An image that has consistently appealed to me as a metaphor appropriate to human psychology is that of pathways and crossroads. Human beings may be, as the biologists and pharmaceutical companies tell us, the sum total of DNA, synapses, neurochemicals, that our bodies comprise, but there's more to us than the flesh and bone robot much of contemporary psychology has reduced us to. There's even more than the unconscious motivations Freud and his followers ascribed to humanity and much more than a conditioned being, more complex but no less strictly determined than a rat in a Skinner box. Throwing in vague references to the effects of "environment" doesn't add a great deal to current science's narrow view of human psychology as an object without a subject.
It is in jettisoning the conscious person and ignoring the choices that person makes that psychology and psychiatry have cut the heart and soul out of being human. Above all else, it is consciousness that defines us as being human. Without consciousness we are nothing but automatons, no matter how biological rather than mechanical, no matter how complex. It is because we are not robots that our lives matter. Robots are neither tragic nor heroic, because, they do nothing more than follows the laws of cause and effect and of chance variation.
As we travel the pathways of our lives, we do not, hopefully, do so in an empty-headed trance like the terrifying Night of the Living Dead creatures. It is because we do think and feel that we are human.
As we travel these pathways, we have experiences and these experiences become who we are. They are not only the memories of the past, but they are part of the fabric of who we are in the present. Freud and those who followed made clear that this fabric includes experiences that we have selectively forgotten, perhaps even devoting major psychic energy to continue to forget, to repress. Our experiences affect us whether we can bring them forth into our awareness or not. This does not mean that our conscious experience is irrelevant, but only that it is partial, incomplete, perhaps even misleading.
Conscious experience is not the whole of who we are, but it is as close as we can get at any given moment.
As we travel these pathways, we are constantly coming to crossroads, points where we must decide how to proceed. We may try to retreat to the past, may detour around what seem overly formidable obstacles, may forge straight ahead into the face of dangers. We may even try to stay in one place, to avoid deciding how to proceed. Of course, this is a decision in itself. Since the world is itself is in motion, even staying in one place, avoiding choice, has consequences.
Much of psychology and psychiatry seem to diminish the importance of the process of decision. Whether by placing responsibility on our genes, our environment, our biochemical make-up, or our unconscious, the conscious living being that we are often seems shoved to a secondary role in our lives. In fact, we are constantly deciding, constantly acting in ways that will bring us deeper or more shallow intimacy, richer or thinner satisfaction, fuller or more empty creativity, more substantial or more cowering integrity. It is true that our conscious sense of the choices we make may be less clear than we might wish. We may deceive ourselves about our own motives or the consequences of our actions. We define ourselves not only by what we believe we are choosing but also by what we actualize in our choices.
The distinction between pathway and crossroads is not always clear. We may believe we are simply following a path based on past decisions, when we are in fact subtly deviating from our presumed route. The converse is also true: We may believe we are making a momentous decision when we are merely continuing a path we began long before.
In a sense, we are always deciding and simultaneously always continuing along paths set in motion long before. Nearly any well-written novel or carefully constructed play or screenplay captures this aspect of live better than most contemporary "scientific" psychology. Academic psychology's love affair with statistics and contemporary psychiatry's love affair with pharmaceuticals reduces human nature, respectively, to measurable variables and symptoms. In the process, much of what makes human life matter is lost. We are who we are because of what we have experienced and because of the choices we make now about who we are to become. It matters whether we were mistreated as children and it matters whether we mistreat our own children. It matters whether those who cared for us were honest with us and it matters whether we are honest with those we care about as adults. We carry the weight of acts of kindness and of hatred, whether done to us or by us. Our experiences and our choices are who we are.


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Over 150 injured as two trains collide outside Barcelona
Services to R4, R7, and R12 lines resumed with delays after incident at Montcada i Reixac Manresa station
Image of the collision between two trains at the Montcada i Reixac Manresa station, just north of Barcelona / Maria Belmez
Catalan News | @catalannews | Barcelona
First published: December 7, 2022 09:11 AM
Latest update: December 7, 2022 07:49 PM
Over 150 people were injured, the vast majority of which lightly, after two trains collided at a station just north of Barcelona on Wednesday morning.
The incident occurred at the Montcada i Reixac Manresa station, part of the Rodalies commuter train network, at around 7.50 am.
Trains on the R4, R7, and R12 lines were halted in both directions during the morning as a result of the crash, but as of 10.05 am they were back running with delays.
Medical emergency services aid victims of the collision between two trains at the Montcada i Reixac Manresa station, just north of Barcelona, on December 7, 2022 / Maria Belmez
The company activated the emergency protocol for this type of incident in collaboration with Civil Protection and the Medical Emergency System (SEM).
Eighteen ambulances were sent to the site to treat people for injuries, as well as 7 firefighter crews to help with the evacuation of the trains.
39 people were brought to hospitals or health centers for their injuries, but there were no serious cases. There were about 1,300 passengers on board the two trains in total.
President demands "all explanations"
The Catalan president Pere Aragonès reacted to the incident via Twitter on Wednesday, demanding "all explanations from [operator] Renfe, [infrastructure manager] Adif and the Spanish government."
"Improving the service in Catalonia is urgent and cannot be postponed," he added.
Fent seguiment de l'accident de Montcada i Reixac i en contacte amb @emergenciescat per conèixer l'evolució dels ferits, a qui desitjo una ràpida recuperació. Calen totes les explicacions de Renfe, Adif i el govern espanyol. Millorar el servei a Catalunya és urgent i inajornable.
— Pere Aragonès i Garcia 🎗 (@perearagones) December 7, 2022
Aragonès also explained that he is following the incident and in contact with the emergency services to keep up to date on those injured, to whom he wished a "speedy recovery."
The mayor of Montcada i Reixac, Laura Campos, called the incident "serious and surprising."
"We have been asking Renfe for a while to move forward" with renovating the station, she explained. "Thankfully the 155 people who were hurt today only have minor injuries ... but I do think we need to highlight that what happened today is serious and surprising.
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Spain's transport minister defends rail network
Spain's transport minister Raquel Sánchez defended the rail network and said that some incidents were unavoidable.
"Our rail system works well, our trains work well, but sometimes we cannot avoid accidents or collisions of this nature."
She also warned against relating the incident to the wider management of the Rodalies network.
"What happened today is an accident, a one-off episode that has nothing to do with the work and investments we are making to improve the service."
The Catalan government wants to transfer the management of the Rodalies network to Catalonia and asked the Spanish government on Wednesday to hold a bilateral meeting "quickly."
Collision between train and car in Reus
As well as the incident in Montcada and Reixac, the Catalan railway network recorded another accident on Wednesday, at a level crossing between Reus and El Morell, when a car fell onto the rail track.
The driver, who suffered minor injuries, was able to get out of the vehicle before the train passed, while a passenger was unharmed. The fire department received a call at 12:49 pm after the vehicle left the road and fell from a height of about 5 meters.
Trains between Vila-seca and Reus resumed on one track shortly before 2.45pm.

