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JOHN CHUCKMAN ESSAY: 9/11: THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL 2 comments
9/11: THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
I wanted to avoid this topic. Just as I want to avoid everything concerned with what has become known as "9/11," America's penchant for nick-names and short-forms holding even in its nightmares. But we do not always get to do the things we want, and ignoring this is something like ignoring a monstrous iceberg that's drifted into the harbor.
On that date this year, a dense, almost impenetrable fog will descend over the entire United States. All thinking will stop. Television networks will proudly sport logos designed just for the day, and they will broadcast spots from advertisers pretending not to be selling anything. Hours of toe-crinkling, stomach-churning sentiment will be broadcast from politicians with the morals of gangsters.
There will be a moment of silence in the casino lounges of Los Vegas and Atlantic City. Thousands, with casual-wear pant-suits bulging over the tops of barstools, will pause to reflect on the meaning of 9/11 between frenzied rounds of feeding slot machines. Elvis impersonators and chorus girls will bow their heads. The $8-an-hour student in the big fuzzy mouse-suit at Disney World will stop a minute from shilling for expensive rides and eats.
Fundamentalist television-preachers will pause from the work of building media empires to pose in leather arm chairs and shake blubbery jowls, squeezing out a few more stage-tears for dear old America, confident that the moment's diversion won't hurt the flow of money from lonely, loopy folks living through television sets.
Footage of smoking, crumbling towers will be replayed a thousand times on television stations with nothing else to attract advertisers. And it will be watched, especially where the option on the dial is one of those politicians reciting his pathetic lines for the twentieth time in a day. The replay button on a million video machines will be hit with trembling anticipation like that felt replaying a favorite horror flick. A billion terrible drug-store photos, snapped on trips to New York, will be taken down from closet shelves to be thumbed and smudged over once again by friends and family.
Recently a Canadian friend I had not seen for a while recounted her experience of flying into New York right at the time of the attack. I tell part of her story because it offers perspective on that day's events and what has been learned from them.
Through the back window of her cab, she actually saw the second plane strike the World Trade Center. In the logjam of traffic in which she was trapped, crowds of people got out of their cars to gawk, large numbers of them furiously snapping pictures.
Of course, such behavior, had there been a more far-reaching crisis, would have been exactly the opposite of what was called for. People were holding up the flow of traffic away from the city to catch photo-album memories.
A second riveting scene was her going to a bar in the evening for a drink in the airport-area hotel where she would be trapped, surrounded by soldiers, for days (this only after her cab returned to the airport following hours of effort at getting into Manhattan). The television broadcast pictures of American warships off the coast with commentary about how they were equipped with cruise missiles. The men in the bar cheered loudly, just as they would at a football game, fists and forearms pumping like the response to a touchdown. My friend could only put her head down and despair over the notion that she was caught in the middle of a war.
The scene is interesting for several reasons. The football-game reaction to the warships was a replay of the mindless, gut reaction to the military witnessed so many times in my lifetime. It is precisely the reaction that permits a government, often serving special interests and questionable ideology, to become mired in the affairs of others, often to an extent at odds with the interests of most individual Americans.
It was obvious that the attack was the work of people who destroyed themselves as well as their victims. The applicability of warships, with cruise missiles no less, missiles whose only purpose is to destroy targets on the ground or sea hundreds of miles away, to this situation could not have meaning beyond a reassuring show of strength. And yet people cheered. At the time, there was no certainty about what group might be responsible for the destruction.
Many of them still cheer over what has been accomplished in Afghanistan, that is, the killing of thousands of innocent people, the scattering of the genuine terrorists to the four winds, the toppling of a stable but unpleasant government, and putting in its place an unstable but equally unpleasant government.
The displaced government blew up ancient statues and abused women. Members of the new government murder prisoners, suffocating them by the hundreds and dumping their bodies into mass graves on the desert. They also devote time to shooting and blowing up one another. They still abuse women. In the last year, despite the photo-op casting off of the burka, nine women have immolated themselves in protest over ghastly arranged marriages – a far greater number than occurred under the Taliban.
I was reminded of audience reaction to the Sylvester Stallone-Vietnam movie, First Blood. This was a fantasy that re-assured American mass audiences they might have avoided the despair, frustration, and disgrace of Vietnam had there only been people like the star making decisions. This star, a kind of living, plastic action-hero figure, possessed the cunning to defeat every trap and the vision to avoid all confusing complexities – every trap and complexity, that is, except those of going into Vietnam in the first place.
American foreign policy, and particularly the quixotic interventions it has entailed, over the last sixty years has been based on wishes and fantasy rather than facts, on how Americans – at least the financially and politically influential portion of them – would like to see the world rather than how the world is.
To an extent that would surprise many people who regard America as advanced and pragmatic, this is, in fact, a society where fantasy plays a huge role. There are the fantasies of adults who behave like children. There are the paranoid fantasies of Christian fundamentalists who speak in tongues, heal cancer with a thump on the forehead, and find signs of devil worship in corporate symbols or children's books. There are many strange cults like those of Jim Jones, the Branch Davidians, the Aryan churches, or the recent oddity of sanctifying gibberish from a second-rate science-fiction writer. Always there is the escapism of Los Vegas, Disney World, and Hollywood, and the powerful fantasies of advertising that keep the economic engine at full throttle.
In many ways, this attachment to fantasy plays a role in foreign affairs, in the way America sees the world and how she understands her place.
In the Middle East, a place under great stresses including rapid modernization contemporary with the continued existence of ancient tribal cultures, something has been occurring much like the gradual build-up of pressure from the slow, almost imperceptible movement of tectonic plates. Under these stressful conditions, America's myopic views and careless policies themselves provide additional sources of stress. The accurate, dreadful message delivered on September 11 is that this way of treating events has become dangerous to Americans whereas before it was dangerous only to those who were the victims of American policy.
And it is that message that America has ignored for the last year. All American efforts and tens of billions of dollars have been directed at two main objects. One is the distortion of traditional arrangements and freedoms at home plus many relationships abroad to help shape a Fortress America. The other is to intensify the very same policies, attempting to destroy people and places abroad viewed as especially unfriendly to the effort.
I don't believe that any number of attacks and invasions can alter such a fundamental and growing problem. There are simply too many people adversely affected by American policy. You cannot use force to make vast numbers of people submit, unless you are prepared to impose indefinitely the kind of terror Stalin or Hitler imposed on society. And you cannot maintain a fortress society in a globalized world.
Posted May 26, 2009 by JOHN CHUCKMAN in Uncategorized
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If you look at any item on the Bandcamp page for James Gage's Passion Pusher project, you'll find an option to purchase his complete back catalogue. For many artists, the £60+ price tag would represent fair value for money. With Gage, it's an absolute steal. For, next to the offer, you'll notice an innocuous button reading '225 releases', clicking on which prompts Bandcamp to roll out a full cover art gallery.
Displaying five albums, EPs or singles at a time – with cover stars ranging from John Waters and Gillian Anderson to Stalin in a mortarboard – it will take fourteen seconds before it finally grinds to a halt. Sitting alongside these, the high-res cover of Aquarium alone seems to belie the fact that it is an album apart, produced by an established label for issue in a physical medium.
Given Passion Pusher's (mildly alarming) level of productivity, to review any single release feels moderately useless, like covering one disc of a box set. More sensible to review a year's worth, or at least a dozen at a time. And yet, here I am, writing about their new record – which is, in fact, their sixth-newest, as they've managed to sneak out another five in the time I've been working on this review (which says as much about my own productivity as it does about Gage's). That's 230 on Bandcamp, for those of you still counting – all of it uploaded within the past five years.
Song, By Toad's description of Passion Pusher as 'sludge pop' seems to fit Aquarium well; oftentimes it's something like Camper Van Beethoven's Tusk cover album, only without the need for the million-dollar middleman. There's a definite consistency in its catchy chord progressions, playing around the edges of precise metre, enveloped in a haze of tinny lead guitar and ramshackle rhythm section, rounded out by buried-in-midrange lyrics and occasional ethereal backing vocals from drummer Ailie Ormston.
It's all pretty good stuff – practice makes perfect – and it's the sort of music that rewards you the more you listen to it. But, at the same time, Passion Pusher's precocious prolificity makes it plain that any given release by them isn't intended as a summation of recent practice, but rather as just another equal instalment in the overall oeuvre. In large part written and recorded in the space of a week, Aquarium isn't designed to be lingered over much longer than that. But that's not to say it's disposable; it's just not intended to stand still. To really listen to Passion Pusher, what you have to do is keep up.
Aquarium was released on 15th June 2017 by Song, by Toad Records.
Summary A Passion Pusher release from February 2014 is entitled I Hope When I Die I'll Be Remembered as an Indie Band and Not a Person. Not the worst fate, by my reckoning.


