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SanDisk Announces Plans To Partner With VeriSign, RSA Security and Safend
To Limit Online Fraud and Theft of Corporate Data
SUNNYVALE, CA., Feb. 14, 2006 -SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) today announced strategic partnerships with the two leading providers of authentication security solutions to provide an easy-to-use way to protect consumers against online fraud. SanDisk has forged an additional partnership to protect enterprises against the theft of corporate data.
SanDisk will add highly secure functionality to its line of USB flash drives and mobile cards using TrustedFlash™ technology. TrustedFlash combines SanDisk's 32-bit controller architecture with an embedded high-performance cryptographic engine to provide real-time encryption and tamper-resistant security to keep stored data highly secure. As a secure platform that is transparent to the consumer, TrustedFlash is ideal for supporting one time passwords and other secure value-added applications.
The partnerships include: VeriSign, the leading provider of intelligent infrastructure services for Internet and telecommunications networks; RSA Security Inc., experts in protecting online identities and digital assets; and Safend which offers software that controls data access from the physical ports of all enterprise endpoints.
The first two of these partnerships will enable consumer-friendly, two-factor authentication (based on something you know such as a password or PIN and something you have, such as a USB flash drive) for end users who purchase SanDisk mass-storage devices at retail outlets and then use them at VeriSign or RSA SecurID®-enabled web sites such as auction houses, and banks and other financial institutions. The generic term for a device with this functionality is called a token.
The main benefit for enterprises over existing token based authentication solutions is that the institution does not need to bear the expense of stocking and supplying tokens to their user base but can simply advise their customers to buy a standard SanDisk memory device in whatever capacity they like at any one of over 150,000 stores. As incentive, the institution can offer a rebate to customers that use a memory device as their authentication method. The main benefit for consumers is that they can use their existing SanDisk device which they already carry as an authentication device.
"We at VeriSign are excited that consumers will soon be able to purchase SanDisk's flash storage drives and cards at their nearest retailer to use across the VeriSign Identity Protection shared authentication network" said Nico Popp, vice president, Authentication Services, VeriSign Security Services. "The combination of VIP, OATH open standards and SanDisk storage devices creates a unique identity protection solution for consumers who want to secure their online interactions with financial institutions and e-commerce sites without compromising the convenience of today's Web lifestyle."
"RSA is the leading provider of highly secure, OTP technology and authentication options that are easy for businesses to deploy and consumers to use," said Toffer Winslow, vice president of product marketing and management at RSA Security. "Teaming with SanDisk to integrate RSA SecurID technology into TrustedFlash devices gives security-conscious organizations and their customers a wider range of authentication options that are flexible, effective and easy to use. We look forward to a continued relationship with SanDisk."
SanDisk is also partnering with Safend, which provides comprehensive end-point security solutions for the enterprise. This offers a way for companies to securely deploy removable USB storage and help to ensures that corporate information doesn't 'walk out the door' in someone's purse or pocket.
"The growing popularity of USB flash drives can be a security headache for many enterprises," said Dor Skuler, vice president of business development at Safend. "Our partnership with SanDisk will make it easy for businesses to maintain a high level of security by distinguishing between the legitimate use of these devices and preventing any unauthorized access."
"We carefully selected the leading players in the security industry as partners to develop 'out of the box' consumer online identity protection on SanDisk mobile TrustedFlash cards and USB flash drives," said Sanjay Mehrotra, Chief Operating Officer & Executive Vice President. "The plan is to offer robust security capabilities to both consumers and enterprises that have been previously unavailable. This demonstrates the ability for SanDisk products to support a variety of new functionality in addition to mass storage."
TrustedFlash Technology Benefits Consumers & Enterprises
Under these partnerships, consumers will gain new security functionality in a storage device that has already gained wide acceptance as consumers use them to store personal information, digital images, data and music. Enterprises will gain the use of enhanced security solutions without the costs associated with the procurement and distribution of proprietary two-factor authentication tokens.
This robust new technology will be easy to use. For example, financial institutions, online merchants and other enterprises become members of the VeriSign VIP service or sign-up to support the RSA SecurID solution, and notify their customers. Consumers purchase a SanDisk device with VeriSign's embedded strong authentication capabilities, plug it in, and begin an automated process to link it to one or more accounts. Once an account is linked in this manner, access to it is blocked unless the device is detected and validated during the logon process - thus providing an additional identification factor.
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About SanDisk
SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world's leading supplier of flash data storage card products using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA and has operations worldwide, with more than half its sales outside the U.S. Additional news and information about the company is available at www.sandisk.com
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, including expectations for new product introductions, applications, markets, and customers that are based on our current expectations and involve numerous risks and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate. Risks that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include among others: we may not be able to successfully integrate the described technology, if we do integrate the technology, market demand for our products may grow more slowly than our expectations or there may be a slower adoption rate for these products in new markets that we are targeting, and the other risks detailed from time-to-time in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to, Form 10-K and our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. We do not intend to update the information contained in this press release.
SanDisk's web site/home page address: http://www.sandisk.com
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SanDisk and the SanDisk logo are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the and other countries. TrustedFlash is a trademark of SanDisk Corporation. Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective holder(s).
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Will self-driving cars become a reality or not? The debate grows stronger by the day. Technology companies such as Google say fully autonomous cars could be commercially available as early as 2018. More cautious forecasters peg the timeframe at 2025.
Skeptics still insist the idea is a pipedream: Product liability and other issues could prevent large-scale adoption of driverless vehicles from ever taking over public roads.
If there is a sure bet in all this speculation, it is so-called semi-autonomous vehicles being offered for sale in five years.
Semi-autonomous systems allow cars and trucks to perform 90% of driving duties without human intervention, but still require a driver to deal with the most perilous and unpredictable situations, such as other drivers behaving dangerously.
That means drivers will be free to do many things behind the wheel they can't do now, but they still will assume responsibility for controlling the car.
Safety systems supplier TRW and its technology partner Mobileye make a compelling case for this more measured – and believable – approach to self-driving vehicles at the supplier's new global electronics technical center in Farmington Hills, MI.
With $16.4 billion in sales last year, 90% related to vehicle safety systems, TRW speaks with authority in judging what realistically can be achieved in enabling mass-produced vehicles to navigate public roads safely.
TRW designs and manufactures all the radar, camera, electric power steering and electronic stability control components required for semi-autonomous driving. Mobileye develops the software that makes them work: computer-vision algorithms and chip technology for driving- assistance systems.
TRW says the hardware will be ready by 2018, and Mobileye says so will the software. More importantly, they both say the technology will be affordable to auto makers and consumers.
Mobileye Chief Technology Officer Amnon Shashua says key visual technologies for recognizing animals, potholes, new street signs and traffic lights will be ready for launch in just a year or two, followed by emergency steering and self-driving components.
Shashua is confident these technologies will enable vehicles to steer and brake appropriately even in spontaneous situations, such as children stepping into the road from between parked cars or a deer leaping in front of a vehicle.
However, he says sensing technology still has limits. Cameras can have trouble recognizing a speeding vehicle approaching at an oblique angle in an erratic or reckless manner, he says.
Like it or not, drivers will be giving up more and more control to automatic vehicle safety systems. Some cars already incorporate adaptive cruise-control features and automatic emergency braking. More are coming.
Governments all over the world are enacting stricter rules to reduce traffic deaths and injuries. So far, Japan and Europe have done a much better job of reducing fatalities than the U.S.
According to data compiled by TRW, from 2001 to 2010, Japan reduced traffic fatalities 44% and Europe achieved a reduction of 43% while U.S. fatalities declined only 22% during the same period.
Now, after years of steadily declining, U.S. traffic fatality rates are climbing again. Driver distraction issues are getting much of the blame. According to a National Highway Traffic Safety Admin. study, 80% of crashes and 65% of near crashes are caused by driver distraction.
Active safety systems already are proven to save lives and mitigate driver distraction. The U.S. government is expected to begin mandating their installation beginning around 2018.
Self-driving vehicles sound attractive to many, but if you have to make a serious bet on where the automotive market is going in high-volume, it is best to look at what will be required by future government regulations, what will be affordable and what will not resemble an economic stimulus package for trial lawyers.
All these signs point to proliferation of semi-autonomous, not self-driving vehicles in the next five to 10 years.


