Making silence: tough task for a person that speaks most part of the day, even with her dog. But what does being in silence actually mean? I spent 5 days without speaking to anyone but myself, and I can say it's the most beautiful and powerful, life changing experience.
Doing Silence literally means NO communication with the outside world. Not a word, not an expression. It's the moment where you are with yourself only, really paying attention to every detail that happens during your day, leading to discover certain aspects that you weren't aware about yourself.
The first thing I realized was how little time I used to spend with myself. It didn't take too long before I got bored; too much time and nothing to do, when normally I would need extra hours in my day to do as much as I want to. The reality is that we are not used to being alone; we are raised to always be surrounded by people, so when it's time to be alone, we face ourselves with a complete stranger. In my case, I found myself immersed in lots of negative thoughts, feeling awkward, feeling lonely.
But little by little I started feeling more and more comfortable; ready to meet this person inside me, the Voice inside me, the observer, the intuition, my true self. I was able to identify and separate myself, my mind and my higher self.
I started observing all the thoughts that came to my mind, lots and lots of thoughts, I mean, our mind is a very persistent workaholic and can literally go all day, even night. By simply observing my thoughts without reacting to them, I was able to recognize certain patterns I've created in my mind during my life. The interesting part here is that once the thoughts are well observed and brought into a conscious level, then one can decide if these patterns suit one's life or if by contrary it's time to change them and create new ones according to what is truly desired in life.
Of course, getting to know yourself means facing the good things but also the bad ones; it's peeling all the layers to reach the most profound part of yourself; it really requires lots of strength and courage, especially when you realize how many unwanted issues you've been carrying for years and all the effort, compassion, love, sacrifice, etc., that will require you to get to the bottom in order to start healing from the root cause.
I also realized how many of my thoughts were judgemental, with myself and others, and how much harm that was causing me. My first exercise was to stop these thoughts as soon as they were coming and switched them to positive and loving thoughts. Little by little these judging thoughts started fading away, so my days became more positive. The Law of Attraction is very real and powerful, and the fact is what you give is what you receive, and if you want blessings in life, you should create them from the inside, and that will attract more and more beautiful things.
Being in Silence also made me realize the importance of the words we use. Every time I was about to say something, I had to refrain myself and keep those words inside me, which made me consider the power and value of each word that comes out of my mouth; I understood how the words we speak are significant and have an impact not only in others and myself but in the universe. These words that come out are vibrations, ENERGY, which will eventually return to oneself.
By being in Silence we create the opportunity to connect with our higher self, the voice of our spirit, which is eternal, loving and caring; the one that vibrates in the frequency of the Universe. It is the voice that will help us make all the correct decisions leading us to a happier, loving life. It is by listening to our real desires that we can actually achieve all that we want and let the flame of our hearts grow and shine.
The outside world can easily distract us from our path, I believe the practice of conscious Silence helps us to stop perceiving and receiving any frequency from the outside, detaching the thoughts from the distracting conditions and go back into ourselves, remembering the true meaning in our life, our purpose. I truly believe that in order to maintain our light shining, we must make Silence a habit in our life. It is in the stillness where everything is created, where you can connect and really listen to yourself, so let's enjoy and appreciate this beautiful gift.
There will be moments where we will feel disconnected, frightened, doubtful, etc., which is totally normal considering that it's a human condition that we all experience from time to time. The real task is to know that with perseverance, patience and love, we can overcome all these obstacles and grow into a higher and happier version of ourselves. The ultimate goal of every human being is to evolve, to live into the highest frequency which is love; living in consciousness allows us to live in that state, and the longer we practice it, the longer we will remain in it.
Practicing Silence, listening to ourselves, following our intuition, inner awakening, living in a conscious way is the real spiritual path. It's not about religion but about listening to our heart. A lovely friend of mine shared with me this beautiful phrase from St. Benedict that summarizes what I've tried to say here: "Listen with the ear of your heart".
May all humans reach the state of Love, making a world of peace and joy for every living being in this beautiful Universe.
Join Gloria as she teaches at Live Life on Purpose: The Law of Attraction February 20-25 at Alaya Tulum. Email Inquiry@LifeSourceRetreats.com or click here.


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5 Speakers and Seminars to Catch at IIDEXCanada 2015
Erin Donnelly
IIDEXCanada 2015 takes place December 2 and 3 in Toronto. Over 150 speakers, including architects, manufacturers, and other industry experts, are lined up for a jam-packed schedule of talks and seminars. Here are five must-hear talks covering everything from future design trends to 3-D printing.
1 Todd Saunders' keynote address, Thursday, December 3, at 4 pm
The Fogo Island Inn, in Newfoundland, may be eclipsing the CN Tower as Canada's most recognizable piece of architecture. Established by Zita Cobb (who also will be speaking at IIDEX) in 2012, the inn was designed by Todd Saunders, one of Norway's top-ranked architects – who just happens to have been born and raised on the Rock. From the Solberg Tower to the Aurland Lookout, his vernacular architecture combines Scandinavian influences with his island roots to create a unique Northern identity. His work on Fogo, including the inn and the Squish artist studios, are the subject of the film Strange & Familiar: Architecture on Fogo Island, released last year.
2 Urban Straw Bale Home with Terrell Wong, Thursday, December 3, at 10:30 am
Architect at Stone's Throw Design, and author of the recently published Passive Buildings in Canada, Wong will explain the benefits of straw-bale insulation by detailing her renovation of a 90-year-old Tudor-style home in Toronto's Beach community. Many of the masonry structure's original features were restored and straw-bale insulation was selected to pair with the lime render substrate that continues from the original façade. The material also has a good R-value and lifecycle, along with other benefits. Wong has argued the case for the throwback technique since 2013; and also is known for building the first insulated rammed earth structure in Ontario.
3 The Benefits of 3-D Printing in Furniture Prototyping with Steve Keilhauer, Wednesday, December 2, at 3 pm
The VP of product development and one of the co-founders of Canadian contract furniture giant Keilhauer will present a case study that illustrates how 3-D printing is changing furniture design. The technology is transforming the way furniture is developed, prototyped and brought to market – and making it easier than ever to realize any design that a creative can dream up.
4 Brazilian Architecture, Industrial Design, Urban Planning and Transportation with Luiz Eduardo & Guto Indio da Costa, Thursday December 3, at 12 pm
The father-and-son team behind the award-winning Brazilian studio Indio da Costa A.U.D.T. will bring an international perspective to the show, discussing the design and architecture scene in their home base of Rio de Janeiro. Post-Pan Am Toronto can compare notes as they give us some insight into the 2016 Olympic venues and into the innovative architecture, urban planning, industrial design and transportation projects that their firm has worked on over its 40-year history.
5 Office of the Future: Trends in Tech Workspaces with Joslyn Balzarini and Adrian Berry, Thursday December 3, at 1 pm
Get a taste of tomorrow's work environments in the IIDEX special workplace feature Go Away! and then hear what the experts have to say on the topic. This duo from international firm B + H Architects will use tech company clients as examples of what's to come. Always on the cusp of innovation, these start-up companies require flexible strategies that can translate to other types of businesses.
IIDEXCanada 2015 runs December 2 to 3, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Today is the last day for early bird registration, sign up now!
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It unfolded like a red blanket, its distant peaks dancing in the heat. The cool waters of the Sea of Cortez lapped at its borders, but the desert seemed unmoved. Accustomed to the winter weather I had left behind that morning, I downed a salty-sweet limonata and gazed across the landscape, shielding my eyes from sweat and the intense sun. I'd never envisioned a place surrounded by water that could yet be so dry.
I was a bit incredulous, but this was Captain Bill Bailey's ninth year returning to Baja California Sur. He could clearly see when even this heat-stricken ecosystem was flourishing.
