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Analyzing Data and Data Output from Scenarios
The Analysis and Validation Perspective allows users to perform analysis, fitting, model comparison, and validation across multiple simulations and data sets. The Analysis perspective uses data from either complete simulation runs or data imported into STEM. The latter could be real bio-surveillance data in the appropriate CSV format or data from a completed simulation.
The purpose of this perspective is to hold the windows (and associated tools) that support various analysis operations on existing data. If the perspective is not visible once you start STEM, just go to the menu bar and click:
>Window>Open Perspective>Analysis
By default the Analysis perspective contains three views. However you can close any of these views and open others.
STEM currently enables the following types of analysis:
1. Estimating Model Parameters from External Data. This view is used to estimate model parameters from an existing data set (simulated or real).
2. The Epidemic View Aggregates data across locations for a given epidemic scenario and plots the aggregated data and disease incidence.
3. RMS Comparison between data sets Measures the RMS difference between two existing data sets (simulated or real).
4. Lyapunov Analysis Comparison of data from two existing scenarios (or real data sets) based on their trajectories in a Lyapunov Phase Space.
As shown in the figure below, each type of analysis is available as a separate "View" or tabbed pane within the Analysis Perspective.


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Monday, February 8, 2010
Random Things: Volume #13
Admittedly I have gotten into the habit, finally, of traveling, so it's a little strange to be home (never thought I would say that). There is no shortage of respect from me for those who travel all the time. It's a hard life.
OBIEE Performance
Our Usage Tracking reports are a tad slow and I've been looking into the logs trying to decipher them. Unlike the database which has a multitude of resources, OBIEE has hardly any. Christian did point me to this Mark Rittman article, which is good, but not great (not because the author is lacking...there just isn't that much to go on). rnm1978 suggested MOS, but I don't have access right now...besides, it seems to be having problems again anyway.
While I'm on the subject of performance and rnm1978, I should link up to this article which highlights 3 recent posts by Cary Millsap. All 3 are excellent reads and require your immediate attention.
The reason I am home this week is so that I can go to a Doctor's visit with Kate. We finally found a place where they might be able to help diagnose her. Most of her doctors have been more concerned with keeping her alive (healthy) and haven't worried too much about her developmental delays (still not talking...but she can sign "daddy"). Anyway, the place is called The Tridas Center and we're excited/nervous. Excited about finding her better help and nervous about the possibilities (more specifically, what a diagnosis would mean).
8 comments:
- Clever Idea Widgetry said...
Sweet Jesus, I don't want to be the guy that recommends Chicken Soup crap to anyone but this is a good book by a good writer about his family's journey to discover what was amiss with his daughter: http://www.schuylersmonsterblog.com/
It is 100% free of Chicken Soup. - February 8, 2010 at 4:33 PM
- jpiwowar said...
Great news about the new doc! Hope you get some good insight from them. Nice that the client was willing to let you work from home so you could be there, too.
- February 8, 2010 at 5:28 PM
- McG said...
Wonderful to hear. My twin brother went through something similar at a young age...now he's going to med school..best wishes.
- February 9, 2010 at 9:49 AM
- Unknown said...
HI Chet
Regarding the thoughts on OBIEE performance. Here's my thinking on the subject.
When I found out about concepts such as OBIEE "driving tables", level 5 logging and BI Server execution plans, my first reaction was to try and dissect them, try and understand them in the same way that I understand the various types of Oracle joins (hash/nested loop etc), Oracle trace files, 10035 traces etc. At the end of the day the BI Server is a virtual database engine and it makes sense to understand and tune it in the same way that we do with Oracle.
But then, the reality is, if you are spending time understanding level 5 log files, the various federated query optimization techniques, to be honest you'd be better off trying to optimize the underlying data so that the BI Server didn't then have to use these features.
For example - if you're trying to optimize a federated query, you should try and co-locate the data instead, either by copying both data sets to the same physical database, or better still, combine them into a data mart or warehouse. If you are having problems with aggregation and start thinking about the Aggregate Persistence Wizard - well you'd be better off putting the data into Essbase instead, and run OBIEE against that rather than your detail-level database.
And so on. So whilst it's interesting to see how the internals of the BI Server work, how it joins data, how you can optimize cross-database joins etc, in the end this is more from the intellectual angle, as you get far more "bang for your buck" by sorting out the data layer away from OBIEE and then bring a more optimized set of data into the BI Server. "Less is more" is my perspective with OBIEE, and the more that we can do at the (Oracle) database or (Essbase) OLAP server end, and keep the BI Server model simple, is the better in my book.
Just my 0.02
Mark - February 11, 2010 at 5:33 PM
- oraclenerd said...
Thank you for saying that! I feel that way myself but don't yet have the authority to speak towards OBIEE as I would desire.
Understanding that no small amount of work has gone into building the engine that powers Oracle, it's hard for me to fathom that another tool could replicate that as easily without statistics or other knowledge of the data. My belief is that we are trying to use OBIEE like a database itself, when it shouldn't be (I did, (half) jokingly, suggest we put Oracle between the database and OBIEE...) .
Anyway, thanks again for the comment. It is most helpful.
chet - February 11, 2010 at 10:46 PM
- oraclenerd said...
Thanks for the tip there...I went out and read some of his blog and his post on www.hopefulparents.com...sounds like someone I could talk to.
Kris has seen that book before, but for whatever reason, never got around to buying it. It's on the list now. - February 11, 2010 at 10:47 PM
- oraclenerd said...
Med School? You mean I might have to pay for that? :)
That's awesome...we love to hear stories like that. - February 11, 2010 at 10:48 PM
- oraclenerd said...
Kudos to the client. Very cool of them indeed.
Unfortunately, Kate transferred her Plague to me and I've been sick all week. I think she transferred her inability to handle illness to me as well. Better me than her though right? - February 11, 2010 at 10:49 PM

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I just finished watching all five seasons of "Boston Legal". As it often happens with me and good TV series, when I start watching I don't stop until I've seen all of it. Too bad there won't be any further episodes. However, now I am interested in "The Practice" which were TV series preceding "Boston Legal".
While I got hooked from the first season, I'd have to say that the second and the third seasons are the best of all. Fourth and fifth are pretty good too, but they vary from episode to episode. Second and the third seasons don't.
"Boston Legal" is about lawyers. I do realize that law system in real life is probably very very different from what is shown here. But the purpose of this TV series is entertainment, not precise documentation. And as far as entertainment goes – "Boston Legal" does splendid. There are many characters, picturing a variety of human quirks. There is plenty of humor. And what I consider even more important – there is plenty to think about. The setup provides for a plethora of cases, which can be argued both ways, and in this TV series many many problems are explored from a number of different viewpoints. Really, anything goes – abortion, capital punishment, corruption, politics, family values, religion, racism, disabilities, and more.
On top of that, there is something in here that is rarely seen in other TV series – examples to follow. Not one, but several characters show what a decent human being is, what friendship, loyalty, and humanity are; how one should behave oneself in difficult situations, and how one could correct own mistakes.
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The Centre for European Reform is a think-tank devoted to improving the quality of the debate on the European Union. It is a forum for people with ideas from Britain and across the continent to discuss the many political, economic and social challenges facing Europe. It seeks to work with similar bodies in other European countries, North America and elsewhere in the world.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Europe's damaging obsession with 'competitiveness'
Many European policy-makers and business leaders believe that a country's economic growth prospects depend on its ability to capture a growing share of global markets. Indeed, European policy-makers are obsessed with national 'competitiveness' and genuinely appear to think that prosperity is synonymous with trade surpluses. Of course, imports have to be financed by exports. But the focus on trade competitiveness risks drawing attention away from Europe's underlying problem, which is very weak productivity growth.
