I will point out here that if the issue of selfishness is itself silenced and abandoned, then what still remains is the choice of values. If selfishness applies to all intent, then it is useless as a standard. The real argument over morality is about values - how to choose them and how to evaluate those choices and then how to pursue what we choose. I will base my oncoming argument on a particular set of values that are generally invisible, yet universal and ubiquitous and perfectly rational.
The aim of this article was not primarily to demonstrate a solution to the "is"/"ought" problem, but rather to establish that there are objective grounds for acting morally even when no one is watching. I.e., I claim that it is not the fear of being caught in any particular immoral act that is the bottom line impetus to be "good." Rather it is the undermining of a critical mechanism of self-awareness that makes immoral and/or criminal behavior so destructive to the perpetrator. That takes us into the realm of psychology and ultimately epistemology.
The primary reason that people attempt to be "good," by whatever definition they might apply to that term, is not the fear of being caught, but rather the need to live without hiding or cloaking who they are. Transparency, integrity, honesty and empathy are essential to achieving the most satisfying and inherently valuable relationships, such as romantic love or deep friendship. Who is unlucky enough never to have shared a laugh so intense that it eclipses everything else in our consciousness? What is that laugh worth?
"Evil" people, by contrast, are typically lacking in empathy, or any of the other essentials for the most valuable of relationships. However, especially in the case of sociopaths, they are often quite expert at faking them. In fact, many sociopaths are highly popular, building a virtual army of gullible fans who are played by the sociopath as support and insulation.
This is not an isolated phenomenon, but rather an extreme nadir of a spectrum of interactions by which we experience ourselves through our mastery and knowledge – or the lack thereof – of our world. From finger touching thumb in the womb, to the knowledge and skill necessary to be an architect, or any skilled professional, we are defined by our ability to see, think and act in the world in such a manner as to imply the validity of our mind's content through the perception of its reification in objective reality.
A building stands because its design followed principles of mechanics and physics, but it will stand for some time even if there are no more humans to design buildings. A concept such as honor, however, can only exist as applied to motive or intent, and no mere physical entity can plug into a feedback loop to reinforce and sustain it in our consciousness. Only another consciousness - one that commits to honesty and visibility - can reflect such a artifact of consciousness itself. To eliminate that possibility is to become blind to the reality of our inner being, to lose a clear vision of what kind of person we most fundamentally are, generating a feeling of profound emptiness in our mind. Naturally, then, we prize, often above any material success, the relationships that provide us that visibility, allowing us to experience those crucial parts of ourselves.
Yet we have to be taught not to love. We naturally seek out honest empathic feedback from birth on.* But society and religion conspire to teach us to substitute symbolic needs and symbolic satisfactions for reality. We become afraid of our natural, genuine needs and reject them in favor of the wheels in the head, inculcated because they make possible the survival of those very derivative social institutions that promote them. Those neurotic needs are not capable of real satisfaction, but the institutions who enthrall us keep that mechanical rabbit on the run, seemingly just out of reach.
However, this is taking the issue outside of the context of the real world. In the real world, no entity could ever complete an infinite regression to begin with, and thus, by this standard, knowledge would be impossible. Yet we cannot help but make claims to knowledge, so long as we are conscious. Any choice to act is conditional upon belief, as is any choice NOT to act.
We cannot escape the responsibility of knowing, even though we may not be able to fully justify how we know any given thing. We are trapped!!!
We make assumptions in order to act, and in which we are tied to the absolute certainty of ontological and epistemological axioms by the fact that we simply cannot meaningfully refute them – as in claiming that one can know nothing at all or that existence does not exist. Our gambler must rest his empiricism ultimately upon those rocks of certainty.
In order to live, however, we have to act, and for much of our action, the concept of justice is just as important - and often more so - than the concept of a chair. Thus, we naturally use mental short cuts in order to arrive at an appropriate level of commitment to a particular position regarding complex abstractions, in order that we can proceed with our lives.
"*David has repeatedly used a fallacious argument form, exemplified by his argument that it is pointless to try to "beat the traffic" on the freeway by switching lanes, as other people will do the same until you are right back to where you started.
As it happens, none of those discussions (unlike the Liberty article you mentioned) argues that it is against the interest of a thief to steal, only that the existence of theft may make many thieves worse off and could conceivably make all thieves worse off.
I have no objection to your attacking my views or pointing out any errors I have made, but I do object to your attributing to me views I do not hold and mistakes I have not made. In order to provide useful criticism of ideas it is necessary first to take the trouble to understand them.
Thanks for the prompt, cogent and thorough response, David. However, having just reread the article at the site you provided above, I stand by my critique, although I will take the trouble to go over it again more carefully when I have a little more time. My apologies if I misrepresented you. I still get the same interpretation tonight as I did when I read the article hot off the press many years ago.
I do strongly recommend your article - http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Libertarian/Virtue1.html - to anyone who is trying to get a grasp of this whole subject, as you do cover a number of points that I also made, but in more detail or from a slightly different perspective. The readers can judge for themselves as to whether my critique is substantially correct.
BTW, I write itteratively, going back and refining arguments that I find unclear or weak and correcting errors, so my blog article is a continueing work in progress. Now I will have to try to NOT inadvertently recall your arguments - or give you credit - hopefully correctly, as need be.
When I read your article in Liberty, I was initially quite excited - on the assumption that perhaps you had indeed solved the problem. I had been aware of what I consider to be the actual solution since the early '70's, but I had never seen it in print. I was quite disappointed to read - after a very promising beginning - that you had NOT in fact arrived at the real solution. However, it was a good effort, and you came very close. What you wrote was generally true and useful, just not complete.
That surely makes it clear that the cost of being a crook does not offset any possible gains--it offsets gains for some people, who as a result are rationally virtuous, and fails to offset gains for others, who are rationally not virtuous. My argument may or may not be correct, but it is clearly inconsistent with the view you attribute to me.
You attribute this to your memory of a talk I gave over a decade ago. One of the useful features of published writing is that one can go back and see what it says. In the case of a talk, I have no way of knowing whether I gave only a sketch of the argument, leaving out the implications of the fact that costs and benefits differ for different people, or whether I explained it and you missed it.
But if I have repeatedly used that form of argument, it would seem reasonable to check for versions of the argument in my published work, of which there are lots, rather than relying on your memory of a single talk heard long ago. If you do so, you will see that I have repeatedly discussed the implication of the fact that some people have a comparative advantage for crime (or lane switching, or choosing the fastest checkout line). Indeed, I pointed out the implication of that fact in the very _Liberty_ article that you referred to--as you can see from the quote above. So that single article, which you have read, is inconsistent with both of the claims you make about my views.
I only recall the two instances, altho my impression was of more, and I'm willing to assume that perhaps you simply didn't notice that you had not properly framed the discussion regarding lane-switching. It's also possible that I mis-heard. It happens, although I do recall making a definite attempt to get clarification at the time, without success.
So, I will edit and expunge that version of my reference, as I can't recall specific evidence that would justify "repeatedly." My motive was not, BTW, to attack you personally, but rather to illustrate the paucity of discussion of this fundamental issue within the libertarian intellectual arena, and the general weakness of the arguments in play. Usually they follow the pattern of the objectivists who kicked you out of their gathering, of jumping from the social good to the individaul self-interest, leaving out any real connecting logic on the way.
