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CA 19-9 serum course and prognosis of pancreatic cancer
Farouk Safi, Wolfgang Schlosser, Stephanie Falkenreck, Hans G. Beger
Methods. Serum expression of the tumor marker CA 19-9 was studied in 2119 patients. Results. The discriminating capacity between benign and malignant disease was high for CA 19-9, especially in patients with pancreatic cancer (n = 347). The sensitivity of CA 19-9 was 85%. In patients who were Lewis blood type positive, the sensitivity increased to 92%. CA 19- 9 levels were significantly lower in patients with resectable tumors (n = 126) than in those with unresectable tumors (n = 221, p < 0.0001) (sensitivity 74 vs 90%). CA 19-9 dropped sharply after resection, but normalized only in 29, 13, and 10% in patients with stage I, II, and III, respectively. In unresectable tumors no significant decrease of CA 19-9 after laparotomy or bypass operation was found. In patients of the same tumor stage, the median survival time in those whose CA 19-9 levels returned to normal after resection was significantly longer than in those with postoperative CA 19-9 levels that decreased, but did not return to normal (in stage I, 33 vs 11.3 mo, in stage II, 41 vs 8.6 mo, and in stage III, 28 vs 10.8 mo). In patients with recurrent disease, 88% had an obvious rise in CA 19-9 levels.
International Journal of Pancreatology
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Safi, F., Schlosser, W., Falkenreck, S., & Beger, H. G. (1996). CA 19-9 serum course and prognosis of pancreatic cancer. International Journal of Pancreatology, 20(3), 155-161. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02803763
CA 19-9 serum course and prognosis of pancreatic cancer. / Safi, Farouk; Schlosser, Wolfgang; Falkenreck, Stephanie et al.
In: International Journal of Pancreatology, Vol. 20, No. 3, 1996, p. 155-161.
Safi, F, Schlosser, W, Falkenreck, S & Beger, HG 1996, 'CA 19-9 serum course and prognosis of pancreatic cancer', International Journal of Pancreatology, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 155-161. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02803763
Safi F, Schlosser W, Falkenreck S, Beger HG. CA 19-9 serum course and prognosis of pancreatic cancer. International Journal of Pancreatology. 1996;20(3):155-161. doi: 10.1007/bf02803763
Safi, Farouk ; Schlosser, Wolfgang ; Falkenreck, Stephanie et al. / CA 19-9 serum course and prognosis of pancreatic cancer. In: International Journal of Pancreatology. 1996 ; Vol. 20, No. 3. pp. 155-161.
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The World's Top 15 Most Watched Sporting Events
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If you're a fan of a team like the Philadelphia Eagles, the Boston Red Sox, or the Los Angeles Lakers, you're likely used to being surrounded by other diehard fans when you watch your team play. You and your compatriots may believe that your favorite sport holds the most watched sporting events in the whole world, hands down. But the world disagrees.
The most passionately followed sporting events worldwide are sometimes not even popular in America, and the most popular U.S. sports are runners-up when it comes to the global television dial. See the 15 most watched sporting events.
15.) NCAA Final Tour
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Sport: College Basketball
Event: NCAA Final Tour
How Often: Annually
The Saturday semi-finals from 2015-17 pulled about 16 million viewers, making it one of the most watched sporting events.
However, the most watched NCAA championship game of all time drew about 35.1 million viewers.
14.) World Series
Event: MLB World Series
The World Series gets high numbers of viewers every year.
However, the 2016 World Series clash between the Cleveland Indians and the long-suffering Chicago Cubs made the event one of the most watched sporting events.
13.) NBA Finals
Sport: Basketball
NBA finals make the list of one of the most watched sporting events. This fact was even more accurate when people wanted to see one of the greatest players of all time, LeBron James.
LeBron James has played in the last seven finals of the competition. The final attracts close to 30 million viewers.
12.) Winter Olympics
Sport: Multiple
Event: Winter Olympics
How Often: Quadrennial
The Winter Olympics comprise a collection of sporting events that happen in the winter, such as ice skating, skiing, snowboarding, and bobsledding. Winners of each event are awarded gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.
The 2018 winter Olympics gathered a little less than half a billion viewers, making it one of the most watched sporting events.
11.) Asian Games
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Event: Asian Games
Asia covers more than half of the total world's population, so it not surprising that the Asian game gathers almost a billion viewers once in every four years to watch the Asian Games.
Athletes from all over Asia gather to compete in a wide variety of sports such as archery, basketball, board games, cycling, gymnastics, golf, dancesport, canoeing and many more.
10.) Rugby World Cup
Sport: Rugby
Event: Rugby World Cup
This competition has teams from all over the world, including Australia, France, England, Wales, and Japan.
The gentleman's game, as it is ironically called, gets an estimated 789 million viewers.
9.) FIFA Confederations Cup
Sport: Football/Soccer
Event: FIFA Confederations Cup
The FIFA Confederations Cup is considered to be a warm-up tournament for the FIFA World Cup. It usually happens a year before the FIFA World Cup.
This sporting event has an average viewership of 1 billion viewers. In Confederations Cup, continental trophy winners come together to face off against one another.
8.) UEFA Champions League
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Event: UEFA Champions League
How Often: Annual
Europe's most exciting football club tournament is next on the list of the most watched sporting events with an average viewership of 1.7 billion.
The involvement of famous football stars like Lionel Messi and Christiano Ronaldo has been one of the reasons for an increased number of viewers in recent years.
7.) Giro d'Italia
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Event: Giro d'Italia
Giro d'Italia is an interesting Italian sporting event that involves cycling over long distances.
It usually happens between May and June. Giro d'Italia attracts many live spectators, and it gathers an estimated 775 million viewers every year.
6.) Tour de France
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This sporting event is a three-week bicycle race with an average of 2.6 billion viewers. It also stands out as the most attended annual sporting event in history.
Tour de France has produced notable cyclists such as Lance Armstrong, Alberto Contador, and Chris Frome.
5.) Monaco Grand Prix
Sport: Motor Racing
Event: Monaco Grand Prix
Held annually since 1929, the Monaco Grand Prix is considered by most auto racing enthusiasts to be the premier event of the racing season. The race garners an average viewership of around 25 million people each year, with the numbers growing as auto racing becomes ever more popular.
However, the 2012 Monaco Grand Prix had one of the worst turnouts as far as viewership is concerned, mainly because an omnipresent chance of rain threatened to interrupt the race at any time.
4.) Super Bowl XLVI
Sport: American Football
Event: Super Bowl
Super Bowl XLVI, in 2012, was the most watched "big game" in the history of the NFL. The match, which pitted the NY Giants against the New England Patriots, drew around 111.5 million viewers.
When you consider how (relatively) few people outside of North America care about American football, that's a proportionally massive number of folks tuning in to watch the Pats lose.
3.) ICC Cricket World Cup Championship
Sport: Cricket
Event: ICC Cricket World Cup Championship
In 2011, a different World Cup — the ICC Cricket World Cup championship — gave soccer a run for its money. The most-watched match, interestingly enough, was not the final game.
The semi-final match between bitter rivals India and Pakistan occurred on March 30. As many as a billion people might have watched the game with at least several hundred million simultaneous viewers.
2.) The Summer Olympics
Event: Olympics
The Olympics may draw more overall viewers during their multi-day run than any single sporting event, but it's not a sport itself that attracts the biggest Olympic audience.
The opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics in 2008 is estimated to have drawn nearly 600 million viewers at any given moment, making it a close match for the 2010 World Cup final match.
1.) FIFA World Cup
Event: World Cup
The FIFA World Cup is the quadrennial soccer championship held every four years since 1930 (with two exceptions during WWII). The Cup's final game is the single most viewed sporting event on earth.
An estimated 700 million people watched the 2010 match between Spain and The Netherlands. That's a decent chunk of the world's entire population.
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Q: the Banach fixed-point theorem and minimizer of a convex function I am not sure how to relate the Banach fixed-point theorem with the following proof:
say I have a function f(w) that maps w of shape(d, 1) to a scalar, let g(w) = w + α($\nabla$ f(w)); g is a contraction mapping and α is sufficiently small constant, probably with an upper bound. I also know that f is strictly convex, and has a minimizer $w^*$, and Banach fixed-point theorem tells us that g converges to its fixed point w0.
The overall purpose is to show w0 is actually the minimizer $w^*$ of f(w).
you can provide me with some hints or show the exact steps.