Bill's ship, the MV Westward, was moored along a pier that straddled the line between desert and sea in the small coastal town of La Paz. The hand-crafted wooden vessel had once provided intimate cruises for early 20th century elite who were keen to hunt and fish in southeast Alaska. Although the Westward had been retrofitted over the past 90 years, stepping aboard had elements of stepping back in time — particularly as she was still powered by the 1924 Atlas diesel engine around which her hull was built.
I was joining Bill, several other passengers, and a handful of crew for a ten-day trip between La Paz and Loreto. Given the small size of our ship and group, it was possible for us to eschew the big ports of call that attracted most cruise operators to Mexico. Instead, we would skirt Baja along the Sea of Cortez, following much of author John Steinbeck's original passage along the peninsula seven decades before.
At first light, the Westward freed herself from her moorings at La Paz and slipped off into the turquoise waters. We left behind the street vendors hawking coconuts and billboards proclaiming 'Si estoy bien, no cambio', and dined on poached eggs and fresh papaya as Bill steered us towards Isla Espirito Santo: Island of the Holy Spirit. Just off the coast, Espirito Santo's cardon-covered slopes harbour a lagoon that served as a pearl oyster farm at the turn of the 19th century. The farm has since been abandoned by humans, but new residents have moved in.
We heard — and smelled — them before we saw them: several thousand frigatebirds, wheeling, diving, and calling to one another in a cacophony of clicks and squeals. The males performed mating displays, inflating the bright red dewlaps on their throats until they swelled to the size of balloons. The females were mostly preoccupied with the hordes of chicks crying to be fed. We kayaked along a spit that had been bleached white by droppings, mesmerised by the city of birds before us.
Our journey north continued to be defined by wildlife, from puffer fish and mobula rays in the sheltered island coves to a raucous colony of California sea lions taking refuge along the islet of La Lobera. As we sailed across the open seas towards Isla San Francisquito, we even passed a "lazy" minke whale spouting half-heartedly into the air. The Westward's naturalist, Sarah Drummond, said the whale was most likely asleep. "Whales are voluntary breathers," Sarah explained. Unlike humans (who can breathe while sleeping), whales must consciously exchange carbon dioxide for oxygen. To do this, they sleep by resting only half of their brain at a time.
A less-welcome species made its appearance near San Francisquito. Black clouds of midges prevented the island and its neighbour, the much larger Isla San Jose, from being inhabitable. Yet the untenable living conditions on the islands were responsible for a fascinating settlement that had cropped up in between: the tiny fishing town on Isla Coyote, a speck of land that looked less like an island and more like a giant rock that had been thrust out of the sea. Devoid of water and vegetation, El Pardito or The Brown One (as it is known locally) is home to a settlement whose maximum population has never exceeded a couple dozen people. The Cuevas family has eked out a living on Pardito for most of the last 90 years, fishing the surrounding waters for rays, flounder, and shark and boating them to La Paz for sale.
When we arrived on Pardito, three fishermen were cleaning and stripping sting rays for brining and salting. Sarah conversed in Spanish with the eldest, a moustached man named Pablo, and exchanged several jugs of fresh water for triggerfish for our dinner. Our group walked around the island and contemplated what life must be like so far from civilization. The challenges of living on Pardito were evident in the abandoned primary school and the ages of the remaining residents. The younger Cuevas generations no longer fish here, having moved to the Baja peninsula to pursue work.
Despite the hardships they faced, the residents of Pardito were — to echo Steinbeck — "kind to us and considerate as only Mexicans can be." Before we departed, I offered Pablo a small bag of lollies I had planned to give the now-absent children of the island. "Gracias," said Pablo, smiling. Sarah later told me he said the gift gave him "sweet whiskers".
Back aboard the Westward, a leisurely journey north allowed us to add to our life lists when we spotted a sandbar-sized blue whale feeding in the waters of Parque Nacional Bahía de Loreto. Our last evening on the vessel was spent enjoying margaritas and fresh sea scallops as the pink sky slowly faded into starlight. I wandered onto the foredeck after the others had retired, watching the moon cast my shadow against the Westward's prow. The distant lights of the city of Loreto — our next destination — hung like a string of yellow pearls above the calm water.
After spending our first day back on the peninsula exploring the markets of Loreto, we piled into a passenger van and departed for the Pacific Coast. Our four-hour journey took us along Baja's winding Highway 1 over the volcanic Sierra de la Giganta range. The slightly decrepit highway was an adventure in and of itself, the most memorable moment being when we passed a small pickup truck with a horse riding upright in the bed.
Our final excursion took place in the waters of San Ignacio Lagoon, a protected inlet that has long served as a nursery for grey whales and their calves. Our van pulled up to the small but hospitable Kuyima Ecotourism Base Camp, where we donned life jackets and stepped aboard pangas to depart into the lagoon.
The first whale to approach our panga — a lone female — gave it an affectionate nudge with her nose. One of our group members touched her briefly before she descended back into the depths. The second curious female coyly stayed just out of reach as she passed from one side of our boat to the other. I bent over the side of the panga at the same moment she exhaled, resulting in a large net of white bubbles exploding over me. Our entire boat fell over laughing. "You'll get it," someone promised me.
At last, the whale surfaced on the port side of the skiff, rolling slightly to one side and pressing her nose into the boat. I reached over. My hand met her smooth grey skin, fingers running across crusty barnacles near her flipper as I stroked the surface of the ocean giant. She was warm and surprisingly soft, and she waited patiently as our group caressed her. We called to her and laughed as we watched one another's expressions of pure joy. Then, as if on a silent cue, she dipped beneath the surface and swam away.
We shared our stories of San Ignacio Lagoon with Bill when we returned to Loreto for our departure. Although he hadn't joined us on this excursion, he could vividly remember his own experience touching the grey whales. "It's like holding your first child," he said.
From my window seat on the flight out of Loreto that evening, I watched the desert descend to the sea. The dry peaks were starkly juxtaposed against the turquoise water. This time, though, I noticed that the landscape still held a hint of green.
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Atlas V Fueled in Dress Rehearsal for Boeing's Orbital Flight Test
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, topped by the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, stands on the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station during a wet dress rehearsal for Boeing's Orbital Flight Test. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
The Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center
Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is poised atop a fueled United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's (CCAFS) Space Launch Complex 41 in Florida for the program's first ever Integrated Day of Launch Test, or IDOLT. Today's rehearsal is practice for Boeing's upcoming uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT) to the International Space Station. The rocket's booster has been filled with liquid oxygen and a form of rocket-grade kerosene called RP-1, and its Centaur upper stage loaded with liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen for today's full run-through of the launch countdown.
The Boeing Mission Control Center
Photo credit: Boeing
Boeing, ULA and NASA teams are participating from several locations, including the Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center (ASOC) at CCAFS; Boeing's Mission Control Center (BMCC) at nearby Kennedy Space Center; and the flight control room supporting Starliner missions inside the Mission Control Center at the Johnson Space Center, Houston. NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and Nicole Mann and Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson, slated to fly to the station on Boeing's Crew Flight Test, monitored the rehearsal from consoles in the ASOC and BMCC.
The flight control room supporting Starliner missions inside the Mission Control Center
Although OFT is uncrewed, rehearsals like today's are standard for human spaceflight missions and similar rehearsals were a regular part of space shuttle missions. They provide a final opportunity for all teams to work through dynamic launch preparations in real time.
The Atlas V rocket will launch Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the station for NASA's Commercial Crew Program. NASA is working with its commercial partners to launch astronauts on American rockets and spacecraft from American soil for the first time since 2011.
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Richie Sadlier asks "them at the outset what they'd most like to achieve". File photograph: Getty Images
'What's this topic all about?" I asked a classroom of Transition Year students. I was there to speak about mental health and I was curious to hear their thoughts. I figured it would be useful to know their views before I launched into talking about anything.