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Let's start this post by immediately getting over the stigma of self-improvement, healthy living, veganism, or eating under a microscope. This is not to toot my own horn or make you feel like a terrible person. It is simply about sharing my journey, trying new things, and adopting a new way of thinking.
I, like everyone else, felt instantly convicted and concerned while watching the documentary called, "What the Health". Now just to clarify, my conviction wasn't solely animal based. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge animal lover, but I love myself and my family even more. I certainly want to save all the animals, but above all, I want my precious little family to function at our very best. I feel like we are currently spinning our wheels and not moving forward, so If that means trying out the plant thing for a while, then bring on the plants!
Within the past 6 months I've been more plant powered than ever with the use of essential oils and other plant based supplements, personal care products, and other home + lifestyle products. I've found the transition to plant-based living super easy and affordable so far, but was clinging onto my careless diet (diet meaning the kind of food I put into my body on a daily basis without much thought).
My overall intent is to live longer and healthier, while practicing better stewardship of my time, money, and the earth's resources.
I want my plant-based diet (again, diet just means the food i'm eating on a daily basis, no huge calorie deprivation here) to be easy (in terms of prep), cheap, organic, non-GMO and super bassssiccccc because i'm a busy mama and a picky eater.
I am also a self proclaimed carnivore. I love friggin' love meat. This switch could be very painful for us. We are both excited to see what kind of cash we save from this decision. Yes, eating organic etc is more expensive at first (especially if you're currently eating a lot of fake or processed foods). When Orson was born, we vowed to only bring the best meat into our home since I was breastfeeding (and still am). Matt and I did a whole year of organic, grass-fed and free range meat for just over $160 biweekly (just the meat portion of our groceries). It was amazing, but it was also super expensive. Thankfully, we just completed our year subscription last month. My plant-based grocery list for this week has us eating for about $60. We shall see how long that lasts.
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Olea hansineensis is een slakkensoort uit de familie van de Limapontiidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1923 door Agersborg.

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Q: Remove spaces when amending a text file using Python Good Day,
I am a new here an new to coding so worry if this a silly question.
I need some help! I have the following Python code that amends a line in a text file. However, every time I run it, it adds spaces before each word in the text file. Does anyone know why?
with open ("sheepfile.txt",'r') as My_Sheep:
    data = My_Sheep.readlines()

with open ("sheepfile.txt",'w') as My_Sheep: # opens the text file as 'w'
    for I, line in enumerate(data, 1):
        if I == Line_num:
        My_Sheep.writelines( '%s, %s, %s, %s' % (Update_Sheep))
    else:
        My_Sheep.writelines(line)

My_Sheep.close() # close the file

So the text file as the following original text
Matt,1,A,Blue
Katy,34,B,Pink
Isobel,32,C,Yellow

But when I run the code and say change age of Matt to 2, I get:
Matt,2, A, Blue
Katy,34,B,Pink
Isobel,32,C,Yellow

There is now a space before the 'A' and a space before 'Blue'
A further space will appear ever time run the code. Does anyone know how I can get rid of them or stop them from appearing?

