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Feminist Revisionism in the Early Films of Judy Dash - M. Witte
"Theory, History, and Materiality: Feminist Revisionism in the Early Films of Julie Dash", Michael Witte, Cinema Media Studies, UCLA 24th Annual Thinking G...

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Negotiating Sex and Agency in Selfie Culture - A. Muller
"Captured Frames: Negotiating Sex and Agency in Selfie Culture", Amber Muller, Performance Studies, UC Davis. 24th Annual Thinking Gender Friday, February 7,...

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Crysis 3 POST-HUMAN || GTX 680M STOCK || 3630QM || FPS

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It's nothing really. Just a nice idea. Google/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET

Something I've learned over the last few years is that Google is always right.

It criticizes the NSA for snooping, when it quite happily crawls all over your e-mails. But it's right, because it's for your own good.

It pumps ads at you even when you're writing e-mails, but it's right to do so. Because these ads are far better than all the other ads you'll see on the Web.

And then there's Google Glass, which Google insists isn't a creepy, awkward intrusion into public and private life. So Google must be right.

Well, except that those who have so far resisted a Google chip being implanted into their brains still feel that Glass might be for the self-righteous, rather than the normal human being.

Of late, Google seems to have adopted a crouching posture, as the criticisms and humor have rained its way.

First, it issued a Do's and Don'ts post -- in which it asked its Glass Explorers not to behave like Glassholes. Yes, they needed to be told.

Now the company has published a lengthy post on Google+ titled "The Top 10 Google Glass Myths."

It's a riotous little read that comes across as a miffed and haughty self-justification, masked as mealy mouthed modesty.

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Google: No, no. You've got Glass all wrong

Crysis 2 Let`s Play-Post Human Warrior difficulty-Without using Armor and Cloak-#19
Crysis 2 von Crytek -- Herausgeber : Electronic Arts -- Musik : Hans Zimmer.

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Rochester, NY (PRWEB) March 22, 2014

polyDNAs most recent survey found that up to 90% of respondents were unaware that the human papillomavirus (HPV) may cause disease while in a latent state.

How can HPV cause disease while latent?

In one study, the HPV virus was found in the mouths of 7% of study participants. 5,600 people participated in that study. Oral HPV was found in men more than in women. The authors of the study wrote that, The prevalence of oral HPV infection among men and women aged 14 to 69 years in the United States is approximately 7%... Infection with HPV-16, (a specific type of HPV most associated with cancer) was detected in 1% of men and women, corresponding to an estimated 2.13 million infected individuals in the United States." (See JAMA, from February 15, 2012) (1). In essence, because HPV is able to establish a latent infection, and according to the study, 2.13 million people who don't have symptoms now, and don't even know they are infected, could develop cancer due to their HPV infection.

In fact, according to Dr. Hanan Polansky's highly acclaimed book entitled "Microcompetition with Foreign DNA and the Origin of Chronic Disease," latent viruses, like HPV, in high concentration, are the cause of many major diseases, such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and many more.

polyDNA encourages biologists, virologists, physicians and those at the FDA and CDC to download and read Dr. Polansky's book in depth. The book can be downloaded here: http://www.cbcd.net.

Some scientists believe that if a virus is latent, then microcompetition is irrelevant. This belief is simply wrong. A latent virus is not dead. It continues to express some of its proteins and therefore microcompetes with human genes.

Consider the paper entitled "Human Cytomegalovirus Persistence" published February 13, 2012 in the journal Cellular Microbiology. "Both the chronic and latent states of infection contribute to HCMV persistence and to the high HCMV seroprevalence worldwide. The chronic infection is poorly defined molecularly, but clinically manifests as low-level virus shedding over extended periods of time and often in the absence of symptoms (2).

A virus is still shedding copies of itself during the latent state.

The same paper goes on to say: "Transcripts and proteins encoded from a region encompassing the major immediate early region are detected in hematopoietic cells following infection in vitro as well as in latently infected individuals." (Kondo et al., 1996; Landini et al., 2000) (2).

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Can the Latent HPV Cause Disease?; polyDNA Answers Survey Question and Recommends Gene-Eden-VIR against the Latent HPV

The recent death of Chinese human rights defender Cao Shunli has brought a cascade of censure on China, including at Tuesdays United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council, where China usually managed to avoid direct criticism.

