mr Andrew fought back, one of the women,18-year-old Letaija Shapree Cutler-Cain from Brooklyn Park, gouged his face with her fingernails and said: 'I'm going to kill you! Let me go or I'm going to kill you'.
Mr Andrew says it took about five minutes for police to arrive and that hundreds of shoppers witnessed the incident, but no one intervened because 'they were too afraid' and he called that a 'sad commentary'.
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And GG the Fed ended up in the hog pen, and we all lived happily ever after.
They remind me of the Nazi brown shirts who would publicly beat people. I hope people start getting over the shock and start fighting back hard!
In an interview with the Star Tribune, Mr Andrew says he walked into his home and lifted his fist in the air and said: 'We won'.
He says he's going to continue to stay involved in the case against the two women who beat him up.
'In my estimation, these kids are damaged,' he told TwinCities.com. 'They have to be held accountable. The juvenile may be too far gone. She was extremely violent. I believe she was trying to kill me, and her actions supported her statement. She was swinging as hard as she could'
The money quote and very shocking from a liberal - "she may be too far gone." If you or I said that, we would be labeled racists or uncaring, but sadly it is a true statement - many of these kids are too far gone.
That is a money quote - a rare moment of truth from a liberal who just got mugged in the worst way.
I'm betting he was the only one at his table. That leaves 270 degrees unprotected when you lay your phone on the table. And nothing like being distracted looking down and writing in a busy public area. Mark, buddy, you are a mark.
Two black teenagers beat up a white liberal.
The white liberal wonders why NOBODY comes to help him.
Liberalism is really a mental disease.
Would it have been better if the phone had a wrist tether? Not so easy to swipe?
I have to be very careful about displaying my phone. There are too many shady people in this town who are on the lookout for prey. I even ran into a couple coming back from church on Christmas Eve. One can't be too careful.
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Letajia Shapree Cutler-Cain
Mayoral Candidate Allegedly Beaten Up By Two Teenage Girls At Mall Of America
No surprises. What a name.
LOL - yes - - an unintended consequence of being mugged...
Mass adoption.
These non-denominational yoofs did us a favor by beating crap (one can only hope) out of this clown
You're celebrating this guy being robbed and beaten with billy clubs?
What the hell is wrong with you?
> one of the women,18-year-old Letaija Shapree Cutler-Cain...
Must be one of those Newport Rhode Island Cutler-Cains, and 18, so she must be back from Swiss boarding school...
Thanks BBell.
This was a well-planned operation. They scouted the place for quite some time. They used two female blockers. One of them evidently armed with a baton. These were serious thieves. This guy was lucky he didn't get killed or blinded. The best thing is to have the fear of the legal system in people to prevent this sort of thing from happening. These people don't have that fear. Why? A three person operation to steal a cell phone? Methinks they may have been looking to find Mark's house.
This may interfere with Lataijee's chances at a scholarship to Harvard or Stanford.
I saw Mark's graduation pictures from the school of hard knocks. Very impressive. He was allegedly beaten. Then again his head may have spontaneously begun to ooze blood. Lataijee's friend Shatonya says that the Ivy League scholarship is in the bag.
So Mark, how is rich white liberalism, global warming hoaxes & pandering to black thugs (male & females) working out for you these days? Personally I would like to see more rich white liberals across the country get the sh_t beat out of them by black thugs. It would serve them right to be on the receiving end for a change! Maybe they might have a change of heart about 0dumb0sh_t & Holder as well.
How does one "hang up" a cell phone?
Assault and battery with a weapon, during a robbery.
Lacrapainyourpantsa is going to do some very hard time.
If Treyvon Martin had a sister.....
Why aren't there any pictures of the two teens that mugged the guy? Don't tell me: it's because they were black and he was white? This censorship by the media reeks of racism against the victims of the black criminal class.
Stop the presses!!!!
Silly arse liberal gets bopped by two constituents!!!!
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Why is this news and NOT standard practice already? I'm sorry, it should not be news that computers can do 'things' as well as humans in many cases. Why this has not been implemented is seriously something to think about, not the fact that it is possible.
Saying that computers can be as good as a human at some things is like saying different brands of cow milk taste the same. Why is this not standard now! Computers are more capable at many tasks, especially things that are repetitive and tedious. sigh
As much as I afree with you, keep in mind that that 199th woman would be really really glad that it was two radiologists and not a radiologist and a computer... her life could well have depended on it.
that's a statistically insignificant difference in accuracy. i think the conclusion to be drawn from this is that computer-aided detection is much more effective than an unaided human expert. this has significant implications when doing cost-benefit analysis.
the cost of an extra computer is likely a lot less than another technician or radiologist. so this data will help medical institutions make better use of funds while improving quality of patient care. it doesn't mean they have to lay off their radiologi
Worry not, this is standard practice. Although there is general support that CAD (computer-assisted diagnosis) is effective vs. a second reader, there is still a bit of controversy in the field from time to time, since the results have not been overwhelmingly in favor of CAD yet. There's always at least one talk on the general usefulness of CAD at conferences. Sometimes whole sections get devoted to the topic.
What is a bit more puzzling is why it isn't as prevalent in diagnosis of other types of cancer. Most of the computer-aided detection algorithms draw on general machine learning and image processing techniques rather than specific domain-knowledge of the breast, and thus many of them can be applied, sometimes without any changes, to other organs. There is nothing particularly special about the breast.
