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Home Books Clinical Manual and Review of Transesophageal Echocardiography, 3e
Chapter 22: Noncardiac Surgery
Stefaan Bouchez; Svati H. Shah; Patrick Wouters
Bouchez S, Shah SH, Wouters P. Bouchez S, Shah S.H., Wouters P Bouchez, Stefaan, et al.Noncardiac Surgery. In: Mathew JP, Nicoara A, Ayoub CM, Swaminathan M. Mathew J.P., Nicoara A, Ayoub C.M., Swaminathan M Eds. Joseph P. Mathew, et al.eds. Clinical Manual and Review of Transesophageal Echocardiography, 3e New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; . http://accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2499&sectionid=203717391. Accessed July 18, 2019.
Bouchez S, Shah SH, Wouters P. Bouchez S, Shah S.H., Wouters P Bouchez, Stefaan, et al.. "Noncardiac Surgery." Clinical Manual and Review of Transesophageal Echocardiography, 3e Mathew JP, Nicoara A, Ayoub CM, Swaminathan M. Mathew J.P., Nicoara A, Ayoub C.M., Swaminathan M Eds. Joseph P. Mathew, et al. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, , http://accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2499&sectionid=203717391.
VASCULAR AND ABDOMINAL SURGERY
NEUROSURGERY AND ORTHOPEDICS
TEE IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT AND CRITICAL CARE
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While cardiac surgery is and has been the dominant clinical area of use for intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), initial studies did not specifically focus on this field of expertise. The new technology was expected to offer incremental value in noncardiac surgery as a tool to detect intracardiac emboli, for example, during craniotomies in sitting position and orthopedic surgery,1–4 as a noninvasive and continuous hemodynamic monitor during major surgical procedures5,6 and as a sensitive instrument to diagnose myocardial ischemia in high-risk patients.7,8 While subsequent studies confirmed the utility of TEE for such indications, the enthusiasm and adoption of TEE in noncardiac surgery remained modest and mainly confined to the practice of pioneers in the field. Reasons for this slow acceptance included a limited access to (heavy and expensive) echo equipment, a shortage of experienced echo trainers in anesthesia, and, most importantly, a lack of prospective outcome studies supporting the routine use of perioperative TEE outside the cardiac surgical setting.
In a collaborative effort, the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA) published a consensus document that emphasized the significant role of a "basic" perioperative TEE in the care and treatment of an unstable surgical patient and clarified its scope as an "intraoperative monitoring technique, focusing on cardiac causes of hemodynamic or ventilatory instability, including ventricular size and function, valvular anatomy and function, volume status, pericardial abnormalities and complications from invasive procedures, as well as the clinical impact or etiology of pulmonary dysfunction."9 As it is impossible to cover all possible scenarios where intraoperative TEE is expected to or has shown its value, the following chapter follows a more pragmatic approach in using specific surgical settings to illustrate the most prevalent and clinically important applications. Specific attention is dedicated to liver transplantation as a prototype procedure for which the broad potential of intraprocedural TEE monitoring can be exploited to its fullest extent.
Patients undergoing vascular surgery are at increased risk (5% to 25%) for perioperative cardiac complications such as unstable angina, congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction, and cardiac death. The strong association between ischemic heart disease and peripheral arterial disease justify the use of advanced techniques to detect myocardial ischemic events in vascular surgery. The diagnosis of cardiac ischemia with TEE is based on the detection of regional heterogeneity in the timing and extent of wall thickening during systole. A semiquantitative scale is used to describe the severity of segmental wall motion abnormality (SWMA), while the exact location is indicated on a 17-segment model of the left ventricle (LV).10 The distribution and extent of SWMA correspond to the perfusion territory of the three major coronary arteries.
SWMAs have been reported to occur within 15 seconds of coronary occlusion, whereas ST-segment elevations are seen after only 30 to 60 seconds. While this ...
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TT Talk - VGM nine months on
New international regulations implemented last July clearly defined what comprises 'gross mass' for transporting packed containers by sea and required one of two weighing processes to support documented communication between stakeholders.
It has thus far proven impossible to gather definitive information about the implementation around the globe of the
SOLAS amendment
requiring the verified gross mass of packed containers (VGM) to be obtained and communicated prior to loading on board a ship at the point of export. Anecdotes abound - and do not immediately provide comfort in relation to material compliance.
Feedback from World Shipping Council members reported in September 2016 stated that 95% of shipments had a VGM value and there is little reason to believe that this has not continued to improve. However, some have cynically noted with amazement that the industry collectively learnt how to communicate a specific piece of information between 30 June and 1 July. Candidly, many recognise that it is impossible to rely upon the information given, albeit that nominal compliance has been achieved.
The stories include the apparent compliance in countries that, at the date of implementation, did not have a single calibrated weighing device. More worryingly, there are also plenty of stories that a significant percentage of declared VGM values are found on subsequent weighing of the packed container to be discrepant by more than 1 tonne. In addition, it is reported that voyage deadloads (the difference between manifest weight and draft displacement measurement) have continued to be into 1,000s of tonnes.
"It is reported that voyage deadloads have continued to be into 1,000s of tonnes"
Furthermore, there are rumours of both commercial and governmental obfuscation. In the first case, charges added for little or no action undermines stakeholder trust and relationships. For the latter, there have been reports of fines being levied, for example in relation to customs duties, where there has - entirely correctly - been a difference in the cargo weight declaration and the VGM value (which additionally takes account of the tare mass of the container unit, and dunnaging and securing materials).
Information is scant on any competent authority taking enforcement action in relation to the validity of the VGM value, but the inference is that many national governments are either too resource challenged or focused on more pressing regulatory issues. This would seem to compound the fact that in many states the maritime administration undertaking at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to implement the amendment is not the government department charged at national level with enforcement.
Evaluating the information
Despite all these factors, there may be good reasons to be somewhat sanguine about progress towards effective implementation of VGM globally. This would not include the fact that no incident attributed to weight mis-declaration has occurred in the intervening period. There is little doubt that the vast majority of the supply chain industry is now aware that there is a specific requirement to communicate a mass value called VGM; this is no mean feat when considering the millions of shippers globally, albeit that the focus is on the much more focused waterfront interchange.
More importantly, a clear safety stake has been driven into the ground. Incrementally, the industry can continue to build out from this point with related safety and efficiency initiatives that will have the potential to restore something of utmost good faith through the supply chain. TT Club is already partnering again with
in order to promote awareness and active implementation of the
CTU Code
"a clear safety stake has been driven into the ground"
Alongside this, developments in container scanning and garnering of 'Big Data' in digitisation offer increasingly realistic opportunities to ensure that the careful, the diligent, the safe trader will be 'green-laned', while the activities of the others (probably a minority) will be exposed and penalised. Naturally, there remains much to be done in many quarters - at international and national governmental levels, throughout a shipping industry wracked with consolidation and competition, and a broad swathe of logisticians who daily decide on the application of complex factors in order to keep international trade flowing.
The cost of safety failures, however small the frequency rate, is always disproportionate; equally, the rewards for safe operations and practices generally accrue huge benefits. For those who, with integrity, are VGM compliant, well done! For those sailing close to the wind, beware the direction necessarily is changing.
VGM underway, yes. VGM complete, no.
We hope that you have found the above interesting. If you would like further information, or have any comments, please email us, or take this opportunity to forward to any colleagues who you may feel would be interested.
Peregrine Storrs-Fox
Risk Management Director, TT Club
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ICHCA invites submissions for 3rd TT Club Innovation in Safety Award
ICHCA International, the global cargo handling NGO association, has launched the 3rd TT Club Innovation in Safety Award and invites submissions from all involved in cargo handling and logistics who has shown a demonstrable improvement in operational safety
Call for United Front on Cargo Safety
Safety aspects of the way in which cargo is packed and transported in unit loads across the global supply chain continue to be the focus of opportunities for improvement. During a session of the Intermodal Europe Conference in Amsterdam today, four industry organisations representing different sectors of the supply chain have been drawing attention, in particular, to the responsibilities of container owners and operators in providing equipment that is fit for purpose and properly packed with cargo as set out in the CTU Code.
TT Talk - VGM: latest IMO advice
The IMO has issued a Circular to all Member States and the transport industry this week in order to assist the implementation of the VGM amendment to SOLAS, which comes into effect on 1 July. TT Club welcomes the move, noting that governments have also been urged to engage with the industry in their jurisdictions to assist with compliance and to share best practice with other national authorities.


