Q. Is it feasible to powerflush Gallardo if he gets pulped his first three starts?
A. No. And he won't get pulped three starts in a row. Nobody does. There are fielders out there.
Q. Is it "entitlement" to keep a guy in the lineup if he's making a billion dollars?
A. Nah. In baseball they make commitments. That's how F-500 works. Politics are involved, and should be involved.
Don't get me wrong amigos. No way you can just trade for a guy making this much money and round-file him after four starts. No way you DO accept him if you think that will happen.
Now ... Pete Carroll, he strides across the NFL landscape like a giant metal golem from eons gone past. If he didn't think Bobby Wagner was cutting it, he'd wait three plays. But on the other hand you have that little Miami Heat coach who tried to manage LeBron and D-Wade. Baseball is in between. Which is fine.
Entitlement was like when Hargrove would stick with a random vet who'd paid his MLB(TM) dues, and freeze out Shin-Soo Choo.
Q. Is Gallardo really such a tragedy?
A. Picking out the saber red flags on this dude ... it's like picking out a flavor at Baskin Robbins 31. You don't even want to go there, amigo. Just walk away.
Well, just picking a couple at random ... fly ball rate for a junkballer (many starts are in Texas and LAA and stuff, not Safeco). SwStr% versus FpK%. You won't find a saber bet any worse than this, try though you might.
But it isn't the 31 flavors of saber flags that SSI is parroting from all the other blogs. This is an EOE blog, and what drives Dr. D to distraction is that slider that is so painful to watch ... and this guy throws it 30%, 35% of the time. He throws that slider more than Felix used to throw his changeup. Like as much as Smyly throws his curve. And you cringe every single time. It's a scout's thing even more so.
Q. What could Dipoto be thinking?
A. He's thinking that Yovani Gallardo has great baseball IQ, which Gallardo does.
That Gallardo is a very flexible man, which he is. Gallardo has 4 distinct (cruddy) pitches and he will use any of them to trick somebody into a 2-bouncer or a fly ball to center field. Hey, gentlemen. Worn-out vets who trick enough batters to hang on another year, that goes back to John McGraw.
You've got an MLB(TM) innings eater who sees himself as belonging here. Self-image is a powerful thing, grasshopper. And the thing is, in front of this defense, JeDi is hoping for a .270 BABIP from his #5 and surviving to a 4.01 ERA.
Or, that's what it sez here, that Dipoto must (logically) be thinking. You know, actually there will be a little bit of fascination in watching to see whether Gallardo can trick people into enough Atom Balls in a given start. Not trying to be snide. It's an interesting little plotline. Gallardo definitely has the big brain for that, and he's got a wide repertoire of silk napkins in his top hat.
Alternatively, Dipoto is sitting on info that Gallardo's arm is about to bounce back. Huge. G'luck with that one, mate. You could say that about anybody, up to and including Rich Harden.
Q. You like Seattle Sports' idea-r of a quick trip to the DL?
A. Gallardo gets 10-12 starts, unless he really does hit the ERA windshield with a 7.00 splatter in the first 5 starts. But, yah, for sure that's the default cover story when they swap him out. You know what's weird? That they got TWO guys in Tacoma they want to keep "stretched out" on one day's notice.
And Silva was 8.60 in 2009...That year, even if they'd got an extra win every game he pitched (They didn't lose them all) they'd have been denied the playoffs by a 95 win Red Sox wild card and 97 Win Angels. Another 93 win season with no playoffs might have sucked more, I guess.
This Year. You want to take the chance that it's not the difference?
I'm with you here. If hes your 7th or 8th best option he shouldn't be in there from Day One. One or two games in the standings could be the difference for the playoffs.
This is the reason I hated this trade so much, more than the fact he looks like toast. You're married to him to some degree.
...2 SPs in Tacoma on a moment's notice signals to me (minimally-educated guess) that JeDi is more flexible than this. Gallardo is his preferred use of Sunk Cost, but he's not married to 10-12 starts, no how. And it's not necessarily the ERA he's looking at (obviously - not putting words in anyone's mouth here).
I think JeDi has a mission for Gallardo. He sees a problem with the man's game, and has a minimally acceptable class of result he expects from Yovani. Return to form is a bonus, not an expectation - we're looking for a guy here who can keep our offense in the game without shutting the other team down completely, yet in an manner which still gives the bullpen odds for an easier night.
That said, the manner in which Yovani reaches his steady 4.x ERA is what's going to determine the call here. If cool weather and a fresh lcoation are still making every game a nail-biter, and if the fixes dreamed up by Servais and co don't function OR aren't being followed... that's what gets the #5 SP carousel started sooner than later IMO. And I'm guessing Jerry sees enough potential to take the shot (upside for sure!), but enough of a down-scenario to be prepared from Day One.
I'd love to be wrong here. At least flash enough brilliance for a couple weeks to get some of his cost off the books. Maybe he can have a season approaching 2015 even, not that long ago and he did pitch in a launching pad.
For years I've been saying they didn't need to bring in an inning eating veteran because of the youth assembled and I've mostly been wrong. This year I didn't mention it because the collection wasn't there to start out. The depth was largely built in rapid fire trades, yet is the best assembled youth for the rotation I've seen in floor. Don't see the upside to get excited about on as many of these guys. But with more than half of them coming in just within 4 months or so it was hard to figure what was there at all.
...to deal with the microscope of internet fandom. Keep it coming so quickly none of us feebs can keep up! How can we complain about roster construction if we can't remember half of the guys we're talking about?


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Brad Vickers
Brad Vickers was born in the small town of Delucia in the USA. He was a member of S.T.A.R.S. Alpha Team and the main helicopter pilot for the team, yet on the rare occasions he was directly in the field he assumed the role of Rear Security. He was also in charge of chemical protection for the team and an expert with computers, specialising in information processing and hacking. But in contrast his combat skills were average and he was one of the lowest ranked S.T.A.R.S. members in terms of firearms and combat efficiency. Although he was without doubt a capable operative, Brad was cowardly under pressure and a worrier, resulting in trust issues with certain team members who felt unable to rely on him implicitly. Behind his back, he earned the nickname 'Chickenheart.'
Brad was Alpha Team's pilot during the mansion incident and was the only member of the team besides Barry who knew of the rocket launcher being on board the helicopter. During the initial Cerberus attack in the forest, Brad's cowardly nature took over and he abandoned his colleagues and took off, leaving them to their gruesome fate. He spent the next few hours circling the estate trying to contact any survivors. Just as he was about to give up, he saw a signal flare being set off by the heliport and headed over and redeemed himself by dropping a rocket launcher for Chris Redfield to destroy the Tyrant 002. He then set down and rescued Chris, Jill, Rebecca and Barry seconds before the mansion exploded.
After returning to Raccoon City, Brad kept his distance from the other survivors who were pursuing Umbrella. He figured it was better not to take any unnecessary risks and had no desire to enter harm's way. By the time Raccoon City became infected, Brad was officially the only S.T.A.R.S. member left on active duty, despite the unit being disbanded by Chief Irons sometime earlier, and was awaiting reassignment. But in the midst of the zombie infested town, Brad simply panicked. He briefly met up with Jill Valentine but all he could do was cry unintelligibly and made no offer of assistance. By this point he had lost all of the pride and discipline of being a S.T.A.R.S. member and all he could do was flee from his relentless pursuer; the Nemesis T-Type. But in the end, he ran out of places to hide and was caught and killed right outside the police station. In an ironic twist, he was infected by a strengthened form of the t-Virus secreted from the Nemesis' tentacles and became a zombie despite his brain being destroyed. He wandered the streets outside the precinct house aimlessly looking for flesh. He was finally put out of his misery by Leon S. Kennedy, who shot him in the head.