My group developed a CAD system for MRI images of the brain, and in the course of performing experiments to put in the paper, I decided to run a few images from a breast CAD project through the classifier. Sure enough, the classifier we had developed for MRIs correctly classified 96% of the mammograms we fed it as well.
nothing particularly special about the breast
Says you.
What, too obvious? Meh. Anywho, I think much of the attention to breast cancer is unwarranted. There are far more common and more dangerous cancers in each sex. I hate to put it this way, but it's fairly easy to isolate breast cancer vs. a brain tumor or liver cancer (mastectomy might not be the favorite choice, but it's pretty easy)
Am I sexist? I don't think so, I just wish that, say, similar attention was being paid to prostate cancer. As far as I know, they're roughly equally prevalent and equal
As far as I know, they're roughly equally prevalent and equally dangerous.
No, they are (very) roughly equally prevalent, but not nearly equally dangerous. They typically present very differently, for example there is not a significant population of aggressive cancers in younger people with prostate like there is in mammo.
I fell right into that one, didn't I?
I agree. I actually much prefer working with brains; the organs themselves are more interesting and analyzing the images tends to involve more challenges than 2D mammograms. Volumes vs. static images, spatiotemporal analysis, the option of acquiring functional data to map the lesion to cognitive deficits... I find it a very interesting area. Unfortunately, early diagnosis doesn't always make a difference in certain forms of brain cancer. This needs more research in treatment rather than in diagnosis.
Now we're going into the sociological dynamics of research, which turn out to be really messy, but I'm pretty sure the disproportionate amount of interest in breast cancer is in no small part fueled by the ample funding that gets provided to it vs. other types of cancer. However, as I mentioned in the other post, a lot of the CAD methods tend to be general, and breast cancer is really only a specific application, so this is perhaps not as bad as it sounds (if others apply existing methods elsewhere). Given that other forms of cancer strike more often or have greater mortality rates, and that this one tends to strike only half of the population with any frequency (although it is possible for it to develop in men as well), I think something like pancreatic or colon cancer would be more useful to direct some of the study towards, particularly because the current methods for diagnosis are wholly inadequate in the case of pancreatic cancer and rather invasive in the case of colon cancer.
Prostate cancer may also be a useful cancer to study more due to its high prevalence, but it's also gender-specific and the survival rates are rather high already, so I don't think it would be the first cancer to research on my list.
I worked on the first clinically useful mammo CAD system (also the first to have FDA approval in the US). Unlike some of the smaller scale (often academic) programs I saw at the time, there was a large degree of domain knowledge (i.e. breast specific) in our codes.
This is pretty typical in other pattern recognition domains as well. You can get a certain distance with fairly generic approach algorithmics, but to really push the performance boundaries, you need local info and approaches as well.
This paper
Yeah, but can they please choose another acronym? Computer Aided Design has been around a very, very long time. How about Computer Enabled (or Enhanced) Detection (CED) or Computer Facilitated Detection (CFD)?
Well, hopefully imaging can be augmented with this:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2004/09/23/hope_seen_for_early_test_to_detect_breast_cancer/ [boston.com]
By Robert Cooke, Globe Correspondent | September 23, 2004
Harvard researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have developed a simple urine test that appears to detect breast cancer early and accurately track tumor growth.
The findings are still preliminary, but if further research supports them, the test could be a major advance in the effort to catch breast cancer before it turns deadly. The Boston scientists are searching for similar markers in urine for other cancers.
You must have test your algorithm on some pretty easy breast cancer cases and/or tested on a pretty small sample. They are reporting 87.6% accuracy using a human and their CAD system, while you are getting 96% using just a computer designed for a different type of cancer. Something doesn't add up.
Yes, we're still investigating why the accuracy we obtained was so high. We've ruled out overfitting. I suspect it may be because our images are galactograms (i.e., mammograms with contrast injected into the ducts prior to imaging), which can more easily visualize certain types of abnormalities than unenhanced mammograms. I believe they also come from a single scanner, which isn't usually the case in clinical studies (although I wouldn't expect this to have as much impact in mammography as it does in modali
One frequently recounted tale is that the first computer system to systematically beat most doctors in diagnosis (in an admittedly narrow domain), the blood-infection diagnosis system MYCIN from Stanford in the early 1970s, was never deployed due in significant part to opposition in principle to having computers do diagnosis. (Another major reason, of course, was that computers at the time were expensive, clunky to interface with, and not already routinely installed at hospitals.)
I suppose the situation may
Why is this news and NOT standard practice already?
Because the computer systems are expensive and it hasn't been clear that they work as good or better than humans. It's a very complex issue and has been studied for quite some time. In particular, the issue is "false positives" which cause anxiety and often prompt additional, invasive, expensive testing. From a rather quick [breast-can...search.com] Google Review of Available Information and Literature (GRAIL):
Although there is some evidence to support the view that prompting can significantly improve an individual radiologist's detection performance [6,7], there are still many unanswered questions about the way in which prompting will affect radiologists in the National Health Service Breast Screening Programme. In particular, studies have shown that the number and distribution of false prompts are critical to the success of the process [5,7]. In most commercial systems, in which sensitivity to abnormalities is seen as an important selling point, false prompts are the price one has to pay. Some systems produce, on average, nearly one false prompt per mammogram. Published research studies on commercial prompting systems [8,9] have not to date demonstrated any statistically significant improvement in radiologists' detection performance within a screening programme in which the vast majority of films are normal. However, such studies have shown that systems can detect a large proportion of subtle lesions using a retrospective review of prior screening films of patients with cancer. Because it is not yet known whether prompting has any detrimental effects on radiologists' performance in population screening mammography, these systems cannot yet be used in a population screening programme.
