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CHICAGO—The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) today issued a five-year economic development plan for Illinois, a proposal that sets out the state's priorities for encouraging private-sector job growth and business vitality, especially in regions with the highest poverty and unemployment.
The plan, developed and administered by DCEO, identifies seven high-growth business sectors in which the state can concentrate its efforts. It also increases accountability by requiring close cooperation with local economic development officials and by specifying five-year growth targets in measures such as job creation and business launches.
"With our economy improving steadily and our unemployment rate at its lowest point in nearly six years, we must continue working to secure progress for everyone in Illinois," Governor Pat Quinn said. "This plan will serve as our guide as we continue to make the smart decisions and investments necessary to drive more job growth statewide."
The 80-page plan, posted at www.illinois.gov/dceo, sets a goal of 360,000 business launches in Illinois through 2019. In addition, DCEO is aiming for 75,000 new jobs drawn from outside the state, 10,000 new jobs in areas with the highest unemployment, a 25 percent expansion in the number of people participating in workforce training and a reduction in poverty rates.
"Competition for jobs among states is a competition for talent. With this plan, DCEO is committing itself to improve conditions that nurture talent," said DCEO Director Adam Pollet. "We want to strengthen the great business clusters we have while making Illinois a focal point for innovation."
The report lists seven sectors that merit close attention because of their prominence in different parts of the state, their growth potential and higher-than-average salaries. They are: Biomedical/technical; advanced materials; transportation and logistics; information technology and telecommunications; machinery and fabricated metal products manufacturing; agribusiness, food processing and technology; and clean technology.
To implement what it calls a "living document," DCEO is committed to working with regional development officials and to incorporating their ideas. The plan will be revised annually and policies can be revised or discarded based on results.
The plan provides cost estimates for recommended actions. While the document itself does not represent a funding commitment, it is intended as a guide for lawmakers and stakeholders as future decisions about state budgets are made.
The plan builds on Governor Quinn's work to stabilize state finances and reform the public pension system, addressing two problems that hurt business confidence in Illinois. The Quinn Administration has greatly reduced the backlog of unpaid state bills, slashed discretionary spending and earned praised from bond-rating agencies.
Specific policies recommended in the report include:
- Increase small business access to the state's job-creation tax credit and direct more of its benefits to communities in economic hardship, while also reducing the use of the legislatively directed EDGE tax credits by large corporations.
- Pursue a low-cost, sustainable energy and natural resource economy.
- Establish a revenue-neutral job-training tax credit and expand job training generally.
- Double the state's Earned Income Tax Credit and increase the minimum wage to $10 per hour.
- Reduce the filing fee for limited liability companies.
- Expand Illinois' marketing efforts to enhance business retention and expansion.
- Establish regional business plan competitions.
- Establish a technology transfer fund.
- Secure full funding for the CREATE program to ease rail congestion in the Chicago area.
- Expand the Illinois Clean Water Initiative.
- Modernize Illinois' aging locks and dams.


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The University of Texas at Arlington has opened a research center, the Shimadzu Center for Advanced Analytical Chemistry, according to a statement released Monday by the company. Outfitted with $6 million of chromatography, mass spectrometry, and spectroscopy equipment from Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, the university's new center will enable researchers from the College of Science and the College of Engineering to explore new advances in medicine as well as in the development of nanofabrication materials for industry.
"We are honored that a company with the worldwide reach of Shimadzu has chosen to invest in UT Arlington's research program," said James D. Spaniolo, president of UT Arlington. "This equipment will provide opportunities for faculty and for students in a laboratory that is truly on the cutting edge of analytical possibilities."
Overseeing the new research facility is Kevin Schug, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UT Arlington. Schug was recently named Shimadzu Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry.
"UT Arlington has a dynamic science program focused on the future, and Shimadzu is pleased and eager to support such a research institution," said Shuzo Maruyama, president at Shimadzu Scientific Instruments. "In addition, Kevin Schug is one of the leading young scientists in the country, and it will be a pleasure to work with him and the entire team at UT Arlington on future projects."
University researchers plan to implement the new Shimadzu instruments in a number of research projects including:
The Shimadzu Center for Advanced Analytical Chemistry will be housed in the university's Chemistry and Physics building. For more information, visit UT Arlington's Web site.
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Naoki Urasawa's career as a manga artist spans more than twenty
years and has firmly established him as one of the true manga
masters of Japan. Born in Tokyo in 1960, Urasawa debuted with BETA!
in 1983 and hasn't stopped his impressive output since. Well-versed
in a variety of genres, Urasawa's oeuvre encompasses a multitude of
different subjects, such as a romantic comedy (Yawara! A
Fashionable Judo Girl), a suspenseful human drama about a former
mercenary (Pineapple ARMY; story by Kazuya Kudo), a captivating
psychological suspense story (Monster), a sci-fi adventure manga
(20th Century Boys), and a modern reinterpretation of the work of
the God of Manga, Osamu Tezuka (Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka;
co-authored with Takashi Nagasaki, supervised by Macoto Tezka, and
with the cooperation of Tezuka Productions). Many of his books have
spawned popular animated and live-action TV programs and films, and
2008 saw the theatrical release of the first of three live-action
Japanese films based on 20th Century Boys.
No stranger to accolades and awards, Urasawa received the 2011 and
2013 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International
Material—Asia, and is a three-time recipient of the prestigious
Shogakukan Manga Award, a two-time recipient of the Osamu Tezuka
Cultural Prize, and also received the Kodansha Manga Award. Urasawa
has also become involved in the world of academia, and in 2008
accepted a guest teaching post at Nagoya Zokei University, where he
teaches courses in, of course, manga.
"The manga Pluto is one of the best robot stories ever told." "Naoki Urasawa's work is a masterpiece." "Naoki Urasawa has a knack for turning simple ideas into sprawling manga epics." - Polygon--Karen Han "Polygon"
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We are pleased to announce the expansion of HDInsight Application Platform to include Dataiku.
Azure HDInsight is the industry leading fully-managed cloud Apache Hadoop & Spark offering which allows customers to do reliable open source analytics with an industry-leading SLA. Dataiku develops Data Science Studio (DSS), a collaborative data science platform that enables companies to build and deliver their analytical solutions more efficiently.
This combined offering of DSS on HDInsight enables customers to easily use data science to build big data solutions and run them at enterprise grade and scale.
Microsoft Azure HDInsight – Reliable Open Source Analytics at Enterprise grade & scale
HDInsight is the only fully-managed cloud Hadoop offering that provides optimized open source analytical clusters for Spark, Hive, Interactive Hive, MapReduce, HBase, Storm, Kafka, and R Server backed by a 99.9% SLA. Each of these big data technologies are easily deployable as managed clusters with enterprise-level security and monitoring.
The ecosystem of applications in Big data has grown with the goal of making it easier for customers to solve their big data and analytical problems faster. Today, customers often find it challenging to discover these productivity applications and then in turn struggle to install and configure these apps.
To address this gap, the HDInsight Application Platform provides an experience unique to HDInsight where Independent Software Vendors (ISV's) can directly offer their applications to customers – and customers can easily discover, install and use these applications built for the Big data ecosystem.
As part of this integration, Dataiku is bringing DSS to make collaborative data science much easier.
Dataiku Data Science Studio (DSS) – Prototype, deploy and run at scale
Dataiku provides Data Science Studio, the collaborative data science platform that enables professionals (data scientists, data engineers etc.) to collaborate on building analytical solutions. DSS has an easy to use team-based interface for data scientists and beginner analysts. A user can use DSS to implement a complete analytical solution – which could range from data ingestion (all data types, sizes, format etc.), data preparation, data processing, training and applying machine learning models, visualization and operationalizing the solution.
A user can use DSS to implement a complete analytical solution – which could range from data ingestion (all data types, sizes, format etc.), data preparation, data processing, training and applying machine learning models, visualization and operationalizing the solution.
DSS on HDInsight – Data science at enterprise grade & scale
A customer can install DSS on HDInsight using Hadoop or Spark clusters. They can install DSS on existing clusters which are running, or while creating new clusters. DSS 4.0 also added support for using Azure Blob Storage as a connector for reading data from.
When a user installs DSS on HDInsight, the user can make use of the benefits of Hadoop or Spark on HDInsight. Users can utilize DSS to build projects; the projects can generate MapReduce or Spark jobs, which makes DSS a great compliment to your HDInsight cluster. These jobs are executed as regular MapReduce or Spark jobs, and hence they get all the benefits of running these jobs on an enterprise grade platform. Since these jobs are running on HDInsight, customers can scale the cluster on demand, which allows a customer to run DSS at scale on HDInsight.
Getting started with DSS on HDInsight
Let us show a quick walkthrough of installing and getting started with DSS on HDInsight: The following screen shot shows a Spark cluster in the Microsoft Azure portal. A user can click the Applications tile to see the list of applications installed.
A user can select DSS, agree to the terms of agreement and install DSS. This is the simplicity associated with a one-click deployment experience. After the user has selected DSS, DSS is installed on the edge node, which is part of the cluster.
After DSS is installed, a customer can launch DSS using the "WEBPAGE" link. (This is the link to the DSS product.) A user must first authenticate with the cluster user credentials and then they can login with their DSS credentials
The following screenshot shows what a typical data science project's landing page would look like in DSS. This shows both the summary of the project, as well as the timeline of the changes made to the project.
Following are some resource on learning more on this integration along with tutorials and videos.
- Learn more about Azure HDInsight
- Learn more about Dataiku DSS
- Getting started with DSS on HDInsight
- Use HDInsight and DSS to predict credit default
- Dataiku and Microsoft HDInsight Integration
- Video recording between Microsoft & Dataiku on using DSS on HDInsight
- Install DSS on HDInsight from Azure marketplace
- Ask HDInsight questions on stackoverflow
- Dataiku Q&A
We are pleased to announce the expansion of HDInsight Application Platform to include Dataiku's Data Science Studio. By deploying DSS on HDInsight, customers can easily build analytical solutions and run them at enterprise grade and scale.


