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The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced that worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $74.65 billion during the second quarter of 2013, an increase of 6 percent from the first quarter when sales were $70.45 billion. This marks the largest quarterly increase in three years. Global sales for June 2013 hit $24.88 billion, an increase of 2.1 percent compared to June 2012 and 0.8 percent higher than the May 2013 total. Regionally, sales in the Americas jumped 8.6 percent in Q2 compared to Q1 and 10.6 percent in June 2013 compared to June 2012, marking the region's largest year-over-year increase of 2013. All monthly sales numbers are compiled by the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization and represent a three-month moving average.
"There's no question the global semiconductor industry has picked up steam through the first half of 2013, led largely by the Americas," said Brian Toohey, president and CEO, Semiconductor Industry Association. "We have now seen consistent growth on a monthly, quarterly, and year-to-year basis, and sales totals have exceeded the latest industry projection, with sales of memory products showing particular strength."
Quarterly sales outperformed the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization's latest industry forecast, which projected quarter-over-quarter growth of 4.6 percent globally and 3.4 percent for the Americas (compared to the actual increases of 6 percent and 8.6 percent, respectively). Total year-to-dates sales of $145.1 billion also exceeded the WSTS projection of $144.1 billion. Actual year-to-date sales through June are 1.5 percent higher than they were at the same point in 2012.
Regionally, sales in June increased compared to May in the Americas (3.5 percent), Asia Pacific (0.4 percent), and Europe (0.1 percent), but declined slightly in Japan (-0.9 percent). Compared to the same month in 2012, sales in June increased substantially in the Americas (10.6 percent), moderately in Asia Pacific (5.4 percent), and slightly in Europe (0.8 percent), but dropped steeply in Japan (-20.8 percent), largely due to the devaluation of the Japanese yen.
"While we welcome this encouraging data, it is important to recognize the semiconductor workforce that drives innovation and growth in our industry," continued Toohey. "A key roadblock inhibiting our innovation potential is America's outdated high-skilled immigration system, which limits semiconductor companies' access to the world's top talent. The House of Representatives should use the August recess to work out their political differences on this issue and return to Washington next month ready to approve meaningful immigration reform legislation."


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Dr. Shimon Harrus did not intend to find the world's first vaccine against canine monocytic ehrlichiosis (CMT), a sometimes fatal tick-borne disease in dogs. Instead, he was attempting to determine how long ticks must be attached to a dog's fur in order to transmit CMT.
"I was using bacteria I cultured in my lab, and all of a sudden I realized the two dogs in our experiment did not become sick, and the ticks I put on the dogs did not become infected," Harrus tells ISRAEL21c. "Then we performed a big study and we realized something important was going on."
The remarkable results of the experiments done by Harrus and his lab partner, Dr. Gad Baneth, over the past four or five years are outlined in a December 17, 2012 article in the journal Vaccine.
Harrus is dean of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Koret School of Veterinary Medicine in Rehovot. Baneth is a professor of veterinary medicine at the school.
Harrus explains that CME is prevalent worldwide, and currently cannot be prevented aside from tick control. If dogs become infected, they must undergo a lengthy course of antibiotic treatment.
"The vaccine developed by Profs. Harrus and Baneth is the first vaccine to prove effective against this disease," said Yaacov Michlin, CEO of Yissum, the university's technology transfer company.
"The current lack of vaccine for CME, the growing awareness of the market and the growing market needs make this invention particularly attractive, and Yissum is currently looking for commercial partners for further development and commercialization purposes."
The most common infectious disease in dogs
A bite from a brown dog tick passes Ehrlichia bacteria into the dog's bloodstream. The disease may be acute or chronic. In the acute stage, several weeks after infection and lasting for up to a month, the dog will have fever and lowered peripheral blood-cell counts. Some dogs progress to the chronic phase, which can lead to low blood-cell counts, bone marrow suppression and bleeding, often resulting in death.
The potential vaccine was developed from Harrus and Baneth's proprietary attenuated strain of Ehrlichia canis. They and their doctoral students assessed the formula on 12 dogs divided into three groups. Four dogs were inoculated (vaccinated) with the attenuated Ehrlichia strain twice, four dogs only once and the last group of four dogs served as the control group.
The vaccinated dogs showed no clinical signs of disease after the inoculation, suggesting that the novel vaccine is safe and does not induce adverse effects. When the dogs were later infected with a virulent Ehrlichia field strain, the control dogs all developed a severe disease, whereas only three of the eight vaccinated dogs presented mild transient fever and the rest remained healthy.
Harrus says funding is needed for continued research before the vaccine can be commercialized.
"We need to make sure it works against other strains, we need to learn the mechanism by comparing the attenuated strain against wild strains, and we have many other research questions."
Now in his sixth year as head of the veterinary school, Harrus says his research is so important to him that he gave up most of his clinical work at the vet school's affiliated animal hospital in order to remain active in the lab. His areas of interest are infectious and vector-borne diseases; how fleas and rodents carry and transmit disease to animals; and the Bartonella bacteria that cause diseases such as cat-scratch fever.
CME is one of the most common infectious diseases in canines, affecting not only pets but also foxes, wolves, jackals and other wild dogs. Canine vaccines are the fastest growing segment within the global veterinary vaccine market, which in 2011 grossed $4.23 billion. That number is expected to climb to $5.6 billion by 2015.

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Since the summer of 2006 Byron has integrated an Xtracycle longtail cargo bike into his family's life and blogged about it here on bikehugger. The affectionately named "Bettie," has seen several iterations. Bettie 1.0 was a Karate Monkey equipped with an Xtracycle Free Radical. Most recently, Bettie 2.5 has emerged as a Surly Big Dummy with custom mounted Stoke Monkey electric assist. No matter where we go, the sport utility bike turns heads. When we're spinning up bike blended smoothies at a crit race, or just out with the kids at soccer practice, everyone wants to know more about Bettie. We've become such fans of Xtracycle cargo bikes, that we've doubled down. I'm pleased to unveil "Barney" Big Dummy. Mark V, recently completed the build of Barney at Elliot Bay Bikes. You can check out photos of Barney step'in out with a down low glow on his first trip to "Full Throttle Bottles," Beer store in Georgetown. We look forward to comparing Barney's Rohloff drive train performance to Bettie's Nuvinci after I get a chance to put some rubble under Barney's tires.
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In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth, and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks.
Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-minted lawyer, Frederick Aiken, a 28-year-old Union war-hero, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt, her own son, John. As the nation turns against her, Surratt is forced to rely on Aiken to uncover the truth and save her life. (Source)
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Panic Disorder
Panic disorder is a type of anxiety disorder. It causes sudden feelings of terror and may cause people to live in constant fear. Medicines and therapy are effective treatments for panic disorder.