It's mainly about suicide and depression, they said. "So why do ye think I'm here?" I followed up. "Why is a subject like this in your timetable now?"
"You're here to stop us killing ourselves."
It was the most memorable answer of the many they gave, but it was consistent with most of the others. The general perception was that discussing this topic involved disclosures of problems and failings. They figured my job was to root out the mentally ill. They presumed it would be all about mental disorders, self-harm and suicide. All the really negative stuff.
Three years ago, I went back to my old school, St Benildus College in Kilmacud, offering myself for any mental health-related work they thought might be classroom-appropriate. I was practising psychotherapy and was drawn to the area of adolescence.
It's really not hard to get teenagers to be interested in themselves
I began with a 90-minute talk with each of the five Transition Year groups. Within a year, it evolved into a six-week module which I deliver every Friday morning. Quite apart from anything the students get from it, it's one of the high points of my own working week.
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But lads wouldn't be into a topic like this, surely? There's no way 16-year-olds would pay attention to that? This is what I hear when I speak about the module, but the opposite is the case. It's really not hard to get teenagers to be interested in themselves.
Their own goals
I ask them at the outset what they'd most like to achieve. Some want to feel more confident and be less awkward. Others would love to be less self-conscious and more comfortable speaking to girls. And also to adults. Some want to have better control of their temper. They'd like to be able to make a mistake in a match and know how to put it behind them. Others want to be less affected by slagging or criticism and to handle their parents better. And some just want to be happier.
They never say this, but they want to know they're not alone in thinking the way they do about themselves and their place in the world. That others are going through something similar. Ultimately, they're looking for support and guidance at a time when it's badly needed.
Once the right atmosphere is created, we get to work. Nothing is off the table in class discussions. We explore what masculinity means to them and how it impacts on their behaviour. They're growing up in a country that embraces intoxication, so we look at how they're influenced by that. They measure their emotional intelligence and come up with ways they might enhance it. We cover issues as varied as porn, drink, suicide, therapy and drugs. My job is just to facilitate. They do all the work.
Occasionally a student will begin seeing a guidance counsellor having learned it's perfectly acceptable to do so. Sometimes I begin working with one of the lads and their parents in my own practice. Rarely, but it does happen, there's an in-class disclosure of something that needs to be referred to a social worker. In all such cases, though, the students receive the support they require all along.
There are many schools that are just as proactive when it comes to students' wellbeing. They know the benefits of early intervention in an area as rich as this. There are still many, however, who don't.
The day before I was due to go into a particular school two years ago, I got a call from a teacher apologetically pulling the plug. I had been invited to speak to the sixth-year students on the general topic of mental health. The teacher figured they would benefit from knowing how to reduce levels of anxiety and stress.
However, the principal had a look at the material I planned to cover and he was having none of it. Apparently he didn't want things to "descend into a f***ing counselling session". Three months shy of their Leaving Cert, he figured the last thing they needed was me coming in to rock the boat.
Mental health is about a lot more than depression and suicide, particularly among adolescents.
You'd think a conversation that promotes self-care and help-seeking behaviours is exactly what lads in their position needed. That wasn't his view, though. They were big enough now and should be able to handle the pressure.
Mental health is about a lot more than depression and suicide, particularly among adolescents. That may be the focus it gets in much of the national media, but in a classroom of teenagers it can be about so much more. When handled appropriately, it opens students' minds to caring for their own wellbeing in ways that were traditionally seen as off-limits. And nobody should be in opposition to that.
Some schools don't have the resources or the inclination to go near a topic like this, but the short- and long-term benefits are obvious to those that do. If teenage boys can embrace this subject the way they do in St Benildus, then school principals throughout the country have no excuse.
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Required Reading: In Demography, Size Does Matter
Sure, each generation has its own kinks and quirks, but when it comes down to making that final sale, there's one missing factor that's so obvious it's often left out of the mix: numbers. Those pesky numbers, explains Kenneth Gronbach in his new book The Age Curve: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Storm, are what demographics is all about, and numbers determine your market size. In the simplest, macro-level terms: A big population makes for a big market, and a small population makes for a small market. Using birth rates and population figures, marketers can not only determine the number of potential consumers today, but they can also predict the future demand for a product. CRM's Assistant Editor Jessica Tsai had the opportunity to speak with Gronbach about putting numbers back into the equation.
CRM magazine: This numbers game seems so simple—what tipped you off?
Kenneth Gronbach: I've seen lots of businesses come and go. The one that precipitated the initial research that I did starting 12 years ago was American Honda motorcycles. We knew we were going after [motorcycle-buying men, 16 to 24 years old,] but the bikes came in 1986 and we weren't selling any. It was kind of baffling. Between 1986 and 1992, sales fell dramatically—close to 80 percent. It was a significant loss for us, and what was worse was that Honda had no understanding of what was going on; neither did Suzuki, Kawasaki, or Yamaha. The business was just gone.
In 1996, I was reading an editorial in the Hartford Courant that was talking about [members of] Gen X and how lazy they were, because they weren't participating in the political process. I didn't buy it. There's no way an entire generation is lazy. It just didn't make sense to me. So I had a research department look up in the United States Census as much as we could find out about the voting habits and political participation of Gen X. The research folks came back, and said the [members of Gen X] aren't really different from the [Baby] Boomers: They vote as often for their age, they give as much money as the Boomers did when the Boomers were their age. The problem is, it's just a smaller group.
I said, "Whoa! Wait a minute—they're a smaller group? How can that be?" And they said, "Well, the fertility between 1965 and 1984 dropped 25 percent," owing to the zero population growth and Roe v. Wade. Fertility in the U.S. had dropped like a stone.
So I said, "Give me the stats on motorcycle sales!" In 1986—the peak of the Baby Boomers—a huge mountain of people exited the motorcycle-buying age, men [who were] 16 to 24 years old. It wasn't qualitative at all, it was quantitative. We were accusing a smaller group of not liking the food because they didn't eat as much.
CRM: So it's really just the numbers?
Gronbach: It's about numbers. I have a counterpart in the Netherlands, and there's also a prominent demographer in Spain, and they both said, "Why don't people understand that the size of the generation—the potential size of a market—matters? What about size don't they understand? Can't they count?" And some of the heavy hitters can't count. Ford, for example, has tried desperately to sell as many SUVs to Gen X as to the Boomers, and they keep on firing their ad agencies and it never works. Nobody ever bothered to go to the Census and count the number of potential customers. So yes, it's size—and size is everything.
CRM: What about spending power? Spending preferences?
Gronbach: The Age Curve is not about microeconomics, and it's not psychographic, so we don't get into the personalities of the different generations. The Boomers are extravagant spenders because there's some psychographic thing about them, but the most significant thing that adds to their volume of spending is that there's close to 80 million of them, as opposed to 69 million Gen Xers.
CRM: You're steadfastly in favor of the 20-year generation length, yet you're willing to accept Gen Y can go five extra years.
Gronbach: Viagra. Levitra. We artificially put more people back in the game that are [onto] second and third marriages, second and third families. In 2007, we broke a record: over 4.3 million live births in the United States—bigger than 1957, which was the biggest year prior to that. Half of those live births were Latinos, and that's a wonderful thing. In essence, we're the only Western nation right now that has fertility above replacement. If you don't have kids, you're history in 50 years.
CRM: Who's the target of your message?
Gronbach: CMOs have responded very well to it, but I think it goes beyond that. And the reason is because demography reaches into our culture. It reaches into our economy. It reaches into commerce. There are changes that are going to take place in the U.S.—there are changes that are going to take place worldwide—as a result of shifting demography, most notably in China. China has essentially committed the biggest demographic blunder in the world with [its] one-child policy. [It's] a nation of 1.3 billion people [who] are largely 30 and over. By their own admission, they have prevented 400 million live births in the last three decades—that's more people than we have in the U.S. China has essentially wiped out its own labor force.
