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Crucial gene controls higher brain growth
To the uninformed observer it may seem baffling how geneticists, biochemists, paleontologists, and other researchers can claim that two creatures that look as different as a man and a monkey could not only be "related" but have been
produced by evolution
the last couple million years
I. It's All in the Genes
But the key to understanding evolution is to understand genetics: our body is driven by protein enzymes, which catalyze critical processes inside the body. Many proteins share common domains. And the blueprints to all the proteins a creature makes are stored in a special highly-ordered storage construct called DNA.
While living organisms go to great lengths to preserve their genetic code without errors like swapped sections or deletions, occassionally during the process of making sperm and eggs such an error is made. Most errors result in infertility or death of the offspring. But occasionally just the right combination of protein domains has accidentally been clumped together, producing something that fundamentally transforms the organism.
Researchers have finally found a gene -- perhaps
gene -- which separates humans from the ancestors they share with apes.
Humans and apes, both members of the order Primates, share
96 percent of their genetic code
. Most of the remaining 4 percent is so-called "junk" DNA; stretches of mostly inactive code.
Humans share 96 percent of their genetic code with primates, like this
Rhesus macaque
[Image Source: Mark Snelson]
Of course, junk DNA is not useless geneticists and biochemists have recently discovered. It has been shown to in many cases play a key role in regulation of other genes' expression and other "epigenetic" effects.
But researchers had yet to discover a truly active gene that humans have that apes lack -- until now.
II. miR-941 May Hold the Key to How Mankind is so Crafty
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland have discovered a gene called miR-941, which is only found in humans and is absent in their primate relatives.
The gene was absent not only in the gorilla and
chimpanzee genomes
, but also in the genomes of other non-primates, such as mice and rats. The gene, absent in all the other critters except for man, is mainly active in the brain; particularly in areas of the brain
associated with so-called "higher brain" functions
The gene was actively being transcribed in the regions of the brain responsiible for language learning and decision making. Researchers hypothesize that it may play a key role in abilities that are largely unique to humans, such as formulating, understanding, and preserving multiple complex communications codes (languages) and developing advanced tools (weapons, machinery).
The newly discovered human-unique gene is active in areas of the brain associated with higher thinking processes. [Image Source: Neuroimages Tumblr]
Some other creatures -- gorillas, parrots, dolphins, and whales -- show different levels of sign language or spoken/sung language skills. And chimpanzees, octupi, and other creatures have been shown to use basic implements, like sticks, as tools. However, only humans are known to manifest these helpful survival skills in more complex manners.
Now, modern genetics may have cracked a key mystery of human evolution and explained why.
The research was
in the prestigious peer-review journal
Nature Communications
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Old people play video games. By old, maybe that means sixty years old? Seventy? How about 99 years old.
Meet Umeji Narisawa. She's 99 years-old, and according to Japanese TV program Nani Kore Chin Hyakkei, she plays nothing but Bomberman for hours everyday. And has for nearly the past 26 years.
Bomberman was originally released on the Nintendo Famicon in December 1985.
Not only does Mrs. Narisawa play Bomberman, she excels at it. On the show, the Sendai resident cleared the final 50th stage. During her daily Bomberman sessions, she starts at the first stage and plays until she finishes the game no problem.
Every. Single. Day.
On the program, before she put the Bomberman cartridge in, she even gave it gentle blow to clear out any dust.
"Playing Famicom keeps me from going senile."
It usually takes her about two and a half hours to clear the game, but on days when the granny is on fire, she can clear the game twice. Mrs. Umeji said she thinks the game is good at helping her keep her mind active. Gaming isn't her only hobby. Even at 99 years-old, she still enjoys needlework and is able to thread needles herself.
"Playing Famicom keeps me from going senile," she said.
Japanese TV is notorious for yarase, or faked situations. This program did show her playing the game, so it does appear to be real. What makes Nani Kore Chin Hyakkei interesting is that every week the show depicts amazing and usual people and things across the country, culled form the hundreds upon hundreds of viewer submissions the show gets weekly.

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Connecting The Pieces
Cambrian Fauna
Why It Matters
Soft Bodies Aren't All Bad
The Burgess Shale located in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada is considered by many to be the most important fossil bed yet found. This fossil bed is known not only for the complexity and diversity of the organisms preserved but also for the preservation of soft body parts like organs and even whole organ systems. The beds are also over 500 million years old and represent an incredible resource to scientists seeking to understand life during the Cambrian Era and how it compares to life today. Watch the following video to take a look and these incredible fossil beds.
Here you can see someone who has actually worked at the fossil bed talk about the significance of the Burgess Shale and what it was like to work there
Here you can see some of the actual fossils themselves (and a few Japanese models)
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Use the below resources to answer the following questions
- What does Lagerstätten mean?
- What physical conditions lead to optimal fossilization?
- What latitude was "North America" located at when the Burgess Shale was deposited?
- How does the preservation of soft body parts increase scientists knowledge of the organism that made the fossils? Explain your answer as fully as possible.
- What kinds of information can scientists get from soft body parts that they cannot get from hard body parts?
- Do all animals have hard body parts?
- How do the organisms in the Burgess Shale compare to organisms in other fossil beds of the same age? Are they the same organisms? Are they different organisms?
- What do we learn when we compare fossil organisms from different fossil beds of the same age to organisms from different areas today?
Resources Cited
- http://geology.about.com/cs/basics_roxmin/a/aa011804b.htm
- http://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/sites/default/files/Re-Examining_Burgess_Shale_EM_August_2009.pdf
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr126K8kDfQ Youtube by BurgessShaleGF
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCnti9rRL2k Youtube by fossilfactor
- http://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/en/science/burgess-shale/03-fossils.php#ecol
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How An Economic Odd Couple are Viewed on Campus
On the campus of Northwestern University, there is a clear winner in the contest of ideas between economists Robert Gordon and Joel Mokyr.
As reported in The Wall Street Journal, the two men, who have taught at the school for four decades, have sharply divergent views on the future. Mr. Gordon says we've run out of the big ideas needed to fuel rapid economic growth, while Mr. Mokyr anticipates new life-changing breakthroughs.