Panic Disorder Overview
Panic disorder is a type of anxiety disorder. It causes panic attacks, which are sudden feelings of terror when there is no real danger. People with panic disorder may feel as if they are losing control, and they may experience physical symptoms of fear and anxiety, including a fast heartbeat, chest or stomach pain, breathing difficulty, or sweating.
Panic attacks can happen anytime, anywhere, and without warning. People may live in fear of attacks and may avoid places where they have had an attack. For some people, fear takes over their lives and they cannot leave their homes.
Panic disorder is more common in women than men. It usually starts when people are young adults. Sometimes it starts when a person is under a lot of stress. Panic disorder is often accompanied by other serious problems, such as depression, drug abuse, or alcoholism. These conditions need to be treated in order to effectively manage the panic disorder. Most people with panic disorder get better with treatment, which can include therapy and medicines.
Panic Disorder Symptoms
Panic attacks are the hallmark symptom of panic disorder. Panic attacks typically begin suddenly and without warning. They can strike at any time. You may have occasional panic attacks or they may occur frequently.
Panic attacks have many variations, but symptoms usually peak within minutes. You may feel fatigued and worn out after a panic attack subsides.
Panic attacks typically include some of these symptoms:
- sense of impending doom or danger
- fear of loss of control or death
- rapid, pounding heart rate
- sweating
- trembling or shaking
- shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, or tightness in your throat
- chills
- hot flashes
- nausea
- abdominal cramping
- chest pain
- headache
- dizziness, lightheadedness, or faintness
- numbness or tingling sensation
- feeling of unreality or detachment
People with panic disorder may live in constant fear of having an attack. They may have:
- sudden and repeated attacks of fear
- a feeling of being out of control during a panic attack
- an intense worry about when the next attack will happen
- a fear or avoidance of places where panic attacks have occurred in the past
- physical symptoms during an attack, such as a pounding or racing heart, sweating, breathing problems, weakness or dizziness, feeling hot or a cold chill, tingly or numb hands, chest pain, or stomach pain.
Panic Disorder Causes
The cause of panic disorder is not fully understood. It is likely caused by a combination of genetics, stress, temperament, and changes in brain function. Panic disorder sometimes runs in families, but it is not clear why.
Panic Disorder Diagnosis
If you have symptoms that suggest panic disorder, your doctor will probably conduct several tests to confirm the diagnosis and rule out other causes of your symptoms. A complete physical exam, blood tests, and a psychological evaluation will help establish the diagnosis.
The following criteria, which are published in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), must be met for a diagnosis of panic disorder:
- You have frequent, unexpected panic attacks.
- At least one of your attacks has been followed by one month or more of ongoing worry about having another attack; continued fear of the consequences of an attack, such as losing control, having a heart attack or "going crazy"; or significantly changing your behavior, such as avoiding situations that you think may trigger a panic attack.
- Your panic attacks are not caused by drugs or other substance use, a medical condition, or another mental health condition, such as social phobia or obsessive compulsive disorder.
Living With Panic Disorder
Panic disorder benefits from professional treatment, but you can also help manage symptoms on your own. Lifestyle and self-care steps can help control and manage your symptoms.
- Stick to your treatment plan. Facing your fears can be difficult, but treatment can help you feel like you are in control of the situation.
- Join a support group. Joining a group for people with panic attacks or anxiety disorders can connect you with others facing the same problems.
- Avoid caffeine, alcohol, smoking and recreational drugs. All of these can trigger or worsen panic attacks.
- Practice stress management and relaxation techniques.
- Get physically active. Aerobic activity may have a calming effect on your mood and protect against anxiety].
- Get sufficient sleep. Get enough sleep so that you do not feel drowsy during the day, which can trigger an attack.
Panic Disorder Treatments
Treatment can help reduce the intensity and frequency of your panic attacks and improve your function in daily life. The main treatment options are psychotherapy and medications. Depending on your preference, your medical history, the severity of your panic disorder, and whether you have access to therapists who have special training in panic disorders, you may receive either treatment alone or a combination of both.
Psychotherapy, also called talk therapy, is the first choice treatment for panic attacks and panic disorder. Psychotherapy can help you understand panic attacks and panic disorder and learn how to cope with them.
A form of psychotherapy called cognitive behavioral therapy can help you learn through your own experience that panic symptoms are not dangerous. Successful treatment can also help you overcome fears of situations that you have been avoiding because of panic attacks.
Medications can also help reduce symptoms associated with panic attacks, as well as depression if that is a factor in your panic disorder. Several types of medication have been shown to be effective in managing symptoms of panic attacks, including:
- Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). SSRI antidepressants are typically recommended as the first choice of medications to treat panic attacks. SSRIs approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of panic disorder include fluoxetine (Prozac), paroxetine (Paxil, Pexeva), and sertraline (Zoloft).
- Serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs). SNRIs are another class of antidepressants. Venlafaxine hydrochloride (Effexor XR) is FDA approved for the treatment of panic disorder.
- Benzodiazepines. These sedatives are central nervous system depressants. Benzodiazepines approved by the FDA for the treatment of panic disorder include alprazolam (Xanax) and clonazepam (Klonopin).


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- The regional you attended
- The national you plan on attending
The judges will select certain outstanding performers in the Junior, Teen and Senior age divisions as All-Stars. All-Stars are invited to perform at one of our two Nationals.
In order to participate as an All-Star, you must register by sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com with the following information: name, age, name of your studio, which National event you are attending, and what regional you attended. This must be done by June 1. If you wish to compete at Nationals, you will have to register for the National competition by either registering through your studio or by using our online system. Regardless of whether or not you're competing, you must register to participate as an All-Star.
At Nationals, All-stars will have the opportunity to take free choreography/convention style to prepare for the opening number of our World Series of Dance Finals, which will take place on the last day of each Nationals. All-Stars should plan on rehearsing every day, and the detailed All-Star rehearsal schedule will be online as soon as the Nationals competition schedule is finalized. Make no mistake, this will be very hard work, but it will be worth it—in the end you will be part of an amazing production!
The costume for the opening number is any white shirt and black jazz pants or skirt. Each All-Star should bring this with them to Nationals. Dancers should also bring all of their dance shoes; the All-Star production will include several dance styles. Most dancers will appear in portions of the dance, and Hall of Fame does not guarantee which section a dancer will dance. Dancers in at least one section of the All-Star dance may be decided by audition; however, each All-Star will participate in at least a portion of the dance.