TFA doesn't even mention the false positive rate, just the fact that it found as many cancers as the double Radiologist method. So keep your pantyhose on. It's something that should get better with time and experience, but it's hard to say that the system is ready for universal application.
Most results are presented via ROC curve (for the uninitiated, this is a curve that plots true positive rate against false positive rate based on some threshold for classifying a lesion), so the FPR can theoretically be reduced if you're willing to lose sensitivity as well.
The thing is, the outcomes are not balanced. The risk of missing a cancer is considered far greater than the risk of returning a false positive, so the algorithms are usually created with sensitivity rather than specificity in mind. In my opinion (and since I work on some of these algorithms, my opinion is important
In any case, the article Yahoo is sourcing from does mention the specificity (which is 1-false positive rate), and it is encouraging: with CAD, the specificity was 96.9%, vs. 97.4% for double reading. Given that sensitivity was also similar (87.2% vs. 87.7%), this article paints CAD in a very favorable light.
In Newfoundland, Canada, a lab that screwed up testing thousands of biopsies as false negatives has been calling the women to inform them they should get re-tested, only to be told that they have died . . . from cancer their lab tests said they didn't have. I'm sure women who were really negative would have had no problem dealing with the stress of retesting if it meant Grandma/Mom/Sister/Daughter/Girl-Friend would be alive today.
"Saying that computers can be as good as a human at some things is like saying different brands of cow milk taste the same. Why is this not standard now! Computers are more capable at many tasks, especially things that are repetitive and tedious."
And what computers can't do. Cheap labor can.
Medical device companies and universities have been working on this problem for years. It just isn't ready for prime-time usage. People go to school for about a decade to become a pathologist, and replicating that kind of domain knowledge isn't an easy task.
If you are a non-programmer, I understand how it seems like a trivial task to identify abnormal cells in tissue. We can naturally recognize similar/dissimilar cells with our vision, but to do this with a computer requires some serious mathematics, nam
Clustering algorithms are generally unsupervised. The domain knowledge isn't usually necessary in clustering so much as verifying that the cluster results make sense, since they're much more difficult to quantify than supervised tasks, such as classification, where your data is already labeled.
Of course, you need to do that too before you can present meaningful results and convince people that a system works.
(*As an aside: although you can certainly use a clustering algorithm to segment, the problem you've
In all seriousness, how else do you assign a weight between two vertices without domain knowledge?
Are you referring to the distance metric used in clustering algorithms? Most simply use Euclidean or cosine distance unless they have specific reason to believe a different metric would work better. It isn't really domain dependent.
Or did you mean how "else could you segment a lesion other than by clustering it in the absence of domain knowledge?" There are numerous ways, but edge detection filtering, fuzzy-connectedness segmentation, and watershed segmentation are the first ones that come to mind. They're
From my limited understanding, the algorithm is a dedicated clustering algorithm (it actually incorporates k-means), but it also utilizes a graph-cut algorithm for segmentation.
People go to school for about a decade to become a pathologist, and replicating that kind of domain knowledge isn't an easy task.
That's the presumption, but it's often false. An algorithm can often outperform an expert's intuition. See the chapter on "Evidence Based Medicine" in the book "Super Crunchers," or the chapter on diagnosing heart attack in Malcolm Gladwell's Blink. Often in these classification tasks, an expert using a statistical tool performs worse than the statistical tool alone, because
you still need a weight function to determine how similar two vertices are. This is where domain knowledge comes into play. A clustering algorithm without a measure of similarity between points is useless.
Well, let me tell my tale of working as an assistant in a hospital in Germany.
Medical care is first and foremost bureaucratic, and I guess it's no different in other countries. If it's socialized medicines fault or not is another topic.
The fact is that the processes are horribly inefficient - the computer systems for cancer therapy were from the 1970, and I literally had to hack OpenVMS commands into a terminal with a monocrome green-black display. Then I would have to wait 5 minutes or so to receive ~10
Because you have to *PROVE* with clinical certainty (ie. research studies) that the computer system is as good as an expert under all conditions. A mammogram is a two dimensional monochrome picture of a three-dimensional object. As you are attempting to detect a life-threatening defect using a piece of software, false alarms can be as devastating to the patient as missed detections, and thus have the same lawsuit risks.
Also, this requires the entire hospital to have a digital patient record management system, in order to handle digital X-ray images. Many hospitals and dentists are still using photographic plates and paper records. With the digital system, everything from doctors notes to X-rays, CAT and MRI scans are automatically placed into the patients record when they are generated. The resulting data is then accessible to any consultant or doctor involved with the patient. The new system has the advantage that there is no need to wait for X-ray plates to be developed.
Be careful: A slight improvement in the classifier (or acceptance of another false positive or two) and you may have to make that argument in the other direction. The difference is accuracy is not statistically significant for a binary classification problem of that size.
What this article demonstrates is that current state-of-the-art CAD is nearly as good as a second reader. The performance of the radiologist is pretty much fixed; the algorithm's performance is not.
Why is this news and NOT standard practice already?
Actually it is reasonably widely used as a diagnostic aid and becoming more so all the time, at least in the US. I've personally done consulting work in radiology clinics where they use computers to assist diagnosis. That said, it is still a developing technology and every scan is read by a radiologist too (which is just common sense) but these system do occasionally catch something the radiologist missed and vice-versa. It provides another set of eyes which don't get tired and that is a useful thing.
