Mr Elvis Darko, a member of the Interim Steering Committee of the Media Coalition on the Right to Information Bill (RTI), has been arrested by the police.
Mr Darko, who is the Editor of the Finder newspaper, was picked up on the premises of parliament on Thursday, 15 November 2018, for unlawful picketing.
Mr Darko and the coalition had gone to parliament to picket as part of moves to mount pressure on parliament to pass the Right to Information Bill (RTI) ahead of the presentation of the 2019 Budget by Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta.
The coalition is made up of several media practitioners.
Members of the coalition were, on Tuesday, 30 October 2018, refused entry into parliament house.
The members said they had planned a peaceful march to the legislature to remind the House of the need to pass the bill which has been in and out of parliament for almost two decades.
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The team actually gave the HTC One M9 the same score as the M8 (an abysmal 2 out of 10), which proved to be just as difficult to repair. This shouldn't come as much of a surprise considering we're looking at a similar design with the two handsets. Some highlights from the teardown include notable defects with the unit iFixit received, including a dead pixel on the screen as well as some minor scratches.
The HTC One M9 was – however – fairly easy to take apart initially, not requiring heat for the case to be taken apart. But this was soon forgotten by intense use of adhesives, making numerous components difficult to both remove and replace. Another major drawback for phone repairability is actually the battery. Just like the M8, the HTC One M9's battery is buried deep inside the device, hindering its replacement.
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East Antrim - OLIVER McMULLAN
Oliver McMullan is a hard working constituency representative who has put a strong focus on opportunities for job creation and social enterprise. He has promoted our local tourism industry as well as campaigned for environmental protection.
Elected to Moyle Council in 1993, his tireless work on behalf of the electorate has become legendary and, in recent years has extended beyond the Glens into East Antrim, in response to neighbouring citizens whose own elected representatives failed to perform.
Amongst his many political achievements, Oliver has been Sinn Féin’s first Chairperson of Moyle Council as well as local District Policing Partnership. He represents council on external bodies including the Strategic Waste Board, Northern Education & Library Board and Joint Committee of the Rural Development Programme.
Oliver has championed the rights of children with disability and been a strong voice for local farmers.
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JLP-PNP sour relationship threatens work in Rae Town
SHE HAS not yet been sworn in to do the people’s work, but already, residents of the Rae Town division in Kingston are being told by their Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillor-designate, Rosalie Hamilton, that she will not “mend” her relationship with Ronald Thwaites, the member of parliament for Kingston Central.
Rae Town falls in the constituency.
Hamilton, who appears to have thrown out the charge by JLP Leader Andrew Holness to work for the benefit of residents, made her declaration after she was confirmed the winner of the division yesterday, ensuring the JLP’s control of the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC).
“Me and him (Thwaites) don’t have a good relationship, and I don’t plan to mend the relationship either. I know that I will have to work independently. He hardly recognises people for the position they have, especially if they are not politically likeminded.”
Hamilton did not explain what caused the reason for their ‘poor’ relationship.
“Ms Hamilton hasn’t been in political life for several years, and so I haven’t had the opportunity to see her. When she was in office, I treated her with respect,” said Thwaites, a People’s National Party (PNP) representative.
“That’s untrue,” Thwaites added when questioned about her claim that he treats people differently based on their political affiliations.
He declined to comment on the claims of partisan treatment, saying only that Hamilton can Rosalie Hamilton (centre), councillor-designate for the Rae Town division in Central Kingston, is congratulated by supporters on Gold Street after yesterday’s official count showed her winning the local government election.
explain the issues she has faced with him.
From Hamilton’s own admission of how Rae Town’s issues could be addressed, the two may have to interact closely.
“The division needs good representation. It needs a lot of development. Most of the things that the division needs are centralgovernment-based. We will just have to continue to ask for help from the MP and the Government,” said the incoming councillor, who previously served for two terms up to 2012 when she lost.
Following Monday’s elections, Hamilton ended with 1,870 votes to 1,846 for Shawn McGregor, who was hoping to retain the division for the PNP. Ann Marie Morrison, who defeated Hamilton
in the 2012 polls, did not seek reelection.
The preliminary results gave the JLP a 21-19 control of the corporation that was not certain until the final count of the division, which ended yesterday. The seat count remains the same, with Hamilton picking up six more votes to beat McGregor by 21 and return to the KSAC.
If she had lost, the corporation would have been tied at 20-20 and the mayor elected based on the popular vote, which the JLP won.
“It’s the hardest election I’ve ever seen,” she told The Gleaner. “What I expected from this election is the people’s true feelings of local governance and what it represents. My campaign was based around educating the people about the role of a councillor. Going around, talking
to the people, I realised they don’t understand the role of a councillor from the role of a member of parliament.”
She added: “I didn’t expect an election that would be so tribal and forceful because I really thought we had passed that stage. If I had known that the politics was still tribal, I would have treated it differently.” FLY JAMAICA Airlines (FJA) expects to be back on schedule today after Tuesday’s incident which left its stationary Boeing 767-300 aircraft damaged at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) in Guyana.
Kayla Reece, interim director of marketing at FJA, in responding to The Gleaner reaffirmed that the vessel was “parked in an assigned position within the apron at CJIA” when an aeroplane belonging to Caribbean Airlines hit its tail cone, knocking it off.
FJA currently owns and operates two aircraft.
The second vessel is a Boeing 757-200, which is airworthy and is being operated on the necessary routes in the interim, Reece confirmed.
Passengers affected by the incident have all been reaccommodated.
As it relates to the extent of the damage, Reece stated: “A Boeing aircraft on-the-ground team will be arriving at CJIA today (yesterday) to do a survey of the damage.”
She further added: “Any updated flight schedules will be published on www.flyjamaica.com.”
The expected length of the investigation into the matter has not been made known.

