The Pacman Jones testing facility.According to the Sporting News, the days of care-free pissing may soon be over, as a biotechnology company is in the process of developing an HGH test using urine samples.Ceres Nanosciences, in a partnership with academic powerhouse George Mason University, is reportedly less than six months away from finishing the first non-invasive human growth hormone detector:
It just doesn’t get any better than this. Climate change scientists on an expedition to the polar regions of Earth were given a crash course in shooting and a rifle in the event of a polar bear attack. Two problems with this: one, if the debate is over, why are we still drilling for core [...]
The Channel 4 program The Great Global Warming Swindle was a program that claimed that, man-made global warming was a conspiracy. The show had received 265 complaints from members of the public; Ofcom said guidelines on impartiality were breached.
According to The Guardian, media watchdog had said that Channel 4 broke rules as they impartiality and [...]
Scientists Re-Create Fully Functional Human Blood Vessels In Mice
Scientists have developed a promising method that could one day replace heart surgery with cell injections that would help reconstruct a damaged blood supply system and restore the normal oxygen flow to the heart.
The secret lies in an experimental implant of progenitor cells taken from human adult blood systems, which later
Sigma-Aldrich announced that its highly acclaimed chemistry review journal, Aldrichimica Acta, has again been ranked #1 by Impact Factor, out of 56 similar journals in the field of Organic Chemistry. In 2007, the latest year for which such rankings are available, the Acta achieved an Impact Factor of 11.929. The Acta was also ranked #1 in 2006 and 2005. These rankings appear annually in the Scienc
The new Care-O-bot® has a highly flexible arm and a three-finger hand with which it can pick up items such as a bottle. Force sensors prevent it from gripping too hard.
New Generation Of Home Robots Have Gentle Touch
Who doesn’t long for household help at times? Service robots will soon be able to relieve us of heavy, dirty, monotonous or irksome tasks. Research scientists have now presented a
Some brilliant scientists have identified several fat genes! yeah, now we have a
legitimate excuse to be overweight! I found this artilce that’s full of probably factual information but seriously folks I’m a true believer that for the most of us our weight is under our control or at least until it becomes dangerously out [...]
SCIENTISTS say they have genetically engineered fruit and vegetables capable of providing most of a day's nutrients in a single meal. Heading towards the market are potatoes with 33 per cent more protein content, modified tomatoes that could be capable of protecting against cancer and peanuts without the chemicals that cause deadly nut allergies. Such foods, the first genetic mod
An imbalance in a brain chemical linked to depression may also have something to do with sudden infant death syndrome, say Italian scientists who have uncovered new evidence that may pinpoint how it happens. Researchers with the European Molecular Biology...
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A slice of cool, fresh watermelon is a juicy way to top off a Fourth of July cookout and one that researchers say has effects similar to Viagra—but don’t necessarily expect it to keep the fireworks all night long.
Watermelons contain an ingredient called citrulline that can trigger production of a compound that helps [...]
Scientists: Watermelon yields Viagra-like effectsLUBBOCK, Texas - A slice of cool, fresh watermelon is a juicy way to top off a Fourth of July cookout and one that researchers say has effects similar to Viagra — but don't necessarily expect it to keep the fireworks all night long. Watermelons contain an ingredient called citrulline that can trigger production of a compound that helps relax the b
Australian scientists have discovered the oldest evidence of live birth on the planet, thanks to a fossil fish from Western Australia with a well-preserved embryo inside the body cavity.The fish comes from Gogo, a world-famous fossil deposit in the Kimberley about 375 million years old, making it the oldest example of live birth known amongst the vertebrates (animals with backbones).Researchers fr
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A slice of cool, fresh watermelon is a juicy way to top off a Fourth of July cookout and one that researchers say has effects similar to Viagra — but don’t necessarily expect it to keep the fireworks all night long.
Watermelons contain an ingredient called citrulline that can trigger production [...]
