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The past few years have been filled with progress as the Adult Clinic continues to strive for excellence in diabetes care and research. The Adult Clinic provides care for approximately 3,500 patients ages 18-75.
The addition of Dr. Sarit Polsky and Dr. Vial Shah, who both joined the Clinic in 2014, means that the Adult Clinic is now able to accept new patients, particularly those with type 1 diabetes. Diabetes education is extremely vital to the Young Adult Clinic, whether the patient is newly diagnosed or has had diabetes for over 50 years. As knowledge of type 1 diabetes expands and changes, it is our commitment that our patients share in that knowledge also.
Each of our patients is seen by at least one educator before he or she sees the physician. We have found this approach to be of utmost importance as it allows the patient to voice concerns about hypoglycemia, medications or other issues, as well as learn about improved therapies for diabetes care.On staff, we are pleased to provide access to clinical social workers, a pharmacist, nurses, as well as dieticians, who are Certified Diabetes Educators. These professionals educate our patients on how to effectively self manage their diabetes and to troubleshoot obstacles they may face in their health. Our clinic has seen tremendous success with its newly implemented educational classes (see below) featuring carbohydrate counting instruction, insulin pump training, and continuous glucose monitor training. We also offer clinical trials for patients.
Adult Clinic Director:Satish Garg, MD
Pediatric Transition Class is a class primarily for patients at the Barbara Davis Center for young adults transitioning from the Pediatric Clinic diabetes care to the Adult Clinic. The class utilizes a Conversation Map tool as well as slides to facilitate discussion and review of the following Diabetes 101 topics:
Find out if you are a good candidate for insulin pump/ CGM. Pros and Cons of Pumping/ CGM. Understand the process to get started on an insulin pump/ CGM at the BDC. Visit with the representatives from the major pump/ CGM companies to find out which device is right for you.
Learn what foods contain carbohydrates, understand portion control, and how much you should have each day. Is your A1c above the target of 7%? Do you have frequent hypo and hyperglycemia after meals? Getting ready to start insulin pump therapy? Are you finding it increasingly difficult to control your blood sugars? Are you tired of diabetes controlling your life? It's time for you to take control and understand your carbohydrate intake!
Patients will come to class at BDC to review inserting and button pushing of the CGM device. CGM is a device that provides "real-time" glucose readings and data about trends in glucose levels. It reads glucose levels under the skin (interstitial fluid) every 1-5 minutes. It provides alarms for high and low glucose levels. It works as a Behavior Modification Device. It displays and records glucose trending information throughout the day and night. It provides glucose direction and rate of change information to help you stay within your target glucose range. These concepts will be reviewed to help you understand how to best use your CGM.
Class: Carbohydrate CountingDate/Time: SECOND WEDNESDAY of EACH MONTH 2PMPlease call to schedule at 303.724.6755Insulin initiation for pump starts. The first 4 hours of this class is meeting with a diabetes educator to learn button pushing and infusion insertion for each insulin pump. After insulin is initiated, patients will meet to learn the theory behind insulin pumps and the goals of pump therapy. Advanced features of pump therapy will be reviewed at 2 week follow-up visit.
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Congress's budget office says ObamaCare will increase unemployment.
There are 7.8 million Americans working part-time who want full-time work, including a fry cook whose restaurant cut his hours to avoid Affordable Care Act mandates and confronted President Obama in an online Google Q&A last week: "We can't survive. It's not a living." Mr. Obama changed the subject to raising the minimum wage. But he can't dodge reality forever as the evidence piles up that ObamaCare is harming the labor market.
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Prince Harry could be back serving in Afghanistan soon, after the country's top soldier, Chief of the Defence Staff, General Sir David Richards, said at a Jubilee event, "Prince Harry's operational tour in Afghanistan in the Army was a huge credit to him and his success in flying training means it is likely he will serve operationally again."
The comments were made during a military tribute to the Queen at Windsor castle, in which more than 2,500 serving soldiers paraded for the monarch, and a flypast of 78 aircraft, which first spelt out the number 60 followed by the initials E R (for Elizabeth Regina) (aviation buffs, see video).
The General's remarks - which could be regarded as needlessly giving a hostage-to-fortune - are the clearest indication yet that Harry will indeed be returning to operational duties in the front line. Harry's last deployment was brought to a rapid end after six weeks, when his presence in Afghanistan was noticed by an Australian magazine and then repeated by Matt Drudge, who claimed to be unaware of a media blackout.
The story of Harry's return to active service has been extensively trailed by the Clarence House press office, which has made much of the fact that Harry was given a prize for being top gunner in his class. Some of the training took place in America last year. The managers of Brand Harry also place emphasis on how hard it is to qualify as an Apache pilot, including the oft-repeated tidbit that you have to learn to move each eyeball independently of the other and that just one in 10 of those who apply to fly the attack helicopters make it through the training to do so.
Sources at the Ministry of Defense have gone to some lengths to emphasize that the prince will be getting blood on his hands: his job, we have been previously told, will be to "kill insurgents" and he will be joining a team with one of the highest "kill rates" in Afghanistan.
The Prince will not be deployed without the express approval of Prime Minister David Cameron. The Ministry of Defense has decided that no media blackout is necessary, as it was last time Harry served on the front line, in Helmand province, because as a helicopter pilot, "Captain Wales" is at considerably less risk of being targeted than he was as an infantryman.


