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Hope you and your family had a safe and peaceful Thanksgiving! I know, we all ate too much and are now forced to do exercise penance, but I'd do it all over again — and probably will next year! The holiday didn't keep me from collecting some great articles, however, and for your reading enjoyment this week Claude Werner talks about changing his mind; the SIG Academy has a different way to talk about the relationship of sight alignment and trigger control; Melody Lauer has some tips on flying with guns; Ian McCollum takes apart a Madsen machine gun; David Williams takes on 1911 dogma; a look at the M1 Carbine; defending yourself in high heels; and red dot sights for beginners.
What a list — the only thing missing is the cranberry sauce!
This is what integrity looks like.
Claude Werner, known to many as The Tactical Professor, is one of the true thinkers in the world of self defense. There are precious few of his kind in this business, even though there are many who believe they are. Claude wrote a piece last week titled Friday Fundamentals – Biases and Changes, and in it he answers two questions I posed some time ago: "what are your biases", and "what have you changed your mind about?" It's a superb article, but I'd like to call your attention to his second answer. Admitting that you've changed your mind about something, that your previous position or knowledge was deficient in some way, is the hardest thing for any teacher to do. I know many who will answer that question in a non-committal way, hoping to obfuscate enough that you won't notice that they really didn't give an actual answer, but not Claude; he dives right in and identifies exactly how and why he's changed his mind, and those "in the know" will recognize it as a huge change and an important new way of looking at what we teach. If you're an instructor and don't read Claude's article, you're wrong.
Moving Point Of Aim, revisited.
In several of my books I've talked about the concept of the "moving point of aim", a way to understand and practice the intersection of sight alignment and trigger control when making precision shots. Like the concept of the balance of speed and precision, moving point of aim is fundamental to shooting (at least, shooting when using the sights.) It's been dressed up in various guises over the years and I've heard it referred to by several names. The SIG Academy, however, has one I've not encountered and Kevin Michalowski explains it in his article titled Float the Dot, Shoot the Shot at the USCCA website. While obviously aimed at SIG pistols with their white-dot front sight blades, the concept is applicable to all firearms — including rifles. It's a good read and worth your attention no matter what your level of ability.
Flying with firearms isn't as hard as you might believe.
I've been known to take a firearm along when I fly, and it's not as hard as some make it out to be. Don't get me wrong — it's still a major hassle and issues do occasionally occur, but if you follow some simple guidelines you'll find that most of the potential problems are avoided. In this article, Melody Lauer talks about flying with guns and what she's learned to do and not to do. I don't know that I'd have been as bold as to call it The Definitive Guide like she did, but the information is pretty good and definitely worth reading.
Ian does it again, only in full auto.
By now you know about Ian McCollum and his Forgotten Weapons website, one of the true internet treasures in the gun world. This time he gets his hands on a particularly interesting, and surprisingly successful, Madsen light machine gun. The Madsen is notable for the short length of its action and very long service life, and getting to handle one — let alone take it apart and show people how it works — is a rare treat. If you're into interesting designs, machine guns, or just firearms history this is a video you won't want to miss.
It's time to make the 1911 people mad, but I'm letting someone else do it for a change. It's for a good cause.
David Williams is a new blogger, but don't let that fool you: he's a retired police officer who's been around the block a few times and has decided to share what he's learned with the rest of us. I met David a couple of years back and found him to be a pleasant gentleman who has some interesting viewpoints on the state of defensive shooting. In this first article on his blog, David talks about The Danger of the 1911 Dogma. It's not really so much about the 1911 specifically as it is about being willing to question what you're being told, and why. The 1911 incidents are just to illustrate the concept, because there's no dogma like 1911 dogma!
What's the big deal about the M1 Carbine?
Of all the rifles I've shot in my life, the one which consistently leaves me with a large grin and the desire to shoot more is the humble old M1 Carbine. It's short, light, has modest recoil, isn't ear-splitting loud, is decently accurate within its range, and is just a lot of fun to shoot. It's the perfect "step up" rifle from the .22LR and makes a surprisingly effective home defense tool when loaded with good expanding ammunition. This great article from Tom McHale, titled Storied Guns: The M1 Carbine, is a solid introduction to the rifle, its history, the .30 Carbine cartridge, and where you can buy a new one today. If you don't yet have a Carbine in your collection, let this article be the motivation you need to get one!
Stilettos for self defense? Don't laugh.
It had to happen: the combination of high fashion and feeling safe. An article titled Killer Heels: Women Are Now Using Pumps for Self-Defense covers a class given by a ballerina and "combat expert" on using high heels as a defensive tool. Don't get me wrong; I'm all for getting everyone, men and women, used to the idea of using what they have in their immediate environment to defend themselves. I'm also aware that many people dress not for safety, but for fashion. There's no value judgement in that statement, only the acknowledgement that people have differing priorities and varying expectations. I think teaching women how to move in heels is certainly a worthwhile endeavor, but where I take a bit of exception is when this type of improvised self defense is presented as desirable, preferable or equivalent to a prepared response and a dedicated tool. As long as it's being explained as the best utilization of a sub-optimal tool I'm fully supportive, but I suspect from the tone of the article that it's not. What do you think?
Is a red dot the perfect scope for a beginner?
When my wife first started shooting rifles, I gave her a pistol-caliber carbine topped with a red dot scope (a cheap Tasco Pro-Point, which has held up for about fifteen years now.) She liked the fact that she could keep her focus on the target and that the little red dot showed her where the bullet would go. Fast-forward a decade and a half, and my wife still likes the zero magnification red dot optic. They're very intuitive for a new rifle shooter, and in the article "Why a Red Dot is a Good First Optic" Keith Wood explores picking a red dot instead of a conventional scope for someone just starting in rifle shooting. It's a sponsored article, so he does a lot of shilling for Vista Outdoors products, but the information is still useful. And I shouldn't complain, because that Tasco scope I put on my wife's new gun all these years ago is one of their products!
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Korea University Since 1905
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As of the spring semester of the 2019 academic year
Korea University consists of the Seoul Campus (in Seoul, 882,370㎡), Sejong Campus (in Sejong Special Self-Governing City, 426,793㎡) and three auxiliary hospitals (Anam Hospital: Seongbuk-district in Seoul, 67,676㎡, Guro Hospital: Guro-district in Seoul, 40,208㎡, Ansan Hospital: Ansan-city in Gyeonggi Province, 47,846㎡).
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796726216651686005.post3017856048886859378..comments2020-07-24T11:11:40.336-04:00Comments on Tabletop Diversions: Solo Role-Playing Series Part 2: Some Misconceptions We Need to Clear UpJohn Yhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796726216651686005.post-25360963805300135512015-02-02T12:07:19.618-05:002015-02-02T12:07:19.618-05:00Manic Gnome, please allow me to enthusiastically e...Manic Gnome, please allow me to enthusiastically endorse your idea for adding that campaign journal to your site!John Yhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796726216651686005.post-91840681466326944812015-01-24T12:50:25.396-05:002015-01-24T12:50:25.396-05:00We're on precisely the same page... Love readi...We're on precisely the same page... Love reading your stuff!Rory Bracebucklehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796726216651686005.post-84097458665344990882015-01-24T12:17:31.696-05:002015-01-24T12:17:31.696-05:00Ah, yes. I see what you mean. One reason I play is...Ah, yes. I see what you mean. One reason I play is for the surprises. I don't care for railroading either (not in that sense anyway. lol) We do make decisions that guide things more or less, but like you said it's also good to be open to the unexpected.Fitz-Badgerhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796726216651686005.post-63507270455334679012015-01-24T05:35:33.541-05:002015-01-24T05:35:33.541-05:00Hmmm, that`s interesting. For me, I tend to combin...Hmmm, that`s interesting. For me, I tend to combine solo role playing (DM-ing and playing a party etc) with story telling. I write a lot of closely linked short stories, battle reports, and updates on characters and any DM changes I make as I go along... like a journal, come log book, come a series of atmospheric `living campaign` write ups. do this over a long period of time... sometimes over years; and the end result can be rather pleasing I find. I keep meaning to add (to my site) maybe one or two full campaign journals from one of my most successful (exciting and enjoyable) solo campaigns to my site some time.