I hated learning Biology. Despised it utterly because I had to remember the extremely complex binomial nomenclature of species. Family, Genus, sub-species... ugh. If calling a Tiger, Tiger was not sufficient, we had to call its family Panthera Tigris. The Bengal Tiger was Panthera Tigris Tigris whereas the Siberian Tiger was Panther Tigris Altaica. A Frog was called Rana Pipiens! I always
To smoke marijuana frequently and for a drawn out time can shrink parts of the brain that govern memory, emotions and aggression, according to a study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.The scientists had used examinations of images gotten for magnetic resonance to mapear the brain of people who had admitted to more than smoke five marijuana cigarettes per day for a period of at least
MAEBASHI — A Gunma University research team has identified protein that blocks animals' bad past experiences from entering their fear memory, team members said. More... Copyright (c) 2005 - 2008 THE MAINICHI NEWSPAPERS. All Rights Reserved
A company called LS9 is creating nearly pump-ready oil using single-celled bacteria. They start with industrial yeast organisms or "non-pathogenic strains of E. coli," and redesign their DNA so that they produce a different kind of waste. Crude oil is not far removed, molecularly, from the fatty acids expelled by yeast or E. coli during fermentation, so a little bit of DNA alteration bypasses the
Washington, June 18 (ANI): Scientists have suggested that rebuilding should be banned along the tectonic faults that caused the massive May 12 earthquake in China’s Sichuan province.
According to a report in National Geographic News, fissures that cut through the Earth’s crust where the Sichuan Basin collides with the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau could [...]
Canada - Two internationally renowned scientists who contributed to a Canadian health study about asbestos and cancer risks have asked the Canadian government to make good on its promise to release the results of the study to the public.
Canadian federal agency Health Canada hired seven medical and scientific experts from around the world to compile [...]
Most Americans seem to think that "all" scientists believe in the theory of evolution.Nothing could be further from the truth.There are a huge number of highly qualified scientists who reject Darwinism and that number is growing every day.Here is one example of this movement away from Darwinism:---- Scientific Dissent From DarwinismDuring recent decades, new scientific evidence from many scientifi
Canada - Two internationally renowned scientists who contributed to a Canadian health study about asbestos and cancer risks have asked the Canadian government to make good on its promise to release the results of the study to the public.
Canadian federal agency Health Canada hired seven medical and scientific experts from around the world to compile [...]
German scientists have invented a wireless bionic eyeball that can restore vision to patients who have become blind due to retina damage or disease. The new prosthetic device caps 12 years of research to help these patients. This work has resulted in a unique system - a fully implantable visual prosthesis. The scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems in Du
German scientists have invented a wireless bionic eyeball that can restore vision to patients who have become blind due to retina damage or disease. The new prosthetic device caps 12 years of research to help these patients. This work has resulted in a unique system - a fully implantable visual prosthesis. The scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems in Du
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We Are Scientists seem to be living up to their name in their recent experiment with Brain Thrust Mastery. It is difficult to understand what science they are more interested in: a political science that involves pandering to various music tastes and aesthetics, or a hard science of patient data collecting and [...]
Scientist cook up a cooler way to produce polyethylene thin films.One would pretty much have to be living under a rock in a developed nation to not have encountered polyethylene. The chains of ethylene or ethene monomers comprise a vast amount of products, from the ubiquitous plastic bag to film to implants. PE comes in various forms and densities and over 60 million tons of the material are produ
Image via WikipediaHundreds of scientists and oncologists had ahead launched an order in favor of measures of precaution of the use of the cellular telephone of the lack of definitive tests on its harmless character to the health, in accordance with the edition of this sunday (15) of the French periodical journal Le du Dimanche. The scientists had signed the document published for the sunday ed
Silicon Valley is experimenting with bacteria that have been genetically altered to provide renewable petroleum. ..the genetic alteration of bugs – very, very small ones – so that when they feed on agricultural waste such as woodchips or wheat straw, they do something extraordinary. They excrete crude oil. Using genetically modified bugs for read more | digg story
Bill Hathaway Yale psychologist Rajita Sinha started with a simple question posed to a diverse group of academic colleagues at Yale and two other universities. "What is the role that stress plays in the loss of self-control leading to overconsumption of tobacco, alcohol and foods?" The question led to a collaborative $23 million effort of social scientists, neuroscientists, radiologists, psychiat
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch woman who was the oldest person in the world when she died at age 115 in 2005 appeared sharp right up to the end, joking that pickled herring was the secret to her longevity.