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By LAURAN NEERGAARD
More COVID-19 booster shots may be on the way — but when it's your turn, you'll get an extra dose of the original vaccine, not one updated to better match the extra-contagious delta variant.
And that has some experts wondering if the booster campaign is a bit of a missed opportunity to target delta and its likely descendants.
"Don't we want to match the new strains that are most likely to circulate as closely as possible?" Dr. Cody Meissner of Tufts Medical Center, an adviser to the Food and Drug Administration, challenged Pfizer scientists recently.
"I don't quite understand why this is not delta because that's what we're facing right now," fellow adviser Dr. Patrick Moore of the University of Pittsburgh said last week as government experts debated whether it's time for Moderna boosters. He wondered if such a switch would be particularly useful to block mild infection.
The simple answer: The FDA last month OK'd extra doses of Pfizer's original recipe after studies showed it still works well enough against delta — and those doses could be rolled out right away. Now the FDA is weighing evidence for boosters of the original Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines.
"It's less churn and burn on the manufacturing" to only switch formulas when it's really necessary, said FDA vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks.
But Pfizer and Moderna are hedging their bets. They're already testing experimental doses customized to delta and another variant, learning how to rapidly tweak the formula in case a change eventually is needed — for today's mutants or a brand new one. The tougher question for regulators is how they'd decide if and when to ever order such a switch.
What we know so far:
Vaccines used in the U.S. remain strongly effective against hospitalization and death from COVID-19, even after the delta variant took over, but authorities hope to shore up waning protection against less severe infection and for high-risk populations. Studies show an extra dose of the original formulas revs up virus-fighting antibodies that fend off infection, including antibodies that target delta.
Vaccines target the spike protein that coats the coronavirus. Mutations in that protein made delta more contagious but to the immune system, it doesn't look all that different, said virus expert Richard Webby of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
That means there's no guarantee a delta-specific booster would protect any better, said University of Pennsylvania immunologist John Wherry. Waiting for studies to settle that question — and if necessary, brewing updated doses — would have delayed rolling out boosters to people deemed to need them now.
Still, because delta is now the dominant version of the virus worldwide it almost certainly will be a common ancestor for whatever evolves next in a mostly unvaccinated world, said Trevor Bedford, a biologist and genetics expert at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
A delta-updated vaccine would "help to provide a buffer against those additional mutations," he said. Bedford is paid by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which also supports The Associated Press Health and Science Department.
The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are made with a piece of genetic code called messenger RNA that tells the body to make harmless copies of the spike protein so it's trained to recognize the virus. Updating the formula merely requires swapping out the original genetic code with mRNA for a mutated spike protein.
Both companies first experimented with tweaked doses against a mutant that emerged in South Africa, the beta variant, that has been the most vaccine-resistant to date, more so than the delta variant. Lab tests showed the updated shots produced potent antibodies. But the beta variant didn't spread widely.
Now the companies have studies underway of fully vaccinated people who agreed to test a booster dose tweaked to match delta. Moderna's studies also include some shots that combine protection against more than one version of the coronavirus — much like today's flu vaccines work against multiple influenza strains.
The mRNA vaccines are considered the easiest kind to tweak but some other vaccine makers also are exploring how to change their recipes if necessary.
Moderna's Dr. Jacqueline Miller told an FDA advisory panel last week the company is studying variant-specific boosters now to learn if they offer advantages, and to be ready if they're needed.
And Penn's Wherry said it is critical to carefully analyze how the body reacts to updated shots because the immune system tends to "imprint" a stronger memory of the first virus strain it encounters. That raises questions about whether a subtly different booster would prompt a temporary jump in antibodies the body's made before — or the bigger goal, a broader and more durable response that might even be better positioned for the next mutations to come along.
"What is the tripping point?" asked Webby, who is part of a World Health Organization network that tracks influenza evolution. "A lot of what is going to need to go into that decision making is just going to be learned by experience, unfortunately."
Bedford said now is the time to decide what drop in vaccine effectiveness would trigger a formula change, just as is done with flu vaccines every year.
That's important not just if a dramatically worse variant suddenly develops. Like many scientists, Bedford expects the coronavirus to eventually evolve from a global crisis into a regular threat every winter — which might mean more regular boosters, maybe even yearly in combination with the flu shot.
Timing between shots matters, too, Wherry noted.
"Your boostability may actually improve with longer intervals between stimulation," he said. While scientists have learned a lot about the coronavirus, "the story's not finished yet and we don't know what the last chapters say."
The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
FILE – This Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021 file photo shows vials for the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines at a temporary clinic in Exeter, N.H. In September, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration approved extra doses of Pfizer's original COVID-19 vaccine after studies showed it still works well enough against the delta variant. And the FDA is weighing evidence for boosters of the original Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)