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A new CNN poll contains some troubling numbers for President Obama. Among Americans -- and those registered to vote -- 52% believe Obama does not deserve a second term, while 44% think he does. A paltry 4% don't have an opinion on the matter.
In addition, only 49% of those polled approve of Obama's handling of the presidency, compared to 76% last February. Is the president suffering a serious setback or is this the natural ebb and flow of a presidential term?
- Examiner.com's Bruce Maiman isn't worried. "These polls show that people are angry and they can't decide who they want to blame," he writes. "Ronald Reagan was considered a 'one-termer' at this point in his presidency, too. Polls like this are as accurate and meaningful as the 'If the election were being held today' type polls."
- Talking Point Memo's Evan McMorris-Santoro thinks it's too early "for the White House to get worried by that result -- Obama still has years to prove to the electorate he can be the president he promised he would be on the trail in 2008." Incumbent Democrats in Congress are the ones who are in danger, he writes.
- Speaking of incumbents, the Los Angeles Times' Andrew Malcolm, predicts some may not want to be associated with Obama or his agenda. "Say you're a fellow Democrat who is on a ballot this fall and Obama's reps came calling for your support for his legislative agenda and you saw his numbers plummeting like this. How likely would you be to hitch your political wagon to a falling star?"
- Greg Sargent, writing on The Plum Line, agrees that incumbents are the ones who should be most worried about this type of polling result. "To be clear, this obviously doesn't have any real bearing on his reelection chances, since 2012 is very far away. But this finding shows just how deep anti-incumbent fervor is running," he writes.
- The numbers weren't shocking to conservatives on the Red State Blog, but blogger "haystack" wasn't gloating. "The temptation to mock, while great, will be resisted," he wrote, recalling on the dark days before George W. Bush's re-election when polls showed a severe dissatisfaction with his performance. "I think (and I'm prepared to be corrected on this) that there is a fundamental difference between the two however; Bush gave in a little without having to abandon his agenda while Obama appears ready to give up all he stood for a year ago just to cling to his political life - agenda be damned."


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August 27, 2013, St. Charles, IL – The St Charles Arts Council, in partnership with the St. Charles Park District, and their Civic and Arts Partners, the Downtown St. Charles Partnership and Steel Beam Theatre showcase some of the terrific arts programming going on during the All-City, All-Arts Event – Charlie's Center for the Arts – ALL of the ARTS, ALL over TOWN.
The Downtown St. Charles Partnership's Jazz Weekend showcases three-time Grammy Award winning Saxophonist Frank Catalano who will headline at The House Pub both Friday and Saturday evenings. For an up-to-date schedule, venues, and more information about Catalano's performance or Jazz Weekend, please visit www.stcjazzweekend.com. With questions, contact the Downtown St. Charles Partnership by calling 630-443-3967.
The Steel Beam Theatre opens their 13th season of wonderful live theatre with their presentation of Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks on Friday, September 13. Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks (by Richard Alfieri) is "a romantic comedy with an uplifting message [about] Lily, an aging by formidable retiree, [who] hires Michael, an acerbic dance instructor, to give her dance lessons in her condo in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida. Two very different people from very opposed backgrounds who find common ground as they tango, foxtrot and cha-cha their way to mutual understanding and friendship." It promises to be a memorable opening to another great season in the Steel Beam's intimate, downtown St. Charles theater.
And for fans of the tango and/or jazz, don't forget that Tango Espejo will be coming to Charlie's for a performance on Saturday night at the Baker Community Center in St. Charles. Check out Tango Espejo's web site or StCharlesArtsCouncil.org – click on "Events" for more information.
For the long September 12 – 15 weekend, the SCAC and the Park District, along with their Arts and Civic Partners like the Steel Beam Theatre and the Downtown St. Charles Partnership have organized an event featuring multiple artistic disciplines in venues all over the city. Charlie's will feature visual art galleries/studios, music, literature (spoken word performances, storytelling, etc.), dance, live theater, and as much Arts Programming as we can pack into the weekend.
Come to town early for coffee and a baked treat, attend Charlie's Fine Craft/3D Art Show and all of the many Art Shows, Studios, Galleries, and Visual Art Demonstrations going on all over town, and enjoy lunch or dinner in any of St. Charles' dozens of restaurants. Or consider a late summer drink and/or a bite to eat at one of the restaurants' gorgeous outdoor patios.
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For more information about this fantastic weekend of art, check out the St Charles Arts Council's web site – StCharlesArtsCouncil.org or call the SCAC at 630.443.3794 or email us at email@example.com.
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The SCAC will serve all those individuals (professionals, amateurs, and students) who produce tangible, consumable works of the imagination and all organizations, businesses, and groups that include and represent those people. This would be arts and cultural activities in their broadest sense, including graphic, plastic, and decorative arts, architecture, crafts, literature and poetry, music, theater, and dance. The primary long-range goal is the transformation of St. Charles into an arts community/an arts magnet/a nationally-known arts market. Ultimately we foresee a municipal arts center, more working artists and opportunities in arts education, many privately-owned galleries, performance venues, and related arts businesses, and a downtown architecture and streetscape conducive to both the aesthetics and business of art.
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The St. Charles Park District is a special purpose government unit. It is the mission to enrich the quality of life of Park District residents through excellence in programs, parks, facilities, and services. This is the mission of the Park District as expressed by the Park Board. The mission represents the fundamental statement of purpose and is the point of reference for all decision making.
About the Downtown St. Charles Partnership:
The mission of the Downtown St. Charles Partnership (DSCP) is to enhance the economic viability and to preserve the character and beauty of Downtown St. Charles. The Partnership produces the St. Charles Fine Art Show, Holiday Homecoming, Jazz Weekend, and the St. Patrick's Parade. For more information about the DSCP, including membership, volunteer opportunities, and events visit www.downtownstcharles.org
About Steel Beam Theatre:
Steel Beam Theatre is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to bringing high quality theatrical entertainment, training and arts awareness to the Fox Valley community at an affordable price.
About Tango Espejo:
Celebrating its fourth year, Tango Espejo is promoting the release of its new CD featuring original music and arrangements of classic tangos for the film Deadly Embrace. Tango Espejo made its debut in 2009 for a doctoral research recital that focused on Nuevo Tango composer Astor Piazzolla. Since its debut, the quintet has mesmerized audiences throughout the U.S. Midwest, attracting fans both nationally and internationally through recordings.
Tango Espejo is applauded by a wide variety of audiences including aficionados of classical, jazz, tango, and Latin music. Recognized nationally and abroad as Piazzolla specialists, Tango Espejo is a favorite at milongas and tango festivals. Performances have included Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, Peoria Bach Festival, Decatur Celebration and regular club engagements in Urbana, Illinois, where the quintet originated.


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MELBOURNE – Australia needed less than three days to wrap up an emphatic victory by an innings and 201 runs against Sri Lanka in the second Test in Melbourne today.
The comprehensive win ensured victory in the series, Australia now 2-0 up with just Sydney to come.
The tourists were not helped by the fact Prasanna Jayawardene and Chanaka Welagedara were not fit enough to bat, while the talismanic Kumar Sangakkara was forced to retire hurt.
Australia had eventually been dismissed for 450 – for a lead of 304 – with Mitchell Johnson left stranded agonisingly short of his century.
And Johnson took out his frustrations on the Sri Lankan batsmen as he claimed 2-16, while Jackson Bird weighed in with 2-29 and Nathan Lyon and Peter Siddle picked up a wicket each.
Johnson and Bird had ripped the heart out of the Sri Lankan resistance as the tourists slumped to 13 for 4.
Johnson started the rot with the run out of Dimuth Karunaratne (one) in the opening over, while he then had Tillakaratne Dilshan caught by Ed Cowan at square leg for a golden duck. Bird followed Johnson's lead as he bowled Mahela Jayawardene for a duck and trapped Thilan Samaraweera leg before for one.
Sangakkara and Angelo Mathews attempted to lead the fight-back but injury ended their 49-run stand prematurely – and left Sri Lanka on the brink.
Sangakkara had made a dogged 27 but he was unable to bat on after being struck on the left glove by a fierce delivery from Johnson. And when Johnson bowled Mathews for 35 it was left to Siddle and Lyon to mop up the tail.