Dancers invited to perform as All Star or Final Cut performers are chosen as representatives of the studio they were registered with at Regionals. If, at Nationals, the dancer is no longer attending that studio, the dancer cannot participate in the All Star program.
There is no charge to participate. The convention style classes/choreography and performance opportunity is free to all Hall of Fame All-Stars. All-Stars make also take the free master classes that are open to all dancers.


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Gexcon develops, maintains and uses the industry standard software for modelling gas explosions; FLACS®. Gexcon also develops, maintains and uses the industry standard for modelling dust explosions, DESC.


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I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend planned. I'm not sure what I will be doing yet, probably being a couch potato at home. I've been catching up on my movie watching the past couple of weeks, I'm up to 1,052 seen in my lifetime (that I can remember). AND, the 5th season of my favorite show, Merlin, premieres on SyFy tonight! I already watched the season while it was airing in the UK, but I'm going to watch again because that's how amazing it is. If you haven't seen the show I advise you to netflix/amazon instant video/whatever the series, it is AMAZING. This is the final season, which is a bit depressing, but it was a good 5 years.
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LONDON — Anthropology is known, most notoriously, as a discipline still grappling with the shackles of its murky colonial past. It's perhaps slightly less well known for its affinity with anarchy. But if we take anarchism to mean the belief in democracy free from state apparatus, then it's unsurprising that there's a natural resonance between the two. A certain propensity for analysing societies without asymmetrical power structures goes a long way to explaining why so many anthropologists prefix their job title with the word 'anarchist'. They have empirical evidence that stateless societies are within the realms of possibility. As David Graeber – an academic anthropologist recently hailed as the anti-leader of the Occupy Movement – insists, any belief in a system of anarchy has to stem from the optimistic assumption that another world is possible.
For all its paradoxes and exoticising tendencies, anthropology is arguably the only discipline which attempts to consider the full range of societal and political structures on equal terms. It has attempted to better understand societies that operate without a formal law or state, even – or especially – where these societies have been deemed irrelevant. Modernity's fixation with progress gave rise to a view of stateless societies as static and embryonic, as existing outside of history. Without the propelling force of the dialectic, so-called primitive societies stagnate in prehistory. Such societies are seen, therefore, as "entirely outside the concern of the philosophy of history" – in the words of Hegel, buffeted along by his commitment to teleology.
Mauss postulated that gift economies were based on a refusal to calculate.
Hegel's view of history emphasises the importance of reason, rationality and progress. Above all else, Hegel's philosophy focuses on the state, which he views as the universal principle with which the subjective wills of the citizens must coincide to reach some kind of perfection. Whilst anthropologists' close scrutiny of stateless societies always risks incurring accusations of facile primitivism, on a most basic level, direct experience of fieldwork amongst the – dare I say – savages, has highlighted the fact that valid alternatives to the state model do exist. They've found that societies can successfully operate without constant regulation from a systematic structure of coercion. And, counter to prevalent beliefs, they don't all end up killing each other. Regardless of how practical its implementation might be, analyses of power which is not hierarchal, and leadership which is not authoritative, can challenge the very notions upon which our conception of civilisation is based. The results can be astonishing.
As early as 1925, the founder of French anthropology, Marcel Mauss was famously advocating the alternative morality of stateless societies in his "Essay on the Gift". His study of gift exchange in kinship — like the potlatch of the American Indians of the Pacific Southwest and the elaborate Kula rings of the Trobriand — challenged the universal assumption that economies without markets or money must operate by means of barter. Far from seeking to engage in market behaviour, in which each party strives to get the best goods possible at the least cost to themselves, Mauss postulated that gift economies were not based on calculation at all, but on a refusal to calculate. It was not that they had failed to develop a system sophisticated enough to yield profit in an efficient way, but rather that these exchange systems were rooted in an ethical system which consciously rejected the basic notions on which we generally believe economics to be based.
Mauss, a revolutionary socialist, aligned himself with many classic anarchist positions, but he never actually described himself as one. Significantly, another Frenchman, Pierre Clastres – who was a self-proclaimed anarchist – became well known for making a similar argument to Mauss on a political level. Whilst Mauss used anthropology to illuminate ways in which it was possible to build an anti-capitalist economy (as a response to the crisis of Lenin's socialism), Clastres used anthropology to demonstrate how it was possible for power to operate in an egalitarian, non-coercive manner. By considering the power structures of stateless societies on their own terms Clastres found a way to politicise primitive societies. In doing so, he radically challenged the notion, outlined most prominently by Thomas Hobbes, that state power is a necessary illusion.
When Hobbes wrote Leviathan, his treatise on the social contract, in response to the bloody English Civil War, he claimed that submission to an all-powerful state was not only favourable for an egalitarian society, but in fact essential to the survival of the species as we know it. Society left to nature would descend to a state of "warre, where everyman is Enemy to every man". For the past three centuries, Hobbes' claim that civilised society can only exist through coercive power has become a central tenet of mainstream political activity, both on the left and right. Since the threat of war is omnipresent; we enter into the social contract and become subjects to the great Leviathan, the state, because without it there'd be nothing but carnage lying in wait.
Clastres, perplexed by the question of voluntary servitude, puts this axiom on trial. His work constantly reiterates the question: Why do we forsake autonomy and obey a government? If the state relies on the strict authority of the few against the many, then how did the state triumph? Or, in the words Etienne de la Boétié, "What misfortune so denatured man?"
The use of the word 'denatured' here is particularly instructive, as, arguably, it is differing conceptions of 'human nature' that lie right at the heart of this debate. The Hobbesian stance assumes that human nature is something wild, warlike, and irrational, to be tamed by the civilising forces of state control. Today, Western politics maintains this stance. But by examining cultures with different attitudes towards power what anthropology can show us is that such an assumption is just that: as assumption.
You are worth no more than anyone else; you are worth no less than anyone else.
Through his extensive fieldwork among the Guayaki Indians of Paraguay, Clastres relayed how power can be effectively organised without a separate apparatus outside the social body. His analyses suggest that it is possible to speak of power outside of the domain of command-obedience relations. Take, for example, his descriptions of the seemingly paradoxical 'rule' of American Indian chieftainship. Whilst western sensibilities would automatically assume that a chief would necessarily possess some means of exerting power over the rest of the group, Clastres highlights how, in many instances, the most notable characteristic of the Indian chief is his almost complete lack of authority. Clastres insists that the role of the chief is essentially reconciliatory; he is not a man of power but a peacemaker and arbiter. A chief is required to possess great oratorical talent which, alongside his prestige and generosity, he uses in an attempt to maintain the social order. But, at any point, the chief remains in danger of being disavowed.
