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A Chicago woman was shot and killed Friday morning while driving her van on the ramp from Lake Shore Drive to Interstate 55.
Illinois State Police said a 32-year-old woman and a 37-year-old female passenger were driving a white Dodge van south on Lake Shore Drive around 4:20 a.m. when the shooting occurred.
A brown, full-size van pulled alongside them as they entered the ramp to I-55 and someone opened fire with 10 to 14 rounds, shooting the driver, police said. The woman's van then crashed into the median. She was pronounced dead at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
The other woman was not injured and was taken into police custody for questioning. She is not considered a suspect.
Police said the shooting was related to gang and drug activity and was not random.
No other vehicles were involved in the crash. Police were still looking for the shooter and the shooting remained under investigation late Friday.
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Hank Steinbrenner said the Yankees will explore all options during the offseason, including the possibility of making an offer to free-agent slugger Manny Ramirez.
"There's nothing we are not looking at," Steinbrenner said today at the Yankees' spring training complex. "And personally, I like Manny. He's one of the greatest hitters in the history of the game. He's a free spirit for sure, but he knows how to win. We like some of the other guys, too. We just don't know yet."
Ramirez was traded from Boston to the Dodgers on July 31, and Los Angeles is expected to attempt to re-sign the high-priced outfielder.
"I want to see who is the highest bidder," Ramirez said when the Dodgers lost the NL championship series. "Gas is up and so am I."
The Yankees' priority is pitching, and CC Sabathia and A.J. Burnett figure to be the top starters on the market.
"Every team in baseball wants Sabathia," Steinbrenner said. "That's the bottom line. It's not a real secret. Pitching is in the forefront for everybody, not just us. That's why starting pitching is at a premium."
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You will be designing a logo for a high end custom kitchen designer. This company builds custom interiors for multi million dollar homes. This company wants a logo that will reflect the elegance, attention to detail and qaulity in their own work.
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The free comics app for iPad and Android tablets now features the second issue of the America's Army comic series. In the this issue, "Rise to the Challenge," readers follow the life of Roy Lacroix from a high school student to a Special Forces medic deployed in Czervenia. The main purpose of the comic is to enlighten readers about soldiers and their missions, their values, their jobs or Military Occupational Specialties, the high-tech equipment and gear they use and the vast network of support on which they rely. If fans want to learn more they can explore the app's interactive intelligence section that showcases characters, state-of-the-art gear, technology, weapons, aircraft and more.
The comic app was developed and written by the Army Game Studio, developers of the highly successful America's Army PC games, which have been a useful educational tool, not to mention a fun experience, for almost 10 years. It is now in its third major incarnation.
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The British School of Nanjing (BSN) seeks an exceptional, well-qualified and experienced teacher of English with Drama to join an existing department in the development of our Secondary School Drama curriculum.
The successful candidate will demonstrate a dynamic and creative approach to teaching, have experience of teaching drama, and have the necessary skills and vision to enhance teaching and learning within the department.
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Prime Minister John Key gave New Zealand wine to the Queen and British Prime Minister David Cameron - but he was diplomatic enough not to foist "New World wine" on the French President.
Instead, Francois Hollande was given Untouched World clothing.
Mr Key met Mr Hollande in the Elysee Palace on the final leg of his trip to Europe to gather support for free trade and Security Council seats - and have a catch-up on the international issues of the day.
The Prime Minister emerged slightly pessimistic about free trade, acknowledging there was still quite a bit of work to do. New Zealand is one of only five World Trade Organisation nations not yet in talks with the EU - and it has said it wants to complete those already in the process before starting on more.
However, Security Council bids and free trade deals are both examples of cases where it might actually pay to mention the war.
France has always had a martial ambience, celebrating its great wartime leaders and victories through monuments.
So Mr Key pulled out that arsenal, sneakily bringing up the looming centenary celebrations for World War I.
That brought with it a reminder of New Zealand's war effort on French soil and the roots of the historic relationship between New Zealand and France, despite the warts that have popped up from time to time.
In terms of the Security Council bid, despite saying that New Zealand would not be influenced by the bid in its approach to Syria, Mr Key clearly decided a bit of flattery goes a long way.
So he congratulated Mr Hollande for his strong stance on Syria.
