This publications portal is a repository of all IOM migration health publications from 2006 to present where IOM was a primary contributor.
Publications include peer-reviewed scientific papers, technical reports, training guides/manuals, policy briefs/discussion papers, factsheets, newsletters, research reviews, conference and poster presentations. These are categorized by topic, author, country/region covered as well as by year, language, and type of publication. The map reflects the countries covered by the publications.
To browse or search: simply use the filter options on the left-hand side. Alternatively, you can enter keyword/s in the search box. Selecting a specific publication will lead to a ‘download’ link or link to the website where the document is housed. Here is the step-by-step guide for your reference.
Migration Health 2021 Impact Overview
This report is an annual overview of activities led and implemented by the Migration Health Division of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in 2021, in close collaboration with the Member States, other United Nations agencies, and partners in the international community, to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, meet operational challenges and advance understanding of migration health, encourage socioeconomic development through migration, and work towards ensuring respect of the…Read more
Emergency Health – 2021 Global Highlights
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is a key player in responding to humanitarian and public health emergencies as well as supporting health system recovery and resilience. Health support in emergencies is an essential part of IOM’s humanitarian mandate and recognized by the Organization’s Migration Crisis Operational Framework as one of the 15 sectors of assistance to address before, during and after crises.
This factsheet showcases some of this programming from 2021…Read more
Challenges of Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV Services for Internal Migrants in Central Asian Countries and International Migrants from Central Asian Countries in The Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, and Turkey during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author/s: United Nations Population Fund, International Organization for Migration, and Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
This paper presents and discusses the findings of a desk review on the state of migration and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of the populations in migrant-sending countries, including Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. In addition, it considers the qualitative data on the access of Central Asian internal and external migrants to antenatal and perinatal care, family planning services, and contraception, including condoms, safe abortion (legal in all countries under…Read more
Migration Health 2020 Impact Overview
This report is an annual overview of activities led and implemented by the Migration Health Division of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in 2020, in partnership with Member States, United Nations agencies and other partners in the international community, to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, meet the operational challenges and advance understanding of migration health, encourage socioeconomic development through migration, and work towards ensuring respect of the human…Read more
“We have a lot of home deliveries” A qualitative study on the impact of COVID-19 on access to and utilization of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health care among refugee women in urban Eastleigh, Kenya
Author/s: Adelaide M Lusambili, Michela Martini, Faiza Abdirahman, Abena Asante, Sharon Ochieng, Joseph N Guni, Rose Maina, Stanley Luchters
Little is known about how pregnant refugee women, and the frontline health care workers who serve them, are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of health, and health service access. Women refugees are classified as a vulnerable group with regard to pregnancy outcomes and access to maternal care and may be disproportionally at risk for COVID-19 infection as they are likely to face unique barriers to information and access to reproductive health services during…
IOM Regional Office for South-Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia - Migration Health Annual Newsletter 2019
The report documents information on the activities and outputs of country missions covered by RO Vienna. It also includes some information on relevant publications available in the region.
Migration Health in the Sustainable Development Goals
The UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development puts people at the center of all actions, particularly the most marginalized and disempowered, for the realization of societies that are more equitable and inclusive. It also acknowledges that migration carries a development potential, owing to migrants’ intellectual, cultural, human and financial capital, and their active participation in society. Being and staying healthy is a fundamental precondition for migrants to work, be productive, and …Read more
Emergency Health – 2019 Global Highlights
IOM assists crisis-affected populations, governments, and host communities to strengthen and re-establish primary health-care systems. As a formal partner of the World Health Organization (WHO), and as a member of the Strategic Advisory Group of the InterAgency Standing Committee (IASC) Global Health Cluster, and the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), IOM is a key player in responding to humanitarian and public health emergencies, as well as supporting health system recovery…Read more
Migration Health Annual Report 2018
The Migration Health Division of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) acts with Member States, UN agencies and other partners in the international community to meet the operational challenges of migration, advance understanding of migration health issues, encourage socioeconomic development through migration, and work towards ensuring respect of the human dignity and well-being of migrants. This report provides a snapshot of IOM’s health activities in 2018 and presents key…Read more
Research on the Health Vulnerabilities of the Cross Border Migrants from Nepal
Reliable information on the health vulnerabilities and resilience factors of cross-border migrants and associated possible preventive measures is lacking. To remedy this gap and thereby facilitate the development of evidence-informed policy and programme development, this study was undertaken to assess the health vulnerabilities of Nepali migrants to India.


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NY, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the unique work of Iranian artist Manoushak Azad in Sensorial Perspectives. The Electrical Bike Store offers the best electric bikes out there online, with options perfect for all types of riders. You will notice how the world of Martial Arts Society, or within the story they called Murim, exist and performance on this contemporary day. However as a result of an appreciation of the ornamental arts had turn into heightened, woods have been also imported to supply fine furniture works. The weekly attendance charge (we referred to as it a subscription) was set to pay the rental assuming a median weekly attendance.
One of many primary missions of the NEA, which is among 19 federal entities that will be completely defunded below the funds launched Thursday, is to assist such arts groups around the nation. This does not imply that martial arts are harmful, but slightly that you should be cautious. We consider that the humanities and creativity, by way of guided mentorships, is the most highly effective car for youth to discover their creative selves and purpose. The People for the Arts 2017 Annual Conference is heading to San Francisco for the fiftieth anniversary of the Summer of Love!
So, we have been hanging out on the V & A Museum of Childhood and yesterday we made our personal Leaping Jacks. President Reagan proclaimed Nationwide Arts Week and urged Americans to observe it with applications, ceremonies, and activities. This book is … Read More . . .
Read About Artwork Styles & Actions That Made European & Western Artwork Famous. He pointed to support for local museums, educational entry to historic newspapers, and even veterans’ programs that use the humanities and literature to assist veterans grapple with the traumatizing experiences of warfare as they return from fight. Therapeutic arts coaching in therapeutic massage remedy is generally no less than 300 classroom hours; however depending on particular person colleges and state requirements, some therapeutic massage remedy applications could also be nicely above 1,000 therapeutic arts coaching hours.
This text is taken from the e guide ‘Staying on the Path – Your Guide to Martial Arts Success’ by Deborah Jeffreys. I make work, drawings, and ceramics that emanate from stereotypes of rural Appalachia and are without delay diaristic examinations of myself romanticizing the rural and being repulsed by it. My work touches on truths about poverty, habit, and off-the-grid living, as well as idealizations of uncultured nation life, and in the identical breath, low brow but loving portraits of characters, household and scenarios that I experience each day.
When I was on trip this fall, I discovered this owl decoration in one of the stores and thought it could make a nice artwork challenge for the youngsters. This technique is thought to have the perfect grappling techniques among all of the martial arts. Inside I educate you the best way to enhance your preventing skills so you win fights obtain your martial arts tips eBooks here! The mission of … Read More . . .
We checklist adverts for a range of job opportunities inside the art and culture sector. Ways to help make crafts for seniors enjoyable and fast are: have all of the provides needed for the undertaking ready, have time consuming, preliminary steps accomplished before the session begins, ensure you have plenty of area to maneuver around comfortably, have additional volunteers to assist if needed, and allot plenty of time to do the project, or plan on more than one session to finish it. Above all, exhibit patience, the seniors will love you. You’ll find this mission referred to as, Minnie Paws… the Sensible Cat within the Miscellaneous Tasks Gallery at Kids & Glitter.