Anyone who associates political power with ruling authority would surely find chieftainship in this vein not just unrewarding, but worryingly unstable. Yet, Clastres insists that the point is not to question the chief's lack of authority in itself but to understand such power relations on the terrain involved. How can one explain the bizarre persistence of a power that is practically powerless?
Clastres describes the ritualised act of the chief's speeches, which take place daily at daybreak and dusk. A chief does not acquire the right to speak simply on the grounds of his chieftainship – but his chieftainship obliges him to speak. The tribe demands to hear him: a silent chief is no longer a chief, but, in yet another assault on our expectations, Clastres goes on to relay that as the chief talks, nobody pays him any attention. Regardless of the strength of his voice or his oratory skill, the rest of the group appear to carry on about their business as if nothing were happening. Power is not found on the side of the chief, so it follows that his words cannot be authoritative or powerful.
Clastres uses these ethnographic findings to claim that it is in the nature of primitive societies to know that violence is the essence of power, and that speech is the opposite of violence. By restricting the chief to the area of speech alone, the tribe makes certain that no displacement of forces will come to upset the social order. The chief cannot use words for his own personal gain or for reasons of political expediency, because the chief who tries to appropriate power in this way is abandoned. Primitive society is the place where separate power is refused, because the society itself, not the chief, is the real locus of the power.
Clastres' work opposes the Hegelian notion that the state is the ultimate destiny of all societies. Far from the state being the precise object of world history, stateless societies, he argues, actually possess specific preventative mechanisms to ward off the formation of a state; the chieftain's powerless oratory being one such device. Similarly, Clastres describes the ritualistic act of marking bodies as another way of thwarting the human desire for power. Unlike the written law of hierarchical society which is imposed by the few on the many, the law of primitive societies, which is inscribed onto all bodies says: "You are worth no more than anyone else; you are worth no less than anyone else." These societies are not simply lacking a state. They are, in Clastres' words, societies against the state.
As Mauss challenged the assumed logic of the market economy, so Clastres questions the notion that power can only be identified as coercive authority. Both anthropologists challenge the evolutionist logic which assumes that the state and the market economy are the inevitable destiny of all societies. But, more than that, they both make the radical suggestion that – far from being incapable of reaching a stage of such perceived advancement – they are making a concerted effort to contain human capacities for greed and power in a way that prevents these social structures from forming.
In opposition to Hobbes' description of primitive warfare as perpetual and chaotic, Clastres identifies war as the ultimate preventative mechanism which enables such societies to ward off the arrival of the state. As Clastres' one-time collaborators, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, have suggested, just as Hobbes saw clearly that the state was against war, Clastres insists that – for primitive societies – war is also against the state.
The question isn't whether or not people are "good enough" to exist in a particular society or not . . .
Here we can see anthropology's value, not only as a discipline which analyses old, existing, and so-called primitive cultures, but which also allows us to imagine new ones. Anarchy, today, is variously judged as destructive, violent and nihilistic; it is used synonymously with chaos and disorder. Yet, anarchy, as understood by most anarchists, actually means the exact opposite. An anarchic society – like the egalitarian ones that Clastres studied – is based on order, autonomy of the individual and cooperation without rulers. Whilst many anarchists, following Russian revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin, believe that chaos and disorder have inherent potentiality, and that destruction can be a creative act, their ultimate aim is to create a social order which eliminates the need for lawful violence altogether. Striving for the abolishment of social institutions that use coercive force to make way for a new order, is a far remove from the desire for a permanent state of disorder and violence. In fact, some of the world's best-known anarchist thinkers, Henry David Thoreau, Tolstoy and Gandhi, were tellingly also pacifists.
Another common criticism lodged against anarchism is that it is too idealistic. Anarchists' alternative moralities and visions of a freer world, with — of all suggestions — shorter working hours, have inevitably been dismissed as utopian; it's an occupational hazard of re-imagining existing social structures. Still, a more considered look at anarchism would reveal that it fosters a view of humanity that is resolutely realistic. Humans are neither innately bellicose nor are they naturally benign; they have the capacity for both good and evil. The question, as writer and social critic Paul Goodman has perhaps most eloquently expressed it, isn't whether or not people are "good enough" to exist in a particular society or not. But rather, how can social institutions be developed in a way that is most conducive to bringing out human capacities for intelligence, grace, sociality and freedom. Anarchists may need the necessary hope and imagination to envision a different world; anthropologists are particularly well-situated to guide them on how to make it a reality.
This article first appeared in The Journal of Wild Culture in December 2012.
SARAH LESTER is a writer, researcher and editor; specialities include social media and online publishing. Sarah's writing is strongly driven by her background in anthropology and cultural politics.
Image credits: All images by Edward S. Curtis courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Libraries Kotsuis and Hohhuq - Nakoatok (top); Wedding Party- Qagyuhl (middle); Dancing to Restore an Eclipsed Moon - Qagychl (bottom).


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Researchers studying frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) disease, a leading cause of early onset dementia, will receive more than $30 million over the next five years in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The funding will be used to further scientific collaboration and investigate new treatments in the quest to find a cure for FTD.
Also, in Vancouver, Canada, on October 23rd, an FTD conference demonstrated the research progress made in this awakening field, with particular emphasis on the newly forged international collaborative relationships to comprehensively examine patients and their families in longitudinal cohort studies.


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Hungarian GP Saturday Press Conference
From left, Vettel, Rosberg and Bottas |
2 – Sebastian VETTEL (Red Bull Racing)
3 – Valtteri BOTTAS (Williams)
Q: Congratulations Nico. It was a dramatic qualifying session wasn't it, what with the rain, going off at the first corner etc. What was it like from the cockpit?
Nico ROSBERG: Yeah, quali three was really a big challenge, because the track was just changing all the time in the beginning and especially starting the lap with that first set of options, I was the first one to arrive in the first corner. It was just difficult to judge: how much risk can I take, how late can I brake? It was very, very wet, so I did take it a bit easy and managed to avoid crashing. For Kevin? I guess… It was just massively difficult down there and unpredictable. That can happen. From then on it was easier. It just started drying again and especially my last lap, I really managed to nail it.
Q: And a really big margin as well. Well done. Sebastian, at one point it looked as though you nearly had him, you looked as though you were nearly going to be on pole. Where has the speed come from this weekend?
Sebastian VETTEL: I think probably the nature of the track suits us a bit more – less straights. I think historically we've always had a competitive car around here. It seems that we are a little bit closer but obviously Nico's final lap was very good so the gap was again quite big – bigger than we were hoping for, because as you mentioned if we get everything perfect and Nico maybe has a bit of a wobble, we can have a crack, but it didn't happen. They did a god job. Obviously Q3 was a mixed bag, it could have been anything, so therefore with the more dry conditions at the end to get second was the optimum.