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Independence Day! Khloe, Wendy & More Celebrate July 4th As Single Ladies
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Jul. 4 2019, Updated 9:56 p.m. ET
In the words of classic American movie president Thomas Whitmore: "Today, we celebrate, our Independence Day!"
That independence is especially true for a certain group of suddenly single ladies, who find themselves all alone this holiday.
From messy issues of infidelity and abuse to the simple realization that long-distance relationships are difficult, these love stories are now history.
Take a look back at the loves that have been lost this year in this RadarOnline.com gallery.
Tom Arnold & Ashley Groussman
Comedian Tom kicked off the new year by divorcing Ashley, his wife of ten years. They have two children, Quinn and Jax, and four dogs together. This was Tom's fourth failed marriage. He was married to Roseanne Barr from 1990 but divorced in 1994.
Heather Locklear & Chris Heisser
Heather and her on-again, off-again fiance Chris broke up after a "never-ending" holiday fight that spilled into 2019. They reunited, only to get into a fight in April so massive, she decided to head back to rehab to learn how to distance herself for good from her high school sweetheart.
Demi Lovato & Henry Levy
Source: Mega; Instagram
After her near-fatal overdose last year, Demi had another meltdown in late February, and she checked herself back into rehab. She also dumped designer Henry, whom she first met in rehab.
Khloe Kardashian & Tristan Thompson
It was no happy Valentine's Day for Khloe and Tristan. RadarOnline.com was the first to report the couple had called it quits, after the basketballer and father of daughter True, admitted to cheating on Khloé with Jordyn Woods, her younger sister Kylie Jenner's best friend.
Wendy Williams & Kevin Hunter
Talk show host Wendy's marriage famously flamed out this spring, after her husband Kevin's alleged decade-long affair with Sharina Hudson, who gave birth to a baby girl!
Michelle Williams & Phil Elverum
Michelle and her indie rocker husband Phil called it quits in April, after just a few months together. "Michelle and Phil separated at the beginning of the year," a source told PEOPLE at the time. "It was an amicable split and they remain friends."
Irina Shayk & Bradley Cooper
In early June, Bradley and Irina called it quits on their four-year relationship after months of speculation that the A Star Is Born actor was shacking up with co-star Lady Gaga behind Shayk's back (which neither has confirmed). Cooper and Shayk began dating in 2015 and share one daughter, Lea De Seine.
Lindsay Shookus & Ben Affleck
Charlamagne Tha God Sued Over Alleged 2001 Sexual Assault Years After Prosecutors Refused To Reopen Criminal Case, Radio Host's Lawyer Calls Suit 'Meritless'
'Wendy's Hands Are Tied' : Wendy Williams' Rep Denies Talk Show Host 'Lost Her Fortune' Following Her Son Kevin, 22, Being Evicted From $2 Million Apartment
Read The Emotional Letter Wendy Williams' Son, 22, Wrote To Judge Before Being Evicted From $2 Million Miami Apartment
On-again, off-again couple Ben and Lindsay look to be off again for good after their April breakup. The couple endured a tumultuous split in 2018 but were spotted back on in February. But according to reports, Jennifer Garner's ex and the Saturday Night Live producer put an end to their relationship in order to "spend more time with their respective families."
Kendall Jenner & Ben Simmons
Just days after talking about a possible marriage, Kendall split from her NBA star boyfriend Ben in May. According to reports, the baller was caught partying in Atlantic City, NJ, with friends earlier that month. At one point, he allegedly told his pals that he and the model had called it quits weeks ago.
Kate Beckinsale & Pete Davidson
Kate and Pete's steamy relationship was over in April, just four months after it began. But what a wild ride it was. The Saturday Night Live funnyman and Underworld star were first spotted together at a Golden Globes after party in January. They weren't shy about showing off their love, and were often spotted making out in public. The two reportedly split amicably, driven apart only by their long-distance romance.
Olivia Jade & Jackson Guthy
YouTube vlogger Olivia and model Jackson split in the aftermath of the college cheating scandal, in which Olivia's parents Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli were accused of paying $500,000 to help get their daughter into USC. In the months following the scandal, Olivia stayed with Jackson before finding her own apartment. She's reportedly now trying to rebuild her brand as an influencer.
Joey Fatone & Kelly Baldwin
Joey said bye, bye, bye to his wife of 15 years, Kelly, in June. The couple were high school sweethearts and wed in 2004. They have two daughters together. But allegations of infidelity have dogged the couple since 2007, when Joey was accused of having an affair with a fellow contestant on Dancing with the Stars.
Allison Williams & Ricky Van Veen
Allison and her husband Ricky called it quits at the end of June, after only four years of marriage. The duo first started dating in 2011 and later got engaged during a viewing party of The Bachelor before tying the knot in a ranch wedding in 2015.
Porsha Williams & Dennis McKinley
Real Housewives of Atlanta stars Porsha and Dennis split up in June, 8 months after their engagement, after both experienced problems in their relationship. RadarOnline.com exclusively revealed the former couple had a blowout fight after she was hit with a $240,000 tax lien, which was later released. Although no longer together, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned the pair remain cordial and often spend time together "around the house" with their daughter, Pilar Jhena McKinley.
Pamela Anderson & Adil Rami
The former Baywatch babe had one of the messiest breakups of the year so far, after discovering that her soccer star boyfriend of two years, Adil Rami, was allegedly two-timing her and was still playing family with the mother of his two children.
Pamela wrote in a scathing Instagram post: "The last (more than) 2.years of my life have been a big lie. I was scammed, led to believe … we were in « big love »?. I'm devastated to find out in the last few days. That he was living a double life."


