Ethics, business ethics, ethics and morality, connection between ethics, economy and philosophy, history of ethics, overview of basic ethic directions and paradigms, personalities in history of ethics, importance of ethic cathegories to life, ethic inspiration for economy, new conceptions of ethics, social events and ethics, relations between ethics and business, economic pragmatism, utilitarism and liberalism, introduction to management of ethics, firm strategy and ethics, ethics in firm philosophy, ethics in firm culture, ethical codex, ethical auditing, moral personality development, ethics in firm culture, ethical dilemata in manager's activities, non-ethical examples in behaviour, corruption, lobbying, experiential training in ethics, ethical transformation.
Knowledge of ethic principles and their connections with management. Understanding of human change in firm culture, manager´s personality and firm strategy.
The subject follows to knowledge gained in the course of secondary education in subject Foundantions of Social Sciences or Civics, therefore no other technical or social science information is needed, knowledge of basic of law, psychology, sociology, philosophy, sociology or philosophy, interest in ethic topics, recognising and knowledge of society.
1. Introduction to ethics. Importance of ethics. The concept and benefits of ethics. Management and business ethics. Ethics and morality.
2. The basic elements of ethical theories. Traditional and modern concept. History of ethics. Man and ethics.
3. Historical-developmental changes of ethics, important ethical concepts and personalities, aim for present.
4. Ethics in Modern Ages. Relativism, material ethical values, positivism, a new concept of ethics. Contemporary ethical discourses.
5. Transformation of ethics into business. Economic pragmatism, utilitarism, liberalism and neoliberalism.
6. Introduction into ethics of management. Ethics of direction and accountability. Ethical decision-making process.
7. Relation between ethics and business. Personal morality and corporate ethics, ethical-professional personality character.
8. Manager and ethics - perspectives and changes. Development of a manager personality. Dichotomy in managerial praxis.
9. Implementation of ethics, the nature and importance. Moral development of company. Public relations.
10. Integrating of ethics into the corporate culture. The role of ethics in company development strategy. Social firm responsibility.
11. Ethics in business enterprise management. Ethics of labor relations in the company. Moral culture of contemporary businessman.
12. Ethical codex, examples. Ethical auditing of a firm. Non-ethical examples in behaviour, prevention and its solution.
13. Self-assessment exercise in the area of ethics and management. Ethical-social katechism.
Orientation in subject, ability to aplicate of knowledge, information and practises in professional and personal life.


F. Scott Fitzgerald said, ''There are no second acts in American lives.'' He saw the world with frightening clarity and commented on it with genius. So, I hesitate to say it, but in this case, he was wrong. In California, women like Beatrice Wood, M.F.K. Fisher and Ganna Walska, all blessed with beauty and brains to begin with, only improved with age. They created their second acts in the West. Rather than becoming less, they became more. They cared -- a lot. They invented original and vigorous existences, seamlessly fusing their lives with their passions. For Wood, it was her art. For Fisher, it was her writing. For Walska, it was her garden.
''Enemy of the average'' was her credo, and Walska was a relentless warrior. She called herself ''head gardener,'' but answered only to Madame. On her Montecito estate, she occupied a pavilion near the house; she lived in the garden. She fell in love with the exotic beauty of her New World specimens, but never learned the Latin names. ''More is better,'' she said, and where traditionally one or two plants would do, Madame, in signature profusion, would place a hundred of the same species. She loved minerals. She adorned herself with jewels and her garden with amethyst crystals, lava rocks and seashells. Her sense of romance (it's hard to imagine being married six times without having some sense of the romantic) comes alive in her unique Blue Garden, which shimmers under a full moon. She had the means to spend millions on its entirely blue foliage, and the imagination to see that the chunks of blue slag glass heaped at a local factory would sparkle like gemstones.
Looking at the eerie Tim Burton-cartoon-like cactuses and euphorbias guarding her front door, one instantly realizes this is not Grandma's garden. Well, then, whose garden is it? The estate's sign reads ''Ganna Walska Lotusland.'' One cannot consider Lotusland without considering Walska. They are one and the same. In Montecito, about 90 miles north of Los Angeles, where New World tycoons conspired to recreate staid Old World garden estates, the Old World Madame aspired to invent a New World. Eccentricity, sophistication and deep pockets unite at Lotusland, the living incarnation of Walska's irrational exuberance.
The most interesting lives are invented ones, and Madame was a master of invention. Her 1943 memoir, ''Always Room at the Top,'' is a bit like an Oliver Stone film -- not overly concerned with distinguishing between fact and fiction. Hanna Puacz was born into a middle-class family in Brest-Litovsk, Poland, probably in 1887 (her 10 passports revealed different birthdays). In her teens, she left czarist Poland for St. Petersburg, where she soon eloped with a Russian count. Styling herself as a wealthy Russian countess, she became as famous for her charisma as for her opulent jewels. Though the marriage was short-lived, the magnetic Polish beauty was undeterred. To attract the interest of ''the second richest man in Russia,'' she began singing opera, and so found her first passion. Singing led to her next invention, her name. She chose the exotic Ganna from Hanna which means ''grace,'' and she said: ''Like all Poles, I loved to dance, especially to waltz. So, suddenly I said: Waltz, Valse, Walska.'' ''Madame'' was frequently used for female performers; hence, Madame Graceful Waltz. With her marriage dissolved, the femme fatale and her celebrated jewelry abandoned Russia for New York via Paris, where she performed as a cabaret singer while studying opera. In Paris, she came out with Ganna Walska perfume, but Madame's larger-than-life persona, and fashion sense, received more attention than her product.
In the States, many wealthy bachelors and married men found the shapely, raven-haired maverick irresistible, and proposed within days of meeting her. Though she never kept any of her six husbands around for long, she managed to keep some of their stuff, including lifetime allowances, homes in Paris and Manhattan, a French chateau in Galluis, and even her own Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris.
She practiced singing daily, and landed roles, but never received the validation she sought. As her grand-opera aspirations dimmed, she intensified her lifelong spiritual quest. Though Roman Catholic-bred, she turned to Eastern mysticism, practicing yoga, attending seances and using Ouija boards. At 53, she attended a lecture by Theos Bernard, the handsome ''White Lama'' and yogi, more than 20 years her junior. And at his insistence, she ultimately married him. In 1941, he found a 37-acre garden estate in Montecito, Cuesta Linda (Beautiful Hill), and persuaded her to buy it, believing the two East Coast bohemians belonged in freethinking California. While virtually all the neighboring estates, including Val Verde and Casa del Herrero, had looked to Europe for their names, the avant-garde duo looked to the Far East when they renamed their property Tibetland. They dreamed of making it a refuge for itinerant Tibetan monks, but both the monks and marital bliss proved more elusive than Madame's stardom, and after four years of marriage they divorced.
Husbandless for good, Madame spent the rest of her life, and virtually all of her considerable resources, on her final invention. She began by renaming her property Lotusland, after the lotuses growing on the grounds. Though her Lotusland may bring to mind Homer's idyllic fantasy land in ''The Odyssey,'' it is more likely that, for her, the name related to the sacred lotus of Buddhists and Hindus.
Lotusland is not one garden, but a labyrinthine collection of many gardens, all somehow expressing the force of Madame's unique sensibilities. There are the Japanese Garden, Fern Garden, Bromeliad Garden and Australian Garden, along with a cactus garden, to name just a few. In the Water Garden, Madame used the original swimming pool to grow her beloved lotuses, and built a new pool for bathing. Seashells, once a favored decorative material of aesthetes, but long since considered kitsch, were used by Madame in the Aloe Garden with aristocratic authority. She rimmed the perimeter of her reflecting pond with abalone shells, and created otherworldly fountains that flowed into the pond out of giant clamshells placed on coral stands. While her neighbors placed cherubs in their classic gardens, she imported 17th-century grotesques from her villa in France for her Theater Garden.
Until the last days before her death in 1984 at age 97, Madame, with her two canes, walked the garden daily. Always looking forward, Madame in 1958 founded and, most important, financed the Ganna Walska Lotusland Foundation to oversee the operation after her death. Her wardrobe, including opera costumes designed by Erté and Callot Soeurs, can be seen at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Unlike many other gardens that slowly erode after an owner's passing, Lotusland is, fortunately, here to stay. Unfortunately, like her treasured cycads, we do not have the seeds to grow any more Ganna Walskas.


