ACP Rural Development: why Media matters?
Mr Stefano Manservisi has been the European Commission's Director-General for Development since November 2004. In this capacity, he helps the Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid to formulate the EU's development co-operation policy. He also oversees the programming of EU development assistance in the 78 partner countries of the EU in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific.
Mr Stefano Manservisi explains to us the European Development Days (EDD) which is a key European platform for discussion and exchange on global challenges in all key areas – governance, climate change, international finance, trade, food security, water, energy, the role of the media and human and social rights. This forum blend a great diversity of political leaders and parliamentarians, international institutions, local authorities, NGOs, business leaders, academics, researchers, media representatives and the young.
This year's EDD, in Stockholm (22-24 October), falls one month after the G-20 Leaders meeting in Pittsburgh, two weeks after the IMF-World Bank meeting in Istanbul and six weeks before the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Against this backdrop, the 2009 edition will focus on the global response to the economic downturn and climate change, as well as on the challenges of democracy and development.
CTA's contribution will be: a high-level round table on Global land acquisition (22nd October), the funding of 30 experts form the ACP countries, the organisation of 13 ACP stands in the development village and the support to the training of 15 African rural radio journalists as part of a partnership with the EC and Deutsche Welle.
The next Brussels Development Briefing will be held on 12th October 2009 on the role of Media in Rural Development. We will discuss the need to mainstream media in development and increase donor's attention to media as well as the challenges the journalists and media specialists face when addressing agricultural and rural development issues in their work. We will try to find more on how media can better serve rural communities in ACP countries. This Briefing will be part of the 25th Anniversary events of CTA and we will have with us prominent policy-makers and media specialists sharing with us their experience and views on these issues. To know more and register contact: pruna@cta.int or boto@cta.int.
In the context of the European Development Days to be held in Stockholm under the Swedish presidency on 22-24th October 2009, CTA in partnership with the EC, FAO, IFAD, IIED, AGRA, Regional African Farmers Organisations will organise on 22 October (17h00-19h00) a round table on trends and challenges of the Global Land Acquisition. Recent global trends are prompting a massive increase in global commercial interest in land and natural resources. In many countries this is creating unprecedented pressures on land resources and placing new tensions on land tenure systems. We will discuss the facts, scope and main affected countries as well as the drivers behind. We will also look at the minimum set of principles and measures to coordinate the large-scale transnational land acquisitions and leases at international level in order to ensure that such investments work for the benefit of the population including the most vulnerable groups. To know more and register: boto@cta.int.
European Commission called public authorities, business, and researchers to join efforts in order to develop by 2020 the necessary technologies to address climate change, secure EU energy supply and ensure the competitiveness of our economies. In a proposal on "Investing in the development of low-carbon energy technologies", the Commission estimates that an additional investment of €50 billion in energy technology research will be needed over the next 10 years. This means almost tripling the annual investment in the European Union, from €3 to €8 billion. This represents a step forward in the implementation of the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan), the technology pillar of the EU's energy and climate policy. Different sources of funding are considered, from public and private sectors at national and EU level, to be used in a coordinated way will also help to push forward a fast growing industrial sector and to create jobs.
Mariann Fischer Boel, Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, informed agriculture ministers that a High Level Expert Group on Milk will begin work next week to discuss medium and long-term arrangements for the dairy sector given the expiry of milk quotas on 1 April 2015. The Commissioner told a lunch meeting of ministers that the HLG will study whether new arrangements should be put in place which can further contribute to stabilising the market and producers' incomes, reducing price volatility and enhancing market transparency. The Commissioner also briefed ministers on the most recent package of proposals the Commission is preparing to support the dairy market and gave an update on the market situation, which shows that prices for dairy products are picking up.
NGOs and trade unions met with European Commission President José Manuel Barroso at a Brussels conference held by the Spring Alliance, the EU's largest civil society coalition. The meeting came with high expectations in the social and environmental fields as well as on the international scene, as the world enters a critical phase: deep in economic crisis, with EU unemployment at a ten-year high and climate change an indisputable reality.
Phosphorus is an essential, critical and limited nutrient in crop production with no alternative substitutes. All living organisms require phosphorus to grow and it forms part of important life sustaining molecules such as DNA and RNA. Today agriculture relies on phosphorus fertilizers mostly processed from mined phosphate rock which is a non-renewable resource that takes 10-15 million years to form and current known reserves are likely to be depleting 50-100 years. The rate of production of economically available phosphate reserves will soon reach a peak, followed by a rapid steep decline and subsequent ongoing decline of productivity. There is an increasing social and ecological need for recovery, recycling and reuse of the phosphorus resources like harvested biomass, food industrial and animal wastes (food grade bone meal of hog origin) which are reach in phosphorus into natural Phosphorus fertilizers. To reduce hazards to human health and the environment from heavy metal (cadmium) loaded fertilisers and chemicals, the EU's Environmental Action Plan stipulates that food-chain organic wastes and by-products should be recycled and upgraded into bio fertilisers and biocontrol products.
The European Commission has published a call for proposals aimed at increasing knowledge of the common agricultural policy through measures aimed at strengthening information aspects of this area in the European population. Farmers or farmer organizations, consumer associations and environmental protection, public authorities of Member States, media and universities are eligible for such aids for measures of information on the Common Agricultural Policy.
Consumers want fresh, safe and good-quality food. But how can producers consistently meet their demands? Researchers in Germany have developed a new system based on metal-oxide sensor technology that could check food quality and safety in a quick yet cost-effective and reliable way. The researchers, from the Fraunhofer Institutes for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology (IME) and for Physical Measurement Techniques (IPM), said their innovative system checks gasses being emitted from the food on-site, rather than in a laboratory. The system can do what lab tests can't: check quickly and cheaply. It measures volatile components to determine when fruits and vegetables are ripe, and when they're ready to go to the supermarket to be taken home for consumption. Dr Mark Bücking, head of the Department of Environmental and Food Analysis at IME, explained that the system brings together several technologies. Metal-oxide sensors, perhaps best known for their use in cars (where they can close ventilation vents when the car drives through a tunnel, for example), are central to the design.