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A: var clientid = (window.location.search.match(/[?&;]name=(\d+)/) || [])[1];

If it can contain more than numbers, use something like...
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If the param could not be found, it will return undefined.
If you need to do this more often, you'd be better off with a generic solution.

A: try this:
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If you don't want to user regular expression like the other answer

A: For a more generic/reusable solution, you can use something like:
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A: Not as succinct as @alex, but you could do this
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Large class instructors, I am one of you, and I feel your pain. I know that you are attending teaching workshops, you are reading the literature, you are trying as hard as you can to keep up with your discipline-specific education crowd — but it looks like the numbers are against you. How will you ever manage a class discussion in an auditorium with 200 students? How will you ever design an activity that fosters critical and/or creative thinking when you have your hands full with the everyday logistics of managing a crowd? How will you reach them individually when there is no practical way for you to even learn their names? If worrying about the zombie apocalypse doesn't keep you up at night, worrying about your large class will…no? Just me? OK. However, we didn't get here by throwing our hands up in the air and quitting, so most of us have a few tricks up our sleeves to create a sense (illusion?) of individual contact in our large classes.
Here are some of the ways that I have found and tried to leverage technology to accomplish this in my (very large) chemistry classes. This is by no means an extensive list, just my own experience. You know what would make this post better? You! If you have any tried-and-true strategies that you would like to share, the comments section is your blank canvas — go for it!
There is a right way to use e-mail when communicating with large groups, and you could say that the blind copy function was made for this. Think about your own experience: if you open an email and see a long list of recipients you know you're just one of many. Using the bcc function to hide your recipient list makes the email appear more personal which will translate into more engagement and subsequent action on the part of the recipient.
I have found that grouping students that are in a similar situation and using a bcc e-mail can be really effective. After each exam in my course I send three large group e-mails. The first one is my "well done" email, which is self-explanatory. The second e-mail is what I call my "room for improvement" email, which contains suggestions for alternative study strategies and supplementary materials. The third is what I call my "we need to talk" email, which goes to the group of severely underperforming students, with an explicit invitation to come to my office for a refocusing chat. By wording the emails carefully, I can make it appear as if I am talking to each student one-on-one. In fact, I have students that mention this "individual attention" as a positive influence in their student evaluations.
If you use your LMS for electronic homework, train your students to engage in discussion using the online forums (most LMSs offer this option). You can weigh in on the forum discussions as needed. As a result, all participating students will benefit, and it will increase the feelings of personal involvement between you and the students. If your LMS does not support the use of online forums, there are several free sites that can be used for this purpose, such as www.piazza.com.
Peer-to-peer sharing opportunities can also be organized via LMS, using the grouping function(s). These might be used for discussions of class material, brainstorming, group homework, peer reviews, just about any activity that can benefit from sharing with a group, whether graded or ungraded. Students that get involved in peer-to-peer activities will experience increased personal involvement without extra work on your part. I've used Moodle and WebAssign grouping functions for this purpose.
You can create your own content (talk to the DELTA folks if you need help) or search online for suitable resources. YouTube is searchable (not to mention free)! A few choice video links can go a long way as a supplement to your lectures. Send your students a video link with your comments, and encourage them to share their thoughts with you and the rest of the class. Alternatively, ask your students to find videos with appropriate content to be used in your course. You will be pleasantly surprised by the new material they can uncover — don't waste this powerful resource.
Student-generated video is another avenue worth exploring. You can provide your classes with opportunities to generate video content in different formats. I have shared a way in which I have used this tool in my classes in this DELTAwire post (https://delta.ncsu.edu/deltawire/s-m-a-r-t-ways-to-teach-using-youtube/).
There are the old standards —- clickers —- and the new kids on the block —- Twitter (you can find me @Teachforaliving) is a wonderful tool that can be used for reminders, short messages, taking the pulse of the class with quick polls and questions. Just create a hashtag for your class and share it with the students early on. Not all students use Twitter, but it is free and easy to use, and emerging as a tool of professional communication, so it is a good thing to model in your classes. You might find that you want a professional Twitter in addition to your personal account, or you may prefer to mix it up. If you really enjoy sharing jokes and funny cat videos, it may be best to keep it off your professional feed. Totally up to you.
Padlet, oh, let me tell you how much I love www.padlet.com. Imagine a (free) virtual blank page where all class members can post sticky notes. You can use this for so many different things! I use it in class to collect student questions (it's fantastic to have a list of questions, neatly typed, forming right before your eyes). I use it to share the results of group work —- it is super easy to upload a picture, so sharing figures is very straightforward. I also use it for homework discussions outside of class. Padlet posts are by default anonymous, so the students can use it without the fear of having their names associated with their questions. Great tool for asynchronous discussions as well. Padlets can be saved and shared in different formats, so you can archive the data for future reference.
I feel like I have barely started to scratch the surface on all the many tools that can be used for this purpose, and I know that this list is by no means extensive. I usually learn about new tools from students and colleagues, and I find that in a way it's a case of ask and you shall receive. I think of something I would like to be able to do, ask around, and find that there is a tool out there that I can use to do it. I love to engage the students with the tools at my disposal and watch them rise to the occasion. Got any tools to share? Reach out and let me know what you think!


