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Ellie Macmillan-Fox is doing a Master's in Climate Change: Environment, Science and Policy. She also did her undergraduate degree at King's in History and International Relations. She has a keen interest in women's participation in global politics, as well as environmental politics.
[Featured Image: A collage of the various actors who have portrayed the character of James Bond. Source.]
DISCLAIMER: This article was written before the announcement of the tragic death of Sean Connery on 31st October 2020. Our thoughts go out to his family at this difficult time. He made many great contributions to cinema outside of the Bond franchise, but he truly was a great Bond and is in no way blamed by this article for the actions of the character, which reportedly he "hated". (https://www.looper.com/217067/the-reason-sean-connery-regrets-playing-james-bond/).
Like many of the nation, I was pretty bored whilst the country was in national lockdown. But, as a massive film buff, I found solace in my family's excessive DVD collection. After watching all the Star Wars, Marvel and most of the Mission Impossible films, I decided to turn to an even longer running film series: James Bond.
Often my film taste surprises people. I've become used to people assuming that because I'm feminine, I must only like 'chick flicks'. Don't get me wrong, I adore rom-coms. But I also love The Lord of the Rings, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and The Dark Knight trilogy. So why then is this seen as unusual?
The answer is that these films aren't made for women – they're viewed as 'masculine' films. Here are three reasons for this:
Firstly, they involve violence. Yes, some women may not like watching violence, but only in the same way that some men may not. Personally I appreciate a good fight scene, especially when it has been expertly choreographed by talented stunt and special effects crews.
Secondly, women are rarely the main characters. They're typically the damsels in distress that the hero must rescue from the clutches of evil. The women seem incapable of doing anything to help themselves, unable to resist the charms of the protagonist as they fall into his arms and reward his bravery with a passionate kiss. Think Lois Lane in Superman (1978), all the women in the Indiana Jones films and Mary Jane in Spider-Man (2002).
Finally, the action genre is built on foundations of sexism. James Bond wasn't the first action film, but it helped popularise them and many films have been influenced by it since. I had watched all of Daniel Craig's Bond's and a handful others, before I embarked on my Bond binge. But I had never before been so aware of the appalling sexism that plagues the films. Within the first 20 minutes of Goldfinger (1964), I couldn't believe my eyes as Bond shunned a swimsuit clad woman away so he could speak to a male CIA agent, by proclaiming "man talk" and slapping her butt. [1]
But this is nothing compared to later in the film when Bond imposes himself on Pussy Galore (yes really, that is her name) until she submits. Later, in The Living Daylights (1987), I despaired as Bond used a naked woman to distract an opponent. [3] Time and again Bond behaved in ways that was misogynistic, towards women with the most objectifying, sexist names possible: Plenty O'Tool, Octopussy and Holly Goodhead to mention a few. [4] I highly recommend watching this YouTube compilation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7qn5Iw5TDM) of Bond faux pas, as it is hilariously and excruciatingly awful.
This is not to mention the cliché these films created of a masculine hero encountering a beautiful woman who tends to accept his invitation into bed almost immediately. This woman is later dumped, kidnapped or tragically dies and is dismissed as 'collateral damage'. They are not only inconsequential and two dimensional characters, but are seen purely as objects of male pleasure. They are there to paint Bond as an alpha male, they service his needs and are thrown away. As Barbra Ellen put it, they 'primarily exist to look sexy and impressed'.[5] Thus, considering the treatment of women in the Bond franchise, it is unsurprising that the genre it helped create is widely viewed as unenjoyable for women.
But the real question is, are today's action films still male centric and sexist, or has there been some improvement? To this I would say, there has been some but not nearly enough. Ben Child made an interesting observation about how Judi Dench as 'M' was used as a device to highlight Bond's misogyny. [6] In Goldeneye (1995), she called Bond a 'sexist, misogynist dinosaur, a relic of the cold war'. [7] Similarly in Quantum of Solace (2008), she scolds Bond after the MI6 agent he slept with is killed. 'Look how well your charm works James', she says standing over the body, 'how many is that now?'. [8] But now that (SPOILER) Dench has been killed off, we're left with only Moneypenny, who encourages Bond's workplace flirting.
In terms of the wider action genre, there has been an increase in female action heroes in recent years. Charlize Theron was incredibly badass in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), even though she wasn't the titular role. [9] A more three dimensional and highly capable female character was introduced with Ilsa Faust in Mission Impossible: Rouge Nation (2015). [10] But for me, the MCU comes out top for Captain Marvel (2019). As a long time Marvel fan I watched the likes of Iron Man and Thor kick ass countless times, whilst the female characters faded into the background. The few female superheroes, like Black Widow, Gamora and Okoye, [11] were far less capable than the men. But watching Captain Marvel gave me a feeling of empowerment like no other action film ever has. Here was a film ABOUT a female hero. She was complicated, likable and more powerful than any of the male superheroes that proceeded her. Plus she fought bad guys to a girl-power, nineties-grunge soundtrack – could you ask for anything more?
The action genre should learn from the success of Captain Marvel: female heroes are just as watchable as men, if not more due to the current novelty. As Victoria McNally puts it, 'women can struggle emotionally, kick ass physically, excel intellectually, or any combination thereof in the real world', and this needs to be represented in fiction too. [12] As for James Bond, the next instalment, No Time to Die, does seem cause for some optimism. Lashana Lynch (who also featured in Captain Marvel I might add) will be playing Bond's 007 replacement. This is a great opportunity for the franchise to modernise and demonstrate women are just as capable as Bond. I sincerely hope they rise to it.
