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Vintage fur vs Plastic waste – Why Conor McGregor's vintage furs conquer Kim Kardashian-West's need for recreating plastic waste.
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Reality television star Kim Kardashian-West recently revealed that she will be remaking all her natural fur garments into faux-fur replicas – a material which people are phasing out of everyday life. This is a clear rejection of natural fur in favour of synthetic alternatives by Kardashian-West. Contrastingly, MMA star Conor McGregor recently posted on his Instagram describing his two "handmade" Gucci mink coats as "iconic" "art pieces" which he will eventually pass down to his children and grandchildren. McGregor has decided to maintain vintage natural fur, which causes no damage to the environment. Both celebrities' furs are vintage, however, it's become evident that being vintage is not enough, it's what you do with these furs that impinges on not only your viewpoints, but at the very least, planet earth.
Before delving into the root of the issue surrounding Kardashian-West and McGregor's pronouncements, it's important to highlight the obvious: wearing vintage fur garments is more environmentally sound than remaking them into faux fur alternatives made from plastics – a major pollutant which, through washing and micro plastics ends up in our oceans and landfill. This reality automatically puts Kardashian-West in opposition to today's 'no plastic' world attitude, so, why should it (and is it) being commended that a famous figure has taken the decision to remake natural garments with petroleum-based non-renewable toxic chemical emitting synthetics? Doesn't that defeat the point of banning single-use plastic (straws, cups, packaging and so on) and regulating all polluting industries?
Since climate change entered the zeitgeist, great efforts have been made to ensure that the planet suffers less through plastic waste. Yet somehow, we're not only meant to accept and understand the fact that Kardashian-West has achieved something 'good' by turning to plastic, but we're meant to reward her for it. There have been numerous comments made on Kim's Instagram photo after she first announced her decision. Praises and thanks were showered upon Kardashian-West for her plastic ways, which is ironic as an overproduction of plastic has unequivocally contributed to extreme weathers whereby Kardashian-West almost fell victim to when ferocious wildfires turned much of her Calabasas neighbourhood to ash. Nonetheless, Kardashian-West's followers are showing gratitude for the belief that faux fur is an 'ethical' alternative to natural fur, environmental impact aside. Situations like this make you question how celebrities might be giving up their own beliefs and morals in favour of support from the public and from pressures of social media. It begs to ask the question, where do these celebrities who are in the public eye leave people who look up to them and become influenced by them? It is irresponsible of celebrities to promote 'things' that they themselves aren't convinced with, especially in a situation like Kim's just to avoid a social media backlash and gain momentary recognition. The short-term positive PR will be enough for Kardashian-West while the long-term high-costs of her decisions will impact human health, the environment, wildlife, our food chain, our groundwater, and future generations forever. However, Khloe and Kourtney continue to wear fur, especially in recent episodes of Keeping Up with the Kardashians; Kris wrapped herself in fur for the launch of her beauty collaboration poster with Kylie Cosmetics; Kendall's special birthday suit was a Saks Potts fur coat; and Kylie's home interior is heavily embellished by fur.
On the other hand, Conor McGregor has done the complete opposite with his vintage fur garments. He posted a carousel of images on his Instagram, explaining what his fur garments mean to him, how to store and utilise them so that they can be maintained, and what he plans on doing with them in the future. Notably, passing them down to the next generation. Not only does the passing down of clothes have sentimental impact on a personal level, but on a global level, it reduces waste – of which the fashion industry is a huge contributor. As the quality of natural fur is much more superior to any plastic or lab-grown alternatives, furriers, designers and craftspeople continue to find indefinite uses for the material no matter the shape or size of the garment they up-cycle from. Fur is an integral part of fashions circular economy rejecting the fast-fashion culture Kardashian-West is perpetuating and promoting. Research in the form of a content analysis of the comments on various different chat forums regarding vintage fur appears to be a consistent reason as to why vintage fur shouldn't be disregarded – purchasing fur second-hand, having it passed down, or being given to as a gift is deemed acceptable as it 'respects' the animal more than letting the garment decay in the closet. A second trend was that vintage fur is a more sustainable option than purchasing a new, plastic fur coat which will only be worn and used for a month before it gets thrown into a landfill. As seen on Vogue's "Am I the Only One Who Feels Guilty About Wearing Fur?" article, the writer accurately mentions that the fashion industry needs to find ways to cut down on resource use, and that we as consumers "should reduce our own carbon footprint by enjoying our favourite items longer and recycling as best as we can."
Whether you're on the side of Kardashian-West or McGregor, there are two principles that can be agree on. One, the debate between natural fur and plastic alternatives is polarising, and two, the decision should be left to the consumer as it is a matter of personal choice. What Conor McGregor has expressed with his decision to invest in natural fur garments, is an unapologetic proudness of owning two original, one of a kind, Gucci mink garments. The symbolic meaning behind each garment describes the story of his fights, and the journey that his furs have taken with him. He explains that they're "never to be made again" which further fortifies that fur creations in general will never be crafted the same, as they are all original, unique, and in the words of Conor McGregor, "art pieces now." He continues to say that he'll pass them on to his children's children, which reinforces the longevity of fur, and the beauty of it being able to carry so much history and ability to create new memories.
In today's world, there seems to be a double standard on when using plastic is acceptable and where it isn't. The endeavours taken to get rid of plastic seems forgotten whenever fur is involved – on the contrary – it's celebrated. Turning a blind eye to a natural material like fur only adds to the ever-growing plastic problem. The beauty of fur is the craftsmanship behind each piece which can never be the same narrative behind plastic garments. Fur, vintage or new, has shown that it has a place in society, and it's a matter of personal choice rather than following the trends.


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Well we certainly were not @ Shipwreck brewery last weekend. We were both working 12 hour shifts at Point Beach Nuclear Plant. The last post is a draft that I started last winter after we visited Door County. I pre-published it intending to get it finished and edited before it went live. I just picked a date in the future and meant to get back to it. Yeah that didn't happen and it got published half-assed. Not going to fix it now, just did 12 hours and 0300 comes too soon signaling another 12 ahead. 72 hour weeks, Mondays off.
This week-end past I voyaged up to visit April near Two Rivers Wisconsin which is a cherry toss from the infamous Door County. A premeir vacation destination (summer anyway) known for beutiful vistas of Lake Mich to the East and Green Bay to the West.
Memphis Style Baby Back Ribs – 1/2 Rack- Dry rubbed and slow-smoked, our Baby Back Ribs are finished on the grill with our Signature BBQ sauce. Served with Fries and Jasper Beans.
SEAFOOD CHOWDER – Creamy crab and shrimp chowder with potatoes, carrots, and mushrooms. A meal in itself.
If you see this post give me a call please. Work everyday 0530 to 1730 so try to call around 0300 or after 1800 our time. We have mondays off but will be sailing in Milwaukee this coming mon so may not answer till evening. I don't have your contact info w/ me or I would email you. Can't find your web site to contact there.
Been like two months since we've talked, hope your allright, love Dad.


