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How toxic chemicals contribute to COVID-19 deaths: Frederick vom Saal, Aly Cohen
Chronic diseases, many linked to chemical exposures, are worsening the pandemic sweeping the U.S.
Frederick vom Saal
Aly Cohen
Most people living in the U.S. are suffering from one or more chronic diseases that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified as putting people at increased risk of dying from COVID-19.
These chronic diseases include obesity, diabetes, liver, kidney and cardiovascular disease (together called metabolic disease), respiratory diseases including asthma, allergy, emphysema, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), as well as autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Crohn's disease, and lupus.
All of these diseases involve disruption of normal immune system function, resulting in inflammation. Chronic inflammation primes the body to react with a heightened response to immune system insults, such as COVID-19 infection.
In the U.S., these chronic diseases have been steadily increasing over the past 50 years, associated with the dramatic increase in chemical production for use in plastics, construction materials, pesticides, personal care products, furniture, cookware, food packaging, textiles, and many other products that are steadily infiltrating every aspect of human life.
Researchers are finding that a disturbing number of these chemicals are categorized as endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that can interfere with the normal functioning of hormones involved in cell communication, including regulating immune responses and inflammation. We are exposed to such chemicals through a myriad of common consumer products, emissions into outdoor and indoor air, in drinking water, and in processed food and food packaging.
Despite clear evidence that chronic diseases have been steadily increasing in the U.S. and that endocrine disrupting chemicals impact these disease trends, regulatory agencies—including the Food and Drug Administration and Environmental Protection Agency—have refused to acknowledge the dangers posed by continuous exposure of the U.S. population to a large number of these chemicals.
Doomed via diet
How are these pervasive chemicals contributing to mortality from COVID-19?
Let's take, as an example, food and food packaging. In the U.S., the standard American diet, accurately given the acronym SAD, consists mostly of low cost, low nutrient, high sugar, ultra-processed ingredients full of chemical additives (flavorings, preservatives, dyes).
Processed foods are typically devoid of nutrients and antioxidants—such as vitamins, anti-inflammatory fatty acids, minerals and micronutrients—that are found in whole foods like vegetables, fruit, nuts, and whole grains, which are critical to normal immune system function.
The poor nutrition of processed food along with the endocrine disrupting chemicals in food and packaging such as the chemical bisphenol A (BPA), lead to disruption of glucose (blood sugar) regulation, insulin resistance (the inability of cells to respond to insulin) and cellular dysfunction resulting in inflammation.
The combination of endocrine disrupting chemicals and insufficient amounts of antioxidants create the perfect setting for an abnormal inflammatory response.
Add to this the deleterious nutritional effects from common medications used to treat many chronic illness (one example is B12 loss with metformin use in diabetics). Thus, when confronted with exposure to an infectious agent, such as the novel coronavirus, the risk of dying is increased by the baseline inflammatory state that occurs with chronic diseases.
In reality, it is the enormous inflammatory response to the novel coronavirus that is killing susceptible individuals, not the virus itself. Ironically, several of the nutrients (zinc, vitamin B3, vitamin C, vitamin D) and antioxidants from fruits and vegetables, are among the many therapeutic interventions currently being looked at to reduce the length and severity of coronavirus infection.
In addition, these antioxidants actually protect against some of the harmful effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals such as dioxin and BPA.
While the chronic diseases listed by the CDC put people at increased risk of death due to contracting the novel coronavirus, we cannot suddenly reduce these diseases and make the U.S. population safer.
Individual lifestyle changes, which include increasing intake of nutrient-rich, unprocessed fresh or frozen foods that do not contain endocrine disrupting chemicals, drinking water without pollutants, improved sleep, stress management, and regular aerobic exercise, are regarded as cornerstones in reducing risk for developing most chronic diseases.
However, the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus has increased awareness that global pandemics are likely to occur at increasing frequency.
The issue that is central to saving lives when the next pandemic occurs is: how do we reduce the burden of chronic diseases identified above that have resulted in the U.S. being one of the unhealthiest places on Earth to live, in spite of spending astronomical amounts of money on healthcare?
We are unlikely to quickly address all of the social changes required to solve all of the problems this pandemic has laid bare.
We can, however, take action to reconstruct the diverse agencies in the U.S. that have failed to ensure that Americans have unpolluted water to drink, unpolluted air to breath outside and inside homes, schools and businesses, and food that is free of toxic chemicals and is nutritionally sound. Particularly hard hit in the U.S. are minority communities with extensive air and water pollution and without access to healthy, unprocessed food. These primarily Hispanic and African American communities live downstream from chemical emissions and dumping and are dying at high rates from COVID-19.
To reduce the increasing burden of chronic diseases in the U.S., we recommend that Congress reconstruct our system for regulating the toxic environmental chemicals to which, according to the CDC, the majority of people in the U.S. are being consistently exposed. Any attempt to do this in the past has failed—the chemical industry has hijacked these efforts, while the EPA sits by unwilling to act.
Similarly, the FDA food safety division has turned over to chemical manufacturers the authority to determine the safety of thousands of chemicals added to processed foods and for use in food packaging, many of which have been shown to be hazardous endocrine disrupting chemicals.
The current ineffective regulatory system in the U.S. needs to be abandoned and reconstructed based on science and a true desire to protect the health of people rather than maximize profits for powerful corporations.
The consequence of Congress failing to do this is that we will be in a worse position with regard to the chronic disease burden of the U.S., with many more people likely to die when the next pandemic occurs.
Frederick S. vom Saal PhD is a Curators' Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Aly Cohen MD, FACR, is the Founder & Medical Director at Integrative Rheumatology Associates, PC and Founder & Medical Director at TheSmartHuman.com and The Smart Human on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. They share more resources, tips, and recipes to help reduce exposure to toxics,, reduce risk for chronic illness, and improve overall health and wellbeing in, Non-Toxic: Guide to Living Health in a Chemical World, Oxford University Press, 2020.
Their views do not necessarily represent those of Environmental Health News, The Daily Climate or publisher, Environmental Health Sciences.
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The policy process is not 'mere' problem-solving. The idealized vision of a linear progression from problem to solution has been rejected for more complex analyses. This chapter reviews theory in regard to all three elements of the problem orientation: problem, solution, and the process that links them. The problem itself is problematic, therefore policy analysis involves sorting through questions rather than simply seeking the best solution. Problems are already a result. Partial solutions are the norm, reached through a succession of questioning processes. The policy process is the continuing collective management of the problematic. In theories of process, a key distinction arises between analytical and post-positivist models. Problems and solutions are not autonomous from the policy process. For many scholars, the policy process, the problem and the solution have become inextricably intertwined in a creative process of self-reference: each emerges from the other in the course of interrogation.


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How data-dependent is health care reform?
If the visualization of America's Healthy Future Act (also known as the Baucus Bill) — immediately below is any indication, data is pretty important to health care reform plans. The word occurs 275 times in the text — there are new data banks, data collected, data submitted and data shared.
Last Friday, I checked some summary data on USAspending.gov — the page I was looking at is here, trying to calculate per capita spending by state. Note that in 2009, the federal government sent out $970 billion in grants, loans, insurance, and direct payment, but couldn't tell you which state some $460 billion of the money went to (blank or invalid entries–perhaps the latter include states like Pennsyljersey, Califoregon and West Dakota). That was actually an improvement over 2008, when $363 billion out of a little less than $499 billion couldn't be placed in a state; 2007 wasn't much better.
Will health care data be more timely and complete?


Our East Fork camp is located in the heart of Bighorn Sheep Area 5. The steep, rocky peaks of the East Fork are a haven for big rams to hide out. Reclusive and wary, these sheep are hard to find and harder to hunt. This hunt is not for the faint of heart, but for those willing to commit to the challenge, there is no greater prize.
10 days, if not successful, return later in season at no charge.