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- From: JC Cannon <email@example.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:54:34 +0000
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How about this: 1) For social sites, manage social feature at that site or by logging out. 2) For tracking and personalization opt-out use DNT. JC Twitter<http://twitter.com/jccannon7> From: Jonathan Robert Mayer [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 3:19 PM To: JC Cannon Cc: email@example.com (email@example.com) Subject: Re: ACTION-69: Renaming ISSUE-54 Without DNT, users would not be guaranteed the ability to opt out. That's the status quo. On Feb 13, 2012, at 2:41 PM, JC Cannon <email@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>> wrote: That looks like something that is handled by Facebook, which seems great to me. Why does DNT have to get involved? JC From: Jonathan Mayer [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]<mailto:[mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 2:33 PM To: email@example.com<mailto:email@example.com> (firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>) Subject: Re: ACTION-69: Renaming ISSUE-54 Social widgets would not "stop working." Users certainly would not need to "re-enable [widgets] on every site." To clarify, here's our Facebook mock-up. Embedded widget: <image001.png> Consent option: <image002.png> On Feb 13, 2012, at 2:07 PM, JC Cannon wrote: If we start making changes that degrades consumers' online experience or makes them work too hard to get their experience back to normal they won't use. As a consumer I want to just click a button and be protected without everything else changing. If I enable DNT:1 and all of a sudden all my social widgets stop working or you tell me to "just" re-enable them on every site, I'm just going to turn it off. Rob provided a good example of a site<http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Apple-will-deutschen-Patentstreit-mit-Motorola-in-den-USA-gewinnen-1433070.html> that manages social widgets (widgets at bottom of article). I like the way it works, but I wouldn't want to manage the settings on every site. Responses to your suggestions below. JC Twitter<http://twitter.com/jccannon7> From: Jonathan Mayer [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]<mailto:[mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 1:12 PM To: Geoff Gieron - AdTruth Cc: JC Cannon; Jeffrey Chester; John Simpson; Justin Brookman; firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com> Subject: Re: ACTION-69: Renaming ISSUE-54 I've seen a few suggestions that I'd disagree with on this thread. Since they seem fairly independent, I'll break them out individually. 1) We should allow social widget personalization because some users might want it. The same argument applies to any prohibited practice. That's why the TPE specification provides an explicit exception mechanism. If a user wants to see more personalized content from a third party or using third-party data, whether stuff their friends liked or (tracking-based) interest-targeted advertising, they can provide an exception. We mocked up an exception flow for Facebook's social widgets at http://donottrack.us/cookbook/. [JC] I feel the logged in state is different from standard third-party interaction. As a consumer I don't want to provide an exception our use the cookbook strategy for something I already control. If I don't want the functionality I will log out. 2) Social widget providers are first parties if the user has logged in since the user has a business relationship with the website. I thought we had agreement in Santa Clara and on the list that third-party widgets become first party by means of user interaction, not logged-in status. [JC] I agree the widget does not get first-party status, but they should still be able to personalize my experience, which I control. I don't see that as first party functionality. 3) Social personalization isn't the same as third-party data collection. I don't follow this line at all. Embedded social content is from a third party, and that third party collects data. Moreover, the data collection practices currently used for social personalization rely not only on a unique ID—they rely on an ID tied to the user's identity. [JC] Third parties have the ID information whether DNT is enabled or not. The header tells them their obligations to me as a consumer and whether or not they can process my data. On Feb 13, 2012, at 10:40 AM, Geoff Gieron - AdTruth wrote: JC – you raise a valid point on tracking vs social sharing. One thing I would like to point out about this though is how logged in entities like Facebook already supersede existing browser solutions, such as Private Browsing (notice how Facebook still knows it is you on sites outside their network when you are suppose to be incognito to all entities). So based on your ascertainment – I do agree that DNT should not disrupt the value of social sharing when you are logged in and remained logged AND Private Browsing/Incognito Mode should be what cuts even this level of detection by these types of services regardless of login. However – we are not standardizing Private Browsing/Incognito Mode so I'm concerned that the ability by a few customer facing companies like Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon, AOL and Microsoft essentially may have the ability to completely work around all existing browser based solution offered to a consumer. Is my concern valid to you? Geoff Gieron Business Development Strategist <B6D349F0-DB69-481C-A4A8-5CC1CDE1C45E[87].png> O: +1.480.776.5525 M: +1.602.418.8094 firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com> www.adtruth.com<http://www.adtruth.com> From: JC Cannon <firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:29:21 +0000 To: Jeffrey Chester <email@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>> Cc: John Simpson <email@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>>, Jonathan Robert Mayer <firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>>, Justin Brookman <firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>>, "email@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>" <email@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>> Subject: RE: ACTION-69: Renaming ISSUE-54 Resent-From: <firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>> Resent-Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:30:10 +0000 I'm not stating that data can be collected on me. I'm only stating that during a logged-in state a social site may personalize my experience based on my settings on the social site. The social site does not have the right to capture my browsing habits or process any data on me unless I interact with its widget. JC Twitter<http://twitter.com/jccannon7> From: Jeffrey Chester [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 9:16 AM To: JC Cannon Cc: John Simpson; Jonathan Robert Mayer; Justin Brookman; email@example.com<mailto:email@example.com> Subject: Re: ACTION-69: Renaming ISSUE-54 Let's have a further discussion on this. Can you say what data can be collected from a user when DNT:1 is on as they access social services? Jeffrey Chester Center for Digital Democracy 1621 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 550 Washington, DC 20009 www.democraticmedia.org<http://www.democraticmedia.org/> www.digitalads.org<http://www.digitalads.org/> 202-986-2220 On Feb 13, 2012, at 12:09 PM, JC Cannon wrote: Jeff, I disagree with your position, because I would still want that feature if I'm logged in and have DNT:1 enabled. This is part of the concern I have about making decisions for consumers that they may not want. If I can disable the article annotation by logging off from the social site, why bundle it with DNT taking away my flexibility? JC Twitter<http://twitter.com/jccannon7> From: Jeffrey Chester [mailto:email@example.com]<mailto:[mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 6:46 AM To: JC Cannon Cc: John Simpson; Jonathan Robert Mayer; Justin Brookman; email@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com> Subject: Re: ACTION-69: Renaming ISSUE-54 JC: DNT:1 serves as a form of granular privacy protection. If one has DNT:1 on, they don't want tracking process working--even if it means they can't find out their friends enjoyed reading your latest book! Happy to discuss. I would like to drill into this a little further. How would this apply to a logged in state? If I'm logged into a social site and reading an article I would be interested to know if people I trust from that social site enjoyed the article or not without necessarily letting people know that I viewed the article, unless I select the share button. I don't want to have to enable tracking just to see if my friends liked the article. JC Twitter<http://twitter.com/jccannon7> From: John Simpson [mailto:email@example.com]<mailto:[mailto:email@example.com]> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 11:53 AM To: Jeffrey Chester Cc: Jonathan Robert Mayer; Justin Brookman; firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com> Subject: Re: ACTION-69: Renaming ISSUE-54 I agree that when a site acts as a third party it MUST not engage in targeting based on data gathered when it was a 1st party if DNT is enabled. On Feb 8, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Jeffrey Chester wrote: I don't think if DNT is enabled a third party should be able to engage in profile-based targeting that they have collected as first party, as Justin perhaps as proposed. That would weaken user intent on DNT. Jeffrey Chester Center for Digital Democracy 1621 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 550 Washington, DC 20009 www.democraticmedia.org<http://www.democraticmedia.org/> www.digitalads.org<http://www.digitalads.org/> 202-986-2220 On Feb 8, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Jonathan Robert Mayer wrote: In the interest of clarity, I recommend we make two ISSUEs from ISSUE-54. 1) What can a first party do on its own website with provided information? I completely agree with Shane that this falls into the current first party proposal, and I expect we'll get consensus and close the ISSUE quickly. 2) What can a first party do with submitted information when it's a third party? We've already heard a range of views on this; I expect lengthy discussion and perspectives from many stakeholders before we close the ISSUE. On Feb 8, 2012, at 7:20 AM, Justin Brookman <firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>> wrote: I think Sean's restatement of the issue is a bit ambiguous. The key question is not whether a first party can alter its own websites and advertising on those sites based on data it collected as a first party. It's about whether they can then leverage that data when they're in a third-party environment. I was tasked with writing up language on this in Brussels, but upon reflection, my vision is already allowed for in the text: a third-party may customize content or advertising on other sites based on data it had collected as a first-party. Thus, Yahoo! can serve ads on the New York Times based on what I had done on the Yahoo! site (or registration information I had provided to Yahoo!) and Facebook can tell me what my friends like in a social widget when I go to the WashingtonPost.com<http://WashingtonPost.com/> --- as long as neither collects the fact that I went to NYT or WaPo (apart from exceptions like ad reporting, fraud, analytics) and certainly does not add that information to a profile about me. The language in the draft currently allows for this. However, I will try to put together some non-normative language on this today to make it clear. I have heard the argument that this unduly favors first-party sites who have a lot of user data, but I also think the privacy implications are dramatically reduced when ads are influenced based on data that a party already has about you. Shane, you had seemed to disagree with this idea in Brussels, so if you want to put forward a countersuggestion that's fine. Alternatively, Tom had disagreed on one of the calls that Facebook should be allowed to personalize content based on data it had collected as a first-party, so he may want to proffer another suggestion. I could see a stronger argument against allowing Yahoo! to use passively-collected data about what I read on the Yahoo! site rather than using affirmatively provided info, but I personally wouldn't draw the line there. It's also possible this issue is currently being discussed elsewhere on the mailing list, but I have not remotely been able to keep up. Justin Brookman Director, Consumer Privacy Center for Democracy & Technology 1634 I Street NW, Suite 1100 Washington, DC 20006 tel 202.407.8812 fax 202.637.0969 firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com> http://www.cdt.org<http://www.cdt.org/> @CenDemTech @JustinBrookman On 2/6/2012 10:10 AM, Shane Wiley wrote: And the proposed answer, "YES", as this appears to capture the 1st party exception cleanly and we have other statements that disallow a 1st party from sharing information with 3rd parties when DNT:1. - Shane From: Sean Harvey [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2012 5:27 PM To: firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com> Group WG Subject: ACTION-69: Renaming ISSUE-54 Hi all, apologies for the delay in submitting my action item. ISSUE-54 is intended to get at the question of whether or not a first party is allowed to leverage their own data, including registration data provided by the user at a previous time, in the context of a DNT header being ON. Keep in mind I am not intending to provide an answer, only to more appropriately rename the topic. In light of this I propose the Issue be renamed: "Can first parties customize their own websites or advertising based on their own user data when a DNT header is ON?" ---------- John M. Simpson Consumer Advocate Consumer Watchdog 1750 Ocean Park Blvd. ,Suite 200 Santa Monica, CA,90405 Tel: 310-392-7041 Cell: 310-292-1902 www.ConsumerWatchdog.org<http://www.ConsumerWatchdog.org/> firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:email@example.com> The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and/or proprietary of AdTruth. The information transmitted herewith is intended only for use by the individual or entity to which it is addressed. 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Millions on streets as Spain unites against austerity
- July 20, 2012
People & Protest
Struggles converge as miners, firefighters, judges, public employees, the unemployed and even the army step up their resistance against EU-enforced cuts.
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On Thursday, millions of Spaniards took to the streets in over 80 cities around the country in the largest protest since the past 15th of October, just hours after the Rajoy government ratified the largest budget cuts in the history of Spanish democracy. Once again, in times of crisis, the system shows it true face: as Congress and the streets around it were barricaded by militarized police forces, the ruling party (PP) enforced its absolute majority by carrying out the vote alone, while other parties left Parliament in protest.
Government Ratifies Austerity to Backdrop of Political Turmoil
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy arrived five hours after the debate had begun, just in time for the crucial vote. He has yet to appear in Congress to explain the actions his Government is carrying out, which include, apart from the mentioned austerity measures, an inexplicable deluge of lies and deliberate misinformation: as Spaniards learnt this week through the international media, their sovereignty (that is, the amount and conditions of a full bailout of the financial sector) is being debated not in Spain itself — but in Germany, Holland and Finland.
This new agreement, which Mr. Rajoy has failed to even bring up, implies a loan of up to 100bn euros that will fatten up the public debt even further. The deal, which will lead to even harsher austerity measures in the coming months, was simply left out of the public debate until mainstream media caught onto a document made public by the Dutch government mentioning the agreement and its possible conditions. A full review of this and other documents, some of which were kept confidential, was made public and explained yesterday by El Pais — Spain's largest newspaper — and led to widespread criticism from different segments of the Spanish population.
#19June: The Climax After a Week on the Streets
These events, cramped into a very tense week, have made the legitimacy of the Rajoy government hit its lowest level so far. In fact, the pressure on the establishment is becoming ever more evident as a wide range of the population is uniting to fight back. In Madrid, a spectacular and diverse protest of hundreds of thousands (200,000 to 800,000, according to some sources) marched under different banners, flags and slogans. The large central workers union's — UGT and CCOO — were present, as well dozens of other professional organizations, representing firemen, nurses and doctors, public transport workers, teachers from every level of public education, miners, feminist and pro-gay collectives, forest guards, 15-M sympathizers and old and new political groups — each of them with their own demands but with one common goal: "a por ellos". Furthermore, in a very interesting twist, hundreds of local and national policemen marched as well, as their union decided to protest against falling wages and bonuses. Massive protests also took place in Barcelona, Valencia, the Canary and Balearic Islands, Seville, Alicante as well as in another 80 cities and towns across the country.
The success of Thursday's demonstration marks the culmination of a week of unrest, with spontaneous protests organized daily via the #alacalle hashtag on Twitter, usually in front of Congress. Police presence in the area was very heavy throughout the week, and for the first time the whole premises were shut off with metallic fences guarded by riot police armed with rubber ball shotguns. The official headquarters of both main parties (PP and PSOE) were also guarded by militarized police as protesters randomly congregated before the buildings. These marches, made up mostly of indignant social workers, walked around eluding police lines chanting, making noise and blocking main roads.
Future Turbulence, Towards a General Strike
There is no doubt that social tension is on the rise throughout Spain. The government will have a very hard time to legislate as even its traditional allies are turning their backs. In a very significant declaration last Tuesday, the AUME (Unified Association of the Spanish Military) announced that it will support future popular protests, as a response to the reduction of their retributions and rights. Secretary General Mariano Casado, told the Público newspaper that AUME "might even contemplate calling for specific protests" involving all of its current members if the Ministry of Defense does not step back. This would be the first time in Spanish history for the military to organize a demonstration against a Conservative government led by the PP.
At the same time, other powerful groups are also organizing and have already announced strikes. Judges, prosecutors and other civil servants have denounced the government in a press release for "trying to dismantle the judiciary power (the General Council of the Judiciary)," as well as "attacking the independence of judges and the impartiality of prosecutors." The seven independent associations inside the the General Council of the Judiciary have agreed, for the first time in history, on creating a joint commission to coordinate and canalize all forms of retaliation which almost surely include future strikes.
In the following weeks the situation is bound to become critical. Sooner or later Mariano Rajoy must face the inevitable bailout, which has already been passed through the Bundestag. The reaction of the people can only be guessed. It is clear, however, that the situation has reached a turning point, as several different struggles are converging in pursuit of the same goal. The common enemy — the austerity dictatorship of the Conservative government, the neoliberal EU technocracy, and the powerful financial sector — is now very clear-cut.
On Saturday, the 15-M movement is organizing another series of marches that will be arriving in Madrid from around the country. This time the key actors are not the miners, but another key constituency that has been heavily hit by Spain's social and economic crisis: the unemployed. As activists have emphatically repeated, "if we get every unemployed Spaniard on the streets we would be millions." The first attempt starts this Saturday, #21J. A general strike is projected for the 25th of September.
With these different social struggles converging and popular resistance exploding into the streets and squares, Spain appears to be up for a wild ride in the weeks and months ahead.
Source URL — https://roarmag.org/essays/spain-protest-movement-austerity-indignados-crisis/


