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>DNC's Vote Tallying App?
https://twitter.com/ShadowIncHQ
https://www.axios.com/2020-elections-iowa-caucus-dnc-chair-voting-app-34c22060-9fe3-4c0f-8709-95c5540cf495.html
>https://twitter.com/ShadowIncHQ
>https://twitter.com/ShadowIncHQ
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-05/-we-feel-really-terrible-says-ceo-whose-app-roiled-iowa-caucus
https://outline.com/6xS4tU
‘We Feel Really Terrible,’ Says CEO Whose App Roiled Iowa Caucus
The chief executive of the technology company whose app threw the Iowa caucuses into disarray Monday night defended his company but apologized for a technological glitch that angered candidates, left voters baffled and upended the opening act of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.
“I’m really disappointed that some of our technology created an issue that made the caucus difficult,” said Gerard Niemira, the CEO of political technology company Shadow Inc., in his first interview after the caucus. “We feel really terrible about that.”
The Iowa Democratic Party contracted with Shadow to build an app to help the party quickly compile results in the state’s 1,765 precincts. But on Monday night, the system quickly broke down. Niemira, 37, said the problem first became apparent at around 7:45 p.m. when volunteers tried to submit their results, and the Iowa Democratic Party’s automated quality control checks discovered “anomalies in transmission reports.” The breakdown, he said, wasn’t with the app itself but in the way Shadow transmitted data to the Iowa Democratic Party.
“The app was sound and good,” Niemira said. “All the data that was produced by calculations performed by the app was correct. It did the job it was supposed to do, which is help precinct chairs in the field do the math correctly. The problem was caused by a bug in the code that transmits results data into the state party’s data warehouse.” That transmission bug, he said, “had catastrophic impact.”
>https://outline.com/6xS4tU
Shadow, based in Denver, was founded last year and builds technological tools for Democratic candidates and progressive causes. Its major funder is Acronym, a nonprofit group that invests in progressive technology companies, an Acronym spokesman said. Niemira also confirmed Acronym’s role as majority investor in Shadow but declined to name the company’s other investors. He also declined to name the members of Shadow’s board of directors.
Acronym changed the language on its website from saying “we launched Shadow” to “we invested in Shadow.” Meanwhile, after the delay became apparent, on MSNBC Plouffe downplayed his ties. “My relationship with Acronym has been going on for a few months. I have no knowledge of Shadow,” Plouffe said. “It was news to me.”
If you look at Acronym's "About" page today it says "we invested in Shadow" but if you look at the Wayback Machine from last month it's "we launched Shadow"
>Acronym
<https://outline.com/X9ykHZ
Startup Behind Faulty Iowa Election App Linked to Top Democrats
While few people had heard of Shadow before, Acronym has become an increasingly prominent name in Democratic politics by offering itself up as an answer to President Donald Trump’s prodigious digital effort. David Plouffe, former President Barack Obama’s campaign manager, is on the board.
Acronym acknowledged it had taken a stake in Shadow, but distanced itself from the company after the problems in Iowa. Acronym described itself in a statement as a nonprofit organization, and “an investor in several for-profit companies across the progressive media and technology sectors. One of those independent, for-profit companies is Shadow, Inc., which also has other private investors.”
The statement significantly downplayed Acronym’s ties to Shadow, which is run by Acronym’s former chief technology officer. The company grew out of another startup called Groundbase, which built messaging tools for Democratic political campaigns. Acronym acquired Groundbase last year. The startup’s products were incorporated into Shadow, which Acronym said it “launched” last year.
Acronym changed the language on its website from saying “we launched Shadow” to “we invested in Shadow.” Meanwhile, after the delay became apparent, on MSNBC Plouffe downplayed his ties. “My relationship with Acronym has been going on for a few months. I have no knowledge of Shadow,” Plouffe said. “It was news to me.”