The idea of economic growth being determined by a battle for global market shares in manufactured goods is easy for politicians to grasp and to communicate to their electorates. Countries have little in common with firms, but referring to Deutschland AG, or UK plc, is conceptually attractive and seductively easy. Economies running external surpluses are regarded as 'competitive' irrespective of their productivity or growth performance. The trade balance is seen as a country's 'bottom line', as if countries were firms. The trade balance is nothing of the sort, but is simply the difference between domestic savings and investment or more broadly, between aggregate spending and output.
Governments obsessed with national competitiveness are likely to pursue damaging economic policies. If economic growth is seen as being dependent on the cost competitiveness of exports, governments will focus on things that might make sense for exporters but not for their economies as a whole. A fixation with exports leads to labour market policies aimed at artificially holding down wage growth, which redistributes income from labour to capital and exacerbates inequality. The secular decline in the proportion of national income accounted for by wages and salaries over the last 10 years in nearly every EU economy is a major obstacle to a recovery in private consumption. The flipside of the decline in wage and salaries – a steep rise in the proportion of national income accounted for by corporate profits – has not resulted in booming investment. This is no surprise. An individual firm can cut wages without undermining demand for whatever good or service it produces. But this does not work if all firms attempt this simultaneously. The resulting weakness of overall demand depresses companies' incentives to invest, and with it productivity growth.
In short, cutting the proportion of national income accounted for by wages, accepting a secular rise in inequality and boosting the proportion of national income accounted for by corporate profits is no way to deliver sustainable economic expansion. But it is what happens when governments believe that economic salvation lies in winning a growing share of export markets.
The EU's economic prospects will largely be down to its domestic rate of productivity, not the size of its trade surplus. There is a very strong correlation between growth in labour productivity and economic growth, which holds for countries with trade surpluses as well as those with deficits.
Unfortunately, the data show a remarkable decline in productivity growth across Europe, from around 3.5 per cent annually in the 1970s to barely 1 per cent in the 2000s. And productivity growth has been almost as weak in the eurozone's core as in its troubled periphery. Governments across the region should focus on raising productivity – not just in the most internationally exposed sectors like manufacturing, but in less tradeable sectors such as services too. Service sectors now account for around two-thirds of economic activity. Without stronger productivity across the service sector economic growth will prove elusive.
Why has Europe's productivity performance, with a few notable exceptions been so bad? There are two core problems. The first is inadequate skills levels. Europeans are terrifically complacent about labour skills. Some countries – the Nordics, the Netherlands – do well. The picture elsewhere is patchy at best. Germany has good vocational training, Britain more than its fair share of top universities, France good technical education. Other countries, especially in the south, perform poorly in most areas. The second cause is inadequate competition. In too many sectors, incumbents are protected. This is justified in terms of upholding 'social justice' or defending 'national champions'. What it leads to is so-called rent-seeking; the ability of particular groups in society to extract disproportionate rewards for their work. Where this tendency is strongest, productivity levels are weakest.
Europe's economic growth prospects may be poor. But this has little to do with what is happening elsewhere. Europe's leaders will find that improving education and throwing open hitherto protected markets is a long and arduous task. But unlike the obsession with 'competitiveness' such reforms will lead Europe onto the path of sustainable growth.
Simon Tilford is chief economist at the Centre for European Reform.
3 comments:
- miotei said...
well argued, and well explained. I totally agree with you Simon.
Oxford Brookes - 8:31 am
- ThinkAfresh.org said...
Agreed, you put the case well but the question is: what should and/or can we do to change things? Is it a deeply embedded cultural thing, disproportionate influence of certain sectors of the media, certain lobby groups, poorly framed or implemented policies, or what?
I want to go beyond indentifying and framing the problems to suggesting and pushing forward solutions. - 8:39 am
- Mohammed Amin said...
An excellent reminder that countries are not companies.
I agree with the importance of more competition. While the UK has made much progress, while having further to go, many continental European countries have severe limitations on shop opening hours or days, such as prohibition of Sunday trading. All such rules worsen total factor productivity. - 8:52 pm


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The 1966 Burkes Flat "bent headlight beams" case revisited - followup
From my detailed retrospective investigation of the Burkes Flat incident. The above imagery collection shows a number of aspects of the case and its investigation. I am pictured on site at Burkes Flat pointing to the tree that Gary Taylor's car collided with, causing his death. VUFORS investigator Paul Norman recovered a headlight from Gary Taylor's car and passed it onto my friend & colleague Dr. Geoff Stevens, then working with the Australian Atomic Energy Commission at Lucas Heights. Geoff showed me the work he did, including tracing with chalk marks the directions of lines of magnetic force on the headlight. The picture shows my hand on the headlight for size reference. The relatively random directions of lines of magnetic force ruled out evidence for exposure to a strong magnetic field. That would have caused all the lines to be running in the same direction. A contemporary photo, shown in the documentary, reveals the investigation undertaken by police and the coroner at the site of Gary Taylor's fatal car crash. A photo from 1984 shows me interviewing Ron Sullivan, the witness to an extraordinary bending of car headlight beams at the same locality.In my 1984 research article "The Bent Headlight Beam case revisited" (published in the "UFO Research Newsletter" (UFORAN magazine) Volume 5 No. 3 May-June 1984, and republished later in the British magazine FSR - Flying Saucer Review) I wrote:
"Ever since I became deeply involved in investigating and researching UFO events in Australia, one remarkable event has held a particular fascination for me, namely the incident that became known as the "bent headlight beam case." It took place on April 4, 1966, at Burkes Flat, Victoria."
You can have a look at some of my work on this extraordinary case at the following links:
CLASSIC "COLD CASE": 1966 Burkes Flat - the "bent headlight beams
The classic 1966 Burkes Flat case case on my OZ Files page
The "Close Encounters" series first aired early this year on Discovery Canada (and now airing on the US Science channel) included coverage of the Burkes Flat case, as per my Facebook page comments of 26 February, 2014:
I recently caught up with the double Australian case episode of the Discovery Canada series - Episode 11: "Saucerful of Secrets" (1966 - Tully) and "Lights Out" (1966- Burkes Flat) - in which Shane Ryan and myself are commenting on each case. Once again the "recreations" are dramatic and entertaining and hopefully will encourage enquiring minds to dig into the actual data about the case. As I have extensively researched and investigated both cases I have issues with the fidelity of the "dramatic recreations" with the facts of both events. In both cases I know I supplied extensive material which gave detailed illustrated and photographic evidence and data, so some of the "recreation" deviations from the actual facts of each case are puzzling to me. But given the entertainment format I am consoled by the likelihood that the shows may encourage interest in these striking cases.
For the uninitiated some of the more obvious "deviations" (i.e. thats not the way it happened) in each are:
"Saucerful of Secrets" (1966 Tully): George Pedley was driving a tractor, not a jeep; there seems a marked separation of viewing the UFO and the "saucer nest" - in this case an "under-dramatisation" of the facts. George first saw the UFO directly above the lagoon at a very low level, virtually at head height, rising up. In other words there was a direct visual correlation with the location of the nest and the UFO - a definite "close encounter" - In the "recreation" there is a disconnection; The "nest"! Well in the "recreation" it is virtually a floating, slowly spinning birds nest in appearance, which is far from its original appearance. Both George and Albert entered the water of the lagoon, not just George. I did to, years later, but got out pretty quickly when one of Albert Pennisi's sons, (Shane Pennisi told me he thought it was probably him in the early 1970s) told me about the taipan snakes. Probably more accurate to say I launched myself out of the lagoon, but didn't make it as high as George's UFO back in 1966. The dynamic between George and Albert wasn't too bad from my perspective.