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Le Bouclier continental de rugby à XV 2017-2018 oppose pour la saison 2017-2018 dix équipes européennes de rugby à XV. La compétition est organisée en deux phases successives. Une première phase de poules se déroule en matchs aller-retour à la fin de laquelle sont issues les quatre équipes ayant terminé aux deux premières places de leur groupe. Cette année, la compétition se poursuit par deux voies différentes.La première, le vainqueur de chaque groupe rencontre dans des matchs en aller-retour de barrage le second de l'autre groupe. Les deux vainqueurs de ces barrages s'opposeront dans une nouvelle rencontre en match aller retour pour déterminer le finaliste de la compétition. L'autre finaliste vient du barrage en match aller-retour entre les équipes qualifiées en Challenge européen 2017-2018 issue des pays émergents. Enfin, les deux vainqueurs des barrages s'opposent dans une finale pour désigner le vainqueur de ce Bouclier continental de rugby à XV.

Présentation

Équipes en compétition
Le championnat entre parenthèses désigne le champion de l'année précédente.

Poules

Barrages

Format

Les formations affrontent les équipes de l'autre poule avec deux matchs à domicile et deux matchs à l'extérieur pour chaque équipe. Les deux premiers de chaque poule se qualifient pour les barrages. Ainsi le premier de chaque poule rencontre le second de l'autre poule et les vainqueurs de chaque match se rencontrent lors d'une finale. Les deux autres participants aux barrages sont les équipes issues des pays émergents qui sont qualifiées pour le Challenge européen de la saison en cours. Les vainqueurs de la finale et du match opposant les équipes du Challenge Européen s'opposeront lors d'une finale à Bilbao.

Phase de poules

Notations et règles de classement
Dans les tableaux de classement suivants, les différentes abréviations et couleurs signifient :

Attribution des points : victoire sur tapis vert : 5, victoire : 4, match nul : 2, forfait : -2 ; plus les bonus (offensif : au moins 4 essais marqués ; défensif : défaite par 7 points d'écart ou moins).

Règles de classement  :
 équipes dans la même poule : 1. points classement ; 2. points classement obtenus dans les matchs entre équipes concernées ; 3. points terrain obtenus dans les matchs entre équipes concernées ; 4. nombre d'essais marqués dans les matchs entre équipes concernées ; 5. différence de points ; 6. nombre d'essais marqués ; 7. plus bas nombre de joueurs suspendus/expulsés pour incident ; 8. tirage au sort
 équipes dans des poules différentes : 1. points classement ; 2. différence de points ; 3. nombre d'essais marqués ; 4. plus bas nombre de joueurs suspendus/expulsés pour incident ; 5. tirage au sort.

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Barrages - voie phase de poule

Demi-finales

Finale

Barrages - voie Challenge européen

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Finale

Statistiques

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Notes et références

Notes

Références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Bouclier continental de rugby à XV
 Challenge européen 2017-2018
 Coupe d'Europe de rugby à XV 2017-2018

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Rainbow of Hope for Children Commits to a Plan for Assistance in Nepal
Since the 2015 earthquake, the people of Nepal are considerably vulnerable to disaster.
With a population of nearly 30 million, Nepal is one of the least developed and most densely populated regions of the world. In the devastating Gorkha earthquake of 2015, nearly 9,000 people died and thousands injured. More than 600,000 homes were destroyed and a tragic 2.8 million people displaced. When Director of Rainbow of Hope for Children (ROHFC) Joe Gubbels travelled to Nepal in 2018 to monitor ongoing projects three years later, he witnessed the poverty of many families still recovering from the disaster.
A 2018 Multidimensional Poverty Index report showed that 28% of Nepal's population was multidimensionally poor, which chalks up to almost 8 million people. In the last few decades, the rate of poverty in Nepal has been declining, but since the earthquake, the people of Nepal are considerably vulnerable to disaster.
Nepal is one of the highest risk areas for the pandemic, and also one of the least prepared.
Two short years after Gubbels' time in Nepal, the entire globe is caught off guard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Both the global south and the global north are under the stress to find ways to stave off the spread of the virus while keeping their economies alive. The compound effects of the catastrophic earthquake with a global pandemic puts Nepal at serious risk.
Nepal is one of the highest risk areas for the pandemic, and also one of the least prepared. Nepal's inadequate levels of education, health care and sanitation combined with its dependency on employment from tourism and foreign employment weaken its ability to quickly bounce back from a global crisis.
In a proposal for support by the High Himalayan Community Development Centre (HHCPN), president Harikrishna Devkota wrote,
"The Nepali healthcare system is not fully prepared to deal with a large-scale pandemic that is straining healthcare systems even in developed countries . . . There is a lack of sufficient resources and not enough manpower for the massive testing and treatment of people that may be needed . . . There is not a specific agency to deal with the pandemic, such as the Centers for Disease Control that exist in some countries, nor has Nepal done any long-term planning to deal with a pandemic. Last time when Nepal faced a serious crisis — the earthquake of 2015 — the international community rushed to offer support. But with this crisis, the powerful and well-resourced countries that had previously assisted Nepal in its hour of need are themselves facing the same crisis. They are not in the same position to offer assistance."
A World Bank Report published in April, 2020 reported that due to the numerous effects of COVID-19, "a significant share of vulnerable households face the risk of falling back into poverty."
One month into lock down, president of the High Himalayan Community Development Centre (HHCPN) Harikrishna Devkota has seen a struggle among the community to find basic living necessities.
There have been several reports from reliable sources, locals and concerned citizens, that homeless people are unable to find any source of food and daily wage workers unable to purchase groceries for their families. Both we and our partners believe and sadly know to be true that the more imminent threat to these people is starvation, second to that of Coronavirus should the lockdown continue longer than initially expected. And even if this lockdown is lifted on the 27th of April, which we doubt, these people will still suffer starvation as they will not be able to recover from this lockdown immediately and make an income straight away to buy food.
The lack of any social protection program by the State to protect the homeless and low-income daily wage earners from slipping down into abject poverty makes the situation even more threatening.
Rainbow of Hope for Children
Rainbow of Hope for Children (ROHFC), an Alberta non-profit, has recognized Nepal's need for support and has committed to a plan for assistance. ROHFC's mission is to help people globally create a more just world for themselves, their families, and their society. The organization's most recent projects include financially supporting a preschool in Brazil and helping the people of Izalco, El Salvador develop biointensive agricultural training in the community.
Although ROHFC is a very small society involved in international development in specific areas, it has a Disaster Assistance Policy for emergency needs. In the COVID-19 pandemic, the Board of Directors received requests for assistance from both Nepal and El Salvador, where ROHFC has active development projects. The board passed a motion to support the two requests to the amount of $50,000. Although both requests merit an urgent response, ROHFC decided to primarily focus on the extreme need in Nepal.
Masks Made in Village
With the support of ROHFC, Devkota and the local community will be able to address the immediate obstacles faced by families either living in poverty or threatened by it in Nepal.
ROHFC's relief project focuses on the Rasuwa district of Jibajibe Village area in Nepal, and will deliver essential supplies packages to local families. With the country-wide lockdown, there is a huge problem of shortage of food and basic supplies especially by the homeless, landless, low caste families and daily wage workers.
One package will feed a family of four for three weeks, and includes food and cooking staples and soap.
These essential supplies packages will be distributed on a triage basis: the most vulnerable families will be addressed first. The ORG estimates about 600 families in the area alone in need of basic support, and will work alongside local authorities and police to distribute the supplies.
In addition, HHCPN, with the support of ROHFC, plans to organize isolation and quarantine beds, medicine, medical staff and equipment, and food directly addressing the pandemic.
With the support of ROHFC, Devkota and the local community will be able to address the immediate obstacles faced by families either living in poverty or threatened by it in Nepal. However, the long term effects of disaster on communities such as the Rasuwa district will be felt long beyond the final stages of this program. Populations such as those in Nepal need the ongoing support and attention of countries fortunate enough to withstand the pressures of a global pandemic.
You can help support the people of Nepal through ROHFC programs:
More information about Hari and High Himalayan Community Projects Nepal: www.hhcpn.org.
Bhattarai, Kamal Dev. "Nepal Cannot Fight Coronavirus Alone." The Diplomat, April 1 2020, https://thediplomat.com/2020/04/nepal-cannot-fight-coronavirus-alone/
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To tell the story of the Swedish chocolate maker Marabou, we must start somewhere else. Specifically, in Norway, on a forgotten street in the capital, which was called Christiania at the time. In the late 1800s, there was a chocolate factory with the Norse sounding name Freia. In the Freia strolled someday colonial is the son Johan Trone-Holst, determined to buy the worn factory. It was he, for 9000 kroner. It may sound a bit today, but it was a fortune in those days. And Johan Trone-Holst became chocolate factory owner in the coup and immediately started to develop Freia Sjokolade factory to a successful business. And what a success it was then, even so great that Norway finally felt too small. Johan wanted to expand southwards, but the First World War got in the way, so he set his sights on neighboring Sweden. So it was a sunny spring day in 1916, the middle of the war, the Marabou born. It was named so because Freia Marabou Stork had as its symbol. But it was difficult to import cocoa during the war years, and without cocoa, there was no chocolate, so the first chocolate bars were produced until the late summer of 1919. Therefore, this is usually counted as Marabou's actual birth.
Milk Chocolate, or melkesjokolade as they say in Norwegian, was the first man-made chocolate, then according Freia recipes. It was not until well into the 50th century that they found a recipe that made the Swedes say "Mmm ..." when they stopped a piece of chocolate in your mouth. The new recipe gave the chocolate a unique and popular flavor of caramel. The flavor was so popular that it suddenly sold twice as much chocolate as before. And it is this very special and very secret recipes that have made Marabou chocolate so well-liked and popular in all ages, far beyond Sweden's borders.
Marabou Swedish first chocolate factory was in Sundbyberg outside Stockholm. Johan's son Henning became manager and with enthusiasm started to produce new, estimated chocolate varieties Yep, Non Stop, Fortuna, Dajm and Twist. And he probably did a good job, for every one of them is still there to this day! In the late '60s, it was time for the Marabou stork who graced Marabou chocolate since 1919 to fly away. In its place came the fine, squiggly letters still on Marabou's packaging. The man behind the new design was none other than the Swedish designer Sigvard Bernadotte. Around the same time came the first commercials with actor-spelerskan Yvonne Lombard, the voice behind the familiar "Mmm ... Marabou!"
After almost 60 years in Sundbyberg premises had begun to get a little overcrowded, and in the 1970s opened because a new, nifty factory in Upplands Väsby outside Stockholm where production is then mainly laid. In Upplands Väsby factory is one still standing today. Since 1993 owned "all of Sweden's own chocolate factory" by the company Mondelēz Inter-national and Marabou has become one of Sweden's most beloved brands. It has come a long way from the worn, old factory at alleyway in Christiania, though it is the love of chocolate is just as strong. And the factory in Upplands Väsby working man curiously and tirelessly in John Trone-Holst spirit and find new, tasty way to get the whole of Sweden to say "Mmm ... Marabou"!