A: First of all, I am not sure what $shape(d,1)$ means
Think about the following things:

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*What does it mean that $w^*$ is a minimizer of $f(w)$

*What does it mean that the function is convex? Think about some necessary or sufficient conditions and think about the fact if there can be maximizers and if the minimizer is unique or are there more of them?

*What does it mean that $w_0$ is a fixed point of $g(w)$
Write these things down an I would guess that you can see a bit more.

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While increased food production is needed in the future, and is possible, the environmental consequences of farming are already apparent and are likely to increase (Foley et al. 2005; Tilman et al. 2001). Farming is already the greatest extinction threat to birds (Green et al. 2005). Agricultural expansion has been responsible for the clearing of forests that provide valuable ecosystem services (Ramankutty and Foley 1999), the modification of surface water flows (Postel et al. 1996), regional and global climate (Bounoua et al. 2002), and the release of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas (Houghton 1995). Excess nitrogen and phosphorus released from the use of fertilizers has resulted in the emissions of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, and the eutrophication of lakes, rivers, and coastal ecosystems (Bennett et al. 2001; Vitousek et al. 1997). The central question of sustainability with respect to food production is whether a near-doubling of food production can be achieved without degrading the environment (Tilman et al. 2001, 2002).


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Q: Uploading an Audio file from Phonegap to Clypit I am using the FileTransfer Object with Phonegap.  I am attempting to upload the file  to Clypit according to their API http://clyp.it/api  which says you can upload a file from a form upload to this url http://upload.clyp.it/upload.  I have tested this in a normal web browser and it works.
However, it is slightly different from an IOS device as when you use a file select input form they only allow access to the picture gallery.  I need to upload a recorded piece of audio.
So I have used the following code:
 function shareRecording(rec){
    window.shareFile = rec;
    window.requestFileSystem(LocalFileSystem.PERSISTENT, 0, shareFileSystemSuccess, fail);
}

function shareFileSystemSuccess(fs){
    fs.root.getFile(window.shareFile, {create: false}, gotShareFileSuccess, fail);
}

function gotShareFileSuccess(fileEntry){
    uploadToClypit(fileEntry);
}

function uploadToClypit(file){
    console.log(file);

      var options = new FileUploadOptions();
      options.name= file.fullPath.substr(file.fullPath.lastIndexOf('/')+ 1);
      console.log(options);

    var ft = new FileTransfer();
    console.log(file.nativeURL);
    ft.upload(file.nativeURL, encodeURI("http://upload.clyp.it/upload"), win, failUpload);

}

var win = function(r){
    console.log("Code = " + r.responseCode);
    console.log("Response = " + r.response);
    console.log("Sent = " + r.bytesSent);
}

var failUpload = function(error){
    console.log(error);
}

My understanding is that the FileTransfer() object creates a HTTP multi-part POST request so this should mimic what is happening in a normal web browser with a form.  But I receive a fileTransferError.CONNECTION_ERR I have tried debugging this with the Safari WEb Inspector and unfortunately I cannot see the request being sent of the network.  I had thought it might be a problem with Clypit but the request is never sent it is failing before it is ever sent.  Any ideas what I have wrong with the above code?

A: I figured it out - First of all I wasn't passing the options as a parameter into the ft.upload  and secondly I wasn't setting the write parameters that Clypit requires.
So it now looks like this:
function uploadToClypit(file){
console.log(file);

var options = new FileUploadOptions();
options.name = file.fullPath.substr(file.fullPath.lastIndexOf('/')+ 1);
options.audioFile = file.nativeURL;
options.fileName = file.nativeURL;
options.mimeType = "audio/wav";
options.headers = {
    Connection: "close"
}
options.chunkedMode = false;
console.log(options);

var ft = new FileTransfer();
console.log(file.nativeURL);
ft.upload(file.nativeURL, encodeURI("http://upload.clyp.it/upload"), win, failUpload, options);

}


Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have petitioned a US court of appeals to throw out their 2008 $65 million settlement with Facebook, arguing that the sum misrepresents the actual value of the company.
The Winklevoss twins were paid the $65 million settlement as part of a previous lawsuit against founder Mark Zuckerberg, in which they claimed that Facebook was originally their idea.
The twins now claim that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his lawyers had misrepresented the actual value of the company, and tricked them into accepting only $65 million.
They urged the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to throw out the previous settlement, so allowing them to pursue further legal action against the company.
According to ABC News, the three-judge panel hearing the appeal seemed reluctant to re-open the case.
The judges argued that the brothers were well educated, and, at the time of the settlement, had an adequate legal team, so were more than capable of calculating the actual value of the company.
The panel is yet to announce a ruling on the matter.


