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Making the Middle East Safe for Tyranny
We've learned some hard truths recently. One of them is about Joe Biden: He's not up to this moment. It's now painfully clear that defending voting rights, women's freedom, and the species itself requires abolishing the filibuster and reforming the Supreme Court. Biden needs to rally Americans to the cause of saving our democracy by democratizing our government. He's not doing that. He's too wedded to old assumptions about how American politics should work. These assumptions enable the very authoritarianism he claims to oppose.
It's similar in foreign policy. Biden talks a good game about democracy and human rights. He's pledged to "push back on authoritarianism" around the world. And when the authoritarians are America's great power foes, Russia and China, he does just that. But in the Middle East, Biden isn't pushing back against authoritarianism; he's funding, arming and emboldening it. The trip he's taking this week to Israel and Saudi Arabia would make Donald Trump proud.
But first, a world about this Friday's Zoom call. Our guest will be New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, who has been doing a remarkable job of using American history to explain why American democracy is in danger, and how Americans should respond. As usual, subscribers will get the Zoom link on Wednesday and the video the following week. Join us.
Back to Biden's trip to the Middle East. It will start in Israel, which is a liberal democracy for Jews and something closer to a tyranny for most Palestinians. Roughly seven million Palestinians live under Israeli control. (Several million more live as refugees in neighboring Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria because Israel expelled them or their descendants and won't let them return.) Of the seven million Palestinians under Israeli control, three million live in the West Bank, where they are permanently barred from citizenship and the right to vote in Israeli elections, even though those elections produce governments that arrest them, confiscate their land, demolish their homes, and impede their travel.
An additional two million Palestinians reside in the Gaza Strip, where they live under Israeli control in a different way. Although it no longer stations troops in Gaza, Israel (with help from Egypt) controls everything that legally enters and exits by air, land, and sea. Israel has even established buffer zones inside Gaza from which it prohibits Palestinians from entering at risk of being shot. The Israeli human rights group Gisha has detailed just how pervasive Israel's control is:
Gaza residents may not bring a crate of milk into the Gaza Strip without Israeli permission; A Gaza university cannot receive visits from a foreign lecturer unless Israel issues a visitor's permit; A Gaza mother cannot register her child in the Palestinian population registry without Israeli approval; A Gaza fisherman cannot fish off the coast of Gaza without permission from Israel; A Gaza nonprofit organization cannot receive a tax-exempt donation of goods without Israeli approval; A Gaza teacher cannot receive her salary unless Israel agrees to transfer tax revenues to the Palestinian Ministry of Education; A Gaza farmer cannot get his carnations and cherry tomatoes to market unless Israel permits the goods to exit Gaza; A Gaza student cannot study abroad without Israeli approval to open the Gaza-Egypt crossing.
To be sure, Hamas holds sway inside Gaza like a prison gang after the guards have retreated. But like the armed guards who secure the prison's perimeter, Israel still wields ultimate control. And, as in the West Bank, it does so without any democratic accountability to the Palestinians it rules.
Finally, two million of the seven million Palestinians under Israeli control (sometimes called "Israeli Arabs") enjoy Israeli citizenship. They're second class citizens, especially when it comes to land, most of which is allocated by a state body designed exclusively to serve Jews. Still, Palestinian citizens can vote and serve in the Knesset. Comparatively, they're the lucky ones.
What would it mean for Biden to "push back on authoritarianism" in a country where most Palestinians lack basic freedoms? It could mean supporting the right of Palestinians to citizenship in the country in which they live. But that would require transforming Israel from a state that favors Jews into one based on legal equality irrespective of ethnicity and religion, a transformation the Biden administration defines as antisemitism.
Alternatively, Biden could bar Israel from using American aid to enforce its control over territories where Palestinians lack elemental rights, or at least bar that aid from being used for the most egregious purposes, like child detention and home demolition. But Biden has called any conditioning of aid "outrageous." Even more modestly, Biden could reaffirm America's longstanding position—which it held for decades until Trump—that the US considers it a violation of international law for Israel to build settlements in the West Bank, many of which are constructed on land confiscated from stateless Palestinians. He won't even do that. Biden could open the US consulate in East Jerusalem and the PLO mission in Washington so his administration at least reestablishes traditional lines of communication with Palestinians and their representatives. Not happening. He could visit Masafer Yatta, where roughly 2500 West Bank Palestinians face expulsion in what the United Nations warns may constitute a "war crime." Nope. Finally, at absolute rock bottom, Biden could at least defend the rights of Palestinians who are US citizens by demanding independent investigations when Israeli soldiers kill them, as has happened twice so far this year. Even that is evidently too much to ask from a president who vowed last fall that "human rights will be the center of our foreign policy."
Biden isn't going to Israel to oppose authoritarianism. He's going to showcase America's support for it, not only in Israel but across the region. In the Washington Post, Biden boasted that this Friday he will become "the first president to fly from Israel to Jiddah, Saudi Arabia," a voyage that signifies "the normalization between Israel and the Arab world, which my administration is working to deepen and expand." The phrase "Arab world" is misleading. Polls suggest that many people in the Arab world, where sympathy for the Palestinians remain strong, strongly oppose normalization with Israel. When Israel established relations with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates in 2020, civil society organizations of all ideological stripes in the Persian Gulf registered their opposition. What Biden means by "Arab world" is Arab regimes, which happen to be some of the most repressive on earth. According to Freedom House's most recent report on political rights and civil liberties, Bahrain merited a 12 out of 100. The UAE garnered a 17. Saudi Arabia, which Biden wants to join the normalization club, got a 7. According to Freedom House, that makes it half as free as Iran. There's only one country in the Persian Gulf that Freedom House ranks as even "partly free": Kuwait. Government officials there have said they will be "the last to normalize relations" with the Jewish State. Is that because Kuwaitis are more antisemitic than their counterparts in the UAE, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia? No. It's because Kuwait is the Gulf monarchy where an elected parliament wields the most power.
Given Biden's flowery rhetoric about democracy, you'd think he'd recognize that what matters morally isn't whether governments establish normal diplomatic relations. It's what they use those diplomatic relations for. Like Israel and Saudi Arabia, Russia and Hungary have an acrimonious past. But the Biden administration wouldn't celebrate a diplomatic breakthrough between Moscow and Budapest because the two regimes would use their closer ties to undermine human rights at home and abroad. The same can be said about Israel and its new Arab partners. One of things Gulf tyrannies get from better relations with Israel is assistance repressing their people. In 2016, a renowned Emirati human rights activist named Ahmed Mansoor received a suspicious text message, which was later traced to the Israeli spyware company, the NSO group. Six months later, Mansour was arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison, where according to Human Rights Watch he has been denied access to critical medical care. Saudi Arabia was an NSO client too, and according to the Guardian, Riyadh used the company's wares to hunt dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who Saudi officials later dismembered. According to King's College professor Andreas Krieg, Israeli surveillance technology "has contributed to a constraint of the freedom of speech over the past decade that is unprecedented in its rigidity, even in the Gulf."
What Biden will be promoting on his ground-breaking excursion from Tel Aviv to Jidda is a set of partnerships that fosters repression not only of Palestinians, Emiratis, Bahrainis, and Saudis—but exports repression across the Middle East. Over the last decade, Saudi Arabia and the UAE—which fear that accountable government elsewhere in the region might embolden their own freedom-starved subjects—have supported coups against democratic or democratizing governments in Egypt, Tunisia, and Sudan. Israel, which prefers authoritarian governments that can ignore their public's support for the Palestinian cause, sent its own supportive signals to the military leaders who carried out the coups in Egypt and Sudan. What the United States says China is trying to do globally—cement its own authoritarian rule by buttressing authoritarianism elsewhere—is exactly what America's allies are doing in the Middle East. And Biden is practically cheering them on.
Why is Biden doing this? Because he's internalized a set of assumptions that require him to ditch his democratic principles when it comes to America's allies in the Middle East. He thinks domestic politics require him to support Israel unconditionally. He thinks combatting Russia and China requires coddling Gulf oil producers so they will hold down energy prices and tilt America's way in the coming cold war. But these are choices. Biden could have pushed harder to revive the Iran nuclear deal, which would have brought more oil into the market and left him less reliant on Riyadh. He could have supported at least modest efforts at holding Israel accountable for its denial of Palestinian rights, as most ordinary Democrats support. He could have pursued a less zero sum policy toward China, which would make Riyadh's relationship with Beijing less terrifying.
Examine Biden's Middle East policy closely and you see the same self-imposed constraints that characterize his response when the Senate obstructs voting rights and the Supreme Court eradicates reproductive freedom. He responds with a shrug. The implicit message is: Authoritarians have the upper hand; there's not much we can do.
But most Democrats in the US don't believe that. Neither do most democrats in the Middle East. Across the US and across the world, there are people willing to fight creatively and boldly against oppressive power. Joe Biden isn't serving their cause.
On Monday at 10 AM ET, I'll be talking about Biden's Middle East trip with the University of Richmond's Dana El-Kurd, the Quincy Institute's Trita Parsi and the Foundation for Middle East Peace's Lara Friedman. RSVP here.
In Jewish Currents (subscribe!), Joshua Leifer writes about the difficulties of changing the antisemitism conversation in Germany.
A Republican Congresswoman invokes her grandchildren in support of gun rights. It doesn't work out well.
A haunting essay by Beinart Notebook subscriber Ammar Qadan about the day his family became refugees.
See you on Friday,
Palestinians don't have Israeli citizenship and vote in Israeli elections because they are citizens of the state of Palestine and vote in Palestinian elections. This complaining is like whining that Canadians cannot vote in American elections. If Peter actually cared about authoritarianism, let's hear him say one word about the Palestinian Authority, which has the same dictator in power for decades and rules the Palestinians with an iron fist.
Richard Jaffee
Jul 12, 2022·edited Jul 12, 2022
"Nothing is stopping relations with Israel… and I think all the signs show that Israel can be part of Saudi Arabia's network of connections."
https://www.timesofisrael.com/youll-see-interesting-things-us-hints-at-new-arab-israel-ties-during-biden-trip/
Peace is readily achievable between Israel and Palestine when Palestinians 1) accept Israel's right to exist; 2) agree to a state of their own next to Israel; and 3) agree to a "right of return" to a new state of Palestine and not to Israel. For over 70 years there have been numerous formal and informal efforts to achieve a two state peace, but all have ended with Palestinian rejection.
More and more Arab countries are refusing to be held hostage by Palestinian intransigence and are normalizing relations with Israel. Your activism should be aimed at the corrupt and criminal Palestinian leaders who continue to teach children to 'drive the Jews into the sea.' Hopefully one day they will instead choose peace so that both peoples can thrive.


