Seeing medicine through fluorescent eyes: Mitchell Fourman at TEDxSBU
Non-invasive diagnostics is the new holy grail of medicine. And it #39;s proper that it should be. We boast about the power of our mobile phones, of the resolution of mini-cameras, and yet all...
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Michael Jackson's doctor was quietly freed from jail on Monday, two years after he was convicted of killing the pop superstar with an overdose of a powerful anesthetic and he would like to practice medicine again.
Conrad Murray was released at 12:01 a.m. from a jail in downtown Los Angeles after serving about half of his maximum sentence for involuntary manslaughter. A change in California law allowed his incarceration time to be significantly reduced.
Murray was taken from the jail a back way, eluding a cluster of TV crews and a few Jackson fans. Sheriff's officials arranged the quiet exit and drove him away for safety reasons, spokesman Steve Whitmore said.
"He was elated to be out of there" and planned to spend time with his girlfriend and children, said Valerie Wass, Murray's attorney.
Murray's prospects are uncertain: At age 60 his license to practice medicine has been suspended or revoked in three states, and his face and name are well known due to his association with Jackson and his highly publicized trial.
Wass said Murray wants to be a doctor again.
"I believe that he will practice medicine again someday, somewhere," Wass said.
Brian Panish, an attorney for the Jackson family, said Murray should not have "a chance to hurt anyone else" by practicing medicine.
"He has shown no remorse and the consequences of his actions will last forever," the lawyer said.
The former cardiologist was convicted in 2011 of causing Jackson's death in June 2009 by providing him with the powerful anesthetic propofol as a sleep aid. Jackson was in the midst of preparations for a series of comeback concerts and Murray was serving as his physician.
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Mark Batterson - Liberty University Convocation
On October 23, 2013 at Convocation, North America #39;s largest weekly gathering of Christian students, Mark Batterson spoke to students and faculty from Acts chapter ten on the power of prayer....
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Liberty Global plans to sell nearly all of its Chellomedia international content division to AMC Networks in a deal worth about $1.04 billion.
The international cable TV and Internet provider said Monday it will include Chello Multicanal, Chello Central Europe, Chello Zone, Chello Latin America and Chello DMC in the deal as well as stakes in several joint ventures. Those include ventures involving CBS International, A+E Networks and Zon Optimus.
Douglas County-based Liberty Global plans to keep its Dutch premium channel business.
The assets to be sold generated about $451 million of revenue during the 12-month period that ended June 30.
Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries said in a statement that the deal helps his company simplify its business and focus on core markets and strategic programming.
AMC Networks Inc. said that the deal will give it an array of television channels that are distributed to more than 390 million households in 138 countries.
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With its charts, graphs, and vertiginous dives into the busts and booms of U.S. history, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspans latest book tries to assess how no one not even the Maestro himself could predict the Great Recession.
But The Map and the Territory offers everything dismal science fans could ask for. Except, maybe, an apology.
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Since his book was released earlier this month, Mr. Greenspan has also taken some criticism for not being aggressive enough in taking on the growing economic threat. But as he argues, that wobbly foundation underneath the housing bubble was laid before he took over chairmanship of the Federal Reserve in 1987.
Moreover, the Fed doesnt police miscreants of the financial sector.
If that sounds like a deflection, the 87-year-old Maestro of Libertarianism shows remarkable philosophical flexibility. Contrary to what he believed earlier, this Ayn Rand admirer isnt so sure that bankers can act in their own self-interest without doing harm to others.
Although he has great faith in self-regulation, he is calling for much higher capital requirements from banks.
A critic of John Maynard Keynes, Mr. Greenspan now believes that behavioural psychology should play a key role in predicting markets. And troubled by the growing obligations of entitlements, the prophet of Boom sounds a little more like the Oracle of Doom.
Mr. Greenspan spoke with The Globe and Mail on Monday about public opinion of him since the financial crisis of 2008.
You sound surprised that Americans are demanding contrition from you. If not you, where should they redirect their frustrations?
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Alan Greenspan: An interview with the Maestro of Libertarianism
Jeremy Walters says he's all twerked up. Hes a Fort Millcarpenter and chairman of the York County Libertarian Party. And hes twerked up because he feels like no one listened to him when he tried to get two Charleston candidates booted from the ballot before an election earlier this month. Hed filed a lawsuit in September, and now he hopes it can somehow overturn the election of Charleston Democratic Sen. Marlon Kimpson.