It is really interesting to see other soloist`s take on all this :))
Hilshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796726216651686005.post-59394355156698820882015-01-24T01:01:35.353-05:002015-01-24T01:01:35.353-05:00Thanks Mantic Gnome! I very much enjoy the activit...Thanks Mantic Gnome! I very much enjoy the activity of trying to achieve the result, but those systems invariably are not as satisfying as allowing myself to GM and tempering that with game mechanics, randomizers and oracles.John Yhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796726216651686005.post-80612717468413325112015-01-24T01:00:16.112-05:002015-01-24T01:00:16.112-05:00Hi Fitz-Badger, I replied to Rory's comment ab...Hi Fitz-Badger, I replied to Rory's comment above - I agree with his point as well. I had something very specific in mind when I used the phrase "particular story" and did a poor job of conveying it. Hopefully my comment clears it up a bit. I think you hit on an interesting point with the idea that we might start as a sandbox but over time, plots arise from the exploration - this is how my social games go. When we are the solo GM, we'll very often have ideas as to how they might play out - but it's being open to something unexpected happening despite that, that i think separates game-playing from writing. It is also, quite possible for game playing and fiction writing to mix to varying degrees - what happens between the dungeon visits in the Ever Expanding Dungeon are often fiction without a single reliance on any game mechanism. Clearly, thoughtful or not, there is more thought to be done!
Thanks for your comment!John Yhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796726216651686005.post-61355800063889254162015-01-24T00:51:37.196-05:002015-01-24T00:51:37.196-05:00Hi Rory, Thank you for your comment. I wrestled wi...Hi Rory,
Thank you for your comment. I wrestled with that paragraph many times before I gave up and put it in as you see it above. I think you are quite right - because telling particular stories is very often part of solo gaming (even a premise that drips of sandbox play, such as "I want to play a star-faring sorcerer who travels to various worlds to collect alien species" is to wish to tell a story).

What I unsuccessfully was trying to communicate by the phrase "particular stories" was a story that the player already knows exactly how they want it to go as far as plot, setting, and characters. They have a beginning a middle and an end in mind, and that no matter what the randomizers or oracles suggest, they are going to force everything onto that path.

To do that in a social game is a railroad in the extreme - surprising twists are unwelcome and actively squashed. As a solitary pursuit, to slavishly stick to some preconceived notion of how things must go, fudging die rolls because they don't go their way, refusing to allow the unexpected result to alter their concept, in essence to railroad oneself, seems to imply to me that the player really should be writing, since they already have it all figured out. (My bias against railroading is quite obvious isn't it?)

A solo GMs decision making steers the story - even creating your own table of random encounters allows you as solo GM to influence the outcome - but it's one thing to do so while remaining open to the interesting interplay of the elements of the game, and quite another to plot everything out with no room for surprise or deviation from what was conceived before.

Is there a line between too particular and just right? I don't know. Maybe not a line, but a blurry brush stroke?

While I can point to the extreme example above and believe many would concede that someone so inclined would be better off writing than claiming to play a game (although they might certainly do so, I think it's debatable whether or not they are), there is a fuzziness as we move away from that and start giving up some level of control, and allowing for the unexpected. As we move farther from rigid adherence to a preconceived story (and here i mean plot, character, setting, dialog, the whole nine yards) , we start to broach the philosophical when we consider at what point something becomes a game vs fiction writing.