Scientists say that Henrikje van Andel-Schipper’s mind was probably as good as it seemed: a post-mortem [...]
IBM scientists say stacked processors have higher power densities than nuclear reactorsAs processors add processing cores, circuits, and other components, the amount of heat they generate increases exponentially. Researchers and chipmakers have found that the ability to dissipate heat will be one of the main challenges to making processors in the future.Researchers from IBM Labs and the Fraunhofer
Oxford researchers have won funding to improve the usefulness of weather predictions on the probability and extent of extreme rainfall. This will help hydrologists, civil engineers, policy-makers and...
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Environmental Issues and Global Warming Video by Alfonso Cuarón
I usually don’t blog about videos but this one really provoked my thinking cap. The Possibility of Hope touches upon issues of Global Warming, immigration, and world issues that are happening today and in the foreseeable future. According to the IMDB:
A look at different matters of the [...]
Company claims earthquake caused devastating volcanic eruption APJune 11, MSNBCJAKARTA, Indonesia - International scientists say they are almost certain a mud volcano that displaced tens of thousands of villagers in central Indonesia was caused by faulty drilling of a gas exploration well — not an earthquake as claimed by the company.Debate over the eruption has flared since a seemingly endless
Long-tailed macaque monkeys have a reputation for knowing how to find food — whether it be grabbing fruit from jungle trees or snatching a banana from a startled tourist. Now, researchers say they have discovered groups of the silver-haired monkeys in Indonesia that fish.
Groups of long-tailed macaques were observed four times over the past eight [...]
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Castrating Iraq: Mossad has Murdered 530 Iraqi Scientists, Academics Numerous reports for many months have stated that with collaboration from American occupation forces, Israel's espionage apparatus, Mossad, slaughtered at least 530 Iraqi scientists and academic professors. Persistent Israeli hit squads against Iraqi scientists had been active in Iraq since April 2003, but the latest chapter was
Scientists in Buenos Aires have announced the discovery of a new dinosaur species deep in Argentina's southern Patagonia region.
The fossil remains were found in the province of Santa Cruz just a...
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Excel 2007 for Scientists and Engineers (Excel for Professionals series)By Dr. Gerard Verschuuren* Publisher: Holy Macro! Books* Number Of Pages: 258* Publication Date: 2008-04-01* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1932802355* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781932802351* Binding: PaperbackProduct Description:With examples from the world of science and engineering, this reference teaches scientists how to create graphs
A believer of E=mc2 may put extra condition on his believing of scientific fact. Yes, it’s not about a common man with his faith or his Secularism.It’s about Scientists (!!) and who are they……..The Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture of Trinity College, Connecticut conducted a survey of the world views and opinions of Indian scientists last year. 1130 scientists, a
Washington, June 6 (ANI): Scientists from the University of Granada in Spain have designed a novel and versatile environmental diagnostic method for landfill management, which is able to adapt to different places of the world and contributes to quantify the environmental impact.
From this method, known as EVIAVE, they have designed a software application to solve [...]
Drug companies are hiring scientists from the FDA with increasing frequency. As these companies siphon off the FDA's most experienced scientists, they are leaving an increasingly smaller, less confident staff behind.
