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...Things I Think About My kids watch a cartoon named Clarence and on it he asked what I thought was a great questouo. The Clarence kids were watching television on the show and they were watching a scary movie about aliens. Clarence said, "I wonder if aliens watch shows about us?" There was a time in my life that Oreos didn't matter. It was homemade chocolate chip cookies for me. Then one day I discovered Oreos and it's a different ballgame. Double Stuff. I'm in trouble, people. If you look at the lights on white cars they sometimes look like the helmets of the Storm Troopers from Star Wars. A nlockbuster that almost never happened asl George Lucas who made it a contingency wheb he was hired to fund it. Big artists and big bands have a time when every song is huge and it's like they can do no wrong. Then one day it seems like the golden touoch leaves, walks out the door. Everything they do after that is just...okay. Why is that? It use...

John Silver loses medical negligence & injury lawsuit KISSIMMEE - KISSIMMEE (AP) — Former CISO  personality J Silver is moving on with his life after a hit-run-accident nearly two months snd s minor stroke 3 years ago that abruptly ended his career. He's written a book about his experiences and is trying to raise awareness about hit-n-run and stroke warning signs and recovery. But Jon Silver, 67, is now dealing with a fresh setback — the possible abrupt end to a court battle against the doctors who told him he had the stomach flu when he showed up at a hospital emergency room with stroke-like symptoms and the other who was surprised he was still alive after the accident and was told he couldn't sit up because he had spinal injuries. Two days after that hospital visit, Silver boarded a flight home to Orlando, Fla., and suffered a massive stroke and had am accident in Kissimmee. His attorneys claim the stroke could have been prevented if Silver had been giv...

A Texas scientist was called ‘foolish’ for arguing the immune system could fight cancer. Then he won the Nobel Prize. 6 geniuses who didn’t get the credit they deserved — at first Scientists like Jim Allison and Barbara McClintock faced harsh criticism for their discoveries. Independently, they both later won the Nobel Prize. AUSTIN — It was Christmas Eve 1994, and James P. Allison was testing his theory that T cells, a type of white blood cell that fights viral and bacterial infections, could help the immune system fight cancer. That week, he was covering for a postdoc aide on a European trip, who’d injected cancerous mice with an antibody to activate T cells to go after tumors. The results were stunning: All of those given the antibody became cancer-free, while the mice not provided with the antibody saw their tumors grow until they eventually died. Allison ran back the experiment. But this time, the cancer didn’t respond. Allison grew fr...

..Proof Finds That All Change Is a Mix of Order and Randomness ...so its a rearrangement of things no change perse dynamical systems Proof Finds That All Change Is a Mix of Order and Randomness All descriptions of change are a unique blend of chance and determinism, according to the sweeping mathematical proof of the “weak Pinsker conjecture.” Art for "Proof Finds That All Change Is a Mix of Order and Randomness" Allison Filice for Quantam Magazine Imagine a garden filled with every variety of flower in the world — delicate orchids, towering sunflowers, the waxy blossoms of the saguaro cactus and the corpse flower’s putrid eruptions. Now imagine that all that floral diversity reduced to just two varieties, and that by crossbreeding those two you could produce all the rest. That is the nature of one of the most sweeping results in mathematics in recent years. It’s a proof by Tim Austin, a mathematician at the University of California, Los Angeles. Ins...

eBiz & IT / Information Technology Consulting Between a Rock & a Hard Place: A Casino Screwup Royale - A tale of “Ethical Hacking” Gone Awfully Awry Certified Information Systems Security Professionals: "C/Ethical Hackers" tried to disclose problems to a casino and its software company — it got messy. People who find security vulnerabilities commonly run into difficulties when reporting them to the responsible company. But it's less common for such situations to turn into tense trade-show confrontations—and competing claims of assault and blackmail. Yet that's what happened when executives at Atrient—a casino technology firm headquartered in West Bloomfield, Michigan—stopped responding to two UK-based security researchers who had reported some alleged security flaws. The researchers thought they had reached an agreement regarding payment for their work, but nothing final ever materialized. On February 5, 2019, one of the researchers—Dylan Whe...

A Life of Lies, a Dance with Death—a Recovering Addict Talks About the Cost of Crack My roommate is a crack addict and this is their story. “From the first time I cooked it, I couldn’t stop until I had used it all,” says Bill about crack, the addictive rocklike form of cocaine that is smoked. Despite a 17-year history of drug use and abuse that finally ended with a $450-a-day crack habit, Bill (who wouldn’t permit use of his last name) does not fit the image of the poor teenager prowling the streets in search of drugs. A burly, attractive 30-year-old, he has an $180,000-a-year job as a vice-president in a third-generation family owned machined-metal-parts business and lives in New York’s affluent Westchester County with his wife two grown children and two small children. While no hard statistics exist on how many of the five million American cocaine users also smoke crack, 800-COCAINE, a national hotline, estimated in a survey last May that 50 perce...

How one woman’s drug addiction cost her everything Elizabeth Stephens ... Las Vegas vending machines offer overdose drug Narcan Death in Dem donor Ed Buck's home ruled meth overdose Doctor gets life in prison after patient’s fatal opioid overdose Manhattan man's overdose sparks massive drug bust Two days before last Christmas, Beth Stephens was full of plans and promise. The brilliant, 39-year-old scientist who had studied in Paris, completed a Ph.D. in microbiology and had worked as a researcher for the federal government seemed to be getting her life back together. The slim, fun-loving brunette who enjoyed outdoor concerts, afternoon chats over strong coffee with friends and showing off her soccer moves to her 9-year-old nephew, daughter Veronica and son Lincoln, was determined to move out of a dark place. “I’m out of the shelter now. Plan to put in a few online job apps and follow up w/ another,” wrote Stephens in a series of texts to a friend, s...

Do’s and Don’ts for Dealing with an Addict in Your Life Since there are more than 23 million Americans struggling with drug or alcohol abuse problems, there are many millions more family and other loved ones suffering right along with them. This could make this problem one of our country’s most pervasive ills. woman trying to deal with an addict One survey reported that 64% of people have experienced addiction in someone close to them. A father, mother, child, uncle, close friend—it’s not hard to find someone who has lost control of their drug or alcohol consumption. So it is both important and useful to have some guidelines when you’re dealing with an addicted person. To help you in this crisis situation, here are some Do’s and Don’ts. Do: Maintain your own balance and integrity. Don’t let the addicted person draw you into using drugs or alcohol with him/her. Also, don’t let him convince you that you’re wrong for s...