Partizan BC finished its preparation games in Spain and will return to Belgrade with one victory, against Angola national squad, and 4 losses, against Baskonia, Zaragoza, Tenerife and Barcelona.
Even though the team from Belgrade lost in all four games against the ACB teams it was a good pre-season practice process because the Black and Whites were able to play against two EuroLeague teams: Baskonia and Barcelona.
It was an opportunity for the young squad to play against excellent and much famous players and get the chance to learn from them.
The first game Partizan played was against Baskonia and the final result of that game was 91 – 54 for the ACB squad. In that game, the only double-digits scorer in the Black and Whites squad was Jock Landale (C) with 10 points. Tornike Shengelia (PF), from Baskonia, finished the game with 27 points.
The next two games that the Serbian team played were the first one against Zaragoza (87 – 81 for the ACB team) and the second one against Tenerife (103 – 65 for the ACB squad).
The only game that the Black and Whites won during their ACB tour was against the national team of Angola with a score of 90 – 75. The Young Marko Pecarski (C) scored 14 points for Partizan, while Aleksej Nikolić (PG) and Aleksandar Aranitović (SG) finished the match with 11 points each one. Strahinja Gavrilović (PF) added 10.
The last, but not the least, was the game against Barcelona, whose head coach is Svetislav Pešić from Serbia. The ACB and Euroleague squad won with the score of 101 – 64. The best one for the Black and Whites was Rade Zagorac (SF) with 13 points, while Pecarski added 11.
The game against Barcelona was the team last game before returning to Belgrade (Serbian capital) and facing new challenges: the first one will be against Mornar from Bar (Montenegro) at ABA League Supercup on 20th September.


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package org.apache.spark.ml.clustering

import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path

import org.apache.spark.ml.linalg.{Vector, Vectors}
import org.apache.spark.ml.util.{DefaultReadWriteTest, MLTest, MLTestingUtils}
import org.apache.spark.ml.util.TestingUtils._
import org.apache.spark.sql._

object LDASuite {
  def generateLDAData(
      spark: SparkSession,
      rows: Int,
      k: Int,
      vocabSize: Int): DataFrame = {
    val avgWC = 1  // average instances of each word in a doc
    val sc = spark.sparkContext
    val rdd = sc.parallelize(1 to rows).map { i =>
      val rng = new java.util.Random(i)
      Vectors.dense(Array.fill(vocabSize)(rng.nextInt(2 * avgWC).toDouble))
    }.map(v => new TestRow(v))
    spark.createDataFrame(rdd)
  }

  /**
   * Mapping from all Params to valid settings which differ from the defaults.
   * This is useful for tests which need to exercise all Params, such as save/load.
   * This excludes input columns to simplify some tests.
   */
  val allParamSettings: Map[String, Any] = Map(
    "k" -> 3,
    "maxIter" -> 2,
    "checkpointInterval" -> 30,
    "learningOffset" -> 1023.0,
    "learningDecay" -> 0.52,
    "subsamplingRate" -> 0.051,
    "docConcentration" -> Array(2.0)
  )
}

class LDASuite extends MLTest with DefaultReadWriteTest {

  import testImplicits._

  val k: Int = 5
  val vocabSize: Int = 30
  @transient var dataset: DataFrame = _

  override def beforeAll(): Unit = {
    super.beforeAll()
    dataset = LDASuite.generateLDAData(spark, 50, k, vocabSize)
  }

  test("default parameters") {
    val lda = new LDA()

    assert(lda.getFeaturesCol === "features")
    assert(lda.getMaxIter === 20)
    assert(lda.isDefined(lda.seed))
    assert(lda.getCheckpointInterval === 10)
    assert(lda.getK === 10)
    assert(!lda.isSet(lda.docConcentration))
    assert(!lda.isSet(lda.topicConcentration))
    assert(lda.getOptimizer === "online")
    assert(lda.getLearningDecay === 0.51)
    assert(lda.getLearningOffset === 1024)
    assert(lda.getSubsamplingRate === 0.05)
    assert(lda.getOptimizeDocConcentration)
    assert(lda.getTopicDistributionCol === "topicDistribution")
  }

  test("set parameters") {
    val lda = new LDA()
      .setFeaturesCol("test_feature")
      .setMaxIter(33)
      .setSeed(123)
      .setCheckpointInterval(7)
      .setK(9)
      .setTopicConcentration(0.56)
      .setTopicDistributionCol("myOutput")

    assert(lda.getFeaturesCol === "test_feature")
    assert(lda.getMaxIter === 33)
    assert(lda.getSeed === 123)
    assert(lda.getCheckpointInterval === 7)
    assert(lda.getK === 9)
    assert(lda.getTopicConcentration === 0.56)
    assert(lda.getTopicDistributionCol === "myOutput")

    // setOptimizer
    lda.setOptimizer("em")
    assert(lda.getOptimizer === "em")
    lda.setOptimizer("online")
    assert(lda.getOptimizer === "online")
    lda.setLearningDecay(0.53)
    assert(lda.getLearningDecay === 0.53)
    lda.setLearningOffset(1027)
    assert(lda.getLearningOffset === 1027)
    lda.setSubsamplingRate(0.06)
    assert(lda.getSubsamplingRate === 0.06)
    lda.setOptimizeDocConcentration(false)
    assert(!lda.getOptimizeDocConcentration)
  }

  test("parameters validation") {
    val lda = new LDA()

    // misc Params
    intercept[IllegalArgumentException] {
      new LDA().setK(1)
    }
    intercept[IllegalArgumentException] {
      new LDA().setOptimizer("no_such_optimizer")
    }
    intercept[IllegalArgumentException] {
      new LDA().setDocConcentration(-1.1)
    }
    intercept[IllegalArgumentException] {
      new LDA().setTopicConcentration(-1.1)
    }

    val dummyDF = Seq((1, Vectors.dense(1.0, 2.0))).toDF("id", "features")

    // validate parameters
    lda.transformSchema(dummyDF.schema)
    lda.setDocConcentration(1.1)
    lda.transformSchema(dummyDF.schema)
    lda.setDocConcentration(Range(0, lda.getK).map(_ + 2.0).toArray)
    lda.transformSchema(dummyDF.schema)
    lda.setDocConcentration(Range(0, lda.getK - 1).map(_ + 2.0).toArray)
    withClue("LDA docConcentration validity check failed for bad array length") {
      intercept[IllegalArgumentException] {
        lda.transformSchema(dummyDF.schema)
      }
    }

    // Online LDA
    intercept[IllegalArgumentException] {
      new LDA().setLearningOffset(0)
    }
    intercept[IllegalArgumentException] {
      new LDA().setLearningDecay(0)
    }
    intercept[IllegalArgumentException] {
      new LDA().setSubsamplingRate(0)
    }
    intercept[IllegalArgumentException] {
      new LDA().setSubsamplingRate(1.1)
    }
  }

  test("fit & transform with Online LDA") {
    val lda = new LDA().setK(k).setSeed(1).setOptimizer("online").setMaxIter(2)
    val model = lda.fit(dataset)

    MLTestingUtils.checkCopyAndUids(lda, model)

    assert(model.isInstanceOf[LocalLDAModel])
    assert(model.vocabSize === vocabSize)
    assert(model.estimatedDocConcentration.size === k)
    assert(model.topicsMatrix.numRows === vocabSize)
    assert(model.topicsMatrix.numCols === k)
    assert(!model.isDistributed)

    testTransformer[Tuple1[Vector]](dataset.toDF(), model,
      "features", lda.getTopicDistributionCol) {
      case Row(_, topicDistribution: Vector) =>
        assert(topicDistribution.size === k)
        assert(topicDistribution.toArray.forall(w => w >= 0.0 && w <= 1.0))
    }

    // logLikelihood, logPerplexity
    val ll = model.logLikelihood(dataset)
    assert(ll <= 0.0 && ll != Double.NegativeInfinity)
    val lp = model.logPerplexity(dataset)
    assert(lp >= 0.0 && lp != Double.PositiveInfinity)

