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This colorful fruit salad is tossed in a sweet-tart dressing made from lemon juice, honey, Dijon mustard, salt, and pepper.
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Satfat 0.0 g
Protein 2 g
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Fiber 3 g
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2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons honey
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon ground white pepper
2 tablespoons canola oil
1 cantaloupe, seeded and cubed (about 3 cups)
1 pineapple, cored and cubed (about 4 cups)
1 cup blueberries
4 medium nectarines, sliced (about 2 cups)
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-843?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#action_12492655 ] Marvin Humphrey commented on LUCENE-843: ---------------------------------------- How are you writing the frq data in compressed format? The works fine for prx data, because the deltas are all within a single doc -- but for the freq data, the deltas are tied up in doc num deltas, so you have to decompress it when performing merges. To continue our discussion from java-dev... * I haven't been able to come up with a file format tweak that gets around this doc-num-delta-decompression problem to enhance the speed of frq data merging. I toyed with splitting off the freq from the doc_delta, at the price of increasing the file size in the common case of freq == 1, but went back to the old design. It's not worth the size increase for what's at best a minor indexing speedup. * I've added a custom MemoryPool class to KS which grabs memory in 1 meg chunks, allows resizing (downwards) of only the last allocation, and can only release everything at once. From one of these pools, I'm allocating RawPosting objects, each of which is a doc_num, a freq, the term_text, and the pre-packed prx data (which varies based on which Posting subclass created the RawPosting object). I haven't got things 100% stable yet, but preliminary results seem to indicate that this technique, which is a riff on your persistent arrays, improves indexing speed by about 15%. > improve how IndexWriter uses RAM to buffer added documents > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-843 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-843 > Project: Lucene - Java > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Index > Affects Versions: 2.2 > Reporter: Michael McCandless > Assigned To: Michael McCandless > Priority: Minor > Attachments: LUCENE-843.patch, LUCENE-843.take2.patch, LUCENE-843.take3.patch, LUCENE-843.take4.patch, LUCENE-843.take5.patch > > > I'm working on a new class (MultiDocumentWriter) that writes more than > one document directly into a single Lucene segment, more efficiently > than the current approach. > This only affects the creation of an initial segment from added > documents. I haven't changed anything after that, eg how segments are > merged. > The basic ideas are: > * Write stored fields and term vectors directly to disk (don't > use up RAM for these). > * Gather posting lists & term infos in RAM, but periodically do > in-RAM merges. Once RAM is full, flush buffers to disk (and > merge them later when it's time to make a real segment). > * Recycle objects/buffers to reduce time/stress in GC. > * Other various optimizations. > Some of these changes are similar to how KinoSearch builds a segment. > But, I haven't made any changes to Lucene's file format nor added > requirements for a global fields schema. > So far the only externally visible change is a new method > "setRAMBufferSize" in IndexWriter (and setMaxBufferedDocs is > deprecated) so that it flushes according to RAM usage and not a fixed > number documents added. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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As each week's announcements make clear, mobility is more pervasive in the public sector than ever. Examples abound of soldiers benefiting from mobile devices in the battlefield, agencies ditching paper in favor of tablets, or simply the way mobile devices are expanding the use of telework by government employees.
Evidence also supports that expanded use of mobile devices by government agencies is improving productivity.
A recent survey by the Mobile Work Exchange -- formerly the Telework Exchange -- finds that 95 percent of federal employees believe access to mobile devices improved their work, and that remote access to work enabled by mobile devices translates into an estimated $28 billion in annual productivity gains.
For all of the gains agencies are making with employee mobility, it is critical that the mobile citizen is not overlooked. Agencies are in fact dedicating resources to reaching the mobile citizen, and have developed and deployed some innovative and useful apps to provide citizens with information and greater transparency into government processes. However, a fully empowered mobile citizen is still a nascent vision. For example, a citizen would be hard pressed to find, fill out and submit a government health services form on their smartphone without having to download or print it.
Activating and better communicating with the mobile citizen is key to a successful mobile government. Below are some strategies for agencies to consider to more effectively empower the mobile citizen.
Recognize demographic shifts
More than half of U.S. consumers use smartphones, which speaks loudly to the need by agencies to think "mobile first." But agencies are increasingly recognizing that mobile interaction must go beyond content and extend to necessary citizen services.
