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Female country music stars are accusing country music consultant Keith Hill of discriminating against women after he advised stations to play fewer songs by female artists. Hill, who calls himself "the world's leading authority on music scheduling," made the comments to Country Aircheck Weekly.Always. Even if it means that those female singers and songwriters will have smaller audiences and make less money. Never mind what the numbers say. Never mind what the people motivated by maximizing profit say. Obviously a bigger piece of a smaller pie is better for all women, right?
"They're just not the lettuce in our salad," he said. "The lettuce is Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton, Keith Urban and artists like that. The tomatoes of our salad are the females."
But he insisted he is not being sexist.
"In a deep irony, it's the demand of female listeners who aren't thinking about it. They're just responding to that flow of song after song, and if that mix has more females in it, they turn off quicker," explained Hill. He added, "My stations win by taking females out. Sometimes that's enough to go from the number three station to the number one station in a market."
One of the first to speak out was country music star Miranda Lambert, using a common expletive that describes bovine fecal matter to explain how she felt about Hill's statement. She took to Twitter:
I am gonna do everything in my power to support and promote female singer/songwriters in country music. Always.
— Miranda Lambert (@mirandalambert) May 28, 2015
Women hate objective measures. After all, it should be easy enough for them to prove Hill wrong. Just play all female country all the time. Why don't they do that?


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Six music Emmys, two Grammy nominations, three gold records, seven Public Television specials and 8 million records sold. After more than three decades as an international entertainer, John Tesh's recording and live concert career continues to thrive today.
Whether at the solo piano, with a 12-piece 'big band' or an 80 piece orchestra, Tesh's ability to create a unique journey for concert fans with music and storytelling has taken him from the Red Rocks Amphitheater and the Coliseum in Rome to Carnegie Hall and The Kennedy Center. John's live television concerts, including the seminal 'Live at Red Rocks,' have raised more than 20 million dollars for Public Television.
Tesh's consistent popularity as a TV and Radio broadcaster has only amplified the personal connection with his loyal tribe of fans who get to listen to him 6 days a week on the 'Intelligence For Your Life' radio and television programs. The radio show alone amasses 34 million gross impressions/per week. John's Facebook page has a weekly reach of 15-20 million engagements/week. The weekly TV program adds another 2 million impressions. Tesh and his marketing team regularly utilize these robust platforms to promote his live concert performances.
Twenty five years and 50 plus recordings into his multi-faceted, ever-evolving musical and broadcast career, John Tesh's highly successful and varied career path also includes a string of #1 radio hits, a Keyboard Magazine Performance award, 12 years as an investigative journalist for the CBS TV Network, a 10-year run as anchor on Entertainment Tonight, broadcast host and music composer for the Barcelona and Atlanta Olympic Games, and the unique distinction of composing what critics have hailed as "The greatest sports theme song in television history," the NBC SPORTS' NBA Basketball Theme.
A self-proclaimed school "band geek" playing trumpet in marching and jazz bands in junior high and high school, Tesh was proficient on the trumpet and piano from the age of six. He studied privately with teachers from The Julliard School, and was named to the New York State Symphonic Orchestra in high school while also playing Hammond B3 in 3 Long Island rock bands.


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In immuno-oncology, the goal is to enable a patient's immune system to locate and eliminate cancerous cells. The immune system may normally protect against cancer – except when cancers manage to evade it – since immunocompromised individuals have a higher likelihood of developing cancer. Checkpoint inhibitors, which have recently improved the prognosis for a significant number of cancer patients, work by blocking inhibitory molecules such as PD-L1 and CTLA-4 that may be allowing cancers to evade the adaptive immune system. However, by taking the brakes off the immune system, the use of checkpoint inhibitors is associated with a significant risk of developing autoimmune disease. Additionally, frequently checkpoint inhibitors are not effective.