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10 Best Cancer Hospitals in India
Last Modified: November 2, 2020 | Created on: September 3, 2019
Cancer Treatment, Top Hospitals and Doctors
Cancer is a term given to a group of diseases involving abnormal or uncontrolled growth of cells that may or may not spread to other parts of the body. There are more than a hundred types of cancer that affect human beings. Amongst these, the most common types are breast cancer, lung cancer and colorectal cancer. Every year, millions of new cases of cancer are reported worldwide. The fact sheet given by WHO reports that on the global scale, cancer has caused around 9.6 million deaths in 2018. With such a high mortality rate, it becomes critical to find excellent clinical care and first-rate facilities for cancer care at an economical rate.
On this page, we have summarized the remarkable features and facilities of the 10 best cancer hospitals in India, in order to help you select the best hospital for your treatment.
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Here is a list of the 10 Best Cancer Hospitals in India with their specific features that sets them apart:
1. Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon
Opposite HUDA City Centre, Sector 44, Gurugram, Haryana – 122002
FMRI is 1000 bedded multi-specialty tertiary care hospital with world class infrastructure, latest technology, JCI accreditation and a team of renowned doctors.
The Fortis Cancer Institute is a centre of excellence for the hospital and makes it one of the best cancer hospitals in India. The oncology department is outfitted with the latest cancer care technology of the world and a multi-disciplinary team of doctors and medical staff to deliver comprehensive medical care.
The Department offers a wide range of services under the sub-specialties for Medical Oncology, Radiation Oncology, Specialised Onco Surgery, Haematology – adult & paediatric, and Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT).
The hospital caters to all kinds of cancer and specializes in the treatment of breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, gastrointestinal cancer, and head and neck cancer, brain and spinal cord tumours, ophthalmic oncology along with palliative medicine.
The department is headed a panel of expert oncologists which include some of the best medical oncologists and surgical oncologists in India. The radiation oncologist at FMRI are highly renowned specialists with expertise and experience in cancer treatment.
Some of the best oncologists in India work here, including: Dr. Niranjan Naik, Dr. Rajiv Yadav (uro-oncologist), Dr. Rahul Bhargava (Hematologist, Bone Marrow Transplantation)
Cancer care at FMRI:
20-bedded Chemo Daycare and 22-bedded BMT ICU
Latest technologyElekta Axesse for radiation therapy & Da Vinci Robot for minimally invasive cancer Surgeries
Published Cancer Registry and Surgical Outcomes
Well-established Psycho-Oncology Programmes with support groups and expressive therapies.
Cone beam CT, ExacTrac X-ray, EPID for precise imaging and diagnosis
Integrated Brainlab system – A single system that integrates all the patient's data – diagnostic evaluation, intraoperative images and videos. This information is readily available to the surgeons in the operating room.
Monaco TPS with Monte Carlo dose calculation algorithm – It is the most accurate dose calculation that is available.
2. Max Super Specialty Hospital, Delhi
Press Enclave Road, Mandir Marg, Saket, New Delhi – 110017
Max Super Specialty Hospital is one of the foremost medical facilities in India. With a capacity of more than 500 in-patient beds, the hospitals offers excellent out-patient and in-patient facilities under East Block and West block.
Max Hospital is known for delivering best cancer treatment in India, based on the top of the class medical facilities, latest technology for cancer treatment and renowned specialists available at its oncology department – Max Institute of Cancer Care.
The hospitals offer a wide variety of services with a combination of various treatment options including Chemotherapy, Radiation Therapy, Surgery and Targeted Therapy.
The cancer facility is a centre of excellence of the hospital and the first in northern India to possess one of the world's advanced technological systems – Novalis Tx for IMRT/IGRT, Radiosurgery, HIPEC and SRS/SRT.
Some of the Best cancer specialists in India are associated with Max Hospital including the medical radiation oncologists, and top surgical oncologists in India.
Dr. R Ranga Rao, Dr. Harit Chaturvedi, Dr. Gagan Gautam are most known oncologists in India that work at Max.
Cancer care at Max:
Da vinci Robotic system for minimally invasive surgery for removal of tumor.
Novalis Tx – non-invasive radiosurgery technique for IMRT, IGRT, SRS/SRT procedures
Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) – delivers chemotherapy treatment directly into the abdomen during surgery. The procedure treats tumors in the abdominal (peritoneal) lining that stem from colon, gastric, ovarian, appendix tumors, mesothelioma and other cancers.
12 chemo chairs/recliners and 3 patient beds
Specializes in Breast, Head and Neck, Lung, Gastrointestinal and Hematology Oncology
Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit
3. Medanta – The Medicity, Gurgaon
CH Baktawar Singh Road, Sector 38, Gurugram, Haryana – 122001
Medanta is a leading multi-specialty hospital offering medical care under out-patient, in-patient and critical care facilities.
The 1250 bedded facility has world-class infrastructure and state-of-the-art facilities that cater to a large volume of domestic and international patients.
Medanta's Cancer Institute offers comprehensive care for all kinds of cancers under specialized divisions of Medical and Hemato-oncology for treatment of blood and other cancers, radiation oncology with latest radiotherapy techniques and organ-specific division including Breast services, Head and Neck oncology.
The best cancer hospital in Delhi-NCR provides various services including Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant, Radiation Therapy for Bladder Cancer, Head and Neck Cancer, Brain Tumour, Thoracic region, Breast Cancer treatment, Craniospinal Irradiation, Mastectomy, Breast Conservation Surgery and many more.
Cancer care at Medanta:
CyberKnife VSI Robotic Radiosurgery – One of the world's latest cancer treatment technique with pin-point accuracy, that has enabled treatment of cancer that were earlier considered untreatable.
Radiation therapy techniques – IGRT, Tomotheraphy H-D, Volumetric Arc Therapy
High tech diagnostic and imaging equipment including 256 slice CT scan, PET scan,and more
Integrated Brachytherapy Unit
Da Vinci Robotic System – advanced surgical technique which provides more accuracy for the surgery
Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy/Stereotactic Radiation Surgery – delivers a high dose of radiation precisely to the targeted cells, preventing healthy tissues from damage
4. Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Delhi
Sarita Vihar, Delhi Mathura Road, New Delhi – 110076
Indraprastha Apollo is the flagship hospital of Apollo Healthcare Group, the forerunner medical group of India. It is also one of the most chosen hospitals by international patients due to the high-end facilities and top surgeons working here.
The Apollo Cancer Centre is known to provide the best cancer care in India. It is a state-of-the art facility that offers comprehensive clinical care for all kinds of cancer.
The hospital houses some of the world's most updated technologies, for instance the da Vinci Robotic Surgical System, Novalis Tx, 3-D imaging for diagnostics and many more. Da Vinci is a robotic system that enables the surgeon to perform complicated surgeries with more ease and precision.
The centre has a six bedded unit with HEPA – filtered laminar airflow and a high-end stem cell processing unit for advanced procedures. The pediatric oncology unit at this hospital is well established with latest diagnostic and surgical systems.
NovalisTx with Exact Trac is also an advanced technology under Frameless Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy. It is used to treat various kinds of cancer with greater accuracy and in the region which are not easily accessible through conventional surgery.
Cancer care at Apollo:
Breast cancer – Mammographic localization of small microscopic lesions and sentinel node biopsy.