Q: Well done, thank you. Valtteri, once again in the top three. You weren't expecting to be quite so quick at this circuit. Is this a bit of a surprise? Well done by the way.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Thank you, yeah. I think maybe a little bit of a surprise. We knew that Red Bull are going to be really quick here and also Ferrari and obviously Mercedes like always. Like Seb said the nature of the track in theory is not the best for us, but we've been able to work well as a team to bring some updates, which really worked well. Obviously we're still missing some grip compared to some other cars but today was, I think, a really good day from us. Third and sixth, we have a good chance also here to get some really good points.
Q: Now Nico, tomorrow in the race itself, there's the possibility of rain again, your main championship rival and team-mate starts right at the back, what are your thoughts?
Rosberg: Yeah, that's been a pity for the team. Not a good thing definitely and we need to keep on working on that. That's reliability. Also, I would be prefer to be out there battling with Lewis. That would give me the maximum adrenalin rush. Like this… of course, I'm very, very happy but it wasn't a gloves off battle with Lewis and that takes away a little bit of the ecstatic happiness. But anyway, tomorrow's still going to be a long race and a challenging race, especially with the weather coming, so still all to play for.
Q: Nico, yesterday you said you were a bit surprised you were so quick, and you needed to find the time. Did the track come to you or did you managed to find the time, basically, through adjustments, modifications to the car…
Rosberg: That was two opposing statements there… 'you were quick but you needed to find the time…'
Q: That's what you said… you were surprised you were so quick but you still needed to find the time. This is a quote!
Rosberg: Never believe what the newspapers are writing!
Q: This is from your own press release…
Rosberg: Oh, OK, never believe what the press officers are writing! No. I've been surprised that we've been able to be so quick this weekend. I think our engine is definitely very, very strong and here the engine doesn't come into play so much, so maybe the gap would be a little bit smaller but in fact it's as big as anywhere really here and that's been great to see. Really cool. It just goes to show how good our car is also.
Q: Did you change much overnight?
Rosberg: It's been an ongoing process, yeah. I mean, with FRIC not being on the car it's still finding my way and finding our way because it does impact the car a lot, especially on a track like here in Budapest. A lot of long corners and fast, flowing corners – but really got there and I'm pleased with where we are now.
Q: Sebastian, tomorrow, can you take the fight to Mercedes? I guess that's the question everyone wants to know.
Vettel: It depends. I think we are here to fight, we want to do that. If it rains, I think we definitely have a better chance than in normal, standard dry conditions but even then, I think we were closer this weekend. Long run pace, yeah, looked a lot better on Friday compared to them. Obviously hard to judge how much they were sandbagging or running different modes on Friday. So, it should be closer than in the last couple of races, definitely. I think we can have a good fight with the Williams, which seems to be out of reach the last couple of races.
Q: So the question is to Valtteri, can you be second? Can you even be first?
Bottas: I think, y'know, if nothing special is going to happen, first is really difficult. Still Mercedes is ahead – but you never know. We need to aim for that, always, and aiming for that we can get good results. Obviously here, tomorrow, it's going to be a really close fight, like Seb said, with Red Bull and us. So we need to see how the pace is. If it's enough, keeping them behind, at least one of them, that would be good.
Q: (Peter Farkas – Auto-Motor) Sebastian, I think it's fair to say that you looked convincingly quicker than Daniel throughout the weekend here. Is it because the track suits you or have you found something in the car or are you getting more comfortable with it?
Vettel: I don't think I was that much quicker, I think it was fairly close all qualifying and practice as well. Since yesterday afternoon the car seemed to be coming my way a little bit and naturally then you pick up some pace. We didn't have anything new on the car compared to last week in Hockenheim – it's only one week ago – so I think probably the conditions, tires seemed to help me maybe a little bit to pick up some pace.
Q: (Peter Vamosi – Vas Nepe Kiadoi) Valtteri, what do you think right now halfway through the season, you are fifth in the championship? Is there more, can you fight against Mr. Vettel and Alonso?
Bottas: Well, we're always aiming for more. I think there's still a long way to go and double points in the last race so a lot more is possible. I think personally, in the drivers' points, I think it would be good to aim to be third. I think it is possible this year with the car we have and if we keep improving like we've done so far, so that should be the aim.
Q: (Heikki Kulta – Turun Sanomat) Valtteri, is it a big help to you to have a cleaner side at the start?
Bottas: Yeah, this season many times, I've been on the dirty side so it is always better to be on the clean side and we've normally had some really good race starts and hopefully we'll have a good one tomorrow as well, so we will see. It's quite a long run to the first corner, so the start will be very important.
Q: (Graham Keilloh) Sebastian, towards the end of Q3, to what extent was the rain that we'd had still making a difference? If it was making a difference, was it helping you get closer to Nico or further away?
Vettel: I think the first run – obviously we saw Kevin lost it into turn one – was affected by the track being damp, first couple of corners, but I think the last two runs, everyone had no problem, it was completely dry.
Q: (Livio Oricchio – Universo On Line) Nico, the fact that your teammate is at the back of the grid, does that change anything for you in the race, start in a different way, maybe new goals because it will be harder for him?
Rosberg: Well, it makes it easier of course, because he's my competitor number one, so I will play it even more safe and just really try and avoid any unnecessary things happening and make sure to get as many points as possible because it's really a free opportunity tomorrow.
Q: (Viktor Bodnar – Magyar Szo) Nico, can you imagine how you would feel yourself if you were in Lewis's place with this series of bad luck?
Rosberg: Well, it's massively disappointing when the car breaks down. I had it two races ago at Silverstone in the lead that the car broke down. It's tough, it definitely is tough because it's not something that you can control, you know, so that makes it really difficult..
Q: (Peter Farkas – Auto-Motor) Nico, it's been anticipated on this track the ban on FRIC would have a greater effect since the corners are a bit longer and the track is bumpier. Have you felt that that was the case, this is why Red Bull was a little bit closer?
Rosberg: For sure it had a big effect, yes, but I think it affected everybody, because everybody had the FRIC system in one way or another and so it seems that we've held on to our advantage and I'm very very happy to see that because it wasn't sure how it was going to go, if some teams might benefit more than others. What was sure was that we had a good system so we were very confident ours was really good but it seems that we've held on which is great.
Q: (Peter Vamosi – Vas Nepe Kiadoi) To all drivers: next year, the Hungaroring will have its thirtieth Formula One race here. If you could change something on the track, corners, facilities, whatever, what would you do?