Although, when it will actually be released remains a mystery in the current times (it's already been delayed by a year from the original date). I guess in the mean time I'll be at home watching Captain Marvel on repeat.
[1] Goldfinger, Directed by Guy Hamilton, (1964), London: Eon.
[2] Goldfinger.
[3] The Living Daylights, Directed by John Glen, (1987), London: Eon.
[4] Diamonds are Forever, Directed by Guy Hamilton, (1971), London: Eon ; Octopussy, Directed by John Glen, (1983), London: Eon; Moonraker, Directed by Lewis Gilbert, (1979), London: Eon.
[5] Barbara Ellen, 'A #MeToo Bond defeats the whole object of the spy who loved me', The Guardian, (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/18/danny-boyle-new-james-bond-film-me-too).
[6] Ben Child, 'Time's up for James Bond: is 007 too toxic for the #MeToo era', The Guardian, (https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jan/30/times-up-for-james-bond-is-007-too-brutish-for-the-me-too-era).
[8] Quantum of Solace, Directed by Marc Forster, (2008).
[9] Victoria McNally, 'Are Women Taking Over Male-Centric Action Movies From Within?' MTV, (http://www.mtv.com/news/2245549/women-action-movie-protagonists/).
[11] Iron Man 2, Directed by John Favreau, (2010); Guardians of the Galaxy, Directed by James Gunn, (2014); Black Panther, Directed by Ryan Coogler, (2018).
[12] McNally, 'Women'.
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I will admit from the start that I am a sports junkie. I don't watch as many professional sports these days, but if given the choice between a movie of the week, a rerun, or a bad reality show (are there any good reality shows??), I'll almost always choose a sporting event. So it shouldn't surprise you that I've been catching as much of the Olympics in Rio as I can—which is only the primetime stuff.
How can you not be impressed with Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky?? They are both amazing. I'd like to root for the USA basketball team, but I'm one of those old-time purists who believe the Olympics should be an amateur-only event. I'm confused by some of the events in the Olympics. I watched just a brief minute of the air pistol competition. I know those shooters are very skilled, but they all stand in a row-perfectly still. Shouldn't the Olympics involve SOME kind of movement beyond the index finger pulling a trigger??
I get a kick out of the stories that emerge—the unknown athletes who rise to the occasion and score a stunning upset. For instance, the winner of that air pistol event?? A man from Vietnam—Vietnam's very first medal of any kind in the Olympics. That's grand.
Or Monica Puig. If you don't know her you are forgiven. She is a professional tennis player from Puerto Rico. I don't know her ranking among the female professionals, but I'd be surprised if she were in the top twenty. She won the gold medal and watching her reaction was worth everything.
Our women's gymnastics team was awesome! Simone Biel is extraordinary and she comes complete with a life story that makes you want to root for her again and again.
The event that captivates my imagination the most is the diving. After training relentlessly for years and years, all your blood, sweat and tears comes down to one dive. Any mistake—EVERY mistake is magnified many times over. It doesn't seem fair, but that's the way it goes. It's the same for everybody. Frankly, I don't even know how the judges can distinguish between most of the dives—they all look good to me.
But there is one element that separates the divers from one another—a way to score more points than the others. They call it "degree of difficulty". A simple Swan Dive (that most any of us can do) does not get awarded the same number of points as the diver who does an inward two and a half somersault with one a half twists—nor should it. Those athletes that go for the spectacular ought to be rewarded for their courage of risking everything.
I'm wondering if "degree of difficulty" ought to be factored in to our life scores, too. Some of of us have had to overcome more than others of us. You and I both know people who ought to be crippled by the amount of weight they carry on their shoulders, but still they persevere. Maybe we should give out medals to the ones that inspire us with their pluck—their capacity to overcome adversity.
And I think I'm glad God judges on a curve—I'm not sure any of us would medal without His grace.


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New Delhi: Home Minister Rajnath Singh and the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) Wednesday denied that the minister's son wasn't fielded in the Uttar Pradesh by-elections due to alleged misconduct.
The PMO came out with a categorical denial shortly after Rajnath Singh threatened to "quit politics and stay at home" if any of the allegations against his family was proved.
"If any allegations against me or any of my family is proved, then I will quit politics and stay at home," he told reporters here.
The home minister was reacting to reports which had said he was upset that Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not want the BJP to field Rajnath Singh's son Pankaj Singh from Noida in the by-election next month.
Rajnath Singh said he had spoken to both Modi and BJP president Amit Shah and "both were surprised and have termed (the reports) baseless".
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Q: How to give width & height as an final argument for Image.asset in StatefulWidget in flutter? I want to pass Width and Height argument as final so that each image can be given its own independent argument.
Images i am using has to be used with it given respective width and height.
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            child: Image.asset(widget.imag, width: 50,height: 50,), // want to pass wid and hig as argument
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              child: Image.asset(widget.imag, width: 50,height: 50,),
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I know the question is confusing but not getting how to frame it.