Because it's not nearly that straightforward. Reliable image recognition in a clinical setting is tricky. Mammograms are a good place to start because they're fairly well controlled. There are rarely any serious artefacts or patient motion. Breast tumors are fairly obvious, and the cost of false positives isn't very high (a biopsy, which is a bit painful but is a simple outpatient procedure done under local anesthetic).
Much of the stuff radiologists do is a LOT harder. Even with the easy stuff, compute
...you're #199. If the computer provides that much advantage when combined with a single person, it stands to reason that it would also provide a huge advantage when two people read the charts. Unfortunately, knowing our medical system in the U.S., they'll probably just use this as an excuse to pay only one doctor to read the chart....
system, there is a synergy between man and machine. Our system was for a general practitioner (general diagnosis with symptoms, physical findings, history, tests, etc as input). The computer is somewhat "dumb", but it always checks all the possibilities. The doctor would be looking for the usual stuff, and sometimes miss the more exotic diseases that would turn up from time to time. The machine would flag some exotic condition with a high probability, and the doctor would go "Interesting! I hadn't thought of that, let's check it out." Dr. House probably doesn't need one
Dr. House probably doesn't need one
Depends... what's its false positive and false negative rate for Lupus?
Right, but the point is that this is not (or at least should not) be to replace to pairs of eyes looking at the results. The opinions of two human radiologists is still the best. The proposal is that adding a computer to the one pair of eyes looking at these pictures currently will improve the accuracy. That 199th woman would get missed anyways, because she wouldn't have two doctors looking at it, she'd have one doctor looking at it.
i built the original software which was deployed by the NHS around 1998. The systems now are several generations ahead. Both groups would find different 28s with large amounts of overlap based on the smaller studies we did. Unfortunately mine was torpedoed due to liability issues the first time around. Mayber theyve figured out a way around the liabilit caused by the computer missing a tumor but probably not.
BTW, mine was open source http://yhs.sf.net for your code viewing cancer analyzing pleasure.
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMoa0803545 [nejm.org]
That's the original research. If you read the Yahoo article you'll see the researchers got money from the manufacturer of a computer-aided reading system.
as long as we rely on private sector funded commercial research to advance medical science/technology, we will run into the issue of potential researcher bias as there's an inherent conflict of interest. this is also true of the pharmaceutical industry.
unless we as a society decide that public research is an important area of government funding, problems of slanted studies and deceptive/false research findings will continue to plague the medical field and other areas of research which depend on corporate fu
Because government-funded research is inherently free of any and all bias. It is never politically motivated, and areas to research and not to research are chosen purely on scientific merit by a government bureaucrat, whose #1 goal is not to increase and extend his own power. </sarcasm>
Seriously though, there are a lot of people who believe exactly that, and even if the commercial research may be biased, at least that's known and out in the open.
As a med student, I couldn't be more pleased about this. Hopefully by the time I get out there, they'll have these standard in hospitals. And, more importantly, part of the standard of care, so when they screw up, I wont be sued.
Have you ever tried to see a small diffuse tumor on an X-ray before? It take a Jedi mind trick on just to convince yourself they're there.
X-rays are cheap, fast, and awesome for bones/opaque liquids, but my eyeballs can't see loose tissue worth a crap.
Computer Aided Diagnosis has been around for years - it's just now it's becoming more popular.
Don't get me wrong - this is great stuff, just not new.
Real proof that it works better than a trained radiologist in a particular application is new.
Hardware and software required to email images will hardly cost as much as this image recognition setup.
Guaranteeing privacy will be much more complicated.
The channel between the US radiology machines and the Indian doctor's office has to be protected against unwanted intruders. Email doesn't cut it as it is as secure as a post card.
Sadly, slapping a GPG plugin to thunderbird won't do the trick either because
- I'm pretty sure legislation are rather complex and will require solution that have been explicitly approved and certified (someone need to get the FDA and similar organisations in other countries to a
>In a randomized study of 31,000 women, researchers found that a single expert aided by a computer does as well as two pairs of eyes.
"As well as"?
> CAD spotted nearly
or "nearly as well as"?
> the same number of cancers, 198 out of 227, compared to 199 for the two readers.
Ah, 198 vs 199 - it seems their first statement is not accurate. I wonder why people keep doing this - they use numbers accurately enough, but use language inaccurately.
What has this to do with statistics, apart from 'lies, damned lies, and statistics'.
I did pass statistics, btw, though it was some time ago. I don't recall learning that 'as well as' being the same as '198 equals 199' (iirc). If it were as good as, it would be 199.
* I can't easily look back at the original numbers, so they might not have been as above.
You flunked because you don't seem to realize that sample data is never perfect; you can't just take a random sample and assume it is 100% representative of the entire population. It always deviates slightly from the entire population's true mean.
It's entirely possible that another random sample could result in, say, an average score of 200 for the computer and an average score of 199 for the two-person reviewers.
Would you make the conclusion that, based on that sample, the computer is "better" than the rev
You're just saying that it 'could be' 'as good as'.
Just because it could be, doesn't make it so, and the numbers don't make it so either, statitically or otherwise.
Perhaps *you* should go back to school and learn some English.
I mean, imagine if you had two bullet-proof vests -- one with multiple layers that let bullets through 23 out of 10,000 times, and one with a lightweight, high-tech material that let bullets through 89 out of 10,000 times. Would you really want to go with the latter?
That would depend on how much the multi-layer one hinders my ability to complete my mission. If gear weight and space in no problem, and I just have to stand around, hell give two of the bulky ones! 11.5/10,000 sounds even better. But if I can't get my ass out of harms way wearing it or the high-tech one, just paint me with woad and give me a loin cloth.