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I'm not sure we're far enough removed to appreciate what an incredible story this is in the annals of sports: The Lakers turned down Phil Jackson. Someday they'll write a book or make a 30 for 30 about this, and we'll get all the details, but for now we just have to piece together what we know—and that includes, perhaps, allegations that the Mike D'Antoni camp planted false rumors about Jackson's demands.
Phil was the guy from the start of negotiations. He's Phil Jackson, for god's sake—he's got five rings with the Lakers, and more importantly than any of those, he's got Kobe Bryant's respect. Conventional wisdom was that it was Jackson's job to take, and only the requirements of his contract would have to be worked out. One of those stumbling blocks, we were led to believe, was Jackson's desire to skip a number of road trips.
Jim Buss and Mitch Kupchak went to Jackson's house on Saturday to hammer out the details. No official offer was made, but Jackson was under the impression that they had shaken on it, and he would give them his decision on Monday. He never got the chance. According to the L.A. Times,
On Sunday, a person familiar with the situation, speaking anonymously because the deal wasn't complete, said the Lakers were 95% certain Jackson was their choice. By game time, the certainty had dropped to 70%, and the rest quickly disappeared in the next few hours.
Around midnight, the Lakers called Mike D'Antoni to let him know he was their guy. He was as shocked as anyone. Yesterday morning, he told the New York Daily News that he believed that Jackson was a lock to return to Los Angeles.
"Sure I did," he said. "For sure I did. Didn't everybody? When I got the call that it was me, my first reaction was, 'Are you serious?' "
Jackson got his own call not long after. He's 67, and his age and physical limitations were apparently a concern for the Lakers, so it may have convinced them they made the right choice when it turned out Jackson was asleep when they called. They told him they had gone with D'Antoni, wished him luck, and foreclosed on the off-and-on Phil Jackson era in Los Angeles—Judging from the hard feelings, there's no way the revisit the possibility in a couple of years.
Reportedly, Kupchak told him that he, and both Busses believed that D'Antoni was the best coach for the job. Jackson, ever sarcastic, replied, "I don't. But OK."
Jackson said the wake-up call was "slimy." His agent was even more frank:
Musberger gave the Times even more, blasting what he called false reports of Jackson's demands for front office power and limited travel. He laid the blame for those rumors at the feet of the Lakers, or more intriguingly, on Mike D'Antoni's people.
"No discussion of those ideas being contractual terms or demands was ever made. They had a full discussion of the club, the roster, the schedule, assistants, etc. But to allow someone either on their side or on D'Antoni's side to make these allegations — unsubstantiated and incorrect — and incorrectly maligning Phil is so objectionable to us that the process would have concluded this way."
Well now, this is a new wrinkle. If it was the Lakers planting false info, it was surely done to drive down his contract demands—reports had Jackson wanting as much as $15 million a year, though again, those reports may have been leaked by the Lakers. But if it was the D'Antoni braintrust dropping the rumors, what was the point? The Lakers would have realized it wasn't true when they negotiated with Jackson. What does D'Antoni have to gain by winning over a sliver of the public opinion?
Unless of course Jackson's reported demands were accurate, and he's now trying to cover his ass.
The actual reasons the Lakers chose D'Antoni over Jackson may be the least interesting aspect of this story—if they're basketball-related. (Jim Buss plain doesn't like Phil Jackson, and the feeling's mutual. I wouldn't be surprised if the whole ordeal was a pair of power plays writ large.)
Steve Nash and Dwight Howard are made for D'Antoni's pick and roll. Jackson's triangle is a first cousin of, and just as complicated as, the Princeton Offense that the Lakers were so inept at running that it cost Mike Brown his job. If Kobe doesn't get the iso-heavy sets he loves, at least he gets a coach he idolized as a kid. Howard, a free agent at the end of the season, gets a player-friendly coach and one whose offense is sure to pad his stats.
The rest of us? We get the return of the Showtime Lakers, and a furious Phil Jackson stewing at his Montana lake house, wondering what he can do to get back at L.A. This one's far from over.


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Get Ready to Run Calgary
Voted the 2009 2010 2012 2013 2014 2017 and 2018 Best Road Race in Alberta , the Scotiabank Calgary Marathon is a challenging, competitive and fun event with a race designed for everyone of any level. There is a 50k Ultra, full marathon, half-marathon, 10 km, 5 km family walk or run and kids' marathon. See the Race Info section for more information.
Canada's Longest Running Marathon
On August 10, 1963 nineteen men lined up at Glenmore Stadium to run the first Calgary Marathon, and what was also the first marathon ever to be run in Western Canada.


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The UCC27210 and UCC27211 drivers are based on the popular UCC27200 and UCC27201 MOSFET drivers, but offer several significant performance improvements. Peak output pull-up and pull-down current has been increased to 4-A source and 4-A sink, and pull-up and pull-down resistance have been reduced to 0.9 Ω, thereby allowing for driving large power MOSFETs with minimized switching losses during the transition through the Miller Plateau of the MOSFET. The input structure is now able to directly handle –10 VDC, which increases robustness and also allows direct interface to gate-drive transformers without using rectification diodes. The inputs are also independent of supply voltage and have a maximum rating of 20-V.
The switching node (HS pin) of the UCC2721x can handle –18 V maximum which allows the high-side channel to be protected from inherent negative voltages caused parasitic inductance and stray capacitance. The UCC27210 (Pseudo-CMOS inputs) and UCC27211 (TTL inputs) have increased hysteresis allowing for interface to analog or digital PWM controllers with enhanced noise immunity.