    // describeTopics
    val topics = model.describeTopics(3)
    assert(topics.count() === k)
    assert(topics.select("topic").rdd.map(_.getInt(0)).collect().toSet === Range(0, k).toSet)
    topics.select("termIndices").collect().foreach { case r: Row =>
      val termIndices = r.getSeq[Int](0)
      assert(termIndices.length === 3 && termIndices.toSet.size === 3)
    }
    topics.select("termWeights").collect().foreach { case r: Row =>
      val termWeights = r.getSeq[Double](0)
      assert(termWeights.length === 3 && termWeights.forall(w => w >= 0.0 && w <= 1.0))
    }
  }

  test("fit & transform with EM LDA") {
    val lda = new LDA().setK(k).setSeed(1).setOptimizer("em").setMaxIter(2)
    val model_ = lda.fit(dataset)

    MLTestingUtils.checkCopyAndUids(lda, model_)

    assert(model_.isInstanceOf[DistributedLDAModel])
    val model = model_.asInstanceOf[DistributedLDAModel]
    assert(model.vocabSize === vocabSize)
    assert(model.estimatedDocConcentration.size === k)
    assert(model.topicsMatrix.numRows === vocabSize)
    assert(model.topicsMatrix.numCols === k)
    assert(model.isDistributed)

    val localModel = model.toLocal
    assert(localModel.isInstanceOf[LocalLDAModel])

    // training logLikelihood, logPrior
    val ll = model.trainingLogLikelihood
    assert(ll <= 0.0 && ll != Double.NegativeInfinity)
    val lp = model.logPrior
    assert(lp <= 0.0 && lp != Double.NegativeInfinity)
  }

  test("read/write LocalLDAModel") {
    def checkModelData(model: LDAModel, model2: LDAModel): Unit = {
      assert(model.vocabSize === model2.vocabSize)
      assert(Vectors.dense(model.topicsMatrix.toArray) ~==
        Vectors.dense(model2.topicsMatrix.toArray) absTol 1e-6)
      assert(Vectors.dense(model.getDocConcentration) ~==
        Vectors.dense(model2.getDocConcentration) absTol 1e-6)
    }
    val lda = new LDA()
    testEstimatorAndModelReadWrite(lda, dataset, LDASuite.allParamSettings,
      LDASuite.allParamSettings, checkModelData)

    // Make sure the result is deterministic after saving and loading the model
    val model = lda.fit(dataset)
    val model2 = testDefaultReadWrite(model)
    assert(model.logLikelihood(dataset) ~== model2.logLikelihood(dataset) absTol 1e-6)
    assert(model.logPerplexity(dataset) ~== model2.logPerplexity(dataset) absTol 1e-6)
  }

  test("read/write DistributedLDAModel") {
    def checkModelData(model: LDAModel, model2: LDAModel): Unit = {
      assert(model.vocabSize === model2.vocabSize)
      assert(Vectors.dense(model.topicsMatrix.toArray) ~==
        Vectors.dense(model2.topicsMatrix.toArray) absTol 1e-6)
      assert(Vectors.dense(model.getDocConcentration) ~==
        Vectors.dense(model2.getDocConcentration) absTol 1e-6)
      val logPrior = model.asInstanceOf[DistributedLDAModel].logPrior
      val logPrior2 = model2.asInstanceOf[DistributedLDAModel].logPrior
      val trainingLogLikelihood =
        model.asInstanceOf[DistributedLDAModel].trainingLogLikelihood
      val trainingLogLikelihood2 =
        model2.asInstanceOf[DistributedLDAModel].trainingLogLikelihood
      assert(logPrior ~== logPrior2 absTol 1e-6)
      assert(trainingLogLikelihood ~== trainingLogLikelihood2 absTol 1e-6)
    }
    val lda = new LDA()
    testEstimatorAndModelReadWrite(lda, dataset,
      LDASuite.allParamSettings ++ Map("optimizer" -> "em"),
      LDASuite.allParamSettings ++ Map("optimizer" -> "em"), checkModelData)
  }

  test("EM LDA checkpointing: save last checkpoint") {
    // Checkpoint dir is set by MLlibTestSparkContext
    val lda = new LDA().setK(2).setSeed(1).setOptimizer("em").setMaxIter(3).setCheckpointInterval(1)
    val model_ = lda.fit(dataset)
    assert(model_.isInstanceOf[DistributedLDAModel])
    val model = model_.asInstanceOf[DistributedLDAModel]

    // There should be 1 checkpoint remaining.
    assert(model.getCheckpointFiles.length === 1)
    val checkpointFile = new Path(model.getCheckpointFiles.head)
    val fs = checkpointFile.getFileSystem(spark.sessionState.newHadoopConf())
    assert(fs.exists(checkpointFile))
    model.deleteCheckpointFiles()
    assert(model.getCheckpointFiles.isEmpty)
  }

  test("EM LDA checkpointing: remove last checkpoint") {
    // Checkpoint dir is set by MLlibTestSparkContext
    val lda = new LDA().setK(2).setSeed(1).setOptimizer("em").setMaxIter(3).setCheckpointInterval(1)
      .setKeepLastCheckpoint(false)
    val model_ = lda.fit(dataset)
    assert(model_.isInstanceOf[DistributedLDAModel])
    val model = model_.asInstanceOf[DistributedLDAModel]

    assert(model.getCheckpointFiles.isEmpty)
  }

  test("EM LDA disable checkpointing") {
    // Checkpoint dir is set by MLlibTestSparkContext
    val lda = new LDA().setK(2).setSeed(1).setOptimizer("em").setMaxIter(3)
      .setCheckpointInterval(-1)
    val model_ = lda.fit(dataset)
    assert(model_.isInstanceOf[DistributedLDAModel])
    val model = model_.asInstanceOf[DistributedLDAModel]

    assert(model.getCheckpointFiles.isEmpty)
  }

  test("string params should be case-insensitive") {
    val lda = new LDA()
    Seq("eM", "oNLinE").foreach { optimizer =>
      lda.setOptimizer(optimizer)
      assert(lda.getOptimizer === optimizer)
      val model = lda.fit(dataset)
      assert(model.getOptimizer === optimizer)
    }
  }

  test("LDA with Array input") {
    def trainAndLogLikelihoodAndPerplexity(dataset: Dataset[_]): (Double, Double) = {
      val model = new LDA().setK(k).setOptimizer("online").setMaxIter(1).setSeed(1).fit(dataset)
      (model.logLikelihood(dataset), model.logPerplexity(dataset))
    }

    val (_, newDatasetD, newDatasetF) = MLTestingUtils.generateArrayFeatureDataset(dataset)
    val (llD, lpD) = trainAndLogLikelihoodAndPerplexity(newDatasetD)
    val (llF, lpF) = trainAndLogLikelihoodAndPerplexity(newDatasetF)
    // TODO: need to compare the results once we fix the seed issue for LDA (SPARK-22210)
    assert(llD <= 0.0 && llD != Double.NegativeInfinity)
    assert(llF <= 0.0 && llF != Double.NegativeInfinity)
    assert(lpD >= 0.0 && lpD != Double.NegativeInfinity)
    assert(lpF >= 0.0 && lpF != Double.NegativeInfinity)
  }
}

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A startling novel about love and grief from the author of the acclaimed memoir I Don't Want to Be Crazy. Annaleah and Brian shared something special - Annaleah is sure of it. When they were together, they didn't need anyone else. It didn't matter that their relationship was secret. All that mattered was what they had with each other. And then, out of nowhere, Brian dies. And while everyone else has their role in the grieving process, Annaleah finds herself living outside of it, unacknowledged and lonely. How can you recover from a loss that no one will let you have?
The #1 New York Times Bestseller (October 2017) from the author of The Da Vinci Code. Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever." The evening's host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist, and one of Langdon's first students. But the meticulously orchestrated evening suddenly erupts into chaos, and Kirsch's precious discovery teeters on the brink of being lost forever. Facing an imminent threat, Langdon is forced to flee.