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The definition “extra virgin olive oil extra” turns 50 and all the product categories linked to this beloved vegetable fat also celebrate their 50th anniversary.
As in all great parties, there is always a surprise: upon its 50th anniversary extra virgin olive oil consumption levels seem to overtake its production levels. Is this year going to mark a turnaround for olive oil prices as well?
Many hope so given the clear plunge in prices of the last years.
The International Olive Oil Council meeting in Madrid from November 22nd to 26th during the 98th session of IOOC members takes stock of the trends for the 2010-2011 season.
By analysing data coming from several olive oil producing countries a production decrease of 2.5%, i.e. 2.95 million tons was forecast and a growth increase of 2.98 million tons was estimated.
This is close to breakeven. Fair enough. But this also means that along with the increasing dimensions of olive yards, new and passionate consumers of olive oil are also on the rise.
Europe is still the largest worldwide producer with 2.1 million tons out of which 1.20 millions are produced only by Spain in spite of the 14% reduction vis a vis the 2009-2010 season.
These are the figures about the other olive oil producing countries published by the IOOC: 336,000 tons in Greece, 480,000 tons in Italy, 67,500 in Portugal, 6,500 in Cyprus 6,000 tons in France.
Outside of the EU the IOOC has estimated a production of 193,500 tons for Syria, 160,000 for Turkey, 120,000 for Tunisia, 150,000 for Morocco, 48,000 for Algeria, 24,900 for Palestine, 19,000 for Jordan, 18,000 Australia, 17,500 for Argentina and 15,000 for Lybia.
As previously mentioned, World consumption is estimated to exceed the threshold of 2.98 million tons with a 3.65% increase with respect to the 2009-2010 season.
The European Union still plays a leading role in terms of consumption as well with 1.88 million tons, followed by the US (260,000 tons), Syria (125,000 tons) and Turkey (115,000 tons).
Given the major objectives and the large funds for promotional, information and awareness raising activities earmarked by the European Community, the IOOC and other associations in Europe, India, China and Russia, we really wish that the olive oil producing industry will considerably expand in the next ten years.
We hope that awareness will play a bigger role than price in the competition among olive oil producing countries: this will ensure better quality products thus avoiding a decreasing trend in prices which is bad for producers and consumers alike.
Based on this new olive oil campaign with its encouraging figures we can only say: Long life King of fats!
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Frannie Shepherd-Bates graduated from college with a passion for theater and the desire to use her art in ways that made a difference beyond the stage. But it wasn’t until she watched the award-winning documentary “Shakespeare Behind Bars” that she discovered the unexpected place she could take acting -- and the unexpected good it could do.
“Shakespeare Behind Bars” is a 2005 documentary about 20 Kentucky prison inmates in an acting group. Shepherd-Bates decided to launch a similar program in her state of Michigan.
She had already co-founded the Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company in 2008, along with fellow alumni from Wayne State University's theater department. As executive artistic director of the small nonprofit organization, she directs, acts, choreographs, teaches and coaches speech. But what Shepherd-Bates, 29, finds most rewarding now is the side project she started two years ago.
“I was really inspired by the work that Curt [Tofteland], the founder of that [Kentucky] program, was doing and the positive impact that work with Shakespeare specifically had on the men in the documentary,” Shepherd-Bates told The Huffington Post. “I felt like it was time to explore programming like this.”
She reached out to a friend at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility, the only female prison in Michigan, with her proposal and began the volunteer-based Shakespeare in Prison project in February 2012. For the first 18 months of Shakespeare in Prison, Shepherd-Bates was its sole volunteer. She now has four other people helping her lead the program, which runs in nine-month sessions.
The women inmates meet with Shepherd-Bates and her team twice a week for two hours at a time in the correctional facility’s auditorium. They share news and updates with one another, warm up with a few theater and improvisation games, and then get to work on the play they intend to perform at the end of the session.
Shepherd-Bates wants the experience to be as democratic as possible, so the women work together to select the plays they'll perform, the sets they'll design and the costumes they'll wear. The first group of women back in 2012 were a bit intimidated at the thought of performing an entire play, so they decided to create a showcase of scenes and monologues from Shakespeare's works. The second session's participants put on "The Tempest." The third group will be performing "Romeo and Juliet" in June.
According to Shepherd-Bates, the prison auditorium isn't big enough to seat all the inmates at once so the group will give multiple performances.
“It’s great for them to be able to perform for the people they live with, do this incredible thing, and have this audience that really appreciates the challenge they’ve undertaken,” she said.
All of the inmates participate voluntarily, and not everyone who joins initially sticks with the program through the full nine months. However, those who stay -- as well as those who jump in along the way -- benefit immensely from the process, according to Shepherd-Bates.
“Women will come in, and at the beginning, they’re very timid about voicing their opinions. But by the end, they know that their ideas are appreciated and valued, and that their opinions matter and make a difference so they’re very vocal again,” said Shepherd-Bates. “Or they might come in from a place of being more vocal -- even to the point of being combative -- and they learn how better to function as part of a team. It’s the complimentary effects on opposite challenges: learning how to speak up for yourself, but also learning how to recognize the value of others’ input.”
Karri Osterhout, the facility's deputy warden of programs, offered a similar assessment of the program's benefits.
"Shakespeare in Prison is a unique program," Osterhout said. "It really helps the women with their communication and leadership skills, and they're empowered through the program. They're challenged to think, behave, ask questions, and put themselves in someone else's shoes."
According to Osterhout, Shakespeare in Prison and the Prison Creative Arts Project are the two theater-based leisure time programs currently offered at the women's prison. The Ann Arbor News wrote on the latter program's 20th anniversary that founder Buzz Alexander had witnessed how "prisoners 'form a community' around group activities, especially during his students' highly collaborative theater workshops."
Several of the women who have joined Shakespeare in Prison struggled with reading disabilities. Shepherd-Bates believes that working to read, memorize and perform the playwright's lines gave them new confidence.
“We had one woman who, at the end of the first session, said, 'I'm glad I stuck with this because I’ve never finished anything in my entire life.' It's difficult to quantify a step like that, but you know that’s got to feel so good for her,” said Shepherd-Bates.
She decided to use Shakespeare's works because she thinks every woman can find some way to relate to his archetypal characters. Talking about the characters as they figure out how to portray them, the inmate actors can access human truths within the play, empathize with its characters and gain perspective on their own lives.
“So maybe if I’m talking about Macbeth, I have not killed my best friend, but I’ve probably wrestled with ambition and wondering how much control I have over my destiny,” said Shepherd-Bates.
Osterhout also noted that the communication skills and self-confidence the inmates gain on stage seems to translate into how they carry themselves in the prison as well as within their community once they leave.
Shakespeare Behind Bars, the program from which Shepherd-Bates drew her inspiration, has been around long enough to gather some hard data on how beneficial in-prison theater programs can be. Launched in Kentucky 19 years ago, Shakespeare Behind Bars now offers 10 programs in two states. Kentucky's recidivism rate -- the percentage of released prisoners rearrested within two years for a new offense -- hit 29.5 percent in 2011, which was itself a low. According to Shakespeare Behind Bars, however, the recidivism rate for prisoners who participate in its programs is a mere 5.8 percent.
For her part, Shepherd-Bates is not permitted to contact any of the women after they leave the correctional facility to learn what happens to them. But she said she has checked public records and, to the best of her knowledge, none of the women who have completed her entire theater program, and subsequently been paroled, have since been convicted of another crime or been sent back to prison.
And maybe that suggests one more valuable connection between the stage and life.
“The [acting] performances aren’t perfect, but that’s actually part of what makes them successful. We always say that making a mistake is more of an opportunity to learn than a failure,” said Shepherd-Bates. “When a woman goofs up her lines on stage and another one leaps in to save the day by showing her a script or just moving on to the next line, a bond is formed. They become more of a team there, and they’ve worked together to solve a problem. I am just endlessly inspired by these women.”

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Professor: Tim Williams
We live in an era of social media. The advent of the internet in the late twentieth century dramatically changed how individuals receive and disseminate ideas. Yet while the technology is "new" (blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Kindle, for example), the purposes of using media for social connection and the exchange of information are not. A defining feature of the modern era, in fact, is the way in which literacy and print media shaped individuals' attitudes about self and society, as well as their interactions (for good or bad) within families, communities, peer groups, and social "others" in everyday life. As we today face the changes technology has wrought, it therefore becomes imperative to step back in time and contemplate past media revolutions and their influences on society and culture. Because this focus is conceptually vast and complicated, we will focus on the modern Atlantic World, particularly North America and the United States, from the Columbian era to the present day. The course will begin with a cross-disciplinary, theoretical discussion of media's role in defining modernity (especially print media). We will define what it means to produce and consume media individually and socially. We will then delve into more focused topics including (but not limited to) cross-culture interactions in the "New World"; print, politics, and nationalism; democratization, literacy, and education; social reform, slavery, and race; and popular entertainment, social inclusion, and exclusion. As we examine these topics, we will read primary sources such as essays, pamphlets, diaries, letters, autobiographies, as well as popular culture sources such as novels; we will also consider radio, television, and film. At the same time, we will read scholarly books and articles on each topic and write frequent analytical essays in response to what we read and discuss.