And just to throw this in, since it relates and just occurred to me: From the other side, starting with the idea that I am going to write a story and then using randomizers and oracles, at what point, if ever, am i playing a game? Consider that Mythic:GME is touted not just as a Game Master Emulator, but as a tool for writers. For decades, writers have made use of "inspiration decks." As activities, viewed from the outside, the use of those tools may seem game-like but the result might not be thought of as such. Does it matter if my intent is to write a story?

Thank you again for your comment. Did i understand your point clearly? It seems we're on the same page - and in an y case, I need to change the wording of that paragraph.

Thanks!
-johnJohn Yhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796726216651686005.post-56443178241205142822015-01-23T22:55:18.266-05:002015-01-23T22:55:18.266-05:00I agree substantially with what you wrote, but I a...I agree substantially with what you wrote, but I also agree with Rory's point. And I don't think they're mutually exclusive. When we solo game I think we often have some idea of the "story", at the very least, the setting, and probably some generalities, too. I guess I tend to think of things not as strict categories, but more as continua. So, maybe we have a sandbox type of game towards one end and a more structured game adventure towards the other end, but as solo gamers we usually do want some surprised along the way. What form those surprises take and how much they affect the overall plot (and whether the plot is preconceived or developed along the way) determines where on the continuum a particular game/adventure/session falls. My thinking at this point is to start out sandbox style to explore and discover things in my world, and then later on I expect there will be more sort of predefined plots that arise from that exploration.

Very thoughtful and thought-provoking post.Fitz-Badgerhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796726216651686005.post-81296533751563941122015-01-23T18:04:38.942-05:002015-01-23T18:04:38.942-05:00excellent stuff... I really liked the following bi...excellent stuff... I really liked the following bit:

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 "As a word of warning for those who are invariably going to try to develop a complex AI using dice or cards or something else to GM your tabletop experience: that way lies folly."

Yes, yes, YES. Exactly. Okay, this solo thread now has me hooked and wanting to read more :)))Hilshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796726216651686005.post-17088310640634242512015-01-23T17:42:19.845-05:002015-01-23T17:42:19.845-05:00Good stuff. A little something that I react to her...Good stuff. A little something that I react to here is the idea that telling particular stories is not what a solo rpg experience is about...and to take your point to a [doubtlessly unintended] extreme...that sandbox play is what one should emulate in solo rpg's. However, I *do* want to tell particular stories, and doing it as a solo exercise perhaps allows me to do that more than in a social situation because group consensus and compromise is a non-issue. I sure as hell don't want to actually write a short story or novel, because that's not a game at all, and I have complete providence over all aspects.

Even though my particular story may only be a setup, I can also have a sometimes extensive shopping list of things I want to check off, including particular baddies, interesting locations, compelling themes and issues. The extent to my demands on particular-ness is irrelevant. I play to see how these things may mix, which will still produce surprising twists along the way, causing the same astonishment and frustrations you mention.

Going back to your point that all solo rpg's must also include some level of GM decision making, how can it not steer the course of the story in terms of choosiness and a degree of control? Is there a line between too particular or just right to distinguish crafted fiction from a solo game?

Looking forward to more of these!Rory Bracebucklehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796726216651686005.post-51093020208279699482015-01-23T16:36:47.769-05:002015-01-23T16:36:47.769-05:00Okay, I'm still following you. . . . and I agr...Okay, I'm still following you. . . . and I agree that solo play, while it can certainly be interesting and entertaining can not have the same dynamic as social gaming.

