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Other items on the Plenary agenda included breaches of human rights, corporate tax, EU budget 2019, the situation in Syria, and OF COURSE! Brexit. The Parliament approved a resolution for future EU-UK relations post-Brexit saying any such framework must respect the integrity of the EU single market and the four freedom...
Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans was also in Strasbourg. Where he took a strong stand against those responsible for the poisoning in Salisbury in England of a former Russian spy and his daughter.
Theresa May’s response was to kick 23 Russian diplomats out of the UK on Wednesday.
The UK will expel 23 Russian diplomats from the country after concluding that the Russian state is responsible for the attempted murder of former Russian agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury on March 4th.
And you’ll never guess what happened next… Russia decided to kick out UK diplomats.
Is this another Cold War? Many people on Twitter certainly think so.
However, Russia sympathisers were quick to blame anyone but Russia for the attack, including MI6, the CIA, and even the EU.
Although news that British ministers and the Royal family will not attend World Cup in Russia this summer probably didn’t bother Putin.
Rory Byrne‏ suggested that sending all the boozed-up England football fans there might be an appropriate retaliation.
Allowing all boozed up #England football fans to travel to #Russia seems like a useful added response by May to the #Skripal incident.
Remember, this is the correct response if Putin offers you tea.
Finally, legendary physicist Stephen Hawking died on Wednesday.
Warren Leight pointed out that Hawking was born on the anniversary of Galileo’s death and died on Einstein’s birthday. Time is circular, he said.
Stephen Hawking was born January 8, 1942, on the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death. He died today, March 14th, on the anniversary of Einstein's birth. Time is circular – no beginning, no end.
Hawking also died on Pi Day, so he is now infinite, according to Shower Thoughts.
Stephen Hawking passed away on March 14th. 3.14. He is now infinite.
Here he is larking about with actor Jim Carey.
David Plotz remembered that in 2009 Hawking threw a party for time travelers and no one showed up.
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John Stojic, Philippe Naviaux and his father, Jacques Naviaux, pose with the finished winter village railroad display at Rady Children’s Hospital.
Philippe Naviaux of Boy Scout Troop 506 recently completed his Eagle Scout Project at Rady’s Children’s Hospital. Naviaux created an interactive display consisting of a Model Winter Village and a Model Railroad in the waiting room of the hospital’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). He said his hope was that the pro...
The idea originated with Edda O’Connor, whose late husband, Kevin O’Connor, enjoyed setting up a Dicken’s Winter Village during the holidays. O’Connor contacted Kathleen Stark of the Rady’s Children’s Hospital PICU, and Stark put in a request to the Scouting Council looking for someone who might be interested in creati...
Assistant Scoutmaster and train enthusiast, Wendell Callahan, helped Naviaux with the design and construction of the model railroad and donated a special 100th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America Lionel train set to the project. Naviaux and his volunteers spent more than 200 volunteer hours building the display.
Helping Doncaster to grow and be a better place in which to learn, work, live and care is the thinking behind a new approach to getting things done in the borough.
Doncaster Growing Together (DGT) has been developed by Team Doncaster – the partnership bringing together public and private sector organisations as well as the faith and voluntary sectors.
DGT is a set of concrete plans for now and big ideas for the future looking at four key themes as its cornerstone – learning, working, living and caring.
Each theme has aims and goals as well as progress underway and key highlights.
By harnessing the creativity, innovation, experience and skills of Team Doncaster partners and Doncaster’s communities and business sector, DGT sets out a road map to help the borough achieve and make the most of the work that has been taken to date and the opportunities that lie ahead.
Mayor Ros Jones, Chair of Team Doncaster and Mayor of Doncaster who outlined DGT at Council last night (Thurs), said Doncaster Growing Together is a blueprint that will guide the work of partners and, at its heart, is encouraging local communities to help in the borough’s future success.
“Doncaster is a great place and I am proud to call it my home. Doncaster has a determined spirit about it and now is the time to encourage all of us to have a stake in making our borough grow in all sorts of ways,” she said.