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Ted Baker and Joules shrug off festive fashion woes
Ted Baker said that the strength of its fashion brand had boosted the business
Ashley Armstrong
11 January 2017 • 12:21pm
Retail and Consumer industry
Ted Baker and Joules provided fresh cheer to the fashion retail sector after posting upbeat sales despite rising concerns that UK consumers prefer to spend their money in restaurants rather than shops.
Ted Baker, which makes the bulk of its sales from concessions in department stores and online, posted a 17.9pc increase in sales for the eight weeks to January 7.
Ray Kelvin, the group's founder and chief executive, said: "Ted Baker has continued to perform well over the Christmas period against a tough trading backdrop. This result reflects the appeal of the brand and the quality of our collections as well as the talent and commitment of our team."
The company has only 20 standalone shops in the UK. Mr Kelvin has previously said that the shops act as a "showroom" for the brand, which also runs barbershops and licences designs for bathroom tiles and wallpaper.
One of Ted Baker's 20 stores
Ted Baker said that online sales grew by 35pc during the period while it continued to open concessions in China, Indonesia and Bahrain.
Mr Kelvin said that Ted Baker was cushioned from the woes associated with a weaker pound and too many stores. "We are in the swetest spot we could be, we are a brand not a retailer, we are global, we have hedges and we are naturally hedged because we generate revenues in dollars."
Analysts at Liberum said that they were encouraged by the uptick in trading over the past eight weeks, when sales grew by 6.7pc.
Tom Gadsby at Liberum said: "Unlike more mature retail businesses Ted Baker's strategy of leading with stores in key locations and making the brand available online is both a low risk, and low capital expenditure route to growth, and is highly complementary to the store portfolio.
Ted Baker share price
"In the face of slowing demand in some sections of luxury goods we believe that those with large established store portfolios in high cost locations such as Hugo Boss and Burberry will find it hard to offset the high fixed cost base while the growing flexibility of Ted's business should serve to protect margins."
Meanwhile, Joules - which is best known for its colourful country-inspired fashion - reported a 22.8pc jump in retail sales for the seven weeks to January 8.
Despite fashion rivals engaging in heavy discounting around Black Friday - which investors worry will have weakened profits - Joules has said that its margins will be "marginally ahead of the prior year".
A woman wearing a Joules jacket
Analysts at Peel Hunt said: "There is an argument that Joules managed stocks too tightly and could have sold more volume, not a problem many retailers are likely to have encountered."
Joules, which listed last May in a £140m Aim flotation, has 107 UK and Ireland stores, compared to 96 at the same time last year.
"This strong outcome over the important Christmas trading period reflects the growing awareness and strength of the Joules brand," said Colin Porter, the company's chief executive.
Fears about the health of fashion retailers were stoked last week after former high street darling Next missed City expectations and gave a grim warning about consumer appetite for fashion and said that as well as people spending money on leisure activities rather than in retail, appetite would continue to weaken as inflation hurts real wage growth.
The bleak outlook caused shares in Next and its rivals to tumble, although many analysts now believe that Next's problems may be of its own making and reflect a lack of investment in its brand.