Cao died, according to family and friends, because authorities denied her medical treatment while she was incarcerated. They released her only when it was certain she was near death. Chinese officials denied this, first in the media, and on Wednesday at the UN council meeting, which did not find the defense convincing.

The death of Ms. Cao is a tragic example of the results of criminalization of the activities of human defenders in China and reprisals against them. It is unacceptable that civil society activists pay the ultimate price for peaceful and legitimate interaction with the United Nations and its human rights mechanisms, United Nations experts said in yesterdays news release.

Quoting recent statements from China, No one suffers reprisal for taking part in lawful activities or international mechanisms, and There is no so-called issue of suppressing human rights defenders, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says that China should be made to answer for Caos death.

China should make a promise to hold accountable those responsible for Caos death as it defends it questionable human rights record before the Human Rights Council, said Sophie Richardson, China director at HRW.

Already this month, in her annual report as the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Rapporteur Margaret Sekaggya noted that China had denied her routine country visits in 2008 and 2010 to review the circumstances of human rights defenders. The visit is a standard practice for member nations, and China joins company with nations such as egregious human rights offenders Mozambique, Sudan, Zimbabwe, and Syria in denying the Rapporteur visits.

Chinese authorities initially detained Cao Shunli at the Beijing airport in September of 2013, as she was boarding a flight to Geneva to take part in a training session on UN human rights mechanisms and to attend the session of the Human Rights Council. She was formally charged with illegal assembly and then with picking quarrels and provoking troubles in October.

Cao had planned to seek medical attention while at the conference. Her health deteriorated while she was in detention, and she was refused both the appropriate medical attention and the medical parole her family requested.

Chinese authorities have also withheld appropriate medical treatment or parole for imprisoned Chen Kegui, the nephew of Chen Guangcheng, the wife of Nobel prize winner Liu Xiaobo, who lives under house arrest, and numerous ordinary political prisoners such as Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Jinku in Hulan Prison.

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Crysis 2 Let`s Play-Post Human Warrior difficulty-Without using Armor and Cloak-#18
Crysis 2 von Crytek -- Herausgeber : Electronic Arts -- Musik : Hans Zimmer.

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The Post-Human Biocitizen - Les personnes futures comme biocitoyens
Numrique : vers une "post-humanit" ? Numrique, biotech et sant: Les personnes futures comme biosujets (Presentation/Intervention: http://www.slideshare.n...

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There's never been a shortage of doomsday scenarios. From the dreaded Mayan Apocalypse of 2012 (remember that?) to the havoc wreaked in the movie "The Day After Tomorrow," people have been predicting the end of civilization for as long as there has been a civilization.

The trouble is, they're sometimes correct: The Roman Empire fell spectacularly, as did the Mayan civilization, the Han Dynasty of China, India's Gupta Empire and dozens of other once-mighty kingdoms.

But how, exactly, do powerful empires collapse, and why? Researchers now believe they've found an answer, one that has troubling implications for today because we're clearly on the road to ruin. [11 Failed Doomsday Predictions]

Societal collapse more common than you think

The researchers' first task was overturning "the common impression that societal collapse is rare, or even largely fictional," as they wrote in their report, to be published in the journal Ecological Economics. [Photos: Life and Death of an Ancient Civilization]

In fact, they argue, the rise and fall of great social structures is so common a theme in human civilization recurrent throughout history and worldwide in scope that it's more the rule than the exception.

Most studies of a society's collapse have looked at the specifics of how one civilization declined, citing individual causes such as a disaster (earthquake, flood), loss of resources (soil erosion, deforestation) or human conflict (war, uprising) that led to the particular society's downfall.

But the researchers (funded in part by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland, College Park) cast a wider net. They aimed to create a useful mathematical model that could help analyze how any society might fall including our current global, technically advanced, interconnected society.

The balance of nature

The model they arrived at takes inspiration from the classic notion of predator vs. prey, sometimes referred to as the "balance of nature." When a deer population grows, for instance, the wolves that feed on those deer reproduce more successfully, too, and so the wolf population grows.

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Society Is Doomed, Say Scientists