As you might expect among college-age students, Mr. Mokyr's optimistic views generate more enthusiasm and discussion.
"If you're young, you tend to be optimistic—especially about technology," says Yana Gallen, an economics Ph.D. candidate who took Mr. Mokyr's introductory class on economic history. She says the world has seen two centuries of remarkable growth and there have always been skeptics who questioned whether it could continue. But they've always been wrong, she says. "I haven't encountered any students who think growth is over."
Martin Eichenbaum, another Northwestern economist, says Mr. Gordon's arguments are "very speculative, because once you go beyond five or six years [of projecting trends into the future], it's very much a guessing game."
Mr. Gordon's most controversial claim is that recent innovations—cellphones, for example—aren't as impactful as those of the past, such as indoor plumbing.
Mr. Eichenbaum says there's reason to be more upbeat. "Suppose I tell you I could grow a leg or do gene therapy for early-stage cancer—that seems as big to me as plumbing," he says. While the issue of long-term growth and the impact of new technology is important, he adds, it doesn't get much attention from students.
"It takes some grey hair—like Bob and Joel have—to say something interesting on this," he says. Moreover, economics students tend to focus on narrower technical questions.
Sebastian Kohls, an economics Ph.D. student from Germany, says Mr. Mokyr's upbeat assessment rings more true to him than Mr. Gordon's gloomy view. "You'll be hard pressed to find someone here say Bob Gordon is fully right. But you also won't find someone taking the other extreme."


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Fanfare - THE WANT LIST 2015
Marimba Concertos
"The unique sonorities that this composer conjures, along with his true understanding of the implications of the genre—that is, a constant flux between competition and coexistence—make for consistently enjoyable listening experiences."
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"The Concerto form brings out the best in the Danish composer Anders Koppel, and his four (!) marimba concertos are particularly enticing. A brilliantly played, stunningly recorded disc of orchestral music by Marius Constant reminds us of this neglected composer who, like Koppel, kept an open mind"
23 June 2015
Kristeligt Dagblad
"Anders Koppel har med sine fire marimbakoncerter spillet en afgørende rolle for udviklingen af et koncert repertoire for det specielle instrument marimbaen."
21 May 2015
Fanfare Magazine
"This is a fabulous disc, one which I plan to return to over and over again."
23 March 2015
International Record Review
"A winner of a disc, then, especially recommended to those who are not immediately engaged by the idea of four marimba concertos nose to toe – give it a bash and I'm sure you'll be won over."
01 March 2015
"Nach diesem famosen CD-Debüt mit sämtlichen Marimbakonzerten von Anders Koppel, hochvirtuos und dabei gleichzeitig hoch musikalisch interpretiert von Marianna Bednarska, sollte man sich ihren Namen merken."
09 February 2015
"Marianne har en fantastisk teknik, men hun har også noget mere – en musikalitet, som gør det muligt for hende at nuancere anslaget."
26 January 2015
"Koppel's four marimba concertos sound fresh, exciting, and accessible."
14 January 2015
The New York Times
"The piece, dramatic, exuberant and colorful, became an instant hit with marimbists [...] Three more concertos for the instrument followed over the years, reflecting a kaleidoscope of stylistic influences but also Mr. Koppel's very distinct, melodically generous, language."
12 January 2015
"The young Marianna Bednarska plays all four works [...] with élan and is expertly supported by the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra. Dacapo's sound is superb. Listening to this disc is a hugely enjoyable way to spend 79 minutes."
19 December 2014
MusicWeb International
"Henrik Vagn Christensen directs with assurance, making clear that the orchestra is a protagonist in the dramas, as well as the Marimba which itself is in the safest of hands in these performances."
03 December 2014
Fyns Amts Avis
"Skæg musik, spillet med begejstret entusiasme af den unge supermusikalske polak - smukt ledsaget af Aalborg Symfoniorkester."
16 November 2014
JC Klassisk
"Selv ned i et pianissimo får hun en dejligt klingende tone frem fyldt med sprødt liv og intensitet."
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The National Gallery of Australia holds one of the richest public collections of Indonesian textiles in the world. Now, thanks to the generous assistance of the Australia-Indonesia Institute (AII), the extensive collection of over 1200 works is accessible to scholars, researchers and textile enthusiasts across the globe through this website.
A major undertaking, all of the textiles have been studio photographed in colour and digitised. Catalogue information has been reviewed and updated to include recent research on textile origins. Searches can be made in many ways, including by region, cultural group, medium, technique and subject. Information regarding popular design motifs is also available as is an extensive bibliographic listing.
The support of the Australia Indonesia Institute has ensured that the National Gallery of Australia's splendid collection is permanently documented - and, importantly, the project reinforces the Gallery's commitment to enhancing public access to the national collection. This website will be continually updated to include new acquisitions and research developments. It is also envisaged that 'virtual' access will encourage further scholarship and interest in what is arguably Indonesia's most significant form of artistic expression.
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Organ Pipe Cactus
National Monument
Organ Pipe National Monument is located in the Sonoran Desert in the south of Arizona on the border of Mexico. The Sonoran Desert is one of the hottest deserts in North America. Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument lies in an area of wide alluvial basins separated by steep mountain ranges. The landscape of this national monument is unique in a number of ways. In this one area of Arizona, the junction of three types of environments can be found: desert, mountains, and plains. The convergence of these three habitats in such a small setting is difficult to find. The elevation range within the Organ Pipe National Monument is from 981 feet all the way to the top of Mt. Ajo that has a summit of 4,800 feet. Most of the mountains in the monument were formed by volcanic activity. Rare desert springs can also be found in the area. Quitobaquito springs are the most easily visited and the largest in the monument. These wetland areas contain a diversity of plants and also attract wildlife from the surrounding desert.
Organ Pipe National Monument is also home to some unique plant species, some of which are only found in the area. These include the organ pipe, saguaro, and senita cactus species, also the ocotillo and creosote bush among many other species which are protected in this area because of their rarity.
The General park map handed out at the visitor center is available on the park's map webpage.