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Utembo, officially known as the Kingdom of Utembo (Kitembo: Ufalme wa Utembo) is a nation located on the southern part of the continent of Dovani, bordering the State of Statrica to the North, the Republic of Talmoria to the North-West, the Grand Duchy of Talmorschland and the Hanzen Republic to the West, ant the State of Medina to the South. Utembo gained her independence in 3355, following the Southern Hemisphere War.
Pre-colonial (-2475) Edit
Little is known of Utembo's pre-modern history. It is known that the territory was inhabited by settled tribes along the coast, possibly related to the Asli of Talmoria. These tribes are known to have traded with the Asli Sultanate, with the Empire of Gao-Soto, and with the Beyis Republics in Indrala during the Middle Ages. With this trade came foreign influences, and the Zenshō variety of Daenism was introduced around the 12th century. Around 1436, the territory was, for the first time, unified under High King Ikembe, who officially adopted Zenshō as a religion for his kingdom, and became a tributary of the Empire of Gao-Soto. The Kingdom of Utembo lasted until 1995, when it collapsed due to civil warfare, and the loss of authority of the High King.
Lourennian colonialism (2475-2920) Edit
The numerous small kingdoms, principalities, and tribes of Utembo were forcefully brought under the control of Lourenne in September 2475, when President Stefan Tepeu deployed the Presidential Guard to the region. Lourenne had, initially, only a limited presence in the colony, which at the time was referred simply as the "West Coast". Various economic incentives were given for Lourennois citizens to settle in the West Coast, later renamed as Vasser. Although the neighboring Lourennois colony of Orléans was developing rapidly, especially owing to Deltarian settlers, Vasser remained less developed since the dense jungles and inhospitable mountains make farmwork and other industry difficult.
Zardic colonialism (2920-3346) Edit
In the year 2920 the former colonies of Lourenne were sold to the Federation of Zardugal in the Pact of Comity Between the Government of Lourenne and Zardic Federation. In the year 2968 the government of Lourenne attempted to re-assert their control over their former colonies by establishing a treaty which received no international recognition and at the time Zardic Troops were in the Federated State of Trosk holding defensive positions in an effort to ensure the war in Sekowo did not spill over into Zardic Federated States.
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Independance and URU (3355-3481) Edit
On the 21st of March 3355, the former colony of Vasser was declared independent and renamed as 'The United Republic of Utembo'
Utembi Crown Wars (3481-3493) Edit
The Danjuma dynasty won control off the country in 3493.
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Kingdom of Utembo (3821-) Edit
According to Kitembo law, the Throne (the monarch) holds supreme executive, legislative, and judiciary powers. the Throne is assisted by the Council of the Crown (advisory counsel only), to which the King can devolve certain executive powers. The judiciary power is partly assigned to The Throne and the Royal Court of Justice. The Royal Court acts as supreme court, but its decisions can be overruled by a mandate from the Throne.
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The Throne designs laws with advice from the Board of Ministers, which is made up by all cabinet ministers and any other people, to be determined by the Throne. Legislation can be passed by approval from the Throne.
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How old is he? 26
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We explore how disturbances in the immune defense and environmental factors such as bacterial toxins and metabolites drive chronic skin inflammation and cancer.
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Niels Ødum, Professor, MD, DMSci. Group leader
Anders Woetmann, PhD, Professor
Thomas Litman, PhD, Professor
Thorbjørn Krejsgaard, PhD, Associate professor
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8 graduate students
1 technician/lab manager
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Organizer and leader of an international collaboration on "Identification of novel therapeutic targets in T cell lymphoma" (DK, USA, Canada, Germany, Austria).
Organizer of an international study on "Bacterial toxins in inflammation and Cancer" (DK, UK, Italy, Sweden)
Author of > 270 papers in peer-reviewed journals and patents/patent applications within the fields of immunology, immune pathology, signal transduction and gene regulation.
Many publications in high (impact factor > 5) and very high (impact factor > 10) journals including Nat Immunol, Nat Commun, Blood, Genes Dev, Leukemia, and other Sum of the times cited: > 7500 H-index: 50.
Author of other publications, interviews, view-point ect. (not peer reviewed) in news papers and magazines, periodicals, and media like "Ingeniøren", "Ugeskrift for Læger", news and publications from "Kræftens Bekæmpelse", "Danmarks Radio", and other
Academic and Research Achievements
Made many scientific discoveries including identifying new HLA genes, their function and importance in transplantation and chronic inflammatory diseases, unraveled Interleukin-2 signal cascades and pathological signaling in T cell lymphoma and skin inflammation, discoveries of oncogenes and their targets and functions, diagnostic miRNA profiling of inflammatory skin disorders, identification of novel therapeutic targets, development of novel drug candidates, and other discoveries published in more than 270 international peer reviewed journals and patents (cf. above)
Initiator of the novel Master Education in Immunology & Inflammation
Instigator and inventor of a novel master education in Immunology and Inflammation at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. The education is unique as it involves a close collaboration between the academic environment at the University and the majority of Pharmaceutical companies in the Greater Copenhagen area. The education was launched in September 2016.
Industrial collaboration
Scientific collaboration with Mindera Corp, Micreos, H- Lundbeck, Bioneer, Exiqon, and Zealand Pharma. Participated in novel drug discovery and development with several pharmaceutical companies. Member of the Scientific Advisory Board at Mindera Corp, a Californian based company developing novel micro-needle devices to human subjects and subsequent analysis by qPCR and RNA-Seq from skin.
Science administration
Consultant for Human Frontier Science Program, Strasbourg CEDEX, France, Imperial Cancer Research Foundation UK, and the Broad Association (USA).
Reviewer for multiple international journals and organizer/co-organizer of several International conferences.
Key-note speaker and chairman of sessions on immune regulation/inflammation/lymphoma at international conferences.
Since 2007 Expert assessor and consultant for the Research Council of Norway and ad hoc consultant to the Swedish-, Baltic-, and Dutch- research councils and the Dutch Cancer Research Council.
Appointed member of the Danish Research Council – Forskningsrådet for Sundhed og Sygdom (FSS) for a 6 year period from 2013-2019.
Member of the FSS executive committee from 2017.
From 2018-2022 appointed member of the Scientific Advisory Board (KBVU) for the Danish Cancer Society (Kræftens Bekæmpelse) and other private foundations.
Anders Woetmann, Professor, PhD
Research interests
Biology of skin immunity, inflammatory skin disorders, immune regulation, signal transduction, drug development, tumor immunology & biology, microbiota-immune system interactions.
Publications and patents
Author of 91 papers in international peer-reviewed journals. Google Scholar: 3213 citations, H-index=31. Web of Science: 2305 citations, H-index=26.
Co-owner of patent number: WO2013011378-A1 and pending patent: P017300DK1.
Science administration
Editor for Nature Scientific Reports. Editor for APMIS.
Reviewer for Leukemia, J. Invest. Dermatol., British J. Cancer, and others.
Head of Master Education in Immunology & Inflammation
Head of the novel master education in Immunology and Inflammation at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
Short description of research
I have a strong immunologic background and is an acknowledged expert in cutaneous T cell lymphomas, skin inflammation and regulatory mechanisms controlling the immune system.
The main focus of my research for the last years has been:
- On understanding the molecular mechanisms driving disease development of both cutaneous T cells lymphoma and benign skin inflammatory diseases.
- On understanding the role of bacterial derived metabolites in regulation of the innate and adaptive immune system, and how these impact disease development
- Furthermore, as part of my research area I have also been involved in the development of new tools for improved diagnostic distinction between benign, and malignant skin diseases (miRNA profiling, patent: WO2013011378-A1), and in development of new drug for treatment of cutaneous T cell lymphoma (pending patent: P017300DK1).
Thomas Litman, Professor, PhD
Research interests
Medical bioinformatics, "-omics" including transcriptomics (microarray and NGS data), proteomics, genomics, metabolomics, microbiome analysis, integromics. translational research, molecular biomarkers, microRNA biology, multidrug resistance in cancer, ABC transporters, dermatology, including "skinomics" and inflammatory skin disorders (atopic dermatitis, psoriasis), cancer and immune biology.
Publications and patents
Author of 86 papers in international peer-reviewed journals.
Co-owner of 4 patents:
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- Citations 8859
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- Buus TB, et al. Adaptive γδTn, γδT1 and γδNKT cells develop through three distinct pathways in the adult thymus. Nat Commun, Nat Commun. 2017 Dec 4;8(1):1911. (Impact factor 12.1)
- Lindahl LM, et al Prognostic miRNA classifier in early-stage mycosis fungoides: Development and validation in a Danish nationwide study. Blood. 2018 Feb 15;131(7):759-770 (Impact factor 13.2)
- Fanok MH; et al. Role of dysregulated cytokine signaling and bacterial triggers in the pathogenesis of Cutaneous T Cell Lymphoma. JID, 2018 in press. (Impact factor 6.2)
- Ahmad SM, et al. The inhibitory checkpoint, PD-L2, is a target for effector T cells: Novel possibilities for immune therapy. Oncoimmunology 2017;7(2):e1390641. (Impact factor 7.7)
- Odum N, Lindahl LM, Wod M, Krejsgaard T, Skytthe A, Woetmann A, Iversen L, Christensen K. Investigating heredity in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma in a unique cohort of Danish twins. Blood Cancer J. 2017;7(1):e517 (Impact factor 6.1)
- Krejsgaard T,et al. Malignant inflammation in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma – A hostile takeover. Sem Immunopathol 2017; 39(3):269-282 (Impact factor 6.2)
- Lauenborg B, et al. Malignant T cells activate endothelial cells via IL-17F. Blood Cancer J, 2017;7(7):e586 (Impact factor 6.1)
- Nastasi C, et al. Butyrate and propionate inhibit antigen-specific CD8+ T cell activation by suppressing IL-12 production by antigen-presenting cells. Sci Rep. 2017;7(1):14516
- Willerslev-Olsen A, et al. Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin A (SEA) stimulates STAT3 activation and IL-17 expression in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Blood. 2016;127(10):1287-96 (Impact factor 13.2)
- Vieyra-Garcia PA et al.. STAT3/5 dependent IL-9 overexpression contributes to neoplastic cell survival in mycosis fungoides. Clin Cancer Res. 2016;22(13):3328-39 (Impact factor 9.6)