A: You can assign height directly to the image widget
 child: Image.asset(widget.imag, width: widget.wid,height: widget.hig,)

A: Your declarations are slightly wrong.
change:
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Then you can just assign them to the Image like you did with the Image source.

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As soon as people do not name brown browns: white and black granny, Berezovik, gray mushroom, black mushroom, common, kazarik.
Call it whatever you like, the main thing that was delicious!
Boletus — common Russian name for several species of fungi of the genus Leccinum or Obabok (Leccinum).
The habitat of boletus is a deciduous forest.
Red boleberry grows mainly in birch and mixed forests, in damp, wetlands under birches, as well as in gardens where there are birches.
In boletus a bit slippery, dull, brown shades of the cap. The flesh on the cut is not always colored. Other signs — brown scales on the leg, whitish tubes.
From aspen mushrooms (which are also several species of mushrooms from the genus Leccinum), boletus differs not only in the color of the cap, but also in its thinner stem and less dense cap pulp.
People call brows in different ways: grandma, grandma is white and black, birch, gray mushroom, black mushroom, small, kazarik.
All boletus — edible. Botanists distinguish several species of a brownberry (and they argue which of them is really a species, and which is a subspecies of one of the species):
brown sueder(Leccinum scabrum) — the same classic brownish with a brown, slightly slippery cap;
black sueder(Leccinum scabrum f. Melaneum, Leccinum scabrum melaneum), whose cap is darker, in some cases almost black;
brown birch marsh, the same brown sueder white(Leccinum scabrum f. Chioneum, Leccinum holopus) — so named because it grows more often in swamps, and its cap is very light, white or whitish-brown;
brownish pinking, the same oxidized(Leccinum scabrum f. Oxydabile, Leccinum oxydabile) — it is named this way because on the cut it acquires a coral shade in the cap and a yellowish gray in the stem, while many other types of boletus (for example, ordinary) do not change the color on the cut;
brown sueder, the same grabber(Leccinum carpini, Leccinum pseudoscabrum) — it is known in the Caucasus and loves the company of a hornbeam (relative of birch), the color of its cap can be both light gray and brown, on the cut the flesh is colored pinkish-purple, then gray, to almost black;
brown suede, the same hardish and poplar(Leccinum duriusculum) — its flesh is really a bit harder than that of other species, and on the break it blushes (in the cap and the upper part of the leg) or turns blue (in the lower part);
brown birch, or blackening(Leccinum nigrescens), the cap of which is brown-yellow in color, and the flesh on the cut becomes wine-red or purple-brown, and then turns black; known in the warm regions of Europe, in Russia — in the Caucasus;
brown suede ash gray(Leccinum leucophaeum), the name of which hints at the color of the tubular layer — the bottom of the cap, while the peel of the cap is brown, and the flesh on the cut turns pink (bluish at the base);
boletus variegated, the same multicolored(Leccinum variicolor), which is quite different from other browns in appearance: its hat is very dark, almost black, variegated, with oblong-shaped yellowish burnings (although there are several varieties of brown-colored variegated with a hat of brick or orange color, also variegated), the leg at the base is blue green, on a cut getting a pinkish and greenish shade; These mushrooms grow under birches, poplars, oaks and spruces.
AT culinary and taste plan different species of brown boletus (as well as an orange boletus) almost no different from each other.
The pulp of boletus mushrooms very quickly becomes loose, so it is better to take boletus of young boletus and cook them together with other mushrooms, since they themselves do not have a pronounced taste.
Brownberry darkens with any treatment.
Boletus mushrooms can be fried and stewed (they are especially well combined with sour cream), you can pickle and pickle them, they make a good mushroom soup.
With browns you can cook pasta and risotto.
In different dishes, brownberries go well with buckwheat, pearl barley, rice, potatoes, cabbage, carrots, lentils, peas, sweet peppers.
Brownberries are great for filling in pies, pizza, rolls, homemade bread.
It is advisable to prepare the mushroom filling in advance, that is, lightly boil or fry the mushrooms before laying in the dough.
In the middle zone of Russia, brownberries are collected from June to October, but the main season starts from the end of July to the beginning of August.
In some areas they can be found until November.
Brownberries they do not hide in the grass, they are always in sight, they are easy to gather in spacious birch forests in groups and singly.
Brownberries can be found on the edge, on the lawns of birch and mixed forests.
In a mixed forest, boletus stands close to a birch.
It is not necessary to collect mushrooms near the highway: they absorb harmful substances from the exhaust gases of cars passing by.
The safe collection fee starts at a few hundred Mestras from highways.
The only mushroom with which an inexperienced mushroom picker can confuse a boletus is, — gall mushroom or colloquially false brownish (Tylopilus felleus).
He looks like an ordinary one — his hat is tubular at the bottom, brown on the outside, its leg is speckled. It is not poisonous, but if one such mushroom comes across, the whole dish will be spoiled, because it is very bitter, and this bitterness intensifies during cooking.
The first sign of a false brownish is the pinkish hue of the tubular part of the cap. In doubtful cases, you can touch her tongue (feeling so-so, but it is not dangerous).
For a precise definition of the type of specific fungus and its belonging to edible or poisonous mushrooms, refer to special directories.
At buying brownberries It is advisable to find out where they were collected.
It is better to purchase mushrooms in stationary markets, where products are checked for compliance with sanitary standards.