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WHATS NEW? - January 2018
Youth workers warn of rise in drugs purchases through social media
Cannabis compound is harmless and should be available, World Health Organisation says
Homelessness in England rises by 75% among vulnerable groups
Average Briton consumes 3.5m calories of alcohol in lifetime, says study
New Ketamine Findings Give Hope To People Seeking Relief From Suicidal Thoughts
Steroid abuse 'raising health risk for thousands'
New fingerprint drug test now available to support drug rehabilitation services
Drug use more likely than smoking among secondary school pupils
Cannabis users have more sex, scientists find, and drug may increase arousal
Psychosis risk higher in cannabis users with AKT1 gene
Online market 'is turning drug dealers from goons to geeks'
Middle class pensioners risking health by drinking a bottle of whisky a week
Growing numbers of teenagers are buying illegal drugs on social media sites such as Instagram and Snapchat, according to professionals supporting young people.
Youth workers have raised concern about the trend, which they say has accelerated in the last year and a half. One said he had spoken to children as young as 12 who had bought Class A drugs through such sites.
"In the last 18 months we have gone from this way of getting drugs not being mentioned at all among the young people we work with to now nearly every young person talking about it. It is disturbing," said Nick Hickmott, the early intervention lead for Young Addaction, the youth arm of the largest drug and alcohol charity.
Social Media sellers use hashtags and emojis to indicate what they stock, and share images of the substances. They provide alternative contact details, and most deals then take place on other platforms such as the encrypted messenger application Wickr.
Hickmott said: "We work with 10- to 24-year-olds but most of the work we do is with 13- to 17-year-olds. They are the ones talking about this and the reason we are seeing this rise is because of the growth of social media. Young people are just becoming more dependent on these platforms now as they are heavily integrated into all aspects of their life and so they are being used for more risk-taking behaviour."
He said Instagram and Snapchat tended to be the platforms most used. One of his biggest concerns was teenagers buying drugs from strangers on these platforms.
"Essentially, if a dealer knows you, they are far less likely to want to see you ripped off or end up in hospital … If you are buying drugs on Instagram, for example, you are getting them from a stranger and the deals might involve meeting up in person."
The youth worker said knowledge of dealers spread by word of mouth. "The majority of drugs on sale at the moment are cannabis but you can get any street substance through these sites. Particularly prevalent currently are party drugs like MDMA and ecstasy but we're also seeing benzodiazepines such as Xanax being sold. What we're concerned about is that there are clearly no age restrictions for dealers and a lot of young people use these sites," he said.
Fiona Spargo-Mabbs, who founded the Daniel Spargo-Mabbs Foundation, a drugs education charity, after her son died from taking a lethal dose of MDMA, said the phenomenon would continue to grow "because it is such an easy way to reach lots of young people".
She said: "It is a great gift for the supply chain and it is adult suppliers using the resources of young people and exploiting their savvy-ness in social media. It is particularly worrying because drugs are around young people in a way now that they were not maybe 10 years ago. Having them on social media like that makes them so much more available, and delivery to the door means you don't need to be in a dark street corner or hang around with a drug dealer to buy them."
A compound derived from cannabis has health benefits and should not be subject to government restrictions, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said.
"Recent evidence from animal and human studies shows that its use could have some therapeutic value for seizures due to epilepsy and related conditions and that it "is not likely to be abused or create dependence as for other cannabinoids," it added.
The decision was not an endorsement of medical cannabis. Instead the global body's Expert Committee on Drug Dependence specifically examined the potential risks and benefits cannabidiol (CBD), a compound that is found in cannabis plant.
It is distinct from Tetra Hydro Cannabinol (THC). Unlike THC, CBD does not have intoxicating effects — in other words, it does not produce a high.
Medical marijuana advocates point to that difference in arguing CBD should be available to patients who suffer from various ailments that include pain, anxiety and seizures. But the US Drug Enforcement Administration treats CBD extracts as a Schedule 1 drug, like other marijuana products, meaning the American government deems it to have the highest potential for abuse and no medical benefits.
That position has drawn resistance from cannabis advocates at a time when CBD oils and other products are on shelves in dozens of states.
In a letter stating its opposition, the National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws wrote that "CBD lacks the consciousness-altering properties and abuse potential" of THC and argued there was evidence of "numerous medically beneficial properties" for people diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, bipolar disorder and other conditions.
Homelessness among people with mental and physical health problems has increased by around 75% since the Conservatives came to power in 2010, and there has been a similar rise in the number of families with dependent children who are classed as homeless.
According to official figures collated by the Department for Communities ,the number of homeless households in England identified by councils as priority cases because they contain someone who is classed as vulnerable because of their mental illness, has risen from 3,200 in 2010 to 5,470 in 2017.
Over the same period, the number of families with dependent children – another priority homeless group identified by councils – has increased from 22,950 to 40,130. The number of homeless households with a family member who has a physical disability has increased from 2,480 to 4,370.
Housing charities have called on the government to urgently build more affordable housing and reverse a squeeze on benefits which has left vulnerable people unable to pay their rents.
"With homelessness soaring, it is no surprise that the number of vulnerable groups – including families with children – who are having to turn to their council for help is on the rise," said Polly Neate, chief executive of charity Shelter. "As wages stagnate, rents continue to rise and welfare is cut, many people are struggling to keep a roof over their head. Eviction is now the number one cause of homelessness.
"Our services across the country are seeing an increase in the number of people with multiple and complex needs, and we think this may be because other services are failing to provide the help that people need. The solution to our housing crisis must be to urgently build more affordable homes and, in the short term, end the freeze on housing benefit that is increasingly pushing people over the precipice into homelessness."
Research shows drinkers consume equivalent of 12 roast dinners or nine McDonald's Big Macs in fat from beers, wines and spirits each month.
The average Briton will consume 3.5 million calories over a lifetime – in alcohol, a study by Onepoll has found. Research revealed in a typical month, they will consume eight pints of lager or beer, nine glasses of wine and three glasses of champagne, racking up 4,918 calories in the process.
That means they will consume the equivalent of 12 full Christmas dinners or nine Big Macs in alcohol alone.
The study also revealed four in ten men don't believe they could give up alcohol for good compared to three in ten women. Over half of men admitted they couldn't stop drinking because they "love the taste" too much with 57 per cent saying they can't imagine socialising without using alcohol.
The research, conducted via OnePoll.com, also revealed 85 per cent admit to being unaware of the calories they consume from booze, with millions of Brits thinking a pint has less than half the calories it actually contains.
On average, adults believe a pint has 17 calories fewer than it does and think a glass of wine has 28 fewer than the actual number. This underestimation is the equivalent of 4,656 calories a year – the same as eating 35 bags of crisps.
New research published in the American Journal of Psychiatry showed that ketamine can help relieve depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation in just a 24 hour period.
Pending further research, study author Michael Grunebaum said these findings bring us closer to "the development of new antidepressant medications that are faster acting" that can help people who do not respond to traditional antidepressants.
The study, from the Columbia University Medical Center and the New York Psychiatric Institute, observed 80 participants with clinical depression and clinical suicidal ideation. Half of participants was given ketamine, while the other half was given midazolam, a sedative.
The ketamine group reported "significant changes in symptoms (suicidal thoughts, depressive symptoms and fatigue) compared to those receiving midalozam"—and in very little time: within 24 hours. Certain negative side effects of ketamine (e.g. a sense of detachment or higher blood pressure) wore off "within minutes or hours," according to the study.
Meanwhile, the study team observed, participants felt the benefits of ketamine for up to six weeks.
This isn't the first time ketamine has been found to provide fast relief for depressive symptoms, but it's now apparent that its effect on alleviating suicidal ideation functions in addition to depression relief.
"Adjunctive ketamine demonstrated a greater reduction in clinically significant suicidal ideation in depressed patients within 24 hours compared with midazolam, partially independently of antidepressant effect," concluded the researchers.
The quick response to the ketamine treatment, when given in the proper dosage, offers hope to people who suffer from suicidal ideation. "There is a critical window in which depressed patients who are suicidal need rapid relief to prevent self-harm," said study author Grunebaum.
Tens of thousands of people may be at increased risk of dying early from heart attacks and strokes by misusing anabolic steroids, according to doctors. The British Cardiovascular Society gave the warning amid concern steroids are now being taken by hundreds of thousands of people.
Public health experts say men in their teens and 20s are behind the rise. Steroids are legal to use but illegal to supply, unless you're a doctor.
As well as heart attacks and strokes, NHS guidelines show people who misuse anabolic steroids also risk health problems like infertility and mood swings.
Gareth Jenkins, 29, who lives just outside Cardiff says he's been using them for nearly five years.
"Everything that we do in life now carries the risk of heart attack, cancer whatever it is - so I'm going to get those risks anyway," he says. Gareth says he doesn't smoke or drink - and that's why he feels it is ok to take steroids. "It's still probably stupid from a medical point of view. But that's the way I choose to live my life."
Anabolic steroids cause an imbalance of hormones which can damage many different organs, but in particular the heart. The BBC documentary Steroid Nation can be viewed on the iPlayer here:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p05q54qy/newsbeat-documentaries-steroid-nation
UK-based Intelligent Fingerprinting has recently launched a new fingerprint-based drug screening system to drug rehabilitation service providers.
The company's new technology detects drug use by analysing fingerprint sweat, screening for multiple illicit substances in under 10 minutes.