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Currently single, he says he'd like to get married one day and that he's received much more interest since playing a vicar.
The vicar seemed always in attendance, probably to ensure there were no problems.
Some of the characters in Rugby Theatre's The Vicar of Dibley, from left, Dean Mills as Hugo, Steve Crump as David, Marie Phillips as Geraldine, Michele Marsella as Alice.
Mrs Hayden, vicar at Radcliffe Parish Church, in Greater Manchester, has lost 21lbs since joining Weight Watchers in May.
Vicars should even be encouraged to officiate over underwater weddings, where the bride and groom exchange vows in a pool.
Father Paul Rouhana Secretary General of the Council of Churches of the Middle East, in the Patriarchal Vicar of the diocese on behalf of the Serbs Patriarchate.
The disgraced vicar initially appeared not to have realised that he had lost the case.
They sent her abusive letters in protest at her portrayal of a vicar.
The stage vicar has the dream of opening a new family centre in the parish, to help save and repair broken families.
A few other colorful characters, including a miller and his family and a good-hearted smuggler, pop in and out of the plot to help Kate and Thomas battle the vicar.
STUNNING barmaid Joanna Jepson is to stop calling last orders so she can take up holy orders - and become a VICAR.


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"Special Issue on Sensors Systems for Structural Health Monitoring," IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 9, no. 11, Nov. 2009.
"Special Issue on Emerging Technologies in Point-of-Care Health Care," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 58, no. 3, March 2011.
"UHealth Smarthome - Innovative solutions for the management of the elderly and chronic diseases," IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine, Vol. 5, no.3, September 2011.
"Special Issue on Communications in ubiquitous healthcare," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 50, no.1, Jan. 2012.
"Special Issue on Efficient and cost-effective communications in ubiquitous healthcare: wireless sensors, devices and solutions," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 50, no. 5, May 2012.
"Special Issue on Advances in Bioinformatics, Biomedicine, and Health Informatics," IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, vol. 11, no. 3, Sept. 2012.
"Special Issue on Wireless communications for E-health applications," IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, vol. 20, no. 4, Aug. 2013.
"Special Issue on Emerging Technologies in Communications - eHealth," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 31, no. 9, Sept. 2013.
In this book, the authors focus on how medical information can be reliably transmitted through wireless communication networks, and explain how these networks can be optimized to carry medical information in various situations by utilizing the readily available traditional wireless local area network and broadband wireless access systems. In addition, the authors discuss consumer healthcare technology, which is becoming more popular as the reduction in the manufacturing cost of electronics products makes healthcare products more affordable to the general public. Finally, the book explores topics such as communication networks and services, patient monitoring, information processing, system deployment, data security and privacy, information technology in alternative medicine, multimedia and health informatics, and caring for the community.
J. J. P. C. Rodrigues, "Health Information Systems: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications", Medical Information Science Reference Publishers, 4 Vols., 2513 pp.s, ISBN: 978-1-60566-988-5, 1st Edition, Hershey, PA, USA, December 2009.
This book is the reference in Health Information Systems. This four-volume book with more than 2500 published pages provides a thorough presentation of the state of the art in this topic, including a complete understanding of the development of applications and concepts in clinical, patient, and hospital information systems. As a comprehensive collection of research on the latest findings related to technologies and healthcare delivery, this massive multi-volume reference addresses the demand for a resource that encompasses the most pertinent research in health information systems, healthcare technologies, and telemedicine.
Telemedicine and telehealth are changing the face of healthcare delivery and are becoming multi-billion dollar industries. Drs. Darkins and Cary share their knowledge and provide practical insights and advice on making telemedicine programs into successful clinical services and a productive business. The book gives background knowledge and useful tips on starting up and managing programs in an array of settings. Most importantly, the book is based on the recognition that patients are customers of healthcare, and developing new telemedicine products vital to delivering care to rural or inaccessible clients are equally important to healthcare's future.
M. M. Maheu, P. Whitten and A. Allen, "E-Health, Telehealth, and Telemedicine: A Guide to Startup and Success," Feb. 15, 2001.
E-Health, Telehealth, and Telemedicine is a hands-on resource that shows how communication technologies can be designed, implemented, and managed to help healthcare professionals expand and transform their organizations. Step by step, the authors reveal how to introduce innovative communication tools to a wide range of healthcare settings. This indispensable book contains a wealth of information, suggestions, and advice about program development, ethical, legal and regulatory issues, and technical options.
J. J. P. C. Rodrigues, "Advancing Medical Practice through Technology Applications for Healthcare Delivery, Management, and Quality," IGI-Global Publishers, Hershey, PA, USA, November, 2013, ISBN: 978-1-4666-4619-3 (hardcover), DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4619-3.
This book focuses on the latest medical practices through the utilization of technologies and innovative concepts, and is an essential reference source for researchers, academics, and industry professionals interested in the latest advancements in the healthcare, biomedicine, and medical communications fields.
S. Sarnikar, D. Bennett, and M. Gaynor, "Cases on Healthcare Information Technology for Patient Care Management," IGI-Global, 2012, ISBN 978-1466626713.
This comprehensive collection of case studies aims to help improve the understanding of the process as well as the challenges faced and lessons learned through implementation of Health Information Technologies.
A. Daskalaki, "Medical Advancements in Aging and Regenarative Technologies: Clinical Tools and Applications," IGI-Global, 2012, ISBN 978-1466625068.
This work introduces basic science discoveries into regenerative therapies, specifically focusing on clinical tools related to aging and tissue regeneration. This guide provides a good introduction on how to guide approaches for preventing and treating age-related disease.
J. Wu, "Technological Advancements in Biomedicine for Healthcare Applications," IGI-Global, 2012, ISBN 978-1466621961.
The author presents an overview of biomedical technologies and its relationship with healthcare applications. This reference source is essential for researchers and practitioners aiming to learn more about biomedical engineering and its related fields.
J. Wu, "Biomedical Engineering and Cognitive Neuroscience for Healthcare: Interdisciplinary Applications," IGI-GLobal, 2012, ISBN 978-1466621138.
The author brings together researchers and practitioners, including medical doctors and health professionals, to provide an overview of the studies of cognitive neuroscience and biomedical engineering for healthcare. This book aims to be the reference for researchers in related fields.
N. S. A. da Silva and G. J. M. da Costa, "Ethical Dimensions of Bio Nanotechnology: Present and Future Applications in Telemedicine," IGI-Global, 2013, ISBN 978-1466618947.
Illustrates the concept of bionanotechnology as a research field, acknowledging how Western and Eastern philosophical systems infer biotechnology medical appliances, and describing its key ethical and social dilemmas.
A. Gangopadhyay, "Methods, Models, and Computation for Medical Informatics," IGI-GLobal, 2012, ISBN 978-1466626539.
A comprehensive collection of research on the computational capabilities, prototypes, and algorithms and their application to the areas of nursing, clinical care, public health, biomedical research and much more. This book provides a better understanding of the models and methods used in the field of medicine for researchers, practitioners and medical professionals alike.
R. Bisawas, "Clinical Solutions and Medical Progress through User-Driven Healthcare," IGI-GLobal, 2012, ISBN 978-1466618763.
User-driven healthcare" has the goal of providing healthcare through clinical-problem solving and utilizing concerted experiential learning in conversations between multiple users and stakeholders across a web interface. These multiple users and stakeholders are primarily patients, health professionals and others in a care-giving collaborative network.
X.-L. Li and S.-K. Ng, "Computational Knowledge Discovery for Bioinformatics Research," IGI-Global, 2012, ISBN 978-1466617858.
Discusses the most significant research and latest practices in computational knowledge discovery approaches to bioinformatics in a cross-disciplinary manner which is useful for researchers, practitioners, academicians, mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists involved in the many facets of bioinformatics. This book aims to increase the awareness of interesting and challenging biomedical problems and to inspire new knowledge discovery solutions.
J. Tan, "Advancing Technologies and Intelligence in Healthcare and Clinical Environments: Breakthroughs," IGI-Global, 2012, ISBN 978-1466617551.
A prime resource for both academic researchers and practitioners looking to advance their knowledge of the interdisciplinary areas of healthcare information technology and management research. This book addresses innovative concepts and critical issues in the emerging field of health information systems and informatics, with an emphasis on sustainable computer information systems, ensuring healthcare efficiency, and denoising MRI and ECG outputs.
L. N. de Castro, "Nature-Inspired Computing Design, Development, and Applications," IGI-Global, 2012, ISBN 978-1466615748.