France and the United States were in favour of a missile strike even without a UN mandate, which could still be on the cards if Syria does not go through with a proposal to hand over its chemical weapons. Mr Key also came out with the right words when the issue of New Caledonia's referendum on independence was raised, saying it was up to France to decide what to do although the Pacific Islands Forum was considering whether to admit it as a member state.
As for the wine, one of President Hollande's austerity measures after he was elected in 2012 was to hock off the contents of the wine cellar in the Elysee Palace. He may be regretting it now. The French papers this week carried polls showing Mr Hollande was the least popular of any French president since polling began.
Mr Key was as diplomatic about that as he was about the gift - saying it would be inappropriate for him to give advice to Mr Hollande on popularity, and pointing to the difficulties most European leaders faced in implementing potentially unpopular austerity measures.
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S. Jay Olshansky, the lead researcher in a study that showed a life span drop based on education. John Gress for The New York Times
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For generations of Americans, it was a given that children would live longer than their parents. But there is now mounting evidence that this enduring trend has reversed itself for the country's least-educated whites, an increasingly troubled group whose life expectancy has fallen by four years since 1990.
Researchers have long documented that the most educated Americans were making the biggest gains in life expectancy, but now they say mortality data show that life spans for some of the least educated Americans are actually contracting. Four studies in recent years identified modest declines, but a new one that looks separately at Americans lacking a high school diploma found disturbingly sharp drops in life expectancy for whites in this group. Experts not involved in the new research said its findings were persuasive.
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The cash shortage has forced CIT to cut back its lending. In the quarter ended June, CIT's loans to small businesses plunged 88 percent to $65.7 million and the company fell to 15th in the category from first a year earlier, according to the La Canada, California-based Coleman Report. CIT finances about 1 million businesses from Dunkin' Brands Inc. to Eddie Bauer Holdings Inc.
CIT has said a bankruptcy would put 760 manufacturing clients at risk of failure and "precipitate a crisis†for as many as 300,000 retailers, according to internal documents.
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - New construction of U.S. houses expanded for the second straight month in June after hitting a record low in April, the Commerce Department estimated Friday. Starts rose 3.6% in June to a seasonally adjusted 582,000 annualized units stronger than the 531,000 pace expected by economists surveyed by MarketWatch. This is the highest level of starts since last November. Starts of new single-family homes rose by 14.4% to 470,000 in June, while starts of large apartment units fell 29.4% to 101,000. Building permits, a leading indicator of housing construction, rose 8.7% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 563,000. This is the highest level of permits since December.
"All security measures functioned exactly as designed,†said Memorial superintendent Gerard Baker, reading from a prepared statement Thursday morning. Baker said park officials would review security systems and procedures in light of the incident. There was never any danger to visitors at the memorial, and programs continued uninterrupted, he said.
Mike Evenson, district manager for SimplexGrinnell, said his company hasn't received any requests for service of the system from memorial officials.
"To my understanding, everything worked as they expected," he said. "We did not have any reports of anything that failed or did not work as they designed it."
Matt Leonard, one of the climbers, said he didn't see any cameras or other security measures on the hike up in the dark. He believes the holding area where the climbers waited, just 100 yards from the faces, was not monitored by security cameras. Only when the Greenpeace team got very near the sculpture did Leonard notice the fences and cameras.
It would be hard to make any security system foolproof in such a rugged terrain, said Michael Crocker, a Greenpeace spokesman.
"In fairness to the park officials there, it is a massive place. And they have limited resources for that (security)," he said. "Obviously, we were able to get around it."
The equipment, obviously, was not in use at the time of the theft.
Founded in St. Louis in 1908, CIT boasts on its website that 1 million business customers depend on it for financing.
Many may now have to depend on someone else, at a time credit markets remain tight, reducing business activity as the government tries to lift the economy out of recession.
Failure to meet its obligations "would be a disaster†for small and mid-market borrowers that depend on CIT, said Eric Goodison, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York.
Published reports said many customers drew down credit lines in recent days as CIT's problems became widely known.
Steve Bartlett, chief executive of the Financial Services Roundtable, said in an interview that 10,000 small businesses could be choked off from needed funds if CIT failed.
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How far chance plays a role in the history of nations? Let me recall the story I had posted some time ago.