Several of the stories in this month's Insight refer to information and presentations from our recent destinationCRM 2008 conference. For more of our coverage from the show, please visit http://snurl.com/dCRM08.
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Generation X has a reputation for aimlessness, but, in truth, its members are concerned about the future—and they're using their resources accordingly.
The Boomer Boom
Revolutionary from the day they were born, Baby Boomers will continue to dictate—with their wallets—how they're targeted by marketers.
The Matures Endure
They're sticking around longer—that means their spending money has to last as long as they do.
Act Your Age! {Consumers Do.}
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ARCH Strategic Research Agenda
With the support of the European Commission, an international group of experts and advisors formed the project "ARCH: Agenda for Research on Chernobyl Health" to review the health consequences of exposure to radiation from the Chernobyl accident and provide advice on the studies needed to be carried out in the future. The current document is ARCH's proposal for a Strategic Research Agenda (SRA), outlining a reasoned long-term plan for research into the health consequences of radiation from the Chernobyl accident.
There are several main reasons why even now, over 20 years after the accident it is important that the European Commission supports a long-term coordinated research programme on the health effects of the Chernobyl accident. Health effects from this European accident continue and future effects are uncertain. Past knowledge of radiation effects is largely based on atomic bomb studies, but Chernobyl involved a very different type of exposure. Assumptions on the risk of low dose exposure have been challenged by recent advances in radiobiology. Estimates of deaths due to the Chernobyl accident vary widely.
The ARCH group of experts and advisors therefore support proposals for the long term funding of a Chernobyl Health Effects Research Foundation, similar to the action taken to create the Radiation Effects Research Foundation some years after the atomic bomb exposures in Japan, together with a series of individual studies covering the main health consequences. These include the ongoing thyroid cancer problem, the reported rise in breast cancer, inherited molecular-genetic alterations, and various cancers, cataracts and other non-cancer diseases in liquidators and in the general exposed population. Long-term studies of already existing groups with known radiation doses would provide invaluable information on the life-time risks of both external and internal exposure.
Unless coordinated studies are set up, together with a mechanism to ensure long-term funding, the long-term consequences of a nuclear accident involving the exposure of many millions of people to radiation will not be properly studied, speculation will flourish, and knowledge essential to assessing the risks of radiation exposure will be lost.
IARC 2010
http://arch.iarc.fr/documents/ARCH_SRA.pdf
Posted on April 14th, 2014
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Aging Gratefully: The Power of Community
January 11, 2016 / KGNU / Featured, Morning Magazine
"Is there power in community in terms of growing old?"
Silver Sage community villagers picking cherries in the garden
In December 2013 Boulder film maker Alan O'Hashi experienced a near death experience with a rare lung disease "at the time I was pretty bad health wise and for whatever reason I was able to make this comeback and I recovered for the most part fully." His health crisis got him thinking about what would happen to him as he aged and possibly faced other health crises "the aha! moment for me was being visited by Charles Dickens' ghost of Christmas yet-to-come and I got a glimpse of what it might be like when I was 90 and I couldn't walk and couldn't feed myself."
O'Hashi lives in Silver Sage Village, a senior co-housing community in North Boulder comprised of 16 houses with 25 people all over the age of 50. "I had gotten ill and wondered if this community was going to step up and help out and work with myself and my caregivers to get me through all of this." The community did step up and O'Hashi says it was a very positive experience, particularly when he first got home from rehab "people brought over food and people were just being around and being very neighborly." O'Hashi says that other neighbors were also experiencing aging and health issues from Alzheimer's disease to Parkinson's, and combined with his own health experience, O'Hashi started to look at co-housing as a real option for seniors who want to age in place "I wondered…is there power in community in terms of growing old?"
O'Hashi explores those themes and his own journey in aging in the new documentary Aging Gratefully.
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Simon Baggs on the principle to apply for litigation costs. Simon Baggs is a solicitor at Wiggin & Co. He acted on behalf of the claimants in the case.
Teen star who made millions faces High Court action as her ex-manager claims breach of contract. Roger Pearson reports.
Teen star Charlotte Church and her parents are heading for a High Court showdown with Jonathan Shalit, her former manager and promoter.
Charlotte, now 14, found fame after an appearance on the Jonathan Ross Big Big Talent Show at the age of 11. She has since become a millionairess, but is being sued along with her parents by Shalit, who was sacked as the young soprano's manager earlier this year.
run to £5m. He accuses Charlotte of breaching their agreement, and James Church, who is her adoptive father, and her mother, Maria, of failing to do their best to prevent her ditching the deal.
Shalit says he was appointed as Charlotte's exclusive manager in March 1998, initially for three years until March 2001. He says this was later extended to run to June 2002, and that he was to receive up to 20 per cent of her income as commission in respect of her work.
However, his claim says that solicitors for Charlotte wrote to Shalit in January this year claiming that his management deal was unenforceable and telling him that he should no longer consider himself to be her manager.
Charlotte was the youngest solo artist ever to enter the Top 30 US album chart. She was also the youngest female singer ever to reach the Top 40 in the UK's pop and classical charts.


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90s star Eric Gable goes "Straight From My Heart" on vaulted single
Photo courtesy of Orpheus Entertainment
(April 9, 2021) If you were a soul music fan in the late 80s and early 90s, you definitely knew the name Eric Gable. An expressive singer with a big voice, he show all the way to #1 with his hit "Remember (The First Time)," and had a bunch of radio friendly cuts for the next half decade.
Now Orpheus Entertainment is putting together some of Eric's best cuts – and making them available digitally for the first time – on the new album Straight from My Heart. This is smooth soul at its finest, and the collection includes a song that sounds perfect for Adult Soul radio in 2021. It is a real treat to have this music avaialble again on the new album.
Produced by the legendary Paul Laurence, "I Can Make You Feel Good" is a perfect nighttime jam and a display of an artist at the top of his game. Check it out below (and listen to clips from the entire album), and welcome this classic artist back into your life.
Eric Gable – "I Can Make You Feel Good"
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HOW TO MAKE A COFFEE SHOP DRINK HEALTHIER!
Most coffee shops (Starbucks especially) are great at adjusting your order to your likings! Not only you can change the amount of espresso shots and the type of milk you're adding to your coffee (naturally the lower-fat milk options, and especially the almond milk which is only 40 calories a cup, lower your drink's calorie count)!
You can also adjust the amount of sugary syrup pumps in your coffee! For instance a regular flavored drink usually comes with 4 pumps of a syrup. Well, I usually drink my favorite coffee mocha with just 2 shots of mocha syrup. I still get the decadent chocolate flavor, but with only half the sugar!
Well, it took me awhile to get my tastebuds to adjust! At first the less sugary drink didn't taste as good as the original one! But after a few weeks with the 3 shots and then a few more weeks with just the 2 shots, I started loving it! In fact – give me the 4-shot original now – and I'll hate tasting all that excess of sugar!
Skinnier versions of the sugary drinks aren't only made with the skim milk. They're usually made with the artificially sweetened syrups or powders! If you have diabetes or in a danger of developing it – these versions are probably the only way for you to go.
Yet, if you're a regular healthy person – think twice before getting used to indulging on the skinny drinks! The artificial sweeteners used in most of them aren't the healthier stevia-based ones. It's usually the Splenda or Sweet-n-Low which contain the no-good for you aspartame.
And here's my little trick: I usually carry a few stevia packets in my purse. This way I can "readjust" a drink that isn't sweet enough by adding a healthier 0-calorie alternative to it!
Smaller size = less sugar & calories! Daah! 🙂 Just in case if you just HAVE to have the original version of that drink (with all those pumps in it) – treat yourself for it! But make it a Tall, or even a kid-size if you can!