"Lights Out" (1966 Burkes Flat): Not sure where the reference came from with regard to Ron Sullivan seeing something behind him just before the encounter. In the "recreation" he avoids colliding with the tree and come to a stop off the road and gets out of the car. That didn't happen according to what Ron told me. The direction and nature of the bend of the "headlight beams" was incorrect.
Ben Hurle and the VUFOA team will be shortly coming out with their retrospective doco on the case which will be an excellent description of the events along with new information. I mention their work in early postings.
Anyway enjoy the Close Encounters "takes" for what they are: creative takes and commentaries from two lads from down under about two extraordinary classic cases from Australia that deserve your deep attention, beyond the 22 minutes in total afforded to them. I've been exploring and researching both cases for decades and they are still mysteries to me - each are powerful examples of the UFO mystery.
A wealth of information on an extraordinary event that needs to be remembered and better understood. Something extraordinary occurred at Burkes Flat in April 1966, which sadly led to the death of a young man. What did Ron Sullivan see? A UFO with a "solid light" display which interacted with our own light in a very striking way; did Ron encounter some sort of bizarre nocturnal mirage effect? Did he encounter an extraordinary Earth Light display? Ron Sullivan's 1966 experience is a remarkable example of a UFO event with very striking interaction on its surroundings. Thank you Ron for your determination and courage in coming forward with your experience, which allows us to contemplate and research an incredible mystery, with profound implications for our understanding of reality.


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Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice as Real Madrid came from behind to stun Paris Saint-Germain 3-1 in the first leg of their heavyweight Champions League last-16 tie on Wednesday.
Ronaldo scored his 100th Champions League goal for title-holders Real from the penalty spot late in the first half to cancel out Adrien Rabiot's opener for the French side at the Santiago Bernabeu, set up by Neymar.
The Portuguese star then turned the ball home from close range with seven minutes left before Marcelo secured what could turn out to be a decisive first-leg lead ahead of the return in Paris on March 6 and sent nearly 80,000 home fans into raptures.
The late collapse for PSG brings back echoes of the way they fell apart to lose 6-1 in Barcelona on their way to a humiliating exit at the same stage of the competition last season.
Neymar, in Barcelona's ranks then, could not make the difference for PSG, who now have a huge job on their hands to turn the tie around.
Having looked set to come away with a precious draw, the defeat piles the pressure on coach Unai Emery, but for Real the outcome is an enormous boost for their boss Zinedine Zidane.
Under pressure himself with Real flagging domestically, he needed this win, and will earn praise for his substitutions, with Marco Asensio coming off the bench to set up each of the two late goals.
That was after Zidane had taken a risk by leaving out Gareth Bale, a key element in the side that has won three of the last four Champions Leagues. The Welshman's place in the line-up was taken by Isco.
Emery went even further, dropping his captain Thiago Silva to make way for 22-year-old Presnel Kimpembe in the centre of the PSG defence.
Difficult night for Neymar
Real supporters chose an image of a famous fan in Rafael Nadal to adorn a display unfurled at the south end of the ground as the sides came out, hoping their team could draw inspiration from someone who has conquered Paris 10 times as French Open champion.
The hosts started well too, while Neymar struggled, slipping when one pass was aimed towards him, complaining as a Luka Modric challenge sent him to the floor and picking up a yellow card for a foul on Nacho.
Ronaldo, meanwhile, saw Alphonse Areola make a fine save from his net-bound shot after he had been released by Marcelo, and not long after that, in the 33rd minute, PSG scored.
Neymar could claim an assist, although it didn't look like the Brazilian meant to help Kylian Mbappe's low ball across the box from the right into the path of Rabiot, who swept home unmarked.
PSG had a precious away goal, but they could not hold their lead until the break as Giovani Lo Celso gave away a penalty for a foul on Toni Kroos.
Areola, having just made a superb save from Karim Benzema, could do nothing to keep out Ronaldo's spot-kick.
The visitors had chances to go ahead again in the second half, Keylor Navas saving well from Mbappe and Sergio Ramos blocking bravely from Rabiot.
Emery then surprisingly took off Edinson Cavani and replaced him with Thomas Meunier, a right-back. But it was Zidane's decision to send on Asensio that proved crucial.
In the space of three late minutes, Asensio saw one cross palmed out by Areola and then rebound into the net off Ronaldo's thigh, before another assist was finished off by Marcelo, potentially finishing the tie in the process.


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Welcome to the new version of the Black Sabbath Online website. This has been a long time coming. For a couple of reasons.
- The old site has been here a long time. It's served me and the community well, but it was launched in January of 2000, and given this is January 2012, TWELVE years later, it has been overdue for a fresh coat of paint. There's also a few parts of the old site which are just broken, and needed replacing. It was definitely TIME. To those who said "What's wrong with the old site, leave it alone?" – that's most kind. But it needed a refresh. It was a 12 year old site design.
- It's taken me quite some time to get this updated – I originally started work on this new iteration of the site in late February, early March of 2011. As this site is a fan site, and is 100% under my control, I was under no real pressure to launch it. I do the site in my spare time, so I'd work on it when the mood struck.
The biggest delays I suppose were due to the fact that the new site is in WordPress, which is pretty good and powerful blogging software, that can double as a CMS as well. Being in WordPress allows me to be more flexible with what I can do. I also do the Bill Ward, Geezer Butler, Cozy Powell, & the official Heaven and Hell sites. ALL of those are in WordPress as well, so it allows for a lot of flexibility. BUT.. You have to get the info in there. As most people who have followed my site for awhile know, there's a lot of info. That was an issue here, as I had to mostly hand re-recreate all of the pages. The only bit that I could automatically import into the new site was the news archives. And even then, I didn't have everything in.
All the discgraphies, interviews, band pages, etc were all old hand-created Frontpage pages, and they couldn't be imported into WordPress. I had to create 'em from scratch. A major hassle, I admit, and that was borne out by how long it took to get the thing together. But in the end it worked out, as it's now all in there, and far more easily manipulated.
The site originally started as a Microsoft Frontpage site, and then I converted to another blogging tool, Movable Type. As the site grew, I just went with what I knew. When I switched to Movable Type for news, I imported some of the old news, but I got bored of that, and never converted the REALLY old news. For this site update, I didn't want to leave that behind, so I put out the call on Twitter for help, and one fellow helped out. Guy by the name of John Swanner really stepped up there, manually entering about five years of old news archives, so he deserves a big thanks.
I'm going to go down the list of features here and how it compares to the old site. There's a lot of changes obviously. There's also a bunch of random oddballs that were just put elsewhere, I'm detailing all of that (like the "Who Are these people" page, and the "Ozzy on Mob Rules?" page) – the latter ended up on the Mob Rules discography page. This is just major changes, not where every character on the old site went. :)
New / Changed Stuff
- The Site's look – This is obviously the most drastic change. As I said above, it's a major change both visually, as well as structurally. Not much to say, just look around. One comment though from "RedSplat" (my art guy) on the overall look.
- The Main Menu – The flash menu from the last site revision is gone. I liked it when I did it, but grew tired of it, and always wanted to replace it, but given I'd have to replace it on EVERY SINGLE PAGE INDIVIDUALLY, I was never eager to make that change. Additionally, you don't have to click through a few levels now, given I have several drop downs in the top of the page menu. Should make overall navigation easier.