Blind Chance
Agastya, a householder from Tulu desam, who lived in the middle of two constantly fighting neighbors Ambu and Subbu, had enough of his life. He went to Kailas to meditate. He received in due course enlightenment and his mentor asked him to choose a gift. He chose a deity in gold as large as a man's palm.
"Chance it is called." The mentor commented.
"It is a good gift to make my going back to my folks worth remembering." Before he reached his home he came along a river where one man was about to make a hole in the river. "Don't," Agastya ran up to him. "It is chance which brought me to save you." To his great surprise he was Subbu, his neighbor.
Yogi Agastya gave him his image and said," Remember Chance has saved you." Not long after Subbu went on a journey and he carried his image for his protection. While passing through a forest he was waylaid by robbers and was killed for the gold he carried.
As soon as news reached his home Ambu the other neighbor went to the Yogi and fell at his feet and said "Chance which you brought was for my rescue. Was it not?"
Chance has to be explained in terms of total interaction of life-forms. Certainty is settled by actions. Certainy of any ony one set of events in turn is on its own and must take its chance with others. History as with individual plays with larger groups and on a wider scale but the principle is always the same.
In Cosmos certainty of any action creates its own chains of events which create chance for a new player. Thus the war on terror in 2003 deposed Saddam Hussein of Iraq. Consequences of US intervention seems to have strengthened the hegemony of Shi'ia faction in the Middle East. So the Sunni faction whips up an opposition to cut the role of Iran in the region. Syria's ability to withstand the opposition is a proof of Iran's growing clout in the region. In a 4-D world of certainty chance is in the flattened down 3-D version of reality.


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"I spent a lot of time studying movement in wildlife shows – looking at them up close, how they move and how they live and worked out a movement language that wasn't human at all". After 17 years spent dancing to critical and audience acclaim in The Royal Ballet, this must be the first time that Edward Watson has had the work of David Attenborough as a stimulus to his work, not to mention the first time dancing the role of a beetle.
Edward is dancing the role of travelling salesman Gregor Samsa in Arthur Pita's new ROH2 production – a contemporary dance theatre adaptation of Franz Kafka's novella The Metamorphosis. Samsa wakes one morning to find that he has been transformed into an insect for a reason never discovered. The work explores how the character reacts to his transformation and how his family deal with events.
Kafka's novella carries undercurrents of dark comedy, as well as tragedy, something noted by Edward and the rest of the cast as they read through the book during the development stage; "It's absurd. It's funny, it's strange and sometimes it's moving. But there are lots of moments of humour in there where you laugh and go 'God, but that's so ridiculous'," enthuses Edward about a work famed for its depth under a claustrophobic and cold exterior. "When you read it, you realise every sentence can mean four different things. You start looking for reasons in everything"
Such claustrophobia is mirrored in the set design – a stark, white staging ("You'll see why" offers Edward mysteriously) which shows only two rooms of the Samsa household – the living room and Gregor's bedroom. The staging is in traverse, meaning that there's an opportunity for the audience to get close to the action on the far side of the stage as well as on the stage itself (booking details for these seats at the foot of the page).
In terms of differences from the original novella, Edward notes that the dance theatre adaptation is a relatively faithful one, "The biggest change is that Greta doesn't play the violin, she does ballet instead, that's her thing and I think it works really well". Pita's production features the debut of Royal Ballet School student Laura Day, currently in her Graduate year. Of Laura's role, Edward muses that as well as the obvious physical transformation of Gregor, "The work is more about her own metamorphosis, her change in growing up into adulthood". Pita's production is sure to provide a great opportunity for such a young talent.
Aside from The Metamorphosis, Edward is also rehearsing more traditional Royal Ballet works such as the triple bill of Asphodel Meadows, Enigma Variations and Gloria. The principal artist however, is celebrating the difference, "[The Metamorphosis] doesn't feel that different. It's only different in that the cast is from different backgrounds and disciplines. We're not all classically trained dancers. Laura and I are the only ones but learning about the way everyone else moves has been great. I've been very lucky that I've been able to start the season with this brand new work."