On the first issue, however, we are still at odds. I read through your "Liberty" piece several times, and because there are several arguments going on in your discussion, I will have to sit down and parse them in order to adequately support my position - or refute it... That may have to wait until this weekend.
The blog we are discussing, BTW, was originally a paper that I presented a couple weeks ago at the second meeting of the new Orange County "Backyard Skeptics" supper discussion group. It was more condensed then and I am expanding and polishing it as time allows, aiming for a truly definitive statement of my position.
"My motive was not, BTW, to attack you personally, but rather to illustrate the paucity of discussion of this fundamental issue within the libertarian intellectual arena, and the general weakness of the arguments in play. Usually they follow the pattern of the objectivists who kicked you out of their gathering, of jumping from the social good to the individaul self-interest, leaving out any real connecting logic on the way. "
I wasn't assuming any personal malice; my objection was merely that you misrepresented my arguments, presumably because you didn't understand them. I wasn't claiming to have solved the problem of deriving ought from is--so far as I know, it isn't soluble. I was claiming to explain why there were many virtuous people--people who would not steal even if they were sure nobody was watching. And the point of my analysis of the market for theft--which goes all the way back to my first book--wasn't to claim that it was irrational to steal, merely to show how to understand the net costs of theft, in part to show that it was likely that the existence of theft (including political theft, which was my real target the first time) made most people, including many thieves, worse off.
In your revised version you write: "a kind of social policy statement, that would apply to the average driver, or most drivers. Or, I may have gotten it wrong"
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Price_Theory/PThy_Chapter_1/PThy_CHAP_1.html. You can find the parallel analysis for theft in the chapter webbed at http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Price_Theory/PThy_Chapter_20/PThy_Chapter_20.html.
As you will see there, your criticism of my views, and hence of the quality of (at least my part of) the discussion is simply false--I work out in detail the implications of the fact that different people have different abilities to steal, identify the fastest lane in the supermarket, or switch lanes on the highway.
Incidentally, your reference to "oscillating" suggest that you don't have a very clear intuition of the idea of equilibrium. Nothing in the argument implies oscillation, any more than analogous arguments on ordinary markets imply that the price of potatoes oscillates. In either case, the equilibrium price might change in response to changes in the factors that determine it, such as a bad potato harvest, but there is no particular reason why it should oscillate.
Also incidentally, the software provided by JoeUser seems to be pretty buggy, at least when accessed from FireFox--bits and pieces of this page keep appearing in the wrong place. You might try Blogspot, which is free and doesn't have such problems, at least in my experience.
Thanks for the blogging suggestion. I probably should check out more alternatives, at least as backups - which I've done before, but not consistently enough. I've tried various venues, but somehow seem to end up here. The general quality of posts here is pretty good, and one thing about the net is that you build a history and it stays with you - for better or worse. Change is BAD, if you want to keep your implicit link ratings, and individuals can get lost in the background noise on the more active and more mundane blog sites.
For example, the corporate website that I do professionally has a number of good and a few unique features, such as the fastest site search system that I've ever seen, but the main underlying reason for the fact that we have about a hundred keywords that put us on pages 1-3 in every major search engine, with at least twenty on page 1 - and this isn't a big company - is that I have fought tooth and nail with know-nothing management to NEVER drop a page since 1998, when I created their site.
I will get back with you regarding my understanding or misunderstanding of the position you presented in the "Liberty" article. I should finally have a block of time when I'm not on the edge of exhaustion this weekend. I hope that any misgivings you may have about my misinterpreting you will be at least partially offset by applying the maxim - "any publicity is good publicity."


honestly, i've not done much this week. i've been feeling down and quite useless, really. so this post might not be too exciting picture wise! here's hoping next week is better!
got these in the post this morning through doing a swap. do you have a favourite shape?
found this little clump in the garden. i have no idea where it came from, but i liked the shape.
i found a feather too whilst out for a walk. what a pretty pattern. it reminded me of a tabby cat, but on a feather.
found this too! as well as some other botanical prints i cut out of a book ages ago. thinking about framing them up and putting them in the hallway to cheer it up a bit.
and i made a pattern. i really like these colours together, think they look rather springy/summery.


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Posts Tagged 'West Bengal'
Four men, a lone woman and an extraordinary story
Posted: December 10, 2013 in Friendship, Indian Women, Men, survival, Women, WPrightnow
Tags: Dubai, Facebook, good Indian men, Indian women, Kolkata, South Point school, suicide, West Bengal, WPrightnow
Picture taken from internet
At a time when Indian men are making headlines for all the wrong reasons, this story comes as a breath of fresh air – reinforcing the fact that there are more good men in this world than bad. This story is about four men, who went out of their way to make a difference in a woman's life.
This story takes off when a few months back my close friend from South Point School, Joydeep Sengupta, who works at CESC and lives in Kolkata, was running his last check on Facebook before he retired to bed. A status update drew his attention.
Joydeep Sengupta didn't have Samrajni's address. He just knew he had to stop her from committing suicide
From here I am penning the story in Joydeep's own words:
"Her message on FB said she wanted to end her life that night"
I had joined a group of like-minded people on FB. Few I knew in this group, most I didn't and some I had met at a get-together organised by the group. Now the status that was in front of me was written by a lady named Samrajni Sengupta, who belonged to the same group. The update on her Timeline said she wanted to end her life that night because she didn't find life worth living. I was in shock. I had met her just once at the get-together and knew from a common friend that she was having some issues in her marriage. Beyond that I didn't know anything.
Within seconds other people had seen the message too and we started talking in the group wall, although there was no way of reaching out to her because she had logged out.
"I didn't know where she lived but I left home to find her"
Once I recovered from my shock, I decided that I could not sit back at home and do nothing about it. I had to try and stop her. People in our group could tell vaguely that she lived in Garia, located in the southern fringes of Kolkata, but beyond that no information was available. Another member of our group, Sourav Sarkar, who works as a crew member in Air India International and lives in Behala like me, wanted to join me too. We managed to hail a cab and left for Garia.
Sourav Sarkar joined Joydeep in his mission to find Samrajni
"We wandered aimlessly on the streets as the minutes ticked by"
Let alone an address, we didn't even know a proper landmark near her house. We just had the belief that we had to stop her, somehow. Standing in the middle of the road in the middle of the night, we were not willing to give up hope. Nor were at least 30 people from our group, not only from Kolkata, but even the US and other parts of India, who were all logged in and were desperately trying to use their networks to find someone, who could give her address. Finally, Somnath Chowdhury, a law graduate, who lives in Baranagar, and belongs to our group, said that one day he was travelling with Samrajni in the bus and she pointed at an apartment building and told him it was her home. He vaguely remembered where it was and could guide us.
"Monali Sengupta woke up her husband and told him to help us out"
While Somnath was on the phone describing landmarks to us and we were trying to follow his directions, the exasperation was building up. We were really worried that we might have lost all the time in our search and wouldn't be successful in our mission. On top of that there was nobody on the road to ask for directions and all the gates of the apartment buildings were locked.