- Full Site Search – Given all the site's content (with one exception, see below) is now under the WordPress banner, the site search is relevant now. Before, the only search (besides Google) that worked was what was in the news system – and it wasn't even all the news. However, the new site search that appears on the right side menu will find anything in the site now.
- New News Area – The old news area was functional, but it was a bit of a "mess". I'd put 100% of a news story on the news page, and too many of them made for an ugly news archive. The new area is much cleaner. I don't put 100% of the story on the main news page anymore, just a sample, and a "featured image". Then you click through for the whole story. Overall, I think it makes things much cleaner and nicer to look at. The "Featured Image" thing is only there for the most recent stories. I wasn't about to go backwards through 16+ years of news archives and update all of them. That also reminds me – since the older stories were imported from Movable Type into WordPress, the formatting on them might seem odd. Again, an effort was made to make sure they looked OK, but I'm not going over every single old story and massaging them to clean up the look. Too much work for little use. That it's there at all is enough, IMO.
- News Comments – The old news system was run by Movable Type, which was an EPIC resource hog. It was responsible for several site crashes here over time. Given it's been replaced with WordPress, I can turn on news comments. That's something I've never done before. I admit to being concerned about how it will work. While I'm one for open and healthy discussion, I'm not looking forward to the bullshit that comes when you allow anyone to comment. I most fear it turning into a cesspool like Blabbermouth's comments systems. They're a great site for news, but their comment system is a breeding ground for the kind of fan that gives metalheads a bad name. I'll try it, and see how it goes. It'll be policed, but if it ends up being too much work, I might turn it off again.
- Online Stores – While I don't sell anything myself, I do link to Amazon.com for most things, and lately I've been linking to Amazon's UK site more as well. With this new refresh, I have two stores. One for the US site, and one for the UK site.
- Links – The old dedicated links page is gone. I haven't updated it in bloody ages, and most of those were the official site links. Half of the other links were now broken; decided to scrap the page completely. I've put some of the most high profile ones in an image block at the bottom of the page, and the rest are now scattered through the site. It was an old crusty page, and in this day and age of Google, you don't really need that kind of page anymore.
- Interviews / Articles Page: Early on during the site's life, that was a more relevant list than it is now. What was there I moved into the news archives, into their own category.
- Photo Gallery: That's a software package called "Gallery". It's the same software I used on the old version of the site, it just has a different theme now.
- Tour Dates: The tour dates were the last big thing I did. That's because the amount of info in there is astronomical. Other than the 2005, 2007, & 2008 tours, everything else is in WordPress. The scripting for the tour dates on the old site was full of custom work, and custom data, which meant it couldn't easily import into WordPress. I wanted the tour dates in the new site, so I punted. If you go there now, the overall look is the same, but that's because I faked it. What you see in the tour date section is a WordPress "page", but the actual list of dates is an imported "iframe'd" page that was generated from Movable Type. There's just SO MUCH DATA that I would have had to delay the site another few months while I dealt with it. The practical side of this for you the visitor means that the tour dates are not searchable, since it's technically data in Movable Type. I just used some HTML trickery to make it look like it's part of this site's data, but it technically isn't. That will change in the future. I'm also still sitting on a mountain of tour date submissions from people. I'll get to those when I get the data imported.
- Site Discography: The overall structure of the discography is the same. However, given I had to manually recreate every single page, I took the opportunity to refresh the data. Cleaned up a lot of the cover art with better images, put proper and current ordering links to both Amazon's US & UK stores. I also added a lot of new data to the pages. Way more catalogue numbers, new images, scans, and all that. The structure is still the same, but was just expanded.
- The Band: The band section is pretty much the same, except I did away with the "lineup by position" page. It was out of date, and the info existed elsewhere. Brought the timeline up to date, too. For the record, the Timeline page was the first page I did for this new site revision, as it's my favorite page on the site.
- Social Media: I'm embracing a bit more Facebook, Twitter, & Google Plus. There's links to the three places on the sidebar menu of almost every page. I'm about to pass 10,000 followers on Twitter, which is cool. Google Plus is new, so there's not much there. Once Google+ opens up their API a bit, I'll be able to auto post new stories there like I can now with Facebook.
- iPhone/iPad Skin: The iPhone & iPad devices have their own skins. It's a mobile specific skin for these devices that steamlines the site for quicker loading. Also, due to the reduced screen size a few things aren't available there. Most notably the photo gallery. You need to visit the desktop site to see that.
There's other smaller bits, but this was pretty much it for the new stuff. There is also a credits/thanks page, as well as a donation page. And a few surprises here and there for you to find.
Things removed
There are a couple of things that are gone/lost from the old site, but not many. They are:
- Flash Menu – DIE! DIE! DIE!
- Random Pictures on the Front Page – It was a nice thing, but it increases server load a lot, and I wanted to minimize that, so that's gone – for now.
- Polls – I could never work how to integrate this into the new site without it seriously screwing up the layout. I'll probably come up with something later on.
- Site Revision History – Whenever I'd update something, I had a log of that. I'm not sure how I'm gonna handle that here. I still have the data from the old site, so when I figure it out, I'll get it on here – somehow. I'll still thank people for contributions, but I haven't figured it out yet. My traffic logs tell me that virtually noone looked at this, it won't be missed. If you have any thoughts on it, let me know.
- Mailing List – The old "Pilgrims of Sabbocracy" Mailing List is finished. Has been for awhile, but I never took down the signup page. I wrote a short "in memorium" for it on the "Other Stuff".
- Fan Clubs – I used to have a VERY old section of the site detailing several old Fan Clubs that published newsletters. As all of them are gone, and have been for some time, I dropped that section.
- The Books & DVD Pages: These were pages that were never really kept up with. The books are available on the store page now. Same goes for the old DVD page.
If there's anything else you can think of or notice that I didn't cover here, let me know. I'll update this if need be. :)
Older Site Stuff
Also, I wanted to thank Brad Wernicke & Matt Harris. These guys were responsible for the old site look and feel that this new one is replacing. Matt was a contract artist, and Brad paid the fee for that work. That layout went online in January of 2000. It's now January 2012 – so it served me well for quite a long time. It was tweaked a little here and there over the years, but was pretty much still Matt's old design in use. Thanks guys!
As long as I'm looking backwards there, I thought I'd post a few pictures of some of the old site revisions, and add a few remarks of mine regarding the site's past. I don't have a version of the original 1995 layout. If anyone was on the site back then and still has a screen capture of that, I'd love to see it again. :) Some of these can be seen on archive.org – just plug in black-sabbath.com.
Earliest Days
The site went online originally back in July of 1995. A month after the Forbidden album was released. Back then I didn't have black-sabbath.com – it originally started as a couple of pages on my former company's website. I just piggybacked it on their server, it was originally housed at the location www.apogee1.com/sabbath. Wasn't anything like it was now, or even 10 years ago. The original inspiration for starting the site was the timeline page, actually. Although back then it was just a text file. If you want to see that early text file, click here. It's interesting to see my own thoughts from 1987. Apparently even I was wondering if Tony should continue with the Black Sabbath name after the mess that was the Eternal Idol recording.
As for the album itself, I find it a very good album. I'm not going to make this long, because Lizard King has a review of the album in one of the DL's that pretty much shares my viewpoint. I will say this though. If Black Sabbath is going to continue, I hope that Tony settles on some sort of stable line-up. If not, PLEASE give up the Black Sabbath name, and do a solo effort. The fans that are still following the band are doing so becuase of Tony Iommi. They will follow him solo, and maybe the name of Black Sabbath can be laid to rest. BUT–as long as it's still in existance, I will continue to enjoy it.
Anyway, I can't even remember what this version of the site looked like. I have no sort of old copies or anything. If you do, please let me know, so I can update my own history.