The future of breast cancer detection is Gamma imaging. See http://www.dilon.com/bsgi.php [dilon.com] for comparisons between BSGI and X-Ray.
Anybody see what the detection rate is with only one MD looking at the images? The article seems to be missing that bit of date. I'm willing to bet it is it 'statically' lower than the two MD system.
This would be proof that four eyes are better than two! =8-]
'AutoBREAST'... But, i also instantly thought of Star Trek's medical tricorder, too. (captcha: defects)
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CLIFTON PARK >> Bishop Howard J. Hubbard performed his final Confirmation Mass Saturday as the tenured leader of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany.
The service was held at St. Edward the Confessor Roman Catholic Church, 569 Clifton Park Center Road. The sacrament, during which candidates receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, drew several hundred young people and their parents.
Hubbard, 75, has been the leader of the 14-county Albany Diocese since 1977. He will retire officially Thursday when Bishop-elect, Rev. Msgr. Edward Scharfenberger is officially installed as his replacement.
During Saturday's Mass, Hubbard greeted nearly 100 teen candidates for confirmation as they walked up and knelt at the edge of the pulpit. They came two by two with their sponsors behind them.
Dressed in the scarlet vestments of his position with the zucchetto on his head and pectoral cross on his chest, Hubbard chatted briefly with each. He was animated in his conversation, a light tap on the shoulder for some and an occasional familial jab to the chest with others.
His voice during the more public portions of the service was inviting and warm. The tone was clear and crisp, the words coming rapidly. The boy originally from the 'burgh (Lansingburgh) never left home and home never left him.
During a conversation after Mass, Hubbard reflected on his 50 years in the priesthood, the last 37 of which he has served as bishop.
"I was the youngest priest when I was ordained and now I am the oldest active tenured priest," he said smiling, fingering his silver papal ring. "It's been a wonderful 37 years, many joys and occasions. There's been so many weddings and anniversaries, 10-, 20- and 50-year anniversaries, and many ordinations of priests and deacons. I figure I've confirmed 120,000 people. There have been many cherished memories."
Hubbard said he was drawn into the priesthood incrementally. He went to St. Patrick's, a Catholic elementary school, where he got to know priests as human beings. He saw them personally ministering to the community. He got to know them better by playing CYO baseball and basketball, he said. At 75, Hubbard still moves around gracefully. All those years on the courts and athletic fields apparently have never left him.
"They were pleasant to be around," Hubbard said of the priests. "They were always around after the games to take us out for ice cream or sodas."
As a high school student at La Salle Institute, the brothers recommended he look into becoming a brother himself or go into the priesthood. After applying and attending summer orientation at Siena College, he decided he go to seminary school first. That way, he could find out if he liked the priesthood from the inside rather than waiting four years.
"I thought I might become a journalist or go into law. I had an uncle who was a lawyer," he said. "But once I went to seminary, I never turned back. It was what I wanted. I never had any thought of any other direction."
An internship at an Albany parish church after completing work at Catholic University in Washington D.C., gave him exactly what he wanted, a chance to help people and spiritually serve them.
"Prior to that, I thought I might wind up in social services behind a desk for Catholic Charities or something like that," he said. "Back then all those positions were filled by priests. I wasn't thrilled at that."
His internship led him to help establish Providence House in Albany's South End and from that sprang Hope House, a place for heroin addicts to turn their lives around. Hubbard was doing what he wanted across the river from his hometown and was completely happy.
"What's good about (the) counseling with Hope House is I meet people now who've gone through there and have recovered their life and gone on to become productive members of the community."
Looking back on his 50 years in the priesthood, Hubbard said he was fortunate to travel the world and meet so many dignitaries. But he also leaves with some regrets. First and foremost was the clergy abuse scandal and the slowness and lack of transparency that surrounded it.
"I'll always be apologetic for that," Hubbard said.
He also said he regrets having to close parish schools and churches as the demographics of the Capital Region changed.
"I know it creates spiritual hardship for people. I'm conscious of the sadness it creates in people's lives," he said.
As Hubbard delved deeper into the makeup of the 14 counties that make up the Albany Diocese, he noted the widening gap between rich and poor, "the have and have nots," he called it. He expressed concern that food pantries have seen a 40 percent increase in their numbers and the more rural counties in the diocese have been hurt terribly by the recession.
Yet, the man who spent all his life in the Capital Region still finds himself amazed at the natural beauty of the diocese.
"We have the Adirondacks, the Mohawk (River), the Hudson (River) and the more rural counties' landscape is just beautiful," he said. "It's a beautiful diocese."
During retirement, Hubbard said he will stay active filling in when needed in area churches, ministering in jails and prisons, and perhaps saying Mass in nursing homes, an area that has been hit hard with the reduction in the numbers in the priesthood.
"I'll be able to do things that are spiritual and pastoral rather than administrative," Hubbard said.


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Increasingly, Americans Prefer Going to the Movies at Home
As the summer blockbuster movie season begins, a new Pew Research Center survey finds three-quarters of all adults now say they would prefer to watch movies at home, up from 67% in 1994.
Calling Mom on Mother's Day. And the Day Before. And the Day After.
The traditional holiday phone call to mom may not have the impact it once had- not because fewer sons and daughters remember to call, but because more are already talking to mom every other day of the year.
Once Again, The Future Ain't What It Used to Be
Barely a third of today's adults expect today's children to grow up better off than people are now.
In the Battle of the Bulge, More Soldiers Than Successes
Two in three are dieting or exercising, but most feel far from ideal weight.
