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AUA Joins IPAB Repeal Coalition In Endorsing The "Protecting Seniors' Access To Medicare Act Of 2013"
Jan 23, 2013, 04:55 EST
Coalition also renews commitment to repeal IPAB
LINTHICUM, Md., Jan. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Urological Association (AUA) today joined 25 other medical organizations in announcing support of the Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act, introduced by Reps. Phil Roe, M.D. (R-TN) and Allyson Schwartz (D-PA). The bipartisan bill would repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB).
Established by the Affordable Care Act, the IPAB is an unelected and unaccountable body of 15 persons tasked with developing ways to reduce Medicare spending and is slated to begin work as early as April 30, 2013. As presently structured, the IPAB cannot include any practicing physicians, presenting a worrisome absence of insight into the needs of patients and physicians alike. Alarmingly, the board is not subject to administrative or judicial review and lacks the typical Congressional oversight requirements of transparent hearings, debate and meaningful opportunities for critical stakeholder input. Any IPAB proposal automatically carries the effect of law unless Congress acts within an extremely limited statutory "fast track" time frame, or unless three-fifths of the Senate votes to override the board. If the IPAB fails to offer a proposal or never becomes operational, its power to cut Medicare spending mandatorily is placed solely in the hands of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
"The IPAB has the potential to be far-reaching and have devastating effects for patients and physicians, who are already struggling under reimbursement cuts from the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula," said Dr. David F. Penson, M.D., MPH, AUA Health Policy Chair. "Meaningful healthcare reform is about more than simply cutting costs -- it's about generating savings through long-term delivery system reforms."
"We applaud and thank Dr. Roe and Congresswoman Schwartz for their leadership on this issue and we hope that this legislation is a priority in the coming months."
The AUA is a participating member of the IPAB Repeal Coalition.
About the American Urological Association: Founded in 1902 and headquartered near Baltimore, Maryland, the American Urological Association is a leading advocate for the specialty of urology, and has more than 19,000 members throughout the world. The AUA is a premier urologic association, providing invaluable support to the urologic community as it pursues its mission of fostering the highest standards of urologic care through education, research and the formulation of health policy.
About the IPAB Repeal Coalition: The IPAB Repeal Coalition is a group of 26 medical specialties and patient organizations representing more than 350,000 physicians and their patients. In the 112th Congress, the coalition spearheaded efforts to inform members of Congress about the dangers the IPAB poses to providing quality health care for our country's senior citizens and people with disabilities. The coalition also supported Rep. Roe's bill, H.R. 452, the "Medicare Decisions Accountability Act," a measure to repeal IPAB that recorded 234 bipartisan co-sponsors and passed the House of Representatives.
Contact: Wendy Waldsachs Isett, AUA
410-689-3789, email@example.com
SOURCE American Urological Association


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Discussion in 'Wii - Hacking' started by DGSystems, Mar 1, 2007.
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goign to try soon
i'll tell you if the game works
You're doing a great job, I will try and test some game for you! Keep up the good work! :}
I can Confirm that Naruto is NOT working
to bad i lost my last DVD on it XD
Right I've just tested 0087 Wing Island (NTSC-J) patched to NTSC-U, Works fine! Yay! Cheers!
Well I cant get your webstart to... start!
Neither can I access the website at all, so no .jar download.
Will try again later.
Well, i like it !
it's simple but powerfull ^^
It's working for me now. Wasn't for at least a 30 minute window. I couldn't even ping www.mymatesaid.com
Anyway I like the GUI and am about to use it to patch Elebits NTSC-U to PAL. I'll edit this post with the result.
I'm not sure if it has stalled or not.. it's taking a long time to patch and the window is not responsive.
How long does the patching usually take? It's been about 20 minutes now.
The Syndicate patcher worked in a second or two at the most.
Oh sorry, forgot to add chip and media info!
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Wing Island (JAP) perfectly converted to PAL
going to test SSX Blur (U) now
Save your effort; it doesn't work.
well, if just one person tested it, it could always be a single case ofcourse faulty media or something, so gotta check twice
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Beginning "the potholder" working the next 3....It is all about Fall today here in Ohio....Love it....