Konnor Zuehl drove in the go-ahead run in the fifth inning as the Oshkosh West baseball team picked up a 4-3 win over Hortonville in the regular season finale.
HORTONVILLE – Konnor Zuehl drove in the go-ahead run in the fifth inning as the Oshkosh West baseball team picked up a 4-3 win over Hortonville in the regular season finale.
Zuehl drove in Ben Stilson in the fifth inning to make it a 4-3 game, and then Jake Guenther pitched the final three innings to seal the win.
Austin Fox picked up the win for the Wildcats, allowing three runs in four innings.
Guenther was 2-for-3 on the day while Zuehl was 2-for-3 with an RBI. Josh Bartelt added an RBI while Stilson added two.
WP: Austin Fox (4 IP, 1 K, 5 BBs). LP: Joe Cliver (3 IP, 2 Ks, 1 BB).
Leading hitters: Oshkosh West — Jake Guenther 2x3; Konnor Zuehl 2x3 (RBI); Josh Bartelt 1x4 (RBI); Ben Stilson 1x3 (2 RBI). Hortonville — Ty Dreier 2x3 (2 RBI).


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India, with its modest, laggardly pace, is far behind. A report of the Indian Parliament's Standing Committee on Defence, released in 2013-2014, terms the Indian infrastructure along the Sino-Indian border to be in a poor state. Of the 73 all-weather roads along the Sino-Indian border that India had identified for construction in 2006, just 18 have been completed. Of the 27 roads that were to be constructed by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, only one is complete and at least 11 roads are behind schedule.
The Narendra Modi government has allocated approximately Rs 5,850 crore in road contracts for the year 2016-17 for upgradation of nearly 610 kms of road network and basic infrastructure, by 2020, especially along the border in Arunachal Pradesh — a five-fold jump from the two preceding years. A 52-km road stretch is being built in Taksing village, around 550 km from Tawang, to enable the Army to quickly move supplies and troops to the India-China border in case of a conflict. Similarly, there is a push between Tawang and Bumla pass to finish most of the 33-km road stretch that is uncarpeted. "Last year, we could not complete this stretch due to lack of funds. But we hope to receive the funds and will complete the remaining road stretch soon," said Rajiv Kumar, assistant executive engineer.
But it is a long haul to Tawang. The last railway stop is Bhalukpong, 330 km away, while only helicopters can land in the hill town. There are five chopper flights per week from Guwahati, but these are entirely dependent on the weather. On an average, barely one-two flights land in Tawang per week. During rains and winters, the choppers remain grounded for weeks on end.
That leaves Tawang's 49,000-plus population, like it did the Dalai Lama last week, at the mercy of the road network.
There are two national highways connecting Tawang to Guwahati via Tezpur in Assam, but the road most used on this stretch is National Highway-27. It is a 19-hour ride, climbing up to nearly 13,700 feet above sea level, traversing snowy passes and past hair-splitting bends.
The closest big town is Tezpur, in Assam, 360 km away. Along this route, the 180-km stretch from Bomdila to Tawang is a landslide-prone road. Road-carpeting and widening has been under way at various places for the last two years. "We are also coming up with a bypass on the Jhang-Tawang stretch. Once completed, this would cut travel time by at least two hours from Tezpur to Tawang," says Rajiv Kumar.
As for public transport, one bus leaves Guwahati for Tawang at 6 am and reaches Bomdila in the evening. Passengers halt in Bomdila and the journey is resumed the next morning. It takes another 12 hours to complete this 180-km stretch.
Most people prefer private or shared taxis, with Tata Sumos the choice on the Tezpur-Tawang stretch. A convoy of Sumos carrying 10 passengers each depart from Tezpur early morning between 4-5 am. They reach Tawang in the evening by 6-7 pm. Each passenger is charged Rs 750 for the one-way journey. "Because of the landslide prone stretch on the highway between Bhalukpong and Tenga valley, there are army pickets located at regular intervals. Army keeps patrolling the area to help the tourists in case they get stranded," says Sanjib Shah, a taxi operator in Tawang.
The 52-km broad gauge train stretch between Dekargaon in Assam and Bhalukpong in Arunachal Pradesh had taken five years to lay, and was inaugurated by Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu in August 2015.
In 2015, the Railway Board also cleared a proposal for the final location survey of a proposed 378-km track from central Assam's Sonitpur district to Tawang, of which Dekargaon-Bhalukpong would be a part.
In February 2017, the district hospital of Tawang was the recipient of the Union government's Kayakalp award for cleanliness, and received a cash prize of Rs 50 lakh. The money is being used for upgradation of facilities at the hospital.
There is one district hospital, two community health centres and six primary health centres across the district. The hospital located in Tawang town has one ophthalmologist, two gynaecologists and one doctor of medicine. To deal with an inflow of around 180-200 daily OPD patients, there are six general duty medical officers. There are no private clinics or ambulance services across the district.
An existing 50-bed government hospital was dismantled a few months ago and a 101-bed hospital is being constructed in its place. It is expected to be completed by the end of 2018. Currently, an 18-bed temporary structure is functional as the hospital's indoor patient facility.
The hospital provides X-ray facility and ultrasounds, but for MRIs and CT scans, one has to travel at least 360 km to Tezpur. The hospital doesn't have an anaesthetist either.
Says Dr Narinda Namshum, medical superintendent, Tawang district hospital, "We have no surgeons. In case of a surgery, a patient from Tawang is required to go to either Itanagar or Guwahati, both over 510 km away — a journey that takes 18-20 hours if done without a break." She adds that at least 60-70 patients every month are referred to hospitals in Tezpur, Guwahati or Itanagar.
Not yet connected to the central electricity grid, Tawang depends on domestic power generation to meet its 14 MW demand. Most days, there is either no power or extremely poor voltage electricity, forcing most consumers, including government buildings, to run on generators.
In April 2016, the National Green Tribunal suspended the environmental clearance given to the proposed 780 MW hydropower project in Tawang. The NGT's order also indicated that other hydropower projects in the sensitive border region — part of the transboundary Brahmaputra river basic that straddles China, India and Bangladesh — might have to carry out cumulative impact assessment studies.
"Against its requirement of at least 14 MW, Tawang barely generates 2.5-3 MW during winter and around 7-8 MW during summer," said a senior official of the Electricity Department on condition of anonymity. "We are dependent primarily on three hydropower projects set up on river tributaries. In winters, when the water freezes, generation is minimal. During summers, when the water flow increases in tributaries, our equipment gets damaged," the official added.
He said the government has taken up the matter with the Centre. "Hopefully, within this year, we will be connected with the central grid through neighbouring Assam." At least 13 hydropower projects, with a total capacity of 2,900 MW, have been proposed for the district.
The 780 MW Naymjang Chhu project had run into problems as its barrage was proposed to come up near Zemithang village in Pangchen valley, near the international border with Bhutan and the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), and on the nesting site of the endangered black-necked cranes.
Tawang residents led by Lobsang Lama (popularly known as Anna Lama since he had shared stage with Anna Hazare in Delhi in 2011 during latter's anti-corruption movement) had moved the NGT and pleaded that the project would have an adverse impact on the habitat of the endangered species.
Earlier too, in 2007, when the state government led by Dorjee Khandu signed number of agreements with private companies for hydropower projects, villagers had formed associations and lodged a strong protest.
There are no educational facilities in Tawang after Class XII, and the nearest college is at Bomdila, 180 km away. The closest university, Rajiv Gandhi University, is in capital Itanagar.
There are 117 government and 16 private schools functioning in Tawang. The state government runs higher secondary schools, while there is one Kendriya Vidyalaya and another under the Jawaharlal Nehru Scheme. The schools are affiliated to CBSE.
While the pass percentage for Class X is around 88 per cent, by Class XII, it drops to near the half-way mark, around 53 per cent. "We hope to have a degree college in Tawang this session," says Apel Tayeng, Deputy Director School Education (DDSE), Tawang. However, admissions and the faculty recruitment are yet to begin for the college.
It was only in August last year that Tawang schools got three subject teachers for the entire district. Block education officer Kharma says they are also worried about poor attendance record of teachers. But in the absence of power to run biometrics, there is not much they can do about it. "We bank on surprise checks," he says.
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The typical Indian mismanagement of decades and the core reason for insurgency in North-East. The 'Imperialistic' mindset can not be rid of!!
The 6th Schedule should be scrapped .... a damn waste and abomination in this modern era.
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Why the PARAs give less importance to body armour?