Eating More; Enjoying Less
Just 39% of adults say they enjoy eating "a great deal," down from 48% in 1989 – with a bigger decline among those who consider themselves overweight than among those who consider themselves just about the right weight.
Americans See Weight Problems Everywhere But In the Mirror
Americans think the nation's waistline is expanding and they consider this a serious problem. But when it comes to weighing themselves, they seem to use a different scale.
A Barometer of Modern Morals
Cheating on your taxes, cheating on your spouse and other questions of right and wrong
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
One in five Americans (22%) now has a close relative married to someone of a different race.
Gauging Family Intimacy
Most dog and cat owners think of their pets as family. Almost all describe their relationship to their pets as "close." Dear old dad doesn't fare quite as well.
Who's Feeling Rushed?
If you want to find out who's always feeling starved for time, just ask a working mom.


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DETROIT >> Nobody does panic quite like Panictown.
The emotions of the fan base reel from one crisis to another like a drunken sailor on shore leave.
First the bullpen.
Then the closer's arm.
Then the shortstop conundrum.
Now Miguel Cabrera's slump.
That's not to say that the issues aren't valid ones ... they certainly are.
The question is how much effort and emotion to invest in worrying about the particular issue, and whether it might fix itself.
Joe Nathan's 'dead arm' issue certainly seems to be on the way to clearing itself up. With that, and several other pitchers stepping up, the bullpen has become more stable — at least more than it was at the start of the season.
While the shortstop position is far from "fixed" at least it's been stabilized defensively, with Alex Gonzalez's release allowing Andrew Romine to get the lion's share of the starts.
The next issue, though, is how much concern to attach to Cabrera's struggles at the plate.
Depends on who you ask.
And it depends on how you gauge his mini-breakout Tuesday, with three hits and a home run, that raised his average to .235.
"Like we've said for a few days now, Miguel's going to be fine," manager Brad Ausmus said recently, in response to the obligatory daily question.
"Again, Miggy's going to be fine. The best hitters in the world have slumps, and the proof is that Miggy's slumping right now, and he's the greatest hitter in the world."
There haven't been too many times when that "S" word is attached to Cabrera's name, though.
And that's what it is.
Cabrera was hitting .206 after an 0-for-4 night Monday.
Coming into Tuesday, he was 8-for-his-last-56, dating back to his 4-for-5 day that got him to the 2,000-hit plateau. That's a .157 average in that 13-game span. And a slugging percentage of .235, an OPS of .467.
And the Tigers were understandably 6-7 in that streak, given the struggles their No. 3 hitter is going through.
His ground-ball rate is up. His fly-ball rate is down. He admitted that he's still rebuilding core strength after offseason surgery.
But he's not hurt.
"Not that I know of," Ausmus said. "If he is, he's hiding it pretty well."
You might be concerned. The manager is not.
Not even after Cabrera's 0-for-4 Monday, which included a pair of blasts to right-center field — near the wall, but not over it.
"Well, I mean, his first two at-bats were 800 feet of outs. In most other parks, that's two home runs. He struck the ball well, he hit the ball up the middle well. They just had the second baseman shifted way over. In a lot of parks, he's 3-for-3 with two homers right there," said Ausmus, who'd noted earlier that Cabrera had looked good in early batting practice Monday.
"Absolutely. Those are the best swings I've seen the last few games from him. He hit early, he looked outstanding. He looked a lot more comfortable at the plate. Like I said, 800 feet of outs. Those might have been more than 800 feet of outs.
"Sometimes, in baseball, hitters do everything right, and get nothing to show for it. I think that happened three times."
Color Cabrera unimpressed.
"I was 0-for-4," he said in Monday's terse postgame interview session. "They were outs."
Even if you don't go by the eyeball test, and look at Cabrera's batting average on balls in play (BABIP), it's .211 in that span, meaning he's not getting rewarded with hits when he puts it in play.
"I have been in that situation where you have been struggling and you all of a sudden hit a ball well, and it doesn't seem to find a spot on the grass to land. It just seems like everything's working against you," Ausmus said. "I've certainly been there before, and I understand the feeling — it feels like there are 18 players on defense, when you're hitting."
There's this thought, too: Cabrera hasn't struggled often in his career.
His longest streak of games without a hit was six, all the way back in 2003. The next longest was in 2012, when he went five hitless games in mid-April.
He sat at .222 on the last day of that stretch, April 16. His BABIP was .172.
Four games later, he had his average up to .302.
And went on to win the Triple Crown.


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CARY – Senior Care Volunteer Network will hold its first wine-tasting event from 5 to 8 p.m. July 15 at Orchard Wine Shoppe, 133 W. Main St.,Cary. Featured will be hors d' oeuvres and 10 wine varietals to sample.
Tickets are $25. Proceeds will benefit Senior Care Volunteer Network programs and seniors. For more information or to register, call 815-455-3120 or visit www.scvnmchenrycounty.org.


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When taking photos around campus, or even the world, that incorporates some aspect of Barry University, use hashtag #barryuniversity to put yourself on the map – the social map! If you are a user of Instagram or Twitter, you are already aware of the power of the hashtag! Show everyone your Barry University pride when taking fun campus photos, friend photos, event photos and more.
Community Fest, or any other event taking place during Founders' Week, will be a great opportunity for photos!
Check out where your photo lands on the map at www.barry.edu/social-map.
In order to show up on the map, you need to ensure your geotagging is on, otherwise you will not appear on the page.