The Intelligent Fingerprinting Drug Screening System consists of a sample collection cartridge and the portable Reader 1000, and works by analysing the tiny traces of sweat contained in a fingerprint to detect signs of drug use. Collecting a fingerprint sweat sample onto an Intelligent Fingerprinting cartridge takes just five seconds, and the Reader 1000 provides a positive or negative result for each drug in the test within just 10 minutes.
Dr Jerry Walker, Chief Executive Officer, Intelligent Fingerprinting said:
"Its dignified, non-invasive approach makes it an ideal choice to support drug recovery programmes that currently rely on oral-fluid or urine-based drug tests to track clients' progress. The new fingerprint-based drug test is portable, offering a convenient drug screening approach for use by drug rehabilitation services in both clinics and community-based centres. The system makes it simple to set up screening sessions, collect samples, administer tests and get results quickly on location. Fingerprint drug testing is also particularly easy to use and non-invasive, sidestepping potential hygiene concerns associated with traditional screening methods that involve the collection and disposal of body fluid samples such as saliva or urine."
CGL, a national social care and drug addiction charity, has been trialling the new fingerprint drug test. Dr Prun Bijral, Medical Director at CGL said: "Having visibility of a client's progress – and whether they have used drugs recently – is critical in determining how we tailor our drug rehabilitation programmes to support each individual. During our early tests we've had positive feedback from both our counsellors and service users."
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Secondary school children in England are now more likely to have tried drugs than cigarettes, according to a national survey.
The statistics, from NHS Digital, found 24% of 11-15-year-olds saying they had tried recreational drugs at least once in their lives, a nine percentage point rise on the last survey, in 2014. The survey also found 19% of respondents saying they had smoked cigarettes at least once, a proportion roughly level with 2014 but well below the figure for 1996 when almost half of pupils questioned had tried smoking. And, in 2016, only 6% of pupils were classified as current smokers.
Drug use among youngsters was shown to have been declining over the past 15 years. Paul Niblett, the statistician responsible for the report, said another survey would be needed to establish whether the figures constituted a change in trend.
Niblett said the rise could be partly explained by new questions on the survey asking youngsters about their use of laughing gas (nitrous oxide) and novel psychoactive substances, which were banned last year under sweeping new legislation.
However, even after stripping out the results from these questions, the survey of 12,000 school children carried out under exam conditions in 177 English schools in 2016, still registered a rise in the proportion admitting using drugs, to 21% – a six percentage point increase on the previous survey.
The survey also found that 44% of secondary school pupils said they had drunk alcohol at some point. There had been a steady decline in the proportion admitting to ever having had an alcoholic drink, since the early 2000s until 2014, when 38% said they had tried alcohol. However, those responsible for the survey said the new figure was not comparable to previous years due to a change in the survey question.
In 2016 the survey found consumption of alcohol related to the age of the children questioned; it ranged from 15% of the 11-year-olds having had a drink, to 73% of those aged 15. Girls were slightly more likely to have ever had a drink than boys, at 46% to 43%.
The headline figure of drug use also disguises differences in age. While only about one in 10 of the 11-year-olds reported ever having taken drugs, 37% of respondents aged 15 said they had.
Black pupils were the most likely to have taken drugs, followed by those of mixed ethnicity, followed by Asians, then white pupils, then others. The picture for drinking prevalence varied; white pupils were the most likely to have ever had an alcoholic drink, followed by mixed, then black, "other" and Asian.
Black girls were far more likely to have tried drugs than black boys, and mixed ethnicity girls were slightly more likely to have taken drugs than boys of that group. Among white children, Asians and others, boys were more likely to have tried drugs.
About half of the pupils questioned had acquired their drugs from a friend on the most recent occasion, with most of those being a friend of the same age. Just over a quarter said they had bought their drugs from a dealer, a proportion that increased with age.
Regular cannabis users have more sex, a new study has shown, and scientists think the drug may be stimulating sexual arousal.
A study by investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine shows that despite concerns that frequent marijuana use may impair sexual desire or performance, the opposite it actually more likely.
Around one in 12 (8.4 per cent) of British adults aged between 16 and 59 have used cannabis in the last year, according to Drugwise.
For the research, academics quizzed 50,000 Americans aged between 25 and 45 about their sex lives and cannabis use. They found that women who regularly used cannabis had sex on average 7.1 times a month, compared with abstainers who had six encounters over 30 days. Male cannabis users had sex 6.9 times in a month compared to 5.6 times for non-users.
In summary, pot users are having about 20 percent more sex than abstainers, and scientists say the study is the first hint that the effect may be causal.
"Marijuana use is very common, but its large-scale use and association with sexual frequency hasn't been studied much in a scientific way," said the study's senior author, Dr Michael Eisenberg, assistant professor of urology.
"Frequent marijuana use doesn't seem to impair sexual motivation or performance. If anything, it's associated with increased coital frequency.
"The overall trend we saw applied to people of both sexes and all races, ages, education levels, income groups and religions, every health status, whether they were married or single and whether or not they had kids."
The study is the first to examine the relationship between marijuana use and frequency of sexual intercourse.
Previous research has linked cannabis abuse to erectile dysfunction in heavy users, and studies have found reduced sperm counts in men who smoke it. However experiments conducted in animal models and humans have also suggested that marijuana stimulates activity in brain regions involved in sexual arousal and activity.
The positive association between marijuana use and sexual frequency was independent of demographic, health, marital or parental status.
The trend remained even after accounting for subjects' use of other drugs, such as cocaine or alcohol.
Dr Eisenberg said the results suggest that marijuana's positive correlation with sexual activity does not just reflect the tendency for less inhibited people to use the drug.
The team found that the amount of sex rose steadily with increasing marijuana use, a dose-dependent relationship supporting a possible active role for marijuana in fostering sexual activity.
The research was published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine.
A single gene has been identified that can show how susceptible a person is to developing psychosis after using cannabis. The discovery will help doctors and scientists identify individuals at most risk from developing serious mental health implications from use of the drug.
The study, reported in the journal Translational Psychiatry, describes the gene AKT1, which is prevalent in patients that have developed psychosis following the use of marijuana. This gene is found in almost half of the entire population - regardless of their health, or whether they use cannabis.
The research also shows that the health of the individual bears no reflection on their risk of mental illness, as this is the first study to assess the risk of psychosis on healthy patients.
Psychosis is a mental health illness that causes individuals to experience different things from those around them, including hallucinations and delusions. It is diagnosed in around one in 2,000 people.
"These findings are the first to demonstrate that people with this AKT1 genotype are far more likely to experience strong effects from smoking cannabis, even if they are otherwise healthy," said Celia Morgan, a researcher working on the study. "To find that having this gene variant means that you are more prone to mind-altering effects of cannabis when you don't have psychosis gives us a clue as to how it increases risk in healthy people.
"Putting yourself repeatedly in a psychotic or paranoid state might be one reason why these people could go on to develop psychosis when they might not have done otherwise. Although cannabis-induced psychosis is very rare, when it happens it can have a terrible impact on the lives of young people. This research could help pave the way towards the prevention and treatment of cannabis psychosis."
In order to find the discovery, the researchers from the University of Exeter, carried out a study comprised of 442 healthy participants who admitted using cannabis. The participants were invited to use the drug in laboratory conditions, and then scientists analysed them to test for the symptoms associated with psychosis – including memory loss and hallucinations.
Seven days later, the same individuals were tested again when completely sober. It was discovered that those expressing the AKT1 gene showed a higher risk of developing psychotic symptoms permanently.
"Our finding that psychotic-like symptoms when young people are 'stoned' are predicted by AKT1 variants is an exciting breakthrough," said Val Curran, co-author of the research. "This acute reaction is thought to be a marker of a person's risk of developing psychosis from smoking the drug."
Research has also shown that drugs like cocaine, amphetamine and ecstasy can act as a precursor to psychosis.
Customer service skills and a way with words are replacing muscles and a tough reputation, says European drugs agency. Drug dealers are turning from goons to geeks in a trade that is increasingly being conducted online, says a report by the European drugs agency.
Research into internet drug markets by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) suggested the self-regulation of online markets such as Dream Market provide a safer environment for users and dealers of illicit substances.
Feedback mechanisms similar to eBay mean customers are able to hold dealers to account for the service they provide, the report said, while remote access to the market almost eliminates the risk of violence that has long been an integral part of the black economy.
As a result, online drug dealers are more likely to need good customer service skills and a persuasive way with words than muscles and a tough reputation.
The report draws together the most recent evidence from experts on the darknet markets phenomenon that first came to public attention with the rise of Silk Road, which opened in 2011 and operated until it was seized by the FBI in 2013.
Researchers argued that Silk Road and its successors, known as cryptomarkets or darknet markets, became successful after bringing together four technologies: the bitcoin virtual currency and encrypted internet protocols such as The Onion Router (TOR), which allowed anonymity, as well as Escrow and customer feedback systems, which gave buyers and sellers confidence in their transactions.
Products are most often sent through the post, eliminating personal encounters between dealers and their customers.
These market innovations have led to a shift in the kinds of people involved in selling drugs. "Because of the virtual location of online drug markets, in addition to the presence of conflict-reducing features such as Escrow and bitcoin, violence and theft are likely to be reduced. It is probable that these changes will have a deep impact on the skills needed to succeed in criminal markets," the report says.