Rosberg: Well, it's a fantastic race to come to here you know, the fans are so excited and also it's very international, there's a lot of Finnish fans, also a lot of German fans, so for me it's great. Yeah, it's always nice to come here. What would we..? I don't know, it's difficult to say what to change because it's a great track, it's very challenging, it's like a little street circuit but as a real track. It's very tough, so I wouldn't change much, I'd keep it like it is.
Vettel: Since there's large interest I would probably put more grandstands next to the track so that some of the people don't have to stand all the time. Other than that, I wouldn't change anything.
Bottas: Yeah, facilities and everything are really nice, lot of fans, lot of support so that is good but I have to say that as our car is quite slick in the straights, that this year I would change the track a bit, bit longer straight. Seb, do you agree, for next year?
Vettel: No, I'd rather go free beer for your fellow countrymen!
Q: (Silvia Arias – Parabrisas) I would like to know, Sebastian and Valtteri, do you feel as well this impact without FRIC that Nico was talking about?
Vettel: Obviously I think some people were more advanced than others. For us, it didn't make a big big difference. We had something but yeah, I think we're more or less as competitive as we were before so it didn't change much.
Bottas: No big difference, no, and we've improved since last weekend for sure, with the current suspension, but I don't think it's the key point of the season.
Q: It's always said to be very difficult to overtake here; is it any easier with this generation of cars or is it still very difficult?
Vettel: In a Williams, I guess it's fantastic down the straights, you know, you're so quick but it depends. I think it's always been difficult and it will be difficult tomorrow.


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The US Centers for Disease Control said Wednesday that at least another 31 cases are believed to be tied to romaine lettuce grown in Yuma, Arizona.
The E. coli outbreak linked to tainted romaine lettuce has grown and sickened 84 people from 19 states, US officials say. The agency says those infected range in age from one to 88. More than half of are female.
Forty-two people have been hospitalized, including nine battling kidney failure as the agency scrambles to sniff out the source of the E. coli outbreak.
Scientist Karen Xavier holds a petri dish containing a stool sample of small bacteria colonies in Denver. Samples like this one are examined to try to find the source of the E. coli outbreak
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials say the illnesses started between March 13 and April 12. The agency and the US Food and Drug Administration last week issued a warning against eating all romaine lettuce.
Officials have not yet identified the source of the tainted lettuce except to say it came from the Yuma region.
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So far, most of the work has largely focused on one germ, listeria. But it is expanding.
Scientists used the genome sequencing technique in their investigation of the romaine lettuce outbreak, though other methods have so far been largely responsible for their ability to trace the contamination to Arizona.
Hopefully, continued DNA analysis will help officials narrow the source to particular farms.
By the end of this year, labs in all 50 states are expected to also be using genetic sequencing for much more common causes of food poisoning outbreaks, including salmonella and the E. coli bacteria linked to recent lettuce outbreak.
That means the number of identifiable outbreaks are likely to explode even if the number of illnesses don't.
'There are a lot of outbreaks where they don't connect the dots. Now they're going to be connected,' said Michael Doyle, a retired University of Georgia professor who is an expert on foodborne illness.
The new DNA testing is enabling disease detectives to spot food contamination before anyone is aware of a resulting human illness.
'It's turning around how outbreaks are figured out,' said Bill Marler, a prominent Seattle lawyer who has made a business of suing companies whose products sicken people.
Marler added that the program is in its early stages and it's too early to call it a success. But he said the new approach has the potential to transform how and when outbreaks come to light.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is driving the program. It estimates that 48 million Americans get sick – and 3,000 die – from food poisoning each year.
Lab technician extracts DNA for whole genome sequencing at the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment's Molecular Science Laboratory in Denver
The new technique relies on whole genome sequencing, which has been used in biology for more than two decades.
The laboratory process determines nearly all of an organism's DNA, the genetic material needed to build and maintain an organism. And scientists use software to compare the DNA of specimens to see if they are the same strain and how resistant they are to current medicines.
The technique allows the analysis to become faster, cheaper and more automated, said Dr Robert Tauxe, one of the CDC's leading experts on food poisoning.
Plans are to use the technology against several germs that cause food poisoning, but so far all the work has concentrated on listeria.
The bacteria cause around 1,600 illnesses each year, a tiny fraction of US foodborne disease diagnoses. But it is a particularly lethal infection, killing nearly one in five people who get it.
Historically, listeria-caused outbreaks were known as 'the graveyard of epidemiology.' It could take weeks for people to develop symptoms, meaning food evidence was discarded – and some of the patients were dead – by the time officials began to sort things out.
From 1983 to 1997, only five listeria outbreaks were identified in the United States. They were obvious and large – with a median of 54 cases per outbreak.
That's how it was with other food poisoning outbreaks, too.
'Most foodborne outbreaks were detected because it happened in one place,' like in a town where a popular restaurant's customers grew ill, Dr Tauxe said.
Outbreaks were investigated by asking people what they ate before they got sick, and then comparing notes to see what patients had in common.
The field took a big step in the 1990s, after a frightening outbreak erupted in the Seattle area. Four deaths and more than 700 illnesses in four states eventually were traced to undercooked Jack in the Box restaurant hamburgers contaminated with E. coli.
The outbreak prodded the CDC to develop a program that relied on a technique called pulsed-field gel electrophoresis that helped health officials more easily link illnesses, but it was imperfect: it couldn't make exact matches and sometimes missed when cases were related.
Then came whole genome sequencing.
The CDC began using the technique in food poisoning investigations in 2013. Initially state labs sent samples to a CDC lab in Atlanta for testing. Now, the CDC is working to get labs in all 50 states up and running.
Last year, the federal agency awarded about $32 million to state and city health departments to work on foodborne, waterborne and fungal disease outbreaks. That included $12 million to help them set up whole genome sequencing technology.
Since whole genome sequencing began, the CDC says it's catching more listeria outbreaks with a food source identified.
By that measure, the number rose from about two per year to an average of more than six per year from 2014 to 2016.
One of the first success stories came a couple of weeks after Halloween in 2014, when listeria cases began popping up in Arizona, New Mexico and the Midwest. Through whole genome sequencing, investigators discovered about three dozen people had been sickened.
In interviews, patients and their families didn't mention foods commonly associated with listeria. But most did say they had eaten packaged caramel apples. This 2002 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the kind of listeria bacteria that is behind some food poisoning outbreaks
Scientists hadn't considered them a threat, because apples and caramel aren't hospitable to listeria individually. But it turns out that putting a stick in a caramel-covered apple gives germs a door into tiny spaces between caramel and the apple's skin.