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Glyphosate raises cancer risk by 41 percent, study finds
A new meta-analysis suggests a 'compelling link' between glyphosate and cancer risk
By Sarah D. Young
02/15/2019 | ConsumerAffairs | Health News
Glyphosate, a key ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup, increases the cancer risk of heavily-exposed individuals by 41 percent, according to a new analysis.
The latest findings, which were based on the results of six earlier studies on the herbicide, showed that the chemical significantly raised the risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma -- the type of cancer affecting Dewayne Johnson, a former school groundskeeper who regularly used Roundup.
"All of the meta-analyses conducted to date, including our own, consistently report the same key finding: exposure to GBHs (glyphosate-based herbicides) are associated with an increased risk of NHL," the authors of the University of Washington report wrote.
Previous research found a link between glyphosate and shorter pregnancies, and thousands of cancer patients have alleged that the weedkiller Roundup was a factor in their cancers.
Last year, a court awarded Dewayne Johnson nearly $300 million, later reduced to $78 million, in a lawsuit against Monsanto. The jury found that the company had failed to warn him and other consumers about the risks of the product.
'There are some real concerns'
Bayer, the company that purchased Monsanto last year, has maintained that "hundreds of studies indicate glyphosate doesn't cause cancer." The latest research appears to contradict that assertion.
"This research provides the most up-to-date analysis of glyphosate and its link with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, incorporating a 2018 study of more than 54,000 people who work as licensed pesticide applicators," co-author and doctoral student Rachel Shaffer said in a statement.
The researchers said they focused on people with the "highest exposure" to the herbicide because if Roundup wasn't carcinogenic, as Bayer claims, even a high degree of exposure shouldn't raise cancer risk.
"From a population health point of view, there are some real concerns," said Lianne Sheppard, one of the study's co-authors.
In a statement, Bayer said the new analysis "provides no scientifically valid evidence that contradicts the conclusions of the extensive body of science demonstrating that glyphosate-based herbicides are not carcinogenic."
The company said the analysis employed the use of "statistical manipulation" and that it contained "serious methodological flaws."
The new research has been published in Mutation Research.
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Q: XAMPP How do I allow simultaneous PHP queries from the same user/browser but different tabs? I am trying to run a PHP code that generate names, the result would be 3 million rows in the name database.
The name generator would take a list of name and loop itself based on the total number of names, the new name would be the combination of the first name and n-th name.
e.g
1. Dennis
2. Ben
3. Donald
4. R0nald
New names generated
Dennis Ben
Dennis Donald
Dennis Ronald
Ben Dennis
Ben Donald
Ben Ronald
I have split up the name generating script up to start from ID 1-500, 501-1000, 1001-1500 etc. 11 different PHP files.
Why does my CPU load stay at 3-5%, and my Harddisk % Highest Active Time is up to 45%.
What is this limit I don't know and how do I remove the limit?
Code:
$query = "query targetName FROM names";
$result = mysqli_query($con,$query);
//$result will result in a 5273 row array

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Q: Using GCController with tvOS Simulator I don't have a new Apple TV, but am working on prototyping a game for it using the simulator. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get GCController to list the Siri remote as an available controller, as the tvOS docs indicate. My list of controllers is always 0 elements long, even if I call startWirelessControllerDiscoveryWithCompletionHandler().
Does anyone have any suggestion or sample code for getting input from the Siri remote?

A: The current version of the tvOS simulator apparently does not support this functionality. I was able to try my code on a friend's dev kit, and it registered the remote as a Game Controller as expected. For now, the answer appears to be "use real hardware" or "wait for an updated to the tvOS simulator".

A: You might take a look at https://github.com/csgulley/AppleTVSimulatorController. It is an implementation of Game Controller that I wrote to allow testing with the Apple TV simulator.


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In an effort to enhance passenger safety, the Transport Company has implemented simulation technology at the Bus Operation Simulator Training Centre, enabling drivers to practice with simulated cases to ensure their preparedness, and help minimise possible losses from road accidents.
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In an effort to enhance passenger safety, Thailand's Transport Company has implemented simulation technology at the Bus Operation Simulator Training Centre (Photo: thainews.prd.go.th)
Bangkok (NNT/VNA) - In an effort to enhance passenger safety, Thailand's Transport Company has implemented simulation technology at the Bus Operation Simulator Training Centre, enabling drivers to practice with simulated cases to ensure their preparedness, and help minimise possible losses from road accidents.
The Transport Company has opened the Bus Operation Simulator Training Centre featuring a simulator of a large passenger bus that can run a simulation of real-life scenarios, the first of its kind in Thailand.
The simulator has been developed by the Transport Company and education institutes, imitating actual operating conditions of a real-life passenger bus and feeding simulated visuals of different scenarios on computer displays which allow users to interact and respond to these cases realistically.
The simulator will help improve incident response skills among the company's bus operators, ensuring their preparedness for all kinds of unexpected incidents which could happen in real life, such as heavy rains, storms, sudden stopping of vehicles in front. The training offered on this simulator will help reduce the frequency of accidents and improve passenger safety.
The Transport Company's President Lt Gen Surapon Tapananon said the simulation centre is equipped with modern technology for bus operator training, which will replace some training with the actual buses, helping reduce energy and fuel consumption and help reduce human error in operations. Some 500 bus operators at the Transport Company will all undertake training in the simulator to ensure the highest preparedness for passenger services. – NNT/VNA
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Thinking about scheduling a consultation? Curious about what to expect? Let's go through what you can expect before, during and after you have a consultation at Immigration Advocates.
We schedule consultations over the phone. You can call Monday through Friday, between 9am and 5pm to schedule one. If you get our voicemail, it's probably because we are talking with one of our clients on another line. Please do leave a message and we'll get back to you right away.
When you call to schedule the consultation, we'll ask you to tell us a little about why you're interested in having a consultation– are you considering applying for a Green Card, are you wondering what options you might have to legalize, or do you have another type of immigration question? This helps us decide if our consultation will be helpful to you. If you have an asylum case for example, we'll let you know that our office doesn't handle those cases, and offer to refer you to a lawyer who does.
This initial call will be with a legal assistant, who will not answer any legal questions.
We give you a few different times and days to choose from for your consultation. We usually schedule consultations from Monday through Friday. The first one is usually at 10:00 am and the last one begins at 4:00 pm. A few times a year we make consultations available later at night or on Saturdays.
We will let you know that the consultation usually lasts one hour, that the fee is $200, and that we only accept cash or check with a photo ID (no credit cards). You can use this $200 fee as a credit toward our fees if you hire our firm within 30 days of the consultation.
We will provide information on the closest MBTA stop (Central Square on the Red Line is outside our front door) and parking (the closest public parking lots are at 375 Green Street and 9 Pleasant Street).
We will ask that you either fill out our intake questionnaire online or arrive 10 minutes before your appointment to fill it out on paper.
If you speak English or Portuguese, there is no need to bring an interpreter (all Immigration Advocates staff speak both languages). If you speak another language and are not comfortable in English, you should bring someone to translate for you.
Make sure to bring any immigration documents you have with you: your passport, I-94 card, visa, immigration court documents, as well as docket sheets for any criminal cases you have had and any other immigration documents you have. This will help the attorney give you the most accurate advice.
You might want to write down the questions you have in case you forget them during the consultation, as well as any important dates (like when you entered) of facts you think are important.
Please make sure to call us if you are running late. If you are more than 15 minutes late we may need to reschedule your appointment.
Please make sure to call us at least 24 hours in advance if you cannot make your appointment. If you don't, then you'll need to prepay the consultation fee before rescheduling your consultation (only one fee will be paid in total).
When you arrive at our office, we will either print the intake form that you filled out online, or ask to complete one on paper. This helps us spend more time discussing your case and answering your questions, and less time recording contact information and other details.
Once the intake is completed, your consultation will begin. The attorney will explain the confidentiality rules that help us protect your information and then ask you questions to determine what options you have. It is essential that you tell us the truth and include any details you think might be important. If you don't, we won't be able to give you the correct advice (and then what's the point of the consultation, right?).
The attorney will explain what options you have and you'll have plenty of time to ask any question you might have.
At the end of the consultation, after all your questions have been answered, the attorney will be able to give you information about costs (legal fees, government fees and miscellaneous fees) and how long your case might take. We can send you an exact and written quote for your case within 48 hours of your consultation. The attorney must review the notes from the consultation carefully in order to determine the number of hours of work it will require, and what the appropriate fee is. With a few rare exceptions, we will give you a "flat fee" quote – a single price that covers your case rather than an hourly fee. We provide an option for payment plans that allow you to pay for your case over a matter of months.
You will receive a receipt for your consultation fee.
We see consultations as an essential first step to any case. It helps us get to know you, find out your priorities and goals, and helps us to learn the details of your situation. It also lets you get to know us, see how we work, and decide whether we are the right fit for you and your case.