This is a result of how reliant citizens have become on mobile devices at the expense of traditional communications tools such as landline phones and personal computers. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that in the first half of 2012, "wireless only" households grew to 35.8 percent. And in lower income demographics, for example, other studies show that entire households may rely on mobile devices as their sole portal to the Internet.
The bottom line is that mobile devices represent a critical path to success for agencies providing services to citizens. A benefits agency must consider that it may be difficult to reach a citizen via landline with important information, or expect that a beneficiary needing to download forms to receive benefits will have a broadband connection, PC, and printer. As a result, agencies should continue to embrace technology that can activate as large a share of the population as possible. For example, technology solutions emerging that allow citizens to find, fill out and submit forms via smartphones and tablet devices -- and then track the status of this submitted form through the entire process -- can make it far easier for agencies to deliver services and citizens to access them.
Integrate rather than separate priorities
Empowering government employees and citizens with mobility is not a mutually exclusive exercise, and each has its own challenges. Incorporating mobility into the government workforce invites complexities, ranging from mobile device and application security to effective management of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) usage. The Telework Exchange survey also finds that 64 percent of respondents use their own smartphone for work purposes. And while 55 percent of federal employees who use smartphones or tablets for work bring their own, just 11 percent indicate their agency has an official BYOD policy.
Citizens, on the other hand, will be accessing government services from a broad array of mobile devices, networks and platforms -- erecting challenges for agencies to create a single, consistent experience. These are the just some of the policy and management considerations that agencies are laboring their way through, and rather than viewing government employees and citizens in two distinct silos, there are benefits to be had from a more integrated approach.
An illustration of integrated priorities is how a citizen can benefit when an agency streamlines their internal forms management process where workers can digitally process forms and provide automated status updates to the citizen much the same way shipment of a package can be tracked from pickup to delivery.
Unify the citizen experience
There are many motivations for an agency to enhance citizen communications, chief among them improving the citizen experience and creating a more optimal, cost-efficient channel that doesn't tie up agency resources and budget.
The variety of interactions between a citizen seeking an agency service can result in a black hole of thousands of forms. Finding the right form, submitting it and tracking its progress can be a daunting task. But for these agencies to remain efficient and cost effective it's critical that this experience does not break down and result in added burdens to an agency call center or brick-and-mortar locations.
Agencies must place a priority on solutions that unify the experience so that citizens can use their laptop, desktop, phone or tablet to easily navigate through the forms available, download the right form, fill it out and send it back. And regardless of the device that they are on, the citizen can have the same, consistent user experience.
Consider alternatives to custom app development
Government agencies, like all organizations, face very real budget pressures that can make the costs and lengthy time-to-market of custom app development prohibitive. Rather than a strategy focused on building out multiple mobile apps each tasked for a specific function or service, agencies may find it more feasible to pursue a "build once, deploy anywhere" methodology, where a single template is leveraged across multiple channels. By doing so, agencies can extend content and forms out to mobile devices at a fraction of the cost and effort required for custom mobile app builds. Not only does the agency mitigate the initial costs of building a mobile app, it also reduces the costs for ongoing maintenance and support.
Agencies are just beginning to realize the cost, productivity and operational benefits of mobilizing the government workforce. Extending these efforts to the mobile citizen will further enhance the gains mobile can deliver to agencies, employees and citizens.
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Employee's would carry there smart phone around more for work if they only had to carry one smart phone. Instead of forcing them to carry two phones why not give goverment employees an allowance then they can buy there own contract and maintain a smart phone on there own. They would take better care of it and have it more readly available for people to get a hold of them. We are at an age where this young minds have a better understanding of technology, that scares the hell out of the older person. They are the ones that can push us to a better world but if we tie there hands they will not excel and not help our companies grow like they should. We used to be a nation of change and exploration, now we are becoming stale and unwilling to explore. Of course you have to limit the type of phone that can be used but they are changing daily as we type this memo. The security of most of them are getting just as good as your PC on your desktop. This will also curtail the expense for the goverment and cause less havic trying to maintain different type of phones, put it back on the vendors to maintain those phones that they are putting out.
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I've spent the last few weeks thinking about the next year of my company's life. I thought about where we should focus our effort and what it will take to get there. I was honest with myself about what we're no good at providing. I used this thing — you may of heard of it (but it seems so few dot-coms have) — called a "spreadsheet." It helped me to see how to keep the company alive even if we have zero growth next year.