Besides fingering foods previously seen as unthreatening, whole genome sequencing has the potential to turn investigations around: In several outbreaks recently, germs found in food plant inspections prompted product recalls before anyone knew about an outbreak.
Then whole genome sequencing helped find and confirm illnesses. Whole genome sequencing is becoming increasingly important, but it's not yet the basis of outbreak solving.
It was used in the current investigation of E. coli bacteria found in romaine lettuce grown in Arizona, which has sickened at least 84 people in 19 states, according to a CDC update released Wednesday.
But 'that's not how we first detected the outbreak,' said Matthew Wise, a CDC food poisoning investigator.
It was more crucial in an investigation last year of a 21-state salmonella outbreak that ultimately was linked to ground beef. Whole genome sequencing allowed health officials to wade through a wave of cases to parse out the illnesses that were most closely matched and then look for a common origin, Wise said.
'Using our previous technology,' Wise said, 'we would have had a really difficult time solving that one.'


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Life on Alien Planets Trickier to Find Than Previously Thought
Finding alien life on habitable planets around distant stars may be harder to identify than scientists have previously thought, a new study suggests.
The search for inhabited and habitable exoplanets is focused on M dwarf stars — stars that are smaller than the sun but make up more than 75 percent of the stars in the sun's vicinity, scientists have said.
But these small stars have different ultraviolet properties from the sun, however, which could further complicate the search for alien life, researchers with the new study, which was unveiled today (Oct. 7).
"Before we can claim the discovery of life on exoplanets, we have to examine the stars harboring these planets more carefully," study leader Feng Tian, a professor at the Center for Earth System Science at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, said in a statement. He presented the research today in Denver, Colo., at the 45th annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences.
The buildup of high levels of oxygen in the atmosphere of an exoplanet is the most promising indicatory for life on alien planets, officials from Tsinghua University said. The new study shows that oxygen can still build up in the atmospheres of lifeless planets, they added.
Feng Tian and his research team used the idea of a hypothetical habitable planet orbiting GJ 876 to test this in an earlier study. "In this case the atmosphere of a lifeless planet can be close to that of the Earth's 2.2 billion years ago, after the so called Great Oxidation Event in Earth's geological history," he said.
The new study also suggests that these earlier findings can be extrapolated out to other alien planets circling M dwarf stars, researchers said. The team collected ultraviolet data from GJ 667C — a star that plays host to three possibly habitable planets — and three other M dwarfs for the new work.
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"Prof. Feng Tian's research addresses one of the most important questions of contemporary astrophysics and indeed of great interest to the general public: Are there other habitable planets near Earth, and is there any evidence that they are indeed inhabited?" Jeffrey Linsky of the University of Colorado at Boulder, said in a statement.
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1. Introduction
This Privacy Policy describes how Altair Engineering Inc. collects and uses Personal Information about you through the use of our Websites and our products and services.
Altair Engineering Inc., its subsidiaries, and affiliates ("Altair" or "We") respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This Privacy Policy (our "Privacy Policy") describes the types of information we may collect from you or which you may provide to us when you license or use our software, visit websites that we own and operate, including, but not limited to www.altair.com, www.toggled.com, www.altairuniversity.com, www.openmatrix.org, https://altairengineering.it/, www.altair.de, and www.altair.se (collectively, our "websites"), attend or participate in a trade show, marketing event, or through an agreement entered into between Altair and you and/or your employer. The Privacy Policy also describes how we collect, use, maintain, protect, and may disclose such information.
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2. Data Controller, Data Protection Officer, and Representative
Altair Engineering Inc. is the data controller of the Personal Data you provide on the Websites. If you enter an agreement with a specific Altair affiliate or subsidiary, then that affiliate or subsidiary may be the controller of your Personal Data and Altair Engineering Inc. may be a co-controller with that entity.
Altair Engineering Inc. is the data controller of your Personal Data that you provide on the Websites. The specific Altair affiliate company or subsidiary that you contract with or that collects your Personal Data is the data controller for your Personal Data when we obtain it from all other sources and Altair Engineering Inc. may be the co-controller under applicable international, federal, state, or local privacy laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation ("Applicable Privacy Laws") for this data. Altair or its Data Protection Officer may be contacted in any manner set forth below in the "Contact Information" Section of this Privacy Policy.
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Our Websites and our products and services are not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to Altair either on the Website or otherwise. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information to Altair, either offline or on the Websites or on or through any of its features. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Data from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us as described in the "Contact Information."
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We collect several types of information from and about users of our Websites and our products and services. Generally, we collect information:
We collect this information:
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The information we collect is:
The Personal Data we collect from you is required to enter into a contract with Altair, for Altair to perform under the contract, and for Altair to provide you with our products and services. If you refuse to provide such Personal Data or withdraw your consent to our processing of Personal Data, then in some cases we may not be able to enter into the contract or fulfill our obligations to you under it.
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, "posted") on public areas of the Website or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, "User Contributions"). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Websites, with your permission we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns:
The information we collect automatically may include Personal Data or we may maintain it or associate it with Personal Data we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Websites and to deliver a better and more personalized service by enabling us to:
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We have a lawful basis for our processing of your Personal Data, including processing for our legitimate interests (when balanced against your rights and freedoms), to fulfill our obligations to you under our contract with you (or your employer), as required by law, and with your consent.
If you are in the European Union, the processing of your Personal Data is lawful only if it is permitted under the applicable data protection laws. We have a lawful basis for each of our processing activities (except when an exception applies as described below):
6. Special Categories of Information
We generally do not process any special categories of Personal Data.
Altair does not ask you to provide, and we do not knowingly collect, any special categories of Personal Data from you.
7. Automated Decisions Making
We generally do not use any automated decision making processes on your Personal Data.
Altair does not use your Personal Data with any automated decision making process.
8. How We Use Your Information
We use your Personal Data for various purposes described below, including to provide you with information you request from us, provide you our services, notify you of changes, and for other purposes with your consent.
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Data:
• to notify you about changes to our Websites or any products or services we offer or provide though them;
With your consent, we may also use your information to contact you about our own goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you wish to consent to this use, please check the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data. If you wish to change your choice, you may do so at any time by navigating to the Websites, clicking the "Cookie Consent" link at the bottom of the page and adjusting our user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email stating your request at email@example.com. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
9. Disclosure of Your Information
We do not sell your Personal Data. We only share and disclose your personal data to a few third parties, including our subsidiaries and affiliates, contractors and other service providers that help us provide you with our goods and services, in the event we merge, acquire, or are acquired by a third party, and to comply with a lawful order or to enforce our rights.
