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Auguste Fickert (born 25 May 1855, Vienna - died 9 June 1910, Maria Enzersdorf, Austria) was a pioneering Austrian feminist and social reformer.  Her politics were on the left wing of Austrian feminism and she allied with proletarian organizations in campaigns  around education and legal protection for working-class women.

Life
Fickert was the daughter of Wilhelm Fickert, a Viennese court printer, and his wife Louise. She had a sister, Marianne, and two brothers, Emil and Willy.  She attended the Englisher Fraulein convent school from 1869 and then the Lehrerinnen- Bildungsanstalt St Anna, a teacher training college, from which she graduated with honours in 1876.

She began to teach that same year at a girls' school in the Schulegasse of Vienna. Fickert was a teacher for all her professional life. She left the Catholic Church in 1893 and publicly criticized the religious basis of school instruction in Austria at that time.  As a result, she endured vitriolic attacks by the clerical (and anti-Semitic) Christian Social Party which continued throughout her life.

Her first public political act was to organize a petition against the disfranchisement of women voters in government elections in Lower Austria which followed a political reorganization in the region in 1889. She collected over 1000 signatures from women protesting at their loss of the right to vote granted in 1862. Nevertheless, the measure went ahead. This began her career as campaigner for universal women's suffrage in Austria. She was also active in campaigns to unionize women civil servants and for better treatment of prostitutes.

Auguste Fickert co-founded the Allgemeiner Österreichischer Frauenverein (General Austrian Women's Association) in 1893.<ref name="de Haan">Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms..' 2006</ref> This organization campaigned for the improvement of proletarian women's lives. It was the most radical of the feminist organizations in Austria at that time. She was editor of its publications, the Dokumente der Frauen (Documents of Women) and Neues  Frauenleben (New Woman's Life). In 1897 she became the organization's director. She worked closely with a friend Marie Lang but a falling-out and public argument caused her to relinquish her roles in the papers to Lang. Her intransigent nature contributed to this failure to work jointly with other women. Thereafter she was an inspirational  figurehead to the women's movement in Austria. In 1902 Fickert started a magazine which she called Neues Frauenleben'' with Leopoldine Kulka as its editor. Kulka was a historian of literature and the first woman lecturer at the University of Vienna.

Her close companion and friend through her adult life was Ida Baumann, also a teacher, who shared her early steps into political action and remained close to her all her life. Baumann avoided the limelight and did not achieve the fame of Fickert.  At the end of her life, Fickert was involved with the Einküchenhaus (one-kitchen house),  a housing cooperative for professional women.

In 1910, aged 55, Fickert suffered internal pain attributed to organ failure and died on 9 June at a sanatorium in Maria Ensedorf, Lower Austria. She is buried in the Neustift am Walde cemetery in Vienna.

Honors

In 1929, the sculptor Franz Seifert created  a memorial to her. This is now located at the Türkenschanzpark in Währing, Vienna and this includes the inscription: "Full of courage and energy she sacrificed her life to high ideals."

The Fickertgasse, a street in Vienna, was named after her in 1926.

Notes

References
  Fickert,  Auguste 1855 - 1910  at Ariadne web (Translated from German ), Archive of Obituaries and News articles. Accessed March 2010.

Bibliography
 Weiner Stadt- und Landesbibliothek, Handschiftensammlung, August Flickert: Manuscripts including her diary 1871/72-1910 (124 pp.) and c. 2000 unpublished letters.
 Flich, Renate. "Der Fall Auguste Flickert-eine Lehrerin macht Schlagzeilen" (The case of Auguste Flickert- A woman teacher makes the headlines). Wiener Geschichtsblatter 45, no. 1 (1990): 1-24.
 Hacker, Hanna. "Wer gewinnt? Wer verliert? Wer tritt aus dem Schatten? Machtkampfe und Beziehungsstrukturen nach dem Tod der 'groben Feministin' August Fickert (1910)" (Who will win? Who will lose? Who steps out of the shadow? Power struggles and relations after the death of the 'great feminist' Auguste Fickert, 1910). L'Homme-Zeitschrift fur Feministische Geschichtwsissenschaft 7, no. 1 (1996): 97-106.
 Anderson, Harriet. Utopian Feminism. Women's Movements in fin-de-siecle Vienna. New Haven-London: Yale University Press, 1992.
 Hacker, Hanna. "Zeremonien der Verdrängung: Konfliktmuster in der bürgerlichen Frauenbewegung um 1900" (Ceremonies of suppression: conflict patterns in the bourgeois women's movement about 1900). In Lisa Fischer and Emil Brix, eds. Die Frauen der Wiener Modern (The women of Viennese modernism). Vienne-Munich: Verlag fur Geschichte und Politik und Oldenbourg Verlag, 1977, 101-109.

1855 births
1910 deaths
Austrian magazine founders
19th-century Austrian people
Austrian women journalists
Austrian women writers
Writers from Vienna
Austrian socialist feminists
Austrian socialists
Austrian women's rights activists
19th-century Austrian journalists