Avoid buying large mushrooms.
All for the same reason — the older the fungus, the higher the concentration of absorbed toxic substances in it.
Yes, and worms in young boletus, as a rule, smaller.
Do not buy already processed mushrooms "With hands": dried, salted, pickled, etc.
Among other pieces, pale toadstools can be caught, it is better not to risk it.
Mushrooms refer to perishable products, they can not keep a long time.
Podberezovki need to be processed on the day of collection (or on the day of purchase).
First of all, mushrooms are cleared of debris, legs are cut off, and damaged areas are cut out. To prevent the mushrooms from turning black, use stainless steel knives.
Then they are either prepared immediately or stored for the future.
The main ways to preserve mushrooms — drying, frost, salting, pickling (and canning in sterilized, hermetically sealed glass jars). From dried mushrooms can be made mushroom powder.
You can also cook from minced meat and boiled mushroom mass (and then preserve) mushroom extract.
From mushroom caviar you can make so much of everything — you will be surprised! First, sandwiches, of course. .
Serve the mushrooms with sour cream hot, with potatoes or rustic bread.
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Aspen, boletus and boletus are great for cooking a variety of dishes. Of.
Marinating mushrooms is easy, but you should still remember some rules. First of all, every kind.
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import ghidra.app.util.bin.format.pdb2.pdbreader.*;

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 * This class represents the StMsType flavor of Enum type.
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 * Note: we do not necessarily understand each of these data type classes.  Refer to the
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	public static final int PDB_ID = 0x1007;

	/**
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		count = reader.parseUnsignedShortVal();
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I am asked what I was talking about the other day about my big blow up at the blog I used to write for. I wrote it up at the time in three pieces I posted here right after it happened. It's probably more complicated than anyone really wants to go through, but . . .
The incident I referred to was when the journalist Lindsay Beyerstein posted an inaccurate and seriously distorted piece about a post I wrote dealing with Sugar Ray Leonard's claim that his bad behavior was related to an alleged incident of someone making a gay pass at him when he was an adult. She misrepresented what I said in her piece which was then used by Mary Elizabeth Williams at Salon who repreated distortions of what I said to get a column out of it. Lindsay Beyerstein is the daughter of Barry Beyerstein who, dead by that time, had been an active but minor figure in professional atheism ("skepticism") of the pre-Dawkins period, one of the CSICOP gang. His writing as a psychologist directly supported what I had said in the piece that his daughter misrepresented. Which I thought was entirely legitimate to point out. And still do.
Lindsay Beyerstein has had what I assume is a paid role in that kind of organized "skepticism" though I don't follow their antics much while I'm not writing about them I do know that much about her. It's how I figured out the connection to Barry Beyerstein who I knew about years before that.
In looking at her then "Big Think" blog to research that piece, to see if my name appeared on it before that incident, I found out that one fan of the CSICOP cult, maybe a member (they posted under a pseudonym) had earlier posted a comment on Beyerstein's blog calling out the flying monkey squad to attack me when I criticized Martin Gardner. Beyerstein answered the comment so she knew I'd written critically about CSICOP and Gardner, a, then, major figure in her family side-line of pseudo-skepticism. Which I found and do find relevant to what she said about me.
That incident did play a minor but crucial part in my developing thinking about the role that ideological atheism played in damaging a regard for the truth which, in turn, did serious damage to the real left instead of the secular (read "atheist") play-left, something I had written about a number of times before the piece about Sugar Ray Leonard's claim. To understand it you do have to read the post that started it all and the firestorm of comments (which I think are probably taken down - I haven't bothered to look) which led to me coming to some important conclusions about the uses of stereotypes and accusations and how what was used against gay men was different from what was used to advantage straight men and to damage women and similar issues.
It's complicated but lots of things are. Now, aren't you sorry you asked?
Rmj September 9, 2018 at 8:54 AM
Whatever happened to Martin Gardner? As an intellectual force, I mean? Or Christopher Hitchens? Even Madalyn Murray O'Hare? Dawkins is practically forgotten, and he's still alive.
It's not an argument for religion, to point out what a quickly spent force they were. But it certainly doesn't say much about atheism, that so many of its proponents fade so quickly away. Even Russell is remembered more for the Principia than for "Why I Am Not A Christian."
The Thought Criminal September 9, 2018 at 10:01 AM
There was a time when Joseph McCabe was a big name in atheism and before him, Charles Bradlaugh. It is an extremely superficial and ephemeral ideology.
I came to the conclusion that after he couldn't interest Wittgenstein in continuing his work and, then, when Godel demolished the conclusion of the Principia Russell went into being the world's most prominent atheist as a retirement career. If you go back and read the essays that no one reads anymore, it's like a roadmap into pretty much everything that's wrong with the 19th century materialism that was his faith. It is ironic that even more disturbing to him than Godel was probably the physics of the first two decades of the 20th century. His review of Eddington's The Nature of The Physical World is about the gloomiest thing I've ever read on the topic. I think he was a good enough logician that he realized that if indeterminacy were true, along with other features of the new physics, his materialism was without any sound intellectual base of the kind he hoped to find in the logical foundations of mathematics.
I'd bet that easily 98% of atheists would know absolutely nothing about that.
Modern theology is entirely more of a rigorous intellectual engagement than even high level atheist stuff.