Meanwhile, Monali Sengupta, mother of a one-year-old, who lives in the same area, was awake and was just browsing through FB when she chanced upon our exchanges on the wall. She didn't know any of us, just saw a connection through a common friend, but she woke up her husband Sayan Sengupta and told him to call me. My number was on the wall by then. She felt that since her husband knew the area well, he might be able to help in the search. At 1am Sayan came down from his apartment and joined us but we failed to find the building despite his help and Somnath's directions.
Sayan Sengupta did not know any of them but joined them in the search
"Somnath travelled an hour to join us"
After trying so hard I wasn't ready to live with the fact that I wasn't successful in reaching Samrajni. Both Saurav and Somnath agreed with me. That is why Somnath decided to come down from Baranagar – which is located in north Kolkata and is more than an hour's journey from Garia – to join us. He was sure if he was in the area he would be able to recognize the apartment building.
"At 2am Sayan took two unknown men home"
Sayan didn't want us to stand on the road and wait for Somnath, so he took us home. The fact that he did not know us at all, and that it was 2am, did not make any difference to him or his wife Monali. Sitting in their house, we all hoped and prayed together that we would be able to save Samrajni.
"We jumped over the wall of the apartment building to reach the watchman's room"
Somnath came and he managed to point out the building to us. We had no option but to jump over the wall in order to reach the watchman's room. We woke him up and asked him if Samrajni Sengupta lived in the building. Initially he wasn't sure who we were, but sensing our urgency and proper intent said he would take us to her apartment.
Somnath Chowdhury travelled for an hour in the middle of the night to ensure Samrajni was safe
"We were not sure if we were too late"
Samrajni's father opened the door and was shocked to see the three of us – Saurav, Somnath and I standing there. We told him to call Samrajni without asking any further questions. He said she was sleeping with her door closed. I felt a knot in my stomach and a cold sweat. Were we too late? He knocked on her door and our heart was racing. She finally opened. We were almost jumping with joy seeing her alive. When we told her why we had come she just couldn't believe it.
SAMRAJNI SENGUPTA tells her story:
"These guys came as messiahs and taught me to think anew"
I was in severe depression due to the situation I was in and had developed a suicidal tendency. I started feeling that if I ended my life all my problems would come to an end. After writing on FB that I would end my life that night I had started making the preparations for doing so. My mother, who had been keeping a close watch on me, sensed my intent and insisted on sleeping with me that night. I remember I kept crying and my mother consoled me and tried to put sense into my head. She stroked my forehead till I fell asleep at around 4am. Then father woke us up.
I was so groggy I couldn't understand why Joydeep, Sourav and Somnath had come. When they told me I felt like they had come like a new morning in my life. I had reached the lowest point of my self confidence and felt the world was full of horrible people and bad things kept happening to me all the time. Their efforts and those of all the people, who stayed glued to FB to make sure that I was safe, made me believe that there is good in this world.
I am a 38-year-old divorcee with a 12-year-old son, who studies in a good boarding school in Kolkata. I did not take any alimony from my husband because it hurt my pride. I met this other gentleman on Facebook, who is in his early 50s and he wanted to marry me. We had a registration marriage and soon he took me to Dubai, where he works and lives, on a resident visa. There my nightmare started. He lived in a 10X10 single room, expected me to do all the housework and he turned into a pervert and sadist the moment he came home from work. He beat me up at the slightest opportunity. Once he even broke my arm and took me to a doctor a month later when I was screaming in pain. He constantly threatened to kill me and if I raised my voice, his brutality increased. I didn't know anyone in Dubai and I couldn't figure out where I could go for help. I just wanted to escape from his clutches. So when he agreed to buy me tickets to see my parents I found my escape. When I did not return he kept calling me and harassing me over the phone and he even told my parents that they were actually doing "business" through me.
I was also facing acute financial woes and did not have enough money to file a divorce suit against him. I thought death would rescue me from this mess.
But these guys came as messiahs and taught me to think anew. I have never thought of suicide after that night. I know no matter what, I will have to live for my son. Now I know these wonderful people are there to support me if I need them. I am not alone in my fight anymore.
Do women in "DECENT" clothes escape harassment?
Posted: July 20, 2012 in Uncategorized
Tags: decent clothes, Guwahati, Kolkata, NCW, sexual harassment, West Bengal
My ex-colleague Sarah Salvadore is just livid at NCW chairperson Mamta Sharma's advice to women to dress carefully. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/people/A-provocatively-dressed-woman-an-easy-prey/articleshow/15043860.cms
She wrote on her FB status: The NCW wants women to "dress carefully", this coming from a commission that revealed the identity of the Guwahati victim. Ladies, we are better off without a commission for women, which is absolutely toothless and sexist.
I would rather go by what Sarah says and not some chairperson of NCW, who, it is very clear, is living back in time. Because I know for a fact Sarah is speaking from experience. She has actually worked as an undercover reporter in Times Of India, Kolkata and exposed how risky the city can be for a woman.
Sarah had posed as a girl, whose delayed train arrival at Howrah Station had put her in a spot late in the night, because she didn't know where to find a hotel. She was taken to the seediest hotels by a taxi driver, taken to the darkest corner of Metiabruz and told it was Park Street. She was subjected to perverse scrutiny by lobby managers and waiters who were hoping to bait the fish (and then do what, God only knows). Well! Sarah was dressed decently but her only crime was, her train had arrived late and she didn't know the city well – a situation that any woman, non-pubbing and non-spaghetti-strap flaunting kinds – can get into, unless of course Mamta Sharma (strange how it's Mamta every time) doesn't approve of a woman travelling alone.
Is it really about clothes?
Anyway, clothes have nothing to do with sexual assault, it has been proved the world over, it's high-time the NCW shed such archaic beliefs.
I am, like so many women out there, really confused about what's exactly decent dressing though. Because if you are talking about a saree, I have often worn them to college on a cramped public bus and the hands got frenetic on my bare skin on the back. Now I cannot see myself putting on anything but an airhostess-cut blouse (it covers the back completely) whenever I wear a saree.
If you are talking about a salwar kurta with a generous dupatta covering the front, it does help, to minimize the groping from 10 to maybe four, on good days that is. But does it allow full cover from the perverts? No, not really.
A trouser can be provocative
Then there is the trouser paired with a full-sleeve shirt – does it help in any way? It doesn't either.
I will talk about an incident here to present my view better. I remember I was looking particularly corporate kinds that day because I had dressed up for an important interview. I was returning home in a cab and the cabbie had a faulty meter and the bill was atrociously high. I got into an altercation with him and the cabbie tried hard to rally support from some men passing by. A group of drunk men, barged into our conversation. When I told them not to interfere, they got really aggressive and said, "What the **** do you think of yourself? Since you are wearing pants and having a mobile you think no end of yourself. We can teach you a lesson right here."
It was 10pm, right in front of my apartment in Garia. I just took the cell phone and called our crime reporter and said loudly, "This is the number of the cab tell the OC of Garia Police Station to reach here immediately." Hearing my conversation the cabbie instantly got behind the steering and fled leaving me to deal with the drunkards who were getting dangerously close and abusive now. Thankfully a few people came out from the neighbouring shops and my apartment. The OC didn't have to finally intervene but I still get goose bumps when I think of that day.