The FDA's staffing pains have caught the attention of lawmakers and consumers, who blame declining inspections for recent problems with tainted food and drugs, including salmonella-in
German scientists of the University of Stuttgart developed a computerized goalkeeper who can be moved to a speed of up to 60 kilometers for hour to defend the goal. “ The Goalias is better than any goalkeeper of the Bundesliga (first division of the German football) ”, promises proudly the investigator Mathias Maurmeier.“ He can seize the kicks in the corners to a speed that no professional
By Tara Parker-PopeJune 4, International Herald TribuneWhat do brain surgeons know about cellphone safety that the rest of us don't?Last week, three prominent neurosurgeons told the CNN interviewer Larry King that they did not hold cellphones next to their ears. "I think the safe practice," said Dr. Keith Black, a surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, "is to use an earpiece so you
Weizmann Institute physicists have demonstrated, for the first time, the existence of 'quasiparticles' with one quarter the charge of an electron. This finding could be a first step toward creating exotic types of quantum computers that might be powerful, yet highly stable.Fractional electron charges were first predicted over 20 years ago under conditions existing in the so-called quantum Hall eff
"Scientists from Carnegie Mellon University claim to have found a way to predict brain activity when someone thinks about specific words. So far, the catalog of words supported by the technology is limited to only 60 words. However, the simple fact that computers are able to detect thoughts based on words not only offers new opportunities in research such as thought disorders, but put the meaning
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Caption: Data distribution under traditional, P2P and P4P architecture. Credit: Courtesy of Doug Pasko and Laird Popkin. Usage Restrictions: with credit given.New Haven, Conn. — A Yale research team has engineered a system with the potential for making the Internet work more efficiently, in which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) software providers can work cooperatively t
Found this over at tomnelson.blogspot.com but wanted to elaborate on it a little. A new method of extracting carbon dioxide from the air had been discovered and it holds a promise to allow for the continued use of fossil fuels while keeping the Earth cool (if you believe [...]
Japanese scientists say they have used cutting-edge technology to create a noodle bowl so small it can be seen only through a microscope.
Mechanical engineering professor Masayuki Nakao said Thursday he and his students at the University of Tokyo used a carbon-based material to produce a noodle bowl with a diameter 1/25,000 of an inch in [...]
clipped from www.ucsusa.orgWASHINGTON (May 29, 2008) – More than 1,700 of the nation's most prominent scientists and economists today released a joint statement calling on policymakers to require immediate, deep reductions in heat-trapping emissions that cause global warming. Issued just days before the Senate begins debate on the Lieberman-Warner climate bill, the statement marks the first time
By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer
It’s a new frontier for psychiatric illness: Brain pacemakers that promise to act as antidepressants by changing how patients’ nerve circuitry fires.
Scientists already know the power of these devices to block the tremors of Parkinson’s disease and related illnesses; more than 40,000 such patients worldwide have the implants.
But psychiatri
This animation shows an artist’s rendering of the shock wave discovered by Princeton University’s Alicia Soderberg and a team of scientists.
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‘The change is much more rapid than initially forecast,’ one expert say..
Forests in flames: Scientists see warming ties
Russian helicopter dumps
water on a forest fire near the Siberian city of Chita. In the Siberian taiga and Canadian Rockies,
in southern California and Australia, researchers find growing evidence
tying an upsurge in wildfires to climate change, an
At a press conference on May 19, Dr. Arthur Robinson announced the release of the names of 32,000 scientists who have signed a strongly worded petition dissenting from the position taken by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other scientific organizations.
Signers include more than 9,000 Ph.Ds, although only a relatively small percentage of the signers are climate sci
HOT INDIE ROCK:Now In StoresWe Are ScientistsWe Are Scientists - After Hours BONUS: "After Hours" VideoWindows Media Player / Quick Time"No animals - human or otherwise - were hurtduring the filming of this music video"On their second album, We Are Scientists hope to surprise a lot of people - - the same way they did with their 2005 debut, "Love and Squalor." Back then the band was a three-piece.