Rmj September 9, 2018 at 10:38 AM
Well, think about it, atheism is largely the assertion; "God does not exist!" After that, what have you got? It's: "People who disagree with me are stupid!"
I mean, the first is: "Okay, fine, that's what you think." But the second is just insult. Strictly speaking, if God's existence cannot be proven, neither can it be disproved, so after that, what's left? Discussing the nature of God's non-existence?
In the end, it's just a bootless enterprise.
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After some discussion on Twitter, I have decided to add the entire process, unedited, as it was sent to me by Tim. I think it is important to present it as it as such because each step is important to the process and leaving it out was a disservice to anyone wanting to try it. I didn't include it originally because I am doing things a little differently than is described. I am going to use the seven designs that survived the initial cut as practice, so I will be taking them through the process all the way to the maquette. I may end up producing them all, but we'll see…That's going to be a lot of work! Enjoy!
Day one: Sketch 20 variations on the table in 20 minutes. Take 5 sheets of paper quarter them and let your self go. Don't worry about detail – this is all about form. Play with the curves. Limit yourself to the twenty minutes and focus on exploring – pick up on themes you like as the sketches evolve. This exercise is about tuning into design elements that are important to you. This is not about thinking – this is about channeling your inner moose.
Get Elizabeth to look at them with you and identify the ones she likes best.
Elizabeth will pick the one she likes the best. Cheer loudly and drink wine.
Next day: (Have you taken By Hand and By Eye?) Use proportions to refine the design – the overall proportions on the specific proportions – width of the base relative to the top height of the central column (if it survives the review).
Next day build a maquette (or two). If you have some 1/8″ ply handy use that, or resaw some poplar for legs, use some veneer or other thin stock for the top.
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AWARE is available to everyone on GitHub under the Apache Software License 2.0. In a nutshell, this means that you may use it for commercial and research purposes without restrictions (however we would love to hear about your projects and what you are using AWARE for!). AWARE is about freedom and choice. One of AWARE's purposes is to promote openness in the mobile research world, and we don't believe it's possible to predict or dictate all the uses to which people will want to put our software. So, while we encourage everyone to make plugins that are open and modifiable, we don't believe it is our place to force them to do so. Using LGPL libraries would often force them to do just that.
LGPL (in simplified terms) requires either: shipping of source to the application; a written offer for source; or linking the LGPL-ed library dynamically and allowing users to manually upgrade or replace the library.
LGPL requires allowance of customer modification and reverse engineering for debugging those modifications. Most application developers do not want to have to be bound by these terms.
Historically, LGPL libraries have been the source of a large number of compliance problems for application developers. Educating developers on these issues is difficult and slow-going, unfortunately. It's critical to AWARE's success that it be as easy as possible for developers to comply with the licenses. Given the difficulties with complying with LGPL in the past, it is most prudent to simply not use LGPL libraries if we can avoid it.
The issues discussed above are our reasons for preferring ASL2.0 for our own code. They aren't criticisms of LGPL or other licenses. We are passionate about this topic, even to the point where we've gone out of our way to make sure as much code as possible is ASL2.0 licensed. However, we love all free and open source licenses, and respect others' opinions and preferences. We've simply decided ASL2.0 is the right license for our goals: a platform from researchers to researchers, and beyond.


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Is cultured meat the 'new' alternative to real meat: A dietitian's take
Published on 7 October 2021
While we might be familiar with plant-based food products (made up of plant-derived proteins such as soy, tofu, brown rice, or pea proteins) developed by food companies, cultured meat products are a relatively novel entry into the food landscape.
Cultured meat, also known as clean meat, in-vitro meat or lab-grown meat, is meat that has been grown in a lab using animal cells. Ms Ong Kai Wen, Senior Dietitian, Department of Dietetics, National University Hospital (NUH), explained, "Cultured meat is an alternative to meat, grown from muscles or fat cells of animals in a culture medium (in-vitro), outside of the actual animal itself."
With global meat consumption proving to be an ecologically unsustainable process, cultured meat provides a balance between the demand for real meat products alongside an environmentally-sound method of consumption. Because cultured meat only requires the cells of an animal, it may provide a slaughter-free, humane way of evolving our eating habits, while not compromising on a familiar flavour profile.
Making cultured meat
So how is cultured meat created?
The process begins by procuring starter cells from an animal's body that are attained during biopsies. "The sample of cells are selected, screened and multiplied in an appropriate culture medium which provides nutrients, hormones and growth factors under a tightly controlled environment. Exponential cell growth in bioreactors allows the formation of the 'meat' with characteristics of muscles and fats. Products can then be harvested and prepared using conventional food processing and packaging methods," Ms Ong explained.
Known health benefits
As cultured meat is still in its infancy stages, there is a lack of long-term scientific data that showcases the true, continuing health benefits or drawbacks of this bleeding edge product.
However, given its lab-based origins, Ms Ong said that cultured meat products can reasonably have a few advantages to our dietary intake. "Cultured meat products could potentially be less prone to microbial contamination (i.e. E. coli and other intestinal pathogens), lowering biological risk and its associated diseases, through standardised production methods.
The ability to tailor what gets added in the production of these products may contribute to improved nutrition, for example, the possibility of creating a product with lower cholesterol and saturated fat than the meat counterpart," she commented.
The capacity to adjust and control fat and cholesterol levels in lab grown meat is a key factor in creating and maintaining healthier populations, since blood cholesterol levels can lead to cardiovascular diseases. "Mimicking meat with enhanced nutritional properties, the ideal cultured meat should consist of highly digestible proteins with excellent amino acid composition, ideal fatty acid composition, minerals like iron, zinc and selenium, B vitamins and other bioactive compounds like taurine and creatine," Ms Ong shared.
While cultured chicken has been approved for sale at selected venues in Singapore, there is still little known about how accepting diners are of their next meal growing in a petri-dish. What will the future of food bring next? We can only wait and see.
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Well, it is obvious that "boozey" isn't a word, but I think it describes these brownies very well!
My sister is a coffee addict. Really, check out her blog ladylovescoffee.com to see just how much she loves it...and I love baking, so the challenge of using coffee liqueur infused into the brownie intrigued me. I'm not a coffee lover. I really wish I was. It seems so fun ordering drinks with all the fancy names. But the taste is just so strong and I can't quite grasp loving the flavor.
That being said...these brownies are a great introduction for me and coffee. The flavor is good, not overwhelming (it has to be all the chocolate and browned buttery goodness). They are awesomely fudgey and just pretty darn tasty.
I found the recipe over at RecipeGirl (she knows what is up when it comes to baking brownies).
I had to modify it a bit to fit what I had on hand when I made these, but it was just some chocolate substitution. No biggie!
Line an 8x8 or 9x9 baking dish with aluminum foil, coat with cooking spray.
In a microwave-safe dish, melt butter and chocolate at 30 second intervals, stirring in between until smooth. It took me about 1 1/2 minutes total. Set aside to cool a little.
In a mixing bowl combine flour, baking powder and salt.
In another large bowl mix together sugar, eggs and 1/2 cup liqueur.
Pour chocolate mixture into the sugar mixture and beat well.
Slowly add the dry mixture to the chocolate and mix until just combined.
Pour into the foil lined dish and bake for 40-45 minutes.
Don't over bake! You want them fudgey!
Remove the brownies from the oven and brush the reserved 2 tablespoons of liqueur over the top of the brownies.
Let cool for 20 minutes or so, then pop them in the fridge to finish cooling.
Melt butter in a saucepan. Continue to cook until butter turns slightly brown. You don't want to burn the butter, just brown it...the change happens quickly, so watch it!
Stir in the liqueur and the heavy cream.
Whisk in powdered sugar until the icing thickens and is still pourable.
Pour the icing over the brownies and spread evenly.
Place back in the refrigerator to set the frosting and cut with a large knife.


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Kansas Crossing to begin selling Jolly Fox beer
Jonathan Rileyjriley@morningsun.net
PITTSBURG — As shoppers seek out the best Black Friday deals this week, two local businesses are announcing a new deal of their own. Beginning Friday, Kansas Crossing Casino visitors will be able to purchase local craft beer from the Jolly Fox Brewery.
"We've been serving it as the Honey Blonde but we re-launched it as the Brew-tus this week," said Joel Stewart, CEO and head brewmaster at the Jolly Fox, located at the corner of Euclid and Broadway in Pittsburg. The name is a play on "Brutus," Kansas Crossing's mascot.
"I wanted them to control the launch of it, but I wanted to see the public's reception of the beer so we just served it incognito until we got everything worked out marketing-wise with the casino," Stewart said.
Doug Fisher, general manager at Kansas Crossing, began thinking about collaborating with a nearby brewery to serve local beer after learning of a similar arrangement between a casino and a brewery in Wichita.
About a year after he began looking into the possibility of a deal with a local brewery, and with help from Pittsburg Area Chamber of Commerce President Blake Benson in making some introductions, the agreement to serve Jolly Fox beer at the casino is finally coming to fruition.
"We're doing everything we can to get it done by Friday," Fisher said in an interview this week.
Brew-tus, formerly known as Honey Blonde, will continue to be available at the Jolly Fox, although the new name will apply to the beer at both locations. At the Jolly Fox, a pint goes for $5, and pricing will likely remain in a similar range at the casino. Stewart said he is hoping to sell about three to five kegs per week through Kansas Crossing, and another three kegs or so at the brewery.
"The casino wanted something they could market themselves and, you know, something unique to Southeast Kansas," Stewart said.
Since opening last month, the Jolly Fox also last week announced the launch of Apex Ale, a new English pale ale, in partnership with Apex Stages / Progressive Products, Inc. of Pittsburg. Stewart said he has enjoyed working with Apex Stages President Todd Allison as well as with Kansas Crossing, and Fisher similarly said the arrangement has been mutually beneficial.
"We're excited to have another partnership with the community," Fisher said.


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Health, Crime, and Doing Time: Potential Impacts of the Safe Streets and Communities Act on the Health and Well-Being of Aboriginal People in B.C., a new report by provincial officer of health Dr. Perry Kendall, says the Tory administration's approach will exacerbate what is already a crisis.
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Access to Quality Healthcare Not Improving for Native Americans and Other Groups By Michelle Tirado · 03/04/2011 · American Indian Report – Falmouth Institute
While the quality of healthcare in the United States is improving, albeit at a snail's pace, disparities based on race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status and other factors have hardly budged, according to the recently released 2010 National Healthcare Disparities Report.
