HORTICULTURE FOR NUTRITIONAL SECURITY is a recent compilation of essays authored by working scientists in the area of horticulture-fruits, vegetables, spices, tuber crops, plantation crops, mushrooms and edible bamboos.Professor M S Swaminathan Father of Green Revolution in India in his FORWORD to the book stated "There is a horticultural solution for every nutritional malady".A great Kashmiri saint stated "As long as forests exist, food will be available to humanity.The compilation is published by New India Publishing Agency New Delhi(www.nipabooks.com).Availability,access,absorption and sanitized habitat are a priori requirements of a healthy human nutrition.Nutrition garden/kitchen garden/ homestead garden/verical garden/hyroponics/aeroponics etc are methods of farming for self sufficiency in horticultural crops requirement.
Изучив проект Программы работы (ПЕРВАЯ РЕДАКЦИЯ, 27 января 2017 года) в рамках Десятилетия действий ООН по проблемам питания, 2016–2025 год, хочу предложить следующее.
Пункт № 16 подпункт №3) предлагаю изложить в следующей редакции: «социальная защита и просвещение по вопросам питания, здорового образа жизни, необходимости физического воспитания детей, взрослых и пожилых людей». Поскольку здоровый образ жизни, физическая культура способствуют привитию рационального и качественного питания с детских лет до глубокой старости. Что в свою очередь способствует сохранению продовольственных ресурсов.
Также предлагаю обратить внимание на выращивание продовольственной продукции на основе органических приемов.
Кроме того, при выращивании продовольственной продукции и, особенно на орошаемых землях, происходит истощение земель, что ведет к обеднению минерального состава выращиваемой продукции, а, значит, к неполноценному питанию, бедности. Необходимо обратить внимание на вопрос обогащения орошаемых земель.
Paragraph 16 (subparagraph 3) should be reworded as follows: "social protection and nutritional education and healthy lifestyles, the need for physical education of children, adults and older persons". Because healthy lifestyles and physical education promote inculcation of a balanced diet and high-quality food since childhood to old age. This in turn helps to preserve food resources.
Also, I suggest to turn attention to organic cultivation of food products.
Besides, cultivation of food products, especially on irrigated lands, results in soil depletion, that leads to impoverishment of mineral composition of cultivated products, and thus to malnutrition and poverty.
Attention should be paid to the issue of enrichment of irrigated lands.
Paragraph 4: Paragraph 4 introduces the Nutrition Decade, however not clear what this is. An entity? A call for action? The UNGA proclaims the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition, within existing structures and available resources. So this appears to be more a call for action rather than an entity; a call for action whose implementation is to be led by FAO and WHO with support from WFP, IFAD and UNICEF. At times in the document, it appears that the Nutrition Decade sounds more like an entity doing something rather than a call for action that offers a forum embedded in existing structures that do the implementation. E.g. paragraph 55: the establishment of the Nutrition Decade. The Nutrition Decade is not established but it is proclaimed. Language may need to be adjusted.
Is there scope to replace the text highlighted in yellow here with 'the SUN Movement' or to say ", leveraging the SUN Movement where it is in place', understanding that the SUN is a global (and country level) movement that is seeking to end all forms of malnutrition. That would seem exemplify how the Nutrition Decade "works within existing structures". The sentence makes reference to ICN2 commitments and the 2030 Agenda, but the SUN Movement contributes to those two.
There seems to be a risk of duplication here. Again, it seems odd that the country-led SUN Movement is not mentioned here with its accountability framework since the MEAL framework would capture this, particularly when the sentence states 'building upon existing mechanisms".
There seems to be duplication with the SUN Movement here. For instance, considering the following sentence: "Provide an unprecedented opportunity to propagate society-wide movements for national policy change to end of all forms of malnutrition, in all countries". The SUN Movement has also been providing this opportunity, among others to support scaling up nutrition in a rather revolutionary manner, with the UN Network/REACH providing close support to such SUN processes at the country level. It would be great to rework this section and perhaps articulate that the Nutrition Decade is aligned to SUN and will thus help catalyse those efforts. It would be important to acknowledge here that the Nutrition Decade involves all countries irrespective of income status.
The paragraph says that it ''establish a focused period to set, track and achieve an impact. This needs to acknowledge that it rather reiterates the emphasis of a period that has already been established by WHA (targets by 2025) and in SDG agenda 2030 that recognizes the WHA targets as a key transitory milestones to achieve the 2025. Instead of sounding new it should advocate for a milestones period (2025) already established by the member States.
''Provide an unprecedented opportunity to propagate society-wide movements''. This needs to acknowledge the propagation already triggered by the SUN Movement, whose advocacy influence was praised in the ICE. It would be more accurate to say further expand the propagation of society-wide movements initiated by international initiatives such as the Zero hunger Challenge and Sun Movement.
It is great to see explicit mention of the enabling environment here.
Is it really needed to create additional action areas? Can a reference be made directly to the FFA?
Why is social protection grouped with nutrition education?
We understand that this global strategy was jointly developed by WHO and UNICEF (see http://www.who.int/nutrition/publications/infantfeeding/9241562218/en/) although the copyright is WHO. It might be worth exploring whether UNICEF should be added here.
Again, it seems odd that there is no mention of the SUN Movement here. Perhaps consideration can be made to note the importance of developing or updating on national multi-sectoral nutrition plans based on robust multi-sectoral nutrition analyses. Similarly, it may be good to mention the inclusion of nutrition in nutrition-related sector plans, including sub-national development plans.
There are a number of targets and indicators that the countries are being asked to measure and track (e.g. SUN self-assessments are another exercise). Is it feasible to introduce another tracking exercise?
Paragraph 43: This sounds like a whole new planning process, called road map instead of plan. Not clear if this is a recommendation because it says ''could raise… and develop'', but it does not acknowledge the fact that countries are/have been doing that already. Many countries have nutrition plans that include WHA and SDG targets. This should acknowledge that this process is/has happened in many countries.
If the idea is to build upon existing efforts and structures, is there really a need to establish a Nutrition Decade Secretariat? Where would it be based?
Shouldn't the focus be on tracking progress on the achievement of the nutrition targets rather than tracking commitments?
Perhaps the important thing is to have nutrition champions (not Nutrition Decade champions, SUN champions, etc. per se). These nutrition champs could support and catalyse efforts through various nutrition movements, platforms, etc. (e.g. the Nutrition Decade, SUN, etc.).
Need to leverage existing platforms, where they are in place, instead of establishing Nutrition Decade Action Networks for avoiding duplication. It may also be helpful to qualify that the action networks may be created on thematic areas as indicated in paragraph 50 so as to discern then from other networks/groups (e.g. UN Network for SUN).
It would be helpful if information about the Action Networks is shared as it becomes available with the UNN/REACH Secretariat to help foster UN coherence.
The paragraph mentions the joint FAO/WHO secretariat, is that different from the Nutrition Decade Secretariat mentioned in paragraph 46? It is confusing. Need to adjust language.
It would be good if this monitoring of quality and efficiency of policy and programme implementation leverages existing monitoring (e.g. SUN) efforts.
Perhaps there would be scope to add the word 'continue' in the first sentence, as shown below, since this is already happening.
It would be good if the Nutrition Decade launch events at regional and country levels can articulate how the Nutrition Decade relates to other existing platforms, movements, initiatives (e.g. SUN Movement, UN Network for SUN, etc.) so as avoid confusion.
Perhaps, it could leverage the SUN CoP on communications and advocacy so as to minimize duplication.
It would seem good for the Nutrition Decade Secretariat, if it is finally established, to also periodically convene with the UNN/REACH Secretariat to help foster UN coherence on nutrition and minimize duplication of efforts.
Suggest to include the UNN Country Dashboards (public versions), which highlight UNN contributions towards SUN progresses, in the Nutrition Decade biennial reports.
The International Dairy Federation (IDF) is grateful for the opportunity to comment on the First Draft of the Work Programme of the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition, 2016-2025 (dated 27 January 2017). Since 1903, IDF is the pre-eminent source of scientific and technical expertise for all stakeholders of the dairy chain. IDF commits to help nourish the world with safe and sustainable dairy.
We congratulate the UN for drafting such an ambitious working program. As clearly addressed in the document, the solution to achieve this work program is by combined and coordinated efforts across all actors. International federations such as the IDF through the broad membership they represent can play an essential role in facilitating these partnerships. Industry can help through its expertise by knowledge sharing of social responsibility programmes, technical expertise for cost-effective product development, processing and distribution, as well as providing platforms for advocacy and education. We therefore strongly urge for that open and inclusive dialogue amongst all stakeholders.
We continue to advocate for a focus on foods and diets rather than single nutrients in any policy development and activities, other than where specific micronutrient deficiencies need to be addressed through targeted food fortification and/or supplements. Foods and diets are far more than the sum of their individual nutrients. Nutrients are not consumed in isolation and it is inaccurate to generalize about the effects of a single nutrient without considering the food matrix in which it is present. In some countries, dietary guidelines are shifting away from recommendations based on nutrients or foods in isolation and now focus primarily on healthy eating patterns. Overall, no single food or nutrient creates a healthy dietary pattern, but instead, it is the combination of nutrient-dense foods that is emphasized: "…dietary components of an eating pattern can have interactive, synergistic, and potentially cumulative relationships, such that the eating pattern may be more predictive of overall health status and disease risk than individual foods or nutrients[i]".
Nutrition science has moved on from just focusing on nutrients in isolation – it also considers foods and dietary patterns that are associated with good health. Nutrition policies need to take this into account[ii].
We note that Point 21 suggests that a healthy diet is one that contains adequate macronutrients, fibre and essential micronutrients. This is too reductionist a view as food is much more than this.
We suggest that the text is amended to reflect these points.
Table 1 suggests establishing an action network focused on food reformulation. The danger with this is that there is too much focus on single nutrients and too little on the overall impact of a food. Focusing on reformulation can lead to the use of oversimplified paradigms which in turn may undermine minimally processed, naturally nutritious foods. Nutrition policies that target the decrease or increase of the consumption of single nutrients will result in a modification of the effects of the food and even the diet itself. Food reformulation can be complex, and simply taking out a nutrient is often not feasible. Typically, the nutrient that is removed provides properties that are important for food safety and/or acceptability of a product. In products where fat is removed to produce a low fat or fat free product, carbohydrates (mostly refined) are often added to maintain an acceptable flavour or texture profile[iii]. This could be counterproductive to reducing levels of obesity and risk of non-communicable disease. As addressed in the FAO/WHO report replacing SFA largely with refined carbohydrate has no benefit on CHD and may even increase the risk of CHD and favour the development of metabolic syndrome [iv] [v].
Reformulation is also a way for highly processed unhealthy foods to be positioned as being healthy.
We suggest that all action networks should take a whole of food/dietary pattern approach rather than focusing on single nutrients in isolation.
It is essential that before implementing any new policies or activities there should be clear evidence for a positive impact and a risk based assessment should be considered to identify any potential negative consequences.
We also note that table 1 reference sustainable livestock production. While the concept of sustainable food systems is not new, much more research is needed to establish the scientific foundation on which informed recommendations for sustainable, healthy diets can be made.
Whether framed as sustainable food systems, sustainable healthy diets, or nutrition security, the underlying systems - agricultural, environmental, social, and economic - are connected to one another in ways that are only recently being understood and appreciated by scientists and policymakers. A coordinated, interdisciplinary approach is needed to gain vital insights on interrelated dynamic and adaptive processes within and across these systems. Dietary guidance based on an incomplete research base could lead to unintended consequences for both human health and the long-term sustainability of the food system.
Finally, we continue to support policy development that acknowledges the important and valuable role that dairy plays in balanced and varied diets. Dairy products are nutrient-dense foods that can help reduce malnutrition throughout the world, with increasing evidence that diets containing dairy help reduce the risk of obesity and NCDs.
[ii] Mozaffarian D (2017) Foods, nutrients, and health: when will our policies catch up with nutrition science? The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology 5, 85-8.
[iii] Sandrou DK, et al (2000). Low-fat/calorie foods: current state and perspectives. Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr. , 40(5):427-47.
[iv] Jakobsen MU, O. E. (2009). Major types of dietary fat and risk of coronary heart disease: a pooled analysis of 11 cohort studies. Am J Clin Nutr. ,89(5):1425-32.
[v] Fats and fatty acids in human nutrition. Proceedings of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Consultation. November 10-14, 2008. Geneva, Switzerland. (2009). Ann Nutr Metab., 55(1-3):5-300.
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[vii] Burlingame B, Drnini, S. Sustainable diets and biodiversity: Directions and solutions for policy, research and action. Proceedings of the International Scientific Symposium, BIODIVERSITY AND SUSTAINABLE DIETS UNITED AGAINST HUNGER, 3 – 5 November 2010, FAO Headquarters, Rome 2012.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the conversation. It has been another week of solid input that will no doubt help to shape the breadth and depth of the Decade's Work Programme.
Several themes are emerging strongly this week. One is the need for leadership, coordination and implementation, specifically at country level. Ending all forms of malnutrition requires bold, country-led leadership to shine a light on the pathways to coherent actions leading to results and impact. The coordination of these actions will help ensure that the final collective result is greater than the sum of the individual efforts. Through biannual reporting and course correction when necessary, the Work Programme's strongest added value will be in its clear focus on consolidation and implementation.
The sense of urgency to act to prevent increases in overweight and obesity due to low quality diets was emphasized. Priority also needs to be given to data collection for effective evidence-based policy making, which would help us understand what people are eating and why. Concrete measures to make our food systems and our direct food environment work better for nutrition are called for. Taxation was suggested as a means to ensure that healthy diets are available on the market, but this was questioned by others. This again highlights the critical importance of better understanding both consumer behavior and the effects of market regulation. Monitoring and evaluation of interventions to ensure that they are cost-effective, sustainable and are reaching their end target is essential.
The number of commitments being expressed through this consultation shows the universality of the problem and identifies solutions moving forward. The Co-leadership team of the Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) Programme of the UN 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production (10YFP) gave concrete examples of the initiatives they are undertaking to enhance international cooperation across sectors to accelerate the shift towards sustainable consumption and production. It would be a missed opportunity if not all of the existing partnerships were encouraged to take part in the Decade because everyone has a role to play. The nutrition community also needs to systematically engage in all relevant fora to ensure that nutrition is mainstreamed.
Some participants asked for a calendar of events, and on that note, allow me to remind you of the upcoming ones specifically on the Decade's draft Work Programme. A briefing will be held on 27 February 2017 as an opportunity to informally brief the Permanent Representatives of FAO and WHO Members and seek their views on the main elements of the draft Work Programme. The FAO and WHO will then produce a revised Work Programme to discuss with their Member States during the World Health Assembly (May 2017) and the FAO Conference (June 2017). This Work Programme will remain a living document, building upon and connecting the independent initiatives of governments and their many partners and will be adapted according to needs and lessons learned.
We very much look forward to the next round of comments in the coming few days. By working together, we can make this Decade a decade of impact for nutrition.
Thank you for sharing the work programme. Please find below feedback from Save the Children.
Question 1: Does the work programme present a compelling vision for enabling strategic interaction and mutual support across existing initiatives, platforms, forums and programmes, given the stipulation of Res 70/259 that the Decade should be organized with existing institutions and available resources?
We do however hold concerns which we would like to see addressed; these are listed in some detail across the following questions.
Question 2: What are your general comments to help strengthen the presented elements of the first draft work programme of the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition?
A) Resources: We welcome the Decade of Action's efforts to provide clearly-defined time-bound operational frameworks to implement the commitments made at ICN 2 and the 2030 agenda.
We are concerned, however that there is not sufficient emphasis on need for increased resources for nutrition (especially DRM), nor the need to improve the use of existing resources via integrated multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder working. Save the Children's research forecasts that even by 2030—the deadline world leaders have set themselves to end all forms of malnutrition—129 million children will still find their physical and mental development stunted by malnutrition. In fact, children living in 53 countries will continue to be malnourished way into the next century.
Increased resources from all stakeholders (national governments, donors and the private sector) are urgently required to speed up progress. The World Bank estimates that reaching 4 of the 6 World Health Assembly nutrition targets by 2025 will require an additional average annual investment of $7 billion over the next 10 years, of which donors should contribute an additional $2.6 billion. The sooner that these resources are invested, the faster, better, and more sustained the economic and human gains.
B) Plans: We are also concerned that the work programme is not yet 'time bound' and appears to be more a set of intentions than a work programme. This is most clearly demonstrated by the lack of concrete actions. E.g. desire to "address the increasing amount of emergencies", but with no clear plan as to how. This is particularly worrying given that the assumption of the DoA is that the WHA indicators will need to be met by 2025; yet there is no explicit indication in the document on how the DoA intends to meet these objectives.
Further, the document mentions a broad range of issues, but it does not go into a prioritisation, nor does it give an idea of which issue to start with or how to start with it. This might not necessarily be a diktat, but rather advice on how to go about prioritising at the country level, with examples of how other countries have had successes or failures to reinforce that.
C) Country Specificity & Inclusion: The document does not mention any high-burden countries specifically, or reference how little commitment many of them have made to tackle malnutrition in their domestic spheres (which may threaten the DoA's goal generally).
Perhaps even more importantly, the world is off-track against its goals because progress has not been inclusive enough. Millions of children miss out on adequate nutrition because of whom they are and where they live. These are the forgotten children who are discriminated against because of their gender, ethnicity, where they live, a disability, because they are forced from their home or on the move, or because of their family's income. Inequalities in malnutrition are widening between different regions within countries, between the richest and the poorest, and between rural and urban areas. Discrimination and exclusion are helping to create and entrench these inequalities.
With this in mind, we applaud the aim and added value of this work programme to 'leaving no one behind', and the emphasis on reaching the most marginalised and most vulnerable in action areas including those on UHC and social protection. However, a cross cutting set of activities is required in order to reach the furthest behind first, in order to leave no one behind.
D) Legal Frameworks: The right to food is a basic human right. Governments have an obligation to ensure all citizens have access to sufficient quantities of food, of sufficient quality and cultural acceptability to meet their needs. States also have a binding obligation, enshrined in international law, to respect, protect and realise children's right to survival. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child obliges states to do everything they can to prevent children from dying. To meet this commitment, states need to tackle malnutrition. Yet, many countries lack a legal framework that promotes child survival, and those that do often fail to implement it.
E) Language: The definition of terms in the work plan could be improved. For example, the word "resilience" is included without an attempt to define what is meant by the term (for we know resilience is used widely across the sector in a multitude of different contexts.
· Action area 2. This area would benefit from being more specific about what nutrition actions it refers to. There is no reference for example to the detection, referral and treatment of acute malnutrition – referring to the compendium of action on nutrition would be a good start here.
· Action Area 4: Trade and investment are indeed important, but given the gridlock at the WTO, and the recent endangering of TTP, TTIP and NAFTA, should we be linking trade so explicitly to food policy? We do not see many successful examples of this occurring.
· Action area 5: Is there more that could be done to support exclusive breastfeeding in the informal sector? How about in the agricultural sector itself - contract farming for example? What should the private sector be accountable for/ what more could be done around maternity rights and support?
· Action Area 6: We would like to see this area strengthened. A reporting structure to involve civil society would be welcome as a start here – at present the accountability framework is unclear.
Question 3: How could this draft work programme be improved to promote collective action to achieve the transformational change called for by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the ICN2 outcomes? What is missing?
· We welcome the guiding principle to provide an inclusive umbrella for all relevant stakeholders to consolidate, align and reinforce nutrition actions, but we feel more detail is needed on how the actors listed on page 3 (SUN, Zero Hunger etc) will be engaged in practice. For example, will joint activities be scoped? Will a joint work plan be developed, under the Decade of Action framework? How will the Decade of Action support the strides of these existing efforts?
· We also welcome the guiding principle to engage with a wide range of stakeholders, including civil society organisations. Again, we would like to understand better how this will be carried out in practice, including key actors like the CSM of the CFS, the SUN CSN and CIVICUS?
· We question the low level of ambition regarding member states to identify and commit to achieve 'one of more' nutrition targets… 'one or more' recommendation of the ICN2 framework , as this does not feel ambitious enough for SDG2 to be met (para 42).
· We welcome the development of a publically-accessible commitment repository and urge this to be made available as the soonest opportunity, as a vital mechanism for the DoA.
· We would encourage the DoA secretariat to report all commitments, including those that are voluntary, through the repository.
· We suggest more detail is added on the recruitment, remit and activities of nutrition champions, as vital actors in the DoA.
· We would like to know how will the 'smart commitments for action' be compiled and shared?
· We would like clarification regarding the suggested establishment of action networks, including logistical arrangements, and we urge confirmation that civil society will be included within them (para 49)? We strongly advise these are multi-sector action networks, that complement and engage existing mechanisms such as SUN movement.
· We welcome the emphasis on evidence informed advocacy and communication (para 61-66), but we strongly advise against the development of new networks of advocates. Many active networks exist, namely the SUN movement, Every Woman and Every Child, …. Resources should be invested in these existing structures to enable them to support the DoA advocacy approach, rather than developing duplicative structures or efforts.
Question 4: Do you feel you can contribute to the success of the Nutrition Decade or align yourself with the proposed range of action areas?
We are looking forward to contributing to the DoA, but in order to identify concrete activities we need a clearer structure and timeline in order to constructively engage; there also needs to be a better governance system, including the involvement of civil society as reviewers of progress/accountability officers.
Question 5: Do you have specific comments on the section on accountability and shared learning?
We recommend one database is used to capture all commitments submitted in the DoA, not just those from Member States.
 Stunting refers to a child who is too short for his or her age. Stunting is the failure to grow both physically and cognitively and is the result of chronic or recurrent malnutrition. The effects of stunting often last a lifetime.
 Source: Save the Children and Göttingen University, based on Group and Inequalities Database and Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates.
I propose that we spell out undernutrition to also include acute and chronic malnutrition.
2. Page 5: action area 1: consider including this: erratic climatic conditions has resulted in severe conditions such as the El Niño leading to severe drought. These conditions poses risks to sustainable food systems. Additionally, sustainable and resilient food systems should also build on indigenous knowledge system by creating awareness and increasing demand and production of indigenous food crops.
3. Page 8: Action area 5: in this area, consider addicting the following dimension: creation of supportive public food environment requires commitment and involvement of the food industry to ensure availability and affordability of healthy foods. Business should take the responsibility and held accountable through country legislative frameworks to ensure a safe and supportive food environment.
4. Page 12: Governance: on this section, expand on national government coordination in tackling commitments made. Lack of nationally led coordination and governance can play a role in non-attainment of nutrition actions by 2025.
5. The work programme is not mentioning monitoring instruments to measure progress made towards attainment of nutrition commitments in the next decade.
I am writing on behalf of the Grocery Manufacturers Association, based in Washington, D.C., to submit the attached comments on the draft work program for the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition.
GMA appreciates the opportunity to submit comments and respectfully requests you take these comments into consideration.


