Saturday, August 25, 2007

Acinic cell carcinoma
Acinic cell carcinoma is a tumor most commonly found in the parotid gland. The disease presents as a slow growing mass, sometimes associated with pain or tenderness.

Friday, August 24, 2007

July 6July 6 Events

1686 - Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (d. 1758)
1747 - John Paul Jones, American naval commander (d. 1792)
1766 - Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born naturalist (d. 1813)
1785 - William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (d. 1865)
1796 - Tsar Nicholas I of Russia (d. 1855)
1817 - Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (d. 1905)
1818 - Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (d. 1879)
1837 - Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar, Indian scholar (d. 1925)
1838 - Vatroslav Jagic, Croatian scholar (d. 1923)
1859 - Verner von Heidenstam, Nobel laureate (d. 1940)
1865 - Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss musician (d. 1865)
1878 - Eino Leino, Finnish poet (d. 1926)
1884 - Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1970)
1885 - Ernst Busch, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1887 - Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer (d. 1975)
1898 - Hanns Eisler, German composer (d. 1962)
1903 - Hugo Theorell, Nobel laureate (d. 1982)
1904 - Erik Wickberg, Salvation Army general (d. 1996)
1907 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
1907 - George Stanley, Canadian politician and designer of Canada's Flag (d. 2002)
1912 - Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (d. 2006)
1917 - Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand running coach (d. 2004)
1918 - Sebastian Cabot, English actor (d. 1977)
1919 - Ernst Haefliger, Swiss singer (d. 2007)
1921 - Nancy Reagan, First Lady of the United States
1923 - Wojciech Jaruzelski, President of Poland
1925 - Merv Griffin, American television show host
1925 - Bill Haley, American singer (d. 1981)
1927 - Alan Freeman, British DJ known by his nickname 'Fluff' (d. 2006)
1927 - Jan Hein Donner, Dutch chess player
1927 - Janet Leigh, American actress (d. 2004)
1927 - Pat Paulsen, American comedian (d. 1997)
1931 - Della Reese, American singer
1931 - Jean Campeau, French Canadian businessman and politician
1933 - Frank Austin, English footballer
1935 - Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
1936 - Dave Allen, Irish comedian (d. 2005)
1937 - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian-born pianist and conductor
1937 - Ned Beatty, American actor
1937 - Gene Chandler, American singer
1940 - Jeannie Seely, American singer
1940 - Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan
1945 - Burt Ward, American actor
1946 - George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
1946 - Sylvester Stallone, American actor
1946 - Peter Singer, Australian philosopher
1947 - Lance Clemons, baseball player
1948 - Brad Park, Canadian hockey player
1948 - Jean-Pierre Blackburn, French Canadian politician
1948 - Nathalie Baye, French actress
1949 - Phyllis Hyman, American singer (d. 1995)
1950 - John Byrne, American comic book author & artist
1950 - Hélène Scherrer, Canadian politician
1951 - Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
1953 - Nanci Griffith, American singer
1954 - Willie Randolph, New York Mets manager
1955 - Frank Sontag, Jr., American radio personality, spiritual teacher
1955 - William Wall, Irish writer
1956 - Casey Sander, American actor
1957 - Ron Duguay, Canadian ice hockey player
1958 - Jennifer Saunders, English actress
1959 - Richard Dacoury, French basketball player
1963 - Todd Burns, baseball player
1963 - Lance Johnson, baseball player
1966 - Brian Posehn, American actor
1967 - Heather Nova, Bermudian singer
1967 - Omar Olivares, baseball player
1969 - Fernando Redondo, Argentine footballer
1970 - Inspectah Deck, American rapper
1970 - Martin Smith, English singer (Delirious?)
1972 - D-Styles, American scratch DJ
1972 - Greg Norton, American baseball player
1972 - Isabelle Boulay, French Canadian singer
1972 - Mark Gasser, British Virtuoso Pianist
1974 - Ze Roberto, Brazilian footballer
1975 - Amir-Abbas Fakhravar, Iranian writer, journalist and student leader
1975 - Sebastián Rulli, Argentine actor
1975 - 50 Cent, American rapper
1977 - Craig Handley, British film director
1978 - Tia Mowry and Tamera Mowry, American actresses
1978 - Kevin Senio, New Zealand rugby player
1979 - Nic Cester, Australian musician (Jet)
1981 - Nnamdi Asomugha, American football player
1983 - Gregory Smith, Canadian actor
1984 - Lauren Harris, British rock singer
1984 - James Henderson, American model
1986 - Derrick Williams, American football player
1987 - Caroline Trentini, Brazilian model
1987 - Matt O'Leary, American actor
1987 - Kate Nash, English singer/songwriter
1994 - Rebecca Rosso and Camilla Rosso, twin British-born actresses Deaths