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G7 Finance Meetings | Road to the 2020 G7 U.S. Summit
Ransomware Annex to G7 Statement
Washington DC, October 13, 2020
See G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors' Statement on Digital Payments
The G7 expresses its concern over the use of malicious cyber-attacks, especially ransomware. Ransomware attacks against hospitals, financial institutions, schools, and other critical infrastructure in G7 countries have been growing in scale, sophistication, and frequency. Attacks have intensified in the last two years, and illicit actors have exploited the pandemic to conduct ransomware attacks. For many companies, ransomware causes significant economic damage and threatens customer protection and data privacy. Ransomware attackers demand payments primarily in virtual assets to facilitate money laundering. The payment of ransoms demanded by these criminals can incentivize further malicious cyber activity; benefit malign actors and fund illicit activities; and present a risk of money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing (ML/TF/PF), and other illicit financial activity. In some cases, this activity occurs without victims even achieving a return to normalcy.
We call upon all countries to effectively implement the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) standards to reduce criminals' access to and exploitation of financial services, particularly the updated FATF standards on virtual assets. We welcome the continued work of the FATF to address risks posed by those assets and other emerging technologies, while recognizing opportunities they may offer.
The G7 will enhance its efforts at coordinated responses to ransomware, including where possible information sharing, economic measures, and support for effective implementation of the FATF standards.
I. Threat
The financial services sector has become an attractive target for ransomware attacks, and financial institutions have reported increased sophistication in malicious cyber-enabled attacks in recent months. Some prominent strains of ransomware have been linked to groups that are vulnerable to influence by state actors.
Examples demonstrate that virtual assets play an important role in most ransomware attacks. In instances where the victim does not own enough virtual assets to pay the ransom, the victim will often send funds via wire transfer, automated clearinghouse, or credit card payment to an exchange to purchase the type and amount designated in the ransom demand. From there the victim will send the virtual asset, often from a wallet hosted at the exchange, to the criminal- designated account or address.
The COVID-19 pandemic has expanded opportunities for ransomware attackers. Phishing emails using COVID-19-related subject lines or content are the latest method to get targets to click on ransomware links. Threat actors deploying ransomware also use fraudulent notifications for updates delivered through email or a compromised website to trick users into downloading the malware.
Ransomware attacks can impose devastating consequences on victims and those that depend on them. Not only can the financial costs be high, but the disruption to critical sectors, including financial services and healthcare, as well as the exposure of confidential information, can cause severe damage. The payment of ransom may encourage future ransomware payment demands, especially against the victim or type of victim that has proven profitable in the past.
Ransomware is primarily a profit-seeking endeavor, and its purveyors generally focus on the most lucrative targets, such as those with significant sources of funding or those with limited cyber security protection.
Ransomware attackers are criminals, many of whom are involved in transnational organized crime groups, and a received ransom payment constitutes criminal proceeds. Those criminals that have employed the use of malware may also be linked to states seeking to evade sanctions. Ransomware proceeds could also be used to finance terrorism once they have been converted into anonymously-held funds by a victim payment into an unidentified virtual asset wallet. If employed by a state-sponsored or linked actor, ransomware payments could offer a possible profit source to finance the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
II. G7 Efforts to Combat Ransomware
Noting the seriousness of the money laundering and terrorist financing threats of ransomware, in addition to the other dangers it poses, the G7 commits to coordinated action to address and mitigate this threat.
The G7 is committed to working with our financial sectors to combat ransomware. The G7 reminds financial institutions that the payment of ransom entails financial activity and as such is subject to AML/CFT laws and regulations. The G7 notes that even companies whose primary business is not financial services, such as a cyber-incident consulting firm, may fall under the obligations for financial institutions if they provide qualifying services, such as money transfers. The G7 reminds obliged entities, including traditional financial institutions and virtual asset service providers, that their AML/CFT obligations, including those related to customer due diligence, suspicious activity reporting, transaction monitoring and targeted financial sanctions, apply to all financial activity. This includes payments that are indicative of ransomware activity. Financial institutions and the public should be especially alert to prevent sanctions evasion in line with their national legal obligations. Furthermore, it should be noted that a substantial proportion of ransomware attacks are believed to stem from jurisdictions with elevated ML/TF/PF risks and that G7 jurisdictions have imposed targeted financial sanctions on known malicious cyber actors.
The fact that criminals often demand that ransoms be paid in virtual assets is of particular concern to the G7 and magnifies the need for all countries to effectively and expeditiously implement the FATF's standards on virtual assets and virtual asset service providers. The G7 notes the importance of virtual asset service providers having effective programs in line with the FATF standards and national obligations, notably including the need to hold and exchange information about the originators and beneficiaries of virtual asset transfers (i.e., "the travel rule").
G7 jurisdictions will share information related to ransomware threats, including financial intelligence and cyber tactics, techniques, and procedures where possible as appropriate and to the greatest extent possible under applicable law in order to guide coordinated action. This includes, but is not limited to, exploring opportunities for coordinated targeted financial sanctions, consistent with national law and regulation, against ransomware operators and their facilitators and promoting available technical innovations to protect cyber assets. The G7 further commits to lead by example in implementing and encouraging the worldwide implementation of AML/CFT obligations on virtual assets and virtual asset service providers considering that the FATF has updated its standards to clarify their application to virtual assets and virtual asset service providers.
Mitigating the threat before an incident is a key component. Companies need to move beyond traditional perimeter security to defend against ransomware, by employing layered security to prevent, detect, and remediate malicious activity that may be conducted within the network. Companies may also consider altering their own internal response and recovery plans in light of the potential sanctions violations particularly if current plans consider paying a ransom. Additional measures to aid in prevention and mitigation in the event of a ransomware compromise can be found at:
On the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security webpage:
https://cyber.gc.ca/en/guidance/ransomware-how-prevent-and-recover-itsap00099.
On the dedicated ransomware page of the French website of the Agence Nationale de Sécurité des Systémes d'information (ANSSI): https://www.ssi.gouv.fr/actualite/ne-soyez-plus-otage-des-rancongiciels/.
Information on the cooperation with financial supervisors can be found here or here.
On the German Federal Office for Information Security ransomware webpage:
https://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Themen/Cyber-Sicherheit/Empfehlungen/Ransomware/Ransomware_node.html
On the following webpage: https://csirt.gov.it/
https://www.commissariatodips.it/notizie/articolo/campagna-no-more-ransom/index.html
On the Japan National Police Agency Cybercrime Project webpage:
https://www.npa.go.jp/cyber/ransom/index.html.
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/mitigating-malware-and-ransomware-attacks
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/bring-your-own-device-the-new-normal
On the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security ransomware webpage:
https://us-cert.cisa.gov/Ransomware.
In FinCEN's ransomware advisory:
https://www.fincen.gov/resources/advisories/fincen-advisory-fin-2020-a006
In OFAC's ransomware advisory at:
https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/recent-actions/20201001.
Source: U.S. Treasury Department
This page was last updated October 13, 2020.

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July 26, 2017 (Washington, D.C.) – Today, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Representative Rob Bishop (R-UT) introduced a bipartisan bill that will update processes and policies on our national public lands to improve the outdoor recreation experience. The Recreation-Not-Red-Tape Act (RNR) aims to reduce barriers to outdoor recreation access, and improve public land management for Americans who enjoy skiing, climbing, mountain biking, hiking, fishing, hunting, and paddling on public lands and waters.
Like last year's REC Act, the RNR Act is a commonsense bipartisan plan for improving outdoor recreation on our public lands and growing the outdoor recreation economy. Outdoor Alliance and Outdoor Industry Association are particularly excited by the inclusion of a new organic designation, National Recreation Areas, that will offer tailored management for landscapes with highly valuable outdoor recreation resources.
As outdoor recreation grows in popularity and in economic impact, land management agencies need updated tools to protect and improve access to America's public lands and waters. The RNR Act offers sensible, non-controversial proposals for identifying, protecting, and appropriately managing important places for outdoor recreation.
Two organizations representing climbers also shared their support for. "For climbers, public lands are our nation's greatest asset and where we practice our craft," said Maria Millard, Policy Director for the American Alpine Club. Ensuring access to these lands for human-powered recreation attracts tourism dollars, strengthens communities and enhances quality of life. We support the Recreation-Not-Red Tape Act because by prioritizing recreation values and addressing land management conflicts, more people will be able to enjoy getting out onto our public lands."
Erik Murdock, Policy Director for the Access Fund, a national advocacy organization working to keep climbing areas open and conserved, said, "The Recreation-Not-Red-Tape Act improves access to our public lands and strengthens partnerships that help get Americans outside. This is an important step toward making sure that outdoor recreation is always considered a primary use of our public lands."
Mountain bikers also spoke out in support of the bill: "At a time when mountain biking continues to grow in popularity, it's great to see forward-thinking policy like the Recreation-Not-Red-Tape Act. This bipartisan bill recognizes the value of more flexible land protection designations like National Recreation Areas, the benefits of including "recreation" in the missions of more land management agencies, and how expanding seasonal recreation can strengthen local economies. Ultimately, the Recreation-Not-Red-Tape Act will help improve public access to trails for mountain bikers and other recreationalists," said Aaron Clark of the International Mountain Bicycling Association.
Thomas O'Keefe, Pacific Northwest Stewardship Director of American Whitewater, said, "We are excited with the opportunities this legislation creates to better recognize federal employees who embrace sustainable outdoor recreation on our public lands and work to improve the quality of the user experience. This will promote more partnerships and recognize those federal land managers who encourage efforts to improve the quality of facilities and visitor satisfaction."
"For paddlers, countless rivers flow through public lands and are treasured assets that allow paddlers to explore the magic of America's most revered natural landscapes. It is vital that we work collectively to ensure that the paddling community has access to our public lands. Paddling recreation strengthens local communities, economies, and embraces quality of life. The American Canoe Association supports the Recreation-Not-Red Tape Act because prioritizing recreation values and addressing land management conflicts, allows paddlers access to the rivers, lakes, and seas that exist within our public lands," said Brett Mayer, Policy Chief at the American Canoe Association.
Public lands offer many exceptional opportunities for outdoor recreation, but too often unique or exceptional settings for outdoor recreation are not formally recognized in land use planning. This legislation, including its system of National Recreation Areas, will identify and protect landscapes where sustainable outdoor recreation should be a priority use.
Outdoor Alliance is a nonprofit coalition of organizations that include American Whitewater, American Canoe Association, Access Fund, International Mountain Bicycling Association, Winter Wildlands Alliance, the Mountaineers, and American Alpine Club. Outdoor Alliance has regional networks across the west, including Colorado, that brings together local recreation voices to advocate for public lands. Outdoor Alliance unites backcountry skiers, hikers, paddlers, mountain bikers, boaters, and climbers who share a commitment to protecting public lands. For more information, visit outdooralliance.org.
Want to improve recreation in the Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests?


My tier three research wasn't as much as I would of liked, completion wise, yet that doesn't mean that I hadn't put the time into the work ahead of this.
From my 20 single pieces of research I had refined down to 4 and continued slight more in depth research based on them. The reasoning for selecting these 4 had different meaning behind each.
For this subject, I take it rather personally simply because I am considered to fall under this category myself. That and most people around me in my personal life also fall under it also. As it is personal I can openly say that I notice a bit more in degree with its connections to gaming, that is while trying to avoid sounding prejudice or self-centred. You will hardly find games catered for those who have any of the many disabilities around. Meaning that even thought the games industry may be vast, has put a limitation upon itself for not catering for these people who would and most likely also would show interest in perusing these things we create within said gaming industry.
I do not mean that we don't have any games at all that cater for those with disabilities, but I am saying that there are a few, unlike the many that have very little to no options of alterations to aid these specific group of players.
Though it can be said that some companies and games have begun showing progress in these areas of options, it is something that will indeed take time to fully put into play. Consider even releasing alternative versions, mods or DLC's for people who have specific needs.
This estimation had drawn my interest towards the smaller more dangerous percentages as it seems like I could of had a more refined field of play when it comes to the workload. Example: I knew prior to this research of a fungi that consumed a living host, and would go around attacking (because it was being eaten alive) and infecting anothers by its corpse at the end. Ants being some of the main victums to this fungus because of their instincts to collect food.
With that example lingering in the back of my mind I considered the possabilities of what I could do if I confirmed any more indepth research.
This is something that I believe down the line interests everyone at un-notably most points in their lives, think about it. If your partner or sibling doesn't like your gift you got them then you would be able to hopefully notice from the expressions they produce when it has been viewed for the first time. I was interested in this for something similar down the line. Each person has the base fundamentally shared expressions but down the line each are customised to our own person. This also comes into play depending on the situations you are also having each person experience, some react differently to others in each situation.
Example given: During violent movies with a large amount of gore going on, I tend to laugh and I mean laugh a lot at each thing, yet others around me will either laugh at the sheer amount of laughing (and I laugh oddly, rather evil sounding laugh if I am honest…) or they are having negative responses that they are unable to find humour behind my cackle.
It has been hinted, not confirmed, but hinted that over the last coming years the generations of current are easier to have negative responses to situations that previous generations would simply shrug off. That isn't to say that this could be something different, in the meaning that past generations could of reacted badly to something that current generations are actually accepting towards.
This for some reason is increasingly interesting to me, also to be able to know what peoples reactions are towards what anyone who is creating create correct?
This is a subject that I understood to be rather vast, but the options down the line should be endless because this refers to everything and anything and each aftermath of each things we do. Having yet considered the idea of having this as a main mechanic, I am interested in seeing just how vast this represents despite the sentence I have just mentioned above.
I apprieciate some of the quotes that I had read about the subject over the time I spent looking into it and I believe they maybe some of the main reasons for this selection rather than doing something I vastly have always enjoyed like Greek Gods. Guess i'm learning something new?
Depending on how I actually take this forward, depends on the results I believe I could get from it, that is though am I willing to take the risk of something more challenging than simply going for a theme rather than a situation.


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Jews and Judaism: An Introduction
The identity of contemporary Jews is greatly diverse and consists of various elements including religion, culture and ethnicity. Starting with the present and reaching back towards the past, this course will offer a survey of the various forms of Judaism, the holidays and the liturgy.
The student will gain insight into the ever-changing identities and manifestations of Jews and Judaism.
The student realizes that terms such as religious or secular do not sufficiently cover the varied and ever-changing lifestyles and forms of expression in Judaism.
The student is challenged to think about models used in the study of religion.
The student will be able to distinguish between insider and outsider perspectives.
The student will be introduced to material culture and its importance for the study of religion
The answers to the exam questions should be clearly formulated and well argued.
Timetable Religiewetenschappen Timetable ONOS Timetable MOS Timetable Religion in a changing world
Excursion – compulsory attendance
Films – compulsory attendance
Total course load: 140 hours (5 ecs x 28 hours).
Hours spent on attending lectures and excursion: 2 hours per week x 13 weeks = 26 hours
Hours spent on the excursion: 3 hours
Time for studying the compulsory literature: 53 hours
Time to write a paper (including reading / research) and prepare for the exam: 58 hours
a paper relating to the museum excursion to be handed in mid-semester 40%
written examination with essay questions at the end of the semester 60%
The minimum grade for the paper is 5.5 and for the examination 5. An average of 6 is the minimum passing grade for the course. Rewrites of the paper are to be submitted within 2 weeks after receiving a failing grade.
Students may consult the instructor about the results of their paper and/or exam by appointment.
The final mark for the course is established by determining the weighted average.
Rewrites of the paper are to be submitted within 2 weeks after receiving a failing grade. A resit for the written examination is possible.
Exam review
When and where the exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest.
Blackboard will be used for:
for course information,
the weekly schedule,
reading material.
E. van Voolen, Joods leven thuis en in de synagoge (Parthenon 2011) or H. Goldberg, Jewish Passages. Cycles of Jewish Life (University of California Press 2003) entire book.
M. Satlow, Creating Judaism. History, Tradition, Practice (Columbia University Press 2006) capita selecta
M. Brenner, A Short History of the Jews (Princeton University Press 2010) entire book
These books will be made available on the reserved book shelf in the University Library. However, as Brenner and Van Voolen are to be read in their entirety, students are expected to purchase them. Satlow is available online via internet and Goldberg is available online via the University Library.
Other reading will be assigned and provided on an ad hoc basis via blackboard.
Students are required to register through uSis
Registration Studeren à la carte
Registration Contractonderwijs
All queries should be posed to Drs. S.R. Goldstein via her university email address.
Participation in the excursion to the Jewish Historical Museum as well as attending the film screenings are mandatory.
The Excursion to the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam will take place on Thursday 19 October 2017 at 2.15 pm. More information will be given in the course.
Students are expected to be familiar with Leiden University policies on plagiarism and academic integrity. Plagiarism will not be tolerated. If you submit any work with your name affixed to it, it is assumed to be your own work with all sources used properly indicated and documented in the text (with quotations and/or citations).
The university is committed to supporting and accommodating students with disabilities as stated in the university protocol (especially pages 3-5). Students should contact Fenestra Disability Centre at least four weeks before the start of their courses to ensure that all necessary academic accommodations can be made in time conform the abovementioned protocol.
Dr. S.R. Goldstein
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Midden-Oostenstudies: Israëlstudies Bachelor
Midden-Oostenstudies: Moderne Midden-Oostenstudies Bachelor
Oude Nabije Oosten-studies: Hebreeuws en Aramees Bachelor
Oude Nabije Oosten Studies Bachelor
Religiewetenschappen Bachelor
Religion in a Changing World Minor


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Understanding enzyme could help produce frost-resistant crops
Researchers from The University of Western Australia have found that an enzyme in plants, ATP Synthase, plays a critical role in how plants respond to the cold.
Study compares mandatory vaccination across five countries
A study led by The University of Western Australia has compared different mandatory vaccination policies across five countries – Australia, France, Germany, Italy, and the US (the states of California and Washington) – to better understand the conditions informing the adoption of the policies and how they motivate people to vaccinate.
Congratulations to Assoc/Prof Charlene Kahler and Shakeel Mowlaboccus on the acceptance of their paper on the structure of DsbD in Neisseria by the Journal of Biological Chemistry. This work has been completed as part of an ongoing collaboration with Assoc/Prof Begona Heras at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Assoc/Prof Martin Scanlon Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Melbourne.
The paper will be the cover illustration for the October 2018 issue.
UWA awarded $490,000 to research muscular dystrophy drug
Researchers at The University of Western Australia have been awarded $490,000 by Duchenne UK to investigate the use of an amino acid commonly used in energy drinks as a treatment for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
People affected by mental health at higher risk of poor dental outcomes
Researchers from The University of Western Australia say more needs to be done to help improve the quality of dental health care for people who are affected by mental health issues.
UWA research aims to improve immune therapy for cancer treatment
A student from The University of Western Australia is undertaking innovative research which could have important benefits for cancer patients.
Rachael Zemek, who is in the fourth year of a Doctor of Philosophy, has identified the immunological pathways responsible for a successful anti-tumour immune response, which may then be targeted to improve response rates.
Industry and Innovation Engagement: Convocation IQX Fellowship Winners 2018
The Convocation of UWA Graduates has recognised and awarded two UWA graduates for their entrepreneurial contributions to international innovation.
Old drug could have new use helping sick premature babies
Researchers from The University of Western Australia, King Edward Memorial Hospital and Curtin University are investigating whether an old drug could be used to help very sick premature babies.
Stop teaching kids how to be happy : education expert
A leading educational psychologist is urging schools to stop thinking of wellbeing as another subject to be taught. Instead she is urging them to create healthier schools where students naturally develop wellbeing and a love of learning.
Female guppy fish choose sperm from preferred males
Researchers from The University of Western Australia have found that female guppy fish are highly selective when it comes to choosing the father of their babies.


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UNDP pledges to capacitate Namibian Parliament to implement SDGs
UNDP Resident Representative Alka Bathia
Windhoek – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Thursday pledged to capacitate the Namibian Parliament in its oversight function concerning the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
UNDP Resident Representative Alka Bathia noted the important role that parliament was an indomitable partner in the implementation of SDGs.
"Parliament is a very important partner in terms of implementation of SDGs. Budgets is discussed in parliament. We would want to know to what extent are these budgets responding to the implementation of SDGs.
As you might be aware we are only left with ten years to meet these targets. We are willing to develop tools that will help in the implementation of SDGs in the most cost-effective use of resources and track progress," Bathia said during a meeting with the Speaker of National Assembly Professor Peter Katjavivi.
Katjavivi has expressed the need for Namibian parliament to form an oversight committee to oversee the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.
"We want to engage the UNDP to oversee the whole process. We would want a committee that is capacitated. There is a need to be innovative especially given the precarious situation we find ourselves in," said the Speaker.
He said the committee will not only help meet the SDG targets whose deadline is at the end of 2030 but also support efforts to "alleviate some of the many socio-economic challenges that continue to hamper development".
As a member of the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Katjavivi said Namibia is committed to the implementation of SDGs.
Bathia emphasized that the SDGs online hub platform can provide useful information to parliament. The platform that Namibia launched in February 2020 share information about the progress made about the implementation of SDGs in the country.


This is not like the usual drama, Dr. Ian is a web drama (Naver Star Cast or something like that also Youku) and has 9 episode and only 11 minutes each. I found this drama few days ago and decided to give it a try it's only 90 mins after all!
This is not like my usual review post, since Dr. Ian is a very short drama so this will be like my notes while watching the drama.
The reason why I gave it a try was Dara, solely for her. Before this web drama I have had already heard from people that her acting sucked and I didn't understand why because her acting on 2NE1's mv is okay for me. Her acting, yes, was awkward and stiff on this web drama. I don't know, maybe I'm being biased or something but she was okay for me. Once again, I do acknowledge that she's stiff and needs to improve herself A LOT if she wants to do more acting project.
Kim Young Kwang, I don't remember him much from his previous works since I've only watched 2 dramas and one movie of him and he was not the lead in those 3. I hope Dara learned something from him.
Is this web drama based on a webtoon? The plot itself was so fast and I still don't understand why Dr. Ian and Sodam fell in love with each other after how many meetings? 4?
It's promoting LINE!!!!! So cute!!!! I've always thought that Line is from Japan. It is, right? But Line is now associated with Naver which is Korea's and we know what kind of relationship Korea and Japan share. Ok let's stop.
The cinematography was great, in fact, it was really beautiful. Every episode was taken so beautifully and if only public broadcast dramas did ¾ of the effort Dr. Ian crew did, how beautiful those public broadcast dramas would be. The camera work captivated me from beginning to end. That aspect had a huge portion on why/how I finished this drama.
For those who want to watch this drama, go and watch this. 90 mins don't hurt plus the story itself (ep8-9) was really romantic. The acting won't hurt your eyes.