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Image by chez loulou via FlickrOne lesson I learned very quickly in rural France was to address everyone, on every conceivable occasion, but never by name.
In the days of the old baker...who actually made bread from scratch rather than turning out batches of Readymix.......entering the shop at rush hour - ten minutes to twelve - was a bit like Highland dancing as you were passed up and down the queue shaking hands or exchanging the cheek to cheek salutation and it felt a bit like Strip the Willow - in slow time. The queue at the cheese stall at the local big town market was another Highland dancing experience, with the stallholders darting out from behind their stand to join in the ceremony. Entering the then doctor's waiting room was a more sedate experience, given the sticks, zimmer frames and sinister looking bandages, but the salutation round had to be completed even if the earlier arrivals could not rise to their feet. It could do your back in, crouching over Papy, even if the eau de vie on his breath at eight in the morning didn't take yours away. For some reason, people didn't salute each other in the dentist's waiting room...it could be that they were in too much pain, or it could have been the sight of the dentist with blood stained overall returning richly scented from the bar, ready to do battle with the next molar. I have even shaken hands while buying my ticket to enter a junk fair. All this I can handle. I do still have problems as to which cheek to start with, but a sharp eye on the head movement of your co respondant generally solves that problem. No good even guessing how many 'bises' to expect....'furreners' have perverted the ancestral traditions of even darkest France, so no one seems to know whether it is two, three or four...especially lascivious elderly gentlemen who would go for non stop action if not restrained by their wives. It is wise to adopt a certain posture with these gentlemen....feet well back and just the head and neck inclined as their hands seem not to have felt the decline of age and it is regarded as impolite to slosh one as he so richly deserves.
Of course, the cheek to cheek has been adopted by the British in France, just to show how well they are fitting in, but why do they have to do it when mixing with each other? Growing up in an era where the horror of every military man was to be congratulated by a kiss from a French general, touchy feely was not in fashion, except behind closed doors with the lights out and not with French generals. It is always a bit disconcerting to find that some chap thinks he can meet you for the first time at someone else's house and attempt to clutch you to his person while administering hot breath to the approximate area of your chin...and then expects congratulation on how well he has adapted to local custom! It is regarded as impolite to slosh these chaps, as well.
Didier complains that people nowadays don't even shake hands or say 'Bonjour', just rush past with their heads averted and he puts this down to the influx of Parisians to the countryside, where, as he opines darkly,
'No one knows what they got up to in Paris.'
Strangely, he doesn't include the Brits in this, but, given their full on attempts at physical integration described above, he probably gives them Brownie Points for effort in maintaining tradition.
My problem has not been the salutation process...but the recognition process. I read a book published some years ago about the life of women in my area which included some fascinating statistics about marriage. Apparently, the area had a tramway - a light railway - in the interwar period, and, in this period, marriages were registered with partners much further away from base than in the period before and after its' existence. Pre and post tramway, the choice of life partner seemed to be limited to bicycle distance. So, for a few brief years, the gene pool opened up, before returning to the norm. This, in my view, explains the French village clone phenomenon. It has been my experience that while I could not say with any exactitude whether the gentleman who has just saluted me is Georges Dixneuf or Jacques Leboeuf, I do know that whoever it is comes from the commune. I also know that if I attempt to address him by name I will get it wrong.....so many of them look alike, and it's not just the caps and vests. I also know that if he does not look like Messieurs Dixneuf or LeBoeuf then he is not from these parts and is probably an 'incomer' like myself. Inbreeding was exaggerated, not only by the demise of the tramway, but by the loss of life in the two World Wars. If you look at the population statistics, it is only now that some villages are approaching the number of inhabitants they contained in 1914. Further, the absence of men as POWs and forced labourers in Germany in the 1939 - 1945 war affected the choice of partners. I do not intend to discuss the odd fair haired child born in that period...their treatment has been a disgrace to a civilised country...but, in general, the inbreeding had been reinforced again until fairly recently, when further education has taken children out of their immediate surroundings to meet clones from other communes.
I suppose that the breakdown of a closed local society encourages the breakdown of the salutation...after all, who wants to be embraced by some chancer whose grandfather never knew your grandmother?