This month's issue of Food & Wine included a version of the classic wedge salad served on a skewer: chunks of romaine and crispy slab bacon skewered and served with a blue cheese dipping sauce. This got us thinking about all the possibilities for this party-friendly, utensil-free way to serve salad.
We love Caprese salad skewers, and have seen recipes for Greek salad skewers, but we think there are a lot more salads that would be great served in this way. To adapt a salad for the skewer, remember to cut the ingredients into manageable chunks and don't include anything (like very crumbly cheese) that will easily fall off. A dressing can be served on the side as a dipping sauce, or you can marinate the ingredients before skewering.
• 2 Caprese Salad: The combination of cherry tomatoes, mozzarella and basil is a classic.
• 3 Greek Salad Skewers from Fine Cooking: Cucumber, feta cheese, kalamata olives and cherry tomatoes are skewered and served with a drizzle of olive oil.
• 4 Fruit salad: Any fruit salad would be lovely served on skewers. How about tropical fruit salad with creamy lime dipping sauce?
• 5 Panzanella: Dress the bread salad and let it sit for about 30 minutes before putting the components on the skewer.
• 6 Melon and prosciutto: So simple and so good.
• 7 Roasted beet, goat cheese and arugula: Red beets might be messy, so we would opt for golden beets instead.
• 8 Avocado, fennel and grapefruit: Chunks of cooked crabmeat would be tasty with this too.
• 9 BLT salad: A skewered version of a salad version of a sandwich? It could work.
• 10 Watermelon, rosemary and feta: Use a firm feta for this salad.
What salads would you serve on a skewer?


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Q: Sending table datas to Controller without using ajax I have a table in view which is static in nature.I am trying to post data to Controller without using Jquery Ajax. Is it possible?How can I retrieve all these data in Action "bulk_insert". I am able to send this bulk data to controller using jquery ajax but I am unable to send it directly.
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I am just testing with static data right now,but I need to do it with dynamic data i.e, When a user clicks a button, a row gets added using javascript .So,I didn't use Htmlhelper. My model:
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Q: TFS 'All files are up to date' Issue
I get 'All Files are up to date' with TFS's 'get latest' (Both at the parent directory and solution level)  when they clearly aren't (there are a few folders that others have checked in that I am not getting). I can see they exist locally in the appropriate location (which is most certainly mapped) but I absolutely can not get them added to solution explorer.
I'm in VS 2013.
What I've Tried
1) Drag and drop the folders from the file explorer. Doesn't work - VS apparently doesn't allow this.
2) Right click the parent folder in Solution Explorer click 'Add -> existing item'. Apparently you can't add an entire folder, so adding individually is no good as there are over 2000 items in all the sub-directories.
3) Right click, 'Source Control -> Get Specific Version' check both boxes regarding overwriting.
4) Repeat step 3, but first delete folder in the file explorer. The files get re-added to file explorer, but not Solution Explorer.
5) I found this Visual Studio Solution Explorer not showing files and folders and tried it, also to no avail.
6) Multiple combinations of all the above steps, restarting VS, etc.
Thanks!
EDIT 2/24/2016
Adding this here as a reference diagram for my comment in response to the answer, as I can't use new lines in a comment.
File Structure:
FooFolder
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In the above example, you still have to ctrl+click through foo.txt and bar.txt separately, since select all would include the folders and disallow add to solution.

A: If you see the "missing" files on your local file system after a Get Latest then they are correctly in Source Control.  To add the files to your project you need to Show All Files then you can right click each and Include in Project:

To add files to the solution right click and choose Add | Existing Item:


Freshman Monroe Projects are designed to build upon your freshman year experience at William & Mary, and as a result it's required that you choose a topic related to a course that you've taken here so far. You may want to look deeper into a topic that you brushed on in class, or your idea may be to research a topic that you didn't cover explicitly in class but is related to other materials that you did cover. Think about what classes you've taken, which ones you liked the most, and why you liked them the most, and this can help you narrow down your topic. If you already know what classes you'll want to take in the future or what you want to major in, this can give you ideas for a project as well!
What kind of research or coursework do you see yourself doing in the future at WM or after graduation? How could your freshman Monroe Project prepare you for future research or for your career? Many students continue to study the topic of their freshman Monroe Projects as an independent study, or even use it as a springboard to a future Honor's Thesis. This is not the case for everyone, but it can be helpful to keep in mind these possibilities, and they can give you ideas for topics to consider.
This project must take up at least the equivalent of two full-time weeks of work (i.e. 80 hours), so make sure that your topic isn't so specific or so simple that it could be answered in a much shorter time than that. Moreover, although many freshman Monroe Projects do take more than the required 80 hours to complete, keep in mind that you're not being expected to write a 100-page dissertation! This project is only intended to get your feet wet with research, so be mindful of that and pick a project that you could realistically do with the knowledge that you have in a time not too much longer than 80 hours. You can read through the guidelines for your project proposal here get a better idea of the scope of your project.
The research desk at Swem is a great resource for you for any research that you might do during your four years at W&M, be it for a class or for individual research. The librarians are very knowledgeable and can give you guidance in narrowing your research topic. You can make appointments with them here.
If the professor of the class that inspired your topic is the person you want to be your advisor, then this is the only step! Talk to them before or after class or go to their office hours and request politely that they advise you in your project. But even if you're not sure if you want this professor to be your advisor, they can still give you helpful guidance. If your topic isn't specifically in their area of expertise, they can direct you to other faculty members who will be more knowledgeable. Moreover, your professor can help you narrow down project ideas if you're not completely sure what you want to do.
William & Mary department websites have directories which list all of the faculty members, their research interests, and their contact information. This can be a helpful place to look to find out which faculty's expertise aligns best with your topic. Once you've found someone you want to work with, send them an email to ask to meet and discuss your topic. Although it can be nerve-wracking to email a professor you don't know out of the blue, W&M professors are usually very happy to help students interested in getting involved in research!
If you have questions about any part of the Freshman Monroe Project application process, feel free to come into the Peer Scholarship Advisor office in the Charles Center Monday through Friday from 9 to 5. As always, good luck with your application!


Fiorentina have officially confirmed the signing of Nikola Milenkovic from Partizan Belgrade.
The 19-year-old has already been capped for Serbia, and won the SuperLiga this season, as well as the Serbian Cup.
"ACF Fiorentina announces that it has reached an agreement for the permanent transfer of Nikola Milenkovic from Partizan Belgrade," the Viola confirmed in a statement on their official website.
"Milenkovic was born in Belgrade, Serbia on October 12, 1997, and will compete with his country's national team in the upcoming European Under-21 Championships.
The transfer has been expected for some time, and Partizan have previously said that the fee will be €5.1m.


Have you heard about Young Americans for Liberty (YAL)?
We would love for your home-schoolers to join us at Auburn University for the YAL Alabama State Convention. We have an awesome coalition of home-schoolers who will be in attendance. As a pro-homeschooling individual, I really appreciate all that the home-schoolers are doing to promote educational freedom!
See the email below with details and let me know whether you (and your folks) can make it or not!
I can't tell you how excited I am.
In less than two weeks Young Americans for Liberty will host the biggest liberty event of the semester.
YAL chapter leaders, State Chairs, and fellow liberty activists from acrossAlabama, surrounding states, and beyond will arrive for this event.
Great speakers, amazing networking opportunities, expert campaign training... the list goes on and on. It's a must-attend event for anyone who cares about fighting for their freedom.
It's coming up soon, so hurry and grab your ticket before it fills up!
1. Amazing speakers: Senior fellow at Mises Institute Tom Woods, entrepreneur Melony Armstrong, and venture capitalist Bill Frezza will keynote. Plus we'll host professional campaign instructors, state and local leaders, and YAL staff.
2. Prepare for 2016: Learn at the premier "Campaign Bootcamp" training to prepare the most committed activists for the upcoming 2016 elections. It's a crash course in campaign training for every activist who wants to "win on principle."
3. Free lunch & gas for carpools: Everyone gets a free lunch, and YAL will reimburse up to $100 in gas for a car with four or more passengers. So bring your whole YAL chapter and your friends. All activists of all ages can attend.
4. Resources from sponsors: Many national and local groups will be there passing out their information on activism grants, training, and educational materials. Plus, you'll get a free tote bag full of liberty swag.
5. Networking: Meet people just like you looking to make a difference for the cause of freedom. There will also be job and internship opportunities offered by our sponsors.
6. Post-event social: Sometimes the best stories are told and strategies developed after the State Convention. Stay around for dinner and drinks to mix and mingle with your fellow patriots.
With so many reasons to attend, how could anyone stay home?


In his reaction, Akhilesh Yadav said he welcomes more "secular politics".
New Delhi: Akhilesh Yadav has expelled five Samajwadi Party leaders, including a loyalist of uncle Shivpal Yadav, who announced a breakaway outfit last week.
The five are Shivpal Yadav's aide Deepak Mishra, ex-party spokesperson Mohammad Shahid, Rajesh Yadav, Ramesh Yadav and Kallu Yadav of Noida. They were expelled by the former Chief Minister for "anti-party activities", said the Samajwadi state unit chief Naresh Uttam.
Last week, Shivpal Yadav, 77, said he was floating a new outfit, headed by his older brother Mulayam Singh, Akhilesh Yadav's father.
Described as a "secular front,' it will be called Samajwadi Secular Morcha, said Shivpal Yadav, who is seen as a primary reason for the estrangement between Akhilesh Yadav and Mulayam Singh ahead of the election in Uttar Pradesh.
In his reaction, Akhilesh Yadav said he welcomes more "secular politics," and added, "I don't know what shape this will take. As for the Samajwadi Party, it has passed every test and will continue to do so."
Akhilesh Yadav, 44, wrested control of the Samajwadi Party in January, replacing his father as President, a decision which was not welcomed by the patriarch.
Shivpal Yadav has blamed Akhilesh Yadav for the Samajwadi Party's humiliating defeat and said he would launch a new party if he did not reinstate his father at the head of the party.