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Allocation of vascularized composite allografts: what is it?
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To date, there are more than 80 reports of vascularized composite allografts (VCAs; a.k.a. composite tissue allotransplantation). However, the classification of this type of transplantation for oversight purposes has not been clarified. From a biological and regulatory perspective, we propose that VCA retrieval and transplantation is akin to organ transplantation and should be incorporated into the organ oversight structure. As VCA becomes more of a clinical reality, the need for a methodical approach to allocation and access to more donors will develop. Such an allocation system will likely incorporate parameters that deviate from those used for organ transplantation. To develop an effective and balanced system, the use of existing regulatory agencies that oversee solid organs should provide the maximum benefit to the patients and the society.
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It wasn’t so long ago that small and mid-sized American communities were served by multiple news outlets. Penny Abernathy warns of the expansion of “news deserts,” or areas without dedicated local coverage because of shifting technology and consumer behavior.
Climate change is reshaping America’s coast-line—from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico; from Staten Island New York to California. For most of us, the change is invisible, but Elizabeth Rush tells us that is, in part, because we don’t know what we’re seeing.
There are some people who believe that they are prepared to critique teachers’ performances because they went to elementary school themselves. The confidence of what seemed to work for us as individuals fuels a lot of stress for teachers. The same can be said about parenting. Nothing saps the confidence of the uninitiated quite like the reality of actually becoming a parent. KJ Dell’ Antonia however, tells parents to cut themselves some slack.
In a meeting on Capitol Hill 15 years ago, a respected foreign policy analyst said that most national security assessments out of Washington ignored the elephant in the room: the United States and the impact of our domestic politics on the state of the world. While Tom Nichols wasn’t in the room that day, he brings a rigorous analytical mind steeped in national security to his analysis of the world around us.
Many people today can mock appeals for understanding between partisans with the phrase, “can’t we all just get along?” For Dr. Linda Tropp however, understanding the dynamics of inter-group conflict and facilitating positive dialogue has become her life’s work.
The genetics revolution is already reshaping healthcare—and most people see in it the potential for healthier children, healthier adults, and less disease. Dr. Jamie Metzl argues that the same technology making progress possible has the potential to saddle the world with a complex array of thorny ethical questions that will affect everything from human sexual reproduction to national security.


text: Boy Tom loves such a sporting game like basketball. Therefore, he dreamed of becoming a basketball star since childhood. Quite often he takes hold of the ball goes to the street playground and works out there throws in the ring. Today in the game Free Throws we will help him in this. Our hero will stand at a certain distance from the basketball shield. You will have to throw the ball into the basket. To do this, clicking on the screen you will see how our boy will jump into the air. A second click will cause it to roll. You need to match these parameters in order to get into the ring. For this you will get points.

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JOE Wicks became the nation’s unofficial PE teacher during lockdown after millions have tuned into his live YouTube videos for kids off school.
The millionaire fitness guru, 34, has two major TV broadcasters desperate to bag him to front a stay-at-home fitness show - but things weren’t always a roaring success for the star.
Joe, also known as The Body Coach, started out nine years ago without a fat bank balance, handing out flyers at tube stations in a bid to get people to attend his park bootcamps.
He had to borrow a £2,000 loan from his parents to start his Rumble In The Park classes, and so few people showed up that he was unable to pay them back.
Although he is passionate about nutritious meals now, Joe previously admitted he grew up on a council estate and his mum had “no idea about healthy eating”.
Instead, Joe grew up on a diet of pasta and sandwiches every night, and it wasn’t until he was older than he overhauled his meals.
He told the Mirror: “I grew up on a council estate. My mum left school at 15, had my brother at 16, then me at 19, she wasn't educated, she was always on benefits.
“My dad was a roofer and he was in and out of my life.'
“I borrowed two grand off my mum and dad to buy kettlebells and do a personal training course and started doing bootcamps.
“I remember I was really upset because I didn't have any clients and I thought I'd never be able to pay my parents back.
“But I loved personal training, I instantly thought, ‘This is what I'm supposed to be doing,’ and it all accelerated from there.”
It took a while to get his business off the ground, and he said in 2012 that he didn’t make “a single penny”.
However, a determined Joe didn’t give up, and realised that he could reach people on Instagram through a gap in the market.
In 2014, when Instagram launched a video function, he began sharing motivational videos about fitness and nutrition for those looking for advice.
The videos started out with cheeky Joe chatting in his kitchen, and after eight months, he had built up 44,000 followers.
A career-changing moment for him, he said, was meeting Bev James, the author of start-up guide Do It! Or Ditch it!, as it “turned him from a young guy with enthusiasm into a businessman with a strategy”.
According to her website, Joe had revealed: “Bev said to me on day one, 'Joe you'll be a star and you will have your own cook book and TV show'. No one had ever had that confidence in me before.”
And it seems that Bev’s belief in him paid off, as his Body Coach headquarters in Richmond now employs 50 members of staff and turns over millions each year, with Joe himself believed to be worth a staggering £14.5 million.
JOE WICKS AND ROSIE JONES' ROMANCE
In September 2016, The Sun exclusively revealed Page 3 beauty Rosie was dating millionaire fitness sensation, Joe Wicks.
The couple's private relationship was rumbled after sharing a series of identical holiday pictures from Richard Branson's Necker Island without mentioning each other.
They were pictured for the first time a month later as it emerged that Rosie was smitten with the health guru.
In January Joe admitted to The Mirror he already had plans to marry the glamour model.
He said: “She’s definitely The One. But some things you have to keep for yourself.
"I live on social media every day, so the only thing I have that’s private really is me and my girlfriend."
In late November 2018, the pair revealed that they were engaged and Joe admitted that he did not believe in marriage before Rosie.
He told the Express: “I took my mum to the office for the first time the other day. When she saw the building, she was so proud she cried.
“My mum, dad and nana can't believe I've got this proper global company. Neither can I.
“Sometimes I go in and think 'I'm the bloody boss!”
In 2015, Joe launched his first Book- Lean in 15 - and it sold 77,000 during its first week, smashing a world record previously held by cook Delia Smith.
In fact, the book was so successful, that is reportedly responsible for a 25 per cent rise in sales of tender-stem broccoli, which are heavily featured.
Joe currently has a six-book deal with his publisher and has so far released three Lean in 15 books in the range, including a veggie option.
He also has a 90-day plan, which aims to transform your body in three months via a tailor-made plan on his website or app.
The plans have been a huge success, and it was reported in 2018, he had sold 110,000 of his £126-per client package.
He told the Mail: “I bothered Channel 4 for two years about doing a show and they kept saying, 'We can't do it, Joe. We haven't got the budget'.
“This week both Channel 4 and the BBC have been on the phone, asking, 'What can we do together?’”
As he has grown his business empire, he has also got married to former Page 3 girl Rosie Jones, 30, and the pair have two kids, Indie, two, and 11-month-old Marley.
More than a million households watched his “online PE lesson” after schools shut on Friday.
Joe has previously hosted a show for Channel 4, with two series of Joe Wicks: The Body Coach airing in 2018.
A TV source said: “Channel 4 have worked with Joe previously and were straight onto him once they saw he was going to be hosting live workouts daily.
“His YouTube streams have been watched in their droves, so they have offered him a deal to host a daily show for them which would be aired to the nation to get kids, and adults, moving every morning.