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Dotman wraps up the year with a new hot jam he tagged “Nomali”
Afro-pop star Dotman releases a banging new single, ‘Nomali’.
In his usual fashion, this song is fast-paced and has catchy lyrics, inviting everyone to feel free and move their bodies.
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Nonlinear wave–matter interactions may give rise to solitons, phenomena that feature inherent stability in wave propagation and unusual spectral characteristics. Solitons have been created in a variety of physical systems and have had important roles in a broad range of applications, including communications, spectroscopy and metrology1,2,3,4. In recent years, the realization of dissipative Kerr optical solitons in microcavities has led to the generation of frequency combs in a chip-scale platform5,6,7,8,9,10. Within a cavity, photons can interact with mechanical modes. Cavity optomechanics has found applications for frequency conversion, such as microwave-to-optical or radio-frequency-to-optical11,12,13, of interest for communications and interfacing quantum systems operating at different frequencies. Here we report the observation of mechanical micro-solitons excited by optical fields in an optomechanical microresonator, expanding soliton generation in optical resonators to a different spectral window. The optical field circulating along the circumference of a whispering gallery mode resonator triggers a mechanical nonlinearity through optomechanical coupling, which in turn induces a time-varying periodic modulation on the propagating mechanical mode, leading to a tailored modal dispersion. Stable localized mechanical wave packets—mechanical solitons—can be realized when the mechanical loss is compensated by phonon gain and the optomechanical nonlinearity is balanced by the tailored modal dispersion. The realization of mechanical micro-solitons driven by light opens up new avenues for optomechanical technologies14 and may find applications in acoustic sensing, information processing, energy storage, communications and surface acoustic wave technology.


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The signs of the times are going to get larger.
So, for that matter, are the lights and lines of the times.
In an effort to help elderly drivers cope with modern roadways, the Florida Department of Transportation decided last week to make traffic instructions more obvious. Road signs will be bigger, traffic lights brighter and stripes separating lanes wider.
All the better to see them, my dear.
And about time, too, not just for elderly drivers, but for all of us.
Of all the perils that plague us, driving is the most dangerous as well as the most widely and casually accepted. Unless it hits close to home, death on the highway doesn't seem to hit as hard as death under other circumstances.
If five children are killed in one year by lawn darts, people are so outraged that lawn darts are outlawed by an act of Congress. But if we hear about 100 or more people killed on a holiday weekend, we merely shake our heads.
Almost every holiday weekend kills more Americans than died in the Persian Gulf. And in any given year, the list of people killed on our highways is longer than the list of names on the Vietnam War Memorial.
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So what do we do? We can't very well outlaw cars, can we? They are too much a part of us now. We're used to the freedom and convenience of having our own vehicles.
Which is exactly the problem. Driving has become such a common part of daily life that we have become too casual about it. We need something to shake us up. And making the road signs bigger, lines wider and lights brighter is a good start.
But that's all it is. Somehow, we need to figure out a way to make people see driving not as a casual, everyday thing but as dangerously serious business, to see it as controlling tons of metal at high speeds in close proximity to others who are doing the same.
Blaming the carnage on our roads on elderly drivers whose vision, hearing or reflexes are impaired is as shortsighted as blaming it on hot-rodding kids (or hot-rodding junior executives, for that matter).
So it doesn't matter which type of driver is more dangerous. If a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, then everyone who drives or rides in a vehicle is in mortal danger from drivers who are either too tentative or too bold, too careful or too carefree.
Our lives also are at risk from what I call "part-time drivers." They are the ones to whom driving seems such a simple task that they have to do something else to keep from being bored.
LAW A HIT-RUN VICTIM
Most common of these parallel activities are talking on car phones, applying makeup, reading, combing hair or clipping fingernails. Then there are those who drive drunk, drugged or otherwise half-conscious.
Sure, you can say "there oughta be a law." I would gladly support one outlawing car phones and fax machines and other laws making it more difficult to acquire and keep a license.
But it wouldn't do any good.
Insane as it seems, we have to live -- and too often, die -- with human road hazards. There are too many of them for the law to control. When lawbreakers are in the majority, what are the police to do?
Few people drive at or below the speed limit anywhere, even in school zones. Neither the penalties nor the number of police are harsh enough to slow them down.
What's more, even those who get caught continue to drive anyway, as we've seen in story after story about people whose licenses are suspended or revoked three, four, five or more times. If they are safe from any real punishment, what do the rest of us have to fear?
Ironically, we seem blind to the fact that being pulled over is one of the least dangerous things that can happen to us on the road.
So changing signs, lights and lines is good. But what we most need to change is our attitude.
In other words, we have met the enemy -- often head-on -- and he is us.

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Twice-baked, biscotti is one sturdy cookie. Last weekend, I visited Enrico Biscotti in the Strip District and picked up a half-dozen of my favorites; almond, hazelnut, lemon, vanilla, chocolate almond, and even a doggie biscotti, flavored with cheese and bacon, for Millie.
I aspire to make the heavenly, crumbly biscotti like they make at Enrico, but I’ve got a ways to go. This weekend, I’m practicing with today’s vanilla and tomorrow’s pumpkin (stay tuned). The recipe below is a slight adaptation from one I found online, adding a small amount of liquid to help the dough come together.
- 2 eggs
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 vanilla bean
- 2 cups flour
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 teaspoons water
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoons shortening
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Cut vanilla bean lengthwise with a sharp knife and scrape out seeds; discard pod.
In a mixing bowl, combine eggs, sugar, salt, and vanilla seeds and beat on medium speed until frothy.
Gradually add flour, mixing on low speed until dough begins to look like large crumbs.
Add vanilla extract, then water, mixing on low speed until dough begins to stick together. Keep a close eye on the dough, as you don’t want it to be too wet.
Shape the dough into a log and press it onto the prepared baking sheet; dust very lightly with flour and gently roll with a rolling pin to flatten into a log about 1-inch thick.
Bake for 25 minutes; remove from oven and let stand on baking sheet for 20 minutes.
Turn oven down to 325 degrees; transfer still-warm log onto a cutting board and cut into wedges about 3/4 inch thick. Return to baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes, then flip each biscotti over and continue baking for another 10 minutes.
Remove from oven and allow to cool completely before dipping.
To make chocolate glaze, combine chocolate chips and shortening in a small saucepan and melt together on low heat, stirring until smooth. Dip biscotti into glaze, then set on parchment paper to set.

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I enjoyed doing a ride-along as The Son breaks out of prison and seeks revenge on those whose crimes he has confessed to, in exchange for heroin. He relinquished his soul, you see, when his policeman father committed suicide, rather than be exposed as a mole. This is an engaging thrill-ride of a mystery in which you may find yourself rooting for the “bad guy”.
The Other Typist
by Suzanne Rindell
This carefully crafted and clever novel will leave you NEEDING to talk with other readers about exactly what happened! It’s the roaring 20’s in New York and Rose is a typist for the police department. She’s awed yet fascinated by the changes in women’s lives emerging around her–bobbed hair for heaven’s sake! Then enter the charismatic Odalie who embodies these changes and utterly captivates Rose. Get ready to enter a speakeasy and sample the forbidden, but be sure to know who you are. (that was foreshadowing!)
by Megan Miranda
Cop shows have failed me.
