Throughout the 20th century, there have been a substantial number of highly skilled and educated professionals emigrating from their home countries in search of better economic and social opportunities in other countries. In the 1960s the term "brain drain" was coined in response to the large number of trained scientists, physicians and university teachers leaving developing countries (Carrington & Detragiache, 1999). Understanding the reasons for migration from the source country is critical to understanding how to effectively deal with the resultant issues. These issues have been called the "push" factors that promote the migration of health workers from developing nations. Additional factors are said to "pull" workers to developed countries such as higher wages, better quality of life, safer working conditions and greater opportunities to improve their education and expertise (Kline 2003). Usually, the recipient countries have an immigration policy that allows trained professionals to enter and receive work permits and even apply for citizenship (Kline, 2003). The reasons are often simple economic motives—limited career opportunities, low salary and limited advanced educational opportunities.
This paper concentrates on how the brain drain affects health care personnel on a global scale. For instance, health care workers in developing countries are worried about poorly funded and ill-managed health care systems. A recent data analysis appearing in the OECD's annual report showed that 60% of the physicians trained in Ghana leave the country, whereas 65% of the United Kingdom's medical staff are foreigners (Garson, 2004). Reducing the brain drain by getting professionals in developing countries to remain in their home countries is a plausible goal and many countries have demonstrated possible ways to work toward this goal. Currently, a number of countries are working together in order to create a global framework that deals with the policy of health care professional migration (McKinnon, 2003). The successful projects such as the reforms initiated by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) look at the situation from a multilateral perspective, covering issues of economics and politics. However, countries trying to regulate migration patterns face opposition. Two critical counter-arguments that cannot be ignored are the disruption of economic stability within developing countries and the infringement upon the basic human right to migrate.
According to the World Bank database, the mortality rate for children under five in developing nations is 150 deaths per 1000, whereas in developed nations, namely the OECD countries, it is 7 deaths per 1000 (2005). In addition, in developing countries there is an estimated one physician per 1,000 people, whereas in developed countries there are five physicians per 1000 people (World Bank, 2005). These statistics demonstrate the inequality of health care that exists among nations and stress the ethical dilemma of whether developed nations should be taking medical resources from countries that are desperately in need of health professionals.
In May 2003, countries of the British Commonwealth, ranging from Canada to small island states such as Malta, adopted an International Code of Practice for the International Recruitment of Health Workers. The main section of this Code focused on discouraging physician recruitment from developing countries with their own shortages. Another critical issue that the Code addresses is the possibility of financially compensating the developing countries for the costs of education and training. However, the Commonwealth countries have yet to implement this policy because they are experiencing difficulty in evaluating the countries' net losses. Overall, the Code lists a number of principles that are designed to guide international recruitment. Representatives within the Commonwealth are trying to extend the list of signatories to the Code and discussed this effort at the 2003 World Health Assembly (Garson, 2004).
As of 2004, the OECD countries have not signed the Code, but have started to create regulations and have entered bilateral agreements that restrict the length of stay for foreign physicians (Garson, 2004). For example, the United States implemented a "cultural exchange visa" that limits the stay of foreign health care workers such as doctors, nurses and medical professors or instructors. After their visa expires, workers are required to go home for two years until they are able to apply for re-admittance (Forcier, Giuffrida, & Simoen, 2004). This policy ensures the return of health care workers to their own countries and encourages them to share knowledge and expertise with their colleagues back home. In the future, this policy hopes to promote a "brain exchange" rather than a "brain drain" (Forcier et al., 2004).
Furthermore, "brain exchange" can be augmented if host countries assist developing nations in sustaining their domestic supply of physicians. For instance, host countries can provide financial support for foreign students, allowing them to study overseas and work for a pre-determined number of years (Forcier et al., 2004). However, similar to the effect of the "cultural visa," the arrangement would foster the return to their homeland. Host countries can also aid developing countries in sharing medical technology advances that may be difficult to learn about in isolated areas. The "brain exchange" can also encourage physicians from host countries to spend a sabbatical year abroad, thereby giving participants the opportunity to fully immerse themselves in the current problems of the developing world (Forcier et al., 2004).
In addition to recruiting foreign workers under such policies and programs, the OECD countries must focus on long-term policies to restore and sustain their own physician workforce. Instead of ignoring their own internal problems that exist in the health care industry, the OECD nations must evaluate their own situation with the hope of creating and retaining a new workforce rather than depending upon developing nations for needed professionals. In January 2005, U.S. President George Bush signed a proposal that provided $147 million for the recruitment and retention of nurses within the United States. The legislation is called the Nurse Reinvestment Act and some of the funding is targeted to provide student loans and scholarships and nurse diversity programs (Duckett, 2004). Similar to the United States' legislation, in 2004 the Canadian government began reforming their nursing programs and to work closely with the Canadian Nursing Advisory Committee in order to negotiate commitments such as providing nurses with a pension, regular vaccinations and quality health insurance (Scally, 2004).
From an economic standpoint, the brain drain significantly affects the developing world. These countries have spent both time and money educating the health care workers that subsequently emigrate. While some health care workers return to their homeland, most stay abroad and are soon followed by their families. As Dr. Barker of the UN Economic Commission of Africa warned his foreign colleagues, "in 25 years, Africa will be empty of brains" (Tebeje, 2005, ¶ 1). His comment demonstrates the increasing alarm over Africa's flight of human capital. According to a report by the IOM, 20,000 health care workers have been emigrating each year since 1990, with only a small percentage of workers returning to Africa (2004). The United Nations has recognized Africa's alarming emigration statistics, stating that the emigration of African professionals to the West is one of the greatest obstacles to Africa's economic development (Tebeje, 2005).
In order to solve this problem, the IOM, with the help of the WHO, launched the Migration for Development of Africa (MIDA) initiative. To begin the MIDA program, the IOM and the WHO developed a database of health professionals in Africa in order to numerically determine the shortage of workers. According to the IOM's website for MIDA, "the overall objective of the MIDA program is to assist in strengthening the institutional capacities of African governments to manage and realize their development goals through the transfer of relevant skills, financial and other resources" (International Organization for Migration [IOM], 2004, ¶ 4). In addition, MIDA works with African and host countries and diaspora members in order to facilitate networks of communication among governments. MIDA has successfully launched pilot projects in several African countries that attempt to negotiate contracts between hospitals and their workers. In November of 2004, MIDA organized an international "stakeholder roundtable" to discuss the implementation of governmental policy changes in each African country designed to ease brain drain pressures (IOM, 2004). Some of the members of the "roundtable" included the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), the African Union (AU), several NGOs, and WHO and UN representatives. The success of MIDA throughout Africa demonstrates the ability of countries and international organizations to work together in order to achieve the common goal of reducing the brain drain (IOM, 2004).
With the help of international organizations such as the UN and WHO, individual countries have been encouraged to make changes in their health care system in order to help retain their workers. Many African countries are encouraged to implement changes in local hospitals to reduce the brain drain in their countries. For example, the Zimbabwean government worked with representatives of the WHO and developed a plan to increase the retention of skilled health personnel (Chikanda, 2005). Some of the changes included the provision of housing and transportation allowance, salary reviews, fellowship and scholarship programs and free advanced training seminars. Another critical change that has increased retention of health care workers in Zimbabwe and other developing nations has been enforcement of safety measures that prevent unnecessary exposure to infectious diseases such as HIV. Hospitals in Zimbabwe now provide protective clothing and have increased the use of sterilized equipment by health professionals (Chikanda, 2005).
Another problem that the brain drain causes is the cycle of migration and recruitment that occurs in some countries. For example, South Africa is one of the middle-income countries that is most affected by the brain drain, losing over 50% of their health care workers each year. South Africa is then forced to recruit expensive foreign expertise, which in turn creates a nearly unstoppable vicious cycle. In order to alleviate the detrimental impacts of medical staff shortages, in 1993 the IOM introduced a program called "The Return of Talent" which with the offering economic and social incentives induced fifty-two doctors that year to return home (Forcier et al., 2004). This program is an initial step in promoting the retention of medical staff. Currently, South Africa is also trying to sustain and increase domestic physician supply by modifying the educational curriculum, adding mandatory fieldwork experience in rural areas for one year after graduation. Other incentives offered by the South African government include physician housing, social advantages, improved pay and job security. For the first time, doctors are reconsidering their job options abroad and choosing to stay at home. South Africa has demonstrated that motives for emigration can be tempered if governments are willing to work with the needs and desires of health care workers (Forcier et al., 2004).
Even though there has been significant progress in dealing with the problem of brain drain, there are also several strong arguments that oppose interfering with the brain drain process. One of the key counter-arguments involves the economic incentives for the brain drain. A recent editorial in Africa Health stated that the total annual remittance from trained professionals working overseas to their home countries now amounts to more than the total aid given by developed nations every year. Thus, in most cases, the increasing export of health professionals actually economically benefits the developing country in the end (Rowson, 2004).
In Africa the brain drain is a problem, but in the long term some argue that emigrants help create new markets for African products and bring back sufficient financial resources and new political and technological ideas. Even if medical professionals do not return permanently, they can still make a dramatic impact with intermittent returns because of their involvement in developing projects, charities and business ventures. An example is a man from Ghana who went to the United States to work for Microsoft. He later returned to Ghana with his accumulated fortune and founded a university. In addition, he also started his own software company (Herbert, 2004). This story demonstrates why some African policy makers are now looking upon the brain drain as a human network through which new ideas, capital and technology can flow back to the continent. Many countries even depend on the remittance from overseas workers for economic stability and view the exportation of medical professionals as a marketable commodity (Herbert, 2004).