Welcome to... Crochet by the Sea. It is the simple, beautiful things which capture my heart.Keeper of my home, producer of beauty with hook and yarn, lover of Vintage Beauty and times of simple elegance. Seaside or Woodland, beauty found in nature, the simple lovliness of an uncluttered and treasured life, the simple path is my choice.
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- Faith
- I'm a lover of vintage times and simple elegance of another era. I'm waiting a while for my special little farmhouse. While I'm waiting, I'm making good use of my time creating lovlies with my crochet hook n thread or yarn, and baking and cooking from scratch for my family.
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Tying up a few loose knots & calling this done...On to the next
Beginning "the potholder" working the next 3....It is all about Fall today here in Ohio....Love it....
3 comments:
- glor said...
Oh sister, love the ripple...the colors are perfect for now and thorugh the holidays. I could see me cuddled up on Thanksgiving in this watching March of The Wooden Soldiers, the smells of turkey roasting .... ohhhh, I love this time of year. Have a wonderful, blessed weekend. Maybe to Michael's soon?? Looking for another ghan pattern, any ideas?
- September 22, 2012 at 11:09 AM
- The Merry Stitcher said...
Oh I love anything vintage!! This pattern is lovely.
- September 23, 2012 at 11:18 PM
- Susanne said...
Love the granny ripple, love the colors. Goes good with your couch. Boy has it not turned cool, we turned on the heat a bit to take the chill off. I have some work out in the yard that needs to be done before winter. There just aren't enough hours in a day.
Have a great week.
Susanne :)
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Aquila fasciata
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Aquila fasciata (Vieillot, 1822)
|Regional Assessments:
Common Name(s):
Aquila fasciatus
Hieraaetus fasciatus Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)
Hieraaetus fasciatus AERC TAC (2003)
|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Cramp, S. and Simmons, K.E.L. (eds). 1977-1994. Handbook of the birds of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The birds of the western Palearctic. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Aquila fasciata (del Hoyo and Collar 2014) was previously listed as A. fasciatus.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|BirdLife International
|Butchart, S. & Symes, A.
|Ashpole, J, Butchart, S., Ekstrom, J., Harding, M.
This species has a very large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). Despite the fact that the population trend appears to be decreasing, the decline is not believed to be sufficiently rapid to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size may be moderately small to large, but it is not believed to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Afghanistan; Albania; Algeria; Bhutan; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; China; Croatia; Cyprus; Djibouti; Egypt; France; Georgia; Gibraltar; Greece; Hong Kong; India; Indonesia; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Iraq; Israel; Italy; Jordan; Kuwait; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Lebanon; Libya; Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of; Mauritania; Montenegro; Morocco; Myanmar; Nepal; Oman; Pakistan; Palestinian Territory, Occupied; Portugal; Saudi Arabia; Serbia; Spain (Canary Is. - Vagrant); Syrian Arab Republic; Tajikistan; Thailand; Timor-Leste; Tunisia; Turkey; Turkmenistan; United Arab Emirates; Uzbekistan; Viet Nam; Yemen
Vagrant:Austria; Bangladesh; Belgium; Czech Republic; Denmark; Germany; Hungary; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Luxembourg; Mongolia; Netherlands; Romania; Slovakia; Sri Lanka; Sweden
Present - origin uncertain:Azerbaijan
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
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|The European population is estimated at 1,100-1,200 pairs, which equates to 2,100-2,400 mature individuals (BirdLife International 2015). Europe forms approximately 10% of the global range, so a very preliminary estimate of the global population size is 21,000-24,000 mature individuals, although further validation of this estimate is needed (BirdLife International 2015).
Trend Justification: The population is declining drastically throughout its range owing to over-use of pesticides, habitat degradation, loss of prey species, collision with power lines and persecution by hunters and pigeon fanciers (Ferguson-Lees and Christie 2001, Barov and Derhé 2011). In Europe the population size is currently stable, but it is estimated to have decreased in the past at a rate approaching 30% in 54 years (three generations) (BirdLife International 2015).