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Ultra-Vaxxed Israel Now Has Highest CV Case Rate In The World; Sweden Bans Travelers From Israel
By informationlib…, 03 September, 2021
Ultra-vaxxed Israel is now the "Covid capital of the world."
The Pfizer mRNA jab efficacy at preventing infection appears to be approaching zero now in Israel. The CDC claimed last week that vax efficacy at prevention infection had plummeted from 91% to 66% in America (it's undoubtedly much, much worse).
From The Daily Mail, "Israel is now the world's Covid hotspot: Cases soar despite country's trail-blazing vaccine roll-out – sparking fears other highly-vaccinated countries will be hit by another wave due to jabs' waning immunity":
Israel has become the Covid capital of the world despite leading the charge on vaccines, in a clear warning sign that Britain, the US and other highly-immunised nations are still vulnerable to another wave.
Stats compiled by Oxford University-backed research team Our World in Data shows there were a record 1,892 Covid cases per million people in Israel on Wednesday — nearly 0.2 per cent of the entire population in a single day.
That was significantly higher than second worst-hit Mongolia, where the rate was 1,119 per million, and double the figures for Kosovo (980), Georgia (976) and Montenegro (909), which rounded out the top five.
The figure only looks at one day's worth of tests and Israel's high rate is thought to have been driven up by a huge testing push ahead of schools reopening there.
But the country has consistently reported some of the highest infection rates in the world since mid-August amid an unprecedented third wave, despite being one of the most vaccinated nations in the world.
For comparison, 522 people per million in the UK tested positive yesterday and the figure was closer to 595 in the US. It suggests protection gained from vaccines is starting to buckle in the face of the highly-transmissible Delta variant.
Solution? Endless boosters!
What could possibly go wrong???
From July 2015, National Geographic, "Leaky Vaccines Enhance Spread of Deadlier Chicken Viruses":
Over the past fifty years, Marek's disease—an illness of fowl—has become fouler. Marek's is caused by a highly contagious virus, related to those that cause herpes in humans. It spreads through the dust of contaminated chicken coops, and caused both paralysis and cancer. In the 1970s, new vaccines brought the disease the under control. But Marek's didn't go gently into that good night. Within ten years, it started evolving into more virulent strains, which now trigger more severe cancers and afflict chickens at earlier ages.
Andrew Read from Pennsylvania State University thinks that the vaccines were responsible. The Marek's vaccine is "imperfect" or "leaky." That is, it protects chickens from developing disease, but doesn't stop them from becoming infected or from spreading the virus. Inadvertently, this made it easier for the most virulent strains to survive. Such strains would normally kill their hosts so quickly that they'd die out. But in an immunised flock, they can persist because their lethal nature has been neutered. That's not a problem for vaccinated individuals. But unvaccinated birds are now in serious trouble.
[…] The duo infected vaccinated and unvaccinated chicks with five different strains of Marek's virus, of varying virulence. They found that when unvaccinated birds are infected with mild strains, they shed plenty of viruses into their surroundings. If they contract the most lethal strains, they die before this can happen, and their infections stop with them. In the vaccinated chicks, this pattern flips. The milder strains are suppressed but the lethal ones, which the birds can now withstand, flood into the environment at a thousand times their usual numbers.
Read and Nair also found that the "lethal" strains could spread from one vaccinated individual to another, and that unvaccinated chickens were at greatest risk of disease and death if they were housed with vaccinated ones.
From Business Insider last week, "Pfizer's CEO tell us why he thinks we'll need COVID-19 vaccines every year, like flu shots":
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla predicted in a Wednesday interview that people will most likely need annual COVID-19 booster shots, a sign that we'll be contending with the novel coronavirus for years to come.
Speaking with Insider by phone, Bourla acknowledged the uncertainty around his guess. But he said he believes regular vaccinations will be needed because of the potential for new variants to emerge and vaccine protection to wane over time.
"The most likely scenario is we will be needing annual re-vaccination, as we do with the flu vaccine," Bourla said.
Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, which was co-developed with the German biotech BioNTech, is on track to be one of the pharmaceutical industry's best-selling drug of all time in 2021. Pfizer estimates the vaccine will generate $33.5 billion in revenue this year.
[…] Over the last few months, Pfizer and Bourla have argued that an initial booster shot would likely be needed six to 12 months after initial vaccination.
Is creating a Marek's disease in humans as a business model the goal?
BioRX
Liu et al.
Dangerous Delta COVID-19 Variant Infecting Vaccinated Adults In Israel
2021-06-25 , by huffpost


Our passion for building wine cellars began in 1996 while visiting friends who lived in Belgium in a beautiful downtown flat. What was supposed to be a quick trip to the terrace level of the house to select two bottles of wine for the evening turned into a thirty minute stay in their wine cellar.
As we walked through the wooden gate into to their cellar we were met with the scene of white washed brick forming the resting places for countless bottles of wine. In the corner of the wine cellar there was a small wooden table with a single candle, and one chair. This space was so inviting yet personal at the same time, it spawned the thought "everyone should have a space like this in their homes!" Little did we know then, that during this experience, we were staring at our future.


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The second-ever Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards in association with Game Insight took place just under a week ago, celebrating the cream of the crop in mobile.
There were 20 winners on the night, from the top developers and publishers to the best tools, service and tech providers. We also reserved two special awards for very talented individuals.
We've revealed the winners on the site, in what was our most-read story of the week.
Our second most-read story of the week was some fascinating data on user trends, fresh from a GameAnalytics report that conducted research on over 60,000 games and three billion players.
Hyper-casual games giant Voodoo continues to make blaze a trail on the mobile sector, racking up more than 1.5 billion downloads to date.
Lastly, Flaregames and Kopla Games have revealed work on Nonstop Knight 2 for a 2019 release, while hyper-casual may soon reach market saturation as more players enter the fray.
As it goes with big games industry trends - once you start hearing about it, it's likely that the 'easy' times are over.
Hyper-casual was the big buzz word last year, an exciting genre of casual games built around ad monetisation.
During a talk at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019, Voodoo UA and monetisation manager Celine Droit predicted the hyper-casual space will continue to evolve in 2019 and likely reach saturation.
"At Voodoo, we think hyper-casual will continue to dominate, but it will also reach a certain level of maturation," explained Droit.
"There will be more and more competition; games will have to be very innovative and very attractive with deeper and more immersive experiences."
Flaregames and Kopla Games' Nonstop Knight was a hit back in 2016.
Quickly racking up millions of downloads (more than 15 million), the idle action RPG title proved a real boon to publisher Flaregames' business, encouraging it to acquire developer Kopla outright.
Now in 2019, the franchise is making a return with Nonstop Knight 2.
The game will feature the same gameplay its famous for, with new touches such as new customisations, a fresh progression system and added social features.
We already knew hyper-casual games giant Voodoo had a large and highly successful portfolio of titles both self-developed and published from other studios.
But during PGC London, the company shared just how popular its titles are: they've been downloaded over 1.5 billion times.
That's a growth of 50 per cent during just the past four months.
Voodoo has published around 64 games to date, with 46 of those coming in 2018 alone.
GameAnalytics has conducted a report looking at trends from three billion users across 60,000 games and has kindly shared the results.
Speaking at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019, GameAnalytics CEO Ioana Hreninciuc delved into some of the key highlights. The team discovered that trivia and word games boast the best week one retention rates of any genre.
The report also found that kids and education games fared comparatively poorly over the same period.
When it comes to session length, casino and card games came out top with an average of 30-minute play-times, while hyper-casual titles typically have lower session times.
The Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards in association with Game Insight returned for the second time on January 22nd.
The ceremony celebrated the best that the mobile games industry has to offer, from the top developers and publishers to the tools, service and tech providers helping provide the foundations for success.
Epic and Niantic were big winners on the night, taking two accolades apiece.
Resolution Games CEO Tommy Palm took the prestigious Mobile Legend award for his services to mobile games, and iDreamSky president Jeff Lyndon was given the brand new Eastern Trailblazer, honouring his fantastic career in the industry.
You can see the full list of Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards winners here.