Well, how else would you really know which drinks are better for you than the others? Not only the coffee shops have to provide you with the breakdown of calories, they also have to let you know about other nutritional facts, such as sugars and fats in your drinks!
If you're on a strict calorie-budget – let this be your guide!
HAVE A TREAT WITH YOUR DRINK!
…Such as a piece of chocolate. Or some frozen yogurt! Because if you're having your coffee WITH a treat – all you may really need is a strong coffee-flavor! Seriously – even if your coffee is barely sweetened, you'll feel like having a decadent snack if you're having something to sweet to chew on along with it!
I LOVE having my coffee at frozen-yogurt or gelato shops! (These photos were taken in my favorite Fatamorgana – a healthy gelato-parlor here in LA)!
In fact – this last trick is my most favorite way of taking a coffee-treat break! I actually don't remember last time when I had a coffee on it's own! OK, maybe a few weeks ago when I wanted to taste a seasonal favorite! Otherwise – it's always a coffee AND a treat! YUM! 🙂 So, what did you think? Can you now believe that a healthy-er Coffee Shop outing is possible? And what's YOUR favorite way of treating yourself at a coffee shop? Don't hesitate to share what you like in the comments below!
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Q: Ignore unkown values in Keras model.fit I'm trying to learn my computer to play Snake using deep learning in Keras. My model tries to predict the total reward each of the four actions will give. Because the agent only takes one action, only the true value of one of the four predicted rewards is known. This causes problems when calling model.fit, because it wants the true values for each output. I've tried to implement a loss function that ignores the other values, but didn't succeed.
Does anyone know how to do this right?

A: I was able to solve it using the following loss function:
def custom_loss(y_true, y_pred):
    diff = y_true - y_pred
    max_diff = K.max(diff, axis=1)
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and setting each unknown value to a very low and negative one.

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Past|Current|Upcoming
Optimistic People
by Chris Drangle
Issue #224 • December 31st, 2016•Buy Now!
Edited by Will Allison
Soleil was on her way to meet Warren for their first date when she ran out of gas. The engine shuddered on its last fumes, and she looked down the highway at a long stretch of nothing. She was alone on the road, save for one pair of headlights drawing closer in the rearview. She put her hazards on, hoping to coast as long as possible, but the vehicle behind her, a black SUV, raced up to her bumper and stayed there. High beams filled her mirrors. She braked and pulled halfway onto the shoulder, and still it loomed close. Teenage girl, no gas, highway at night—she felt her vulnerability like a chill in the air. But as she rolled to a stop, the SUV swerved and accelerated, finally passing her with a snarl of engine rev. She didn't want to look but did; two men in the cabin stared back, lit red by the instrument panel. The driver had a dark beard.
When the SUV was gone she sat still, waiting for her pulse to calm and trying to convince herself, without much success, that Warren was worth the trouble.
Chris Drangle
Chris Drangle is a writer from Arkansas. He has taught creative writing at Cornell University, where he earned his MFA, and in Kazakhstan, where he did not speak the language. His fiction has appeared recently in Epoch, Crazyhorse, and the Oxford American, and has been recognized with a Pushcart Prize, the Margaret Bridgman Scholarship at Bread Loaf, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship. He lives in Oakland, California.
Will Allison on Optimistic People
This month we're excited to bring you one of the most shocking, suspenseful short stories ever to cross One Story's submission desk: "Optimistic People," by Chris Drangle. Set in rural Virginia, "Optimistic People" is the tale of two teenagers on their first date. Warren and Soleil have plans to meet up in the woods to watch the sunset. Warren is well meaning but dim; as Soleil puts it, "There was a thin line between being good and being a moron, and he straddled it." Soleil is the new, weird girl in town, her parents having fled Washington D.C. to escape a congressional staff assistant turned stalker.
The teens' plans go awry when Soleil runs out of gas en route to the meetup. Meanwhile, Warren stumbles upon two men burying a mysterious something in the woods. Minutes later, we meet friendly, disheveled Tom, whose prayers are answered when Warren unearths the pine box in which Tom has been buried alive.
I'm guessing you've never encountered a character quite like Tom. (If there's such a thing as your typical buried-alive guy, this guy is definitely not it.) I won't spoil the plot by revealing more, but you should know that a man being buried alive is not this story's most chilling plot twist. That comes later, and it unfolds in a fictional slow motion that will have you turning pages with a delicious sense of dread.
Chris Drangle is still new on the literary scene, having published just a handful of stories, but we look forward to seeing a lot more of his work. You can get to know him in our author interview, where Chris discusses techniques of suspense, his fondness for story titles, and the importance of figuring out why the junebug collapses.
Q&A by Will Allison
WA: Where did the idea for this story come from?
CD: As with most stories, I think, the finished product here is an accumulation of ideas—lots of little elements that got added to the pot over a long drafting process—more than it is the result of one big brainstorm. But the originating kernel was one of those odd thoughts that seem to come out of nowhere. You know: you're doing the dishes, trying to change your dishwashing music with your elbow because your hands are wet, wondering how long you can put off going to the grocery store, and suddenly you think, "What if someone found someone else buried alive?"
WA: I think a lot of writers would have chosen a title that referenced the notions of being buried or unearthed, which are so central to the story—but I like it that you went in a different direction. Could you discuss your choice?
CD: I love titles. Love thinking them up, debating good ones and bad ones, listening for all the great titles that pop up everyday in poems, subway ads, news tickers, etc. And so it especially pains me that I can't take credit for this one. An early, very different version was called "Let Me Just Breathe for a Minute," which I still kind of like. Then it was "The Good, True Heart" for a while, and I spent a massive amount of time worrying whether to take that comma out or leave it in. Finally, I had the very good fortune of being in a workshop with Jackie Thomas-Kennedy, who pointed out another phrase from the text that she thought had potential and was completely right. Thank you, Jackie!
If this title works, in the end, I think it's because these really are optimistic characters. Not all of their brands of optimism will (or should) be palatable to those of us with consciences, but they're all thinking through their worldviews. They're trying to make the best of circumstances. So maybe that title is closer to some kind of motivational core, as opposed to the burial/unearthing aspect, which is a mechanism.
WA: What was the most challenging aspect of writing this story?
CD: There were a lot of challenges, but an early and long-lasting one was trying to find the right tone: something that had space for both humor and horror, that could accommodate some decidedly out-of-the-ordinary events without completely departing from verisimilitude. And tone is a slippery yet intrinsic thing; it's not like you can just flip through a bunch of digital filters and pick the one that makes your story's skin look clear.
To switch metaphors—a few years ago George Saunders gave an interview in which he compared writer and reader to motorcycle and sidecar. The writer wants the reader close enough that they can lean into the corners together. He's talking about reader expectations, but I think tone plays into this. Tone tells you which way to lean; the adjectives on page one help determine whether a reader will accept the twist on page 20. It's subtle, maddening work, but that's what so great about having readers and editors you trust: you get to do human testing. "Here, sit in this sidecar while I drive around like a maniac. Holler if the rig breaks and you go flying into space."
WA: The structure of this story is somewhat unconventional in that you have two viewpoint characters. Why did you do this, and how did the dual viewpoints make writing this story different from writing a story with one viewpoint character?
CD: The first draft of the story did not have two point-of-view characters. Warren was the star, and Soleil appeared on one page in the middle, as a complete cliché. In trying to revise her out of cliché-dom, she just became more and more interesting to me, and Warren seemed duller and duller by comparison. So then I tried to complicate his dullness a little, and by then it seemed like an interesting dynamic: two characters with varying levels of pragmatism and self-awareness, visited by a very self-aware and pragmatic lunatic.
