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Global LGBT organizations mobilize in face of pandemic
by Heather Cassell, BAR Contributor
A gay couple walks through the woods draped with a rainbow flag. Photo: Courtesy Human Rights Campaign
Global LGBT organizations are responding to the impact of the coronavirus as they work to protect some of the most vulnerable queer people.
There have been 19,753 deaths around the world reported from coronavirus as of March 25, according to Worldometer. There have been 440,359 cases of people infected with the virus around the world.
"This is maybe the first time in history where we've had a problem that is so truly global that it really affects pretty much every single person on the planet," Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration Executive Director Steve Roth told the Bay Area Reporter. "No one is immune."
In addition to thinking about personal well-being in families and communities, Roth, a gay man, pointed out that "now more than ever we have to think about those who are most vulnerable among us."
Other LGBT agency officials noted that it is likely the beginning of the outbreak.
"We are still in the early days. We are going to hear a lot more as the pandemic unfolds across the world," said Maria Sjodin, deputy executive director at OutRight Action International.
"I think with a pandemic like this the people who are more vulnerable are often typically becoming even more vulnerable in times of crisis, in times of epidemic," said Sjodin.
Sjodin, a nonbinary lesbian who has advocated for LGBT rights for more than 20 years, said that despite LGBT people wanting to look to their families for safety and be with them, "LGBT people are not always safe with their families."
Speaking with their partners on the ground, global LGBT experts said that as the virus continues to spread, LGBT people living in repressive regions, refugees, and asylum seekers are being pushed further into isolation and danger.
"People who are forced to stay in their homes and can't leave ... that doesn't necessarily make for a safe existence for LGBTQI people if your family does not accept who you are," Sjodin said.
OutRight and Human Rights Campaign Global are currently surveying their partners across to get an understanding of how LGBT people are being affected by the pandemic.
Trapped at home
The lockdown in the Middle East, as Arab countries battle the pandemic, is a prime example of how isolated some LGBT communities can be. It has pushed a hidden queer community further into the closet. The cafes are shut. The parks are closed. Places of worship are closed. This has left many Middle Eastern LGBTs stuck at home either with their families, some of which are abusive, or totally by themselves.
"The environment we live in, unfortunately, can be aggressive toward LGBT+ people," Omar Al Khatib of the Palestinian LGBT+ group alQaws, which is based in Jerusalem, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Jay Gilliam, director of HRC Global, is concerned about the situation.
"What we are seeing at this time, particularly in places where it is hard to be out as LGBTQ or as living with HIV, these folks are particularly vulnerable in this moment when governments are calling for their citizens to quarantine," Gilliam told the B.A.R. "If you are in quarantine with family and your family is not a place where it is safe to be out, you are more vulnerable."
Middle Eastern LGBT organizations such as alQaws and Mawjoudin, based in Tunisia, are ramping up their helplines in response to increased calls and delivering HIV medications.
"They have been expressing their frustration," Hana, an LGBT advocate with Mawjoudin who only went by her first name to protect her privacy, told Reuters.
In Lebanon, Proud Lebanon's volunteers are delivering medications to its members. Some members are afraid to go out or simply can't come to the organization's Beirut offices due to lack of public transportation, director Bertho Makso told Reuters.
Sjodin said that more stories will develop as the pandemic continues.
"We will continue to hear more of those stories as well [as] people who are facing situations where they can no longer work and they have very few other means of income," they said. The difference is "they might in some cases might have fewer resources available."
Jeopardy: Queer asylum seekers and refugees
Those who have fled their home countries and who are waiting to be resettled in a new country are struggling for their survival and some are feeling abandoned and forgotten.
Refugees at the Greece-Turkey border have waited more than two weeks to cross, with few supplies and "no such thing as sanitation," an unidentified trans male refugee told Turkish LGBT organization Kaos GL Association.
"I have not taken a shower for 15 days, now. We have 20 washbasins for thousands of people. We use everything with great difficulty. The food line is quite long," he said.
"Everyone has forgotten about us," he continued. "The world is only thinking about corona now. No one thinks about us."
LGBT asylum seekers at the United States-Mexico border and refugees in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya are somewhat more fortunate.
ORAM, which at one time focused its efforts on LGBT refugees in Turkey, is mobilizing to aid asylum seekers and refugees, some of whom are HIV-positive, waiting at the U.S.-Mexico border and in Kenya's largest refugee camp, where the coronavirus hasn't reached them yet.
ORAM; its parent organization, Alight; Mossier, an LGBT employment advocacy group; and others on the ground are bracing for the potential arrival of the virus, which they estimated will arrive in a few weeks, Roth told the B.A.R.
In Tijuana, Mexico, the organization's team is gathering critical supplies for two LGBT migrant shelters. In Kenya, the organization is working as fast as possible to get the queer refugees' soap businesses up and running in the camp.
Additionally, ORAM is working to supply migrants and refugees with food and rent, clean water and soap, sanitation supplies, and education on how to protect themselves from the virus.
The resources are even more critical as the U.S. and Mexico — and governments around the world — are closing borders and shutting down processing asylum and refugee claims during the pandemic.
"It was really important for us to mobilize as quickly as possible to get resources to those people on the ground, particularly in the countries and the communities where we work," Roth said.
"We know how hard it is to find hand sanitizer in this country and even other basic cleaning products, so imagine how much more difficult in other places where there are less resources to begin with," Roth added.
Queer asylum seekers who made it into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody and are being held in detention centers aren't fairing much better, according to a March 23 complaint filed by Immigration Equality against ICE and the Department of Homeland Security with the U.S. Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
The asylum seekers are in danger, according to Bridget Crawford, the immigration organization's legal director, citing six plaintiffs who echoed past detainees' complaints that their rights were being denied.
ICE isn't providing adequate health care for HIV-positive LGBT asylum seekers, putting them at risk with overcrowding or adequate information for them to protect themselves from the coronavirus, among other issues, according to the complaint.
Crawford called the situation in ICE detention centers a "COVID-19 nightmare," accusing ICE and the DHS of "violating the law every day," noting complaints of individuals going weeks to months without medication and soap shortages in the organization's release.
"The accounts we have heard from detained people living with HIV have been outrageous," Crawford said.
DHS has denied people's release despite being parole eligible with a qualifying sponsor.
Opportunity to suppress human rights
Global LGBT experts warned that the world is just at the beginning of the pandemic.
Mandated self-isolation orders spreading around the world are creating another challenge by compounding human rights. LGBT advocates, other organizations, and even the United Nations don't have the ability to effectively respond to human rights violations and hold countries accountable during the pandemic, HRC's Gilliam said.
"You can't always go virtual," Gilliam explained, pointing out that key gatherings, like the convening of advocates at the United Nations and World Bank, are a tool that has been "taken away from these global advocates."
"Those are lost opportunities for advocates," he said, citing an International Center for Not-for-Profit Law's article about the danger of governments' ability to use crisis as a "pretext to infringe rights."
Additionally, LGBT advocates are concerned about resources and funding.
Sjodin questioned if governments that are supportive of LGBT rights will "be able to maintain their support" financially.
"These are the types of things that we want to be able to lift up so that people can understand even in the midst of this pandemic that there are other challenges that people are facing," said Gilliam. "We are figuring out how to respond right now."
He added advocates also want to "point to where our government needs to be able to really lead and support those most vulnerable groups in different places around the world" with how we "confront this global pandemic."
To help LGBT communities globally, visit www.outrightinternational.org, www.hrc.org, or www.oramrefugee.org/orams-covid-19-response
SF refugee story available to stream
"From Baghdad to the Bay," gay Iraqi Ghazwan Alsharif's journey from Iraq to resettling in San Francisco, is streaming for audiences to enjoy at home.
The film will be available on Vimeo on a sliding scale basis until April 20, according to a release from the documentary's award-winning independent filmmaker, Erin Palmquist.
For more information, visit https://bit.ly/3dulQqo
Got international LGBT news tips? Call or send them to Heather Cassell at WhatsApp: 415-517-7239, or Skype: heather.cassell, or oitwnews@gmail.com