da Vinci Robotics Surgery – advanced surgical system which helps the surgeon to perform surgery with more precision and accuracy
Frameless Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) – focus radiation beam of the target tissues of the brain with high precision
Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) – focus high dose of radiation precisely on cancer cells anywhere in the body
Radiation therapy with Image Guided Radiotherapy (IGRT), Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT), 3D Conformal Radiotherapy
High Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy
Plastic and reconstructive surgery including Micro vascular reconstruction of flap, Thoracoscopic & Laparoscopic surgery in staging and diagnosis
5. Artemis Hospital, Gurgaon
Near Unitech Cyber park, Sector 51, Gurgaon, Haryana
Artemis is one of the top cancer hospitals in India, has a capacity of 400 beds and offer excellent healthcare services across all major specialties.
The Artemis Cancer Care is a state-of-the-art facility with updated technology, advanced diagnostic equipment, modular OTs, and other specialized units.
The centre has a team of renowned cancer specialist with expertise in specialties of Medical, Radiation and surgical oncology. A highly trained medical support staff with specialized cancer care nurses ensures full care of the patient.
The hospitals also offers special services and facilities for international patients and has an easy accessibility from airport and local transportation.
The centre is affiliated to several international and national research organizations for clinical research trials.
Cancer care at Artemis:
CT Digital X-Ray/Fluoroscopy
Multi-slice Cardiac CT-64 Slice
BMD- Dexa Scan
MRI-3T
3D-4D Ultrasound/Doppler
PET-CT- Brain, whole body and cardiac
Gamma camera imaging including Stress thallium
6. BLK Super Specialty Hospital
Pusa Rd, Radha Soami Satsang, Rajendra Place, New Delhi, Delhi 110005
BLK Super Specialty Hospital is a forerunner tertiary care medical facility with 650 beds and range of services across all major specialties.
BLK Cancer Centre (BLKCC) offers a one-stop solution for cancer patients as it offers a range of comprehensive services for cancer care with a combination of chemo, radiation and immunotherapy.
The centre specializes in Head & Neck Oncology, Breast Oncology, Gynae-Oncology, GI Oncology, Uro-Oncology, Thoracic Oncology and Paediatric Oncology.
The hospital has a multi-disciplinary team of expert cancer doctors including medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, surgeons, neuro-oncologists, uro-oncologists
The centre is equipped with the latest technology in cancer treatment and advanced radiation techniques. BLKCC has been the Asia's first and world's seventh centre to have Cyberknife technology.
Cancer care at BLK Hospital:
100 dedicated beds
Cyber-knife VSI ®
latest generation PET CT Scan
Trilogy Tx Linear Accelerator, offering state-of-the-art IGRT, IMRT, 3DCRT, Stereotactic RT and High Dose RateBrachytherapy
3D Conformal Radiation Therapy (3DCRT)
Gammamed ix High Dose Rate brachytherapy unit
Minimal Invasive Surgery for Gynaecological Cancers
7. Dharamshila Narayana Super Specialty Hospital
Vasundhara Enclave, Near New Ashok Nagar Metro Station, Dallupura, New Delhi, Delhi – 110096
Dharamshila Narayana Super Specialty Hospital is a unit of Dharamshila Cancer Foundation and Research Centre and is one of the best hospitals for cancer treatment in India.
The hospital has a dedicated approach towards cancer care and provides state-of-the-art facilities under the centres of excellence for organ specific divisions – Head and Neck Cancer Centre, Breast Cancer Centre, Lung Cancer Centre, Gastrointestinal Cancer Centre, Prostate & Genitourinary Cancer Centre, Gynaecological Cancer Centre, Haematology, Haemato-Oncology & Bone Marrow Transplantation
There are sub-specialty centres at the hospital including Medical Oncology Centre, Surgical Oncology centre and Radiation Oncology Centre. These centres offer out-patient, in-patient and daycare services to a large number of patients on a regular basis.
The centres offer cost-effective one-stop destination for treatment of cancer and provides personalised care regime to the patient based on in-depth evaluation by the expert doctors.
The team of surgeons and cancer specialists at the hospital is highly renowned and experienced in new techniques of surgery and radiation therapy.
Cancer care at Dharamshila Narayana:
Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplantation – The 21 bedded BMT centre with BMT Research Lab and Transfusion
Linear Accelerators – Triple Energy Linear Accelerators with VMAT technology for IMRT, IGRT, SRS /SRT, SBRT and Respiratory Gated Radiotherapy
High-tech Radiotherapy Treatment Planning Systems including Monaco with Monte Carlo Algorithm, ERGO++, CMS Xio and Eclipse
Brachytherapy – Microselectron Digital (HDR-V3) Brachytherapy, High dose rate Brachytherapy (Microselectron with Ir-192 source)
Best Cancer hospitals in Mumbai
8. Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai
Rao Saheb Achutrao Patwardhan Marg, Four Bunglows, Andheri (West), Mumbai – 400053
Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital is a world-class medical facility and the only hospital in Mumbai with four accreditation – JCI, CAP (USA), NABH and NABL.
The hospital has a well-established Centre for Cancer that combines the practice of personalized patient care with the expertise of renowned cancer doctors.
A comprehensive range of services are offered to patients for all kinds of cancers, including solid tumours and blood related diseases. The cancer services also covers public education, screening, diagnosis, treatment as well as pain management and palliative care.
The latest technologies available at the centre of the world's most updated cancer systems. The centre was the first in India to have advanced technologies such as Triology and Edge Radiosurgery system.
The services offered include chemotherapy, radiation therapy, Bone Marrow transplantation, surgery for removal of various kinds of cancer.
Cancer care at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital:
Day Care Chemotherapy Unit – patients can go home the same day after the treatment.
Minimal Access Surgery and Robotic Surgery for treatment of most types of cancers
Brachyvision
Trilogy for radiotherapy
EdgeTM – Asia's first Radiosurgery and Radiation Therapy equipment for Cancer Treatment
Novalis Tx – a sophisticated radiosurgery technique
Gammamed plus
Latest PET Scan for precise diagnosis
Best Cancer hospitals in Bangalore
9. BGS Gleneagles Hospital, Bangalore
67, Uttarahalli Main Rd, Sunkalpalya, Kengeri, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560060
BGS Gleneagles Hospital is a multispecialty hospital providing tertiary care across all major medical disciplines.
The hospital provides best cancer treatment in Bangalore under the
Surgical Oncology Department offers multi super specialty organ specific cancer care for various kinds of cancers. The department also offers services for Paediatric Haemato Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation.
Radiation Oncology Department at BGS Gleneagles Hospital is equipped with advanced radiation therapy delivery systems.
Medical Oncology Department is a full-fledged facility with the latest technology and headed by best cancer doctors in Bangalore.
Department of Breast Oncology provides advanced breast care including services for Breast conservation surgery, Oncoplastic breast cancer surgery, breast Imaging, hormone therapy, targeted therapy, Lymphedema breast screening.
Cancer care at BGS Gleneagles:
TrueBeam STx – for delivering accurate & precise radiotherapy for Cancer treatment
Rapid ARC (volumetric modulated ARC therapy)
3D conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT)
Stereotactic body radiotherapy for spine, liver, prostate and pancreatic Tumours
Hybrid VMAT for bilateral breast cancers
High dose rate Brachytherapy
Stereotactic radiosurgery for precise delivery of radiation to only the cancer cells, with minimal harm to the surrounding healthy tissue
Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) For Peritoneal Surface Malignancies
Best Cancer hospitals in Chennai
10. Gleneagles Global Health City
439, Medavakkam Road, Perumbakkam, Cheran Nagar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600100