“Nothing is signed yet but they are all hopeful something will work out.”
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Effectively identify, treat and manage lymphedema with segmental body water analysis
Lymphedema is a poorly understood condition characterized by chronic swelling in one or more areas of the body due to impaired lymphatic flow. Secondary lymphedema commonly occurs after cancer treatment or surgery, making it crucial to monitor patients undergoing cancer therapies as lymphedema is commonly underdiagnosed until the edema progresses. Although there is no cure, early detection is key to managing symptoms and progression of lymphedema as well as improving patient outcomes and quality of life.
Why is body composition analysis an effective tool for lymphedema specialists?
Lymphedema specialists are responsible for identifying, treating, and monitoring the disease while educating each patient on lifelong self-care. Because lymphedema is not well understood, there are limited tools available to clinicians for providing the best care for their patients. The InBody is a medical-grade bioimpedance device that measures body water and composition, providing objective measures of fluid and muscle-fat balance. The InBody test is non-invasive and convenient, and the comprehensive results sheet is the perfect educational tool to engage patients and help them understand more about their condition while using the information to document progress and guide treatments.
In less than 60 seconds, the InBody Test provides accurate, objective, and easily understandable measurements to evaluate the patient’s current health status and track the efficacy of treatments and interventions. Lymphedema specialists can use the InBody to:
- Monitor body water and composition for early detection and treatment of lymphedema
- Identify fluid imbalances through tracking segmental body water values and edema index variables
- Evaluate additional health risks related to muscle-fat balance
Empowered by objective data, clinicians will be able to more effectively identify, treat and manage lymphedema, improving the success of patients and their programs.
Detect fluid imbalances resulting from the development or progression of lymphedema
Indirect methods of quantifying body water make it difficult to diagnose and track lymphedema progression. Circumference and perometry measures are commonly used; however, these methods can be time-consuming, prone to error and may not accurately reflect changes in body water.
InBody objectively measures each region of the body separately and provides fluid balance measures for each of the arms, legs and the trunk. This allows clinicians to easily identify both unilateral and bilateral lymphedema as well as monitor changes over time.
Circumference measures and perometry are two methods often used to determine limb volume in order to identify edematous limbs or track lymphedema progression. However, circumference measures suffer from high inter-measurer variability, and certain patients may be excluded from assessment with a perometer. In addition, these indirect volume measurements are often unreliable and do not always reflect changes in body water. For example, changes in lean or fat mass can confound changes that might appear to be (or even mask) swelling. Therefore, it is important for lymphedema specialists to have objective measures of body water for accurate diagnosis and tracking of lymphedema.
InBody effectively distinguishes water in the intracellular (ICW; within the tissues) and extracellular (ECW; within the blood and interstitial fluids) water compartments that comprise total body water. The Edema Index, based on the ratio between ECW and TBW (ECW/TBW), can be used to detect fluid imbalances resulting from the development or progression of lymphedema. This index is provided separately for each arm, leg, and trunk, therefore providing a direct assessment/tracking tool for both edema by avoiding the use of comparisons to unaffected body segments.
The comprehensive body water report provided by the InBody allows objective tracking of fluid balance to help diagnose both unilateral and bilateral lymphedema and effectively monitor patients over time.
Identify progression of lymphedema early on to increase treatment success
Patient care and management of symptoms become more difficult as lymphedema progresses. Although early detection improves long-term patient outcomes, delayed diagnosis and the limited availability of tools to detect lymphedema often prevent early treatment strategies.
In patients at risk for developing lymphedema, surveillance is key. InBody offers a quick, convenient and non-invasive way to monitor patients preoperatively as well as throughout their treatment programs for earlier detection and treatment of fluid accumulation.
Lymphedema is a common side effect of breast cancer treatment and some surgical procedures yet remains undiagnosed until edema symptoms progress to later stages. It is important to identify lymphedema early in order to prevent progression and preserve the patient’s quality of life. Surveillance and implementation of a tool to non-invasively and effectively monitor patients at risk of developing lymphedema can greatly reduce incidence and aid in the successful management of lymphedema.
InBody uses multiple frequencies and direct segmental measurements for precise and accurate assessment of body water in each arm, leg, and the trunk separately. Changes in ECW/TBW reflect altered fluid balance, and segmental ICW and ECW values can be evaluated to determine whether they are a result of changes in body composition or progression of lymphedema. Segmental phase angle, a representation of cell membrane integrity, can also be tracked to assess patients’ health status. These objective values allow clinicians to detect subclinical changes in fluid accumulation, which allows earlier identification and treatment, increasing patients’ long-term treatment success and quality of life.
Track trends in patient progress over time
It is often difficult to evaluate treatments (massage therapy, compression, surgery) aimed at promoting lymphatic flow.
The InBody objectively tracks changes in fluid balance, which can be used to determine the effectiveness of different treatments. This data can be utilized to confirm program efficacy and tailor care to the individual, reducing the risk of progression to further stages of lymphedema and/or fibrosis.
As lymphedema progresses, mobility issues and the development of fibrotic tissue causes the quality of life to deteriorate. The development of conditions such as fibrosis can cause increased pain and hinder activities of daily living. Tracking the effects of treatment programs for each patient helps identify successful strategies to promote lymphatic flow and prevent progression to later stages. To do this, a non-invasive and convenient method is necessary to document patients throughout their programs while providing easily comprehensible data to inform both patient and provider.
InBody’s precise water measures reflect changes in lymphedema status as patients undergo different treatment modalities. Whether the patient is undergoing surgery or complete decongestive therapy, obtaining baseline measures and monitoring changes in ECW/TBW over time provides valuable information about how the treatment is improving symptoms. This increases the likelihood of success as clinicians can track which treatments are best suited for each individual and tailor programs according to patients’ needs, thereby improving patient satisfaction, compliance, and long-term outcomes.
Measure truncal edema in addition to limbs
Truncal edema, whether in the breast or as a byproduct of the lymphedematous limb(s), is common but almost impossible to quantify. InBody measures the trunk region separately, allowing truncal edema to be monitored closely with objective data to develop an appropriate treatment program.
Though lymphedema most clearly presents in the affected limb, lymphatics in the trunk also tend to become imbalanced, causing edema to manifest in the trunk. In most cases, truncal lymphedema is identified indirectly through subjective assessment and physical examination. However, tracking progress or improvement remains a challenge.
InBody uses direct segmental technology to measure the trunk separately, providing objective measures of ICW, ECW and ECW/TBW in this specific segment of the body. The ECW/TBW can be used to identify truncal fluid imbalance, and monitoring truncal ICW and ECW will allow clinicians to determine the cause of any changes, whether stemming from loss of muscle or buildup of fluid. In addition, the efficacy of different treatment modalities, such as manual lymph drainage, compression, and self-care, can be evaluated in order to optimize outcomes while balancing the patient’s unique needs and lifestyle.
Equipped with objective data on body water in the trunk in addition to the limbs, clinicians will be able to make better, more informed decisions to treat lymphedema, and both patient and provider will have a deeper understanding of the body’s response to treatment as well as the physiological changes associated with lymphedema.