Using the hashtag #DoGreatThings and #DoncasterGrowingTogether DGT is encouraging local communities and individuals to get involved.
A prospectus outlining the themes and key information about DGT is also available to view online.
Tropical Depression 12 as of 5 p.m. Monday.
A tropical depression that could become a tropical storm by Tuesday morning has formed in the Atlantic, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
At 11 p.m. Monday, Tropical Depression 12 had maximum sustained winds of 35 mph as it moved west-northwest at 14 mph from a position about 460 miles southwest of the southernmost Cape Verde Islands.
The depression was expected to strengthen and gain forward speed during the next 48 hours, possibly becoming a tropical storm as early as Tuesday morning. It is also expected to turn toward the west-northwest in the next couple of days.
There were no coastal warnings or watches in effect early Monday.
"On Saturday we'll have a better idea if there is even a potential threat to the United States," said Robbie Berg, an NHC hurricane specialist. "It's way way too soon to tell.. It's one of those things where we get a better feel as we go along."
Getting in sync with your organization’s goals has never been more important, or more challenging. Here’s how to align IT and business strategy for digital success.
Many of those ignore-this-and-you-might-get-fired warnings have centered on IT-business alignment. IT leaders who focus too much on technology and not enough on their businesses’ specific needs risk making themselves irrelevant, experts cautioned. That’s still true.
But in today’s world of everything-as-a-service, with technology increasingly moving outside IT’s direct control and most organizations striving for digital transformation, aligning IT strategy with business strategy looks very different than it did a few years ago. And success in this essential area is governed by a w...
(Reuters Health) - When terminally ill Americans receive experimental medicines through so-called “compassionate use” programs, they typically only get these drugs after extensive tests for safety and effectiveness, a U.S. study suggests.
“This means that sufficient evidence of safety and effectiveness has been generated, ensuring that terminally ill patients are not being exposed to therapies that are unlikely to be beneficial or unsafe,” said senior study author Dr. Joseph Ross of Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.
“To me, this is reassuring, and suggests that companies and the FDA are providing expanded access to experimental therapies in a responsible way that protects patients and the public health, ensuring that as many patients as possible are enrolled in clinical trials before expanded access,” Ross said by email.
This system may change under The Right to Try Act of 2017, which would let companies decide whether to give patients experimental therapies without any input from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
It has passed the U.S. Senate and is under consideration in the House of Representatives, and versions of the law had been enacted in 38 states as of March, researchers note in JAMA Network Open.
President Donald J. Trump also endorsed the Right to Try Act in his State of the Union Address, arguing that it will give potentially life-saving treatments to patients who have exhausted all approved therapies and don’t qualify for clinical trials.
The current study doesn’t examine the impact of Right to Try laws already enacted, but it does offer fresh evidence of how well compassionate use programs are working for patients, researchers say.
Under current federal policy, when terminally ill patients want to use drugs and devices that are too early in their development to be approved by the FDA, their doctors typically ask for the manufacturer to grant expanded access to the experimental therapy under the compassionate use program.
If the company agrees, the FDA and a review board where the physician works would also vet the request. Among other things, reviewers might assess whether the patient has exhausted other options and understands the potential risks and benefits of therapies that haven’t yet been cleared for sale.
For the study, researchers examined two decades of data on compassionate use, or expanded access, programs for 92 experimental treatments ultimately approved by the FDA. Half of these programs gave patients access to the drugs within 10 months or less of FDA approval.
Half of the compassionate use programs were for drugs to treat cancer, the study found. Another 17 percent of the programs were for metabolic, endocrine or genetic diseases; infectious disease treatment accounted for another 15 percent of programs.
Two-thirds of the programs started allowing patients to get experimental drugs just before companies formally submitted new drug applications (NDAs) to the FDA for approval, the study also found.
At that point, there’s more data available from human trials showing about the safety and effectiveness of experimental therapies, said Patricia Zettler of the Georgia State University College of Law.