Gleneagles Global Health City is one of the top hospitals in Chennai and the largest healthcare facility of the renowned group of Gleneagles Global Hospitals India.
The 1000 bedded hospital has latest technological support, state-of-the-art infrastructure and global standard of clinical care.
The Department of Surgical Oncology of Global Cancer Institute (GCI) at Gleneagles Global Hospitals, Chennai offers end to end Cancer care services including treatment, management of the disease and rehabilitation.
The cancer specialists at the hospital are highly qualified and skilled medical professional with vast experience and experience in treating various kinds of cancers.
The hospital provides reliable and effective treatment in the organ specific specialties of Breast, Gastrointestinal, Lung, Head & Neck, Gynaec, Genito-urinary, Spinal Column, Soft Tissue, Bone and Benign tumours
Cancer care at Global Hospital:
True beam STx machine
Intensity modulated radiotherapy ((IMRT)
Image guided radiotherapy (IGRT)
Rapid ARC – volumetric modulated ARC therapy technique
Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), including intensity modulated radiosurgery and image guided radiosurgery (IGRS)
Stereotactic body radiotherapy for brain cancer treatment
Hybrid VMAT for bilateral breast cancers, head & neck cancers
Stereotactic body radiotherapy for treatment of cancers of spine, liver, prostate and pancreatic
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Cancer is a term given to a group of diseases involving abnormal or uncontrolled growth of cells that may or may spread to other parts of the body. There are more than a hundred types of cancer that affect human beings. Amongst these, the most common types are breast cancer, lung cancer and colorectal cancer. Every year, millions of new cases of cancer are reported worldwide. The fact sheet given by WHO reports that on the global scale, cancer has caused around 9.6 million deaths in 2018. With such a high mortality rate, it becomes critical to find excellent clinical care and first-rate facilities for cancer care at an economical rate.
With new technological advancements of past decades, cancer treatment has evolved significantly to provide treatment methods with better success rates. The choice of treatment for any particular cancer depends on several factors, such as the location of the tumour, how much it has spread, the type of cells affected, the patient's overall health as well as other any underlying conditions.
Typically Doctors will recommend one or more of the below treatment options to treat the cancer:
Surgery: It is one of the primary treatments for many kinds of cancer. The aim of surgery is to remove the tumor either completely or as much as possible. Surgery is also done for diagnosis
Chemotherapy: In chemotherapy, patients are given a combination of drugs that kill cancer.
Radiation therapy: In this type of therapy, high-energy beams of radiation are used to destroy cancer cells. Radiation therapy can be delivered by a machine from outside the body (external beam radiation), or it can be placed inside the body (brachytherapy).
Target based therapy: Targeted drug therapy targets specific abnormalities within cancer cells which allows them to grow, divide and spread. This enables the doctor to specifically target tumor cells and prevents damage to healthy cells.
Immunotherapy: This is also known as biological therapy. In this treatment, the body's immune system is used to fight cancer. Immunotherapy aims at enhancing the immune system to recognize cancer as a target and destroy it.
Hormone therapy: This treatment involves the use of medicines that can block certain hormones and control their effects in the body. This can be used to reduce or stop the growth of cancer cells in cases of prostate and breast cancer.
Bone marrow transplant: Stem cells, usually taken from patient's own bone marrow or from a matched donor, are used to restore blood-forming cells in cancer patients who have been treated with high doses of chemotherapy or radiation therapy
Frequently asked Questions (FAQs) about Cancer Treatment in India
Q. Why choose to undergo cancer treatment in India?
For medical tourists, India is a highly favourable destination for cancer treatment. There are many benefits of choosing India for medical travel, the foremost being the highly reasonable cost of cancer treatment with no compromise on the quality of services and clinical excellence. Several Top Hospitals in India are world renowned medical centres that provide tertiary care services with top-class infrastructure and outstanding facilities.
These hospitals offer comprehensive care with combinations of cancer treatment options including surgical intervention, radiation, chemotherapy and others, along with supportive and palliative care.
The cancer care team at these hospitals is comprised of multi-disciplinary specialists including radiation oncologists, medical oncologists, surgical oncologists and others. The doctors in India are highly sought after on a global level and have vast experience as well as expertise in the field of medicine. They are trained in advanced techniques and have experience of treating different kinds of cancers.
Q. How to choose the best cancer hospital in India?
As India has a thriving healthcare industry with many private and government hospitals, it might be difficult to decide which hospital to choose, especially as a foreign patient.
There a number of factors that must be considered while making such decisions. Here, we have listed some of the important points you should be looking at while choosing the best hospital for cancer treatment in India:
Standard of the hospital: For this, look for the accreditation given to the hospitals. Two of the most important ones are Joint Commission International (JCI) and National Board for Hospitals and healthcare providers. These organizations certify the hospitals based on their quality of services, staff, equipment, infrastructure & hygiene maintenance
JCI is a globally recognized organization in the United States of America that felicitates accreditation to hospitals and other healthcare organisations. The hospitals accredited by JCI maintain an international standard for services, administration, and performance.
NABH is India's highest benchmark for quality clinical services at a hospital or healthcare system. In order to be accredited by NABH, the hospital must have stringent safety and quality standards.
Facilities International Patients: If you are travelling from abroad, one of the important things to look for is the International patient department and the services they offer for example airport pick-up & drop, translator/ language interpreter, global cuisine and currency exchange facilities,
Latest technology: Cancer treatment today is highly advanced and involves usage of next-generation technology which enables treatment of all kinds of cancer with high success rate. The hospital must have high-end technological support, latest diagnostic, surgical and radiation therapy techniques to ensure the safety and success of the procedure.
Panel of doctors: The hospital should have a multidisciplinary team of experts specialized in various specialized branches of cancer treatment, namely –
Other specialists including hematologists, orthopedics, urologists are also part of the team, depending on the type of cells affected by cancer.
If you want to know more about the best cancer specialists in India, click top 15 oncologists in India across the major cities of Delhi, Gurgaon, Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai and others.
Location and accessibility: You must consider connectivity and location of hospitals, especially in terms of distance from international airport, railway station and roads.
Cost: The cost of cancer treatment can vary on multiple factors including the medical condition of the patient, treatment method you opt for, the location of the hospital and experience of the surgeon
For effective treatment of any kind of cancer, it is crucial to choose a reputed and well-established hospital having all the above factors.
Written By Dr. Suneet Singh
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Q: Error trying to install Python on some friend's computer First time I got this error trying to install Python on some friend's computer (Windows7 - x64)
It says
C:\Users\Username\Desktop\proyect> myproyect.py
    File "myproyect.py" line 1
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SyntaxError: invalid syntax