This book covers all the areas of natural computing, from methods to computationally synthesized natural phenomena, to computing paradigms based on natural materials. This volume is comprised of ideas and research from nature to develop computational systems or materials to perform computation. Researchers, academic educators, and professionals will find a comprehensive view of all aspects of natural computing with emphasis on its main branches.
W. Chen, Sidarto Bambang Oetomo, Loe Feijs, "Neonatal Monitoring Technologies: Design for Integrated Solutions," IGI-Global, 2012, ISBN 978-1466609754.
Presents a unique integration of knowledge from multidisciplinary fields of engineering, industrial design, and medical science for the healthcare of a specific user group. This comprehensive collection will support audiences ranging from clinical and medical professionals, academic researchers and students, technical professionals and managers, and policymakers.
A. Smedberg, "E-Health Communities and Online Self-Help Groups: Applications and Usage," IGI-Global, 2012, ISBN 978-1609608668.
This book aims to provide the relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area. The focus is on increasing the knowledge and understanding of applications and the use of e-health communities for self-help groups who struggle with health disorders, disabilities, lifestyle issues and other health concerns. Different e-health community settings are presented, and observations of community usage and effects discussed. Also, complementary ways of measuring effectiveness are introduced and analyzed.
C. Rocker and M. Ziefle, "E-Health, Assistive Technologies and Applications for Assisted Living: Challenges and Solutions," IGI-Global, 2011, ISBN 978-1609604691.
This book reviews existing literature in assistive technologies and provides suggestions and solutions for improving the quality of assisted living facilities and residences through the use of e-health systems and services.
M. K. Watfa, "E-Healthcare Systems and Wireless Communications: Current and Future Challenges," IGI-Global, 2012, ISBN 978-1613501238.
The author explores the developments and challenges associated with the successful deployment of e-healthcare systems. The book combines research efforts in different disciplines including pervasive wireless communications, wearable computing, context-awareness, sensor data fusion, artificial intelligence, neural networks, expert systems, databases, and security. This work serves as a comprehensive reference for graduate students in bioengineering and also provides solutions for medical researchers who are faced with the challenge of designing and implementing a cost-effective pervasive and ubiquitous wireless communication system.
M. M. Hadjiandreou and G. D. Mitsis, "Mathematical Modeling of Tumor Growth, Drug-Resistance, Toxicity, and Optimal Therapy Design", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 415-425, Feb. 2014, DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2280189.
Mathematical models and methods are very important in eHealth research in various areas. Assisted by computer science and information technologies, doctors can achieve more powerful capacity on curing or treating the important diseases of human beings, such as cancer. This paper combines mathematical modeling and a corresponding optimal control approach to help doctors treat tumors. The authors use a Gompertz-type growth law and a pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic approach for modeling the effects of drugs on tumor progression with consideration of the severity of side effects. By using optimal control, the authors also suggest an optimal planning of the frequency and magnitude of treatment interruptions in the control of cancer progression. This paper is very good for readers to learn a successful and representative mathematical approach in eHealth research.
This is another good mathematical modeling-based research paper in eHealth for stroke, a major disease causing death and disability worldwide. A mathematical model of brain metabolism during stroke is extended in this paper to simulate the effect of hypothermia on cell survival, which is a potentially useful neuroprotective treatment for stroke. Temperature for chemical reaction rates of cells and heat delivery to tissues were all properly modeled and set. The simulation approximating the temperature variation in the brain during treatment was also done to help verify the model.
L. Duan, W. N. Street and E. Xu, "Healthcare information systems: data mining methods in the creation of a clinical recommender system", Enterprise Information Systems, vol. 5, issue 2, pp. 169-181, 2011, DOI: 10.1080/17517575.2010.541287.
Recommender systems are widely used in current industry. This paper presents a multi-step ranking based recommendation method, which helped improve the usability of the medical information system. Although it does not have much theory, it still contributes in an applicable and practical form to an important application field in eHealth. It may be used in clinical decision support, nursing education and clinical quality control, which can be a complement to existing practice guidelines in professional medical organizations.
B. Zhang B., B. V. K. Kumar, and D. Zhan, "Detecting Diabetes Mellitus and Nonproliferative Diabetic Retinopathy Using Tongue Color, Texture, and Geometry Features," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering , vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 491-501, Feb. 2014, DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2282625.
Diabetes is one of the most severe chronic diseases worldwide, and diabetic retinopathy (DR) is also becoming one of the 21st century's major health problems. There are many works in diabetes-related research fields, but this paper presents a very interesting one. It processes the tone image of the patient and extracts the effecting patterns to help detect diabetic retinopathy. The color, texture, and the geometry features of the tone were well modeled and extracted as patterns. The experiments show and average accuracy of 80% on mixed subjects.
S. Yim, E. Gultepe, D. H. Gracia, and M. Sitti, "Biopsy using a Magnetic Capsule Endoscope Carrying, Releasing, and Retrieving Untethered Microgrippers", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 513,521, Feb. 2014, DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2283369.
This is an interesting work to improve the traditional diagnostic and treatment methods. Biopsy is a critical tool for doctors to diagnose potential cancer or other severe diseases in the stomach. Traditional methods are invasive. This paper proposes a new wireless biopsy method where a magnetically actuated untethered soft capsule endoscope carries and releases a large number of thermo-sensitive, untethered microgrippers at a desired location inside the stomach and retrieves them after they self-fold and grab tissue samples. Ex vivo experiments were done to evaluate and verify the method.
Energy saving and nano-scale in body area networks is a key issue in eHealth. The architecture of Green Wireless Body Area Nano-networks (GBAN), which has the potential to revolutionize healthcare in terms of monitoring and treating chronic and life-threatening diseases, is proposed in this paper. A GBAN consists of a collection of nano-devices, each of which is made of novel nano-materials, and is capable of communicating in both the molecular and wireless electromagnetic communication modes. The term green refers to the fact that each nano-device in such a network harvests energy from the surrounding environment of the subject, such as from the movement of limbs, periodic contraction and expansion of heart muscles, and metabolic reaction of glucose, so that no nano-device gets old solely due to the reasons attributed to energy depletion. The optimal strategy obtained from the Nash equilibrium solution provides improved network performance in terms of throughput and delay.
E. Kindler and I Krivy, "Object-Oriented Simulation of systems with sophisticated control," International Journal of General Systems, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 313–343, April 2011.
This paper is dedicated to the application of languages that are not only object oriented but also process oriented and block oriented.
J. D. M. Kulcsar, S. Gilchrist, and M. G. George, "Improving Stroke Outcomes in Rural Areas Through Telestroke Programs: An Examination of Barriers, Facilitators, and State Policies," PubMed, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 3-10, Jan. 2014.
This paper focuses on ischemic stroke patients. The lack of medical service is due partly to shortages of neurological experts in rural and underserved areas. Telestroke programs are being improved by using interactive telecommunication technology that connects centrally located neurological experts to rural healthcare facilities.
J. M. L. P. Caldeira, J. J. P. C. Rodrigues, and P. Lorenz, "Towards Ubiquitous Mobility Solutions for Body Sensor Networks on HealthCare," IEEE Communications Magazine, ISSN: 0163- 6804, vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 108-115, May 2012, DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2012.6194390.
This paper presents a pioneering work on mobility of body sensor networks with mobility support and continuous patients monitoring. This paper overviews available handover mechanisms used for wireless sensors mobility and proposes a new ubiquitous mobility approach for BSNs in healthcare.
W. Yu, P. Ray, and T. Motoc, "WISH: A Wireless Mobile Multimedia Information System in Healthcare Using RFID," The Journal of Telemedicine and e-Health, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 362-370, May 2008.
This paper deals with the efficiency of healthcare-related operations and the associated costs. The major focus of healthcare organizations is to streamline operations and provide enhanced services to their patients. Wireless mobile computing technology has the potential to provide the desired benefits and should be a critical part of today's healthcare information system. In this paper, a system is presented to better facilitate the functions of physicians and medical staff in healthcare by using modern wireless mobile technology, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tools, and multimedia streaming. The paper includes a case study of the development of such a system in the context of healthcare in the United States.
K. Kosman, A. Talaei-Khoei, A. Ghapanachi, and P. Ray, "A Systematic Literature Review Approach To Clinical Tria/Informatics Systems: Case of caBIG and its Clinical Trial Management System," International Journal of Advanced Information Technologies, vol. 7, no 1, pp. 84-98, 2013.