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J.T. Brewer is a composite of our names, Judeen and Terry Brewer. Our writing began as a joint venture at a point when we thought we were living separate lives and wanted a project that would require us to reconnect and spend time together. Over the years, writing has allowed us not only to become closer as a couple, but to explore new ideas, whet our creative juices and produce some very interesting works. Our preference is to write stories related to fantasy/science fiction for both children and adults, and we make it a point to include a masculine and a feminine perspective in everything.
Our site serves two purposes. First to introduce you to our books and short stories and, second, to present our blog and invite your responses to it. The world of writing and publishing is rapidly changing and we have found it takes a whole- hearted effort to keep up with it. This is at times a daunting task, but also a thrilling journey.
Nowadays, readers want a more personal connection to their favorite authors. In turn, the authors should be more connected with their readership and more forthright about who they are as people. Therefore, we intend to use this site not only to explore the writing craft but also to let you get know us better personally. We are anxious to hear what you might have to say in response. Hopefully, you will consider the time you spend with us well worth your while.
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"One morning I woke up at 4 a.m. with a complete story about a squirrel in my head," Judeen explains.
"The squirrel lives on the west side of upper Central Park in New York City. His name is HJ, or Hoppin' Jack and his best friend is a chipmunk named Chipper. These two are a couple of rascals and often get in trouble for it.
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During the Kickstarter campaign at the end of 2013, one of the backer rewards was the option to choose a topic of analysis I would look at here. The first request I received, from Keith Neuman of the Environics Institute, was to take a look at federal support broken down by demographics. This is that analysis.
To give this exercise some context, it would be useful to know how Canadians voted in 2011 by their demographic profile. There are ways to estimate this, such as exit polling or post-election polling, but it is impossible to know with certainty how exactly Canadian demographic groups voted in the last election.
I decided to look at the post-election polling conducted by Abacus Data. From May 2011, just after the election had been held, to August 2011, Abacus Data conducted three polls on federal voting intentions. The numbers matched up quite closely to the 2011 federal election result: an average of 39.6% for the Conservatives (exactly on the mark), 32.2% for the NDP (+1.6), 17.2% for the Liberals (-1.7), and 5.3% for the Greens (+1.4).
Using these three polls, and adjusting for the discrepancy between the election results and the polling numbers, we can get a good idea of how Canadians voted in the last election according to their age and gender.
Not all pollsters release full demographic information, and few use the same age brackets. So to compare voting intentions today to the last election, I've again focused on three polls from Abacus Data (in order to get a large enough sample with which to work). These polls were conducted between January and July 2014. That is a long period of time, but the numbers in Abacus's polling were consistent and, overall, there has been little movement in the polls in 2014.
The Liberals averaged 34% in those three polls, against 29% for the Conservatives, 23.3% for the NDP, and 6.3% for the Greens.
Now that we have these baselines, let's look at the demographic breakdowns.
The Liberals have made huge inroads among women, up 15 points. This came from both the NDP (12 points) and the Conservatives (7 points).
The Liberals have again picked up 15 points here, but most of that came from the Conservatives, who are down 15 points. The NDP has slipped three points.
Looking at the numbers this way gives us an indication of where support is coming from for the Liberals. They have improved their position equally among both men and women, but that female vote came from the NDP and the male vote came from the Conservatives. The effect has been to level the playing field, with each party garnering roughly half of their supporters from each gender. An interesting shift.
The Conservatives have suffered most among this group, dropping 12 points. The NDP has also fallen, by 10 points, while the Liberals have picked up 18 points - more than doubling their support among these voters.
This is a target group for all parties, considering the preponderance of family-friendly language used and family-focused policies proposed. It would appear that the Conservatives did a good job attracting these voters in 2011, but the Liberals are now managing it best.
Now, this group is mostly split between the Liberals (33%) and the Conservatives (30%), with 22% supporting the NDP. The Liberals have picked up 15 points among these voters, with the Conservatives down 11 and the NDP down eight.
The NDP has held firm at 23%, but the Liberals have gained 15 points to move into a tie with the Conservatives, down 15 points, at 35%. If the Tories cannot win this voting block, they will not win the election.