Carney's statement during his daily press briefing left members of the White House press corps visibly dazed and confused, with one reported sighting of CNN's Jessica Yellin's mouth falling so agape in amazement that her chewing gum fell out.
Carney had been fielding rather tough questions recently (as far as the WH press corps is concerned), as issues over the administration's contradicting statements on the September 11th attack in Benghazi, its secret tapping of Associated Press reporters' phones, and the IRS scandal have culminated in serving President Obama the worst week in office to date. Reporters had grown used to Carney sidestepping questions on all three scandals for days, but nothing could have prepared them for his "We knew about the IRS…before we did not know about the IRS (scandal)" statement Monday afternoon. And when reporters questioned Carney further, only more brilliance erupted from abyss of PR savvy that Carney has come to symbolize.
White House reporters sat silent, apparently stunned (according to reporters' reports from reporters). Eventually, after nearly a 30–second pause, Fox News' Ed Henry wearily raised his hand to engage Carney. "So what you're saying, the White House's position, is that it knew of the IRS's bias and invasive auditing of tea party groups, but then you all 'forgot' that information. Is that correct?" asked Henry.
"That's kind of funny, Ms. Cooper. I knew you were going to ask me that," Carney said.
The remaining White House press corps members were found shortly after Carney's briefing alongside Fox News' Ed Henry, getting hammered to holy hell.


