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Silent Pocket CEO, Aaron Zar, Talks with the Shared Security Podcast
If you're looking for a text version of our CEO's latest conversation with the Shared Security Podcast then look no further! This details our approach to digital privacy, how we got to where we are today and some of our future plans. Read on!
Tom Eston: You're listening to this shared security podcast exploring the trust you put in people, apps and technology with your host, Tom Estin.
Joining me on the show is Aaron Zar, co-founder and CEO of Silent Pocket. Welcome to the show, Aaron.
Aaron Zar: Thanks for having me Tom. It's a pleasure.
Tom: Yeah, glad to have you on. Well, Silent Pocket has been a longtime sponsor of the show. So first of all, Aaron, thank you for supporting the show. And I'm really excited to be speaking with you today.
Aaron: Yeah, likewise. I mean, it's an easy decision for us. We have a product line. You have a captive audience. You believe in the product. And at the end of the day, it a tool that everyone and anyone can use on a daily basis. Thanks for having us.
Tom: As I always say on the show, you guys make really good high-quality products. And that's an important thing of the sponsors of the show. You know, we actually use the product and I'm not going to recommend something that is not useful for our listeners. And it's great that you guys are producing really great products.
Aaron: Yeah. And they look at exceptional, don't they?
Tom: I agree. I completely agree with you. So that's.
Aaron: Yeah, that's part of it. You know. Yeah, I want to look good. They don't want to wave the flag or what's going on. We're big fans of aesthetics.
Tom: So, being the CEO of a company that sells products focused on privacy, what are your thoughts on the current state of digital privacy in this crazy world we live in?
Aaron: To be honest, I'm quite hopeful. I think there's an abundance of tools that we could use these days. Obviously, the connectivity of technology has changed the entire scope of our planet and beyond, and that allows us to really, in my opinion, the way I look at it's like, well, the world used to be so vast and now it's tiny. It's very accessible. And I think there's a lot of big benefits of that that make life better.
And obviously, I think there's a lot of downsides that looks like, man, I wish I didn't have to use a cell phone in my life. That would be incredible for me. But this current state, to answer your question, I'm hopeful. I think that there are members of younger generations that are seeing the output of content and how that relates to their lives and what they can and choose not to put out there. And with that, there's a lot of useful tools that anyone can adopt to make their life a little bit more private and secure.
But obviously attending shows like Def Con, which we did this year and speaking with an amazing group of people, such captain, cool audience, very eclectic, highly intelligent, and just finding out the tidbits of what's really going on behind the scenes. It looks pretty sketchy.
Tom: Yeah, yeah. Especially at Def Con where everybody is trying to hack everybody else. You know, you have the good guys, the bad guys, everybody showing up in Las Vegas of all places. Right.
Aaron: Yeah. It's like a petri dish of just Action. It's absolutely nuts. But, specifically on privacy and security, there's a lot of things that are happening that have been going on for years and longer than I've been alive. And legislation and laws and in government, things take time to kind of surface where once maybe viewed as paranoia now are kind of front of mind for people in terms of what's going on with big data and companies. And how can an individual that's a teenager, mid 20s or young 30s, professional or older generation, really kind of mesh into this connected world and how we could find a balance and strike it and not live in fear mongering and paranoia and just accept the reality of it and view it as an opportunity to implement tools and best practices to manage that and mitigate risks and threats. I'm very optimistic and it lives in a lot of different categories. I think it's a pivotal time to work, but people have their eyes open a little bit wider.
Tom: Yeah, those are really good points. And one of things I hear a lot from. I think the younger generation is "I got nothing to hide". "You know, who cares about my privacy?" And the one I love to hear is "privacy is dead." How do you respond to people that have kind of that that connotation of privacy?
Aaron: it's such an easy you know. It is. I just think it's a cop out.
I think it comes down to laziness and not wanting to delve any deeper than the surface. And people just want to have inherent trust in the use of these big brands that give be these great services.
That's all fine. But if you view it differently and you say, OK, yeah, privacy is nowhere near dead. I think it's just begun. I think this should be viewed as an opportunity to take the reins of your own life, your own small business or for governments to look at things. I see it as an opportunity and people want to give up because they're lazy. Damn, it's not easy to combat or control. It's a full-time job to try to make yourself off the grid. Like, how do you even do that? I've listened to your podcasts, listen to other podcasts. We as a company love to surround ourselves and work with the authorities and the professionals that are really on the forefront of privacy and security. And learn from them. But if you implement every single tool or trick or software or product, no one has time for that. So, what I like to tell people when they say, oh, privacy is dead or I have nothing to hide is: One, OK, there's tools that you can implement day one that are comparable to the free software that just harvest your information that you can implement that are great.
And we didn't that wasn't around five years ago; for example, like Proton Mail. Now, if people have nothing to hide, that's B.S. Everyone has something to hide. No one wants to air out their laundry publicly. It's like if you look up at a billboard and your entire digital rolodex of contact information and emails and pictures and everything was displayed in a big city like Los Angeles or New York. Would you stand down there and be proud of every bit of that thing? Anything can be taken out of context. Anything can be played a certain way. And I think we should be damn proud to live in democracies where you could have freedom of speech and have privacy, because a lot of the world doesn't have that. So, when people are too lazy to implement something, I just think it's unfortunate. It kind of goes hand-in-hand. I view it as a people that don't vote. We're lazy.
Tom: Yeah. That's so true. You know, the other thing I like about your products and just your message, right, is mind the grid. And you really think about what that means is using your products to take yourself off the grid. And I would assume there's people that just instead of you know, maybe going for a hike in a remote area. Stick your phone in a Faraday bag. Right. And don't even have to worry about it anymore. Are you seeing more people using your products for that type of getting away from the craziness of wireless and mobile devices?
Aaron: like urban camping?
Tom: Yeah. Urban camping.
Aaron: Yeah. You know, it's. And just to backtrack a little bit on the laziness, it's not that everyone's lazy. There's just a lack of education.
And people need to have help on implementing these things. Everyone has their individual set of problems in life. I'm not trying to downplay that. People are lazy in general. It's such a blanket statement that it's more so. "Hey, take a little time to listen to one podcast or listen to or read one article and process that and think how you can implement a couple of things." And if you try to conquer the whole mountain at once, it's defeating. You'll never do it. So, it's the same way. Anything in life, you just take it bit by bit or step by step.
Then you eventually get to a place where you could have a lot of benefit and it's fine. As I've gotten older, it's that I always want immediacy or instant gratification. And now it's like, OK, well, what do you need a rush for?
Because if you plan on being around on this planet for a while, slow down. Take the steps. Have good rituals that get you to a place ultimately where you have a great headspace and you have great efficiency in your work and you have great relationships.
As far as mind the grid, that's it's such a cool model that we go by. And one of my old interns, Alex came up with. We just had a brainstorm session. He was like, "How about Mind the Grid." And I was like, wow, I instantly loved it. And we went to CES that year, and like two weeks before, printed everything with mind the grid.
What I liked about it was that It just is designed to provoke thought.
Eliminating all these extra words that Americans like to put in, and stripped down to mind the grid. OK, what's the grid? We all know what that is. And how do we be mindful around it? How do we really view our relationship as man and device? That's how I see like everyone could start off by thinking about it.
And there's so many inherent problems with that. From what our products serve and I know you originally went back to like our people doing it outside of camping, but it comes down to disconnecting from your phone.
That's step one. You disconnect from your phone. You don't have a phone. Then all of a sudden, your eye muscles aren't as lazy from you looking down and they're stronger and they look straight up. They look across like they're designed to do at another person. So, you start having more real conversations. And I think that plays over into any relationship in your in your life. For kids, your family, to your wife or your husband. Of course, your friends.