I spent my weeks planning for the worst and hoping for the best. And I can't help but think if more dot-coms had thought this way, the business press would have been struggling for stories to write these past few months.
So this week, I'm going to discuss how to go about preparing a legitimate business plan for an Internet-based company.
- Find your niche.
I wrote about this a couple of weeks back. The greatest opportunity for a small business online is the niches. Customers can come to you (you don't have to go them), you have lower overhead, and niches are harder to kill.
- Figure out the size of the market.
You can't even begin to understand the revenue opportunities unless you have an idea of the market size. So after you figure out your niche, you need to figure out if there is a market you can tap.
- Tap a market; don't try to make one.
It is far easier to find a need and service it than try to create and service a need that doesn't exist. I can think of no better example than one from my own industry — e-publishing. There are companies in my industry that insist people will pay hundreds of dollars for a physical device on which to read their e-books. If this device were the price of a pocket calculator, then the companies might be on to something. But no one is going to pay that much for a dedicated reading device. There are plenty of cheaper alternatives. So their whole business strategy is planned around a market that isn't likely to emerge. Don't make the same mistake.
- Know when not to listen to your competitors.
I live this one every day in the e-publishing business, but it is true in other segments as well. Just because your competitors are bigger and have more money doesn't mean they have a clue on how to tap the market. They tend to throw money at a problem rather than invest in well-thought-out solutions because in big organizations, money is easier to come by. Pay attention, but don't think that because they do something, you automatically have to do it, too. Follow your own gut. It is usually right.
- Remember to look at things from the customer's perspective.
It sounds obvious, but all you have to do is have a look online to realize few companies get this idea. Always think, "Is this something my customer wants?"
- Make your mistakes early and cheaply.
This principle was the whole inspiration for my series on building an e-commerce site for $6,500 or less. You can use inexpensive, off-the-shelf solutions online to prove something works. Then, once you have cash flow and market share, improve on the process. (This is what 2001 will be all about for us.)
- Be conservative in your spending and projections.
Here's a time when doing the minimum is a good thing. Remember that spreadsheet thing I was talking about earlier? Use it to figure out the minimum business you need to stay alive. Of course, in reality, your effort will be directed toward doing the most business you can. But wouldn't you rather have too much, rather than too little, business coming through the door? (More dot-coms should have heeded this advice.)
- Never believe you're bulletproof.
I can't tell you how many times I've seen this mentality in my life: Companies (and people) think their ideas are bulletproof. No idea is flawless. Study your successes, of course, but spend equal time examining your failures.
- An IPO or acquisition does not a business plan make.
I recently had the privilege of talking with some friends who are successful businessmen about Booklocker.com's direction. Among the many pieces of good advice they gave me, the one that stood out was never plan for an IPO or acquisition.
The fatal mistake most dot-coms make is thinking their business strategy ends with an IPO or acquisition. Then when no IPO or acquisition is forthcoming, their only option is to self-destruct. Instead, you should plan to be running your business for the next 30 years. If an IPO or acquisition opportunity comes up, great. But it should never be your endgame.
Sound business practices are sound business practices. And while the Internet changes many things, it never changes this.
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Welcome to Trump's America, where Kindergarten students need to be armed with assault rifles in case a Grizzly decides to come to share day:
Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump's education secretary nominee, said it should be up to states whether guns are allowed in schools, citing grizzly bear protection as part of her answer.
She also said she would support Trump if he moved to ban gun-free schools zones, a position he advocated on the campaign trail.
Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, who represents Sandy Hook, the site of the 2012 school shooting, asked DeVos if she believes guns have "any place in and around schools."
"I think that is best left to locales and states to decide," she said.
After Murphy pushed DeVos about why she can't say definitively whether they belong, DeVos brought up a story Sen. Mike Enzi told earlier about a school in Wyoming that has fences around it to protect against grizzly bears.
"I will refer back to Sen. Enzi and the school he is talking about in Wyoming. I think probably there, I would imagine there is probably a gun in a school to protect from potential grizzlies," she said.
The comment drew some laughs in the room.
Except there is nothing funny about this person being in charge of our childrens' education.
Our client, Sarah Robertson, bravely shared her heartbreaking story on CBS This Morning:
From the online account:
High school sweethearts Sarah Robertson and her husband, Aaron, had always planned to have children. But in 2004, at the age of 29, Aaron suffered a fatal stroke.