Dhammika Prasad smashed Lyon for back-to-back sixes before his cameo ended a ball later when he was caught by Phillip Hughes for 17, while Shaminda Eranga was removed by Siddle for a duck.
With Prasanna Jayawardene and Welagedara unable to pad up and Sangakkara in no state to return, Sri Lanka were all out for just 103.
Earlier, Johnson had ended on 92 not out as Lyon and Bird failed to hang around long enough to see him reach a second Test ton. Lyon was caught at short mid-wicket for one off Mathews, while Bird was comprehensively bowled by Eranga for a duck. (Sky)


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British General John Burgoyne invaded the United States from Canada in 1777 as part of an ambitious plan to end the American rebellion by splitting the colonies in two. His 5,000 man army consisted of crack British troops, Hessian mercenaries and Native American allies. A non-existent supply line and bushwacking through dense forests while overloaded with baggage was Burgoyne's undoing. Morale sagged as the army slogged on. Meanwhile, hundreds of New Englanders raced to intercept the invasion. This badly damaged German Brunswick musket (1760-1777) is likely one of those taken from the Brunswick troops at the battle of Saratoga in 1778 or at the battle of Bennington, Vermont that preceded it. It is very close in form to the muskets sent as trophies to Massachusetts by the commander of the American forces at Bennington.
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback Aqib Talib has been suspended four games by the NFL for violating the league's policy on performance-enhancing substances, the team announced Saturday.
Talib will begin serving his suspension immediately and is eligible to return to the active roster on Monday, Nov. 4.
|Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback Aqib Talib has been suspended four games by the NFL for testing positive for Adderall. (Kim Klement/US Presswire)
Talib released a statement saying his suspension was a result of testing positive for Adderall. He doesn't plan on appealing the punishment.
"Around the beginning of training camp, I made a mistake by taking an Adderall pill without a prescription," Talib's statement read. "This is especially regrettable because, for the past several months, with Coach Schiano's help, I've worked very hard to improve myself -- professionally and personally -- as a player and a man. I am truly sorry to my teammates, coaches and Buccaneers fans, and I'm disappointed in myself. I will work diligently every day of this suspension to stay in top football shape and be ready to help this team in the second half of the season. I have chosen to be immediately accountable for the situation I put myself in, which is why I will not exercise my appeal rights and will begin serving the suspension immediately."
Buccaneers coach Greg Schiano said he was "disappointed" to learn of Talib's suspension.
The Buccaneers placed Talib on the reserve/suspended list and promoted defensive end Markus White to the 53-man roster from the team's practice squad. E.J. Biggers replaced Talib in Tampa Bay's starting lineup.It's the second suspension of Talib's NFL career. He also was suspended without pay for the 2010 regular-season opener and also fined one additional game check for violating the NFL's personal-conduct policy. That discipline stemmed from an altercation with a St. Petersburg cab driver during training camp in August 2009.
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Sean 'Diddy' Combs has lost $1 million in a high stakes dice game with fellow rapper Rick Ross.
The hip-hop star has posted a video on his Instagram.com page which appears to show the moment he loses big in a private Craps shoot in Las Vegas.
In the footage, Combs is seen rolling dice and then presenting Ross with a handwritten note which reads, "To RR, I owe you $1,000,000. Sean Combs".
Ross is heard saying, "Double or nothing right now live… I'm gonna sell that (note) as a piece of art."
Combs confirmed the loss in the video's caption, writing, "I just lost a million dollars. It ain't nothin (sic)."
The stars were in Sin City to watch the big fight between Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez live on Saturday night, which ended with another win for Mayweather, Jr. Justin Bieber and Lil Wayne were also in attendance and helped to walk the undefeated champ out into the ring.
Sean 'Diddy' Combs has lost $1 million in a high stakes dice game with fellow rapper Rick Ross.


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Besides having gone from an Australian business woman with little interest in fashion to a style icon reminiscent of Jackie Kennedy, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark has undergone many other changes. Since her first visits to Denmark from 2001 to 2003 she has shed several pounds.
The Australia-born princess is here seen above taking a stroll in 2002. Her style is classic and accentuates her beautiful female curves.
Mary's body now shows signs of regular exercise. It is well-balanced and toned.
The Australian beauty is seen below enjoying a summer day at the sea with children and friends. Her body is admirably lean and athletic.
Soon her slim look will temporarily change, as the royal couple are expecting twins. On March 17 last year the Danish magazine Billedbladed reported that Crown Prince Frederik and his wife had been seen making several secret trips to the Danish national hospital Rigshospitalet, where the couple's two younger children Prince Christian and Princess Isabella were born. They were seen leaving the part of the hospital that hosts the Juliane Marie Center – the hospital's birth clinic – smiling and hand in hand.
Scandinavia's largest bookmaker Unibet was so convinced that the crown princess would give birth before January 1, 2010 that they offered 1.5 odds. Now it has finally been confirmed that the 37-year old is pregnant. She is due in January 2011.


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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's influential El Pais newspaper apologized on Thursday for publishing a "false photo" of elusive, cancer-stricken Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, removed the image from its website and withdrew its print edition.
Chavez is currently convalescing in Cuba after undergoing surgery for cancer for the fourth time on December 11. He has not been seen publicly for six weeks, fuelling rampant speculation over how serious his condition is.
The Venezuelan government and the leader of Argentina, Chavez ally President Cristina Fernandez, condemned the publication of the photo. "As grotesque as it is false," said Venezuelan Information Minister in a Twitter comment.
The grainy photo that El Pais originally splashed on its front page on Thursday, billed as a global exclusive, portrayed the head of a man lying down with a breathing tube in his mouth.
El Pais, one of the biggest Spanish-language publications in the world and an institution both in Spain and in Latin America, said in a brief online statement that it had withdrawn the photo after ascertaining that the image was not of Chavez.
Venezuelan political opposition leaders have criticized government secrecy over Chavez's condition while his supporters have accused foreign media of being in league with the opposition to spread rumors that the president's medical condition is worse than it really is.
The handling of information over Chavez's health has become as contentious as the man himself and official medical updates have been confusing and contradictory.
"El Pais apologizes to its readers for the damage caused. The newspaper has opened an investigation to determine the circumstances of what happened and the errors that were committed in the verification of the photo," the newspaper said in the statement.
The photograph was on the paper's website for half an hour and also appeared in early editions of the print version that were then withdrawn from news stands and replaced with a new edition with a different front page, the company said.
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Buchholz flirts with history as Sox blank Rays
BOSTON -- Clay Buchholz's hair is much longer now, his beard fully grown in with shaggy hairs wrapping around his face.
Jarrod Saltalamacchia replaced Jason Varitek behind the plate. John Farrell replaced Terry Francona in the dugout. John Tumpane replaced Joe West as the home-plate umpire.View Full Game Coverage
BOSTON -- Clay Buchholz's hair is much longer now, his beard fully grown in with shaggy hairs wrapping around his face.
Jarrod Saltalamacchia replaced Jason Varitek behind the plate. John Farrell replaced Terry Francona in the dugout. John Tumpane replaced Joe West as the home-plate umpire.View Full Game Coverage
And Buchholz nearly made history again.
The 28-year-old carried a no-hitter into the eighth inning of the Red Sox's 5-0 win over the Rays on Sunday, coming six outs short of joining a list of 27 pitchers who have thrown multiple no-hitters in their career.
"It's fun to go out and pitch when you have all your pitches working," Buchholz said. "It doesn't happen every day. Probably five times a season for a starting pitcher."
Buchholz weaved his way through the struggling Rays lineup, which entered Sunday with fewer hits this season (70) than any other team in the American League. He picked his corners, perhaps nibbling a little too much at times as he walked four batters in the outing, but he wouldn't allow hard contact.
The first five innings went by like a swift breeze. Buchholz needed just 68 pitches, as nine of the first 15 batters were retired via the strikeout.
Then it hit him. He looked to the scoreboard after the fifth -- about the same time he realized what was going on during his first no-hitter more than five years ago. But the dugout didn't present the traditional baseball scene, with the untouchable pitcher segregated to the far half of the bench.