Then you just you could keep going down the rabbit hole for every application about how your phone or any connected device really plays in your life and has a tendency to jeopardize what we're truly about. So, mind the grid is a massive thing that I view and we like dissect it and use different regards and how we've used it to be more applicable as a marketing tool is to use it in like how great would it be if anyone right now could just step outside what they're doing and go hike in nature and not have a phone and smell the trees and listen to the birds and feel the sun jump in the water or whatever.
That's where people want to be. People want to be like or maybe not all the time, but that's a huge general statement. I feel like we all have this desire to have a different relationship outside of being plugged in and in an urban setting or in metropolitan city areas. There's plenty of time to use Faraday products. You could put your phone in there for 15 minutes and have good posture and meditate. And right now, I told you before we started it, I'm sitting in an infrared sauna next to a meditation room. And after this, I'm just going to take a little break. Half an hour break from my electronics, read a little bit and meditate. And if we practice that throughout our day, then we're just getting way better off. So, disconnecting from your phone for any of those reasons is great. Coupled with that, there's a big rise in EMF, electromagnetic frequencies, radiation, thermal heat, extremely low frequencies that come from your phone, and just how that's affecting our body as we are bombarded.
Smart meters used to be a big thing. I was living in San Francisco at the time. And there's this big rise of "OK, we have a natural electricity in our body." Fine. But you know how we rule, how we were designed to have a laptop on her lap. And I mean, it's called a laptop for me and then a cell phone glued to our hand.
So that's an area that we used to make products that were specifically tailored towards radiation. And it's definitely a semi controversial area where we play much more in the privacy and security.
But in other relations, you know, privacy and security is massive. We make laptop Faraday bags. If you're not using your laptop, why wouldn't you not put it in a Faraday bag that not only is going to protect it from cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS RFID, EMP, solar flare, EMF, anything like that. Peace of mind alone is worth it. And they look good We make them in leather or waterproof nylon.
So, you're carrying something that is super durable and has this cool added feature on the inside that no one else know about, but ultimately allows you to clear your space in your head. And you know the listeners of your show or are surrounded by I.T. security and privacy. It's like the lifeblood and being at shows like Def Con, it's amazing. Like if that show could just continue every single day and that we are there selling products and we had a vendor booth, our business would be colossal. It's crazy because it's such a captive audience. They already understand the need. And that's what where we get a lot of validation for our product. Shows like that for people that are on the forefront of privacy and security and then our rolodex of customers that we sell our products to. It's amazing to see the validation. We're like, wow, this is incredible for these very focused industries and these very focused use cases and how we as a company internally view those and why we are so adamant about pushing mind the grid and pushing outwards with any individual to use one of our products
It's kind of a long-winded way, but I have a lot of thoughts on it and we're very passionate about making good looking products that have more value add to them.
Tom: So how did you start Silent Pocket? What was the initial kick off of that?
Aaron: So, co-founder, because My father originally came up with the idea in the late 90s. He has such a vivid imagination and mind and always been ahead of his time. He said so many different ideas and he has other patents throughout the 80s. And this was an idea that I remember being, I'm thirty to be thirty-six this year, So in the late 90s.
He used to be in textiles. So, he had materials and he was just had raw materials cloaking his phone, like wrapping it around. "How cool is this? I could just. It's a dead zone for your phone." And he's kind of showing it to me and I'm a kid. I mean, I'm in junior high school. But I had no concept, I didn't have a cell phone. And I don't think I was alone in that thought. He was viewed among his peers. As like being paranoid. What are you worried about? What are you talking about? And this was early on.
And flash forward to two thousand and seven and eight. He started prototyping and sampling some pouches. Really simple. That's where the name Silent Pocket came from.
It was originally designed for a suit pocket. So, the same dimensions as like the inside of a coat jacket. So, any person doing business that was something that had a cell phone at the time would slide your phone. You could enter a meeting, you could enter any situation, you could travel from point A to point B and be off the grid. And that was all the start of it from an idea that was too young for its time to, you know. 2008 is still young for its time, adopted by people living and breathing in I.T. and privacy and government armed forces.
But since then, I got involved in 2009, we worked together to rebrand the product and clean it up a bit. There's so many different use cases that I could rattle off that it gets very convoluted on how to describe the product. So, we really focus on privacy and security. It's like, OK, there's a suite of tools and I applaud you, Tom, for giving people more knowledge and ways to implement tools in our daily life. I use these apps using software. We view ourselves as one component of that. So, if you view something as a circle, you implement all these.
And we're kind of the final gap because if we don't have devices, if we didn't have this type of technology, we wouldn't need any of this stuff. So, to temporarily remove your phone from any situation by means of a Faraday bag or Faraday sleeve is beautiful. To add that into your arsenal, tools to help yourself out daily is key. I saw that and my dad saw it and we just focused on privacy and security. He's not involved in the company anymore outside of being a great adviser and a huge champion.
Now it's 10 years later. That's crazy. Things are just organic and slow. And that's when a patent was filed. Now we have an issued utility patent on our product, which is great. And the beauty of it is that our products are very thin and very sleek and have mechanical action that make them really easy to embed in anything. It's been a really cool journey.
I wasn't in privacy and security by any means prior to this. I used to sell high end wine.
And I guess my claim to fame is how I cut my teeth cold calling. I struggled and how cold calling really changed the demeanor and the direction of my entire life.
Tom: cold calling is hard.
Aaron: Oh my god. Talk about just being whittled down. It's funny. It's not an easy thing. And it's probably more seldom done these days. I was started off around that same time 2008-2009-2010 and was selling high end wine direct to consumer.
But I also grew up listening to Jerky Boys. They just they just push the boundaries. They push the envelope on what was capable over the phone. And if you take a sliver out of their book, or a whole page. It's like you're never going to meet these people.
It's a game of getting what you want and through a great management team. Living in San Francisco, it just really helped me out a lot. I was a little bit more sedated, I'd say, and it really helped me cut my teeth in terms of business manner and put me on the path for "Like you really could do anything that you want," a little bit cliché to say, but you know, you put your mind anything you could pull it off. Like there's always an answer to get through something and gave me a lot of confidence. At that point, that's when I switched into Silent Pocket, where it was a bit plateaued and there wasn't much being done with it.
I've just been running with it. It's great where we're in now with so many different products and a lot of variations of our patented product. Which we use the same design for a laptop and we use the same design for a key fob bag and we use the same design for hardware wallet for cryptocurrency and we use the same design for cell phone and use the same design for a lot of different stuff. So, it's really cool. It's very universal. We're in a good place. 2019 is beautiful. Great for business, man. A lot of things happening in the world are terrible, but at least people have more transparency in terms of what is really going on. And we just want to integrate into people's lives, into business lives.
Tom: What are some of the other kind of I guess I'd call them the bare essentials, right, for your product line that just the average person you're even taking out like a security privacy professional, right? Like at DEFCON?
Aaron: Yeah, certainly when we make wallets as well. I mean, that's kind of men and women for the most part. I mean, as things become more digital. People usually carry like an I.D. and a card in their phone. But we make wallets kind of on the tip of the iceberg, so to speak.
We address. What do people want? They don't want some bulky, clunky Costanzo wallet. Some people do. And more power to you, if you want to carry that much stuff, but we make very minimal designed wallets that are very thin and we use RFID material, so we got you protected on that
Once they click their mind over from like RFID protection and more, they kind of jump to financial. I work hard for my money. I need to protect that or my passport data or transportation, car door entry, a card and bundle that end. Then their mind really starts to click on OK. Well, if I'm worried about this title plastic thing with a chip.
What should I think about next? Like we're cyborgs. What's the extension of our body? It's our cell phones, our smartphones.