"He was the best husband that any woman could ever want," Robertson said.
As he lay dying in the hospital, Robertson made the decision to harvest some of his sperm. "I was thinking that there is a very good chance that my husband is going to die," she told correspondent Anna Werner. "But I'll have this, and I can have a child that will have his likeness, or his laugh to bring with me, and that gave us all so much comfort and hope."
She selected a clinic in the Los Angeles area to freeze six vials of Aaron's sperm. But when she was finally ready to have a baby, in 2014, she got a shock.
She said the clinic, which had changed hands and was now known as Reproductive Fertility Center, couldn't find the frozen sperm. All six vials were gone — and with them, her hope for a baby from her husband.
"It was a like a nightmare," she said. "Like, how could this be happening?"
Robertson has filed a lawsuit. Hers joins legal action taken against other sperm banks.
An international team of researcher developed a new in-vitro fertilization technique that could soon replace existing treatment methods. The lead researchers, Associate Professor Robert Gilchrist, explained that "[t]his new treatment is a simpler, cheaper, more patient friendly infertility treatment compared to IVF." The technique has been in its testing phase for the past 15 years, and will begin its human trials in approximately two years.
The improved IVM technique employs a special protein called cumulin, which was developed in the lab to mimic growth factor proteins of eggs in the ovary, combined with signalling molecules called cyclic-AMP (cAMP) modulators.
"What we've done is we've modelled a new protein which mimics the egg's own unique protein that actually communicates with the cells that are supporting the egg during the maturation process," co-researcher Associate Professor Jeremy Thompson, head of the University of Adelaide's Early Development Group, told news.com.au.
"That substantially lifts the quality of embryos that are produced when we undergo this in-vitro maturation technique," he says.
He says the new IVM method uses more than 90 per cent less hormones than in IVF, which could cut between a third to half of the cost associated with the treatment.
Standard IVF treatment requires women to take a hormone treatment to stimulate egg cell growth in the ovary — these hormones can cause great discomfort for women and can lead to medical complications such as ovarian hyper stimulation syndrome.
IVM, on the other hand, requires minimal hormone treatment and involves removing the egg from the ovary before it matures and growing it in a cell culture.
You can access the full article here.
This week, BBC secured an interview with a single British man who was denied a parentage order over his son who was born to a surrogate mother in the United States. He was denied the order because Britain's surrogacy laws only allow couples, not single persons, to secure an order. British law, under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act of 2008, allows "husband and wife," "civil partners of each other," or "two persons who are living as partners in an enduring family relationship and are not within prohibited degrees of relation to each other" to apply for a parental order allowing them to take custody of a child born to a surrogate mother.
In May, the single father won a High Court ruling, and the government has since agreed to update the law to reflect the omission of single parents. Unfortunately, as we are well accustomed to here in the United States, the government works at a slow pace, and the child is still considered a ward of the court:
[U]nder UK law, the surrogate is treated as the legal mother and she is the only person in the UK who has the responsibility and authority to make decisions about the child's day-to-day care.
This means that [the father] and [son] face potential problems.
"When he's older, I can't choose which school he goes to. I took him to hospital once and they asked me 'do you have parental responsibility?'", [the father] said.
"Not being able to apply for a passport was an issue – because I wanted to take my son away on a trip for a short period of time."
You can access the full interview here.
While it is possible for the father to adopt his son, he has instead decided to challenge the law so that other single British parents will not find themselves in similar circumstances. In the meantime, it is important for professionals working with intended parents to counsel their clients when working with single parents from Britain.
Four women filed suit in New Jersey claiming that they were discriminatorily denied coverage for fertility treatment based their sexual orientation. The law in New Jersey requires that a woman prove that she is medically unable to have children, and that she engage in unprotected sexual intercourse with a man for a period of one to two years, depending on her age, prior to receiving insurance coverage for the treatment.
According to the civil suit, the Krupas have been trying to conceive a child since 2013. Fertility doctors found several benign cysts on Erin Krupas' uterus, and found that she suffered from endometriosis, making her infertile, the suit says.
State law requires large insurance providers to cover costly fertility treatments for patients medically unable to have children. The couples take issue with how the law defines infertility, which includes the inability to become pregnant after one or two years of unprotected sex, depending on the woman's age. Insurance companies have been able to deny coverage to gay patients who, although they have been medically diagnosed infertile, do not fit the definition, the suit says.
