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Baby boomer¹ alcohol harm 'more likely than in young'
By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News 12 October 2012 Last updated at 01:52 GMT

A variety of methods have been used by countries to try to curb problem drinking

[1]    More National Health Service money is
spent treating alcohol-related illness in baby
boomers than young people, a study says.
    The Alcohol Concern report found the cost of
[5] hospital admissions linked to heavy drinking 55 to
74-year-olds in 2010-11 was more than £825m.
    That was 10 times the figure for 16 to 24-year-

olds.
    In total, nearly £2bn was spent on alcohol-

[10] related in-patient admissions in England, the report
found.
    This comes as more than 10 million people in
England are drinking above the recommended
levels, according to the report.
[15]    The sum spent on treating the baby boomer
generation went on 454,317 patients, compared
with the 54,682 under-24s who were treated at a
cost of £64m.

    Problem drinking is a contributing factor for a
[20] host of diseases, including liver, kidney and heart
disease, as well as increasing the risk of injury.
    In many ways the findings are not surprising as
the effects of drinking are more likely to catch up
with people later in life.
[25]    'Expensive care'
    But the charity said part of the reason for
compiling the report, which was based on NHS
figures, was to break down the data by individual
local authority area.
[30]    It hopes the information, compiled with funding
from drug company Lundbeck, will be used by
councils next year when they take responsibility
for problem drinking as part of their new remit
covering public health under the shake-up of the
[35] NHS.
    Alcohol Concern chief executive Eric Appleby
said he hoped they would use the findings to help

them focus their energy on schemes to tackle
problem drinking.
[40]    "It is a common perception that young people
are responsible for the increasing cost of alcohol
misuse, but our findings show that in reality this is
not the case.
    "It is the middle-aged, and often middle-class
[45] drinker, regularly drinking above recommended
limits, who are actually requiring this complex and
expensive NHS care."
    Liver disease expert Sir Ian Gilmore, a former
president of the Royal College of Physicians, who
[50] has long campaigned about alcohol misuse,
agreed. He said: "It is the unwitting chronic middle-

aged drinkers who are taking serious risks with
their health."
http://www.menshealth.com/travel-center/travel-stress

1- A baby boomer is a person who was born during the demographic post-World War II baby boom between the years 1946 and 1964, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Baby boomer¹ alcohol harm 'more likely than in young'
By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News 12 October 2012 Last updated at 01:52 GMT

A variety of methods have been used by countries to try to curb problem drinking

[1]    More National Health Service money is
spent treating alcohol-related illness in baby
boomers than young people, a study says.
    The Alcohol Concern report found the cost of
[5] hospital admissions linked to heavy drinking 55 to
74-year-olds in 2010-11 was more than £825m.
    That was 10 times the figure for 16 to 24-year-

olds.
    In total, nearly £2bn was spent on alcohol-

[10] related in-patient admissions in England, the report
found.
    This comes as more than 10 million people in
England are drinking above the recommended
levels, according to the report.
[15]    The sum spent on treating the baby boomer
generation went on 454,317 patients, compared
with the 54,682 under-24s who were treated at a
cost of £64m.

    Problem drinking is a contributing factor for a
[20] host of diseases, including liver, kidney and heart
disease, as well as increasing the risk of injury.
    In many ways the findings are not surprising as
the effects of drinking are more likely to catch up
with people later in life.
[25]    'Expensive care'
    But the charity said part of the reason for
compiling the report, which was based on NHS
figures, was to break down the data by individual
local authority area.
[30]    It hopes the information, compiled with funding
from drug company Lundbeck, will be used by
councils next year when they take responsibility
for problem drinking as part of their new remit
covering public health under the shake-up of the
[35] NHS.
    Alcohol Concern chief executive Eric Appleby
said he hoped they would use the findings to help

them focus their energy on schemes to tackle
problem drinking.
[40]    "It is a common perception that young people
are responsible for the increasing cost of alcohol
misuse, but our findings show that in reality this is
not the case.
    "It is the middle-aged, and often middle-class
[45] drinker, regularly drinking above recommended
limits, who are actually requiring this complex and
expensive NHS care."
    Liver disease expert Sir Ian Gilmore, a former
president of the Royal College of Physicians, who
[50] has long campaigned about alcohol misuse,
agreed. He said: "It is the unwitting chronic middle-

aged drinkers who are taking serious risks with
their health."
http://www.menshealth.com/travel-center/travel-stress