I was certain I knew who the “bad guy” was from the second the book asks you to guess. I was completely wrong, but the choice makes sense. Miranda keeps you guessing and wondering about not only present circumstances, but also events in the past that Mallory can’t remember clearly. It is a very intense look at how tragedy can change people’s lives, no matter what the tragedy may be.
Oh. My. Goodness. You don’t need to know much about this book in order to know that you must read it. From the very first page, you know you are in the hands of a master. The story doesn’t even matter (though it’s great) – the writing is that good. This is one that I won’t expound on much so as not to spoil anything, but trust me when I say that you will turn the last page, let go of the breath you didn’t know you were holding, and immediately open it again. Then you will want to tell everyone you know to go read it so you can talk about it! Such a fantastic book!
The concept alone was enough to make me pick up this book: Elizabeth doesn’t feel emotions–she sees them in human form. Fear is cocky, Courage is his brother and opposite in every way. Emotions aren’t the only things that are personified though–Nightmare, Rain, etc. are also around. This book is written beautifully and is unlike many of the novels I have read: it has an original concept rather than a basic rehash of cliches.
Who killed Lucinda Trimble? That’s the central question driving this second novel featuring West Virginia prosecutor Bell Elkins. But this well-written, fast-moving novel has other topics to explore, including Bell’s sometimes tense relationship with Sheriff Nick Fogelsong, a possible terrorist threat, a visitor from Bell’s past and the characters that make up a poor but proud mountain community.
Victim or criminal? The roles shift almost page by page in this fast-paced, engrossing mystery. No one is quite innocent in a complex but clear plot that regularly twists perceptions and springs surprise after surprise as it builds to a jaw-dropping conclusion. Characters are richly drawn, including prickly Police Commandant Camille Verhoeven who is dealing with issues of his own while investigating the crime.

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Fun Side Of Mechanics: Day 5 Rotation: Angular Momentum Torque
FUN SIDE OF MECHANICS: DAY 5 ROTATION: ANGULAR MOMENTUM TORQUE Jonathan Abbott REVIEW FROM LAST WEEK What type of motion did we talk about last week? Hint: it starts with a T. Translation: move from one point to another
What was momentum? momentum p = mass * velocity = m * v. What types of energy did mechanical energy include? Kinetic Potential
TRANSLATION ROTATION Translatio n (A to B) Rotation (Spin) Force Torque Momentu m Angular
Momentu m Kinetic Energy of Translation Kinetic Energy of Rotation TORQUE! Torque is a force that causes rotation. In which of the following pictures, would there be torque about the axis?
4 THERE IS TORQUE WHEN The force has a tangential (not just radial component). 5 DIABOLO AND TORQUE 6 TORQUE IN ACTION:
TRY TO STOP ON A UNICYCLE AND YOU ROLL! If I try to stop immediately on a unicycle, I will not only fall forward, but I also will begin to roll forward. Hence I would land face first. Or I would dismount, land on my feet, and catch the seat :D There is torque from friction that causes the object to rotate. MOMENT OF INERTIA (MASS, BUT FOR ROTATION) Find the shape with the largest and smallest moment of inertia
Each shape has the same mass. A shaded shape means the mass is evenly distributed across the shape. Largest: mass is far from center Smallest : mass is near center
MOMENT OF INERTIA 2m I= So the moment of inertia is: bigger with more mass much bigger as the distance from the
center increases. 3m Practice with the figure on the right. I= 2 kg kg m2 5 kg NOW WE WILL DISCUSS ANOTHER TYPE OF KINETIC
ENERGY: ROTATIONAL KINETIC ENERGY Kinetic Potentia l translatio n height rotation elastic
Other ROTATIONAL KINETIC ENERGY The faster I spin, the more kinetic energy The greater my moment of inertia, the more kinetic energy +Kinetic Energy of Rotation Spin Faster
Larger Moment of Inertia ROTATIONAL KINETIC ENERGY KEr = I (w)2 (Oooh, looks a lot like KEt= m v2 ) I is the moment of inertia w is the angular velocity (or angular speed)
http:// www.flickr.com/ photos/cfarivar/ 2143702841/ ANGULAR VELOCITY Curl your fingers in the way in the way the object rotates. X Into the page A longer
arrow means it is spinning faster Out of the page LETS DO SOME PRACTICE Curl your fingers and figure out which way to point with your thumb X
www.flickr.com/photos/question_everything/3893946197/. RECAP: TWO WAYS TO BALANCE Countersteering Twist body Continuum Change Point of Contact Change Shape of Body
Translation Rotation Use both techniques to balance best BALANCE BEAMS: USING YOUR ARMS Twisting your arms on way twists you body the other way. As your body twists, there is friction at your point of contact. This friction:
1. Causes rotation (stay upright) 2. Causes translation (shift over to countersteer) THE COUNTERSTEERING- A CORRECTION OF ROTATION Now that you are too far one way, twist back. You will not be upright momentarily. Eventually twist upright once your center of mass has shifted far enough over. QUICK QUESTION:
Why might a long pole with weights at the end help someone to balance? Increase moment of inertia proportionally faster than increasing mass. This way, it takes longer to twist and fall- giving you more time for balance corrections. TECHNICALLY ITS POSSIBLE While its easiest to balance with a long beam, it is possible to balance even without hands. (Yes, wear a helmet) HOW MIGHT PUTTING SPIN ON A BOWLING
BALL RELATE TO ALL WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT? The friction between the ball and the alley is a force and a torque on the ball. The friction is a force in that it changes the translational motion of the ball (makes it slow down or curve) The momentum and kinetic energy of translation change. The friction is a torque on the ball
because the balls rotation changes over time The angular momentum and kinetic energy of rotation change. http://youtu.be/YUKeY_NubFM MOMENTUM SPINNING CHAIRS DIZZY BUT MUCH FUN You can see angular momentum is conserved by pulling your arms in as you
spin around in a chair. This is like an ice skater who does a spin and pulls in to spin faster. http://youtu.be/AQLtcEAG9v0 ANGULAR MOMENTUM APPLIES TO UNICYCLING TOO! Its difficult to start rotating. One you start a turn you just keep spinning! Think about spinning on a pogo-stick. There is such a thing as spinning on a unicycling! 22
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Ever-present in popular consciousness as the birthplace of Mafia lawlessness, Sicily has now become a fashionable island. The myth-enshrouded Cosa Nostra has waned in influence, and some of the problems left behind poverty and civic neglect are being dosed with a large injection of EU funding in a push to modernise the island off the toe of Italy.
Although the decaying grandeur of parts of Palermo hints at the island’s chequered past, the chic tourist resort of Taormina and the trendy Aeolian islands offer the boutique hotels and upmarket villas that draw the A-list crowd. It would be the biggest crime of all to go merely for the beaches and the restaurants as you might to nearby Sardinia when Sicily has spectacular ancient sites and Etna, Europe’s largest active volcano.
The popular Sicilian saying ‘Italy without Sicily counts for nothing. Sicily without Italy is not afraid’ sums up the proud independence of the island. In language, climate, temperament and cuisine, the Sicilian way is more extreme, a melting pot of Greek, Arab, Spanish and North African. Raw and diverse, it promises riches for the intrepid.
