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Fred Hutch working to cure infection-related cancers
Dr. Corey Casper spearheading partnership with Uganda Cancer Institute to prevent, treat pervasive cancers
February 4, 2014 • By Justin Matlick
Early in his career, Dr. Corey Casper developed a stirring vision. He knew that infectious diseases cause about 25 percent of all cancers around the world. And he believed most of these cancers could be prevented using technology and tools that are available today. But he needed to find the best place to study these cancers and new strategies to prevent and treat them.
So, in 2004, Casper traveled to Uganda. His first stop was the Ugandan capital, Kampala, where he visited the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) – the sole cancer treatment facility in a country of 32 million people.
The number of people with cancer in developing countries outnumbers those with HIV, malaria and tuberculosis combined. At the UCI, Corey saw that six out of 10 patients had cancers that were triggered by infectious diseases such as HIV, Epstein-Barr virus, viral hepatitis, and human papillomavirus (HPV). Many of the patients were children with advanced cancers that left them little chance of survival.
"It was a terrible situation," Casper said. "But I knew we could fix these problems through a partnership that focused on innovative research, capacity-building and clinical care."
Each year, infection-related cancers cause about 1.5 million deaths and account for approximately 3 million new cancer diagnoses. Roughly two-thirds of these cases are in developing countries where patients can't afford expensive treatments. Those facts aren't widely known, and are something that World Cancer Day, held each year on Feb. 4, is helping illuminate with a campaign to raise awareness.
In 2008, Casper and his Ugandan colleagues launched the UCI/Hutchinson Center Cancer Alliance to improve care and develop affordable treatments and prevention approaches that could save millions of lives worldwide. Conducting research in a place where malignancies like Kaposi Sarcoma and Burkitt lymphoma are common means Casper's team can easily find patients to participate in clinical trials and can quickly complete those trials.
"People in Uganda see these cancers every day and they're extremely invested in finding cures," Casper said.
To highlight this research's potential, Casper points to the success of the vaccine that prevents HPV, which causes cervical cancer. The HPV vaccine proves that an inexpensive medication can save hundreds of thousands of people from cancer, and it was developed with key contributions by Fred Hutch's Dr. Denise Galloway.
"A lot of cancer research focuses on incremental steps toward solutions that might not materialize for decades, but we know how to make vaccines to wipe out infection-related cancers," Casper said. "We can do it within our lifetimes."
In 2008, Uganda was home to only one oncologist, making it impossible for most cancer patients to get the care they need. Fred Hutch and the UCI launched a program in 2007 that brings Ugandan doctors to Seattle to complete an oncology fellowship, and trains other medical specialists at the UCI.
The program has so far trained 16 cancer specialists and more than 200 support staff including nurses, pharmacists, research and lab technicians, and clinical and administrative staff. This helped increase the UCI's treatment capacity to 35,000 patients, up from 10,000 patients when the program started.
The UCI/Hutchinson Cancer Center Alliance also developed a treatment protocol for Burkitt lymphoma, the most common life-threatening malignancy among Ugandan children. Burkitt lymphoma is curable in the US but only about 10 percent of patients in the developing world survive the disease. The new protocol means that all children with Burkitt lymphoma at the UCI will be treated according to standardized care guidelines that could be implemented by clinics around the world.
"It's a step toward our goal of increasing survival rates for Burkitt lymphoma and other common infection-related cancers," said Erica Sessle, managing director of Fred Hutch's Uganda program.
The UCI's capacity will increase even more next fall, when it opens a state-of-the-art research and treatment facility in Kampala. The new facility will include adult and pediatric cancer care clinics, specialized diagnostic laboratories and an infrastructure to support clinical trials. It will be the first cancer center jointly constructed by U.S. and African cancer institutions in sub-Saharan Africa.
The facility is being funded by two grants totaling $1.4 million from the United States Agency for International Development's American Schools and Hospitals Abroad program and a multi-million dollar investment from Fred Hutch.
"Cancer, especially childhood cancer, is a growing threat to Uganda's next generation and must be addressed with equal vigor as HIV/AIDS," said Dr. Jackson Orem, director of the UCI and co-scientific director of the UCI/Hutchinson Center Cancer Alliance. "The new facility will help us do this."
Reach writer Justin Matlick at jmatlick@fredhutch.org.
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Sometimes a career can turn on a single transformative moment. For Adam Mørk it was a school trip to Le Corbusier's iconic chapel at Ronchamp in north-east France, when he wandered into aside chapel and experienced an epiphany. 'I saw this light coming down on the altar,' he says. 'I'm not religious but it created a strong feeling that drew me into architecture. I was meant to be an engineer, it was the family tradition, but when I saw this light and experienced what architecture could do emotionally with light, and capturing light, and creating space with light, I was hooked.' He trained as an architect, graduating in 1997 from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and joining Dissing + Weitling – the practice set up in 1971 following Arne Jacobsen's death to continue the master designer's work. During his five years there working as an architect he was given the keys to the cupboard containing Jacobsen's old cameras. He began to photograph projects, an interest that became all-absorbing when he took a year's break and began photographing for other architects. He never looked back.
For Mørk this was not so much a career change as a different way of working with the medium that is his passion. 'I do not describe myself as a photographer but rather an architect with a camera,' he says. 'It's all to do with light. The process of creating images with light and creating architecture with light is quite similar, so I don't think the gap between creating architecture and photography was that big.' The buildings in Mørk's photography glow, shine, swim and ripple as he follows the light, capturing the magic moments when glass becomes a mirror, polished stone becomes a lake and an aluminium panel becomes a piece of sky. In doing so he evokes emotional responses that range from a sense of peace and pleasure to awe and wonder. And capturing is the operative word; for Mørk, light is a living thing that cannot be tamed or mastered, only caught in a single moment of time, never to be repeated.
'I often have a feeling of dancing with the sun,' he says.
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SEB Bank HQ, Copenhagen, by Lundgaard and Tranberg. Daylight pouring down from above exposes the contrast between the rough concrete of the core and the refined curves of the walkways that swirl round it

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Most of my clients are generally healthy people who have one or more issues they are struggling to resolve. I have treated a wide variety of clients from age 5 to 96, although most are adolescents and adults. My specialty is treating clients with inhibited expression, buried issues, or people who feel "stuck." I see many trauma survivors, including women and men who are survivors of sexual assault. I see many people who report that they struggle to find their voice, their laughter, their tears, their direction, and their connection to others.


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This waterside cycling and walking trail follows the Water of Leith through Edinburgh. The route runs for just over 12 miles from Balerno to Leith along the small river. It's a nice flat path, ideal for cyclists looking for an easy ride, or walkers after an easy waterside stroll. Along the way there's lots of pretty waterfalls and weirs with wildlife such as herons to look out for.
The access point for the start of the walk is at Balerno School on Bridge Road. You then follow the path in a north easterly direction, passing Currie, Juniper Green and Colinton Dell. Around here you will pass Redhall Mill and the accompanying mill cottages, with woodland and weirs to enjoy. Shortly after you will come to Slateford where you can explore The Water of Leith visitor centre. This is another good access point for the walk as there is a small car park and interesting exhibits about the walk in the centre. From here you pass under the aquaduct carrying the Union Canal and the viaduct carrying the railway.
You continue through Saughton to Murrayfield where you will pass Murrayfield Stadium, home to Scottish rugby. The walk then heads through the delightful Dean Village. This area is one of the real highlights of the route, with some wonderful Georgian architecture and the Scottish National Galleries of Modern Art.
The next stage takes you under the 19th century Telford Dean Bridge to St Bernard's Well, where there is a Roman temple-style folly and a statue of Hygeia, Goddess of Health. You continue to Stockbridge where you will find the lovely Royal Botanic Gardens. The garden's living collection consists of more than 13,302 plant species, whilst the herbarium contains in excess of 3 million preserved specimens.
The final section takes you through Bonnington to the finish point at North Leith, near to the docks of the Port of Leath.
If you would like to extend your walking in the area then the walking trail around Harlaw Reservoir in Balerno is a good option. Around Slateford the river joins with the Union Canal which has a nice waterside walking and cycling trail.