So how do we get that out of our hand and take moments throughout our day or once a month or whatever? I'd say any of the wallets are great. We use real cow grain leather. They're handmade. They're awesome. They're cost effective. And then a cell phone sleeve.
A lot of different applications for that. If you're traveling, traveling is great use case for us. It's like all you have to do is get on the plane and go and everything falls away and a lot of things do fall away. But what you gain when you land somewhere else is like, oh, OK, I'm going to a different country. There's a different set of laws, different government, different border crossings, rights and rules. It's important to be able to have something to safeguard your information, and like we have a backpack out now, and you drop in any electronics. It is TSA compliant and scans like a normal product, but at least you put your phone in there and you're just protecting your information from being read without your knowledge or out your consent more so.
Wallet, phone sleeve, And I really love the laptop bags because when you're not using your laptop, it's shut. People don't actually power down or take the battery out. It's really more dormant. Laptops now have like location services. They have Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, everything else. We have found that a lot of people see that connection because with a phone. Well, what if I want to get calls, you know, and I want to be able to pick up my phone and say maybe at night you put it in there or maybe when you're crossing a border, maybe when you're traveling for distracted driving or maybe use it in a meeting. So, you're like, hey, guys, like we're going to talk about confidential shit here, "Let's put our phones in a Faraday bag." That would be a nice feeling. But with the laptop, it's great. They're sleek, they're thin. We have leather and drop your laptop in and you put it inside a backpack or a briefcase and you're just at ease, my friend. Like have a little piece of mine of what would I get done if I didn't have a phone or a laptop?
Tom: The other the other thing I would add, too, is and I talk about I thought once on the show all the time is, you know, the key FOB Guard right of, you know, more and more stories are coming out about cars being stolen or accessed with wireless key fobs. And these are actually real attacks that are going on. You can just Google in the news and you know, another Tesla was stolen or, you know, there's ring videos of people actually using devices to clone key FOBs. You know, that's something I've recommended to people to especially maybe people that have higher end cars like a Tesla that are hot targets for theft. You know, that's something that definitely people should be concerned about.
Aaron: 100 Percent. And it's because it kind of just bloomed overnight. Like this isn't real. It's like, why isn't it real? It's not that hard to understand. Relay attacks to cars are happening. And you could stop that day one for the most part by utilizing one of our Faraday sleeves.
We make the same Faraday sleeve as a laptop sleeve is like 13 or 15 inches. And we boil that all the way down to an extra small size that fits your key ring and your keys and your key fob or small enough for just your key fob. And they look good. They're super discreet and they work to drop in your purse, drop in your bag, place inside instead of just hanging your keys at the door in the key fob.
You know, we're starting to work with different car manufacturers for these types of problems as well. It's not exact thing where a car manufacturer wants to like wave the flag and be like "Hey, our keys aren't secure." But even more so in the automotive industry is mechanics and working, you know, remote start engines. And we have several different customers where we make products that abide by OSHA laws where you put your key inside. So, there's no accidental human error by remote starting the engine and having physical harm. You're talking about a key FOB that has a lot of gaps in it in terms of what it could cause, like there's a ripple effect there. What I love about these textiles that we have and Silent Pocket brand, is that we could essentially take the same product and apply it so many different industries and we're trying to have pillars of our company kind of represent these different issues.
But the majority of what we're going for is getting back to like minding the grid. It's like, OK, if we start there, conceptualize why you would want to adopt a product that blocks wireless signal and then kind of sort it out where it fits into your life. You know, I think the people that listen to this podcast will be like "Faraday Bag, I know what that is." Like everyone does.
Unfortunately, not everyone knows what it is. And I don't think people need to know what it is really like. Silent Pocket wants to get to the place where we could integrate with larger brands or fashion brands or other products and be that component inside of a product that is Silent Pocket. Like you have this thousand-dollar briefcase. Great. That's amazing. Silent pocket has a section of it where you could put any of your stuff in and it's super secure. How great would that be?
Tom: Any new products that you guys are working on?
Aaron: Yeah, we're always in the lab boiling up some stuff. You'd mention key FOBs and this is a very public setting. And I'm not going to say everything, but basically think about a faraday bag, then we think about how people are resistant to adopting it and how we can close that gap with usability. We're closing that gap by different designs. And we're also learning weekly about different use cases. And some of those are inbound and some of those are outbound. We're like whoa, I didn't even know that was a thing. That's great. Just reiterating our patented design and putting it for different applications. But what I can speak publicly about is our latest product that was on pre-sale, but now it's live as of yesterday.
Our faraday back pack. It's a 20-liter back pack. Pretty simple for the most part. But what we've added in this second version is a secret stash pocket behind like your back that could fit a phone and a passport. That's RFID protected.
The whole inside is all R.F. protected. Drop in multiple devices, laptop, whatever. Roll it down, it's waterproof and it blocks wireless signal as well.
So not just RFID and everyone is like, oh, RFID, it's not RFID, RFID just like, forget that word. It's like radio. And this is actually all encompassing.
And we actually launched it at Def Con and people's eyes got double the size and the validation from the excitement on people. "We're like a Faraday backpack, that's waterproof!"
Was such a cool feeling to. And we sold out. We have our other dry bags as well. Five liter and ten liter dry bags and then more down the pipeline.
Just reiterations and more collaborations. We have some really cool collaborations with powerful brands where we're going to be a feature inside of one of their products. Stay tuned for that. And that's going to open up our world. And I think it's going to be a really cool milestone.
But some of the collaborations we currently have live, we have one in particular with a brand called CASA. They're big in the cryptocurrency space and they have a bunch of different tiers to the software that they provide. But we ship on their Gold member plan, every subscription or how they work. We make a Faraday bag for hardware. Well, so every one of their customers gets a hardware wallet with a Faraday bag that we make in collaboration with CASA to have an extra layer of security over any wireless threats that could happen. You know this just tiny little device is holding your own everything like your entire livelihood.
So, by all means necessary, people need it. Yeah. So that's some stuff that's going on right now. We have a lot of stuff in the works. We're always open to hearing people's thoughts and love to make new products for people.
That's where a lot of our development has come from, from identifying a need, prototyping, making a sample and going from there.
Tom: Yeah. So how can our listeners find out more information or, you know, obviously, you know, silentpocket. com, but that's actually a good question. Like if people do have feedback for you about your products, what's the best way for them to do that?
Aaron: Anywhere you can send a message to us, whether it's social media. I know it seems like Twitter and while we certainly don't have a massive following. But for I think for your listener base, it might be more adopted at Twitter. We'll take any direct message that way, whatever's easiest, really. And we check it all on Instagram or even Facebook. But at the silent pocket dot com, you can sign up for some emails from us and we send them periodically and include exclusive news and discount codes and the latest and greatest. Blogs. You can reply directly to those emails. You can send us an email. sales@silent-pocket.com. Many ways just find us all things silent pocket, @silent pocket and hit us up. We love conversation. We love dialogue.
And we don't champion ourselves as the privacy security experts by any means. But we know how to identify issues. We know how to make great products. And we love to surround ourselves with a community that we could march forward to better people's lives and give people the tools that are much needed. The better they work and the easier they are to use. Then people don't have hesitation with buying them for their themselves, their businesses, or their families.
Tom: Thank you again, Aaron, for coming on the show. This is great. Great conversation. I learned a ton just about the background of the company. And you guys are just doing really cool stuff. And I can't wait to see what the future holds down.
Aaron: Thanks so much for having us, Tom.
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August 2017 saw the 70th anniversary of the Partition of India. The ground-breaking BBC Radio 4 series Partition Voices documented this traumatic time through first-hand testimony, which were then crafted into three 40 minute programmes broadcast on 31 July, 7 and 14 August 2017. All three are available on the BBC iPlayer.