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11: Finding your voice and going outside your medium with Jessica Wohl
April 1, 2019 By Kaylan Buteyn
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Jessica Wohl is an artist living and working in Sewanee, Tennessee. She received her MFA from the University of Georgia in 2010 and has shown in many group and solo exhibitions around the world including the Staple Goods Gallery in New Orleans, the Knoxville Museum of Art, the Cat Street Gallery in Hong Kong and she is currently represented by Weinberger Fine Art in Kansas City, Missouri. She teaches Painting and Drawing full time at the University of the South. Jessica is the mother of one beautiful son.
In this episode Jessica and I discuss the process of how she found her voice as an artist and decided to make art around the concept of the American Dream. She shares her journey with quilt making- how she picked it up as a skill with no prior background in the craft because it solved a problem she was facing with her work. She shares about her experience carrying her child- how pregnancy and motherhood has influenced her art making practice, pushing it to become more empathetic and malleable. Jessica and I also discuss the amazing work of artist Lenka Clayton and her Artist Residency in Motherhood project.
This episode with Jessica is inspiring and encouraging as she shares her honest perspective as an Artist, Mother, Teacher, and Citizen. She has a show opening at the Browsing Room Gallery in Nashville, TN during the month of June, so go check it out! Check out more of her work on her website (http://www.jessicawohl.com) and Instagram @jessicawohlstudio.
Jessica in her home studio with her son
Left: Satiated, Marilyn Minter. Right: Milk Mustache II. 2019. Instagram collage, from the Artist Residency in Motherhood series, Compositions
Jessica working on a quilt in her home studio
Members Only. 2017. Found fabrics, jacket, shirts, bedsheets, pillowcases and blouses. Machine pieced and machine quilted. 59 x 66 inches
Twist and Shout. 2017. Hand cut collage. 9 x 11 inches
Jessica's studio
Stars and Bars. 2016. Found fabrics, bedsheets, pillowcases, shirts. Machine pieced and machine quilted with hand appliquè. 60 x 60 inches.
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Wilfried Bony: I'm not leaving Manchester City
Lee Thomas-MasonWednesday 20 Jan 2016 8:51 am
Bony has no intention of leaving Man City. (Picture: Getty)
Manchester City striker Wilfried Bony has move to quash rumours linking him with a move away from the club.
Bony, who became the most expensive African footballer in history when he completed his £28million move from fellow Premier League side Swansea in January 2015, signed a four-and-a-half-year deal and insisted that he has no desire to leave the club.
'I'm happy at the club,' Bony told BBC Sport.
'All this speculation is not true. I have a contract so I'm happy and I think I'm at one of the top clubs in the United Kingdom.
'I have no regrets about joining Man City. We play in the Champions League and we're one of the top clubs in the world.
'I'm happy here and I can just say I'm blessed.'
Bony has been heavily linked with a move away from the Etihad stadium having found first-team opportunities relatively difficult to come by behind first choice striker Sergio Aguero.
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Euro Problems Spell Trouble for Israeli Exporters
Europe is Israel's biggest market by far, accounting for a nearly a third of overseas sales.
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What happens in Greece doesn't stay in Greece. That's what Israeli companies are learning as the sinking euro takes a toll on their exports to the continent, Israel's biggest overseas market. The European currency is down 13% this year against the shekel, weighed down by Greece's chronic financial crisis. On Sunday it was worth 4.1274 shekels.
Israeli exporters worry as Greece implodes
Complete EU boycott would cost Israel billions of dollars, Finance Ministry warns
"On a single day in January 2015, the euro collapsed 15%. This means that, in one day, my profits were slashed 15%. No one expected it; it was like a natural disaster," said Yossi Schwartz, whose Starplast firm, based in Alon Tavor, exports 97% of its plastic products – much of it to the European Union.
Israeli exports overall have been in a funk for some time, with sales to Europe, not counting polished diamonds, down at a 13.2% annualized rate in the second quarter. But Israel's difficulties vis-à-vis Europe are especially problematic because the continent accounts for nearly a third of the country's total merchandise exports.
Not all of Europe uses the euro and many exports, even those to Europe, are priced in dollars. But exports to the euro bloc reached a sizable $10.5 billion, or 22% of Israel's total, last year. Israel's trade deficit with the EU widened 21% in the first half of the year.
Plastic products, like those made by Starplast, are especially vulnerable, with more than a third of the industry's overseas sales going to Europe.
The Bank of Israel regularly buys dollars to rein in the stronger shekel. But that has provided little comfort to exporters, who have also suffered a decline of more than 5% in the value of the dollar since April, to 3.7890 shekels on Sunday.
The Israel Export Institute says the trade-weighted basket of currencies, which is what the Bank of Israel uses to measure the value of the shekel, is at its lowest since it was first used in July 1999.
Another especially vulnerable sector is farm exports, 45% of which go to the euro bloc. Dror Eigerman, CEO of Galil Export, said he has been shut out of Europe not only by the weak euro but also Russian sanctions against European agricultural products. That has meant Europe is saturated with locally grown fruits and vegetables. Meanwhile, Russia is closed off to Israeli farm exporters because of the collapse of the ruble.
"Right now, we're selling only mangoes in Europe," said Eigerman, who expects to sell more products as the high season gets underway – though doesn't expect to earn much in the process. "We'll exports citrus, avocado, pepper and potatoes, but every decline in the euro means less money will come back to us," he said.
Eigerman said exporters don't dare raise prices to compensate for the weak euro. "There are growers who are losing money. We get no help from the government."
"You can't hedge against exchanges over a long period of time, so we need to learn to live with fluctuations," said Sam Donnerstein, CEO of Rav Bariach, which makes doors and locks. Industry needs help from other areas to improve its profitability, such as [lower] municipal rates and electricity costs."
Donnerstein has a long list of things that could help exporters like himself, including speeding up the expansion of the national gas pipeline network to factories, to prove them with cheaper energy. He wants the government to subsidize marketing programs, worker training and provide more investment grants.
He also wants lower costs at the government's ports monopoly. A plan to develop private ports is underway, but it will be several years before they begin operations.
Importers, meanwhile, have been in no hurry to lower their prices to the Israeli consumer. They claim their contracts with big Europeans manufacturers of automobiles, food and electronics are long-term ones. In any event, they work on credit lines of 60 to 90 days and can't be sure the euro will remain at its current low level, especially as the Greek crisis seems to be close to resolving itself.
"It would be sufficient for one importer to lower prices for competition to develop," said one, who asked not to be identified. "For now, it looks like everyone is waiting to see what will happen with Greece, and how it will affect the euro."
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Outside the town, however, what made the deepest impression on me in Samarkand was Shakh Zinda, the Living King and its street of tombs. Begun in 1326, it is the most ancient of the monuments erected after the Mongol conquest to the memory of Koussame. son of Abbas, Mahomet's cousin.
From the verdurous alleys of a park can be seen the yellow, waste, abandoned, and dried-up monticules of Afro Siab, a vast dead surface covered with tombs. And among them, scattered far and wide over the solitary slopes, the pointed projectile shapes of the domes of a dozen mausolea, on the walls of which still glitter vestiges of enamel.
Below, by the roadside, bearded Uzbeks sit at the foot of the varnished panels of the main door of entry.
Inside appears a wide staircase, above which to the left rises the turquoise-domed mosque of Timur's wet nurse. But when one reaches the white arch at the head of the stairs, one stops in astonishment, for five facades of mosques in miniature stand in line along each side of a paved alley-way.
To the left the facades of the mosques of the Emir Zade, of Timur's son, and of his first wife Turkan stand in line touching each other. And then suddenly I realize what a Persian carpet really is. It reproduces the miraculous facade of the mosque, the ogival-framed portal, the Iwan-arch as immutable as our cross itself, which is an exact replica of the 'mirhab' that oval alcove shaped like a beehive that serves as the sanctuary, and before which the mullah always kneels, "never weary, it would seem, of his holy gymnastics."
The interior of the Turkan Aka is very fine, and contains many tombstones. The inside of the dome is covered with glowing geometric designs in mosaic. Facing it lie buried the Emir Hussein, one of Tamerlane's sisters, and also a daughter.
The alley-way makes a turn: the walls have lost their facing of enamel. Then come three mausolea, after which follows a second porch near two ancient trees, cuttings from which afford a sovereign cure for all diseases. Then one enters a tiny courtyard, incomparably beautiful. Ultramarine blends with turquoise, sea-green with emerald, cobalt with burnt siena, lapis-lazuli with ochre; the colours seem reflected in each other, and, enhanced by the warm glow of the earthen bricks, leap like a chant of glory towards the blue sky.
The mosques of Kutluk and Nuri, Timur's wife and daughter, face each other. Last of all, blocking the street is that of Saint Achmed. The dazzling pillars of the Kutluk mosque are pure turquoise in colour, and carved in high relief, an art found nowhere but in Turkestan.
The mullah standing under the dome of the portico throws open the incredibly fine fretted door of wood, which by devious dark chambers leads to the mosque of Shakh Zinda, Saint Kassim, also known as Hussan. He converted the whole of Sogdiana to Islam in the seventh century, but then the Nestorian Christians attacked him. His army annihilated, he fled away, and an angel revealed a grotto where he took refuge and is said still to live. As his horse was dying, he flung away his 'kamtcha' (whip), which took root and became the two trees near the porch. It is said of him also that, decapitated by the pagans, he withdrew into a well, carrying his head in his hands, till the moment should come to purge the earth of every infidel.
In the antechamber to the tomb 'buntchuks' stand erect. Horses' tails hang from the poles round which bits of stuff are wrapped, each testifying to some offered sacrifice. The tail is an emblem of might, for the horse made good its escape, leaving its tail in the hands of the man of invincible might. Darkness shrouds the tomb, railed off and unapproachable.