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Nicely done! ;] I'm not even that big Opti fan on the whole…I think I might be a bit jealous right now. Hehe.
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Homeowners are being urged to prepare themselves for rises in gas and electricity prices leading into the winter months.
Over the past couple of year's energy bills have continued to rise leading up to the winter when homeowners use more energy resulting in higher bills.
Warnings were issued to homeowners in May to expect increases with six major energy companies all following the same lead.
British Gas has been the second energy company to announce an increase in their dual-fuel bills today which means consumers are now faced with even more hikes.
Families around the UK will be facing a 6% jump in their energy bills which will increase a dual-fuel bill by £80 and an annual bill to £1,300. The increase is expected to cause problems for homeowners who are facing other increased household bills, petrol costs and being placed on a salary freeze.
The latest hikes will encourage households to cut back on the amount of energy that is used this winter as Watchdog Consumer Focus found that 70% are already planning this and 39% of consumers are worried about affording their energy bills this winter.
The Government have launched free or discounted heating measures to help save the amount of energy that is used in a household in a bid to help to tackle the issue of rising bills. Among the measures are The Renewable Heat Incentive, Cavity Wall Installation and Loft Installation. Around £110 could potentially be saved annually on energy bills if consumers agree to the new measures.


Child care providers, teachers and parents alike should partner together to teach children of all ages, and especially youngsters about fire safety. FireSafety.gov for Kids provides short lessons about fire escape planning, smoke alarms and other general home fire safety information. The lessons are also followed by questions used to test children's knowledge of the subject after they have worked through the lesson(s). In addition, you will find fun games that will help reinforce the information learned in the lessons. It is recommended that an adult guide children through the lessons.


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Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country in West Africa bordered by Sierra Leone to its west, Guinea to its north and Côte d'Ivoire to its east. It covers an area of 111,369 km2 (43,000 sq mi) and is home to about 3.7 million people. English is the official language and over thirty indigenous languages are also spoken within the country. Its coastline is composed mostly of mangroves, while its more sparsely populated inland consists of forests opening onto a plateau of drier grasslands. The climate is hot and equatorial, with significant rainfall during the May–October rainy season and harsh harmattan winds the remainder of the year. The country possesses about forty percent of the remaining Upper Guinean rainforest. Liberia is the only country in Africa rooted in U.S. colonization.
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Editor's Note: You think you know someone. When Felix had the idea to tell a story about a fictional IWC Portugieser wearer through the visual medium of a comic book strip I was intrigued. He worked with illustrator William Webb to bring a vignette to life entirely of his own imagination – a guy living the dream facing an event most of us would quickly want to wake up from. I was impressed at his hidden talents. It's short, sharp and purely for fun. Enjoy! If you want a closer look at the art, it's in three parts here, here and here.
IWC's Portugieser is the star of the show. Here's the Annual Calendar, looking a little more lifelike.