While social games company Zynga's push into real-money gambling may have had some hiccups, a group of alums who built a startup dedicated specifically to the genre have sold their company for up to $170 million. Rocket Games, a social gambling company based out of San Francisco, has been acquired by Penn National Gaming, the slot machine, video gaming machine, and casino company. Penn National says that it will pay $60 million in cash, as well as earn-outs of up to $110 million on top of that based on company performance.
Rocket Games said that in 2015 it grew 500 percent and is in the top 15 of all social casino gaming companies. It made $5.6 million of operating EBITDA during the six month period ended June 30, 2016, the company says.
For Penn, this is a way for the company to continue to expand the kinds of games that it offers in physical locations, as well as to extend its brand and customer relationships further into the online world, for those times when people are not visiting those physical venues.
The company had also launched its own online presence, Hollywoodcasino.com and Hollywoodslots.com, which it says are already profitable. "Based on our internal analysis, a significant segment of Penn National's database customers actively participate in social and online gaming, and we believe there are meaningful operating and revenue synergies between Penn National's operations, our Hollywoodcasino.com and Hollywoodslots.com social casino offerings and Rocket's operations that will drive near- and long-term growth for our shareholders," he noted.
What he didn't add is also that moving further into new waves of business like this could be the boost the company needs right now. Penn National in its most recent financial reports posted net revenues of $769.4 million fro the three months that ended June 30, but that this fell short of their own guidance of $786.8 million.
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Popular Kids Become Healthier Adults: Study
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Children who are the most popular and powerful at school also enjoy better health in adult life compared to counterparts at the bottom end of the pecking order, said a Swedish study published Tuesday.
Children who command popularity and power at school also enjoy healthier lives as adults compared to those at the low end of the popularity scale, a Swedish shows.
The unusually wide and long-term study, published on Tuesday, covers 14,000 children born in 1953, who were questioned in 1966 when they were 12 or 13 years old and whose health was tracked up to 2003.
The children's place in the social hierarchy was determined by asking them who they most preferred to work with at school.
To assess their health in later life, the study delved into a national databank for hospital admissions.
Individuals who had been marginalized at school were nine times likelier to develop heart disease and four times likelier to require hospital care for diabetes, which are lifestyle-related disorders.
They were also twice at risk of developing mental ill health and behavioural problems, including self harm and attempted suicide, compared with "top dog" former classmates.
The pattern was the same for both men and women, although the types of ill health they developed were different.
Importantly, the results cannot be explained by the occupation, income or education of the child's family, according to the paper, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Peer status at school could play a large and badly overlooked impact on health in later life, suggested Ylva Almquist of Stockholm University's Centre for Health Equity Studies.
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What has the Persian Empire done for us lately? It is the arrogance of the present to imagine that all of human history reaches its culmination, and unveils what was all along its hidden purpose, in the generation that happens to be breathing at this moment upon the surface of the earth. Those earlier nations, such as Greece and Rome, that are clearly causative of us are a source of obvious interest to us. Even civilizations such as ancient China and Japan, though they had no role to play in our causation, are thriving now and so they, too, engage our interest.
But no such claim can be made for the Persian Empire, or the Byzantine for that matter. And so we conjure ourselves into believing that, however important they might once have seemed, they were always on the wrong side of history, an eccentric sideshow to the main event.
In an attempt to inject contemporary interest into this show, the curators have chosen as a subtitle "The Art of Sasanian Iran." This is fair enough, since the Sasanians did indeed refer to themselves as Irya, from which the word Iran derives. They were among the progenitors of modern Iranians as well as the last non-Muslim group to rule the country. Furthermore, the influence of their art would have profound consequences for the visual culture of the region down to modern times.
If the art of the Sasanid dynasty was not, to judge by its remains, quite as glorious as that of the Acheaemenians, it far surpassed what remains from its immediate predecessors, the Parthians. One of the curious facts about the study of Sasanian artifacts is that most of what we have was discovered outside of Iran, in places as far afield as China, Japan, and France.
Because of the spotty nature of these survivals, however, it is difficult to pronounce with confidence any generalities about the complicated origins or the nature of Sasanian art. Like the late antique or early Christian art of the West, it took much of its inspiration from the Roman Empire and behind that from the empire of Alexander the Great. In "Glass, Gilding, and Grand Design," that influence is especially evident in a charming mosaic plaque depicting a female harpist, as well as in a "Bowl With Portrait Medallion." At the same time, there is a discernible trace of pre-Islamic Arab influence in the stucco "Bust of a King," from the 5th century.
Much more typical of the Sasanian dynasty is a partial gilt plate depicting King Yazdegerd I killing a stag, or a silver bowl whose stippled surface depicts a lion and a bull in a fight to the death. What these two works exemplify is first of all a somewhat more schematic, but also rather more humanistic rendering of the observable world. The round-faced human figures seem kinder and more approachable than their counterparts in the art of, say, the Assyrians or Babylonians. Likewise, the depiction of combating animals has little of the rage or violence that this common theme carried in the reigns of those predecessors. It has been reduced to a decorative motif.
The influence of the Sasanians on the subsequent dynasties of Persia was to be immense, comparable to the influence of pagan and Arthurian legends upon the culture of the Christian Renaissance. For 1,000 years after the imposition of Islam, the deeds of the Zoroastrian Sasanids were celebrated, above all in Ferdowsi's "Shâhnâmeh," the Iranian national epic poem written in about 1000 C.E. The illustrations to that work, which occupied the most gifted miniaturists of the Safavid dynasty, display the same round and richly human faces of their pagan forbears in the Sasanian dynasty.
Though the Asia Society show does not give us a fully fleshed out vision of Sasanian culture, such an exposition would probably be impossible. Compared with the cultures of ancient Egypt, Greece, and China, what has survived from the Sasanians is simply too spotty and insufficient. You cannot connect the dots if there are not enough in existence. Even so, the attempt is worth the effort, and a show such as "Glass, Gilding, and Grand Design" is well worth a visit.
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John F. Cullen
John F. Cullen – 65 – of 44 State St., Hornell, died Thursday morning (February 15, 2018) at his home, following a long illness.
Born in Hornell on July 14, 1952, he was the son of John & Marguerite (Furlong) Cullen.
John grew up in Hornell and was a graduate of Hornell High School (class of 1970). He later attended Fingerlakes Community College where he majored in Environmental Preservation.
He was a veteran of the US Air Force, serving his country from 1970 – 1974. While serving in the Air Force, John was stationed in many locations, including Thailand.
Following his honorable discharge from the Air Force, John returned to the Hornell area and had been employed at several local businesses, including Alstom, Corbin Wood Products, Gunlock Corporation and also worked in the maintenance department of the Canandaigua VA Hospital, Canandaigua, NY.
John had been a member of Our Lady of the Valley Parish and a communicant of St. Ignatius Loyola Church where, as a child, served as an Altar Boy. He was a member of the Hornell VFW and enjoyed cooking & baking.
In addition to his parents, John was preceded in death by his grandson, Cian Cullen.
He was married on February 4, 1994 to the former Jodie LaFave who survives. Also surviving are
2 daughters, Brandy (Mike Hall) Cullen of Tallahassee, FL and Holly Cullen of Tallahassee, FL; 1 son, Christopher Cullen of Hornell; 2 brothers, Joseph Cullen of Bath and Robert Cullen of Hornell; 3 sisters, Patty Kelleher of Hornell, Linda (Tom) Panter of Hornell and Mary Margaret Cullen of Painted Post; 2 grandsons, Cameron Smith and Isaiah Townsend; 2 granddaughters, Emily Cullen and Kiara Cullen; several nieces & nephews.
The family of John F. Cullen will receive friends on Monday from 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM at the Dagon Funeral Home, 38 Church St., Hornell, NY. A Memorial Service with Military Honors will be held at the conclusion of calling hours at 6:00 PM with Deacon Robert McCormick officiating. Final interment will be in the Bath VA Cemetery.
John's family request that in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in his name be made to the American Cancer Society, 13 Beech St., Johnson City, NY 13790. Memorial forms will be available at the Dagon Funeral home.
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Mike Moretti says:
I was sorry to read about Johns death. I had fun playing basketball at the "Y" with John for St Ignatius, even won the championship once. e had a great sense of humor. I used to write him (anybody remember letters?) for advice about joining the AF, he went in two years before me.
RIP John, I have made a lot of mistakes in my life but being a friend to you was not one of them. I have a sad feeling today bu John is loking down saying "move on" as I would.
Anybody want to share a story about John I give the funeral home (Dagons) permission to release my email address.