The series has had a legacy of its own as Kavita Puri (presenter) and Ant Adeane (one of the producers) then completed the additional work on the permissions forms, transcripts and content summaries necessary to archive 32 of the audio interviews into the oral history collections here at the British Library. The full interviews are available for researchers in the Library Reading Rooms, and will be launched for online access in 2019.
The Partition Voices collection (reference C1790) sits alongside many existing oral history collections which contain powerful testimonies of migration and the impact of the colonial British past. In what might be one of the last opportunities to gather these testimonies, Partition Voices recounted the first-hand testimonies from British Asians and Colonial British who lived through the partition of India 70 years ago.
The programmes documented the years leading up to the division and the bloody aftermath which saw up to 12 million people displaced and up to one million people killed. The final programme told of the legacy in Britain today, not only for those who lived through it, but for the second and third generations.
In my view the programmes managed the challenging task of reflecting the complexity of experiences: geographically within British India; reflections from women; as well as gathering testimony from many of the communities who lived through it, not only Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus, but also Anglo-Indians, Parsees and Colonial British. I was impressed by the use of personal testimony to weave a compelling narrative which did not shy away from difficult subjects. Here is a glimpse of stories from just four of the narrators.
The series had a wide impact as it brought to the fore this seldom-told but shared history between South Asia and Britain, which provoked reflection on the role and legacy of the British Empire. In reaction to the series many British people spoke of how they did not know about this part of their history, and British Asians – many thousands of whom are descended from families affected by partition – said how the programmes made them think in-depth about the events and legacy of 1947 in their own families and communities.
I'm delighted to announce that Partition Voices has now been recognised by Royal Historical Society, as winner of the both the radio/podcast category and overall Public History Prize 2018. The oral history team have had previous success in the Public History Prize, winning the web category for Voices of Science in 2015.
It was a privilege to attend the award ceremony last Friday to see this series recognised, and hear about so many other admirable and powerful public history projects commended by the RHS.
19th May 1899 is the birth date of Dutch ethnomusicologist Arnold Adriaan Bake [1899-1963].
Today the British Library is launching the first series of recordings from his collection of music from South Asia which has been a great resource for many academics across several disciplines. The British Library is actively engaged with a number of international academics and communities who are working with wax cylinder recordings from the Arnold Adriaan Bake archive to enhance the documentation for these recordings. They are being released in regional batches as research progresses.
The first batch includes recordings from Jharkhand, West Bengal and Bangladesh. These recordings have been the focus of PhD student Christian Poske's research, the author of this blog.
Bauls at the Jaydev Kenduli festival, West Bengal, India, 15.1.1932.
Listen: C52/1757, MP3 "Eman sādher bāgāne āmār" (engl. "In the garden of my desire"): Song performed by three Bauls, vocals with percussion accompaniment (Jaydev Kenduli, 15.1.1932, phonographic cylinder recording by Arnold Bake). This song belongs to the category of dehatattva (lit. 'principles of the body'), the philosophy of the role and function of the human body, perceived as dwelling place of the divine, in attaining spiritual salvation. In its lyrics, aspects of human life are expressed through natural symbolism and personification: the six human sentiments of kāma (lust), krodha (anger), lābh (greed), mada (arrogance), moha (attachment), mātsarya (jealousy), known as ṣaḍṛpu (six enemies) in Indian philosophy, are described as six gardeners with corresponding character traits who influence human nature.
The Dutch ethnomusicologist Dr Arnold Adriaan Bake (1899-1963) was a pioneer in the study of South Asian music and dance. Initially trained in Western music, Bake was perhaps the first Western scholar to fully realise the wealth and diversity of South Asian music and dance traditions, which could be found not only in urban salons, theatres and concert-halls, but also in temples, monasteries, small towns and remote villages, across the sub-continent and at all levels of society. Taking advantage of the latest developments in audiovisual recording technology, and with the devoted help of his wife Corrie, he set about documenting this diversity - from Sri Lanka in the south to Nepal and Ladakh in the north - with unprecedented dedication and energy. The World and Traditional Music Collection of the British Library holds a unique anthology of material recorded by Bake. Its Bake collection spans not only many decades but also many formats of audio and visual material including wax cylinders, tefi-bands, open reel tapes and 16mm black and white and colour silent films, providing a complex and detailed document of music and ritual in South Asia from the 1930s to the late 1950s.
In the course of my AHRC-funded research at SOAS and the British Library Sound Archive, I am studying Bake's fieldwork in Jharkhand, West Bengal and Bangladesh. In the last few months, I have evaluated his audio recordings and silent film recordings from these regions with the support of World and Traditional Music curators, Janet Topp Fargion and Isobel Clouter. Bake's overseas correspondence, which is stored in the India Office Records and Private Papers collection of the British Library, provides much information about his fieldwork. Through an evaluation of these letters, new information related to Bake's fieldwork and recordings has emerged so that previously uncatalogued recordings could be identified.
Presumably, Arnold Bake's interest in Indian music was sparked by the visit of the Indian Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) to the Netherlands in 1920. Having studied Sanskrit and other Asian languages in Leiden and Utrecht, Bake decided to complete his doctoral thesis, a translation of two chapters of the Saṅgīta Darpaṇa, a seventeenth-century treatise on Indian musicology, at Visva-Bharati, Tagore's university in Santiniketan in West Bengal. While completing his thesis at the university, Bake also learned to sing Indian classical music and Rabindrasangit, the songs of Tagore, from 1925 to 1929. After his return to Europe, Bake held lectures on Indian music in Europe, providing practical demonstrations by singing Indian songs. Bake also sang some of Tagore's songs at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin in 1930.
Listen: C52/2022 (song 2), MP3 "Nāi nāi bhay" (engl. "Don't be afraid"): Rabindrasangit, performed by Arnold A. Bake (Berlin, early 1930, phonographic cylinder recording by Georg Schünemann). Tagore originally wrote this song during one of his European journeys in Munich in September 1926, inspired by the struggles of Jatin Das and other leading figures of the Indian independence movement. The song praises the strength of the human spirit in the face of difficulties. In 1935, Bake published a transcription of the song in his book Chansons de Rabindranath Tagore: Vingt-Six Chants Transcripts.
Bake's third fieldwork trip in South Asia was prolonged by the outbreak of the Second World War and took place between 1937 to 1946. His last fieldwork in South Asia took place in 1955-6, centering on Nepal. Bake also found the time to revisit Santiniketan for a few days, where he recorded Indira Devi Chaudhurani (1873-1960), the niece of Rabindranath Tagore, who had helped to establish the music department of Visva-Bharati University. Recorded when she was 82, her rendition of Tagore's song "Katabār bhebechinu" has a striking intensity.
Listen: C52/NEP/71 (song 1), MP3 "Katabār bhebechinu" (engl. "How many times have I thought"): Rabindrasangit performed by Indira Devi Chaudhurani (Santiniketan, 8.3.1956, reel-to-reel recording by Arnold Bake). Tagore originally wrote this song in 1885, modelling its melody after the English folk song "Drink to me only with thine eyes". The Bengali lyrics speak of surrender to the beloved one and are a fine example of how Tagore merged expressions of human and spiritual love in his compositions, inspired by the concept of bhakti (devotion) of Hindu Vaiṣṇavism. In 1961, Bake published a comparative musical analysis of both songs in his article "Tagore and Western Music".
Bake's cylinder recordings of his fieldwork in Jharkhand, West Bengal and Bangladesh in 1931-34 are now available for listening online at British Library Sounds, where they can be listened to for enjoyment as well as for further exploration by ethnomusicologists. Many of Bake's recordings from other South Asian regions still await further evaluation, and thus provide fertile ground for further research.