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Change to the Roche Corporate Executive Committee
Basel, January 15, 2013
Roche today announced that John C. Reed, M.D., Ph.D., has been appointed Head of Roche Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED) and member of the enlarged Corporate Executive Committee. He will be based in Basel and assume his new role on April 2, 2013, reporting to Severin Schwan, CEO of the Roche Group. Mike Burgess, currently ad interim Head of pRED, has decided to leave Roche. The Genentech Research and Early Development organization (gRED), based in South San Francisco, is not affected by this management change.
Commenting on the appointment, Severin Schwan said: "We are delighted to welcome John Reed to Roche, who has led one of the world's top laboratory-based medical research institutes. With his broad scientific and medical background he is ideally positioned to drive Roche's strategy of translating a better understanding of disease mechanisms into promising therapeutics." Schwan further: "I would like to thank Mike Burgess for his valuable contributions to Roche. Mike has been instrumental in refocusing the pRED organization during the past few months."
John C. Reed (54), who is an American citizen, earned his M.D. and Ph.D. at the School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Roche he has been CEO at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in La Jolla, California. He is one of the world's leading biomedical researchers with a focus on cancer, neuroprotection, autoimmunity, and other diseases. John Reed has authored several hundred medical research publications and is among the world's most highly cited scientists for his research contributions. He is an inventor of more than one hundred patents, a member of multiple scientific journal editorial boards, and the founder or co-founder of a number of biotechnology companies. He has also served on the Boards of Directors of several public biopharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Said John Reed, "I am honored to join the Roche organization and continue the company's superb legacy of developing innovative new medicines for patients in need."
About Roche
Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Roche is a leader in research-focused healthcare with combined strengths in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. Roche is the world's largest biotech company with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, virology, inflammation, metabolism and CNS. Roche is also the world leader in in-vitro diagnostics, tissue-based cancer diagnostics and a pioneer in diabetes management. Roche's personalized healthcare strategy aims at providing medicines and diagnostic tools that enable tangible improvements in the health, quality of life and survival of patients. In 2011, Roche had over 80,000 employees worldwide and invested over 8 billion Swiss francs in R&D. The Group posted sales of 42.5 billion Swiss francs. Genentech, United States, is a wholly owned member of the Roche Group. Roche has a majority stake in Chugai Pharmaceutical, Japan. For more information: www.roche.com.


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Can Japan Put Its Wealth to Work?
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Reformers are agitating for a Japanese sovereign wealth fund.
By Anthony Rowley
Multi-Use ETFs For Multi-Asset Strategies
At a time when countries like China, Singapore and South Korea have been building up sovereign wealth funds to maximize returns on their bulging surpluses, Japan stands out as an anomaly in Asia. The country boasts by far the biggest pools of capital in the region, with foreign exchange reserves second only to China's, at $971 billion, and ¥150 trillion ($1.4 trillion) sitting in the Government Pension Investment Fund. But Japan has largely failed to put those massive resources to work effectively. The Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Japan plow the bulk of the currency reserves into U.S. Treasuries in a bid to prevent a sharp decline in the dollar and maintain the competitiveness of Japan's exporters, while the government plows most of the pension fund into Japanese government bonds to finance the state's enormous debt.
Pressure for change is building rapidly, though. In May a study group of legislators from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party proposed that the government take ¥10 trillion from public pension funds to launch a sovereign fund in a bid to juice up returns. Separately, the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy, a government advisory body, in June issued a report calling for major reforms in managing the GPIF to improve performance after the giant fund disclosed a loss of ¥5.7 trillion — equivalent to 3.8 percent of assets — in its fiscal year ended March 31. It had generated an average annual return of just 3.5 percent during the preceding five years.
Yuji Yamamoto, the former Financial Services minister who headed the LDP study group, says Japan needs to radically change the way it manages its public assets if it is to avoid higher taxes or an increase in the national debt. If the GPIF had been able to match the 9 percent average annual returns of the Canada Pension Plan over the past five years, "Japan could have gained an extra ¥36.7 trillion," Yamamoto told Institutional Investor in a recent interview at his Tokyo office. "Our goal now is to expose why returns on the GPIF are so small. No one is showing any interest in whether the [fund] produces plus or minus returns. No one takes any responsibility."
Japanese politics have been in turmoil since the surprise resignation of prime minister Yasuo Fukuda in September. Taro Aso, who had been serving as Foreign minister, was elected by the LDP to succeed Fukuda after he pledged to revive Japan's economy, which contracted at a steep 3.0 percent annualized rate in the three months ended June 30. He pushed a ¥1.81 trillion supplementary budget through Parliament last month to stimulate the economy. The economic arguments for raising returns on Japan's giant public pension fund should be persuasive to Aso, advocates of a sovereign fund contend. The new Finance minister, Shoichi Nakagawa, has in the past advocated that Japan use some of the income on its foreign exchange reserves to seed such a fund.
Because of its aging population, Japan is in a bind: The number of people qualifying for pension benefits is increasing rapidly while the number of young people contributing to the funds declines. Successive governments have raised the retirement age and increased pension contributions but haven't succeeded in averting a funding crunch. The Fukuda government had proposed increasing its contribution from one third to one half of total premiums by next April, but it couldn't do so without raising the unpopular national sales tax. Aso's government has indicated that it has no plans to increase the tax, which stands at 5 percent. Higher returns, if they can be achieved, would offer the easiest way out of the funding problem.
"Management of our pension fund reserves must be improved," says Shijuro Ogata, former deputy governor for international affairs at the Bank of Japan. He bemoans the "very low return on their investment in financial assets and their often worthless investment in athletic stadiums, parks and other buildings."
The LDP group recommends seeding a sovereign fund with ¥10 trillion from the public pension fund as a first step. If successful, the fund could draw more money from the pension fund and eventually manage some of Japan's foreign exchange reserves, say backers.
The GPIF is responsible for investing and administering the reserve funds of Japan's two main public pension pools, the Employees Pension Insurance Scheme and the National Pension Scheme. Everyone over 20 is obliged to join the latter; the employee pension fund covers all private sector workers. The loss in the most recent fiscal year, which reduced cumulative gains on the GPIF since its inception in 2000 to just ¥7.4 trillion, was a result of the downturn in global stock and bond markets, according to GPIF officials, but some analysts found this puzzling, given the composition of the pension fund's portfolio. It is currently invested 67 percent in Japanese government bonds, 11 percent in domestic stocks, 9 percent in foreign stocks, 8 percent in foreign bonds and 5 percent in short-term assets. The Ministry of Health and Welfare decides asset allocation under a medium-term plan every five years.
The biggest impediment to change is the use of the public pension funds as a captive source of financing for the government's massive bond debt, which stands at nearly ¥800 trillion, or 150 percent of GDP. The problem is endemic in the Japanese financial system. The country's vast postal savings and insurance network, which is undergoing a decadelong privatization, has more than a third of its ¥200 trillion of assets in government bonds. A large part of Japan's colossal ¥1,500 trillion in household savings is also invested in government bonds, either directly or through banks and pension plans.
"We should never forget that Japan has had one of the very biggest sovereign wealth funds in the world. What else should we call the postal savings and insurance system?" says Jesper Koll, president and CEO of Tantallon Research Japan, an arm of Singapore-based hedge fund manager Tantallon Capital Advisors. "The problem is that Japan's SWF was focused on buying domestic assets, Japanese government bonds and building infrastructure. It reflects how entrenched the old way of doing business and managing national savings still is."
Advocates of a sovereign fund acknowledge that any large-scale shift out of government bonds could put upward pressure on interest rates — a major reason officials at the Ministry of Finance are cool on the proposal. But LDP study group head Yamamoto argues that Japan can avoid the risk of higher rates by diverting only a modest portion of the public pension funds into a sovereign fund initially. "If we make changes gradually, it should be fine," he insists. Yamamoto predicts that legislation to create a sovereign wealth fund will likely be presented to Parliament late this year or early next.
Other advocates of pension reform believe the government could boost returns without resorting to a sovereign wealth fund. "There is a lot of room to improve the performance of GPIF even with the current share of government bonds held by the fund," says Takatoshi Ito, a former senior Finance Ministry official who sits on the Council for Economic and Fiscal Policy, an advisory body established in 2001 by then–prime minister Junichiro Koizumi. "The first thing to do is to reform the GPIF and make it into a more professional and independent organization. We should set up a responsible investment committee and let them decide what to do."
The GPIF is what is known as an incorporated administrative agency, and as such it faces a variety of institutional constraints, the council says in its report. "Strict restrictions are imposed on its management activities, [and] this obscures responsibility regarding management of public pension fund reserves. Asset managers responsible for investing reserves are supposed to [do so] in a prudent manner, but it is not clear where fiduciary responsibility lies."
The council proposes overhauling the pension fund by creating an independent agency to make decisions on asset allocation and the selection of external asset managers; the government would confine itself to setting a target for returns. The report also recommends splitting the huge GPIF into several smaller funds, "the size of which is optimal for efficient management in the future." It suggests starting by launching two funds of ¥10 trillion to ¥20 trillion each to compete with each other transparently. Over time the government could launch more funds, each with its own management committee.
Some restructuring of the funds managed by the GPIF is essential, says Shigemitsu Sugisaki, another former senior Finance Ministry official who is currently a vice chairman at Goldman Sachs Japan. "These funds are too large to be more active," he says. "They have to have a passive investment policy to buy index funds. Otherwise if they buy a particular stock, they can move it alone."
In response to growing pressure for better returns, officials at the GPIF said in early July that they may consider investing in alternative assets — including hedge funds and real estate — in the future. "We may consider alternative investments based on whether our risk-return improves by expanding investments to various products," says Takahiro Kawase, president of the GPIF.
Some industry experts argue that Japan would be better off using its foreign exchange reserves rather than pension fund assets to seed a sovereign wealth fund. The public pension reserves are invested mainly in yen securities and are intended to meet yen-based liabilities, notes John Vail, chief global strategist at Nikko Asset Management in Tokyo. Any effort to diversify pension assets internationally would expose the fund to foreign exchange risk. But foreign exchange reserves are denominated in foreign currencies and could easily be redeployed overseas, he contends.
Boosting the return on those foreign exchange reserves by a percentage point would be worth nearly ¥1 trillion, or $10 billion, a year, Vail points out. Returns on the reserves have been running at a rate of about 4 percent, according to the CEFP's Ito. If Japan had formed a sovereign wealth fund from its official reserves several years ago, it would not need to consider raising taxes now, he says. "At the political levels, it seems like an incredible vote winner if you can say, 'There's no need to raise taxes. We're going to get a better return on your money.' It is the people's money after all."
Despite the potential for improved returns, the idea of using foreign exchange reserves to seed a sovereign fund, as China and South Korea have done, remains highly controversial in Japan.
Senior financial officials say privately that any attempt to diversify reserve holdings away from U.S. Treasuries and other dollar-denominated securities could destabilize the Treasury market and undermine the dollar, harming Japanese interests as well as those of the U.S. "The minister of Finance is worried about taking any initiative on the foreign exchange reserves," says Yamamoto.
Authorities have never disclosed the composition of Japan's reserves, but they are widely believed to be held mostly in dollars; Yamamoto estimates that 95 percent are invested in U.S. Treasuries. Some 50 percent of the annual earnings on the reserves are used to finance the government's general budget.
Yamamoto says the government should reach some kind of an agreement with the U.S. before attempting to divert any foreign exchange reserves into a sovereign wealth fund. "I would like to make sure that any action would not influence the foreign exchange market in both currencies," he explains.
But other analysts reject the idea that putting the currency reserves into a sovereign fund might jeopardize relations with Washington. China's relations with the U.S. didn't suffer when the country launched China Investment Corp. a year ago with $200 billion effectively drawn from its reserves.
Japan can boost returns on its reserves "without damaging the relationship with the U.S., especially if it diversifies dollar fixed income into dollar equity or into strategic stakes in U.S. banks," says Nikko Asset Management's Vail. Ito suggests that Japan could avoid destabilizing the dollar or the U.S. Treasury market by diverting the annual interest on the reserves, estimated at about ¥4 trillion, into a sovereign wealth fund.
Japan's currency reserves are the product of decades of official intervention in the foreign exchange market aimed at slowing the rise of the yen, efforts that stretch back to 1971, when the Nixon administration ended the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates and devalued the dollar. Japanese intervention accelerated after the yen soared following the 1985 Plaza Accord, under which the Group of Seven nations agreed to bring down the value of the dollar. Dollar purchases continued until 2004 as Japan sought to offset the deflationary impact of a stronger yen. The government has ceased intervening for the past four years, but the reserves have continued to grow by virtue of the interest earned on them.
Unlike the reserves of oil-exporting countries, Japan's are not a free asset for the Finance Ministry because they are matched dollar for dollar by yen liabilities. The ministry has financed its interventions with short-term yen borrowings that must be rolled over continuously. Even today the government makes fresh borrowings to match the dollar interest received on the reserves, keeping assets and liabilities balanced. For a government with a debt exceeding 150 percent of GDP, such borrowings are "a time bomb," says Ito.
Complicating any effort to change the management of Japan's reserves is the fact that they are overseen by two often competing bureaucracies, the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Japan. The central bank owns and manages reserves that date from before 1971. Today it simply acts as an agent for the Finance Ministry in conducting any currency intervention.
The ministry "has only a small number of people involved in management of the foreign exchange reserves," one senior Bank of Japan official tells II, "whereas we have a relatively large number by comparison with the small size of assets under control."
Stung by criticism of its management of the reserves and increasing calls for the creation of a sovereign wealth fund, the Finance Ministry announced in July that it would open a new section within its foreign exchange markets division to focus on managing its foreign exchange reserves. The section will add only two new staff to the 16 who now deal with the reserves at the ministry, though.
"There is no change in our policy of prioritizing liquidity and safety in managing reserves before pursuing profitability," a Finance official tells II. In July the ministry for the first time published guidelines identifying eligible assets for investing the reserves as including central government bonds, agency bonds, supranational bonds and securitized bonds that offer high liquidity, as well as deposits in foreign central banks and financial institutions at home and abroad.
If Japan is going to launch a sovereign fund, the impetus will have to come from outside the government's powerful bureaucracy.