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Scientists Will Someday Grow Humans Like Roses
Researchers are evolving the building blocks we need to create artificial life
Erin Biba
A team of 130 of the world's leading geneticists announced in Science Magazine, they will soon embark on a project that may disturb life as we know it on a molecular level.
In a paper about the team's epic undertaking, scientists said they hope to build a fully synthetic human genome. Writing an artificial DNA map would open the door to, "growing transplantable human organs; engineering immunity to viruses… engineering cancer resistance into new therapeutic cell lines; and accelerating high-productivity, cost-efficient vaccine and pharmaceutical development using human cells and organoids."
This is a highly controversial decision, and much of the conversation around it happened behind closed doors without public input. But controversy aside, the new synthetic human genome is on its way, and just a few weeks after the announcement, four of the country's leading genetic engineers met at a World Science Festival panel to discuss what exactly genetic engineering is, where the current research stands, what types of products they are developing using synthetic genomes, and whether or not a synthetic human genome would one day lead to a synthetic human. (Spoiler alert: They totally want to build an artificial human.)
To start, the scientists discussed how exactly they build something using DNA. First, they order it from the same place you order everything else: the internet. There are several companies that sell DNA, which is mostly harvested from sugarcane, and it is delivered to them via FedEx.
"You can get 2 million pairs for $1," said George Church, a geneticist at Harvard and one of the leading authors on the Science paper. The DNA comes made to order after a geneticist specifies the base pairs they need, depending on what they intend to do with the delivery.
"If you want it to act like life it has to go into a living cell," said Pamela Silver, a bioengineer at Harvard Medical School. "You can replace what's driving the life of that cell with the artificial synthesized piece of DNA and it can take over and allow the cell to grow. If you're lucky it will boot up."
The process of designing genetic material, they said, is less like entirely replacing a cell's current DNA and more like evolving the cell into something new. The housing still has much of its original material inside but now it also contains some new information that will allow it to perform tasks it couldn't before. In this case, the scientists say success is measured by reproduction. If the cell can read the new DNA it will begin replicating, and each new cell that springs from the modified genetic code will have a DNA pattern identical to the one the scientist created. Then: Voila! You've just created synthetic life.
The process, of course, is a lot more difficult than it sounds. It took Craig Venter, the geneticist who pioneered the field of synthetic biology, nearly 15 years of work to make the first successfully self-replicating synthetic bacterial cell in 2010. In Silver's words, it was an endeavor that "didn't work the first many times."
Many researchers in the field have now moved from using bacteria as their starting cell, which only has one chromosome, to working with yeast cells. Synthesizing yeast is more complex since it has multiple chromosomes, but the researchers believe this added complexity will yield more interesting results. One panelist, bioengineer Tom Knight, highlighted how his company Gingko Bioworks has been hired by a perfume manufacturer to help them get around the extremely tedious and expensive task of making rose oil.
"One rose has not very much oil," Knight said. "It's not abundant. They grow the roses in Turkey and import them to France and then extract the oil to use in perfumes." But he believed it would be possible to produce the oil without using actual roses, so Knight and his company are now experimenting with using yeast cells to create a product that smells like roses.
"The way I think about it is that, fundamentally, biology is a manufacturing technology," he said. After all, everything you need to know about what makes a rose smell the way it does is inside a rose. All that's required is to analyze the flower's genome, identify the parts that code for its signature scent, and then move those parts of the genome into a yeast cell that will replicate quickly and inexpensively.
Ultimately, the process isn't much different from what yeast does when it ferments barley into beer. The yeast would eat sugar and instead of releasing alcohol and carbon dioxide as a byproduct, as it does for beer, it would release the same chemicals normally found inside a rose. And again, this all may sound simple, but it is infinitely complicated.
"A rose has 200 different chemicals," says Knight. "Depending on what kind of rose you're trying to synthesize a scent for you have to get the yeast to make a different mixture of chemicals. So we use different yeast to make different chemicals that will be mixed together to form the correct scent. Eventually we'll make a version that makes many chemicals at the same time."
They have not yet succeeded. Knight passed around some samples of the rose yeast they have made so far and the scientists all agreed: "It smells like yeast."
At one point during the panel, moderator and journalist Robert Krulwich wondered about the ethical concerns of evolving an organism to behave in a way that it wasn't naturally built to behave. "Yeast are in the bread and brewing business and we don't know what they'd think about being in the rose business. Do you worry that you're the disturbing the yeast in some sentient way?" he asked.
The panelists countered by saying that type of concern will be legitimate once they are engineering larger organisms. Right now they don't really see themselves as working with "life" in the way most people would define it. In the end, they are all just engineers manipulating structures, and according to Stanford synthetic biologist Drew Endy, "The word creation has a lot of implications. As an engineer I'm not familiar with them—unlimited budget, a perfect understanding of the material, and absolute power. That's not what I experience. I have a limited budget and capacity to deploy my intentions. I grew up as a civil engineer. We know enough about gravity to make a suspension bridge. But we're still using gravity wave detectors to understand gravity."
The synthetic organisms they're creating, Endy said, are less like a new form of life and more like a new type of language, "The way the DNA is being read out has been changed. The expression of it has been changed." But the yeast is still yeast.
The ethical questions become much more difficult to answer when a synthetically built cell propagates enough to grow a human (or any animal for that matter). If these researchers are identifying themselves as engineers and not biologists—or even as the creators of life—how do we feel about their proposal to build an artificial genome? As the panel was wrapping up, Krulwich asked them about the controversial project highlighted in Science Magazine.
According to Endy, there are questions that humanity will have to ask itself first before moving forward: "Under what conditions would I wish to synthesize the next generations of human beings?" he asked. "There's gonna be a plurality of positions and opposition, but it's something I can imagine and I believe it's totally doable. It's worth having conversations about."
Based on the fact that science can't make yeast smell like a rose, it's pretty clear it will be a long time before we have a race of synthetically-built humans marching through the streets demonstrating for their civil rights. But when that day comes, these are the biological engineers who will have been responsible for creating them. Krulwich asked each member of the panel to raise their hands if they believed science should one day build a human using an artificial genome. They all put their hands in the air.