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The City Mole necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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We're two 20 somethings who are developing a unique website that will provide travel information through quality reviews by talented, young writers that know their home city.
As young travellers, we noticed a distinct lack of websites that provide quality information for young people. This website aims to show young people the best of European Cities, and not the useless, out of date information that's currently available on the web. We aim to provide the inside word on cities for young travellers so they know exactly where to go out and have a good time.
The target audience is 18-26 year olds.
The primary target is creative individuals who enjoy writing and travelling who will provide reviews for the website. Obviously the focus of the site once live will be 18-26 world travellers looking to gain information on European Cities. For this reason we require the website to have a youthful sharp look which will appeal to young people.
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With four boys I was bound to find myself serving in our local Cub Scout troop. After four plus years in Cubs, I've been to my fair share of Blue and Gold Banquets. Our pack has a tradition of having each boy make and decorate a cake. After they are "judged" we eat them for dessert. One year I made awards for each of the cakes, only I made the awards before I had seen ANY of them. I came up with as many categories and themes as I could and printed them off on glossy photo paper. With a sharpie in hand, I wrote each child's name on the back of the award that best went with their cake. It worked out perfect, each boy felt their cake was appreciated and we had extra awards to spare. Here is an example of one sheet of awards. They are four to an 8 1/2 X 11 sheet. There are 32 awards total.
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Today's Arsenal-Aston Villa match from Ashburton Grove got off to a violent start as Gunners defender Johan Djourou took Emile Heskey's elbow straight to the beak—though Djourou was as much responsible for propelling his face into Heskey as much as anything. Despite spending several minutes down on the pitch, he managed to re-enter the match after swapping out his blood-soaked shirt. [Fox Soccer]
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If your partner, relative or friend's cancer gets worse, you may find that it's no longer realistic for you to continue to look after them at home.
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All of our solid oak coffee tables are hand-made in the old-fashioned way. We use either semi air dried oak beams or green oak; no mdf, no chipboard, no veneer, just heavy, solid, oak. Our slim 3 beam coffee table has a traditional look with a rustic charm, but would satill look impressive in a modern interior. Some of the timbers may already have some cracks and splits, but more may occur as the piece ages and the timber continues to dry out; this is an intentional element of the design and of all of our tables. This medium oak version is carefully sanded, and then stained with a medium oak stain and finished with a natural hard wax.
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I am looking to race the Ken Block! Is anyone else out there racing one?
If so what set ups are you running? I will be running on ashphalt.
I know I will need different tires? Any recommendations?
Thanks in advance for the help.
You will want some sort of 1/10 touring car tire. The stocks wont have enough grip for racing. You might want to look into sway bars because the main handling problem is the high center of gravity. i Run 60w shock oil in mine and it's pretty stable at high speeds. But i just do onroad bashing that hints toward racing.
MERV VXL + Rally VXL + Stampede Xl5
Thank you, I will give it a shot. It will be interesting to see how it goes a) on the track, and b) against proper (Nitro and Electric) touring cars.
FYI, for anyone that is interested.
Borrowed my brother in laws 1/16 mini erevo, put touring car tires on, and dropped it. Went to the track and ended up racing a nitro 1/8, and a 1/10 touring car with a 5 turn brushless motor. Of course, I lost and these guys were both pros.
Interestingly enough, I could pretty much keep up in the windy sections, it was on the straights that they killed me.
keggo are you sure it was a 5 turn motor
its just odd to me
The guy that was racing the car, told me that it was a T.O.P, and that he had a hobbywing 5 turn BL motor. He also told me which club he races at and asked me to come down.
He could have lied! But I will give him the benefit of the doubt, cause you should have seen the speed that he had on the back straight. He was seriously fast!
I have since bought my own 1/16, and am waiting to meet him again.
If you wish to see the track, google rc track at Whalan reserve, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Why is it odd?
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im just not used to hearing 5t motors
I'd recommend for a base line ON ROAD set up
The 4.3 rate front Rally springs TRA7342
The 3.4 rate rear Rally springs TRA7341
Good set of tires
I have bought two sets of touring car tires, supposed to be the best. One are HPI and the other are Muchmores?. I have upgraded the pinion gear.
Have been trying to get springs, but the local hobby shops have run out.
i got my springs on ebay and had them in 3 days. look in the road racer section on the rally/ mustang , i did the drilled rocker mod and it works great with the stock springs. i did change the gears on mine, it was running way to hot i went to a 24/55 gears and its warm but not so hot i couldn't touch it.
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will all touring car tire fit cause i'm looking for some foam tires but i don't know wich tires will fit , any advice ??
any of the hpi 26mm rims with a 3mm offset will work and hpi X-Pattern work well
I was told any touring car tire would fit, but check first! Mine are rubber tires.
Have ordered the springs.
hi guys, I am running the KB but with a bigblock motor (Castle Sidewinder 5700kv) using sorex tyres 32's they give good grip but the car tends to roll when cornering at anything above slow speeds, any ideas for a set up to help with high speed cornering will be a BIG help, run mostly on asphalt bashing/ racing with friends, not sure if the sorex wheels/tyres are the best choice tbh as they are not as wide as the standard wheels
All I have done is change the springs to tan. Seems to have helped.