When ordered to recover between 500 and 700 million Euros paid out in subsidies to the fruit and vegetable sector, France was asked to spell out how it intended to recover these funds. Bruno Lemaire disputed the figures and asked for "more time", but France has now finally responded within the time limit. On Tuesday 29 September Paris sent Brussels an "interim report" on the European Commission's decision on aids to the fruit and vegetable sector. In January 2009 the European Commission ruled that the "plan de campagne" payments to the fruit and vegetable sector between 1992 and 2002 had been illegal. The agriculture minister Bruno Lemaire was asked to tell the EC how he planned to recover the money. Brussels is asking France to claw back 500 million Euros (338 million plus 150 million in interest) and the Commission is also contesting the legality of another 200 million Euros said to have been granted to fruit and vegetable producers by the sector's professional organisations.
- The rights and responsibilities of citizens and organised civil society, to influence those representing them in governments and EU institutions, are promoted and respected.
Some of the poorest countries in the world embarked on a three-day meeting in Cambodia to discuss ways of accelerating accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Representatives of 12 African and Asian countries in Phnom Penh will be talking to the World Bank, the European Commission and UN agencies about questions such as the dangers joining the WTO might hold for them. "We want to share our experience in the negotiations with the WTO", said the Cambodian Minister for Trade Cham Prasidh. Cambodia, Cape Verde and Nepal, all three of whom are members of the WTO, will be speaking to their colleagues from Afghanistan, Bhutan, Laos, Samoa, Vanuatu, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Yemen, the Comoros, Liberia and Sao Tome and Principe.
The President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso has decided to appoint a chief scientific advisor to assist the incoming European Commission with decisions on matters such GMOs authorisation and climate change. "We need a fundamental review of the way the European institutions access and use scientific advice," said President Barroso on 15 September, announcing his intention to institute the function of chief scientific advisor. The new position, which will be created after the swearing-in of the new European Commission, is part of a reorganisation of the directorates responsible for science, research and innovation.
A draft EU-Guinea fisheries partnership agreement was rejected by a small majority in the Fisheries Committee on Thursday, after the Guinean government's use of force led to the deaths of over 100 civilians in Conakry on Monday. The deal would provide €450,000 a year in EU funding to develop Guinea's fisheries sector, and allow EU boats to fish in Guinean waters.
Karel De Gucht, European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, today signed a €165 million Regional Strategy Paper/Regional Indicat ive Programme (RSP/RIP) for Central Africa. Central Africa was represented by Antoine Ntsimi, President of the Commission of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CAEMC) and Louis Sylvain-Goma, Secretary-General of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS). The programme will help support regional and economic integration in this part of Africa.
The JPA will be holding its 4th Regional Meeting (West Africa) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso from 28 to 30 October 2009. The meeting will be chaired jointly by the two JPA Co-Presidents and will bring together 16 JPA parliamentarians from the West African region and 16 MEPs. The main issues to be discussed include the regional integration process, the EU-West Africa Economic Partnership Agreement, climate change, political stability and security, and the impact of the global food and financial crisis on the region.
The third wave of the economic and financial crisis has reached the shores of the developing world, hitting these countries much harder than originally expected. The forecasts for the second half of 2009 and for 2010 look bleak. More than 50 million more people are projected to be in poverty in 2009. In the wake of the crisis there is an increasing awareness that it is not enough simply to return to the status quo ante. Sustaining the development aid effort is essential, albeit not sufficient. In financial terms this means that Official Development Assistance (ODA) must be complemented by other financial sources. Harnessing the development potential of these additional financial flows depends on efforts by developing countries and by their external partners such as the EU to design development friendly policy frameworks. Building on the two first biennial EU Reports on PCD6 and the call to establish a whole–of– the-Union approach 7, this Communication will look at the EU's approach to PCD and will make suggestions to the Community and the Member States on how to use PCD in a more targeted, effective and strategic way.
The Commission has issued a call for proposals with a total budget of 3.25 million which intends, among other things, to raise the general public's awareness of the CAP (including rural development dimension) in the States members, to discuss the EU policy on agricultural product quality and deal with farming communities and the medium and long term development prospects for the CAP with agricultural stakeholders and the general public. TV and radio campaigns; exchanges and information visits; visual, radio and audiovisual productions and distribution thereof; Information stands at agricultural fairs; activities at schools and universities, conferences, seminars, workshops, etc. will be funded by this call.
At Monday's Council of Ministers meeting, the EU Commission warned that there will soon be a lack of soy and maize crops, which are used for fodder and food production. A poor harvest in South America has led to a lower supply of these crops. Danish food Minister Eva Kjer Hansen believes that the Commission and the Council of Ministers should work together to speed up the approval of new, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and that the Commission should solve the food industry's problems arising from the EU's policy of absolutely zero tolerance with regard to GMOs that are not approved by the EU.


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Last week the government presented an exposure draft for new regulations under the Dangerous Substances (General) Regulations 2004, which proposed that the government conduct an involved empirical study on asbestos and its risks. This proposal has now been incorporated into the government's proposed amendments, through the creation of the task force.
The government is concerned about asbestos and is determined to put the ACT at the forefront of Australia in grasping the issues fundamentally. No government in Australia has attempted to deal with asbestos so comprehensively. Unfortunately the bill, as presented in its current form, would not do this. While I pay due respect to Mrs Cross for the work she has put into this legislation and the goodwill she has shown in working together over the past week to put together some amendments to make the bill more effective, we need to move these amendments. It is for that reason that the government is proposing significant amendments to the bill but, with those amendments, the government will be supporting Mrs Cross's bill in principle.
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module CostasLikeArrays.A320448Spec (main, spec) where
import Test.Hspec
import CostasLikeArrays.A320448 (a320448)

main :: IO ()
main = hspec spec

spec :: Spec
spec = describe "A320448" $
  it "correctly computes the first 6 elements" $
    map a320448 [1..6] `shouldBe` expectedValue where
      expectedValue = [0,1,2,4,8,11]

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One of the reasons science fiction is a cinematic genre with enormous potential to shape the imaginations of viewers is that it can explore mysteries that are normally out of reach within the horizons of ordinary dramas. Those who tend to be dismissive of science fiction are revealing more about their class prejudices than they are about their literary or intellectual discernment.
It's possible for characters to speculate about the nature of time over morning coffee, for example, but it's difficult to turn time itself into the drama. Flashbacks, flash forwards, and other such techniques can give the appearance of playing with time, but in the end the viewer can sort out the time-line of the story, always set in normal chronological time.
