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Rudy Rucker doesn't do his fellow panpsychists any favours. Or, at the very least, he doesn't do the more philosophically rigorous and less flamboyant panpsychists any favours.
Despite saying all that, I may be barking up the wrong tree in this piece anyway. Perhaps many of Rucker's claims aren't meant to be taken literally. Perhaps they're meant to be taken poetically, metaphorically or even spiritually. After all, Rucker is a novelist who's written over 20 science fiction or "cyberpunk" novels and many other works of fiction. He's also distantly related to Hegel: so that may also explain his flights of fancy.
However, Rudy Rucker has studied mathematics at PhD level. He's also been a professor of mathematics and written non-fiction books on scientific subjects.
In terms of detail, Rudy Rucker taught mathematics at the State University of New York at Geneseo from 1972 to 1978. He then taught maths at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg from 1978 to 1980. After that, in 1986, Rucker became a computer science professor at San José State University. (He retired from that job in 2004.)
Rucker has also written non-fiction books on mathematics and physics; such as Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension and Infinity and the Mind. More relevantly to this piece, he also wrote The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul.
So even though Rudy Rucker's views will muddy the waters for at least some panpsychists, it may still be helpful to move his extreme views out of the way.
Do Rocks Have Minds?
In his short essay, 'Mind is a universally distributed quality' (which can be found in the book What is Your Dangerous Idea?), Rudy Rucker says that "[e]ach object has a mind". That is, "[s]tars, hills, chairs, rocks, scraps of paper, flakes of skin, molecules" all have minds.
Rucker isn't only saying that all these objects have "experiences" or embody what some philosophers call "phenomenal properties". And he certainly isn't saying that they only embody "proto-experience" or "panproto-experience". (As David Chalmers and other philosophers have it.) No; Rucker uses the word "mind"; as well as the words "experiences" and "sensations".
So it must now be said that when (some) philosophers talk about "experience" or "phenomenal properties", they aren't necessarily also talking about minds. However, it can of course be argued that experiences and phenomenal properties must surely come attached to (as it were) minds.
So what is a mind?
If Rudy Rucker defines the word "mind" so that it only includes what he calls "inner experiences" and "sensations", then his use of that word would be - by his definition - correct.
Perhaps experience does come along with mind in the sense that it's hard to think of a mind-less experience. However, that may not quite be the case when it comes to phenomenal properties because, prima facie, one can conceive (a word often used when philosophers modalise about these issues) of them as belonging to non-minds; or to, yes, Rudy Rucker's scraps of paper or flakes of skin.
Rudy Rucker's Scepticism?
Rudy Rucker himself seems to offer us a tiny bit of scepticism towards his own positions on panpsychism when he writes the following:
"Might panpsychism be a distinction without a difference?... What is added by claiming that these aspects of reality are like minds?"
However, Rucker doesn't mention panpsychism itself in the passage above (i.e., after the first sentence). Instead he mentions "quantum collapse", "chaotic dynamics" and "universal computation" instead.
It's also worth saying that elsewhere Rucker doesn't say that particles, rocks, etc. "are like minds" - as he does at the end of the passage above. He says that "each object has a mind".
Nonetheless, we can still repeat his question:
What's added by claiming that "these aspects of reality are like minds"?
When Rucker says that particles "are like minds", what's added to our notion of a particle by saying that? Indeed when Rucker says that a particle "has a mind", what's he actually saying?
Well, he's saying – among other things - that a rock, flake of skin, molecule, etc:
i) Has "singular inner experiences and sensations".
ii) "Embodies universal computations."
iii) Is "glowing with inner light".
However, isn't all this simply passing the buck to other words?
What do the words "inner experiences" and "sensations" mean in the context of a particle? Indeed what does "universal computation" mean in the context of a flake of skin or a molecule?
A Rock's Experiences & Sensations
As quoted earlier, Rudy Rucker mentions various attributes of mind. He says that stars, hills, chairs, rocks, scraps of paper, flakes of skin, etc. have "singular inner experiences and sensations".
What are "inner experiences" and "sensations"? (Are there outer experiences?)
Wouldn't objects need sensory receptors, brains, central nervous systems, etc. in order to have sensations? (Wikipedia defines a sensation as "the body's detection of external or internal stimulation".)
One can say that all this depends on what sensations are. Alternatively, perhaps it depends on Rudy Rucker's own definition of the word 'sensation'.
Indeed has Rucker ever defined the word 'sensation' within these contexts? Has he even an implicit (or tacit) definition of that word lodged somewhere deep within his mind? Alternatively, is his use of the word 'sensation' simply poetical or metaphorical?
As hinted at a moment ago, can some thing have a sensation of pain without it also being a biological body? We can of course conceive (à la David Chalmers and Philip Goff) of pains occurring in things which aren't human beings or other animals. So what about in the case of Rucker's rock or his flakes of skin? In evolutionary terms, why would a flake of skin or even a rock need to feel pain? (Perhaps some objects - or even animals - experience pain for non-evolutionary reasons.)
So what about other sensations?
Take sexual pleasure and solving a mathematical puzzle.
The sensation of sexual pleasure is related to biological bodies in both human beings and other animals. Indeed even the sensation of solving a mathematical puzzle will have physical and biological expressions and physical and biological substrates.