View the park's map to create your own personal maps and images right here.For information about topographic maps, geologic maps, and geologic data sets, please see the geologic maps page.
A geology photo album for this park can be found here.For information on other photo collections featuring National Park geology, please see the Image Sources page.
Currently, we do not have a listing for a park-specific geoscience book. The park's geology may be described in regional or state geology texts.
Please visit the Geology Books and Media webpage for additional sources such as text books, theme books, CD ROMs, and technical reports.
Parks and Plates: The Geology of Our National Parks, Monuments & Seashores.
Lillie, Robert J., 2005.
W.W. Norton and Company.
9" x 10.75", paperback, 550 pages, full color throughout
The spectacular geology in our national parks provides the answers to many questions about the Earth. The answers can be appreciated through plate tectonics, an exciting way to understand the ongoing natural processes that sculpt our landscape. Parks and Plates is a visual and scientific voyage of discovery!
Ordering from your National Park Cooperative Associations' bookstores helps to support programs in the parks. Please visit the bookstore locator for park books and much more.
Information about the park's research program is available on the park's research webpage.
For information about permits that are required for conducting geologic research activities in National Parks, see the Permits Information page.
The NPS maintains a searchable data base of research needs that have been identified by parks.
A bibliography of geologic references is being prepared for each park through the Geologic Resources Evaluation Program (GRE). Please see the GRE website for more information and contacts.
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Thanks to Parks as Classrooms and The National Park Foundation, we are back on the map as a destination for education. We are creating new education units to be used by teachers and their classes both at ORPI and in their own classrooms. Please stay tuned for more exciting developments as they happen!
Information about the park's education and intrepretive programs is available on the park's education webpage.


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Carotid duplex is an ultrasound test that shows how well blood is flowing through the carotid arteries. The carotid arteries are located in the neck. They supply blood to the brain.
Scan - carotid duplex; Carotid ultrasound; Carotid artery ultrasound; Ultrasound - carotid; Vascular ultrasound - carotid; Ultrasound - vascular - carotid
The test is done in a vascular lab or radiology department. You will be asked to lie on your back. Your head will be supported to prevent it from moving.
The health care provider applies a water-soluble gel on your skin and gently runs a handheld device called a transducer over the area of the carotid arteries in your neck.
The device sends high-frequency sound waves to the arteries in your neck. The sound waves bounce off the blood vessels and form images or pictures of the insides of the arteries.
No preparation is necessary.
You may feel some pressure as the probe is moved around your neck. The pressure should not cause any pain. You may also hear a "whooshing" sound.
The carotid duplex test checks blood flow in the carotid arteries. It can detect:
Your doctor may order this test if:
The results will tell your doctor how open or narrowed your carotid arteries are. For example, the arteries may be 10% narrowed, 50% narrowed, or 75% narrowed.
A normal result means there is no problem with the blood flow in the carotid arteries. The artery is free of any significant blockage, narrowing, or other problem.
An abnormal result means the artery may be narrowed, or something is changing the blood flow in the carotid arteries. This is a sign of atherosclerosis or blood vessel conditions.
In general, the more narrowed the artery is, the higher your risk for stroke.
Depending on the results, your doctor may want you to:
See the article on atherosclerosis for further treatment information.
There are no specific risks related to having this procedure.
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Screening for carotid artery stenosis: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement. Ann Intern Med. 2007;147(12):854-859.
Meschia JF, Brott TG, Hobson RW 2nd. Diagnosis and invasive management of carotid atherosclerotic stenosis. Mayo Clin Proc. 2007;82(7):851-858.
Hobson RW 2nd, Mackey WC, Ascher E, Murad MH, Calligaro KD, Comerota AJ, et al. Society for Vascular Surgery. Management of atherosclerotis carotid artery disease: clinical practice guidelines of the Society for Vascular Surgery. J Vasc Surg. 2008;48:480-486.
International Carotid Stenting Study Investigators, Ederle J, Dobson J, Featherstone RL, Bonati LH, van der Worp HB, et al. Carotid artery stenting compared with endarterectomy in patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis (International Carotid Stenting Study): an interim analysis of a randomized controlled trial. Lancet. 2010;375:985-997.
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By Charlie Mitchell
There's a lot more "media" than there used to be, but the truth about any given situation is harder to find. We are assaulted with information, but the information is less reliable.
In some ways, that's counterintuitive. For instance, if there were more food, it follows there would be less hunger.
But now that we graze for information during all our waking hours – as opposed to getting a scheduled "news fix" from 30 minutes of TV news, weather and sports or sitting down and taking the rubber band off the newspaper plunked into our driveways – it's simply not safe to believe anything the first time we see, read or hear it.
Some of this can be attributed to hoaxing.
It has become really popular to trick the press, to concoct a story so weird that normally calm, skeptical editors and producers rush to be first announcing an astonishing situation. News consumers, if they remembered the faked "child floating alone across the Rockies in a helium balloon" story from 2009, likely waited a while, changed the channel or sought verification after being exposed, earlier this month, to a similarly unexpected headline: "Pope quits."
What could be called media manipulation is also increasing.
A great deal of thought, planning, negotiation and calculation preceded the decision to have cyclist Lance Armstrong confess to doping (to the extent that he did) in an interview with Oprah Winfrey as opposed to, say, Morley Safer.
Strategic decisions are carefully made by publicists, politicians and their handlers on where and how to provide information. It's not nearly as casual as it seems. Agents and agencies who recruit and book guests work in a competitive field. To be succinct, offering to provide a hot tidbit is almost always helps land a client an interview, a spot on a talk show.
It wouldn't take an in-depth study to discern, for example, that former Gov. Haley Barbour viewed the state and nation as a tool to be used strategically, to be managed for maximum effect (at least until the pardon thing blew up on him).
The very existence of the Internet enhances the ability to be anonymous. There is no accountability for anything "jimmyjofromkokomo" posts or tweets, yet jimmyjo's comments may "go viral" or be quoted on CNN. Even if jimmyjo is a lobbyist or specialist in opinion management, a bogus tweet can be retweeted so many times and so fast that people around the world can be exposed to a total falsehood in a matter of minutes.