Edge of Tomorrow, the newest adventure starring Tom Cruise, actually plays with the nature of time itself. Earth is invaded by an alien that learn as a day proceeds, and can reboot that day to take advantage of what it has learned. It can never be defeated, since it can always refight every battle with the knowledge it needs to be victorious. But then the unexpected happens: an ordinary human soldier inadvertently slips into the alien's time loop. He too can learn in his defeat, and then be booted repeatedly to live the same day over. If you are thinking Groundhog Day (1993) meets the apocalypse, you won't be far off.
There is a lot going for Edge of Tomorrow. Apocalyptic stories are popular. There is some strong acting: Emily Blunt (as Rita), Brendan Gleeson (General Brigham), and Bill Paxton (Master Sergeant Farell) play their roles brilliantly. The first third of the film reveals the director didn't take things too seriously, including scenes and dialogue that made me laugh aloud. The film has the quality of an exciting video game, with endless possibilities to reboot and eventually win. And the mystery of time is attractive even if we do not have a philosophical bent. We live in time, fit in it as creatures, yet yearn to be free of it, worrying about wasting it, wishing there were a few more hours in our day, or that we could "do it over" and this time keep from screwing things up so badly.
Sadly, Edge of Tomorrow is a failure as a film. There is simply too much that is so implausible that it became difficult for me to buy into the plot. Cruise, as Major Cage, sports an unkempt haircut that no military unit would tolerate. Worse, after being tasered by MPs while being arrested for refusing General Brigham's order he comes back to consciousness lying on a pile of duffle bags in the middle of huge, sprawling military base. Now, I haven't been in the military nor tasered nor arrested by MPs, but somehow Cage's end point doesn't strike me as likely. Major Cage is a combat novice, volunteering to do PR for the army so he wouldn't need to fight, yet soon becomes a warrior of legend. Aliens are tricky beasts, but this one was utterly unbelievable, able to reboot time but consisting of metallic squid-like fighters telepathically linked to a huge underwater glob pulsing with light. It would have been far better to show nothing at all. And the movie's happy ending is not that the human race is saved (by Cruise/Cage, of course) but that he is now free to romance Rita.
So, you might be asking, why write so much about a film I am not really recommending? The reason is I believe the mysteries of reality—like time—are one of what Charles Taylor calls a "cross-pressure" for our secular age. When the default position is to find all meaning, morality, and fulfillment within a worldview that discounts the existence of God, such mysteries tend to haunt human beings, bringing a whispered hint that perhaps there is some slight possibility that the transcendent is real. That what we believe to be impossible and implausible might in fact be true.
The difficulty, from a Christian perspective, is that at a time when our culture needs to explore such things, much of the church is incapable of entering the conversation. The primary reason, it seems to me, is that we tend to think wrongly about God. We think of him as a separate being, out there, known by us to be spirit, absolute truth and righteousness, from everlasting the same. Our difficulty is that we imagine we have a handle on what God is because we interact with other beings all the time, so we are familiar with beings and comfortable with them. God is simply bigger than all other beings—indeed he is the very biggest of all. As David Bentley Hart points out in The Experience of God, however, this imagining is actually closer to believing in the ancient Greek notion of a demiurge than it is the biblical idea of God. We don't mean to, but our thinking about God is simply too limiting, and limited.
"God is eternal," Hart insists, "not in the sense of possessing limitless duration but in the sense of transcending time altogether. Time is the measure of finitude, of change, of the passage from potentiality to actuality. God, however, being infinite actual being, is necessarily what Sikhism calls the Akhal Purukh, the One beyond time, comprehending all times within his eternal 'now'; all things are present to him eternally in a simple act of perfect and immediate knowledge" (p. 136). As God told Moses, he is the "I am." Our error comes when we try to grasp this and end up situating God's infinity in the flow of time that we experience and know. So, for example, events separated in time, we assume, must be simultaneous with God. But, Hart says, they are not "really 'simultaneous' with God at all—he has no time to be simultaneous with" (p. 137). To experience events as simultaneous is to experience them in time, just at the same time. But God transcends time altogether. Or consider the notion of choice, such as God's decision to create in the beginning. We experience the freedom to choose as an event in the flow of time, but must not translate that to God. "His freedom," Hart says, can be understood as consisting not in some temporal act of decision that overcomes some prior state of indecision, but in the infinite liberty with which he manifest himself in the creation he wills from everlasting" (p. 139).
That this is difficult to comprehend should not surprise us, since we are finite creatures talking about an infinite God. The fact that we are unfamiliar with such notions should suggest that perhaps our thinking about God has become so simplistic as to be unworthy of belief, to say nothing of being unworthy of God. And the infinity of God suggest we might have reason to believe that Christianity provides a singularly satisfying account of reality and its mysteries—so satisfying that it staggers the imagination.
Time and the mysteries it presents to finite creatures are indeed signals or hints of transcendence, and so will naturally appear in the stories we tell that try to make sense of life and reality. Some of those stories will be better than others, but the topic will always be a great place to begin a conversation about the things that matter most.
Rated PG-13 for intense sci-fi action and violence, language and brief suggestive material.
I agree with your comments wholeheartedly. Most Christians perceive of God as like us but bigger, a description that fits Zeus, but not the Lord. 20th century process theology is just the latest wrinkle on this old idea.
Of course there is a cliff to fall off of on the other side, too: imagine a God who is not only infinite, but impersonal, too. Such a god escapes the limitations of time and space, but tends to be thought of in terms utterly alien to us.
A god that is infinite and personal is both more mysterious and more glorious. Sadly I haven't seen any movies that played with that idea.
Have you seen Interstellar yet? Ah, the conundrums of time travel!
I haven't seen Interstellar, but it's on my list. Hope to get to it shortly.
The reduced view of God may be the greatest scandal infesting the church. In an age of unbelief, faith in God is implausible to begin with, but when it is connected to a god not worth believing in, the game is up before the opening bell.
Have a blessed Advent, my friend.


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The John Webb Goodlett Scholarship Foundation (GSF) awards two cash scholarship grants annually in support of assisting student recipients with the expenses of their higher education. These cash grants are awarded to one male and one female student member of a DHARA family in recognition of their outstanding demonstrated contributions to the Association and the larger community.