So I'm having a problem here conceiving of sensations belonging to non-biological entities. Indeed I'm also having a slightly lesser problem conceiving of experiences belonging to non-biological entities.
Does Everything Embody Computations?
Just as Rudy Rucker stretches to the words 'mind', 'sensation' and 'experience' to great lengths, so he does the same with the word 'computation'.
For example, Rucker says that
"every physical system can be thought of as embodying a computation".
It can be supposed that if a thing is a "physical system", then perhaps Rucker's semantic stretch isn't as extreme as it may at first seem. That is, a physical system must include some kind of complexity.... Well, yes and no. A particle is certainly complex and can be seen as a physical system. The same is true of Rucker's "flake of skin". Indeed it's hard to see what isn't both a system and complex.
In any case, if Rucker has already stretched the meanings of both 'computation' and 'mind', then what's to stop him doing the same with the word 'system' too? Actually, I have more sympathy with Rucker's use of the word 'system' than with his use of either 'mind' or 'computation'. There's far more baggage attached to the word 'mind' than there is to the word 'system'.
Rucker even goes on to say that "nonsimple" systems "embody computations". Thus:
i) Whatever a system/thing (whether complex or simple) is, it will embody computations.
ii) And whatever a system/thing is, it will also have a mind; (partly?) because it will also embody computations.
As ever, Rudy Rucker is explicit about all this. Just as flakes of skin have minds, so "a single electron may be capable of universal computation". (At least here he uses the word 'may'.)
What makes an electron capable of computations is (partly?) due to the fact that it may be "afforded a steady stream of structured input". What does that mean? An electron is certainly causally affected and influenced by its environment. (Such as by fields, forces, other particles and its anti-particle: the positron.) However, can these causal forces be classed as "input"? Is Rucker committing his easy sin again by stretching words beyond their usual meanings?
Input can be read in two or more ways.
In one loose sense, input can be used as a near-synonym for any causal affect on a system or on an entity/thing. Alternatively, we can take the word 'input' in the way that Rucker hints/says that we should take it. That is, input is essentially information which is worked upon by a thing (or system) according to its own algorithms. However, usually algorithms are carried out by human beings or written into computer programmes by human beings. Alternatively, information can be registered and then worked upon by human mind-brains.
[See the last section of my 'Integrated Information Theory: Information' to read the problems with overextending and overusing the words 'computation', 'information', etc.]
Hive Minds
Rudy Rucker says that that the
"world's physical structures break the undivided cosmic mind into myriad of small minds, one in each object".
The brain is made up of hundreds of billions of molecules. And each molecule within each brain has a mind.
Thus it can be said that Rucker is claiming the following:
i) The Cosmic Mind includes individual human minds.
ii) Each individual human mind is dependent on a single brain.
iii) Each individual human brain is itself made of hundreds of billions of molecules.
iv) Each individual molecule of each individual human brain has its own mind.
Rucker himself says that the human mind is a "hive mind", one which is
"based on the minds of the body's cells and the minds of the body's elementary particles".
Here Rudy Rucker is entertaining a problem which Philip Goff, David Chalmers and other philosophers tackle: the problem which he calls "hive minds". This, in turn, creates the problem of the "summing", "constitution" or "combination" of tiny minds (as it were) into Big Minds.
What are the physical-to-mind and mind-to-mind connections between the individual minds (i.e., of neurons, molecules, particles, etc.) which make up the human mind-brain, and the human mind-brain itself? If each thing has its own "inner experiences" and "sensations" (according to Rucker), then how do they sum or combine together to create the inner experiences and sensations of a single human mind-brain? More particularly, what are the precise connections between each thing's (each molecule, neuron, etc.) sensations and inner experiences and the collective inner experiences and sensations of an individual human being or person?
Every Thing is X
As stated, Rudy Rucker says that every thing has a mind, sensations, inner experiences, embodies computations, etc. Thus we may have this often-stated formula:
If every thing is x, then no thing is x.
Actually, this formulation doesn't always work. For example,
If every thing is made of particles, then no thing is made of particles.
[However, as of last week, it can be said that quarks, leptons, antiquarks, antileptons, gauge bosons and the Higgs boson aren't themselves "made of particles".]
Despite that, in some cases the formula does seem to work. As with:
If every thing has a mind, sensations, embodies computations, etc.,
then no thing has a mind, sensations, embodies computations, etc.
The most un-problematic term in the above is 'computations'. Every thing embodying computations is far easier to accept than every thing having a mind or having sensations. Then again, there may still be an argument of this type:
i) If every thing embodies computations
(and if we can then move step by step from that conditional axiom/premise - see the end section on Rudy Rucker's "nine-step argument"),
ii) then we will eventually arrive at this proposition: Every thing must also have a mind and therefore sensations.
Nonetheless, isn't this is little like saying that every thing is an athlete or a piece of chocolate? If you stretch words so widely, then they simply loose their point or linguistic force. And that's precisely what Rucker appears to do.
If Rucker can say that particles have minds, then can I also say that they have a sense of humour? And if I can't say that particles have a sense of humour, then why can't I say that? Tell me an important and substantial difference between saying "particles have senses of humour" and saying "particles have minds". Of course it can now be said that you need a mind in order to have a sense of humour. (Though most/all of the animals which have minds may not have a sense of humour.) Therefore isn't it possible or even likely that particles also have a sense of humour?