Media companies have always wanted to be first. That's not new. What is new is that images captured and transmitted by cell phone cameras can be printed or aired as events happen or almost as they happen. Seriously. Chelyabinsk, in Russia's Ural mountains, has more than 1 million residents, but who had heard of it before the meteor impact? That chunk of rock had been flying through space since before recorded time. If it had gotten to Earth a few years ago, the story might have been a small item on page 17. But with the video, billions became eyewitnesses.
The same speed and technology allows live coverage as stories such as mass shootings and manhunts evolve. But the conjecture offered by reporters as well as authorities is almost always deeply flawed, if not completely wrong.
Bias is another factor. Publications have always had "leanings" reflected in many ways, including what the editors chose to report. It's not shocking that front pages of USA Today and The New York Times have different stories, mainly because they seek to serve different audiences. But "news" networks have become so completely partisan in their political coverage that an argument could be made that some shows are actually unpaid commercials for Democrats or for Republicans. They don't engage in idle spin. They engage in purposeful distortion.
So what's a consumer to do? What does a person who simply wants to know what happened, who wants to know "the truth" to do?
The simple answer is not comforting: Work harder to find it.
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I took a break today from chasing pike to go and try to catch my first trout of the year. The Salmon River in central CT was quite crowded, but it was yielding fish to those who were patient and in the right places. I caught one brown about 15" and had an LDR on another of about the same size. Both took a black caddis pupa drifted just off the bottom. Ahhh......I feel better.
Dealing with crowds isn't for everyone. This river has one of a handful of Trout Management Areas that remain open year round, so the fishing pressure should be more evenly displaced after the 3rd Saturday of April when other rivers open. I am usually not a big fan of fishing a run with somebody standing 15 ft downstream of me and throwing upstream into the area that I'm already nymphing, but the atmosphere today seemed to be relaxed. It was the start of a long weekend, the fish were biting, and the weather was beautiful. And when I started to feel a little claustrophobic, I simply left and went back to one of my pike haunts (no fish, 2 LDRs).
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1. While PRs just love trotting out research, even we draw the line somewhere and today that line was well and truly passed. Now, we're sure the Manchester Food Research Centre does some sterling work but we've got to question why a leading academic working at the centre has spent time researching the best way to eat marmalade on toast. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/8374222/Eat-marmalade-on-cold-toast-says-scientist.html And the fact that his conclusion is that marmalade should be thin cut and eaten on cold toast just adds insult to injury.
2. The obvious highlight of International Womans Day had to be Leona Lewis being named as the most influential woman to live or work in London in the past century by Metro readers. http://www.metro.co.uk/news/857454-leona-lewis-named-londons-most-influential-woman This story caused outrage from the female side of lorry HQ, but thankfully Katie Price lives in Brighton so things could have been a lot worse.
3. Celebrities + social media = the potential for disaster. This week saw the continued, and some say crack fuelled meltdown of Charlie Sheen via his own online show and Twitter http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3460487/Charlie-Sheen-admits-Im-losing-my-mind.html and we love the fact that old Chas is on the look out for an intern which led us to consider which of our lovely interns deserves a well earned secondment.
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5. 'Missing' questions on 2011 Census baffle public http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8371197/Missing-questions-on-2011-Census-baffle-public.html is not really the best start for the Big Society is it David.
6. Denmark to swap stamps for texts http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12703744 Okay, so when we came across this story it seemed a jolly good idea. Then one of the practical young lorry interns pointed out that they would be better off simply not writing the letter or paying for a stamp via text and texting the person the letter was intended for. Ah the innocence of youth.
7. World smallest man gets in trouble for not using a child booster seat http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/857627-smallest-man-in-the-world-in-trouble-with-police-for-not-using-child-seat Of course only the Australian police could ever get away with this.
8. Why does a council's website have a click-use licence? http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/mar/07/richmond-council-planning-pages I'm pretty sure this isn't what Tim Berners-Lee has in mind when he invented the World Wide Web.
9. Last but not least, in an age when image is everything we loved the honesty of VM Ware CTO and senior vice president of research and development Stephen Herrod who, during his time at Stanford University told founders of Yahoo and Google to stop wasting their time and focus on their school work before they went off and started their businesses. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12682026


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JANESVILLE--- Deacon Richard J. Fischer, age 78, of Janesville, WI, died at the Trinity Senior Care Center in Madison, WI, on Thursday, Dec. 26, 2012. He was born on March 29, 1934 in Edgewood, IA, the son of Henry and Josephine (Pasker) Fischer. Richard (Bud) was raised and educated in the Edgewood and Manchester areas. He helped his dad on the farm while his brothers were in the service.
Richard was united in marriage to Sandra L. Seamans on Nov. 23, 1957, at St. John's Catholic Church in Antigo, WI. Two children (Rich and Sharon) were adopted to this family. Richard and Sandra also invited many foster children into their home over the years. Richard worked at Janesville Auto Transport and was ordained as a Deacon in July of 2004 and continued to serve the patrons of St. William's Church in Janesville until 2011. He was a founding member of the St. Williams chapter of the Knights of Columbus.
Deacon Dick always put other needs before his own, always offering a helping hand to the friends he worked with at JATCO/Complete Auto, the patrons of St. William's Church and his family. He loved and served his family and God his entire life. He enjoyed spending time with his family at the cabin and working on his cars/toys. In his later years, his love of his Beautiful Bichon Frise (BB) was evident to all who knew him.
He will be sadly missed by his two children, Rich (Sandy) Fischer of Deerfield, WI and Sharon (Tim) Wold of Grayslake, IL; 8 grandchildren: Jennifer, Jordan, Jayme and Julia Fischer, Jarrett, Justin, Jeffrey and Jack Wold; one sister, Agnes (Harold) Fettkether of Oelwein; two sisters-in-law, Rose (Sylvester) Fischer of Manchester and Bev (Henry Jr.) Fischer of Coral Springs, FL; and numerous nieces and nephews. Richard was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Sandra; his grandson, Joshua Fischer, his three sisters, Mildred Meyer, Pearl Fischer, and Edna Mae Goedken; and five brothers, Leander, Sylvester, Lyle, Ambrose, and Henry Fischer, Jr.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 31, 2012, at ST. WILLIAM CATHOLIC CHURCH, Janesville, with The Most Reverend Robert Morlino, Bishop of Madison and Rev. John Auby officiating. Entombment will follow in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Visitation will take place on Monday from 9:30 a.m. until the hour of Mass at ST. WILLIAM CATHOLIC CHURCH. In lieu of flowers, please make donation to Joshua Richard Fischer Memorial Fund. SCHNEIDER APFEL SCHNEIDER & SCHNEIDER FUNERAL HOME and CREMATORY is assisting the family.