"Despite having a medical diagnosis of infertility, because, as a lesbian in a committed relationship, Erin could not show that she had unprotected sexual intercourse with a man for the requisite period, the Krupas were not protected by the mandate," the suit reads.
The full article can be found here.
New Jersey may soon be joining Maryland and California, the only two states to expressly require insurance companies to cover infertility treatments for same-sex couples.
California law currently prohibits payment in excess of the direct expenses undertaken by women donating human oocytes for the purposes of medical research. In February 2016, Assembly Bill No. 2531 was introduced by Assembly Member Autumn Burke. This bill would require that women donating their eggs be compensated for their "time, discomfort, and inconvenience in the same manner as other research subjects." Last week, the bill was ordered to a third reading and is quickly making its way through the Legislature.
The stated purpose of the bill is to expand the market of willing participants. Currently there are few women who participate in research "creating barriers to reproductive research that could benefit all women." The bill cites one of its missions is to expand research that could better predict embryo quality "so that women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) can confidently choose to have a single embryo implanted with a high probability of achieving a successful pregnancy, instead of multiple embryos."
Compensation will be determined by "human subject research panels and institutional review boards," and will not take into account the amount paid to women providing human oocytes for fertility purposes.
This bill has been met with some haste, most notably by former state senator Deborah Ortiz who wrote the 2006 law prohibiting compensation to women when providing egg donations for research purposes. She cites three grounds for her opposition:
First, we have very limited information on the long-term health effects of the egg retrieval process. Second, women who undergo egg retrieval are not research subjects in the traditional sense, as proponents assert. Finally, paying for women's eggs for research purposes contradicts well-established national recommendations and state policy.
Her full remarks can be found here.
The simple fact remains that women are currently compensated for donating their eggs for the purposes of fertility treatment. If research is to be conducted, science will need to keep up with the industry, which may very well mean that women providing samples for research will need incentives the same way people are currently compensated for undergoing medical treatment for other research purposes.
AB-2531 can be read in full here.
In response to growing evidence showing that the Zika virus has spread through infected mosquitoes in the continental United States, Cryos International, a sperm bank headquartered in Orlando, is awaiting an FDA-approved donor screening test prior to the release of donor sperm and eggs in the U.S. The vice president of the company, Angel Tillis, explained in a statement last week that she is "sure that the FDA will quickly release a screening test," but in the meantime, donor eggs and sperm will remain quarantined.
Her full remarks can be found here.
The New York Times Insider Edition just posted a follow-up story on our case against a fertility clinic for misappropriating Sarah Robertson's deceased husband's sperm:
The story had a twist that made it especially poignant. Her husband, Aaron Robertson, died of Marfan syndrome, a rare genetic disease that carries a 50 percent chance of being passed on to offspring. And Ms. Robertson had reason to worry that the fertility center where she had stored the six precious vials of his sperm had misappropriated them and used them to impregnate, or create embryos for, other women — without warning them of the Marfan risk.
One evening last month, the Robertson family gathered at their Montecito, Calif., home to tell me their story.
For two hours, they took turns: Mr. Robertson's mother, Karen, talked about discovering that Aaron had Marfan syndrome, the disease that had wreaked havoc with his heart even before it caused him to have a stroke, fall into a coma and die at 29.
Sarah Robertson, who still calls her mother-in-law "Mom" a decade after her husband's death, told of falling in love with Aaron when she was 16, marrying at 20, and — mostly because she had heard a radio segment about military men who froze their sperm before deploying — thinking to have her husband's sperm frozen for later use.
"I did everything I could to make sure we could have a baby," she said. "We always knew we'd have to use in vitro fertilization so the embryos could be tested for Marfan, which has a 50-50 chance of being inherited. But we thought we had time."
It was a huge blow to learn, when she was finally ready to conceive the baby, that the vials were gone — and that her husband's sperm might have been used for other women, Ms. Robertson said. Even as she was reeling from the realization that she would never have Aaron's children, her main impulse was to protect others from her husband's fate.
"My worst nightmare is that there may be babies and children walking around with Marfan that they got from Aaron, or women getting ready to use his sperm, if they aren't warned," said Ms. Robertson.