I have seen an aftermarket sway bar kit. I haven't bothered yet!
I have the swaybar kit fitted to a standard rally, but not the KBlock as it wont fit on the rear with the 540 bigblock motor fitted, are you running the standard motor/esc Keggo or upgraded 540?? only ask as not sure if the tan springs are firmer or softer than the standard white springs?
At this point I have the standard motor and esc. I am looking at upgrading them....just not sure which combination yet. My understanding is tan is the next spring, followed by black.
hey Keggo take a look here
this set up works great on carpet and tarmac
maddenmaxx, thank you, I saw the original thread, diidn't see the latest stuff.
I was debating whether to do the rocker set up. I'll be honest, I would be worried about stuffing it. Still may give it a go though.
The spring set up is good though.
its a lot easier then you think... i took one of the rear arms apart and used it as a guide , i screwed the rear holes together and drilled the front. or you can buy the hot racing rears and invert them with no trouble at all
I'll give it a shot.
I think i'll do it this weekend as it is supposed to be raining and I can't race.
Thanks for the info re the springs Keggo.
I have been looking at the drilled rocker mod and might have a play at drilling a few holes on some old spare ones (while the HR ones I ordered turn up ) I also ordered a few sets of springs too Green,Tan and Black.
I am going to run the rocker mod on the Mustang and the HR on the KB rally.
Which springs are you running front/rear, got the standard set up on the KB rally and some Merv ??? ones on the Mustang (spray panted black as it was when I got it,set up rock hard and not very good )
with the drilled rocker mod or the rear hr rocker mod in the front i used the stock green springs in the front and i run the 7341 tan springs in the rear
I thought the stock shock weight on the block was 80 wt? anyone know?
it might be but i went to 5000 diff fluid works much better
so I want the green up front,tan rear and 5000wt all round, many thanks maddemax (with the Hr rockers )
I have ordered 2 sets of the rear rockers did you run them in the rear as well ? what rate plates do you run on the rockers
thanks again
i am running the h/r with what they came with , a #2 i believe and yes i did order a second set but was talked out of them by a friend. what are you running for tires ? i ordered 2 sets of these
as they come with molded foams that are stiffer then the tamiya foams i am running with the same tire
The tyres I am running atm are Schumacher sorex 32's from my tc and the HPI radial X's I was thinking or getting some foams but those you linked look interesting and are in the right price range too
I might use the other set of rockers I ordered on the front of the Mustang or might lend them to my machinist friend to replicate so I have a full set for both
When I had mine, I ran the stock springs on the rear and the hardest aftermarket spring I could find on the fron.
For tires (foams), I ran 35 compound on the rear and 40 compounds on the front.
it is amazing on how much better the car handles now then when we first started racing them and how much the class has grown. there were only the 2 of us the first night then we had a few 18/t/r's show and some losi stuff now its a full blown 8 car rally class with more being added each week.
I am running hpi x patern tyres and I also have muchmores.
The hpi's are good and haven't tried the muchmores yet, but they are supposed to be really good.
The rockers and most of the springs I ordered have at last arrived (1 set of Tan springs on backorder), I just need to pull my finger out now and fit them to both cars,I have put 5000wt oil in 1 set of shocks and I am going to run the Tan and Green springs for now, I am thinking of going for a different set up for the other car to experiment with heavier oil and springs as It is running a 540 motor (unless anyone has a setup to recommend using with the big block motor)
I will let you know how things progress
Last edited by fraggs; 06-21-2012 at 05:02 PM.
that set up works well for me and most of the guys i race with...not sure with a big block , let me know how that works as i am getting one for my sons 5th birthday
as soon as we get a bit of good weather for testing I will let you know how it handles or doesnt I am hoping to get a bit of time this weekend for a quick carpark bash with a few of the local lads but it looks like we will be dodging the rain showers
we are lucky we have a pub that lets put a track in the basement , here is one of our runs i am the orange rally
Wow you lapped the other guys like 4 times. nice job.
Cars: erevo vxl, 1/16 summit, stampede vxl, tmaxx
to be fair its all in the setup...i have helped a few of the guys with my setup and its getting close...boy was i dumb lol
well my son turned 5 today so he got a vxl rally for his birthday. i just got done setting up for wed night racing
front shocks 5000wt diff fluid with traxxas 7342 black rally springs
rear shocks 5000wt diff fluid with traxxas 7341 tan springs
since he is so young i have it set on 50/50 geared at 19/55
i have not done the drilled rocker mod as i want to try out the black rally springs on the front of his car , we will see how it handles this wed night
does the 5K oil make a huge difference with the handling? its not too heavy?
yes it does, works great for on road i have seen a few posts of people using 7k - 10k oil but they are on a larger track with more top end speed


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The Angels announced Monday afternoon before its game against the Cleveland Indians that star Albert Pujols will not play the rest of the season because of the partial tear of his plantar fascia in his left heel suffered in late July.
Pujols has been excited about the prospect of returning this season, but he's putting those thoughts to rest.
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Pujols, 33, is in the second season of a 10-year, $240 million contract. He batted .258 with 17 home runs and 64 RBI this season.
"I think for Albert everything would have to be perfectly aligned for him to come back and play,' Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "I think by trying to get to that level there are some things that risk setting the healing process back. I think it's a decision we can all be at peace with and get Albert ready for next year.'