She made the decision to move her mother into a hospice to ensure she spent her last days in as much comfort as possible.
But singer Toyah Willcox was horrified to discover that 81-year-old Barbara, who was battling cancer, had been placed on the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway without her permission.
The star discovered that the hospice had been preparing to place her mother on the 'end of life care' system.
The LCP typically involves removing the tubes providing a patient with fluids and nutrition and giving them sedative drugs.
She said: 'For me it was not something I wanted my mother to be told about without me being there to support her.
'I was not asked or referred to about her last days, so the decision to put her on the LCP was not one I was party to.
Miss Willcox told nurses that she and her family wanted to manage their mother's death in their own way.
Hours after the conversation Mrs Willcox became unconscious, and for the next four days her daughter nursed her. She eventually died in her sleep in September 2011 – a week after being admitted to St Richard's Hospice in Worcester.
Her death marked the end of the complicated relationship between the singer and her mother.
She said: 'I would have liked to have been friends with my mother. But my memories of her are not particularly happy ones.
'She actively didn't like her family and she would say that to us.
Miss Willcox, who chose never to have children, believes the time she spent caring for her mother finally allowed them to bond.
She said: 'I nursed her for her last two years which was really tough.
she could hear me. It was the only time I could tell her I loved her .
'I could never say that to her when she was awake because she wouldn't have it.
Miss Willcox, often described as the high priestess of punk revealed that she and her husband musician Robert Fripp had found an unusual way of dealing with the loss.
She said: 'We mime picking the phone up, dialling, and it's how we deal with it.
The singer, whose career has spanned three decades, has released 13 top-40 singles and recorded 20 albums.
She is best known for the hits It's a Mystery, Thunder in the Mountains and I Want To Be Free.
television shows including Songs Of Praise.
Yesterday a spokesman for St Richard's Hospice said: 'We have not received any comments from family members directly.
'And we do not comment on individual cases.


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In today's world of infinite choice earning engaged voters and consumers is far more valuable to political parties and brands than having merely satisfied ones. This takes a community.
There remains a misconception about what public relations is. We're still damned as spinners, spammers and practitioners of dark arts.
This post isn't a moan, though. It looks to an element of modern communication and how political parties, brands and firms might do better if they stop thinking about SOS comms (Sending Out Stuff) and start thinking about forming long-term relationships with their publics.
Today public relations practitioners help leaders guide their firms. We help leaders make good decisions. Decisions based on listening. And listening not just to shareholders; but to the web of stakeholders who hold the power to sustain firms into the long term. Decisions based on understanding the differing contexts of each stakeholder group.
Public relations always used to be about conversation. Building relationships through listening at least as much as talking.
The industry made a misstep in the mid 20th century. PR became preoccupied with communicating with its employers' and clients' publics via the proxy of media relations. This was to the detriment of direct public engagement.
Today consumers demand to be engaged with - not talked at. Fragmenting media caused by technological advances and changing consumer behaviour has forced a return to Eric Goldman's Two-Way Street.
There's an increasingly participatory way in which we consume news and information today.
Here's an example. Want to know what the most shared story on social media about the UK general election was in the week running up to polling day?
It was an article published by London Economic and, to date, it has been shared 205,000 times and clicked 1.5m times.
It shows that a three-year-old news site staffed by volunteer- contributors can outgun Fleet Street.
The story titled: This Facebook comment about Jeremy Corbyn is going viral examines both the general election and the traditional media's approach to it.
The two-way conversations afforded by the social web has meant a shift for PR. It's a shift from SOS comms ('sending out stuff') to pulling intelligence in. From information broadcast to intelligence acquisition.
Once inside the firm PR practitioners help ensure the right areas of the business have access to this intelligence and so make the right decisions.
This doesn't mean flip-flopping on strategy. It does mean having a strategy flexible enough to identify, then embrace, opportunities and threats outside and within the firm and act appropriately.
The social web allows, even demands, direct communication. Business leaders and politicians should ditch the corporate speak and communicate directly with a human voice. Not through unions, or consumer groups or associations.
Business and political leaders should interact often, too. But in a meaningful way. Not by imploring us to follow or like them. But by answering our questions. By solving our problems.
Craig Oliver, who until last year was Downing Street's director of communications under David Cameron, told BuzzFeed News that a major media transition is underway and the Conservatives don't understand how to adapt their message. "A lot of traditional journalism is in transmission-only mode," he said. "You need to find ways to listen and engage.
Oliver is convinced there is a chronic lack of understanding of the scale of the problem in the Conservative party: "I do think there's a narrowing window of opportunity if you remain stuck on just trying to transmit through traditional forms of media. It's not either/or, it's both/and.
In today's world of choice having engaged consumers is far more valuable to brands, firms and political parties than having merely satisfied ones. This takes a community.
Take a look at the two Twitter profiles above. Don't worry about the follower count for a moment. Instead, check out how many people each of them is following.
Sure, it's a dumb point I'm making. It's a style point. But, optics are important. Change needs to be lead from the top.