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Glutton's guide to Peking duck, part 1 / August 25, 2014 by Thomas O'Malley
Beautifully bronzed duck, a steamer of papery pancakes, julienned veggies and sticky soybean sauce. Yep, it's Beijing's signature quacker. Tens of thousands of ducks are roasted, carved and gobbled up daily in the city's kaoya dian. But where to eat ducks fit for an emperor? Where to find the best Peking duck in Beijing? Read this guide and find out.
Peking duck is no flash in the pan. The first recorded mention of roast fowl in China dates back to the Northern and Southern Dynasties around 500 AD. In the 14th century it was an Imperial dish, reserved for royalty. Like many such delicacies, it's likely the recipe was later smuggled out of the Forbidden City by cooks or servants, finding its way into well-heeled residences and restaurants.
The history of Peking duck restaurants in the capital goes hand-in-hand with the city's laozihao, which means something like 'time-honored brands'. Quanjude and Bianyifang are the two most famous brands in duck roasting, both of which you'll learn more about later on.
The ducks that grace the tables of China's capital derive from the white-downed 'Pekin' breed. Bred and raised on small-scale farms in Beijing's northern suburbs, they are blessed with an instinctive gluttony, and reach slaughter weight – usually 2.5kg – after just 40 days. In the late 1800s, nine of these were exported from China to Long Island, New York. Today 95% of ducks consumed in the US are direct descendents.
A bit different from the 'crispy duck' eaten in Cantonese-style restaurants around the globe, proper Peking duck should have skin that's both brittle and yielding. Getting there is a meticulous and time-consuming process, which you'll learn more about on the tour. And when it comes to eating, aesthetics are paramount. As a rule, ducks are carved tableside in view of diners. It's an expected piece of food theatre, part of the rhyme and ritual of eating a dish dating back to the Ming Dynasty.
So grab your chopsticks and get set to gobble your way through the history and evolution of China's best-loved dish, from the earliest laozihao that are still going strong to today's maverick chefs, who are reimagining Beijing's signature dish for increasingly cosmopolitan diners.
Know Before You Eat: Some restaurants (like Quanjude) allow you to order ducks by half, but generally you'll get the whole bird, which will feed at least two people. All restaurants listed in this guide have menus with dish photographs and English translations, so language won't be a problem.
Bianyifang, Beijing's "Oldest" Eatery
77 Xianyukou, Qianmen East Street, Chongwen District, Beijing. +86 10 6713 2536. 11am -9pm.
The city's oldest surviving restaurant chain, Bianyifang Kaoyadian was established way back in 1416 during the reign of Ming emperor Yongle. Bianyifang, which means 'convenient to all', is said to have started life as a takeaway outlet on Mishi Hutong (Rice Market Alley) about a mile east of this location.
A branch of Bianyifang has stood here on Xianyukou (Fresh Fish Crossroads) since 1855 … until the bulldozers arrived for the 2008 Olympics and razed what was one of the most vibrant – albeit rundown - commercial districts in the city. In typical Chinese fashion, the original maze of alleys and eateries has since been rebuilt from the ground-up, re-opening in spring 2011 as a tourist food street complete with piped music and Disney-style facades. Bianyifang is back on its old perch (pun intended) – bigger and shinier than ever.
It's truly a beast of a place, a mock Qing frontage leading to 7000 square meters of restaurant supposedly able to serve 1000 covers at a time. Inside, old and new collide. In the grand lobby a gold plaque reads simply '1416', whilst off to the side a flashy holographic display recounts the history of Bianyifang and roast duck.
Suggested dish: 1416 Peking Roast Duck, 140 RMB
Bianyifang developed what's called the 'closed-oven' technique for roasting duck, whereas almost all other restaurants now roast over an open flame, pioneered by Quanjude (the next eatery in the guide). In practice, Bianyifang's archaic method seems to result in the duck skin being a little softer and the meat juicier and ever so slightly pink. You also get a higher ratio of meat to skin – good for carnivores.
Bianyifang also predates the pancake rolling method of eating Peking duck. Traditionalists stuff the juicy duck meat inside a small sesame wheat bun called a shaobing. A few slices of succulent duck sandwiched in the doughy bread is a delicious little mouthful, though rather filling and admittedly less popular than the pancake method, so the menu does give the option of both types of accompaniments.
Insider Tip: Glutton for mutton