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Q: Is there a way to test websites for iOS Safari other than simulator (which is acting different from real iPhone)? I have the iOS simulator and the website I'm testing works perfectly in it, but other testers with real iphones are seeing problems. Is there anything that can make the simulator act the same or another app that can correctly simulate iOS Safari?

A: The iOS Simulator and device are pretty close.  With the iOS 8.0 simulator, almost all of the stack is built from the same code as the device iOS.  The only possible differences are very low level libraries (libsystem_pthread.dylib, libsystem_platform.dylib, and libsystem_kernel.dylib).  None of those should be significantly different between sim and device.  Please be as specific as possible, and I suggest you file a radar as well at http://bugreport.apple.com


Screenshot of BirdVis showing the 2009 spring migration of Indigo Bunting.
Birds are unrivaled windows into biotic processes at all levels and are proven indicators of ecological well-being. Understanding the determinants of species distributions and its dynamics is an important aspect of ecology and is critical for conservation and management. Through crowdsourcing, since 2002, the eBird project has been collecting bird observation records. These observations, together with local-scale environmental covariates such as climate, habitat, and vegetation phenology have been a valuable resource for a global community of educators, land managers, ornithologists, and conservation biologists. By associating environmental inputs with observed patterns of bird occurrence, predictive models have been developed that provide a statistical framework to harness available data for predicting species' distributions and making inferences about species-habitat associations. Understanding these models, however, is challenging because they require scientists to quantify and compare multi-scale spatio-temporal patterns. To do so, a large series of coordinated or sequential plots must be generated, individually programmed, and manually composed for analysis. This hampers the exploration and is a barrier to making the cross-species comparisons that are essential for coordinating conservation and extracting important ecological information.
BirdVis is an interactive visualization system that supports the analysis of spatio-temporal bird distribution models. BirdVis leverages visualization techniques and uses them in a novel way to better assist users in the exploration of interdependencies among model parameters. Furthermore, the system allows for comparative visualization through coordinated views, providing an intuitive interface to identify relevant correlations and patterns.
The BirdVis source code is available at GitHub.
We have prepared a short tutorial to help users get started in using the system.
BirdVis uses other freely-avaiable software: dependencies.
The bird pictures displayed in BirdVis were provided by Bill Schmoker (http://schmoker.org).
Thanks Mathias Schott (University of Utah) for sharing some of his rendering knowledge with us.
Some Screenshots of BirdVis can be seen at screenshots.
A video demonstrating BirdVis in action can be found at youtube.
To appear in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 10 pages.
This work has been supported by the Leon Levy Foundation; the Wolf Creek Foundation; the National Science Foundation through DataONE (0830944), IIS-0905385, IIS-0844546, IIS-0746500, CNS-0751152; the Institute for Computational Sustainability (0832782), research grant (1017793); TeraGrid computing resources provided under grant numbers TG-DEB100009 and DEB110008.