 Arnold A. Bake, ed., Chansons de Rabindranath Tagore: Vingt-Six Chants Transcripts, Bibliothèque musicale du Musée Guimet. (Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1935).
 Arnold A. Bake, "Tagore and Western Music," in A Centenary Volume: Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1961 (New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1961), 88–95.
2017 is the UK-India Year of Culture. It marks the 70th anniversary of Indian independence and, through a varied programme of projects and events – led by the Ministry of Culture in India, the Nehru Centre and other Indian cultural organisations in the UK and the British Council – aims to highlight India-UK cultural relations. World and Traditional Music will publish several blogs through the year that will spotlight various musical traditions from India through the prism of collections and projects at the British Library. The first is a guest blog from Jyoshna La Trobe.
Jyoshna gained her PhD in Music from SOAS, University of London in 2010, on "Praise singing and the Performance of Ecstasy, in the Purulia District of West Bengal, India". Her collection at the British Library (C1211) comprises over 140 hours of audio and video recordings made primarily as part of her doctoral research and in continued projects to date.
It's been twenty years since I began this journey of researching the music culture of Rāṛh in north east India, particularly kīrtan 'praise music'. Though I had been practicing kīrtan for many years I could not begin to grasp the depth or scope of the music tradition of which I was a part until 2006 when I was able to embark on detailed research for my doctorate at SOAS. Informed by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar's seminal book entitled Rāṛh, translation into English from Bengali in 2004, I ventured to this region with some knowledge of its special significance in Indian history. The mechanics and structure of the kīrtan music, I soon discovered, were unknown to anyone outside the region at the time. Hence my endeavour was to explore how the musicians could create such ecstatic heights of devotional expression.
Kīrtan (Sanskit. kiirtana) comes from the Sanskrit word 'kirt' which means 'loud'. In the panorama of music traditions all around the world, 'loud' calls or chants to the deity can be heard, whether a Hallelujah chorus, a Hari Bolo kīrtan, or any other sacred chant sung by a congregation at a ceremonial gathering. In essence, kīrtan is the musical expression of spiritual longing and a horde of other emotions, all directed to the deity whose name is being sung, through song, chant, music and dance (samgiita). Calling only the name of god or nama kīrtan is also known as marai kīrtan in this region.
My research is not the whole spectrum of Rāṛhi kīrtan, which is too vast to cover, but is focused on Rāṛhi marai kīrtan meaning 'circular' or 'grinding' the name of god. "Marai is not a Bengali word, it is local Purulian or Rāṛh local word, it means to move in a circle, while the internal meaning is 'to grind', for if you grind Hari's name, in your heart, like sugarcane, then it will melt and become nectar for God" (Jagaran Mahato 2007: personal communicaton).
Textually speaking, marai kīrtan could not be simpler: musicians devise a multitude of ways of singing god's name with only two words, Hari Bolo. Hari is the name of god, and bolo means 'speak, say or call'. As a musical structure its complex form is not dissimilar to a western classical or jazz piece with specific instrumental parts, rhythmic patterns, melodic and drum compositions (katan). What sets marai kīrtan apart from western classical music, however, is the continuous or repetitive singing of Hari bolo that melts away any sense of separation between the singer and the sacred name. To achieve this state of 'melting' marai kīrtan is performed without break for many hours, weeks, or even longer. "Kīrtan is a type of music that you can't compare with other types, you can't bind it, you can't make a boundary line or limit it, or say that there is an end to it" (ibid.).
In marai kīrtan, then, one observes chanting, dance and instrumental music, interwoven into one dynamic form of sacred performance that is geared towards arousing devotion.
Chanting the divine names, can inspire a 'supra' aesthetic or 'transcendental' experience, for in Rāṛh, kīrtan's predecessor is the mystical Baul song tradition (Baul is from Sanskrit word batul meaning 'mad' in the sense of 'mad for god'). These ancient Baul mystic songs are full of double entendre masking references to their secret Tantric practices, although understood by those who have been initiated into the intuitional science of Tantra. They represent the earliest form of spiritual culture in the region and possibly the world. [Tantra is Sanskrit for 'liberation from dullness' with Shiva being the adi guru or 'first lord'.] Rāṛh is the homeland of both the Baul and the kīrtan traditions.
Rāṛh or Rāṛho, means 'reddish soil', says local expert, Acaryā Kirtyananda Avadhuta. He says the territory, mostly in Bengal, and border lands of Orissa and Jharkhand, was known as Rāṛh bhum, with bhum meaning "land or country" (1966: personal communication).
Rāṛh existed as one kingdom until the seventh century yet still exists in the memory and imagination of the Rāṛhi people today. Though Rāṛh is one of the most economically impoverished areas in India, it remains extremely rich in music culture with at least five indigenous music genres: kīrtan or praise music tradition; the masked dance of the ancient warrior or Chhau; folk or jhumur songs and dances; Baul or mystical songs and nacini nach or 'dancing girls dance'.
Kīrtan and Social Egalitarianism: Caste - a ranked, hereditary and endogamous group, ordinarily of people of the same occupation - is usually ascribed at birth and is immutable. Even though there is a professional kīrtan caste called the Vaisnavites (such as the Ulda team in the photo on the right) no one is barred from doing kīrtan on the basis of gender, caste, "tribe" (used in an official governmental sense) or social group. Kamaladev from the Lalgar Youth Group, says, "In Hari nam kīrtan there is no question of castes, creed or colour it is open to all, if you come with a pure heart and mind" (2007: personal communication). In a caste society that undervalues "tribal" values, kīrtan can create a sense of equality and respect.
Two years ago, Sanjay Mahato, my research partner, and I became aware of how many local kīrtan groups were singing more rang (popular song melodies) than the traditional Rāṛhi kīrtans. We decided to hold a kīrtan competition and offer prize money as an incentive for these 'teams' (a term the local kirtan musicians use) to continue performing the traditional Rāṛhi kīrtans. We took our inspiration from the late kīrtan expert, Sri Rishi Das, who had shown me a printed poster of a kīrtan competition where his father's group had won second prize. To our utter amazement, 42 kīrtan groups entered into the competition. The teams came dressed in full paraphernalia, with their spotless white, orange or blue dhotis (traditional men's garment), light coloured sashes tied tightly around their waists or hanging loosely around their necks, sandalwood markings on their forehead, and bare feet. Teams generally consisted of three lead singers (mul gayaks), two khol double-sided drum players, and dancers who play large cymbals (kartal), as well as other instruments that have been adapted from western music ensembles, such as the harmonium, clarinet (replacing the traditional bamboo flutes) and the casio keyboard. They came to do kīrtan in the hot summer sun, or in the late midnight hours, depending on the time they had been allocated some travelling long distances in rented trucks, bringing with them their own village supporters. As each team did kīrtan they were assessed by four local judges and me (as the only international observer). These judges were experts in their field and representing north, south, east and west Rāṛh. Each team performed with utmost sincerity, expertise and devotional expression.
While transcribing their interviews, I was deeply touched by their humility and their depth of knowledge. One such team said, "Our team has been running for 52 years, that means my father and grandfather were there. Only people are changing. Our team is continuing generation after generation. It keeps us healthy, our mind peaceful, and in our family life there are no problems because of kīrtan" (Bhubanipur Samkīrtan team personal communication 2016). Another team discussed the social effects of kīrtan,"Kīrtan helps to bind the society, when we are doing kīrtan we are 15 people, it means 15 families are together, all sharing our joys and sorrows. All social problems can be stopped if you do kīrtan" (Dumurbaid Samkīrtan team, personal communication 2016).