- Science Research Gone Mad -Scientists Create “Cytoplasmic Hybrids” or “Cybrids”Part Animal/Part Human No Longer MythologyBritish scientists will be allowed to research devastating diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s using human-animal embryos, after the House of Commons rejected a ban yesterday.The main kinds of admixed embryo permitted by the Bill are “cytoplasmic hybrids
It is past time for many misguided Scientists to place actual Science above popular political agenda. It now appears that at least some are doing just that when it comes to the study of the earth's climate.WorldNetDaily has reported that currently 31,000 plus scientists across the United States have signed a petition rejecting the theory of man-made "global warming." Those signing the petition in
"We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind....vqwtt
The names of over 31,000 American scientists that reject the theory of anthropogenic global warming are to be revealed on Monday.Although this will occur at the National Press Club in Washington, DC., it seems a metaphysical certitude media will completely ignore the event.The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) will announce that more than 31,000 scientists have signed a petition reje
From: The Role of Social Science in Nepal by Dev Raj Dahal Spiritual blindness of Nepalese social scientists has thus opened multiple gaps between their worldview and those of the citizens on various frontiers--theoretical knowledge and practical experience, technical understanding and composite knowledge and secularity of social science and the vitality of the Hindu-Buddhist scriptu
It was only a magnitude 1.8 on the scale geologists use. But its center was just a mile from Annandale, Va., in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. — enough to get the attention of scientists and local emergency officials.
It happened on Tuesday afternoon, and though it did no damage, hundreds of people called local news [...]
AFP - French-led technologists said they had beefed up the performance of a nano-powder that stores carbon dioxide (CO2) in what could be a step forward in tackling global warming caused by road traffic.
We Are Scientists are out with the video to their new single 'Chick Lit', from the Brooklyn, New York based indie rock band's third album 'Brain Thrust Mastery', out now in the UK and on May 13th in the U.S. According to the band, 'Chick Lit' tells t
Washington, May 1 : Georgia Institute of Technology scientists have discovered a new ocean current that has now been named the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation.
The new pattern, has for the first time explained the changes in the water that are important in helping commercial fishermen understand fluctuations in the fish stock.
The North Pacific Gyre Oscillation [...]
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Those wacky scientists are at it again. This story emerging out of Cincinnati is about a “magical” powder concoction that scientists claim was used to regenerate piece of a man’s...
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Global warming will stop until at least 2015 because of natural variations in the climate, scientists have said. Melting icebergs: The study predicts the IPCC's 0.3ºC temperature rise for the next decade may not happenResearchers studying long-term changes in sea temperatures said they now expect a "lull" for up to a decade while natural variations in climate cancel out the increases caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions. The average temperature of the sea around Europe and North America is expected to cool slightly over the decade while the tropical Pacific remains unchanged. This would mean that the 0.3°C global average temperature rise which has been predicted for the next decade by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel
A couple months ago I posted about how the EPA overruled its own experts and denied California's plan to address greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks. Well this pattern of using politics, rather than science, to create rules and justify actions by the EPA has infected the agency to a dangerous degree, according to a new report. The Union of Concerned Scientists, concerned about how the EPA's decisions "have too often led to the suppression and the distortion of the scientific findings underlying those decisions," took on the task of investigating the treatment of EPA scientists and how their work was used. After a comprehensive survey of over 1500 EPA scientists, UCS found that 60% of the had encountered at least one instance of political interference in the previous five years.