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Must We Program Self-Driving AI to Kill?
Must We Program Self-Driving AI to Kill?
Regardless of public sentiment, driverless cars are coming. And beyond our questions of whether we want to hand over the wheel to software, there are deeper, more troubling questions to ask.
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Advancements in artificial intelligence have brought incredible changes. Increasingly, our lives are becoming automated. Many everyday tasks have already been relegated to algorithms of smart software.
A staggering 70% of stock trading is fully automated, for example. This automation has resulted in massive job loss as well as resentment towards nascent AI technologies. In some senses, the resentment may be deserved. Elon Musk predicts a displacement of 15% of the world's workforce from driverless cars, a technology he himself is working on.
To Mr. Musk, as well as other futurists and scientists, the manifold ethical issues that surround artificial intelligence are of critical importance and concern. Chief among these concerns are the jobs, careers, and livelihoods that would be taken over by AI, the prospect of which has fostered a distrust of technologies utilizing it. There are obvious social and economic consequences — quite possibly overwhelmingly negative ones — if the development of artificial intelligence goes unchecked.
Many fear general artificial intelligence a great deal more than the economic consequences of displacement. AI that is smarter than the smartest human and is equipped to do more than specialized labor, that could, quite feasibly, become an enemy of humanity and therefore an immediate threat to its survival.
As technology improves, our opinion of AI remains relatively the same. We place trust in the judgment of humans and fear to relinquish control to machines, despite mounting evidence that machines do a much better job of things than we do — possibly in part due to fear of a hyper-intelligent machine. AI-led hedge funds outperform human-run ones, year after year. 1.3 million people die in traffic accidents a year. Driverless cars have resulted in only a handful of fatalities in billions of miles' worth of testing. Intelligent machines also learn more quickly from their mistakes than we do, with the ability to rehearse and rehash mishaps thousands of times in mere moments. Humans learn slowly, needing months or years to accomplish the same tasks. Still, our opinion of AI remains abysmally low, either due to inordinate hubris or prudent caution — most likely a mixture of both.
Regardless of public sentiment, driverless cars are coming. Giants Tesla Motors and Google have already poured billions of dollars into their separate technologies with reasonable success, and Mr. Musk warns that we are much closer to a driverless future than most suspect. Robotics software engineers are making strides in self-driving AI at an awe-inspiring (and alarming) rate.
Beyond our questions of whether we want to hand over the wheel to software, there are deeper, more troubling questions that must be asked.
Regardless of current sentiment, driverless cars are on their way. The real questions we should be asking lie in more ethically complex areas. Namely, must we program driverless AI to kill?
At first, it seems an obvious answer emerges. All AI should be incapable of killing. In other words, no AI should have the ability to choose to kill a human. In that, all deaths from AI should result from a malfunction of some kind — brakes that give out, a cliff that went unseen, a bug in the AI's programmatic makeup, etc.
The answer may not be so simple, however. For one moment, consider the possibility that a self-driving car is met by a difficult moral choice, not one unlike the philosophical thought experiment, the trolley problem. The car must save the lives of its passengers or save the lives of pedestrians. The car can swerve into a nearby tree to avoid the pedestrians, but this will undoubtedly kill its passengers. Or the car can continue down the road, hitting the passengers without saving the humans within. Should the number of lives on each side matter? Should age factor into the AI's decision? Would it be immoral not to endow the AI with the ability to make these important, if impossible ethical decisions? Or should we allow the AI to run without any notion of saving or sacrificing lives?
"As we are about to endow millions of vehicles with autonomy, taking algorithmic morality seriously has never been more urgent," asserts Jean-Francois Bonnefon, Professor of Economics, in a discussion with MIT Technology Review.
"If a manufacturer offers different versions of its moral algorithm, and a buyer knowingly chose one of them, is the buyer to blame for the harmful consequences of the algorithm's decisions?"
When asked, most agree that saving more lives takes precedence over saving one. Largely, we believe that saving the young is more important than saving the old. What we agree on may very well end there, however. Even in these seemingly obvious moral decisions, there is no unanimity. Especially when these seemingly obvious moral decisions result in our own injury or death. Not surprisingly, when told a driverless AI must sacrifice our own life for the lives of others, we find its moral compass in need of readjusting. Apparently, in most cases, self-preservation alters our perception of what is right and wrong.
Should driverless AI be programmed to preserve its passengers? Or should it be programmed to have a preference for the reducing the number of deaths? Should we perpetuate self-preservation or the greater good? Are we, as owners of the driverless cars, at least partially responsible for the decisions they make?
At the moment, there are no definitive answers. Driverless cars will no doubt encounter lose-lose scenarios and be tasked with making unpopular decisions. Some may argue that driverless cars should be unburdened by moral dilemmas and refused the ability to kill, even in the name for the greater good. The evils must be weighed to divine a lesser one, however. In order to this, autonomous vehicles must have the ability to weigh them by endowing them with some sort of moral programming.
How we will decide to program these moral algorithms is still largely unknown. In many ways, the fate of AI rests with us. How we decide to proceed and what conclusions we come to about these ethical issues may shape the moralism of our driverless future.
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Carmel football: Corsairs football fans can follow their team next fall without doing a lot of driving, as Carmel will play six of its nine games at home.
That's the good news.
The bad news is that the team they'll be watching will be tackling arguably the toughest season-opening stretch of four games of any team in the state.
The team's season-opening nonconference games are at home against Waukesha West (Wis.) and DeKalb.
Waukesha West (11-3) finished second in last year's Wisconsin state tournament in Division 2, the second-largest of that state's seven enrollment classes.
DeKalb (9-3) lost to eventual state champion Montini in the quarterfinals of the Class 6A playoffs last month.
Carmel's Week 3 game is also at home, and Marist is the opponent. Marist (9-5) lost in finals of the 8A playoffs last month.
Week 4 is a road game at Nazareth in LaGrange Park. Nazareth (12-2) won the Class 5A state title last month.
The two positives regarding the 2016 schedule are that Joliet Catholic is not on it, and neither are the Alabama Crimson Tide.
Last year, playing a difficult schedule bit Carmel and it missed the playoffs. In 2014, the Corsairs did the biting and played in the postseason.
Waukegan football: With the Bulldogs joining the North Suburban next fall, their traditional Week 2 nonconference game against Zion-Benton will become a Week 6 conference game at Zion.
Waukegan's now going to host West Aurora in Week 2 next September.
West Aurora made the playoffs last year with a 5-4 record, but the Blackhawks' previous postseason game was played in 2004.
West Aurora, like Waukegan, is a basketball school forever looking for its football legs. Winning that Week 2 matchup likely will be crucial to both team's playoff hopes.
Grayslake football: Both Grayslake North and Central are now members of the North Lake County Conference, along with Antioch, Lakes, North Chicago, Round Lake, Wauconda and Grant.
The Grayslake teams having been meeting during Week 8 of the season, and next year is no exception.
The game will be played on Oct. 14 at Grayslake North, and here's the statistical oddity surrounding the game: This will be the fourth time in the past five years that North has hosted the game.
North's season-opening nonconference games next year will be at home against Willowbrook (5-4 in 2015) and at Sycamore (6-4).
Central currently is saddled with a 19-game losing streak. The Rams will open at home against Vernon Hills (6-4) and then play at Deerfield (7-4).
Panther pride in Milwaukee: Waukegan grads Akeem Springs and Jordan Johnson are starters on Milwaukee's men's basketball team, and North Chicago grad JayQuan McCloud is a reserve. McCloud had to sit out the start of the season after transferring to Milwaukee (8-4) after a false start to his collegiate career at Murray State.
Springs came to Milwaukee via NIU in DeKalb and Mississippi Valley State. Johnson came to Milwaukee via John Wood, a junior college in Quincy.
Springs is averaging 13 points and is shooting 43 percent (17-for-39) from distance. Johnson is the point guard, and he's averaging 10 points and nearly eight assists.
McCloud is averaging seven points in his first three games with the Panthers.
Milwaukee plays in the Horizon League, and Valparaiso is the league power.
Antioch girls basketball: Unbeaten Antioch is on a collision course with Marshall in the supersectional round of the Class 3A playoffs in girls basketball.
Marshall will be the favorite to win the Nazareth Sectional and Antioch will be the favorite to win at St. Viator.
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Antioch's led by twins Amy and Ashley Reiser, and Marshall is keyed by senior Tineesha Coleman, who played two years at North Chicago and faced Antioch several times before bolting for Marshall.
Antioch (12-0) begins play Saturday in a 16-team, four-day tournament at Lisle.
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I always told Greg that I won't marry him (while being) fat. Sadly, I think that may be the case. Even though I have been working out I can't seem to curb my impulse eating. I do good for a week and fall off the wagon. Repeat. So I have been maintaining weight for the last 3 months! Argh. So frustrating. I need to embrace healthy portions and say no to fried foods and sweets. If I can't be content with one piece of chocolate then maybe I need to not eat it at all. Well, at least until after the wedding. I don't want to be fat on my wedding day. I want to be fit. Not super toned, muscular or anything super out-of-reach. Just fit. Being fit makes me think of confidence and that's what I want to feel that day.
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Melizza you are going to be a beautiful bride! Just keep doing what your doing and try not to stress (stress makes it harder to lose weight). I'm so excited for you and Greg.
You are gorgeous and you well be at the wedding, no matter what size you are. You *are* getting back into a healthy routine. Maybe not as fast as you would like, but don't sell short the positive changes you have made.