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
Behaviour The species has a fragmented distribution across the southern Palearctic and Indomalayan regions, and is marginally Afrotropical (45°N to 10°S). It is locally uncommon to rare and in decline across its range. The species is resident throughout its range, although juveniles will disperse up to 200km with individuals occasionally wandering further afield and passing through key migration routes (Ferguson-Lees and Christie 2001, Shirihai et al. 2000). Habitat The species occupies mountainous, rocky, arid to semi-moist habitat, from sea level to 1,500m, but up to 3000m in Africa and 3750m in the Himalayan foothills. It generally occurs in open areas but also occupies woodland. Juveniles often occupy areas near large water bodies (Ferguson-Lees and Christie 2001). Diet The eagle's prey principally comprises small or medium-sized birds, but it will also take mammals, some reptiles, insects and rarely, carrion (Ferguson-Lees and Christie 2001). Breeding Site The nest is composed of sticks, up to 2m in diameter, located on remote cliff ledges or in a large tree. The nest is re-used in successive years. Breeding occurs from January to July in the west of the range, and from November to September in the Indomalayan region (Ferguson-Lees and Christie 2001).
|Terrestrial; Freshwater
|Continuing decline in area, extent and/or quality of habitat:
|Generation Length (years):
|Movement patterns:
|Not a Migrant
|Major Threat(s):
|Since the 1950s the species has declined throughout its range. It was affected by pesticide use in the mid-20th Century, and since then populations have not recovered to their pre-organochlorine levels. The species is persecuted by hunters and pigeon-fanciers in the west of its range and juveniles suffer high mortality from collisions with power lines (Rollan et al. 2010). Declining prey availability, increasing human disturbance and poaching at nest sites, and agricultural intensification are thought to be key factors in the species' decline (Ferguson-Lees and Christie 2001, Orta et al. 2016).
|Conservation Actions:
Conservation Actions Underway
CMS Appendix II. CITES Appendix II. EU Birds Directive Annex I. Bern Convention Appendix II. In France most nests are wardened during the breeding season and in southern France and Catalonia artificial food sources have been successfully provided for some breeding pairs. Research on species demography including juvenile dispersal, mortality and adult recruitment has been undertaken in eastern Spain and southern France (Tucker and Heath 1994).
Conservation Actions Proposed
The implementation of access restrictions and legal habitat protection is required in nesting areas to avoid disturbance and habitat destruction. Dangerous electricity pylons should be modified or buried. Game crops should be used to enhance prey populations, extensive pastoral farming should be maintained and hedges bordering fields preserved. These measures could be promoted in the EU under agri-environmental regulation. Within Europe, undertaking education campaigns with the active involvement of hunting associations and the continuation of research and monitoring, extending into Portugal and eastern Mediterranean countries would help preserve the species (Tucker and Heath 1994).
|BirdLife International. 2016. Aquila fasciata. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22696076A89510184. . Downloaded on 15 August 2018.
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Yesterday was the first time I wept at the death of a public personality. I kept asking myself what it was about Dr Kalam that shook me up this way. Being a sentimental chap, I would have grieved anyway at Dr Kalam's death, but the grief came more readily, I thought, as the leader who …


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We woke up on our second day in NYC to the familiar pitter-patter of raindrops against our windows. Being Washingtonians, we did not let a little bit of rain [although it was a bit more than a bit] rain on our parade [pun geek-ily intended]. It was Sunday and we had all decided that out of all the wonderful churches in NYC, we really wanted to go to Brooklyn Tabernacle, which is a large Christian church that is well-known for their amazing choir and prayer-focused teachings. I was brought to tears for most of the service as this was a dream I had for many years to one day step inside this church and see how the members lived out of the reality of their love for Jesus.
|my lovely traveling buddies escaping the rain on our commute to Brooklyn from midtown Manhattan
After church, we wanted to try pizza at famous Grimaldi's in the DUMBO district [ Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass]. Our consensus was that the pizza was a tad-bit underdone [the crust wasn't crispy enough for fire-stone pizza crusts] but it still left a good impression on us.
We then took the subway to Upper Manhattan and spent our afternoon admiring the masterpieces at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We spent roughly 2.5 hours and only got through probably half of the second level, not even touching the first level! The Met is easily an all-day event for art lovers.
my favorites:
- George Seurat's A Sunday on Le Grande Jette
- Monet's Water Lillies [actually, I was in love with anything by Monet. He is my favorite]
- The "Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity" exhibit that showcased custom gowns created as replicas from famous artwork
- Anything by my second favorite impressionist painter, Renoir
- practically running into Tim Gunn from Project Runway [first and only NYC star sighting]
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The UK's universities are leading the way in many aspects of ICT R&D. In the third of a three-part series, E&T surveys innovative projects at University of Oxford's Computing Laboratory.