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A computer simulation of the upper layer of a rat brain neocortical column. Here neurons light up in a "global excitatory state" of blues and yellows. Courtesy of Dr. Pablo de Heras Ciechomski/Visualbiotech
In the basement of a university in Lausanne, Switzerland sit four black boxes, each about the size of a refrigerator, and filled with 2,000 IBM microchips stacked in repeating rows. Together they form the processing core of a machine that can handle 22.8 trillion operations per second. It contains no moving parts and is eerily silent. When the computer is turned on, the only thing you can hear is the continuous sigh of the massive air conditioner. This is Blue Brain.
The name of the supercomputer is literal: Each of its microchips has been programmed to act just like a real neuron in a real brain. The behavior of the computer replicates, with shocking precision, the cellular events unfolding inside a mind. "This is the first model of the brain that has been built from the bottom-up," says Henry Markram, a neuroscientist at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the director of the Blue Brain project. "There are lots of models out there, but this is the only one that is totally biologically accurate. We began with the most basic facts about the brain and just worked from there."
Before the Blue Brain project launched, Markram had likened it to the Human Genome Project, a comparison that some found ridiculous and others dismissed as mere self-promotion. When he launched the project in the summer of 2005, as a joint venture with IBM, there was still no shortage of skepticism. Scientists criticized the project as an expensive pipedream, a blatant waste of money and talent. Neuroscience didn't need a supercomputer, they argued; it needed more molecular biologists. Terry Sejnowski, an eminent computational neuroscientist at the Salk Institute, declared that Blue Brain was "bound to fail," for the mind remained too mysterious to model. But Markram's attitude was very different. "I wanted to model the brain because we didn't understand it," he says. "The best way to figure out how something works is to try to build it from scratch."
The Blue Brain project is now at a crucial juncture. The first phase of the project—"the feasibility phase"—is coming to a close. The skeptics, for the most part, have been proven wrong. It took less than two years for the Blue Brain supercomputer to accurately simulate a neocortical column, which is a tiny slice of brain containing approximately 10,000 neurons, with about 30 million synaptic connections between them. "The column has been built and it runs," Markram says. "Now we just have to scale it up." Blue Brain scientists are confident that, at some point in the next few years, they will be able to start simulating an entire brain. "If we build this brain right, it will do everything," Markram says. I ask him if that includes selfconsciousness: Is it really possible to put a ghost into a machine? "When I say everything, I mean everything," he says, and a mischievous smile spreads across his face.
Henry Markram is tall and slim. He wears jeans and tailored shirts. He has an aquiline nose and a lustrous mop of dirty blond hair that he likes to run his hands through when contemplating a difficult problem. He has a talent for speaking in eloquent soundbites, so that the most grandiose conjectures ("In ten years, this computer will be talking to us.") are tossed off with a casual air. If it weren't for his bloodshot, blue eyes—"I don't sleep much," he admits—Markram could pass for a European playboy.
But the playboy is actually a lab rat. Markram starts working around nine in the morning, and usually doesn't leave his office until the campus is deserted and the lab doors are locked. Before he began developing Blue Brain, Markram was best known for his painstaking studies of cellular connectivity, which one scientist described to me as "beautiful stuff…and yet it must have been experimental hell." He trained under Dr. Bert Sakmann, who won a Nobel Prize for pioneering the patch clamp technique, allowing scientists to monitor the flux of voltage within an individual brain cell, or neuron, for the first time. (This involves piercing the membrane of a neuron with an invisibly sharp glass pipette.) Markram's technical innovation was "patching" multiple neurons at the same time, so that he could eavesdrop on their interactions. This experimental breakthrough promised to shed light on one of the enduring mysteries of the brain, which is how billions of discrete cells weave themselves into functional networks. In a series of elegant papers published in the late 1990s, Markram was able to show that these electrical conversations were incredibly precise. If, for example, he delayed a neuron's natural firing time by just a few milliseconds, the entire sequence of events was disrupted. The connected cells became strangers to one another.
When Markram looked closer at the electrical language of neurons, he realized that he was staring at a code he couldn't break. "I would observe the cells and I would think, 'We are never going to understand the brain.' Here is the simplest possible circuit—just two neurons connected to each other—and I still couldn't make sense of it. It was still too complicated."
Cables running from the Blue Gene/L supercomputer to the storage unit. The 2,000-microchip Blue Gene machine is capable of processing 22.8 trillion operations per second—just enough to model a 1-cubic-mm column of rat brain. Courtesy of Alain Herzog/EPFL
Neuroscience is a reductionist science. It describes the brain in terms of its physical details, dissecting the mind into the smallest possible parts. This process has been phenomenally successful. Over the last 50 years, scientists have managed to uncover a seemingly endless list of molecules, enzymes, pathways, and genes. The mind has been revealed as a Byzantine machine. According to Markram, however, this scientific approach has exhausted itself. "I think that reductionism peaked five years ago," he says. "This doesn't mean we've completed the reductionist project, far from it. There is still so much that we don't know about the brain. But now we have a different, and perhaps even harder, problem. We're literally drowning in data. We have lots of scientists who spend their life working out important details, but we have virtually no idea how all these details connect together. Blue Brain is about showing people the whole."
In other words, the Blue Brain project isn't just a model of a neural circuit. Markram hopes that it represents a whole new kind of neuroscience. "You need to look at the history of physics," he says. "From Copernicus to Einstein, the big breakthroughs always came from conceptual models. They are what integrated all the facts so that they made sense. You can have all the data in the world, but without a model the data will never be enough."