In the first 6 months of 2016, I have a personal goal of contributing code to 10 Open Source Projects. I'm looking for projects with potential to teach us how to design for the success of contributors, like myself, who bring intermediate to advanced skill-sets and experience.
I'll be contributing code under another name, ala Secret Shopper, and sharing what I learn in a July post.
Are available on the web using web technologies.
Have an existing community, or set of core contributors.
Want to improve their contributor design for intermediate and experienced developers.
Feel they have something they can teach others about community design.
Invested in increasing diversity of their contributor base.
Emerge with a set of best practices for projects who want to help intermediate and experienced developers successfully join their project as contributors.
A User story of an experienced developer attempting to join a new community, through a first contribution.
New and fresh understanding for the experience of stepping into a project as a new code contributor.
If you would like to nominate a project – please do so in comments.
If you would like to nominate a project – please do so in comments on Medium.
Excited to play in FOSS communities this year!


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TRI is seeking Expressions of Interest from life science start up companies that are looking to take their research from laboratory discovery to application in the community.
Located within the Princess Alexandria Hospital Campus, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) is a unique, Australian-first initiative of 'bench to bedside' medical research. TRI combines clinical and translational research to advance progress from laboratory discovery to application in the community.
This vision was conceived and brought to fruition by the clinicians and scientists of the four institutions who were its founding partners; The University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, Mater Medical Research Institute and Queensland Health.
The work conducted at TRI is translational research, a research process which involves teams of patients, clinicians and researchers working together to solve health challenges faster. The work is driven by the needs of patients, a question formed by a clinician and a solution sought by a scientist. While traditionally, clinicians and researchers worked separately, this improved method ensures patient needs are priority and that teams share knowledge which multiplies with every collaboration. These teams also create a feedback loop which is essential to the translational pathway. With the clinician and scientist working side by side with the patient, results are obvious immediately rather than via long reports which take time to read and interpret.
[email protected] is being developed in response to market demand and aspiration from resident start-ups outgrowing or "scaling up" out of the original TRI and need to remain within its supportive environment as they continue their commercialisation journey. [email protected] will offer cGMP cleanrooms and a platform for advanced and small-scale drug and medtech manufacturing.
[email protected] has been developed to be a new facility where the size and scale of the user areas can increase subject to user/occupier demand and the space can be catered for generally commercial users that may have a specific need or desire to be located at PAH, within a growing medtech precinct.
[email protected]'s state-of-the-art research facilities make it the ideal location for companies exploring innovation in a wide range of health related industries that complement the scale-up ecosystem including:
Cell therapies
Medical equipment design and assembly
The aim of this Expressions of Interest exercise is to:
Provide further communication of the Project and opportunity to potential users and occupiers.
Assist TRI determine the level of market demand from end users;
Provide interested parties with an opportunity to enter further dialog with TRI on their specific needs, timing and how the facility could enhance their research capabilities.
TRI requests Expressions of Interest are provided by Monday, 5 September 2022.
Your responses to this Expression of Interest are confidential and TRI will take reasonable steps to ensure this (including by de-identifying the information). By submitting a response, you agree that TRI may use the de-identified information you provide for the Objectives listed above.
Register an Expression of Interest here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7D8ZDJF.


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{
private:
    BOOST_MOVABLE_BUT_NOT_COPYABLE(movearg)
public:
    movearg()
    {}
    movearg(BOOST_RV_REF(movearg))
    {}
    movearg& operator=(BOOST_RV_REF(movearg))
    {
        return *this;
    }
};

class ByVal
{
public:
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};

class ByRef
{
public:
    enum constructor_id
    {
        move_constructor,
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    };

    ByRef(BOOST_RV_REF(movearg)): constructed_by_(move_constructor)
    {}
    ByRef(const movearg &arg): constructed_by_(const_ref_constructor)
    {}

    constructor_id constructed_by_;
};

int main()
{
    {
        movearg a;
        boost::shared_ptr< ByVal > x = boost::make_shared< ByVal >(boost::move(a));
    }
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        movearg a;
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        BOOST_TEST( x->constructed_by_ == ByRef::move_constructor);
    }
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        boost::shared_ptr< ByVal > x = boost::make_shared< ByVal >(movearg());
        boost::shared_ptr< ByRef > y = boost::make_shared< ByRef >(movearg());
        BOOST_TEST( y->constructed_by_ == ByRef::move_constructor);
    }
#endif // !defined( BOOST_NO_CXX11_RVALUE_REFERENCES )
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        const movearg ca;
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    }