When we break it down by age, we can see where the parties have suffered losses. The Conservatives have generally lost in uniform proportions, though perhaps took a bit more of a hit among older Canadians. The New Democrats have lost primarily younger voters, who have gone over to the Liberals, while older Canadians who backed the New Democrats in 2011 are mostly sticking with the party. The Liberals have generally gained in similar proportions across all demographic groups, but may have gotten their biggest uptick among Canadians who, coincidentally or not, are about the same age as Justin Trudeau.
All of this is relatively intuitive. The Conservatives are traditionally the party of older male voters, while the NDP would be expected to be the party of younger, primarily female Canadians. The Liberals enjoy uniform support levels among both genders and all age demographics, which seems to align with the broad appeal the party is seeking and is best placed to capture as the party in the centre. The Liberals remain in the best position one year before the next election. These numbers make it clear which demographic groups the NDP and Conservatives need to re-capture if they hope to win in 2015.


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I'm Jake McKee, aka: The Community Guy. I am a partner at PwC, one of the world's largest (and most awesome) auditing and consulting practices. The team I work with helps large, complex organizations develop and implement better ways to engage with their customers and employees.
I joined PwC when the company I co-founded, Ant's Eye View, was integrated into PwC.
In a past (work) life, I spent 5+ years as the Global Community Development Manager for the LEGO Company. My primary function was as a liaison between the company and the adult LEGO hobbyists. I worked on projects and activities that helped to integrate the adult fans in the daily operations of the company.
I was part of the Community Development Team, a group we lovingly called an "incubator for where projects go to be born". The group was spread over no fewer than 5 countries, and covered a wide range of projects including the LEGO Club, and of course the adult fan relations. We worked to change the company's approach to one of marketing with consumers, rather than marketing at consumers. (I talk about this in past tense only because I'm no longer part of the team)
I went to school for traditional 3-D product design, but in 1994 I found the Internet. I soon realized that the concepts of product designs applied, but in a brand new way. A few days after graduating with a Product Design degree, I left Oklahoma State U. to move to Dallas and start with i.con interactive, a rising Internet development agencies. Later, I ran the Web development team at NVision Design, the agency that was responsible for the email viral game Elf Bowling. If you know it, you know it well. If you don't know it, you missed out. It was kind of a big deal…
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In the NL, the Cubs bats ranked like so:
.301 OBP - 2nd to last
.393 SLG - 8th to last
.694 OPS - 4th to last
.238 AVG - 3rd to last
1,302 Hits - 2nd to last
602 Runs - 2nd to last, yet the Cubs were 2nd in homers with 172.
Just... nobody was on base when the homers happened.
Of the 64 players who had enough at bats to count, Darwin Barney ranks 64th in OBP with a .266.
Both Barney and Wellington Castillo had 104 hits.
The difference is Barney had 121 more at bats than Castillo.
Barney has a fabulous glove and we love the heart, but he should be on somebody's bench.
The guy who led the league in hits 2 years ago with 207 hit only 163 this year.
Starlin Castro was pretty vocal, towards the end of the season, about wanting to "be me".
"I want to be an aggressive hitter. That's what good hitters do—go to the plate and hit." he said.
Well, was he trying to be patient at the plate all year until September, when he said these things?
30 walks, which ranked 90th, would at least partially argue that the answer is no.
I feel bad for Castro, actually, and wonder about how guys like Starlin fit in with The Cubs Way.
Ahhh, I'm not gonna do a deep dive into the problems of this year's team.
Lots of these guys will be gone pretty soon, depending on who comes up next year, and when.
Depending on if the Cub Fanbase's waning patience and lack of tickets sold puts enough pressure on Theo and Jed to go get a bat that's more attention getting than say, Nate Schierholtz.
It's a tricky year, this next one, for the guys runnin' the show.
But I'm pretty positive that next year, while they still have miles to go to actually be good, the Cubs will be better than this year.
And that's something, at least.
Let us all pray for Javier Baez to have a monster spring and come play at Wrigley next year.
That in a couple years, Dan Vogelbach makes enough noise for the Cubs to have to make a Mark Grace/Rafael Palmiero type choice, and one or the other brings back some monster pitching talent in trade.
Because neither of those guys are going to play anything but 1st base or dh.
Or, maybe by then the dh will be nation-wide and it won't matter.
But this year, the Cub bats pretty much shrugged along with the rest of us and said, "Wait til next year."


