One Step closer to AI

[One Step closer to obtaining artificial intelligence, does this mean soon the AI will get perfected and we won't need so many human(slaves) on this planet anymore because we will have the machine doing work for us. Like the parking attendances, less and less of them is being seen the parking machine have replace the once in abundance parking attendances. Freeing our energy and mind for better uses maybe even for the likes of some intellectual thinking to solve bigger problems.

The gobal machine is rolling full speed it is a matter of when we will get the AI we are looking for then we are just one step closer to total control of our planet. -enjoy-]

http://www.canada.com/technology/Watch+scientists+robot+replace/1456768/story.html

Watch out scientists, a robot may replace you
By Ben Hirschler, Reuters

LONDON - Two teams of researchers said on Thursday they had created machines that could reason, formulate theories and discover scientific knowledge on their own, marking a major advance in the field of artificial intelligence.
Such robo-scientists could be put to work unravelling complex biological systems, designing new drugs, modelling the world's climate or understanding the cosmos.
For the moment, though, they are performing more humble tasks.
At Aberystwyth University in Wales, Ross King and colleagues have created a robot called Adam that can not only carry out experiments on yeast metabolism but also reason about the results and plan the next experiment.
It is the world's first example of a machine that has made an independent scientific discovery — in this case, new facts about the genetic make-up of baker's yeast.
"On its own it can think of hypotheses and then do the experiments, and we've checked that it's got the results correct," King said in an interview.
"People have been working on this since the 1960s. When we first sent robots to Mars, they really dreamt of the robots doing their own experiments on Mars. After 40 or 50 years, we've now got the capability to do that."
Their next robot, Eve, will have much more brain power and will be put to work searching for new medicines.
King hopes the application of intelligent robotic thinking to the process of sifting tens of thousands of compounds for potential new drugs will be particularly valuable in the hunt for treatments for neglected tropical diseases like malaria.
King published his findings in the journal Science, alongside a second paper from Hod Lipson and Michael Schmidt of Cornell University in New York, who have developed a computer program capable of working out the fundamental physical laws behind a swinging double pendulum.
Just by crunching the numbers — and without any prior instruction in physics — the Cornell machine was able to decipher Isaac Newton's laws of motion and other properties.
Lipson does not think robots will make scientists obsolete any day soon, but believes they could take over much of the routine work in research laboratories.
"One of the biggest problems in science today is finding the underlying principles in areas where there are lots and lots of data," he told reporters in a conference call. "This can help in accelerating the rate at which we can discover scientific principles behind the data."

LifeKills --- Epidemics

Meningitis epidemics - Strikes again..., is this a natural lifekill or is it a man made lifekill agent?

it has a sign of man made only strikes and kill human the animals are left alone.

"N. meningitidis only infects humans; there is no animal reservoir"

First recorded 1805 when an outbreak swept through Geneva, Switzerland. But most of the outbreak happens mainly in:

"West Africa every year, affecting 25 000 to 200 000 people, particularly children"

"The highest burden of meningococcal disease occurs in sub-Saharan Africa, which is known as the “Meningitis Belt”, an area that stretches from Senegal in the west to Ethiopia in the east, with an estimated total population of 300 million people."

But don't worry if you feel lefted out, if you're not living in Africa, we do have strain for you at in local area:

"Serogroups B and C together account for a large majority of cases in Europe and the Americas. Several local outbreaks due to N. meningitidis serogroup C have been reported in Canada and USA (1992-93) and in Spain (1995-97). For 10 years, the meningococcal meningitis activity has particularly increased in New Zealand where an average of 500 cases occurs every year"

"There is increasing evidence of serogroup W135 being associated with outbreaks of considerable size. In 2000 and 2001 several hundred pilgrims attending the Hajj in Saudia Arabia were infected with N. meningitidis W135. Then in 2002, W135 emerged in Burkina Faso, striking 13,000 people and killing 1,500"

But don't worry we do have several vaccines to combat those different strain of bacteria. One thing will not kill you but another will...

" All these vaccines have been proven to be safe and effective with infrequent and mild side effects. The vaccines may not provide adequate protection for 10 to 14 days following injection."