"In the drug cryptomarket era, having good customer service and writing skills, and a good reputation, via feedback, as a vendor or buyer may be more important than muscles and face-to-face connections."
Judith Aldridge, a criminologist at Manchester University and one of the report's 30 co-authors, said the use of darknet markets for drug buying seemed to be on the rise, and had the potential for changing the structure of the global drug market.
However, she said, they have their limitations. Given their reliance on postal systems for delivery, darknet markets are unlikely to be useful for large-scale drug supply and importation. She added: "Despite the growth and popularity of these markets, they tend to be short-lived, and their success substantially hampered by the growth of mistrust amongst market participants due to scams and, to a more limited extent, law enforcement activities."
Middle class pensioners are risking their health by drinking the equivalent of a bottle of whisky a week, with white, well-educated men consuming the most alcohol, a study has shown.
Despite knowing the dangers of too much alcohol, it seems that the stress of holding down high-powered jobs and social responsibilities is leading many older men to hit the bottle.
Health experts at Kings College London say that doctors should be aware that it is often professionals, many of who have put off retiring, or who still have important commitments, who are likely to have drinking problems.
As well as leading to problems such as cirrhosis of the liver and increased risk of cancer, older people are more sensitive to the effects of alcohol because the body cannot break it down as quickly.
Drinking in later life is also known to increase the likelihood of falls which can lead to serious head injuries.
"As the Baby Boomer generation become seniors, they represent an ever increasing population of older people drinking at levels that pose a risk to their health," said Dr Tony Rao, lead author from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London.
"This study shows the need for greater awareness of the potential for alcohol related harm in older people, particularly those of higher socio-economic status, who may suffer the consequences of ill health from alcohol at an earlier age than those in previous generations."
One in five older people who drink alcohol are now consuming it at unsafe levels – over 21 units of alcohol for men and 14 units for women each week.
The researchers used anonymised electronic GP health records for 27,991 people aged 65 and over in the Borough of Lambeth in London.
They identified 9,248 older people who regularly consumed alcohol and of these 1,980 people drank at unsafe levels.
They found unsafe drinkers were more likely to be male, younger and have higher socioeconomic status. Men were more likely to be unsafe drinkers than women.
The average alcohol consumption was six units per week – the equivalent of three glasses of whisky. However, the top five per cent of alcohol drinkers reported consuming more than 49 units per week for men and more than 23 units per week for women, the equivalent of at least three-and-a-half pints a day for men or three-and-a-half glasses of wine for women.
Dr Mark Ashworth, study author from the Division of Health and Social Care Research at King's College London said: 'This research highlights that as GPs we need be more aware of the risk of older people, especially men, drinking excessively.
"Reducing alcohol misuse is important to prevent premature death and serious negative health effects, such as alcoholic liver disease, which are big burden on our health system. Alcohol excess carries additional risks in the older population such as falls and confusion.'
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INV Metals Begins Drilling at Rio Novo Property in Brazil
INV Metals Inc. (TSX:INV) has announced a diamond drill program has commenced at the Rio Novo North gold, platinum and palladium target, located in the prolific Carajás mineral province of Brazil.
Mr. Robert Bell, CEO, stated, "The results of the soil geochemistry performed by INV Metals to-date are encouraging and confirm the potential for the Rio Novo North area to host a gold-platinum-palladium deposit similar to that of Serra Pelada. The historic Serra Pelada pit is located approximately two kilometres from the property boundary and recent results reported by Colossus Minerals Inc. indicate highly mineralized new zones have been discovered trending towards the Rio Novo property. The Rio Novo property is located in one of the most prolific mining camps in the world and we look forward to the results of the initial drill program at the Rio Novo North target."
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A planned five hole, 1,000 metre (m) diamond drill program at the eastern portion of the Rio Novo North claim commenced in early November to test a strong gold-palladium-platinum soil anomaly, approximately 350 m wide by 850 m long, and a strong airborne electromagnetic anomaly which flanks the soil geochemical anomaly. The initial program is expected to be complete prior to year-end, subject to the rainy season which typically begins in December.
INV Metals' wholly owned Brazilian subsidiary is currently earning a 50% interest in the Rio Novo property from Teck Resources Limited's wholly owned Brazilian subsidiary ("Teck"). INV Metals may earn an initial 50% interest in the Rio Novo property by funding exploration expenditures of $7 million over 3 years with guaranteed expenditures of $4 million over 2 years, after which a joint venture will be formed on a 50% basis, subject to certain back-in rights by Teck and INV Metals.
Scott Jennings, P. Geo, an employee of INV Metals, is the designated Qualified Person pursuant to NI 43-101 of the Canadian Securities Administrators and is responsible for the verification and quality assurance of the technical content of this news release. Please see the Company's most recent technical report titled Technical Report on Recent Exploration at the Rio Novo Copper-Iron-Gold-Platinum-Palladium Property in the Carajas District, Para, Brazil (dated and filed on SEDAR on October 27, 2010) for further details regarding the Rio Novo property.
Potential quantity and grade is conceptual in nature. There has been insufficient exploration to-date to define a mineral resource on the Rio Novo property and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in such property being delineated as a mineral resource.
Source: INV Metals Inc.
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Comments from the Finger: Next stop on the redux train: the first rogue I adapted from 3.5 to 5e! In retrospect, the old Ghostface Killa wasn't broken, necessarily, but it certainly wasn't as fun to play as our more recent creations, which is something the redux seeks to fix. Moreover, we wanted to cement the whole 'stealthy, scary murderer' angle, rather than just making it a vaguely mystical rogue. Let us know how we did!
The Ghost-Faced, depending on who you ask, are either an order of assassins or specters of death itself. The members of this guild preserve ancient techniques, passed down through generations, by which a man becomes a spirit, and how that spirit can kill. Inducted members are given a porcelain demon masks of ghostly white to hide their identities and their first mission: to slay a man in broad daylight, and escape invisibly into the air.
Beginning when you choose this archetype at 3rd level, as a bonus action, you can become invisible until the beginning of your next turn, or until you make an attack or cast a spell. Once you use this ability, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
Starting at 9th level, you can use this ability three times, and regain all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest. Then, starting at 13th level, you become ethereal while you are invisible, and you can move through creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain.
By 3rd level, you strike terror into your victim's heart when you appear out of thin air to deliver a precise, killing blow. Whenever you hit a creature with a sneak attack that ends invisibility on yourself, you can cause the target to make a Wisdom saving throw (DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Dexterity modifier) or become frightened of you. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of its turn, ending the effect on a success. Once a creature has been frightened by this ability, it can't be frightened by it again for 24 hours.
By 9th level, you have trained yourself to make almost no noise while stalking your targets. You have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks involving sound, and you cannot be detected by creatures using tremorsense.
At 13th level, no target can hide from your sight. You gain the effects of the see invisibility spell at all times.
Starting at 17th level, you are expert in the art of dealing death. When you make a sneak attack with a weapon that isn't heavy, you can choose to take a -5 penalty to the attack roll. If the attack hits, you can add 4d6 to the sneak attack damage.
I really like the new changes. True Ghost Step was too complicated and Deathly Silent makes way more sense and doesn't also take up a bonus action. I also really like that you made Frightful Attack its own thing instead of tacking it onto Dread Strike, making both more useful and easier to use.
A technical critique, but I think the sneak attack already requires the weapon used to be a finesse weapon or ranged. If that's a case, specifying that the weapon needs to not be heavy is a touch redundant (unless you want them to otherwise have the ability to use sneak attack with heavy weapons).
I think it's for some of their own content, with the exotic weapons that they pumped out for the Craftsman. Additionally, this also removes Longbow and I believe(?) Heavy Crossbow.
It's more like waterproofing. I don't want that feature to ever stack with Great Weapon Fighting (since they're basically the same ability.) Even if there aren't ways to make that happen now, I'm trying to ensure that weapons released in later books (our and Wizards') don't enable that later.
I gotta day, not that I am your harshest critic, I'm pretty impressed with this one. My only concern is the number of uses ghost step. I am all for limiting it, but I think that limiting ghost step to a once per short rest (at the least) might be a little too infrequent. Without ghost step, the rogue is left with no edge where all the published WOTC Rogues have an easy and reliable access to their features. Even in the case of Arcane Trickster, they have at least cantrips and Ranged Legerdemain to fall back on.
If I may, I would propose something like, "the next time you roll initiative, you regain one use of ghost step." Of course, that's up to you.
Or possibly, at least letting frightful attack trigger with all sneak attacks on surprised creatures so they have something to use even when Ghost Step is not available.
To be fair, the advantage of becoming invisible as a bonus action is quite potent, as opposed to the other base rogue abilities. An Assassin's, I would argue, is far more limited, as it only functions on surprised targets, as well as on the first turn of combat. A thief's intro abilities only add an extra form of movement, really, as well as some vague item utility. Even the arcane trickster is a tad limited in what spells can do, and rarely will their spells lead to sneak attacks, especially given that they don't have the ability to deal sneak attack damage with their cantrips.
All in all, I think that this is a fine limiter, at least until later levels where it becomes 3 uses, given that this will almost invariable grant you sneak attack damage, plus the additional abilities that synergize so well with the intro feature that are provided by this archetype.