Outcome of simulation-based central line insertion course?
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To our knowledge, this is the first hospital-wide, standardized, simulation-based central line insertion course in the United States" Grudziak et al (2017).
Central line placement is a common procedure, routinely performed by junior residents in medical and surgical departments. Before this project, no standardized instructional course on the insertion of central lines existed at our institution, and few interns had received formal ultrasound training. Interns from five departments participated in a simulation-based central line insertion course. Intern familiarity with the procedure and with ultrasound, as well as their prior experience with line placement and their level of comfort, was assessed. Of the 99 interns in participating departments, 45 per cent had been trained as of October 2015. Forty-one per cent were female. The majority (59.5%) had no prior formal ultrasound training, and 46.0 per cent had never placed a line as primary operator.
Scores increased significantly, from a precourse score mean of 13.7 to a postcourse score mean of 16.1, P < 0.001. All three of the self-reported measures of comfort with ultrasound also improved significantly. All interns reported the course was "very much" helpful, and 100 per cent reported they felt "somewhat" or "much" more comfortable with the procedure after attendance. To our knowledge, this is the first hospital-wide, standardized, simulation-based central line insertion course in the United States. Preliminary results indicate overwhelming satisfaction with the course, better ultrasound preparedness, and improved comfort with central line insertion.
Grudziak, J., Herndon, B., Dancel, R.D., Arora, H., Tignanelli, C.J., Phillips, M.R., Crowner, J.R., True, N.A., Kiser, A.C., Brown, R.F., Goodell, H.P., Murty, N., Meyers, M.O. and Montgomery, S.P. (2017) Standardized, Interdepartmental, Simulation-Based Central Line Insertion Course Closes an Educational Gap and Improves Intern Comfort with the Procedure. The American Surgeon. 83(6), p.536-540.


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AutoNation Cure Bowl NASCAR Driver Patrick Staropoli Shares Why He "Drives Pink" for BCRF
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As a racer and medical school student, Staropoli sees the power of research from all perspectives
When Patrick Staropoli is in the cockpit of his racecar, he's confronted with major decisions. He must guide his vehicle at 200 miles per hour around major g-force turns, avoid other cars on the track while simultaneously maintaining his cool in a 130-degree cabin.
This ability to remain calm under pressure is a talent he uses off the track. At 27, he's not your typical NASCAR driver. The South Florida native is a Harvard graduate who is in his final year of medical school at the University of Miami.
"The skills underappreciated in racing are really useful in medicine," he says.
Both professions require effective communication, precise movements and teamwork.
"I think the way you approach problems in racing is similar to how you approach a patient in medicine," he says.
The same way NASCAR pit crews must identify and fix a problem with a car, medical teams must collaborate to effectively diagnose and treat individual patients.
"Being in medical school has helped me become a better race car driver," he adds.
While racing and medicine appear to be at odds, Staropoli was introduced to both worlds at a young age. Both his grandfather and father raced. When they were off the track, both worked as auto mechanics.
"I grew up around the shop, learned to work on cars and everything from them. It's what I was immersed in," Staropoli says.
His first introduction to the world of science was a tragic one. In 2001, his father was in a bad racing accident. Once airlifted off the track, he was transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami – where coincidentally today Staropoli makes his rounds as a medical student at the University of Miami.
"They basically saved his life," he said. "It wasn't at that point where I thought, 'I need to be a doctor,' but having something like that happen that early in your life, it sticks with you."
Years later, Staropoli has now combined both these interests. Once an amateur racer, he now competes in NASCAR and is sponsored by AutoNation, the country's largest automotive retailer where he helps promote one of the company's title events: the AutoNation Cure Bowl. Now in its second year, the college bowl game is the only bowl game to raise funds for breast cancer research, raises funds to supportwith all support going to BCRF.
"Last year we raised over $1 million through the AutoNation Cure Bowl. The work has been nothing short of phenomenal," Staropoli says.
While Staropoli has a passion for science, he also shares a personal connection to the AutoNation's "Drive Pink" cause initiative. Three of his cousins are breast cancer survivors. A close family friend is currently undergoing treatment.
His experience as a medical student and seeing the disease from a physician's perspective has also given Staropoli deeper insight on the power of research.
"Every treatment, every protocol you're following, ideally there's a study out there that's looked at itthat has validated it," he says.
This evidence-based approach is crucial to modern medicine – where the effectiveness of each treatment has been supported by scientific studies and research.
"I think research has definitely gotten us closer to finding a cure for breast cancer," he says. "It's helped develop a lot of individualized cancer therapies that have been more useful than the broader approaches in the past."
While Staropoli promotes the AutoNation Cure Bowl on the track, he also shares a campus with one of the researchers funded by the event, Dr. Joyce Slingerland.
"She's looking at the interaction of breast cancer cells with fat cells and estrogen, and how that leads to inflammationturns on an inflammatory response. By blocking this, you could stop which could cause further growth of the cancer cells and prevent potential metastasis," Staropoli says.
It's these kind of research projects where Staropoli feels the impact of AutoNation's "Drive Pink" movement which to date has raised and donated more than $8 million to cancer-related charities. .
"Just seeing some of the amazing research come out of the AutoNation Cure Bowl, I think we're coming closer to figuring out what we can do to stop breast cancer, and I am just lucky to be a small part of it." Staropoli says.
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The beliefs of our ancestors have left us with the fragmented legacy of superstitions that are quite frankly irrational. Let's explore the origins of our most common superstitions and gain some understanding of our history.
While in ancient Egypt cats were considered sacred (the goddess Bastet is shown with a cat's head), in 17th Century England, King Charles I considered his luck to be up when his black cat died. It seemed very much that way when he was arrested for high treason the next day!
Witches became despised during the middle ages. It was believed that black cats were familiars—a spirit taking the form of a domestic animal in order to accompany a witch. It was often the case during the Witch Trials, that animals were used as evidence—to prove that one is possessed would mean the certain death for the poor woman being trialed.
Some even believed it was the devil taking the form of a cat. A black cat crossing your path was perceived as the devil or some other evil spirit keeping a watchful eye on you. Although it would seem that between 1550 and 1650 black cats were far more unlucky for the women that possessed them than any onlookers.
Widely regarded as unlucky, this superstition recurrs throughout history. The obvious story is taken from Christianity. At the Last Supper while sitting with 12 of his disciples, Jesus said that one of his followers would betray him. The 13th, Judas, did.
Friday 13th is another much-feared date again many believe this stems from christianity—a garbling of Judas, the 13th disciple and Friday, the day Jesus was crucified.
The number 13 makes regular appearances (both positively and negatively) in many religions.
Many parts of Scandinavia consider 13 dinner guests as terrible luck. In Nordic mythology, 12 gods were invited to dine at Valhalla, but 13 arrived. The 13th was Loki, the god of strife and evil. Chaos ensued. The favourite god among them, Balder was killed. It's not too difficult to see the similarities between this pre-Christian myth and the biblical Last Supper.
Another potential origin could stem from the fascinating Mayans, whose calendar ends with the 13th Baktun (21st December 2012 to be precise), after this an apocalyptic ending was feared—and not just by the Mayans. There was a touch of anxiety lurking in the air as December 2012 approached. Many believed that this would be the end of humankind. There was even a film made about it.
Mirrors have long been revered among those with mystical interests. It's clear to see why. The mirror contains an image of ourselves, and that image is the closest we will ever get to a true vision of how we look.
In ancient Greece, people would consult 'Mirror Seers' to tell their fortune. The mirror was dipped into water and a the fortune seeker would be asked to look into the glass. Any distortions to the image would mean almost certain death to the individual.
The Romans took it one step further, believing that any distortion of their mirror image—particularly the one that occurs in broken glass—would bestow bad health. When you couple that with their belief that a person's health ran in seven-year cycles, it's not too difficult to put the two together and draw up a common superstition. Broken mirror? Seven years bad luck.
Some attribute our spilled salt superstitions to the image of Judas Iscariot knocking over a salt cellar in Leonardo da Vinci's 'The Last Supper' (see above), but this itself is a reference to the bad omen, not the origin.
The fact is that salt was very much prized in ancient times. Even the etymology of the word'salary' is rather salty: Roman soldiers were given special allowances for salt rations called salarium, 'salt money'. This also sheds some light on the term "not worth his salt".
To spill the precious salt is, therefore, bad luck. As for the throwing over the left shoulder, the two are not mutually exclusive, they are separate superstitions that have merged over time.
We need to travel back millennia to get to the route of this one. Around 3500 BC, the Sumerians would nullify any negativity bestowed upon them from the spilling of salt by throwing a pinch of it over their left shoulder. It caught on. The Egyptians started doing it, the Assyrians, the Greeks, and we still do it today.
There are two possible explanations for this superstition. The first involves ancient Egypt, where umbrellas were used to protect noble classes from the heat of the sun. To open an umbrella inside, or even in the shade, would cause great offence to the god of the Sun.
For the second explanation we don't have to look too far back. During 18th Century, umbrellas began to feature metal spokes, much like the umbrellas of today. Unlike the umbrellas of today, they were big, with clunky mechanisms. The obvious implication of this is that opening them indoors, in small spaces, led to injury and/or breakage of objects in close proximity.
Not only was it inconsiderate to open an umbrella indoors, it would cause arguments among those in close proximity. Bad vibes all-around!
If common sense were to prevail, walking under a ladder can be fairly risky business due to the unstability of the ladder, and any objects (or people) balancing on top of it. But all common sense goes out of the window when it comes to superstition.
In medieval times, ladders held an association with the gallows. To walk beneath a ladder was surely a sign that you were going to meet your end. But why? It all comes down to the mystical symbol of the triangle. When leaned against a wall, ladders form a triangle. To hang a person from ladders would place that person in the centre of that triangle creating a haunted space.
Sticking with the theme of triangles, the Egyptians and Christians also had some negative feelings about ladders and the almighty triangle they created when leaned against a wall. Christians see triangles a representation of the Holy Trinity, to walk under a ladder was considered blasphemous. Similarly, the Egyptians had a thing about pyramids, to walk under a ladder would break the power of the pyramid.
Greeting a magpie with the words, "Good morning Mr Magpie. How's your lady wife today?" may seem a little bizarre, but it is commonly believed that magpies are the harbingers of bad luck and this nicety will ward off any negativity coming your way.
Did you know, magpies mate for life? To see one lone magpie may indicate a very lonley bird indeed: One for sorrow, Two for joy. But never make assumptions! Acknowledging that Mr Magpie could have an absent wife may be enough to appease his foul temper.
Why is Mr Magpie perceived as such a bad bird anyway? Magpies have very low morals and a complete disregard for material possessions. Yes, the magpie is a thief, renowned for stealing anything that blings: jewellery, coins—only the expensive stuff.