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Q: Linear Independence I've come across a question in Linear Algebra that I can't quite figure out. I've tried a multitude of things that either don't work or aren't sufficient enough to convince me I understand linear independence well enough.
I know a set of vectors, S, in vector space V are linearly independent if their linear combination, that is,
$\lambda_1 \mathbf{v}_1 + ... + \lambda_n \mathbf{v}_n = \mathbf{0}$
means all scalars are equal to each other and 0,
$\lambda_1 = ... = \lambda_n = 0.$
I can also show a set of vectors S is linearly independent if I'm given a set of vectors with numerical values - by creating a matrix and reducing it to row echelon form. However, my understanding isn't great enough that I can expand on this and answer questions such as the following:
Assume the vectors u, v and w are linearly independent elements of a vector space V.
For each of the following sets decide whether it is linearly independent.
A. {u + v + w,  v - 2w,  2u + 3w}
B. {u + 2w, v + 2w, 2w}
C. {x, y, z}
where,
x = u + 2v - w,
y = 2x + u + 2v - w,
z = 3x - 2y.
If anyone can explain to me the connection between this type of question and the definition of linear independence by answering A or providing a guideline of how to answer A then hopefully I can tackle B and C and any related questions. Thanks.

A: Hint: In both cases, write the coordinates of the vectors in the set with respect to the original set as rows in a matrix. Row reduce this matrix.

A: You basically need to write the definition of linear independence. Suppose that
$$
\alpha(u+v+w)+\beta(v-2w)+\gamma(2u+3w)=0.
$$
We can rewrite this as
$$
(\alpha+2\gamma)\,u+(\alpha+\beta)\,v+(\alpha-2\beta+3\gamma)\,w=0.
$$
Since $u,v,w$ are linearly independent, we get the equalities
$$
\alpha+2\gamma=0,\ \ \alpha+\beta=0,\ \ \alpha-2\beta+3\gamma=0.
$$
Now you can analyze this system. If the only solution is $\alpha=\beta=\gamma=0$, you'll know that the three vectors in A are linearly independent. If you produce a nonzero solution, you'll know that they are linearly dependent.

A: You just need to use the definition. For the first case you can write:
$$\lambda_1(u+v+w)+\lambda_2(v-2w)+\lambda_3(2u+3w)=0$$
now rewrite like:
$$(\lambda_1+2\lambda_3)u+(\lambda_1+\lambda_2)v+(\lambda_1-2\lambda_2+3\lambda_3)w=0$$
Now use that $u,v,w$ are independent, solve the system and find $\lambda_1,\lambda_2,\lambda_3$.
Can you finish?

A: for A: we have
$$\alpha(u+v+w)+\beta(v-2w)+\gamma(2u+3w)=0$$
this is equivalant to
$$u(\alpha+2\gamma)+v(\alpha+\beta)+w(\alpha-2\beta+3\gamma)=0$$
can you finish?
for B: we get
$$u\alpha=0,v\beta=0,w(2\alpha+2\beta+2\gamma)=0$$