"cannot be used in children under 2 years of age because they lack the ability to develop antibodies" [lifekill will work here kill off the young and there won't be any new growth, how sweet]

"Furthermore, even large scale coverage with current vaccines does not provide sufficient 'herd immunity'. " [Nice, W.H.O. even call people herds haha]

Now in recent news just 2 days ago they have reported that "the first time there have been so many cases in northern Nigeria, an area she describes as being outside the usual African 'meningitis belt.' " So it is spreading to parts that was never touch before now they are getting the epidemics. Read all about it on the bottom:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iORPmtBubyPP2owmNXHvGrXpU4xA

Meningitis death toll reaches 960 in Nigeria; 17,000 people infected

2 days ago

GENEVA — The death toll from a severe outbreak of meningitis in Nigeria has risen to 960.
The World Health Organization says some 17,000 people have been infected with the disease since Jan. 1.
WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib says it is the first time there have been so many cases in northern Nigeria, an area she describes as being outside the usual African "meningitis belt."
Chaib says a total of 17,462 cases of meningitis have been reported in the three-month outbreak in Africa's most populous country and that the WHO and other agencies are helping to vaccinate people against the disease.
She says there has also been a smaller outbreak to the north in Niger, which lies within the area more commonly affected by the disease, stretching from Senegal in the west to Ethiopia in the east.
Chaib said Niger has reported 4,513 people infected since the beginning of the year, with 169 deaths.
Nigeria has had meningitis epidemics during each of the last three years, but they were smaller than this year.
In the last week alone, Niger has registered 1,071 cases, including 30 deaths.
Meningitis is an inflammation of protective brain and spinal cord membranes and is caused by viral or bacterial infection.
"A meningitis epidemic is always serious," said Chaib. "It overwhelms the health facilities, disrupts routine activities, kills between five and 10 per cent of the patients and can cause brain damage in 10 to 20 per cent of those who survive."

Able to Erase Painful memory now what can do they later....

[So they are able to erase painful memeories now, I wonder what that would mean for us... For sure they can kill off all the fear emotion from someone so they are able to make a super soldier soon. No fear of anything not even death. I wonder what kind of things they have plan for the mass with something like this. I mean if they can erase painful memories now they would also be able to remove memories in general soon. What best way to get the best cattle is to erase all this programming and reprogram it to do something else. Sweet this goes hand in hand with programming and they already got that down to a science. Do I see the making of the movie total recall? erase your memory of a shitty life and lets put in place of that what a great life you have.]

Should painful memories be erased?

Toronto researchers have been able to do it in traumatized mice
Mar 13, 2009 04:30 AM