Ahmed M. Heikal received the B.Sc. (with an "excellent" grade) in electronics and communications engineering, Mansoura University, Egypt, in 2006 and the Ph.D. degree from University of South Wales, UK, in 2013. Dr Heikal has authored or co-authored over 56 research papers (Citations: >290, H-index: 10) including over 26 papers in peer-reviewed journals and over 30 papers in conference proceedings. His research is situated in the field of photonics, with a special focus on computational modelling, plasmonic devices, optical sensors, energy harvesting devices, and optical communication devices. He has received several important Recognitions to his research career, including the Prize of the best PhD Thesis, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, UK; Incentive State Award for Engineering Sciences from the Egyptian Government, Egypt; and Shorouk Academy Awards for Scientific and Technological Creativity, Egypt. He was elected by Minister of Higher Education and Research in Egypt as a member of the National Council for Communications and Information Technology, Academy of Scientific Research, Egypt. Dr Heikal also is elected by Minister of Higher Education and Research in Egypt as a member of the National union of Radio Science, Academy of Scientific Research, Egypt. Recently, Dr Heikal is the Director of Center for Nanotechnology, Mansoura University, Egypt.
Dr Yusuf obtained his Bachelor of Agriculture in 2008 from the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria. He then joined the service of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta precisely on the 24th of March 2009 as a Junior Research Fellow having emerged as the best graduating student in the Department of Animal Production and Health during the 2006/2007 session. He was later upgraded to the post of an Assistant Lecturer after the successful completion of my Masters' degree programme, then to the post of Lecturer II after successful completion of his PhD programme in 2015.
His research interests include sustainable livestock production to curb food insecurity; alternative feeding in a ruminant animal in the face of recent climatic changes, mitigation of methane production in ruminants through the administration of plant extract and organic compound supplementation in animals and use of organic acid as phytobiotics and growth as against conventional antibiotics.
He has served as a postdoctoral fellow at North West University, Mafikeng, South Africa and recently bagged an international Diploma in Animal Feed, PTC, AERES, Netherlands. My research focuses on alternative feeding in ruminant production, nutrition health and welfare.
He belongs to many professional bodies which include; African Academy of Science, South African Council for Natural Scientific Profession, Nigerian Society of Animal Production, Animal Science Association of Nigeria and World Poultry Science Association.
Dr Sogbanmu obtained her PhD in 2016 from the University of Lagos (Nigeria). She joined the Zoology Department of the University of Lagos (Nigeria) as an Assistant Lecturer in 2014 and rose through the ranks to become a Lecturer II in 2016.
Her research interests include ecological risk assessments of crude oil/petroleum products, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and effluents; developmental biomarkers in model fish species exposed to PAHs, OCPs, effluents and coastal sediments; molecular and behavioural markers of exposure to and effects of xenobiotics; application of OMICs technologies in ecotoxicology studies; guideline/method development for fish embryo toxicity tests using indigenous fish species; bioremediation of organic pollutants in aquatic ecosystems and ecological risks communication.
She has over 15 journal publications (2019) which have earned her several awards, fellowships and grants including the L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Sub-Saharan Africa award (2014), PADI Foundation research grant (2016) and Royal Society fellowship (2018). She was a Visiting Research Associate/Scholar at the King's College London (2014) and University of British Columbia (2018). She has been a member of the Faculty of Science Seminar Committee, Course Adviser and Reviewer for journals such as Chemosphere and Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.
She has served as an Ecology/Waste Management Expert on environmental impact assessment draft report review panels constituted by the Federal Ministry of Environment, Nigeria in 2018 and 2019, member, Board of Trustees, Society for Environmental Toxicology and Pollution Mitigation (SETPOM) since 2013. She is a sought-after career development facilitator having delivered invited lectures at meetings and seminars organised by Anchor University, Women Advancement Forum International Exchanges, Research and Academia (WAFIRA), Nigerian Environmental Society (NES) among others. She plays active roles in several professional societies including the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), Society of Toxicology (SOT) and SETPOM.
Dr Owoseni obtained her PhD in 2017 from the University of Fort Hare, South Africa, then returned to the Department of Microbiology, Federal University Lafia, Nigeria to continue her tenure position.
Her research interests include rapid diagnostic techniques in detecting microbial contaminants in water, antimicrobial resistance studies, microbial related infectious diseases and development of therapeutic strategies for antimicrobial resistance using medicinal plants.
She is currently implementing collaborative research projects on low-cost biosensors for monitoring drinking water with researchers in the University of Glasgow, the Centre International de Référence Chantal Biya pour la Recherche sur la Prévention et la Prise en charge du VIH/SIDA" (CIRCB), Cameroon and Elizade University, Nigeria, sponsored by the Frontiers of Development and using ICT-enabled multisector-based approach to weather information for monitoring water resources with researchers at University of Uganda and Institute of Developmental studies sponsored by Global Challenges Research Fund.
Dr Owoseni has served a level adviser, the liaison officer for the Nigeria Society for Microbiology, Federal University Lafia, and the Leader, Research for Innovation and Development Group (RIDE), Federal University Lafia, Nigeria.
She is a member of several professional societies including the Nigeria Society for Microbiology (NSM), Society for Applied Microbiology (SFAM), American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE). She has 14 publications (2018).
Her future activities include engaging the public by creating awareness of science education among students in high school especially girls and to educate them on the pursuit of science programmes and enrolment for a University education.
Dr Martha Mwangome holds an M.Sc. in Global Health Sciences from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. in Nutrition Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Dr Mwangome is a Research scientist at KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Program, Kilifi, Kenya. She has more than 10 years' experience in public health and nutrition research in Africa. Her research has broadly focused on strategies to identify, prevent and manage nutritional vulnerability among infants aged below 6 months (u6m) employing both qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis. She has published extensively on extending the use of simple anthropometric measurements such as the mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) to define nutritional vulnerability in early infancy. She is currently funded by the Global Health strategy, Africa Research Excellence Fund(AREF) and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to assess the applicability of 2013 WHO updated guidelines for treatment of ill malnourished infants u6m and explore the use of breastfeeding peer supporters towards re-establishing exclusive breastfeeding of ill malnourished infants within public hospital setting. She is also funded to estimate body composition of malnourished infants u6m and the composition of breastmilk consumed by infants u6m presenting with different nutritional classifications. Dr Mwangome is a member of the African Nutrition Society (ANS) and the American Society of Clinical Nutrition (ASN). She actively participates in the Nutrition research technical working group (TWG) in Kenya, the Management of Acute Malnutrition in infants under 6 months (MAMI) special interest group and the Concurrent Wasting and Stunting (WaSt) Technical working group hosted by the Emergency Nutrition Network.
Caroline Muneri is an early career researcher and lecturer at Egerton University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, Department of Veterinary Surgery, Medicine and Theriogenology. She holds a PhD in Clinical Veterinary Medicine (Theriogenology) from Nanjing Agricultural University China, an MSc. in Veterinary Pathology, Microbiology and Parasitology, and Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Nairobi. During her PhD Dr Muneri studied the effects of Epimedium and its ingredients in reproduction using a mouse model. She later worked with Pwani University where she pursued her interests in antimicrobial resistance in zoonotic diseases. Her research interests include; animal reproduction, antimicrobial resistance, zoonotic diseases and integration of science, policy and extension. Dr Muneri has published several peer-reviewed publications and presented in various local and international scientific conferences and meetings. In addition, she is actively involved in community outreach programs in various regions in Kenya.
Dr Muneri previous stints include working with the Ministry of Agriculture Livestock, Fisheries and Irrigation at the State Department of Livestock, Directorate of Veterinary Services. Her roles included reviewing of animal disease control policies and strategies such as the veterinary policy, the strategy for Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Eradication in Kenya 2011-2021. Earlier in her career, she interned at the Agricultural Sector Coordination Unit a think tank of the Agricultural ministries where she contributed to the development of the National Agricultural Research Policy, Agricultural Sector Communication Strategy, National Beekeeping Policy, National Livestock Policy and the vision 2030 of the establishment of animal disease free zones amongst others. Dr Muneri is a member of the Kenya Veterinary Board and has severed in various leadership roles in the Kenya Veterinary Association Eastern Branch and as the Secretary to the Kenya Veterinary Association Council (2011-2013). She is a member of the Kenyan Chapter of the Global Antibiotic Resistance Program (GARP) Working Group (2011-2013).
Dr Meressa obtained his PhD in 2014 from the University of Bonn (Germany); then joined the Department of Horticulture and Plant Sciences of the Jimma University (Ethiopia) and got the rank of Assistant Professor in June 2015.
His research interests include detection of plant-parasitic nematodes associated with agricultural crops; systematics of nematodes; plant-nematode interaction; biology and epidemiology of plant-parasitic nematodes; biological control of plant-parasitic nematodes He is now heading the Postgraduate programs coordination office of the Department of Horticulture and Plant Sciences and leading the plant protection case team in the department. He has served as a board member of the Alumni- Network Sub Sahara Africa; He is a member of the Executive Committee of Ethiopian Society of Microbiology, Ethiopian Horticultural Science Society. He is the managing editor of the Ethiopian Journal of Applied Science and Technology, and a Review Editor on the Editorial Board of Plant-Microbe Interactions.