Established in 1957 from the University's mathematics faculty, the Oxford Computing Laboratory's ethos is in many ways still characterised by these roots: a strong mathematical and theoretical informs its research, which covers everything from Web science to quantum computation.
The Computing Laboratory has expanded since 2005 to 55 research staff, 40 postdoctoral researchers, 110 doctoral students, and £27m of research funding. Its highest profile activity - and what has contributed a great deal to this growth - is its work on modelling and simulating the human heart, which is making significant inroads toward a more quantitative approach to medicine.
"Today's view of biology is in an exciting state of transition, moving from a mainly qualitative science to one, like physics and chemistry, where maths can be used to describe functions and processes," explains Nic Smith, Professor of Computational Physiology at Oxford Computing Laboratory, and a member of the it's Computational Biology Group. "In much the same way as we can simulate concrete in a bridge, we can now simulate the mechanical contraction of the heart, and it's the same mathematics - finite element analysis - developed by Boris Galerkin in the late 19th century."
Driving this change to what is often called 'systems biology' is the availability of high-performance computers, such as HECToR (High End Computing Terascale Resource), coupled with the rapid development of measurement technologies such as high-resolution clinical imaging. Despite the increasing detail of data, difficulty remains in understanding how specific measurements are indicative of the whole.
Systems biology
Smith's expertise and interest is in solving the problem of linking experimental data to fully integrated function.
His focus is on modelling the heart's electrophysiology and contraction at the cellular level, and the multi-scale translation of these models to enable blood flow and cardiac electro-mechanics simulations. Smith is customising electro-mechanical and fluid-mechanical computer models of heart function to particular individuals for the €14m EU project euHEART, of which he is scientific director.
Part of the project involves working with heart surgeons and their patients at London's St Thomas's Hospital to study specific treatments, such as Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy (CRT), and understand which patients can benefit.
"In heart failure, one side of the heart might contract and relax before the other - so there is a sort of hiccup in the electrical wave that causes the contraction," Smith explains. "If you put a pacemaker on each side of the heart it's possible to re-synchronise the contraction, but only about 60 per cent of patients regain proper function and it's hard to know why. By fitting our computer models to hearts and doing electromechanical simulation, we hope to work out who would respond well to CRT and where exactly each pacemaker should be placed."
In animated electromechanical computer models developed at Oxford of a healthy heart pumping, the principle stresses in the heart are indicated with colour changes (see image on p58). One of Smith's doctoral students is adapting the model to a specific patient's heart by using a combination of measurements from various MRI scans that give the shape of the patient's heart, the muscle fibre orientation, and how the cells are contracting over a full heartbeat. Smith's team has also developed a fluid mechanical model to analyse how well the heart pumps by showing the fluid flow and the mechanical deformation of the muscle.
"One of the euHEART partners is a company called Berlin Heart that makes temporary pumps - Left Ventricular Assist Devices - that give the heart muscle a chance to recover," Smith continues. "We're using our fluid mechanical models to look at who recovers so we can get a better metric on which patients are a good bet for surgery and how to tune the pumps to ensure the best chance of recovery."
At this stage, fitting the patient-specific data to heart models is done manually. In the long-term, though, the idea is that the models could be generated automatically from heart scans and made available as standard. This work requires a great deal of computing power and the team is using HECToR.
While Smith's research is geared towards clinical applications, David Gavaghan, Professor of Computational Biology, is working with colleagues in the Computational Biology group on models of the heart and tumour growth that have potential applications in both basic science research and medicine. For example, in the €4.2M EU project preDICT, Gavaghan is looking at testing the cardio-toxicity of particular drugs using detailed models of the heart's electrophysiology with Professor Denis Noble, co-director of computational physiology at Oxford - who has spent 50 years developing models of working heart cells - and pharmaceutical companies GSK, Novartis, and Roche.