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Q: Why isn't the isSame method from momentjs working correctly when timezones are used? I'm trying to use the isSame method from momentjs. When I use it without a timezone, it works as expected:
var now = moment();

console.log(
   now.format(),
   now.isSame('2020-01-02', 'day')
);

Since today is 2020-01-02, when the code runs, it logs:
2020-01-02T14:56:22-05:00 true
Now I run almost the same code, using moment timezone:
var nowTz = moment().tz('America/Los_Angeles');

console.log(
    nowTz.format(),
    nowTz.isSame('2020-01-02', 'day')
);

Now, the code logs:
2020-01-02T12:56:22-07:00 false
Is this a bug? In the second example, why is the library telling me the moments are not for the same day? Here is a jsfiddle demoing the code:
http://jsfiddle.net/flyingL123/fytw17va/8/

A: This is happening because moment is creating your 2020-01-02 date implicitly at 00:00, and then when it's compared to a timezone-aware datetime, it's shifted from midnight of the browser's timezone to the equivalent time in Los Angeles, which could be during 2020-01-01.
For example,
> console.log(moment('2020-01-02').format())
"2020-01-02T00:00:00-05:00"
> console.log(moment('2020-01-02').tz('America/Los_Angeles').format())
"2020-01-01T22:00:00-07:00"

To avoid this, you can explicitly construct a timezone-aware object with the correct date of 2020-01-02, and then use this for your isSame checks:
today = moment.tz('2020-01-02', 'America/Los_Angeles')
nowTz = moment.tz('America/Los_Angeles');

console.log(
    nowTz.format(),
    nowTz.isSame(today, 'day')
);

Which logs something like 2020-01-02T13:44:05-07:00 true


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The purchase of Bonefish Cay is truly a "turn key" experience. The Bungalows are tastefully furnished, the kitchen is outfitted for a professional chef and all linens and tableware are included. For those that enjoy the quiet of sail and sea breeze, the island also has a 21ft trimaran, and a zodiac inflatable is also included. Even those that enjoy the sport of scuba are provided for, as the island houses a fully operative dive compressor. On Bonefish Cay, enjoying the incredible waters of the Abacos is recognized as an essential pastime!
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Only five Carson City residents have applied so far to draft ballot language for and against a city proposal to sell and commercially develop the city's fairgrounds.
Applications to serve on either side of the ballot drafting issues are due Monday by 5 p.m., Clerk Recorder Alan Glover said.
The question will appear on the November ballot.
Supervisors will appoint up to six committee members, three on each side, April 4, and committee members will have until May 3 to submit their arguments to Glover.
Charles Kuhn and Jeanne Yapple have applied to draft language against selling the fairgrounds, and Jack Andersen, John Wagner and Karl Neathammer have applied to draft language for the proposal.
The fairgrounds, 20 acres of city land off Old Clear Creek Road sandwiched between commercial development to the north and south, has been the center of controversy since the city decided in 1999 to sell 18 acres of vacant Fuji Park property to Costco.
While neighboring Fuji Park was protected from development, city leaders offered the fairgrounds parcel last year to Wal-Mart in a bid to keep the retail giant in the capital. A 3,400 signature petition against selling the property convinced city supervisors to ask for an advisory vote on the issue before taking further action.
For information on serving on a Carson City ballot question committee, call the Elections Office at 887-2082. Pick up applications at 851 E. Musser St.