    return boost::report_errors();
}

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Mission 500 announces collaboration with Feeding America
April 7, 2020SSN Staff
MIAMI—To help aid families in crisis across the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic, Mission 500 has announced a partnership with the U.S. hunger relief organization, Feeding America, and is calling upon the professional security industry for support."The COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis of epic proportions affecting every people from every walk of life around the world, and will affect those families who were already struggling to make ends meet the hardest," Mission 500 Chairman of...
Feeding America, Hikvision, Ken Gould, Marianne Chew, Mission 500
Hikvision raises money for Mission 500
January 2, 2019SSN Staff
LOS ANGELES—Employees from Hikvision USA Inc., a provider of security hardware equipment and software solutions, raised funds and helped a family make much-needed repairs to their home in Puerto Rico as part of a Mission 500 security industry service project and trip.Hikvision raised $2,790 for the project, and three Hikvision employees joined 18 other security industry professionals on the November service trip to Ponce, Puerto Rico. For three days, the group worked alongside family members...
Alex Asnovich, Hikvision, Mission 500
Manything Pro works with Hikvision to add cloud to analog systems
August 22, 2018SSN Staff
OXFORDSHIRE, U.K.—Manything Pro, one of Hikvision's official technology partners with more than 900,000 registered global users, has worked closely with engineers from Hikvision to successfully integrate its offsite cloud recording software with a range of digital video recorders (DVRs).This advancement makes it possible for professional integrators to easily add IP functionality to existing coax systems—giving them a new source of recurring revenue through cloud subscription plans without...
Hikvision, Manything, Peter Mendlinger
House passes bill to ban gov't use of Chinese surveillance equipment
May 30, 2018Paul Ragusa, Editor
The U.S. House of Representatives on May 24 passed H.R. 5515, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, which includes an amendment prohibiting the federal government from purchasing video surveillance equipment from several China-based manufacturers, including Hikvision and Dahua. The bill still needs to make it through the Senate before being signed into law by the president. In response to this legislative action, Jeffrey He, president, Hikvision USA Inc. and Hikvision Canada...
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Hikvision stays on top in 2016 global market share
July 5, 2017Paul Ragusa, Editor
CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif.—Hikvision, a global supplier of video surveillance products and solutions, has announced that it has again achieved the No.1 position in market share for CCTV and video surveillance equipment worldwide in a recent IHS Markit report."For the sixth year in a row, IHS Markit has named Hikvision the world's leading supplier of video surveillance products and solutions," Hikvision USA president Jeffrey He told Security Systems News. "The IHS Markit report...
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Hikvision's Alex Asnovich recognized by Forbes
June 28, 2017SSN Staff
CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif.—Hikvision USA this week announced that Alex Asnovich, Hikvision USA and Hikvision Canada director of marketing, was named one of the "World's Most Influential CMOs 2017" by Forbes Magazine."With The World's Most Influential CMOs 2017 report, we present a distinguished selection of the upper echelon, along with an instructive look at what brought them there," the Forbes report, released June 22, said. Asnovich was named number 40 out of a list...
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I-View Now partners with COPS Monitoring
April 12, 2017Spencer Ives
HENDERSON, Nev.—I-View Now, a cloud-based video platform company based here, recently announced new capabilities with COPS Monitoring, Bosch, Hikvision and OpenEye."We're very excited. COPS Monitoring is a very large wholesaler, and by releasing [OmniView], they're now going into video verification and really what we describe as central station monitoring video services," Larry Folsom, president of I-View Now, told Security Systems News.OmniView, a service branded by COPS, is powered...
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Hikvision to open R&D center in Montreal, research institute in Silicon Valley
February 22, 2017Paul Ragusa, Editor
CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif.—Hikvision USA Inc., based here, and Hikvision Canada Inc. announced last week that Hikvision plans to establish in 2017 an R&D center in Montreal and a Research Institute in California's Silicon Valley, underscoring the company's commitment to North American integrator partners, and supporting its presence in the enterprise market."This will allow us to be even more in tune with the needs of the North American security market and to engage with the tremendous...
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Hikvision CEO provides a 'view from the top'
November 23, 2016Paul Ragusa, Editor
HANGZHOU, China—Hikvision's recent media tour, which included visits to its headquarters based here, as well as cultural stops in Shanghai and Beijing, provided a unique glimpse into both a country rich in tradition and history, and a company striving to stay at the forefront in security technology.As Hikvision CEO Yangzhong Hu (pictured on left) pointed out during a press conference at the Security China 2016 trade show at the China International Exhibition Center, the company was first started...
Hikvision secures $3b credit facility
August 22, 2016Paul Ragusa, Editor
CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif.—Hikvision has secured a five-year, $3 billion credit facility with Export-Import Bank of China, which will enable the video surveillance company to earmark additional funds for global research and development, infrastructure, and equipment and technology procurement."North America is Hikvision's fastest growing region. Having capital readily available means we can invest when the need arises," Jeffrey He, president, Hikvision USA and Hikvision Canada, told...
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Shut Down by Coronavirus, Schools Scramble to Feed Students
Millions rely on school meals
By Corey Mitchell — March 09, 2020 5 min read
Idled school buses at the Northshore School District in Bothell, Wash., which is closed for two weeks over coronavirus concerns. The district is operating a remote learning program to continue instruction and is distributing meals daily at several sites around the district.
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With school closures stemming from the novel coronavirus escalating, school leaders across the country must wrestle with another dilemma: if schools shut down, their students may not have access to meals.
Millions of students, in school districts big and small, rely on the free or discounted meals they eat at school. Advocates worry that as more schools close their doors, more children will go hungry.
"These meals are a very big deal," said Joel Berg, chief executive officer of Hunger Free America, a New York-based nonprofit. "Almost 30 million kids a day rely on government subsidized school meals. If schools are shut down for weeks at a time, we're going to have a serious child hunger crisis."
As of Monday, 507 U.S. schools had been closed or are scheduled to close, affecting 363,357 students, according to Education Week's tracking of coronavirus-related shutdowns.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture, the federal agency that oversees the nation's school meal programs, has issued guidance instructing schools on how to feed students during unanticipated school closures.
But that doesn't mean school districts have contingency plans or that federal regulations make it easy to get meals to students amid a public health crisis.
Access to Food
In Fremont, Neb., the district decided to shut down schools for the week because of a local resident who may have been exposed to the virus. That means roughly 4,300 students are out of school for at least five days, and about 60 percent of families in the school district are eligible for free or reduced lunch, state data show.
While the school district does not currently have plans to distribute meals to students, officials are coordinating with the local United Way and food pantries in the region to ensure children in need are not missing meals in case the closure stretches beyond this week.
"Many families rely on the breakfast and lunch that's provided at school," said Christy Fiala, the executive director of the Fremont Area United Way. "Making sure that when schools close unexpectedly close that [families have] access to food is important."
An agriculture department memorandum issued in November allows some districts to offer meals using programs created to feed low-income children during the summer. But both programs requires "congregate feeding," which provides meals to children in group settings. One practice for preventing spread of the virus is to reduce large group gatherings.