Mike Napoli sat next to Buchholz between innings and played the role of conversationalist, while Buchholz played the role of a DJ.
"I didn't feel as outcasted as usually seems to happen," Buchholz said.
Saltalamacchia was far more nervous.
"I was sitting in my same spot, I didn't want to do anything," the catcher said. "My shirt was untucked for seven straight innings.
As the game progressed, innings felt longer to Buchholz. He was at 90 pitches after seven and returned for the eighth to face Kelly Johnson, who Buchholz and Saltalamacchia had planned on pitching differently than anyone else in the Rays' lineup.
Traditionally a good fastball hitter, scouting reports suggested pitching Johnson offspeed. As it is, Johnson has seen an astonishing amount of curveballs and sliders this season -- about one out of every three pitches, which is about five percent more often than any other year -- and Johnson has struggled to keep his batting average above .200.
So for the first time all afternoon, Buchholz threw back-to-back curveballs. The first one dropped in for a strike. The second one wasn't supposed to.
"It basically was supposed to be a purpose pitch, fall right on top of the plate and see if we could get a swing," Buchholz said. "I didn't quite get it there, and he was able to put the bat on it. It's just one of those things."
Johnson's bat shattered on contact, and the ball fell into shallow right field as the 35,198 in attendance at Fenway Park gave Buchholz a standing ovation.
"He threw me two breaking balls; I really was not expecting that," Johnson said. "But I was in a good enough position the second time around to at least make some contact, even if it was a broken bat, obviously."
Had Buchholz gotten through the eighth without allowing a hit, it would've left Farrell in a tough spot with his starter's pitch count.
"This early in the season, you get into those 120s, you're starting to push it pretty good," Farrell said.
Reliever Clay Mortensen said no one in the bullpen had been warming until the no-hitter was broken up. The relievers thought Buchholz was going to do it.
"We only get up when skip calls us down and tells us to get up," said Mortensen.
Joining former Red Sox pitcher Justin Masterson as the only other Major Leaguer at 3-0, Buchholz hurled eight shutout innings, allowing two hits and four walks while striking out 11, a career high. He threw 109 pitches, 69 for strikes.
Buchholz has come a long way since Sept. 1, 2007, when he was still a clean-shaven rookie. At 23 and making just his second career Major League appearance, his career was full of promise then.
"Even last year when you look beyond the numbers, after start No. 6, I believe, he reeled off about 18 in a row that were very consistent," said Farrell, who didn't ring the bullpen until Buchholz finally allowed a hit in the eighth inning. "Back in 2010, he had an ERA in the low twos. He's very capable of what we're seeing right now."
The Red Sox took the pressure off Buchholz early when Jacoby Ellsbury, Shane Victorino and Dustin Pedroia connected on three consecutive singles, and Napoli launched a shot that fell about a foot away from the 420-sign in deep center field, resulting in a two-run double.
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Ann McElhinney
Ann McElhinney is a journalist and documentary film director and producer. Her work examining the real life costs of environmental policies has outraged many in the environmentalist movement and she has received several death threats.
An inspiring and entertaining public speaker, she was voted the most popular speaker after Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter at CPAC. One blogger recently described her as "the Irish Sarah Palin" (it was not meant as a compliment.)
She is the director and producer of FrackNation (2013)-a documentary on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and the natural gas boom in the US and abroad. FrackNation shows how unfounded opposition to fracking is damaging the lives of some of the poorest and hardest working people in America. FrackNation dispels myths and tells the story of the people directly affected by fracking bans.
FrackNation premiered January 22, 2013 on Mark Cuban's AXS TV. The New York Times called the film "meticulously researched…provocative." And Variety said it was a "briskly paced…mischievous pic."
FrackNation bypassed traditional funding methods and instead turned to Kickstarter, a crowd-funding website. In 60 days, 3,305 backers donated $212,265 to tell the truth about fracking. It was one of the most successful campaigns in Kickstarter history.
She has also recently produced and directed a series of short films exposing environmental hypocrites who want others to live with less, but who refuse to change their own lifestyles: James Cameron Hypocrite, Robert Redford Hypocrite and Prince Charles Hypocrite. Her short films have garnered over 2.5 million views on YouTube.
In 2009, she produced and directed Not Evil Just Wrong, a film which examines the devastating consequences of the global warming hysteria. The film highlights the tragic consequences of the first triumph of the environmental movement, the ban on DDT, which has needlessly resulted in the deaths of more than 40 million children and adults in the developing world.
Previously, McElhinney produced and directed Mine Your Own Business (2006) – the first documentary that asks difficult questions of the
environmental movement. As a result, 80 NGOs, including Greenpeace, called for the film to be banned when it was screened in the National Geographic auditorium in Washington DC. Protestors compared Mine Your Own Business to "Nazi propaganda" and "pornography" .
However, Canada's The National Post said "Mine Your Own Business is devastating because it combats prejudices and fantasies with pictures that refute thousands of weasel words. Images spun from afar. It deserves to be seen by anybody who wants to understand the impact on poor people of radical environmentalism.
McElhinney has also made documentaries for the BBC, CBC (Canada) and RTE (Ireland). The Search for Tristan's Mum (RTE, 2005) concerned the case of Tristan Dowse, a baby who was adopted by an Irish man and his wife in Indonesia. Two years later, when the adoptive mother became pregnant, they abandoned Tristan in an Indonesian orphanage.
The case outraged Ireland and McElhinney tracked down Tristan's natural mother and, going undercover, infiltrated the baby-selling ring. Tristan is now living with his natural mother in Indonesia and the baby sellers are serving lengthy jail sentences.
The Irish government initiated a high court protection order to protect Tristan's interests and when delivering his judgment, Justice John McMenamin said McElhinney deserved the "highest of praise" for her investigative journalism.
McElhinney was featured in and was the Associate Producer of the highly controversial documentary Return to Sender (2005) for CBC.
McElhinney has also written for or is a regular contributor to an array of international media organizations including CNN, FOX News, ABC (US), BBC, CBC (Canada), ABC (Australia), RTE (Ireland), The Sunday Times and the Irish Times. She is a regular on a number of US talk radio shows including Hugh Hewitt, the Dennis Miller and Randi Rhodes show.
She is a regular contributor to Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood site.
McElhinney has worked as a journalist and filmmaker in the US, Canada, Romania, Bulgaria, Chile, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Ghana and Uganda.
She has most recently spoken at conferences in Washington DC, New York, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Toronto, Grand Rapids, Phoenix, San Diego, St. Louis, Santa Barbara and Salt Lake City. She also lectures on campuses across the US on the dangers of environmental extremists and the scam of sustainability.
McElhinney produces and directs documentaries with her husband Phelim McAleer.
FrackNation (2013) Director & Producer
Not Evil Just Wrong (2009) Director & Producer
Mine Your own Business (2006) Director & Producer
The Search for Tristan's Mum (RTE, 2005) On Screen Journalist
Return to Sender (CBC, 2005) Associate Producer
Romanian Twins (BBC, 2004) Assistant Producer
Speaking topics
1) The Dangers of Environmentalism
2) How Business has lost its Guts (and how the poor will suffer for their cowardice)
3) Capitalism – A Love Story: How I rejected liberalism and learned to love Capitalism
4) Bono and Bill Gates – capitalists who hate capitalism and want the poor to remain poor.