The Politics and Spirituality of Panpsychism
Perhaps environmentalism or ecopolitics is driving Rudy Rucker's panpsychist position. That is, perhaps he believes that upholding panpsychism will help the environment or one's relationship with nature.
Rucker himself is explicit about this. He writes:
"If the rocks on my property have minds, I feel more respect for them in their natural state. If I feel myself among friends in the universe..."
This is an ethical conditional. Thus:
i) If rocks have minds,
ii) then...
The problem about this is that someone else may say to Rucker:
i) If I could fly,
ii) then I'd be able to jump out of this window.
i) If I were immune to heroin,
ii) then I could take as much heroin as I liked.
Less rhetorically and more feasibly:
i) If animals felt as much pain as humans, and also had similar emotions,
ii) then we/I would be "among friends".
The problem is that the last conditional about animals isn't entirely speculative. Rucker's claims about rocks, scraps of paper, etc., on the other hand, are entirely speculative. There's a lot of evidence that animals feel pain and have emotions. There's no evidence at all that rocks, particles, etc. have minds or experience pain/emotions.
So helpful (or constructive) philosophical or ethical counterfactuals must have at least one foot on the ground otherwise surely they're a waste of time.
The Afterlife
Rudy Rucker also offers us a "spiritual" conditional. He says:
"If my body will have a mind even after I'm dead, then death matters less to me..."
In a sense, if Rucker's previous speculations were true, then his position on his mind after his own death would also be true; or at least it could possibly be true. Thus all this depends on the Rucker's conjectures on panpsychism being true.
As as I said about Rucker's panpsychist environmentalism, this may not matter to him. Thus this is a reactive conditional to Rucker's stance:
i) If Rudy Rucker's panpsychism is all about his own emotional well-being (as well as about having a "positive attitude" - as it's often put - to one's environment),
ii) then it may not matter if panpsychism is actually true.
What may matter to Rucker are the personal and even collective results of believing that panpsychism is true. So here's another conditional:
i) If the consequences of believing in panpsychism are deemed to be positive,
ii) then perhaps the truth of panpsychism doesn't matter.
After all, this ethical and epistemological stance has often been noted when philosophers (such as William James) have talked about the "efficacy of religion". (As Sam Harris now talks about the efficacy of spirituality.) This has also been seen to be the stance of the "late Wittgenstein"; at least on certain readings. (Yet the man himself hardly wrote a word on the issue.)
However, this fast and loose attitude to truth would surely create a philosophical, scientific and ethical free-for-all if everyone adopted it. (Who knows, perhaps there are – relativistic? - arguments which state that this would be a good thing.) After all, I could believe that Rudy Rucker is a rock in order to bring it about that no one will take his views seriously. I could also believe that the Welsh are lizards in order to bring forward all sorts of political policies against them.
So why give Rudy Rucker free rein and not other people with similar absurd views? Some people may do so simply because they like - or empathise with - Rucker's panpsychist philosophy. Is that a good enough reason? Some other people may also like my view that Rucker is a rock or other people's view that "the Illuminati rule the world".
Rudy Rucker's Nine-step Argument
1) Universal Automatism. Every physical entity is a computation.
2) Moreover, every physical entity is a gnarly computation.
3) Wolfram's Principle of Computational Equivalence. Every naturally occurring gnarly computation is a universal computation.
4) Consciousness = Universal Computation + Self-Reflection.
5) Any complex system can be regarded as having self-reflection.
6) Panpsychism. Therefore every physical entity is conscious.
7) Walker's Thesis. Life = Universal Computation + Memory.
8) Every physical entity has memory via its interactions with the universe.
9) Hylozoism. Therefore every physical object is alive.
Rudy Rucker offers us what he calls a "nine-step argument" (as stated in his 'A Formal Proof of Panpsychism and Hylozoism') not only for panpsychism, but also for what's called "hylozoism" – the idea that "everything is alive".
Like many bad arguments, Rucker's nine-step argument works at a prima facie level. But only at that level. It fails for the same reason that other similar arguments fail. It fails because the (technical) terms included in each step of the argument are either never defined; or, if they are, they're philosophically speculative or just absurd.
Thus if we accept the terms as they stand, then Rucker's argument has the appearance of being an argument; and even, to some extent, a convincing one. Yet it's philosophically and logically problematic from the start.
More specifically, if we take each premise as being true, then what follows may well follow. In addition, the whole nine-step argument appears to work at this superficial level too - and for the same reason.
Yet the problems start with premise 1), which is treated as an axiom. Namely,
1) Universal Automatism. Every physical entity is a computation.
Now if we accept 1), all sorts of things will indeed follow. And, as with mathematical or geometric systems which have non-proven/non-demonstrated or sometimes even arbitrary axioms (axioms, by definition, have this non-argued-for status), all sorts of things will "logically follow" from those axioms.
So let's take each premise at a time. Firstly 1) again:
1) Universal Automatism. Every physical entity is a computation.
Elsewhere Rudy Rucker says that entities "embody computations". Here he says that "every physical entity is a computation". That statement hardly makes sense. No physical entity can be a computation (though an abstract entity can). Although the word 'computation' is a noun; to compute is something that people, systems or things do. It isn't what they are.
2) Moreover, every physical entity is a gnarly computation.