Markram has good reason to cite physics—neuroscience has almost no history of modeling. It's a thoroughly empirical discipline, rooted in the manual labor of molecular biology. If a discovery can't be parsed into something observable—like a line on a gel or a recording from a neuron—then, generally, it's dismissed. The sole exception is computational neuroscience, a relatively new field that also uses computers to model aspects of the mind. But Markram is dismissive of most computational neuroscience. "It's not interested enough in the biology," he says. "What they typically do is begin with a brain function they want to model"—like object detection or sentence recognition—"and then try to see if they can get a computer to replicate that function. The problem is that if you ask a hundred computational neuroscientists to build a functional model, you'll get a hundred different answers. These models might help us think about the brain, but they don't really help us understand it. If you want your model to represent reality, then you've got to model it on reality."
Of course, the hard part is deciphering that reality in the first place. You can't simulate a neuron until you know how a neuron is supposed to behave. Before the Blue Brain team could start constructing their model, they needed to aggregate a dizzying amount of data. The collected works of modern neuroscience had to be painstakingly programmed into the supercomputer, so that the software could simulate our hardware. The problem is that neuroscience is still woefully incomplete. Even the simple neuron, just a sheath of porous membrane, remains a mostly mysterious entity. How do you simulate what you can't understand?
Markram tried to get around "the mystery problem" by focusing on a specific section of a brain: a neocortical column in a two-week-old rat. A neocortical column is the basic computational unit of the cortex, a discrete circuit of flesh that's 2 mm long and 0.5 mm in diameter. The gelatinous cortex consists of thousands of these columns—each with a very precise purpose, like processing the color red or detecting pressure on a patch of skin, and a basic structure that remains the same, from mice to men. The virtue of simulating a circuit in a rodent brain is that the output of the model can be continually tested against the neural reality of the rat, a gruesome process that involves opening up the skull and plunging a needle into the brain. The point is to electronically replicate the performance of the circuit, to build a digital doppelganger of a biological machine.
Felix Schürmann, the project manager of Blue Brain, oversees this daunting process. He's 30 years old but looks even younger, with a chiseled chin, lean frame, and close-cropped hair. His patient manner is that of someone used to explaining complex ideas in simple sentences. Before the Blue Brain project, Schürmann worked at the experimental fringes of computer science, developing simulations of quantum computing. Although he's since mastered the vocabulary of neuroscience, referencing obscure acronyms with ease, Schürmann remains most comfortable with programming. He shares a workspace with an impressively diverse group—the 20 or so scientists working full-time on Blue Brain's software originate from 14 different countries. When we enter the hushed room, the programmers are all glued to their monitors, fully absorbed in the hieroglyphs on the screen. Nobody even looks up. We sit down at an empty desk and Schürmann opens his laptop.
In Markram's laboratory, state-of-the-art equipment allows for computer-controlled, simultaneous recordings of the tiny electrical currents that form the basis of nerve impulses. Here, a technique known as "patch clamp" provides direct access to seven individual neurons and their chemical synaptic interactions. The patch clamp robot—at work 24 hours a day, seven days a week—helped the Blue Brain team speed through 30 years of research in six months. Inset, a system integrates a bright-field microscope with computer-assisted reconstruction of neuron structure. The entire setup is enclosed inside a "Faraday cage" to reduce electromagnetic interference and mounted on a floating table to minimize vibrations. Courtesy of Alain Herzog/EPFL
The computer screen is filled with what look like digitally rendered tree branches. Schürmann zooms out so that the branches morph into a vast arbor, a canopy so dense it's practically opaque. "This," he proudly announces, "is a virtual neuron. What you're looking at are the thousands of synaptic connections it has made with other [virtual] neurons." When I look closely, I can see the faint lines where the virtual dendrites are subdivided into compartments. At any given moment, the supercomputer is modeling the chemical activity inside each of these sections so that a single simulated neuron is really the sum of 400 independent simulations. This is the level of precision required to accurately imitate just one of the 100 billion cells—each of them unique—inside the brain. When Markram talks about building a mind from the "bottom-up," these intracellular compartments are the bottom. They are the fundamental unit of the model.
But how do you get these simulated compartments to act in a realistic manner? The good news is that neurons are electrical processors: They represent information as ecstatic bursts of voltage, just like a silicon microchip. Neurons control the flow of electricity by opening and closing different ion channels, specialized proteins embedded in the cellular membrane. When the team began constructing their model, the first thing they did was program the existing ion channel data into the supercomputer. They wanted their virtual channels to act just like the real thing. However, they soon ran into serious problems. Many of the experiments used inconsistent methodologies and generated contradictory results, which were too irregular to model. After several frustrating failures—"The computer was just churning out crap," Markram says—the team realized that if they wanted to simulate ion channels, they needed to generate the data themselves.
That's when Schürmann leads me down the hall to Blue Brain's "wet lab." At first glance, the room looks like a generic neuroscience lab. The benches are cluttered with the usual salt solutions and biotech catalogs. There's the familiar odor of agar plates and astringent chemicals. But then I notice, tucked in the corner of the room, is a small robot. The machine is about the size of a microwave, and consists of a beige plastic tray filled with a variety of test tubes and a delicate metal claw holding a pipette. The claw is constantly moving back and forth across the tray, taking tiny sips from its buffet of different liquids. I ask Schürmann what the robot is doing. "Right now," he says, "it's recording from a cell. It does this 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It doesn't sleep and it never gets frustrated. It's the perfect postdoc."