The Philippines is the prime example of a country that specifically trains nurses for the purpose of sending them abroad (Buchan & Calman, 2004). Therefore, the export of nurses is one of the country's innovative ways of supporting its economy. In the Philippines, it is customary for nurses that leave to work overseas to send money home, thereby strengthening the local economy. Recently, the Philippines has been feeling the affects of other nations addressing the brain drain. For instance, both the United States and the United Kingdom have enacted stricter immigration laws, decreasing the number of Philippines nurses allowed to work in their countries. In turn, this is affecting their economic stability due to a decreased amount of money that is being sent back home (Buchan & Calman, 2004).
(2.) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country (1948).
Article 13 clearly shows that any person has the right to leave his or her country without harassment by his or her local government. The Declaration on Human Rights is not the only international document that supports the migration of skilled professionals. The preamble to the WHO Constitution is another example that supports an individual's right to migrate. The preamble states, "the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being" (World Health Assembly, 1946, ¶ 3 ). According to the WHO Constitution, emigrants who leave their country due to poor health conditions are justified in their decision to migrate. Not only is individuals' rights to health mentioned in the WHO Constitution, but also in 20 Constitutions in the Western Hemisphere which include language that invokes a right to seek better health care (Mackintosh & Mensah, 2005).
"Health… is a fundamental human right and that the attainment of the highest possible level of health is a most important world-wide social goal whose realization requires the action of many other social and economic sectors in addition to the health sector" (International Conference on Primary Health Care, 1978, ¶ 1).
With all these declarations, it is important that all countries follow their own declarations and recognize that their people have the right to a healthy lifestyle. Furthermore, if the population within a country is not satisfied with their health care systems, then they have the right to seek a higher standard of living. Even though Human Rights legislation does exist, the international legal regime is weak and largely ineffective, as it lacks the mechanism for enforcement of its policies and thus can rely only on the voluntary cooperation from participant states. The above policies were not originally designed to encourage emigration, but rather were used to provide a general standard for the overall health goals within individual countries. Therefore, countries must focus on improving their quality of life in both human rights and health care system standards if they want to avoid the problems of migration (Mackintosh & Mensah, 2005).
On a global level, the migration of health care workers undermines all of the international efforts to reach the Millennium Development Goals by 2020 because it reduces the medical staff of developing nations to a point where their own health care systems are not able to treat their own citizens (Rowson, 2004). The migration trend is increasingly global and demonstrates the contentious North-South debate, where the developed countries have been accused of exploiting the workers in developing nations. Further, the recipient countries are only addressing their labor problems on a short-term basis by avoiding pressing issues of health care reform that may be politically difficult to address. International cooperation that effects program and policy change continues to be the most effective way of minimizing the brain drain. However, there are strong arguments against the reduction of brain drain that must be addressed in order to reach an agreement concerning the rights of migration. For over forty years, countries have been debating the local and global impact of the brain drain. The programs and policy changes that our international community makes today will affect the future of the brain drain.
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Could Cops Use Google To Prevent Murder?
Murderers often turn to the Web for tips on killing. Could search data help the police stop those crimes before they happen?
By Will Oremus
June 06, 20121:06 PM
Should you watch what you search?
Illustration by Mark Alan Stamaty.
At around 3:45 a.m. on March 24, someone in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., used a mobile phone to Google "chemicals to passout a person." Then the person searched Ask.com for "making people faint." Then Google again, for "ways to kill people in their sleep," "how to suffocate someone," and "how to poison someone."
The phone belonged to 23-year-old Nicole Okrzesik. Later that morning, police allege, she and her boyfriend strangled 19-year-old Juliana Mensch as she slept on the floor of their apartment. The Google searches, along with incriminating text messages between Okrzesik and her boyfriend, came to light as authorities investigated Mensch's death. But what if they could have been alerted to the suspicious-sounding searches immediately? Could they have rushed to the apartment and saved the girl's life?
In Minority Report, police use mutant psychics to predict murders before they happen and lock up the would-be killers. The mutant psychics are fantasy, but when we keep hearing about cases in which people Google their crimes before they commit them, the concept of a police "pre-crime" unit is no longer so far-fetched. The most interesting thing about the idea of using Web searches to predict murders: It might be perfectly legal.
Police already draw on other types of data to anticipate crimes. Police departments in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Santa Cruz, Calif., have been experimenting with "predictive policing," in which computer algorithms sift through reams of crime data to tell officers where and when crimes are likely to occur. That's a long way, though, from the type of pre-cognition portrayed in Minority Report. It only works for relatively predictable crimes such as burglary or auto theft, and it doesn't tell you anything about who might be planning the heists.
Web search data, by contrast, contains information about specific individuals' thoughts and plans. In theory, Google or Ask.com could have flagged Okrzesik's search queries as suspicious and sent the cops her device's IP address. In the Hollywood script, a vigilant officer would notice the alert, rush to the scene, and knock on the door just as Mensch's assailants were about to do her in.
In reality, there are a few obstacles that scenario. For starters, police would need instant access to the search data and a way to connect it to a physical address. These days they usually get electronic records only after a crime has been committed and they've built up enough evidence to obtain a warrant. They use the data not to prevent crime but to build their case for arrest and conviction. In last year's high-profile Casey Anthony trial, for instance, prosecutors told the jury they'd searched Anthony's computer and found 84 queries related to "chloroform" in her browser history, corroborating their theory that Anthony had used the chemical to subdue her 2-year-old daughter Caylee before killing her. (Anthony was acquitted of the killing, and it later turned out that the term had been searched just once—and Casey Anthony's mother took the stand to say she was the one who searched for it. She said she was trying to look up "chlorophyll" to see whether plant matter was dangerous for her dog to eat.)
Law enforcement agents do sometimes monitor communications in real time, as when they listen in on a suspect's phone conversations. But federal privacy laws require a special wiretap warrant for eavesdropping, obtainable only after police have probable cause to believe an individual is guilty of a crime. (A 2008 law that allows warrantless wiretapping under certain circumstances has been appealed to the Supreme Court.) So even if it were technically feasible, police wouldn't be allowed to monitor everyone's phone conversations for suspicious words or phrases. The same ostensibly holds for monitoring people's email, text messages, and Web browsing.
As for Web searches, police probably can't require a company like Google to share its data with them without good reason, legal experts say. But unlike phone conversations, emails, and text messages, search queries aren't protected from voluntary disclosure to authorities, notes Orin Kerr, a computer crime expert at George Washington University. When you pick up the phone to call a friend, the reasoning goes, you're communicating with that friend, and the phone company is a third party that doesn't have a right to eavesdrop. But when you type a query into Google's search bar, you're communicating directly with Google. That makes Google the "end user" of your information, and gives it the legal prerogative—at least in theory—to share that information with anyone it likes, including the police or the FBI. Kerr calls it a hole in the country's privacy laws and has called for it to be patched.
Could the police have guessed from her Google searches that Nicole Okrzesik was going to kill?
Photograph courtesy of Broward Sheriff's Office.
In practice, it's unlikely Google would do such a thing unless it felt compelled to. Asked about the company's policies on sharing information with law enforcement, spokesman Chris Gaither told me only that Google complies with valid legal processes, takes users' privacy seriously, and tries to notify users when it gets requests for their data. And when it does get such requests, it tries to make sure they're tailored as narrowly as possible. The fact is that, in the absence of a law requiring it to share search information with the government, Google has more incentive to protect its customers' privacy than to serve as an ongoing informant for the cops.
But if the idea of Internet companies sharing users' seemingly private information with law enforcement sounds far-fetched, consider that the House of Representatives recently passed a bill to explicitly legalize and promote just that behavior. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, would encourage the free flow of information on "cyber threats" between the government and major Web firms. Under the law, those firms would be immune from lawsuits arising from the sharing of such information. Several major tech companies, including Facebook and Microsoft, endorsed the bill. After an outcry from privacy groups, though, the Obama administration threatened a veto, and the bill has not been introduced in the Senate.
There are, though, other types of search data that companies already share with federal officials in real time. For instance, Google uses its analytics to report flu trends to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. It anonymizes the data to make sure it can't be traced to individual users, but the precedent is still one of instantaneous sharing with the government. In the U.K., meanwhile, legislation is afoot that would require Web companies to monitor users' searches for terms indicating that they might commit suicide. Such searches would presumably produce an alert to law enforcement, who could then try to intervene to save the user's life.
Even if Google—or Ask.com or Microsoft's Bing—did come to an understanding with American law enforcement, there would still be the practical problem of sifting the useful data from the noise. As Casey Anthony's mother would tell you, there are plenty of reasons to search for chloroform (or chlorophyll) other than to plan a murder. Likewise, any police department that tried to track down all the searches for "how to dispose of a body without getting caught" would quickly find itself overwhelmed. And in Okrzesik's case, the poor grammar in "chemicals to passout a person" might have kept it off the radar of even the most sophisticated monitoring algorithm.
Yet the next three Google searches on Okrzesik's phone—"ways to kill people in their sleep," "how to suffocate someone," and "how to poison someone"—seem to clearly indicate that someone has a strong curiosity about how to kill someone. One can also imagine other searches—say, a series of queries about the ingredients used to make anthrax—that law enforcement agents might like to know about.
Unlike in Minority Report, such search data probably wouldn't be enough to justify a search warrant on its own, let alone an arrest and conviction. But David Sklansky, a criminal law professor at UC-Berkeley, says it could constitute the reasonable suspicion needed to pull someone over or stop him on the street. And police don't need any reasonable suspicion at all to knock on someone's door and ask what she's up to, provided the person agrees to talk.
Most of the time, even these seemingly incriminating searches would probably amount to nothing, like a burglar alarm going off in a house (a false alarm more than 95 percent of the time). It's also possible that if it becomes public knowledge that cops and search engines are collaborating, an Internet mob could start mass-searching "ways to kill people in their sleep," overwhelming law enforcement with phony queries. But in rare cases, it's conceivable that search sleuthing could lead to saved lives—perhaps a great number of saved lives, in the case of a terrorist attack. That prospect, however slim, may be enough to convince search engines to at least explore the potential for increased collaboration with authorities. Murderers and the morbidly curious, be warned.