In order to maximize the safety and efficacy of checkpoint inhibitors, it is beneficial to identify patients who are likely to respond to their use. Since the adaptive immune system can detect changes to proteins, it is thought that the number of somatic mutations that lead to such changes may be correlated with efficacy. The metric of non-silent somatic mutations per megabase of coding DNA has been termed tumor mutational burden (TMB), which has shown some correlation to the efficacy of checkpoint inhibitors. Assessments of TMB are being added to many NGS assays to enable their use for patient selection in I-O clinical trials, and perhaps as companion diagnostics to these therapies. However, it is also known that TMB scores can differ significantly between assays and especially around levels that may be clinical decision points.
To improve and harmonize the measurement of TMB, we have generated and characterized tumor-normal human cell lines with different TMB scores by whole exome sequencing, for use in validating targeted NGS panel-based TMB assays, and as controls for TMB measurements in I-O clinical trial projects.
The TMB reference materials are formated as genomic DNA (purified mix) and/or FFPE (require extraction).
gDNA TMB Reference Standards:
Reference standards are made from human lung cancer cell lines and their matched "normal" cell lines from peripheral blood of the same patients.
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URGENT: Congress Pushing Broad New Internet Snooping Bill
"A direct assault on Internet users" is what the ACLU is calling it. Yesterday a U.S. House committee approved HR 1981, a broad new Internet snooping bill. They want to force Internet service providers to keep track of and retain their customers' information -- including your name, address, phone number, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses.
The American Civil Liberties Union, the American Library Association, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Demand Progress, and 25 other civil liberties and privacy groups have expressed our opposition to this legislation. Will you join us, by emailing your lawmakers today? Just use the form at right.
They've shamelessly dubbed it the "Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act," but our staunchest allies in Congress are calling it what it is: an all-encompassing Internet snooping bill. ISPs would collect and retain your data whether or not you're accused of a crime.
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Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, who led Democratic opposition to the bill said, "'It represents a data bank of every digital act by every American' that would 'let us find out where every single American visited Web sites."
"The bill is mislabeled," said Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the senior Democrat on the panel. "This is not protecting children from Internet pornography. It's creating a database for everybody in this country for a lot of other purposes."
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The Mathketball Diaries is a book written by Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate. It first appeared in Kwanza segment of the non-canonical "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular". It is later seen in "Overclockwise" where Bender reads it while in an overclocked state.
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We, as a group of Bristol Bay drift fishermen, are deeply concerned about the actions of the Alaska State Troopers and their approach of targeting us, so-called "Russian" fishermen.
This salmon season, around July 2013, it has become increasingly obvious to us of the unfair treatment of our fishing group. We feel strongly discriminated against.
After this 2013 Bristol Bay salmon season, an anonymous video surfaced of Alaska State Troopers videotaping fishing boats on the north line of the Ugashik District. The troopers were crawling around through the grass, hidden from view. After viewing this video, it is obvious that the troopers were targeting us "Russian" boats. Even though there were many non-Russian boats fishing in the same exact location, the troopers called out only the "Russian" boat names in the video.
We feel very discriminated against by the Alaska State Troopers' approach to us this year, and in years past. This video is not the only evidence of such actions. For example: In 2009, Nushagak District, Schooner Channel, a "Russian" boat made a "perfect set," 15 feet inside the district during completely slack water. Troopers ran up to the aforementioned vessel and started yelling at the skipper to pull his gear out of the water. Even after clearly proving to the troopers that the vessel and all of the gear were inside the district, the troopers continued to push the law-abiding vessel out, still yelling.
The skipper had no other choice but to pull out his gear. As this "Russian" boat started pulling his gear, at the same time, another non-Russian boat set his gear even closer to the line. The troopers witnessed all of this happen in a matter of minutes (still slack water).
The "Russian" skipper saw clearly that the troopers made room for the second vessel (because there was no yelling, and the Troopers simply sped off).
There are many other similar discriminating examples.
We are all United States citizens (born and raised). We want to be treated equally. We do not want to write these types of complaints. But unfortunately, it's become unbearable. We want this type of harassment to stop.