The addition of the adjective "gnarly" doesn't solve our problems or even add anything to Rucker's argument. It may be an important factor in Rucker's philosophy of panpsychism; though in the argument it adds very little.
3) Every naturally occurring gnarly computation is a universal computation.
This simply begs many questions which are tackled elsewhere.
4) Consciousness = Universal Computation + Self-Reflection.
Consciousness needn't come along with "self-reflection" or even with a self. This acceptance of self-reflection is a very big addition. Yet within the nine-step argument itself it's taken as a given.
So what's behind this addition of self-reflection? Since Rudy Rucker has switched from talk of "minds" to talk of "consciousness", can we now say that if he believes that rocks, particles, scraps of paper, etc. have minds, then he must also believe that they also have consciousness and indeed indulge in self-reflection?
5) Any complex system can be regarded as having self-reflection.
Can it? Why? Rucker's argument only works on the massive assumption that this claim – among many others – is true.
6) Panpsychism. Therefore every physical entity is conscious.
The other thing about Rucker's nine-step argument (other than its lack of definitions and its philosophical absurdities) is that there are very weak logical links between each premise.
For example, Rucker claims that
6) Every physical entity is conscious.
follows from
5) Any complex system can be regarded as having self-reflection.
The above is a conditional embedded within Rucker's overall nine-step argument. It works like this:
i) If every complex physical system can be regarded as having self-reflection,
ii) then every complex physical system must also be conscious. (Elsewhere Rucker also includes "nonsimple systems".)
Put is this bare form, this seems to work. That is, self-reflection seems to imply (or even entail) consciousness. That is, surely you can't have self-reflection without consciousness.
7) Life = Universal Computation + Memory.
Here we have another addition: memory. As I said about self-reflection, memory needn't come along with consciousness; though perhaps it must come along with mind. Actually, self-reflection usually comes along with human or animal minds. Thus, as ever, Rucker is applying things which should only be applied to human minds (or human consciousness) to all entities or "systems".
Indeed that's Rucker's whole point.
Not only is Rucker attempting to show that all things have minds (or consciousness), he's also attempting to show us that all things have human-like minds (or human-like consciousness). Or, at the least, he's attempting to show us that the minds of rocks, particles, scraps of paper, etc. have self-reflection, memory, inner experiences and sensations - just like us! Thus he's going way beyond more subtle and more modest forms of panpsychism here. He's essentially heading towards pantheism or even animism.
Thus it's not a surprise that Rucker ends with this:
9) Therefore every physical object is alive.
Here again there's a certain kind of logicality of consistency. Again, if entities have minds or consciousness, then they must also be alive; just as most human minds also have self-reflection and memory.
8) Every physical entity has memory via its interactions with the universe.
Again, if all the premises were true (as well as if we don't question the concepts and words contained in the premises), then 8) seems to follow from the proceeding premises. But that's no better than saying that the conclusion "Mountains can fly" is true and logically legitimate simply because we've constructed a set of bogus premises which artificially lead up to that conclusion. That is, if we take such premises as true, then "Mountains can fly" would indeed follow.
9) Therefore every physical object is alive.


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Thursday, November 18, 2010
Is it Hot In Here?
I'm not entirely certain I have the answer. Of course, when you toss in stuff that clearly hits the "erotic" button like BDSM, menage (or more!), etc., that's pretty easy, but when does a story with vanilla sex cross the line from hot to erotic?
Or maybe it's not the type of sex that decides it, but the frequency or how soon it happens? Obviously in an erotic romance, there must be consummation and it should occur pretty early in the story.
I recently read a short story of about 50 pages that promised me a hot menage. Cool! I love a good menage. I started reading... and twenty-two pages in there still hadn't been ANY sex. Not really even foreplay. I think there may have been one kiss. I was completely bored (partly because the story consisted of the hero trying to convince the heroine that it was okay if she wanted a menage, that he was all for it).
So ... it is how early the sex happens?
Maybe it's the words the author uses to describe various body parts? No purple prose allowed in erotic romance... you call a spade a spade, and sometimes the cruder the word the better. Heroes don't have swords they sheath, women don't have rosebuds at the tips of their breasts.
Is that what makes a story cross the line from "hot" mainstream romance to erotic?
I'm still not entirely certain and would sure love your input!
2 comments:
Having only just started down the path of this genre of romance, I'd have to say that early definitely makes it erotica. I just read a Lauren Dane novel wherein the two leads were getting down to it with the first chapter! And for sure, the language makes the difference. For my taste, I like something between regular old romance language and something I myself may never say. But to each his own.
- November 18, 2010 at 10:57 AM
- Mysti Holiday said...
allstarme -- I think we think much alike. I can absolutely get turned off by some of the really crude language and tend to lean toward really HAWT sex. I love a steamy menage, too.
Still, I've read some mainstream romance lately that has sex early, often and graphic, but it's very much considered mainstream.
:::scratches head:::
It's a conundrum. Thanks for your comment!
- November 18, 2010 at 2:13 PM

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How to Move a Hyper-V Virtual Machine into Microsoft Azure Using System Center
At IT solutions provider, SWC, we often get asked if it is possible to move a virtual machine from an existing on-premise Hyper-V environment into Microsoft Azure. The answer is yes! It's actually an easy process using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager and System Center App Controller. Read my blog to learn more and see how this can be done.