The kīrtan team from Amrabera, talked about kīrtan providing solace and "heavenly pleasure" for "through kīrtan we stay in touch with spirituality" (2016 personal communication). Some kīrtaniyas are known to fall into samadhi or 'complete absorption into the divine' and others report that they experience a deep sense of spiritual fulfillment while doing kīrtan. In the end, though it was a difficult task, the judges decided on the three winners, the Ulda Team who came first, the Rupapaita team second and the Panjonia team third.
Watch a summary posted on YouTube by Kavita Neumannova.
The next Rāṛhi Marai Kīrtan competition and festival in Rāṛh will be in October 18 - 21 2017 where everyone is welcome, and treated as family. As expressed by an American visitor to the Kīrtan Festival, "Rāṛhi Kīrtan has changed my life in just two days; where I find maximum unfettered ecstatic expression to the lord, it is beyond words" (Suniita Schaeffer: personal communication 2016). For my part, I am also very grateful for the inspiration this mystical land and people have given me.
Individual items in Jyoshna's collection can be found on the Sound and Moving Image catalogue.


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September 11, 2018 8:46 am EDT AlienMotives Editorial 0
Standing upon the ashes of the worst terrorist attack on American soil, Sept. 14, 2001, President Bush pledges that the voices calling for justice from across the country will be heard. Responding to the Presidents' words, rescue workers cheer and chant, "U.S.A, U.S.A." White House photo by Eric Draper.
In the wake of the September 11th, 2001 attacks, Americans were bombarded with assurances we would never forget what had happened.
There were images from that day which have become iconic. President Bush being informed of the airplane strike, and completing the story he was reading to the children rather than panicking them. People holding hands and stepping out of windows rather than burn to death. The strike against the Pentagon. "Let's roll." Traumatized passengers from grounded planes being greeted and comforted by Canadians. Firefighters and police trying to get people to safety amidst clouds of ash. The 8:30 PM address to the nation. And, of course, the falling towers.
More moments followed. The President standing with recovery workers with his bullhorn, comforting and encouraging them while putting the terrorists on notice. Congress standing together for at least a little while to face our enemies. Grieving and stunned family members gathering and sharing photos, trying to determine if their loved ones were among the injured or the dead. The identification of Osama Bin Laden. Rallies against terrorism. President Bush, against the recommendations of security, throwing out the first pitch.
I admit, I don't remember it like it was yesterday. Instead I remember moments from the day and subsequent days, but those moments are still fresh in my mind.
I heard about the plane collision on the radio while driving into work in the morning. Lacking any visual reference, I was under the impression that it was a small plane, and that it would be a momentary trivia item. Only as I got into work and heard the reactions of people did I realize that it was a passenger jet.
Someone wheeled in a television, and we watched as the tower burned. A discussion started about whether it could fall, and the consensus was that it couldn't happen. As we watched, the second plane struck. We were still watching as first the one, then the other tower collapsed.
We were all stunned, and even though in retrospect it was obviously a militaristic strike, some of my co-workers seemed determined to think of an alternative explanation. We watched until it became too painful, then went back to our desks and tried to work while listening to radio updates, then went back to the television. That was how the day passed.
I'm asking now for your memories. Memories of events and images that were broadcast for the world to see, that others can be reminded of them; and memories of what was happening to you on that day, so we can all retain those connections to that terrible day when we realized war had been declared upon us.
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Bread, but not as we know it!
It has been quite a long time since we supplied you all with some intriguing, interesting and surprising recipes from our archive. So with it being "Bread Week" on the Great British Bake Off your humble correspondent scurried off into the repositories here at the ERO in search of bread recipes returning triumphantly with two corkers!
They are both found within the pages of the Lampet family recipe book. Though the volume is undated and the recipes are in a number of different hands, it is likely that they stem from the 1830s as one of the recipes is said to be copied from Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia which was first published in 1830.
T/B 677/2 – This page, devoted to bread and flour, also has lists of measurements of flour for the purposes of poor relief.
The first recipe as we teased on Twitter does indeed include a certain quantity of hydrochloric acid; no wonder you are instructed to knead the dough very quickly! It is for an "unfermented bread" using only baking soda as a raising agent; it would be similar to a normal soda bread were it not for the acid. Does anyone out there know what the acid was intended to do in this bake?
The ingredients should be mixed well together – The Soda & flour first which is best done by passing the former thro[ugh] a fine sieve – stirring it well into the flour with the hand. The salt should be next dissolved & added to the Hydro[chloric]-Acid – a wooden or glass rod being used to mix them. The whole should be then thrown together & kneaded as quick as possible – The Dough thus made should be baked in long Tins and is sufficient to make two loaves – about an hour & a half is required in baking them.
The second recipe is something a bit less unusual. It is titled as a "French Bread" but on closer inspection it appears to be a form of brioche using a carefully prepared starter dough. Note the curious use of the word sponge while referring to the mixture. I am also reliably informed that a "peck" is two (dry) gallons. This recipe originates from Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia and appears to be in the same hand as many of the recipes attributed to one Miss Lampet, although it is difficult to ascertain exactly who that is. It also has very few exact measurements, so it reads a bit like one of Paul Hollywood's technical challenges!
The very light spongy & superior article called French Bread is made in the following manner.
After the mixture let the dough be left in a warm place and when it has risen sufficiently let it be divided shaped into rolls and baked in a moderately heated Oven. The oven should as in all other cases have been perfectly heated before the Bread is just in and the heat should be equal throughout however difficult this may be to effect this in some ill constructed ovens.
So there you go, if you do try out the first one, we accept no liability for any acid burns. Also this whole recipe book amongst some others is available to view on our catalogue Seax. So have a go at some of the recipes and let us know how you get on! Finally, apologies for any transcription errors.


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Mallards call for fans to step up and save pro hockey team in Moline
Posted 2:49 pm, April 6, 2018, by John David, Updated at 04:09PM, April 6, 2018
MOLINE -
The power play is on to save pro hockey in the Quad Cities. That's as the Mallards play their final games this weekend.
Friday morning marks the start of a bittersweet weekend at the TaxSlayer Center. Problems, on and off the ice, are sending the Mallards migrating for good.
"There's been a lot of turmoil," said TaxSlayer Center Executive Director Scott Mullen, on Friday, April 6. "There's nowhere to go but up."
The Kalamazoo Wings are practicing for their last game against the Mallards. The Mallards franchise is folding after 23 years in Moline, ending pro hockey for local fans.
Andrew Faust was there from the start.
"It's very sad," he said. "I've got many, many great memories down here."
Still, inside the box office, it's not over just yet. Die-hard fans like Faust are making $25 deposits to renew season tickets, even without a team in place.
"If we can come out and show our support this weekend, good things might happen next season," he said.
That sign of support could help to attract a new owner. Plans for a Town Hall meeting with fans is also in the works.
As workers make Friday's cotton candy, there's hope that this experiment will sweeten pro hockey in Moline.
"I guarantee we will have hockey here in the future," Mullen said. "We're working hard to make it for next season."
Fans know that it might be the last, best chance to save the sport in the Quad Cities.
"I still think hockey can thrive here if done right," Faust concluded. "We've proved that."
Now, they'll have to vote with their wallets to keep these guys on the ice.
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Garlic has been widely used throughout history as a food additive for both its flavor and medicinal effects. The actual sulfide compounds found in garlic as well as the potential health benefits associated with garlic have been extensively studied. It has been shown that garlic preparation, growing conditions and cook-ing techniques, have a profound effect on the compounds present and the medicinal qualities afforded. Con-sidering the number of garlic cultivars available and the large focus on growing food organically, differentia-tion between different garlic cultivars would be useful. Using SPME and GC-MS the sulfur compounds pre-sent in a variety of garlic types where identified and quantified. Principal component analysis enabled the dif-ferentiation of the cultivars studied and in one case the differentiation of Organic and Non-Organically grown soft neck garlic.