1- A baby boomer is a person who was born during the demographic post-World War II baby boom between the years 1946 and 1964, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Baby boomer¹ alcohol harm 'more likely than in young'
By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News 12 October 2012 Last updated at 01:52 GMT

A variety of methods have been used by countries to try to curb problem drinking

[1]    More National Health Service money is
spent treating alcohol-related illness in baby
boomers than young people, a study says.
    The Alcohol Concern report found the cost of
[5] hospital admissions linked to heavy drinking 55 to
74-year-olds in 2010-11 was more than £825m.
    That was 10 times the figure for 16 to 24-year-

olds.
    In total, nearly £2bn was spent on alcohol-

[10] related in-patient admissions in England, the report
found.
    This comes as more than 10 million people in
England are drinking above the recommended
levels, according to the report.
[15]    The sum spent on treating the baby boomer
generation went on 454,317 patients, compared
with the 54,682 under-24s who were treated at a
cost of £64m.

    Problem drinking is a contributing factor for a
[20] host of diseases, including liver, kidney and heart
disease, as well as increasing the risk of injury.
    In many ways the findings are not surprising as
the effects of drinking are more likely to catch up
with people later in life.
[25]    'Expensive care'
    But the charity said part of the reason for
compiling the report, which was based on NHS
figures, was to break down the data by individual
local authority area.
[30]    It hopes the information, compiled with funding
from drug company Lundbeck, will be used by
councils next year when they take responsibility
for problem drinking as part of their new remit
covering public health under the shake-up of the
[35] NHS.
    Alcohol Concern chief executive Eric Appleby
said he hoped they would use the findings to help

them focus their energy on schemes to tackle
problem drinking.
[40]    "It is a common perception that young people
are responsible for the increasing cost of alcohol
misuse, but our findings show that in reality this is
not the case.
    "It is the middle-aged, and often middle-class
[45] drinker, regularly drinking above recommended
limits, who are actually requiring this complex and
expensive NHS care."
    Liver disease expert Sir Ian Gilmore, a former
president of the Royal College of Physicians, who
[50] has long campaigned about alcohol misuse,
agreed. He said: "It is the unwitting chronic middle-

aged drinkers who are taking serious risks with
their health."
http://www.menshealth.com/travel-center/travel-stress

1- A baby boomer is a person who was born during the demographic post-World War II baby boom between the years 1946 and 1964, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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[1] Google’s Social Network Gets Smarter
[2] With dozens of new features, Google’s social network
[3] is becoming more like a photo service and a news
[4] site.

[5] Despite the 190 million
[6] people that Google says use
[7] its social network every
[8] month, Google Plus has
[9] always struggled to escape
[10] Facebook’s shadow and
[11] seem like a hopping social
[12] destination.

[13] With the 41 new features the company announced
[14] would be rolling out this week, Google Plus is now
[15] morphing into something that makes greater use of
[16] what Google does best—anticipate the needs of its
[17] users, show them relevant news and information, and
[18] help them manage massive amounts of data. The new
[19] Google Plus will go so far as to auto-generate
[20] animated GIF files from photos that people upload
[21] from their devices or desktops.

[22] “We just put the Google into Google Plus,” says Vic
[23] Gundotra, a senior vice president for engineering at
[24] Google, who presented the features at the company’s
[25] annual conference for developers.