A: The file contains more than just python code, hence the syntax error.
Please check that file simply contains
print "hello world"

And not
ActivePython 2.7.11 (v2.7.11:6d1b6a68f775, Dec 5 2015, 20:32:19) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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Democratic candidates pass the buck on gun crime: It's easier to blame racism than take responsibility
Democrats Control America's Most Dangerous Cities. So Why Do They Keep Passing the Buck on Gun Crime?
Progressives and conservatives traditionally have exhibited different attitudes to the lessons of history. While conservatives have tended to take cues from the past as they build measured hopes for the future, progressives have urged that we break free from tradition in order to create bold and ambitious blueprints for a society they consider to be more just. In the United States, however, this pattern appears to be breaking down, as it is now progressives who tend to embrace a more rigid, backward-looking approach, especially on issues tied to identity. Unlike conservatives, progressives aren't looking to revive a better, sometimes idealized version of their country. But they have become bogged down in the politics of historical redress, at the expense of forward-looking policies that would actually improve people's lives.
A microcosm of this larger tendency was put on display during last month's Democratic primary debates, which touched on the issue of urban gun violence. No Democratic presidential candidate expressed a sense of responsibility for the plague of violent crime in America's cities, even though the largest urban areas are almost all controlled by Democratic politicians.
The issue first came up during questions posed to Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana. NBC's moderators challenged Buttigieg by bringing up a recent incident in which a white police officer killed a 54-year-old black man. While that episode nominally relates to the issue of urban gun violence, it also allows Democrats to dwell in ideologically comfortable territory, since progressives have been drawing attention to police-involved shootings for years. (Indeed, it would be far more useful — and revealing — if it were instead conservative Republicans who were being pressed on this problem). Moreover, the preferred Democrat approach — tracing the problem to the country's original sin of racism — isn't especially helpful.
In answer to the question, Buttigieg dutifully offered a look back to history, noting "there's a wall of mistrust put up one racist act at a time." A question about the other shootings in South Bend — the vast majority of which are not committed by police officers — would have been far more illuminating. South Bend is one of the 30 most dangerous cities in America, with a per-capita homicide rate (16.8 per 100,000) comparable to that of Chicago (17.5 per 100,000). And this rate has remained virtually unchanged since Buttigieg became mayor in 2012, despite the seven years he's had to address the problem.
At one point, the mayor did acknowledge the high death toll. "The worst part of the job is dealing with violence," Buttigieg confessed. "We lose as many as were lost at Parkland [referring to the 2018 Parkland, Florida school shooting] every two or three years in my city alone. And this is tearing communities apart." No doubt, this is absolutely true. But there is something oddly passive about the tone of such pronouncements, as if Buttigieg and other politicians were talking about a natural disaster. In truth, this ongoing tragedy is an indictment of American political leadership, including at the local level. If you can't adequately fight crime as a mayor, why would one imagine you are fit to run a whole country?
Another presidential hopeful, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, showed a similar lack of self-awareness. Booker declared, in a tone that almost seemed to suggest pride, "I'm the only one on this panel here that had seven people shot in their neighborhood just last week. Someone I knew…was killed with an assault rifle at the top of my block last year." Again, this sounds like someone reporting on a kind of naturally occurring cataclysm. Yet, in addition to serving as a senator from New Jersey for five years, Booker served as mayor of Newark for the previous eight. Newark's government, like New Jersey's, is part of the problem.
Like both men, I've seen the consequences of gun violence up close. The Toronto area, where I grew up, isn't plagued by homicide rates comparable to those of large American cities. But we still lose dozens of young lives each year to guns. The level of fear I have felt upon getting a text about a shooting in front of my mother's home, or hearing gunshots outside my own apartment, is only a fraction of that suffered by American families I've met in Newark, NJ, and Columbus, OH (a few hours southeast of South Bend). One thing I've learned through my work is that it's hard for people of any age to move on from losing loved ones to violence. As author and journalist Alex Kotlowitz has explained, "[a] single act of violence — it shapes who people are. It gets in their bones."
In keeping with their preference to remain on safe progressive turf, Democratic presidential candidates typically have limited their policy proposals in this area to gun-control measures — such as universal background checks (mentioned by Buttigieg during the primary debate) and a national buyback program (which is included in Booker's platform). Yes, such top-down measures would be helpful, as most Americans agree, but they won't fix the problem. A lot more can be done to make American cities safer, including local actions taken by Democrat-controlled city governments. And given the large number of Democratic presidential candidates, hailing from different parts of the country, this is an opportunity for a discussion of such policy ideas to take place on the national stage.
As mayor of Newark, for example, Booker himself saw double-digit reductions in shootings over the course of his first term (2006-2010). This is to his credit. And at the end of those four years, Booker credited a variety of city government initiatives for increasing community safety: more police officers, security cameras, gunshot-detection systems, services for ex-offenders, fatherhood support programs and an illegal-gun tip line. As mayor, Booker wasn't waiting for either George W. Bush or Barack Obama to enact national gun-control measures. Booker took responsibility. Unfortunately, the positive changes didn't last. After 2010, the Newark police budget was cut and targeted community programs started to lose funding. Newark's homicide rate went back up to previous levels, further underscoring how local policies can make a meaningful difference. It would be nice to hear Booker talk more about this, rather than generic Democrat talking points.
The Democrats like to suggest that the problem of gun crime can't ever be fully tackled until their party controls the White House and both houses of Congress, at which point they might pass aggressive gun-control legislation at the national level. But the University of Chicago's Crime Lab has identified a meaningful role for city government initiatives in improving community safety. A 2014 empirical study of a summer-job program found that even part-time, minimum wage jobs can help reduce violent crime among youth in high-crime areas of Chicago by more than 40 percent. The study's authors speculate that the program's success is less attributable to poverty alleviation than to the social, psychological and cultural benefits of having a job. The City of Chicago has since implemented the findings by introducing summer job programs in local communities. And this might well be a factor in the decline in Chicago's homicide rate since 2016.
More than 14,000 Americans died in firearm homicides in 2017, with most of the victims dying in cities. According to a recent Pew Research Center survey, just over half of Americans consider gun violence, and violent crime more generally, to be "very big" problems. When you disaggregate the Pew survey responses by race, it's clear that Democratic politicians have ample motivation to talk about these problems in a meaningful way. Among black respondents — a target group for any Democratic presidential candidate — 82 percent identified gun violence as a "very big" problem. And twice as many black American respondents identified crime as a "major" problem in their local community, as compared to white Americans.
The small subset of killings that involve police officers is, of course, an important issue — especially since distrust of the police can make it harder for police to secure public co-operation in their investigations. Still, the Democrats' disproportionate focus on this subset also seems influenced by political convenience. When white police are involved in the killing of a black man, it naturally invokes America's horrific history of lynchings, Jim Crow segregation, slavery and other forms of state violence against black men and women — familiar territory for any Democrat on the hustings. Or, to use Buttigieg's language, a significant part of progressive concern can be rooted in "what's happened in the past." The day-to-day violence within American cities, much of it involving young men as both victim and perpetrator, makes for a more awkward conversation — though it is a conversation that many black communities are willing to have.
The Democratic primary debates further spotlighted the party's backward-looking disposition on race issues, through a particularly acute exchange in which Senator Kamala Harris attacked former Vice President Joe Biden's decades-old opposition to federally-enforced school desegregation, or "busing." But perhaps the best recent example of this larger trend within progressive circles emerged from last month's U.S. congressional hearing on slavery reparations, which featured testimony from The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates and Quillette's Coleman Hughes. As Hughes emphasized in a subsequent Quillette interview, there is literally "nothing" that can make up for the horror of slavery (not to mention convict leasing, vagrancy laws, debt peonage, redlining, racist GI bills and poll taxes). Those days are gone, as are its primary victims. And so it makes far more sense to work hard to address modern-day inequalities through improved public education, criminal justice reform and affordable healthcare. Unfortunately, this policy-oriented approach does not carry the same emotional (and political) resonance of a broad, dramatic call to remedy the ills of the past in one fell swoop.
Progressives, who have long branded themselves as forward-looking policy innovators challenging the hidebound dogmas of conservatism, would benefit from challenging their own fixation on history's rearview mirror. A good start would come from engaging in an honest discussion of the daily criminal carnage playing out in the cities controlled by their own party. Preventing the deaths of today's black youth would do a lot more good than dwelling on a racist past whose evils can never be undone.
Jamil Jivani is the author of Why Young Men: The Dangerous Allure of Violent Movements and What We Can Do About It (All Points Books, 2019). Follow him on Twitter @jamiljivani.
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When a fellow nurse passes, IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital caregivers are there to offer a special tribute to one of their own.
She was known as an "encourager" – someone who was patient, helpful, kind, and intelligent. Pamela Wright was also known as a great nurse.
So when she passed on Oct. 5, 2018, her fellow nurses were there to pay tribute in a special way. Four nurses, dressed all in white, formed an Honor Guard somberly standing watch. Those nurses were Patty Williams, Jonna Grindle, Sherri White, and Brittany Dorton.
Wright, who earned a Master's Degree of Science in Nursing at Ball State, started her career at IU Health Ball Memorial in 1984. Patients knew her for her tireless dedication to helping them cope with fibromyalgia and Rheumatoid arthritis. Wright also battled the autoimmune disease.
Wright's celebration of life was the first service for the founding members of the Delaware County Nursing Honor Guard. Members of the Nursing Honor attend services paying tribute to fellow nurses (including retired nurses) by "keeping watch" near the casket – similar to a military tribute. Their involvement in services may also include reciting the "Nightingale Pledge," and the "Nurse's Prayer." At some services they set a table with a white cap, white bible and a lighted Nightingale lamp. At the close of the service, the lamp is blown out, symbolizing the end of the nurse's service to a beloved profession of caring for others. The candle is then presented to the family along with bookmarks that include the "Nightingale Pledge" and the "Nurse's Prayer." Since their first service, the Honor Guard has grown to 28 active members.