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Hello Webroot Community,
I wanted to create a space for us to come together and discuss Webroot and COVID-19.
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In case you might have missed it, we created a page here where we'll keep a running list of articles, blog posts, and other pieces of content about our COVID-19 response.
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Home PR News LACNIC 27: Key Debates on the Future of the Internet and IPv6 Deployment in the Region LACNIC 27: Key Debates on the Future of the Internet and IPv6 Deployment in the Region7 years ago·2 min readShareTweetPinShare Share MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, May 2, 2017 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — LACNIC will be holding its 27th meeting together with NIC.br on 22-26 May at the Bourbon Cataratas Hotel in Foz do Iguaçu, Brasil. Topics to be presented during the meeting include IPv6 implementation success stories in the LAC region, the final stage of IPv4 exhaustion, progress made by Latin American and Caribbean Internet exchange points, and major threats to cybersecurity. With more than 700 registered participants from more than 30 Latin American and Caribbean countries, the LACNIC 27 meeting will also address emerging trends in technology and their impact on the future development of the Internet over the next 10 years, as well as women's participation in Information Technologies with a panel especially devoted to this topic. One of the critical aspects of the Foz do Iguaçu meeting will be accelerating IPv6 deployment after IPv4 exhaustion at a time when the region has reached an Internet penetration rate of 59.6%. According to the latest information available on 31st March, the Latin American and Caribbean community has already reached 385 million users, having incorporated 40 million new users over the past year (Internet World Stats, http://www.internetworldstats.com/). The IPv6 protocol is key not only to foster the development of the Internet of Things throughout the region, but also because it is a vital tool for connecting 40% of Latin Americans who do not yet have access to the Internet. There are 255 million users in this situation and only 4 million IPv4 addresses, so IPv6 is essential for any project aimed at providing access to such communities. As expected, much of the analysis and discussions in Foz do Iguaçu will focus on IPv6 deployment. The event will also include a panel on successful cases of IPv6 implementation in the region (examples in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay) and the IPv6 Challenge aimed at recognizing projects that have promoted the implementation of version 6 of the IP protocol. According to research conducted by LACNIC, at least nine countries of the region already have more than 1% of their traffic over IPv6: Guatemala, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Trinidad Tobago, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru. Likewise, the first regional anti-abuse group formed by LACNIC, LACNOG and M3AAWG will be officially presented and five proposals for policy modifications will be discussed during the Policy Forum.See alsoPR NewsMastercard Partners with Facebook to Enable Brazilians to Send and Receive Money Using WhatsApp This meeting would not be possible without the support of its sponsors: Cisco, Huawei, Google, NTT Communications, Internet Society, ICANN, Netflix , Arbor, Facebook, Antel, Telcomanager, Grupo Binario, GlobeNet, Ams-ix, Secure64, IP Trading, Furukawa and our local organizer NIC.br. We encourage everyone with an interest in these issues to participate remotely at http://www.lacnic.net/web/eventos/lacnic27 Share
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Why We Fight, the sobering documentary from Eugene Jarecki (The Trials of Henry Kissinger), examines the rise of this behemoth and the perils it holds for our democratic way of life. Nowhere near as polemical as Jarecki's earlier indictment of Kissinger, the film is not a broadside against the Bush administration. It stresses that Democrats and Republicans alike are responsible for where we find ourselves today, though it also charts how the situation has intensified during the past five years.
Jarecki's film, which walked off with the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2005, takes its title from a series of World War II-era propaganda films that Frank Capra made at the behest of the U.S. government. Those films were intended to rouse the American public to stand up and fight for democracy. Jarecki's goal is similar, but rather than focusing on dangers from abroad, he is concerned with threats from within specifically, how the symbiotic relationship that has developed between the government, the military and the defense industry jeopardizes the very principles upon which the nation was founded.
War has become big business in the United States, driven by powerful forces whose livelihoods depend upon maintaining a permanent state of armed conflict. Former CIA consultant and noted political scientist Chalmers Johnson points to how all parties have a financial and/or strategic interest in expanding the government's arms budget: "When war becomes that profitable, you see more war."