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Not to be confused with World Schools Debating Championships.
The World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC) is the world's largest debating tournament, and one of the largest annual international student events in the world. WUDC is parliamentary debating tournament held in British Parliamentary Debate format (involving four teams of two people in each debate). Historically, the format of WUDC was determined by the host country which allowed for the American Parliamentary Debate format (two teams of two people). Each year, the event is hosted by a university selected by the World Universities Debating Council. The tournament is colloquially referred to as "Worlds" and the winners of the open competition acknowledged as the "world champions". The current world champions are Kevin Lee and Bostan Nurlanov from the University of Sydney.
The Trans-Atlantic University Speech Association held tournaments in London (1976 and 1978) and at McGill University, Montreal, in 1977. Chicago was to hold a tournament in 1979 but this was postponed and then abandoned. A "World Debating Festival", sponsored by Honeywell was held in Sydney in 1978. The TAUSA event attracted mostly Northern Hemisphere tournaments, the Honeywell was largely Southern Hemisphere.
The championship is usually held in the days following the 25th of December, since many of the institutions attending from the Northern Hemisphere where the championship originated take vacations at this time. Although many countries that do not celebrate Christmas have become participants at the competition, the timing has remained the same. In most recent years, the nine preliminary rounds of the tournament have been held over three days from 29–31 December, with the elimination rounds being held on 2 January and the Grand Final on 3 January.
In recent years, the championship has varied from about 150 to 400 teams, depending on the capacity of the host institution. With judges and organisers, this involves 500 to 1,000 participants in all.
The competition involves nine preliminary rounds, which become "power-paired" as the tournament progresses, matching the strongest-performing teams against each other. Two teams form the "government" ("proposition" in the UK and North America) and two the "opposition" in each debate room. The process of scoring and pairing these teams is known as "tabbing". The scoring of teams is done by judges, most of whom are students or former students from the competing institutions, who return "ballots" with their scores to the adjudication team, led by a Chief Adjudicator who is assisted by one or more deputies. The deputies are not members of the host institution.
The nine preliminary rounds are followed by a "break" at which the teams proceeding to elimination rounds are announced. This is traditionally done on New Year's Eve, although this is subject to the timing of the tournament. In the current tournament format, the top 16 teams from the preliminary rounds proceed to the octo-final round. The teams ranked 17-48 also break into a partial double octo-final round, and the winning teams from this round join the teams ranked 1-16 in the octo-finals. While preliminary rounds are usually judged by up to three judges, the break rounds are judged by panels of five, and the finals by panels of seven.
Separate breaks are announced for the English-as-a-second language (ESL) and English-as-a-foreign language (EFL) team competitions, for the individual public speaking competition, and the "World Masters" tournament which is participated in by judges (most of whom are no longer students) representing the countries where they studied or of which they are citizens. In addition, a comedy competition is also open to all participants in Worlds.
The World Universities Debating Council consists of representatives of every country that competes at the World Universities Debating Championship. Each country selects one council delegate (the national debating association president, or selected from the participants at Worlds). The Council is responsible for setting the rules and awarding the right to host the championships.
A Worlds Committee is elected to discuss issues during the year as Council only meets at the championships itself. This Committee consists of a mix of elected officers and regional representatives from Africa, the Americas, Australia and New Zealand, Continental Europe and the Middle East, and the British Isles (referred to in debating as Islands of the North Atlantic thought more politically acceptable than British Isles).
The Council formerly operated not unlike the United Nations Security Council, with seven nations holding "charter member status" – the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. A two-thirds majority of these countries was required for changes to the championship's constitution, irrespective of how the general vote was tallied. However, as the number of non-charter nations attending grew, many fielding far more teams than some of the upper tier, and the championship began being hosted outside the Charter nations, pressure grew for the distinction to be eliminated.