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Each September, the Oxon Hill Bicycle and Trail Club has the Southern Maryland Century. Since 2001, the route has been the Indian Head 100.
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At the Bench: New Screen for Eight Cancer Types
By Amy Mone
Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers have developed a single blood test that screens for eight common cancer types and helps identify the location of the cancer.
The test, called CancerSEEK, is a unique noninvasive, multianalyte test that simultaneously evaluates levels of eight cancer proteins and the presence of cancer gene mutations from circulating DNA in the blood. The test is aimed at screening for cancers of the ovary, liver, stomach, pancreas, esophagus, colorectum, lung or breast which together account for more than 60 percent of cancer deaths in the United States. Five of the cancers covered by the test (ovarian, liver, stomach, pancreatic and esophageal) currently have no screening test.
The researchers point out that CancerSEEK is solely aimed at cancer screening and, therefore, is different from other molecular tests, which rely on analyzing large numbers of cancer-driving genes to identify therapeutically actionable targets.
"The use of a combination of selected biomarkers for early detection has the potential to change the way we screen for cancer, and it is based on the same rationale for using combinations of drugs to treat cancers," says Nickolas Papadopoulos, professor of oncology and pathology and senior author of the paper published online in Science in January.
"Circulating tumor DNA mutations can be highly specific markers for cancer. To capitalize on this inherent specificity, we sought to develop a small yet robust panel that could detect at least one mutation in the vast majority of cancers," says Joshua Cohen, an M.D.-Ph.D. student at the school of medicine and the paper's first author. "In fact, keeping the mutation panel small is essential to minimize false-positive results and keep such screening tests affordable."
In this study, the test had greater than 99 percent specificity for cancer. "Very high specificity was essential because false-positive results can subject patients to unnecessary invasive follow-up tests and procedures to confirm the presence of cancer," says Kenneth Kinzler, co-director of the Ludwig Center.
CancerSEEK is noninvasive and can, in principle, be administered by primary care providers at the time of other routine blood work. "This test represents the next step in changing the focus of cancer research from late-stage disease to early disease, which I believe will be critical to reducing cancer deaths in the long term," says Bert Vogelstein, co-director of the Ludwig Center.
The investigators feel that a test that will be used routinely for cancer screening must have a cost in line with or less than other currently available screening tests for single cancers, such as colonoscopy. They envision that the CancerSEEK test will eventually cost less than $500. Larger studies of the test are currently under way.


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Apple Releases macOS 10.13.2 and iOS 11.2.2 Update to Address 'Spectre' Vulnerabilities
Chris Hauk - Jan 9, 2018
As expected, Apple on Monday released macOS 10.13.2 and iOS 11.2.2. Both updates are free, and address the recently announced hardware-based "Spectre" security vulnerability.
Both update include updates to the Safari web browser and WebKit to mitigate the security flaws found in the Intel and ARM CPUs. A previous update to macOS High Sierra had addressed the "Meltdown" security flaws announced alongside Spectre.
The company's statement from last week:
The Meltdown and Spectre issues take advantage of a modern CPU performance feature called speculative execution. Speculative execution improves speed by operating on multiple instructions at once—possibly in a different order than when they entered the CPU. To increase performance, the CPU predicts which path of a branch is most likely to be taken, and will speculatively continue execution down that path even before the branch is completed. If the prediction was wrong, this speculative execution is rolled back in a way that is intended to be invisible to software.
The Meltdown and Spectre exploitation techniques abuse speculative execution to access privileged memory—including that of the kernel—from a less-privileged user process such as a malicious app running on a device.
Meltdown is a name given to an exploitation technique known as CVE-2017-5754 or "rogue data cache load." The Meltdown technique can enable a user process to read kernel memory. Our analysis suggests that it has the most potential to be exploited. Apple released mitigations for Meltdown in iOS 11.2, macOS 10.13.2, and tvOS 11.2. watchOS did not require mitigation. Our testing with public benchmarks has shown that the changes in the December 2017 updates resulted in no measurable reduction in the performance of macOS and iOS as measured by the GeekBench 4 benchmark, or in common Web browsing benchmarks such as Speedometer, JetStream, and ARES-6.
Spectre is a name covering two different exploitation techniques known as CVE-2017-5753 or "bounds check bypass," and CVE-2017-5715 or "branch target injection." These techniques potentially make items in kernel memory available to user processes by taking advantage of a delay in the time it may take the CPU to check the validity of a memory access call.
The macOS High Sierra update can be downloaded and installed from the "Update" tab in the Mac App Store.
The iOS 11.2.2 update can be installed by going to "Settings" -> "General" -> "Software Update" on your iOS device.
A Safari 11.0.2 update is available for those still running macOS Sierra 10.12.6 and OS X El Capitan 10.11.6. The update is designed to mitigate the effects of the Spectre processor flaw.
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Pathways Issue 1: Social Accountability
Pathways: Charting an Adventurous Path Forward
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Pathways: The Social Responsibility of Canada's Universities
» Faculty of Medicine » Home » Pathways Issue 2: Mental Health & Addictions » Working Together
Pathways — the UBC Faculty of Medicine's digital magazine — shares stories about learning, discovery and innovation that are making a difference in B.C. communities and around the world. Discover the impact of our global-leading health research and education.
Mental Health & Addictions Hope & Promise 01 Hope on the Horizon 02 Snapshots 03 Working Together 04
British Columbia is in the midst of a public health crisis due to dramatically increased numbers of opioid overdose deaths, with nearly 1,000 in 2016 and higher numbers in 2017.
And across Canada, one in five young people aged 15-24 report experiencing mental illness or substance use problems.
What more can be done to tackle these alarming statistics and address the public health needs of our communities?
The key lies in working together and engaging a wide range of voices – including those at UBC's Faculty of Medicine.
Home to international leaders in mental health and addictions research and education, their work will help lead us out of this crisis.
The Faculty's Strategic Plan: Building the Future commits to social accountability by putting the patient first, addressing the social determinants of health and disease, and reducing population health inequities and access in B.C., particularly amongst Indigenous people. These goals are highly relevant to the current crisis.
Today, most addictions treatment is provided in primary care settings, making it essential that we equip family physicians to provide care. But it's not enough. Recent data from overdose deaths in Vancouver found that most of those who died accessed a hospital emergency department in the year prior to death, but less than half of the visits were for overdoses. Whether they are treating ankle fractures, pneumonia or appendicitis, every health care provider must be able to recognize addiction in their patients and either provide or ensure linkage to treatment.
Recognizing the challenge, the Faculty of Medicine must incorporate the fundamentals of addiction care, including harm reduction services, into its undergraduate and graduate curriculums. The Faculty has started on this path and is training future generations of health professionals in areas of greatest need. And, through a recent collaboration with the BC Centre on Substance Use, new online educational resources are available to better prepare physicians in practice.
Aboriginal men and women are over-represented among those impacted by the opioid overdose crisis. The new UBC Indigenous Cultural Safety Interdisciplinary Learning Experience – that will provide students with the opportunity to learn about diversity and cultural humility in practice – is a necessary and important step to begin to reduce these, and other, health inequities in the Aboriginal population. Cultural safety training should also be encouraged for all alumni.
Investment in prevention is also desperately needed. Trauma occurring in the early years of brain development increases the risk of future mental illness and addiction. The Faculty's Human Early Learning Partnership has mapped early childhood vulnerability across BC, laying the groundwork for prevention efforts. This requires advocating for an integrated system of quality child care, poverty reduction, and affordable housing.