5) The Enemy Within – How cowardly conservatives are the biggest enemies of Middle America and the World's Poor
6) Global Warming….and other environmental nonsense
7) Education System…a hatchery for liberal ideology
8) How Social Welfare Kills: a British case study
9) How not for profits and environmental organizations are determined to keep the poor of the world in poverty – and how you can stop them


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Snapshots: Christine Fraioli
In the late 1950s, Essex Fells, N.J. was a typical white-collar town. A number of professionals, mostly stockbrokers and attorneys, rode the train to Manhattan each morning for work.Tony Fraioli was not one of these men. In the basement of his New Jersey home was a laboratory stacked with shelves holding glass jars of chemicals and solutions and a sink for developing photographs. Here, Tony worked on a long-life lithium battery that would run one of the first electric cars and cause a minor explosion that could be heard by his family upstairs at the dinner table. Tony was a chemical engineer, inventor and father of four; his eldest was Christine. Christine was identical to her father — creative, artistic and brimming with intrigue. In the third grade, Tony transformed the laboratory into a dark room so she could develop her photographs. Looking through the lens of a camera, said Christine, "informed [her] aesthetic visual sense," which she would use later in life during her 24 years working with the Middlebury College Museum of Art and her most recent endeavor into real estate. Christine admits that her household was unique and a bit chaotic. The family was Italian and often times sat down for a meal at one in the afternoon and didn't leave the table until seven at night, pacing through an eight-course meal. Once when Christine brought college friends home for Thanksgiving dinner, her father used an oversized hypodermic needle from the laboratory to inject the turkey with melted butter. Music was always booming in the house — all four children played instruments. Tony and his wife, Natelle, stressed academic and artistic excellence with the children and made frequent trips to New York City to visit museums. The Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art were Christine's favorites. When she was 13, Christine was given a beautiful box of oils, brushes, an easel and canvas. She spent hours copying pictures from National Geographic Magazine, once reading an article on American Indians and then painting the buffalo. But, Christine admits, she was not naturally gifted as a painter. "I had no future in it whatsoever," she said. When Christine left for school at Middlebury College, she felt at ease. Both of her parents and numerous aunts and uncles had attended the school and she spent summers as a child on her grandfather's farm in Manchester where her mother had grown up."Vermont for me was freedom," she said. "Vermont gave me a sense of independence very early on."She studied art history, exploring various forms of print art — photographs, prints and paintings — while taking an interest in architecture. Her favorite class called Vermont Vernacular Architecture, taught by Professor Glenn Andres, brought Christine to Jessica Swift's family home on Stewart Lane in Middlebury in 1974. Jessica Swift and her husband were world travelers and maintained a Manhattan apartment while visiting their Middlebury home during summers. In 1939, ten years after the death of her husband, Jessica stayed in the house, relinquishing her Manhattan apartment, and donated her time to charity. At 106 years old, Jessica invited Christine, now a senior at Middlebury College, into her home to ride the elevator, drink tea and eat cookies and talk about her history in the white house on the hill. Christine didn't see the Swift house again until after she came back from graduate school in Colorado. Jessica died in 1981 and the family home was auctioned off. A few years later, John Nelson — a handsome U.S. Air Force veteran and IBM staffer — bought the house and made it into the Swift House Inn. John revamped the main house and old carriage house and bought the Gate House with the turret down on the corner. After meeting him on a blind date, Christine eventually married John and moved into the Swift house. Christine tended the gardens, cooked breakfast, hosted dinners and enjoyed the company of her guests. While operating the inn, Christine kept her hand in the artistic world, working in various positions at the Middlebury Museum of Art. Among the many jobs she held, she worked as a slide curator, organized exhibitions, mended, hinged, matted and framed works of art, pulling from the skills she learned in graduate school while working at the Denver Art Museum and an art gallery on the underdeveloped St. Charles and Wazee Streets. The couple sold the inn five years ago when the job became tiresome. In the process of selling, John and Christine learned about the ins and outs of real estate and eventually the couple founded Vermont Lodging Properties in Middlebury in 2004, selling homes, inns, B&Bs and lodging properties at a time when the business was booming. Christine managed to find her niche in real estate. Here, she could work with people in the inn-keeping business, people who loved to entertain, drink, eat, talk — Christine's people.Looking back to Tony's dark room in New Jersey where she developed her first pictures, this is where Christine said she learned to look at the world through a different lens. She developed an eye for visual beauty that not only carried her through her experience at the Middlebury Museum of Art, but also as a realtor assembling beauty from the timber beam construction of historic buildings. "Taking pictures informed my aesthetic visual sense, because taking pictures as a kid through the lens of a camera, you learn what composition is and how to look at things," Christine said. "It teaches you a different way of seeing. I think I've always been appreciative of that."


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The New York Times
August 4, 2016
"Racism in the Research Lab"
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Latino Leaders
June 2016
"Dr. Q, Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa-The Brains Behind Brain Cancer Research"
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College of Marin, Kentfield, Commencement Address
May 20, 2016
"College of Marin grads celebrate, receive inspiring message"
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May 13, 2016
"With All Due Respect: From Illegal Immigrant To Neurosurgeon"
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Florida Politics
May 11, 2016
"Brad Pitt, Immigration, Mayo Clinic, and 'Dr. Q' "
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The Florida Times Union
April 20, 2016
"Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville's CEO calls hiring of new chairman of neurologic surgery 'a real coup' for Mayo, Jacksonville"
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March 1, 2016
"Brad Pitt, Disney Developing Immigrant Doctor Movie 'Dr. Q'"
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Medical Imaging Technology
October 2015 Edition
"Guiding Light"
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Scientific American Español
August 11, 2015
"Nueva tecnología de imágenes en 3D promete facilitar las neurocirugías"
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Chemical & Engineering News
June 18, 2015
"Optical Method Maps Brain Tumor Borders"
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Johns Hopkins Medicine News Release
June 17, 2015
New Imaging Technique Could Make Brain Tumor Removal Safer, More Effective, Study Suggests
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El Nuevo Día
June 14, 2015
"Cuando miro el cerebro todos somos iguales"
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El Beisman
May 1, 2015
"Migrating Neurons"
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Baltimore Business Journal
February 25, 2015
"Five Maryland life sciences companies share $865K in state awards"
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February 9, 2015
"What autism can teach us about brain cancer: Both disorders involve faults in same protein"
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January 20, 2015
"Dr. Q is on the Right Track to Cure Brain Cancer"
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January 13, 2015
Los Mexicanos Más Creativos del Mundo - Dr. Q was named as one of the world's most creative Mexicans!
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Orange County Register
October 11, 2013
Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa: From illegal immigrant to Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine
M.D.-Ph.D. Support 06/04/13
Promoting Student Interests for Medical-Scientists in Training
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The Hub 04/11/2013
"Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa to speak at Johns Hopkins commencement"
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CNN Online 05/25/2013
"From migrant worker to neurosurgeon"
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Forbes Online Edition 2/26/2013
"Dr. Q: From Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon"
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Kaiser Health News
The KHN Blog November 20th, 2012
"Uninsured Die At Higher Rates After Brain Surgery, Study Finds"
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Stem Cells International
Volume 2012
"Neural Stem Cells in the Adult Brain: From Benchside to Clinic" is a special edition article that Dr. Quinones co-authored for Stem Cells International.
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AANS - Profiles in courage
Volume 21, 2012
The American Association of Neurological Surgeons decided to feature Dr Q in their edition of "Profiles in Courage".
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Promise and Progress:
A Focused Mind (Winter 2007 edition)
Dr Q's story and achievements are featured in Promise and Progress, a Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center journal. He shares his vision of medicine and science, along with his exciting work on stem cell research that could one day " pave the way for a number of treatments for brain cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and brain damage."
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Baltimore Magazine's Top Docs -- November 2011
How a migrant farm worker and illegal immigrant became a Hopkins neurosurgeon. Baltimore Magazine describes Dr Q's unique relationships with patients and the research he is conducting at Hopkins.
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Baltimore Sun
Johns Hopkins doctors do brain surgery via eyelid
"When you tell people you had brain surgery, the first thing people always do is look for a scar, and that's what's amazing, there isn't one," said Liane Lefever, a patient diagnosed with a meningioma.
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The Baltimore Sun
'Illegal' immigrants and the next economy
In this edition of the Baltimore Sun, Dr Q is described as perhaps the nation's leading illegal-turned-incredible citizen. This article looks at the presence of illegal immigrants in the USA and whether or not they should be granted similar educational privileges as their classmates.
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NY Times: CLAUDIA DREIFUS
A Conversation With Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa
At the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa has four positions. He is a neurosurgeon who teaches oncology and neurosurgery, directs a neurosurgery clinic and heads a laboratory studying brain tumors. He also performs nearly 250 brain operations a year...
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Baltimore Magazine's Top Docs -- November 2007
Every November, Baltimore Magazine compiles a list of the best doctors across the greater Baltimore region. The list is excerpted from The Best Doctors in America 2007® database, which includes approximately 41,000 physicians in more than 40 medical specialties
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Johns Hopkins: Dome
Volume 57; Number 7; September 2006
Dome is a publication for all the members of the Johns Hopkins Medicine family. In this article, learn about Dr Q's story and about his early start as a scientist at Johns Hopkins University.