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No disrespect to the man who let there be electric light, but Ray Kurzweil is Thomas Alva Edison on steroids.
That might not be evident on a visitor's first trip to his Kurzweil Technologies, a sleek yet modest office in Wellesley Hills, which is rather ordinary looking for the headquarters of a futurist who's striving to live forever.
"Edison's a model of the way I like to work," says Kurzweil, a lean and tan tech kingpin, who, in his spare time, collaborates with Google co-founder Larry Page on finding feasible ways to convert the whole planet to solar power. "He's the best example of a saying I like to repeat: 'Failure is just success deferred.' Edison didn't give up [on the light bulb] after a thousand filaments didn't work, or after a thousand failures. He learned that persistence pays off. People actually declare their own failures — they give up at some point. But if you have the right goal — if you persist with it, and the goal is worth pursuing — then generally you can succeed."
If that sounds like the sort of self-help psychiatry that one might expect from Kurzweil's close friend Tony Robbins, just consider a few more examples of this contemporary Wizard of Menlo Park's persistence. He developed the first flatbed scanner, the first optical character-recognition software, and a print-to-speech reading machine for the blind — and those were all before 1980. In 1984, at the urging of his buddy Stevie Wonder, Kurzweil built the first keyboard capable of mimicking orchestral instruments. On the Artificial Intelligence (AI) front, the futurist's animated avatar Ramona inspired the Al Pacino cyborg-romance film S1mone (which was poorly received but controversial, in that the producers originally intended to use a computer-generated character to portray the title protagonist, which rankled the Screen Actors Guild). In the film world, he also pioneered motion-capture techniques that were recently used to animate James Cameron's Avatar.
Even on the way over to his office, I found myself in his debt: I dictated his address to Google Maps on my six-ounce cell phone, which — using speech-recognition tech that Kurzweil developed more than 15 years ago — guided me directly to the inventor's doorstep.
The MIT graduate (he earned his BS in computer science and literature in 1970) has made many millions of dollars from his inventions and has become a hero to the demographic that prays to Bill Gates (and to Gates himself, who calls Kurzweil "the best person I know at predicting artificial intelligence"). Until now, though, he has been a household name only in homes that subscribe to Wired. But that should change this year, as his new software company, Blio, crashes the e-book marketplace, and as two films are released: one a documentary about Kurzweil, the other a feature film that he produced about a fictional future in which humans and computers struggle to live in harmony.
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Want a dog, want one now. The Newfoundland Club have us down for a rescue, but nothing yet. Sad. It seems that Kate (my mother-in-law) has latched onto our having a dog (though, as she rightly points out, they're more the size of ponies) as an alternative to her having grandchildren for now. However, as we don't seem to be about to produce either for her in the near future, I guess she's going to have to wait a while.


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Rich has been awarded numerous honors for her work, including the National Book Award, the MacArthur Fellowship "genius grant," the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and the Commonwealth Award in Literature.
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[RE: Editorial, "Sex and (Bad) Politics," April 12-18] I have focused nearly my entire career on studying human papillomaviruses (HPV) in New Mexico and other global populations. It is correct that my research group has contributed to HPV vaccine development and this fact is noted in the above-named article. I would like to clarify my position on Senate Bill 1174, which would have mandated all sixth-grade girls in the state to receive HPV vaccines. I applaud Gov. Richardson's decision to veto this bill and the wisdom of his advisors to realize that the state was not prepared to deliver what was proposed. The governor's decision was by no means an overreaction of the administration or its constituents but rather an appropriate response to a bill that was rushed, poorly written and did not incorporate some of the most critical components required to properly enable HPV vaccine mandate.
Before we consider further legislation on this matter, the governor has in effect acknowledged our need to have 1) the necessary allocation of dollars for associated infrastructure and resources required to deliver what is being proposed, 2) adequate preparation time for vaccine delivery by incorporating a "go-live" date with adequate lead time (two to three years following bill approval), 3) statewide education program rollout for our community of adolescents, parents and providers so that better and appropriate informed decision-making will be facilitated and 4) agreement by our state legislators that expert content advisors should help craft any legislation on this matter as our health is not something that should be left to an inadequately informed political process.
I would like to take this opportunity to clarify my position on mandated HPV vaccination with opt out once the necessary funding, infrastructure and groundwork has been put into place. The reason I support vaccine mandate is because history has shown that any vaccine will not reach much more than 30-50 percent of the population without mandate. Mandate will improve bringing HPV vaccines to those who would be least likely to receive them (underserved and rural multicultural populations) and these same populations are likely to derive the most benefit from the vaccines.
Cervical cancer is a disease of disparities. Today more than half of all cervical cancers that remain are found in women who did not receive Pap tests in the past five years. It will be very unlikely that women who don't go to the doctor for a Pap test will take their 11- or 12-year-old daughter to a doctor on three separate occasions for a three-dose vaccine. Through school-based vaccine delivery we have the best chance to overcome the disparities likely to affect who does and does not have access to HPV vaccines.
It is imperative that everyone in the state of New Mexico understand a few things about HPV vaccines as follows: HPV vaccines are only fully effective in girls and women who have not been previously exposed through sexual activity. This is why vaccinating young girls before sexual activity is important and why girls between 9 and 14 would be the appropriate age at which to vaccinate. The current HPV vaccines protect against only a few of the many HPV types causing cervical cancer. If you are currently infected with any HPV type, these vaccines do nothing to help you get rid of those infections. All girls and women who receive HPV vaccines must continue with regular Pap tests as if they never received the vaccine because there are many other HPV types not in the vaccines that can cause disease and Pap tests are the only way to find the disease. If there is any failure of women to get Pap tests because they have a false sense of protection from having received an HPV vaccine, the rates of cervical cancer in our state may increase instead of decrease as a result of HPV vaccines. Please do not let this happen. To be healthy and safe, young girls and women receiving HPV vaccine or not must all also receive regular Pap tests.