I don't think writing dual viewpoints is radically different from writing a story with one, but it is trickier. The sections have to interact in a more sophisticated way than merely existing next to each other. And if the viewpoints are too similar, the characters will feel less substantial, more like puppets that a single narrative intelligence is controlling, without even the courtesy to paint different faces on them. But if they're individuated enough, and the reader buys the viewpoints as coming from discrete humans, then we've got the potential for harmony, dissonance, resonance.
WA: I'd like to nominate the character Tom for the Unforgettable Villains Hall of Fame. Please tell me he's not based on anyone you know.
CD: He is definitely not based on anyone I know! But I think we've all met people like this. Or, hopefully not like this, but people who we sense are bad news, and yet who—it must be acknowledged—possess some kind of inexplicable energy, even a magnetism. To me, that ambivalence is fascinating and frightening. I'd like to believe that if I'm attracted to a personality, it's because that personality is a positive force. But charisma is morally neutral.
WA: This is the most suspenseful story I've read in a long time. What techniques of suspense do you find most useful?
CD: Thank you! You mentioned the dual viewpoints, and that's a great structure for suspense, because the reader can get a relatively whole picture, while a given character sees only a piece of it. Dramatic irony in the most basic sense, right? Think of horror movie tropes—Ramona places her hand on the doorknob to the cellar, and we're terrified because we know that Old Man Jenkins has been feeding something down there...
That said, our level of engagement is directly tied to how much we care about Ramona aside from this cellar beast business. If she's a thinly written stereotype, and we have no emotional involvement, then we're just waiting on the blood and guts, the cheap thrills. So I think some of the most effective suspense-making techniques are things you should be doing in any story—making characters that a reader will care about. You want the tension to be there whether they're being chased through the woods or just suffering through a bad date.
WA: Have any authors in particular influenced your work?
CD: Yes, although I think that process is indirect and mysterious. Sometimes I'll try to "learn" (steal) a particular piece of craft from someone, but more often I'm just reading authors I love, and hoping that some tiny bit of magic will transfer through osmosis. I mentioned George Saunders before. Alice Munro is essential. Toni Morrison is probably the writer who made me want to be a writer—I don't think my ego is quite sturdy enough to claim her as an "influence," but I'd like to eventually be worthy of her influence. Deborah Eisenberg is my favored deity.
WA: How long did it take you to complete this story?
CD: Oh, forever. Four or five years? But that's including drawer time, which is an unsung part of the process. After the first draft, and a lot of great feedback, and some revision, I put the story in a drawer and forgot about it. The next time I took it out, months later, it was clearer to me what needed to change, and how to change it. Drawer time makes it much easier to kill your darlings. I went through that cycle a bunch of times, which is pretty typical for me.
WA: What are you working on now?
CD: Guilty of the standard cliché—I'm working on a novel. It's about heavy metal, New Orleans, and system failures. And sex and death, of course, but all literature is about that.
WA: What is the best bit of advice about writing you have ever received?
CD: I've been the beneficiary of a lot of great writing advice over the years. Can I pick two? The first is a quote I read from Anne Enright, who said that all description is an opinion about the world. That has stuck with me—a reminder that a chipped blue coffee mug looks a certain way to someone who plans to propose to her girlfriend tonight, and another way to someone whose ex-husband overdosed on this day last year. Setting and character are not separate boxes.
The other bit is an offhand comment from an undergraduate poetry workshop I took with Peter Cooley at Tulane. Our class had just finished discussing the elegant style of a student poem in which a junebug attempts to cross a kitchen floor but collapses piteously in the slatted light from the window. We noted the accomplished line breaks, the vivid imagery, the controlled tone—and then fell silent long enough for Dr. Cooley to chime in, marvelously: "But why does the junebug collapse?" He looked around at us. We looked at the table. Someone tapped a pen, someone coughed. "My life is hard," he said, "and I need help. How does this poem help me? Why does the junebug collapse?"
He was being facetious, yes, but I also took the question as a genuine yearning for the merger of style and substance, for work that uses every tool at its disposal to generate empathy, insight, clarity of one kind or another. So I still ask myself that question, as a check against making shiny, hollow things. "What if someone found someone buried alive" is a fun place to start, but sooner or later you have to figure out why the junebug collapsed.


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Vapor IO and The IoT Cloud
Culture / IoT edge computing
10 Mar 2015 4:46pm, by Alex Williams
There's a new cloud on the horizon. It's an Internet of Things cloud that will bifurcate the cloud ecosystem and tie the hardware more closely with increasingly complex workloads across a network of urban embedded micro data centers. That's at least the belief of Vapor IO, a startup created by Anso Labs Founder Cole Crawford, who has his sights on the IoT cloud.
The company launched today at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit with a reciprocal licensing model. With it, OCP Summit is offering Open Data Center Runtime Environment (Open DCRE) and Vapor Open Core Operating Runtime Environment (Vapor CORE), which provide ways to create deeper integrations between workloads and modular hardware environments.
Open DCRE provides the capability to measure factors such as humidity and apply variables correlating to a workload. Vapor CORE offers analytics to optimize workloads across data centers by offering an intelligence layer on top of Open DCRE.
The licensing model is critical for this to work, said Crawford, who is also one of the founders of OpenStack and the former executive director of the OCP initiative. Contributions go back to the community, a tenet of the Linux community. The licensing is based on the patents, not the copyright. That puts it more in line with the IP in the hardware. The rationale: If you stop at the hardware, it becomes implausible that a data center can be "software-defined," Crawford said. You need to look lower into the critical environments so workloads can be better managed.
The issue becomes critical when considering the lack of integrations in data center environments; for instance, how different server makers run different versions of the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI). The IPMI incompatibility often means a lot of work for the data center operator to integrate different environments and correlating workloads.
For example, it becomes a problem to know the real power consumption of different workloads across multiple data centers. Without that understanding, power gets wasted due to the lack of visibility into these lower level environments.
Today's general purpose data center costs millions to build. They require miles of cabling wire and high overhead costs to keep maintained. But what happens when there are 40 billion connected devices and 40 zettabytes of data, as is projected by 2020? That IoT cloud will require a different architecture that Crawford and his team see as being far more local than what we have now.
This new cloud is built into the urban infrastructure we have already built, Crawford maintains. Low-powered silicon and lightweight instruction sets will be the rule (think ARM mbed). In the world of the IoT cloud, the high-rise data center in downtown cities should instead be returned to office space. The data center will be modular, as close to the data as possible.
As I wrote in TechCrunch in 2013, "The interactions between humans and machines creates a new set of relationships that we are just beginning to understand. We are becoming more machine-like, which changes the way we co-exist with each other. Data, once impeded, now flows in countless ways between people, machines and the infinite abstractions that force us to re-examine everything in our lives."
The shift is going to disrupt how we view any workload imaginable, including containers. The container is far more symbolic of the general purpose data cloud. But containers also have more similarities to compute processes than traditional hosts, which signals a new way we think about compute and the patterns they will take to power workloads. It's a paradigm that will change how we view the way data gets transported and stored to fulfill the tasks that come with a network fabric of connected devices.
Netflix, for example, caches data that the Internet Services Providers then deliver to the customer as a streaming service. That's a model we can expect employed from all forms of devices. The connections and the networks will require the data center to be closer to the data than ever before. So instead of a server farm 200 miles away, there might be a micro data center in your office or even your apartment complex.
Feature image via Flickr Creative Commons.
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THERE are some brilliant deals on holidays to Disneyland Paris right now – and a visit there really doesn't have to break the bank.
Not only can you save on hotel and flight packages, but there's also ways to save on food and drink when you're there, too.
Read on for our guide on how to save on all things Disneyland Paris, including the Eurostar, camping and how to save money on food when you're there.
Wowcher have a deal on a two night stay at the park from £149pp.
Or you can upgrade to three nights at the resort for £229pp.
You'll also get to stay at the four star Vienna Dream Castle or the Vienna Magic Circus hotels when you're there. Click here to book.