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Tracing back responsability through open data
What we know
The fires in the Amazon that started on August 10 were a deliberate action driven by economic interests. Farmers and ranchers in the region had organized what they called "a day of fire", where they would set forests aflame to clear land for pasture and planting. Their motivation was backed by the promises of Brasilian president Jair Bolsonaro to open up the Amazon for a massive scaling of agricultural production. Also, in the neighbouring country Bolivia farmers joined the "day of fire", after their president Evo Morales had launched a decree one month earlier, that actively encouraged fire clearings by calling it "a right of all Bolivians" to seize the rainforest.
However, pointing into their direction alone wouldn't capture the full picture. The clearing of rainforest for agricultural production is a response to the increasing global demand for commodities like soy and beef. In other words: We as consumers are part of the problem, just like many intermediaries in the supply chain who determine prices and decide when to comply with environmental standards and when to deliberately ignore them.
Current VIIRS Fire Alerts, updated daily:
Here we need your help
We are asking the tech community to help us crack the puzzle through the creative use of open data. We have compiled various data sets to answer the following questions:
- What are the supply chain linkages that directly or indirectly encouraged the "day of fire"?
- Is there a relation between commodities and specific markets and fires? For example, is fire more likely to be used for beef produced for domestic markets than when exporting to China or the EU?
- Which local conditions and factors can we identify that might make a fire event more likely? For example, are fires more or less likely in regions inhabited by indigenous peoples?
The basic data
In the Resources section you can find a list of basic data that we think are the minimum requirement to answer the supply chain questions. It contains a link to the API of Global Forest Watch, which provides access to geodata of the fire events, as well as supply chain data provided by the platform trase.earth on the suppliers of beef and soy going out of Brazil and soy going out of Bolivia.
The additional data
Adding more data will potentially help us to understand even better, which conditions played a role in the fires. We'd be particularly interested in the relation of fire outbreaks and indigenous territories, but you might come up with even more questions and unexpected angles. Therefore we added a list of additional data sources on the Amazon region. Feel free to experiment and make your own investigations.
Combining all these different data sets might provide useful information not just to us, but also to NGOs and journalists investigating environmental compliance within global supply chains or other conditions for rainforest destruction. Any deeper insights could help to frame the public conversation differently and bring us closer to new ideas for taking the right measures for protecting the Amazon. As soon as we have some interesting results, we will pass them on to NGOs working in this field.
How to get started
Download the data of your choice and let us know you are on it. We have set up a Slack channel, where you will hopefully meet other people to collaborate with and where you can reach out to us with any of your questions. When you join, please introduce yourself briefly so that we know which skills you contribute and which skills you might be looking for.
Alternatively, you can leave a comment under this post or send us an email to firedatachallenge (at) theamazonlab.org.
Feel free to approach us anytime if you have further questions or need support. We will update the resources on a regular basis and keep you posted on this page on relevant updates. Of course, we'd appreciate if you could tell your designer / developer / data science friends about this project and invite them to join.
Monday, 26 Sept 2019
Here is a nice visualisation example by Mapbox helping relate to relate to the Amazonian crisis. Consider it inspiration.
What if the Amazon Rainforest deforestation was in your own backyard? Data-driven digital agency @digitalfans_se created https://t.co/NLU2lyJimF to help people feel the scale of the destruction #AmazonRainforest #AmazonFires #builtwithmapbox pic.twitter.com/PRe95dsVjt
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Monday, 26 Sept 2019
Trase released a new data set on Brazilian beef production.
How exciting! #Trase new Brazilian beef subnational data is now live. The new data maps the deforestation risk of the Brazilian beef from the municipalities from where cattle were raised through the 150 importing countries. You can access it all at https://t.co/XvMAtKkUbH pic.twitter.com/NeCejid7A8
— Trase (@TraseEarth) September 17, 2019
Monday, 2 Sept 2019
An article of MAAP is recommending to not focus on satelite images alone to draw conclusions on the fire events: "We continue to warn against using satellite-based fire detection data alone as a measure of impact to Amazonian forests. Many of the detected fires are in agricultural areas that were once forest, but don't currently represent forest fires." The API of Global Forest Watch provides other fire data sources as well like the VIIRS data.
Speaking of fires on agricultural land: Recently, some media have started to convey the message that many fires were lit on already cleared ground (as a routine procedure after the harvest). We'd like to know to what extent that is true: How many of the fires were lit on forest land versus land that had already been cleared before?
Basic data:
- Global Forest Watch API
- Brazil – Soy (Trase)
- Brazil – Beef (Trase)
- Bolivia – Soy (Trase)
(Please check the license of each data set and attribute Trase in your work. See Terms of Use of Trase.)
Additional data:
- Land use and suppliers for various Amazonian countries, grouped by country and commodity
- Geospatial information on Amazonia: Indigenous territories and protected natural areas, natural resource concessions and exploitation applications, infrastructure projects, deforestation and more
- Social Progress Index in the Amazon, forced labor, mining zones, oil blocks, roads and highways, hydroelectric power plants, petroleum related activities, pipelines, indigenous territories, fires, deforestation and more
- Land coverage and land use (Spanish)
Other useful things:
- Maps and other location data tools
Interesting Reads:
- MAAP #108: Understanding the Amazon Fires with Satelites, Part 2
- MAAP #107: Seeing the Amazon Fires with Satelites
- Brazilian soy supply chains: linking buyers to landscapes
- Slack: Amazon Lab on Slack (#firedata-challenge)
- Email: firedatachallenge (at) theamazonlab.org