Rather than placing controls on this mutually beneficial alliance, many in Congress have joined it, relying upon campaign contributions from interest groups that have enormous stakes in maintaining the status quo. "[Today's] priorities are set by what benefits corporations, not our country," says Arizona Republican Senator John McCain.
A variety of political perspectives are offered in the documentary, including those of well-known neo-conservatives such as William Kristol and Richard Perle, and dyed-in-the-wool liberal Gore Vidal. The majority of those interviewed, however, are former government and/or military officials with no political ax to grind; many of them are sympathetic to Bush's aims but not his methods.
It should be noted that Why We Fight was made with the cooperation of the Department of Defense, which helped facilitate many of the interviews, including the two Air Force pilots who conducted the first stealth bomber strikes on Baghdad. Also adding their voices to the debate are Air Force Secretary James G. Roche and retired Brigadier General John S.D. Eisenhower, a military historian and son of the late president.
The film's most poignant moments belong to retired New York City police officer Wilton Sekzer, a Vietnam vet whose son died when the World Trade Center was struck. If Why We Fight can be said to have a main character, it is Sekzer, who, upon hearing President Bush suggest that Saddam Hussein was responsible for the 9/11 attacks, lent his unequivocal support to the invasion of Iraq. He spent months appealing to Congress and the Pentagon to paint his son's name on the side of one of the bombs that would be dropped on Iraq. When Bush, months later, tried to say that he had never made a Saddam-9/11 connection, Sekzer was devastated.
The other, most personable individual is retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, who was in the Pentagon when it was hit on 9/11. A twenty-year military veteran, she resigned her commission when Bush declared war against Iraq. Privy to all of the intelligence that was gathered on Saddam Hussein, she states unequivocally that "the war in Iraq had nothing to do with the war on terrorism."
An even more damning indictment may be her comment that, in light of the direction our country has taken during the past three years, "I will not allow my own kids to join the military." The power of that simple sentence cannot be overstated, nor can the effect of seeing President Eisenhower's actual farewell address. Adding to the film's underlying sense of urgency and unease is composer Robert Miller's haunting score, so reminiscent of Philip Glass's music for The Fog of War.
One statement above all others sends a chill through the audience. It is a remembrance by Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of the late president and an expert, in her own right, on international security and arms control. She quotes her grandfather as having remarked, "God help this country when somebody sits at this desk who doesn't know as much about the military as I do."
God help us, indeed.


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Princeton scientist recasts problems, offering new tools for old quandaries
A Princeton scientist with an interdisciplinary bent has taken two well-known problems in mathematics and reformulated them as a physics question, offering new tools to solve challenges relevant to a host of subjects ranging from improving data compression to detecting gravitational waves.
Salvatore Torquato, a professor of chemistry, has shown that two abstract puzzles in geometry — known as the "covering" and "quantizer" problems — can be recast as "ground state" problems in physics. Ground state problems relate to the study of molecule systems at their lowest levels of energy and have numerous applications across scientific disciplines. Torquato's conclusions are reported in a paper that was published online Nov. 10 by Physical Review E.
"This paper describes what I believe to be a wonderful example of the deep interplay between geometry and physics," Torquato said. The problem of determining the ground states of special interacting particles, which is relevant to studies of conditions of materials approaching absolute zero, is directly applicable to these math questions, he explained.
"In other words," Torquato said, "what appear to be abstract mathematical problems can be related to the cooling of special liquids that undergo phase transitions to crystal states at a temperature of absolute zero. These reformulations are completely new to my knowledge."
The interdisciplinary nature of the study reflects Torquato's wide-ranging research expertise. He also is a faculty member at the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, a senior faculty fellow at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science and an associated faculty member in Princeton's Department of Physics, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics and Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
The covering problem refers to a quandary in mathematics that employs geometrical principles to understand the most efficient way to arrange overlapping spheres so that they cover the maximum amount of space. The covering problem has applications in wireless communication network layouts, search templates for gravitational waves and some forms of radiation therapy.