"Well, if the whole point of closing schools or closing workplaces or campuses is to prevent people from congregating, that really defeats the purpose if people all have to go to a centralized location to get food," said Berg.
In a March 5 letter to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, the School Nutrition Association asked the agency to waive the requirements for congregate feeding and allow meals to be served at closed schools and community sites.
The group also urged the agriculture department to allow districts to deliver meals to multiple locations, "minimizing families' dependence on public transportation to access meals."
"Expanding opportunities for school food authorities to serve students during anticipated school closures would help combat food insecurity, prevent massive amounts of food waste and spoilage in school cafeterias nationwide," the letter read, in part.
The agriculture department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Education Week.
Developed in response to the coronavirus, interim guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that schools consider ways to distribute food, such as offering "grab-and-go" bagged lunches or meal delivery, to avoid having students gather in groups.
Over the weekend, the agriculture department approved requests by California and the state of Washington to allow meal services during school closures.
"Schools have become such a hub of nutrition," said Chris Reykdal, the Washington state superintendent of public instruction. "In many of our communities, if the school isn't providing lunch and sometimes breakfast and lunch, there's a real probability that students will lack nutrition."
'A Basic Need'
Lori Uscher-Pines, a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corp., was among the researchers that led a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-backed study on "social distancing" during influenza pandemics, but said the work has relevance to the current outbreak.
The research team explored how practices such as shutting down lunch rooms and mandating that students eat in classrooms or issuing prepacked lunches could slow the spread of the flu. The research team explored the role food plays in public schools.
"Schools have an educational mission, they're not public health organizations," Uscher-Pines said. "Now they're supposed to be in the business of meal delivery. The schools seem to be under pressure to take on a lot of roles."
Coronavirus has caused the most disruptions to schooling in Washington state, where education officials said they've had to grapple with keeping meals flowing to students amid closures.
"We've got to find a model for distribution in a very tough time," Reykdal said. "Districts are trying to figure out how to do that well in an unusual moment where the school itself might be closed for instruction."
In Bothell, Wash., the Northshore School District, closed all of its schools last Thursday for up to 14 days. The district began online classes for its students Monday and provided lunches to students, offering "grab and go" meals at 17 school sites.
"We're still servicing students as far as education goes," Juliana Fisher, the district's food services director. "Food is a basic need and everyone knows that students can't learn if they don't have the nutrition that they need. So we needed to find a way to make that available."
The district has 23,500 students and about 13.5 percent of them—more than 3,000—qualify for free or reduced lunch, Fisher said. One of the first challenges to making meals available was having staff members in place to prepare and deliver them. She said staff members who felt they were at high-risk for getting the virus could opt out of work.
"One of our biggest concerns was making sure that our staff and our community stay safe," Fisher said. "We also had to determine what staff was available. And so those were the two big things. And then once we had those, we could kind of organize people into groups and work with our transportation team for doing meal delivery."
The district offered two meals options on Monday: orange chicken with rice and steamed carrots or yogurt with sunflower seeds and granola and a side salad of kale for vegetarians.
Students did not have to pre-order. If they showed up, they received a meal, Fisher said.
"Situations like this really show how important it is and how much some families depend on those meals at school," she said.
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Corey Mitchell was an associate editor who covered special education, English-language learners and other special populations.
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Student Well-Being Q&A A Highly Effective Vaccine Is Likely on the Way. What Does That Mean for Schools and Kids?
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Mark Lieberman, March 5, 2020
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12 big ideas that are shifting the way we think about health.
By Kristin Ohlson | December 2014
For more than a decade, Experience Life has covered the cutting edge of health and nutrition. We've tracked emerging trends and reported on promising research. Our central focus has been on lifestyle medicine, and recent advances in this field have been nothing short of astonishing. We've never had such a clear understanding of how powerfully factors like food, activity, sleep, stress, and environment affect our health. Here are what we see as some of the most important concepts we've covered over the past few years — and why we think they'll continue to matter. Want to know more? Check out the links to our original articles, which offer deeper analysis, references, and sources for further reading. — The Editors
1. Friendly Fat
Most of us were raised to fear fat. We were steered toward lean cuts of meat, egg-white omelets, and dry toast. For a while there, many of us even avoided nuts, seeds, and avocados — afraid their relatively high fat and calorie content would contribute to weight gain.
Yet, a growing body of research shows that virtually all fats in their natural form — including the saturated fat found in butter, eggs, and red meat — can help build healthy metabolism and support key biochemical processes, including optimal cell, nerve, and brain function.
Our collective fear of fat started in the 1940s with physiologist Ancel Keys. Based on some flawed research, he hypothesized that dietary fat lay at the root of cardio-vascular disease. The U.S. government quickly codified Keys's recommendations into nutritional guidelines.
The prepared-food industry, which saw a huge opportunity, rushed into the marketplace with an array of processed, low-fat products. Most were high in refined carbs, which have now been proven to fuel both inflammation and obesity. For this reason, many experts today see the war on fat as the primary driver of our current obesity and chronic-disease epidemic.
For the last half-century, we've been encouraged to think about weight gain as a simple math equation: More calories in minus fewer calories out equals calories stored as fat.
But this weight-loss advice has failed, primarily because it doesn't take into consideration the hormonal and metabolic impact of different foods, explains researcher David Ludwig, MD, a Harvard Medical School professor and head of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center at Boston Children's Hospital.
"That approach will work for short periods of time, but people almost always gain the weight back because other mechanisms kick in," says Ludwig, who is currently heading up a $13.6 million study on overweight and obese college students.
Ludwig and other researchers are now experimenting with higher-fat, low-glycemic, whole-food eating programs they think might offer new promise for many, including those who have struggled with their weight for a lifetime. (For more on the importance of healthy fats, see "Overcoming Grain Brain".)
For more on the big fat myth, see "A Big Fat Mistake."
2. Microbiome Matters
We are each a veritable ship of microbes, and without their help, we'd be sunk. This thriving ecosystem that each of our bodies hosts — referred to collectively as our microbiome — is made up of 100 trillion bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa. They outnumber our human cells 10 to one.
Not so long ago, we thought most of these microbes were hostile invaders we needed to destroy. Now, researchers tell us we need plenty of these bugs, and in the right balance, for optimal health.
A thriving microbiome supplies us with critical nutrients, helps us fight dangerous pathogens, keeps our immune system in balance, and modulates our weight and metabolism by extracting energy and calories from the food we eat.
Both helpful and potentially harmful microbes are found throughout our bodies, including on our skin and in our noses, mouths, tonsils, lungs, guts, and genital tracts.