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PUNE: The Economic Offences Wing of the Pune Police today carried out searches at the offices and residence of city-based developer D S Kulkarni, just days after he and his wife were booked in a cheating case.
The case was registered on October 28 on a complaint by 65-year-old Jitendra Mulekar that he did not get back his investment from the real estate group. Besides cheating, D S Kulkarni or just DSK, as he is popularly known, and his wife were booked for criminal breach of trust, the police had said.
"Following the first complaint by Jitendra Mulekar (65), we yesterday received complaints from nearly 300 depositors who claimed that they did not get back their money from the developer," a senior official of the Pune Police's EOW said. Based on the complaints, searches were carried out at DSK's offices and residence in the city to scrutinise the documents, he said.
Since there are approximately 300 complaints, the police would be able to know the total amount liable to be paid by the builder after going through the applications, the official added. According to some complainants, there are around 8,000 depositors who have invested with D S Kulkarni's group but they did not get their money back from the developer. For the past several months, all these investors, largely pensioners, have been queuing up at the DSK's office here.
As many as 170 depositors who invested in the Fixed Deposit (FD) scheme of the DSK group, had approached the Pune Police a couple of months ago, demanding that a cheating case be registered against the firm. According to police, Mulekar claimed to have invested Rs 4,40,647 in the scheme. The investor alleged that he neither received the principal amount nor the interest since February 2017.
A day after the case was registered, Kulkarni said that since the matter was sub-judice, he would not like to comment but assured he will pay all the investors, employees and depositors. In a video released by DSK earlier this year on social media, the real estate developer had replied to all allegations and queries of deposit holders and investors.
DSK had in September stepped down from the post of managing director of DS Kulkarni Developers Limited (DSKDL). His son Shirish Kulkarni succeeded him as the new managing director and chief executive officer (CEO) of the company.