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With access to the island having improved hugely in recent years and a fourth airport due to open at Cosimo/Ragusa in the south-east Sicily has become a practical second-home choice, and it’s cheaper than mainland Italy. Properties are one-fifth of comparable ones in nearby Malta, according to Mario Spiteri of Go Sicily Properties, for whom 70% of its buyers are Maltese, the rest German and British (www.gosicilyproperties.com).
‘Farmhouses or country houses that need renovating are popular, but there are also former palaces, town houses or new-builds ready to move into,’ he says. The British, who started buying two years ago, favour the east coast, and prices around Ragusa have increased by 10% a year. A fully renovated four-bedroom farmhouse can fetch €1 million. In Palermo, it used to be easy to snap up an apartment in a grand old block, complete with frescoed ceilings, for less than £50,000, but now, many are developed and sold on for nearer £150,000.
Few properties have been promoted to the international market, but the opening, this week, of Sir Rocco Forte’s Verdura Golf & Spa Resort promises to launch Sicily as a luxury-resort destination. The 570-acre site, with just over a mile of prime beachfront, is located near the fishing town of Sciacca in the south-west an hour from Palermo popular with locals, but not yet on the international tourist map. Sixty villas will be released for private sale, on top of the 203 rooms in the hotel complex, restaurants, a 43,000sq ft spa, three golf courses and the essential helipad. Priced between €1.5 million and €5 million, villas will be 3,875sq ft-plus, in low-lying Moorish style from locally sourced volcanic tufa stone with courtyards, roof terraces and private gyms (020–7766 3141; www.verduraresort.com).
Other developments are hoping to benefit from the attention that Verdura is bringing to what Sir Rocco calls ‘the forgotten country of Sicily’, but, first, a cautionary note for prospective buyers. Sicily is not yet fertile ground for English-speaking agents, so it’s often a hard, slow process to source resale properties. The rental market is also in its infancy, although again, with tourist numbers rising, the potential is certainly there.

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Looking for something a little more affordable for the gamer in your life? If so, or if you're in possession of a bit of walkin' around money, Amazon has slashed prices on a good portion of this season's possible underperformers. Price drops on Beautiful Katamari, Lair, Stranglehold, Viva Pinata Party Animals, Manhunt 2 and Halo 3 LE lead the list of deals. Incidentally, I just picked up Cruis'n for the Wii. Yes, I'm serious.
For a list of some of the notable titles with respectable savings, hit the jump.PlayStation 3 Lair - $39.99 Stranglehold Collector's Edition (with "Hard Boiled" Blu-Ray Movie) - $49.99 The Eye of Judgment (with PlayStation Eye) - $54.99 Time Crisis 4 (with GunCon 3) - $69.99 Sega Rally Revo - $39.99
PlayStation 2 God Hand - $14.99
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Discussion in 'Landscape & Cityscape' started by tnvol, Oct 29, 2009.
Took this the other day on the HLZ at Firebase Lane in S. Afg.
S. Afgh as in afghanistan? nice pic. Whats up with that wall though? is it a wall? haha
Those are called Hescos. They are made of thick canvas with thick wire mesh wrapped around them. They fill them up with dirt and rocks and use them as walls, barriers etc.. They work pretty good. They will stop pretty much any small arms as well as mortars and smaller rockets. They are everywhere over here and in Iraq.
man i would love to tour Afghanistan, looks like such a beautiful and unique country. nice pic!
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I’ve been using the Cubicon Single for some time now. As previously reported, I was very impressed with its features when I saw it at Inside 3D Printing Seoul. It’s a fantastic machine with automatic bed leveling, allows easy removal of prints with its specially coated print bed, and removes harmful, noxious fumes with its 3-part filtration system. It also produces stunning prints. It’s as close to a plug and print, hassle-free machine that I have seen. Retailing for $2,699, it’s not an entry-level printer.
For those of us on a budget who still desire a printer of this caliber, there’s good news. HyVision just revealed their newest printer, the Cubicon Style. The Style is a smaller machine with much of the functionality of its larger sibling. It also has a heated, auto-leveling print bed with a special coating.
There are some noticeable differences between the Cubicon Single and the Cubicon Style. For one, the print volume is 150 x 150 x 150 mm, compared to 240 x 190 x 200 mm for the Cubicon Single. The Cubicon Style has a touch button interface as opposed to the jog wheel on the Cubicon Single.
The Cubicon Single has a convection temperature control function for the heated, enclosed build chamber and an internal spool holder (actually recessed into the outer body of the printer), while the Cubicon Style doesn’t have that control function and features an external spool holder.
The Cubicon Single prints in ABS, PLA and now can print in TPU thanks to a newly released extruder. The Cubicon Style can print in ABS, PLA and TPU, but uses a new modular extruder with a detachable print head for easier maintenance.
The Cubicon Style is a very quiet printer that operates at about 45dB, so you can print in your bedroom at night, if you were so inclined. HyVision markets how quiet the Cubicon Style is in their somewhat confusing slogan, “Feel the invisible sound.”
HyVision also recently released a new version of their Cubicreator slicing software. Previously only available for Windows, the new software is also available on the Mac. They also integrated support for MyMiniFactory into Cubicreator. iMakr, the parent company of MyMiniFactory, is their sole distributor in the US and UK.
The cloud function in Cubicreator v 2.0 allows users to download models from MyMiniFactory. All you have to do is slice the .stl file and print. Since both Cubicon models auto-level the bed before every print, this makes printing out your favorite models a rather painless process.
No pricing has yet been released for the Cubicon Style and it’s unclear when it will be available for ordering. This seems like a printer that will appeal to a wide range of buyers and will probably give the Ultimaker 2 a run for its money.
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Congressman O'Rourke live-streams House sit-in
After Republicans shut down the live stream from inside of the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday during a staged sit-in by Democrats, U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke opened it back up using his cellphone and Facebook.
Meetings inside the House are usually live-streamed by C-SPAN cameras, but when the Democrats took over the House floor with a sit in, Republicans adjourned, thus cutting off the C-SPAN live stream because the meeting was over.
By shutting down the live stream, viewers could no longer see what the Democrats were doing inside the chamber as they tried to force a vote on gun control legislation.
That's when O’Rourke, D-El Paso, and California U.S. Rep. Scott Peters stepped in, using social media to end the C-SPAN blackout.
From the House floor, O’Rourke used Facebook to live-stream while Peters used Periscope — effectively enabling C-SPAN to link to the sites in order to regain a continuous video feed of the proceedings.
"I want what we do here to be worthy of the people we represent," said O'Rourke during his time at the podium late Wednesday night.
O'Rourke also talked about his children and mentioned that Thursday is his daughter Molly's birthday.
O’Rourke is known for using social media to reach constituents. The congressman regularly uses Twitter, Snapchat and Facebook to communicate with the public.
Recent attempts to pass gun control legislation following the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. at a Florida nightclub failed in the Senate.


To help Ukraine defend its citizens and sovereign territory, Canada has promised to send 39 Armored Combat Support Vehicles (ACSV) to Ukraine. The ACSV that will be sent to Ukraine is a new type of vehicle that is already being delivered to the Canadian armed forces. This was revealed by Canadian defense minister Anita Anand during her visit to General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) Canada, the manufacturer of the vehicles. During the NATO leaders summit that was held in Madrid from 29 to 30 June 2022, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also announced that Canada is working on finalizing a deal to provide Ukraine with 39 GDLS Armored Combat Support Vehicles (ACSVs).