Flights are included too and depart from Gatwick, Luton, Bristol and Stansted airports, and are before September 30.
Park tickets aren't included, but there is a 23 per cent discount on them available, with a two night break including park tickets coming in at £249pp.
If you want to visit Paris and take in the sight such as the Eiffel Tower as well as head to Disneyland then this deal from Wowcher is for you.
You'll get two nights in Paris followed by two nights at Disneyland f or £249pp, or you can choose three nights in each destination for £289pp, saving 28 per cent on the normal price of the package. Click here to book.
In Paris you'll stay at the Art Hotel Congres or the Abrial Hotel before heading to the Hotel Kyriad Paris Disneyland for the second part of the break.
Flights from London Gatwick, Luton, Southend, Bristol, Manchester and Edinburgh are included.
You also get one day's entry to the park included in the price.
You can save 25 per cent off hotel and park packages as well and get free half board meal plans from this deal from the Disneyland Paris website. Click here to book.
You'll also get a free ferry crossing if you arrive before November 6.
A family of two adults and two children could save £966 with the deal if they choose a three night, four day stay. Book by July 31.
If you're up for planning ahead then you can take advantage of two nights free on holidays from November 7 to December 31.
The deal on the official Disneyland website includes accommodation at a Disney hotel, tickets for both Disney parks and a meet and greet with Disney characters at your hotel – which kids will love.
You'll also get a free Fastpasses for everyone in the party as well as 10 per cent off Disney's meal plans.
The deal last until October 1. Click here to book.
Attractiontix have a deal where you can get up to 46 per cent off day tickets to the park.
Day tickets come in at £38 for children and adults and include Fastpass so you can queue jump at the most popular rides. Click here to book.
You'll also get a 15 per cent off voucher for Planet Hollywood which is located in Disney Village in the park.
You can also get 37 per cent off one day, two park tickets with Attractiontix.
They come in at £55 for both kids and adults and you'll also get Fastpass and a Planet Hollywood discount.
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You can also choose between half board and full board dining.
Food is then included at 23 restaurants across Disneyland Paris and you'll get vouchers to purchase your meals with to keep things simple. Meals include a starter, main and dessert and a soft drink.
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Uncommon weight-loss surgery best for reducing diabetes risk
Biliopancreatic diversion improves insulin sensitivity, but some concerns remain
By Jim Dryden October 3, 2019 October 10, 2019
One of the most frequently performed weight-loss surgeries in the world — Roux-en-Y gastric bypass — is effective, but another procedure rarely performed in the U.S. appears to be more effective at eliminating type 2 diabetes in patients with obesity. A study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis explains why.
As obesity rates climb, so do the number of people receiving weight-loss surgery. One of the most frequently performed weight-loss procedures in the world — Roux-en-Y gastric bypass — is effective, but another procedure rarely performed in the U.S. is more effective at eliminating type 2 diabetes in patients with obesity. A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis explains why.
Conventional wisdom has been that the less common procedure — called biliopancreatic diversion — has been better at reducing diabetes because it typically causes greater weight loss than the more common surgery. But in a small study, the researchers found that biliopancreatic diversion appears to be more effective at eliminating diabetes not just because of greater weight loss but because the procedure itself seems to make patients more sensitive to insulin.
Their findings are published online Oct. 3 in the journal Cell Metabolism.
"Our results help explain the high rate of diabetes remission in patients who have biliopancreatic diversion surgery," said senior author Samuel Klein, MD, director of Washington University's Center for Human Nutrition. "These data suggest that we should take a closer look to see whether it might be a better option for some bariatric surgery patients."
The researchers compared the effects of the two surgeries on insulin and glucose sensitivity in patients who, after their operations, lost 20 percent of their body weight.
Insulin is the hormone that helps the body keep blood sugar under control. Being more sensitive to insulin allows cells in the body to use glucose in the blood more effectively and helps lower blood sugar.
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery makes a patient's stomach smaller by sewing parts of the stomach together to create a pouch about the size of an egg. That pouch then is connected to the upper section of the small intestine, bypassing a small portion of the upper intestine.
Biliopancreatic diversion is a more complicated surgery. And past studies have found that patients who get the surgery tend to have more postoperative complications. In this procedure, the surgeon removes the lower part of the stomach, and connects the upper part of the stomach to the end of the small intestine, close to where it empties into the large intestine. Because so much of the intestine is bypassed, fewer nutrients from food are absorbed into the intestine, putting patients at a higher risk for long-term nutritional deficiencies. So patients must be closely monitored to ensure they're getting adequate amounts of vitamins and minerals.
The less common procedure, however, results in better blood sugar control and higher rates of diabetes remission than Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery. Researchers didn't understand why until, in this study, Klein's team followed 24 patients, half of whom had Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery and the other half, biliopancreatic diversion.
The gastric bypass group in the study had average body mass indexes (BMI) of 48. A person's BMI is calculated using weight and height. A higher BMI increases risk of health problems related to weight; a BMI of 30, for example, is considered obese. Those who had biliopancreatic diversion had average BMIs of 56.
The surgeries were performed at Catholic University in Rome. The operations were done overseas because biliopancreatic diversion is more commonly performed in Italy. In the U.S., some 228,000 bariatric surgical procedures were performed in 2017. Fewer than 3% were biliopancreatic diversion.
After surgery and a 20 percent loss of body weight, the study patients' metabolic reactions to meals were measured, with close attention paid to their glucose levels, sensitivity to insulin and how much insulin they secreted after eating. The researchers found no difference in the benefit of surgery-induced weight loss to patients' pancreatic function, in terms of insulin secretion, but patients who received biliopancreatic diversion surgery were found to be more sensitive to insulin.
Klein noted that while the patients had obesity, none had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. The study was structured that way because the researchers wanted to independently measure the insulin sensitivity after a meal, without potential complications caused by diabetes medications.
"This study demonstrates that biliopancreatic diversion has unique, beneficial effects on insulin action, independent of any weight loss," he said.
As to whether that surgery should be preferred because of these findings, Klein said that's less clear. The main consideration, he said, should be patient safety.
"This study demonstrates additional metabolic benefits from biliopancreatic diversion, compared to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass," he said. "But the type of bariatric surgery performed on any individual patient depends on many considerations, including an assessment of the effectiveness and safety of the procedure, patient preference, and the surgeon's experience."
Klein, the William H. Danforth Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Science and chief of the Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Science, added that Roux-en-Y gastric bypass provides considerable benefits in helping people lose weight and in treating type 2 diabetes but does not have the weight-loss-independent benefits on insulin sensitivity of biliopancreatic diversion.
Harris LA, Kayser BD, Cefalo C, Marini L, Watrous JD, Ding J, Jain M, McDonald JG, Thompson BM, Fabbrini E, Eagon JC, Patterson BW, Mittendorfer B, Mingrone G, Klein S. Biliopancreatic diversion induces greater metabolic improvement than Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. Cell Metabolism, published online Oct. 3, 2019.
This work was supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Grant numbers DK101578, DK56341, DK20579, UL1 TR000448, TR000450, T32 HL130357, K01 DK116917, S10 OD020025, R01 ES027595 and HL20948. Additional funding was provided by the Pershing Square Foundation.
Samuel Klein is a shareholder of Aspire Bariatrics, receives research funding from Merck Research Laboratories and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, and serves as a member of the Merck Global Diabetes and Metabolism Scientific Advisory Board.
Washington University School of Medicine's 1,500 faculty physicians also are the medical staff of Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children's hospitals. The School of Medicine is a leader in medical research, teaching and patient care, ranking among the top 10 medical schools in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. Through its affiliations with Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children's hospitals, the School of Medicine is linked to BJC HealthCare.