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Academic journal article Human Factors
Modeling the Effect of Task and Graphical Representation on Response Latency in a Graph Reading Task. (Special Section)
By Peebles, David; Cheng, Peter C. -H.
The ability to interpret and reason with charts and graphs is increasingly important in this information-rich society. Charts, graphs, and other diagrams are used extensively in science, engineering, business, and the media. To be able to reason with charts and graphs effectively requires sophisticated perceptual and reasoning skills and a broad range of general and specific knowledge about diagrammatic representations. Understanding diagrammatic reasoning is an important goal for cognitive scientists, therefore, not only because of the ubiquity of diagrammatic representations but also because diagrammatic reasoning is a process in which behavior is a function of a complex interaction among three factors: the cognitive and perceptual skills of the reasoner, the graphical properties of the external representation being used, and the specific requirements of the task being undertaken. It is also likely that a deeper understanding of the relationships among these three factors will have implications for the desi gn of more effective graphical representations.
In the area of graph-based reasoning, we have carried out a number of investigations into how these three factors affect reasoning with different types of Cartesian coordinate (x,y) graphs (Peebles & Cheng, 2001, 2002; Peebles, Cheng, & Shadbolt, 1999) and have proposed the graph-based reasoning (GBR) model to characterize the complex interactions and resulting behavior. The goals of GBR are similar to those of the cognition-artifact-task (Gray & Altmann, 2001) and embodied cognition-artifact-task (Byrne, 2001; Gray, 2000; Gray & Boehm-Davis, 2000) frameworks proposed to characterize interactive behavior in human-computer interaction tasks.
Figure 1 shows the four graphs used in the experiment reported here. They depict the amount (in millions of units) of UK offshore oil and gas production over two decades. In the function graphs the argument variable (AV: time in years) is represented on the x axis and the quantity variables (QV: oil and gas) on the y axis, whereas in the parametric graphs the quantity variables are represented on the x and y axes and time is plotted as a parameterizing variable along the curve.
To evaluate the similarity between function and parametric graphs, we start with the notions of informational and computational equivalence of representations defined by Larkin and Simon (1987). According to their definition, two representations are informationally equivalent if no information can be inferred from one that cannot be inferred from the other and if each can be constructed from the information in the other. Conversely, two representations are computationally equivalent if they are informationally equivalent and if any inferences that can be drawn "quickly and easily" from the explicit information in one can be similarly drawn from the explicit information in the other, and vice versa. This latter term requires that not only the information content of the representations be taken into account but also the nature and speed of the various operators used to interact with them. According to Larkin and Simon's criteria, each pair of function and parametric graphs generated from the same data set for t his study can be considered to be informationally equivalent. The computational equivalence of the graphs, however, is one of the issues this research seeks to address.
Function and parametric graphs also share several important properties. They are both simple line graphs using a two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system to relate quantities and represent magnitudes. Although the two graph types assign different variables to their axes, they are similar in that both represent specific values of plotted variables as points on the line. Because of these visual and representational similarities, many of the basic operators for accessing items of information are the same for both graph types. …
Publication: Human Factors
Peebles, David
Cheng, Peter C. -H.
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Press release from The Iona Institute Labour motion on Catholic civil servants "deeply undemocratic"
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Press release from The Iona
Labour motion on Catholic civil servants
"deeply undemocratic"
31, 2012 – A motion that is to be
debated at Labour's national conference in April calling for the screening of
senior civil servants dealing with the Catholic Church is "deeply undemocratic",
The Iona Institute has said today.
According to a
story in today's Irish Independent, a document called the Clontarf Report is to
be debated at the conference. This document accuses denominational schools of
illegally discriminating against children of other faiths.
In addition,
one of its recommendations is that, "All senior official appointments in State
bodies which are likely to have to deal with the Catholic Church should be
screened to ensure that they will not show inappropriate deference to the
Catholic Church. Those who feel that they are 'Catholic first and Irish second'
should should have no influence on the control of education."
Responding to
this, Iona Institute director, David Quinn said today: "The Clontarf Report is
completely mistaken in its assertion that denominational schools are breaking
the law when they admit children of their own faith ahead of other children.
This is explicity permitted, for example by the Equal Status Act. To pretend
otherwise is simply an attempt to bully denominational schools".
"However, the report's recommendation that senior civil servants should be
screened to ensure that do not show 'inappropriate deference to the Catholic
Church' is deeply undemocratic and would amount to a witch-hunt against
Catholics in that it would single out Catholics from among all other civil
servants.
recommendation is an echo of the suggestion made in the Dail by Ruairi Quinn in
2009 that some officials in the Department of Education were 'members of secret
societies such as the Knights of St. Columbanus and Opus Dei', a suggestion for
which he provided no evidence whatever."
David Quinn
added: "Why not screen civil servants to ensure they are not unduly deferential
towards a given political party, including Labour, or towards some other vested
interest? Where would such a 'screening' process stop?"
He concluded:
"The fact that this report has been adopted by the Dublin North-Central
constituency branch of the Labour party is bad enough. If it is somehow adopted
by Labour at its annual conference it would be much worse. Not only should it be
defeated, it should be condemned at the conference".
URL to article: https://ionainstitute.ie/press-release-from-the-iona-institute-labour-motion-on-catholic-civil-servants-deeply-undemocratic/


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Superhuman scale: What's possible with the next generation of digital managed services?
Sep 20, 2022 | Advisory & Managed Services, Managed Services, Thought Leadership
Markus Erb, VP for Services, Logicalis
Business conditions have never been more volatile, due to the cost-of-living crisis and subsequent economic shocks. How do businesses stay healthy amid inflationary worries, supply chain constraints, increasing security threats and skills shortages? The Logicalis 2021 CIO Survey found businesses are thinking outside the box. Technology decision makers are planning to innovate their way through changing times over the next 12 months.
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Accessing new technologies through partnerships
In the early days of computing, IT wasn't especially accountable to the business. It lived in an ivory tower and provided technology on its own terms. That has all changed in the era of digital transformation. IT is now a strategic business asset that drives new revenue opportunities. CIOs are adapting to become more consultative, listening to business executives' needs and innovating to help meet them.
This alignment of business and technology pressures CIOs to develop digital-first strategies that reflect business goals. Unfortunately, 79% feel they are failing behind competitors as the fast pace of change leaves them trailing their competitors.
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MSPs' powerful platforms allow organizations to tap into critical leadership insights and ensure they are successful in the digital first world. Partnering with a digital MSP is more than just having extra manpower – it's about being able to optimise business operations.
Identifying blind spots
While business data can be hard to come by, organizations have more data from their IT systems than they can handle. To achieve truly robust, scaled-up operations they need to be able to effectively use this data, especially in spotting emerging cybersecurity threats. But there's a problem: with the ongoing skills shortage, there are not enough people to distil it into actionable cybersecurity intelligence.
The cost of a cyber-attack can be severe, both in terms of immediate operational disruption and ongoing legal/regulatory costs. As targeted attacks designed to extort companies grow more sophisticated, these costs are increasing. In fact Cybersecurity Ventures predicts cybercrime to cost the world $10.5 trillion each year by 2025.
Cyber-attacks are becoming more difficult to stop due to the expanding attack surface. As companies extend their IT operations beyond the traditional closed network perimeter to employees' homes and to the cloud, there is more infrastructure for attackers to target, and protecting it becomes more difficult.
The proliferation of telemetry from IT infrastructure and security products makes it harder to identify attack signals. The deluge of network data is swamping companies. It becomes a hinderance rather than a help to security teams as they struggle to identify potential attack signals.
Building robust tool sets that analyse network data and comb through it for potential signs of attack is an MSP's core skill. These organizations are experts at building detailed threat intelligence data feeds to help highlight indicators of compromise and spot suspicious activity early.
Ray Thorpe, global CISO at eShopWorld summed up the problem at our CIO Summit: "We generate about 170,000,000 events a month. There is no way our internal security team would be able to review that amount of data without using partners and their threat intelligence to help identify potential threats."
MSPs offer powerful platforms that allow organizations to make data-driven decisions and build automated workflows for enhanced efficiencies. Sourcing technology as a service is like having a superpower for business IT. Digital MSPs revolutionize business operations in ways that simply wouldn't be possible when relying on in-house resources.
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The above link to the video provides a physical comparison between iPhone 5 and the current 4S. Launch date rumours range from 13th to 21st September 2012.
The new 16×9 longer format widescreen and new power cable connector are both confirmed in the video. The processor and new smaller sim size remain persistent speculation; but the 1 GHz dual-core processor in the iPhone 4S has been eclipsed by competitors in recent months.
The battery charge life remains a weak spot for many smartphones, particularly those with larger screens. So the move to a larger screen on the iPhone 5 will hopefully be accompanied by one similar to the more powerful batteries that have recently started to appear in devices from Samsung and HTC.
The camera is rumored to remain at 8mb, but with an improved aperture. This may marginally help reduce thickness of the device (less than 1mm).
The fragile glass back housing of the 4S appears to have been replaced with aluminium.
In just a few days, the truth will be out there.