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The Circus is in Town
Dear Alibi,
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will be at Rio Rancho's Santa Ana Star Center from April 26-29. The circus' cruelty to animals is indisputable.
Animals do not naturally ride bicycles, stand on their heads, balance on balls or jump through rings of fire. To force them to perform these confusing and physically uncomfortable tricks, trainers use whips, tight collars, muzzles, electric prods, bullhooks and other painful tools of the trade.
The public has no idea that Ringling's handlers are taught to keep the animals afraid. Elephants, horses and camels get hit, punched, beaten and whipped by circus staff members. Everyone from the head of animal care to totally inexperienced handlers abuse animals. The abuse does not take place once in a while; it happens every day.
Two PETA investigators tracked Ringling at every stop of its 2006 tour. Out of public view, they documented on videotape that Ringling employees were viciously hitting elephants and striking them with bullhooks—a heavy, steel-tipped club that Ringling's handlers use frequently, until the animals bled and cried out, in addition to many other acts of cruelty.
According to eyewitness accounts, Ringling's head trainer viciously assaulted a sweet elephant who was chained by her front and back legs, unable to escape from the blows. For at least half an hour, the trainer beat her with a bullhook. At one point, the trainer swung the bullhook into the elephant's ear canal with all his force as she screamed in pain.
The abuses uncovered have led to multiple open investigations of Ringling by the U.S. government and have cost the circus a national tour sponsor. But Ringling still refuses to retire its abusive animal acts. For animals in the circus, another Ringling tour means another year of beatings and long days chained or confined to cramped, poorly ventilated boxcars.
I applaud trapeze artists, jugglers, clowns, tightrope walkers and acrobats, but let's leave animals in peace. Sweden, Austria, Costa Rica, India, Finland and Singapore have all banned or restricted the use of animals in entertainment—it's time for the U.S. to do the same.
Help stop Ringling's abuse in the name of family entertainment. You and I are the only hope these animals have.
Abolish slavery—boycott the circus!
Darren Pfeffer
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Last winter the Maine Legislature formally conferred authority to grant the Ph.D. degree upon George Smith's nascent Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, based here in Portland. IDSVA thus became the first Ph.D. program in the visual arts in the country, and hit the ground running. The school selected its first class of students, made arrangements for its summer session in Italy, and embarked on what promises to be one of the great experiments in contemporary art education.
As Smith said in a conversation with the Portland Phoenix last fall (see "Critical Intervention," by Chris Thompson, November 29, 2006): "Teaching theory to MFA students convinced me that artists are incredibly smart. They love theory and philosophy because they love resolving abstract problems, which is the basic process of a studio practice. And yet there has been no Ph.D. designed especially for the artist who wants to pose philosophical questions at the highest level of academic scholarship."
We tracked Smith down to find out how the first summer unfolded.
When we spoke last fall, ISDVA was nearly up and running and awaiting approval from teh Maine legislature to grant the PH.D. degree. Now you're back from your first summer with your first class of students, and gearing up for an autumn of work together. Tell us about the summer — where you were based, what you read and what the lectures covered, something about the nature of the conversations, the encoungers, the food . . .We admitted twelve students into our first class — the perfect size for a graduate seminar. We all met in person for the first time on May 15, which commenced our month-long residency at Spannocchia, an unbelievably gorgeous 14th-century castle in Tuscany, just outside of Siena. In the first week Lynette Hunter came to work with us on key terms. Lynette is director of graduate studies in performance at UC Davis, so there was a lot of talk about theory, mind and body. In the following week James Elkins arrived. Jim may be one of America's preeminent art historians, but his deeper interest lies in the how and why of art making. So while he gave several terrific lectures on theoretical topics ranging from primitive aesthetics to hermeneutics, he also spent a lot of time with students one on one, to see where the connection was between their studio practice and the philosophical aspects of their process. After Jim left we settled down to two seminar sessions a day — lectures in the morning and seminar presentations in the afternoon, focusing on the critical anthology Art in Theory from 1900 to 2000. Conversation buzzed around the clock — everything from Buddha to dada to Heidegger and Marilyn Monroe.
Spannocchia is an 1100-acre organic farm and produces everything from prosciutto to honey and wine, plus they have a fabulous kitchen staff, so you can imagine the meals. And the pastries! On weekends we ventured into Siena and Florence for special assignments. Then in early June we took the express train up to Venice, for a week of critical intervention at the Biennale. Highlights were a full day spent with the artists and curator of the New Zealand collateral exhibition — an amazing mixed-media installation in a cavernous 15th-century salt warehouse on the Grand Canal. We again were hosted on the Grand Canal at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum. Guggenheim director Philip Rylands and freelance curator Sharon Hecker gave us a talk on Jenny Holzer's 1990 Biennale exhibition at the American Pavilion, which they had installed.
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Shares of wireless chip maker Avago Technologies (AVGO) today fell 12 cents to close at $70.67 despite the company yesterday afternoon beating fiscal Q2 expectations and forecasting this quarter's results higher as well, lifted by sales of chips for smartphones.
Despite the fall in the stock, bulls and bears alike are impressed with the company's sales of chips into smartphones for China as that market deploys higher-bandwidth cellular service on the LTE standard. Add to that the prospect of the next iPhone from Apple (AAPL) once again making use of the company's chips.
Avago also said this week it will sell the storage chip business of LSI, which it acquired this year, to disk drive maker Seagate Technology (STX), and analysts responded favorably to the streamlining that move represents.
There are no ratings changes or price targets, that I can see, but estimates were on the rise at several shops.
Pacific Crest's John Vinh, reiterating an Outperform rating, and an $85 price target, notes that "Wireless revenue for the April quarter came in stronger than expected, mainly driven by an uptick in FBAR filters demand from China LTE handset OEMs, which more than offset the seasonal weakness from the product transition at Apple."