A large Muslim Chinese minority (the Huimin) has lived in the Qianmen area of Beijing for 500 years, and their halal habits have fueled the rise of lamb or mutton as just about Beijing's best loved meat. To give your table an authentic mutton touch, order this dish of premium lamb breast from the great plains of Inner Mongolia, slow-roasted and served in strips topped with crispy skin.
The serving method is particularly novel: the cooked lamb breast is heaped to one side of a tray used for tea ceremonies, surrounded by petite steamed breads (called mantou) and a spicy, savory dipping sauce. On the other side are little cups and a teapot filled with tart berry juice, which you should drink after eating to cut through the oil-rich lamb.
Quanjude, Good Enough for Nixon
14 Qianmen West Avenue, Chongwen District, Beijing. +86 10 6302 3062. 11am-2pm, 4.30-8.30pm.
What we think of as Peking duck today can mostly be traced back to Quanjude. Founded back in 1864 by a poultry dealer named Yang Quanren, the restaurant pioneered the idea of cooking ducks by hanging them in open ovens over the wood of fruit trees to impart a perfume into the skin, and eating the flesh wrapped in thin wheat pancakes (called heye bing).
The ducks here do tend to be slightly more clumsily presented than the very finest in town, which irks when you're already paying a tourist premium (198-239 RMB). Mind you, I've never had a bad one, and over the years Quanjude's distinguished birds have been eaten by everyone from Fidel Castro to Richard Nixon.
These days, coach-loads of domestic and foreign tourists flock to what has been named one of the 500 best brands in China. Inside, you can count on a bright, brash ambience and brisk service - but worth it if only for the numbered certificate of authenticity you receive with each duck. As a kitsch souvenir, it's up there with an "I climbed the Great Wall" T-shirt.
The giant branch at Hepingmen, opened in 1979, is the undisputed flagship – seven floors, 41 dining rooms and endless acres of Quanjude's trademark communist-chic red and gold décor. They don't often do small (or subtle) in China. Best of all, its walking distance from Tiananmen Square, so you might like to take in the flag lowering ceremony in the square at sunset than take a stroll southwest to the restaurant for dinner.
Suggested dish: Duck heart dumplings, 36 RMB
Quanjude lays claim to the idea of using every part of the bird to create a multi-course, ritualized feast. This 'duck banquet', mostly served in private rooms to VIP guests, is possibly a little extreme for the uninitiated, comprising duck feet with mustard, spicy gizzards, intestines done myriad ways and even the drained fat emulsified into a soup broth.
But if you order the duck heart dumplings (jiaozi) off the regular menu, you won't be disappointed, much less grossed-out. Ground duck hearts are mixed with garlic, soy and spices, wrapped by hand into little doughy crescents and boiled in a large cauldron of water for about ten minutes. Served with dipping vinegar, the mild, meaty filling and pillowy skins are the food equivalent of a nice warm hug.
Insider Tip: How to Make Peking Duck
Want to learn the secrets of one of the world's greatest (and most fussy) dishes? OK, here goes. First … the slaughterhouse. Ducks should be EXACTLY uniform in size and weight when they arrive, and after being carefully plucked and eviscerated, a bamboo rod is inserted into the ribcage to keep its shape.
In the kitchen, compressed air is pumped into the duck between the skin and the fat layer, inflating it like a medieval football. This will help keep the skin crisp in the oven, and enable the fat to render more efficiently.
The ballooned ducks are then doused in boiling water, the skin visibly tightening, followed by a basting of mai ya tang - molasses syrup that will help impart the characteristic bronze luster to the skin.
After two days of drying (again, for the crispy skin), hot, date-infused liquid is poured into the duck cavity, which is bunged up. This is the really clever part. Full of fruity juice, the meat will steam gently from the inside as the flames in the oven lick and crackle the skin.
40 to 55 minutes later (after a bit of basting in the fire) the ducks are removed from the oven using a long pole called a yachang. De-bunged and drained, they're ready for carving. Bon apetit!
Read part 2 for more restaurants, dishes and tips!
Posted in Eat and drink, Restaurant reviews Tags: Beijing, Peking duck, Restaurants
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CLULunch was born in January 2014 and it aims to be a space for sharing and discussing ongoing research projects.
The group meets every month, in date and place to be announced. It is held in an informal setting, so everybody is welcome to present their work.