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Genetic engineering has a wide scope in future world. Several profits are made from genetic engineering. One of which is genetically modified foods. It is created by modifying the genes in the organisms by inserting desirable traits in organism. It helps to meet the demands of food requirement and increase the resistance of plants towards pesticides, herbicides, etc. Though it has advantages it has certain adverse effect also. Several research studies had indicated the harmful effects of genetically engineered food products. It is said to create hepatic, renal and reproductive problems. And the major threats are infertility, rashes on skin and cancer. Several researches have been made on animals by feeding them with genetically modified foods. These animals were likely found to develop inflammation in stomach and other complications. A survey was conducted to find whether the public have knowledge about the ill effects of genetically modified foods. And it was found that most them don’t know that they are consuming genetically modified foods.
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President Bola Tinubu will on Thursday join other Heads of State and Government in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, to celebrate the country’s 50th Independence Anniversary and Armed Forces Day.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, said this in a statement issued on Wednesday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
He said the president would arrive Bissau on Thursday for the ceremony being hosted by Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Embalo.
Guinea-Bissau marked its 50th Independence Anniversary on September 24, but the Government had scheduled all celebrations for November 16.
President Tinubu is expected to return to Nigeria on Thursday.


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AMD to Unleash Athlon 64 FX-55 Processor in Q2/Q3? [UPDATED]
UPDATE: Removing the initially mentioned May/Q2 2004 timeframe for the announcement of the AMD Athlon FX-55 microprocessor due to updates from the original source. Setting mid/late-Q3 2004 date for the part based on information from an unoffocial source.
Advanced Micro Devices is grouping its forces to attack its arch-rival Intel Corporation with new and powerful processors about a quarter earlier than it originally planned.
AnandTech reports that according to a recent roadmap, AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 clocked at 2.40GHz processors will come out this month, while the Athlon 64 FX-55 chip with 2.60GHz frequency will show up as early as in mid/late-Q3. The latter microprocessor was originally scheduled for Q4 2004, but is reported to be unleashed earlier.
AMD Athlon FX microprocessors are positioned as top of the line offerings from Advanced Micro Devices. While the architecture of the Athlon 64 FX is the same compared to the Athlon 64, e.g. the chips can execute the same software, including 64-bit software, the chips feature large 1MB level-two cache as well as dual-channel memory controller, bringing some additional speed bumps for the chips that cost above $700.
AMD Athlon 64 FX microprocessors are going to be available in two types of packages: 940-pin and 939-pin. The former requires registered memory modules, while the latter is expected to work with typical unbuffered DIMMs. AMD Athlon 64 processors are going to exist in two versions as well: Socket 939 and Socket 754. Chips in 939-pin packaging feature dual-channel memory controller, but only 512KB of L2 cache, processors in 754-pin packaging feature single-channel memory controller and 512KB or 1MB L2 cache.
Apparently, Athlon 64 3700+ (2.40GHz) for Socket 939 has been renamed to Athlon 64 3800+, while the Athlon 64 3400+ (2.20GHz) for Socket 939 is now called Athlon 64 3500+. Both 939-pin chips will emerge in May. Athlon 64 3700+ (1MB L2, single-channel memory controller) for Socket 754 platform will be available in April. Additionally, we may see the 754-pin Athlon 64 2800+ chip later in the quarter.
The forthcoming AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 (2.60GHz) and AMD Athlon 64 3800+ (2.40GHz) will be AMD’s top offerings this year, according to the report. The AMD Athlon 64 4000+ and AMD Athlon 64 4200+ are moved into the 2005. While the both top offerings from AMD will certainly be able to successfully compete against the Intel Pentium 4 3.80GHz, will they be as fast as the Pentium 4 4.00GHz in the fourth quarter of the year?
AMD did not comment on the story. Information obtained from unofficial sources as well as from roadmpaps is usually subject to change, as the companies are reshuffling their plans quite often.
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Cliff Mass was booted off KUOW for (very occasionally) expressing himself too freely, but the popular University of Washington climate expert has found a new venue in public radio station KPLU.
On Sept. 2, just in time for the Labor Day weekend, Mass will begin a weekly five-minute Friday morning climate/weather conversation with KPLU science reporter Keith Seinfeld.
The segment will air at 9 a.m., and be repeated twice that afternoon on All Things Considered.
The timing couldn’t be better for listeners. Mass is a master at predicting when storm fronts will come ashore – and where. One notorious feature of Northwest weather is the “Labor Day low pressure area,” a front which tends to arrive mid-weekend when recreationists have made their way up into the mountains or down on the water.
(In years past, it has caught this writer at Ingalls Lake in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, and Spider Glacier the Glacier Peak Wilderness Area.)
“What really gets me excited,” Mass wrote on his blog, “is that my segment will be guaranteed a full 5 minutes, which will always be at the same time. This is in stark contrast to KUOW, where my weekly segment was low priority and positioned at the end of the first hour of Weekday.”
At times, he added, the segment was shoved into the second hour or canceled altogether.
KUOW jettisoned Mass’ volunteer weather segment after he took issue with a Seattle Times article reporting that 4.0 students were being denied admission to the University of Washington. A veteran of the admissions procedure, Mass explained criteria used in selecting students.
Thousands of petition signatures, calling for Mass’ reinstatement, were submitted to KUOW.
The episode has made one local public ratio station appear insular, petulent and arrogant, and the other look like a breath of fresh air.


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Marine mammals are increasingly threatened by interactions with fishing gear, ocean noise, pollution, direct harvest, ship traffic, competition for food with fisheries, and coastal development. Managers must set limits to these sources of human-caused mortality and disturbance to marine mammals without compromising human welfare. Currently, the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act limits the allowable number of deaths caused by fisheries with a simple model called Potential Biological Removal. NOAA has also recently committed to developing mapping tools to better understand where underwater noise overlaps with the distribution and density of cetaceans.
Although these two approaches are a vast improvement to the status quo, there are still major limitations: 1) they do not consider the cumulative impacts of all threats, and 2) they assume largely unrealistic population dynamics. This Working Group proposes to develop a new framework for setting removal limits that incorporates cumulative impacts, and also allows for more realistic population dynamics, especially with respect to social complexity in marine mammals. The analyzes will provide managers with clear guidelines for managing the threats that marine mammals encounter in space and time.
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NCEAS support allowed this working group to develop the first comprehensive database of social behavioral, ecological, and demographic data for marine mammals. Once complete, they plan to use these data to examine the relationship between population dynamics and sociality (defined here as the broad system of conspecific attachment, association, knowledge, communication, culture and behavior in group-living species). In addition, this working group is developing a quantitative index of sociality, an innovative method of estimating phylogenetically-corrected demographic and life history parameters, and species-specific demographic rate estimates essential for conservation and management.
This Working Group has also successfully developed and implemented an expert opinion survey to assess cumulative impacts of multiple stressors on marine mammals, and are developing a framework to integrate the elicited expert knowledge with empirical data for input into a population model. The work with NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center will aid in the conservation of these culturally significant marine species by providing better-informed forecasting models to decision-makers. Further, the methods they are developing will provide detailed estimates of demographic parameters crucial for the study and management of rare and data-deficient species.
- Gerber, L.R., and E.White. 2013. Males Matter: Frequency dependence in matrix population models.Journal of Applied Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12177.85.
- R. Wildermuth, J.A. Anadon and L.R. Gerber. 2012. Monitoring behavior: Assessing population status through rapid behavioral assessment. Conservation Letters doi:10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00298.x.
- Wildermuth, R.W., J.D. Anadon and L.R. Gerber. In review. Cost-effective conservation: Rapid behavioral assessment indicates population viability. Ecology and Evolution
- Wildermuth et al. In prep. A conceptual framework for sociality index. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
- Moore et al. In prep. Accounting for cryptic impacts in management models for marine mammals
- Gonzalez et al. In development. Functional response between population and sociality data
- Gonzalez et al. In development. New sociality index: empirical relationship between sociality vital rates
- Peavey et al. In development. Cumulative impacts conceptual model, expert elicitation
- Johnson et al. In development. Population model for assessing cumulative impacts using MSE.
This work is supported by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, a Center funded by NSF (Grant #EF-0553768), the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the State of California.
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President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer told The New York Times on Tuesday that he paid $130,000 of his own money to adult film star Stormy Daniels, who has claimed to have had an affair with Trump.
Michael Cohen told the Times that he was not reimbursed for the payment to Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford. “Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly.”
“The payment to Ms. Clifford was lawful, and was not a campaign contribution or a campaign expenditure by anyone.”
According to the report, Trump’s lawyer declined to answer any follow-up questions, including whether or not the president was aware of the payment and why the payment was made.
Last month, The Wall Street Journal reported that Cohen paid the adult film star thousands in hush money right before the 2016 election to keep her quiet about an affair she had with Trump in 2006, just after Melania Trump gave birth to Barron.
In response, the White House has called the report “old, recycled reports, which were published and strongly denied prior to the election.”
Daniels appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” following the president’s State of the Union address last month and seemed to suggest that she didn’t have anything to do with a letter denying the affair.
“Did you sign this letter that was released today?” Kimmel asked.
“I don’t know, did I?” Daniels replied. “That doesn’t look like my signature, does it?”


Mayor invites thousands of kids to Brewers game
It's been a violent year in Milwaukee, but Wednesday, thousands of children had a positive experience.
The mayor and others treated them to a Brewers game.
“A lot of people. Seems like it's going to be fun, like the game will be fun,” Brewers fan Davion Pickens said.
Journey House is part of a group of summer programs taking advantage of the mayor's offer. Christina Felski is one of the chaperones.
“We're trying to promote peace in the community. We're coming together to enjoy our hometown Brewers game,” she said.
Two thousand kids were at the ballpark Wednesday. For some, it was a chance to get away from their neighborhoods where crime is happening.
“It's a good change from all the bad things -- the deaths, shootings stuff, so we're taking pictures, eating hot dogs, and we're going to have fun,” Felski said.
“It's terrible. It's terrifying, too, sometimes. Knowing you're in a place where so much bad stuff is happening,” Brewers fan Victor Quiles said.
“It's trying to give kids in our city something positive to do in the summer, and for kids, I think it's positive to have them come to the ballpark to see the Brewers play,” Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said.
“The best sports I like is the Brewers,” Brewers fan Evelina Carmona said.
The 6-year-old has big dreams.
“I want to help my grandpa make tacos when I grow up, and I want to be a teacher, a doctor,” Evelina said.
Children affiliated with 29 different nonprofits attended Wednesday’s game.