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Besra (TSX:BEZ)(ASX:BEZ)(FRANKFURT:
Besra's CEO John Seton, said, "the confirmation of a substantially higher grade gold zone at Jugan Hill which is now shown to extend to beyond 320 meters vertically below surface reaffirms our confidence in the conceptual model of increasing grade at depth as we continue to move forward with the project. In the coming weeks, the Company expects to release an updated gold resource estimate from Jugan Hill as part of the Bau Project feasibility study."
Besra has been aggressively exploring the seventeen km long Bau Central gold trend since first acquiring the property in 2009. The Bau gold trend contains thirty-four known gold prospects, at various stages of exploration advancement. The current JORC/NI43-101 global resource stands at 913,500 oz Au "measured and indicated" (17,058,000 tonnes @ 1.67g/t Au) and 2,108,100 oz Au "Inferred" (50,062,000 tonnes @ 1.31 g/t Au). Geological, geophysical and geochemical studies and on-going drilling programmes are in progress to further expand and up-grade this resource.
The Bau property is a brown-field project, spread over a large geographic area in which the Company is in a consortium with a Malaysian company with material Bumiputra interest that owns rights to consolidated mining tenements covering much of the historic Bau Goldfield in Sarawak, East Malaysia.
Source: Marketwire


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Summer's arrested, Victor visits Adam, and Kevin spills to Michael.
In his office, Michael tells Kevin to start talkin'. Kevin says whatever information he thinks he has, it's bogus. Michael says it's from Chloe. Michael warns Kevin he might end up prosecuting him and asks him to tell all - now. Kevin tells him to go to hell. Michael warns the truth is going to come out. Kevin says he went to talk to Phyllis about the website and there was a dead guy on the floor. Michael gets it all down and asks why Kevin went to this trouble for Phyllis. Kevin wonders if Michael's been D.A. so long he's forgotten she's his best friend - he did what he thought was right. Michael says it's best the truth came out. Kevin shouts that he put him in a small space until he did what he wanted - he's just like Tom!
Gloria raves to Chloe about Vegas in Gloworm, but Chloe's distracted. She tells Glo she sold Kevin out to Michael. Nearby, Jeffrey calls Chelsea and asks for a visit with her and his little grandmunchkin-to-be. He asks her to come by.
At home, Chelsea tells Jeff she'll call him back and hangs up. Adam suggests she hang out with him and see what it's like. The doorbell rings - it's Victor. Adam invites him in. Chelsea goes. Victor says he's sorry he missed Adam at the ranch and mentions the company's in shambles. Victor tells Adam the situation with the shares and asks him to vote in a block with him, Nick, and Victoria. Adam muses that he's the proverbial lynchpin. He points out that Victor never bothers with him until he needs something. Victor reminds him about the things he's done. Adam says he's invisible to him, and asks if he knows his wife is pregnant. Victor says they're both to blame for the damage done to their relationship, but he's still his son. "There's a part of me that loves you."
At Crimson Lights, Phyllis tells Nick she tried to reach out to Summer but she's not ready to talk. Nick gets a call and tells Phyllis that Summer was just arrested.
Still at Gloworm, Gloria tells Chloe she hopes Michael isn't too hard on Kevin - he has a knack for getting people to say things. Chelsea arrives. Gloria asks if she's taking her up on the baby shower. Jeff appears and offers a mimosa. Chelsea reminds him she's pregnant. Glo leaves them. Jeff tells Chelsea he missed her, and sits down to regal her with tales about Vegas. He gives her money to get something nice for the baby from him. Chelsea thanks him. Gloria joins Chloe, who's worrying that Kevin will be angry with her.
Chelsea arrives home as Victor tells Adam to think about voting with them. He congratulates Chelsea on her pregnancy and leaves. Adam tells Chelsea that Victor needs something from him. Chelsea tells Adam she met Jeff and it was surprisingly okay. Adam says Victor seemed pleased about the baby. They discuss having high-maintenance fathers. Adam worries about making a decision about the company, and they talk about whether to let their child know their fathers.
At the station, Ronan tells Phyllis and Nick that Summer took a baseball bat to his car. Nick says Summer will pay for the repairs. Summer says she's not sorry. Nick tells Summer to be quiet and warns Ronan not to press charges against her. Ronan says he won't, but he should take Summer's violent act seriously. Nick says they did this to his daughter and he'll have to deal with it. He tells Ronan to stay away from Summer, but Phyllis is all his. After, Phyllis and Ronan discuss it. He thinks she should try to work things out with Summer. He's hugging her when Victor appears asking about Summer. Ronan leaves them alone. Victor tells Phyllis he doesn't blame her - he doesn't know a single family that doesn't have problems. He tells her she'll get a second chance, like he has. He wishes her luck. They hug. Ronan returns to find her crying.
Kevin returns to Gloworm. Gloria greets him and then she and Jeff leave him with Chloe. Kevin tells Chloe she betrayed him - how can he trust her again? Meanwhile, Jeff tells Glo that Chelsea's warming up to him.
At the tackhouse, Summer tells Nick he should be giving her a high-five. Nick says she needs to talk to someone about her rage. They argue over whether she should see a shrink. Nick asks if she wants to end up like Phyllis, who also thinks there are no consequences for her behavior. Summer calls Fen to plan sneaking out after Nick falls asleep.
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Michael asks Lauren in the courtroom, "How many lives am I going to ruin in this courtroom today?"
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Here at Hemmings we certainly love antique trucks but that doesn't mean we appreciate the powerful rigs of today any less.