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MAN Energy Solutions tops our list of technology businesses that have made the greatest contribution to changing the shipping industry for the better in 2019
As part of our annual Lloyd's List Top 100 most influential people in shipping on December 13, we look at the movers and shakers in maritime next-gen technology
Lauber: working to decarbonise fuel.
01 / Uwe Lauber, MAN Energy Solutions
MAN Energy Solutions has pushed deeply into the digital transition this year, making it a core element of its corporate strategy.
It created a new digital platform, MAN CEON, to intelligently collect and evaluate operating and sensor data, while enabling the real-time monitoring of marine and power-plant engines, turbines and compressors.
To further this initiative, the company has formed partnerships with Kongsberg and the South Korean shipbuilders Samsung Heavy Industries and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering. In September, it joined the Getting to Zero Coalition.
Chairman Uwe Lauber is working to decarbonise fuel — especially in container shipping — as a path to decarbonising the maritime economy.
02 / Klaus Heim, WinGD
WINGD (rebranded from Winterthur Gas & Diesel) this year introduced three new low-speed two-stroke engines capable of operating on low-emission fuels. Chief executive Klaus Heim said this was in response to owners' calls for sustainability and improved efficiency from marine propulsion.
In September, the company announced the development, with ETH Zürich, a technical university, of an advanced algorithm to enhance predictive maintenance for two-stroke engines.
The diagnostic system has been made available for all new WinGD engines ordered since early 2018 and, it is claimed, will increase the capability to predict and prevent engine failures far beyond what can now be done.
03 / Jaakko Eskola, Wärtsilä
WARTISLA'S acquisition spree continued in 2019 with the takeover of the small UK-based navigation and comms specialist Ships Electronic Services.
This followed, among others, Burriel Navaro and Transas in 2018, Trident and Puregas Solutions in 2017, and Eniram in 2016.
The company has embraced the concept of 'Smart Marine', driving towards positive disruptive development.
Finances were boosted in 2018 by a hike in orders for scrubbers but this year Wärtsilä suffered from reduced newbuilding business and fewer scrubber orders.
President and chief executive Jaakko Eskola cautioned that competition is intensifying and "price pressure remains a headwind." Even so, forward planning is market-leading.
04 / Juha Koskela, ABB marine and ports division
AT the beginning of the year, ABB restructured around four businesses: electrification, industrial automation, motion, and robotics and discrete automation. The marine and ports portfolio fits into industrial automation, focusing on industry-specific, differentiated automation solutions.
Macro-economic weakness has hit maritime as well as other markets. However, ABB's long-term strategy continues.
A contract has been won from Keppel Offshore & Marine, a Singapore shipyard, to provide the technology for autonomous tug operation at Port of Singapore.
Juha Koskela, managing director of ABB's marine and ports division, described the project as "a key marker on our digital journey."
05 / Sameer Kalra, Alfa Laval
MARINE hardware encompasses pumping systems, boilers, heat transfer equipment, high-speed separators, ballast water and exhaust gas treatment systems.
By Lloyd's List 03 Dec 2018 As part of our annual Lloyd's List Top 100 most influential people in shipping on December 14, we look at the movers and shakers in maritime next-gen tech
Mid-year reports revealed orders for PureSOx scrubbers showed significant decline — caused by uncertainty regarding availability and price of alternative fuels, whereas orders for PreBallast systems was very strong — the result of implementation of legislation on ballast water treatment systems.
As shipping turns its attention to liquefied natural gas as a fuel, Alfa Laval's boiler technology is reported to be well positioned to enable vessels to deal with boil-off gas, a critical step in the transition.
Sameer Kalra took over as head of the marine division in January 2019.
06 / Geir Håøy, Kongsberg
HAVING acquired Rolls-Royce Commercial Marine in April this year, it is now unified and combined as Kongsberg Maritime, with cost synergies through co-location, reduction in workforce (about 450) and support functions, streamlining of IT, and product optimisation.
The company claims to have marine technology on 30,000 vessels.
President and chief executive Geir Håøy reported a good order intake within marine robotics and the after-sales market, although somewhat weaker for the newbuilding market.
An agreement with Shell on the digitalisation of Nyhamna gas plant has placed Kongsberg Digital at the forefront in the market for dynamic digital twins, which could boost twinning for shipping.
07 / Ronald Spithout, Inmarsat Maritime
THE mobile satellite communications company launched its Fleet Xpress platform in 2016, with faster speeds and improved bandwidth compared with its earlier FleetBroadband.
Fleet Xpress is now installed on 7,500 ships and will increasingly form the foundation of a data analytics ecosystem.
Ronald Spithout, president of Inmarsat Maritime, said containerships are doing a terabyte of data (1,000 gigabytes) a month.
"We are now seeing the first signs of the connected vessel," he said.
The company has eight new satellites on order, ready to be launched, stationed, tested, and tuned in by 2023. By then, the connected vessel will be a reality.
08 / Henrik Uhd Christensen, Viking Life-Saving Equipment
VIKING'S acquisition of Norsafe, the Norwegian lifeboat manufacturer, was completed late in 2018.
The two Scandinavian family-owned businesses were able to extend their global footprint. This was especially the case for training, where newly branded Viking Norsafe's specialised centres in Norway and Greece offered both product and STCW courses.
The move follows the earlier acquisition of Danish marine fire service business Skandinavisk Brandteknik.
Chief executive Henrik Uhd Christensen says the next stage is to target operators who are looking to entrust safety-related matters to a single provider.
The Shipowner Agreement umbrella has been significantly extended, making Viking a leader in the marine safety field.
09 / Matt Desch, Iridium
THE Virginia-headquartered communications business led by chief executive Matt Desch is in the process of replacing its satellite constellation with 75 new satellites — 66 of them to be used, the rest for spares in the new Iridium Network.
This will enable the company to end Inmarsat's 20-year monopoly on the provision of safety comms services.
In June 2019, the first piece of equipment designed for the Iridium GMDSS system was launched by Lars Thrane, a partner with Iridium.
The LT-3100S GMDSS system is designed for all IMO vessels and will be an alternative to the Inmarsat C. It also offers SSAS (ship security and alert systems) and LRIT (long range identification and tracking) functionalities.
10 / Marius Johansen, Wilhelmsen Ships Agency
AFTER a long period of planning, this year an Airbus drone navigated autonomously along a pre-determined aerial corridor between Wilhelmsen Ships' service base at Marina Pier South in Singapore and a Swire Pacific Offshore AHTS vessel.
When it had deposited its 1.5 kg cargo, which included items from Wilhelmsen's 3D printing micro-factory, the drone returned to its base.
Marius Johansen, vice-president commercial at Wilhelmsen Ships Agency, said stakeholders' faith in the concept of Agency by Air drone delivery had not been misplaced. It is hoped the coming year will see the delivery of spares, medical supplies, and cash to Master transferred from sea to air.
The Top 10 technology leaders list is compiled by the Lloyd's List editorial team and considers people and companies that are driving real digital change across the maritime industries
Inmarsat Fleet Data gains greater acceptance with ABB tie-up
From pirates to politicians and from hackers to seafarers: A decade of maritime's most influential players
Top 10 box port operators 2019
Perception is a key element in the autonomous discussion
29 Nov 2019 Lloyd's List
Nordic ports join forces in sustainable transport drive
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The National Science Foundation (NSF), which is pleased to have provided major funding for Journey into Amazing Caves, was created in 1950 as an independent U.S. government agency to promote and advance progress in engineering and science research and education in the United States. NSF invests more than $3.3 billion per year in 20,000 grants for research and education projects in engineering, science and technology.
Journey into Amazing Caves was funded in part by the Informal Science Education Division at NSF. This particular program provides rich and stimulating opportunities outside formal school settings, where individuals of all ages, interests and backgrounds can increase their appreciation and understanding of science, mathematics, engineering and technology. For more information about National Science Foundation, visit www.nsf.gov.
Cincinnati Museum Center houses the Cincinnati History Museum, Cinergy Children's Museum, The Cincinnati Historical Society Library, the Museum of Natural History & Science and the Robert D. Lindner Family OMNIMAX® Theater. Museum Center is located in a historic Art Deco building that was formerly a train station, called Union Terminal.
Cincinnati Museum Center serves both the regional and national public with over one million visitors annually through its exhibits, educational programs, films, workshops, lectures, camps, and other activities. Over the years, one of the most popular exhibits in the Museum of Natural History has been the limestone cavern, perhaps the largest and most realistic artificial cave anywhere. The exhibit tells the story of the vast, karst landscape area that extends from the Cincinnati area south through Kentucky. The single largest exhibit in the Museum of Natural History is the Ice Age exhibit, which features a simulated ice cave.
Since caves are such a prominent part of Museum Center's exhibit heritage, and since Cincinnati is in the middle of "cave country," in 1992 Museum Center set out to produce a large format film about caves. Eventually, MacGillivray Freeman Films, with its excellent record in creating educational and entertaining films, was chosen to direct the production.
Eastman Kodak Company, the "world leader in imaging," is proud to be a promotional partner with MacGillivray Freeman Films (MFF). MFF is one of the premier makers of large-format films, including Everest which broke box-office records in 1998. As part of the agreement, all of MacGillivray Freeman Film's Great Adventure Films will be filmed and printed on Kodak motion picture film. The Great Adventure Films concept was launched by MFF in 1998. The program aims to release 10 IMAX® Theatre documentaries, one every March, for ten years, taking audiences on giant screen journeys to extraordinary places, encountering people, cultures and environments. Kodak is honored to help create awe-inspiring images and show the world's greatest stories on film.
MacGillivray Freeman's Great Adventure Films, led by Everest (1998), Dolphins (2000) and now Journey Into Amazing Caves, will be a succession of ten science adventure films MacGillivray Freeman Films looks forward to bringing to giant screen fans over the next ten years..
For 25 years MacGillivray Freeman Films has produced and distributed giant screen films. Many of the company's earlier films were commissioned by science centers, natural history or cultural museums such as the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, the Museum Film Network (a consortium of 14 international museums and NOVA/WGBH Boston) as well as by organizations such as United States Navy Memorial Foundation and California Tourism Board. Since the release of the The Living Sea in 1995, MacGillivray Freeman Films has piloted the effort to secure funding for film topics it believed would be educational and entertaining.
Though Journey Into Amazing Caves is principally funded by MacGillivray Freeman Films, the film could not have been made were it not for the sponsors listed here.
In addition, this film and all of MacGillivray Freeman's productions are collaborative efforts with scientists, cultural and education experts, technical specialists and museum and commercial theatre exhibitors.