This page provides information on the Stereoscopic camera attributes that are part of the V-Ray Camera Attributes.
The Stereoscopic Camera Extra Attributes provide parameters to create a stereoscopic rendering from any camera in the scene. The attributes define two virtual cameras based on the current camera, one for each in a pair of stereoscopic images, and control the parameters necessary for a stereoscopic rendering.
||Select camera|| > Attribute Editor > Attributes menu > VRay > Stereoscopic camera
Treat as VRay Stereoscopic camera – Turns the VRayStereoscopic attributes on or off.
Eye Distance – Specifies the eye distance for which the stereoscopic image is rendered.
Specify Focus – When enabled, allows a point of focus to be defined.
Focus Distance – Defines the point of focus.
Focus method – Specifies the focus method for the two views. Possible values are:
None – Both cameras have their focus points directly in front of them.
Rotation – Achieves the stereoscopic effect by rotating the left and right views, so that their focus points coincide at the distance from the eyes. That is where the lines of sight for each eye converge (known as fusion distance).
Shear – The orientation of both views remains the same, but each eye's view is sheared along the Z axis so that the two frustums converge at the fusion distance.
Interocular method – Specifies how the two virtual cameras are placed in relation to the real camera in the scene.
Shift Both – Both virtual cameras are shifted in opposite directions at a distance equal to half of the eye distance.
Shift Left – The virtual cameras are shifted to the left so that the right camera takes the position of the original camera. The left camera is shifted to the left at a distance equal to the eye distance.
Shift Right – The virtual cameras are shifted to the right so that the left camera takes the position of the original camera. The right camera is shifted to the right at a distance equal to the eye distance.
View – Specifies which of the stereoscopic views are rendered.
Both – Both views are rendered side by side.
Left – Only the left view is rendered.
Right – Only the right view is rendered.
Output Layout – Specifies the format in which the Stereoscopic renders are output. For more information, please see the Output Layout example below.
Side-by-Side – Arranges the rendered images for each eye side by side.
Top-Bottom – Arranges the rendered images for each eye one on top of another.
Adjust Resolution – When this option is enabled, the resolution of the final image is automatically adjusted. For example, if rendering both views of a 640x480 image, V-Ray renders one image with a resolution of 1280x480 that includes both images side by side.
Example: Output Layout
The V-Ray Stereoscopic camera attributes allows two ways of arranging the rendered stereo images. Side-by-Side, which places the two images besides each other horizontally; and Top-Bottom, which places the images one above the other.
Panoramic pole merging
The options in this section are used when rendering a panoramic view with stereoscopy (for example a Spherical camera with FOV=360 degrees). These options help avoid artifacts when the camera looks upward and downward. This is achieved by gradually decreasing the eye distance and thus the stereoscopic effect. The eye distance value is kept the same until the viewing angle reaches the angles specified, after which the eye distance is gradually decreased until it reaches a value of 0 when looking directly downwards or upwards.
Top/Bottom merge angle – Specifies the viewing angle from the horizontal plane at which the pole merging effect starts. The horizontal plane is considered to be at 0.


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Around £6bn a year is being lost to fraud by local authorities, according to research published by accountants PKF.
The study - in conjunction with the Centre for Counter Fraud Studies at Portsmouth University - was conducted using the world's largest database on fraud losses.
It showed that local government bodies are now less resilient to fraud than they were two years ago despite fraudulent activity rising across the economy and budgets coming under increasing pressure due to austerity measures.
The Resilience to Fraud of the Local Government Sector report used a 50 point scale to assess the fraud resilience of 72 local authorities with a £20bn collective turnover. It found that organisations had an average score of 35.1 points, compared with 38.1 points in 2010. Of the 29 factors assessed by the authors, fraud resilience has declined in 26 instances, and improved in only three.
Report co-author, Jim Gee, PKFs director of counter fraud services and chair of Portsmouth University's Centre of Counter Fraud Studies, said: 'The results of the report should be of significant concern to local authorities. There is a large body of evidence showing that organisations are more at risk of fraud during economic downturns, yet the local government sector seems to be cutting back on its counter fraud measures at exactly the time when it should be strengthening them.
'Put simply, if local authorities are cutting the cost of fraud as they should be, then this would make budgetary reductions less painful. The public will want to know that they are getting the quality of public services that they pay their taxes to get, rather than such services being undermined by the unnecessary cost of fraud.'
'Local authorities should invest more in fraud defences at the moment because it is not unusual for an organisation to save up to 12 times the cost of the counter fraud work, and for fraud losses to be cut by up to 40%'.


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The Annenberg Inclusion Initiative hosted a diverse panel of Grammy-nominated musicians and accomplished women in the industry, as part of “A Celebration of Women in Music” Tuesday. The panelists discussed the lack of representation of women in the music industry and what steps can be taken to achieve gender parity.
The most recent Annenberg Inclusion Initiative study, conducted earlier this week, demonstrated that 73 percent of female artists are women of color and there was an increase in female Grammy nominees. However, there is still work to be done, said professor Stacy Smith, founder and director of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative.
The panel included Tina Tchen, head of the Inclusion Task Force at the Recording Academy; Ann Mincieli, a recording engineer and studio coordinator for Alicia Keys and founder of Jungle City Studios; country music singer-songwriter Cam; record producer and DJ TOKiMONSTA; and singer-songwriter Aluna Francis, who is part of the electronic music duo AlunaGeorge. Smith and her research associate Katherine Pieper co-moderated the event.
Jody Gerson, the global chairman and CEO of Universal Music Publishing Group, co-founded She is the Music, a nonprofit dedicated to inclusion initiatives for women in the music industry in response to a study published by the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative last year. The study found that across 700 of the most popular songs from 2012-2018, less than 22 percent of the artists behind them were women.
The organization has three major initiatives to increase female representation in the music industry.
“We built a global online database, so the industry can connect and create with more women,” Gerson said. “We’ve successfully launched a global, all-female songwriting series, and this year we will unveil a mentorship program to develop future generations of women.”
Grammy-nominated artists Cam and TOKiMONSTA shared their respective struggles in the fields of country and electronic music.
Cam said that within her genre, she still faces backlash when speaking out against gender imbalance issues. TOKiMONSTA said that her peers often underestimate her talents as a female electronic musician.
“In the realm that I am [in], which is electronic and urban music, it is very male-dominated,” TOKiMONSTA said. “It is almost to the point of misogyny, yet in this last year, I’ve seen a significant change.”
While the statistics sparked “hunger” toward achieving gender equality in the industry, Francis said, the changes will take generations to be fully implemented. Tchen said women in all industries have faced discrimination for generations.
“We’re talking about overall culture,” Tchen said. “This isn’t just the music industry. This is everywhere that women for generations have not been able to advance, have been the victims of violence and harassment, have been kept down in so many different ways.”
According to Tchen, one of the ways the Task Force implements change is by electing more women to its committees. Research affirms that more diverse groups make better decisions, Tchen said. She also said that increasing female representation could help protect women from sexual harassment in the workplace.
“We’ll never make progress unless we really confront [sexual harassment],” Tchen said. “Everyone deserves a safe place to … do their work, to make a living.”
Kristin Vartan, a graduate student studying specialized journalism, attended the event and said she learned more about the music industry and how it can foster an inclusive environment.
“I think it was pretty fruitful just because they brought women from almost every aspect of the industry,” Vartan said. “Anyone who wanted to hear from an artist or a producer or an engineer got that immersive experience.”