The salwar kurta didn't save my day, the police did
On another occasion I was, returning from work, in my first car, a khatara red second-hand Maruti, driven by my equally hopeless driver. Just a few yards away from office, on SN Banerjee Road, the car broke down. The driver kept trying to fix it while I stood next to him. The crowd started building up, then the questions, sneers and smirks started coming as if I had done something wrong. I looked for cover inside the car and the driver continued with his explanations but the crowd didn't budge. I had the choice of leaving the car in my office which was difficult, because I would have had to push it against the flow on a one-way road or leave it at the police station which was just ahead. It was almost 10.30 pm by then. I chose the latter. The police readily agreed to watch over my car that night and graciously offered me tea when I went back in the morning to pick it up.
When I look back on that day the behavior of the crowd around me just gives me the chills – the nasty comments, the jeering and the uncomfortable proximity – all for what? I really don't have an explanation. By the way, I was in a salwar kurta that day, mind it!
Why West Bengal leads India in crimes against women?
Tags: sexual abuse, sexual harrassment, West Bengal, women
Now that the numbers are out – the National Crime Records have shown that in West Bengal there have been a staggering 29,133 reported incidents in 2011 accounting for 12.7 per cent of the total crime against women in India – media, political parties and governments are sitting up and taking notice of a malaise that every woman has to live with in West Bengal.
While our government, ironically headed by a woman, continues to live in blissful denial of the atrocious condition of women in our state, the kind of response my post on March 2011 headlined You are lucky if you have not been sexually harassed in Kolkata, https://amritaspeaks.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/you-are-lucky-if-you-have-not-been-sexually-harassed-in-kolkata/
had got, go on to reinforce the fact that harassment of women is an issue that touches each and everyone's life.
I would say this escalation of violence and sexual abuse is not a sudden phenomenon, it has been a process taking place over a period of time.
I believe West Bengal is leading India in crimes against women because…
We are living in denial
While West Bengal's State Industries Minister Partha Chatterjee has summed up the general attitude in his classic comment, "There is a national propaganda to show our government in bad light and hence all these figures are now being brought into the media," he should check out this article published in the Times Of India in December 2006, when National Crime Records showed that West Bengal held second place in domestic violence, next only to Andhra Pradesh. (By the way we were governed by the Left then.)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/calcutta-times/If-you-prick-us-do-we-not-bleed/articleshow/793369.cms
The statistics show in 2001, there were 265 reported cases of dowry deaths and 3,859 cases of domestic violence. In 2005, there were 446 dowry deaths recording an increase of 68 per cent and 6,936 cases of domestic violence, recording an increase of 80 per cent.
A problem can be addressed if a person is ready to accept there is a problem. If there is denial in the first place the question of a solution does not arise. I think the minister has already forgotten (in true politician style) the Park Street rape case, the Katwa train rape case and the molestation of a girl on Free School Street, which happened recently in the span of a few months.
Sexual abuse is a great way of showing power
After being humiliated by a boss at work many men like to get back their dignity by beating up their wives at home. I think groping a woman on a public transport is less about sexual gratification and more about getting satisfaction out of the embarrassment caused to a woman. This zeroes down to power play once again – that a man has the power to embarrass a woman. Gross, but it's the truth.
As frustration among men rise because of the narrowing avenues of employment, escalating prices and reference group syndrome meaning that only a certain category of men having all the purchasing power, abusing women is a great way of keeping their slipping egos in place. That's why in West Bengal women are abused by all kinds of men they interact with. Starting from the husband at home which leads to domestic violence, from the boss and colleagues which leads to harassment in the workplace, harassment in public transports and public places and last but not the least – political harassment, when a woman becomes the target of political parties trying to prove a point. A case in point would be the Nandigram rape case which became a complete political drama.
Chivalry is dying
Only a decade back if a woman had been harassed by a man all she needed to do was raise her voice and there would be a pack of men coming to her rescue. The dialogue would inevitably start with, "Didi apni jan. Amra dekhe nicchi. Ki byapar dada, ki hocchey?" (Didi you go we will handle this. So dada what are you up to?).
I wonder where those men have gone now. Instead we have a pack of wolves waiting for a chance to pounce. They readily side with the perpetrator and keep questioning the woman's dignity. In this regard I will mention two incidents. One was shared by my ex-colleague Moumita De Das on my blog.
Moumita wrote: "but i wud never forget the day before dhanonjoy (hetal parekh rape n murder case) was about to be hanged to death on 15TH August, 2004…the time was 10pm santoshpur mini bus…i boarded the bus from exide crossing as i was returning from my office (hindustan times). A drunk guy was too uncomfortably close…just then when i reacted… the entire menfolk were suddenly united and abusing me verbally… all were supporting dhanonjoy's actions criticising our legal system for his verdict and so on and so forth…i felt as if i had been verbally gangraped….that day i sensed that dhanonjoy's humiliation was affected personally all kolkata's bhadralok and i realised MEN ARE NOT BHADRALOK…"
The other incident happened with my late brother Anirban Mukherjee. He was returning from work in a mini bus when a woman slapped a man because he was harassing her. All the men in the bus egged the man to slap her back. My brother was the only one to stand up for her and brought the situation under control.
I know there are a lot of men like my brother who have come to our rescue so many times. Wonder why they have become a vanishing lot these days.
Law keeps its eyes widely shut
It is the fear of law that keeps all kinds of criminals in check. But when it comes to crimes against women most often the criminals go scot-free or the trial becomes such a long-drawn affair that the crime itself is forgotten. If a criminal gets to know that he can get away with his crime, and quite easily too, why won't he do it again?
And now I won't be surprised if after all this brouhaha about the National Crime Records statistics there is an even bigger leap in the crimes against women. The perpetrators can have a free run because they are now sure they can get away with it. All the more thanks to ministers like Partha Chatterjee.
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You are lucky if you have not been sexually harassed in Kolkata
Posted: March 7, 2012 in Indian Women, Men, Uncategorized, Women
Tags: Kolkata, rape, sexual harrassment, West Bengal, women
Women protesting against sexual violence in Kolkata. (Pic: The Hindu)
We were a bunch of enthusiastic Sociology students attending a seminar on violence against women organized by well-known NGOs of West Bengal. Inside the auditorium, people were animatedly discussing ways of averting abuse on women, while the tea counter outside buzzed with talk about a certain Trinamool leader named Mamata Banerjee, who had done an unthinkable feat, the night before.
From the snatches of conversation I gathered that some women were being trafficked into the notorious red-light area Sonagachi when they were rescued by some NGO workers and moved to a police station. The head of the NGO had called the Trinamool leader late in the night, asking if she could help in organizing the release of these hapless women from the police station. Banerjee said that she would look into it and had hung up. Moments later, to the surprise and relief of the NGO head, she was walking into the police station to personally see to it that the women were not harassed any further and were moved to a safe haven. The year I am talking about is 1997.
Fast forward to 2012 and we have the Chief Minister of West Bengal, the same Mamata Banerjee, who does not think twice before saying that the rape on Park Streetwas a "cooked-up incident" to malign her government. It's easy to see that like all big stars – political or filmi – she has taken the easy way out by blaming the media for distorting her words.