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TALBOT, CHARLES (1685 - 1737), 1st baron Talbot of Hensol (Glamorgan) and lord chancellor
Name: Charles Talbot
Spouse: Cecil Talbot (née Mathew)
Child: William Talbot
Parent: Catharine Talbot (née King)
Parent: William Talbot
Occupation: lord chancellor
Area of activity: Law; Politics, Government and Political Movements
Author: William Llewelyn Davies
christened at Chippenham, 21 December 1685, eldest son of William Talbot (afterwards bishop of Durham) and his wife Catharine, daughter of Richard King, alderman of the City of London. He was educated at Eton and Oriel College, Oxford (B.A. 1704, Fellow of All Souls 1704, D.C.L. 1735; he was also awarded, in 1714, the Lambeth LL.B.). He intended to take holy orders but on the advice of lord Cooper chose the career of the law, becoming a barrister (Inner Temple) on 28 June 1707. He was appointed Solicitor-General to the Prince of Wales, 31 May 1717. He was Member of Parliament for Tregony, Cornwall, 1719-20, and for Durham, 1722-34. He became Solicitor-General, 23 April 1726 and, on 29 November 1733, was made lord chancellor.
As will be seen his career (which is sketched fairly fully in D.N.B.) had been hitherto associated mainly with England. It was when he married a Welsh heiress that his connection with Wales began. This was in the summer of 1708, his wife being Cecil, daughter of Charles Mathew, Castell Menich, Glamorgan, granddaughter and heiress of judge David Jenkins of Hensol. Talbot built at Hensol a Tudor-style castle to which his son added afterwards. He was raised to the peerage on 5 December 1733. He died 14 February 1736/7.
The 1st baron Talbot was succeeded by his second son, WILLIAM TALBOT (1710 - 1782), 2nd baron Talbot, steward of the royal household; he became earl Talbot in 1761. When he died in 1782 the earldom became extinct, the barony passing to his nephew, JOHN CHETWYND TALBOT, who at the same time was created 1st earl Talbot of Hensol; he was the father of Sir CHARLES CHETWYND TALBOT, 2nd earl Talbot of Hensol, an account of whose career is given in D.N.B.
Sir William Llewelyn Davies, (1887 - 1952)
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Thomas Nicholas, Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales (London 1872), vol.I
Thomas Nicholas, Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales (London 1872), vol.II
Wikipedia Article: Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot
Wikidata: Q5082846
Davies, W. Ll., (1959). TALBOT, CHARLES (1685 - 1737), 1st baron Talbot of Hensol (Glamorgan) and lord chancellor. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 29 Jan 2023, from https://biography.wales/article/s-TALB-CHA-1685


JERUSALEM, August 25 – Women For the Wall, the grassroots organization of women dedicated to preserving the traditional sanctity of the Western Wall, condemned the Reform-led Women Of the Wall for announcing a "sit in" at the holy Western Wall. "Jerusalem is not Selma, and this issue cannot be compared to the fight for civil rights in the US," said Ronit Peskin, co-founder of Women For the Wall.
This evening, the Women Of the Wall declared a "sit-in" at the Holy Western Wall. Ten to twelve WOW members came to the Wall for the express purpose of engaging in this protest. WOW's carefully-angled photographs avoided showing that they were outnumbered over 25:1 by women who came to the Western Wall this evening not for any political activity, but in order to pray in the traditional fashion.
Women For the Wall is a grassroots movement of Jewish women, dedicated to ensuring that the Western Wall can be a place for all Jews to come and pray with respect and dignity. It believes that only by preserving classical Jewish practice at the Wall can it be a place where all Jews are truly welcome.


Trust as an important factor in all our training endeavors and we should not forget that it is earned. It is our responsibility to earn the trust of our birds through empowerment and consistency.
There is a growing interest in the companion parrot world in keeping birds fully flighted, i.e. not clipping wings. As someone who keeps fully flighted birds and flies them in many varied locations for the public there is a part of me that really thinks this is the only way to go. However, I also know from experience how much time and effort it takes training my birds to fly in strange locations, almost every show we do is in a different venue. I am speaking not only about initial training but also the maintenance of the behaviors trained. During the show season these birds are worked every day, regardless of there being a show or not. The thought of someone who has the pressures of a full time job and perhaps a spouse and family to be engaged with undertaking this quite honestly scares me.
It is probably worthwhile making clear exactly what free flight is. Free flight, also called "at liberty" flying, involves releasing the birds outdoors and allowing them complete choice as to where they go and how long they fly. This is quite different to what most professional bird trainers, including myself, typically do with their birds. The requirements of most shows preclude this particular form of flying in order to be able to keep the shows with some pace and direction. Having said that several professional trainers I know do fly small flocks of birds in a similar manner for show opening and closing sequences. They have five to ten birds fly out and circle the audience until the birds are ready to land on the stage or return to their housing. In fact I am presently working with a facility that will fly a flock of Macaws around their grounds, not part of a scripted show.
It is my contention that if the bird is not to be placed at risk this style of flight demands a much higher level of training for the bird and skill from the trainer. It is also my position that the typical, i.e. majority, of companion parrot owners do not have the knowledge, time, or focus required to achieve this level of training. Further I feel it unethical and professionally irresponsible for professional trainers to promote free flying companion parrots without making the demands of this pursuit clear to all.
This is not to suggest that I am opposed to keeping fully flighted birds, quite the opposite as I wrote in my blog article about clipping.
There are individuals who have proven that a companion bird can be flown free; they may have begun doing this through trial and error rather than formal training knowledge; however they were all dedicated to it, spending large amounts of time and effort on the venture. Most have had scary hours/days when birds have flown away, beyond the recall distance. Some have lost birds.
My position is simple I do not think that flying parrots outdoors is an activity that the majority of companion parrot owners should undertake.
Reducing behavior means punishment occurred – not!
When there is a reduction in behavior punishment is always in play! Once again I saw this used in a discussion in an Internet group. The discussion centered around the reduction of unwanted behavior, in the particular case it was a free flying bird landing on strangers. I don't intend to address the poor strategies suggested to resolve this or the much better alternate strategies suggested. Rather I want to talk about the argument put up that even when using the alternate strategy because the unwanted behavior is reduced punishment is still present.
Again, for those who may not be familiar with the use of the word punishment here, I use it in its technical, behavioral sense and that is a contingent consequence that reduces the future frequency of the behavior it follows.
Punishment is a process and not a single event. It is the process over time, by which a consequence reduces behavior. Note that punishment is not the only way to reduce behavior; it is one of several approaches that include differential reinforcement of an alternate or incompatible behavior, extinction, and establishing operations. And this is where the writer who said that even when a positive reinforcement approach is used to resolve the landing on strangers problem, if the landing reduces then it has been punished is wrong. Something completely different and at the totally opposite end of the intrusiveness spectrum is in play and no aversive events are required!
So, let's think about this a bit. Remember that all behavior serves some function for the subject performing it. So, if a bird is landing on strangers we can hypothesize that social interaction is what is reinforcing (maintaining) the behavior. Rather than punishing the behavior, since this simply attempts to teach the bird what NOT to do; we can devise a training strategy that drains the value of social interaction when the bird is being flown. This strategy was written about by Raz Rasmussen in her blog and also the basis of a presentation she gave at the recent IAATE conference in Albuquerque, NM. For these reasons I won't go into the details of the strategy used here. What I wish to focus on is that while the unwanted behavior may have been reduced it was not punished. The principle involved here is an antecedent arrangement, technically an establishing operation that serves to reduce the value of the reinforcer that was maintaining the unwanted behavior. The bird chooses not to land on strangers because doing so would result in a now less valued reinforcer than those available from the trainer and/or elsewhere in the environment.
In our efforts to have the smallest set of simple rules to understand and influence behavior it is easy to grab hold of a rule and use it without thinking it through. I have been guilty of this myself in the past; however, I do pride myself on having a very inquisitive mind and an ability to analyze things pretty well. The simple statement that if a behavior is reduced then punishment is in play is one we must be wary of. It is similar to talking about consequences being reinforcing or punishing without the context of the behavior; we must be specific about context when evaluating if punishment is in play. Ask, was a contingent, contiguous stimulus presented or removed that caused the behavior reduction. Then you will know if the behavior was punished or if some other behavior principle is in play.
In this article I have used terms that are not explained in the text, all the terms used here have appeared and been defined in previous articles and I chose not to make this article even longer by explaining each one. Please browse back to these older articles.
A special thank you goes out to Dr Susan Friedman for reviewing this article and contining to empower and encourage those willing to listen on this journey of learning.