The Armored Combat Support Vehicle (ACSV) is a new 8×8 armored vehicle developed for the Canadian army based on the LAV 6.0 and that will replace the current Light Armored Vehicle (LAV) II Bison and M113 Tracked armored vehicle fleets. The LAV 6, sometimes written as LAV 6.0 or LAV VI, is the fourth generation of LAV, and is based on the LAV III. It first started entering service in 2013. The Canadian Army plans to replace its entire LAV fleet of various LAV II and LAV III variants with the LAV 6. The vehicle is being acquired in two main variants: a fighting vehicle equipped with the 25mm cannon seen on the LAV II and LAV III, and a support variant labelled the Armoured Combat Support Vehicle (ACSV).
Production on the first Canadian Armoured Combat Support Vehicle (ACSV) has begun in London, Ontario at the General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada manufacturing facilities. The contract for this project was awarded last September, and since then, a number of subcontracts have been awarded by General Dynamics to allow work to start. These subcontracts represent over $137 million in investments to more than 30 Canadian businesses from coast to coast to coast, creating and sustaining over 400 jobs across the country. These new vehicles will fulfill a variety of combat support roles such as that of Troop/Cargo Vehicle (TCV), ambulance, command post, and mobile repair and recovery.
This is a big step forward as the government continues to deliver on Strong, Secure, Engaged, Canada’s first fully costed and funded defence policy. As per the Industrial and Technological Benefits Policy, General Dynamics will re-invest an amount equal to the value of the contract to create and sustain well-paying jobs across the country. These vehicles will replace the current fleets of M113 Tracked Light Armoured Vehicle (TLAV) and the LAV II Bison. The first vehicle is expected roll off the production line this December, with deliveries occurring through February 2025. Testing, training, and procurement of spare parts will be required before the initial vehicles are distributed to Canadian Armed Forces bases in 2022.
GDLS is key to our defence industry & manufactures armoured combat support vehicles for our @CanadianForces. We’re also finalizing negotiations to send up to 39 of these vehicles to Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/jT00CBRhFB
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There are also social aspects to cognitive dysfunction. If people cannot attend to a conversation, or remember what others have said, they are not able to engage in social life in the way that they did before.
It is not just a case of feeling well but also of doing well, if you want to be well.
Cognitive dysfunction is not sufficiently targeted by current treatments. And this is a challenge since such problems are an obstacle for patients. It is also the case that there has been no consensus on when and how to assess cognition. We need more research on screening tools and guidance on how to use them. We also need randomised trials of targeting treatment on cognitive impairment.
Lately, there has been a shift in focus from simply improving mood symptoms -- so that patients fall below a certain cut-off score -- to a paradigm in which the target is functional recovery. This includes quality of life and capacity to work. For patients this is not just a case of feeling well but also of doing well, if they want to be well.

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The Murder of Michael Hastings: WikiLeaks, Ed Snowden, Bradley Manning, Israel Shamir and WW3Submitted by zooamerica on Tue, 07/23/2013 - 21:40
WHY was Michael Hastings murdered?
Putin Is Using Snowden’s Information As Blackmail
Since the defection of Snowden to Russia, the war rhetoric has really slowed down. Why? What information could the Russians have which could be leveraged against the war intentions of the US and cause them to back down from attacking Syria and Iran? According to my source, Snowden’s information a game changer in the Middle East. I have been told that Snowden uncovered information which indicated at least one false flag attack, and maybe more, have been planned inside the United States and that martial law would be ushered in as a result by the end of 2013. Martial law is necessary because a currency change is coming and so is a third world war.
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A great day out in an around Beanue sight seeing and meeting new friends. Sat in the communal TV room updating the blog watching France v Croatia handball!? Nothing quite like free wifi so have brought the blog up-to-date.
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The Rise of Investor-State Arbitration
Today, investor-state arbitration embodies the worst fears of those concerned about runaway globalization - a far cry from its framers' intentions. Why did governments create a special legal system in which foreign investors can bring cases directly against states? This book takes readers through the key decisions that created investor-state arbitration, drawing on internal documents from several governments and extensive interviews to illustrate the politics behind this new legal system.
The corporations and law firms that dominate investor-state arbitration today were not present at its creation. In fact, there was almost no lobbying from investors. Nor did powerful states have a strong preference for it. Nor was it created because there was evidence that it facilitates investment - there was no such evidence.
International officials with peacebuilding and development aims drove the rise of investor-state arbitration. This book puts forward a new historical institutionalist explanation to illuminate how the actions of these officials kicked off a process of gradual institutional development. While these officials anticipated many developments, including an enormous caseload from investment treaties, over time this institutional framework they created has been put to new purposes by different actors. Institutions do not determine the purposes to which they may be put, and this book's analysis illustrates how unintended consequences emerge and why institutions persist regardless.
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905 new COVID-19 cases in South Dakota; 405 front-line health care workers vaccinated so far
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - The South Dakota Department of Health reported 905 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday as the state adds how many people have been vaccinated to its dashboard.
Health systems in the state first started receiving and administering Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine on Monday and Tuesday. The state is reporting 405 front-line health care workers have received the first dose of the vaccine as of 11:30 am Wednesday.
The 905 new cases bring the state total to 92,603, 80,316 of which have recovered. South Dakota continues to see a decline in active cases. Active cases have decreased by 1,636 from Monday. Currently, 10,987 South Dakotans have the coronavirus.
The South Dakota Department of Health made a change to its dashboard and how it reports COVID-19 deaths. The state now reports two different numbers, deaths caused by COVID-19, and deaths among people with COVID-19.
There have been 1,159 deaths caused by COVID-19. The number comes from death certificates where COVID-19 is listed as the cause of death or a significant condition contributing to death.
The state reports 1,300 deaths among people with COVID-19. Deaths among people with COVID-19 reflects people who died with COVID-19 but where the virus may not have been the cause of death listed on the death certificate.
The state also reported a slight decrease in current hospitalizations. Currently, 412 South Dakotans are hospitalized due to the virus, a decrease of 20 from Tuesday. Overall, 5,265 South Dakotans have been hospitalized.
According to the South Dakota Department of Health, coronavirus patients currently occupy 15% of staffed hospital beds and 33.6% of ICU beds. 39% of hospital beds and 28.6% of ICU beds are still available.
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Zero to Hero is the 1st in a new series by Henry Winkler, the author of the Hank Zipzer series. There are two main characters: (1) 11-year-old Billy Broccoli who has just moved to a new home in a different school district where he will be attending a new middle school–the one at which his newly re-married mother is principal; and (2) Hoover Porterhouse, a 14-year-old ghost who died 99 years ago and lives in the room Billy has inherited in the new house.
The initial friction between the two boys is mild, based originally on the ghost/living human difference as opposed to differing personalities. Billy is quieter, more likely to allow others to push him around without saying anything. Hoover is the opposite: brash, confident and unlikely to let any derogatory comment or behavior go by without confronting the person behind it.
I thought the story moved in fits and starts. It would just start to get interesting, the pace would pick up and I would begin to care about what happened to Billy or Hoover and then it would sort of trail off. This pattern repeated throughout the book. There also seemed to be difficulty deciding who would tell the story–Billy or Hoover. The narrative was most successful when one distinct narrator was chosen; the transitions between alternating narrative were the places where the author tended to lose my attention.