In 1961, John Webb Goodlett, a DHARA member and former lifeguard, was sailing around the world on an educational voyage aboard the newly christened brigantine Albatross. In May, the craft hit a heavy squall and was swamped. Goodlett stayed aboard the sinking vessel to cut loose a lifeboat containing several crewmates. Because of his heroic effort, they survived and he did not. That year, the DHARA Board of Directors started an award program in John's name to honor the young men and women of DHARA who demonstrated unusual leadership, extraordinary citizenship, and sportsmanship. The award program existed for 38 years with 59 young members being recognized for their contributions to the Association.
In October 1999, John's parents established a memorial Scholarship Foundation Trust Fund to continue and enhance the tradition of recognizing exemplary young men and women members of DHARA. The Foundation Trust Fund is maintained by the DHARA Board of Directors. The President of DHARA administers the fund as Trustee of the Foundation. There have been 41 scholarship cash awards made since the Foundation Trust Fund was established; 19 awards to young men and 20 awards to young women.
Eligibility & nomination
DHARA members are encouraged to nominate exemplary young men and women who have made outstanding demonstrated contributions to the Association and the larger community. The nominee must be a member of a DHARA family who is enrolled as a student in an institution of higher learning for the current year. Self nomination is permitted. Nominees are not required to have participated in DHARA Water Sports programs, or be a past or present employee of DHARA. Children of DHARA Board members are not eligible. To submit a nomination, complete the form below. Nominations must be received by August 31 of the current year. Recipients are presented a scholarship cash award in fall of the current year.
Your generous donation to the GSF will help support the tradition of recognizing the contributions of young men and women members of DHARA. The GSF is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt charitable education foundation. All donations to the Foundation are tax deductible. Please make your donation payable to the John Webb Goodlett Scholarship Foundation. Please mail your donation via USPS to: DHARA, P.O. Box 5643, Arlington, VA 22205, Attn: GSF
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Q: Why Label Outlets cannot be connected to UITableViewCell Class I create a table view cell subclass and set it as the class of the prototype.I want to add the outlets to that class and connect them.
But xcode do not respond.
And i try to add the outlets of button in the next time,it works.
I want to display a picture,it is pity that i don't have enough reputations.
I don't understand why this happen.Can somebody help me,Plesae!!

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*Set your UITableviewcell class and a identifier for the cell

*Drag the components on the cell and connect them with your class.

*On the method (void)viewDidLoad of  your UITableViewController, set:
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*On the method (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath, set:
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and set the values for the labels cell.label.text = @"Your text".
Good luck!

A: You need to create a subclass for Custom UITableViewCell. Than After you can connect Label outlets.
Check out this great tutorial for creating custom UITableViewCell.
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A: To insert referencing outlet by drag you need to do it between @interface and @end statements, like a property (it is actually a property).
You can add a button outlet just because buttons have an action outlets, which are methods.

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Michael Byers and Stewart Webb have authored an interesting report published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Rideau Institute entitled "Titanic Blunder: Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ships on Course for Disaster." Byers and Webb claim that the government is heading for disaster with the AOPS project: the ships are being built to satisfy the wrong requirement and are a compromise vessel suitable neither for an arctic nor offshore patrol vessel role.
The report starts and ends well and raises good questions. It provides a useful summary of some of the publicly available information, but the underlying analysis is poor and leaves the conclusions without much support. Ironically some of their conclusions may prove to be prophetic. Certainly their concerns deserve a response.
The report paints a gloomy picture for the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) using sweeping statements of policy concerns mixed with technical design detail. Unfortunately, the report's handling of the technical aspects reveals the authors' poor understanding of ship design and it risks drawing attention away from their important message. In some respects it compromises their argument.
The authors rightly attack the requirements for the AOPS. This is the right place to start because the design solution must respond to the capability requirement. If the design solution raises issues, the place to look for problems is with the requirements. Why are the coastal patrol and arctic operations capabilities being combined in one vessel? Is there a better solution? What might that solution be?
The report challenges the AOPS's dual coastal and arctic patrol missions as something that could be better provided by two ships designs: one providing the arctic capability with the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) and another providing coastal patrol with the navy. They attempt to prove their point by demonstrating the AOPS is not an optimal design solution. Certainly, combining arctic and coastal patrol missions will lead to design compromises, but what was behind the Government's original decision to introduce arctic operations into the RCN's stable of capabilities? It may have been cost.
Byers and Webb claim that the AOPS are too expensive. They offer patrol craft alternatives that are much less expensive. What their data reveals is that the arctic capability of the AOPS is the main cost driver. To gain a fair assessment of a two-ship solution one must first assume that the fast coastal patrol vessels are a match for the AOPS patrol capability (a point that should not be conceded too quickly) and then add the cost of buying ships to provide an arctic capability. Is the AOPS really more expensive? It might offer a lower capability in particular functions, but more analysis is necessary to demonstrate whether the AOPS or a two-ship solution might be the best capability value for the Canadian taxpayer. Costs are thrown around quickly in the report without providing the context and without being clear what they represent.
From a policy perspective leaving the arctic to the CCG is an appealing option for the RCN. It keeps the arctic expertise in one department and rids the navy of the need to develop and maintain an arctic capability and presence. Nevertheless, a consideration that may have weighed in the decision to place the AOPS with the navy is lower operational costs. At an Arctic Forum workshop in February 2012, a former senior naval officer suggested that two reasons that the Government wanted the AOPS capability in the navy was because it offered greater operational flexibility and it would be much cheaper to crew and operate over the design life. Given that the cost of operating and maintaining a ship is twice the cost of acquisition, this point may have some merit.
Byers and Webb offer a very weak section on the Kingston-class Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel (MCDV) in an attempt to demonstrate that conflicting requirements can lead to design compromises that affect overall capability. That conclusion is an axiom in ship design. Design is a compromise among different requirements including constraints such as cost. Anytime designers are faced with integrating requirements that drive the ship design in different directions, the solution is often a sacrifice of one capability over a higher priority capability, or a reduction in two equally important capabilities.
The top speed of the MCDV is an important design decision related to mission. It drives engine size, ship length, and fuel requirements. The installed power is a function of speed to the third power. Increasing the top speed from 17 to 25 knots, for example, requires 300% more power. Higher speed ships cost more to operate. Perhaps that influenced the choice of top speed?