I registered the domain name originally back in June of 1996. In those days, it was more like the Wild Wild West. There weren't all these cybersquatters, and legal threats over ownership and all that. If something was available (and a lot was), you grabbed it. Black Sabbath didn't have any official website then, and didn't until late 2011, actually. Some other fan owned blacksabbath.com at the time, but wasn't using it. That guy never responded to my requests to obtain it from him, so I had to get my own. When I was trying to figure out what domain name I wanted (as I was tired of the temporary Apogee piggyback), I looked around at what other people were doing. Back then, the first two bands I knew that had any kind of online presence were Megadeth & Deep Purple. I found out about Megadeth's on the front cover of the Youthanasia album via a sticker. Can't remember how I found Purple's, but they were using the url (deep-purple.com). That was the fan site, "Rosa's Cantina". I figured if the hyphen in the URL was good enough for Deep Purple, it was good enough for me. That's how I came upon the domain name. I don't remember exactly when it came online with the URL it has now, but I can't imagine I would have sat on it for long. Probably only a few days or so.
I also have Don McAskill (now of smugmug.com) to thank – he helped out with website hosting back in the day. We were professional associates via my former company back then, so he cut me a deal back in the day. Remember the old Best Internet days, Don? :)
1997 Site
Below are a couple of shots from the 1997 version of the site. This wasn't the earliest, but the design is pretty primitive. Makes me wonder what the original 1995 version looked like. I honestly can't remember at the moment. archive.org claims to have a site capture from December 1996, but when you try looking at it, it shows June 1997, so that's not correct.
This version of the site had an "intro page", with just a logo, and a quicktime based music player that played some Sabbath song, although I forget what now. I can't show that, as I no longer have a backup of it.
This version of the site also used some (now ugly) design elements of the era. This was only 3 years after the web went online in the first place. A lot of people used "paragraph separator images". That is still used today sometimes (I use one in this story just above), but back then it was mostly these "color bar" kind of things. That was because at this time, we weren't too far removed from the era where all webpages were grey with just a picture or two. There was no huge multimedia in this day. The site logo was the logo used for Dehumanizer. I also used the "Headless Cross" cross on here. And the old school designs where you had a counter on the front page, as well as the old "Netscape NOW" button; I remember those days. Also, you can't see it fully, but another old school concept was in play then. The concept of a "Webring". The bottom most part of the second image shows some of that. I also really liked that image of Iommi to the left of the menu. That stayed there for awhile.
I also used to have a Guitar Tabs section back then, but dropped it because I was never a musician, and I had no idea what made a good tab or a bad one, so I decided not to have those anymore for that reason. Also my site "lyric" was from the Forbidden album – which itself was only about two years old at this point.
1998 Site
Below is a shot from the 1998 version of the site. The garish rainbow separator lines are gone. This was also my first attempt at some sort of graphical menu. Actually, it wasn't MY attempt. It was sent to me by a fan of my site at the time. I went with it for awhile, because it looked cool, I thought. Looking back, it wasn't bad at all, but it was soon replaced. This was due to the fact that most of the rest of the site looked like it did the year before. This wasn't a radical overhaul, just a nice menu graphic. Most of the rest of the site was still the same. This was borne out by the fact that the "Text based menu" link under the menu just brought up the 1997 menu, the one with the Iommi graphic. I also used frames a lot back then, as they too were the rage at the time. The discography used frames a lot. Kept the list of albums on the left side, and showed content on the right.
Part of the reason I moved away from this version was because one day I looked at the site menu and thought there were too many options. I believe at the time I wanted to show the fact that I had a lot of information available, but I chose a poor way of doing it. Too many menu options. That got streamlined in the next version.
2000 Site – The Primary Look
The "2000" version of the site was the one that most people know. This screenshot is the first variant, and Matt's original design. I hadn't changed it yet at this point. While this is a more primitive version obviously, you can definitely see the way it ended up in early 2012 here. A few specifics about this one… The site menu wasn't flash. It was images, that used Javscript to create "hover" versions. A pretty common trick – even today (although today it's DHTML & Ajax). I also had a java based (maybe quicktime, don't remember) music player under the menu from hardradio.com – one of the earliest online radio stations, and all metal. They're still around today.
Of the graphics.. The logo in use here was actually the logo that appears on the Forbidden album. Also in the layout were a few small pics of the band from somewhere on the 1999 Reunion tour. I always meant for those pictures to randomly rotate, but I never got around to that. This version of the primary look was the most primitive, not a lot going on. But in 2000 it was an epic change from what came before it.
2004 – Almost Died
In 2004, I was on another web host, and my site's popularity was never greater. Unfortunately, due to the fact that I was paying for the monthly hosting fee, I opted for cheap. Black Box was released this year, and really skyrocketed the site's usage. My host basically told me I needed to find new hosting. They weren't jerks about it, they gave me fair (and polite) warning. In all honesty, they should have booted me, because I was using my entire month's allotment of bandwidth in two days. So I started looking around, and dedicated server hosting costs back then were at a price I could NOT afford to pay for myself. The choices were cripple the site beyond a point I wanted to take it just to stay online, or find new hosting.
I was referred to a large webhosting company who (at the time) handled websites for bands like Madonna & U2. So it wasn't anything small time. However, they wanted to buy the site from me, and then contract hire me back to run it. I think they were shocked when I turned them down, and said "I'd rather take the site offline and let it die than lose control like that". I'd be beholden to THEM, and if they didn't like what I did – they'd fire me. Plus they'd own all the content I had built up at that time. No thanks – pass.
I actually came within seven days of the cutoff from my old host, and I was getting desperate. Threw up a Hail Mary. I sent out a long, 3,000 word proposal to a few people asking for help. One of them wrote me back, and told me they didn't even read the proposal. They asked just one simple question. "Will this move allow you to remain independent"? I said yes, and that sealed it. Said person stepped in and paid for the hosting fees for the site, with one condition. That I never name who they are. So I'm quite grateful to that person for stepping in and allowing me to keep doing my own thing, and keeping me from dropping offline.
The leadup to almost going offline had me remove several parts of the website to lower my bandwidth usage. I saved a screen capture of that front page. :)
2007 Update
When the band got back together with Ronnie for what became known as the "Heaven & Hell" era, I gave some thought to revamping the website. It wouldn't have been as drastic as this new 2012 version, but some sort of overhaul. Again, the legacy of the old Frontpage structure killed that off, because I wasn't willing to manually go through the several hundred pages that comprised the entire site and update it. So I spoke with my (then new) art guy (RedSplat), and threw these thoughts to him. He came up with the idea of doing drop in replacements for the site graphics which massaged the look a little, and updated it.
What we came up with was the final incarnation of the site before the 2012 overhaul. Given the graphics were just drop ins for the old structure, it couldn't be changed that radically. This new one was based off the art direction of the "Dio Years" album. The logo is a lift from there, and the overall theme of the new graphics are based on that album. Especially the cross on the right.
Later additions to this were the rotating collection of front page pictures, a Google Advertisement on the left under the menu, and a Facebook widget – until Facebook took the page from me, anyway.
The final change of any kind structurally to this was in 2009 when "The Devil You Know" came out. The cross on the right was replaced with Henry's appearance on the cover art in "the 25/41 bible quote circle".
2012 Overhaul
I won't say too much here, as I covered the changes at the top of this news story. However, it is by far the most drastic overhaul I've ever taken. It took me almost a year to get it all done, and just about everything has changed. I owe a big debt to Thijs "RedSplat" Leenders. While the new Jan 2012 theme is a purchased WordPress theme, Splat customized it to make it look like what it looks like now. To give you an example, click here to see the theme in it's default state, and then compare it to the final version in use here. A lot of that is due to Splat's pixel pushing. He's quite generous with his time and work to help me out. Site wouldn't be what it is without him.