Joseph Hall

Health Reporter

Something horrible happens. A child is lost. A bomb goes off. A car goes out of control.
And deep in the brain, in the lateral amygdala region, a scattered set of neurons come to life and begin to vibrate with fear.
Through an ingenious set of experiments, a group of researchers at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children have not only located these terror-laden brain cells in mice, but erased them – along with the frightening memories they stored.
While our imaginations have long been captivated by the idea of altering memory – to sinister effect in George Orwell's 1984 and poignantly in the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – this research suggests a more therapeutic use.
The study, which appears today in the journal Science, may hold out the hope that terrifying memories one day might be erased before they can fester into such conditions as post-traumatic stress disorder.
While the sights and sounds of a blast or crash would stay intact, the memory of the fear it caused could conceivably be removed, the researchers suggest.
"You wouldn't want to completely get rid of all aspects of a memory," says Dr. Michael Salter, head of the Neurosciences & Mental Health program at the hospital.
"To help people with these kinds of post-traumatic stress disorders ... you might just want to minimize the emotional association between the memory and the highly disruptive and negative emotions that people have in this context."
He says the research may well conjure "Orwellian" notions of thought control, "but that's not really the goal of this. The idea would be (to use it) in a therapeutic way."
Salter was not involved in writing the paper, but was speaking on behalf of senior author Sheena Josselyn, a Sick Kids scientist who politely declined an interview request because she had "just gone into labour." Josselyn and her co-author husband, Paul Frankland, do much of their work in Salter's program.
Salter says the fear-storing neurons found in the mice are almost certainly located in the same amygdala region in human brains and work in much the same way.
The study, he says, suggests that only those amygdala neurons that express high levels of a brain protein known as CREB – about 10 to 20 per cent of the cells in the region – are involved in storing fearful memories.
Known as the universal memory molecule, CREB is essential in allowing brain cells to lay down memories of all kinds.
The researchers were able to selectively stimulate the specific fear-storing neurons by introducing a virus that triggered this CREB and turned the cells on.
After stimulating their CREB-rich cells, the mice were played a tone accompanied by an electrical shock to their feet, establishing a memory of fear to that specific sound in the excited cells.
A second virus was then introduced that migrated specifically to the CREB-expressing neurons and made them susceptible to a diphtheria toxin. When the toxin was injected, it killed the neurons where the fearful memory was stored.
Josselyn stressed in an earlier podcast interview conducted by the journal that the experiment did not destroy the brain's entire capacity to remember fear, only the specific recollection of the shocking tone.
Indeed, when exposed to the same tone and shock combination again, the mice were able to relearn their wariness of the sound.
Injecting diphtheria toxins to kill brain cells in humans would never be an acceptable therapy, Salter says. But there could be medicinal methods to disrupt the natural biochemical pathways that turn on the CREB mechanism and prevent fearful memories from taking root.
The scientist whose work in reconsolidating memory inspired the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind said Josselyn's team has found "one of the Holy Grails" of memory work.
"The elegance in this one, which goes orders of magnitude beyond other studies, is that now they didn't do something that was global to all neurons in the lateral nucleus," said Karim Nader, professor of neuroscience at McGill University. "They can kill only the neurons that they think express the memory."
In the film, ex-lovers played by Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet elect to have their memories of each other erased after their relationship sours. Despite the treatment, however, they eventually reunite.

When Houses Can Kill... What will they think of next?

[Now your house that you bought at the housing boom might be killing you, aren't you happy about that. Isn't this an irony you bought this house when the housing boom happened but now you're dying in it because the house builder wanted to make the most profit out of their house they are selling you they used cheap drywall from China. So instead of buying material locally that cost more they went and bought it from China. So your house is really worthless now. Read it for yourself news report below.]

http://www.canada.com/health/Toxic+Chinese+drywall+accused+health+problems/1377648/story.html

Toxic Chinese drywall accused for health problems in Canada, U.S.

VANCOUVER — Homeowners from several communities in B.C.'s Lower Mainland have joined the flood of callers to a U.S. consumer group investigating Chinese drywall that has allegedly begun to sicken North Americans.
Thomas Martin, president of America's Watchdog, says that in the past two weeks about a dozen Lower Mainland callers have all reported experiencing the same nose bleeds, breathing problems and allergy-type symptoms that have affected homeowners across the U.S.
Continued exposure could result in severe health problems, the group says.
"This type of drywall was produced with materials that emit toxic hydrogen sulphide gas and other sulphide gases," says a copy of one home inspection report obtained Canwest News Service on an affected Florida home where Chinese drywall was installed. "These sulphide gases are also alleged to cause serious health conditions and illnesses, such as shortness of breath, dizziness, headaches, fatigue, insomnia, eye irritations and respiratory difficulties."
"It's scary, it's a nightmare. We think we are looking at the worst case of sick houses in U.S. history," Martin said.
"I'd liken it to the problems you find in a meth house (where an illegal lab has been operating)," he said. "If you have had any experience with a meth house, you know it will have to be bulldozed. Like in a meth house, the emissions permeate everything, the two-by-fours, the trusses, the fabric in your furniture, your clothes."
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said last week it was investigating complaints about the Chinese-made drywall.
All houses affected have shown a common symptom — blackened, scorched wiring behind switch plates and wall plugs — and, coupled with homeowner health symptoms, that's allowed research to proceed, Martin said.
Martin said the group has also fielded calls from worried Canadians who bought property south of the border when the Canadian dollar was high.
The drywall in question was imported from China between 2001 and 2007. According to Martin's research, at least 929,000 square metres were imported through Vancouver between 2001 and 2006, all bound for Canadian destinations.
So far, research shows some appears to have landed on the Prairies, some in Toronto, he said.
One possibility is that the Chinese drywall was made using gypsum that was first used in slurry containing carcinogens to de-sulphur coal.
Chemicals remaining in the wallboard are sufficiently toxic that as few as three sheets of drywall may be enough to contaminate a home to the point it may require bulldozing, Martin says.
The difficulty for inspectors is that walls may have been built with drywall from as many as four sources — so simply pulling one clean sample is no guarantee of safety.
Martin said supplies in the U.S. can be tracked where they were used by licensed builders and insurance may pay for the damages. But anyone using small firms or paying for renovations under the table will be difficult to find and help.
Few Canadian labour or industry officials are aware of the issue.
Tiziana Baccega, public relations manager for Home Depot in Canada, said the chain has never sold Chinese-made drywall in any of its Canadian or U.S. outlets.
Other major suppliers and retailers could not be reached.
Several lawsuits, including one by a group of Florida homeowners, have been filed against German drywall maker Knauf Gips KG, its Chinese plasterboard units and several U.S. home builders.