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Last updated: 02 Jul 2021
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2021) Indigenous health checks and follow-ups., AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 19 January 2022
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2021). Indigenous health checks and follow-ups. Retrieved from https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/indigenous-australians/indigenous-health-checks-follow-ups
Indigenous health checks and follow-ups. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 02 July 2021, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/indigenous-australians/indigenous-health-checks-follow-ups
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Indigenous health checks and follow-ups [Internet]. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2021 [cited 2022 Jan. 19]. Available from: https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/indigenous-australians/indigenous-health-checks-follow-ups
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2021, Indigenous health checks and follow-ups, viewed 19 January 2022, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/indigenous-australians/indigenous-health-checks-follow-ups
Through Medicare, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people can receive Indigenous-specific health checks from their doctor, as well as referrals for Indigenous-specific follow-up services.
In 2019–20, 239,000 Indigenous Australians had one of these health checks (28%).
The proportion of Indigenous health check patients who had an Indigenous-specific follow-up service within 12 months of their check increased from 12% to 47% between 2010–11 and 2018–19.
The report presents data on Indigenous health checks for a time period up until the end of June 2020 (i.e. overlapping with the COVID-19 period). It also includes data on telehealth MBS items that were introduced in 2020 as part of the response to COVID-19.
47% of Indigenous-specific health check patients in 2018–19 had an Indigenous-specific follow-up within 12 months
In 2019–20, 4% of Indigenous-specific health check patients had a health check via phone or video-conference
Between 2010–11 and 2019–20, the proportion of Indigenous Australians who had an Indigenous health check nearly tripled
62% of Indigenous Australians received at least 1 Indigenous-specific health check in the 5-year period to 30 June 2020
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Data sources and notes
Figure 15 shows the number and proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who received an Indigenous-specific follow-up within 12 months of a health check, by 5 different geographic classifications—state/territory, remoteness area, Primary Health Network (PHN), Indigenous Region (IREG) and Statistical Areas Level 3 (SA3s). See Box 2 for more information about the geographic classifications.
This analysis is based on the postcode of the patient's mailing address. As a result, the data may not reflect where the person actually lived—particularly for people who use PO Box addresses. This is likely to impact some areas more than others, and will also have a generally greater impact on the SA3 data than the larger geographic classifications. See Box 5 in Data sources and notes for information on areas most likely to be affected.
Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who had an Indigenous-specific health check in 2018–19:
Across states and territories, the follow-up rate varied from 16% in the Australian Capital Territory to 61% in the Northern Territory.
Across remoteness areas, the follow-up rate ranged between 45% and 46% in non-remote areas, and between 52% and 53% in remote areas.
Across PHNs, the follow-up rate varied from 16% in the Australian Capital Territory to 68% in Brisbane North.
Across IREGs, the follow-up rate ranged between 16% in the Australian Capital Territory and 76% in Alice Springs.
Across 306 SA3s for which follow-up rates could be reported, the follow-up rate ranged from 10% to 75%. Of these SA3s, 72% (219 areas) had a rate below the national average (that is, less than 46.8%).
Figure 15: Indigenous-specific health check patients in 2018–19 who received an Indigenous-specific follow-up service in the 12 months following the health check, by geographic area
Maps and bar graphs showing the number and proportion of Indigenous-specific health check patients in 2018–19 who had an Indigenous-specific follow-up within 12 months of their Indigenous-specific health check, by state and territory, remoteness, PHN, Indigenous Region, and SA3.
In 2018–19, across states and territories, the Northern Territory had the highest rate of Indigenous-specific follow-up (with 61% of the Indigenous population receiving an Indigenous-specific follow-up within 12 month of their Indigenous-specific health check), followed by Queensland (53%). Australian Capital Territory had the lowest rate (16%). PHNs, Indigenous Regions, and SA3s are coloured by 'Metropolitan status', which just distinguishes areas by how much of the population lived in Major Urban areas (cities of 100,000 or more) in 2016.
Refer to tables 'FS05' to 'FS09' in data tables.
Reasons for variation between regions could be partly related to variation in the general health and need for follow-up care among different population groups (see also Box 4). However, there are likely also other contributing factors.
Research indicates that a broad range of factors can limit the use of Indigenous-specific follow-up services, such as a practitioners' lack of awareness of item numbers; staffing issues; ineffective use of clinical information systems (e.g. for patient recall and reminders); communication and transport challenges for patients; and billing against non-Indigenous-specific items (Bailie et al. 2014). Also, some types of follow-up care cannot be billed to Medicare. For example, group services may offer increased cultural safety and improve the likelihood of patients attending follow-up care; however, patients cannot access rebates for some allied health services provided in a group setting (Department of Health 2018).
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Bailie J, Schierhout GH, Kelaher MA, Laycock AF, Percival NA, O'Donoghue LR et al. 2014. Follow-up of Indigenous-specific health assessments—a socioecological analysis. Medical Journal of Australia 200: 653–657.
Department of Health 2018. Report from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Reference Group. Medicare Benefits Schedule Review Taskforce. Canberra: Department of Health. Viewed 16 May 2019.


In the 1976, Christopher Makos travelled to Fregene, Italy, where he briefly apprenticed for Man Ray. The legendary artist, who took Surrealism and Dada to new heights, was in his later years, yet the octogenarian remained very crisp, lucid, and creative. He imparted upon Makos a key piece of advice, "Obey your instinct," which the young photographer fully embraced in both art and life.
Knowing that your gut reaction speaks the truth long before your mind has time to process the information, Makos brought this edict to every aspects of his work, from editing photographs to authoring 21 books. Among the tools of his trade was the Polaroid SX-70, the classic instamatic camera that revolutionised the photography world. With just one press of the button, you could take the shot and a print would emerge. It was the perfect embodiment of Man Ray's faith in the intuitive process for creating art.
Last month, on the 80th anniversary of the Polaroid brand, the company launches Polaroid Originals and debuts with the OneStep 2 camera, along with colour, black-and-white, and special edition film, recapturing the magic of analogue photography in its most immediate form.
In the four decades since May Ray's death, his words continue to guide Makos in the creation of art. As a member of the Factory from 1976 through 1986, Makos honed his skills alongside some of the greatest talents of the era, capturing them in photographs made for both work and play. He shares his wisdom and insights garnered from a life spent honing his instinct and following his intuition.
"In the days when photographers had contact sheets, you would edit your pictures in a very different way than people do now. Depending on the film, your contact sheets would have 12, 24, or 36 exposures. You would look at all of them and you'd try to figure out which is the best or which picture you want to deal with. I always struggled with that. What I learned through Man Ray's advice is: when you looked at the contact sheet, what jumped out at you first? Usually, that is your best photograph.
The wonderful thing about a Polaroid was you just saw the picture and realised, 'Oh, I've got this camera. Let me take a picture right away.' You have to spend more time with the process than with digital photography. With digital photography, it's just boom, boom, boom. The Polaroid experience will be more thoughtful because the film costs something. When things have a price tag on them, people think about it first before they press the button.
In professional photography, if you were using a medium or a large format camera, there was a Polaroid back that you could put on to the camera so that you could take pictures and you knew beforehand what your picture was going to look like, and that was a great help. It was the same process as the SX-70; the only difference is that the black and white Polaroids came with a little device and you had to put a coating on top of them.
"Andy used a Polaroid Big Shot, which he used for all of his painted portraits. He liked the Big Shot because of the fixed focus. You had to move in and out of the subject matter to play with it. He had so much going on between his publishing career, his art career, his film career, so he could only pick and choose so much within those different categories.
I told him to photograph, and to photograph, and to photograph. Keep using his eyes, which he did. He would also take the camera and point it at people – which also works. To become anything you have to keep looking through the lens, aiming the camera, self-evaluation, and that's what we did.
"The focus of how I take pictures and how I see the world really hasn't changed but the more I see of the world, whether it's traveling to China, Kiev, or Vietnam, the more educated my eyes become. When you are more educated you are free to completely experiment.
Within the context of my own world, I am 'eyes wide open.' Information comes in, I digest that information, and process it – meaning how am I going to show it? Am I going to show it on a plate? On the wall? On the floor? On a piece of clothing?
"With the Polaroid SX-70, you couldn't hold the camera to take a selfie but they had these long wires with a button that attached to the camera so you could take a self-portrait. As long as you kept the button and the wire out of the picture, it was cool – you could do that. I would take self-portraits just to see what it was like.
"If I can't get a picture of somebody I want to get a picture of, let's say, Michelle and Barack Obama, that's okay. It's out there – it's everywhere. I knew that I probably could get pictures of them but it would take a lot of time and effort. Instead, I would make sure to know when one of his big events would be, and I would take his picture (though the media, such as TV, newspaper, or magazine).