I received a comment on my last blog entry about an interest in modern women magicians. In just a few days I will be attending, 'The Sisters of Magic and Mystery' in Las Vegas. The workshop is hosted by Abbi Mcbride and is held at the Mcbride School of Magic. It will be very amazing (and rare) to be around only women magicians for a few days. .. so i am looking forward to meeting some of my magic sisters. Usually when i am around other magicians I am the only female present. When I return to Colorado from Vegas I will then attend Magic in the Rockies, which is an amazing event that I am also really excited about! However, out of all the incredible performers who are coming to Magic in the Rockies– i am pretty sure there will not be any women lecturers or headliners.
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— A super skilled sensual performer known for her grace and unique expression of some of the classics of magic.
— I just found out about her because she was on the cover of the Linking Ring magazine. She does all kinds of phenomenal escapes. I just adore the metaphor of escape and it is really empowering to see a woman doing this branch of magic.


Employee's restrictive covenants – How far is too far?
Employers who wish to protect their business in the event of a key employee leaving, who may be able to take customers with them will normally include "restrictive covenants" in the employment contract to restrain certain types of activity after the employee leaves.
A Restrictive Covenant will be considered to be void in law as being "in restraint of trade" unless it is reasonable both in the interests of the contracting parties and in the interests of the public.
To be reasonable the employer must have a legitimate interest to protect. This usually means the employee either has access to confidential information or connections with customers which would enable them to take business from their former employer if not restrained.
To be valid, the restriction must be no wider than is reasonably necessary to protect that interest.
Additionally, the clause was wider than necessary for the protection of the employer's business as it applied to all their customers regardless of whether the employee had knowledge of them and the employee only dealt with a small percentage of the employer's customers.
This shows the importance of making the restrictive covenants no wider than necessary and the importance of keeping them under review. It is not going to help employers to have restrictive covenants to cover the future risks if the covenant is not required at the time it is made. These should be reviewed when there is a change in the employee's duties or status which might require amendments to the covenants.
When covenants are changed or added during an employee's employment, there needs to be some evidence that they represent a contractual agreement. There has to be some "consideration" given to the employee in return for the new covenants. Without such "consideration" the new covenants will not form part of a binding contract and are unenforceable.
This was an argument used by the employee in the recent case of Decorus Ltd v Penfold. The court held that taken together the employee's appraisal, a pay rise and continued employment was valid consideration for the new Employment Contract containing the revised Restrictive Covenants.
The covenants could be no more than was necessary to be enforceable. They were restricted to customers and prospective customers with whom the employee had dealings.
3. A non-solicitation clause to prevent him soliciting business from the employer's customers.
The Court found that the Non-compete covenant was unenforceable as it went further than was necessary to protect the employer's interests. However, the non-dealing clause and non-solicitation clauses were reasonable.
A court cannot rewrite a restrictive covenant to make it reasonable but where there are separate covenants it can delete one if it unreasonable without the others being affected, which is what the Court did in this case.
This case illustrates how restrictive covenants which are properly drafted and properly introduced can protect an employer's interests when a former employee seeks to take business away from his former employer.