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The wall was completed yesterday. Mucho rapido! It was fun to watch a family enjoying physical work. The following photograph shows you the joy on the muchachos face. He is really enjoying catching those bricks!
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Monday, bright and early, Lupi and my men will be back to begin work. It will be comforting. I know everyone. I can buy them goodies at the bakery. I can see the smiles on their faces and the joy in their hearts. I will observe their mind boggling hard labour, and the pride they take in doing a good job. More of Lupi's quiet strong energy will be 'built in' to my home. I will watch each brick and stone being laid. I will help with the plants. I will visit nurseries and get excited and confused about what to bring home with me. I really really want an olive tree. I adore them. They are so symbolic to me, after seeing the beautiful olive groves of Italy and Greece. I've imprinted those memories into my mind. The ancient trees with their knarled trunks, so full of character, the green gray colour of the leaves, the symbolism of the 'olive branch' and peace. I'm looking forward to next week.


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La investigación concerniente a la relación entre la cantidad de entropía termodinámica y la evolución de vida empezó alrededor de los inicios del siglo XX.  En 1910, historiador americano Henry Adams imprimió y distribuyó a bibliotecas universitarias y profesores el pequeño volumen Una Carta a Profesores de Historia Norteamericanos que propone una teoría de la historia basada en la segunda ley de termodinámica y en el principio de entropía. El libro de 1944 Qué es Vida? Por el físico Nobel-laureate Erwin Schrödinger estimuló  la investigación en el campo.  En su libro, Schrödinger originalmente afirmaba que la vida alimenta la entropía negativa, o negentropy como es a veces llamada, pero en una edición posterior se corrigió a sí mismo en respuesta a quejas y declaró la verdadera fuente cierta es la energía libre .  Trabajo más reciente ha restringido la discusión a la energía libre de Gibbs porque los procesos biológicos en la tierra normalmente ocurren en una temperatura y presión constantes, como en la atmósfera o en el fondo de un océano, pero no a través de ambos en corto periodo de tiempo para organismos individuales.

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Bibliografía
 Adams, Henry. (1986). History of the United States of America During the Administration of Thomas Jefferson (p. 1299). Library of America.
 Adams, Henry. (1910). A Letter to American Teachers of History.  Washington.

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Biofísica
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Global Jet Capital has appointed Ben Murray as senior managing director of Asset Management. He will be responsible for developing, implementing and managing Global Jet Capital's asset management strategy, in particular identifying which of the company's post-lease aircraft can be re-deployed as net earning assets. This will include placing them with approved operators to generate charter or short-lease income, and developing prospects for the purchase and /or refinancing of these aircraft.
Murray joins Global Jet Capital from Landmark Aviation, where he spent nearly four years as the company's president of Aircraft Management and Charter. Here, he developed and executed a new business strategy for the division which resulted in strong growth. Murray has also held senior positions at XOJET, NetJets and General Aviation Services during his 17+ year career.
Shawn Vick, chief executive officer of Global Jet Capital, said: "Ben has a very strong track record in developing successful strategies in business aviation. I'm sure he will play a key role in our continued growth and expansion."


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Earlier this month, the McDonald and Jackson-Milton girls basketball played a close three quarters before the Bluejays used a big fourth to give the Blue Devils their only conference loss in Inter-Tri County League play.
Another big quarter pushed Jackson-Milton to a 48-27 victory and at least a share of the Blue Tier league title Thursday night.
It was a big night for Totani as she scored the 1,000th point of her career 17 days after her twin sister Kaitlyn accomplished the same feat against Sebring.
Ashley finished with a game high 20 points, including 10 in the final quarter.
"Kaitlyn was the scorer and Ashley was the defender and it finally became full circle last year," Jackson-Milton assistant coach Dave Crismon said. "She really started to flourish. She attacks the basket better than probably than anyone we've got. So now we have a double edged threat — one that can attack, kick it out and hit a shot.
Early on, the Blue Devils (12-4, 6-2) were game against the Bluejays (15-3, 8-0) after a 10-9 opening quarter in favor of Jackson-Milton.
The game continued to be a back-and-fourth affair before back-to-back shots from Ashley Totani opened an 18-11 Jackson-Milton advantage.
Sam Stitt led the Blue Devils with six points.
McDonald got it back within four after a 3 from Britney Smith, but saw a 3 from Michaelina Terranova push it back out to seven right before halftime.
Terranova had a double-double of 17 points and 11 rebounds.
After trading buckets to start off the second half, the Bluejays began to get separation outscoring McDonald 13-4 in the third quarter to push their advantage to 34-18.
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LANCASTER CITY, Pa. -- Relations between police and some communities across the country may be strained, but the Lancaster City Bureau of Police is working alongside neighbors to change that relationship.
With fewer police on the force today, Lancaster City officers don't walk the streets like they used to, but that doesn't mean their presence is gone.
Lancaster City Bureau of Police Captain Jarrad Berkihiser said "it's kind of hard for us to go door-to-door in a neighborhood, knock on doors and say 'hey, I'm your sector officer, your assigned sector officer. We don't have the time or manpower unfortunately to do that."
Millersville University professor and director of the Center for Public Scholarship and Social Change Dr. Mary Glazier said "foot patrol is not the answer. It's not even been shown to be particularly effective in combating crime."
Dr. Glazier has worked to bring the community together, in the city's southwest neighborhood.
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Noah Miller said "whenever we've had neighborhood issues, if we ask the police to send out the sector officer or some other officer who are on patrol that night, and meet with our neighborhood group when we've had a meeting, they'll absolutely do it. "
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Yes! I felt the exact same way as you, Siiri! I think less time should have been focussed on the pointless romance and more time should have been spent on showing the dynamic of the boy's relationships with eachother. I think that would have been awesome. I even liked seeing the girl with each guy, but oh well, maybe in the next one? Great review!
I know, right? These dynamics were what made the story for me, but I still would have loved to see more. And that romance was so not necessary. However, we take what we get so riht now I'm just waiting for the next one to learn more about these awesome boys and Anna's relationship with them:) Thanks, girl!
I*m currently reading this book and I*m loving it so far :D Hope it doesn*t end up bad. Great review!