Comoros - Independence Day (1975).
Czech Republic - Jan Hus Day (1415).
Feast day of St Maria Goretti.
Lithuania - Statehood Day.
Malawi - Independence Day (1964).
Malawi - Republic Day (1966).
Roman festivals: Ludi Apollinares, games in honour of Apollo (since 208 BC) began today.
San Fermín, a Spanish Roman Catholic festival centered in Pamplona, begins today.
Music festival EXIT begins today in the Serbian town of Novi Sad.

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya
Olga Alexandrowna Ladyzhenskaya (Ольга Александровна Ладыженская; born March 7, 1922, Kologriv, died January 12, 2004, St. Petersburg) was a Russian mathematician. She was known for her work on partial differential equations especially Hilbert's 19th problem. She was a student of Ivan Petrovsky.
She provided the first rigorous proofs of the convergence of a finite difference method for the Navier-Stokes equations.
She was awarded the Lomonosov Gold Medal in 2002.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights
Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights is a European Union directive in the field of intellectual property law, made under the internal market provisions of the Treaty of Rome. The directive covers the remedies that are available in the civil courts, but not criminal offenses. Under Article 3(1), Members States can be censured in the European Court of Justice if their civil procedures on the infringement of intellectual property rights are "unnecessarily complicated or costly, or entail unreasonable time-limits or unwarranted delays". Otherwise the Directive harmonizes the rules on standing, evidence, interlocutory measures, seizure and injunctions, damages and costs and judicial publication.

Directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights Evidence
At the request of an applicant, the judicial authorities may issue an interlocutory injunction to prevent an "imminent infringement" of intellectual property rights or to prevent a continuing infringement. In the latter case, the order may be followed with a recurring penalty payment or lodging of a guarantee intended to compensate the rightholder (paragraph a). An injunction can also be issued, under the same conditions, against an intermediary, but these are covered in Article 8(2) of the Information Society Directive and are, in principle, subject to national law.
Apart from the ordinary injunctions of the previous paragraph there also exist the so-called Mareva injunctions in Article 9(2). In common law, these are ex parte and in personam orders used to freeze assets to prevent abuses of process. They can be issued as worldwide injunctions, preventing worldwide dispersal. In that case, their effectiveness depends on their in personam character, as a party who is found to be guilty of disposing of assets will be held to be in contempt of court.[1] Like Anton Piller orders, their use is confined mostly to the UK.
Article 9(2) provides that, in the case of an infringement on a commercial scale, judicial authorities may order a precautionary seizure of "movable and immovable property" which includes freezing the bank accounts and other assets. This may only be done if the applicant demonstrates that it is likely that recovery of damages will be endangered. Further to that, documents relating to banking and other financial transaction may be communicated.

Provisional and precautionary measures
The provisions of the Directive were due to be implemented in all member states of the European Union by 29 April 2006. However, a number of states have not completed the necessary steps. [2]
The Directive has been implemented into United Kingdom law by the Intellectual Property (Enforcement, etc.) Regulations 2006.[3]

Criticism

Customs Regulation 3295/94
Directive on criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights (proposed)
Copyright law of the European Union
Community Trade Mark
European Union patent law
Copyright infringement

Tuesday, August 21, 2007


Brain-computer interfaces • Brain damage Brain regions • Clinical neuropsychology Cognitive neuroscience • Human brain Mind and Brain • Neuroanatomy Neurophysiology • Phrenology Popular misconceptions arousal • attention concentration • consciousness decision-making • executive functions language • learning • memory motor coordination • perception planning • problem solving thinking Arthur L. Benton • Antonio DamasioAntonio Damasio • Kenneth Heilman Phineas Gage • Norman Geschwind • Elkhonon Goldberg Donald Hebb • Alexander Luria •Antonio Damasio Muriel D. Lezak • Brenda Milner Karl Pribram • Oliver Sacks Roger Sperry
Bender-Gestalt Test Benton Visual Retention Test Clinical Dementia Rating Continuous Performance Task Hayling and Brixton tests Lexical decision task Mini mental state examination Stroop task Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Glasgow Coma Score Wisconsin card sorting task
António Damasio, GOSE, pron. IPA: [ɐ̃'tɔniu dɐ'maziu], (IPA: [ɐ̃'tɔniu dɐ'maziu]) (b. 1944, Lisbon, Portugal) is a behavioral neurologist and neuroscientist. He is David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Southern California, where he heads USC's Brain and Creativity Institute. Prior to taking up his posts at USC, in 2005, Damasio was M.W. Van Allen Professor and Head of Neurology at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, United States. His career at Iowa lasted from 1976-2005. Besides being a well-known researcher in several areas of the neurology, he is a best-selling author of books which describe his scientific thinking.