[26] Many people use social networks to hear about news
[27] or find information. But unless someone tags a post,
[28] it can be hard to drill down further into a topic,
[29] especially on Facebook. Google will run algorithms
[30] that automatically add hashtags to posts, links, and
[31] images in a redesigned social stream.

[32] Photos are fast becoming an important part of all social
[33] networks, and Google hopes it can lure more users to
[34] Google Plus by providing better ways to manage all
[35] the images people are taking on their devices. “We
[36] can do some of those labor-intensive tasks
[37] automatically for you,” says Gundotra.

[38] When you upload hundreds of new vacation photos,
[39] Google Plus will share the best ones with others,
[40] eliminating blurry or unfocused photos and even
[41] analyzing whether people look happy. Using
[42] Knowledge Graph, it might recognize where a person
[43] is located and prioritize photos taken at important
[44] landmarks. It will also prioritize photos of people

[45] recognized to be in a user’s close Google Plus circles,
[46] like family members. A photo rating system is being
[47] trained by hundreds of human raters, which will help
[48] the photo engine begin to account for “aesthetics and
[49] human tastes,” says Gundotra.

[50] The redesigned Google Plus also resembles an
[51] automated version of Photoshop. Google has
[52] implemented sophisticated facial recognition so it can
[53] more finely auto-tune images to fix a person’s blemishes
[54] or skin tones. Other fun features can generate GIFs
[55] from a series of photos or even create a mashup
[56] image—for example, from a sequence of photos of a
[57] group of people, so that everyone’s eyes are open and
[58] everyone is smiling. “We’re creating a new image that
[59] did not exist before,” Gundotra says.

[60] By Jessica Leber, Technology Review published by MIT,
[61] 15/05/2013
Adapted from http://www.technologyreview.com/news/ 514836/googles-social-network-gets-smarter/

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[1] Google’s Social Network Gets Smarter
[2] With dozens of new features, Google’s social network
[3] is becoming more like a photo service and a news
[4] site.

[5] Despite the 190 million
[6] people that Google says use
[7] its social network every
[8] month, Google Plus has
[9] always struggled to escape
[10] Facebook’s shadow and
[11] seem like a hopping social
[12] destination.

[13] With the 41 new features the company announced
[14] would be rolling out this week, Google Plus is now
[15] morphing into something that makes greater use of
[16] what Google does best—anticipate the needs of its
[17] users, show them relevant news and information, and
[18] help them manage massive amounts of data. The new
[19] Google Plus will go so far as to auto-generate
[20] animated GIF files from photos that people upload
[21] from their devices or desktops.

[22] “We just put the Google into Google Plus,” says Vic
[23] Gundotra, a senior vice president for engineering at
[24] Google, who presented the features at the company’s
[25] annual conference for developers.

[26] Many people use social networks to hear about news
[27] or find information. But unless someone tags a post,
[28] it can be hard to drill down further into a topic,
[29] especially on Facebook. Google will run algorithms
[30] that automatically add hashtags to posts, links, and
[31] images in a redesigned social stream.

[32] Photos are fast becoming an important part of all social
[33] networks, and Google hopes it can lure more users to
[34] Google Plus by providing better ways to manage all
[35] the images people are taking on their devices. “We
[36] can do some of those labor-intensive tasks
[37] automatically for you,” says Gundotra.

[38] When you upload hundreds of new vacation photos,
[39] Google Plus will share the best ones with others,
[40] eliminating blurry or unfocused photos and even
[41] analyzing whether people look happy. Using
[42] Knowledge Graph, it might recognize where a person
[43] is located and prioritize photos taken at important
[44] landmarks. It will also prioritize photos of people

[45] recognized to be in a user’s close Google Plus circles,
[46] like family members. A photo rating system is being
[47] trained by hundreds of human raters, which will help
[48] the photo engine begin to account for “aesthetics and
[49] human tastes,” says Gundotra.