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National Instruments Declares Quarterly Dividend
AUSTIN, Texas, April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Instruments (Nasdaq: NATI) Board of Directors announced a quarterly dividend of $0.14 per share on the company's common stock. This dividend is payable on May 25 to stockholders of record on May 7.
About National Instruments
Since 1976, National Instruments (www.ni.com) has equipped engineers and scientists with tools that accelerate productivity, innovation and discovery. NI's graphical system design approach to engineering provides an integrated software and hardware platform that speeds the development of any system needing measurement and control. The company's long-term vision and focus on improving society through its technology supports the success of its customers, employees, suppliers and shareholders. Readers can obtain investment information from the company's investor relations department by calling (512) 683-5090, emailing [email protected] or visiting www.ni.com/nati. (NATI-D)
CompactRIO, LabVIEW, National Instruments, NI and ni.com are trademarks of National Instruments. Other product and company names listed are trademarks or trade names of their respective companies.
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Country Full Name: Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.
Location: Sri Lanka is an island in the Indian Ocean, south of India.
Country Climate: Tropical monsoon; northeast monsoon (December to March); southwest monsoon (June to October).
Country Terrain: Mostly low, flat to rolling plain; mountains in south-central interior.
Major Languages: Sinhala, Tamil, English.
Major Religions: Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity.
Country Population: 20.1 million (2008 est.) 20.2 million (2009 est.).
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THE BEAST OF BARNWELL
The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage.
He is in front of it.
— Axel Munthe
September sees the release of the next Hunter Kerr novel published by Sapere Books and I thought you would be interested to hear where the Beast of Barnwell – the serial killer in this story - comes from.
Peter Pickering in 1972
The 'Beast' is loosely based on Peter Pickering from Wombwell, near Barnsley, who was dubbed the Beast of Wombwell by the press following his conviction in 1973 for the rape and murder of 14 year-old Shirley Ann Boldy, when he was jailed indefinitely.
Peter abducted Shirley Ann as she walked back to school at lunchtime, driving her to woods in the village of Barnburgh where he tortured and raped her before stabbing her with a kitchen knife. Peter had to flee with her body in his van when he was disturbed by three men walking in the woods who tried to intervene after hearing her screams for help.
Arrested later that day, he had dumped Shirley Ann's body, cleaned his van, burned his clothes and sandpapered and bleached his shoes in a hope of hiding evidence, however he eventually confessed, blaming his mother for the killing, telling detectives that "she would never allow him to have a girlfriend and he could see her face as he killed Shirley."
The killing of Shirley Ann came just five months after he was released from prison after a six year jail term for sex attacks on a teenage girl in Doncaster and Scarborough.
Detectives who dealt with Pickering firmly believed that Peter was responsible for more rapes and murders and were particularly interested in him for the unsolved murders of 13 year-old Anne Dunwell, from Rotherham, who was raped and strangled in 1964, and 14 year-old Elsie Frost from Wakefield, who was stabbed five times in 1965. He was visited several times while detained in Broadmoor by detectives and interviewed in connection with these murders but refused to cooperate.
However, in 2017, detectives had a breakthrough. Forensic evidence linked Peter to the murder of Elsie Frost and a fresh investigation was launched. During this re-investigation detectives discovered that Peter was renting a storage garage in Sheffield, and getting a warrant, they opened it up and found handcuffs, diaries and exercise books, which contained confessions. One of those confessions was the rape of an 18 year-old woman from Barnsley, which was undetected and after tracing the woman, who was then in her sixties, Peter was charged with that rape and convicted in 2018. Before he could be sentenced for that rape and also charged with the Elsie Frost murder, Peter died. He was 79.
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Surgeons Successfully Reattach Testis After Wrong-Site Surgery
By Linda Carroll
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - After doctors removed the wrong testis from a young man, the search was on for a surgeon who might be willing to try to replant it.
A new case report details the experience of a 25-year-old patient who had developed testicular pain and a palpable mass in his right testis; he went to a local hospital for a radical orchiectomy only to have the surgical team remove the left - wrong - testis.
Once the team recognized their error, they began searching for a center with microsurgical capacity to replant the testis. The surgery to replant the organ is described in an article published in Urology.
"The take-home message is that microsurgery can be used to reattach an organ, in the case of a wrong-site surgery," lead author Dr. Fatma Tuncer, a microsurgery fellow at the Cleveland Clinic, in Ohio, at the time of the surgery, told Reuters Health by email. She is now an assistant professor of plastic surgery at the University of Utah.
"The vast majority of surgeries, including urologic procedures will never have such an event, but there are helpful groups of physicians that are available to reduce the morbidity of such an event," said coauthor Dr. Brian Gastman, a professor of surgery at the Case Western School of Medicine and a surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic.
"We were, I believe, the third one contacted, each one causing a greater time of ischemia," Dr. Gastman told Reuters Health by email. "I accepted the patient and in doing so had the buy-in of my urology and anesthesia colleagues."
Once Dr. Gastman and his team agreed to take on the task, the patient, and his testis, were flown to Cleveland. Once the patient arrived, he was counseled on the risks and benefits of the surgery. After agreeing to the surgery, the patient was taken to the OR immediately by the plastic surgery and urology teams.
Prior to initiating anesthesia, the testicle was examined and the urology team performed testicular sperm extraction as the patient did not have any biological children. The sperm were transported to a CLIA-certified andrology lab and were cryopreserved.
Next, the team examined the testis and spermatic cord under the microscope. The team identified the testicular artery, veins and vas deferens and marked them with prolene sutures. They next placed the testis in a moist gauze over ice until the recipient vessels were prepared.
After the team reconnected vessels, they observed strong arterial and venous Doppler flow on both testicular vessels and the testis itself. Five days after the replantation surgery, the team performed a radical orchiectomy on the correct side.
Dr. Gastman isn't sure how well the testis will perform over time. "I cannot speak too much on this as it is ongoing," he said. "But he will likely need some level of hormonal supplementation. I can state that the testis is alive and palpable."
This is a "very interesting paper," said Dr. Miroslav Djordjevic, a professor of urology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York City. "Congratulations to colleagues for a great idea for solving this wrong-site surgery with very precise microsurgical technique and new insight in the fight to save the organs."
Still, Dr. Djordjevic told Reuters Health by email, "postoperatively, the authors confirmed there was not complete testicular function based on testosterone levels and hypotrophy of the reimplanted testis. The main reason is the time between removal and reimplanation. Based on experiences with testicular torsion, four to six hours is the maximum that will offer restoration of volume and function. Here, a longer period (10 hours) resulted in poor outcomes."
"Our experience with testicular implantation in monozygotic twins showed great success (Belgrade University, Serbia, December 2019, personal report) because the cold ischemia was only one hour," Dr. Djordjevic said.
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You're as likely to get a job interview meeting 50% of job requirements as meeting 90% of them.
We were curious about how many job requirements are actually required, so we analyzed job postings and resumes for 6,000+ applications across 118 industries from our database of users. We found that while matching requirements is important, you don't necessarily need to match all of them.
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You're not any more likely to get an interview matching 90% of job requirements compared to matching just 50%.
For women, these numbers are about 10% lower i.e. women's interview chances go up once they meet 30% of job requirements, and matching 40% of job requirements is as good as matching 90% for women.
You're just as likely to get an interview matching 50% of requirements as matching 90%. We saw a clear upward trend in interview rates based on matching requirements, but with an upper bound. When users applied to jobs where they matched 40 – 50% of job requirements, they were 85% more likely to get an interview than when they matched less, and applying to jobs where they matched 50 – 60% of requirements made them an extra 192% more likely to get an interview over the 40 – 50% matches.
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Women get interviews at higher rates with fewer matched requirements – if only they applied to those jobs in the first place.


Every 12 yrs old child could break such dry and old stick.
hard to say for sure. depends on the tree. i've seen sticks like that which would almost crumble apart by themselves, and sticks like that which were hard as steel.
in any case his secret seems to be in the twisting motion... taking advantage of the way the grain runs.