"A large proportion of drugs fail at clinical trials due to cardiac side-effects, in particular arrhythmia - the famous case being the painkiller Vioxx," Gavaghan explains. "Our aim is to build heart models that are comprehensive enough to firstly understand why existing drugs may have caused arrhythmia and ultimately to predict how new compounds will behave and whether certain people have a genetic susceptibility to an adverse reaction." It is still early days, Gavaghan says: "Our proposal is that we're setting up a framework in which we can look at this problem and try some case studies to see if it's possible. Once we've done this, we'll be able to go on to the more interesting stage of looking at particular compounds."
As part of preDICT, the Computational Biology Group is using an in-house developed general purpose simulation package called CHASTE (Cancer Heart And Soft Tissue Environment) aimed specifically at multi-scale, computationally-demanding problems arising in biology and physiology. Unusually for software written in academia, CHASTE has been built using advanced test-driven software engineering techniques such as Agile programming, pair programming, and code refactoring.
The idea is that it can be a highly efficient, standard software platform for these kinds of simulations designed to run on large-scale, high-performance computer systems.
The level of physiological detail of these models means that even on state-of-the-art high performance computing facilities it can take several hours or days - depending on the application - to simulate a second or two of a complete beating heart.
The Computational Biology group is collaborating with vendor Fujitsu to see if the company's next generation 10-petaflop supercomputer can run such models in near real-time. One element of this work is to explore whether it is feasible to use adaptive numerical algorithms in heart models so that in areas of the model where the solutions to the underlying equations are changing slowly, fewer mesh points can be used. These ideas have been used in oceanic modelling and in the automotive industry, but not applied to heart models before.
The next stage - and perhaps the hardest - is to look at cancer. "Cancer modelling has typically focused on one particular aspect, such as how does a tumour invade, whereas you really want a multi-scale model just as we have with the heart, that can include everything starting from genetic mutations through to when a tumour starts to vascularise and metastasise," explains Gavaghan. "It's a huge problem, but if we can develop a framework first for the heart, and then transfer to cancer, we can make a good start."
Tools for quantifying uncertainty
In another part of the Computing Laboratory, Marta Kwiatkowska, Professor of Computing Systems, is - as it were - quantifying uncertainty. Her work has culminated in the development of a versatile model-checking tool called PRISM, which can be used for studying the behaviour of almost any system that behaves in a random or probabilistic way.
PRISM has been applied to a wide range of real problems, including quantifying the best way to avoid denial-of-service security threats, studying the behaviour of communications protocols, measuring the reliability of nanotechnology designs, and even examining biological cell behaviours.
"Anyone who wants to understand how systems built of components [such as sensors, processing elements, molecules] in parallel interact with each other or a user, or react to changes in the environment, can use PRISM," says Kwiatkowska.
Kwiatkowska's group has been analysing wireless networking protocols: "We have unearthed some very strange behaviours," she reports. "For Bluetooth, we found that that the worst-case expected time to send a message is over two seconds. You'd have to be lucky to find that by testing or simulation."
Formal verification allows unpredictable system behaviour to be checked exhaustively and then quantified using mathematical techniques. As computers become ubiquitous, says Kwiatkowska, applying these techniques will become more and more important - safety being the pressing reason.
A recent example of the inadequacy of standard testing and simulation regimes was in 2005 when Toyota had to recall 75,000 Prius cars after drivers reported sudden stalling or stopping at high speed due to a software glitch.
For proposed health applications such as using body sensor networks to monitor people after serious operations, formally checking for strange glitches will be crucial. For such a system, PRISM can answer questions like: 'what is the probability that a body sensory fails within ten minutes?' or 'what is the worst-case probability that more than 12 sensor readings have been lost by the first day?', and so on.
The ongoing research challenge is to find more compact data-structures for handling this type of analysis, says Kwiatkowska: "A probabilistic system is one that doesn't behave in an entirely predictable way, so transitions from one state to another have to be annotated with probabilities or rates. And there may be millions of such probable states. So representing such systems efficiently in computer memory is a very difficult task."
PRISM can't yet be applied to the scale of ubiquitous computing because it's too complicated. "The Bluetooth analysis, for example, involved two devices - any more wouldn't have fitted into the computer memory," she adds, "but there is scope for clever model reductions and approximation methods to make this feasible."