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TORONTO – The embattled Canadian-owned SkyGreece Airlines has filed for bankruptcy protection, according to a document from a Toronto law firm representing the company.
In a letter to the Canadian Transportation Authority on Thursday, the law firm Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP indicated SkyGreece had filed a notice of intention to seek bankruptcy protection and begin restructuring proceedings.
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Ernst & Young Inc., as the trustee for SkyGreece, will be communicating with creditors and customers of SkyGreece and will establish contact points through which creditors can provide and obtain information, according to the document.
The airline had until 5:00 p.m. Thursday to respond to a ruling from CTA that it had failed to meet its contractual obligations to passengers.
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SkyGreece abruptly cancelled all of its flights last week, citing technical issues and financial setbacks from the Greek economic crisis. The airline had originally called the move a temporary situation and said its operations were expected to resume soon.
The move left roughly 1,000 passengers stranded and prompted passenger rights advocate Gabor Lukacs to file a complaint with Canadian Transportation Agency and order the airline to rebook its passengers with another airline and put up $8.7 million to cover passenger claims.
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GOLDEN – The mountains and lawns along the Front Range may be green, but reservoir levels remain low and southwestern Colorado is still suffering, a task force said Wednesday.
On top of it, the spring snows and rain that eased the drought in much of the state could contribute to flooding and wildfires this summer.
Hot weather could melt the snow quickly, causing flooding, and wildfires could be fueled by lusher-than-normal vegetation.
Task force members said water restrictions imposed because of the drought, in its third year, are still good ideas.
"It's drought, flooding and fire," said Larry Lang, head of the state flood task force.
A report commissioned by the flood task force says the east slope of the Rockies from Colorado Springs to Fort Collins could be hit by flash floods if there's above-average precipitation from mid-May to mid-June.
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Even so, the drought isn't over, water managers, engineers and forecasters said.
"We had a good year, but we're going to need about three more to get out," said Dawn Taylor, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Natural Resources.
The statewide snowpack was 87 percent of average May 1, compared with only 19 percent last May, said Mike Gillespie, chief snow surveyor for the federal Natural Resources Conservation Service.
All the snow had melted last year at this time, Gillespie said.