The science behind the robotic experiments is straightforward. The Blue Brain team genetically engineers Chinese hamster ovary cells to express a single type of ion channel—the brain contains more than 30 different types of channels—then they subject the cells to a variety of physiological conditions. That's when the robot goes to work. It manages to "patch" a neuron about 50 percent of the time, which means that it can generate hundreds of data points a day, or about 10 times more than an efficient lab technician. Markram refers to the robot as "science on an industrial scale," and is convinced that it's the future of lab work. "So much of what we do in science isn't actually science," he says, "I say let robots do the mindless work so that we can spend more time thinking about our questions."
According to Markram, the patch clamp robot helped the Blue Brain team redo 30 years of research in six months. By analyzing the genetic expression of real rat neurons, the scientists could then start to integrate these details into the model. They were able to construct a precise map of ion channels, figuring out which cell types had which kind of ion channel and in what density. This new knowledge was then plugged into Blue Brain, allowing the supercomputer to accurately simulate any neuron anywhere in the neocortical column. "The simulation is getting to the point," Schürmann says, "where it gives us better results than an actual experiment. We get the same data, but with less noise and human error." The model, in other words, has exceeded its own inputs. The virtual neurons are more real than reality.
A simulated neuron from a rat brain showing "spines"—tiny knobs protruding from the dendrites that will eventually form synapses with other neurons. Pyramidal cells such as these (so-called because of their triangular shape) comprise about 80 percent of cerebral cortex mass. Courtesy of BBP/EPFL
Every brain is made of the same basic parts. A sensory cell in a sea slug works just like a cortical neuron in a human brain. It relies on the same neurotransmitters and ion channels and enzymes. Evolution only innovates when it needs to, and the neuron is a perfect piece of design.
In theory, this meant that once the Blue Brain team created an accurate model of a single neuron, they could multiply it to get a three-dimensional slice of brain. But that was just theory. Nobody knew what would happen when the supercomputer began simulating thousands of brain cells at the same time. "We were all emotionally prepared for failure," Markram says. "But I wasn't so prepared for what actually happened."
After assembling a three-dimensional model of 10,000 virtual neurons, the scientists began feeding the simulation electrical impulses, which were designed to replicate the currents constantly rippling through a real rat brain. Because the model focused on one particular kind of neural circuit—a neocortical column in the somatosensory cortex of a two-week-old rat—the scientists could feed the supercomputer the same sort of electrical stimulation that a newborn rat would actually experience.


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Niall Harrison has a list of "essential" fantasy novels over at Torque Control plus a handful of links to other such lists.
This isn't a list of the usual suspects of fantasy novels that many read as a primer into the fantasy genre (the Tolkien, Feist, Brooks, Jordan list), but provides, perhaps, a more advanced reader list of what to read next.
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Los Amparito (1 Albums, 9 Tracks)
- Carlos Pesina
- Pepepe
- Pesina Siller
Los amparito are the best sandwiches in Guadalajara, MX. They've been a tradition for the local people since 1957. With their already known sandwiches of meat, jam and all types of mexican chesse, avocado and jalapeño pepper. For this and more they've become an icon on Guadalajara's downtown besides being a rigorous must taste of the mexican food for the tourists and the people with good taste.
Los amparito have no branches, even though there are some people who take advantage of the fame of this sandwiches and placed branches stealing the name and logo of the picture of the founder "Doña Amparito".
Ohh! and by the way, Los amparito is also Carlos Pesina (Pepepe, Pesina Siller) making music out of sounds from Amparo Ochoa's recordings.
Here a good picture!


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Columbus, Ga. –Junior Shanedra Lockett led the Lady Hurricanes on the road Thursday afternoon against fellow Peach Belt opponent Columbus State with a double-double, producing a game high of 20 points and 10 rebounds. However, Columbus State had multiple players scoring in the double figures producing a victory of 67-56.
Columbus State improves to a record of 14-4, 9-3 PBC. GSW moves on to an 8-12, 3-10 PBC record.
Both teams committed eight turnovers before the first media timeout was called at 15:49. During which, five of GSW's possessions ended due to turnovers. The Lady 'Canes finally were able to break this trend when junior Tiara Thompson scored the first basket for GSW at 16:20, GSW trailed by five. Thompson and Sierra Barrino-Kennedy kept things moving adding another basket each. Lockett added two free throws bringing the score to only a four-point difference. Later in the sixth minute, Lockett assisted successful layups by Jodelle Dixion and Jasmine McSwain bringing the game to a one-point difference, CSU leading 21-20. The Lady Cougars then found their way to the basket, getting the lead up around a nine-point difference. The Lady Hurricanes went in at half trailing by nine, 32-41.
"It was a sloppy half for both teams offensively, during the first half," reports Columbus State broadcaster. GSW shot 38.9% (14-of-36) from the field and zero-of-4 from beyond the arc. CSU didn't do much better with 36.6% (15-of-41) from the field and made three from beyond the arc. At the end of the half GSW had 10 turnovers compared to CSU's 6.
Coming out of half time Lockett and Shatoria Hudson were the first to capitalize off their layups. From 17:50-13:24 GSW was unable to get a shot to go in the hoop, until McSwain was able to get a lay up in. McSwain followed that up with two free throws, GSW 40-48. GSW went 100% from the free throw line with successful trips by Lockett, Danisha Green, and McSwain.