Talking to computers
How to get computers to process language as if they really understood it remains one of the knottiest questions in computing. Take, for example, the sentence 'The porters refused admission to the students because they feared violence'. Most of us ascribe 'they' as referring to the porters. Change the verb 'feared' to 'advocated', and we assume this time that 'they' relates to the students. Humans make such decisions by inference from our knowledge of the world - they are not thoughts about students and porters that we have consciously entertained before.
"Computer scientists are not much closer to figuring out how to make such fine distinctions than we were 30 years ago," says Stephen Pulman, Professor of Computational Linguistics and Director of the Computing Laboratory. "The best we can do is an approximation. If you have enough data to train a statistical model of likely interpretations, hopefully it will get it right more often than wrong."
The lab's Computational Linguistics Group's answer is to mix statistical methods with automated grammatical and semantic analysis. "Statistical methods have the virtue of behaving robustly on new data, but it is not easy to uncover deep aspects of the meanings of sentences this way. For that you need traditional syntactic and semantic analysis," avers Pulman. "We hope to combine depth of analysis with breadth of coverage using this combination of methods."
An interesting application is 'sentiment analysis' - automatically detecting attitudes towards products, people or policies from news reports and other online text. The standard technique is to score text against lists of words tagged as having positive, negative or neutral polarity.
A doctoral student in Pulman's group, Karo Moilanen, has extended this approach by basing the sentiment profile on a full syntactic analysis using compositional rules that recognise, for example, that while 'killing' is bad and 'bacteria' are bad, 'killing bacteria' is perceived as good. The result is a much more nuanced sentiment classification system, which is attracting commercial interest.
"If you have a sentence like 'the opposition criticised the government for cashing-in on the success of our Olympic team', then there are three entities we can analyse: the opposition, the government and the Olympic team. The attitude towards the team is positive, but the attitude to the government is negative. So you get a much more fine-grained profile of what people's opinions and motivations are towards particular entities," says Pulman.
"The system processes an average length news report in one second on a laptop, and can collect from many different sources and compare and present it in a digestible way. We plan also to try this system in the world of stocks and shares, and see whether we can predict market movements on the basis of textual data," he adds.
The lab is also applying a combination of techniques in the €13m EU-funded COMPANIONS project, which has the aim of developing 'embodied conversational agents', i.e., computer-based companions that can stay with someone for a long period, developing a relationship with them.
Pulman's group has the intriguing task of measuring what would be classed as a 'socially successful dialogue': "In commercial spoken language dialogue systems, such as those used by banks, automated dialogue is driven by the need to carry out a database transaction," he explains.
"You know the dialogue is successful when you get the money out or pay a bill. The type of conversation you might have with a companion isn't going to be like that. We aim to build a system that is sensitive to the reactions of the user, using sentiment analysis and also detecting linguistic cues associated with emotions, like surprise or joy and sadness.
"We intend the ECA dialogue system to use machine learning techniques to change its behaviour to maximise positive sentiment in the user."


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From Clayton, North Carolina, USA:
Diagnosed at two, my now 13-year-old daughter is using an insulin pump. She has not been taking proper care of herself lately and her A1c has been as high as 13.1 more than once. They have discovered protein in her urine. The first morning level showed around 298 milligrams, I think, of protein and then they ordered a 24-hour urine test. Her level for that was almost 700. They are sending her to a pediatric nephrologist, but I was wondering what these numbers mean and what we can expect once we get to the nephrologist.
You are aware, I know, that poorly controlled diabetes leads to disruption of the microscopic part of the circulatory system, called capillaries. When the capillaries in the retina in the eye get injured, that can lead to blindness. When the capillaries supplying the nerves get disrupted, that can lead to a host of neurologic issues (including lack of sensation, poor stomach/intestinal motility, strokes, and others). When the capillaries of kidneys get disrupted, it is the first step to kidney failure. Other than performing routine kidney biopsies, the next earliest test to look for diabetes-related kidney disease is to see of the urine has "extra protein" in it. When the capillaries of the kidneys get messed up, they commonly will allow protein to "spill" into the urine. The amount of protein determines the extent of the concern.