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I graduated from Central Washington University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in June 2016.
Kathleen LeGault has creating art since she was little. Elementary school through high school she discovered drawing and painting as her first love.
After she graduated from high school she began at Allan Hancock Jr. College in Santa Maria, CA. There she was introduced to ceramics through a friend who encouraged her to take a ceramics class with him, and she fell in love with throwing clay on the wheel. Kathleen graduated from Allan Hancock Jr. College with her Degree in Applied Media and Design.
In 2013 Kathleen began going to Central Washington University to pursue a Bachelors of Fine Art. She was able to live close to the school studio and devote close attention to drawing, ceramics, and painting. While there she developed a new love for wood firing ceramics where she participated in several firings, and a new interest in metals and jewelry. In June, 2016 Kathleen graduated with her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
She has exhibited in several exhibitions in WA State including Gallery One, and 420 Loft Gallery and a publication in Manastash Magazine. She currently lives and works in Shelton, WA.


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13 GREAT ILLUSTRATIONS: A DAN SPIEGLE Birthday Celebration
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The late artist was born 102 years ago…
By PETER BOSCH
The late Dan Spiegle's work was amazing in any decade, but especially so as he got older. Unlike many artists, the older he got, the better he became. One of those later series was Eclipse's Crossfire, a 26-issue title from 1984 to 1987, and in it he produced some truly astonishing work. Crossfire was a spinoff from The DNAgents and the character started out in that series as an industrial spy named Jeff Baker, a not very nice guy. When he was killed, his suitcase containing an extra Crossfire costume and equipment was found by bail bondsman Jay Endicott. He disguised himself as Crossfire in order to find out who killed Baker, and then kept on as Crossfire, but this time as a good guy, even if the police didn't think so.
Crossfire was created by writer Mark Evanier and artist Will Meugniot in The DNAgents #4 but after The DNAgents #9 (the first Endicott Crossfire, and the first drawn by Spiegle), the character was given his own title, with Evanier and Spiegle working together on the full run. The character also appeared in a Crossfire and Rainbow miniseries (1986) and Endicott starred in a Whodunnit? mini (1986-87), both by Evanier and Spiegle.
If you have not previously been exposed to Crossfire, you are in for a real treat. The stories take place in Los Angeles – mostly Hollywood – and Evanier's own experience as a writer in the TV industry is there on every page (plus he wrote a fascinating essay for each issue). And, oh, the artwork by Spiegle (Dec. 10, 1920-Jan. 28, 2017) was just wonderful!
Here is a mixture of 13 COVERS AND PAGES:
The DNAgents #9 (Feb. 1984). Jay Endicott trying on the Crossfire costume for the first time.
Crossfire #4 (Aug. 1984)
Crossfire #4
Crossfire #5 (Sept. 1984)
Crossfire #7 (Dec. 1984)
Crossfire #9 (Mar. 1985)
Crossfire #10 (Apr. 1985)
Crossfire #13 (July 1985). Believed to be Marilyn Monroe's last moments.
Crossfire #18 (Jan. 1987)
Crossfire #18. Starting with this issue, the series' interior pages went to black-and-white in order to save on costs. The move showcased Spiegle's artwork even better than in color.
Crossfire #22 (June 1987)
Whodunnit? #3 (April 1987)
— 13 SPLASH PAGES: A JACK DAVIS Birthday Celebration. Click here.
— 13 TIMES Creators Appeared as Themselves in Comics. Click here.
PETER BOSCH's first book, American TV Comic Books: 1940s-1980s – From the Small Screen to the Printed Page, has just been published by TwoMorrows. He has written articles and conducted celebrity interviews for various magazines and newspapers. Peter lives in Hollywood.
This needs to be collected NOW!
Allan Rosenberg
Exceptional artwork, Dan's amazing!
I never read it, but I was a big fan of Dan Spiegle and Mark Evanier's "Blackhawk" – I have a complete run
Happy birthday to the late Dan Spiegle!
Robert George
Never really got into DNAgents, but stumbled across Crossfire and loved the series through the end.
Tonebone
He's my all-time favorite comics artist. I have loved his work since I came across the Clash of the Titans and Black Hole adaptations as a kid. And then Blackhawk! It also begs to be collected!