The quantizer problem is concerned with finding an optimal point configuration. The problem comes into play when mathematicians attempt to reduce what is known as a "distance error." This occurs, for example, when researchers are devising data compression techniques. They want to find the most efficient way to convey large amounts of data. They also must represent the information contained within it as accurately as possible. In these problems, fractional numbers representing data points are rounded off to the nearest point of an underlying array of points representing the optimal configuration, resulting in the distance errors.
In addition to providing solutions for data compression, the approach offers answers to other aspects of computer science bearing upon digital communications, particularly coding and cryptography, and numerical methods involving partial differential equations.
Torquato started on his new approach after learning from a colleague about the quantizer problem and seeing parallels with other studies on the ground state in physics. He already was familiar with the covering problem because of his interest in sphere-packing puzzles.
The covering and quantizer problems are major problems in discrete mathematics and information theory, according to Henry Cohn, a mathematician with Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, Mass.
These quandaries have, however, received much less attention than related problems such as packing, Cohn said, because "they seem to be far more subtle and complicated and thus much more difficult to study."
Torquato's study, he added, develops the theory from a physics perspective and builds new connections with the theory of energy minimization and ground states.
"One consequence is new insights into the role of randomness and disorder," Cohn said. "I'm also intrigued by the potential use for detecting gravitational waves, which would be a remarkable application of mathematics."
Tackling the problem
As a starting point, Torquato knew that covering and quantizer problems could be considered optimization problems, in which researchers attempt to either minimize or maximize a particular function. For example, in the covering problem, the idea is to find the best possible array of points in overlapping spheres that cover the maximum amount of space. In the quantizer problem, the goal is to minimize the errors inherent in rounding off "nasty numbers," according to Torquato.
The breakthrough came when he recognized that the covering and quantizer problems could be cast as energy minimization or ground state problems in any space dimension. In such problems, a researcher attempts to find an optimal arrangement of molecules (or points) that minimizes the total energy of all the particles in the system. This is a difficult task in general because the interactions or forces a molecule experiences due to all of the other molecules is very complex and the resulting patterns are challenging to predict.
In thinking about particles close to absolute zero, Torquato knew that these particles were in their ground state and represented the perfect array for energy minimization. He realized that the point arrays being studied in covering and quantizer problems could also be described as interacting systems of particles. Finding the ground states for those interacting particle systems, he further realized, would represent the best solution to the covering and quantizer problems.
In the paper, Torquato also has drawn connections to two other seemingly different but important mathematical conundrums, including the sphere-packing problem and the density-fluctuation (number variance) problem, the latter of which is related to a classical problem in number theory. The sphere-packing problem asks for the densest arrangements of spheres, which is a notoriously difficult problem. The renowned mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler proposed what he viewed as the best solution in 1611. It has only been in the last few years that researchers have devised a proof of Kepler's conjecture.
"These results may have important implications across many fields, which speaks to the fundamental nature of the problems," Torquato added.
One of the more intriguing possible applications to his work would be in helping to develop search templates for gravitational waves.
Gravitational waves are ripples in the structure of space-time, which may occur individually or as continuous radiation. According to Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, they are emitted when extremely massive objects, such as black holes, experience sudden accelerations or changes of shape. While in theory they travel through space at the speed of light, gravitational waves remain undetected.
"The problem of the detection of gravitational waves is a huge problem in astrophysics," Torquato said. Scientists attempting to analyze data from currently existing gravitational wave detectors may be able to use the insights from his paper to design software tools for more accurate searches through high-dimensional data sets, Torquato said.
The work builds on his approach to the sphere-packing problem. In August 2009, Torquato and Yang Jiao, now a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton, made a major advance in addressing a twist on a longstanding packing problem, jamming more tetrahedra — solid figures with four triangular faces — and other polyhedral solid objects than ever before into a space.


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