This highlights a potential flaw in proposed Right to Try legislation: mainly that it might let patients get medicines earlier in the development process when less is known about safety or effectiveness, Zettler, who wasn’t involved in the study, said by email.
“Getting access to an investigational drug, after all, is not the same as being helped by it,” Zettler said.
The chances of a drug not helping a patient or causing serious harm are higher when medicines are earlier in development, said Dr. Paul Beninger of Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. This is much more likely with Right to Try than with the current compassionate use system, he said.
“I could not in good conscience recommend Right to Try, nor can I identify a patient profile that would experience a differential benefit from Right to Try over the available expanded access mechanisms,” Beninger, who wasn’t involved in the study, said by email.
SOURCE: bit.ly/2tn73rs JAMA Network Open, online June 15, 2018.
While we all know Samsung for its supremacy in the smartphone market and as a leading maker of home theater systems, the fact that it produces a plethora of other electronic goods can sometimes be forgotten.
In an effort to ensure that everyone gets to hear about its range of home appliances as well, the Korean tech giant on Wednesday took the wraps off what it called a “global culinary initiative” involving Michelin star-rated chefs who’ll be collaborating with Samsung designers and engineers to create the company’s next ...
“These leaders in the international culinary community will serve as ambassadors and consultants for Samsung, providing input on product design and technological innovation, as well as inspiration for home cooks,” Samsung said in a statement.
To launch the “Club des Chefs” initiative, the company on Wednesday night introduced some of the chefs involved – including Michele Troigros (Maison Troisgros in Roanne, France), Eric Trochon (Semila in Paris), Chritopher Kostow (The Meadowood in Napa Valley), and Frank Castronovo and Frank Falcinelli (Frankies Sputino...
The gathering took place in Samsung House, a temporary space designed to show off the company’s current range of home-based products. The showroom, or as Samsung prefers to call it, “a custom-designed and beautifully appointed home environment location,” will be opening its doors to the public this weekend, should you ...
These include the new and rather cumbersomely named ‘Four Door Sparkling French Door Refrigerator’ which incorporates an automatic sparkling-water dispenser powered by SodaStream – an “industry first”, according to Samsung.
Samsung, today one of the biggest tech companies on the planet, is clearly intent on announcing itself in the home appliance sector as it seeks to replicate the success it currently enjoys in other markets.
The first Club des Chefs products are likely to hit stores in 2014, Samsung said.
Editor's Note: As George W. Bush repudiates his own slogan "stay the course" -- because it has become a drag on Republican candidates -- his administration is looking for some new way to keep the American electorate in line by raising some hope that victory in Iraq is just over the horizon. That worked in Election 2004...
In the run-up to the Nov. 7 elections, U.S. politicians from both parties are telling Iraqis that they are not doing enough to improve their own security.
Democrats are disparaging Iraqi security efforts and criticizing the Bush administration for not pressuring Iraqis to do more. In response, the Bush administration is said to be creating a specific timetable of milestones for the Iraqi government to disarm militias, reduce sectarian violence, and increase stability and...
Such rhetoric makes for good domestic politics, but it demonstrates the height of imperial arrogance. The U.S. invasion and occupation has ripped wide open the already fractious social fabric of Iraq, already torn by three previous wars—the Iran-Iraq War, the first Gulf War, and the combat over the no-fly zones imposed...
The unleashing of a sectarian civil war after the U.S. invasion was predictable and predicted, even by the U.S. intelligence community. In the wake of the incursion, the inept U.S. dissolution of the Iraqi army and the removal of Baathist party members from the Iraqi government severely weakened the prospect of any suc...
Criticizing the bravery and loyalty of new Iraqi security forces is a way to divert attention from the failures of the U.S. military strategy. The U.S. military, even after the debacle in Vietnam, disdained learning how to fight counterinsurgency warfare and continued to buy costly weapons for a war against a major con...
The U.S. military’s reflexive use of heavy firepower, especially air power, has caused excessive Iraqi casualties and turned the Iraqi people against the United States. Recently, increased violence in Baghdad in response to redoubled U.S. security operations shows that U.S. forces are part of the problem in Iraq, not t...