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EFC December 2013
Eagle Family Connection
Eagle Families 101
248 DiGiorgio Campus Center
Winthrop University
December Edition
Fall Semester 2013 Final Examination Schedule
Exams are scheduled Wednesday, December 4, 8 a.m. through Tuesday, Dec. 10, 6:30 p.m. according to the first day of the week the class meets. For example, a 12:30 TR class first meets on Tuesday; therefore, the exam time can be found by looking in the "Tuesday" column below. Examinations for 12:30 p.m. Tuesday classes are given at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 5.
Monday Tuesday
Class Time Exam Assignment Class Time Exam Assignment
8 a.m. 8 a.m. Sat., 12/7 8 a.m. 8 a.m. Thurs., 12/5
9 a.m. 8 a.m. Mon., 12/9 9 a.m. 11:30 a.m. Wed., 12/4
9:30 a.m. 8 a.m. Mon., 12/9 9:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. Wed., 12/4
10 a.m. 8 a.m. Wed., 12/4 12:30 p.m. 3 p.m. Thurs., 12/5
11 a.m. 8 a.m. Fri., 12/16 2 p.m. 11:30 a.m. Thurs., 12/5
12:30 p.m. 11:30 a.m. Tues., 12/10 3:30 p.m. 11:30 a.m. Fri., 12/6
1 p.m. 11:30 a.m. Tues., 12/10 5 p.m. 11:30 a.m. Sat., 12/7
2 p.m. 3 p.m. Mon., 12/9 6:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Fri., 12/6
3 p.m. 3 p.m. Tues., 12/10 7 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Fri., 12/6
3:30 p.m. 3 p.m. Tues., 12/10
5 p.m. 3 p.m. Sat., 12/7
5:30 p.m. 3 p.m. Sat., 12/7
6:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Mon., 12/9
Wednesday Thursday
9 a.m. 8 a.m. Tues., 12/10 9:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. Wed., 12/4
9:30 a.m. 8 a.m. Tues., 12/10 12:30 p.m. 3 p.m. Thurs., 12/5
11 a.m. 11:30 a.m. Mon., 12/9 2 p.m. 3 p.m. Fri., 12/6
12:30 p.m. 11:30 a.m. Tues., 12/10 3 p.m. 11:30 a.m. Fri., 12/6
2 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Tues., 12/10 3:30 p.m. 11:30 a.m. Fri., 12/6
3:30 p.m. 3 p.m. Tues., 12/10 5 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Thurs., 12/5
4 p.m. 3 p.m. Tues., 12/10 6:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Thurs., 12/5
5 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Wed., 12/4
6:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Wed., 12/4
8 p.m. 3 p.m. Wed., 12/4
Friday Saturday
8 a.m. 8 a.m. Sat., 12/7 9:30 a.m. 6:30 p.m. Sat., 12/7
9 a.m. 8 a.m. Tues., 12/10
9:30 a.m. 8 a.m. Tues., 12/10
10 a.m. 11:30 a.m. Mon., 12/9
12:30 p.m. 11:30 a.m. Tues., 12/10
5 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Sat., 12/7
Common exams will be given in the following course:
MATH 150: Wednesday, Dec. 4, 3 p.m. (students with documented conflicts should contact their instructors about taking the MATH 150 makeup final exam on Saturday, Dec. 7 at 11:30.)
This is the official examination schedule for the fall semester. Examinations may not exceed 2 hours in length. Legitimate conflicts are defined as follows: more than one scheduled exam per period; more than two scheduled exams per day; and more than three scheduled exams in any four consecutive periods. A student with a legitimate conflict should work directly with his/her instructor to resolve the conflict. It is the student's responsibility to initiate the resolution of any conflicts. Personal conflicts such as travel plans and work schedules do not warrant a change in examination times.
Checking Semester Grades
In just a few short weeks, end of semester exams will begin and students will anxiously wait for their grades to appear. Once grades are entered by the faculty, several processes have to occur before students see "official" grades. While they may be able to view grades at some point during the week of exams, non-graduating student grades are not considered official until Tuesday, December 17. Students who are graduating in December will be able to see official grades on Friday, December 13.
Students can check their grades through Wingspan, the online student portal. When they click on the Student Tab, then on Records Menu, they will see a link to Final Grades. Choose the fall 2013 term from the drop-down box and the grades for the semester will display along with the student's semester and cumulative GPA.
If a student has a hold on their record, they can see their grades in DegreeWorks, the online Degree Progress system. To access DegreeWorks, students will go to Wingspan, click on the Student Tab, then on DegreeWorks. Students will have to enter their username and password a second time.
If a student thinks there has been a mistake with a grade, they should contact their instructor. Any other questions about grades may be referred to the Office of Records and Registration, 126 Tillman, 803/323-2194.
Residence Halls Closed for Holiday Break
Residence halls will close for holiday break promptly at 9 a.m. Wednesday, December 11 for all students not graduating in December or involved with graduation. Halls will close for graduating seniors and those involved with the ceremony Saturday, December 14 promptly at 6 p.m. Students will not be able to get into their residence hall room after the 9 a.m. Wednesday closing. If a student must stay for graduation, special permission may be granted by the Residential Learning Coordinator of your student's residence hall.
After students depart, residence hall staff will check every room for general health and safety. These inspections are plain view searches. Staff will check for prohibited items, such as fire hazards (extension cords, candles, etc.) and will also check the general cleanliness of the room. Residence hall contracts state that health and safety inspections can occasionally occur. Students are expected to keep up general cleanliness in their rooms and suite bathrooms. Suites that have a space in them must make every attempt to fully clean their bathroom in preparation for a new student. Failure to do so may result in judicial action.
All students will receive a break notice with more information. Students can also call their Residential Learning Coordinator (RLC) or Residence Life at 803/323-2223 with further questions.
Welcoming Your College Student Home for Break: What to Expect
As published in Collegeparentcentral.com
As college parents we worry about our student's transition when she heads off to college. We know that it will be a big adjustment and that she will be facing challenges and undergoing changes. Sometimes, however, we forget that there will also be a big adjustment and some challenges when our college student returns home again for her first real vacation. Whether it is Thanksgiving break or winter break, the first longer visit home will be a time of readjustment and reaquaintance for everyone.
In this post, we'll consider some of the things you might expect when your college student returns home for a first visit. In our next post, we'll consider some specific things that you might do to help that first visit go more smoothly.
Your student is probably anxious to come home and settle in, but she may also be worried about what things will be like when she gets home. You are excited about having her home, but you may also be nervous about what to anticipate. Parents who expect that everything at home will return to the way things were before your student left for college may be caught off guard and will have difficulty. Here are a few things to consider before your student comes home for her first visit.
Holidays are a stressful time. Remember that everyone may be feeling the normal stress of the holidays in addition to the transition of readjusting. Try to encourage everyone to have patience with each other.
Remember that not only has your student changed over the past few months, but the family dynamic may have changed as well. You have become accustomed to differences at home - perhaps having fewer disruptions or responsibilities, perhaps having a quieter house or not having to share the car. Siblings have readjusted their place in the family. A younger sibling may now have moved to "oldest child" status. Your student's room may even have been appropriated by a younger sibling.
Your student has been independent at school. He has not had to report to anyone. He has been free to sleep when he wanted, eat when and what he wanted, come and go as he wanted, and do what he wanted. Reentering the family routines may feel restrictive and will require compromise on everyone's part.
Your student will probably come home exhausted from the last few weeks of classes and final exams. She may need to spend more time than usual catching up on sleep - and eating comfort food. Home is her sanctuary right now and she may need significant down time before she is ready to socialize.
Remember that the final few weeks of the semester are busy with school papers, projects and exams. Your student may not yet have focused on the holidays or family. She may come home needing to adjust, shop, prepare. She may need to be reminded of family visits or social obligations. She is stepping from one world into the other.
Your student will want to catch up with his home-town friends. He's anxious to tell them about his new life, hear about theirs, and spend time reconnecting.
Your student may or may not feel like talking about her life at school. She may feel that she wants to keep that portion of her life private. That doesn't necessarily mean that she is hiding anything, she may not feel that her college routine is noteworthy. Right now she may just want to be home, taking a break, and not thinking about school.
Expect some amount of disruption in your household. Student hours do not always coincide with family hours. Your student may be used to coming and going, sleeping and eating at very different times. You will need to negotiate a compromise and set clear limits.
Recognize that in many respects this may be a difficult time for your college student. He may feel that he no longer fits in anywhere. He has not yet fully adjusted to school - he doesn't yet feel completely "grown up", yet he no longer feels as though he can step back into his accustomed place in the family - nor does he want to. He longs in some ways for the nostalgia of his old family life, yet he wants to be an adult with complete independence. Your student is continually negotiating who he is - and who he wants to become - and for the time being may not be comfortable anywhere. He is not necessarily pulling away from the family; he is trying to find his new place in the family structure.
The family dynamic will be "interesting" when your student returns home. It is an exciting, and disconcerting time. Being prepared for some disruption and possible uneasiness on everyone's part will help. In our next post, we'll consider some things you can do to help to ease the transition for everyone.
December 2013 Commencement Ceremony
Winthrop University's December 2013 Undergraduate Commencement exercises is scheduled for Saturday, December 14 at 11 a.m. at the Winthrop Coliseum. All August 2013 and December 2013 graduates are invited to participate! The procession will begin promptly at 10:50 a.m.
Degree candidates should report to the check-in area, located just inside the north entrance of the coliseum, in academic cap and gown by no later than 9:30 a.m. Please note that all students must be in proper graduation attire: black robes, black caps with garnet and gold tassel. (Ladies do not have to wear the white collar that may come with the gown.) Caps may not be decorated and only Winthrop-issued honor cords may be worn. Sorority/fraternity stoles may not be worn over the gown during the ceremony. You may purchase your cap, gown and tassel at the Winthrop Bookstore.
Family and guests of the degree candidates are invited to enter the Coliseum through the upper concourse level and be seated by 10:40 a.m. Parking for the ceremony is available on university property only. Those who park off of university property may be towed. Guests are asked not to bring balloons into the coliseum. Balloons obstruct views and make it difficult to see the graduates.
The commencement ceremony will be video streamed on the web. There will be a link on the Winthrop University homepage on the day of Commencement with the link to the stream and instructions for optimal viewing.
For more information regarding the December 2013 Commencement Ceremony please visit our website. If you have any questions, please contact the Office of Records and Registration located in 127 Tillman Hall at 803/323-2194 or e-mail us.
December Dates to Remember
Last Class: 12/2
Study Day: 12/3
Final Examinations: 12/4-10
Graduate Commencement: 12/12 @ 7 p.m.
Undergraduate Commencement: 12/14 @ 11 a.m.
Holiday Break: 12/11-1/12
Offices Closed: 12/23-1/1