The choice of "mild steel" as the hull material has a very minor effect on top speed because it increases the weight of the ship. How the authors could think that mild steel was selected to reduce displacement (i.e. weight) is baffling.
The authors note that other navies use wooden and fibreglass ships for minesweeping functions. While this is true, what the authors leave unsaid is that not all minesweepers are created equal. Ships designed to meet a different minesweeping requirements will be physically different. The MCDVs were never designed to enter a minefield, the vessels used a mission payload and remotely operated vehicles for their underwater inspection and mine countermeasures, hence the choice of mild steel. Comparing apples to oranges and then accusing the apples of not being oranges is an interesting circular argument.
The MCDVs are unsuitable for open-ocean and overseas deployment because the requirement for which they were designed limits their operational capability to coastal areas. Since open-ocean and overseas deployment was never part of the operational requirement, the author's challenge can only indicate that they dispute the capability requirement. Yet not a word is said on that issue.
Byers and Webb's poor understanding of the technical issues of the design weakens the whole section. They raise important issues whether the MCDV design was an optimal solution for the operational requirement. They should have concentrated their analytical capability on the requirement, and whether the requirement was an accurate statement of the actual need. Their whole section on the MCDV does nothing to support their later contention that a two-ship solution should be favoured when a ship design has conflicting requirements. A better question to ask is whether, with hindsight, the project was given the right operational requirements; for example, the top speed and the operationing area?
In general, ship design is fraught with conflicting requirements; compromise is essential. The key to finding an optimal design is understanding the priority of requirements and all the constraints. The MCDV Project Team had two key constraints: time and money. The design solution was cost constrained and the project was fast-tracked to meet an identified capability gap. The solution was not optimal, but the MCDV's have logged many successful cost-effective hours for the country.
Of course, all this talk about ships has not delved very deeply into the actual requirements and the cost. It is too simple to say that the navy's patrol mission could be satisfied completely by an existing coast guard design. Ship design is a complicated process. Proposed ship design solutions need to be validated and supported by good estimates. Without further work to support the claims of Byers and Webb, the real strength of their argument lies in the questions they raise. Is the AOPS design the best solution to the arctic and coastal patrol missions? Are the missions the right ones? And, does a two-ship or an integrated design offer Canada the better value?
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$20 Million Awarded in Sleep Study Death
Posted by Cassandra Perez | Sep 30, 2015 | Curated, Fraud & Malpractice | 0 |
According to a CBS 46 news report, a DeKalb County jury awarded a metro Atlanta mother $20 million after her son died during a sleep study at Emory University.
Brandon Harris, 25, died in 2010. A video recording inside the sleep study room showed Harris raising his hand multiple times before someone answered his call nearly 15 minutes later. His oxygen levels had dropped and he was heard saying, "Oh my god," and at one point, "I feel like I'm about to die."
Sunshine Lewis claimed no one took appropriate action to save her son's life.
"Still hurting, still a lot of pain there. A pain that will never go away, but relief that justice has been served," Lewis said.
In the past, Emory has defended the actions of its staff and a spokesperson has said Harris died from sudden cardiac death, and that its staff acted appropriately in attending to him.
Lewis disagreed and filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Emory and was awarded $20 million.
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Home Entertainment Movies Review: SUSPIRIA is equal parts alienating and hypnotic
Review: SUSPIRIA is equal parts alienating and hypnotic
Hannah Lodge
What do you want first: the good news or the bad news?
I'll assume you picked the bad news first, because who wants to end with bad news? The bad news is that Suspiria, more of a re-imagining than a remake of the 1977 horror film, clocks in at 152 whopping minutes. That's a lot for any film, and especially a lot for a horror film. There are very few movies out there that can creep past the 2 ½ hour mark without feeling, well, far too long for me, and Suspiria doesn't prove to be the exception. It's a lot of movie, and if you're going to the theater, I recommend settling into one of those fancy recliner options if you've got the choice.
The good news is that even with its long running time and some of its more avant-garde choices, I still found the experience worthwhile.
Suspiria is the next film from director Luca Guadgnino, fresh off the success of last year's Call Me by Your Name. It takes a lot of liberties from the original, as the additional hour of content might suggest, but the bones are roughly the same. Suspiria stars Dakota Johnson as Susie Bannion, a Mennonite dancer from the Midwest who goes to Germany to join a famed dance troupe. The German setting and time period is crucial in Guadgnino's rendering of this tale, which is set against the backdrop of the German Autumn, a series of events in 1977 associated with the left-wing terrorist group Red Army Faction (RAF) that culminated in the hijacking of a plane. These events and the reverberations from World War II play heavily into the themes of the film.
Bannion is admitted to the dance school after Madame Blanc (Tilda Swinton) watches her mesmerizing audition, and she soon rises through the ranks of the school after earning a lead part in an upcoming performance. There is a lot of actual dancing in this version of Susperia, and those scenes made up my favorite parts of the film. The score composed by Radiohead's Thom Yorke also contributes to the atmosphere.
While Bannion learns about the internal politics of the dance school, has disturbing nightmares each night, and makes friends with her fellow troupe members, we see a separate story spin off from the main narrative with Dr. Jozef Klemperer. The credits would have you believe this part is played by an unknown actor, but once again this is Swinton in heavy layers of prosthetics and makeup, which means the main cast is entirely composed of women. Dr. Klemperer is treating a young dancer (Chloe Grace Moretz) who goes missing, and as he gets drawn into the mystery of her disappearance, he also ruminates on the unsolved mystery of his own wife's disappearance during World War II. This thread of the story produces both some of the best and worst moments of the film – the story culminates in an emotional resolution, but Klemperer's part is so sporadically woven into the narrative early on that some of it feels disjointed or even out of nowhere. As far as the performances go, I knew Swinton would be great, because she always is, but I was caught off guard by how much I enjoyed Johnson's performance.