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Baltimore Grill: Dr Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
September, 2008
The Hopkins neurosurgeon—and local hero—on Rocky, mastering his fear, and the 3-pound enigma.
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PopSci's 6th Annual Brilliant ten
October, 2007
We visit operating rooms, observatories, and islands full of slightly-less-than-rational monkeys to find the young geniuses who are shaping the future of science
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Reader's digest
Illegal Immigrant Turned Brain Surgeon
This article is an exciting review of Dr Q's story
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The Baltimore Sun
October, 2006
Dr Q tells his life story and successfully removes a tumor - the size of an orange - from a 28 year old patient.
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The Baltimore Sun: brain surgery hits prime time in science news
July, 2008
The rare surgery, an awake craniotomy, was captured for this season of "NOVA scienceNOW," a science news magazine show on PBS.
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Fox News: Our American Dream -- written by Lucy Hood
October 19, 2011
Across the United States, in all fields of endeavor, Latinos are working to uphold their place in American society. Fox News Latino features Dr Q in "Our American Dream," a series of snapshots and profiles of Latino success stories.
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Hopkins Medicine
Winter 2007 - by David Dudley
PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A YEAR for alumni, faculty, parents and friends of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Hopkins Medicine magazine brings readers face to face with people, issues and events that shape one of the world's leading health care institutions. In this issue, Dr Q tells his inspiring story and reveals his present life as a world renown Surgeon and Scientist.
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Johns Hopkins Medicine: News
2006 article reveals Dr Q's contribution to the discovery of human adult Neural Stem Cells.
"using special microscopes and chemical analysis of 42 samples of brain tissue taken at autopsy from seven people, and 43 samples of tissue removed with permission from living patients as part of unrelated neurosurgical procedures -- also revealed evidence of the move of cells lining the ventricles, or ependymal cells, to the same area of the brain, a discovery expected to provide further insight into the critical relationship among ependymal cell, astrocytes and potential brain stem cells."
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Gene delivery therapy into human brain cancer cells using nanoparticles -- July, 2011
Dr Q comments on a new technology developed by Hopkins Scientists that may one day prevent surgery all together.
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The oyemagazine
by Elisabeth Roman
This article is a short review of Dr Q's incredible story.
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Johns Hopkins Children Center
Hispanic Children Rarely Get Top-Notch Care For Brain Tumors
This article features some of the work Dr Q and his team are conducting in the field of Public Health
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HHMI: Bulletin
November, 2006
Many young scientists dream of heading a lab of their own. According to a few early and mid-career HHMI-supported researchers, todays's up-and-coming scientists experience certain realities their mentors never faced.
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Human Capital Blog
January 10, 2012
This article is a Q&A about Dr Q's story, book, and future.
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LA Times
Patt Morrison Asks: The brain, Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
"The first time I said it in public was at lunch with my classmates in medical school in 1994. They asked me how I came to the United States, and I said I hopped the fence -- very matter of fact -- and everybody was laughing."
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Your Personal Best - Dr Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
by Chelsea Greenwood
This article goes over the many sacrifices Dr Q made to become who he is and " to make this a better place for all of us to live"
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What the Stars Are Really Thankful For
In this article, famous personalities, including Dr Q, tell us what they are most thankful for and the time they felt most scared.
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Orange Register
A reminder of what America means -- by Yvette Cabrera
In the heat of political debates over immigration, Dr Q reminds us what America stands for and what made this country great.
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Brain surgeon latest distinguished Delta graduate
Dr Q is featured as an illustrious alumnus of San Joaquin Delta college. Delta President Raul Rodriguez called Quinones-Hinojosa a "shining example of how a community college education can help students realize their dreams."
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Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr. Fund
I came here with a dream
This is a philanthropic organization that serves as a voice of hope and a positive, unifying force for social changes. Dr Q's story is featured on their website.
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Yes, i do believe the social aspect of religion has a huge influence on its popularity.
Re "The common man acquires his faith...":
I'm not sure any of us are in a good position to say what is "common" in acquiring a god. I certainly see many counter examples to the fear theory in my own (bias sample) experience, and i recognize that might not reflect typical modern life. I also recognize typical modern life is hardly revealing of the whole spectrum of the human condition, and we do indeed live in interesting (and perhaps acutely fearful) times.
This is why i made my half-humorous remark up above. I think we really would need a "comprehensive theory of the attraction of religion" as Stewart above phrases it to come up with a worthy answer to this question.
Anything less is just me pitting my community's "common man" against your community's "common man"
Because they like fairy tales.
> Because they like fairy tales.
I covered that - shared fantasy. Thanks for agreeing :)
Just a couple of weeks ago, it hit me that there is very little difference between the way my kids behave when they play imagination games and the way people act around church. IMO, both come from the same human impulse - shared imagination play. Only problem is, most church folks have forgotten that they're playing.
I think this is very much the case. It only works if one can suspend disbelief indefinitely. Santa Clause is a great example. My six year old no longer believes in Santa Clause, but she continues to play along as if she did because it is fun. There is a sense of reward for doing so.
Church is very similar, the rewards are just different. The rewards for having faith are the sense of community and belonging, avoiding having to grapple with one's mortality, something to fall back one in order persevere over hardships and so on. These things are achievable without faith, but when one can't see a way forward without it, they are less likely to give it up.
It is very much a security blanket and a pacifier. I know many people that are now general theists because they had to dismiss all of the doctrinal crap in the face of evidence, but still hold onto that belief in a higher power. They even acknowledge that this isn't reasonable, but can't let go. They are simply in denial driven by an emotional desire to hold onto it.
Jason, I like your observation a lot. That last paragraph described me years ago. The only difference is that I had to take things to the logical conclusion. (I had already come to regard churches and religion as inherently destructive because of original sin and demonizing sex.)
Church is distinct from if not separate from religion. Both can, as you suggested give a feeling of community. This is obviously more so with a church, temple, mosque & etc. However, the individual being part of something bigger than oneself is important.
In my case I had a moment of epiphany when I realized that I was holding on to the idea of a nebulous god notion because I did not want to be alone. The answer of course had to be "holy s**t, believing makes absolutely zero difference as to whether or not I am alone". Literally in the next step I took I never felt so liberated in my life. So I went and had a beer with some friends.
When they leave their house they want to come back and find it the way they left it.
Here is an answer to your question coming from no less a person that the Lord Krishna himself!!
In his enormously popular scripture, the Bhagvad Geeta, he says that there are four types of devotees that come to me. One: A knowledgeble person who knows about god; two: a seeker who wants to understand god. three:a person desiring wealth and four: a deprived and neeedy person.
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I promised I would make available the PKGBUILDs I've been using for ConnochaetOS, and so … here they are.
I have binary packages for those applications and dependencies, but to be honest, you could probably build them in less time than it takes to download them. Particularly if your machine has any muscle to it at all.
Remy, of the restored 286 fame, graciously offered me some Web space to host stuff like this, and I'll see if I can get something like a "repository" working. That might also be useful for Crux ports, which I have plenty of.
It may be that some of those things are adopted into ConnochaetOS proper, but if they are or if they're not, be aware that I probably won't update these.
So if you stumble on this page a month from now and something is already obsolete … well, you get what you pay for. 🙄
Edit: Just for safekeeping, I put the binaries, source code and patches for these here. I know, Mediafire is not glamorous. …


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BLOODMASQUE Review
- Publisher: SQUARE ENIX INC
- Importing photos via the character creator is amusing.
- Social play through the clan system is a nice idea.
- Getting your timing down in fights can be frustrating.
- It's an already expensive game that pesters you to spend even more.
Bloodmasque's neat historical setting and photo-based wizardry can't cover up its derivative and repetitive combat system
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Ninteenth century Paris is certainly an interesting place to set a videogame - especially when its streets are crawling with vampires. You see, in Bloodmasque's alternative history, vampires control the earth, ruling over humanity with an iron fang. The only people that can stop them are a small resistance movement of half-breeds. This is where you come in.