Instructions for how to move Hyper-V Virtual Machine into Microsoft Azure using System Center:
Before you start, make sure that Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manger has been connected to your Hyper-V environment and that App Controller is linked to both your VMM server and Microsoft Azure. It is also recommended that you pre-create any Azure networks, cloud services and storage groups that you might need. If you need assistance with the setup of either the System Center application or
Once everything has been configured, follow these steps to migrate a virtual machine:
- Login to App Controller and find the virtual machine that you would like to migrate.
- Once the correct virtual machine is highlighted, click Store at the top of the page. When you store the virtual machine it will shut it down, so please make sure that you have scheduled downtime before starting this procedure.
- Once the virtual machine has been stored, a new menu will appear and you can choose Copy to start the Azure transfer wizard.
- The Azure deployment wizard will usually include a warning. This is not actually a problem, instead it is the wizard helping you decide what VM size to use in Azure. App Controller will look at the specifications of the existing virtual machine and recommend the minimum size to get the same or better performance in Azure. SWC always recommends reviewing the warning and ensuring that the recommended virtual machine size is met or exceeded to have a good experience in Azure.
- To start the wizard, first click on Configure and select the Azure cloud subscription you would like to use.
- Next pick your existing cloud service or create a new one. The cloud service is basically a container that will hold the virtual machine.
- Next select the proper networking. As we mentioned earlier it is recommended that you configure this ahead of time using the Azure portal to make sure everything is ready for the migration.
- Finally, configure the virtual machine properties. You will need to do all of the following:
- Name the virtual machine
- Select a size for the virtual machine (again consider the size recommendation from the wizard's warning)
- Select your storage space for the virtual disk files
- Configure any networking and firewall rules you would like. If the server is a web server or FTP server, for example – this section would be the place to add remote access for those services.
- Once you have confirmed everything is ready to upload, click the Deploy button and then let it run.
Depending on the size of the virtual machine and the available bandwidth this can take anywhere from 15 minutes to several hours to copy the virtual machine into Azure. Once the process completes the VM will be automatically started and will be available on the Internet and you can use App Controller or the Azure portal to further manage its settings.
Our goal at SWC is to be a trusted partner, helping you find the right cloud solution that matches your business needs and can help your organization grow. We work with a number of cloud vendors including Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services to ensure we find the right fit. SWC has an extensive technical background and cloud consulting experience, we know what requirements to consider when moving applications and systems to the cloud, including when moving to the cloud is not recommended. We can apply that expertise to your environment.
Would you like more information on Microsoft Azure, or want to see a demonstration of this process? Visit one of our upcoming Cloud or System Center Chicagoland luncheons to learn more.
Related Microsoft Azure Blog Posts
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Khader Lab Research
Tuberculosis (TB) kills more than 2 million people worldwide every year. The widely used TB vaccine, Bacille Calmette Guerin (BCG) has variable efficacy and has prompted the search for more effective vaccines. Although significant progress has been made in identifying protective Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) antigen candidates, our poor understanding of how immune responses mediate protection in the lung remains a major hurdle to successful vaccine design.
The major goal of my lab is to define the basic requirements for induction of protective immunity in the lung against pulmonary pathogens such as Mtb. Our past work has described a novel role for the cytokine Interleukin-17 (IL-17) in vaccine-induced immunity against tuberculosis. More recent work from my lab has utilized this information to target and boost lung Th17 responses to improve vaccine-induced immunity against tuberculosis. We have identified that mucosal immunization with Mtb antigen induces a population of lung-resident Th17 cells. IL-17 made by Th17 cells mediate protection in the host by inducing formation of lymphoid follicles in the lung to initiate T cell localization near infected macrophage for Mtb control. In contrast, IL-17 is a potent proinflammatory cytokine and expression of this cytokine during TB is associated with induction of neutrophil accumulation and associated lung pathology. Thus, current approaches in the Khader lab are focused on improving lung Th17 responses to improve vaccine strategies for TB, without inducing the pathological effects of IL-17 mediated lung inflammation. These approaches revolve around use of alternative routes of immunization, use of novel Th17 adjuvants, and altering the location of Th17 cells in the lung as new ways to boost vaccine-induced immunity against TB.


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(Note: you can still vote for last week's best save here.)
While no goal of the week winner can be called bland by any means, there are some weeks in which the choices are slim or the top tally doesn't stand out as something truly special.
The first full week of January produced some great moments, though. Even the nominees who didn't earn many votes were brought something to the table. The Russian junior team's five goal outburst in the gold medal game against Team Canada was outstanding on its own, but throwing in their ridiculous celebration really makes that clip worth watching.
Yet the top two stood out the most. The second-ranked clip featured Alex Ovechkin, who normally steals the show with his impressive goals. This time around, he scored a falling goal against the Florida Panthers.
Normally that might win it, but Jamie Benn's amazing deke around Cam Barker earned the most votes. Check out the poll results.
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Cabinet nod for extension of Delhi Metro corridor from Noida City Centre to Sector 62, Noida
New Delhi, May 16, 2018
The Union Cabinet today approved the extension of the Delhi Metro corridor from Noida City Centre to Sector 62, Noida, covering a length of 6.675 km at a total completion cost of Rs. 1,1967 crore.
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The Government of India's liability would be Rs. 340.60 crore on account of Grant and Subordinate Debt, it said.