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Musketeering and Odysseying
Two fun things to talk about this week!
My next show that I'll be blogging about for Entertainment Weekly starts next this Sunday. I'm really excited that I'll be covering The Musketeers on BBC America. The show is not just another adaptation of the classic novel but instead takes the characters and puts them into new situations. Basically I'm really geeked because I love anything the BBC does, it's a costume drama, there will be sword fighting, AND it stars Peter Capaldi, the new twelfth Doctor.
Since the show airs on Sunday nights, my recaps will be either be posted late Sunday night or early Monday morning. My first post however is up. To get in the mood for the show, I take a look back at previous adaptations of the Musketeers and includes bonus GIFs of Man in the Iron Mask Leo. Click here to read my post!
If you want to join in on the fun, the show premieres this Sunday on BBC America at 9/8C. I'm hoping that this show is more mainstream and has a bigger audience than Metal Hurlant Chronicles. While that eventually became an interesting show, it was very niche-y and I was having trouble finding people to talk about it with, even online. This one I think I won't have that much trouble and I'm already excited that the official Twitter accounts for BBC America and The Musketeers have already retweeted me. The show runs for ten weeks and I believe it'll lead up to the premiere of the next season of Doctor Who. The show has already been aired in the UK and has been renewed for a second season though Peter Capaldi won't be returning because he seems to have another show he's already committed too. Silly him.
Once again, I probably will not be posting links to my articles every week on this blog, so follow me on Twitter or like my Facebook page (links are in the sidebar) to find out when I got new stuff or info. Let me know too if you're watching!
Also in other fun news, I'm pretty geeked to be chosen as part of the promo blog team for the new Odyssey Adventure Club.
I listened to Adventures in Odyssey growing up and it has fond memories for me. It's a radio drama produced by Focus on the Family so there is a Christian slant to it which is a focus of most of the earlier episodes. However as the years went by, the focus of the writing becomes more focused on the storyline. There are some solid episodes that are just as good as any book I've read because I got so involved with the plot and characters. Also there's a bunch of jokes that are for adults that the kids just won't get. It's been really cool to rediscover these and see how different it is for me to listen to it as an adult vs when I was a kid. While the target audience is still the 8-12 year old range, I find these very enjoyable for long commutes for adults as well. The production level is stellar.
The Odyssey Adventure Club is great because I have been wanting to listen to all the episodes but it was too costly for me to buy all the albums or my library didn't have everything. With the club, you can stream all the episodes online. I have three months to try to listen to EVERYTHING. This will be a challenge because there are over 750 episodes at about 30 minutes each. I'm currently finishing up album 5. I'll probably be blogging again about this throughout the summer.
Here's more information about the club and activities for users:
-Unlimited streaming of Adventures in OdysseyLibrary (740+ episodes) retail value more than $1,500. (You can also download the OCA app on your iPhone or iPad and listen to up to 5 episodes without streaming.)
– New monthly exclusives episodes
– Monthly web quests
– Daily devotions based on Adventures in Odyssey episodes
– OAC exclusive blog posts
– OAC Monthly Member Newsletter
– OAC exclusive video stories
– Other Odyssey content (Last Chance Detectives and more!)
Summer is officially here! Don't let your kids' boredom run rampant. Adventures in Odyssey is here to save the day. Below are some must-try ideas for summer fun! Want even more summer fun? For the month of June, you can join the Odyssey Adventure Club for only $5! More details can be found here.
As a parent you are probably a big proponent of reading. Encourage your kids to dig into a book or two this summer with Adventures in Odyssey's On Your Marks Summer Reading Challenge. Bonus points if YOU create a reading challenge for yourself as you read along with your kids!
Looking for something hands-on? Create Matthew in 3-D! Invite a few of your kids' friends over for a play date, print off the activity sheet, and let them have at it for the afternoon (with the promise of cookies and lemonade once they've finished constructing Matthew).
Maybe your kids aren't into reading, but they love math. If that's the case, have them solve Eugene's Sudoku!
The laundry needs to be done; the dishes need to be put away. But your kids are begging you to take them out to the zoo. Let them take a whack at Matthew's Decoder in the morning, then make an agreement that if they figure out how to use the decoder, you'll take them on an afternoon adventure. That'll give you the morning to finish up your to-do list!
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Video: 2015's Most Important Content Marketing Asset?
More than ten years after YouTube was launched, video clearly isn't going out of fashion on the internet. If anything, even the Google-owned cornerstone of the web will have to watch its back in the coming months, because it's got competition. And content creators really need to take note, as video content marketing is predicted to get much bigger.
Compiled at the end of 2014 by Google-certified partner Webmarketing123, the fourth annual State of Digital Marketing Survey consulted over 600 marketing professionals. They asked them what they thought was 2015's "top objectives, toughest challenges and hottest trends".
After pushing aside the phraseology you'd expect from a Bay Area-based company (e.g. "proving ROI emerged as a major pain point"), one fact was clearly stated as a key trend that could not be ignored.
Video is now your biggest content marketing asset.
Marketers love video content marketing
It explained: "Three out of four marketers (B2B and B2C) use video in their marketing mix. And seven out of ten believe it's the most effective content marketing tactic. It trumped eBooks, case studies, infographics, webinars, blogs, and mobile apps."