I was wondering how could a woman, who was so sensitive to the plight of trafficked women, do such a volte-face just 15 years later. But I guess if you are constantly accompanied by half a dozen men in black safari suits with guns tucked in their holsters, you do lose touch with ground realities. So you take the easy way out again, put the blame on a woman, since trying to change the psyche of lecherous men in the state will be like trying to bend an iron rod with bare hands.
Frankly speaking, in West Bengal if you have not been sexually harassed in some way or the other it does not imply that you live in a safe environment, it's just that you have been plain lucky. As a born and bred Kolkatan all I can say is, life for the fairer sex is a perpetual struggle. As soon as you step out of your home you constantly risk being groped, pinched, elbowed, lewdly commented at and if the time and situation permits your persecutor, you can be molested or even raped.
I am sure if a poll is run on the women of West Bengal on the abuses they face everyday, the answer in the affirmative will be a record high. But, of course, at the end of the day, the onus of being safe lies on the woman. If she can't ensure her own safety then in the quest for justice she runs the bigger risk of being mentally molested by the police, the court, by the entire system.
Life in Kolkata has become such that women are becoming immune to the abuses that are perpetrated on them by unknown men because chances are, you end up in a bigger soup if you try to protest.
I am talking from my own experience here. I used to walk down SN Banerjee Road from the metro station to reach my office. The first day someone groped me I tried to raise my voice against him. Instantly I was surrounded by around 50 men, who asked me to point out where exactly I had been groped. Seething and embarrassed, I walked away.
What did I do to survive? I became more cautious. I always carried a file that covered my breasts and dodged the elbows and the hands with a precision that only boxers in the ring develop. I was successful this way for months till one day I was talking to my friend on the mobile and I was distracted. Result? Someone pinched my derriere. Reacting to my muffled shriek my friend asked, "What happened?" I answered, "Nothing! Someone pinched me."
I realized that after being exposed to the abuse on Kolkata streets from my teens, I had finally become immune to that strange touch that used to initially feel like electric shock passing through my skin.
After I read about the rape of a widow on a train on the Ahmedpur-Katwa track, my mind travelled to my eventful train journeys both on local and long-distance passenger trains. During my college and university days if public buses were my nightmare, after marriage, when I had to travel to my in-laws' home in Ichapur on weekends, I realized the groping men on the locals could give their counterparts on the Kolkata buses some stiff competition.
Trapped between hordes of men in an overwhelmingly-crowded compartment with my dupatta going in one direction and bag in the other and hungry hands trying to get into every curve of my body, I felt like a gladiator trying to win the fight but there was always a lion, who got a piece of me.
I decided to bow out of the arena and shifted to the women's compartment. The incessant cacophony of the women fighting amongst themselves now felt like music to my ears. I was trapped between unknown sweaty women but there was a great sense of relief in it.
It was one such train ride when I had boarded a crowded ladies compartment from Sealdah at 10pm. After a hard day's work I had dozed off in my seat. When I opened my eyes I saw the entire compartment was empty and there were four men sitting opposite me with a gaze that made me freeze with fear. I was about to call my husband from my mobile, who was in the next compartment, when one of them shifted to the seat next to me. Then they were all pretty puzzled to see me smiling. They followed my eyes and instantly started chatting amongst themselves like I did not exist.
The reason for their changed attitude and mine was my husband standing at the train door. He had seen the men boarding the ladies compartment and had jumped in behind them. That day I realized how fear actually felt and how lucky I was.
Now coming to long-distance train travel. My friend and I were going to Delhi to appear for the entrance exams at Delhi School of Economics and we were accompanied by her father and elder sister. Late in the night some men boarded the compartment and started making their bed on the floor. When uncle tried to explain to them it was a reserved compartment one man placed a shining dagger next to him on the floor and went off to sleep. Needless to say none of us slept that night. At the crack of dawn the men left the train without snatching our luggage, without forcing themselves on us. Luck was on our side again.
After I read about the Park Street rape, my mind went back to the innumerable nights spent at Tantra, the happening disco at Park Hotel. Yes, I was always there with close friends, who dropped me home later. I never accepted drinks from unknown people, although I did strike friendships there that I cherish, but you can say I was always extremely cautious. However, one particular night, I don't know why, I threw all caution to the wind.
There was a private party at the Park Hotel banquet which I was covering from the newspaper I was working for at that time. The party promptly shifted from the banquet to Tantra. We had the office car with us but my colleagues wanted to linger on the dance floor. I was worried that my mom would be awake waiting for me, when this businessman, whom I had been introduced to earlier in the evening and had done some polite talk with, said he was leaving for his home on Ballygunge Circular Road – which was pretty near to my home on Garcha Road. I didn't know him at all but I asked him for a lift. He readily obliged. I asked another journalist, I had met the same evening, if she would like to come along, dearly hoping she would. She joined us.
We got into his car parked in the basement, thanking him profusely for the trouble he was taking. It was 2 am and the car rolled into a deadPark Street. The gentleman stopped his car in front of the Park Hotel gate and said, "I have to pick up a friend." The alarm bells started ringing in my head but I was glad that the other lady was in the car with me as if she would be the knight in shining armour if the men tried to get fresh.
The man, who jumped into the car, looked moneyed and sloshed and wasn't in a state to converse. Then our lift-giver proposed that he would drop the lady at Gariahat first and then it would be my turn. I started hyperventilating hoping this was not a ploy to get me alone in the car. The lady got off at Gariahat and I continued. I could have got off there and hailed a cab. But I could not because a woman alone with a cabbie at 2am was an even more dangerous proposition than being in a car with two men- one sloshed and one apparently gentlemanly. I was safely dropped home. I was third time lucky.
But not everyone is. Women's harassment in Kolkata is on the rise because some men have realized they can get away with it. After years of groping and elbowing and looking the other way and denying it if they are caught red-handed, these men have finally mustered the courage to go further. The rape on Park Street only proves that.
Mamata Banerjee would do well if she changed her stance on the case. If cases like this are dealt with an iron hand a lot of women might be saved from their daily ordeal. Isn't it high-time the beasts hide in fear and we roam free?
PS: Does Didi know the meaning of International Women's Day? I would have loved to ask her.
While we cry hoarse over the Delhi rape case did you know the Guwahati molestation verdict is out?
"After revealing my identity as the Park Street rape victim I have got more respect and also more threats" Suzette Jordan
What is the psychology of rape?

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Having recently been to Fomo Thai and following them on Instagram – I learnt that the same owners were opening another place in the city. This time their focus would be simple and different – it would be all about burgers.
Thaiger Burger is the newly opened burger joint – located at The Walk Arcade in Causeway Lane in the heart of the Melbourne CBD. The point of difference with these burgers is their distinct Thai influence and flavourings. The shop itself is located next door to the ever busy Sushi Monger and does well with its small space. There aren't many seating options available – four orange stools are available but during busy periods you will get interrupted by waiting customers. There is also a cosy little cubby hole that you can sit in whilst you wait for your burger to be made.
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For those who don't feel like burgers, there are 5 salads on offer as well. For fries/chip lovers – there is also a serving of sweet potato fries available – a somewhat healthier option.
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The service can be a tad bit slow, however once you get your burger you forget the waiting time.