What sets this book apart from the dozens like it is Billy’s character. Billy is bullied, harassed and ultimately humiliated by fellow student, Rod Brownstone, his next door neighbor. With Hoover’s help Billy discovers a secret that will completely humiliate Rod. Billy has every reason to go through with his plan for revenge: what Rod has done to him was extremely hurtful and–truthfully–there is a certain kind of justice in the idea of paying someone back with the exact same hurt they visited upon you. Billy, however, has a moment when he sees beyond simply paying Rod back one unkindness for another. He makes a choice that allows him to stand up for himself, have Rod rightfully experience some of the same feelings he inflicted on Billy, himself, and at the same time allows him to remain true to his values of kindness and respect.
Although I thought this first book was just “okay,” I did find myself liking Billy and Hoover by the end. I think there is potential in the coming books of the series to see the action/pacing even out to maintain a consistently higher interest level for the reader. This series is probably best enjoyed by 3-6th graders. If you enjoy the Hank Zipzer series, you might want to check this one out as an independent read.
Teachers: this could work as a nice read-aloud if you are looking for a story that has humor laced into a message about how to handle bullying and conflict resolution, for the reason that Billy does NOT end up relying only on his impulses to REACT to a problem. He comes up with a better (though by no means perfect) solution.


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- How Big is Scientology? A Visual Guide to Scientology’s Inflated Graphics Designed by Jefferson Hawkin, and posted at the blog of former Scientologist Mike Rinder.
- Scientology: The Ex-Files Former members of the Church give a chilling portrait of life inside the organisation Broadcast report by Four Corners, the investigative journalism program of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Note: The list of background resources at the Four Corners site includes links to material by the Church of Scientology and to information provided by cult apologist Frank Flinn. Buyer beware!
Reporter Quentin McDermott talks to men and women who were members of an elite unit inside the Church in Australia and the United States. They explain why they joined, how they worked tirelessly for Scientology, and how, in some cases, they were pressured, and pressured others, to hand over hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Church.
Some of them describe the separation from relatives that occurs when they were expelled from the Church. They also describe how they worked long hours, for little pay. Others claim they were pressured into having abortions, because of a policy that forbids the raising of children within the unit. Some of these men and women are now taking the church to court in the United States over claims involving this type of treatment. The Church is contesting the court actions.


Heavy Goods Vehicles and CO2
Technical possibilities and costs of reducing CO2 emissions of trucks
CO2 reduction measures
ACEA (European Automobile Manufacturers' Association) requested TML to conduct a study on CO2 reduction measures for the road freight sector. Following an integrated approach, the review considered measures related to vehicle engine efficiency, vehicle design, vehicle usage, road management and CO2 policy. The time horizon of the study was 2020 and beyond. Two driving cycles were considered: long haul and regional delivery.
The first part of the study was a literature review, after which a survey with the main European manufacturers of HGVs was conducted. Their expertise, along with VECTO simulations (Vehicle Energy Calculation TOol), was used to verify and add to the results of the literature review. Assumptions regarding the evolutions of legislation were made in agreement with ACEA.
For new vehicles, a fuel efficiency improvement of 15-17% is within reach by 2020. OEMs can contribute more than half of the improvement, with the greatest potential in engine efficiency improvement.
Note: due to the confidential nature of inputs, detailed results of the survey are not included in the published study.
The rest of the new vehicle improvement comes from other parties, like tyre manufacturers and body and trailer builders (aerodynamics).
When considering the entire fleet and normal vehicle usage and replacement rates (based on a 15 year vehicle lifetime), the contribution of these new technologies is limited, but increases as penetration rises. Most of the short term fuel saving potential lies in optimizing vehicle operation.
The proposed materials and methods are validated with a group of stakeholders in the European freight transport industry, and any new findings and projections that came about since the initial work.
The final report was presented to the public in February 2016 during ACEA's event "Reducing CO2 from Road Transport Together".
As a third step in the process, TML assessed the CO2 reduction potential of certain measures for heavy duty road freight transport, in case predefined conditions with regard to technological progress and uptake are met. The measures have been preselected by ACEA. Realistic and optimistic scenarios have been considered for the long haul (LH) and regional delivery (RD) cycles, under 4 mayor topics:
- EU wide introduction of European Modular System vehicle combinations
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Is the market for credit-default swaps in for a renaissance? George Soros, for one, reckons credit derivatives should be banned. But trading in swaps has so far survived the crisis and market reforms are on the way. Barring unexpectedly draconian regulatory changes, a comeback looks likely.
In a credit-default swap, the buyer pays the seller a fee to protect against default on a notional amount of a borrower’s debt, typically in increments of $10 million. If the borrower defaults, the seller pays up. Losses on an oversize book of particularly wacky versions of these derivatives forced the American International Group to take a gigantic government bailout.
Cheery forecasts for growth in swaps trading from Icap, a British broker, and the Intercontinental Exchange, the clearinghouse, are therefore a bit surprising. After all, the notional volume of outstanding contracts declined by 14 percent, to $36 trillion, in the first half of 2009, according to the Bank for International Settlements. In part, the decline reflects the efforts of dealers to cancel out offsetting contracts. But trading activity has also fallen.
There’s still uncertainty over reforms being mulled by lawmakers and regulators in the United States and Europe. Sensibly, they mostly want swaps contracts to be traded through central clearinghouses rather than bilaterally, the traditional way of doing business. Done right, that ought to reduce the systemic risk of an individual market participant going bust. It should also mean collateral requirements are standardized and more uniformly enforced. Both reforms would have eased A.I.G.’s troubles.
Central clearing of swaps, and maybe exchange trading of the most popular instruments, would accelerate an existing trend toward electronic trading, especially in the United States, which has lagged in that regard. Standardization could also bring in a wider range of users.Continue reading the main story
Admittedly, some policy makers want to squash the swaps market much more forcefully, and the instruments do have structural imperfections that still need work.
But it looks likely that reforms to improve the market’s workings will trump the idea of shutting it down. With that in mind, forecasting a return to robust market growth makes sense. Central clearinghouses and electronic trading led the energy derivatives market to bloom in recent years. The return of credit risk-taking wouldn’t please everyone, but the credit-default swaps market could emerge bigger and stronger, too.
The India Option
Let’s hope everyone enjoyed President Obama’s first state dinner on Tuesday night in honor of Manmohan Singh, India’s prime minister. China, America’s second-largest trade partner after Canada, usually gets the bigger reception. But United States trade with India, the world’s most populous democracy, is more balanced.
The United States-China trading relationship is enormous, but one-sided. Imports are 4.5 times exports to China. That is fueled by the undervalued Chinese currency, but it also to some extent reflects Chinese protectionism that hampers American exports.
Trade with India is much smaller, but growing rapidly. It is also closer to equilibrium. Indian exports to the United States are only 25 percent larger than American exports to India, less broken than American trade as a whole. Moreover, India is more open than it used to be to foreign direct investment, typically an American strength. India’s foreign direct investment was nearly a third of what China’s was in 2008, but up from less than 10 percent in 2000-2.
Along with the huge and one-sided trade position, China’s holdings of $800 billion in United States Treasuries make America’s economic relationship with the country too unbalanced to be comfortable. With its huge population, nearly as large as China’s, and robust economic growth rate, India offers the United States a healthy alternative partner.