Weight loss does not have to be a constant struggle. There is a better way, and Clare found it.
I am really bad with word limits, here is my story (the long version). Feel free to edit it to suit your site. A huge thank you for your site, it was how I found out about LCHF and anyone who asks me how I lost 66 pounds (30 kg) gets directed straight to dietdoctor.com.
For as long as I can remember, even into my childhood, I always remember being overweight, and I always remember feeling like I had weight to lose. I don't remember exactly when I started dieting, but it was probably early adolescence. I was definitely very aware of my weight and what I was eating by the time that I started high school (1989).
I spent twenty years of my life essentially on some sort of diet or attempt to lose weight, and some would work for a short time, but then the weight would creep back, often with a bit extra. I felt very much like the "glutton and sloth". It wasn't that I didn't know the "right" things to be eating. I was following the "conventional wisdom" of the dietary guidelines most of the time but essentially was very much feeling like a "glutton" and a "sloth", at my heaviest (non-pregnant) I weighed around 265 lbs (120 kg). I'm not saying I ate perfectly all the time. I would get frustrated and I figured that if I was going to work hard and still be overweight, I may as well eat to my appetite (which was best described as ravenous) and enjoy my chocolate and other assorted goodies and be overweight.
In Spring 2012, over twenty years since I had begun 'dieting", I began to limit fructose, forms of sugar and nut and seed oils, after reading David Gillespie's Sweet Poison and watching Robert Lustig's YouTube video Sugar: The Bitter Truth. I felt liberated by the information. I had spent twenty years of my life ashamed of what I looked like and fearful that strangers in the street would look at me and think that I was a "glutton" and a "sloth". Suddenly I realised that it wasn't a weakness on my part. I was doing the best that I could with the information that I had available to me, I just hadn't accessed the right information until then.
When I eliminated sugar, within two weeks my appetite was under control. I was no longer ravenous all the time and as promised by David Gillespie in his book, a block of chocolate was no more appealing to me than a plate of broccoli. I began to read more and more about limiting sugar and stumbled into the world of low-carb high-fat through Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt's site www.dietdoctor.com. In July 2013 I began my LCHF journey, eliminating sugar had been really difficult, although very worthwhile, limiting all carbohydrates with the addition of healthy fats was much easier, I never felt deprived and it was effortless, and that was when the weight really just fell off. I lost 10 lbs (4 kg) in the first week and about 5 lbs (2 kg) a week after that. I didn't exercise at all in the beginning, eventually I felt more and more energetic and I wanted to move, so I just went for the occasional walk. To date I have reduced my body weight by 66 lbs (30 kg).
When I first started adding all those good fats back to my diet, people were really concerned and thought I was crazy (some still do) but as soon as they noticed the change in my body composition, they began to pay attention. I have to admit that LCHF has taken over my life somewhat, it has become a huge passion. I am like a sponge eagerly devouring all the latest information. LCHF worked for me because after the first week or so, it is so simple to stick to, which means that I have easily adopted it as a lifestyle; a way to eat for the rest of my life. At first I was really strict with myself and didn't stray very far, these days I am a little more relaxed, sometimes more than others, but I don't feel badly about it, I have come to realise that it is not about being perfect all the time, and mostly I just make the best choice that I have available, or if I really stray off track I just acknowledge it for what it is and move on.
LCHF has directed me towards a primal lifestyle approach to my life. I have relocated out of Sydney to Wodonga in North East Victoria where I have the luxury of a backyard where my chickens free range on my grass and give me the most beautiful pastured eggs, I can walk to work and I enjoy long walks in the nearby hills surrounded by nature. I know when I go to the farmer's market the produce is local and I actually talk to the farmers about how they produce their livestock. A few months ago I even began running, something that I never thought that I would do, but it turns out I absolutely love it, I even competed in a recent mud run challenge with my colleagues from work and am looking forward to my first 6 miles (10 km) run in February 2015!
LCHF has become so much more than a "diet". It is not only a lifestyle, it has become a passion. I spend hours and hours each week reading and researching more and more about nutrition. I want others to know that have challenges with their weight and their health that they don't have to, that there is an answer that works and respects the physiology of their body. In my work as a Registered Midwife I am always trying to provide women with the right environment to allow the normal physiology of their bodies to work to birth their babies. I think that our body composition is the same, if we provide the right environment with the right food, our bodies can work in the way they are supposed to and not be burdened with diseases related to obesity.
I am really excited to get the message out there; the change that I have experienced for myself and the information that I have learnt has inspired me to help others too. I have started a health coaching business to provide individual information and support and in 2015 I am teaching a short course at my local community college to teach others about this way to optimal health and wellbeing. I am not an "expert" by conventional standards, I am not a dietician or a doctor, I am however a tertiary educated Registered Nurse and Midwife who understands anatomy and physiology and knows how to critically read and analyse research papers and evaluate evidence, all of which lead me to follow a LHCF lifestyle where I am now experiencing a healthy body composition with excellent health. Most importantly I am just a person who knows what it is like to struggle trying to lose weight following conventional wisdom and I want others who are in the same situation I was to know that it doesn't have to be hard or a constant struggle, there is a better way!
It is a revolution! I wish I'd known sooner. You look great! Well done.
Great story Clare. Well done!
How familiar. I've struggled with hunger all my life, willing myself from eating moment to eating moment until at 35 I read Atkins' book. It has been nothing short from life-changing for me. I also had eczema and I tried so many medications and natural remedies but never did I think my basic nutrition could have anything to do with it. Finally I actually noticed a change. In a few months my eczema almost disappeared and I could go hours without food easily.
Now I read up everything I can on a daily basis about LCHF and primal eating but also about primal living. Luckily I can still look at information critically and make up my own mind, but it is absolutely shocking how many guidelines are based on questionable "science" in so many area's. I'm in my last weeks of my first pregnancy now and I kept eating LCHF. Friends have expressed concerns and urged me to take extra tests. But every test I do has excellent results. I also (still) feel excellent, energetic, happy, not naucious, low blood pressure, good weight, excellent iron, excellent blood glucose (of course).
I'm also reading up as much as I can about neurological deseases and LCHF, tooth decay (and healing!) and LCHF, eyesight and LCHF, bone development (like cramped teeth and narrow hips) and LCHF (Weston Price). And also the best way to give birth.
Since eating like this, my eyesight has actually gotten better by 2 points, I've lost fat and gained muscle without exercise. I try to pass the message to everyone I can. It's hard when your country's nutritional board says the opposit. Also people try to sabotage you. The thing I get the most is: "Oh come one, one cookie won't hurt you!" Yes, it will. I will be hungry for hours after that and my beloved ketosis will be ruined for a day.
Your story is so much like mine that we could be twins! Love hearing how another person has walked the walk of shame and guilt for years and then found redemption in HFLC foods. I thank God everyday that I have lived long enough to finally be given the correct means of losing weight. I no longer feel incompetent, not smart enough, not strong enough, etc. because I once weighed 318 lbs. and now weight 134 due to HFLC eating. Thank you for your story and thank you, Dr. Eenfeldt, for your website and You Tube videos!
Wonderful story or actually it is not a story, it is your wonderful life. Congratulations on your new life style.
Like many others, your success story starts with a description of your initial problems. Reading that makes me wish I could sue those low fat promoters (and in particular the American Diabetes Association) out of existence. But by the end of the story I enjoy your success and enthusiasm and mellow out. Mistakes were made but now let's just move on now.
Oh by the way you may enjoy the film Fed Up. I assume it is available in Australia. The movie looks into the life of four young (10 to 15 years old) obese kids. It shows how hard they work and how painfully aware they are of the glutton and sloth theory. Lustig and Taubes, among others, help clarify the problems with sugar and the damage done with blaming innocent kids.
I have been following this lifestyle for over 40 years. There was a low carb diet that preceded Atkins a long time ago. Started LCHF and have never regretted it. 64 years old and still size 10. No jogging suits and elastic waist bands for me ever! Thanks for sharing your story and the wisdom that you have gained. You look fantastic!
Congratulations. Pam: That's funny, "No jogging suits and elastic bands..." I'm trying to get that visual out of my head, but it's too funny.
Just yesterday I was thinking how I would like to wake up slim the next morning! After I said that aloud it got me thinking why would I want such a miracle to happen? And I realized that it is really too late to start my career in fashion industry (not that I ever wanted one) and that I love myself any shape or size as long as I am healthy and productive. That is basically all that is important to me. I have not lost any weight on a LCHF diet. I must be the only person that achieved a steady weight no matter what I did to my diet... but this diet did make me feel better and energized and that is ultimately what I want for myself.
Clare we have also lived the same life . I to am finally taking the LCHF seriously . I have lost weight and inches and feel 100% better . I try and pass on the info but all I get is that "Deer in the headlight" look from ppl . Its so frustrating that they still want to keep eating Low fat when they could be eating butter and bacon,, I don't get it . but I am moving forward with my new WOE and will never look back. If friends or Family want o Jump on I will help and guide. But I cannot wait for them any longer I am on my way to a better life . Woo hoo,, congrats to you all as well and Kudos to us for getting away from that traditional line of Bull crap .


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Q: Simulate a4 page in html PHP LOOP I want to create a loop that when it reaches 20th, just create a new page, then, again a new page and so until the cycle is done.
I have 5rows 4 columns (5x4 = 20 labels per page)
The peculiarity is that I have four prices and the number of labels depends on the total number. I give an example.
I have columns broi, price1, price2, price3, price4
With sample data:

broi: 90
price1: 4.85
price2: 7.90
price3: 9.30
price4: 11.10

We divide (broi)90/4 and we get that from 1 price we have to have 22.5, for example:

price1: 4,85 - 22pcs
price2: 7.90 - 24pcs
price3: 9.30 - 22pcs
price4: 11.10 - 22pcs
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My php code is:
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A: If you set the labels as divs with css display: inline-block instead of using a table, the browser itself will reflow the elements to fit on each page.