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By Andrew Neil Cole
Day 2: Hausu (House) (1977).
Hausu is a Japanese horror film that tells the relatively pedestrian tale of seven teen girls spending their vacation in a creepy old house; however, there's probably never been a haunted house movie quite like this. This is an outrageous, hyper-stylized, unpredictable little horror gem that viewers will either love or hate. There is no middle ground.
Sometimes the film's style can be overwhelming: animation, stop-motion animation, black-and-white photography, sepia-tones, pink tones (yes, pink), lap dissolves, matte paintings, etc … Every single frame of this film seems to be screaming YOU ARE WATCHING A MOVIE! The constant visual fireworks are complemented (if you can call it that) by an intrusive musical score that almost never stops. But if you can see through the film's overbearingly cartoony style, Hausu delivers on a rather audacious conceit, in that the film works as both a horror film and a commentary on horror tropes and clichés (and it does this decades before films like Scream and The Cabin in the Woods would mine similar thematic territory). For example, all of the principal characters are literally named after character types, as if their behavior has been genetically predestined. I'm not kidding. The attractive girl is named Gorgeous. The girl with an overactive imagination is named Fantasy. The studious, bespectacled girl is named Prof. The hearty girl who likes to eat is named Mac. The music-lover/pianist is named Melody. The ridiculously companionable, eager-to-please girl is named Sweet. And, my personal favorite, the martial arts enthusiast is named Kung Fu. Subtlety is clearly not this film's forte. Nonetheless, Hausu is a movie experience that really feels like an experience. This is a movie that, once seen, must be talked about with anyone who will listen.
Much has been made of the film's impact on future filmmakers, specifically Sam Raimi and his Evil Dead films, so I won't bother to stir that pot again. Nor will I bother to comment on certain sexist aspects of the movie that have confounded and angered so many viewers over the years. It should be remembered that this movie, like any movie, is a product of its time and place. It is what it is and nothing more. (Although, to modern sensibilities, it is pretty sexist.)
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Women who are 'morning people' are less likely to develop breast cancer than those who are sharpest in the evening، a study suggests، daily mail reported.
Research involving more than 400،000 women found 'larks' have a breast cancer risk up to 48 per cent lower than 'night owls'.
The scientists، led by the University of Bristol، also showed women who slept longer than the recommended seven to eight hours a night increased their chances of a diagnosis by 20 per cent for each extra hour spent asleep. One explanation may be that those who function better in the morning have slept better and woken earlier.
And those who are sharper in the evening may have had more disrupted sleep، which could affect the risk of cancer.
The researchers believe staying awake later may also have an impact on a woman's body clock، increasing the risk further. This echoes previous studies which found night-shift workers and those exposed to more artificial light at night are at greater risk of cancer.
The research team، who presented their findings at the National Cancer Research Institute conference in Glasgow، analysed women's genes and asked them whether they were a morning or an evening person.
Dr Rebecca Richmond، from Bristol، said: 'We would like to do further work to investigate the mechanisms underpinning these results، as the estimates obtained are based on questions related to morning or evening preference rather than actually whether people get up earlier or later in the day.