Splat had a few words about the 2012 site layout, and it's relation to the past version of the site. Check this out:
I took my color inspiration for the background site image from that church photo shoot of the band (ed Note: pic at bottom of page). You can tell whenever one of those pictures is on the page. :) The whole site is basically themed by one big image.. But I took colors from the old site theme and band shoot at church. and The Dio Years album had those twirly things. They'd happen to match up with this old book cover stockphoto i used. So i think it is all a nice evolution.
Here's a few shots showing the "twirly things" he's talking about. The first is the bottom of the Dio Years cover art, then you're looking at part of the swirly stuff from the now replaced version of the site, and finally the swirly bits from the new version.
I also owe a lot to Bryan Turner & Michael Preslar of Pegasus Hosting. Thes are the guys who are tired of hearing me come to them when there's some server issue. There's a ton of people to thank, I suggest you take a look the site's credits & thanks page. I list a lot there.
I guess that's about it. Thanks for visiting, and let me know what you think of all of this.
God Bless,
Joe Siegler


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CFP: The Jewish Graphic Novel (11/30/06; collection)
The Jewish Graphic Novel
Essays sought for an interdisciplinary collection co-edited by an art
historian and literary scholar. The growing subgenre of Jewish literary
and graphic culture contains a number of significantly innovative
aesthetic works that are increasingly recognized by literary critics as
an exciting form of alternative narrative that may also represent the
inception of a new visual literacy that has significant implications for
the future of Jewish literary and artistic expression. As the catalogue
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Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion) Czech writer Vittorio
Giardino's trilogy of volumes about Jewish life under the shadow of
totalitarianism: A Jew in Communist Prague: Loss of Innocence, A Jew in
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Ben Katchor's The Jew of New York; Miriam Katin's memoir of WWII
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Joe Kubert's stunning account of the Warsaw ghetto uprising in Yossel:
April 14, 1943; Joann Sfar's whimsically philosophical The Rabbi's Cat,
James Strum's disturbing parable of American racism, The Golem's Mighty
Swing; and J.T. Waldman's recent bold retelling of the essential Jewish
myth of power and powerlessness in Megillat Esther. The editors also
hope to include an essay or two on the impact of Art Spiegelman's
seminal works of Holocaust oral history in Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My
Father Bleeds History and Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My
Troubles Began, which crystallized the acceptance of the graphic novel
as a legitimate literary form. This collection aspires to fill an
important gap in existing scholarship by offering the first collection
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portrayals of Ashkenazi and Sephardic identities, the role of the
Holocaust in the artist's cultural and moral imagination, political
controversy, literature, sacred texts, and myth through these
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forms. Other essays might consider the important role of autobiography
in the graphic novel and the role of the graphic novel in the Jewish
Studies classroom. This list is by no means exhaustive; other relevant
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Authors are encouraged to use images whenever appropriate but they are
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Brinson, Samuel Mitchell
20 Mar. 1870–13 Apr. 1922
Samuel Mitchell Brinson, educator and congressman, was a native of New Bern. His father was William George Brinson (4 Jan. 1840–8 May 1896), a sergeant in Company K, North Carolina Regiment, Confederate States of America; his mother was Kittie Elizabeth Chesnut (14 Oct. 1842–42 June 1908), a daughter of Owen and Kezia Chesnut.
After attending private and public schools in New Bern, Brinson was graduated in 1891 from Wake Forest College. For a year he taught school in New Bern. In 1895 he was graduated in law from The University of North Carolina. Admitted to the bar the next year, he began the practice of law in his native town.
From 1902 to 1919 he was superintendent of public instruction in Craven County; the Brinson Memorial School in the county was named for him. In 1918 he was president of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad Company, which had been organized in 1854 at New Bern to operate trains from Goldsboro to the coast. He was long a devoted member and educational leader of the First Baptist Church of New Bern.
As a Democrat, Brinson was elected and reelected to Congress, serving from 4 Mar. 1919 until his death. He was buried at Cedar Grove Cemetery in New Bern.
Brinson's wife, Ruth Morton Scales (8 Mar. 1879–19 Jan. 1919), was born at Knoxville, Tenn., daughter of N. E. Scales and Minnie Lord Scales, both natives of Salisbury. The Brinsons had one daughter, Mary Steele.
Biog. Dir. Am. Cong. (1971).
Brinson Family Bibles (in the possession of Harvey Chesnut, Washington, D.C., and Miss Mary Steele Brinson, Salisbury).
Craven County Records (North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh).
Tombstones, Cedar Grove Cemetery (New Bern).
Additional Resources:
"Brinson, Samuel Mitchell, (1870 - 1922)." Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Washington, D.C.: The Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000840 (accessed April 16, 2013).
Brinson, Samuel Mitchell, North Carolina Literary Map: http://library.uncg.edu/dp/nclitmap/details.aspx?typ=auth&id=3498
Samuel M. Brinson. Memorial addresses delivered in the House of representatives, Joyner Library, East Carolina University: http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/historyfiction/item.aspx?id=smb
North Carolina Manual. North Carolina Historical Commission, 1921. http://books.google.com/books?id=7dQGAQAAIAAJ&dq=samuel+mitchell+brinson&source=gbs_navlinks_s&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false (accessed April 16, 2013).
Image Credits:
"Brinson, Samuel Mitchell, (1870 - 1922)." Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Washington, D.C.: The Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000840 (accessed April 16, 2013).
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Miki Schulman was overcome with emotion as she entered the gleaming new 19-story Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower at Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital University Center-Ein Kerem, with its five-floor underground hospital and interactive Hadassah Heritage Center.
"It is absolutely amazing. It took my breath away and brought tears to my eyes," she tells ISRAEL21c.
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The hospital board member was visiting along with some 2,000 of the 330,000 members of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, to mark the global charitable organization's 100th anniversary.
Schulman's main focus in planning the mid-October Centennial Convention was to show delegates many of the medical and humanitarian projects that helped win Hadassah a 2005 Nobel Peace Prize nomination.
"This is a celebration of Hadassah's first 100 years and the launch of its next 100 years," says Schulman, "so it was important to the leadership to make sure that our members and delegates all had at least a taste of each of the areas in which we are involved."
The track record is impressive: More than half the hospital-based research in Israel is conducted through the Hadassah Medical Organization. And through its School of Public Health and other outreach initiatives, Hadassah trains medical personnel and students from the Palestinian Authority, Egypt and Jordan, and from about 90 other countries.
The ethnic diversity of staff and patients at the Ein Kerem campus and at the sister Hadassah University Hospital at Mount Scopus is a point of pride for the organization, which is Jerusalem's largest non-governmental employer.
The international public may be unaware that Arab and Jewish doctors and nurses work side by side, and that Arab and Jewish patients have access to the same services, often sharing the same hospital room, but it's no big secret. "All you have to do is walk in and see for yourself," Schulman says.
Humanitarian agenda
Humanitarian projects Hadassah Medical Organization has done in coordination with the Israel Foreign Ministry and other Israeli agencies include volunteer HIV/AIDS education and treatment in Ethiopia and Kazakhastan; eye surgery for needy African patients; adult male circumcision for HIV prevention in Africa; and public health education in Katmandu.
Hadassah medical personnel have participated in Israeli rescue operations around the world since 1960. Among the disaster scenes where they've brought critical care expertise are Armenia, Turkey, Greece, Haiti, Sri Lanka, Nairobi and Tanzania. Recently, the government of Panama hired Hadassah as a consultant to build a state-of-the-art emergency trauma unit there.