The game a mission-based riff on the Infinity Blade formula. You accept missions, travel to locations around Paris, explore them, and then talk to characters to initiate combat. Once in combat, tapping the screen will launch an attack, while swiping will dodge. If you dodge at the correct time, you will trigger a counter-attack that allows you to pull of an entire combo chain. Once your special meter is full you can trigger an elaborate attack sequence that results in a load of extra damage.
The vampire you're attacking will transform mid-combat, forcing you to drain its health bar a second time, and finally stake the undead fiend. Battles play out pretty much the same way each fight. While it's initially fun, it quickly becomes repetitive.
To liven things up, Square Enix has included a clan system. Depending on the clan sign of the mission, the sign you choose yourself will have one of four results. You will either acquire more gold (which can be used to purchase weapons and armour), more blood (which levels up your ranks), increased battle damage, or gain better loot.
You also recruit two other hunters which join you in battle. These are player characters that you borrowing based on their level, equipment. and the clan sign they are aligned with. Upon mission completion, you can not only congratulate them with a thumbs up, but sync with them, forming a bloodbond, which will cause them to appear more frequently when you are recruiting for future missions.
One of the main focuses of the trailer and marketing campaign for this game was the ability to meld a photo of yourself onto your character's face. The game has you take three pictures: one of a casual expression, one pleased, and one angry. From there you can fine-tune the placement and lighting of the pic to better blend with the character model. The longer you play, though, the more disturbing it becomes seeing a face that only wears one of three expressions.
With a ten-to-twenty hour main story mode, plus extra challenge missions afterwards, there's a lot of content here. The story is told awkwardly via loading text, voiced cut-scenes, and strangely silent cut-scenes. The combat can be quite frustrating as well, requiring either some grinding on earlier missions, or spending real money on IAP upgrades. It's a fun concept, and an interesting world, but the grind-heavy duels leave the whole thing feeling rather bloodless.
Where's the tracking option for this game?
Oooooh, I was really hoping this would be scoring a little higher. Its sad to hear its repetitive (but then so is infinity blads 2 which I play a lot), but most disappointing is that the game costs £5, and still requires IAP's (or grinding, which is ok if the fighting is fun). Well if every one scores this low maybe there will be a price cut soon, which will make it more attractive. Cheers guy's for savig me five-a !!
Guys at Appspy, I just want to thank you for making all these video reviews for us. You truly do us a great service. Not only do we get to see gameplay footage, understand the gameplay mechanics (the devs are always sneaky in their description on itunes), but you also give a fair, concise, and often accurate review. God bless you guys.


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i have been using rechargable cr123's for around 9 months now.I will never last as long as the normal batteries, but they work ok. I haev always got one spare so as soon as i get the "station 1 low battery" message up, the spare is charged and later that day, i swap them over.I do however have a leaking "supercap" in my ISS, and soil station. Remote anemometer is fine at the moment.I am hoping using rechargeables hasn't caused the leaks
Yes, it does.
hello niko....just an update on the batteries I bought, around the same time you did from the junction. Mine are still both working.."knock on wood". I placed one in the Davis ISS unit and also the Davis Anenometer Transmitter kit unit....Chris
The early demise of the one I installed is down to the classic leaky supercap I called Davis but the bums wouldn't send me one so I've had to order a couple.


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I found out something interesting recently: that you can have IgE-mediated allergies to inhalants, even with negative skin and blood tests. This is called "local allergic rhinitis". The symptoms are similar to conventional allergies, and it's rather common: about 25% of people with rhinitis had local allergic rhinitis, in one study.
There's a continuing medical education course online about LAR. Local allergy has been dubbed "entopy" (as opposed to atopy). It probably can happen in organs besides the nose, see ''Entopy': Local Allergy Paradigm by DG Powe et al, 2010. The full text isn't available free online, but it's a good article.
The mucous membranes in the body are somewhat a separate compartment of the immune system, and different mucous membranes communicate among each other. Some vaccines are applied to a mucous membrane rather than being injected, for example sublingual and nasal spray vaccines for UTI's are being tested. Somehow the immunity is transferred from the mucous membrane in the mouth or nose to the mucous membrane in the bladder, and it works better than if the vaccine were injected.
Last I checked, it was uncertain whether local allergies are generated locally, or whether an excessive number of mast cells appear in inflamed tissue, and soak up the IgE in the blood.
The DG Powe article also mentions possible non-IgE mechanisms for local allergies.
Local allergies might be to blame for some delayed food allergies - the kind of thing where you try a food after going on a hypoallergenic elimination diet, and you start feeling bad maybe 1/2 hr to several hours after eating the food, and you stay sick for about 4 days. By "feeling bad" I mean a groggy, sick feeling where one can't think very well.
I have a theory about delayed food allergies: that they're local allergies in the GI tract, and the body tries to prevent the local allergy from becoming a systemic food allergy, because that could be life-threatening. So other kinds of antibodies, like IgA and IgG antibodies, come into play to try to prevent a systemic IgE allergy. After all, allergy shots raise the level of IgG antibodies, which reduce the IgE level in the blood.
So idea is that these IgG and IgA antibodies, while preventing a systemic food allergy, have vague symptoms like fatigue and difficulty concentrating. The body does something to prevent severe symptoms from these antibodies, so people often don't know they have a delayed food allergy. When someone does a hypoallergenic elimination diet, it changes whatever the body is doing to suppress the symptoms, and then when one tries the food again after the elimination diet, they get obviously sick.
The part about delayed food allergies being local allergies in the GI tract, is reasonable according to researchers. I don't know about the rest of the idea.
Local allergies might explain a lot of things, like some cases of chronic fatigue syndrome, "toxic mold" reactions, etc. Actually there are innate immune reactions to mold, as well as allergies, and these mold reactions may also promote allergies.
I've satisfied the diagnostic criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome, because of delayed food allergies. I probably have celiac disease - an autoimmune reaction to gluten grains.
I was sick for 4 years without knowing why, because of an inhalant hypersensitivity. Although I had allergy tests for years that were positive, in the past few years my allergy tests have been negative. My allergy symptoms have always been primarily mental and physical fatigue, not feeling fully awake. I have few specifically nasal symptoms, which made it hard to know what was going on.
When I came down sick 4 years ago, it felt a lot like allergies. It was a chronic bleary state, I felt all the time like I'd just been woken up at 2 am and I wasn't really awake. I went to a couple of allergists, and I was told I should be investigating non-allergy causes.
Eventually, by a long slow process, I found the cause. Part of it was mold that was getting into my food accidentally. But I was still sick even after I stopped eating the mold. Then I went to stay in a motel, and I found that after 5-6 days I got well! Then I went to the SPCA and cuddled dogs for 4 hours - and I got quite sick - the chronic bleary state was back again - and I stayed sick for days.
I've had dogs for 17 years. I had a mild dog allergy for years according to skin tests. Now I no longer have allergies at all according to skin/blood tests - but actually, I have a severe dog allergy. I got a lot more sensitive when I started to avoid dog dander.
I'm less sick from the dog allergy these days, with a lot of allergy medications and avoiding dog dander as well as I can while keeping my dog.
I could easily still be very sick, without a lot of persistent experimenting on my own. Sometimes doctors can't figure out health problems for you.
Local allergic rhinitis can be diagnosed by applying allergens inside the nose, but that may only be done in a research setting at present.
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The Denver Center Theatre Company's first season of programming for "Off-Center@The Jones" is a new kind of theater "that feels like a night out," said Charlie Miller, who promises social, interactive multimedia events with fewer formalities — and free beer. He's co-curating the alternative-fare series with Emily Tarquin.
"Off-Center" launches Oct. 13 with "Cult Following," a monthly gathering for film buffs in which six recurring actors will improv their way through a plot that intertwines memorable movie moments. "Each month, we'll change it, add to it and do it all over again," said Miller. "Cult Following" will be held at 8:35 p.m. every second Thursday through May at the Jones (located at the corner of 13th and Arapahoe streets). It will be hosted by Allison Watrous and Buntport Theater's Jessica Robblee.
Here's a rundown of the rest of Off-Center@The Jones' inaugural programming:
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Kichdik Recipes
Sabudana Khichdi (Indian Sago and Potato Snack)
Sabudana khichdi is a dish that is popular in the state of Maharashtra in India. Sabudana refers to the sago (tapioca) pearls that are used in this dish, and khichdi roughly translates to "hodgepodge". Every region in India has their own version of khichdi, usually made with rice and lentils.