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It's been months since my last blog post here. I know… I miss this place, too. But I had to return before the end of the year to post my favorite albums that were released the last 12 months.
So here is what made my list for top 10 albums released in 2019.
UPDATE: I swapped out Karen O/Danger Mouse album in the number 8 place with Miniature Tigers new album.
Weezer "Weezer (Teal Album)"
– Ok, the cover of Toto's "Africa" on this album was overplayed… a LOT. I still liked it. But the other covers on this album were actually a lot better, including "Paranoid" "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" and "Take On Me" To say this album had a tongue in cheek feel would be accurate. -
The Cranberries "In The End"
– Dolores O'Riordan died almost 2 years ago, but there had already been completed studio sessions on her last remaining vocals being recorded. This album is very melancholy and somber and even with upbeat tracks like "All Over Now" which starts out the album, it's hard to know this will be the last time we hear those familiar vocals on new songs. -
Miniature Tigers "Vampires In The Daylight"
– As a fan of this indie pop/synth band for more than 10 years now, there wasn't supposed to be a new album in 2019. But Charlie Brand met with his band mates and came up with 11 tracks that are a mix of modern, eclectic and the kind of music we've come to expect from this band. "Manic Upswings" is the lead single, plus with songs like "Wish" and "Cool" this album is a instant fan favorite. -
Buckcherry "Warpaint"
– The only original member of this band is Josh Todd, which for some bands might spell doom for the many lineup changes they've had over the years. But this new album sounds great. Starting off the album with the self-titled opening track and throw in a really great cover of Nine Inch Nails "Head Like A Hole" and the closing song "Closer" as well as "The Vacuum" being a power song, then that twang-infused ballad "The Hunger", this album ends up being stronger then expected. -
Beck "Hyperspace"
– Two years ago, Beck had the upbeat and pop-friendly "Colors" album, which nearly made my best of album for 2017. Now we have a mix of some pop, some upbeat "Saw Lightning", and mostly mellow songs like "Uneventful Days" and "Chemical" It's a great effort, even if it took a few listens to catch on for me. -
The Pixies "Beneath the Eyrie"
– Since the Pixies returned back in 2004 with their original lineup, the last 3 new albums of music have been a mix of classic sound and reworked sounds. This year's new album fits that mix very well. Songs like "Long Rider" and "On Graveyard Hill" are pure Pixies all the way. "Bird of Prey" and "Daniel Boone" change things up a lot. Being the longtime Pixies fan I am, I liked this album and it's updates a lot. -
Bob Mould "Sunshine Rock"
– 7 years ago, Bob Mould made one of the best solo albums of his career with "Silver Age" Since then, variations on that classic sound from that album have been some great solo efforts. This year was no exception with this album and songs like the self-titled opening track. The hard edge guitar on "What Do You Want Me To Do" and "Thirty Dozen Roses" stand out very well. I really like "Lost Faith" which tones it down but brings the brilliance of this great musician in the modern age. -
Lana Del Rey "Norman Fucking Rockwell"
– I've never really been a fan of Lana Del Rey. I saw her live in 2014 at Austin City Limits and she was good, but nothing really stuck with me. Bring on 2019 and a new album produced by Jack Antonoff and this one really grabbed me and never let go. The opening self-titled track with the line "Goddamn, man child" and musically folk like in a way and I was hooked. Of course, before I heard the whole album, it was the Sublime cover of "Doin' Time" that really drove it home. I admit that I like this cover better than the original [don't hate me, Sublime fans]. Other tracks like "Fuck It I Love You" and "California" are low key in their sound, but speak so much lyrically that it's a great round of songwriting that landed this album on many best of year lists. The album ends perfectly with "Hope Is A Dangerous Thing For A Woman Like Me To Have – But I Have It" with such a great mix of spoken word. 14 songs long, this was a surprise album that I'm glad ended up on best of list for 2019. -
Killswitch Engage "Atonement"
– From the opening song "Unleashed" to the ending song "Bite the Hand That Feeds", the 11 songs from this latest album by my favorite metalcore band are well written, the sound is explosive and the flow is nothing short of great. Easily my favorite song on the album is "I Am Broken Too" which discussed lead singer Jesse Leach's struggles with anxiety and depression. "The Signal Fire" reunites previous lead singer Howard Jones with the band for a killer performance. The closest they get to a ballad is on "Us Against the World" And the song "The Crownless King" goes back to the sound of the first two albums when Jesse was the original lead singer. I love this band and they did not disappoint with another new album of incredible new songs. -
Tool "Fear Inoculum"
– 26 years. 5 studio albums. [not counting any EPs or bootleg albums] One lineup change. This is the musical career summed up in simple terms. 13 years between album releases is a rare thing for any band. Given Maynard's other musical projects – Puscifer and A Perfect Circle – which got some of the attention during this 13 year span between the 4th studio album "10,000 Days" and this most recent effort. Years of teasing news and sounds until May of this year, when two new songs "Descending" and "Invincible" were performed live at multiple dates. When the album was released on August 30th, fans were elated. Taylor Swift fans were pissed off two weeks later when "Fear Inoculum" entered the Billboard 200 at the top.– After a good 3 dozen listens as of this writing, the album still easily remained my pick for best album of 2019. My favorite songs are "Invincible", "Descending" and "7empest" In fact, the only song I skip most of the time is the instrumental last track "Mockingbeat" which at 2:06 is the shortest song on the album. The song "Pneuma" is the one track that reminds me the most of any Tool song, construction wise with how it starts out and how it flows. If you have not heard this album yet, go listen to it. You won't be disappointed. Unless you are a Taylor Swift fan.
And now, for my top choice of album that came out in 2019….
And sometime my album choices don't always match what my readers like (I'm lucky to get a couple of matches), so if have something to add, speak up below in the comments below. Or give me a shout out on anything you like on my list. What I might have missed this year, I can always go listen to see if it would have made my list.