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Twenty-five years after Reagan's Star Wars speech By David Wright and Lisbeth Gronlund | 1 April 2008 On March 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan made his famous Star Wars speech, announcing his plan to develop a missile defense system that would make nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete." His vision of a "shield that could protect us from nuclear missiles just as a roof protects a family from the rain" was both seductive and audacious. It was seductive because it offered an easy answer to the omnipresent threat of a massive Soviet nuclear attack at a time when the Soviets and the United States maintained 60,000 nuclear warheads between them. It especially appealed to those who believed in the supremacy of U.S. science and technology but did not understand technical issues. At the sa
British scientists say lifting weights can cause baldness.That's because weight training increases testosterone levels immediately after a session, rising 25 percent after 45 minutes, The Sun reported. About 30 minutes later, testosterone levels drop as the hormone is converted to dihydrotestosterone or DHT, which shrinks hair follicles and roots."We have seen an increase in men in their 20s and 30s who regularly circuit train," Rogers Medical Group, a practice specializing in hair transplants, said in a statement. "There's no doubt it is often a factor in hairloss."While inheriting genes for baldness is still the biggest single cause of hair loss, scientists say training with weights is No. 2. Women who lift weights are also likely to end up with thinner hair.Heavy-set men who eat high-fa
The Organic Nanomaterials Center at NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan, is seeking postdoctoral scientists having a strong background in organic synthesis, macromolecular science, surface & colloid chemistry,...
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The Associated Press is reporting on a survey conducted by the Union of Concerned Scientists that shows half of EPA scientists have felt political pressure while working for the Agency.
Nearly 400 EPA scientists have seen Agency officials misrepresenting scientific data in public discussions. Over 250 have seen officials manipulating data to serve a specific political purpose.
There has been a
weird factsScientists have been able to take control of flies' brains to make females behave just like males.Researchers genetically modified the insects so that a group of brain cells that control sexual behaviour could be "switched on" by a pulse of light.The team was able to get female fruit flies to produce a courtship song - behaviour usually only seen in males.The study, published in the journal Cell, suggests that the wiring in male and female flies' brains is similar.Scanning electron micrograph of the fruit fly (SPL)What would happen if we turned the neurons on in femalesGero MiesenboeckGero Miesenboeck, from Oxford University, UK, who carried out the research with J. Dylan Clyne from Yale University, US, said: "It is often the case that males have to work very hard to convince fe
In what seems to be a deceptive maneuver to many in both the medical and the publishing fields, Merck acknowledged that it has been known to hire outside professional writers to develop research-related documents that eventually get published under the name of reputable leaders in the medical community. Critics are expressing doubt about the validity of the research and about the actual involvement of the scientists listed as authors of the papers. One especially galling example is that of the paper being developed as solid academic research but the lead writer is listed as “External author.”
Dr. Joseph S. Ross, of New York’s Mount Sinai School of Medicine, came across the apparently ghostwritten research studies while reviewing documents related to lawsuits filed against
"There are a handful of scenarios that theorists have suggested for how one might travel to the past, said Brian Greene, author of the bestseller, “The Elegant Universe” and a physicist at Columbia University.“And almost all of them, if you look at them closely, brush up right at the edge of physics as we understand it. Most of us think that almost all of them can be ruled out.”[via live science]
Nature released the results of an online survey in which 20 percent of respondents, largely drawn from the scientific community, admitted to using brain-enhancing drugs like Ritalin (methylphenidate) and Provigil (modafinil).
Sixty-two percent of the scientists who had taken drugs used Ritalin while 44 percent reported using Provigil and only 14 percent had tried beta blockers like propranolol.
Do as I say, not as I do, unfortunately, doesn't always work: Advice is often not taken seriously when the advisor's actions are contrary to their advice. That said, how will the news be received that 80% of Nature readers, mostly scientists, feel healthy adults should be able to take Ritalin and similar drugs to enhance their focus? How many millions of students hoping to follow in their footsteps will see that as a license to take drugs? And how many will end up in drug rehab because of...
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This thing could make a Black Hole or a Strangelet that could seriously hurt …if not destroy the Earth…
More strife in Iraq. U.S. financial system in crisis. Rice prices soar.
None of these headlines will matter a bit, though, if two men pursuing a lawsuit in a court in Hawaii turn out to be right. They [...]