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North Korea's nuclear weapons have not been a 'game changer'
Dr Denny Roy
North Korea was arguably the biggest story in Northeast Asia in 2017—2018, and the world continued to watch closely as the summit diplomacy between Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump fizzled in 2019. Pyongyang has been less prominent since then, with most of the region's political oxygen consumed by pandemic-induced strife and China's aggressiveness on several fronts. Now widely accepted as having a nuclear weapons capability, North Korea continues to negatively impact international security and cooperation in several ways. Importantly, however, what the outside world commonly terms 'provocative' behaviour by the Kim regime has not appreciably increased since it went nuclear.
North Korea as regional irritant
To be sure, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) continues to make life uncomfortable for its neighbours.
Pyongyang maintains a bellicose posture toward Seoul and the United States. Its warlike rhetoric would be shocking if the outside world was not inured to it due to decades of repetition. This reflects a seemingly intractable spiral: Pyongyang opposes US-South Korea military training exercises, calling them evidence of planned aggression against North Korea, and tries to stop them by threatening war. These threats renew the perception among the US and South Korean governments that Pyongyang is dangerous, reinforcing their commitment to maintain military readiness against a possible North Korean attack. Japan, as well, sees the DPRK as an extraordinary threat because of its permanent anti-Japan ethos and its deployment of missiles that can target Japan. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said in October 2021 that the DPRK's missile and nuclear weapons development is driving Tokyo to consider acquiring a capability to strike missile launch sites in northern DPRK, a step Beijing strongly opposes because of its ramifications for China's defence.
The North Korean government continues to expand and diversify its already worrisome weapons systems. Late last year, it tested a submarine-launched ballistic missile capability, a long-range cruise missile, and what the regime claimed was a hypersonic glide vehicle. These weapons were previously in the exclusive domain of the major powers. One might argue this has the positive effect of deterring another Korean War. Aside from North Korean propaganda, however, there is no indication that any country is hankering to attack the DPRK. Washington could have destroyed the regime and even the country with nuclear weapons during the 53 years between the end of the Korean War and the DPRK's first nuclear weapons test but did not. Rather, US policy is to contain the DPRK. For their part, South Koreans are in no hurry to reunify the Peninsula.
US-DPRK relations remain poor and stagnant. The immediate US goal is getting Pyongyang to permanently dismantle its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs. More broadly, Americans dislike oppressive authoritarian governments and aspire to replace them with politically and economically liberal regimes. The Kim regime's governance model, however, is fundamentally authoritarian and oppressive, and uncomfortable with anything else. Furthermore, the Trump Administration's unsuccessful negotiations with Kim strengthened the consensus in the US policy-making community that Pyongyang intends to keep its nuclear weapons and missiles. Pyongyang continues to demand sanctions relief and arms control talks that implicitly acknowledge North Korea as a permanent nuclear weapons state. The US government under President Joe Biden demands significant movement toward denuclearisation as the price of any sanctions relief, refuses to officially recognise the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state, and appears resigned to a policy of malign neglect of North Korea while focusing on opposing China and firming up relationships with allies. Thus, each side is essentially waiting to be accommodated by the other: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying 'it is up to North Korea to decide whether it wants to engage or not,' while DPRK officials call on the USA to stop military exercises with South Korea and 'give up . . . the deployment of all kinds of strategic weapons which are levelled at the DPRK.'
The issue of North Korea continues to aggravate relations between the United States and China. American politicians have long said Beijing can and should use its influence to get the DPRK to denuclearise. Chinese officials respond that they have little control over Pyongyang, and that pushing too hard will result in the North Koreans angrily disregarding all Chinese input. Confusion results from a failure to understand that while Beijing says it supports DPRK denuclearisation, China's highest priority is avoiding a collapse of the Kim regime. Beijing would never exert such pressure on Pyongyang as might endanger the DPRK's political stability. Thus US observers mistakenly think they and China are committed to the same objective, and are often frustrated when China's performance fails to meet their expectations. Some Americans believe Beijing exploits the crisis by using a nuclear-armed DPRK as strategic leverage against the United States. Chinese analysts have argued that a belligerent North Korea 'pins down' US forces that could otherwise fight in a Taiwan contingency. Pyongyang at least occasionally acts as a Chinese proxy to oppose US policy.
Beijing commonly links various issues in US-China relations. In September 2021, Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi said Chinese cooperation on limiting climate change was contingent on the USA making political concessions such as 'stop viewing China as a threat and a rival' and 'cease containing and suppressing China all over the world.' Hence the US fear that China sees North Korea as a bargaining chip, perhaps in discussions over US arms sales to Taiwan.
Pyongyang continues to exploit South Korean President Moon Jae-in's near-desperate desire for a rapprochement and the beginning of a bilateral economic partnership before his term ends in May 2022. North Korean officials have alternatively disparaged the Moon government and offered conciliatory hints. That has been enough for Moon to (unsuccessfully) press Washington to drop economic sanctions against the DPRK as a way of encouraging North Korean denuclearisation, which is roughly the reverse of the US approach.
The Kim regime keeps the northern half of the Korean Peninsula artificially disintegrated from the regional economy. North Korea remains the Asian economic anti-tiger—a state whose economy stalled in the 1970s and continued to sputter thereafter, surrounded by countries famous for their spectacular recent economic development. The annual per capita GDP of North Koreans is US$1,700, compared to US$9,800 for China, US$31,000 for South Korea, and US$39,000 for Japan. If the DPRK government was not so fearful of outside influence, market forces and the accumulation of private wealth by its own citizens, considerable economic cooperation would be possible even if North Korea remained a separate country from the Republic of Korea (ROK). The two Koreas have high economic complementarity. The South is better suited for agricultural production, while the more mountainous North is rich in minerals. The South has capital and managerial expertise, while the North could supply cheap labour. The Kim regime's control of northern Korea is also an obstacle to region-wide projects such as a Russia-to-South Korea natural gas pipeline and a Northeast Asia electrical supergrid. Currently much potential for mutual multilateral benefit goes unrealised.
In the realm of non-traditional security threats, the persistence of the DPRK contributes to global crime and perpetuates massive humanitarian and human rights problems. North Korea troubles the international community with a variety of illicit activities, including counterfeiting, cybercrime, drug trafficking and weapons smuggling. Structurally-inherent mismanagement by a regime that imposes strong state control over the economy, tolerates widespread corruption in some forms, and politicises the quality and availability of food and shelter has contributed to chronic undernutrition and occasional bouts of starvation. The regime's indulgence in politically-motivated persecution, imprisonment and capital punishment, often including the family members of accused offenders, is legendary. In theory, the DPRK would seem to deserve at least serious consideration of eligibility for foreign intervention on humanitarian grounds under the United Nations' 'responsibility to protect' doctrine. But that, of course, is not a practical option given the antipathy toward triggering a war with North Korea.
Ambiguous impacts
Gaining a credible nuclear weapons capability led to an improvement in the DPRK's relations with China in two ways. First, the moment of China's maximum disapproval of North Korean has passed. Beijing has always criticised US and UN economic sanctions on North Korea, but in 2017 China did a reasonable job of enforcing the sanctions—likely out of fear the USA and the DPRK were drifting toward war. Since Kim declared his nuclear mission accomplished, however, China has returned to merely paying lip service to enforcement. Second, nuclear weapons gave the DPRK increased international leverage that forced Beijing to take the Kim regime more seriously. China's President Xi Jinping avoided Kim for five years, but then met with him five times within 15 months starting in early 2018. A more cordial China-DPRK relationship might increase the possibility that Pyongyang will take Beijing's advice. Some of that Chinese advice is constructive, such as limiting tensions with the USA and the ROK and implementing economic reforms along the lines of post-Mao China, which would likely raise living standards for many North Koreans.
The Kim regime's continued commitment to its own survival at all costs remains an obstacle to Korean reunification. But while this is tragic from the standpoint of Korean nationalism, the division of the Peninsula into separate states has the unstated approval of Russia, China and Japan. China and Russia prefer division to a stronger, united Korea that would likely be pro-US. Beijing also worries about Korean irredentism toward areas near the Sino-DPRK border that the PRC currently controls. Japanese fear the prospect of Koreans in both North and South being able to collectively focus their efforts on their common desire for revenge against Japan for its former colonisation of Korea.
The Kim regime's hostility toward Seoul continues to provide the primary justification for the US-ROK alliance, with the protection of South Korea against Chinese domination a secondary, less openly-discussed rationale. The value of this alliance depends on one's point of view. To the US government, the alliance is 'the linchpin of peace, security, and prosperity for Northeast Asia, a free and open Indo-Pacific region, and across the world.' PRC officials and commentators, however, argue that the presence of US military forces on the Korean Peninsula is more likely to cause war than peace in the region, and that Washington tries to use its strategic influence over Seoul to push South Korea into joining an anti-China coalition. Although most of the South Korean public supports the alliance, some critics argue that the presence of US troops was an obstacle to the country's democratisation. Some analysts argue that the ROK is capable of defending itself from a DPRK attack, and that withdrawing US troops from South Korea would reduce the chances of another Korean War by making Pyongyang feel less threatened. Furthermore, a US-allied South Korea is vulnerable to its interests being trodden over in times of US-China tensions. This occurred in 2016—2017, when Seoul deployed a US-made anti-missile system at the behest of Washington, leading to economic punishment by the Chinese government that cost the ROK billions.
Exaggerated dangers
As poor as Pyongyang's domestic stewardship and international citizenship have been, the situation in this new era is considerably better than many analysts predicted.
By the beginning of 2022, the prognostications of danger posed to the region by a nuclear-armed North Korea appear to have been exaggerated.
A crisis over Pyongyang's desire to acquire nuclear weapons broke out in the early 1990s, subsided temporarily with the 1994 Agreed Framework, and flared again starting in 2003. Tensions peaked in 2017. Having already carried out several progressively-larger nuclear test explosions, the North Koreans launched missile prototypes that demonstrated to outside observers that Pyongyang was getting close to fielding a vehicle that could potentially carry a nuclear warhead to the US homeland. The then-President Trump vowed to prevent the DPRK from getting this capability and threatened to 'totally destroy' the country if necessary.
The US military high command reportedly seriously considered a limited military strike to dissuade the Kim regime from continuing work on its long-range missile program. Kim, however, called Trump's bluff. On Nov. 28, 2017, the DPRK test-fired a missile that appeared capable of reaching anywhere in the continental United States. DPRK media reported Kim as saying this launch 'completed the state nuclear force.'
In his 2018 New Year address, Kim reiterated that 'We achieved the goal of completing our state nuclear force in 2017,' and that thereafter he would focus on 'mass-production' and 'deployment' of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. Senior US government officials said the DPRK had attained a theoretical nuclear strike capability against the US homeland.
The DPRK's acquisition of a credible nuclear weapons capability led to a significant reduction in tensions. In the immediate aftermath of Kim's announcements there was an artificial and temporary improvement in DPRK-US relations because of Kim's peace offensive and claimed willingness to bargain away his nuclear weapons program. This lasted until the second Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi in February 2019, after which it became clear that Kim's intention was to trade non-essential pieces of his military infrastructure for major sanctions relief, an approach Washington rejected. More importantly, post-Hanoi bilateral tensions remained much lower than during 2017. The reason is that the period immediately before the DPRK attained a credible nuclear weapons capability (bomb and delivery system) was extraordinarily dangerous. Washington understood that neither economic sanctions nor US pressure on Beijing would halt Pyongyang's development of a nuclear Inter Continental Ballistic Missile. The situation forced the US government to choose between military intervention and accepting a grave and permanent strategic setback—one that Trump had promised to prevent. That dangerous moment passed as Washington confronted a familiar problem: a military attack on the DPRK would run the unacceptable risk of causing catastrophic North Korean retaliation against Seoul. South Korea even asserted its right to veto a contemplated US attack.
The fact that Kim pressed forward with his nuclear ICBM program in 2017 despite Trump's threats is highly significant. Despite countless statements from North Korean officials over many years that the DPRK felt harassed by a 'hostile' and purportedly aggressive USA bent on war, and despite Pyongyang repeatedly threatening to bombard the USA with nuclear weapons once they were available, Kim evidently felt confident that Washington would not strike the DPRK even when the rationale for a US pre-emptive attack was at its highest point since the end of the Korean War.
The prospect of the DPRK acquiring nuclear bombs generated anxiety that cash-poor Pyongyang would sell nuclear weapons technology to any wealthy buyer, including difficult-to-deter non-state actors. To be sure, North Korea's track record would seem to justify concern. Pyongyang reportedly provided Syria with nuclear reactor technology between 2002 and 2007 and sold uranium to Libya in 2001. Several reports have accused Pyongyang of nuclear cooperation with Iran since the early 1990s, although the US Congressional Research Service concluded in 2016, 'there is no evidence that Iran and North Korea have engaged in nuclear-related trade or cooperation with each other.'
Nevertheless, the nuclear-armed DPRK has not become the dreaded 'nuclear bazaar.' The likelihood of state governments giving nuclear weapons to terrorist groups is generally overblown. Kim might also be refraining from proliferating to other governments to substantiate his claim that North Korea is a 'responsible nuclear weapons state,' part of his campaign to get Washington to officially recognize the DPRK as a permanent member of the nuclear club.
Another worry that has not materialised is Pyongyang employing 'nuclear blackmail'—i.e., making demands of foreign governments paired with a threat to launch a nuclear attack if the demands are unmet. A specific envisaged danger was the North Korean government pressuring Seoul to agree to new political arrangements that would give Pyongyang control over the entire Peninsula, and Seoul complying out of fear of the DPRK's nuclear weapons. But Pyongyang has made no such demands. Somewhat ironically, since it became a de facto nuclear power, the DPRK government's threats to use military force against South Korea over issues such as propaganda leaflets and military exercises have usually been vague and generic, in contrast to the pre-nuclear era when Pyongyang used vividly nuclear-like imagery such as turning 'the whole of South Korea . . . into a sea of fire.'
Nor has Pyongyang's acquisition of the bomb caused a 'nuclear domino effect.' South Korea has the technological mastery to field its own nuclear weapons, which would be an understandable reaction to proliferation by its main rival and adversary. This would in turn create pressure on Japan to respond in kind, lest it find itself under unanswered nuclear threat from three unfriendly neighbours. But while both countries have thought about going nuclear, neither of these scenarios has occurred.
Although Washington, Seoul and Tokyo oppose the expansion of systems that could deliver DPRK nuclear attacks against foreign adversaries, this expansion will not seriously affect regional stability. Submarine-launched ballistic missiles and hypersonic glide vehicles might increase Pyongyang's confidence that it has a nuclear second-strike capability (i.e., it can carry out a punishing counterattack after absorbing a nuclear bombardment by an enemy), but no amount of these weapons will give Kim a first-strike capability (negating America's second-strike capability).
Finally, nuclear weapons have not resulted in an emboldened Pyongyang carrying out increased conventional military attacks against South Korea. After the large number of South Koreans killed by the artillery strikes on Yeonpyong Island and the sinking of the ROK warship Cheonan in 2010, Seoul announced that thereafter it would respond with disproportionate military force to North Korean attacks. Since then, fatal DPRK attacks on South Koreans have been limited to the murder at sea of an ROK maritime police official, an incident for which Kim Jong-un apologised. The restraint apparently induced by Seoul's retaliation policy has continued into the DPRK's nuclear era.
Diminished leverage
Pyongyang had unusual international leverage as it got close to developing a credible nuclear weapons capability. That window, however, has closed, and the region has largely moved on. North Korea has developed nuclear weapons at great cost but cannot use them without inviting state and regime destruction. For this massive investment of resources that could otherwise have improved basic needs such as food production, Kim gained only a bit of prestige and unnecessary deterrence against foes that have no interest in invading the DPRK. Seoul under the liberal government led by Moon Jae-in was primed to befriend the Kim regime, but this was independent of the DPRK going nuclear. Washington is content to rely on deterrence and has neither lifted the sanctions nor officially recognised the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state.
Pyongyang remains a regional irritant and international outlaw government. Yet the DPRK has not become more aggressive since becoming a de facto nuclear weapons state. Its major strategic impacts on Northeast Asia are preventing the emergence of a united and stronger Korea, stoking military tensions, and justifying the US-ROK alliance. The situation is reminiscent of the time prior to the DPRK's first nuclear test explosion. Like then, Pyongyang pursues its agenda with the ROK and the USA, occasionally getting economic handouts but failing to expel US forces from the Peninsula. That North Korea acquiring nuclear weapons has thus far proved not to be a 'game changer' is remarkable given the jitters of 2017.
Image: North Korea's leader Kim_Jong-un. Credit: Prachatai/Flickr.
Date: March 18, 2022 |
DOI: 10.37839/MAR2652-550X9.5 |
Edition: Edition 9, 2022
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import os
import socket
import sys
from math import sqrt
from Pyro5.api import Proxy, register_dict_to_class
from workitem import Workitem