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FSFE launches Campaign For A Free Android System
Smartphones have a privacy problem. This is one of the reasons why the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is launching its "Free Your Android!" campaign today.
"Users deserve to have full control over their mobile devices", says Torsten Grote, FSFE member and initiator of the campaign. "If your phone runs Free Software, you're in charge. If it runs proprietary software, you're handing control of your digital life to manufacturers and app developers."
The lack of software freedom on smartphones and tablets is becoming increasingly problematic. Many apps spy on their users without their knowledge (Carrier IQ) and transmit personal data such as address books on the iPhone. Other devices are completely locked down, prevent users from uninstalling certain apps, or just do not receive updates. "Free Your Android!" promotes versions of Android optimised for user control, and an alternative market that only provides free-as-in-freedom apps. It also invites people to contribute to various initiatives and to identify essential apps that still have no free alternatives.
"The Android operating system may be mostly free, but many applications are not", says Karsten Gerloff, FSFE's President. "Mobile devices contain lots of data about our lives. With this campaign, we will not only build awareness of how much privacy and freedom matter for smartphones and tablets, we will also give users the means to make their own devices better."
The Free Your Android campaign encourages people to get in touch with developers of useful proprietary apps. Often these apps are distributed free of charge, but not under a free licence. Responses and objections by developers are collected and analysed in a wiki.
Currently the FSF, and the German privacy organisation FoeBuD e.V. are working with FSFE in an effort to improve the conditions for software freedom and privacy in the mobile space. FSFE is looking forward to other organisations joining the campaign.


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SAN MATEO, Calif.,—May 5, 2005—NetSuite Inc., today announced a number of new customers who have selected NetSuite for their Customer Relationship Management (CRM) initiatives over salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), or switched from salesforce.com to NetSuite. These latest salesforce.com deserters were driven by the unique capabilities of the newly-unveiled NetSuite CRM+ including order management, incentive management, upsell/cross-sell capabilities, project tracking, Web site hosting and analytics, partner management and self-service, as well as customer self-service portals. For more information about NetSuite CRM+, please go to www.netcrm.com/crmplus.
Nightingale Informatix, icarz, TowerStream and The Inside Store all chose NetSuite for two simple reasons—first, to go beyond prospect management and second, to extend their marketing and selling processes to the Web. NetSuite CRM+ provides exactly what companies need to accomplish these goals.
Here is what some of these new customers say about NetSuite CRM+:
Nightingale Informatix - Based in Markham, Ontario, Nightingale Informatix Corporation ("Nightingale") is one of Canada's largest and fastest growing software providers for the healthcare community, providing leading end-to-end solutions offering electronic medical record (EMR), clinical automation and practice management capabilities to physicians and healthcare practitioners (www.nightingale.md).
"We decided to switch from salesforce.com to NetSuite for better visibility across our entire company, particularly in the advanced CRM features that touch each part of our growing organization," said Nick Vaney, VP, Finance and Corporate Development of Nightingale Informatix. "In addition, being that we're in Canada and will be looking to expand into the U.S., the multi-currency ability will allow our systems to handle growth in the business. With NetSuite, we'll have company-wide integration and will avoid retyping data thanks to quote generation capabilities and the offline client."
icarz - icarz is a leading provider of demand chain, Point Of Sale (POS) systems and business management solutions based in Cedar Knolls, NJ. icarz's next-generation, Internet enabled products make possible efficient, reliable product and parts distribution, providing their customers with real-time technology that gives them a competitive advantage and end-to-end visibility into the entire demand chain, starting from the Point Of Sale (www.icarz.com).
"Unlike salesforce.com, NetSuite allows us to use one system for leads, prospects, and customers," said Tony Conti, VP of Sales for icarz. "With all entities in one place, we get complete visibility and a solution that could be easily tailored to fit our company's special needs. And with NetSuite's dashboards built around orders, we can give each user the information they need to do their job, no matter if they were working with prospects or customers."
TowerStream - TowerStream Corporation is one of the leading fixed-wireless broadband providers in the U.S., currently offering dense coverage of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and the Greater Boston and Rhode Island areas. TowerStream uses the most advanced Broadband Wireless Technology to provide feature-rich Internet access without the use of fiber, telephone, or cable lines and is constantly expanding coverage throughout the U.S. with service in San Francisco and Oakland planned to launch next year (www.towerstream.com).
"We switched to NetSuite because salesforce.com doesn't have the extra features NetSuite does such as order management and integration with the Web site for lead generation," said Jeff Thompson, COO of TowerStream Corporation. "Before NetSuite, everything was done from different programs. Now once a sale is final and we have a contract, we provision equipment and turn on service, and this is all integrated right through NetSuite."
The Inside Store - Located in the heart of New York City, The Inside Store is a state-of-the-art online resource for home renovation and design needs. Offering high quality name brands with fast, easy shipping and top-notch customer service, The Inside Store aims to be consumers' first choice for fine home fixtures and accents. The Inside Store believes home is in the details and employs a knowledgeable team of experts to assist customers with making their homes enjoyable to live in - whether it's the little things or major projects (www.insidestore.com).
"We were outgrowing our current solutions and looked at salesforce.com but found that it didn't offer what we needed to integrate all our systems, including our Web site," said Eli Katz, President, The Inside Store. "The NetSuite CRM+ capabilities for order management, Web site hosting and incentive management will help give our sales team additional visibility and motivation to grow our business."