Walters accuses Kimpson, a Mt. Pleasant lawyer and now state senator, of putting the wrong year on an income disclosure form called a statement of economic interest (SEI) when he filed as a candidate. Kimpson, and his Republican opponent Billy Shuman, put the year 2013 on the form instead of 2012, Walters argued in a Sept. 26 lawsuit he filed without an attorney. The libertarian candidate in that race, Alex Thornton, filed the form correctly, Walters says. Those dates match with what the State Ethics Commission has on file for the three candidates.
Although Walters wants Kimpsons election thrown out, he admits it doesnt seem likely. But he says the lawsuit is the only way to bring attention to what the Libertarian sees as a larger problem of powerful elites bending the law to their favor.
What else am I supposed to do? says Walters. Theyre violating the law. No one will do anything about it because they police themselves. Theres nobody to watch over these people. So this is my whole point of filing the lawsuit ... to prove that these people can do whatever they want.
Whether anyone violated the law would likely be up to whoever hears Walters lawsuit if it doesnt get dismissed. Walters says so far no one has responded to the suit. They think its a joke, he says.
The crux of the matter is this: last year, scores of non-incumbent candidates were kicked off ballots in elections throughout the state after a lawsuit challenged whether one candidate, Katrina Shealy, who was running for Senate, had improperly filed her SEI by only filing electronically and not also in person as the law required. A court ruled Shealy hadnt filed properly, and the penalty was that her name be removed from the ballot. It had implications for hundreds of other candidates. Incumbents were immune from the filing rule. (Incidentally, Shealy ran as a petition candidate by gathering enough signatures to get on the ballot in the general election and won her election against Jake Knotts, who is largely believed to have been behind the original lawsuit.)
Lawmakers quickly fixed the technical glitch in the paperwork-filing law during the last legislative session so technicalities in the way SEI forms are handled in the future wont result in such drastic consequences. But Kimpsons election was the last in South Carolina to take place before the amended law went into effect, says Chris Whitmire, spokesman for the S.C. Elections Commission.
Cathy Hazelwood, the deputy director and attorney for the State Ethics Commission, says she frequently sees similar instances of candidates putting 2013 on the SEI form instead of 2012.
Theres a least one mistake on every single daily report, she says. For us, would it be a deal breaker? No. Hazelwood says she sends e-mails asking candidates to fix the dates so it doesnt become a problem in the future. Kimpsons filing still has the 2013 date. Hazelwood believes it should read 2012, but says many other senators are using a 2013 date rather than 2012 and Senate rules allow them to.
That bugs Walters who says lawmakers policing themselves makes them unaccountable to citizens like him. He feels a lawsuit is the only way to settle the dispute.
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It's probably safe to say that Libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis will not be Virginia's next governor - but if the third party candidate wins just one in 10 votes next Tuesday, he could have a huge impact on Virginia elections for years to come.
Many people still don't know much about Libertarian Robert Sarvis. He was not included in any of the three gubernatorial debates, and his fundraising totals less than half of a percent of each of the major party candidates.
But Sarvis could leave a big mark on Virginia.
"I think it will open up the process, it will make it easier for third party and independent candidates to get their message across," said James Lark, vice chair of the Libertarian Party of Virginia.
According to Virginia law, any party that can win 10 percent or more of the total votes cast in a statewide election will receive official recognition from the state. Right now, Sarvis is polling right at the 10 percent threshold.
"I am honestly very surprised, but I think it's a reflection of just how Virginians feel about the two major party candidates," said Geoff Skelley, political analyst at the UVA's Center for Politics.
If Sarvis manages to win one in 10 votes on November 5, the Libertarian Party would be vested with the same powers as the Republican and Democratic parties. It would also secure Libertarian candidates a spot on any state or local ballot in Virginia through 2021.
"Even those voters who don't necessarily agree with the Libertarians may want to have the Libertarians in the debate," said Lark.
But Sarvis faces clear challenges. Three out of four voters still know little about him, and no third candidate in modern Virginia political history has won more than three percent of the vote in a gubernatorial election - let alone 10.
But Sarvis has already defied expectations, and he might be able to do it again. In a poll last week, about a quarter of Sarvis supporters say there's a good chance they'll change their mind before next Tuesday.
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. Rand Paul spent Monday touting Ken Cuccinellis libertarian bona fides across Virginia.
The Republican candidate for governor brought in the Kentucky senator for three joint appearances aimed both at firing up the base and stopping the bleeding of support to a Libertarian Party candidate ahead of the Nov. 5 election.