He thinks that plays out this quarter, as well, writing "We believe Avago's FBAR filters are well-positioned for the China LTE handset ramp and will continue to see Chinese wireless strength into the July quarter. Additionally, Avago continues to see strong backlog from China and the early stages of the Apple iPhone 6 refresh supporting the wireless strength in the current quarter."
Vinh raised his 2014 estimates to $4.22 billion in revenue and $4.02 in EPS from from $4.11 billion and $3.91.
MKM Partners's Ian Ing thinks "the best is yet to come" for the company in the smartphone market, and he's undeterred by the "concerns around the edges," which he describes:
(1) growth in largest storage segment defined by HDD market growth and capable MRVL competition; (2) choppiness in wired (impacting 40Gig) and industrial
markets (distribution destocked); and (3) gross margin mix headwinds on wireless and wireline outperformance.
Rather, "All signs point to a big uptick in 2H smartphone demand (initial orders and positive content trends in volume builds at AVGO's top North American OEM, Capex increase to raise manufacturing capacity)."
Ing raised his 2014 estimates to $4.15 billion in revenue and $3.85 per share from a prior $4.07 billion and $3.82 per share.
Brean Capital's Mike Burton is also enthusiastic about the product trends, but cautious about the stock valuation.
Reiterating a Hold rating, Burton cites a "notable positive" in that "the gross margin improvement in both quarters was substantially better than expectations," meaning last quarter and the one before. "Avago has an enviable position to benefit from the 4G ramp, at China Mobile and worldwide, with its proprietary FBAR filter technology, strong growth potential with its Wired Infrastructure/Networking portfolio, and a solid high-margin Analog portfolio."
However, the stock is near his fair value range of $76 to $80, "based on a non-GAAP EV/EBIT of 11.5x-12.0x CY16 (13.8x-14.4x GAAP), which is slightly below AVGO's current multiples of CY15 estimates, but above the semis group," and so, "we would look for a dip to put new money into the shares," he advises."
Burton sticks with his prior estimate for $4.23 billion in revenue this year and $3.96 per share in EPS.


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Regarding Gerald Peary's one-star review of the film Shelter, I wonder if Peary realizes just how detrimental his dismissive panning of this movie could be? Yes, Shelter is a film about coming out as gay; and no, creating high art was not the intention, clearly, of the film's writer/director Jonah Markowitz. But what this particular film does offer, bravely and generously, is a forthright, sensitively rendered story of two relatively "everyday" guys who develop a loving, mutually supportive romantic relationship. Because such positive representations are rarities in our culture, to say the least, many of the college students whom I teach crave these kinds of narratives and images. I would hate for Peary's blindly misleading critique of the film to dissuade these young people, or anybody else, from seeing the movie and determining its worth for themselves.
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Small wonder Boston Cops get "confused" about constitutional issues. Consider who's leading the charge. In his February 12 interview with the BBC, Antonin Scalia seemed to be saying that torture is not punishment because a suspect has not been convicted of a crime in a court of law. Therefore, torture is not punishment. I'm no legal scholar, but sometime between now and my high-school civics class, they must have changed the part about a "suspect" being presumed innocent. Is Scalia trying to say that assault and battery is okay if you're scared something bad might happen? It makes no sense to torture someone who is "presumed" to be innocent.
According to Scalia's rational, it would be okay to have someone drawn and quartered, as long as they have not been convicted of a crime. But if convicted, it would be considered cruel and unusual punishment. The Constitution does not directly address punishment or torture of the innocent. It shouldn't have to. That's a stretch, even for a Rove-bot.
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In the cardsI thought David S. Bernstein's article on the defeat of Governor Deval Patrick's resort casino bill was right on point. Polls have indicated that the majority of Massachusetts residents want casino games in the state. Speaker of the House Sal DiMasi questioned the governor's projected positive impacts. One projection, provided by Suffolk Downs, said that gaming in Massachusetts could create 30,000 construction jobs. That was probably overstated. But the others — which suggested the state could gain some 20,000 permanent casino positions and $400 million in casino taxes, and spend a minimum of $1 billion to build the facilities, plus an additional up-front license fee of at least $200 million — were probably conservative. As an example, two race tracks in Indiana just agreed to a license fee of $250 million each, for the ability to add 2000 slot machines to their tracks ($125,000 per machine), and pay an additional tax of 41 to 51 percent on slot revenues. Wouldn't a casino license in Massachusetts be worth much more? If three of Atlantic City's casinos were moved to Massachusetts, they would have paid more than $500 million this past year in win taxes, at the 27 percent rate mentioned in the Patrick proposal.
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Thanks to some sleuthing this week by the team at Sarasota Visual Art and Virginia Haley, president of the Sarasota Convention and Visitors Bureau, the mysterious 8-foot-tall "Legoman" that washed ashore on Siesta Key Public Beach early on the morning of Oct. 25 appears to be linked to a Dutch artist participating in the 2011 Chalk Festival.
Tim Jaeger, one of the Sarasota Visual Art collaborators, told the Pelican Press Oct. 28 that it was not that difficult to trace the Legoman to Dutch artist Leon Keer. The SVA website notes that Keer, who was born in Utrecht, The Netherlands, where a similar Legoman "mysteriously appeared on the Zandvoort beach" in 2007, "is an enthusiastic 3D street painter, and 2D artist."
While Jaeger said the artist had refused to confirm the link, it seemed pretty clear to the Sarasota Visual Arts group.
Haley added another big clue Friday morning. "I had the evidence sitting on my desk," she said.
Since the SCVB ended up working with the Chalk Festival so it could secure a $25,000 city of Sarasota grant that had been in jeopardy, Haley said the paperwork her office had received included the artists' itineraries. Therefore, she said, she knew Keer already was in Sarasota.
Yet another clue regarding Keer's link is the Chalk Festival image he submitted for the 2011 festival. It depicts the Terracotta Army, a collection of sculptures representing the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. The 3rd century sculptures were discovered in 1974 by local farmers in China's Lintong District. In Keer's version, the images bear a distinct resemblance to the Legoman.