GSW went on a 13-2 run over the Lady Cougars. Starting at 10:32 with a layup from Lockett. That was followed by various layups and jump shots from Locket, McSwain, and Green to close the gap to one point at 5:49, 53-54. The next run of 7-0 by CSU rocked GSW back a bit. At 3:16, Hudson made the first and only three point shot for GSW during the whole game. This was also the last made shot by GSW. The Lady 'Canes attempted a come back making fouls in the final minutes, but were unsuccessful to no avail. The final score read Columbus State 67-56.
McSwain joined Lockett with double figures, scoring 12 points and snatching two rebounds. Barrino-Kennedy collected nine rebounds and added six points of her own. Thompson was the only player to foul out during the game. Thompson contributed four points and seven rebounds. Green handled the ball well for GSW adding three points, on steal, four assists, and two rebounds.
Columbus State's Carrie Washington had 13 points, but led the game with 18 rebounds. Chatll Bradford had 14 points and grabbed 10 rebounds. Asha Alexander added 14 points and seven rebounds.
The Lady 'Canes are on the road for another game to Georgia College on February 8th. Tip off is set for 1:30 p.m. The Hurricanes will be back at home on February 12th.


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Another shining example of classic design meets modern style, and classic style meets modern design, the award-winning IMPERIAL quickly became a favorite among fans of both vintage and modern guitar lovers. While oversized in footprint, the strikingly thin body created unparalleled resonance in the body giving the IMPERIAL a warm, open and brilliant sound. And now, its design meets a variety of fashions giving the IMPERIAL a classic, vintage and elegant look that is a favorite of jazz, rock-a-billy, alt, studio, blues and rock players.
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To trace the history of cocoa and chocolate is to embark on a journey. Few foods have such a rich social and economic history, one that extends from ancient times to modern manufacturing techniques. This piece by Rodney Snyder of American Heritage Chocolate explores chocolate's history from early North America to the present day.
Reproduction Chocolate Pot, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Chocolate in the eighteenth century was commonly consumed as a hot drink served from a vessel called a chocolate pot. Usually, the only difference between a chocolate pot and a coffee pot from this period is the presence of a stirring rod. This rod, commonly called a "chocolate mill," fits down through a circular hole in the top of the lid.
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January 13, 2011
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What better way to learn about internet safety than through a fun web game? PBS has a new free interactive game designed to teach kids about online privacy, how to deal with bullying and how to distinguish credible sources online. The site also provides parents and teachers with helpful supporting information, including tips for kids' internet use from Common Sense Media.
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A truly international food, eighteenth-century chocolate required a variety of imported ingredients. In this lesson, students will learn about the history of chocolate, the chocolate-making process that was used in the colonial era, and the trade of raw materials that brought chocolate to the colonies. Students will create foldables containing an eighteenth-century map, facts about chocolate, and their own illustrations to further their understanding of the history, science, and economics behind chocolate in the American colonies.
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"...whereas chocolate seasoned with vanilla and other sour, spicy ingredients can sometimes be dangerous, especially during the summer for the young and for those with vivacious, dry constitutions. The glass of cool water that one usually drinks before or after the chocolate can only temporarily alleviate the fire that it ignites in the blood and the entrails, once the soothing water has passed along."
—Denis Diderot, "Chocolat," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 3:359-360 (Paris, 1753). Translated by Philippe Bonin. Ann Arbor: Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library, 2005.
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text: Wondering about the origin of Nicole Kidman's baby name, Sunday Rose? She was named for an Australian artists' muse, says Nicole's dad, Anthony. "I have read a bit about Sunday Reed and her husband John - she was a key mover and shaker in the arts around the beginning of the century. The name Sunday struck me as being a nice name for a woman, so my wife and I mentioned it," Dr. Kidman told the Daily Telegraph. • Steve-o: four months sober. Good on him! • Someone T-P'd the Kardashian house! Kim wrote on her blog over the weekend, "I strongly suspect it was done by people who know or are connected to the family…Too hilarious!" [Daily Telegraph, TMZ, Us]


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Does the Bible allow remarriage after divorce?
Jesus refutes the teaching that a man is "required" to dispense with his wife when he suspects unfaithfulness. Jesus finds such behavior intolerable, saying Moses did not "command" men to divorce wives; he "permitted" it because of the hardness of people's hearts (see Mk 10:5). The springboard for right action should not be hard-heartedness, but love. Jesus says that only if a woman has done something that irreparably ruptures the marriage can such a divorce be right. But it isn't a necessary response.
This passage can be read as follows: "Whoever does the following commits adultery: divorces his wife (except for immorality) and remarries another." Judgment is placed on the person who remarries after pursuing an illegitimate divorce. If the divorce is invalid, so is the remarriage. But the reverse is also true: If the divorce is valid, then remarriage is acceptable.


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so today I opened my old Blueray Player(BD-H9500) in order to find some hidden "ports" eg. serial - jtag, and to see what type of stuff it runs on.
It was very easy to open the case, just 3 generic screws, so I removed all those ribbon connectors inside (including that one on the top off course) and I found out that my player essentially consists out of 3 pieces(
- a green smd where the proc sits on(heatsink)
a brown colored pth, which I don't know exactly what it is for
a smd wifi module(seperated)
and a lot of air