[50] The redesigned Google Plus also resembles an
[51] automated version of Photoshop. Google has
[52] implemented sophisticated facial recognition so it can
[53] more finely auto-tune images to fix a person’s blemishes
[54] or skin tones. Other fun features can generate GIFs
[55] from a series of photos or even create a mashup
[56] image—for example, from a sequence of photos of a
[57] group of people, so that everyone’s eyes are open and
[58] everyone is smiling. “We’re creating a new image that
[59] did not exist before,” Gundotra says.

[60] By Jessica Leber, Technology Review published by MIT,
[61] 15/05/2013
Adapted from http://www.technologyreview.com/news/ 514836/googles-social-network-gets-smarter/

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How Facebook Could Give Its New Search the Edge

The company’s search
engine will become
formidable when it includes
[5] the text of comments and the
vast store of Open Graph
data about things outside
Facebook.
Facebook’s new Graph Search—a feature that lets you
[10] search through the data shared by your friends—clearly
needs some work. It relies solely on the “likes,” checkins,
and profile data provided by your friends – signals
that may be incomplete or unreliable unless you have
friends all over the world who always faithfully check in
[15] wherever they go, and like products and brands honestly,
not ironically. What’s more, queries must be structured
in a way that often makes you feel like you’re talking to
a database.
Fortunately for Facebook, help is on its way. The social
[20] networking giant has two valuable data stores that it
has yet to connect up to its prominent new search box
(so large that it displaces the company’s logo). Accessing
these data stores could change how people find
information online—not to mention the fortunes of arch
[25] rival Google.
Facebook’s search tool has yet to move outside the social
network’s own borders (and into Google’s territory) by
tapping into the Open Graph, a system developed by
Facebook in 2010 as a way for it to understand the
[30] products, services, or other entities described on Web
pages and in mobile apps. Open Graph allows
Facebook to understand, for example, the artist, song,
and album you are interacting with each time you click
a song in a music service such as Spotify. That kind of
[35] knowledge could help Facebook search apply to more
than just content from your friends.
These improvements were mentioned in a brief note at
the end of last week’s launch, but the company has not
said how soon they might arrive. But it is possible to
[40] predict what they might allow. A mostly overlooked
upgrade made by Facebook’s partner Microsoft to its
Bing search engine last week, which lets you search

the text of friends’ Facebook postings, provides a preview
of how the first change might make Graph Search more
[45] useful. Enter “Friends who like tequila” into Graph
Search today and you’ll find only people who have joined
groups dedicated to the drink. Connect your Facebook
account to Bing and type “tequila” into its new “Friends’
photos” search and you’ll find every photo that mentions
[50] tequila in a caption or a comment—so you’ll probably
see a lot more images of people enjoying the beverage.
Facebook’s other untapped resource, the Open Graph,
could also improve its power to recommend products—
and hence offer new opportunities to position ads next
[55] to search results, as Google does. Folding it into Graph
Search would also be a significant shift for Facebook,
and it could change the way we use the Web.
The Open Graph is already big. Last year, entrepreneur
Matthew Berk used five billion Web pages provided by
[60] the nonprofit Common Crawl to show that the Open
Graph describes some 400 million objects (he also
found that 22 percent of the Web’s pages link to
Facebook in some way). Publishers would likely redouble
their efforts to embrace the Open Graph if it were
[65] included in Facebook’s search, Berk predicts, making
it an even more powerful index of what people care
about online. “People used to go out of their way to
make it so that Google would find their content; now
they look to Facebook,” he says. “It’s like a redistribution
[70] of wealth.” Berk’s research into the Open Graph led
him to found a startup called Lucky Oyster, a service
due to launch this year where people can explicitly share
and recommend products and content to Facebook
friends.
[75] “The big shift is to information being about things in
the world and people, not just Web pages,” says Berk.
“At Google, you can see that social has become number
one across the board.”

By Tom Simonite, Technology Review published by MIT,
[80] 25/01/2013
Adapted from http://www.technologyreview.com/news/
510041/how-facebook-could-give-its-new-search-the-

edge