# For 'workitem.Workitem' we register a deserialization hook to be able to get these back from Pyro
register_dict_to_class("workitem.Workitem", Workitem.from_dict)

WORKERNAME = "Worker_%d@%s" % (os.getpid(), socket.gethostname())

def factorize(n):
    """simple algorithm to find the prime factorials of the given number n"""

    def isPrime(n):
        return not any(x for x in range(2, int(sqrt(n)) + 1) if n % x == 0)

    primes = []
    candidates = range(2, n + 1)
    candidate = 2
    while not primes and candidate in candidates:
        if n % candidate == 0 and isPrime(candidate):
            primes = primes + [candidate] + factorize(n // candidate)
        candidate += 1
    return primes

def process(item):
    print("factorizing %s -->" % item.data)
    sys.stdout.flush()
    item.result = factorize(int(item.data))
    print(item.result)
    item.processedBy = WORKERNAME

def main():
    dispatcher = Proxy("PYRONAME:example.distributed.dispatcher")
    print("This is worker %s" % WORKERNAME)
    print("getting work from dispatcher.")
    while True:
        try:
            item = dispatcher.getWork()
        except ValueError:
            print("no work available yet.")
        else:
            process(item)
            dispatcher.putResult(item)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

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Juvenile Life Without Parole Case Study
The United States stands alone worldwide in sentencing juveniles life without parole. Roper v. Simmons, Graham v. Florida, and Miller v. Alabama are all cases that helped abolished sentencing juveniles life without parole. The reality is that life without parole means sentencing the youth to die in prison. It is one of the harshest penalties that a person can can receive in the United States. In December of 2006 ,the United Nations held a discussion for abolishing life without parole for children and young teenagers. The vote was 185 to 1 and the United States was the only vote in favor of sentencing juveniles life without parole (Agyepong,2010,p.83.). This is becuase United States is the only country in was United States who can sentence juveniles life without parole. In fact, 135 countries have laws directly rejecting sentencing juveniles life without parole and 185 countries did so in the UN General Assembly (Agyepong, 2010, p. 83). The United States is the only country that violates the humans rights standards regarding children sentences.
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This is the rarest of opportunities, to acquire one of the most beautiful and historic carriage houses remaining in all of New York, perfectly located in the low 70s, on one of the Upper East Side's most desirable tree-lined blocks. This spectacular, large house, with a private garage and curb-cut, is over 7,500SF above ground, plus an enormous full-height cellar of nearly 2,500SF, with zoned additional FAR of another 2,500+/- SF. Larger in scale and size than other carriage houses that have come to market in recent years, due to its coveted width of almost 26 feet, and its extraordinary depth - built full on the 100' lot on the ground floor and cellar, and to 90' on the upper 2 floors. The 12' tall garage can fit even the largest SUVs, and could be expanded for multiple vehicles. 163 East 70th Street was completely gut renovated in the 1970s to a very high standard, with steel and concrete construction. It combines the elegance and charm of a 19th century townhouse with proportions only found in the very grandest downtown lofts or pre-war Park Avenue apartments. While in need of updating, with the potential to enlarge the house with a re-built 4th-floor rooftop addition, it has an ideal residential layout and features that many buyers would retain, including an exquisite sky-lit sculptural staircase that floods the center of the house with natural light, and a large central elevator shaft. Upon entering the house one is immediately drawn by the natural light pouring in from the central stair, leading to the parlor level. An enormous but gracious living room opens on one end to an elegant library with wood burning fireplace and on the other to the formal dining room (which easily seats 20). A hall leads to a massive eat-in kitchen at the rear, with large glass doors that lead out to a balcony. Two guest powder rooms complete the entertaining space. With 4 bedrooms, 3 full and 4 half baths, the house is easily expanded to encompass 6 bedrooms plus staff quarters. The graceful stair landing on the third floor leads to a huge 24-foot wide master suite with abundant closet space and a massive en-suite bath. The layout could easily accommodate 2 large dressing rooms within the suite. Down the hallway, separated by the staircase, is the secondary bedroom wing, with three additional bedrooms and two full baths. The two bedrooms at the back of the home feature large floor to ceiling windows. On the fourth floor, a large glass-roofed atrium with a powder room leads out to the roof, with views of the city skyline to the north and south. The roof offers the potential for additional living space as well as two spectacular terraces. Although the current ceiling heights are excellent, at nearly 10' on the main living and bedroom floors, the 1970s mechanical ducts and lighting could be redone, with potential for an additional foot of ceiling height, for 11'+/- throughout, and nearly 10' in the cellar. The enormous finished cellar is already full-height, with no need for further excavation, and could easily accommodate a gym, media room, wine cellar, spa, and even a swimming pool. The house also benefits from a rare sidewalk-vault that has been newly reinforced and houses the mechanicals. Currently configured as a single family home with a ground floor medical office, with separate entrance, and delivered vacant, the ground floor presents buyers with incredible possibilities. Incorporate the office into the residence, keep it as a separate medical or private home office, expand the garage, use as gallery space for an important art collection, create windowed staff suites, family recreation space, or any combination thereof. The carriage house was designed by CPH Gilbert and built in 1902 for the prominent banker, philanthropist and art collector Jules Bache, who built his brokerage firm into one of the largest in the country, outranked only by Merrill Lynch. A few blocks from his mansion at 814 Fifth Avenue, it was built to a grander scale than most carriage houses of its day, with a ground floor carriage-wash, a horse ramp, second-floor double-height stalls for a dozen horses, as well as grooms' quarters above. In 1944, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. purchased the house, which was ideally located just 2 blocks from his home at 740 Park Avenue. His architect, Grosvenor Atterbury, converted it to his family's private automobile garage and chauffeur's quarters.
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Q: Writing a tail -f python script that doesn't utilize 100% CPU Here's a simple implementation of tail -f written in python. The problem with this is with the looping nature, this script likes to hog a lot of the CPU time. If it's something one would like to run as a forked process/daemon, it would be an inefficient start.
What's a solution to have a CPU efficient tail -f written in Python?
    # CPU inefficient tail -f
    def main():
     filename = '/tmp/foo'
     file = open(filename, 'r')
     st_results = os.stat(filename)
     st_size = st_results[6]
     file.seek(st_size)
     lastmatch = 0

     while 1:
       where = file.tell()
       line = file.readline()
       if not line:
         time.sleep(1)
         file.seek(where)
       else:
         print line,

A: I don't know of an implementation that's going to be extremely efficient AND portable between Windows on one side, and just about every other system on the other. Just about everywhere, I'd use the select module of the standard library (which can be based on system level functionality such as select, kqueue, etc) to get woken up when and only when there are changes to a file, without polling; but on Windows select can only work on sockets. So, on Windows, I'd use directory change notifications instead (e.g. via ctypes or win32).