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For the millions of Americans who suffer from genetic disorders and previously faced a lifetime of expensive and imperfect treatments, new cutting-edge gene therapies hold exceptional promise. However, our current health system is poorly equipped to make these lifesaving treatments broadly accessible to patients; that needs to change.
Gene therapies, which were approved in the U.S. for the first time in 2017, address the underlying causes of genetic disorders, providing cures.
Up to 4,000 diseases are rooted in genetic mutations that disrupt normal cellular functioning. About 25-30 million Americans live with a rare medical condition, the majority of which are thought to be related to a genetic abnormality. That number does not capture the millions of people with more common genetic disorders who could also benefit from gene therapy. Currently, more than 300 gene therapy trials are ongoing in the U.S. and another 800 are enrolling patients.
In the next few years, dozens of additional gene therapies — targeting a diverse range of debilitating diseases — are expected to gain FDA approval. The pace of innovation is quickening. Last month, FDA Commissioner Gottlieb said he expects the FDA to approve 40 gene therapies by 2022 and we might see cures for sickle cell anemia within 10 years.
Of course, the development of gene therapies is a costly enterprise. The R&D investment required to create a novel gene therapy will likely exceed the $1.3 to $2.6 billion needed to develop a new biologic drug. Likewise, the failure rates in the fledgling gene therapy market are expected to surpass those of the pharmaceutical industry as a whole, where fewer than 1 in 10 drugs that reach clinical trials ever make it to market.
A new study by The American Consumer Institute shows that despite high upfront costs, gene therapies actually generate significant savings for the health system by replacing expensive long-term treatments, reducing hospitalizations, preventing further health deterioration, and improving patients' quality of life. Also, people being cured will be able to be more productive in the workforce.
A gene therapy for severe hemophilia, for example, is expected to cost about $1 million per patient. However, this one-time cure eliminates approximately $690,000 in annual costs of conventional treatments. In less than two years, the gene therapy pays for itself. Other gene therapies for spinal muscular atrophy, Best Disease (a rare form of blindness), and lymphoblastic leukemia offer similar savings over the long-term.
Our present healthcare system discourages insurance companies from paying for therapies with high upfront costs whose benefits are spread over a lifetime, since patients often switch to different insurers over time. Thus, the initial insurance company pays for the therapy, but the new company receives the benefits of lower healthcare expenditures. This gives the insurance companies the incentive not to provide these treatments.
Unless payers, policymakers, and manufacturers work together to develop innovative, value-based ways to expand access to gene therapies, these lifesaving cures will remain out of reach for too many vulnerable Americans.
Dr. Joseph Fuhr is a Senior Scholar for The American Consumer Institute and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Widener University. For more information about the Institute, visit www.TheAmericanConsumer.Org.
This piece was published in The Morning Consult.