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50 random facts about Switzerland
People know Switzerland for the delicious cheese and chocolate, the secret banks, green hills and snow-covered mountains, the lovely Heidi and expensive watches. But did you know for an example that Einstein invented his famous formula E=mc2 in Switzerland? Here is a list of 50 random facts about Switzerland that you might not know about.
Swiss confusion
1. Switzerland is not Sweden
Switzerland is not Sweden. Sweden is a bigger country in Scandinavia while Switzerland is small country in central of Europe.
And Switzerland is not Swaziland either…Swaziland is in Africa.
2. Capital of Switzerland
The capital of Switzerland is not Zürich. The capital is Bern. I know, for a very long time I thought Zürich was the capital to! But if we want to go further into the details Switzerland doesn't even have a capital. In fact, Bern is a so-called federal city. Read more about it Here.
3. Four languages
Switzerland has four national languages. French, Swiss german, Italian and Rhaeto- Romansh. Swiss people rarely know all these languages. Someone who lives in french speaking part of Switzerland will speak french and someone in italian part will speak italian, ect. Sometimes, you will have to use english, a foreigner language, to speak with your fellow countrymen in your own country.
4. The square flag
You might not have noticed but Swiss flag is one of the two flags in the world to be square and not rectangular. However, in national events like Olympic, the origin Swiss flag becomes rectangular.
The Square Swiss flag!
The rectangular Swedish flag!
5. CH
Have you ever thought of what the abbreviation CH stands for? Switzerland is also known as Confoederatio Helvetica for historical reasons, hence the CH.
Swiss laws
6. Women's right
The first time the Swiss women were able to vote was in 1971. But not all women in Switzerland got to vote until 1990. The smallest populated canton Appenzell Innerrhoden was the last canton to allows women to vote. This just says a little bit of a Swiss mentality.
7. Vote with hands
Every year on the last Sunday in April, around 3,000 eligible voters gather together in Appenzell Innerhoden for voting by hands. The more than 3,000 people crowded into the ring remain standing — only the elderly and handicapped are provided with seats — for more than three hours. You can read more about it Here.
Photo: Here
8.Sundays
There are so many things that you can't do on a Sunday in Switzerland. For instance, no hanging laundry in your garden, no mowing your lawn, no vacuuming, no washing your car. Basically, anything that might make noises or could disturb the neighbourhood should be avoided doing on a Sunday in Switzerland.
9. Garbage bags
In Switzerland you are obliged to use special paid garbage bags that you can buy in grocery stores. Depending of where you live in Switzerland a roll of 10 bags of 35L can cost 20chf (about 20$).
If you are caught using other kind of bags, you will get a hefty fine.
10. Having pets
If you have pets that are considered to be social animals, like the guinea pigs and parrots, you must have two of them because it consider as animal cruelty if they don't live or interact regularly with others of their species.
11.Euthanasia
Switzerland belongs to the few countries in the world where one can get an assisted suicide if that someone is considerate very ill.
12. The bunkers
Switzerland has a very special law since 1963. Every person in the country must have a spot in a bunker in case of some kind of catastrophe. Bunkers either have to be built underneath homes and blocks of flats, or the building owner has to pay the local authorities for a spot in a public shelter. Read more about it Here.
13. 6 weeks vacation
In 2014, the majority of Swiss people voted NO for 6 weeks vacations per year.
14. Milk chocolate
Switzerland is famous for chocolate, everyone know that fact for sure. But did you know that milk chocolate was invented in Switzerland in 1887 by Daniel Peter? He is my nr.1 hero!
15. Pink chocolate
The Swiss based company Barry Callebaut AG, the world's largest producer of chocolate, claims to have invented an entirely new type of chocolate – Ruby chocolate!
Photo and more information :Here
16. WWW
The World Wide Web concept was invented in 1989 by the Englishman Tim Berners-Lee when he worked in Cern in Geneva.
17. LSD
The psychedelic drug LSD was accidentally invented by a Swiss scientist, Albert Hoffman. Mr Hoffman was studying ergot fungus when he stumbled on lysergic acid diethylamide in 1943. He absorbed the substance through his skin and discovered the " joy" with LSD.
18. Stock cubes
Stock cubes were invented in Switzerland around 1886 by a Swiss German named Julius Maggi, the founder of Maggi an international brand of seasonings, instant soups, and noodles that originated in Switzerland in late 19th century.
19. Birchermüesli
You know muesli that you eat every morning….yes, that is a Swiss invention to! The invention of müesli is credited to Swiss physician and nutritional pioneer, Maximilian Bircher-Benner. You can read more about it here.
20. Zip it
The pre-zipper was first patented in US in 1851. But it was the modern zipper, also known as coil zipper that we use today, was invented by a Swiss jurist 70 years later.
21. Nestlé
The SwissHenri Nestlé was the founder of Nestlé, the world's largest food and beverage company. The company is headquarter in Vevey in the french speaking part of Switzerland.
22. Mustard in tube
Hans Tomi the founder of the Swiss food brand Thomy, own by Nestlé since 1971, decided to sell his mustard in a tube around year 1930. It became a worldwide success.
23. Swiss guards
Yes, the so-called Swiss guards you can see protecting the pope at the Vatican City are really Swiss! If you want to be one of them you need to be a male with at least a high school degree, being a Swiss citizenship, single, Catholic, between 19-30 years old and be at least 174 cm tall.
Photo credit: Here
24. Starbuck's coffee machine
For all Starbuck's AND Swiss lovers, did you know that the Starbuck's coffee machines are made in Switzerland by a Swiss company, Thermoplan. Thermoplan started supplying Starbucks in 1999 and today their machines can be found in a Starbucks pretty much everywhere in the world. Read more about it Here.
Not made in Switzerland
25. Swiss chard
The origin of the adjective Swiss is unclear, since the plant is not native to Switzerland, nor particularly commonly cultivated there.
26. Swiss army knife
The first "Swiss" Army knives Modell 1880, were actually born in Germany and produced by a german company Wester & Co. But then the Swiss Karl Elsener founder of Victorinox took over the production in 1891.
27. Swiss brown mushroom
This mushroom has many nick names and one of them is Swiss brown mushroom. But it is not origin Swiss..
Photo and for more information Here
28. The cuckoo clock
Coucou, surprise! Switzerland is not in fact the home of the cuckoo clock, the Black Forest region of southern Germany is where cuckoo clocks have their real nest.
29. The Swiss roll