Suspiria is, above all, an incredibly alienating film. I enjoyed it myself, but I'd honestly be hesitant to recommend it to everyone, especially someone looking for a fun horror film filled with jump scares. It's a trying affair in both subject, narrative, and length, and the film's final 30-40 minutes do feel labored. I had a sense of what I thought would be the actual ending, and then the movie continued on far past that point. But at the same time, I found myself thinking of movies like Only Lovers Left Alive (not just because of Tilda, but surely partially) as I watched. The film was stylish, trance-like, and somehow made me feel both subdued and comfortable while also feeling unnerved and even disturbed. It's a strange and unique feeling I left with, and so for me, this was a movie I'm glad I saw and that I suspect will stay with me for quite some time, as I'm still ruminating on its themes. But don't say I didn't warn you.
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George 11/02/2018 4:45 pm At 4:45 pm
This is only showing at the local art house where I live, so I guess it's too avant-garde for the mass audience.
I saw the '77 original at a drive-in! In rural Tennessee!
Kaleb 11/02/2018 5:09 pm At 5:09 pm
Our venerated, premiere movie-review program, on our public broadcaster (ABC) in Australia, retired several years ago, and nothing managed to replace it. Now I just noticed a new arts-focused program on the ABC that has a segment where different each time three critics/personalities sit around a cafe table discussing a new film. And the format works! Yes! Now we get a Suspiria review here. Everything's congealing nicely…
George 11/02/2018 11:54 pm At 11:54 pm
I can watch the original just for Jessica Harper, with whom I was smitten as a teenager. See also "Phantom of the Paradise" and "Stardust Memories."
Douglas Waltz 11/03/2018 7:08 am At 7:08 am
I, as a rule, do not watch remakes. You want to make a movie? Go make your own damned movie! That being said, I believe that a lot of the original films are bullet proof and need no revisiting. Suspiria is one such film. Maybe the limited release will kill it and it will do such bad business that they will never attempt such a thing in the future…Nah, I couldn't be that lucky.
According to the director (and Hannah's review), the new "Suspiria" is more of a re-imagining then a remake. Glad it's not a slavish rehash.
"You want to make a movie? Go make your own damned movie!"
That's how I feel about most sequels and franchise films, which are essentially remakes (only with bigger explosions and dumber scripts).
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Oxen Park Club run tonight We'll leave from in front of the Manor House pub at 6:30 prompt(ish) and run out past the village hall so if you get parked by the hall we will pick you up on the way through. (only a couple of hundred metres apart but you can't see one from the other) - Manor House booked for after - was a nice meal when Kath and I did a recce at the weekend (of the pub, not the run). Nice trail route after about the first mile of road.


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Introduction to the Cladoxylopsida
Ancestors of ferns and horsetails?
The Cladoxylopsida are a collection of plants believed to be closely related to the ferns and the sphenopsids, both of which have living members. In outward appearance, the cladoxylopsids looked very much like their contemporaries, the trimerophytes. Unlike the trimerophytes, however, the cladoxylopsids had a central stem or trunk to which smaller lateral branches were attached. In contrast, the trimerophytes were often shrubbier, with many equal branches and no central trunk.
All fossils of cladoxylopsids are Middle Devonian to Early Carboniferous. Most fossils of this group are little more than structurally preserved stems. In fact, the group does not seem to have produced leaves at all. If this is correct, it would likely mean that the leaves of ferns and sphenophytes evolved independently of the leaves in seed plants. There is even some suggestion that the leaves in the major groups of ferns may have evolved independently of each other on stem-only ancestors!
Fern ancestor? : At left, a fossil of Calamophyton. At right, a fossil of Pseudosporochnus nodosus from the Devonian of Belgium. Unlike structurally simpler plants such as zosterophylls and trimerophytes, members of the Cladoxylopsida had a central stem system to which the side branches were attached.
We include two orders in the Cladoxylopsida (Cladoxylales and Hyeniales), but this is a classification more of convenience that of any certainty about evolutionary relationships of this group. The Iridopteridales and Rhacophytales, for instance, share some characteristics with the cladoxylopsids, but no one really knows where these other groups go. It is not even certain that the Cladoxylales and Hyeniales together constitute an evolutionary group.
The Cladoxylales are the more difficult group to associate with either ferns or sphenophytes. The genus Cladoxylon was first described in 1856, and contains many fossils from the Middle Devonian to Lower Carboniferous. Plants were probably less than 30 cm. tall, with stems about three to six cms. in diameter. The primary xylem (water-conducting tissue) of the stem consists of many individual strands which separate and rejoin as they pass upwards through the stem. In some species, the central primary xylem tissue is surrounded by a zone of secondary xylem (wood).
Another member of the Cladoxylales, Pseudosporochnus, is one of the best known cladoxylopsids. It is usually reconstructed as a small tree with a central trunk supported by abundant roots, and bearing a crown of frond-like branches. At three meters tall, it was among the tallest of plants in the Middle Devonian.
The Hyeniales are known only from the Middle Devonian. In the past, this group was thought to be ancestral to the Sphenopsida based on their overall structure and organization, but more recent studies show their internal anatomy was more like that of the ferns. The genus Hyenia was a rhizomatous plant, much like modern ferns and sphenopsids. A main stem system spread horizontally on or under the ground, and produced smaller stem branches that grew upwards from this rhizome. These vertical branches bore sporangia or small leaf-like branches. Another genus of Hyeniales is Calamophyton, a much larger plant whose species grew from 60 cm to perhaps three meters tall. Calamophyton had a scattered multitude of vascular tissue strands in its stem, which has caused some people to think of the Hyeniales as being more closely related to the ferns.
Sporangia : On the left, a close up of the sporangia of Pseudosporochnus nodosus. On the right, a labelled false color image showing the location of the cluster of sporangia and the stem to which it is attached. Unlike zosterophylls and trimerophytes, the Cladoxylopsida produced sporangia in clusters on side branches, a feature also seen in early ferns.
One important character, however, links the Cladoxylopsida with the ferns and sphenopsids, namely the development of mesarch protoxylem confined to the outer lobed ends of the xylem bundles. In simple terms, the water-conducting vascular tissue begins its development well away from the center of the stem, and each strand of such tissue develops mature cells in the center first, rather than toward the outer or inner edge as in most other plants.
Both ferns and sphenopsids share a number of other key features with the Cladoxylopsida, yet are very unlike each other structurally and anatomically. Likewise, the Cladoxylopsida possess a mix of features of the two living groups, and are therefore difficult to interpret. Any individual character of a particular species could associate a given cladoxylopsid with either the ferns or sphenophytes, but the combination of characters in the Cladoxylopsida makes it more likely that it is a basal group (evolutionary "grade") not directly associated with the origin of either ferns or sphenophytes.