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After Years of Being Bashed, Media Start to Bash Themselves
ISSUES PRESS JOURNALISTS
By Alexandra Marks Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
January 30, 1996 | NEW YORK
WHEN then-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew blasted the media elite as "nattering nabobs of negativism," it was dismissed by much of the press as a cheap political shot. At the time, it may have been.
But in the intervening two decades, the American news media have undergone a transformation. The press is slicker and more sensational, cynical, and celebrity-driven than before. Scholars who track it say it also has grown much more opinionated.
Now, with public respect at low level, newspaper readership and network news audiences steadily declining, the media have begun looking in the mirror. And some are horrified by what they see: a reflection of Mr. Agnew's nattering nabobs staring back at them.
"It does seem that others in the professions are waking up to the fact that we've become our own worst enemy," says Howard Kurtz, the media reporter for The Washington Post. "To the extent that people are tuning out from the mainstream media, we bear most of the responsibility."
Mr. Kurtz's new book, "Hot Air: All Talk All the Time" (Times Books) hit the newsstands last week. Just days before, his colleague James Fallows rattled the media with his latest book, "Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy" (Pantheon Books).
Both say the press has given in to sensationalism, to catchy, vacuous sound-bites, and to a seeming obsession with political gamesmanship that doesn't mean much to most Americans.
"What I think is most destructive to the prospects for reasonable government is the instinctive concept that news is squabbling among politicians," says Mr. Fallows, the Washington correspondent of The Atlantic Monthly magazine and a National Public Radio commentator. "It's destructive because the message it gives out is that these guys are all just pro wrestlers trying to get different grappling holds on one another, so what's the point of even being involved in public affairs?"
For many media critics, these are not new laments. But coming as the 1996 campaign is heating up and from within the media, they are viewed as refreshing.
"It's the mandarins turning against the house," says Syracuse (N.Y.) University professor Tom Patterson, whose book "Out of Order" (Vintage, 1994) outlined the media's fall into a kind of cynical, self-absorbed punditry. For decades, academics like Professor Patterson have raised alarms about the media's transformation into an elite club of political commentators that give the play-by-play of the Washington game while eschewing efforts to regularly explain the more complex issues.
"American public life is in trouble," says Ellen Hume, a reporter-turned-academic at the Annenberg Washington Program, a Washington-based think tank. "And journalists who could help are often doing more harm than good."
That contention and other criticism upsets many journalists. "I've spent my life trying to educate and inform people, trying to make Washington make sense to them," says one prominent reporter who declined to respond on the record.
There are plenty of examples of high-quality journalism. In fact, almost every major media outlet can point to a list of in-depth, informative, and well-balanced stories that grapple with difficult issues.
But there is also a solid body of evidence that indicates overall trends in the media are short-changing public debate.
A 1992 study found that the length of time television news allowed a politician to speak in his or her own words dropped from an average of 43 seconds in 1968 to just nine seconds in 1988.
A new study found that network-news coverage of presidential elections has shrunk by more than one-quarter from 1968 to 1992. Not only was there less news about who wanted to run the country, but the amount of time that politicians were allowed to speak also dropped by almost half. At the same time, reporters were on the air three times as often.
"In 1968, journalists often began and ended their reports with factual information," says Catherine Steele, a professor at Syracuse University and co-author of the new study. "By 1992, they started off with opinion as often as fact, and they ended with a personal judgment of some kind 90 percent of the time."
That trend has helped create the celebrity journalists on weekend talk-shows. There, journalists debate the news of the week in a jocular fashion that is designed more to entertain than to inform.
"What's rewarded are extreme views and flamboyant personalities that shed very little light on the issues facing the country," says media reporter Kurtz.
Mr. Fallows says that such shows further undermine the press's credibility by making journalists hot items on the lucrative, special-interest lecture circuit. While he acknowledges money doesn't necessarily influence any reporter's work, he says it creates the same appearance of a conflict of interest that tars Washington politicians.
"But what I find most egregious in a personal way is the pomposity with which people I know spout off for profit on things they don't know about," Fallows says. "The whole rent-a-pundit industry is really corrosive to such authority as the business still has."
Academics have also tracked the blurring of the line between the establishment prestige press and the sensational tabloids.
"First the National Enquirer shows up on the CBS Evening News in the famous Gary Hart photo; now it shows up quoted in The New York Times," says Robert Lichter, co-author of "Good Intentions Make Bad News" (Cowman & Littlefield, 1995).
Ms. Hume attributes the trend, in part, to the new, highly competitive environment. "One response has been to 'go tabloid' in a panic and try to reach for an audience that is leaving by grabbing them," she says. "It's basically 'news as voyeur entertainment' rather than 'news as something that you as a citizen are affected by.'"
Almost all the pundits agree the media have to take a hard look at themselves and make some substantive changes. Fallows compares it to the challenge faced by the United States military 15 years ago when it went through a painful soul-searching in order to regain its sense of values and credibility after the Vietnam War.
Such a process is already under way in local news, where a controversial movement called "civic" or "public" journalism is growing. There, reporters work to encourage civic action. When done well, advocates say, it increases voter turnout and community involvement. Critics are concerned that it prompts journalists to cross the line of objectivity, which could further damage the press's credibility..
"There are of course dangers in doing the news differently," Fallows says. "But my bottom line is that the dangers of keeping on the way we're going are much worse than trying something new."
Howard Kurtz fired? Why the columnist is leaving The Daily Beast.
A yearning for wholeness in local news
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https://www.csmonitor.com/1996/0130/30013.html


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BPG Members: Have you seen anything good on the telly this year?
December 17, 2012 By Neil Midgley
Filed Under: Members' Area
Invitation to broadcasters to suggest programmes and talent
December 4, 2012 By Neil Midgley
Changes in the BPG Awards for 2013
(Nominees must be from programmes aired in calendar year 2012)
The BPG Awards have always been both nominated and awarded based on the views of our expert membership, and this will continue to be the case. But from the 2013 Awards (ie now) onwards, the BPG is soliciting suggestions from broadcasters of their best programmes (or talent) in each category.
This will help to ensure that no programme is accidentally overlooked, and that different (especially smaller) broadcasters are properly represented. A broadcaster's suggestions are not 'entries', as with some other awards ceremonies. In particular, a broadcaster's suggested list is simply that, suggestions to BPG Nominations Committee, which is composed entirely of working TV critics.
Suggesting a programme for inclusion costs the broadcasters nothing, and requires only that the programme title, first TX date and channel on which it first aired be sent back to me by email (see above). There is no need for any viewing material or any supporting text, to be supplied. However, if broadcasters want to include a short blurb and a link to a promo on YouTube, they will be accepted.
What Broadcasters need to do now
Please read the criteria below, and check that any programmes you wish to enter are eligible. For each category in which your organisation wishes to make suggestions, please email
with no more than five suggestions for each channel that you broadcast.
Please also email me if you have any concerns about the category into which a particular programme fits.
While we are not actively soliciting suggestions from production companies, we'll be happy to consider any that are put forward.
I'll need to have your suggestions before the Christmas break.
General criteria for entry in the BPG Awards
Programmes must have been commissioned by, and produced for, a UK television channel. Co-productions are eligible; acquisitions are not.
The programme episodes that are suggested must have been broadcast for the first time in calendar 2012. Returning series are eligible, so long as they broadcast new episodes in calendar 2012.
Programmes should be suggested in the category into which they best fit, regardless of which genre team was responsible for commissioning them.
Suggestions for the actor, actress, writer and breakthrough awards must stem from programmes that fulfil the above criteria.
BPG AWARDS 2013
INDIVIDUAL AWARD CRITERIA
Best Comedy or Entertainment
This award is for comedy and entertainment programmes, both scripted and unscripted, and includes both series and one-offs. Competitive entertainment programmes fit in this category, if they are judged on the basis of performance (such as singing or dancing). Factual entertainment programmes have their own category (see below).
Best Factual Entertainment
This award is for factual entertainment series, which are usually formatted. They may include a competitive element, but for skills other than pure performance.
Best Single Documentary
This award is for one-off documentary films, including current affairs programmes. Single films broadcast as part of a strand (eg Panorama, Storyville, Exposure, Cutting Edge) should be suggested in this category.
Best Documentary Series
This award is for documentary series that consist of two or more programmes, and which have been broadcast separately from a pre-existing strand. Individual films from pre-existing strands should be suggested in the Best Single Documentary category.
Best Single Drama
This award is for scripted drama programmes that consist of only one film, broadcast continuously on one occasion.
Best Drama Series
This award is for scripted drama programmes, whether series or serials, that consist of more than one episode.
This award is for the most outstanding male actor across television output for the whole of the year. Individual actors may be cited for more than one series, and for series on different channels.
This award is for the most outstanding female actor across television output for the whole of the year. Individual actresses may be cited for more than one series, and for series on different channels.
Best Writer
This award is for the most outstanding writer of scripted television across the whole of the year. Individual writers may be cited for more than one series, and for series on different channels
Best Multichannel Programme
This award is for programmes that were first broadcast on, and commissioned principally for, a channel not wholly owned by a public service broadcaster. For example, UKTV channels are eligible, but BBC3 and E4 are not.
Breakthrough Award
This award is designed to spark the imagination. It is for an individual who has truly made a breakthrough in their work in television during 2012, whether on screen or off, and whether a newly discovered talent or not. Wide-ranging suggestions are welcome
Filed Under: Awards Latest
Martin Jackson Funeral Details
January 5, 2010 By Neil Midgley
As you know, the sad news of Martin's death was announced just after Christmas. There is a tribute on the BPG website and you are invited to submit your own recollections there.
Martin's funeral will be on Thursday January 14, 2010, at 15.30, at Hastings Crematorium, The Ridge, Hastings, East Sussex, TN34 2AE. And afterwards at Martin's home at Hawkhurst, Kent. More details are available from his daughter Rebekah by Email or on 01580 753624. If you can, please let Rebekah know if you are likely to attend afterwards.
Family flowers only please. Donations to Hospice in the Weald via KB
Sills funeral directors on 01580 712284.
Filed Under: Obituaries


Greetings from E Street celebrates the passionately loved group that has been entertaining the world for 35 years. Written with their cooperation, this fully illustrated informal biography combines rare photographs with 30 removable facsimiles of E Street memorabilia, including Bruce Springsteen's first business card and hand-written set list, and even two fabulous posters.
The information about Greetings from E Street shown above was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's online-magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high-profile books publishing in the coming weeks. In most cases, the reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. If you are the publisher or author of this book and feel that the reviews shown do not properly reflect the range of media opinion now available, please send us a message with the mainstream media reviews that you would like to see added.