In the end, it will take great leadership and innovation from a wide range of disciplines to effect real change. The Faculty of Medicine is well positioned to play a leading role.
Patricia Daly MD, FRCPC
Chief Medical Health Officer, Vancouver Coastal Health
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I've been looking for some more light-hearted news, but with all that's been going on as of late, they're hard to come by. So I'll leave you with this video, hopefully it will bring a smile to your face.


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Best Hospitals For Orthopedics in Istanbul
Best Hospitals For Orthopedics in Mersin
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Medical Park Group, İstanbul
Medipol University Hospital, İstanbul
Hisar Hospital Intercontinental, Istanbul
LIV Hospital, Istanbul
Acibadem Hospitals Group
Best Orthopedics Doctors in Turkey
Best Orthopedics Hospitals in Turkey
Istanbul , Turkey Established in : 1993 Number of Beds : 5600 Multi Specialty, About Medical Park Group, İstanbul
Medical Park is one of the top research and treatment centers in the field of Orthopedics and Traumatology.
Surgeons of the orthopedic department are fully competent about giving expertise nationally and internationally.
Orthopedic department offer services such as Bone and Joint Surgery, Arthroplasty (Hip Replacement), Arthroplasty (Knee Prosthesis), Concussion, Foot and Ankle, General Orthopaedics and Fracture Care, Hand and Upper Extremity, Joint Replacement, Orthopedic Trauma, Pediatric Orthopedics, Rehabilitation, and Physical Therapy, Sarcoma Care, Shoulder Care, Spine Center, and Sports Medicine.
At a medical park hospital, patients get well-coordinated healthcare services ran by internationally- recognized surgeons.
Medical Park Orthopedics and Traumatology Center possess a highly skilled team that is entirely trained to heal complex wounds all over the body.
Many surgical procedures are there for hip arthroplasty which includes the use of different metallic, ceramic or polyethylene materials to enhance the comfort of the patient.
Istanbul , Turkey Established in : 2004 Number of Beds : 470 Multi Specialty, About Medipol University Hospital, İstanbul
The Medipol University Hospital, İstanbul orthopedics department deals with the disorders of bone and joints, has well-trained staff expertized in many subspecialties of Orthopaedics and Traumatology.
The Medipol University Hospital, İstanbul orthopedics department offers services such as Arthroscopic Surgery, Arthroplasty (replacement), Exercise physiology, Sports surgery, Pediatric orthopedics, Spinal surgery, Orthopedic tumor surgery, and oncology, Trauma disorders, Hand surgery, Microsurgery, Orthopedic deformity corrective surgery, Foot surgery, Ankle surgery, Stem cell research and applications.
Istanbul , Turkey Established in : 2006 Number of Beds : 170 Multi Specialty, About Hisar Hospital Intercontinental, Istanbul
The Hisar Hospital's Orthopedic department manages the diagnosis and treatment of all diseases as well as the injuries of the musculoskeletal system, traumatic, congenital, or acquired bones, joints, or soft tissue disorders.
The Orthopedic department comprises of a team of qualified orthopedic surgeons, Joint & replacement surgeons, Orthopedicians with accomplished personnel.
Istanbul , Turkey Established in : 2013 Number of Beds : 159 Super Specialty, About LIV Hospital, Istanbul
The LIV Hospital Orthopedics provides services such as Knee replacements, Foot Surgeries, Ankle Surgeries, Spine Surgeries, Scoliosis, Shoulder Replacement, Hip Replacement, Sports Injuries, Hand, Wrist and Elbow Surgeries.
The LIV Hospital Orthopedics offers excellent treatment services by qualified professionals with extensive experience followed by proper rehabilitation programs.
Istanbul , Turkey Established in : 1991 Number of Beds : 550 Multi Specialty, About Acibadem Hospitals Group
Acibadem Hospitals Group is the world's second-largest healthcare chain. It was established in 1991. Acibadem is a prime hospital network in Turkey with 21 multispeciality hospitals and 16 outpatient clinics across the country. The hospital has a total of 3500 doctors and 4000 nurses. The doctors are highly skilled and perform complex surgeries with precision and accuracy.
It is associated with its global partner, IHH Healthcare Berhad, which is the biggest group in the Far East. The healthcare services are in line with national and international standards. The Group Hospitals in Turkey are evaluated each year by the Ministry of Health to assure Quality Standards in Healthcare.
Florence Nightingale Hospital, İstanbul
Istanbul , Turkey Established in : 1989 Number of Beds : 804 Super Specialty, About Florence Nightingale Hospital, İstanbul
Florence Nightingale Hospital provides Orthopedic services such as ACL Reconstruction Surgery, Knee Replacement Surgery, Shoulder Replacement Surgery, Hip Replacement Surgery, Knee Arthroscopy, Shoulder Arthroscopy, Ankle Repair, Spinal Surgeries, etc.
American Hospital, Istanbul
Istanbul , Turkey Established in : 1920 Number of Beds : 200 Super Specialty, About American Hospital, Istanbul
The Americal hospital, Turkey was founded in 1920 by a US Navy Admiral L. Bristol. The hospital was started as a non-profitable institution. Nearly 120,000 patients are treated every year in addition to 20,000 inpatients. More than 10,000 surgeries are conducted every year. The hospital specifically keeps in consideration the laws, regulations, and principles of professional ethics. It also gives prime importance to the patient's privacy. All the medical and administrative systems are constantly examined to look for the scope of improvement and provide patient satisfaction. The hospital is accredited by:
Joint Commission International 2002, 2005, 2009, 2012, 2015, July 2018
ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System April 2018
ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management System May 2018 (American Hospital is the "first" organization to receive the certificate among all public and private hospitals in Turkey.)
ISO 27001 Information Security Management System May 2018
Echocardiography Laboratory Accreditation by the European Association of Echocardiography (EAE) 2015
Global Mobility Certificate by United Healthcare Global 2018
Medicana International Istanbul
Istanbul , Turkey Established in : 1992 Number of Beds : 1170 Multi Specialty, About Medicana International Istanbul
The Medicana International Hospital's orthopedics department offers services such as the treatment of Hip replacement, Partial and Total Knee Replacement, Spine Surgeries, etc.
KOC University Hospital, Istanbul
Istanbul , Turkey Established in : 2014 Number of Beds : 404 Super Specialty, About KOC University Hospital, Istanbul
KOC Hospital is one of the non-profitable institutions named after Vehbi Koc. It became operational in 2014. So far, the hospital has treated 6000 inpatients and 65000 outpatients, out of which 1600 were international patients. The campus spreads across an area of 220,000 meters squares. There are 404 single inpatient rooms and 73 Intensive Care Units,13 operating rooms, and 14 intervention rooms. The hospital is a part of KOC University offering authenticated medical knowledge.
The International Patient Services Department makes sure that people coming from other countries are facilitated in every aspect. Right from the moment you post a query, the hospital team starts the assistance. Your airport picks up arranged before you arrive at the airport. Language interpretation staff is also available. A person is assigned to you, who will be with you all the time
The KOC University Hospital is accredited with
ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System
ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management System
Okan University Hospital, Tuzla
Istanbul , Turkey Established in : 2016 Number of Beds : 250 Multi Specialty, About Okan University Hospital, Tuzla
The Okan University Hospital, Tuzla aims to provide the best health quality services, Their team comprises of well-trained specialists having extensive experience and the department is well equipped with the latest treatment modalities.
The Okan University Hospital, the Orthopedics department provides services such as Knee replacements, Shoulder surgeries, Hip surgeries, Spine surgeries, Hand and wrist surgeries, etc.


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