India’s finances are not as solid as China’s. Moody’s warned on Tuesday, for example, that Indian banks had an excessively high level of nonperforming loans. The Indian budget deficit is also large. That, however, is a problem shared with the United States. Mr. Singh, a Social Democrat, should also be broadly in tune politically with Mr. Obama.
The Obama administration can’t afford to distance itself from China. But economically and politically, India is a more congenial partner. Mr. Obama could avoid developing too much of an overriding bilateral relationship with China by dining more with Mr. Singh.
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Computers didn’t invent hate and vitriol.
Computers didn’t invent hate and vitriol.
The worldwide web didn’t invent misogyny, toxic masculinity or predators. All of this has existed, usually hidden in polite society, for generations.
What the Internet did was open Pandora’s Box and give all of the above a global anonymous outlet through the profusion of so-called “social media.” Very little of this is social, defined as “the interaction of the individual and the group, or the welfare of human beings as members of society.”
I suppose there could be an argument made that how social media works in the real world is just as it is defined. Except, ask any woman in the public eye how social media treats her. Ask a teenager how she feels about being a target.
Ask Canada’s Governor-General Mary Simon how sociable she finds it. As of Feb. 13, her office has shut off all comments left on its sites, citing waves of harassment, “abusive, misogynistic and racist engagement” and “a greater number of violent threats.” Simon’s office sent out a message saying “all those who consult our information can do so in an environment that is respectful to all.”
Surely there is a touch of sheer irony in the timing of this: the day before Valentine’s Day, a special 24 hours devoted to love, romance and more than enough gooey sentiment for the rest of the year. I doubt, though, that the trolls who anonymously leave hate messages have the wit to see the irony as they chalk up yet-another “uppity” woman taken down.
At what point do we cry “enough”? When are the people – men, of course – who own Google, Twitter and other social media sites going to set the kind of rules to allow for civil discourse, for comments that respect everyone’s personal agency? For starters, let’s demand an end to anonymity. If you want to post nasty and vitriolic insults, at the very least have the guts to put your name to it. Only a coward hides behind a “handle.”
Only a weak coward would target young girls who are especially vulnerable to cyberbullying. Study after study shows that more than half of all Canadian girls are targets for such harassment, without much legalities to protect them. (And lest the mean girls think they are not guilty in such teenage exchanges, they should be aware their actions will stay with them, like, forever.)
But when anyone suggests more “truth” in posts, more insistence on being able to identify the harassers, the freedom card gets played. I can already hear the outcry: What about those brave protestors in Iran, Russia and China, for example, who risk imprisonment and maybe death if they are identified? There’s a false equivalency if there ever was one. The bottomfeeders harassing women – and the LGBTQ communities – are not the few and the brave. They are the many and the weak.
I feel sorry for women in the public eye – journalists, politicians, television personalities – who have no option but to be on social media. They cannot hide behind a facade. They are exposed and they are vulnerable. They become targets for grievances or just garden-variety hate.
I’m of an age where if you wanted to tell me how misguided I am, one had to physically write a letter – one began “Dear Godless Bitch” – or get me on the telephone. One “brave” soul managed to get into the building, find my office and stand at my door and express his displeasure about a column I had written in a series of four-letter terms with the occasional foray into the pluperfect, a verb tense he was unlikely to recognize as meaning the actions he was suggesting I do had already been done. It was an interesting encounter up to the point I picked up the phone to call security. Now all such creeps have to do is log on in their basements and hurl epithets at their targets.
As can be imagined, I am not on social media. I don’t have to be. My job doesn’t require it. My self-esteem and self-image have long been forged through experience and age.
It’s long past time we reached out to the vulnerable with words of courage and hope until governments strengthen the laws that so far have failed so many.
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Regulations from Ukraine covering media access to the front lines of the war have drawn criticism from reporters and media advocates who say the rules are not proportionate with the dangers for war correspondents.
Two of Ukraine’s operational commands, in the country’s east and south, released new rules in March governing how media can operate in areas under their control.
The rules bar journalists from working in “red zones” deemed the most dangerous and require a military press officer’s escort to work in less dangerous “yellow zones.”
Journalists can work freely in “green zones.” And commanders will have discretion to allow reporters access to red zones in certain circumstances, according to local media.
But media watchdogs have said that the new regulations mean journalists are now denied access to over 50 municipalities in Ukraine.
“It’s worrying that such a decision can be made to restrict the access of journalists,” said Jeanne Cavelier, the Eastern Europe expert for media watchdog Reporters Without Borders, or RSF. “It’s in [Ukraine’s] interest” to facilitate reporting on the war.
At least one command later removed the order from its website, Cavelier told VOA.
Officials are advising journalists to connect with press officers directly when planning an assignment “to know in which color it is, if they’re allowed [access] or not,” said Cavelier.
The order is part of amendments to regulations under martial law governing how journalists can work.
All military commanders are now required to classify the territories under their control into separate zones.
Ukraine’s Washington embassy did not reply to VOA’s email requesting comment.
VOA emailed the Ukraine Ministry of Defense on Friday to ask whether the rules are now being enforced, and for its response to media concerns. At publishing time for this article, VOA had not received a response.
A Ministry of Defense statement provided to the advocacy group the Committee to Protect Journalists said, however, that the rules are meant “to improve interaction with representatives of the mass media while working in combat areas.”
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has made the country one of the deadliest for journalists. More than a dozen local and foreign correspondents have been killed there in the past year while on assignment.
The war also attracted large numbers of freelance journalists, many of whom were unfamiliar with working in conflict zones.
“The thing about war is the situation can change day to day and even hour to hour,” said Clothilde Redfern, director of the Rory Peck Trust, an organization that supports freelance journalists.
“The situation in Ukraine is changing all the time, and up-to-date, accurate in-country information is crucial for journalists’ safety,” she said.
Other media experts told VOA they thought the restrictions were excessive and not commensurate with the risks for journalists.
Sergiy Tomilenko, president of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, told VOA that “the new rules of military accreditation should not completely stop coverage of this war.” He added that areas should be considered red zones only if reporting is impossible there because of the conflict.
Skepticism on safety
Oksana Romaniuk, the head of the Institute of Mass Information, a local press freedom group, said the restrictions appeared to be about safety, but she said she thought they were more about control.
“We do not think that it is connected with the desire to make the work of journalists safer. It is, rather, connected with the desire to make everything work like the army,” she told VOA from Kyiv.
Romaniuk said she thought Ukraine’s north and west operational commands had developed similar rules but had not yet published them because of the criticism of the other commands’ policies.
“They’re too rigid,” Karol Luczka said of the rules. Luczka, who focuses on Ukraine for the International Press Institute, a media rights organization, said, “There shouldn’t be a pre-established list of places which are excluded to journalists.”
“Access should really only be based on the situation on the ground,” on an ad hoc basis, Luczka said.
Cavelier, of RSF, said it’s important that the Ukrainian government balance journalist safety with the freedom to report. “We understand that some parts of the front line — very hot areas — are forbidden for journalists,” she said, but that doesn’t mean journalists should be barred entirely.
Details on the new regulations have also been unclear, analysts said, with zone lists on some fronts incomplete. This has added to the confusion and frustration, Cavelier said.
Military escorts — which Ukraine’s Institute of Mass Information said are in short supply — are also supposed to escort reporters in yellow zones, but some journalists already live and work in yellow zones full time. That has led to questions about how a journalist based in one of those areas is supposed to operate.