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Opsealog and Identec Solutions to optimise support vessel operations
French performance management company Opsealog and Austrian wireless solutions provider Identec Solutions have announced a partnership to enhance their services to the offshore oil and gas sector. This will help companies further optimise the operations of their support fleets, reducing their emissions and maximising safety and security in harsh environments.
The partnership combines Identec Solutions' GPS trackers with Opsealog's data integration and analysis service, Marinsights. The GPS trackers collect precise and real-time data on the positioning of each vessel, which is processed and analysed by the Marinsights platform to provide meaningful insights that can improve safety, optimise operations, and reduce fuel consumption.
The combined solution was successfully tested during a pilot project which was completed in collaboration with Shell in Nigeria. Nine vessels were equipped with an i-Q350LX GPS-SAT removable transponder of Identec Solutions. These were configured to send the vessel position automatically every 30 minutes through the Globalstar network. This helped Shell overcome the challenges related to the tracking of its support vessel fleet in the winding rivers of the Niger delta, where in addition to the unavailability of the Automatic Identification System (AIS), bad weather conditions can pose a challenge for satellite reception.
The data was then analysed by Opsealog's marine consultants and presented on the Marinsights platform, which enabled the company to visualise its fleet on a map in real time, with specific information for each vessel. The software also generated reports on routes and position quality, as well as alerts when a vessel was immobilized for a certain duration or when it crossed a geofenced area.
Opsealog's founder and managing director Arnaud Dianoux said, "The remarkable results of this pilot project with Identec Solutions for Shell Nigeria demonstrate the power of digital solutions and illustrate what can be achieved when a wealth of high-quality data combines with state-of-the-art performance management service. Having a comprehensive portrait of support vessels operations is an essential component of a strong security strategy and can also unlock efficiencies that support companies' decarbonisation efforts."
Dr. Urban Siller, CEO at Identec Solutions stated, "We strongly believe that good visibility of onshore and offshore operations delivers safety and productivity. As the industry seeks to become safer, greener and more efficient, having a precise understanding of the activities of each vessel is vital. This is where our cutting-edge technology comes into play, and we are proud to partner with Opsealog on this journey that will support the offshore oil and gas sector as it moves towards sustainability."
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On Saturday, November 3, and Sunday, November 4, 2018, the Los Angeles Zoo hosts WILD ABOUT READING, sponsored by First 5 LA and presented in partnership with HarperCollins Publishers. This event is in honor of National Family Literacy Month, which is celebrated across the U.S. to showcase the importance of reading as a family and its lifelong benefits. This event is open to all Zoo guests and invites readers of all ages to enjoy book readings, activities, and meet some of HarperCollins' most beloved children's book characters.
HarperCollins and the L.A. Zoo will host character meet-and-greets in Treetops Terrace with storybook characters Biscuit, Pete the Cat, Danny the Dinosaur, and Cookie Mouse. Books that will be read for each character include Danny and the Dinosaur (written and illustrated by Syd Hoff), Biscuit and the Big Parade (written by Alyssa Satin Capucilli, illustrated by Pat Schories), If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (written by Laura Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond), and Pete the Cat and the Missing Cupcakes (written by Kimberly and James Dean, illustrated by James Dean). The event will take place from 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. with meet-and-greets with the characters from 10:15 a.m. – 3:45 p.m., and includes activities and book readings for the whole family to enjoy.
Saturday, November 3, and Sunday, November 4, 2018 from 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Wild About Reading is included with the purchase of admission. Admission to the Los Angeles Zoo is $21 for general admission (ages 13 to 61), $18 for seniors (ages 62+), and $16 for children (ages 2 to 12). No ticket is required for children under 2. Admission for Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association members is free.


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Q: Silhouette was not returning a valid number on scikit-learn on iris data. Is this wrong? I was testing some clustering validity indexes with Iris Dataset and I got something odd with scikit learn. The silhouette index is giving a better index for 2 clusters instead of 3 clusters (the real or natural number of partitions).
python 3.6.9 and scikit-learn 0.24.2
from sklearn import datasets
from sklearn.cluster import KMeans
from sklearn.metrics import silhouette_score
from sklearn.metrics import davies_bouldin_score, calinski_harabasz_score

iris = datasets.load_iris()
nr_clusters = 2
km = KMeans(n_clusters=nr_clusters).fit(iris.data)
print(f'Silhouette Score(n={nr_clusters}): {silhouette_score(iris.data, km.labels_)}')
print(davies_bouldin_score(iris.data, km.labels_))
print(calinski_harabasz_score(iris.data, km.labels_))

Result:
Silhouette Score(n=2): 0.681046169211746
0.40429283717304365
513.9245459802768

If I run the k-means with the correct number of clusters, it will give a worse silhouette index.
nr_clusters = 3
km = KMeans(n_clusters=nr_clusters).fit(iris.data)
print(f'Silhouette Score(n={nr_clusters}): {silhouette_score(iris.data, km.labels_)}')
print(davies_bouldin_score(iris.data, km.labels_))
print(calinski_harabasz_score(iris.data, km.labels_))

Result:
Silhouette Score(n=3): 0.5528190123564091
0.6619715465007511
561.62775662962

Probably, there is something wrong with my environment or I missed some point. I tried to run an equivalent test using R and I got the correct value, that is, a k=3 clustering got a better silhouette than k=2.
My question is not related to programming/algorithm. It's about the silhouette index nature and why it didn't run well for a traditional case.