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3rd Annual Strawberry Fest - March 17 & 18 at the Barberville Pioneer Settlement, Barberville. Saturday & Sunday 10am-5pm.
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Events - Friday, 17 January 2020
Mozart Clarinet Concerto with Amadeus Chamber Orchestra
Portland State University: Lincoln Recital Hall
Friday, 17 January 2020 - 7:30 PM
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Music from the 1984 Academy Award winning film, including arias featuring soprano Cara Gabrielson, and other riveting selections. Special guest David Shifrin will join us for Mozart's gorgeous Clarinet Concerto.
Presenters: Amadeus Chamber Orchestra; Portland State University
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Brahms: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B minor, Op. 115
Bartók: Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet and Piano, Sz 111
Bernstein: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
Mozart: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A major, K 581
Mozart: Serenade for Winds no 11 in E flat major, K 375
Seiber: Serenade for 2 Clarinets, 2 Bassoons and 2 Horns
Music for Viola and Gypsy Band
Bolcom: Afternoon Cakewalk
Brahms: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano no 1 in F minor, Op. 120 no 1
Brahms: Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano in A minor, Op. 114
Piazzolla: La muerte del Angel
Debussy: Première Rhapsodie for Clarinet and Piano
Poulenc: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in B-flat major, FP 184
Martinu: Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano, H 356
Hindemith: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
Lutoslawski: Dance Preludes (5) for Clarinet and Piano
Debussy: Two pieces from Children's Corner arr. for clarinet and piano by David Schiff
Mozart: Parto, ma tu ben mio from La Clemenza di Tito
Dvorak: Serenade for Winds in D minor, Op. 44
Mozart: Serenade for Winds no 10 in B flat major, K 361 (370a) "Gran Partita"
Weber: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B flat major, J 182/Op. 34
Weber: Variations (7) for Clarinet and Piano from "Silvana," J 128/Op 33
Weber: Grand Duo concertante for Clarinet and Piano in E flat major, J 204/Op. 48
Schubert: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D 965/Op. 129 (The Shepherd on the Rock)
Strauss: Duet-Concertino for Clarinet, Bassoon, Strings and Harp, AV 147
Piazzolla: Oblivion
Rogerson: Constellations
Bunch: Ralph's Old Records for Flute, Clarinet, Viola, Cello, and PIano
Schickele: Serenade for Three
Schickele: Clarinet Quintet "Spring Ahead"
Shulman: Rendezvous
Etler: Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Ensemble
Mozart: Serenade for Winds in E-flat Major, K. 375
Beethoven: Quintet for Piano, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon and Horn in E flat major, Op. 16
Bruch: Eight Pieces for viola, clarinet, and piano, Op. 83
Davidovsky: Septet for Piano, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello and Bass
Beethoven: Septet in E flat major, Op. 20
Jalbert: Street Antiphons
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After talking with the trainer and explaining what was going on, she said it was definitely Patellar Tendinitis. Tomorrow I'm going to get an IP-Band and orthotics and will see if that helps. If it doesn't heal completely I'll need to get some anti-inflammatory medicine. I am a little annoyed, but would rather have this happen now instead of in August when I'm trying to really peak.
I assume you've been told to ice it regularly?
Yeah, 20-30 minutes every four hours or so.
20-30 sounds like too much. 15-20 is the general recommendation. You want to reduce swelling and inflammation, not induce hypothermia.


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Q: Failed Connection to Database in Moodle I'm new to moodle and I built a plugin that is supposed to fetch data from a database and display it. I can't reach the data from my database, it's not displaying the info that I want.
This is my file, what am I doing wrong?
           <?php
           // This file is part of Moodle Course Rollover Plugin
           //
           // Moodle is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
           // it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
           // the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
           // (at your option) any later version.
          //
           // Moodle is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
           // but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
           // MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
           // GNU General Public License for more details.
           //
           // You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
           // along with Moodle.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

           /**
            * @package     admin_report
            * @author      #####
            * @license     http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later
            */

            function get_infos_from_db() {
              global $DB;
              $sql = " SELECT *
                       FROM mdl_bigbluebuttonbn

                     ";
              var_dump($sql);
              // $DB->get_record_sql($sql, array $params=null, $strictness=IGNORE_MISSING);
            }

A: $records = $DB->get_records('bigbluebuttonbn');
foreach ($records as $record) {
    echo $record->xx;
}


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De Distilleerketel is een in 1986 gebouwde windmolen. Het is een stellingmolen en dus een bovenkruier. De stelling zit op 10 m hoogte. De molen staat in het Rotterdamse Delfshaven.

Op de baard van de molen staat "1727-1940 MULTUORUM CIVIUM OPERA RESURREXI AD MCMLXXXVI", hetgeen betekent "Ik ben herrezen door de hulp van vele burgers in 1986".

Geschiedenis
De molen is gebouwd naast de plek waar de oorspronkelijk in 1727 gebouwde Distilleerketel stond. Deze in 1899 afgebrande molen werd herbouwd en in 1940 tijdens oorlogshandelingen in brand geschoten. Deze molen maalde mout tot moutschroot voor de distilleerderijen.

De kap van de molen is gepotdekseld en heeft een zogenaamd Engels kruiwerk. De kap wordt gedraaid met behulp van een kruihaspel.

Het besluit de molen te herbouwen kwam dusdanig laat dat herbouw op de oorspronkelijke plek onmogelijk was geworden vanwege de geplande bouw van een flat waar de stelling overheen zou komen te hangen. Bovendien was men al met de sloop van de oude molenromp begonnen. Door de Distilleerketel elf meter verderop te herbouwen, werd voorkomen dat de stelling boven de flat zou komen die naast de molen werd gebouwd. Bij de herbouw is de romp een meter hoger opgebouwd, waardoor de nieuwe molen slanker lijkt dan de oude.

De uit 1985 afkomstige bovenas is van gietijzer. De as wordt gesmeerd met reuzel en de kammen (tanden) op de tandwielen met bijenwas. De vang, waarmee het wiekenkruis wordt afgeremd, is een met een wipstok bediende Vlaamse vang.

De molen beschikte tot 2007 over de klassieke wiekvoering, met zeil en zeilrail oudhollandse tuigage; tegenwoordig zitten op de binnenroede fokwieken volgens het systeem Fauël, in combinatie met remkleppen.
Vlucht van de molen is op de buitenroede 27,50 meter.

De molen heeft twee koppel maalstenen en wordt gebruikt voor het malen van graan voor consumptie.

Overbrengingen
De overbrengingsverhouding is van de ene maalstoel 1 : 6,64 en van de andere 1 : 5,99.
Het bovenwiel heeft 60 kammen en het bovenrondsel 31 staven. De koningsspil draait hierdoor 1,935 keer sneller dan de bovenas.
Het spoorwiel heeft 96 kammen. Het ene steenspilrondsel heeft 28 staven en het andere 31. Het ene steenspilrondsel draait hierdoor 3,43 keer sneller dan de koningsspil en 6,64 keer sneller dan de bovenas. Het andere steenspilrondsel draait hierdoor 3,10 keer sneller dan de koningsspil en 5,99 keer sneller dan de bovenas.

Eigenaar
Stichting volkskracht

De Molenwinkel van Delfshaven

Op 1 september 2018 is de Molenwinkel van Delfshaven geopend. In deze winkel worden er uiteenlopende meelproducten van de molen verkocht. Er wordt samengewerkt met de Schiedamse Molens; Molenwinkel de Walvisch en de productiemolen de Vrijheid. Er zijn ook koffie, thee & lekkernijen van Virginia's Kitchen verkrijgbaar. Voor de toeristen zijn er tevens souvenirs uit diverse streken van Nederland te koop. Verder is het op woensdag en zaterdag van 11:00 tot 18:00 geopend voor publiek. Er worden rondleidingen door de molen georganiseerd. Er is een goed uitzicht vanaf de stelling van De Distilleerketel over het Historisch Delfshaven en het moderne centrum van Rotterdam. De Molenwinkel van Delfshaven wordt gerund door Erwin Nederhoff & Virginia Gil.