It continued: "Video is the most widely used and the most effective content marketing tactic according to both B2B and B2C marketers."
Over three-quarters of B2B marketers (76%) picked it as their number one go-to. It trumped case studies (69%) and webinars (64%) and showed a marked detachment from the previous favourite, infographics (54%). As for B2C, it was 74% – but the joint-second-placed assets of blogs and mobile apps (44%) were much further behind.
Is this really a surprise? Now we're coming to the twilight weeks of another uneventful British summer and into the final third of 2015, not so much. But only because of the changes we've experienced through the year.
4G accelerates video content marketing's prominence
As expected, the rapid development and uptake of fibre-optic broadband and 4G has literally brought most digital media users up to speed with high-quality streaming. Now, new users (both young and old) get these as standard. You only have to look at this year's entry-level packages provided by BT, Virgin and Sky to see that fibre-optic is no longer a privilege. It's becoming a right, at least at a reasonable price.
What started as a seeming revolution in moving images – such as the resurrection of the .gif format, which only seemed to be supported by the likes of Geocities prior to its renaissance through the likes of Digg and Reddit from around 2010 – has now transformed into full-blown inclusion in the most unlikely of places. Even 4chan has started incorporating the WebM format into pages, allowing for crisp-yet-super-compressed high-quality video to run free on almost any website.
Video on Twitter
Twitter is perhaps the key battleground – and benefactor – from the shift in tastes. Indeed, it is probably one of the main drivers, since it decided to no longer rely on YouTube embedding.
Oreo, which had already celebrated the .gif in a low-resolution June 2014 effort, is a brand that has been pushing the boundaries of corporate promotion on the platform since 2010. It's been celebrated for its approach for years. Jumping straight from .gifs into video, Oreo became one of the earliest adopters of the technology after embracing Instagram's video functionality.
From here, it's now a main staple of countless Twitterholic companies, such as Paddy Power, which seems to post five to ten videos a day – at least.
On January 27th, actor Neil Patrick Harris kicked off the technology and trend, but was immediately met with resistance. Brendan Gahan, of the New York Observer, was one of them. "For myself, and countless others, the one thing that has made Twitter so appealing is its simplicity. Whether you have a lot of time or a little, Twitter is a fun escape.
"You can easily scroll and flip through a great deal of content quickly. There's no algorithm hiding content from your feed the way Facebook is. Adding video would more than likely make the platform more complex, and Twitter's point of differentiation (convenience and simplicity) would melt away."
Results 'unsatisfactory'
And yet the platform hasn't taken heed of this worry – it outright ignored it, in line with Webmarketing123's predictions. People expected user growth to double because of the revelation. Indeed, it posted 61% year-on-year growth in revenue. …but user growth was "unsatisfactory". Perhaps video isn't as impactful as many believed.
Only time will tell. For a platform still in a relative infancy, it's not about simply using it – it's about how you harness it. Until this is tied into true return on investment, we may never know. Perhaps the aforementioned "major pain point" may be a more accurate means of describing this issue.
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After looking a long time for the three or four weeks in which you were to write me, to pass away, I received your letter in due season from the time it was written. I am thus hasty in returning the answer, because I intend to go home next week, not to return again till the first of October. You will probably open this with disgust that such an abominable man of nonsense as it may contain should be intruded upon your "visual perception," and may throw it aside with the declaration that you will not read what must be the overflowing of a diseased imagination. If you have any such ideas, I warn you to forbear and to consider how you should like to have your epistles treated with contempt. Besides instead of filling it up with nonsense. I may make some very erudite remarks on various subjects; perhaps on the girls, courting and matrimony; though I think of nothing to say on those subjects at present and you heard I am but little acquainted with them and take no interest in the pair.
I will now go on to tell you the remarkable incidents which have occurred since you left us. The most prominent is the celebration of the anniversary of our national independence. We listened to a very eloquent administration oration pronounced by Larabee. After having spoken to considerable length on the general advantages of our country, he turned to her present policy. He explained what should be her policy with regard to the individuals selected for office, and then showed that it is not what it should be, but that it consists in "manufacturing a president out of tariffs, retrenchments, six militia-men and broken noses." Here followed a chap from all the Jacobinites that made the old meeting-house swing again. He closed his performance with an eloquent eulogy on De Witt Clinton. The poem by James Bowdoin Cleaveland was, I presume, exceedingly fine; though I had not sufficient penetration to follow the thread, nor taste to discern the merits of it. It was either too deep for my shallow facilities to fathom, or too lofty for their low stature to reach, or too mighty for their narrowness to comprehend, I will not attempt to determine which. But, be it as it may, do not understand me to mean, that his performance was not of the very highest character, but that my powers of mind and intellectual attainments were too small to estimate its value.