A: There is nothing "wrong" with it.
First of all, R's and Python's implementations of the algorithm may differ, hence they may give different results. Second, $k$-means is a randomized algorithm. It is not fully deterministic because it starts with randomly initialized clusters, so if you run it several times you could get different results for each run.
Moreover, $k$-means is a clustering algorithm and you are applying it to labeled data, but there is no reason to believe that the clustering algorithm will learn to classify. For example, say that you have health data of patients with different diseases (labels) together with some demographic data. The clustering algorithm could learn perfectly reasonable clustering solutions that focus on the demographics while scattering the medical conditions over all the clusters. So the fact that Iris data has three labels does not mean that the only way to cluster it is three classes.

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The physical exercises are non-threatening but introduce a little personal stress. They are easy enough for the majority of people to perform yet are very illuminating. They create awareness of personal behavior of selves and others, while emphasizing the need for teamwork. The types of activities generally used are not meant to be extreme; they are not like 'Ropes' or other similar activities (climbing, abseiling, rafting, hang gliding, etc.). While these types of activities are fun for many people, they can be very emotionally threatening to others or even impossible for some people. In addition, these types of activities rarely relate back to the enterprise needs, the lessons learned are mostly personal, rather than work related. STARS workshop exercises can include the 'blindfold walk', the 'human knot', and 'walk the plank'.
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One of the weaknesses of many workshop events is ensuring that the benefits and outcomes of the event are available and useful after the event. We use a variety of multiple media event capture, story walls, and other techniques, as well as providing follow-on services to support teams and organizations.
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Q: mysql join issue when one of the values is not assigned I have the issue of getting the records out of database in the specific condintion.  I have table 'test' I want to get the listing from sorted by driverid and table 'drivers' which i use to adjust sorting of the listing from 'test' table.
My query:
SELECT * FROM test JOIN drivers ON test.driverid=drivers.driverid ORDER BY queno

Table 'drivers' looks like:
driver | driverid | queno
-------------------
drv1   | 15       | 3
drv2   | 30       | 1
drv3   | 40       | 2

Problem is when there is no value assigned to 'driverid' in 'test' table then these results are listed at very beginning. I would like to have these listed at the end
How to achieve that? Thx in advance!

A: You can make driver.driverid primary key (PK) and test.driverid foreign key (FK) and enforce data integrity. This will also eliminate your problem.

A: Place a minus sign (-) before the column name and switch the ASC to DESC  or DESC to ASC order (opposite to what you want).
try this:-
SELECT * FROM test JOIN drivers ON test.driverid=drivers.driverid ORDER BY -queno DESC;

Note:- While this may work well for numbers and dates, it may not be the best solution to sort fields with alpha or alphanumeric values

A: I found the working solution elswhere:
MySQL: Order by field, placing empty cells at end
SELECT * FROM test JOIN drivers ON test.driverid=drivers.driverid ORDER BY if(queno = '' or queno is null,1,0), queno


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"It is a privilege to perform this transfer of sovereignty in the face of history, or rather: in the presence of God, who alone knows why this union in freedom was not achieved earlier nor later, and who knows of the generations' failures, but who also sees how we may serve the plan for the progress of mankind."
Queen Wilhelmina in 1949
"Whatever we decide, it will never be right. We struggle with our colonial past. Which we must come to terms with. History does not change, but our view of it does. And everyone experiences that differently. That is why not everyone will approve of our future decision. It is important, however, that the monument continues to confront us with the Dutch colonial past."
That was the conclusion of van der Wieken, alderman of the Amsterdam Oud-Zuid district, during the public consultation evening on the 19th of September 2000, on which the future of the Van Heutsz Monument was debated. Seven years, and many committee meetings and public consultations later, the restored statue was finally unveiled again. This time as the Dutch-Indies Monument.
The possibility to revise the original meaning of the sculpture appears to have been incorporated into its design by the artist Frits van Hall. "Take a crowbar," he is reported to have said to his pupil, "tear down the name of Van Heutsz and replace it with the letters Freedom, Merdeka, or Indonesia, and you have a Statue of Liberty."
Now we stand before this monument, on Liberation Day. Three generations after the colonial statue was first unveiled. The basin of the fountain has been cleaned, and the graffiti erased. The bronze relief of Van Heutsz, which was removed from the base by unkown persons in 1984, has not been restored to its place. Three twisted bronze pins that once held it in place, are the only reminders of the vehemence with which the existence of this tribute was disputed.
The numbers that refer to the birth and death of the controversial general have also been removed. Instead, six new dates have been chosen to represent the past. The proclamation of independence of Indonesia in 1945, and the transfer of sovereignty in 1949, are mentioned in the same breath as the town council's decision to change the name and function of the monument itself.
Did these changes rectify a contentious historical error? Or did they take the sting out of it, leaving the work of art to confront us, like a modern-day Vanitas, with the fleetingness of the values we ascribe to it?
Let's take heed of the words of the artist. For if the name of Van Heutsz can be torn down so easily, then, by the same token, so can words such as "Freedom", or "Merdeka". Principles and ideals are more volatile than concrete, brick or bronze. It is up to us to reaffirm again and again what this statue stands for. And if we cannot agree on that between ourselves, then let this site turn back into the battleground of yore, on which we settle our disputes.
AND that is why I "OLYMPIA MARIAM HAWA LATUPEIRISSA"
TAKE POSSESSION OF THIS EFFIGY.. TODAY Saturday the 5th of May 2012..
I DEMAND....MERDEKA for my PEOPLE on the MOluccas as well as here in the NEtherlands.
Merdeka in the form of an apology for the 1st generation of moluccans here in the Netherlands...
Merdeka in the consideration of the human rights of our people, held by Indonesia..
Merdeka in the de reasoning of a MOluccan here in the NEtherlands ..
Merdekaaaaa in the sense of progress and activity of my interaction as 3rd generation MOluccan here in the Netherlands..
Merdeka for my GRandpa ... who often mentioned the name van Heutsz..in his stories...
Merdeka is my info I provide about MOluccan history, through Moluccan Eyes..
Merdeka is the story I tell to the ignorant..
Merdeka is the combative spirit I glean from the Dutch cover-up..
Merdeka is the sanctimoniousness of the Dutch Government then and now, that does nothing for our people..
Merdeka is the reflection I take from the Moluccan Kepala Batu .. to look at oneself..
Merdeka is what I say.. MErdeka is what I feel .. MErdeka is my MOLuccan INterpretation of the HIstorical Word..
Merdeka is my respect for being here in this cold little country..
thanks to my GRandpa ex-knil-military..
Merdeka for all MOluccan EX- Knil Soldiers!!
IN heaven as on EARTH...
LEt us all.. take back possession of this KEPALA BATU...
**** Take down the cloth and fold it with volunteers ***
*** Place the cloth in the chest ***
Author: Iratxe Jaio & Klaas van Gorkum, Olympia Latupeirissa
Kepala Batu (Head of stone)
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Unveiling the former Van Heutsz - Dutch Indies Monument
Toespraak van Olympia Latupeirissa bij het voormalig van Heutsz Monument