The diversity and density of species that compose the human microbiome vary from person to person, depending on factors like diet, geographic location, and medical history. Even the experience of our ancestors plays a role: Microbiome patterns are passed down from parents to children over centuries.
The diversity and density of species that compose the human microbiome vary from person to person, depending on factors like diet, geographic location, and medical history.
"This understanding of the microbiome has changed my whole way of thinking," says Robert Rountree, MD, a functional-medicine specialist in Boulder, Colo. "Our gut is like a garden. If you have an overgrowth of fungus in your garden and things aren't growing right, you can't just blast it with things that will sterilize the soil, as we used to routinely do to the body with antibiotics and other medicines. There are all kinds of things you need to do to get the soil healthy again."
Imbalances in our gut microbiome can result in a wide range of health concerns, like obesity, colitis, asthma, and mental illness. Rountree says that most of these problems take years or decades to develop. They then require protracted treatment, including changes in diet and lifestyle; the use of probiotics (beneficial bacteria); and, in some cases, pharmaceutical and nutriceutical medications.
Another novel intervention: fecal transplants. Yes, doctors are now transplanting poop from healthy individuals to people with conditions like Clostridium difficile, an infectious bacterial disease that causes serious conditions such as chronic diarrhea and potentially fatal gut inflammation. C. diff., as it's known for short, has traditionally been highly resistant to treatment, but fecal transplants that repopulate the gut with healthy flora are amazingly effective.
"The cure rate with these fecal transplants is around 90 percent," Rountree says. "There is not another intervention in medicine with that kind of success ratio."
For more on the microbiome, see "Your Microbiome: The Ecosystem Inside."
3. Gluten Avoidance
Gluten-free eating has become so common and so trendy that it's prompted a popular backlash, inviting jokes from late-night TV hosts, skepticism from family and friends, and even a "pro-gluten" movement of sorts. While it may be tempting to think of "GF" as a passing fad, a growing number of progressive health experts predict it is here to stay. And with good reason.
Gluten is a protein found in many grains, including wheat, rye, barley, spelt, Kamut, and triticale. One in 100 people has an autoimmune disorder called celiac disease, in which gluten prompts the body to attack the small intestine.
But researchers think that another 30 to 40 percent of Americans may have non-celiac gluten sensitivity. For these folks, eating gluten sets off a chain of inflammation that can lead to an array of disorders.
One in 100 people has an autoimmune disorder called celiac disease, in which gluten prompts the body to attack the small intestine.
A 2009 report in the Journal of the American Medical Association found an increased risk of death, mostly from heart disease and cancer, among both groups — 39 percent higher for those with celiac and 35 percent higher for people with latent celiac disease.
The best way to determine whether your health problems — reflux, arthritis, chronic fatigue, and others — are connected to gluten is to remove it completely from your diet for two to four weeks and see if your symptoms improve.
For more on gluten, see "Gluten: The Whole Story."
4. 21st-Century Medicine
One of the greatest flaws of conventional medicine is that it often focuses on resolving symptoms rather than addressing the root causes of disease. Enter functional medicine, a systems-biology approach born within the ranks of conventional medicine more than 20 years ago.
"Functional medicine is focused on addressing the cause of chronic illness rather than its effects," says Jeffrey Bland, PhD, founder of the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) and author of The Disease Delusion. "Conventional medicine evaluates each organ in isolation, but we look at how they communicate and interact with each other."
Conventional medicine typically uses drugs to combat the symptoms of chronic illness and slow its progression. But because these drugs are developed without a systems perspective, they typically cause side effects. Doctors may then prescribe new drugs to deal with the side effects, and soon patients are dealing with the spiraling health consequences of multiple drugs and their interactions.
In contrast, functional practitioners take careful patient histories and examine the patient's biochemistry, genetics, and environmental exposures to look for the cause of a medical issue or cluster of symptoms. While they sometimes use pharmaceuticals and other conventional interventions, they typically rely more heavily on diet modification and supplementation, detoxification, stress management, exercise, and other lifestyle adjustments.
Since 1991, the IFM has trained more than 100,000 doctors, nurses, chiropractors, nutritionists, and specialists in many areas, including oncology and gastroenterology, and its membership is expanding by 30 percent annually.
This past September, the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic opened a center for functional-medicine in collaboration with IFM.
"There's so much more visibility now for this approach that works and provides real value to patients," Bland says. "We're really going to see some extraordinary changes in the way we reduce the burden of chronic illness."
For more on functional medicine, see "Functional Medicine: A Science Whose Time Has Come."
5. Ancestral Eats
Our hunter-gatherer ancestors would have a hard time recognizing much of what we modern humans call food. And that's not just true of highly processed "junk" fare.
Even before the dawn of industrial food, 10,000 years of agriculture introduced foods such as grains, dairy, legumes, sugar, and alcohol — substances to which earlier humans had not previously been widely exposed.
This disconnect between our ancient genes and modern diet and lifestyle, say advocates of Paleolithic eating, goes a long way toward explaining the health plagues of contemporary civilization, including obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, autoimmune disease, and more.
Accordingly, fast-growing trends toward "caveman cuisine" emphasize foods available in our pre-agricultural past (grassfed or wild meats, edible greens and other vegetables, roots, mushrooms, nuts, and some seasonal fruit), while minimizing reliance on more modern dietary additions, especially processed sugars and gluten-containing grains.
For more on the paleo diet, see "Paleo Vs. Vegan".
6. Soil-Quality Concerns
The food we eat is only as healthy as the soil in which it grows. Or as microbiologist Elaine Ingham, PhD, puts it: "Human health and soil health are one and the same."
Healthy, well-managed dirt is naturally fertile, free of dangerous toxins, and full of microorganisms and nutrients that carry on a synergetic partnership with plants — and with us.
Over the past two decades, there has been growing interest in evaluating the impacts of conventional industrial agricultural practices on soil health and erosion, and a growing awareness of the role nutrient-depleted soils may play in the declining nutrient density of some types of produce.
Today, more farmers are employing organic and biodynamic techniques to rebuild and protect soil health. Still, the vast majority of American farming relies on chemical fertilizers, pesticides, monocropping, and genetically modified organisms (GMOs), all of which tend to degrade soil quality and may pose threats to human health.
Need another reason to start caring about dirt? Vital soil also helps sequester excess carbon in our atmosphere — potentially playing a significant supporting role in resolving climate change.
For more on healing the soil, see "Good Earth" and "Why Dirt Matters".
7. Autism Redefined
Autism was once a rarely reported disorder. Today, some form of autism-spectrum disorder afflicts nearly one in 68 children. Once believed to be a psychosocial phenomenon related to parenting factors, autism is now thought to be the result of inflammatory, gastrointestinal, mitochondrial, nutritional, and immune problems that manifest in dysfunctions of the body and brain.
While researchers are still puzzling out the disease pathways, many health professionals are now exploring a variety of chronic and environmentally triggered health conditions to which children with autism may be especially vulnerable, due in part to specific genetic variations. Treatments focused on resolving these underlying health challenges are offering new promise.
For more on autism, see "Autism's Puzzle".
8. Meditation Matters
For centuries, meditation was associated with monks on mountaintops. Now it's being recognized as a practical intervention that can help us all improve our health and happiness.
Research suggests that meditation helps moderate and retrain the body's fight-or-flight stress response. When unmanaged, that response triggers the release of a cascade of pro-inflammatory chemicals, including cortisol and adrenaline. It also disrupts important bodily digestive and immune processes, and it has a variety of negative downstream effects, including irritating and damaging tissue, depressing mood, and driving food cravings.