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"The extension of Delhi Metro corridor from Noida City Centre to Noida Sector 62 is the extension to Dwarka-Noida City Centre line of Delhi Metro system which will result into people being assured about their mobility and thus more people will like to move to this satellite town of Delhi, thus decongesting Delhi. As a result, more residential and commercial complexes will develop in this region. With metro rail in place, there will be less vehicular traffic on roads leading to less congestion, less time and cost of journey, less consumption of fossil fuel and less environmental pollution.
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The Paramount Building was built in 1936 to1938 by the builders John Laing & Son Ltd and designed by Culpin & Son for the manufacturing and warehousing of shoes by podiatrist William Matthias Scholl. It was converted in the late 1990s by Warner Lofts for residential use. The building was upgraded in white painted render with glass balconies.
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Its position on St John Street is unrivalled being moments from Waitrose and equidistant from Smithfield Market, Upper Street and all of Clerkenwell's amenities. Farringdon station is a short walk away offering extensive mainline rail services to London's airports as well as servicing underground links including Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City lines.
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PaxLair One Year Anniversary (established)
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/zone Winfield -- come visit PaxLair in Valemark one year when it first came here in Release 5. We will go on a nostalgic tour and talk about how things changed over 12 months and who was all involved. We will walk around Valemark and hang out at the Church of the Dark Star, Sunset Rock and other notable places.
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Missed to the end of the world party/salutes.... just got back...
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I updated the Original Post on this thread here with the latest template map and layouts. I also included the images from the Weekly Update #122.
We will be rotating our other maps 90 degrees soon so North will be at the top. The Scene entrance is to the Northwest.
The above image is looking to the Southwest.
We made it through the first week of PaxLair PoT being online in R17. Whew! Thanks everyone!
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BUGS: Since this thread is about the Design and Test itself, there is not too much to report. Report your bugs into the R17 Bug forums please so they can be tracked.
CONTINUED COMMUNITY ROLL-OUT: For continuation of the PaxLair Roll-out in R17 (housing, deco, neighborhoods, publicity, events, etc.) see the Roll Out thread:
MORE TIME IN PAXLAIR: We have PaxLair Working Hours on Saturday starting at 1400 GMT (9 AM CDT). I will be able to dedicate several hours working in PaxLair again finally (has been a busy work-week). We want to start building our in-PaxLair community neighborhoods and working together. This can help test what existing features work to have and hold a community and what features we may like in the medium and long term to run our towns.
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"Will you tell me what your parents are or do I have to send you to the principal?"
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All the children turned around to look at a little girl whose parents had not come from the old country. And when Teacher said, "Brooklyn? Hm. I guess that makes you American, all right," Francie was proud and happy. How wonderful was Brooklyn, she thought, when just being born there automatically made you an American!
On the form, I listed my race as simply "American". I asked D if I should do the same for him, and he said hell yes.


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Cancer Genetics, Inc. Announces Pricing of $3.5 Million Public Offering of Common Stock
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RUTHERFORD, N.J., Jan. 28, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cancer Genetics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CGIX), a leader in enabling precision medicine for immuno-oncology and genomic medicine through molecular markers and diagnostics, today announced the pricing of a public offering of 15,217,392 shares of its common stock, offered at a price to the public of $0.23 per share, for gross proceeds of approximately $3.5 million, before deducting placement agent fees and other offering expenses payable by Cancer Genetics. The offering is expected to close on or about January 31, 2019, subject to customary closing conditions.
H.C. Wainwright & Co. is acting as the exclusive placement agent for the offering. The offering is being conducted as a "best efforts" offering and the placement agent is not obligated to purchase any securities.
Cancer Genetics intends to use the net proceeds from this offering to pay any amounts required by its lenders, and if any proceeds remain available, to pay certain costs previously incurred in connection with its strategic initiatives and to fund working capital and other general corporate purposes.
A shelf registration statement on Form S-3 relating to the public offering of the shares of common stock described above was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and was declared effective on June 5, 2017. A preliminary prospectus supplement describing the terms of the offering has been filed with the SEC. The final terms of the offering will be disclosed in a final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus to be filed with the SEC. Copies of the final prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained, when available, from H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC, 430 Park Avenue 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10022, or by calling (646) 975-6996 or by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com or at the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov.
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Cancer Genetics, Inc. is a leader in enabling precision medicine in oncology from bench to bedside through the use of oncology biomarkers and molecular testing. CGI is developing a global footprint with locations in the US, Australia and China. We have established strong clinical research collaborations with major cancer centers such as Memorial Sloan Kettering, The Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, Keck School of Medicine at USC and the National Cancer Institute.
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You mentioned that when people come to Angelstone, they're in awe.
Most people have never really been around agriculture. They can't believe the scope of it, that it's happening in their backyard. It's the atmosphere. It's a beautiful, peaceful property with horses everywhere.
We have a tent, a bar and seating areas, events going every day all day, background music — it's exciting. We are all about vibe and feeling in our showgrounds. You see things you just don't get to see. A world class facility.
And it's busy…
We've had 700 or so horses go through the property in a week. From Wednesday morning until Sunday night, there's four rings going. Our main event is the Grand Prix, it includes top riders from around the world. There's also three year old kids competing, there's Ian Millar showing in the top level. There's events at all levels.