This paper undertakes a systematic review to gain insight into existing studies on the Clinical Trial Informatics Systems (CTIS). In particular, the authors focus on those articles that have worked on a special type of CTIS called the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG), developed by the National Cancer Institute, and its Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS) workspace which uses Clinical Trials Suite software. Based on the 67 extracted studies from 2001-2011, the literature is classified into the three broad categories of product description, analysis of options, and user behavior, each containing sub-categories, and insight into each category is provided. Moreover, this paper presents insightful recommendations for health institutions to enable them to ensure that the adoption and implementation of a clinical trials informatics systems such as caBIG/CTMS will be satisfactory. Finally, this article presents five important gaps in the literature and calls for future research to fill those gaps.
B. M. C. Silva, J. J. P. C. Rodrigues, I. M. C. Lopes, T. M. F. Machado, and L. Zhou, "A Novel Cooperation Strategy for Mobile Health Applications", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Special Issue on Emerging Technologies in Communications - eHealth, ISSN: 0733-8716, vol. 31, no. 9, Sept. 2013, pp. 28-36, DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2013.SUP.0513003.
This paper proposes a novel and innovative cooperation strategy for m-Health services and applications. This contribution addresses two related limitations to mHealth applications with service-oriented architectures, namely the network infrastructure and Internet connectivity dependency. It follows a reputation-based approach as an incentive method for cooperation, which includes a Web service to manage all the network cooperation. It is responsible for verifying the cooperation status of neighbor nodes and to provide relay nodes the required data in order to perform a full data request. A performance evaluation study in a real scenario is presented, using an available m-Health application, called SapoFit. For performance evaluation purposes, an analytical model is also considered in order to compare the obtained experiment results.
G. Chiarinni, P. Ray, S. Akter, C. Mesella and A. Ganz, "mHealth Technologies for Chronic Diseases and Elders: A Systematic Review," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Special Issue on Emerging Technologies in Communications - eHealth, ISSN: 0733-8716, vol. 31, no. 9, Sept. 2013, pp. 6-18.
Many studies from all over the world have addressed this issue in view of the aging population in many countries. However, there has been a lack of any consolidated evidence-based study to classify mHealth from the dual perspectives of healthcare and technology. This paper reports the results of an evidence-based study of mHealth solutions for chronic care amongst the elderly population and proposes a taxonomy of a broad range of mHealth solutions from the perspective of technological complexity. A systematic literature review was conducted over 10 online databases and the findings were classified into four categories of predominant mHealth solutions, that is, self-healthcare, assisted healthcare, supervised healthcare and continuous monitoring. The findings of the study have major implications for information management and policy development in the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) related to healthcare in the world.
S. Akter, J. D'Ambra and P. Ray, "Trustworthiness in mHealth Information Services:An Assessment of a Hierarchical Model with Mediating and Moderating Effects Using Partial Least Squares (PLS)", Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 100–116, Jan. 2011.
The aim of this research is to advance both the theoretical conceptualization and the empirical validation of trustworthiness in mHealth (mobile health) information services research. Conceptually, it extends this line of research by reframing trustworthiness as a hierarchical, reflective construct, incorporating ability, benevolence, integrity, and predictability. Empirically, it confirms that partial least squares path modeling can be used to estimate the parameters of a hierarchical, reflective model with moderating and mediating effects in a nomological network. The model shows that trustworthiness is a second-order, reflective construct that has a significant direct and indirect impact on continuance intentions in the context of mHealth information services. It also confirms that consumer trust plays the key mediating role between trustworthiness and continuance intentions, while trustworthiness does not have any moderating influence in the relationship between consumer trust and continuance intentions. Overall, the authors conclude by discussing conceptual contributions, methodological implications, limitations, and future research directions of the study.
W. Yu and R. Bhagwat, "Modeling Emergency and Telemedicine Health Support System: A Service Oriented Architecture Approach Using Cloud Computing", International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 63-88, July-Sept. 2011.
This paper examines healthcare services provided through a telemedicine-oriented Emergency Health Support System (EHSS). This study caters to the needs of senior citizens, but can be extended to a larger population. The main goals are to model the support system in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) using Cloud Computing and study its performance. The paper compares a system deployed in the cloud versus a co-located environment based on data gathered from the prototype.
S. Sendra, E. Granell, J. Lloret, and J. J. P. C. Rodrigues, "Smart Collaborative Mobile System for Taking Care of Disabled and Elderly People," Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Springer, DOI: 10.1007/s11036-013-0445-z, 2014.
Official statistics data show that population is aging in many countries around the world. In this paper, the authors propose a smart collaborative system based on sensors embedded in mobile devices, which allow users to monitor the status of a person based on the environment. The system takes the most appropriate decisions comparing its measured values with the values measured by its neighbors. This proposal could be easily adapted and used to take care of children in several situations.
M. Najaftorkaman, A. Ghapanchi, A. Talei-Khoei and P. Ray, "Recent Research Areas and Grand Challenges in Electronic Medical Record: A Literature Survey Approach," The International Technology Management Review, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 12-21, 2013.
The authors undertook a literature survey to provide a taxonomy that represents the research areas related to Electronic Medical Records (EMR). They identified the following areas of research and classified them into eight main categories: design and implementation, evaluation, adoption, impacts, medical research, integration, EMR data design and management, and policy and standards. Even though EMR improves care quality and efficiency in a positive way, some negative perceptions by the health user community (health professionals and health service managers) should not be neglected. By categorizing EMR research articles, the authors reveal a clear set of grand challenges for EMR in future education and research in health informatics, biomedical engineering, and related areas. The big picture of EMR research areas presented in this study can help health communities to find scientific methods for the various grand challenges in EMR.
J. J. P. C. Rodrigues, I. de la Torre, G. F. Cardeñosa, and M. López-Coronado, "Analysis of the Security and Privacy Requirements of Cloud-Based Electronic Health Records Systems," Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), ISSN: 1438-8871, vol. 15, no. 8, Aug. 2013, DOI: 10.2196/jmir.2494.
This paper addresses key issues related to security and privacy in the context of cloud-based Electronic Health Records (EHRs). The Cloud Computing paradigm offers eHealth systems the opportunity to enhance the features and functionality that they offer. However, moving patients' medical information to the Cloud implies several risks in terms of the security and privacy of sensitive health records. In this paper, the risks of hosting EHRs on the servers of third-party Cloud service providers are reviewed. To protect the confidentiality of patient information and facilitate the process, some suggestions for healthcare providers are made. Moreover, security issues that Cloud service providers should address in their platforms are considered. Cloud service providers must make certain that all security mechanisms are in place to avoid unauthorized access and data breaches. Patients must be kept informed about how their data are being managed.
K. Raychoudhuri and P.Ray, "Privacy Challenges in the Use of eHealth Systems for Public Health Management", International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications (IJEHMC), vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 12-23, April-June 2010.
Privacy is a major issue in information management for public health needs. For example, the surveillance of infectious diseases, such as HIV, is an important function of public health and it presents major privacy concerns for affected people. While their privacy must be protected, privacy concerns should not come in the way of effective data collection and surveillance. In this paper, the authors present a survey of published work covering privacy challenges in the use of eHealth systems, especially in the context of public health management. The authors identify and present the major privacy challenges, and their effects on personal patient privacy and public health management, based on the review of research in electronic data privacy and eHealth privacy. The authors also present a survey of privacy-preserving technologies and solutions that address these challenges.
This Special Report (SR) has been produced by the Advisory Committee Operational Co-ordination Group (OCG). This document defines which ETSI and ETSI/3GPP deliverables are applicable to the eHealth domain and identify gaps where there is a need for future standardization work. It provides an outline architecture to identify relevant standards, standardization activities and stakeholders interests that may be relevant to the eHealth area. However, the investigation of the status of standards in other organizations, and the identification of necessary External Relationships will be the task of the ETSI Technical Body and is not covered under the scope of the present document.