Sinds begin 2021 is er een nieuwe molenaar actief die zijn maalbedrijf vestigt in de molen er worden producten gemalen voor bakkerijen en groothandels

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A common theme this time of year is starting over, with a clean slate. And I for one have no problem embracing this potentially cliche concept. In golf, a do-over is called a mulligan, a second chance for the player to try the same shot again, hopefully with far superior results. The best part is, the golfer's previously botched attempt is not recorded as part of his score.
Very often we think of a second chance or new year as picking up right where we left off, with the opportunity of successful moves from here on out. The only catch is that we still have to deal with all that preceded our current situation.
But what if you could hit the reset button on your life and not just undo your last mistake, but wipe out all the mistakes you've had to work around to get to where you are now? I don't mean erasing your entire existence, but think about when you reboot your computer. It doesn't obliterate everything on it. You don't lose your documents, images or projects you'd worked so hard on. You merely get to start over with a clutter-free desktop, with programs humming along unfettered by sluggish performance do to things caught in your cache, or open windows & issues clogging up your memory.
A synonym for 'reset' is 'restart' -- literally to begin again. And that is what New Year's suggests -- an opportunity to start over from a place of pristine, wide-open perfection. What better holiday gift could one receive?


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Turn your passion for sports in a career in the sport industry with M State's degree in Sport Management.
Passionate about sports? Use your passion to launch a rewarding career in the sports industry with M State's Sport Management degree.
With an associate degree in Sport Management from M State, you'll have the needed skills and knowledge to pursue a bachelor's degree that can lead to sports industry positions related to management, communications, public relations, facilities and finance.
M State is actively pursuing an articulation agreement with the Sport Management at Minnesota State University Mankato, allowing for a seamless transfer into MSU Mankato's bachelor's degree program. In addition, the business focus of M State's Sport Management degree prepares graduates to transfer into business-related bachelor's degree programs.
The 60-credit program is offered on our Fergus Falls campus, home of Spartan athletics for men (football, golf, basketball and baseball) and women (volleyball, basketball, golf and softball).
Our Sport Management AS degree can help launch a career in fields including:
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Economic issues as they relate to sports and business settings
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Coaching techniques and standards
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Use of statistics in a sport management or business setting
Leadership skills as they relate to sports and sport management
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With the seasons changing and the temperature on the rise it is time to put your winter fashion away and brighten up your wardrobe all while matching your business's clothing attire. Are shorts okay? Skirts? What does smart-casual actually mean?
Spring work-wear is a minefield, so we've stepped in with some handy hints and tips to make this seasonal transition a little easier.
If you're most comfortable in winter's blacks and grays, no need to jump right in to bright spring colors. Start by adding a bright accessory in a color that you love, then add a few more pieces in that same color as it gets deeper into spring, says Dina Scherer, wardrobe stylist and owner of Modnitsa Styling. Once you get used to a more colorful look, start playing around with complementary combinations, like brown and blue, or red and green to make a bigger statement, she says.
Ready to start plunging into color? Instead of starting with a bright top, pull on a colored pants or skirt, suggests Lauren Rothman, fashion stylist and author of Style Bible: What to Wear to Work. "Whether it's ballet pink or fuchsia, doing that color on the bottom is edgier—a little more unexpected," she says.
No need to hide your white pants away until Memorial Day—you can pull them out as soon as the weather starts warming up. Keep them season-appropriate during chillier transition months by pairing them with a black knit sweater instead of your usual summer brights, says Rothman. "That's a fresh, crisp look," she says.
"Shoes are really what can change a lot of your look," says Rothman. You'll want to save peep-toe shoes for late spring, when the weather really warms up, she says. In the meantime, though, an ankle strap or slingback shoe transitions well in March and April.
To better help you keep up with the latest trends we have compiled a list of the Top Choice Boutiques in your city who will be sure to bring out a new confidence in you this Spring.


A team of researchers from France, Italy and Norway has found a natural historical record of the impact of an invasive species of rabbit on a remote Indian Ocean island. In their paper published on the open access site Science Advances, the researchers describe their efforts to learn more about the environmental impact of an invasive species.
The researchers note that understanding the full impact of an invasive species on an environment is difficult, involving many factors, one of which is generally a long timescale. In this new effort, the researchers found an environment with few interacting variables and a natural historical record—DNA found in a lake bottom.
The environment was the Kerguelen Islands, situated in a remote southern part of the Indian Ocean. The invasive species was a type of rabbit introduced to the islands as a food source in 1874 by a group of scientists—they were there to study the transit of Venus, but they left behind several rabbits that quickly multiplied because there were no predators. Since that time, the rabbits have spread across much of the main island of Grande Terre, wreaking havoc on the delicate ecosystem.
To learn more about the impact the rabbits have on the island, the researchers collected samples from the bottom of a lake which contained samples of plant DNA. They found samples dating back several hundred years, and were able to follow the events that had transpired.
They deduced that the region had been relatively stable for hundreds of years prior to the arrival of the rabbits. Then, in the early 1940s, when the rabbits made their way to that part of the island, things changed. Prior to their arrival, the dominant plant was Azorella selago—after their arrival, plant diversity plummeted. They also noted that erosion dramatically increased, as well.
The team notes that erosion did eventually level off, but the ecosystem was unstable, and remains that way today in spite of efforts to eradicate the rabbits by the French Government. Instead, due to more human traffic in the area, other invasive species have made their way to the islands. Still, the island offers a unique opportunity to study the impact of an invasive species in a near-pristine environment.
What are the long-term consequences of invasive species? After invasion, how long do ecosystems require to reach a new equilibrium? Answering these questions requires long-term, high-resolution data that are vanishingly rare. We combined the analysis of environmental DNA extracted from a lake sediment core, coprophilous fungi, and sedimentological analyses to reconstruct 600 years of ecosystem dynamics on a sub-Antarctic island and to identify the impact of invasive rabbits. Plant communities remained stable from AD 1400 until the 1940s, when the DNA of invasive rabbits was detected in sediments. Rabbit detection corresponded to abrupt changes of plant communities, with a continuous decline of a dominant plant species. Furthermore, erosion rate abruptly increased with rabbit abundance. Rabbit impacts were very fast and were stronger than the effects of climate change during the 20th century. Lake sediments can allow an integrated temporal analysis of ecosystems, revealing the impact of invasive species over time and improving our understanding of underlying mechanisms.


Ms. Gautami Raiker won 2nd runners-up award at All India Startup competition (in the domain of Law).
Our first year LL.M. student Ms. Gautami Raiker secured 2nd runners-up award for the All India Startup Competition in the domain of law organized by Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar. The competition was held on 26th February 2016 at the GNLU Campus.
The award was presented at the hands of Mr. Yash Vasant, Director at Vasant Overseas Pvt. Ltd.