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Ann Thorac Surg. 2002 Aug;74(2):481-6; discussion 487.
Myocardial functional recovery after fibroblast growth factor 2 gene therapy as assessed by echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging.
Horvath KA1, Doukas J, Lu CY, Belkind N, Greene R, Pierce GF, Fullerton DA.
Although it has been shown that gene therapy is capable of inducing neovascularization in ischemic myocardium, the functional significance of such therapeutic angiogenesis remains less certain. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether an experimental link could be made between the ability of a novel fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) gene formulation to promote neovascularization, and its ability to restore myocardial function.
Fibroblast growth factor 2 gene was delivered by means of an adenovirus vector formulated in a collagen-based matrix to provide localized and sustained gene activity. Using a model of chronic myocardial ischemia, animals were randomized to either treatment of the ischemic area by injections of adenovirus vector-FGF2 or no treatment. Left ventricular function was assessed by rest and dobutamine stress echocardiography as well as contrast-enhanced and cine magnetic resonance imaging scans. Studies were repeated 6 weeks after treatment. Arteriogenesis was assessed by quantifying the total arteriolar wall area present in treated areas, using anti-alpha-actin immunohistochemistry and subsequent morphometric analyses.
Echocardiographic results demonstrated a significant restoration of myocardial function in FGF2 gene-treated areas as measured by myocardial wall thickening (0.38 +/- 0.08 cm pretreatment versus 0.76 +/- 0.09 cm posttreatment; p < 0.05). This was demonstrated by comparing the ischemic zones of FGF2 gene-treated versus control-treated animals, as well as by comparing ischemic with nonischemic zones in individual animals This functional improvement was confirmed by cine magnetic resonance imaging, in which 68% (147 of 216) of the treated segments showed improvement in wall motion and there was no change in the untreated segments. Fibroblast growth factor 2 gene treatment also enhanced arteriogenesis within the ischemic zone, as FGF2 gene-treated animals showed a 340% increase in the total arteriolar wall area present versus control-treated animals.
The function of ischemic myocardium can be restored by a novel FGF2 gene delivery method using a gene-activated matrix. The increased arteriogenesis as a result of FGF2 gene therapy leads to restoration of this myocardial function.