Unfortunately, your letter is not completely clear as to how much protein was found in the urine, as you did not indicate the albumin-to-creatinine ratio or the other units of measurement. Assuming that the value of "700" was really 700 mg/24 hours, then this is a lot of protein, sometimes referred to as macroalbuminuria. If it were less than 300 mg/24 hours, this would be considered "microalbuminuria."
I would anticipate that the reason you were referred to a pediatric nephrologist is to get their opinion whether or not there might be any other contributing factor to the extra urinary protein. I would anticipate that the nephrologist will get another urine collection, maybe some blood work, and possibly even an ultrasound of your daughter's kidneys. The nephrologist may even discuss with you about scheduling your daughter for a kidney biopsy. I also anticipate that they will want to start your daughter on a medicine within the family of medicines called "ACE inhibitors." These are medications that decrease the blood pressure to the kidneys. Assuming your daughter and you can get her glucoses and A1cs back down, then ACE inhibitors and related medications, taken indefinitely, can protect the kidney from future injury.
Do not take the finding of protein in the urine lightly. Unfortunately, having allowed the patient to get out of good glucose control, despite a pump, your daughter has crossed an important and worrisome threshold. This has been a grim reminder to your daughter and you and the family that she must get her glycemic control significantly better and keep it that way.
[Editor's comment: You might wish to read some of our previous questions about teens and behavior. In most cases where teens become lax with their care and end up with hyperglycemia or in DKA, our medical experts recommend that parents take over their child's diabetes care until the child is more responsible. This is something you may wish to discuss with your daughter's diabetes team. BH]
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Letter from the Prez
Back in January, Julia wrote this letter to President Bush after she was mortified to learn that her grandmother cannot get health insurance because of a mental illness.
Well, Chad went out to get the mail yesterday and came back in with a big brown envelope that had "THE WHITE HOUSE" as the return address! It was a form letter that basically said how he appreciates her thoughtful suggestions, and how she can grow up to build a better America with her compassion, character and education. "Mrs. Bush and I send our best wishes. May God bless you, and may God bless America." It's on official White House letterhead with the Presidential seal and his signature, and a picture was also included. How cool is that!
Also this weekend, this was the first year that Julia got very interested in the Kentucky Derby and she really looked forward to Saturday's race. This was also the year that a horse had to be euthanized right after the race. Yuck. Julia and I have both been sad about the Eight Belles tragedy.
On a happier note, it's time for some Sunday night silliness at the Nall house:
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LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron's plans to renegotiate Britain's ties with the European Union are wishful thinking and likely to yield only minor concessions that will not unite his governing Conservative party, his coalition partner will warn on Friday.
In a speech at Thomson Reuters in London, Nick Clegg, Britain's deputy prime minister, will launch one of his strongest critiques of Cameron's Europe policy so far as he unveils his own ideas for reform and sets out the case for Britain to remain inside the 28-nation bloc.
"The Conservative leadership has spent the last three years ducking and weaving, looking for a way out," Clegg will say, according to advance extracts from his speech.
"David Cameron started with grand plans for the repatriation of powers, then he shifted ground. None of this has anything to do with the real issues - the need for a more competitive EU - it's all about managing internal Conservative party divisions."
The robust nature of Clegg's criticism is likely to cause tensions within Britain's two-party coalition government ahead of European elections later this month. Clegg's party, the Liberal Democrats, are the junior partner to the Conservatives, and polls suggest they could come fourth in the vote.
The UK Independence Party (UKIP), which campaigns for Britain to leave the EU, is likely to poll ahead of both parties fighting it out for first place with the opposition Labor party.
Cameron has promised to try to renegotiate Britain's EU ties and to claw back a range of powers if re-elected next year and to then give Britons a referendum on whether to stay or remain inside the EU in 2017.
But Clegg, whose party has styled itself as Britain's most pro-EU force, will say the strategy is doomed.
"You cannot secure a new settlement for Britain through a one off negotiation conducted under the threat of exit," Clegg, 47, will say at a Reuters Newsmaker event in its London headquarters in Canary Wharf on Friday.
"He'll be able to agree various minor opt outs and exemptions for Britain with other European leaders. But we wouldn't let the French or Germans pick and choose the bits of the Single Market they like, so the idea that they would do the same for us is wishful thinking."