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled House will vote next week to permit the government to borrow more money to meet its obligations, a move aimed at heading off a market-rattling confrontation with President Barack Obama over the so-called debt limit.
Full details aren't settled yet, but the measure would give the government about three more months of borrowing authority beyond a deadline expected to hit as early as mid-February, a Republican official said Friday.
The legislation wouldn't require immediate spending cuts as earlier promised by GOP leaders like Speaker John Boehner of Ohio. Instead, it's aimed at forcing the Democratic-controlled Senate to join the House in debating the federal budget. It would try to do so by conditioning pay for members of Congress on passing a congressional budget measure.
"We are going to pursue strategies that will obligate the Senate to finally join the House in confronting the government's spending problem," Boehner told GOP lawmakers at a retreat in Williamburg, Va. "The principle is simple: 'no budget, no pay.'"
The Senate hasn't passed a budget since 2009, which has drawn lots of criticism from Republicans but protected Democrats controlling the chamber from politically difficult votes.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid welcomed the House GOP move.
"It is reassuring to see Republicans beginning to back off their threat to hold our economy hostage," said Reid spokesman Adam Jentleson. "If the House can pass a clean debt-ceiling increase to avoid default and allow the United States to meet its existing obligations, we will be happy to consider it."
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision hasn't been publicly announced.
GOP leaders have been grappling with how to gain leverage in their battles with Obama over the budget. Boehner successfully won about $2 trillion in spending cuts as a condition of increasing the government's borrowing cap in 2011.
Obama, however, was dealt a stronger hand by his re-election in November and successfully pressed through a 10-year, $600 billion increase on upper-bracket tax payers earlier this month.
Other choke points remain, including sharp across-the-board spending cuts that would start to strike the Pentagon and domestic programs alike on March 1 and the possibility of a partial government shutdown with the expiration of a temporary budget measure on March 27.
Obama's budget is due early next month but is expected to be released several weeks later.


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L.A. Galaxy players certainly were happy to welcome back Landon Donovan, who just returned to the club after a successful 10-week loan with Everton of the English Premier League. But for every joke they made about Donovan's pale complexion, there were concerns for fallen teammate David Beckham, who will be sidelined for several months after tearing his left Achilles tendon in AC Milan's 1-0 victory over Chievo Verona on Sunday. Beckham had what was called successful surgery on Monday in Finland and now faces a lengthy recovery.
A number of Galaxy players have tried to reach Beckham to offer their support to the popular 34-year-old (he turns 35 in May) who was trying to play in a record fourth World Cup for England this summer in South Africa. His international career now appears to be over.
"It's heartbreaking," Alan Gordon said. "There's just not a lot you can say ... it's a terrible, terrible thing. I know how much it meant to him and how much he's done to try and make it happen for this World Cup for England. For it to happen like that, it's heartbreaking."
Beckham was hurt during a non-contact play. Galaxy defender Todd Dunivant said he was surfing the Internet when he saw the incident and head coach Bruce Arena said he knew the injury was serious the moment he saw what happened.
"The second he did it I thought he blew out his Achilles," Arena said. "You feel for him and you feel for his family, all the sacrifices they've made trying to bring this to fruition. I feel bad for him, but knowing David he's going to put all that past him and take a real positive approach to getting back on the field."
"I'm devastated for him," Dunivant said. "He's worked so hard to be on the England team again. He's really pushed himself. He was going to be on that team. For him to put all that work in and for that to happen on such a freak play, you have to throw your hands up."
There are some concerns that the injury potentially could be career-threatening, but Galaxy players would beg to differ.
"No chance," Mike Magee said. "In terms of his body and fitness, nobody treats himself as well as he does. I wouldn't be worried about that at all."
Clint Mathis, who is about to turn 34, isn't concerned either. He's had a number of knee surgeries, including one earlier in training camp, and he has no intention of hanging up his cleats.
"Obviously, the older you get, you might have some nagging stuff," he said. "But I've been through seven or eight knee surgeries and somehow keep coming back. David's been fortunate in his career without too many injuries, so I think he's going to be able to bounce back from this one. I definitely don't think this is going to hold David back from playing anymore."