In a post that has since been deleted from Acronym’s website, Niemira wrote that the company would “exist under the ACRONYM umbrella and build accessible technological infrastructure and tools to enable campaigns to better harness, integrate and manage data across the platforms and technologies they all use.”
Public filings show that Acronym’s political action committee, Pacronym, shares a mailing address with Shadow.
>Public filings show that Acronym’s political action committee, Pacronym, shares a mailing address with Shadow.
https://www.pacronym.org/
Trump is already winning 2020
>Protease Cleavage
>https://www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/ncna1200726
John Ratcliffe, Trump's DNI nominee, follows QAnon Twitter. That's disqualifying.
>“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
>-Robert A. Heinlein
source.dat
>https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1258030055034441728
"Well, we knew that they(@CBSNews
) were coming, we had no clue that we're going to have to do FAKE PATIENTS…" - Registered Nurse, @CherryHealthMI
>at Wuhan University
>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/byron-yorks-daily-memo-exclusive-dni-to-schiff-the-transcripts-are-ready-to-release
https://www.wsj.com/articles/schiffs-secret-transcripts-11587769594
Schiff’s Secret Transcripts
Why is he sitting on declassified interviews in the collusion probe?
>Why is he sitting on declassified interviews in the collusion probe?
>https://www.rt.com/news/487896-undetected-asteroid-earth-record-close-flyby/
>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/byron-yorks-daily-memo-exclusive-dni-to-schiff-the-transcripts-are-ready-to-release
>https://twitter.com/omarfromuk/status/1257471787325063173
>https://twitter.com/adamgoldmanNYT/status/1257815144685592581
cool thanks
NYT reporter covering FBI and nat sec. Ex-WaPo & AP.
Jia Wang, deputy director of the China Institute at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, is not concerned with Xiangguo Qiu's trips to China, saying collaboration is common in international research. (China Institute)
>Xiangguo Qiu's trips to China
Remarkable achievements were attained, indeed, and Dr. Qiu accepted the Governor General's Innovation Award in 2018.
So far so good, seemingly. But the collateral Chinese plexus cannot be ignored. Married to a Chinese scientist – Dr. Keding Cheng, also affiliated with the NML (specifically the “Science and Technology Core”), and primarily a bacteriologist who shifted to virology – Dr. Qiu frequently visited and maintained tight bonds with China, generally speaking, and many Chinese students joined her works in the NML during the recent decade, coming from a notable range of Chinese scientific facilities. Nonetheless, among the latter there are four facilities that have been regarded to possess parts of the Chinese biological weapons alignment.
https://idsa.in/cbwmagazine/chinas-biological-warfare-programme
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Zheng x et al, Treatment with hyperimmune equine immunoglobulin or immunoglobulin fragments completely protects rodents from Ebola virus infection, Sci Rep. 2016 Apr 12;6:24179. doi: 10.1038/srep24179.
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Hu, J et al, Dual-Signal Readout Nanospheres for Rapid Point-of-Care Detection of Ebola Virus Glycoprotein, Anal Chem. 2017 Dec 19;89(24):13105-13111. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b02222. Epub 2017 Dec 1.
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Zhang Q et al, Potent neutralizing monoclonal antibodies against Ebola virus infection, Sci Rep. 2016 May 16;6:25856. doi: 10.1038/srep25856.
>Married to a Chinese scientist – Dr. Keding Cheng
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/lab-researchers-nml-travel-1.5214985
Sources say Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, her husband Keding Cheng and her students from China were escorted from the level-4 lab on July 5, although the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) will only confirm a review is underway into an administrative matter and possible "policy breach."
On Monday, the University of Manitoba ended the non-salaried appointments of both Qiu and Cheng, pending the police investigation. It has re-assigned an unknown number of graduate students working with Qiu, an adjunct professor in the department of medical microbiology.
Cheng is a biologist who has also done work on Ebola and has published research papers on HIV infections, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), E. coli infections and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome.