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Ian McColgin
Who'd have thought Sarkozy would be so progressive? I'm a big fan of a couple of the people who wrote the report for Sarkozy. For the footnotes, go to the Common Dreams site.
Published on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 by The Nation
SARKOZY WANTS G-20 TO REJECT 'CULT OF THE MARKET'
by John Nichols
When the G-20 meets in Pittsburgh next week, French President Sarkozy will urge world leaders to make two moves -- one immediate and one long-term -- that have the potential to temper capitalism's worst abuses and reassert human values at the national and international levels.
Sarkozy's aides say he will walk out of the summit of presidents and prime ministers from the world's most developed countries if the leaders fail to endorse a plan to curb bonuses for bankers.
That's the immediate demand. And it is an important one, as it could put the G-20 in the unusual position of trying to tame -- rather than cheer on -- the banksters and corporate CEOS that have so unsettled the global economy.
But even more important will be the French president's push to "revolutionize" international definitions [1] of development, progress and achievement.
In recent decades, those measures have pretty much begun and ended with the bottom-line details of economic growth and wealth accumulation.
But Sarkozy says he wants to use the G-20 gathering as the launching point for a "fight" against what he describes as the "cult of figures" and the "cult of the market."
"A great revolution is waiting for us. For years, people said that finance was a formidable creator of wealth, only to discover one day that it accumulated so many risks that the world almost plunged into chaos," argues the French leader. "The crisis doesn't only make us free to imagine other models, another future, another world. It obliges us to do so."
Sarkozy's "revolution" would still use measures of economic growth and contraction in the analysis of a nation's success. But the definition would be expanded beyond traditional gross domestic product (GDP) models to include measures of well-being and what Sarkozy describes as "the politics of civilization." These include environmental sustainability, the quality of public services and the amount of time citizens of a country have to meet family responsibilities -- which the French leader values as "personal services provided within a family circle."
Sarkozy, a conservative who was elected on a platform that promised to make the French economy more efficient and workers more productive, is not proposing some new-age fix for what ails the global economy. Rather, he is arguing that it is time to "refound" capitalism within what he describes as "moral" parameters in response to the now year-old global economic downturn and an equally serious decline in public confidence about the direction of nation states.
The broader measures are outlined in a report Sarkozy commissioned almost two years ago from a team of Nobel Prize-winning economists [2] who have been critical of standard approaches to measuring the progress of nations, including American Joseph Stiglitz and Indian Amartya Sen, as well as Jean-Paul Fitoussi, the internationally-respected president of the French Observatoire des Conjonctures Economiques (OFCE).
The report from France's Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress [3] proposes a global "statistical system which goes beyond commercial activity to measure personal well-being..."
That's what Sarkozy will be talking about in Pittsburgh next week, as the G-20 gathers. And he won't be alone. Stiglitz will be in the city, as well, joining civil-society leaders and activists to discuss the development models and measures at a September 23 forum sponsored by The Nation, the Institute for Policy Studies and a coalition of grassroots groups. [4]
Says Stiglitz, "GDP is an attempt to measure one part of what is going on in our society which is market production. It is what I call GDP fetishism to think success in that part is success for the economy and for society."
Stiglitz, the former chief economist of the World Bank, argues that, [5] "While there is no single indicator that can capture something as complex as our society, the metrics commonly used, such as gross domestic product, suggest a trade-off: one can improve the environment only by sacrificing growth. But if we had a comprehensive measure of well-being, perhaps we would see this as a false choice."
Getting beyond false choices, contends the winner of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, will allow for sounder policy-making on the parts of governments and global groupings such as the G-20.
"What we measure affects what we do," explains Stiglitz. "If we have the wrong metrics, we will strive for the wrong things."
Using sounder measures will also increase the legitimacy of governments in the eyes of citizens, says Sarkozy.
That's a message that could resonate with at least some G-20 leaders, especially if the French president delivers it in the terms he used in Paris Monday. [6]
"For years, the official figures have boasted of more and more economic growth," Sarkozy said at the Sorbonne. "It now appears that this growth, by placing the future of the planet in danger, destroys more than it creates? All over the world, people are convinced that we are lying to them, that the figures are false, or worse, faked. Nothing could be more damaging to democracy."
© 2009 The Nation
John Nichols is Washington correspondent for The Nation and associate editor of The Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin. A co-founder of the media reform organization Free Press, Nichols is is co-author with Robert W. McChesney of Tragedy & Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy [7] - from The New Press. Nichols' latest book is The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism. [8]
Wow. How utterly unAmerican. I approve.
A recipe for stagnation. How utterly European :-)
I know what you mean. I've spent time in Western Europe. What a miserable lifestyle. The last thing we would want to do is emulate them.
Stability is stagnation?
Interesting Kaa.....
All over the world, people are convinced that we are lying to them, that the figures are false, or worse, faked. Nothing could be more damaging to democracy."
People just have to realise that Capitalism is incompatible with Democracy and eventually one of them will win out over the other.....hmmm, which one to choose?
Oh, it's nice and comfy and relaxed. Would make a good theme park.
Just don't be surprised when those uncultured philistines who stressed economic growth over "the amount of time citizens of a country have to meet family responsibilities" show up and just buy the whole place.
It's already won. No point in thinking any further.
Rigadog
On the body,
on the blued flesh, when it is
laid out, see if you can find
the one flea which is laughing.
Galway Kinell
How utterly radical - the idea that there might be a better way to judge the performance of a polico-economic system than simply gross economic activity? Shocking! A "recipe for stagnation", for money is all!
Bobby Kennedy in March 1968:
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national product ... if we should judge America by that - counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for those who break them. It counts the destruction of our redwoods and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and the cost of a nuclear warhead, and armored cars for police who fight riots in our streets. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.
"Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it tells us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans."
Hmmm, I seem to remember this happening before...something about Rome, perhaps?
High C, what percentage of the cost of one of your musical performances is paid for by ticket sales?
Oh, Keith, don't be so bloody literal-minded. No one except economists judges politico-economic systems purely on the basis of GDP. Notice the issues that come up in elections, for example -- GDP is important but it's not be-all end-all.
What Sarkozy wants is a feel-good measure, one according to which France would look better and a certain bête noire across the ocean would look worse. And the problem with feel-good measures is that if you believe them enough, you become content, fat, and lazy -- no reason to exert oneself, right?. And history isn't too kind to societies which venture down that path.
Depends...with some pop music artists things are quite profitable. The orchestra season in general maybe 35% is earned through ticket sales. The rest comes from begging.
Only a person unfamiliar with today's seminal economists would imagine that programs thought up by the likes of Stiglitz, Sen and Fitoussi would be "a feel-good measure".
The search function might get back my review from a couple years ago of Sen's most accessible book.
False dichotomy there Kaa - either fat and lazy and decadent and declining - or ruthless capitalism red in tooth and claw? There are other choices.
And attributing this to a supposed desire of the French to poke at the US might have made sense five years ago; not now, with Sarkozy and Obama in power.
I'm reading a book called 'Crash Proof' by a Peter Schiff
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=peter+schiff+was+right&meta=&aq=3&oq=peter+schiff
predicting the crash, and published in 2007. Interesting reading, especially as regards comparison with the 30's, lack of a manufacturing base and deficits'
May Friedman burn in hell.*
He and his freedom=free-markets sect, that still runs around blaring unrestricted capitalism in every mircophone available have hurt society more than anything else.
Ooops...I am German and he was jewish. This will probably make me a Nazi, right?
TomF
Very interesting ideas Sarkozy's promoting. But he's got an uphill battle, if he wants to get the heavy-hitters to agree with him.
Rapelapente
Waow! In wich country have you been ?
what do you mean by miserable lifestyle ?
I've spent some time in US and did'nt notice a better lifestyle for the average poeple.
Hey! I'm not criticizing your country, i'm loving her too much.
Just want some explanations...
Just want some explanations...Tom M was indulging in irony, which doesn't translate desperately well for someone who I presume is reading in a 2nd language. He's actually a pretty strong advocate for much of what is done in Western Europe, precisely because it leads to a good quality of life. Many of the specifics are difficult to implement in the US for what many of us consider misplaced ideological reasons.
I think we need some of our British locals to explain to their French neighbours the concept of irony :D
OK ! my low command in english made me skip the irony.
Thanks to the two Tom !
Mais, ne departe pas, Gerard.
Andrew Craig-Bennett
:D You should give warning when you post these...:D
Actually, I am pretty sure that the British adherence to the cult of the free market has killed more people than the Nazis did:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1876%E2%80%9378
No Way !
That's a bit non sequitur, isn't it? Failure to import and distribute food during a famine hardly follows from "the cult of the free market".
TomF is spot on. I sometimes forget not everyone here is a native English speaker. The judicious use of smilies would have helped convey my meaning as sarcasm. I am sorry for the confusion, Rapelapente.
I have been to France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Oh, I rather think it does, actually, if the reason for the failure to import and distribute food flows from a conviction in Government circles that the free market should not be interfered with. A good many historians and economists have said as much. The Irish famine of the 1840's is another example.
P.I. Stazzer-Newt
Half our manufacturing industry was sacrificed on that altar - a religion not abandoned until 1983....
I am not sufficiently familiar with that part of history, but free markets are not magical. They can work extremely well, but not for all things and not under all conditions. In particular, I haven't seen arguments that free markets are the best way to deal with the aftermath of catastrophes -- you are not constructing a strawman here, are you? :-)
Your own Wikipedia link, by the way, points out that one of the main reason why more food wasn't available was the government's reticence to spend the money as after the previous famine it was "criticized for excessive expenditure, which had included the costs of importing rice from Burma and providing generous charitable relief." Stinginess and the cult of free markets are not the same thing.
You also need to look at the other side of the coin. Contemporary Black Africa has been the recipient of very large amounts of aid over many years. I would submit that this has produced considerably less results than advertised or hoped for.
Again, pick up Sen's "Development as Freedom" or "Freedom as Development" - I forget the order of the title. The book starts with the breathtaking sentence that goes something like (from memory) 'There's never been mass starvation in a democracy.'
There really is a huge amount of progressive democratic economics happening and trying to happen around the world. It's like capitalism in that it depends mostly on people making free choises about economic activites but, to use an agricultural metaphore, it's more like organic farming than corporate agriculture.
Market fundamentalism is really the rule of weeds that overgrow everything, the rule of pure capital rather than of goods and services people actually want, the rule of the power elite over the population. Sen makes the case that only when paired with political democracy is deep, population raising development possible.
1983? Not here. We're still clinging tenaciously to it.
Check in here:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/freshwater-rage/
Well, I'm certainly not intentionally constructing a straw man.
The Irish famine of the 1840s was one in which the Government was notably reluctant to interfere with free markets - to the extent that food was being produced in, and shipped out of, the famine areas - part of the trouble was that Irish cottiers had lost land to their landlords who used it to graze beef cattle - which were exported.
The Great Famine in India may be a more complex case but underlying the arguments against government intervention was the argument that the free market cannot and must not be tampered with.
...but underlying the arguments against government intervention was the argument that the free market cannot and must not be tampered with.
I am sure lots of people made lots of silly arguments in favour of free markets (especially if, by pure coincidence, it served their interests), just as lots of different people made lots of different, but just as silly arguments against free markets (amazingly, also if it served their interests) :-)
But to get back to M. Sarkozy, I get suspicious when politicians start to decry the "cult of the market" as it usually means that they want to do something economically stupid. I get extra suspicious when at the same time they rail against the "cult of figures", since this means they can't even make up any non-laughable numbers and are reduced to handwaving, generalities, and slogans.
It's good to be suspicious of pols, especially if that suspicion leads to actually reading the stuff and if criticizing is warrented, criticizing what's actually there rather than what's imagined.
JBreeze
Wow, everyone here is a fast reader:D
I started reading the report the day before Nichols published the article Ian posted, and still haven't finished... it's 292 pages
Here is an interesting quote on the 14th from one of the blogs that questions Sarko's motives:
" "The speech contained the usual French verbal flamboyance that those less familiar with French culture often write off as pure hot air"
I am french living in Montreal for a long time. From Sarko this is only hot air…He likes first and foremost being in a center stage position and nothing else. He is proposing now what it was against 24 months ago when he was touting mortgage for french people the american way….yes ARM and the likes…The french government did nothing to regulate french banks, bigger is better, the last 18 months…The french government is directly (BNP for example) the main shareholder in most financial institution and it could now do whatever it wants….but parading in front on TV and media is always good for Sarko….."
So that you don't have to search Common Dream's site to find the link to the report, here is a direct link:
http://www.stiglitz-sen-fitoussi.fr/en/index.htm


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Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire A city-owned grader moves snow before dawn on Feb. 4 on Tongass Boulevard in the Mendenhall Valley. City snow removal crews have been challenged by multiple winter storms and higher-than-average snowfall.
Snow and tell: City officials offer insight into removal challenges
"It's really an intricate dance."
by Dana Zigmund
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Making tight turns in icy conditions, navigating narrow streets with parked cars and pedestrians, driving up and down snowy hills while maintaining intense focus over 12-hour shifts in the middle of snowstorms is all part of a workday for the City and Borough of Juneau's snow removal teams.
"It's really an intricate dance," Katie Koester, director of the City and Borough of Juneau's Engineering and Public Works Department, told the Empire in a Wednesday morning Zoom interview.
"Imagine the tremendous amount of focus it takes to move the blade expertly. I watched a driver shave the snow from a fence line in my neighborhood," she said, holding her fingers up to show how close the blade got to the fence and commenting that the driver's skill allowed him to do such intricate work. "They are paying attention to walkers, cars and the weather. That's an exhausting day of work."
This winter season has been rough, with multiple storms spanning several days and colder-than-normal temperatures preventing the more typical snow/melt process that often assists snow removal crews in the capital city.
"It's been a pretty epic snow year," Koester said.
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Greg Smith, superintendent of streets and fleets for CBJ, agreed and said the struggle has been intense this year. He noted an uptick in public complaints about snow removal.
"The drivers care deeply about their work," Smith said. "They will try to do their best with whatever conditions arise."
Repeated heavy snows and chilly temperatures have caused a host of problems for the city's snow removal operations.
Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire A raven looks out at the snowy landscape on Feb. 4 in the Mendenhall Valley. According to the National Weather Service, 81.6 inches of snow—or about as much as falls during a typical year—had fallen at the Juneau International Airport as of mid-day Monday, before the latest storm dumped more snow across the area.
Removing snow according to plan
According to Koester, crews first plow main streets, like Riverside Drive and Egan Drive. Crews then move to collector streets before tackling the smaller side streets. She said the city's goal is to clear snow and berms within 48 hours.
In December, Smith told members of the Public Works and Facilities Committee that the city's snow removal policy is the same for the Mendenhall Valley and downtown areas and distinct crews work each area. However, some of the strategies employed downtown, such as stacking snow into a center berm, don't lend themselves to the terrain in the valley.
Once the streets are plowed, crews move on to snow removal if rain or warmer temperatures are not part of the forecast.
"If it's not too severe, rain and warmer temps are our friend," Smith said.
Koester said that changing weather conditions dictate the specifics of clean-up after every storm.
"We have to clear this street before next week because this drain has an effect there and every decision of staff and resources is part of this dance. Every street has a different place for snow," Koester said.
[House to hear committee hearing on Oath Keepers]
Smith said that every storm is different and provides a new perspective.
"Once you are in the middle of the operation, you see things and try to plan for the problems," Smith said.
He explained that between storms in early January, it was clear that the proximity of the storms to each other and cold temperatures would cause challenges.
[Snow many issues]
"The thing we saw is that we weren't going to get a chance to change from plowing to snow removal," Smith said. " It was not lost on us that the desired service level would not be achieved. It was a concern and not something we were hoping for. There was so much snow that we could not make people happy."
Smaller crews and hiring woes
In addition to heavy snowfalls, crews are smaller than they were a decade ago because a series of budget cuts have trimmed staff numbers.
In December, Koester told committee members that a crew of 32 people was available to help with snow removal 10 years ago. Now, the team includes 19 people. She said many of the staff cuts affected seasonal workers.
Smith said that, like many employers, keeping people on the job while pandemic numbers surge presents an additional set of challenges. Smith said that his crew currently has two open positions, and during the storms in January, two crew members were out sick.
"That's another factor," he said. "Things happen in life and sometimes people can't get to work."
Koester said the city did create a temporary position this year but that it's challenging to find qualified employees.
Unpredictable snowfall levels and timing make staffing a challenge — and mean that contracts with private drivers to clear snow and driveway snow berms — are impractical.
"That would take an army of private contractors that would have to clear driveways and then do it all again if we have to plow again. That's a tall and costly task," Smith said. I don't know how we'd coordinate that. A city contract would be difficult to uphold."
Koester agreed.
"When it snows, everyone with a plow is busy. There's not an army waiting to do that job, it's so sporadic. It's an every-once-in-a-while thing with great urgency for a while," she said.
Koester added: "The biggest challenge is finding skilled operators who can get around tight spaces. It's far quicker to plow snow than to remove it. The operators have to figure out on the fly how to clear the streets and store the snow and then get back to it."
She said that every operator has to know exactly where the snow goes on each street to succeed, so it's not a job that lends itself to temporary workers.
Smith said he tries to assign the most intricate work to crew members with the most experience. He said about half the crew has at least 10 years of experience.
When it's not snowing, crews work on street care and maintenance. That work continues in the winter when the weather allows, Smith said.
Storing snow
When time allows, and crews are done plowing, snow moving operations start.
Koester said the city uses contract dump trucks to take snow to storage depot facilities located on Thane and in an overflow bus parking lot near the Mendenhall Glacier.
However, with heavy snows in November and December preceding the January storms, Smith said that crews found they needed more space closer to town to store snow. Crews started using the field at Savikko Park on south Douglas and some city property in the Lemon Creek area.
"With all that snow, it's the first time we tested the limits of the snow storage system," Koester said. "We found that we need some different locations. In this event, we needed more capacity than we had. Down the road, we may need more dedicated sites."
Although the city does not routinely dump snow in the Gastineau Channel, exceptional circumstances sometimes mean that snow goes into the channel.
In advance of the storm that arrived on Jan. 8, the snow depot at Thane filled quickly, forcing CBJ employees to push some snow from the storage location over the bank. In an email shortly after the incident, Koester said CBJ was able to stop pushing snow over the bank quickly.
Docks and Harbors officials were forced to do the same, and both actions were promptly reported to the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, Koester told the Empire last month.
"Even though it was not required, we did sample the snow and send it to be tested for PH and turbidity," Koester told the Empire in an email in January. "DEC's greatest concern is litter."
[Delegation: Work together to plan, optimize infrastructure]
Last month, Harbor Master Matt Creswell said the "extreme amount of snow" prompted the action at the harbors.
"Docks and Harbors received authorization from AKDEC to push snow into the water from the parking lots at Aurora and Harris Harbors," Creswell said in an email to the Empire shortly after the storm last month.
Koester said that thanks to rain and warmer temperatures over the last few weeks, capacity at the snow depots looked good coming into this week's snow events.
Koester said that the crew learns something new with every snow event. For example, she said that during snow-clearing work in January, cars parked on the street presented barriers for crews. She said that identifying and communicating alternative parking locations helped people know where to move vehicles so that crews could clear streets.
Smith was more philosophical about the situation.
"Big storms are going to happen," he said. "Can we prepare differently? Not really. Time and money can fix many things. But, every operator cares about his work," he said, adding that, like all residents, snow removal crews have to go home and clear their own driveways at the end of a long shift.
"Our operators are proud of what they do and the service they provide. It really is an essential service. They put in really long hours," Koester said.
• Contact reporter Dana Zigmund at dana.zigmund@juneauempire.com or 907-308-4891.
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Q: PHP script not executing upon HTML Form 'Submission' I am building a website form in HTML that I want to gather information from users, and store it in MySQL. However, when I submit the form after entering the information, the PHP script is not executed. It simply displays the PHP script in raw form. In a browser, it downloads the PHP file.
At first, I was lead to believe that this was an issue with my MySQL, PHP, Apache configuration, but after following this step by step, I still cannot execute the PHP script.
My form's header looks like so:
<form id="form-settings" method="post" action="file.php">

file.php being the script I want to execute upon submission.
Here is my PHP script:
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);

$link = mysql_connect("localhost","username","password");

if (!$link)
{
       die('Not connected : ' . mysql_error());
}

mysql_select_db("mysql", $link) or die("Unable to select database");

$var1=$_POST['var1'];
$var2=$_POST['var2'];
$var3=$_POST['var3'];
$var4=$_POST['var4'];
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$query = "INSERT INTO table VALUES ('','$var1','$var2','$var3','$var4','$var5')";
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I can execute PHP files from the Terminal fine. I can query my MySQL table and enter info into it, but when I try to run it via the HTML form, it doesn't work. The Vars are values pulled form the HTML form. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Obviously, the php is not being recognized, but where does this issue arise from?

A: Are you sure that your the webserver supports PHP?
If just the souce code is served from the server that seems that PHP support is not aviable. You should contact your webhoster. Also it's possible to check other file extensions.
If you have access to the configutation install the php module for the apache.

A: One of the Apache config files should contain the following directive:
AddHandler php5-script .php

A: (i would post this as a comment, but i can't because I've got too little karma...)
Have a look at the logfiles, especially the error log files. They are probably in /var/log/apache2 or something. See if there is something wrong?
Is your phpinfo()-script in the same directory as the other script? Are you accessing the script with the same hostname? (127.0.0.1 vs. localhost, for example?)

A: Okay, for getting these in the PHP file:
$var1=$_POST['var1'];
$var2=$_POST['var2'];
$var3=$_POST['var3'];
$var4=$_POST['var4'];
$var5=$_POST['var5'];

Your form must have stuff like:
<form method="post" action="file.php">
    <input type="text" name="var1" />
    <input type="text" name="var2" />
    <input type="text" name="var3" />
    <input type="text" name="var4" />
    <input type="text" name="var5" />
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</form>

If this is the case with your form, I meant the name attributes in the input, what is the output are you getting? Are you getting unparsed PHP file???

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You may have seen her on YouTube, but Jill Bolte Taylor's book, My Stroke of Insight, is still worth a read, especially if you're curious about the workings of the brain. Taylor, a neuro-anatomist (or brain scientist, as she translates it for the layman), experienced a stroke that flooded the left hemisphere of her brain, leaving her to experience the world largely from her right hemisphere's perspective. Over the next eight years, Taylor carefully observed her recovery with a scientist's curiosity and attention to detail. As Taylor worked diligently to relearn to navigate in the world and to recover her former self, she found one the most life-changing realizations for her was that she had the capacity to make choices she'd never realized were choices.
In the past, when some event triggered a reaction like feeling angry, jealous, or highly critical, she would react reflexively and run the well-established neural pathways. These old pathways, with their myriad interconnections with all sorts of past history and associations, resulted in plenty of unpleasant feelings, memories and subsequent behaviors. After the stroke, Taylor was blissfully unaware of any of these. As her functions returned, she discovered her memory had not been destroyed, but she would have to work hard to re-access and reactivate those pathways…or she could choose not to.
She learned that when an emotion is triggered in your body, its initial physiological effects—hormone release, etc.– last only 90 seconds. After that, if you are still connected to that emotional response, it is because an extensive and complex array of neural pathways has been activated. It may happen so rapidly that it feels like a natural, inevitable reaction. But in that moment at the end of the 90 seconds between the emotion and stepping on the pathway, one has a choice. Taylor says she realized she could choose to engage her left brain connections with past memories, with fears about the future, with its tendency to fill in gaps of information with assumptions–the "storyteller's potential for stirring up drama and trauma." Or she could "step to the right" and embrace her right hemisphere's personality and value system, which emphasize staying in the moment and meeting it with compassion. Taylor makes clear this isn't easy; she says it's a choice you may make many times every day. But it's a realization that changed the way she meets the world.
Taylor's book also offers what I consider supportive evidence for the impact Clean Language has for a client. To cite but one example, Taylor says, "I believe the real power in experiential recreation is located in our ability to remember what the underlying physiology feels like." (p. 176) In a Clean Language session, you may re-imagine the past, re-image it. Inferring from Taylor's book, I suggest that by doing so you are building new neural pathways– ones that serve you better than the old ones. By using your own metaphors and getting to know not only where they are, but how they feel (Taylor's 'underlying physiology') and by revisiting them often, you can strengthen them and increase the likelihood of 'going there' when an unwanted memory or emotion is triggered.
Given that this is the start of the year, it's a good time to re-image what you'd like to have happen…or like to have had happen in the past. When you notice uncomfortable memories surface or their accompanying old feelings (such as anxiety, sadness, or jealousy) or physical reactions (perhaps shallow breathing, queasiness, or headache), they're a signal to you that those old, familiar neural pathways are being engaged. Replace them with your new image and its accompanying feelings—emotional and physical. Or… step to the right. And if you read Dr. Taylor's book, we'd be curious to hear how you think her experiences explain Clean Language's effectiveness.
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Lost and Found: An Artist's Brain Revealed
I am intrigued by memory, how it is stored and how it is accessed, and what metaphors have to do with it all, so I was fascinated to attend a dual lecture given by researcher Mike McCloskey from the Cognitive Science Department at Johns Hopkins University and artist and mother Margaret Kennard Johnson in conjunction with an exhibit at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore featuring the recovery artwork of Lonni Sue Johnson. A successful illustrator before an attack of encephalitis in 2007 left her with severe temporal lobe and frontal cortex damage, she had produced delightfully whimsical and often insightful drawings, brimming with visual puns and clever conceptual conceits.
Lonni's illness has basically destroyed her working memory. She remembers her mother, her sister, a few old friends, and little else. She can retain new information for no more than a matter of seconds. While she can read words, she quickly loses the context, and trying to follow ideas from one sentence to the next is futile. Yet she can read music, and still remembers how to play the viola. Surprisingly, her language is intact. Her personality and her sense of humor are the same, though she remembers very little about her own history. I watched a fascinating video of a conversation with her, when, given the slightest of prompts about 9/11, she was able to retrieve some details about the event: that it was about a big building in NYC, that it was sad, that there was an explosion, a declaration of war.
As tragic as brain damage is for a victim, for brain researchers, it offers a special opportunity to study how the brain works. Her story raises fascinating questions about the nature of mind and memory. About what is lost and what might only be consciously inaccessible. About what is knowledge and what is a skill. About just what one's personality is– is it or isn't it dependent on the memories that we imagine helped shape it? To what degree is the subconscious intact and functioning when the physical and conscious mind is damaged? And what role might word-making and art-making have in neuroplasticity, in laying new neural pathways in the brain to areas we may not suspect capable of playing a role in a particular ability to compensate for the ones that were lost?
The Walters exhibit shows the many stages of Lonni Sue's drawings over the three years, incorporating her obsession with word puzzles, theoretically an instinctive urge to heal using what skills she has retained and the power of images on paper to extend the time she can hold onto an idea that would otherwise slip away like water through her hands. Representational art-making is always metaphor-making ("It's like this in my perception"), and to make art is to tap into the storehouse of metaphors in the brain. I was left pondering what further role her metaphors may play in Lonni Sue's healing.
What it is about her story that peaks your curiosity?
Filed Under: Art as Metaphor, brain neuroplasticity, Cognitive Science, memory, metaphors, Mind/body, Therapy, TransitionsTagged: brain neuroplasticity, inner resources, left brain/right brain, medical applications, memory, subconscious
The Edge Effect in Metaphor Landscapes
In the counseling/coaching technique I work with, Clean Language, we use the term 'metaphor landscape' to describe the inner world of a client that is populated by personal metaphors or symbols laid out in specific locations, like a map. While each client's landscape is unique in its details and their interactions, I find some symbols are used frequently: rivers, lakes, and mountains; flowers, birds and fountains; trees, fields, and roads.
Perhaps it is because these "personal ecosystems" appear repeatedly with my clients that two words caught my attention as I was thumbing through a permaculture gardening book recently. The terms ecotone and edge effect are new to me. An ecotone* is a transition area—a place between two plant communities, for example, the area between a meadow and a forest. Ecotones may be distinct lines, such as one created by a farmer on a mower, or they may be broader areas, such as many mountain slopes or wetlands.
Often these transitional areas have species of flora and fauna common to the ecosystems of either side, as well as additional ones that thrive in neither of the other two. It is this characteristic that is described as the edge effect*: the tendency of such an area to have a greater diversity of species than exist in either of its bordering communities.
Clients' metaphor landscapes demonstrate an edge effect, too. It is in those moments on a metaphoric bank, just before a client wades into a river, or goes through a gate or leaps onto a boat, when the client faces some significant, even transformative, change. Here on the threshold, the client may know things not only about the two worlds, the one behind and the one ahead, but also about things which are found in neither worlds, but which are crucial for staying a new course.
Symbolically, the space between worlds may be a single step, like through a doorway, or it may involve numerous steps, like across a bridge or down a hallway. Sometimes the distance is measured in time as well, as in a journey on a boat between two ports. However wide or narrower the space, however long or short the time spent there, it is a space that holds information unique to this overlapping of world views.
To think of these terms ecotone and the edge effect as metaphors is a wonderful way to describe the significance and potential this "in-between" time or space holds. They are good reminders for therapists and coaches not to rush clients heedlessly through such spaces, but to explore them for their potential riches.
These spaces in a metaphor landscape are not always comfortable places to be. How appropriate then, that the word ecotone comes from eco– and the Greek word tonos, meaning tension. To move from one way of being to another may require significant preparations for readiness and a rallying of resources. The steps before the shift can seem hair-splittingly small. It's easy to gloss over a client's statement as a common turn of phrase when s/he says "I want to be able to start to change," but notice: there is a want, an ability to start, a starting, all before s/he gets to the changing! Each step may involve consequences to explore, a decision to act, and courage to be mustered to step away from the known and into the unknown. All the more reason to pause at such choice points to learn more about resources and resolve, about the process needed for change.
Often clients come for help when they are living in a broad "ecotone", in a space between two worlds or ways of being. As we explore both where they may be stuck and where they want to go, these new metaphors will remind me to consider "the edge effect."
*Definitions taken from wikipedia.org entries for ecotone and edge effect
Filed Under: Coaching, Counseling, metaphors, Therapy, TransitionsTagged: change work, inner resources, people as systems
Metaphors for Tough $$ Times
A lot of my clients are anxious about their financial security. Can metaphors help? C. C., Denver, CO
In today's difficult economic times, many people are stressed out about their circumstances. If you are a helping professional working with struggling or anxious clients, you'll be glad to learn that metaphors can help. Wondering how that could be, when jobs are in jeopardy and bills need to be paid now?
While metaphors aren't likely to cause employers to start hiring again (actually, they could…but that's a subject for another blog), you can help clients develop vivid metaphors for an inner state or way of feeling to feel more resourceful and more hopeful now. If your client can summon more optimism, feel more in control, or find strength to face a storm, s/he will reduce the flow of stress hormones in his/her body, a benefit in multiple ways, and have more energy to devote to problem-solving… and joyful living.
You can take these four simple steps to discover and strengthen a supporting inner resource:
Ask your client to recall another time when s/he felted stressed about a challenge. What personal quality or characteristic(s) did s/he use to cope? It might, for example, have been courage, an ability to stay calm, or stubbornness.
Get a metaphor for that quality with a simple question. If the client says, "Well, I guess I was brave," you ask, "If you were to draw a picture of that brave, what would it look like?" Invite your client to actually draw it or just describe it aloud. Perhaps s/he would draw a surfer riding a huge wave or a lion tamer with a whip and chair, controlling a roaring lion.
Help your client get a vividly detailed picture of this resource by asking these simple questions about what s/he describes. Use only the exact words/short phrases s/he uses! The point is to get your client more familiar with and to strengthen his/her own resource, not to make suggestions about what you think would be helpful–and that includes adding or changing even small details!
Is there anything else about that [client's word]?
What kind of [client's word or phrase] is that?
Where is that [resource word]? O the inside? On the outside?
Examples: Is there anything else about that "surfer"? What kind of "riding" is that "riding"? Where inside is that "brave"? On the inside? On the outside?
Keep on asking "what kind of…" , "anything else about…" ? and "where is… ?" questions until your client has a well-developed metaphor, full of sensory details.
4. Encourage your client to return to this image whenever s/he want to feel that resourceful way again.
And if you try this exercise with a client, comment here on how it goes!
Filed Under: Ask Gina, Coaching, Counseling, metaphors, Power of Words, Subconscious Messages, Therapy, TransitionsTagged: career coaching, Clean Language activity, inner resources, the economy
Compliments: The Other Side of the Judgment Coin
If you participate in a personal growth group or run one yourself, you probably have no problem with a common rule that no one criticizes participants as they share their experiences or feelings. Consider adding the rule that no compliments be paid either, for they are merely the other side of the same coin. Compliments and criticisms are both forms of judgment, and they can put pressure on the recipient to please others, whether it is to earn praise or avoid criticism.
It's a remarkable experience to be in a group that suspends both criticisms and compliments. When listeners just witness, speakers begin to follow suit; they ease off judging themselves. Without external or internal judgment, they become more open to whatever lies within.
Compliments can backfire in another way. They can trigger a receiver to argue the case as to why the compliment is not true, aloud or internally. "It's true I did that [good deed], but he doesn't know I resented it." "But I spoke nastily about her behind her back." "Actually, I could have tried harder." "She doesn't know about this other thing I did." And so on. The possibilities are endless. Instead of feeding self-esteem, compliments can reinforce self-condemnation.
Even "I" statements (meaning speakers refer only to themselves rather than to the one who has finished speaking), imply a judgment. A person unsure of him/herself can easily interpret the comment as suggesting, "You should have handled it/responded my way." "I" statements at their worst cast doubt and self-rebuke; at best, they pull the attention to "I" and distract the original speaker from processing his /her own experience.
Now, I'm not trying to suggest there is no place for compliments in this world! Only that, in a personal growth group setting where expectations and rules are clearly stated, it can be both freeing and healing to suspend judgment of any kind, to listen, and, if you're going to make a comment, make it a clean one. Using Clean Language is one way to assure that you are not using judgmental language. Asking simple questions and repeating the sharer's exact words, you add no content that s/he has not already acknowledged. You offer no interpretations, no comparisons. You keep the sharer's focus on what s/he has just presented, allowing him/her the time and space to process what has emerged.
If you facilitate or participate in a counseling or growth group, try doing without criticisms and compliments. Both are un-clean. Both are forms of judgment. Positive or negative, they still encourage the sharer to take someone else's opinion into account, consciously or subconsciously.
I suggest an appropriate response to someone who has spoken about himself or herself is to ask a question that invites further self-exploration such as, "And is there anything else you know about that?" or "And what difference does knowing that make?"
Or simply say, "Thank you for sharing."
Filed Under: Coaching, Counseling, Power of Words, Subconscious Messages, TherapyTagged: assumptions, change work, Clean Language, listening skills, subconscious
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Muse: Above The Law
I'm speaking with a "pretty good, chilled" Dominic Howard as he enjoys some touring respite at the south of France.
Last time we spoke, the Muse drummer was in the hungover nexus of the band's Olympics-closing performance and the imminent touring cycle of new album 'The 2nd Law'. Back then, he assured us that the all-conquering UK trio would touch down in Australia towards the end of 2013. And waddaya know, they made good on their promise.
'The 2nd Law', Muse's typically bombastic sixth studio LP, will have reached its first birthday by the time it arrives in the live setting on Australian shores, representing the measured touring approach of one of the world's biggest bands.
"We've been touring, just really busy since the album came out in September," Dominic recalls. "We did a few special shows in smaller venues, then we hit the road in October with the bigger production. We've been all over Europe, the States, all over Asia, now we're just coming towards the end of the European stadium tour, which is amazing. This summer's been awesome, we've been outdoors in these football stadiums playing these huge shows – 60 to 70 thousand people, that type of vibe. But we're coming towards the end of that, then loads more touring for the rest of the year, and next year."
The stadium-sized Australian tour is a far cry from their first visit to our land over a decade ago, where they plugged away at the entry-level echelon of relatively quaint pubs. As Dominic explains, the band still manages to fit in more diminutive-sized performances along the way.
"They're great, really cool. Just recently we did one in Shepards Bush as a charity gig for War Child. We haven't really played a venue like that in a while, and it was great to get in there and play a theatre without any massive production and floating pyramids. It was so great to be close to the fans. We came out of that gig thinking it would be great to do a whole lot more of that in the future, somehow. We might go for a few little special gigs next year. The band is actually going to be 20 [years old] next year, so we plan to do something special."
Close to clocking up that 20 year mark, why is it that Muse are one of the very few to have maintained the same line-up from inception through to unimaginable success?
"Shit, I dunno," Dominic answers. "It's partly to do with the fact we're schoolmates and we've known each other for so long. It's partly to do with where we've come from as well. Teignmouth, Devon is a very small town and detached from the music scene, so we were left to our own devices. It's not a place where anything can happen particularly quickly. I think we've just had this feeling like we're a gang, we stick together, and we believe in the music. We want to take it as far as possible. That, and we are like, 'What the bloody hell else are we going to do?'" he chuckles.
"I can't see us being in any other bands. We've become institutionalised within ourselves. We've definitely had ups and downs as a band, but we all know that it's this or nothing. People in other bands probably don't think like that – [they're probably] thinking, 'Let's do this for a bit, then fuck it, let's split up, join another band, do a solo project.' For us, it's either this or go back to Devon and become a painter and decorator, or clean out caravans, which is what we used to do before we signed as a band. So this is it, our life is to keep Muse going. And we're doing a pretty good job of it so far."
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Bucharest has made it to the European tourist destination map one step at a time over the past 28 years. Many have been achieved, more needs to be done, the pros are still competing with the cons, and the competition is fierce. However, the Capital definitely has its cornerstones that are waiting to be promoted, even more than so far, which makes the city guide market quite appealing.
In a discussion with the Razvan Samosca, general manager, Bucharest In Your Pocket, one of the oldest city guides in Bucharest and Romania and a trend setter in promoting the Capital as a tourist destination, we have taken a brief, imaginary hike through Bucharest, to take a glimpse of the insights of the city's current tourist guide market, of the city's pros and cons, of the profile of the tourists coming to Bucharest, of what they mostly like or dislike and into where our Capital city is heading.
What's your story? What was the reason behind starting the project back in 1999?
In Your Pocket (IYP) began in Vilnius, in 1992. The company slowly grew out of the Baltic region and Bucharest, as a dynamic city -even back in 1999 – was thought to be a cool, upcoming city that fitted the cool, upcoming IYP brand. It was a good fit. A young and dedicated team made it all happen, and the fact that almost 20 years later we are still setting trends in the way we present and talk about the city shows that both IYP and Bucharest must be doing something right.
How many tourist sights is your guide encompassing?
Not all of them! Back when we began we made a habit of listing everything the city had to offer, even if it wasn't really worth a visitor's time. That's because back then there were few alternatives. Now things are different: we only list the sights (and indeed anything else: bars, restaurants, cafes, shops and so on) which we think are the best, the hippest and the trendiest.
How did the guiding tour market look like almost then years ago and how has it evolved?
It is not the guides which have changed per se but travelers. They are a lot savvier then they used to be. We have had to adapt to what they want.
What would be Bucharest's cornerstones at present to make a difference from other Eastern European capitals?
It's cheap, even by eastern European standards. Probably only Sofia is cheaper, but Sofia can't compete with Bucharest's huge range of clubs, specialty coffee shops and superb restaurants.
What are the Romanian capital's pros and cons? Have you had feedback from foreign tourists? What do they (honestly) say about the city and being a tourist in Bucharest?
Again, it's cheap by western European standards. Your money goes a lot further. That is a huge attraction. It's also a small city, which people like: most places you want to go are within easy reach of each other, so the fact that public transport is awful does not really matter. The downside? Well, the airport is always top of the list: too small now for the amount of people who use it. The air always gets a mention in summer: people say the city is dusty. There are too many cars parked on pavements which people really do not like: it makes walking around more difficult than it should be. And the rip-off taxis of course… but now people can use Uber. But honestly, the list of complaints gets shorter by the year.
Where is the printed guide available?
Most of the important hotels from 3 to 5 stars, office information offices, selected bars and restaurants, foreign language schools, embassies, rent-a-car offices, etc.
When did you develop the mobile app for the guide? What is the feedback compared to the print version, in terms of traffic and others?
There is room for both products. We developed a mobile app because some people want a mobile app. Lots of people still want the print guide, but most of all people want our print mini-guides. We will continue to give people what they want, in whatever format they want it.
Your turn 20 next year…any special projects, plans to mark the anniversary?
Loads! But we are keeping them under wraps for now. Watch this space though.
How do you see the evolution of the tourism and guided tours market in Romania from now on? What challenges do you think will prevail?
Bucharest will continue to develop as a city-break destination but – as is already happening – it will need to compete not with other cities in Eastern Europe but with other cities in Romania. There is, after all, more to Romania than Bucharest. That's one of the reasons we now cover so much of the country online. We have long said Brasov is the city to watch: if its airport ever opens watch it become one of the most visited cities in Europe.


I am currently running Cacti 8.8h with various plugins all working fine.
server is running centos 6.7.
I have disabled the plugin and uninstalled it. Confirmed plugin removal from /cacti/plugins.
I have then downloaded a fresh copy from git hub and installed. Tried adding a device as before and same errors.
CMDPHP: Poller ERROR: SQL Assoc Failed!, Error:'1054', SQL:"SELECT last_rundate, COUNT(last_rundate) AS devices FROM mac_track_devices WHERE disabled = '' AND site_id=Sitexx GROUP BY last_rundate ORDER BY last_rundate DESC;"
I have installed phpmyadmin and browsed the tables, found the last rundate description is "WARNING: Device Type Not Found in Device Type Table."
Still getting http 500 issues on 2 specific links. I did wonder if it was to do with the JSON extension for php as both mactrack tab and mactrack_snmp has .js extensions. I disabled it and found phpmyadmin complained it was running. So renabled it.
Yes I was clutching at straws!


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Salesforce Says Permissions Bungle Almost Fixed
Users Briefly Had Read/Write Access to Other Profiles Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • May 20, 2019
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Salesforce says it has nearly recovered from a problematic database script that wiped out user permissions within its Pardot marketing management product on Friday.
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In an update, Salesforce says it has now run "an automated provisioning fix to allow us to restore user permissions to where they were before the incident occurred." That was a relief for some adminstrators:
So, I was just about to haul my ass into the office on a Sunday of a long weekend to manually restore permissons on 20+ profiles and it appears you were able to restore overnight. You rock @SalesforceEng !!!
— Allie (@newsviewsbrews) May 19, 2019
But one instance, NA57 - which is served from data centers in the Chicago and Washington, D.C., areas - is still receiving the fix, Salesforce said on Sunday.
The snafu could have allowed employees to access data that they're not supposed to or modify it. It wasn't immediately clear if organizations would be able to audit access during the period when permissions were lifted. A Salesforce spokeswoman contacted in Sydney referred to the company's advisory
Shut It Down. Now.
On Saturday, it described the reason for the problem with a post on its website: "The deployment of a database script resulted in granting users broader data access than intended." But that was gone by Sunday.
The permission removal problem occurred with Salesforce's Pardot product, which is used for managing lead-generation tools, such as email campaigns for business-to-business marketing. But the quick fix was to disable access, which not only affected Pardot users but others across Salesforce.
Salesforce's advisory on Sunday on its progress in unwinding a problematic database script.
"We have had to disable access to our service to customers affected in order to help resolve the issue," writes Salesforce CTO Parker Harris on Twitter. "We expect to be able to restore access soon as we continue to work through this issue."
'Holy Hell'
Salesforce is one of the most dominant CRM systems, so problems tend to have a quick and fierce response. As one user, FufuWarrior, who is based in London put it on Reddit: "Holy hell. Two beers at lunch & walk into this. What a day to be alive."
Another user on Reddit, palsy34, whose organization contacted Salesforce during the outage, gave a few more details on what went wrong: "On a bridge with Salesforce right now. Apparently they ran a script to adjust some permissions for community users that went off the chain and gave modify all to every profile. They reduced permissions to the most restrictive (no access) and are working on a fix."
Some users speculated that Salesforce may have not wanted to notify all of its customers of the permissions problem immediately because employees might have taken advantage of the deep access.
Another user, RTB4499, writes: "I think there is a reason for Salesforce's silence as the moment they publicly reveal the problem then it encourages users to explore and see what they have access too exacerbating an already significant data breach."
It may have been a prudent reaction, writes Reddit user going by the nickname St0rmborn.
"I would have probably done the same thing," the person writes. "I can only imagine how badly they were freaking out when they discovered it and kept peeling back the layers of how severe the impact was. I wouldn't want to cause a mass panic until I understood the issue and also made sure it didn't make the entire situation worse. There's no such thing as just notifying admins privately, because you know that would immediately go public and blown up on message boards worldwide."
Early on, Harris apologized.
"To all of our @salesforce customers, please be aware that we are experiencing a major issue with our service and apologize for the impact it is having on you," he writes. "Please know that we have all hands on this issue and are resolving as quickly as possible."
After 2 Years, WannaCry Remains a Threat
Google Restricts Huawei's Access to Android
Jeremy Kirk
Managing Editor, Security and Technology, ISMG
Kirk is a veteran journalist who has reported from more than a dozen countries. Based in Sydney, he is Managing Editor for Security and Technology for Information Security Media Group. Prior to ISMG, he worked from London and Sydney covering computer security and privacy for International Data Group. Further back, he covered military affairs from Seoul, South Korea, and general assignment news for his hometown paper in Illinois.
Responding to Blended Cyberattacks
Advanced Cyberthreat Intelligence Against The 2018 Threat Landscape
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The Global Diabetic Retinopathy Market generated $966 million in 2015 and is projected to attain $2.5 billion by 2022, registering a CAGR of 14.4% during the forecast period, 2016-2022. The emerging markets of the Asia-Pacific and LAMEA regions are expected to provide several opportunities for market growth during the forecast period.
There have been remarkable advancements in the diagnosis and treatment of diabetic retinopathy in recent years. The rapid adoption of intravitreal pharmacological agents such as anti-VEGF drugs and corticosteroids have led to the improvement of vision in DR patients, expected to provide several opportunities for the market growth.
Increase in prevalence of diabetes around the world has also propelled blindness that's associated with it, driving the growth of the global retinopathy market. Rise in geriatric population and increasing awareness for treatment of diabetic retinopathy has also supplemented market growth. Additionally, the emergence of combined therapies is set to provide lucrative opportunities for new market players, especially in emerging markets of the Asia-Pacific and LAMEA regions. However, lack of skilled ophthalmologists and extended approval time for drugs impede the growth of the market.
The report segments the global diabetic retinopathy market based on type, management type, and geography. Based on type, the report bifurcates the market into proliferative diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema (DME). The proliferative diabetic retinopathy segment accounted for more than half of the global revenue in 2015, as the disease is one of the leading causes of blindness in diabetic patients. However, the DME segment is expected to encounter the highest growth rate during the forecast period, registering a CAGR of 14.6%.
Based on management type, the market is categorized into anti-VEGF drug, intra-ocular steroid injections, laser surgeries, and vitrectomy. The laser surgeries segment dominated in 2015, accounting for more than two-fifths of the global market share. However, anti-VEGF drug segment is expected to grow at the fastest rate throughout 2022, owing to overcoming major drawbacks of laser treatment. Regionally, North America occupied nearly two-fifths of the global market in 2015 and is expected to remain dominant throughout the forecast period. This is attributed to the increase in occurrence of diabetes along with the rise in geriatric population, increased patient awareness about diabetic retinopathy, and favorable reimbursement framework for retinopathy procedures. However, Asia-Pacific is expected to grow at a high CAGR of 15.4%, owing to the presence of ample growth opportunities in terms of unmet medical needs for the treatment of diabetic retinopathy.
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Trump: Kneeling NFL Players 'Unable to Define' What They're Mad About
'AT IT AGAIN'
Updated Aug. 10, 2018 9:19AM ET / Published Aug. 10, 2018 8:48AM ET
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Donald Trump has restarted his crusade against protesting NFL players after several took a knee during the national anthem at preseason games Thursday night. The president claims the players are "unable to define" what they're protesting about. Colin Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers player who started the protest movement, hailed Miami Dolphins players Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson for continuing "the protest of systemic oppression" when they took the knee Thursday night. But Trump, who repeatedly vented his fury about the protest movement last season, didn't take long to express his anger about it. "The NFL players are at it again—taking a knee when they should be standing proudly for the National Anthem. Numerous players, from different teams, wanted to show their 'outrage' at something that most of them are unable to define. They make a fortune doing what they love... Be happy, be cool! A football game, that fans are paying soooo much money to watch and enjoy, is no place to protest. Most of that money goes to the players anyway. Find another way to protest. Stand proudly for your National Anthem or be Suspended Without Pay!"
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After attending the largest conference ever held on the subject of the illegal wildlife trade, Prince William has said that he is advocating the destruction of all the ivory in the royal collection at Buckingham Palace. The royal collection contains about 1,200 pieces dating back hundreds of years. It includes furniture such as an ivory throne that belonged to Queen Victoria.
In a private conversation with primatologist, Jane Goodall, Prince William said he would like to see all the ivory owned by Buckingham Palace destroyed.
Prince William is not alone in his stance against illegal ivory. His father, Prince Charles, has asked to have items of ivory removed from his sight at his homes, Clarence House and Highgrove.
Both men have been strong environmentalists and instead of taking the easy way out and donating the royal collection of ivory to museums or galleries, they are showing the world that they have a zero tolerance for the killing of animals for decorative purposes.
From 2002 to 2013, almost two-thirds of the forest elephants in central Africa were killed for their tusks. The Obama administration is talking about toughening federal laws on the ivory trade so that no ivory is imported into the United States.
Whenever I think about elephants being killed for their tusks, I think about the Disney movie, "Dumbo," the elephant who was ridiculed for his big ears. In the movie, Dumbo learns to fly, using his big ears as wings and I think about the endangered elephants today and wish that they could fly out of harm's way, too.
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Robin A. Lenhardt is a Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the recently launched Center on Race, Law and Justice at Fordham Law School. Professor Lenhardt specializes in matters pertaining to race, family, and citizenship. In addition to Fordham, she has held teaching positions at Columbia Law School, the Georgetown University Law Center, and the University of Chicago Law School. Before entering legal academia, Professor Lenhardt held a number of positions in the private and non-profit sectors. A law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer and Judge Hugh Bownes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Professor Lenhardt was formerly a Counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, where she was a member of the litigation team that defended the University of Michigan in the Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger affirmative action lawsuits. Professor Lenhardt received a Skadden Foundation Fellowship to work as a staff attorney for the National Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and was employed as an attorney advisor in the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel. She later returned to DOJ to review civil rights issues as part of President Barack Obama's transition team. Professor Lenhardt's scholarship has appeared in numerous books and journals, including the California Law Review, the New York University Law Review, and the UCLA Law Review. Professor Lenhardt is currently co-editor of a book entitled Critical Race Judgements: U.S. Opinions on Race and Law that will be published by Cambridge University Press. She holds an A.B. degree in English from Brown University; a JD from Harvard Law School; an MPA from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government; and an LLM from the Georgetown University Law Center.
Critical Race Judgements: Rewritten U.S. Opinions on Race and Law (work-in-progress with Capers, Carbado & Onwuachi-Willig) (Cambridge University Press) (forthcoming)
Whitewashing the Family, __ Wisconsin L.Review (2020)
The Color of Kinship, 102 Iowa L. Rev. 2071 (2017)
Marriage as Black Citizenship?, 66 Hastings L. J. 101 (2015)
"According to Our Hearts" and Location: Toward a Structuralist Approach to the Study of Interracial Families, 16 Iowa J. Gender, Race & Justice 741 (2013)
Race Audits, 62 Hastings L. J. 1527 (2011)
Beyond Analogy: Perez v. Sharp, Antimiscegenation Law, and the Fight for Same-Sex Marriage, 96 Cal. L. Rev. 839 (2008)
Rethinking Work and Citizenship, 55 UCLA L. Rev. 1161 (2008) (with Jennifer Gordon)
Understanding the Mark: Race, Stigma, and Equality in Context, 79 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 803 (2004).
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The Racial Dimensions of Nonmarriage: A Response to Amanda Miller, Don't Force My Hand: Gender and Social Class Variation Relationship Negotiation, ___ Ariz. L. Rev. __ (2019) (forthcoming)
All the Women are White, All the Men are Black, But Some of Us Are Brave, 100 Years of Women Online Symposium, 87 Fordham Law Review Online, Article 13. (2019) (with Kimani Paul-Emile)
Should We Be Loving Loving, 25 Virginia J. Soc. Pol. 269 (2018)
Foreword for 5o Years of Loving Conference, 86 Fordham L. Rev. 2625 (2018) (with Hernandez & Paul-Emile)
Foreword: Moore Kinship, 85 Fordham L. Rev. 2551 (2017) (with Clare Huntington)
Race, Dignity, and the Right to Marry, 84 Fordham L. Rev. 53 (2015)
R.A. Lenhardt, Black Citizenship Through Marriage?: Reflections on the Moynihan Report at 50, 28 USC Interdisciplinary L. J. 347 (2016) (Reframing the Welfare Queen Symposium)
Race, Love, and Promise, Online Symposium Submission for Concurring Opinions Symposium on Martha Ertman's Love's Promises: How Formal and Informal Contracts Shape All Kinds of Families (June 2015))
Structuring Race, Structuring Families, Online Symposium Submission for Balkinization Symposium on Clare Huntington'sFailure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships (Fall 2014)
Integrating Equal Marriage, 81 Fordham L. Rev. 761 (2012)
Localities of Equality Innovators, 7 Stanford C.R.-C.L. 265 (2011)
Forty Years of Loving, 76 Fordham L. Rev. 2669 (2008) (with E. Cooper, S. Foster, and S. Katyal)
Citizenship Talk: Bridging the Boundaries Between Immigration and Race Perspectives, 75 Fordham L. Rev. 2493 (2007) (with Jennifer Gordon)
Grave Building: A Tribute to Charles J. Ogletree. Jr. and His Evolving Legacy, 22 Harv. Blackletter L. J. 154 (2006).
Family Law as Racial Subordination and Inequality, The Oxford Handbook of Race and Law in the United States (Khiara Bridges, Devon Carbado & Emily Hough)
Moore v. City of East Cleveland Chapter in Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten U.S. Opinions on Race and Law Capers, Carbado, Lenhardt & Onwuachi-Willig) (Cambridge University Press) (2019 Publication) (work-in-progress)
Perez v. Sharp and the Limits of Loving in Loving In a Post-Racial World: Rethinking Race, Sex, and Marriage (Kevin Maillard & Rose Cuison Villazor , eds., 2012)
The Story of Perez v. Sharp: Forgotten Lesson on Race, Law, and Marriage in Race Law Stories, (Devon W. Carbado & Rachel F. Moran, eds., 2008)
The Racial Subject in Legal Theory in The Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics (Keith E. Whittington, et al., eds., 2008) (with Sheila Foster)
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Conflict and Solidarity Between African American and Latino Immigrant Workers (prepared for the Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity at Berkeley Law School) (2007) (with Jennifer Gordon)
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Brief of Amici Curiae 53 Current Members of the Texas Senate and House of Representatives in Support of Respondents, Fisher v. Univ. of Texas (2016) (U.S. Supreme Court)
Brief of Amici Curiae 38 Members of the Texas State Senate and House of Representatives in Support of Respondents, Fisher v. Univ. of Texas (2013) (U.S. Supreme Court)
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JD, Harvard Law School, 1995
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Sambla balafon master Mamadou Diabate and his band Percussion Mania perform at Taplin Auditorium
On Monday, November 7, 2018, Sambla balafon master Mamadou Diabate and his band Percussion Mania were invited by Florian Lionnet and the Princeton Program in Linguistics to give a concert in Taplin Auditorium. Prior to the concert, Mamadou gave a demonstration of the Sambla xylophone in Florian Lionnet's "Languages of Africa" class, taught that day by guest-lecturer Laura McPherson (Dartmouth College).
Mamadou demonstrated how the Sambla language can be imitated on the balafon to transmit precise messages, a fascinating form of language surrogacy studied by McPherson. The students learnt how phrases as simple as "thank you" or as complicated as "be the first to give 10,000 francs to the balafon!" can be played on a xylophone and understood by people who practice the Sambla language and culture.
Professor of Linguistics at Dartmouth College Laura McPherson delivers a guest lecture in Florian Lionnet's "Languages of Africa" class
Taplin Auditorium was full for the band's performance that night. A diverse crowd of faculty, visiting scholars, staff members, and students gathered to attend this African music concert, a rare event on campus. With two large xylophones, a West African percussion set, a guitar, and a bass, the band took the public on an enthralling rhythmic and aesthetic trip to West Africa. Between each song, Mamadou would address the public with humor, presenting the next song in French, with McPherson translating to English.
Students were invited to join the band on stage and dance to the music
The performance was impressive: the xylophone players were at times so fast that the mallets used to hit the keys could barely be seen. After a few songs, the public followed Mamadou's invitation to stand up and dance, and the second half of the concert saw an entranced crowd dance to Sambla traditional rhythms, and sing along with the band in the Jula language. Mamadou even invited three students to show their particularly elaborated dance moves on stage on one of the songs. The event was a rejoicing cross-cultural communion achieved through music and dance. The band said afterwards that this was the best audience they had during their US tour. The concert was also particularly appreciated by the students. "I didn't expect to have as much fun while learning so much at the same time!" said one student in Lionnet's class.
Mamadou Diabate and Percussion Mania with Florian Lionnet (front left) and Laura McPherson (front right)
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The most eye-opening finding of our study was students' belief that what they were learning in school was pretty much irrelevant - to anything. They perceive a lack of relevance in their high school coursework to college or career. A resounding 57% claimed that half or fewer of their required classes are relevant to their future careers or plans for higher education. Curiously, most students (82%) thought the classes were interesting, just not relevant.
While they may not think the coursework is relevant for college, student aspirations about attaining a college degree were extremely high.
Where DO students believe there is relevance? In the business community. Almost 60% of students say they want more connection to the world of work, such as internships or job shadows.
what they want in life and some of the classes we take are pointless so I think we should be able to choose what we do to focus on what we want to do when we get older. If you plan on doing something else why do we need to know about history we should work on what we need to know".
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One of the larger trends in the field of power electronics and beyond is the transition from standard silicon FETs to wide-bandgap alternatives. Amongst these wide-bandgap materials, one of the most impressive is gallium nitride (GaN).
Now, thanks to its rising popularity, it seems as if the GaN market finally has a push of momentum behind it. Last month we saw significant GaN product releases come out of a number of major companies in the field.
In this article, we'll take a look at some of the most recent GaN news to understand the state of the technology and where it's headed.
GaN Systems New Transistor
In mid-June, GaN Systems made headlines in the industry when it announced a new GaN transistor for its portfolio of devices. The new device, called the GS-065-018-2-L, is a 650 V, 18 A, 78 mΩ bottom-side cooled transistor that is designed to improve efficiency, thermal management, and power density in devices. Coming in an 8×8 mm PDFN package, the new transistor offers impressive specs like a 1.5 ns turn-on delay and a 5 ns rise time which help support high switching frequencies greater than 1 MHz. On top of this, the device offers a maximum transient VDS of 850 V, ensuring a high level of reliability and safety.
Package and schematic symbol of the new GaN transistor. Image used courtesy of GaN Systems
According to GaN Systems, the new device is targeted for applications like 100 W- 800 W adapters and industrial power supplies, where replacing silicon transistors with a GaN alternative can lead to higher power efficiency and a lightweight system.
EPC's Rad-hard Offerings
Mid-June also saw Efficient Power Conversion (EPC) bring a new GaN FET to the market.
EPC's newest device, called the EPC7018, is a radiation-hardened (rad-hard) FET that is designed explicitly for space electronics applications. According to the datasheet, the EPC7018 is a 100 V device that is capable of sustaining a continual 90 A, or a pulse 345 A, while offering an RDSON of 3.9 mΩ. Coming in a small 13.9 mm2 footprint, the device is optimized for space applications and offers radiation-hardened features such as a total dose radiation rating of 1 Mrad and SEE immunity for LET of 85 MeV/(mg/cm2).
The EPC7018's package. Image used courtesy of EPC
According to EPC, the EPC7018's RDSON of 3.9 mΩ marks the lowest on-resistance for a rad-hard solution on the market. With this comes power savings and mitigation of thermal management challenges. All together, EPC lists DC-DC power conversion, motor drives, LiDAR, satellite EPS, and more. More information is availble from the EPC7018's datasheet.
Finwave's 3D GaN FinFET
Our final piece of GaN news in this roundup comes from Finwave Semiconductor, who (likewise in mid-June) announced its intentions to use GaN to target 5G applications.
According to Finwave, which was previously known as Cambridge Electronics, one of the largest challenges facing 5G is the inability of current hardware approaches to deliver the high linearity needed to operate effectively at millimeter-wave frequencies. In these applications, it's crucially important for RF power amplifiers to be able to offer high efficiency, output power, and linearity. To achieve that, the industry has recently turned to RF-SOI technology, but Finwave feels that even this is not enough.
3D rendering of Finwave's 3DGaN device. Image used courtesy of Finwave
Instead, Finwave intends to address 5G design challenges with GaN-on-silicon solutions, enabling CMOS logic interfacing with GaN amplifiers. Finwave's proprietary technology to this end is their 3DGaN technology, which is a GaN-on-silicon FinFET structure that aims to offer the cost model of silicon with the performance of GaN.
According to Finwave, its 3DGaN technology enables high linearity, power, and efficiency in millimeter-wave power amplifiers. The ultimate hope is that its technology can help enable the next generation of cheaper and more performant 5G systems for applications like video streaming, autonomous vehicles, and more.
The Road to More GaN Builds Momentum
With several impressive new GaN products reaching the market, it seems clear that GaN has a decent amount of momentum behind it. Once a subject of academia, GaN has finally made it mainstream, and the performance it is bringing is largely unrivaled.
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I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here will not air on Monday night after Storm Arwen caused significant damage to the set.
The show will return on Tuesday after extreme weather conditions caused production difficulties at Gwrych Castle in North Wales, ITV has said.
The ITV show was pulled on Friday when live segments were prerecorded and clip shows replaced the normal schedule on Saturday and Sunday as campmates were evacuated.
On Sunday night Ant and Dec took to social media to say they have no idea when the show will return.
Pictures have shown damage at the site with production tents torn apart by the wind, and cranes brought in to repair the set.
ITV says the campmates are quarantined and will return to the camp when it is safe.
The stars of I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! were removed from the castle while work is carried out to get the production base back up and running after suffering technical issues due to extreme weather, ITV announced.
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It is understood the celebrities will individually return to quarantine to ensure they remain Covid secure and they will then be back at the castle once the whole production is safely re-established.
It comes after the shows on Saturday and Sunday were cancelled because the production base at Gwrych Castle in North Wales suffered significant damage during Storm Arwen on Friday night.
A statement from I'm A Celebrity said: "Whilst we get the production base back up and running after suffering technical issues due to the storm, we have removed the celebrities from the castle."
The quarantine conditions for the celebrities will be the same as they had before entering the castle.
Earlier on Saturday, ITV announced the technical difficulties caused by the weather conditions meant there would be no new episodes this weekend.
The episodes were being replaced by compilation shows voiced by hosts Ant and Dec, featuring the best moments from previous series.
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Hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly recorded their links early in the evening as part of "precautionary measures" put in place by ITV following severe storm warnings.
The duo posted a video from outside the castle ahead of the show, with the wind whipping and roaring in the background.
"You've probably heard we've had to record the show a bit earlier tonight because of the winds here at Storm Arwen," said Donnelly.
"It's bad, isn't it, it's really windy," said McPartlin. "You can hear it, it's rattling the tent, it might blow this away, so we've got to get it done and get out of here."
Donnelly added: "It's due to get worse later so everyone is afraid that the satellite is going to go down and all of that, so it's a bit risky to do a live show, so we're going to have to do it recorded tonight, which is the first time we've ever done that."
It has been an eventful first week at Gwrych Castle, where the programme is being filmed for a second year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
On Thursday, Richard Madeley announced he was leaving the show after he was taken to hospital as a precaution when he fell ill in the early hours of the morning.
The TV star later said he felt "fit as a fiddle" and was "gutted" that Covid restrictions meant he was not able to return.
ITV also confirmed that an intruder was removed from the set after a security breach at the castle earlier in the week.
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