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What began with the passage of the USA Patriot Act in October 2001 has snowballed into the eradication of every vital safeguard against government overreach, corruption and abuse. Since then, we have been terrorized, traumatized, and acclimated to life in the American surveillance state.
The bogeyman’s names and faces change over time, but the end result remains the same: our unquestioning acquiescence to anything the government wants to do in exchange for the phantom promise of safety and security.
Ironically, the 14th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks occurs just days before the 228th anniversary of the ratification of our Constitution. Yet while there is much to mourn about the loss of our freedoms in the years since September 11, there is virtually nothing to celebrate.
The National September 11 Memorial Museum stands beyond the north reflecting pool during the opening ceremony for the museum at ground zero May 15, 2014 in New York City. The museum spans seven stories, mostly underground, and contains artifacts from the attack on the World Trade Center Towers on September 11, 2001 that include the 80 ft high tridents, the so-called 'Ground Zero Cross,' the destroyed remains of Company 21's New York Fire Department Engine as well as smaller items such as letter that fell from the hijacked plane and posters of missing loved ones projected onto the wall of the museum. The museum will open to the public on May 21. (Pool/Getty Images)
The Constitution has been steadily chipped away at, undermined, eroded, whittled down, and generally discarded to such an extent that what we are left with today is but a shadow of the robust document adopted more than two centuries ago. Most of the damage has been inflicted upon the Bill of Rights—the first 10 amendments to the Constitution—which has historically served as the bulwark from government abuse.
Set against a backdrop of government surveillance, militarized police, SWAT team raids, asset forfeiture, eminent domain, overcriminalization, armed surveillance drones, whole body scanners, stop and frisk searches, roving VIPR raids and the like—all sanctioned by a corrupt government run by Congress, the White House and the courts—a recitation of the Bill of Rights now sounds more like a eulogy to freedoms lost than an affirmation of rights we should possess.
As I make clear in my book "Battlefield America: The War on the American People," the Constitution, which was written to hold the government accountable, has been on life support for some time now and all efforts at resuscitating it may soon prove futile.
Consider for yourself what it means to live under the Constitution today.
The First Amendment is supposed to protect the freedom to speak your mind, assemble and protest nonviolently without being bridled by the government. It also protects the freedom of the media, as well as the right to worship. Despite its clear protections, Americans are being arrested for filming police officers, journalists are being prosecuted for reporting on whistleblowers, protesters are being tear-gassed, beaten, and arrested and under the guise of “government speech,” the courts are allowing the government to discriminate freely against any First Amendment activity that takes place within a government forum.
The Second Amendment was intended to guarantee “the right of the people to keep and bear arms.” Yet while gun ownership has been recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court as an individual citizen right, Americans remain powerless to defend themselves against SWAT team raids and government agents armed to the teeth with military weapons better suited for the battlefield. Just recently, North Dakota became the first state to legalize law enforcement use of drones armed with weapons such as tear gas, rubber bullets, beanbags, pepper spray and Tasers.
The Third Amendment prohibits the military from entering any citizen’s home without “the consent of the owner.” With the police increasingly training like the military, acting like the military, and posing as military forces—complete with military weapons, assault vehicles, etc.—it is clear that we now have what the founders feared most—a standing army on American soil.
The Fourth Amendment prohibits the government from conducting surveillance on you or touching you or invading you, unless they have some evidence that you’re up to something criminal. Unfortunately, this amendment has suffered the greatest damage in recent years and been all but eviscerated by an unwarranted expansion of police powers that include strip searches and even anal and vaginal searches of citizens, surveillance and intrusions justified in the name of fighting terrorism, as well as the outsourcing of otherwise illegal activities to private contractors. The technological future with its armed surveillance drones appears to pose even greater threats to what’s left of our Fourth Amendment rights.
The Fifth Amendment and the Sixth Amendment work in tandem. These amendments supposedly ensure that you are innocent until proven guilty, and government authorities cannot deprive you of your life, your liberty or your property without the right to an attorney and a fair trial. However, in the new suspect society in which we live, where surveillance is the norm, these fundamental principles have been upended.
The Seventh Amendment guarantees citizens the right to a jury trial. Yet when the populace has no idea of what’s in the Constitution—civic education has virtually disappeared from most school curriculums—that inevitably translates to an ignorant jury incapable of distinguishing justice and the law from their own preconceived notions and fears. Even so, the power of the jury to nullify the government’s actions—and thereby help balance the scales of justice—is not to be underestimated.
The Eighth Amendment is supposed to protect the rights of the accused and forbid the use of cruel and unusual punishment. However, what constitutes “cruel and unusual” continues to evolve.
The Ninth Amendment provides that other rights not enumerated in the Constitution are nonetheless retained by the people. Popular sovereignty—the belief that the power to govern flows upward from the people rather than downward from the rulers—is clearly evident in this amendment. However, it has since been turned on its head by a centralized federal government that sees itself as supreme and which continues to pass more and more laws that restrict our freedoms under the pretext that it has an “important government interest” in doing so.
As for the 10th Amendment’s reminder that the people and the states retain every authority that is not otherwise mentioned in the Constitution, that assurance of a system of government in which power is divided among local, state and national entities has long since been rendered moot by the centralized Washington, D.C., power elite.
If there is any sense to be made from this recitation of freedoms lost, it is simply this: our individual freedoms have been eviscerated so that the government’s powers could be expanded, while reducing us to a system of slavery disguised as a democracy.
What you must decide is whether you will simply comply or will you become a free person and resist? To quote Patrick Henry, “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! — I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
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This is the fifth installment in a series of posts delving into the results of FIRE’s ‘Speaking Freely’ report on college students’ attitudes toward expression on American campuses. In this post, we introduce new data from YouGov on American adults’ attitudes toward hate speech and compare their attitudes toward those of college students. Make sure to check back to FIRE’s Newsdesk next week for the last post in our series, which will focus on college students’ attitudes toward guest speakers on campus.
A few weeks before we published our “Speaking Freely” report, YouGov added two of our survey questions about hate speech to their Omnibus. The YouGov Omnibus is a polling tool that allows organizations and companies to take a quick, representative look at the opinion of American adults. We are excited to publish, for the first time, new data on American adults’ knowledge of and attitudes toward hate speech.
On September 28 and 29 of 2017, 1,000 American adults were asked the following two questions:
- As you may already know, the First Amendment to the Constitution protects freedom of speech. Does the First Amendment protect hate speech?
- In your opinion, should the First Amendment to the Constitution protect hate speech?
These questions were, with our permission, taken verbatim from our survey questionnaire, which enables us to compare college students’ attitudes with those of the general American adult population.
The sample for our “Speaking Freely” report included 1,250 students at American colleges and universities, while the sample for the new data included 1,000 U.S. citizens who were 18 years of age or older at the time of polling. Tabulations taken from the college student sample have an estimated margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level. Tabulations taken from the American adult sample have an estimated margin of error of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level. Tabulations taken from subgroups of the sample have a greater margin of error. All of the reported tabulations are weighted.
Knowledge of hate speech protections
As previously discussed in our “Speaking Freely” report, “the First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects freedom of speech, including the right to express hateful and offensive opinions. The Supreme Court has not provided a legal definition of hate speech and has consistently rejected any hate speech exceptions to the First Amendment.” We reported that 46 percent of college students recognize that hate speech is protected by the First Amendment, and new data shows that a similar proportion of American adults (48 percent) also recognize this.
Independent, Republican, and Democratic adults report similar answers to their respective college student partisans when asked about hate speech protections. Figure 1 shows that higher proportions of Republican adults (60 percent) and college students (52 percent) recognize that hate speech is protected by the First Amendment than Independent and Democratic adults and college students.
Slightly more Independent (51 percent) and Republican (60 percent) adults recognize that hate speech is protected than Independent (47 percent) and Republican (52 percent) college students, but the reverse is true for Democrats. Slightly more Democratic students (41 percent) recognize that hate speech is protected by the First Amendment than Democratic adults (38 percent).
Attitudes toward hate speech
Although similar proportions of adults and college students recognize that the First Amendment protects hate speech, differences in attitudes toward hate speech begin to emerge when we ask respondents if the First Amendment to the Constitution should protect hate speech.
Nearly half of college students — 48 percent — think that hate speech should not be protected by the Constitution, whereas 37 percent of adults think hate speech should not be protected, an 11 percentage point difference. This difference does not necessarily indicate that adults are more supportive of hate speech protections: Similar proportions of adults (39 percent) and college students (35 percent) think the First Amendment should protect hate speech.
As you can see in Figure 2, higher proportions of Republican adults (44 percent) and college students (46 percent) support hate speech protections than Independents and Democrats. Fewer Independent and Democratic college students report “not knowing” if they support hate speech protections than any other group in Figure 2, and they are also less supportive of hate speech protections than any other represented group: 34 percent of Independent and 29 percent of Democratic college students report supporting hate speech protections, less support than that reported by any other group represented in Figure 2.
In the “Speaking Freely” report, we found evidence that “a student’s partisanship and ideology are ... important indicators of whether they think hate speech should be protected,” and new data shows that the same partisan divide in attitudes toward hate speech protections exists among the American adult population.
Partisan and ideological divides in attitudes toward free speech deserve more attention and research, as we have said before. If this subject is interesting to you, we have more information on public opinion toward expression that may be a helpful place to begin.