News Time: Tests find Bisphenol A in majority of soft drinks

[Found on http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090305.BPA05/TPStory/ very interesting story about what is really in your pop can drinks. Then digging deeper still on what Bisphenol A (BPA) is about in Wikipedia do a serach and read it for yourself I can't hand you all the info all the time gotta teach you all how to fish.

Wikipedia:

Most recently, a study by the Yale School of Medicine demonstrated that adverse neurological effects occur in non-human primates regularly exposed to bisphenol A at levels equal to the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) maximum safe dose of 50 µg/kg/day.[28][29] This research found a connection between BPA and interference with brain cell connections vital to memory, learning and mood.

And we wounder why we are having difficulty learning and remembering things or even acting like wild animals because we cannot control our moods]

Controversial chemical found in at least 84% of canned pop sold in Canada
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT

March 5, 2009

ENVIRONMENT REPORTER

The estrogen-mimicking chemical BPA, already banished from baby bottles and frowned upon in water jugs, has now shown up in significant levels in soft drinks.
Tests by Health Canada scientists revealed the highest levels were in energy drinks, the often caffeine-loaded beverages that have become popular with teenagers seeking a buzz and athletes chasing a quick pick-me-up. But the study also found the controversial compound in a wide variety of ginger ales, diet colas, root beers and citrus-flavoured sodas.
Bisphenol A was detected in 96 per cent of soft drinks tested, in quantities below regulatory limits. But a growing body of science suggests the chemical may have harmful effects at levels far below those limits.

