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MY BLOOD WORK On Testosterone Replacement Therapy (Part 1 of 2) | feat. Dr. Erica Zelfand – Video

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MY BLOOD WORK On Testosterone Replacement Therapy (Part 1 of 2) | feat. Dr. Erica Zelfand
PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNnF5aelA3k Sorry for the wait fellas! My current dosage on Testosterone Replacement Therapy is 200mg of Test Cyp. split into 2 doses of 100mg #39;s each...

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Liberate RVA Couched X — Mandatory Voting, Sociopaths, & Transhumanism – Video

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Liberate RVA Couched X -- Mandatory Voting, Sociopaths, Transhumanism
Get to know your friendly neighborhood Richmond anarchists in this weekly roundtable show. On-the-fly topics and real-time discussions. 00:25 -- Mandatory Voting 16:05 -- Professional Sociopaths...

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Scientists Spot Gene Tied to Severe Autism in Girls

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By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter

WEDNESDAY, March 25, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers say they've discovered a new genetic cause of autism, singling out a rare gene mutation that appears to hamper normal brain development early on in powerful ways.

The gene, CTNND2, provides instructions for making a protein called delta-catenin, which plays crucial roles in the nervous system, said senior author Aravinda Chakravarti, a professor in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's Institute of Genetic Medicine.

His research team found that a group of girls with severe autism carried CTNND2 mutations that appeared to reduce the effectiveness of delta-catenin, potentially affecting their neurological development.

"There are many, many proteins that in fact 'moonlight,' doing many, many different things," Chakravarti said. "Maybe the severity of the effect of delta-catenin comes from the fact that when you lose function of this protein, you lose not just one function but many functions. Although that remains to be shown, it is strongly implicated by our study."

Autism spectrum disorder is a neurological and developmental disorder that begins early in life. The cause is not known, although scientists suspect genes play a role.

The researchers discovered the CTNND2 gene's link to autism using an approach that focuses on rare and extreme cases of autism, according to the study released online March 25 in the journal Nature.

By focusing on extreme cases, they believe they will discover genes that have a more powerful effect on brain development and help explain the root causes of autism.

"If we study rare and extreme forms, they are both genetic and they represent very early neurodevelopmental events," Chakravarti said.

The researchers chose to study girls with autism because they are far less likely to have autism than boys. When girls do develop the disorder, their symptoms tend to be severe.

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Mbe at the AMWC 2015 13 Aesthetic & Anti-Aging Medicine World Congress – Video

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Mbe at the AMWC 2015 13 Aesthetic Anti-Aging Medicine World Congress
Mbe Medical Division exhibiting at the 13 Aesthetic Anti-Aging Medicine World Congress. In this occasion Mbe Medical division will present new possible applications of Medical Oxygen...

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Someone hijacked the Google of China to attack anti-censorship tools

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An unknown party hijacked widely used tools developed byBaidu, the largest search engine in China, this week in an apparent attempt to target onlinesoftwareused to get around Chinese censorship.

The assailants injected malicious code into the tools Baidu uses to serve ads on a wide range of Chinese Web sites and to provide analytics for Web developers, according to researchers. The code instructed the browsers of visitors to those sites to rapidly connect to other sites, but in a way that the visitors couldn't detect. That sent a flood of traffic to twoanti-censorship tools offered by the groupGreatFire hosted on GitHub, apopular siteused by programmers to collaborate on software development. One of the tools targeted by the attackeffectively allows Chinese users to access a translated version of the New York Times.

At times the attack made GitHub, which is used by programmers around the world and the U.S. government itself, unavailable for some users.

GitHub was briefly blocked inside China in 2013, but reinstated after an outcry from programmers. Because GitHub uses encryption to hide specific parts of the site, the Chinese government cannotselectively block only some of GitHub'scontent. But blocking the site wholesale could be damaging to China's economy becauseit is so widely used by the tech industry.

GreatFire reported its own site was the subject of a similar traffic flooding attack earlier this month.

While determining the entities behind these types of attacks is difficult, the Chinese government would be an obvious culprit, said James A. Lewis, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies."The only people who would really benefit from it would be China," he said. Using such a bold tactic to attack content it dislikes seems to be either a way for the government to send a message or test out new capabilities, he said.

[Related: Is this North Korea? Chinese netizens squirm as party tightens grip on Internet.]

"The last couple months we've seen a real sea change in Chinese Internet policy, where they've become more assertive about blocking Western sites and pushing back on their citizen's ability to access information from outside of the country," Lewis said. Earlier this year, many virtual private network (VPN) services relied on by Chinese citizens to evade censorshipbecame inaccessiblewithin the country.

Baidu -- which is basically China's Google -- denied involvement in the incident. "After a thorough investigation, Baidu security engineers have ruled out either security issues with Baidu products or a hacking attack on Baidu as possibilities," the company told The Washington Post in a statement. "We have been in touch with other security organizations to apprise them of the situation, and we will work together on getting to the bottom of related issues."

GreatFire did not immediately respond to a Washington Post inquiry about the attacks. Nor did the Chinese government. GitHub acknowledged it was the victim of a "continuous" attack for more than 24 hours in a Tweet posted late Thursday night. The latest update on the GitHub's status pagesays the service is "intermittently unavailable for some users" due to the attack.

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Filing sealed by court is unlawful censorship, newspaper attorneys argue

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An appellate court order sealing a previously public court filing that disclosed parts of a report on an officer-involved shooting was an unconstitutional censorship of the press, attorneys for the Los AngelesTimes and other news organizations wrote in papers filed Thursday.

The 2nd District Court of Appeal on Wednesday ordered sealed a document filed nine days earlier by the Pasadena Police Officers Assn., which included about a dozen excerpts from an independent consultants report on the 2012 fatal shooting of an unarmed teenager by two Pasadena police officers.

An attorney for the union asked for the order, saying the union's filing had "inadvertently, and mistakenly, included verbatim excerpts" of the report it had previously argued was the officers confidential personnel information and should remain secret. The union was challenging a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge's ruling in October that portions of the report could be released.

In an opposition filed Thursday, attorneys for The Times argued that because the information had already been handed over to members of the public and the newspaper, sealing it after the fact would in effect be prior restraint, or censoring information before publication.

The result of the Courts Order has been the immediate and absolute chilling of the [newspapers] speech, attorneys wrote, calling the unions request for the order more than a week after its papers were madepublicly available an attempt to put the genie back in the bottle.

Noting that the U.S. Supreme Court has said only information such as the movement of troops at wartime or information that would set in motion a nuclear holocaust would justify prior restraint, the newspapers attorneys wrote that the unions situation does not come close to presenting such extraordinary circumstances.

Police union attorney Richard Shinee did not respond to a request for comment Thursday afternoon.

A coalition of several media and 1st Amendment organizations, including the Associated Press, the New York Times and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, separately asked to be heard in the case and urged the court to reverse its sealing order, calling it unconstitutional.

Permitting the March 25 order to stand would set a dangerous precedent of restricting publication of lawfully obtained information, attorneys for the press and free speech organizations wrote. The order removes information of public concern from the hands of the media, preventing the press everywhere from reporting on issues of intense public interest.

The case arose out of the death of Kendrec McDade, a 19-year-old who was shot and killed by Officers Matthew Griffin and Jeffrey Newlen as they responded to a report of armed robbery. The shooting was determined to be justified by the Los Angeles County district attorney'soffice and by the police departments internal review.

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