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What did Jack Welch say about KM?
It's always interesting to see what CEOs say about KM. Here's Jack Welch.
Jack Welch, the famous CEO of General Electric, did an excellent job of summarising the business vision for Knowledge Management, when he made this statement in the GE 1996 annual report.
"Our behaviour is driven by a fundamental core belief; the desire and the ability of an organisation to continuously learn from any source, and to rapidly convert this learning into action, is it's ultimate competitive advantage"
That's a really clear description of Knowledge Management (continuously learning from any source, and rapidly converting this learning into action), and a great link with the business driver (ultimate competitive advantage).
Is "Ultimate competitive advantage" a bit strong? Are there other advantages, such as market strength, or brand leadership?
Probably not – even organisations that have been in uniquely competitive positions still need to focus on knowledge management. Knowledge management is big at Microsoft, despite their near monopoly in the business software and operating environment market. De Beers have had a near monopoly of the world diamond market, but have also invested in knowledge management. You need to manage knowledge to be competitive, and to remain competitive, and to keep your monopoly in a rapidly changing world.
So if you are asked about the value Knowledge Management brings, then remember Jack Welch. KM is not about better taxonomies, or new portal, or about "getting people to be more social". It's about building a company that continuously learns, from any source, and turns that knowledge rapidly into action.
Learning – actionable learning – is the only continuously renewable business resource, and therein lies the ultimate competitive advantage that Jack Welch was talking about.


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Breathing difficulty may involve:
- Difficult breathing
- Uncomfortable breathing
- Feeling like you are not getting enough air
There is no standard definition for difficulty breathing. Some people feel breathless with only mild exercise (for example, climbing stairs), even though they don't have a medical condition. Others may have advanced lung disease, but may never feel short of breath. Breathing difficulty is a subjective feeling; only the person feeling it can decide if it is present.
Wheezing is one form of breathing difficulty in which you make a high-pitched sound when you breathe out.
Shortness of breath has many different causes. For example, heart disease can cause breathlessness if your heart is unable to pump enough blood to supply oxygen to your body. If your brain, muscles, or other body organs do not get enough oxygen, a sense of breathlessness may occur.
Breathing difficulty may also be due to problems with the lungs, airways, or other health problems.
Problems with the lungs:
- Blood clot in the arteries of the lungs (pulmonary embolism)
- Swelling and mucus buildup in the smallest air passages in the lungs (bronchiolitis)
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), such as chronic bronchitis or emphysema
- Pneumonia
- High blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs (pulmonary hypertension)
- Other lung disease
Problems with the airways leading to the lungs:
- Blockage of the air passages in your nose, mouth, or throat
- Choking on something stuck in the airways
- Swelling around the vocal cords (croup)
- Inflammation of the tissue (epiglottis) that covers the windpipe (epiglottitis)
Problems with the heart:
- Chest pain due to poor blood flow through the blood vessels of the heart (angina)
- Heart attack
- Heart defects from birth (congenital heart disease)
- Heart failure
- Heart rhythm disturbances (arrhythmias)
Other causes:
- Allergies (such as to mold, dander, or pollen)
- High altitudes where there is less oxygen in the air
- Compression of the chest wall
- Dust in the environment
- Emotional distress, such as anxiety
- Hiatal hernia (condition in which part of the stomach extends through an opening of the diaphragm into the chest)
- Obesity
- Panic attacks
- Anemia (low hemoglobin)
- Blood problems (when your blood cells cannot pick up oxygen normally; the disease methemoglobinemia is an example)
- Neuromuscular problems leading to weakness of the breathing muscles
Home Care
Sometimes, mild breathing difficulty may be normal and is not a cause for concern. A very stuffy nose is one example. Strenuous exercise, especially when you do not exercise often, is another example.
If breathing difficulty is new or is getting worse, it may be due to a serious problem. Though many causes are not dangerous and are easily treated, contact your health care provider for any breathing difficulty.
If you are being treated for a long-term problem with your lungs or heart, follow your provider's directions to help with that problem.
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Go to the emergency room or call the local emergency number (such as 911) if:
- Breathing difficulty comes on suddenly or seriously interferes with your breathing and even talking
- Someone completely stops breathing
See your provider if any of the following occur with breathing difficulties:
- Chest discomfort, pain, or pressure. These are symptoms of angina.
- Fever.
- Shortness of breath after only slight activity or while at rest.
- Shortness of breath that wakes you up at night or requires you to sleep propped up to breathe.
- Shortness of breath with simple talking.
- Tightness in the throat or a barking, croupy cough.
- You have breathed in or choked on an object (foreign object aspiration or ingestion).
- Wheezing.
- Significant worsening of baseline shortness of breath.
What to Expect at Your Office Visit
The provider will examine you. You'll be asked about your medical history and symptoms. Questions may include how long you've had difficulty breathing and when it started. You may also be asked if anything worsens it and if you make grunting or wheezing sounds when breathing.
Tests that may be ordered include:
- Blood oxygen saturation (pulse oximetry)
- Blood tests (may include arterial blood gases)
- Chest x-ray
- CT scan of the chest
- Electrocardiogram (ECG)
- Echocardiogram
- Exercise testing
- Lung function tests
If the breathing difficulty is severe, you may need to go to a hospital. You may receive medicines to treat the cause of breathing difficulty.
If your blood oxygen level is very low, you may need oxygen.
Alternative Names
Shortness of breath; Breathlessness; Difficulty breathing; Dyspnea
Braithwaite SA, Wessel AL. Dyspnea. In: Walls RM, ed. Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice. 10th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2023:chap 21.
Kraft M. Approach to the patient with respiratory disease. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Goldman-Cecil Medicine. 26th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2020:chap 77.
Schwartzstein RM, Adams L. Dyspnea. In: Broaddus VC, Ernst JD, King TE, et al, eds. Murray and Nadel's Textbook of Respiratory Medicine. 7th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2022:chap 36.
Review Date 5/3/2023
Updated by: Denis Hadjiliadis, MD, MHS, Paul F. Harron, Jr. Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Also reviewed by David C. Dugdale, MD, Medical Director, Brenda Conaway, Editorial Director, and the A.D.A.M. Editorial team.


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How many times do we see a map then up pops another using a very similar technique soon after. Only a couple of weeks since we saw Block by Block, Brooklyn's Past and Present which mapped building age in Brooklyn and now we have The Netherlands mapped in a similar way.
I wrote a blog called Taste the Rainbow which explored the problems of mapping sequenced data using a qualitative colour scheme and so this is a follow up, second helpings if you will, that comments on the colour on this new map. The Brooklyn map used a full spectral colour scheme and the point I made in the previous blog was simply that there was no way you could see any date sequence in the map with that colour scheme.
Made by Bert Spaan, the map of The Netherlands makes pleasant viewing with highly saturated colours on a dark background. Only the buildings are shown so the structure of the city gives the map its structure. No other data is necessary. It resamples a little as you zoom out but quite honestly at smaller scales the map doesn't have much impact. There needs to be some aggregation of the data and new symbolisation applied. At larger scales the individual buildings can be seen (and queried).
The use of colour on this map is certainly an improvement on the Brooklyn map. It uses a dichromatic colour scheme so we can see (a) buildings that share similar construction dates and (b) how neighbouring buildings are dated in relative terms. Dark reds move into oranges into yellows. But there are still problems. The colour scheme then goes into light blues and then onto dark blues. Why use dichromatic? There's no obvious reason why red should be old and blue should be new. Why not just use a single hue in a sequential scheme, light to dark? Then we could genuinely see at a glance older to newer.
Don't get me wrong...this map makes huge strides over the Brooklyn one and corrects the basic errors made. It just seems to still want to use lots of colour when actually, a brevity of colour and a more judicious use of lightness and saturation would give a map that communicates the key information more easily.
Is this an example of the map-maker wanting to use a full palette because it grabs attention more? Possibly. Throwing colour on a map is easy. It doesn't always do the data or purpose justice though.