The report, published every year since 2003 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, looks at the status of healthcare quality and disparities in the nation, how they have changed over time and where the needs are for improvement.
It uses a group of more than 200 core measures that are categorized in several areas of quality: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, patient-centeredness, care coordination, efficiency, health system infrastructure and access.
Across all 179 measures of healthcare quality, nearly two-thirds showed improvement, the 2010 report said. The median rate of change was 2.3 percent per year.
The story was different for access to care, which showed no improvement in about 60 percent of 22 measures. In fact, the other roughly 40 percent were heading in the other direction, the report stated. The median rate of change: -0.6 percent per year.
Few disparities faced by race/ethnic groups are getting smaller. Less than 20 percent of those gaps faced by American Indians/Alaska Natives, as well as Blacks, Hispanics and the poor people, showed signs of narrowing. The Asian/White gap narrowed for about 30 percent of the core measures.
The report found that Blacks and AI/AN people received worse care than Whites for about 40 percent of the core measure, compared to 20 percent for Asians, 60 percent for Hispanics and 80 percent for low-income people.
AI/AN and Asians had worse access to care than Whites for one of five measures, compared to one-third of the measures for Blacks, five out of six measures for Hispanics and all six measures for poor people.
The hefty report is available online in PDF format. Copy & paste this link in your browser http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nhdr10/nhdr10
The infant mortality rate is 150 percent greater for Indians than for Caucasians.
Indians are 2.6 times more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes.
Life expectancy for Indians is nearly 6 years less than the rest of the U.S. population.
Suicide for Indians is 2 1/2 times higher than the national average.
Indians have fewer mental health professionals available to treat them than does the rest of the U.S. population.
U.S. health-care expenditures for Indian men, women, and children are less than half of what the government spends on the health of federal prisoners.
American Indian/Alaska Native people (AI/ANs) had the 2nd highest diabetes death rate in 2003, the highest death rate from Chronic Liver Disease and Cirrhosis, were 1.5 times more likely to die from unintentional injuries.
American Indian and Alaskan Natives teens and young men have the highest suicide rate in the 15 to 24 age group and adult men the second highest rate of suicide after whites (CDC 2004).
The top five causes of death are heart disease, cancer, unintentional injuries, diabetes and stroke. Web Master Note: Things are not better!
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About 70 percent of Native Americans live in urban areas, according to the U.S. Census. Many Native people, although sometimes thousands of miles away from their traditional homeland, still speak their languages or maintain ties with their reservation or Indian communities, but often with some struggle.
American Indians in cities face unique challenges to their health By Garnce Burke Fresno, California (AP) 3-08 News From Indian Country 4/08
Urban American Indians face a health problem unseen by other races, researchers said during March: As they become wealthier, their rates of binge drinking and tobacco use stay the same or even rise.
The nonprofit Urban Indian Health Institute also said diabetes and obesity rates were about the same for urban Indians, whether they were rich or poor. Among other races, people with higher incomes tend to have fewer of those health problems than poorer people.
"When Indian folks drink, it appears to have nothing to do with how much money they have, and that's not true for any other racial group," said Maile Taualii, the institute's scientific director. "There seems to be a sense of hopelessness, a sense that diabetes, alcoholism and other health problems are inevitable in the community, and it doesn't have to be that way."
The Seattle-based institute, which gets federal money to track disease trends among native people, analyzed data from a random digit-dial telephone survey conducted between 2001 and 2005 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 34 cities from New York to Helena, Mont.
More than half of the roughly 2.5 million American Indians in the United States live in cities, according to the 2000 Census. Yet rarely have medical studies focused on the population's health as compared to other city dwellers, or to illness rates among Indian people living on tribal lands.
The report offers a detailed analysis of responses from the 3,224 American Indian and Alaska Natives and 178,983 non-Indians surveyed.
Overall, fewer Indian respondents reported drinking than people of other races. But among those who did drink, more American Indians reported an episode of binge drinking – or consuming five or more drinks in one go – at least once in the previous month.
Of higher-income respondents – defined as those earning more than $38,700 for a family of four – 46 percent of American Indians reported one episode of binge drinking in the previous month, compared with 25.3 percent for people of other ethnic backgrounds.
Taualii said the results of the study – and data showing that native people in some cities reported having more difficulty getting health care than urbanites of other backgrounds – show special attention must be paid to the health disparities for urban Indians.
Federal law requires taxpayer-funded tribal clinics, but the Bush administration has been pushing for those services to be cut off in urban areas. For the third year in a row, Bush's 2009 budget proposal calls for the Urban Indian Health Programs' funding to be cut.
Unlike American Indians who live in rural areas or reservations, "urban Indians have access to publicly and privately financed health care services like other Americans," said Christin Baker, a spokeswoman for the White House's Office of Management and Budget.
Newman Washington, who runs drug and alcohol programs at a government-funded Indian clinic in Wichita, Kan., said tight finances already make it difficult to meet the needs of patients from nearby tribes, including the Kickapoo, Potawatomi, Iowa, and Sac and Fox.
Clients trying to detox from alcohol often have to wait two months to be admitted to a hospital bed, or travel 75 miles to Ponca City, Okla., to be seen in an inpatient facility, Washington said.