P. Kenrick & P. R. Crane, 1997. The Origin and Early Diversification of Land Plants: A Cladistic Study. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C.
T. N. Taylor & E. L. Taylor, 1993. The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants. Prentice Hall, New Jersey, USA.


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Yes, you read it right. Akshay Kumar and Disney's Laxmii has released in single-screen cinemas in different parts of the country. However, rather than cause for rejoicing, this would prompt many in the film industry to hang their heads in shame. For, the release is not official. Rather, cinemas are screening the pirated version of the film! Desperate times call for desperate measures. This, of course, is beyond desperate!
Cinemas in small centres, starved of playing programmes, have copied the Akshay Kumar starrer, produced by the actor himself with Fox Star Studios (now merged into Disney), on pen drive and are screening the film. Patrons, unaware that the film's theatrical rights are unsold, are actually buying tickets of the 'pirated' film and watching it on the big screen. Since there is no distributor of the film, the entire ticket monies (after paying the GST) is being pocketed by the cinemas concerned. These are the same cinemas which even in normal times did not blink an eyelid before screening films illegally. Explained a distributor, "These are regular cinemas who come to us for buying the screening rights of films distributed by us and by the other distributors like us. If the terms demanded by us don't suit them, they go away without striking deals but they then screen the film illegally and pocket the collections cent per cent." The distributor continues, "However, there are some basic differences between the illegal screening in the pre-COVID days and this particular case of Laxmii. Before the lockdown, such exhibitors did come into our net sooner or later because we had business relations with them. We used to adjust our share of the illegally screened film when they came for the legal rights of the next film distributed by us. But in this case, we, or for that matter, no distributor will be able to adjust our/their share of Laxmii because nobody holds the distribution rights of the film. The other difference is that in the case of other films, around 2-3% of the screenings used to be illegal but in the case of Laxmii, every screening is illegal."
It may be recalled that your editor had on 1st November written an open letter to Akshay Kumar, requesting him to come to the rescue of single-screen cinemas and release his Laxmii theatrically as single-screen cinemas across the country were ready to release the film in spite of the fact that it was to be premiered on Disney+ Hotstar. In other words, while the Multiplex Association of India had made its stand clear that its members (the multiplexes) would not screen any film which had been premiered on a streaming platform or had been committed for premiere on such a platform, single-screen cinemas were more accommodative and had made it amply clear that they would happily screen Laxmii alongside the OTT platform. However, Akshay reportedly did not use his veto power. Insiders reveal that had Akshay agreed to forgo part of his remuneration (or profit), simultaneous release in single-screen cinemas and the OTT platform would have been possible. "I know, the trade people were issuing statements that the deal for an OTT premiere with Disney+ Hotstar had been signed, sealed and delivered and hence the Akshay Kumar film could not release in single-screen cinemas, but the fact is that if Akshay wanted, he could've prevailed upon the platform to alter the deal," lamented a single-screen owner of Bihar circuit, adding, "However, he didn't come to our rescue in spite of having the ability to do so." Remarked a cinema owner in C.I. circuit, "Had Akshay Kumar followed your suggestion, we would have got a breather on Diwali and would not have continued to be starved of playing programmes. In such a scenario, what were we to do? We had no money for even basic necessities, we also have families to support. We have a right to live, don't we? But nobody is thinking about us. I would never have indulged in this kind of illegal screening but I had no option."
It may be pointed out that the film finally premiered on 9th November, only on Disney+ Hotstar, much to the heartburn of single-screen cinemas which were actually looking forward to Akshay's intervention so that it would have been possible for them to screen the film. While exhibitors of cinemas in 'A' class centres reconciled themselves to the fact that their first hope of seeing major footfalls had gone down the drain, owners and controllers of many single-screen cinemas in 'B' and 'C' class centres did not want to let the film go without being able to release it in their cinemas. They did the unthinkable. They pirated the film and are now screening the pirated copy in their cinema halls. While the cinemas are using the equipment of digital projection system companies like UFO Moviez, Qube or Real Image, even these companies may be unaware that the cinemas have screened Laxmii or are still screening it.
The irony is that for the last more than 30 years, the film industry has been crying hoarse about piracy eating into their revenues but now, the complainants have themselves become the criminals. Yes, the cinemas which are showing Laxmii are doing so without having the legal right to do so because the theatrical rights of the film have not been sold by Disney or Akshay Kumar. It would be interesting to watch what action the OTT platform (Disney+ Hotstar) or the producers (Disney and Akshay Kumar) or all of them together would take against the exhibitors who are indulging in daylight theft of their copyright. Or maybe, they shall let this too pass! Other than the producers or the OTT platform, nobody else can initiate any action because there is no distributor (for theatrical rights) for the film.
P.S.: Frankly, one doesn't know whom to blame more — the owners of the cinemas which illegally screened Laxmii or the people who could've made it possible for Laxmii to be screened legally in those cinemas.
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Russia-Ukraine. Anthony Blingen on Russia's attack on Ukraine: Tonight
US Secretary of State Anthony Blingen NBC News said Wednesday Russia expects to attack Ukraine that night. However he acknowledged that their numbers were not enough to defeat Lukashenko's government.
"Everything we see in that area shows that Russia is engaged in a serious aggression against Ukraine," Blinken said. He said the exact location and time of the attack could not be ascertained at present.
Secretary of State Anthony Blingen says there is "still a chance to prevent a major aggression" against Ukraine. He later told LesterHoltNBC: "If Russia continues to intensify, we will do the same." pic.twitter.com/gkS6kV306A
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Prohibitions include a travel ban and a freeze on property in the EU. They went on strike against a total of 23 "leading figures", three banks and companies and 351 members of the State Duma. It was adopted by EU foreign ministers on Tuesday and came into force on Wednesday evening.
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Inheriting the Centennial of Films – China Film Festival Launch in Malaysia
The China Film Festival with the theme of "China Film Centennial – The Inheritance of Films" will kick off on September 15th, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The 4-day festival features a total of 18 outstanding Chinese productions in recent years, restored classic films and 2 local Malaysian films. A host of sharing sessions by both Chinese and Malaysian filmmakers will be held alongside the film festival.