"Whenever there's a need for very specialized medical attention, we are always there because we are experts in so many areas, particularly disaster relief," says Schulman. "We can set up field hospitals in four hours and treat scores of patients quickly and efficiently, and we're familiar with the types of disease that disasters create."
The impact of the Hadassah network was recognized with an Israel Postal Authority stamp and first-day cover unveiled during the Centennial Convention by Israeli President Shimon Peres and Hadassah National President Marcie Natan.
Another ceremony paid tribute to Hadassah's continued long-time support of Youth Aliyah (immigration to Israel) and its partnership with the Jewish National Fund in operating Hadassah Neurim, one of Hadassah's three youth villages for at-risk youth.
Medical innovations
Over the years, the Hadasit technology transfer company has commercialized scores of novel therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices generated by Hadassah physicians and scientists. Just three examples: an at-home cardiac defibrillator, deep brain stimulation to treat Parkinson's disease, and a non-invasive diagnostic tool for gastric reflux.
Based on technologies developed by researchers at Hadassah Medical Organization, Hadasit helped establish startups including Exalenz (for diagnosing gastrointestinal and liver diseases), Medifreeze (the cryopreservation company that operates Hadassah's stem-cell cord blood bank), Gamida Cell (gene therapy products), GVT (delivery systems for gene therapy) and TheraVir (anti-cancer viruses).
Hadassah is a leader in stem-cell therapy technologies and international stem-cell policy advocacy. The organization won a 2006 award from the Genetics Policy Institute for its 2005 initiative designed to educate elected US officials about the importance of embryonic stem-cell research.
This year, Hadassah released positive results from the first clinical trial of NurOwn stem-cell therapy for people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The next phase is now going on under the supervision of the renowned Israeli stem-cell therapy pioneer Prof. Dimitrios Karussis.
Hadassah was the site of Israel's first double bypass surgery (1964), first successful bone marrow transplant (1977), first "test tube" baby (1983), first successful heart transplant (1986), first successful liver transplant (1991) and first successful lung transplant (1992) — and the first computer-guided hip replacement in the world (2004). In 1986, Hadassah opened the first ambulatory surgery center in Israel followed by Israel's first trauma unit in 1991.
Hadassah research breakthroughs
From "100 Years, 100 Highlights"
1999: Development of proteins for use in treating wounds and tissue reconstruction
2002: Development of influenza vaccines
2003: Development of antibodies to complement skin cancer treatment
2003: Development of fracture treatment and bone-building using stem cells
2004: Development of treatments for diseases of the nervous system
2005: Genetic treatments for cancer, anemia and other genetic diseases
2006: Development of methods of diagnosing precursors of cancerous growths
2006: Treatments developed using umbilical cord blood cells
2007: Development of immunization for Crohn's disease
2008: Development of proteins used in the treatment of stroke damage
2008: Development of technology to improve the quality of MRI imaging
2008: Human embryonic stem cells implanted in mice with MS, slowed the progression of the disease
2009: Hospital researchers discover treatment for fatty liver disease
2010: Healthy baby born after frozen ovarian tissue implant
2010: Revolutionary treatment for brain aneurysm
2011: BrainStorm NurOwn trial for ALS patients


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A supporter holds a banner showing the Bosnian Serb member of the tripartite Presidency of Bosnia Milorad Dodik that reads: "Never Again!" during a protest against the government in Banja Luka, in the Serb-dominated part of Bosnia, in October.
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He was once described in Washington as an anti-nationalist "breath of fresh air" in the murderous, genocide-scarred Balkan morass of ethnically divided Bosnia. How times change. This week Bosnian Serb political leader Milorad Dodik, now a genocide-denying secessionist, was slapped with new U.S. sanctions for alleged corruption. He responded in typical style, saying the days when the United States and other Western democracies "modeled Bosnia to their taste" are long gone.
Accusations he corruptly amassed vast wealth for himself, his relatives and associates, are "monstrous lies," Dodik claimed. "The U.S. is a great power, but they are also big liars," he said. Dodik maintains the West is punishing him for championing the rights of ethnic Serbs in Bosnia — a dysfunctional country of 3.3 million that's never truly recovered from a fratricidal war in the 1990s that became a byname for ethnic cleansing and genocide. The sanctions, Dodik boasted, will just help the Serbs break free of Bosnia into the eager embrace of their "true friends" — Russia, China, the champions of illiberal democracy within the European Union, and neighboring Serbia.
The 63-year-old political science graduate first came to prominence in 1998, as a moderate reformist narrowly elected regional prime minister of Republika Srpska, one of Bosnia's two postwar administrative units. NATO-led peacekeepers surrounded key buildings held by police loyal to Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic — later convicted of wartime genocide and crimes against humanity — to ensure Dodik could take control.
Shortly after he was elected regional prime minister of Republika Srpska, one of Bosnia's two postwar administrative units, then-U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said she "felt like a breath of fresh air had blown through the room."
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Shortly after, then U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright met him and "felt like a breath of fresh air had blown through the room," according to her spokesman at the time.
But in 2001, after losing a presidential election in Republika Srpska, Dodik changed course, refashioning himself as a nationalist hardliner and secessionist. He gradually gained control of all levels of Republika Srpska's government, and in 2009 managed to expel foreign judges and prosecutors from Bosnia's court system — amid reports he was under investigation for corruption and erosion of democracy.
The 1995, U.S.-brokered Dayton Peace Accords, which ended Bosnia's more than 3 1/2 years of bloodshed, established two separate governing entities — Republika Srpska and one dominated by mostly Muslim Bosniaks, over half of Bosnia's population, and Catholic Croats.
They're linked by shared, state-wide institutions, and all actions at a national level require consensus from all three ethnic groups.
In the immediate postwar years, the international community kept Bosnia on a reform course, pressuring its leaders to abandon hate speech and accept painful compromises in return for financial and other support. But over a decade ago the international focus shifted to other global crises. Only 600 of the 60,000 international peacekeepers deployed in 1995 now remain. Bosnia was mostly left to its own devices, exposed to the growing influence of Russia, China and Turkey, and to widespread corruption and economic decline.
Over the years, Dodik weathered countless accusations by national and international rights and media freedom groups of curbing media independence and popularizing vile rhetoric against political opponents of all ethnic stripes. He notoriously defended the 2008 approval, by a regional development bank, of a favorable $2 million loan to a firm co-owned by his son, saying that "was better than letting (the young man) get addicted to drugs."
His family's net worth is hard to estimate, but in 2019 Dodik reported annual income and assets worth over 1.2 million euros ($1.36 million), including an 800,000-euro villa in Serbia's capital, Belgrade. Dodik says claims about his children's wealth are maliciously overblown by his political opponents.
One of the fiercest of them, Drasko Stanivukovic, mayor of Banja Luka, Republika Srpska's biggest city, retorted that the family has stakes in at least 70 companies — including ones owned by their "relatives, friends and business associates."
Dodik regularly downplays the 1995 massacre, by Bosnian Serbs, of over 8,000 Bosniak men and boys in the eastern enclave of Srebrenica, even dismissing it as "a fabricated myth."
In recent months he has repeatedly voiced hope that Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Hungary's populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban will serve as his bulwark against the "tyranny" of Western democracies, warmly welcoming Orban's December contention that the EU's main challenge on Bosnia is "how to manage the security of a state in which 2 million Muslims live."