We do not share, sell, or otherwise disclose your Personal Data for purposes other than those outlined in this Privacy Policy. However, we may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose Personal Data that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
We may also disclose your Personal Data to third parties:
10. Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We offer you choices to opt out of receiving promotional offers from Altair.
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Data you provide to us. We have created the following mechanisms to provide you with control over your Personal Data:
11. Your Rights Regarding Your Information and Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You may have certain rights under Applicable Privacy Laws, including the right to access and update your Personal Data, restrict how it is used, transfer certain Personal Data to another controller, withdraw your consent at any time, and the right to have us erase certain Personal Data about you. You also have the right to complain to a supervisory authority about our processing of your Personal Data.
Applicable data protection laws may provide you with certain rights with regards to our processing of your Personal Data.
12. Do Not Track Signals
We currently do not honor do-not-track signals sent by some browsers.
We also may use automated data collection technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking) as more fully described in our Cookie Policy. Some web browsers permit you to broadcast a signal to websites and online services indicating a preference that they "do not track" your online activities. At this time, we do not honor such signals and we do not modify what information we collect or how we use that information based upon whether such signal is broadcast or received.
13. Data Security
Information transmitted over the Internet is not completely secure, but we do our best to protect your Personal Data. You can help protect your Personal Data and other information by keeping your password to our Websites confidential.
We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Data from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Websites, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Websites like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Websites.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Data transmitted to our Websites. Any transmission of Personal Data is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Websites.
14. Consent to Processing of Personal Data in Other Countries Outside the European Economic Area
We may process your Personal Data outside of your home country, including to the United States. We only do this when we are legally permitted to and when we have appropriate safeguards in place to protect your Personal Data.
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area ("EEA"), in order to provide our Websites, products, and services to you, we may send and store your Personal Data outside of the EEA, including to the United States. Accordingly, your Personal Data may be transferred outside the country where you reside or are located, including to countries that may not or do not provide an adequate level of protection for your Personal Data.
Your Personal Data is transferred by Altair to another country only if it is required or permitted under applicable data protection law and provided that there are appropriate safeguards in place to protect your Personal Data. By using our Websites or our products and services, you represent that you have read and understood the above and hereby consent to the storage and processing of Personal Data that you provide directly to us on our Website. To ensure your Personal Data (other than Personal Data you provide directly to us on our Website) is treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy, Altair uses Data Protection Agreements between Altair and all other recipients of your data that include, where applicable, the Standard Contractual Clauses adopted by the European Commission (the "Standard Contractual Clauses"). The European Commission has determined that the transfer of Personal Data pursuant to the Standard Contractual Clauses provides for an adequate level of protection of your Personal Data. Under these Standard Contractual Clauses, you have the same rights as if your data was not transferred to such third party.
Altair also uses the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework to transfer information between its subsidiaries and affiliates located in the EEA to the United States. The European Commission has determined that the transfer of Personal Data pursuant to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Standard Contractual Clauses provides for an adequate level of protection of your Personal Data. Under these Standard Contractual Clauses, you have the same rights as if your data was not transferred to such third party. The EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework may provide you with additional rights, including additional rights available to you to resolve a dispute related to the transfer of your information to Altair entities in the United States. You may learn more about your rights under the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework at privacy shield.
You may request a copy of the Data Protection Agreement by contacting us through the contact methods below.
15. Data Retention Periods
We retain your Personal as long as you keep your account open. We may keep your Personal Data for a time after you close your account, including when it is stored on our backups, and for as long as necessary to comply with any legal requirements or to protect our legal interests.
Altair will retain your Personal Data for the entire time that you keep your account open. After you close your account, we may retain your Personal Data:
16. Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We will post any changes to our Privacy Policy on our Websites. If we make material changes to our Privacy Policy, we will notify you through your email address and invite you to review the changes.
We may change this Privacy Policy at any time. It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on our Websites with a notice that the Privacy Policy has been updated on the Websites' home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' Personal Data, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Websites' home pages. The date this Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Websites and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
17. Contact Information
You may contact us directly or through our Data Protection Officer through any of the contact methods below.
If you have any questions, concerns, complaints or suggestions regarding our Privacy Policy, have any requests related to your Personal Data pursuant to applicable laws, or otherwise need to contact us, you must contact us at the contact information below or through the "Contact Us" page on our Websites.
To Contact Altair (Controller) Altair Engineering Inc. 1820 E. Big Beaver Road Troy, MI 48083 USA 248-614-2400 firstname.lastname@example.com
To Contact Our Data Protection Officer Raoul Maitra 1820 E. Big Beaver Road Troy, MI 48083 USA 248-614-2400 EXT. 453 email@example.com
18. Photography, Audio and Video Recording
We may take photos, videos and/or audio recordings at our events, which may feature attendees, speakers, sponsors or exhibitors.
By attending an Altair hosted or sponsored event at an Altair facility or a third party's venue (each an "Event"), you acknowledge and agree that the Event (or any part of it) may be photographed or recorded by us or our partners. You agree to permit us, or any third party licensed by us, to use, distribute, broadcast, or otherwise globally disseminate your likeness, name, voice and words in perpetuity in television, radio, film, newspapers, magazines and other media now available and hereafter developed, both before, during and any time after the Event, and in any form, without any further approval from you or any payment to you. This grant includes, but is not limited to, the right to edit the media, the right to use the media (alone or together with other information), and the right to allow others to use or distribute the media. We agree not to intentionally use your name, picture, portrait, photograph, voice, pose, movement, activity and/or likeness in any form or manner that would demean you or your employer, and will not alter the substance of any statements made by you in a manner that materially changes the intent of such statements.
19. California Consumer Privacy Act
California citizens may contact us to exercise your rights under the CCPA.
To exercise your rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") please contact us at email@example.com.
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The E.W. Scripps Company is a partner with The Associated Press and has been following guidance from their election desk on 2020 race updates.
Below is the AP's explanation as to why they have not declared a winner in Pennsylvania.
The Associated Press has not declared a winner in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, because there were hundreds of thousands of votes left to be counted Thursday morning in the contest between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden.
Trump, who held a 675,000-vote lead early Wednesday, prematurely declared victory in the state.
By Thursday morning, his lead had slipped to about 136,000.
And the race is destined to get tighter.
The vast majority of the votes left to be counted there were cast by mail — and that is a form of voting that Biden has carried by a large margin.
That's probably because Trump has spent months claiming without proof that voting by mail would lead to widespread voter fraud.
According to the Associated Press, elections officials, under state law, are not allowed to process mail-in ballots until Election Day.


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