Film exchange between China and Malaysia spans over a century. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Labourer's Love – the earliest Chinese silent film available today. The silent film, New Friend, produced in 1927, is also the first Chinese silent film shot entirely in Singapore and Malaya. This year's festival is a collaborative efforts brought to audiences by the China Film Archive, entrusted by China Film Administration, in partnership with China Cultural Centre in Kuala Lumpur and Chinese Film Association of Malaysia (CFAM) in order to showcase the centennial and splendid achievements of the Chinese film industry, and to promote collaborations between Chinese and Malaysian filmmakers.
The China Film Festival is supported by the Ministry of Communications and Multimedia of Malaysia, the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Malaysia and the National Film Development Corporation Malaysia (FINAS). H.E. Ouyang Yujing, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Malaysia, Tan Sri Datuk Seri Panglima TPr Annuar bin Haji Musa, Minister of Ministry of Communications and Multimedia Malaysia, and Sun Xianghui, the Director of the China Film Archive sent best wishes for the success of the film festival. In their congratulatory messages, they also highlighted the outstanding achievements of Chinese-Malaysian collaboration in the film industry.
The China Film Festival will be held at Dadi Cinema, Pavilion KL, featuring a total of 20 Chinese and Malaysian films. Some of the Chinese films to be screened include blockbusters like Cliff Walkers, Hi, Mom, A Writer's Odyssey, Leap and The Wandering Earth. Chinese-Malaysian co-productions On Your Mark and Three Adventures of Brooke; animation Boonie Bears: Back to Earth and White Snake; restored films from the 20s to 60s Labourer's Love and Uproar in Heaven; documentary The Great Learning and Chinese opera White Snake are also among the list.
One of the highlights of this inaugural film festival is the two Malaysian films featured. You Mean the World to Me is the first Malaysian film featured entirely in Penang Hokkien while Think Big Big is a locally directed Chinese New Year comedy.
"A total of 20 excellent films will be publicly screened in this film festival; 60% of which are new and many are making their premiere in Malaysia. In terms of the scale, quality or participation, the film festival is, indeed, a Carnival of Cultures. Besides, the selected films cover a wide range of topics, which bring to a great balance between the new and the classics; domestic and foreign; and the entertaining and technical aspects of films. This film festival also portrays major cinematic achievements of the Chinese film industry and showcases the great potential of collaboration between Chinese and Malaysian filmmakers. It is hoped that film can be the special medium that pulls together Chinese and Malaysian talents, and continue to use this medium in telling great stories and forging new friendships.", says Zhang Jiexin, the Director of the China Cultural Centre in Kuala Lumpur.
Leonard Tee, President of the Chinese Film Association Malaysia (CFAM) says, "Malaysian Chinese films share deep historical roots with China. The history between the two extends from the first Chinese-language Malaysian film New Friends, to the similarities shared in terms of language used and cultural practices. Albeit on a small scale, I hope the diverse topics featured in the first China Film Festival will provide a visual feast for local viewers. There is no shortage of good films in China. In the 100 years since the first Chinese film was produced, China has accumulated a rich essence of film creation. The films featured in the film festival include silent films, documentaries, Cantonese opera and other blockbusters. We hope that the audiences can deeply dive into the charismatic world of Chinese movies through the films featured. As for the two local films, it is hoped that exchange of thoughts can be achieved with the mixture of Chinese and Malaysian films, at the same time, to showcase how the new generation of Chinese in Malaysia can tell their sides of the stories through a common language."
As another high point of the film festival, a sharing session will be held on September 13th at the China Cultural Centre in Kuala Lumpur. Well-known film directors, scholars and producers from China and Malaysia will be invited to a hybrid in-depth discussion surrounding the topic "THE EXPLORATION OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE FILM AESTHETICS" and "THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF THE MALAYSIAN CHINESE FILM".
The China Film Festival will launch on September 15th, 8.00pm, at Dadi Cinema, Pavilion KL with the movie On Your Mark. Directed by Malaysian director Chiu Keng Guan, On Your Mark follows the story of a father and son who come to understand each other through a marathon. The film tops the country's box office after releasing in China last year. Three Adventures of Brooke, directed by Yuan Qing is the closing night selection that features the adventures of a Chinese girl who travels alone to Alor Setar, a distant town in Northern Malaysia. As the result of a blown tire, she experiences three variant adventures.
All 20 films selected for the China Film Festival will soon be opened for ticketing on the DADI CINEMA Malaysia website. Each ticket costs RM10 and each film is only screened once. Do not miss your chance! Besides, viewers will receive a stamp for every movie watched. A collection of 10 stamps will be entitled for a redemption of an exclusive gift and DADI CINEMA vouchers worth RM50. Redemption is on a first-come-first-serve basis, while stock lasts.
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Analysis of post-mortem brain samples from multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and healthy individuals (without neurologic disease) showed that while signs of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection are present in both groups of brains, EBV-positive immune cells were more prevalent and densely populated in the MS brain.
The study reporting those findings, "Molecular signature of Epstein-Barr virus infection in MS brain lesions," was published in the journal Neurology: Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation, the official journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
EBV infection is estimated to affect about 95% of adults worldwide, and previous studies have suggested a potential causal link between EBV infection and the risk for MS. These studies reported that MS patients had higher levels of antibodies against EBV than non-MS individuals, but follow-up studies have failed to find the same results.
Now, researchers analyzed autopsied brain samples from a MS brain tissue bank and from healthy, non-MS samples (controls).
They detected signs for the presence of EBV in 93% of MS brain samples, but also in the controls, although to a less extent (78%).
EBV infects immune B-cells, and the results showed that 85% of MS brain samples contained a higher percentage of B-cells positive for EBV-encoded RNA. In contrast, almost none of these cells were found in brain samples from controls.
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"We observed that EBV is present in both MS and control brains, with EBV-infected B-cells and plasma cells more prevalent and localized to MS brain lesions," Haqq said.
Within immune B-cells, EBV switches between latent and lytic forms. The latent form is a way for the virus to evade the host's immune system, whereas the lytic form corresponds to a state in which the virus replicates more actively. EBV infection was detectable in both MS and non-MS brains. although latent virus was more prevalent in MS brains, and lytic virus was restricted to chronic MS lesions.
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