This particular version is often eaten after fasts. It's also a very popular breakfast dish. I like this dish because sago is a fairly exotic ingredient, and I don't get to cook with it very often.
The challenge is in preparing the sago properly. Make sure to buy your sago from an Indian store; I've tried to make it with sago from the Asian market and it didn't turn out properly. When it turns out right, the cooked sago melts in your mouth, and the spices and curry leaves that the potatoes cook in is beyond heavenly.
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Monday, August 3, 2009
Wow, it's been a month since my last blog post. The day I announced my birthday giveaway winner. My last update post doesn't count! ;) My winner Jaclyn Rose got her package not even a week after I announced it cuz I sent her package via express. I'm glad I sent it before I started helping my friends with their weddings. I'm in so much stress! just thinking about being in a wedding and planning it at the same time makes me want to eat a dozen of cupcakes! I feel like I'm the one who is getting married! I'm starting to hate weddings! Hehe ^_^ Being a Maid of Honor sux! JK ;)
Last week, My best friend's grandmother passed away from Brain Cancer. I felt so bad cuz she was hoping that she can make it through her wedding. I was the first person they called when she passed away. I was very close with her grandma and I'm her favorite friend :*(
I decided to take a little vacation to help me relax and free of stress. I only get 3 or 4 hours of sleep everyday which is not healthy. I also want to spend time with my hubby cuz its been a while since we last spend time with each other. I will be back after all this wedding Stuff is OVER :)
Oh before I end this post. I have a late mini hauls. Geez.. I really miss doing hauls and swatches :) It's 1:22 am right now so its way too late to do swatches. I hope you guys enjoyed your summer! Bye :)
Sorry for the blurry photos. I took this really quick with my Iphone this morning. I didn't have time to do retakes.
Top: Honey Light, Bottom: Golden Nectar
LA Colors Palettes
Starting from the top:
Wildflowers, Tranquil, Stormy, Tea Time


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The Telegraph reports that Yahoo and Facebook are talking about teaming up on their own search engine.
This would be a smart strategic move for both companies. It could also drive billions of dollars to both companies' bottom lines.
And it would finally allow the world to create a strong No. 2 to the Google search juggernaut, which would be excellent for consumers, marketers, and third-party distribution partners alike.
(If Facebook and Yahoo don't actually want to build their own search engine, they could also just switch to Google for monetization. This, too, would radically increase their bottom lines.)
We'll run through some numbers below. But first, here are some broad strokes:
- Search is the best advertising business in the history of the world, by a mile. It is a vastly better business than the digital brand advertising business that Facebook and Yahoo are currently in, though that's a good business, too.
- Search is also a fantastically profitable business when you have built-in distribution--but the key is that distribution. Google has distribution: Most people think "Google" when they search. That's why Google's minting money. Microsoft doesn't have distribution for Bing, so it has to buy it from Yahoo, AOL, etc. That's why Microsoft's getting killed.
- Together, Yahoo and Facebook have huge global distribution. If both companies made search a priority in their products, they could grab a significant chunk of the market.
- Unlike Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook--especially Facebook--also have excellent positions in mobile, which is where the digital world is going. Microsoft is nowhere in mobile. Facebook is used by 500+ million people per month on mobile. Yahoo Mail and Yahoo are used by several hundred additional million people.
- Microsoft is impressively dedicated to search, but it has lost more than $10 billion on its search business so far and it seems extremely unlikely that search will ever become a meaningfully profitable business for the company. This will be especially true if Yahoo and Facebook team up together. If that happens, Microsoft's search business is toast.
- Instead of continuing to bang its head against the wall, Microsoft should contribute to the Facebook-Yahoo partnership by contributing its technology in exchange for stock.
The details of who would actually be responsible for a Facebook-Yahoo search engine--who would pay for and manage the technology and engineering, who would manage the relationships with advertisers, etc.--would be critical to any successful effort. If the companies partnered and did a half-assed job, the effort would fail miserably.
But many ideas are doomed to failure even before you get to execution.
This one isn't.
This is a great idea. If Facebook and Yahoo can find a way to work together well on this, and perhaps include Microsoft in the deal, this could be huge, both financially for the companies involved and for the industry.
A Successful Search Engine Could Quickly Double Facebook's Profit
For a quick indication of the financial impact a great search engine might have on Facebook, just look at what happens to Facebook's stock every time someone mentions "search."
Mark Zuckerberg mentioned "search" at a conference a while back, and Facebook's stock immediately jumped 15%.
Search is also extremely profitable and important for Yahoo. So if Yahoo could leverage a partnership with Facebook into a more financially successful search engine than its current partner, Microsoft, a search deal could also be huge for Yahoo.
Here's a quick look at what search could do for Facebook...
Facebook users, just like other Internet and mobile users, often search for things. And the things they're searching for aren't always on Facebook.
Sometimes, for example, Facebook users search for products they want to buy.
That's the magic that allows Google to generate more than $40 billion in annual revenue--about 10-times what Facebook makes from its annoying little display ads.
Advertising on Google is like advertising in a store: Potential customers tell you what they want to buy, and you then show them ads to help them narrow down their choice and buy it.
Advertising on Facebook, meanwhile, is like advertising at a party. You might reach the right people, but they may not be in the mood to even think about buying.
In short, Google gives its users ads that help them buy what they're already looking for.
That's why Google is the most successful ad-driven company in history: Because its ads are mind-bogglingly targeted and relevant, and they're shown to users only when users want to see them. Facebook users, meanwhile, want to do everything but look at ads--Facebook users want to keep socializing with their friends. (SEE: " Like Hell Facebook Will Kill Google")
This is why Facebook should absolutely go into the search business. Just look at what this business is doing for other companies:
- Yahoo still generates nearly $2 billion a year from search revenue. And it's almost all profit.
- AOL also generates nearly $500 million a year from search revenue. And it's almost all profit.
- Microsoft, which is in the software business, generates about $2 billion a year from search revenue. (Unlike the other search players, Microsoft is hemorrhaging money, but Facebook wouldn't have to do that.)
Why does Facebook have such a huge opportunity in search?
Because 500 million people a month live on Facebook.
They don't visit Facebook.
They live there.
They start at Facebook, communicate through Facebook, and quickly return to Facebook every time they stray away.
Make no mistake: One of the reasons Google is so obsessed with Facebook (see Google +, etc.) is because Google knows that Facebook could one day threaten its core revenue engine. If Facebook focused on search, it could make it so people had no reason to go to Google to search for anything--because they're already on Facebook. And Google obviously knows that.
How much revenue could Facebook generate from search?
Well, according to Andrew Lipsman at Comscore, Facebook is already doing 1.6 billion web-based searches a month.
That's 3-times as many as AOL.
It's one-fifth as many as Yahoo (with no effort whatsoever).
Yes, it's only 1/100th as many as Google, but, again, Facebook is generating those queries with no effort whatsoever.
Facebook's current searches could help it instantly generate ~$1 billion of annual search revenue tomorrow.
And then let's say that Facebook actually made it a priority to boost search as a Facebook service and revenue stream and increase its number of search queries.
It doesn't seem unreasonable to suggest that, with Yahoo's 10 billion queries a month, Facebook might be able to generate $3 billion of annual search revenue.
This $3 billion of annual search revenue, importantly, would be almost 100% profit.
Because Facebook wouldn't be incurring any costs to build its search engine--it would simply be working with a partner like Yahoo.
Yahoo would charge advertisers, say, $1 per click, and Facebook would get $0.90 of that.
That's exactly how Google works with AOL.
It's exactly how Microsoft currently works with Yahoo.
In other words, there's no reason for Facebook to have to completely reorient itself as a company to cash in on search. It just has to pick up the money sitting in the corner.
$3 billion of pure-profit search revenue would quickly double Facebook's annual operating profit.
The launch of an exciting new Facebook revenue growth engine, meanwhile, would get investors so excited about Facebook again that they would suddenly be eager to pay a lot more for the stock.
And Yahoo investors might get quite excited about it, too.
SEE ALSO: Marissa Mayer And Sheryl Sandberg Are In Secret Talks About A Search Engine
Get the latest Yahoo stock price here.