In the evening, the fronts and ends of the large college buildings were fully illuminated. Their appearance was truly splendid and grand, and attracted the attention of numerous spectators. About one half of Larabee's oration was printed in the newspaper established since you were here (entitled the "Audoscoggin Free Press") and reads very finely.
The seniors have been examined and have cleared out for home to get their new clothes for commencement. The remaining classes will be examined on Tuesday and Wednesday the next. On Tuesday evening there will be an exhibition of the power oratory in my class, for the prize. Government appointed nine in which honourable number I am enrolled. Be assured it will be powerful!
I will now go back to the time of your departure hence and proceed in something like regular order to record some of the most important events, which have transpired in the space intervening between that and the present time. To begin. All the medical students who offered themselves; passed a satisfactory examination and obtained their degrees--I went home at the close of our term and spent three weeks pleasantly--no small portion of it being thrown away in the society of females; of whom we have in Bucksport, a considerable number of the first order; One of my good deeds in vacation was, to break up a bargain between my sister and a young man in Bangor, whose attention was very disagreeable to my parents. But it is contrary to their principles absolutely to forbid their children to form connections with persons of their own selection, and their advice was insufficient in the present instance. I was to state some facts, which operated powerfully upon her mind.
Before I returned to this place, I rode to Old-Town to visit the Indian settlement. They are a most filthy set, and are extremely loose in their morals. I understood that any one could gratify his taste for carnal pleasures for a mere trifle, say a half-dollar; but I made no personal experiment. I resumed my incarceration here, about the middle of June and have dragged out 8 weeks in the loathsome business of college life; but intend to return home next week in consequence of some unpleasant intelligence I have received. My brother, of whom you have heard me speak, has recently become deranged, and my assistance is needed to take care of him; as the family are very much worn down by the affliction and trouble.
We have made some additions to our gymnasium since you were here, and have formed ourselves into classes to perform regular exercises. John Neale (Editor of the "Yankee" in Portland) came on and gave us a few lessons in gymnastics; and we now attract much notice from such as delights to witness feats of agility. Its utility is evinced by the almost unprecedented prevalence of health (that scourge to you quacks).--Our temperate society flourishes finely and is gaining ground.
Friend, as you and I have talked over the thing I will tell you what was the conclusion in reference to discontinuing that correspondence. I told such stories, made such dismal fore-bodings and pleaded so hard and affectionately that I completely disarmed the beauty of all her objections, so that she gave up to my guidance in that point. Is that not good?
So you don't like the girls where you reside--Don't think them good enough for you. How fastidious you are growing in your old age, Chum! Mercy on me! What is this world coming to! Do you think that you should find any one more after you heart in S. Reading? Had you not better remove to that place to pursue your studies? I fear you would never obtain a medical degree if you should. Such palpitation such burping--such anxiety--such late evenings and sleepy days--as would necessarily ensue, would give a death-blow to all literary or scientific improvement.
I have written as much as I have received from you. Besides I have promised an opportunity to Friend Bailey to write on this sheet.
From your old Friend, schoolmate, Chum, &c., &c. Write as often as you can.
1 Bowdoin College is in Brunswick, Maine. Calvin enrolled in 1827 and received his "Doctor of Medicine" in September 1830 (Minnes 1).
John Brown Russwurm, was Bowdoin's first black graduate, 1826, the third black to graduate from an American college; he went on to become the co-founder and co-editor of the country's first black newspaper, Freedom's Journal, March 16, 1827 inaugural issue.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a member of the class of 1825, and he taught modern languages there from 1829-35. His poem, "Morituri Salutamus,"celebrates the College and the fiftieth reunion of his famous class of 1825. He was arguably the most popular literary figure in nineteenth century America.
In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's husband, Calvin, (who was from the class of 1824), was a professor at Bowdoin, and she wrote much of her book Uncle Tom's Cabin in his study in Appleton Hall.
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"The church believes that the human body is sacred, which is why it even discourages body piercing and tattoos," says Steven Peck, a bioethicist at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. "So, as long as the body remained the same, as long as you were only giving people more of what they already have without big alterations, I think it would be fine." On the other hand, "if there was a sense that [life-extension therapy] was desecrating the body, that would be a problem," Peck says.
Peck, obviously, is not a General Authority or (to my knowledge) an official Church spokesperson. Also, his answer as given — and he may well have had more to say — doesn't really address advancing technology in artificial prosthetics and organ transplants. I doubt Church leaders or most Church members have problems with organ transplants, artificial limbs, artificial hearts, and so on. But what happens when we can transplant, say, the human head of a quadriplegic on top of a mobile prothetic torso (with heart/lung machine, etc?). Does that count as 'desecration' or merely another logical step in transplant/prosthetic technology? Suppose the side effect of such an action is a significantly greater human lifespan and/or greater functionality for the person involved — would elderly people who were not quadriplegics then be justified in such a procedure, assuming they could afford it?
Interesting questions. Lincoln Cannon, where are you? 🙂 ..bruce..


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