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NASA received data from the Spirit rover Friday morning for the first time in two days, easing scientists' anxiety that the Mars mission had come to a calamitous halt.
Opportunity, the second of two US probes sent to explore the surface of Mars, has landed safely on the planet, the US space agency NASA said.
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has pledged a new line-up for his 'Team Thailand', promising that sweeping changes are on the cards to boost the efficiency of Thailand's foreign operations.
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The relics of St. John the Baptist, which were discovered on the St. Ivan Island in the Black Sea off the coast of Bulgaria's Sozopol back in 2010, belonged to a Middle Eastern man who lived at the time of Jesus Christ, an Oxford radiocarbon dating expert has confirmed. In August 2010, during excavations of an ancient monastery on the Bulgarian Black Sea island St. Ivan (St. John) near Sozopol, Bulgarian archaeologist Prof. Kazimir Popkonstantinov discovered a reliquary containing relics of St. John the Baptist.
The discovery of St. John the Baptist's relics, which consist of small bone particles from a skull, jaw bone, arm bone, and tooth, has generated great international interest ever since, and now scholars from Oxford University have completed tests partly confirming the authenticity of the saintly bones, CNN reports citing Prof. Tom Higham from the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford.
Higham, an Oxford University scientist and an atheist who doesn't believe in "any kind of religion or God or anything like that," was asked to test the six small bone fragments found on the Bulgarian Black Sea island named Sveti Ivan – St. John. The bones have turned out to be from a man who lived in the Middle East at the same time as Jesus, Higham says.
"We got a date that was exactly where it should be, right in the middle of the first century," says the Oxford radiocarbon dating expert.
This is certainly not a definitive proof that the bone particles found in Bulgaria belonged to St. John the Baptist because there is no "DNA database" of Early Christian saints, says Bulgarian archeologist Prof. Kazimir Popkonstantinov who found the bones.
But the mere fact that the testing did not prove the bones are fakes is unusual, the report points out reminding that Popkonstantinov led the team that found the relics under the altar of a 5th century basilica at the St. John the Baptist Monastery on Sveti Ivan, a Black Sea island off Sozopol on Bulgaria's Southern Black Sea coast.
Higham, the deputy director of Oxford's Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, got involved because a colleague knew the Bulgarian archeologists. National Geographic was also interested, so it provided funding for more extensive testing than Higham originally planned, and made a film about the project, CNN explains. Radiocarbon dating shows that the bones were from the right period to be from St. John the Baptist, Higham says, while genetic testing shows it was a man and all the bones were from the same person.
There is reasonably good historical evidence that John the Baptist, whom Christians believe baptized his cousin Jesus, did exist, Paul Middleton, a senior lecturer in Biblical studies at the University of Chester, is quoted as saying. All four gospels and the contemporary Jewish historian Josephus say he was beheaded on the orders of the ruler Herod Antipas, Middleton said when the bones were found.


When a caller informed the Humane Society in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Battle Creek, Michigan, about two ducks trapped by the ice on a frozen pond, shelter manager Mike Pearson rushed right over. He timidly inched his way out on the ice, carefully grabbed the ducks, and made his way back to safety.
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Some people will buy anything if the salesman is convincing enough. Satan can't make temptation work unless he can convince us to buy into the deception that yielding won't hurt us.


McLuhan knew that the context of a message is of equal, if not more, importance than the message itself. At the time of his writing, people didn't process television the same way they processed books. The principle endures today: we don't process a tweet the same way we process an email.
This might sound like something that would make you fall asleep in a lecture hall, but if you dust off McLuhan's academic jargon, you'll see that he stumbled upon a framework that can help advertisers (or anybody with something to say) cut through the clutter with their messages.
We have preconceptions about every piece of content we encounter and we process them using an existing frame of reference. Many of us are immune to billboards and mentally allergic to display ads. But we can disrupt those preconceptions by rethinking how those media are utilized. In short, we shouldn't just use the medium to tell the message; we should converge the medium with the message.
The "Follow the Arches" campaign cropped the iconic golden "M" into turn-by-turn directions to help drivers find the nearest McDonald's.
McDonalds didn't use billboards to tell their message—they used them as part of the message.
While McDonald's reconsidered how it could use an already-established medium, Mr. Clean literally created its own advertising medium with its iconic crosswalk ad.
I mentioned earlier that we have deep-seated preconceptions about the visuals and information we process. As you can see, Mr. Clean successfully shattered pedestrians' preconceptions of what a crosswalk was supposed with a simple paint job.
Can you measure this ad's conversion rate? No. Can you demonstrate its ROI in a fancy PowerPoint presentation? No. Did it disrupt thought patterns by merging the medium and the message? You bet.
Plenty of progressive marketers have declared war on "outdated" or "immeasurable" advertising strategies. But before you follow their lead and start double-fist the latest ad-tech Kool-Aid, you should tell them to take notes from Marshall McLuhan.