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Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre opens its 2019 season with the story of the First Lady of country music in "Stand By Your Man: The Tammy Wynette Story," playing Jan. 10 through Feb. 9.
The audience will be treated to some of Tammy Wynette's all-time hits and recount her journey from the cotton fields of Mississippi to international stardom.
Tammy Wynette, the First Lady of country music, had 23 #1 hit songs from the late 1960s to the early 1970s. With comic flare and dramatic impact, "Stand By Your Man" recounts Tammy Wynette's triumphs and tragedies and the husbands she stood by &tstr; all five of them.
Performances are Wednesday through Sunday evenings with selected matinees and include Dutch Apples all-you-can-eat buffet. Purchase tickets by calling 717-898-1900, ordering online at DutchApple.com, or by stopping at the box office at 510 Centerville Road in Lancaster.


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Q: Generalization of a Sphere but with dimension $n-2$ An n-sphere (unit) is the simplest and most symmetrical manifold described by a function $f:\mathbb{R}^n\to\mathbb{R}^1$ that is
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\{x\in\mathbb{R}^n\,:\, f(x) = 0\} = \{x\in\mathbb{R}^n\,:\, x^\top x - 1 = 0
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where $f(x)=x^\top x - 1$.
What is the equivalent (simplest, most symmetric) manifold resulting from a function $f:\mathbb{R}^n\to\mathbb{R}^2$?

A: If $n, n - p \geq 1$, for the map $$\Phi: \Bbb R^{n + 2} \cong \Bbb R^{p + 1} \times \Bbb R^{n - p + 1} \to \Bbb R^2$$ defined by
$$\Phi({\bf x}, {\bf y}) = ({\bf x}^\top {\bf x}, {\bf y}^\top {\bf y}) ,$$ the level set $L := \Phi^{-1}(1, 1)$ is the product $$S^p \times S^{n - p}$$ of spheres, whose isometry group has dimension
$$\frac{1}{2} [n^2 - (2 p - 1) n + p^2)].$$
In the case $p = 1$, this formula specializes to $$\dim \operatorname{Iso}(S^1 \times S^{n - 1}) = {{n - 1} \choose 2} + 1,$$
but this dimension is maximal in the following sense.
First, we may as well assume that our defining function $\Phi: \Bbb R^{n + 2} \to \Bbb R^2$ has (constant) rank $2$ on level set $M$ of interest, so that $M$ is a smooth manifold of dimension $n$. It's (well) known that the maximal isometry group of an $n$-manifold is ${n \choose 2} = \frac{1}{2} n (n - 1)$, and that equality holds iff $L$ is isometric to a quotient of a space form (i.e., a sphere, Euclidean space, or a hyperbolic space). Wang showed that for $n \neq 4$ the largest dimension of the isometry group of an $n$-manifold that is not a quotient of a space form (i.e., isomorphic to a sphere, a Euclidean plane, or hyperbolic space) is exactly $${{n - 1} \choose 2} + 1 .$$
The case $\dim n = 4$ is an exception, as we have $\dim \operatorname{Iso}(\Bbb C \Bbb P^2) = \dim \operatorname{PSU}(3) = 8$. But $\Bbb C \Bbb P^2$ is not spin, so it doesn't even embed smoothly (let alone isometrically) into $\Bbb R^6$.
Remark In the special case $p = n - p = 1$, our construction yields the usual embedding of the flat torus $S^1 \times S^1$ into $\Bbb R^4$.

H.C. Wang, "On Finsler spaces with completely integrable equations of Killing," J. Lond. Math. Soc. 22 (1947), 5–9.


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Students set for really GREAT experience in Hong Kong
Excited students are embarking on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Hong Kong to work at the GREAT Festival of Innovation.
The festival - which runs from Wednesday to Saturday this week (21-24 March) and is organised by the UK's Department for International Trade - focuses on how creativity, technology and innovation will change the way we work, live, learn and play in the years to come.
DMU is the sole education partner for the British Government's GREAT campaign, and will be part of a packed programme that includes keynote speakers, panel discussions and masterclasses looking at how businesses can make the most of new technologies and markets while ensuring they promote sustainable and environmentally-friendly practices.
During the festival 350 second-year students from across all four faculties will be taking part in a #DMUglobal trip to help deepen their subject knowledge and experience new cultures in Hong Kong. The trip will also include a visit to the GREAT festival.
A dozen students from DMU will be acting as GREAT Ambassadors throughout the festival to offer a helping hand with coordinating the event and they are thrilled to be taking part.
Sheena Jitendra said: "I'm really excited to be going. Innovation is really important because it drives a more prosperous and sustainable tomorrow."
Kat Meyer said: "I'm excited because there are going to be so many representatives of different countries that are going to be shown Britain at its best."
Ashleigh Lowe added: "I'm looking forward to seeing DMU students and other British partnerships demonstrating innovation at the festival."
Stephen Angell said: "I'm looking forward to seeing the amazing things DMU is showcasing at the festival and I'm really proud to be representing my uni."
DMU Vice-Chancellor Professor Dominic Shellard will give a showcase speech to the festival audience on Wednesday 21 March, outlining #DMUglobal and #DMUworks as the modern, innovative ways DMU is offering students international learning experiences and creative, flexible opportunities to gain practical, vital work experience. He will also hold a Q&A with DMU students.
As the official education partner of GREAT, DMU is showcasing the innovations of students and graduates in the fields of Fashion, Architecture, Game Art and Cyber Security.
Top UK figures speaking at the festival include chef Tom Kerridge, lastminute.com co-founder Brent Hoberman, former GCHQ director Robert Hannigan and Blippar CEO Ambarish Mitra.
Posted on: Monday 19 March 2018