The High Houses are proposed as part of the reconstruction of Sarajevo after the siege of the city that lasted from 1992 though late 1995. Their site is the badly damaged "old tobacco factory" in the Marijn dvor section near the city center.
The concept of the project is simple. The houses rise up high into the airspace once occupied by falling mortar and artillery shells fired by the city's besiegers in the surrounding mountains. By occupying the airspace, the High Houses reclaim it for the people of the city. Balancing on scavenged steel beams welded end-to-end, they are spaces of a new beginning for Sarajevo, one that challenges—in physical terms—the city's past and present, aiming at a future uniquely Sarajevan. Stabilized by steel cables anchored to the site, the houses, poised like catapults, fulfill the paradoxical desire to fly and at the same time be rooted in their place of origin.
Excellent concepts and they still hold true to this day. The drawings set major precedents–"authenticity".
To take this concept and develop a mock structure somewhere in the glades off the Gulf Coast would be a living experiment that could push an envelope to the "edge". In fact, I would love to see an abandoned oil platform as the host to such an event…some of these contrived kinetics built off of it, perhaps in a movie–for it seems entertainment is the only moving force in America.
Excellent post. High Houses for the few, to inspire the many. The imagery alone is noteworthy, but combined with the themes of trial, challenge, and transformation they take on a beautiful and classic narrative.
I keep seeing City 17 from Half Life.
i wish it was built.
The imagery is fantastic as usual. The ideas spark stories in my head about the people who would make such a place. The expense and difficulty of constructing such precarious and delicate structures would be such an extravagance in a post catastrophic world that these High Houses would probably be symbols of power or religion or some other profound purpose.
I continue to be intrigued by the use of what seems to be found materials in your concepts. Not just any found materials though but repurposed military scraps from war machines of all kinds.
There is certainly inspiration for those of us (is it all of us now) who are looking to reuse old buildings and materials.
I would love to see or hear the story of the community of survivors who build in a destroyed world and how and why they do it.
I remember seeing this work as a student and being completely mesmerised by it – in fact it was a key inspiration for me to pursue the career that I now have.
What is truly amazing is that these could have been produced yesterday, they are as innovative and exciting now as they were then.
Lebbeus is a legend who has inspired an entire generation of creative adventurers.
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A feminist critique of the term 'left behind' women
Peasant women in China are leaders in rural initiatives that contribute to food safety and alternative food networks, argues Professor Zhang Li
Zhang Li
August 7, 2019 June 22, 2020
When people migrate to cities in China, many elders, children and the women who care for them are commonly seen as "left behind" (留守) in the countryside, suffering from neglect and exclusion from the benefits of development and modernisation. But is this term accurate and useful to understand and support these people? I argue women are not merely passive victims in this process, and we need to reframe how we address their situation.
'Left behind' populations
Since China's "reform and opening-up", industrialisation and urbanisation have expanded dramatically. This is usually celebrated as economic growth, modernisation and development. The previous Maoist reverence for the revolutionary fervour of the peasantry has been replaced by the attitude that peasants are backwards, and need to be moved into the cities. This sentiment is now so mainstream that most people in China take it for granted and could not imagine otherwise. However, fast-paced industrialisation and urbanisation has also brought about serious social and environmental problems. Among them is the abandonment of the countryside and rural people, which the influential intellectual Wen Tiejun has characterised famously as the "three rural problems": declining agricultural production, low income for peasants and underdeveloped rural infrastructure.
As young men and other working-age individuals migrate to cities to work in factories, construction and services, most elders and children, and many women responsible for their care, remain in the countryside. Consequently, they do not have access to high-wage employment and are unable to sustain labour-intensive agricultural production. This limits their income and the possibility for thriving rural communities. Since the mid-1990s, these people began to be identified as those "left behind" in the countryside, denoting not only the fact they remain in the villages, but also the perception of them as "left behind" in the process of modernisation and development itself.
Since the 2000s, the characteristics and plight of these "left behind" people have become the focus of much scholarship. This has contributed to promoting various government policies to address the predicament of these people and the "hollow villages" where they remain. This is admirable for bringing much-needed public resources to address the problems that come about through increasing rural–urban inequality. However, this scholarship and much of its influence on policy has important limitations, and may even be counterproductive. So, we need another framework. My research builds upon feminist critiques of the exploitation of rural women, and calls for deeper engagement with critical gender studies in China.
The feminisation of farming
First, we should note that, as migrant workers flocked to the cities, women began to take over more and more responsibility for farming and rural life. This phenomenon occurs worldwide, and has been called the "feminisation of farming". In China, however, powerful voices promoting neoliberal discourses and patriarchal assumptions (mainly in economics, political science and sociology) questioned the growing share of female labour in Chinese agriculture. Female agricultural work was largely invisible for them, because much of it focuses on household subsistence and other forms of unpaid, non-cash, home-based labour. But as more research emerged, those critics were forced to accept this fact in China as well. Thus, promoting mainstream recognition of the "feminisation of agriculture" has been an important contribution to scholarship on "left behind" women in China.
However, we can and should advance far beyond this discussion to recognise how rural women are not merely passive victims during these transformations. After all, the very concept of "left behind" populations, and the fixated emphasis of scholarship on the suffering and abandonment of these people, promotes a certain discourse of victimisation that makes their agency invisible and their initiatives unimportant, and may even appropriate their self-empowerment efforts. This does not mean that scholars who research "left behind" people are the cause of their suffering, or that their intentions are not honourable. But to go beyond merely lamenting the plight of the "left behind", we must revise the basic concepts we use to understand this problem.
I argue we must shift the focus on rural women from "left behind" to "leaders" in various initiatives against displacement, marginalisation and discrimination, and in defence of food safety, food sovereignty and a healthy and thriving countryside. As stated by the special rapporteur on the right to food at the United Nations, Olivier de Schutter: "The most effective strategies to empower women who tend farm and family – and to alleviate hunger in the process – are to remove the obstacles that hinder them from taking charge of their lives." But this requires, first of all, recognising their efforts to control their own lives, and treating them as leaders in these socio-ecological initiatives.
Female leadership in agriculture
The bottom-up responses to China's unfolding food safety crisis provide a good foundation for developing this new framework. The expansion of organic or "green" food production for "community supported agriculture" (CSA) projects and other "alternative food networks" in China features several women as their most prominent leaders. This is notably the case, for example, with the Shared Harvest initiative, led by Shi Yan, as well as the Beijing Organic Farmers' Market, led by Chang Tianle. They are both young, well-educated women playing leading roles in the development of an organic and agroecological movement in China. China's most successful ecological agriculture cooperative, Puhan, was founded by Zheng Bing, a rural school teacher known as the "farming godmother" of China. Puhan is led mostly by women.
Powerful examples are also evident in the collaborations between female scholars and peasant communities. Professor Song Yiching of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has been a pioneer in co-organising organic seed production initiatives in partnership with rural cooperatives in Guangxi, which are primarily led by and composed of women. Similarly, Professor He Huili from the China Agricultural University was instrumental in the establishment of one of China's earliest and most famous "pollution free" rice production initiatives. After her collaboration in that project, she founded the grassroots Hongnong Academy in Henan province, offering a combination of cultural education, rural health care and agricultural training projects in which women are the main organisers and participants.
In my four years of doctoral research on bottom-up food safety initiatives in the villages where professors Song and He worked, I documented how the success of the organic food cooperative in Guangxi resulted not only from Professor Song's support, but most importantly because of the strong character of Lu Rongyan, the female village leader, and the proactive engagement of multiple peasant women. The Hongnong Academy in Henan is a good example not simply because of Professor He's leadership, but primarily because it is already transforming young, timid and stigmatised rural women into vocal and dynamic community leaders themselves.
Lu Rongyan sharing her seed-breeding experiences (Source: Zhang Li)
In highlighting these instances of female leadership, I am not suggesting all ecological agriculture and food sovereignty initiatives in China are established and led by women. I am not pretending these endeavours are perfect. Nor am I saying they only unfold through the hands of well-educated women. In fact, the majority of organic food production in China takes place quietly in countless small gardens and marginal lands alongside cash-crop fields, under the caring hands of millions of peasant women. Their "double burden" of working in the fields and taking care of the household, which they even extend through gifts of food to their children and family networks who migrate to the cities, entrusts to them the responsibility for and leadership over a massive bottom-up self-protection movement against the food-safety crisis.
These unsung heroines of China's countryside deserve and need more than pity and stigmatisation. They ought to be recognised, encouraged and supported in their efforts to sustain organic farming, cultivate alternative food networks and empower themselves through their own agency.
Beyond 'left behind'
The concept of "left behind" women, children and elders has become a staple of mainstream media discussions about rural China, and it has gained a firm place in academic literature. However, its stigmatisation and victimisation conceal the agency of these individuals. Therefore, we must move beyond descriptive critiques to cultivate more fruitful frameworks that recognise how these individuals struggle against rural–urban inequalities, and contribute to deep social and ecological transformations. Rather than "left behind", peasant women are leaders in the much-needed agroecological transformation of China.
Dr. Zhang Li is a visiting assistant professor in the department of global and international studies, University of California, Irvine.
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Collicello è una frazione del comune di Amelia (TR).