Mmmm those delicious Swiss rolls are not at all origin Swiss.The origin of the term Swiss roll is unknown.The cake is believed to have originated elsewhere in Central Europe, likely from Austria.
. The photo: Here
Swiss guinness world record
30. Suspension bridge
Just recently, the world's longest suspension footbridge was installed in the region of Zermatt. The bridge is 494m long, for anyone to enjoy except for those who have fear of hight!
Photo credit:Here
31. The longest tunnel
Gotthard tunnel is the longest railway tunnel in the world with the route length of 57km.
32. First solar-powered round-the-world flight.
In 2016 the two Swiss creators of solar plane Solar Impulse, Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, completed the first round-the-world flight by solar plane.
33. The longest staircase
Mount Niesen has the longest staircase in the world with impressive 11, 674 steps, located alongside a railway line in the Bernese Alps. The staircase is normally only open one day a year, in June, for the world's longest single-staircase race – the Niesen Treppenlauf. For more information Here.
Swiss nature
34. Dams
Switzerland has about 190 dams! The biggest one of them all is the Grande Dixence located in the canton of Valais.
One of the many beautiful dam, Lake Moiry.
35. Lakes
Switzerland has about 1,500 lakes. The largest lake which lies wholly on Swiss territory is the 218km2 Lake Neuchâtel. Some might think that the lake Geneva or the lake Constance are the biggest but those two lakes has international borders.
36. Forest
About 30% of Switzerland's surface is covered in forest.
37. Mountains
With more than 48 summits higher than 4,000 metres, Switzerland has the most four-thousanders in Europe. An excellent country for hiking, Switzerland has hiking trails, totalling over 65,000 km in length, or one and half times the circumference of the earth.
Dufourspitze is the highest peak in Switzerland with 4,634 m. Photo credit:Here
Swiss going to the war
38. The hidden bunkers
Switzerland has over 20,000 bunkers, camouflaged and hidden from view. In the case of war and a nuclear attack.
39. Invasion
Switzerland is good of defending. Officially, the country has established three thousand points of demolition. Swiss bridges, tunnels, railroads and highways are ready to explode to prevent any possible invaders.
Superstars living in Switzerland
40. Queen
Queen recorded a total of seven albums at Mountain Studios in Montreux, which the band owned between 1979 and 1996, including the final album Made in Heaven.
41. Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin lived, died and is buried in Vevey. There is Chaplin's World, an astonishing museum dedicated to the life and times of Charlie Chaplin.
42. What's love got to do with it?
The rockstar Tina Turner has been giving up her U.S citizenship to become a citizen of Switzerland. She has been living in Switzerland since the mid-1990s in Küsnacht in a mansion overlooking Lake Zürich. Anyone has seen her around?
43. The king of Thailand
As I am from Thailand and use to live in Lausanne so it was a very nice surprise knowing that the former king of Thailand, Bhumibol spent nearly 18 formative years in Lausanne.
The Thai pavilion a gift to Lausanne from the Thai king. Photo credit:Here
Swiss fame
44. James Bond
If you are a fan of James Bond you will know that the agent 007 is a ladies' man and in each of the Bond movies there is always a leading actress. Ursula Andress is a Swiss actress who was the first Bond girl as Honey Ryder, in the first Bond movie, Dr No, in 1962.
45. Chevrolet
Louis Chevrolet was a Swiss mechanical who worked and lived in the US when he became a racing car driver and then later with General Motors founder William C. Durant started the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in 1911.
46. The best tennis player
Do I need to mention Roger Federer, the best Swiss tennis player of all time. Federer is currently ranked world nr2 after the spanish Rafael Nadal.
Swiss sport
47. Schwingen
Schwingen is also known as Swiss wrestling. Each wrestler will wear a special shorts over a pair of trousers that form a handle for his opponent to grip. Then in a circle of sawdust the wrestler tries to throw his opponent flat on his back on the ground.
Do you want to know more about other Swiss sports? You can read it Here.
48. Say Swiss Cheese
In most English-speaking countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, if you ask for Swiss cheese, you're likely to get the holey cheese. But please remember that not all the cheese with holes is Swiss cheese and not all Swiss cheese has holes.
The photo and more information Here
49. The cheese fondue
The Frenchmen will tell you that cheese fondue is origin french, don't belive them! The cheese fondue is Swiss. That's all what I have to say!
50. Röschti
Röschti or Rösti is essentially the Swiss version of hash browns that is considered as national dish. Traditionally rösti is was eating as breakfast.
Which of these 50 Swiss facts didn't you know about? Perhaps you knew them all? Perhaps any other random Swiss facts you think are missing from the list?
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Juliette S 2 years ago	 Reply
This is fascinating! I have just learnt a whole lot more about Switzerland in this post. It was interesting reading about the square flag – partly because here in New Zealand, we have a lot of Tongans over here who have been protesting quite a bit and there are Tongan flags everywhere, on people's cars, houses etc – but apparently all the Tongan flags got sold out – so they started using the Swiss flag instead! It is very similar – but with a red cross and white background in the corner, and the rest of the flag is red – and it's a rectangular shape instead! I can't wait to visit Switzerland one day – but I'll be going there to ski!
Bhusha 2 years ago	 Reply
The detail of abbreviation CH is new knowledge to me.
Sundays in Swiz is so complicated. Its awesome for tourists but really troublesome for living there.
Too sad to know Swiz Rolls doesn't actually originate here.
Ruby chocolate sounds interesting though.
Parnashree Devi 2 years ago	 Reply
OMG. This post like an eye opener for me. I didn't know more than half of the facts about Switzerland. The most amazing is the Sunday rules for the citizen. I am amazed by the Bunker fact also. How this nation has four different languages, interesting voting rights and process, a square flag and so many amazing facts. I am also amazed to know about their consensus on No 6 weeks vacation. Thank you so much for this enriching article. And I love white chocolates a lot 🙂
Ha 2 years ago	 Reply
I've learned so much from your post! The Suspension bridge sounds interesting but scary at the same time! I love how women have a right to vote from the early time. I didn't know that cheese fondue is from Switzerland as well. I really love hiking in Switzerland!
Samah 2 years ago	 Reply
I'm not sure why, but I found the voting with hands thing very funny lol. But these are very interesting, I also though the capital city was Zurich (until now). I didn't even know Bern existed! The women's rights thing is on par with the Americas, unfotuntely women weren't even considered people until just a few decades ago.