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WhatsApp is working on this new voice recording feature, you will be able to pause and resume
Published: Monday, October 11, 2021, 16:22 [IST]
WhatsApp is working on several features to improve the user experience. Now, a new feature is reportedly being developed that will allow users to pause in voice messages while recording. Earlier this year, a new tool was said to be added to the app where one can review their voice messages before sending them. However, this feature is still not rolled out.
WhatsApp is bringing a new feature for voice messaging
As per the latest development, the instant messaging app is working on a new feature in which users will be able to pause their voice messages while recording and record voice after restarting. Currently, we cannot pause the recording, if we pause it, we have to record it again from the beginning. So, with this new feature, you don't need to start afresh.
If you do these mistakes then your WhatsApp account will also be banned or deleted
According to a report by WABetaInfo, the new feature is currently in development; However, it will be released in a future update of WhatsApp beta for iOS and Android. The report further suggests that this new feature has been teased during the development of WhatsApp for iOS, but WhatsApp for Android is also on beta.
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A video has also been shared in the report of WABetaInfo, which gives us an idea of how this new feature will work. First, you'll need to open a chat that you want to send a voice message to. You will then see a new record button after you pause the recorded voice message.
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After that when you tap it you will be able to resume the recording of the voice note. There is no information on when this feature will be officially rolled out.
Also, WhatsApp is currently working on another new feature in which users will be able to hide their profile, status for selected users.
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I am currently working a 8:00 to 5:00 corporate job, Monday through Friday. I am teaching in the evening hours on weekdays, and also on weekends.
Reiki I: This class takes at least 6 hours, possibly more. What I prefer to do is to split this class into two sessions.
Your expectations and previous healing experiences and life experiences and how they relate to your healing energy.
Basic history of using healing energy, both Reiki and other healing methods.
Information on how Reiki is different from other healing methods.
Information on the attunement/initiation. How it works.
You will receive the attunement at the first class session.
Intuitive information/insights during the attunement are discussed.
Instruction and practice of Gassho (meditation using Reiki) and intuitive hand positions for self-healing.
Homework and expectations on what you need to do before we meet again.
I expect to be paid for the whole class fee ($125) at this time unless previous arrangements have been made.
You decide how much time you want to practice before we meet again. We can schedule a time at the 1st class session, or leave it open until you feel you are ready.
Your experiences doing Reiki: Gassho and hand positions on yourself and if you have done any sessions with family, friends, pets, objects.
More information and practice of "standard", non-standard and intuitive hand positions for healing self and healing others.
Details and suggestions on how to use Reiki in all parts of your life.
If you would like another attunement, that is given.
Certificate of class completion is given.
I am available to teach Reiki 1 1st or 2nd session Tuesday through Friday from 6:00 to 10:00 pm, and on Saturday or Sunday with an 10:00 am start time.
I am also open to teaching you Reiki I in one session; if that is needed you will need to schedule on the weekend.
If you need an earlier or later start or end time or more meetings of less duration, anything is negotiable, just let me know your needs and we will work it out. The class fee is the same regardless of the number of sessions.
When you email to schedule a class, please let me know your session number preference and calendar for the next few weeks. That will speed my being able to schedule you. I will generally contact you via email, but if time is short I will call you to make arrangements so you will need to give me your phone number(s).


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Lou Diamond Phillips (født Lou Diamond Upchurch; 17. februar 1962) er en amerikansk film, tv og teaterskuespiller. Han fik den mandlige birolle Golden Globe pris-nominering for sin rolle i Stand and Deliver og en Tony Award nominering for sin rolle i The King and I.
Uden for skuespil, er han blevet kendt for at komme i top 3% af feltet i 2009 World Series of Poker - VM No Limit Texas Hold'em hovedbegivenhed.

Opvækst
Phillips blev født som Lou Diamond Upchurch på Subic Bay US Naval Station i Zambales i Filippinerne som søn af Lucita Aranas og Gerald Upchurch, en amerikansk søofficer. Han har forskellige etniske rødder, med en far, som var en amerikansk af skotsk-irsk og en fjerdedel Cherokee afstamning, og hans mor, en indfødt af Candelaria og en Filipina af spansk, kinesisk og japansk afstamning. Phillips blev opkaldt efter marine-legenden Lou Diamond og tog efternavnet "Phillips" fra sin stedfar.
Han voksede op i Texas, hvor han gik på Mel Bluff High School i Corpus Christi. Han tog eksamen fra University of Texas i Arlington med en BFA i drama.

Karriere
Den første low-budget film, han medvirkede i hed Trespasses. Phillips store gennembrud kom med hovedrollen i filmen La Bamba fra 1987, hvor han spillede den unge rock'n'roll-stjerne Ritchie Valens. Forud for hans filmiske gennembrud, medvirkede han i Miami Vice-episoden "Red Tape" fra 1987, hvor han skildrede den fiktive detektiv Bobby Diaz.

I 1988 og 1990 medvirkede Phillips med Emilio Estevez og Kiefer Sutherland i cowboyfilmene Young Guns og Young Guns II, hvor han spillede Jose Chavez y Chavez, en historisk Old West-forbryder.

I 1996 fik Phillips sin Broadway-debut som kongen i Richard Rodgers og Oscar Hammersteins II i The King and I. Phillips vandt en Theatre World Award og blev nomineret til både en Tony Award og en Drama Desk Award for sin præstation.

I 1998 havde han hovedrollen som Cisco, modstykket til hovedpersonen Melvin Smiley (spillet af Mark Wahlberg, som var startskuddet på hans karriere) i actionkomedien The Big Hit.

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Careers in Small Life Sciences Companies
In this limited-enrollment talk, alumnus Kenneth Kornman, DDS, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at Interleukin Genetics, shares his experiences drawn from a career that spans faculty roles in academia as well as small life sciences companies. Lunch provided; please bring a beverage to enjoy.
About the speaker: Prior to founding Interleukin Genetics in 1986, Dr. Kornman was a Department Chair and Professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He has also been a consultant and scientific researcher for many major oral care and pharmaceutical companies. Dr. Kornman currently holds academic appointments at Harvard University. He holds seven patents in the pharmaceutical area, has published three books and more than 125 scientific papers, including papers in Science, New England Journal of Medicine, Human Molecular Genetics, and Journal of American College of Cardiology; and has lectured and consulted worldwide on the transfer of technology to clinical practice. Dr. Kornman earned a B.A. in Economics from Duke University, a D.D.S. from Emory University, an M.S. in Periodontics from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Michigan.
This event is part of the Careers Beyond Academia series, co-sponsored by The Graduate School, the Duke Career Center, and the Office of Postdoctoral Services. Questions about this event? Contact The Graduate School's professional development team at grad-profdev@duke.edu.
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A British team drawn from the country's Department for International Development, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and defense ministry arrived in Abuja Friday, the foreign office said.
They will work with Nigerian authorities and the U.S. team both on strategies to rescue the girls and longer-term efforts to defeat Boko Haram, the office said in a statement.
Boko Haram herded nearly 300 girls out of bed under the cover of darkness on April 14 at a school in northeastern Nigeria.
A few escapees shared harrowing tales of escaping into a nearby forest. Authorities said the 276 still missing likely have been separated and taken out of the country.
International outrage has escalated over the nation's largely ineffective effort to subdue Boko Haram.
"By God's grace, we will conquer the terrorists. I believe the kidnap of these girls will be the beginning of the end for terror in Nigeria," Jonathan said at the World Economic Forum meeting in Abuja on Thursday.
In addition to the United States, Jonathan said Britain, China and France have pledged to help find the girls snatched from the school in Chibok.
The United States' team includes law enforcement experts and military advisers. France and Britain also said they are sending teams, but neither nations provided specifics on what expertise they will bring.
British satellites and advanced tracking capabilities also will be used, and China has promised to provide any intelligence gathered by its satellite network, Nigeria said.
"Clearly there is danger whenever we send troops almost any place in the world," U.S. House Speaker John Boehner said.
The task of recovering the girls appeared to grow more complicated with news that U.S. intelligence shows the 276 girls have been split up.
Kirby said they believe the girls "have been broken up into smaller groups," but declined to detail how officials came to the conclusion. His sentiment has been echoed by others.
"The search must be in Niger, Cameroon and Chad, to see if we can find information," said Gordon Brown, a former UK Prime Minister and the U.N.'s special envoy for global education.
Boko Haram's leader, Abubakar Shekau, took credit for the mass kidnappings in a video that surfaced this week. His group's repulsive violence did not end there.
Suspected Boko Haram militants attacked Gamboru Ngala, a remote state capital near Nigeria's border with Cameroon. The attack Monday targeted an area soldiers use as a staging ground in the search for the girls. Some of the at least 310 victims were burned alive.
Nigeria has been accused of failing to take action in the hours and days after the girls were abducted.
Jonathan waited three weeks before speaking to the nation on the matter. He said rescue efforts were under way at the time, but they could not be disclosed publicly.
CNN's Vladimir Duthiers reported from Abuja while Faith Karimi reported and wrote from Atlanta. CNN's Elise Labott and Chelsea Carter contributed to this report.