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Rowhani, Qalibaf appear to lead polls to top Friday's vote, advance to June 21 runoff
June 12, 2013 Kevin Lees	Leave a comment
Polling is an inexact science in Iran, so most polls should be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism.
But the field poll data coming from the U.S.-based Information and Public Opinion Solutions is more reliable than most, even though it's not based in Tehran, because it conducts daily telephone interviews with a sample of over 1,000 potential voters within Iran.
The bottom line is that a runoff seems increasingly likely and, although that runoff seems likeliest to be a faceoff between conservative Tehran mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf and moderate Hassan Rowhani, that's by no means a certainty. I continue to believe that any of the five leading candidates could ultimately wind up in the runoff, especially if former longtime foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati withdraws from the race in the next 48 hours in favor of Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, which remains a possibility, given that both candidates are viewed has having the closest ties to Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader since 1989. That's especially true if you believe that the 2009 presidential vote was subject to massive electoral fraud — in such case, it seems possible that Rowhani could be excluded through chicanery. But despite the fact that he's the most reformist of the six remaining candidate, Rowhani is the only cleric in the race, he has a solid relationship with Khamenei.
The latest results show Rowhani moving for the first time into the lead with 26.6% of the vote at the same time that former presidents Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammed Khatami have endorsed him. Rafsanjani, a political moderate, had registered to run for president in the election, but he was disqualified by the Guardian Council, a 12-member body close to the Supreme Leader that certifies candidates to run for office in Iran. The reformist Khatami, who had supported Rafsanjani's presidential bid, indicated his support for Rowhani after his former vice president Mohammad Reza Aref dropped out of the race on Monday in favor of Rowhani. Rowhani's support has steadily increased from a poll last week that showed him with just 8.1%. (Online polls have shown Rowhani and Aref with much wider support, but those seem skewed toward wealthier, more urban voters likelier to support more liberal candidates like Rowhani and Aref).
For the first time in an IPOS poll, the more 'principlist' conservative mayor of Tehran, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, has slipped into second place. Despite Qalibaf's position as a conservative, he's been a relatively popular mayor and is expected to do well among voters in Tehran, which is home to over 12 million of Iran's 75 million people. Last week, however, Qalibaf held a much wider lead with 39% of the vote, though his lead seems to be shrinking as more undecided voters (57% of all voters last week) ultimately choose a candidate to support:
The third-place candidate, according to the poll, is Mohsen Rezai, whose support seems to be incredibly stable — 16.3% today and 16.6% last week. Rezai, the former head of the Revolutionary Guards, is seen as a more independent-minded conservative, and he pulls much of his strength from rural Iran and from within Iran's military forces.
The poll has routinely shown Jalili, Iran's top negotiator with respect to its nuclear energy program, far behind — 13.7% today, down from 13.9% last week. That places IPOS's poll at odds with domestic and international media reports that Jalili is a frontrunner in the race, though it would hardly be the first time that an anointed frontrunner failed to win Iran's presidency — both Khatami in 1997 and incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005 were initially views as unlikely dark-horse candidates.
Velayati, Iran's foreign minister from 1981 to 1997 and currently a top international affairs advisor to the Supreme Leader, languishes in fifth place with 10.7% of the vote, down from 11.5% last week.
The results do have an intuitive logic: Qalibaf has a natural constituency in Tehran, Rezai has a natural constituency among rural voters, and Rowhani appears to be consolidating the moderate and reformist voters who had initially rallied behind Rafsanjani. On the contrary, neither Jalili nor Velayati have held top elective offices in Iran, and both are associated with the status quo — some reports even suggest that Jalili is Ahmadinejad's preferred candidate, which may be harming him in light of dissatisfaction with Ahmadinejad over Iran's crumbling economic state and its international isolation.
Despite the fact that the Supreme Leader may prefer Jalili and Velayati to the other major principlist candidate, Qalibaf, it's reasonable to understand why Jalili and Velayati might be languishing, though there's still time for Velayati to drop out of the race (and he indicated weeks ago he might well do so in favor of Velayati). Another principlist candidate, former parliamentary speaker Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel, dropped out of the race on Monday to prevent even further splintering among conservative voters.
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I can't believe Eric is turning 5 months in a few days!! With all honesty, the past 5 months goes by in such a quick pace, that I didn't realized Eric will soon be starting solids. How exciting!
Before I go on about solids, I wanted to share a post on different events that I had experienced during my first 3 months after giving birth.
Giving birth. After so many prenatal exercise sessions I attend during my pregnancy, in the end I had Eric through a scheduled C-Section due to hypertension at 38 weeks. The doctor declared that it was too risky to deliver Eric normally not able to control my tension. I started my maternity leave on week 37 and stayed home finishing all the baby preparations including getting my hospital bag ready with the essentials.
In my opinion, many mom-to-be tend to over-packed their hospital bags. In my case, I try not to.
Toiletries (toothbrush, toothpaste, facial wash + toner, deodorant, shampoo). Try to buy travel size bottles, if not use those empty travel set bottles and fill them with your products.
As you see, I didn't bring any clothes because I'd prefer using the hospital's robe instead - it's easier to nurse as well. Also, usually the hospital will provide you with clean towel everyday.
Most for Eric's necessities were all provided in the hospital.
So my advice is to check with the hospital on what items provided there to avoid over-packing.
I stayed in the hospital for 4 days which covers the entire C-Section surgery and recovery. I can't really say much other than it was such an unbelievable experience for me and hubs. This little peanut is finally out from my body, breathing, moving, crying..


Betty demonstrates how to make Peanut Butter Cereal Squares. This is a snack made of Cheerios or Kix cereal coated with a peanut butter candy sauce.
In a large saucepan, heat dry pudding mix and corn syrup to boiling over medium heat, stirring constantly.
Boil and stir constantly for 1 minute. Remove from heat.
Stir in peanut butter. Add 3 to 4 cups cereal and stir immediately to coat.
Spoon mixture into a greased 8-inch by 8-inch by 2-inch Pyrex baking dish, quickly patting down with back of a greased spoon.
Cool until firm. Cut into squares.
Transfer to a nice serving dish and serve.


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The Slow Art Collectives interest in various aspects of d.i.y.culture found a source close to home when we discovered that both our children had found a mutual obsession in hand made archery. A healthy obsession that we both happily encouraged.
Of course this was also the perfect medium for exploring the various confluences of material improvisation,sonic architecture and survivalist skills disguised as entertainment SAC has explored throughout its brief lifespan.
Working with our children as collaborators it was also an interesting way for us to expand our definition of the art collective, a floating collective that finds a strength in its lack of definition.
The installation consisted of a shooting gallery made up of an "exploded" drum kit hooked up to an old electric drum kit unit which triggered various percussive samples, 'Chinese opera' etc when successfully targeted by the archery participants.
Gallery walls where decorated with motifs mirroring the various circular targets as well as a wall dedicated to Ringo Watanabes d.i.y. weapon collection.


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The cgi In this video is better than Hollywood cgi just saying.
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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has continued its intervention in the inter-bank sector of the Foreign Exchange market by injecting another sum of $210 million into the forex market.
In the forex trading on Tuesday, January 8, 2019, the CBN injected the sum of $100 million in the wholesale segment of the market in addition to the sum of $55 million each in the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and invisibles sectors.
The Director, Corporate Communications Department, Isaac Okorafor, disclosed these on Tuesday and reiterated that the Bank was unrelenting in its resolve to sustain liquidity in the forex market as well as maintain stability there.
Mr. Okorafor stressed that the CBN's continued intervention was aimed at ensuring that the Bank meets the requests of genuine customers in the various windows of the market.
On the Bank's restriction of access to forex for some 42 items, he said the policy would continue, particularly as it was greatly boosting local production of items on the clist. He disclosed that the Economic Intelligence Unit of the CBN was working closely with relevant government agencies to checkmate any attempt to flout the policy.
Meanwhile, the United States Dollar at the rate of US$1 for N358 in the Bureau De Change (BDC) segment of the market on Tuesday, January 8, 2019.