Originally published by the School of Medicine
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Alice Copping (14 May 1906 – 16 January 1996) was senior lecturer in nutrition, Queen Elizabeth College, University of London. She was born in Stratford, New Zealand.

Copping attended Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and graduated as Master of Science in 1926. She was awarded the Sarah Ann Rhodes scholarship the following year, and did two years of research work under J. C. Drummond at University College London. She then returned to New Zealand to lecture at the School of Home Science, University of Otago for a year, before returning to London to work in the Division of Nutrition at the Lister Institute.

Copping was employed as the editorial assistant of the periodical Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews from its inception in 1931, and for a period of nearly 20 years worked solidly for the Institute on research on topics such as Vitamin B complex, bread and wheat products, and wartime diets.

In 1949 she was employed on the staff of Queen Elizabeth College, and became a senior lecturer during her time there. Copping was a consultant on nutrition education for the Food and Agriculture Organization/World Health Organization symposium in 1959, and in 1961 acted as chairman of programme for the Third International Congress of Dietetics in London.

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 Encyclopedia of New Zealand 1966: Expatriates - Biographies - Alice Copping

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It is a black colored mobile with an 18:9 display. This 4G phone really looks awesome, and is available at an affordable rate.
The IPS touchscreen is 5.7 inches in size and its resolution is 1440 by 720 pixels.
With rear (13MP) and front (16MP) camera, you will enjoy automatic scene recognition capability. You can add various effects, including, panorama, bokeh and super pixel.
Stream movies or do any task. This mobile is packed with Qualcomm Snapdragon, 1.4 GHz processor.
2900MAH battery causing no limitation to your everyday usage.
Android version 7.0 (Nougat) offers several customization features, doze mode and multi-window options.
Fingerprint Sensor for unlocking phone in less than one second.
It is another Smartphone that enables you to enjoy 4G internet connection.
The primary camera works with 13MP, 78° lens and 1.12 microns. In addition to it, Auto focus system adds more fun to your photography session. Beautification and Burst mode will also help you to have crisp, stunning photos.
This model has 5.5-inch touchscreen, having good resolution (1280 by 720 pixels) and color supporting system (16M).
It offers an attractive handset with shiny metal finish. Both Fine Gold and Iron Gray have sophisticated look.
You can avail this 4G Smartphone in three different colors- Crown Gold, Space Grey and Matte Black.
Capture more than one Ultra HD image consecutive, and then merge them. The rear camera can capture 32MP photos, and you will get shaper images. Moreover, Smart Screen Flash gets activated automatically while there is dim light and you want to click selfies.
This option is enabled to make you voice calls more amazing. While you can call your friend, you will still be able to access Internet connection.
Run a particular application as 2 separate apps. You may also open 2 accounts for accessing to a particular social platform.
If you are one of the mobile game or movie enthusiasts, this model is right for you. The display size is 5.5 inches, and you comfortably do your own work.
The mobile has ultra slim body, and its large screen make the product more eye-catching. Its metal body is also shiny and is very light in weight.
The rear camera works with 13MP and it has the ability to capture crisp images. It has integrated PDAF and fastest focusing ability. You will also get the option to edit photos.
Enjoy movies for eleven hours or play games for sixteen hours. If you use the mobile only for voice calls, you can use it for thirty five hours. The mobile works with 3080mAH Li-ion battery.
Internal memory has the capacity of holding 16GB data, and it is expandable to 128GB.
So, these are popular 4G Smartphone models, which are presently available at a price below Rs 10000. We have reviewed of each of these mobiles in help you in choosing the right one. We have picked the mobiles, only from the reputed brands.
Honor 6X from Huawei is hands down the best camera phone at this price range. Find out why.
Honor 6X has a 5.5-inch full HD display and the IPS LCD screen allows decent color saturation even when viewed under direct sunlight. The touchscreen comes with an oleophobic coating which avoids accumulation of oil and grease from your fingertips.
The camera is the best feature of this phone. The 12 MP + 2 MP dual back camera takes pictures in SLR mode by blurring the background. Get your favorite bokeh effect with the help of its wide aperture range of f/0.95 and f/16. There are dedicated modes like panorama, good food, light painting, time lapse etc. as well as well as manual mode where you can adjust the ISO, shutter speed, focus, white balance, exposure etc. The 8 MP front camera takes pretty great selfies too.
Honor 6X runs on a 2.1 GHz Octa-Core Kirin 655 Processor which can handle day to day tasks with ease and doesn't heat up the phone. It is also armed with a 3340mAh battery that can easily outlast a day of moderate to fairly heavy usage.
It has two variants of RAM 3 GB and 4 GB.
Two variants of internal storage is 32GB and 64 GB.
It cannot pull off graphic intensive gaming smoothly.
The loudspeaker is low on volume.
Doesn't have fast charging option.
This is another great 4G smartphone from Lenovo that even comes with VR technology.
Lenovo K6 Note comes with a 5.5-inch full HD display. The IPS display is sharp and bright with vibrant color reproduction.
The 16 MP primary camera comes with PDAF and focuses very quickly. The phone can record videos in 1080p. The 8 MP front facing camera gives a good selfie experience.
Lenovo K6 Note comes with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 Octa-Core chipset coupled with either 3 or 4 GB RAM. Performs well in day to day use and handles graphic rich gaming well. The phone comes with a massive 4000mAh battery and allows 1.5-2 days battery life of moderate to fairly heavy usage.
It runs on Android Marshmallow 6.0.
It supports VoLTE out of the box.
Speaker is equipped with Dolby Atmos.
Not protected by Corning Gorilla Glass.
Like the name suggests Asus Zenfone Selfie is one of the best camera phones for taking great selfies. The overall design is identical to the Zenfone 2 series from Asus.
It has a 5.5-inch HD display with Corning Gorilla Glass 4 protection and oleophobic coating.
The front facing 13 MP secondary camera comes with dual toned dual LED flash. The primary camera is again a 13 MP shooter with laser autofocus and dual toned dual LED flash. Manual mode allows users to control all aspects like an SLR.
Asus Zenfone Selfie carries 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 octa-core processor and 3 GB RAM. Handles daily activities and gaming smoothly. The 3000mAh battery requires 2.5 hours charging time but the battery life easily outlasts a day.
4G connectivity on both SIM.
Runs on Zen UI which is highly customizable and responsive.
It comes with Android 5.0 Lollipop out of the box.
Does not offer 1080p display.
This is another 4G smartphone coming from the well-known brand of HTC.
It comes with a 5.5-inch 720p display with a 67.9% screen to body ratio.
The primary camera is a 13 MP shooter that takes crisp and clear images especially in outdoor lighting conditions. The 5 MP front camera takes really good selfies.
The phone has 1.3 GHz Octa-core Mediatek MT6753 chipset, 16 GB storage, 2 GB RAM and Mali T720 GPU. It does not heat up much while gaming. Day to day functioning is smooth and switching between apps is very quick. The 2800mAh battery does not perform as well as the other devices on this list so if battery life is your biggest concern, don't go for this.
Great built with premium feel.
Memory expandable up to 2 TB.
Great audio with Dolby support.
Comes with Android 5.1 out of the box.
Does not have full HD display.
Does not have Corning Gorilla Glass protection.
This is a great budget option for a 4G smartphone at a low price from a flagship brand like LG.
The phone has a 4.7-inch HD display with scratch resistant glass and it is ideal for those who prefer smaller, lighter models.
The primary camera is an 8 MP shooter while the front facing camera is only 1.3 MP. Camera features include geo tagging, auto focus, touch focus and face detection. The camera records full HD videos at 30 fps.
It has a 1.3 GHz Quad-core ARM Cortex A7 chipset, 1 GB RAM and 8 GB internal memory. The 2100 mAh Li-ion battery has good battery life easily lasting over 24 hours.
Front facing camera is of poor quality.