Il paese si trova su un piccolo colle, a 435 , a 15 km di distanza dal capoluogo e al confine con il territorio di Todi, a guardia dell'antica via Amerina. Secondo i dati comunali Marzo 2019, il paese è occupato da 186 abitanti.

Storia
Il nome deriva dalla posizione occupata dal paese, su una collina ricca di boschi. Il fatto di trovarsi al confine tra gli ambiti territoriali di Amelia e Todi, lo ha reso nei secoli preda ambita; subì, infatti, parecchie devastazioni (soprattutto nel XV secolo) a causa delle lotte tra i guelfi Atti ed i ghibellini Chiaravalle.
I lanzichenecchi diretti a Roma saccheggiarono il borgo nel 1527.
Solo dopo la Restaurazione entrò a far parte definitivamente dei possedimenti amerini.

Fu rifugio dopo l'8 settembre 1943 di Piero Calamandrei. Successivamente la nipote di quest'ultimo assieme al marito, lo storico Giuliano Procacci, lo frequentarono lungamente nelle vacanze ristrutturando anche l'antica torre medievale. Anche il senatore Alfredo Reichlin lo elesse a suo luogo di riposo.

Economia e manifestazioni
Nella seconda metà di luglio, in occasione della festa patronale, si svolge la Sagra della Fava Cottòra dell'Amerino, riconoscimento del presidio Slow Food, con degustazioni di piatti tipici della tradizione culinaria locale. La Fava Cottòra, detta anche mezza fava per le piccole dimensioni, non è una qualità ma un ecotipo selezionato storicamente dagli abitanti di Collicello, ed è chiamata così per la sua caratteristica di cuocere bene ed in fretta.

Monumenti e luoghi d'arte
 Il Castello medievale, con la cerchia muraria, la porta d'ingresso (con arco a tutto sesto) e ben otto torri medievali a base quadrata (alcune delle quali sono merlate), in buono stato di conservazione;
 Chiesa di S. Giovanni Evangelista;
 Chiesa della Madonna delle Grazie, poco distante dal paese, contenente affreschi del XV secolo;
 Rocca del castello dei Chiaravalle, in località Canale a circa 400 m dalle mura del paese;
 Ruderi dello Speco di S. Francesco, in località Galisciano; si tratta di un monastero francescano (prima benedettino) dove sembra che abbia sostato lo stesso Francesco;
 la via Turrida, che collega al paese di Castel dell'aquila, così denominata per la presenza di varie torri ai lati della stessa nelle località casette, rocchetta, angeletti, ospedaletto;
 Resti di una villa romana, in località Le Muraccia;
 Percorso circolare di Collicello, un sentiero panoramico che permette di osservare i quattro punti cardinali.

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Dal 2000 ospita un percorso naturalistico che si snoda nei boschi delle colline circostanti con partenza ed arrivo nella piazza del borgo. Il percorso segnalato da apposite indicazioni è aperto a tutti (podisti e ciclisti) dal primo febbraio al 30 settembre. Nel mese di giugno si svolge una duplice passeggiata ecologica podistica su tale percorso in versione diurna e notturna.

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Might this have a little to do with the numbers of Somalis in Minneapolis and the subject matter, Threats to Democracy?
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The Leftists in Congress and the media are very busy these days agitating their disciples. The rhetoric is targeting Jews and white males.
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Historically, mainly Russia and China, when the Left wants to take total control they start killing people. The intellectuals are among the first to go. They are isolating white males, more and more everyday.
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That will depend on where on the border. Where I live their are just regular old murders (single) across the river and they only make the local Mexican papers.
I go maybe once a week or 10 days. I look at what's been posted and some of it is, IMO, out of line. That being said some of the other posts are decent reading.
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Hopefully it will dissolve and it will all go away.
At 10:59 in the video I noticed he is unloading the empties into his hand instead of dumping them on the ground. Bad habit to get into with a wheel gun.
Good article! I'm not sure my medical director will buy into it and change our protocols though.