Bibliography

Brain and Creativity Institute
Cognitive neuropsychology
Embodied philosophy
Embodiment
Emotion
Neuropsychoanalysis
Joseph E. LeDoux
Insular cortex

Sunday, August 19, 2007


Ethics & objectivity Sources & attribution News & news values Reporting & writingCliff Kincaid Fourth estate • Libel lawCliff Kincaid Education & books Other topics
Advocacy journalism Alternative journalism Arts journalism Business journalism Citizen journalism Fashion journalism Investigative journalism Literary journalism Photojournalism Science journalism Sports journalism Video game journalism Video journalism Infotainment "Infotainers" and personalities News management Distortion and VNRs PR and propaganda "Yellow journalism" Press freedom Newspapers and magazines News agencies Broadcast journalism Online and blogging Alternative media
Journalist, reporter, editor, news presenter, photo journalist, Columnist, visual journalist
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Accuracy In Media (AIM) is an American organization which monitors the news media in the United States. Founded in 1969 by Reed Irvine, at the time an economist with the Federal Reserve, AIM describes itself as "a non-profit, grassroots citizens watchdog of the news media that critiques botched and bungled news stories and sets the record straight on important issues that have received slanted coverage".
It commonly attacks what it sees as liberal bias in the media. Despite AIM's claim of political neutrality, some media watchdog groups, including self-described "progressive group" Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, refer to it as a conservative organization.
AIM maintains many ties to conservative groups and is known for criticizing journalists with accusations of leftist bias, but rarely (if ever) levels claims of conservative bias against reporters or news organizations. Its positions on issues would also usually be classified as conservative: AIM editorialized in support of Nicaraguan Contra leaders such as José Francisco Cardenal. It also supported the Committee for a Free Afghanistan, a US group that backed Islamic fundamentalist Afghans who fought the Soviet invasion. Also supported are Augusto Pinochet, who was called a savior of Chile, and the group often quotes from The Epoch Times, a group that publishes information on Chinese human rights abuses.

History
AIM publishes a twice-monthly newsletter called the AIM Report, originally edited by Reed Irvine. These newsletters often encourage subscribers to write to people or organizations urging them to change their policies. This has become daily over the Internet and through e-mail with current AIM Editor Cliff Kincaid and AIM executive secretary and media analyst Roger Aronoff since 2000.

Publications
At CBS's meetings, Irvine frequently denounced Walter Cronkite as a Soviet dupe. At a 1986 meeting, Irvine requested that Cronkite be removed from the CBS board of directors for allegedly supporting unilateral disarmament.

Controversies
Critics say AIM's attacks on the media seem to have little to do with actual misrepresentation or inaccuracies in media accounts. They assert that Irvine and AIM is quick to attack groups that do not fit in the group's ideological niche. Donald Graham, the publisher of The Washington Post, alleges that Irvine tends to "throw around accusations about people being communists."
AIM has also been vigorously defensive of former Senator Joseph McCarthy, referring to his critics as "liars" and "communists," and defending his legacy, claiming that he never once fingered an innocent person in his accusations during the red scare he helped to fan. [5]

Criticism
Irvine claims that 75 percent of AIM's funding comes from contributors donating US$100 or less. Only three donors of the remainder are given by name: the Allied Educational Foundation, Shelby Cullom Davis, and billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife. Scaife gave $2 million to Accuracy in Media since 1977 -1997.
In December 2004, the American Institute of Philanthropy gave AIM a grade of "C+" for not-for-profit effectiveness. It noted that it would have awarded a grade of "A", but reduced the grade because AIM retains 4.1 years' worth of operating expenses in assets. It feels that AIM is in a poor position to ask donors for more funding when it is already cash-rich.

Vincent Foster conspiracy claims
On October 20, 2006, Accuracy in Media released a list of 27 questions to pose at the Fox News Executive meeting that will be attended by AIM editor Cliff Kincaid.

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Internal urethral orifice
The internal urethral orifice is placed at the apex of the trigonum vesicae, in the most dependent part of the bladder, and is usually somewhat crescentic in form; the mucous membrane immediately behind it presents a slight elevation, the uvula vesicae, caused by the middle lobe of the prostate.