"People go away and get an education, but then they come back home and have a really hard time changing their behavior," said Washington, a member of the Eastern Shoshone tribe of Wyoming. "Whenever you start looking at the core, there's some shame and guilt that people are carrying around from past generations."
Officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the urban clinics, did not return messages seeking comment on the study. Staff members for the Senate Indian Affairs Committee were examining the report, a spokesman for its leader, Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., said Wednesday.
Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.V., said in a statement that the report "makes it clear that far too many disparities exist between those Native Americans living on A bill approved by the Senate last week would boost programs at the federally funded Indian Health Service, prompt new construction and modernization of health clinics on reservations and attempt to recruit more Indians into health professions.
Significant Health Care Needs of American Indians and Alaska Natives Living in Urban Areas Go Unmet
November 01, 2007 – Washington, D.C.
Urban Indian Health Commission reveals that urban Indians face a high incidence of heart disease, diabetes and depression, yet have minimal access to quality health care.
Millions of American Indians and Alaska Natives living in or near cities throughout the United States are seemingly invisible to health care providers and federal and state policy-makers and yet face significant heath care disparities, according to a new report, Invisible Tribes: Urban Indians and Their Health in a Changing World. The report will be released today by the Urban Indian Health Commission (UIHC), a select group of leaders convened by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Seattle Indian Health Board's Urban Indian Health Institute to examine health care issues facing urban American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Nearly 67 percent of the nation's 4.1 million self-identified American Indians and Alaska Natives, or about 2.8 million people, call U.S. cities home. However, there is no uniform policy regarding urban Indian health, and current federal executive policy actually aims to eliminate funding for urban Indian health within the Indian Health Service.
"The collective health of this growing population continues to suffer, and disproportionately, compared to other Americans," said Ralph Forquera, M.P.H., director of the Urban Indian Health Institute. "The Commission's report illustrates the need for health care providers; policy-makers; and local, state and national private and public sector leaders to work together to provide better care to this seemingly invisible population."
The report reviews the prevalence of three diseases—depression, diabetes and cardiovascular disease—in the American Indian and Alaska Native population. Top-line findings from each disease include:
Up to 30 percent of all American Indian and Alaska Native adults suffer from depression, and there is strong reason to believe the proportion is even greater among those living in cities.
Compared to the general U.S. population, American Indians and Alaska Natives have a higher prevalence of diabetes, a greater mortality rate from diabetes and an earlier age of diabetes onset.
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death among American Indians and Alaska Natives and kills more American Indians and Alaska Natives age 45 and older than cancer, diabetes and unintentional injuries—combined.
According to the report, it is common for an urban Indian to suffer from more than one of the aforementioned diseases, which ultimately interact with, amplify and perpetuate one another. Many of the underlying causes, markers and barriers to treatment of these diseases are shared, at above-average rates, by other diseases and afflictions suffered by American Indians and Alaska Natives.
A big challenge for urban Indians is accessing high-quality, appropriate health care. The vast majority of American Indians and Alaska Natives living in cities are ineligible for or are unable to use health services offered through the Indian Health Service or tribes. And even when urban Indians do manage to access health care, they must overcome additional barriers to receiving appropriate care. Cultural misunderstandings, a lack of respect and communication obstacles often interfere with—and inhibit—the delivery of high-quality health care to urban American Indians and Alaska Natives.
"We can't ignore this population in our efforts to improve the quality of American health care," said Michael W. Painter, J.D., M.D., senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. "The nation cannot truly improve health care quality without also reducing disparities. Although we continue to make some in-roads in reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health care, these efforts have largely overlooked American Indians and Alaska Natives living in or near cities. We must make sure that the work to reduce disparities and improve the quality of care explicitly includes our nation's first people, no matter where they might currently live. If we don't, future generations will and certainly should judge us harshly."
The UIHC report recommends informed dialogue and targeted action. The public and private sectors must recognize and assist urban Indians in order to improve their access to appropriate care and health services, work to enhance data collection and research pertaining to American Indians and Alaska Natives living in cities, support funding initiatives, and identify and institute best practices in urban Indian health care. Most importantly, Americans must understand that the quality of health care for all will not improve without addressing—and reducing—disparities.
"Decades ago, tribes exchanged their land and its vast resources for federal promises of better life and better health," Forquera said. "The government has not delivered on its promise. We, as a nation, have a duty to right these wrongs, and illuminate this invisible population."
The Urban Indian Health Commission is a select group of leaders convened by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Seattle Indian Health Board's Urban Indian Health Institute to examine health care issues facing urban American Indians and Alaska Natives.
The Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI) was established in July 2000 as a division within of the Seattle Indian Health Board, a community health center targeting urban American Indians and Alaska Natives. The UIHI provides centralized nationwide management of health surveillance, research and policy considerations regarding the health status deficiencies affecting urban American Indians and Alaska Natives.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focuses on the pressing health and health care issues facing our country. As the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to improving the health and health care of all Americans, the Foundation works with a diverse group of organizations and individuals to identify solutions and achieve comprehensive, meaningful and timely change. For more than 35 years, the Foundation has brought experience, commitment and a rigorous, balanced approach to the problems that affect the health and health care of those it serves. When it comes to helping Americans lead healthier lives and get the care they need, the Foundation expects to make a difference in our lifetime.
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