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The national park model is only partially effective in protecting biodiversity. Adjacent land areas usually attract increased development that detrimentally impacts migratory patterns and creates a biodiversity "island" effect. Unilateral protection of critical habitat tends to engender conflict and accelerate environmental degradation. These unintended effects are often attributable to the disruption of pre-existing patterns of resource use and migration. Climate change further exacerbates these disruptions; hence, there is a critical need to implement solutions.
Economics and conservation are interconnected. The preservation of ecological systems is directly linked to resident population levels, the number of tourists in a region and resulting effects on local cultural patterns. The Institute's form of participatory eco-tourism is a charitable activity to preserve critical ecological processes in local and regional landscapes. Equally important, participatory eco-tourism is an incubator for bottoms-up, stable economic development. Revenue flows from eco-tourism and its offshoots serve to build local, cooperative financial markets. Managed through participatory decision-making, these revenue streams can fund locally beneficial ventures to also grow meaningful local employment. Locally derived seed capital ensures the proving ground for sound business design that can then attract outside investment and on reasonable terms.
Through epi's form of participatory eco-tourism includes 'voluntouring.' Locals and visitors learn from each other, form bonds of friendship and may partner on mutually beneficial activities including economic ones. Voluntouring encourages cross-cultural, cross-regional and cross-national friendships. Voluntouring spurs exploration of mutually beneficial micro and regional enterprise, which over time may lead to bottoms-up, cross-boundary business development.
epi is part of the principled transformation of tourism into a beneficial verifiable form of ecotourism – one that is also more meaningful, connected and enjoyable for the "ecotourist." We propose participatory approaches to achieve this transformation.
The "Out of Africa" experience. Low-key, green and comfortable base camp set up for outsiders/ tourists to partake of surrounding natural beauty. For many ecotourists, each such experience is sought after in a string of experiences over a lifetime, sampling the widest possible range of settings.
The World Conservation Union (IUCN) is adopting the following definition of ecotourism: "Environmentally responsible travel to natural areas, in order to enjoy and appreciate nature (and accompanying cultural features, both past and present) that promote conservation, have a low visitor impact and provide for beneficially active socio-economic involvement of local peoples."
The Institute's charitable participatory eco-tourism program is not a business, but rather a vehicle for charitable, volunteer-based, economic development and conservation.
The Institute targets earned income strategies that supports conservation objectives through voluntouring and locally-owned results management. epi builds participatory ecotourism incubators and attracts resources to support economic development that is locally-beneficial, sustainable and participatory.
4. Managing a web portal that links participatory eco-tourism partners, promotes best practice and creates incentives for online posting of appreciative eco-tourism reviews to drive the expansion of and demand for verifiable 'participatory' eco-tourism.
The community does not pay Institute staff for our services; rather the Institute's participatory economic development work is solely funded through proceeds from the Institute's PAR education program, hosting of online stakeholder involvement, and grants. The Institute will not work directly in the eco-tourism trade or help eco-tourism businesses other than when it directly benefits broader community and conservation objectives as determined by a local leadership committee through consensus-based participatory decision making.


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OPPO invests 1.4 billion USD in R&D in 2019
In addition to announcing the signing of a patent with Ericsson, OPPO also invested more than $ 1.4 billion in research and development in 2019.
On February 19, 2019, OPPO announced the signing of a multi-year patent licensing agreement with Ericsson – one of the world's leading providers of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The agreement includes patent licensing and cooperation in a number of business projects. OPPO said the deal will lay a solid foundation for further cooperation between the two companies in the 5G era. As of January 2019, OPPO has filed more than 33,000 patent applications worldwide and owns more than 8,000 patents granted. The agreement with Ericsson is the latest in a series of OPPO patent licensing agreements with key telecommunications partners including Qualcomm, Dolby and Nokia.
Along with the signing event, the OPPO Technology Exhibition, the company announced a $ 1.43 billion investment for research and development of features. This cost increases 150% over the previous year and the company will continue to increase its annual investment. With this funding, OPPO will focus on strengthening investments in 5G fields, artificial intelligence and smart devices. With an increase in R&D capital, OPPO will build and integrate the supply chain based on its technical expertise to enhance technological capabilities. Furthermore, OPPO will promote AI to develop a range of smart devices, including smart watches, smart home technology, to explore and meet the increasingly demanding consumer needs of the time. Internet of Things (Internet of Things – IoT).
As a technology company, OPPO is constantly focused on developing advanced technologies like 5G. OPPO established a 5G team in early 2015 and began to focus on R&D as a startup for the 5G standard. OPPO quickly invests in the development of 5G products, taking the lead in enabling the interoperability of 5G data and signal links before launching the first 5G smartphone connectivity feature in last October.
OPPO has adopted AI technologies in a wide range of applications including photographing, face recognition and fingerprint recognition. At the same time, OPPO also introduced many advanced features including beauty camera to support AI, 3D portrait light and smart identification. OPPO said: "The benefits that AI technology brings will really be realized in the 5G era.
The OPPO Technology Exhibition lasts for 2 days including four main themes – AI, Big Data, Cloud + IoT and 5G – and 12 exhibition areas including more than 80 innovative projects. In addition to presenting OPPO's existing R&D projects and future technology roadmap, this year's exhibition also facilitates dialogue between experts from many industries, opening up the "door" to improve. future technology development opportunities.
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Secretary of State: Bill to provide voters 'unaffiliated' option presidential primaries introduced
CONTACT: Jennifer Hansen, Senior Public Information Officer | 360-786-7720
OLYMPIA — State Rep. Skyler Rude (R-Walla Walla) has sponsored request legislation from Secretary of State Kim Wyman to allow for greater voter participation in presidential primaries.
Introduced in the state Legislature this week, House Bill 1265 gives voters an option on the presidential primary ballot to not declare a party affiliation. It allows unaffiliated votes (i.e., those cast by voters who do not indicate their party preference) to qualify for the presidential primary and be counted.
Currently, state law requires voters to mark and sign the party declaration on their ballot envelope (RCW 29A.56.050). The voter's party declaration is public record in the voter registration database for 60 days after the election, though their vote is not, and they are bound to vote for a candidate according to their declared affiliation. Ballots left with a party declaration unmarked, or with a vote for a candidate opposite their declared party, are rejected and do not count.
Nearly half of Washington's registered voters participated in last year's presidential primary (an all-time high); however, the election drew criticism from voters who objected to affiliating with a political party in order to participate.
In addition, ballot-rejection rates are higher for presidential primaries (e.g., 4% for last year's presidential primary vs. 0.8% for the general election), mainly due to voters refusing to disclose their party affiliation on their ballot.
For years Secretary Wyman has advocated for the state Legislature to reinstate an "unaffiliated" option for voters. This option was available during the 1996 and 2000 presidential primaries yet was removed by the Legislature in 2007.
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Il biopunk (un portmanteau che combina insieme le parole "biologia" e "punk") è un sottogenere della fantascienza che utilizza elementi della letteratura gialla hard-boiled, dei film noir e degli anime giapponesi in prosa postmoderna. Descrive il lato nichilistico e sotterraneo della società biotecnologica che ha iniziato ad evolversi nel primo decennio del XXI secolo.