And it's… free?
Yes, parking and admission are free. You can buy a couch or a table or a box, but you're also welcome to sit on the grass, bring a lawn chair. On a nice summer night we'll have over a thousand people.
I need to know about the Date Night Sofa.
That's a really cool date. You get a bottle of champagne, have a great dinner, front row seating at a great horse show jumping event.
And from what I can tell, you're pretty up close everywhere.
No matter where you are. If you want to pet a horse, all you have to do is ask — they're walking all around you.
On a Saturday night we bring in the island, where we have seating arrangements right in the middle in the ring — so the horses are jumping right around you.
Okay, that's not real.
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Lykke Li "Little Bit"
Published Jan 06, 2009From now until January 13, I'll be featuring my favourite tracks of 2008, some of which have already appeared in Click Hear throughout the year, some of which haven't.
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Her real name is Lykke Zahrisson and she has an impressive list of friends: Shout Out Louds, who she sang back-up on Our Ill Wills; Peter Bjorn & John, who she played some gigs with filling in the girl vocals for "Young Folks," and whose Bjorn Yttling acted as producer on her full-length, Youth Novels; and in the video for "I'm Good, I'm Gone," there's an all-Swede orgy featuring Robyn (!), Adam and Bebban from Shout Out Louds and Daniel from the Concretes, among others.
It's good to have friends in high places but Lykke Li can certainly hold her own. She's been tapped to be the next Annie, Robyn, Taken By Trees, Sally Shapiro and Stina Nordenstam, though if you give this more than just a superficial once over, you'll find that besides the fact she's Scandinavian and a lady, Lykke has sculpted her own style. Sure, she shares some similarities with each of those artists - like the ability to sound vulnerable, assured and celestial - but her arrangements are much more complex (read: the instrumentation is all over the place) and less rooted in pop conventions (read: words like "electro," "disco," "bubblegum" or "indie pop" are not welcome here), despite the fact that she has a voice fit for commercial consumption.
Single "Little Bit" is a good start, with the dramatic lean in its melody, a brilliant rhythm and use of percussion, and a chorus that demonstrates her very Swedish hesitancy with the line "I'm a little bit in love with you" - consider it an attempt at R&B by the Swedes. Definitely a single of the year candidate.


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ICC Champions Trophy Schedule 2017
ICC Champions Trophy schedule 2017 has been announced.ICC Champions Pakistan and India are included in the same group which has declared 2017 as scheduled.
icc champions trophy 2017 host:
ICC event, according to the schedule of the upcoming Champions Trophy will be played from June 18 to June UK.Eight best teams ODI rankings which were divided into 2 separate groups.
champions trophy 2017 groups:
Group A consists of England, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan and Bangladesh while the India, South Africa and Sri Lanka B.
Teams selected for champions trophy 2017:
The first match will host the Champions Trophy will be played between England and Bangladesh, Pakistan will play its first match against India on June 4, 2017. The team will next face to face with South Africa on June 7 when he tried to arm the national Shaheen Sri Lanka June 12. Two best teams from each group will qualify for the semi-final and the final event will be played on June 1017. icc champion trophy schedule in pic.
The first match of the Champions Trophy in England and hosts Bangladesh.London Captain Ann Morgan be playing the match at The Oval won the toss invited Bangladesh to bat first.
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Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Deliver Us
"Exorcism is still a fact of contemporary life. Every year, more and more people claim that their illnesses are caused by demonic possession.
Father Cataldo is a veteran, one of the most sought-after exorcists in Sicily. Every Tuesday, many believers follow his mass of liberation, searching for a cure for some adversity for which there does not seem to be a label or a remedy."
This was a fascinating documentary. It fits into the horror camp - I mean...exorcism. Hello. :) The thing that really got me was the fact that people are so into it. Like, all in. I'm not a religious person, but I loved seeing people who are religious jumping in with both feet as Father Cataldo worked his magic. The faith they have in what they believe in was somewhat inspiring. I couldn't think of anything that I had that kind of faith in other than immediate Family, honestly. These folks travel from far and wide to be seen by him and helped.
Seeing people who believed themselves caught in the heat of a possession was wild. It's one thing to see our horror movies do it with actors and actresses bouncing around and screaming lines of written dialogue, but it's way different when "real people" are doing it feeling like they are possessed by evil.
The flip side was also very interesting - the fact that some of the people were just being talked about as having medical disorders, not a possession, and how they distinguish between the two. A very tricky line.
It's also interesting to think that a ways back in the 1500's, many of these people might be "dealt with" in various, sordid ways - being possessed and full of evils.
A fantastic and well produced piece. Well worth a viddy for those so inclined. It was very interesting.
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Should be a really close and good game between these two. They are pretty even in head to heads, with both sides liking similar maps in the past, with virtually every one of their games going close in rounds. SS have the edge slightly when it comes to past results, but they have not played for a long time actually and both sides have seen changes since. We all know how inconsistent the Polish boys can be, and when they are on their game, they can beat anyone, and when they are off, they are really poor. I can see both sides going at it this game with it ending up a 1-1 result, with both sides taking a map. I will go LOW on SS for their map, and LOW on Kinguin for theirs, but if you can bet on 1-1, it is a good bet.