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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and the technology company Continental today announced a new platform, expected to be available in 2019, for sharing vehicle data to enable new digital services that improve driver safety and convenience. At the same time, the platform will help car manufacturers monetize their data and differentiate their brands. Based on blockchain technology, the platform provides data sovereignty, security, transparency, and efficiency to overcome the barriers of sharing vehicle data.
Enterprises across different industries have understood that they need to find ways to break down data silos and enable multiple parties to work together to extract the full value from their data. In the case of connected and autonomous vehicles, data sharing across automotive brands is key to providing driver-assistance services that help drivers avoid traffic hazards and find the most convenient, practical and efficient travel routes – for example real-time traffic warnings and locating available parking.
Several existing digital ecosystems enable data sharing based on a middleman model, where platform owners centrally coordinate the data flows and monetization. Applying a complimentary approach, HPE and Continental's platform leverages a decentralized architecture based on blockchain technologies. Participants, such as car manufacturers, continue storing the data in their own data centers and only share specific data sets upon purchase directly with the buyer. This approach gives data sovereignty to all participants in the ecosystem, while at the same time providing a highly efficient and secure procedure for monetizing vehicle data.
"Sharing vehicle data across vendors can solve some of the toughest traffic problems and improve driver experience by leveraging the power of swarm intelligence," said Phil Davis, President Hybrid IT, Chief Sales Officer, HPE. "Together with Continental, we provide the key to unlock the value of this data treasure, not by taking control of the data ourselves, but by giving control to the drivers and car manufacturers."
The data-monetization platform will enable car manufacturers and other partners to trade data with each other – either to improve digital services for their customers or to monetize vehicle data. However, trading is only feasible upon a driver's consent. Therefore, the platform will integrate a consent management system and provide an easy to use opt-in and opt-out system for drivers. HPE and Continental take data privacy seriously to be compliant with GDPR and data protection regulations in other countries.
HPE and Continental have already received overwhelmingly positive feedback on the new platform from car manufacturers. "We are sure that our platform cuts the Gordian knot of data sharing and data privacy," said Helmut Matschi, Member of the Executive Board, Interior Division, Continental AG. "We invite car manufacturers globally to join our platform and collaboratively shape this quickly growing ecosystem."
As part of a strategic partnership between HPE and Continental, the new platform was jointly designed by HPE Pointnext and Continental's Interior division. HPE and Continental will provide additional services to facilitate data trading and the integration of vehicle data into car manufacturers' backend systems and services. The platform's interface capability will enable multiple ecosystems – both centralized and decentralized – to interconnect and leverage new ways of data monetization. Furthermore, the platform is compliant with the VDA NEVADA Share & Secure concept which was developed by the German automotive industry to govern the secure transmission and transfer of vehicle generated data to third parties.


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Look straight ahead, and fix your eyes on what lies before you (Proverbs 4:25 – Living).
To walk in the best that God has for you, it's important to look ahead, not behind. Think about how many people live in the shadow of what they have done. If it's negative, the past becomes a weight, or a strong chain, holding you back and keeping you from progressing. If you live only in the light of past accomplishments, you'll feel depressed, thinking that nothing could get better than that.
But our best days are ahead of us. I heard Lester Sumrall say many times, Nothing that I have done, nothing that I am doing, is to be compared to what I'm going to do for Jesus!
Paul encourages us to focus on the future: Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus (Philippians 3:13-14)
During an era of great personal hardship and disappointment in my life, my mind wanted to focus on where I had been, what I had accomplished, and how God had used me. It made me feel as though my days of usefulness and adventure were over. The Lord graciously showed me the dead end street I was on, and urged me to look ahead and believe Him for greater things.
During this time, as I was working one day God used a song by Steve Green to adjust my focus from behind to ahead. I broke down in sobs of thanksgiving as he sang: He who began a good work in you, He who began a good work in you, He'll be faithful to complete it, He'll be faithful to complete it. He who started the work will be faithful to complete it in you.
Let you daily confession be that your best days are yet to come! Think of all things that the Father has put in your heart, and make them the focus of your mental attention. If you want them badly enough, as you seek God, and pursue diligence, the Father and you will find a way to bring those desires to pass.
Remember that the path of the just is as a shining light, that shines more and more until that perfect day (Proverbs 4:18). Remember that He will perfect that which concerns me (Psalm 138:8). Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ (Philippians 1:6).
In the end, we become what we really expect. Expect God's best!


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Barbra joined about 200 people at the home of a Universal Studios Executive; Jennings Lang, for an ACLU benefit evening to raise money for the defense of Daniel Ellsberg. She agreed to take requests from those in attendance as well as from the telephone for $1,000 per song. A total of almost $60,000 was raised that evening.
David Geffen, who is in the audience, requests the song I Don't Know Where I Stand. When Barbra realizes that Joni Mitchell is in the audience as well she says, "I love your music and I also love the way you sing..."
Marvin Hamlisch is on piano. Barbra discovers Joni is in the audience.
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Barbra Streisand's impromtu/unrehearsed performance of this song is a pure pleasure. This song is one of my favorites and so rarely played, included on anything. I think it is one of Joni Mithcell's finest. I was on a cruise to the Greek Islands and the now deceased singer, Nancy Lamont sp? sang this song beautifully to the crowd of 900 men---no one knew it but me it seemed and I alone, sadly, gave her the standing ovation she deserved. Back to Barbra--this has turned me into a full fan....a voice all can relate too and so appealing to the masses rightfully so and now I understand why--when hearing her perform material so important to me. She proves to be very kind to Joni Mitchell as well...For the Record, as one of Barbra's albums is titled I think. Ah--and the music and lyrics of Joni's For the Roses loom large in my mind as my all time favorites---'spring from the boulders like a mama lion' and 'you have to shake your fists at lightening' --those words make me understand perhaps why Joni Mitchell fights so hard in the press regarding her work, and at times seems unkind---it's like her songs are like her children and she is defending them..she said something similar in Rolling Stone. I would love an 'album' of Barbra Streisand singing Joni Mithcell songs wtih piano--a mainstream smash--the world could use the upper...and the combo of Streisand's mass appeal goreous voice with the provactive Mitchell material could be a masterpiece.Time to look forward. We all can dream---Bob Plunkett, San Diego