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Home Essay Examples Health Dementia
Dementia: The Role Of The Nurse And The Reason For Health Promotion
Subcategory Disease
Topic Dementia
This assignment would critically analyse the role of nurses in implementing public health ideas and health promotion strategies at an individual group, community and population levels. This assignment shall look at how this evidence helps in improving health and wellbeing. This assignment shall also look at the importance of good communication in collaborative health care planning, all of this with regards to early onset dementia. This essay would also look at how political, social and economic factors could affect nurses while doing health promotions on EOD.
Finally, this assignment shall conclude by looking at what different cultures think of dementia. As nurses, who are going to be working in a very global society, they are faced with social, political, economic and cultural challenges.
Early onset dementia and presenile dementia are all terminologies that refer to dementia developed before the age of 65.
In recent times, evidence has suggested that unhealthy lifestyle, lack of early diagnosis, wrong diagnosis and misconceptions are the strongest risk factors for early onset dementia (Gylnn et al., 2016). Research has shown a correlation between dementia and risky behaviours, up to 40% of disability in the UK is linked to high alcohol consumption, high tobacco intake, lack of exercise and unhealthy diet (Health Education England, 2018). Nevertheless, Pokhrel et al. (2015) dispute that there are always differences in opinion as to what causes dementia. However, while there is no real evidence for the cure of dementia, current evidence shows that avoiding risk factors like smoking, high alcohol consumption and pursuing early diagnosis could provide effective treatment, and better quality of life as people get older. (Alzheimer's Research UK, 2017).
Some of the most common signs and symptoms of early-onset dementia involve Memory loss, difficulties with language, Problems with performing a familiar task, Changes in mood, changes in personality, misplacing things, disorientation to time and place (Amari, 2013)
Nurses do have an important role in public health promotion.
The NHS (2014) encourages the use of leaflets as a way of raising awareness for EOD and NICE guidelines (2014) supports the use of leaflets for empowerment and a change in behaviour, to improve the health and welfare of everyone. Collaborative working will be required with GP surgeries, health visitors, community nurses, school nurses, community charities, social services, occupational therapist and other government services will be needed in order to raise awareness of EOD. The leaflets will be displayed in visible areas within buildings, especially on the walls of buildings like GPs' surgeries, schools, and hospitals, as this would promote passive reading. According to Buchbinder (2005), GP surgeries have an important role in creating health and educational awareness. Moreover, nurses could also include copies of these leaflets in the welcome packs on the wards. Community nurses, school nurses, activity organisers, and health visitors have played an important role in promoting public health in schools and in poorer communities (Cowley et al, 2015). Nonetheless, Sixsmith et al. (2014) argue the effectiveness of displaying leaflet in doctor's surgeries or the receptions in public buildings as a way of creating awareness of EOD. Sixsmith suggests that these leaflets are usually forgotten and binned, most often people would not even read them.
The focus of health promotion by nurses has been on disease prevention and changing the behaviour of people so that they get a better understanding of their health. The role of a nurse as a promoter of health is more intricate since nurses have a broad knowledge and experience of health promotion.
Nurses are capable of shaping their communication skills to their environment so that when the spot a sign they can easily make the person with dementia to feel empowered. The therapeutic relationship between patient and nurses is important to high-quality nursing care. (Belcher, 2009) Nurses should communicate warmly, showing appreciation for individuals who come into contact with nurses during promotional campaigns help them feel included and valued. Making every eye contact is an important tool in establishing a therapeutic relationship and also improving the public's health and wellbeing (HEE, 2018). Talking to people with a warm tone, using short sentences and not flooding them with information, smiling while having a conversation while giving them time to express themselves. However,
having good communication skills does not always facilitate the nurse role in promoting public health. Personal characteristic like low self-esteem, personal history or the culture of the nurse could prevent effective communication (Sheldon, 2013). Laurence et al (2016) argue that nurses would be faced with a mountain to climb while trying to initiate conversations in this era of Brexit and discrimination. (Thornicroft, 2006) argues that dementia is linked to a stigma that people may not want to be connected with. It is sometimes difficult to talk to people about a condition that they have a negative feeling of.
With empowerment, nurses can easily collaborate with individuals, groups, and community. By understanding behaviour, nurses could empower people with dementia by making them feel more comfortable and secured. Griffiths P et al. (2013). However, Craig (2018) argues that early diagnosis could be very challenging to the individuals thus nurses would need to have a clear understanding of dynamics that encourages people to engage in positive lifestyle choices. According to Thompson (2009), nurses will need to have knowledge and awareness of health promotion and behavioural change in order to encourage potential EOD individuals to seek early diagnosis.
Nurses would identify health promotional needs for different patients. As no two patients are the same. Nurses would have professional interaction with patients focusing on early onset dementia, educating the patient and encouraging them to seek treatments if diagnosed with one. (Griffiths, 2013)
Craig & Mitchell, 2018 suggest that the health belief model could be of significant importance to nurses as it would help nurses understand the reasons why people decide to make positive lifestyle changes.
Even though there is currently no cure for dementia, the progression could be slowed down if it is diagnosed early.
Evidence suggests that the Transtheoretical Model can assist nurses in assessing the individuals who require support, and refer them to the appropriate areas for specialist consultation (Craig & Mitchell, 2018).
Early onset dementia could often be hereditary, so an individual should know about their diagnosis, not just for their own benefits but for that of their offspring.
RCN (2016) supports the use of therapeutic meetings and psychological interventions like Cognitive behavioural therapy, occupational therapy and motivational interviews to build trust. This could be very empowering to the individuals. Moreover, the nurse's role could be seen through collaborative working with social care services, GPs, educational institutions, charities, and government agencies to promote and design ways to increase awareness of dementia (RCN, 2016). However, due to lack of skills, and a lack of finances as a result of financial cuts by the government for community services, it has been identified as a major setback in public health campaigns (PHE, 2017).
The second rationale for the health promotion of early-onset dementia is that it is person-centred. (Kroger, 2008) It is important to view the person as the priority and not the illness. Sometimes a patient is described as that person with a personality disorder. With health promotion, you get to talk to the individual. It is about creating a positive environment in which the patient could strive on. Creating an environment where people are free to come to talk to nurses. However, the environment is not always friendly and positive for health promotions. Personal characteristics like a lack of empathy, poor listening skills, inability to set boundaries and poor conflict management could prevent health promotion from been person-centred (Kroger,2008).
Nurses would usually use the health belief model by trying to focus on the attitude and behaviour of the patient. The aim of (EOD) health promotions is to make people take action and make decisions with regards to their health. By getting assessment and diagnosis in order to know more about their health.
There are several limitations to the communication skills of nurses as health promoters. Firstly, the biggest barrier to dementia is the fear of dementia. Most people are scared of the stigma that is associated with dementia. You would hear people say "If I don't get assess by the nurses, I won't be diagnosed and if there is no diagnosis then I don't have early onset dementia." People think been associated with dementia is a stigma that would affect them, their families, social life's and their friends (Arial, 2007). People don't want to go to hospitals or see a psychiatrist. Some cultures don't also accept the existence of dementia. It's difficult for nurses to have this health promotional campaigns.
Social and economic factors do have an effect on dementia. Dementia has shown signs of declines in the last few years. The greatest declines were seen and noticed with people who had a higher level of educational attainment. (Mathews, 2011). Given that Educations is most often completed a few decades before Dementia onset, other social and economic factors such as wealth, income, skills, neighbourhood, work, social interaction and area deprivation could be used to show inequality with Dementia.
The EOD leaflet in task 1 was designed with evidence-based information on dementia in order to meet the required level and to clarify the misconceptions about dementia. Our group made sure the leaflets contained plain language filled with colourful pictures as evidence shows that bright colours on leaflet attracts patients' and encourages them to read (Houts et al., 2006b). However, the EOD leaflet was only written in English. This creates unfairness and discrimination on people who are not able to speak or understand English (Smith, 2006). Hence, it is important for mental health nurses to use their person-centred skills to act as health promoters and refer people to the right areas for support.
Governments' policies such as the tax on sugary products, the smoking ban in vehicles carrying children and smoking out of public places have had a positive impact on public health (Middleton, 2017). However, the government has had a relaxed attitude towards placing stricter regulations on the consumption of alcohol and unhealthy food, shortages of funds for community health services have influenced public health in a negative way. (Public Health England, 2017). Furthermore, the continuous government support for companies producing unhealthy food products, present challenges to the effectiveness of this EOD leaflet (Gornall, 2015).
With education comes work. Work is important because it keeps your mind engaged. (Kroger, 2008) A Canadian study showed that soldiers who fought World War 2, benefited greatly because they had access to an intellectually challenging environment. This gave them access to even better jobs after the war. (Mathews, 2011).
With wealth come good medical facilities and a generally healthy lifestyle. People, who live a healthy lifestyle, by staying alcohol-free, smoking free, have got a high probability of not getting dementia. A healthy lifestyle is very important. Evidence has shown that poorer people do have very unbalanced diets and rely heavily on junk food. Having good nutrition would give you a healthy weight. Having a healthy weight would also reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes and probably dementia in the future. (Mathews, 2011)
The neighbourhood and the environment also have to a certain extent, shape the way children grow (Moyerlo,2018), Growing up in a good neighbourhood gives a child easy access to better quality education, there is a greater probability of these children going to university and having a career in the future. A career gives you stability and a good education has shown to have an influence on dementia. Hence it is very important for this EOD leaflets to target the poorer regions in order to create awareness.). Strong evidence suggests that poorer and deprived people would experience unhealthy outcomes than individuals who are in employment and have higher educational accomplishment (Middleton, 2017). However, employment is not the only determinant of good health, as there are many employed people with bad mental health conditions (Entwhistle & Heritage, 2016).
This assignment has critically analysed the role of the nurse in promoting and implementing a public health leaflet on EOD. If anyone realises that any of their friends or family members are constantly asking the same questions, always repeating themselves or even forgetting the conversation, they should find out what the problem is. The aim of this group task was to raise awareness of EOD in our local communities, especially as it concerns a group of people under 65 years of age. The assignment acknowledges that it is challenging for nurses as people are sometimes worried about their diagnosis due to stigmatisation. This assignment helps the general public to realise that there is so much that could be done to intervene at an early stage if only we could spot the signs and act accordingly.
Nurses would have to use their person-centred skills during promotional campaigns while engaging in a therapeutic way with service users. Nurses could use behavioural change models as a tool to encourage people to make positive lifestyle changes.
Finally, this assignment critically analyses the role of the nurse and the reason for health promotion, showing how collaborative strategies, addresses the needs of people. The assignment showed that despite the limitations of health promotional campaigns, nurses do have an important role to play in health promotional campaigns.
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HomeNews'Remastered' Queen Mary 2 is presented in Southampton
'Remastered' Queen Mary 2 is presented in Southampton
Queen Mary 2 sails into Southampton (Photo: Cunard Line)
Anne Kalosh | Jun 23, 2016
'Remastered' to the tune of $132m, Queen Mary 2 arrived back in her Southampton homeport Thursday for red-carpet events before a trans-Atlantic voyage to New York. The liner has undergone one of the most significant refurbishments in Cunard history at Blohm+Voss in Hamburg.
A fundraiser for The Prince's Trust, which helps young people facing issues such as homelessness or mental health problems, was held on board, and media were welcomed by Carnival UK ceo David Noyes.
During the remastering, Queen Mary 2 gained contemporary interior designs and experiences, some inspired by the original Queen Mary that launched at the height of the Art Deco erea of the 1930s.
The Queens Grill and Princess Grill suites and restaurants and Britannia staterooms were redesigned, the latter to be fully complete by the end of the year. Thirty more Britannia Club rooms were added, along with 15 Britannia single staterooms and five Britannia inside roms.
Key public spaces and restaurants were redesigned, including the transformation of the former Winter Garden into the Carinthia Lounge, the introduction of The Verandah as the ship's new speciality restaurant (replacing Todd English) and the complete refresh and restructuring of the Kings Court, the ship's buffet area. Ten kennels were added, too.
More than one million man hours have gone in to the refurbishment over a 25-day period. Some 594,000 square feet of carpets were laid, 4,000 new framed pictures were brought aboard and over 3,900 gallons of paint were applied to the hull.
Queen Mary 2's wine cellar now offers a selection of 486 fine wines and a collection of vintage ports that back to 1840.
'From her spectacular debut in 2004, to her current remastering, Queen Mary 2 continues to capture the imagination of those who experience her classic ocean liner voyages,' said Rick Meadows, president, Cunard North America.
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La donación Lipchitz
25 november, 1997 - 12 january, 1998 /
Sabatini Building, Floor 2
Jacques Lipchitz. Figure with Guitar, 1925. Sculpture. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Collection
Jacques Lipchitz (Druskininkai, Lithuania 1891 - Capri, Italy, 1973) is one of the pioneers of Cubism in Sculpture, along with artists such as Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Alexander Archipenko and Henri Laurens. The artist from Lithuania moved to Paris in 1909, where he consolidated his vocation as a sculptor.
In spite of the avant-garde nature his work, Lipchitz follows in the foot-steps of the sculptural tradition of the nineteenth century as regards to the creation process. As with artists such as Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Edgar Degas and Auguste Rodin, the sketch is central to his practice. This leads him to keep many of the pieces made from clay or plaster prior to their casting in the final material, usually bronze.
This exhibition presents the twenty-one pieces that are included in the donation Jacques & Yulla Lipchitz Foundation Inc. made to the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. This collection of sculptures, dating from 1914 and 1971-72, complete the review of the Lithuanian sculptor's career that the Museo Reina Sofía begins with the exhibition Lipchitz. 1891-1973. Un mundo sorprendido en el espacio, held this year.
The earliest piece from the donation is Acrobat on Horseback (1914), an example of some artists' interests from that period in the world of circus. The piece is produced the year Lipchitz visits Spain and settles in a village on the island of Mallorca, a stay that inspires one of his most important sculptures from this collection, Sailor with Guitar (1917). This piece does not only reproduce one of sculptor's most famous iconographic motifs, but it is also considered his first completely Cubist production.
In 1920, Lipchitz partially abandons Cubism and begins to experiment with figuration. Exhibited from this period is Portrait of Jean Cocteau (1920), a bust within the "return to order". This work is followed by Reclining Woman (1921) commissioned by the fashion designer Coco Chanel. Also thanks to a commission, Lipchitz creates Harlequin with Mandoline in Oval (1923), one of his most outstanding Cubist pieces. Through bas-reliefs, the sculptor is influenced by the pictorial compositions of Juan Gris and Pablo Picasso. The musical theme appears again Figure with Guitar (1925) and Woman with Guitar: Maquette 2 (1925), both considered initial stages leading to Reclining Nude with Guitar (1928) which belongs to the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York .
The massive sculptures of Cubist orthodoxy are eliminated by the discovery of the "transparent" empty spaces integrated into the composition itself. This discovery is essential to contemporary sculpture and materialises in the work of the sculptor, in pieces like Man Leaning on Elbows (1925) and Meditation (1926). In Reclining Figure (1928) a female figure with curves and rotund volumes is portrayed as part of the landscape. This eroticism is also seen in works such as Encounter (1929) and alternates with Lipchitz's predilection for biblical themes. This includes Return of the Prodigal Son. Maquette 3 (1931) and Jacob and the Angel. Maquette 1 (1931). Classical mythology also comes into play in works like The Arrival (1941), reminiscent in its composition to Apollo and Daphne by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and The Rape of Europa (Variation) (1960-70).
Finally, included in the donation are the pieces Sketch for Bellerophon taming Pegasus (1964) and Sketch for "Our Tree of Life" (1971-72), the previous steps toward two of the most important monuments carried out by the sculptor in the last stage of his production.
Exhibition´s details
Jacques Lipchitz
Collection artworks included in the exhibition
Reina Sofia Museum's Publications
20 may, 1997 - 02 september, 1997
Lipchitz. 1891-1973. Un mundo sorprendido en el espacio
Sailor with Guitar
Harlequin with Mandoline in Oval
Lipchitz. Un mundo sorprendido en el espacio
15 December 2020 – 12 April 2021
The Kind Cruelty
León Ferrari, 100 Years
11 November, 2020 - 1 March, 2021
Mondrian and De Stijl
22 October, 2020 - 17 May, 2021
Anna-Eva Bergman
From North to South, Rhythms
14 October, 2020 - 15 February 2021
Audiosphere
Sound Experimentation 1980-2020
7 October, 2020 - 26 April, 2021
Niño de Elche
Invisible Auto Sacramental: A Sonic Representation from Val del Omar
23 September, 2020 - 1 March, 2021
Disonata
Art in Sound up to 1980
17 July, 2020 - 28 February, 2021
To a raven and hurricanes that from unknown places bring back smells of humans in love
25 September 2020 – 5 February 2021
What Are We Doing Here?
Alternative Spaces in Madrid at the Turn of the Century
Muestras documentales, Biblioteca y Centro de Documentación