But playing again for England is another story. Almost to a player, Galaxy teammates expressed their remorse for Beckham being unable to play for his country again.
"I feel sorry for a guy that's chasing his dream and having it end like that," goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts said. "It's very unfortunate."


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Any public key decryption can be decrypted given enough time and computing power. Is there a metric or term for this? Something like
it would require on average 2^43 1024 bit hashes to find private key 'I' based on public key 'U'?
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By Sam Friedman, deep learning developer in GATK4
Over the past couple of weeks, there's been a lot of chatter online --and in the press!-- about the applicability of deep learning to variant calling. This is exciting to me because I've been working on developing a deep learning approach to variant filtering based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), with the goal of replacing the VQSR filtering step in the GATK germline short variants pipeline. In fact, multiple groups have been picking up on the promise of deep learning and applying it to genomics.
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When the Google team made the source for DeepVariant public last week, I ran a few tests to compare it to the tool that I've been working on for the last six months (GATK4 CNN). The results are summarized in the table below.
Both my tool and DeepVariant outperform VQSR (our "traditional" variant filtering algorithm), especially when VQSR is run on a single sample rather than on a cohort according to our current best practices. The delta isn't all that large on SNPs, but that's expected because germline SNPs are largely a solved problem, so all tools tend to do great there. The harder problem is indel calling, and that's where we see more separation between the tools. The good news is we're all doing better than VQSR on calling indels, which means progress for the research community, whatever else happens. It doesn't hurt my mood that these preliminary findings suggest GATK4 CNN is doing even better than DeepVariant
But keep in mind it's early days yet for deep learning in genomics, so a lot could still change as we all figure out how best to take advantage of these methods. Read on if you want to know more about how these results were generated and how my tool works under the hood.
The table above was created from a held out test set of variants enriched for difficult calls. We compute the ROC curves from the VQSLOD scores from VQSR, QUAL scores from deep variant, and the scores from our CNN. SynDip, if you're not familiar with it, is the new truth set we're using as recently described by my colleague Yossi Farjoun here, and gnomAD is the Genome Aggregation Database produced by Daniel MacArthur and colleagues.
I'll be giving a talk about this work at the AGBT conference in Orlando in February 2018, and I'm aiming to have the tools ready for general release at that time. If you'd like to know more in the meantime, read on below, and feel free to check out the code on the GATK repo on Github.
How it works under the hood
Deep learning is a pretty rich field of research that comprises many different approaches, and there's still a lot to be figured out in terms of what's going to transfer well to any particular problem. For example, the Campagne lab's approach starts from reads and, in their own words, "maps structured data (alignment) to a small number of informative features, which can be used for efficient DL model training". In my work I've chosen to treat the problem as a variant filtering question (or classification in machine learning terms), where I take the output of the caller and use a deep learning process to filter that callset. It seems the Google team's approach is similar in that their software involves a first step that looks a lot like the HaplotypeCaller (which makes sense since Mark and Ryan wrote most of the HC's original code), then applies the deep learning classifier to the variant candidates.
My approach uses variants and annotations encoded as tensors, which carry the precise read and reference sequences, read flags, as well as base and mapping qualities. The modeling architecture I use is specifically designed to process these read tensors, and so avoids the extensive use of maxpooling found in many image classification CNNs (maxpooling is motivated by the smoothness prior of natural images, where neighboring pixels tend to be the same, but DNA sequences are not smooth, so we reserve maxpooling for the deeper layers of the net). Because the tensor dimensions contain different types of data, I convolve each separately so as to allow deep layers in the net to see this meaningful difference. This architecture also integrates annotations seamlessly into the classification, which accelerates learning times dramatically and opens the door to unsupervised training down the road.
The animations below shows two read tensors one containing a heterozygous SNP the other with a homozygous deletion of a short tandem repeat. You can see the reads with the individual base qualities, the reference sequence, the read flags and the mapping quality each in their own channel.
If you'd like to know more or if you're a developer yourself and want to discuss the pros and cons of various approaches, please feel free to comment in the discussion thread below.
What's your class imbalance for your classification tasks. I expect there is significant imbalance since variants are rare events as compared to the size of the genome. If that is the case, auROC can be very misleading. You'd want to report area under the precision recall curve and recall at specific precisions eg. 70, 80, 90 %.