Robert Sarvis, persistently pulling around 10 percent in polls, could be a spoiler.
Paul delivered the convocation at the Liberty University convocation Monday morning in Lynchburg, flew here to the coast for an afternoon rally at a Filipino Cultural Center and finished the tour with a get-out-the-vote event in the D.C. suburb of Fairfax.
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The likely 2016 presidential candidate avoided directly attacking Sarvis in his public speeches, instead praising Cuccinelli for opposing intrusive government surveillance programs and new forms of gun control.
He also highlighted the current Virginia attorney generals success at exonerating a wrongfully-convicted man and freeing him from jail.
Theres only one candidate that will defend the Fourth Amendment, that will defend the Sixth Amendment, and its Ken Cuccinelli, said Paul.
Asked after his speech why Cuccinelli is better than the third-party challenger, Paul said he has heard Sarvis wants to create forms of taxation which is not a very libertarian idea.
I dont know a lot about his platform, said Paul. I like a lot of the things Ken Cuccinelli stands for.
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BISMARCK, N.D. _ A Fargo businessman has announced his intention to run for North Dakotas at-large congressional seat on the Libertarian Party ticket.
Jack Seaman, who owns MinDak Gold Exchange in Fargo, announced his candidacy on Monday.
Seaman, on his campaign website, refers to himself as a reformed Republican whos fed up with partisan, career politicians in Washington, D.C.
Among his campaign issues is a call for the immediate repeal of the federal health care law. He also supports an audit and subsequent abolition of the Federal Reserve.
Seaman also lists as priorities the ending of military action overseas, bringing troops home, and ending the federal War on Drugs.
Seaman makes no reference to previous runs for office.
Seaman has lived in Fargo since 1985. Hes married and has two teenage children.
In 2012, the Libertarian Party had candidates on the general election ballot for Congress and the Public Service Commission.
The partys gubernatorial candidate was disqualified from the ballot due to improperly filed paperwork and later gained ballot access as an Independent.
The Libertarian Partys PSC candidate garnered 4.3 percent of the vote in 2012, the highest percentage of the vote for the partys slate of candidates.
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D# - Islands (The XX Cover)
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On Monday, China's coastguard sent four vessels into the waters around the islands, where they stayed for two hours, shadowed by their Japanese counterparts.
That came after three consecutive days in which Tokyo scrambled its jets to meet Chinese aircraft flying near to Japanese airspace as they traversed a strait that leads into the Pacific.
"They were two early-warning aircraft and two bombers," Onodera told reporters on Tuesday.
"It was unusual that so many aircraft flew between the Okinawan main island and Miyako island. We consider that it is also very unusual that it occurred for three days in a row.
"We understand that it is one of the trends showing that China is now vigorously expanding its areas of activities, including into the open ocean."
Last week it was reported that popular Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had given the green light to plans to fire on any unmanned aircraft that did not heed warnings to leave Japanese airspace.
That came after officials said an unidentified drone was logged on a trajectory towards southern Japan. Tracking stations noted that the craft appeared to have come from, and returned to, Chinese airspace.
Privately, policymakers said there was no doubt about its origins and pointed out that China is known to be developing its drone fleet.
China's defence ministry said on Saturday that Japan's firing on its aircraft "would constitute a serious provocation, an act of war of sorts".
"We would have to take firm countermeasures, and all consequences would be the responsibility of the side that caused the provocation," it said.
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Japan claim China's behaviour over disputed islands jeopardising 'peacetime'
29 October 2013 Last updated at 03:43 ET
Japan's defence minister says China's behaviour over disputed East China Sea islands is jeopardising peace.
Itsunori Onodera's comments came amid heightened tensions between the two countries over islands known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.
Rhetoric has risen in recent days, with Japan reporting increased activity from China in the area.
Last week, Japan scrambled fighter jets three times after Chinese military aircraft flew near Japanese airspace.
The two countries have argued for decades over the islands, which Japan controls. They are also claimed by Taiwan.
In 2012, the Japanese government bought three of the islands from their private Japanese owner, a move which sparked a new row and protests in Chinese cities.
Since then, Chinese ships have been sailing in and out of what Japan says are its territorial waters, prompting fears of a clash.
Mr Onodera told reporters in Tokyo he believed "the intrusions by China in the territorial waters around the Senkaku islands fall in the 'grey zone' [between] peacetime and an emergency situation".