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This Fall, Get Your Family Daredevil on with 50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy!
On Monday, September 5 at 8pm ET/5pm PT, VisionTV will kickoff its first brand new British Factual time slot with a hilarious bang, thanks to our North American premiere of the hit reality adventure series, "50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy."
In this weekly, hour-long affair, Irish television and radio personality, Baz Ashmawy, takes his 71-year-old mother, Nancy, around the world in an attempt to have her leap outside of her comfort zone and into unchartered territories. How does Baz get Nancy to do this? Well, let's just say he somehow gets her to jump out of an airplane, participate in a rally car race across the desert and come face-to-face with alligator wrestling.
Along the way, Nancy exacts her own measures of revenge by tossing her son into a wrestling match that he has no chance of winning – she even gets to see how her pride and joy handles being tazered by his mammy.
Beyond the over-the-top activities that Baz and Nancy explore, "50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy" also shines a light on the pair's relationship and how their love for each other grows throughout their unusual journey.
As for how this show came to life, Baz admitted during a 2015 interview with the Irish Mirror that it came to life out of his mother's sudden interest in going skydiving, as well as his desire to come up with an original travel show.
"It's funny what you do out of desperation. I couldn't get a gig at the time, I had been out of work for a year, two years nearly," said Baz when describing the lead up to '50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy.' "Myself and my business partner formulated it together and sent a pilot to Sky and the rest is history. I was looking for a twist on the travel format and I was banging my head against the wall, saying this has been done, there's nothing left.
"Then a nun had done a skydive and mum said to me that she'd love to do one and asked me to do one with her," continued Baz. "I told her not to be soft in the head because she was too old to do one and she took umbrage at this."
In 2015, "50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy" won the Best Non-Scripted Entertainment award at the International Emmy Awards.
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Pac-Man Gets The Spotlight With Update To Bandai Namco Amusements' Site
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If you love Namco's Pac-Man then the latest updates to their site definitely highlights the character. Let's bring you up to speed:
Pac-Man Battle Royale Chompionship
The Deluxe version of PMBRC now has a page, along with a proper photo of the cabinet. This game has been available at Dave & Busters throughout the summer, but now it's available for any arcade to pick up. I'm not sure what the price is on these but any Bandai Namco distributor should be able to give you a quote.
We also finally have a non-photoshopped/non-rendered version of the standard cab, which you can find on this page. This has been available for a while and has an upgrade kit option as seen in my videos about it.
Pac-Man Baller
Teased many months ago as an update to their older Pac-Man Basketball game, the new version has a new name and look, which you can read a little more about here. This was designed in conjunction with Wik, a Polish manufacturer of games.
These are all shipping now, so you should be able to come across one at arcades where they are updating/refreshing their equipment with new stuff. I will likely see them at IAAPA in November.
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Gaming Adventure Game Dustborn Release Date, Gameplay & Everything
Adventure Game Dustborn Release Date, Gameplay & Everything
Published By Sanjita Mohanty
Red Thread Games' new production Dustborn is about to hit your consoles very soon with their fantastic gameplay!
The game Dustborn is set in a post infodemic alternate America. The power of words is the only source to be used to overcome an authoritarian regime.
The game is supposed to launch on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series, which are the next-gen consoles. Next year, i.e., 2021, is the year of release for Dustborn.
The plot of the game
A pregnant woman named Pax is the game's lead protagonist.
As she is allotted to transport a package country from Pacifica to Nova Scotia across the justice controlled by the American Republic. However, with the authoritarian justice and zealous Puritans standing in her way, it is difficult for her to complete the task.
Also, Pax is now expected to recruit her crew. They will hereafter disguise as a punk rock band to perform the job. Additionally, The game has dialogue exchange for developing their relationship and will discover new words and information to help their way out.
However, it is more of a story-based game with very interesting graphics in it.
How is the gameplay going to be?
Road trips, music, friendship, family, betrayal, civil war, and other subject matters are the main themes of the game.
Surely, the game has a very cool story to it, as mentioned above, and a pastel art form in the graphics.
However, the game starts by driving down a highway in the American southwest on a bus. The group is accompanied by a robot assisting them as the driver.
Little do they know that they will encounter a group of official authorities on their way ahead.
They have advance ammunition with them and a military helicopter with robots tackling as army men. It will be interesting to see how the band gets past such a difficult situation!
The game is based in a futuristic America 2030, three decades after The Broadcast.
The crew has a story of its own. Each has a clashing personality and a bizarre story to tell. The plot is about travel as well.
Also, the crew stops at an exciting place, takes upon random assignments, and meets diverse characters. The crew members can also recruit new members from along the way.
What is the feature of Dustborn?
There are several tasks the crew has to perform. They have to cross the divided state of America and develop strategies to be ahead of the Puritans.
Also, the players can form new weaponized words out of echoes to manipulate the people they interact with.
Then, formulate relations through dialogue choices in an expressive dialogue system. Additionally, there is a folk-punk rock band on set a journey who learns to play and set original tunes. Robots will be the epitome of danger in the game.
Trailer release
Yes, Dustborn now has a trailer release for the players interested in checking out!
There is no choice but to rebel against the sinister forces on the way. To fight them all tactfully is the only mantra.
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Sanjita is currently pursuing a Masters in English from St. Xavier's Kolkata has completed Bachelors in English Honours from Christ, Bangalore. She has been an intern followed by a part-time content writer in Pop Culture Times for 5 months. She is also a part-time blog writer. Her interest lies in romantic comedy's especially Jane Austen plays, is a devoted Marvel fan and has mainly focussed on articles on MCU. As an English major, her interest is driven toward matters regarding feminism and post-colonial arguments. Aspires to write a novel someday which would create a small impact on the society and their monotonous routines at large.


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Étoile d'or du cinéma français (česky Zlatá hvězda francouzského filmu) je francouzská filmová cena, která byla založena v roce 1999 a uděluje ji Académie de la presse du cinéma français (Akademie francouzského filmového tisku). Cena je určena pro francouzské filmy, jejichž nominace navrhuje 700 francouzských filmových novinářů.

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The Paraguayan Meat Board (Cámara Paraguaya de Carne or CPC) is an umbrella organisation uniting the meat production companies of Paraguay, the "frigorificos", a term which encompasses everything from the slaughterhouses and butchering factories to the meat-processing industry. From their 11 beef factories, the CPC directly generates 11,000 jobs and also creates 50,000 indirect jobs. In addition, they havetwo poultry and one pork factory.
Leading Edge (LE): Beef and soya beans have long been two of Paraguay's main exports. What contribution does livestock make to the country's economy?
Juan Carlos Pettengill (JCP): The activity from the beginning of the breeding aprocess to the sale involves 12% of the working population. In the CPC, we have 11 export plants for beef, two for poultry and one for pork. The 11 cattle facilities directly generate 11,000 jobs and indirectly another 50,000. In addition, it should not be forgotten that the livestock industry makes up 10% of the country's exports, about USD 1.2 billion. It is the second-biggest industry in terms of export volume for our country.
LE: How does the CPC promote Paraguay's potential in this area? What are your priorities?
JCP: We have participated in international fairs since 1999. We alternate years between visiting the most important fair: Anuga Food, in Cologne, Germany and going to France. This year we will be at Gulfood in Dubai. We will also accompany the government to Israel, where last year the cattle industry exported 15,000 tonnes of meat worth USD 100 million. We are also attending a fair in Taipei (Taiwan), where Paraguay has a quota of 10,000 tonnes this year and 10% of Taiwan's import market. In September, we are going to be at the Moscow fair and by the end of the year we wil be back in Anuga. We have also started the necessary documentation to allow us to start sales to Hong Kong — a large importer of meat, buying almost 800,000 tonnes per year. Brazil currently has a market share there of close to 40%. We want to take a part of Brazil's export market in Hong Kong, while retaining our already important markets and our quality levels. Another target is to reach 20 million head of cattle by 2020.
LE: What other export markets have been established?
JCP: We want to establish ourselves in Saudi Arabia and the US. We have begun authorisation procedures with Saudi Arabia. In the US, we have to follow a more complex process. This takes five years and we are currently in the second year. It is a complex and large market, due to the fact that the US is a production country with almost 100 million head of cattle, working with between 27 and 30 million head per year and consuming 10 to 11 million tonnes of beef. As for the Chinese market, we have found this harder to tap into due to our good relationship with Taiwan.
LE: What differentiates Paraguayan meat from that of other exporting countries like Argentina, Australia, the US or Uruguay?
JCP: We have invested a lot in new cattle-raising technologies over the last 15 years, including genetics. We have a hybrid stock, with a strong line of English blood, that can adapt quickly to our tropical climate, making it the best for the livestock sector.
LE: You work with the National Quality and Animal Health Service ("Servicio Nacional de Calidad y Salud Animal", SENACSA) and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce to give voice to the private sector. What other initiatives would you say need to be put in place to strengthen the livestock sector?
JCP: We propose two important initiatives: the first is training and financial assistance for small and medium-sized producers to improve the percentage of breeding. The second initiative is to register Pargauay's entire stock.