My odds for this match: Space Soldiers 43:66 Kinguin
Close matchup between two great tier 2 teams, right off the bat I think it's safe to say that Space Soldiers did not look good lately, they were on a big losing streak and performed pretty bad in the recent months. Kinguin is the opposite of Space Soldiers, they were doing well lately, managed to take down teams like FlipSid3, LDLC, Rogue, PENTA and many more, lost against Rogue on ESEA Global Challenge, but they looked great nonetheless.
So, the thing is that both teams have very similar map pools and definitely know each other very well, Kinguin have been doing well against Space Soldiers as they won 4 out of the last 6 maps against them, however the scary part is that Space Soldiers have XANTARES and this guy can single handedly carry them here. So it's definitely close but Kinguin looked better as a team in my opinion and I feel like they will do well here, either 1-1 or 2-0 for Kinguin, I don't think they would lose both maps here.
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Please note the attached information regarding UNISON National Policy on the Gender Recognition Act reform and other useful Trans Ally information.
UNISON have lots of resources to help you understand and negotiate around gender and identity. Many are downloadable for free at www.unison.org.uk/out. They include A factsheet on transgender workers' rights, Gender identity: an introductory guide for trade union reps supporting trans members, Talking about gender – a jargon buster, a model trans equality policy, a model motion for UNISON branches.
For further information please request contact details for the branch Equality Officer Natalie Forbes-Smalley and LGBT officer Helen O'Sullivan who will be able to provide more information on this subject.
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CHART: Australia Has Hit Peak Working Population Growth
CHART: Australia Has Hit Peak Working Population Growth
Growth in Australia's working age population has passed its peak with baby boomers starting to retire.
"The country has experienced high rates of working age population growth over the past few decades," says Paul Bloxham, Chief Economist of HSBC, in his regular newsletter, Downunder Digest.
"However, with the baby boomer generation beginning to retire, the pace of growth in the working age population is likely to slow."
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) projects that population growth will average +1.2% a year in the 2010s and +0.9% in the 2020s, down from +1.6% in the 2000s.
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The ABS also presents a low and high scenario, with the variation between the outlooks largely explained by differing assumptions about migration.
"This is expected to act as a drag on Australia's potential growth rate, adding to the problem of Australia's recent weak productivity performance," says Paul Bloxham.
An ageing population is an issue faced by most developed nations around the world.
The post-war baby boom and subsequent declining birth rate is one part of the story.
Rising incomes and advances in medical technology also mean greater life expectancy, further skewing the average age to the upside.
In the US, estimates from the United Nations suggest that 20% of the population will be above 65 by 2030, up from 14% currently.
Australia's population is expected to age in a similar way, with over 65s projected to account for 19% of the population by 2030, from 14% currently.
As in this chart prepared by HSBC:
For government budgets, the ageing will mean greater spending on healthcare and less revenue from the income tax system.
Paul Bloxham says options available to the government in Canberra include cuts to government-funded healthcare and a shift in the tax base to consumption or wealth-oriented taxes rather than income taxes.
He says stronger migration would also help.
"Migrants are typically younger than the extant population," he says.
"They also bring with them much needed skills and have strong ties to their former home countries, which can strengthen financial and trade ties. Australia's already has a targeted immigration scheme, which allows the government to control the types of skills of individual migrants.
"Strong migration flows, particularly from fast-growing Asian nations, could help Australia deal with its demographic challenges and also strengthen its links with the fastest growing economies."
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ST. PETE BEACH, Fla. (Feb. 13, 2019) – TradeWinds Island Resorts has announced a rebranding of their Guy Harvey Outpost property on St. Pete Beach, just down the street from their TradeWinds Island Grand flagship property. When the current five-year licensing agreement with Guy Harvey ends on March 13, the rebranded property will be known as RumFish Beach Resort by TradeWinds and will continue to be owned and managed by TradeWinds. The newly named RumFish Beach Resort will maintain its "Florida lifestyle" theme, with a focus on local marine artists such as Thomas Krause. All current and future reservations and rates at the hotel will be honored and remain unchanged.
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The crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd . . . Four rising star authors celebrate the love of the game with these sweet and seductive baseball romances.
Trade Off by Elley Arden: Traded and jaded, catcher Ben Border is considering stepping out from behind the plate. Then he runs into former flame Scarlett Dare. Turns out the sexy marketing executive still sends him into a fever pitch. But is she willing to trade Fortune 500 success for a happily ever after?
Slugger Gone South by Alicia Hunter Pace: When New York Yankee Marc MacNeal comes to Merritt, Alabama, for a charity golf tournament, he's shocked to be reunited with his ex-fiancee Bailey Watkins. It could be the perfect chance to get some long-awaited closure—or the start of a whole new ball game . . .
That Ol' Team Spirit by Bea Moon: Someone's haunting the Sharks' stadium and creating some major league mischief. So psychic Peg Noonan and her granddaughter Trish are determined to discover who's menacing their concessions stand. With the help of Trish's high school love, sportswriter Rob Hanks, they just might have a ghost of a (second) chance.
Safe at Home by Leslie P. Garcia: Amanda Warner hates baseball, but knows it'll take a swing for the fences to save her dad's hardware store. Hoping his star power will bring the crowds in, she sets her sights on Scorpions' All-Star Josh "Hotstuff" Arrevalos brings unexpected surprises. But is her heart ready to play ball again?
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