Virtual reality has been developing for decades, but it's beginning to be harnessed in areas of life other than seaside town arcades and cinema multiplexes. Within end of life care, there's been a move towards using VR to make the dying process a little more forgiving and fulfilling.
Virtual reality is a fully computer-generated experience, with the ability to create an experience that doesn't yet exist or one that never can – such as how it looks to journey through a black hole, or even a successful round of Brexit negotiations.
The tech amounts to an immersive experience through headsets, gaining it's all-encompassing sense of reality through visuals and sound. Some versions, though, are fully immersive, and even use the sense of touch.
How is VR helping those who are dying?
Virtual reality is now being used by hospices and hospitals to offer relief to terminally ill patients and those living with dementia. A charity hospice in London has allowed dying patients to run with wild horses in Iceland, traverse the Java sea, go skydiving and tour Venice's canals aboard a gondola, all without leaving their beds.
Last year, Flix Films and Trinity Hospice in Clapham started working together to use VR to improve patient well-being. It's all about letting people escape their bodies for a bit, and not letting the dying process define a whole, rich life.
It's not all paddleboarding while sipping cocktails – VR tech can also help create better patient-carer relationships. Initiatives like A Walk Through Dementia are getting those who aren't dying to experience what it's like for those with illnesses such as dementia. This might lead to better patient-oriented care.
How might VR help in the future?
Virtual reality has the potential to allow people to go beyond the limitations of their bodies, helping them to realise that they're more than just what their body can and can't do.
Experts have said that VR tech has the potential to encourage transformations in how people approach their death. Unlike acute pain (like an ankle sprain or a wasp sting) chronic pain gets wired into the brain. It might be that a Google Daydream or a Samsung Gear headset, while offering up landscapes of vistas of the French Riviera, also alters the mindset of those facing death, helping to create a good death.
VR tech is only getting more sophisticated. Flix Film's latest venture with a camera that allows them to shoot original 360-degree experiences complete with livestream and surround sound. Why stop at simply virtual reality: the next step might be augmented reality – where reality and unreality is fully blurred.
Do you remember when Mortal Kombat was discussed on lofty discussion shows, and virtual reality was still a brave new world? Reminisce with this BBC Archive video.
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Hopefully you'll never use this ace Google Home upgrade, but it's still good it's there
Google is working hard to tweak its Google Home app, which is at the centre of its smart home efforts and integrates with more than 1,000 internet-connected kit, to better support its own Nest devices. Following a rebrand last year to Google Nest, the search firm has tried to better integrate its portfolio of popular home security cameras, smoke detectors, smart doorbells, and thermostats into the iOS and Android app.
First spotted by Twitter user Jane Wong, who has reverse-engineered a number of popular apps to uncover hidden secrets, Google has buried a new setting within its Home app which is not yet available that should make calling the emergency services much faster from your connected home gadgets.
The setting enables Google Nest owners to enter their home address, which will then be used when calling emergency services, like 999 or 911. As it stands, Google blocks all calls to emergency services from its Home smart speakers, presumably because the risk of false-positives could cause such disruption.
However, the Mountain View-based company looks set to lift this restriction for Google Home users with a Nest Aware subscription – the monthly subscription plan for Nest cameras that brings a number of additional features, including 30-day recording history, person and pet recognition to cut down on unnecessary alerts, and more.
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Based on the feature uncovered by Wong, it seems Google will allow Nest users to dial the emergency services closes to their home from the Google Home app on their Android smartphone or iPhone regardless of where they're located. That means as soon as your Nest smoke alarm or camera sends you an alert – you can call the local emergency services to rush to your home, even if you're abroad.
But most important of all, if you're at home when the alert comes in and you can't get to your phone right away – Google will allow you to call the emergency services from any nearby always-listening Google Home gadget, including Google Home smart speakers, Google Nest Hubs, and more. For this to work, these devices will need to be covered by your Nest Aware subscription otherwise the usual restrictions on 999 calls will apply.
Google hasn't confirmed plans to enable this new emergency call feature, so it's possible the upgrade never makes it to customers worldwide.
However, the fact that the functionality is already surfacing baked into the Google Home app is a pretty good sign that it will be coming pretty soon. Google will hold its annual developer conference on May 12-14, 2020. The US technology firm uses this event to highlight a number of new features coming to existing products, as well as offering sneak peeks at new functionality coming in future updates and new hardware.
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Google has confirmed plans to cancel its Google IO conference. Keynote presentations and assets for developers looking to support the latest features coming to Google Chrome, Android, ChromeBooks and more are usually held in the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California where the US search firm is headquartered. However, Google has confirmed that it's looking into alternative arrangements.
If the emergency call feature makes an appearance during the developer conference, we'll let you know. Express.co.uk will also have any news on Android 11, new Chrome features and the ever-elusive Pixel Watch.
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Kristen Stewart has decided to dye her hair orange.
The actress posed for a photo with her friend and showed off the new hair do off looking like the typical tomboy that she self claims she is.
What do you think of the new hair????
Kim Kardashian and her BF Kanye West has found the time to put little North down to spend time with Oprah Winfrey, Mick Jagger, Mick Jagger, R. Kelly, Steven Tyler, Dr. Dre, Xzibit, and Mary J. Blige.
Kim and Kanye where snapped having a photo with Oprah and uploaded it to her Instagram account as you can see above.
They where at music producer Jimmy Iovine's birthday party on Saturday and this is only one of a few photos taken of Kim since she gave birth about seven months ago.
Robert Pattinson Has "No Regrets" About Kristen Stewart Relationship!
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart loved each other very much and now Rob has said that he has 'no regrets' about their relationship.
The pair where together for five years but split at the start of this year and both went their separate ways and even Rob found someone else but we could see them getting back together one day.
They have been though so much together and when Kristen cheated on Rob he even forgave her and took her back.
Kristen Stewart Is Thinking About Going To College!
Kristen Steward may have been in some of the biggest film's out their but that doesn't stop her from wanting to learn.
Sources have reported that the Twilight star is about to go to college to do some learning.
Kristen is not the only famous actress to do this as Emma Watson also did this too.
Robert Pattinson Spotted Parking Outside Of Kristen Stewart's Home! Are They Back Together??
Robert Pattinson has been spotted pulling up outside of Kristen Stewart's Home even tho they have 'spit up' and now have nothing to do with each other.
The last couple of months have not been the best for the pair as Robert did move on with another lady but now it just look's like they cant be apart from each other.
We wonder if this will be a regular thing and could we see them getting back together or are they just going to stay friends??
In a new interview Kristen Stewart has talked about her cheating on boyfriend, Robert Pattinson, and the trouble it cause in her life and with fans!
It was back in 2012 when Kristen had the affair with married director, Rupert Sanders, and they where even caught holding hands and kissing by the photographers.
Since then the affair has blown over and everyone has tried to forget about the going on's and even her fans have forgave her.


Tickets for 2015 BB&T Atlanta Open are being sold at a pace that surpasses any year in tournament's six-year history, Tournament Director and Chief Development Officer Eddie Gonzalez said today.
Many of this year's VIP experience packages are now either sold out or have limited numbers remaining.
· Limited seats are still available for the all-inclusive VIP Lexus Front Row seats with VIP access to Lexus VIP Lounge with open bar and free food throughout the tournament.
· Limited seats are also available for the VIP Ladies Day Experience on Thursday, July 30.
· VIP Champions Day brunch packages on Sunday, Aug. 2.
· Saturday, Aug. 1 is Military Day. Active or retired military personnel with a military ID will receive two free tickets while supplies last. For those looking to purchase more than two tickets, servicemen and women can take advantage of a "buy one, get one free" deal for additional tickets that day.
Kids Weekend will be held during the opening weekend of the tournament, July 25-26. Up to four kids (18 and under) will get in free if accompanied by an adult who buys a ticket.
This year's tournament will also cater to the younger tennis fans of the area with the PGA TOUR Superstore VIP Kids Club. Tennis fans ages 12 to 18 can register for a weeklong commemorative credential with reserved seats and other perks, including a meet and greet with an ATP World Tour player, Prince back pack, string, grip and a Wilson oversize tennis ball for autographs and a $40 gift card to PGA Tour Superstore. Less than 30 packages are remaining.
The tournament, which is the first event in the Emirates Airline US Open Series, has also announced the Bryan brothers, arguably the greatest men's doubles team in tennis history, have committed to play. Two-time champion Mardy Fish will play singles and doubles with 2003 US Open champ Andy Roddick, who is coming out of retirement for the tournament. Two-time defending titlist John Isner is also signed up for the event.