On Monday four Chinese ships entered waters around the islands. The move came after Japan scrambled fighters three days in a row after Chinese aircraft flew over international waters near Japan's southern island of Okinawa.
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FOX 10 News: Baptist Health Care and the Mayo Clinic
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Stockman: Cruz Is #39;Brilliant #39;; No To Health Care Fixes
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/stockman-brilliant-ted-cruz-saved-gop Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) hails Ted Cruz, oppsoes healthcare fixes.
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Crash Can - Freedom in Flight
I am taking the lead in Crash Can now. Here #39;s my version of Spread your wings. A bunch of hell-0 from De Nachtmerrie Vereld.
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John McCain Accepts Freedom House #39;s Leadership Award
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[264] NSA Tapping the World, Unmasking #39;Anonymous #39; and the Culture of Online Freedom Fighting
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -
A new transportation option could soon be coming to Jacksonville.Its called The Connector, and its a service that will help people get from the beaches to downtown Jacksonville and back for a low price.
Grant Nielson and Trey Hebron want to make traveling across Jacksonville a no-brainer. For $5 one way and $8 round trip, Nielson and Hebrons buses would take people one-way from downtown Jacksonville to the beaches. All they need to get the idea going is the community to back them up.
With a new online campaign, The Connector is trying to turn transportation troubles into fun. The Connector would shuttle people from the beaches to downtown from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. and arrive every 30 minutes on Friday and Saturday nights.
Hebron, with 1904 Music Hall, is the brains behind the idea. Hebron told Channel 4 that he hears customers complain about the hassle getting to and from both sides of town.
It seemed like we had a lot of people from the beach who wanted to come but because they were so far away. Obviously people want to have a few beers when they come down here, it didnt seem like a feasible option, said Hebron.
Nielson manages downtown Jacksonvilles new nightlife district The Elbow, and he said The Connector is a service that is long overdue.
Downtown is growing like crazy right now, very rapidly," said Nielson. "The beach is already very well established and they tend to have their own insular demographic. Were trying to break down that wall a little bit and say, hey, theres great stuff on both sides of town.'
The crowd funding campaign for The Connector officially launches November 1. The group needs to drive in about $100,000 by November 30 to start the service.
Were looking forward to stopping DUIs and potentially saving lives, but even above that, its a very eco-friendly, green way of transporting people. Weve seen successes in other parts of the country using a similar model, so were optimistic its going to work out well here, said Nielson.
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Ideas at the House: Jason Silva - On artificial intelligence
Futurist Jason Silva discusses the future of artificial intelligence, why we shouldn #39;t be afraid, and why AI is an extension of us. This clip is pulled from ...
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You know those annoying, hard-to-read CAPTCHA text images that Web sites make you type to prove that you're not a machine? Vicarious, a California-based artificial intelligence startup, claims to have written software that can successfully interpret and reproduce the text inside the CAPTCHA image with 90% accuracy.
If it's true, that's better than what a lot of people can do with those skewed letters.
CAPTCHA--the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart--was designed to keep hackers from flooding Web sites with automated responses. By reading and then typing a distorted image of text designed to confuse OCR software, you prove that you're a real human being.
Vicarious claims a 95-percent success rate on reading and decoding individual letters in a CAPTCHA, and a 90-percent success rate on the full, two-word code.
The company is cracking CAPTCHA to show off its Recursive Cortical Network (RCN) technology, intended to mimic the human brain's neocortex (the part of the brain that manages language and complex thought).
According to a company announcement and Vicarious co-founder Dr. Dileep George, Vicarious is taking a whole new approach to artificial intelligence, with "a long term strategy for developing human level artificial intelligence" The process begins "with building a brain-like vision system."
Fortunately, Vicarious isn't planning to hack websites with their AI program. Potential commercial applications include medical analysis, image search, and robotics, but the company warns that any practical application is "still many years away."
So why the big announcement about CAPTCHA? According to George, "Modern CAPTCHAs provide a snapshot of the challenges of visual perception, and solving those in a general way required us to understand how the brain does it." Vicarious sees cracking CAPTCHA as a public demonstration of the software's capabilities. And a great opportunity to get some exposure.
But with this exciting (alleged) breakthrough comes some potentially serious risks. A reliable way to break CAPTCHAs could be devastating to Web security. In fact, Vicarious is so concerned about the negative potential in its technology that it's keeping its physical location a secret.
At some level, cracking CAPTCHA seems inevitable. In a world where ATMs can read the dollar amounts on hand-written checks, we're clearly heading towards a time where computers can read anything humans can.
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