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Authority: Title 23, Chapter 9, Code of Virginia.
A.1. This appropriation includes an amount not to exceed $1,928,348 the first year and $1,928,348 the second year from the general fund for the operation of the Family Practice Residency Program and Family Practice medical student programs. This appropriation for Family Practice programs, whether ultimately implemented by contract, agreement or other means, is considered to be a grant.
2. The University shall report by July 1 annually to the Department of Planning and Budget an operating plan for the Family Practice Residency Program.
3. The University of Virginia, in cooperation with the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority, shall establish elective Family Practice Medicine experiences in Southwest Virginia for both students and residents.
B. Out of this appropriation, $931,320 the first year and $931,320 the second year from the general fund is designated for the Virginia Foundation for Humanities and Public Policy. Pursuant to House Joint Resolution 762, 1999 Session of the General Assembly, funds in this Item begin to address the objective of appropriating one dollar per capita for the support of the Foundation.
C. Out of this appropriation shall be expended an amount estimated at $625,197 from the general fund and at least $318,850 from nongeneral funds the first year and $625,197 from the general fund and at least $318,850 from nongeneral funds the second year, for the educational telecommunications project to provide graduate engineering education, subject to a plan approved by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.
D. Out of this appropriation, $283,500 the first year and $283,500 the second year from the general fund, and at least $283,500 the first year and at least $283,500 the second year from nongeneral funds is designated for the independent Virginia Institute of Government at the University of Virginia Center for Public Service.
E. Out of this appropriation, $91,530 the first year and $91,530 the second year from the general fund is designated for the Virginia State Climatologist Office.
F.1. Out of this appropriation, $505,210 from the general fund and at least $314,447 in nongeneral funds the first year and $505,210 from the general fund and at least $314,447 in nongeneral funds the second year is designated for the "generalist initiative" to sustain the successful increases in generalist output for Virginia medical schools and generalist residency training programs. The University of Virginia, in conjunction with the Eastern Virginia Medical School and Virginia Commonwealth University, shall jointly collect and report the yearly outcomes of the Virginia Generalist Initiative to the Secretary of Education and the State Council of Higher Education biennially by October 1. The State Council shall report on the status of the Generalist Initiative to the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees at their regularly scheduled meetings in November.
2. The amounts appropriated shall be used for recruitment and admissions, curriculum enhancement and graduate medical education.
3. It is the intent of the General Assembly that the goals of the Virginia Generalist Initiative shall be as follows:
a. Based on a three year average, at least 50 percent of Virginia medical school graduates shall enter generalist residency programs;
b. Based on a three year average, at least 50 percent of Virginia generalist residency graduates shall enter generalist practice upon completion of residency training and at least 50 percent of those graduates shall practice in Virginia.
4. Further, it is the intent of the General Assembly that:
a. Generalist initiative recruitment and admissions programs shall be designed to actively recruit and retain Virginia medical students with an interest in generalist medicine from medically underserved areas of the Commonwealth; and
b. Generalist initiative education programs shall be designed to sustain educational experiences in community settings in general, and in medically underserved communities in particular, for both medical students and generalists.
c. In addition to the statistical goals specified above, the Virginia Generalist Initiative program shall be evaluated for its quality based on: 1) Virginia graduates' responses to the annual survey of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC); 2) Student evaluation of the program conducted by the individual institution; and 3) Faculty and community preceptors' evaluation of the student learning and skills.
G. It is the intent of the General Assembly to assist the three Virginia medical schools as they respond to changes in the need for delivery and financing of medical education, both undergraduate and graduate.
H. Out of this appropriation, at least $196,263 the first year and $196,263 the second year from the general fund shall be provided in support of diabetes education and public service at the Virginia Center for Diabetes Professional Education at the University of Virginia.
I. Out of this appropriation, $368,000 the first year and $368,000 the second year from the general fund shall be provided for the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia to conduct and preserve oral histories with senior public officials, to conduct the Virginia Youth Leadership Initiative which educates students in Virginia's secondary schools in the democratic process, and to develop programs that foster increased public awareness of the electoral system.
J. Out of this appropriation, $276,000 the first year and $276,000 the second year from the general fund is provided in recognition of unreimbursed indigent care provided by medical school faculty separate from the care provided by the medical center. These funds are in partial support of the direct cost of the first-professional medical education program for Virginia students. The cost study policies established in Item 218 shall apply to these patients and financial transactions. The annual report required in Item 218 of this act on financial activities and the qualification of patients shall be reported to the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and the Department of Planning and Budget.
K. Out of this appropriation, $210,000 the first year and $210,000 the second year from the general fund shall be provided to the University of Virginia to establish the Fishery Resource Grant Fund and Program authorized in Chapter 719, Acts of Assembly of 1999. Expenditures and disbursements from the Fund shall be made by the State Treasurer on warrants issued by the Comptroller upon written request of the Chairman of the Graduate Marine Science Consortium at the University of Virginia.
L.1. In order to appropriately plan and reserve for future major maintenance and repair work that will be required for Educational and General (E&G) facilities constructed with nongeneral funds and for which general fund maintenance reserves may be inadequate, the University of Virginia may establish, fund, and maintain reserves for major repairs, renewal, replacement and renovation to be funded from tuition or other nongeneral fund revenues. Annual contributions to such reserve funds shall not exceed three percent of the asset value of the educational and general buildings constructed with nongeneral fund revenues for which such reserves are established.
2. Any unexpended balances in such reserves at the close of business on June 30 of each year shall not revert to the surplus of the general fund but shall automatically be carried forward on the books of the State Comptroller and reappropriated for expenditure in the succeeding year.
3. The Comptroller of Virginia shall establish a special revenue account fund detail for nongeneral fund balances to support the above reserve fund.
4. On a monthly basis, the Comptroller of Virginia shall credit to the special reserve account fund detail for such reserve funds, the imputed interest earned by the investment of such reserve balances on deposit with the State Treasurer.
M. Out of this appropriation, $69,000 is provided each year from the general fund and $53,189 is provided each year from nongeneral funds in support of the State Arboretum at Blandy Farm.
N. The University of Virginia shall report to the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia no later than May 1 of each year its tuition, fee, and all other nongeneral fund revenues, in a manner as prescribed by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. The report shall include revenues from the current fiscal year and a projection of anticipated revenues for the next fiscal year.
O.1. Out of this appropriation, $3,843,157 the first year and $7,547,085 the second year from the general fund is provided to address base funding needs identified by the Joint Subcommittee Studying Higher Education Funding Policies and to mitigate the pressure on student tuition and fees. These amounts reflect a portion of the additional general fund support needed to provide adequate base support of the institution's core academic function. These additional funds will allow the institution to serve more students, retain existing students more effectively, increase the number of students receiving a degree or certificate, and enhance the quality and rigor of its academic programs. The Secretary of Education shall monitor the institution's efforts to meet these objectives and other statewide needs.
2. Out of this appropriation, the University may allocate funds to attract and retain distinguished faculty clinicians associated with the School of Medicine and the University's related health professional programs.


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In Revelation 1, John the apostle sees the glorified Christ in a vision. Jesus is standing among seven golden lampstands. In His hand, Jesus holds seven stars (Revelation 1:13, 16). In verse 20 Jesus explains, "The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands which you saw are the seven churches."
The meaning of the lampstands is plain. They represent the seven churches of Asia Minor. We know that a lampstand is intended to give light. The people of God, both as individuals and as congregations, are to be bearers of light. Jesus told His followers that they were the "light of the world" (Matthew 5:14). Paul told the church in Philippi that they were "seen as lights in the world" (Philippians 2:15). Since Jesus is the "true light" of the world (John 1:9), it makes sense that He is standing "among the lampstands" (Revelation 1:13)—the light shed abroad by the churches comes from Him. The stars held in Jesus' hand are also light-bearers.
However, the meaning of the angels is less plain. The Greek word angelos simply meant "messenger"; usually, the word was used for supernatural "messengers" from God. However, sometimes the word was applied to human messengers of God's Word: John the Baptist is called an "angelos" in Matthew 11:10.
Some scholars interpret the angels of Revelation 1:20 as heavenly beings. Others view them as the human messengers who bore John's letter. Others identify them as those who actually read the message to the congregations, that is, church leaders such as pastors, elders, or bishops. A pastor of a church functions as a "messenger" for God, delivering God's Word to the congregation.
If the angels of the seven churches are heavenly beings, then that would perhaps mean that each church had a "guardian angel" or some type of heavenly being associated with each congregation. There is a difficulty with this interpretation. John was writing the letters to them. Why should he write letters to angels—were the letters going to be read to the congregations by celestial beings? That is highly doubtful.
A better view is that the "angels" are envoys sent to John. During the time that the apostle was exiled on the Isle of Patmos, it is possible that local congregations sent delegates to him to inquire of his condition. These delegates could be the "angels" or "messengers" that were entrusted with the letters on their return trip.
Probably the best interpretation, however, is that the seven angels are the human leaders—the bishops, elders, or pastors—in the churches. Jesus used the apostle John to write messages addressed to seven notable church leaders, and these leaders would then share the messages with the rest of the church. The fact that the "stars" are held in Jesus' "right hand" is significant. The Lord Himself protects, upholds, and guides the leaders of the church with His strength and wisdom.


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The U.S. Senate confirmed Kansas Republican Rep. Mike Pompeo to be the Director of the CIA late on Monday over concerns from several congressional Democrats, who warned that putting Pompeo at the head of the intelligence agency would threaten civil liberties.
In an impassioned floor speech, Sen. Bernie Sanders called it "vital to have a head of the CIA who will stand up for our constitution, stand up for privacy rights." He continued, "Unfortunately, in my view, Mr. Pompeo is not that individual."
As we said late last year, we have concerns that many of President Donald Trump's nominees, including Pompeo, will undermine digital rights and civil liberties, and those concerns persist.
Specifically, Pompeo sponsored legislation that would have reinstated the National Security Agency's bulk collection of Americans' telephone metadata—an invasive program that civil liberties and privacy advocates fought to curtail by enacting the USA FREEDOM Act.
We also noted troubling op-eds written by Pompeo. In one piece in late 2015, Pompeo criticized Republican presidential candidates who were supposedly "weak" on national security and intelligence collection. "Less intelligence capacity equals less safety," he wrote.
In another op-ed a few weeks later, Pompeo criticized lawmakers for "blunting [the intelligence community's] surveillance powers" and called for "a fundamental upgrade to America's surveillance capabilities."
Critics on the Senate floor—including Sens. Ron Wyden, Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders—honed in on the latter op-ed, which also recommended restarting the metadata collection that was curtailed under USA FREEDOM Act and "combining it with publicly available financial and lifestyle information into a comprehensive, searchable database." Pompeo continued, "Legal and bureaucratic impediments to surveillance should be removed."
While Pompeo's defenders argued that an effective intelligence agency should be utilizing publicly available information posted to social media, Wyden—who fought for delay to give the Senate more time to consider Pompeo's nomination—drew a sharp distinction between seeking out social media information related to a known intelligence target and creating the database Pompeo has envisioned.
"It is something else entirely to create a giant government database of everyone's social media postings and to match that up with everyone's phone records," Wyden said, calling the idea "a vast database on innocent Americans."
Wyden also criticized Pompeo for skirting questions from lawmakers about what kinds of information would end up in the database, including whether the database would include information held by data brokers, the third-party companies that build profiles of internet users. He criticized Pompeo for being unwilling to "articulate the boundaries of what is a very extreme proposal."
EFF thanks all 32 Senators who voted against Pompeo and his expansive vision of government surveillance. We were especially pleased by the "no" vote from our new home-state Sen. Kamala Harris of California.
EFF and other civil liberties advocates will work hard to hold Pompeo accountable as CIA Director and block any attempts by him or anyone else to broaden the intrusive government surveillance powers that threaten our basic privacy rights.