Health Canada did not disclose the brand names of the beverages it evaluated, but estimated that the survey covered at least 84 per cent of canned soft drinks sold in Canada.
The testing is considered the most sophisticated conducted anywhere in the world on BPA in pop, a subject about which little has been known up to now. The report outlining the results appeared last month in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, a relatively obscure scientific publication, and Health Canada also posted its data on its website, with little publicity.
Soft-drink cans are treated with a BPA-containing liner to prevent drinks from coming into contact with metal.
Although independent scientists and environmentalists warn that all exposures to the artificial sex hormone should be avoided, both Health Canada and the soft-drink industry played down the study's findings, saying the amounts detected were well below regulatory limits.
"It really confirms the safety of the packaging," said Justin Sherwood, president of Refreshments Canada, an industry trade group. He said the higher levels in several energy drinks may be statistical flukes.
Since prior testing hasn't usually detected residues, the soft-drink industry has long told consumers that its canned product doesn't expose drinkers to BPA. Pop companies have consequently avoided some of the controversy surrounding polycarbonate plastic water bottles, baby bottles and canned foods, where testing has often found the compound.
Health Canada contends there is no risk because a single serving of pop with the highest amount detected - 4.5 parts per billion - would give drinkers a dose well below its safety limit.
The levels are "extremely low," said Samuel Godefroy, director of the health agency's Bureau of Chemical Safety. He said children would not be at risk from consuming pop, and an adult would have to drink 900 cans a day to exceed the government's safety level.
Still, many scientists are worried about ingestion of the minute amounts of BPA found leaching from food and beverage packaging. The chemical is a synthetic compound able to fool cells into viewing it as estrogen, providing what amounts to an extra dollop of the female hormone.
"We are constantly getting exposed to this chemical," said Frederick vom Saal, a biologist at the University of Missouri and an authority on BPA. "People drink a lot of soda and this needs to be looked at as one of a very large number of sources of exposure to this chemical." BPA is also used in dental sealants, plastic water pipes and even carbonless cash-register receipts.
Although levels vary, natural estrogen circulates in people at extremely minute concentrations, around a part per trillion. The test results indicated that an average soft drink has concentrations of BPA around half a part per billion, or 500 times more than the level of the female hormone in people.
Dr. vom Saal says there is also a growing body of scientific literature, based on animal experiments, that has found harmful effects due to BPA at concentrations up to 1,000 times below Health Canada's safety limit. These conditions include such hormonally linked illnesses as breast cancer, and Dr. vom Saal called the government's assurances of no harm "simple-minded."
The Health Canada testing found BPA in 69 of the 72 cans evaluated. It didn't detect the chemical in two cans of tonic water, but the researchers said a bittering agent in them may have gummed up the tests; they could not explain why one can of energy drink didn't show any bisphenol A.
Nor is it clear why, overall, the highest BPA levels were found in energy drinks, but the results might be a surprise to some of the consumers of these products. "It would be interesting to do a survey in the weight rooms to see how many tough guys are aware of the estrogen levels in their drinks," said Aaron Freeman, a spokesman for Environmental Defence, a group that is lobbying Health Canada to eliminate BPA from food and beverage packaging.
RESPONSES TO BPA
The safety of bisphenol A levels in several products
has been questioned.
Polycarbonate
baby bottles
Health Canada is drafting rules to ban their import, sale and advertising. Retailers have pulled them from shelves in advance of the ban.
Polycarbonate
water bottles
Most retailers have removed them, and bottle makers are switching to BPA-free alternatives.
Canned formula
Health Canada is working to develop a code of practice to reduce BPA leaching from infant formula cans to the lowest possible levels.
Canned foods
BPA is found in most canned foods, but Health Canada says the amounts pose no risk to adults, pregnant women or children older than 18 months.
Toxic substances list
Canada is adding BPA to the dangerous chemical list, based on worries that infants could be overexposed and that it is a possible hazard to wildlife.
Pop cans
A new Health Canada survey has found BPA in nearly all cans, but it says residues are too low to be a risk.
Martin Mittelstaedt

News Time: Helping asthmatics breathe easier

[Found at http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/524206 so I guess this will help us get rid of those asthmatic people faster when they start to take this nice new drug that will lower their white blood cells so they can get sick much easiler. Maybe even die because of this. LIFEKILLS working over time again. Interesting read I wonder if they are not just using those people as test subject and when the time comes they will spray this over the mass via chem trail to lower all our white blood cell count so then they can get us with the real deal.]

The Hamilton Spectator(Mar 5, 2009)

Severe asthmatics could well breath easier with a new drug being tested in Hamilton.

[Of coruse they want you to breath easier so you can breath in all the chem trail they will be spraying over their head]

Mepolizumab appears to reduce the number of white blood cells called eosinophils,

[Eosinophil granulocytes, usually called eosinophils (or, less commonly, acidophils), are white blood cells that are one of the immune system components responsible for combating infection and parasites in vertebrates. taken from Wikipedia]

which are associated with asthma. That means patients can reduce their use of other medications such as corticosteroids, which have side effects particularly when used long term.
The McMaster study by Param Nair, being published in the New England Journal of Medicine today, found the nine patients who received mepolizumab for five months "markedly reduced" their use of corticosteroid prednisone. In contrast, the 11 asthmatics given a placebo had flare-ups if they used less medication.
About 5 to 8 per cent of asthmatics or an estimated 60,000 to 120,000 Canadians have severe enough asthma to possibly benefit from monthly injections of mepolizumab, which is an antibody. The drug is not yet approved in Canada.