Thaiger is a great addition to the world of burgers – especially since my favourite cuisine is Thai! Not only do the burgers have interesting names but have an interesting mix of flavours and combinations which I am sure most people will enjoy. Check them out!
Leading up to and in the just the few days that The Kettle Black had opened there been a lot of hype surrounding it – from the visual spectacle of the venue to the highly anticipated crayfish roll and of course, the delicious coffee. So of course I had to go and check it out for myself.
I decided to go during lunchtime (a late lunch around 2pm) as it is a short 10 minute tram ride from work. The Kettle Black is located on Albert Road in South Melbourne – a short walk from Domain Interchange. As you make your approach to The Kettle Black you are greeted by the white visual spectacle – a combination of a grand old Victorian building together with the ground floor of an Elenberg Fraser designed residential complex – 21 storeys in fact (!) – called Fifty Albert.
This magnificent -must try place – is brought to you by the team who are responsible for places like Top Paddock, Two Birds One Stone! Jesse McTavish (chef from Top Paddock) together with Top Paddock owner Nathan Coleman, along with business partners Ben Clark and Diamond Rozakeas, as well as Tim James (Two Birds One Stone) and Sam King (ex De Clieu). What a team! Coleman is in charge of the running the floor with King in charge of the coffee side of things.
The fit out is designed by the awesome twosome Kestie Lane and Hana Hakim from the quirky cool design company Studio You Me. They have brought two very different worlds seamlessly together using white walls, green Italian tiles as well a marble and brass detailing. The breathtakingly beautiful building begins with an outside eatery area located in front of the Victorian terrace. As you enter the venue there is a coffee cart where you can purchase takeaway coffees whilst you wait. Once you step inside you are greeted by a hotel like reception / cashier desk / sweet counter – there are a selection of sweet treats on display for you to choose from including the melt-in-your-mouth doughnuts from Doughboy Donuts.
From here the interior splits into two halves – the left side sits in the converted apartment block and is complete with a modern vibe, high ceilings (which is simply stunning and has a great effect thanks to a method of layering of white tiles against each other), fresh sunlight streaming in – thanks to the floor to ceiling windows – as well as an emerald green tiled and marble barista station. There is also the striking porthole-like wall which is a highlight in this room. The right side sits in the Victorian terrace side has a more homely feel complete with gold and brass trimmings (a very interesting looking light fitting that is reminiscent of two gold earrings), flowers and arched windows.
Another highlight that I saw whilst waiting for my table was the unique watering station – which consisted of a stone base with a gold sink and finished black tap ware with small square tiles in the background. Tables are wooden and there are mixtures of low tables, as well as one tall communal table. You can sit at the barista marble bar as well – with the look finished with green stools. What is also great is the addition of flowers in bottles throughout the venue – adds colour and class to the already classy venue.
The menu by McTavish is focussed on using mainly Victorian produce – or Australian when Victorian isn't possible. The relishes and butter are made in house with bread supplied from Burnham Beeches, Wallaby from Flinders Island, Steak from Robbins Island, Seafood from King Island and house-fermented yoghurt. Coffee (espresso) is a custom blend from 5 Senses, as well as a rotating single origin. Filter coffee is sourced from specialists such as Small Batch and Market Lane. Another interesting fact to note is that The Kettle Black makes their own compost which they then use to grow their own leaves, herbs and flowers in their greenhouses and gardens.
Drinks include Cold Press Juices (there are two to choose from) as well as Fresh Juices (Orange or Ruby Grapefruit). There are also a selection of bottled drinks as well as Ice Chocolate and Iced Coffee available, as well as Tea.
The food menu comprises of a unique take on your normal breakfast dishes – there are a variety of combinations that are served with eggs that you wouldn't usually see such as Chilli Scrambled Eggs with Air Dried Flinders Island Wallaby or Tataki Ocean Trout with Raw Kale, Seaweed Salad and Poached Eggs. The famous hotcakes – that are served in Top Paddock – have made their place here on The Kettle Black menu. There is also Polenta Porridge, Fruit Toast, Muesli and House-Made Coconut Yoghurt. More food is available that strikes me as a lunch offering, however this isn't stated – items like Kingfish with Potato Crisps, Robbins Island Wagyu Skirt Steak served on the Kettle Black Bun, Mixed Beans, Burrata and the famously known King Island Crayfish Roll.
Even during a late lunch hour – there was still a list of people wanting a table. I had a wait time of about 10-12 minutes. You don't really feel the wait time as there is a lot that too look at and observe or even order a takeaway coffee from the coffee cart. I was seated at the marble bar, perched on a stool that allowed me to observe the coffees as they were cranked out. I ordered a latte whilst deciding on what I should eat.
The latte arrived shortly after and was delicious! It is definitely one of the best coffees I have had this year (refer to my Coffee page for their rating at https://thegrazingpanda.wordpress.com/coffee-worlds-best-pick-me-up/). The coffee was strong with notes of caramel mixed together with floral and a hint of citrus at the end. The after taste was creamy and memorable. I would happily make the trek from work on the tram just to have this coffee.
After much consideration I decided to order the King Island Crayfish in an Ash Roll with Native Coastal Spinach, Lime & Yuzu Mayonnaise. The Crayfish Roll comes served on a heavy stone curved square plate, with a lime wedge placed next to it. It is visually stunning especially against the grey backdrop of the stone. The ash roll is clearly evident together with the fresh smell of crayfish emanating through preparing your taste-buds. The green and purple of the native coastal spinach as well as the addition of the yellow flowers brings the whole dish together.
The bun was soft, warm and delicious. The crayfish was oozing freshness and flavour and was perfectly poached. The mayonnaise was tangy and full of all the right flavours, which brought the whole dish together, however I would have liked more mayonnaise in my bun. Overall, the dish was good but I wasn't blown away as I had expected to be from all the rave reviews of the crayfish bun – it almost felt like an extra ingredient was needed to add more depth and flavour.
I also decided I needed to end on something sweet – so I ordered the House-made Coconut Yoghurt with Gluten-Free Grains, Seeds & Nuts, Toorak Station Prickly Pear, Rhubarb, Citrus Powders, Fruits and Flowers. The presentation of this dish was beautiful – too beautiful to the point that a part of me didn't want to touch it – and reminded me of a flower garden bed. Served on a glossy black plate which allowed the white coconut yoghurt to really shine through and topped with the spectacular bright colours of the watermelon, strawberry, blueberries and assorted flowers, finished with citrus powders. The yoghurt was smooth, creamy and the perfect balance of the coconut flavours flowing through. I loved that the grains were hidden under the fruit – it made for a great surprise with every mouthful. The components of the dish worked extremely well together and the mix of flavours were tasty. My only criticism would be that the watermelon didn't have the crunch and freshness I expected.
The staff are super friendly and accommodating in any way they can. The Kettle Black is one of those places that you will find yourself coming back to and when people ask me for a brunch place that I would recommend – this is the first place I tell them.
The Kettle Black exudes class, style and swank all without the attitude and pretense. The venue is delightful and a visual spectacle that is must see yet the atmosphere remains relaxed, lively and fun. The menu has been carefully designed and the dishes will get your taste buds pumping. The presentation is excellent and the coffee top notch. Come and see for yourself.