Il Biopunk si occupa di biologia sintetica. È derivato dal cyberpunk che coinvolge bio-hacker, megacorporazioni biotecnologiche e agenzie governative oppressive che manipolano il DNA umano. Molto spesso in linea con l'atmosfera oscura del cyberpunk, il biopunk generalmente esamina il lato oscuro dell'ingegneria genetica e rappresenta il lato basso della biotecnologia.

Descrizione
A differenza del cyberpunk, nonostante la somiglianza tra i due, il biopunk non si concentra sulla tecnologia informatica ma sui risvolti tecnologici della biologia e delle biotecnologie. Questo vuol dire che gli individui non vengono potenziati con mezzi meccanici o elettronici, ma attraverso la manipolazione genetica dei loro stessi cromosomi. Le storie biopunk esplorano le lotte di individui o gruppi, spesso prodotti della sperimentazione umana, in uno sfondo tipicamente distopico di governi totalitari e megacorporazioni che abusano delle biotecnologie come mezzi di controllo sociale e di profitto.

Una caratteristica comune della narrativa biopunk è la "clinica nera", che è un laboratorio, una clinica o un ospedale che esegue procedure di modificazione biologica e di ingegneria genetica illegali, non regolamentate o eticamente dubbie. Molte caratteristiche della narrativa biopunk hanno le loro radici in Neuromante di William Gibson, uno dei primi romanzi cyberpunk.

Il romanzo Biopunk
Il romanzo biopunk eredita le caratteristiche combinate del cyberpunk e del postcyberpunk. Tecnologia soffocante, guerra aziendale, giungla urbana, mostruosità umanoidi, tutto questo è presente nel futuro biopunk; l'idealismo dei primi hacker, la loro sete libertaria che era diventata un aiuto per la sopravvivenza, però, svanì a favore di un senso di pragmatico compromesso. Proprio come alcuni pirati del software potrebbero vendere i loro servizi al miglior offerente, l'eroe biopunk è talvolta legato, suo malgrado, a giocatori economici ricchi e potenti. Poiché la scienza non ha vocazione umanista, il romanticismo libertario pesa poco contro la necessità di sopravvivere. Questo personaggio tipico è quindi relativamente solitario, marginale e scientificamente dotato, ma il suo lato illegale lo porta generalmente a ignorare l'odore del denaro, e a sopportare il mondo che è suo, senza pensare a renderlo migliore.

Il "movimento" biopunk è rimasto embrionale. Per una corrente il cui atto letterario di nascita risale al 1995, questo rappresenta ancora un lungo periodo di gestazione. Il linguista americano Michael Quinion osserva inoltre che questo nome non ha avuto lo stesso successo di quello del cyberpunk e dubita che riuscirà mai. Il termine rimane relativamente sconosciuto e i suoi rappresentanti sono relativamente pochi

Ribofunk: The Manifesto
Uno dei principali autori in questo campo è Paul Di Filippo, uno dei primi scrittori cyberpunk (che ha partecipato a Mozart in mirrored glasses, la famosa antologia di Bruce Sterling), ha cercato, a suo modo, di influenzare il romanzo di fantascienza in una direzione più "organica". Ha scritto un manifesto semiserio, un'unione tra i termini "ribosoma" e "funk". in RIBOFUNK: The Manifesto, dove spiega brevemente perché la fantascienza deve voltare le spalle al suo recente passato robotico per abbracciare il movimento di biologizzazione che sembra prendere il controllo di tutte le sfere tecno-scientifiche. Di Filippo scrive:Perché Ribo?

La cibernetica era una scienza morta quando è nata la fantascienza cyberpunk, un cul-de-sac senza praticanti viventi. Inoltre, il prefisso "cyber" è stato irrimediabilmente svalutato dall'uso eccessivo, in mezzi che vanno dai fumetti ai film brutti. Il tag ora non rappresenta altro nella mente del pubblico se non l'hacking dei computer e cyborg stravaganti come Robocop. E i testi attuali di Weiner non forniscono metafore abbastanza fruttuose per costruire una visione sistematica del mondo.

Perché Funk?

Il punk era una musica morta quando è nata la fantascienza cyberpunk, un cul-de-sac anche se con praticanti viventi che non avevano ancora ricevuto il messaggio. La visione del mondo nichilista e chiliastica della musica era già culminata nel suo unico fine possibile: l'autoestinzione.

Cos'è Ribofunk allora?

Il Ribofunk è una narrativa speculativa che riconosce, è informata e illustra il principio secondo cui la prossima rivoluzione, l'unica che conta davvero, sarà nel campo della biologia. Per parafrasare Pope, ribofunk sostiene che: "Il giusto studio dell'umanità è la vita". Dimentica la fisica e la chimica; sono solo strumenti per sondare la materia vivente. Computer? Semplicemente simulatori e modellatori per la vita. La cellula è il re!

Attraverso questa gerarchizzazione delle scienze, che non procede da alcun pregiudizio metodologico o ontologico, ma dall'estetica, Di Filippo mette in luce il "livello di realtà" biologico, quello in cui si esprime la forza vitale, creativa della nostra catena, del DNA, contro la fredda meccanica dei computer. Celebra il carnale, l'organico, il cieco imperativo del corpo, la fame, il sesso, contro il calcolo, considerando che «l'intellettualità ci ha portato fin dove poteva. Ribofunk è "post-cyber" in quanto predilige atmosfere calde, sensuali, vitali, contro l'aspetto ghiacciato dell'inerte robotica.

Di Filippo suggerisce che i precursori della narrativa biopunk includono L'isola del dottor Moreau di H. G. Wells; Il re della cultura dei tessuti di Julian Huxley; alcuni dei racconti di David H. Keller, Natural State e altre storie di Damon Knight; Gravy Planet di Frederik Pohl e Cyril M. Kornbluth; romanzi di TJ Bass e John Varley; Blood Music di Greg Bear e Schismatrix di Bruce Sterling. Anche le storie di Cordwainer Smith, incluso il suo primo e più famoso "Scanners Live in Vain", prefigurano temi biopunk.