A daily meditation practice, recent studies show, can trigger positive cellular and neurological transformations, thereby improving your overall health and happiness quotient. Researchers are even working with the U.S. Marine Corps to evaluate meditation's effects on combat stress and its possibilities for helping posttraumatic stress disorder.
A daily meditation practice, recent studies show, can trigger positive cellular and neurological transformations, thereby improving your overall health and happiness quotient.
Meditation expert and physician Jamie Lauren Zimmerman, MD, notes that the Latin root for "meditation" and "medicine" is the same — mederi, which means "to heal." Zimmerman, a member of the ABC News medical unit, is currently involved with a variety of mindfulness-in-school programs. She'd like to see such programs spread, in part because she asserts they could contribute to our collective well-being. "I believe these children would be prepared to not only lead happier, healthier lives," she explains, "but they would also be poised to treat others more kindly and make a greater contribution to society."
For more on meditation, see "Learning To Sit Still".
9. The Autoimmune Epidemic
The incidence of autoimmune disorders (including such conditions as type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, celiac disease, psoriasis, and asthma) has increased dramatically over the last 50 years. They are now sickening nearly as many people as cancer and heart disease. And they often prove challenging for conventional medicine to resolve.
One of the top experts on autoimmunity is Alessio Fasano, MD, the director of the Center for Celiac Research and Treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children in Boston. He explains that these diseases generally have three components: genetic predisposition, an environmental trigger, and a leaky gut.
A growing number of practitioners now recognize that gastrointestinal systems weakened by poor nutrition, food sensitivities, stress, and toxins can spring leaks that allow various nasties (undigested food particles, bacteria, viruses, pollutants, and more) to cross the intestinal barrier into the bloodstream. The immune system then goes into overdrive and, over time, winds up destroying healthy tissue.
Quieting an overactive immune system generally requires a multipronged approach, but since 70 percent of the cells of the human immune system reside in the gut, many progres-sive health pros are increasingly focusing their attention there first.
For more on autoimmune disorders, see "Autoimmune Disorders: When Your Body Turns on You".
10. Ibuprofen Awareness
When we start popping over-the-counter painkillers for chronic issues, we're setting ourselves up for a world of hurt.
Every year, some 100,000 people are hospitalized in the United States with gastrointestinal bleeding from taking nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as ibuprofen (including the brands Advil and Motrin), naproxen (often branded as Aleve), or aspirin. Some 16,500 of those hospitalized die.
Excessive NSAID use may also cause a range of health problems, such as leaky gut, renal and cardiac damage, joint deterioration, and improper healing of broken bones.
Acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, is not an NSAID, but overdoses of the medication are the leading cause of acute liver failure in the United States.
The takeaway: It's OK to use these powerful medications in moderation for the occasional headache or short-term injury, but it's best to deal with chronic pain and inflammation by getting to the root of the matter.
For more on NSAIDs, see "This Is Your Body On Ibuprofen".
11. The Healing Power of Sleep
Because sleep is the time our bodies repair and rebalance themselves, any deficit can wreak havoc, compromising our immune systems, causing inflammation, hormonal imbalance and weight gain, and even messing with our genes.
University of Chicago sleep researcher David Gozal, MD, explains that sleep problems can cause a surge of pro-inflammatory molecules throughout the body, contributing to problems like memory loss, sexual dysfunction, cardiovascular disease, even Alzheimer's. For this reason, the field of sleep medicine is fast expanding, and good sleep habits are increasingly seen as essential to a healthy lifestyle.
For more on sleep, see "The Healing Power of Sleep".
12. Electrosmog Exposure
Some researchers and public-health advocates are expressing increasing concern about the potential health impacts of electromagnetic frequencies (EMFs). While electromagnetic radiation exists in nature, we're currently exposed to as much as 100 million times more than our grandparents were, says Ann Louise Gittleman, PhD, author of Zapped. We get it via cell phones, computers, appliances, cell towers, smart meters, and even solar panels.
Recent studies have linked electromagnetic frequencies — especially those from cell phones carried close to our bodies — to brain tumors, damaged DNA, fertility problems, and autism. In 2011, the World Health Organization declared cell phones a possible carcinogen. A group of independent scientists and health experts from around the world cataloged the risks and recommended safety steps in Bioinitiative 2012.
"Powerful industrial entities have a vested interest in leading the public to believe that EMF and RFR, which we cannot see, taste, or touch, are harmless," notes Harvard Medical School pediatric neurologist Martha Herbert, PhD, MD. But, "cell towers can exert a disorganizing effect on the ability to learn and remember, and can also be destabilizing to immune and metabolic function."
While more research on this topic is required, we predict that it's one area many health-seekers will be watching with interest.
For more on electromagnetic fields, see "Wake-Up Call".
Kristin Ohlson is a writer and author in Portland, Ore.
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Luke Hodgkin, 1938-2020
3 janvier 2021 | Matthew Reisz pour Times Higher Education |
Son of Nobel laureate and radical historian who forged his own path as a mathematician and activist remembered
A topologist who devoted much of his energy to political causes has died.
Luke Hodgkin was born in Norfolk in 1938, the son of Dorothy Hodgkin – only the third woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Chemistry – and the pioneering Marxist historian of Africa Thomas Hodgkin. Both were committed socialists and internationalists, and he was taken, for example, at the age of 17 to the Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris, where the speakers included major figures in the movement for decolonisation such as Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire.
After securing a scholarship to Eton College, which he hated, Dr Hodgkin studied mathematics at Balliol College, Oxford and went on to a doctorate in algebraic topology at St John's College, Oxford (1964). He taught at the University of Algiers (1964-65) shortly after the country gained independence from France, and then at the new University of Warwick (1965-70).
In 1970, Dr Hodgkin joined the department of mathematics at King's College London for the best part of five decades, initially as senior lecturer and from 1971 as reader, until he eventually retired in 2017. His main research interests were in topology and applications of geometry to physics. Yet he was anything but a narrow specialist. His website ranged widely across science, art, poetry, music and even "mathematical rap songs". He produced a celebrated overview titled A History of Mathematics : From Mesopotamia to Modernity (2005) and lectured to a broad public at Gresham College on "Money and Mathematics" (2011). He also had plans for a book called Mathematics, Money, Drugs and War designed to "demonstrate how mathematics, with its claim to exact results, has become a central instrument of control" used, for example, not only to design drones for military purposes but to "prove that their workings are effective – and in particular to deny the existence of civilian casualties".
Although this book was never completed, Dr Hodgkin found many other outlets for his political convictions, notably a commitment to refugee and Palestinian rights. He studied for a part-time master's in human rights at Birkbeck, University of London (2009-11), volunteered at both the An-Najah National University in Nablus and legal advice centres in London, and made several visits to the "jungle" camp in Calais to offer support. He also worked with the non-governmental organisation Phone Credit for Refugees to help people stuck in camps in Greece and Lebanon.
Dr Hodgkin died of cancer on 6 October and is survived by his wife, Jean Radford, and their two children, three children from an earlier marriage, seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
« Ados, nous rêvions de faire la paix entre les Israéliens et les Palestiniens. Et puis mon ami a été abattu ».
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