So she hired a lawyer to try to force the owner of the fertility center, Dr. Peyman Saadat, to send notices to families who had gotten sperm from the center while her husband's sperm was stored there — and to pay for testing any impacted children and treating any who had Marfan.
There were months of mediation and negotiation, but Dr. Saadat refused to take those steps. Finally, last month, she filed suit….
But an investigator called her back, Ms. Robertson said, and told her, lawyer to lawyer, that the department had previously discovered the center's abysmal record-keeping. "She told me there were files without vials and vials without files."
We'd be remiss if we did not point out, again, that these kind of cases are aberrations. The overwhelming majority of IVF facilities have appropriate protocols in place to protect against their patients from this kind of heart wrenching incident. The takeaway from this case is that anyone considering any kind of medical treatment, of any type, ought to conduct their due diligence and select a reputable medical provider. Ignore the glossy websites, unsubstantiated statistics and bus bench advertising. Do your research and make an informed decision.
The New York Times has just reported on our lawsuit as well as other troublesome irregularities at sperm banks. It is critically important to keep these cases in context as they are outliers. They do not represent the tip of the iceberg, but rather the bottom of the cesspool:
Even as she mourned the death of her 29-year-old husband from a rare genetic disorder, Sarah Robertson was comforted by knowing that six vials of his sperm were safely stored at the Reproductive Fertility Center — in Tank B, Canister 5, Cane G, Position 6, Color Blue — waiting until she was ready to have the baby they had both longed for.
But 10 years later, when she was ready to use the sperm from her husband, Aaron, she got devastating news. All six vials were missing.
"I'd been completely focused on having something of Aaron's live on, and now there was nothing," said Ms. Robertson in an interview at her in-laws' home in Montecito.
Now she and her in-laws are suing the Los Angeles clinic, and its owner, Dr. Peyman Saadat, accusing them of negligence, fraud, breach of contract and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The suit, filed in May, also says the clinic misappropriated Mr. Robertson's sperm — which had a 50 percent chance of carrying Marfan syndrome, the disorder that killed him — and used it to supply other patients who would not know to undergo testing to ensure their babies did not inherit the disorder.
The Robertsons' case is part of a new wave of lawsuits against sperm banks, highlighting claims of deception and negligence, and adding an array of challenges beyond the longstanding issue of undetected genetic problems….
Dr. Saadat, who was sued by Ms. Robertson, also faces a suit by Justin Hollman, a California man who froze five vials of his sperm before undergoing chemotherapy for testicular cancer at age 20. Years later, Mr. Hollman wanted his sperm transferred to his wife's fertility doctor. When he was presented with paperwork, his lawsuit says, he noticed that it authorized the destruction of his sperm instead of the transfer.
After refusing to sign, the court papers say, Mr. Hollman got a call from Dr. Saadat later that day telling him the samples had been destroyed as a result of "human error."
Mr. Hollman declined to discuss the case, and repeated calls to Dr. Saadat's center and to his lawyers were not returned.
The Robertsons' lawsuit also claims there was deception by the center, which on different occasions said the sperm either had never been stored there or had been destroyed in a fire. When Ms. Robertson initially asked for the sperm, according to court papers, the center told her that five of the six vials were missing. The complaint went on to say that Dr. Saadat urged her to try to get pregnant with the sixth vial, but the clinic's manager later emailed that the sixth vial, too, was gone.
"When I got that email, I stood up and screamed," said Ms. Robertson, who is a nurse practitioner.
The Robertsons still wonder what sperm Dr. Saadat would have used if Ms. Robertson had agreed to use the purported last vial to get pregnant.
"Was he just going to take someone's sample at random?" Ms. Robertson asked. "It's terrifying to imagine a health care business being operated so recklessly."
Sadly, no surprise:
The founder of a San Diego-based medical tourism company was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he stole more than $2 million from infertile clients who sought his help in finding surrogacy services, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Wednesday.
Acharayya Rupak, a Canadian national living in Calabasas, acted as a broker between his Planet Hospital clients and Mexican clinics that provide egg donors, in vitro fertilization and surrogates, according to prosecutors.
According to the indictment, Rupak, 48, pocketed money from American clients that he was supposed to use to pay the clinics for various surrogacy services. The clinics didn't get their money, and the clients never received the services, the indictment alleges.