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Beginner > Fast Class: Fundamentals Of Photography > Lens Adaptors & Cleaning
25. Lens Adaptors & Cleaning
all right, so with muralist cameras because they don't have a Mirren, um, we're able to keep or get the lens is closer to the sensor plane, were able to adapt and hook on a lot of different lenses. Mentioned this in the opening segment on cameras. And so, if you want amount a canon lens on a Sony camera, you can do it. Not directly, though, you're gonna need a lens adapter that allows you to make the physical connection as well as the Elektronik connection between them. So that way you can use these other after market, different brand lenses. And there's been a lot of people have a lot of fun picking up old lenses on eBay and at garage sales, using old lenses from the sixties and seventies on their new camera. They're probably not optically, really high quality lenses, like a lot of today's lenses, but they do offer a unique look, and some people they're not after the highest quality. They want a unique look for what they're doing, and so there's a lot of fun that you can have with rel...
atively inexpensive lenses adapting these lenses on here, and I think I have one of these adapters in here. And so I have the adapter, don't have the right cameras and set up here. But this is the adapter so that I could mount canon lenses on a Sony camera. Now there's no optical bits in here. And so it's just the straight optical quality of the canon glass, and it's got the electron ICS in here. And Meta Bones has actually done a good job of getting the electron ICS from the Sony camera to operate the electron ICS of the cannon lance. Now, I don't always use canon lenses. I sometimes use other brands, have a signal ins, and so I think it's kind of funny. Sometimes I have a Sony camera, a meta bones adapter and a sigma lens, and I'm using a cannon mount but no candidate products on DSO. You can have a wide variety of things out there that are mounted on here now. There are a lot of different types of adapters out there, and one of the more interesting adapters is when I want to show you here Speed booster. So if remember how lenses produce an image circle, all right when you have a full frame lands on a small sensor of any sort. It produces a very large image circle, and you are getting a cropped image in there. And so the downside to this is that you've lost the white angle ability of this large image circle. Well, there's been a new invention somewhat recently, and that is the speed booster, and this is available from a few different manufacturers. And another term for this is a reverse tell a convert. And so, rather than giving you mawr telephoto, it gives you more wide angle. What it does is it takes all of that light, put it on the back of your lands, and it concentrates it into a smaller size circle, reducing it back down in size. And this has to interesting effects. One is you get your white angle back that you kind of lost from going to a smaller sensor camera. But by taking a light source and condensing it into a smaller area, it makes it brighter, which it max actually increases the amount of light that would be let through the lens because you're concentrating it in smaller area. We all know this Remember being at Camp with a flashlight. You shine it really broad, and you can't see very far. But you go really narrow and you can see quite a ways. It's the same philosophy with this, and so you can take lenses designed for full frame cameras adaptive onto crop micro 4/3 type cameras and have him lead in quite a bit of light. Now the problem here is that you're kind of changing over electron ICS from one brand of lens to another brand, and you're adding mawr optics into the equation, so you might be losing a little bit when it comes to image quality. But it does get you wide angle back, and sometimes then some. And so this is gonna be good for increasing the brightness and regaining the white angle view. So there's a lot of different adapters, and it can get a little confusing. So here's a few of the things to look for, So if you want to use an SL our lands on a mere Elice camera, you're gonna need a lens adapter. It's possible a speed booster will work depending on the combinations that you are working with. Well, it communicate between the body and the lands. Well, that depends on what you buy. There are some devices out there that are $20 that have no electron ICS in it, and it's just designing for you to mechanically hook one system up to the other. Something else will allow you to do exposure. Something else will do exposure and focus. You've got to find out how compatible is it? How many features continue to work when I mount these two things together? Will there be glass in their lens? Adapters may or may not have him. It depends on what you're doing. The lens and after I got is just I want the straight lands. But sometimes they'll have tilt shift adapters or macro adapters or something else in there, and they'll add elements in there to do something else, and you'll find that there's lots of different adapters in the market. If you do want to speed booster, it absolutely has to have glass in there. In order for that to work, will it increase the light gathering ability? A straight lens adaptor will not, even if it has glass in there. But that's what the Speed boosters are designed to dio and will it increase your white angle of you? That's what the speed boosters do. The lens regular lens adapters. That's not intentions there. Just simply intended on adapting one product to the other. Everybody should be using micro fiber cleaning clause for cleaning your lenses. That's these little fine woven claws like this. And if you're like me, you should probably have a dozen of them because they get lost really easily on dso these air. Nice, soft. They could be washed and just blow a little bit of hot air and clean it off. In fact, I have a great little video here, and I think this would make a fine little vine video that we can just let play and play and play here. And so it's very easy toe clean your lands. So we'll just watch this for the next hour. I think. See, isn't this fun? They're laughing that but the last more the next time see their left and more, we'll just keep watching it. Okay, maybe not, uh, removing filters. Love that challenge. Please come to me. Tell me your filter is stuck on your camera. I just want to try to get it off filters can get stuck on for a variety of reasons. One reason is you just cranked it on too hard. But every time you grab something that is round, it kind of pushes it into an oval shape ever so slightly. And it's quite possible that you could screw on the lands like this and go, okay, that's fine. And then you come here in your and you're squeezing it kind of in the wrong place. And if you grabbed it here, had come off in a second. And I know we've all had the experience totally stuck on there. OK, give it a try and they're just like, See, I'm magic, I can do this and it's about grabbing it in the right spot. It's also about grabbing it in a multitude of locations, and so what you're trying to do is not bend the oval. It hasn't been a lot, but just bends a little bit and so grab it in different locations. Grab it with as many fingers as possible, and you can usually get it off another. There's a lot of tools out there, and a rubber band is also gonna work in getting that off. There's lends wrenches that you'll have in a repair shop or a camera store from getting things that air really stuck off. And I've seen lenses that get dropped in. The only way to get a filter off is by Hack signed very carefully into the filter, so it'll pop off. But generally just using fingers in the right location. And I forget what combination. I have one filter and one lens that you just a little bit too hard, and it feels like it's stuck forever unless you grab it in the secret location. And then it's very easy to get off storing your filters. There's a lot of different ways. The way that I found that I really like is Thea Little Tamarack case that I have here. And I gotta admit, I'm not a fan of fanny packs. I don't think they look real good, but when I am working, this is really practical. My polarizing filters, my neutral density filters air right here, and I always try to wear a belt. So I confuse the system so I can just, uh, take it on and off. And it's a great system that stores about five filters. But there's a lot of other nice padded filter systems out there. I think you want to find something other than those little plastic cases that they came in their fine for storing an individual filter. But once you have a number of filters, it's just really easy to get these. And so if you're interested in this, its the MX 53 88 mine's 10 years old, so they might have had some slight changes in the design to it.


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Сандалвуд (ಕನ್ನಡ ಚಿತ್ರೋಧ್ಯಮ) — це неформальна назва кіноіндустрії індійського штату Карнатака, що випускає продукцією мовою каннада. Основним центром є місто Бангалор. Також виробництво фільмів діє у містах Мангалор й Мисор. Також має назву Чанданавана. Є п'ятим кіноцентром (після Боллівуду, Коллівуду, Толлівуду та Моллівуду). Фільми реалізуються серед населення, що розмовляє мовою каннада, а також у США, ФРН, Австралії, Великій Британії, Італії, Греції, Єгипті, країнах Перської затоки.

Історія
Розвиток кінематографа мовою каннада відбувався повільно. В часи панування в Індії демонструвалися насамперед фільми англійською мовою. Першим кінофільмом, створеним каннадою була звукова картина «Саті Сулочана», що з'явилася 1934 року. Її було знято кінокомпанією «Муві Тон» (господар Чаманлал Дунгаджі) у м. Колхапур за підтримки місцевого махараджі Раджарама III Бхосле (нащадка відомого героя-маратха Шиваджі). Витрати склали 40 тис. рупій. Його насамперед демонстрували в Майсурі. Втім доробка фільму відбувалася у м. Мадрас. Того ж року було знято фільм «Бхакта Дхрува». Режисером обох фільм був Ярагудіпаті Варада Рао

Втім лише із здобуття самостійності починається справжнє становлення каннадської кіноіндустрії й утворення Сандалвуда. З 1949 року починають регулярно створювати відповідні фільми. Першим таким став "Бхакта Кумбар"а (режисер — Хоннаппа Бхагаватар). Першою кінокомпанією з початку самостійності стала «Ваджрешварі Комбінес».

Протягом 1950—1970-х років основною тематикою фільмів були історичні та міфологічні події в історії мешканців штату Карнатака, а також загальноіндуїстські. При цьому важливою складовою кожного фільму були пісні каннадою та національні танці Карнатаки.

У 1964 році було знято перший кольоровий фільм — «Амарашільпі Джакканачарі» режисера Б. С. Рангу. У 1970 році фільм «Самскара» (режисер — Паттабхірама Редді) перший серед картин мовою каннада отримав Національну премію за найкращий художній фільм.

З початку 1970-х років режисер Путтана Канагал вніс значні зміни, виключивши з сценаріїв сцени битви, пісні та танці. При цьому почав знімати кінофільми («Беллі Moda», «Геддже Пудже», «Сакшатхкаара», «Шарапанджара», «Наагарахааву», Упасане, «Ранганаякі»), де головною дійовою особою стала жінка. завдяки цьому в Сандалвуді з'явилося багато актрис, які стали доволі популярними. основними містами кіноіндустрії стали Мангалор, Бангалор та Мисор.

Поєднання старих та нових тенденції (відображення соціальних питань) відобразилося у кіноіндустрії Сандалвуда протягом 1980-1990- років. В цей час почали знімати щорічно майже 100 фільмів. Їх демонстрували в усіх громадах Індії, де розмовляли мовою каннада. З 1996 року діє бангалорський міжнародний кінофестиваль.

Сучасність
З 2000-х років поступово збільшується кількість фільмів, що створювали щорічно. Бангалор остаточно перетворився на основний центр Сандалвуда (з огляду на його статус столиці штату Карнатака). Протягом 2000—2010 років постійно зростають збори від прокату, рекордами є Джогі з 400 млн рупій (2005 рік) та «Мунгару Мейл» з 500 млн рупій (2006 рік).

У 2007 році наймолодший індійський режисер Кішан Шрікант за свій фільм «С/о Футпат» отримав національну премію за найкращий дитячий кінофільм. Згодом ця картина здобула 2 кінопремії штату Карнатака та 11 нагород міжнародних кінофестивалів. У 2010 році фільм «Гулабі» режисера Гіріша Касараваллі здобув перемогу на 10-му Осіан фестивалі Азійського та Арабського кіно. У 2012 році було знято перший повнометражний 3D фільм — «Катарі Віра Сурасундарангі», режисером якого став Суреш Крішна. У 2014 році виготовлено 143 фільми.