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Q: Change detection on varbinary fields The following tables enable me to load and store simple compressed text files in MS SQL Server database:
(The compressed files are small, so I have no performance issues, and also not really related to my question below)
create table StagingDocument
(
...
DocumentID uniqueidentifier,
DocumentData nvarchar(max)
...
)

create table ClientDocument
(
...
DocumentID uniqueidentifier,
DocumentData varbinary(max)
...
)

DocumentID is a natural key for the document and uniquely identifies a document,
DocumentData column is the document itself.
I load and compress documents like this:
INSERT INTO ClientDocument(DocumentID,DocumentData)
SELECT s.DocumentID, COMPRESS(DocumentData) --note how the document is compressed
FROM StagingDocument s

...
Imagine, you have to select the documents (identified by DocumentID) from Staging table,
which are already in the Client table but their content has changed (DocumentData differs),
then you write something like this:
SELECT *
FROM StagingDocument s
INNER JOIN ClientDocument d ON s.DocumentID = d.DocumentID AND COMPRESS(s.DocumentData) <> d.DocumentData

Of course the COMPRESS add enormous overhead here, it just for demoing purposes.
My question is:
What is the best way to compare if DocumentData has changed?

*

*Is it good enough if I change the staging nvarchar(max) to varbinary(max) (have the client insert compressed data to staging directly), then just compare the varbinary fields like this?
... AND s.DocumentData <> d.DocumentData
I think it's good enough, since the GZIP algorithm behind COMPRESS function produces different varbinary results for different texts,
so there could be no collision ever.

*Should I calculate hash on the human readable nvarchar DocumentData in the Staging table, then compare those hash values instead of the varbinary(max) fields?
SHA2_256 hash would give me binary(32) results. Would that be faster to compare than varbinary?

*Should I calculate hash on the varbinary(max) fields?
I am not familiar how hash functions would react. Would my hash collision chance increase?
I think #1 is good enough, but would be nice to hear somebody else's opinion too.

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Iran has as many as 40,000 spies in Arab world, says defector
October 8, 2009 by intelNews 1 Comment
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An alleged former Iranian spy, who defected several years ago, claims that the Islamic Republic has "as many as 40,000" covert operatives in the Persian Gulf. The alleged defector spoke anonymously to al-Arabiya, a Saudi-owned pan-Arabic television network based in the United Arab Emirates. He told his interviewer that the activities of the undercover operatives are coordinated by the Iranian military's Revolutionary Guards unit. Among other revelations, the unidentified defector said that Iranian spy cells tend to work in groups of five and operate independently, usually unaware of the operations or even existence of other nearby cells. Read more of this post
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Potvin, John. Provocation to Conversation : The Lithography of Otis Tamasauskas, 1984-1997. Ottawa, Ont.: Carleton University Art Gallery, 2001.
Beatty, Linda Belshaw and Heywood, J.c. and Sewell, Richard and Tamasauskas, Otis. Beyond the Repeatable Image : Three Contempory Artists from Ontario, Canada : J.C. Heywood, Richard Sewell, Otis Tamasauskas = Au-delà de l'image répétée : Trois artistes contemporains de l'Ontario, Canada : J.C. Heywood, Richard Sewell, Otis Tamasauskas. Toronto, Ont.: Visual Arts Ontario, 1984.
Tamasauskas, Otis. Otis Tamasauskas : Recent Work. Kingston, Ont.: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1981.
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The Tuamotu archipelago located some 300 kms north-east of Tahiti is made up of 76 atolls of which hardly half are inhabited. These so-called low islands are ancient craters which have disappeared under the influence of erosion and whose edges, colonized by corals, are nothing but outcrops of white sand, strewn with shells and planted with coconut palms, which the Polynesians call "motu".
The climate in Tuamotu is different from that of the high islands of Tahiti and the Leeward Islands. The warm and humid season, from December to February, is much more temperate here with a refreshing trade wind and reduced rainfall (usually at night), causing difficulties in supplying fresh water. The temperature of the air varies from 26 ° C (in July) to 29 ° C (in February); That of the ocean varies from 25 to 29 ° c.
Each atoll offers landscapes of wild beauty. Seen from the sky, they appear to be white rings on the indigo blue of the Pacific Ocean. The motus are covered with coconut groves interspersed with beautiful beaches and are separated from one another by small channels or "hoa". The lagoons decline their waters from jade green to turquoise blue, turning purple. They communicate with the ocean by numerous "hoa" but especially by passes which are the privileged place to go to meet the underwater fauna.
Rangiroa was the most famous Paumotu atoll, especially at the level of its diving spots. But not far from Rangiroa another atoll more and more talk about him: Fakarava and its surroundings! Fakarava has the largest pass of Polynesia and is surrounded by atolls offering the most beautiful Polynesian diving spots.
Located 350 km to the North East of Tahiti. It is an immense atoll that could virtually contain the island of Tahiti in its lagoon. ..


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Per Alfred Daniel Nilsson Brock, född 15 april 1876 i Svedala, död 16 november 1935 i Adolf Fredriks församling Stockholm, var en svensk instrumentbyggare.

Alfred Brock var son till instrumentbyggaren Nils Nilsson i Malmö och Elisa Persson. Brock erhöll sin första utbildning i instrumentbygge från sin far. 1900 kom han till Stockholm, där han blev reparatör åt hovkapellet och Musikhistoriska museet och 1925 hovinstrumentmakare. Brock tillverkade violiner men framför allt lutor. Den så kallade "Brock-lutan" fick stort anseende både i Sverige och utomlands genom sin goda ton och vackra utseende, och är en modernisering av den gamla Kraft-lutan. Brock byggde sammanlagt 892 lutor.

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 Svensk uppslagsbok, andra upplagan 1947

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