We learned of this latest development in truck fashion in an e-mailed press release from the storied "Berserko Bob" Doerrer, a longtime figure in East Coast drag racing who now handles P.R. for the NHRA nitro Funny Car team of Bob Gilbertson.
The release announced that Gilbertson had signed Relative 2 Motion as a new associate sponsor for the rest of this season and all of 2006. What's this company all about, you ask? Well, it's a Northridge, California-based firm that specializes in custom accessories for trucks, and we mean of the 18-wheel variety, key among them a series of mirror-polished truck wheels with custom spoke patterns that look better suited to a Deuce that rolled up at the L.A. Roadsters' annual show.
Yes indeed, the countrified world of long-haul trucking has now slammed head-on into the galaxy that pimps the SUVs of Shaq Daddy and Snoop Dog. Relative 2 Motion's "wheels" aren't exactly that, in that they're not load-carrying components, but rather are inserts that bolt to the truck's hub plates using CNC-machined aluminum components. They sold either as "floaters," which means they're stationary as the wheel turns, or "solids," which turn conventionally with the wheel. They're available in a half-dozen styles named Bellagio, Bavaria, and X-Wang, among others, and Relative 2 Motion also produces matching steering wheels.
Gilbertson will be using them on his Funny Car hauler as part of the deal. Interested? Scope them out at www.relativetomotion.com.
(This post originally appeared in the August 18, 2005, issue of the Hemmings eWeekly Newsletter.)


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Not so long ago, forward Ed Davis entering a Grizzlies game cued a barrage of negative tweets and even a few scattered boos.
Ed Davis has had the opportunity to show his true value to the team in the extra minutes he's been able to play since center Marc Gasol was injured, as well as the recent absence of power forward Zach Randolph.
(Daily News/Andrew J. Breig)
Some were directed at Davis for what, at the time, had been a portfolio of poor play. Some were directed at Grizzlies management because, as the popular narrative went, they were desperate for Davis to play and play well because he was considered the biggest piece of the Rudy Gay trade.
But since Marc Gasol left the Nov. 22 game against San Antonio with a sprained left MCL, it's become clear that Davis and others must play more and that the Grizzlies will have to live with the highs and the lows.
The Grizzlies' 110-91 victory over Phoenix on Tuesday, Dec.3, marked the Grizzlies' fourth full game without Gasol. It was also the Grizzlies' second game without power forward Zach Randolph (ingrown toenail).
The first effort without both big men was historic, marking the first time in a regular season game the Grizzlies played without them since Randolph joined the team for the 2009-2010 season. It also didn't go very well as the Grizzlies lost to the Brooklyn Nets, so far this season one of the most dysfunctional organizations in the NBA.
A lackluster first half against the Suns that saw Memphis trail by eight going into the third quarter warned of another loss and raised anew concerns about survival without Gasol and Randolph, or even just minus Gasol. And then the Grizzlies scored 64 second-half points. When the game was done, Davis, forward Jon Leuer and center Kosta Koufos, who has been starting in place of Gasol, had combined for 58 points and 33 rebounds.
If the Grizzlies were searching for an identity at the start of the season under first-year coach Dave Joerger – and they were – and if they seemed to rediscover themselves when they swept a four-game West Coast road swing – and they did by feeding Gasol and Randolph in the paint – then these injuries have forced the most chameleon-like change yet.
"Obviously, Marc and Z-Bo are starters and all-stars," said Davis, who had a season-best 21 points and 12 rebounds vs. Phoenix as the Grizz scored 56 points in the paint. "We all have to take it up – first guy to last guy on the bench. You can't replace Marc or replace Z-Bo, but we all can do things that they do."
Koufos, who started last season in Denver, had 11 or more rebounds in each of his first four starts in place of Gasol. Twice, he has had a double-double.
"2K, with Marc being out, he's done a wonderful job," guard Jerryd Bayless said.
Leuer, who when playing well steps into the role of crowd favorite – especially when dunking – scored a career-high 23 points against the Suns and fell one rebound (9) short of a double-double while also making a career-best three blocks.
"Jon did a lot of good things besides just make shots," Joerger said. "I thought he guarded pretty well in the second half."
Now, obviously, what Davis, Leuer and Koufos did against the Suns represents one game. Against a team that likes to stand outside the arc and hoist threes, against a team without much real inside presence.
Still, it showed a way for the Grizzlies to endure until Gasol returns (and that's still several weeks away). Point guard Mike Conley dished out 14 assists in the Suns game and in the first four full games without Gasol he had 43 assists with just four turnovers. Gasol was, as Conley likes to say, the other point guard and was good for 4.3 assists per game.
Yet the Grizzlies need Conley to score, too. He leads the team with 18.3 points per game. His 7.6 drives a game (per NBA.com/stats) rank 10th in the league and his 86.9 touches rank sixth in the NBA.
"He's our playmaker and he makes the game easier for all of us with the ability to penetrate," Leuer said. "We play off him. And the more we can knock down shots and stretch the floor, and finish shots (at the rim), that's going to be make his job a lot easier."
Which is just what happened against the Suns.
"I trust those guys," Conley said. "I want to give them that present, that dime, when they work so hard to get open."
Beyond that, Joerger praised Koufos, Davis and Leuer for screening "really hard. Mike didn't look as tired as he normally does because we put our bodies on people and got him open."
So the Grizzlies' identity is changing again as they try to find the best way to make sure their floor general can continue to run the offense without Gasol and possibly without Randolph, too.
"With those two guys out, it's a difference, a change," Bayless said. "There's really no good part, but the kinda good part is it gives other people an opportunity."