Atmosphere / Ambience: Breathtaking and Spectacular Venue – with a relaxed, carefree, lively and fun atmosphere. Definitely one to bring people from overseas or interstate – anyone really!


The Lab announces the launch of By All Means 2.0 and two additional initiatives to support communities in expanding services and opportunities for children.
In February 2016, the Harvard Graduate School of Education announced the launch of By All Means: Redesigning Education to Restore Opportunity, a 2.5 year initiative aimed at supporting mayors and superintendents in leading cities to develop integrated systems of education and child well-being to close achievement gaps. As the Education Redesign Lab wraps up phase one of the initiative, the Harvard Graduate School of Education is happy to announce the launch of By All Means (BAM) 2.0 and two additional initiatives to support communities in expanding services and opportunities for children.
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The priorities for By All Means 2.0 have been informed by the Lab's research, Building City-Wide Systems of Opportunity for Children: Initial Lessons from the By All Means Consortium. The report's overview features a series of checklists that outline effective strategies, which were culled directly from the challenges and successes experienced by the cities as they got their BAM work off the ground. Among those lessons include the importance of having an effective governance structure for managing the Cabinet and the initiatives, establishing a shared vision for the priorities and goals, and the necessity to strategically leverage or generate new resources to expand the services and initiatives for children. The report's Keys to Success also provide a high-level roadmap for leaders looking to engage in cross-sector work on behalf of children in their community.
The Education Redesign Lab is also launching a new city network for more than 20 additional communities. The Lab will support this network in creating and supporting cross-sector children's cabinets through light technical assistance support, webinars, annual convenings at Harvard focused on best practices, links to experts in the education and child development fields, and other networking opportunities. The Lab is also launching a Leadership Institute for up to 80 community leaders who run intermediary organizations implementing collaborative impact agendas on behalf of children in communities across the United States.
Launched in 2015, HGSE's Education Redesign Lab's mission is to design an integrated, comprehensive set of systems for education and child development that will ensure all students, especially economically disadvantaged, have a fair chance of mastering the skills and knowledge necessary for success. To achieve this, the Education Redesign Lab engages in research, field work, and movement building activities to support the development of this vision. To stay up to date on their work, you can visit their website, sign up for their quarterly newsletter, and follow them on social media.


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The e-Gov Awards aim to reward the best ICT projects realized by Belgian public services which also demonstrate administrative simplification, innovation and sense for cooperation.
The thermographic project of Ghent city, executed by EUROSENSE, has won the e-GOV award for usability.The e-Gov Awards aim to reward the best ICT projects realized by Belgian public services which also demonstrate administrative simplification, innovation and sense for cooperation.
In the winter of 2011 a "thermographic image" of Ghent city was taken by EUROSENSE. At the same time, almost 500 voluntary inhabitants executed temperature measurements in their houses. EUROSENSE processed the thermographic imagery into one geo-referenced map and created by means of the volunteer measurements an interpretation key with corresponding legends. This detailed interpretation allows the inhabitants to make the bridge from heat losses to insulation quality.
With the support of EUROSENSE, the results have been inserted by the city of Ghent into a web application: http://warmtefoto.gent.be/ (in Dutch). By this web application, citizens of Ghent can make an assessment on the quality of their roof insulation. Additionally, a link is made to "roof insulation group purchasing", information sessions and additional support (subsidies) for people with low incomes. EUROSENSE's detailed interpretation key and the involvement of inhabitants, were determining factors that distinguished this project from the others with respect to user friendliness.
Besides this award for our innovative approach, EUROSENSE has recently been awarded with 4 new thermographic projects. A thermographic map will be created for the municipality of Tervuren and some industrial areas in West-Flanders (Belgium), the City of Enschede (the Netherlands) and Luxembourg City.
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EUROSENSE executed the FP7 project DECUMANUS for the European Union (EU) in a consortium led by INDRA. The aim of the project was to provide city managers with a set of sustainable decision support services that allow the deployment of geo-spatial products for the development and implementation of climate change strategies and meeting the diverse challenges of sustainable urban development. EUROSENSE realized the 'city energy' service, which focused on determining the areas within the city that are the least energy-efficient. By zooming in on the increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations that cities produce due to the inefficient energy use, cost reductions that would occur due to energy saving could be determined. EO-based services have been developed focusing on three aspects: thermal energy loss due to the heating of buildings, excessive lighting (night-time lights) and roof photovoltaic potential. read more
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According to the World Health Organization, cervical cancer ranks fourth for both incidence and mortality amongst women worldwide. The UAE is no exception, with cervical cancer the fourth most common cancer among women and the fourth leading cause of death in women according to the Department of Health Abu Dhabi.
The Human Papillomavirus Information Centre of the Catalan Institute of Oncology and the International Agency for Research on Cancer predicts 1.9 million women in the UAE over the age of 15 are at risk of developing cervical cancer.
HPV vaccine has been shown to be highly effective in preventing infection from some of the most common types of HPV. Similarly, screening for early detection of the disease allows for successful treatment and prevention, with survival three times higher and a five-year survival rate close to 96%.
During Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, taking place throughout January, Mubadala Healthcare experts are highlighting the importance of vaccination and early detection to increase the survival rate of this disease. Statistics from the International Agency for Research on Cancer and the Catalan Institute of Oncology's Information Centre suggest that at least 1.9 million women in the UAE are at risk of developing the disease.
Cervical cancer is highly preventable, according to medical experts at National Reference Laboratory and Healthpoint — both part of Mubadala's network of world-class healthcare providers. They are urging women to follow the UAE Ministry of Health & Prevention (MOHAP) and the Department of Health Abu Dhabi Guidelines for Cervical Cancer Screening. The updated Guidelines recommend that all females aged 25 to 29 years undergo a Papanicolaou test - also known as Pap smear test - every three years. It is also recommended that all females aged 30 to 65 years undergo a Pap/HPV cotest - where human papillomavirus (HPV) test and a Pap test are done at the same time – every five years. According to the Guidelines, the HPV vaccination is also offered to schoolgirls aged between 13 to 15 years and to all UAE nationals up to the age of 26 years.
Cancer of the cervix is caused by HPV and typically develops very slowly. Early detection, when the disease is in its initial stages and has not yet spread to other parts of the body, requires less aggressive treatment and can result in a survival rate of 96%. However, if left undetected and allowed to progress untreated, the survival rate of this disease drops rapidly and significantly to only 5%.
Dr. Mai Ahmed Sultan Al Jaber, Medical Director and Public Health Medicine Specialist at Healthpoint, said: "Cervical cancer is highly preventable and one of the most treatable cancers. Unfortunately, many women here do not follow the screening guidelines for this disease as set by the local health authorities due to several factors, such as embarrassment, fear of the testing process and uncertainty associated with waiting for the results."
Dr. Al Jaber continued: "A lot of patients wait until they experience severe symptoms associated with more advanced stages of cervical cancer to consult their doctors. Later-stage diagnosis decreases the prognosis for long-term survival and makes it more difficult to treat the disease. This is why I encourage all women to consult their doctors and have regular gynecological check-ups, know the symptoms and be alert to them, and have regular screening."