After serving for 15 years as Republika Srpska's president or prime minister, in the fall of 2019 Dodik was elected to Bosnia's multi-ethnic presidency that also includes a Bosniak and a Croat official.
Last summer, with tacit support from Moscow and Belgrade, Dodik spearheaded the Serb walkout from Bosnia's multi-ethnic institutions — thus blocking decision-making — to protest the international High Representative in Bosnia's move to outlaw genocide denial.
Dodik and Serb officials under his control say they will no longer respect decisions by the High Representative, a post created under the Dayton agreement with broad powers, including to impose laws or dismiss officials who undermine the fragile postwar ethnic balance.
This winter, Dodik intensified his secessionist campaign, pledging to form an exclusively Serb army, judiciary and tax system. He described Bosniaks as "second-rate people" and "treacherous converts" who sold their "original (Orthodox Christian faith) for dinner."
U.S., British, German and other western officials recently started accusing Dodik of stoking ethnic tensions to distract from his and his cronies' corrupt practices.
But Dodik says sanctions won't discourage him from "fighting for the rights of Republika Srpska."
"Regardless of what they do, they cannot stop me," he said.
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The Master discusses with his disciples and unveil his preoccupations with society. Tr. Legge (en), Lau (en) and Couvreur (fr).
The value of the rules of propriety; and of example in those in high stations.
1. The Master said, "Respectfulness, without the rules of propriety, becomes laborious bustle; carefulness, without the rules of propriety, becomes timidity; boldness, without the rules of propriety, becomes insubordination; straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.
2. "When those who are in high stations perform well all their duties to their relations, the people are aroused to virtue. When old friends are not neglected by them, the people are preserved from meanness."
Legge VIII.2.
The Master said, 'Unless a man has the spirit of the rites, in being respectful he will wear himself out, in being careful he will become timid, in having courage he will become unruly, and in being forth- right he will become intolerant.1 'When the gentleman feels profound affection for his parents, the common people will be stirred to benevolence. When he does not forget friends of long standing, the common people will not shirk their obligations to other people.'
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Le Maître dit : « Sans civilité la politesse devient laborieuse, la circonspection craintive, le courage rebelle, la franchise offensante. Que le prince remplisse avec zèle ses devoirs envers ses proches, et le peuple sera mû par le bien. Que le prince n'abandonne pas ses anciens amis, et le peuple ne sera pas négligent. »
Couvreur VIII.2.
The Analects of Confucius – Lun Yu VIII. 2. (190) – Chinese off/on – Français/English
Alias the Lunyu, the Lun Yü, the Analects, les Entretiens du maître avec ses disciples.
The Book of Odes, The Analects, Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean, Three-characters book, The Book of Changes, The Way and its Power, 300 Tang Poems, The Art of War, Thirty-Six Strategies
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Mammography costs soar for seniors
The cost of breast cancer screening for older women has soared because of increased use of new technologies, but that hasn't led to earlier detection of breast cancer, a new study shows.
Researchers compared data from 2001-02 and 2008-09, and found that the use of screening mammography for Medicare-enrolled women without a history of breast cancer remained at about 42 percent.
There was a large increase in the use of digital mammography technology, which is more expensive than standard film technology ($115 versus $73 per mammogram). But the newer technology has not been shown to be more effective in detecting breast cancer in women aged 65 and older, the Yale School of Medicine researchers said.
They also discovered a significant increase in the use of other newer, more expensive technology for breast cancer screening and related procedures.
Overall, Medicare spending for breast cancer screening and related procedures rose from $666 million in 2001-02 to $962 million in 2008-09, according to the study in the July 1 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
"Screening mammography is an important tool, but this rate of increase in cost is not sustainable," study co-author Dr. Brigid Killelea, an assistant professor of surgery, said in a Yale news release.
"We need to establish screening guidelines for older women that utilize technology appropriately, and minimize unnecessary biopsies and over-diagnosis to keep costs under control," she added.
Further studies are needed to identify which women will benefit from screening, and how to screen effectively and efficiently, study co-author Dr. Cary Gross said in the news release.
"But we cannot simply adopt new technologies because they theoretically are superior -- the health system cannot sustain it, and more importantly our patients deserve a sustained effort to determine which approaches to screening are effective and which ones are not," said Gross, director of the Yale Cancer Outcomes, Public Policy and Effectiveness Research Center.
"In some instances, breast cancer screening can save lives. But no woman wants to undergo testing if it is likely to cause more harm than good," Gross said.


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Early Bitcoin developer and the unproven mastermind behind blockchain technology itself, Craig S Wright, has been accused of stealing between 550,000 and 1,100,000 Bitcoin from his deceased former partner Dave Kleiman. The lawsuit brought by Dave's estate also alleges that Craig was responsible for appropriating various intellectual property that was owned by W&K Info Defense Research LLC – a company the pair founded.
Alleged Scheme Far From Airtight
The court notes, dated February 14, 2018, state that Craig and Dave had mined a "vast wealth of bitcoins from 2009 through 2013." However, Dave's family were completely unaware of his involvement in the founding of the cryptocurrency at the time.
Following Dave's death in 2013, Craig is reported to have contacted Ira Kleiman (Dave's brother) and informed him that the two had been instrumental in creating Bitcoin and that they had mined a substantial number together. He then claimed that Dave had previously signed over all his property to Craig in exchange for a share of an Australian company that he claimed was worth "millions." This company quickly went bankrupt and left Dave's estate with nothing.
After later finding various discrepancies in Craig's story, Ira is seeking to sue Craig over Dave's missing Bitcoin, along with his share of various intellectual property that Craig has since profited from. The case has been filed by Boies Schiller Flexner LLP.
Craig is accused of replicating Dave's signature on documents that authorise the transfer of Dave's assets to Craig. According to the allegations, these documents were created at a later time and backdated to tie in with the story that Dave had indeed signed over the property. The documents in question are: a 2011 contract titled "Intellectual Property License Funding Agreement", 2012 contract titled "Deed of Loan", and a 2013 contract titled "Contract for the Sale of Shares of a Company Owning Business".
However, the court notes report various red flags amongst the documents. The signature used on the contracts bears little to no resemblance to that used by Dave. The document states it is almost identical to a computer generated font called "Otto". In addition, a "typo" on one of the contracts states the date being 2013. This was crossed out and changed to 2011. Dave was in hospital for most of 2013 and died of MRSA that April. The court notes speculate that the document was created in 2013 rather than 2011.
Adding further suspicion, the clauses in the contract are highly favourable to Craig. Most notable of these was the fact that the transfer was to remain entirely confidential. What's more, the court notes state that none of the contracts were witnessed or notarised. This is downright bizarre considering the sums of money involved in the transfers, even at 2013 Bitcoin prices. Finally, it is acknowledged that Craig has a history of backdating documents. Wired report that he created documents to support his original claim that he is the creator of Bitcoin – Satoshi Nakamoto.
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP are yet to explicitly confirm the authenticity of the court notes referenced. However, the case does appear in documents filed with the District Court, S.D. Florida. Craig S. Wright is yet to comment via Twitter or otherwise about the case against him. For now, there is no mention of a date that the case will be heard.


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Another favorite that I really want to make in the next couple of weeks. A perfect winter meal.
How can you go wrong with this pizza? You can't! It's delicious and I loved the tomato sauce.
{ Spring Green Risotto }
Amazing risotto.
{ Shrimp Pad Thai }
{ Blueberry Crumb Bars }
These dessert bars taste like Summer. I'm actually still enjoying these. I wrapped individual squares in wax paper and froze them in a plastic freezer bag. They still taste great even after being in the freezer. When I want one, I just pull it out and let is defrost on the counter.