Important Note: If you are a young adult or middle-aged male, you need to pay special attention to today's lesson because it's going to provide you with some game-changing insight that could significantly improve your trading results.
We are all familiar with giving back the profits we just made on a winning trade, but why do we do this? What are the underlying causes of why so many traders tend to give back their profits as quickly as they made them, and become stuck in a cycle of 'treading water' in the market? More importantly, after you understand the root cause of these problems, how can you make a plan of action to conquer them and finally build a consistently successful trading approach?
What would you say if I told you that there are biological processes at work in your brain which are holding you back from achieving your full potential as a trader? As described in the article Better Trading Through Science, research in a new field called neuroeconomics, a combination of economics and psychology, attempts to explain how people manage risk and why they often make irrational decisions in trading and investing.
You can probably think back to some irrational decisions you made while trading. The problem is that these irrational decisions always seem painfully obvious and stupid in retrospect, but while you're in the 'heat of the moment' when your trade is live, you seem to be possessed and unable to clearly see the full impact of what you are doing.
As mentioned in the article referenced above, "Kahneman and Tversky found that people suffer a higher degree of pain from losing money than they feel pleasure from making money. So they tend to hold on to losing stocks rather than sell and lock in a loss.
In Forex trading, irrational decision making manifests itself when traders do things like jumping right back into the market after a loss to try and "make back" the money they just lost. The pain of losing money often causes people to do the exact opposite of what they should be doing after a losing trade; walking away for a while / not trading.
People get too attached to trades and thus feel too much pain when they lose…this can stem from many sources, such as trading with "scared money" or feeling "desperate" to make your trading work. Whatever the source, our brains appear to be wired to want to over-compensate for losing money in the market, and this clearly is the wrong approach because there's nothing to 'compensate for' because losing trades are part of trading and you cannot avoid losing some of your trades. Understand your trading edge (trading strategy) has a random distribution of winners and losers, this means you should not really 'expect' any particular to trade to be a winner or loser, because you never know for sure what outcome will result from any one trade. Arming yourself with this type of logic and awareness will help you to ignore the emotional pain you feel after losing money in the market.
As the article states, people tend to feel less pleasure from making money than they do pain from losing it. This means that you are going to be less likely to refrain from over-trading after hitting a nice winner, because we tend to never be fully satisfied from our winning trades…either we didn't make as much as we wanted or the market kept going in our favor after we exited. Perhaps if you try appreciating your winning trades more and the profits you made from them, you won't be as careless with your trading account. After you start profiting each month, it helps to withdrawal some money from your trading account every month and hold the cold, hard, cash in your hands so that you are reminded of just how real it is.
The main point of the article referenced in the beginning of this lesson, is that people tend to have different levels of risk aversion, and young men tend to be the least risk averse and thus they tend to make the most irrational trading decisions in the market. Their high testosterone levels and brain chemistry put them at an inherent disadvantage over women and older men who tend to be more risk averse.
Young men are the man demographic of traders, and they tend to "go wild" due to the higher hormone levels they have. Women and older men tend to make fewer risky decisions in the market, primarily because they don't have as much testosterone pumping through their veins, or as John Coates put it in the article referenced above: "the molecule that explains irrational exuberance".
One of the main reasons we continue to see these huge financial melt downs and hedge fund blow-outs is because these professions are dominated by testosterone-filled younger men who get over-confident the more they win, until eventually their over-confidence leads to lapses in judgment and they take too big of risks…which inevitably causes them to give back all of their winnings and usually a lot more.
The implications of the research discussed above, is that us younger men need to swallow our egos a bit and trade more like women and older men and be a little more risk averse and work harder at this most important part of trading. We all know most traders tend to fail over the long-run, and young men are the majority demographic of traders…so it's no surprise that this demographic of trader tends to have such a high failure rate, considering most have a brain chemistry that is working against them and they either don't want to drop their arrogance enough to admit that fact and work on it, or they are unaware of it. We need to develop a plan of action to counter-act our own disadvantageous brain chemistry for trading.
We must counter-act our hormones (especially if you're a younger man, which most of my readers are) so that we don't operate on false-confidence. We counter act these feelings by following a daily trading routine / plan that includes a written reminder of our tendency to become over-confident and by maintaining conscious awareness of this reality. Try to monitor yourself as if you're an objective party watching yourself trade…try to detach yourself from the emotion and 'urges' you might be feeling as you trade, consider them with objectivity and logic, and then let them pass away without acting on them, reward yourself somehow each week you successfully do this.
Risk management and sticking to your trading strategy by ONLY trading when a valid setup is present are two great ways to help keep your hormones in check. But you still will be prone to feeling over-confident after a winning trade even if you are doing everything right. It's best to remove yourself from your trading screens then, build this act into your trading plan and reward yourself each month's end for sticking to your plan.
It is apparent from the recent research on irrationality in trading, that younger-men tend to be less risk averse than women or older men. Thus, whilst we may have more interest and passion, on average, than most women or older men for trading…we need to work on the other more important aspect of trading, which is managing our emotions and our actions in the market…perhaps much more so than other demographic groups.
The point here is that you have to consciously make an effort to control your feelings which can arise from hormones and other biological processes, because if you don't, they will get the best of you and cause you to lose money through irrational decision making.
It's obvious that every trader is unique due to our differing biology and brain chemistry. However, certain demographics of people, mainly young adult to middle aged males, tend to be more prone to engaging in overly-risky behavior than others. You don't want to be too risk averse or not risk averse enough, you want to find a nice balance somewhere in the middle. For some traders this will be harder to achieve than for others, but by using a little commonsense and forward-thinking, it can be done.
Due to the fact that none of us seem to be born with the 'perfect' brain chemistry for trading success, it's apparent that all of us need to work to counter-act these imperfections by planning and being disciplined, but also by not over-complicating our trading strategy. The best way to control our tendencies to become over-confident in the market, trade too frequently and with too much risk, is to boil every aspect of our trading down to its most basic ingredients. Fast-food is bad for you, everyone agrees on this, and it's mainly because there are too many ingredients in the food that are unnatural or overly-processed. This is a good metaphor to think about trading with, because if you over-complicate your trading by adding too many unnatural ingredients, like indicators, economic news and other "fillers" that you don't need, it's going to amplify your inherent human tendency to lose money as you trade. Thus, your biological predisposition to trade ineffectively can be overcome by simplifying your trading approach, being self-aware as you trade, forward-thinking and discipline. To learn more about how to simplify your trading approach so that you can work to offset the biological processes that are stacked against you, checkout my trading course and members community for more information.
The problem with financial markets is testosterone leading to being risk-averse?
I am not sure I have heard anything this stupid before.
Discipline and rationality are the key elements of success and there is no know correlation between them and testosterone. E.g. high performing athletes have high testosterone and are ridiculously disciplined and hard working.
As for women making for better traders, they completely fail the rationality requirement. They are fear driven which comes from a natural instinct of over-protection.
Psychology is a major part of trading. Leave the new wave of man hating discourse out of it though.
Managing emotions properly is an essential for trading success. Your own emotions and delusions are your worst enemy, not the market. Once you are able to put aside your emotions and you can look at a situation with a clear mind, you'll become profitable very soon.
Great job with the article, Nial!
Another insightful article Nial – many thanks!
Great articles, really motivated to keep learning and working on my over all development.Kudos.
Excellent Nial. Thanks. This article helps a lot.
Great article.Your lesson on Biology is invaluable given the emotional roller coaster we can sometimes experience when trading .
Extremely interesting lesson, a very wise topic.
Thanks for the highlighting this behavior. Am one of them and have been doing exactly what you have said. Time for change and a lesson to take on.
Superb article Nail. Thanks for sharing these insights.
hi Nial, l , and thank you . Although I'm a bit older than middle -age, I find this article extremely informative, as I have a 21 year old nephew who is interested in trading. It was hard for me to put my finger on the reason why he was so impatient trading and waiting for something to develope. I think together we can develope a balance in our trading strategy , discipline and patience and simplify our trading approach.
i found this article very useful for all kind of traders especially younger ones.
i got some very important points from this articles that will improve my trade gain.
probably, all of us faced the points discussed above and never knew the root of these failures , but now , we know the basis of these problem and will be able to conquer them.
A very interesting topic. Keep up the good job.
Thanks for the write up ( advice). You have spoken to me directly . I`ll read this write-up again & again. Thanks.
Thanks. We likes your lesson.