Cameron has so far garnered only limited backing for his plans among other EU states and German Chancellor Angela Merkel has ruled out the prospect of a far-reaching overhaul of the bloc's treaties.
The opposition Labor party opposes Cameron's idea of a referendum, saying it creates uncertainty and discourages foreign investment in Britain.
Clegg, a Cambridge-educated former member of the European Parliament who speaks five languages, will urge Cameron to change tack, suggesting the only way to achieve reform is at the negotiating table.
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"You do it by engaging with our neighbors, forging alliances with like-minded states and winning the argument."
Clegg, whose party, some pollsters have predicted, could lose all its member of the European Parliament, will argue that Cameron's attempts to appease his own backbench lawmakers who want to leave the EU has trapped the prime minister.
"David Cameron has set himself on a collision course with his backbenchers because, no matter what repatriation package he negotiates, it will never be enough to satisfy them," Clegg will say.
Clegg, who has good relations with the 47-year-old prime minister with whom he has shared power since 2010, said Cameron had sought to tone down his demands to propose changes that would not require difficult-to-get EU treaty change.
Unveiling his own 10-point plan to reform the EU, Clegg said the Liberal Democrats would push for changes to the EU budget, cuts to red tape, less waste and for more devolved powers for national parliaments.
"Europe should do more of what it's good at, less of what it isn't," Clegg will say.
(Editing by Robin Pomeroy)


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I've been keeping up with it daily through my Facebook feed through a source called ENEnews:
www.facebook.com...#!/ENENEWS (You may have to copy and past the whole thing so it takes you right to the page).
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Ep. 30: Bathroom achievement unlockedA ridiculous business offer leads to imported robot dinosaurs on the Crave blog. Teetering on the edge of acceptability is a gaming urinal by SEGA, with the boys finding it more relevant than Jasmine.
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April 5, 1977 Mental Health; Infants and Incompetents; Voluntary Admissions; Applications for Admission to Treatment Facilities by Married Minors
Article 4, Chapter 122 deals with voluntary admission to treatment facilities in this State. Institutions and hospitals (such as the Alcoholic Rehabilitation Centers) operated by North Carolina and designated for persons in need of care and treatment due to inebriety are treatment facilities. G.S. 122-56.2(b). While adult individuals may be admitted upon their own applications
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In North Carolina the age of majority is eighteen. G.S. 48A-2. The parental right to control the limitations on a child's right to independently act exists until the age of majority or until the minor is otherwise emancipated. Shoaf v. Shoaf, 282 N.C. 287, 290 (1972). In this State, before achieving the statutory age of majority:
"The emancipation of a child may be complete or partial. A minor may be emancipated for some purposes and not for others, and similarly a parent may be freed of some of his obligations and divested of some of his rights yet not be freed and divested of others . . . Complete emancipation arises by operation of law irrespective of the parent's consent when a child marries . . ." Gillikin
v. Burbage, 263 N.C. 317, at pages 321-322 (1965); Church v. Hancock, 261 N.C. 764, 765 (1964).
In light of the above quoted language of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, for voluntary admission to a treatment facility under Article 4, a married minor would be treated in the same fashion as an individual who has achieved the age of majority.
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TALLAHASSEE — In a test of Everglades environmental policy, a small fishing camp set inside the levee that circles Lake Okeechobee was denied permission to evolve into a more permanent condominium.
The governor and state Cabinet voted unanimously Tuesday to stop the proposed transformation of J-Mark Fishing Village on Torrey Island -- actually a peninsula on the lake`s edge -- into a 209-unit condominium development with 320 parking spaces, a 110-slip marina and a restaurant.
Florida`s top policy-makers accepted arguments that the Save Our Everglades concept of shielding South Florida`s sensitive water ecosystem from further man-made interference was at stake in the case.
``I think (their action) indicates a lot of support for saving the Everglades at Lake Okeechobee from the highest level of government,`` said Charles Lee of the Florida Audubon Society.
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Harris was injured when the 15th-ranked Spartans beat Boise State 74-70 on Tuesday night. He was hurt early in the game and didn't return.
He is averaging 12 points a game, third on the team. Coach Tom Izzo says Harris was playing well and it's a shame that he will be out because of a freak injury on a routine sideline exchange.
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