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At the 2013 Sister Cities International Annual Conference in San Antonio, Texas, over 50 students from around the United States participated in the Sister Cities International Youth Leadership Summit. The Summit was designed to engage youth in the Sister Cities International network while exposing them to important international challenges and the ways in which different national experiences drive international cooperation on critical issues. The Summit culminated with a simulation intended to explore possible solutions to the critical environmental issues they had been exploring throughout the weekend. The simulation illustrated both the challenges and importance of international cooperation in tackling some of our most pressing global challenges.
Featured Guests and Speakers
Mayor Julián Castro, City of San Antonio
His Excellency Dr. Dino Patti Djalal, Indonesia's Ambassador to the United States
His Excellency Klaus-Jochen Guhlcke, Consul General of Germany in Houston
His Excellency Hideaki Mizukoshi, Minister and Head of Chancery, Embassy of Japan
His Excellency Jostein Mykletun, Consul General of Norway to Houston
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"Entering the Shift Age" with David Houle, America's Leading Futurist and Author
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Tour of the University of Texas at San Antonio, with international students, study abroad advisors and international programs faculty
Model United Nations Simulation
Students participated in an environmentally-focused Model United Nations simulation in which students debated different proposals and formed resolutions that required passage by each committee. The final session provided an opportunity for each country to present their resolutions to the crisis and defend their positions. The simulation allowed for negotiations, critiques, and compromises so that a mutually agreed upon decision could be produced. After the final session, prizes were awarded to best delegations and best overall delegate.
China – Germany – Japan – Kenya – Mexico – Norway – Russia – USA
Food Security – How can we avoid conflict and encourage cooperation to ultimately secure a sustainable water future?
Disaster management – Following a tsunami in Southeast Asia, delegates needed to evaluate current health related responses to natural disasters. What are some long-term projects to re-build and/or stabilize health facilities?
Climate change – What are some ways to foster cooperation between developing and developed countries and fix new emission goals?
Deforestation – How can the General Assembly encourage UN member states to stop and reverse deforestation instead of moving it from one country to another?
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US calls on Americans to leave Haiti amid worsening crisis
Haitian police are struggling to control gangs, who for weeks have blocked fuel distribution terminals in the country.
Government officials acknowledge Haiti is facing a widespread lack of fuel, which also has threatened the country's generator-dependent water supply [Ralph Tedy Erol/Reuters]
Published On 11 Nov 202111 Nov 2021
Amid a deepening political crisis and a severe fuel shortage that has impacted hospitals, schools and businesses in Haiti, the United States is urging American citizens to leave the Caribbean nation.
The US State Department warned that "widespread fuel shortages may limit essential services in an emergency, including access to banks, money transfers, urgent medical care, internet and telecommunications, and public and private transportation options".
US citizens "should carefully consider the risks of traveling to or remaining in Haiti in light of the current security situation and infrastructure challenges", it said in a statement on Wednesday.
"The US Embassy is unlikely to be able to assist US citizens in Haiti with departure if commercial options become unavailable."
It is unclear how many US citizens currently live in Haiti, but the rare warning from the State Department comes as the Haitian government and police are struggling to control gangs that have blocked fuel distribution terminals for several weeks.
The US Department of State warning comes as 17 missionaries kidnapped last month, including 16 US citizens, still remain captive [Ralph Tedy Erol/Reuters]
Top government officials acknowledged the widespread lack of fuel, saying during a news conference on Tuesday that they were working to resolve the situation, although they provided no details.
The State Department warning also comes as a group of 17 Christian missionaries who were kidnapped last month, including 16 US citizens, still remain captive.
Haitian police inspector Frantz Champagne in October said a gang known as 400 Mawozo was behind the kidnapping, while a top Haitian official told The Associated Press the gang is demanding $1m per person in ransom.
"The kidnapping took place on October 16 and we are still waiting and praying for the group of 17 to be released, if God so wills," Christian Aid Ministries, the US-based group that organised the trip, wrote on its website on Wednesday.
"As you pray, remember the millions of Haitians who are suffering through a time of serious upheaval and unrest."
Haiti: We urge U.S. citizens to make plans to depart Haiti now via commercial means. U.S. citizens should carefully consider the risks of traveling to or remaining in Haiti in light of the current security situation and infrastructure challenges. https://t.co/CtK1GBgTQN pic.twitter.com/3miCuLLf8m
— Travel – State Dept (@TravelGov) November 11, 2021
But details about ongoing attempts to locate and rescue the group of missionaries have been sparse. US President Joe Biden is being briefed daily on the law enforcement effort, officials have said.
The incident has focused global attention on gang violence in Haiti, which has worsened amid economic and political crises following the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise in early July.
Moise was assassinated in his home in the capital, Port-au-Prince, on July 7. A new prime minister, Ariel Henry, was sworn in less than two weeks later amid uncertainty over who would take up the critical post.
But Henry – who is backed by the US and other international actors – has struggled with legitimacy. In September, he dissolved the electoral council and postponed elections planned for this month. A new date has yet to be set.
Meanwhile, Defence Minister Enold Joseph said the government is investigating why 30 fuel tanks sent to Haiti's southern region went missing, adding that he has observed petrol being sold on the black market.
Le Nouvelliste newspaper also recently reported that truck drivers have been kidnapped and fuel trucks hijacked.
A gallon of petrol, when available, currently costs around $15 in Haiti [Adrees Latif/Reuters]
Southwestern Haiti is still reeling from a devastating, 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck in August, killing more than 2,200 people, injuring thousands more, and destroying or damaging buildings and key infrastructure.
The fuel shortage also has threatened Haiti's water supply, which depends on generators.
On Wednesday, Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) warned that the shortages have forced it to reduce medical care since last week, with staff treating only patients with life-threatening conditions.
The aid group said its hospital and emergency centre would run out of fuel for generators in three weeks or less if new supplies do not arrive.
"As tensions and armed conflict escalate in Haiti's capital, shortages of fuel, public transportation and drinking water are putting medical facilities and patients at risk," MSF said. "Nearly all public and private health facilities in Port-au-Prince have stopped or limited admissions to only acute cases or closed their doors due to similar problems."
The situation also has led to a spike in food prices in a country of more than 11 million people where more than 60 percent of the population makes less than $2 a day.


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Kristin Cavallari joins the cast of MTV's reality docu-drama The Hills for the second half of Season 5. Kristin Cavallari says, "I'm actually kind of excited. It's fun because I know the whole crew. It's almost like going home . It's really comfortable. I know what to expect going into it, so I think I'm just more excited than anything." Previously, Kristin Cavallari starred on the show's predecessor series, Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County.
Kristin Cavallari grew up just a short drive from Los Angeles, in Laguna Beach, where she went to high school with Lauren Conrad and Lo Bosworth. But Kristin Cavallari wasn't exactly a girl's girl—how can you be when all the boys like you? Kristin Cavallari is a strong, independent girl, and she almost always gets what she wants. Now Kristin Cavallari has got a house in Malibu, and she's ready for a summer at the beach, far away from all the drama in Hollywood. But Kristin Cavallari has been single for more than two years now, and it's starting to get tedious. Is Kristin Cavallari ready to settle down?
Hollywood is not without its fair share of options. When Kristin Cavallari reconnected with Lo, Spencer and Heidi at the wedding last year, she met Justin Brescia, who is about as good-looking and mysterious as they come. The fact that Audrina Patridge is still in love with him isn't the kind of thing that's ever stopped Kristin Cavallari in the past. But Kristin Cavallari likes a guy who's hard to get, not one who's stuck on another girl. Then, of course, there's Brody Jenner. Kristin Cavallari says she's been-there, done-that, but Brody might just be the best she ever had. The longer Kristin Cavallari goes without meeting someone better, the better Brody looks. Sure, he's dating Jayde Nicole, for now. Generally, as soon as Kristin Cavallari traps a guy, she doesn't want him anymore; but she's starting to wonder if she'll ever find someone good enough.
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Birth Name Kristin Elizabeth Cavalleri
Occupation Model
Birthday January 14, 1987 (35)
Sign Capricorn
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois, USA
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