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The Big Think recently interviewed clinical psychologist Dr. Meg Jay and published the article "Thirty Is Not the New Twenty: Why Your 20s Matter." The point? It's easy for us to dismiss our 20s as times when we get to have fun and figure out who we are without consequences. But the real truth is, your 20s will set you up for future success and are incredibly important to determining how you will live in the future.
80% of life's most defining moments take place by about age 35. 2/3 of lifetime wage growth happens during the first ten years of a career. More than half of Americans are married or are dating or living with their future partner by age 30. Personality can change more during our 20s than at any other decade in life. Female fertility peaks at 28. The brain caps off its last major growth spurt.
Use your time 9-5 seriously. Sure, you want to go out and have fun and meet your future spouse. But do it after hours. Part of using your 20s wisely is to really find balance. When you're at work, be at work, and take it seriously.
Don't be afraid to change rapidly. One of the most interesting statistics Dr. Jay sites is that 2/3 of your lifetime wage growth happens in your 20s. That's huge! In that pattern, you shouldn't be afraid to move around if you need to in order to get ahead. Move jobs to get a raise if you can't get one where you are. You will change quickly in your 20s.
Find the "five year guide" mentor. We talked a few weeks ago about the three mentor The Daily Muse recommends you find. If you know where you want to be in five years and find someone who is already there, you'll be steps ahead of others in making the right choices to get there.
Worry about you first, the spouses and friends will follow. I find that many 20-something women are focused on finding a husband. And take it from someone who's had two, the person you find when you're focusing on yourself is better a thousand times over than the one you find when you're focusing on him! Love yourself, focus on your career, and trust me, you'll find the right person for you somewhere in the middle.
Don't throw away your 20s. They're more important than you think. Read the full article from The Big Think and Dr. Meg Jay by clicking here. And if you're still looking for resources as to how to get ahead in your 20s and focus on what you need to have a successful 20-something experience, here are a few ideas.
The book "20 Something, 20 Everything: A Quarter-Life Woman's Guide to Balance and Direction" by Christine Hassler.
Engage with JB Training Solutions' Millennials Mean Business program. They have a great blog and resources for millennials in business and those who manage them.
The book "What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self" by Ellen Spragin.


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Houston hospital first in U.S. to try experimental plasma treatment
Steven Devadanam
Mar 31, 2020, 1:06 pm
Houston Methodist is the first academic hospital in the country to use a new plasma infusion treatment against COVID-19. Photo by Getty Images
A major Houston hospital is spearheading a crucial treatment in the ongoing battle against COVID-19.
Houston Methodist is the first academic medical center in the nation to be approved by the FDA to transfuse donated plasma from a recovered COVID-19 patient into a critically ill patient.
The experimental treatment was fast-tracked as the death toll in the coronavirus pandemic soared to more than 2,000 people across the United States and more than 100,000 Americans sick from the virus, according to a statement.
The concept of the treatment centers around the idea that plasma from someone who has recovered from COVID-19 contains antibodies made by the immune system and used to kill the virus. Transfusing antibody-rich plasma into a COVID-19 patient who is still fighting the virus may transfer the power of the antibodies into a healing, possibly life-saving therapy, per the hospital.
Donating plasma is similar to donating blood and takes about an hour, according to Methodist. Plasma donors are hooked up to a small device that removes plasma while simultaneously returning red blood cells to their bodies. Unlike regular blood donation in which donors have to wait for red blood cells to replenish between donations, plasma can be donated more frequently, as often as twice a week.
Known as convalescent serum therapy, the concept dates back more than a century, when similar treatments were used during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, a diphtheria outbreak in the 1920s, a flesh-eating bacteria epidemic in the 1930s, and during other outbreaks of infectious diseases.
Most recently, a description of the treatment of five patients in China was published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggesting that the treatment was beneficial.
According to Methodist, scientists there recruited blood plasma donors from among approximately 250 patients who have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus at Houston Methodist hospitals. Willing donors were immediately identified; each gave a quart of blood plasma in a procedure much like donating whole blood.
The first recovered COVID-19 patient to donate plasma was an individual from the Houston metropolitan area who has been in good health for more than two weeks, according to the hospital. The plasma was then transfused into a COVID-19 patient at Houston Methodist.
Houston Methodist's convalescent serum therapy treatment is classified as an "emergency investigational new drug protocol" that requires FDA approval for each patient infused with donated convalescent serum, according to the hospital. Houston Methodist physician scientists will continue to seek additional FDA approval for follow-up studies, as time is of the essence.
"Convalescent serum therapy could be a vital treatment route, because unfortunately there is relatively little to offer many patients except supportive care, and the ongoing clinical trials are going to take a while," says Dr. Eric Salazar, principal investigator and a physician scientist in the Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine at the Houston Methodist Hospital and Research Institute, in a statement. "We don't have that much time."
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SinusAI, which helps to detect sinus-related diseases in CT scans, received its CE Mark — the European equivalent of FDA approval — last year and is being sold across the Atlantic today, says Havelka. He adds that in the United States alone, there are roughly 700,000 sinus surgeries that the product is positioned to support.
Another product, RadOnc-AI, is designed to help doctors prescribe radiation dose plans for head and neck cancers.
"Ideally the perfect plan would be to provide radiation to the tumor and nothing around it," says Havelka. "We've built a product, RadOnc-AI, which autogenerates the dose treatment plan based on medical images of that patient."
It can be an hours-long process for doctors to figure out the path and dose of radiation themselves, but the new product "can build that initial pass in about five minutes," Havelka says.
That in itself is an exciting development, but because this technology was developed using the expertise of some of the world's top oncologists, "the first pass plan is in line with what [patients would] get at tier-one institutions," explains Havelka. This creates "tremendous equity" among patients who can afford to travel to major facilities and those that can't.
To that end, RadOnc-AI was recently awarded a $1.55 million grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, or CPRIT, a state agency that funds cancer research. The Radiological Society of North America announced late last year that InformAI was named an Aunt Minnie Best of Radiology Finalist.
"It's quite prestigious for our company," says Havelka. Other recent laurels include InformAI being named one of the 10 most promising companies by the Texas Life Science Forum in November.
And InformAI is only gaining steam. A third product is earlier in its stage of development. TransplantAI will optimize donor organ and patient recipient matches.
"A lot of organs are harvested and discarded," Havelka says.
His AI product has been trained on a million donor transplants to help determine who is the best recipient for an organ. It even takes urgency into account, based on a patient's expected mortality within 90 days. The product is currently a fully functional prototype and will soon move through its initial regulatory clearances.
The company — currently backed by three VC funds, including DEFTA Partners, Delight Ventures, and Joyance Partners — is planning to do another seed round in Q2 of 2023.
"We've been able to get recognized for digital health products that can be taken to market globally," says Havelka.
But what he says he's most excited about is the social impact of his products. With more money raised, InformAI will be able to speed up development of additional products, including expanding the cancers that the company will be targeting. And with that, more and more patients will one day be treated with the highest level of care.
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