Until it was too late, the United States underemphasized winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people, the most crucial element of waging successful counterinsurgency warfare.
In short, U.S. politicians are essentially blaming Iraqis for not squelching the chaos and mayhem created by the United States. Yet, if the best military in world history cannot disarm militias and pacify Iraq, how does the U.S. government expect the inexperienced Iraqi security forces to do so?
The Iraqi central government’s authority is not extensive because Iraq is already effectively partitioned into decentralized fiefdoms policed by sectarian and ethnic militias. Furthermore, the shaky Iraqi government is dependent on the political support of the radical Shi’ite militias that it is supposed to be disarmin...
Even the U.S. military is afraid to make more enemies by disarming these militias, which aren’t yet launching widespread attacks against U.S. forces.
The United States is giving the Iraqi government a timetable of benchmarks to enhance security with the implicit threat that if they are not met, the United States will penalize the Iraqis or change its military strategy. Such threats will have little effect, because the Iraqi government is incapable of disarming the m...
So perhaps the Bush administration is setting up the Iraqis for failure so that an excuse can be found, after what looks to be an election debacle at home, to begin a slow withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq.
A slow withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, like “Vietnamization” during the later stages of the Vietnam War, will only delay the inevitable—policy failure—while getting many more U.S. service men and women killed in the meantime.
Instead, the U.S. should withdraw its forces rapidly to motivate the Shi’a and the Kurds running the government to share Iraqi’s oil wealth with the Sunnis, thus buying their agreement to peacefully accept the already partitioned Iraq.
Militias would not be disarmed by the central government, but would police their own designated areas. In fact, the central government would remain only as a confederate shell or be dissolved entirely. Although not perfect, this scenario is Iraq’s last hope to avoid an escalating civil war and give Iraqis the hope of s...
Basketball, baseball, football — all were popular activities in the 1940s. We dug into the archives to find Lincoln-area teams from that era.
The Lincoln High School basketball team at Whittier Junior High School, 2240 Vine Street, on Feb. 21, 1940. From left: Beechner (coach), Daniel, Jennings, King, James, R. Wilkinson, F. Wilkinson, Lauer, Hyland, Campbell, Vaughan, Blazek (manager).
Members of the Veter-Anns women’s basketball team in uniform, April 3, 1947.
The Roberts Dairy Group midget football team and coaches, Nov. 11, 1949.
Two boys touch gloves during a boxing tournament, Feb. 22, 1946.
Members of the West Point Cadets Marching High School Band perform during a parade on Sept. 6, 1954.
Members of the Lincoln Raiders basketball team after winning the championship in 1944. Frank K. Williams is holding the basketball.
The Hallam High School baseball team with coach, Oct. 20, 1947.
The Rokeby High School boys basketball team, April 19, 1946.
The Westminster Presbyterian Church basketball team, May 22, 1947.
The University of Nebraska’s freshman football team, September 20, 1941.
Congressional Democrats embarked Tuesday on a wide-ranging campaign to probe Facebook, Google and their peers in the tech industry, a new burst of oversight that could bring heightened attention to some of Silicon Valley’s controversial business practices.
At the first major tech policy hearing since Democrats took control of the House, party lawmakers charged that long-standing inaction on Capitol Hill had left consumers unprotected in the digital age. They pledged to grill tech companies, shine a harsher light on their missteps and write tough federal laws, including n...
The early calls for new federal online-privacy protections represent only one facet of Democratic lawmakers’ wide-ranging tech agenda. Democrats have also promised to initiate probes to study social media sites, their approach to abusive content online, and the ways these companies affect competition and consumers.
“This is a really important moment for Congress to assert itself,” he said.
The tough talk from Democrats on Capitol Hill reflects the tech industry’s souring political fortunes since the Obama administration, when Silicon Valley avoided tough federal regulation. It faced its biggest challenge in Washington in response to revelations that Russian agents had used social media to help elect Pres...

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