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Meat Boy is the main protagonist of Super Meat Boy. He is a skinless boy in the shape of a cube who is in a relationship with Bandage Girl. He not only loves Bandage Girl, but, because of his lack of skin, needs her to stay alive. Thus, when she is captured by Dr. Fetus, he must rescue her.
Although he has no special abilities, he has one of the fastest movement speeds in the game, along with RunMan and the Ninja. This makes him effective in speedruns and generally completing levels quickly. He is also one of the only characters in the game who is able to complete every level. He leaves blood behind him as he runs, which stays there even after he dies and can be used to view failed strategies, and is the only playable character in boss battles.
Edmund has confirmed that Meat Boy is not made of animal meat.
The sounds he emits sounds like a goo blob. Interestingly, Gish shares the same sounds with Meat Boy.
Meat Boy is beautiful, much unlike another person.
The sound that Meat Boy and Gish make when respawning after dying.


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By Alan, on April 11th, 2017
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11 April 2017. A joint venture between Food and Drug Administration and a developer of chip devices simulating human organs, is evaluating the chips as a way to test new drugs for toxic effects. FDA and Emulate Inc. in Boston, Massachusetts, a spin-off enterprise from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, will assess the ability of organs-on-chips to fulfill regulatory needs for testing drugs, as well as food, dietary supplements, and cosmetics.
The agreement, called a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement or Crada, will review Emulate's systems that simulate functions of the liver, a key organ that metabolizes and removes chemicals, such as drugs, from the blood stream. Emulate's organs-on-chips are polymer plastic devices with fine channels etched in the surface or drilled through, lined with live cells, and designed with supporting instruments and software to perform and measure functions similar to humans or animals. The company says its devices can provide more precise and reliable testing of drugs, food, and cosmetics than many preclinical tests now performed with lab animals.
The Crada with FDA will evaluate simulated liver-on-chip systems as devices to provide accurate and reliable data for the agency's regulatory decision-making processes. The review will look specifically at chips simulating livers from humans, dogs, and rats to identify and measure chemical or biological hazards, comparing performance of the chips against findings from tests on humans and live animals. Emulate Inc. will also use the results as feedback to refine their products.
Emulate Inc.'s individual organ chips are designed to connect into integrated multi-organ networks, what the company calls its Human Emulation System. The agreement allows for expansion into other types of organ chips, including intestine, lung, and cardiac systems. The company says both parties plan to publish the results of studies conducted under the Crada.
In an FDA blog post, Suzanne Fitzpatrick, an adviser on toxicology at the agency, expects the Crada to apply scientific processes with organs-on-chips technology. "In some ways," says Fitzpatrick, "science is like a recipe in that both can go through a number of incarnations before they work. There's a lot of experimenting and tweaking, collaborating and comparing. And that's what we'll be doing at FDA with the organs-on-chips research." She also notes that FDA, with National Institutes of Health and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, are supporters of the technology since 2012.
A Crada is a collaborative project where agencies or national labs make their staff, facilities, and equipment available for research with a private company that also provides funding for the project, as well as its own staff, facilities, and equipment. Crada agreements often include provisions for licensing the results of the joint research, but no intellectual property aspects of the agreement with Emulate were disclosed.
Emulate Inc. licenses its current technologies from the Wyss Institute, with Donald Ingber, the institute's director, also a founder of Emulate and chair of the company's scientific advisory board. Science & Enterprise reported on Emulate Inc.'s founding in July 2014 and its second funding round in March 2016. From both instances, the company raised a total of $40 million in venture funds.
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'The Woman In Black' (1989) Heads To Blu-ray At Last!
Kenn Hoekstra July 11, 2020 News Comments Off on 'The Woman In Black' (1989) Heads To Blu-ray At Last!
Twenty-three years before Daniel Radcliffe starred in the big screen remake, the original, small screen adaptation of Susan Hill's Gothic novel, The Woman In Black, terrified television audiences. The film first aired on ITV in 1989, and in the years since, has become increasingly difficult to find. The DVD is long out of print and has been fetching hundreds of dollars on eBay.
Horror fans, rejoice! The rare, terrifying gem, The Woman In Black, is heading to Blu-ray at long last. Check out the trailer below, then read on for all the details!
The Woman In Black Synopsis
When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin Gifford, a young solicitor is sent in to settle her estate. Following cryptic warnings from the locals regarding the terrifying history of the old woman's house, he soon begins to see visions of a menacing woman in black…
Herbert Wise (I, Claudius) directed the film. It stars Adrian Rawlins (Harry Potter franchise, Chernobyl), Pauline Moran (Byron), Bernard Hepton (Get Carter) and Andy Nyman.
Here's a look at the Blu-ray cover art!
Feature version in full widescreen
Limited edition, specially designed o-card packaging
Audio commentary with horror experts Mark Gatiss, Kim Newman and star Andy Nyman
Booklet by Andrew Pixley
Running time: 102 mins
HOH subtitles
Region code: B
Cat: 7958312
The Woman in Black is available to pre-order here. Street date: August 10, 2020!
Awesome news! I love this movie. It has one of the most terrifying scenes in movie history. You know the one. And in Widescreen!
I'm sad that my DVD is now worthless, but what can you do? Hopefully a North American release will follow. I just might have to invest in a region free Blu-ray player one of these days.
What do you think? Any fans of The Woman In Black (1989) out in PopHorror land? Are you excited for the Blu-ray release? Tell us in the comments!
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The beatification of Abbot Columba Marmion (1858-1923) is yet another confirmation by the Church of the validity and richness of the benedictine path to holiness. Over many centuries the monastic life drawing vital sap from the Regula Benedicti has acquired a great variety of forms. Like a vigorous plant, its seeds have adapted to different "climates" and to a multitude of different circumstances without, however, ceasing to produce the flowers and fruits of sanctity (cf. Dante. A., par., 22, 48), under the constant action of the Holy Spirit.
Among the latest sons of St Benedict to have been raised to the honours of the altar by the Church we number before the throne of God the blessed Placidus Riccardi, priest and monk, chaplain to a community of nuns, and solitary rector of the historic abbey of Farfa; the Blessed Fortunata Viti, a humble lay sister; two Archbishops and Cardinals, Ildefonso Schuster and Giuseppe Benedetto Dusmet, who were moved from their responsibilities as abbots to the pastoral care of two large dioceses in particularly difficult times both for society and for the Church; and finally we recall the blessed Columba Gabriel whom Providence called to found a new family of benedictine nuns.
The Cistercian family has given the Church three beati. These serve to present a more variegated picture of monastic sanctity; the Blessed Gabriela Sagheddu devoted herself to the cause of reconciliation between the Churches; the Blessed Cyprian Iwene Tansi and the Blessed Rafael Arnaiz, an oblate brother.
The candelabrum now acquires another light in the form of an abbot totally immersed in the life of God and the search for Him, together with his brothers, in a benedictine community which was born of one of the most important monastic reforms of the nineteenth century. It is noteworthy that the official title describing his ecclesiastical office is that of abbot!
The new beatus presents a complete picture of the monk. His benedictine vocation matured during the early years of his priestly ministry and led him, at the age of thirty, to leave his Irish homeland and join the community at Maredsous in Belgium where he immersed himself in a demanding life of obedience, monastic discipline, community life and prayer. From the time of his solemn profession, the tasks entrusted to Marmion enabled him to develop those spiritual talents which would constitute his proper charism: the development of a spiritual doctrine solidly built on the Bible and the Liturgy which he propagated in his retreats, spiritual conferences and, above all, in his spiritual direction of a vast number of souls.
We are undeniably in the presence of an authentic charism of the Spirit. His teaching develops that attitude which is essential for the Christian soul once it comes into contact with God: the attitude of the Son towards the Father. It is the same as that of the Only Begotten who, according to St Paul and St John comes into us, prays in us and brings us to the Father.
The example and teaching of Columba Marmion constitute an important contribution to the history of modern Christian spirituality as well as to monastic spirituality, which he roots in the liturgical experience of the mystery of salvation.
This charism of spiritual teaching flowered and reached its brightest and most convincing embodiment in Columba Marmion's abbatial service which he was called to exercise in the community at Maredsous. But it also shines as rays of light in a much wider arena. Dom Marmion's influence as a spiritual father found an extraordinary vehicle when his conferences were published in book form. Translations and editions of these conferences multiplied in a very short time.
What characterises the spiritual teaching of the Blessed Columba Marmion, and what explains the incredible popularity of his writings among all walks of ecclesial life is the fact that he emphasised the biblical, liturgical and theological roots of experience in such a way that any Christian reading his works can find himself immediately at ease. According to Marmion, the monastic life is nothing other than the Christian life brought to its perfection. The liturgical piety of monks is that of the Church and nothing more.
It is this universal opening of the treasures of the monastic life which guarantees that the Blessed Columba Marmion's teaching will be received by future generations.
The solemn beatification of Dom Marmion is an invitation to all Christians, especially to the monks and nuns who are the sons and daughters of the Patriarch of Norcia, to see in this great Abbot a beacon of light radiating evangelical wisdom and illuminating the sure path that leads to life, and to God.
Columba Marmion, Oeuvres Spirituelles (containing Marmion's three principle works: Christ the Life of the Soul, Christ the Ideal of the Monk, and Christ in His Mysteries, together with a translation of his English correspondence), Paris, Éd. Lethielleux 1998.
M. Tierney. Columba Marmion, a biography, Dublin, Columba Press, 1995.
M. Tierney, French translation of this work to appear shortly.
F. Poswick et C. Soliamont, Dom Columba Marmion (1858-1923), Un guide spirituel pour notre temps, Namur, Éd. Fidélité 2000.
Fr Olivier Raquez was born in 1923 and professed in the Abbey of St-André, in Bruges, Belgium in 1944. He is Procurator General of the Congregation of the Annunciation: Passeggiata del Gianicolo 5, 0165 Roma.