Alongside the war on the ground in Ukraine is a battleground on the internet, with disinformation pushed out in an effort to influence opinion.
“Journalists in Ukraine are crucial to countering Russian disinformation,” said IPI’s Luczka. “In order to ensure that the world continues to trust Ukraine in terms of what is going on on the front lines, journalists need to be present.”
The ultimate consequence, said Romaniuk, is that some stories may never be told.
Reporting that, for the past year, has documented crimes and informed people about the plight of Ukraine’s people will now be harder to achieve.
“For us, it is extremely important to tell the world, because people are dying every day,” Romaniuk said. “It is the only thing that gives us hope and gives us strength and resilience.”
When it comes to election misinformation on social media, Facebook takes the cake, according to a new study which found heavy Facebook users were far more likely to consume fake news than Twitter or other social media sites.
The study, published earlier this month in the peer-reviewed journal Government Information Quarterly, found Facebook users read the most fake news about the 2020 U.S. presidential election and reported the most concern about votes not being counted properly.
They also found the biggest factor in whether a person reported being suspicious about the election results was their level of fake news consumption, not their method of casting their vote.
According to the study, a big part of the problem with relying on social media for news is that these sites have algorithms designed to keep you scrolling and engaged, meaning that they’re likely to keep serving you the same content you’re engaging with and make it harder to climb out of a disinformation hole once you are in it.
“What we saw in this study is that if you aren’t careful, the bias that you bring into your news consumption can be absolutely confirmed and supported if you are in a place like Facebook where the algorithms feed into that,” Robert Crossler, study co-author and an associate professor in the WSU Carson College of Business, said in a press release.
Those who got their news about the 2020 election primarily by navigating directly on a news website were less likely to consume fake news, the study found, and were more likely to believe that the election had unfolded the way it did.
U.S. President Joe Biden’s win in 2020 was accompanied with unproven allegations pushed by former U.S. President Donald Trump that the election had been stolen from him and that many votes for him had gone uncounted. Allegations of voter fraud with mail-in ballots and with Dominion voting machines were spread after the election, but none of these claims stood up in court, and few legal experts supported this position.
However, the lack of factual support didn’t stop the story from spreading widely on social media.
It’s not new that Facebook and other social media sites can be drivers of disinformation and fake news, but it’s trickier to measure how consuming fake news affects a person’s perception of reality.
In order to get a better understanding of this, the Washington State University-led study designed three surveys relating to how political alignment, fake news consumption and voting method each individually impacted a person’s perception of the election.
In the study, “fake news” was defined as articles and sites spreading disinformation that was provably incorrect, not articles or sites with information perceived to be false from a partisan standpoint.
The first two surveys were given to different groups of voters prior to the election, both containing hypothetical scenarios for participants to react to.
The first posited a scenario where the participant would either be voting in-person, through the mail or online. Once the participant had read the scenario of their voting method, they were asked questions about how concerned they were about votes being counted properly, and how much news they got from various news organizations.
The second survey gave the scenario of all voters needing to use mail-in ballots that would be counted either by a government official, a neutral party or by a voting machine. They were then asked again about their concerns regarding votes being counted and their news sources.
The third survey was presented to a group of actual voters after the election. Participants filled out what their voting method had been, and then answered the same questions presented in the previous two surveys. They then reported what percentage of their news they got from direct navigation, Twitter, Facebook, or other social media sites.
Researchers were surprised to find the voting method — whether people voted by mail or in-person — had no measurable impact on how likely participants were to be worried about votes not being counted properly.
Instead, the more a person reported receiving their news from social media, particularly Facebook, the more likely they were to be heavily concerned about votes not being counted.
This suggested to researchers that Facebook, more so than other social media sites, was elevating sources spreading these fears.
“I don’t think that Facebook is deliberately directing people towards fake news but something about how their algorithm is designed compared to other algorithms is actually moving people towards that type of content,” Stachofsky said. “It was surprising how hard it was to find the websites Facebook was directing people to when we looked for them in a web browser. The research shows that not all social media platforms are created equal when it comes to propagating intentionally misleading information.”
The study also found there was no age group more likely to read fake news, which is different from other studies, suggesting that there could be a higher proportion of younger adults consuming fake news than had been previously thought.
Authors noted that more research needs to be done to understand how disinformation spreads and how it can be combatted, particularly in a political climate where the partisan divide in the U.S. is increasing the distrust in mainstream media. They’re hoping that this study could spur social media sites to think more about how their algorithms impact their users.
“This supports the argument that people need to be encouraged to be information or news literate,” Crossler said. “Right now, we are talking about the elections, but there are a lot of other issues, such as the war in Ukraine, that directing people to misinformation is not only misleading but also potentially dangerous.”
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The star of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones and Mirror, Mirror (and daughter of ’80s music icon Phil Collins) tops McAfee’s 2013 list of “Most Dangerous Celebrities” to search for on the Web.
Roughly one in seven online searches of her name – along with words such as “free downloads,” “nude pictures” and “apps” – landed computer users on websites that the security vendor says “tested positive” for online malware threats designed to steal personal information such as user names, addresses and passwords.
Canadian singer Avril Lavigne, actress Sandra Bullock, comedian Kathy Griffin and Star Trek Into Darkness actress Zoe Saldana rounded out the top five.
Others on the Top 10 list include singers Katy Perry and Britney Spears; Mad Men star Jon Hamm (the only male), Victoria’s Secret model Adrianna Lima and actress Emma Roberts.
Last year’s “winner,” Harry Potter star Emma Watson, and runner-up Jessica Biel failed to crack this year’s list. Nor did 2011 winner Heidi Klum.
Collins reigns the seventh year in which the security vendor researches the performers most often used by cybercriminals to lure fans to rogue, malware-laden websites. Get more details on this year’s findings.
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DELRAY BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2022 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — If Alexis Perez is your local drug supplier, you may need to find a new source. The Delray Beach Police Department arrested Perez and charged him with multiple counts of drug violations. He is in the Palm Beach County Jail early Thursday morning.
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In August 2012, American University of Armenia’s Garo Meghrigian Institute for Preventive Ophthalmology (Meghrigian Institute) of the College of Health Sciences launched the project aimed at reducing the incidence of avoidable blindness and visual impairment among socio-economically disadvantaged population in Kashatagh province of Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh).
Kashatagh is one of the eight provinces of Artsakh and the largest by area. The living conditions and the situation in the health sector in Kashatagh are among the harshest. Meghrigian Institute conducted free eye screenings for the residents of Berdzor and Kovsakan towns, as well as Msheni, Moshatagh, Aygehovit, Urekan, Mirik, Hochants, Qaregah, Getap, Martunashen, Yericvanq, Mijnavan, Alashkert, and Ishkhanadzor villages. Overall, 161 patients received eye screening in Kashatagh; 10 of them had diabetes. Diabetes patients received educational brochures developed by Meghrigian Institute to increase their awareness about diabetes management and prevention of diabetic retinopathy. All patients diagnosed with eye pathologies received free ophthalmic consultation about their diagnosis and further treatment. Those who had any type of refractive errors or presbyopia (106 people) received prescriptions for eye glasses and free eye frames from Meghrigian Institute.
Meghrigian Institute plans to expand the project into other regions of Artsakh in the near future and start screenings among school-age children in Kashatagh.
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