"People who seek the help of a surrogate are on an exhausting, expensive and emotional journey," said U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy. "They shouldn't have their dream to have a child trampled by someone they trust to help them."
Rupak, who made his first court appearance Tuesday, had his bail set at $50,000 and was ordered to return to court July 25.
Medical tourism companies like Planet Hospital facilitate travel to foreign countries to undergo medical procedures such as gastric bypass, organ transplants, tummy tucks or hip replacements at a more affordable price, prosecutors said.
In this case, Rupak acted as an intermediary, connecting U.S. clients with egg donors and in vitro fertilization clinics and surrogates in Mexico. Rupak's medical tourism business had addresses in San Diego, Calabasas and Calexico.
In 2008, Rupak began offering international surrogacy services, which is the practice of paying a woman to have an embryo transferred to her womb and bear the child for someone else. Beginning in September 2009 and continuing until at least January 2014, Rupak solicited international surrogacy clients, luring them with promises of discounted prices and then hitting them with additional fees later, prosecutors said. He allegedly convinced the clients to send him thousands of dollars by falsely representing that their funds would be put into escrow accounts and used only to pay for medical services.
But according to the indictment, Rupak failed to forward the clients' funds to service providers such as egg donor companies, IVF clinics and surrogacy services. These companies would then demand additional funds from Rupak's clients, who had already paid for the services.
To cover up the theft, Rupak allegedly created unauthorized websites and email addresses in the name of a clinic and its physician in order to send emails to Planet Hospital clients, giving excuses for why Planet Hospital had not provided promised services or falsely claiming that surrogacy procedures were unsuccessful.
Rupak lied to his clients about success rates and falsely claimed ownership interest in two IVF clinics in Cancun, Mexico, according to the indictment.
Once the deception started snowballing, Rupak operated his business like a Ponzi scheme, using funds from new clients to pay for services provided to existing Planet Hospital clients, prosecutors allege.
–City News Service
You can read more about Rupak and Planet Hospital in our prior blogging here, here, here and here.
Not my thesis but the argument of two prominent bioethicists in addressing the issue of organ donation: Is it morally wrong to kill people? Not really, argue two eminent American bioethicists in an early online article in the Journal of Medical Ethics. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, of Duke University, and Franklin G. Miller, of the National Institutes […]
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Does the Barbican think London theatregoers can't cope with two productions of a classic several months apart? Sir Peter says he is "amazed and disappointed" at the Barbican's action. I'd add that the Barbican should perhaps remember that it has a theatre only because of the determination nearly 30 years ago of one man, the then head of the RSC, Sir Peter Hall.
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The story of five-year-old Miles and his rise as Batkid, saving the city of San Francisco from The Riddler and The Joker, is about as epic as it gets. He spent Friday (November 15) having his biggest dream come true, thanks to thousands of volunteers and the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Miles got to be a superhero.His supporters have gone far beyond those who volunteered to help out with the day, as even President Barack Obama is getting in on the action.
After Batkid put it all on the line to save Gotham, President Obama sent the young superhero a message on Vine, congratulating him on all the hard work. He wasn't the only one sending out good thoughts to Miles, with First Lady Michelle Obama tweeting, "Thanks for catching all those bad guys #SFBatKid! You're an inspiration to us all."
Former Batman Val Kilmer, who wore the cowl in "Batman Forever," has been following the day's events, posting updates on Facebook. "Just heard the riddler is robbing a bank in the financial district. Hurry #sfbatkid," he writes.
The day was capped off with getting the key to the city from San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee.


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Well, here we are folks, we've reached the Stanley Cup finals. Without any further ado, let's get down to business shall we? Here are the results of the last round's match-ups:
Los Angeles (8) beat Phoenix (3) in 5 games
New Jersey (6) beat New York (1) in 6 games
Now comes the fun part, let's see how everybody's doing in the standings!