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Ruthy Hebard of Fairbanks collected two rebounds, two free throws and a steal in the final two minutes to help the No. 10 Oregon Ducks beat No. 3 seed Maryland 77-63 in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
The 6-foot-4 starting forward finished with 16 points, eight rebounds and three steals in 33 minutes.
Hebard, of West Valley High fame, played in Alaska's March Madness a year ago.
Now she's part of the NCAA's March Madness and will face 4-time defending national champion Connecticut.
Yes, that UConn.
The Huskies have won 110 games in a row and redefined the way people look at women's basketball.
This will be Hebard's first look at UConn up close and personal.
The freshman has been a key contributor in helping the Ducks reach the Elite Eight for the first time in school history.
Hebard leads Oregon in scoring [15.0], rebounding [8.7], field-goal percentage [.593] and steals [49] in 36 games.
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Pedestrian Struck, Killed By Vehicle On Oconto County S
Chris Tyni, 63, of Oconto, died at the scene at about 4:58 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 21 after being struck from behind by a vehicle while he was walking along County S north of County N in the Town of Oconto.
According to Oconto County Sheriff's Office, when deputies and first responders arrived it was determined that a van, operated by a 58-year-old male from Oconto, had struck and killed Tyni. Name of the driver has not been released. The van had been traveling north.
The matter remains under investigation by the Oconto County Sheriff's Office and the Brown County Medical Examiner's Office. The Oconto County Sheriff's Office was assisted at the scene by the Oconto Police Department, Oconto Fire Department, Oconto County Highway Department and the Brown County Medical Examiner's Office.
Tyni, known by some as "Eddy," was born in 1956 in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., but was raised in Gwinn, Mich., where he graduated in 1974. Days after graduation he started working at CCI and continued there for the next 35 years. He later moved to Oconto.
A funeral Mass was held on Monday, Dec. 2, at St. Anthony Catholic Church in Gwinn. Burial will take place in the Gwinn Cemetery in the spring of 2020.


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Jurgen Klopp has showered heaps of praise on Liverpool striker Roberto Firmino, saying he is a world-class player.
Firmino, who won the Champions League title with Liverpool last season, has managed just nine goals in all competitions this season for the Reds. However, Klopp has rightly pointed out that he is an 'unselfish' player, as the Brazilian has provided 10 assists thus far.
The 28-year-old is a typical top quality modern-day striker. He is pivotal to the Liverpool system, and Klopp suggests that the Brazilian's role is that of a 'connector'. Firmino drops deep, helps in the build-up play, creates space for other attacking players with his sublime skills, and brings a lot more to the table than with just goals and assists.
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Klopp said to Joe.co.uk: "He's a connector. It's pretty rare you meet a person like Bobby who is so unselfish that he's like 'pass the ball' and he's really happy about it until he realises I haven't scored for four or five weeks actually.
"But he's unbelievable. He's a work-horse, just a sensationally good guy."
Firmino's work-rate is simply admirable. The Brazilian, however, is yet to score at Anfield this season, but his contribution to the side is immeasurable.
Liverpool have taken a massive 25 points lead at the top and are only two wins away from their nine remaining games to lift the Premier League trophy for the first time in 30 years.
Klopp could be looking to sign a new striker in the summer. With Divock Origi failing to replicate the heroics of last season, the Reds boss is looking to bolster the forward department.
The Reds have been heavily linked with a move for RB Leipzig striker Timo Werner who could offer a different option to Firmino. Werner is a natural finisher and has notched up 27 goals in all competitions this season.
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Description: You can "roll out the green carpet" this summer, but it will take a little work. Environmental Construction Inc. offers some simple advice to help with lawn care management this spring.
Wow...we have just been through Snowmaggedon 2019 and the 3rd coldest February on record. I don't know about you, but I am definitely ready for spring!
What tasks await you in the garden this season? Very soon the ground will be soft enough to plant many of the delicious garden vegetables. You might have already started growing flower seeds indoors. Those can be transplanted in the garden in April. Once you have pruned your roses, it will be time to start feeding them. A good quality organic rose fertilizer will help out greatly, as producing all those beautiful blooms takes a good deal of effort for the plant. And then, once the flowers have been planted and received your nurturing touch, it will be time to focus in another direction: Lawn care management.
This time of year, your lawn is begging for attention, but what does it need? In spring, the lawn looks it's worst. Even after the needed raking and removal of debris, there is still more to do to ensure it is healthy for the coming months when you will want a thick and beautiful outdoor carpet. With a little care, we can help you get it looking lush and ready to grow.
First, let's find your lawn's pH. A simple pH test kit from a garden center or big box store will do the trick. It will have capsules filled with powder and a test gauge with levels marked for soil and water. Follow the directions and you will learn just how acidic your lawn really is. Most lawns around here run well into the acid range. It's a result of our beautiful conifers, significant rains, and native soils. Included in the test kit will be information about the amount of pelletized lime to add, provided you are brave enough to calculate square footage. Information is also available from many extension services like the one from Oregon State University.
Is your lawn looking thin in places? Now is the perfect time for overseeding. If there are thin spots, the first warm wet spring months are perfect for seeding them. Lawn seed comes in many different types, but basically, it all falls into two categories: sun and shade. Shade seed will work just fine in the sun, but the opposite is not necessarily true. The seed marketed as "seed for direct sun" will generally take more traffic than the shade varieties. That means if your yard endures a lot of foot traffic, a rambunctious pet, extra stress during the year, or you are generally tough on your lawn...think SUN. For most lawns, I usually plant seeds for shade. A one-fourth inch layer of compost or straw over the top will help keep the new seed moist and discourage hungry birds.
I recommend giving your lawn a little break between lime, seed, and fertilizer unless you really know what you are doing. Too many applications all at once can be a bit overwhelming. Feed and water the lawn, but do so with care.
For help with lawn care management or any other spring garden maintenance, contact Lori at Environmental Construction Inc. We have a garden stewardship team that is here for you and ready for planting. Request a consultation. No job is too big or too small...and every question deserves an answer.


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Góra – wieś w Polsce położona w województwie mazowieckim, w powiecie płockim, w gminie Staroźreby. Leży przy DK10.

Miejscowość jest siedzibą rzymskokatolickiej parafii św. Jakuba Apostoła w dekanacie raciążskim, diecezji płockiej.

Do 1914 siedziba gminy Góra.

W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość należała administracyjnie do województwa płockiego.

Historia
Podczas Bitwy Warszawskiej w czasie wojny polsko-bolszewickiej w sierpniu 1920 wokół Góry toczyły się intensywne walki, w których brała udział m.in. polska 1 Kolumna Lekkich Samochodów Pancernych Ford FT-B, a sama miejscowość kilkakrotnie przechodziła z rąk do rąk.

Zabytki
 drewniany kościół św.Jakuba Apostoła (1839) z cmentarzem i dzwonnicą,
 zespół pałacowo-parkowy.

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