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"Perfect Enough" by JoZie
Posted on April 6, 2022 by mindymccall in Music, Reviews // 0 Comments
Portrait of beautiful young woman, against summer green park.
Pop Singer JoZie's second single "Perfect Enough" is an empowering reminder to be kind to yourself no matter what. Poignant lyrics merge with cool electronic beats to bring this feel-good track to life. JoZie fell in love with music when she was 8 years old after she was given a karaoke machine. In 2020 she moved to Music City where she teamed up with writers Lacie Carpenter and Thornton Cline. Soon after her arrival she had a record deal and a debut single that held the number one spot on the World Indie Top 100 charts. JoZie and her team are currently working on her upcoming EP. "Perfect Enough" is the feel-good song you've been waiting for.
"Perfect Enough" is a self-love mantra in song form. It celebrates intelligence, strength, and confidence, along with timeless beauty. The song is a response to the agonizing beauty standards that are generated by social media. There is a general obsession with being flawless nowadays, which is often perpetuated through social media platforms that ignite insecurity in a lot of young women. JoZie expertly reminds her fans that being flawless is not all that its cracked up to be. What matters more is confidence, intelligence, and strength that you can recognize within. Those traits are timeless. "Perfect Enough" draws the conclusion that perfection is unattainable, its more important that you believe in your own power. JoZie sums this up with, "Close enough to perfection/What dreams are made of/She's perfect enough."
JoZie's voice instantly caught my attention on "Perfect Enough," its suited for the classic pop sound but also promises an enviable vocal range. JoZie's range isn't explored as much in "Perfect Enough" but it makes me curious what else JoZie is capable of. Her voice can be soft and evocative but also strong and confident. Its a fascinating mix that you can hear when she wraps up the song with, "She's timeless, oh timeless." There are a few moments where JoZie talks on the track, which aids in "Perfect Enough" feeling like the ultimate pep talk. I enjoyed that JoZie doesn't have to rely on a musical persona or an attitude to convey the emotions in the song. She leans into her power and lets it guide her, which is what makes this track so heartwarming. Simply put, "Perfect Enough" makes you feel better. Its universal topic on loving yourself as you are, even when the world tells you that that is in some way not enough, its absolutely dynamite. JoZie and her team knocked it out of the park with "Perfect Enough."
This is a song about loving yourself, which is still a rare subject to sing about. Only recently major pop singers have begun to focus their music on actual self-love. Songs that celebrate who they are, not what others want them to be. Often times songs of this theme are a response to an ex or directed at something specific, but the fact that JoZie feels like she's singing to herself at times is what makes this song so empowering. It feels like a reminder, a 'hey, don't get sucked down that line of thinking again'. JoZie encourages listeners to remember what makes them strong and to love the new version of themselves. The best sentiment from "Perfect Enough" is that even when you lose sight of your own beauty (and magic), it's still there. "Imperfections cloud her reflections, of all the beauty she can't see," is by far my favorite lyric to sing-a-long to, and trust me you can help but sing-a-long to "Perfect Enough."
Its hard to believe that this is only JoZie's second single, she has a hit on her hands. I'm so excited to see where JoZie goes creatively, what sound she chooses to explore, and what topics she decides to shine a light on. JoZie is bound to explode whether its with "Perfect Enough" or her upcoming EP, my suggestion is to get on bandwagon now. If you need to remind yourself of who you are "Perfect Enough" is the anthem for you.
Mindy McCall


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Drunk driver sentenced after causing death of 5-year-old girl
by Ralph A. Schwartz, PC | Dec 22, 2015 | Drunk Driving Accidents, Firm News | 0 comments
When a Nevada grandmother took her two grandchildren for a walk on Jan. 2, 2014, she could not have been prepared for what would happen. Her 5-year-old granddaughter was riding her tricycle when a 53-year-old woman backed her vehicle out from a driveway into the street. The young girl was knocked off her tricycle and died from the injuries she suffered. It was subsequently determined that a drunk driver caused the child's death.
The driver was arrested, and after an initial not guilty plea, she pleaded guilty on the first day of her scheduled trial. She was ordered to pay a fine of $2,000 for causing a person's death when driving while intoxicated and was sentenced to between three and 15 years in a state prison. Regardless of her sentence, the void of the lost child will forever remain in the hearts of her loved ones.
When a child or another family member is killed in an auto accident, the family suffers devastating consequences. In addition, the financial burden of end-of-life arrangements can be overwhelming. To help address these issues, the civil judicial system allows surviving family members to pursue wrongful death litigation.
With the support and guidance of an experienced wrongful death attorney, all sources of potential compensation may be identified. The fact that the drunk driver in this case pleaded guilty in criminal court will benefit any civil litigation for financial damages pursued by this Nevada family. Documented claims may include financial losses and emotional damages that were brought about by the tragic accident.
Source: rgj.com, "Anderson sentenced 3-15 years in death of child", Robert Perea, Dec. 16, 2015
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Peter J. Flanagan (* 22. Januar 1941 in Hull; † 8. Januar 2007 ebenda) war ein englischer Rugby-League-Spieler. Der Hakler spielte 1960–1975 für die Rovers und den FC seiner Heimatstadt in der Rugby League Championship, zwischen 1962 und 1970 war er zudem Nationalspieler für England und Großbritannien; er gehörte zum britischen Kader für die Rugby-League-Weltmeisterschaft 1968.

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1960 wechselte Peter Flanagan vom Craven Street Youth Club ins Profilager zu den Hull Kingston Rovers. Bei den Rovers wurde er eine wichtige Pfeiler bei der Entwicklung zu einem konkurrenzfähigen Team in den 1960er Jahren. Mit ihm als Hooker erreichten die Rovers 1964 das Challenge-Cup- sowie 1968 das Meisterschafts-Endspiel, verloren aber beide; 1969 und 1970 gewann der Club mit ihm jedoch den Yorkshire Cup. Insgesamt spielte Flanagan 414-mal für die Rovers, in der ewigen Rekordliste die viertmeisten Einsätze, bevor er den Club 1973 nach 14 Jahren und 56 erzielten Versuchen verließ. Er spielte als Amateur weiter Rugby für die Hull Dockers, wurde aber, als sich deren Stammhooker verletzte, 1975 vom Hull FC erneut als Profi unter Vertrag genommen. In den wenigen Monaten beim Hull FC spielte er wichtige Rolle für das Erreichen des Finales der Player's No.6 Trophy, beendete seine Karriere danach aber endgültig.

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Flanagan kam erstmals 1962 in zwei Tests gegen Frankreich international zum Einsatz; davon je einer für England und Großbritannien. Für Großbritannien wurde er bei drei The Ashes gegen Australien eingesetzt; 1967 in England, sowie 1966 und 1970 bei britischen Touren durch Australasien. Auch gehörte er zum britischen Kader für den League-WM 1968. Insgesamt spielte er bis 1970 für Großbritannien 14-mal, sowie fünfmal gegen England.

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Nach seinem Tod fanden sich zahlreiche ehemalige Spieler seiner beiden Profi-Clubs zusammen, um durch Freundschaftsspielen zu seinen Ehren Geld für ein Denkmal zu seinen Ehren zu sammeln; 2009 fand bereits das dritte jährliche Spiel der Flash Flanagan Memorial Trophy zu diesem Zweck statt.

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Rugby-League-Spieler (Hull Kingston Rovers)
Rugby-League-Spieler (Hull FC)
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Dance Power for the British Red Cross
Dance Power, a gala starring dancers from Strictly Come Dancing to The Royal Ballet, will raise funds for the British Red Cross. Held at London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on October 11, it will be hosted by Strictly's Anton du Beke, who will perform with his dance partner Erin Boag.
Dance UK conference
Akram Khan, Kevin O'Hare, Gillian Lynne, Tamara Rojo, Jonzi D and Wayne McGregor are among the speakers at The Future: New Ideas, New Inspirations, the UK's first ever industry-wide dance conference. Organised by Dance UK, the conference will offer more than 120 speakers, with events at London venues from April 9 to 12. The conference […]
August 2014 issue!
Our August 2014 issue is here! There's a summer holiday flavour to this month's Dance Today, with features on dance travels from Cuba to Australia, while Ashley Banjo gives us the inside story on the new series of Got To Dance on Sky1.
Red Cross Dancing
Ashley Banjo (pictured), leader of dance troupe Diversity, has joined forces with the British Red Cross to launch "Dance: Make Your Move", a new fundraising competition. Young people aged between four and 18 are urged to choreograph a dance routine inspired by the charity's work.
Learn to dance like Diversity with Fitness First
The UK's most famous street dance troupe surprised shoppers at Old Spitalfields Market last night, March 21, with a pop-up performance to mark the launch of their new class Diversity Street Dance in partnership with Fitness First on March 25.


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El districte de La Chaux-de-Fonds és un dels sis districtes del cantó de Neuchâtel (Suïssa). Té una població de 38218 habitants (cens de 2007) i una superfície de 92,94 km². Està format per 3 municipis i el cap del districte és La Chaux-de-Fonds.

Municipis
 La Chaux-de-Fonds
 La Sagne
 Les Planchettes

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 Districtes del Cantó de Neuchâtel

La Chaux