In Brasile, il movimento biopunk è diventato popolare nel 2020 con il libro O Último Ruivo, scritto da Clayton De La Vie, che ritrae una realtà in cui la società è notevolmente migliorata dal punto di vista medico ed è stata in grado di sradicare quasi il 100% di tutte le malattie nel mondo, a costo di una diffusa pulizia etnica e di un genocidio. Lo scenario caotico è sostituito da un ambiente oppressivo e carico di paura da parte di una popolazione costretta.

Fairyland
Un altro romanzo considerato il manifesto del biopunk è FairylandI di Paul J. McAuley (1995). Si svolge intorno al 2020, in Europa. Alex Sharkey, l'eroe, è un dirottatore genetico; ha un piccolo laboratorio a casa con un'ultracentrifuga, un liofilizzatore, un bioreattore e una macchina per PCR; produce retrovirus, virus psicoattivi a RNA – allucinogeni di nuova generazione. Contattato dalla mafia locale, gli viene affidato uno strano lavoro: trasformare le "bambole", questi umanoidi artificiali senza coscienza, perfettamente funzionanti, in esseri fertili, iniettando ormoni sintetici. Nel corso dei suoi successivi datori di lavoro, Alex moltiplicherà gli interventi sulle bambole, al punto da renderle del tutto vive e pensanti. Questi nuovi esseri, incontrollabili dagli umani ma manipolati da un'istanza invisibile (che Alex sta cercando), sono chiamati "fate". Scacciati, trovano rifugio in luoghi esotici, che la loro percezione distorta dagli psicovirus erige in contesti edenici. Il parco Eurodisney, abbandonato dall'uomo, diventa così un'incarnazione temporanea di Fairy.

La storia è piuttosto lunga e la trama si snoda, in modo non uniforme, emozionante, in molte direzioni, coinvolgendo un numero sempre crescente di protagonisti e comunità con relazioni complesse e instabili. L'essenziale è altrove, in questa onnipresenza dell'ingegneria genetica, i suoi risultati più visibilmente riusciti e le sue conseguenze più morbose. L'incessante rilascio in natura di nuovi organismi dal genotipo falsificato indebolisce tutti gli equilibri, e minaccia ogni essere umano di un contagio virale più o meno letale e più o meno psicoattivo. La "Crociata" riunisce così uomini e donne contagiati da un "memogen" religioso, spingendoli tutti a mettersi in viaggio alla ricerca di Fairy. In questo mondo disordinato e caotico, dove la pirateria genetica diffusa dà vita a un universo raramente rassicurante, Alex il biohacker traccia la sua strada, inseguendo la donna che lo ha stregato, e cercando un ambiente salubre tra umani alla deriva e fate irresponsabili. Armato solo delle sue capacità geniali della biotecnologia e di una buona rete di compagni eccentrici, cerca di resistere e incarnare l'outsider venuto per contrastare i piani di tutti.

Fairyland sta al biopunk come Neuromante sta al cyberpunk: la descrizione di un universo di riferimento, con il suo stile, i suoi dettagli caratteristici e la sua mitologia. Il paragone è forse eccessivo, dal momento che Féerie non è allo stesso livello del romanzo di Gibson. Neuromante resta un'opera importante per tre ragioni, che mancano in Fairyland: in primo luogo, l'effetto di novità, il carattere seminale dell'opera, il metodo senza precedenti di elaborazione convincente di un universo, da cui Féerie eredita ma che non reinventa; poi, la brillante anticipazione della rete informatica globale, che non ha eguali in Féerie; infine, Gibson fa parte di una tradizione letteraria che va oltre la fantascienza, favorisce la ricerca formale e si atteggia a erede di romanzieri come Thomas Pynchon o Don DeLillo, un approccio totalmente estraneo a McAuley, il cui stile rimane quello di una fantascienza classica. Tuttavia, Féerie è uno dei thriller futuristici più credibili e uno dei primi a mettere in luce le biotecnologie a tal punto.

Moda e abbigliamento
I futuriologi stanno usando la biologia per cercare di espandere e modificare le capacità dei nostri corpi, tutto grazie ai progressi della nanotecnologia, dei materiali biologici e dell'ingegneria genetica. Queste modifiche includono, ma non sono limitate a: pelle artificiale (o elettronica). In questo contesto, una mostra si è posta l'obiettivo di mettere in discussione tutti i limiti del corpo umano e di affrontare il "bio-hacking" nella moda e nell'arte.

Tipica identificazione ottica del Biopunk sono anche le maschere respiratorie e altri indumenti protettivi. Spesso vengono indossati abiti che hanno lo scopo di suggerire un organismo biologicamente modificato o uno zombi creato da un virus o da un errore genetico. Il simbolo internazionale per i rischi biologici e chimici compare frequentemente in questi prodotti.

Altri esempi notevoli
Più simili al noir/hard-boiled end of the spectrum sono invece i romanzi della Serie Moreau di S. Andrew Swann, in cui i "Moreau" (termine derivato dal romanzo L'isola del dottor Moreau di Herbert George Wells) sono una sottoclasse oppressa di ibridi umano-animali creati per mezzo dell'ingegneria genetica per essere i supersoldati del XXI secolo; il tutto immerso in trame alla Raymond Chandler.

Il romanzo breve Gli occhi di Heisenberg di Frank Herbert parla invece dell'ingegneria genetica legata al tema dell'immortalità. Il mondo è dominato dal regime totalitario degli Optimati, individui potenziati geneticamente ed immortali che soggiogano il resto dell'umanità, cui non è nemmeno concesso il diritto di procreare se sprovvisti di alcune peculiari caratteristiche genetiche.

Il Ciclo della Cultura di Iain Banks dipinge un futuro nel quale la nostra galassia è dominata da una civilizzazione chiamata "La Cultura"; una perfetta società utopica, anarchica e socialista nella quale ogni membro ha l'abilità di alterare il proprio corpo e la propria genetica attraverso la tecnologia, arrivando persino a sviluppare "ghiandole medicinali", organi transumani che permettono alla gente di produrre e utilizzare all'interno dei loro cervelli e a proprio vantaggio migliaia di combinazioni di sostanze psicoattive.

Buoni esempi di biopunk cinematografico sono Gattaca - La porta dell'universo e Crimes of the Future (2022) mentre, per quanto riguarda la cultura videoludica, possono essere citati BioShock e BioShock 2.

Voci correlate

 Lista di opere Biopunk
 Cyberpunk
 Sottogeneri del Cyberpunk
 Nanopunk
 Dieselpunk
 Steampunk
 Solarpunk
 Seapunk
 Ingegneria genetica nella finzione
 Grinder (biohacking)
 potenziamento umano
 Transumanesimo

Bioinformatica
Cyberpunk giapponese
Postcyberpunk

Collegamenti esterni
Biopunk di Annalee Newitz
 Genome liberation di Annalee Newitz
 Ribopunk di Jeffrey Fisher

Generi della fantascienza
Biotecnologia nella fantascienza