Кінопремії
 Кінопремія штату Карнатака
 Кінопремія Удайя
 Кінопремія Суварна
 Премія Бангалорського міжнародного кінофестивалю

Відомі актори
 Калпана
 Упендра
 Умашрі
 Пуджа Ганді
 Пуніт Раджкумар

Джерела
 Shampa Banerjee, Anil Srivastava (1988) [1988]. One Hundred Indian Feature Films: An Annotated Filmography. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-8240-9483-2.
 First film to talk in Kannada
 Kannada Movie News
 100 YEARS OF INDIAN CINEMA: THE 100 GREATEST INDIAN FILMS OF ALL TIME
 It has been a golden year for the Kannada film industry

Кінематограф Індії
Карнатака
Каннада

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Endlessly fascinating author. No use whatsoever around the house at Christmas.
Powys's modus operandi was wild and woolly. He was blown this way and that by inspiration, quirks and curiosities, able to dip into some seemingly bottomless pockets of literary knowledge, including Biblical learning and Classical works.
W. J. Keith's Reader's Companions offer something of a port in a storm. To the eccentric world of Powysland he brought a clear head and a willingness to pay attention to fine detail, to explicate each obscure reference, old-fashioned phrasings, Welsh mythology and Latin terms.
The latest Powys Society Newsletter includes tributes to Bill Keith (1934-2018) who sadly died in the summer. It's another much-valued champion lost – not just in terms of the Companions, the introductory guides to Glastonbury Romance and Owen Glendower, but also his unerringly thoughtful and readable contributions to the Society's Journal.
Keith's Companions for A Glastonbury Romance, Owen Glendower, Porius and Autobiography are available in pdf format, or to order bound, printed copies via the excellent bilingual La Lettre Powysienne site.
John's brother Llewelyn's descriptions of the Powys family Christmas can be magical: old traditions lit with a fireside glow; the contrast with the austere rural landscape.


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TV Review: REVENGE – Season 1 – "Guilt"
Emily gets a much-needed reality check.
By ANNE LOUISE BANNON / Contributing Writer
Posted: October 20th, 2011 / 09:37 AM
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Stars: Emily VanCamp, Madeleine Stowe, Henry Czerny, Josh Bowman, Nick Wechsler, Gabriel Mann, Ashley Madekwe, Christa B. Allen, Connor Paolo
Writer: Nikki Toscano
Director: Kenneth Fink
Network: ABC, Wednesday nights, 10 p.m.
Original Telecast: October 19, 2011
One of the problems I've had with REVENGE is that it does stretch credibility that Emily Thorne (the former Amanda Clarke) seems to think that she is going to ruin the lives of all the people involved in the false accusation and conviction of her father David (James Tupper) without getting caught.
But tonight, Emily (Emily Van Camp) does come close and it's just clever enough that I'm almost willing to forgive that the episode is told in flashback after the falling death of the evil Lydia (Amber Valletta), former best friend of Emily's nemesis Victoria Grayson (Madeleine Stowe) and current mistress of Victoria's husband and partner in nefarious dealings, Conrad Grayson (Henry Czerny). Flashback is rarely justified and usually comes off as a cheap trick to make us think the episode is more exciting than it is. In this case, it was utterly pointless.
The episode is mostly based on the fall out of last week's take down of the shrink that condemned Amanda to never seeing her dad again. Victoria is obsessed with trying to make things up to her daughter Charlotte (Christa B. Allen). And Lydia, in trying to make things up to Victoria, accidentally stumbles onto a clue suggesting that Emily may, in fact, be behind all the awful things that keep happening. So, naturally, Emily finds a way to incriminate Lydia.
Better yet, Emily and Victoria's wayward son Daniel (Josh Bowman) seem to be back on track – Daniel finds out that his so-called buddy Tyler (Ashton Holmes) was the one who messed up Daniel's big date with Emily last week. Frankly, I think Daniel forgave Tyler just a little too readily, but I'll go with it. Still not sure how Emily really feels about Daniel, beyond him being part of her plan for revenge, but I suspect that has a lot to do with Van Camp's general flatness overall. That, and the fact that Victoria is turning out to be far more conflicted about her role in David Clarke's undoing makes her a far more interesting character.
You're not going to be watching this show because you need a serious dose of reality. The idea is to check logic at the door and enjoy the roller coaster ride – and you certainly have one tonight.
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Q: Why does my babel-chaining (&&) does not work? I`m doing a tutorial on server-side-rendering with React/Express/Firebase.
This tutorial was created in 2017 and unfortunately, I struggle on the script section with babel in which I try to chain some commands.
Please take note that each command for itself works fine, but chaining them leads to the following error:

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The script command is th following:
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Is there a general mistake in this line of code?
Do you need additional code to analyse the mistake?
Best regards!

A: I found the solution by myself, but maybe someone can explain why it is like it is.
This code works:
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I had to remove the second "node_modules/.bin/babel ...", just typed in "babel ..."