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Wearable Textile Batteries
Bradley Fahlman, Department of Chemistry, Central Michigan University, InterNano Editorial Staff
A schematic illustration of woven battery electrode yarns. A magnified view indicates that each yarn consisting of multiple strands is coated by Ni and battery composite.
Portable electronic devices are pervasive in our society, keeping us connected to our offices and families regardless of where we are on the planet. From sensors that track daily caloric intakes and training regimes, to future uses of watching your favorite sporting event on the sleeve of your shirt, it is clear that wearable electronics will play an increasingly important role for consumers. With these advents, it will become paramount that rechargeable batteries be able to be seamlessly interfaced with fabrics to provide the requisite power over extended periods.
The recent report by Lee et al. (Nano Letters 2013, 13, 5753) describes an important precedent toward the goal of wearable batteries that are seamlessly integrated within clothing textiles. Their strategy consists of Ni-coated polyester yarn that is overlaid with layers of active material, binder and conductive carbon. Anode and cathode electrodes were comprised of Li4Ti5O12 (LTO) and LiFePO4 (LFP), respectively. Polyurethane (PU) was chosen as both the binder and separator based on its phase-segregation of hard (methylene diphenyl isocyano) and soft (polyethylene glycol/polytetramethylene ether glycol) domains that yields tunable mechanical, adhesive, and diffusive/ion-conductive properties. The electrolyte was a standard combination of 1 M LiPF6 dissolved in a mixture of 1:1 ethylene carbonate (EC):dimethyl carbonate (DMC).
This work showed that the yarn substrate was able to offset mechanical stresses from folding/unfolding motions, retaining 91.8% of its original capacity after 40 cycles of pronounced mechanical strain. In direct comparison with a foil-based Li-ion battery pouch, the textile battery exhibited much better performance after folding operations. However, even the textile-based design showed significantly lower capacity during folding, due to lower ionic transport through the separator, at the electrode/electrolyte interface, and within the cathode and anode films.
As a novel extension, their prototype also featured flexible polymer-based solar cells to allow for recharging without removing the cell from the clothing framework, or having to plug into an external power source. This is an interesting concept that would allow for utmost portability. However, the power conversion efficiency of polymer-based solar cells are extremely low at present (i.e.
The overall capacity of their textile battery designs were able to reach up to 85 mAh, which may be compared to ca. 1600- 2000 mAh Li-ion batteries in current cell phones and digital cameras. However, this capacity should be sufficient to provide power for haptic or sensor technologies, or simple digital watches. Clearly, further advances will be necessary to extend the range of applications to those involving more power-hungry video or wireless/bluetooth functionalities. The use of nanomaterials such as Si/C nanohybrids and perovskite nanostructures, as well as solid electrolytes, should allow for further improvements of this initial design for the next generation of clothing-embedded electronics.
Reference: Wearable Textile Battery Rechargeable by Solar Energy Yong-Hee Lee, Joo-Seong Kim, Jonghyeon Noh, Inhwa Lee, Hyeong Jun Kim, Sunghun Choi, Jeongmin Seo, Seokwoo Jeon, Taek-Soo Kim, Jung-Yong Lee, and Jang Wook Choi Nano Letters 2013 13 (11), 5753-5761
DOI: 10.1021/nl403860k
InterNano Taxonomy:
Electronics and Semiconductor Industries
flexible polymer-based solar cells
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Madonna Had A Few Epic Meltdowns This Week
The ageless uber-star was performing in Australia last weekend and totes melted down.
She is on the Austrailian leg of her Rebel Heart Tour and is also in the middle of a nasty custody battle with ex-husband Guy Ritchie over their son Rocco.
For those of you that need a refresher, Guy Ritchie is the director of such classics as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch and the Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes franchise.
So a meltdown was in the making. And it was epic. Madonna fell off a tricycle on stage, then told the audience that she 'messed up' on some of her songs.
Am I the only one questioning why there was a tricycle on stage to begin with?
Oh, and then she simply begged for someone to f**k her and pounded some booze from a flask that some fan offered from the crowd. It was reportedly tequila. Y'know, the real LIGHT stuff.
"Somebody take care of me, please. Who is going to take care of me?" she told the audience. "If I have learned one thing in my life, it's just to go with it. If you just laugh it doesn't hurt as much."
Rocco is now 15. And Madonna projected his childhood pictures behind her during the concert. You know, like a crazy mom would do.
So courts are deciding how much time Rocco will spend in the UK with Guy Ritchie and in New York City with Madonna. She's apparently hoping to get him at least one weekend a month.
That'd be a lot of frequent flyer miles…
Also, it's reported that Guy Ritchie wants more money after Madonna paid him $72 million and gave him a mansion she owned in Wiltshire. Oh, and he's asking for legal fees.
And give her son away, too.
But it doesn't end there. The Material Girl showed up two hours late to her concert in Brisbane, Austrailia, just a couple of days later and told fans they should have spent more time "doing your hair and make-up." Because then she wouldn't have been late. Because that makes sense…
Big shock that this lady ended up being a trainwreck…
But who deosn't love a good trainwreck?
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His hands were a sensitive subject though and he pushed back quite vociferously. So it was during his first act as Commander-in-Chief that I was drawn back to this earlier subject of criticism. However, I am not interested in the size of his hands as his detractors were, I am interested in how he uses them.
A lot of time has been given to the analysis of hand gestures. Largely I believe, because we see through them when we feel they are being used to manipulate us. They were a key player as we entered the age of spin.
Bill Clinton was one of the first proponents of the gently closed fist while using the thumb over the top for emphasis during a speech. David Cameron has more recently used the same gesture during his tenure as Prime Minister. Tony Blair, a strong orator, most regularly used an open palm with fingers close together in a sort of gentle chopping motion to emphasis his points. Blair too used the closed fist with the pointing thumb as it's often seen as the less confrontational choice than pointing a finger.
The problem with the politicians above and their gestural choices was just that: they were choices and we could see them being made. It became phoney and even suspect because we could see the machinery at work. We don't like to feel manipulated (although in the world of "alternative facts" I'm not sure even this is true anymore).
What then is Trump's approach to gestures during public speaking? I think something quite fascinating is taking place, as Trump's hands in the hands of any other politician would see him pulled apart: his hands are small, for sure, but in that he is not unique and body shaming is body shaming no matter who is the subject. More interesting is that he has a remarkably small repertoire gestures to draw from. There is the almost dainty coming together of his forefinger and thumb with his other digits extended; there is the forefinger pointing straight up to the skies; and there is the open-palmed open-fingered generalised waft that tends to circle backward. Trump punctuated almost every point he made during his sixteen-minute speech with one of these gestures and yet, despite not too compelling a delivery and sense that he was certainly reading words someone else had a strong hand in scripting, his gestures and his rhetoric were connected.
We know Trump doesn't play by the rules. What is true of other politicians is not true of him. It is this that makes these gestures, which on paper should prompt everyone to question and doubt him, somehow complete the Donald package. All these are physical choices that are weak, imprecise and overused. In my coaching not one would make it into a final presentation. I only once saw a gesture during his speech (a Blairite chop) that I would characterise as a strong, positive physical choice. All his movements were light and almost delicate; completely at odds with his uncompromising rhetoric. But with Trump the sheer amateurism of his delivery, the complete disregard for doing as others do somehow makes it work – at least for his supporters: people feel like they are getting, as his Twitter handle implies, the real Donald Trump. This is where authenticity becomes a bit of a cloudy issue. During the campaign Trump was regularly criticised for pandering to his audiences, only telling them what they wanted to hear. This would appear to be inauthentic as once elected some of those early promises became less of a certainty (building a wall, jailing Hillary Clinton, draining the swamp) – but the style continued. The manner in which he delivers his messages, hands and all, has remained the same.
Perhaps this is the biggest and clearest example we've had of the power of delivering a message in your own authentic style.
Successful leaders need to be consistent. Trump, although perhaps flip-flopping on some policy issues, has been entirely that. The bombastic rhetoric delivered in his own way means that people feel they are getting the same thing, even if the details of the message changes.
There is a lesson for us all here. Be consistent. Even if your style is to be inconsistent in your content, make sure people know what they are getting, hands and all. Whether you like him or not, Trump does this better than most. He has made bold promises, things that other politicians would not be trusted to deliver, and yet his faithful believe he will. Perhaps in the final analysis more than being authentic, Trump will be seen to have been consistently inconsistent.
Time will tell how well the new US President manages to keep up this impervious front, especially in the eyes of his supporters. I suspect that over time, as the inevitable cracks in his ability to deliver on his promises begin to appear, we'll see more scrutiny of the things that tend to dog other politicians. It may be then, that the very thing that makes him so appealing now, seemingly not to care how he is perceived, will reveal him to be less than the sum of his parts. His style will be called into question along with his policies and he may struggle to maintain the real Donald Trump persona. And when that happens, his hands, along with everything else, may well be back under the spotlight again.
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