Keer also says in material he submitted to the Chalk Festival that his design will represent Planet Streetpainting, "a collaboration of street artists based in the Netherlands." Keer is the group's art director.
Tuesday, Joel Fried, a Siesta resident, found the Ego Leonard website with images similar to the Legoman (www.egoleonard.nl). That website links to the Street Art Gallery in The Netherlands, which, it says, gives exposure to the Street Art movement in The Netherlands.
Still, Haley pointed out, rumors running rampant on Facebook the night of Oct. 27 indicated that Keer might just be imitating the artist who created Ego Leonard.
"It's the most bizarre thing, but as you can imagine, I am not complaining," Haley said of the Legoman stunt, as the publicity has proven a boon for the community.
And although Sheriff Tom Knight indicated to the Sarasota County Commission during a special meeting Oct. 27 that he was trying to work out an arrangement with the SCVB to let Legoman make some public appearances, that wasn't going to happen after all, Haley said. "If something happened to (Legoman), the sheriff's liable," she said.
Therefore, unless someone presents a legitimate claim to Legoman, he will have to remain in Sheriff's Office custody for 90 days, according to state statute.
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A few more words on communal and social designators.
The difference, I believe, lies not so much in the presentation as it does in the emphasis in either design. Communities are defined as a group of individuals, thus emphasizing individual attributes, such as eye color, political orientation, or number of friends within a given structure. Orkut, in this definition would be such a community site, creating new goals (finding a date, a business opportunity, or gaining more "friends") in itself. So is, for that matter, FOAF, which seems to be little more than vCard data in a new format (RDF). Why the designers of FOAF chose to use RDF rather than an existing and widely adopted format remains a mystery to me, maybe there are advantages, maybe it's just the old NIH. Both formats are easily extended, allow for external descriptors to be declared, and have provisions for inter-personal relationships to be documented and managed. In addition, vCard has a long list of supporting tools, from most mail applications to PIMs and address books.
Social structures stress the links (relationships) between nodes (individuals) rather than the individual itself. A good example of a technical design which focuses on relationships, rather than nodes, is XFN , the XHTML Friends Network.
XFN has a few advantages over communal systems such as Friendster, Orkut, or Tribe, in that it correctly recognizes and displays asynchronous relationships, such as Anna calling Bob a friend, but Bob considering Anna merely an acquaintance. Relationships in 'the field' are rarely as clean cut and simple as Orkut's mutual friends paradigm would suggest. Some are even one-sided, that is, they are maintained unidirectionally, even though this should be considered an exception, rather than a rule.
If social networking technologies are to raise above the current trend of dating facilitators and battles for the most "friends", emphasis needs to be shifted from the individual to its relationships with others. XFN, assisted by tools such as RubHub could be the answer.
The lowercase semantic web offers two interesting means to visualize and ultimately analyze such constructs on the web through its implementation of XFN, the XHTML Friends Network, and VoteLinks, a set of constructive semantics to blueprint approval or disapproval with propositions and similar data.
VoteLinks allow publishers to denote approval or disproval by adding a similar relattribute.
One of the more interesting application, in this case, would consist of a few simple steps:
- propose or discuss a proposition in writing on the web.
- (optionally, see below) Define "seed" individuals
- Call for vote
- Readers respond on their webspace
- Either tally all VoteLinks or
- Define inclusions or exclusions based on XFN data
Here XFN becomes a quite usable, and readily available, means to build working (if rudimentary) webs of trust, based on familiarity not with the voting party, but on acquaintanceship between a defined seed, who enjoys the proponents trust, to the voter.
The advantages of such a system are quite clear - by embedding a vote into a publicized information fragment, discussions of the voting behavior are easy and fundamentally remain associated to the vote. Neither XFN nor VoteLinks require additional software or technical changes to the proponents or voters setup. Infrastructures, such as Technorati and RubHub are already available, and inband designators should speed up adoption considerably, compared to out of band solutions.
One last thing, before I hang up:
Previously, I mentioned five attributes, I believed need to be assessed and considered in social network analysis: proximity, density, source, type, and direction. After speaking to and discussing the issue with Tantek Çelik and others, it has become clear, that I have indeed missed another important relationship attribute.
Frequency, the distance in time and repetitiveness of relationships.
The importance of frequency as a social designator becomes apparent, when seen in the context of relationship proximity and source. A casual encounter might result in a short term state of close proximity, yes may yield a low-density-high-distance link after some time.
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TCM has been growing at a pace faster than the average rate of the entire Chinese pharmaceutical industry
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a more than 3,000-year-old medicinal practice whose doctrines are rooted in ancient books such as the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon and the Treatise on Cold Damage, as well as in cosmological notions like yin-yang and the five phases. Starting in the 1950s, these precepts were modernized in the People's Republic of China so as to integrate many anatomical and pathological notions from scientific medicine.
It comprises a broad range of medicine practices sharing common theoretical concepts and includes various forms of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage (Tui na), exercise (qigong), and dietary therapy. However, many of its assumptions, including the model of the body, or concept of disease, are not supported by modern evidence-based medicine. TCM diagnosis consists in tracing symptoms to patterns of an underlying disharmony, mainly by palpating the pulse and inspecting the tongue.
About 95 percent of general hospitals in China have traditional medicine departments and formal TCM training is an integral part of the national health program. There are more than 253,233 registered TCM doctors and assistant doctors across the country. According to data published by the Shandong University, hospitals practicing TCM treat more than 200 million out-patients and almost three million in-patients annually.
The popularity of TCM in China can be estimated from the fact that the number of proprietary TCM medicines that featured on the national essential medicines list in 2010 was 102, which is quite substantial as compared to the 205 proprietary Western medicines on the list. Moreover, health insurance schemes cover TCM diagnostic and therapeutic services in China.
TCM has been growing at a pace faster than the average rate of the entire Chinese pharmaceutical industry. The size of the TCM market is estimated to be close to $30 billion. According to the Xinhua News Agency, the cumulative sales value of the TCM industry is increasing at an annual rate of 23 percent.
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