BISMARCK, ND – Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem joined 38 other Attorneys General in a letter urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to allow phone carriers to use existing call-blocking technology to better protect their customers from unwanted telemarketing and scam calls.
Call-blocking technologies, such as NoMoRobo, Call Control, and Telemarketing Guard, allow telephone carriers to identify and block unwelcome sales calls at their customers’ request. However, some phone carriers are reluctant to use this technology, in part because of the belief that federal law prevents them from blocking such calls on their customers’ behalf.
“North Dakotans overwhelming have said they do not want to be bothered by telemarketing calls. Last year, my office received 195 complaints about violations of the Do Not Call laws, and 45% of the complaints related to robocalls,” said Stenehjem.
Phone carriers have expressed concern that the FCC’s regulations prohibit phone companies from determining which calls should be allowed to go through to a customer and which should be blocked. Last year, in explaining the obstacles that phone carriers face in implementing call-blocking technologies, US Telecom wrote to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance that “the FCC has concluded that call blocking is an unjust and unreasonable practice under section 201(b) of the Communications Act of 1934.”
In their letter, the Attorneys General ask for a formal opinion on whether an exception can be made to allow companies to block illegal telemarketing calls at the request of a customer.
More than 511,100 North Dakota (701) area code telephone numbers are already registered on the Do Not Call list. Both land lines and cellular telephone numbers can be registered on the list, by visiting https://www.donotcall.gov/ or calling toll-free 1-888-382-1222. Consumers who are registered on the DNC list and receive an unwanted call on a (701) area code residential or cellular telephone number can file a complaint with the Attorney General’s office at https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/consumer-resources/do-not-call.


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COVID Youth Survey
As of end-September 2020, over 32 million people were reported to have been infected by COVID-19 and nearly 1 million people have lost their lives from the disease. The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically impacted the state of the global economy, people’s livelihoods and health. Although COVID-19 has mostly affected the elder generation’s health, it has also disproportionately affected youth (aged 30 and below) and their access to education and work opportunities. The health crisis and lockdowns in effect across the globe fuelled the spread of misinformation pertaining to COVID-19 and consequently, made it difficult for health authorities to deliver credible, accurate information for populations to take the necessary steps to protect their families. Moreover, the spread of misinformation in this era of social media has also resulted in a peak in the number of reported mental health cases all around the world.
This project was established to investigate the impact of this ongoing health crisis and the spread of misinformation on youth; and their attitude or outlook to their future prospects. It was done in conjunction with three other youth organizations namely the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA), the #MoreViralThanTheVirus movement and the Health and Information Literacy Access Alliance (HILA Alliance - GAPMIL/UNESCO) and received technical support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNESCO. To investigate this impact, the Copenhagen Hub has created a survey and published its findings in the form of a report.


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PAULINE & GEORGES. P. VANIER AND JEWISH REFUGEES
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" Leaving his law practice, he helped organize Canada's first French-Canadian volunteer unit, the Vingt-deuxième Régiment (the famous "Vandoos") and served with them as an officer until he was wounded in battle. After losing a leg, he was awarded the Military Cross and Distinguished Service Order.
Shortly after his return to Canada, Georges met the tall and beautiful young woman who was soon to become his wife. From the time she was a child, Pauline Archer had dreamed of devoting herself to great causes. Giving up her idea of becoming a nun, she found in her marriage a lifetime of service and commitment to humanitarian goals.
After the war Georges entered the diplomatic service, representing Canada at the League of Nations - in London and at international conferences. In 1939 he was named Canadian Minister to France, just as Europe teetered on the brink of another war. When the Germans marched into Paris, the Vaniers escaped to London, where they turned their energies to the thousands of European refugees escaping to England. Pauline joined the Red Cross and began visiting hospitals. "I set out everyday in an army car... to every hospital to find out where all the French wounded were. I found I could be particularly helpful to those who spoke no English, since only rarely did the hospital staff speak French." In 1941 the Vaniers returned to Canada, where they tried to convey the seriousness of the situation in Europe, and to encourage Canadians to get involved in the war effort. Georges lectured about the plight of the refugees and the victims of Nazi tyranny. This was a frustrating experience for the Vaniers, whose appeals were met with indifference and even hostility. In the words of Pauline: "We had been through so much, but when we returned home we realized that Canada had been so far removed from Europe that many Canadians could not grasp the seriousness of events over there - the cruelty and suffering of war, the German atrocities, the risks incurred by refugees, the nightly destruction of London. It all seemed far too remote to be believed." Many Canadians at that time, like their US neighbours, did not want to become involved in Europe's problems, nor did they feel obliged to act as the world's conscience in providing a refuge for the victims. Canadians were still recovering from the hardships of the Great Depression, and felt that lowering the immigration barriers imposed during the 1930s might threaten the precarious job market. Underlying the economic fears was also the widespread existence of anti-Semitism. Thousands of European Jews who had escaped the Nazi tide sought refuge in Canada, only to be turned away at the border.
In 1940, Georges Vanier wrote to Prime Minister Mackenzie King, pointing out that "Canada has a wonderful opportunity to be generous and yet profit by accepting some of these people." But despite their efforts in petitioning the government and many groups across Canada, the Vaniers were unable to bring about a change in Canadian refugee and immigration policy during the war years.
In April, 1945, George Vanier joined a group of American congressmen touring the infamous death camp at Buchenwald just one week after its liberation. Numbed and shocked by the indescribable horror of what he had witnessed, Vanier made a moving radio broadcast over the CBC expressing his shame at having done nothing. "How deaf we were then," he cried, "to cruelty and the cries of pain which came to our ears, grim forerunners of the mass torture and murders which were to follow." Vanier's shame is a mirror of Canada's shame in that regrettable chapter of our immigration history.
Back in Paris following the liberation of France, Georges continued to appeal to Ottawa to accept the many destitute refugees who besieged the Canadian embassy. Pauline organized reception services at the train station. "We greeted the refugees with drinks, refreshments, clothes and survival kits, and tried to reach their families, friends or anyone who might take them in. Many, however, had no idea whether anyone they knew was still alive, let alone their whereabouts. For them, we arranged temporary shelter. Then we took their photos and stuck these up on long panels lining both sides of the railway station in hopes that someone in the crowds would recognize the name or the picture of a long-lost relative or friend." In the years following the war, the plight of the more than a million "displaced persons" in Europe aroused the sympathy of many Canadians. The Vaniers, along with other advocates of a more humane immigration policy, pressed on with their campaign, and gradually the Canadian government liberalized its strict immigration regulations. Between 1947 and 1953, more than 186,000 European refugees settled in Canada.
The Vaniers returned to Montréal from their diplomatic posting in Paris in 1953, but retirement did not suit this active couple. In 1959, Georges Vanier accepted Prime Minister Diefenbaker's offer to serve as Canada's first French-Canadian Governor General.
Georges Vanier's years in office were turbulent ones, with economic problems plaguing the country, a succession of minority governments, and the rise of Québec separatism. But Georges and Pauline's obvious concern for Canadians won them enormous affection. They traveled to all parts of the country, speaking on behalf of the poor, youth, and the family. When Georges Vanier died in 1967 over 15,000 messages of sympathy flowed into Government House, many from children. Perhaps one young boy said it best when he came home from school and told his mother: "The flags are flying low today because a good man has died." The Vaniers' son, Jean, continued the spiritual and humanitarian tradition of the family, establishing "L'Arche" (The Ark), a co-operative self-help community with an aim to help those with mental handicaps to live full and productive lives. After her husband's death, Pauline Vanier joined her son in France, where she became resident grandmother at L'Arche. She died there in 1991 at the age of 93. Today, Jean Vanier's "L'Arche" movement has spread to many parts of the world, including Canada. Its communities continue to exemplify the ideal that love, understanding, and commitment can make a big difference in the quality of our lives and to the societies in which we live.
(Reference: histori.ca website)