1st: dillaweezer (44 points)
2nd: xP00CHiE (40 points)
3rd: meowcats (36 points)
4th: TMARama (34 points)
And everybody else in order:
Crabby_Bastard (32 points)
pommer299 (32 points)
bram00 (32 points)
mariorulz101 (24 points)
NolbertoS (20 points)
chilidogg (20 points)
MajesticMaverick (18 points)
LeCambrioleur (18 points)
mystery79 (16 points)
hughbear (16 points)
dustmanvet (16 points)
BFheroes1495 (10 points)
RevanKotor1 (10 points)
KratosGodofWarIII (10 points)
reebak22 (8 points)
justplayin6687 (6 points)
NExtraordinaire (4 points)
Siphen.0 (4 points)
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statsme (2 points)
As you can see, there have been some substantial changes in the standings, most notably with dillaweezer having managed to dethrone XP00CHiE and yours truly has managed to claw my way up into fourth. At this point in time, I would like to remind you all of that point bonus that was mentioned in the first round. Way back when this shit started, and only in the first round, you were given the chance to guess at who would win the Cup this year. If you were right, you got 20 points, and if the team you chose made it to the finals but lost, you still got 5 consolation points for at least choosing the conference champ. Before we let you place your picks on which team will win the final, let's see how many people chose each team shall we?
Pittsburgh: 4
St. Louis: 4
Chicago: 2
Vancouver: 2
Detroit: 2
Ottawa: 2
New York: 2
Boston: 1
Nashville: 1
San Jose: 1
New Jersey: 1
The teams not listed didn't get any votes of confidence and at this point, only one person is still in contention for these bonus points. That individual would be me. Screw you guys and your lack of confidence in Brodeur! Just because he needs a walker to get onto the ice doesn't mean he can't do his job anymore! Anyways, I thought that was a fun little statistic to point out. Onto the predictions!
To recap the rules:
If you correctly pick the team that wins, you get 2 points
If you correctly pick the number of games the series is finished in, regardless of whether or not you chose the winning team, you get 4 points
If you correctly pick BOTH the winning team and number of games it takes to finish, you get an additional 4 points, giving you 10 points for the match-up.
The final match-up of the Stanley Cup Playoffs and your last chance for you to get some points is:
Los Angeles (8) vs New Jersey (6)
Obviously I'm still supporting New Jersey (screw you Quick!), so I'm saying that New Jersey will win in 6 games.
You know what to do guys, make your predictions. The first game isn't until May 30th, so I'll be re-posting this blog every now and then up until that day. You guys have until the start of the first game to make your predictions/guesses.


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James Franco Writes Crazy Creepy Story About Sleeping w/ Lindsay Lohan!
Here's what James wrote:
"I ran my fingers through her hair and thought about this girl sleeping on my chest, our fictional Hollywood girl, Lindsay. What will she do? I hope she gets better. You see, she is famous. She was famous because she was a talented child actress, and now she's famous because she gets into trouble. She is damaged. For a while, after her high hellion days, she couldn't get work because she couldn't get insured. They thought she would run off the sets to party. Her career suffered, and she started getting arrested (stealing, DUIs, car accidents, other things). But the arrests, even as they added up, were never going to be an emotional bottom for her, because she got just as much attention for them as she used to get for her film performances. She would get money offers for her jailhouse memoirs, crazy offers. So how would she ever stop the craziness when the response to her work and the response to her life had converged into one? Two kinds of performance, in film and in life, had melted into one."
Now we were lying in bed. I wasn't going to f--k her. She had her head on my shoulder. She started to talk. I let her.
"Before things got bad, I was in New York for the premiere of a film I did with Robert Altman and Meryl Streep. After the movie I took James Franco and Meryl's two young daughters to the club du jour, Bungalow 8, in the Meatpacking District. It was my place. All my friends were there: school friends, my mother looking her slutty best, bodyguards, and Greeks. We had our own table in the corner, our own bottle.
"I took two Oxycontins and things got bad. The DJ was this bearded dude named Paul. I remember requesting Journey's 'Don't Stop Believin'.' I remember sitting back down, and I remember trying to speak up, to talk to that cute boy in a red gingham shirt, James.
"I was slurring. My words rolled around and got sticky and didn't come out.
"My friend from school kept talking to him, trying to be cute, but she was only there because of me. I told Barry, my bodyguard, to take her away from our table. And he banished her.
"I took James back to the bathroom. 'You know why Amy put mirrors all around in here?' I said.
"'So that you can watch yourself f--`k.'
"He didn't f--k me, that s--t. And what was he doing there anyway? On my night. My night with Meryl, my night when everything was right, when I got everything I wanted. Almost.
"I f--ked one of the Greeks instead: a big-schnozzed, big-d--ked, drunk motherf--ker. We did it in the bath. That was the best night of my life."
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