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It was the day of Avraham's funeral and Yaakov was preparing lentil soup for his mourning father Yitzchak. Esav came in from the field and he was hungry and tired. We all know the story – Esav sold the birthright for a bowl of soup.
Our Rabbis (Bava Basra 16) teach us that on that day, Esav violated no fewer than five separate transgressions, including degrading his birthright. This one requires some investigation. What exactly was the transgression of selling the birthright? Was Esav ever warned not to relinquish his firstborn status? What was so wrong with this action that it is grouped with an act of murder and denial of God's existence, two of the other transgressions he violated that day?
Rashi tells us that the birthright Esav inherited positioned him to serve the Almighty in a special way. Esav was given the option to participate in the divine covenant. Had he not sold the right of the firstborn, Rabbi Soloveitchik explains, Esav would have been entitled to the same destiny that God bestowed upon Yaakov. But Esav had no interest in this role or in the privilege of being charged with a sacred mission. Yaakov didn't dupe him into selling his birthright. He wasn't tricked, fooled or pressured. Esav sold his birthright because he simply didn't value it, he didn't cherish it, and ultimately, he didn't even want it.
The Ramban suggests – if you want to know what Esav truly thought about his birthright and the honor to carry the legacy of his father and grandfather, just look at what he does right after he sells it. The pasuk says, va'yochal, va'yeisht, va'yakam, va'yeilech, va'yivez, he ate, he drank, he got up, he went and he dishonored the birthright. The Ramban highlights the order in the Pasuk: It doesn't say he denigrated the birthright when it was sold. Rather, Esav sold the birthright, and proceeded to immediately to eat, drink and get up and go and only then, va'yivez, he displayed great disregard for the birthright.
There are times a person must forfeit something of incredible value. Sometimes, a person brings their great grandmother's jewelry or precious item to a pawn shop because they desperately need the money. But, a person in that situation will reflexively grieve and feel sad over losing something so irreplaceable. Esav didn't grieve; he sold the birthright, and went to a party, had a drink, and didn't look back.
Esav's most egregious transgression was minimizing what the birthright meant to him, and how easily he went about normal life after giving it away. He threw away a special relationship, a special mission and a special destiny, and he couldn't care less. He was casual and flippant with a prize possession.
That birthright, the privilege of being a member of Klal Yisroel, of being a participant of the am ha'nivchar, a full member of the covenantal community and being charged with a sacred mission, is something many of our ancestors risked and gave their lives for. We are the offspring and the progeny of Yaakov, not Esav. The birthright, a symbol of Jewish values and Torah, is precious to us and of inestimable value. If we didn't have it, we would trade everything in the world, least of all a bowl of lentil soup to get a share of it.
And because our birthright, which importantly includes the teachings and traditions of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov, is so precious and dear to us, it must be accessible and available to every member of the Jewish people. Torah, Jewish values, and the Jewish community are the right of every man, woman and child, irrespective of social status, economic status, level of learning, background, or level of observance. Every single Jew deserves access to his or her birthright. Every single Jew, no matter his or her ability or disability, no matter his or her special needs, is entitled to access to, and participation in, our collective birthright.
A man from Gateshead, England, once came to visit the Chazon Ish together with his young son, a boy with Down's Syndrome. When they walked in, the Chazon Ish rose from his chair. The startled father told the great not to rise on his account. The Chazon Ish responded, "It is not in your honor that I have risen. Rather, it is out of respect for your son, a boy who possesses one of the holiest souls of our generation." (Ma'aseh Ish, 1:230)
These holiest souls with different potentials and roles to fill in this world have a birthright, and it is no less than anyone else's. BRS is proud of our recent efforts to be sensitive to the special needs population through our programming and activities. On Simchas Torah, we hold a special Kol Ha'nearim for those who cannot participate in a large crowd. We open the Parshas Noach event and the Purim Carnival early for those with sensitivities and we are now running a special-needs Shabbos morning group every Shabbos.
Rav Moshe Shapiro, a leading Torah scholar in Jerusalem, included the following in a letter he wrote to a student who became the father of a son with Downs Syndrome:
Since the birth of your son, I have believed that if, with God's help, you will succeed in the challenge which was given to you, then you will have been presented with an incomparable gift. This child has within him the capability to accomplish that which nothing else in the world can do – to actualize wondrous and powerful energy latent in the recesses of your heart.
In his book, Echoes of the Maggid, Rabbi Paysach Krohn tells the story of a man who once delivered a speech at a Jewish school for kids with special needs. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff he cried out, "Where is the perfection in my son Shaya? Everything God does is done with perfection. But my child cannot understand things as other children do. My child cannot remember facts and figures as other children do. Where is God's perfection?"
The audience was shocked by the question, pained by the father's anguish and stilled by the piercing query. "I believe," the father answered, "that when God brings a child like this into the world the perfection that he seeks is in the way people react to this child."
He then told the following story about his son Shaya:
One afternoon, Shaya and his father walked past a park where some boys whom Shaya knew were playing baseball. Shaya asked, "Do you think they will let me play?"
Shaya's father knew that his son was not at all athletic and that most boys would not want him on their team. But Shaya's father also understood that if his son was chosen to play it would give him a comfortable sense of belonging. Shaya's father approached one of the boys in the field and asked if Shaya could play. The boy looked around for guidance from his team mates. Getting none, he took matters into his own hands and said "We are losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team and we'll try to put him up to bat in the ninth inning."
Shaya's father was ecstatic as Shaya smiled broadly. Shaya was told to put on a glove and go out to play short center field. In the bottom of the eighth inning Shaya's team scored a few runs but was still behind by three. In the bottom of the ninth inning Shaya's team scored again and now, with two outs and the bases loaded with the potential winning run on base, Shaya was scheduled to be up. Would the team actually let Shaya bat at this juncture and give away their chance to win the game?
Surprisingly, Shaya was given the bat. Everyone knew that it was all but impossible because Shaya didn't even know how to hold the bat properly, let alone hit with it.
However, as Shaya stepped up to the plate, the pitcher moved a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shaya should at least be able to make contact. The first pitch came and Shaya swung clumsily and missed. One of Shaya's team mates came up to Shaya and together they held the bat and faced the pitcher waiting for the next pitch.
The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly toward Shaya. As the pitch came in, Shaya and his team mate swung at the ball and together they hit a slow ground ball to the pitcher. The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could easily have thrown the ball to the first baseman. Shaya would have been out and that would have ended the game.
Instead, the pitcher took the ball and threw it on a high arc to right field, far beyond reach of the first baseman. Everyone started yelling, "Shaya, run to first. Run to first." Never in his life had Shaya run to first. He scampered down the baseline wide eyed and startled. By the time he reached first base the right fielder had the ball. He could have thrown the ball to the second baseman who would tag out the still-running Shaya.
But the right fielder understood what the pitcher's intentions were so he threw the ball high and far over the third baseman's head. Everyone yelled, "Run to second, run to second." Shaya ran towards second base as the runners ahead of him deliriously circled the bases towards home. As Shaya reached second base the opposing short stop ran to him, turned him in the direction of third base and shouted, "Run to third." As Shaya rounded third the boys from both teams ran behind him screaming, "Shaya run home." Shaya ran home, stepped on home plate and all 18 boys lifted him on their shoulders and made him the hero as he had just hit a "grand slam" and won the game for his team.
"That day," said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face, "those 18 boys reached their level of God's perfection."
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Barcelona Olfaction Week 2020 is over!
by Núria Sabatés
Can you believe that Barcelona Olfaction Week 2020 is already over? We hope you were able to join us for some of the many exciting online events!
We attended some perfumery webinars, the second edition of the Barcelona Olfaction Congress; we also shared our expertise in the Round table and participated in the III International Perfumery Contest (Mouillette d'Argent).
Wow… it has been a busy week!
In case you couldn't join us for all the events, we have prepared a summary of everything you may have missed from our team during BOW. Continue reading to find out more!
On Tuesday 30 July, we held an online perfumery webinar called "Spice Up Your Fragrance" hosted by Eurofragance senior perfumer Lucas Sieuzac.
Lucas explored the role of spices in perfumery through the years and how they influence the palette of perfumers.
When asked about how he felt about his participation, he said, "I have really enjoyed being a part of the BOW. I was proud to represent Eurofragance and above all to meet passionate people."
"Spices are amazing products that give opportunities to perfumers to create amazing fragrances."
Lucas designed four new creations especially for this webinar: Tuberuma Tuberose and Turmeric, Sandalwood Pepper, Takashima forest, and Lumière de Cuir!
They were displayed in some shops around Barcelona, so people could smell them before the event! Also, the first 25 people to register for the event received these creations at home to keep as a souvenir.
Tuberuma tuberose and turmeric: "I chose tuberose for its heady, fresh side and aromatic spice, which echoes turmeric. Turmeric, in turn, has tuberose floral fresh notes. Then, I gave more texture to the accord, so I added spicy notes like nutmeg. Finally, Sandalwood is used as a binder to link the different elements".
Takashima forest: It is the vision of a small village and a Shintoism temple located in the middle of rice fields. Sichuan pepper, combined with cypress and bergamot, represent the fresh, resinous notes of the branches of the trees; watery synthetic notes like florol and florhydral, which reflect the humidity of August. Finally, mineral notes that smell of stone like ambrinol, associated with smoky notes like cade, along with mate for its dry herb note symbolizes the image of this village.
Sandalwood pepper: It has a base of sandalwood and musk topped with pepper, infused saffron reinforced by a myrrh complex, and resinoid incense.
Lumière de cuir: "The main idea with this creation was to recreate leather illuminated by the fresh, zesty, and vibrant note of ginger". It has a smoky, woody spice dimension, which is contributed by the olibanum and the Chinese cedar. Ginger's rose note is heightened by a rose floral heart (citronellol laevo) in order to prolong the fresh note throughout the fragrance. The most interesting part of this creation resides in the duality of the spice and leather blocks.
Missed the webinar? Watch the full recording here:
https://www.eurofragance.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BOW-Spicing-things-up-in-perfumery.mp4
On Thursday 2 July, we participated in the Barcelona Olfaction Congress, which was a day filled with fascinating and thought-provoking content from experts across the industry. Our expert, R&D scientist Dr. Felipe San Juan, gave a presentation on Eurofragance's fragrance technology and body odor management.
Felipe presented our fragrance technology and body odor management solutions and expertise that can be used to solve sweat issues.
When asked about his experience at Barcelona Olfaction Congress 2020, he said, "I was very pleased and delighted to have contributed to raising the profile of the technological and innovative capacity we have at Eurofragance. I believe this can contribute to the image of the company and help it grow."
Fragrances have helped people to fight against malodors for centuries.
Body malodors have a complex origin and nature: Bacteria producing powerful odorant molecules by transforming, mainly sweat, a necessary physiological element. This makes it difficult to combat.
Many solutions for malodor removal are offered in the market. Some of them like antiperspirants or bactericides can have a negative effect on our health.
Fragrances are an effective agent to fight against sweat malodor.
Perceptual coverage, chemical elimination, and microbiological prevention are the three mechanisms by means of which fragrances can be active against negative odors.
Breakable fragrance microcapsules are a key solution to make fragrances really effective when malodor problems are noticeable during the day.
Fragrances are an integral solution against body malodors: awful odors are removed, pleasant sensations are delivered, and without any negative effect on our health.
On Friday 3 July, Eurofragance's KAM and perfumer Bettina Perisson participated in a round table discussion on "The Universe of Perfume: History and Sensory Synaesthesia".
When asked about her involvement in the online round table event, Bettina said, "BOW this year, for me, has been a clear proof that everything can be done with enthusiasm, imagination, and passion. It seemed impossible that something could have been done in such difficult circumstances but everyone who participated, I think, felt we had to work together to take this challenge forward!"
Bettina continued to say, "It was very good to be able to listen to people from other arts explaining how their disciplines are and to see how their ultimate aim is also to touch the emotions, to make us live special moments through the senses and to heal the soul."
Bettina explains that, as a summary of what she discussed, everything is valid in the language of perfumery, even borrowing attributes from other senses, such as touch or taste (rough, smooth, bitter..)
The perfumer ends up building a personalized dictionary that translates the perceptions, attributes, and emotions of the consumer into olfactory notes.
Everyone in Bettina's roundtable discussion agreed that perfumery is an art, that it is linked in a sensory way to all other arts and that it makes us live and feel unique moments.
BONUS event: III International Perfumery Contest (Mouillette d'Argent)
On Saturday, to finish off the week of events, we attended the III International Perfumery Competition award ceremony at Ca l'Antigua Art Space in Teià.
12 perfumes were competing to win the "Mouillette d'Argent".
Each year, the creations must be made around a specific note, and the choice for this edition was pepper.
Four of the 12 finalist perfumes were created by our perfumers Belén Garcia, Soizic Beaucourt, and Julia Pastor.
The independent jury, chaired by the master perfumer D. Rosendo Mateu, selected "Pepper & Pear" by Julia Pastor as the winner. Congratulations, Julia!!
As gold sponsors of Barcelona Olfaction Week 2020, we were thrilled to have been part of such a great week of events that ended on such a high note!
Thank you for joining us online! We look forward to seeing you in the future.
If you enjoy what we're doing, please connect with us on our social media platforms. If you have any photos from the event, we'd love to see them. Tag your posts #Eurofragance and mention us @eurofragance.
Lucas & Spice Up Your Fragrance Perfumes
Spice Up Your Fragrance Perfumes
Julia Pastor receiving the Mouillette d'Argent.
Eurofragance attends the III International Perfumery Contest (Mouillette d'Argent).
Spice Up Your Fragrance
Barcelona Olfaction Week (BOW) is finally happening!
Barcelona Olfaction Week (BOW) 2020 is finally here!
Starting today and continuing this whole week, take part in a unique online festival that celebrates perfume, olfactory science, and culture. BOW 2020 will explore the world of perfumery and its historical relationship with Barcelona, gastronomy, and art.
Don't miss your chance to be part of these online activities, registration is still open!
Tuesday 30 June, 10:00-11:00. Perfumery Online Webinar (English)
Our perfumer Lucas Sieuzac will be exploring the role of spices in perfumery through the years and how they influence the palette of perfumers. This free online event will also explore and present 4 unique creations that have never been released by Eurofragance before.
Register to attend the webinar for free here: https://beautyclusterbarcelona.timtul.es/events/perfumery-online-webinar-spicingthingsup/
Thursday 2 July, 9:00-17:00. Barcelona Olfaction Congress (English)
Our research scientist Felipe San Juan will present our expertise in fragrance technology and body odor management to solve sweat issues.
Check out the congress official teaser!
If you have not yet signed up for the event, learn more and register for it here: http://barcelonaolfactioncongress.com/
Friday 3 July, 9:00-13:30. Round table on "The Universe of Perfume: History and Sensory Synaesthesia" (Spanish)
Our perfumer Bettina Perisson will join other experts to talk about the shared language of perfume, music, and wine. Discover more about the event and speakers here: http://beautyclusterbarcelona.com/activitat/22-mayo-jornada-mesa-redonda-perfumeria/
See an overview of the entire week's activities and learn more about Barcelona Olfaction Week here: http://barcelonaolfactionweek.com/
Follow us on social media and tune into the BOW events as they unfold. You'll also get to learn more about our work and experts. Find us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn!
Join us at Barcelona Olfaction Week (BOW) 2020
Barcelona will host the Barcelona Olfaction Week (BOW) from June 29 to July 4, 2020. The week of events will explore the depths of the world of perfumery and its special historical relationship with Barcelona, gastronomy, and art. For one week, perfume, olfactory sciences, and culture will collide!
Eurofragance is a gold sponsor of the 2020 BOW. The festival will be made up of 9 activities, most of which take place online (but require pre-registration). Join us for 3 exclusive events held by our Eurofragrance experts, outlined in the agenda below.
Want to join us? Sign up for your favorite activities now.
When: Mon, June 29, 2020 – Sat, Jul 4, 2020
Where: Online (find out more using the links below)
As Gold Sponsors, we will be hosting three events during BOW 2020.
Tuesday 30 June, 10:00-11:00
Perfumery Online Webinar (English)
Our perfumer Lucas Sieuzac will be exploring the role of spices in perfumery through the years and how they influence the palette of perfumers. The first 25 people who register will receive 4 unique creations that will be presented in the webinar.
Thursday 2 July, 9:00-17:00
Barcelona Olfaction Congress (English)
Learn more and register for the event here: http://barcelonaolfactioncongress.com/
Friday 3 July, 9:00-13:30
Round table on "The Universe of Perfume: History and Sensory Synaesthesia" (Spanish)
Our perfumer Bettina Perisson will join other experts to talk about the shared language of perfume, music, and wine.
Discover more about the event and speakers here: http://beautyclusterbarcelona.com/activitat/22-mayo-jornada-mesa-redonda-perfumeria/
Would you like to know everything that is happening in BOW? Click on the following link for more information: http://barcelonaolfactionweek.com/
We look forward to having you with us soon!
Growing Green and Fighting COVID-19 with Soap Cycling in Asia
Soap Cycling Singapore is an NGO that works with students, hotels, businesses, volunteers, and charities across Asia to recycle soap. In a movement to improve sanitation and hygiene, the organization collects, cleans, and renews gently used soaps that are about to be thrown out. Its efforts help support recycling and greener living, as well as waste reduction by distributing soap to regions without it and that need it most.
Soap Cycling was founded in 2012 by David Bishop, a law professor at The University of Hong Kong, and a group of his students. In 2017, operations started in Singapore, pioneered by students from the National University of Singapore.
We had the opportunity to connect with Jacqueline (Jackie) Tan, Soap Cycling Singapore's partnerships manager, to discuss the organization's journey and mission. She explained the recycling process that the organization follows, from initial collection to final distribution.
The process starts with the collection of lightly-used soap from local hotels in Singapore. "At the moment, we are saving 510kg of lightly used soap from the incinerator," she explains.
Next, the soap is sent to Soap Cycling warehouses, which rely on partnerships. As in any other company, growth happens in small steps; after years of storing soap under their beds, one of their local partners has offered a modest storage place and activity spaces for volunteering sessions. "We experience an amicable collaboration here. This local charity is serving the migrant workers community in Singapore. Injured workers cannot work, so we compensate them by giving them tasks they can perform and covering their transport, leases and food costs" explains Jackie.
The soap is then sorted, recycled, and distributed to the needy with the help of NGO partners. In 2019, they distributed over 300kg (7,500 soap bars) in Singapore and the nearby region. Besides their local distribution, they also sent out soap to Indonesia and The Philippines.
To face down the COVID-19 crisis, Soap Cycling is joining forces with charity partners to distribute soap to vulnerable populations. "Our partners have already hand sanitizer and masks, so we are putting together a care package that we distribute. So far, we have distributed this care package to 1,800 workers in the past 2 weeks," Jackie adds.
When asked about where she sees Soap Cycling moving in the next 5 years, Jackie explained that the organization wants to keep supporting the Singaporean and migrant worker communities and expand rapidly so that it can provide soap to disadvantaged communities throughout Southeast Asia. Moreover, she sees the future of the organization including liquid soap collection and recycling.
Eurofragance has contributed immensely to Soap Cycling Singapore's recent development, and that's just the start. We are going to continue to support this organization so that more projects can be undertaken and developed, and even more people can be helped.
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