So, here we are… 2017, can you believe it? No, me neither. Anyway, now that 2016 is out of the way it's time to focus on the year ahead. Which can mean only one thing: it's time to re-introduce my photography challenges.
In years gone by I have used photography challenges as a way of increasing my motivation and pushing my photography into new and interesting places. More recently I have had to focus on other life missions outside of photography (buying a house, getting married, changing job, etc…) and my photography challenges fell slightly by the wayside. But this year they're back, and in a big way.
Throughout the whole of 2017 I will attempt to complete the below list of challenges (some are easier than others), and you're more than welcome to join me (why not get in touch and let me know your progress).
So there we have it: 12 months, 12 challenges. Let the photography begin!


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BOC Aviation has delivered the fourth of seven Airbus A320NEO aircraft to Chongqing Airlines. This aircraft is from the Company's existing order book.
BOC Aviation has delivered the final third of three Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft to Spicejet Limited. This aircraft is from the Company's existing order book.
BOC Aviation delivered the second of three Airbus A320-200 aircraft to Saudi Arabian Airlines. This aircraft is from the Company's existing order book. It will be operated by Saudia's low cost subsidiary, flyadeal.
BOC Aviation delivered the first of three Airbus A320-200 aircraft to Saudi Arabian Airlines. This aircraft is from the Company's existing order book. It will be operated by Saudia's low cost subsidiary, flyadeal.
BOC Aviation Delivers Boeing 787-9 Aircraft To Norwegian Air Shuttle
BOC Aviation is pleased to announce the delivery of one new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft to Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA. The aircraft will be powered by Roll Royce Trent 1000 TEN engines.
BOC Aviation - 25 Years of Excellence
BOC Aviation is pleased to celebrate 25 years of unbroken profitability since it was founded as Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise Pte. Ltd. on 25th November 1993.
BOC Aviation delivered one Airbus A320NEO aircraft to SalamAir. The aircraft was acquired under a purchase and leaseback agreement with the airline.
BOC Aviation Places Air Macau's First Three New Airbus A320NEO Aircraft
BOC Aviation is pleased to announce the placement of three new Airbus A320NEO aircraft with Air Macau, all of which are scheduled for delivery in the first half of 2019. The aircraft will be powered by the Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbofan™ Engines.
BOC Aviation has delivered the second of three Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft to Spicejet Limited. This aircraft is from the Company's existing order book.
BOC Aviation has delivered the third of seven Airbus A320NEO aircraft to Chongqing Airlines. This aircraft is from the Company's existing order book.