Had posted this on Twitter. You guys should get on there.
-Anshul Kundaje.
Hi Anshul,
Thanks for the comment. The AUC table was made from a test set of variants enriched for negative examples so that the classes are nearly balanced.
Ok great. But does your test set reflect the actual imbalance you expect to see when you use this to call variants across the whole genome? If not, then the test set would not be representative.
Good point! We look only at sites emitted by HaplotypeCaller, not over the whole genome. Our variant filtering architecture classifies these calls as either real sites of variation or incorrect calls. We think AUC is still a valuable metric in this context, because HaplotypeCaller's mandate is sensitivity and artifactual calls are not so rare. Of course, we also look at Precision and Recall Curves. Below you can see a table of area under the precision recall curve on the same test set as auROC above.
Class balancing is often tricky and it is especially difficult in genomics. In variant filtration, we have many fewer negative examples than positive ones and typically far fewer INDELs than SNPs. To avoid learning this background distribution, during training we uniformly sample from each of the classes in each minibatch. For variant calling, where the class imbalance is even more extreme, we have resorted to using a weighted categorical crossentropy as our loss function, which penalizes errors at sites of variation far more than errors at homozygous reference sites.
We are always looking for better ways to cope with the class balance problem, if you (or any reader) has ideas, please share!
Looks great. We use similar strategies with forcibly adding minority class samples to each minibatch and weighted loss. But still trying to figure out a loss function that explicitly optimizes precision/recall rather than auROC or cross entropy. Not there yet. Surprisingly few elegant direct solutions to the label imbalance problem.
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If one uses binary cross-entropy loss and optimizes for F1-score, you can try modifying binary cross-entropy to -log^2(x) or log^3(x), this way the loss would penalize wrong predictions after 0.5 more since F1 operates on discrete classes. And penalty for points that are closer to correct probability will be lower wrt original binary cross-entropy.
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Nice animations of the tensors. Would you mind sharing what tool you used to create them?
HI @ambrex,
I'll let the developer know you have a question. It may be a while before they respond. We are gearing up for the GATK4 release next week.
Hi @ambrex
Glad you liked the tensor animations! We wrote our own viewer. You can check out the source code here. It is built in Java on top of the processing library.
This looks really interesting - will this be applicable for haploid /non-model organisms too? Thank you!
Hi @Katie, we're hopeful that this approach will eventually benefit a wide range of use cases down the road. See this video snippet from the GATK4 launch event where I asked @samwell a question about this.
Thanks, will check it out!
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Will you provide source code and technical details behind GATK CNN?
@daquang Of course! The source code is already publicly available in the GATK4 github repository. The developer in charge, Sam Friedman, will give a talk about it at AGBT in a couple of weeks, and we intend to document it further once the tools are out of beta phase.
Hi - I was just wondering if there's an expected release date? Thank you!
Hi Katie, we don't have a hard date scheduled but I can tell you we're in the final stages of picking names for the different tools involved in the workflow, so it shouldn't be long before we're able to release a first official version into the world.
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Any updates? It's been 3 weeks ...
Oh yes sorry, it has been released publicly (still BETA though), in GATK 188.8.131.52. Docs aren't up yet but the software is there for you to play with!
Is there a timeline established for the CNN based filtering approach to replace VQSR in the published best practices workflows yet? Just curious to know when the fully implemented versions roll out.
@shrutiisarda Not yet, there's still a lot of testing to be done on scalability and robustness of the tools. We want to put a lot more data through this process before we declare it suitable as a replacement for VQSR. That being said people who can't do VQSR anyway probably have a lot to gain from trying it out. We plan to produce some documentation in the near future to describe how to run these tools.
Thanks for the info!
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Can you please give us an update on the status and maybe a release date? I have several full genomes in the pipeline and wondering if I should wait for the release.
Hi @Chris_M,
As with any new analysis, anticipating future production status is difficult. The current recommended filtering Best Practice is still VQSR. If you need to filter your callset now, then please use VQSR. We would love for you to also try out the CNN workflow and to share with us what you think. If you try out the workflow now, you'll be familiar with the steps and considerations so that later, when CNN gets the production-stamp-of-approval, you'll be able to run the analysis smoothly.
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