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- which would be, after all, but cumulative evidence, for which the reader is referred to my larger work, " The Monuments of Mayach and their Historical Teachings"—I cannot resist the
_I temptation to mention the name of the Governing Spirit of the universe, that of the Creator, and of the deities that represented His attributes to Egyptian minds; also giving the Maya etymology of these names. In order that it cannot be argued that they are mere coincidences, I will next present the tableau of creation as it still exists on the east façade of the palace at Chichen, where we have soon to return and pursue our study of the Memorial Hall dedicated to Prince Coh by his sisterwife Queen Móo.
Chnoumis, or Noum, was said to be the "vivifying spirit," the "cause of life in animals," the "father of all that has life; »i therefore, the abundant source from which all things emanate. This is the exact meaning of the Maya particle num in composition with another word. Amen-num, or X-num, means the architect," the " builder of all things a, contraction of ah, "the;" men, "architect," "builder,"
" 6 ' legislator;"' num, or x-num," multiplicity," "abundance of things."
Kneph was another name for X-noum, who was also called Amen-Kneph. Horapollo says: "The snake is the emblem of the spirit which pervades the universe." 3 So also we learn from Eusebius, who tells us that the Egyptians called Kneph the "
good genius," and represented him under the shape of a serpent. In the ancient monuments the god
* Eusebius, Prep. et Demons. Evang., lib. iii., chap. xi., p. 215. Diodorus Siculus, Hist., lib. i. 12.
Pedro Beltran, Arte del Idioma Maya.
Horapollo, Hieroglyphs, lib. ii.
* Eusebius, Præp., Evang., lib. iii., chap. xi. Vigiers, Paris, 1628.
' wise man,
Amen-Kneph is often depicted either preceded or followed by an enormous serpent that envelops him within its huge folds. This is not the place to enter into speculations as
1 to the reasons why the Egyptians selected the serpent as emblem of the deity. In another work I have explained the origin of serpent worship among the Mayas.? The name K-neph can be read Ka-neph, that may be a dialectical pro
, nunciation of the Maya word Canhel, which means a serpent, a dragon. Later on we will see the serpent accompanying the statue of the Creator, in the tableau of creation at Chichen.
Pthah was the name of another attribute of the Divine Spirit, a different form of the creative power, said to be sprung from an egg produced from the mouth of Kneph. It therefore corresponds to Brahma, the ancestor of all beings, in the Hindoo cosmogony, to Mehen in that of the Mayas. Pthah, says Iamblicus, was the artisan; the "Lord of Truth," according to Porphyry. In the Maya language Thaah means the "worker," the "artisan." 5
. In the Maya sculptures, particularly on the trunk of the mastodon heads that adorn the most ancient buildings, the name is written Tza, "that which is necessary.'
" 6 Khem was the generative principle of nature, another attribute of the Creator. This god presided over generation, not only of man and all species of animals, but of the vegetable world also. Mr. Samuel Birch affirms that his name has been variously read Xem or Min.
: Aug. Le Plongeon, Sacred Mysteries, p. 100, et passim, particularly in Monuments of Mayach and their Historical Teachings, chap. iii.
Horapollo, Hierogl., lib. i. 12. • Manava-Dharma-Sastra, lib. i., chap. i., Sloka 9. • Pio Perez, Maya dictionary. Pedro Beltran, Arte del Idioma Maya.
o Ibid.
In the Maya language hem-ba is the organs of generation in animals, xex is the sperm of man, and min the "grandmother on the father's side." 1
Naturally this query will present itself to the mind of the reader as it has to that of the author: Supposing Maya colonists, coming from the east, reached the valley of the Nile, established themselves there, and developed that stupendous civilization of which Renan says: 2 "For when one thinks of this civilization, at least six thousand five hundred years old from the present day; that it has had no known infancy; that this art, of which there remain innumerable monuments, has no archaic period; that the Egypt of Cheops and of Chephren is superior in a sense to all that followed—one is seized with giddiness. On est pris de vertige.? "
Although mistaken in asserting that Egyptian art had no archaic period, he is right, however, in saying that its birthplace was a mystery for Egyptologists; for, to quote Rawlinson's own words, "In Egypt it is notorious that there is no indication of an early period of savagery or barbarism. All authorities agree that, however far back we go, we find in Egypt no rude or uncivilized time out of which civilization is developed."3 "The reasonable inference from these facts,"
" says Osburn "(to our apprehension, we are free to confess, the only reasonable one), appears to be, that the first settlers in Egypt were a company of persons in a high state of civilization, but that through some strange anomaly in the history of man they had been deprived of a great part of the language and the entire written system which had formerly been the
'Pio Perez, Maya dictionary. Pedro Beltran, Art del Idioma Maya. * Ernest Renan, Reoue des deux Mondes, April, 1865. * Rawlinson, Origin of Nations, p. 13.
means and vehicle of their civilization.
Combining this inference with the clear, unanswerable indications we have already pointed out, that the fathers of ancient Egypt first journeyed thither across the Isthmus of Suez, and that they brought with them the worship of the 'setting sun,' how is it possible to resist the conclusion that they came thither from the plains of Babel, and that the civilization of Egypt was derived from the banks of the Euphrates ? "i
This so far is, or seems to be, perfectly true; but who were the emigrants ? Osburn does not tell us. What country did they come from when they reached the banks of the Euphrates and brought there civilization? They did not "drop from the unknown heavens," 2 as Seiss would have his readers to believe, although they came from Kui-land, the country of the gods in the west.
The Egyptians themselves claimed that their ancestors were strangers who, in very remote ages, settled on the banks of the Nile," bringing there, with the civilization of their mother country, the art of writing and a polished language; that they had come from the direction of the setting sun, and that they were the "most ancient of men."6 This expression Herodotus
" regarded as mere boasting. It is, however, easily explained if the Egyptians held Mayach, n "the land first emerged
" from the bosom of the deep," as the cradle of their race.
This statement, that the Egyptians pointed to the west as
William Osburn, The Monumental History of Egypt, vol. i., chap. iv., pp. 220-221.
. Seiss, A Miracle in Stone, p. 40.
• Ku is the Maya and also the Egyptian for Divine Intelligence, God ; i is the mark of plural in Egyptian and Quiché.
• Rawlinson, Origin of Nations, p. 13.
Diodorus, Iist., vol. i., p. 50.
• Herodotus, Hist., lib. ii. 11.
the point of the compass where the birthplace of their ancestors was situated, may seem a direct contradiction of the fact that the first Maya settlers in the valley of the Nile came from the banks of the Euphrates; that is, from the east. This seeming discrepancy is, however, easily explained by the other fact, that there were two distinct Maya migrations to Egypt. The second, the more important, coming from the West, direct from Mayach, produced a more lasting impression on the memory of the people.
We have followed step by step the Mayas in their journeys from their homes in the "Lands of the West" across the Pacific, along the shores of the Indian Ocean to the head of the Persian Gulf, then up the Euphrates on the banks of which they formed settlements that in time became large and important cities—to Babylon. The migration of these Mayaspeaking peoples from the eastern countries, across the Syrian desert, to Egypt took place centuries before the coming to that country of Queen Móo with her retinue, direct from Mayach, across the Atlantic. Her followers, fresh from the " Lands of the West," naturally brought with them the manners and customs, traditions, religion, arts, and sciences of the mother country they had so recently abandoned. They were aped, and their ways readily adopted, by the descendants of tho first Maya settlers, who had become more or less contaminated with the habits, superstitions, religious ideas, of the inhabitants of the various places where they had so long sojourned, or with whom they had been in contact.
If, therefore, we wish to find the cradle of Egyptian civilization, where it had its infancy and developed from a state of barbarism, and why it appeared full grown on the banks of the Nile, we must seek westward whence it was transplanted.


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Q: How to monitor changes in security certificates? We all like the pseudo-safety granted us by security certificates. It's beneficial in many ways, I'm not saying the contrary. However, I have a concern about my information privacy at my workplace. Here is the situation :

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*My employer use to allow people going on social media websites (Facebook, and forums mostly.)

*One day, the web filter started blocking the access to these websites, unless you have a certificate installed.

*"Conveniently", that same day they installed a certificate (without our knowledge) that allows you to connect to these websites.

*Now, when you try to access these websites, you see the little green lock saying it's "safe", it has a certificate (yay!)

However, if you look at the certificate, it's not, for example, Facebook's, it's my employer. Doing this, if I'm not mistaken, they force any data through their servers in a way that they can sniff whatever they want. I disabled the certificates, so now I can't go on these websites, and I'm fine with that, I'm going there to work, not to chat with people.
The question: Is there a way I can monitor changes in certificates in a way that I wouldn't need to check each and every certificates when I'm browsing to see if they re-enabled them?

A: It sounds like you might benefit from Perspectives or possibly Convergence.


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