During a Pap test, cells from the cervix are collected and the sample is checked for abnormalities. This test is considered the most effective screening procedure for cervical cancer. Additionally, an HPV test can be performed, which looks for the DNA of human papillomaviruses most likely to cause cancer in cervical cells. Although most HPV infections do clear up on their own, there is a risk for all women that the infection may cause chronic cell abnormalities which then progress to cervical cancer 10. Regular screening is key and supports effective patient management to prevent the disease before it progresses.
Dr. Suhaila Alameeri, Consultant Anatomic Pathologist at National Reference Laboratory and a member of the National Taskforce for Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program, said: "The screening tests for cervical cancer are highly successful at preventing the disease but they do require accurate analysis. At the National Reference Laboratory, we implement international best practices for reference laboratory processes and are dedicated to working with the UAE government and local healthcare providers to increase awareness about the disease and provide all women in the UAE access to high-quality diagnostic testing."
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Lefty works his way back to Majors after shoulder surgery
By Manny Randhawa
Julio Urias, the Dodgers' former top pitching prospect per MLB Pipeline and the No. 4 prospect overall in 2015, made his first MLB appearance in more than a year Saturday. He tossed a scoreless ninth inning during Los Angeles' 17-4 victory over the Cardinals at Busch Stadium.The 22-year-old left-hander struggled
Julio Urias, the Dodgers' former top pitching prospect per MLB Pipeline and the No. 4 prospect overall in 2015, made his first MLB appearance in more than a year Saturday. He tossed a scoreless ninth inning during Los Angeles' 17-4 victory over the Cardinals at Busch Stadium.
The 22-year-old left-hander struggled early last season before being sent to Triple-A and having left shoulder capsule surgery on June 27, 2017.
"I can't lie. There was a time when I thought there was a possibility I would never come back to a Major League mound," Urias said. "Thank God, he helped me get here."
Prior to being recalled from Triple-A Oklahoma City last Monday, Urias had a 5.40 ERA in eight rehab appearances at three levels, with 19 strikeouts and seven walks in 11 2/3 innings. He pitched twice in the playoffs for Oklahoma City, allowing two earned runs in 1 2/3 innings.
Management still views Urias as a starting pitcher long term, but his slow recovery this year made a relief role the lone option.
"We just felt as an organization, what better time than now?" Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said of the timing of his recall from Oklahoma City, which was eliminated from the playoffs last weekend.
"I'm very proud of him. As a young player to have so much fanfare and ability and expectation and to go through that injury and battle through adversity and find your way back to the big leagues is a credit to him, and his fight and the training staff in the Minor Leagues."
Manny Randhawa is a reporter for MLB.com based in Denver. Follow him on Twitter at @MannyOnMLB.
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(CNSNews.com) – Amid simmering U.S.-Russia tensions over missiles and Ukraine, a U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer on Wednesday sailed near disputed waters between Russia and Japan, in an operation designed "to challenge Russia's excessive maritime claims" in the area.
The "freedom of navigation" operation (FONOP in military parlance) was the first by the U.S. Navy in those waters since the Cold War, Pentagon officials told U.S. television networks.
She also said FONOPs were not about any one country, and were not linked to current events.
"All freedom of navigation assertions are grounded in principle and the rule of law," she said.
Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are equipped with the Aegis system, capable of detecting, tracking and destroying ballistic missiles.
Russia's Pacific Fleet is headquartered in Vladivostok, located on the northern coastline of Peter the Great Bay (Zaliv Petra Velikogo).
Freedom of navigation operations are those that assert the navy's right to sail within international waters, irrespective of territorial claims coastal nations may have to those waters.
Still, Russia's Sputnik news agency complained that a U.S. warship steaming near Peter the Great Bay was akin to a Russian Navy vessel sailing past the major U.S. Navy bases at San Diego or Pearl Harbor.
In recent days already chilly relations between Moscow and Washington have cooled further, over Russia's ramming and seizure of Ukraine Navy vessels in the Black Sea's Kerch Strait, and U.S. threats to exit a Cold War-era arms control treaty which it says Russia has been violating.
In Brussels on Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave Russia 60 days to return to compliance with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, failing which he said the U.S. would begin the process of withdrawing from it.
The U.S. says Russia has tested and is now deploying ground-based cruise missiles with a range banned by the INF Treaty, threatening NATO allies in Europe. Pompeo spoke after winning unanimous support from the 29-member alliance for the U.S. position.
"We will collectively develop a set of responses that demonstrate to Russia that this behavior is simply unacceptable," he said.
Pompeo did not elaborate, but on Wednesday CNN reported that the administration plans to give Turkey formal notice of intention to sail vessels through the Bosphorus into the Black Sea.
Russia and Ukraine are meant to share the waters of the Azov Sea under a 2003 bilateral agreement that allows both countries' ships free passage through the Kerch Strait.
But Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 means that both sides of the Kerch Strait are now in Russian hands – Crimea in the west and the Russian region of Krasnodar Krai in the east.
What Ukraine maintains was a routine transit of small naval vessels from ports in the west of the country to ports in the east, Russia characterized as a deliberately provocative breaching of its maritime borders.
The three vessels and 24 crew members remain in Russian custody. Ukrainian media reports say the sailors, accused of illegally entering Russia's territorial waters, could if convicted face prison terms of up to six years.


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Why Are Children Sexually Abused?
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While no one wants to think about the sexual abuse of a child, particularly for victims, it is common to ask, "why are children sexually abused?" There is no clear answer to this question. What we do know is that it is not the fault of those who have been sexually abused. While those who have been abused as a child may feel shame and guilt over what happened, the only person who should take responsibility for the abuse is the offender.
Three models that try to explain why children are sexually abused have emerged. Models that focus exclusively on the family or exclusively on the abuser have been mostly replaced by a more integrated approach.1
Abused as a Child. Why? A Family-Centered Approach
This older approach suggests that children are abused due to family dynamics. According to the Child Welfare Gateway by the Administration for Children and Families:
"Specifically, clinicians taking this perspective described the collusive mother, who has estranged herself from the father, as the "cornerstone" of the incestuous triad and the victim as a parental child who has replaced her mother as sexual partner to the father."
This theory has been recognized to have too many limitations to explain sexually abused children in general and is not commonly in use today.
Offender-Centered Approach
This approach seeks to explain why children are sexually abused from the perspective of the commonalities shared by the offenders. Unfortunately, this approach too has many limitations as the information is typically gathered from offenders in jail and thus it is not representative of offenders as a whole and does not represent the role that outside dynamics may place on the abuse.
An Integrated Approach to Why Children are Sexually Abused
More recently, an integrated model has been developed to explain why children are sexually abused. This model combines both family and offender factors. In a practical model of this approach, there are said to be prerequisite conditions for child sexual abuse as well as contributing factors.
The prerequisites of child sexual abuse are found in the offender and they are:
Sexual arousal to children
Propensity to act on sexual arousal
These two conditions, found in the abuser, are enough to explain why some are abused as a child, but other contributing factors can also play a role. Contributing factors can include:
Family, including marital, issues (such as an unhappy marriage)
Current life situation (such as abusing alcohol)
Past life events (such as being a previous victim of sexual abuse)
Situation (such as access to unsupervised children)
Contributing factors should not be confused with blaming the victim, however. None of these contributing factors cause sexual abuse of children, but they can increase the likelihood only if the prerequisite factors also exist.
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